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Twenty-Second Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1905

Number 1138

 

Collection Department

R. G. DUN & CO.

Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids
Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, ef-
ficient, responsible; direct demand system.
Collections made every where for every trader.

C. E. McCRONE, Manager.

 

 

Street Railway and Gas

BONDS

 

Correspondence Solicited

H. W. NOBLE & COMPANY

BANKERS

Union_ Trust Building, Detroit, Mich.

We Buy and Sell
Total Issues
of °
State, County, City, School District,

 

 

 

 

™meKent County
Savings Bank

OFGRAND RAPIDS, MICH

Has largest amount of deposits
of any arene 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.

IZ Per Cent.

Paid on Certificates of Deposit

Banking By Mail

Resources Exceed 214 Million Dollars

 

 

Commercial Credit Co., Ltd.

OF MICHIGAN

Credit Advices, Collections and Litigation |

OFFICES
Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids
2 W. Western Ave., Muskegon
Detroit Opera House Blk., Detroit

 

GRAND RAPIDS
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

W. FRED McBAIN, President

Grand Rapids, Mich. The Leading Agency

 

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

Late State Food Commissioner
Advisory Counse! to manufacturers and
jobbers whose interests are affected by
the Food Laws of any state. Corres-
pondence invited.
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ENGRAVINGS <TYPE FORMS
TRADESMAN Co.

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

IMPORTANT FEATURES.

 

Window Trimming
Around the State.
Grand Rapids Gossip.
Editorial.

Leonard Slater.

12. Fruits and Produce.
16. Clothing.

20. Back to the Farm.
22. Meat Market.

24. Woman’s World.

26. Setting a Hen.

28. Mother’s Girlhood.

30. Glance at Cheyenne.
32. Shoes.

36. Never Fires Men.
sc. Dry Goods.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.

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

POVaN

 

 

A GREAT NAVY.
This is a question which the Amer-

ican people are now asking them-

selves with ever-increasing interest.

Some years it would have met

ago
but one answer, and that would have

be-
from

affirmative,
cause at that time a big navy

been an emphatic
our point of view meant very much
what we now have, namely, about

the
present time the answer to the ques-
tion is

other types in proportion. At

not sO easy, since our pres-

ent standard of a great navy is vastly
different what it little
Those our

from was-a

 

who have
naval affairs in charge openly state

that absolute safety demands that we

while back.

have a navy second to none but that
of Great Britain, and with a strong
prospect of equaling even that power-
While

|probably a majority of the American

ful Armada in course of time.

! ! a
| people sympathize with that ambition
can not
be said that the feeling is unanimous,

Of Our naval enthusiasts, it

as it used to be. People are now

jmore disposed to figure up the cost
| than formerly were, and the
opposition in Congress, which used to

they

be practically nil, is now to be reck-
oned with.

There is no doubt whatever where
President Roosevelt stands on this
important question. He is in favor
of a big navy, second to none in ton-
nage but Great Britain, and second
to none in quality for its size. His
recent speeches have made this fact
will put
pressure upon Congress to. se-

very plain. He every pos-
sible
cure the authorization of more ships
speech  be-
fore the naval branch of the Young
Men’s Christian Association at
Brooklyn, President Roosevelt said:

annually. In a recent

“More and more our people are wak-
ing up to the need of a navy. I think,
in view of events now happening all
over the world, that we can count
upon having Congress to continue to
build up our Navy. It is all-impor-
tant that we should have ships, the
best in hull, the best in armor, the
best in armament of any nation in
the world.” And again, in the same

 

speech the President says: “I wish

,cause even conservative people real-

twenty-five battleships and vessels of

 

still
size.”

a big navy, but I wish

for its

more a

|

navy first-class

 

There is, therefore, no doubt where |
the present Administration stands on

the subject of a big navy. Such op-

position as has developed is not like- |
ly to prove serious enough to place
insurmountable obstacles in the Pres-

ident’s way in the near future, be-

|
}
1
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yet below
standard in point of tonnage, which

ize that our fleet is the |

a country of the size and wealth of
the United States should support. We |
must have a navy large enough to de-

   
 

 

fend our extensive coast line and nu

merous ports, as well as our distant

possessions. It is also essential that
we be powerful enough at sea to up- |
hold the Monroe
tect our ever-growing
in every quarter of the globe. These

Doctrine and pro-

foreign trade |

actual defensive needs make neces

sary a larger fleet than we now have
Built or in time
the |
economists in Congress have a logi- |

prospect, hence the

has not yet arrived when even

cal excuse for interference.

But more important than securing

a great navy is the duty of building
the best ships that can possibly be|
produced, and training officers and
men to efficiently handle the vessels.
The training of the personnel is of
importance than _ in-|
the
been amply demonstrated during the

even sereater

creasing the size of fleet, as has
Russia
the
character of |

present war in the Far East.
the
world in

was third naval power of

number and
her ships, yet she was ignominiously
defeated by the power which rates |
as seventh, owing solely to the su-
periority of the Japanese personnel.

While we are designing ships equal
to the best, we are not building them

quickly enough to be fully abreast of |
1

While we

battleships building, we

have several }

have

the times.
not a
single One in commission that is the

equal of several of the Japanese bat-

tleships which have played a prom-
the present
have been in commission already for
While we
ing several 16,000-ton ships, the Brit-

already such
While we and
other powers are compromising on

inent part in war and

several years. are build-

ish government has

ships in commission.

the subject of discarding intermedi-

ate calibers of guns, Great Britain is |
building ships in which = anything
smaller than 9-inch caliber, the equal
of any Io-inch gun afloat, is discard- |
ed, except the very small rapid-fire |
guns. The British Admiralty will al- |
so shortly commence work on two]
immense 18,000-ton battleships, which
will mount ten 12-inch guns each. If
we are ever to become a truly great
naval must build
more rapidly or sacrifice the quality

of being fully up to date.

power we ships

|ions

   

|manence in

| present

|assurance of

  

| production,
} condition at

iseems to be

| steady
| important

femployment of

| lating

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.
It is gratifying that the usual pe-
riod of interrupt-

summer vacation

should be characterized by a
degree of activity along most lines
oi trade and manufacture that makes
the season's stoppages for inventory,
etc, decidedly

This

difficult to
activity,
with the rapid gain in stock market

repairs,
manage. unexpected
gives promise of
the
The improvement in stocks is of a

conditions, per-

upward movement.
most gratifying nature. Many prop-
erties have already been carried well

tbove their intrinsic values, but hold-

S

are maintaining them in the con-
idence that improving conditions and

demand will soon warrant the quo-
tations. Of course, there are always
liable to be reactions, but m the

stage of confidence, with the
improving industrial
conditions all along the line, the out-
look seems as far assured as is pos-
sible.

is reported

In many industries it

| that orders are exceeding capacity of

phenomenal
and at the
depression.
that labor
the

certainly a

this season

close ot so long a stock

One favorable factor is

profiting by severe

ilessons unionism has been receiving

with

increasing regard for the

and disputes are being settled
constantly

rights of employers and increasing

assurance of steadier conditions. The

final settlement of the labor dis-
putes in the iron and steel indus-
tries is the most significant feature

in that field and gives assurance of a
this the
manufacturing industry,

prosperity in most

the one of
all the
Taking the country over crop con-

and greatest influence on

rest,

ditions are exceptionally favorable,

notwithstanding the severe storms
jand excessive rains in some locali-
[ties. Vhis gives assuramce of the

transportation facili-

| ties and, of course, is really the key

With assur-
ed prosperity to the farmer and labor

te the whole situation.

employed at high prices everywhere
there can be no lack of activity in
any important line.

The best reports are still coming

from the textile centers, but the con-

tinued high prices of both cotton and

not

factors, although temporarily
the

withstanding

wool are considered favorable
stimu-

Not-
foot-

ylacing of orders.
Ss

the advance in

| wear shipments from Boston contin-

exceed those of last

He tO year.

The woman with a past is not near-
ly so fascinating to other women as
with a future.

the man

It is a good thing that family trees
are not judged by their fruits.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Two Good Exhibits by Local Mer-
chants.
The

plays formerly presented too crowd-

Leonard Benjamins dis-
ed an appearance, but they have been
steadily improving and these people
now show some very creditable win-
dows.

This week results are arrived at by
simple methods, the left exhibit be-
ing especially pleasing.

The floor and background are of
a medium shade of burlap,
stretched smooth, the latter havinga
lattice work effect, accomplished by
the use of narrow white tape. The
edges of the lattice had an unfinished
look when I peered in, but perhaps |
it is the intention of the trimmer to

green

add something to cover this up. Of
course, though, the general public
are not details. There is
the large wall mirror at the left to
apparently double the
space, which has just enough in it to

noticing
size of the

be interesting without being burden-
some to the eye. Four upright nick-
el fixtures with cross pieces are used
in the back of the window, set an-
gling, on which are hung handsome
fancy summer vests. Near the cen-
ter of each group is a vest, “plumped
out,” on a dummy, with an appropri-
ate style of tie. Down towards the
front are two low metal fixtures, the |
arms of which are placed at such an
angle as best to display the black
and white and_ solid-colored — shirts
disposed on them. On the floor are
some of the cuffs that belong to
these.

In the opposite window are just
coats, each unit being hung flat on
a hook at the top of a slender fix-
ture. On each is a “hard-times”

price tag, torn irregularly, all of

about the same size but the mar-
gins being torn a little differently,
all marked plainly—$7.50. A large

piece of common Manila wrapping
paper has been stretched on a frame-
work in the middle of the window,
bearing in the center the printed ad-
vertisement of the firm, above and
below which one reads:

Look Good?

Remember we're hard
to beat.
They “Are” Good.

Have one?

A large sidewalk show case is en-
tirely filled with one style of tie, the
weave of which has a wavy, mottled
look. A card with these announces:

Snakes!
Something New.
You don’t have

to be a

Charmer

to wear one of these
around your

Neck.

soc

This card is clever, but it leaves a

creepy-crawly feeling, hard to di-

vorce from the goods.
tes

W. DD.

contain

Werner’s windows always
choice samples
Whether he

employs rich velvet to enhance the

dainty and

of the jeweler’s art.

beauty of his goods or just white
silkolene as an unobtrusive accessory,
The lat-

ter is used this week, and very clean

the windows seem perfect.
and charming it is. Underneath this
are a narrow strip of board and
some small boxes of various heights.
On the strip of board are alternate
opened gold watches and turquoise
boxes of the loveliest
The contrast of
the gold and with the white
cloth makes the latter look all the
whiter—if anything can look whiter
than white! Here are two pieces of
the Weller art pottery, named by
the maker “Eocean.”’ As I under-

velvet watch

shade imaginable.

blue

stand, it is made from the same sort
of clay (down in Ohio) that the
Rookwood and Lonhuda potters use.
The “Eocean” pieces in the window
and inside the store are all in soft
green and gray tones, with the palest
of pastel pink, where this tint is seen.
A lover of bric-a-brac can not spend
half a day more profitably than in
one of the fascinating places where
make goods. At the
Rookwood factory I watched an old,
old man

they these

fashion a large jardiniere

from a senseless lump of clay. He
seemed to breathe into it a part of
his very being. He used few tools,
mostly his hands—perhaps that made
He had work-

ed in clay since the time when he

it seem a part of him.
was a young man. In time gone by,
visitors were allowed to go upstairs
and watch the girl-ariists paint their
designs (always their own ideas), but
people asked them so many questions

that it interfered quite seriously with}

their work and a new rule was made
to exclude all but employes. So I
“didn’t get to go,” as their neighbors
over in Indiana would say, which 1]
How-

that
second-story sanctum to be seen and

have never ceased to regret.
ever, there is much apart from
thoroughly enjoyed—and, as _ you
leave the building, if you accidental-
ly(?) dropped your handkerchief and
went back to pick it up, you might
catch a glimpse of half a hundred
girls in long-sleeved aprons earning
their living at painting on this love-
ly ware!

 

 

 
 
     

We Sell Lots of Em

WoRDEN ([ROCER COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

HARNESS

Special Machine Made
1%, 1%, 2 in.

Any of the above sizes
with Iron Clad Hames or
with Brass Ball Hames and
Brass Trimmed.

Order a sample set, if not
satisfactory you may return
at our expense.

Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 
 
   
 
  

the Following Goods
Advertised in the
Tradesman:

We Sell

Baker’s Chocolate

Eagle Brand
Condensed Milk

Quaker Oats

 

 

     
     
      
      
    
   
      
    
   
 

Royal BaKing Powder
Ballou BasKets
Sapolio

Grandpa’s

Jennings’ Extracts Wonder Soap
Dutch RusKs
Karo Corn Syrup
S. C. W. Cigars

Tradesman Coupons

Yeast Foam
Lion Coffee
Ben-Hur Cigars

Beech-Nut
Sliced Bacon

Baker’s
Brazil Cocoanut

J acKson
Baking Powder

   
     

 

 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

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Hardware Trade Is Still Satisfac-
tory.

The interruption of the Indepen-
dence Day holiday naturally limited
the amount of business booked by the
hardware manufacturers, jobbers and
parts of the
considering the

retailers in all country
fact
that the trade always assumes small-
er proportions in this month, the

last week, but

general run of business is still suffi-
ciently encouraging to warrant deal-
ers in maintaining prices in

The sta-
Western _ hard-
ware dealers in relation to their busi-
ness in June show that the orders
during that
heavy as those booked in any pre-
vious June in the history of the
trade.

In the West, especially, the hard-
ware business is in a prosperous con-
dition and
that the
continued

their
most lines at former levels.
tistics compiled by

secured period are as

every promise
prosperity will be
throughout
The demand for lawn
mowers, haying and garden tools, ice

there is
present
the remainder
of the year.

cream freezers, refrigerators and wire
cioth is still very brisk. The sales
of galvanized screen cloth are rapid-
double
period
fact’ that the
higher than
Preparations

ly increasing and are
at the
last year despite the
retail

now
those corresponding
much
those of painted cloth.

prices are

are being made on all sides by the
leading merchants for the beginning
of the fall trade, which is likely to
approach at an early date. Enquir-
ies for fall lines are already being
issued in several sections of the East

 

and West and it is expected that the
demand for sheet steel and wire will
be exceptionally active inasmuch as
it is generally believed that prices of
soon be ad-
The scarcity of

the raw materials will

vanced. hardwood
timber is creating a better request for
articles this
wood and the demand will probably

containing quality of
become even more pronounced if ex-
pected advances are made in_ the
prices of the raw material.
tte
Prospects Good for Another Fence
Company.

Adrian, July 1o—The best piece of
industrial news last week was that
announced Friday, when the Inter-
national Machine Co. made known its
intention to install $3,500 worth of
new machinery, add twenty men to
its present force and devote its en-
tire time to the manufacture of fence
looms. It that the com-
pany has just perfected a fence loom
The fence
machine is of the rotary type, auto-

develops
that is an ingenious affair.
therefore considered
two to three times as fast as
any of the others now in operation
in this city. Members of the com-
pany state that it will turn out 150
rods of fence an hour, while the labor
expense will only be one-quarter of
that of the other companies. The
loom is the invention of A. K. Kel-
lar and Joseph Reck, members of the
company.

matic, and is
fre ym

More good news for the city in
connection with the invention is that
a fence company has already been
organized by Chicago, Toledo and

 

Reading capitalists for the manufac-
ture of fence on the _ International
Machine Co.’s looms. The company
has been kept secret pending the se-
lection of a site for a factory.
are bright that the

prospects com-

pany will locate in Adrian, for it has |
two options on property here, but the |

Toledo parties are also making a big
effort to get the company to go there
The original intention was to organ-
ize a $350,000 company with the plant

in Reading, but instead an

company was formed, and indications |
are that Adrian will get it. In case |

the company should decide to locate
in Toledo another company will be
formed to operate here, so Adrian
will get a plant out of the invention
at all events.
a rr nr
Sugar Factories Receive Their An-
nual Overhauling.

Bay City, July 10o—The sugar fac-

tories of the city are beginning prep- |

for the annual overhauling,

in anticipation of the coming season,

arations

and again one factory, the Michigan |
City-Michigan Co., |

plant of the Bay
will not

tack of

the only reason, as, despite the ex-

operate. beets is

traordinary efforts of the company to}

secure acreage and the heavy adver-
tising and other
have not responded.
plant will
beets contracted for the
plant being diverted to it.
West

good

expenses, farmers

have a good season, all
The Ger-
Bay

acreage.

man-American and
factories both have
Some apprehension is felt for the

crop, owing to the surplus of moist-

The |

$80,000 |

The Bay City |
Michigan |

City |

ure, and it is now estimated that the

crop will not be above the average

The Vitrihed Brick. Co.
has completed its fourth and largest

|
|

jin quantity.
| igi
| Michigan
1

| kiin and is now turning out daily 20,-

000 paving brick alone. The new kiln

haS a capacity’ of itee000 paving

| brick, or over 150,000 ordinary build-

fing size. While this is its first full

| season, the company has already con
tracted for its full product for some

time to come. It has also been

awarded contracts for paving brick
by Bay City and Saginaw.. Its brick

{tests higher than any other used here.
Coal mines are all working to the

|fullest capacity possible, except one,
against an individual

The
being pushed with
night and day; the Wenona mine is

where a strike

company is on. new Auburn

ghatt is shifts

adding men weekly, the payroll now
having about 400 miners on it; the
Wolverine No. 2 shaft will shortly go
into commission with its entire equip-

ment renewed and capacity increas-
ed to nearly a thousand tons daily,
and at the Whatcheer

| workings are being extended contin-

new mine

| ually.

| Activity in the lumber mills and
|box factories continues unabated.
|The lumber receipts last month on
}

Central Railroad broke

| every record, 20,000,000 feet of

the Michigan
logs
being brought to Bay City factories
180 per cent. being hardwood.
ne er
Friendship and familiarity are twin
sisters, very much alike, but rarely

agreeing.

 

 

A DOUBLE PROFIT

Royal Baking Powder Pays a Greater Profit to the
Grocer Than Any Other Baking Powder He Sells.

Profit means real money in the bank. It does not mean “percentage,” which may represent very little

actual money.

A grocer often has the chance to sell either:

J. A baking powder for 45c a pound and make a profit of 5c. or 6c., or,
2. A baking powder for 10c. a pound and make “20 per cent. profit,” which means only 2c. actual

money.

Which choice should you take?

Royal Baking Powder makes the customer satisfied and pleased,
not only with the baking powder, but also with the flour, butter,
eggs, etc., which the grocer sells.

This satisfaction of the customer is the foundation of the best and surest profit in the business-—it is

permanent.

Do not take the risk of selling a cheap alum baking powder; some day the customer

may find out about the alum, and then your best profit—viz., the customer’s confidence—is gone.

Royal Baking Powder pays greater profits to the grocer than any
other baking powder he sells.

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK

 

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The Produce Market.

Bananas—$r for small bunches,
$1.50 for large and $2 for Jumbos.
There was plenty of this fruit to go
around this year, and most orders
were filled on time. The magnates
who control banana prices celebrated
the 4th this year by not pushing up
their prices, and a heavy shipment
out was the result.

Beet Greens—soc per bu.

3eets—New command 20c per doz.

Black Raspberries—$1.50 per crate
of 16 qts.

Butter—Creamery is steady at 20c
for choice and 21c for fancy. Dairy
grades are a little stronger than a
week ago, being held steady at 17c¢ for
No. tf and t4c tor
Ladlers and renovaters have a very
strong view of the situation, owing
to the foreign demand and the fact

packing = stock.

that patent butters are virtually out
of the way. They therefore
ready to take all offerings of
butter at full quotations.
good sellers, but not cutting any im-

stand
fresh
Dairies are
portant figure in the general move-
ment.

Cabbage—-Home grown is now in
full command of the market, being
quotable at 60@65c per doz.

Carrots—I5c per doz.

Cherries—Early Richmonds com-
mand $1.25 per 16 qt.
fetch $1.50.

crate. Sweet

Cucumbers—Home grown have de-
clined to 35¢ per doz.
Currants—Red fetch goc@$1_ per
I2 gt crate.
little
stronger than a week ago, local deal-
ers paying 14%c for case count and
holding candled at 16%c. Receipts
are falling off, due largely to the fact
that the farmers are busy with hay-

matket is a

Eggs—The

ing and harvest and can not market
the product regularly. The
consumption is large and the demand

local

from the resort regions is ahead oi
any year in the history of this mar-
ket.

Gooseberries—$1@1.10 per 16 qt.
casc.

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

Green Onions—15c per doz. bunch-

com

es for Silverskins.

Green Peas—goc per bu. The ad-
vance in price is due to the fact that
the crop is nearing an end.

Lemons—Californias are strong at
$s and Messinas are in fair demand
at $5.25@5.50. The past few years
have been disastrous to the large
speculators in lemons, and that is one
reason why Messinas have been im-
ported so lightly. It has been a great
benefit to the California
who had the field to themselves a
long time this year. Good lemons
seem sure to bring $5 per box or bet-
ter for the remainder of the year.

Lettuce—75c per bu.

growers,

 

Onions—7s5e per crate for Bermu-
das or Texas; $1.25 per 70 tb. sack
for Louisiana.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Oranges—The market is steady and
strong on the basis of $3.25@3.75 for
Mediterranean Sweets, $3.25@3.50 for
Seedlings and $4.25@4.75 for Valen-
cias. The supply of oranges is. of
good proportions for the season of
year, and the movement is very sat-
isfactory, considering the competi-
tion that other fruits give them at
this season of year. The fact that
they are good keepers makes them
popular with consumers, and they are
bought all the year more generally
than was the case a few decades
past.

Musk Melons—California Rocky-
fords command $4 per crate of 54
size and $5 per crate of | 45 size.
Hlome grown have not yet appeared.

Peaches—Georgia fruit is now in
market, commanding $2 per 6 basket
crate.

Pineapples—Floridas fetch $4 per
crate of 30 and $4.25 per crate of 36.
Cubans have been advanced to the
24, $4; 30, $3.75; 36,
$3.50; 42, $3; 48, $2.75.

Potatoes—New stock commands
50@6o0c per bu. and $1.50@1.75 per
bot Old fetch 20c per ba. Chere
is but litthe doing in old stock and
the forwarding of stock to market is
inadvisable.

following basis:

On carlot shipments re-
ceivers can not get buyers to look at
them, and they have to be peddled
out. Some handlers report it impos-
sible to get back freight on cars they
have had in.

Pieplant—-5oc for 40 tb. box.

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

Pop Corn-—9go0c for rice.

Poultry—-The market is strong on
broilers. Local dealers pay as fol-

lows for live: Broilers, 15@17c;
small hens, 9@toc; large hens, 8@o9c;
roasters, 5@6c; spring ducks (white),
Li@i2ze: No. i $1.50@1.75:

No. 2 squabs, 75c@$1; pigeons, 75c@

squabs,

$1 per doz.

Radishes—toc per doz. bunches for
round and 1r2c for long.

Red Raspberries—$1.50 for 12 qt.
Crate.

Spinach—soc per bu.

Summer Squash—6oc per basket.
per 4 basket crate.

Turnips—is5e per doz.

Veal 6(@8c.

Water Melons—z20@3oc apiece, ac-
cording to size.

Wax
around $1.40 per bu.

Tomatoes-—$1

Calves-

Beans—The price’ ranges

Whortleberries—$1.50@1.60 per bu.

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Frank N. Barrett, editor of the
American Grocer, spent Sunday with
Grand Rapids friends and proceeded
Monday morning to Hart, where he
has been the guest of W. R. Roach,
who operates the canning factory at
that place. Mr. Barrett is the Nestor
of American trade journalism, hav-
ing been actively identified with the
American Grocer for the past thir-
ty years. Mr. Barrett is very gener-
ally regarded as the best authority
on tea, bread and canned goods in
this country, having the most com-
plete library covering these subjects
Mr. Barrett will spend
Thursday in Detroit and the follow-
ing week in the Muskoka Lake dis-
trict in Ontario.

in the world.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The raw market is some-
what steadier for the week, if any-
thing, on reports of drought in Eu-
rope. On this side raws have even
shightly advanced. The conditions
that have caused this firmness are
probably only temporary, and if so
the market will probably be eventual-
ly lower than it has been at all, as
the coming crop, if let alone, will
The demand for
refined sugar is only fair.

likely be very large.

Rice—The market continues to be
on an extremely firm basis. It seems
probable that the belief that the
crop is a half million bags short
will develop strong buying strength,
and that prices the coming year will
average much higher than in the past.

Syrup and Molasses—The market
continues quiet, as expected at this
season of year, but nevertheless
shows much firmness on all grades.
Grocers’ stocks are
light
trade later on

reported to be
and jobbers look for a good
when the call

more heavily to this class of goods.

runs

No price changes are reportable for
the week.

Dried Fruits—Currants are in light
Seed-
ed raisins are scarce on spot but very
dull. All sorts of prices are quoted
on them.

demand at unchanged prices.

Loose _raisins are scarce
The tenden-
Apricots are neglected.
have
as 544c for choice, f, o. b. coast, but

and ruling rather high.
cy is firm.
Futures been offered as low
the trade are not interested even at
that.

ed up.

Spot apricots are nearly clean-
Prunes are slow, as. befits

the season, and prices show no

change for the ‘week. The future
situation is firm. Many packers re-
fuse to take orders even on a.3c ba-
Sis and some are asking 334c, al
though no sales have been made at
that figure and few at 3c. The trade
have up to this time been unable to
differ-

ence between the old spot prices and

accustom themselves to the
the future prices, and the demand is
very light. Spot peaches are scarce
and very dull. Futures are neglect-
ed and unchanged in price.
Fish_Cod, hake and haddock are
dull and inclined to be weak. The
Alaska

named a price of $1 on future red

Packers’ Association has

This may set the
key for the market and it may not.

Alaska salmon.

A few of the outside packers have
still to there is
some expectation that they will go
below $1. Lake fish and white fish
are dull and unchanged. Sardines
are still in the dumps. With every
reason for an advance, sales have this

name prices, and

week been made at a substantial cut

under the lowest previous price.
how-
ever, that certain packers are fitting

the quality of their goods to the pre-

There is considerable evidence,

vailing low price, as some new goods
examined during the week were quite
The mackerel
market is extremely firm. Irish mac-
kerel shows an advance of $1.50 per
barrel within the last two weeks and
shore mackerel is about $1 higher.
The cause seems to be actual scar-
city. Not long ago efforts were
made to bear the market and offers

the poorest ever seen.

 

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of fish were made at very low prices.
These lots are now out of the way,
however, and both the present situa-
tion and the outlook are very strong.
Further advances seem at this writ-
ing quite likely. The demand for
mackerel is fair.

Tea—All reports from Japan are to
the effect that the crop is short, es-
pecially that portion of the crop rep-
resented by the higher grades.

Coffee—Following reports of cool
weather in Brazil the market stiffen-
ed at once and options advanced 15
At this writing actual
coffees have not yet advanced, but
may move up slightly if the bullish
reports continue. All of the large
speculative interests seem to be an-

to 20 points.

ticipating higher values, but the con-
suming trade are holding back in the
expectation of large receipts during
the first months of the crop year.
Mild coffees are very firm and un-

changed. Uhe sitttation is even
stronger than it was, as the mild
crops are now nearly all in. Java

and Mocha are steady and unchang
ed. Coffee generally is in moderate
demand.

Canned Goods—-The tomato situa-
tion continues to be productive of
One of the leading
itself as fol-
lows: “In the words of some who

much discussion.
authorities expresses
are in close touch with the market,
tomatoes almost
improve-
ment to culminate in a boom, espe-

have . gathered
enough strength for the
cially in the call for futures, good
sales of which have heen made dur-
ing the week reviewed, notwithstand-
ing that a conservative division of
buyers is disinclined to give full cre-
almost universal ad-

concerning reduction in

dence to the
vices acre-
age and the not infrequent reports of
injury to the crop.” Peas are re-
ported as a short crop in the States
of Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana,
with the shortage running from 15
to 50 per cent., due to rainy weather
in most of the growing districts. If
these reports are verified, and they
many parts,
prices seem more than probable, but
it will

seem to be in higher

take some time to develop
definite information. California goods
are reported to be very quiet, and

some large holders have shown a

disposition to make concessions in
order to encourage some movement
This has had some unsettling effect.
but has not been upon a_ large
enough scale to materially affect the
general situation.
lee

The grocery and boot and_ shoe
business formerly conducted by John
Schmidt & Bros., at 220-224 West
Fulton street, will be continued in
future by Schmidt Bros.

—_——_

Willey & Joseph have opened a
grocery store at Mesick. The stock
was furnished by the Worden Gro-
cer Co.

cee leone

Alton Nye has opened a drug store
at Lake Odessa. The Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co. furnished the stock,

a

A. C. Tiffany, the Boyne Falls

druggist, was in town over Sunday.

 

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TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, July 8—The

 

|
|

| animation.

tive to buyers and it is said that some

coffee |

market, so far as the spot article is |
concerned, has not been particularly |

active this week and sales are gen-
erally of small amounts simply to
keep assortments intact.
sition is steady and quotations are
well sustained. Rio No. 7 shows a
range of 77%@8c. In store and afloat
there are 3,790,079

bags, against

Still the po- | ,
| well-sustained salmon market for the |

{remainder of the year.

land the

2,804,147 bags at the same time last |
7 g

Mild grades are steady and a
of business has

year.
fair volume

ithe output

been |

transacted in West India sorts. Good |

Cucuta, 9@o9%4c and good average
Bogotas 1034@1ic. Some fairly good
sized sales of East India coffees have
been made and prices are well sus-
market sales of

In the tea some

|meet with satisfactory remuneration.

| waged against a certain class of can-

tained, although showing no change. | "ed goods by the papers here, and

new Formosas have been made, the |

goods being in transit. Aside from
there is simply the continued
complaint of dull trade and of very
small quantities taken in any event.
Holders seem quite confident as to
the future
approach of autumn we
substantial improvement.

While a break has been made in
raw sugars, there seems to be no sign
of a change immediately in the re-
fined article.

this

MICHIGAN

Not much interest is being shown |

in molasses. Prices are firm and
offerings are rather limited. Syrups
are steady and stocks are _ pretty

closely sold up.

Canned goods show mighty little
If there be an exception
it is in salmon. The opening prices
for Alaska fish proved very attrac-

good orders were placed immediate-
ly and that some re-orders were al-
so chronicled. There is said to be|
as yet no run of Sockeye to speak of |
chances seem to be very
favorable, upon the whole, for a very

 

The general
market for canned goods, as stated, |
is quiet, but brokers are not discour- |
They point to the fact that
of some goods is very
likely to be greatly curtailed and that
the packer who turns out goods of
this year is bound to

aged.

quality

There is a vigorous campaign being

people are apt to get the idea that
all canned goods are alike, and the

publications do not seem to make
much difference in their denuncia-
tions.

Receipts of butter continue very

 

|heavy, although not quite so large |

and think that with the|
shall _ see |

as last week. There has been little, |
if any, change in the general situa- |

|tion and best Western creamery is |

ivery fancy lots may bring a

Sales have been simply |

of quantities for current needs and |

there is absolutely no boom. In fact,

it is likely there is some disappoint- |
ment that trade is not more active, | :
ithere is still ample supply and quo- |

inasmuch as a considerable amount
is being used by canners.

Holders of rice are very firm in
make no
cession. There is a very good trade
and the situation is greatly improved
over that of a month or so ago.
Choice to head, 44@5%c.

In the spice trade there is a con-

their views and will

con: |

|The hot weather is causing a great
|deal of spoilage and quotations are

tinued interest shown in pepper, and |
lare generally held at 17'%4c:; seconds,

quotations are well sustained. Sup-

plies of black are light and the whole

tendency is toward a higher basis. |

Other spices are doing fairly

and there is a firm feeling with every |

article.

well |

working out at 2014@20%c, although
trifle
more. firsts, 18@20c;
imitation creamery, 17@19c; Western

Seconds to

factory, 1444@16c; renovated, 14@
i7c.
The cheese market is quiet. Re-

ceipts are not overabundant, but

tations show no change. Fancy full |

cream, 9'4c.

There is, of course, a good call
for the very finest grades of eggs:
and the market is well sustained.

that reflect the real

Western,

send
Best

hard to
situation. however, |
15(@15'4c; from this the drop is sud-
den to I1@I2¢c.

Nowhere are hearts so hungry as!

in the land of gingerbread.

| ambition

j}and body.

|than proportionately

Prosperous Manufacturing Condition
at Battle Creek.

Battle Creek, July 10 — Battle
Creek’s manufacturing institutions |
received one of its finest additions

some two years ago in the establish- |
ment of the Advance Pump & Com-|

pressor Co.
in government service, both foreign

prising people of Puerto Rico, Mexi-

It has enjoyed a thriv-|

ing business and placed its products | already made, it would appear that

|

co, England, Italy, Denmark, Hol- |
land, Norway, Australia, New Zea-

|land, Manitoba and British Columbia. |

The company has been running its
factory night and day for weeks to

ltake care of its increasing business.

The Advance Thresher Co. is pav-

ing all of the drives and alleys about |

lits big plant, several miles in all,

with tamarack blocks, thus making |
it as easy to move machinery about |

as it would be in the paved streets
in the city.

William K. Loughborough has car-
ried on here for the past forty years

a unique business, the making of ex- |

pensive stairways for costly  resi-
dences. Mr. Loughborough enjoysa
monopoly of artistic work, and_ his
shop resembles an_ artist’s studio
more than a workshop.

The W. L. Miller Heating Co., of
Chicago, engineers and constructors
of complete water powers, is nego-
tiating with the Business Men’s As-
with a removing

sociation view of

ithe labor troubles in Chicago.

Battle Creek with Chicago

capitalists, have been looking

men,
the ground at Leonidas, south of
here, with a view of establishing a
coated paper mill. There is very fine
vater power at Leonidas, which could

institutions.
——_°-..—___
New Flying Machine Like Bird.
To fly if not to “flee like a bird to
the mountains” and elsewhere is the
of two. Englishmen
have perfected a flying machine built

| the merchants to

lof the

most promising. At each down stroke

ithe whole machine, apart from the

carriage, weighing 232 pounds, is
lifted bodily into the air and for-
wards. It rises about two feet each
stroke. It looks just like a gigan-
tic bird trying to fly under similar
conditions. At the preliminary trial,

the wings are capable of evoking a

and domestic; has touched the enter-| resistance of about 100 pounds each,

and the machine is raised about two
feet each stroke. There are grounds
for believing that a feathered wing
made of a number of units can exert
a greater resistance than a simple
wing, such as that of the insect or
bat type, or the various simple me
chanical wings which have been hith
erto used in wing flapping machines

 

>>
Would Close Stores Saturday After-
noons.

Kalamazoo, July to—Merchants of
Kalamazoo are agitating the closing
of all Saturday afternoons
The bulk of the trade of the last
three days of the week comes Satur
day afternoon and evening. This is
because of the fact that many of the
Saturday
An effort is being made by

stores

factories pay noon and
night.
have the factories
pay earlier in the week and thereby
break up the big rush on the last day
Merchants hold that

satisfied with their

week.
buyers are not

| purchases made in a hurry, and that

; Se ithe clerks are not satisfie rj |
its plant to this city, on account of | ks are not satisfied with the

| sales.

Over |

—__+ >>
Railways Carry Aid for Injured.
Water transports have long testi
of human life
by their life boats buckled to their
sides and their life

fed to their valuation

preservers strap

| r |ped to their berths, and land trans
be utilized for several manufacturing |

ports in the form of at least one line

|of steam cars follow suit with chests

| containing supplies for first aid to the

who |}

upon the principles of a bird’s wing |

which is of course considerably less
corresponding

| to the increased horse-power.

The machine has been suspended
from a tree bough and the wings flap-
ped under power. The results are

 

The wings are at present |
|arranged to flap 100 times a minute,

injured. These are carried on all
trains of the line, including passen
cabooses

ger trains, freight trains,

and work trains. In a state not cov
this

approved a law recently passed re

ered by line the Governor ha-
quiring railroads to have locomotiv:

boilers inspected regularly and au
thorizing the appointment of a stati
boiler inspector.

Scaaimncciee tie cane

When you notice a vague accusa

| tion you give it a reality and turn
|a shadow into a substance.

 

 

HONEST ADVICE

We have kept you advised in regard to the condition of the market and every advance that we predicted has materialized. We told you

Window Glass Woul

d Advance June 27th

and the Advance Took Place
There is Another Jobbers’ Meeting Scheduled for July 15 and After this Meeting the Price of Window Glass will be Still Higher

We cannot afford to give other than honest advice. You have it when we sey: You can order what you need for the next two
months with the assurance that you will earn a good profit on the investment. We are in shape to take care of any order promptly

Bent Glass Factory, Kent and Newberry Sts.

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

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Many Are Called, But Few Are
Chosen.

The Michigan Board of Pharmacy
held its regular meeting at Star Is-
land, June 26, 27, 28. There were 107
applicants present for examiation,
sixty-five for registered pharmacists’
certificates and forty-two for assist-
ant registered papers.

The following is a list of those re-
ceiving certificates:

Registered Pharmacists—Albert D.
Bohrer, Houghton; Wm. F. Basten-
dorf, Detroit; Otto F. Beyer, De-
troit; Arthur B. Collins, Potterville;
Ellen Coveny, Detroit; Ruey Ford,
Gaylord; Harry W. Gutteridge, Gay-
lord; Charles Gerondale, Menominee;
john A. Gree) Detroit; Dale RB:

Huntley, Plainwell; Louis E. Hansen,

Kalamazoo; Fred | Sl Holcomb,
Woodmere; Wm. F. Hammand, AI-
mont: Leo DD. Harvey, Jangor;

Ralph A. Helmer, Ann Arbor; Byron

W. Johnson, Owesso: FE: Arthur]

Johnson, Saginaw; Frank Kennedy, |

Peck: K. S| Kiukszy, Bay Coty; Van |
M. Langworthy, Gaines; Forrest D.
Macham, Kalamazoo; Marshall

Moorish, Detroit; Chas. Neindorf, |
Colon: Otto R. Neuman, Detroit; |

Frank D. Phelps, Jackson; Walter J.

O'Brien, Ypsilanti: W. A. Ochimg, |

Saginaw; A. B. Shiffer, Lansing; Geo.

J. Stadler, Kansas City; Nina Van}
Horn, Marlette; Otto M. Weener, |]
Detroit; Donald F. Wright, Tecum- |
seh; Walter A. Wooten, Adrian; R. |
W. Woleast, Detroit: | M.  Wolt,|
Allegan; Peter Forbison, Ludington. |

Assistant-—Eva_  Bastendorf, De- |

troit: G. T. Barwell, Pontiac: A. S.
Abbott, Detroit; Neville C. Clark,
Sault Ste. Marie; Ned Clark, Cadil-
lac: Felix Fester, Detroit; Edward

Fox, Ann Arbor; Arthur J. Gibson, |
Cadillac; Will Gleason, Marlette; B. |

F. Howard, Port Huron; Arthur P.
Hill, Wayland: Wm. Jj. Hart, Ann
Arbor; Chas. M. Johnson, Wexford;

F. W. Keillor, Clifford; W. R. Lehr, |

Manchester; A. F. McGeorge, Big
Rapids; Mabel Meek, Ann Arbor;
I.vman J. Pinney, Big Rapids; W. A.
Schmeck, Saginaw; E. P. Steele, De-
troit; Clyde F. Shirtliff, Bear Lake;
Louis. A. Seavill, Ecorse; Bert W.
Tuttle, Metamora; Edward J. Van
Sickland, Clifford: -R. Van Doren,
Ann Arbor; Robert E. Wilson, Lud-
ineton: Mur: Watters, Marlette:
Clarence Dreke, Yale.

All members of the Board were
present. This being the annual meet-
ing the following officers were elect-
ed for the ensuing year:

President—Henry Heim.

Secretary—Arthur H. Webber.

Treasurer—Sid Erwin.

The next meeting of the Board will
be held at Houghton, August 15, 16
and 17.

————_—_2-9 2
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is very firm and has ad-
vanced 5¢ per pound on account of
higher prices in the primary market.
A letter from there under date of
June 16 states as follows: “This
market closes firm owing to news
from the interior that the heavy rains,
which, if continued, will cause con-
siderable damage to our. alreauy

 

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small crop, as in a week the harvest/| present prices will rule through the
will be general. year. | Canary Seed—Continues high. The
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| decline on account of larger stocks.
Quinine—Is dull and weak. | Bayberry Bark—Is in limited sup-

}crop is small.
rae . . |
Citric Acid—Has been advanced} ply and has advanced.

Coriander Seed—Has agam ° ad-

3c per pound by manufacturers on} Oil Cloves—Is very firm and has|vanced and has now reached three

account of higher prices for crude|advanced on account of higher prices| times its former price.

in the primary market. All the cit-| for the spice. | Dutch Caraway Seed—Is in small

rates have been advanced 3c on ac- | Oil Peppermint—Continues to de-} stock and higher.

count of the advance in the acid. | cline on account of the near ap-| Gum Shellac—Is very firm and
Cocoa Butter—Is very firm and has] proach of the new crop. | steadily advancing. Higher prices are

advanced. | Oil Coriander Seed—Has advanced | looked for.

 

Cod Liver Oil, Norwegian—Fish-
ing season in Norway is over and the | seed. |
stock is large. It is believed that! American Saffron — Continues to | tree only roots the sound one deeper.

on account of the higher price for }

The storm that wrecks the rotten

 

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SHADOW OF THE CLUB.
“It’s all very well,”
try schoolmaster, “to tell me
that the fight is over what I’d better

now

said the coun- |

| do with the bully that I’ve just thrash- |
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Wednesday, July 12, 1905

“As one looks around the world,
and as one looks around our own
land to-day, he sees that the one
thing we need in high places—the
thing whose absence, among those
who hold the reins of higher power,

 

 

to the progress of the country—is
personal character. The trouble is
not what we hold to be mistaken
ideas with regard to policies of gov-
ernment, but it is the absence of
lofty and unselfish character. It is|
the absence of the complete conse-

: : ae
cration of a guages to the public | temptation that would be constantly
it is the willingness of men held out to the big powers desiring

good;
to bring their personal and private
spites into spheres whose elevation

| hope

 

ought to shame such things into ab-|

solute death; the tendencies of men,
even of men whom the nation has
put in very high places, to count |
those high places their privileges and |
to try to draw from them, not help |
for humanity and the community |
over which they rule, but their own |
mean personal advantages.”—Phil-
lips Brooks.

NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

 

Despite the general belief that the.

the Scandi-
navian people would avert all serious

sound common sense of

trouble between the _ neighboring
countries of Norway and Sweden,

growing out of the secession of the}

former from the union with the latter,
and the dethronement of King Os-
car, the impression is grad-
ually being forced upon the outside
world that after all trouble may yet
grow out of the crisis. Despite de-
nials, Norway has her army
cally mobilized and close to the
Swedish frontier, and it is also pret-
ty well established that the Swedish
army is being placed on a war foot-
ing, and it is reported that a procla-
mation providing for a general mo-
bilization will shortly be issued. The
Swedish fleet is maneuvering in the
North Sea, and the whole trend of
events has assumed a more warlike
tone.

The speeches delivered in the
Swedish Reichstag, when the ques-
tion of Norway’s secession was con-
sidered, were distinctly warlike, and
since the appointment of a special
committee to deal with the action of
the Norwegians and to open negotia-

}

practi- |

| protitable.

_ 5 : r ling due
is making us all anxious with regard |

lmy law

 

they would prove unruly
It would not be the first
time that a people have been forced

| ; ic 4 + =¥ = oO >
Tibiek anadiiie tatreations &> thn con- | to relinquish their independence after

assuming it and fighting hard _ to
maintain it, but the effects of war
on both countries would so weaken

their joint resources

and un-|

| bearing Russian

| making a

One 2

as to make the|j;. menace. To

whole Scandinavian peninsula an easy |

prey to any designing outside power.

Until
that a conference between a
committee from the Storthing and a
similar committee from the
stag some scheme of
or confederation that would
give Norway complete autonomy, but
at the same time providing for joint
action in external affairs.
allowances for the
ambition of Norway to be
independent, contemporary
tional relations do not favor the cre-
ation of small new states in Europe
that are not capable of protecting
themselves. Norway, sepa-
rated from Sweden,
ace to the peace of Europe by the

would evolve
alliance

natural

entirely

outlet to the
from the supervision
of other powers.
ests of the
tries,

good harbors and an

open sea free

two Scandinavian coun-

ought to induce
working

ary boundary line,
ithem to come to
|agreement without

some

 

Che late Secretary Hay in a speech
before the Ohio Society in New York
facetiously
descent. “I
Indiana,

traced his ancestry and
born,” said he, “in
I grew up in Illinois, I was
ode Island. 1]
in Springfield, IL,

volitics in Washington, my diplomacy
I

was

educated in Rh

and my

After mak- |

separated only by an imagin- |

|sidered as
recently there was a strong |
}

ed into subjection;
same to you I'll hang my
stick in the same old place where it’s
and wait for developments.

It is hardly
the schoolmaster just now in the pub-
For lo!
overgrown,

necessary

lic eye is Japan.
that big,
school boy has been

months over-

nuisance of himself
discipline and bully
make bad matters
worse the schoolmaster has been con-
hardly equal to the re-
quirements,

of the “deestrick” have been waiting

|for the proper time to put a stop to

Reich- |

i scems,

| wondering has

| proud conqueror,
free and}
interna- |

| plece of

would be a men- |

iif she 1s

The mutual inter-| eat

a fesort (0 armis. |

| by his
was told that the

learned |

ithe leading

| Port

in Europe, Asia and Africa. I have
a farm in New Hampshire and desk
room in the Dictrict of Columbia.
When I look to the springs from
which my blood descends, the first
ancestors | ever heard of were §a'|
Scotchman who was half English

and a German who was half French.
Of my

mother

immediate progenitors, my
New
from the
bewilderment of

England and
South. In

origin

was from
my father
this

was

perience | can only put on an aspect

— deep humility in any

gathering of
that I am
American.”

favorite and confess

sons,

nothing but an

 

A Port Huron newspaper suggests
that W. C. McMillan
cure actively
his Coal-Oil-Johnny
United States Senator. It is current-
ly reported at Detroit that he is
frequently in a maudlin condition
and it is a matter of comment that
he is occasionally “keyed up”
month at a time.

before embarking on

fOr 2

| had

and ex- |

|be done

| master,
i|met it more

| the bully the licking of his life.

the whole nefarious
derstood his job”
whipped the
whines, and is now
calmness that becomes the
“Now, if you gen-
School Board

until he
with the

tlemen of the

but if it’s all the |
hickory |

» | feet flying.

lto “Home
to say that| ”- >
ician has given every
| number of extras,
these many | !U"

 

has got to pay the fiddler. Russia
has been having a regular time of it,
and there is no use in denying that
Japan has been kept lively. Now the
dance is over she wants her pay. She
hasn’t skipped even one of a pretty
and nobody can
she has kept the Russian
From the “Grand March”
Sweet Home,” the

long programme,

deny that
musi-
dance with any
and now the dancer

ihas got to pay the price.

until |
have become the}
disgrace and the other a pub-|

iwas out of a

so that the leading men}

lit; and
business. It}
however, that the master “un- |
and with the world |

bully |
saying

In the first place he will have to
pay all the
At Sedan, where
the music,

expenses of the dance.

Germany furnished
Madame
lifted her eyebrows and shrugged her
but she paid the bill. It
ll proportion to the fun
she had had and she had to go down
deep into her stocking, but she paid
that
what this has been.

France danced.

shoulders,

affair was nothing to
Russia has been
bragging over the amount of gold still
hoarded in her vaults. How
indemnity of not less than $600,000,-

ooo, the direct cost of the war,

does an

strike

| His Imperial Majesty?

will |

kindly let me finish up this business |

as it ought to be finished up we'll be |

no longer troubled with the biggest

far cursed mankind.”

intolerance that has so|

In spite of this respectful appeal |

to the Board it is doubtful if they
concede to the
ready
demands
unreasonable
might be
involved with Russia, to which piece
of meddling Japan is ready no doubt
to make a fitting reply.

Without

nirst

moderate in her and that,
now in her

triumph, she again

question she
place like the country school-
that it’s her trouble from be-

ginning to end.

master,
It began with Rus-
bulldozing and it kept up
long after he
nefarious business

sia’s

was
constant abuse
had got to stop.
fident in that bigness he made it his
capital with the idea that bulk was
stock m that
had_ effectually
He wanted Manchuria; out
big ungainly

market,
which he cornered.
came his
paw, covering it, and
Manchuria was fiis own.
Arthur and coolly
when he
ises he

He wanted
took it and
was warned off the prem-
grinned and growled. He
promises and broke them and
reminded of it, with an impu-
unbearable as_ his

made
when
dence as offense
outrageous, he wanted to
what in all probability
about it. So matters went
on from bad to worse until the school-

been

know would

foreseeing the
than

inevitable,
halfway and gave

His-

|tory has not recorded its equal and

take the gold |

|
| his shoes,
campaign for |

yet while he stands thrashed out of
the bully among
the lookers-on with an impudence as

element

izingly suggests to the man with the
that he “better let up a little,”
and let by-gones be by-gones!

There is a good deal of sound
sense in the maxim that the dancer

lash

Big and over-con- |

| stayed.
request. It has al-|
been suggested that Japan be|

|hers Japan wants no other
| rian
feels in the]

 

Years ago when Russia, trespass-
ing under the sounding term of ex-
pansion, began it

was amusing as

well as exasperating to see how

much territory the
Siberia
been large enough,
the beast got
Now

will

3ear required to
stretch in. ought to have
but in rolling over

into Manchuria and
he has got to get out.
claim her with the

had no

China

railroads

own,

which the usurper

business to build there, except Port
Arthur and the Liau Tong Peninsula,

keep.

Fort and the

which Japan will
With the Peninsula
Manchu-
territory; but she does
Vladivostok to be a
want
land of

want
free port, she
does rights on the Is-

Sakhalin and in the

fishing
Behring

Sea and she is going to have Korea
with a nominal independence under
her complete control.

For a good many years now Rus
sia has been literally Japan’s bete
noire. Her hopes, her desires have

always been overshadowed and dark

ened by its threatening claws and
glittering teeth. The

determined to have

conqueror has
no more of it. H«
has destroyed the Russian army and
sunk the Russian fleet and hereafter
for a term of years there is going to
be a limit to the
and fleet

size of the Russian

army and he will fix that
limit,

These are the Japanese terms. The
culprit will find it hard to concede
but with the hickory in hand

the schoolmaster

to them;

stands ready for

further flogging, if it is necessary,
and bullying good-for-nothing

The Japanese
He evidently

his business. The con

has simply to submit.
schoolmaster is abroad.
understands
ditions he names are not too severe
and the family will find it to its ad-
vantage to uphold the teacher and

' we 3 | support the school if they expect to
uncalled for as it is insulting patron- |

 

stay in the district.
re
The man who can’t be held by

hoops of steel nine times out of ten

in the end meekly surrenders to halt

a dozen yards of pale blue ribbon.

 

seagate

 

 

 

 

 

 

nso sacenbseaile. Shan

Ae ae aon eRe

 

LEONARD SLATER.

 

Life of the Pioneer Preacher
Missionary.*

A modest slab, bearing the simple
record of the birth and death of Rev.
Leonard Slater, marks a mound of
earth in Riverside cemetery in Kala-
mazoo, and to the casual observer it
expresses nothing of great interest.

and

However, to the few descendants of |

this reverend man and the still fewer

friends who recall him, this mound

holds a memory especially dear.
In the early history of Michigan

the name of Leonard Slater was a

familiar one, and up to the time of |

his death, in 1866, he was looked up-
on as a man of marked prominence.
As a missionary to the Indians of this

State, and as a man of sturdy charac- |

ter, which served as an example to
many in the days when Michigan was

a name worthy to be handed down.
He was Worcester,
Nov. 16, His mother

in
1802.

born

was one of the participants in the

“Boston Tea Party,” in which, dis- |
guised as an Indian, he did his part |

in emptying the tea into Boston har-
bor.

The Slater family emigrated from
England at an early day. A brother
of Peter Slater learned the cotton
spinner’s trade of the celebrated Ark-
wright in Lancashire, England, and
denied the right of bringing
machinery to this country, set up
from memory what was necessary to
the successful running of a cotton
This man established the first
Sunday school and the first Bible
and also the first
school in Pawtucket, R. I. With an
ancestry in whom courage and _ per-

being

mill.

class

we would naturally look for like
qualities in their descendants, and that
Leonard Slater inherited their spirit
of patriotism is clearly shown in the
last public act of his life in offering
his services to the Christian Commis-

sion during the war of the Rebellion, |
and without pay going into hospital |
work in Tennessee and this, too, in| ~pomas Missions, commending
his declining years, after the strenu- |

ous life he had heretofore lived. To
this spirit of patriotism so clearly |
shown was joined a broad humani-

terianism which early caused him to
study for the ministry with an earn-
est desire of being sent out as a mis-
sionary. Mr. Slater studied under the
Rev. Jonathan Going, and at the Bap-
tist Triennial Convention, held in
1826, was appointed missionary to
Western Indians. A few weeks after
receiving the appointment, he
united in marriage, May 29, 1826, to
Mary French Ide, of Clarement, N.

was

| liness
in the process of making, he gained |
| winding in and out below.
Mass.,

was |
Scotch and his father, Peter Slater, |

ithe Carey

| loaded
| the air.

grammar |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

of Michigan’s territory, and the latter
part of the journey, that is, from
Detroit to Niles, was performed on
horseback through an unbroken wil-
derness, by following an Indian trail

and guided only by blazed trees.
Their goods were sent around the
lakes to Grand Haven and _ from

|Grand Haven to Grand Rapids in a
When the boxes finally |
reached them they were badly dam- |

row boat.
aged and stained by water.

Arriving in the course of their
journey at what is now Kalamazoo,
and finding no bridge across its river,

|they forded it at the old _ fording
place below the hill, where then stood
ithe old Rix Robinson trading post
jand where now lies Riverside ceme-
| tery. From this elevation they caught’
their first view of the Kalamazoo

Valley as it lay in all its virgin love-
and unbroken’ wilderness
trees and shrubs, with the broad river
They were
charmed with the view and here, at
the request of Mr. Slater, his body

of

lies to-day, his faithful wife and
| daughter Emily beside him.
Proceeding on their journey and

coming in sight of their destination,

Mission, whereon now

| stands the city of Niles, two Indians

came running from a wigwam with
muskets and fired them into
Such a salute on their arrival

was quite startling, but it was ex-

[plained that the firing was because
|}an Indian had just died and this was
spirit |
| know that it must not come back to
|trouble the

done to make the departed
living. They remained
but a short time at the Carey Mis-
sion (the reason for which is given

later) and the spring of 1827. saw

i|them settled at the Thomas Mission,

a Tt | situated on what is now the present
severance were dominating principles, |

site of the city of Grand Rapids, and
here for the next nine years they la-
bored very successfully among the
Ottawa Indians, havine in charge
about 150 families. In the woods all

|about them were twice or three times

aS many more. Lewis Cass, then
Territorial Governor, took a great in-
terest in both the and the

the

Carey

| zeal and faithfulness of those _ in
charge.

Mr. Slater’s labors were not con-
fined to the Indians alone. He serv-

ed in several capacities in the new set-
tlement. He was made a justice of
the peace and he was also the first
postmaster in Grand Rapids, receiv-
ing his appointment from President
Jackson, Dec. 22, 1832, and serving
as such for the next four years.
Where now stands the flourishing
city of Grand Rapids, there were in
the early days two Indian villages,
known as Upper and Lower villages,

ling of

 

ed great muscular strength. He fought |

with the British in the war of 1812.
It was generally believed that
hand applied the torch at the burn-
3uffalo. This,
been disputed; but certain it is that
he took an active part in that memor-

however,

| him to do acts which in after life he |

greatly deplored. It is a well known

fact that both the Chippewa and Ot- |

tawa tribes fought with the English
in the of 1812. Noonday wit-
nessed the killing of Tecumseh at the
battle the Thames. He
his right when he fell, stricken by
the hand of Col.
of Kentucky, afterwards
President.

war

of was on

SO,

Cass
Van

Father
went

took to Great
Buren at Washington. I

me See

to the great wigwam and there I saw|

the same man that killed Tecumseh.
him in the
Kin A Poot
“You kill Pecumseh,”
was not denied by Col. John-
To get a history of any Indian

said,
that

and
Tecumseh,”

! looked face
“Kine
is,

fact

SOn.

who fought on the side of the Brit- |
ish has ever been a difficult task, but |

through Mr. Slater’s assistance sever-

al facts were gained from “Noonday.” |

This statement is vouched for by sev-

{eral who heard it from Noonday, and

it was published as a fact in the Cen-
tury Magazine of June, 1885. The
memory of Chief Noonday is worthy
a monument the Richland
Is not someone willing to lead

in ceme-
tery.
in seeing that a suitable one is erect
his before

ed to

is lost?

memory even
He died in 1855 or 1856.
Chief Noonday was quite advanced
in years when the missionaries came
to Grand Rapids; but he made them
very welcome. He showed them the
Salt Springs and the Gypsum rocks,
probably those at Plaster Creek, from
which sources have come so much of

the city’s wealth and industry, quiet- |

ly remarking of the springs that “the
fed them.” Noonday
among Mr. Slater’s first converts and

spirits was

proved a valuable help to him in

many ways. When he was baptised in
the Grand River hundreds of Indians
gathered on its banks to witness the
In-
dians love a contest of any kind, and
when they saw Mr. Slater and Noon-
in the water they
thought a tussle was impending, and
Mr. Slater put Noonday
der the water the banks
Tah Yah! Tah Yah! Kitchee Moko-
mon tum’ (Hurrah! Hurrah!
white man got him down first). The

rite, which was new to them.

day together

when un-
rang with

nee

last trial ever held under Indian law
was in the fall of 1840, near Middle-
Barry county, fell
to Noonday to try a

ville, in when it

man,

his |

has |

Richard M. John- |
Vice- |
When asked how he knew |
it was Col. Johnson he said, “General |

| marked

which

that |

| modic

| an-o-que.”

Louis |

9

inferior race must yield to a superior
who respect for
any rights except their own. It may
be well in passing to say of Noon-
that he to the

one, will have no

day remained true

| principles of his faith in Christianity
| and
able battle, and his savage nature led!

the mission was removed

to Prairieville in 1836 he accompan-

when

ied the others and could always be
depended upon by Mr. Slater for as-
sistance.
the

His perfect knowledge of
with a

sagacity and forethought, which had,

Indian nature, coupled

| caused him to rank high among them
jas a chief, showed him clearly what

was needed for the Indian at the time,
and also what was required of him
He
had no children of his own, but adopt-

after abandoning Indian habits.

He died at the advanced
98 and was buried beside his
the old
A plain marble slab once
the where the _ noble
chieftain lay, but that has been de-
molished

ed several.
age of
wife, near where mission
stood.

spot

now remains
place, and the
ground above him has been ploughed
over.

The Slaters settled the
bank of the river near the island, with
Indian wigwams all about them, and

and nothing

to mark his burial

on ast

here was born to them August 12,
i927, Sarah Emily Slater, the first

white child born in Grand Rapids. As
soon as Noonday heard of the event
he came to the house with his wife,
Som-an-o-que, making great rejoic-
ing and praising Mainton, who had
shown tribe
bringing them a white babe, and he
her a “Som-an-o-que,”

such favor to his in

gave name,

| which was also his wife’s name, and
lall the Indians called her the “Little

On account of the
great demands made upon the moth-

Som-an-o-que.”

er, the babe was given into the hands
of an Indian woman to nurse and was

treated much an Indian mother

as

would treat her own. Slinging her

carried in
one position so long that the child’s
head partial

across her back she was

grew imperfect and a
paralysis ensued, bringing on a spas-
of the
a grief to them all and to the young
mother especially. other chil-
to this
George and Frances, and these three
the three
born in Grand Rapids.

action eye. This was

Two

dren came them in home,

children
three

white
Later

were first

i more were born in Barry county, mak-

ing a family of six children, but of
them all
with the

none could take the place
Indians of the “Little Som-

She soon learned to bab-
their words in her childish voice.
to extent had the
children taken up the Indian
tongue that they had to be sent to
their the East
taught to speak their own language.

ble

Indeed, such an

older

relatives in to be

H., a woman greatly beloved and re-
spected, who proved a noble help-
the

On the journey they spoke and sang
freely in the Indian tongue, much to
the entertainment of the people they

the Upper being presided over by an
Ottawa chief, No-no-qua-he-zich
name, commonly called “Noonday,”

Genreau, of his own tribe, for murder- |

his wife. He found him guilty

by

ng

5

meet indeed, bearing patiently
trials of pioneer life and winning the

and pronounced sentence of banish-

 

tain favor among white people, and

cision of Noonday and acquiesced in

; fall shine Ged la friendly, industrious Indian, who al-} ment upon him and confication of met in making the journey.
; re of all—savages and white _ set- i Ah Lae i : a
at ae 7 ways worked for the good of his peo-! property. This sentence was execut- Vhe little Emily was allowed to
srs alike. LE Tete / i i
main . : ple. He was among the first to ob-|ed in strict accordance with the de-| wander at will and one day took het
3idding farewell to parents and

way to the river bank with a new tin

friends, the young couple started soon

This man was later her hand and being thirsty

Little by little they |
yielded their rights to the white man. | er.

by all his tribe.
sent to Jackson.

hi nae S sleeie hell being a man of excellent habits was cup in
afte s mission, and their brida i Le a
aites On See of great assistance to them. He was thought to help herself from the riv-

She the little cup
float and she let it go. [lt floated out
on the clear water up to the mission

trip was made through the wild woods ae

 

of fine physique and stood fully six found
feet in height, was well proportioned

and noble in appearance and possess-

*Paper read at annual convention of the
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society
by Mrs. Mary M. Lewis Hoyt, of Kalamazoo.

Noonday foresaw their destiny and |
}

|
|

 

his predictions have been fulfilled. An

 

she

aruneuemmanee

 

 

 

10

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

house. The mother, seeing it, called
for her child, but no childish voice
responded. She thought of the river;
oh, the river, the rapids! The mother
flew towards the rapids and she saw
on the water the little blond head,
the curls just beginning to turn with
the stream. One minute more, the
flight of the mother one moment de-
layed, and the little Emily would
have been beyond recall. When
Emily was but a child she began
teaching the younger Indian chil-
dren, for a child may teach what it
knows as well as an older person.
How fast or how much they learned
we may not know, but we do know
that her faithfulness and devotion to

mission.

Mrs. Slater found it difficult to
manage according to the New Eng-
fand customs, as she had herself been
taught. She instructed daily in the
mission school and for their own
benefit taught the Indian girls to as-
sist her in the housekeeping, and
sometimes without warning their
nomadic instincts would seize them
and they would suddenly vanish like
a flock of deer, away to some berry
swamp or woods or lake, leaving the
mistress of the house to knead into
loaves a great trough of dough and do
other necessary work. They had no
more idea of the constraining pro-
prieties of domestic life than the
squirrels that chattered in the trees
around the mission house. It would
not be a difficult matter for us to
frame excuses for these children of
the forest, who heard in the sighing
of the wind through the trees the
gentle voice of the Maniton, and his
voice raised in anger in the roar of
the tornado or the thunder.

The confidence of the Indian is
gained slowly. His stolidity is for
the most part assumed, “put on” in
the presence of the white man. He
is communicative if he thinks you are
his friend, but if confidence is be-
trayed there is a lapsing into sul-
len distrust.

Mr. Slater labored to attract the
Indians. Once their confidence gain-
ed, they believed implicitly as do
children. If through weakness of
body or mind they drank whisky they
still believed the truth and deplored
their faults. There was a United
States statute forbidding the sale or
the giving of liquor to Indians. Mr.
Slater found and emptied many bar-
rels of this commodity upon the
ground at every station with which
he was connected. When drunken
Indians came howling around the
Mission at night he would go out
and tie the disturbers to a fence to
sober off and next day they were re-
pentant and meek and full of prom-
ises to be good. Whisky was the
greatest enemy the missionaries had
to contend with. Introduced by white
men, it taxed the ingenuity of other
white men to keep the Indians sober.
General Cass, who took a profound
interest in the early settling of this
State, urged upon the white men to
keep liquor from the Indians and
urged the same upon the different
Indian chiefs.

He told Chief Topinabee to keep

 

 

sober so as to make a good bargain
for himself and his people in selling
their lands. Topinabee is said to
have replied, “Father, we do not care
for land or money or the goods of-
fered us. What we want is whisky.
Give us whisky.” It may have been
spoken with sarcasm in view of the
manifold anxiety of all the Indians
for this beverage, but it is well
known that Topinabee was a_ sad
drunkard. Contrary to popular  be-
lief, the first white traders and trap-
pers proved a blessing to the Indians,
for they brought to them improved
weapons and better methods of hunt-
ing and fishing, and their rude ways

|and means of agriculture were, by the
the work continued as long as did the

efforts of the traders, made more

| profitable, and living among them and

adopting some of their ways they
helped to develop the better part of
the savage nature, and thus introduc-
ed among them the elements of civil-
ization, and until the advent of the
whisky bottle the white man had it
in his power to do great service to the
Indians. No one probably under.
stood the Indian nature or their rela-
tions with the white man better than
did Chief Pokagon, who was an in-
vited guest at the Columbian Expo-
sition in ’93, and was listened to with
profound attention when asked to
speak: “Let me tell you,” he said,
“some things I have seen at some
of our trading posts; even Mackinaw,
where Astor got rich and we very
poor. The most profitable trade and
the most ruinous trade Mackinaw ever
had was in whisky.” He then gave
the formula which was in use among
the traders of that period for the
making of “fire-water,” which did not
exceed in cost above five cents a gal-
lon and was retailed to the Indians
for fifty cents a quart, of which thou-
sands of bottles were sold every year
to the Indians and which, when tak-
en, soon put them in a state in which
they would give everything they pos-
sessed into the hands of the white
man, passing into their hands rich
furs and richer lands for that which
in exchange was worse than nothing,
and worked to the undoing of any
good that might otherwise have been
done them. Pardon this digression,
if it is such, but this is a part of
Michigan’s early history, and_ the
means used to get from the first own-
ers of the soil their interest in what
we so proudly claim to-day as ours.
Treachery and abuse instead of jus-
tice and right was the principle too
often used in the first intercourse
between the white man and his red
brother.

’

The reason Mr. Slater did not re-
main longer at the Carey mission at
Niles and the chief reason of his re-
moving from the Thomas mission in
Grand Rapids was owing to the dis-
turbing influences wrought by _ the
selling and giving of liquor to the In-
dians. The rapid influx of white set-
tlers into Grand Rapids, which began
in the spring of 1833, and the demor-
alizing effect produced upon the In-
dians thereby indicated to those in
charge the advisability of a removal
of the mission, and in 1833 land was
purchased in Prairieville, Barry coun-
ty, and the mission was removed

 

there, about fifty Indian families in all
accompanying Mr. Slater to his new
quarters. The sturgeon with which
the Grand River had abounded were
growing scarce and there was also a
lack of meat, for deer will not stay
in a region where guns are fired. So,
in looking for a new location, it was
found that one of the best fishing
waters was Gull Lake, in Barry coun-
ty, and the rich findings of pickerel
with which the lake then abounded
gave great satisfaction to these ex-
pert fishermen. They built log houses
and each family had their piece of
ground to work, but they were not
farmers and could not be made such
in one generation. Wildness had held
them for many generations and it was
a hard matter to make radical
changes, and while they learned to
love the white man’s’. bread, they
knew not how to bear the white man’s
burden.

At the time Mr. Slater settled in
Prairieville, Barry county and Kala-
mazoo county were undivided. He
settled on what was the base line of
those counties and was near to sev-
eral lakes. A. S. Parker, who built
the first frame house and barn in
that part of the country, was a near
neighbor. Orville Barnes, Mr.
Spaulding, Mr. Otis and Mr. Brown
soon settled near him, also the Daily
About two and
miles south of the mission was the
little settlement of Richland, where
the postoffice was kept by Colonel
In the fall of 1837 the first
school house in Prairieville was built
commodious and
served a double purpose. Religious
services were held in it on Sunday
and school during the week. A sort
of belfry was made by four posts
put in the ground with cross pieces
on the top and in it was hung the
bell Mr. Slater loaned until the Slat-
er mission chapel was built, when it
was hung in the belfry of that build-
ing, calling the Indians together for
services as long as the chapel _ re-
mained.

family. one-half

3arnes.

It was large and

It is now in use in a dis-
trict school in Prairieville, where it
calls the youths to a broader and
higher life in education. This bell
was purchased by Mr. Slater in De-
troit in 1830 and was shipped around
the lakes to Grand Haven and then
to Grand Rapids in a canal boat, and
when the mission moved from Grand
Rapids to Prairieville the bell accom-
panied them.

Mr. Slater had mastered the In-
dian language so as to use it as read-
ily as his own. In his intercourse
with them he was like a_ father
among his children, and as they
gathered about him he would say,
“Come now, my children, you must
cross the dark river; the waters come
along swift and they whirl and they
are deep, but here is the boat, the
life boat. Come into it all of you
and be saved.” There was of neces-
sity much reiteration, which made it
more impressive to them. Scripture
cards were made for them, prepared
by Mr. Duncan Ide, of Boston, who
was a brother of Mrs. Slater. All
possible ways they could devise to
attract and keep the attention were
used by these faithful people. The

 

accomplished

among them
would be interpreted differently by

work

different people. It was their earn-
est endeavor to make the way of
eternal life through the Savior plain
to them, and there the responsibility
To win the love of
one good man or woman is worth
the work of a lifetime. To win
Christ is more.

The singing of hymns to tunes in
our own hymn books was very sweet
and impressive, the words being in
their own language, but one could
follow them very well. The Indian
women brought to the service their
pappooses, each on its padded board,
made soft for its little body, and
ranged them along the warm side of
the room like so many umbrellas,
their little eyes shining like glass
beads as they looked around on the
company in wondering silence. They
do not cry aloud as do white babies.
Through all the long generations
back they have been accustomed to
silence and that is the trait of their
nature.

The Indian wigwam might be
thought an uncomfortable affair for
living in, but such was not the case
really, for it was a house all roof, so
steep that the rain ran off readily
After the fire, which was in the cen-
ter of the hut, was. started there
was little smoke. There was always
a pot simmering over the coals with
venison or bear meat or squirrels or
other wild game in it. They loved
the white woman’s bread and meat
and above all her fried cakes, and
Mrs. Slater, with all patience, taught
them as well as she could her clean,
practical New England ways, so that
they gradually left off many of their
uncouth fashions, substituting hers.

of man ceases.

They were always hungry and nev-
er thought it beneath them to ask for
“bucatah” (bread). They ate of
what was given them and what they
did not eat they put into a fold of
their “mitchicotta” and went on their
way. They gave their confidence
slowly, but always remembered a4
kindness, which many times was re-
paid with a kindly act. They were
capable of the most enduring affec-
tion and were also capable of great
cruelties. History has never record-
ed and never will the horrible scenes
of cruelty to captive men, women and
children in the early wars, for none
but Indians knew the extent, and
they were silent for the most part,
but occasionally, in later years, when
somewhat under the influence of
“fire water,’ they would relate some
of their blood curdling experiences
of the past, of the raids they made
among the early settlers in Ohio and
other states, capturing women and
children. The latter, if too young to
manage well, had their brains dashed
out against trees, and the women
were compelled to ride astride pon-
ies behind Indians and flee with them
or be pierced with arrows.

In this enlightened age it is hard
to believe that such things ever OC-
curred, but past history is full of
horrors which it may not be well to
open. The trials endured by ovr
forefathers in the early settling ©!
this country can not be truly com-

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

prehended by those coming so much
later. To them it is ancient history.

The change in their style of dress
came about gradually. It was a diffi-
cult matter by mere entreaty or ar-
gument to persuade them, but for
convenience’s sake they dropped their
becoming and romantic style of dress.
The browns and reds which harmon-
ized so perfectly with their outdoor
surroundings were put aside, and they
adopted the white man’s costume,
plug hat and all, and in doing so a
great portion of their dignity seemed
to depart. It was remarked of Chief
Noonday that he wore his blanket
as though it were a Roman toga, and
no hat of any kind could have given
him the dignity that seemed born to
go with the circlet of eagle’s feathers
that surrounded the back of his head.

it is said of Chief Me-gis-o-nee-nee, |

who presided over the Lower village
of Indians in Grand Rapids, that he
went to Washington in 1836 to assist
in negotiating a treaty and was pre-
sented while there by President Jack-
son with a suit of new clothes, of
which he was very proud, but with
it insisted upon having a high hat
with a mourning badge on it.
clothing had been made from
ned deer skins prepared with much
labor, but mingling with white men
they came to adopt the simple jack-
et and trousers which could easily
be fashioned by their squaws.

The business of the mission requir-
ed Mr. Slater to go to Washington
at certain periods, and during one of
times of absence Mrs. Slater
and died. The Indians
mourned her death and then seemed
to heart atid lapse imto
their old ways. She had been a
counselor to them in their times of
trouble and sorrow, had nursed and
cared for them in sickness and with
her housewifely skill and knowledge
had sought to teach them the prac-
tical ways of living. In her quiet
patience had read to them in
their homes from the Word of Life,
and when the Great Spirit called her
away their hearts were sad and heavy
and they learned then what they had
only partially realized before, that a
rare woman of pure spirit had been
sojourning them and_ be-
cause she had nothing else to give,
had given to them herself, and had
season and out of season

these
sickened

lose

she

among

lebored in
if perchance she might win some to
the truth, and so this missionary
work began in early life and carried
on for nearly thirty years by this
devoted family came to an_ end.
When the mission broke up in 1854
many of the Indians went to Pent-
water, Mich. Some had intermar-
ried with the Pottawatomies and
went with that tribe to Selkirk’s Mis-
sion at Bradley, Allegan county, and
some went to Calhoun county.

Mrs. Slater died in 1852. For two
years thereafter Mr. Slater contin-
ued the work with the assistance of
his daughter Emily and then the mis-
sion broke up and they moved to
Kalamazoo. Some of the _ Indians
clung to the old place, and to such

Mr. Slater went each Sunday to
preach, being taken the fourteen
miles between by his © faithful old

Their |

tan- }

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

horse, Jack. This horse had done
duty in the early period by bringing
the mail from Detroit and served as
mail carrier for three years. It took
one week to make the trip to De-
troit and another to make the return
trip, so in those early days mail was
received only once in two weeks and
there was twenty-five cents postage
for every letter and now at the clos-
ing up of affairs at the mission he
performing his part as faith-
fully for his master as in his young-
er days.

The mission chapel was built in
1840 and in the winter of 1855 and
*56 was removed to Kalamazoo and
set down on Water street where Ty-
ler & Turner’s planing mill stood,
and was rebuilt with an additional
story and served as a dwelling house
|for a number of years. It was re-
|moved in its second flight to Den
i Blyker’s addition, on Portage street,
Sa it now stands, being used as a
| tenement house.

Emily Slater, the faithful daugh-
iter and teacher, removed to Kalama-
|!z00 with her father and was mar-
ried to Sylvester St. John, June 22,
1856, in the Baptist church, by Rev.
|I. A. B. Stone. She died Feb. 23,
| 1893, and her body lies beside her
parents in Riverside cemetery, Kala-
mazoo.

The news of the war in our own
land stirred up the blood of the old
Revolutionary ancestors running in
the veins of Leonard Slater and, as
has been said before, he offered him-

was

 

 

self for his country’s service, and
joining the Christian Commission

without pay was sent to care for our
sick and dying soldiers in the hospi-
tal at Nashville, Tenn. He labored
there until his health gave out and
then came home to die, and, not yet
an old man, departed this life April
27, S66.

The few remaining Indians living
at Prairieville attended the funeral
and saw him laid away from their
sight.

This devoted and single hearted
missionary died without the satisfac-
tion of feeling that his life’s work
had been a success. The character
of the Indian had not been improv-
ed by his intercourse with white
men, which was of itself a discourag-
ing fact. With the history before us
of those who have struggled and toil-
ed and then lain down to die comes
ever and again the question, ‘What
is life?’ Who can answer?

oe
Horse a Rarity in Paris.

The horseless age is dawning in
Paris, the native heath of the auto-
mobile, and the common prediction
of the early days of motor cars that
the equine would be eventually dis-
placed by the mechanical power ve-
hicle is being fulfilled. From 1903 to
1g04 the number of horses in Paris
dropped from 91,016 to 90,147, a dif-
ference of 869. In tgo1 there were
133,892, making a decrease in 1904 of
43,745, as compared with roor. At
Lyons the same thing was observed,
although there the underground rail-
way may have contributed.

In France in 1903 there were 20,-
ooo vehicles representing a value of
about $40,000,000. The precedent es-

 

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company has been formed to
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Valetta, Malta, which will

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which will storage
own and other motor cars.
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horse

For _pub-

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deck bus, four twenty-four horse
power, thirty-six seat double deck
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power lorry. All the vehicles are fit-
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open for service in June.

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Cold Storage As a Preservative of
Food.*

I do not know that I can do better

this morning than to say a few words |

as to the action of the last Congress
in authorizing the Secretary of Agri-
culture to make additional
investigations of cold which
not been before undertaken by
Department. You
that

certain
storage,
have
the

stand, of

will under-

course, this request

was not made by the Department
of Agriculture, but originated in

itself. While I am
able to quote the exact words of the
act, the idea is that the Secretary of
Agriculture is
gate the effects of cold storage
the food
therein.

Congress not

authorized to investi-
upon
wholesomeness' of kept
It seems to me that the following
deduction may be
data which we have already
lated. =- First,
cessity of modern conditions of exist-
ence. I often address audiences on
the subject of the preservation of
food, and have been So for) a
great many years, and start
the assumption food
there

made from’ the
accumu-
storage iS a

cold ne-

doing
always
that
otherwise

out with
must be preserved,
would be no necessity of
on the subject at all. In this world
we no longer take food

from the place where they are pro-|
i which must be preserved unless

I refer especially |

Foods are
First, in
family

duced and consume them.
preserved for two reasons.
order to carry the human
through the time when there is no
production, as in the winter time; and,
secondly, for the purpose of distrib-
uting among the other nations of the
world the products of every other na-
tion, in order that all nations may
have the benefit of food
which are produced by other nations.
in his present

products

In other words, man,
state of evolution and
demands the fruits of all climes and
of all countries on his home table. 1
do not refer to the rich man alone,
but to the ordinary
circumstances,

advancement,

man under ordi-
nary to the
gets a good day’s wages for his labor,
to the humble farmer and artisan.
You can not go to the tables of that
class of men in this land without see-
ing upon them the fruits of different
countries and of every clime. You
will find coffee from Brazil, tea from
Ceylon, beet sugar from Germany,
tropical fruits from Central Ameri-

man who

ca, and manufactured goods from all |

countries, placed upon the table of

 

*Address by Dr. H. W.
Bureau of Chemistry,
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der that this may be done the preser-
absolutely neces-
tend to
which in

the
ordinary

even
In or-

vation of food is

sary. Some foods naturally

preserve themselves—those

their mature state are reasonably dry,
like the

is occasioned by the

cereal grains, because
presence of
moisture, and in a desiccated state
decay are
foods

reasonably

the germs which produce

not active. Therefore those

which are of themselves

dry naturally keep for a given length

laborer and the

decay |

of time. Nuts are another example of
the same description of food, because
the nut is not only reasonably dry |

but is provided with a shell
a protection. These

rule, need not be subject to cold stor- |

age because nature has already pro-
vided for keeping them.
There are certain other bodies

which have a limited sphere of pres- |
and for that rea-|
that time, |
storage.

ervation naturally,
exempt, during
from the necessity of cold
Most of the fruits
of this
ples when

Son Arc

large
ples class.
carefully picked and put
away will keep well in a
cellar during the greater part of the
other fruits will do
oranges. Small fruits,

very
winter. Some
the same, as
a5 2 rule, are
mediate decay, and therefore can not
be kept as larger fruits can. By
fruits I mean berries,

stance,

preservation.
other forms. of

some form of

food

There are
mediately eaten.

and eggs. The oys-

ter is never so good as the moment
it is taken out of the shell. . Fish is}
never so good as the moment it is
taken out of the water. The egg is
never so good as the moment it is
laid. These are bodies which, un-
less they are subjected to cold-stor-

age, immediately deteriorate, and

therefore a method of preservation

must be instituted.

I think I have now practically di-
vided into the
classes into which they are naturally

food products three
divided by their relation to cold stor-
not need
which

age; first, those which do
f at al;

partially

those need
and helpfully, but
can get along for some time without
it; and, third,
it immediately in order that the good
qualities may be kept.

In admitting the necessity for cold
and classifying foods in re-

second,

it only

storage,
gard to that necessity,
itself is:

cold

which presents

can foods be kept in

am compelled to say

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bodies, as a}

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the next point |
How far |
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that there are
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proved by being kept in cold storage.
| do not believe that this will be
denied by any one of you who has
practical knowledge on this question.

Take, for instance, the ordinary
meats. It is the common consent of
the consumer that meats are im-

proved, to a certain extent, by being |

kept in cold storage. Take a piece
of beef, and it is not so good when

it

is immediately slaughtered as
when it has been kept for some
length of time. We have already |

shown that fruits keep up their rip-|

ening processes after they are pick-
ed and even after they are

Fruit

subjected
to cold temperatures. is a
it
The apple in cold storage is alive and
its. vital

ing .organism, as long as exists.

processes are going on.

Therefore it may continue to improve,

to ripen, to increase in its good qual- |

ities up to a certain point. We show-

ed you a year or two ago just how|

long an apple would continue to in-
crease Sugar at the
expense of the starch, and when the
starch is all consumed and converted
into to

H#S amount of

sugar we showed you the

rate at which the sugar would disap- |

and to. what

would deteriorate.

pear extent the apple
And so we must
that

only does cold storage in some cases

assume, without question,

keep food, but that it actually im-
proves its quality.

There are other cases where we

know that it simply keeps the food
as nearly
it

as possible in the state in
Fish

You can not improve

is an instance

which
of that
the quality «

was.
kind.
of fresh fish, and the best
you can do is to keep its good quali-
ties as they were when it was fresh.
And this
the

WE

problem,
food,

in studying
ot
must keep these points in view,
to cold
age improve the quality of food, be-
the
wholesomeness of food are really syn-

SO,

effect cold storage

on

first, what extent will

cause the quality of food and
onymous terms. If food is of excel-

lent it it
is of poor quality it is not wholesome,

quality is wholesome; if

because as soon as its quality is im-

paired the food is less wholesome

than it

It
line of this
would be to follow, step by step, in
some way which is not yet absolutely

was before.
to
investigation

me that

in

SCenis

defined and probably will not be ex-

cept by experimental work, those food

products which improve in cold stor- |
age and see the limit of time which |

it ordinarily takes to secure the max-
imum of this That
would help the cold storage man, be-

improvement.

cause he could say to his customer:
This product is at its best, and it is
the proper point at which it should
be disposed of on the market. We
would follow that up and see
at what rate that maximum quality
in

then

deteriorates in cold storage, or,
other words, how long you can keep
a product before it begins to deterior-

ate in such a way that it

practically unwholesome for the con- |

sumer. That is just as important to
the cold storage man as it is to the
man who owns the goods or to the
consumer, because the success of cold
storage must be the same as_ the

liv- |

not |

stor- |

a legitimate |

respect

becomes |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

|quality of food it gives out. If
|
| storage will not continue to increase
If it does

| preserve food, that which could not

in popularity and extent.

|be otherwisé preserved, it will  in-
|crease in popularity and extent.
The next step would be to take |

foods, such as eggs and fish, which
|are not improved at all by cold stor-
lage, and see how long they can be
i kept without losing their good quali-
limit
would be advisable to withdraw this

ties, and thus fix a where it
material from cold storage and place
it in consumption.

There is another important point,
from the standpoint of the connois-
seur, and that is the cold storage of
Cold storage game is not gen-
the people of this
|country. It is only eaten by those
the better circumstances of life;
but nevertheless even these poor peo-

game.

lerally eaten by

}in
|ple may have some rights which it

Just because
la man is rich is no reason why he

is our duty to conserve.

should be hit on the head with a club. |

that what I said of meat
of game, that up
icertain point cold storage improves
The connois-
his “ripe.” Just
is depends on the taste
I have seen people
|}eat game which was too ripe for my
taste, but suited to thems. [|
think ought be
own judge in regard to the degree of
ripeness in game which he desires. I
like and tender; but

| I believe
is also true
the quality of game.
seur wants
what “ripe”
of the consumer.

game

was

every man to his

my fowl game

IT do not care to have them blue and |

odoritferous.

Having briefly presented the nature
of the problem, next comes the im-
portant question as to the technique
I confess that I am
quite at sea in regard to the man-
ner of how these things can be abso-
lutely The
relieved

{f the problem.

oO

determined.
kindly from
responsibility in this line. They have
published very full details of how all
this to it seems

newspapers

have me any

be done, hence

is

hardly necessary for me to consider |
They have!

ithe matter any further.

it |
deteriorates the quality of food cold}

to a}

published full reports; but I must say |
that I have not yet seen any newspa- |
per philosopher who has really laid
eut a technique which is entirely sat-
istactory to me; and I am tryine to
improve upon what has been so kind-
ly suggested by these people. Here
again is where [| shall want the kind |}
advice and help of all the practical

men who are in this business, of the

cooks themselves, and of the connois-

seurs who eat this food annd are
capable of judging about it Just

. . . . |
how this point is to be reached 1s}

13

No. 2
30 doz. Egg Cases

Ata Sacrifice

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

Cummer Manufacturing Co.
Cadillac, Mich.

 

 

Wewant Butter, E gs, Poultry and Veal

We pay highest prices all the year around.

GRAND RAPIDS PRODUCE CO.

40 S. Division St.,

Reference
5tH NATIONAL BANK

Citizens Phone 3083
Bell Phone 465

 

Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers

Constantly on hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers.

and veneer basswood cases.
chaser.

constantly in stock.

L.

Prompt shipment and courteous treatment.
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan,

Sawed whitewood

Carload lots, mixed car lots or quantities to suit pur-
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
Warehouses ana
Address

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

 

 

An

Indestructable Delivery Box

Patented

Especially Adapted for Grocery Men

 

 

dozen ordinary baskets.

direct to the factory. Manufactured by

 

 

They contain all the advantages of the best basket; square corners, easy
to handle, fit nicely in your delivery wagon, no tipping over and spilling o
goods, always neat and hold their shape.

If your jobber doesn’t handle them send your order

W. D. GOO & CO., Jamestown, Pa., Successors to Wilcox Brothers

We guarantee one to outlast a

 

 

 

 

Established 1872

by food laws.

The Jennings Extracts

Order direct or of your jobber.

Jennings Manufacturing Co.

Sole Owners of the

Jennings Flavoring Extract Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Jennings Flavoring Extracts

Jennings’ Mexican Vanilla Extract

Is made from Mexican Vanilla Beans.

Jennings’ Terpeneless Lemon Extract

Is made from Messina Lemons, is colored with Pure Vegetable Coloring and is made above the standard placed

Is uncolored and conforms to all food laws.

Are guaranteed satisfactory to both the dealer and consumer, hence the goods are standard in all markets.

 

XTRACT

 

 

 

14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

You know the char-/ extent that they succumb more readi-
That

the problem.
acter of our National Legislature and /ly to the fermentative germs.

      

 

  
   
 

 
   
 

i
i you all honor its members for their is reasonable, because long storage |
high standard of ability and morality; | has made those meats less resistant, 2

: but they have a very unhappy way |and when subjected to contamination | on;

# of loading down the Executive de-| they succumb more readily. It is al- |

' partments with work and giving them | together possible that meats which |

‘ no funds to carry it on. That hap-j| have been too long in cold storage |

pened in this case. While they di-| may, on exposure, develop ptomaines |

i rected the Secretary of Agriculture! much more readily than fresh meats |

: to study this problem they failed to|of the same character would; but it | : :

: appropriate a single dollar to enable! happens that perhaps a great deal of | | You have te ee las E
; him to do the work, so we are work-| these ptomaines may have developed | aes ae matter with trade? :
: ing with the odds and ends of our|after the meat had been taken out of | .. ae ne talk of the busi-

4 other appropriations the best we can.j| cold storage. I think it is highly im- aaan® ~ Can't oo = get ——

1 There are certain chemical prob-| portant that when cold storage meats | ee oar for cash that

' lems in this matter which can be|or products, in general, are to be con- | a = i Rtn ge 2

' easily determined. Let me give you| sumed they should not be removed | tion? NT anh aan that will stir your

' an illustration of what might be done: | from cold storage until they are ready | po ago its very roots. Something thet ving enough to

i Take meat or game, or poultry, which | for consumption. A great many let- ae ccaien ee way. One of our Special Ten

i is probably the same as game. Sup-|ters have been written to us from | Day Sales, eae ——, We eet ae

J pose we could have twenty-four|all parts of the country, since the | Promotion and Publicity plans, wo tae of i Mig gg

a pieces exactly alike in composition | agitation of this subject began, and | sis ea i will do this without resorting to any repu-

i placed in cold storage. We could) we are now considering some very | tation-ruining tactics, but will be streleht... system and

place this material in cold storage at| important charges which are made. | ae tena comenngn cunt are so absolutely thorough

4 a certain time and at a certain tem-| One man, who is a leading physician | ane ee oe eee ee ee tg ge ages
af perature and at the time it is placed|in a large city, has positively charg- | he sale, but will continue for enths od ee

; in cold storage an analysis could be| ed, and says that he will make affi- | eS ce at ae your section of the

i made by which the nutritive quali-|davit to it, that he has seen meats | country that they wh Ok ot ee ee every

| ties of that product could be deter-| taken out of cold storage and exposed oo eon all that—every ‘word of it—if you give

i mined. And then at intervals, say of| for a certain length of time and os = = tn oanies eS peer Bie els in

t three months, a package exactly simi-| put back again into cold storage and : i H =
H lar to the original one first exam-| afterwards taken out again, and if not New York and St. Louis Consolidated ‘
ined could be withdrawn and sub-|sold put back the second time. In Salvage Co. INCORPORATED

i jected to another examination. Wej|such a case there is, of course, the HOME OFFICE, Contracting ant hévertisiag Dept., Century Building,

: could continue that for two or three; utmost danger of contamination ADAM GOLDMAN. Pres. and Gen. Mgr.

4 years. If there was any change in the | And so it seems to me, that for busi-

ef

4 chemical constitution of the food with | ness reasons as well as sanitary rea-
regard to its nutritive qualities, or in| sons, there should be such an adjust-
any other way, it could be determin-| ment of withdrawals from cold stor-
# ed, as we have determined it in the|age as would immediately meet the
4 case of apples when kept in cold stor- |'demands for consumption and no
age. That I consider to be a per-| more, and that cold storage products

I

a,

 

fectly legitimate method of studying

this problem. But it is claimed also |
that the taste and savor of cold stor- |

age products is changed. The chem-
ical crucible is not capable of ascer-

taining taste or savor or palatability. |
It can only be done by the animal |
which consumes this food, and there |

it seems to me is where the connois-

|should not be exposed to ordinary
temperatures, until the customer is
ready to take them at once and use
them. If that could be done I be-
lieve a great deal of objection which
has been raised to cold storage prod-
ucts would be obviated. As I have
said before, just how true these
charges are I do not know as I have

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

 

Cen Reasons Why You Should Buy

 

made no investigation, but it is due
to you gentlemen to know that they

seurs may come in, if they can re-
member for the period of three
months how a thing tasted. At the|are being made by apparently relia-
time of its being placed in cold stor-| ble parties. That, of course, will be
age we would have this food prepar-|a subject of legitimate investigation
ed by the best talent or chefs we|later on to see that these practices
could get hold of and in the best|are not indulged in.

possible way. Then it should be con-
sumed by a jury of connoisseurs who
are perfectly capable of judging. Then
each time a chemical examination is
made the same preparation should

be made in exactly the same way and
should be consumed, if possible, by os
weet Goods

the same jury to see if at any time
wey Es

Golden Korn
Flour

Reason No. 10.— Price

Last but not least is the question of price.

It seems to me that ultimately cold |
storage. processes should be of such
a nature and of such magnitude as

 

Good flour must have a

 

price, it cannot be given away, but it can and should be sold for what it is a
actually worth, GOLDEN HORN FLOUR is sold every day in the year q

for just what it is actually worth, based on the market price for good wheat.

eS
pat

there is a change which this jury
could detect in the taste and savor
of the product.

You are not asked to pay the cost of enormously expensive advertising.
We don’t do business that way.

  

We let quality do the greater part of our
: : advertising and know that one enthusiastic housewife is a better advertiser
Another thing which is chemical
and which could also be done is to
determine whether, during cold stor-
age, any ptomaine poisons are de-
veloped. I believe that is the great
charge against cold storage meats
which are kept too long. What truth
there is in the charge I am unable
to say, as no investigation of any
value has been made of the question: Our line is complete. If you have not tried
It is very true that meats which | our zoods ask us for samples and prices. We
S will give you both.
have been stored for some time and i
exposed again to contamination seem Aikman Bakery Co.

to have lost their vitality to such an Port Huron, Mich.

 

than half a dozen bill-boards. Compare our flour with any other, then

 

compare our prices. We leave it to your judgment. Let us quote you.

Manufactured by

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

Distributed by

Roy Baker, 924 Rapids, mien.

Special Prices on Car Load Lots

 

TRADE MARK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

15

 

to tide the human family through a
single season, or until another crop
can be produced. Of course if there
was a famine or any great agricultural
disaster it would be a very good plan
if you had more than that much on
hand; but with present methods of
transportation somebody, somewhere,
will produce enough, because famines
are limited in extent
fect the whole world. That is, the
world produces enough food every
year to supply the human family that
year, and therefore cold storage proc-
esses need not be planned to carry
us over more than one season.

One catch of fish should be kept
only until the next time those fish
can be caught. The same is true of
game. Fruit, it seems, should’ be
kept only until it is of maximum
value for food. Eggs should be kept
only through the cold season when
the hens are in a state of innocuous

and never af-

desuetude. (You see I can pronounce
that this morning.)

It seems to me, aside from any
question science or of
profit to the dealers, that there is a
reasonable limit of these things which
is determined by nature herself. In
other words, we do not want to pre-
serve food for our grandchildren.

of sanitary

A man needs something besides
faith in God when he tackles a hor-
net’s nest.

_—_—o——>—_-

A veneer of religiosity has none of
the virtues of religion.

aa

It is slow work getting rich in grace
at a penny a week.

 

Eloquent Tribute To the Memory of
Mr. Hill.

The late Edgar A. Hill illustrated
the assertion that every man’s most
productive influence in Christian phi-
lanthropy is likeliest to be discover-
ed at the doorway of his business op-
portunity. As Secretary of the Pres-
byterian Hospital in the city of Chi-
cago, this man of yeast and bread
was a man of almost poetic ideals
and of radiant beneficence. He was
President of the Northwestern Yeast
Company, and his business opportu-
nity was so identified with his phi-
lanthropic work that every force and
every dollar he could lay his hands
upon told signally for the cause in
which he was interested. He never
turned over to the Presbyterian Hos-
pital any service or any bread which
was not as good as his genius and
business ability could furnish. In
times of thick and terrible darkness,
when that beloved institution
maimed and clouded over, he became

was

a security and defense, and no man
ever doubted his own ability to be
of real service so long as he was in
the atmosphere of Edgar A. Hill.
He had business sagacity to perceive
that organized beneficence of this
kind requires the outlook and method
of the modern business man. Is
there not a lesson for many a young
man the career of this Vermont
boy who came to the West and seiz-
ed the first opportunity in a little
town to reinforce with his own fresh
strength the beneficent influence of
the place in which he was to live?
The lesson of Mr. Hill is this: Young

in

 

man, take hold of the ameliorating
and healing forces of the community
in which you are going to make your
home and identify your business abil-
ity with them; tax your whole de-
veloping power with their course, and
you will weaker business
man, but you will be a truer and full-
Mr.
son of good, strong, clear-headed and
full nurtured New England parent-
age. His upon the essential
principles of religion was as manly

not be a

er man all around.

grasp

and convincing as was his hold upon
any enterprise with which he confi-
dently himself. He had
known poverty and sickness, and
health and full strength and physi-
cal vitality. His sufferings at the
Hospital which he loved were terri-
ble, and yet they were like those of
McLaughlin, for whom _ he
up at the Hospital
the Iroquois fire, and neither
of these men made a complaint. The
of the with

engaged

young
gave his

after

room

awful ravages disease

which Edgar Hill died made it sim-|

ply glorious to receive the reflection
of the light through his face. Oh
that we could build a memorial addi-

tion to the Presbyterian Hospital
for those who. shall follow in his
path of service and triumph!
F. W. Gunsaulus.
—_»-.

Analyze Your Business.
There is a deeply-significant article
in the “New-Science-of-Business” de-
partment in the July number of The
World’s Work.

for 2

It is on the necessity
frequent analysis of one’s busi-

ness, and it says in part:

1 OF

When the young wife wrote as the
first credit entry in her account book
the acknowledgment, “Received
$500,” and a few weeks later wrote
as the first debit entry the statement,
“Spent it all,” she made precisely the
same error and learned precisely the

|same lesson as does a business con-
Hill was the |

cern. For a business statement is not

only a written receipt for goods re-

ceived and a bill for goods delivered
it is a written exposition of moneys

goods taken in and or

moneys

| goods given out, compared at a desig-

nated time while such transactions

and goods
The

difference between these two amounts

are active—while moneys

lare continuing to come and go.

represents in figures the status of the
individual or concern whose property
is involved. But too many errors may
to
lmake annual statements of real value

be made in the course of a year

as checks to unwise business policies.

“How much money did you make

 

jlast month?” was the question put by
ithe largest steel manufacturer in the
to
“Tt don’t know,” was the reply; “our

world another merchant.

 

statements are made out

monthly

uinually;
}you can’t
[
jin

get statements

our business.”

“Then I wouldn’t stay in such busi-

|

4 i

| Ness,” came back the abrupt advice.
| —————

| a i

| Whilst a second rate man is con-
|

| sidering how he should take the lead,
la first rate man takes it.

pa aueriagy:

| When religion is only a tool you
are sure to get hold of it by the
wrong end.

 

THE SEASON OF SUMMER QUIET is at hand—the time when the
progressive merchant improves the shining hours in re-organizing and extending his
fixture facilities in order that he can sell more goods next year, and sell them easier.

We've noticed an increased demand for good stuff—the kind you can depend
upon—OUR KIND.

You can get all sorts of fixture stories if you've the time to listen.

We've only one—it’s this:

Tell us your situation and we'll tell you what you need—AND NO MORE. Weilllalso quote you
fixture prices that are RIGHT, and stand behind every foot with our GUARANTEE.

We're ready now and you ought to be.

Grand Rapids Fixtures Co.

S. lonia Street

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Boston Office: 125 Summer St.

New York Office:

724 Broadway

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Fashions in Outing Clothing for Men.

Fashions in outing clothing when
sport is the object are designed pri-
marily for comfort

froni the elements.

and protection
The tailor is not
the arbiter of camp fashions nor is the
retail clothing or

much aid in learning what

dry goods
sort of

camp outfit. The sporting good:

houses and athletic supply people, and |

still
cialty of hunters’,
prospectors’ outfits,

another class who make a spe
fishermen’s and

visit before buying clothing for the|
if the latter is to|

summer vacation
be spent in the woods or on the shore.

A noted physician says that one-half |

the ills and even the deaths of the
vacation period are directly traceable
to unhardened, city bred folk going
off for a vacation in the wilderness
without a supply of sufficient cloth-
ing properly designed to protect them
from severe weather and yet not in-

terfere with their pleasure or their |

work.

Whether a man be hunting or fish-
ing, about the first requisite is water-
proof garments. There are numerous

water repellents offered in the stores |

which cater to this demand, and prob-
ably because of its adoption for army
purposes, together with its cheapness,

there are more calls for khaki hunt- |

ing suits and trousers*than there are
for anything else. Khaki is a
yarn, close woven, twill
ric. which can be made almost entire-
ly waterproof by special treatment
and which is considered by sports-
men as good hot weather clothing. In
addition to its other good qualities

impervious to brush and briars, and
give it good wearing qualities. Or-
dinary hunting pants of khaki can be
obtained as low as $2 a pair, but the
suits run up to $18,
quality and extra fittings.

according to

A much superior cotton water re-

pellent, but at the same time a much |
is the English |
llived through them!

more expensive fabric,

gabardine. This is about the closest
woven and finest appearing cloth on
the market. It costs about $2 a yard |

before making up.
proof in the yarn, and there is more
perfetc ventilation in the cloth.

Burberry yarn proof is another pop- |
; used to wear two.

ular fabric for hunting suits and outer

garments, as it combines the three

are the ones to}

fine |
cotton fab-|

 

store |

exigencies if outdoor life. Swedish
dogskin has sprung into great favor
for a variety of uses, and its popular-
It is beautiful
in appearance, as soft as chamois and

ity is well deserved.

exceedingly strong and durable. Per-
fectly windproof, it will shed water
like a duck’s back. It is very light

in weight and of such pliable texture
that it permits of perfect freedom of
movement. A hunting or fishing coat
three and_ one-
fourth pounds and costs $12; in ga-
bardine the

of dogskin weighs

same coat will cost $12,

j}and in khaki about half that price.
clothing should be made a part of the}

  
  

  

 

|}made with two breast pockets,

| every
its strength and toughness make it|

Next to the hunting coat comes the
shirt, preferably of flannel,
should be of the best

which
quality and
with
buttoned flaps. Light gray colored
fine French flannel or an Oxford gray
knit woolen are popular at $3 to $3.50.

Tleavy woolen socks at 50 cents the

| pair are offered especially to campers

Khaki lace

leggings of the regulation army pat-

tern are suitable also for this purpose.
+22

Woman Freed of One Burden.

“There is no direction in which
women have won more freedom than
in their skirts,’ said a dressmaker.
“Just look at the lightweight affairs
they wear to-day and then think of
the creations we used to wear twen-
ty years ago. The woman of to-day
insists that she needs perfect free-
dom in walking, and she will not
look at a heavy skirt.

“Even in winter weather she wears
mohair, which is about as light as
material can be, unless it is sheer
summer stuff. And this she has
short and with a flare at the
sottom so it won’t interfere with her
feet. Even broadcloth and_lady’s
cloth are falling into disfavor be-
cause they are considered too heavy

“Just look at the matter of linings
too. We used to think we must line
skirt, and in the bottom we
put a broad strip of heavy haircloth
and then some Sometimes we
to the knees

by leading athletic stores.

made

canvas.

put haircloth way up

|and produced an affair that was a per-

Now a skirt is
lined, and it has nothing to

stiffen the bottom,

fect trial to wear.
seldom
not even a braid.

| And, when one thinks of those aw-

It is made rain-|

|
|
|
|

 

essentials of a perfect garment where |

great warmth is not a factor: positive
rainproofness, perfect ventilation, and
permanent reliability. For spring
fishing, for the summer camp, for the
yachting cruise, for the traveler, and
for ladies under-almost all conditions,
it is decidedly sensible and eminently
satisfactory. It comes in tans, grays
and neutral shades. Heavy leather
is not so much used as formerly in
camp life. The automobile has de-
veloped a lighter, more pliable gar-
ment which is more applicable to the

;never wear

 

the beltline
its a wonder we ever

ful skirts lined
with haircloth,

way to

“The tendency is seen in petticoats
Silk petticoats are worn all
winter, and in the summer lawn skirts
and seersucker or gingham petticoats
take their places. And a
petticoat

also.

woman
1OW wears one where she
How in the world
those heavy flannel
don’t know. But we'll
‘em again, that’s sure.”
——-s-e-o—_——
To Safeguard an Umbrella.

An ingenious device for carrying an
umbrella has made its appearance in
Paris. It consists of small
springs which fit around any umbrella
handle. A short chain with guard is
fastened to the spring, and the guard
is then worn in the buttonhole of the
coat.

we ever stood

petticoats I

two

—_~++>___.
Men are not drawn to the church
by using the creed as a club.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

17

 

How To Build Up a To-Order Shirt
Trade.

“We have had a surprisingly large
increase in
this season,” said the manager of a
furnishing goods department to the
writer. The statement had an inter-
esting ring to it and the speaker was
urged to elaborate upon it. “Why,
when I first installed this department
[ did so simply to cater to the few

calls we were getting for shirts made |
- i
to measure and to satisfy some very |

good customers of ours. Well, it is
not so very long ago that this begin-
ning was made. Now it has grown

to such proportions that I am obliged |
in season to keep a regular staff at |
To}

work in this department.
what do I attribute this increase?
Nothing more than keeping everlast-
ingly at the people? How? Well, I
don’t mind telling you:

one

“Several weeks before the season
begins with most of the custom peo-

ple I have my initial purchases of fab-

rics all prepared for an opening show- |
I buy rather lightly at first, but |
include a good variety of fabrics and}
styles in that first purchase, and with |
a view to learning just what is the |
On the day be- |

ing.

taste of the people.

fore the opening of the line I get |

my force together and put my young
men to work cutting sample swatches
to go with the mailed announcement
Others are set to
envelopes, and

of the opening.
work
this

done

addressing
the
divided,

various
to

way

are expedite the

work, for I have everything so ar-|

ranged that by a few hours’

after closing time the whole list can

be done and made ready for mailing |
|
I have a complete set of |

that night.

books and several card filing cases. |
I have entered the |

we
name of the customer, together with |

In

one of these

his measurements. In another are re- |
another |

corded the orders, and in

IT have the name and date of ship- |

ment of the goods ordered; in fact,

I have several lists of my customers, |
: ! : ie
neither one of which is complete in}

itself, although each can and is used

for mailing purpose, so that when I |
have anything to mail to my list J}

can have several working upon the
list at one time, instead of having |
but one list upan which only one

person can work.

“Now, at the time I am preparing
for the opening, I get so much space
allotted to me in the newspapers and
use this to the shirt-
ings, patterns, colorings, etc., and I
give the people an interesting talk
on the good it does one to have his
shirts made to measure. Coming out
simultaneously in this way with the
announcements,
re-

describe new

printed newspaper
the circulars and swatches, the

turns are generally most gratifying |

and suflicient to keep my shirt opera-
tives busy right up to the time others
specify as the regular opening period.
Meanwhile, I have entered the market
again and picked up the latest im-
portations, and frequently get some

things which others have not yet
bought. I get these goods into the
store immediately and repeat the

previous operation, getting before
every customer on my list, whether

ih |
our to-order shirt trade |

in |
things to be|

work |

he has ordered before this season or
not, with the new goods, and an-
| nouncing the arrival of the new and
choicer patterns from foreign looms.
Again I get big returns, and far more
and larger orders than the first time,
for you will remember the season
has now opened, and I have gone
right to my customers direct with the
very latest materials. These orders
come in a little before Easter and are
sufiicient to keep the workers going
until about the middle of May. About
the first of May I get out again with
another collection of swatches, which
include lightweight fabrics particu-
larly desirable for negligees to

be
worn during the grilling days. Do
you know orders are still coming in
from that last batch, which was sent
out early in May?

“During June, July and August, the
dullest months of the year in this
department, I keep up the work in
the same way, and interest our cus-
|tomers with new goods which I pick

up at advantageous prices and offer
in turn at a saving of about half a
dollar to a dollar on a shirt. Of
course, I say in my circulars that
these special offerings do not repre-
sent the choicest things of the sea-
but that they are exceptional
| values, and should prove of interest
to the man desiring to replenish his
shirt) stock ati'a saving. Tf 1 have,
meanwhile, learned of a new and de-
sirable style of shirt, I introduce it
in a detailed description, and the nov-

| SON,

 

| elty generally brings more orders. I
|am always on the lookout for some-
|thing that will promote interest in
this department, and do not spare}

when I think that there is any busi-
|ness to be had for the trouble and

outlay. My confidence in_ getting
business is usually productive of

ivery satisfactory results.

“Of course, we are giving the very
| best kind of work in our shirts, and
they are so well and carefully made
that, considering the workmanship,
of the fit and the high
| quality of the fabrics, our prices are

excellence

'lower than the really expensive cus-
And I guess giv-
customers the

|tom shirt people.
good
lot
to do with holding them and bring-

jing our very

shirt we do at less money has a

ling them back to us every time we
imake effort to interest them.”—Ap-
parel Gazette.

—_—__+--.

It is now the fashion to drink sea
water to get thin. Three or four
glasses a day are said to have a ben-
eficial effect upon the digestion as
well as tendency to purify the blood
and reduce flesh, and the women who
have taken up the fad say that the
fluid is no more disagreeable to the
|taste than Carlsbad waters or half a

 

| dozen other drinks of a similar kind.
|The business of supplying the water
grown into quite an extensive
| business with fishermen. It is brought
by them from the deep sea, far out
| of sight of land, so that there can be
no danger of contamination, and is
carried in little kegs with brass hoops.

| has

—__+2ss_

Opportunity’s doors are only holes
that we must knock in the walls of
difficulties.

the expense of printing or postage |

SINCE
1872

we have been engaged solely in the manu-

facture of

The Best Medium Priced
Clothing in the World

That is a long time, isn’t it? Mr. M.
Wile, who founded this great establish-
ment over a quarter of a century ago, is
still the head of it. It is the parent house
of ‘‘Wile.”’

It has been a period of great progress
and achievement.

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are known favorably everywhere.
This season’s models
are ready for you.
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our salesman?

 

 

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MADE IN BUFFALO

-M. Wile & Company

ESTABLISHED 1877

 

 

 

 

 

 

A claim so broad that it becomes
a challenge to the entire clothing
trade.

A claim which is being proven
by the splendid sales record we

Clothing in the
have already rolled up for Fall.

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Hermanwile Guaranteed Clothing
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than any clothing at $7. to $12. in the market.

Every retailer who wants a splendidly advertised line,
GUARANTEED TO GIVE ABSOLUTE SATISFAC-
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placing his order.

Our salesmen cannot reach every town—the express
companies can—at our expense, too.

Write for samples.

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BUFFALO, N.Y.
NEW YORK CHICAGO

817-819 Broadway Great Northern Hotel

MINNEAPOLIS

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

What Others Are Doing in the Trade.

A number of merchants throughout
the country to-day are making a strong
Lid for the juvenile trade of their
towns. Boys are a hopeful class to
work among, and will work like Tro-
jans for the hope of a small reward.
‘Ehere avenues without number
through their trade may be
attracted to the store of the dealer
who gets up and hustles after it in
dead earnest.

are
which

they ought to be a boy can usually |

wheedle his parents into buying his

 

If the goods are what |

|

clothes at the store that offers him |
some personal inducement for his |
trade. A strong characteristic of|

every boy, yes and of “children of a}
}contest was that all votes cast must

larger growth,” is a love of the ele-
ment of mystery and chance; there-
fore, an offer of a “mysterious pack-
age” with every purchase of boys’

clothing will be apt to greatly stim-|

ulate trade in this line.

These pack- |

ages should contain articles dear to}

 

every boyish heart—jack-knives, balls,

fishing outfits, etc., and the contents |

should vary in value according to the
amount of the purchase.

A variation |

of this same idea would be to have}
sewn up securely in one pocket of|

every boy’s suit or overcoat an order

for some one of such articles on
some store making a specialty of

such goods. Many stores now give
baseball outfits with boys’ suits, but
the uncertainty is what lends charm
to the above schemes.

A firm down in Maine recently stir-
red up their trade in this line by in-
stituting an  advertisement-writing
contest for the high pupils,
offering two weekly cash prizes to
most

school

the pupils who compose the
pointed, telling advertise-
that will leave no possible
doubt the mind of the reader as
the pre-eminence of this firm’s
line of men’s and boys’ clothing, with
reference to economy, style, durabil-
ity, etc. This double-barreled
vertisement has struck right at the
root of their patronage by exciting
the interest of parents, besides draw-
ing some really creditable advertise-
ments from the brightest of the
youngsters. At the end of several
months the prize-winning advertise-
ments are to be collected and pub-
lished in booklet form, and _ it
pretty safe to say they will be more
widely read and give this firm more
desirable publicity than if prepared
by some high-priced expert.

The following scheme, which orig-
inated in the fertile brain of a_ re-
sourceful manager, was unique and of
a character to commend it especially
to boys. He organized a_ baseball
team from among the boys of a neigh-
boring school, whose ages ranged
from II to 14, named them “Blank’s
World Beaters,’ and equipped them
with blouses and caps bearing this
name. The team challenged every-
thing of its size in its own and
neighboring towns, and whenever it
won it was given some small prize
by the firm which it so ably helped
to advertise jn this manner. A va-
cant field at no great distance from
the store was leased and put in prop-
er shape, and here the team practic-
ed regularly several times a week,

catchy,
ments

in
ta

ad-

is

 

always surrounded by a good-sized
audience. Bats, balls, mitts and all
necessary equipments were furnished
by the firm, and expenses to and fro
when matches called the team out of
town.

A very spirited voting contest, in
which the prizes were two scholar-
ships in a local business college, one
to go to the young lady and the
other to the young man getting the
highest number of votes, was insti-
tuted last year by a firm carrying
both ladies’ and gentlemen’s clothing
in a hustling little town. The con-

test opened April t and ran _ until
graduation day in the neighboring

high school. One provision of the
be confined to members of the grad-
uating class of this particular school.
This served to concentrate the inter-
and set the numerous friends
and relatives of the class to work in
their cause with a will. Every 25-
cent purchase at the store carried
with it one vote; thus a suit costing
$20 entitled to eighty votes. The
prizes were worth striving for, and
of such a character as to commend
them to the parents of
young people, and_ the

est,

especially
ambitious

| scheme gave the firm a well-deserved

publicity.

Training in the art of self-defense
has a strong fascination for boys, and
one store scored a “big hit” by offer-
ing to give free boxing lessons to all
vouths between the ages of Io and 18
who patronized their store. Arrange-
ments were made by the firm with
an instructor in the manly art for a
certain for their
youthful patrons, one lesson for every
They
advertis-

number of lessons

$5 worth of goods purchased.

further supplemented the

ing value of this scheme by issuing |

an illustrated booklet on the art of
boxing, which also, of course, con-
tained much advertising of

their goods.

good

“Mocking Bird Day” was the head-
ing recently seen over the newspaper
advertisement of one clothing firm.
The advertisement stated that every
boy who visited their boys’ clothing
department on the following day in
company with either of his parents
would be presented with a wonderful
mocking bird whistle, whether any
purchase was made or not. Atten-
tion was called to a special line of
boys’ summer blouses at very low
prices.

To celebrate the reopening of their
enlarged and improved department
of boys’ and youths’ clothing, one
firm instituted a painting competi-
tion for boys by issuing a book con-
taining six copies in colors, having
the outline of each copy on the oppo-
site page ready for coloring. Ten
prizes were offered, and the competi-
tion was open to all boys under the
age of 16. The books, of course, were
likewise valuable advertising me-
diums, being filled with illustrated
advertisements of their offerings in
boys’ wear.

A store on a busy corner recently

had, in the midst of a big window
showing of boys’ clothing, a hanging
glass shelf piled with wooden rat-
tles, with a placard reading: “Boys,

 

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The Best Advertised
The Highest Grade

(FOR THE MONEY)

The Lowest Priced
Line of Union Made

en’s Clothing

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

Special Leaders

50 in. Black Frieze Overcoat - - -
Venetian Lined Black Thibet Suit
Write for Samples

$7.50

7.00 Regular Terms

   

 

 

 

We Have Moved

We are now located in our large new quarters
31 North lonia St.
Right on the way to the Union Station

Where we will be pleased to meet all our old customers and
prospective new ones. We are now selling a line of

Clothing, Woolens,
Tailors’ Trimmings

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

 

Grand Rapids Clothing Co.

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

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

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

19

 

make a noise and let people know
you are on earth. One of these watch-
man’s rattles given with every pur-
chase of a boy’s suit.”

A scheme which, so far as known, |
has not yet been tried by any house, |

but which at least contains food for
thought, would be to start a boys’
camp some favorable locality.
Then advertise that all boys or young
men between certain specified ages,
whose purchases at your store dur-
ing the year aggregate a certain sum
—say $50—-might spend a week at the
camp, enjoying its fishing, boating
and other privileges, all free
charge. This would be a treat great-
ly appreciated by numbers of city
boys, and the scheme ought to prove
a winner if worked out in the right
way.— Clothier and Furnisher.
2-2
Marked Increase in Expense of Run-
ning a Store.

Within the last few years the cost
of running a dry goods or department
store has increased in a marked
gree. This increase is visible in more
one In these days

in

than direction.

 

of |

de- |

everything about a store is far more |

nearby resorts, represents a decided
increase in expenses.

The advertising appropriation has
also grown, and many stores which
formerly used a small advertisement
now take a newspaper page every
day in the year. Other forms of pub-
licity, such as booklets and circulars,

have assumed a more expensive char- |
direct result of |

acter, all this being a
the more general recognition of the
fitness of things, and of the desire
on the part of the merchant to have
everything connected with his store
assume the best and most up-to-date
appearance.

Another item expense the
purchase of high-class costumes and
millinery which are shown at the be-
with a view

of is

ginning of each season,

 

to attracting trade, and sold without |

profit, and in many cases at an actual

loss.

To go still farther, we may cite
ithe entertainments of various kinds
{nowadays provided by stores which
cater to the medium and_ popular |
trade.

About these various forms of ex-
pense there is no question. They have
not only attracted customers, but

elaborate than was the case a few!
years ago. The store itself is larger. |
Merchants will not tolerate’ the

crowded conditions which they
time were content to put up with.
Store buildings also are most cost-
ly, This is due
attention paid to fireproof construc-

at One |
| aided

rather to the greater

tion than to a tendency to ornament |

and ginger-bread work. In fact, the

big stores now being erected show a!

tendency to excess of plainness, and

it is questionable whether in the de-
sire to avoid dust and dirt-catching |
ornamentation their buildings do not |

err on the side of severity.
dency to erect enormous store
tures, however,
clear that the interest on such build-
ings, as_ well the sites,
reach enormous figures.

struc-

as O1

When we come to store

The ten- |

is apparent, and it is |

must |

have imbued the public with a desire
for better merchandise. In exerting
this influence the merchant has been
by the of
country, which has greatly

general prosperity
the in-

creased the
public.
With the increase in

seems reasonable to suppose that the |

paying relatively more for
than they did a
To determine this
with any degree of accuracy would
be a difficult matter. In fact, any
statement that might be made onthe
subject would be based on _ guess-
work. One thing, however,
tain, and that is that we seldom see
the sensational price-cutting conflicts

public are
their merchandise

few years ago.

is cer

i which a decade ago were every-day

fittings and |

equipment we find even greater lav- |

ishness in expenditure. The impor-

tance of having beautiful as well as

matters.
Nor is this an occasion for re
|gret. Retailing to-day is conducted

convenient fittings has become so|
thoroughly recognized that no mer-
chant who deserves the epithet of

progressive is content with old-fash- |

ioned and inconvenient fixtures.

In addition, an
of floor space is devoted to purposes
other than those of keeping stock and
selling.
visitors,
ted up,

increasing

or less elaborately fit-
are essential to the modern |
store. There is also the restaurant or
tea room, which may or may not
prove a directly paying proposition.

Many stores devote a large amount
of space to the comfort of their em-

more

Resting rooms for women}

| Goods

amount |

ployes, in the shape of rest and recre- |

ation rooms, or places where meals
can be eaten, whether the food is
served by the house or not.
expense is
Competing
other

Another source of
of packages.

merchants vie with each
the promptness of delivery,
as in style and appointments of their

delivery

wagons.
ages are delivered free of charge, es-
pecially during the summer, when

The distance which pack- |

the |

in |
as well |

|
|
|
|
|
|

purchasing power of the}

expense it|

on far more scientific lines, and while |
ie
merchants may be lavish in some re- |

spects, they are wholly averse
fooling away money as they did
the more happy-go-lucky days.—Dry
Economist.

—_—. j &-@— —
A New England Sandwich.

to |
in |

Mr. Bings—How many children has |

Blink?

Mr. Giggs—He has three.
lest and the youngest are girls,
the second is a boy.

Mr.
ever heard of a sandwich

tongue on the outside.
——e~—->———_——_
As an illustration of the Japanese

The old-

with the

and |

Bings—That’s the first time I |

advance in the art of advertising can |

than
as

anything be more complete
this? “Our wrapping paper
strong as the hide of an elephant.

is

Goods forwarded with the speed of|

a cannon ball.
are as soft as the cheeks of a pretty
woman, as beautiful as a rainbow.
Our parcels are packed with as much
a young married woman

care das

i takes of her husband.”

———_.->————

many of the customers are staying at| Works are the best words.

Our silks and satins |

Michigan Fire and Marine  petroit
Insurance Company

Established 1881.

Cash Capital $400,000.
Surplus to Policy Holders $625,000.

OFFICERS
F. H. WHITNEY, Vice Pres.
3°*t Treas. E. J. BOOTH, Sec’y

DIRECTORS

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

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

Michigan

Assets $1,000,000.
Losses Paid 4,200,000.

D. M. FERRY, Pres.

M. W. O’BRIEN, Treas.
GEO. E. LAWSON, As

KE, P. WEBB, Ass’t Sec’y

Agents wanted in towns where nct now represented. Apply to
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Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

 

 

 

 

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MAKERS OF PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS

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Our line, which is the largest ever assembled in
Michigan, comprises a complete assortment ranging
in price from $8 up.

Weare prepared to fill your order for any ordinary
safe on an hour's notice.

Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

BACK TO T THE FARM.

Correct Views of th the Farmer’s Voca-
tion and Moral Surroundings.

Of all the incentives which are held
out to the aspiring youth to adopt a
noble, useful profession, little men- |
tion is made of farming. Many speak
of the independent life of the farmer, |
of the healthful conditions, of the}
freedom, and many other things
which appeal mainly to selfish mo-
tives. There view of farm life |
which exalts it to a high rank, to its |
rightful place among other  profes-
sions. The pioneer who subdues a
wild, uncultivated tract of land and
makes a fertile farm, even if it
sumes a lifetime, has done a great
work for the world. He is entitled to
the same credit as thephysician who |
through a whole lifetime has pursued |
his studies and experiments and add- |
ed greatly to the sum total of scien-
tific knowledge in his profession, or
the inventor who has given the world
many improvements in machinery, or
the professor who has perfected and
simplified methods of instruction, or
the merchant or manufacturer who}
has built up a great business which
gives employment to many and adds
to the wealth of his city and state.

The work which the father has ac-
complished in subduing the forests,
removing the rocks and draining the
soil may be supplemented by the son
in studying to maintain or improve
the fertility, to preserve the timber,
to improve the highways and beauti-
fy the locality. There is a great
work above and beyond simply toil-
ing to provide for the necessities of
the family or to accumulate wealth.
There are the interests of the com-
munity, its churches, schools, social
life and civil duties.

Some of these things seem never to
be considered when farmers’ send
away their sons and daughters to be
educated. A few years from home at
a susceptible age, and they are wean-
ed away from the farm for the best
years of their life. Parents, by com-
plaints of their hard, unremunerative
work, and their attitude of envy to-
ward professional and business peo-

Written for the Tradesman.
|
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con-

ple, are in a great measure responsi- |

ble for the wrong views of life which
possess the country youth and divert
them away from the farm.

Every teacher who is devoted to his
or her calling strives to inculcate in
the young an ambition to be a scholar.
If knowledge is looked upon as a
means rather than an end in life, it
is almost invariably means to
some profession other than farming.

Over and over again among farm-
heard the remark that if
they had the education or the ability

as a

ers may be

;

| people will leave the city for the coun-
| try until an equilibrium is again se-
cured.

It is a cause of gratification that
|efforts are being made by benevolent
organizations, the Salvation Army,
to take people from the
crowded, ounces -stricken districts of
cities, place them upon farms
and teach and assist them to become
independent, self-supporting citizens.

 

| for instance,

large

The work also done by the schools
our cities in giving the children
plats and flower beds. to
plant and care for, and also sending

| of
garden

ithem out when practicable to gather
|plants and flowers and study birds

and animals in the woods and fields
as well as from books, will result in
much benefit. It may be the means
of leading some to adopt a country
life, and thus secure to themselves
and their families better, happier,
more useful lives than they would
ever have attained in the city.

This article would be incomplete
without reference to another phase
of this question: Whenever city and

| country life are discussed a prominent

place is given to the idea that the
country affords better moral sur-
roundings for the young. The city

}is often pictured as a great, seething

maelstrom of evil which swallows up
the guileless country boy or girl.
Some parents fancy that so long as
children can be kept away from the
city they are comparatively safe.
This sentiment should not be given
too much weight. One who has stud-
ied the matter in unprejudiced
manner, and has had experience in
the country, in villages, towns and cit-
ies, will say that, in reality, if loca-
tion makes any difference in morals,
the small village without police is one
of the worst places to bring up a
child, although probably not as bad
as the slums of the city. It is so
because children are left in idleness,
are turned into the streets without
warning or admonition as to proper
or improper companions.

an

Inbred character—good parentage—
and early training are prime factors
in determining the future of the child.
Evil is everywhere; and the saloon is
almost. In the city vice has its ac-
customed haunts, evil-disposed people
congregate in larger numbers, cause
and effect—debased morals and way-

ward conduct—are more plain to pub-

 

 

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Until you get our prices.

 

of such or such a person they would
not be obliged to live and toil on a
farm.

The law of supply and demand will
govern in this matter of farming as
well as in business everywhére. The
food products of the world will be
grown by some one. The present
high rate of farm wages can be main-
tained only by a corresponding in-
crease in price of products, and that
means more expensive living for city
residents.

The tide will turn, and/{Il and 9 Pearl St.,

 

| We make a specialty of store, office
and residence awnings. Our 1905 Im-
| proved Roller Awning is the best on the
|market. No ropes to cut the cloth and a
| sprocket chain that will not slip. Prices
on tents, flags and covers for the asking.

CHAS. A. COYE
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

  
  
     
  
 
       

   
  
  

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lic view. In the country evil is more
diffused, existing unknown and unsus-
pected by many. The wholesome
fresh air, the bright joyous sunshine,
the green woods and fields, the beau-
ties of nature alone can not shield one
from it. Bad companions are in
country schools; bad instructors are
among farm laborers; injurious litera-
ture is in many homes; parents are
careless in their lives and words. The
child in the country home, daily un-
der the eye of the unsuspecting pa-
rent, may be making steady progress
in a course of evil. When such a one
goes away to the city and, before
long, throwing off all reserve, plunges
into a course of dissipation, friends

are completely dumbfounded. Parents |
lay it all to city life and regret that}
they had not by some means kept the |

youth away from the city.
is, they have simply graduated in a
career which they had long been seek-
ing.

One may go about his business in
the city, among laborers and trades-
people, in the stores, shops and fac-
tories and not hear’ one-tenth as
much profanity and vileness as he
may hear in the village and country
At the
livery stable, blacksmith shop, thresh-
ing bee, or almost any place where a

in the same length of time.

few may happen to congregate, may |

be found those who roll evil as a
sweet morsel under their tongues, and
bystanders applaud and urge them on.
These latter are not always the vil-
lage hoodlums, the transient laborer,
or such like, but often the supposedly
decent, respectable and_ reputable
farmer.

The home life of the working peo-
ple in the city is in general as moral
and wholesome as the home on the
farm. We are speaking of homes,
not boarding houses or hotels. Chil-

well-defined

dren are reared with

ideals of honor and integrity; they |
are warned and instructed against the |
evils and dangers among which they |
dwell; parents who are awake to the|

perils of bad companions are more
careful, if possible, than are country
people to select proper associates and
surround their children with good in-
fluences.

All the good things of life can nev-
er be found in any one station or
location, but we should earnestly seek
that condition where the most good

can be secured. E. E. Whitney.
o> ———_—__

The Man Who Was “Born Tired.”

“One of the most important things
that I would impress upon young
men setting out into business life,”
said a veteran in the wholesale dis-
trict yesterday, “is the necessity of
cultivating habits of activity and of
fighting against every tendency to-
ward indolence and shiftlessness. For
some young men this may be hard at
first, but once the habit of facing dif-
ficulty becomes fixed the battle is
won: no further thought need be

The fact |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

lit He was engaged in the retail dry
;goods business in a New England
| town of some twenty-five thousand
|inhabitants, and when he took hold
lof the concern it was the most pros-
| perous house of its kind in the place.
| There was absolutely no reason what-
| ever, other than the one I have stat-
ied, why this young man should not
| have made a success of this venture.
| He understood the business; he had
| capital of his own; his credit at the
| local banks was excellent; his habits
| were irreproachable; he was the soul
|of honor; he had a good education;
|and he was frugal to a degree. More-
|over, he was popular with everybody,
jand many persons patronized his
store merely because it was his store.

“But his inborn tendency to ‘let
| things run themselves’ and his invet-

jerate hostility to exertion were too
strong for him to overcome. He
wouldn’t go to New York, even in
the spring or the fall, to replenish
his stock, because it was too much
trouble; he wouldn’t press accounts
that were due him because it re-
quired too much effort and he didn’t
vant to offend people; he wouldn’t
even keep his person tidy, but went
around in shabby clothes, and from
morning until night he wore a bat-
'tered hat no matter if he was wait-

ing on the best customer in the town
—all because it would cost him some
effort to do otherwise. The result of
\it all was, as might have been ex-
| pected—his trade fell off because he
| didn’t keep up his stock; his creditors
| began to push him for money; and
| when he tried to collect his own bills
jhe found that many of his debtors
j}had moved away and that many of
his accounts, once good, were now
uncollectible. The upshot was that
in the course of about three years
he went to the wall. To-day he is
living on the charity of friends—
a pattern of all the virtues except an
incurable dislike of work.

“More than once this person has
|confessed his supreme failing to me
and has declared that he made a fa-
tal mistake when he did not grapple
with it in earlier manhood, when his
habits were becoming formed, and
fight it until he got the better of
it. He had waited, he told me, until
it was too late.

“There is a very practical lesson in
this story for young men.”

For 25 Years

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

 

 

 

We Keep Copies of Every
Form We Print

Let us send you samples printed
for parties in your own line of

 

given to the troublesome feature |
; |
OF it.
ae

“T once knew a promising young |

|

|

man, whose business ‘went to the dogs’
simply and solely because he Neer
ed a tendency to laziness and did not
have will-power enough to conquer

 

trade—you MAY get an idea—any-
way it costs you nothing to look
and not much more if you buy.

 

Barlow Bros.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Fans
For

arm
Weather

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 fancy shapes and unique designs, which we furnish

printed and handled as follows:

4.50
9-75
We can fill your 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

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in Summer.

Plans as to the arrangement of the}

sonably free. Overhead fans will

market so as to make the place cool |
and inviting in appearance, the keep- |

ing out of flies, the providing of fans,

the keeping of the awnings down—in |
short, making the market attractive |
and inviting on the hot summer days

—days when there is no inducement
in the weather to go inside, but rath-
er to seek the shade of the trees or

the coolness of the porch—should be}
the chief interest of the butcher at}

this time.

The first thing to guard against is|
To get the start of them|
the screens must be on early. The|
doors should be hinged so that they |
will swing easily and close quietly. |
ventilation |
should be well protected by screens.

the flies.

The windows open for
It goes without saying that the doors
should be well painted.

not cost much.

So much for the prevention. The |
cure for flies is fly paper of various |

kinds. You can hardly hope to keep

all the flies out, but with the aid of!

the screens and the judicious use of

fly paper the store can be kept rea-|

sonably free. Overhead fans will
keep the flies away from the meat.

Another important point in keep-|

ing the store at a pleasant tempera-
ture is the awning.
down as soon as the sun begins to get
into the store and raised as soon as
it does not bother any more. The

sun beating on the pavement and into |

the windows will heat the store. An
easy working awning is little trouble
to operate, and it is an absolute ne-
cessity in almost every store.

It is usually not a difficult problem
to get air circulation through them.
In the back there is usually a door
and one or more windows. A screen
on the door and over the windows
will be needed, and they may be
opened enough to allow the air to
draw through. Anything that ob-
structs the air should be avoided, and
the store should be open as much as
possible to the breezes that may be
stirring. Fans in abundance should
be on hand when wanted.

Drinking water should be provided
in summer if not in any other season.
It should be cold, of course, for peo-
ple want to drink ice water on hot
days, in spite of all that the doctors

say against it. A tank with a number |

of glasses will serve for this purpose.

It may seem to some readers that
this is devoting a good deal of space
to a trivial matter. But it is not
trivial. The market that is the most
every time.
always. Cer-

coolest and quietest

tain it is that each woman knows |

which store is the most comfortable,
not only in the summer, but in the

lf they look |
at all dingy a coat of paint will im-|
prove them wonderfully, and it does |

It should be put |

They go where it is the}
comfortable is known to the women |

sete: and, other things being equal,

she wil go there.
Having plenty of stools and resting
| places is another way to make the
| market attractive in summer months.
|The woman coming in from the hot
street likes to “drop down” upon an
easy chair or a seat and fan herself.
It is up to the butcher to supply her
with an easy chair and the fans.
These are wonderfully handy things
to have around. They will create a
| circulation of the air where there was
|none, and will cool off corners that
can not be cooled in any other way.
Anything that will contribute to
the coolness of the market will be a
welcome change for the summer and
| will do something toward making
trade better—Butchers’ Advocate.
—_—__s-2e-~s—____
Excessive Use of Water in Butter.
We desire to call particular atten-
tion to certain facts in regard to the
United States law affecting butter
manufacture. According to that law
any butter in the manufacture or
manipulation of which any process is
used with the effect of causing the
absorption of abnormal quantities of
water is classed as adulterated butter.
And according to the authorized rul-
ings of the Internal Revenue Depart-
ment butter containing 16 per cent.
or more of water is adulterated but-
er.

|

| Manufacturers of adulterated but-
| ter are subject to a tax of $600 a year
;and to cents a pound on the prod-
|uct; they are also obliged to stamp
and label every package after certain
rules; if they manufacture without a
| license they are liable not only for
the amount of the taxes but for a
penalty of $1,000 to $5,000; if they
offer the product for sale without
proper labels and stamps they are
liable to a fine of $50 a package.

Wholesale dealers in adulterated
butter are subject to a tax of $480 a
year; if they knowingly sell it with-
| out license they are liable to the
amount of the tax and a fine of $50
to $500; if they sell adulterated but-
ter without the required labels and
stamps they are liable to a penalty
of $1,000 and imprisonment up to
two years.

When excessive water content in
any kind of butter either

from ignorance, carelessness or wil-

results

ful design not only the manufactur-
er but the receiver or dealer is ac-
cepting a most serious risk.

We urge upon aii manufacturers
or manipulators of butter a careful
| consideration of these facts. It is a
|case where an ounce of prevention
is worth a lot of money and trouble
in the event of a crusade by Govern-
ment agents—N. Y. Produce Re-
view.

>

Noah Raby is dead. Noah was a
resident of North Carolina and was
cut down in the one hundred and
thirty-sixth year of his age. He
might, doubtless, have added many
years of usefulness to his life had it
not been for the fact that he had been
addicted to the use of liquor and to-
| bacco for one hundred and twenty
|years. There’s a solemn warning in
the case of Noah Raby.

     
      

 
 

Packing Stock
Butter Wanted

Highest Price Paid

_———

Lansing Cold Storage Co.

Lansing, Mich.

  

 

W. C. Rea A. J. Witzig

REA & WITZIG

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

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

Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, Express Companies Trade Papers and Hundreds oi
Shippers

Established 1873

 

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

Butter, Eggs, Potatoes and Beans

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

R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH.

Butter

I would like all che fresh, sweet dairy

 

 

 

 

butter of medium quality you have to

send.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

Manufacturing Cheese Under Almost
Impossible Conditions.

Mesa, Arizona, June 20—What else
would you call it; making cheese 60
miles from ice, an open brush shed
for a curing room and the thermom-
eter registering 112 degrees every
day? Well I did it—some of it was
the best cheese I have ever tasted,
having a nutty flavor unequalled by
any cheese.

1 happened to be one summer in
Arizona, where I could not market
butter and had 100 pounds of milk
per day to experiment with. Having
never made cheese I decided to ex-
periment, and if experience goes for
anything, I
summer,
ing.

It was necessary of course to cbok |

 

was, by the end of the]
well versed in cheesemak- |

the curd to a very high temperature |
that not melt down in|
curing. Some of the curd was cut
into shall chunks or cubes before put-
ting to press, some was ground into
shreds and some fine meal.
None of this was satisfactory, the
cheese all having a sour taste. To-
the last | did allow the |
curd to mat. After cutting the new
cubes about one inch

getting enough whey
started to float it, I kept it moving
till, | the (as
quickly as possible) to 140 degrees. |

so it would

into a

wards not

curd into
square and

raised temperature

 

I then turned on well water and re- |
duced the temperature to 72 degrees |
keeping the curd moving all the time.
| then drew off the whey and allow-
ed the curd to thoroughly drain be-
fore putting to press.

In this way the curd remained in

small lumps and each lump was thor- |

oughly glazed and would roll around

and drain as clear of whey as would
‘Fo solid
cheese, that would slice with a knife,

so many shot. make a

it was necessary to again raise the
80 degrees to
Some was put to press as low

temperature above

press.

2

2 degrees. This, when the curd|
cut, rolled like so

shelled hickory nuts and the

as 7
cheese was out
much
taste and flavor was just as perfect,
and the cheese was a perfect keeper.

My conclusion was that the best
cheese without the
mill.—-D. D. Smith in Hoard’s Dairy-

was made curd

man.
——___. ~~

English Grocers Considering Date
Branding on Cheese.

The London correspondent of the

Montreal Trade

concerning

sulletin writes
follows the

import cheese with the date of man-

as
branding of
ufacture.

“At the conference recently held by
the Federation of Grocers’ Associa-
tions of England, a proposition was
that the Canadian

brought forward

Government should be approached
and asked to place a date on all
cheese sent out of Canada. This

proposition was defeated; but as it
was only by a majority of one the
Executive of the Federation intend
to make inquiries on the subject and
the delegates to the meeting are in-
vited to place their views before the
Executive. As I was present at the
discussion, I am able to say that there

 

| practice.

;}sources of civilization

was a pretty strong feeling on the
matter, and that most of those who
have any large dealings in Canadian
and States cheese were on the side of
those who wanted to get a date brand.
It is hardly necessary for me to detail
the reasons as they are pretty obvi-
ous. It is of course that buyers shall
be able to tell whether they are get-
ting Septembers and not Octobers,
Junes and not Julys and Augusts. The
allegations of sharp practices which
were brought forward (and _ pretty
well substantiated too) were not di-
tected against exporters, but against
wholesale houses here. It was stated

| by one of the speakers that twenty

years ago it was possible to uncover

the cheese

and find what month it
was made in, but the wholesale
houses here, who wanted to get a

lead on retailers, got the Canadians
and Americans to the
There could be only one
Why skould Canadians re-
fuse to return to the old practice? It
is to their benefit as well as the re-
tail buyer here. That is not quite
so obvious to me as it seemed to the

discontinue

reason.

|speaker, as it might be difficult for

exporters to get rid of some months’
output when there was an abundance
of the favored months, but I can
easily see how it must be harmful to
Canadian credit to have a man buy-
ing largely here,

cutting open

cheese now, say, which he had bought

a

jas finest September and finding it pan

out and This he

would point out to his fellows, and it

doughy spongy.

would not do the Canadian trade any |

good. This is not a fancy picture;
it is taken from life. One of the dele-
gates spoke of buying 50 boxes of
‘finest Septembers’ which turned out
iii this fashion—so obviously not
the cream of the Canadian output
that the seller made proper amends

without any ado. The argument of

ithose who are not inclined to ask for
| date brand is that ‘any one can put on

a date.’ but unless re-
are exhausted
dishonest exporters who
inclined to do this could
be easily stopped at the game, there
is more than one way of doing this
kind of thing.

This 1s true,

the few
would be

I commend the sug-
gestion to the cheese trade of Can-
ada and propose that they should
take it into their serious considera-
tion.”

 

 

   

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
quantities 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,
andthis 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.

 

 

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in Car Lots?

We can make you some attractive

 

prices

We are large handlers of Minnesota,
Kansas and Michigan Flours

 

We buy only the best

Get our prices before your next
purchase

JUDSON GROCER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IF

yd

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our liberal guarantee to the consumer

‘‘ Satisfaction or Money Back?”’
Get a trial lot from

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

When Love Is a Crueler Thing Than
Hate.

If men were put through their
catechism and the question asked,
“What is the chief end of woman?”
they would reply in chorus, “To love.”
And in this they would be merely ex-

 

pressing the universal public senti-|

ment on the subject.
From time immemorial it has been
held that it was woman’s sacred mis-

sion to furnish the most of the visi-|

ble capital of affection on which the |

world was run, while man drew most
of the dividends. Love has_ ever
been held up before woman as a ca-
reer and a reward, a steady business
and a holy duty. Her obligation to
_love has been preached to her; her
ability to love, with reason or with-
out it, has been extolled as_ her
greatest charm; her faithfulness in
loving the unlovable has been ex-
ploited as her greatest virtue, and it
has generally been felt that she was
most an ornament to womanhood
when she was so full of love that she
could festoon her affections about
anything that was handy. For woman
it has been love that
made the treadmill go round.

 

love—love

This abnormal development of a
single faculty is the greatest mis-
fortune that has ever befallen the
feminine sex, for in the majority of
cases woman’s enlargement of the
heart has crowded out her brain and
backbone, and the result has been
disastrous both for herself and
ciety. It is her superabundant sup-
ply of affection, which, like an over-
ful lake, seeks any outlet, that caus-
es her to fancy herself in love with
makeshift man, and is at the
bottom of half of the divorce cases.
It is her inability to see straight or
use any judgment where her heart is
concerned that leads her to make
mistakes in her family that are crim-
inal. It is because she is long on af-
fection and short on_ self-respect
where a question of love is involved

so-

any

that she so often bankrupts herself |

in life.

It is our way to think that love is |

one of the good things of which we
can not have too much. This is a
mistake. Nothing is more easily over-
done, and women are the chief of-
fenders in this respect. With them
love is a virtue changed into a vice,
a flower gone to seed and degenerat-
ed into a noxious weed. If it were
not for the sanity of men in matters
of the affections we should live in a
bedlam peopled by crazy Juliets and
Romeos.

The mere fact that a broken heart |

is a peculiarly feminine complaint
shows how much wiser men are about
love than women. A man_ seldom
ruins himself for love of a woman,
but you can not pick up any newspa-
per without reading of some woman
who has thrown away everything for
love of a man. Men take love calm-
ly, as they do any other fortune. If

 

 

it comes to them, well and good. if |
it does not come, also well and/|
good. They are cheerfully aware that
there are a number of other things |
worth having beyond the doubtful |
jey of loving and being loved; but to |
a woman, to have missed la grande |
passion—never to love or to be loved |
—is the supreme tragedy of existence. |

No old bachelor commiserates him- |
self or feels that his life has been a|
failure, just because he didn’t mar- |
ry; but in the secret chambers of an

| old maid’s heart there are always dust |

and ashes on the altar, and she feels

that her lamp has been lighted in
It is this false value that wom-
en put on love, this making it the}
whole instead of a part of life, that
is responsible for half the woes and |

vain.

disappointments that they suffer.
Primarily it is the reason for more
unsuitable and uncongenial marriages
than all other causes combined. No|
thinking person can fail to see that |
our glorification of woman’s love—our

absurd exaggeration of its power and
its influence and its beauty—makes |
thousands of women, intoxicated with
sentiment into
un- }

rush
utterly

and romance,

marriages with
worthy men, just because there is a}
fool tradition that a woman is bound
to have somebody to love. And in|
this crime we aid and abet them. In-|
stead of erecting barriers before our |
daughters’

heedless

hearts, so high and_ so|
strong that it would take a Cupid with |
a jimmy and a dark-lantern and a
ton of blasting-powder to get into|
them, the wide

open so that any marauding thief who |

we throw all doors
chances to pass that way may walk |
in and purloin the treasure of their
affections.
From the minute a girl baby is old
enough to understand anything, we
teach her, directly or indirectly, that |
love is to be the business of her life; |
assumed to be the one thing
for which she is being prepared.
Emotions are cultivated instead of |
Every appeal is made to}
her feelings instead of to her judg-|
To an inherited talent for lov- |
ing, we add a cultivated facility, and |

he

her reason.

ment.

the result is inevitable. The girl
grows up simply bubbling over with
affection, and this excess of sentiment
she is dying to expend upon some

|

 

man, it does not matter much whom. |
Like the “pretty maidens” in Floro-|

dora, she is ready to cry to every
youth she meets, “I must love some
one and it might as well be you,”
not because the youth in question
rouses any particular thrill of pas-
sion in her breast, but because she is

overstocked with love that she must |

unload on some one. All of the talk

about awakening a maiden’s heart is
nonsense. From the time she wears
her hair in pigtails and is-in short
frocks, every girl’s heart is a watch-
tower with a lookout from which she
scans the horizon in search of some-
body on whom to bestow her affec-
tions. She has been told that wom-
an’s destiny is to love. It is what
she is here for, and so eager is she
to give away her heart that she does
not take the trouble to see that the
She is like a
child with a coin in its purse—misera-

applicant is worthy.

 

 

 

 

 

The Grocer

Saves
Money

The customer is
pleased where the
O. K. Cheese Cutter
is used.

$20.00 net.
f. o. b. Detroit, Mich.

 

 

Can not get out of order.

to fill orders.

Catalog supplied from Dept. S.

 

Cuts the cheese by weight, or money’s worth. Does
it better than any other.

Our testimonials come from satisfied users.
We could not spare a single Cutter to send to the
World’s Fair at St. Louis—needed all we could make

The Standard Computing Scale Co., Ltd.
Detroit, Michigan

Write for one.

name and address.

Is absolutely accurate.

Give your jobber’s

 

 

 

 

 

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CORN SYRUP

 

Taape mank

 

 

 

every time.
properties as bees’ honey.
Karo and honey look alike, taste alike, are alike
honey, or honey with Karo and ex
bees can’t tell which is which.

cept that Karo is better than h

are

When it comes to a question of purity the
bees know. Youcan’t deceivethem. They recognize
pure honey wherever they see it. They desert flowers for

They know that Karo is corn honey,

perts can’t separate them.
In fact, Karo and honey are identical, exe

ie oney for less money. Try it.

: in air-tight, friction-top tins, and sold b i

in aoe ee y all grocers in three

Free on request—Karo in the Kitchen,” Mrs. Helen Armstrong’s book of original receipts.

CORN PRODUCTS CO., New York and Chicago.

   

CORN
SYRUP

containing the same

Mix Karo with
Even the

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

25

 

ble until it is spent and too ignorant
to see if she is given a fair return
for its value.

Nor is this folly confined to youth.
There is no other such pathetic phase
of this overdeveloped ability to love,
and overanxious craving for love, as
that which leads educated and refined
women, who see spinsterhood creep-
ing upon them, to throw themselves
away upon the lame, the halt and the

blind just because they must have|
some object upon which to lavish |
their affection. How often do you

see a cultivated old maid marrying
an ignorant boor, a dainty aristocrat
condescending to a parvenu, one del-
cately reared and used to luxury be-
coming the household of the
widower with many children, just be-

slave

cause they feel that a woman ought |

to have somebody to love. Be sure
that if women had only been taught
that love is not the whole aim of
life the noble army of martyrs would
have missed most of its feminine re-
cruits.

Next to the fatal theory that every
woman must love is the equally mis-
doctrine of the
One of

chievous power of

woman’s love. the greatest

and the cruelest delusions practiced |

in this world is that which leads us
to make a generous and enthusiastic
woman believe that she can change
It is what in-
man on

a man by loving him.

duces a woman to marry a

trust instead of on appraisement. She |

never looks at what he is. She only

contemplates the miracle that she is|

going to work by her affection. If he

has no money,

no way ot making a living, it does not}
She is sure that people in|

matter.
love are never hungry,
that her love will inspire him with
sagacity. tf he
She is anx-

financial
does not matter either.
ious to make a Keeley cure of her-
self.
eyes to it.
never sin again when she places her
little hand in his, and it is only after
has herself
she

she
that

misery on
that the

brought

finds out

of a woman’s love is a fairy story, and |

that as a reformatory agent it is not

worth a row of pins. You can not

love a lazy man into being industrious |
or a drunken sot into sobriety, and |

that is all there is to it.

Another place where woman’s chief

~~

virtue in loving is her undoing is i1
its faithfulness. Women and dogs
are the only creatures that possess
the faculty of loving what is unlova-
ble, and of keeping on loving, through
mere foree of habit, long after all
cause for affection is gone, and that
is the reason they both get so many
kicks. They make their love cheap
and men When a
woman once loves a man he knows he
can not lose her and so he takes no
trouble to keep her. All over the
country there are thousands of phy-
sical culture classes in which mid-
die-aged wives are hopping solemn-
ly around on one foot and teetering
about, trying to get the waist meas-
ure and the lithe figure they had in
their youth, in order that they may
retain their husbands’ affection, but
nobody ever heard of a fat, bald, red-

do not value it.

no business training, |

anyway, and |

drinks it|

If he has a past she shuts her |
She knows that he will|

IF A CUSTOMER

efficacy |

faced, middle-aged man being mas-
saged for his complexion so that he
might present to his wife the same
attractive appearance that he did
| when she fell in love with him in his
youth.

We recognize that a man’s love may
be killed by unworthy conduct or
worn out by friction, but we look
for no such aberration in a woman’s
devotion. We expect her to go on
loving those who have a legal right
to her affections, no matter how they
ill-use and despitefully treat her. And
she seldom disappoints our expecta-
jtions. Earth has no greater marvel
than the tenacity of a woman’s affec-
tion and the way it will cling to a
| brutal husband or an unworthy son
or brother. Disgrace will not alienate
jit. Cruelty will not kill it. Ingrati-
i tude and treachery will not harm it.
| It needs no more sustenance than the
| air-fed orchid, and will cling and
| bloom on the stone walls of a prison
|as well as it will in the hothouse of
la millionaire.
| “He was very good to me, Judge,”

 

'said a poor wretch, defending
| drunken hoodlum who had_ beaten}
| her; “he never hit me where the blows

show.”

would

“John was heartbroken because he
couldn’t come,” lies the society wom-
an whose husband neglects her and
shames her with his open attentions
| to other women, “but he really had
|an appointment that he couldn’t neg-
He’s such a slave to business.”

| leet,
It is the same old story of wom-
ian’s love that we have heard a thou-
| sand times, and shall hear a thousand
times again—unrequited, unappreciat-
ed, but deathless as the God who
made it. When men were done with
quixotic chivalry they passed it on
to women, and the world is full of
wives and mothers who not only cast

the I

man’s weakness, but throw it in the
mud for him to trample upon.

Women also add to their transgres-
sions in love by loving not wisely,
but too much. As long as a woman
is perfectly devoted to her

or commission against it. Her chil-

dren be the most
neglected and ill-reared in the com-
munity, but she feels she has done
her full duty to them by loving them
she can not make them be-

may

so well
have. She may spend her time nag-

earned and neglecting his

comfort,

money

but so long as
him if

model

she would die for
she esteems herself a
Many a man, worn out with his wife’s
demands and lack of
son, and wearied of the protestations

of affection that bore no

senseless rea-

ried man with probably a thousand
devoted wives—-‘Stay me with flagons

with Solomon-—who was also a mar- |

|

family, |
she feels that the mere state of her |
feelings justifies any sin of omission}

unmannerly, |

ging her husband, wasting his hard- |

she knows }

necessary, |
wife. |

tangible |
fruit, must have felt like exclaiming }

|

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

and comfort me with apples, for I
am sick of love.”

The final vice of woman’s love,
however, is when it is selfish. Then
it is the thing on earth most to be
dreaded. Sometimes, because’ she
loves a man, a woman keeps him tied
to her apron-strings and lets oppor-
tunity go by him. Sometimes she
loves her daughters so well she will
not let them marry. Sometimes she
loves her sons so well she binds them
to uncongenial tasks and meager
chances, instead of letting them go
forth into the world to seek their
fortunes and take their place among
men. There are crimes committed in
the name of love before which malice
would hide its face ashamed.

Women need a newer and broader
light on the subject of love, and to
realize that affection is not enough
just of itself. It must be wise. It
must be controlled. It must have the
gentle brooding of the dove and the
wisdom of the serpent and the faith-
ful strength of the watchdog, if it is
to bless the world and not curse it.
Lacking these, love is often a crueler
thing than. hate. Dorothy Dix.

——_+-.—___
No Fake Closing Out Sales in Ger-
many.

It may be news to many of our
readers that “closing out” or “clear-
ing” sales, as we have them galore
on this side of the Atlantic, are reg-
ulated and supervised by law in Ger-
many. Our merchants, we suppose,
would go into seventeen kinds of fits
if such a law of supervision was ever
proposed in the United States. But
if anybody has an idea that German
merchants grumble at such provisions
of the law he is mistaken. From
Chemnitz, in Saxony, comes the re-
port that the Chamber of Commerce
there at a recent meeting unanimous-
ly adopted the following resolutions
and recommended that the laws be
made still more stringent in accord-
ance with the provisions embodied
in the resolutions:

1. A closing out sale may be an-
nounced only in case of the dissolu-
tion of partnership or the final clear-
ing out of a special line of goods.

2. An increase in stock by pur-
chase or otherwise in the course of a
closing out sale shall be prohibited
The seller shali be compelled to sell
his goods at the announced price to
any and every person who offers to
buy.

3. Bankruptcy sales may be con-
ducted alone by the receiver, and not
through a third party, and no third
party may designate goods for bank-
ruptcy sales. It is desirable that the
time during which bankruptcy sales
may continue shall be fixed by law,
with due regard to the requirements
in different lines of business.

How many of our “closing out”
sales do you think would stand the
test of the first two articles? As for
Article No. 3, it would be a good
thing tc be adopted anywhere.

—_2-<+2—__.

It takes more than credit with the

grocer to keep the heart from starv-

ing.

 

+
Heaven does not stop to consult
the vogue before it picks out a man.

 

SETTING A HEN.

 

Merchant’s Success Enhanced by
Simple Knowledge.
Written for the Tradesman.

At first thought it may seem an ab-
surd proposition that knowing how
to properly set a hen may greatly
enhance a merchant’s success in busi-
ness. In a similar light may be re-
garded the statement that it is by
no means a simple matter to success-
fully accomplish such an undertak-
ing. We do not intend to advance
the idea that because a grocer or
general merchant buys and sells eggs
he should know all the details of
poultry raising or egg production any
more than we would advocate that he
should possess an_ experimental
knowledge of every trade or profes-
sion represented by the various wares
he sells. A general knowledge of
such goods is all that can reasonably
be expected, and yet the more one
knows the better it is for him. For
instance, several articles which have
appeared in the Tradesman during the
past year in regard to salmon fishing
and canning, the different species of
fish and their habits, have given the
average grocer much _ information
which he was really glad to obtain
and enabled him to intelligently an-
swer questions which must frequently
have been presented to him.

The merchant who can intelligently
discuss matters pertaining to the par-
ticular trade or profession of his cus-
tomers and can give them valuable
hints and suggestions has a good hold
on their trade. This is especially
true in the smaller towns where one
comes to be well acquainted with his
customers. Unlike the typical city
man, many such like to visit with the
merchant when opportunity offers.
The ability to talk interestingly thus
hecomes a good husiness asset.

Among one’s village customers are
many families who keep hens, and of
course all the country people are more
or less interested in eggs and poul-
try raising. In the cities may be
found men in various callings who
have taken up poultry raising as a
recreation or for profit. Judges,
lawyers, clergymen, physicians, mer-
chants and others do not consider it
beneath them to be deeply interested
in their fowls and to talk and write
about them. Until recent years, how-
ever, farmers in general looked upon
poultry raising as woman’s work. The
man who took pride in his broad
fields, growing crops, fine horses, cat-
tle and other stock often despised the
hen and the work of caring for her.
And so the knowing how to properly
set a hen was not heretofore consid-
ered a very exalted accomplishment.
Anybody might do such simple work
as that.

The village storekeeper probably
has among his customers more peo-
ple who are directly engaged in poul-
try raising than in any other one oc-
cupation. The opportunity is pre-
sented every day, and sometimes
many times in one day, to talk about
chickens. The farmer’s wife brings
a smaller quantity of eggs than usual
because she is setting so many hens;
the village housewife comes to buy

|-but this is unnatural.

 

eggs because she is saving all from
her own hens to set; and from every
side may be heard complaints about
such “bad luck” with setting hens—
such small hatches. Without any
show of superior knowledge, without
offering advice which is not desired,
or going into all the details, one could
give valuable suggestions along this
line. A few casual enquiries as to
the manner of caring for the setting
hens may reveal some _ important
point that has been neglected or over-
looked and thus caused a failure of

the hatch.

It is all right to mention directions
found in the poultry journals or farm
papers, or to tell how Aune Lucy or
Grandma Smith manages, but it is far
better to be able to tell of one’s own
splendid success and the methods em-
ployed. Hence, the storekeeper
needs an experimental knowledge. If
the has any time to devote to outdoor
occupation, he may in time secure
such knowledge.

Nature’s way should first be stud-
ied. The hen, given her freedom,
“steals her nest,” that is, she seeks a
secluded spot where other hens will
not interfere, in the shelter of a fence,
bushes or building, usually on the
ground, lays her eggs and sets her-
self. After a few days hunger drives
her forth, probably in the early morn-
ing, to seek food. Her feathers be-
come wet with dew, and thus, when
she returns to her nest, her eggs are
moistened. If she finds a sufficient
quantity of food she returns unob-
served, and may not be seen by a
single person until she appears with
a numerous brood. If she fails to se-
cure sufficient food and drink in the
manner mentioned, she comes occa-
sionally at the time when the other
fowls are fed, hurriedly secures food
and slips quietly away. Hens kept
in a warm building and fed to pro-
duce eggs in winter may become
“broody” in February or early March,
Nature inclines
them to want to set in April, May
and June, when eggs are not likely to
become chilled by brief exposure to
the air.

If chickens are desired for early
market, probably an incubator would
be better, but hens will do well if
natural conditions are provided. Some
of the causes of “bad luck” in hatch-
ing may be mentioned as follows: In-
fertile eggs or those of weakened vi-
tality from hens forced to lay heavily
in winter; setting hens in boxes on
a dry wood floor; allowing more than
one hen in a room, thus intruding
into each other’s nests; boxes open
at top, allowing hens to jump down
on eggs or chickens; heavy hens
trampling newly-hatched chicks or
those partly out of the shell: wild
hens breaking eggs when disturbed:
chilling of eggs, the hen having too
much liberty and leaving nest
long: driven from nest by mites.

too

How, then, should we properly set
a hen?

t. Fertile
hens; not
enough.

2. Eggs as newly-laid as possible.
Do not expect good results from eggs

eggs from
too many;

vigorous
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kept three or four weeks exposed
to varying temperature.

3. Select gentle, light hens to set;
not cross, excitable or heavy ones.

4. Place boxes or lay nail kegs di-
rectly on ground to secure proper
moisture.

5. Boxes should have plenty ‘of
straw and be open at side, not on
top.

6. Nests should be in open shed
or coop with separate enclosure four
or five feet square for each hen.

7. Shut hen on nest for first day
or two.

8. Place fresh water and grain in
front of her daily. Let her eat when
she chooses.

9. During third week immerse

eggs in warm water from three to
five minutes each day or once in two
days.

1o. Guard your hens from rats

and vermin. Good cats ought to keep
the premises rid of the first; insect
powder or other preparations for the
latter.

11. If your hens are gentle raise
them carefully and take away the
shells as the chicks hatch. But bet-
ter let an excitable hen alone, lest
she maim or kill the chicks.

12. Place food in front of her for

the little chicks when the first
hatched are one day old.
If these directions are followed

good hatches may be expected. Some
people claim it is not necessary to
take all the precautions specified
above, but no harm will result in fol-
lowing them, even if not strictly nec-
essary. We speak from actual ex-
perience, being engaged in raising
chickens and producing eggs as an
important part of our business. Eggs
from our own flock, gathered the
same day as laid and marketed with-
in one week, bring two or three cents
per dozen more than “store eggs.”
E. E. Whitney.
—___2 +. ___

Apt Adulterations Aid.

Once chicory composed a half

Of the morning cup we’re won't to quaff.

Bvt now in coffee, whole or ground,

Small trace of chicory is found.

Have coffee sellers changed their ways

In these uncertain latter days?

Alas, no! they are fust the same;

But the chicory chaps are in the game.

Which, being here translated, means

That chicory’s now half peas and beans.

The coffee dealers all complain

Pure chicory they can’t obtain.

And now—it need not cause surprise—

The bean men, too, are growing wise.

Crushed peas and beans of late, we’re told,

Fifty per cent. of sawdust hold

The chicory venders loudly cry—

Pure beans and peas they cannot buy.

When sawdust profits shall decline

The sawdust men will get in line.

And we shall see the fact disclosed

Sawdust and clay is half composed.

The bean men then will sadly own

Pure sawdust is no longer known.

Then will the clay men taixe a hand,

And mix their wares, perhaps, with sand.

Whereat the sawdust folks will say:

“Alack, there is no more pure clay!”’

Nor will the sand men lag behind—

Some cheaper stuff they’ll surely find.

And so on back, ad infinitum;

There isn’t further space to cite ’em.

At breakfast, then, let’s not look glum;

Of comfort there’s at least one crumb,

To wit: The worst is yet to come.
ne

If you know enough to help you
will have too many contracts to waste
any breath in criticism.

a

He is dead already whose _ only
thought in life is how to make a liv-
ing.

——_2.-2————
You can not blame a bag of wind
for steering clear of pointed facts.

 

 

 

their railroad fare.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Half Fare

 

Perpetual

Trade Excursions
To Grand Rapids, Mich.

Good Every Day in the Week

The firms and corporations named below, Members of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, have
established permanent Every Day Trade Excursions to Grand Rapids and will reimburse Merchants
visiting this city and making purchases aggregating the amount hereinafter stated one-half the amount of

All that is necessary for any merchant making purchases of any of the firms named is to

request a statement of the amount of his purchases in each place where such purchases are made, and if the
total amount of same is as stated below the Secretary of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, 89 Pearl St.,

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

If living within 50
If living within 75
If living within 100
If living within 125
If living within 150
If living within 175
If living within 200
If living within 225
If living within 250

Read Carefully the Names

miles
miles
miles
miles
miles
miles
miles
miles
miles

purchases made from any member of the following firms aggregate at least.........------. $100 00
and over 50, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ............++--- 150 00
and over 75, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ....-............ 200 00
and over 100, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ,.........-.------ 250 00
and over 125, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ......-. ......--- 300 00
and over 150, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ........-...+-.--- 350 00
and over 175, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ...........-+.---- 400 00
and over 200, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .............- 450 00
and over 225, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ........-.....---- 500 00

you are through buying in e2ch place.

Automobiles
Adams & Hart
Richmond-Jarvis Co.
Bakers
National Biscult Co.
Belting and Mill Supplies
F. Raniville Co.
Studley & Barclay
Bicycles and Sporting Goods
W. B. Jarvis Co., Ltd.
Billiard and Pool Tables

and Bar Fixtures
Brunswick-Balke-Collander Co.

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

M. B. W. Paper Co.

Mills Paper Co.

Confectioners

A. E. Brooks & Co.

Putnam Factory, Nat‘l Candy Co

Clothing and Knit Goods

Clapp Clothing Co.

Wm. Connor Co.

Ideal Clothing Co.

Clothing, Woolens and
Trimmings.

Grand Rapids Clothing Co.
Commission—Fruits, Butter,
Eggs Etc.

Cc. D. Crittenden
J. G. Doan & Co.
Gardella Bros.
E. E. Hewitt
Vinkemulder Co.

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

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

Crockery, House Furnishings
H. Leonard & Sons.

Drugs and Drug Sundries
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Dry Goods
Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.
P. Steketee & Sons.

Electrical Supplies
Grand Rapids Electric Co.

M. B. Wheeler Co.

Flavoring Extracts and
Perfumes
Jennings Manufacturing Co.

Grain, Flour and Feed
Valley City Milling Co.
Voigt Milling Co.
Wykes-Schroeder Co.

Grocers
Clark-Jewell-Welis Co.
Judson Grocer Co.
Lemon & Wheeler Co.
Musselman Grocer Co.
Worden Grocer Co.

of purchases required.

Hardware
Clark-Rutka-Weaver Co.
Foster, Stevens & Co.

Jewelry
W. F. Wurzburg Co.
Liquor Dealers and Brewers
D. M. Amberg & Bro.
Grand Rapids Brewing Co.
Kortlander Co.
Alexander Kennedy

Music and Musical
Instruments
Julius A. J. Friedrich

Oils
Republic Oil Co.
Standard Oil Co.

Paints, Oils and Glass
G. R. Glass & Bending Co.
Harvey & Seymour Co.
Heystek & Canfield Co.
Wm. Reld

Pipe, Pumps, Heating and
Mill Supplies
Grand Rapids Supply Co.
Saddlery Hardware
Brown & Sehler Co.

Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.
Plumbing and Heating
Supplies

Ferguson Supply Co., Ltd.
Ready Roofing and Roofing

Material
H. M. Reynolds Roofing Co.

as purchases made of any other firms will not count toward the amount
Ask for ‘‘Purchaser’s Certificate’

as soon as

Safes
Tradesman Company

Seeds and Poultry Supplies
A. J. Brown Seed Co.

Shoes, Rubbers and Findings
Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

Hirth, Krause & Co.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Rindge, Kalm‘h, Logie & Co. Ltd

Show Cases and Store
Fixtures
Grand Rapids Fixture Co.

Tinners’ and Roofers’
Supplies

Wm. Brummeler & Sons
W. C. Hopson & Co.

Undertakers’ Supplies
Durfee Embalming Fluld Co.
Powers & Walker Casket Co.

Wagon Makers

Belknap Wagon Co.
Harrison Wagon Co.

Wall Finish

Alabastine Co.
Anti-Kalsomine Co.

Wall Paper

Harvey & Seymour Co.
Heystek & Canfield Co.

If you leave the city without having secured the rebate on your ticket, mail your certificates to the Grand Rapids Board
of Trade and the Secretary will remit the amount if sent to him within ten days from date of certificates.

 

Serie eee reere

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28

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

MOTHER’S GIRLHOOD.

 

Interesting Reminiscences Going

Back Half a Century.*

At a club meeting which I attend-
ed recently this question was asked:
“Would our daughters of to-day
meet the difficulties, perplexities and
terrors with as much grace and en-
durance as did their grandmothers
and great grandmothers in the pioneer
days of Michigan?”

Pondering over this question has
led me to write a few reminiscences
of my mother’s girlhood, many of
which she often recounts to her
grandchildren at the present time
when amusing them with stories of
bygone days.

At the age of 3 my mother, Har-
riett Holley Huff, came to Michigan
with her parents, who first settled in
Novi, Oakland county, where they
remained until she was 8 years old.

In the year 1836 her father, inspir-
ed with the pioneer spirit of the day,
went still farther into the wilderness,
and took up a half section of land in
the township if Vernon, Shiawassee
county, a part of which is now half
of the site of the village of Vernon.

He cleared about three acres of
ground and began building a_ log
house. But before he had completed
the structure the season had become
so far advanced that he was obliged
to return to Novi and bring his lit-
tle family to their new home in the
woods. There were yet no windows
or doors, but before snow-fall this
humble home was very comfortably
finished, and they began to live once
more, and to enjoy the society of
three neighbors, whose homes they
reached by winding paths through
dense woods, their nearest neighbor
living at a distance of a mile.

Two or three more neighbors were
added the next spring and in two
years’ time there were enough set-
tlers in that part of the township
to organize a school district. Their
first year of school was held in a
dwelling house, situated two miles
from my mother’s home; but she
walked that distance every schoolday,
happy in the protection of her two
older brothers. In 1839 the . first
log schoolhouse was erected in that
township. Most of the pioneers re-
member that the principal branches
then taught in the schools of Michi-
gan were reading, spelling, arithmetic
and geography.

In those early days the Indians
were very numerous, as were also the
wolves, bears, wildcats and deer; but
my mother says they “dreaded the
Indians most of all!”

At that time there were three sep-
arate tribes in the State: the Chip-
pewas in the east portion, the Otta-
was in the west and the Pottawat-
omies in the southern part.

The following are a few of the ex-
periences which I have heard my
mother relate, and which are very
vivid in her memory to-day:

One afternoon, shortly after they
had settled in Novi, her father
brought home a piece of fresh meat
and placed it on a table outside the

 

*Paper by Julia Belle Towner, of Byron
Center, read at annual convention Mich-
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window, as their house was very
small and boasted few conveniences.
Then, shouldering his gun, he went
in search of his herd of cattle in the
near woods, and did not return until
after dark.

As soon as it began to grow dark
the wolves, attracted by the smell of
the meat, began to gather in the clear-
ing near the house, and her mother
had to set lighted candles around it,
so they would not dare approach
near enough to touch it; and, as
young as mother was at that time, she
says she will never forget how those
wolves’ eyes shone like balls of fire
in the darkness.

My mother experienced her first
fright from the Indians the spring fol-
lowing their arrival in the township
of Vernon:

She was then a child of 9, but, be-
ing the oldest daughter, her father
left her in charge of three younger
children, and of her mother, who was
at the time too ill to be around the
house, while he took her two older
brothers with him to do some clear-
ing a short distance from the house.

Any one who is acquainted with the
characteristics of the Indians will call
to mind their stealthy manner of ap-
proach. Such was the case that
morning, for, as mother was busy
washing the breakfast dishes, she
heard a slight noise at the door, and,
upon looking around, was _ horror-
stricken to see six large Indians just
stepping in, each carrying a_ huge
knife!

In relating this incident my mother
says she does not know. how she ever
had courage to offer them chairs, but
she really did, and they all sat down,
but kept laughing and talking among
themselves, first looking at grand-
mother, then making reference to
their knives, until finally they went
out of doors and began to sharpen
their knives on a grindstone which
stood near the house.

By this time my mother was so
thoroughly frightened that she sent
the two older children left in her
charge after her father and older
brothers. Grandfather responded
immediately to the call, and as soon
as he had talked with the Indians
long enough to learn the nature of
their errand he hurried into the house
to quiet the fears of his loved ones,
and assure them that the Indians
were friendly, and only wanted to
sharpen their hunting knives on the
grindstone, which they had seen him
use in sharpening his ax. Not know-
ing the name of the machine, they
were at a loss how to make known
their errand to my grandmother.

The following winter my mother’s
parents went back to Novi for a
week’s visit, leaving my mother and
her two older brothers to keep house
and care for three younger children,
in what was then a vast wilderness
with few inhabitants except wolves
and Indians.

During their absence the Indians
were frequent visitors, and constantly
enquiring where “Chemokeman” and
“Chemokeman squaw” were, meaning,
“Where were white man and white
man’s woman?” To this question they
would always answer, “Oh, they have

 

just gone to visit a neighbor.”

My mother says she thinks they
knew they were afraid to tell them
the truth, for they almost invariably
stayed late in the evening, and tried
to intimidate them by telling war stor-
ies, and how they used to scalp the
Pale Face, usually ending their nar-
ratives by saying, “Mabee Nich-e-
naw-bay (meaning Indian) do _ so
again some day!”

To say those children were timid
is stating the case very mildly, for
abject fear reigned supreme in each
little heart. To think of a boy of 13
standing protector over five younger
children, with hordes of Redskins
stealthily watching their every move-
ment, would fairly make a shudder
go over any true parent!

Another instance, which happened
a few years later, was not so Star-
tling in its character:

One day as my grandmother sat
sewing in her one living room the
light from the open door seemed
suddenly to darken and, on looking
up, she saw the door completely fill-
ed with Indians, from the little pa-
poose to the “Big Injun” whose head
touched the top of the doorway. My
grandmother kindly enquired their er-
rand, and found they only wanted
“labish” (water), and as soon as
their thirst was quenched they con-
tinued their journey.

At another time, just as grandfa-
ther’s family had finished their noon-
day meal, a small tribe of Indians
made their appearance, stealthily, as
usual, and asked for “coocush” (meat)
and “quishgun” (bread), thus signi-
fying that they wished something to
eat.

My grandmother at once laid clean
plates, made fresh coffee and put on
the table a plate of freshly-cut bread,
also added some little delicacy, as
she never lost an opportunity to
show hospitality to the Indians, and
then asked them to sit down and eat.
3ut, instead of sitting down at the
table, as she expected them to, they
took up each corner of the table-
cloth, lifted it with its burden of
dishes and eatables and spread the
jumbled mass upon the floor. Then
all sat around it and picked their
food from that heap of debris, much
to the discomfort of poor grand-
mother, who had few dishes, if any,
tc spare in those days.

“Old Chief Fisher” used to enter
the village of Vernon with his little
tribe, all riding astride their Indian
ponies, each with a sack of huckle-
berries or cranberries thrown over
their ponies’ necks, to exchange for
“napinee” (flour or meal) and “opin”
(potatoes); and a squaw, in addition
to her sack of berries, would some-
times have a dozen or two baskets
dangling over her pony’s flanks, be-
sides her papoose strapped to her
back.

When my mother was 12 years old
her father sent her back to Ovid,
New York, to school, as educational
advantages were so limited in Michi-
gan. She must have improved her
opportunity, for at the age of 16 she
returned, and began duties as a
teacher in her neighborhood school,
at a salary of $8 per month; a posi-

tion she filled four years, with a slight
increase in salary.

During the summer of 1848 my
mother carded the wool and spun and
wove several wool blankets, also
broke the flax and spun and wove
enough linen crash for two straw
ticks; a task that no young lady of
to-day has to perform in making
ready her wedding outfit.

And on that memorable day in Oc-
tober, when she became my father’s
bride, after the wedding dinner at
her father’s house she changed her
dress of white for one of homespun,
and accompanied her husband on
horseback to her future home, a dis-
tance of seven miles.

And to this day she has ever been
queen of her own household, never
losing sight of those higher attri-
butes which are necessary to adorn
the soul, as well as beautify the earth-
ly home, in which to rear her chil-
dren to manhood and womanhood.

The subject of the above sketch
is still alive, and at the present time
living in Grand Rapids, with her hus-
band, at the advanced ages of 77 and
82, respectively.

—_——_++>—_—_
How To Dose a Dog.

A dose of castor oil is as disagreea-
ble to the ailing dog as to the ailing
human being. He kicks against it,
and does right, when he is grabbed
by the back of the neck, and with his
jaws apart with a_ towel
awaits the nasty dose. This is pour-
ed down his neck—on the outside. It
is usually followed by a few more
doses, all of which go the same way
—which is the wrong way. The jaws
are in a vise, the dog is in torture,
and he is ready to condemn his very
best friend for thus treating him
shabbily. If they only were sensible
enough to know how any dog, from
the meanest cur to the bluest-blooded
canine on earth, was in the habit of
taking his oil, it would be different.
But they are all at sea on the sub-
ject, and poor doggie is about dead
when a friend utters:

“Hump! All chumps on dogs, I
see. Pour the stuff over the poor
fellow’s paws.”

Lo, and behold! The wise few who
thought they knew all about dogs
and dog things learned something
to their credit when they saw how
carefully Towser licked his paws,
cleaned them and thus took his oil
without fuss and in the proper way.
—Outing.

ee ey

A clock which will run for two
thousand years has been invented by
Richard Strutt, son of Lord Ray-
leigh. The motive power is a small
piece of gold leaf which is electri-
fied by means of a very small quan-
tity of radium salt. It bends away
from the metal substance and keeps
moving under this influence until it
touches the side of the containing
vessel. At the moment of contact
it loses its electrical charge and then
springs back and is again electrified,
and the process repeated. Sir Wil-

yanked

liam Ramsay considers that this may
be made into a very reliable time-
piece at an expense of about $1,000.
~~»
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GLANCE AT CHEYENNE.

The Air Is Bracing and the Men Are
Giants.
Written for the Tradesman.

Born in the effete East, brought up
among its hide-bound prejudices I
put myself into the hands of my
Western-born-and-bred friend with
the hope that I should not prove too
much for him. We have one tre-
mendous tie that binds us strongly
together, a common love of the wide
and the free, his coming to him from
the unbounded plains and mine to me
from the New England hills and
mountains. So with our lungs filled
with the unfettered, health-giving
air, the extreme types we represent
stood for a moment on the Cheyenne
platform looking straight into each
other’s eyes, our eager hands bridg-
ing the differences between us, and
my heart responding to his “Put ’er
there, pard!” with a_ delight that
thrills me now and will thrill me al-
ways. “Here, I’ll take that,” and his
strong hand took my valise, which,
heavy as it was, he made a play-
thing of, as we sauntered along the
street to the Inter-Ocean, one of the
few good hotels that dot the Middle
West.

I am satisfied that the Yankee in
me indulged in a good deal of gawp-
ing on the way. The street was full
of the new and the strange and I
took in both. I realized at once that
I had got to enlarge my idea of man-
hood. The big, the healthy and the
strong, of which the college athlete up
to that date had been my model, was
—is all right; but as I look at it now
I can think of it only as we look
at the hot-house production whose
size and unusual growth have surpris-
ed us. Of course, the young giant
at my side had taken shape with me
as an accident, a most desirable re-
sult whatever the cause, but not put
down as the general thing; and I
found that here it was the general
thing. An affair of common interest
had brought Wyoming to its capital
and the streets were thronged with
the men and the women of the plains.
Of course Shakespeare is all right
when he says “For ’tis the mind that
makes the body rich;” but somehow
I could not help with my mere aver-
age height and strength feeling the
insignificance of that average in that
cityful of people a head and more
taller than [| am. in the apt and
homely phrase, born, I am sure, on
the plains. I ignominiously “came
down from my perch!” and looked
at my fellowman on the common
level. I found every one of them a
physical Apollo, with no need of go-
ing to the Vatican to look at him.
The sidewalks were crowded with
them and I was glad of the crowd
as the excuse of against
them.

 

running

To see these men at an advantage
they must be looked at when they
are on horseback, and all day long
the streets of Cheyenne resounded
with the clatter of hoof-beats as they
rode singly or in troops over the
pavement. Every man of them
seemed to be as much a part of the
horse he rode as the centaur, right

 

from Thessaly. Each wore the wide
brimmed hat, peculiarly the cow-|
boy’s, with the crown bent in four}
times and ending in a peak. A sweat-|
er gave each rider a chance to dis-|
play his favorite color, a handker- |
chief tied jauntily and loosely in a
sailor’s knot showed to advantage |
the usually well-set neck, and_ the|
closely cropped hair completed a gen-
eral effect it was not at all unpleas- |
ant to look at. Last and by no means
least were the bearing of every man
I met and the look of manly inde-
pendence their faces wore. So I
think the old Vikings looked as they
came back from a_ prosperous’ sea
voyage loaded down with spoils, and
it did me a world of good to see
them having and enjoying, as a mat-
ter of course, the strength and the
build and the which until
then had been the exception among
the men with whom
contact.

alertness
I had come in|}

The time I had|
a chance to meet with some of them.
The square shoulders looked all the}
squarer at hand. They stood
on their feet as they sat their horses,
like Lear, “every inch a king!’ A}
friend of their friend they gave me
hearty greeting, not always with an
extended hand, but the “How d’ do?”
was meant and when the hand did
clasp that went with it
made me feel myself a part of that
kingship so unconsciously theirs.
They looked into my face when they
talked with me—is that a _ feature}
wholly Western? There was not a|
treble voice among them and when}
they said yes and made a}
statement to be considered fact it|
was said with an expression that im-
plied no need of going behind the re- |
turns.

soon came when

near

come the

|

no, or

“Their faces near at hand, how
about that?”
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life and limb. Honest, straightfor- |
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but they “ain’t much on readin’.” I
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spelling or of their penmanship. The
English they use is often forceful
and some of it would look bad in

| print and often it is not printable;

but
“T, who so long with book and pen,
Have toiled among my fellowmen,”’
did not care then for that; but I
found these men, strong of heart and

stout of limb, the sort of men that

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I like them still. Every day that I

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To Be Happy One Must Bestow |
Happiness.

Written for the Tradesman.

It is inded a sad commentary on
humanity when it is admitted by one
possessing such great powers of dis-
cernment as Thomas A. Edison that
all the great improvements and prog-
ress in material things of the pres- |
ent do not make people any better |
or happier. This but emphasizes the
fact that the human heart can never |
be satisfied with wealth or any ad-
vantages or privileges which wealth
and material progress secure.

This mad rush to obtain wealth,
distinction, popularity, position, pow- |
er and the like is equaled only by the
evidence of inability to enjoy for
more than a short time, if at all, those |
things which have been so eagerly |
sought and so determinedly striven |
for. No one can be truly happy who
has obtained anything at the
pense of his fellows. Seeking
for self-gratification, even if
are not inconvenienced, slighted, de- |
frauded or injured in any way, cat
not give To
cne must give happiness to

only
others

happy
others,
always

happiness. be

and it may not be necessary
to realize that one is bestowing hap-

piness. The consciousness that one is
doing right, doing what ought to be
done, gives great satisfaction. The |

recipient of a good deed may not ac-

cept as good that which is for his
good, and not be made happier there-
by. The doer may be disappointed in
the manner in which his acts are ac-
cepted, but he rejoices in doing that |
which might have been benefit if
rightly received.

a
Strange that the purpose of life}
should be understood by _ so
Strange that one who has toiled and |
delved for hidden principles, whose |
discoveries have
wrought such marvelous
throughout the world, should be un-|
able to discern that which has been
so plainly proclaimed that even chil-
dren understand and rejoice in the|
knowledge! This is one of the things
which are “hid from the wise and|
prudent and revealed unto babes.”

The greatest minds which the)
world has ever produced have failed |

few! |

and inventions

changes |

to answer satisfactorily this great |
question—the purpose of life. Men)

turn away from the simplicity of di-|
vine revelation and try to find in hu-
man theories and speculations an ex-}
planation of the mysteries of life and |
conditions of humanity.
is full of trouble, disappointment, |
sorrow, pain, failure and evil. It is
but natural to enquire why it is so. |
Many give up the problem as an in- |
explicable mystery.

In the Bible man has been given
by his Creator sufficient explanation
of his destiny—of the purpose of ex-
istence here—sufficient light to guide
him on his way, so that he may be

The world |

 

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| which death is accomplished.

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rightly directed in his plans and pur-_
|; Suits, and his endeavors may not be|

fruitless or his attainments disap-

| pointing; so that in fact he may have
| “good success.”

“Ask and it shall be

|

given you; seek and ye shall find;|

knock and it shall be

opened unto
you.”

This life is given to become prepar-
This world is-a

school—a place of discipline, of trial |

and
To seek to know God’s will
and do it is our first duty. “Seek ye
first the kingdom of God and His
Only through = di-
vine assistance can one become pre-

—a place for growth

righteousness.”

pared. We can not prepare  our-
selves. “Ye are God’s workmanship”
|—-God’s building. All his dealings

develop-

are intended as a means for our per-|

but in that
life, endued with greater powers, we

face to

stand them now,
face.”
E. E. Whitney.
Se eae ae
Dreams May Cause Death.
People have actually been killed by
dreams.

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Most persons have suffered

those terrible nightmare  vi-
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the of

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These dreams are com-

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falls or the sleeper in his hallucina-
tion plunges down the precipice.
These are the dreams that kill.

In cases where dreams kill there is
between

his escape. sometimes he

awake.

combined action

the

a sort Of

the dream and

disease through |
In the}

first place the dream is usually the |

product of the disease. A person

may have heart disease, which never |

asserts itself or allows the victim in|

any way to know of its presence un- |

dream.
are often the first evidence of heart
Then the trequent recut-
these dreams, dealing

disease.

rence of re-

| peated shocks to the nervous system, |
. * |
aggravates the disease until the heart |

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is so weak that one more shock is
lsufficient to cause death.
If a person has bad dreams it

does not necessarily follow, however,
Dreams in-

terrifying nature, and relate to death.
On awakening the sufferer will no-

tice a violent heart palpitation.

Chronic pericarditis is always

itil the fact is disclosed in a frightful |
Moreover, terrifying dreams |}

 

pre- |

ceded by horrible dreams, such as |

thrown into a lake of

fire or being crushed in a railroad

| wreck, or burned by a volcanic erup-
| tion.

The approach of insanity may al-
so be revealed by unpleasant dreams,
or insanity may be hastened by such
There are cases on

dreams. many

en insane by a dream.

ee . .
Where there is no faith in the pos-
sibilities of man faith in the power
of God does little good.

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Some of our too strenuous shoe re-
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consummation of a sale for every
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is lacking, and some substitute has to |
be offered, which is not entirely to
the buyer’s taste, that over-urging,
supplemented, too often, by slight
misrepresentation, is an error, tend-
ing almost always to future trouble.

The ground taken by some dealers
that you may indulge in any amount
of persistency short of physical per-
suasion, with transient customers and |
strangers, is not morally tenable, nor
is it good business policy.

Any course that would be distaste-
ful to your regular customers, and
that would be resented by them, is
not permissible with strangers, who
might, but for such over-zealous nag-
ging, become regular patrons.

What sort of moral teaching is this,
that, because a would-be patron is a
stranger we may force upon his at-
tention something that he does not
want, and then proceed, by what the
detectives call the “third degree,” to
compel a confession that this suits
him?

Because he was a
“took him in,” hoping and expecting
never to see him again. Build up a
business by hoping not to see a
transient customer again! Look at
it in this way, and think it over.

Give the stranger to your store
as much courtesy, care and consider-
ation as you do the seasoned old reg-
to come

stranger you

ular, and encourage him
again and again.

Do not presume upon the proba-
bility that he will not visit your store
again, and load him with something |
he does not want, so as to make dou-
bly sure that he won’t care to come
back to a place where he has been
over-persuaded to take a “white ele-
phant” off your hands.

Unjust treatment and an undesira-
ble bargain are wonderful strengthen-
ers of the memory, and they warn
persons from insuring a repetition of
the treatment by visiting such places.

Many cases of this sort of repellent
tactics could be cited from the writ-

 

| sistency.

 

 

er’s experience and observation to
warn a shoe retailer against such a
policy.

Every shoe retailer, therefore,
should be careful, while insisting up-
on a great deal of persistency on the
part of his clerks, to caution them
not to overdo the thing, especially
when the wanted goods are not on
hand.

While there may be in some in-
stances an excess of “offensive” per-
sistency in the shoe store, it is hard-
ly possible to overdo the matter of
courtesy and politeness.

This quality may be indulged in
with impunity, and it might be a
good thing to substitute this for per-
Many sales are made in
which politeness is the chief factor
in consummating the deal.

In this case if a customer is po-
litely influenced into taking some-
thing a little different from the arti-
cle he expected to purchase, any aft-
er-dissatisfaction is softened by the
thought, “I don’t altogether like this;
but how politely he did it!”

It is not by persistency, by any
means, that the popular shoe retailer

|has risen to this enviable position.

This is notably true as applied to
women customers.

The dealer who is a favorite with
buyers among the fair sex has be-
come so, not only by his courteous
treatment of them, but by giving them
the benefit of his experience in va-
rious ways that are helpful to their
feet.

He has, perhaps, brought relief to
the woman whose feet are so tender
that lace shoes are irksome to _ her.
and sometimes even painful to the
front of her feet.

Such supersensitive feet there are,
now and again, that are ridged and
sore along the entire length of the
lace piece, in spite of a suitable, well-
adjusted tongue, intended to protect
this part of the foot.

In some instances this ridging of
the foot is due to a too-tightly laced
shoe that does not nearly close up
in front. But these are cases of over-
tender for which this sort of
astener is not suitable.

To the owner of such feet the re-
tailer recommends a button shoe in
preference to the lace, and the wom-
an who has taken his advice and
found relief almost instantly is grate-
ful to the shoe dealer, and his pop-
ularity is increased in her estimation.

A dealer whose trade has_ been
founded on right principles, and
whose popularity has been enhanced
by a careful attention to women cus-
tomers, and who has largely contrib-
uted to the welfare of their feet, by
to the

feet,

judicious suggestions, said
writer:

“Some women who have changed
from button to lace shoes for the
first time complain of the pain caus-
ed by the unpleasant stricture of the
laces, and the discomfort that they
experience in walking in lace shoes.

“Very often a plump, fleshy foot,
over which the lacings fail to meet
by an inch or more, is marked by dis-
tinct ridges, caused by the pressure
of the laces in the effort made to
close up the gap in the shoes.

 

   
   
  

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White-Dunham Shoe Co., Brockton, Mass.

W. J. Marshall, Detroit, Michigan Representative.

 

Men's
Oxfords

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

Have Men’s, Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s Oxfords and
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“A shoe that is a trifle too large in
the instep would have prevented all
this trouble, and would have afford-
ed the wearer comfort from the out-
set.

“Sometimes, however, — sufficient
care is not exercised in adjusting the
tongue so that it will take the pres-
sure of the strings from the foot.

“In fact, sometimes this little nec-
essary adjunct to comfort in the lace
shoe has been torn out, and has never

In this case the wom-
ot

been replaced.

an is guilty contributory negli-

gence, and the laces cut her foot.
“A woman who

willingly spends

half an hour over the task of lacing}

her stays, to bring conditions to the
minimum point of endurance, ouglit
to be willing to bestow ten minutes
for the
will

on her shoe fasteners
of the

in walking.

GF sO

sake comfort she gain

able to
persuade such persons to try on a

“IT have sometimes been
button shoe in order to prove to her
how comfortable they feel over her
welted foot.

“Now, if the laces could be con-
structed of some elastic material, and

at the same tume be practical for
shoe fasteners, what an  improve-
ment this would make in the lace
shoe!

“But, there you are; for this is one
The
this
emergency as a temptation to women
for a

of the inventions yet to come.

congress shoe offers itself in

change.

“But, to sum up about the popular |

shoe dealer. He becomes so _ thor-
oughly the medium of that little but
important member—the human foot.

“If he helps that member into a
more comfortable condition, while, at

the same time catering to the aes- |

thetic tastes of its owner, he

o @ |
make permanent friends and custom- |}
|

ers. All this can be done, too, with-

out over-persistency in the matter ot

talk.”

We are not hitting an enemy when |

down by
sional blow at the shoddy shoe. It
is not down yet, and, therefore, it is

he is

a legitimate foe.

“Wherever you see a head, hit it,
was the Irishman’s motto at the fairs,
where fun and whisky and pugnacity
mingled in about equal proportions.
And of the
shoe, “hit it hard and often.”

sO we Say worthless
And what is this disreputable thing
that is called the shoddy shoe, any-
This: thing that long
the “Mag

against it?

way? has so

had cry, dog!” raised
The veteran shoe retailer says of it:
“It is an incongruous combination of
high-toned appearance, and quite con-
temptible material and workmanship
—elements so completely at variance
with each other that their association
should be unhesitatingly condemned
by the scrupulous dealer, both in the
interests of his patrons and from a
spirit of loyalty to his erat |
Although it is a deceptive thing in
its general makeup and appearance
to the uninitiated, still the average
intelligent shoe wearer should recog-
nize it as a fraud the moment its
absurdly low price is named and its
fictitious value is stated. Its claims

will |

delivering an occa- |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to be a “something for nothing” bar-
gain should alone condemn it.—E. A.
Boyden in Boot and Shoe Recorder.

——__~+~
Getting Ahead a Matter of Habit.

What are the secrets of

fy in talking to a delegation of

bright-faced boys, I told them they

should, in order to make the

to your last’

ogre, called trouble, bobbing up in
your pathway every now and then,

|ing terms with success.

courage enough to “stick to his last”

in the face of early
porary reverses.
eventually

will

cess.

 

| What would you think of a shoe-

success? |
Will I tell the boys of Massachusetts |
what I think the secrets are? Recent- |

most |
|of hte, obey the old maxim, “Stick |

If you don’t, you'll find that old}

and you'll never get to be on speak- |

Fortune, you know, favors the|
brave. Well, in the battle of life, the
really brave man is the one with]

rebuffs and tem- |
He’s the fellow who
be able to laugh at |
trouble and to get chummy with suc- |

| maker who, after making part of a |

started another shoe

and on 2

until he had finally spent all his
money for stock and had nothing but
a lot of half-finished shoes to show
for it?
young man to tackle a new line of
every little while until
grows too old to learn any business

business
| thoroughly.
the

ant into

 

going honey-making
| business;
hills for a change.
its place in the world and sticks to
lit, and that is what boys must do if
i they would accomplish great things.

Of course, boys
handicapped as compared
bees and ants. You see boys are not
loften born with a knowledge of just
what kind of last they’re best fitted
to

somewhat
with

are

peg away on. But nearly every

»| boy at an early age displays an apti-

tude for something, and if that apti-
tude is properly developed the proc-
ess of selecting a last is simplified.
And remember to
your ambition up to the top notch.
Whatever you do, try to do it better
than the other fellow. At
make it a point to stand at the head
and at play don’t be

always

school
of your class;

}

jest or throw the straightest.

ter of getting ahead will become a
habit. W. ©. Dougiass.
ctl iin nn
Shadow Clock for Invalids.

remarkable sickroom clock. When‘a

see it from bed without craning his

neck.
>

Angels may have wings, but that
does not indicate that they will wel-
come a man milliner.

 

ferent last, keeping up this method |

Foolish way to do, isn’t it?|

satisfied until you can jump the farth- |
Then |
when you enter business life this mat-

shoe on one last, became dissatisfied |

dif- |

|

But it’s no more foolish than for a|

he |

Everything in nature is fitted to do|

one thing well and spends its whole |
life doing it. You never hear of the

nor of the bee building ant- |
Each one knows |

the |

keep

 

A Munich professor has invented a |

button is pressed an electric lamp be- |
hind the dial throws the shadow of|
the hours and hands, magnified, upon |
the ceiling, so that the invalid can |

 
 
   
      
     
   
   
   

  

Some
Reasons

why it would be a
profitable proposi-
tion for you to sell
the

Walkabout

$3
Shoe

 

 

 

   

1. It is the best medium priced shoe manufactured.

2. Itis a $3 shoe with a $5 look.

3. We help you sell them by advertising them extensively.
4. They have the manufacturer’s guarantee on each pair.

We have an interesting proposal to make one dealer in

each town which will surely interest you. Write and we will

have a salesman call.

MICHIGAN SHOE CO., Distributors
DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Others Sang Our Praises

In the last two issues of the
‘Tradesman

Put in a line of

Rouge Rex Shoes

for Fall and your increased sales
will make you

Join the Chorus

HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Shoemakers for Men and Boys

 

 

 

 

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34

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

The Value of Attractive Furnishings.

When I removed my shoe store a
year ago to its present location, |
made up my mind that it would be
economy to sell all my old furnish-
ings and begin business anew with
bright, fresh furniture and fixtures,
as well as stock. I had been so
long in an old part of the city that,
quite unconsciously, I had allowed
my store interior to grow old and
ugly without realizing it. I account-
ed for my failure to increase my
business at the old stand by reason
of the encroachments of the whole-
sale business houses, which drove the
retail trade farther and farther away
from my door. So when I made up
my mind to move, I figured on mov-
ing all my old seats and cases just
about the same as I would do had I
been my home from one
part of the city to another.

“You don’t mean to say you're go-
ing to open up your new store on
Chestnut street with those old crip-
pled benches?” remarked an_ ac-
quaintance in the trade.

Although I replied in the affirma-
tive, I did so without enthusiasm, for
until that moment I had not given
the matter weighty consideration.

“You'll be an old back number and
drive business away if you. don’t
spruce up your new store more than
the one you have here,’ said my
friend, and since then I have had
reason time and again to thank him
for the good advice given me.

That very day I took a walk in the
district where I had rented my new,
although small, store, and on
pretense or other called at a num-
ber of the shoe stores in the neigh-
borhood. I was quite surprised to
find that my store, with its poor but
substantial furnishings, looked bare
indeed compared with those I saw.
I began to realize that I had made
a mistake in living in so small a
sphere, as it were, I

moving

some

an that vt 7
intended to meet the competition of
my new neighbors I must get right
up-to-date and arrange my store so
that I need not be ashamed to have
them come into it. I felt also that
an investment in some good, tasty
furniture would be a valuable asset,
as customers would remark about the
pleasant store I kept, and this would
surely mean more business and a bet-
ter class of trade than that to which
T had catered in the past.

I took my first step in the right di-
rection that night by writing to a
number of shoe furniture concerns
whose names I saw in my trade pa-
per, and in less than a week’s time I
had on my desk catalogues of win-
dow fixtures, store furniture,  step-
ladders, fitting stools and other ar-
ticles of store equipment.

To make a long story short, when
I removed to my new store I had
the satisfaction of possessing one of
the neatest shoe stores in the neigh-
borhood. I had been all enthusiasm
for several weeks planning and ar-
ranging for my opening, and when
I threw my doors open I really felt
my cheeks glow with pride at the
change in conditions. I couldn’t help
but think how different my new
store looked from the one I had left.

 

The old cane bottom settees had
given place to neat leather bottom
chairs and in the center of the store
was a handsome divan with electric
mounted statuary. I had an entire
new equipment of metal display fix-
tures in the window, also an assort-
ment of glass fixtures in reserve for
a change. My windows were _ pro-
vided -with reflectors. I had plenty
of daylight, thanks to prism’ glass
over the awning, an idea I borrowed
from “The Shoe Retailer.” My clerks
were able to get at the cartons hand-
ily by mounting bicycle step-ladders,
and a cash carrier service carried
shoes and money from the floor to
the cashier’s desk in the rear. I pur-
chased a handsome findings case, and
this has proved to be one of the best
salesmen, and one who never com-
plains of long hours and does not
watch the clock. I put in two show-
cases for the display of new styles of
and later I added a third case
for the display of children’s shoes
exclusively. My store has a metal
ceiling, which is always clean and
bright, a marked contrast to the plas-
tered ceiling in my old store, which,
although I papered it often, con-
stantly looked dirty and smoky.

I found my new surroundings so
pleasant that I was inspired to push
for business. I issued invitations to
my store opening and these brought
so many responses that I have used
this method of advertising with suc-
cess ever since. I have a list of the
names of persons employed in the
offices in the commercial buildings
and stores near my place of business
and these afford very profitable ma-
terial upon which to work for busi-

shoes,

ness.

I wish to say that had I known the
good that up-to-date furniture and
fixtures would have done me I would
have had them in my old store. And
perhaps I would not have had_ to
move, although I do not regret hav-
ing done so, as my business has in-
creased to my perfect satisfaction —
Shoe Retailer.

> -2 2
Has To Work in Holland.

The man who is too lazy to work
keeps out of Holland if he is wise
or makes his escape as soon as he
discovers that there, at least, a means
has been found to make him work.

When a prisoner or pauper refuses
to work he is lowered into a cistern,
which is provided with a pump at the
bottom. A stream of water is turned
on and the idler is left to his own
devices. The capacity of the pump
is but slightly in excess of the
stream flowing into the tank and to
keep his head above water he must
keep pumping. As a rule, he spends
some little time before he finds that
the water is slowly creeping upon
him.

He is not urged to go to work, but
presently he takes his place at the
handle and begins the task. By
working quickly he is able to clear
out the water after a short time, but
he has to keep at work if he wishes
to keep his feet dry.

——_+-2-.—___

There’s no use casting your bread
on the waters if you keep your cake
to yourself.

 

is a young male animal and he is particularly

hard on shoes.
We make several kinds that will not only

give satisfaction but endure an extra amount of

.

extreme hard usage.
Our trade mark is always a guarantee of

quality.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Our “Custom Made” Line

Of
Men’s, Boys’ and
Youths’ Shoes

Is Attracting the Very Best Dealers in Michigan.

 

WALDRON, ALDERTON & MELZE
Wholesale Shoes and Rubbers
State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co. SAGINAW, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

You Are Out of
The Game

Unless you solicit the trade of your
local base ball club

 
   
 

They Have to
Wear Shoes

Order Sample Dozen

And Be in the Game

SHOLTO WITCHELL Majestic Bld., Detroit
Everything in Shoes
Protection to the dealer my ‘‘motto.’’ No goods sold at retail.

Sizes in Stock

Local and Long Distance Phone M 2226

 

 

Dress Counts for Much in the Busi-
ness World.

“Clothes do not make the man,”
but it is certain that appearance has
a whole lot to do with the making
of the successful business man. The
man who is “sloppy” in his every-
day appearance has just about as
much chance of winning success as
he has of being called a Beau Brum-
mel. Everything is against him.

The successful world is made up of
men who are neat in their personal
appearance. He who differs from
them is out of place—as fully out of
place as a man in a sweater would
be at a reception. He will never be
admitted to the favored circles. He
may be a good man, just as good
as those who are in the top places,
but he will never be given the chance

 

to show it. Success depends great-
ly upon personality, and the man
whose outward dress is neglected

and slovenly stands before the world
as neglectful and slovenly in charac-
ter.

In certain circles it may be true
that appearance has nothing to do
with the man. just as honest a

heart may beat under the rough shirt
of the plowboy as does under the
stiff shirt of the business man. But
just let a business man try wearing
a plowboy’s shirt for awhile, espe-
cially if he is just getting establish-
ed in business, and let him see what
the result will be. He will be os-
tracized, for the stiff shirt the
proper thing for him to wear, and if
he does not wear it he is an anomaly,
and men do not like to do business
with anomalies. The rough shirt
quite the thing for the plowboy, but
the plowboy is far from being the
business man.

Let the stiff shirt represent the
whole conventionality of dress as ex-
emplified in the neatness of apparel
of the successful business man. The
wishes to follow
lead to sticcess
accord with the
conventionalities of success. If he
or a genius he can afford
but there are few
who make sttc-
this world. If he is the
normal young man he must agree
with them, and he must show his
agreement by dressing just as neatly
as possible.

“It is not that a man who doesn’t
dress neatly may not be as good a
workman as the other fellow,” said
an employer who demands neatness
in the apparel of his employes, “but
he doesn’t show it on the outside.
External appearance is the only way
in which one man can judge another
in business, and when a man’s ap-
pearance is not pleasing the judg-
ment will be against him.

“T engage on an average 300 men

iS

is

who
that
entire

young
the
must be

man
in steps

in

is 2 freak
to them,

geniuses

ignore
freaks or

cesses in

a year in my office.
of good appearance. I do not mean
that I go by a man’s looks, but by
the general effect of his ap-
pearance. I take it that a man’s ap-
pearance expresses his personality.
This may not be so, but in business
a man can not afford to search a
man’s character further than looking
at him. If a man is careless in his

All of these are

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

dress, unshaved and dirty generally,
it goes with me that he is similar
in character and in his work. If he
is clean and neat, well dressed, with
his shoes. properly shined, and a
clean collar around his neck, I judge
that he is of good, clean character,
and apt to make a good, careful em-
ploye. I would sooner take him and
break him into my business from the
bottom than to take the slovenly
man who happens to be experienced.
Cleanliness and neatness of
pays in big, practical dollars.”
As one progresses through the low-
er ranks and gets nearer to the places
wherefrom success may be easily
reached the effect of personal ap-
pearance grows in value. A _ clerk
or other minor employe may do well
without paying any particular atten-
tion to his appearance, so long as
he does his work satisfactorily. But
when he rises to a position near the
top he will find that it is a question
of appearing well or giving up his
chances for a future. Look into the
general offices of any large enter-
prise. The men who are employed
therein, from the office boy up to
the general manager, are all well
dressed and neat in appearance. They
are clean, their clothes are neat, if
not expensive, and the entire effect
oi their appearance is pleasing. How
much of their success they owe to
this fact it is hard to say. Certainly
they owe a great deal. No employer
selects for promotion a man whose
will not be a credit to his

person

appearance
business.

A man may be a good clerk, but if
he dresses like a poor one he will
hardly be given a chance to show
that he is able to fill any position
above this. A careless man may
manage to act successfully as the
manager of a department where his
duties take him only in contact with
his immediate office force, but when
a promotion to some higher place is
to be made he will find that some
one else, possibly a little less able
than he, possibly of a lower rank,
whose appearance suggests that he is
of a bright, progressive disposition
is chosen.

Clean morals are among the great-
est requisites for success in this day,
but a cleanly appearance is fully as
important, for one must be judged
entirely from the external view, and
when the external is dirty and un-
pleasant it is quite right and proper
that one should judge the entire
man as such. And by the judgment
of his superiors the beginner will
fall or rise, so it is up to him if he
be ambitious to see that his appear-
ance is all that it should be.

Henry Oyen.
——_> eo
Fishy.

Mother (reproachfully, to her small
son)—Jamie, where have you been
all the afternoon?

Jamie (uneasily) — At
school, mamma.

Mother—Then how is it you are
wet and smell so of fish?

Jamie (in desperation)—Well, you
see, I’ve been studying about Jonah
and the whale, and—well—I guess it
came off on my clothes.

Sunday

Mack the Mechanic

et |

SAM
‘AUN

MW.

 

Mack the mechanic, who makes ma-
chines,

Is a man who always says what he
means,

And you may bet with all your might

What he says is surely right,

And if you bet you can not lose,

For Mack says HARD-PAN_ are
shves to use.

Dealers who handle our line say
we make them more money than
other manufacturers.

Write us for reasons why.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co,
Makers of Shoes Grand Rapids, Mich.

the

| $850.

 

35
New Oldsmobile

 

Touring Car $950.

Noiseless, odorless, speedy and
safe. The Oldsmobile is built for
use every day in the year, on all
kinds of roads and in all kinds of
weather. Built to run and does it.
The above car without tonneau,
A smaller runabout, same
general style, seats two people,
$750. Thecurved dash runabout
with larger engine and more power
than ever, $650. Oldsmobile de-
livery wagon, $850.

Adams & Hart

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

 

eS SR SD Se. WR.

‘RUGS FROM

OLD
CARPETS
THE SANITARY KIND

We have established a branch factory at
Sault Ste Marie, Mich. All orders from the
Upper Peninsula and westward should be
sent to our address there. We have no
agents soliciting orders as we rely on
Printers’ Ink. nscrupulous persons take
advantage of our reputation as makers of
“Sanitary Rugs” to represent ——e in our
employ (turn them down). Write irect to
us at either Petoskey or the Soo. A book-
let mailed on request.

Petoskey Rug M’f’g. & Carpet Co Ltd.
Petoskey, Mich.
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Association?

York and St
Louis, Mo.

of this sale.

open for investigation.

on page

I4.

 

Do You Know
Mr. Merchant?

Who conducted the greatest sale ever known in the City of Mem-
phis and advertised under the name of the Manufacturers Clothing

Ask Adam Goldman, President and General Manager of the New
Louis Consolidated Salvage Co., Century Bldg., St.

Ask him how much business was turned in at this sale he con-
ducted for the Manufacturers Clothing Assn. at Memphis on their
surplus stock of manufactured clothing.

Ask him how many people were turned away during the progress

Ask Adam Goldman, President and General Manager of the New
York and St. Louis Consolidated Salvage Co., who conducted the
greatest sale ever known in Southern Texas.

Ask him how much business was turned in during the sale his
company conducted for Litchenstein & Sons, Corpus Christi, Tex.

Ask Mr. Goldman these questions and don’t listen to people who
claim they are kings and monarchs of the sale business, but get the
people who can show you the records of results produced.

Get that concern who has an established reputation, whose mod-
ern mode, and methods of advertising, are endorsed by over 25 trade
journals, all the wholesale houses in the United States, and thousands
upon thousands of retail merchant princes.

Get the services of a concern whose entire business dealings are
If you will do this you will write to-day to
the New York and St. Louis Consolidated Salvage Company.

Our advertisement calling your attention to “Wake Up” appears
Read this advertisement and write us at once.
do for you what we have done for others. Write to-day.

New York & St. Louis Consolidated Salvage Co.

Incorporated
Home Office, Contracting and Advertising Dept., Century Bldg., St. Louis, U. S. A.

ADAM GOLDMAN, Pres. and Gen. Mgr.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

NEVER FIRES MEN.

 

Employer Who Insists It Pays To
Be Liberal.

Apropos of consideration of the
“why employes lose their positions”
question, there is a man in Chicago
who has a fad. His name is Benja-
min J. Rosenthal, and he is a moving
spirit in five or six different business
enterprises, besides managing a large
millinery house. His fad is not to
discharge employes. He has not dis-
charged one in over . five years.
Furthermore, he believes that the
discharging of employes is impolitic
on the part of a great business house
and is growing less and less  fre-
quent of occurrence every year.
own business it is not a
theory—_this non-discharging of help
—-but a plan that has been put to the
test and proved practical. And to
this plan the man who does not fire
help is generous enough to declare
that a certain amount of his success
is due.

In _ his

Careful selection in the engaging
of help is the first and great basis of
Mr. Rosenthal’s plan.

“When we engage a boy or girl to
fill a minor position we do not en-
gage one with only a view of filling
that particular position, says. he.
“We look ahead of it, up through the
various grades, right up to a part-
nership in the firm, and if the ap-
plicant does not give promise of in
time being able to fill these higher
positions we do not him.
To do so would be working injury

engage

both to ourselves and to him or her.
In a few years we would find that
we had dead timber on our hands,
and the employe would be misplac-
ed. We find out if an applicant
wants to. stay with us, if he wants
to work for his future right from the
beginning, if he is ambitious. If he
is of the right kind otherwise, well
and good. He can have a position
with us and keep it as long as_ he
wants to.

“This minimizes the likelihood of
getting an employe who will become
dissatisfied who will re-
main with the firm only until such
time as he fancies that he can change
to advantage. Of course, with a num-
ber of this type of employes on the
payroll, it is inevitable that a man
should be forced to discharge help.
But it is in no way good business
to have such people in one’s employ.”

“That the first part of the no dis-
charge system works nobly in weed-

soon and

ing out the undesirables is shown by
the fact that few applicants are giv-
en positions who are not of the kind
that work up. In every department
of this firm’s business the head or
held the
humblest position in it. The major-
ity of these department managers
began on a salary of approximately

$3 a week.

manager once lowest and

“Part two in the system is more
elaborate in its scope. Possibly it
has more to do with preventing the
necessity of discharging help than
the first part. It consists of devel-
oping the new employe into a valu-
able factor of the business through
increasing his interest in his work,

 

by holding out every promise of re-
ward that is consistent with good
business. Its entire keynote is one
of liberality towards employes, and
might be copied to good advantage
by other employers.

“When a boy or young man goes
to work here he is shown at once
that he will be promoted if he cares
to be promoted. He in turn must
show that he is appreciative. If he
does not he is not promoted. He is
simply left where he is, and_ he
finds that he is not wanted
and gets out himself. But most
workers, when it is shown them that
their work is thoroughly appreciat-
ed, will increase their efforts toward
gaining promotion. It is too easy
for the employer to forget that he
has a duty before him in develop-
ing his employes. If a worker is left
entirely to himself, without any in-
terest being shown in him, it is
hardly natural that he will develop
any strenuous amount of individual
interest in his employer’s business.
He is likely to stand still and in a
few years be ready for his_ dis-
charge. But where he is shown that
his interest is directly the interests
of the house he develops rapidly in-
to the kind of a worker who rises
into the higher places.

“It pays an employer to have this
kind of men in these positions. It
pays him to develop his minor em-
ployes into them. He then has men
there whom he knows thoroughly in

soon

their capabilities, and
their shortcomings. He has men
whom he can trust to look after his
interests almost as he would himself;
in fact, he has a list of men who are
partners in his business. It is ob-

disposition,

vious that with men of this kind in
one’s employ it will seldom become
necessary to discharge anyone.

“One of the features of this plan
is to show the employe that he has
a chance for the position just ahead
of him. Throughout the firm, in
every department, there is always an
understudy for the more important
positions. There are two sides to this
The incumbent is_ thus
taught to be careful, knowing that
trained and
ready to take his place, and the un-
derstudy does his present work all
the better through being encouraged
by his prospects.

feature:

there is another man

“Another is the plan of co-opera-
tion. When a man shows that he is
contributing to the profits of the
frm he is given stock in it. He is
not required to pay for it upon its
delivery, but is allowed such easy
terms that he can pay for it from the
stock’s own dividends. Thus his ef-
forts increasing the profits
of the firm are sure to be increased.
Employes are given two weeks’ va-
cation in the summer time and one
in the winter, with pay, and are

toward

paid when absent through good
cause. None of this is done because

of any sentiment on the part of the
firm’s head, but because it is good
business.

“In the millinery business there is
a season during which every em-
ploye in a firm is ‘rushed to death.’
In this season it is easy to see wheth-

 

er or not the employe appreciates
and reciprocates the liberal feeling of
the employer. And the fashion in
which this firm’s employes work
during this rush season shows that
they see things much in the same
light as ‘the boss.’ Of course, there
is the roving type of employe who is
never satisfied anywhere, who con-
stantly watches the want advertise-
ments for another position that will
There is

 

 

 

pay a dollar more a week.
nothing to do with him. He will

leave no matter what you do. But
the good ones understand fully that

they and their work are identical
with the work of their

This is the secret of having faithful

employer.

employes.

“The whole trend of feeling _ be-
tween employe and employer has
shown a change for the better re-
cently. In the last five years re-
markable progress has been made
line. Wages have risen
at least 25 per cent, hours have
been shortened and conditions gen-
erally bettered. Firms that once

never gave vacations now insist that

along this

every one on their pay rolls devote
two weeks annually for rest. The
big stores are installing gymnasiums,
otherwise provide the
things that work for the betterment
of those in their employ. This is all
being done voluntarily.

schools and

 

“And because of these things the
necessity for discharging any  con-|
siderable number of employes is con- |
stantly are |
finding that to be liberal with those |
under

decreasing. Employers
raises the
They
ds better and more work, are not in-
clined to shirk or grow dissatisfied,
and so it is business to keep them. I
believe that the worker’s efficiency
increases as his employer’s interest
in him increases.”

them immediately

standard of those employed.

Robert H. Modler.
a
Recent Business Changes in the

Buckeye State.

Cincinnati—N. Goldsmith is  suc-
ceeded in the retail clothing and shoe
business by N. Goldsmith’s Sons.

Cincinnati—John F. Reidel — suc-
ceeds George Miller in the retail gro
cery business.

Cincinnati—Grove J. Penney, of
Grove J. Penney & Co., commission
dealers in grain, is dead.

Cleveland —- Schumann & Eglin,
have dis-
David L. Schu-
mann continuing the business.

Columbus—-John Schmidt, of John
Schmidt & Son, meat dealers, is dead.

Dayton—Ora W. Roof & Co. suc-

clothiers and furnishers,

solved partnership,

ceed James F. Breen in the retail
grocery and meat business.
Dayton—Joseph Herbert succeeds

John Keferl in the grocery business.

Germantown-—Endress & Kercher
will continue the leaf tobacco busi-
ness formerly conducted by Joseph
Endress, Jr.

Hallsville—Baker Bros. succeed J.
T. Jones in the general store busi-
ness.

Marion—The Marion Clothing and
Cloak Co. is succeeded in business by
the McClain Credit Clothing Co.

Toledo—Chas. J. Mandler will con-

 

tinue the business formerly conduct-
ed by the Allen Germ Proof Fil-
ter Co.

Toledo—The receiver of the Hoop-
er Drug Co. has ordered the sale of
the stock.

Van Wert—John A. Conn & Co. is
succeeded in the grocery business by
Conn & Balyeat.

Van Wert—The jewelry business
formerly conducted by A. P. Mc-
Conahey & Son will be continued in
future by McConahey & -Meyers.

Cleveland—Suit has been brought
for the firm ot
Noble & Co. and the appointment of
a receiver.

Columbus
pointed for the
ddes 4a

dissolution of the

A receiver has been ap-
American Elevator
Co., which manufacturinz
business.

Houston—Wm. A. Snypp, of
Snypp & Binglespaugh, general mer-

| chants, has filed a voluntary petition

in bankruptcy.

a
Recent Business Changes in the Hoo-
sier State.

French Lick—-Wm. Draburg is suc-
ceeded by Glen, Ellis & Co. in the
general merchandise business.

Indianapolis — The Nash-Leibling
Co. will continue the manufacturing
business formerly conducted by the
Darling Garment Co.

Indianapolis—The Indiana Con-
densed Milk Co. has been authorized

| to issue preferred stock to the amount

of $10,000.

New Waverly—U. T. Baker, who
formerly conducted a general store,
is succeeded by G. W. Meyer.

Terre Haute—The_ grocery  busi-
ness formerly conducted by Chas.
W. Bauermeister will be continued
in the future by the Chas. W. Bauer-
meister Co.

Terre Haute—The grocery stock of
Jas. W. Scott transferred
for the benefit of his creditors.

Huntington—A_ petition in bank-
ruptcy has been filed by the creditors
of A. N. Forsythe.

Indianapolis—A receiver has been
appointed for the Gee-Warren Lum-
ber Co., which manufactures yellow
pine lumber.

a
Planning To Dam Niagara.

After long years of learning and
labor applied to the matter of har-
nessing Niagara, mankind is probing
the probabilities of damming the
famous falls. A meeting has been
held in Washington of the Interna-
tional Deep Waterways Commission
to consider plans for building a dam
across the Niagara River at the Lake
Erie mouth to raise the levels of the
great upper lakes, thus permitting the
entrance of vessels of greater draft
and tonnage.

Not only are shipping interests vi-
tally interested in the idea, but also
the promoters of the vast power
plants at Niagara and all lovers of
the marvelous scenic charms of the
cataract. The building of a dam
would mean the flooding of many
acres along the American and Cana-
dian shores, and would affect the

has been

electrical enterprises at the Falls in
a variety of ways.
——_~-
Prejudice puts the heart in prison.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Textile Fabrics Made of Paper. | Hardware Price Current

Garments made of paper have long |
been used in Eastern Asia, but only |

in default of other clothing or on
special occasions. In Western coun- |
tries the only articles of dress made
of paper until recently were collars,
cuffs and_ shirt that is
say, articles which are usually starch-
Now, however,
ors are endeavoring
woven paper fabrics.
Some time ago an
Zanetti,
fine and strong yarns
very thin silk paper, cut

bosoms; to

ed.
to

Italian,

by
into strips

numerous invent- |
introduce |

Prof. |
devised a method of making |
twisting |

about one-tenth of an inch wide. As}
yet these yarns are used only for
wicks of wax candles and in the
manufacture of gas mantles.

advance has been made
Here, also, narrow strips
of paper are spun by a process pat-

A greater
in Saxony.

AMMUNITION
Caps
G D., full count, per m. . &
Hicks’ Waterproof, per mn. cc. on
Bleamet, per Mm... 8.8L. 15
| Biys Waterproof, per m_............ 60
Cartridges
Ne. 22 short. per me. ......... 24... e. 2 50
IG. 22 tome per mi.................. 3 00 |
ING. 32 SRGrt per Wi.................. 5 00
INe. 32 lone per m............5.....: 5 75
Primers
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m..... 1 60
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..1 60 |
Gun Wads
Black Edec, Nos. 11 € 12 U. M.C.. 60}
| Black Edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m..... 70
| Binek Madge, Na 7, per m............ 80
Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs.of oz of Size Per

No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 4 1% 10 10 $2 90
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
128 4 1% 8 10 2 90
126 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00
200 3 i 10 12 2 50
208 3 1 8 12 2 50
236 3% 14% 6 12 2 65
265 3% 1% 5 12 2 70
264 3% 1% 4 12 2 70

ented by Claviez & Co. Paper and
cotton are also spun together, so
that in the finished yarn the paper en- |
velops the cotton. These yarns are}
used as fillers, in conjunction with
cotton warp, in weaving drillings |

suitable for toweling

waistcoats, trousers and skirts.

Heavier
by
yarns.

combining paper and woolen

The fabric is cream colored,
and may be washed repeatedly with-
out injuring the surface. It well

is

annd summer |

and warmer cloth is made |

|

 

 

 

Discount, one-third and five per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded

No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64
Gunpowder
Kegs 25 ts.. per Keg...........-... 4 90
| % Kegs, 12% Ibs., per 4% keg ........ 2 90
% Kegs, 6% ine., per % kee ........ 1 60
Shot

| Snell’s

In sacks containing 25 Ibs
Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 1 85

Augurs and Bits

adapted for tennis and lounging suits. jouer a. shektH OEE AO ARRTOES =
Sufficient cloth for a jacket, waistcoat | pee
and trousers costs only 1o marks, or} First Quality, S. B. Bronze ......... $ 50
$2.50, and still cheaper garments are | ee aoa Seat 3 I.
made for laborers. This new product | First Quality, D. B. Steel. .......-..- 10 50
is named xylolin. ba oe Barrows —
| Rs
For such use, however, raw mate-| Garden. ...1.11iiiiiiisisssssesecsss 88-00
rials even cheaper than finished paper | Bolts
are sought. Spinning mill refuse, | Stove oo. PS osc oncaars 7
consisting of very short and smooth | Blow. Sr..ccrssssrescoccceceseseseses 60
fibers that can not be spun, goes, as | Buckets
a rule, to the paper mills. Many at-| Well, plain. ......--+-s+e+-+eeeeee -. 450
tempts to utilize this material have | Butts, Cast
: 4 Se : : .~.| Cast Loose Pin, figured .......... ae
been made in spinning mills, and ex ae ae 60
periments in spinning it wet suggest: | Chain
ed the idea of further comminuting | see in 5-16 = % = % in.
/ / Common. .... .6 . . 4%c
the short fibers in paper machines.| BR. ......... pg 1% e: ne bye. (eG
In this way a thin fibrous paste was | BBB. ...-.---- 8%c. y -6%c....6%C
produced. This, when poured = on ae crows :
rs aa . i ne ast Steel, per ID. ......----eeeeeeeeee
sieves, yielded a thin, soft paper, a
which, partially dried and cut into | socket Kirmer. TE 65
ee eee » spun into | Socket Framing. .......---+-++++++:
narrow strips, could be spun . | Socket Corner. ...--.eeeeeeeeeeeees 65
yarn. Other cheap paper stock, in-| Socket Slicks. ........ oT Ne
cluding wood pulp, can be converted - — — oe
: ae om. iece, 6in., per doz. ....net.
into yarn by a similar process, and Carcnpenal, per — 1 25
so spinning and papermaking meet. Adjustable poe aia 40&10
. xpansive s
eS Oo

One brand of these cellulose OF | eas ae ae large, “
wood pulp yarns is called silvalin. | Eves’ 1, $18: 2, S28: $,/$a0 2.1....... 25
During the last ten years many sim- oe aa List 70810
. ow America oe
ilar processes have been ACO cea wane
‘The mxanelacture i6 still in the cx-| Ble Mere Bee ------2*------ 70

perimental stage, but definite progress
has been made, and the industry has
a promising future before it.
Resistance to the action of water
is another important quality in which
fabrics differ greatly. Prof. Pfuhl

gives an example from experience.

A lighter laden with grain in jute|

and canvas bags sank in the Volga.
Thirty-six hours afterward the can-

ras (flax) bags were raised, with their
ae but the jute bags had dis-
integrated so that the grain which
they contained was lost. Jute yarns,
however, withstand — several hours’
immersion, but wood pulp yarns fall
apart after very _ brief soaking.—-
Scientific American.

|

 

Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and = 25 and 7. 27, <8
List 2 13 16 iz
Discount, 70.

 

 

Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box .........- ais
Double Strength, by box . ---aig SO
By the light ............... “dis. 90
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’ be _ Mee :. 2... _ 33%
Vorkes & Plump e@ .............. dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Soi Steel ....80c list 70
Hinges
Gate Clark's 1. 2 @...........-. dis 60&10
Hollow Ware
Pate oe ee
Kettles.  .
Spiders. ....... Lub one ou acouaes ss
Horse Nalis
‘Au Gable. ............--....... dis. 40&10
House Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new ea ee 70
Japanned Tinware. seevecceoerer ses SOMO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Iron |
| = ~— ee eee ..2 25 rate | Crockery and Glassware
| Light Band ............. eatcaee 3 00 rate |
Knobs—New List ee
| Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings - 1 | % gal. per doz. ..........-ceceeceeee 48
| Door, Porcelain, Jap. trimmings .... 61 1 te 6 gal. per dos. .......,......... 6
| Levels le - —_ Boece ce eal ece ec. oe
| Stanley Rule and Level Co's ....dis. 12 gal cach 0000S
Metals—Zinc (15 gal meat tubs, each -......-..- 1 20
1600) ound) Cate g | 20 gal. meat tubs, each ............. 1 60
|Per pound ..... ee DITI gy | 25 gal. meat tubs, each ..........-. 2 25
| | 30 gal. meat tubs, each ........... 2 70
| Miscellaneous | Chuene
[tera Cages oo 40 |.
| FOmape, Cistere. 20... sl. 15&10 | 2 to 6 gal, per gal. ..........++++++- 8%
| Screws, Neotel 85 | Churn Dashers, per dom ........... 4
| Casters, Bed and Plate ......... 50&10&10 | Milkpans
| Dampers, American. ........... eeee. 6&0] % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
Molasses Gates | 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
ae Patter ooo. le «2. -60&10 | Fine Glazed Milkpans
Enterprise, self-measuring. .......... 30 | % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 69
Pans ; — gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
i Ai 60&10&10 Stewpans
| Common, polished .......... 01.022. 70&10 | % gal. fireproof. bail, per doz ...... 85
ee | 1 gal. fireproof bail, per doz -l i¢
| “<A"" Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80 | ,, Jugs
| “B’ Wood's pat. plen’d, No. 25-27.. 9 80 | Ve eel per dom. . 1... ec. 60
| Broken packages 4c per Ib. extra. | gal. per GOS .....--.-.6-.- ee eceee 4a
| Bisiee to G&G gal. per @al.............4.... 1%
Ohie Teol Cos fancy..............- 40 | Sealing Wax
Seieta Bewe oo. 50 | 5 tos. in package, per Ib. ...--..---- 3
Sandusky Tool Co.’s fancy.........- 40 | LAMP BURNERS
Bench, first quality.................-. 45 | No. 0 Sun ...... eee e eee ee eee eee e eee ee &
Nalls [ine 2 Se ee as 33
| [Me 2 San oe. 50
| Advance over base, on both Steet & Wite' Wo 3 Sum __.....). 6... 85
| Steel nails, base ..0 0200/6221. Ue eee 5b
| Wire nails, ee eee og 50
20 to ee oe ee et
2 eee *¢ | MASON FRUIT JARS
S gdvanee | With Porcelain Lined Caps
G seems - oo. 20 | Per gross
eS OO 00
a tiie ee 25
2 dvenee 2.2.6. oc... Loe Looe 76\% Salon. -...-........-....-... 2... s. 8 00
Fine 3 advance........... ceeeeceeces S61 Caps ........................... 2... 25
Casing 10 advance 15 | Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
ce a Pio ciency =| LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Finish 10 advance.. 25 | aoe ee re
Finish 8 advance 35 | Anchor Carton Chimneys
Finish 6 advance 45 | Each chimney in meee “—
Barrel % advance 85 | No. 0, Crimp top.
No. 1, Crimp top.
Rivets |
fron and tinne@ 2000... 6.6... 50 _— > a aoe Gi i
Copper Rivets and Burs ........... 45 No 6 poe a sna Cartons 3 00
oo
Roofing Plates [ie &, Gemeente. 8.5. Cae
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean ......... «ot 0} No. 2” CVrioy €Om. ooo. . 41¢
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ... «-- 9 O Lead Flint Gi in Cc t
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean ......... 18 00 | ss nn
14x20, IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 7 50 | - = 0, Crimp tOp. ...--+-seeeeeeeeeee 3 30
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00| No. 1, Crimp top. -...--++-+++++-- ---4 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00 | Mo 2 Comm tem .................. 5 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00 | Pearl Top in Cartons
Ropes No. 1, wrapped and labeled. ......... 4 60
Sisal, % inch aud tarmer 0000.60... 9% No. 2, wrapped and labeled. ........ 3 30
Sand Paper Rochester in Cartons
, | No. 2, Fine Flint, 10 in. (85¢ doz.)..4 60
tit ace 1 OS C................ dis 50) No. 2, Fine Flint. 12 in. ($1.35 doz.).7 60
i Sash Weights | No. 2, Lead Flint, 10 in. (95¢ doz.)..6 56
Sotid tvea, per tom ................. 28 00 | No. 2, Lead Flint, 12 in. ($1.65 doz.).8 75
Sheet Iron | Electric In Cartons
AS 0 td ee ea 3 60|No. 2, Lime, (75e doz.) ............ 4 26
Nes) 15 to ee 3 70 | No. 2, Fine Flint, (85c doz.) ........ 4 60
Ios 98 te ee 3 90 | No. 2, Lead Flint, (95c doz.) ........5 50
Nos. 22 to 24... 410 3 00 LaBastie
— = to 26 1... +e essere eee 4 ron ° No. 1, Sun Plain Top, ($1 doz.) .....5 70
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 [Bo 2 on Pee oe ee oe) .-5
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. | 1 OIL. CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 4
i Shovels and Spades 1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1 2%
Piet Gee, Te ..........4.......... 5 60 | 2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2 1
Second Grade, Hem. .......-......... 5 00 | 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, peer doz. 3 1!
Solder | 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 li
%@ a | 21 | 3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 76
Se ee ol ee ee ee | eS
of solder in the market indicated by pri- Re a ac to cef eee : =
vate brands vary according to compo- +. 8 Coe nts i
sition. LANTERNS
No. @ Tubular, side HIE .............. 4 65
ina... 60-10-5 | No. 2_B Tubular ...........+++++-000- 6 40
Ti Mel G No. 15 Tubular, dash ... - 6 50
n—Melyn Grade No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern . .. 7
Seats WO OCs ................. 10 50 | No. 12 Tubular, side lamp . ia @
— = en eee ewc secon feeeea _ -c No. 3 Street lamp, cach ......... co. OOF
x MRCORN o.oo. ce, |
Each additional X on this grade, a. a5} 4. ee ee
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 10c. 56
Tin—Allaway Grade No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. 15c. 60
10x14 IC, Charcoal ... . 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl.2 00
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.

Luster Fabrics—A luster dress fab-
ric for summer use, 47 inches wide,
contains 46 picks and the same oi
warp to the inch. The warp pat-
tern contains 12 threads in a repeat.
The first thread in the pattern is a
white bourette, then a black followed
by a light slate and then a black, then
a light slate, then black. The next
thread is a black and white twist and
the white thread is made in uneven
size, the thick places ranging from
half to an inch long. The remainder
is the same as the first part, black
and slate-colored threads alternat-
ing. The white bourette thread is
drawn in a split of the reed alone, as
is also a black thread on each side of
it and the. black and white twist
thread. The others are drawn in two
in a split. The filling is a light pea
green and the effect of its interlac-
ing’ with the black and the slate-col-
ored warp threads is to give pin-
point spots of black on a light green
ground. The goods retail for $1.25
per yard. Other patterns of _ the
same width and _ construction § are
printed black and white warp and
green filling, tan warp, with threads
each drawn in a single split and six
threads drawn in two in a split and
gray filling.

Printed Warps — Cotton warp
printed party-color and French-spun
worsted filling fabrics are much in
evidence this summer in dress goods.
The warps are printed in black and
white; black, white and blue; blue,
white and orange; fillings light pea
green, blue and gray. The effect is
a broken hair line. The fabrics re-
tasl tor $1. a yard.

Fancy Worsteds — Some fancy
worsteds for summer dress goods are
made in 50-inch width to retail at
$1.50 per yard. The goods are made
in various shades of green, brown
and blue in stripes, checks and fancy
weaves. The construction is 62 warp
threads and 56 picks to the inch. One
checked fabric contains 15 ends in a
repeat of the warp pattern arranged
as follows: Four dark green, one
light green, three light green and
white twist, one light green, two
coarse light green and white twist,
three light. green and white twist and
one light green end. A repeat of the
filling pattern contains one dark
green, two light green, one dark
green and eight light green threads.
The draft is a four-harness twill and
it weaves the regular twill for eight
picks and then changes and weaves
two picks in a shed for four picks,
the shedding being two up and two
down, but the shafts work in pairs
so that each two picks in a shed are
covered by the warp threads in pairs.
Another pattern is a striped effect in
dark green and brown and_ white
twist. The warp pattern contains
four dark green ends, three brown
and white twist, two brown, and

 

three brown and white twist ends. The
dark green threads are drawn in on
two shafts in pairs on the same
shaft and each shaft remains up or
down for two picks during shedding
and each pair of picks in a shed is
covered by a pair of warp threads.
The remainder of the pattern is a
four-harness twill. These fabrics re-
tail for $1.50 per yard.

Cotton Underwear—Particular at-
tention has been paid to the under-
wear market by most of the buyers
who were in the market during the
week Not an overlarge business was
done, as, although buyers were anx-
icus to place business, they prefer-
red to argue the question of prices
with sellers. As it was, only an aver-
age business was done on new spring
lines, although the prospects for a
good business later on became
brighter. Some of the quotations
made on low-grade balbriggans and
ribbed goods were exceedingly low
and appear like offering a dollar for
about 90 cents. On lisles and gauzes
of the better makes the prices quot-
ed seem to be more in favor of the
knitter, but not enough to satisfy the
latter. No further lines were _ re-
ported to have been withdrawn dur-
ing the week on account of too low
prices, but it is daily expected that
quite a number of lines will be or-
dered off the market. As the season
progresses and conditions become
more and more adverse to the knit-
ters, the feeling grows that some-
thing will be done to check the down-
ward trend of values, but when such
a time will arrive is not known. It
would seem that present conditions
would warrant such a move at once.
The mesh and other novelty goods
for spring have not been shown at
this date and regular goods houses
are not putting much faith in the
business to be done along these lines.
These mesh goods, in the judgment
of many, are only a fad and a fad
of short duration. Balbriggans and
ribbed goods are the fixtures in light-
weights and it will probably be years
to come before the bulk of the busi-
ness is done in other than these lines.
Duplicating of heavy goods is going
on in a small way and some very fair

 

 

CORL, KNOTT & CO.

Jobbers of Millinery and manufacturers of

Street and Dress Hats
20-26 N. Division St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

     

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We face you with facts and clean-cut
educated gentlemen who are salesmen of
good habits. Experienced in all branches
of the profession. Will conduct any kind
of 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., Sulte 1114, Chicago.
N. B. You may become interested in
a 300-page book by Stevens, entitled
“Wicked City,” story of merchant’s
siege with bandits. If so, merely send us
your name and we will write you re-
it when ready for distribution.

   

Goods for Fall

Now that the sale of summer goods is over it would
be wise to look up your line of winter underwear. Our

sample line is now ready and contains all of the latest

 

 

 

 

 

   

styles out. Inspect our line before placing your order as

we know we can please you in style and quality and

 

price of goods.

 

Ask our agents to show you their line.

   
   
   

P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wholesale Dry Goods

  

 

 

Fred’
Boy

sticks to the ‘“ Empire”
make of brownie overalls
because the fit is always a
Like all other

“Empire” garments (over-

good one.

alls, pants, Kersey, Duck,
Corduroy Coats and Mack-

 

 

inaws) they are properly

 

cut, so that a neat fitting garment is assured.
Try the “Empire” if you want satisfied
customers.

GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CO.

Exclusively Wholesale
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

prices are being paid. Fleeces and | 2 boarding house. He told the land-

women’s ribbed goods appear to be
in the best demand. Deliveries on
first orders are being made on better

time than was anticipated, but more |

or less dissatisfaction is expected a
month or two hence, when the ship-
ments become, or rather should be-
Mills that
wholly sold up on fleeces are quot-
ing on 14-pound standards $2.37.
Cotton Hosiery—Some very large
orders were taken for 1906 _ light-
weights during the week, particular-
ly in full laces and lisles and em-
broidered half hose.
dle goods also were

come, heavier. are not

 

quite

Cheap blacks in full and half lengths |

were not as active as they might have
been, but this was due to the anxiety
of buyers to place orders for better
grades. Prices quoted are on a par
with underwear values and are far
below the relative values of raw ma-
terials.

Carpets—The general carpet situa-
tion is not as satisfactory as manu-

fecturers would like to see it. The

Staple 84-nee- |

active. |

| for

high prices of the raw materials |
check business, as the margin of|

the manufacturer to make
sions to induce distributers to place

conces-

erders for quantities larger than are
necessary to cover their immediate
needs. Manufacturers have been
hopeful that as peace in the East
draws nearer, prices of raw materials
would decline, but in this it seems

they are doomed to disappointment, |

as the amount of high-grade carpet}

wools taken by clothing manufactur- |

ers tends to keep the prices stiff.

| sales.

Some manufacturers are beginning to |
think that it is a good thing to keep |
prices stable, as it insures a stable |

basis for them to do business
for the remainder of the season.
break in the price of raw material
would demoralize business, as every

buyer would insist on concessions in

on |

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prices as soon as the break came, re- |

gardless of the prices paid for the
material in the goods. The slowness
of large retailers and jobbers in plac-

i that he could come to work for the |
|parties who had put him off for a |

ing orders for fall goods is attributed |
to the expectation that the prices of |

raw material would break. Now that

stability of prices is practically as-|

sured for the season, it is expected

that they will place orders freely dur- |

ing the month of July. Traveling

salesmen report a better feeling, in}
all sections, than prevailed six weeks |

or a month ago, especially in the
Middle West and the Southwest. De-
partment stores and large retailers

are ready to begin their usual mid- |

summer bargain sales of dropped pat-
terns, job lots and odds and ends
left on their hands from last season.
In some localities the sales are al-
ready under way, while in others the
managers are still hurrying around
trying to secure a sufficiency of low-
priced goods to make a respectable

showing when the sales open.
—__.-->e——-

Waiting for a Job.
Written for the Tradesman.

He was a woodworker by trade
and had just arrived in Detroit from
Ohio. He expected to begin work
for the Wolverine Manufacturing

Company on Monday. He looked up

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profit is not large enough to allow] ed in getting a suitable one for for- |

lone day and enquired how he

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

|lady that he could not pay for board

e advance, but he expected to begin |

We Are Headquarters

work on Monday, and when he re-} for
|ceived his wages on Saturday he}
| would pay for two weeks’ board. He }

Lap Dusters
Fly Nets
Horse Sheets
and Covers
Cooling Blankets

| had then but fifty cents in money. |
| she landlady consented to this ar-
|rangement and he to
ithe most undesirable, scantily furn- |
}ished room in the house.

was assigned
The land-

lady remarked that a chair was need- |

for the but did not}

a :

| feel disposed to expend much money |

|to fit up the room.
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room, she

On Monday the new boarder set
|out for his place of work. On arriv-|
ling there he was told that it would
| be several days before they would be |
ready for him. He returned to
boarding and informed

landlady of the circumstances,

ing that he thought
something to do
at ; least
Saturday.

Mail orders w ll r: ceive

7 p ompt attention

the |
add- |
could find |

. Brown & Sehler Co.
> cou

Pade sgen Grand Rapids, Mich.

He enquired of her how}
much she wished to pay for a chair |
his She said she would}
went out to

house

he
that
week’s

so
pay one

Wholesale Only

 

 

 

room.

He

 

pay $1.50. search |

ty cents. He carried it to his board- |
ing house and received the $1.50 for |
it. The landlady then remarked that |
she would buy a carpet also for the

room if she could get a good sec-
ond-hand one for twenty-five cents a

    

He went forth again and came
with carpet, which was en-
tirely satisfactory, and received the}
His capital was con-
siderably increased by these
He then set out to find peo-

yard.

    

5
ee Economical Power
In sending out their last speci-
fications for gasoline engines for
West Point,the U.S. War Dept. re-

quired them ‘‘to be OLDS ENGINES
or equal.’’ They excel all others
or the U. S. Government would not
demand them.

Horizontal type, 2 to100 H. P., and are so
simply and perfectly made that it requires no

experience to run them, and i
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pie who wanted some article of furni-
ture and learned the quality and price

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which they were willing to pay. He|
then looked until he found |
the article at a bargain, bought it, de- |
livered it and made a good profit. |
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around

Repairs Practically

Send for catalogue of our Wizard En-

we “aar goueni . as ae ine, 2to 8H.P. (spark ignition system,
On Saturday evening he paid his a as in the famous Oldsmobile) the
board as agreed. most economical small power en-
: : | gine made; fitted with either pump-
In a short time he received word | jack or direct-connected pump; or

our general catalogue show-
ing all sizes.

OLDS GASOLINE ENGINE WORKS,

Lansing,

He replied that he was| Mich.

few days.
now in business for himself and do- |
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ing so well that he thought best to}
continue, and so did not want the job.
| nee : hac Wc - | 1903 Winton 20 H. P. touring car, 1903 Waterless
About a year and a half after this | Knox, 1902 Winton phacton, two Oldemobiles, sec
time a painter who had boarded at | ond hand electric runabout, soog WS. S. Long Dis-
| tance with top, refinished White steam carriage
| with top, Toledo steam carriage, four passenger,
_.. | dos-a-dos, two steam runabouts, allin good run-
es | ning order. Prices from $200 up.

ADAMS & HART, 47 N. Div. St., Grand Rapids

 

AUTOMOBILE BARGAINS

the same place a short time met him

setting along. For reply he was in-

 

Finest Toast in the World

A Health Food sold at moderate
prices

7

3
dozen cartons in case

Sold in barre's and cases, 3 and 5

Ask for prices

Special price in large quantities

Manufactured only by

DUTCH RUSK COMPANY
HOLLAND, MICH.

Mica Axle Grease

Reduces friction to a minimum. It
saves wear and tear of wagon and
harness.

 

It saves horse energy. It
increases horse power. Put up in
1 and 3 lb. tin boxes, 10, 15 and 25
lb. buckets and kegs, half barrels
and barrels.

Hand Separator Oil

is free from gum and is anti-rust
and anti-corrosive. Put up in %,
1 and 5 gal. cans.

Standard Oil Co.

 

 

Before Buying Your

Gas or Electric
Fixtures

look over our stock. We carry the
largest line of
Lighting Fixtures
in the State.
WEATHERLY & PULTE

Heating Contractors
97-99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

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| Saves Oil, Time, Labor, Money
By using &

vited to go with him to his place and
The painter went with him and
found that he was married and keep- |

2CC.

ing s 2 at Self ° O °
ing house. He had rented a cot- ‘Bowser and Oil utfit
tage and barn. The former was

well furnished and the latter was| =

crammed full of second-hand furni- 1S. F. Bowser & Co. Ft. Wayne, ind.

 

The Grand Rapids
Sheet Metal & Roofing Co.

Manufacturers of Galvanized Iron Cornice,
Steel Ceilings, Eave Troughing, Conductor
Pipe, Sky Lights and Fire Escapes.

Roofing Contractors

|} Cor. Louis and Campau Sts. Both Phones 2731

 

ture. He also had a horse and wag-}|
on, and declared that everything —
paid for. He was making prepara-|
tions to open a second-hand store. |
While waiting for a job, being so-
ber and industrious, he developed in-
toa business man. E. E. Whitney.

OLD CARPET

 

 

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

S INTO RUGS

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

THE YOUNG RUG CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH.

 

Buyers and Shippers of

POTATOES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.
H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO.

Quinn Plumbing

Heating and Ventilating Engineers.

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MIO | | 22 PI2E Goods

tention given to Power Construction and Vacuum Work.

and Heating Co.

High and Low Pressure Steam Work. Special at-

Jobbers of Steam, Water and

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

   

 

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-

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Flint.

Senior Counselor,
Secretary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

TOO OLD TO WORK.

| Should the young man at 23 have all

When a Man Reaches That Condi-|

tion.

How do you know you are getting
too old to conduct your business as
you know it ought to be conducted?

An answer to the question from the

| he would have in the selfish race to
; success!
| possible.

man who is beginning to make the |

statement to his family and

near |

friends ought to contain a good deal |

of implied advice for the young man

who is not quite sure that he is old|

enough for the problems which he
has in hand. Few old men admit that
their inability comes from a lack of
knowledge and experience; rather it
is from a_ physical
which leaves them with unsteady legs
and lax recuperative powers from
business strain and worry. On the
other hand, the young man banks up-
on his leg muscles, his capacity for
losing sleep, his optimism and_ his
energy.

It is well encugh, perhaps, that the
man with all the physical energy
should not have also all the knowl-
edge and experience of the business
world. The combination would be ir-
resistible. But should the man with
all the knowledge fall out of
because of a lack of muscle, any more
than the young man should lie down
because he lacks experience? Literal-
ly a man is just as old and just as
young as he allows himself to be.
and the appreciation of this truth will
zo far toward a solution of the diffi-

culties of the man who is too old
and of the man who is too young.
The fact of all stubborn conditions

| business man.

deterioration |

line |

myself turning to some. of

is that the young man does-not be- |

come old soon enough, while the old
man allows himself to get too old
and to stay that way.

The young man who may have an

abundance of animal spirits, good na- |
ture, energy and optimism is ‘inclined

to stay young too long under present
conditions. Too many counter

he needs to face
toward = success.
schools
for the most part,

tions which
would travel
course in the
shortened,

at-
tractions appeal to him, taking his|
attentions from the every day condi- |
if he |

His |
already is|
and |

 

ther did, the necessity for cotiveiitoee |
an older head should appeal to him}
as a business proposition not to be
neglected.

It has been discovered that

the

| traveling salesman’s record breaking |

days lie on the sunny side of 40 years; |
after 45 years old he loses the initia- |
tive that prompts catching the ear- |
liest trains and staying to the last |

one with a promising customer. It|

is not so much that he can not phy- |

oe | sically take up the activities that once |
Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T. |
Thomas E. Dryden; |

made him a record, but that his men-
ta] lassitude interferes with his see- |
ing the necessity for such activities. |

the knowledge, sobriety and apprecia-
tion of the things that may be his
naturally at 50, what an advantage

Yet 2 good deal of this is
‘There is meyer a reason
why the experiences of the father may |
not be handed down to the son, pro- |
vided there be mutual intelligence and
the proper spirit developed in the fa-
ther. Certainiy the greatest capital
possessed by the young man toward
a business career should be in having |
a father who in every sense is a good |

 

A father who is a good business |
man can not fail to have appreciated
positions, conditions, opportunities
and the whole category of possibili- |
ties which fall to the
in retrospect after he has’ passed
them. back upon these,
where is the father who does not see
his mistakes? “I have observed that
about every five years I pass through |
a period in which I wish that I might
have done radically dif-
ferent from what I have done,” said |
a friend of the writer’s. “These pe-|
had |
Even then [|
began saying to myself, ‘Well, I am
a little too old now,’ and I have kept
this up always. But I have noticed
frequently that after saying as much
under such circumstances the thought
would stay with me, and I have found
these
things three or four years after the
original idea and its dismissal on ac-
IT have lost time and
money and opportunity because of the |

average man

Looking

something

riods began with me before I
reached my majority.

count of age.

| disposition, whereas if I had to go

he may step into the harness of busi- |

ness or of the professions quicker and
more easily than ever before. But he
has a younger kead on him, with per-
haps overdeveloped legs and

arms, |

when he is compared with the man |

his father was at that age. More
tangible things beckon his youth
away from the business world to
which he aspires than beckoned to
his father, and stepping into the har-
ness of business earlier than his fa-

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headwork is necessary in conjunction |
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through the same conditions again
I know I would not balk at such op-

portunities.

There are few businesses where
with experience in which man
old only by years should not be a
factor in its success. The man with
white hair and a clear, sound brain
has only himself to blame if he is
deposed on account of age. Such a|
man has the warning of his approach- |
ing condition in hair: tt is the}
danger signal indicating his growing |
in: firmities shall check |
them. He needs an awakened interest |

in the everyday world around him, to|

his

uniess he

shade his prejudices, to renew his ap-|
preciations of the good things of life, |

| to make sure that every day he is|

alive and an integral part of the world |
that is doing things. |

A business man explained to me the |
other day how it would benefit the

| ful

jany boy I ever saw.

manufactory in which his dearest
friend was so deeply interested, if
only that friend’s father could be
taken up literally and tossed out
through a window. The manufactory
had experienced a fire and heavy loss
in consequence. The business man
had loaned his services to the extent
of his accounting department’s open-
ing a whole new set of books and
system of accounts according to the
latest methods and tendering it to the
friend’s factory in the new quarters.
3ut the father, as a silent member of
the company, had entered his earnest
protest against the idea, wholly on
the grounds that he himself had es-
tablished the business thirty years be-
fore with only the double entry sys-
tem of accounts, and that a system
“good enough for me ought to be good
enough for you.” At the last ac-
counts the father was holding out
against the system of books that
would give an absolute record of the
business of the house, predicting ruin
because of the “new fangled ways”
proposed.

A young, active business man with
an idea that approaches an inspiration
is just as much in need of the cold
water of an older judicial mind as
the old man is in need to seek the
novelty and inspirations of the youth-
present. An_ ideal condition
should be presented in the gray head
in copartnership with the young man
in his activity. But the two mentali-
ties are not in harmony as a general
proposition; the young man finds his
ideal partner in the young man and
the old man finds comfort in the gray
head with whom he may exchange
recollections and reminiscences.

But all the while the world is mov-
ing faster than it ever moved before.

John A. Howland.
——_>-~+—___

| Papa’s Confidence Takes the Count.

On the day The Boy was 11 years

old he visited an artist friend who
likes boys. The artist entertained
him royally. He gave him a gun
and cigarette coupons worth $2.50.

The Boy was proud of his gun, but

he thought still more of the coupons.
“What are you going to get with

them, son?” asked The Boy’s mother.
“I don’t know,” said The Boy.
His mother was about to offer a

|few suggestions, but The Boy’s fa-

interfered.

“Just you let Bob alone,” he said,
“let him pick out his own prize. He
knows what he wants.”

“But he'll get something foolish,”
argued the practical mother.

“No, he won't,” said the father
“That boy’s got the best judgment of
He won’t throw
his away. He’ll come home
with something useful—something
that he needs right on the spot. I
wouldn’t be afraid to bet on that.”

So the mother finally gave in. On
Saturday The Boy went down town
to exchange his coupons for a prize.
When he came home the family was
gathered at the dinner table talking
about him.

“Come, dear,” said his mother,
‘show mamma what her little boy

te ”
got.

They sat expectant while The Boy

ther

money

‘

 

unwrapped his prize. After a little
they spoke. The mother said, “Oh!
oh! oh!” and the father said, “Well,
I’ll be blessed!”

The Boy had bought a razor.

Placed.

“They belong to the lower middle
classes.”

“How
them

“They pay all their bills promptly,
and never have had a scandal in the
family.”

did you place

so soon?”

manage to

ee
It takes less than two half truths
to make a full sized lie.

 

 

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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 RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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daily; Detroit 3:40 P. M., arrives New
York 8:00 A. M.

Returning, Through Grand Rapids
Sleeper leaves New York 4:30 P. M.,
arrives Grand Rapids 1:30 P. M.

Elegant up-to-date equipment.

Take a trip on the Wolverine.

Men in

 

  

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less trouble than any other brand
of paint.

Dealers not carrying paint at the
present time or who think of
changing should write us.

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should be in the hands of every
dealer,

It’s an eye-opener.

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care of this journal.

 

 

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Rectal Specialist
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

a

 

How Two Drummers Solved a Mid- |
night Mystery.
“The most unusual incident that sa |
was ever my fate to play a part in|
transpired about ten years ago at a |
little town the State of Maine, |
not far from the city of Bangor, and |
I guess I won’t soon forget the stren- |
business,” remarked well- |
traveling salesman

in

uous a
known at
Morton House the other day.

the

“The town was a small affair, but
boasted of a brick court house of re- |
and all the
citizens were proud of the building,
and seemed to take a patriotic delight
in showing it to every visitor and
stranger.

spectable proportions,

“The court house was a two-story |
affair, with a sort of tower topping |
the roof, and that same tower was |

|
whole |

admired and praised by the
country-side. The tower was an at-
traction and a great one, but the}

deep-toned bell that swung in it was |
the joy of the community, and the |
people would just wait, possessed by
the keenest expectancy, for the stat-
periods of time roll around
the heavy hammer would
clang against the bell’s brazen sides.

ed to

when

“At first the selectmen of the vil-|
lage decided that the bell should be |
rung for fires, riots and to
announce court session, but the peo-
ple wouldn’t stand for this, for the
reason that and far |
between; heard of |

in that locality, and court was held

only

fires were few

riots were never
only two or three times a year, and
they insisted on the passage of an
ordinance which would require the
sounding of the bell at mid-day and
at dusk.

“The people had their way, and for |
they listened
to the pealing of the bell, but final-

months with pleasure |

ly the novelty wore off somewhat, |
and the Town Crier got careless in|
his duties, and at times overlooked |

the extra work of pulling the rope
dangling from the tower.

“T was working for the Penobscot
Lumber Mill at that time, and when
I visited the rustic community I’ve
been telling you about, to contract
for the purchasing of some timber, 1 |
found the people in a state of great
excitement, and all about the bell
in the tower.

“The bell had suddenly
the queer habit of clanging out quick
successive peals during still
watches of the night, calling the star-
tled villagers from and
putting their
thoughts of fire or other disaster, and
as no one could be found in the tower
when the half-clad men would rush |
out to investigate, the responsibility |

taken on

the

their beds,

into heads fearful

 

for the nocturnal disturbances was |
soon put down to a supernatural
agency.

“The thing happened four nights
in succession, and on the fifth night, |
the night of my arrival in the place,
a plan was set on foot to solve the
About four of the braver
to | the

mystery.
population hied themselves

tower about dusk, and made them-
selves comfortable for a long vigil,
and the bell-cord was pulled up from
the lower floor to prevent any one
taking hold of it, outside the range

 

la

land

j ments

 

of the watchers’ observation, and
thrown over a handy rafter. The
burghers kept wide awake until 10
o'clock, but then, being farmers, and
generally in bed with the chickens
and up with the sun, they fell to
nodding, and soon dropped off
sleep.

to

“Promptly at midnight they all sat
bolt upright, sleep driven from their
eyes, and the chilling sense of some
uncanny presence them, driv-
ing courage from their bosoms. The
deep-throated bell was tolling over
their heads, clanging out melancholy
brassy throbs, and although they
could see the rope dangling from the
rafters where they had placed it, they
could see no one taking hold of it.

Hear

“The town was aroused, as usual,
and the
tumbled

scared white-faced watchers
down out of that tower

They all swore it was a
ghostly disturbance sure enough, and
you couldn’t have paid one of them
to spend another night in the court
house.

in
hurry.

I have forgotten to state that
Town Crier, the man who first
rung the bell, had died a fortnight
the everybody
said that it was his spirit pulling at
the rope.

the

before mystery, and

“The night after the experience of

ithe sleepy watchers in the tower a

drummer for Boston shoe house,

who was stopping at the tavern, vol-

a

unteered to keep a second vigil, if
some one would go with him. I vol-|
unteered, and nightfall found us
| perched on a bench with the _ bell

| hanging motionless over our heads

a lantern by our sides. The

/hours dragged slowly, and I was al-
|most wishing that I was at the ho-

tel in bed, when my companion sud-
denly dug me in the ribs and asked
in sotto voce if I heard anything. I
listened closely, and in a few mo-
a scraping,
though
the

became

there came

scratching sound, as some

crawling along roof
just ws. Phe
distinct and unmistakable, some one

one was

above sound
was really on the roof, and ghost or
human being, we made up our minds

to trap him, if possible. The roof

was sloping, and there was one of
lthe tower windows which opened
right at a height with it, and we

kept our eyes strained on that win-
dow, fortunately,
streamed a broad path of moonlight.
We stood silent for a moment, the
scraping sound continuing and draw-
ing nearer to the window, and then
at the sill appeared the face of a
man. The moonlight behind
him, and we could not make out his

through which,

a

was

features, but we could see that the
mass of hair which fringed his head
was disheveled. The unknown gazed
down into the black depths of the
tower—we had extinguished our lan-
tern at the first unusual sound—and
then reaching out a long arm, he seiz-
ed the bell cord above the rafters and
jerked it with energy. The bell rang,
of course, and the few people down
in the street, and those aroused from
their sleep, gave a frightened cry,
maybe thinking the ghost had mur-
dered us. We had readily seen that
the bell-ringer was not a gauzy visit-
ant from the spirit world, but flesh

| week’s issue of the Michigan Trades-

 

and blood, like ourselves, and our
courage far from leaving us.
3efore I knew what he was about,
my companion leaped onto the bench,
reached up, seized the white-haired
by the wrist, and jerked
him through the window, displaying
and agility that I had
not thought him capable of.

was

unknown

a strength
“When the stranger landed on the
floor between us, he gave vent to a
snarl that sounded like the growl of
some savage beast, and tearing at us
with fingernails, kicking us with his
gaunt jaws
mad to bite us, he
struggled to free himself.

bare feet, and snapping
im 2 endeavor
him, although
not without a fierce fight, in which
were torn te
shreds, and when we got him down

“We overpowered

our clothes nearly
into the street, he proved to be an
insane man who had escaped from a
neighboring sanitarium and conceal-
ed himself in the forest, where he had
lived for several weeks.

“Whatever put the idea of ringing |
the bell into his head, nobody could

say, but it was easily seen that he
gained the roof by climbing the|
lightning rod in the rear of the

building.”
>
Gripsack Brigade.
Attention is directed to the adver-
for
the |
this

tisement of a_ specialty house
traveling

Wants Column

in

of

representatives
department

man. The house is an old established
institution whose line is staple and
whose reputation with the trade is
superb. |

Monroe Democrat: Ralph Brooks,
vwho for three years has been clerk
at the cigar and confectionery estab-
of Hubble Brothers, has
promoted to the of
traveling salesman for the firm, his
Michi-
During the past year he has

lishment
been position
territory being the State of
gan.
made a number of trips, both in old
and new territory, and invariably has
Ralph has a
number

had splendid success.

warm hold on a large ot

friends here, who extend him good
wishes.

An correspondent
writes as follows: Henry L. O’Neil,
who represented the Fuller & Fuller
Co. in the Upper Peninsula for near-

Ishpeming

ly a quarter of a century, giving up
his position about a year ago on ac-
count of ill health, is now located on
the Isle of Pines. He recently or-
ganized the Cuban-American Co. for
the sale and purchase of farming
lands and is President and Manager
One of his part-
ners Cuba and the
third member is an American.

of the organization.

is a native of

 

 

ih , |

Battle Creek Moon: C. F. Ray-|
mond, traveling representative for |
Soi & Co. the packers, felt blue!

Friday and lays his melancholy to a
prank played on him by a group of |
friends. Mr. Raymond has a cot- |
tage this season at Gull Lake and is |

|

other pleasures
that of yachting, being an enthusias-
tic follower of the sail and tiller. A
few days ago he received from Chi-
an-

combining among

cago a handsome sail boat and

| right.

launch the craft with elaborate cer-
emonies. was the day set
and the
breaking over the bow of the boat
of a bottle of wine by the daughter
The time ar-
rived and the guests stood ready to
see the flyer slip into the waters of
the lake. The young lady at the
given signal the bottle and
said, “I christen thee,” etc., but hor-

Friday

among other features was

of one of his friends.

broke

rors, instead of the clear amber col-
ored fluid flowing over the bow it
was a sticky blue substance which
dyed the waters of the lake and the
deck of the little craft. Some one as

a joke had substituted a bottle of
bluing for the bottle of wine.
———_.@-—————
“Getting Next” To the Man Who
Buys.

“Speaking of a drummer’s experi-
ence in ‘graft in business,’ as he calls
it,’ said another valued emissary ofa
large New York concern that covers
the country by men, wire and mail,
“T want to deliver to you an epigram
that has been evolved from my many
years of actual experience in harness.

Tt is this:
“A ten-cent cigar will go farther
than a ten-dollar bill in business.

the
road with the notion that he has to
buy things for people right and left

“The man who starts out on

might just as well order his ship into
the dry dock, for permanent storage,
for be filled with
storms, sunken rocks and dimly light-

his career. will

ed channels. It is exceedingly diff-
cult to analyze the peculiar quality
in human nature that relishes a dis-
interested treat. But it is there, all
Mind you this, however, that
there is a science required for the
I know that
of ten men whom I may meet in a

safe measuring of it.

business way in a single day there are
A
cigar and a pieasant word about the
weather the way for
profitable sale to one man—and close

no two whom I may treat alike.

may open a

the deal—whereas it will require a
twenty-dollar dinner and a_ lot of
current knowledge about stocks and

|bonds and other topics to reach the

signature of another on your order
book.
man has a hobby or a familiar diver-

There is this to know—every

sion and the successful traveling man
must needs learn all about it before
It
isnt a day when you cam enter 4
‘Are you out

he can obtain a proper footing.

man’s office and say:
of this, and out of that—how much
do you want?’ Salesmanship means
tact, it means knowledge and it means
wakefulness and hustling.”

Wm. Judson, O. A. Ball, Amos S.
Musselman and E. D. Winchester are
in Detroit to-day attending a special
meeting of the Michigan Wholesale
Grocers’ Association, called for. the
purpose of reaching a better under-
standing on the sugar situation. For
time Michigan jobbers
have been selling sugar at Io points
under Chicago quotations and_ the
sentiment of the trade appears to be

some past

| that it is about time to equalize mat-

ters by getting a little better prices.
Ce a
Life’s primrose path is paved with

nounced to his friends that he would|the long green.

 

 

2 eR PT

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

4

 

 

 

 

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—Houghton, Aug. 16,
17 and 18; Grand Rapids, Nov. 7, 8 and 9.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion.

President—W. A. Hall, Detroit.

Vice-Presidents—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Detroit; Charies 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.

 

 

THE NEW PHARAMACOPOEFIA.

 

Some Changes in the Strength of
Galenicals.
Written for the Tradesman.

An International Conference, com-
posed of delegates from nearly every
civilized country, was held in Brus-
sels in 1902. The object of this con-
ference was to bring about uniformi-
ty in the formulas for the prepara-
tion of the remedies. The
recommendations of this body were
adopted by the Committee of Revi-

heroic

sion of the U. S. P. and many
changes in the strength of official

preparations are the result.

In the following statement of the
alterations in strength made by the
revision

new of the Pharmacopoeia

the classification of galenicals used
by Professor Caspari in his “Treatise
on Pharmacy” will be followed. He

divides the galenicals of the U.S.

P. into twenty-two classes, as_ fol-
lows:

1. Waters.

2. Solutions.

3. Decoctions and Infusions.

4. Syrups.

5. Mucilages, Honeys and Gly-
cerites.

6.  Ehixics.
7. Spirits.
8. Tinctures.
Wines and Vinegars.

10. Fluid Extracts.

ai. Extracts.

12. QOleo-resins and Resins.

13. Collodions.

14. Emulsions.

15. Mixtures.

26. Pills

17. Lozenges and Confections.

18. Powders and _ Triturations.

19. Granular Effervescent Salts.

20. Cerates and Ointments.

21.. Liniments and Oleates.

22. Plasters and Suppositories.

As the principal object of this ar-
ticle is to set forth the additions and
dismissals, and the changes in the
proportion of active medicament,
changes of minor importance, as of
solvent, menstruum, manipulation of
ingredients, etc., will not be touched
upon, save in a few special cases.

1. Waters.

Only one addition is made to the
preparations of this class, viz.: Ham-
amelis Water, while Chlorine Water

©

 

1890 is placed among the Solutions
under the title “Compound Solution
of Chlorine;” the Hydrochloric Acid
and Potassium Chlorate process, fre-
quently used for its extemporaneous
preparation, is now. given official
sanction,

In the Waters prepared from vola-
tile oils the precipitated calcium
phosphate is replaced by purified talc.

2. Solutions.

Four are dismissed, viz., the Solu-
tions of:

Iron Acetate.

Iron Citrate.

Iron Nitrate.

Sodium Silicate.

Alterations are made _ in _ the
Solutions of:

% 18090 8th Rev.

strength of the

Ferm Chioride _._.. 37.8 29.0
Ferric Sulphate .... .28.7 36.0
Chiorinated Soda .., 2.6 2.4

Iron and Ammon. Acet., 2.0 Tr. Iron
1890, 4 per cent. 8th Revision.
Five new Solutions are .added:
Compound Solution of Chlorine

(Chlorine Water).

Compound Solution of Cresol.

Compound Solution of Sodium
Phosphate.

Antiseptic Solution.

Solution Formaldehyde.

3. Decoctions and Infusions.

Dismissed:

Decoction of Cetraria.

Decoction of Sarsaparilla Com-
pound.

Infusion of Cinchona Compound.

The general formula for Decoc-
tions is retained without change. No
change is made in the strength of

Wild Cherry, but the fin-

ished product will contain 5 per cent.

of Glycerin.

Infusion

4. Syrttips.
Dismissed, the Syrups of:
Garlic.

Althaea.
Hypophosphites with
Raspberry.

Iron.

Syrup of Iodide of Iron is reduced |

from Io per cent. to 5 per cent. New
processes are directed for the Syr-
ups of:

Hydriodic Acid, made from Dil.
Hydriodic Acid (10 per

Almond,

cent.).
Spirit  Al-

from
(fF per cent.).

made
mond
Orange, made from Tinct. Orange
Peel (5 per cent.).
Phosphates Iron Quin. and
Strych., made from Glycerite (25 per
cent.).

Tar, made from Tar (0.5 per cent.).

Senna, made from FI]. Ext. Senna
(25 per cent.).
Tolu, made from Tincture Tolu

(5 per cent.).

Acacia, made from Acacia (10 per
cent.).

A syrup containing the Hypophos-
phites of Calcium, Potassium, So-
dium, Iron, Manganese, Quinine and
Strychnine is added, under the title

“Compound Syrup of Hypophos-

phites.”

5. Mucilages, Honeys and Glycer-
ites.

Dismissed:

Glycerite of Yolk of Egg.

Lime Water is an ingredient of
Mucilage of Acacia. “Mel Despuma-
tum,” 1890, is now “Mel Depuratum.”

 

j

Glycerite of the Phosphates of Iron
Quinine and Strychnine is added and
is used in the preparation of the
Syrup, as noted above.

6.: Blears.
Dismissed:
Elixir of Phosphorus.
Added:

Adjuvant Elixir.

Elixir Phosphates Iron Quinine and
Strychnine.

¢. Spirits.

Dismissed, the Spirits of:

Orange.

Lemon.

Myrcia.

Nutmeg.

Phosphorus.

No changes in the Spirits retained.

8. Tinctures.

Dismissed, the Tinctures of:

Arnica Root.

Bryonia.

Catechu Compound.

Chirata.

Cubeb.

Hops.

Matico.

Rhubarb, Sweet.

Saffron.

Stramonium Seed.

Sumbul.

Changes are made in the  Tinc-
tures of:

% 1890 8th Rev.
ACO 35 10
Belladonna Leaves ..... 15 10
a 10 20
Catenariges fo 5 10
Cash 5 10
Carte 10 20
(Camdomom Co. 0060), 20 25
Cemmainoe 10 20
Colchicum, Seed). 0000)... 15 10
Mears 15 10
Crelscmt 15 10
Pevoscvanas (coo. 15 10
Indian Cannabis)... 0... 15 10
Ge 10 5
Oe 20 10
Paysostiona | yous) 15 10
MASS eG 10 20
a ae 10 20
Nametiara 6. 15 10
Se 15 TO
DERDeRbana 10 20
Siropnagthgs 1000. 5 10
Sweet Orange Peel ....20 50
a 10 20
WePAtreee en 40 10

 

The U. S. R., 18090, required the
Tinctures of Opium and Opium Deo-
dorized to assay from 1.3 to 1.5 Gram
ot Morphine for each Io00 c. c. of the
tincture assayed. The 8th Revision
requires 1.2 to 1.25 Grams. In the
process for making the deodorized

tincture the ether is replaced by

purified benzin. Tincture of Nux
Vomica, 1890, is required to assay

0.3 Gram
ec.

of total alkaloids to 100
The new revision requires 100
c. c. to assay 0.1 Gram of Strychnine.

New additions to the list are the
tinctures of:

Gambir Compound, strength 5 per
cent.

Lemon Peel (fresh), strength 50
per cent.

Stramonium (leaves), strength 1I0
per .cent.
“Finct. Gambir Co.” replaces

“Tinet. Catechu Co.,” 1890.

g. Wines and Vinegars.
Dismissed:
Wine of Colchicum Root.
Changes are made in the wines of:
% 1890 8th Rev.

Colchicum Seed... 5.6. 15 10
Behe ee ae 15 20
Added:
Wine of Coca (6.5 per cent. FI.
Ext. Coca).

No change is made in the Vinegars.
10. Fluid Extracts.
Dismissed, the Fluid Extracts of:

Arnica Root.
Asclepias.
Aspidosperma.
Castanea.
Colchicum Root.
Cotton Root Bark.
Dulcamara.

Iris.

Kousso.
Menispermum.
Rumex.
Scoparius.
Stramonium Seed.
Added,
Berberis.

Cascara Sagrada, Aromatic.
Euonymus.

Fluid Extracts of:

Pomegranate.
Quercus.
Quillaja.
Scopola.
Staphisagria.
Stramonium
Sumbul.
The Fluid Extracts of Lobelia,
| Bloodroot and Squill are directed to
| be made with a menstruum compos-
parts of Acetic Acid
s of water.

J. B. Timmer,
Chemist Hazeltine & Perkins Drug

Co.

(To be continued.)
| —__+~>____

You can not shaw a greater want
of tact than in attempting to console
a person by making light of his grief.

2.
Some men

(leaves).

ied of 275 and
i

25 par

Ss]

never make a mistake
because they never make a move.

 

You can not walk the way of the
world and not know its woe.

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Tablets, Pencils, Inks,
Papeteries
Our Travelers are now out with a
complete line of samples. You will
make no mistake by holding your or-
der until you see our line.

FRED BRUNDAGE
Wholesale Drugs and Stationery
32 and 34 Western Ave.
Muskegon, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Base Ball Supplies

Croquet
Marbles, Hammocks, Etc.

 

Grand Rapids Stationery Co.
29 N. Ionia St.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

43

 

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE

 

 

CURRENT

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
  
 
 
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
 
 

 

 

 

Advanced—
Declined—
Acidum Hvechthites ....1 00@1 10 Tinctu
Aceticum ....... 6@ | Erigeron .......: 1 8001 10 oo
Benzoicum, Ger.. 10@ 15 |Gaultheria ...... -2 25@2 35 a Nap’sR 60
Boracic Sea ‘ 17 ee uh 15 — Nap’sF 50
Carbolicum ..... 36 29 ossippli Sem gal 50@ 60 | S10eS -------.-.. 60
Caden. a « 45 Hedeoma io wal a face 58
rochior ..... unipera ........ .
Nitrocum Le 8 “a Lavendula ...... Asaroetida” Sglcg ec 50
ie 10@ 12| Limonis ........! Atrope Belladonna 60
Phosphorium, ail. 15 | Mentha Piper ...3 —— Cortex .. 50
Salicylicum Cougs 42@ 45 Mentha Verid ...5 aa a .
fon. Ee oles Barosma 50
Tartaricum ..... 33@ 40 _— SCO a Gantharides =
Ammonia cis Liquide . Cardamon
ee 8 ite eae (LE
Carbonas ....... 13@ 15| Rosmarini ...... s gcapeategs 1 30
Chloridum ....... 12@ 14|Rosae oz ...... 5 Cinch
Aniline Pee Seeonone Co 50
Black 2 00@2 25 | Sabina .......... nchona Co 60
snecoeaceas Santal 2 Columba 50
meee 6... SOG 80 j Ser coor ose Cubebae ... i 50
tei sceecdas 45 50 ar gs trteeee Cassia Acutifol . 50
Yellow . — ees 2 50@3 00 Tiglil S, €88, OZ... ae Acutifol Co 50
accae —— aa wie 50 |
on — i} % BL be wal opt ..... Feet Chioridum. 35 |
Xanthoxylum 80@ 35 pina Gestion ee 50
Bal etassium mtian Co. 60 |
Copaiba ee (2 | Sco ......... Guiaca .......... 50 |
a. 1 69| Bichromate ..... Guiaca ammon .. 60 |
Terabin, Canada. 60@ 65 | Bromide ........ Hyoscyamus 50
Tolutan ......... 35 40 a a — a = |
‘i rless
aa | lpi a. s0
: is Ee 3
aoe penne: 7 Potassa, Bitart pr Myrrh 50
Hy Potass Nitras opt Nux Vomica 50 |
Buonymus atro.. wingas ee | a Glee -----------.. 75 |
Myrica Cerifers:: 38 | Brumaiate <8 a4 [QPL Sainphoraiea | 69
eo: eee pil, deodorized.. 1 50|
Quillaia, gr'd .... 3g | Sulphate pe Quassia ......... 50 |
Sassafras .-po 35 $4 a Radix — a 50 |
decececece coors «Ct... Seen eae 0
Extractum a Sanguinaria 50
Glycyrrhiza Gla.. 24 Oe) Anchusa ........ Serpentaria ..... 50
Glycyrrhiza, po.. 38@ %@j; Arum po........ Stromonium 66 |
Haematox ...... | aie 19) Calamus ......_. Dontan ......... 60:
Haematox, 1s... 18@ 14/| Gentiana po 15.. Valerian ........ 50 |
a # 8 15 gay pv 15 ee Veride. 50
aematox, 4s . 6 17 ydrastis, Canada. Rests ee
“lll Hydrastis, Can.po
Carbonate Precip. 15 — Alba. Miscellaneous |
Citrate and Quina 2 00 1 DO ....... . |
specac, DG. ...... 2 Aether, Spts Nit3f30@ 35
aes See 14 oa. Aether, Spts Nit 4¢34@ 38.
El ee —- et oe
voila Maranta. kis ... @ 35 | mnatto ......... aa |
Sulphate, com'l . i Podophyilur al Antimoni, po ... , 5
Sulphate, com’l, by phy: Dp
bbl. - wae TT 20s cn Antimoni et po T 0g 50>
Sul ake ae °° : het, ae 1 Antipyrin .......° p 25}
Pp » PD o- Phal pe Antifebrin .... 20 |
lora Spigella ......... Argent! Nitras oz 48
Arnica .......... 15 18 | Sanguinari, po 24 Arsenicum ...... 10@ 12)
Anthemis ....... 22@ 26 | Serpentaria ..... Balm Gilead buds 60@ 65
Matricaria ...... 80@ 88) Senega ......... Bismuth S N_ ..2 30@2 85 |
Folla Smilax, offs H. Calcium Chlor, 1s 9}
Barosma .......- 25@ 30| smilax. M ...... Calcium Chlor,%s 10 |
Cassia haettal, Scillae po 35.... Calcium Chlor \%s 12
Timnevelly .... 15 20 | sympl Cantharides, Rus. a. 7
ymplocarpus .. Cc j a
Cassia, Acutifol.. 25@ 380] Valeriana Eng .. apsici Fruc’s af 20
Salvia’ officinalis, Valeriana, Ger Capsici_ Fruc’s po 22 |
\%s and %s .. 139 Sita o .... Cap’i Fruc’s B po 15 |
tive Gree oo 00... 8@ 10) Zingiber j .....:: Carophyllus ne 22 |
Acacia, 1 ro 65 Semen i... te
cacia, Ist p “a
Acacia, 2nd pkd 45 | Anisum po. 20. Cera Flava ..... 42
— sit en - —. (gravel’s). fee ce coo e. 1 18 ‘= |
cactn Aiftea ate. © S8| Bird ts .....-... assia Fructus ..
fo ee voces s 7 —- po 15 porno euceas =
oe MU ocean eargamon ....... minceum .......
Aloe, Cape ...... 25 | Coriandrum ... Chloroform .... 32@ 52
Aloe, Socotri .. 45 | Cannabis Sativa. Chloro’m, Squibbs. @ 90 |
Ammoniac ...... 55 | Cydontum ....... Chloral Hyd Crst 1 35@1 60
Asafoetida ...... 35 48 | Chenopodium ... Chendras ........ 20 25
ss Saeee as 50 65 | Dipterix Odorate. Cinchonidine P-W 38 48
Catechu, 1s a 13 | Foeniculum ..... Cinchonid’e = 38 48 |
oa _* Soe e + re. De... — gaa * 4 05@4 = |
atechu, 4a .... @ Wi Um ............- ‘or 8 pe 5 |
a ar a cocoa, See = ae bbl. 3% panacea era |
uphorbium ... eee .........- ween ......
Galbanum ...... 1 00 — Cana’n Cyeta, prep .....
Gamboge ....po..1 25@1 85 | Rapa ............ Creta, precip
Guaiacum ..po3 35 ‘ans Ale... Creta ubra
nam Sete po 456 Sinapis Nigra ... a. See cee seees 1
astic Spiritus | | Cudbear ........
— Frumenti W D..3 00@3 60| GUPT!, Sulph ....
Shellac 40 50 Powe ....... 1 26@1 66 Emery, all Nos..
Shellac, bleached “ 56 ae a o = . : = Emery, po ....
Tragacanth ..... 10@1 00 > sap o- seit N B11 9062 10 Eegete po. 65 60¢
Spt Vini Gelll ..1 7666 60 | Sot Slee ----
Absinthium -..-.4 50@4 60 as tua. i ee te .
Bupetorium oz pk 20 Vin ii ' "1 ace 90 | Gala .----------
Lobelia 0% pk et eer Gambler 21.0):
Majorum ..ozp 33 Sponges Gelatin, Cooper .
Mentha Pip os = 33 | Florida Sheeps’ wl Gelatin, French .
Mentha Ver = = 98 | carriage ....... 3 00@3 50 | Glassware, fit box
Hae 0... = pk 39 | Nassau sheeps’ wil Less than box
Tanacetum V . 23 carriage ....... 8 50@3 75 | Glue, brown ....
Thymus V oz pk 25 oe pervert shps’ @2 0 e — Sees
Magnesia wool, carriage . ycerina .
Calcined, Pat i 60 | Extra yellow shps’ Grana Paradisi . g
Carbonate, Pat .. 18 20 wool carriage.. @1 26 | Humulus ........
Carbonate K-M. 18 20 | Grass sheeps’ wil, Hydrarg Ch Mt.
Carbonate ...... 20| carriage ....... $i 25 | Hydrarg Ch Cor
ee ee
meh .... .
Amygdalae, Dulce. = . . slate use. .... @1 40 —— Ungue’m |
Amygdalae Ama.8 Syrups ydrargyrum
_—. ae wins 50 |Ichthyobolla, Am. 90@1 00|
Auranti Cortex 3 aoe 40 | Auranti Cortex .. ee in@igo ..:. 2.2... 75@1 00 |
Bereuml ......-.. _ GG | Zinger .....- §@ | Iodine, Resubi ..4 ot 90 |
—-_ ae eee - > Ipecae os’ 3 = = — ooee-4 90@5 =
‘aryophilli ...... Ferri oe EE coc c i
Cater 2... cng 90 | Rhei Arom ...... 60 a oe 1581 20
Chenopadii ce “4 t. : . a Offi’s - < pees : = eee = 65 75
mnamoni ......1 enega r
Citronella. ...... 65 | Scillae ... 50 ydrarg Iod . @ 26
Conium Mae ... 3 9@ | Scillae Co 5@ | Liq Potass Arsinit 10 12
Copeiee. <2... ¢ 98 | Tolutan .......- 66 | Magn Sulph. 3
Cubehaa ........ 1 80 | Prunus virg ... bo Sulph bbl. 1%

 

 

Mannia, 8 F .... 456@ 650 —— Mm... 2... 10@ 12) Lard, extra 710 80
Menthol .........2 40@2 60 @ ou... a5 i Lard, No. 1..... 60 65
Morphia, S P & W2 35@2 60 Seitits Mixture... 20 22 | Linseed, pure raw 49@ 64
Morphia, SN Y = 35@2 60 Sinapis ......... 18 | Linseed, boiled ...50@ 55
oe ao ne = ae ae aes @ 30) Neat’s- -foot, wstr 65@ 70
nuff, accaboy,
Myristica, No. i. 28@ 380| DeVoes ..... rt gi | SPts: Turpentine,.. Market
Nux Vomica pois @ 10/| Snuff, S’h DeVo's 51 Paints bb! L
Os Sepia ........ 25@ 28 oe — sence : = net Venetian ...1% 3 3
a, Boras, po. chre, yel Mars. : 4
os gag - . @i 00 Soda et Pot’s Tart 25 28 | Ochre, yel Ber .. + 3 8
Picis Li Soda: Carm ..... 1% 2 Putty, Seid ; 3
c = i aqaNN% Soda, = —_ 1 5 | Putty, strictly pr2% 2%@3
gal doz ........ @2 00 | Soda, Ash ...... 3% 4| Vermilion, Prime
Picis Liq qts .... 1 06 | Soda, oe : @ American ..... 13 15
Picis Lig. pints. 60 | Spts, Cologne 60 | Vermilion, Eng... 75 80
Pil Hydrarg po 80 50 | Spts, Ether Co 50 S51 Green, Paria ..... 14 18
Piper Nigra po 22 18 | Spts, Myrcia Dom 2 00 | Green, Peninsular 13 16
Piper Alba po 35 = Spts, Vini Rect bbl Leaq, red ...... 6% 7
Pix Borgun ..... Spts, Vi'i Rect %b Lead, white .... 6% 1
Plumbi Acet .... we be Spts, Vii R’t 10 sl Whiting, white S’n 90
Pulvis Ip’c et — 30@1 50 |Spts, VVIR'ti sg @ Whiting Gilders’ 95
Pyrethrum, Strychnia, aan 05@1 25 | White, Paris Am’r 1 25
: 2 i doz. 76 | Sulphur Subl ..... 2% 4|Whit’g Paris Eng
Pyrethrum, pv .. 20 25 | Sulphur, Roll ast 3% ene 1 40
| Guessing _....... 8 16 | Tamarinds ...... 10 | Universal Prep’d 1 10@1 20
| Quina, SP & W. 22@ 321 Terebenth Venice = 30
Quina, S Ger. .... 223@ 32 |Theobromae ..... 50 Varnishes
(Guin, NW. ¥. ..... 22@) 22) Vaniee ......... oC No 1 Turp Coach 1 10@1 20
|Rubia Tinctorum 12 34 | Zinct Sulph ..... a Si Extra Turp -....1 @@i 7
|Saccharum La’s. 22 25 Coach Body ....2 75@3 00
Saige ooo. 4 50@4 75 Olls No 1 Turp Furnl 00@1 10
Sanguis Drac’s .. 40 50 bbl gal | Extra T Damar .1 55@1 60
| ww 2 14 | Whale, winter ... we. = Jap Dryey No1T 170

 

 

 

shown Our Mr. Dudley will

it.
showing this season:

Aibums

Ash Trays

Atomizers

Austrian Novelties

Autographs

Baskets

Blocks

Bronze Figures

Bouquet Holders

Candelabra

Candlesticks

Card Receivers

Child’s Sets

Cigars Sets and Cases

Ccllar and Cuff Boxes

Curios

Cut Glass

Desk Sets

Dollis

Fancy Box Paper to retail 5c to $3 each

Fancy China

Fancy Hair, Cloth, Hat and Bonnet
Brushes

Flasks

Games

Gents’
$10 each

German Novelties

Glove and Handkerchief Sets

Gold Clocks

Hand Painted China

Leather Cases to retail 75c to

Hargreave’s Wooden Boxes

Hovey & Harding Novelties to retail
25c to $3 each

Infants’ Sets

Ink Stands to retail 25c to $5 each

Japanese Novelties

Jewel Cases

Lap Tablets

Match Safes

Grand Rapi

The Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Company

Holiday Line

is now complete and the most complete we have ever

We give below a partial list of the goods we are

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Company

notify you when to inspect

Manicure Sets in Stag, Ebony, Cellu-
loid, Silver and Wood

Medallions

Medicine Cases

Metal Frames

Mirrors

Military Brush Sets

Music Boxes

Music Rolls

Necktie Boxes

Paper Clips

Paper Files

Paper Knives

Paper Weights

Perfumes

Photo Boxes

Photo Holders

Placques

Pictures

Pipe Sets

Rogers’ Silverware

Rookwoced Pottery in Vases, Etc.

Shaving Sets

Stag Horn Novelties

Steins

Tankards

Thermometers on Fancy Figures to re-
tail 25c to $2 each

Tailet Sets in Stag Horn, Ebony, Ebon-

ite, Cocobolo, China, Silver, “Metal
and Celluloid

Tobacco Jars

Whisk Holders

BOOKS—AI:. the. latest. copyright
Books, Popular Priced 12 mos., 16
mos., Booklets, Bibles, Children’s
Books, Etc.

Also a full line of Druggists’ Staple
Sundries, Stationery, School Sup-
plies. Etc.

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and are intended to be correc ; eekly, within six hours of mailin CHEWING GUM Honey Fingers, Iced .12
ble to cha: t at time of going to press. Prices, h a —— Flag Spruce. 55/| Honey Jumbles 12 Jennings
nge at any time, and ccunt : , however, are lia- eeman’s Pepsin ... * 60 | Iced Honey Crumpet . T
. ry merchants wi Black Ja on oney Crumpet .12 erpeneless Lemon
market prices at date of purchase. iii nave ‘theer ondens Sled: na | tarenet eet Sante”. Se te > |N Doz.
San Sen + .. 60 deren Tmmen -..:..... o. 2 Pand D Cc. 5
Sen Sen Breath Perf. 55 | Lady Fingers ...-.... No. 4 Panel D. C.......1 50
ADVANCED Sugar Loaf erf.1 00 | Lady Fingers. hand md =. |No. © Pant DC...) - 38
| DECLINED Vordiek 55 | Lemon Biscuit Square 9 Taper Panel D. C..... ?
sce el LL 55 | Lemon Wafer 1 oz. Full Meas. D.C.” 1 50
te | Pickles Bulk CHICORY Laie: Gee .........2 |< = Mane. D: sa
Red aE rps lem Yen i eae Me 4 oz. Full cle Ala 20
SAE wee nvenresnaanenees 7| Marshmallow ......... 16 Mexican Vanilla
ieee a 7 Marshmallow Cream ..17 a
a ; Marshmallow Walnut .17 | N° 2 Panel D. C 1
CHOCOLATE ee 4 ADN .....es00-0s gy | No. 4 Panel D. C.....: 2 20
“Wiel Maher & ous BAA kee 11°. | No. 6 Panel D. C....13
Ind Rr ere ee SP eee
' emi in a z. Full Meas. D. C..
i ex to Markets f SE -----oneoneen as Mich. Ses Honey. 2 3 oz. Full ee = es 85
i Se 2! Ue a i
i By Columns 2 Eagic cereeee eer 35 | Molasses Cakes, Scola’ 9” No. Pgh acting i.
i AXLE GREASE = eee ++i 2 28| Moss Jelly Bar ...... os GR Flavors 75
i Cal | 1D <aijuia eee az. 30 Plums ums ss Rekers . 20.0.8... 35 | —— Branch, Icedil | Amoskeag, 100 tn .
i q : ee cca ny ee ea | eercecceccsvees 12 | ' n els
i Soe tes eae jae. 2 $5 | Gratea Pineapple : aes Ses... = oe a ee Amoskeag, less than bl 19%
fl Gis ge A a oe ee 43 eS 23 | cae. - oh crema Geen, a GRAINS AND FLOUR
See ile — pails, per doz ..7 20 Pumpkin | Huyler eee aN = Penny Assorted Cakes 8 Wheat
8 ; pelle, por Gen ..i2 60 | EE, ------------- a a ae eee 7 |N Old Wheat
BAKED BEANS ee | Van Houten, 4s ...... Pineapple Honey ...... 1% «| No 1 White .... oa
Meth Brisk .....2.2.0.. 1} -® Columbia Brand fae 1 09 | | Van Houten, igs cae = Pretzels, hand made ..8% Ne 2 Ree oo eo
a ees J a eS doz .... 9)| Gallon .......... @2 00 | Van Houten, 1s aaa Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8% Winter Wheat Flour
: Brushes ........ Sl a doz ....1 40 Raspb PN i oc ceawsn ns la coe mch. m’d 1% | ; Local Brands
Butter Color ........ woe ' Sie es ..1 80 | Standard pee ie Me. ai | —— Cookies, 22.0... Sige vty cL a ii
iis! wage oben Ww Py WBS -- eee eee VETS, .. 2222-022 200s ee we re
: c ae tig a | Wither. ScoaNUT oe # at. ee
ie ee | eee 85 - CANS -..-0-----0-- 3 75 | Dunham's is .. ae . gu | Second Straight .....1 1 ee
Gandies lee a — gga gy ee 7 00 | Dunham’s eis 361% pon Sears ..... - Clear Pteoua ee decal 4 00
ties a. Salmon __ 2 Se 1 | Snowdrope..-- ie (ee en 40
— Fas No. 3 Carpet Col’ almon | aes TS ....... 23 ee eae ene” 16 uUckwheat ...... eed
Pee ee cee 3|x g ‘ol’a River, talls. @1 80; Bulk ......... Spiced Sugar Tops ..9 | Pye..--.-.....-....-... -
eese ... o. 4 Carpet Col’a Riv i @1 80 PN" COCOA SHELL: 13 | Su rast tee tien at aie
oe se a River, flats.1 85@ coc gar Cakes. scall a
ia... Site wk Red Alaska ..... {Sci 20m. = SHELLS |, | Sugar Squares ralloped 9 ject to usual cash die.
Chieory ........ oe n ak... 5 | Less quantity ..../.... c anas ..... a i
: Ch te 2 Fancy Whisk | VY sere cece 3 Su b n barrels, 25c¢
; eeddate ........-.005. BL W Sardi | Pound packages ....... 4 perba. ....... barrel additio -_
t te arehouse CC a sea ae we ox SOCFEE Spiced Gingers i Worden we. a.
i ee SHES Domestic, %s ad Rio oe seeeee Quaker paper vanes
Coeoan : ; Solid ach he "5 ee Must’ a6 @9 — hoe see emma 11 Vanilla Crimp.” eeee ~—, cloth 0 a : =
5 ——_—- Sees Shells ........... 8 | Solid Back, 11 in ..-... a Bo ttettttty— | Spring Wheat. Flou
: Solid Back. 11 in 95 a oe... ek ioe 12 Wav pring Wheat Flo
ee 51C Choies ....... averly ....... ERG Ro ur
le | Pointed ends vv--ss00.! $3| French, sees? @le |e Seni ag | Zanmibar vce 30 | Golden Horn. family "6 15
i No. aes French, - ie 25 O28 | Common — 1% CREAM TARTAR escape Pace bakers ..6 05
i 4) No. hime — ~— 20@1 40 | Choi Cae up oo or Grimms ........ 29 | Pure Bye, oak a aa ; =.
+a en Ee ee eee i ¢ igen a
Hl F No. coed Wane is Square cans ..........+- 4 \J a. es 495
. Goods a... ee 95 | Peaberry eas Sn  erntinee od 35| Clark-Jewell-Wells ¢ 2
“ Fish and o 10 No. 4 entre | Maracaibo Dell -Wells Co.’s
_—_ Taokle . Ta 4 No. 3 "5 : —————e 1 25@1 40 io. eee ee thee 15 DRIED FRUITS Gold Mine es ¢
le ng oa 5 BUTTER COLOR Strawberries (a 18 Apples Gold Mine. Ys el it oS
4 Fre ty od eeseceescees ee Ww. R. & Co's, 15c size.1 25 —seeeogatg Ce 10 | Choice — Sundried ....-.- --4 4% cod Me ves cloth € 30
i ae a & Cos, 25c size 2 00 oe ee. 1 40} | Fancy menenenes hele 18% Evaporated. ..... 6 g 7 rere Mine, %s pape ie 35
= Frui Se wernt TT ies ZANULES “oe Tomatoes Guatemala 10 California Prunes ae Mine, 4s paper...6 30
if G Electric Light, 7: + + Ee amr apees =f ie 15 _ “ — —— eas | resol te Co.’s Brand
¥ ° lS CU 2 ign - oxe | Ce conn, 445 .|.
' Golating —veesseeessirt | Paramne, Ye 20202201 a ale | oe powes $Y | Coresota: He 60000006 ap
oe a OO op so 2 40@2 60| Fancy African ........ 17. | 70- 80 25% boxes « 4% Ceresota, ee ee
H CANNED GOODS CARBON OILS [7 sere 17 | 60-70 25% boxes @ 5 | komen te co Brand
i war Apples Barrels ae 31 50- 60 25% boxes g ‘ino <<. 6 40
a RR aan ann none g|3 tb. Standards.. 75@ 80 Perfection ...... @10% | Arabi Mocha 40 -50 25Ib boxes @ 6%| Wingold. 1 EB Aberant sss 6 30
SS a oe ee ------ 1 Jals. Standards 2 35@2 r ite a a tn . oxes Oe oa ee 6 2
cg ne and Pelts @| Gals. S 40 Water Whit 1 an 21 30- 40 25tb b @ 7% | d, 20
a i aie _erries. Se Comeee -- @12% ie es Oe te Ce oo
andards ...... or ape... git | asis | Best. %ss cloth....... 6 45
Indigo ‘ 2 85 | Cylinder | Axpuckio. ......... 50 Citron | Best, \%s el -> =>
| ever eeeceeeesecess ee 29 see ni 1 enetn.......: 6 25
& J NE ecu ch see 80@1 30 — etic ones 16 oun | eaesngay sete eee eens 4 = Corcion ......., @13% ~ 1 es ClOEn........ 6 25
i . Leese see | Best, “’S paper.... 5
ee wa se % ack, winter .. 9 @10% |Lion .......... “20 80 | mp'd. 1 Die se 6 Best, 4s papers ..212.06 30
L = oe CEREALS “McLaughlin's XXXX \Imported bulk .. es | Pe WE ies, 6 45
Shigeo cea 5| ___— Breakfast Foods McLaughlin’s XXXX sold | oe” 4@ 7% | Worden Grocer Co.'s Br )
Liceriee ................ § | Standard ..... Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 doz 4 25 | f° retailers only. Mail all | Lem am |Taurel, %s rane
ee econ | Brook Trout 40 | Bordeau Flakes, 36 1Ib 4 05 | orders direct to W. Pees American ....12) | Lanrel) 145 cloth ..... 6 69
M Galion. ..  @ 575 oe Site. 3S 3 > 5, |MeLaughlin & Co., Chi- | i Mea © | Leet > Gus comer 6 50
2tb. cans, spice rape Nuts, 2 doz. ne 7, | Cako. | lta T. Lean is a"s paper 6 40
Meat Extracts ...... -- & ae 1 90| Malta Ceres, 24 1! “2 40 Holl Extract London Layers, 3 cr 1 50 ele Aikciaens 6 40
- BOB veneeeeeees ones ¢ Little Neck, LID... (1 00@1 25 oom of Wheat, 36 21b 4 50 —. = wee. S a — 4 cr 1 95 | Sleepy Eye ge ee
MamterG 2. cece cccccccs eck noe-O-See. 36 pt (3. ac] . Me SToss ........ 5 er 5 crown .. oo S clo .6 30
N Clam Bouillon 50 Mapl. Flake, 36 — ee sears s foil, % sro. 85 Loose Muscatels, 2 cr. — ey Eye, %s cloth .6 20
Nuts Burnham’s % pt ..... 1 99 | Excello Flakes, 36 1!b. 2 75 | ummel’s tin. % gro.1 43| !-0ose Muscatels, 3 cr.. 5% teat Eye, %s cloth .6 10
ee ..... 11] Burnham’s, pts ...... 3 @9 | Excello, large pkgs. . 4 50 | Nati oe ACKERS “a Muscatels, % aie | Gineee Eye, %s paper .6 10
ie ° Burnham's, ats ...-.-- y a | Wier. 36 pees. -...--.27 onal Biscuit Company’s | 1. M. Seeded, 4 Ib -64@7% | a 2 ee
te Mives .. Cherries Force, 36 : 450 | — | I. M. Seeded. % 1b 5 @6 | Meal
— — - a Standards -.1 39@1 50} Zest. 20 2b ee 4 els ee Butter (+ hk 8 Bolted. ...
ue Pt “a a 1.1. as pkgs ...450|N aaa &% Sultanas, package - mia Granuintsa’ 2.113
if Pies. ete. SC ekseees Ot 15@90 . = = a 450 | Salted Butters 1111.22. cit FARINACEOUS GOODS No Tone screened 22 00
; Se RUE ban ccakiscuniees O98 | ccnses utch Rusk __ |Family Butters ........ 6% Beans ane ae
i Playing or we. 7. ae coe bebe aces te 75 | Soda | Dried Lima 7 Corn Meal on sl 20 50
Se getetanagien oe oe -.-...-... 55 | N B C Sodas ne 6% | Med 8... i... %|\On M , coarse 22 00
Previsions ....... ¢|Sur E —— Peas Rolled Oats. ac uses ; i~ (Ba eee @1 85 | wi Oe 27 00
n eeeeee aw ra Fine OS a 22 Rolled Avenna. bbis ..4 ¢5| Saratoga Blakes ...... 3 rown Holland ....... wae ae Bran. .18 00
pee sb oes ce Steel Cut, 100Tbs; aS 4 aise aia r wheat mid’
ae Ibsacks 2 45 | Oyster Farina ngs = 00
; a a 15| Monarch, bbl .....-;. { 49 | Round Oysters ........ 24 1tb. packages. ....1 Cow Meee 50
"22 aa. | Monarch, 100m. sack2 05 | & 6% | Bulk 75
i a s ial Gooseberrles Quaker, cases - Si so sicepananveieeaat 6% > DOr 200 Me. ...-. 8 00! Gar lot -
gold Dressing «....... | SPO iSong 20 ry cages on... --8 20 | Rast evseecvecisist! P| Blake, Som eae Ca 35%
Balerataveeerescceeees | Standard peyncessss+ §8|2 2. packed 00.1.2 90 ee a | ee ee quan
re. —* . 5 eons . A verse weet Goods earl, 100%. sack ....1 85 oe
Balt Fish .......... --+ 7) Star, wb. ..... ANIME .....-6.2+0++ Maccaron! and i Hay
2 ae Columbia’ 23 pts. | Assorted pete 31 | Domestic, 10% bor. 60 No. 1 timothy ton lote 12 £0
~— Blacking 1.112111: 7 Picnic —_ pet cerent 2 69 Columbia, 25 as : ——o ee ue 8g Imported, 25tb box *"2 50 ' mothy ton lots 12 50
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Be eaereaee F)acutara, Masa go | Snider nis coc d BBall ee | onc eBeatt Barley [sage .... Senne
ao oan fustaré. 2. _...:.... (Fl aaa aoe... 5 elle — ol Chester + fete cece weeeee ei A
Spices ....... a a 8 | Soused, 1136. ...0......1 Se 1 30’ Bent’s Water .. a eee 2 20| Laurel Leaves .
a. - enete : Soused. 2tb. Soe . CHEESE | Butter — | OO eo ea 3 25 | Senna lanwen ‘:
er. ee Tomato lib. .......--- Soom ans" + ey ee ----s- i iG — JEL
ReeeD. =s.2.---+ cceosee 8 | Tomato. 21D. .......-.. 2 go | Carson City @10 ” | Goce Bar... -..--..s-- : ee ee 4
aoe Mushrooms Carson City ---- Qa ,, | Cocoanut Taffy .......12 reen, Scotch, bu. ...1 25 | 75% palla. oe oe ae
Tea : 8 i. i ere on lame Gu ier ee eee ne :
eeeee ip elena ie eee | Emblem .......- 12 ee Cake, Iced ....1 Ss sercecseceses 65
MMOD lleccclc oes ee  f Oysters Ce nua a. Cocoanut Macaroons “8 East India... LICORICE
eeee ........- mo aa > eee TMM i cas elie ae seeeet eee eees 16 a WS nck 3 Cale 30
eo cca Geese oes a ocolate Dai i erman, broken pkg.
ie 2. Pl ceo: - Oval Oi 00 | Riverside 220.127 S10 | atener a  S aie a =
oeeccececcocs eaches oo @i1 urlycue ee ake, 1101b.
w Ble oa -eeeseverees a <imoe .......... 1114 | Dixie Cookie IT Pearl, 130%. ‘sacks "<.) == LYE -
Washing Powder ...... 9% po te —- 65@2 25 i LE pt aera ml ttttty | Pearl, 24 1%. pkgs . i. Sais | 2 doz 60
Wicking ....-.ssceceoes ane ee : ‘ocoa a ‘on a
a... Ol tienda. oc... 1 00@1 35 ee ie @15_ | Frosted a ...-11 | FLAVORING ensed, 4 doz ..... 3 00
2 g urgr. ie EXTRACTS
Wrapping Paper ....... 20 ne Pineapple Senter as on” erosted Stee a 8 Fests @ date sine EXTRACTS
ap Sago. . : OER one Bde ee ee eee 445
Demet Calle cocacdes Marrowfat ...... Swiss, domestic . @19 Ginger Snaps, N EG Coleman's Van. Le Armour’s 4 oz ........ 3 20
coos ay Fm) -..-. 90@1 Swiss, esr : Oi% Grandma Sandwich . x — = — ue A to" m. Liebig's. Chicago, 2 ox.2 75
. @20 Graham Crackers .. 9 No 44 4 Ric a Biak bo | Liceies’ ey 4 os.5 50
a c 3 ee : po 2 oz.4 55
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MINCE MEAT
Cotumpis
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 dz ...1
Horse Radish, 2 dz. ...3
Bayle’s Celery, 1 dz ..

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Bulk, 1 gal. kegs ...1.00
Bulk, 2 gal kegs .... 9
Bulk, 5 gal kegs. ... 90
, 2 of .-.. @
Queen, pints .........2 35
Queen, 19 0Z i +4 50
Queen, 28 0z 4.
Stuffed, 5 oz - 20
Stuffed, 8 oz .. -1 45
Stuffed, 10 oz ......... 2 30
PIPES
(iow, Mo. 26 ..-....-1 19
Clay, TF. ty, folk count 65
Cob, No. 3 ....---.... 85
PICKLES
Medium Le
Barrels, 1,200 count ..4 7d
Halt bbis., 600 count ..2
Small
Barrels, 2,400 count ..7 00 |
Half bbis.,, 1,200 count 4 00
PLAYING CARDS
No. 90 Steamboat ... 8
No. 16, Rival, assorted 1 20 |
No. 20, Rover enameledl 60
No. 572, Special ...... i 75 |
No. 98, ‘Golf, satin finish2 v0 |
No. 308 Bicycle .....-. 2 00
No. 632 Tourn't whist 2 25
POTASH

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{Small Whole ... @ 6%
ents ..............4 00 | Strips or bricks. —
Penna Salt Co’s .....3 00; Pollock ......... 314

Halibut

PROVISIONS [Sivips oo. cl... i.e
Barreled Pork LCMUMEN .2............. 14%
Bieee ...........-.....25 | Herrin
me 00 | Hollans
Back Fat. ........ .14 50 | White Hoop, bbls
Short Cut ceeseeee reels 50 | White Hoop, % bbls.
egy) oo... 2... eS | White Hoop, keg. @ 70
Pig ee 00 | White Hoop mechs @ 80
Brisket. .............15 00 | Norwegian ...... @
Clear Mamily ........12 60 Round, 160ihs ......0- 3 15
it Meats Meund, 405s .......... 73
& Pe — _. So. | Memted -......:. 2... 15 |
ee 9% Trout |
Rivtra, Shorts .....-... $14 — 1, — deeeee ae : =
0. . BS sescce daa a
Hams ee eee 11% No. 1, 10Ibs . =
Hams, 14Ib. average...1lle No. 1, 8IbS ...-..-.--- _
Hams, 16ib: average...11% Mackerel
Hams, 18Ib. average...11% | Mess, 100Ibs. ........ 13 50
Skinned Tams ........i2 cae «6400S C........ 5 80
Ham, dried beef sets ..13 Maess, 10TDS. .........- 1 65
Shoulders, (N. Y. cut) Bieee, SIS wo ucccue-s 2 ae
Bacon, clear ....10%@11%|No. 1, 100tbs. .......12 00
California Hams. ..... No. 1, 4Ibs. 5
Picnic Boiled Ham ..1244/}No. 1, 10Ibs.
oe 17 No. 1 8Ibs. |
Berlin Ham pr’s’d ... 8
Mince Ham ..........10
Lard 100%b.
Compound ....,....... 594) SOI. -
Pere 2.2... -. 5... cece O 10%b.
60Ib. tubs. advance M% oe: 2.1...
80Ib. tubs ..advance %
60Ib. tins.. advance % | anise .
20D. paila ..advance % | Canary,
10Ib. pails ..advance % | Caraway
bib. pails ..advance 1 | Cardamom, Malabar - +1, 00
Sm pote . advance + | Celery (0) 00d... 12
Sausages : ——— ae _..... :
weer ccceercceee | xe ir eee eeccsece
i oo tne .. 6% | Mustard, white ....... 8
Ey POOR wcscece es ee cases :
PR cv cciccccacasecencs C6 | BADO «.-.:>-- eT
eee cehiusecauues @ Cuttle ome 2... la. 25
OOM cane éaccecssss Sm SHOE BLACKING
Headcheese ....... aoe OO Hanis Box, large, 3 dz.2 50
Beef rae. &
ix s oya. oe
a ---------- 3 Miller's Crown Polish. $5
Rump, new ..........10 50 Scotch, in. bladders 3
Pig’s Feet. Maccaboy, in jars ....
bbls Lo easdceueecun 10 French a: in jars. 2
4, bbis., 40ibs. ...-....1 39 SOA
bbis., Ce ae Central City _e Co,
Le caaeidigie cial ae MON ee 2 85
ripe sag Naphtha ........ 60
Kits, 15 =e Gece eas 70 J. S&S Kirk & Co,
% bbis., 40 %s ........1 50 | American Family ..... 4 05
YMbbis., 80tbs. ......- *73 00 ee a ns =
usky n es
H ar 9g | Jap Rose, 50 bars ....3 75
Bon reo eee lL a Savon Imperial .......3 10
nate Tne, oct 2... 4 | White Russian .......-3 10
Daceg per hammie’.... 10 | Dome, oval bare .....-2 %
gy a aeaunors. 100 cakes. 4 00
Bold. ae ty. 110%911% | LAUTZ BROS. & CO.

Acme soap, 100 cakes |
Conia Gane a _ _. 2.50 | Nanptha anap. 100 cakes 4 00
Corned beef, 14.......17 50 | Big Master, 100 bars 4 00
Roast Beef ...... 2 50 | Marseilles White soap. 4
Potted ham, %s .... 45 | Snow Boy Wash P’w’r 4 00
Potted ham, %8 ---- 85 Proctor & Gamble Co. co.
Deviled ham, %8 .-.- 45 | Lenox _...-----+-+-++++: =
Deviled ham, %s ..-. 85 |Ivory, 6 OZ. ...-+--+-+- =
7 tongue, %s .... 45 /| Ivory, 16 on €...---..-6
Potted tongue, %8 ---- Ee

 

RICE

Sercenings ........ 244@2% |
Mair Japan ...... 3%@ 4
8 | Choice Japan .... 44%4@ 5

; Imported Japan .. @
| Fair Louisiana hd. @4%

| Cheice ta hd. .. @5

| Fancy La. hd .... @5%
| Carolina ex. fancy thy
| SALAD DRESSING

| Columbia, % pint ....2 25
| Columbia, 1 pint ..4 06
Durkee’s large, 1 doz.4 50
Durkee’s small, 2 doz.5 25 |
| Snider’s large, 1 doz...2 35
Snider’s small, 2 doz...1 36 |

SALARATUS

Packed 60!Ibs. in box.

| 'rm and Hammer

E | Peaman 3
| Dwights Cow ......... 3
| on ee 2
fic Fe ..- 3
| Wyandotte, 100 %s ...3

| SAL SODA

| Granulated, bbis ....-.
| Granulated, 100Ib casesi
| Lump, Bees .--.......
| Lump, 145tb kegs

| SALT

| Common Grades
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ee S&) Sacks ......... 1 85
Ze 1056 seeks ...... —. oo
Se mm seree .. 30
2 = oc ........... 15

Warsaw

56 Ib. dairy in drill bags 40

28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20 |

| Solar Rock |
Gem Saeme .. 20

Common

| Granulated, fine ...... 80
Medium) @ne. 00 85

SALT FISH

| Cod

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|2-heop Standard .....
Cadillac oe 54 |3-hoop Standard .....1 7
Sweet Loma ....... ,..34 | 2-wire, Cable ....... -k 7
| Hiawatha, 5Ib pails 1.56 | 3-wire, Cable ...... -1 90
Hiawatha, 10% pails ..54 (| Cedar, all red, brass ..1 25
Velegram ...../. J214..30 | Seper, Eureka ........2 25
Pay Car oo. is ae 6 Bilivre «2.2.26. .... oe ae
Prairie Rose ....... a | Toothpicks
oe ae 40 |Hardweed ......
Bweee Hurley ........ “— | Sotowoee ......
weer oo... a0 | Banquet .../...
mac Plug 31 [ieee oo.
i Re POSS 60056 ae \
Pee |. se 35 | eee a oe 22
Eitawatha | ...... 5... -— | ‘i
Kyl : 35 | Mouse, wood, 4 holes . 45
oe 37 | Mouse, wood, 6 holes . 70
aie aa 33 | Mouse, tin, 5 holes .. 65
|Standard Navy .....- ae] ee a a i =
Spear Elend ¢ om. ....47 | i Tubs _ ge
ee ae ee | i. Stan, Me. 1.7 0
Joily Var i : 39 18-in., Standard, No. 2.6 00
Old Honesty a ‘43 | 16-in., Standard, No. 3.5 00
Toddy : 54 | 20-in., Cable, No. 1. ..7 50
BoP IIgs | 18m Gable, No. 2 .-6 50
: | 16-in., Cable, No. 3. ..
2. 6 i
| Honey Dip Twist ....40 oe eae Sa a 2
Bisaek Standard ....... 40 | eo
Gudtiiae |.) TT Wash Boards
Moree oo... siecle cane aoa’ —— Globe ........ : =
Nickel SE 5
Mill ee 1. ga «| Beable Acme -_....... 2 75
Great Wavy 1.000): | ise | Stuele Acme .-........ 2 25
Smoking | Double Peerless ......3 50
sSweee Core ....7...... 34 | Single Peerless ...... 2 75
Hine @ae 32 | Northern Queen ......2 75
Warpatn 26 | Double Duplex .......3 00
Bamboo, 16 oz. .....-. 25 |Good Luck ........... :>
7S. bay ae Wniversag ..........,.. 2 65
I X L, 16 ox paiia ....31 | Window Cleaners
Honey Dew ........... eer +=
| Gold ‘Block. i ie * eee eee ee eG 4
Flagman i Me coe. 2 30
Chips setts eee eeeeees --33 | Wood Bowls
Kiln Dried. itl te Botter ......... 76
Duke's Mixture ....... 40 it in, Botter .........% 16
Dukess Cameo ....... | | iG tn. Butter .........2 60
Myrte Navy ........- “4 | 17 in. Butter ........ --3 25
| Yom Yom, 236 oz ...-39 | 19 tm. Butter ......... 475
Yum Yum, lib. pails ..40 | Assorted, 13-15-17 -2 25
—— sentaaceccsccees 38 | Assorted 15-17-19 ....3 25
re ak % coe ead
Corn Cake, Tih. ”.11.122 |. WRAPPING PAPER
Plow Boy, 1% oz. ...39 Common Straw ..... - 1%
Plow Boy, 3% oz. ....39 Fibre Manila, white .. 2%
| Peerless, 31% oz. ...... 35 | Fibre Manila, colored . 4
Peerless, 1% oz. ...... 38 be 1 Manila ........ -4
Air Brae ..........-. 36 een Manila i eh |
eee Hani 30 Butcher's Manila .... 2% |
Country ae 32-34 Wax Butter, short c’nt.13
| ramen XXXX ace. sce 30 Wax Butter, full count 20
Good tdi an i 5 Wax Butter, rolls ....15

| Self Binder, 1602, 80z 20-22
24

Good Cheer .......:... 4 00
| Old jontry ....:..... 34
Soap Powders
Central City Coap Co.
1daennon, 16 O8 ........ 2 40
Gold Dust, 24 large ..4 50
Gold Dust, 100-5c ....4 00
Mirkoline, 24 41. ..... 3 80
Peatewe ... i... 3%
Beameme ooo. e. 8... 410
(Banus £016 2.0.2... 3 75
[ROneIne ...... Seca «eed OO
Brmonres ......... osu oO
| Wisdaie .. 3 80
| Soap Compounds
Johnson's Fine ........ 5 10
Jonnson's SX ....... 4 25
5 | Nine Oelock .......... 3 35
Hub-No-More ......... 3 75
Scouring
Enoch Morgan’s Sons.
| Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00
Sapolio, half gross lots 4 50
Sapolio, single boxes ..2 25
Baponmo. BANG ......... 25 |
Scourine wes Co |
| Scourine, 50 cakes ..1 8¢
| Scourine, 100 cakes . ce bo
| SODA
[Boxes ................- 5%
| Kees, Mnglish ......... 4%
SOUPS
Columbia ............. 3 00
me@ Eetter ............ 90
SPICES
Whole Spices
IISeS . 6 12
Cassia, China in mats. 12
| Cassia, Canton ....... 16
| Cassia, Batavia, bund. 28
Cassia, Saigon, broken. 40
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls. 55
Cloves, Amboyna. 22
Cloves, Zanzibar ...... 14
DEMOS ooo. 55
| Nutmegs, 75-80 ....... 45
Nutmegs, 105-10 ...... 35
| Nutmegs, 115-20 ...... 30
| Pepper, Singapore, blk. 15
Pepper, Singp. white. 25
Pepper, shot .......... Wi
Pure Ground In Bulk
Alice ............ --. 6
| Cassia, Batavia ...... 2
Cassia, Saigon .......- 48
Cloves, Zanzibar ...... 18
| Ginger, African ....... 15
Ginger, Cochin ....... 18
Ginger, Jamaica ..... . =
Te aa . &
co 18
Pepper, Singapore, blk. 17
Pepper, Singp. white . 28
Pepper, Cayenne ...... 20
Sage -. 3... 20
STARCH
| Common Gioss
i> packages ........ 4@5
lamp. packages. ........ Be |
| 6Ib packages ..........
/40 and 50tb. boxes iin |

| Barrels.

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| Jumbo, 82Ib. .......2.. 8
(Bete &  .......--
| Boston Cream ........10
| Olde Time Sugar stick

i Cane ....-....-. I

| Mixed Gandy
ee
| Competition.
co
| CONSERVE c.c6 2 cc escses
| Royal
| Ribbon ...
Broken
| Cut Loaf
Leader ....4..
| Kindergarten

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Bon Ton Cream
| French Cream.

PRE sce ec eee ee wane
Hand Made “Cream
Premio Cream mixed 13
@ F Horehound Drop 11

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Fancy—in Pails
| Gypsy HElcarta ........ 14
| Coco Bon Hons .....- 12
| Fudge Squares ...... —_
| Peanut Squares ......
Sugared Peanuts .... “i

| Salted Peanuts ....... in
Starlight Misses, ....-28
San Blas Goodies .... “12
Lozenzes, plain ......

| Lozenges, printed ..... 10
Champion Chocolate ..11
Eclipse Chocolates ...13
| Bureka Chocolates.
Quintette Chocolates ..
| Champion Gum a i.”
Moss Drops ....

 

Lemon Sours .

Imperials ..... 2
| Ital. Cream Opera” «Aa
| Ital. Cream Bon Bons

20M) palle .....0... He
| Molasses Chews, 151b.
. eases ....... See accc lee
| Golden Waffles .......12
| DOpeweiem oo... 12
Fancy—in 5tb. Boxes
; Lemon Sours ...... oo

Peppermint Drops ... : 160
| Chocolate Drops ......6¢
| M. Choe. Drops ..%

HH. M. Choc. Lt. and

Dark No. 1 .......3 &
| Bitter Sweets, ass’d ..1 2t
| Brilliant Gums, Crys.60

A. A. Licorice Drops ..90
| Lozenges, plain .......55

Lozenges, printed ..... 55

Imaperiais ..............66
| Miottces § ..............08
| Cream Bar son geeaseeetae

G. M. Peanut Bar ....
Hand Made Cr’ms. “goqper
Cream Buttons, Pep.

[Silver Weare (000.0)! . Mosie, © dow 1.1.0... 15| and Wintergreen. ..65
| Sweet Marie .......... 32 | Suntent, 2 dos. ...... 1 00 | String Rock .......... 0
| Royal Smoke oo... 0). 42 | Sunlight, 1% doz..... 50 | Wintergreen Berries ..60
| TWINE Yeast Foam, 3 doz ....1 15 | Old Time Assorted, 25
Cotten, = ply ........- 20 Yeast Cream, 3 doz ..100|_ Ib. case ...........
Cotton, 4 ply ......._ 20 Yeast Foam, 1% doz .. 58) Buster Brown Goodies
oute, 2 pig ........... 14 | 30m). ease ...........-
enn, 6 ply ls 13 FRESH FISH | Up- -to-Date Asstmt, 32
Flax, medium ........ 20 a Litho bapa be Pee
Wool, 1tb. balls ...... ¢ |Jumbo Whitefish @12%|Ten Strike Assort-
VINEGAR No. | Whiteish ..I0@1l | ment No 1. ........6 80
TRON ooo. “8% @9 |Ten Strike No. 2 6 00
Malt White Wine, 40gr 8 : | : ' “nee
“Malt White Wine” 60 gr Halibut ..........  @10 | Ten Strike No. 3...... 8 00

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9 | Bluefish. . @it | sortesent. (0002
201) packages ........ Pure Cider, Red Star. it Live Lobster @2 1 Rei) eee
| | | aces alties
40Ib packages 4% @ | peee Gilder, we. . | Boiled Lobster. | Hanselman Candy Co.
SYRUPS nag coe... ...... - Bi | | Chocolate Maize .....18
WICKING Haddock ...... | Gold Medal Chocolate
Corn | No. 0 per gross ...... = No. ak ckerel ee St aimed 18
Rarmele oo, [ING 2 per grees .....40 | Pike Ol. @ 7 | Chocolate Nugatines | 118
Pall Baceela | 94 | No. = per gross ...__ 30 om Greased .... @7 | Quadruple Chocolate .15
| 20Ib cans % dz in case 1 55 | No. 3 per gross ....... 7 | Smoked White .... 12% | Violet Cream Cakes, bx90
| 101b cans % dz in case 1 50 | WOODENWARE | Red Snapper ...... |Gold_| Medal Creams,
| 5Ib cans 2 dz in case 1 65 | Baskets | Col. River — Git | pails ................ 13%
| 2161) cans 2 dzin case1 70 | Bushee .....0 0... -ceol 10} Mackerel ......... 15@16 | Pp Cor
| |Bushels, wide band ..1 60 a oe
Pure Cane eee 35 | OYSTERS | Dandy Smack, Me ..._ &
| Fair 16 | Splint, large _......... 6 00! Cans | Dandy Smack, 100s ..2 75
peers =. 20 | Splint) medium ....... 5 00 | Per can | Pop Corn Fritters, 100s 50
oice 25 | Splint. small .......... 460|F- E Counts) ....0 11. ee eee
TEA va — a. ei Bulk Oysters | Pop Corn Balls, 200s . ior
Japan : ° 2. & Counts ........ -2 25 | Cicero Corn Cakes .... 5
deumeaia ai os — aoe small.5 50 | | per box 0
Sundried, medium .... | radley Butter Boxes | | ett ee
Sundried, choice ......32 | 2D aa 8 in case .. 72/| Sheet — . 1399 | NUTS—Whole
Sundried, fancy .....- 36 | 3% size, 16 in case ‘: 68|Clams ........... i S| se
eguiar, medium ..... osm Sime. £2 ta case .. 6S | Ovaters ..............- :
Regular, choice ......32 10tb size, 6 in case .. — oo i 25 | | Almonds, California sft
Regular, fancy ........36 Butter Plates | HIDES —_— PELTS shell, new .....15 @16
Basket-fired, medium .31 | No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate 40 | Hid | Brazils ........ --13° @14
| Basket-fired, choice ...38 | No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate 45| Green No. 1 .......... 10 | Filberts ........ 13
Basket-fired, fancy ...43 | No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate 50 |Green No. 2 ..... wae. 9 (Cab No. Do... 14 @l
Nibe o000.00..... 128684 | No. 5 Oval, 950 in crate 60 | Cured No. 2 .......... 11%, | Walnuts, soft shelled.
Siftmes ........... SQ Churns }A red PO. 2 |... 10 | Walnuts, Chili .... et
Fannings ......... 12@14 | Barrel, 5 gal., each ..2 40 | Calfskins,.green No. 1 13 | Table nuts, fancy
Gunpowder Barrel, 10 gai., each |.2 55 | Calfskins, green No. 2.11% | Pecans Med. .... git
| Moyune, medium ..... 30 Barrel, 15 gal., each ..2 70 | Calfskins, cured No.1. 13 — ex. large
Moyune, choice ....... 32 Clothes Pins | Galfskins, cured No. 2. 12 seca Jumbos . O12
| Moyune, fancy ..... ae | Round head, 5 gross bx 55) Steer Hides, 60!b over 11% Gan Nuts pr bu
| Pingsuey, medium ....30 | Round head, cartons .. 75 | Pelts | Cocoanuts” secvensahe am
| Pingsuey, choice .....30 Egg Crates | Old Wook |... | Chestnuts, New York
Pingsuey, fancy ..... Humpty Dumpty ..... Seo tambe "49@1 00 | State, per bu
Young Hyson No. 1, complete ...... $2 |Shearlings ...... 5@ 50} ia
Choice ~................ No. 2 complicte -..... 12} Tall Shelled _
ro allow Spanish Peanuts. .7 @8
Fancy .....--.+.+eeeeee 36 Faucets Ce @ 44 | eecan Hates @48
Oolong Cork lined, 8 in. ...... Sy - @38% | walnut Halves @28
Formosa, fancy .....42 | Cork lined, 9 in. ...... 75 | Wo | Filbert Meats ... @25
Amoy, medium .......25 | Sonk lined. 10 in. 85 | Unwashed, medium30@31 Alicante Almonds 33
Amoy, choice ..... i | edar Me owe cacces 6S! | Unwashed, fine ...23@24 Jordan almonds . 47
English Breakfast eanuts
Moto ....:.. ce i eee 20 CONFECTIONS |Fancy, H. P. Suns .. 6
ORNee foe cece cece oa Eclipse patent spring _ = Stick Candy Pails | Fancy, mF Suns,
BeOe cece. ee) | ee een | ae Standard lolol. weoee 8 | Roasted ............. 7
pindia a2 | NO? Bat. brush holder, 85 a 2 + Ee oe = fo oe
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Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00
Perseen .........- 55 =««6:«00

BAKING POWDER

JAXON

%Ib. cans, 4 doz. case.. 45
%tb. cans, 4 doz. case.. 85
1%. cans, 2 doz. case 1 60

Royal

. 10c size 90

tb cans 1 35
60z. cans 1 90
tb cans 2 50
% ib cans 3 75
1b cans 4 80
= 3Ib cans 13 00
5Ib cans 21 50

BLUING :
Arctic, 40z ovals, p gro 4 00
Arctic, 80z ovals, p gro 6 00
Arctic, 160z ro’d, p gro 9 00
BREAKFAST FOOD
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brands

 

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Sunlight Flakes
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Wheat Grits
Cases, 24 2tb pack’s,. 2 00

CIGARS

 

 

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd

Lees than SOS. .......- 33
cen OF MOONS .4..........- 32
Ree Sr were. : S.C 31
Worden Grocer Co. brand
Ben Hur
Eeereerenm : Ls. 35
Perfection Extras ...... 35
Rie oe ee 35

Lond@res Grand. ........- 35

PO ns es 35
Peerenes 4... 5... ce 35
Panatellas, Finas. ...... 35
Panatellas, Bock ........35
week Clee oceans ek 35
COCOANUT

Baker’s Brazil Shredded

  

70 %%b pkg, per case 2 60
35 %Ib pkg, per case 2 60
38 %Ib pkg, per case 2 60
16 %Ib pkg, per case 2 60
FRESH MEATS
Beef
Ces es 53 5@ 8
Forequarters ... 54@ 5%
Hindquarters ... 74@ 9
eee <i 9 @ié
ee. c.. cc. 6 OO
eee 2... 7%@ 8
CR Sonn as 5 @6
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Pork
Loins ...,- He ees @i1%
PE i a @
Boston Butts .-. @yy
Shewuliers 25.0... @ 8%
leet tak. ...... @ 7%
Mutton
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Cees oc, @12
Veal
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GQRN SYRUP

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a2 Dee Geee ..........- 2 30

 

 

Galvanized Wire
No. 29, each 100ft. longl 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long2 10
COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s B’ds.

 

 

| White House, 1fb ......

| White House, 2Ib ......

| Excelsior, M & J, 1Ib ..

| Excelsior, M & J, 2!b..

Tip Ton, M & J, Ud ..

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| Royal Java and Mocha..

| Java and Mocha Blend..

Boston Combination ....
Distributed by Judson

Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;

National Grocer Co., De-

ders & Co., Port Huron;
Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
naw; Meisel & Goeschel,
Bay City; Godsmark, Du-
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Fielbach Co., Toledo.

 

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz. in case
Gail Borden Eagle ....6 40

cert i ESE GR 5 90
Cee co 4 52
eee one “soe 4 70
Pee. «wc 4 00
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| Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80

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Full line of fire and burg-
lar proof safes kept in
| stock by the Tradesman

|Company. Twenty differ- |

‘ent sizes on hand at all
| times—twice as many safes
| aS are carried by any other

° | house in the State. If you

|are unable to visit Grand
|; Rapids and inspect the
{line personally, write for
| quotations.

i SOAP
| Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

100 cakes, large size. .6
50 cakes, large size..3 25

| 100 cakes, small size..3 85
50 cakes, small size..1 95

Tradesman Co.'s Brand.

 

Black Hawk, one box 2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40
| Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25
TABLE SAUCES

| ialford, large ........ 3 75
| Halford, small .. oot

  

your
business

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uy Summer
usiness

With July 4th went your people’s inclination
to buy.

Let folks alone now and you'll sell them little
more than necessaries for some weeks to come.

Unless you're willing to sit idly by and see the
summer store expense consume your spring
profits, you’ve got to have business.

Pay the price and it’s yours. Extra effort is
one, and right leaders are another main element
in the cost.

Dare you forget profit on an advertised bargain
or two? Will you do the advertising? Are you
open to conviction as to the class of goods best
to use for summer leaders?

Then you’ll find our July catalogue, from cover
to cover, a mine of goods and methods for com-
pelling business your way, this summer.

Shall we send you this catalogue—No. ]544?

Butler Brothers

Wholesalers of Everything—By Catalogue Only

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Why Not Put In a Middleby Oven

and do your own baking?
It will be an investment that will pay and one you will not regret.

Costs the least to operate. Gives the best results. A brick oven that can be moved.

Send for catalogue and full particulars.

Middleby Oven Manufacturing Company

60-62 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, Il.

St. Louis Exposition, 1904, Awards

Beware of Imitation Brands.

Chicago Office, 49 Wabash Ave.

 

 

4

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

47

 

BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

dvertisements inserted under this
subsequent continuous

insertion. No charge less

head for two cents

a word the first. insertion and one

than 25 cents.

cent a word for each

Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale—Small stock of groceries and
fixtures at a bargain if taken at once. In
one of the best towns in Northern resort
region. Cash deal. Address Lock Box
138, Charlevoix, Mich. iba

For Sale—Nice clean stock groceries,

located in Newaygo county, town of

good location; good business; with or}
without building; stock invoices about
$1,800. Reason, owner wishes to retire.

56

 

Address E. J. Darling, Fre mont, Mich.

 

Expericnced traveling salesman desires

 

 

   

2,000; | €

 

   

For Sale—Good clean grocery stock; |
Southeastern Nebraska; town of or
ispleudiG location; stock and fixture
| $1.60-); cash only. L. R. Stevens, Bez ace,
N« ib. dal
Wanted—Posiuon in dry goods, cloth-
ing or furnishings store. Ten years’ ex-
perience; 30 years old; married; best ref-
rences. Address No. 748, care Miehi-
san Tradesman. 748
1 Sale—Number seven Blickensdorfer

 

 

typewriter just the thing for country
merchant. Ernest McLean. Livingston
Hotel Grand Rapids, Mich. 740

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

position. Best references. Address B, For Sale—Stock general merchandise,
Albion, Mich 754 located in the finest health resort of the
Merchants, are you overstocked? Yes! aa invoices about — —
Then employ us to conduct a special 10-| wll bought. Come South and get fa
day sale toc you. Our new oan oaks sys- | Address ‘‘South,’’ care Michigan Trades-
tem never fails to realize the Quick Cash | Man. 752
With a Profit on Your Old Merchandise. For Rert—Store building just complet-
Ail correspondence confidential. ina ed: live town of 1,000 inhabitants; Ber-
ences given. C. N. Harper & Co., Quick /rien county; good country; large resort;
Sale Promoter, Room 211, 87 Washington |lcts of business. Address Lizzie Wigent.
St.. Chicago. 755 i M atervliet, Mich. 761
For Sale—One of the best stocks of| ‘f you are a mechanic, cabinetmaker or |
general merchandise in Northern Michi- | furniture finisher and want the best busi-
gan, in farming community and on the} neces in the city, in a good location, rent
finest lake in Michigan. Address No. 758, ly $15 per month, it will pay you to in-
care Michigan Tri idesman. 758 vestigate. Will sell for cash or exchange
“For Sale—Shoe shop with coddling shop | as eae k = oa es or de — —
in connection. Location the best. Ex- | estate oa poe ec) a lr ted
cellent chance for the right man. Good | 37, Station D, Grand Rapids, Mich. 766
reasens fer selling. Enquire 379 Horton Wanted—Experienced traveling sales-
Ave.. Grand Rapi Mich. 759 men of good ability and clean record
For Sate—General stock merchandise | Who are now employed and holding good
invoicing $3,006. Good business. Best | Positions, but wish to better themselves.
reasons for selling. Address J. Norris, | large Chicago specialty house desires
R. Ff. No. 1, Walkerville. Mich. 749 the services of several men for Michigan
——— : — —~ and Indiana. Good salary and expenses
~ Mill’ For ale— ‘ireular sawmill, prac- to start and advancement assured if
tically new; five bead of horses, two sets | corvices are satisfactory. No ‘‘flash-
of lumber sleighs, two pair of logging lights’ or ‘thas beens’’ need apply. All
trucks, three sets double harness, hams answers zZuaranteed by the Michigan
ar fc anthooks, two te nts, one 16x24, one Tradesman to be strictly confidential. Ad-
24x42: two shanties, 16x24 and 18x40;) gress No. 757, care Michigan Tradesman.
500,06 0 feet timber within a mile. R. M. 157
Cole. Milford, Mich : = ne For Sale—Stock of drugs and fixtures,
For Sale—Ore of the nicest little drug | ¢opmerly owned by E. C. Bacon, Lan-
stores in the best business city of 30,000 | cing, Mich.: can be bought at a bargain.
in Southern Michigan. tent $35. Have Write Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,
bought and -— for $2, = —— Fost Grand Rapids, Mich. 767
$ “Ee a aS vea wsune saies VET | —
$800. ‘cee No. "T64, care Michigan | For Sale—A small stock of drugs. Only
ede smn. 764 | Stock in town of 350 inhabitants. Ad-
ee Leena en ne ne ETD —|dress No. 698, care Michigan Tradesman.
For Sale—An $8000 stock of clothing | Q
an urnishings. Well established busi- —~ :
a . pi clothine stock in good town of For Sale—Grocery and crockery stock.
1.400 inhabitants. Address No. 763, care|4 good clean stock, good store building
Wicsean | Trade sman 7¢ situated in best of location and on popu-
ig ti isc —__— | lar side of the street, in active up-to-date
For Sale—Small stock of general mer- | town of 1,500 in the midst of good farm-
chandise; country store with ere ing country.

in connection, a hargain. Address J. C

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Springer, Big Pr: ririe Mich. 762
For Gale le-—Modern "qed market in-
voicing canal $1,500 in thriving Central
Michigan town of 1,500 inhabitants. tea-
son, i health. Address No. 741, care
Michigan ‘Tradesman. a
—¥or Sale—The D. Robeson ship chand-
lery, awnings, sails, paints, oils and wood-
enware business; established over 30
years. at Port Huron, Mich. teal es-
tate and business must be sold owing to

ill! health. Apply to Schoolcraft & Co.
Port Huron, Mich. a 743 a
For Sale —One of the oldest, best-estab-
lished second-hand businesses, in the best
of locations. Rent very cheap. Will sell
at very reasonable figures. Reason for
selling, other business to look after. A
good chance for a man of limited eapi-
tal. Address No. 744. care Michigan
sman. 744
ced _
furnish
Mich.
For Sale—A money-making drug busi-
ness. Address ©. K., eare Michigan
Tradesman. TAT
For Sale—Harness business in one of
the best harness towns in Western Penn-

 

  
 

if cle rk “wants position.
Geo. Hanson,
750

drug
references

ax
Can
Temple,

 

 

svlvania. Good schools. ° County seat.
Stock and fixtures $2,000. 3est reasons
fer selling. Investigate. Address Lock
Box 183, Ebensburg, Pa. 742
For Sale-—RBazaar, dry goods and no-
tions in Central-Michigan. Ten years in

business. Sufficient profits to retire. In-
voices $6.000 to $7.000 cash. The chance
of your life. Write No. 760, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 760

Have you a factory or interest in fac-

tory that is not paying? Tell me; I can
help vou. Strictly confidential. Address
C., care Michigan Tradesman. 745

 

For Sale—My drug stock and fixtures

of about two thousand dollars. Very
cheap if taken at once. Good reason for
selling. f. Hackett, Wolverine,
Mich. 746

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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-

poor tealth. Address H: Wills,
Plymouth, Mich. 701

For Sale—10,000 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 Rent or Sale— My meat market.
Good location oe any business. Address
630 Sth St., Traverse City, Mich. 706
For Sale—What remains of our stock of
general merchandise, mostly dry goods,
some shoes, etc. Inventories about $450.
Fifty per cent. of cost in cash takes it.
H. S. Rogers. Co., Copemish, Mich. 714

“Wanted—To buy stock of merchandise
from $4,000 to $30,000 for cash. Address
No. 253. care Michigan Tradesman. 253

~ For Sale—Grocery stock in live college
town; write for particulars. Address C.
I. Likens, University Place, Neb. 685

Wanted—Stock of general merchandise
or clothing or shoes. Give full particu-
lars. Address ‘‘Cash,’’ care ——

 

 

 

~ For Sale—$3,500 buys one-half or $7,000
buys whole hardware and grocery store;

good town, buildings and location; saies
in 1904, $36,000. Address box 143, Ona-
way, Mich. 61

 

Our business is
closing out stocks of goods or making
sales for merchants at your own
business, private or auction. e clean
out all old dead stickers and make youa
profit. Write for information. Chas. L
Yost & Co., Detroit, Mich. 250

‘Cash for yo your stock.

 

| Fleischmann,

| will pay traveling expenses.

lace of |

For Sale—480 acres of cut-over hard-
wood land, three miles north of Thomp- |

sonville.
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. 835
For Sale—First-class general _ stock,
$3,500. Live town, 25 miles from Grand
Rapids. Apply E. D. Wright, care Mus-
selman Grocery Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
576

 

 

Address No. 666, care Michi-
gan ‘Tradesman. 666

 

 

 

For Sale—A large second-hand safe,
fire ae burg!lar-proof. Write or come
and see it. H. S. Rogers Co., Copemish,
Mich. 713

For Sale—A stock of general mer-
chandise, consisting of dry goods, cloth-
ing, boots, shoes and groceries. Located

in one of the best towns in Michigan.
Have lease of store building for term of
years and a fine growing business. If you
want to locate in business that will make
you money from the start, it will pay you
to investigate. Address No. 676, care
Michigan Tradesman. 676
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 —
Blidg.. Chicago, ni. 611

a 50-bbl.

 

 

 

For Sale—Modern flour
send for full description and price. Car-
sonville Milling Co., Carsonville, Mich. 735
For Sale—For a bargain in the harness
business, communicate with B. M. Lingle
& Sons, Pack, ind. Town of 1,200. Only
one shop. Good reasons for selling. 737

For Sale—New stock of goods, consist-
ing of men’s, boys’ and ladies’ clothing
and shoes, invoicing about $6,000. Will
sell fixtures. Good business, large profits.
Will sell cheap if sold within thirty days.

mill.

 

Reason for selling, other interests oc-
cupy all my time. Write F. E. Starker,
Zattle Creek, Mich. 739

 

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 _
‘Wanted—Established mercantile or

manufacturing business. Will pay cash.
Give full particulars and lowest price.
Address No. 652, care Michian Trades-
man, 652

 

For Sale 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 good clean stock of gro-
ceries, lamps and crockery, located in
one of the brightest business towns in
Central Michigan. Has electric lights,

 

 

House and barn on premises. |

water works and telephone system, popu- |
lation 1,506 and surrounded by splendid |
| you want to close out or reduce your a
e

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

~ For Sale—Bakery. Good location. Doing
nice business. Apply to Judson —-

 

“For Sale—Half or entire interest in
new furniture store, oil and gas in abund-

 

 

ance and town booming. lSEBrisht pros-
pects for future. Population 2,000. Price
$3,000. Sickness cause for selling. John
Nutt, Pawhuska, Okla. 734
Wanted—-Location for clothing store in
good town of 1,200 to 2,500 inhabitants.
Box 36, Shepardsville, Mich. 732
For Sale at a bargain, small stock of

clean general merchandise and store with
adjoining dwelling. Wish to go out of
business before September 1. Address

Bargain, care Tradesman. 721
For Sale or Trade—A new modern, up-
to-date 100-barrel flouring mill, located
at Hornick, Ia. Address I. F. Searle,
zo

 

 

N. St., Lincoln, Neb.
For Sale—Wholesale and retail bakery,

 

confectionery and ice cream plant in the
heart of the largest coal field in Colorado.
Also in the oil belt. Invoice $2,500. Will
sell for $1,400 if taken at once. Box 403,
Floren: se, Colo. 726
For Sale-—Clean, " staple stock of gen-
eral merchandise, store, house and barn
in village in best farming community in
Michigan. No competition; best reasons
for selling. Cash or part time. Lock
Box tig, Pontiac, Mich. 728
For Sale-—Stock groceries and fixtures,
invoicing about $1,000. Located in one
of the best towns in Southern Michigan.
Reason for selling, other business. Ad-
dress No. 708, care Michigan 7a
708

 

 

| Chicago jobbing houses;

 

For Sale—A good millinery stock and
fixtures in a small town. Good reasons
for selling. Address Box 257, Stanton,
Mich 711

 

 

HELP WANTED.

 

Wanted—An experienced man for cloth-
ing and furnishings. Good permanent po-

sition for a good man. Address ‘‘Cloth-
ing,’’ care Michigan Tradesman. 129
Wanted—Cigar makers. Good job for
Z00d men. C. Kern & Co., 462 S.
Division St., Grand tapids Mich. 73
Wanted—Salesmen to carry double tip-
ped silk gloves to the retail trade as a
side line. Address Manufacturer, - E.
ton St., Glov i iN. ¥. 25

 

   

anted—Unregiste drug “aie to
write Aug. T. Fleischmann, former Sec-
retary Missouri Board of Pharmacy, for
1,000 selected Board of Pharmacy ques-
tions and answers. Price $1. Aus. T.
(M. T.) Kansas City, —
68

 

Salesman to carry a good side line that
Sells to
house furnishing, general and hardware
stores. Pocket model free. Season now
on. Novelty Mfg. Co., eee. Ol. 339

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS.

ee e Ferry” aga Co., Auctioneers. “The
leading sales company of the U. S. We
can 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, on
Dearborn St. Chicago. TM

Want ‘hae, continued on sicet page.

 

 

MAKE US PROVE

 

1. S. TAVLOS
MERCHANTS,

F. M, SMITH

“HOW IS THADE? Do
closing out any odds and ends on hand?
positively guarantee you a profit on all reduction
sales over allexpenses. Our plan of advertising
is surely a winner; our long experience enables us
to produce results that wil please you. We can
furnish you best of bank references, also many
write us for terms,
dates and full particulars.

Taylor & Smith, 53 River St., Chicago

 

YOU’LL BE SURPRISED

at the results obtained
from

Expert
Auctioneering

That’s our business
We promise little
We do much
We please
We satisfy
We get results
Our best references are
our present sales
Write today

 

A. W. Thomas Auction Co.
477 Wabash Ave., Chicago

 

THE AUCTIONEER WHO
NEVER HAS HAD
A FAILURE.

We get the ready cash you

need in your business and
do not lower your stand-
ine) 386i the community.
Write to-day.

R. H. B. MACRORIE
AUCTION CQ..
Davenport, ia.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

Keen Business Ability Required By
the Farmer.
Written for the Tradesman.

The farmer is a manysided man and
yet he is frequently referred to as a
man of one idea. The comic prints
caricature him as “Old Hayseed,”
“Farmer Corntossle,” and the like,
which, by the way, is a wholly false
representation of the man who, to
use an inelegant phrase, is the mud-
sill of the world.

In speaking in this way I mean, of
course, that the farmer is the foun-
dation of all other businesses in the
world. Let the agricultural interests
of the country be wiped out at one
fell blow and the people of the earth
would starve inside of a_ twelve-
month; and that a man of such vital
importance to the welfare of every
merchant and professional man in the
should be sneered at and
looked down upon is something pass-
ing the comprehension of a disinter-
ested on-looker. Providing the world
with its sustenance, the farmer ought
to be considered the best man in it.

universe

Merchants sometimes rail at the
man of agriculture because he finds
fault with the prices and turns to the
big mail order house in some distant
city. There may be—no doubt is—
some reason for the merchants’ dis-
satisfaction, but it might be well
enough for the store-keepers to look
within for a reason fer the farmer’s
independence. I knew a
who ran a general store in a little
town situated several miles from the
railroad. His store was the only one
in the place and per consequence he
had a monopoly of trade in the lit-
tle town, which he did not fail to use
to the profit of himself and the det-
riment of his customers. Naturally
enough, some of his patrons demur-
red at the stiff prices the merchant
put upon his goods. One lady in
particular said to him that she could
buy a certain article very much
cheaper at a neighboring town. “Go
to that place and get i then,
ma’am,”’ snapped the merchant with
angry elevation of the head. That
was, perhaps, the natural outburst of
a man who felt that this is a free
country and that if people did not
like his prices they could go else-
where for their merchandise. But
could they? Not one in twenty was
so situated that he could travel a
score of miles after a few pounds of
sugar or a half dozen yards of print.
The merchant understood this, and
because of it he “held up” his pat-
rons to a tune of his own singing.

Now, this merchant isn’t an anom-
aly by any means. There are plen-
ty more just like him—in fact, the
majority would do the same thing
under like circumstances. In towns
where there is great competition this
can not be done; consequently, the
humble agriculturist gets his dues.
Even in towns of considerable im-
portance there is only one store do-
ing a certain line of business, and
this fellow is apt to tuck on _ the
prices. Frequently it is a hardware
store, which, by the way, is one of
great importance to the farmer. His
agricultural implements, vehicles, and
so forth, come through the local

man once

 

house and, with but one dealer in the
town, the farmer has to pay a good
round price for what he buys. Here
comes the mail order house with
tempting prices quoted for the farm-
er’s especial benefit. Who can blame
him if he is tempted to save a few
dollars by purchasing abroad? Would
not the merchant do the same under
like circumstances?

Show me the merchant, if you can,
who would patronize a Grand Rapids
wholesale house because it is near
home when he could buy Io or 15
per cent. cheaper in New York. You
can not find him. Although the
farmer is sneered at through the pub-
lic print as an easy mark, yet be-
cause he often evinces business ca-
pacity sufficient to place his money
where it will do the most good his
home dealers are angry, and frown
upon him when he comes in to do a
little trading of a kind that is not
above outside points in price. The
farmer is certainly required, if he is
a good business man and would suc-
ceed in the race for life, to exhibit
ordinary shrewdness in his buying.

Here is a man, on a small farm,
not overly blessed with cold cash
yet who is in sore need of some farm
implement or vehicle which the home
price absolutely forbids his slender
purse from buying. He finds that a
mail order house in Chicago can
furnish the needed article at a price
which afford. Would it be
good business sense, do you think,
for this man to go without these
necessaries simply because he did not
to offend his local dealer?
Would the home merchant pay his
friend the farmer a price above the
outside market because of friendship
or fear of giving offense? There is
a good deal of human nature locked
up in the breast of every man, be he
merchant, farmer or what-not.

he can

wish

Some men combine farming with
mercantile business. These  oift-
times succeed; but it is not a good
combination. Stick to your last, my
shoemaker friend, and you will come
out the big end of the horn if it is in
you to succeed.

Speaking of mail order houses, it
seems to me very certain that these
institutions have come to stay. And
the only way for the local mer-
chants to do is to meet their prices.
“But this can not be done,” say you.
Possibly not. If it is true then the
want filled by the local merchant is
no longer of the kind once denomin-
ated “long felt.” Farmers are no
more perfect than other men. Man’s
occupation really has nothing to do
with his kindness of heart and hon-
esty of purpose. A sneak farmer will
cheat when piling wood as quickly
and as recklessly as will a merchant
in his weigh—it’s a way they have!

As a business man the farmer is
getting nearer to the front every day,
and all the kicking on the part of
other people who think they are “it”
will scarcely retard the progress of
the man of the soil. Keen business
ability is now required in every walk
in life. Even the school teacher and
minister of the gospel must recognize
and act up to this fact to even think
of succeeding. J. M. Merrill.

 

The Grain Market.

Weather conditions the past week
have been generally unfavorable for
wheat, general rains in all directions.
The reports from the Northwest the
past day or two are more encourag-
ing and with fairly favorable weath-
er that section of the country will
be up to the standard with both
wheat and oats. The Southwest is
progressing finely with harvest and
receipts of new wheat are increasing
daily. The visible supply of wheat
has shown a decrease of 851,000 bush-
els for the week; corn has increased
893,000 bushels; oats have increased
235,000 bushels. This leaves. the
present visibly supply of wheat 13,-
423,000 bushels, as compared with 13,-
478,000 bushels last year at this time.

The flour trade has shown some
improvement, the demand for all
grades is increasing and considerable
business has already been booked for
August and September = shipments.
There is some foreign demand from
both coasts, but it is only moderate
and for well-established brands.

The corn market continues strong,
with the demand good for immediate
shipments. Receipts of corn are like-
ly to be small for the next month,
so it will make little difference what
outlook

the weather may be.

 

do not anticipate any material break |

in prices for some time to come.
The oat market holds steady and
receipts are fairly liberal.
feeding standpoint there is too much
difference between the price of corn
and oats, and with above 60c
per bushel the temptation is strong
to 20 tone on oats. At the
time, we are only a few weeks to new

from a

corn

same

oats, and the outlook for the new
crop is far from being poor.

The trade on millfeed has’ been
quite brisk the past few days. Bran

and middlings are selling at from $5
and
meal, and feeders are taking advan-
this

@6 per ton less than for feed
discount.

L. Fred Peabody.

ne
Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.

Buffalo, July 12—Creamery, 18@
2034c; dairy, fresh, 14@17c; poor, 12
(@t4c.

Eggs—Fresh, candled,

Live Poultry—Fowls,
12@I13C; I0@IIc;
(@22c.

Dressed Poiltry—Fowls,
old cox, foc.

Beans—Hand picked marrows, new,
$3: mediums, $2.15@2.20; peas, $1.80
(1.90; red kidney, $2.50@2.60; white
kidney, $2.75@2.90.

Potatoes—New, $1@I.50 per _ bbl.

Rea & Witzig.

Se
The Boys Behind the Counter.
Houghton-—William Schils, of Es-

canaba, an expert pharmacist and a

graduate of the Milwaukee Medical

College, has accepted a position with

F. W. Kroll, the Shelden street drug-

gist. Mr. Schils was employed by

Sourwine & Hartnett, of Escanaba,

previous to coming here.
Belding—Ed. Pierce, recently with

the Pierce grocery store, has taken

a position with F. H. Hudson.
Lansing—E. S. Nivison has resign-

tage of

164@17%e.
12c; ducks,
geese, springs, 20

13@14Cc;

 

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ed his position as clerk at the East
Side pharmacy and will in the fu-
ture personally conduct the business
of Chapin & Nivison, druggists at
1127 Washington avenue.
a

Once upon a time beer was made
of hops, malt and water. Now, ac-
cording to the testimony of a brew-
er before the Philadelphia Food Com-
mission, nearly all the beer brewed
in this country contains sulphite of
lime as a tartaric § acid,
salicylic acid, acrolic acid, kairumme-
da sulphite as preservative; juniper
berries as an antidote for the sali-
cylic acid; citric acid as a flavor; ben-
zoic acid as an antiseptic, and tannic
acid as a bleacher.

—_. <-> ___

The only bird the average

cares to cage is the eagle on the dol-

cleanser;

man

lar.

BustsDanls

BUSINESS CHANCES. i
For Sale—Only harness shop in town of
2 000 inhabitants, at invoice. Address Ed.
Cordeman, Chetopa, Kansas. 769

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale—Clothing and shoe business
in a lively up-to-date town of 2,000. Stock
will invoice about $9,000. Annual sales,
Good reason for selling. Ad-

|dress No. 768, care Michigan Tradesman.

768
The store vacated by Gitts & Co., at
Marsnall, Minnesota, is for rent. En-

quire or write M. E. Mathews, Marshall,
Minnesota. 760

 

 

for Sale—General stock, store building,

dwelling and barn located in thriving por-

tion of Holland colony. Only store within

four miles. Enquire 40 Alpine avenue,
Grand Rapids, or Michigan Tradesman.
. 762

: Wanted—Merchandise for cash and lots

in a city of 7,000. Address No. 763, care
Michigan Tradesman. 763

 

Pacific Coast. Terminus of Grand Trunk
Pacific. Skeena River Route. For sale—
Powerful stern wheel steamer, Hamlin.
ult by C. PP. BR. Co. in 1898 Klondike
rush. Cost $30,000. Will pay for herself
In @ year. Price $5,000. Particulars, H.
A. Jones, 405 Cordova St., Vancouver,
a. C 764
For Sale Cheap--Two pool tables in
gvod condition with balls and cues. Ad-
dress G. S. Putnam, 1169 Wealthy Ave.,
: Rapids, Mich. 765

 

  
  

or Sale or Exchange—$6,000 stock gen-
eral merchandise. Write Evans & Holi,
Fremont, Mich. 712
: Wanted—Partner with $5,000 or $10,000
in established overall factory. Increasing
business demands more capital. Ben.
Martin Mfg. Co., Springfield, Mo. 707
For Sale for cash only; new stock of
general menchandise, principally dry
goods, shoes and groceries; splendid lo-
cation; steam heat, cash carriers, lighting
plant, glass floor cases; everything mod-
ern; doing good business; fine building;
rent reasonable; located at Hudson, Lin-
coln county, S. D., in the best farming
communityp in the state. Don't expect
to bay this stock at any great sacrifice.
Will charge no bonus, but will sell right;
$18,000 stock; will reduce to suit pur-
chaser; present owner has other interests
that demand his attention. Address Oscar
C. Olson, findson, S. Db. 05
For Sale—Brick yard, all complete, now
running; good market; fine retail trade
established; good reasons for selling. Ad-
dress W. | C. Davie, Tacoma, Wash. 679
_ Chance to sell for cash, all machinery
in your factory or mill mortgaged or
otherwise. Hastings Metal & Machinery
Co., Hastings, Mich. 6

 

 

 

 

 

~ POSITIONS WANTED

I want a position in general store. Have
had ten years’ experience in groceries, dry
g00ds, boots and shoes and hardware.
Will also run wagon. Address G. V., Oak-
land, Mich. "761

 

From Kankakee
The only drawers supporters
for men. We prove it S your
wearing them, They hang
direct from suspender and are
‘asily adjusted. A quick seller.
Your jobber or sample for dime.
HOLD UP MFG. CO., Kankakee, Ill,

 

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