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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1906
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Twenty-Third Year Number 1192
Our Cheerful Family
Brother William, last September,
Had a sunstroke—can’t remember.
““ If the sunshine doesn’t kill,
Pass it on,” says brother Bill.
Father lost his job last May,
Since then hasn’t worked a day.
Still, I guess we'll get along.
It’s a good thing mother’s strong.
When the icy pavements froze,
Grandma fell and broke her nose.
Might have been just twice as bad
If two noses grandma’h had.
In the laundry, sister Flo
Fell into the indigo.
Flo said, when they brought her to:
““ What’s the use of feeling blue? ”
Meningitis killed the pig
Just when it was fat and big.
Hard luck? Well, the doctors say
Pork’s unhealthy anyway.
When the roof blew off the house,
Gee! It would have froze a mouse.
’Ceptin’ when we have a storm
Guess the mortgage keeps it warm.
Sam S. Stinson
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Twenty-Third Year
Number 1192
GRAND RAPIDS
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IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.
. Gone Beyond.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Window Trimming.
The Cloven Hoof.
8. Editorial.
9. Backwoods Incident.
10. Fruits and Produce.
11. New York Market.
12. Something for Nothing.
14. Dry Goods.
16. The Vacation Season.
17. Faith in Charms.
18. Woman’s World.
20. Idealists and Dreamers.
22. The Farm Home.
24. Fraud and Deception.
26. Clothing.
27. Poison Whisky.
28. Alertness.
30. Greatest Money Makers.
32. Shoes.
36. Woman’s Birthright.
38. Men’s Wear Fabrics.
40. Commerciai Travelers.
42. Drugs.
HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Transient Traders’ Law Set ASide By
Supreme Court.
Five of the nine Justices of the
Supreme Court handed down an opin-
ion yesterday sustaining the opinion
of Judge Stuart, of the Superior
Court of Grand Rapids, holding the
transient traders’ law enacted by the
Legislature in 1905 unconstitutional.
Judge Stuart presented three grounds
for his opinion, but the Supreme
Court ignored two of them and de-
clared the law void because it con-
tained a provision authorizing com-
mon councils to exempt certain trad-
ers from the provision of the law.
The full text of the provision is as
follows:
This is a petition for a mandamus
brought by the Prosecuting Attorney
of Kent County to compel the re-
spondent to reinstate a prosecution
under Act 214, Public Acts of 1905.
Y. Matsuhara and Frank K. Ellis
were arrested under this Act upon
information filed by relator and upon
motion to quash were discharged by
respondent on the ground that the
statute in question is illegal and un-
constitutional in several particulars.
The Act in question is entitled “An
Act to provide for licensing and regu-
lating the business of transient mer-
chants, to prevent the fraudulent sale
of goods by such transient merchants,
to provide a lien on the goods of
such transient merchants for the li-
cense fees prescribed by this Act, and!
to provide penalties for the violation)
thereof.”
In Section 1 the Act attempts to)
define a transient merchant as fol-
lows: “A transient merchant, within,
the meaning of this Act, is any per-|
son or corporation who shall engage |
in, do or transact any temporary or}
transient business in any township, |
city or village in this State in the}
sale of goods, wares and merchandise |
and who, for the purpose of carry-}
ing on such business, shall hire, lease |
or eccupy any building or room, in-|
cluding rooms in hotels, for the ex-
| proper
lever would have been enacted.
hibition and sale of such goods, wares
and merchandise.”
In Section 2, the license fees are
fixed according to the size of the dif-
ferent classes of municipalities, that
for the class including Grand Rapids
being fixed at twenty dollars per day
for the first ten days and tén dol-
lars per day thereafter.
Appended to Section 1 is the fol-
lowing proviso: “Provided that any
city or village council may, by a
two-thirds’ vote of all the members,
elect to suspend the provisions of
this Act in any specific instance or
case.”
It is claimed this Act is illegal and
unconstitutional for the following rea-
sons:
t he title to the Act is not
broad enough, and hence violates
Section 20 of Article IV of the Con-
stitution of the State.
2. The license fees fixed by the
Act are unreasonable and prohibitive,
and therefore violate Section 32 of
Article VI of the Constitution of the|
State of Michigan. |
3. The law provides for discrimina- |
tion and is unequal in its application)
to members of the same class,
therefore violates Section 32 of Ar-|
ticle VI of the Constitution of the|
State of Michigan, and Section 1 of |
Article XIV of the amendments to)
the Constitution of the United States. |
In our views of the case, it will not |
be necessary to consider all of these|
objections to the Act, as we think|
the third reason stated is conclusive. |
The provision for the payment of|
the license, if read in connection with |
the proviso which gives the munici-|
j
|
and
pality authority to relieve favored in-|
is a vio-|
dividuals from its payment,
lation of that provision of the Four-|
teenth Amendment of the United!
States Constitution reading: ‘“Nor}
(shall any state) deny to any person |
within its jurisdiction the equal pro-|
tection of its laws.” See Gulf, ate.
Ry. vs. Ellis, 165 U. S. 150; Yick Wo}
vs. Hopkins; 118 U. S. 356; State vs.
Conlon, 65 Conn. 478. The only an-|
swer relator makes to this objection}
is that “the proviso is essential |
part of the act....That a little judi-|
1
no
| cial surgery applied by this court toj|- ° a
tesy that was shown him.
said proviso whereby the same shall}
ibe removed will be a wholesome and|
thing to do.” We
accept that argument. We
say that without the proviso the
can not}
can not
law
The application for the writ is de-
nied.
———> +2
STREET MANNERS.
A writer in the Outlook complains |
of the unbearable rudeness’ with
which people treated the |
streets in the nation’s great metropo-
lis.
In that city it is commonly held
are on
ithe very poorest of tt
|mane. If that be
that everybody is in a hurry; that it
is a place where every person wh
works for a living needs to hustle,
and that, if persons who have nothing
to do but to find means of passing
the time get in the road of the busy
multitude, they must expect to be
crowded or even crushed.
The writer mentioned thinks that
strangers in any city witi whose
ways they are unacquainted will find
that hey are as much in the way of
the crowd as they would be in New
York.
There are some who, in discussing
the inconsiderateness of -the crowds
in New York, hold that the conges-
tion of population is not plainly re-
sponsible for the lack of civility which
i strangers complain of and even many
New
they
Yorkers regretfully admit, for
say that in London, a larger
place, incivility is the exception and
not the rule. Those take this
view maintain that metropolitan man-
who
ners have deteriorated by reason of
the of ignorant
foreigners who come to this country
stop in New York for lack of
means to go further than the port
In this way New York gets
lis supply from
These people have
immense _ hordes
and
of entry.
the Old World.
nearly all been peasants at home,
coming from what stump orators
call “the downtrodden scum. of
Europe.”
are civil
When they reach here they
enough in a cringing
servile way, but they soon lose this
attitude, for they are taught that in
and
this country ail men are equal. In
their ignorant way they know no oth-
er method of asserting this equality
except by a rudeness of manner and
action. This the
germ which has extended throughout
the city with so baneful an effect that
7 ’
Satoal
fatal
influence is
| y out caro io Sie
New York, notwithstandin
churches, her schools, her
and her art galleries, has a re
by no means to be envied.
The writer
to defend the people of the metropo-
< oni . Af 1
in question 1s disposed
lis from charges of undue rudeness,
1 7 1 1 - *
but he acknowledges that, the farther
from New York and
be called the metropolitan
the greater I
ne got away
what might
influence,
ne court
ic
He thinks
; aw . 4 P ! h- he $44 1 -
it may be supposed that the furthe1
was
one gets from New York the less
i busy the people are, and that there-
fore they have more time to be con-
| siderate of others, in fact to be hu-
the only reason, then
|those who are compelled to live in
as ee a s
New York should be sorry for the
necececity in oy L < +t e
necessity that keeps them there;
those wl live in lesser ni »s sheould
those who lve in lesser piaces snoiuid
ibe glad that they are where they are.
A
1
When a man falls in love with him-
self his life is rarely blighted by un-
requited affection.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
GONE BEYOND.
F. A. Hall,
Savings Bank.
death Mr. Ferdinand
occurred Thursday,
of
most
In of
Hall,
July
the
which on
the
one of
19, city Grand
loses its estimable citi-
zens, the Grand Rapids Savings Bank
painstaking, well-
and the Grand Rap-
E
Val
leases a taith tal,
yfficer
House a
equipped «
ids Cl
spected official.
Mr. Hall
earing ued and re-
was a shy man and one
demanded,
friends
except as his business
he had
was a
ple
but
and
many very close
counselor whose
and
expcricnces
His
range
him
va-
ot
was sought cherished.
ried in a wide
relationsips equipped
position which he held twen
the Grand Rapid;
the eminent satis
oard of Directors.
intui
in the
charac-
made
that
busine ss
for
ty
Savings
the
-one years in
Bank
of its B
having a
to
faction
was a man woman’s
quick
the
rments were
and was especially
obliq in
tion
rf utv
detection
l
ter of men; his judg
ofte
ickly and he remarked
hirst
nal ee 3 was
that
in his judgments.
had taught him that
from this he usually erre¢
the bankers of Grand Rapids
an able man whose
strangers
: : :
always guide
for
ought to
the
one
experi-
he
1
his
:
when
varied
Among
he
counsel]
was considered
iudgment
the
and gladly
He
were
absolute confi-
and
Vy of
oa
sougnt.
of
iad
of Directors
dence (
the fullest authorit
he
action.
Mr. i
NY.
educated
was given
in Rochester,
1846, and was
schools of that
age of 19
His fa-
and
lad,
Tall
September
bor:
LO,
the public
there at the
work of life.
minister
was
leaving
up
was a Prest
when Ferdinand was but a
lived until 1870,
Mar. tall, a
now of
of
city,
to
ther
died
His
three
W. N.
Kansas,
take the
yyterian
mother leavi
children: brother,
Hall,
and a
Independence,
who died in 1872.
Mr.
Pal
the
depart-
sister
ochester,
Titusville
of
Upon
leaving R
family t
settled a
he entered the
Creek Railroad in
ment. In 1867 he
agent at Boyd Farm,
the terminus the
across
employ
its freight
was
was then
and
which
of railroad
ter, which had a wide reputation dur-
ing the time of the great oil excite-
ment. While engaged here he and a
friend by the name of Bushnell be-
came greatly interested in the possi-
bilities of cotton in the
South and, desiring to take a hand
it, they moved
across the river from Memphis,
rented a large plantation, Mr. Hall
taking the management of it. This
experience he often referred to as a
most important one in his career, as
viving him an insight into questions
of the highest importance in connec-
with Southern agriculture. ->—____
He is false to his God who fears
to be true to himself.
> S__—_
The rewards of faith are not given
Ord: of
fog the service of fear.
JY
tee?
+. ___
No man ever did anything heroic
so long as he had one eye fixed on his
halo.
will |
The Helplessness of Great Cities.
The danger of an ice famine in|
| Washington emphasizes the fact that|
a great city is pitifully destitute of |
resources and is the weakest of hu-
man organizations
look out for itself. It is dependent |
upon the outside world to an ex-
tent little dreamed of until a mishap}
in the complicated machinery dis-|
closes the relationship. The food it|
and the water it drinks must
come from outside, and an interrup-
tion of a day in the steady process|
of supply causes untold inconvenience |
and threatens danger and disease.
|
in the ability to
|
|
!
|
{
|
2ats
The helplessness of a great city!
never better illustrated than
when the earth trembled a few sec-
onds under San Francisco on April|
18 last. This tremor did compara-|
tively small damage to buildings, but
it worked havoc by snapping water
and gas mains, electric wires, and rail-
road tracks. In an instant the city!
was deprived of water, food, light,
transportation facilities and means of |
communication. The that
shut off the water set the city on fire
| and burned the small stores of food.
| Street railways were paralyzed, the
telephones and telegraphs were use-|
less, and human beings were reduced |}
to aboriginal methods of living and/|
| locomotion.
igle railroad track was left so little
| damaged as to be easily repaired, and
| by superhuman work sufficient food
was brought in to prevent starvation.
i If the outside world had not rushed
to their assistance, the people of San
Francisco would have perished in the!
was
tremor
By mere accident a sin-| jj
midst of a land of running waters
and flowing with milk and honey.
Such complete wreckage of urban
facilities is rare in history, and could
lonly occur through convulsions of
nature or warlike assault and siege.
It is comparatively easy, however,
for the delicate mechanism of any city
to be thrown out of gear temporarily
by reason of accident or lack of fore-
This fact
mind by those who act as purveyors
of food, ice, water, and other neces-
sities of life. In providing for a city
they are dealing with a monstrous,
sight. should be borne in
| hungry, witless creature, of enormous
| capacity for consumption and
abso-
lutely without thought of the
row.—Washington Post.
mor-
——~
A Natural Mistake.
Herford
doubtful looking restaurant in a small
town and ordered a lamb chop. Aft-
er a long delay the waiter returned,
bearing a plate on
Oliver once entered a
which reposed a
idab of mashed potato and a much
overdone chop of microscropical
; < ‘? © L-- ley 1 "tr
portions with 2 remarkably long and
slender rib attached. This the waiter
set down before him and then hur-
ried away.
“See here,” called Herford, “I or-
dered a chop.”
‘Yes, sir,” replied the man, “there
Ht is.”
"Ah. s it S repi d Herford,
peering at it closely I thought
was a crack in the plate
The appeal to heroism within wins
more men than the promise of heav
en beyond.
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WORDEN (GROCER COMPANY
Cor. Island and Ottawa Sts.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Movements of Merchants.
Vicksburg—L. H. Weldin, of Law-
ton, has opened a general store here. |
Calumet—A new clothing store has
been opened by Hocking & Michael-
son.
Elsie—Loehr & Smith
Travis, Baker & Loehr in the drug
business.
Port Huron-—J. G. Nelson has open-
ed a new paint shop and wall paper
store here.
Detroit—The capital stock
Federal Coal Co. has been increased
from $10,000 to $15,000.
Grand Ledge—The Woodhouse Co;
of Grand Rapids, has sold its cigar
store at this place to Arthur Hixson.
of
of Menominee, have purchased the
J. Pipkorn.
Battle Creek—Charles N. Kane has
purchased the grocery stock of C. F.
Spaulding and will continue the busi-
ness at the same stand.
Grand Ledge—John Walsh has sold
elevator to Wm. Ireland, of
Chesaning, who will take possession
of same about Aug. I5.
Boyne City—S. Joseph and F. Kalil
have formed a copartnership and will
conduct a grocery and dry goods busi-
ness under the style of Joseph & Co.
his
Cadillac — The Law-Starkey Co.,
which deals in clothing, furnishing
goods and boots and shoes, has
changed its name to the L. J. Law
Co.
Ishpeming—F. Braastad will close
out his general merchandise, meat
and grain business here and go to
Canada, where he has a new project
in view.
Rochester—Horvitz Bros. have sold
their dry goods, clothing and boot
and shoe stock to A. and F. Barnett,
formerly of the Hub Clothing Store
at Pontiac.
Munising--The
grocery stock of
James Thomson will soon be closed|
| stock from $35,000 to $70,000.
out and Blake Thomson, who man-
aged the business, will engage in the
feed business and will also sell wood.
Marquette |
Manistee — The Pere
Land Co. has been incorporated to
deal in real estate with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.
Muskegon—G. H. Van De Water
has sold his furniture stock to A. B.
Shaw, who has recently returned
from Panama, where he was in the em-
ploy of the United States Govern-
ment.
Millington—The Millington Grain
Co. has been incorporated to deal in
grain and seeds. The company has
an authorized capital stock of $10,000,
of which amount $5,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.
Muskegon—Alfred C. Johnson and
Frank B. Johnson have formed a
copartnership under the style of
Johnson Bros. and engaged in the
drug business at the corner of Wash-
ington avenue and Beidler street.
succeed |
the |
|ized capital stock of
Marshall—Verne Ludwig has utter-
(ed a trust mortgage on his confec-
tionery stock to H. J. Cortright. The
course was necessitated by the im-
pending foreclosure of a mortgage
i held on the stock by Geo. Ooleman.
Reese—A corporation has been
formed under the style of John Schad
& Co., which will deal in retail hard-
ware. The company has an author-
2,500, all of
‘which has been subscribed and paid
'in in cash.
Bellevue—Frank H. Latta has pur-
chased an interest in the feed and fuel
of Wm. N. Dibble. They
business
|will conduct the business under the
|style of Dibble & Latta and intend
‘to engage in the farm implement busi-
ery
ness later.
Boyne City—The D. T. Bush bak-
outfit has been acquired by
|George D. Chittum, of Petoskey, for
five years employed with the Petos-
‘key Grocery Co., who has engaged
Powers—Charles Johnson and son,}
in the grocery, bakery and confec-
|tionery business.
store building and warehouse of A.|
| formed
Escanaba—A corporation has been
to deal in real estate under
the style of the Escanaba Masonic
Building Co. The authorized capital
stock of the company is $15,000, of
which amount $10.000 has been sub-
scribed and $7,000 paid in in cash.
Hancock—The dry goods business
formerly conducted by Newman A.
Metz has been merged into a stock
company under the style of the Metz
Cloak & Millinery Co. with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed
$2,500 paid in in cash.
Detroit—A_ corporation
and
has been
formed under the style of the Pro-}
gressive Light Co. for the purpose of
dealing in gas fixtures and mantles.
The company has an authorized cap-
ital stock of $10,000, of which amount
$7,500 has been subscribed, $500 be-
ing paid in in cash and $7,000 in prop-
; erty.
Manufacturing Matters.
Pentwater—J. P. Baert, formerly of
Zeeland, has opened a cigar factory
here.
Port Huron—The Howard Furni-
ture Co. has increased its capital
Kenton—The Sparrow-Kroll Lum-
ber Co.’s mill, which was damaged by
a windstorm two weeks ago, is op-
erating again. Both stacks were
blown down, damaging the roof.
Detroit — The Detroit Insulated
Wire Co. has been incorporated to
manufacture wire with an authorized
capital stock of $100,000, of which
amount $51,000 has been subscribed
and $10,000 paid in in cash.
Waldron—C. C. Colvin, of Medina,
is negotiating to rent or buy the
creamery building to put in a cheese
factory. Mr. Colvin has had an ex-
perience of about twenty years in the
cheese business and now owns four
factories.
Detroit—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Yuerhs-
Breitmeyer Co. to manufacture ma-
chinery with an authorized capital
stock of $25,000, of which amount
$18,550 has been subscribed, $1,575
being paid in in cash and $12,250 in
property. \
|
the timber.
|
in the Au Sable River, has just fin-
Jackson—The Steel-Swallow Auto
Co. has been incorporated for the
purpose of manufacturing automo-
biles with an authorized capital stock
of $100,000, of which amount $60,000
bas been subscribed and paid in in
property.
Detroit — The International Ma-
chinery & Engineering Co. has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $20,000, of which amount
$10,100 has been subscribed and $2,000
paid in in cash. The corporation
will manufacture machinery.
Detroit—A corporation has been
formed to manufacture metal articles
under the tsyle of the Detroit Metal
Furniture Co. The company has an-
authorized capital stock of $100,000,
of which amount $84,500 has been
subscribed and paid in in property.
Hudson—The Hazen Manufactur-
Co. has decided to move its
stock and machinery from Toledo to
this place and will begin at an early
date the erection of a factory and
commence the manufacture of pumps
and conduct the general business of
ing
the factory here.
Pontiac—A corporation has been}
formed under the style of the Wright |
Machine Co., which will manufacture |
cement block machinery. The com-|
pany has an authorized capital stock |
of $5,000, all of which has been sub-|
scribed, $1,000 being paid in in cash |
and $2,220 in property.
Mt. Clemens—A_ corporation has
been formed under the style of the|
Mt. Clemens Poultry & Stock Food|
Co., which will manufacture poultry |
and stock food. The company has an}
authorized capital stock of $1,000, all!
of which has been subscribed, $450
being paid in in cash and. $550 in
property.
Cadillac—William Cassler has sold
an interest in about 5,000,000 feet of |
timber in Upper Michigan to Thomas
Hartnell, and the contract for manu-
facturing the timber has been let to
McNamare & Simmons. The timber
is near Newberry and the Simmons
sawmill at Lucas will be moved to
Naubinway—E. L. Houseman, of
Muskegon, has bought the old mill
plant and docks here and also the
Holland cutover lands, and will at
once start remodeling the mill, pre-
paratory to beginning logging. It is
ten years since the plant was operat-
ed, but the new owners have eight
or ten years’ supply of timber in
sight.
Lansing—Wiliiam C. Brown has
been appointed by the U. S. Court
receiver of the Lansing Veneered
Door Co., of which a trustee was ap-
pointed last week at the request of
creditors. The liabilities, it was
said, may exceed $50,000. The Ve-
neered Door Co. has been managed
by Charles Broas for the past half
dozen years.
Au Sable—Chris Yockey, who for
two or three years has been engaged
in the work of raising sunken logs
ished a scow for use in this work. It
is substantially constructed and is
fifty-three feet long, eighteen feet
beam and draws less than twelve
inches of water. A gasoline engine
| Port
is used for pulling up the logs.
Albion—J. B. Timberlake, of the
firm of J. B. Timberlake & Sons,
manufacturers of wire specialties at
Jackson, has purchased the bazaar
stock of Andrews & Keller. It is
stated that the stock has been bought
for Miss E. R. Timberlake and Miss
Rachael Bell, who will come to this
place at once. C. O. Gages, of Buffa-
lo, will assume the management of
the business.
Coloma—Spielmann Bros., of Chi-
cago, have closed a contract with L.
L. Merrill and Charles Hartman for
the erection of a vinegar and cider
plant here. They have purchased the
mill of W. S. Hallman and will re-
model the plant, making it larger.
Their main building will be 4ox100
feet, two stories high, with basement,
and is to be entirely constructed of
concrete blocks.
Ontonagon—The Sagola Lumber
Co. has finished its logging operations
in this county and now has a crew
of men at work taking up the tracks.
The stee! will be shipped to Sagola,
Dickinson county, for an extension
of the logging railway there. The
company has established a logging
camp with fifty men on a tract of
timber near the Northland branch of
the Escanaba & Lake Superior Rail-
road.
Battle Creek—This place may still
be able to keep the Perkins Refriger-
ator Co., which threatens to move to
Huron. While the directors
favor accepting a $15,000 loan, with-
out interest, at Port Huron, the stock-
holders favor staying in Battle Creek.
iIf this is done, a new factory must
be built, as the American Cereal Co.,
of Chicago, will take possession of
the Refrigerator Co.’s present factory
Aug. 1. But business men are will-
ing to erect this factory, lease it to
the company, and allow the industry
to buy if, al 5 per cent. mterests-
It is believed the offer will be taken
up.
Ontonagon—A number of Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway off-
cials were at Ontonagon a few days
ago, in connection with the proposed
branch southwest from Ontonagon.
In the party were J. H. Hyland, Sec-
ond Vice-President; D. C. Cheney,
Assistant General Superintendent,
and a number of others. The survey
for the new line was completed a
few weeks ago and it was reported
that construction work would be
started this summer. It appears,
however, that difficulty is being en-
countered in securing a right of way,
as some of the property owners near
Ontonagon object to its construction,
as the road will haul logs away from
there for the first few years.
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J. Jourdan, formerly engaged in the
grocery business in this city, has re-
engaged in trade at 1306 South Di-
vision street. The Worden Grocer
Co. furnished the stock.
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Allen & Wells have engaged in the
dry goods and grocery business at
Sunfield. The Worden Grocer Co.
furnished the grocery stock.
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The path to the poorhouse is strewn
with ninety-eight-cent bargains and
unpaid store bills.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
5
The Produce Market.
Apples—The crop of early varie-
ties is only fair in quantity, but ex-
cellent in quality. There is said to
be a large crop of the late varieties,
and there is every indication that
this fruit will be plentiful this fall.
Bananas—$t for small bunches,
$1.25 for large and $2.25@2.50 for
Jumbos. There is no change either
in prices or in the situation. Large
quantities are moving at firm prices.
Beets—r1sc per doz.
Blackberries—$1.75 @2 per 16 qt.
crate. The crop is being badly cut
by the dry weather and will be short
and unsatisfactory.
Butter—Creamery is in strong de-
mand and large supply at 2Ic for ex-
tra and 20c for No. 1. Dairy grades
are in active demand at 17c for No.
t and 14c for packing stock. The re-
ceipts are about normal, an_ the
quality is running good for the sea-
son. The consumptive demand is
active, and there is also a good spec-
ulative demand. The future price of
butter depends on the production, and
that depends on the weather. There
will probably be no radical change
in any grade within the next few
days.
Cabbage—Home grown is in large
supply and strong demand at 50c per
doz.
Carrots—-15c per doz.
Celery—Home grown
20c per bunch.
Cocoanuts—$3.50 per bag of about
Cucumbers-—25c per doz. for home
grown hot house.
Eggs—Local dealers pay 16%4c case
count delivered for all offerings which
bear indications of being fresh. The
quality is running poorer all the
time and the current receipts plainly
show the effects of heat. The supply
of fancy eggs is light on this ac-
count, and the next change will prob-
ably be an advance. This, however,
may not take place at once. The de-
mand is entirely for consumption,
and only the fresh receipts are avail-
able, as prices are not yet high
enough to permit the withdrawal of
eggs from storage.
Green Corn—r5c per doz.
commands
Green Onions—tsc for Silver
Skins.
Green Peas—Telephones and Mar-
rowfats command $1@1.25 per bu.
-~Honey—13@14c per tb. for white
clover. Both comb and extract are
in good demand.
ILemons—-The market has dropped
to $4.75@5 for either Californias or
Messinas.
Letttrce—6oc per bu. box.
Musk Melons—Gems command 60c
per basket. Alabama fetch $1.75 per
crate. California Rockyfords range
from $4 per crate of 45 to 54.
Onions—Texas Bermudas are still
in strong demand at $1.50 per crate
for yellow and $1.75 for Silver Skins.
Oranges — Mediterranean Sweets,
$4.25@4.50; Late Valencias, $5@5.25.
Parsley—3o0c per doz. bunches.
Peaches — Albertas from Texas
command $1.50 per % bu. basket or
$1.50 per 6 basket crate.
Pieplant—Home grown fetches 50c
per 40 th. box.
Pineapples — Floridas command
$3.25 for 42s and $3.50 for 36s, 30s
and 24s.
Potatoes—Southern command $2.75
per bbl.; home grown are gaining in
attention on the basis of $2.50 per
bbl.
Radishes—tI2c per doz. L
Raspberries—Reds and _ Blackcaps
command $1.80@1.90 per 16 qt. crate.
The crop is being cut short by the
dry weather.
Tomatoes—75c per 6 basket crate
for Southern. Home grown com-
mand $4 per bu.
Turnips—r5c per doz.
Water Melons—z0@25c. Receipts
are a little larger and the quality is
as fine as was ever seen. Prices are
a little easier, and they are moving
into consumption very well, although
the cool days Monday and Tuesday
checked the demand temporarily.
Wax Beans-—75c per bu.
Whortleberries—$1.75 per
erate.
16 qt.
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Best Bunco Game Ever Worked on
the Public.
About once a year for the past
twenty years the Tradesman _ has
warned its readers to beware of the
Sprague Mercantile Agency, of Chi-
cago, on account of the manner in
which it has treated its subscribers
in the past. The membership fee paid
by the subscriber is regarded in the
light of a graft fund by the clever
swindlers connected with the com-
pany and the net proceeds of all
subscription fees are whacked up
equally between the agent and the
company—that is, if the agent is
more honest than the officers and
does as he is expected to do by his
superiors in crookedness. The Trades-
man has received hundreds of com-
plaints against this company during
the past dozen years and will proba-
bly continue to receive similar com-
plaints in the future, because’ the
company acts on the theory that a
jew sucker is born every minute and
that it may as well capture its share
of them. The Tradesman has in its
possession documentary evidence of
the crooked character of the con-
cern, which it wil! be pleased to ex-
hibit to any one who has any doubts
as to the unscrupulous methods pur-
sued by the gang who operate un-
der the name of the Sprague Mer-
cantile Agency.
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Uttered a Trust Mortgage.
Francis S. Depew, cigar dealer at
13 West Bridge street, has uttered a
trust mortgage to Peter Doran,
trustee, securing his four principal
creditors in the following amounts:
Fleck Cigar Co. Reading,
ee $1,700 on
Steele-Wedeles Co.. Chicago 176 15
Woodhouse Co., Grand Rap-
PAS 143 50
Worden Grocer Co., Grand
Rapes 2060002 108 00
Mr. Depew claims that his stock
and fixtures inventory about $3,000,
in which case he will probably be able
to pay his creditors in full.
The Grocery Market.
Tea—The list is unchanged in every
respect from the basis which has
been ruling for several weeks. Some
interest has been created in tea cir-
cles by the announcement from Japan
that the government intends to grad-
ually take all of its larger industries
under wing. This includes
tea, of course, and if carried out may
mean some radical changes. Several
its own
years ago the Japanese government |
undertook the same plan and_ lost
enormous sums of money.
Canned Goods—The pea situation
is said to be getting serious. A great
deal now depends upon the Wiscon-
sin pack, as the South was very
short. New York packers will de-
liver only 60 to 75 per cent. of the
orders and the Michigan output is
reported to be very short. The corn
market is very firm, with good stock
for immediate delivery comparatively
scarce and offerings of futures spar-
ingly made. Offerings in New York
of new country-packed standard 3-
th. Maryland tomatoes for immediate
shipment attracted less attention per-
haps than they would have had not
the spot market for old goods set-
tled down at the same time to a low-
er figure. As the latter have the
advantage of superior quality over
the new goods, even at an
price, such demand as was
would have gone to the old goods
There is not much
and buyers continue to observe a
very conservative policy. In the
present weak and unsettled condition
of the spot market little or no atten-
tion is paid to futures. The Califor-
Canners’ finally
made prices on its 1906 pack. Gallon
equal
going
buying interest
nia Association has
apples are somewhat firmer. Salmon
is firm, but the market for spot
goods is still quiet, and it is too
early yet for futures. No change in
the price of domestic sardines has yet
occurred, but the tendency of the
market is strongly upward as a re-
sult of continued extreme scarcity,
and an advance of 5@Ioc a case is
confidently looked for.
Dried Fruits—Currants are a shade
lower and in very light demand. Cit-
ron is unchanged and in fair demand.
The price will advance Ic per pound
on August I. Spot prunes are un
changed and are very scarce. There
would be some demand were there
goods to be had. Future prunes have
settled down to a 2%c basis for San-
ta Claras, all around. The demand
is light, as most of the trade are fill-
ed up at 234@3c. Peaches are un-
changed. Spot peaches are scarce and
futures are still maintained on a
high basis. Apricots are not at all
prominent just now. Spot cots are
scarce and futures prohibitively high.
Raisins are in light demand and un-
changed. Spot raisins are relatively
high. Future raisins are easy.
Rice—Japans are in excellent de-
mand, and the tendency of prices is
decidedly upward, ali stocks being
depleted and news still bullish. Hon-
duras is growing scarce and is com.
paratively firmer.
Syrups and Molasses—Stocks are
growing lighter, as usual at this sea-
son of the year, and the tone of the
market is consequently somewhat
firmer.
Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are
unchanged and dull. Salmon is firm
and fairly active. Prices for the
new pack of lobsters are about 5c
per dozen above last year. Mackerel
are unchanged and in light demand.
Everything points to higher prices
and even a moderate demand
probably bring them. The catch
and the outlook is
holder prophesies an
would
light everywhere
One
advance of $3 per barrel within thirty
Sardines unchanged,
cept for a slight advance by the Sea
strong.
are €x-
days.
Coast Packing Co. in key cans. The
regular standard brands remain uwun-
This year’s pack is about
200,000 cases behind
which ! borne if the
selling season wasn’t slipping away.
changed.
last year’s,
could be main
——_—_.-2>-———
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Fairbank & Kartier, Bradner ........ >. 116.25
Wisconsin Creditors.
G. E. Taylor, Genoa Junction ...... 45.00
G. J. Kemmeter, Jefferson .......... 77.55
Illinois Creditors.
Metal Bound Package Co., Monk City 560.07
Massachusetts Creditors.
i: G. Rearson Go.) Boston. 20. es 19.60
Checks Protested.
Malmstone & Phillips, Barryton ..... 45.10
C. Baberts: Barryion 2:2... 5. -2.5.355 36.11
Skinner fisuse, Durand .............. 8.00
Mrs’ Batley, Dnrand ... 2.20003. oo. 19.50
Total merchandise indebtedness ....23,872.73
The claims of relatives and others,
which have evidently been trumpted
up on short notice, aggregate $24,-
023.47. They are as follows:
H. Andree note and interest and balance
an lalior.. Barryton @.).o505 eel. $4,000.00
Cl Wingay: note es 6. eo 490.00
C. Tingay, borrowed money and balance
on Minor a 300.00
Creamery Package Co., Chicago, note
NG INtGresh (eo ele 2,688.00
Orson Andre, note, Battle Creek...... 500.09
Tracey, balance on labor: ....:.... 5: .'. 150.00
Clark, balance on hardware bill ...... 233.00
Mrs. W. Andre, borrowed money....... 180.00
H. Tingay, borrowed money ......... 200.00
A cB (Gillies, (f6G@ . 218.00
Hall & Summers, balance on lumber.. 684.32
Frank Andre, note and balance on
BOE ee ee ee ee as sie 1,709.00
DGG es DOU es oe 10.25
PCO ee ee ss ea ea 14.25
Palance on Gene’s labor of 1900-01. .$1,300.00
Interest and compound on same...... 341.21
Balance on Gene’s labor of 1902...... 1,028.00
Interest and compound on same ..... 194.11
Balance on Gene’s labor of 1903 ......
Interest and compound on same .....
Salunce due on Gene’s labor of 1904
Paterest =. ee bene a
Zalanece on Gene’s labor of 1905......
Borrowed money March, 1906 ........
Note to cover mortgage on place....
Mrs. H. Andre, borrowed money...... 50.00
Der! NOOO.) NOTE ole a ees 1,650.00
W: Yerks, note and interest ....-... 2,688.00
G. T. Hinrichs, New York, note and
PRUCICRE Oo ee ee ae 2,240.00
Adexander BOLO... obec etl ae 75.00
Total relatives’ indebtedness .....$24,023.47 |
It will be notiéed that several of
these alleged claims are held by Eu-
gene Andre, a brother of the bank-
rupt, and it will be interesting to
note how successful he will be in sat-
isfying the court as to the validity
and integrity of his claims.
Senator Peter Doran, who has tak-
en an active part in protecting the
interests of the creditors in this mat-
ter, has sent out the following cir-
cular letter to the various creditors:
by the bankrupt’s schedules that
you are a ereditor of William Andre, of Grand
Ledge, who has been doing business under the
style of the Grand Ledge Cold Storage Co.,
1 think it proper to write and explain the en-
tire matter.
It seems
ent people
amount of
Noticing
differ-
to the
by his
obtained frem
and poultry
as appears
that Andre
butter, eggs
about $30,600,
schedule, and it my firm belief that he
started in this business deliberately to beat
his creditors, as he offered more for butter
and eggs than other parties in the same _ busi-
were paying, selling same for propor-
tionately less. He also held out the idea that
the butter, eggs and poultry purchased would
be placed in cold storage, but instead of do-
ing so, he immediately shipped same _ out,
paying creditors virtually nothing.
In May last. the Lemon & Wheeler Com-
pany, whose business I do, had the follow-
ing ereditors of Andre for customers: Wil-
liam Wright. of Kingsley. Andrew Gaynor, of
Breedsville, und Benjamin B. Spelman, of
Covert, and they sent them up to me to have
their matters locked affer. I went down to
Grand Ledge, bnt found no assets there ex-
cept a small amount of butter and eggs which
bad been attached by different creditors. I
also found that several thousand dollars’ worth
had been shipped away to a whereabouts un-
known. Finding the matter in’ that shape,
and afterwards learning that R. A. Latting,
of the firm of Clark & Latting, lawyers of
Grand Ledge, had gone to New York and se-
enred from Andre a confession of judgment
fr $2,800 in favor of one Eli Lyons, of Lake-
view. and had levied an execution on a large
consignment of goods to Jewell Bros. and ob-
tained the money, I realized that something
should be done at once; and in a later inter-
view with Andre and his attorney, Mr. Lat-
ting, I could get no satisfactory account of
what bad become of the eggs or the money
arising from same. Subsequently, having been
interviewed by certain New York lawyers, who
is
ness
claimed they could furnish me with informa-
tion as to where the money was, but wanted
several thousand dollars for so doing, I deemed
it best to file a petition in bankruptcy, which
has been done, and Jewell Bros. were notified
by telegram, as it was claimed they were
interested and had control of the money. I
also petitioned for and with Mr. Alexander’s
assistance of the creditors he represented se-
cured the appointment of Elias M. Briggs,
a banker of Grand Ledge, as receiver. Short-
ly after that I learned that the money was
in the hands of the New York Trust Co.,
of New York, subject to a receipt signed by
Jewell Bros.’ lawyers and Latting as attorney
for Andre: and I am happy to state that the
receiver has since obtained the amount of
$15,400 from the New York Trust Co.
IT’S A
will
will
fight for the election of a
represent the merchandise
trustee
creditors and |
ences.
In this matter Cassius
Ledge, has assisted me
for the benefit of tue
he represents you, that
of claim and power of
of us. if he does not
will be satisfactory, as
to the same end.
attorney, kindiy
that we will be
Alexander,
and worked with
general creditors. If
is all right, and proof
attorney sent
represent you already
we are both working
If you are represented by
have him act with us,
able to elect a person
trustee who will fight the claim of the
tives, work to set aside the preferences, se-
eure what other property we can find and con-
crobes that worry folks so nowadays,
and tell the anxious layman how“they
may be kept out their
lurking places.
of
edge of the ages, but an investigator
and experimenter in fields the “pure
scientist” has no occasion to enter.
The success already made by the
biochemical laboratory—the first in
| the country—recently opened by Pro-
fessor S. ©. Prescott, of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, re-
field for the of
modern scientific training. pre-
veals a new man
It 1s
dicted that it will not be long before
every city in the country will be pro-
vided with one of these new-fangled
that the
biologist will, in the near future be as
laboratories, and industrial
important a person in bis way as the
industrial chemist already is.
The problems that are brought to
Professor Prescott’s investigators are
intensely
large milk
serving hundreds of pa-
intensely interesting and
practical.
contractor,
For instance, a
of Grand)
me |
to either!
in his schedules, besides the $30,000! trons i
Now.
due merchandise ereditors, Andre includes an |
indebtedness of ahout $24,600 to relatives and| the
friends, which I intend to fight; and to that}
end it will be necessary for you to be repre-
sented at the meeting of the creditors before |
the Referee in Bankruptey by an attorney who |
who,
figit certain creditors who have received prefer- |
|he is giving his patrons only what is
their |
rela- |
trol the estate for the best interests of all
the merchandise creditors.
——_>->- ____
Germ Hunter Now Added to Long
List.
The professional germ hunter is
the latest comer among industrial)
scientists. It is his business to drive
from cover all the mischievous mi-
in the city, is anxious to know
condition of his supply
which he buys from two hundred or
scattered
about New England. Not only is it
“good business” for him to make sure
exact
more dairies and farms
pure and but,
searching inspection methods, boards
wholesome, by
of health and local authorities gener-
I] leading dealers in all man-
ly are
ier of household supplies to have
closer regard for the quality of what
1
they sell than used to be thought
necessary.
The Board of Health inspectors
have such enormous quantities of this,
that and the other to Icok into that,
naturally, they can not keep the daily
supervision over every
market. The milkman
comes into
ican not depend on them to be posted
'as to how well his farmers and dairy-
favorite |
And he is not only|
a purveyor of the accumulated knowl- |}
men are living up to their contracts
all the time. So he engages the in-
d his sup-
ustrial biologist to examine
ply for him, find just how near the
it
is and recommend any
standard that part of furnished
each producer
measures that will improve the qual-
ity and thereby help his trade. The
biologist’s work goes beyond mere
laboratory examination of samples.
each dairy; observes the
visits
employs, notes its degree
of cleanliness and the it cares for
way
its cattle, its cans and its buildings;
tests the water supply and pasturage
W
hese are known to h:
“ror both of t
effect on the
ive
no little quality of milk;
$41
and reports that'the remedy for the
deficiency lies in the hands of the
veterinary, the sanitary engineer or
1 Foy ao - - 1 : } 1
the farmer and his helpers, as the
case may be.
Milk has heen so much talked about
” © . . . + - r +} 1
as a conveyvo! ” werms that peop
n+ ¥ - “ etirsziagr « 4 a1 }
are more particular about milk than
imyv otner | nad or 4 Od, Drot al y et
| tarian.
shipment that}
=
the ice dealer is in a position not very
from that of the milk
He buys from the owners of
different con-
tractor.
a score of different lakes and ponds;
he can not have personal knowledge
of the condition of each little
which the harvest
cut; yet if there is anything unwhole-
some in the ice he sells
stretch
of water from is
customers
are quick to place the blame on him.
For |
samples of ice from each supply pond
to the tests for water purity, and ex
source of supply itsel
of view of the
There are a good many peo-
ple, especially in the larger cities, who
)
biologist puts
im the industrial |
amines the i
from the
’
Sani-
point
want to know something abou
where the ice comes from,’ and the
dealer who can tell them something
about it and guarantee the purity of
or
SELLS
what he is the man who gets the
| trade.
The industrial bacteriologist’s cli-
ents include almost everybody fron
the producer through the wholesale
and jobber to th $
a most useful ally n
who can have a certain amount of h
investigation done by t Board of
Health, of course, but frequently
wants speciai examinations ior S
wn aentiet- ‘ re Tenet
Own Satistaction ne Drancn mt s
sort of investigation nie plays so
mportant a part in moacern
ases, e€ examination of Dion: nd
} od n: t t}
Od stains S$ ond ¢ tne ae
cerm hunter is taking to hime«
° 1 1 ‘ 1 1
| wmugNn e has but just nh oo yitt =
1 1 1 1 '
S| role Gr) try speak the tcductr ?
z
} ] t ¢ .
HIGiOgist iS € 1c e1 yY SE 1 new pro
¢ ¢ wroinge cyt ta-h 17 or
SiG? ihe ) Wihit y }
1 1 ' i af
ind spread, no doul the same
n ellous fashio nd with the same
excelient es ts Ss tne expt TIE? é )
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t naustria enen t Ss snow
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rm
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E. A. STOWE, Editor.
Wednesday, July 25, 1906
THE FISH CULTURISTS.
To-day the city of Grand Rapids
the distinction and pleasure
of having the National Association
Fish Hatchery Superintendents
and at very appro-|
hat the case stands thus, be-
the State of Michigan leads all
Union in number
extent of establishments for the}
propagation of fish, while it on
of Grand River our
suburb, formerly known as}
enjoys
is
the the
cstatec j
states in
and
was
the banks in
ic
northern
Mill Creek (but recently changed by |
the Postoffice Department to Com- |
stock Park). that was established the |
frst plant for the propagation of}
black bass.
roperly, too, the sessions of the
Hatchery Superintendents’ Associa-
the Board of
Trade auditorium, and are open to the
because the
of protecting game fish by law and
propagating all kinds of game fish
tion are being held in
general public business
of
is necessarily a public enterprise. It
is an altruistic proposition for the
sood of the general welfare, and no}
the world has. car-|
ried it so far and so perfectly as has |
our own.
About tl
summer the late Dr. Joel C. Parker. |
of this city, made a canoe trip up the
Muskegon River to Houghton and |
Higgins Lakes, and then, making a
slight portage, he traversed nearly
the entire length of Au Sable River
to Lake Huron. An intense, enthu-
siastic student of Nature, especially
as to animals. birds and fish, and a
determined and industrious
man with an exquisite art sense, Doc-
tor Parker utilized the knowledge he
obtained during this trip by writing,
talking and discussing on every oc-
casion that presented itself upon the
need there was of game laws: upon
the characters of Michigan birds and
animals and fish. and upon the possi-
bility of enlarging the varieties of|
fish to be found in Michigan. He
was among the first—possibly the
first one—to assert that brook trout.
the speckled New England beauties,
would thrive in the streams of Mich-
igan, and his declaration was fully
realized many years ago. Naturally,
when Michigan created a Fish Com-
mission, Dr. Joel C. Parker was made
a member. For several years he was
the President of the Commission.
government in
hirty-six years ago. this|
gentle,
general good,
‘ure with those who knew him.
| speech-making
performed.
lagainst all
,ers
| within
ly
| of
Years ago, when more attention
was given to stealing timber than to
the development of resources for the
Doctor Parker was
called a dreamer, a visionary chap, a
‘crank. Like all revolutionists, he was
|a crank, perforce.
‘the possibilities were and, believing
‘in them, he made his fight persistent-
‘ly, honestly, thoroughly and well, and
He knew what
to-day his memory is a choice treas-
So
it is, probably, with the delegates
to the convention now in this city.
Generally speaking and because they
have perfected and demonstrated
some facts in the science of fish cul-
‘ture, or because they hold and be-
‘lieve in certain theories not yet per-
fected and realized, they are called
cranks and riders of hobbies, but any-
fone at all acquainted with the won-
ders revealed in the practice of fish
i culture and who listen to the papers
‘read by those delegates; to the dis-
cussion of those papers; who meet
‘the gentlemen personally, will soon
realize that there isn’t a faddist
‘among them; that they are educat-
ed. able men, who know a multitude
of facts related to their calling which
may not be found in text books and
which, if placed there, would be of
little value. They are intensely prac-
tical and so enthusiastically interest-
d their work that bouquets.
and the glad hand
to accept second = or
in
are required
‘third places when there is work to be
They are tooth and nail
abuse of the magnificent
sporting resources of the entire
country and of those of the Great
Lakes regions in particular; and,
iwhat is more to the point, they are
|each year showing a gradual growth
‘toward that time when the pot hunt-
keep |
and all of like ilk must
bounds absolutely. And so
the Tradesman commends them and
'welcomes them in behalf of the citi-
izens of Grand Rapids.
The presentation of the list of
‘creditors, real and pretended, in the
Andre matter shows very conclusively
that Andre deliberately started out
to swindle the shippers from whom
he obtained butter and eggs. Partial-
failing in this attempt by reason
his withholding the checks he had
received from Jewell Bros. until they
had accumulated to the amount of
$15,000, he then induced his relatives
to trump up fictitious claims with a
view to defeating his creditors in an-
other manner. This last act is the cul-
mination of infamy and should for-
ever stamp the name Andre as fraud-
ulent and detestable.
A pearl producing firm out in Low-
er California is certainly a unique one.
|It cultivates and grows pearls under a
process which includes the incubation
and hatching of the oysters and the
proper nutrition for the best sort of
pearl, and is now experimenting with
la process of pearl inoculation for the
production of larger quantities. Pret-
ty soon they will be able to manufac-
ture diamonds, rubies and pearls while
you wait.
The noblest form of forgiving is
forgetting.
THE SAME OLD STORY.
It is the same old story with only
a change of name and industry, with
the same old success as result—
purely American, we would feign
believe, and yet too universal to lim-
it it to race or nation—the story of|
climbing to the heights from the plains |
below. In the earlier days of the
United States it was Franklin’s career
that was used to fire the ambition
of the school boy—his struggle with
poverty, his arrival in Philadelphia,
his industry, his prudence and his
immortality. Later it was Webster,
from rocky England, and Clay, from
Tennessee, that blazed the way from
the farm to the Senate chamber for
aspiring youth. Then came othe
first American,” “the Railsplitter,”
from the then distant West, in whose
footprints followed the boy from the
“tow path to the White House,”
where he. a beacon light from pov-
erty to power, passed in undying
splendor to undying martyrdom. It
has come to be the common thing
with us, and yet in the light of these
examples we are constantly told there
is no longer any chance now for am-
bition to win its way.
In the shining heights of the In-
ter-state Commerce Commission a
humble clamberer has found a place.
The railroad this time has displaced
the printing office. the farm, the
fence maker and the canal, and the
brakeman has now left the railroad
train for a seat at the table of the |
Commission in the midst of exul-
tent “I told you so’s” on the one
hand and “All mere Inck” on te
other.
It is at and between these ex-
tremes that the all-important condi-
tion lies and the noticeable fact so
far in this instance is that only an-
other field of work has been added |
to the lengthening list. Nobody be-
lieves or wants to believe that abili-
ty no longer holds the brake or han-
dies the ax or turns the furrow. Un-
less it is conceded that the world’s
work is done there is still something
to do and somebody is going to do
it. Each in his locality and in his
own humdrum way performs the task
assigned him, carelessly and under
compulsion at first it may be. Then
comes the application of the law:
“Every clod feels a stir of might,
An instinct within it that reaches
and towers
And, groping blindly above it for
light,
Climbs to a soul
flowers,”
in grass and
and the journey to the stars has be-
We who see only the culmina-
tion of the strong will and the en-
wonder, when the star is
where and when the stir
oun.
deavor
reached,
was felt first and how the obstacles |
were overcome: but it is the same
old story from beginning to end, pro-
claiming the same old fact, that he
who will can: that
no condi-
and fame from
tion rise,”
“Honor
and that there is no corner however
obscure. in America at least, no con-
dition however humble, that has not
started skyward already the man for
the coming task, the coming wonder
of his day and generation.
In the field of greatness nature
| seems to work by opposites. In her
[physical laboratory she has nailed
above her door the law: “Like pro-
duces like:” and this in her moral
and mental undertakings she seems to
ignore. Franklin left no descendant.
Washington was the grand culmina-
tion of a noble line. The brighten-
ing halo of Lincoln has rendered
the lesser Lincoln lights invisible
and the historic past is not rich in
instances where a distinguished son
has added glory to a distinguished
father’s name. It is reasonable to in-
fer that greatness will descend from
greatness, that the improved condi-
tions of atmosphere and soil, togeth-
er with the original stock, must nec-
essarily result in both better and
best, as the matchless bloom ot the
cultured rose bush excels in beauty
and fragrance its wild ancestor; and
yet under the best conditions the
transplanted arbutus dies and. the
daintiest pond lily owes its perfume
and its bloom to the slimiest mud
of the lake-bottom.
The forced conclusion, then, is that
in the manufacture of the great na-
ture follows no fixed law. Territory
and conditions are alike ignored.
Given a desired result and the emer-
gency finds its master. A new world
was wanted and Italy discovered it
On it a new empire was to be found-
ed and England furnished the found-
er It needed ‘a savior, aud a log
cabin in the wild West produced him;
and so all along the line since re-
corded time began the world’s work
has called for its workman and has
found him. It will always be
and when that work is done the suc-
cess attending it will lead to a re-
so,
telling of the old story from
the obscure beginning to the realized
resuit--from Genea to Cat Island,
| from log cabin to White House, from
| railroad brake to a seat at the Inter-
State Commerce Commission table.
SEES
The ingenious schemes of the scien-
tists will never cease. A method of
shipping live fish without water is
the latest. A hermetically closed
wooden box was filled with water to
the depth of about one-third of an
inch, or the bottom was covered with
wet rags, which through evaporation
kept the air in the box always saturat-
ed with water vapor. The fish were
placed in a box which was then shut
hermetically by the lid. Through a
tube, reaching to the bottom, oxygen
was introduced and allowed to escape
through a tube in the lid. This oxy-
gen before entering the box passed
| through several water bottles, which
thoroughly saturated it with water
vapor. In this way the fish are al-
ways in a pure oxygen atmosphere
and a drying up of the gills is not
ito be feared.
——— EEE
|
No department store has yet added
a menagerie to its list of attractions—
but lots of women get bit at bargain
counters.
A man is never so much a man as
when he is explaining to a woman
that she is nothing but a woman.
—— iE — EEE
Because a man is poor is no indica-
tion that he is cheap.
> -Q—
=
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
9
BACKWOODS INCIDENT.
He Laughs the Best Who Laughs
the Last.
Written for the Tradesman.
Away back in the days of fun and
frolic in the pine woods an incident
comes to mind that still brings a
smile to the lips of Old Timer.
There were girls in those days as
natty and sparkling with wit and
beauty as our modern times can pro-
duce. One of the best lookers was
Miss Nina Grawse, schoolma’am at
Rock Ledge. She was a hummer
and no mistake. She wielded the
birch and rule to good purpose, and
was one of the best teachers in more
senses than one who ever struck the
pine-clad hills of the Muskegon.
The girl was at Rock Ledge two
vears, during which time she broke
more hearts than heads by a long
odds. Pierce Adams, the head sawyer
in Wallace’s mill, lost his appetite
thinking of the bewitching little
Yankee. By the way, Miss Grawse
was from the State of Maine—and
not ashamed of it either.
Adams was not a highly intellec-
tual man. He had mastered his
trade, however, and had a nest egg
in bank provided for a rainy day.
Nina passed the mill in going to and
from her duties. Many were the
oranges and pounds of sweets that
met her in front of the mill from the
hand of the boss sawyer. Although
not a coquette, Miss Grawse ac-
cepted these little presents with as
sweet a “Tahnk you” as ever fell
from the lips of a girl.
In those days the pine woods were
not wholly devoid of amusements, as
some at the present day might sup-
pose. There were boat rides, pic-
nics and dances in the summertime,
straw rides, skating and riding down
hill in winter, so that the young folks
were never in the dumps. Miss
Grawse was the life of every gath-
ering she attended. The big boys
made eyes at her from behind their
books, bearded men sought her so-
ciety with an awkward bashfulness
that was both amusing and _heart-
rending.
The boat rides on the Muskegon
when the moon was full were never
to be forgotten, when “Oft in the
Stilly Night” was wafted across the
silver-tipped water in as sweet ac-
cents as ever fell from the lips of
woman. The days of old romance
were reincarnated here under the
shadow of the white pines. Adams
owned a canoe of goodly size and
more than once he used it for voy-
aging along the river with only one
for eompany—Miss Grawse.
Her gay laugh was enough to
drive away the blues. Her songs
were rich in tone and_ pathos.
Everybody liked Miss Grawse. A
dozen men and boys loved her from
the tip of her golden crown to the
end of her dainty toes. Old Timer,
although a boy just entering his
teens, was her most devoted admirer.
Her ruler sometimes warmed his
palm, yet the strokes were simply
love-pats to him.
Daniel Selfbridge came up the riv-
er from Chicago. He was a land
speculator and apparently had money
to burn. The sweet face and pretty
manners of the schoolma’am at-
tracted him at once. He paid quick
and earnest court to the young wom-
an and soon had the wiseacres wag-
ging their heads.
Even in those days dollars count-
ed more than doughnuts. Selfbridge
had the cash and the dash to win
susceptible feminine hearts. He soon
monopolized the company of Nina
Grawse. This was not strange, for
the tall, not ill-looking Chicagoan
had a_ pleasant, taking way—be-
sides a bank account had its charms
then as now.
Pierce Adams was nowhere and he
felt the slight. Time after time he
saw from his workroom Miss Grawse
whirl past the mill in Selfbridge’s
buggy, an elegant vehicle for the
time and place. Adams was not
made of heroic mould. The lads and
lasses of Rock Ledge resented for
the humbler man this intrusion and
impudent stealing.
“IT wish that pup would go home
about his business,” said one of the
beys, referring to Selfbridge.
“So do I. What say to giving him
a hoist that way?”
“How do you mean?”
“T don’t know exactly how but I
notice that the Chicago chap ain’t
much with a canoe. ‘Let’s duck him.
Ten chances to one he can’t swim.
Let Miss Grawse see him sputtering
in the river and she’ll quit him quick
as scat.”
The plotting of the boys did not
bring results. Pierce Adams was
lucky enough, however, to bring mat-
ters to a climax.
In place of a bridge, the Muske-
gon was crossed at Rock Ledge by
a rope ferry. A scow, guided by
blocks, ran along this rope. On one
occasion Selfbridge wanted to cross
over to the main village. Scow and
-canoes were on the opposite side. He
hallooed for someone to come for
him. It chanced to be Sunday, the
silent Sabbath of the woods, the only
worshipers being the squirrels and
the birds whose orchestra woke the
echoes in sweet though cont'tra
sounds.
Rock Ledge seemed deserted. Self-
bridge had a date with the pretty
schoolma’am and was anxious to be
on hand. At his second halloo a
man appeared, walking toward the
river. With him was a girl, no less
a person than Miss Grawse—the head
sawyer and teacher. Selfbridge was
furious. Adams, who had encounter-
ed Nina by chance, paused and look-
ed across at the man on the further
bank.
“Why, it’s
he exclaimed.
“Tt’s Mr. Selfbridge,” said
coldly. “If I could manage a
T’d go after him.”
that Chicago duffer!”
the girl
canoe
“That’s what you have been doing
for a long time now,” retorted the
man, biting his lip and looking aside.
“T’ll go,” he finally decided. “Wait
here until I fetch your friend, Miss
Grawse.”
The sawyer sprang into a canoe
and paddled across the water. He
seemed unusually awkward with the
paddle. Presently the other man got
into the boat and the two started
on the return. Adams was now more
awkward than before. The canaal “Wade ashore, Mr. Selfbridge,”
rocked. Adams seemed excited.
“Do be careful,” cried Selfbridge.
|
|
“You'll dump us in the river. I can}
not swim a_ stroke—look look
out!”
By this time they were well to-
ward the other stood
the waiting girl, and directly under
the ferry rope. All of a sudden
Adams lost control of the canoe. His
paddle flew from his hands.
“Quick, old man,” yelled he, “catch
hold of that rope!”
Selfbridge did as he was bid.
next imstant the canoe swung
the stream and the tall Chicagoan
hung suspended, his feet dangling in
current. Up and
Sometimes he was
then upward
his almost
out,
shore, where
The
down
the swift down
surged the rope.
wet to the knees,
surge would bring
clear of the water.
“You blanketty infernal fool!” yell-
Selfbridge.
“Don’t swear, Mister,’ called back
Adams. “This is Sunday and you
are on the brink of eternity. I’ve
lost my paddle and can’t help you a
bit. You’d better pray instead of
curse.”
3ut Daniel Selfbridge was not of
the praying kind. His oaths rolled
out in huge volume. In his excite-
nent he forgot the presence of the
girl Adams was hugging himself.
He was getting in his work in fine
shape. Miss Grawse was a. New Eng-
lender and a fairly good church mem-
an
feet
ed
ber. In those days it was not con-
sidered good form Down East not
to belong to some church.
Pierce Adams knew this. He fair-
ly gloated as the oaths of the angry
and frightened speculator rolled
across to stood the shocked
schoolma’am. So shocked, indeed,
was she that she never gave the
struggling man a second thought but
turned and hurried from the spot.
“My God! are you going to let me
drown?” gasped Selfbridge, the sweat
rolling dox.c his face.
His arms ached to their sockets.
His hold would soon give out and
then—-death in the wild waters.
“Let go,” yelled Adams, “and I'll
pick you up.”
where
The man under the rope did as he
was bid.
He went to the bottom—that is,
his feet did. He found himself
standing about waist deep on the}
bottom of the river.
ithe blunder of his life.
called the exultant head sawyer. “The
water’s not deep!”
This was true. Selfbridge had made
He realized
ithis when too late.
Although he tried to apologize and
ag enter the good graces of Miss
Grawse, she his advances
and he soon after quit the woods, a
sadder if not a wiser man.
The outcome of it all was that the
danced at the wedding
Adams and Miss Grawse,
small fry, myself includ-
couple to the tune
and
again
refused
older boys
Of Pierce
the
shivereed the
fiddle
:
cowbells, and
the
fine supper at
all. Old Timer.
—_+- >
The Envious Woman.
The train had pulled out of the
terminal the
fare-collecting
conductor was
g tour. In
there sat alone 4 woman dressed in
and
a
His One car
cal aw
veil hav
breath of
heavy
tt.
to allow a
deep mourning, her
ing been lifted
When the
her the woman burst into tears.
As she cried as if her heart would
burst the asked her
was the matter. She sobbed this re-
*iT
alt
1 ¢ r “hed
conductor approacned
conductor what
ply: “Ten years ago I took my first
over this f to be
five years ago I took my
husband roat
mated;
same trip to the
ond husband on the
crematory, and now I am taking my
third husband to be consumed to
shes
Just then there were heard loud
sobs coming from a seat on the oppo-
site side of the car. The conductor
turned and saw another woman cry-
ing. Approaching softly, he asked
the weeping one: “What is the matter,
madam ?”
Taking her handkerchief from her
eyes, the second one in tears answer-
( has husbands to
4: “That woman
Cc
burn, while I can’t get even one.”
—_—_—_—_— Soe
A Unique Bid.
A unique bid for
tion is said to have been received by
the City Council of Douglas, Alaska.
According to the Douglas News it
sewer constrtic-
read verbatim as follows: “The cost
of metiril we no. There is stumps
lin the way we no. And there is
belders in the way we don't no.
There is quick sand that will run we
no. There is hard pan that is hard I
no. Any one that will take it fer less
than 35 cts. a foot will so im the
lhole 1 no.”
Residence Covered with Our Prepared Roofing
More Durable than Metal or Shingles
H. M. R. Brand
Asphalt
Granite
Prepared
oofing
All Ready to Lay
Write for Prices
H. M. REYNOLDS ROOFING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Department A
Established 1868
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Utica.
-Little change has
Uiica,
occurred in the general situation in
cheese during the week, either in pro-
Con-
cations at the opening O!
ducing or distributing markets.
trary to indi
now promises
As stated
the season, itput
fo exceea Int
_ quotation would be higher than a week
lago, but no open price was announced.
/Some salesmen thought they
it is possible they did.
ought |
to get II cents
: 3
: i |
for their cheese, ane
The flow of |
|
imilk is shrinking gradually, and the|
== ____ | indications are the supply of cheese}
Status of the Cheese Market at
be on the decline before the ex-|
get all they want. In that |
» will be no surplus of sum-
CVeENE t |
of the Septem-
mer cheese in the way
ber make, and good prices will be|
likely to rule through the
season. |
“The box was opened promptly on time
1
and the footing of the buyers’ reports |
showed as follows:
ast week, nearly every dairyman in| Cheese Lots. Boxes. Price. |
the cheese producing sections, €N-|laree white.......- 9 801 1034 |
couraged by the prospect of increas-| Large colored 22 2.058 1034 |
: |
ng business, has been gradually add-|Small white ......-.- 14 1,320 1034 |
ing a few milch cows to his hierd.|Smail colored ...-.- 43 4.350 1034 |
irted late and for 2 Tew i Tygastes 62 2 350 114
d not look very promis- Me
te bundant rai pil (hel Tom! |. 2.8 90 9,079
pastures in| good condition rapidly| Daisies are fancy small cheese |
The flow of
marked in-
aa 2 4 ~ > lo- .
and teed became pi ay.
milk does not
suow any
are more
i.
daily receipt of more milk than the
ae rita Thi es ra
openimg mcaicerec. nis 6 ©6OT: 6 6CCOUTSE
a
means more cheese. T}
expected to Geciune early in
Inly. but thus far it holds up
favorable tor
more cheese.
+
seem to affect and firm-
markets in all
1ess of the
Country buyers J
an inereased consumption
and there is of
plenty
1 +
evidence tnat their faith is well
founded. The yn
good export demand, and
hi Montreal
12% cents, with a
season opened with a
it is not yet
quotations
firm
well.) 95 lots, 8.635 boxes; large sold at 9c}
producing |
evidently
| than
and nearly every factory 1S 1n|
|
weighing 18 to 20 pounds each, and}
1 1 }
they sell at one to two cents more|
They have al-|
ways sold on the Utica market, but |
the usual sizes.
‘to-day is their first appearance in the|
1e flow of|
This situation does not|
official record for at least ten years.|
On the third week in July a year|
ago the official report on cheese was |
I
and small at 9} of |
advance
and a
prices
(.c An
14
more cheese
cents, with
prospect that will}
continue, is a very satisfactory situa-|
fair good
tion. |
|
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'New Institution To Employ Many |
market. In New York exporters|
have been hunting for large cheese
c j ce 1
from the start, and
they are not yet
11 ljed
supped.
Holders get the top price|
- all they have to offer, and a little|
desirable lots. Speculat-|
in that small cheese costs|
storage, but an|
active home trade has thus far pre-|
vented any burdensome surplus. The
quotations at the close of the week |
|
from Western
York indicate
1
tne market.
Northern
and
Every salesman
eomes to Utica to-day will expect to
do as well as he did a week ago, and
some will do better.
The situation in the butter market
(< samilar to that of cheese: New
York
storage a large quantity of June but-
ter protested all through the month
speculators who usually put in
that the price was too high, but the
slightest cut invariably reduced the
supply. It is believed there is con-
siderable less butter in storage than
usual at this time in the year. There
Utica
New
creameries
is no butter bought on the
Trade
and the
Dairy Board of for the
York market,
throughout this
section have a home
for their product at better than
New York quotation
At tre Utica Dairy Board of Trade}:
to-day all the regular buyers were |
o1 tand. There were more salesmen
than usual in attendance, and it was
evident that there is something doing
allowed that the
in cheese. Buyers
New |
continued confidence in|
who |
|
}year to nearly I,000 men.
j
the
Men. |
Port Huron, July 24—If no hitch |
eceurs in plans now under way the
Chamber of Commerce will, within
land an establishment
steady work almost the entire
The out-
ay required will be the cost of mov-
a short time,
ecving
ing the plant from its present loca-
tion to this city, the natural advan-
induce-
from
sufficient
all offers
tages here being
to
ecmpeting towns.
The committee having the matter
ia charge will not disclose the iden-
tity of the until after
rangements are completed.
ment overcome
concern ac;
The necessary expense will be pro-
vided from the industrial fund, which
vow aggregates about $60,000, but is
still $40,000 short of the goal set by
the promoters. A branch of the Ca-
nadian Packing Co. began operations
last Saturday and a large force of
men is employed. From_ 1,200 to
1,500 hogs will be killed weekly for
the present.
—_2>2>>_
A soda clerk in Miller’s confection-
ery store at Grand and Finney ave-
ines, St. Louis, had an exciting half
Redland Navel Oranges
We are sole agents and distributors of Golden Flower and
Golden Gate Brands. The finest navel oranges grown in
California. Sweet, heavy, juicy, well colored fancy pack.
A trial order will convince.
THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY
14-16 Ottawa St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
—=—NEW CHEESE
‘Warner’s Cheese”’
BEST BY TEST
Manufactured and sold by
FRED M. WARNER, Farmington, Mich.
1
hour recently, on a Saturday night.
By some means, as yet unexplained,
the fountain became charged with |
electricity, and all efforts to draw|
syrups or wash glasses resulted only |
This state of |
offairs continued until an expert from |
and |
in shocking the clerk.
Yehting plant arrived
‘sronnded” the current by means o1 |
ypper wire run outside the store.
the
a ot
from is al
the store
Where current came
mystery, as the wires in
|
|
are eight feet from the fountain and
the current appeared no place else.
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.
Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers
Constantly on hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers, Sawed whitewood
and veneer basswood cases. Carload lots, mixed car lots or quantities to suit pur-
chaser. We manufacture every kind of fillers known to the trade, and sell same in
mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchaser. Also Excelsior, Nails and Flats
constantly in stock. Prompt shipment and courteous treatment. Warehouses and
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Address
L. J. SMITH & CO., Eaton Rapids, Mich
ESTABLISHED 1876
NEW SOUTHERN POTATOES
CAR LOTS
Let us have your orders.
If can offer beans, any variety, mail sample with quantity and price.
MOSELEY BROS., wo esate DEALERS AND SHIPPERS
Office and Warehouse Second Ave. and Railroad.
BOTH PHONES 1217 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
RECEIVING
DAILY
Fishermen, Attention!
Ship us your fish and get full marke prices.
too small. Money right back. Mark plain. Ice
for prices. Big prices for little fish.
No shipment
well. Write
WESTERN BEEF AND PROVISION CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Both Phones 1254 71 Canal St.
Order
Noiseless Tip Matches
Sell
Pineapples Butter
Messina Lemons Eggs
Cheese Produce to
Golden Niagara Canned Goods of
C. D. CRITTENDEN, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Both Phones 1300 3 N. Ionia St.
New Crop
Turnip and Rutabaga Seed
All orders filled promptly the day received.
ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH-
OTTAWA AND LOUIS STREETS
~ ‘$ acmmenenenennchtl
3
ssa
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
11
Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.
New York, July 21—The option
coffee market had a big day on Fri-
day and scored an advance of 15 to
20 points, and this is generally
thought to be “founded on fact.” The
advices from abroad were all strong-
er and the demand for near months
from local buyers was especially ac-
tive. In a jobbing way spot coffee
has had a good week and the last
two days have shown many orders
coming in by mail and wire. Quota-
tions have shown some advance and
Rio No. 7 is now rated at 7 13-16c,
with a strong tendency to a still
higher basis. In store and_ afloat
there are 3,245,362 bags, against
3,761.713 bags at the same time last
year. Mild grades are steady. In an
invoice way Brown Padang Interiors
are quotable at 14144@16c; fancy, 18@
Mocha, 174@19%c; Central
American is steady; Good Cucuta is
held at 84@o\%c.
Buyers of teas are conspicuous by
their absence, and a walk through the
jobbing houses tends to confirm the
impression that there is mighty little
doing. Absolutely no change has been
made in quotations and none is likely
to be made in the near future.
26c;
The week has been a most active
one in sugar, and new business, as
well as withdrawals
proportions of a boom. Granulated
has advanced and refineries are all
working to their utmost to fill con-
tracts. Raws are also much
stronger.
In a jiobbing way there has been
a fair movement of rice. Fancy head
is in rather light supply and, in fact,
all sorts are in rather moderate quan-
tities. The demand is fairly satis-
fuctory and shows improvement over
last week. Choice to fancy head, 4%
@5'2c.
Spices are quiet, but there is a firm
feeling and sellers look for a steady
improvement as soon as the fall trade
begins. The market is in good shape
and it would be pretty hard to find
any real “bargains,” that is, good
goods at any concession from quoted
rates.
Of course the molasses market is
quiet and most of the business is in
withdrawals on old contracts; but
stocks are running very light and
values are firmly maintained on the
previous level. Syrups are steady and
in very good request.
Canned goods are doing fairly
well. California cherries have been
under old con-|
: |
tracts, has reached something of the}
again advanced 25c per dozen, and it |
may be the top has not yet been |
reached. Lemon-cling peach orders |
are being limited in quantity owing |
to a probable small pack. As time |
goes on the prospects of a good big |
pack of tomatoes become brighter |
and quotations have taken a tumble |
of 5c per dozen on standard Mary-
land threes, so that the rate is now
7sc delivered in this city. While this
decline caused business,
buyers are not very anxious to pur-
chase ahead of current requirements. |
And far as future tomatoes are
concerned there is nothing doing.
Peas are steady upon the continued
reports of probable short packs in
Michigan and Wisconsin. i
has some
SO
Com 1s
firm, and this article is bound to ap-
preciate steadily.
Butter is rather quiet, especially for
grades not fully up to standard, and |
while there is hardly any change in|
rates the feeling is less firm than a
week ago. Extra creamery, 204@
2tc:; firsts, 19@20c; seconds, 18@
18t4c; imitation creamery, 17%@
18t4c; factory, 15%4c; renovated, 16@
18i4c, latter for extras, of course.
The market is pretty well cleaned
up full cream and holders seem
content with “the appearance of
things.” Large size fancy stock is|
quotable at 1144c, and this figure is |
about the correct one also for the |
smaller Prices up-State re-|
main fully as high as here.
on
sizes.
The better grades of eggs are very
firm and working out at 24c for New}
York State and Pennsylvania. Finest |
selected Western, 18'%4@ioc; firsts. |
I74@18c.
— essa ——_
Will Build Up a Greater Flint.
Flint, July 24—The Flint Improve- |
ment League was organized at
a largely attended and enthusiastic
meeting of business and professional |
men.
All the preliminaries had been ar- |
ranged in advance by a special com-
mittee, and the organization was com-
pleted by the adoption of a constitu- |
tion and by-laws and the election of |
the following officers: Joseph H.|
Crawford, President; Charles L. Bart- |
lett, Vice-President; Wm. W. Black
Secretary; €. T.. Bridgman,
An Executive Committee
ney,
Treasurer.
was appointed consisting of Rev
Chas. A. Lippincott, E. O. Wood, J
Dallas) Wert, Dr, €. Bi Bers, fF
Carton, Hi HH. Bitzeerald, WV
Smith, ©. L. Bartlett, A. G) Bishop,
Walter O. Smith, W. S. Ballinger, R.
L. Notman, Geo. F. Caldwell, C. W.|
Grobe and C. S. Mott.
The organization will have a wide |
scope with the one central idea of|
building up a “Greater Flint.” Under |
the direction of the Executive Com-|
on legislation, industrial institutions, |
mercantile interests, streets and |
| States
;one
lavenue
| Railway.
| machinery.
i white pressed brick, in four one-stor
| feet
sanitation and
gardens. and
roads,
parks,
grounds.
The aim of the League will be to
conventions,
lawns,
advance the interests of the city in-|
dustrially and commercially; to wel-|
after
new industries and look
the welfare of those already here; to
come
make provisions for entertaining con- |
ventions; to establish a system of
public parks and suitable playgrounds
for children, and to beautify the city
jarchitecturally and scenically.
The membership of the League
play- |
|pewer house, polishing and finishing
room and shipping and stock room
land offices. The company has a plat
|of ground which will allow for further
expansion. The concern was organ-
with $120,000
The officers are E. H
President; F. S. Stoepel, Seere-
Mana-
man-
ized August I9, 1904,
| capital. Sut-
lton,
Treasurer and General
iger. Besides butcher knives it
cold chisels,
'
utactures scythes, razors
and axes. The output amounts to be-
tween $175,000 and $200,000 a year
Twenty-five salesmen are used to
dealers.
i - <—
Railway
some O1 HS
reach the
The Southern
share the opinions of
the
hings besides tak-
'lows in regard to inabilitv of
women to
will include the foremost business |
and professional men of the city, and
much substantial benefit is expected
to result from the activities of the
organization.
President J. H. Crawford is one of|
Flint’s leading merchants, and _ his
selection as the executive head of the |
new association brings to that office
a gentleman who is well qualified
for the important duties of the posi-
The Secretary, Wm. W.
ney, is County Clerk, and a young
man possessed of the energy and
ability necessary to success in that of-
tion.
ice. The other officers and the mem-
[
bers of the Executive Committee are
all prominent in local industrial,
commercial and professional circles.
_—_—_- >>>
Will Occupy New Factory.
Detroit, July 24—First
knife the United
the retail-
Co.
first
butcher
manufacturer in
to deal direct with
National Cutlery
necessary in the
the
found it
er,
two
years to abandon its old factory at
Bates and Atwater streets for a
three times as large at
and the Michigan
The
the last of its equipment 0!
One hundred
employed, and the force will be in-
fo. 450. The
Central
new factory is just
receiving
men
creased factory is of
le
sections, each 45x200 feet, twenty
apart. with connecting passages
respectively
and
The sections used
for
are
forge shop, grinding room
Black- |
has |
new |
Lawton
are}
r: 1 h }
ing down It has beet
Vay y -+y 1 r } < im «Tt 7
demonstrated by the road in quest on
tain points on its
a oe © ~ r
that at ce
women make very acceptable station
agents, and three. are now
ployed. So does the resourceful ana
zon belie her detractors ‘and in
|future we may expect many misses
to become presidents or freight hand-
oO
ag}
We want competent
‘Apple and Potato Buyers
to correspond with us.
H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO.
504, 506, 508 Wm. Alden Smith Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Hocking
Dry Measures
(Bottomless)
For Potatoes, Apples,
Spinach, Green Peas, Etc.
Saves tearing bag:
+ ‘Cuts out’ gues:ing at
quantities in sacks.
Geo. Goulding, Danville, IIL, says
“Of all the store fixtures I ever bought noth-
ing ever repaid me like bottomless measures.”’
Peck, % peck, 4 peck
@ peck, $2.25.
Order of your home jobber or
W. C. HOCKING & CO., Chicago
we can
NOW IS THE TIME
sel] at any old price to clean up
Established 1865.
handle
gathered eggs at good prices for you
if we are unable to sell for what we value them at, we
run them through the Candling Dept. and you get the benefit.
L. 0. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers, 36 Harrison St., New York
We honor sight drafts after exchange of references.
every one honorably and expect the same in return.
shipments of
We do not have
your small
Wetry to treat
No kicks—life is too short.
W. C. Rea
REA &
A. J. Witziz
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.
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ippers
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12
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.
Promises Made by Mail Order Ad-
vertisers.
Written for the Tradesman.
They
awning of red and white at the rear
of the hardware store, where a com-
fortable porch extends toward a
grassy square, around which traffic
teams have cut a shining circle ot
white earth.
smoking a long-stemmed pipe and ex-
pressing
er, the hardware trade and things in
general, speaking petulantly and with
emphasis. He
many folds of fat are revealed under
his chin, also his collar wilts soon
a hot day.
“Tet us take the trolley to the lake
on
and have a free bath,” observed the |
commission man, who can swim like |
a duck and loses no opportunity to
show off his accomplishment.
“Not for mine,” said the dry goods
man. “J’d melt on the way there.
Besides, the free bath out there would
t more than one in town that was
i for
“You can’t get anything free,”
“Directly or indirectly,
said
the
there's a price or a penalty attached to
PTOCETr.
everything.”
“Huh!” snorted the hardware man,
whose
the sweat pouring down it, “you can
get anything you want for nothing. I |
can show it to you in a book.”
“Tu little lemon in
said the grocer.
take a
“Mint is about right for me,” ob-|
served the commission man.
“Oh, of course, you can’t get that
sort of thing for nothing,” replied the
man. “If you get them
without digging down into your
jeans, you have to pay in reputation.
What I mean is that about
thing on earth is offered free by the
men who advertise in the magazines.
There must be a lot of fools in the
land or they couldn’t pay their ad-
vertising bills.”
hardware
“There are a lot of fools, all right,
all right,” said the dry goods man.
“T see them taking the train every |
day to do their trading in the next
town.”
The hardware man_ picked up a
magazine and dived into the adver-
tising pages.
Hove it is, the bret thing, fe
said. “Have your fortune told for
nothing. The advertiser will warn
you of danger, tell you whom. to
you on the highway to
protect you against poor
He takes a
which costs
him about $60 a month, to tell the
public what he will do for nothing.
Now, I counted nine of these
tune-telling advertisements in one
magazine the other day. It must be
a paying business.
marry, set
riches and
health. All for nothing.
space in this publication,
“Then, here’s a man who is aching
give spectacles away. He takes
about $150 worth of advertising
space. Now, thas’s a fine proposition,
isn’t it? And yet he gets people to
bite. HHere, on the same page, is a
man who wants to give away a book
that will teach you how to play the
fiddle. whether you have any musical
ability or not. Then here’s a pack-
to
were sitting under a striped |
The hardware man was |
his opinion about the weath- |
l
is a man of size and |
face was a sight by reason of |
mine,” |
every- |
for- |
age of medicine you can get free, and
a publisher wants to give you a pic-
| ture nothing, and a patent at-
_torney has advice to give away. Yes,
who wants
every boy in the universe to have a
'goat—a real, live goat, shown in the
picture with a shaggy coat and long
for
‘and here’s a publisher
‘horns, by which a boy with an idiotic
him
grin is steering around.
“This is one of the goats that keep
‘fat on the bloomin’ wind in the fence
corners and raise wool worth a dol-
‘lar a pound. It is so gentle and tame
‘that it will take care of baby and
sing duets with the canary. Here’s
41 book free. It will teach you how
to keep well, how to get rich, how
‘to be happy although married, and
to your neighbors’
how arbitrate
troubles.
“Here’s a doctor who will tell you
‘what ails you by mail, and do it with-
lout a cent of pay. He also gives
‘away a book. He gives his picture
in the advertisement, and must have
keen in the midst of a morning after,
with a dark brown taste in his mouth
|when he had the photo taken. Now.
lhere’s where the women will be in-
‘terested, for a philanthropist in Chi-
}cago wants to give away a forty-two-
And he'll put your
|name on every piece and guarantee
that they are all right. Of course
‘his guaranty amounts to a whole lot!
| piece dinner set.
“Then, on another page, we find a
'chap who wants to let people ride
He will pay the
freight and let you have the use of
the machines. He’s a peach, that
chap! Here’s a book on consumption
free! It will tell you how to cure the
|dread disease, and the advertiser will
| furnish the medicine free. That looks
‘reasonable, doesn’t it? Here the doc-
‘tors of the world have been studying
‘consumption cures for six thousand
| years, have passed the discoveries of
| generation down to another dur-
all that time, and yet they can
But this man
lhis bicycles free.
one
ling
inot cure the disease.
jat his bait.”
| “Well, let the people learn a les-
son,” said the grocer. “A few learn-
ed something about clubbing togeth-
er for a carload of provisions a few
months ago. I guess they got sugar
an eighth of a cent cheaper, but they
paid double price for a lot of spices
—-some of them got enough to last a
lifetime. And the stuff was not up
Let the fools take
to sample, either.
their medicine.”
“T counted fifty advertisements in
this magazine,” said the hardware
man, “all offering something for
nothing, from butter knives to base
|ball suits for boys. Doctors offered
‘to cure fits free, cure cancer free, cure
dyspepsia free, cure corns in a night,
‘cure the drug habit and the whisky
-habit and make a beautiful complex-
(ion out of a bad one. The mail order
|houses offered walking skirts, pocket
liknives, lockets, watches, trousers.
/guns, pictures, lamps and songs abso-
|lutely free of cost. That is rather a
| fine layout, isn’t it? The advertisers
jonent to be arrested for getting
money under false pretenses.”
“Where does their graft come in?”
asked the dry goods man.
| “Why, they get people’s addresses
with the book will find plenty to bite |
and tell them that for a little money
they can be cured entirely, or supply
a better article, or something else—
just to get the money. Some of the
want people to do can-
vassing for them before they get the
thing which is offered free.”
“And the people who answer their
advertisements foot the bills,” grunt-
ed the dry goods man. “You can do
almost anything to people if you can
only make them think you are getting
the worst of the bargain.”
Then the session on the back porch
arose and the members thereof ad-
journed to a round table in a nearby
place, and what they got there wasnt
offered free of all charge, but there
was a free lunch not far off.
Alfred B. Tozer.
es = a
Courage in Man and Woman.
Women display courage in their
incomparable fashion. Typical
woman's method of encountering
danger is the story of the woman
who obesrved as she was concluding
her toilet for the night the presence
of a burglar under her bed. Without
letting the man know that she had
perceived him, this woman quietly
put on her dressing gown and knelt
down at the bedside to say her pray-
ers. She made
advertisers
own
She prayed aloud.
her own personal intercessions
heaven and then prayed for all poor
sinners living in the darkess of es-
trangement from God, “particularly
this unhappy man lying under
bed, meditating the wickedness of
stealing and perhaps of murder.” This
woman saved the situation.
I can not imagine a worse situa-
tion than that of a certain steeplejack
who found himself one day at the
top of a church steeple with a mad-
man grinning into his The
madman was his mate. men
had been at work on this steeple for
many days and had talked together
while they hung in the saddles with
the utmost accord, but on this par-
ticular day one of the men looked up
to madness eyes of his
companion. In that moment he was
alone with danger. No could
the street below he
looked like a spider snoozing in its
web. The roofs and chimneys of the
seemed to be the
High up in the loneliness of
the empty air he was alone with a
madman.
my
CXYEsS.
3oth
see in the
shout
avail. From
houses level with
ground.
The man kept his wits about him,
and addressed some remark
to The madman _ only
grinned, and suddenly bade him look
alive, that they might the sooner get
below in double quick time, for that
he was jump from. the
steeple with his friend in his arms.
cheerful
his mate.
going to
The other laughed as if at a good
jest, and turned to his work. Then
he began pushing with his feet against
the steeple to get a swing into his
saddle; he meant to grab the
and hold him till help came.
madman was also swinging
madman
But the
into his
saddle, and before the sane man real-
ized his danger the madman’s fingers
were closing round his throat.
There they swung in the dizzy air,
By
man
high over the unconscious city.
something of a miracle’ the
found his hands clutching at his tool-
to}
box as he swung back. His hands
closed on a wrench. He grabbed it,
made upward thrust with his
strangled body and gave the mad-
man a jangling blow across the side
of his head. Then he clutched the
fellow’s body to save it from felling,
and, after a moment’s_ breathing,
quietly lowered himself and his un-
an
| conscious mate to the ground below.
—_—_2++>___
False Hair for Children.
The recent hot, moist days devel-
oped a new class of victims of the
false hair habit. One of these was
seen the other day seated in front of
a large mirror in a fashionable hair-
dressing establishment, patiently
watching the selection of just the
right shades of hair to match her
own golden locks. The clerk and a
fond mamma_ were superintending
the matching process, and the owner
of the little golden head looked
tired and sleepy. She was not over
five or six years old, which any one.
will admit is really a trifle young
to be vitally interested in such a
grown-up question as the matching
of false hair.
Investigation reveared the fact that
such a youthful victim is not at all
an unusual sight at fashionable hair-
dressers. The modern mamma does
inot accept with folded hands and
meek submission fhe fact that her
darling’s hair has a wilted appearance
on a sticky, Summer day. Resigna-
tion is one of the old-time virtues.
Instead of accepting the fact grace-
fully the modern mother looks for
a remedy, with the result that the
poor child is dragged to the hair-
dresser’s and has her natural hair
matched to a couple of curls war-
ranted to stay in a distinctly spiral
outline regardless of the humidity of
the atmosphere.
According to the testimony of
those who know, many mothers are
now purchasing false curls for their
small children, and many a topknot
bow of bright-hued ribbon canceals
the dividing line “twixt alittle tot’s
own hair and a couple of store curls.
Those experienced in the business of
matching hair say that it is almost
impossible to get just the right shades
to correspond perfectly with the tints
of childhood. They are very differ-
ent from the usual shades brought in
false hair, and matching a _ child’s
hair perfectly is considered the work
of an expert—so say the authorities
in this branch of business.
—__ +.
He Knew Her Failing.
“IT was awfully disappointed on my
birthday.”
“How so?”
“T wanted an auto and didn’t get
ft
“Why didn’t you give your husband
aA dant 22
“T did: but he didn’t understand
it”
“That’s too bad.”
“Ves: I told him I wanted some-
thing that traveled fast and that a
woman could handle.”
SYes
“And what do you think he gave
me?”
“Give it up.”
“A ten-dollar bill.”
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Mo MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13
Perpetual
Trade Excursions
To Grand Rapids, Mich.
. 4 2 Good Every Day in the Week
The firms and corporations named below, Members of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, have
ij established permanent Every Day Trade Excursions to Grand Rapids and will reimburse Merchants
visiting this city and making purchases aggregating the amount hereinafter stated one-half the amount of
. their railroad fare. All that is necessary for any merchant making purchases of any of the firms named is to
request a statement of the amount of his purchases in each place where such purchases are made, and if the
total amount of same is as stated below the Secretary of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, Board of
t Trade Building, 97=99 Pearl St.,
GS FOR ER MS Mee Scr Ra eee
~
US
I] i} 2 si :
Sok, will pay back in cash to such person one-half actual railroad fare.
S '
a 4 Amount of Purchases Required
a If living within 50 miles purchases made from any member of the following firms aggregate at least................ $100 00
. If living within 75 miles and over 50, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ................. 150 00
7 If living within 100 miles and over 75, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ......... _«.. 200 60
Bs If living within 125 miles and over 100, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .............0.... 250 00
aa If living within 150 miles and over 125, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ........ ......05. 300 00
= If living within 175 miles and over 150, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ........ ......... 350 00
1e ' If living within 200 miles and over 175, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .................. 400 00
aa If living within 225 miles and over 200, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .............. -. 450.00
If i If living within 250 miles and over 225, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .................. 500 00
: as purchases made of any other firms will not count toward the amount
- Read Carefully the Names of purchases required. Ask for ‘‘Purchaser’s Certificate’ as soon as
you are through buying in each place.
of
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les
my
get
ind
ind
me-
t a
RE
ACCOUNTING
A. H. Morrill & Co.—Kirk
wood Short Credit System.
ART GLASS
Doring Art Glass Studio.
BAKERS
Hill Bakery
National Biscuit Co.
BELTING AND MILL SUP-
PLIES
Studley & Barclay
BICYCLES AND SPORTING
GOODS
W. B. Jarvis Co., Lted.
BILLIARD AND POOL TA-
BLES AND BAR FIX-
URES
Brunswick-Balke-Collander Co.
BLANK BOOKS, LOOSE LEAF
SPECIALTIES, OFFICE
ACOUNTING AND
FILING SYSTEMS
Edwards-Hine Co.
BOOKS, STATIONERY AND
PAPER
Grand Rapids Stationery Co.
Grand Rapids Paper Co.
Mills Paper Co.
BREWEES
Grand Rapids Brewing Co.
CARPET SWEEPERS
Bissel Carpet Sweeper Co.
CONFECTIONERS
A. E. Brooks & Co.
Putnam Factory, Nat’l Candy
Co.
CLOTHING AND KNIT GOODS
Clapp Clothing Co.
COMMISSION—FRU:TS, BUT-
TER, EGGS, ETC.
Cc. D. Crittenden
E. E. Hewitt
Yuille-Zemurray Co.
CEMENT, LIME AND COAL
A. Himes
A. B. Knowlson
S. A. Morman & Co.
Wykes-Schroeder Co.
CIGAR MANUFACTURERS
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.
Geo. H. Seymour & Co.
CROCKERY, HOUSE
Haggai aie
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
17 .
FAITH IN CHARMS.
The World Still Believes in the
Superstition.
Friar John in “Rabelais” had a
charm “good against bullets,” which,
however, he added, “is of no use to
me, because I don’t believe in it.” It
is faith in such a charm against bul-
lets which works wonders with the
sure us. The most notorious of all
the brigands in Servia called upon the
archimandrite. To confess, repent,
and vow to lead a new life? Not at
all. “You see, your holiness,” he said,
“T am in daily peril of death from the
bullets of the gendarmerie,
should be glad, therefore, if you will |
let me have a bone of King Stephen’s
skeleton, which, I understand, is an
absolute safeguard against death by
a bullet.’ The archimandrite was
sorry, but he dared not despoil the
saintly king of a fingernail, even for
a bandit. Nevertheless the bandit did
not go away empty. He broke into
the monastery at night, wrenched
open the coffin of King Stephen, and
robbed the sacred skeleton of a big}
toe. A year later he was taken alive,
and on his way to execution he con-
fessed the theft of the toe and re-|
the |
turned it contemptuously to
archimandrite. It was no good to him
or to any one else, he said. Had he
not experimented with the charm be-
fore he trusted his life to it—tied it|
which was so far from}
“20 a lamb,
being bulletproof in consequence that
he blew its brains out at the first
shot! So he tossed back the
credited toe to the archimandrite, who
rejoiced to be able to restore it to the
skeleton of King Stephen.
We need not, however, go to Servia |
superstitions. |
or Natal to find like
Only the other day in an English
village a woman was supposed to have
had epilepsy exorcised through the
following ceremony: She went to
the village church accompanied by
twenty-nine married men, left
her sitting silent in the porch while
they entered the building for service.
After service each of the twenty-nine,
as he passed out, dropped a penny in
her lap, and, when the church war-
who
den had made a similar ‘contribution, |
the thirty pence in were
changed by him into half
crown, out of which he had a ring
forged, to be worn by the epileptic
as an infallible charm against her dis-
order. If, however, the woman utter-
ed a single word from the moment
she left her house till her return, the
charm must fail.
copper
a silver
I know a woman, a distant connec-
tion of my own, whose hands were
so infested and disfigured with warts
that she tried many doctors and many
cures, even including excision, with-
out permanent effect. An Indian na-
tive—she was living then in India—
undertook to charm the warts away
within a month. Taking my friend
into a dark room, she pronounced
there a long incantation, and at its
close assured the patient that the
warts would disappear forever with-
in the specified time—as they did! I
remember a boy at school whose
warts—and he had many—were sup-
posed to have disappeared through
and [i
dis- |
on them.
did.
In a letter dated March 1, 1744, Mrs.
Delaney gives these two “infallible re-
cipes for ague”: “First, pounded gin-
ger made into a paste with brandy,
spread on sheep’s leather, and a plast-
er of it laid over the stomach. Sec-
well sealed and secured, and hung
about the child’s neck.
Probatum est.” Lady Llanover com-
ments thus upon this latter recipe:
“Although the prescription of the
ispider in the quill will probably only
|create amusement from its apparent
absurdity,
old charm, yet there is no doubt of
the medicinal virtues of spiders and
their webs, which have been known
|long to the Celtic inhabitants of Great
Britain and Ireland.”
A yet more popular country cure
for ague is such a sudden shock as
lsets the patient shaking with terror.
An old woman of 80, who had suffered
cruelly in her youth from ague, as-
sured my authority for this homeo-
| pathic remedy that her husband had_|
cured her in her youth permanently
the stupefying effect of the news, she
pig alive and well; but the shock had
done the work her husband meant it
ito do, since it shook off the ague for |
| good.
Honest Izaak Walton can not be
ground. He assures you that “eels
may be bred, as some worms and
some kinds of bees and wasps are,
either of dew or out of the corrup-
tion of the earth, as barnacles and
young goslings are bred by the sun’s
>
Either of | entiae
these, I am assured, will give ease.| gocsshe.”
of ague by announcing to her one}
i'morning the sudden death of their fat |
pig. When she had recovered from |
! | |
having the fat of stolen bacon rubbed) heat and the rotten planks of an old}
Disappear they certainly |
ship and hatched of trees.” Possibly |
| this idea of the growth of geese on|
ithe
: ond, a spider put into a goose quill, |
Zulus to-day, as the daily papers as-| : P 8 4
trees originated in some carnal brain
that craved relief from the fasts of
church. In the “Polychronicon”
it is contended, on one side, by the|
monkish chronicler
lyke to wylde ghees growen wonderly
upon trees, of religyon
that, as “Fowles|
men might
|ete barnacles on fastynge dayes, be-
considered merely as an}
ben not
On the other hand, how-
ever, he argued that
Adam’s legge, he had eten
flesshe; and yet Adam was not en-
gendered of fader and moder, but that
flesshe came wonderly of the erthe,
they engendered of
“vf a man had}
eten of
and so this flesshe came wonderly of
the tree.’
It“is not so true to-day as it was
in the day of that famous physician
who prescribed an infusion of spiders’
| webs as an infallible remedy for ague,
that “doctors are men who pour drugs
into bodies
but
wish the faculty was not always ad-
the
cure of cancer or consumption with-
of which they know little
of which they know less”; we
vertising infallible specifies for
out assuring itself absolutely of their
nfallibility. lf the “opsonic’”’
method so loudly trumpeted to the
world
new
should prove fallacious as
as
its predecessors, how many deaths
iwill it hasten through a reaction of
hurried out to the sty to find the|
trusted even when he is on his own)
despair? It is surprising how even in
hose unenlightened old days the lives
of prolonged
Two of the
consumptives were
through care and diet.
most famous of physicians, Sir Ed-
ward Wilmot Sir Hans Sloane,
though consumptives, lived each to
the age of 93.
and
1
Sir Edward Wilmot
was so far gone in consumption in
his youth that Dr. Ratcliffe gave
friends no hope whatever of his
lived to that extreme
Sloane, whose collec-
his
re
covery; yet he
Si Hans
age.
tions formed the nucleus of the Brit-
ish museum, and
factions to the nation
: ‘
whose other bene-
and to science
were numberless and munificent, lay
: ; ag i
or three years in is DOoOynoOod De-
tween life and death. His spitting of
blood during those years was so se-
i hat he was forbidden all work
ind nearly all exercise. He husband-
ed his e out, nevertheless, to the
length of 93 years, chiefly thro ab-
stemiousness and total bstinence
Sir Hans was noted for his hospital
ity, but he was so hospitably eful
of the health of his guests that he
never would allow three things to be
served at his table—salmon, _ bur-
gundy and champagne
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Between Fault
and Rebuke.
King Solomon in his wisdom, which
is reckoned
told us that there is a time
Undoubtedly
plain speak-
Difference
"Finding |
as that of the has
ascs,
for cvcry
thing under the sun.
there are seasons when
ing between associates in any relation
of life becomes a necessity, when re-
proof must be administered, when
scolding rises to the dignity of an
imperative duty. The secret, as in
most other things, lies in the knowl-
edge of the when and how to do it.
It is inopportune, to say the least,
to take a man to task for his short-
1
comings, real or fancied, when he is
in haste to catch a train, to find
fault with a woman who is nervous,
worried and has her head full of
other things. Admonition under such
circumstances is by far more likely
to do harm than good.
In spite of the popular idea foster-
lding properly
should be prac-
among the
household,
husband or
radical
ed by its misuse, sco
gentle and
especially
one’s
servant,
a great
is a att,
ticed as
members
such,
of
whether child or
There is
difference between fretful f
own
and
ault finding
wile.
and dignified rebuke.
the
sure
it behooves
be
In the first place
absolutely to
well d
before
vials of one’s wrath
possible that the scathi
descend upon the wrong head.
it is well to inform one’s self as to
whether the offense was willful and
compl: ailing int
shat
ee
make
q
escrvyed, 10
the
the reproof is
—
mn
hte
certain 2
otherwise
iSO,
7c 15)
ng flood may
| par
| no
| vine.”
forgive unto seventy times seven,
| forgiven,
|for-any offense, be it even a crime,
ic in fault. A wife may Owe it to
herself and to others to manifest se-
vere disapproval; to protest; to re-
bel upon principle; but she never is
obliged to nag. The less fault one
finds and the less one says about it}
premeditated or committed thought- |
sti perhaps unintentionally. Sec-
ondly, which is to the full as impor- |
tant, seldom is it wise to speak in
anger, the rare exception being when |
the rupture is meant to be final, when |
side the pale of for-
Even then it is well
and think it over.
is seldom speed. People who
are usually lose their temper,
unless the anger is of the white hot
kind in intensity
calmness.
the offense is out
giveness.
wait awhile
good
angry
which its
And when one
temper one always is at a
tage. The more calm and dignified
the injured one is the more impres-
sive and effectual the reproof.
It is a fatal mistake to suffer scold-
ing, however well merited, to de-
generate into nagging. To do so is
to forfeit all claim to respect from
the delinquent, who is more than|
likely to assume the position of crit- |
ic, a scornful critic, at that. All re-
proof should be gauged by the of-|
fense which occasions it, but how-
ever serious such offense may be the!
reproof should be brief. Sharp it may'|
the bet- |
but the less said
many words are apt to dull its
Moreover, it should clearly be
hopeful; the attitude of are
needs be,
CT;
point.
as
"you
compels! .
P |of conduct.
In marriage, especially, it is incum- |
| bent upon one to be patient, not only
iwith principles to which one objects
loses ones |
disadvan- |
to | ax
Haste|"*
of the offender, who is offered
to do better.
human, to forgive di-
The Master bade his disciples
and
commanded to love
while hating the sin. And
condoned, still more
there should be no more
incentive
“ao
err is
also they were
the sinner,
i'when a sin is
said of it. Even although it be such
as it is impossible to forget, it may!
1
east be buried out of sight and}
remembered in silence.
The woman who nags her husband
effectual, in most saces, is |
Tn case the “pun-j
should fit the crime.” Many |
wives have ruined the temper of nat-|
well disposed husbands by |
fault, perhaps a
i and harping upon it con-
tinually—in season and out of season.
Cease! tion, fretfulness, c cap- |
the strongest |
the more
the reproof. any
ishment
i
arally
c upen some
Onc,
conten
will wear
to a itazzie
Where a home is made unhappy
by a great fault on the part of the
husband; if there be any good in him, |
as there is in men—if he is |
worthy of loving and saving—he more |
effectively is influenced by tenderness |
ian by scathing |
There are many men to-day |
in the wrong path who possess good |
ess
tiousness,
love
most
denunciation or
scorn.
aualities, who might be saved by gen-
tle effort from the error of their ways, |
are spurred on their
the unrelenting
Many who
who now
lownward by
fa nagging wife.
aneer Ot
course
witness to the efficacy of the gentle |
sympathy, the loving forbearance of a
true helpmeet.
When complaint is made by either,
of the other, good
taste, as well as discretion, demands
that it should be in secret session,
with closed c Whatever the of-
there never be recrim-
ion in public between man and
utterance of taunts in
to
husband or wife
doors.
fense should
nor the
the presence of a third person as
ithe cowardice, meanness or expedien-
jand
may have
course
cy of the motives which
nfluenced either one to any
but also witl
failings.
1 foibles and peculiarities
He was a wise man
| who said that marriage, like the gov-
lernment of a
i successful,
to be
succession
country, must,
be a constant
| of compromises.
St. Paul says that the strone
should bear the infirmities of the
|weak. One should bear with them
iis. silvern,
| There be few who have ever regret-
as well; it not be easy, but
There are many occa-
sions in the every day intercourse of
those who are nearest and dearest to
each other when it is better to keep
silence than to speak, when “speech
but silence is golden.”
may
it is necessary.
bad as you can be, and I do not ex-j|ted the failure to say a sharp thing,
pect any good of you,”
is not calcu-| while the number of those who deep-
lated to effect reformation upon the|ly repent a caustic utterance is
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gion. The habit of speaking one’s
mind upon any and all occasions,
careless whom the bitter word may
wound, is one which savors far more
of self-esteem and selfishness than of
the honesty upon which one prides
one’s self. Also it nearly is as bad
a quality, certainly a less agreeable
one, than the arrant hypocrisy which
it contemns. When there is nothing
pleasant to be said it usually is well
to keep silent, when one can. A wise
and discreet wife, if she happens to
have her doubts, keeps them to her-
self as long as it is possible to do so,
and is far from the brutal frankness
which speaks its mind when doing
so can do no good and perhaps may
be productive of harm.
Dorothy Dix.
—_++.—___
To What Extent a Wife Is a Handi-
cap.
“Another good worker ruined,” is
the comment of the heads of some
firms when told that a valued work-
er is about to enter the holy bonds.
“The trouble begins,’ says the
manager of a big firm employing
many workers, “when the man _ be-
comes engaged. Formerly he didn’t
mind an extra half hour or so at his
desk; but the modern frivolous,
thoughtless girl expects so many
evenings out at popular amusements
that her finance throws down his
work the moment the clock strikes
out the limit of business hours.
“His mind is full of some party at
which he has promised to be punc-
tual. An engaged or married man
tries to serve two masters, one mas-
culine and the other feminine, and
usually he fails because he puts the
feminine tyrant first.”
This is all somewhat new. In story
books the very moment the hero is
accepted by the beautiful heroine he
sets to work to prove himself worthy
of her. He is fired by ambition to
carve out a golden fortune and lay
it at the beloved one’s feet. And this
is as it should be.
If a man becomes less self-reliant,
weaker willed or more effeminate as
the result of an engagement or mar-
riage, the woman in the case must be
very much to blame.
She has no right to lower his
ideas of industry and duty. Neither
should she lead him into temptation
to neglect his work for the sake of
little social fripperies, dances and
evening parties.
These things are the trimmings of
life, not the substances. And no
man whose mind is filled with such
trifles can settle down to the hard,
steady grind of modern business life.
A wife who “mollycoddles” and
cossets any man, and teaches him to
put his ease and little personal com-
forts before his ambition and work,
is weakening his character.
A husband who sets out to busi-
every morning with his mind
occupied by little home worries and
cares can not concentrate his atten-
tion on the work of the day. Wives
who telephone continually to their
husbands in the city, telling them
“not to forget to bring home that
fish,” or that they “must go to the
library and change that book,” are
spoiling their husbands’ chances of
success. A man who wants to get
ness
fare carefully put away, as if they
on in the world must forget, from} were
the moment he enters his office until | time
the time he leaves it, that he has a
wife and a home.
For the demands of twentieth cen-
If his wife’s trivial headaches and
to cope with the work on hand.
|
1
|
|
|a glow of satisfaction
tury business life are stern and real. |
| costs
petty little domestic grievances ob-|
trude themselves into his brain dur- |
ing business hours, a man is unfitted |
A wife is a serious business handi- |}
cap to a man if she insists on going
to the office, makes her husband take
her out to lunch, see her off at the
hundred and one little domestic dis-
tractions so many women insist on
burdening their better halves with.
A man’s office hours should be sa-
cred property.
to invade, disturb or distract him
when he is at work, save for a really
grave and serious reason.
And no financee or wife has any
excuse for uttering a word of com-
plaint if a man’s business necessi-
tates his remaining late at the office.
It is pleasant to have an early din-
ner, a cozy evening by the fireside or
a hand at bridge with a few friends
and a cheery little supper to follow.
But a man can not make his living
by these charming evening recrea-
tions; and overtime and late nights
at business are “all in the day’s work,”
|
Every
in the
possessions.
string is needed
valuable
that
i household they produce one of these
precious rolls from their hoard, with
over their
Now, a large ball of twine
about 6 cents, and
enough for a year at least, and yet
not one housekeeper in a hundred, it
thrift.
is safe to say, will ever buy a ball of |
| twine.
Rubber bands, too, are felt to be
jinvaluable and are put by religiously,
‘for the idea of buying a comfortable
i box of assorted bands ready for use
station or forces him to share in the}
would never be thought of, al-
| though the cost would be infinitesimal.
| Yet these very women will squander
i hundreds of dollars in useless fineries
|and overlook wastes in their kitchens}
Nobody has a right}
to be accepted cheerfully and in the |
right spirit by the sweetheart or wife
; must watch their children’s diet very
of the bread winner.
Ti is mot right of her to “molly- |
”
coddle
he is a martyr or a
employers, when he is merely doing)
his duty by working extra hard when}
pressure of business demands.
A wife who makes her husband
soft and self-indulgent is weakening
his will and reducing his worth and
value in the business or profession
he follows.
She ought to be proud of his am-|
bition, zeal and industry instead of|
trying to persuade him to shirk work
and responsibility. Many men have
too much backbone and strength of
character to be beguiled by domestic
Delilahs anxious through mistaken
devotion to turn manliness into “mol-
lycoddling.”
The love and tender consideration
of a woman should make a man
stronger and more steadfast his
devotion to duty.
It is “mollycoddling” and tempting
a man to comfortable self-indulgence
—not love—which makes a man re-
gard work as a thing to be hated
and put his personal ease before the
serious business of life.
+.
Woman’s Economies.
A great majority of women have
the instinct of economy very highly |
in
,
developed, although not always in|
the right direction. Some of the
economies of well-to-do women are
very funny. Take twine, for in-|
stance. In the minds of many opu-
lent housewives it is a sign of wicked
waste to cut the string of a parcel
and they will carefully and laborious-
ly untie every knot of a package,
however intricate, and then, at the
cost of much time and patience, they
will do it up in neat little rolls, which
a man by teaching him that |
“slave” to cruel}
that would, if stopped, reduce their
butcher’s and grocer’s books con-
siderably. Such is the inconsistency. |
tency.
2-2
Why Tommy Was a Model Boy.
“Tommy is such a good boy,” said
Mrs. Taddells to the minister, as she
served the pastry. “You know,
Choker, that pie isn’t good for little
boys.”
“That is very true, Mrs. Taddells,”
ihe minister assented, as he put a
mouthful of the custard pie where
it would do the most good—or harm
—‘that is very true, Mrs. Taddells.
When I was a boy I was not allow-
to pastry, and all mothers
AT
1
ed eat
carefully.”
“But — am not at all harsh
Tommy, you will understand, Doc-
tor.” Mrs. Taddells went on. “When-
contains |
Dd. |
with |
Feeal I have something for dessert
|which Tommy can not eat—pie, for
give him 5 to pay
deprivation. Tommy
He
Tommy
cents
And
jtakes it so cheerfully, Doctor.
example—I
for his
never objects in the least.
is such a dear boy, Dr. Choker.”
“I am very glad to hear it,
Taddells. No, thank you, I
not think of eating more than
piece of pie, excellent as it is.
Mrs.
could
one
sut
[ am truly glad to hear of Tommy’s
manliness and cheerfulness when de-
prived of pie, for most children act
in a very disagreeable manner when
they can’t have what their elders
have at table, and when they are
revented from indulging in some-
p
thing
the
| pie?’
|
I suppose, Tommy,”
like
they like.
clergyman went on, “you
"M69, sit.”
“What makes you take the 5 cents
so cheerfully to go without?
“Oh, with the nickel I can get a
whole pie at the grocery around the
corner.”
Oe -
Revenge Is Sweet.
“I'd like that tooth, please,” said
the small boy, after the dentist had
torment.
extracted the small
my little man. But
why do you want it?” asked the den-
tist.
“Well, ’ responded the gratified
boy, “I’m going to take it home, and
I’m going to stuff it full of sugar.
“Certainly,
tT
Sil,
Then I’m going to put it on a plate
land (with a triumphant grin) watch
hit ache.”
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IDEALISTS AND DREAMERS. [cided opposites, is conductive -to fail-
jure in this field, as in other walks of
Why So Few Inventors Make Much j;;. I desire not to be understood
Money.
_ The inventor is a genius. lis sk
times he is a genius and nothing else, | To, often they are written in dol-
and seems to. have but one distinctive |), aud genie, Bat deck oc be
in the highest
'who has been able to enjoy his work,
and thereby con-
world?
degree of financial success is de-
las assuming that success or failure
Some- : sik
aa taken in any limited sense.
characteristic, that of originality—
that is, the ability to create;
ten he does not possess even prac-
man succeed sense
and of-
: i oe ito use his talents,
ticability, which is necessary to a}
eamaaerd whicl ee 'tribute to the progress of the
protitable career. i’
1 the education, all the training.| .-_., oe .
All eae educat oe 7 a [male but it is a deplorable condi-
and all . ‘ination i 1e world | ,- Se.
a oe ee Teen ie ee Or ten when it 1s the Only wea
inventor out or one
will not make an
“It is within my knowledge that
who does not possess natural inven- | > :
investi-
tive ability. A crude ability by itself| :
|gators and discoverers, exercise great
is likely to accomplish but little as|* : ne : :
ingenuity and powers of invention in
arranging means and methods for the
ascertainment of truth. No patents, no
direct financial return need result, yet
many of our scientific men,
compared with what would be pos-}
sible with this natural capacity de-
veloped by an appropriate training.
The inventor is a close observer, : i
success is theirs.
and his faculties always are alert.
He has a lively imagination. Some-| “I know little about the ‘profession |
times he is an idealist and a dream-/ oi inventing.’ I can not recall among
artist and the poet, his| my friends a sufficient number of such
work being the exercise of his imagi-| men. I know
|made invention
er, like the
many men who have
nation. a part of their work
The financial value of an invention /1n various departments of engineering.
depends upon its usefulness and upon hardly think
whether or not it is new or different|/that any rules can be laid down as
and upon what it is/to how, what to invent.
commercial way.| Invention covers such a wide range.
Will it make money or save time and| When one invents, he pictures to him-
money? If it will do neither, fro m | self, aS a sort of mental image, a
new thing or a new combination of
a useful
Broadly considered, I
from any other, when, or
worth in a purely
a paying point of view, it does not
|
make any difference how good it is!/old things, serving, perhaps,
been | This conception, if it be
who conceived it. Thejclear and worked
'out into practical forms by its origin-
itor or imparted by him to others
whose duty it is to complete the work.
There is nothing mysterious about the
inventor is one
or how marvelous must have purpose.
the genius definite, may be
great law of commercialisni, a law
often working without reason, mus
upon the value of the inven
being |
decide
tion, and its decision is final,
subject to no appeal. whole matter. The
For financial profit a combination defects in
of invention and business promotion; means, who looks ahead, who doubts
is necessary. It is not an unusual/that present conditions are ultimate
Authorities are doubted un-
conclusions have been tested
With the inventive
obstacles to progress,
who recognizes existing
thing for the inventor to be paid a/|or best.
small sum and then to be frozen out/|til their
yy experience.
na
partly because it is easy |
inventor, who may be
altogether,
to cheat the
nind, instead
practically defenseless. ;of controlling the situation, often
Most
many of them are
inventors are cranks andj{oanly stimulate to greater effort to
obstreperous. Be-| pass them.
cause they have invented something,
“Tt is with inventors as with artists
they seem possessed with the idea|__there are all grades of ability. The
that the development of their inven-| obtaining of a patent is popularly
tion is impossible without their CON- | supposed fo be Gndscatme of Jace
tive talent. This is a mistake. Neith—
inventions always arejer does the
: |
stant aid and attention.
While good
in demand, the inventive field is filled}
|
possession of a_ patent
for an invention otherwise good
a > ier, - vl sencr tn ~ | : ~ :
even to overcrowding. The |necessarily make value. The inven-
in the patent office contain thousands |tjon may infringe other existing
upon thousands of models of the value |
of junk, and yet many of them repre-
| claims, it may be old or antiquated,
i re- lit may be ahead of its time, the
— new ideas and eee OF pains-| patent may not claim the real essen-
taking work and brair labor. | and finally the
Prof. Elihu | those
electrician, of versed in the arts as to there being
itials of the invention,
Thomson, inventor and|courts may not with
Mass., |
}
Says: lany wmvention at all or its
agree
Swampscott,
having
“IT consider that invention may in|merit. Even with the best inventions
cidents happen and opinions differ.
engineering. The inventor, therefore, needs to cul-
“It unquestionably is true that the|tivate a judicial temper of mind en-
abling him to look at all sides of a
most cases be regarded as creative
z
same factors which lead to success in
l help a young | subject.
Pie excusable as it may be,
other lines of effort wil Sometimes his enthusiasm,
man having inventive ability. dims his vision
head, good common sense,|!" certain directions. I
scientific knowledge, method, and per- from experience [ have had,
overcoming obstacles.|that if any young man thinks of mak-
Good morals, honesty, and integrity|ing a profession of inventing he has
are, of course, assumed to be qualities | launched his boat upon a stormy sea
not lacking in the aspirant. The ab-| with many rocks and shoals, and ex-
sence of these qualities above enumer-|tra chances of shipwreck.”
are a clear should say,
what
sistency in
| fashion.
and general manager of the Electrical
World and Engineer of New York,
Says:
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“The professional inventor, that is
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ployment, has to be exceptional. He} 26 years of actual experience it ‘has
has to bake up a field in which there} sgn ee
are gaps and fill in those gaps with) eget ee is
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|and he has to be a clever man, in-| e
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and fill the gaps. He may waste his|
whole lifetime attempting to do so|
and never be heard of and never make}
enough to keep the wolf from the!
door. |
“It seems to me that it would be|
poor policy to advise a young man to!
earn his living in so precarious a/|
It would be better for him|
to go to work along some line in|
and his
inventive genius (if he has any) will
crop out because of the fact that he
will see where the chances of im-
provement lie in his particular work, |
and thus there will be suggested to.
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is their pride production, and among “corn” it stands head and shoulders high. You
SURELY KNOW IT.
Paris Corn will have large space each month beginning in September in the LADIES’
HOME JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING PosT, COLLIER’S, MUNSEY’S. EVERYBODY'S, SCRIB-
NER’S and other magazines. This publicity, backed up with such a superior product, is
bound to maintain a consistent and steady demand. Satisfy and please your customers
by having Paris Corn in stock. You will have many and repeated ealls for it.
BURNHAM & MORRILL CO., Portland, Maine
ated, or the possession of their de-| Mr. John M. Wakeman, president
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chines for performing the same work | cratic arbiter of elegance in the old
in a more simple and less expensive | continent, compared the effect of the
manner. | skyscrapers on the man of the nine-
“Inventors are born, not made, and/teenth century to that of the city of
while, of course, it is well both for; hundred towers described in a fa-
the individual and the world at large} mous bit from the legend of the cen-
1 : : a mt * : :
‘that inventive genius should be culti- | turies on the cavalier of the Middle
vated, it would be a serious mistake} Ages. As for us, we know no view
to advise a whole lot of well meaning} more fairylike than, on a_ beautiful
but absolutely inefficient young men/night of January, clear and cold, at
to try and develop into inventors.” the hour of dusk, that presented by
Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. [these giant constructions, rising
oe straight toward the sky with thou-
America a Nation of Great Enter- sands upon thousands of windows
prises. | brilliantly illumined.
Despite the cosmopolitan _ spirit Only we forget, on pain of being
which more and more invades modern | deprived of this esthetic impression,
society, every mation nevertheless|that the theories of other days pre-
continues, if not to confine itself ab-| scribed that the good and the beauti-
solutely, certainly to specialize in al ful are absolute sensations, independ-
particular domain of human activity.) ent of all relations with the realities
If Germany by preference places its!of the world. The spectacle, indeed,
grand men in the domain of thought, | it seems to us, must produce upon a
France in that of art in its diverse) contemporary the same effect that
phases, America places hers in busi-| the celestial vault with the millions
ness; it more and more seems des-|of stars produced on our ancestors,
tined to remain the nation of great/ an effect described in the celebrated
industrial and commercial enterprises.| pages of Kant. As the sky with in-
We are too apt to judge nations|numerable constellations inspires in
like men, according to what they have! us the idea of the dependence of our
not, instead of appreciating them for} world on an infinite supernatural pow-
what they have. More than this,/er, so the thousands of eyes of the
often it suffices that a thing be not, skyscrapers move us in revealing the
conceived by our neighbors as by our-| world as it is governed by human in-
selves in order to infer that it does telligence. And if in truth the pow-
not exist. When we take the cor-|er of nature and of the superterres-
rect viewpoint we always see some-|trial force incomparably is grander
thing to love and admire. And it is,| than that of intelligence, this idea is
pinteower necessary that a foreigner) well counterbalanced by the senti-
after having seized upon the charac-; ment of pride experienced in the
teristic note of a people know how, thought that this intellect is ours, and
to relate it with everything else. He this imposing spectacle the result of
will then observe that all the needs| the creative faculties of the race to
and all the aspirations of man end/ which we belong. Albert Schinz.
everywhere by being satisfied. Let eer ee :
us take a classic example. Art is os ee Fallacies That Many Believe
f at True.
no means absent from commercial | aig
America, only its manifestations must|_ / doctor was pointing out medical
: ib [ . |fallacies—the wron ide z
be sought elsewhere than in Piaget ag . ideas -
= : . : |things medica 2 lany
To demand French art in America is} id : : that many people
nee Ae : i hold.
as ridiculous as if one required a! “O fan one a
; : : | ne Talia€y., Sai ae, 1S a
Laplander to dress like an inhabitant | oe i
f the tropics, or, reciprocally, a deni |beef tea is nourishing. It is nothing
of the tropics, or, ly, -
zen of the equator to don white furs) . :
! a -.{and exhilarating meat salts are dis-
for the chase. Superficialities of this | :
sort unquestionably are committed |
constantly; the German philosophers |
reproach the Americans for not be- “A We :
ae : | Another fallacy is that alcohol—
ing metaphysicians, and, vice versa,| ,. : '
he \ cy aa ee whisky—warms the body. Alcohol
e f x sychologists wax | : :
ee ER ie 3 ‘lowers the temperature. It chills in-
over the German specu ations; sag eu ee
French artist despises the utilitarian- | ‘ !
ek of the es, eile the Eee whatever as a guard against cold.
Ss ) ee an, c |
shrugs his shoulders on viewing the|
but water in which certain pleasant
solved. You would starve to death
on beef tea, the same as you would
on whisky or on coffee.
“A third fallacy is that one egg
ca. D hose | Contains as much nourishment as a
: 2s of Notre ame, W | : i
ie ee nyeg 39 : |pound of meat. Sick people without
“practical utility’? escapes him.
lappetite think complacently that if
But let us try for once to elude the | they ike 9n coe a tue 4 day thes
prejudices reposing in evident MS~| are doing well. “Asa matter of fact
understandings, and let us resolutely | 41, ae digs anythe her woe
ask ourselves, for example, if . culti-i bhey must remember, if they are sub-
vated and _ philosophic mind could) situting eggs for meat, that eight
not perceive art even in the gigantic i
i |eggs, not one, are required to equal
skyscrapers. Some weeks ago the)... sound of meat
| at.
f ; i Fe ce oe ; ’
author of this article had the pa | Then there’s the liver fallacy.
ei ; j Jarry j HOE fe. :
of meeting in Paris one of the fine t Many, as soon as their stomachs
and most. delicate connoisseurs Of | cet out of order, begin to treat the
artistic beauty of Europe, well known | ter, Sut the liver is a dangerous
by everybody far beyond the limits of | thing to treat unless one understands
his French native land. We were MOt)i+ for there are over ninety distinct
at all astonished that he testified tO} liver troubles, and what is good for
experiencing a sensation of the im-| 46 of them may be bad for all the
posing in the architecture of New/,..4”
York. And we remember that some| Ue
months before in an article the young} To be genuine is a long step to-
baron of Montesquieu, that aristo-! wards being godly.
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“The Elephant’s Head!”
Tetley’s Teas
Are Known the World Over
They were the first India and Ceylon teas introduced
into the United States. The purity of these goods, the rich
flavor, delightful fragrance and strength created a demand
and today they are welcomed as a household friend in
thousands of homes.
: Al | Russian de Luxe
F'QSEPH TETLEY to" Gold Label
i, oN Sunflower
Green Label
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Qualities
Always put up in Air-Tight Packages
Refreshing! Fragrant! Exhilarating!
Delicious Either Hot or Iced
Sole distributors
for Western Michigan
JUDSON GROCER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Why Continue to Drift
and take chances in the purchase
of COFFEE?
Why not TIE UP uptoa RE-
LIABLE HOUSE?
Our own buyers in the coffee
growing countries—our immense
stock of every grade of green
coffee—enable us to guarantee
“UNIFORM QUALITY every
time you order—and best value
at the price.
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Rio De Janeiro Chicago Santos
*Who else can do this?
we MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
THE FARM HOME. _Dasiness My home is an intrinsic)
: : [part of my invested capital, and I}
Some of the Accompaniments of | can not afford to limit the power of
Country Life.
instituted
and
Comparisons are often
between city and country homes
the advantages and
brought out in the discussion of
it the
each
which situation has in
promise of happiness.
the country
serious
of such comparisons,
home apparently is under a
handicap in connection with a water-
supply, sewage disposal, the expense
m care OT
and the serious problem of help in
and out-of-doors. These difficulties
I wish to class as apparent, because
they can in large measures be over-
There are various
water-supply can, at a
be made as ade-
come.
which the
reasonable expense,
|
|
} und
disadvantages Of|
larger.
In the details | ¢
|income of the farm.
| ficulty,
sacrifice in loss of ground)
‘the application of machinery and its |
difficulties to their lowest terms. In
ways iN/c¢
led to see the latest ieee that will]
quate as that which is furnished |
through a city system. There are|
very few situations in which some)
method may not be introduced that}
shall make a supply of wholesome
economical accompaniment
The windmill, the
water afi
of the farmhouse.
engine run by the
kerosene or gasolene, or propelled by
ectric power,
oped on the farm,
practical
it can
are perfectly methods of
placing water be util-
ized, provided there is a proper source
of supply. This source may be a
lake or river or creek, or
is perfectly
average farmer to secure
where
spring, a
ic
wells, and it within the
reach of the
}
itistic phase of the arrangement.
'working out of suggestions necessary;
stored energy of!
| genius.
i contrast
'a barrier to enjoyable living.
this water under sufficient pressure)
to supply every need of the house
and barns and lawns. The method
best adapted to any one set of condi-
tions must be worked out as any oth- |
er farm problem, and is no more dif-
ficult
cisions with reference to the proper
row upon varied soils.
everywhere to
crops to ¢
most serious difficulty
be found in connection with the farm-
the sewage problem. As a
experiments in
house is
result of the latest
than to bring about ultimate de-|
| soft
The|
connection with the use of the septic!
tanks, it is possible, at
oot
system of sewerage for
farm that has
vantage of the city
added one that in the diaposs! of the
danger can
a Very
sanitary
any
every ad-
to have a perfectly
almost
home, one
system,
sewage no result
contamination.
The expense in the care of
about the farm
largely of the
The
farm
mind.
tractive handling of the home
must not be an
1
and system used in connection
a city household. If the
7 3 i 1
adopted is one tha
of the f perfect re-
d with a small
conditions
sults can be secure
fraction of the expense
placed upon the
home. The
:
much in t
mana
city
of embellish-
very he way
ment as at
farm home is that it will be at aic
distinct sacrifice of capital, which
means a loss of ground; this is only
apparent. The farmer says to the
merchant,
a commercial establishment.
can spend it
“You make your money in|
You|
lavishly on your home,/e
lio} 1
lignt}
|care and
| production by a loss of a considerable
‘ing this problem of the farm home, |
which may be devel-|
the hydraulic ram, |
area of the commercial part of my
ertaking.” This is a misconcep-
tion on the part of the farmer, as it
is perfectly possible to secure the de-}
lightful embellishment of the premises |
hrough the utilization of the material |
contribute to the|
that shall directly
The help problem is a serious dif-
but its solution must come
through the adoption of methods and
employment, which will reduce the |
these days of oe a great deal
can be accomplished with eyes open-
reduce the volume of manual labor.
In the location of buildings for a|
farm home, there are two leading |
thoughts which must be kept in view. |
One is the continuous convenience to!
be subserved, and the other is the ar-
The,
to a varied set of conditions, as affect- |
presents an interesting and attractive |
and promising field for landscape |
The interior of the farm home has |
almost everything to do with the sat-|
isfactions of country life. In this the|
between the average rural)
home and the city house is so strong|
in evidence that people con-|
sider the limitations in the country as |
Among}
those attributes which might be men-}
it seems to me,
adopted in the|
development of the farmhouse, are|
covering hard and}
pressure, so that}
many
tioned, and which,
can be Eonuaicale
water conveniences,
under
they are in evidence where most need-|
water |
water-closets |
and
equipy ped and
cated: a laundry as well arranged and |
equipped as a kitchen; heating ar-|
are thought out as
arrangement for the
ed: bathrooms
well conveniently !o-|
rangements that
carefully as the
stock;
feeding of lighting
facilities which are as well adapted to,
the
and an|
from |
fof a most important attribute of life!
slas connected with the
home is a difficulty |
most at-|
adoption of the plans}
with |
method |
e 1 !
ies [OO tic!
la fo
which is|
gement of the}
objection to doing|
accompaniment of the}
ibe found in a
needs of the house as the me-
chanical arrangement for the hand-|}
. . 1
ling of farm crops in the barn; a sys-|
tem of ventilation which is mindful}
a Oo
home that is, ctor, |
aA cCOUNTTYy
th
system of refr igo
1,
ake the place of g
the well and placing them
in a basement tl
things in
hat is a Sabbath day’s}
kitchen.
arrangement of
about the
make more
journey from the
The
shrubbery
trees and
close house so
can be possi-
attractive pictures
from the windows
1 interior
than
bly placed upon the
and the planning of a screened porch|
to the family the|
keenest enjoyment, because of its lo- |
that can|
walls, |
which will give
ation and its arrangement,
summer cottage, are |
possibilities not often realized but |
perfectly compatible with the econo- |
|
|
mies of the farm.
In planning the farmhouse, consid-
rable attention must be paid to the
because the home is not a part of your|exterior and its relationship to the | qq
More
Butter
Sales!
-More Profit
on Each Sale!
That’s what the
Kuttowait
System
will do for you.
First: Because it cuts
tub butter into neat
that
customers and cre-
prints please
ate more and better
trade.
Second:
saves all loss from
Because it
overweight and drib-
lets. You can get
as many _ perfect
prints out of a tubas
you want.
Read what this prominent
grocer says
After 40 Years’ Experience
‘‘Haverstraw, N. Y.
June 2, 1906.
Enclosed find my
check which I cheer-
fully remit to you for
the best fixture I
ever invested in,
after 40 years in the
grocery business.
Money could not buy
this cutter from me
not get
another. It
if I could
is a
money Saver.
Yours respectfully,
zy
Henry Haun.
Write for Full Details
Kuttowait Butter Cutter
Company
68-70 North Jefferson Street
Chicago
100 Candie Power
Strong at
15c a Month
by using our
Brilliant Gas Lamps
We guarantee every lamp
Write for M. T. Cat-
alog. It tells all about
them and our gasoline
system.
Brilliant Gas Lamp Co.
42 State St., Chicago
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BANKERS
GAS SECURITIE
DEALERS IN THE
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Mattoon Gas Light Co.
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MICHIGAN TRUST BLDG.
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For Investment
Heald-Stevens Co.
HENRY T. HEALD CLAUDE HAMILTON
President Vice-President
FORRIS D. STEVENS
Secy. & Treas.
Directors:
CLAUDE HAMILTON HENRY T’.. HEALD
CLAY H. HOLLISTER CHARLES F’. Roop
FoRRIS D, STEVENS DUDLEY E. WATERS
GEORGE T. KENDAL JOHN T, BYRNE
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OFFICES:
101 MICHIGAN TRUST BLDG.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Fast, Comfortable
and Convenient
Service between Grand Rapids, Detroit,
Niagara Falls, Buffalo, New York, Boston
and the East, via the
Michigan
Central
“‘The Niagara Falls Route’’
The only road running directly by and in
full view of Niagara Falls. All trains pass-
ing by day stop five minutes at Falls View
Station. Ten days stopover allowed on
through tickets. Ask about the Niagara
Art Picture.
E. W. Covert,
City Pass. Agt.
Grand Rapids.
0. W. Ruggles,
Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agt.
Chicago
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in-dwellers, and this has in view pro-
tective screens that shall temper the
wind and hide from view objects that
are necessary but unpleasant; the se-
curing of very complete views from
some position in the house of nearly
every part of the farm, having in mind
not only the satisfaction which comes
from contemplating beautiful pictures,
but the convenience to the farmer, who
may be an invalid or confined to the
house for some reason, and still must
manage the farm.
The use of fruit-growing trees and
shrubs and vines that shall have the
artistic effect which is produced in
city places by strictly ornamental
plants and shrubs and trees, and
which shail have the added value of
utility in the harvest of fruit, is an
exceedingly interesting practical
problem to work out. The addition
of a nut grove that shall bring joy to;
both young and old in its harvest; the
arrangement of areas of forest trees
which shall not only provide fuel and
enable the farmer to snap his fingers
at the coal barons, but which will
operate as protective screens for oth-
er crops and add to the immediate
landscape features, are interesting
features to be thought out and prac-
tically developed. The technical laws
of landscape art that can be brought
to bear upon the near premises at-
tached to the farm home bring into
play the practical application of the
artistic aspirations of the home lover.
The employment of the native plants
of the grove and forest and _ their
adaption to uses upon the lawn bring
into play not only ability of the
artist but the acquirements of the
botanist, and the home study of a
problem like this gives zest and de-
light to country life.
When one considers the limitations)
of the average farm home in connec-
tion with the vegetable garden as a
complement of the kitchen, there
opens a field of suggestions, a de-
velopment at once attractive and val-
uable because it touches so strongly
upon that most serious problem in
connection with life, on the
of nutrition to character.
The flower-garden for use, which
shall furnish, during a large part of
the year, cut-flowers for all sorts of
relation |
j
occasions, and the freedom of gather- |
ing, which can hardly be
expected |
from shrubs and plants too much in}
evidence as a part of the lawn dis-
play, is a subject worthy of most
careful thought, as adding to the
gratifications of life in the farm home. |
All these things are
swept away by the average country
liver as so entirely disconnected with
the main object of the farm—the get-
ting of a living—that progress in edu-|
cation seems discouraging; but it re-
quires very little argument and a few
sometimes,
iwhen you make your notation on the
simple illustrations to convince any|
farmer and his family that the things
which really add most to their lives!
can not be valued in dollars
cent’, and that it is as important to
conserve and utilize these accompani- |
ments of country life as the ones that |!
fill the corn-crib or the wheat-bin or |
the dairy-house or the horse-stable.
It is worth the while to call the at-
tention of country people to the pos-
sibilities along the lines of the above|—White’s Sayings.
and |
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suggestions, having in mind the am-!}
plifying of life on the country side
and the bringing about of a larger
dissemination of the sweetest happi-
ness that can come to mankind in this
world. Chas. W. Garfield.
———_2++..____
Direct Advertising for the Whole-
saler.
The secret of success in the whole-
sale business is keeping in touch with
the buyer.
There are a great many methods
of direct advertising, some good and)
some bad. One good agd cheap
method which has been used, bring-
ing excellent results, is to furnish cus-
tomers with electrotypes and bright
catchy ads which they can use in their}
local papers. Booklets and other ad-}
vertising matter with their name on;
them will keep building up their busi-
ness, which of course is building up
the wholesaler’s at the same time.
A traveling salesman can not sell |
goods to the full limit unless he has |
perfect confidence in his line and this}
confidence is impossible if the goods|
are not advertised. Some salesmen)
take a lot of interest in helping this |
|
|
|
i
}
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along by showing the customer the}
advantages in advertising and giving |
them suggestions such as how to’
dress their windows, arranging their|
stock, etc., and in this way make a/|
good friend of the customer for the’
house as well as themselves. |
Direct advertising alone is not suf-|
ficient to make any business a suc-,
You have to get after the deal-
Have a mailing list gotten up|
cess.
ef EOO.
of every dealer in the territory. Have
a card made for each name on the
list and filed alphabetically. The
customer’s cards should be marked
“customer” and the rest marked “cor-
respondence.” To all on the “corre-
spondence” list mail a facsimile let-
ter and make a notation of it on the
cards. If after ten days no reply has
been received mail another and keep
on sending letters, catalogues, book-
lets, etc., till his trade is won. If he
writes to stop sending him your lit-
erature as he doesn’t want the goods,
write him a letter showing him where
he is wrong and keep after him.
These prospects often make the best
kind of customers.
In this follow-up work much care
should be taken not to over-do it.
Don’t send such a lot of literature
that you bore your prospect. Make
letters brief. You will find it
a very good plan to keep a Ict of
letter on hand and
for each one, then}
your
facsimile
number
each
have a
card you only have to put down the|
date and the number. |
The date of every order received
should be marked on the customer’s
card. These dates can be gotten
from the order register. You
look through the cards and know Just
how long it has been since you re-
If it has been
can
ceived the last order.
4 month or more you
from them, write a letter so-
liciting more business. If after do-
this you see no results, don’t
blame the system. It has proven a
success with the largest firms in the
country and the trouble lies with you.
since have
heard
ing
itest shopping,
jare waited on by women clerks.
jidea of value, perhaps they are with-
i the
| fire to such
The Shy Man.
There are many men, perhaps the |
larger percentage, who simply detest |
the practice of going into stores and |
questions and then turning |
around and walking out without mak- |
ing a purchase.
asking
It is different with They |
are natural shoppers, but the men de-
especially where they
women.
Maybe the goods are far above their
in their idea of what they should cost.
and the little ticket will act as the}
silent salesman, worth as much to/|
you from week to week as any one!
of your clerks.
The shy customer will pass things
ithat he desires to stop and purchase}
| where he can not go in, examine the}
goods and plank down his cash. The |
shy man is not usually shy on cash.
It would pay you setailers to cater |
to him, give him a helping hand over!
the bumps, so that he will not be|
obliged to ask questions and he will |
thank you for it. Private cost price |
marks on tickets befuddle and do no |
igood to either clerk or buyer—they |
create the impression of any old price |
the above the cost |
mark, and only one-price stores are |
favorites these days.
——_ 2. ~+____
A Warning to Smokers.
“What did you think of that cigar
I gave you yesterday?”
mWhat did | think of it? I
who would
to sell goods
think |
man knowingly set
a thing ought to be con-
demned for arson in the first degree. |
_EXTRACTS. _
Established 18672
The house of
_ Jennings
Manufacturers
of pure
Flavoring
Extracts
Terpeneless Lemon
Mexican Vanilla
Orange
Almond, Rose, Etc.
Quality is Our First Motto.
more than
(and the taxes are paid by the company.)
A GOOD INVESTMENT
THE CITIZENS TELEPHONE COMPANY
Having increased its authorized capital stock to $3,000,000, compelled to do so because of
the REMARKABLE AND CONTINUED GROWTH of its system, which now includes
25,000 TELEPHONES
10 wich more than 4,000 were added during its last fiscal year—of these over 1.000 are in
the Grand Rapids Exchange which now has 7,250 telephones—has paced a block of its new
STOCK ON SALE
This stock nas tur years earned and received cash dividends of 2 per cent. quarterly
For further information call on or address the company at its office in Grand Rapids
E- B. FISHER, SECRETARY
Try a
John Ball
Sc
Cigar
G. J. Johnsen
Cigar Co.
Makers
Grand Rapids, Mich.
FADED/LIGHT TEXT
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
FRAUD AND DECEPTION.
It Is Becoming Unprofitable and Dis- |
reputable.
the iniquity perpetrated
of business,
transportation
Much of
in the name such as dis-
rates,
various
crimination in
the adulteration of food and
tricks of deception by which
tries to get the better of another in
for profit, is attributed to
1
the strife
I One
es of compctition.
the exigenc}
unscrupulous concern seeks an un-
lawful advantage in some “deal” with
and others feel bound to
order
competition. When
this kind of so-
rates, pays
a railroad,
do the same in
distanced in
under
ing
one railroad
licitation grants special
rebates or otherwise favors a large
impel
lines feel led to
order to
shipper, rival
make similar concessions in
secure
result is a competition in dishonesty
or lawlessness on the part of both |
De-|,,
no excuse for
shippers and common carriers.
fects of the law were
such disregard of justice and honor-
able conduct. But now the law has}
been made explicit, so far as inter- |
state commerce is concerned, and |
practices for which stress of com-
petition has been pleaded as an ex- |
cuse or extenuation are made crim-
in them.
The obvious for
and for shippers who desire to be fair
all de-
inal for all concerned
policy railroads |
now is to abandon
and enter
‘tition for the observance of the
and decent
into a
wices Of evasion
comp¢
law and of principles of common
honesty in their dealings. If mana-
gers of one railroad line have evi-
granting
their duty
expose
dence that another is
or favors, it is
the evidence, to
wrongdoing aid the
to put instead of
trying to than
concessions
“pose WEES
{fo aisciose
the
ities
and
a stop to it,
get even, or mote
the
finds
even, by committing same of-
fense. If one shipper that
other is getting any
him in charges for transportation, in- | ¢
Liat i A
stead of seeking to meet this by ob- |i
taining a like advantage, he should
make complaint of the violation and
heln t -ampel Lepeeanre of tae
neip tO compel observance Or Tae
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law. Let there be competition in do-
ing justice and in fair dealing, anc
these evils which have so
much agitation and occasioned so
much “hostile legislation’—hostile
only to those who persist in wrong-
doing—will come to an_ end, and it
will be far better for all concerned.
In the matter of providing the sup-|
plies of food, drink and mec dicine for
the people, there is a still freer field |
honesty.
competition in individual
Se
whicn nonesty wl
and it is one in
policy from a
Let
prove to be the best
business point of view.
made a
sanitary
packing house be
cleanliness and sound
dition; let it take pains to use only
unquestionably wholesome materials
and een let it make no conceal-|
ment and avoid no ‘ht Gi so far |
as knowledge of
quality of its products A concerned;
let its labels and
what it puts upon the market bear the
i , one
Cie Si Scru
tiny, and it may
reputation that will be worth
than all
one |
to escape be-|
their share of the traffic. The |
illegal |
author- |
an- |
advantage over |
a meat-
model ot |
con-
aracter and}
representations of |
acqt Wire a
more
the tricks and devices which |
jhe ave been resorted to in the past, and
‘the detection and exposure of which
are liable at time to sweep away
illegitimate gains of deception
‘and fraud. Even if less wealth should
be accumulated, it would be without
the taint of ignominy and public con-
tempt, and some reward should be |
found in an honorable business repu- |
‘tation and public respect. This ap-|
plies equally to the manufacturers of |
ithe various kinds of prepared foods
the production of which has grown so
'enormously in recent years. That the
bulk of these are wholesome may be
admitted, but in that case there is no
legitimate reason for secrecy about |
the ingredients that enter into them |
or the methods of their preparatio 1,
-any more than about raising corn OF
Secrecy and enigmati-
any
ithe
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/making cloth.
names are a cover for adultera- |
ition, the use of inferior or injurious |
lmaterials, or some device involving |
deception or fraud by which illegiti- |
t 1
; cal
rate profit is sought.
| Honest purveyors of food and the |
| various accompaniments of food have |
been wont to complain that a few un-|
may cheapen.
sophisticate |
| scrupul ous persons
adulterate and variously
and misrepresent their products s0|
impossible to com-|
without in some}
their methods. |
that it becomes
pete with them
imeasure yielding to
Many who would prefer to deal in |
honest and above-board fashion |
feel compelled to sell articles which |
‘they know are not what they pretend |
to be, up their trade |
t in order to keep
and make a fair profit in competition |
scrupulous rivals. So is
dishonest and disrep- |
vith
i“
i business made
utable by a demoralizes |
rivalry that
making it a competition |
ompetition,
lin dishonesty. Let honest manufac- |
turers and dealers make common |
lcause with consumers for effective |
| laws and effective administration |
lavainst the secrecy and deception and |
lall the devices of fraud in this busi- |
: N i is i i
arek. and they may ppt en rill te Aes othing is more appreciated on a hot day than a substan
‘ffenses and the disrepute into which |
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it has fallen.
Let the manufactur
tial fan. Especially is this true of country customers who
or take Gc Gen | come to town without providing themselves with this
his confidence by letting |
him know truly what he is buying |
and by giving evidence of the charac- |
sumer into
necessary adjunct to comfort. We have a large line of
1 these goods in fancy shapes and unique designs, which we
ter and quality of his goods, and he|
will gain the confidence of the con-|
sumer. There is no class that it more |
behooves to contend against the adul- |
drink and medi- |
and fraudulent repre-}
sentations about them, and to expose |
the tricks and devices by which the |
public is cheated and injured, whether |
in health or in substance, than hon- |
men engaged in the business |
of providing these supplies for the |
What all should strive |
to promote is a competition in honest |
legitimate methods of business |
| which shall command confidence, give |
ia value to truthful labels and genuine |
'trade marks and make the names of |
manufacturing and trading concerns
| honorable and respected. We have had
itoo much rivalry in deception and
fraud. and it is becoming unprofitable
as disreputable —N. Y. Jour-
inal of Commerce.
| Many a man’s religion would be
|worth more if it had more office prac-
furnish printed and handled as follows
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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
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can avoid it.
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Energy Lost in Flourishes and By- | whence they could be reached aid Hleact exertion.
plays.
On a new stretch of railroad con-
struction I was watching the men
dig, when the foreman abruptly turn-
ed to me and said:
“See that big, brawny fellow in the
blue blouse? Now, that man’d make
a rattling good worker if it wasn’t
for his useless motions and byplays.
He is strong and hardened to expos-|
ure—no, he’s not lazy. I shouldn’t call
it that at all—and there’s no reason
why he couldn’t turn out a
his shovel before sinking it into the
dirt? All a dead waste of energy and
time. If you'll just watch the little
fellow on his left you'll note a big
difference. See how, with just the
one quick drop of his weight upon
the shovel he sinks it down to the
limit and brings it up full every time.
He lands three shovelfuls to the big
fellow’s two-—with less effort or enef-
gy.
to you, but IT assure you that fifty
or a hundred such workers as this
big fellow on our list would mean
a serious loss to us in the course of
6 month im
of the others like him out this even-
ing.”
The other day I was in a broom|
factory watching the men tie brooms.
Experts at the business, I was told,)
can tie up as high as twelve and four-
teen dozen of the ordinary brooms
in a day, but seven dozen is consid- |
ered a good day’s work, and the tier
must work lively to do that many.
The foreman having pointed out one}
of the experts to me, I made it a
point to watch him.
other
Me 1
BEVGrAL
and 2
That is
good workers,
few who were not so good.
to say, I relied on the
word in the matter, for, to be can-
did, to me they all seemed
working at about an even gait.
wasn’t a one of whom
said that his general movement wasn’t
lively.
But while they all thus seemed to|
work at a lively clip. after awhile I}
began to notice that the expert was
pulling steadily ahead of all of them.
and the good workers ahead of those
that had a rating of not
saod: this strange to
and forthwith I gave the matter a
little closer attention. The railroad
foreman’s big brawny digger came
quite so
seemed
to my mind, and accordingly I decid- |
ed to watch the individual motions of |
And that, as|
1 found it. is where the whole secret,
the different workers.
of the matter lay.
The workers of the poorer rating, |
while making a showing of quite a
lively gait, had too many useless mo- |
tions. In picking up the corn they!
would get maybe a little too much
or maybe just a little too little, thus
necessitating a second reach, with the |
incidental waste of energy and time. |
Irn working the treadle they would
get it just a little short or too far:
in driving home the tacks or staples
there would be several unnecessary
taps: in using the knife there was
useless byplay. and so on.
With the expert it was different.
good |
day’s work, but—there, now—did you |
catch the extra little ride he gives!
This may seem a trivial matter |
sorry to do it, but Ill;
have to let the big fellow and a few!
I also watched |
foreman’s |
to be|
There |
me, |
| the minimum of effort, he invariably
|placed them back to the proper place
levery time. He calculated the quanti-
ity of his corn to a nicety and made
ino second reaches; his cuts with the
‘knife were clear and precise; the
|locks and staples he drove home with
| two sharp taps, and so on to the
end of the proceeding his every move
counted. There was no lost motion
or waste of energy. As I watched
him piling up the brooms I no longer
wondered why he was an expert.
if the bulk of workers generally ever
i have stopped to ponder on this mat-
iter of wasted energy. There is not
irenely from year to year, entirely ob-
|livious of the fact that they are wast-
ling much energy—which might be
| great big dollars if they only knew it.
The penalty not always so directly
| is traceable in dollars and cents with
ithe wage earner. but the useless mo-
the penalty.
make it a mot-
line “and so alsa ts
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| Every worker shoul
come a fixed habit.
If you are carpenter see if
haven't some “taps” to
mason, cut those
‘touches on your spread.
cut
lin your articles. [f
editor most likely will—if he doesn’t
jcut the article out altogether because
of them.
pation you always will find some use-
less motions that it will
cut out.
cut that out, for that is the most ex-
pensive waste of all.
spare.
out little
a scribe, out the little
you
pay you to
And if you are not working,
Tf you
been wondering why your pay
er than that of some fellow workers,
study this problem of wasted energy,
iand see if it will apply in your case.
are a
wage
brings no results—of the profitable
kind.
I know two seamstresses who sit
side by side daily working in the
alteration room of one of our large
idepartment stores. To give the mat-
ter a guess on the fine work turned
out by these two young women you
probably would say they got about
ithe same pay. for the work of both
is first class and shows little differ-
ence. But you would be far off with
your The one receives $rto.
the other $18 a week. Why the dif-
ference? Simply because the
mastered the art of cutting
isuperfluous motions, and in
SuCss.
much in
penion worker. By the time the lat-
ter has bitten her thread several times
'and threaded her needle. the first has
'taken a dozen stitches.
Coming down the elevator in the
same store one day and waiting at
ithe parcel counter for my purchase I
noticed how awkwardly the little fel-
ilow was tying up the bundle. He
vhad about a dozen entirely unneces-
sary motions. T took pity on him
and donated the next five minutes
showing him how a bundle could be
With his tools at the precise points tied in the shortest time with the
a doubt but that many jog along se-|
ita to cut them out before they be-|
you
If a|
fancy |
If you are |
one has |
out all]
conse- |
qtience accomplishes almost twice as |
|
tions are there just the same—in any |
sideplays |
don’t the |
No matter what the occu- |}
earner and have|
is low- |
The average employer pays his help |
E io } asis of sults, was energy
it could be|°? the hasis of results, wasted energy |
the same time as her com-}
el : | business from seven until six o’clock.
In coming away I also wondered|
To-day he is the |
swiftest bundle tier they have in that
store, and has since had
raised twice.
his wages.
If you are a worker and are trou-||
bled along this line it will pay you
to get out of the useless motions rut
before it gets too deep and becomes
fixed permanently. George Ellis.
——_+-.___
Seven Until Six.
“My business belongs to me twen-
ty-four hours a day. I belong to my
From six until nine I must be free.
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can do more work by thus restrict-
I be-
those
ing my hours of business, and
I
lieve can do better work in
s
hours.
Second Hand
Motor Car
Bargains
20 H. P. Winton, in fine shape,
cost new $2,500—now $1,200.
Packard, Model L, 4 cylinders,
shaft driver, with top, extra
lamps, etc., in fine condition,
cost new with extras $3,300
$1,800.
Cadiliac, 4
now
passengers, over-
hauled and refinished, a bargain
at $475.
Olds
overhauled
P.,
cheap at
‘Touring Car, io HH.
and very
Olds Runabout, overhauled and
refinished, at $300, and 15 other
bargains.
Write us or call.
Adams & Hart
Grand Rapids
47-49 North Division St.
Get our prices and try
our work when you need
Rubber and
Steel Stamps
Seals, Etc.
Send for Catalogue and see what.
we offer.
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Detroit Rubber Stapp Co. |
San Francisco,
California, Crowd.
Fifteen thousand people were congre-
gated, to attend the special sale an-
nounced by Strauss & Frohman, 105-
107-109 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal-
ifornia. Their stock was arranged, their
advertising was composed, set up and
distributed, and the entire sale man-
aged, advertised and conducted under
my personal supervision and _ instruc-
tions. Take special notice the amount
of territory which the crowds cover on
Post Street. Covering entire block,
while the sale advertised for Strauss
& Frohman by the New York and St.
Louis Consolidated Salvage Company is
located in a building with only a fifty-
foot frontage.
Yours very truly,
Adam Goldman, Pres. and Gen’l. Mgr.
New York and St. Louis Consolidated
Salvage Company.
99 Griswold St. Detroit, Mich |
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Some New Things in Little Men’s
_ Wear.
inventory came within
the closing fortnight. The stock tak-
showed a most prosperous six
business done with resultant
Both manufacturers
retailers report the best six
run of business ever experi-
enced, with stocks sold up cleaner
than any previous good period.
The former have only small remnants
left of the enormous yardage cut up,
Semi-annual
ing
months’
good profits.
and
months’
for
| for
‘unfinished worsted
while the latter, in many cases, have
not enough stock all told to keep
their tables from looking bare. Be-
cause of their inability to fill in with
some of the big
have ordered portions of
their purchases for use in Au-
gust. They want stock to cover the
tables and hope to sell the new mer-
chandise next month for the Septem-
seasonable goods,
stores in
fall
ber school term.
Buyers are still dancing attendance
the market in daily search of
goods for immediate selling, and are
authority for the statement that there
is nothing but serges and cheviots to
be had. As July is considered the
serge month high hopes are entertain-
ed of Trade in June was
varying and without enough hot days
lls to trade exceed the
Special
on
on
big sales
make
of the month.
in spel
usual
effort
July to
average
will, therefore, be centered
make records.
fine grades
ahi the
an and
have the
immediate
little
the
to the junior
salable
Buyers of medium and
ing report
les in Russ
le
esent and
there 1s
OI
ed
juvenile clo thi
collar ble
sailor
blouse suits
11
+
L
call for «
future, eise,
except closing to neck
models, to give variety
stock. Etons are no longer
even in wash suits.
stocks show
Russian
in
While the wholesale
varieties in high colors in
and blouses, buyers favor navies
serges and the attractive mixtures
yelour finished fabrics, which they
say are full of character. They are
made with trimmings in. silk cord.
piping and braid, harmonizing in col-
or with the prominent color in the
fabric pattern. These classy con-
eptions are said to be
clur 4 banter charleec 49 €) t + mal
only in tasty styies in the Dest makes.
Dice sien pa a . : °
Browns are coming in;
solid shades of nut browns, still
in every clothing man’s memory,
brown grays and tans with white and
in |
obtainable |
the
color mixtures, and the better
class trade they are considered good
property in junior and school sizes. |
New also are blue grays in
finishes and woolen goods with plaid
nd check patterns.
declare in
Buyers unanimously
or of the double-breasted sack with
bloomers 1 school sizes as the leader
for fall and winter, and are confident
they will sell largely in the plain
model with and without cuff effects,
and also with the detachable belt. In
the good trade the single-breasted
sack of nobby cut with bloomers is a
velour
It may be worn with or without a
young men are favored in
semi-fitting model with side
and without center vent ad-
with
and with
ditionally, and also cut center
vent and without plain side
d
to be 1
of
any vent,
appear
style
they have ordered
Some very
makes
seams.
doubt
will sell best
cut in all
As buyers
sack
them
regarding what
styles.
fine of
parti-c
checks and ey a blending of blue,
black and brown
are shown in
in
green, in
weaves.
|
| welcome addition to the boys’ stock. |
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Very Red Tape.
A few months ago the President
appointed a committee to make a
thorough investigation of the
ness methods of each of the several
departments at Washington,
view to ridding them of some of the
‘red tape ways of doing things.
'fancy vest, and is trig and trim and
will doubtless be liked by the boy
who has been wearing the Norfolk
‘and double-breasted alternately and)
now wants a change.
Sacks in the older school sizes and |
the |
pleats |
n
atttac- |
colored
twill |
While reefers have sold big for fall!
delivery, some novelties in overcoats |
have also taken well, and one model |
buttoning to the neck, shaped in the |
back with the side seams pleated and |
a long center vent, is generally liked. |
There is a tendency to have the ju-|
nior and boys’ overcoat models fol- |
low the styling of the men’s, but}
buyers appear to shy at these ex:
tremes in cut for school wear, and|
favor instead a more conservative
coat as better for business.
Buyers |
say that they have carried over|
enough of the long, loose overcoats |
and tourists, and as they are doubt-|
ful about the selling qualities of the
extreme styles. prefer to take chances
with the conservative model for a}
i beginning and until the season’s over- |
coat leader is more clearly defined.
Kerseys. meltons, soft finished gray
mixtures in herringbone and_ twill)
weaves, the so-called vicunas and |
friezes are the favored overcoatings.
and these have been ordered in all}
of the conservative as well as ex-|
treme styles of cut, although at best
buyers have only nibbled at over-
ats, and the overcoat situation will |
ie i. not improve until retailers |
have had an inning and learn “where |
are at.’—Apparel Gazette.
Secretary
terviewed this committee, told
following story, which
illustrates the free use
the Government
the naval officers
by
service:
on a
in
“One ot
with a}
Bonaparte, on being in- |
beauti- |
of red)
lthermometer from one
“| vessel
busi- |
| good reasons
change a
side of the
assigning very
This
could not be done, according to nav-
until he had
com-
certain ship desired to
to the Other,
for doing so.
al regulations, however,
carried the matter to the ship’s
mander, and through him to me. I
consented to the proposed
change, which cost just fifty-three
cents—fifty for the postage and sta-
ionery and three for the nail and the
wear and tear on the hammer.”
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27
POISON WHISKY.
New Way To Regulate the Liquor
Trade.
Written for the Tradesman.
The driver of one of the big rail-
road wagons came into the basement
with red eyes and the small veins
of his face congested. He moved
about indolently and even the small
boxes which had been prepared for
shipment seemed too heavy for him
to handle with ease.
“You're off color this morning,”
observed the shipping clerk. “What
you need is a bracer about four inches
deep.”
“T had too much of that last night,”
said the driver. “Never any more for
me. I have nine swarms of bees in
me cupolo this dreary minute, and
me mouth tastes like an abandoned
car on a blind siding. Little Willie
can get along without the bee juice
in future years.”
“Going to quit it cold, eh?” asked
the shipping clerk. :
“Bet your life. It’s me for a little
old savings book and a clear head in
the morning. I'd like to dump all
the whisky in town right now.”
“All the bad whisky, you mean,”
said the manager, making his appear-
ance from the direction of the eleva-
tor. “You wouldn’t dump all the
whisky—just the rotten stuff they
make in the basement.”
“If I dumped all the rotten stuff
Vd dump it all,” said the driver.
“That is the general verdict the
next morning,” said the manager,
“but there is some good whisky in
the world,
hold of.”
“I have never found any of it,”
said the shipping clerk.
“T have a few ideas on the tem-
perance question,” said the manager.
“When a man wants a saloon license
the council asks about his habits, and
his morals, and the character of the
place he runs, and whether he has
stalls at the back of the joint, or up-
stairs, and all that. Now, why would-
n’t it be wiser to find out what kind
of liquor the man sells? If he sells
drugged and adulterated liquor he
should be refused a license.”
“There wouldn’t be any licenses
granted, then,” said the driver. “Your
plan means prohibition, pure and
simple.”
“Well, the dealers would sell bet-
ter goods if they understood what the
test would be.” urged the manager.
“About license time they would,”
said the driver.
“The proprietor of the saloon might
buy pure goods.” said the shipping
clerk, “but it would be corrupted be-
fore it got to the consumer. See here.
A man hires a barkeep that can keep
order in the place as well as dish out
drinks. About half the barkeeps are
ex-porters, botuncers, or prize fight-
ers. These people have their friends.
of course. and they have to treat
them. They also have to use money
beyond the size of their wages. What
then? The boss measures the whis-
ky out to them in the morning. When
they sell a quart of whisky they must
turn in about so much money. What
is there for them to do but to buy
a quart of rank stuff at some barrel
house and mix it with the good li-
although it is hard to get!
er. i
|when they drink,
|
quor passed out to them to sell? They | broken health? I’m against the whis- |
do it, too, for they can buy a quart
of rotten stuff for half a dollar, and
that will enable them to steal about
two dollars in money. Oh, the bar-
keeps are next to their underclothes
most of the time.”
“That is a new one on me,” said
the manager.
“Well, it is a condition and not a|
theory, as the police judge said to the
bum,” replied the shipping
“You can’t get pure whisky in this
little old town unless you’ve got a
stand-in with the barkeep.”
clerk. |
“Well, the way to fix that would |
be to have a testing committee
go |
about now and then and find out what |
($10 note on the bar and told the
|ky traffic on general principles, but I boys to drink it up,” said the driv-
}am against the selling of drugged/er. “I guess that is what got me—
| whisky to the point of making such| the drugs. And I was two weeks
{sales criminal.” saving that money, too.”
| “Well, when you get all the sa- And he picked up a box of goods
loons to selling pure liquors there) anq walked out to his wagon, stag-
| won't be any saloons,” said the driv-| gering like an old man, feeble and
jer. “There would be no money in| ajj in Alfred B. Tozer.
it. The element of highway robbery a
|would be taken out of the business, Answered Her Literally.
jand the dealers would have sane men Shopper—No, I don’t care to see
to do business with, which would| any sealskin. There’s a nice-looking
pevet answer from their point of! collaretie over there What is that
view.” fur?
"Tm for pure liquor, just — the Clerk—Why, that’s for to keep your
same,” said the manager. “If your! neck warm, of course.
drinks had been pure last night you +s
wouldn’t feel like a wet rag this There are few things more mis-
sort of goods were being sold,” said |
the manager.
"Nes. Phat sounds all sight, but
some duffer with a pul! would find
out who the members of the com-
mittee were and they would get the
right sort of stuff.”
oT
younger days,”
used to drink whisky in my
said the manager,
“and I have been put in bed more
than once by drinking just a little
of the manufactured stuff. I guess
they make it out of vitrol and rain-
water, with tobacco for coloring and
a few hand-saws dissolved to give it |
age.
over the bar ought to be sent up for
life.
A man who will sell that stuff |
Tt is bad enough to drink good |
whisky, but when these drugs are
worked in it ought to be a State}
prison offense.”
“T reckon-you know the game,’
said the driver.
oh} thank T
“Vve been
do.”
up
Bo
replied the mana- |
against most of|
the fool things that flesh is liable to|
bump into.
ky.
He
everything.
man. loses memory,
He will,
influence of it.
The worst is cheap whis- |
It makes a raving maniac of a|
reason, |
while under the}
abuse his best friend, |
reb his employer or beat his wife. |
We hear plenty of talk about pure|
butter, and colored oleo, and reliable}
tinned but there is more
money paid out for bad whisky every
year than there is for all these
things.”
goods,
“Tt’s a game for the Government to
play at.” said the driver.
cils will never enforce pure
laws.
If they knew just how ‘lit-
influence this has
element.
tle bum element
they would cease to tremble at the}
‘
mention of its opposition.”
than
than
whisky is
bread with plaster in it. worse
milk fixed with formaldehyde, worse
Drugged worse
“City coun- |
liquor |
They are afraid of the bum}
than sugar doctored with glucose,” |
said the manager. “Business men}
mourn the acts of their employes}
but if they would!
|pay a little attention to the whisky |
scld in their town they would not!
have so much trouble with _ their
help. A good many young men
think it manly to take a drink of in-
toxicating liquor now and then. If
they are not poisoned they will stop
at one or two drinks, but what can
you do with a man who is drugged—
turned driveling fool or a
brute by something put into his whis-
ky to make it cheap—perhaps put in-
to it with the design of keeping him
on a spree until he fails because of
mito a
|
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morning.” leadi
ing than a manufactured martyr-
“And I wouldn’t have
thrown a!
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ALERTNESS.
It Was the Means of Getting a Good,
Job.
Written for the Tradesman.
It was the old condition that we
have with us always and always shall. |
the getting of the round peg into the
round hole. The round hole
instance was in the prosperous store
at Fairhaven, and the man in active
search of the round peg was the pro-
prietor of the same, Mr. Horace V an |
So far as he}
1 : : i
could judge he had tried all sorts and,
Van We.
Amburgh
conditions of men and boys, the high
and the low, the rich and the poor,
the halt and the blind—blind in their
inability to see what ought to be
done and to do it without being told
vhat to do and, what was more, with-
out being followed up with a sharp
stick and compelled to do it. He had
but the result had been
satisfactory. The lead-
ing idea far developed in the ap-
plicants for the place was the largest
for the smallest
amount of work. Town and country
had both applied and both had dis-
ciosed the characteristic. It
was difficult to say which had devel-
sped the greatest symptoms of latent
Van Wye, with all the
the Dutch that was
him, was determined to keep ever-
found exactly
advertised;
anything but
SO
amount of wages
same
{
laziness, but
stubbornness of
lastingly at it until he
wanted.
the advertising had proved
he hit hours
during the
suffer least
to
After
delusive. upon certain
when business would
absence and took
parts of the city
day
by his
in
wandering
in this |
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
| where fortune should lead, and final-
ly one day after dinner—a meal which |
having
| Fairview insisted on
middle of the day—he
ous portion of the town. It was Mon-
day, and as he approac hed a small
unpainted one-story house
|
ed stick.
in the | ‘
.| hook and very shortly after the front
sauntered ; e ca E
i | yard was cobwebbed with the clothes-
/storeward through the less prosper-|
with al
zxg grass plot in front of it he saw|
a densely freckled 12-year-old of un-|
dergrowth trying to put an obstin-
ate clothes-line upon a hook several
inches above his reach. He had evi-
dently been at it for some time, he
lwas hot and angry and, when Van
Wye had reached the gate, the boy’s
had ass
ture of his physical condition.
language
See-
at 2
ing glance how
i with the kindest, “Let me help you.
my boy,”
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matter toOG, | earth—free from weeds and furnish-
the storekeeper entered the gate and, |-
| surroundings.
m I npera- |
umed the tempera-| _4 orass plot, hemmed
companying them, bringing a crotch-
“Now, then, we'll see;” and
a moment later the line was on the
line, ready for the waiting wash.
“She’s all right, mother!”
the exultant conqueror.
she’d be,”
sang out
answered a
“Better rest a
me out
heavy
"1 knew
cheery voice inside.
minute, Jim, and then help
with the basket; it’s
one.”
too for
While watching the putting up of
the clothes-line Van Wye took in his
The dooryard was neat
along the
‘fence by a narrow strip of spaded
| uriant
ras abo op line | :
was about to put the isprawling all over the rather rickety
\where it belonged, when the stripling. | >
his flushed face streaming with sweat,
exclaimed, “Please don’t,
do it myself!”
T want to,
ing ample nourishment for some lux-
morning glory vines which,
fence, had completely covered it with
leaves and variegated blooms. A Vir-
'oinia creeper on each side of the
joorstep had thrust its determined
| di
Not accustomed to that particular | fi
j
| boards
species of the genus boy, the man
lichted a cigar and sat down on the |
tco orstep to see the outcome. There
| boy
was to all appearances a repetition of |
what had been done before. An at-
‘hut the patches were clean,
tempt was made to lasso a line in- |
It failed. he line, loop-
ed. was not stiff enough and lopped
over Jumping re
sorted to. but without the desired re-
sult.
the conditions
19 position.
too soon. was
and then like a flash
a pair of tanned legs darted around |
An instant | “
i
ac-| spunky clothes
he corner of the house.
1
later they returned, the hands
{
Then there followed a study of |
‘clothes and the cheery voice from the | what he’s
exultant,;and when school time comes I will
when the |
-line at last gave up! when he’s big enough and old enough
ibe when
ithese things—the w ell- kept yard and | nimble
fingers into the crevices of the clap-
was swinging from the eaves. The
himself, shirt and overalls,
was patched from neckband to ankles,
and the
short red hair had been brushed that
morning and the finger nails were a
deal cleaner than his used to}
he was 12 years old. All|
in
sood
the vines, the clean, well-patched I
kitchen and above all the
She's all right. mother!”
and clambering to the roof,
and conquered—suggested something
to the storekeeper on the hunt for a
helper, and when a second time the
gentle voice from the kitchen called
“Now, Jim!’ Van Wye put down
his cigar and, following the twelve-
year-old torchlight around to the
back door, found what he knew
should find, a neat, little, determined
woman with a face reluctantly giving
up its fading with a basket
piled high with a big wash ready for
the line.
“Good morning, madam,” said the
hearty voice of Van Wye. “I’ve been
itching ae boy in his battle with
the clothes-line, and concluded that
I would i: him take out the bas-
ket, if you don’t mind. From his vic-
tory there and from what I have seen
since I’m inclined to think that I can
make use of him during the
summer, and perhaps longer if sat-
isfactory arrangements can be made.”
So while the washer-woman with
Jim’s bap hung out the clothes, the
storekeeper sat on the front doorstep
and talked.
out,
he
beauty,
good
“TI am bothered to death with poor
help. They come, stay a few weeks
at the most and go, and I don’t want
any more of them. I’m going to try
a new plan. I’m going to get a boy
who isn’t afraid of work and bring
him up according to my own notions.
|He’s got to be neat: he’s got to be
and he’s got to be willing.
I'll take him at once and pay him
worth and a little more:
that he to school. Then
see goes
the profits of |
you should have.
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r business to slip away.
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Please explain to me what kind of a
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This does not obligate me to buy
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I'll take him in instead of turning
him out if he proves by that time to
be the man that I fancy he’s going
to be. What do you say, Mrs
I declare I didn’t think to ask the
boy his name.”
“Main, sir, James Main. Will you
please give me yours? I haven’t been
long in Fairview.”
“My name is Van Wye and
store is on the corner of Colfax
my
and
Blank. I'd like to have the boy be-
gin in the morning.”
Then followed the settling of
wages, and this over the hopeful
storekeeper signaled for a car.
“There!” he said as he took his seat,
“now we'll see what this will
amount to.”
There was considerable amusement
indulged in at the store next day when
Jim put in an appearance. Every-
body greeted him with a nickname
of his own; but as the boy with his
glowing future before him darted,
“Ceaseless aspiring, ceaseless con-
tent,” here and there in his intense
desire to fulfill every obligation, the
appropriate “Flashlight” soon dropped
to the more convenient “Flash,” which
then became the name, clinging to
him to this day.
The alertness which
Flash Main’s introduction
Van Wye establishment occasioned
no comment. It was always so. A
week at most would see the end of
it, and then they would find out
about the flash and its duration, but
one week went by and then another
and the fortnight became a month of
strenuous activity. Then when fa-
miliarity with his surroundings drew
from the “instantaneous imp” an ag-
gressive, “Get a move on you!” en-
durance ceased to be a virtue and the
clerk with the retreating chin who
emphasized his
characterized
into the
show of violence said something |
about a certain kind of “cuss” and
immediately after proceeded to the|
dressing room, where he applied cold
water to his bleeding nose and chang-
ed his collar and necktie!
It was soon decided that the slug-
gish wrapping counter needed liven-
ing up and Flash received his first
promotion. Van Wye busied himself
within good hearing distance to en-
joy the fun. It began at once. The
head of the counter much against his
will proceeded to business.
“Now, you cub, use your eyes for
I don’t intend to waste any time on
you. This is the way to do it, and
you don’t want to be over an hour
doing up a package.”
/@h, is that so! How’s this?” and,
grasping with firm hands the clumsv
which the clerk intended to
bother him with, Flash with astonish-
ing speed foreed them into shape,
deftly and rapidly wrapped the paper
neatly and firmly about them, look-
ing out for the corners with a zeal
which proclaimed a careful course
goods
and rather congratulating himself that
fortune had favored him with a man
last would relieve him and
his department of some well-ground-
at who
|
ed prejudice, he went on with his |
work, which afterwards consist 2d |
principally in pushing the big piles |
along to Flash while he kept the}
small ones for himself. That plan, |
however, did not work. After two,
or three of the big packages had|
left his hand he looked up in time to |
see a big pile coming to him with!
numberless small ones in reserve. |
Rushing the big one ack, Flash}
helped himself to the small one near-
est him, remarking, “It’s no go,|
Poky. ‘You can’t fool all the people |
ali the time!’”’ a statement which met |
with prompt resentment and led be-
fore night to Flash’s promotion and |
to Poky’s discharge.
So with battle and victory the|
months and the years flew by. With |
his eyes and his mind on his work,
there was nothing which Flash was
afraid of, not a plow which his hands
hesitated to grasp, if it came in his |
way, with the resulting
straight as the circumstances required |
or called for. At each advance envy
aud all uncharitableness never hes-
itated to declare that “he’s got some- |
thing now that will hold him down,”
but it didn’t to. Van Wye
watched with acknowledged nervous-
ness the coming school time, but it
“came and went and left no
The boy met the required conditions— |
there was no law requirement then—-. |
by month after month of night schooi, |
so that the mental progress kept far |
ahead of the promotion and the quick- |
|
witted boy, intuitively understanding |
furrow as |
seem
sign.” |
iwhat was to be most needed by and)
by, entered prepared upon the new|
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By : ! , |toad before him, as his disappointed |
disapproval with a/| : : cali ceri ed
icemrades discouragingly put it, “with- |
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out making any breaks!”
What the force
most was Flash’s rapid progress up-
It seemed to be withoui
rhyme or reason. It was*nothing un-
usual in the history of the package
department, for instance, for a boy
to be kept there even months, and at
the end of Flash’s third week around
puzzled clerking
ward.
to the back side of the counter he|
went, jumping over two clerks that
were just ahead of him. Once
man who ought to have known bet-
ter, concluding that he was essential
to the firm’s existence, became care-
and then impudent. He was
promptly discharged, as he ought to
less
have been, and while the next man
in the line of promotion was making
up his mind what he should do when
he got there, he found Flash in the
place pegging away modestly and
successfully, as if he had been there
always.
From that time, in the store and
; Man.
of home-training, fastened them with |
an intelligently applied string and,
snapping it, tossed the package to-
'that young fellow to have all that
i salary
wards his would-be instructor with a!
“THow’s that, old poke, for a job that
you can’t do as well in twice the
time?”
The person addressed did not deign
to answer, thinking that an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure,|so with a tone in leis voice that the
out of it, Flash Main was a marked
The young bloods took him
ee cs i i |
in hand first. It was a great pity for
without an idea of how he|
ought to spend it so as to get the!
greatest amount of fun out of it. |
Would he go with them here and
wouldn't he like to go with them
there? He never went; and once
when he had declined and had done
ia result
|the Van Wye veranda, Flash,
giver of the invitation didn’t like and
didn’t
hesitate to say so, the young
fellow in the very flower of his
wholesome youth turned his clear blue
eyes upon the face of the fast young
man him and
and without intentional offense: “It’s
before said
HO tse, Bently, | cant go. | never|
should get over being ashamed of
myself if I went. I don’t like that]
sort of thing. I don’t believe in it.
I wasn’t brought up in that way; and
then, too, if I had been, I couldn't |
ibe induced to kill the sweetest little
mother the sunshine ever kissed by
jany such wickedness as that, and
don't ask me to. Instead you come
to-night with me. I'll phone to}
mother to put on a plate for you, and}
jafter dinner you come with her and
me to the Park. We are going and
|we'll take you right along. We'll
ihave a good ride home in the moon-
light, Tl give you a good cigar and
we'll have a time worth remembering.
TS it yeso”
It was; and the “good time” and the
|years of prosperity that followed as
is what every one of the
| party remembers to this day.
It would be a needless spinning out
in detail to follow minutely the steps
that Flash took before Van Wye
{gave him a desk in the front office.
| He got there all right. Once after
that had taken place and the two,
having made the most of a Sunday
dinner under the vines that curtained
watch-
ing his “vanishing blue” as it floated
jand faded, asked, “How did it ever
happen, Mr. Van Wye, that I got
here? I have often asked myself that
candidly |
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and if you haven't wit enough tojno doubt that fev vy people are able to
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ing, for I won't tell you!” sufficiently to do some good think- |
At the end of a prolonged silence |ing, how can you hope to interest | ls
gazing meditatively at his|others in what you Say? |
half-consumed cigar, made answer:| Money is a good . but its good- |" Os -
“After that amount of angling with in its moving, its circulating. |
hae gues oF als Sawcewoine swe: [| JOHnston Glass Company];
mit that this is the measliest fishing | move thought and = circu agen of |
sround that | ever struck!” imoney stops. A people who do no | Manufacturers of Window Glass T
Richard Malcolm Strong. {thinking would have no_ use for | We are prepared to furnish all sizes and qualities of Winpow GLASS.
———_223o——_ imoney. Money can exist only where | Hand blown and tank made. Our goods are strictly up to the standard of } a
A Genial Shoe Merchant. ithought exists. An advertisement | quality. Packages are well made, neatly and uniformly branded. Excel- a
Genial’s the word. It smacks of | calls oney. It costs money to} lent shipping facilities. Courteous treatment. Shipments direct from ,
sunshine and dandelions. This is the ei it brings money to end | factories. It is worth something to secure uniform quality, boxes and rn
grand secret of the shoe merchant's | with; but since money is moved by branding. Wealso operate the most extensive grinding and chipping ‘
success. If the shoe retailer has not |thought, the advertisement will move plant in the United States, furnishing plain D. S. Ground, D. S. Chipped, -
a liberal sprinkling of geniality in his |it in proportion to the thought it One and Two Process, Geometric Chipped, Enameled Glass, Lettering and \
make-up, he’s bucking up against 4 | contains. and Sign Work, etc., etc. We can ship an excellent variety of widths and a
tough proposition; he’d better go in| You may want your advertisements lengths. Want orders of any size from lights to car loads. Cases contain
for joke-writing or undertaking. ito be large, so that they may move about 100 sq. ft. Boxes contain about 50 sq. ft. Write,Us FOR PRICES. ’
One man had geniality in the acute | much money; but do not forget that i
casei ere a ee ee JOHNSTON GLASS CO.
form. Jt was the head and front of |their moving force lies in the force
his charming. He was hail-fellow-|oi thought they contain. Little Hartford City, Ind. a
well-met: he was as infectious as a|/thought spread over an entire news-
day in June. When you came in he | paper page becomes very thin, so thin 1 2
gave you a smile that dissipated the | th: ften requires time and much |
erouch instanter. if you happened to|trouble to find it. If a man is bub- | 7
: co -
wear one, and when you left he tra-|bling full of thought, thought run- | {
1. land ann in 3 manner } t SIV1T | aces ie ees se ii ie 1 © ct
la-laed you in a manner ta YOUlnine over, Re May Tegu ire a whole
thought of afterward without regret.'page in the newspaper to give it +
When he approached me with that| play and to utilize his surplusage.
fs Ce > utilize fis surpinsag®- || Always Uniform FRAZER
smile unexungable. and asked what) This does not often happen, but it 1s| Axle Grease i) 4
he could do for me, I said to my-|a possibility, and may happen some) | Often Imitated
self: “Here's a mat eM do lflaa. whe Bde be a
Beit: Here a man that'll do. If| day when one least expects it. || Never Equaled senageeny +
it’s necessary I can state my et Give prominence to a few things at | aie 001
1: ae ns o re i
bles to this man; I believe he’d loan ja time. Too many articles put before | tei h /
his dress shirt to a friend in need.” mind ata time are confusing; and ee = ‘
’ gies Ee 1 g3 2 ‘| Harness Soap OL
I told him that the dew and thej|confusion always ce from the! | No Talk Re-
; : ne . : 4 ired t
rain were oozing through my old | effectiveness of an advertisement. The| | %™ arene FRAZER i
shoes, and that I had about made up|small products are always strong be-| Good G Harness Oil
ot a. .. || Good Grease |
my mind that I was in the market |cause of their brevity. Say very lit-| Makes Trad +.
for some new ones. itle and enforce that little with an| ee er EReeee i
ean os : | : ; : : | Hoof Oil 4
Then vou’re in luck to have drop-|appropriate illustration, if you would} i
Se ae oe) : _| Cheap Grease {
ped in here,” he said, with a continua-| present something strong and attrac- | P FRAZER
. ser ae . 5 i *
tion of the same good cheer, “for|tive. It is not the quantity of the| Kills Trade Stock Food 7
I’m decidedly your man.” matter you put into an advertisementj
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
31
that makes it good and strong, but the
quality. The smaller the product the
greater the care required to make it
good. Never forget to have some-
thing entirely new in each product,
and let these new things follow in
succession, but do not repeat them
often in the same product.
The business man that never adver-
tises is much like the man without a/
home; no one knows where to find
him. He is an advertiseless man, sel-
fish and lonely; the homeless man,
morose and melancholy; the one longs
for the angel spirit of business to en-
liven the dreary abode of his self-
walled tomb; the other follows his
shadow from morn until night in
search of peaceful rest; both are
playing hopefully with time and wait-
ing for something to turn up. to
brighten their souls and to enliven
their drooping spirits. The adver-
tiseless man has his just reward; the
homeless man deserves the pity of
the benevolent; the condition of the
first is of his own making; that of the |
second came upon him through cir-
cumstances beyond his control.
The business man with capital was |
able to surround himself with a finely |
selected stock of goods and elegant |
His object was two- |
fold: to benefit himself while help-|
store fixtures,
ing others.
ciple that elegance in stock and store
fixtures were all the needful require-
ments. He presumed that his high-
ness was all-sufficient to bring swarms |
of customers, and any means to make |
himself and his store known to the
public was a waste of money.
how could the dear people remain
ignorant of the magnate among
them? “Not to know me,” he mut-
tered, “is to argue one’s. self un-
known.” Such stateliness may have
its just recognition among nabobs,
but among plain Americans it goes
for naught.
A man in business must make him-
self and his merchandise known to!
the people. To do that he must ad-
vertise; he must keep his name and
the kind of store he keeps before the
people. They need to be told how
the merchant is going to benefit
them. Their interests must be reach-
ed; they must be told how _ their
wants can be supplied with the least
expenditure of money. One time tell-
ing will not suffice; the lessons re-
quire oft repeating.
village has a newspaper for the dis- |
semination of knowledge among the
people; that paper will help you if|
you give it the opportunity.
Has it ever occurred to
man has ever become
that
great in
you
no
modern times without the aid of the}
newspaper? You may think
published
therefore it can do you no
your
newspaper is
good. If
you think so, you are acting upon er-
roneous premises. You, as an indi-
vidual, may have no influence, but
place yourself behind a newspaper as
its manager and notice how quickly
you clothe yourself with power among
the people that read your paper. A
word or a line in your newspaper
commending you and your goods to
the public is beneficial to you. In rural
districts everybody that can reads the
He acted upon the prin- |
Hej
would not advertise; no, indeed, for |
Every town and |
weekly and}
town news in the newspaper. Not
that only, but they read all the lo-
cals all the advertisements.
The fact that the greatest money
makers are the largest and best ad-
vertisers 1s proof sufficient that ad-
vertising brings them money. The
advertisement the ball rolling,
and as it rolls toward the retailer it
grows larger and larger, ending in
and
sets
filling his coffers with money galore.
The goods to be advertised require
| study. The better they are understood
the better they can be advertised.
Clear ideas about the goods begets
iperspicuity and brevity in statements.
Articles for publicity should be
made to talk and plead for the goods
offered. They should interest and per-
suade people to come and buy. There-
in lie the essential elements of good
and strong advertising.
The more attractive a man makes
| his advertisements the more efficient
jas money bringers they will be. A
neat article of publicity is stronger
than one showing a slovenly make-
Send Us Your Orders for
Wall Paper
Buggies
We have now
and for
John W. Masury
& Son’s
a large stock
on hand and
Paints, Varnishes
and Colors.
Brushes and Painters’
Supplies of All Kinds
can fill orders
promptly. Send
for catalog.
Harvey & Seymour Co.
Grand Rapids, Michigan Brown & Sehler Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
WHOLESALE ONLY
Jobbers of Paint, Varnish and
Wall Paper
up. The advertisement reflects the
idea prevailing in the store, and when
it shows taste in its preparation one is |
sure to find taste in the selection and |
arrangement of the goods the adver- |
tisement represents. Most wholesal- |
realizing this fact, take great
pains to make their advertisements
artistic; and what is the
wholesaler’s method of advertising is |
equally good for the retailer’s meth-|
In more
importance to the retailer than to the
to his
beautiful
ers;
good for
od. fact, it would. seem of
| wholesaler have advertise: |
ments as as one’s means
vill permit.
i ful, and hence what to them has even
the appearance of something beauti-
ful is attractive to them.
A beggar in rags is often stronger |
in a clothing advertisement than the
dudishly dressed figure. The rags of
the beggar emphasize the impor-
ance of having a new suit of clothes, |
which again points to the fact that
|your business is to supply all with
iclothing that stand in need of articles
to wear. It makes a strong contrast
between the bad clothing of the beg-
gar and the good clothing you have
to sell. On the other hand, the more
perfectly you represent your clothng
on the figure the more you destroy
the contrast between the dress and
the clothing for sale. A strong illus-
tration might be produced by placing
iuéar the bese@ars rags a. suit) of
iclothes hung on a stand so as to
show vest, coat and trousers. The
contrast would heighten the effect of
both, and the mind would flash from
the one to the other with the increas-
ed feeling of the great difference be-
|tween the beggar’s suit and that you
jhave for sale—Clothier and Furn-
| isher.
Should Have Thought Before Act-|
ing.
Teddy—lI wish I hadn’t licked Jim-
my Brown this morning.
Mamma—You see now how wrong
it was, don’t you dear?
Teddy—yYes, ’cause I
till noon that he was going
party.
j
didn’t know
to give a
—_—_2~~»_ —___
Nobody talks much about
doors on Easy street.
the back |
People love the beauti-|-
Fishing Tackle and
Fishermen’s Supplies
Complete Line
of
Up-to-Date Goods
Guns and Ammunition
Base Ball Goods
foster “STEVE NS ot.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
What are you going to do
when you are old and have
One dollar
makes the start then it comes
saved nothing?
easy — start today in
The Old National Bank
50 Years at No. 1 Canal St.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Assets Over 6 Million Dollars
|for shoe manufacturers to keep buid-
ling ian rger and larger factories, thus
'sinking vast amounts of capital in |
brick and stone. In fact, one of the |
levils of the trade is the tendency ot |
and small merchants and mane
care
Warne To ‘Shoe and + kenee Man- |
less about carry- |
ufacturers. ing a sufficient cash balance, who have |
Are we going ahead too fast inj evidently been willing to i as much |
the production of shoes money as ese into mecchandice |
and leather?
the i ip!
1 ‘and buildings. I believe that many
intoxication
shoe wholesalers and retailers are car-
| rying larger stocks than they should, |
and 1 am age ormed that some big|
shoe houses sey e Central West have |
forgetting
Are
of the p
we
ist in the
present?
me while
manutac-
came to
lanther
seatner
These questions
visiting shoe and
turers and wholesalers during the|been shipping ok on consign- |
past few weeks in the Central West./ ment to large retailers. Suc h efforts |
The country 1s APenehaere but we to swell the volume of sa es and to |
have a habit of feeling and believing | encourage making an imposing array |
that the business sun “will shine for-|of stocks is not prudent or wise. |
ever as soon as temporary clouds} There is danger in a business be- |
have passed away. I do not speak| coming top-heavy. It is not absolute- |
as a pessimist but rather as one of|ly necessary for business houses to}
the shoe and leather crowd wh0/keep advancing their progress by |
stand aside from the rush for a| leaps and bounds. A business built |
little while to look around and re-j| conservatively is liable to endure |
longer than if built and pushed hast- |
be 2c, |
that |
flect. so as to avoid being surprised in|
ily. Demand will not always
1 ul meanitivye and buoyant. A concern
knock-downs and drag-outs. The pac¢| has not figured on encounterng rough |
is oft waters may have a hard time of it.”
burne Mere bigness is not always)
dite istreneth Credit men are more in- |
e sco clined to examine the interior of a
or business rather than be dazzled by
one outside splendor. Houses that feel |
” that they must show a bigger and |
ate often
honor |}
record each
year are
the path of
mate :
tempted to leave
material
nd rectitude. Here and there we}
money oa. “ |
see big men, supposed to be the very |
very ne a ia
soul of honor, turn tail and suddenly |
kept : a : |
cia ae : : labandon some enterprise in which}
commodities, from raw to i
| hI i. ‘ahi ers. C red- |
stock, trouble is very liable t
ce | lat is a dels no matte!
from congestion. For instance, tan-], : : a
how large ly powerful
ners : pete |
year to be
soundness, |
1] aware that if caught by
their craft
could
help be
times as the present that
} . 1
merchants and man
to keep a sharp
ence.-—V¢
yurnal.
1
ters. | prud
shoe man-|J
tempt who'e-| — ee
merchants to Staining Oak.
shoe A new method of. staining
comes from Germany.
sath of sus- |
nerchants and manufactur: |
would |
ob- |
It is obtained |
eon is keen, and I doubt if it is at Ow AR EE
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
SREEDER’
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Our Greyhound Tennis
Shoes
Were Never Excelled at the Price
Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s
White Canvas Oxfords
75c to $1.60
Cleaner for White Shoes 75c Dozen
HOOD
RUBBER COMPANY
BOSTON.
We are State Agents
GEO. H. REEDER & CO.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Own en ww ene
ee eC)
yfac
Hac 4
markets, but} lookout be encou iraged OT
: + ldemnted to overstep the bounds of |
evidence ai- LCTIIprTecCa VETSOLC] € 3 NGs F294
‘teran in Shoe Trade |
and thus give an in a very simple manner—by placing
rit th t ee ie Paes : - is a }
re ar the frames, after they have been}
ts of ammonia, and the room of
. + i: pi 8 oa
is closed for the night.
Leir and see nant woamo mtn ac- . -
eir goods Y ¢ not POmMe moO at")... EGS . Mea . a1 r
pee | ae Soe |S 7 shade can be obtained by
> prepared and polished, in}
te naan room or large air-tight}
|
in which are placed two large}
containing from five to six|
The de]
plac- |
sHamntiol lere : Fi; . . oe |
tual consumption. Mere swapping 0!) ing all pieces of prepared oak in|
ics Ge were : : a : |
mercnandise 16 VEY the room or box and withdrawing |
different to the}
]
nica dise for he :
merchandise tor the same at intervals.
require larger exposures
£
ot
flow
at
:
large.
COUTSE,
I was talking with a large shoe | Oak stained in this way retains its
manufacturer recently who sells most-| color much longer than by the proc-
South. He said: “Our big] ess
in coloring extracts,
the course of time
of rubbing
which latter in
rubs off.
ly in the
shoe manufacturers are possibly push-
Competi-
ing things too strongly.
Deeper shades, |
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Il FOR MEN, BOYS & YOUTHS
HONEST WEAR IN EVERY PAIR
SOLD HERE ,;
MADE BY f
[HE HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.¢ cA
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ies SIGN of GOOD BUSINESS. ,
Don't Buy Any More Shoes |
that must stand the hard wear of every day use
until you've sampled
| Hard-Pan Shoes
They wear like the everlasting hills. Trial is proof.
Send for a case today. Samples if you prefer them.
But we prefer the wear test, and then we furnish the
ammunition to push them. Prompt shipments right
out of stock. Only one dealer in a town can have
the line. The profits all belong to you if you are
prompt enough. : /
Our Name on Every Pair
THE HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.
Makers of Shoes
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Foolish Reasons People Give for Ex-
changing Shoes.
Written for the Tradesman.
Coming from the show at Reed’s
Lake, the other evening, I could not
help but hear the remarks of a gir!
to her “best beau” as they chatted in
the seat directly behind the one in
which I sat. Afterward, when I left
the car, I glanced their way to see
how the girl looked.
She seemed to be 23 or thereabouts,
and was simply dressed, as becomes
working girls. There wasn’t a fur-
below to be seen on her—quite diff-
erent from the ordinary run of store
girls, some of whom seem to think
that if one ornament or ribbon is
fine more are commendable.
A whole chapter might be reeled
off on this subject of over-embellish-
ment, but I will confine myself to
the subject on which I started out
to speak.
The girl was just a girl of the
wholesome sort that are—or make
themselves—“easy to get along with.”
She was entertaining her friend with
the relation of some store happen-
ings that occurred while she has been}
in her present place of employment. |
Said she: |
|
|
“We have so many funny things |
happen in our store, and lots of ’em
occur in my shoe department. When }
we have a Special Sale then is one of
the times that peaple’s queer notioris
crop out.
“Once we were holding a Special
on children’s shoes, mostly shoes for
the smallest tots. We sold them
right straight through for 25 cents a/
pair. An oldish woman meandered
1
up to the bunch, pawed ‘em over for
a considerable time and finally asked
how many we had of a certain kind—
did we have as many 4s three dozen
pairs? I told her those on the long
counter were all we had in stock and
that they would all be sold for 25
as long as they held out. Then she
said she’d take three dozen pairs if
T could find her so many. We both
hunted around and finally got that
many together. I made out a slip
and asked politely where we should
send them. But no, she said she’d
‘take ’em along. She ‘took ’em
along,’ paying the price all in quar-
ters of a dollar. Of course, it was
none of my business what she want-
ed to do with the thirty-six shoes, and
she gave not the slightest hint as to
their destiny. She might have been
the old lady who ‘had so many chil-
un she didn’t know what to do’—she
certainly seemed to count her chil-
dren by the dozen!
“A man who has the reputation of
possessing money galore came in the
other day to exchange a pair of
shoes ‘’cause they hurt his bunions.’
They looked it—the bunions were the
most prominent things on his feet.
Said the shoes ‘hurt ‘im like sixty!’
His face had a pinched, woe-begone
expression as he said it, which aa!
color to his declaration of his|
state of misery. Naturally, the young
man waiting on him condoled with
him, at the same time wondering
how he thought we could be expect-
ed to take back shoes after they had
been worn, and especially as they had
adopted the contour of his bunions!
Seemingly this phase of the subject
did not enter the head of the sufferer,
for he calmly sat down on a seat and
began to remove one of the offending
foot coverings. He got it off before
the clerk could put in a word of pro-
test, and banged it down as if he
would get even with the thing that
had hurt him so. The clerk picked
the shoe up, ruminating as to what
course to pursue. There was nothing
to do but let the man down as easy
as possible and not make an enemy
of him for the store. The fellow look-
ed sour at the refusal of the clerk to
let him have a new pair of shoes
for the ones in which he walked into
the place, but there was no other way
to do. The man should have had
sense enough not to have worn the
shoes if they pained his feet and then
there could have been no objections
to their return and exchange for larg-
er footwear. 3ut some people are
just that unreasonable. It’s a phase
of the ‘something for nothing’ idea,
I suppose.
“Sometimes there appears absolute-
ly no proper excuse for exchange
‘of shoes. but people seem to have tir-
ied of their selection and apparently
|go on the principle that ‘A poor ex-
'cuse is better than none’ and—”
“Here's our crossing,” interrupt-
‘ed the youtig man with the speaker,
and they dropped off into the dark-
ness, cutting the clerk’s talk in two,
for which I was rather sorry, as, hav-
ing had some “fierce” propositions in
store life to deal with, others mer-
chants’ experiences along this line in-
terest me, and, too, her relation be-
guiled my solitary way, I having gone
out to the Lake alone. €..¢, €
cae eS :
/American Shoes Populer in Europe
The United States Consul at Bel-
invasion of
the follow-
gium, discussing the
American
ing from a Liege newspaper, which
indicates how the ingenious Ameri-
can may overcome the handicapping
tariff. “How does it happen,” asks
the Belgium newspaper, “that in the
space of a féw years the American
shoes have been able to occupy such
1 <
SUGES,
quotes
'an important place in the European
market? You must observe that in
the United States there are only 150,-
ooo workingmen against 290,000 G¢-
cupied in inaking shoes in England
and, in spite of this superiority, the
English are incapable of withstand-
ing American competition even at
home. This is due exclusively to the
American tool, becattse in the Unit-
ed States the mechanism ts being
continually improved and allows then
manufacturers to reduce the mantal
labor to a minimum, which labor is
very high there. In 1885, 100 pairs
of hand-made shoes in America re-
quired 2,225 hours of work and the
cost averaged about $5.50 a pair. Ten
years later, in 1895, the same number
of shoes, of the same quality, were
made by machinery in 296 hours, the
average cost per pair being 2bout 75
cents.”
—_—_.~2--___
The Teller Who Could Not Tell.
“How much money has my hus-
band in bank?” demanded the woman.
“IT can not tell you, madam,” re-
plied the man behind the grating,
“Why, they told me you were the
teller,” snapped the woman,
Luck
Is All Right to Depend |j
On---When Fishing !
|GRAND RAPIDS /
es a,
That is because you have no alternative. You
cannot depend on luck to run your shoe busi-
ness.
It takes judgment, common sense and
right buying to do that.
Right buying is where we come in,
we sell dependable goods only.
because
And you will
find on careful inspection that our footwear,
from baby shoes to boots, whether made by us
or for us, is in each and every case as good
value as is to be had.
Suppose you write and let us show you.
We
go everywhere for trade.
Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
White Canvas
Shoes
And Oxfords
Order Now
Quick Shipments
WOMEN’S
Grey Sea Island. Gibson Tie, Wood Heel, Turn, C, D &
E2%-7
White Sea Island, Bl
White Canvas, Bluc
White Canvas, Bluc
White Canvas, Bluc
pees $1 00
uc. Oxford, D & E2%-7
MISSES’
Oxford, Big4-2 ..-....-...--
CHILD’S
. Oxford, E5-8
“Oyiorad ESi4-1o ..........--..-.
MEN’S
White Canvas Bal., E6-9 .... -- 00
White Canvas, Bluc. Oxford, E36-10.....-. --++-++++++:
1 00
Hirth-Krause Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan
| Everything in the Shoe Line
FADED/LIGHT TEXT
a4
Shoe Dealer Working Against Strong
Odds.
I read valuable thor-
oughly each week, and am very much
your paper
interested in the helpful suggestions
to
dress
all |
ways
as store management, how
am pleased to note that it al-
advocates truthfulness and
square dealing.
am inclined
to be
things.
esty the best policy in
9 give you the conditions
small
in-
I wish te
which I am
and would be
under running a
shoe store, glad
deed to receive any helpful sugges-
ticns how to improve my business, or
whether you think I ought to quit
t
Without boasting I}
that way, believing hon- |
all |
| others
| How
to
show windows, etc., but above |
them,
las it was when
ltown is
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
pay? Or had I better keep on sub-
mitting to the dirty work and let
handle the clean money?
can I get the people to see
what is the proper thing to do—pat-
ronize the man who knows nothing
but shoes, can make them and repair
man who sells
rather than a
them only?
Of
course everybody has the right
to buy
where they choose, but when
I see the as 1 sell
brought in for repairing, I feel this
world is not such a nice place now
Adam first saw Eve.
same shoes
Another unpleasant feature is this
only sixteen miles from a
large city, and the elite here consid-
ler it necessary to go to the city for
itheir shoes, for which they have to
it under the circumstances.
This is a mining town of about |
2.000 population, taking in all who}
ce ae ae ed
make this their center for business— |
four mines, salt wells and chemical |
works give employment to about
1.200 when running. There are Six
stores which sell shoes. four of which
are general merchandise dealers, one
sells harness and shoes, while I am
exclusive shoe dealer in_ this
the
town.
laski
| they
| stretch
The people around here often come |
exchanged shoes bought in the city
into the store, ask for certain kinds
the prices,
dozen
of shoes and
sometimes a pairs, and in-
stead of buying, frequently excuse
examine |
| whereas
themselves by saying, “I will look
around, and if I can not do better
will call again.” In nine cases out
of t seen passing with
on they can be
I
a shoe box under their arm, and by
the color of the wrapping paper we
know the store they have been look-
ing around in.
It
hunters:
for
they very often
is a ereat town
ask for la-
dies’ shoes and slippers that cost me
‘
t
;company running this
bargain |
pay nearly $2 car fare. These, too,
are brought into the repair shop, and
in many instances the same kind of
shoe is on shelves awaiting a
bring them in
stretch them, as
Of course
hoping
our
buyer. Others will
nme 11
USS I
can
tight.
free
we
too
them of
by obliging them surely to win their
trade next time, but, alas, to the city
they go when in need next time. On
are we
cost,
more than one occasion we have even
week our
of
but
names
better fit.
the
townspeople
for a every
locals give of scores
our the city,
general
which carry everything right here at
home.
Myself
visiting
we have stores
comprise the
establishment.
and wife
|We have been careful workers for
years. Two years azo we caine 10
this town and commenced business
by opening a shoe store, and now
have as nice a little shoe store as
|can be seen in a day’s march. We
have the best location in town and
$1.15 and expect to get them for a
dollar. TI am tempted to sell at a|
less rather than let them go to my
competitors. Would that be right?
: laart
IT run a repair shop in
deing the work myself,
heard it whispered that I do the best
but whether that
will tell
sho
ground for all the stores in
work in town, is
true not, | what is
that
dumping
town. [
same
or true,
my repair
price; they get it at
other stores, and when it needs re-
pairing it is brought to me, and that
is where the rub comes in.
To show more plainly what !
ny he 1 - rans Teel aed
mean, the miners wear rubber boots. |
> is made the}
I |
connection. |
and have}
carry the same shoe at the |
one of the |
| worse,
hope in the future to claim this as
ur Own-—we are working for it—but
somehow there is something lacking,
or people would not pass our door
to another store, returning with shoes
which might have been bought here.
Now do please tell us how to make
and
that in going farther they may
understand
fare
try to oblige all, and
get for
margin
the people believe
as we
best shoes
at the
the
1e money
sel] we can
smallest
| possible.
and these are sometimes tapped and |
heeled while new.
ly buy the boots from a man
them
fc oT
does repairing, and bring
straight from his store to mine
me to tap them. Please note I
the boot for sale at the
price. but no matter how I
to buy their
where they like them tapped
still bring them. which, to
mild, is annoying.
Should I
and
same S
try
persuade them b
draw
determined
repair boots
only and never deviate
from that resolve? J feel that if my
material and
make a
change, my own
and shoes
work are. satisfactory
they ought to buy from me as long}
same brand jhe sells strictly for cash.
stand |
as the goods
are the
and quality. s
Would such a
They will actual- |
that |
have |
ame |
oots }
they |
it |
that the general stores
give credit. and probably that takes
1 may say
away a good percentage of the buy-
but be to
us, and we can not stand to do that.
I would ask right here again, ought
Lot
on
ers, credit would ruinous
» accept boots and shoes bought
for repairing? I feel I
to accept them, but am
whether it would help me
Another question I would
venture to ask is, Would you recom-
mend putting in something besides
and if so, what would you sug-
Perplexed Shoeman.
The Answer.
Tt must be admitted that the Per-
plexed Shoeman is seriously handi-
principally by the close
credit
cught
doubtful
not.
not
Or
shoes,
West £
capped,
proximity of the city, and the fact
that his competitors—the general
stores—do a credit business. while
The class of trade he has to draw
Let Me Show You
How to elose out or re-
duce your stock of mer-
chandise and realize One
Hundred Cents on the
Dollar, above all expense.
Do you wish to. clean
your stock of odds and
ends? Write me for ref-
erences, ete. ALL
SALES PERSONALLY
on—miners—usually buy on ppon |
although they are obliged to pay |
higher prices.
We would not advise him to adopt;
that system under the circumstances,
but commend him for the stand he
is taking in selling for cash.
There is no doubt he could
crease his sales by doing otherwise,
i- | seer
: CONDUCTED.
'A.L. BRYANT, 53 River Street, Chicago, Ill.
but he would probably lose out in} Sales Specialist and Auctioneer
the end. ‘aa _
In some localities a credit business) Window Displays of all Designs
is not undesirable, but in mining | and general electrical work.
towns there is usually considerable ; acciues aiedian 6 «pocils.
loss sustained.
He says the “elite to the
for shoes.” This human
and hard to overcome. Some people.
J. B. WITTKOSKI ELECT. MNFG. CO.,
city Ԥ Market Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
nature Citizeng hone 3437.
oo
£o0
is
in Kansas City think there is noth-} Saves Oil, Time, Labor, Money
ing good enough there for them and) By using a
do most of their trading in St. Louis; Self Oil Outfit
| Bowser Measuring
Full particulars free.
Ask for Catalogue ‘‘M”
S. F. Bowser & Co. Ft. Wayne, Ind.
St. Louis folks send to Chicago for
certain things, while Chicago people)
often patronize New York mer-
chants. Such practices can be check-
“Walkabout Shoes”
«‘A good thing needs no puffin’ ‘less
Walkabout Shoes for men need
Uncle Eben says:
it be a good cigar.”
‘‘no puffin’” for they are good, made from good leather,
good lasts, by a good maker. Twenty styles, retails for
$3.00. Walkabout Specials $3.50.
MICHIGAN SHOE CO. Detroit
Oxfords SUMMER Tennis
“Three Words With But a Single Meaning”
Summer is bound to come. It hasn’t failed in 6000 years. It may be
wet, dry, hot or possibly cold, but it will surely come, and
with it the demand for Oxfords and Tennis Shoes.
for summer wear are COMFORTABLE, ECONOM-
Low Shoes ICAL and FASHIONABLE, the best three reasons
in the world for shoe popularity.
and don’t let it run out on low shoes. We
Watch Your Stock have a fine line of Oxfords and Tennis
Shoes, both leather and rubber sole, all colors, for everyday and Sunday wear,
for Yacthing, Tennis, Golf, Outing, Etc., and call your attention especially to
our ‘‘Nox-Rox’’ Elk Outing Shoes. Give us your sizes, etc., by mail ard see
what our ‘‘Rush Order Service’ can do for you. TRY US TODAY—NOW.
Waldron, Alderton & Melze, saginaw, Mich.
Wholesale Boots, Shoes and Rubbers 131-133-135 No. Franklin St.
THE BEST IS IN THE END THE CHEAPEST
Buy None Other
Our fixtures excel in style, con-
struction and finish.
It will pay you to inquire into their
good qualities and avail yourself of
their very low price before buying.
Send for our catalogues at once.
Grand|Rapids Show Case Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Our New ‘“‘Crackerjack’’ Case No. 42.
The Largest Show Case Plant in the World
Has narrow top rail; elegant lines!
FOOTE & JENKS :
MAKERS OF PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS
AND OF THE GENUINE, ORIGINAL, SOLUBLE,
TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON
Sold only in bottles bearing our address
&
te
++___
Woman of Rare Business Ability.
Kalamazoo, July 24—Because she
isa members of the Commer-
cial Club were fearful as to whether
or not Miss Carrie L. Baker would
make a good Secretary, and it was
only after several weeks that it was
decided to make her the permanent
recording and corresponding official
of that organization.
Miss Baker is a
business ability.
woman,
woman of rare
who has a keen in-
sight into affairs which look to the]:
best interests of this city.
Her correspondence has the
of a business hand. She understands
every interest of the city, and when
marks |
a letter of enquiry comes she an-
swers it in a way that would do
credit to hundreds of men who have
had even more experience than she.
Miss Baker entered the Secretary’s
office more than two years ago.
was then the stenographer of Secre-
tary Charles Hathaway, and she suc-
land a half ago.
PR oO. Brigham,
ered his connection with that com-
pany and gone to Galesburg, Ill. He
|has interested a large number of cap-
talists there and will erect large
|envelope works.
| This is one of the busiest seasons
ii the history of this city’s
according to reports’ recently
| tries,
She |
ceeded Mr. Hathaway almost a year |
who came to this |
city more than a year ago and built |
the Illinois Envelope Works, has sev- |
indus- |
made at each of the factories. The
|; American Carriage Co. will close for
itwo weeks only in August for the
ipurpose of taking invoice and_ to
The Kalamazoo Cor-
set factory is now shut down while
ithe annual repairs are being made.
>.
The Year Book of the Department
of Agriculture just been issued.
It will great value to
farmer in any line of work he is fol-
not only a tribute to
showing the
takes in
of the
country
among its resources the
as the the pine-
well as the Damson plum,
as the peanut.
imake repairs.
has
prove of the
lowing. It its
the farmer as
i'which the government
but is a remarkable
| agricultural
|which has
ostrich as well
interest
him,
witness
greatness of a
pine,
apple as
the
oat as well
im | mM
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Hy TH
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Lact
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oun pay
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Dea
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Getting Their Expectations Too “High on a New 5c
Cigar Often Gives Dealers a Hard Jolt
The way a new brand of cigars turns out after the ‘‘men who know”
have
given their verdict is often more disappointing to the maker than to the retail-
er who is caught with the goods.
Few new brands are born without a really proud father behind them—a
parent who honestly thinks that the only 5c cigar ever made has at last been
brought forth.
During its 20 years of success the Ben-Hur has seen many a promising
child, showing all the points of a regular paragon of merit, turn out in a short
time a discredited disappointment.
lt is often hard to know just where to place the blame, but somehow the
lasting, staying, daily satisfying quality was lacking
Luck has nothing to do with a 5c cigar ‘‘taking”’ with smokers.
The quali-
ty of the Ben-Hur is a distinct discovery, and while others have sought for the
secret of its constant goodness, it still remains wrapped up in every one that
men enjoy.
WORDEN GROCER CO., Distributers, Grand Rapids, Mich.
GUSTAV A. MOEBS & CO., Makers, Detroit, Michigan
36
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
WOMAN’S BIRTHRIGHT.
It Is Not To Be An Imitator of
Man.
Surely we are all familiar by this
time with the claims to admiration of
the new woman; of the beauty and en-
ergy and keen mother wit which, as
Americans believe, set her apart from
the women of other nations and make
her unique, as was once the huntress
Diana among the gods.
She never tires of counting over
her recent successes, from the mar-
velous costumes that she wears to
her achievements in biology, in cook-|
ry in founding new
The woman of the
walked in a narrow path; in her life,
as in a Chinese song, there were but
or:
last generation
three notes—love, marriage and
motherhood.
But this queen of the present hour
has a thousand parts to play. You
never know where to find her. She
may be driving a four-in-hand in
Broadway or looking for the North
Pole in the Arctic Seas or nursing
some poor in the slums, or,
most likely of all, she may be set-
tling herself comfortably for life as
duchess or princess in some old Eng-
lish or Italian family.
We all look on with pride, and
wonder complacently what she
do next.
The chief difference between
oe
religions. |
or paints a picture does not shout
out: “A man—a man has done this!
Not a woman! See how superior the
male of the race is to the female!”
But we American women of late
years never weary of boasting of the
doings of our sex, and especially on
the ground that they are so much
like the doings of men!
It is true that at the close of the
civil war our women were forced to
compete with for work and
wages in every part of the field of
labor. They had to make a place for
themselves then as wage-earners or
It was no wonder that they
and sharp during
men
starve.
were aggressive
that time.
But why squabble and fight now?
he whole field is open to them. All
of the fences are down. There is not
now. I believe, a single honest occu-
pation by which a living can he
earned which is not open to a Ca-
pable. decent woman to try for.
Men give her a fair field and much
Whether she chooses to drive
a garbave Cart write a historic
novel, they invariably are kinder to
'
her endeavors and applaud her more
favor.
OT
|loudly than if she were a man.
and her grandmother—and it is a|
very curious difference—is that the}
older woman regarded herself sim-|
ply as part of the human race. The|
man
She thought
was
of herself as Id
his wife or his mother.
of to-day
The woman
but
talks not of humanity, but womanity.
his his antagonist. She
equal
Every village has its club of wom-
en who urge each other into new pro-
fessions, work or studies which have}
hitherto been considered the busi-
ness of men only.
Every newspaper has a woman’s
department in which the suce f
cesses
the sex in wresting trades and
1 on
Lus-
handi-
crafts from their brothers and
bands are da
+
, noted.
ta
I saw to-day the
that a woman was now filling a place}
brakeman on a Western railway
This fact is told with a hysterical sob
as
of triumph, as though when thi
ergetic young person laid her hand
on the brake she had dealt a fatal
blow at the foe of her sex and had
made for herself a long stride up-
ward in the scale of being.
In our natronal exhibitions, tno.
there is always a women’s depart-
ot
| 1
wien
ment where statues, pictures. soaps.|
confectionery, etc., made by our sex/t
are exhibited apart to prove that] che
women are as. skillful with their
fingers as men.
I confess I do not understand this|
the modern
ic
attitude in
woman, nor her vanity.
human, like the Has
the same fingers, and
She is not a monkey nor a freak tl
her s
belligerent
she not
man? she
eyes tongue?
iat
cleverness should be trumpeted
and paraded as abnormal in the pub-
lic eye.
A man when he invents a new plow
| vocation—that
1
incessant, defiant
achievements
this
wonian’s
then,
of
1d possibilities?
Why,
assertion
This constant noisy boasting seems
to be akin to the loud cackling in the
barnyard of a hen over each new-laid
egg, as if an egg never had been
laid before
Another mistake, it seems to me,
: iis made by my energetic young sis-
its head, is spokesman], ._
ber
ic child |
iis iid, ro fae ‘
irand into life is the work which she
|does to keep herself alive.
when she thinks that her chief er-
1
She sings
such energetic paeans over herself as
a doctor or china painter or sales-
woman—she 1s
of so thankful to have work
to do and so glad that she can do
to think that
into the world,
her highest oc-
money
begins
sent
to be
it—that she
she
work was
cupation.
It true. There is not a
fiber in her body nor an impulse in
her nature which does not show that
was
to
is
not
ithe real primary business in life is
announcement |
to be a home-maker, the comrade
of a man and the mother of his chil-
dren.
God in his wisdom may have de-
highest and best work,
she may do, she
her heart that it is the
highest and best.
whatever else
Dut
knows in
woman” the other
of the South
“took it for
granted that no woman is a wage-
from necessity, and
when the necessity is removed
would gladly return to her old
of the lily of the
A “Southern
day rated her sisters
sharply because they
earner
except
| field.”
not}
And why not?
The vocation of the lily of the field
is to be fair and sweet. to make one
little place on God’s earth brighter
and fitter for his sight and to repro-
its kind to do the same work
when it is dead.
The woman who makes her home
a center of help and intelligence and
high endeavor, who brings forth chil-
duce
naturally in her need}
dren and fits them in that home for}
their future life, has done enough.
She does not need to earn a single |
dollar in any way to justify her right |
to live.
As for the woman who voluntarily |
gives up her birthright—“to keep)
house and be a joyful mother of!
children”—in order that she muy}
busy herself with public work, she is)
precisely in the position of that mad
English peer of whom we all read a
few years ago, who. turned his back.
on his birthright—castles, title and/|
revenues-—-in order that he might |
tramp on the high road grinding a
hand organ for a dancing monkey.
She is choosing the meaner part in
her ambition to exploit herself be-
fore the public. No club work is as
honorable or helpful as a gentlewom-
an’s management of her home and
family; nothing that her talents en-
able her to give to the world—wheth-|
er book or statue or lecture—will ever |
be as important or powerful an in-
fluence in it as a living child.
This is not a pleasant subject, but
when read that the births of chil-
dren native American - parents
have fallen off one-half in certain
Northern States in the last two de-
cades, it surely is worth our consid-
eration. As men go, the native Amer-
ican is a wholesome good bit of that
human stuff which makes up human-
ity. The world seems to need him}
just now. If he not to be born
we
f
is
|
/ agency
into it, I doubt whether the books or
charitable work given to it by a child-|
less woman will fill his place. |
ithese doubts and dangers. That
‘ing all the struggles of their sex
necessary to do it, but they have not
They have been shrewd, amused lis-
teners to the feminine wrangles in
clubs and newspapers, but are them-
selves usually silent and unpublished.
Occasionally they have exerted the
power of dumb resistance with most
salutary effect. as when for several
decades they have silently refused
to claim the right of suffrage.
They are best known by what they
do not do. They perfer to live in
homes, not in boarding-houses and
hotels. They are not childless moth-
ers nor divorced wives. They find no
higher code of truth to teach their
little ones than that which Jesus
brought to the world. They do not
replace it by the sharp worldly wis-
dom of Confucius or the vague yearn-
ings of Buddhism. They answer all
arguments by the question: “Who
has led man so far upwards as
Christ?” and go on quietly teaching
their children the sermon on the
Mount.
You call them old-fashioned and
commonplace, perhaps. But they are
eminently sane. One of the strong-
est proofs of their sanity is that they
are content to be women and not imi-
tators of men, and that they still
keep in their lives that charm of
modesty
place among the achievements of life. |
There is one pleasant fact, however, |
which cheers and comforts us in all|
is, |
that the large majority of American |
women have kept their footing dur-|
isince the close of the civil war. They}
{ 51 ;
jhave earned money when it was|
}
raised money-earning to the highest!
|
|
}
noisy minority of our women have
so foolishly thrown aside.
Rebecca Harding Davis.
—_—2+ 2 —___—_
The Credit Man Help to the Honest
Dealer.
Some dealers feel almost insulted
when asked by a credit agency to
give a statement of their resources
and liabilities. As a matter of fact,
they should be glad of the oppor-
tunity. Their objections ‘to the mat-
ter are always based on a misappre-
hension.
A dealer may feel that the credit
“butting in” when it asks
private affairs, or that the
asking of the information reflects on
his own integrity. On the contrary,
the agency is wholly within its prop-
er sphere, and its service always
tends to maintain integrity, not to as-
Sail it.
If. the dealer will apply the Golden
Rule, he can see the position of the
credit agency, and of those manufac-
is
akout his
turers and wholesalers who use the
credit agency, more clearly. What
would you do, Mr. Dealer, if you
were getting orders every day from,
say, 3,000 merchants in 20 States,
practically all of them unknown to
you? Wouldn’t you want to know
the worth of each customer before
trusting him? And if the account of
any old customer went to an unusual
amount, wouldn’t you want to know
if he was going ahead or running be-
hind?
You must remember that these cus-
‘tomers are all strangers, most of them
never being seen by the man who de-
cides whether or not credit shall be
extended. Granting that you want
some such assurance, how would you
get it? The credit agencies have an-
swered that question to the benefit of
all concerned. They keep that in-
formation on hand at all times, for
the benefit of their subscribers, who
pay for it at only a fraction of what
it would cost them to compile it for
i their own use—if this last were not a
i
| practical impossibility.
Many a time a dealer in a hurry
for goods orders of a house he has
never patronized before. The order
must be O. K.’d by the credit man be-
fore filled. If the rating book says
so, the order is filled without delay—
otherwise there is what may prove to
be an expensive wait for Mr. Deal-
er. He may lose sales, but if he has
withheld information concerning his
credit he has only himself to blame.
Applying the Golden Rule to the
credit agencies as well as to the job-
bers, the dealer will find that the
agencies are just as much entitled to
the information they ask for as the
jobbers are justified in wanting it.
But however much the giving of
prompt and reliable information may
benefit the agency and the jobber, it
is of vastly more importance to the
dealer. A certain per cent. is allowed
for losses; now it is very small. If
conditions were different it would be
larger and dealers would pay it. Who
would get the benefit? Dishonest
dealers. Who would pay for it? The
public, indirectly, but directly the
heavy losers would be the _ honest
dealers in the immediate neighbor-
and aloofness which the hood of the dishonest dealers.
we
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aha
Pep SS
4
ag ‘mai ‘ at”
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MICHIGAN TRADESMA
37
Thus it will be seen that the giving
of accurate credit information is a
great blow to illegitimate competi-
tion, as it does away with haphazard
methods in allowing credit.
The honest, solvent retailer need
not fear the competition of the man
who pays for his goods. And for this
reason, if for no other, he should
view the credit agencies as his true
friends, not as enemies or spies.
No matter how smart he may be,
no dealer can meet the competition
of the dealer who settles for 10 to 50
cents on the dollar, after shipping all
his best stock to some confederate at
another point—where he later starts
in business under another name.
Modern credit systems are making
this sort of thing more and more dif-
ficult—and every honest dealer should
do all he can to make the work of the
credit agencies more effective—simply
for his own safety.
The “credit man” is the watch dog
of the firm. He it is that says wheth-
er or no each order shall be filled. Of
late years he has become more watch-
ful, more exact than ever before. He
takes fewer chances than in former
times.
for before he stamps the order with
his official O. K.
He must see reasonably good |
evidence that the goods will be paid|
The qualifications of a good credit |
man are many and exacting. He must |
have a good memory for names and|
incidents, so that he can add his own
experience to the report the agency
gives him.
He must be a clear think- |
er, and should be judicial in character, |
so as to judge each case on its own
merits—without personal prejudice
for or against. He should be able to
grant credit to a personal enemy, if
he deserves it, and to refuse it to
his own brother if he can not show
that he should have it.
As the qualifications of a credit
man are not to be acquired except by
a man who has natural talents in that
direction, it is perhaps not overstat-
ing the case to say that credit men,
like poets, are born, not made.”
Present times are hard for credit
men. So many merchants have seem-
ingly overbought on shoes that many
a man who thinks his credit is per-
fectly good would be surprised to
know how much his record was look-
ed up before his orders were all
marked O. K. Some men have been
much astonished at having orders re-
fused—though the explanation gener-
all ygiven is that the firm is oversold,
not that the merchant’s credit is not
good. To know the facts in such in-
stances would hurt many a merchant's
pride, but if he could only realize it,
the firms who refuse to sell him when
he overbuys to a great extent are do-
ing him a good turn.
As a rule, the retailers who are
really making progress are those who
furnish correct credit statements, who
do not overbuy, and thus pay all bills
promptly as they come due, and who
do not themselves give credit indis-
criminately and allow bills to run in-
definitely—Shoe Retailer.
——_2>+.___
There’s no special merit in casting
bread on the waters with a hook
in it,
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AMMUNITION.
Caps.
G. D., full count, per m.............. 40
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m. - 60
Musket, per m............. eeacecducaa a
Ely’s Waterproof, per m........ seces 66
Cartridges.
No. 22 short, per m....... aise Se dasa 2 50
No 22 lone) per mo. 0 3 00
No. 32 short, per m.............., | 5 00
NO. $2 long per my. ..4 2. 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 Edge, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M. C... 60
Black Edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m.... 70
Black Edge, No. 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
126 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00
200 3 1 10 12 2 50
208 3 1 8 12 2 50)
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65)
265 3% 1% 5 12 2 70)
264 3 1% 4 2 2 70)
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Paper Shells—Not Loaded. |
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72)
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64
Gunpowder |
Kegs, 25 Ibs., per keg ..............4 90/
% Kegs, 12% Ibs., per HOG ......8 90,
% Kegs, 6% Ibs., per % keg.........1 60 |
Shot |
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BUTTS, CAST.
Cast Loose, Pin, figured ............. 70
Wrought, narrow ......... >___
Lanterns Guard Against Bears.
In the Williams River country oi
West Virginia the bears are greatly
on the increase, and there is a blue
grass settlement about the extreme
head of the river called Beaver Dam,
which has all but been driven out of
the sheep business by bears. This
hardship to small landowners
whose farms lie at too great an ele-
is 4
vation to-raise grain.
On the Black Mountain run one
man claimed to have identified the
signs of 117 bears in one day’s hunt.
That seems a good many bears, but
T have hunted and fished so long, and
told about my adventures at so many
campfires, that I can not consistently
; stone
| Mz
imakine to the
| foundry,
|to scores of
| week,
deny anything. Nevertheless, every
now and then a hunter runs on to a
bear and kills it. Premeditated kill-
ing of bears is rarely known, as this
wisest of the forest animals knows
well how to avoid men. A rabbit is
courageous compared to a black bear.
This shows the superior intelligence
of bruin.
About twenty years ago an unarm-
ed fisherman killed a bear with a
large stone at the Red Hole. He
was resting at the top of a precipi-
tous bank of Mauch Chunk shale
when a bear, chased by dogs, came in-
to the river and passed at the foot
of the bank. The man cast a large
down vpon it and stunned it
so that he was able to kill it. It was
a two-year-old. The occurrence is
well authenticated.
The sheepkillers are generally the
|biggest bears of them all, and are
|very wire.
They never enter a field
without first making a complete cir-
cuit to see if 2 man has crossed the
fence. If he has they “withdraw.”
mad a dozen lighted lanterns about
arm coused tke bears to leave his
eee severely alone —Recreation.
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Will Trebiz Its Capacity.
Albion, July 24--On accont of th:
large demand for its work the
uleable Tron Co. will soon treble
he capacity of its plant. Another
building will be erected in
which 1co molders will be employed.
The company now employs
o men. For some time architects
ave been at work on plans and the
a gement of the plant will begin
scon and be rushed to completion
recently added core-
work done at_ the
and this department will be
t
la irge
about
The company
jcontinued and will give employment
girls and women. This
started about fifteen years
ago in an old building on main street
and there it remained for about five
years, until it moved to its present
quarters on the outskirts of the city.
where-it covers acres of land. The
stock in the company is owned by
local capitalists.
—— iio
company
|Has Immense Supply of Material.
St. Johns, July 24—About 450,000
or 600.000 pounds of leather, worth
amount of
about £20.cco, and a large
machinery have
for the shoe-heel factory to be oper-
ated by Morris Goldberger. It is
hoped that the factory may start next
soon after the arrival of the
mechanic, C. H. Small. About 16,
coc pairs of heels, ready for com-
pressing, are in barrels awaiting the
starting of the machinery. Mr. Gold-
berger states that an average work-
man should make about 200 pairs of
heels per day. He also says he has
more material now on hand than
either of the two largest heel factor-
ies in the United States. It is a com-
paratively new industry in Michigan.
Mr. Goldberger expects to begin the
of potash soon after the
factory starts, making it from scraps
leather.
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You can not keep your eyes on
your watch and your heart on your
manufacture
. work.
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MANUFACTURER
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Candy, Corsets, Brass Goods,
Hardware, Knit Goods, Etc. Ete.
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Foods, Woodenware Specialties,
Spices, Hardware, Druggists, Ete.
Estimates and Samples Cheerfully Furnished.
Prompt Service. Reasonable Prices.
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One sheep raiser found that hanging |
Albio+ |
A Gold Brick
is not a very paying invest-
ment as a rule. nor is the
buying of poor baskets. It
pays to get the best.
Made from Pounded Ash.
with strong cross braces on
either side, this Truck will
stand up under the hardest
kind of usage. It is very
convenient in stores, ware-
houses and factories. Let
us quote you prices on this
or any other basket for
which you may be in
market.
X-strapped Truck Basket
BALLOU MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.
been unloaded here |
Judson Grocer Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
acts as distributing agent for
WHITE HOUSE
DWINELL-WRIGHT CO.
BOSTON.
The cleanest, most honest and genuine-
ly highest grade straight coffee that was
ever roasted by living man. There
isn't another coffee canned that begins
to have the record for uniformity «White
House” has, nor anywhere near its ex-
quisite flavor and smooth, slick pala-
tableness. Pin that to your lapel.
sa gece
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, H. C. Klockseim, Lansing;
Secretary, Frank L. Day, Jackson; Treas-
urer, John B. Kelley, Detroit.
United Commercial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Counselor, W. D. Watkins, Kal-
amazoo; Grand Sscretary, W. F. Tracy, |
Flint.
Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, Thomas E. Dryden;
Secretary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.
Sold an Order After Seventy-Eight
Turn Downs.
One Saturday some years ago, be- |
tween 12 and 1 o'clock, the office
boy brought me a card bearing the
of a salesman
tO me.
who was entirely
The name of
lame
unknown
also
Was strange.
"Show the man in,’ 1 said.
he
He made a bad impression from the
words showed that
of
didn’t
with
and that he was battling against
Start The first
he his
know
his
was conscious
that
beginning
ness, he how
make a selling
taik.
an overwhelming embarrassment.
Still
there was something prepos-
sessing about him. He seemed de-
termined and resolute. There was
something in hi taat was as
Ss looks
afndavit of his honesty
good as an
and sincerity.
“This man has been a shop em-
ploye.” TIT thought ‘He has shown
good ability and his employer has
given him chance on the road, but
he is a bit too ignorant and unso-
phisticated to get on very well. I}
fa
me.”
am afraid he will fail. Certainly he
Aloud I said
nothing in his line
doesn’t interest
that
which I
there was
I'd keep his card (the usual way of!
when one |
wants to get rid of him), and T gave |
him to understand pretty plainly that |
letting a man down
easy
the interview was at an end.
The made an awkward and
blundering how and got out of the
T believe that he blurted out
something about calling again, as the
door closed behind him.
One could not help smiling at the
helplessness of this good
fellow held that was entirely
strange and apparently formidable to
him.
The next Saturday at the same hour
12 1) card was
me again. I scrutinized
it a moment before I could recall the
person to whom the name on the card
then T the
IT had mentally
acterized him on his
man
room.
hopeless
im a
(between and his
brought to
related, and remembered
“shop man” as
was too busy to
untrained selling methods on me, and
so I sent him away without seeing
him.
The next Saturday between 12 and
1 his card was handed in again.
“No.” I said to the boy, “tell him
that IT can’t see him. It isn’t possi-|
ble.”
A week passed. and between 12 and
tT on Saturday the same thing hap-
pened. Tt happened again the follow-
ing week and for every week there-
the |
firm which the salesman represented |
| busy,”
And
followed the boy into the office. |
awkward- |
to i
needed at present; but that}
char- |
previous visit. I |
let him practice his |
after for eighteen months. In all
ithat time I never exchanged a word
‘with the man after the first inter-
‘view; I never gave him the least en-
couragement or asked him to call
iagain. JI turned him down as force-
‘fully and finally as it was possible
to do, but he didn’t seem to under-
stand that there was no hope for
‘him. He never failed to be exactly
on time—-between I2 and I each Sat-
urday—and he never manifested the
least discouragement or impatience
on being told that I would not see
| him.
T afterwards learned from the man
at the information desk that my
'“shop man” always asked for me in
the same way—brought out his card
'and presented it in exactly the same
manner he had used the first time—
|waited with the same look of ex-
pectancy until the boy came back
with the message that I was “too
he would turn away
slightest expression of
walk out of the office
when
without the
feeling and
'with the confident step of the man
who knows that success is only tem-
porarily withheld.
Now there are seventy-eight Satur-
thereabouts in eighteen
months, and when the “shop man’s”
‘card was handed to me for the sev-
enty-eighth time it dawned upon me
|that particular Saturday that there
was something unusual in this man’s
persistence—that he was rather a
days or
with him even although. as I remem-
bered from his first call, there was
nothing in his proposition which in
the least interested me.
So on the seventy-eighth Saturday
had lost his gawkiness in that year
-and a half, and when he began to
speak I knew that I was talking to
a man who knew his business and
had something really worth
pathy—not a bit of it. But he did
secure it because he made me
that-he had a good thing. The order
was a good sized one, and after the
material that it called for was deliv-
ered I had another visit from my
“shop man.” He seemed anxious to
know whether it was satisfactory in
every particular, whether the delivery
had punctual as promised,
etc.
I have bought from him steadily
since then, and that was years ago.
He has other regular customers and
many of them. The term “shop man”
|only applies to him now as an affec-
tionate sobriquet, for he certainly
imerits the title “salesman” in
|highest sense if ever a man in
selling field did.
This
been as
the
man knew how to be persis-
He had the nerve and res-
olution to keep right on in spite of his
inexperience and the over-
whelming odds against him. I be-
|lieve that he might have been a bit
|more enterprising, and if he had been
so might have succeeded in getting
a second interview with me before
the seventy-eighth trial. But, lacking
enterprise, he more than made up
| offensive.
iown
'for it by his ability to stick dog-
| gedly to his purpose.
IT sent word for him to come in. He}
|
|
The thought of his passing his
card through the grating week after
week with the same cheerful and
stolid persistence has occurred to me
many times in sharp contrast with
certain salesmen who, after two or
three discouraging interviews have
scarcely succeeded in concealing their
irritation and resentment until they
were out of the office, and who, once
out, did not return.
I have been both a buyer and a
salesman, and so I am not speaking
from merely one side of the question
when I say that many salesmen pay
too much attention merely to get-
ting first orders and too little atten-
tion to keeping customers. What a
buyer really wants is not only a good
proposition in the first place, but con-
tinued good service—reliable service.
He looks first to the salesman whom
he expects to satisfy him in this re-
spect, and only secondarily to the
house which the salesman represents.
I have known salesmen to use
great effort and promises in securing
first orders, and having secured a first
order consider themselves relieved of
any further responsibility in the mat-
ter. Possibly through some confu-
sion in their own office this order
| was not promptly filled, or there may
have been other causes for dissatis-
|faction when the delivery was finally
made. The salesman afterwards ap-
|proaching the same buyer would per-
|haps look surprised and affronted to
curio in the world of salesmanship— |
that it would be interesting to talk |
think that any complaint should be
made to him. He would have the
effect of saying: “Well, I sold you
the goods. Having got your order
‘the matter was out of my hands. Now
IT have come to get your order again,
and I don’t want to be reminded of
xny shortcomings which the house
‘is to blame for.”
that way.
isonably or otherwise. the salesman is
while. |
He didn’t secure my order out of sym- ,
gard
see |
But the buyer does not see it in
To his mind, either rea-
to an extent responsible for any dis-
satisfaction which he may feel in re-
to purchase, and if that
salesman a subsequent order
his
wants
ihe will be very wise to assume a de-
;gree of responsibility, even perhaps
tent without making his persistence |
i had
exceeding what the house would ex-
pect of him in this regard.
I remember an instance where a
salesman showed himself particularly
in such a case. His customer
ordered a large bill of - goods
with the understanding that delivery
would be made on a certain date. Un-
less the delivery was made on that
date he would have little need of the
goods. It was not, however, stipu-
lated in the order that he should not
wise
ihave to pay for the goods in case
of
its
they failed to arrive on time.
The goods had been shipped by
freight, thus saving a considerable
expense that would have been entailed
if they had been sent by express. At
a late moment it was discovered that
not enough time had been allowed
to make the shipment by freight and
deliver the goods to the customer at
the promised time. There would be
unavoidably two or three days’ de-
lay.
Owing to the extra expense the
shipping department had strict or-
ders not to send goods of this class
by express, and the salesman who had
secured the order failed in his endeav-
ors to get his firm to make an excep-
tion in this case. He thereupon ship-
ped the goods by express at his own
expense, and they were delivered at
the promised time.
It turned out to be a good invest-
ment for him. In no other way could
he have kept that customer’s trade,
‘and his commissions on subsequent
orders from the concern netted him
a handsome profit. There would have
been no subsequent orders if the
goods had not arrived promptly. How
many salesmen in this man’s place
would have considered that they had
done their level best when they sent
the order in with urgent instructions
that the delivery should not be made
later than a certain date, and how
many, when they found that the house
was determined to take its time in
the matter, would have said: “Well, T
have done my best,” and have tried
to square themselves with the cus-
tomer by showing that the delay was
inevitable, and that he had been un-
reasonable in the first place in de-
manding the shipment on such short
notice.
The salesman who looks after his
customers himself, and who assures
himself that they are getting satisfac-
tory service is a man whom the buy-
ers like to reward with orders.
The opinion which a buyer forms
about a salesman rests not only up-
on important matters like these, but
upon apparent trifles as well. I think
most buyers form an_ unfortunate
opinion about a salesman who offers
them cigars.
The buyer is usually able to pur-
chase his own smoking material, and
he is very likely to have a brand
which he prefers to any other.
Tf he is a fastidious smoker he
does not like to be forever. sampling
new brands that are forced upon him.
When a_ well meaning salesman
thrusts some cigars upon his ac-
ceptance he either has to make a
pretense of smoking them, or else
stow them away in his desk to be
Livingston Hotel
Grand Rapids, Mich.
In the heart of the city, with-
in a few minutes’ walk of all
the leading stores, accessible
to all car lines. Rooms with
bath, $3.00 to $4.00 per day,
American plan. Rooms with
running water, $2.50 per day.
Our table is unsurpassed—the
best service. When in
Grand Rapids stop at the
Livingston.
ERNEST McLEAN, Manager
Traveling Men Say!
After Stopping at
Hermitage "yor"
in Grand Rapids, Mich.
that it beats them all for elegantly furnish-
ed rooms at the rate of 50c, 75c, and $1.00
perday. Fine cafein connection, A cozy
office on ground floor open all night.
Try it the next time you are there.
J. MORAN, Mgr.
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distributed afterwards to the janitors
and the elevator boys. In the latter
case he fels somehow as though he
were betraying the friendly relation
that is supposed to exist between two
men when one accepts cigars from
the other.
Moreover, he is likely to resent
having such relationship thrust upon
him or implied by a salesman’s act
in proffering cigars.
The salesman who ee the best
impression is the one who talks busi-
ness and business exclusively—who
doesn’t try to grease the track for
his business proposition by preceding
it with witticisms and funny stories—
who doesn’t attempt the “you-have-a-
friend-in-me” tone of the man who
always insists on shaking hands effu-
sively, and shedding cigars on the
buyer’s desk.—C. A. Woodruff in
Salesmanship.
—_—
Gripsack Brigade.
W. H. Benson, Eastern Michigan
representative for the Beacon Falls
Rubber Shoe Co., is spending his
summer vacation with friends at Har-
rison.
E. D. Wright (Musselman Grocer
Co.) is the happy father of an 8
pound girl, who recently put in an
appearance at 9 Calkins avenue. She
is so much pleased with her environ-
ment that she has concluded to re-
main some time.
John A. Raymond, traveling repre-
sentative for Standart Bros, Ltd,
with headquarters at Lansing,
Spending his summer vacation in this
city, the guest of his brother, Fred
M. Raymond. He is accompanied by
his wife and son.
rs
Samuel R. Evans, Michigan repre-
Sentative for the Renfro Bros. Co.
of Chicago,is spending a months’ va-
cation with friends at Oneonta and
Loomis, N. Y. He took his sample
case along, however, and will proba-
bly be doing business in the old way
within an hour after his arrival at
the scene of his boyhood.
A. J. Denison, formerly with W.
F. McLaughlin & Co. has recently
taken charge of the coffee department
of Franklin MacVeagh & Co. Mr.
Denison, although still a young man,
was with the above house for twenty
years, working directly under the
late W. F. McLaughlin. His experi-
ence includes five years as manager
and buyer of their Santos house. It
can literally be said that Mr. Deni-
son has been through the mill (coffee
mill).
C. E. Callender has been salesman
for the National Cutlery Co. (De-
troit) almost ever since its organi-
-zation two years ago, and has had
much to do with the success of
new policy of selling direct to the
retailer. Part of the time he is di-
recting the selling campaign from
the office, with trips into the terri-
tory around Louisville. Mr. Callen-
der has had a long and varied busi-
ness experience, including a period
on the road for a Pittsburg glue
house and with the Westinghouse
Manufacturing Co., of Pittsburg. He
is a member of Milwaukee Council,
No. 54, United Commercial Travel-
ers. Mr. Callender is to be married
in October to Miss Nell Chamber-
lain, of 65 Milwaukee avenue east,
SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.
J. E. Sutton, Representing the Webb-
Phillips Co,
John E. Sutton, better known as
Jack,
March
was born at London, Ontario,
1874. His parents were
of English descent. He lived there
until he was 12 years of age, when
12,
he removed to Detroit and sought
and obtained employment in the sta-
tionery store of J. W. Fales & Co.
at a salary of $2 a week. He subse-
quently worked for J. T. Wing &
Co. and Gourley Bros., with which
house he remained as cashier and
assistant book-keeper for three years.
| He was afterward with the Nationa!
Loan & Investment Co. for three
years in the same capacity. He then
removed to Chicago, where he se-
cured a position as bill clerk in the
shipping department of Swift & Co.
Six months later he transferred his
services to the Employers’ Liability
Insurance Co., where he had charge
of the bond department of the insti-
tution. He then entered the employ
of Jas. S. Kirk & Co. as Southern
traveling representative, with head-
quarters at Nashville, Tenn. After
remaining with this house two years
he entered the employ of E. B. Mil-
lar & Co., who assigned him the
Western Michigan territory with
headquarters in Grand Rapids. Aft-
ter remaining with this house six
years he formed an alliance with the
Webb-Phillips Co.. successor to the
old-established house of the Geo. C.
Wallace Co., which he will represent
in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York,
West Virginia and Michigan, seeing
the jobbing trade of these States
every three or four months. Mr. Sut-
ton has been elected Vice-President
of the corporation. He has gotten out
his samples, and worked Michigan for
the past two weeks.
Mr. Sutton was married Oct. 1.
1902, to Miss Lena Katherine Scott,
daughter of Prof. M. F. Scott, Com-
missioner of Schools of Ionia coun-
ty. They will make their future home
in Cleveland.
Mr. Sutton is an Episcopalian and a
member of Grand Rapids Council,
No. 131, U. C. T., but has no other
fraternal relations. He is a brother
of W. W. Sutton, of the jobbing rice
house of Orme & Sutton, New York,
Ler
and also of E. S. Sutton, of the firm Germany is consuming more and
of Sutton & Cummings, of Memphis,
Tenn.
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Do the Birds Hold Up Two Fingers?
| ply,
| more of the available beet-sugar sup-
so that though the last crop was
| one of the largest on record there is
ja shortage
“IT have been trying to make home| | strong
Hence a
England to es-
England.
movement in
in
happy for the birds in a new way, | | tahisah the sugar-beet industry. Hogs
and the plan seems to work,” said |
the man with the back yard.
“One morning early in the season
I noticed the birds seemed to
are in greater number in the United
| States, but Americans are eating more
| of their own bacon, and Germany has
be |
taking a good deal of interest in a|
pan which somebody had left on the
lawn and which had become filled
with water from the spray. It was
a dry, hot morning and
were going to that pan to
That gave me an idea. I
that pan should remain there
summer.
lar adornment of the lawn,
hose dripping a little stream of wa-
ter into it all the time.
been strictly ornamental,
drink.
all
but
It has since been a regu-|
with the/ jing
begun to compete for the surplus for
which England been the chief
market. Whereas Germany used to
has
| export provisions she must secure in
/an increasing degree supplies for her-
the birds!
decided |
It has not}
the |
/ 15,000 boxes,
effect it has had on the bird popula- |!
tion has been surprising.
only my own
ized this improvised fountain.
began coming from the
neighbors. J] think my place is now
the bird center for several blocks
around. There are sparrows, robins,
cat birds, an occasional
swallow, a humming. birds
and several do not know the
res of.
many different kinds
town until that pan of water
them to my back yard.
“The pan is something more than
they
orioles,
pair of
that |
nan
So
boy fashion—the pan is too shallow
for that—and probably would
not do it anyway, but they splutter
and splash and seem to have great
fiin nevertheless.
over on the fence or hop around on
and dry their hair and
comb their feathers. I don’t know
what the bird equivalent is for two
fingers held aloft, the boy sign for
swimming, but I think they have one.
They will often come down to the
pan in flocks, and as many as can
will get in and the others will stand
around chattering and _ gossiping.
waiting for their turn.
“The bird pan has been a great
The birds have enjoyed it
they
the grass
success.
immensely. And so have I. Not
only that, but I think it has netted
me some very substantial returns
are no bugs or worms on my
I haven’t seen
here
flowers this season.
a grasshopper this summer, nor a
caterpillar, nor any of those other
destroyers of flowers and peace of
mind. I
for their bathing
birds. They pay
privileges by keeping the bugs
away.”
—_>- >
Food Actually Scarce in England.
Bacon, cheese, eggs and butter are
scarce and dear in England, largely
owing to the enormous demand for
those commodities in America and
Germany. America is also more and
more using up its own wheat, and
At first}
> j to be sent, and the English market is
dooryard birds patron- |
Then | ee
i scarce and dear in Canada,
Ss ie pw Hotter and dry-{ 13
as the weather grew hotter and dry batts
I did not know there were!
of birds in|
drew |
| markets it
a drinking place. for the birds. It is
ialso their old swimming hole. They
come-there and take their baths and
some of them, especially the spar-
rows, act as I did when a boy and|
the weather was warm: They bathe}
early and often. They don’t dive in,
ascribe this immunity to the |
| poultry
And then they $9 me of
self. Even though English ports are
free the population of the protected
countries of Germany and America
are becoming more luxurious, so that
the foreign supplies of food for Eng-
are diminishing. A week or two
Q while the American shipments
of bacon to England were 14,000 or
about 4,000 boxes were
Germany, though none
gO.
sent to uced
are also
and Den-
to Ger-
as formerly
scarce. Austria-
Roumania and
used to ship eggs
to that extent. Hogs
short
supply is
many instead of England,
likewise
Russia,
States
Germany was likewise
now going
Eggs are
Hungary, all
the Balkan
to England.
a big exporter of eggs, butter, cheese
and bacon. To-day
sweeping the continent for eggs, and,
last week in the
Liverpool and London
possible to
buy a continental At this mo-
ment England almost entirely
pendent on Ireland for
with
a year ago.
———+- +____
Steer Clear of the Andre Family.
Ledge, July 24—H. Andre,
3arryton, and Frank and Eugene
Andre, of this city, continue the
business here under the firm
the Grand Ledge Poultry
Co., with Will Andre as manager.
The Andre family is a good family
for honest shippers to avoid, judg-
ing by the recent fiasco Will
Andre and the disposition the
other members of the family file
trumped up claims to defeat the le-
gitimate creditors in the work of real-
izing on the estate. The Tradesman
has held all along that the proper
place for Will Andre is the State
prison, and it not at all unlikely
that he may land there before he
through with the creditors of the
Grand Ledge Cold Storage Co.
——_-_++ +.
Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Beans at
Buffalo.
24—Creamery,
fresh, 16@18c;
Germany is
as 66
Manchest CT,
consequence,
was scarcely
egg.
de-
supplies,
higher than
is
her
prices 20 per cent.
Grand
( »f
will
of
of
to
is
is
fresh.
poor,
Buffalo,
18@2Ic;
13@I15c.
Eggs—
1&c.
Live Poultry — Broilers, 18@2!Ic;
I1@t13c: ducks, 11@13c; geese,
old cox, 8@oc.
Dressed Poultry—Fowls,
f@t4c; old cox, toc.
Beans — Pea, hand-picked, $1.65;
marrow, i cece: mediums, $1.90@2;
red kidney, $2.60@2.75.
Rea & Witzig.
July
dairy,
candled, choice,
Fancy 19¢c;
fowls
1O@tItc;
iced, 13
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President-—Henry H. Heim. Saginaw.
Secretary—Sid. A. Erwin, Battle Creek.
Treasurer—W. E. Collins, Owosso; J. D
Muir. Grand Rapids; Arthur H. Webber. |
Cadillac.
Meetings during 1906—Third Tuesday of
August and November.
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- |
ion.
President—Prof. J. O. Schlotterbeck,
Ann Arbor.
First Vice-President—John L. Wallace,
Kalamazoo.
Second Vice-President—G. W. Stevens, |
Detroit.
Third Vive-Fiv ident—Frank L. Shilley,.
Reading.
Secretary—E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—H. G. Spring, Unionville.
Executive Committee—John D.
Grand Rapids; F. N. Maus,
troit; Sidney A. Erwin, Battle Creek.
Trades Interest Committee—H. G. Col-
man, Kalamazoo; Charles F. Mann, De-
troit; W. A. Hall, Detroit.
KNIFELESS SURGERY.
Public Interest in the New Art of |
Healing.
Just at present public interest has
been aroused in drug therapy by the
agitation of the patent medicine ques-
the daily and
literary magazines.
to have great faith in the efficacy of
tion 1n
press
all sorts of tinctures,
infusions,
while reall
and tablets,
y scientific physicians know
that the eficient drugs with which al]
character
are so few
student
tions, pills
diseases of a nonsurgical
can be treated successfully
that a senior medical could
: -
learn all about them in one week.
The great task of the real physician
is not to know how to write out pre-
scriptions containing a large number
of ingredi
:- oe L; ok
Giverse combinations
ents Or
rues but To
we ies E 2
and mechanical appliz
utilize his five senses
(instru-
ro Tec
Sci-
entific physicians know that the symp-
ments of precision)
ognize the nature of the disease.
toms of disease are not manifestations
Muir, |
Kalamazoo; |
D. A. Hagans, Monroe; L. A. Seltzer, De- |
various |
The people seem |
powders, decoc- |
‘alice (fever, for instance) has not
| been without its influence on surgical
affections.
The battle cry of the humane sur-
geon is: non nocere, or, in plain Eng-
lish, do no harm! The surgeon’s
knife, which has proved a blessing
|to suffering humanity, and which in
/'many instances is the only means of
/saving life, is not without danger and
irisks. While it must be admitted that
modern methods of operating enable
|a well trained surgeon to undertake
‘bold operations, without having to
|fear serious injury to the _ patient
from the operation itself, the fact re-
mains that the knife, irrespective of
ithe outcome, is in itself an undesira-
ble therapeutic agent. Few patients
consent as readily to an operation as
they do to take a bath, an electric
treatment or a bottle of medicine. In
'the majority of instances the patient
|submits to the knife either because he
ihas failed to obtain relief from less
“risky methods or because there exists
|an urgent demand to save life.
For the last fifty years internal
‘medicine and surgery have tried to
encroach on each other’s territory.
Surgery, the younger of the two sci-
ences, has become so gigantic in its
forward strides that it looked for a
time as if but little would be left
‘for physicians to do. And even to-
day there exists a border land, a sort
of neutral zone, where the supremacy
of either branch of the art of heal-
ing is in constant dispute.
It is, indeed, refreshing to note that
neither the classic science of medi-
cine nor the younger and bolder sci-
ence of surgery has lost any prestige
from this friendly rivalry.
Supporting each other, the combin-
ed science and art of medical prac-
tice has become a and noble
one, fully abreast of the times, en-
lightened, rational, broad minded, lib-
l
great
eral and free from the mystic and the
occult. It has rejected all sorts of
{sham and = pretense, all forms’ of
quackery and fanaticism.
of disease, as such, but altered func- |
tions of the human organism, which |
aim to the
causes; hence the physician has to
deal with normal functions which have
Overcome
adapted themselves to the new and/|
unusual conditions.
Basing his theory on such a recog-
nition of the nature of symptoms, the |
physician will not look for the key to!
Re-
health on the druggist’s shelves.
| science
the
i ‘
agents (drugless
cently modern medical
the value of
ogical
realized
physiol
treatment of
in the
disease. Among these
peed be mentioned only
water rest, fresh air,
in the form of superheated air,
baths
Cure, Cxercise,
water and steam
imht as in Finsen
sunrays,
let rays. Roentgen, or X rays, mas-
sage, vibratory massage, electric cur-
rents, etc.
in modern medi-
cine without
on a large number of affections.
This “renaissance”
has not been
for
which
the sole remedy a few years ago.
To-day the recognition of the value
to the patient of certain
which to the layman appeared
things obnoxious which need
disturbing |
has |
so-called |
dietetics, |
baths. |
ultra-vio- |
influence |
the surgeon’s knife had been!
symptoms, |
Medicine. although in re-
spects a philosophic science, has, aft-
er all one utilitarian motive—
i viz.: the relief of physical and psychic
suffering.
Of the value of prevention of dis-
/ease, of the great problems of sanita-
tion it has solved and tried to solve
many
but
|good health, it is impossible even to
form an approximate estimate.
But the crowning glory of medi-
found in the fact that the men
whose specialty it is to relieve suffer-
ing with knife in hand are the ones
|who constantly search for knifeless
_methods to obtain the same results.
rine 15
The Roentgen or so-called X ray is
the first discovery which has proved
juseful in certain forms of cancer
| (epithelioma, sarcoma) and the sur-
| geons were glad to lay aside the knife
land make use of this agent. Now a
number of inflammatory diseases are
treated successfully without operation,
the surgeons relying on physiological
methods. Prof. August Bier, of Bonn.
'Germany, has shown that if we suc-
ceed in introducing the right kind of
as | blood by purely mechanical means in-
com-|to a diseased organ, many infectious
with a view of keeping the nations in,
and inflammatory diseases will
well without the knife.
And they do! This is only the be-
ginning of the era of knifeless sur-
gery. The end is not yet.
Gustavus M. Blech.
—_2>+2___
The Bald Headed Man’s Turn.
A Kansas City coroner now fears
that physicians and druggists will
have to be bald headed. People are
believing the story about doctors car-
rying disease germs in their whisk-
ers, he says, and he thinks the time
may come, he facetiously adds, when
the doctor and the druggist will have
to wear disinfected clothing and be
bald headed to regain the confidence
of their patients and patrons.
This is rather an optimistic view
of the beatific future of the bald head-
ed doctor and his brother, the drug-
gist. It has been a long time since
the bad little boys were eaten by the
she bears for poking fun at the bald
hcaded prophets, but in all these years
the man with the polished poll has
been the subject of ribald jest. Now
he is to be regarded as the only simon
pure sanitary human product.
get
If the opinion of the Kansas coro-
ner spreads to those learned bodies,
the boards of health, the harvest of
the hirsute crop will be a heavy one
among the doctors and the druggists.
With it will come to the man who
is prematurely bald the comforting
reflection that, as every dog has his
day, so, too, the man who has been
shorn of his hair by nature. He may
now rejoice over his brethren who
have been wont to pride themselves
on their facial adornments and wav-
ing locks.
—_2.-.—___
The Drug Market.
Opium—Has again advanced on ac-
count of firm primary markets. High-
er prices are looked for.
Quinine—Is dull and weak.
Morphine—Is as yet unchanged.
Citric have
advanced the price 2c per pound on
account of the higher price for crude
material.
Acid—Manufacturers
Bromides—Are very firm and an
advance is looked for.
Cantharides—Are very firm and
tending higher.
Oil Lemon—Has again
and is still tending higher.
Oil Neroli—Has doubled in price.
Oil Peppermint—Is unsettled.
Aloes—-Are scarce and advancing.
Gum Camphor—Is very firm and
tending higher.
advanced
Prime Green Buchu Leaves—Have |
advanced.
Jamaica Ginger—Has again ad-
vanced on account of the report that
the crop is extremely small.
Pink Root—Which had advanced to
over $1.50, has declined to the old
price.
Oo
Chemistry and its Five Epochs.
The annals of chemistry are a his-
tory with five grand epochs, accord-
ing to Sir James Dewar. The first
includes what little was known of
chemistry as the Indians, Egyptians,
and Hebrews taught it, and the
technical arts of the Greeks and Rom-
ans, and extends down to the time of
the later Alexandrian schools when
chemistry appeared as a branch of oc-
cult training. The
that of alchemy, lasted until about the
sixteenth century, when it was super-
seded by the epoch of Paracelsus and
medical chemistry. In the fourth,
inaugurated by Boyle, chemistry for
the first time stood out as a definite
subject with a special field of in-
vestigation apart from application,
and with a body of ascertained facts
{and methods; while in the fifth, under
the guidance of Lavoisier, it entered
on its modern phase, becoming an
exact science of number, weight, and
measure.
The man who has a bed of roses
usually sits up nights picking out the
thorns.
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‘ gvagacanth ..... 70@1 00| Juniperis Co ....1 75@% 50|CUPri Sulph ......6%@ 8
Heck. Saccharum NE1 90@2 10 ene ey ee cicey q3 10
Absinthium .....4 50@4 60|Spt Vini Galli ..1 75@6 50| Emery, all Nos. @ 8
i /ADS rs at ‘ o Emery, po ...... @ 6
‘Enpatorium oz pk 36) Vini Oporto ....1 25@2 0¢ E t
> Lobelia ..... om DE 25| Vina Alba ...... 1SG2* ce ae «eS
oo on ee = Sponges Flake White .... 12@ 15 e e
‘Ment ip: 0 5: | Florida Sheeps woo! Galan ore @ 23 ine er ins
| ~« Mentra Ver. 0% pk og | .carriage ...... 3 06@3 50|Gambler ........ 8 9
k S @
ee =F D 39 — sheeps’ “eo > Cooper. . @ 60
a eee 5 carriage .......3 50@3 75| Gelatin, French . 35 60 :
~ Thymus V.. 02 pk 2" | Velvet extra sheeps’ Glassware, fit box . 75
ao Magnesia 55@ 0 wool, carriage.. @2 00 Less than box . 70 Dru O
‘Caleined, on t.|| 1x@ 39} xtra yellow sheeps’ Glue, brown .... 11@ 13 °
| Carbonate, ea gm. on{, Wool carriage. @1 25|Glue white ...__. 15@ 25
Carbonate, K-M. of 20 Grass sheeps’ wool, Glycerina ....... 12%@ 16
+ Carhenate aoa w@ 2 Heerriage es @1 25 Grana, Paradisi. . @ 2 x
" eum ard, slate use.. @1 90 umulus ....... 35 60 Ss
i Absinthium ..... 4 90@5 00] Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ch...Mt 90 G d R d M h
1s Amyese se, 7. snoas = slate use ..... @1 40 eae a oor 85 ran ap! S, ich.
Amvegdalae, Ama Hydrarg Ox Ru’m 1 00
i Aniat ooo. @1 80 Syrups Hydrarg Ammo’l 1 10
(2 Auranti Cortex 2 t3a2 g5 | Acacia .......... @ 50|Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
Bergamii ........2 76@2 85 | Auranti —— - @ 60/Hydrargyrum . 3 75
Caynut 2.22000, s5@ 99 | Zingiber ...... . ¢g 50 |Ichthyobolla, Am. 90@1 00 ;
‘ Carvophilli ...... 1 30@1 40|Ipecac ...... ... 60 | Indigo ........... 75@1 00
{ CaGat 26.566..,0. 50 90/FerriIod ... .. @ 50 Todine, resubl as $5 3 99 J
Chenopadii ..... 8 7594 00|Rhet Arom . @ 50 | Io ties 5
? Cinnamon ...... 1 15@1 26 na Offi’s "2 e Vuputin eo: . sf a
Citronella ....... 80@ Sen Se ee aiuaes copodium .,.,, 85 &
fvrmtem Mer... se t Sciliac +eacsreeee @ 59 | Maats cooacenges 65 f
44
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
GROCERY PRICE CURRENT
These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are
liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
market prices at date of purchase.
ADVANCED
DECLINED
Index to Markets
By Columns
Col
A
Ammonia 9. ...-.-+s+-> > 1
Axle Grease .......... _ 2
B
Baked Beans ........... 1
Bish |g ket ee 1
Bath Brick ........--> sa
Bepems ......-..---.-- -o
Brushes ...... pe ec eeee 1
Butter Color ..........- 1
Confections ........... ,
SOROS og ee ee ee rere 1
Canned Gocds ....... -- -
Carbon OS ....------0- 2
KORE cen ct escl ee 2
fiereaie |. eel eos . 2
Reese) kee eee cece 2
Chewing Gum ....... a
CONOOe | och cheeses 3
Chocolate ...--.0..--+.6 J 8
Clothes Lines ......... - 2
ee eee eee 3
SRPORKNIE .- oe ecco ree 3
Cocoa Shells ..... cick. 3
CORE ce abet epee 3
Cream Tartar .....-» =
CORBCKETS «2 ee ec ence eos 3
D
Dried Fruits ........-.- 4
FE
Farinaceous Goods ..... 5
Fish and Oysters ...... 10
Fishing Tackle .......
Flavoring extracts .... 5
Fresh Meats ..........
Rssitss (5s eee eee ee 11
G
Coit :
Grain Bags ..........s- 5
Grains and Flour ...... 5
H
EES. Ce pose OS
Hides and Pelts receree 10
I
gee oie ee 6
L
Ejperiee |... s eee bem
M
Meat Wxtracts ........- 6
eanee BICAT ..-. yee ee 6
PRENAGEES 5... nee cece 6
PMESEATE ow eka eee see €
N
POMUES ec ce eee eee 11
Oo
OWRS oe eos ees 6
P
WAR occ e cere esc ceee
PUMICE, cle eee
Playing Cards ..
Pane 8g.
EOVIRIONS 2.5 ene ees pe
R
Ries ...-..--- be ecebecees @
Ss
Salad Dressing ........ 7
Raines Cle; 7
a OMe feo cect 7
RUE ee cee teers tees 7
Salt Pes ........... 7
Re ee ie ese ec eee 7
Shoe Blacking ......... 7
pee 6 ee. - =
AED eg eee eee 8
ON eee oe ce, . 8
Perros ee 9
So Ce ee 8
rare gk be eee eel. 8
Paar oc
PVERNOS oee ec pee eo kes 8
T
becebeteesece ee cies 8
TAMIRRPCD occ ecevccens cee 8
MWA og chee eee eee 9
Vv
WATOT pecs ke cece soee 9
WwW
Washing Powder ......
ik cs 9
Woodenware ........... 9
Wrapping Paper ...... 10
Y
Yeast Cake ..... cheek ee 10
1
ARCTIC AMMONIA
D
12 oz. ovals 2 doz. t
GREASE
Frazer’s
1M. wood boxes, 4 dz.
1m. tin boxes, 3 doz.
3%Ib. tin boxes, 2 dz.
0Ib i per doz...
per doz...
. pails, per doz....
BAKED BEANS
Columbia Brand
: per doz.....
, can, per doez...... 1 40
, Can, per Goz...... 1 80
BATH BRICK
BLUING
Arctic Bluing
0!
® oz. ovals 3 doz. box....
16 oz. round 2 doz. box..75
BROCMS
No. 1 Carpet
No. 2 Carnet .........-
No. 3 Carpet
No. 4 Carpet
Common Whisk
BRUSHES
es
mo
Solid Back, ce in... 5...
Pointed Ends
eee meet mewn ee eres
seer eee eee cresne
3
BUTTER COLOR
. R & Co.'s, 15¢ size.1
R. & Co.'s, 25¢ size.2
CANDLES
Electric Light,
Electric Light,
CANNED GOODS
pples
2m. Standards
"Blueberries
_- rook Trout
Co
Cla
Bred Neck, Tb. 1 00!
nciam Bouillon
% pt
Burnham’s qts.
Cherries
Red Standards .1 Sided
French Peas
Sur Extra Fine
Gooseberries
Mackerel
1b.
2%b.
Oysters
seccece
1%. Oval...
Nr bobo be
wwDr
DIR De DOR
4
5
Peerless ........
Riverside ........
Springdale ......
Warner's .....:..
rk ee
felgen 2.555... 5:
Limburger .....
Pineapple ...... 40
Sap Sago .......
Swiss, domestic
Swiss, imported
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce
ee s Pepsin
Cocoanut H’y Fingers 12
Cocoanut Macaroons ..18
Dixie Sugar Cookie .
Fruit Honey Squares 3%
Frosted Cream
Fluted Cocoanut
Fig Sticks ....... Se
Ginger Gems ........
Graham Crackers
Ginger Snaps, N.
HMazveinut 24.6.0 26 263 ssa
Hippodrome .......... 10
Honey Cake, N.
5 | Honey Fingers, AS Ice. 2
Honey Jumbles
Raisins
London Layers, 3 er
London Layers, 4 er
Cluster, 5 crown
— Muscatels, 2 cr
oose Muscatels, 3 er
Loose Muscatels, 4 cr Ore
L. M. Seeded, 1 tb. 8 @8%
L. M. Seeded, % Ib.
Sultanas, bulk
Sultanas, package 71%@ 8
FARINACEOUS GOODS
“eps
Dried Lima
Best Pepsin ........22! Household Cookies Ne 3 Med. Hd Pk’d ..1 sor 85
Best Pepsin, 5 boxes. .2 00 Iced Honey Crumpets 10 | Brown Holland .......2 25
Black Jack’......... SO iwiperal ....650. 0... 2 Farina
Largest Gum Made 55|Jersey Lunch 24 1tb. packages ...... 1 75
Sen Sen... ee: 50}Jamaica Gingers Bulk, per 100 tbs. ..... 8 00
9 Sen Sen Breath — 95}Kream Klips ......... 20 Hominy
Sugar Loaf ......... 50|Lady Fingers Flake, 50%. sack ..... -1 00
Wicatan ©<.......... S0i fem Wen oo al 11 , Pearl. 200%. sack ...:3 70
Plums CHICORY femon Gems. ........ 10 Pearl. 100%. sack ....1 85
PROB 265 Sima 20 5|iemon Biscuit Sq..... Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Peas Be eee ee 7|Lemon Wafer Domestic, 10%. box... 60
Marrowfat ....... @1 Bacio 0 ee 4|Lemon Cookie g |imported, 25%. box...2 50
Early June ..... peek pal igeecs 7\ Mate... 5 ul Pearl Barley
Early June Sifted 1 25@1 65! Schener’s ........... <2) (81 Mary (Agm (200005. g |Common ......... coe 2 15
Peaches CHOCOLATE Marshmallow Walnuts 16 |Chester ...........0001 2 25
Fae ee 1 00@1 15 Walter Baker & Co.’s Muskegon Branch, iced 11 | Fmpire ......... seeeeeed 25
Rellow .-. 25. 1 50@2 25/German Sweet ..... 22| Molasses Cakes 8 Peas
Pineapple Premium ............ 28 | Mouthful of Sweetness 14 | Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 25
Grated ......-... a 2@2 15 |\Wanilla .. 2.0.55 .2 23: 41|Mixed Picnic ........ 11% Green. Scotch, bu..... 1 30
Sliced ........... 1 35@2 55|Caracas ............. 35|Mich. Frosted Honey..12 | Split, M. ........ ool: 4
i. denis cuial Maple (2210 28; Newton .............; 12 Sago
air 70 COCOA Nu Sugar ............ East India ....... comes OOG
80 | Baker's .2..0) 0.4... 35 |Nic Nacs’ ......./.... German, sacks ......... ane
1 00 | @leveland _......-... 41 |Oatmeal Crackers .... German, broken pkg..
2 00 | Colonial, 4s ........ iOkds 10 Taploca
Raspberries Colonial, %s 2... ... 83|Orange Slices ......... 16 | Flake, 110 s. sacks 7
Standard ....... pps oe. 42 |Orange Gems 8 |Pearl. 130 th. sacks ....7
iis — Caviar Huyler, pocsnes ae 45 | Penny Cakes, Asst.... Pearl, 24 tb. pkgs.......7%
aoe ee cee ee nee yan outen, S .... 12]Pineapple Hone
2210, AUS, =. 0-05... 7 00!vVan Houten, \%s ...... 20/Plum Tarts teas ee 12 FLAVORING EXTRACTS
i's. ns 12 00} \ Foote & Jenks
Sal Van Houten, X¥s .... 40} Pretzels, Hand Md..... 8% | Coleman’s V
ailmon 2 Van Houten, Is ..... 72 | Pretzellettes, Han@ Md. sit 2 oz. P oe, Tee
Col’a River, talls 1 80@1 85 | Wepp .. : 28 | Pretzelletes, Mac Md. i So 1 “ 5
Gol'a River. flats 1 90@1 95 | WobP_- or Se a oz. Taper ..... 200 150
Red Alaska ..... 1 20@1 30/Witbur, %s 122021002! 42|Revere, Assorted ..... ie ae arenes 00 1 50
Pink Alaska ..... @1 00 “COCOANUT * | eaeanea nings
Sardines Gunhen 6 neo warpeneiee” Ext. Lemon
eo 4S - @ 3% Dunham’s ws & — 2614 | Scotch Cookies No. 2 Panel Doz.
omestic, “25. Dunham’s \%s ........ 27. | Snow _ Creams N anel D. C...... 75
Domestic. Seca Pig Dunham’s is 28 Snowdrop (is 0. 4 Panel D. Co: 1 50
California, 4s...11 @14 | bUunham's is ....-. 13 |Spiced Gingers 0.” Rone. Panel D. C......2 00
aitornia, e-.-1i aes COCOA SHELLS Spiced Gingers, fo eee C2. + be
Wrench, 4s .... t @14 | 20m. bags 2%|Spiced Sugar Tops ] oz. Full Meas. D.C... 65
French, %s ....18 @28 to quantity te Saticia Wout 2 oz. Full Meas. D. C..1 20
Shrimps Pound packages ..... 4 Sugar Cakes .....:... 4 oz. Full Meas. D. C..2 25
Standard ....... 1 20@1 40 COFFEE Sugar Squares, large or Jennings
: Succotash Saat , Mexican Exit Vanilla
, tc ee nse cieee ; Ne Mote Ls me Saas oC Doz.
realy 1 25@1 40 tao a ke 4 ee
Strawberries Vanilla: Wafers No. 6 Panel D. C...... 3 00
Standard ....... 10 Vienna Crimp Taper Panel D. C..... 2 00
Haney .....-.... 1 40@2 00) Gammon Waverly ........---:- 1 oz. Full Meas. D. C.. 85
le air epee adie (Bent 2 oz. Full Meas. = C..1 60
ile oe - @1 20] Ghoice a5 4 oz. Full Meas. D. G..3 00
cee @1 25 | Fane No. 2 Assorted moe 75
Pasty... @1 35 | Bentorr sn GRAIN BAGS
Gallons com Gis? 75 y In-er Seal Amoskeag, 100 in bale 19
: , | Amoskea
Barrels Choice sit Sie eae Gee Soae
Perfection — @10% Aniunsh: siiaa 1.00 : oot lemon
Water White .. oS ine 2). 16% |Breemner’s But. Wafers 1.00| No. 1 White oes 73
4g oe Er en Pancy 2.0. 19 | Butter Thin Biscuit..1.00) No. 2 Red .......//051. 7
ay eee | @19 io uatemala i eee Sandwich .....1.00 Winter Wheat Flour
Deoderd Maple | Gey ( Oe gc tS ieee Merete (Set) tot eran
Engine pec ere 16 oa African 200 42 {faust Oyster ......... i Second Patents ested 30
cece ete ee Fancy African ....... 17 Fig Newtons ......... 1. Strateht 10
Black, winter ..9 @1l0%lo q@ Ooo! 25 |Five O’clock Tea .00| Second Straight .11.17! 3 90
CEREALS PG 31 | Frosted Coffee Cake...1.00|Clear .............0077) 3 39
Breakfast Foods Mocha Peotana (2. ..: 0)... 1. | nea es 3 75
Bordeau Flakes, 36 1tb. 2 50/ Arabian ............... 21 |Ginger Snaps, N Benet oe 4 40
— - nda a - os “4 Package la oo Rye 29
zg-O-See, PKS... 3 New York Basis 4.emon maps =. ..5.. 250 1- Sibieet te necal occ.
ee pi itnng pe My = =. Arbuckle ....0.55.00. 00 ee anh ocSuiect ee
xcello, large pkgs fiweih 0 e. 15 00 |Oatmeal Crackers
Force, 36 2%. 6.001.) £50\Fersey 6 15 00| Oysterettes .......... a 25¢ per
Grape Nuts, 2 doz... 270) tion ae 13 50| Pretzellettes, H. M. -00 | Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Malta Ceres, 24 1fb....2 40 McLaughlin’s XXXX Royal Toast ........... 1.00} Quaker, paper . a8)
Malta Vita, 36 itb...... 285} MclLaughlin’s XXXX sold| Saltine ................ : Quaker, cloth ........., 09
Mapl-Flake, 36 1tb....4 05|to retailers only. Mail all|Saratoga Flakes Wrvkes- Schroeder’ Go,
er s Vitos, 3 dz. = orders direct to W. : able ge Butter 00 | wclipse ...
aiston, 36 2ib. .....: 50;McLaughlin & Co., h - | Socia Pace ee oe EE OR a hie ries
Sunlicnt Flakes o6 4th &e5leg °° leas, ee ee Flour
Sunlight Flakes, 20 lgs 4 00 xtract Soda, Select sete te eee 4 Fanchon, ks aon 0. .4 80
Vigor, 26 pkes....../.- 2 75 | Holland, * gro boxes 95|Sponge Lady Fingers. .1.00 Spring Wheat Flour
Vest 20 2 23 410|Felix, 1% gross....... 1 15|Sultana Fruit Biscuit. .1.5¢ Roy Baker’s Brand
Zest, = = eee 7 50 Senet foil, % gro. 85 — fo wes 00 | Golden Horn, family..4 60
rescen akes ummel’s tin, ro. z na ene }
One ease ...2.0.2. 42. : 50 Ace wm Uneeda Milk Biscuit.. oe oS a
Nive Cases ....5-....25 40} National Biscuit Company | Vanilla Wafers 1.00 Wisconsin Rye ......... .3 69
Special deal until ae 1, Brand Water: Pnin oo). 25... 1.00 Judson Grocer Co.’s B a
One case free with ten Butter Zu Zu Ginger Snaps.. Ceresota, is 8 pat
cases. : Seymour, Round........ 6 |Zwieback ........-.-- 1.00 Ceresota. is eee 499
One-half case free with}New York, Square .6 CREAM TARTAR Ceresota. ys -.. 4 30
5% cases. Mamily. es 6 |Barrels or drums Gold Mine, %s cioth. "4 69
One-fourth case free with | Salted, Hexagon, ...... ee 30/ Gold Mine. i,s cloth. .4 50
2% cases. Soda Square Cams ...-....-... 32/Gold Mine. %s cloth. .4 40
Freight allowed. MB CC: Seda... 6 Fancy caddies Gold Mine. iks . a at
Rolled Oats Select Soda ......... 8 DRIED RFUITS Gold Mine. us oo 4 4
Rolled Avenna, bbl..... 4 90|Saratoga Flakes ..... 13 Lemon t Wiese. et Z
Steel Cut, 100 fh. sacks 2 50) Zephyrettes ...-..... 13 iq ‘Apples ; 7
Sundricd oe @ |W oa a ee 49
Monarch, bbl. ......... 46 Oyst : @ Wingold, ¥ 4 89
Monarch. 90 th. sacks 2 20 B a ee HWvaporated ©....5....2. 28 @11 Winseld’ Sa eae : s
Quaker, cases ........ 3 101n Cc. oo Saited 4 maken Pillsbury’s Brand
os Cracked Wheat oc mee Se 1% \ eq den me Bee @6 ae 4s e Se sae: 5 15
ee fs : .- est, %s cloth .........5 05
24 2 th. packages ....2 50 Kc 10 a5 = ag are = 5% Best, %s cloth ........ 4 95
CATSUP Atlantic, Assorted ....10 | 60- 70 25ID. boxes ..@ 74 | Best %*8 paper ........ =
Columbia, 25 pts...... 4 50 Bagley Gems ........ 8 50- 60 25tb. boxes @ 1% Best, 44s paper ........ 5 00
Columbia, 25 % ts.. 2 & Bel Is] . * mee Best, WONG oo Ss 5 15
Dp le Isle Picnie ..... 11 40- 50 25tb. boxes ..@ 8%
Snider’s quarts ....... Beige 3... i 11 | 30- 40 25%. boxes _.@ 8% | Orden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Snider’s pints ........ : ee Cartwheels, S$ & M.. 8 ¥4c less in 5OtD. anne Laurel, %s cloth ...... 5 ?
Snider’s % pints ..... 1 30|Gurrant Fruit ........ ‘110 : Laurel, 4s cloth ...... 49
CHEESE Gracknels ........... fol Citron Laurel, ts & 4s paper : 80
on @11% | Coffee Cake. N. B.C. orsican § ..... seees fourel. As). 4 80
Carson City ..... @11% plain or iced na Currants Wrykes-Schroeder Co.
Me @14% |Cocoanut Taffy ....... i Imp’d 1 th. pkg... Sleepy Eye, 8 cloth. .4 89
fmblienm ........ @11% |Cocoa Bar ........... 10 |Imported bg So Sleepy Eye, %s cloth. .4 70
seid. o ee. @12%44 Chocolate Drops oe eel Sleepy Eye, us cloth. .4 60
1 Cocoanut Drops ....... Lemon hee eee Ss |Slepy Eye, %s paper.. ae
Cocoanut Honey Cake i2
Orange American ..
Sleepy Eye, 4s paper.
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Golden Ge Meal 7
No Car Granulat eee 4
Corn, om cee “+72 90) B
: 25 B Mv e
Ou Acai oe ee ea 8
Scat foe . trae 00 P, new nner en nae 10
Cow Wheat £902.30 00 ? tee Pig’s “eo ae OA Epc SN
se sa es 00, bbls et a 0 9
ee 2 White ae neue 2, ms a . ees 10 ch Rages —
No 3 oe penne 0} Kits es 85 J Centr. fo in oS Moy Gu
oe ichigan ‘Old. ee = 2 ic sguseeeee? a Boro, al City S$ jars. .43 Moyune, 26H sania 1
Corn gan Old...... 38 bbis, 40 tbs., a Naphit oap oyune. ch lium
Corn ca ag ah s., 80 he A J phtha _: Co Pinieus foe ore 0
2.4 egy H i. - 10 merit S. 1a co ge Pj gsuey ‘ane ao «. 30 :
No eee -.37 ogs Cc : s. sou ae bD rica tha eee 3 00 in ey. y see |R . -
‘0. ee B i De asi oo 50 tusk n k ata 0 Pi gsue faney oes... 32 | Rou Ci 3
No. 1 timothy < a 57% noe per Ib. ngs “73 00 busky an Family ee a ingens medium ee | hoon Clothes Pi
imot y car Ss f mi nds set . Jap A Din ond, 5 degen Cc : , 1% ce cas ee | h , o ins | a
S. hy lot. hee ddles. se . oS: Ro d, 1 , 008 -40 ho Yo ne oe j ead gros | ‘
in. oeee s 12 0 Ger fue oe Savon In Pago wal a y ccanes 39. «| Hiu Eon — -—-
Hops a RBS ots 13 ss coulpgoter S. set... 16 ynie ‘irnperial oz. .3 = oo a |No. 1. go oa 55 | co a.
Sone bogey Rolls a eittacin: 7 tne Russian ae 3 To Form ee ey 30 pee 2, nee °° | Ste poly pick en
a a Leaves teens Pig : ao ees —— Snowbe es alae Oolong 36 | C omplete ....... See ice ig
5 A | ornege ned Mi 10 @10 _ Pro rry, US sees 0 moy, meduan | Cork lin ape ie aut" ord y
- - pails, per ee ae Corned beef, Meats penox oe 00M y. eles ee | Cork ioe ine ae eae = Pe
> Ib. pails, ‘p er do ee b eef, 1 eo ha ~ea mble ..4 00 iediat sae Ca 5 | Ced ca g in Ws iy mbo i ae ‘
ils er p loz...1 ttea eef 4 Dou e 6 ivory, 1 Ge ole Co choice 3 reak ee ar, s ba 63 | xtra HS ae ‘72
i Pur oe Mn..: gs | Pott ect... 2 00 1 q| mar oom ono ee fas |. 10 an... 65 | Bos a Hi Ib. th
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ere ao | Potted vain 2s 000 aia 4 bars. eco” ceston, chat... [NS aaa” he dime Suear stick
4 e ee meee an 23 ed tonene Bonn 45 Acme, 25 ie rege: p8 roaaces | 1zIb. pat. “ae pring. . 99 | Gro pat se eae x
peed Seon 14 | Ser oe ie 2. = Big M ae oa Ee 3 60 ic es 32 | ideak ae rush holder 8 | Co cae ed Ca _—_
ihe Armour's, : “TRACTS 11 Fair Japar RICE 85 Marseilles, kes 3 85 Panag Fine Cut = | ee ioe BS] Special OR pit
eee Coe. Rove eae tenes wo s, 10 ae Sweet Loma “ ae 2 Ei
Liebig's Chicago aa cic pa @4 fatzcles, 100 weakes,.."3 00 Hiawatha. 9 eeeteees 54 |3-hoop ae bie ccc ,
| Import, a2 1 eta Japan @3, (Old A,B We es 5e'4 OD Pay Car ‘mb. "pals! “35 oan Standard Hoga ccc 1%
f m e .55 F ice I : .- % e ri ilet Y Car ose seeee S..55 ire, andard «2... ry ee 7
‘ port , 20 50 an La sees @ Co er isle 40 Pr CAT ow oc cece eee a | Cedi A ee G4 ee 60 | te ial oe le
MO ed, 4 Zz. 4 55 Cc ey L . hd ae untr is y Oils otecti sag: 20) lp ar. ¢ able ........, 1 7: | Lez A eee Sl,
Fa N LAS a ote 2 arolin a. he @6 Cc Soa Woes pwee 10n coe | ‘aper, agave wee. si2s 1 wl canon co tteeeenees 10
Choice Open Orieans # HD Goa SALAD. acs 6x or” Jaxon, 16 cee . Sweet Burley <0.) v4 acne “Bureka brass 111 i0| Bon a ele ee 8
‘air See ettle oe DR 6 @ s La Oz Soa rR Burley sees... ee oe: la on Cre vteeees
; Good ee oe | Columbia, % RESSING, oe ae eis p Co. id Cr PI ee Hardy Tees 2 Star 1, Cream *
4 ‘ Half b Pies 7 ee = Durkee's, 1a ae ee ge a ian Seat & a 40 bea a oss . ug --40 | sottwood hpicks -2 70) mane ene :
“ae Cc M arrels 2c e3 96 | anid co's, na dog 4 = kirk Dust 34 laece | . Hiawatha aaa ‘ liar Sa lor a dade Cre: paling
3 lumen ce ee extra 22 anidcrs’ a as . horas 00 Eppa 31 | eal .. eee 2 50 | K aos
2 Ho: ao 2 , small, : nia 25 oapi ne .. 41D a Aer on eng ia |G 10un ned a
Z Fotce pMUSTARD 2 Pa SAL ll, 2 pope 35 Babbitt ae 3 br Standard oir ts ss = ioe Tre ete i2 Gypsy Medrte d Drop a
toeee Te .2 75 oo LERATU ..1 35 Roseine ae ie 3 75 oe - ee Ree 37 Mouse, wood — 50| Fude ‘Bo ee” Pail 0
, Bulk, 1 eae 1 Deland’s Hines Db Armour’s 000000 ee 4 Jo Nobb Head, Tog 1202 3 saouse, wood, 4 holes Penne on Bons 2121. +.
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| eo 8 oe 450/L mp, bbls 1001. s polio. Mor ing «18 8 fooon ee 66 18- Ce ard No. 2 7 00 | Ipse n Cl fia 4
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Clay, 7. pie oS 00 3 ommon a oe aric hand fon ae Gres iat 1000S $0 No. 3 ee te ee 5y | tem bre hocolates . . 3
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7 Babbitt plat 13k! 12 25 Pellock ee @ oe ee anzibar |. ~ = Com 'C ee 8 ES [15 in: Butter Bowis 3 | Lozen "hi Gum ae ie
; enna $ a in cas Sy is Te 6 Nutmegs, 75-80 a 25 i Cake, 2346 s ..40 | 17 Fa But 1 aie iL zenge Santee’ ‘Cry ot
fae aa ’ Pres a eeece i in. ter .eeeeeees, - .0zen eS, e ys. 6 Ze
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| Short Oot 0000: eee White woneliand | anaes ghot | i Cant Hoo % OZ. on ‘Common Sur bie a6 | Hana reign
Short Gut Gicar ; hite » bb oo round in’ _ Silver gene | Bib a G “3 3 | String Mad oo 85
hort Gat, hea 2.0 1 = ite Oop, Is. ‘assi | nd ae 5 ee aa | = re Str. PA 5 | Stri Bu e var .. 53
} Br Lote CS $8 — Hoop, Keg. 11 50 Cassia, es Buik Bore Se. cH [Nora aks | Winter Buttons’ ms. igp
‘ Co 6 w op. eg. 0 lov » Sai ee s Indi: 73 | Cre ila,’ thite._ 1y ld ee gions 90
4 Cc et +: . 75 Ro egia pm 0|G es igo 1 elf nd Cre: Manila ec ite y T ee . ae
fo lear F annette 14 und n chs 7 mo Ze n : 61 Si Bi ian Cream anil: lacad an Bus im ti Beria -65
i Wamily bee 50 Round. 100 see : 5 | Gi ger anzib. es 28 Silve inde «4 | Butel M: ia. red “% pray pag e As erri 1430
‘ PAF veeeeees 0 00/> nd, a 80 inger, aca tees Sw © wea ere ere { | We pa ey hap seeee | tee. Br ssorte es .
{Balu Bellte Hy ooo 00 ound, A0Mbs. 2 8 Ginger Goenin 2001 4s | Royal Marie a: So." $0-22 Wax gai - ie ante “AS ed ob 2
’ Bellies so: a | oo 5 a es chin 2.2.00. 1 farie «see... aa | ax ee ate srses | es @evie mn S350
} Mies anne eeee rene -. ; No. toms. Ne - Pepper, a a vee. 18 Cotton ii ats a Hutice a iS ea ue en Strike a Eo 75
Hams Smoked ea ae he oy 1 401bs. oe ; Fopper, singapor atetees Po Cotton, 3 WINE og Magic, # doe olis fe “scientifie No. 2.021276 5
j Hams, th. Meats cao » sibs. vitteeseesd = San Casas re, bike. s Hemp, aa tat ocier me ieee ecsicrr | ela tte as-
f Papo 16 . av rage Mess So os nne e.. a lax, Ply goose 39 | Wenner a oe | Dan oo is 7
i Ski 3 1 Tb. erag ..13% Mess. 100 ee 8 Wool ‘medi ae 2 | Ye e Ba My >a A BF per : op Cc “is 00
-F as oe average. 1244 Mess, 101De - 16) 1» © Stancil” a ol, It bal oe | Yeast rh rcp doz. +... 1 iS Pop ¢ Smack orn
-f« Ham, d_Hams ae 3i¢ — aa cretteees . 3D. ee é - 20) mM cccceeee eB st aon” 3 ia 50 | Pe p Cor mack 24s
i Calitog a aan ee ..13% Not Oe ps 50 6Ib aces one : loss a wins ae 0 m, mean a8 $0! Cra oe Fritt ue?’ e
J opcode ar. Cees ge “eae 90 | 40 3 packages ....... 4 malt Ww ite GAR -§ FRE he 00 | Geneke a fae """2 73
+ cn a ame 3 |8 -1 Sc eeeeees 165|/B and ages .... @5 Pur hit » Wi J SH co asl hee er J oast 100s 50
. Boil ic Boi oo a. 1. 100 Ths. ........ 1 5, | Barr OID oe P e Cid e Wi ne, 40 umbe FIS 53 | Pe ckers ace 100 s 50
2 a Logg MS wees 13% No. 1 10 Tb: oe eae 12 40 els . i ol 4% Pure Cider. na 80 gr 9 No. 9 Whit H | Ciee Gaon co aaa s as
Min in H m. am. 9%, 8 tb St 50 | 20Ib Cau es 3 514 end Ci er, a B gr 13 Trou Whit efish Per PYacerd n Ba pkg. asses 0
ce ‘am, presse * ee DS. eee 5 50 | 4 . ee ee @3 ur ider, ed oe He fo. ak Ib. | pe Co lls, case 25
co oon ee ae packages = oe Sie Rete aa netsh 2g poe aap oe
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| eee es ‘ 4 , -- 1014 é | cae
ui - 50 Ip tubs... adva ae 1% eo ee : 25 3 . 20%. Barrels ae, No. 3 i pit gest 30 ba ae | mith n, Menthol
ne oS read nee antes _ SEEDS 6 eat fas in cage i gross... 30 | Pick wsagesna ee: {22296 igus ae sepa
a = Ib. ee é se aka 9250 viatb cans 4 da. in g 2 oo a Pike a oo |Almon i 90
1 lladvanee anary, Smyrna . ca ae one B An es oyu oe ol 5
3 Ib pails... advance % fas myrna ... ns 2 . in sel 75 B els ask RE Sm : Sieeegg Pe | Alm nds arra e
is. : - 10 Fai dz. i cas 75 ush : ets R oked voce ttt wid | onds. Avi gon
pails ae ome % Cele amom eaee sees air Pur in ca el 8&5 chile oa sess ted S | Ww ed ----@ shel Ss, Gallten a z
B Jl Jad ane H ry . Molise 5% aoa ec sel 5 | Spli et ian sala Co na ee eer a 8 | Bre m .. alifo: <0
porogne Sausa — i Mixea. oe 1 9 yk Cee — 90 uuer aoe band ..2 16 Col. River S ” eae @12% ines fi eseee rnia sft.
Prank 7 a iat Russian ee " goss 16 Sptiee ae seseenes ..1 60 erel i. > ta | Cal. ae ieee 13@1
Brot renee 5 Poppy deg 41 | Su eae 2 Willow small ceeeeeed 30 Hinge aun n G15 | Wainuts oad
eal Ort veeeeeeeeees 6 G ee aah 4 5 watete Ja ee 5 Willow, ‘loth a 3 95 a ND +. @14 Tat ni ect ‘ect: 12
Bongo ene a 2 : ae medium gradi sleunes iaige? 33 | Green No, ite Gieatae te aw
ees Ss Serre Re ied, oic cue 2b le es, e’m Oboe a, | cea , Me ancy.
ee ] Handy Bo eran seeee on? Regular fancy. So 31D. size, ee = Cured ae 2 pene ane ties 1214 ‘Pecans, aa a
enn Bixby ae KING Regular, choice ie 101b. size, = in sama Calfskins, tie - eat eae: $e
uate Roval Pol 2 oseet teed. melita |N : size, 6 tn case. ig Caltskins green Soi" | Cocoanuts a ae
a asket- red, Re saas se eee in case.. sh a No. : 2| § oanuts ...-. -
: Polish... $6 ue t-fired, choice 36 [No.3 i r Plates an Hid oared No. 2 10% | State, p Sie ¥en? °
- 85 ition. --.. ancy - 38 No. 30 al, 250 in er; es, 60 No .-14 | er bu York > 5
aT ...43 o. & ao 2s ate Ola W ID. ov 219% | SE wees
SS val’ 250 in crate 45 Gam i 12% | Pecan an
pec pil Barrel ey in oe 50 Shoariic ete ee “72 | Wolne Peanuts
-12@1 , ur. e garde: | Fil ane Stakes . 6%,
. Barnet 5 gal... a 4 _30| Aliean: a." 6% @7%
10 ’ ° T ‘ 0@60 | Alic M es “a's
x = each ga eta eel icant Meats .... @50
gal.. eac’ ..2 40 Oo 2 dia ow 5@30 | aan Al @ 3d
: a : ie Almonds. ax
2 70 Madar aE g 4u, Fancy nt a @33
eeenee oS 3% Bone H. oe @47
” fine ; <- 'e ltoasted | 5, ae : i
... .21@ 8|Ch Ce, AO uns ‘ 5%
@23 oice, 7 Pp seit
Roasted P. jumbo @7
. 6%
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46
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Special Price Current
AXLE GREASE Mutton
| Carcass eee oc. @ 9
amie oo ice. @
Spring Lambs ...13 @14
Veal
‘Careass |...00 0” 54@ 8
| CLOTHES LINES
| Sisal
;60ft. 3 thread, extra..
| 72ft. 3 thread, extra..
| sft. 3 thread, extra..
~ /$0ft. 6 thread, extra..
72ft. 6 thread, extra..
Mica, tin boxes... 75 : i ; Full line of fire and burg- |
Paraeon ..........55 0 | core ute lar proof safes kept in
GOft. ........ sees eee SD stock by Ges
BAKING POWDER el eee 90 |
wes [oe er eho eee be nib ecu 1 05 | Company. Twenty differ-
J A > Ce) | [120ft. ees reese eee .F [ent sizes on hand at all
a Cotton Victor sa | times—twice as many safes
4%. cans, 4 doz. case.. 45 by eae 1 35/48 are carried by any other
— ce Fe aes 24 oe 1 60| house in the State. If you!
ib. cans, 2 doz. cape Cotton Windsor }are unable to visit Grand
Royal ert sete Wr ec cccsceee : Hy Rapids and inspect the
we 0c size 90 |2ott. 122IILIILIIIIIIID £0] lime personally, write for
Hy c “ be Se 2 00 | quotations.
ee veer "| Cotton Braided i SOAP
bez, rans2 OD iuore | 95 |
pip Obet eee 1 35| Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands
er ROR ee 1 65
%4Ib cans 3 75 Suvesttes. Wire
i i No. 20, each 1 t. long 1 99
pe ne A PP No 18, cach Melk lene 2 10!
—% oib. cans 13 00 COFFEE
5tb cans 21 50 Roasted
BLUING
Cc. P. Bluing |
Doz. |
Small size, 1 doz. box. .40| Black Hawk. one box 2 50!
large size, 1 doz. box. .75 | White House, 1th. ....._.. | Black Hawk. five bxs 2 40)
CIGARS | Whi ite House, 2th ...._... ‘Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25)
| Excelsior, M & J, 1tb. ..... TABLE SAUCES |
| xeelsior, M & J, 2i. ..... | Halford, lange | 30. 3 75)
|Tip Top. M & J, tb. ...... |Walford, small ........ 2 25 |
(‘oval davai | i
|Royal Java and Mocha ...,
|Java and Mocha Blend ...|
| Boston Combination ......
: | Distributed by Judson
faci apse oor Co.'s bd. |Grocer Co., Grand Rapids: |
44 or more a "32 | Lee & Cady, Detroit; Sym- |
Lo) or more ....... 31 ons Bros. & Co., Saginaw; |
Worden Grocer Co. brand’) Brown, Davis & Warner, | Use
en Hur | Jackson; Godsmark, Du- |
Perfection Pree rere ec uL eS 39 rand & Co., Battle Creek;
Perfection Extras ...... 35 Fielbach Co., Toledo.
Londres Witte teen eee BD
ee pete pean 00 |
Puritanos ear ern cence ee 39 FISHING TACKLE
Panatellas, Finas ....... ee x on bin 6 T d
Panatelias, Bock ....... D | 2 UO FMM... oo enna eens | S
sorkey Club ............ po\1u% to Zin... |... 7} ra 4 man
COCOANUT Me 1 2am... 9}
Baker’s Brazil Shredded |1% to 2 in.............. 11)
2 Mee 15 |
calendar a 20
ero 3 Cotton Lines
iNo. 2, 1 fect... 5
; (No. 2. 15 fect |... 7} Coupon
No, 15 fect .......... 9}
INo. 4 15 feet _......... 10
MO, 6, 15 fect... 11
iNo 6 15 feck. 12
No. 7, 15 fect. 15
a2 che... 18 Books
['Ne. 0 15 feet... 20
70 4%. pkg. per case 2 60! Linen Lines |
oo elo. Dke. per case 260i Small ..............._. 20
38 %4Ib. pkg. per case 2 60|Medium ................ 26
16 %tb. pkg. per case 2 60/1 SON fee eee eee ee. 34
FRESH MEATS Poles
Beef Po 14 ft., per doz. 55
Arcacs §........ |: 6 @ 8 | Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Hindquarters ..... 7%@10 | Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80
Pine 2. 8 @14 GELATINE
oes: ee 8 @12 {Cox's 1 at, size ....._. 1 10 Made by
moungs ...... 7 @ la 2
(eee ea 5 @ 5% |COx's 2 at. size ........ 1 61
cagees 4... é 4 | Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 20
averse ....-.--5. 3 | Knox’s Sparkling, gro.14 00
Pork Knox’s Acidu’d. doz...1 20 Tradesman Company
bois .....,...... Ag Knox's Acidu’d. gro...14 00
SOPORBCG |, .-.->--- Ison’s 5.
Boston Butts .... @10% | eatisged . ho
Shoulders ole. @10 ROT 75 .
Leaf Lard ...... @ 9% Plymouth Rock ...... 125 Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dwinell-Wright Co.'s. B'ds. |
100 cakes, large size..6 50
| 50 eakes, large size..3 25
160 cakes, small size..3 85;
50 cakes. small size..1 95
| Tradesman’s Co.’s Brand
The “STARTER”
ASSORTMENT
of
5S and 10 Cent
Goods
itemized in our Au-
gust catalogue is a
first class opening
order for a 5 and to
cent store ‘‘on the
side.”’
A similar $75 as-
sortment in our July
and August cata-
logues last year was
ordered by many a
merchant who now
KNOWS the double
profit 5 and 10 cent
goods can be made
to pay.
Other Expert As-
sortments are item-
ized in our booklet
of that name—yours
And
our Expert Service
for the asking.
Bureau (Chicago) is
yours to use when-
ever you'd like our
help in dealing with
any storekeeping
problem.
Now’s a good time
to consider adding a
5 and to cent store
‘“‘on the side.” Why
not’ write
The
logue is No. J583.
today?
August cata-
Butler Brothers
Wholesalers of General Merchandise
NEW YORK CHICAGO
ST. LOUIS (And MINNEAPOLIS
Early in 1907
Sample Houses:
BALTIMORE DALLAS _ ST. PAUL
and cheapest manner yet
devised.
fully send samples, prices
and full
you will let us know you
are interested.
ured
BUSINESS
It will be to your interest
to investigate our
GOUpON Book
DysteM
It places your business
on a cash basis in the
easiest, simplest and
We will cheer-
information if
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Michigan
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USINESS-WANTS DEPARTMEN
Advertisements inserted under this head for Iwo cents
subscquent continuous insertion.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
For Sale—A $11,000 stock of general
merchandise; all in first-class order and
in good clean town; good trade; stock
can be reduced to suit buyer. eb. oH:
Bunte & Sons, Bushton, Kan. 950
An aged retired farmer, owning a tin-
ning, plumbing and furnace business.
wants an honest and experienced man
to do the work for him. For particulars |
address Box 132, Lone Tree, Ia. 949
It you could make $200 to $10,000 per
year for the balance of your life by mak-
ing a small payment monthly without
interfering with your present occupation,
would you do it? We have asked this
question candidly of over 500 business
men who are now investing with us.
Securities as safe as government bonds.
Let us present the facts to you. The
Western Land & Improvement Co., 318
S. Main St., Elkhart, Ind. 948
For Sale—Drug store in the best town
of 4,000 in Michigan. Large and good
farming country surrounding. 800 men
ermmployed in factories. Last year’s busi-
ness, $8,000. Rent $20 per month. Ad-
dress J. B., care Michigan Tradesman.
946
For Sale—Good hardware business in
one of the best towns in Central Michi-
gan. Stock about ten thousand dollars.
Can be reduced to suit customer. Good
reason for selling. Address M., care
Tradesman. 945
$2,500 cash will secure interest in pay-
ing manufacturing business. Position
book-keeper if desired. Write Drawer Vo
Urbana. Ohio. 943
For Sale—An old-established and pay-
ing clothing business, exclusive agents,
and fine trade on well-advertised stand-
ard makes of hats, shoes and furnish-
ings, men’s and boys’ clothing. Satis-
factory reasons for selling. Splendid
chance for party with 20 to 25 thousand
dollars capital. Address Sam’] Altshuler,
Pres. Red Front Clothiers, Bellingham,
Wash. 947
For Sale—In ‘Sunny Alberta”, Canada,
3,000,000 acres selected wheat lands own-
ed by Canadian Pacific Railway; irri-
gated and non-irrigated; loam to
with clay subsoil; ideal climate; pure
mountain water; perpetual Fanee; sun
300 days and 18 hours sunlight in sum-
mer. Diversified crops, yielding $30 per
acre. Special excursion rates. Strong
& Nichols, Gen’s Agts., Room 203, 121 La
Salle St., Chicago, Tl. 951
Millinery stock for sale. old stuff.
Good trade. Good location. Best town
in Central Michigan. Must sell. For par-
ticuars address 682, Ithaca, Mich. 952
For Sale—First-ciass grocery and
crockery stock in one of thé best towns
in Southern Michigan. Will inventory
$5,500 to $4,000. Address W., care Trades-
man. 953
No
For Sale—Exclusive stock of up-to-date
dry goods, carpets and ladies’ and men’s
furnishings. Located in one of the best
farming towns in Michigan, noted for
its famous mineral springs, with large
sugar factory and one of the largest
chemical plants in the United States.
Business established 18 years. Last
year’s sales, $30,000. Stock can be re-
duced to $7,000. Must sell on account of
other business. ..ddress M. Seitner, St.
Louis, Mich. 954
For Sale—First-class staple grocery, do-
ing $2,400 monthly. Rent $22. Can be
had at invoice. $4,000 stock, cash. City
2,500 population. Address No. 940, care
Michigan Tradesman. 940
For Sale—Old-established drug business
in growing city of 30,000 inhabitants. New
cherry furniture. Inventory $8,000. An-
nual sales, $16,000. Til health reason for
selling. Terms easy. Address Box 76,
Newport News, Va. 936
Wanted—Drug stock. Must be good
paying business, at right price. Northern
Michigan preferred.
particulars, No. 935,
Address with full
care Tradesman.
935
invoicing $3,500,
Sales last year,
Full prices and a moneymak-
For Sale—Drug stock,
in best city in Michigan.
over $9,000.
er. Address No. 934, care Michigan
Tradesman. 934
For Rent—Store building, new last
year. Live town of nearly 1,000 inhabi-
tants.
Good location for grocery. Lizzie
Wigent, Watervliet, Mich. 926
For Sale—Stock of shoes, tinware,
enamelware, notions, etc. Hustling town
of 800, good location, good reasons for
selling. Box 191, Wolcottville, Ind. 925
4 feet, |
Ww
F
For Sale-—Hardware
ment business,
run $3,500.
ill
ine
business.
in fine
Town,
Address
Michigan Tradesman,
stock and
country.
600
No.
929,
No charge less
imple-
Stock
population.
care
929
ing,
tion.
manufacturing town.
produce market.
vited to investigate at once.
Butternut, Mieh.
Hardware—Owing
here, demanding my entire attention, 1
offer
crockery and small
condition
ventorying about $3,000.
which
zood
30x72,
to
other
business
for sale my stock of hardware,
im
and
plements,
up-to-date.
Will rent
all in
In-
build-
is an excellent loca-
Best of farming land and a small
Wanted—To buy small stock of
merchandise |
Southern Michigan.
care Tradesman.
For Sale—Improved_ farm, joining Po-
For particu- |
Rannels, Poland, bir D.
4
land townsite,
lars write Wm.
Good grain and
Interested parties in-
Will Isham,
817
ocated in
under crop.
small to
general
wn in
Address Merchant,
893
For
also
Sale—Clean
store
‘ompetition.
once.
bu
Full
$2,00
ilding
tare barg:
0 general
ain
stock, |
and dwelling. No/|
if taken
particulars address Box
Sherman City, Mich.
at
92,
942
For Sale—Clean stock of general mer-
in
the
State.
chandise in one of the best farming and}
menutacturing towns
dress Box 145, Williamston. Mich.
941
For
steel
| Good
|
location
Rent—Good
rooms, 25, and 30x100, with basements in
‘ge four-story office building, on Court |
> Sauare, steam heat, electric light,
shelving.
merchandise.
ceiling,
location
loca
modern
for
On electric interurban.
Long, Pontiac, HI.
general
tion, two
fronts,
City 7,000.
store |
C. Et.
930
For Sale—One of ‘the best dry goods,
in town.
a sure fortune for the right man.
interest elsewhere compels sale.
ticulars address
herd.
Mich.
clothing and shoe businesses in a rapidly |
growing town of 1,000 and surrounded by
; exceptionally good farm community, best |
Established five years;
Larger |
Stock
Par-
Db. Seitner & Co., Shep-
992
wv
|
|
| will invoice from $10,000 to $12,009.
for Sale—Stock of dry goods,
furnishing
For
homes,
Russell,
Sale—Plantations,
etc.
Memphis.
goods and art materials,
resort town. Address IL... Bushnell, North-
port, Mich.
timber
Tenn.
gents’ |
in |
938 _
lands.
Send for printed list.
928
Ad- |
a word the first insertion and one cent a word fo; caren
than 25 cents.
Cherters Secured—Charters procured
cheap for mining, milling, manufacturing,
railroads or any other industrial pursuit;
laws, blanks free. Philip Lawrence, for-
mer assistant secretary of State, Huron.
D.
Ss. 939
For Sale—A clean up-to-date stock of
hardwere and implements in live town of
1,500, Northern Indiana. suilding can be
rented for any length of time. This is a
bargain. Address J. M., care Michigan
n. 905
Tradesrr
For Sale--First-class business in one
of the best manufacturing cities of its
size in the State. Stock of dry goods,
| Sroceries and shoes about $10,000. Did a
$70,000 business last year. Address John-
| son Grocery Co., Owosso, Mich. 900
On account of death of proprietor, we
will sell the only exclusive shoe store of
$2,000, in county seat of 2,000 inhabitants.
City has a eanning factorv. one woolen
mill, one flour mill, two saw mills, one
;s ave and heading mill. Good farming
country and has the second largest
creamery in Wisconsin. L. Stroebel &
Son, Barron, Wis. 916
Wanted To Buy—I will pay cash for
a stock of general merchandise or cloth-
|ing or shoes. Send full particulars. Ad-
| dress Martin, care Michigan Tradesman.
>
For Sale At Once—Drug stock in Pe-
| toskey. A clean and complete stock. Must
| be sold on account of death of owner.
Mrs. E. C. Marsh, Petoskey, Mich. 863
For Sale For Cash—Best established
general merchandise business in best lo-
| cation in town, doing ; rictly cash busi-
ness. 1905 sales, $27.500. Stock about
$8.000. Can reduce to suit. For particu-
lars address B. M. Salisbury, Shelby,
Mich. 850
For Sale--Stock of groceries, boots,
| shoes, rubber goods. notions and garden
| seeds. located in the hest fruit belt in
Michigan. Invoicng $3.600. If taken be-
fore April 1st., will sell at rare bargain.
Must sell on account of other business
Geo Tueker Fennville Mich
528
For Sale—$5,000 stock general merchan-
se in good Indiana town. No agents.
. L. Bradford, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 917
For Saie—Drug stock and building.
Stock and fixtures, $2.900, time on build-
|ing. Sales last year, $7.002. Address No.
'621. eare Tradesman. 621
|
Cash must accompany
|for Michigan and Minne sota.
l catanht
mu
Caelenn
For
Adding
Lansing,
Sale—Practically
Machine. Smith
Mich.
new Burroughs
Young & Co.,
841
For Sale or Exchange—25-room hotel,
bar in connection. S3eautifully situated
on one of the best resort lakes in Michi-
gan. Good reasons for selling. Address
No. 908, care Michigan Tradesman. 908
We want to buy for spot cash, shoe
stucks, clothing stocks, stores and stocks
of every description. Write us to-doy
and our representative will call, ready
to do business "aul LL. Feyreisen
Co.. 12 State G Chicago, Ti 548
Do you want to sell your property,
farm or business? No matter where
located, send me description and price.
{ sell for cash. Advice free. Terms rea-
sonable, Established 1881. Frank P.
Cleveland, Real Estate Expert, 1261
Adams Express Building, Colenge. ih
577
Best cash prices paid tor coffee sacks
eks, flour seks, burlap in pieces
te. illiam Ross & Co.. 59 8. Water
St. It. A7
Chicago,
POSITIONS WANTED
~ Wanted— Situation
Twenty r
. Empire, Mich.
by registered dr
" experience.
ved
HELP WANTED.
A registered
Wanted pharmacist. Must
be strictly temperate. D. M. Maze, Box
14, Mich. 94
Wanted gistered pharmacist of
bi Middle-aged [
man prefer
Michigan T
its
No
Address
955, care
man.
Wanted— Resident traveling salesmar
Must have
shed trade. Hershfield Bros., Mnfrs.
624 New
927
Clothing, Broadway,
Wante d- Registere ad drug
g clerk or as-
sistant for steady permanent position. W.
C. Wheelock, Kalamazoo, ict 9323
Wanted—A good all-around tinner. one
who can clerk in the store when required.
Steady position for the right man.
dress J. Meyers, Bourbon, Ind.
Lich. 93
Wanted—Harness, collar and saddle
makers. Apply to the Great West Sad-
y Co., Winnipeg, Man. Canada. 896
Want ada oantianad
aon
nevt neve
Fire and Buralar Proof
Sates
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids
48
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
TWELFTH ANNUAL
Convention of Michigan Retail Hard-
ware Association.
The following programme has been
prepared for the twelfth annual con-
vention of the Michigan Hardware
Dealers’ Association, which will be
held at Detroit Aug. 8 ,9 and to:
Wednesday
g o’clock—Meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee at the Hotel Cadil-
lac.
10 o’clock—Distribution of badges,
payment of dues and enrollment of
new members.
Forenoon.
Wednesday Afternoon.
Meeting called to order by the
President in the banquet hall of the
Hotel Cadillac.
Address of welcome—Hon. Geo. P.
Codd, Mayor of Detroit.
Response—J. H. Whitney,
dent of the Association.
Appointment of the following com-
mittees: Credentials, Constitution and
By-Laws, Resolutions, Question Box,
Presi-
Legislation, Auditing and Nomina-
tions.
Reading of minutes of last meet-
ing.
Reception of communications.
Annual address of the President.
Annual report of the Treasurer.
Annual report of the Secretary. |
Paper—‘Fixed Retail Prices on
Standard Goods and Their Effect,”
QO. J. Darling. Secretary of the De-
troit Retail Hardware Association.
Expressions of opinion by delegates |
on the above subject.
Paper—‘“Every Day Paint,’ G. B
Heckel, Secretary of the Paint
Grinders’ Association of America.
Remarks by members.
Address—“Our Friends, the Job- |
bers, and Their Salesmen,” G. J. |
Kastenberg. Greenville.
Remarks by traveling men.
The evening will be left open to
enable delegates to take in the dif-
ferent sights of the city, without miss-
ing any of the programme of busi-
ness and entertainment arranged by
the Committee.
Thursday Forenoon.
Address—“How To Sell Stoves.”
W. T. Leckie, of the Round Oak
Stove Co.
Informal Addresses—E. M. Bush,
President; W. P. Bogardus, Past
President. and M. L. Corey, Secre-
tary the National Retail Hard-
ware Association.
Address—“The National Hardware
Association of the United States:
How Can It Best Co-operate with
the Retail Merchants of the Coun-
try?” T. James Fernley, Secretary of
the National Hardware Association
of the United States.
Addresses—-By representatives of |
the National Hardware Manufactur- |
ers’ Association.
Address—“What It All Means,” M
M. Callaghan, Reed City, Mich.
Thursday Afternoon.
Closed session for retail
only.
Reports of the following commit-
tees: Credentials, Constitution and
By-Laws, Auditing, Legislation.
Consideration of the committee re-
ports.
Unfinished business, new business,
oT
dealers
i .
| trip on the
complaints, opening of the question
box.
Report of Committee ‘on Resolu-
tions.
Report of Committee on Nomina-
tions.
Election of officers.
Selection of the next place of meet-
ing.
Good of the order.
Adjournment.
Thursday Evening.
Delegates, jobbers, manufacturers.
salesmen and their friends will be
the guests of the Association at
Electric Park, where the attractions
include the scenic railway, shoot the
chutes, circle swing, inferno, the
House That Jack Built, and a band
concert by Weil’s celebrated concert
band. Be sure and bring the ladies;
they will enjoy this feature of the
convention.
Friday Morning.
Visiting of plants of the
Detroit manufacturers, stores of job-
bing firms and exhibits at the ho-
various
tel
yn
Friday Afternoon.
2 ride on steamer
o’clock—Boat
| Pleasure, leaving foot of Woodward
avenire. The ladies accompanying
delegates are especially invited and
assured that every possible arrange-
ment will be made for their pleasure
and entertainment
Supper will be served in the cafe
at Bois Blanc Park at 6-45 p. mi.
Concert and vaudeville entertain-
ment will be provided for the return
boat. There will be
dancing both on the boat and at the
Park.
This beautiful Park
Bois Blanc Island, at the mouth
the Detroit River, and
doubt,
equipped pleasure spots in the world.
The dancing pavilion has the larg-
est dancing floor in the United
States. having no less than 32,000
square feet of floor space. Finney’s
superb orchestra will furnish the
music.
One
is situated on
is.
one
of the
free use of the merry-go-round. This
is the finest merry-go-round that has
ever been built in this country, if
not in the world, and offers amuse-
ment alike to old and young.
The handsome cafe is situated at
the water’s edge and contains a large
and beautiful dining room, in which |
will be served to the dele-
gates and their ladies.
Delegates will receive tickets to
the boat ride when they register
their names with the Secretary at the
convention.
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The recent statistics of pauperism
in the United Saates indicate that
the tendency toward pauperism is
greater in the foreign born than
the native born, and this appears to
be a consequence of that undeveloped
intelligence which is especially noted
among the Mediterranean immigrants,
and prevents their engaging in any
but callings which are already well
supplied, and yet the number of those
who make good sturdy ciitzens
great enough to make a movement
to shut them all out ridiculous.
supper
is
of |
without |
of the finest and best,
novel features of the!
entertainment at the Park will be the |
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THE FRENCH SUNDAY.
In France the people have for years
been free to work or play, worship
or rest, as they desired, on Sunday,
as on other days of the week. Aside
from church-going in the morning,
Sunday has been a day devoted by the
French people to pleasure and they
have made it gay with holiday fea-
tures. Experience has at last caused
them to consider the cost of this
policy. They have found that Sun-
day labor has increased so as to be-
come a widespread practice, with
many evil consequences.
The subject was recently up for dis-
cussion in the Chamber of Deputies,
which finally drafted and passed a
bill making one day of rest in each
week compulsory. The Senate has
likewise passed the measure and the
approval of the President is assured.
There is nothing in the new law to
urge church attendance or religious
| meditation, yet abstention from labor
is strictly enjoined. Under the in-
of this statute Sunday in
France will lose some of its objec-
tionable characteristics. It may con-
tinue to be a day of merry-making
with a large element, but it will at
least be a day of rest from toil, and
the laboring classes will be sure to
welcome the opportunity for recrea-
tion it will guarantee them, and will
be careful to guard against entrench-
ments thereon.
1
1
i
fluence
his development in France, where
so-called “continental Sunday”
i has had full license, must be regarded
as a substantial vindication of the
Puritan Sunday in so far as rest from
labor is concerned. There can be no
doubt in the minds of any people that
‘the scriptural injunction, “Six days
|shalt thou labor and do all thy work,”
the
/is wise and salutary wholly apart
| from pious considerations.
| —— 32?
| National Shoe and Leather Fair.
| It may be of interest to learn
ing of the progress of the Na-
Shoe and Leather Fair that is
held in Chicago, August 18
The managers of the. Fair
|say that this is the first fair of the
ikind held on this side of the At-
jlantic, and that it is in many re-
i spects patterned after the Shoe and
| Leather Fair that has been success-
| fully conducted for twelve consecu-
‘tive years in the great Agricultural
| Hall, London, England.
;}someth
i]
10nd
t
‘
t
o be
PO 2s.
| They say that this projected Fair
i differs radically from World’s expo-
isitions. World’s Fairs appeal to the
ipublic, but specialized industrial Fairs
jare intended as a meeting place or
/market where manufacturers, whole-
isalers and retailers can meet on neu-
tral ground and where goods can be
bought and sold. It is not intended
|that there shall be any merely os-
tentatious displays of shoes or leath-
er, each booth or space being a sales
or sample room, as well as a decora-
tive feature.
A very good point of this enter-
prise that the management do
all the construction work, prepare
and erect all the signs, divisions of
space, etc., so that uniform excellence
of booths assured. Every space
will be an exact counterpart of every
other space, will be carpeted and will
is,
is
contain desk, chairs, table and locker
made in the popular Mission’ or
weathered oak style. -No exhibitor
will be permitted to put in any furni-
ture other than that supplied by the
management.
The Superintendent of Construction
and Installation, who has had charge
of the great automobile shows for
several years, states that this will be
in point of decoration and general.
efiect the finest industrial Fair ever
held. The posts dividing the spaces
will all be painted, and the signs will
consist of block letters, each sepa-
rately made, painted white enamel,
with beveled edges gilded. This wil!
be a vast improvement over the old
fashioned method of canvas and mus-
lin signs. Connecting the posts at
the top will be frieze work of staff,
painted in copperas finish and sur-
mounting each post will be a group
of electric lights in large opalescent
globes. From the roof of the Arm-
ory will hang numbers of flags and
eight mammoth vases filled with nat-
ural palms will stand upon special
pedestals. Space holders will furnish
free tickets of admission to retail
merchants who desire to attend the
Fair. An orchestra will discourse
music each afternoon and evening and
every possible convenience will be
arranged to conduce to the comfort of
visitors.
Since this is the first Fair of the
shoe and leather industry in the
United States, it is admitted to be to
some extent experimental. It is evi.
dent, however, that the trade have
taken great interest in the enter-
prise, and the floor plan shows that
almost all the spaces have already
been sold. Owing to the prominence
of the firms identified with the Na-
tional Shoe and Leather Fair, it
seems destined to be a great suc-
They are the kind of people
who are identified with success.
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The most unimaginative woman can
find 476 ways of making herself mis-
erable any old day.
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To-morrow may never come; yes-
terday is gone forever. But here’s
to-day.
CEess.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
For sale or exchange for exclusive un-
dertaking business, furniture and under-
taking business, in center of rich Wis-
consin county, thickly populated: have
first-class patronage; building 28x80 feet:
basement under all; balcony and upper
floor. Hardwood finish throughout; fur-
nace heat; electric lights; local and long
distance telephone; full plate glass win-
dows; elevator from basement to top
floor. Clean stock of goods. In 1905 had
63 funerals; total business $11,000. Good
reason, W. H. Currier, River Falls, Wis.
960
For Sale—Furniture, carpet and under-
taking business at Lake Park, Ia. Town
of 1,000. Only stock in town. Large ter-
ritory. A clean stock: about $3,000. Will
sell or rent store builuing. J. G. Chrysler
& Son, Lake Park, Ia. 959
Sor Sale—Bazaar store, best location
in farming town 4,000. Southern Michi-
gan. Crops fine this year and big trade
will follow. Address No. 958, care Trades-
man. 958
For Sale—Old-established shoe busi-
ness of 52 years, in thrifty place of 800
inhabitants. Inventories $4,500. Stock in
excellent condition. Best location in town.
Will rent building 22x60. Interested par-
ties invited to invesigate at once. For
references, Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie &
Co., Ltd., Hirth, Krause & Co., Grand
Rapids. Mich. Address C. E. Fleming,
Vermontvilie, Mich. 957
For Sale—At a bargain, a 407 acre
farm, fine land and one of the best im-
proved farms in the State. Three miles
from station. Apply to Geo. F. Parrish,
Cedar Hill, Tenn. 956
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LOWNEY’S COCOA is purely
the choicest, highest cost, cocoa
beans, ground to flour fineness,
and NOTHING ELSE.
The WALTER M. LOWNEY COMPANY, 447 Commercial St., Boston, Mass.
The
Wireless
System
THE WIRELESS SYSTEM of telegraphy has DONE
AWAY with the use of thousands of poles and countless miles
of wire.
THE McCASKEY ACCOUNT R EGIST ER SYSTEM
has eliminated the NERVE RACKING and BRAIN FAG-
GING work of keeping accounts.
It CUTS OUT all POSTING and COPYING.
It handles CREDIT SALES as fast as CASH SALES.
It takes care of EVERY DETAIL of your business. Zea
The ONLY COMPLETE ONE WRITING SYSTEM on
the market.
Are you Satisfied with your present method ?
Do you wish to know about THE McCASKEY?
Our catalogue is free.
The McCaskey Register Co.
Alliance, Ohio
Manufacturers of the Famous Multiplex Duplicating Sales Slips
Mr. J. A. Plank, State Agent, Tradesman Bldg., Grand Rapids.
ee .
cannot develop.
packages on any non-computing scale,
year. In the grocery, fully one-third of this is weighed out on scales; in the
market, more.
Three per cent. of $10,000 is $300, that old-style scales cost their owners on
the average every year.
Weed Out
the unproductive impediments to your success!
Unless you remove the weeds the flowers
You wouldn’t keep a horse that was ‘‘eating
his head off.” Neither would you retain a clerk
who was robbing you of your profits.
Yet they are stillsome grocers and butchers
using old style scales at a loss of 3 per cent. of
all the merchandise weighed on them.
To prove this, take one pound of sugar and try to weigh out sixteen one ounce
If you are not using MONEYWEIGHT Scales, don’t you think it’s time to
do some weeding?
WAM cog ee ee err ee ccc se tae ay
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Money weight Seale Co., 58 State St., Chicago
I would be glad to know more about the ad-
vantages of Moneyweight Scales in my. store.
38 State St.
MONEYWEIGHT Scales stop those overweights and save you all of that loss. Al-
most 200,000 in daily use.
Mail us the coupon for detailed information.
under no obligation whatever.
Moneyweight Scale Co. |cameitir
It is to your advantage and places you
DAY TON. SYTON, OFIO.
Distributors of HONEST Scales GUARANTEED Commercially Correct.
CHICAGO
as long as our present stock holds out.
Tinware, Enameled Steel, Galvanized, Woodenware
We Have No Intentions
Of Raising Our Prices
Of course you are well aware of the fact—every merchant is—that
Note“Our Prices on
Double Coated
“French Gray”
Enameled
Steel Ware
We guarantee every piece of this
ware to bea SELECTED FIRST—
NO SECONDS.
WATER PAILS-Seamless
Enameled wood handle. 12 quarts.
Per dozen .....- eel $3.65
WASH BASINS
No. 28—11 inches, per dozen....... ..$1.05
No. 30—12 inches, per dozen....... ..$1.20
DEEP RINSING PANS
i? quarts, perdpzen....-.--.........->-B2.07
DEEP DISH PANS
16 Guerts, perdoren....-- .. ---.-. 0... $3.33
PRESERVING KETTLES
No. 280—8 quarts, per dozen........--$2.60
No. 300—10 quarts, per dozen......... $3.05
Successors to
H. LEONARD & SONS
Wholesale
manufacturers of
have steadily advanced their quotations so that prices
for these household necessities have jumped sky high
by leaps and bounds and according to all indications
The End Is Not Yet
Still in the face of all this you will find that we have
not advanced our quotations one single notch
but are still asking the same ‘‘Low Prices’’ as before. .
We can do this for the simple reason that we protected
ourselves against these advances—which wise foresight
told us were sure to come—by placing large orders
with the mills during the first months of the year and
as we have always followed the liberal policy of giving
our customers every advantage possible to ob-
tain we now let you have the benefit of our good
fortune.
We have just received a fresh shipment of
Nine Solid Carloads of
Enameled Steelware, Tinware,
Galvanized Iron, Woodenware
secured under old contracts, and not until this stock is
exhausted will we raise our prices.
Of Course
you will understand that even our large stock now on
hand will not last any length of time but will be
Sold Out Rapidly
when we will probably be compelled to advance accord-
ing to the market.
Therefore Be Wise---Buy Now
Don't wait until you will have to pay more for
these goods. Get in on the ground floor while you may.
Act Now
Tomorrow may be too late. Don’t wait for our agents to
callon you but make your selections from our catalog—
if you haven't a copy let us know and we will see that
you get one—and
Send Us Your Orders by Mail
Leonard Crockery Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Half your railroad fare refunded under the perpetual excursion plan of the
Grand Rapids Board of Trade
Ask for ‘‘Purchaser’s Certificate’? showing amount of your purchase
Note Our Prices on
Highest Grade
Galvanized
lronware
Our galvanized Ironware is galvan-
ized after being made.
PAILS=-=-Wire Bails
8 quarts. Per dozen............--..-- $1.18
10 quarts. Per dozen.....-.......-+--- 1.38
12 quarts. Per dozen.........-..-.:-++ 1.65
14 quarts. Per dozen..--.....-........ 1.85
No. Size, inches Per doz.
1 20% x 103% $4.39 .
2 22x11 4.80 ‘
3 24xi1 5.60
Note these fine bargains in
TINWARE
PLAIN I C DISH PANS
17 quarts. Per dozen... .... ........ $1.50
Hunter’s Rotary Flour Sifters
A strong, well made sifter with crank in ‘
handle. Best on the market.
Per dozen -: <2... 205 5 ses oa $0.80 j
Crockery, Glassware :
and }
House-Furnishings