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The True Hero

PSHE world is charged,

and justly, with lav-

 

 

 

ishing too much honor

upon the military hero, but
this is due largely to the want
of a better subject. Mankind
is interested always and every-
where in the human side of
life. The man who does
things appeals to us, and
hence the deference paid the
military conquercr. But in
our day great honor is also
paid the man who conquers ob-
durate nature. The engineer
who bridges an impossible
chasm, who changes a water
course for humanity’s sake,
who moves mountains and
waters deserts—he has great
praise. Even the story of an
unknown hero wresting suc-
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quence to his wife and children; for
it is a hard and cruel fact that in this
life of ours the sins of the man are
often visited most heavily upon
those whose welfare should be his
one special care.

Theodore Roosevelt

A few can touch the magic string
And noisy Fame is proud to win them;
Alas! for those who never sing
But die with all their music in them!
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TIP ATWOOD’S SUCCESSOR.
An old, old
stands now in a light which may not

only fade it from sight forever, but

story in

the same light may develop an entire-
ly and
tion of things.

altogether satisfying condi-

For years the railway corporations
in Michigan have dominated the
make-up and the administration of
the office of State Railroad Commis-
sioner, and the administration or
rather the maladministration of that
office by Theron W. Atwood has
been an excrescence on the nose of
our State’s political economy. Arro-
gant, stubborn and conceited beyond
measure, Atwood has dodged _ pro-
tests, complaints and petitions when
possible and when that device was
unavailable he boldly and_ with-
out qualification neglected and defied
the people at the beck and call of
the railways. Mr. Atwood was ap-
pointed, ostensibly, by the Governor;
in reality the distinction was bestow-
ed upon him by the railways.

Now the Governor is called upon
to appoint a successor to Mr. At-
wood and the people of Michigan
have an opportunity to indicate to
His Excellency, in an _ unqualified
manner, that they desire to have a
say in the matter. It is a privilege
to which they are entitled and a mat-
ter in which no railroad influence
should be allowed to interfere.

As things have been under the At-
wood regime, township and village
organizations, municipalities, indus-
trial and other traffic producing or-
ganizations and individuals have had
no source of authority to which they
could turn for relief with any hope
of receiving the consideration they
are entitled to. The moth eaten pig-
eon-hole devices of cheap politicians
have dominated the Railroad Com-
missioner’s office, and when, once in
awhile, by continued effort and stub-
born persistence, some resource be-
sides the pigeon-hole became neces-
sary, then would come evasion or
a shifty transfer of the matter to
some other official or a flat “turn-
down” without evasion.

The business communities of
Michigan want no more of that sort
of treatment, and in the belief that
the affairs of the Railroad Commis-
sioner’s office should be placed in the
hands of a_ thoroughly competent
man of unassailable rectitude the
Michigan Tradesman joins in the al-
ready numerous and_ enthusiastic
nomination of Cassius L. Glasgow,
of Nashville, to the office under dis-
cussion. Mr. Glasgow is a_ broad-
minded, energetic man of business,
whose loyalty to the best interests of
our commonwealth is unimpeachable,
whose sense of fairness and equity is
his strongest characteristic, and who,
if appointed to the office by our
Governor, will treat both shippers

Michigan

ad carriers with justice and preci
sion. It will be an appointment cer
tain to result in large benefits to our
State and can not but reflect to the

Chief

advantage and benefit of its
Executive.

 

Early last spring Public
Commissioner Horatio S.
ited Grand Rapids and, by appoint

Highway

Earle vis-

ment, had a forenoon session and an
afternoon session with the Supervis
ors of Kent county.

He told them that if they would
get busy at once and circulate peti
tions in their respective townships,
asking that the adoption of the Coun-
ty Roads System should be submitted
to a vote by the people of
county, the matter could be so vot-
ed upon at the next (the last) elec-|
tion and that, if the vote
State aid could be secured this year

 

Kent |

carried,

It was only necessary to secure the
signatures of seven  freeholders in|
each township in the county to the

clear, forceful and interesting way
Mr. Earle presented the great multi-
tude of facts existing in support of |

the good roads movement.

meetings addressed by Mr. Earle men
who were there promised to see that
such

petitions were circulated in

townships.

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Mr. Earle returned to Lansing elat-

ed. At last he had brought Kent
county into line. | He left a list of |
the men who had agreed to circu-|
late the petitions for signatures with |
the Secretary of the Board of oe
who had brought about the meeting
with the
time sent the necessary number of
blank petitions to the Se crtgs |
These blanks were immediately for- |
warded to the men who had prom- |
ised to circulate them.

The result of all this effort was the
return to the Secretary of the Board
of Trade of one petition bearing a
solitary signature. Later investiga- |
tion revealed the fact that no effort |
whatever was made to circulate the}
petitions by the men who had prom- |
ised to do so. The only result is|
that the securing of State aid for
roads in Kent
postponed two years.

The foregoing narrative tells in de- |
tail what may be expected from Su- |
pervisors and Highway Commission-
ers. They are unalterably against

Supervisors, and in due

xood county was |
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[nity of Kent county, as

 
  

petitions in question, and in his own}!

   

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iwe can get if,

ADESMAN

Number 1216

[the proposition and can not sustain

their position by any argument

worthy of good citizenship. It is a

(
har oO - -e. born f
DOTH ignorance, DOrn OI

GaSe OF SEUD

  

Jealousy, selfishness and short-sight

 

edness. They will not learn from

many examples as to valuable results

obtained at various places in_ the

State—one at Kent City in our own
county-—through State aid for good
roads. Each four corners is jealous
of contiguous four corners; Rock

, Low-

ford is afraid of Cedar Springs
r Db

¢ Shies at Aida, which, in turn, en-
vies Grattan Center and Cascade;
Caledonia has no use for Whitney
ville and the entire outfit makes faces

at Grand Rapids.

And yet the entire farming commu

an entity, 1s
;

favor of the County Road System

ind would vote in its favor if given

he opportunity. This has been prov-
ien to be a fact over and over again
lthrough personal enquiry among
leading agriculturists who realize the
oss of time, effort and money through
lauling their products over miserable
roads to the variou uilway tions

ind through hauling coal and other

|supplics to their farms. The fear that

The Supervisors were interested | 8004 roads will ees village mer
and applauded the speaker and the |Chants, mills and factories has been
many strong points he made. They | Jemonstrated to be groundless time
did more than that. They asked all) ind crue Contrary, there is abund
sorts of questions and were intelli- |} @"t evidence that they help the vil
gent and earnest in discussing the} ‘?8©S and the cross-roads business
proposition. More than that, many | Grand Rapids has two inter
of the Supervisors and Township | ban electric roads entering her
Highway Commissioners agreed to | limits and it 1s 4 unquestionable
circulate the petitions and secure the |fact that these roads have been,
necessary signatures, and where a/Proportionately, of bette value to
township was not represented at the|the farms and villages through

which they pass than they are to the
city. And there are two other in-
terurbans coming to the city, and the
fact just stated will be then demon-
strated to the farms and villages they
{raverse.

However, ignorance and fear are

tet ae a + ne ; .
|duncuit matters to overcome and as

good roads for Kent county are an

 

act necessity, it devolves upon the
people of Grand Rapids to see to it
that the question is at least submit-
ted to vote by the people of the coun-

1

ty. One day’s vigorous effort, simul-
taneously in every township in the

|county, can secure not the minimum

of seven freeholders’ signatures to
each township petifion, but fifty; and

that work can and will be done by

|citizens of Grand Rapids.

It is said that the American Tobac
co Co. is flooding China with its cig-
establishing
this baneful habit among the people
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arettes in the hope of

1ere. Of course that is business and
we need business and trade wherever
but it does seem just
a little hard that when the Celestials
are trying to get rid of one bad habit

|they should begin to be pestered with

another.

 

    

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

LOCKED VAULT ROBBERY.

Money Abstracted in a Most Mys-
terious Manner.

“T didn’t know you went in for fic-
Ford, casually,
pointing at the book I held in my
hand.

“l dont, said [.

“Why that book, then?’

The book was a copy of

tion reading,” said

Ferrar’s
Mysteries; or, A Brief
History of Impossible Crimes.’ Fer-

“Unsolvable

rar is a_ retired superintendent of
Scotland Yards. Ferrar does not
write fiction, professedly. Ferrar

writes the truth. His book is a chron-
icle of his own adventures and ex-
periences. All of his stories are of
things understood to have happened.
So | said a little curtly: “This isn’t
Can’t you read the title?”
“T can.” Ford was brimming with
good humor, after the fashion of men

fiction.

when they are in possession of a good
joke which you don’t know. “I can
read the title, and I have read the
book.

“T said the book was fiction. It js.
You see that title, ‘Unsolvable Mys-
teries, to begin with? Now, that’s
enough to make the work obviously
one of fiction. There never was an
mystery—criminal mys-
tery—in real life. Given the fact of
a crime and the possibility of the
mystery consequent upon the crime

unsolvable

being unsolvable vanishes at once
The crime was committed some way.
Consequently it can be solved some
way. Some person or persons com-
mitted the crime; some person or
persons, therefore, are to be connect-
ed with it. Assuming that there is in
existence the right human intellect—
the intellect that can see or discover
every possible manner in which the
have been committed
and trace each clew perfectly—every

crime might

mystery would be solved, as every
mystery is solvable.

“The fact that this intellect is not
in existence, or if it is in existence
is not available for crime hunting, is
all the excuse that can be found for
the tales of so-called ‘unsolvable mys-
The only unsolvable myster-
I will tell
you the story of my unsolvable mys-
tery:

teries.’

ies are the ones of fiction.

“Once upon a time I came face to
face with an impossible crime. Mon-
ey disappeared from a locked and
sealed vault without the seals being
disturbed. There was no way of en-
tering the vault save through the door
that was sealed. The money was
placed in the vault, the door closed
and sealed in the presence of four
men—but the money went out just
the same. If anything ever happened
that bore more of the earmarks of
impossibility, I never heard of it.

“It happened in the office of Brug-
er & Son, harnessmakers. The house
was an old one, established so long
ago that the ‘Son,’ who had been tak-
en into partnership when he had
reached the age of 21, was a man of
73 years of age at the time I’m speak-
ing of, and his father had conducted
the business for thirty years before
the boy came into it. Of course the
father was dead, then, but the house
had become so well known under the

 

old name that no change had been
made at the old man’s death or since,
and while there was only one Bruger
in the house now, Bruger & Son was
the way the checks were signed.
“T’m just telling you this to give
you an idea of the sort of house that
this happened in, because the nature
of the house often determines the na-
ture of the
This house was your typical long es-

crime or misdemeanor.

tablished house.
dent.

Bruger was_ presi-
The other partner, Wilkes by
name, equally was represented with
Bruger in the matter of capital, but
Bruger was at the head, with Wilkes
as vice-president. Then there was
a minor partner named Harris, who
was head cashier, and these three
men are the only members of the
house concerned in this story, though

 

 

followed this system of paying off for
thirty years, and had never suffered
the loss of a cent. It was a part of
the week’s routine, so they were con-
siderably shocked one day when the
cashier opened the vault, looked in
the cash box, and found—nothing!

“The cashier sent for Bruger and
Wilkes at once, without touching a
thing. They came and saw just what
he saw—the box was open and the
money gone. Bruger’s first question
was to the point: ‘How many men
know the combination of the vault?

“*Two, Mr. Bruger,’ said Harris—
‘yourself and myself.’

“Then you couldn’t have locked
the vault last night, Harris,’ said
Bruger.

“*That’s what’s the matter, Harris,’

Hon. C. L. Glasgow

Business Men’s Candidate for

there were other stockholders, the

firm being incorporated and the stock
held by several men. The house paid
its employes weekly. The office was
in one corner of the factory building
and the pay roll was made up here,
the pay being in cash.

“Pay day was Tuesday. On Mon-
day afternoon the head cashier made
up the roll, drew the required amount,
and, with his assistant, filled the pay
envelopes, placed them in a cash box,
and placed the whole in the vault.
This he did the last thing Monday
night, in order to be ready for the
paymaster in the morning. "The total
contents of the cash box amounted
to approximately $1,300, but the vault
was a strong one—the most up to
date, burglar proof arrangement that
money could buy—and the firm had

 

State Railroad Commissioner.

chimed in Wilkes.
fallen down.’

“But Harris wouldn’t have it that
way. ‘I’ve been locking that vault
every night for the last thirty years
and I haven’t left it open yet,’ he
said. ‘In justice to myself I demand
that we get in a detective.’

““Quite right,’ said the officers. So
I came in on the job.

“It was the most hopeless sort of a
job that anybody ever tackled. There
was no more clew to a possible thief
than there is to the flight of a bird.
Absolutely nothing. The money had
been placed in the vault, the door
locked, and in the morning the door
was still locked, but the money was
gone. This was the case. I figured
three possibilities: The money never
had been put in the vault, the door

‘You must have

 

never had been locked, or somebody,
unknown to Bruger and Harris, knew
the combination. I started to work
on these.

“It was impossible to determine
positively that the money had been
put in the vault. Both head cashier
and his assistant swore that it had
been. That was as far as I could go
there. I discovered that the door had
been locked because a book-keeper
had neglected to turn in his books in
time for Harris to lock them up, and
coming to the vault after the cashier
had gone remembered giving the door
handle a jerk. The combination had
been changed the night before, Har-
ris writing it on a piece of paper.
showing it to Bruger, and promptly
destroying it. It looked bad for Har-
ris, but the moment I began to feel
Bruger out on that line I was up
against a rock.

““Harris?? he roared. ‘Not for a
minute! Don’t waste any time in that
direction. If there was one man in
this world upon whose honesty my
life should depend, I would insist on
that man being Harris.’

“That’s one of the amusing things
of this business—the absolute, un-
shakable confidence which employers
tepose in old empolyes, until the old
employes skip for Honduras and they
are forced to see.

“Tf I’m going to work to your sat-
isfaction I have to go after every
possibility, I replied. ‘You may
know that Harris is an impossibility;
I don’t. I must find out. If you say,
“Leave Harris alone,’ I must leave
the whole thing alone.’

“‘Very well, sir,’ said he. ‘Here’s
a check to pay for your services, and
no hard feelings on either side.’

“Two weeks later I got a telegram
from the house. ‘Come back,’ was all
it said. I came. ‘What is it?’ I asked.

““The cash box was robbed again
last night,’ said Harris.

““The same thing as before,’ said
Bruger. ‘Only this time we all know
that the money was in the box, and
that the vault was locked .We were
all together here when it was put
away. You go to work again, and
this time don’t stop anywhere.’

“Well, it was about the same thing
over again. I had no clew; they had
no clew to give me. The pay envel-
opes had been stolen again, and from
a locked vault. The three men most
concerned, Bruger, Wilkes and Har-
ris, had seen to it that the money was
put in the vault, and each had felt the
door to satisfy himself that it was
locked. In the morning they had
gone to the vault together, together
had watched the vault being opened,
and together had seen the empty cash
box. Furthermore, the combination
was a new one, agreed upon that
night. They had had an expert in
and he had assured them that the
lock had not been tampered with in
any way, and they had searched the
body of the vault for a possible hid-
den entrance with no result.

““It’s rather uncanny,’ said Bruger.
“We all know that the money was
taken, but it doesn’t seem _ possible
that it could have been.’

““I beg your pardon,’ said I, ‘you
know that the money was taken; I
don’t. As for it being impossible, it

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wasn’t because it’s been done. It’s
plain that the vault was opened some
time last night. The question is only
one of who besides you two could
have done it.’

‘*Yes,’ said Wilkes, ‘that’s the ques-
tion we want you to solve. Go ahead,
spend what you want, and take what
time you need. For my part, I pre-
fer to adopt another system of pay-
ing off, but, as my partners say, it
does seem foolish to think that mon-
ey can be stolen from that vault. Get
to work on it.’

“TI did, and I found nothing; and if
I hadn’t had a lot of experience in
such things I, too, would have been
tempted to look at the matter as
something supernatural. Next week
the pay roll was made up the same
as ever. This time I was on hand
when the vault was closed, and this
time it was sealed. A lump of red
sealing wax was smeared across the
slight fissure between the door and
the case, and Bruger stamped it with
a big seal that he wore on his hand.
Then we went home, and I don’t sup-
pose any of us slept that night.

“In the morning we broke the seal
and found—the money gone!

“The impossible had once more oc-
curred.

“Nobody said a word for a minute.
Then Harris said: ‘This thing is get-
ting too much for me. Another week
of it will drive me crazy. We won't
put another cent in that vault until
this thing is cleared up. After this
the money stays in the bank until
Tuesday morning.’

“The other officials agreed with
him. It was getting on their nerves,
too. Aside from the loss of the mon-

y, it was plain to see that they were
losing confidence in themselves.

“I stayed away from that office for
three days. In that time I slept just
one hour, and that was after I had de-
cided that I knew the solution of this
unsolvable mystery. There was only
one way in which this last robbery
could have been accomplished. You
follow me? Only one. possible way.
From every angle but this one the
thing was impossible; from this angle
it was only a complicated case of
double dealing and trickery. Of all
angles from which I had studied the
case this seemed the most improbable
of all.

“T went to Bruger’s residence one
morning at 3 o’clock. I might men-
tion here that it is agreed that a man
goes to pieces easier at 3 in the morn-
ing than at any other time of day or
night. I saw Bruger alone, and he
was in bed, having refused to get up.

"Mr. Bruger, I said, ‘1 have dis-
covered who robbed that vault.’

““You have?’ he asked.

“*Yes. Why did you do it, Mr.
Bruger?’ I said suddenly.

“c “127

““Yes. Why did you return to the
office the other night, open the vault,
steal the money, and put a new seal
where the old one had been?’

“IT? What do you mean?’

““T mean just what I say. You did
it, you and no one else. You did it.
I’ve found the old seal!’

“Vou couldn’t, he cried. ‘Damn
you, you lying hound, you couldn’t

 

have found it. You hear me, you
couldn’t; I swallowed it!’

“[T laughed and he went to pieces
like a child. ‘Good God! What have
I done!’ he cried. ‘What have I done!’

“You have put yourself in my pow-
er, that’s all. I will call on you in
your Office at 4 this afternoon.’ Then
1 left him.

At 4 (hat afternoon | was in-
informed that Mr. Bruger had suffer-
ed a slight stroke of paralysis in the
left leg which prevented him from
coming to the office that day, but here
was a note which was to be given to
me personally. The note was from

|Bruger’s married daughter, and sim-

ply requested that I call at her resi-
dence, please. I called. Evidently
the woman had been crying all night,
for her eyes were red and she looked
worn and tired. She gathered herself
together when I was shown in.

“Tl know what you know, Mr.
Ford,’ she said without waiting a sec-

ond. ‘This is the situation: papa’s

mind had been failing. He somehow|’

conceived the notion that he was go-
ing to fail in business, and he took
this money and hid it in the mattress
of his bed. The money will be re-
turned at once. Now, what are you
going to do with papa?’

“‘Nothing,’ I said, ‘I was working
for Mr. Bruger’s interest.’

“*Thank you,’ she said.

“And that was the end of it, but
for one thing: A few weeks later the
announcement was made that Mr.
Bruger had retired from business be-
cause of failing health.”

James Kells.
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Live Notes from a Live Town.

Lansing, Jan. 8—The work of re-
modeling the plant which the  Hil-
dreth Manufacturing Co. will occupy
as a foundry has been commenced. It
is expected to have the building com-
pleted by Feb. 1.

W. K. Prudden & Co., makers of
automobile wheels, have begun suit
by summons against the Hartford
Rubber Co., a foreign corporation,
for $2,000. Judge Wiest, of the Cir-
cuit Court, now has under advise-
ment a suit of the Hartford Co.
against the Prudden Co., in which the
plaintiff is trying to recover the bal-
ance due on an account.

Raymond W. LeBar, for several
years purchasing agent for the New
York Graphite Co., with headquar-
ters at Saginaw, has come to this
city to take charge of the law de-
partment of the State Library.

The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Post A,
Michigan Knights of the Grip, were
very delightfully entertained by Mrs.
John C. Saunders at her home, 503
St. Joe street, West, Wednesday aft-
ernoon of last week. The Auxiliary
pledged $50 towards the new Y. W.
C. A. building and will give a bene-
fit party in the near future. Enter-
tainment was furnished in “soo” and
refreshments were served.

William M. Hoag and M. H. Krie-
ger have been granted patents on run-
ners for vehicles and William E.
Sleight on a beet harvester.

William Spanier, the well-known
meat market man, is about to estab-
lish a sausage factory in this city.
He has secured room in the Thomp-

 

son building on Washington avenue,
North.
done.

The Citizens
poses to establish automatic service

here, if the people take kindly to it

and are willing to pay a slightly in-|

creased rate for such service, which,
it is claimed, will cost $100,000 to

install. A committee of representa-

tive business men will meet shortly |

to consider the matter with the tele-
phone people.
those who desire the old service can

keep it as long as they wish at the|

old rate of $18 for residences and $24
for business purposes, but the auto-
matic service would necessarily be
somewhat higher owing to the cost of |
installing it.

A short time ago it was announc- |
ed in the Tradesman that A. C.
Stevens,

ton.) his was am error, as C. C.

3arton becomes sole owner of the}

business and will continue it.
Geo. A. Toolan.
—__+-~»—___
Fasting Ability of Swine.

Very few people have any idea of
how long swine can live without
food, although much has been said
about the quantity they
sut, believe me, piggie is a record
breaker when it comes to
without anything at all to eat.

living

The incident that I am about to
relate occurred in this State and very
well illustrates what I have
stated.

above

A farmer who had driven a large
number of hogs into a settlement to
sell, after reaching his
missed a fine black sow.

destination

made in every conceivable place with-

out discovering anything of “the miss-

ing porker.

Weeks passed by and the farmer |

had given up all hope of ever recov-
ering his lost or stolen property,
when, to his surprise, it was found
in the cellar of an old
house.

As the house was situated at the
edge of the road over which he had
driven the hogs, it is supposed that
she fell through the rotten flooring

upon which she had stepped at some |
moment when the farmer’s eye had |

wandered in another direction.

A wholesale business will be |

Telephone Co. pro-

The latter state that |

of Stockbridge, had pur-|
chased the interest of Jay Smith in|
the hardware stock of Smith & Bar-|

can consume, |

_ -arch was |

abandoned |

| When brought up she was a pitiable

sight. The skin hung in folds upon

iher poor, unpadded bones.

Food was given her in small quan-

jtities at first, and it was not long

ibefore she entirely
her long fast.

On referring to the books record-

jing the sale of the rest of the stock
it was learned that three

recovered from

months
lacking five days had elapsed, show-
ing that she had sustained life with-
out nourishment for as long a period
las the
mals.

accredited hibernating  ani-

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The gates of heaven come a little
nearer every time a man stoops to
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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.

 

 

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Peanut and Popcorn Seller.
Catalog show’em £8.50 to
$350.00. On easy terms.
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Movements of Merchants.

Howell—-Henry Helmer has taken
possession of the City market.

Zeeland—The Star Furniture Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$30,000 to $40,000.

Iron Mountain—-The Commercial
Bank has increased its capital stock
from $50,000 to $100,000.

Hancock—The Superior Savings
Bank, of Hancock, to-day raised its
capital from $50,000 to $100,000.

Schoolcraft —- Henry Wagner, of
Vicksburg, will re-engage in the jew-
elry business here in the drug store
of Briggs Bros.

Harbor Springs--S. M. Wibert &
Son, of Petoskey, have moved to this
place and will open a flour, feed, hay
and grain store.

Port Huron—Albert Gaines has
purchased the meat stock of F. Beeler
and will consolidate the same with
his own in his store.

Traverse City—Fred Courtade has
purchased the grocery stock of Sam-
uel T. Horton and will continue the
business at the same location.

Comfort-—A. B. Jones has sold his
stock of groceries to Chester Hall
and purchased the grocery stock of
Frank Wolcott at Green River.

Adrian—Fritz W. Stark, for the
past four years and a half employed
by the Page Woven Wire Fence
Co., will soon open a shoe store.

3enton Harbor—Wm. Pardon, who
has been local manager for the Pos-
tal Telegraph Co., has resigned that
position to take charge of the Mecca
cigar store.

Adrian—Wm. F. Schoen and Otto
J. Baisch will shortly form a copart-
nership for the purpose of conduct-
ing a men’s furnishing goods store.
Both gentlemen have had experience
in this line.

Three Oaks—W. D. Bremer has re-
tired from the lumber firm of Bremer
& Son and will devote his time in the
future to the supervision of his farm.
His son, W. D. Bremer, will continue
the business.

Houghton—Thomas F. Cole and
John D. Ryan, the “Amalgamated”
mining men, have secured control of
the First National Bank of Hancock,
four new directors taking the place
of the old regime.

Litchfield—Mrs. Minnie Richardson
has purchased the bankrupt drug
stock of Anna M. Gunnell and will
consolidate same with her own, oc-
cupying in future the store in which
the Gunnell stock is located.

Bessemer—The Italian Store Co.
has been incorporated to deal in gro-
ceries and flour and feed. The cor-
poration has an authorized capital
stock of $3,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in property.

Battle Creek—Geo. Dunlap, former-
ly of Dunlap & George, grocers at
Ypsilanti, has removed to this place
and, in partnership with James Jones,
will embark in the tea and coffee busi-
ness. As soon as the entire shipment
of machinery arrives the new firm
will be ready for business.

 

Adrian—W. L. Dunbar has resigned
his position as Managef and Director
of the Adrian Pulley Co. to engage
in another line of work in Jackson.
Frank W. Prentice has been appoint-
ed manager and W. D. Aspinwall
superintendent.

Alpena—The Alpena Farm Produce
Co. has been incorporated for the
purpose of dealing in farm produce,
with an authorized capital stock of
$25,000 common and $25,000 preferred,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Fairview-—A corporation has been
formed for the purpose of conduct-
ing a banking business under the
style of the Fairview Savings Bank
with an authorized capital stock of
$20,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Traverse City—A corporation has
been formed under the style of the
Benjamin Lumber & Land Syndi-
cate to deal in timber, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $25,000, of
which amount 12,500 has been sub-
scribed and $10,000 paid in in cash.

Traverse City—The Queen City
Implement Co., which deals in imple-
ments, has merged its business into
a stock company under the same
style with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, of which amount $8,000
has been subscribed, $2,064.76 being
paid in in cash and $5,945.24 in prop-
erty.

Rogers City—The banking business
formerly conducted by C. H. Osgood
under the style of the Presque Isle
County Bank has been merged into
a stock company under the style of
the Presque Isle County Savings
Bank with an authorized capital
stock of $20,000, all of which has been
subscribed.

Fenton—Henry S. Chapin, for the
past seventeen years engaged in the
grocery business at this place, has
sold his stock to M. E. Towne, of
Flint, who has taken possession. Mr.
Towne was formerly engaged in the
grocery business at Carson City. Mr.
Chapin will remain in the store with
the new proprietor until spring.

Ann Arbor—William Goodyear, the
dry goods merchant, has purchased
the property now occupied by Merch.
Goodrich as a millinery store on
Main street, and will move into it
next fall. He will remodel it so as
to make it conform to the Glazier
building now under process of con-
struction and which it will adjoin.

Detroit—Crowley Bros., wholesale
dealers in dry goods and men’s fur-
nishings, have merged their business
into a stock company under the same
style with an authorized capital stock
of $250,000 common and $100,000 pre-
ferred. The common stock is held
as follows: Jos. J. Crowley, $125,000;
D. T. Crowley, $62,500, and W. C.
Crowley, $62,500.

Escanaba—Owing to the recent
death of C. H. Fenton, Treasurer and
manager of the Hill Drug Co., and
the fact that Dr. E. R. Tripp, his
partner, does not care to take the
time from his practice to’ assume the
management of the two stores, it will
become a necessity for the stores to
change hands. It is understood, al-
though not yet formally announced,
that J. J. Sourwine, formerly engaged

 

in the drug business as a member of
the firm of Sourwine & Hartnett, will
purchase the stocks.

South Haven—John H. Malbone
and A. D. Moore have retired from
the Malbone Hardware & Furniture
Co. and are succeeded by John S.
Malbone, who was the original head
of the firm and who, with his four
sons, established the business in 1893
under the style of John S. Malbone
& Sons. He retired from the busi-
ness in 1905. John H. Malbone will
soon leave fora trip through the South
and Mr. Moore will remain in South
Haven for some time, but will prob-
ably engage in trade at some other
place later.

Manufacturing Matters.

Kalamazoo—The capital stock of
the Michigan Buggy Co. has been in-
creased from $100,000 to $300,000.

Port Huron—The capital stock of
the Port Huron Folding Box & Pa-
per Co. has been increased from
$2,000 to $3,500.

Standish — William Laforce
erected and started a shingle
near this place, which is
about 25,000 shingles a day.

Detroit—The Massnick Manufac-
turing Co., which manufactures ma-
chinery, tools and ties, has increased
its capital stock from $7,000 to $20,-
000.
Adrian—E. W. Peterson who man-
ufactures cigars, will be succeeded by
C. F. Heitzwebel, who has been em-
ployed by Mr. Peterson since he has
been in business.

West Branch—Archie McKay has
bought about 1,500,000 feet of timber
two miles north of this town and
will put in a large portable mill to
convert it into lumber this winter.

Oscoda—The Hull & Ely sawmill
manufactured last season 4,441,250
feet of lumber, of which 3,563,250 feet
were for the Solomon Lumber Co.
The concern also manufactured
2,639,000 pieces of lath.

Detroit-—-The Dellorene Toilet Co.
has been incorporated for the purpose
of manufacturing hair tonic. The
company has an authorized capital
stock of $2,000, all of which has been
subscribed and $500 paid in in cash.

Ontonagon—James Norton, a well-
known lumberman of Ewen, is con-
ducting three camps on the Baltimore
and Middle Branch Rivers and has
arranged to put in about 5,000,000
feet of pine for D. J. Norton, of this
place.

Central Lake—The Central Lake
Boat Manufacturing Co. has been in-
corporated to manufacture launches.
The company has an authorized cap-
ital stock of $3,000, of which amount
$1,640 has been subscribed and $1,000
paid in in cash.

Traverse City—The American But-
ter Dish Co., one of Traverse City’s
more recent corporate acquisitions,
is no more, the property formerly be-
longing to the company having been
sold to Wm. Beitner & Son, along
with the good will, orders, stock on
hand, etc. The business will be con-
tinued by the Beitner firm and the
entire outfit moved to the Beitner
factory.

has
mill
cutting

Adrain—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Ideal
Wire Fence Co., which has an author-

 

ized capital stock of $100,000, of which
amount $50,000 has been subscribed,
$325 being paid in in cash and $25,-
000 in property.

Charlotte—The Moll & Thompson
Co., which manufactures farm cereals,
has been incorporated with an auth-
orized capital stock of $5,000, of which
amount $2,500 has been subscribed,
$1,000 being paid in in cash and
$1,500 in property.

Emerson—Chesbrough Bros. have
merged their lumber manufacturing
business into a stock company under
the style of the Chesbrough Lumber
Co., which has an authorized capital
stock of $4,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Grayling—Hartwick & Woodfield,
who are interested in manufacturing
lumber here and at Johannesburg and
Lewiston, are establishing retail
yards in various localities in the State.
They are arranging to establish a
yard at Cass City early in the spring.

Alden—Dexter R. Ford and Geo.
A. Dunn have formed a copartnership
for the manufacture of lumber, lath
and shingles. Their mill will be lo-
cated about five miles east of Alden
and they will have a yard in the vil-
lage. They are now installing their
machinery.

Cedar Springs—A corporation has
been formed to manufacture cement
blocks under the name of the Perrin
Bros., Dorman & Ritchie Co. The
company thas an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, of which amouni
$5,000 has been subscribed and $1,250
paid in in cash and $3,750 in property.

Detroit—Wm. W. Vaughn, manu-
facturer of pickles, preserves and
catsups, has formed a new company
under the style of the Vacuum Seal
Co. to manufacture glassware, with
an authorized capital stock of $500,-
000, of which amount $250,000 has
been subscribed and paid in in prop-
erty.

Detroit—A new company has been
incorporated under the style of the J.
P. Wadell Show Case & Cabinet Co.,
which will manufacture show cases
and store fixtures, having an estab-
lished capital stock of $65,000, of
which amount $55,900 has been sub-
scribed, $2,500 being paid in in cash
and $4,500 in property.

Menominee—Shippers in this vicin-
ity are having great difficulty in get-
ting cars to handle their product.
The I. Stephenson Company, of
Wells, can not get half the cars it
asks for, and the same is true of the
J. W. Wells Co. The Diamond Match
Co., Wallace MePherson, the R. M.
Weidemann Co. and other local lum-
ber concerns have been having great
difficulty in getting cars, but report
that the situation has shown consid-
erable improvement during the last
ten davs or two weeks. Arthur C.
Morbeck, formerly of this city, who
was in the city last week, states that
in Idaho, where he is located, not as
much lumber has been shipped out as
last year, although the product of the
mills has been much larger. He re-
ports the Great Northern as having
given better service than the North-
ern Pacific and says there is a wide
spread impression throughout the
west that the shortage in some local-
ities is due to stock jobbery and
manipulation.

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The situation is unchanged.
Raws are steady at ruling quotations.
Refined sugar is unchanged also, and
seems liable to decline almost any
day. It should be lower now. The
margin between raw and refined is
now about 1.06, against from 70 to
80 points last year. The demand for
refined sugar is light. The outlook
for the sugar business of 1907 is an
encouraging one. The world’s pro-
duction again promises to be large,
although the yield, according to last
estimates, will be a trifle less than
in 1906, possibly about 250,000 tons.
This decrease is exclusively in Eu-
rope. Cuba, on the other hand, is
expected to produce 1,300,000 tons of
cane sugar against 1,178,000 tons in
1906. Puerto Rico’s crop is estimat-
ed at 40,000 tons more than last
year, and Java 50,000 tons. The only
decrease of importance in the cane
crops is in Louisiana, where the yield
is estimated at from 100,000 to 1I15,-
ooo tons less than last season’s crop.
The total production of cane sugar
in 1907 is expected to be about the
same as in 1906, perhaps a few thous-
and tons more. During the next two
months or ten weeks pressure to sell
is expected to be an ever present fac-
tor, as not only Cuba but also Puerto
Rico and San Domingo will be seek-
ing a market for their supplies.
Prices, therefore, are not expected to
show any improvement of conse-
quence until early spring. In fact,
many of the trade consider it possi-
ble that the low point for raw sugar
values has not as yet been touched.
The indications are that the low point
of the market will be reached this
season at an earlier date than last
year. The prevailing idea seems to
be that bottom prices will rule dur-
ing the month of February.

Tea—Indications still point to an
active market after the turn of the
year. Buyers continue to display in-
terest in basket-fired Japans, which
are firm under limited offerings. In-
dias, Ceylons and Congous are well
maintained at former quotations.

Coffee—Rio and Santos grades are
unchanged. The demand for coffee
is light. Java and Mocha are firm
and unchanged; demand good. Mild
coffees are unchanged and in slow de-
mand.

Canned Goods—The lull in the de-
mand for tomatoes is believed to be
only temporary and brokers are look-
ing for an active campaign as soon
as business opens. Maryland pack-
ers are not at all anxious to sell fu-
tures on the basis of prices now ob-
tainable, and there is a general dis-
position to mark up quotations, par-
ticularly on gallons. Spot tomatoes
also are dull, but holders make no
effort to force business. Future
Western and New York peas, anoth-
er of the few active commodities, also
came in for little attention, but as
many of the packers are reported to
be already well sold up the market
remained firm. In other canned vege-

 

tables the market was extremely
quiet. In canned fruits offerings of
all varieties are unusually light for
the season, and the market has an
advancing tendency, but for the time
being business is confined chiefly to
the movement of stocks from jobber
to retailer. The demand for domes-
tic sardines continued active and or-
ders were received for many car-
loads, some of which, it was. said,
would probably have to be turned
down. Salmon was quiet but firm.
Oysters remain scarce.

Dried Fruits—Apricots are moving
out as rapidly as they come in at un-
changed prices. Raisins are un-
changed. Loose are scarce and
strong, and seeded goods are still
high also. Apples are very dull and
show no change in price. Prunes on
spot are quiet. Some could be sold
at the old prices, but buyers are
chary of paying the new prices. The
coast is very firm on prices, the rul-
ing basis being about 3c. Size 4os
are almost out of the market. Very
little is doing in peaches, the price on
which, however, is still maintained.
Currants declined Ic per pound in
New York, owing to increased sup-
ply. The demand just now is quiet.

Rice—The market is steady to firm
on the basis of former quotations,
with prices showing particular
strength, owing to limited supplies.
There is no news of importance from
the south.

Syrups and Molasses—The demand
was somewhat light, but the under-
tone remained firm in sympathy with
conditions ruling in the south. Noth-
ing has developed as yet in regard to
the foreign grades.

Provisions—Prices throughout are
unchanged, both as to sugar-pickled
and smoked meats. A_ scarcity of
hogs is reported, however, over the
entire country, and lower prices seem
unlikely. Pure and compound lard
are firm and unchanged. Barrel pork
is dull. Canned meats and dried beef
are both very quiet at ruling quota-
tions.

Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are
only in light demand at firm prices.
Foreign sardines are firm and quiet.
Domestic sardines show no change,
except the recently reported advance
to take place this-month. The de-
mand is light. Salmon are very dull
at steady prices. Mackerel of all
grades are steadily maintained and
quiet.

Annual Meeting of the Lansing Gro-
cers.

Lansing, Jan. 8—The Lansing Re-
tail Grocers’ Association held a meet-
ing last night and elected their offi-
cers for the coming year:

President--C. E. Cady.

Vice-President—D. Glenn.

Treasurer—A. P. Walker.

Secretary—F. J. Christopher.

We also elected the following del-
egates to the State convention to be
held in Grand Rapids in February:

D. Glenn, F. Hoff, C. E. Cady, H.
Millen, F. G. Rouser, A. E. Carman,
H. E. Turney, C. B: Leonard, F. j.
Christopher, A. P. Walker and E. L.
Boughner.

The Association will, in the near fu-
ture, hold a banquet and smoker at
the Hotel Downey. D. Glenn.

The Produce Market.
Apples—Spys, $3; Wagners, $3;
Baldwins, $2.50; Greenings, $2.50;
Tallman Sweets, $2.25; Kings, $3.
Prices are firm and demand is ex-

 

cellent. There is plenty of good
fancy stock in market and this is
about the only thing which now

shows any activity.

Bagas—$1.35 per bbl.

Beets—$1.50 per bbl.

Butter—The market is firm and
unchanged. The receipts are still
light and the trade not so good as
it was a week ago. This is to be ex-
pected after the holidays. All grades
are unchanged in price, and a better
trade can be expected from now on,
probably at unchanged prices, until
the demand shows a considerable im-
provement. Storage butter is still
saving the market from extreme high
prices, as the make of fresh is still
much smaller than it should be.

I to 33c for extra; dairy grades fetch
25c for No. 1 and 18c for packing
stock; renovated, 25c.

Cabbage—6oc per doz.

Celery—28c per bunch for Jumbo.

Chestnuts—t2c per th. for N. Y.

Cocoanuts—$4 per bag of about go.

Cranberries—Wisconsins are steady
at $9 per bbl. Late Howes from Cape
Cod are without change at $0.50 per
bbl.

Eggs—The market was weak and
unsettled until to-day, when the ad-
vent of cold weather stiffened the
backs of country shippers and local
handlers. The future of the market
depends entirely on the weather. If
the present cold snap continues the
market ‘will be apt to remain steady.
If, on the other hand, the weather
should soften, the price will recede
rapidly. Fresh commands 24c for
case count and 27c for candled. Stor-
age stock is fairly steady at 23¢c.

Cheese--The demand is still very
dull, owing to the light consumptive
demand for this season. The extreme-
ly high prices have curtailed con-
sumption even more than usual, but
stocks everywhere are light and no
further decline is likely. Stocks are
all in strong hands, and if any de-
cline comes it will likely be late in
the spring.

Grapes—Malagas
per keg.

Grape Fruit—Florida
$4 for either 54s or 64s.

Honey—15@16c per tb. for white
clover.

command $5@6

commands

Lemons—Californias are weak at
$4 and Messinas are in small demand
at $3.75.

Lettuce—15c per tbh. for hot house.

Onions—Home grown, 65c per bu.;
Spanish, $1.60 per 4o tb. crate.

Oranges—Floridas are steady at $3.
California Navels range from $2.75
|for choice to $3 for extra choice and
$3.25 for fancy. The demand for
Navels continues surprisingly good
after the holidays. With each car
received there is improvement in col-
or and flavor and the fruit now com-
ing in is really of fine quality. Me-
dium sized oranges are preferred and
the probabilities are that in a short
time the trade will be looking for the
smaller size. One feature of the Cal-
ifornia orange business this year is
that the fruit from Southern Califor-

 

 

nia is large, while that from North-
ern California is universally small.
The greater majority of the Califor-
nia fruit this year will run to large
sizes. Last year it ran mostly small.

Parsley—4oc per doz. bunches.

Potatoes—35@4oc per bu.

Squash—Hubbard—re per th.

Sweet Potatoes—$3.50 per bbl. for
kiln dried Jerseys.

—_—_+~-<.___
The Grain Market.

Wheat has suffered a decline the
past ten days of about 1'4c per bush-
el, the May option closing at from
75@76c the past two or three days,
75c being the lowest point reached,
which is about 12c per bushel cheap-

|er than the range in price of one year

|ago. The visible supply showed an

| bushels and
fand a decrease in oats. of

increase for the past week of 1,041,000
corn 1,204,000 bushels,

156,000

| bushels, rye 44,000 bushels and bar

Creamery ranges from 32c for No. |

 

ley 637,000 bushels. There was quite
a free movement of wheat started
from farmers before and during the
holiday week on account of the gen-
eral good condition of country roads
and the need of tax money, and this
grain has been coming forward from
elevators as fast as cars could be se
cured in which to handle the same.
Prices of corn are fairly well main
tained. May corn is about unchang
ed, while July has suffered a loss of
about %ec per bushel. The
supply is now at 5,83

IMDS

visible
3,000 ~=bushels,
compared with 12,819,000 bushels one
year ago and 10,919,000 bushels two
years ago. The quality now moving,
as a rule, is fine.

@©ats are

some

There is
improvement in the demand
for the cash grain. Futures have
shown a slight advance. No. 3 white
cash is now quoted in Detroit at 37%
per bushel.

unchanged.

Buckwheat has been quiet the past
ten days owing to the mild condi-
tion of the weather, which has also
made grinding unprofitable, but with
the present sudden change in the
weather the trade should pick up very
materially. L. Fred Peabody.
22 —___

Notice of Change of Firm.

Hesperia, Jan. 4—The firm of Fish-
er Brothers is dissolved. Wm. Fish-
er continues in business and _  as-
sumes all responsibility and pays all
debts. David Fisher and Isaac Fish-
er withdraw, receiving no_ benefits
from said firm, and will pay no debts
now against the stock of goods nor
any contracts made after this date.

 

David Fisher,
Isaac Fisher.
ener

The Oliver Machinery Co. has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style, with an
authorized capital stock of $100,000
common and $50,000 preferred, of
which amount $100,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property. The
stockholders are Jos. W. Oliver, A.
N. Spencer, S. D. Thompson and Geo.
M. Winegar.

—_2-+—____

W. F. Kern and C. S. Voegele are
in town for a fortnight or more in the
interest of the American Slicing Ma-
chine Co. They are located at’ the
Morton House and have already be-
gun to make good.

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All Other Goods Subservient To the
Linen Sales.

Clean, cleaner, cleanest is the char-
acteristic of the dry goods and de-
partment store windows, this week
and last, all on account of the annual
January linen sales.

No one wearing petticoats needs
an iota of coaxing into the mood to
lay in a stock of linen for the table
or other household use or for per-
sonal adornment, for from 3ible
times down to the present it is pro-
verbial that women love fine linen.

“Bought anything yet at the linen
sales? Course you have—foolish in
me to ask you that!” goes the rounds,
and poor, indeed, is she in purse who
is constrained to answer, “Nay.”

Each year the white flax goods,

 

and cotton fabrics, too, grow morc |

more irresistible.
an intense delight just to
gaze one’s fill in the windows, even
if one may not purchase one penny’s
worth.
Those linen windows

units balance each
to adjustment.

beautiful,
pleasure,

look best
whose other as

With one white goods window I
was especially pleased. To begin
with, the floor was of plain green.
Four maho;rany pedestals were em-
ployed with effect, in groups of two,
one placed above the other, with a
long glass shelf between and a glass
shelf on top of the upper one. Cov-
ering each shelf entirely and hang-

ing far over the edge were long
dresser scarves of linen with wide
Cluny lace going all around. On

each of the upper glass shelves bolts
of napkins were opened a trifle, in V
shape, with the fold toward the
front, and a scalloped doily on the
top. In the center rose a nickel fix-
ture having a rod at the top, on
which was evenly hung another long
lace trimmed dresser scarf. In the
center of the window near the glass
front was a good sized oak stand
holding an easel-back frame, in which
was a large green clover leaf let-
tered as follows:

Shamrock

Table
and
Household
Linens
Guaranteed Irish

Manufacture
At the top of the above, and inside
the large one was a tiny clover leaf
with the words “Trade Mark” in the
middle and “The Facsimile” at the
left of this and “of ticket” at the
right. The frame, a narrow. one,
stood on a very elaborate lace-bor-
dered lunch cloth.

Lace seems applied to everything
in the way of linen this season. Some
dainty little lace-edged finger bowl
doilies were observed. A set of these
makes a nice little present if one’s
income is too meager to indulge in
expensive gifts notwithstanding one’s
extravagant inclinations.

In this handsome window I _ no-
ticed something new in the shape of

Its al

 

 

fixtures: They had a blue and white
decorated, cone-shaped china base,
surmounted by a nickel rod and glass
shelf adjustable to any angle.

x *k x

Steketee’s four windows look very
nice. All the backgrounds and floors
are done in a serviceable shade of
tan, the separations of the former
being broad folds of coarse-meshed
white cloth, with big rosettes of the
same white goods at the top.

Many bedspreads are here shown
and embroideries, also shirt waists
and filmy robes in evening shades
ready to be set together with a few
stitches. This new way of the manu-
facturer is very handy for the home
dressmaker, as such garments are
easy to finish up, even by an ama-
teur at the business.

Some of the embroidery designs
are odd enough. One is a combin-
ation of long-stemmed roses, buds
and leaves, alternating with large
crescents composed of eyelets irreg-
ular in outline.

The robes run to deep ruffles at the
fcet, surmounted by shirring, above
which are wide panels of embroidery
reaching nearly or quite to the belt.

One Steketee window is devoted
entirely to children’s undergarments,
a placard reading:

Special Reductions
Infants’
Muslin Wear

The rose, the daisy and the fleur-
de-lis seem to be the favorite flowers
in the embroidered bands and edg-
ings.

x * &

Some of the shoe stores are getting
up some wonderfully harmoniously-
shaded or contrasted floors for their
exhibits. One has _ coffee-colored

‘moire with a surrounding rope com-
iposed of ecru, sage green and

old
Another shoe window
is covered with a soft pink,
with a border of dull sage green four
inches wide. Separating the two wool
colors is a band of white broadcloth
about three inches wide, with a half-
inch flat gilt braid on each side of it.
What could be better to show off

men’s low black footwear?
k ox *

rose strands.
floor

One of the jewelry stores has a
window disposed as in the first-men-
tioned linen display: the units are
symetrically placed. The floor and
low-curtained sides are black, per-
haps to save expense of renewing
so often as those particular merchants
are obliged to because the factory
soot ruins anything of a_ light de-
scription. One such merchant tells
me that the frequent discarding he is
compelled to do for this reason is a
waste almost unbelievable. He al-
ways endeavors, in selecting delicate
materials, to get something that may
be reversed. In this way he is able
to save a little.

But to return to the other dealer
in gems:

A number of velvet ring cases are
used—just as they are picked out of
the show cases. The rings in these
cases are all different as to the chas-
ing, but the precious stones in each
are all the same. One ring box has
all garnets, another has nothing but
rubies, a third confains only opals.
Small boxes are placed equidistant

 

underneath the black cloth and on
these are the different articles. There
are two groups of three knives each,
laid diagonally. Ladies’ and gentle-
men’s watches are at either side,
while two diminutive clocks tick con-
tentedly away in their silver horse-
shoe easels, to which they are secur-
ed with narrow straps of leather.
There are, perhaps, a dozen elabor-
ately-encrusted secret-order and sig-
net rings. In the very back the pro-
gramme of “everything even” is va-
ried a bit. A costly glass-encased
clock in the center strikes the eye
incidentally—and the hours regularly.
This is flanked by two cut glass berry
dishes. At the extreme right is a
fancy clock, smaller than the one
in the center, while at the very left
is an electrolier, with a thick trian-
gular silver base and a triangular
shade, also of heavy silver, made up
of flowers and foliage, showing the
light through the interstices. The
bead fringe is grass green in color.
"Tis a fine piece of hand-workman-
ship. This, being taller than the
clock opposite, stands next the wall.
- ok is
Frederic A. Wurzburg is always
delivering new sorts of goods from
his art store, which glows and grows
in beauty every day. This time we
see in one of the small—but ever in-
teresting—windows half a dozen em-
broidered candle shades, finished on
the edges with a narrow flat braid
or fluting of ribbon to match the
main tone of the shades. To my
mind the most unique is the red can-
vas one embroidered’ with black
dragon-flies, their long slender bodies
being of a buff tint. Another is done
in wild roses. Then there’s a daisy
shade, and others have smaller flow-
ers and conventional scroll designs,
all being neatly gotten together. In-
deed, all the fancy work turned out
by this store will bear inspection.
x ke * :
The Baxter Co.’s windows have
compelling power to call a halt in
the footsteps of men and women
alike, and even children are often
seen in front of them. This com-
pany fully realizes the value of mir-
rors to apparently increase the space.
These are so numerous that the
goods seem twice as many as there
actually are.
One = inconspicuous card
the following information:
These Exclusive Patterns

 

gives

Made
To
Measure
$3.50
This shirting window looks like the
best of those illustrated in window
trimmers’ special publications. On

the floor next the glass are six bolts
of the “exclusive patterns,” all un-
rolled a trifle and bunched loosely
on top of the bolts. At the rear
are three pedestals, the center being
the highest. All are wound slackly
with the striped and checked shirt-
ings, the drapings ending with a bolt
lying on top of each pedestal. The
center one has another piece of the
goods lightly bunched on the bolt,
while the drapings of the side units
are carried way to the top of the
background, where they hang over a
nickel rod projecting. from each side

 

In front of
the high central pedestal is a low
one with a shirt made up, to show

of the window frame.

how the “exclusive patterns” appear
in the finish. This has attached
cuffs, with flat oval gold links, and
white wing collar, with a tied black
four-in-hand 2%

Another section has only made-up
shirts of pink and blue, with a fine
white stripe. These are all decked
out with white wing collars and bro-
caded black four-in-hands of the
vogue width.

inches wide.

* * *

A drug store is displaying a some-
what crude novelty in the line of
cards, about 6x8 inches, with comic
pictures and wording, each having
reference to the figure of the exag-
gerated dude with a half of a nut
for the head. The following sen-
tence is on one of these aiming-to-
be-funny cards:

The farther you go the nut-
tier they get—and you live
in the last house!
——.2—o———————
Sent the Customer Away Well Sat-
isfied.

Written for the Tradesman.

There’s a bright salesgirl down on
Blank street who gets around difficult
occurrences with natural acumen. 1]
was witness to a little encounter the
other day where she did not come
off “second best.”

Her goods are gloves and she’s
just the right sort of person to con-
duct such a department. She is neat
and amiable. She has patience. She
possesses a true eye for shades. She
is a good judge of human nature—es-
pecially that part of human nature
which is distinctively feminine. What
more is needed in a glove clerk?

A lady brought in some gloves to
exchange. They had been bought at
a sale a day or two before. They
were silk gloves of a very peculiar
shade of blue—not exactly an Alice
blue and not exactly a ciel blue.

“There’s a damaged place in one
of these gloves,” began the lady, with
what were meant to be an extremely
conciliatory tone and suave manner,
a trifle out of breath in the effort to
perform a disagreeable task, running
her fingers down the gloves and
stretching them at the sides.

The girl bent her head over the
mended place in the gloves, then
raised her head with a merry laugh.

“Oh,” said she, “we won’t charge
you anything for the darn. It’s such
a little defect anyway, and, as it is,
you are getting a dollar pair of silk
gloves for fifty cents. You are to
the good let me assure you. A dol-
lar pair of silk gloves for half price—
just think of it.”

And that’s the way that tactful
clerk jollied a dissatisfied customer—-
dwelling strongly on the price and
sliding gracefully over the darn—a
patron who had come in with an ex-
change or a return in view, and who
left the store perfectly content with
her bargain, especially after the state-
ment, adroitly added, that “a dozen
different ladies had been in the store
the afternoon before enquiring for
that very sort of gloves she had pur-
chased, and they were ‘all out’ and
couldn’t be served with them.” B,

 

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Story of Grocer Who Became a De-
livery Boy.
Written for the Tradesman.

The grocer stood on the sidewalk
in front of the store, looking anxious-
ly up and down the street. The de-
livery boy had been gone a long
time on a short route, and the grocer
was atigry. There had been a rush
of trade that morning, and the buy-
ers would want their goods in time
for dinner. Presently the delivery
boy rounded out of a cross street and
whirled up in front of the store.

“What’s the trouble?” asked the
grocer, as soon as the boy landed
on the walk.

The boy looked at his
with wide open eyes.

“Trouble?” he repeated. “Nothin’.”

“You ought to have been back here
an hour ago,’ growled the grocer.

“Hour nothin’,” said the boy, short-
ly. “If I hadn’t got me little brud-
der to take a bundle over to Howard
street I wouldn’t be here now.”

“Well, you'll be late with all these
other orders,” said the grocer, “and
[ want to know the why of it. If
the routes are too long I’ll have to
get another wagon.”

“Say,” grinned the boy, “youse tells
me to be ’commodatin’ to t’e custom-
ers???

“Certainly.”

“An’ handle t’e goods careful, an’
put ’em wre t’ey wants ’em?”

“Of course. I can’t spend my
money building up a trade and then
have it ruined by a careless or im-
pudent delivery boy.”

“An’ I’m to be nice an’ polite w’en
zoes into t’e houses?”

“Yes, yes. What are you getting
into your head?”

employer

—

“You just come out wit’ me on t’e
nex’ trip,” grinned the boy, “an’ see
wat a lot of lobsters you’ve got for
customers.”

“Nice people all of them, I take it,”
said the grocer, “although I haven’t
been here long enough to meet many
of them personally. I really would
like to go out on a trip with you
so as to see where they live.”

The boy began lugging the parcels
out to the wagon. The grocer be-
gan packing them in, thinking over
the idea suggested by the boy.

“All right,” he said, when the goods
were all in the wagon, “I think I'll
ride around with you for a_ short
time. The morning rush is over in
the store, and there are goods in the
load which ought to be delivered at
once. Perhaps I can hurry the thing
through by going along.”

The boy. looked his employer over,
grinning.

“Say,” he said, “tey don't know
youse. Put on a little flat cap an’
a ragged coat an’ help me carry t’e
goods into t’e houses. They'll t’ink
you're a new delivery boy. T’en you'll
see!”

The grocer laughed at the notion.
He was young and ambitious. He
had bought the store only a week
before and was anxious to become
personally acquainted with his cus-
tomers as soon as possible. Original-
ly his idea in making the trip with
the boy had been to make polite en-
quiries concerning the service, but he

now saw that it might be well to
do as the boy suggested. So he put
on a little flat cap and one of the
boy’s old coats and mounted the
seat. His face was smooth and rud-
dy, and he looked the typical deliv-
ery boy in his new rig. The boy
laughed as they started away.

“T’e orders is to be polite to cus-
tomers,” the boy said, with a wink,
“no matter w’at t’ey says to youse.
You'll see!”

“That’s what I’m here for,” replied
the merchant, who rather admired the
easy independence of the boy.

Presently the wagon turned into
an alley and stopped at the rear of
a fine house facing a _ fashionable
street.

“T’ere’s a lot of stuff for t’is joint,”
said the boy. “T’ll t’row out t’e weight
an’ we'll both go in. See?”

The grocer got out of the wagon
and took a basket on one arm and a
sack of flour in the other. The boy
was moving along with a smaller
load.

“Here,” said the grocer, “put that
stuff on the basket. There’s no use
of us both going in. Get the stuff
in order for the next delivery. It
took too long to get this out of the
wagon.”

The boy opened the alley gate and
the grocer went on into the yard.
Reaching the top of the back steps
he set down the basket and knocked
on the door. There was no response,
and he knocked again. Still no re-
sponse. He could hear some. one
moving about on the inside, but no
one came to open the door. He was
becoming slightly ruffled in feelings,
and wondered how often such delays
occurred.

He rapped again, louder than  be-
fore. Then came a voice from the
inside:

“Ton’t break the door down! Wait
a minute, can’t you?”

The grocer thought he had waited
a minute too long already, but he
made another draft on his stock of
patience and waited. Presently the
door was opened a crack and_ he
caught sight of about an inch, length-
wise, of a pale, aristocratic face, the
nose of which was red at the end.

“The servant is away,” said the
woman, “and you'll have to wait un-
til I get this floor mopped up and
then carry the goods down into the
basement for me.”

The grocer was about to urge haste,
but he remembered his directions to
the boy and simply said, “All right,
Miss.”

And he waited and waited. He
heard the woman moving chairs and
hauling things about the room. Then
the swish of water. Then the shrill
cries of a child. It was quite evident
to the waiting man that the lady of
the house was giving little Johnny
or little Susie a bath in the kitchen.
He could have stood the waiting fair-
ly well, only the face of the delivery
boy kept obtruding itself at the alley
gate! The boy was evidently having
the time of his life.

After a long time the door was
opened and the grocer stepped into
the kitchen with the packages. The
woman looked cross and vicious.

“Carry them into the basement,”

 

| load.

 

; /
she said. “There! Through that |
door.”

The grocer started along with his

Then the woman came again:

“Wait,” she said. “I may as well
sort out some of the stuff.”

He set the basket on the table and |
she bent over it. She didn’t know
what she wanted to sort out, and
she hesitated and loitered over the
job until the grocer was ready to go
through the roof. He was glad the
delivery boy was not there to see! In
a moment the woman broke out:

“It seems to me that there’re aw- |
ful short weights here. I guess that
new man is a skin! I’ve been warn-
ed against him already. I’ll just see |
if some of these things are full weight
before I accept them.”

She took down an old pair of steel- |
yards and leisurely weighed the bun-
dles. They all stood the test, but the |
grocer did not. He turned toward
the door to hide his angry eyes. The
boy was sitting on the wagon rolling
a cigarette. |

“Well,” said the woman,
may as well carry the stuff down in- |
to the basement. I guess it’s as near |
right as we are likely to get of that
new man. What has he done with
that other delivery boy? He was a
monkey for mischief, and you look |
just like him. Don’t stumble over
the things on the stairs. There! You
have dropped that package of ham on
the dirty floor. You can just take
it back and bring some more. No,
sir. I know it is not clean! I don’t
care if the paper is still whole. There, |
[I hope I'll get rid of you now. You
tell that new boss that he must get
his stuff here earlier. This is not in
time for dinner.”

“you

“It was when I got here with it,”
said the grocer. He had held in too
long, and spoke almost involuntarily.

“None of your impudence!” said the

“I let you in as soon as I
“T’ll report you for your im-
pudence. Now, get out.”

The grocer got out and went back |
to the wagon with his basket. The
boy looked at him curiously, but did
mot say a word. The grocer was
not doing much talking himself
about that time. The boy urged the
horse into what seemed a violation
of the city ordinance concerning
speed, but the groce rdid not object. |
Finally the boy turned down a side |
SLreet,

“T’ere’s a lot of orders here,” he
said. “We can get ’em all in if we
cuts out t’e other end of the route.
Can’t get ’em all in by noon now.” |

“All right,” said the grocer. |

At the next place the grocer en- |
tered the woman of the house kept |
him waiting while she added up the
memorandum of account and count-
ed out the money. She was about
a dollar shy in her payment, and it
took the grocer a long time to con-

woman.
could.

,

|the street he got into

icalled him off.

ithings on time.

i fowls,

|pain, but was brought

| hour.
ithe English

Farther down
a tangle with
a bulldog, and had to wait about ten
minutes before his owner came and

vince her of the fact.

3y this time the gro

|cer was too disgusted to proceed on

the trip. He left the wagon and
footed it half a mile back to the store
It provoked him to see the grin on
the boy’s face as he turned away.

“If customers would only have 1
little sense in dealing with delivery
boys,” he thought, as he turned into

ihis place of business, “they would

not have as much trouble in getting
I guess that boy is
al! right, after all.” Alfred B. Tozer.

——__-> 2-2

' Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-

tatoes at Buffalo.

suffalo, Jan. 9—Creamery, fresh
28@32c; dairy, fresh, 20@22c; poor to
common, 18@20c; roll, 22(@23c.

Eggs—Fancy candled, 30c; choice,
28@20c; cold storage, 21@22c.
Poultry — Springs, 11@12c;
1o@ttc; ducks, 13@14c; old
cox, Sc; geese, 13c; turkeys, 1s@16c.
Poultry 1I1@13¢;

I2@t4c; old cox, oc: tur

Live

Dressed Fowls,
chickens,
keys, 18@20c; ducks, 14@16c; zeese,
lII@13c¢.

Beans Pea, hand-picked, $1.45;
marrow, $2.25@2.40; mediums, $1.50

|1.60; red kidney, $2.25@2.40; white
kidney, $2.40@2.50.
Potatoes—White, 35@4o0c: mixed

and red, 30@32c. Rea & Witzig.
> —?>—>
Cured Himself of Gambling.

From

 

 

Singapore comes the story

1of a Chinese cook who had been ad

dicted to gambling, but repented his

evil ways. Finding that his debts

were accumulating day by day he

|went into the kitchen and chopped

off the forefinger of his left
as a self-punishment and warning to

hand

| himself that he must relinquish this

evil habit of gambling in the future
He became unconscious through the
round again
in a few minutes.

—_—_2..—___
England’s Automobile Work.
About $60,000,000 is at present in
England in the
About 250.

000 men are employed as chauffeurs,

vested in manufac

ture of motor wagons.

etc., and their wages aggregate $75,-
000,000 a year.
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The vulture can travel 150 miles an
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been connected for a time sufficient,
and under circumstances adequate, to
establish the basis for an unbiased,
reliable expression. In close com-
munion, season after season, in busi-
ness competitions and social life, in-
evitably and repeatedly arise condi-
tions which demonstrate to a com-
munity the characteristics, by long
association bared to its mental and
physical vision, of a specific member
of it, and the community is quick to
establish, and with good judgment,
an estimate of that member. When
that judgment is rendered it may be
regarded as a definite determination
of the type of the subject; and the
community usually is not at all dis-
posed to be laggard in recording its
very frank judgment.

Fortunate is the man of whom the
verdict is favorable. It fixes astatus
that is not ephemeral, for it is born
of real intimacy with its subject. It
extends beyond the confines of the
community and carries conviction as
it travels.

The merchants of Michigan now
have an opportunity to place one of
their members in the position of
State Railroad Commissioner by
bringing the name of Cassius L. Glas-
gow so prominently to the attention
of Governor Warner that he can not
avoid making the appointment. The
fiasco in Tip Atwood’s career has
opened the door of opportunity for
the mercantile interests of the State,
and the frequency with which letters
of endorsement are forwarded to the
Governor will show how much in
earnest the merchants of Michigan
are in their frequently-repeated as-
surances that they would like to see
professional politicians shoved aside
for once and the mercantile interests
recognized by the selection of a
worthy representative of their pro-
fession. Mr. Glasgow consented to
permit the use of his name in this
connection less than a week ago, but
the announcement was received with

 

such hearty encouragement from all.

parts of the State that Mr. Glasgow’s
friends naturally feel very much elat-
ed over the situation.

The Tradesman is 11 no sense of
the word a political paper and has

 

never taken part in any political
movement or campaign. Mr. Glas-
gow is a stalwart Republican and the
next State Railroad Commissioner
must necessarily be of the same po-
litical faith, Not because he is a
Republican, but because he is a mer-
chant and also because he is faithful
and honest and reliable and capable,
the Tradesman takes pleasure in urg-
ing the merchants of Michigan, ir-
respective of their political faith or
their party affiliations, to immediately
write Governor Warner urgent let-
ters, requesting the appointment of
Mr. Glasgow solely on the ground
that he is an honest man and a wor-
thy exponent of an interest which
has never been represented in the of-
fice of State Railroad Commissioner.

 

 

Secretary Root is doing a great deal
of work which is not brought to the
notice of the public. It will be re-
membered that he has_ repeatedly
urged a law which would put the en-
tire Department of State on a civil
scrvice basis. Such a law has. not
heen passed, but the Secretary has
himself been renovating his Depart-
ment and where possible has followed
the spirit at least of his recommenda-
tions. Since the administration of
Jackson, up to which time our De-
partment of State had more business
in foreign diplomacy than it has had
since, things in Mr. Root’s depart-
ment have got a little awry, due, no
doubt, to the time required by exact-
ing affairs at home. Now they are
getting better and the purpose, which
is to make the Department of State a
smoothly running machine, appears
to be on the road to accomplishment.
It is up to Congress to put on the
finishing touches.

 

The distribution of free seeds by
congressmen has caused much discus-
sion and bitter feeling and a plan is
now on foot to get rid of both by
taking the $150,000 now spent yearly
for seeds and devoting it to the es-
tabiishment of model farms in each
state. That amount of money would
employ 100 men at $1,500 per and
two in each state and a few to look
around in a general way could be
provided. Each congressional district
could have a model farm for the in-
struction of the constituents of the
erstwhile seedy representative. There
is no need for the seeds and not ab-
solutely for the model farms, but that
$150,000 must be spent, you know,
and the farm proposition looks bet-
ter.

 

 

Railroads which some time ago
adopted the plan of hiring no new
men past 35 years of age are giving
up that Osleric idea, and are using
their judgment in each case as to
whether or no a man is fit. Age is
no criterion of ability, experience
counts often for more than ability,
and some men over 35 are pretty
agile besides. When responsible work
is to be done, responsibility is to be

looked for, not some superficial mark.
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It is worth while to sow kindness
even although the only fruit should
be the memory of the sowing.

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A little ancient faith may be worth
a lot of modern fog.

 

MANUAL TRAINING METHODS.

Recently Mr. William Widdicomb,
in discussing Grand Rapids as a furni-
ture manufacturing center, adverted
to our city’s lack of manual training
facilities for the development of skill-
ed artisans in the various  depart-
ments of furniture making. It is a
singular oversight that in a city
where there is a constant demand
for designers, hand carvers, tool
makers, cabinet makers, and the like,
there is no specific, well-directed ef-
fort to train school boys along those
lines.

Just now there are scores of
healthy, bright and ambitious boys
about to leave school and become
wage earners rather than enter high
school for further study. They go
to work mainly from choice and, be-
ing residents of Grand Rapids, they
will turn naturally to the offices and
factories of this city for employ-
ment. Had they received such man-
ual training as it is easily possible
to bestow they might at once begin
earning from $10 to $12 a week. As it
is, they will be required to begin at
the primary work and advance them-
selves according to their aptitude and
industry.

The government of France _ pro-
vides various strictly industrial art
schools, the chief ones being the Ger-
main Pilon School, the Bernard Pa-
lissy School, the Diderot School, the
Dorian School, the Estienne School,
the Alembert School, the Polytechnic
Association and, finally, the great
Ecole des Beaux Arts.

The Pilon School receives only day
pupils, the age of admission being
14 years. There is no formal exam-
ination of pupils, but a candidate for
admission is required to execute a
geometrical drawing to demonstrate
his artistic aptitude and to write a
short composition to show his schol-
arship and genera] intelligence. The
course of instruction fills three years,
divided as follows:

First year: Geometry, decoration,
architecture, water color, sepia and
black and white drawing and model-
ing.

Second year: Perspective, anatomy
and geometrical drawing in _ sepia,
ornamental designs for braids and
trimmings, designs for furniture, the
history of modern art, modeling and
moulding.

Third year: The same as the sec-
ond year, with the addition of decora-
tive composition and study of stand-
ard styles of art.

Graduates on leaving this school
usually enter the workshops of the
great furniture makers and decorat-
ors of Paris and the provinces, earn-
ing at first $20 a month, but always
in demand and certain of rapid pro-
motion.

Pupils entering the Palissy School
must be at least 13 years old and
must pass an examination in reading,
writing, history and drawing. The
course covers four years and pupils
are taken to visit various workshops
and ateliers to watch the finished
artisans at their work that they may
more readily decide what branch of
industry they desire to take up.
Grammar, geography, arithmetic, his-
tory, modeling, drawing and design-
ing are the studies prescribed.

 

The Estienne School teaches book
making and all kindred branches and
pupils must be not less than 13 nor
more than 16 years old. The course
occupies four years and may he ex-
tended to five years for those who de-
sire to study lithography
gravure.

The Diderot School is devoted to
instruction in all processes of work-
ing in wood and iron. It receives
only day pupils, who must be from
13 to I5 years of age when received
and must pass examination in plain
geometry, free hand drawing and an
essay on some technical subject. The
course is three years, and during the
first and second years pupils must
work daily under instructors from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. Five and a half of
these hours are spent in the work
shops, three hours in the class room:
and the remaining hours to extra
study, meals and exercise. Pupils of
the third year spend seven and one-
half hours daily in the work shops and
two in the class rooms. There are,
in all, nine workshops, in which are
taught and practiced the manufacture
of instruments of precision, model-
ing, artistic forge work, turning, elec-
trical fittings and sanitary plumbing.
A pupil on entering passes a few days
in each workshop in order that he
may select which branch he prefers.
When he has made his choice he en-
ters that workshop and is placed be-
tween two other boys—one of the
second and one of the third years—
and thus benefits by the experience
of his two comrades. Twice a year
each pupil is called upon to make
some particular article, without re-
ceiving any advice or explanation as
to how it is to be made. The pro-
ductions are judged by a jury of
manufacturers and artisans, and cash
prizes are duly awarded and paid.

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From the foregoing facts one may
gain an insight into the thoroughness
of manual training in France, and
from what is known of manual train-
ing in this country it will be real-
ized that it would be, comparatively
speaking, no very great problem to
formulate a course of study, the
conditions under which pupils might
be received and the regulations un-
der which they could be instructed in
Grand Rapids. The present weak
spot in our manual training is inade-
quate facilities and courses that are
too brief and indefinite. To learn
methods and acquire skill in any par-
ticular branch of mechanics in Grand
Rapids is not possible, and this in a
city which has world wide fame as a
furniture manufacturing center and
which is recognized as one of the
most important wood working and
tool manufacturing centers in the
country.

To build and equip an adequate and
worthy manual training school in this
city means the investment of a large
amount of money, and to properly
conduct and operate such an institu-
tion means not only another large
cash investment, but the very best
energy and enthusiasm of the best
brains available. That it would pay
the industrial interests of Grand
Rapids to make such investments is
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FORESTRY IN MICHIGAN.

 

Some Obstacles Which Confront the
Enthusiast.*

God prepared Michigan as a garden
for trees, and he makes no mistakes.
Michigan is a good place to grow
trees and, before it was settled, was
covered by nature with a magnificent
growth of forest. No doubt in the di-
vine plan this timber was designed
tc supply the needs of the vast prai-
ries to the south and west of us. The
early settlers of Michigan did not
seem to comprehend the plan and
large areas of Michigan were cut over
and the timber destroyed to make
room for farms. Later the growing
demand for lumber in the West point-
ed out the way to make use of our
forests, and our lumbermen came in-
to action and cut and shipped our tim-
ber by the million. Michigan has
furnished much of the copper for the
electric development of our whole
country, also the iron ore to make
the steel to network our country with
railroads, but these products of Mich-
igan are of minor importance com-
pared with the forest products it has
contributed to make millions of com-
fortable homes and beautiful furni-
ture and spacious barns and farm
implements to be found throughout
the West. In so doing we have well
nigh stripped the State of its beauti-
ful forest and we begin to hear talk
cf vandalism. Now it seems to me
that he who can make the best use
of a tree has the best excuse for cut-
ting it, and the farmer who cuts down
trees and destroys the product has no
license to call the lumbermen bad
names. At best it is like the “Pot
calling the kettle black.” But let us
pass this part of the subject, as well
as other glittering generalities like
the effect upon the climate, the water
supply, the beautiful resort interests
and come at once to some of the
problems of forestry and reforesting
of Michigan.

Michigan is said to have at present
about 6,000,000 acres of  cut-over
lands which have not been taken and
used for agricultural purposes. Much
of this land is not suitable for agri-
culture and the most of it is
lands thrown away by the lumbermen
and now held by the State as delin-
quent tax lands. The most of these
lands are burnt over and are lying
barren and waste and show but little
signs of growing another crop. of
trees.

If Michigan is such a good place
to grow trees, why don’t we grow
them? If Nature produced such mag-
nificent forest once, why doesn’t it
produce another? These are the prob-
lems which the Michigan Forestry
Association is trying to solve, and
those who have given this subject
the most attention find abundant rea-
sons why trees do not grow upon
these cut-over lands. The first is
forest fires and our wholly inadequate
fire laws.

In the cutting of timber there is
necessarily much rubbish left upon the
ground which must be disposed of
sooner or later, and the sooner the
better, and about the only way it can
be disposed of is by burning. Some
lumbermen burn over their chop-

 

*Paper read before Ladies’ Lakeside
Club of Manistee by J. J. Hubbell.

 

pings every spring before the ground
gets dried out, not so much on ac-
count of the cut-over lands, but to
guard against the worse fires which
would follow later and damage the
adjacent standing timber, but more
often the choppings are left to chance
to burn over during the next drought,
the following summer or perhaps one
or two years afterwards, burning up
the rubbish and also destroying myr-
iads of little trees which have sprung
up and which were intended by Na-
ture to reforest the land, and there
being no more large live trees to
produce more seed there are no more
young trees except such as _ repro-
duce themselves from the old roots
like some of the oaks or the. poplars,
the seeds of which are very small
and winged and are blown long dis-
tances by the wind. The first fire
is not usually the last. The remaining
timber standing at the time of the
first fire is killed and then blown
down and a second and often a third
burning takes place, destroying all
young trees and seed and burning
the leaf mold and humous, so there
is but little chance for a _ second
growth of trees. And what does our
State do about these forest fires?
Have we no law relative to forest
fires? Oh, yes, we have an excellent
fire law, but it is not worth the paper
it is printed upon, because it is not
enforced and there is no public opin-
ion to enforce it. The great head
and front of this fire protection is the
State Land Commissioner, William
H. Rose, and I listened to Mr. Rose
speak in Grand Rapids but a few days
ago and he said that the fire law was
a dead letter, that he had searched it
diligently, and had found but one
thing that he could do, and that was
to appoint a Deputy, known as Chief
Fire Warden. He did not tell us
what the Deputy could do, but left
us to infer that he could do less than
the Commissioner. The only thing
I ever heard of the Chief Fire War-
den doing was to ride up and down
the railroads (on a pass) and post
notices about locomotives setting
fires, and about netting in stacks, etc.
Did any one ever hear of his being
at a fire or taking any action in re-
gard to one? But this is not all. The
law then proceeds to appoint over
500 Deputy Fire Wardens. The law
is only applicable to that part of the
State lying north of towns 20 north;
Manistee county is within the limits.
Now, perhaps, there are one or more
State Deputy Fire Wardens present.
If so, I wish they would raise their
hands. I wonder how many in this
intelligent audience know who our
Deputy Fire Wardens are. Do the
Deputy Fire Wardens themselves
know who they are? Every Supervis-
or. in Michigan north of towns 20
is a Fire Warden with authority to
warn out all the able bodied men in
their respective townships to fight
forest fires, and those warned out
must go under a penalty of $100 fine
or twenty days in jail. With such a
fighting force surely forest fires
should be promptly extinguished, but.
alas! the law does not stop there. If
a good Supervisor thinks he smells
smoke and hitches up his horse and
drives all over his township and does
not find a forest fire (only settlers

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

burning log heaps and stumps), he
goes back home and has lost his day
as he can collect no pay unless he
finds a forest fire. If he had lighted
a match and started a fire in the
woods and then called out Ole Ole-
son to put it out he could collect from
the State $3, $2 for himself and $1
for Ole. Further, the law provides
that no Supervisor can spend over
$50 in any one township in any one
year. If he should become engaged
in fighting a forest fire he must be
careful and not exceed this amount
or he may have to pay it out of his
own pocket. When the expenses have
reached the sum of $48.50 he had
better call off his men, as it will cost
the remaining $1.50 to pick up the
tools. This is about as sensible a
provision as it would be for the city
of Manistee to determine by ordi-
nance that its fire department should
not spend more than one hour in any
one day fighting fire. As a matter of
fact, the law and its enforcement is,
as our Land Commissioner said, a
dead letter. The State paid out last
year in the carrying out of this law
the magnificent sum of $800, and you

ican imagine how much of that went

to actually fight fires after paying the
expenses of the Chief Fire Warden.
Now what is the remedy? What we
want and what the lumber and forest
interest is entitled to is a
number of paid fire and forest war-

idens to patrol the most needy por- |

tions, at the most dangerous times,

under the direction of the State For- |

est Commission, consisting at pres-

ent of W. H. Rose, our Land Com-|

missioner, Arthur Hill, of
and C. W. Garfield, of Grand Rapids,
and Wardens should have au-
thority to call out any able bodied
man to assist and without pay. It
is a duty that every good citizen owes
tle township, county and common-
assist in the

these

wealth—to preventing
spreading of forest fires.

Now, let us pass to another obsta-
cle to reforestation—the method used
by our State in the handling of State
tax lands. If taxes are not paid the
lands are returned to the State as de-
linquent, and in due time advertised
and sold, or if not sold bid in to the
State, but this is not the end. Next
year they are advertised and sold or
bid in to the State again, and this is
repeated year after year until it is
said that some descriptions have been
on the lists for twenty-five or thirty

goodly |

Saginaw, |

years. This endless repeating and
copying and keeping the accounts re-
quired a host of clerks in the Audi-
tor General’s office and much useless
expense, and the long advertised list
makes fat picking for at least one
newspaper in each county. I think
that almost every newspaper in the
northern part of the State is a
staunch advocate of the system. Now,
what does this system cost the State
and what does the State get in re-
turn? The Detroit Board of Trade re-
cently appointed a committee to in-
vestigate this matter, and I take the
liberty of quoting some figures from
the report. After citing, as I have
done, the process of advertising and
sale it says further, “From 1898 to
1902 inclusive $300,000 worth of lands
sold, the making
these sales having been reported to
be as follows:

 

were expense of

Cost of advertising ........$264,000
Clerk hire in auditor’s office. . 570,000

Total expense of. .$834,000

 

or a loss to the State in five years of
$534,000.
the rolls

Some of the lands now on

have been advertised con
tinuously for over twenty years. |
have a considerable number of copies
iof this report, together with the re-
marks of Carl E.

| same,

Schmidth upon the
for distribution. You may ask
wherein does this treatment of State
| tax

lands conflict with forestry, be
are the lands that

ito be reforested and they are

need
kept
in a constant state of uncertainty as

cause these

: : f
ito the title of the same, and no for-
;estry can be carried on until we have

la fixed .policy and lands set aside
boa ‘ 4
|for a long period of time for this
|purpose. After lands have been re-

iturned for non-payment of taxes for
| five years they should be turned over
to the State Land Commissioner’s
loffice, and then examined and those
[that are fit for agriculture offered for
| sale at not less than $5 per acre or
i held by the State, and those that are
inot suitable for agricultural purposes

ishould be set aside for reforestation,
land if one-half the amount annually
jlost by the State in advertising and
‘trying to sell these lands were spent
|in protecting from fires and trespass
|these poorer lands would show ex-

| cellent results. Such a policy would
ibe vigorously opposed, not only by
[the most of the press, but also by
the land sharks who deal in tax titles,

by the registers of deeds who would

 

 

 

us during the year 1906.

shingles, slate or iron.

and let us explain.

W® TAKE this opportunity to thank our many

friends and patrons for the liberal trade given
We are making a prepared
granite coated roofing of such a superior quality that
the trade generally is asking for it, in preference to

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

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have less instruments to record, by
the Supervisors whose tax rolls
would be materially shortened, by the
few settlers on or near these lands,
as Shutting them in and making set-
tlement impossible, and would build
no roads or bridges or schools for
them, and they could not allow their
stock to roam at large. There is an-
other class of men who would ob-
ject. I refer to the State home-
steaders. Whatever may have been
the merits of the United States home-
stead law, and they were many, and
the State homestead law in years
gone by, the State homestead law
has outlived its usefulness. It is no
longer used by the honest settler as
a means of obtaining a home, but by
the dishonest settler as a subterfuge
to get possession of the land to pick
up a little cedar or other timber that
may have been overlooked or left by
the lumbermen. It is said that there
are but two bona fide homesteaders
in the whole valley of the Au Sable
River who are sticking to their
claims, and they are said to be both
of them drunken reprobate bachelors.
Just think of it, ladies, bachelors of
that class living there under the pre-
tense of making homes! Their real
object, no doubt, is to pick up cedar
ties and posts from the State lands
and hunt and fish in season and out
of season. The State homestead law
should be abolished in toto as a use-
less law and a menace to forestry.

We now come to the last and the
most delicate question to be consid-
ered—the question of the taxation of
forestry. The State Forestry Asso-
ciation contend that forests should
be treated as a growing crop and
taxed upon the same principle. Trees
standing are real estate; cut, they
become personal property. The same
is true of corn or any other crop.
The only difference is in the length
of time it takes to grow the crop.
The farmers’ crops are usually har-
vested and disposed of before the
first of April, but the trees are there
and, so long as they are allowed to
remain, are subject to assessment as
part of the real estate, year after
year. The whole system is an in-
ducement to the lumbermen to cut
and remove the trees as fast as pos-
sible. When the assessor goes to a
farmer and puts a valuation on his
farm, does he ask him to account for
the crops he has harvesied in the past
year? He may look in the barn for
hay, in the bin for wheat, in the crib
for corn and the cellar for potatoes,
and if he finds any add them to the
tax roll as personal property, but if
he asks the farmer what has become
of that large crop of corn he raised
last year, he will be told it was fed
to the hogs, and what was done with
the hogs, sold to the butcher, and
the money you got for the hogs,
spent for groceries and clothing and
the groceries and clothing eaten up
and worn out. Now, Mr. Assessor, I
guess you are about at the end of
your questions, but sawlogs, tanbark,
wood and lumber are not so easily
eaten up or worn out. It is true such
products may be sold and disposed
of prior to April 1, but, as a rule,
much more of the lumberman’s for-
est products will be on hand April
1 than of the farmer’s products.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

In our present system of taxation
it seems to be the policy to put a
valuation on everything in sight, and
in the case of corporations a good
deal that is not in sight, and then levy
a flat rate tax, but the true value of
property and the equitable taxes to
be paid is much better indicated by
the benefits or revenues derived from
the property and in time no doubt we
shall come to such a system of taxa-
tion, but whatever may be our fu-
ture methods our present tax laws
are the death knell of nine-tenths, I
might say of ninety-nine one-hun-
dredths of all the trees standing in
Northern Michigan, and as for refor-
estation, it 1s pre-natal death.
It even prevents the conception of
reforestation by private individuals.

There is one other feature of this
taxation question which should’ be
considered: You will note that, in
proposing that trees be taxed as a
crop, no reference is made to the
land they grow upon. The land de-
voted to forestry undoubtedly should
bear its fair proportion of taxes, the
same as the land which grows a crop
of corn, but this taxation should not
include the value of the trees and
should be based rather upon the val-
ue of the land as permanent revenue
producing. The environment of the
Supervisors or present assessing of-
fices is such that it would be impossi-
ble to secure just and uniform valu-
ation from that source. It is there-
fore proposed that a uniform valua-
tion be fixed, applicable to all forest
lands through the State, or a uni-
form fixed amount of tax per acre
be paid upon forest lands. Tak-
ing the first method as probably the
better, a uniform valuation of $5 per
acre could be~ established, which
could be increased in the future if
conditions warranted. This would be
of equal advantage to the wood lot of
the farmer, the Northern settler who
has cleared part of his lands and
would like to let the remaining tim-
ber stand for a few years, as well as
the lumberman who would assist in
paying the taxes and, when he cut
his timber, it would become person-
al property, and if the lands were
sold for agricultural purposes they
would become assessable the same
as other lands, and all the State
lands set aside for forestry should
also be included in the lands  as-
sessed at this low uniform value. Why
not? If the State takes out of market
and settlement a considerable por-
tion of any one township or county,
it most assuredly should assist in
bearing the burden of taxation in
these townships and counties.

One other point: We do not want
the State to sell its better class of
State tax lands for less than $5 per
acre, because if they are not worth
that now they soon will be, and we
want to stop the speculation in tax
title upon these lands and their being
constantly returned and advertised
and sold for taxes.

If our laws could be modified so
as to protect and favor tree growing,
would it pay to engage in reforesta-
tion in dollars and cents? By the in-
dividual, no; by the State, yes. The
life of a man is too short. He is
born, lives and dies in much less time
than it takes to grow a good sized

tree, but the State lives on. If the
State would set apart one-third of the
poorest of our cut-over lands for for-
estry they would amount to approxi-
mately five million acres. From well
conducted trials it is known that
every acre devoted to tree growing
will produce wood equal to from 100
to 200 feet, board measure, every
year. Putting it at the low estimate
of 100 feet per acre per year, this
new forest of Michigan would pro-
duce five hundred million feet a year.
It is true we could harvest but little
of the crop during the first twenty-
five years, but after that we could
commence cutting by thinning out
and gradually increase until we had
a full yearly crop of five hundred
million feet and not impoverish our
forests. The State, no doubt, could
sell this timber on the stump to those
who need it for our wood making
industries for at least $10 per thous-
and, and they cut it under the super-
vision of the Forestry Department,
which would amount to five million
dollars a year revenue from _ this
source to the State. Surely our
State can well afford to spend $100,-
000 a year and increase as the work
develops to $2,000,000 a year, if nec-
essary to secure such grand results.
And while the State is doing this,
what about the people? The two-
thirds of the land not devoted to for-
estry would be worth more than the
whole of it now is or ever will be in
its denuded condition. Besides, the
people would enjoy the benefits that
arise from forest areas in the con-
serving of our water supplies, ame-
liorating the climate, increasing the

 

 

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Pure Extract Vanilla and Genuine, Original
Terpeneless Extract of Lemon
State and National Pure Food Standards

Sold only in bottles bearing our
address. Under guarantee No. 2442
filed with Dept. of Agriculture.

FOOTE & JENKS, Jackson, Mich.

FOOTE & JENKS’

JAXON|

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Write us for prices on

Feed, Flour and
Grain

in carlots or less.

Can _ supply
mixed cars at close prices and im-
mediate shipment.

We sell old
ground Buckwheat Flour.

fashioned stone
Now

is the time to buy.

 

Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co.
L. Fred Peabody, Mgr.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

It Takes
No Glittering
Eye Nor
Tricks of
Legerdemain
To Hold
Trade to the

 

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Ben-Hur
Cigar

It’s a brand which has won first place in
the great distinguished showing of 5c goods,
because it has proved out to bea better cigar.

There is no trick,
salesmen and thousands of dollars of news-
paper advertising, to load up dealers with some new Hinky-Dink
brand and clear up a lot of money on the introductory campaign,
for in these days business men are getting wise and are tying up
more and more to goods like the Ben-Hur, which they have
found to be as standard as gold and constantly gaining in popu-

through energetic

GUSTAV A. MOEBS & CO., Makers
Detroit, Mich., U.S. A.

 

 

 

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beauty and stimulating the resort
business, and furnish fuel and a tim-
ber supply and material for our wood
working industries forever. Whatever
forestry policy is adopted it should
be made as nearly permanent as possi-
ble, for when our new forests are
half grown and their great value es-
tablished, no doubt great pressure
will be brought to bear to divert them
to private ownership.

One legislature may make good
laws and another legislature be in-
duced to repeal them for these rea-
sons. The Forestry Association is
agitating having our fundamental for-
estry policy incorporated in our new
State constitution when it is revised,
as we understand it will be at an ear-
ly date.

I have said that private individuals
can not engage in reforestation with
profit in dollars, but is the dollar
view the only one that can move us
to act in this matter? Are we so sel-
fish that we are willing to live and
make just as many dollars as possi-
ble and not care what the effect is
upon others or the State? Do we
want it to go on record that the
State of Michigan is poorer and
worse off for our having lived and
done business in it, or that we had
a grand opportunity to assist in con-
ferring a great and lasting benefit up-
on our State and future people and
neglected to act?

No man lives unto himself. One
generation profits by the institutions
founded by a predecessor. We are en-
joying the results of the lives of wise
and unselfish forefathers, and we owe
a duty to our State and the coming
generation in this matter of growing
trees. If you agree with me, lend a
hand.

—_—_.-2..—___
Plenty of Nitrogen Left.

It has been estimated that in
France alone the amount of nitrogen
yearly taken from the soil is 600,000
tons and not much more than one-
half of this is returned to the soil
in stable manure. Let it be assumed,
for the purpose of argument, that
those countries employing nitrogen-
ous fertilizers use during each year
5,000,000 tons of nitrogen.

This seems to be a fairly liberal es-
timate judging from the above fig-
ure regarding France and the fact
that during I905 1,500,000 tons of ni-
trate of soda were employed through-
out the world. On this basis it is
easily seen that there is no danger of
impoverishing the atmosphere, for the
atmospheric pressure at sea level cor-
responds to about eleven pounds of
nitrogen a square inch, or say 1,500
pounds a square foot, or 20,000,000
tons a square mile.

Each square mile of the earth’s sur-
face has above it enough nitrogen
to supply the entire world for five
years on the basis assumed above
and since the entire surface of the
earth is not much short of 200,000,-
000 square miles the world can go
on abstracting nitrogen at this rate
for about 1,000,000 years before re-
ducing the quantity in the atmos-
phere one-tenth per cent.

—_+-+___

All the failures are sure they would
be successful if only they could start
at the top.

 

 

Wheat for Wagon Tires.

A new substitute for rubber has
been found and if the claims of the
inventor prove to be well founded
there will be motor cars and bicy-
cles with tires made of wheat, golf
balls that once were kernels of maize,
pavements of barley and_ linoleum
that might have been rye bread.

British patent office records show
that some 300 inventions of substi-
tutes have been filed, not one of
which has attained success.

The new claimant is William
Thredfall Carr, of Wembley. He pur-
poses to make artificial rubber from
cereals. It is said that a syndicate
of capitalists interested in tire manu-
facturing has offered him $1,250,000
for his patent rights.

This invention of artificial rubber
was prophesied at the recent meet-
ing of the British Association and the
industrial world has been eager for
it ever since the motor car and bi
cycle trades threatened to exhaust
the supply of the natural article.

Mr. Carr’s substitute is obtained
by treating any cereal with phyalin,
a well-known chemical substance that
acts in solution as a ferment, turning
the starchy matter in grain into dex-
trose. Another chemical is used in
the process to check the fermentation
at any desired stage. This makes it
possible to produce the artificial rub-
ber in several different strengths.

The inventor proposes to make the
substance in six grades, from a li-
quid solution suitable for waterproof-
ing to a hardness suitable for golf
balls, in which form it is said to pos-
sess the lightness of cork and the
toughness of chilled steel. In other
grades it will be serviceable for tires,
tubes, linoleum work and slabs or
sheets for block pavement.

Mr. Carr intends to visit Canada
and other grain-producing countries
for the purpose of arranging for sup-
plies for cereals in quantities  suffi-
cient to cope with the operations con-
templated. When he was asked if
his invention might not have the ef-
fect of increasing the price of food
he replied:

“There is no danger. The new
linoleum will be a reserve food sup-
ply. In the event of a famine it can

be boiled and reconverted into food.”
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Billiard Balls of Potatoes.

The potato is used in France in
the manufacture of imitation meer-
schaum pipes and “marble” billiard
balls. After the potatoes are peeled
they are kept for thirty-six hours in
an 8 per cent. solution of sulphuric
acid. They are then dried and press-
ed hard enough for use in making
pipes. Under strong pressure they
become solid enough to be turned
into billiard balls.

——_2--~.
Zanzibar as a Storehouse.

The Island of Zanzibar has been
under British protection since Nov. 4,
1890. It is the great storehouse and
distributing center for trade of the
whole East African coast, although
with the development of the re-
sources of the mainland and increas-
ed shipping facilities of the several
mainland ports its relative commer-
cial importance is not so great as in
former years.

 

 

Our 1907 Line of Show Cases and Fixtures is
Now Ready
High Grades
Low Prices
Write for our New Gencral Store
Catalogue ‘‘A”’

 

” Grand Rapids Show Case Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

New York Office, same floors as Frankel Display
Fixture Company

The Largest Show Case Plant in the World

 

Our new narrow top rail ‘‘Crackerjack"’
ase No. 42.

 

 

 

 

Old National Bank

No. 1 Canal Street

 

Capital and Surplus . . $1,200,000
Stockholders’ Additional

bimtility. . ...
Total Assets. . ...

800,000
7,000,000

 

 

 

looking fora safe
place to keep

To Thoughtful People

their money or transact business, these figures mean.

MUCH.

 

 

  

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 REGISTER 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.

The GNLY 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
Mfrs. of the Famous Multiplex Duplicating Sales Slips.

J. A. Plank, State Agent for Michigan, Tradesman Bldg., Grand Rapids

Agencies in all Principal Citics

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raising and Marketing Squabs on a
Large Scale.

In order to. make money’ with
squabs the first requisite is to ob-
stock, properly
The laws of pigeon nature
are, indeed, so stringent in this re-
spect that one can hardly hope to
succeed unless he has even pairs in
his lofts. It will not answer at all
for a lot of grass widowers to be
present. One odd cock alone is suffi-
cient to do a great amount of harm

It is a matter the more perplexing
because the male and birds
are so difficult to distinguish. There
is really no way of
until the

tain good breeding

mated.

female

telling sex in
pigeons pairs have mated
and laid eggs.

In order to determine their sex
and ascertain the odd number the
youngsters must be kept until they
are from six to twel.: months old,
since no mating takes place among
them prior to that age.

Plenty of space must be had for the
purpose. Assuming a breeder is rais-
ing his own stock, and wishes to mate
up about 800 pairs, he should have
a building not less than 150 feet long
in which to accommodate them. A
pigeon, it must be remembered, has
not properly mated and settled down
to steady work until at least a year
old. Even when a pair begins house-
keeping early in life, about all they
will accomplish up to that age is
learning how to cover their eggs
rightly and how to feed their young.
Accordingly, a building of the size
mentioned can turn out but one set
of breeders a year, or at the utmost
1,000 pairs, although the lofts are fill-
ed with squabs or youngsters about
five weeks old.

The object of having such a large
amount of space is to enable the
pairs to be readily caught and sepa-
rated from the odd birds as soon as
their sex has been determined. The
sure way of distinguishing sex is
when one bird is seen chasing an-
other about the loft and flying pen;
the “driver” is the cock, and he is
“driving” his mate to the nest to lay.
If she is not in the mood or condi-
tion for immediate laying, he may be
seen “driving” her for several days
Each bird having thus chosen its own
mate voluntarily, the pair, as soon
as the “driving” tells for a certainty
what ones have mated, should be
caught and removed to other quar-
ters.

With buildings grouped in such a
manner as to have everything under
one roof, as it were, the work of
caring for the stock at the Atlantic
Squab Company’s plant is greatly fa-
cilitated. The quarters throughout
are divided into compartments. or
lofts, 10 by 12% feet, in each of which
fifty pairs of Homers are kept. They
occupy—which is very essential in
pigeon keeping—a site quite free
from dampness, well sheltered from
the north winds, and with an open
southern exposure. Erected from 12
to 15 inches above ground, for the

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

dual purpose of avoiding dampness
and affording a means for a dog or
a cat to get under in search of rats
and other enemies, they rest on brick
piers, and, the better to exclude
dampness and cold, have double
They are, indeed, so. con-
structed from top to bottom as to
shelter their occupants comfortably,
there being in front of each loft a
window, composed of six lights. This
is large enough to make the interior
fairly cheerful and not become ex-
ceedingly cold in winter, as would
be the case if too much glass were
used.

floors.

lt frequently occurring that a pair
of pigeons will want to occupy more
than one nest, each loft is provided
with about sixty nests. Constructed
of rough yellow pine boards (rough
boards retain whitewash better than
planed ones), 12 inches high, 12 inch-
es deep and 24 inches wide, they are
placed on the east and west sides of
the interior of the lofts; and instead
of tacking a strip on in front, which
would make the cleaning of them
more difficult, a 6-inch front and par-
tition is obtained by nailing to the
middle of a piece of board, 6 inches
wide and 2 feet long, one of the same
width, but only 10 inches long, and
placing this loosely in the net. No
other kind of perches are necessary,
for if the birds are working properly
one of them will sit on the nest at
night and its mate roost on the front
of it.

In the rear of the buildings is a
passageway about 4 feet wide, and
the partition separating this from the
lofts consists of 2-inch wire mesh
built up io the ceiling; likewise are
the partitions between the lofts of
the same material, except the lower
7 feet, which are made of rough lum-
ber. A door from the passageway
leads into each loft. The birds have
access to the “fly” outside through
the window on the south side of each
loft, and also through a 6-inch hole
cut near the floor, at the bottom of
each of which, on the inside as well
as outside, a lighting board several
feet long and 6 inches wide is placed.
A sliding door, worked by a string,
is fitted over the smaller aperture,
so that during cold weather it can be
closed at night.

The “fly” is built about the same
height as the house, from which it
extends southward 24 feet. Cedar
posts are used for the uprights, and
on top of these is laid a framework
of 2 by 4 pine or hemlock scantlings.
Around the bottom of the enclosure a
12-inch board is nailed from post to
post. The entire frame—top, sides
and end—is covered with 2-inch wir:,
and around the sides and ends of the
individual “flies” a 6-inch board is
piaced about 6 feet from the ground
for the birds to roost on and sun
themselves. No other perches are
provided. A frame door, covered
with wire, is inserted in the end of
each run, so as to have easy access
to it.

The interior of the lofts, always
kept well whitewashed, is thorough-
ly cleaned out every four weeks. In
one corner of the lofts is kept an
armful of tobacco stems, cut in
lengths of about § inches; these furn-

 

 

 

 

BEANS AND EVAPORATED APPLES

We are in the market for beans of all kinds and
evaporated apples in carlots or less. Will purchase

outright or handle on commission.

JOHN R. ADAMS & CO. 3 Wabash Ave, Chicago, III.

 

 

 

C. D. Crittenden Co.
CRANBERRIES fix’

LATE HOWES
Write for Prices.

Both Phones 1300 3 N. lonia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Butter, Eggs, Potatoes and Beans

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

 

R. HIRT, JR.. DETROIT, MICH.
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Egs 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.

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
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Clover and Timothy

All orders filled promptly at market value.

 

41-16 Ottawa St.

 

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
OTTAWA AND LOUIS STREETS

 

 

 

Four Kinds of Coupon Books

are manufactured by us and all sold on the same
basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination.
Free samples on application.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

We Pay
Top Prices for

Hogs and Veal

Also for Butter, Eggs and Poultry. (Ship us only cornfed pork. )
Money Right Back

WESTERN BEEF AND PROVISION CO.
71 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

18

 

ish the birds with material to build | tity being placed in
their nests, and, being a preventive | the package, a layer

of lice, are preferable to straw or

between every

| i
|two courses of birds, and the whole

hay for the purpose, although much jtopped off with a good supply at

cOarser.

is placed twice a day.

In every loft fresh water|least 2 inches deep. In

order that

| : . H ‘
ithe ice may sift down through the | With a broad grin the darky

The food consists of grain propor-|package and come in contact with

tioned as follows: wheat, four parts;
sifted two parts; kaf-
fir corn, two parts; Canada peas, two
parts.

cracked corn,

In addition to this, one part bird
millet is used every other day, and
once a week two parts fine charcoal.
Twice a week two or three handfuls
of hempseed are also thrown on the
floor at about noon time. Grit, oys-
ter shell, charcoal and salt are con-
stantly kept before the birds. During
winter four parts of cracked corn
are used in place of two parts wheat
in feeding the ration mentioned, and
from the very large flock of Homers
kept here the result is an average of
85 per cent. of squabs that weigh 8,
9 and 10 pounds to the dozen, 12
per cent. that weigh 6% to 7 pounds,
and only 3 per cent. of dark meat.

The pigeons are fed twice a day.
Enough is dealt out at each meal to
last until about an hour before it is
time to feed again.

It takes from seventeen to eighteen
days for pigeon eggs to hatch, and
in about four weeks’ time after
coming out of the shell the squabs
are ready for market. Those not re-
tained by the Atlantic Squab Com-
pany for breeders are killed, as a
rule, at that age, young pigeons be-
ing good to eat as soon as they are
feathered and their abdomens
hard and firm.

well

When dispatched they are suspend-
ed by the feet from a rack made by
driving ten-penny wire finishing nails
into a strip placed at a convenient
height. Two nails driven 4 inch
apart are sufficient to hold of
them by the feet, whereupon, to pre-
vent fluttering, its wings are then
locked behind it. Holding the mouth
of the squab open, by means of the
thumb and first finger of the left
hand, with the head and shoulder in
ihe hand, the blade of a sharp pointed
knife is then inserted with the right
hand up through the crown of the
head, cutting into the brain. Releas-
ed at once, the bird is allowed to
bleed thoroughly before starting to
pluck the feathers.

one

As soon as picked it is thrown in-
to a tub of cold water, either well
or spring water, of a normal tem-
perature. Left there for about thirty
minutes, it is taken out and the mouth
and feet thoroughly washed; it is
then placed in ice water for about an-
other thirty minutes, or until thor-

oughly hard and_ firm—practically
frozen. Shipment is made in either

boxes or barrels, with the
birds nicely packed, breasts up. In
summer ice is used, a liberal quan-

wooden

 

jall the squabs, it is broken into pieces |
jabout the size of a hickory nut. A|
tag is placed in the package on top|
sof the layer of ice, showing the num- |

ber of squabs in the lot, and from
whom shipped; then the box or bar-
rel it a
burlap cover is put on, and the con-

is closed. Darrel! 1s used a

signment is tagged plainly. In this
way the Atlantic Squab Company
ships. several thousand “Jumbo”

squabs to the New York market every
month. Fred O. Sibley.
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Copper Deposits in Africa.

The coppers in Africa are copper
It is believed by some that
the greatest copper industry in the
world will be developed in the Tan-
ganyika region, where the properties
are of great potential value, and may
prove to be one of the greatest fac-
tors in carrying civilization into the
heart of Africa. Much time
quired for developments.
the heavy speculation in the shares
these may suffer much before the
properties become dividend earning.
The Bengueles railway can not well
be completed for five years or so, and
even the Rhodesia railways extensions
are now to require a couple of years
before they can reach the property.
Robert Williams is the pioneer and in
a great measure the organizer of this
vast undertaking, one of the most re-

markable of modern times.
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mines.

is re-

Celestial Game.

There is a clergyman of Brooklyn
who, contrary to the usuai custom of
his profession, is given to
sport. Especially does he like a bit
of shooting in the Adirondacks.

much

During his last expedition to that
region, incompany with a friend, he
was tramping through a stretch of
twilight, suddenly
something flitted by their heads. The
promptly brought
his gun into play and brought the
creature Upon hastening to
the spot where it fell, they beheld

woods at when
Brooklyn divine

down.

the face of a white owl staring at
them out of the grass. Whereupon

the clergyman exclaimed with some
agitation:

“Come away, Jack; come away!
ve shot a cherubim by mistake!”
——_-_-+ -<

His Interest in Religion.

A Southern man tells of a darky
Virginia who, whenever he got
intoxicated, which was not of infre-
quent occurrence, would repair to the
home of his pastor there to talk on
matters of religion.

On

in

one occasion the good man,

 

the bottom of|

3ecause of

greatly shocked by the condition of} “Doctor, when I’se sober I don’t
his visitor, administered to him a se-|give a dern fer religious conversa-
vere lecture, and told him to return | 4100

——_—_.-2~.___

|the next day when he was sober. on :
The best defense against other peo-

re- | ple’s bad manners is your own polite-

| plied: iness

 

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If you are a
buyer of

Hot House Lettuce jo 22t...

That’s Our Specialty
C. L. Reed & Co. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Never mind how the market goes—if you
can ship us fancy fresh stock—we can use
them at pleasing prices—in our Candling
Dept.

You Don’t Have to Worry

about your money~—or the price you will
get— when you ship your small lots of fancy
fresh eggs to us. We Want Your Business

L. 0. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers, 36 Harrison St., New York

Established 1865. We honor sight drafts after exchange of references.

REA & WITZIG

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

 

 

 

 

Ww. C. Rea A. J. Witzig

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

Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, = ress Companies; Trade Papers and Hundreds of
ppers

Bstablished 1873

 

ESTABLISHED 1876
We Sell All Kinds
Field Seeds,
Peas, Beans, -
Apples,
Onions, Potatoes.
If wishing to sell or buy, communicate with us.

MOSELEY BROS .) wuotesate DEALERS AND SHIPPERS

Office and Warehouse Second Ave. and Railroad.
BOTH PHONES 1217 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Butter

I would like all the fresh, sweet dairy

We Buy
White Beans,
Red Kidney Beans,
Peas, Potatoes, Onions,
Apples, Clover Seed.
Send us your orders.

 

  
 

 

butter of medium quality you have to

send.

American Farm Products Co.
Owosso, Mich.

E. F. DUDLEY, Manager

 

 

 

ESTABLISHED
1883

THOS. E. WYKES
CLAUDE P. WYKES

 

WYKES & CO.

| SUCCESSORS TO WYKES-SCHROEDER CO.
MANUFACTURERS AND

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FLOUR, GRAIN &e MILL-PRODUCTS

WEALTHY AVE. AND S. IONIA ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Weekly Market Review of the

Prin-
cipal Staples.
Domestics—The situation of do-

mestics remains practically unchang-
ed, most of the various lines being
sold up. There are instances of the
most severe acuteness in this depart-
ment that have been known in its
history; the selling one year ahead
of ginghams produces a remarkable
situation, not only in the latter fab-
rics, but in the future of outings, the
difference in price being such that
the advantage is materially on the
side of ginghams, and being sold as
far ahead as they are is bound to
produce in outings a condition in
which there will not be enough to go
around. Tickings, denims, etc., are
in relatively well-sold positions and
have been for some time. Sheetings.

pillow-cases and such fabrics are al-|

so in similar positions as regards
price, demand, etc., although further
advances have not been scored for a

week or more. Such odd lots of
spots as are readily available are
quickly picked up by buyers who

never seem to be able to get quite
enough, the demand for this reason
giving rise to the suspicion in some
quarters that larger quantities
goods are being ordered for the sole

of

purpose of securing a delivery or
price.
Prints—The situation in these

really the unique in
Sellers for the past few
weeks have not been very active for
the reason that there is nothing to
sell. Discounts have been shortened
regularly, which is in effect an ad-
vance, and to this buyers objected
strenuously.
bilities
and

goods is most

its history.

Nevertheless the possi-
of advances are very strong
predictions of this nature are
made for before February 1. In the
higher classes, where goods are not
so closely sold, the demand remains
strong, in spite of the fact that the
present is usually a dull time of the
year. The export lines, as has been
the case for some time, have done
very well and are really the only
call of any moment in this depart-
ment of the market.

Dress Goods — Further openings
have been made in dress goods for
the heavyweight season and a good
business is being done. comparative-
ly speaking. The past week, to be
sure, has developed nothing rémark-
able in this connection, it being a
poor time for the most part to look
for more than the usual business.
Stock taking interferes more or less
in this connection, and after it is
over a better unfolding of the situa-
tion is expected.

Underwear—This market has been
very inactive during the past week,
the inactivity amounting in some cas-
es to dulness. Stock taking is occu-
pying the attention of buyers of all
knit goods fabrics and consequently
little interest is displayed in the mar-
ket, so far as first hands are con-
cerned in particular. As stated be-
fore, all lines of standard goods are

 

 

now sold up or practically so. To be
sure, occasional buyers are accommo-
dated, but these are buyers who have
been calculated on as taking certain
quantities of goods anyway, a given
amount having practically been re-
served for them. Outside of these,
however, there is absolutely nothing
of interest. In view of the compara-
tive quiet, sellers are more or less
inclined to be retrospective and to re-
call the events of the year. For the
most part it has been a very good
one indeed. Certain lines have not
come up to expectations, while others
have exceeded them. Improvements
have been made in the methods of
doing business, a fact which is bound
to give a greater amount of satisfac-
tion all around. For instance, the
rise and fall method of making the
prices on boys’ fleeces will not only
obviate the possibility of loss on the
part of the manufacturer, but will
place the status of these goods in
a healthier position. A buyer will
not attempt to buy all large sizes as
formerly, but will order as his trade
cemands. To be sure, the buyer has
been governed to a large degree here-
tofore by the demand of his trade,
the nature of which demand was for
the large sizes of boys’ goods, be-
cause the boy would grow to meet
the garment and it cost no more than
a smaller -size. However, now that
the different sizes are priced ac-
cordingly, the goods will go into con-
sumption as originally designed, and
whereas the manufacturer occasion-
ally scored a loss by being compell-
ed to make the largest proportion of
large sizes, he will now have a profit
commensurate with the of
done, as each be
marked relatively.

amount

business size will

 

Hosiery—On the whole, the year
has been a very successful one in ho-
siery. While the same drawbacks are
observable in hosiery as in under-
wear, still they are struggling along
under existing conditions as well as
possible. The labor conditions are
worse, if anything, in hosiery than
in underwear. Mills have been moved
to new sections to improve, if possi-
ble, their facilities in this direction,
and in other cases buildings have been
put up with a view to employing the
available help in the vicinity. Loop-
ers are very hard to get and pre-
miums have been offered in the at-
tempt, but the results obtained there-
by did not amount to enough to war-
rant the effort expended. As far as
the relation of yarns to hosiery is
concerned, it may truthfully be said
that hosiery yarns are the scarcest
that are spun. The quality is poor
also, so much bad cotton being sent
in place of better grades. The result
of this is bound to be expensive to
manufacturers, as the consumers: are
already complaining about the wear-
ing quality of hosiery. All sorts of
schemes have been resorted to to re-
duce cost, which are being complain-
ed of. The most conspicuous of these
is the small sizes that have been sent
out. Deliveries have been very poor,
but the freighting accommodations
have helped make them worse than
they would have been. In the cases
where sellers went right along from
one season to another without stop-
ping, the chances are that it will be

 

some time before they catch up on
their deliveries. If all the goods that
have been sold can be delivered on
time it will cause universal surprise.
Some buyers have acted without ref-
erence to delivery, expressing a will-
ingness to take the best possible.
2
Buick Promoters Plan Subsidiary
Establishment.

Flint, Jan. 8—The latest prospec-
tive addition to the industrial enter-
prises of this city is the Janney Mo-
tor Co., which is in process of organ-
ization. The project has been launch-
ed by the Buick Motor Co., and the
stockholders of that corporation are
given the preference in the placing
of the stock in the new. concern,
which is to be capitalized at $1,000,-
000.

The object in organizing the Jan-
ney Co, is to meet a pressing demand
that has been made upon the Buick
Co. for a four-cylinder runabout car
which can be placed upon the market
at a moderate price. The project
has been maturing for some time
past, and is outlined in a prospectus
that has been sent out within the
past few days to stockholders of the
Buick Co.

The prospectus says that the loca-
tion for the new plant will be chosen
with reference to the availability of
material and railway facilities. As
Flint appears to be in a position to
meet these requirements there seems

to be a strong probability that the
plant will come this way. It is ex-

pected that a decision on this point
will be reached within a week or ten
days, preparatory to the making of

plans and the awarding of the con-
tract for the new buildings.

With the materialization of the
new enterprise the Buick Motor Co.,
which already has another subsidiary
concern in the Whiting Motor Co., at
Jackson, will be in a position to sup-
ply the trade with all of the standard
styles of motor cars, and the present
output will be increased to approxi-
mately 25,000 machines a year.

Wonderful Power of Light.

The extraordinary  resuscitating
power of light recently received a
curious illustration in the silver mines
at Laurium. A mine had been aban-
doned 2,000 years, when some poppy
seed was found beneath the slag. The
slag being removed, in a short time
the entire space was covered with
the most gorgeous show of poppies.
After twenty centuries’ rest they had
bloomed as vigorously as if they had
been borne by flowers of yesterday.

Vast Tide of Immigrants.

If the immigrants landing in New
York City during the last year had
come at the same time it would have
required a fleet of 1,121 vessels, each
one carrying 1,000 passengers.

——— ~~

The man with a headlight growing
on his face is pretty sure to be on
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15

 

LOVE YOUR WORK.

 

Popular Theory Not Always Practi-
cable or Desirable.
Written for the Tradesman.

It seems to be a popular idea that
the prime requisite for success in
any calling is a love for the work.
Love your work, or rather, choose
the work you do love and succeed.
That is the main thing. This ap-
plies to everybody. Everybody should
be engaged in an occupation which
is delightful to them. Parents, guard-
lans, teachers and all who have the
privilege of directing youth should
see to it that those under their care
are helped into the work which will

please them. Young’ people, the
world is open before you. Take your
choice. When the people are hap-

pier the world will be better. When
the world is better the people will
be happier. Therefore help make the
world better by being happy. Choose
the work you love and be happy and
successful.

Advice is usually thrown away un-
less it is agreeable to the recipient.
“Choose the work you love” is agree-
able advice. Jt promises reward for
doing as one pleases. It is approved
because it accords with the natural
inclinations. It is popular because it
says: “Please yourself.”

At first thought this popular idea
seems all right; but as we follow up
the matter we meet with obstacles.
Deep-rooted in the minds of students
of human nature is the conviction
that self-seeking, pleasure-seeking,
selfish desires do not tend to make
one happier; neither does it help to
make one’s associates happier.

Again, when we study various vo-
cations we find more or less disagree-
able features in nearly every one.
These are unavoidably connected
therewith. We can hardly conceive
the idea of any one enjoying the per-
formance of certain portions of such
work. Still, some one must do it.

As we look a little deeper into the
matter we discover that it is not the
work but the fruit of that work—the
accomplished result—-which gives
pleasure. It is the finished product
which pleases. It is the cleanliness,
the tidiness, the attractiveness of the
room or the house which leads the
housewife to sweep and dust. It is
the anticipation of the end sought
which makes the worker cheerful. It
is the wages which enables the work-
man to provide for self and loved
ones which gives satisfaction, not the
toil and sweat, the smoke and grime
of the factory which is loved.

Choose the work you love is an
ideal toward which every one has a
right to aspire. But in everyday life
it is not always possible to do so.
Whenever and wherever the question
arises: “What shall I do?’ it must
often be decided by some. other
standard than, “Do as you please.”
What is my duty? What are my nat-
ural capabilities? What is best for
me? Am I or can I become qualified
for the work which seems most in-
viting? These and similar questions
must be considered. Many times there
is left no choice to do as one pleases,
or, in other words, to gratify individ-
ual preferences.

Persons who seek pleasant occu-!

 

pation are usually not long content
with any situation. They are fre-
quently changing—never satisfied. He
who always considers personal likes
and dislikes, physical discomforts, un-
pleasant features of his vocation, will
not accomplish great results.

The all-important question is not
whether one likes his work, but can
he perform it satisfactorily? Not, is it
pleasant, but is it profitable? Does
the work allow the worker to pro-
gress? Is he gaining skill, experience,
knowledge? Does it incite him to
study to improve his mind, his man-
ners, his social standing? Does it de-
velop strength, confidence and other
desirable qualities? If so, the unpleas-
ant or disagreeable features may be
tolerated.

One point worthy of serious con-
sideration is: Is the occupation
healthful or unhealful, no matter
whether it be the work itself or the
unsanitary conditions which employ-
ers will not strive to remedy? Poorly-
lighted, illy-ventilated, cold or over-
heated rooms might furnish justifi-
cation for strikes among employes in
many cases; still those who desire to
benefit the working people in such
respect usually find better methods to
secure their ends.

It is a question if it would not be
far better in the majority of cases
if parents or others of mature years
and of good judgment should choose
for the young man or young woman
an occupation. The instances where
parents or others force or influence
youth into occupations to which they
never were nor can be adapted, we be-
lieve, are small in comparison to the
number who fail because allowed, un-
advised, to choose for themselves.

A worthy aim in life may lead one
through a long, hard, disagreeable
course. The final achievement may
be possible only when one has strug-
gled hard to overcome obstacles. The
ability necessary in the desired posi-
tion may not be acquired in any
other way except by unpleasant ex-
perience. Development of great val-
ue may not be possible in an easy
vocation.

Every one should have a noble pur-
pose, a definite aim in life. It should
be in harmony with one’s. natural
abilities. It should be the center
around which all their plans revolve.
Health, physical comfort, social en-

joyments, recreation and all such
considerations have their proper
place. They should be auxiliary to

the central purpose of life. Not every
pleasant experience is helpful to suc-
cess.

The individual must shape his
course accordingly as his  environ-
ments seem to dictate, as from his
standpoint he sees most advisable,
not blindly follow the dictates of a
popular theory.

Love of home, family, country, hu-
manity and right; regard for one’s
duties and obligations; submission to
Divine Providence; endeavor to fol-
low manifest destiny, cause people to
press forward regardless of unpleas-
ant, disagreeable conditions, formid-
able obstacles and even sorrow and
suffering.

Life is a battle.
heroes win.

Only soldiers and
Pleasure seekers miss

the true purpose of life.

Much may be said in favor of love
for one’s work, but reason and com-
mon sense should guide. To be so
engrossed in one’s chosen occupation
that other worthy objects are entirely
lost sight of is not desirable.

It is usually greed or unworthy am-
bition which leads people to
beyond their strength and endurance.
Sometimes it is necessity. Sometimes
it is a habit, a form of dissipation,
which allows the worker no vacation,
no respite, no easing up of the strain,
no time for social enjoyment or men-
tal culture. Such love of work is un-
desirable.

The reader may continue investiga-
tion of this subject according to his
own experience and observation, and
may conclude that popular theories

work |

in this as well as other matters are

not always practicable nor desirable.
E. E. Whitney.
>>
Ingenuity of Book Restorers.
Book restorers, as a rule, are most

ingenious artists and they can pro-
duce an imitation of a page of a rare

book which will deceive hundreds of
collectors. One particular restorer is

known to have “doctored’’ over 1,000

old books during the last two years,

producing pages in facsimile and sup
plying colophons or decorated capi
tals. There is not a thing wanting
to make a book complete that this
man can not “fake,” and
the market is now being fairly flood-

skillfully

ed with his productions.
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Do your duty and your delights will
take care of themselves.

 

 

 

and on fan.
yard.
prices.

PRICES.

 

On Jan. 23 American Prints advance % cent per yard
17 Simpson’
Up to these dates we will sell our stock at present

We will have over 200 cases to sell at OLD
Send us your open order at once.

P.

s Prints advance % cent per

STEKETEE & SONS,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Edson, Moore & Co.

WHOLESALE DRY GOODS
DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

It is conceded that 1907

will prove a banner WHITE

GOODS year, and we advise the retail merchants of Michi-
gan to be well stocked for January and February White

Goods and Linen sales.

Our line of White Goods is varied and complete, show-
ing among the accepted plain fabrics the soft finished Mer-
cerized Chiffonettes, Batistes, Mulls and Persian Lawns:
and among the fancies Mercerized Chiffon Finished Mull

Plaids and Checks, Broderie
eries.
much in demand.

Anglaise and Linon Embroid-

All of these are desirable and popular and will be

Although the linen market has largely advanced we

were early and large buyers

and are in a position to take

care of the wants of our customers, at reasonable prices, on

Table Damasks, Napkins, Towels, Crashes, etc.

We offer

our well-known brand ‘‘Flax-All” bleached Irish Crashes in
all numbers at practically old prices, and urge a liberal pur-
chase of these goods at this time.

 

 

EDSON, MOORE & CO.

 

 

16

TAFFY.

 

In Dispensing It Merchants Over-

reach Themselves.
Written for the Tradesman.

I am amused, sometimes, at the
subterfuges resorted to by mer-
chants to “jolly up the customer?’—
subterfuges that occasionally are dis-
covered by the latter all unbeknown
to the former.

A case in point:

Along in November I bought a
long cloak. I was very much rush-
ed at the time, as I had guests in the
house from out of town whom I
wanted to give a good time and there
was lots of showing-around to be
gone through with, so I said to the
proprietor, who happened to be near
the clerk and myself:

“I will take the coat and will pay
for it now; and if there should be
anything wrong with it?” I ques-
tioned.

“Oh, you bring it in—don’t hesitate
to bring it in—and we'll fix it up.
We'll do what is right about it for
you.”

Now, I want the reader to notice
that not a word was uttered about
charging me for the work of altera-
tion.

Time flew by and my company
went away. Still I could not find
opportunity, with what I had on
hand, to go and see about the cloak.
I could see with a mere passing
glance at myself in the store windows
that it was not even at the bottom;
it hung down some three inches long-
er in the back than it should.

After about a month’s wear I went
back to the store where I purchased
the coat and proceeded to the fitting
department. On the way I met the
proprietor, whom I told my errand—
that I had come to have the cloak
fixed.

“All right,” was the answer, “you
just go to the fitting department and
Mrs. So-and-So will do whatever you
want.”

Still not a word as to any cost for
alteration and it never entered my
head that there would be any.

Arrived at the fitting booth I was
given in charge of a pleasant-faced
young woman who was a fitter but
not THE fitter.

When the former had made a
slight change in the shoulders she
looked at the hem of the wrap.

“Why, it’s three inches too long
in the back,” said she.

“Yes, I know it,” said I.

“That'll have to be changed,” she
declared with emphasis.

"All right, Gx it,” said L

She told me to step up on the car-
peted box. I did as she bade and she
pinned up the hem to the proper dis-
tance from the floor.

Then I stepped down from my ped-
estal and she slipped off the outer
garment.

“IT suppose there won’t be any
charge, will there?” I asked, and re-
peated my conversation with the own-
er of the store.

The young woman’s heretofore
pleasant face, voice and manner .be-
gan to take on a decided frigidity.

“Why, yes,” she replied, “of course
there'll be a charge for altering the
hem. The shoulders would be noth-

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing extra because they were wrong,
but we always charge for changing
the hem.”

“Well, that was wrong, too,” I de-
clared.

“Yes, I know,” she admitted, “but
then we always get pay for shorten-
ing a coat.”

I looked unconvinced, I suppose,
and she called THE fitter.

Coming forward with a belligerent
scowl on her otherwise good-looking
face, she stood listening to her sub-
ordinate’s explanation of the differ-
ence, the while inspecting my attire
from head to foot, which optical ex-
amination I did not take especially
kindly to as it was a rainy day and
I was dressed accordingly—had on
old clothes that the rain could not
make any worse than they were al-
ready.

And my discomfiture under this
rudeness was not diminished when
she uttered her ultimatum as to my
having to pay for that old hem.

To assure me that the charge was
not a gouge she said:

“See here—I’ll show you a list of
all the alterations we get pay for,”
and THE fitter went into another
recom, returning with a card and in-
dicating one of the lines, which read:

Shortening of coats ...$.50

That settled the controversy, of
course, and she added that all the
stores in the city had agreed on a
scale of prices to be charged for va-
rious changes in various garments.

“Why,” she exclaimed, “we don’t
even put a tuck in a white petticoat
for nothing!”

I believed her then and, ordering
where to send the coat when satisfac-
tory as to shoulders and length, I
said that I would speak to the pro-
prietor on my way out and explain
to him that I had understood from
him that the coat would be “made
right,’ as he called it, with no addi-
tional cost to myself, which I did.

In a very suave manner and oily
tone he explained the situation.

“Oh, yes,” he purred, “you'll have
to pay a little, but not much—not
much—just a trifle. You’ve always
been a good customer and we’ll only
charge you a very small amount—
only 50 cents. We won't be exorbi-
tant to YOU’

I smiled to myself as I thought of
the scale card THE fitter had shown
me, but of course I didn’t mention
any knowledge of that and let it go
that the “only 50 cents” was all on
account of my being a “good cus-
tomer.” R D. N.

—_——_2——>————_
The Psalm of Advertising.
Tell me not in sneering manner
Advertising does not pay;
Rich they are who fling their banner
Roldest to the world to-day.
Advertising done in earnest.
Done with wisdom heart and soul,
With determination sternest,
Always wins the wished for goal.
Lives of many men remind us
We to great success can climh.
If the reading public find us
Advertising all the time.
Advertisng with persistent
Energy to spread our fame,
Ever honest and consistent,
In performing what we claim.
In the world’s commercial battle
In the rivalry of trade,
We must hustle, shout and rattle
Ere impressions can be made.
Not enjoyment—rather sorrow
Is the certain end of those
Who are apt to let to-morrow
Like to-day, unheeded close.
Careless of their advertising,
Which, is penned in common sense,
Is the method enterprisng
That insures full recompense.

 

 

OLD SCROOGES.

 

Such Dealers Should Turn Over a
New Leaf.

Written for the Tradesman.

Mr. Dealer, you are regarded
among your intimates and casual as-
sociates, and you yourself acknowl-
edge to be, the most exacting of men
in every capacity, whether church,
social or business. But do you never
stop to think, since you have become
so consequential, how it was in your
callow days? Does it never occur
te you to take a backward glance at
the time when you were a poor strug-
gling young fellow among other poor
struggling young fellows, most of
whom were dissatisfied, if you re-
member, with the situation they were
filling? In some instances that dis-
satisfaction led to no great attempt,
on their part, to better their condi-
tion, the malcontents lacking the
energy to conquer Fate. Others, am-
bitious to own a business of their
own as well as not being en rap-
port with the position they occupied
af first, pushed on and on and on
until they were, in very truth, “mas-
ter of their circumstances.”

As these progressed, some of them
felt unduly impressed with their own
importance and began to assume a
dictatorial attitude toward those in
a capacity below them, growing more
and more supercilious as time went
by. Prosperity began occasionally to
perch on their banner, and finally
clung aloft thereon continuously.
This inspired a still more haughty
spirit in their breast and they be-
gan to rule with a rod of iron; em-
ployes were made to feel that they
had to bend to that iron rod if they
would retain favor with the powers
that were.

And so these tyrants went from
bad to worse until to-day no one
may work for them who will not
truckle.

This state of matters is all wrong.
Just because it is decreed that there
shall be “rulers among men” is no
reasons why these rulers should not
possess their soul with patience and
kindness. The mere fact that one
man works for another does not en-
title that other to humiliate, to brow-
beat, to bulldoze, to intimidate, the
man lower in the business world.
Of course, if the latter does not do
his work well, if he shirks, if he is
not honest in his dealings with the
proprietor, he can expect nothing ex-
cept complaint, faultfinding. But if
the duties are done with painstaking
the employe should be treated with
distinct consideration. He may make
a mistake occasionally—who does
not?—but if his work is, in the main,
correct the employer should give the
employe due credit therefor and ac-
cord him the respect that is his due.

I have known storekeepers who
were naturally of such a grouchy dis-
position that it fairly seemed to hurt
them if they flung an encouraging
word affecting the work.

Away with such meanness! Begin
the New Year with the resolve that,
no matter how “putchety” you may
be feeling against some one outside
of your place of business, you will
not “take it out of” the poor clerk’s
hide. «

 

A merchant will meet an acquaint-
ance on the street. He may be asso-
ciated with the man in a large com-
mercial way. Things may go. un-
pleasantly between them and_ they
may part with a feeling of annoyance
against each other, if not of positive
animosity—an antagonism from which
they may not be able to free them-
selves all the livelong day. As a
consequence people—outsiders—won-
der why So-and-So seems “out of
sorts to-day.”

But it is within the four walls 03
the dealer’s store where he shows oft
to the worst advantage on such an
Occasion as the one referred to. He
scolds right and left, without the
least particle of discrimination or per-
haps provocation.

“The boss is cross this morning.
He’s giving everybody a lick. I got
mine—you had yours yet? If not then
look out—you better lie low—you'll
‘ketch it’ next!”

And each clerk who has not the
backbone to resent the imposition
cringes along in imminent fear of its
being “his turn to ketch it next.”

I see small help for such a man-
aged store. To be sure, the place
belongs to the man who has invested
the mazuma and if he sees fit to play
the role of Old Scrooge, why, that is
his concern, not ours. It’s nobody’s
special business to bring him to
terms, and without he experiences
some sort of a change of heart there
is nothing in particular that I see
to be done but for the employes to
grin and bear it until Fate throws an-
other job in their hands or _ they
wrench it from the Fickle Old Girl.

But it is to be hoped that all the
Old Scrooges of employers through-
out the length and breadth of the
land will, on the beginning of the
New Year, metamorphose  them-
selves into such a_ different being
that they and all who have known
them will need an introduction to
make sure who the strange boss
is. Let each form himself into a
Committee of One in the Make It
Pleasant For Others Society and quit
this everlasting “kicking” of the help-
less serfs in their employ.

Rathbone Millard.
—_2.2->__
When I Grow Up.

Our grocer’s clerk comes every day,
Though why he should I can not say,
For mother mostly orders beans

And soap and mustard, salt and greens
And tea and starch and lard and rice—
Not much of anything that’s nice.

Such food for some folks may seem best,
But scarce excites my interest.

When I grow up, my grocer’s clerk

Will very seldom need to work:

The butcher’s boy I’ll ask to eall

Just once in spring and once in fall.

I'll have the candy boy call twice

Each day and sometimes even thrice!
Mornings it will be best, I judge,

To order caramels and fudge;

At night, a box of chocolate creams
To make me sure of pleasant dreams!

[ means to have the toy shop man

Stop just as often as he can.

New toys grow tiresome soon, you know.

And, then, one’s friends do break them

so!

Geigh-ho, what bliss will fill my cup

When I grow up! When I grow up!
——————>-—_)_

We become slaves to habits by
counting an occasional indulgence as
a demonstration of liberty.

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LOCAL HISTORY.

 

Original Sources of Information for
Writing It.*

I have been asked to prepare a pa-
per upon “The Published Material
Relating to the History of Grand
Rapids, and the Original Sources of
Information for Writing our Local
History.” I
honoring me with this request is that

suppose the reason for

I have recently completed a_ history
of the city which is now being in-
flicted on the public.

Grand
number eight, and_ all
can be found on the shelves of our
public library. The first was a his-
tory and directory of Kent county,
issued in 1870. In 1874 were publish-
ed two histories of Grand Rapids with
biographical sketches—one from the
office of the Times, by J. D. Dillen-
back, and the other from the office
of the Democrat, by Richard Tuttle.
The fourth was “Memorials of the
Grand River Valley,” published in
1878, by Franklin Everett, from the
Chicago Legal News Co. The fifth
was “A History of Kent County,”
published in 1881, by C. C. Chapman &
Co., of Chicago. The sixth was Bax
ter’s “History of the City of Grand
Rapids,” written in 1888 and 1889.
The seventh was “Grand Rapids and
Kent County,” issued in 1900, by A.
W. Bowen & Co. It is wholly bio-
The eighth is the “History
of Grand Rapids,” published in 1906
by Cooper & Co., of Chicago and
edited by the writer of this paper.
I-ach in a manner is an index of the
municipal spirit and business methods
of the date of its publication and ex-
presses the spirit which animated
the business of Grand Rapids when
it was published.

Modesty prevents a statement as to
which is the best history of Grand
Rapids, but I will say that Mr. Bax-
ter wrote an excellent local history.
He thoroughly knew Grand_ Rapids
from the time it became a city in
name until his history was published.
He knew the men and the forces
which built and developed the city.
He was careful and painstaking in
cbtaining data and verifying its ac-
curacy. Generally speaking, his state-
ments are trustworthy. Of course,
there are mistakes in his book, as
there are in every history, but Bax-
ter’s history is good and, like every
well written local history, will become
more valuable as the years go by.

The records of the Michigan Pio-
neer Society are full of local history.
Many of our own citizens have con-
tributed articles about the history of
Grand Rapids and the Grand River
Valley, and there are many articles

The published histories of
Rapids now

graphic.

about neighboring towns and coun-
ties that are filled with local color
and history.

The chief mine of information for
writing local history is the files of
old newspapers. There are now on
the shelves of the Ryerson Library
the following files of Grand Rapids
newspapers and trade journals more
or less complete: The Herald, The
Evening Press, The Daily News, The
Post, The Leader, The Democrat,
The Times, The Eagle, Germania,
Michigan Tradesman, Michigan Arti-

 

*Paper read before Grand Rapids His-
torical Society by Dwight Goss.

 

san and Furniture Record. Mr. Frank
A. Stone, of Portsmouth Terrace, has
almost complete files of the old Grand
Rapids Enquirer from 1841 to 1858.
[ would suggest that the Library ob-
tain those files, if possible, if not as
owner, then as custodian. From the
standpoint of the student and the
historian of Old Grand Rapids, they
are too valuable not to be kept in a
fireproof building.

Old newspapers are not only orig-
inal sources of information, but of
inspiration. Newspapers echo town
talk. It is not only the news they
give, but the news they omit which
is important to the careful student.
lor example, the local newspapers
of Grand Rapids from 1840 to 1860
are filled with national political news,
letters from Washington, abstracts of
speeches made in Congress, stories
of public men and items of national
politics. State politics and local mat-
ters are conspicuous for their ab-
sence, all of which goes to show that
in those days Grand Rapids people
thought and talked about national af-
fairs much more than they do now.
They debated State rights and the
slave power and at all times and on
all occasions discussed national po-
litical parties and policies. They car-
ried national politics into social and
business affairs. They were reluctant
to associate and affiliate with their
political opponents. We know this
not only from our elders and tradi-
tion, but we see it in old newspapers
which give such importance to men
in public life and to national politics.
The Civil War may have come to this
community as a sudden outbreak and
a surprise, but its volcanic fires had
been burning for a generation § in
every hamlet and at almost every
hearthstone of the Grand River Valley.

The observing student can see
much in the advertisements of old
newspapers. He will see what were
the articles of trade, what people ate,
drank and wore, what were their med-
icines and toilet articles. From old
time-tables and travelers’ guides he
will see the lines of communication
and the routes of travel; he can learn
about the navigation of Grand River;
he can see how people amused them-
selves; from business cards and ad-
vertisements he will learn much about
schools and churches and lawyers and
doctors and preachers and teachers,
and the business and progress of the
town. Take a newspaper of to-day
and compare it with those of 1896,
1886, 1876, 1866, 1856, 1846, and each
will, in its news, its advertisements, its
editorials, its market reports, its
headlines and its general makeup, give
a vivid picture of its date of issue.

Other sources of original informa-
tion for local history are public rec-
ords and court records. The city rec-
ords and the doings of the Common
Council have been recently indexed
and classified. The City Clerk’s of-
fice is full of interest to the aunti-
quarian and the local historian.

The county records and_ Circuit
Court records were nearly all de-
stroyed by fire in 1860; nevertheleSs,
the Court House has much history
within its walls. The Probate Court
records have much from which his-
tory can be gleaned. Pioneers and
citizens die and their affairs pass

 

through Probate Court and become
matters of record. Dates and details
of deaths and marriages and many
other events can often be obtained or
verified at the Court House.

Published reports are of great val-
ue to a local historian. Annual re-
from the School Board, the
Board of Police and Fire Commis-
sioners, the Board of Health, the
Board of Public Works, the Comp-
troller, the Poor Department, and
all other public reports can be read
with profit.

The City Directories which are on
the shelves of the Public Library give
much good and accurate information.
There are complete directories from
1871 and a few published before that
date. A directory gives not only
names but residences xnd_ business
places. A prominent old citizen may
say that he commenced business or
quit business on a certain corner in a
certain year, while the city directory
for that year or the following year
may not agree with his statement.
Generally the directory is right and
the memory of the old citizen wrong.

sorts
I

3iographical sketches found in lo-
cal histories, publications, newspapers
and trade papers are valuable sources
of information for writing local his-
tory. History can be written from
biography. Local history as well as
general history is made up from the
lives of men.

An interesting source of informa-
tion for local history is the letters
and keepsakes which nearly every old
family has of its members. There are
account books, invitations, journals,
pictures, programmes, newspaper clip-
pings, and even pieces of furniture in
many Grand Rapids households which
tell much of local history. Often they
are too sacred for profane’ eyes,
but if the historian and antiquarian
has enthusiasm and tact he can gen-
erally unlock the secret drawers of
family history and find much of pub-
lic interest. Personally, I have had
many pleasant hours and obtained
much historic information in looking
over family records and keepsakes in
Grand Rapids. I can not make pub-
lic family confidences, but I will
relate one incident of my researches:
A few years ago Abraham Pike, who
recently passed away, let me look
over his account books which he kept
while trading with the Indians. It
was a vivid picture of long ago.

One great source of information
and inspiration for local history is
living men and women who lived
in the city long ago, but as every
lawyer and careful historian know
the human memory is not always
trustworthy. It may give good gen-
eral impressions, but is often false
in details. Again human narration
is generally more or less colored by
prejudice, self-interest and conceit.
Nevertheless, reminiscences can be
used to good advantage by the student
of local affairs. However, statements
of that character should always be
verified, if possible. There is more
than one old settler in town whose
narration of past events is a source
of inspiration in giving color to local
history but whose memory of dates
and details is not to be depended on.

Family traditions are seldom relia-
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grandfather who tells what his grand-
father said to him when he was a
child generally has more imagination
than truth in the story; yet the story
may give a picture of great historic
value, if discrimination is exercised
in its use.

A diary is an excellent source of
original information for local history.
I understand that Sluman S. Bailey,
of Paris township, has kept a diary
for more than sixty years, in which
he has written daily during that en-
tire period. During his long busy life
in Kent county Mr. Bailey has been
much in public life. He was sheriff
of the county for six years, collector
of internal revenue for fifteen years,
and held many other offices and posi-
tions of honor and trust. He has
not only been a part of the life of
Kent county and the city of Grand
Rapids, but for years he was in State
politics and knew the inside history
of many a hard fought political bat-

tle and campaign, and had a _ wide
acquaintance with the public men
and affairs of the State. From his
occasional communications to the
newspapers on current topics and

events we know fhat he writes with
a facile and trenchant pen. At the
present time his diary is too sacred
and personal for use in writing his-
tory, but the time may come when
that old diary can with propriety be
examined by some future historian
who can con its pages for matters of
public interest, and then what pic-
tures of by-gone days will there be
found! May he for many years con-
tinue to record daily events and ex-
press his personal impressions of men
and affairs, but sometime may he him-
self or the friendly hand of another
polish the literary and historic gems
of his diary for public use.

The Misses Cuming, of Bostwick
street, have many records and keep-
sakes full of local history. Their fa-
ther was an early pastor of St.
Mark’s, a gentleman of taste and cul-
ture, who left his personal imprint on
our city and its institutions. The
Campau family, the Nelson family,
the Pike family, the Calkins family
and a dozen other old families of the
city have records and keepsakes and
traditions that make local history.

I have related what I have found
of chief value in writing local his-
tory. Allow me to make some sug-
gestions for the benefit of the persons
who will write local history in the
future: Let every copy of every news-
paper, trade paper, magazine and
publication in the nature of a news-
paper, trade paper or magazine here-
after published in Grand Rapids be
carefully kept; let every such publi-
cation of the past be collected and
preserved. They make history.

Let every public report from any
public body, public board, public offi-
cer be preserved; nay, more, let
every report from any church, socie-
ty, fraternity or organization of the
city be preserved. It is history. Pub-
lic and official reports and proceed-
ings of official bodies may not be
as interesting reading as newspaper
reports, but they are more accurate.
It the future historian has both before
him he can write good history.

Let programmes and menus of ban-
quets, balls, suppers, dinners, enter-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| tainments and other social functions
| be filed.

They will tell our grandchil-
| dren how we entertain and are enter-
| tained, what we eat and drink, how
jwe behave in public and among our
\friends. This Society might con-
spire with the leading printing estab-
lishments of the city to have samples
kept and filed.

This is an age when illustration
is demanded and is easily obtained
Photographers, amateur, trade and
professionals, are found everywhere.
Every event of public interest—al-
most every event of private interest—
has its picture taken. All such pic-
tures should be preserved for their
historic value. Our Public Library
might have a picture department of
Grand Rapids people and events. In
a few years it would have great im-
portance. I would suggest that such
a department be started and all lo-
cal photographers be invited to do-
nate copies of their pictures of Grand
Rapids events, landscapes and groups
of people.

Two of our citizens, George E.
Fitch and Guy Johnston, are making
collections of pictures of Old Grand
Rapids, and the fad should be encour-
aged. Their collections should be du-
plicated or kept where there is no
danger of fire.

Mrs. T. J. Lucas, of Pleasant street,
has long been a collector of articles
and newspaper clippings of local in-
terest.

There are many other collectors in
tcwn whose names and _ collections
should be indexed for reference. This
Society should know the autograph
fiends of the city, the collectors of old
furniture, the numismatists, the bib-
liomaniacs; in short, all the faddists,
cranks and collectors of the town.
They are all akin to the students of
history and their collections have his-
toric value.

It is the commonplace things of to-
day which make history and romance
for the future. The appearance of
our streets, the views of our town,
the pictures of our residences, our-
selves, our friends, our everyday life
are to us so common that they have
no value, but in the years to come
they will have value beyond price.
What would we not give for a true
picture of a Greek theater, a Roman
triumph, a Jewish home, an ancient
banquet, a Puritan wedding, Grand
Rapids at the advent of the first white
man or Monroe street with its first
Fourth of July procession? What
would we not give for a detailed ac-
count of a week from the life of Soc-
rates, Caesar, Cromwell, Washington
or an early settler of Grand Rapids?
In the centuries that have passed his-
tory was a record of public men and
political events; history is now a rec-
ord of all people and all forces that
work for civilization, progress and
righteousness.

The pioneers are nearly all gone.
William N. Cook, the village black-
smith, who came here more than six-
ty years ago, can always talk enter-
tainingly of old days. Mrs. S. L.
Withey came here with her parents
in 1836 and has not forgotten her
childhood days when the earth was
young about Grand Rapids. Eugene
IX. Winsor, the first white child born
in the Valley, is still in active life

 

 

and can talk of the old days. But it
is to the second generation, the men

and women who were born here and |

who ‘have always lived here, that the

future historian must look for living |

pictures of the’ old days. The
iniscences of all such citizens should

be gathered and stored for future use |

and reference.

Local history now has a home in

the Ryerson Library. Here should |
be stored all materials and records |
pertaining to Grand Rapids history.

When the originals can not be ob- |

tained, copies should be secured, if

possible, and if that can not be done |
let a record be kept of where they |

can be obtained. Vigilance and dili-

gence can and will make this Library |

and this Society an

study and research in local affairs.

FCuI- |

inspiration for |

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NEW LEAF.

Young Man Meant

Turned.
Written for the Tradesman.

To Keep It

The trouble began on Christmas

morning. He had been out among

1
tl

1e boys the night before, had slept
far beyond his rising hour, had wak-
ed up with a headache and a brown
taste in his mouth and had found,
when he finally got up, a letter tuck-
ed under the door from his dear old
mother away back East among the
Pennsylvania hills. It was a heart
letter which only a mother with a
neat white cap on her head and a
warm motherly heart in her dear
body would be sure to write to her
every letter
aglow and the best crowded between
the lines. Here is a little of it:
“Ain't ye a’most ready, Lexy, to
be settlin’ down?

longer, and when a man is acreepin’

wandering boy, with

Ye air a boy no

up in his thutties it’s time for him,
if he’s goin’ to be a man, the rale
thing, to be havin’ a home of his own
an’ some little folk clingin’ to his
knees. Ye can’t keep up the wild life
forever; and, my boy, you'll stop it
pretty soon or Nature, which can’t
stand everything, will be takin’ ye
in hand and after that she’ll be tak-
in’ ye off. I'm old and gittin’ older,
not a black hair on my head—a little,
dried-up and wrinkled old woman,
not long to live and only one want
keepin’ me alive, that y’ air comin’ to
me some day—an’, Lexy, ye’ll have
to be comin’ pretty soon—and say-
in’, ‘Mammy, yer sheep that went
astray has come home again, tired
of the husks the swine did eat and
agoin’ to be a comfort to yer old
age.’ It’s no use, Lexy, ye can’t git
along without God, and the longer
ye keep tryin’ the worse it’ll be for
ye. What ye’ve done already air
aplaguin’ ye. Ye’ve got to root out
the evil an’ cast it from ye or ye’ll
never enter the kingdom of Heaven.
4 troubled conscience is a sore thing
to carry, Lexy, an’ ye’ll be burdened
with it as long and as surely as ye’re
not sorry for yer sin.”

That last was what did the busi-

ness. It spoiled his Christmas for
him. Do what he would, turn what-

would, that “troubled
conscience” went with him and, worse
than all, the fearful
sorry for yer sin.’ He entered at once
upon a five days’ siege of self-expia-
tion. In spite of himself he had to
go back to the old Pennsylvania
home in the Alleghaney Valley, “The
vine-clad cot where I was born’—to

ever way he

remedy—‘‘be

the tree-shaded street of the little
village with the school house here
and the white-spired church there,

where he had been the joy of his
mother’s heart and the pride of the
Sunday school. Do what he would
to forget the day when he, a well-
grown boy of 17, had been urged to
teach the 12-year class of boys and
the joy he felt when he saw their
delight in receiving him he couldn’t.
He recalled the good times he had
with those boys as long as he was
faithful to his trust and then—and
then—well, he wasn’t faithful and the
boys, believing in him and trusting in
him, followed him—and—and—they
weren't good boys any more! After

 

 

that the folks in the village didn’t
look kindly upon him and the evil-
minded began to say dreadful things
about him, and then the doctor look-
ed him over and told him the cli-
mate wasn’t agreeing with him and
that he’d have to find a dryer at-
mosphere. So he did and in a dry
id with new surroundings
he had begun life again and was do-

climate and

ing well, only this letter, as sure to
come as Christmas, was sure to reach
him and tell him that a “troubled
conscience’ would be sure to follow
him until he was sorry for his sin!
Well, after that sort of thing has
been hanging over a fellow for days
he begins to feel as if something had
better be done about it. He began,
as most men do, by declaring that he
wasn't so very much worse than other
men after all. What if one was some
thirty odd and what if his twenties
lurid? Whose
business was that, pray, but his own?

had been somewhat

Thirty-something wasn’t as old as

forty-something by ten good years,
and by that time he would sober
down and the troubled conscience,

tuckered out, would cease to weary
without any being sorry, for that was
what he wasn’t and wasn’t going to
be! A man’s life was his own, his
was his, anyway, and if he was ready
to abide the consequences he didn’t
see what business it was to anybody
else—er—-that is, except his mother,

his poor, little, over-anxious, tender-

hearted mother, who—who wouldn’t
troub’—his manhood and his tears
stopped him and blinded him, and
for days he went about as if, for all
the world, his manhood and his tears
and his troubled conscience had com-
bined to make him “sorry.” Sorry!
Humph!

So Christmas came and went and
Resolution Days, the days between
Thanksgiving and New Year’s, and
especially the days between Christ-
mas and January first, went flying
by, sobering Lex Bain as he hadn’t
been sobered for a decade and fill-
ing him full of home and mother and
—and—everything and making him
wonder for the first time in years
if it—if anything paid. This was what

 

was in possession of him as he was
climbing Seventeenth street hill when
Kin Cady caught up with him and fell
into step.

“Well, Bain,’ he remarked after the
hello and a few steps in silence, “how
long is your Resolution list this
year?”

“Wayent any. “M not going to
have any. Lot of something rot!”

“M—well, yes and no. It may nev-
er amount to anything—I guess it
rarely does—but, after all, like the
log left by a freshet, another will
take us up and then another and, if
we are worth it, we are landed at
last, considerably belated and rather
the worse for wear where we started
for. It doesn’t hatm me to see
how long I can go without a cigar
and not give up the ghost. I don’t
believe my stomach is any the worse
for a five days’ or seven days’ fam-
ine of bracing, and it does make me
wonder how it would seem not to
touch a cigar or take a drink for six
months. I’m getting along in the
twenties—two years more and I’m
30 years old—and as a business prop-

osition I’m
pays.

“Take just ten years, from twenty
to thirty, and it will open your eyes.
Three times 365 days is 1,095 cigars
a year, and at Io cents each it comes
to $109.50. At & per cent. this
amounts to—5X9 are 45—something
over $5. Then you have to put
yourself down for poker for so much
and-—and—other things, and I have a
notion these resolutions are a sort of
jerk on the bits, as it were, and give
us something to think of. Then, after
all, Bain, you know it as well as I
do, it isn’t right.

“That makes me think of Old Man
Steins-—you him—who is all
the time saying that a man has got
to be sorry for what he has done be-
fore he lets up on it. Queer old
duck, isn’t he? You’re cream to his
coffee, all right. The other night
Tom Hess was letting into you, tough
and tight, and the old man finally
caught on. ‘Is that Alexis Bain you
are talking about?’ asks Steins. ‘That’s
who,’ says Hess with a good deal of
emphasis. ‘M-hm,’ says Stein, ‘we
criticise inferiors; but if you, Mr.
Thomas Hess, were half the man
that Alexis Bain is and you knew a
tenth as much as he you wouldn’t
know yourself. When the right time
comes Bain is going to be Bain—
the genuine thing, and he is going
to be so far ahead of you that you'll
have to take a telescope to see where
he is. He’s no saint and he is con-
siderable of a sinner; but don’t you
worry about him. He’s coming out
all right. Tiake care of your own
doorstep, Tom; take care of your

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own doorstep!’ and Tom went off
with a flea in his ear.”

“Did he
about me?”

“Well, no, he

say anything particularly

didn’t. The valve in
my suction pump didn’t seem to
and after his telling me in a
dozen different ways to mind my own
The onl

we tk

ly fact |

that he. had

business I let up.

got out of him was

known you for a good while, and
that, if you had any enemies, you
were the worst of the lot.”

“Well, next to my old mother that

man Steins is the best friend I ever |

had. He took me in and took care
of me, and when I told my story he
said, ‘Never mind, Turn your
back on it all, keep the Christmas
Star in sight and yourself straight
{hats all there is to it.) f
clerking and when he
that I wanted to teach he

and when I

boy.

and was

then found
taught me
was ready for it he
me a position,

got

and my promises I—I—well, I didn’t
keep my promises and—and he drop-
ped me, saying, ‘You’re going to be
good and sorry some day and_ then
you won't need me any more.’—This
is my street. Good night.”

It isn’t surprising that Lex Bain

didn’t go whistling along Grant ave-

nue. flis cigar was the only thing
comforting just then and he saunter-
ed past the house with both hands
in his pockets, thinking of the dear
face under the neat white cap in far-
off Pennsylvania, and of Old Man
Steins, who, he knew, was thinking

that minute of him and was wonder-
ing if it wasn’t almost time for him,
Lex Bain, to be sorry and be de-
cent; and here he was a man in his
thirties, halting between two opinions
when age and experience were both
telling him what was the only
straightforward thing to do. So he
walked and thought until his cigar
gone and then went in to bed.
The cathedral of the mantel
clock struck 9 on New Year’s morn-
ing before Lex Bain opened his eyes.
Then he yawned and stretched and
blinked as the sunshine bored into
his eyes. Then with his arms under
his head he adjusted himself to ex-
conditions, last 4 ite

was

oe ne
gong

isting and at
spake with his tongue:

“A Happy New Year to you, Lex
B you, Mother Bain, and
to you, Old Man Steins. May we all
li

ive long and be happy.”

ain, and to

silence broken
clock, its very

followed a
only by the mantel
tick an apology for disturbing the
peace, silence made good use
of by the young man in bed who
gazed first at his good old mother’s
picture on the wall over the mantel

Then

and a

and then at Old Man _ Steins’ fea-
tures at the foot of the bed, whose
benediction somehow always man-

aged to get behind the stern rebuke
that always frowned down upon him
after a night’s carousal.

“Tf I were at Avoca now—‘Sweet
vale of Avoca’—or in Denver’ with
Old Man Steins I should have to take
the Bible and read the chapter chance
opens to, and ’m going to do it
now. Ecclesiastes, 11th. All right.
Couldn’t be better.” He read the
chapter through without cringing
even at the next to the last verse,
Then Old Man Steins at this point

 

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| Bain rose to

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21

Tf I think [

would hand me a prayer book.

can find mine I’ll get the dust off it |
and use it.”
Up to this point the young man’s

manner was suggestive of levity in

the extreme, and place and time sug- |

that;
and knelt
at his bedside the
ed and the
to the

gested only
the book upon the

levity had vanish-

manly ions
pajamas a
respect and
that
as after following a few
the printed prayer his
expression in his
words. I can not
spoken only

proport gave
something akin to
\ reverence, a
sounded in his voice
feelings found
own heartfelt
recall them—they
to God;
was ended and
his feet the
long hoped for
penitent,

Alexis
long looked |
time
SOmy. as 4

for, the
and the
stood ip Te-

can be only once,

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proceeded

deliberately, very quietly, he
he was all ready to go out,
a moment by the door,
well now as

he seized the

With

and

any time.”
decanters

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had |

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will take this for his Santa
present. If, seems all right.”

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now some other air and sub-
in a while.”

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wouldn’t

but
buy

“But why?” our work when you need

“

Because he’s got his wind worked

up to just the pitch for ‘The Old Rubber and
Oaken Bucket; and if he shouk
switch off on to ‘Old Black Joe’ he

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itchen. I’m not

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Seals, Etc.

bust and
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but when |

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he said, “As|
that |
glasses |
side-table, |

and dashed them and their contents |
into the blazing fire. Going to the}
mantel! he took from it the photo-

graph of some half-dozen boon com-
panions and tearing it in twain tossed
the pieces into the liquor-fed fire.
He watched them until only ashes
left and then with lips com-

pressed he lifted his eyes to the en-

were

larged photograph of a woman, sen-
sual and passionate, whose life had

if it had not ruined, his bee

from its gilded

wrecked,
Taking t

frame, which he bent into a eee
he so placed it that the
burned

he picture

contortions,
flames at
ail that
vile. “There,” he said with a
faction he had not known in years,
“now Ill wire to mother and Old
Man Steins that I’m sorry and they’l]

and
thing so
satis-

once seized it

could Dur of 4

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know the rest;”? and he wired and
they knew!
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It Was Too Risky.
“You keep harmonicas here?” she
entered a music
forward to

half-queried as she
store and a clerk came
wait on her.

“Certainly, ma’am—a full line of
them. Is it a Christmas present for
one of the children?”

“No; its for the old man. He's
been playing on the last one for fif-
teen years and there’s only one note
left.”

“So he plays, does he?” queried the
clerk, as he handed out the goods.

“From morning until night. He does
not have to work. and so he just sits
and plays.”

“Then he
different tunes?”

“No, he hain’t
jest keeps playin’
Bucket’

39

must have a thousand
got but one. He
‘The Old Oaken

over and over again.”

“And you must be pretty well ac-
quainted with it by this time?

‘l ane -How much for this one?”

“Ffty cents.”

“Too high. How much for this?”

“A quarter.”

“Well,” she said, after passing it

across her lips half a dozen times ,“I

 

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A Look Ahead Into the Shirt Trade.

Popular confidence in the stability
of present industrial conditions has
worked a remarkable result.
Shirt manufacturers, having  experi-
enced a season of unprecedented or-
dering, are even at this date making
selections of fabrics and
pianning for 1908.
prompts

rather

otherwise
The Situation that
such a procedure must as-
suredly be far from ordinary. It can
not be that the trust of men so fa-
miliar with the past of trade is being
misplaced. One and all foresee a
continuance of material prosperity in
the land. Otherwise, who among
them would dare reckon two years
ahead on their limit of production?
But they have an additional motive
to actuate them in this course. By fig-
uring so much in advance of require-
ments they enable the we
better gauge the

Cavers to
demand and thus
obviate the possibility of future ex-
haustion of the market before press-
ing needs have been supplied. Fab-
rics, then, while commanding atten-
tion, are not the prime matter of con-
cern when such precautions are tak-
en. How to get away from the com-
monplace in design without exceed-
ing the limits of good taste is a more
difficult problem.

Men who prize being well dressed
are expressing their individuality
more than ever and the spirit is quite
as manifest in connection with shirts
as with the lesser articles.
with turn-back cuffs,

Flannels
regarded as ap-
propriate only for country wear and
the sports, are affected more than
heretofore for lounging and business
usage. While this tendency deserves
recording, it is not to be commend-
ed or in any way encouraged. The
more distinctive dress periods there
are the better for the merchant. Once
popularized this practice would great-
lv affect the sales of stiff-front shirts.
What business sagacity suggests in
this respect to the trade at large is
equally applicable to the individual
retailers. In large measure the issue
will be of their own making.

A fad in evening dress shirts is to
have the weave match the corded ef-
fect of waistcoat and tie. With cere-
shirt pattern—if
the corded effect may be dignified by
that term—must be extremely dainty.
Small tucks are preferred over the
plain bosom for the shirt to accom-
pany the evening jacket, which is
quite in harmony with the informal
scheme. Turn-back cuffs are in good
form for the evening shirt, the out-
er fold being cut with a generous
curve to permit of easy adjustment
of the links and extending not more
than an inch and a half back. Both
in business shirts and informal even-
ing garments group tucks have ap-
peared, each group being separated
by a plain effect an inch in width.
New York and Chicago hit upon the
idea simultaneously.

Plaid and check patterns find brisk
sale despite their antiquity. The
smart shops steer clear of both, and

monious dress the

 

stripes in addition, except in com-
bination with figured designs in both
self and contrasting shades. The
horizontal stripe is the ultimate of
good form and some very bold treat-
ments are being shown. As to col-
ors, pink, brown, green and cream
are smart. Blues and black and
whites are conspicuous in the popu-
lar-priced, but are little seen in the
better grades.

Changes in the cutting of
ready for service are not material
from one year to another. The con-
spicuous fact in this connection at
present is the increased popularity of
coat models with cuffs attached. De-
pending somewhat on the grade of
goods, the proportion of calls for
these varies. Generally speaking, the
bills for next spring show slightly
more than 50 per cent. of the gar-
ments so fashioned. Practically all
of the patrons of city haberdashers
insist upon these features, while cus-
tom shirts all embody them.—Haber-
dasher.

shirts

22>
New Things in Store for the Hat
Trade.

The samples which are being
shown in stiff hats are mostly of the
staple styles variety as the special

styles and other spring blocks will
not be ready to be shown until after
the first of the year. The tendency
for spring is toward the narrower
brims, and the slight curl. Some of
the manufacturers and also many
prominent retailers are showing favor
to the flat set brim. Black is to be
the favorite in all the stiff hats, al-
though the “man with many _ hats”
will have one of a shade of brown—
and possibly a pearl. One prominent
hat manufacturer predicts that the
pearl that will find many admirers
from among the well-dressed men
of the spring and summer of 10907,
and is making considerable prepara-
tion toward that specialty. It is easy
to predict conservative dimensions
for new season’s styles. When the
fashion calls for either ‘higher or
lower crowns, wider or narrower
brims, it is always known to the
trade that the extremist will be on
hand at an early date, and will go
to the limit as usual, and wear a hat
that would be the right size for an
abnormally large or small man. It is
a condition that is in evidence every
day and everywhere, and must be en-
dured as best it may, for it is im-
possible to impress some people with
the fact that the best dressers never
go to extremes in any article of ap-
parel.

It is doubtful if there has ever been
a year when so many soft hats have
been worn as the year draws to its
close, and it is generally reported
that orders are being freely placed in
all sections of the country. The sam-
ples of the spring “telescopes” show
a tendency toward higher crowns for
this distinctive shape. The colors for
soft hats show a preference for pearl
and nutria, and several manufactur-
ers are showing browns. Why it is
that the soft hat is so popular seems
to be a hard matter for some people
to find a reason for. It may be, says
one wiseacre, because the soft hat
manufacturers are making a number
of extremely attractive shapes; much
better than they have ever before of-

 

fered the public. Then some say that
it is for the same reason that one
year rough-braid straw hats are all
the favor with the public, and the
next season the fine, genteel,  split-
braid straw is in great favor. The
writer is of the opinion that the ex-
treme popularity of the soft that is
almost entirely due to the clever
styles produced by the makers of this
class of hats, and by these creations
they have brought an additional trade
to the retailers.

The straw hat condition bids fair
to be interesting, although it will not
be very satisfactory to the retailer
without his order booked, or those
who should be among the number
not having the order shipped. Sixty
days ago one of the foremost straw
goods manufacturers in the trade
called in the salesman with the word
that they were filled up until May 15,
1907. Importers of braids have raised
the price on the limited supply on
hand, and to get more braids into
the country in time to be of use will
cost more. Next summer the wearers
of straw hats will have to foot the
bill, but the advance of twenty-five
or fifty cents on a hat will not worry
them when the warm days come
along, about June first. The Panama
hat condition is about the same. Pan-
ama hat bodies of choice selection
are hard to get, and there is little
hope of increase in the supply. The
demand for the Panama hat, however,
continues to increase in this country,
and a marked increase is reported
from the fashion centers of Europe.

-Clothier and Furnisher.

 

 

 

 

 

The “Ideal” Girl in
Uniform Overalls

All the Improvements
Write for Samples

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There’s no come-
back to ‘‘Hermanwile
GUARANTE’ED
CLOTHING” gar-
ments. They sell and
stay sold.

They sell;.and stay
sold because they
show in fabric, style,
fit and workmanship
value which ‘the con-
sumer cannot find
elsewher e=-value
which enables us to
claim for ‘*Herman-
wile GUARANTEED
CLOTHING’’ that, at
equal price, it is
‘“‘Better than Custom-
Made’’=-value which
enables the clothier
handling it to meet,
successfully. any and
all competition,
whether custom-
made, pretended cus-
tom-made or ready-
to=wear.

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line which is “Better than
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23

 

THE DEMONSTRATOR. |

 

She May Become Worth Her Weight |
in Gold. |
Written for the Tradesman. '
“Yes, there are demonstrators and
demonstrators and demonstrators |
declared the man
who knew what he was talking about.
“It requires a special gift to be a
Many people say, ‘Oh,
it takes no s-eat amount of gump-
tion to be a demonstrator; any per-
son can be a
little talk about stuff, that’s all.’
“Just a little talk about stuff!’
“But that isn’t all—not by as much
as a mile.

and then some,”

demonstrator.

(io be sure, its all talk about
‘stuff, this demonstrating business,

and the individual who hasn’t the
‘gift of gab’ might better by far try,
in this day and age, to cross the Red
Sea on dry land than to attempt the
—for him—impossible feat of mak-
ing a success at this modern method
of putting merchantable ‘stuff’ be-
fore the public.

“But not only must the ‘gift of
gab’ have come by birth but a good
address is a very essential feature.

“T am speaking more, now, of wom-
en demonstrators than of men. As a
rule they take more naturally to the
work than do the opposite sex. They
are more details. A
bright woman is able to ‘spot’ a prob-

observant of

able subject the moment she sets eyes
on her or him. Her quick intuition
enables her to tell just the nicest
way to begin with her sister on the
other side of the counter or table. Is
it a haughty, purse-proud old woman
who approaches? She must be dealt
with very differently from the woman
in humble circumstances. Altogeth-
er different tactics, too, must be em-
ployed to influence the young girl.
No need to dwell on price with the
arrogant old lady. is no ob-
ject with her, although occasionally
a regular old miser is found envel-
oped in fine raiment.

Price

“When the demonstrator begins on
her little say she must try to have
her listener do a little talking as
well. This shows her her hearer’s
attitude toward the thing she happens
to be exploiting—whether she en-
dorses it strongly or disapproves of
it thoroughly. Then the demonstra-
tor has something to go by and can
exert all her powers to augment the
good opinion expressed or over-ride
the objections set forth.

demonstrator—just a|

ithe other side of the

 

“If the goods expatiated upon ae
|

strating is, in a way, easier than with| rot wanted if they would
| known brands.

There is then noth- |
ing of a derogatory character to be}

. . . |
said, concerning the merchandise, by |

}
|

‘case.’ There is |
explanation pure and simple and it’s
all plain sailing—

-that is, if the goods |

have any merit at all, and they gen- |
erally have many points that may be |
brought out judiciously.

“The life of the demonstrator is
really very much like that of a travel-
ing salesman, Each is ‘talking up
trade;’ much of the success of both
lies in the ability to do this with
convincing effect. The demonstrator
must faith in the pre-
this, also, does she re-
semble the commercial traveler. Not
half as much may be accomplished
if the merchandise is not implicitly
believed in.

have goods

sented. In

“To go back to the personal ap-
pearance of the demonstrator. She
need not be extraordinarily pretty.
In fact, to be extremely so is a
detriment in this line of work, for the
reason that the subject of the goods
is apt to be lost sight of and more
‘jollying’ indulged in by the men who
buzz around her. A certain amount
of good looks isn’t a bad thing to
have, for every one is attracted by
them. The girl must be neat in dress,
which is preferably plain black, with
dainty white apron and tturn-over at
the neck and If her
are pretty they may be bare to with
in a short distance of the elbows, as
the sleeves will thus be well out of
Her feet must be well shod,
hair smoothly coifed, hands and nails
immaculate.

“She
them not—grace and
handling utensils and

sleeves. arms

the way.

must -if she have
deftness in
packages. If
done it must
most cleanly
a sloppy nature
Everything
must be inviting in the extreme. The

cultivate

there is cooking to be
be dispatched in the
manner; nothing of
should be in evidence.
demonstrators in this
regard are past accounting for; they
are positively mussy in their process
of attending to things. Such a per-

ways of some

son should be shown how to do her
work in the fashion, and if
turn over a new leaf she
should be discharged and the services

proper
she won't
secured of some one who will do as

she is told.

or 4s
| new in a locality the work of demor-|at the public ‘hammer and tongs’ are |

 

“The more ladylike the demonstrat-

 

the better. The sort who go|

work for |
nothing.

utters

We have a large stock and

“A demonstrator should be even-
One ‘flies off the |
handle’ is worse than none at all. |
The sort

tempered. who
can ship quick from Grand
that smiling is second na- | Rapids.

ture to are sure to be liked. Nobody |

bec at ewe on one tga erste Portland
Cutters

From $15.50 to $21

second

sour-visaged female.

"lases to flies. |
“The first-class demonstrator must |
i with her work and
show a deal of enthusiasm. A lacka- |

be in love must |

Nice Spring Cutters
Surrey Bobs and
Speeders

daisical manner is ruinous to the busi- |
ness. She must possess, as said be

fore, a readiness of speech that shall |

stand her always in stead, and she|
can not be ‘offish,’ she must be cor- |
dial.

"ouch an one as £

Remember
Quick Shipments

have
‘worth her weight in
to the firm she hires out to.”

Ph. Warburton.

indicated |

 

 

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gold’

Brown & Sehler Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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The advice of Bank Directors is frequently sought by those
thinking of investments. They often have inside information
which the average man does not.

The Citizens Telephone Company has among its stockholders
more than forty who are Directors of Grand Rapid- banking in-
stitutions. That shows their opinion of its stock.

The thirty-seventh quarterly dividend of two per
$47,532.69, was paid last month.

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24

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

FORESTRY IN JAPAN.

How the Island Empire Handles the
Matter.

The forests of Japan, her natural
ornament, which occupy more than
one-half the area of the Empire, ap-
pear to have exerted an inspiring in-
fluence upon the minds of her inhab-
itants, for their love of forests and
luxuriant sylvan growth seems to be
intuitive. They are aware of their
duties, so to speak, towards the for-
ests, as is indicated by their endeav-
ors to meet the ever-increasing de-
mdnd for forest products, and _ still
to preserve them for future genera-
tions.

The forests of Japan,
country was_ secluded,
their primitive character. For 300
years during the Tokugawa _ regime
the management of the forests was
stringent, with the stern rules of a
military despotism enforced. They
were at that time divided into utili-
zation and protection forests. Protec-
tion forests comprised forests at the

while the
maintained

head waters of rivers; those planted |

to prevent snow-slides and
against heavy falls of snow; also to
give shelter to the water and invite
collection of fish. So that Japan
to thank her stern old rulers for
the advantages she enjoys to-day in
her forests.

3ut with the restoration the for-
ests underwent a_ revolution. In-
creased demand for timber sprung up
at home in connection with industrial,

the
has

mining and_ railroad enterprises
and general building. The develop-
ment in the carrying trade of Japan
opened up the markets of Korea and
China, so that a great deal of reck-
less cutting was done, as is evidenc-
ed by the barren islands
along the inland sea.

In 1890 the government took hold
of the matter and concluded that
new plans must be promulgated if
the forests were to be preserved
permanently. The ownership was in
the state and Imperial household and
Bhuddist and Shinto temples, as well
as private persons. It was found that
the state and Imperial household own-
ed two-thirds of the entire area, the
holdings of the temples and private
They
appropriated half a million dollars for
the purpose of classifying these lands,
making accurate maps of foret areas
and defining boundaries, with a thor-
ough and general report of all the
species and conditions of land and
timber. It took ten years to ac-
complish this. In 1900 they had a
large area under a general working
plan.

The state lands were managed by
the government, while over the peo-
ple’s forests the government exercis-
es supervision only according to the
provisions of the forest laws.

Forests are found everywhere in
the Empire, from the trofsical island
of Formosa on the south to the cold
island of Hokkaido on the north.
With the exception of a small amount
on level ground, found here and there,
Japanese forests form a long string
on the mountains running lengthwise
through the middle of the country. In
Hokkaido the mountains traverse the
whole island lengthwise and cross-
wise and constitute a splendid area,

One Secs

persons comprising one-third.

 

damage |

 

Thus, you see, the forests of Japan | one of the hardwoods.

lie mostly in mountainous districts
along the backbone of the country,
and are scarce on the plains along
the seaside. Again, they are more
numerous in the cold regions of the
north than in the warmer regions,
which are naturally better for farm-
ing purposes.

The Imperial lands are divided in-
to two classes, hereditary and ordi-
nary. The former comprise such for-

ests as are so thickly wooded and |

extensive as to furnish enough mate-
tial for a regular working plan, and
it is expected that the area of such
lands will not decrease.

Japan has no less than 800 species
and varieties of trees, but at the pres-
ent time their forest management
does not attach any special impor-
tance to more than ten or twelve
species. They are divided into four

 

In this way
they expect to keep up the ratio.

The working plan of the govern-
ment employs selection cutting and
partly clean cutting, partly coppice
and selection cutting combined. In
cutting state lands on the selection
plan they calculate to not cut a tree
less than 80 to 100 years old, as they
are not looking for the quickest re-
turns, and have only the good to
future generations in view. There-
fore you can see that it is dangerous
to the best interests of any country
tc have the forests in the hands of
anyone except the government, for the
simple reason that the government
is supposed to have the best inter-
ests of all in view, while the private
individual has, and can have, no such
exalted ideas.

The general plan of reforestry and
the one from which they obtain the

 

Walter C.

groups: tropical, sub-tropical, temper-
ate and arctic. The most valuable
of the tropical trees are the bamboos
and palms. In the sub-tropical and
temperate zones are found several
kinds of conifers, of which the cryp-
tomaria, a straight-grained cedar at-
taining a diameter of six feet and 200
feet in height, and the red and black
pine are the most important. Bam-
boos also grow well in the sub-tropi-
cal zone.

In the temperate zone are found
about all the varieties of hardwoods
found in the United States. The pines
and cedars also do well here. It is
estimated that about one-half the
area of the forests are conifers and
one-half broad-leafed varieties; and as
the demand is much in excess for the
conifers, or softwoods, they are
planting on the lands owned by the
state about ten of these varieties to

| best

 

Winchester

results is from transplanting
young plants raised in the nurseries
from two to four years, according to
the variety, although on very steep
slopes and for protection forests the
old method of seeding and natural
regeneration is in vogue.

Furthermore, they have established
forestry departments in their schools
and have sixty-two institutions where
that science is taught. Yhree of them
have a collegiate course, ten a special
course in forestry and the balance
general instruction along this line.
They are constantly turning out men
of practical knowledge on this sub-
ject, and the government is encour-
aging it by offering graduates good
positions. Furthermore, they have
a training school at their experimen-
tal station.

So they have it practically settled
that the state and Imperial lands will

 

be handled in a business-like man-
ner, conserving the interests of future
generations. Now, in order to reach
the other third ownership of the for-
ests vested in private persons and
temples, they have adopted stringent
laws patterned after those of Eu-
rope. These laws contain provisions
regarding the control of both utiliza-
tion and protection forests and pro-
vision made for policing the same and
providing penalties for damages to
either class. A register of the state
lands is kept at the head forest office,
and another register of all private
forest is kept at the respective local
offices. The following is an extract
from some of their laws:

First. The term forests includes
those belonging to the Imperial
household, the state, Shinto and
Bhuddist temples and to private in-
dividuals.

When it is likely that a public or
private forest or one belonging to
the temples is to be cut inconsistent
with forest economy, the minister su-
pervising the district shall direct the
management of the same.

If trees are cut in contravention of
the directions mentioned in the pre-
ceding paragraph the minister may
cause one to stop the cutting and re-
plant the spot where the cutting has
been carried on.

When the re-planting provided in
the preceding paragraph thas been
neglected by the obligor it shall be
carried on by the government. In
this case either the expense incurred
shall be imposed on the obligor or
the portion re-planted may be made
a semi-state forest. Anyone who
desires to cultivate a forest must
first obtain permission of the local
governor.

The government may constitute a
protection forest when it appears nec-
essary for the following purposes:

For the preservation of the soil on
the slopes and protection of the land
against erosion.

For protection against sand-drifts,

storms, winds, floods, tidal waves,
rolling stones and avalanches.
For the maintenance of a water

supply in springs and rivers.

For the crowding of fish.

For the preservation of the public
health.

For the views of temples, celebrat-
ed places and old ruins.

In a protection forest digging of
soil, removal of stones, collecting of
grass, extraction of the roots of trees,
or free breeding of horses and cattle
shall not be allowed, unless permission
has been obtained from the local gov-
ernor.

The minister in charge may not
only direct the owner of a protection
forest as to plan of afforestation and
protection, but may restrict him of
its use and profit. If he should culti-
vate where cultivation is prohibited,
the minister in charge may order him
to restore the forest to its original
condition. If these orders are not
obeyed the government may accom-
plish the work and collect the ex-
pense of the owner.

When the government desires to
purchase a protection forest its own-
er shall not be allowed to complain,
except that he may put in a claim to

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN 25

 

cover the direct loss caused by the
prohibition of cutting trees.

No one is allowed to set fire in
timber larfids for any purpose with-
out the permission of a forest official
or police officer. Any person who
sets fire to a plain adjoining a forest
shall take all reasonable precaution
to prevent its spreading. They dre
also forbidden to kindle, keep or
carry any fire in such manner as t¢
endanger the timber. Any _ person
finding a fire broken out or damage
caused by insects in a forest or its
vicinity is required to inform the of-
of the city, or village
without delay.

A forest which has become tree-
less or has been left waste prior to
the promulgation of this law may
be ordered by the minister of state
supervising such affairs to reforest
the same within a period which shall
be prescribed by him. In case this is
neglected the state can go on, do the
work, collect the expense of the own-
er, and if this is impossible may take
over the land as a semi-state forest.
Land of this kind is exempt from
land tax and all other public burdens
for the afforested portion for twenty-

Plains, mountains, hills
lands on which afforesta-
tion has been newly niade shall have

ficers town

five years.
or barren

the same exemption.

Walter C.
Oe
New Lamps for Old.

Johnny’s dog, Tige, was a nuisance.
His pet theory must have been that
all things were created to be destroy-
ed--at least, so his practices indicat-
ed. Johnny’s folks were anxious to
be rid of Tige, and at last they de-
work upon the lad’s affec-

Winchester.

cided to
tions with

“Johnny,”
“lll give you $5 if you'll get rid of
that dog.”

Johnny gasped at the amount, swal-
lowed hard at thought of Tige, and
said he would think it over.

The next day at dinner he made
the laconic announcement: “Pa, I got

”

lucre.
said his father one day,

rid of Tige.
“Well, I certainly am delighted to
hear it,” said the father..“"Here’s your
money; you've earned it. How did
you get rid of the nuisance?”
“Traded him to Bill Simpkins for
two yellow pups,” answered Johnny.

eg :

The Burning Question.
A teacher in one of the public
schools of Kalamazoo was one day
instructing her pupils in the mysteries
of etymology, when she had occasion
to question a boy pupil with refer-
ence to the word “recuperate.”

“As an example,” said the teacher,
“we will take the case of your father.
He is, of course, a hard-working
man.”

“Yes’m,” assented Charley.

“And when night comes, he returns
home tired and worn out, doesn’t he?”

"“VYesim’ in further assent from
Charley.
“Then,” continued teacher, “it be-

ing night, his work being over, and
he being tired and worn out,

”

what
does he do?
“That’s what ma
said Charley.
——_2-2-. ___-
He that can not command happi-
ness may at least deserve it.

wants to know,”

Howland’s Advice as
Timely.
Evansville, Ind. Jan. 8—John A.
| Howland, in his article entitled Idle
{Questions Which Are Costly in
; Business, which appeared in the Nov.
28 number of the Michigan Trades-
man, has given us something to think
about. I wish every this
world could see the power in such
thoughts. “In time of peace prepare
to make war impossible” is the key
to the thought that is now going to
do something. What we want is men
at the head of our Government who

Commends

man in

can and will think these
We don’t who
think it is necessary to prepare for
war with powder and guns. We want
men who can think themselves out
lof trouble. We as. individuals can
think ourselves out of trouble, and
so can we as a nation if the thinking
people will but ask for it. I think
whenever we find a man who sends
out thoughts of war we should put
him in jail, for he is just as danger
ous as a man that is drunk and has
a gun on his shoulder ready to kill
the first man he sees.

If the truth is known the men who
always are urging nations to prepare

thoughts.
want any more men

for war when there is no war are
men who are thinking about the value
of dollars and cents and not of human
life. If every man who talks war
was made to go to the front when
war really is at hand, 1 know he
would think himself out of it. Just
so long as others must stand before
the guns it is all right with those
that urge it along.

Young men are urged to be true
heroes, are urged to be willing to
lay down there lives for their coun-
try, but do they really fight for their
Country, Of 15 it for values: that can
be bought with money?

What has been
ought to be done now are two very
different things. We ought to be
ashamed of ourselves if we think we
ought to prepare to kill anybody. We
ought to love other nations so much
that they would love us. If other
nations seem to think that they ought
to put up a fight against us we ought
to send men over to see them and
talk them out of it.

Suggestion rules this

done and what

world, not
It was necessary in the past
to make people good by whipping
them, but that time is no more. We
have our teach

gums.

schools now. which
people to think.

It is a fact that we all get just what
we send out. If we prepare for war,
we will get war. If we would talk
peace all the time, peace we would
have; and all we have to do is to show
other nations that we have become
wise and want to live and are will-
ing to let all nations do the same, and
show them that if they would use
the money they are spending for war
to make their people happy, that it
would not be until all
would live in peace.

Every thinking man who reads
nowadays knows that our wars of
late and those talked of for the fu-
ture are all based upon the value of
dollars and cents.

Edward Miller, Jr.

many years

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26

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

BOOTS AND BOOTYJACKS.

 

Two Articles Little Used These Mod-
ern Days.

A once familiar article in practi-
cally every household in this coun-
try has so fallen into disuse that per-
sons under middle age hardly know
Of it save by hearsay. This is the
bootjack, the use of which ceased
with the general substitution of shoes
for boots in men’s footwear. Only
a few elderly men remain who cling
to the fashion of their youth in pre-
ferring boots to shoes. Save for top
boots for riding purposes and rubber
boots for use in wet and mud, the
making of boots in any general scale
has ceased. In some mining and log-
ging regions leather boots still find
a market, and a few are sold. to
longshoremen and sa'lors, the water-
front being practically the only place
in this city where they may be found
Great shops exist solely for the sale
of shoes, but no boots are to be
found in them. The fashionable boot-
maker has been supplanted by the
shoemaker, and even on signs put up
by cobblers of footwear the boot has
ceased to some degree to appear as
a symbol.

The story is told of a boot and shoe-
maker who, in order to display his
knowledge of Latin and to attract
custom had inscribed on his sign.
Men’s conscia recti.” His rival, know-
ing no Latin, as if to illustrate the
proverb that fools rush in where an-
gels fear to tread, determined not to
be outdone, had inscribed on _ his
swinging board, “Men’s and women’s
cinscia recti.” He was, doubtless, in-
tent on having the rights and lefts
of the matter.

Boots and bootjacks may be said to
have come into general use after
trousers had supplanted knee breech-
es. The ancient Greeks and Romans
used sandals on the feet after they
emerged from savage barbarism and
greaves protected the legs of war-
riors in early times. Then came the
invention of armor to protect the en-
tire person in time of battle, but it
gave way before the modern weapons
made possible by the invention of
gunpowder, which also made useless
the bows and arrows, the spears and
clubs of more primitive times. From
the sandal the garter and other forms
of shoes were evolved, but they were
too expensive save for the wealthy,
and wooden shoes and clogs were
used by peasants, and are still worn
in some of the rural regions of Con-
tinental Europe. The modern boot
came into use in the fifteenth cen-
tury. A modification of the earlier
type was the Wellington boot, named
for the great Duke of Wellington,
who overcame the French Emperor
at Waterloo. It is a singular fact
that the name of the German com-
mander associated with Wellington
in the ever memorable defeat of Na-
poleon, Blucher, also gave a name
to a foot covering, the Blucher shoe
being that form in which the parts
held together by strings instead of
being united to the vamp, or portion
over the top of the foot, come to-
gether over it and afford much ease
and comfort to the wearer.

The wearing of boots, which be-
came general when long trousers or

 

pantaloons superseded the natty
knee breeches and stockings of the
eighteenth century, lasted in England
until shortly after the middle of the
nineteenth century. In England the
substitution of shoes for boots  be-
came general about 1855, and fifteen
years later the fashion had changed
in this country to a marked degree.
The use of boots became more and
more a mark of the conservative
clinging to the forms of the past, un-
til the demand practically ceased.
While boots were worn bootjacks
to aid in removing them from the
feet were in general use, but they
fell into desuetude with the wearing
of shoes, and are now mere curiosi-
ties, to be found in lumber rooms and
collections of ancient articles.

With the improvements made in
the manufacture of shoes by modern
inventive skill the product of factor-
ies is now so nearly perfect that no
return to the fashion of wearing
boots is likely ever to occur. And the
cost of leather has so increased by
reason of the demand that it is no
longer possible to put as much as is
required for a pair of boots in them
at the same cost as a pair of shoes,
which will long and look
much better. For it was never pos-

wear as

sible to secure for a boot the fit over |
the instep and around the ankle that |

is readily secured by the laced or

buttoned shoe.

In the early days of the wearing
of shoes by persons accustomed to
the ease and quickness of putting on
or off a pair of boots, there was a
demand for a shoe which possessed
the same characteristics, and this led
to the manufacture of what came to
be called the congress gaiter, which
was not laced or buttoned, but had
elastic sides, which would stretch suf-
ficiently to permit the insertion and
the withdrawal of the foot. But the
fact that the ease of putting on or

 

 

off did not offset the fact that the
appearance of the foot was not so
neat, and that the rubber in the elas-
tic sides soon deteriorated and
stretched unduly, led to the lessening
of the demand for this sort of shoe,
so that it is rarely seen at the pres-
ent time. But, despite their general
disuse, the city police reports in re-
gard to the finding of the bodies of
drowned men almost invariably state
that the clothing includes congress
gaiters. Whether this is merely a
formula surviving from the days
when this sort of shoe was pretty
generally worn or whether it is a
fact that persons who drown them-
selves do wear this style of shoe is
an interesting question, but the data
for its solution have never been se-
cured.

Of the making of shoes there may
be said literally to be no end, for
practically all the 86,000,000 people
in this country wear them. The days
when a considerable portion of the
population went barefooted, or only
wore foot coverings on special occa-
sions, or when the weather was in-
clement, have long passed away. Even
in the most rural regions the “bare-
foot boy with cheek of tan” has come
to be a thing of the past.

“I remember,” said a man now
past middle age, “of my mother tell-
ing me when [I was a boy that when
she was a girl it was customary in
Orange county for people to. start
out on Sundays with shoes and stock-
ings in their hands until they near-
ed the country church and then stop
and put them on, to appear at the
services, removing them on return-
ing, when a decent way from the
church. She assured me that she had
frequently done this. In my youth no
such careful economy was shown on
Sundays, but I went to school bare-
footed and worked and played in
that primitive manner on week days.

 

 

 

 

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ALWAYS SURE of

T recall with much vividness how I
once stepped on a bumblebee in a
cow pasture with my bare foot and
how quickly the sting penetrated the
integument, hardened as it was by
contact with earth and stones. For-
tunately, I had been taught that the
application of some soft mud to the
spot which had-been stung would
immediately relieve the pain, and
there was no delay in providing the
remedy, with the use of spittle on the
dry loam.

“While stone bruises and stubbed
toes were incidental evils of going
barefooted, they were offset by the
pieasures of ploug? ing along in deep
dust or mud without any reproof ‘for
soiling one’s feet, as they could be
readily made clean in the wayside
brook. But there was no compen-
sation or relief for the suffering en-
dured if one accidentally trod on the
sharp spines of a dry chestnut burr,
and when these were on the ground
it was necessary to wear boots or
shoes in self-protection. In the win-
ter time we had heavy cowhide boots
with which we used to plough
through the snow, but despite all that
was done in the way of oiling and
greasing the leather it would get
so hard and stiff when dry after hav
ing been wet that it was frequently
difficult to get the boots on the feet
after they had lain over night until
the leather had been softened by
warm grease.

“We always used bootjacks to pull
off our boots. Most of them were
home made, a piece of wood with a
V-shaped cut in one end, in which
the heel of the boot to be removed
was placed, a block on the under side
near this keeping it from __ the
floor, and the other foot being used
to hold the bootjack down. I have
also seen iron and_ brass bootjacks,
the most elaborate having a spring
to press the jaws against the boot

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heel, so that it would be more firmly
held. But I haven’t seen a bootjack
for forty years, and I fancy they are
few and far between in these modern
days, while boots of the old type are
almost unknown. A few men in liv-
ery still wear them, but even for
horseback riding leggins are now pre-
ferredto the top boots formerly
worn.”

Boots have never come into use for
bicycle riding although they might
be worn with the trousers tucked in-
to the tops as woodsmen and farm-
ers used to go in the olden days. The
long hip rubber boots are almost the
only ones still in general use for the
work which requires that the trousers
be protected from mud or dirt. Theat-
trical bootmakers still have a good
trade in supplying the demand for
the boots required by actors and ac-
tresses in order to dress their parts
properly in the oldtime dramas or
new ones of olden days. In fact most
of the ideas of boots possessed by
the present generation are derived
from their use on the stage. The
aboriginal inhabitants of this country
never reached the dignity of boots,
or even shoes, but they managed to
make most excellent moccasins from
the skins of the animals they caught
in the chase and those made from
heavy moose-hide, properly prepared
and sewn strongly with sinews, were
durable Modern
for use

and comfortable.
imitations of them
as slippers for men and
The recent revival of the
use of sandals for seaside and coun-

made
civilized

ale
women,

try wear, especially for children, is
an to the more primitive
of barefoot but the
style of sandals which approximated
the ancient type in having only a sole
without an upper is not as satisfac-
tory that which resembles
a low shoe with holes cut in the top
for freedom and a strap about the an-
kle. In the rubber soled athletic
shoes there is another modification
of type which is adapted to special
use. The bicycle shoes, of which so
many were worn a few years ago, are
now hardly made at all since the num-
ber of riders of the wheel
greatly diminished. While the price
of well made shoes is much less than

approach

freedom days,

as more

has

so

it was a few years ago, the last year
or two has seen a decided advance in
all save the cheapest grades, due to
the increased cost of leather. Wheth-
whether the
cemand will lead to increased produc-
tion remains to be seen.

er this is to continue or

“There is nothing like leather” is
a venerable saying, the origin of
which has not been traced, but which
serves to show the unique place
which this form of the skin of ani-
mals, from rough rawhide to the soft-
est velvet kid, fills in human econo-
my. Almost all forms of skin have
been transformed into leather by the
varied processes of tanning, which
were primitive in primitive days, and
have gradually become more and
more elaborate until skins naturally
stiff and hard are transformed into
soft and pliable material, capable of
enduring hard usage, yet retaining
shape and comeliness.

In Butler’s “Hudibras” there is a
reference to the two principal leath-
ers used for foot coverings, when the

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

author says: “A shoe be Spanish or
neat’s leather.” The Spanish refer-
ence is doubtless to the fine glossy
morocco leather, the making of which
the Moors introduced into Spain,
while the cowhide or calfskin used
generally in England in the  seven-
teenth century, when Butler wrote,
is meant by “neat’s,” the use of the
term “neat cattle” describe the
bovine species, and “neatherd” for
their caretakers being general.
Shakespeare says: “As proper men
as ever trod upon neat’s leather.” An-
other poetic allusion to foot coverings
by Alexander Pope, who entered the

to

world shortly after Samuel 3utler
left it, is not quite so clear on the
surface. The famous quotation,

“Worth makes the man, and want of
it the fellow,” is followed by “The
rest is all but leather or prunello.”
The allusion here is the smooth black
material, a sort of cloth, which was
used in the making of shoes, especial-
ly for women, in the days when
leather was not made as soft and
phable as it now is. The word is
also spelled prunella, and the mate-
rial was used for the gowns of cler-
gymen as well as for shoes.

A survival of oldtime usage is found
in the word bootblack, although his
energies are in the main expended on
shoes, but the term shoeblack has not
found a place in the language,  al-
though shoe blacking and shoe polish
Zut the cry, “Shine
is used by bootblacks to
gain the attention of prospective cus-

are well known.
yer shoes!”

tomers, and it is extremely seldom
that one secures the opportunity to
exercise his skill on a boot.—New
York Tribune.

ee
The Correct Use of Language.
Written for the Tradesman.
In contemplating the various qual-
necessary for any young
young woman to possess in
order to succeed in business it seems

ifications
man or

that there is one very important
thing which is not always given due
consideration. And that is the cor-

to be able to
speak correctly, plainly and in terms
which need not be misunderstood.

Misunderstandings and consequent
“4

ill-feeling in

rect use of language

business and_ society
greatly lessened could we
to
those who intentionally say

would be

all

not alone

learn speak correctly. It is
disagreeable things who make _ trou-
Some with the best of intentions
and agreeable fre-
quently speak in such a manner that
they become unpopular among their
They say things which
they do not really mean. They lack
definite knowledge of the meaning
of many words which they constant-
ly use.

Tt is as painful to hear one halting
and stumbling in speech as it is to
see one crippled in walking. In the
former case there is often no excuse
for so doing. Some, of course, are
naturally fluent in speech, while
others seem to be more unfortunate-
ly constituted, but nearly all people
might make improvement if they real-
ly desired to do so. No doubt many
would endeavor to use better lan-
guage, to study more fully the mean-
ing of words, to seek to express
themselves more happily and appro-
priately could they realize the great

ble.

4

to be pleasant

associates.

advantage to be gained by so doing. |

One need not strain to use lofty |
phrases, to endeavor to exhibit an ap-
pearance of superior knowledge, or
of precise over-carefulness in pronun- |
ciation. Plain English is appreciat-
ed by the majority of people. Mean}
what you say, and say just what you
mean,

In business, especially, time is often |
precious, and when a communication |
is to be made it is a fine thing to|
be able to make a clear, brief, intelli
gent statement without repeating or
varying the form of expression in or- |
der to be understood.

In seeking for persons to fill posi-
tions requiring carefulness and _ thor-
oughness one would not be likely to
select those whose speech plainly in
dicated a lack of these desirable qual-
ities.

The places worth having are

worth preparing for, and no matter |
what other desirable qualifications |
one may possess he or she will be |

seriously handicapped without a rea- |

sonably good command of language.

Sooks and helps are in abundance
for those whose school privileges are
or have been limited, and a determin-
ation to improve is the main thing.
Persistent effort will
ous deficiencies and earnest study will

overcome seri-
secure desirable results.

The effort which some people de-
to
of pet phrases, odd expressions and
outlandish

vote the accumulation of a stock |

combinations of words te
use on every occasion possible migh!
better be employed in
choicer vocabulary and in

selecting a |
studying
the correct meaning of words.

Ek EE. Whitney.

 

 

 
    

  
  
 

       

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

The Tragedy of the Honeymoon.

You have just been in, my dear
boy, to tell me that you are going
to be married next week. It is the
happy sequel to a little love story
that has been as true and tender as
your own great heart, and that for
you has been sweet with all the flow-
ers that bloom along that path of
romance that a man treads but once
in a lifetime. To the world of fashion
and society the event means nothing
at all. They will read with indiffer-
ence that such and such a young
man has been married to Miss So-
and-So, of some small village, and
that the happy couple will make their
home in Grand Rapids, where the
groom is a valued employe of a large
mercantile house, but to you it
means the long waiting is at an end,
and that all the hopes and dreams of
years are about to become a strange
and beautiful reality.

I know all the details of the story—

how, from the very time when you
were children together in the little
country town, you loved the one

who has always been the only girl
in the world to you. Her _ people
were quite the leading people there,
and she reigned, by right of her pret-
ty face and sweet ways, like a little
queen in the village, and there was
something of wonder and triumph, as
well as love, throbbing in your heart
when, from many other
suitors, you won her promise to be
your wife. In those days you had
little enough to offer any woman ex-
cept your love, but your sweetheart’s
promise was your inspiration, as it
has been many another man’s, and
you left the village and came to the
city to seek your fortune. At first
it was a hard and hopeless task
enough. You had no friends to push
your interests, but by dint of sheer
determination and ability and grit you
got a foothold and have worked your
way up to the-position of trust and
responsibility you now hold, and that
makes you feel that you are justified
in claiming your reward, and so next
week you are going back to the lit-
tle village for your bride.

among so

As I sat listening to you there was
that in your handsome, manly, strong
young face that made me think you
worthy of any woman’s loving, and
yet—when you were gone, with all
your happy hopes and bright antici-
pations, I could but sigh and almost
wish that life ended, as do,
with the ringing of the wedding
bells and that no tears and no disil-
lusioning were to follow.

 

novels

It is the custom to speak of the
first few months after marriage as
the honeymoon and to paint it as a
season of unalloyed bliss. In reality
there is no other time of one’s whole
life that is so apt to be full of acute
and poignant disappointments. There
is, to begin with, the inevitable ad-
justment of two people, with differ-
ent tastes and different beliefs and
reared in a different environment, to
a common standard, and that is rare-

 

ly accomplished without friction, but
more than that is the bitter awaken-
ing to the fact that no dream is ever
wholly realized. Both have expected
too much and the impossible has not
happened.

You think to-night that you could
never weary of contemplating Susie’s
saucy tip-tilted chin or of caressing
the sunny little curl upon her fore-
head. You are absolutely certain now
that if you were dead her kiss would
thrill you into life. Of course, other
married men seem to take their wives’
looks very much as a matter of
course and manifest a stoical indif-
ference to conjugal kisses, but they
didn’t marry Susie. My dear boy,
you are a man and you are mortal
and you will be even as they. The
time will come when you will be
more interested in the stock market
than you are in Susie’s curls and
when she will have to call you back
to remind you to give her the kiss
of duty that is dust and ashes on the
lips of romance. Perhaps for you it
will not even matter. You will give
a sigh to think that another ideal is
gone, and then you will plunge into
your work and forget it. All this is
inevitable. A man can no more live
on sentiment than he could exist on
champagne. He is bound to come
down to the realities of life.

What I want to call your attention
to—and it is something that, so far
as 1 husband ever
point of view.
If married life has brought to you
some disillusioning about the all-suf-
ficiency of love as a daily diet, it has
equally to her. When she married
you she honestly believed she could
spend her life in contemplating your
perfections as a steady occupation.
She is morally certain that just to
be near you, to hear your voice, to
upon be a state of
ecstatic happiness of which she can
never tire, and that, having you, she
will desire nothing else on earth. T
haven’t a doubt that, in all good
faith, she has told you this, and the
pity of it is that you are both too
young and too ignorant to know any
better and so go blundering into that
siough of despond that few young
married couples escape.

know, no young

considers—is Susie’s

gaze you, will

When the village clergyman says
the words that makes Susie your wife,
and her mother, with her heart fail-
ing her as every mother’s must at
the last, gives her into your keeping
and whispers through her tears, “Be
good to her,” you will smile a little
masculine smile of superior scorn. Be
good io her! What a request, when
you would lay down your life for her!
Ah, my boy, only another woman,
who has sounded all the depths of
that experience, who knows. the
wrench of leaving home and kindred,
the pain of parting with girlhood’s
sweet ways, who has wept its tears
and endured its desolation, knows
what need there is for your forbear-
ance, your tenderness, your consid-
eration, and how much a_ mother
compasses into the cry, “Be good to
her.” 2

Have you ever thought, my boy,
that there is no more pathetic figure
than that of the little bride who is
brought a perfect stranger to live
in a big city? At home she was a per-

son of importance. Here she is no-

body. There she was a figure in the
life. No party was complete
without her presence. There was
not an hour in the day that some
girl friend was not dropping in for
a bit of a chat. Here, except for you,
she is as much alone as Robinson
Crusoe on his desert isle. There she
was a leader in church work and
president of the guild. Here her timid
advances to the church people are
snubbed and, after the first attempt,

social

perhaps, she has nothing to do. The
brand new furniture and carpets in
the brand new cottage are hopeless-
ly clean. Even the brand new
clothes offer no chance for mending.

she gives it up and feels that she
has no more part in a city God than
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

29

 

There is absolutely nothing to do but
sit up and think of what mother and
the girls are doing at home. Is it any
wonder, under such _ circumstances,
that she gives way to home-sick-
ness? All of her dreaming is broken
through. Her ideal of perfect rap-
ture is shattered. She has found
misery where she looked for nothing
but happiness, and for the time be-
ing her desolation is heart-breaking
and complete.

Few brides who come as _ stran-
gers to the city escape this martyr-
dom of loneliness and boredom. One
of the happiest women [|
know says that when she was married
and the train rolled into the
where she was to live, a sudden real-
ization of had done came
over her—that she was done with her
eld happy, care-free girl life, that she
was parted from mother and sisters
and friends and was going to face an
unknown world with a man who, at
the moment, seemed as strange
the policeman on the street, that it
seemed to her her heart would break
with the agony of it. Another tells
how she hates a certain street, be-
cause, in the first days of homesick-
ress and the weary months of loneli-
that followed, tramped.
tramped, tramped up and down _ it
trying to wear out in physical exer-
tion the restlessness that
Another tells how she ripped
up her new clothes and made them
all over again, because it seemed to
her she must go crazy unless she
could find something to occupy her
mind and hands.

married
city

what she

as

ness she

possessed

her.

It is an experience with which men
have curiously little patience and no
understanding. The average man
seems to think that when he marries
a girl he has conferred sufficient hap-
piness on her to last her a lifetime
and that she should desire nothing
more exciting than to watch for his
return in the evening. I have known
men to take girls out of happy homes,

where everything was cheerful and
bright and gay, and simply dump

them down into a boarding house,
and never even think of trying to en-
tertain them in any way. “Why, don’t
you take your wife to the theater,
sometimes?” I once asked one of
these men, who had married a pretty
village belle. “Oh, before I was mar-
ried I used to go almost every night
and I got tired of it,’ was the selfish
reply. ‘Well, she isn’t tired of it;
suppose you look at her side awhile,”
I returned, and that, my boy, is the
gist of the whole matter. Try to
look at it from Susie’s point of view.

I am not saying that you have not
your burdens, too. It is hard to be
met with homesick tears when you
expect smiles, and hardest and _ bit-
terest of all to feel that you have
failed to make the woman happy to
whom you have dedicated your life.
It is for you, also, the shattering of
a thousand hopes and dreams, and in
the fierce disappointment you are apt
to be savage and unjust. She is un-
reasonable, you think. She knew
that if she married you she would
have to leave home, and she should
have stayed there if she loved her
people better. My boy, now is the
time, if ever in all your life, to be
good to her. Be patient with her. Be

 

tender and forbearing. The home-
sickness will weep itself out the quick-
er on your breast. She will adjust
herself to conditions
new friends, but it
time.

and make
will take a little
Be good to her, and don’t make
the tragedy of the honeymoon a trag
edy for your whole life.
Dorothy

new

Dix.
———_>- eo
Luther Burbank and His Work.

Patrick O’Mara, a Jersey City flor-
ist, has published a pamphlet, the title
of which in part “Luther
bank; a short review of his work in

Sur-

1S,

plant hybridization,” in which the
writer takes distinct issue with the
eulogizers and admirers of Mr. Bur

Mr.
plication of the term “wizard” to the
California horticulturist for the rea-
son, as he states, that a calm inves-
tigation of his performances will show
that remark-
able, and that his researches and dis-
coveries have been less valuable than

bank. O’Mara objects to the ap-

he has done nothing

those of many other  hybridizers
whose successes have not been ex-
ploited by magazine writers and
others. The many achievements
credited to Mr. Burbank, from the
potato which bears his name to the
thornless cactus which is one of his

later propagations, are taken up and

disposed of to show that they are
either not remarkable and in many
instances are failures, or that other

men without any fuss or parade have
done better work in
This new
Burbank

fields.

of Mr.

the same

unusual
his labors will attract
before accepting the
views of Mr. O’Mara it will be well
to that =Mr Burbank’s
work has been commended by many
intelligent investigators, and that Mr
Carnegie, a particularly shrewd and
hard-headed business* man, placed
$100,000 at his disposal in order that
he might have leisure to do his task
unhampered by the prosaic and ever-
intruding question of bread and but-
ter. It will also be well in
mind that many the extravagant
statements that have been set afloat
in the newspapers with respect to
Mr. Burbank’s performances have
been without his knowledge or sanc-
tion.

and view
and

attention; but

remember

to bear

of

—_—__>—_____
Everyday Proverbs for the Merchant.

Written for the Tradesman.

Opposition is of more benefit to
some people than ease of progress.

To rectify a mistake may cost
much; not to rectify it may cost
more,

Bitter medicine is often most ef-
fective. Unwelcome truths may be
made profitable.

Not what you want to sell, but

what the people want to buy.

3e aS prompt to reduce prices as
you are to advance them. The buy-
ing public soon catch on to any in-
consistency in this particular.

Look ahead. Anticipate customers’
needs. Certain goods will be called

for as certainly as seasons come
and go.
Give the half cent when buying

produce, and take it when you sel!
goods. It is the only fair way.
Are you making progress? Not
alone. by the inventory or bank ac-
count should this be determined.
The most courteous attention to the

parent will not atone for rudeness or
indifference to the child.
No merchant need ever use print

ers ink to inform the people that he

is in business for money only.
“We aim to please,’ says the ad-
|vertisement, but the salespeople

| scarcely

condescend to show the

|g0ods asked for.

 

It hurts to be maligned by one who
has been through financial
straits; but that is the way some peo
ple pay their debts.

In selecting fixtures do not

helped

think
Consider conve- |
nience, saving of labor and time and

only of appearance.

economy of space.

Meet your
competitors, throw off all the profit
rather than not make

every Cut in prices of

a sale, take the
statement of Dick
that

‘Tom, and Harry |

others

are under-selling you,
and you will be able to retire from
mercantile life at no distant day.

Is sliding down hill worth the cost

t traveling up again?

O1

School days end, but study never
for those who go forward in life.

Sixteen hours a day for the store |
keeper is a plenty. Suppose he should |
strike for less!

The horses which plow all day are
laborers; the team that travels sixty
miles a day with a carriage is having
a snap.

If our job is at all hard the other
fellow’s looks easier.

Kk. E. Whitney.

—_.—-e
You will never know how small |
some great men are until you have|

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It

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30

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

MAIL ORDER HOUSES.

 

1
| have to overcome. But the question
lis, How will we overcome it? We

They Can Be Met by Better Buying have a concern right here in Iowa

and Selling.

I am not going to criticise or find
any fault with the mail order or cata-
logue houses; neither with their meth-
od nor system of doing business. In
fact, I think they are to be con-
gratulated upon these two points.
Their method of getting business is
by advertising, and it is the keenest.

shrewdest, most far-reaching and
business getting advertising of the
day. And it seems to me that it is

and above
Take the
article for

the fairest, squarest, open
board competition we have.
catalogue: the
sale, the description of it,

There is
the selling
talk, and the price, all in black and
white. There is the condition just
as it is, and you can readily see just
what you have to overcome, just
what you have to get out of your
prospective customer’s mind, and
just what you have to get into it to
get him to take your goods. Is that
always so with your home competi-
tion? Can you always tell just where
your competitor is along these lines?

Perhaps he has made the cut in
price that your customer has told
you, and perhaps he has not. But

there is no doubt arising in the cata-
logue proposition over the price, and
the to you, to
make your selling talk stronger, and
your proposition look better to your
customer than the catalogue proposi-
tion,

rest of it is all up

It is simply a matter of going aft-
er the business systematically
the other fellow to it.
You are on the ground, you have the
advantage of a personal selling talk,
of showing up your goods in reality.
You know your man, and he knows
you, and he should know you favor-
ably. If he does not, perhaps it is
your fault. Better look to that part
of it a little; study yourself, find your
weak points and strive to strength-
en them. It is the best salesmen
usually that get the most business.

and
hard—beat

Are the
salesmen

catalogue houses _ better
than are? I am afraid
they are in a good many cases. You
may have a prospective customer for
a buggy, and about the time you get
nicely started with your selling talk
he breaks in on you with what he
can do and get at the catalogue
house. Don’t get huffy with him or
find any fault with the catalogue
house. Let him have full swing for
the airing of his harmless  prefer-
ence ,help him ride his hobby, but
all the time keep hammering the
quality of your goods into him in a
good-natured way, and nine times out
of ten, although he may have an
order all made out for a catalogue
job, you will make the sale, provid-
ing your goods are right and your
prices are. Say just as little about
the catalogue house as possible, don’t
give them any cheap advertising by
rubbing it into them every time a
customer mentions them to you. But
talk your goods, advertise your busi-
ness. Do unto them as they would
do unto you, but do it first. You
have invariably found that the price
is the only point that gets the cata-
logue house the business, so it seems
to me that this is the only. thing we

we

| i
|that is making a cream separator of

| 450 pourds capacity for a catalogue
|house that the house may sell to its
trade at $42.75. The same concern
makes another separator of the same
capacity that it sells to the dealer
ai $52.50. This machine, which sells
to the dealer at $52.50, in my judg-
ment, does not cost $2 more to build
than the one it sells to the catalogue
house so the latter can sell it to its
trade at $42.75. Now the catalogue
house certainly makes at least $5 on
this machine. If this is true it would
make the selling price of the manu-
facturer $37.75, or about $15 less
than the manufacturer sells practical-

 

ly the same machine to the dealer for.
Now why is this difference in price
in favor of the catalogue house? Fif-
teen dollars in price against you to
start with is a pretty big difference
in a deal where there is only about
$60 involved. The catalogue house
is simply underbuying us. Why
should we not buy our goods just as
cheap as they do? I think we should,
and so do you. But how are we go-
do it? Supposing this Asso-
should organize a co-operative
association, appoint a com-
mittee to go to the manufacturer and
say to him: “The Iowa Implement
Dealers’ Association wants the State
of Iowa on the sale of your goods.’
Don’t you believe that on a proposi-
tion of that kind we would get a
price on goods that would make us
pretty hard competition for the cata-
logue house? Would it not be an in-
centive to strengthen our Associa-
tion, to increase our numbers? There
is strength in numbers, and co-opera-
tion is the electricity of the age. If
we don’t keep on the band wagon
of progressiveness the first thing we
know we will be rubbing the dust
out of our eyes behind the proces-
sion and wondering how it all hap-
pened.

ing to
ciation
buying

It seems to me that a method of
this kind would have a great deal
more of weight with the manufactur-
er, and a better effect on the Asso-
ciation, than to say to him, “You sell
that Farmers’ Co-operative Company
and we boycott you.” You might just
as well be knocking your head against
that stone wall as to be fighting the
Farmers’ Co-operative Company. It
is here to stay and to do business,
and all the implement dealers’ asso-
ciations on earth can not put them
out of business. When you fight a
farmers’ co-operative company you
are fighting your own customer, and
how long will a man stay in business
when he is at war with his patrons?
You know he won’t last long.

It seems to me the only thing for
us to do is to get ourselves in a po-
sition to be better buyers and then
sell right, and we will be harder com-
petition for the catalogue house, and
the farmers’ co-operative companies
won't be in a hurry to take on the
implement business—C. FE. Yocuny be-
fore Iowa Implement Dealers’ Con-
vention.

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CHEAP BRAINS.

Asset Undervalued by Those Who
Possess It.
Written for the Tradesman.

There used to be a monthly paper
called “Brains.” There may be at
the present time for all I know. It
was devoted to the interests of al-
leged story writers, I think. Some

man instructed others how to write
stories, I take it, which is a very
easy thing to do. When the man

authors
make a

along who can tell
sell stories he will
fortune as well as a hit.

One day this paper lay on the ta-
ble of a Chicago editor and the own-
er of the joint took it up.

comes
how to

“Brains,” he said, with a scornful
twist to the word, “brains are cheap.”
The editor glanced up with a grin.
“What brand of brains?” he asked.

“Just brains.”

“T don’t believe it,’ insisted the ed-
itor.

The proprietor of the joint and the
employer of half a thousand people
sat down on the corner of the edi-
tor’s desk.

“Well,” he said, “the brain depart-
ment of this plant is on the low salary
list. That shows—”

“Shows what?”

“That I can hire brains at reduced
rates.”

“How do you know
hiring brains here?”

“Oh, they get out the paper.”

“Well, if they had any brains they
wouldn’t work for what you pay.”

The editor who was doing the talk-
ing was a high salary man, and was
making money for the boss of the
plant so he could afford to talk.

“T could fill their places for
money,” said the boss.

“T don’t doubt it.”

“Then why do you say that they
ovght not to work for what they are
getting?”

“T said that they wouldn’t if they
had any brains.”

“What would they do?”

“Take a course of physical culture
for the nerve and the cheek and go
out getting soap advertisements and
testimonials for ‘patent medicine
frauds. That is, they would do that
if they had the nerve to hold up the
brains.”

“When they get to doing that suc-
cessfully,” said the boss, “I’ll double
their salaries.”

“You don’t
work?”

“Well, I don’t know. It looks pret-
ty physical to me some times.”

“And still it takes tact, industry,
ability to meet arguments launched
with force and the temper to be good
under insult.”

“T’ve often thought you would have
made a good advertising man,” said
the boss. “You are quick and_ re-
sourceful.”

“T did make a successful advertis-
ing man,” said the editor. “I worked
several years at it. I used to come
in at night with my neck out of
shape bowing to pin-heads, with my
lips swelled up an inch thick saying
tender things to bull-necked men
who had things to sell, with my knees
sore from kneeling to purse-proud
advertisers. Then I said no more for

that you're

less

count that brainy

 

Willie. I said to myself that these
chiefs of trade delighted to see a
man of towering genius like myself
bowing down before them. I cut it
out and went into politics. There I
had to bow the knee, too, but I could
boss more men that I had to obey,
which was something.”

“In a few years you would have
admired the business act of the men
you met.”

“Oh, I admired the men, all right.
It was their thick-headedness in the
matter of advertising mediums that
[ objected to. But, about brains, Ill
tell you right now that brains are not
cheap. You can hire men who claim
to have a corner on the brain prod-
uct of the world, and hire them at
about $12 per, but they are not cheap
men for you to have about. You had
a cheap man here not long ago. He
cost you $850 by violating the copy-
right law. He should never have
published the thing he stole anyway.

Now, was that man cheap?”

“He claimed to have brains.”
“Yes, of course, he did. You

thought y vere hiring brains. Were
rought you were hiring brains. Were

you? You see you did not state the

case fairly when you said that brains

¥
Now, where are. the

399

were cheap.
brains of this concern

The boss laughed and swung a hand
about the room.

“You've got another guess com-
ing,’ said the editor. “The brains are
down in the front room on the sec-
ond floor, to the right. Leave your
card with the colored man at the
door and wait an hour for a minute’s
talk with the occupant of the room.”

The boss of the plant bowed
gravely.

“You do me proud,” he said.

“There is a general notion,” con-
tinued the editor, “that the success-
ful business man is an accident. Even
his own friends make him think so
by telling him how lucky he is.
When he gets a brilliant idea they’ll
ask him where he picked that up.
When he gets a fine allignment of
talent at the heads of departments
in his shops they ask him how it is
that he finds such good men. All this
makes him think that he is not in
the brain row.”

“You ought to have a medal,” said
the boss. “You are actually giving
the men who build up great institu-
tions the credit for doing it,”

“These business chiefs have brains,”
continued the editor. “The whole-
sale grocer, the retail man at the
head of a big department store, the
maker of furniture, build up their own
fortunes. They do it by industry and
by level-headed choosing of assistants
and working plans. A man in busi-
ness has the pick of the market in
employes if he is willing to pay the
price. If you look over the payrolls
of our successful men you'll find that
they have connected with a pretty
good lot of men, and that each man
is in the spot where he belongs. If
you investigate their business meth-
ods, you will find that they have
chosen the very best ideas submitted
to them, and that they have made no
mistakes in hitting up the wrong
theory.”

“Write it for the paper,’ said the
boss.

“Now, these men have brains,” con-

tinued he editor, who liked to hear

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hire their brain work done.

himself talk. “They couldn’t sit down |
here and edit a lot of cheap copy, but |

V’ll gambie that they would come
nearer hitting the public pulse in

buying manuscript than
pale, intellectual young men _ who
wear blue glasses and affect a disdain
Yes, sir, these have
risk, to
to discriminate, which is a whole lot

of trade. men

the brain to work, to wait,
better than knowing how to prepare
copy for the printer and put a suitable
head on a murder story.”

“It pays better,” laughed the boss.

“And still you say that brains are
cheap! Brains are anything but cheap
{ mean the real thing, of course. How
much you pay a man who
here as an undersudy

would
could step in
and run the business up to its present
limit for a year?”

“I would pay him $25,000 a year.”

“There you are. It is the know
how that counts. It is the brain which
picks out the best men and the best
methods which wins. It is the man
who takes 500 people off the streets
and puts them to
man of brain.

who is the
See here: Half the al-
leged brainy men—I mean the brainy
men of the editorial rooms—would
select the poorest men offered and tie
to schemes that would wreck a rail-
road company in a year. They can
do their little part well, but you put
them where they must decide and
decide quick, and you would
them all to the bad.

work

have

the men with brains are
the men who don’t talk brains. They
will tell you that they are men of
business, of action, and that they

“Yes. Sir,

would the|

Perhaps
couldn’t make a balance sheet
showing the profits here, but you can

you

imake the profits, and out of the prof-

much you make

its you can hire a man who knows
all about figures to tell you how

a year.”

" Look here,” said the boss, i: I

ididn’t have tosmoke cheap cigars now

jin order to fill your pay-envelope I'd

do it. I

 

¢

But I can’t
feally cant. Fm

ive you another boost.
robbing
order to pay
you the salary you earn, and this talk

my children now in
doesn’t go.”

The
laughed.

“It 1s not a touch,”
“IT make my touches by letter, not
having the business capacity to guard

against
No, this
a symposium.
that the
have brains are not selling them for

laughed and the editor

boss

said the editor.

my own interests, verbally,

your specious arguments.
is not a touch. This is
I’m telling you men who
$12 per week.”

brains of
said the “Vil

want me to, on the

“Perhaps I have all the

the concern,” boss.
think so if you
quiet, but I’m going to keep right on
telling the heads of departments that
they have the brains, and that all I
have is the money their brains make
for me.”

“Save your breath when you come
bere with the tale,’ smiled the edi-
tor. , Alfred B. Tozer.

_—— oe

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Boot and Shoe Club Has a Debate.
The Lasterville Boot and Shoe Re-
tailers’ Club has drifted, naturally,
from the mere discussion of questions
directly affecting us all to formal de-
bates of questions which confront the
boot and shoe retailer everywhere.
You the
started? here we

remember how club

How in our store
have always taken turns in shutting
up, one clerk keeping the store open
until 9:30 or 10 o’clock while the rest
all went home at from 6 to 7:30? It
started because Mr. Laster got in-
dignant at one or two retailers who
wouldn’t join in a 6 o’clock closing
vowed that. he’d
always until
in town was closed. He
did it, too. And that the order
should not affect clerks more
than the rest of us he stood his watch

movement and the

keep his store open

every store
so

his

with the rest of us.
I hope you remember how the rest
of us felt so sort of sorry for the

old man sitting there so lonely until

the late hour that we into the

got

habit of dropping around casually on |
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his night on to keep watch with him,
each one doing it independently and
being surprised that all the rest had
thought of the same thing, and
how the old man was so tickled that
he spread himself to give us a pleas-
ant evening, and how it came _ to
be the regular thing for us to gather

around on Mr. Laster’s night on un- |

til some of the clerks in other stores
got into the custom of dropping in
on that night and bye and bye some
of the proprietors as well until, fin-
ally, it became the regular thing for
the entire fraternity in Lasterville to
gather every Wednesday evening and
the Lasterville Boot and Shoe Re-
Club was the result.

It was not until this winter, how-
ever, that we really did anything
formal. It was helter skelter, have
a lot of fun and, perhaps, sandwich
in a little something helpful
sionally but this have
set questions to debate.

tailers’

occa-
year we had

Contrary to the usual procedure in
debates, not divide ourselves
arbitrarily into positive and negative
sides, and each try to do the best
possible with his side by hook or
crook, but each speaker give his
honest views and sometimes gives
both sides of the picture. There are
no judges and no decisions except
as we are all judges and make up
our Own personal decisions after the

we do

questions have been discussed.
Last week the question was, “Shall
a. Retailer Borrow Money to Dis-

count His Bills?”

‘Mr. Laster ‘is usually chairman, al-
though we have no regular club off-
records, no fines, no dues
and no by-laws. In announcing the
subject of debate Mr. Laster said that
in the consideration of the subject
we not take into account the
boot and shoe retailer with a sub-
stantial surplus who discounts ‘his
bills without any sort of trouble, but
the much larger class of retailers who

Cers, no

must

with a moderate capital carry good
sized stocks and frequently a lot of
credit customers besides. Then the
gavel fell and as usual A. Small Siz-
}er, who hasn’t any money to speak
of, never ran a store and isn’t suppos-
expected to have any ideas on
I the subject, was the first man on his
He said:

| “Sometime I’m going to

| feet.
haye a
|store of my own. I have
just much I have
tc save up before I start. I am

got

not
going to start until I have that
amount saved up. I’m not going to
borrow money to start on. I’m go-
ing to pay spot cash for my goods,
and get all the discount there is. I’m
not going to buy a dollar’s worth of
goods more than I have the money

figured how

jto pay for. I’m not going to trust
anybody. I’m going to run a strictly
cash store. The President of the

bank won't be able to get a package
out of the door until the goods are

paid for. I’m going to size up every

limited capital to run a business, any-

to run mine, when I get one.”
Then Mr. Sizer sat down and there

good many of the old retailers this
condensed line of argument sound-
ed, oh, so natural.

None of fry

the other younger

chairman called on Mr. Ball.

Mr. Ball said: I have listened with
|much interest to the remarks of Mr.
|Sizer. I think he has summed up in
a few words the ideal method of con-
ducting a shoe store in theory, but,
unfortunately, theory
when reduced to the
ity of practice, and so I think that
it is well for us consider this
question exactly as it is stated, al-
ways considering the retailer under

oftentimes fails
hard, grim real-

to

discussion as being one who has to
conduct his business partly on cred-
it. Of course, it is no particular se-
cret that a few here are so pleasant-
ly situated in regard to capital, as our
chairman has stated, and this is the
statement of an authority, that money
does not need to be borrowed in or-
der to discount bills.

The Chairman: We are now also
listening to an authority.

Mr. Ball: Be that as it may the
man we are considering is the retailer
who starts with $2,000 capital, carries
a $5,000 stock and, perhaps, $1,000
on the books. In order to discount
all of his bills he must of necessity
borrow money. That is the question.
I mean that is the first question. The
of course: Can he get
some one to loan it to him without
security other than a note, and if
with security, how shall he furn-
ish it?

next one is,

Now, it seems to me that the first
question is really the one for us to
consider most pafticularly and you
will pardon me if I become personal
and relate a little of my own experi-
ence. When I branched out for my-
self at first it was alone, the partner-
ship with Mr. Instep being a later
matter. I had saved up the prover-

bial $2,000, and I started in this town.
In order to do anything at all I had

 

Monday and Wednesday and keep my
stock just so full and never overbuy. !
That’s the only way for a man of

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to have a good sized stock, as I have
mentioned, $5,000 worth, and I figur-
ed on the average of $1,000 on the
books. I decided to start with a
$2,000 stock and work up as I need-
ed to. In those days it was mostly
jobbers we ha dto deal with. Just
a few manufacturers. You could get
money at 7 per cent. in this State
then. Jobbers gave six off ten, five
off thirty, four off sixty, or four
months net. I went to the bank and
talked the matter over with the Pres-
ident, but all that I could get out of
him was short time paper discounted
and with a first class endorser. There
was no one to endorse for me that
I was at all sure of until I happen-
ed to think of an old farmer uncle
of mine who was considered good,
and I finally plucked up courage to
go to him. “Now Jim,” he said, aft-
er I had explained things out to him
in full, “it is against my principles to
put my name on anybody’s paper.”
My heart sank. “But,” he went on,
“T think that you have grit, honesty
and are inclined) to make a success,
and of course it will be a great ad-
vantage for you to. discount your
bills, and I’ll tell you what I’ll do.
I'll loan you $4,000 on your simple
note if you'll agree to be just as
careful with your money as though
I were a banker, and you were likely
to be cramped at any minute.”

Well, of course, I jumped at the
offer, borrowed the money of him on
notes as fast as I needed it to pay
spot cash for my goods, and it is
easy to figure the difference between
6 per cent., four months, and 7 per
cent., a year, and it was a distinct

 

advantage to me. I got along well,
in time paid it all off, but to-day, if
we are short for any reason when it
comes time to pay a bill and save the
discount I always borrow the money.
With limitations, I firmly believe the
answer to the question being debat-
ed is, “Yes,”

Mr. Tanner: It is unusual for me
to differ with Mr. Ball, but it seems
to me that in the average case it is
much better for the retailer working
on a small capital to discount where
he can, and make his money go as
far as it will take him—stock up as
little as possible over his capital, turn
his stock as often and as fast as
possible, and for the rest take the
credit the manufacturer and jobber
allow.

Mr. Oaks. I fully agree with Mr.
Tanner. When I first entered busi-
ness I, too, had the proverbial $2,000.
It was before Mr. Tanner and I join-
ed forces. I wanted to put in a
stock of the regular $5,000 and I went
to a jobber who had been friendly
and asked his advice. He said to pay
the manufacturers and he’d carry me
for the balance. He'd give me four
months and then take my note for
four months more, and in that way he
carried me until I got out of the
woods. '

Mr. Ball: Yes, and socked it to
you on prices, I’ll bet.

Mr. Schumann: And thus, instead
of getting discounts you had to lose
them and pay interest besides. I agree
with Mr. Ball to pay spot cash and
owe your money all in one place.

Mr. Solan Kip: I tried Mr. Ball’s

plan once in my early business days.

 

I didn’t have an accommodating and}he doesn’t find any accommodating
well-to-do old uncle, but I managed | friend with money and either can’t
to get a moneyed man interested on} find an endorses, or doesn’t like to
a blanket note. That is, I borrowed |ask anybody to endorse for him?
on a basis of $2,000. That was to | Mr. Laster: That point is well tak-
be the limit. When money was com-jen. The danger of endorsing paper
ing in rapidly I was allowed to pay|lis one of the greatest dangers con-
in even hundreds whatever I liked | fronting the young business man. The
on the last day of any month and|advice I would give a young man
stop off the interest in chunks that!just going into business is never to
way. Thus, when I needed a lot of|endorse for anybody, and in order
money I used the whole of the $2,000. | to follow that it is necessary that he
For instance, when I was stocking|should not ask such favors.
up for fall, as 1 reduced stock | rather give a chattel mortgage on
and money came in fast, I reduced | my stock than to do that.
my indebtedness. With what I had} Mr. Tanner: Don’t you think chat-
to start I was able to pay spot | tel mortgaging a bad plan?
cash for everything and the differ-| Mr. Laster: Very, very bad. Ex-
ence between my interest and my dis- | cept as a last resort, or unless’. the
counts more than paid my rent the| mortgagee would agree not to put
first year. | the paper on record. That can some-

Mr. Laster: I tried to make such|times be done. But I would do it
an arrangement when I went into before I would miss thediscounts.
business and succeeded for a time, but | And with these expressions, pro
the partial payment plan so mixedjand con, the meeting broke up with-
up the accounts of the monied friend | out a formal decision—Ike N. Fitem
I found that he finally chucked the |in Boot and Shoe Recorder.
whole scheme. Later on I looked —___2+s>—___
around and got a man to loan me An Old Maid’s Song of Thankful-

2,000 straight, and I discounted all ness.
ce i I’m thankful for the things I have

I could on the strength of it. When And for the things I haven't,
I went over that amount and the

And of these latter there’s enough
a. : To satisfy a savant.

amount of my original capital, I had

to, had to—

I'm glad my children are not mine,
For then I’d have them all to dine.

Mr. A. Small
count.

And they are only eighty-nine!
the I'm thankful that I have no home,
Now, when I wish, I’m free to roam.
I'm glad my husband's in my mind;
ne . ae ™L- oe You see, he’s never hard to find.
Mr. Laster: Yes. Phat was it, and I'm thankful that I haven’t wealth,
on the whole I think that the best
plan. It’s a sort of combination
scheme and it works all right.
Mr. Hi. Ball: What I would like
to ask in this connection is, How is

I would

Sizer: Lake

*Twould wear me out to use it;
I'm thankful that I haven’t health,
I'd be so 'fraid I'd lose it.
I'm thankful that I hadn’t looks -
And that I had to turn to books,
For beauty would have turned my head;
As ’tis, my books have turned to bread.
So, when all’s done and all is said,
I'm glad for what I haven't.

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WHAT SUCCESS MEANS.

 

Book-keeper Sizes Up Winnings of
Two Men.
Written for the Tradesman.

The old book-keeper stood looking
out of the grocery window. It was
a fine, bright day and the street was
crowded with pedestrians and with
vehicles. The young clerk came and
stood by the old man’s side.

“Wow!” he cried in a moment.
“Put your lamps on that auto! Say,
but there must be a mint of money
in real estate.”

“What makes you think so?” asked
the book-keeper.

“Why, look at the trimming that
real estate man puts on. He has an au-
to, and he’s got a swell house up on
the avenue, and he’s got diamonds to
burn.”

“Think he’s flying pretty high, eh?”

“High! He’s away up in the blue
sky! If I was up there it would have
to be a fine collection of scenery that
I’d take the trouble to look down on.”

“How do you know that he’s not
near getting a dump for fair?” asked
the book-keeper, falling into the slang
of the boy.

“Well,” said the cub clerk, “he
don’t look as if there was anything
the matter with his flippers or his
sailing apparatus. TI guess we'll be
working a free lunch route before he
gets to the earth again. Talk about
making a success! Well!”

Just then a clothier doing business
in the next block came briskly down
the street, whistling like a school boy
as he walked.

“Tt’s real estate for mine,” said the
cub clerk “You just wait until I
get enough of the soda to the good
to buy a corner lot and I’ll begin to
get ready to go up. Look at that
clothing man.

he’s got no use for hay scales to
weigh his money on. That guy in
the auto goes by him like he was tied
to a pole. Tt’s the corner lot for me
just as soon as I can pile up the yel-
low backs.”

“I read in a paper the other day,”
said the old man, “that success is
measured by what one gets out of
life.”

“Well, look at that machine! What
do you want?”

“There are a great many kinds of
sticcess,” continued the book-keeper.

“T'll take mine with a red devil
wagon stirred in,” said the cub clerk.

“A man may have a devil wagon,
and a swell house, and diamonds, and
then lie awake nights wishing for
something he can’t get—something
without which he will not regard his
career as a successful one.”

“Oh, of course, a man might want
a little solar system all by himself,
or a few million of railroad
with private cars personally conduct-
ed by colored gentlemen in
duds.

“Now there’s that real estate man,”
said the book-keeper. “He is up in
the air one minute and down in a
mine the next. And there are no
gold or precious stones in the mines
where he gets his finish. He’s at the
top now, but T’ll gamble that he
works more hours than you do, and
worries more. He’s still climbing,

miles

white
A fellow must be reasonable.”

 

 

 

. : i reply.
He’s been in business |

down there about forty years, and |

and he’s hanging on with his finger
and toe nails for fear he’ll get to
sliding again. That man will never
be a success from his own point of
view.”

“There must be something the mat-
ter with his cupolo.”

“Not at all. He will never be able
to get all he wants. That is why he
will never consider himself a suc-
cess.”

“Has a man got to get all he
wants to be a howling success?”

“Of course he has. How can a
man regard himself as a top-notcher
when there are things which he
wants and can’t acquire? Some bright
chap has said that success is living
completely the life that the organism
was meant to live by the law of crea-
tion. The clothier who just passed
here is a success.”

“Then he must have been created
for one of the back rows in the chor-
us. He doesn’t look good to me.”

“Now, that clothier is making more
money than the real estate man,” said
the old book-keeper. “What I mean
is that he is making more money that
he can call his own. If a man makes
money and is obliged to reinvest it
in his business the minute he gets
his hands on it he is not making
money within the meaning of the
term, for he is merely increasing his
capital. His whole shebang is likely
to go into the air in any bad year,
so he is not accumulating—he is only
playing with larger stakes.”

“What's a man got to do to make
money?” asked the cub clerk. “Has
he got to take a shovel and go off
in a vacant lot and bury it in order
to be that much ahead?”

“Tle ought to put it somewhere out
of the risk of his business,” was the
“Business is always uncertain.
Now, that real estate man owes
about $1,000 for every $100 he has in-
vested. He’s always paying out his
money to creditors. He buys an ad-
dition and sells lots. It takes a long
time before any of the money for the
sales comes to him. He’s__ selling
some other man’s land. When he
gets the addition all paid for and is
ready to take his profits, the lots he
has left may be a drug in the mar-
ket. Of course, all real estate men
do not do business in this way, but
a good many of them do. Now, that
clothier—”

“T guess he locks his up in the coal
cellar,” said the cub clerk. “No one
ever sees him blow himself.”

“T’ll tell you what he does with
it,” said the book-keeper. “TI know,
for IT used to work for him. He

saves a share of what he makes and
spends the remainder in having a
good time.”

“Good time! T guess a cigarette and
a game of pool would be a hot old
time for him. I’d like to be in on
one of his good times—not!”

“He doesn’t go down among loaf-
ers to have a good time,” said the
book-keeper. “I don’t think he ever
tasted drink. When he
wants a good time he packs up his
wardrobe, buys a bill of exchange
and lugs his wife off to Europe.”

“Gee! That’s swell!”

“There isn’t a point of interest on
the continent of North or South
America that he hasn’t seen. He

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spent one whole summer camping in
the Grand Canon of the Colorado.
He knows more about the Hudson
Bay country than half the teachers
of physical geography. He can tell
you about Jerusalem and the lands of
the Far East. He has been in the
diamond mines of Africa and the gold
mines of Australia.”

“Well, he’s been out in his dreams,
then, for he’s always nosing around
that store of his. I wouldn’t
for him on a bet!”

“No; he goes away in the summer
and stays until winter, usually. He
has a man he can trust to leave the
business with, and he goes away and
kicks up his heels like a boy just out
of school. It took him quite a time
to get down to that sort of thing, but
he got there, and is glad of it, al-
though he is not worth as much as
he might have been under other con-
ditions.”

el) can't see
more for.”

“He doesn’t. He has reached the
top notch of success. He realizes
that he has made the most of life.
There is nothing that he wants that
he can’t have, and he has nothing
to worry him. If his business should
go to smash to-morrow. he has
enough to live on for the remainder
of his life, and not cut down his ex-
either. There was a time
when he wanted to be a merchant
prince. He came to me one day and
sat down at the desk where I. was
working with a frown on his face. T
thought IT was about to get mine
right there. Presently he said:

““’m getting too much money in
bank.’ T felt like telling him I knew
of a way to fix that, and was about
to suggest something about salary,
when he went on: ‘I made money
last year, and the year before. Now,
Im up against a novel proposition. I
know very well that I can lease the
remainder of this building and put in
shoes, and groceries, and dry goods,
and notions and everything going to
make a big department store. I’ve
got the money to do it with: Now,
shall IT do it? That is the question
that is troubling me.’

““Have you some other use for it?’
T asked.

“Then he said he had. That he
would like to put it into a big busi-
ness building on a street that was
sure to come to the front, but the
income would never be more than 8
per cent. He thought he could dou-
ble that in the business.

“T did not like to advise him, but
TI knew what I should do. He said
that he wanted to see the world, and
that he knew that if he put his sur-
plus money back into the business it
would take all his time to watch it.
He would be the slave of his money
instead of getting any real good out
of it. In other words, success to him
did not seem to lie along the line
of a department store. Well, he built
the business building, and it is a
splendid investment.”

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“Oh, but any one can have success
if he has the price, I don’t care what
his idea of success is,” said the boy.

“Right you ‘are,’ said the book-
keeper, “the real success is in living
the life you want to live—living it
really, not apparently. And that’s the
end of the lecture.”

The cub clerk now looks enviously
at the clothier, when he meets him
on the street. Alfred B. Tozer.

—_+>+.—____
Men Who Are Close To the Border-
land of Failure.

How impossibly wrong the world’s
judgment of success in men may be
was illustrated forcibly to me the
other day in meeting a friend who
has made a place for himself in news-
paper and magazine art work. He had
come downtown in a street car and
had been greatly pleased at meeting
one of his boyhood companions who
had collected his fare for the trip.

“T was delighted to meet Bill,” he
said to me. “Bill was a good fellow
and we used to go barefoot together,
fishing and swimming. We used to
confide in each other about our am-
bitions, boyish love affairs, and all
that. In those days I always wanted
to be an artist and paint pictures—
something that Bill never could un-
derstand. Bill always wanted to be
a street car conductor.

“Well, Bill is a conductor in a new
uniform. And I—-well, I suppose I
am an artist in a way—not what I

-once thought IT would be, however,”

with a suggestion of a sigh in his
voice.

Bill, he told me, was married and
thoroughly satisfied with being a
street car conductor. He had two
children, and was living in a cottage
that was almost paid for, with a wife
who was the dearest woman in the
world—proud of Bill’s position and
uniform as Bill himself was.

My artist friend; as compared to
Bill, was a millionaire in worldly pos-
sessions. He had inherited money
from his father’s estate and himself
had been happily married to a young
woman whose parents had left her
considerable money. He had invest-
ments which called for his time and
caused him worries occasionally. As
I chanced to know, these _ invest-
ments, taking his time from his home,
were causing his wife worries also.
They, too, had children, and home
was all that either of them had ex-
pected of it. But always on the part
of the wife was the feeling that his
work was taking him too much from
the home. c

“Money isn’t everything,” she had
said to me in his presence, time and
again. “He ought to see that. We
don’t need any more of it—why can’t
he let go of the idea? His own father
and my father are examples enough
of the mistake of making money. My
mother and his mother both were dis-
appointed in life because of money
getting. I don’t feel as if we are
making the most out of life when
John is working sixteen hours a day
in looking after money affairs. His
art work takes enough of his time;
why doesn’t he let the other alone?”

Taking this incident of John’s
meeting Bill in the street car, I have
wondered after all if Bill hasn’t made
the more out of boyhood’s prospects.

 

Bill has attained to the full the am-
bitions which prompted him. My
friend has confessed that he expect-
ed more of his art. Bill is married
and happy in his home life. At least
my artist friend’s wife is not wholly
satisfied. My artist friend, even, had
expected more of his early ambitions
than they have yielded him. Personal-
ly he is a rarely honest man in all
his dealings, but he says that Bill, the
street car conductor, is all of that.
And from what I know of him and
have heard of Bill, Bill’s family in
their little world are the happier.

Which of the two men then has
made the greater success in life?

There will be disposition, I know,
for the reader offhand to name the
artist. The argument is easy that
any man may be a street car conduct-
or, while to become an artist not
only is to give personal satisfaction
to the man in the attainment of high-
er things but that the artist while
working more for himself is giving
more to the world.

But imagine if you will a street car
conductor who from boyhood has
had the one ambition to wear the
conductor’s uniform, command _ his
car and make honest collections and
returns to his company. It isn’t every
man who can be such a conductor—
perhaps there is not such another one
in all his great city. But there are
artists by the score—many of them
with heart burnings, too. Bill is of
the contented ones. He has his reg-
iar run, the confidence of his em-
ployers, the acquaintanceship of many
of his old passengers, his pleasant
home, his neighbors, and the love and
confidence of his family.

There is not much more in life
than these. Imagine the influence
which such a car conductor exerts

in the course of a year upon the
countless thousands of men, women
and children passengers in his car.
Society itself could ask no more of
him in official capacity, while in
personality he gives that which it has
had no reason to expect. As a so-
cial essential a good street car con-
ductor is rather more necessary than
a best artist. Ages long dead have
contributed their storehouses of art
for all time. The living present con-
tributes the living street car man ded-
icated to the material needs of the
living. Somebody must be a car con-
ductor; no man of the present need
feel a divine call to art, for art can
live a million years without him.

I have talked with the man who
has delivered milk at my back door
every day for years. He is a sober,
conscientious, industrious driver for
a big milk company. The general
manager of his company, years ago,
began business with the company as
a driver. Therefore, after these years
of faithful service, the man who
comes to my door is dissatisfied. His
salary is $16 a week. Banking on his
prospects, he was married a year ago.
In the present flood tide of prosper-
ity his money buys less than it ever
did before and he has more to buy.
Therefore he is discouraged; his com-
pany is so much larger now that it
no longer is recruiting its department
heads from the file of wagon drivers.

But on the other hand this milkman
has told me that the last thing he

ever thought of in coming to the |
city was that he should drive a milk
wagon!

And here, of all men, is one close
to the borderland of Failure.

John A. Howland.

Industries Snowed Under
With Orders.

Battle Creek, Jan. 8—This city fac-

es one of the most promising indus-

Large

trial years in her history, the largest
industries
under

snowed
this is

completely
Whether
due to the wide dissemination of the
city’s the

being
with orders.

fame, growing need for
goods Battle Creek manufactures, or
merely one end of national prosperity
can scarcely be said.
New additions are
most daily by local
although the capacity of many plants
was doubled in 1906, this year’s fac-

announced  al-

industries, and

tory building record promises to ex-

ceed all others.

The American Steam Pump Co.
will add a storehouse, from Division
to Monroe streets, alongside the

Michigan Central tracks.

{be made

jand another nearly two.

|cut into strips.

1

pany sold over 7,000 pumps in 1906,

| bringing its total sales up to 75,000.

Some welcome announcements are to
at the annual meeting.
Cereal Co.

The American has one

of its new buildings up three stories

The

building will be four stories high and

oven

the mill room five, making notable ad-

ditions to the city’s industries. Three
immense wheat bins are nearly fin-
ished.

The foundation for the Grand
Trunk’s immense locomotive works

is nearly completed and ready for

structural iron work. All of 1907

and most of 1908 will be consumed
in erecting the buildings.
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Pencil Wood for Texas.
In the
Wharten

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counties of Matagorda,

and Brazoria, Lexas, are

acres of red cedar from which
is cut and shipped the wood of which
Much of the wood

is exported to Germany after being

pencils are made.

It is a very profitable

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women.
Blucher cut, lace or
street wear.

MICHIGAN SHOE CO.,

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‘‘Red Seal” is the seal of shoe quality for
All leathers.

Retails for $2.50 and $3 oo.

Twelve styles.

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or 12 in. high.

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

New York, Jan. 5—Jobbers report
a better feeling in coffee, as was an-
ticipated would be the case, and at
this writing there is a pretty good
enquiry with every house and quota-
tions are well sustained. Rio No. 7,
7%@7'4c. In store and afloat there
are 4,106,527 bags, against 4,454,000
a year ago. The receipts at the two
primary ports of Rio and Santos from
July 1, 1906, to Jan. 3, 1907, aggre-
gate 12,300,000 bags, against 7,842,000
bags at the same time last year. Mild
coffees are in fairly good request and
quotations practically without change

We have a steady sugar market,
but there is simply an every-day
movement—which is all that could
be expected at this time of the year.
A decline is confidently looked for
at almost any time. Refiners are now
caught up on deliveries and the sit-
uation is favorable for a good spring
business, and there is no reason why
this should not set in very soon.

For some reason the people seem
to be crying for very low-grade teas
and Indias and Ceylons coming un-
der this title have been scooped with
avidity of late. Congous, too, are
asked for, and with supplies some-
what light the outlook is in favor of
the seller. Japans—basket-fired—are
firm and moving with a good degree
of activity.

 

The rice market moves along in
the ordinary channels and no change
is looked for until warmer weather
sets in, toward spring. Prices are
firm, but sales as a rule are of small
quantities. Stocks on hand are not
large.

Nothing of interest can be record-
ed of spices. Supplies are equal to
the demand, but there over-
abundance, and no_ special sales to
“relieve congestion” are to be looked
for. Singapore black pepper seems
to have been in most demand this
week, but sales are of rather limited
quantities individually.

is no

Molasses is well sustained, but the
week has been quiet so far as the
volume of business is concerned.
Prices are without change. Syrups are
quiet and uninteresting.

In canned goods tomatoes are at-
tracting less attention, but are by no
means neglected, and it is certain that
the article will grow in interest week
by week. Packers are not seeming-
ly anxious to part with holdings, nor
are they anxious to sell fut: es at
less than 80c. Western peas are mov-
ing quite freely and buyers seem in
a position to take all offerings. Corn
is steady. Canned fruits are in very
light supply and the market, of
course, very firm.

The warmer, wet weather has been
somewhat unfavorable to the butter

trade, although top. grades. bring
about the same rate as last week.
The average price of fancy fresh
creamery during 1906 was 24.76c,

aaginst 24.64c in 1905. The variation

 

in 1906 was from 19%4@33c. At the
close extra creamery is held at 33c
and seconds to firsts 28@31%c; imi-
tation creamery, 23@27c; Western
factory, 20@22c.

The same old story in cheese:
Stocks. are moderate and the demand
of an average sort. Top grades are
held at 14%c.

Eggs remain high, but the outlook
is for a lower level. Finest select-
el Western, 27c; firsts, 26c; refrigera-
tor stock, 23@23%c.

Tribute To the Efforts of Mr. Miller.

Austin, Texas, Jan. 4—I have just
read an article in your issue of Dec.
19 entitled “How the Other Half
Live,” written by Edward Miller, Jr.,
oi Evansville, Indiana. There is much
philosophy in this article and it is
full of food and wisdom. The writer
should be encouraged in his good
work.

I have seen some of his articles be-
fore, but it took me a long time be-
fore I could understand him. To know
him and understand him is a treat
worth receiving, and I am proud of
seeing you take an interest in his
writings. That man Miller can write
about anything. He may write about
the Devil and, if you are not very
careful, you will think he is writing
about Jesus Christ. In my opinion
he is a powerful man, full of great
things, and the more you know hiin
the better you like him. Several years
ago, when I first learned of his writ-
ings, I thought he was crazy and a
fool—and blanked fool at that—but I
have changed my mind.

Edward Miller, Jr., is a great man.
tle may die, but his great thoughts
will live forever. The article I have
just read is a masterpiece and, if read
and understood, is good food for the
soul.

Edward Miller may be considered
by some people—and probably very
many people—as a crank or a fanatic,
but meet him if you have not already
done so, in mind or in body, and you
will meet a great man, a gentleman
in all things. His theory is to teach
the world to be gentlemen. This is
the pay he wants and he deserves it.
Will he succeed? No, never—except
with a few. Why? Because they fail
tc understand him.

Again, I say, Edward Miller, Jr..
is one of the greatest philosophers
living to-day and the world fails to
know it. I know him and I am proud
to know him. H. P. N. Gammel.

2... —____
Student Railway Laborers.

Learned laborers will build _ thir-
teen miles of an electric railroad
forming part of the system planned
by the company incorporated to con-
struct a road from New York to
Chicago. The learned laborers will
'e students of Purdue University,
who, under the guidance of the facul-
ty, will have full charge of the work
of building the first section. The
surveying already has begun. Many
years ago similar work was done in
England, where the students of one
of the English universities, under the
stimulus of John Ruskin’s fervid elo-
quence, went in for a stunt of road-
making with roller, shovel and pick.

—_222____

Winds of passion do not blow to

harbors of high purposes.

 

 

ASIATIC POULTRY.

Breeders in Michigan in the Pioneer
Days.
Written for the Tradesman.

At this season of poultry exhibitions
throughout the State a brief history
of the introduction of the Asiatic va-
rieties into Michigan, and into Kent
county in particular, will be interest-
ing to many readers of the Trades-
man, especially to poultry breeders.

In 1851 the poultry shown at the
State Fair held in Detroit did not
exceed 100 birds of all varieties, and
of these not more than one-fourth
were of the improved Asiatic varie-
ties. A few single coops were ex-
hibited by Detroit amateur fanciers,
but the largest exhibitor was Dr.
Murray, of Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo
county, who had commenced the
building of improved foreign breeds
of poultry as a permanent investment.
The Doctor was a unique character.
He was educated and polished in
manners, naturally lazy, but when he
chose to practice his profession stood
in the front rank of his peers. He
also made a specialty of breeding
Scotch and English terrier dogs. His
poultry business was a successful one
for several years and he distributed
hundreds of birds in pairs and trios
and eggs by the thousand throughout
Michigan and the adjoining states.
He was in poor health, and had the
reputation of being addicted to the
morphine habit, that destroyer of so
many bright intellects. At his best
he was a type of jolly, wholesouled
Scotchman. Competition in Michi-
gan and Ohio finally drove him out
ol business. He died early in life.
To him belongs the credit of being
the pioneer breeder of Asiatic poul-
try in Michigan, which has made our
State one of the most successful
poultry raising states in the Union.

The pioneer to improve the breed
oi poultry in the Grand River Valley
was James W. Sligh. He _ experi-
mented upon the various breeds of
Asiatic fowls by importing the eggs
from various breeds. He had Bra-
mahs, Buff Cochins, black and white

Shanghais and Chitagongs, for the
purpose of testing their relative
points of excellence. The Buff

Cochins and the light Bramahs ex-
celled them all, and were his favor-

ites, not only for their beauty of
plumage but for the table. The
others were dull in plumage, lazy,

coarse in appearance and without the
fineness of grain to make them fav-
orites for table use.

Here I may be pardoned for di-
verging for the purpose of paying a
slight tribute to the memory of my
old friend, Mr. James W. Sligh, so
long and favorably known and now
well remembered in Grand _ Rapids.
The wri.er had intimate business rela-
tions with him previous to his en-
listment in the army and knew him
thoroughly. He was a painstaking
expert at his trade and an honest
gentleman in every way. A Scotch-
man by birth he was among the first
to volunteer his services in defense of
his adopted country, and among the
earliest to give up his life for the
preservation of the Constitution he
had sworn to protect. Decoration
Day never returns without my mem-

 

ory reverting in pious remembrance
of that little band of heroes who left
Grand Rapids never to return.
W. S. H. Welton.
—_+-.___
Some Ways in Which Science Aids
Business.

Science, first antagonized by com-
mercial interests, is to-day the strong
right arm of business progress. A
business not conducted on a scientific
basis, not having a knowledge of the
scientific principles which are involv-
ed in it, can not succeed to-day.

The revolution from antagonism
to close intimacy has been remark-
able—due more to persistent research
and faith of scientists than to the
acumen of business men. But to-day
the business man does not and can
not stir without the aid of some fac-
tor of science.

Take his day’s work; he rides to
his work in an electric car; an ele-
vator shoots him to his proper floor
in the high building in which he
works; if he wants a messenger there
is a call box within a few feet of his

desk which will notify an agency
miles away; he uses the telegraph, the
telephone, the anunciator, without

thinking—and only the discoveries of
scienists have made them possible.

Tt took the business man a long
time to overcome his prejudice
against the new, and, so far as he was
concerned, the untried. Inventors
must force their products upon him:
and then he is constantly looking for
faulty production, either in the ma-
chine itself or in its accomplishments.
I have in mind one concern just now
which has expended enormous sums
of money trying to introduce one of
its latest products. There is no
question about its practical value or
of its ultimate adoption; but two or
three years will be required to make
its manufacture a paying  proposi-
tion—time consumed in arousing
business men to the possibilities of
this production.

And this backwardness, this stub-
bornness, is a more vital loss to busi-
ness collectively than to the manu-
facturers of the new device. The
profit which business men have lost
through delay in the adoption of
methods and devices now in com-
mon use can never be regained by
them.

But business men are learning that
science can aid them. I helped build
the first typewriter that came out. At
that time I had a shop in Newark
and a man from Milwaukee—a Mr.
Sholes—came to me with a wooden
model, which we finally got into
working shape. Then came the waste
of time and money before the type-
writer was looked upon as_ useful.
Now the business man sees that busi-
ness on a modern scale would be im-
possible without the help of this lit-
tle despised machine, based on scien-
tific principles. The typewriter man-
ufacturer eventually won back his in-
itial loss. But how about the busi-
ness man—the user?

Science comes much closer in its
offer of help to the business man
than merely in his use of mechani-

cal devices. The two greatest  in-

dustries of this country, which would
be unnamed to-day were it not
‘science, prove this,

for

The steel cor-

 

 

 

poration would be only a number of
scattered local furnaces and forges,
the packing industry would still be
made up of tens of thousands of little
one-man shops—if it had not been
for science, which in Pittsburg pro-
duces the best that is possible from
the raw material of iron or coke or
coal, and in Chicago works into some
useful product every part of the ani-
mal. And to-day the steel companies
and packing houses show their ap-
preciation of science by their $50,000-
a-year laboratories—which the men
in the shops may look upon as non-
productive and expense-consuming,
but which the owners know are the
heart which pumps the life-blood of
business—profit.

Science has its three great tasks
marked out for it in the commercial
world to-day: The elimination of
waste in production, the utilization
te the highest extent of power, and
the economy of human labor—these
are the chief problems in the devel-
opment of business.

After capital is assured, the three
great factors in production are mate-
rial, labor, power, which form a link
between the source of supply and
the egress of the finished product.
Science, in the laboratories, in the
mine and field, at the loom and en-
gine, is endeavoring to get more value
out of these three links.

Every business man has his small
problems to solve—concrete adapta-
tions of these three great problems
to his own business.. He needs sci-
ence to tell him what coal is the best
for his use; what ingredients to use
in his product to make it wear; how
to treat his wood to give it quality;
how to handle his processes to save
human labor; how ‘to turn into proft
his many wastes. The _ individual
business man needs the aid of science
here as does the business world in
its bigger problems.

The next question is this: How
shall the business man use science
to the betterment of his buiness—to
secure economy, efficiency and qual-
ity?

Many manufacturing houses, among
which I have mentioned the. steel
companies and the packing houses,
have permanent departments and em-
ploy a force of finely educated scien-
tists with costly equipments, whose
sole object it is to make improve-
ments in the product and in the proc-
esses of manufacture, to test mate-
rials and lower production costs.—

Thomas A. Edison in System.
———_22..—__—__

Went Around.

A man in Altoona, the owner of a
very fine forty-horse power limousine
motor car, failed last month, and
while his affairs were being settled
up the car disappeared. As soon as
everything had been adjusted, though,
the car reappeared in the Altoona
man’s garage again.

This angered one of the creditors,
and the first time he saw the bank-
rupt he took him bitterly to task.

“A nice bankrupt,” he said. “How
does it happen, if you're a_bank-
rupt, that you still have that automo-
bile?”

“Well, you see,” said the other,
smiling, “I went through the bank-
ruptcy court, but the automobile went
around.”

 

Hardware Price Current

AMMUNITION.
Caps.
G. D.. full count, per m.............. 40
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m............. 50
MIMSKEL “MEP We 75
Ely’s Waterproof, per m.............. 60
Cartridges.
INO. 22 Short, per. mo ................. 2 50
INO.) 22 lone. Per mo... ol 3 00
ING) 22 SHOR, per moo... .. 2... 60.0... 66
INO! 82 lone Per mers 1, 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.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

{RON
Or VENOM ceca ee 2 25 rate
Hight Mand oo ie... 3 00 rate
KNOBS—NEW LIST
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings ...... 75
Door, Porcelain, Jap. trimmings .... 85
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis.
METALS—ZINC
600 pound Casks -. 2.0.2... .0..0.. 0... 8
Ber DOUNG i000... io... ... 8
MISCELLANEOUS
0 ORT Ce ee 40
Pumps Oistera |...0........ ooo. 75&10
Seréws New ist ...................... 35
Casters, Bed and Plate ...... 50&10&10
Dampers, American .................. 50
MOLASSES GATES
Stebbing’ Pattern .................. 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring .......... 30
PANS
TBS, PROMO 60&10&10
Common, polished||................. 70&10
PATENT PLANISHED IRON

 

Drs. of oz. of Size Per | ‘‘A’’ Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100 | “B’’ Wood's pat. plan’d. No, 25-27.. 9 80
a if * a 8 ae Broken packages %c per Ib. extra.
3
ws 4 1% s WW So. PANGS
126 4 1% 6 10 g90|Ohlo Tool Co's fancy ................ 40
135 rey 1% 5 10 Sop ;sciata Pench fo... s ko... 50
154 4ig 1% 4 10 3 00| Sandusky Tool Co.’s fancy .......... 40
200 3/ i 10 12 9 50) Bench, frst quality ......5.......,.... 45
aa ay 1 : a : Be NAILS
23 3 1% vance ove > ire
oo ue 5 Bg Neth Steel & Wire
264 3% 1% 4 12 #1) Wire galls base .................... @ae
Discount, one-third and five per cent.|/29 to 60 advance ................. "Base
Paper Shells—Not Loaded. * . HG AGVaNCe: i606 cll. 5
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72 a Nance GH Ale a oN Wiee 44.66 6 @ ob a6 oe a6 6
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64 , advance Secale esa dan ee ec cade cece a co 20
HOVENCG Coo. 30
Gunpowder. SO AOMEMCC 45
Keres, 25 Ips:, per Kee =«............... & SO 2 vane e 70
% Kegs, 12% Itbs., per % keg...... 200 Eine © gddvance ..).1.................. 50
% Kegs, 614 Ibs., per 4 keg .......... 4d 60 | Casing 10 advance ..................., 15
Shot Casing § advance ....:..........,...., 25
‘i @asine G§ advance o.oo... sis. 35
In sacks containing 25 Ibs. Pinish 10 advance |................... 25
Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 1 S0 Wan 9 advance ................... a6
Rimish 6 advance .................... 45
Suctirs ACen OD Bite 60 Barrell 7% advanee ................... 85
Jennings’ genuine be ., aes 25 RIVETS
gennings: imitation ......4.......:.... 50|iron and tinned ...........:.......... 50
AXES Copper Rivets and Burs .............. 45
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.. 6 50 14x20 IC aoe PEATEs
First Quality, D. B. Bronze ......... 9 00 14430 1x Cheer Gee sho eeee eee 7 50
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel 1.22117! 7 00) 44x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean .......... 9 00
First Quality, D. B. Steel .......... 10 50| 29x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean .......... 15 00
i Sia 14x20, IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade 7 50
BARROWS ake a anc aoe eo
ae 20x% 2 yarcoal, Allaway Grade 0
Gates deat Be Chareeat Aleeey Grade if ot
ROPES
Stave BOLTS 70 Sisal, % inch and larger ............ 9%
Carriage, mew Wet ........0-......51., 4 SAND PAPER
HOW! Fe eee ee 60 Dist acet, 19 ($6... 0... dis. 50
BUCKETS SASH WEIGHTS
Well, plain ..::..... Go salves sccce ce ex 4 50/|Solid Eyes, per ton ................. 28 00
BUTTS, CAST SHEET IRON
Cast Loose, Pin, figured ............. G0 | NGOS 500 4c... 3 60
Wrougnt, Narrow 200.0200 0.. ool. eta 60 oe Haatuacdeueesacu q A
CHAIN OR EO CO Ce cocoa ceseccacc ec ec cce ccs 0
INGS) 22 10 24 eo ole
% in. 5-16 in. % in. % im.| Nos. 25 to 26 0020000000 420 400
co cacee Se ee No. 2 4 30 4 10
tte eee ees BC..-UAC.. 4C----0  €! All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 3
BBB... l6s.. 8%c....7%c....6%c....64%4C | inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
CROWBARS SHOVELS AND SPADES
Cast Steel, per Ib. ................200 o| Hirst) Grade, Doz |)... 5 50
CHISELS Second Grade, Doz... ................ 5 Ov
Socket Firmer ... 65 SOLDER
Socket Framing .. COG) ee 21
Socket Corner 65 The prices of the many other qualities
DOCKeL SUCKS Coe cc ae 65 | of solder in the market indicated by pri-
ELBOWS vate brands vary according to compo-
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz........ net 75 | Sition.
Comugated; per doz) (0.0..-........... 1 25 SQUARES
Adjustable ....+..+sseeeeeeee eee Gm WEN" Steel and Bron -........-.+.000-5 60-10-5
EXPANSIVE BITS TIN—MELYN GRADE
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 ........ 40) 10x14 IC) Chareoal’.../.............. 10 50
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30 ............ 25 | 14500 IC) Gharecal ....0). 22... 10 50
FILES—NEW LIST MORIA OM Charcoal... ls... os 12 00
New American ..........:.........- 70&10| Hach additional X on this grade.. 1 25
INICBOISON SS (oobi seca ce. 70 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE
Heller’s Horse Rasps ............. Oh i0nt4 WC, Chavceal .................. 9 00
420 IC) Charcoal .... 0... lc. 9 00
GALVANIZED 10x14 IX, Charcoal |.....21121! "10 50

List
Discount, 70.

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28
12 13 14 15 16 17

GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...... 60ec1u
GLASS
Single Strength, by box ......... dis. 90
Double Strength, by box ........ dis. 90
By the Hight 3.5.00) 3 oe... dis. 90
HAMMERS
Maydole & Co.’s new list ...... dis. 33%
Yerkes & Plumb’s ......:..... dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel ...... 30c list 70
HINGES
Gate, Clark's 1,2,°8 > ........... dis. 60&10
HOLLOW WARE
POES eae ces cc cciest csse es ccqccac ccs 50&10
ISOUELOS oc ee cs wesc a ecedese cass 50&10
Spiders ....... eee asec ees 6 Sa Sele «- 50&1lu
HORSE NAILS
Au Sable oo. .65600 3.6: 63... . dis. 40&10
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
Stamped Tinware, new list ....... wos 20
Japanese Tinware .......cevevereee HO0K10

 

14x20 EX, Charcoal i. .........e.00 55 10 59
Each additional X on this grade..1 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
14x56 IX., for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per th. 13
TRAPS
Steel, Game ooo... 0.2... ee... 75
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..40&10

Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s.. 65
Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ........ 1 25
Mouse, delusion, per doz............. 1 25
WIRE
Bright Market .......... Be oe eae ee 60
Annesied: Market ................)52 60
Coppered Market 2... .......c0s cece. 50&10
Tinned Market ....... .. 2.3... secsc ee 50&10
Coppered Spring Steel ............... 40
Barbed Fence, Galvanized ........... 2
Barbed Fence, Painted .............. 2 45
WIRE GOODS
Bright oi... eas cece s weds da 80-10
Screw Byes ......... -80-10
POOMS fcc 0 eae 80-10

  

Gate Hooks and Eyes ...

WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled .......... 80
Coe’s Genuine ...........0. ee sate ee cic -40
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought. .70-10

 

 

Crockery and Glassware
STONEWARE
Butters
Me Gar per doe... 44
5 tO 6 gal per doz..........2...... 5%
© Mak GCHCh . uo... 52
0 BAL GAG fo oe 65
ia @6r GGG oo kg 78
I> gal meat tube, each ......... «8
20 gal. meat tube. each ........... 1 50
20 @al. meat tubs each ........... 213
30 gal. meat tubs, each ............. 2 56
Churns
4. tO © gak per gal................. 6
Churn Dashers, per doz............. 84
Milkpans

% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 44

1 gal. flat or round bottom, each.. 5%
Fine Glazed Milkpans

% gal. flat or round bottom, per dos. 68

1 gal. flat or round bottom, each....

    

 

Stewpans
* gal. fireproof, ball. per dos...... 8
gal. fireproof, bail per dos........ 116
Jugs

me MRE Per Goe oo i.e. 56

1 Mal per dade... 4... 42

E to 5 gal, per gal..............., 7

SEALING WAX
5 Ibs. in package, per Ib............. 3
LAMP BURNERS
INO. 0 Sun ..........., nous 33
ING. 1 Sun ............ 40
No. 2 Sun ....... ace o. 00
ING. o Sun 2...) ‘ 87
Tubular ...... ae ccaces &
INUSING® 2.10.02 Seeetceeececs OO
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps

‘i Per groas
PE eee cece ee 5 25
OUarte eo ee 5 50
Me BONOR 6.2. 8 25
Caps. 2 26

Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dos.
Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each chimney in corrugated tube

  

No. 0, Crimp tap................ ecceckh 16

No. 1, Crimp top ........... 76

No. 2, Crimp top ........... cooced 16
Fine Filnt Glass in Cartons

No. 0, Crimp top ...... Pee eaceceeccce

No. 1, Crimp top ...............6...8 &

No. 2 Crimp top ....... eceece acccceee® 16
Lead Flint Glass in Cartons

No, @ Crimp top «....5...........,. e

No. ft, Crimp tap ............. eoeccee4 OO

No. 2, Crimp top ........ creescccccc ce OO

Pearl Top in Cartons
No. 1, wrapped and labeled ......... 4 60
No. 2, wrapped and labeled ....... 5 30

Rochester in Cartens
No. 2 Fine Flint, 10 in. (85c doz.)..4 60
No. 2, Fine Flint, 12 in. ($1.85 dos.) 7 60
No. 2, Lead Flint, 10 in. (950 doz.) 6 6@
No. 2, Lead Flint, 12 in. ($1.65 dos.) 8 76

Electric in Cartons
No. 2, Lime (75c doz.) ...... ecceeceh AO
No. 2, Fine Flint, ¢ c doz.) ......4 60
No. 2, Lead Flint, (95c dos.) .......5 60
LaBastle
No. 1, Sun Plain Top, ($1 doz.) ....6 7@
No. 2, Sun Plain Top, ($1.26 0s.)..6 9

OIL. CANS
gal. tin cans with spout, per dos..1 26
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..1 40
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..2 25
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..3 26
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..4 10
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 85
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz 4 50
gal. Tilting cans ..... 3
5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas

LANTERNS
No. 0 Tubular. side Hit ............. 4 60
NO. 2 Vabular ..............0. 6 75
INO. 15 Tubular dash ................ 6 75
No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern .........7 76
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp ......... 12 00
No, 3 Street lamp, each ............-38 &@

LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 100 60
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. 18c 66
No. 0 Tub., bbls: 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 1 90
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. e. 1 26
BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.

No. 0 % in. wide, per gross or roll. 28
No. 1, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 38
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

WATER IN BUTTER.

Rapid Method of Determining the
Exact Percentage.

Having given the subject of mois-
ture content in butter considerable
attention, the writer perfectly
safe in stating that none of the meth-

feels

ods for determining water in butter
the need felt by the
manufacturer and_ dealer.
The most approved methods require
skill and time for operation, expen-
Sive apparatus, and several hours to
complete a moisture determination.
Probably the most satisfactory rapid
method is that described by H. Droop
Richmond, which, in substance, is as
follows: Weigh out 5

have supplied
average

to 10 grams of
butter into a suitable tared receptacle
(dish or beaker containing a glass
stirring rod); heat over a direct flame
or on a sand bath, while stirring con-
stantly, until all foaming ceases; cool
and again weigh, the percentage of
loss being calculated and considered
as water.
Other simple been
devised, but on account of not giving
accurate results they have been of lit-
tle value. Appreciating the need of a
simple and accurate method for de-
termining water content in butter,
and believing that method
material
dealer

methods have

such a
would be. of the

exporter,

value to
and
whether handling butter on a large or

manufacturer,

a small scale, the writer has spent
time and effort in at-
tempting to devise such a test. A
number of have tried,
some giving results more or less sat-
isfactory, but only one has been per-
fected to such an extent as to give
results

considerable

schemes been

which
The writer firmly believes that
with this method (requiring apparatus
costing but a few dollars) anyone of

seem wholly satisfac-

tory.

average intelligence, after a few trials,
may make moisture determinations
will compare very favorably
with the results obtained by the most
approved method now in use.

which

The apparatus required for making
the test is as follows:

3alance: Sensitive to 0.025 gram.
A balance suitable for weighing sam-
ples of cream for the Babcock test
should be satisfactory for weighing
samples of butter for this test: how-
ever, there are many cream balances
in use which are not accurate enough
for weighing either cream or butter
samples.

Weights: One 5-grani and one 1o0-
gram.

Graduate: For measuring 6 c. c.

Burner: If gas is not readily avail-
able an alcohol lamp may be used.

Paper: Parchment, 5 by 5 inches;
must be perfectly dry.

Special
figuers.

apparatus: As shown in
Referring to figure 1, A is a
flask of a capacity of a little over
7oc.c. Cis a graduated tube, which
is connected with the flask A by
means of a rubber stopper, B. F is
a glass stopper ground into the tube
C. Each glass stopper is ground to
fit a particular tube and _ will not
properly fit other tubes. Each stop-
per and tube should be marked, by
the manufacturers, to eliminate the
danger of using a tube with a stop-

 

per which has not been ground to
fit. The tube C is graduated after
this glass stopper F has been ground
in, the zero mark being the end of
the stopper. Each mark of the grad-
uation represents one-fiftieth c. c., or
when a 10-gram sample of butter is
used each mark represents two-
tenths of I per cent. of water. E is
a glass condensing jacket connected
to the graduated tube C by rubber
stopper D, as shown in figure 1, or

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ground onto the bulb of the tube C
at the point D, as shown in figure 2
The apparatus shown in figure 1, hav-
ing the condensing packet connected
by means of a rubber stopper, is the
form which seems most satisfactory
for general use.

Rubber stoppers: The rubber stop-
per B will be slowly decomposed by
the heat and reagent during the pro-
cess of making the tests. As a stop-
per is rendered unfit for use by mak-
ing about 100 determinations, extra
rubber stoppers should be obtained.

Reagents.

Amy] reagent: A mixture of amyl
acetate 5 parts and amyl] valerianate
I part. Must be free from water-
soluble impurities in order to give
accurate results. Users not in posi-
tion to test this reagent for impuri-
ties should insist on a tested article.

Alcohol (for burning) when alcohol
lamp is used.

Making a Determination.

Preparing the sample: The sample
of butter is placed in a suitable con-
tainer (1-pint Mason jar or metal cup
will be satisfactory). This container
is placed in water at about 100 deg.

F. The butter is stirred with a
spatula or spoon until it is about the
consistency of thick cream and no
free water can be seen. Samples of
butter should not be left standing in
open containers any length of time
before making water determination,
as some of the moisture will evapor-
ate and the percentage of water
shown when the determination is fin-
ally made will be too low.

Weighing the sample: Place on
pan of the balance one sheet
of parchment paper and balance ac-
curately. Place the 1o-gram weight on
one pan and balance again by placing
butter on the parchment paper on the
opposite pan, placing the sample as
near the center of the paper as pos-
sible.

Transferring sample to flask: When
exactly Io grams are weighed out re-
move the sample from the pan and
fold it in the parchment paper in
such a shape that the paper and but-
ter may be slipped into the flask A.
Always use care that none of the but-
ter is lost in transferring.

Adding amyl reagent: Fill the
graduate with amyl reagent to the
mark 6 c. c., first being sure that the

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of moisture determination, showing differeat
manner of connecting condensing jacket.

 

graduate is free from water. Place
the 6 c. c. of amyl reagent in the
flask with the butter.

Connecting the apparatus: Connect
the apparatus as shown in figure 1
and fill the condensing jacket E with
cool water to within 1 inch of the
top. Remove the stopper F.

Distilling off the water: Be sure
that the glass stopper F is removed.

Place the apparatus over the flame

 

of the burner, applying heat to the

bottom of the flask A. In a short
time the butter will melt, running
from the parchment paper into the
amyl reagent. The water in the sam-
ple then boils and passes as steam
into the tube C, where it is con-
densed and trapped. Watch the con-
densation in the graduated part of the
tube C, and do not let the steam get
higher than the 15 per cent. mark.
If it goes higher than this, remove
the flame, as there is danger of wa-
ter being lost. If there is any indi-
cation of liability of the mixture in
the flask A foaming over, remove the
flame. Foaming is usually prevented
by 6 c. c. of amyl reagent, but some
samples of butter, especially those of
high moisture, require a trifle more
than 6 c. c. In case of continued
foaming, allow the mixture in the
flask to cool, and add about 2 c. c.
of the amyl reagent, and continue
heating. After the water in the
sample has boiled out the tempera-
ture rises and the amyl reagent boils,
driving the last traces of water and
water-vapor from the flask and bot-
tom of the stopper. Some of the
amyl reagent is carried into the tube
C with the steam, and some is boiled
over after the water has been driv-
en off. This amyl reagent in the
tube is of no disadvantage.

Determining when all water
evaporated:

has

The time required for driving all
water from the sample is not less
than five minutes and with most sam-
ples need not be more than eight
minutes. When the mixture in the
flask becomes a brown color and all
the cracking noises in boiling cease,
it is safe to conclude that all water
has been driven from the flask.

Disconnecting the apparatus:

Disconnect the flask A fromthe
stopper B, place the glass stopper
F in the tube C, giving it a slight
turn to insure its being held firmly;
invert the tube C, first being sure
that the mouth of the small tube in-
side the bulb is held upwards; pour
the water from the condensing jacket
E, after which the jacket may be
removed.

Separating amyl reagent from the
water:

When the tube C is inverted the
water and amyl reagent flow into the
graduated part of the tube. To sep-
arate these and to get the last traces
of water down into the graduated
part the tube C is held with the bulb
in the palm of the hand and the stop-
pered end away from the body, rais-
ed to a_ horizontal position, and
swung at arm’s length sharply down-
ward to the side. This is repeated
a number of times until the dividing
line between the water and amyl re-
agent is very distinct and no amyl
reagent can be seen with the water
or vice versa. The tube should then
be held a short time with the stop-
pered end downward and the amy]
reagent in the bulb of the tube agi-
tated in order to rinse down any wa-
ter that may be adhering to the
sides of the bulb.

Reading the test:

The reading should not be taken
until the tube and its contents have
cooled so that very little warmth is
felt. The water is in the bottom of

 

the tube, and when a Io-gram sam-

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

39

 

ple is taken the percentage may be
read directly. Read to the lower part

of the meniscus.

Other than tlo-gram samples:
iWth butter very low in moist-
ure it may be desirable to take a

15-gram sample, and with butter ex-
tremely high 5-gram samples may be
used. The reading multiplied by 10
and the product divided by the weight
in grams of the sample taken equals
the percentage of water.

Time required:

To make a determination, includ-
ing weighing sample, requires from
fifteen to twenty minutes.

Cleaning the Apparatus.

Flask:

The flask may be cleaned by wash-
ing with soap, washing powder, or
washing soda in hot water. It is not
absolutely necessary to wash the flask
after each determination; the residue
may be poured out and the flask wip-
ed with a cloth or thin paper. The
flask must always be dry (free from
water) before making a determina-
tion.

Graduated tube:

After making the test empty the
tube C by holding the stoppered end
downward, removing the stopper and
allowing the contents to flow out
quickly. In this way the amyl re-
agent runs out after the water and
carries with it practically all of the
water, which might otherwise ad-
here to the tube. The tube, after
should be swung in the
manner described for separating wa-
ter from amyl reagent, which will al-
most completely empty it. Follow-
ing this plan it is not necessary to
dry the tubes after each determina-
tion. Occasionally the tubes should
be washed carefully with a hot solu-
tion of sodium carbonate (sal soda)
and thoroughly dried before

emptying,

using.

C.E, Gray,
—_22 > ___
Nerve the Chief Possession of Him
Who Wins.

When Napoleon, himself a worker
of considerable energy and not a few
attainments, declared that in his opin-
ion the best thing in the world was
courage that would do business no
when it was called upon, he
struck a truth that many other work.
ers have discovered for themselves:
About the best asset that a worker
can have is nerve. One of the worst
assets is nerves, and an asset that
depends entirely upon circumstances
as to whether it is good or bad is
cheek. Sometimes it carries its pos-
sessor through a crisis to success.
Sometimes he would have succeeded
had he not had it.

matter

But of the importance and value

of nerve there is no question. Will
Payne, a short story writer, who
himself has had nerve enough to

come up out of the rut to a hand-
some income and considerable pres-
tige as a writer upon — specialized
business topics and political topics, of
which he is a master, has tabulated
a list of those big business men
whose nerve has stood them in good
stead in crises in which less courage-
ous men might have failed easily.
Mr. Payne and every other special-
ist who has studied the lives of suc-
cessful men know that it is not a
question of money, or of people, or

 

of opportunity, or of ability so much
as it is a question of nerve. For the
worker who has will com-
mand money, can make opportunity,
needs not the assistance of others,
and if he has not native ability pos-
sesses the pertinacity to enable him
to stick to a thing until he has mas-
tered it.

nerve

One trouble is that too many men
confuse nerve and cheek. They pre-
fer the brass band effects of the
manewho always is shouting about
himself, who always is pushing his
way through crowds and_ elbowing
cthers out of the way, to the quiet,
self-contained advance that is
by the man with nerve instead of
cheek.

made

There are businesses in
which cheek is necessary. The insur-
ance agent or book agent, for in-
stance, who would try to do busi-
ness always with the soft pedal on,
who would not yield to the tempta-
tion to break his way through by the
exercise of cheek, would likely find
that others had secured the
that he had set his eyes
mixture of cheek does no harm in
many other callings. The idea is to
have something back of it.

some

prizes
upon, <A

The man who went to call upon the
great financier and who was met in
an outer office by an attendant who
thrust in his face a card reading,
“Mr. Blank wants to see Mr. Jones
about ——-,” and who filled up the
blank space following the word
“about” with the line “ten minutes”
had the right quality of cheek. It
got his card singled out for attention
by the busy man inside. He got
inside himself. Then he sat down
and had a knee to knee talk with the
great man which was of exceeding
profit to himself and which gave the
great man another idea about the re-
sourcefulness of the human race.

Quitters don’t get anything in this
world. Any successful man can find
in his own experience times when he
was tempted to quit on this or that
proposition. He held on and success
came. There is a vast difference be-
tween nerve and_ bulllieadedness.
There are plenty of men who make
it a point never to quit. They call
themselves Indians and pride them-
selves upon the way that they stick
to anything they have embarked on
They even reach out into the future
and promise what they will do, how
long they will stick, etc. All of which
is a waste of words.

One of the wisest politicians in this
country says: “Never tell anybody
that upon next Tuesday afternoon at
2 o'clock you will at the corner of
State and Madison streets punch Mr.
Smith’s nose.” Now, the man who
lays this down as a good rule is the
farthest removed from a quitter that
it is possible to imagine. He has
all kinds of nerve, but he says his
rule is founded upon common sense.
He says that it is the worst sort of
foolishness to go peering into the fu-
ture with definite threats. He would
not look upon it as nerve to make
a threat like this, but as cheek un-
backed by discretion. And a mixture
of discretion with nerve is not a
bad. thing.

In life the wise man tries to hit the
mark. He tries to achieve what he

 

has set out to achieve, and in this
one of the best aids’ that
he can have is his nerve. He should
let nothing break this or impair it.

endeavor

should not be allowed fo
If he is in the right
he should stick to that way.
way is

weaken.

and happiness are at the end of it.
Cheek won’t get him to them. Quit-
ting won't get him to them. There
is only one thing that will hold up
his hands and comfort him
the road, and that thing is nerve. He
can nurture it by reading and _ hear-

along

ing of what other men have accom-
plished. He can improve it by exer-
cise. There is no such thing as nerve
that springs up for a moment, like a
firefly and then is gone.
a thing of steady growth.
he who ever shall stand in need of
it--and who is there shall not—
should encourage it by every means

Nerve is
Therefore

|

He should not submit to oppression, |

for once lost that nerve will never |
return. 3usiness disaster, poor |
health, disappointment of any sort |

make the |
possessor of nerve feel that he should |
way |
If the |

right success and vealization |

in

his power, for it is the chief
possession of him who wins.
N, J. Stock
SEES

You do not obtain sanctity by sub-

| tracting sense from spirituality.

 

 

 

 

It Does Pay

To handle the best line of

Harnesses

That Is Why

so many firms sell
our make.

Write for catalog and
price list.

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

 

 

 

 

U. S. Horse Radish Company
Saginaw, Mich.

Wholesale Manufacturers of

Pure Horse Radish

 

         

rar U se
AMERICAN FOOD INSPECTION
CURA Re me)

NEW YORK

Put aside your summer bonnet
And tackle a sirloin steak;

“AS YOU

LIKE IT” horse radish

When thus the fast you break.

 

 

 

 

 

Established 1872

Buy the Best

 

 

 

Jennings’
avoring Extracts

 

 

the past 34 years.

deal at all times.

Known and used by the consuming public for
The Jennings brand is
worth 100 per cent. in your stock all the time.
We shall hope for a continuance of your
orders during 1907, assuring you of a square

-F FJ F SF SF SF ZB

 

 

19 and 21 South Ottawa St.

 

Jennings Manufacturing Co.

Owners of the
Jennings Flavoring Extract Co.

Grand Rapids

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan re of the Grip.
President, H. C. ocksiem, 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 Secretary, W. F. Tracy,

 

Flint.
Grand Rapids Council No 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, W. D Simmons;

Secretary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

Making Work for the Road Pleas-
urable.

If you have obtained any measure
of success it may be taken for grant-
ed that you succeeded because you
had a certain objective in view and
worked energetically and confidently
toward it. From this it may be rea-
soned that if you still further
to succeed you have a defi-
nite aim—you must avoid the bad
make-shift way “letting well
enough alone,” of depending on the
future to shape itself.

You must have an ideal which
pleases you that the work necessary
to be done before you can realize that

wish
must

of

SO

ideal will seem pleasant.

So it natural that you
desire to make your daily work both
pleasant and profitable. The best way
to do this is to have a keen interest
in everything you do. When a duty
looms ahead in the straight line of
progress, don’t think merely of get-
ting it over with, and out of the
—think of performing it to the
of your ability—of doing it as
as you can.

is should

way
best
well

Some wise man said: “Whatever is

worth doing at all is worth doing
well.” If you follow this advice you
will not have tasks to do over again.
You will find each is accomplished
more easily than if you had gone at
it in a half-hearted way, and that
each becomes a pleasure and not a

hardship. You will find pleasure in
doing the things you are accustomed
to do in the daily routine of your
business, and an equal pleasure in
turning to new efforts that your prog-
ress will fit you for.

There is no better evidence of one’s
desire to succeed—of one’s liking for
work— than punctuality. To feel well
and in good spirits is a great help
in getting a day’s work accomplish-
ed satisfactorily. The next best thing
to health and fitness is a conscious-
ness of being punctual—of being al-
ways on time. It is half the battle
of business life to be prompt in meet-
ing all engagements, and to have
every detail so far as possible regu-
lated by system.

 

Irregular habits lead to indifference
to laziness, which akin to
servitude. No man can long retain
his ambition if he feels that his work
is in the nature of servitude. With-
out ambition he likely to have
little pleasure in the performance of
his duties and little confidence in his
ability to win out in the race for
success. If he has not pleasure in
his work it is almost certain that it
will not be performed as well as_ it

should be.
If you don’t like your work you

is

-—and

is

_MICHIGAN

are going to have lots of sede, for

most of us will keep on working
It will help
you to succeed if you like your work;

if
lif

| whether we like it or not.

 

you are loyal to your employer;
you work with equal earnestness
and cheerfulness; if you show a gen-
uine willingness to learn from any-
body; if you learn to work with as
much rapidity as is consistent with
accuracy; if you admit mistakes
when you make them and take pains
to avoid making the same mistake
twice; if you bear a good will and
helping hand to your co-workers; if
you exclude personal affairs and in-
terests from your mind during work-

|
|
|

a id
anes

, leads a charmed life,
and numerous rail
as much as a scratch.

Co., evidently

several runaways

near Gowan.
taken the same course if it had gone
fifteen passengers, all of whom may

of their party.

ing hours, and get into the habit of
concentration; if you are industrious
always; if you are  punctual—al-
if you resolve to earn an ad-
vance in salary—not to wait for it.—
W. P. Minnick in Salesmanship.
—~»+2.____
He Knew His Business.

Wise—I always swear off smoking
just before Christmas.

Green—Why?

Wise—If I didn’t my wife would

 

 

ways;

give me a box of cigars.
-_s---——_———_____

Speak a good word for your friends
--even if you can’t talk where they
will hear you.

 

 

TRADESMAN

Good be from the Sawdust City.

Muskegon, Jan. 8—The week just
closed, ushering in the new year, has
been one of reflection and consequent
good nature on the part of both em-

ployers and employes in this city.
The year 1906 has been good, but
now it is “better for 1907.”

Little or nothing has been doing
in the industrial line here. Inventory
has claimed much of the attention.
All of the factories are working up
to the limit the same as during the
past year.

The Loescher Tannery Co. is pre-
paring to erect an addition that will
substantially increase its floor ca-

 

Cornelius Crawford, Vice-President of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug

inasmuch as he has beer the hero of

way accidents without ever receiving

He was mixed up in the serious wreck on the Pere
Marquette on Jan. 1, when three cars went down the steep embankment
The coach in which Mr.

Crawford was traveling would have
one foot farther. The coach contained
thank their stars that the lucky man

of Michigan—frequently referred to as the Michigan Mascot—was a member

pacity and output. The Pere Mar-
quette shops are rushed to the ut-
most with repair work.

One of this city’s busiest concerns
is the Linderman Manufacturing Co.,
located in the eighth ward. The Cen-
tral Paper Co. and the Chase-Hack-
ley Piano Co., located in the same
district, are all rushed with work and
orders.

While factories are working and
there is a scarcity of labor in this
city the reorganized Chamber of
Commerce will now take the field
and the big banquet on the evening
of January 16 is expected to open a
new field of work in the factory land-
ing line,

 

 

The Chamber of Commerce has
been fortunate in securing for the
address of the evening George G.
Whitworth, President of the Grand
Rapids Board of Trade. Three hun-
dred covers will be laid for the ban-

 

quet and the affair will be held in
the New Arbeiter hall.
—_2»+2___

From Smith To Menzies.
Detroit, Jan. 8—Charles E. Hodges
is one of the salesmen of the old
C. E. Smith Shoe Co. who did not
remain long out of a position when
He is with the Menzies Shoe Co., of
eH is with the Menzies Shoe Co., of
this city, covering the western half
of Michigan, and has done a fine busi-
ness.

Mr. Hodges is 39 years of age and
has been in the shoe business about
ten years. Six or eight seasons he ‘
spent with Saginaw a and two
seasons with the C. E. Smith Co.

He Hee and has a
great many friends, a fact which has
assisted him greatly in increasing the

is a good

business of his territory. He lives
in Saginaw.
—__>-+-.__

Hard Lines at Last.

All his life in a union shop
He earned his daily bread:

They buried him in a union grave,
When the union man was dead.

He had a union doctor

nd he had a union nurse;
He had a union coffin

And he had a union hearse,

They put*him in a union grave
When he was good and dead:
They put up a union monument

Just above his head.

And then he went to Heaven,

3ut to stay he didn’t care:
He kicked because he said that no
Strict union men were there.

He then went to the other place,
And there produced his card;
Then Satan threw an earnest face

And studied good and hard.

And then he laughed,

T

his hands did rub

ill he thought he’d never stop.

“Tord bless your soul,’ said Beelzebub,
“This is an open shop!”

The
with

more discontented a man _ is

others the better satisfied he

will be with himself.

 

 

 

Livingston Hotel
Grand Rapids, Mich.

In the heart of the city, with-
i1a 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

 

 

FOR SALE
General Stock

In thrifty Central Michigan town of
350 population, stock of shoes, dry goods
and groceries. Inventories $2,590. This
stock is located in store building with
living rooms on second floor. Rent, $12
per month. Leased until May 1, 1908,
and can be rented again. Nearly all cash
business. For further particulars address

TRADESMAN Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich,

 

 

 

 

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REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.

 

C. L. Glasgow, the Nashville Hard-
ware Dealer.

Cassius L. Glasg6w was born on a
farm near Jonesville, Hillsdale coun-
ty, February 16, 1858. He is of Scotch
parentage. His father came to Mich-
igan before the railroads had entered
the State. His education was received
in the district schools and the Jones-
ville union school, finishing at Hills-
dale College.

He remained on the farm until he

decided to start life for himself, when

he engaged to clerk in a hardware

store in Jonesville. Later, getting
the Western fever, he left his native
State, bringing up, after several

weeks of investigation, at Sioux City,
Iowa, where he obtained employment
in a wholesale hardware store as as-
sistant book-keeper and billing clerk.
This position he retained until called
home a year later by the sickness of
his mother. Being the youngest and
only unmarried member of his fath-
er’s family, he was persuaded to re-
main in Michigan. In 1881 he went
to Nashville and purchased the hard-
ware business of C. C. Wolcott, which
he has conducted with marked suc-
cess to the present time.

In 1896 he added a furniture de-
partment to his business, which has
also proved a success, his lines now

comprising hardware, furniture and
farm implements.
His unquestioned honesty and

frank, open manner in the treatment
of customers have won for him a host
of friends and built up a large busi-
ness and he is regarded as one of the
brightest and best business men in
Barry county.

He is an active working member in
both the Masonic and Knights of
Pythias fraternities.

He was born and raised a Repub-
lican and has always been a willing
and energetic worker for the success
of his party. He enjoys the confi-
dence of all political workers, being
known as a man who works for the
party’s good without thought of per-
sonal reward.

He has never been an office seeker
in any sense of the term and up to
four years ago never held any office
at the hands of the people aside from
President of the village in which he
lives, once by appointment and once
by election without an opposing can-
didate. At the Senatorial conven-
tion, held in the fall of 1902, he was
the unanimous choice of the dele-
gates as their candidate for Senator
from the Fifteenth district, compris-
ing the counties of Barry and Eaton.
He made such a good record on the
floor and in the committee rooms of
the Senate that he was unanimously
nominated two years later to suc-
ceed himself for a second term. On
account of his excellent judgment and
unusual tact, as well as his ability as
a forceful and convincing speaker, he
was elected President of the Senate,
over which he presided with rare
dignity and discretion, receiving the
commendation and approval of every
member of that body.

Mr. Glasgow was married to Miss
Matie C. Miller, of Jonesville, in 1881,
after establishing himself in business
at his present location.

 

Mr. Glasgow possesses a charming
personality which naturally attracts
and holds men. One can not come
in contact with him without feeling
that he is in the presence of a true
gentleman. His aim is to do right,
to stand for the right and to be kind
to all. He does not preach to others,
but he sets them an example. In an
unostentatious yet magnetic manner
he shows them the way. “One of the
best and finest of men,” say all, and
a man with that reputation must have
earned it.

—_22++__
Movements of Michigan Gideons.

Detroit, Jan. 8—C. F. Louthain, S.
T. Kinsey, W. H. Andrews, F. S.
Frost, B. S. Shaw, Silas M. Wright,
J. A. Sherick, Harry F. Mayer and
H. E. Freeman, with their wives,
were at 94 East street, Grand Rapids,
New Year’s eve and had a feast long
to be remembered. Reverend John
R. T. Lathrop was present and re-
lated some of his experiences. Broth-
ers Andrews and Freeman were ap-
pointed as a committee to call on the
brothers who are in arrears and to
draft resolutions to be signed by each
member agreeing to pay dues and
maintain the watchword—“And every
man stood in his place.”

William Dwight Barnard, Manis-
tee, has joined the Gideons and will
be assigned to Grand Rapids Camp.
His membership number is 6,382.

Samuel P. Todd, Bay City, repre-
sents Alma College, and when time
permits holds evangelical services.
Two years ago he held services at
Flushing and there were 150 convert-
ed, and last winter at Calumet a like
number. December 31 to January 3
Brother Todd held services at Grace
Presbyterian church, Saginaw, W. S.,
assisted by the pastor, Rev. F. E.
Davy. The writer attended one of
these services on Jan. 2 and distened
to a very convincing appeal to the
lost and unsaved. Brother Todd will
be at Deckerville this week and next,
holding evangelistic services, and will
go to Calumet February I as a sup-
ply at the First Presbyterian church
for three months. This is the record
of one Michigan Gideon.

C. W. McPhalan, Ludington, made
his annual trip through Bay City Jan.
2. He has his route down so fine
that if the train is on time he makes
his trip through Bay City exactly at
the same time to the hour and min-
ute, and dates ahead for the next
year with the same exactness.

At a meeting of Detroit Camp of
Gideons a motion was tabled until
Saturday, Jan. 19, inviting the next
Gideon State convention to meet in
this city. The brothers present
thought that some of the younger
Camps, like Saginaw, Bay City or
Lansing, ought to have this conven-
tion, and that the brothers who are
aware of this action should notify the
three camps mentioned and send in
their invitations before the Detroit
Camp secures the prize.

L. B. Langworthy was in Chicago
last week on a pill-gram-mission. He
has moved to 415 South Fayette
street, Saginaw, W. S., near a very
attractive young married couple, and
it is expected he will become less
excitable and see how lonely it is
to live alone, and prescribe for him-

 

 

self a companion
doubtless, is one

with wings. This,
of his New Year’s
resolutions. The Saginaw Camp is
now planning for a big meeting and
the boys can then tell him how to
carry out his wise decision,

L. R. Russell, of Bay City Camp,
was home last week and used one of
his mattresses. The State Secretary
did not know before why some-of the
Bay City boys had not paid their
dues for 1907. It seems they get home
and lie down on one of Brother Rus-
sell’s matresses and forget all their
troubles.

Geo. H. Johnson, Saginaw, ‘was
home from one of his long trips last
week and attended revival services
at Grace Presbyterian church.

F. M. Milborn, Saginaw, was in
3ay City last week representing Hib-
bard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., Chica-

go. He is now a 1907 Gideon.

Aaron B. Gates.
—_-+-.____
Progress of the Two Cent Mileage
Measure.

In accordance with his previous
promise, Governor Warner referred

at some length to the reduction of
railway fares in his bi-ennial message
to the Legislature, advocating a flat
2c rate on all roads in the Lowe:
Peninsula where the receipts exceed
$1,000 per mile, which
every line over which
considerable amount
recommendations of
were as follows:

include
there is
of travel.

the

will
any
The

Governor

: An important matter which, in my
judgment, should have attention at this

session of the Legislature is the subject
of railroad passenger fares. An exami-
nation of the reports of the railroad
companies discloses the fact that, with
a single exception, the passenger earn-
ings of the various companies which
have reduced their passenger rates dur-
ing recent years, increased in volume im-
mediately following the reduction, com-
parison being made with earnings for a
like period preceding the reduction. There
has been a steady increase in passenger
earnings of Michigan railroads during the
past ten years, the average increase be-
ing about 60 per cent. for that period.

am of the opinion that the law
of this State should be amended so as
to make the maximum passenger fare
that may be charged in the Upper Pen-
insula 3 cents per mile, and the maxi-
mum rate in the Lower Peninsula, with
the possible exception of that charged by
a few independent companies whose pas-
senger earnings are less than $1,000 a
mile, 2 cents per mile. The Legislature
ean, I think, be depended upon to deal
justly with the smaller indepndent roads
to which reference is made.

Two years ago I called attention to
the fact that several railroad companies
whose passenger earnings had passed the
limit fixed by law for a decrease in pas-
senger rates had, after demand for such
decrease had been made by proper state
authority, been enabled to continue to
eollect the higher rate for several years
pending the final disposal of an appeal
to the courts. In that message, while
recognizing the right of the companies
to such appeal, I suggested that much of
the litigation could doubtless be avert-
ed if there was enacted a law provid-
ing that whenever the courts did not
sustain the appeal of the company in
such cases said companies be required
to pay into the state treasury an amount
equal to twice the excess of passenger
fares collected during the pendency of the
cases in court. The case which was the
cause for the recommendation two years
ago is still undecided and the company
in question is still collecting the higher
rate. During the past year another com-
pany has been added to the list. I,
therefore, renew the recommendation just
mentioned.

In accordance with his promise to
the traveling men and in line with
the suggestion of the Governor, Sen-
ator Russell has requested the At-
torney General to draft a bill cover-
ing this proposed change in the law.
It is the intention of both Senator
Russell and Attorney General Bird to
make the bill as short as possible
and to conform as nearly as may be
to the Ohio law, which has been sus-

 

tained by the Supreme Court of that
State. Senator Russell wisely con-
cludes that the request of the travel-
ing men for legislation covering the
interchangeable mileage book feature
should be taken up by a separate bill,
if at all, and the Tradesman feels no
in stating that it believes
Senator is

hesitation
the
sion. If he succeeds in getting a flat
2c rate bill through the Legislature,
he will be doing all that could be ex-

correct in his conclu-

pected of him and, besides, the

Tradesman sees no justice in insist-

ing on the railroads going to the ex-
pense of maintaining a mileage bu-

reau to clear the interchangeable book
in case they meet the provisions of
law promptly and
There should be a provi-
sion in the law to the effect that any
railroad which contests the law be
made to pay a heavy penalty for fares

the 2c ,per mile

cheerfully.

collected illegally and unjustly during
the pendency of the litigation.
ee
Jackson Patriot: Yesterday mark-
ed the day for a business conference
happenings for the
ployes of the stock company of Foote

and social em-

& Jenks. It is a custom which has
prevailed for about five years. The
traveling salesmen and local repre
sentatives of the concern, manufac-

tuerers and wholesalers of perfumes
and flavoring extracts, met at dinner
at the Jackson City club and follow-
ing the feasting the business session
held with H. F. De Graff, of
Grand Rapids, acting as the presiding
oincer ©. RR. Foster. of 3Zattle
Creek, served as the secretary. The
traveling salesman coming the great-
est distance for the
G. . Calkins, of
The company does most of its busi-
ness in a district bounded on the east
by Pittsburg, south by the Ohio riv-
er, west by Omaha and north by
Canada. Many poinits of business in-
terest and profit to those concerned
were brought out at the conference.

was

conference
Des

was
Moines, la.

The work of the next year was also
outlined. A steady increase of busi-
ness is reported and the
about 6,000 regular cus-
One of the marked accom-
plishments of the company during the
past year has been with the special
preparation of terpeneless citrus con-

company
now has

tomers.

centrations for flavoring now recog-
nized as standards by the Government
pure food commission.
the social feature. The eight
salesmen, their wives and the local
employes of the company numbering
in all 32 had supper at the Otsego at
7:30 and sperit the evening in the
hotel parlors with an entertainment,

Last evening
was

furnished by several of those  em-
ployed with the company. The high
character of the program reflects

nothing but credit to the participants
and to the concern with whom they
identified. E. F. Jordan acted
as toastmaster.
2-2

Joseph P. Visner has returned from
New York, where he attended the
annual convention and banquet of the
eighty traveling representatives of
Edwin J. Gillies & Co. The conven-
tion lasted four days and the ban-
quet included six courses. Mr. Vis-
ner responddqd to the topic, The auto
as an assistant to the city salesman.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Board

of Pharmacy.
President--Henry H.

eim, Saginaw.

'with the string.

jtree and shut your eyes and take as

backward
you

many
warts

steps
that

as you have
have jest doctored
Then turn around,
cpen your eyes and walk away with-

;out lookin’ back and the warts will
igit well.”

Secretary—Sid. A. Erwin, Battle Creek. |

Treasurer—W. E. Collins, Owosso; J. D
Cadillac.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-

on. |
President—John L. Wallace, Kalama-_| a .
Zz |‘That’s a sty on your eye. Then you

jsay: “That’s a lie,’ and the sty will

00.

First Vice-President—G. W. Stevens,
Detroit.

Second Vice-President—Frank L. Shil-
ley, Reading.

Third Vice-President—Owen Raymo,
Wayne.

Secretary—E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—H. G. Spring, Unionville.

zoo; John S. Bennett, Lansing; Minor E.
Keyes, Detroit; J. E. Way, Jackson.

 

 

Week’s Experience in a Retail Drug
Store.

“IT reckon I’ve told you several ways
of curin’ warts, but I know ‘some
more good ways if the ones I’ve told
you ain't handy. If you can find
an old stump with water standin’ in
the top of it, wash your hands in it
and not think of a ‘possum while you
are washin’ ’em and the warts will
go away. If you can’t do that mebby
this one’ll be easier: Find a smooth
pebble and rub it on the warts and
then lay it back jest exactly like you
found it. If you can do that the
warts will git well.”

ed in her occupation of smoking and

This appeared to exhaust her fund
of information about warts for the

sia: Shaina Martie: Atekur or Webber. time being for, after a short puffing

|period, she continued:

“A good way

to cure a sty is to let somebody come

|

j

|with an exclamation as if
igrasped her sides with. her

{Aunt Talitha?” I

(hind the remark.

into the room where you are and Say:

go away.” A vision of how it might

|fade away into a black-and-blue spot

where a fist might land in resenting

| the lie flashed across my mind, but I
Executive Committee—J. O. Schlotter- |
beck, Ann Arbor; F. N. Maus, Kalama-_|

said nothing.

Aunt Talitha began to puff at the
old black stone pipe more vigorously
than ever, but suddenly stopped and
in pain

hands.
“Got a ketch in my side,” she explain-
ed. Presently she continued: “It’s
gittin’ better now. If I had been run-
nin’ and took a pain in my side I
could ’a’ stopped it right off.” “How.
queried, confident
that there was another superstition be-
“Well, you see, if

;you are runnin’ and take a pain in

your side, you jest stop, pick up a
rock, spit on the under side and lay

‘it back agin jest like it was and go
‘ahead without lookin’ back and your
Aunt Talitha again became absorb- |

sat puffing vigorously at the old black |

stone pipe. I supposed she had ex-
hausted her fund of information about
warts, but, no, there was more to
follow.

side will stop hurtin’. I know it will
work, for I’ve tried it many a time
when I was a gal.”

I sold a customer a bottle of tooth-

|ache drops, and when he had gone
j Aunt Talitha said: “A good way to
|cure the toothache is jest to bore a

“Another way,” she said suddenly, |

“1s to steal a dirty dish rag and rub it
over the warts. Then take it and
hide it under the doorstep and the
warts will git well.” There was si-
lence for a few moments, while she
puffed vigorously at the old black
stone pipe, then she continued:
“A good way to cure ’em in the
summer time is to pick the wart with

'that

|a child that is cuttin’ teeth.
lrabbit and rub some of its brains on
ithe child’s gums while the brains are

a needle till it bleeds. Git a bean leaf |

and rub some of the blood from the
wart on it, and then bury the leaf

hole
hair

in a tree and put in a wisp of
from the head of the person
has the toothache and plug it
I'll bet his tooth never aches
And speakin’ of the toothache
me in mind of a way of helpin’

Kill a

up.
agin.
puts

and it'll beat

| warm, anything you
can do for it. And speakin’ of nose
bleed,” continued she, although we

under the plant you picked it from |

and by the time the leaf rots the
warts will be cured.”

Another mixture of silence and
puffs. “And if your memory
very good and you're sorter absent-
minded like,” she went on,
way to cure ’em to take
and rub the blade over the warts.
Then hide the knife, and when you
forgit where you hid it the warts
will go away.”

Aunt Talitha paused long enough
to refill the old black stone pipe with
the evil smelling h

‘9
a

is

home-made tobacco
and light it, and when it was puffing
satisfactorily, asked: “Did I ever tell
you how to cure a wart with a yarn
string? No? Well, it’s jest this way:
Take a red yarn string—mind ye, it
has to be red—and rub it across the
greasy side of a meat rind ’till it is
good and greasy. Then run it back
and forth across the wart exactly
across the center, and then back and
forth across the other way, makin’
a cross in the center of the wart.
Then tie the string around an elm

 

amt)

easy |
a knife
| recovered for ten days.
jtime quite

}
j
|

had not mentioned the subject, “there
are lots of ways of stoppin’ it. One
good way is to split a bean and let a
drop of blood fall on the inside of
it, shut it up with the blood inside
and bury it in the ground, and it'll
sure stop the bleedin,’ ”

it,

A boy was drowned in the river
not long ago and the body was not
During this

a party of friends and
relatives were searching for the body

| The matter was a common topic of
| conversation, and I heard some very

superstitious ideas advanced. “Why
don't they git his shirt an’ try that?”
said one old man. Some questioning

brought out that he believed that if

ithey would take the shirt he had
worn last before he was drowned
and throw it into the river above

|

 

j where the body was seen to go un-

der last time, the shirt would float
to where the body lay and then sink
Another way to locate the body was
given: Take a Joaf of light bread,
place some mercury in it and place
it in the water above where the body
was last seen. The bread would float

until above the body and then it
would sink. None of these ways were
i tried, however, and the body was dis-
covered where it had lodged in a
drift. Harry N. Force.

Effect of the New Law on the Retail
Druggist.

Much unnecessary alarm has been
created among the tfetail trade by
the entirely wrong interpretation of
this law by a prominent pharmaceu-
tical journal, and it is the object of
this to allay the fears of the retail
trade and save them much unneces-
sary expense,

Let us bear in mind that this law

a National law, arid not a State
law, consequently it does not apply
to sales made by a dealer in his own
state. The stock on hand, whether of
drugs or proprietary articles, may be
sold in his own state at any time
without any relabeling or branding.

There is no necessity for the drug-
gist to mark his stock on hand to
distinguish it from any future ac-
quired stock, as he will be fully pro-
tected on all his stock—the present
stock by the fact of its not coming
under the law and the future stock
by the fact that the jobber or manu-
facturer with whom he deals has fil-
ed a guaranty that he, the jobber,
behind all goods whatsoever
handles. It is not even neces-
sary, in the case of goods purchased
from his regular jobber, that each
package should be labeled with the
guaranty, for the general guaranty
filed at Washington covers all arti-
cles sold, whether marked or not,
and it is not to be presumed that of
the many thousands of articles to be
labeled some will be shipped without
the printed guaranty.

The Government is not going to
concern itself about the retailer—it
the manufacturer it is after—and
1 th@ retailer has to do is to pur-
chase whatever he wants, now or at
any time, of a reliable jobber who
has filed his guaranty, and sell the
goods on the shelf in his own state
withovt worrying about any National
The jobber and manufacturer
take all the responsibility.

——_2~-.__
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is very firm and tending
higher.

Morphine—Is firm at the advance.
Codeine—Has again been advanc-

Ioc per ounce.

Quinine—Has again advanced 1%4c
per ounce, and is tending higher.

Wood Alcohol—Has declined and
is now being sold at less price than
Denatured. On account of the re-
fusal of the internal revenue officers
to issue permits to retail druggists
for its sale Denatured will probably
not be used except by manufacturers
of shellac and varnish makers.

Cocoa Butter—Is very firm
tending higher.

Santonine—Has been advanced 55¢
per pound by the manufacturers on
account of higher price for crude ma-
terial.

Sulphate Zinc—Has been advanced
on account of higher price for zinc.

Peppermint Oil—Is dull and lower.

Oil Bergamot—Is very firm and
advancing.

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tending higher,

Profit in Yukon Farming.

W. M. Swinehart has compiled for
publication the results of his experi-
ence in farming at Fort Selkirk, and
these show that, taking one season
with another, the crops raised and
the prices received for the product
are sufficient to cause the average
farmer in the States to look to the
North with envy.

Oat hay, the chief crop produced,
yields about three tons to the acre
and sells readily in the spring at from
S100 to $125 a ton. Demand has
never been lacking for all the hay the
farmer produces, since the Dawson-

White Horse stage line, on which
from 250 to 400 horses are used every
winter for several months, passes

within a few miles of the farm. Po-
tatoes yield from three to five tons
to the acre and bring as much as 25
cents a pound. The average price
for a series of years has been a frac-
tion over 20 cents a pound.

Rutabagas yield six tons to the
acre and sell for 6 cents a pound,
or $720 an acre. Carrots yield three
tons to the acre and sell for 15 cents
a pound, a return of $900 to the acre.
Cabbages vary in production accord-
ing to the season, ranging from three
to eight tons to the and the
price ranges from 15 to 20 cents a
pound. It is an exceptional season
when the Swinehart f does not

acre,

tarm
net its owners an income of $10,000.

——_—--.>____
The religion that can not mix with
business has no business to meddle
with anything.

 

 

 

VALENTINES

LATEST AND BEST

Wait for travelers or send for cata-
log. We claim to have the best line
on the road and would like to ‘‘show

9

you.

 

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Wholesale Drugs and Stationery
MUSKEGON, MICH.

 

 

 

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Write for Catalogue

 

 

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Chloroform,
Knife or Pain

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103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids

 

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MICHIGAN

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Acidum
Aceticum ....... 6@ 8
Bengzoicum, Ger.. 70@ 75:
Boracic ......... @ 17
Carbolicum ..... 26 29
Citricum ........ 52 55
Hydrochlor ..... 8@ 5
Nitrocum ....... 8@ 10
Oxalicum ....... 10@ 12
Phosphorium. dil. @ 15

Salicylicum ...... 44@ 47
Sulphuricum 1%@ 65
Tannicum ........- 16@ 85
Tartaricum ..... 88@ 40
Ammonia
Aqua, 18 deg.... 4@ 6
Aqua, 20 deg.... 6@ 8
Carbonas .. 13@ 15
Chloridum ...... 12@ 14
niline
Biack .....5.:..-: 2 00@2 25
Brown ...:.:3... 80@1 00
Rea 2... 255.0.... 45 50
Yellow ...::.:..:. 2 50@8 00
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‘Yerabin, Canada 60 65
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Oortex
Abies, Canadian. 18
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Buonymus atro.. 60
Myrica Cerifera 20
Prunus Virgini.. 15
Quillaia, gr’d 1z
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Haematox, %s .. 16@ 17
Ferru
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Citrate and Quina 2 00
Citrate Soluble ... 55
Ferrocyanidum 8 40
olut. Chloride .. 15
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Sulphate. com’l, by
bbl. per cwt.. 70
Sulphate, pure .. 1
Flora dl
ATRIGR Lele 1b 1%
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Folia
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Cassia Acutifol,
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Salvia officinalis,

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Gumm!
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Acacia, 2nd pkd.. @ 45
Acacia, 8rd pkd.. 85
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Acacia, po........ 45 65
Aloe Barb ........ =a 25
Aloe, Cape ...... @ 25
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Ammoniac ...... og 60
Asafoetida ...... 35 40
Benzoinum . 50@ 55
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Catechu. %s ... @ . 16
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Mina coe: po 45c @ 46
Mastic ....°...... @ 75
APvErrn ....- po 50 @ 45
Ophim ....05 5... 38 75@3 80
Shellac ...--...-- 4 70
Shellac, bleached 60 65

Tragacanth ..... 70@1 06
Herba
Absinthium ..... 4 50@4 60
Hupatorium oz pk 20
Lobelia ..... oz pk 25
Majorum_...oz pk 28
Mentra Pip. oz pk 23
Mentra Ver. oz pk 25
Rue <2 2... 3: oz pk 39
Tanacetum ..V... 22
Thymus V.. oz pk 25
Magnesia
‘Calcined, Pat 55@ 60
Carbonate, Pat.. 18@ 20
Carbonate, K-M. 18@ 20
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Absinthium ..... 4 90@5 o

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Myricia ......... OG Gleo ay =
Olive 3... ....: 15@3 00 Barosma pes 50
Picis Liquida ... 10 | Ganikhaviae.
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Rosae og .......- 5 00@6 00/ Gastor | ae 10
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Potass Nitras ... 6 S| Myrrh .......... 50
pou Ss ee Gis * 7 Opit Vomica 50
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mim po ....... Bremer. ..:5....,... 50
Carnie Le 206 40 | Sanguinaria ..... 50
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Tris Mor ee soy 40 Miscellaneous
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35
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pigella ......... 45@1 50| Antipyrin ....... @ 2%
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Cardamon ...... 170@ 90|Crocus ........... 1 30@1 40
Coriandrum ..... 12@ 14|Cassia Fructus .. @ 35
Cannabis Sativa ace 8 Eouererio en @ 10
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Chenopodium ... 25@ 30|Chloroform ...... 320 52
Dipterix Odorate. 80@) 60|Chloro’m Squibbs @ 9%
Foeniculum ..... @ 18|Chloral Hyd Crssi 35@1 66
Foenugreek, po.. 7@ 9{|Chondrus .... 20@ 26
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Juniperis Co ....1 76@3 59 | Cupri, Sulph 12
Saccharum NEW 90@2 10 Dextrine =...;... t 10
Spt Vini Galli ..1 75@6 50 ae
oO oO 2 oc ee ie Mel ae 6
Vina Alba -..... 1 35@2 09 |Ergota ....po 65 so@ 65
@2 90 Ether Sulph 0@ se
Sponges Flake White .... 12@ 15
ee Sheeps’ oO > at Bee oc @ 2%
carriage ...... 0@3 50 @mbler ........ 8@ §
Nassau sheeps’ wool Gelatin, Cooper. . @ 6
earrlage . ..3 50@3 75| Gelatin, French . 35@ 60
‘— =o Glassware, fit box 75
wool, carriage.. @2 00 Less than box ee
Extra yellow sheeps’ Glue, brown 11@ 13
wool carriage. @1 25; Glue white ...... 15@ 25
Grass sheeps’ wool. Glycerina .......... 3@ 18
carriage ...... @1 25|Grana_ Paradisi.. @ 2%
Hard, slate use.. @100| Humulus....... 35@ 60
Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ch...Mt 90
slate use .... @1 40|Hydrarg Ch Cor 85
‘ Hydrarg Ox Ru’m 1 00
deatia yrups 6s ae oe : 1 10
ewww ew eee. r rarg n: e’ m 0
ae. lang ; $ 50 Wace g .
ingiber . . @ 50/Ichthyobolla, Am. 90@1 06

Ipecac bee @ 60|Indigo ........... 15
a @ $2| Iodine, ‘esubi
Smilax Offi’s “e 60 Lepuiin .........

Ramee .:..:..:.. Lycopodium

 

 

 

Liguor Arsen et Rubia Tinctorum 12@ J
i @ 4! Vanilla ........ 9 00¢

Hydrarg Iod .. @ 2 |g, he | Zi on
Liq Potaas Areinit 19@ 12 = La sar a, % inci Sulph a aa 96 ®
oe Sulph. 3/Sanguis Drac’s.. 40@ 50 | ”

ignesia, Sulph bol “2 te ee ae Sel bbl gal
Nanaia . 58 | S po, ae 34%@ 16 | Whale, winter 70@ 70
Mika "9 tone 00 rose - Beane as lw@ 12 | Lard, extra 70@ 80
Morphia, S P&W 2 45@2 70| selnits Mixture. one 22| Lard. No. 1 60@ 65
Morphia, SN ¥ Q2 45@2 70 ey Z xture 20@ 22 | Linseed, pure raw 42@ 45
Morphia, Mal. ..2 45@2 70 napis tee eeees @ 18} Linseed, boiled ....483@ 46
Mose Sinapis, opt .... @ 30|Neat’s-foot,wstr 65@ 7@
Moschus Canton. 40 | Snuff. Mac ~ rp ; wv
Meriniica Ha i ase go | snuff, Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine Market
Nux Vomica po 16 10 DeVoes ....... @ 51 R Paints bbl. L.
Os Sepia ....,.. 260 28 | Snuff, S’h DeVo's @ 61 ae ‘ea ie 1% 2 @s
Pepsin Saac, H & Soda, Boras .... 9@ 11 ah Ala J Mars 1% 2 4

P D Co ecalce Sams be 90 Hie ee
ee eee a Soda et Pot’s Tart 25@ 28 Putty. commer’! 2% 2623
Picis ria. NN % Soda. Carb 1ke 2 Putty, strictly pr2% 2% @

gal dow ...... @2 | Soda, Bi-Carb .. 3@ 5 Vermillion, Prime
Picis ria, ate .... 1 00] Soda, Ash 3%@ 4 American ..... 13@ 15
Picis Lig. pints. 60 | Soda’ Sulph Ue a 5 Vermillion, Eng. 75@ 80
Pil Hydrarg po 80 50 Spts,, Golnene Se @2 80 Green, Faria .... 24 @ac¢
Piper Nigra po 22 18 Spts. Either Co : 5LQ_ 55 Green, Peninsular 14 BL
Piper Alba po 36 80) Spts, Myrcia Dom @2 00 5h ea
Pix Burgum .... 8 Spts, Vini Rect bbl @ Lead, white ...:;
Plumbi Acet .... 15 Spts. Vii Rect %b ¢ hiting, white gtk Ga 1%
Pulvis Ipc et Opil 1801 50 mie Vintiied € |lwuewor. ¢.e
Pyrethrum, bxs H ante. Vii Rt 5 al * | White, Paris Am’ r M1 oF

& P D Co. doz @ 178| Strychnia, Gevert 1 05@12 >, | Whit’g Paris Eng
Pyrethrum, pv .. 20@ 25] sSutphur Subl 2% @ a fe A NP @1 4
Quassiae ........ 8@ 10) Sulphur, Roll. 214. 3% Universal Prep’d 1 10@1 2
on = 7 & W ie @29% Tamarinds ...... R@ 10 Varnishes
Quina, S Ger... 429%} Terebenth Venice 228@ 30 No. 1 Turp C ;
Quina, N. Y. . .. 30% @ 29%, Theobromae..... 55@ 65 Extra 1_Turp a soft 70

 

 

 

Full

Protection
To Our
Customers

The Secretary of Agri-
culture has accepted
our guarantee and has
given us the number

This
pear

 

099

number will ap-
on all packages

 

 

 

and bottles from us on
and after December Ist.

Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.
liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
market prices at date of purchase.

Prices, however, are

 

ADVANCED

DECLINED

 

Index to Markets

 

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rushes :
Butter Color pécece cues

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Catsu:

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Grains and Flour :

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Cece rerecessecees

steerer sere eeseese

Seeds
a © Blacking .........

OD 60 68 ~3 -3 -3 3.2 ~ -

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ARCTIC AMMONIA

Doz.
12 “oe 2 doz. box...75

XLE GREASE
Frazer’s

1Ib. wood boxes, 4 dz. 3 00
1lb. tin boxes, 3. doz. 2 35
— tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 26

Tb. pails, per doz... 6 00
ist, pails, per doz... 7 20
25%. pails, per doz....12 00

BAKED BEANS
Columbia Brand

itb. can, per doz..... 90

2%. can, per doz...... 1 40
3b. can, per doz...... 1 80
BATH BRICK
American ........ ee
MmEMER oo... 85
BLUING
Arctic

6 oz. ovals 3 doz. box $ 40
16 oz. round 2 doz. box 75

Sawyer’s Pepper Box

er Gross
No. 3, 3 doz. wood
DOSER 5.2...
No. 5, 3 doz. wood
DPKES ............ 7
BROOMS
No, 1 Carpet ......... 2 75
Ne: 2 Carpet .... 2 35
Mo. 8 Carpet ......... 2 15
No. 4 Carpet ......... 1 75
Parlor Gem ..... sees OD
Common Whisk ...... 85
Fancy Whisk ........ 1 20
Warehouse ....... - 3 00
oe
crub
Solid Back + m........
Solid . hag in... 95
Pointed Ends ......... 85
toon
NO. 8 .2..25... 75
Ne 2 oo 110
moO 8 oc 1 75
Shoe
Ne 8 oo 1 00
MS 7 |. oacica ont
NWO 48 8 170
Ne 8s).

1
BUTTER COLOR
W., R & Co.’s, 15c size.1 25
W., R. 7 oe came 00

Cc
Electric Light, ~ pieces 9%
Electric Light, 16s....10
Parafiine, 68 .......... 9
Paraffine, 12s ........ 9%

Wicking § ... 0... 20
manna <4 GOODS

App es
3%. Standards .... 1 00
Gatien .. 2 25

PD 4. eS 90@1 75

Standards gallons .....

Beans
Baked: 80@1 30
Red Kidney ..... 85 95
Saane | oo. 70@1 15
Wex 75@1 25

Blueberrles
Standard ....... @1 40

aOR
Brook Trout

2%. cans, spiced... 1 90

Clams
Little Neck, 1t. 1 00@1 25
Little Neck, 2th. @1 50
Clam Bouillon

Burnham’s % pt...... : =
Buraham’s pts........

RBurrham’s ats. ....... 4 30

Cherries
ll _tnnnands .1 30@1 50
Wh ; 1 650
Corn

Fair : ---..., BOs
Good ewes S5@90
Fancy . 1 25

French Peas
Sur Extra Fine ...... .

)

fixtra Fime .......... 19

Cae gg. 45

Mien sn 1}
Gooseberries

Standard ss.45 00
jicolas
Brammer... 6. esa 85
Lobster
oe 2 16
Brer. Bee. coe 8 90
Pienio Talis .........; 2 60
Mackerel
Mustard, 1b. ....... 80
Mustard, 2h. ........ 2 8h
Soused, 14 ® eecaeoes 1 80
Soused, Tb. ......... 2 80
Tomes, ith. ......... 130
Tomate, . ......... 2 80

hrooms
Bee. 45. ea. ace no 20
ances oa. OO 36

 

Oysters
Cove, Ub -.....:
Cove, 2ib, ... 0...
Cove, 1tb. Oval..
Plums

Pause

Soo ee
Early June Sifted 1 25@1

Peaches

Raspberries

Standard .......

Russlan Cavizir-

¥4,tb. cans

Salm
9 | Col’a River, st 1 80@1 85
Col’a River, flats 1 90@1 95
Red Alaska ..... 1 20@ = “4

Pink _— epee
ardines

Domestic Te

Domestic, %s....

Domestic, os .

California, %s..

California. ¥%s.. rt

French, 4s

French, ms ...;
Shrimps
Standard ....... 12
Succotash
Wer ...0..-.. ee
9000 ....4.......

Waney .........%
Siiicbecee
Standard ....... 10
Maney —.. 3. 1 10@2 00

Tomatoes

  

CARBON OILS

Barrels
Perfection  .....

D. S. Gasoline |:
87 Gasoline :
Deodor'd Nap’a

Cylinder ........ 29

ngine
Black. winter

CEREALS

Breakfast Foods
Bordeau Flakes, 36 1tb. 2 50
Cream of Wheat, 36 vga 4
Egg-O-See, 36 pke a.
Excello Flakes, 36 Ib.
Excello, large pkgs..
Force, 86 2 th. .......
Grape Nuts, 2 doz.....

Malta Ceres, 24 1

Tb..
Malta Vita, 36 1tb......
Mapl-Flake, 36 1%tb..
Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 dz.
Ralston, 36 2b. ......
Sunlight Flakes, 36 1Ib.
Sunlight Flakes, 20 wae

Vigor, 36 pkgs

Zest, 20 Om............ 41
Zest, 36 small pkgs....2
Crescent Flakes
One case ............3 25
Mve CORON ....-ssoe0s: 24

0
One case free with ten

cases.

One-half case free with
no cases.
ne-fourth case free with

cases,
i allowed

Rolled C t-
Rolled Avenna, bbl.
Steel Cut, 100 Tb sacks 2:

Monarch, bbl.
Monarch, 90 tb.

Si Ks
Quaker 48-9 .......... 1 50)N

i rs

row:

be erie in bo t bo

Voigt Cream Flakes ...

 

 

4

5

 

Gem ....0.0. 32 15
ome owe 14
SOPABY ...5...... 14%
Peerless Ceues os
Riverside ....... 14%
Springdale ....... Oise

BIRers ..5...5. %
PICK oso as 5c, 1
Belen ........3. 15
Limburger ....... 14
Pineapple ...... 40 @60
Sap Sago ........ @20
Swiss, domestic... @16
Swiss, imported @20

eae an . 90

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45/Iced Honey Crumpets 10
Best Pepsin, 5 ie -2 00/Imperial :............ 8
Black Jack .. -- 50/Jersey Lunch ........ 8
Largest Gum Made .. 55 Jamaica Gingers ..... 10
Sen Sen ......)5.... 50|/Kream Klips ........ 20
Sen Sen Breath Perf. 95 Lady Fingers ...... 12
Sugar Loaf ........... Dem Tei oi. ccc. 11
WUCAIAN 45k; 50/!.emon Gems .........
CHICORY Lemon Biscuit Sq..... 8
Pe el. oes. Lemon Wafer ....... 16
Ben oe ‘}Lemon Cookie .......
Wagle  ............... SMPORNER. | ---55..25..00. Al
EPTAMCKS .....:.... e-ee. UT] Mary Ann ........... 8
BCHENEO A: 6..:.5).5. | 6 | Marshmallow Walnuts 16
CHOCOLATE Muskegon Branch, iced 4
Walter Baker & Co.'s Molasses Cakes
German Sweet ........ 23} Mouthful of Sweetness “4
Ereminin. 202.0200: 30/Mixed Picnic ........ 11
Vanilla 41| Mich. Frosted ener. 12
Caracas =0| Newton ....:.......... 12
Eagle 28/Nu Sugar ....... seas
Nic Nace o2. oc...
Bakers 6200.62. 38 | Oatmeal Crackers
Cleveland ..3..,....... AL Okay (20:
Colonial, \s 35/ Orange Slices ......... 16
Colonial, %s 83|Orange Gems ........
CDPB. ...5.5..4- 42 Penny Cakes, Asst..
UIT oe ce: 45 neon le Honey
Van Houten, %s 12/}Plum Tarts ...........
Van Houten, \s .. 20/ Pretzels, Hand M
Van. Houten, 4s 40| Pretzellettes, Hand Md. 8
Van Houten, 1s ...... 72] Pretzelletes, Mac Md. 7%
Webb. ..-5.5..2..: .. 380] Raisin Cookies ........ 8
Wilbur, %s .... -. 41/Revere, Assorted
Wilbur, WS ........ .-. 42]Richwood .........
COCOANUT BUDO ae ee 8
Dunham’s Xs ....... Scotch Cookies ..... ..10
Dunham’s = - ~*~ 26% {Snow Creams ........ 16
Dunham's 27 Snowdrop ........... 416

Dunham’s * peeee 28
Bue eee

COCOA SHELLS
20Ib. bags ....

Less quantity Sa 3
Pound ne pees ce 4
COFFEE
Rio
Common .....5..... 3 13%
ee 14%
Pneirce 22... 16%
Waney (2 20
Santos
Common 2.2.62. 13%
MOM cc 14%
ROME ooo oec oss 16%
MARCY 6.66 065555,55. 3 19
POADEITY, 26 ee
Maracaibo
alr oS eee ciccces 16
Cnsiee 3263500022... 19
Mexican
Cholen: oc 16%
PORCY oo ogy. 19
Guatemala
Choice ...... idaee 1G
Java
BiCAn oe ee 42
Fancy African .......17
Oo. Gg. 2.2... coke eess ++ 26
SG... 31
Mocha
Axvapian .. 000 e oe 21
Package
_New York Rasis
Arbuekie ............2 16 00
Dilworth .............. 15 50
POIReEW 420000... 15 00
EAON cc 14 50

McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
to retailers only. Mail all
orders direct to W. F,
— isda & wo., Chica-

xtract
Holland, Ay gro boxes 96
Felix, % gross........ 1 :
Hummel’s foil, % gro.
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 3

CKERS

CRA

National Biscuit Company

rand

Butter
Seymour, Round........6
New York, Square’ ecee
OTOU oe cade ck ca 6
Salted. se ig cacaae 6
N. B. C, seas” Sees ae ce 6
Select Soda .......... 8
Saratoga Flakes ..... 13
Zephyrettes .......... 13

Oyster
N. B.C. Bound ...... 6

B. C. Square. Salted :

 

Guaker, 20-5 .......... 400) fFanst, Shell . .......
Cracked Wheat weet Goods
we 3 AMEAOIG oon eck cs 10
24 2 . packages Atlantic, owen acasae

CATSUP tHragley Gems sas
Columbia 26 pts eR 450/Belle Isle Picnic ..... 11
Columbia, 2% ts pte...2 MP Bre oi oc cic ickiwcc es 11
Snider's quarta ......, 3 25 | Cartwheels, . & M....2
Snider's pints Currant Fruit ........ +10
Snider's pints COPRORSOR occ cass 16

CHEESE Coffee Cake, N. B. C.
AMO ... .chcss ss plain or iced ........ 10
Garaon City ..... Cocoanut Taffy ........12

nea nuues ua Cocoa Bar ............10
-o. te Drops ...... 16

 

Cocoanut Drops ......
Cocoanut Honey Cake iz
Cocoanut H’y Fingers i
Cocoanut Macaroons .
Dixie Sugar Cookie ..
Fruit Honey Squares 12%

Frosted Cream
Fluted Cocoanut

Big Sticks ..........:., 12
Ginger Gems ........
Graham _ Crackers

Ginger Snaps, N.
Hazelnut ....

Hippodrome See 10

Honey Cake, N.

Honey Fingers, -. 12
5|Honey Jumbles ...... 12
Household Cookies As 8

Spiced Gingers

a
Spiced Gingers, Iced. “10
Spiced a. Tops ... 9
¥% | Sultana 5
Sugar Cakes ....
Sugar Squares, large or
smal .....: wince seees
Superhe 2.65.55 cs. c ss ss 8
er Lady Fingers -

Urch

Vienna Crimp
Waverly

Saraihas Poa wee sue a
In-er Seal Goods.

Almond Bon Bon

— Biscuit
Animals

Breemner’s But. Wafers 1. 00
Butter Thin Biscuit. .1. =

Cheese Sandwich

Cocoanut Macaroons .
Cracker Meal ........ és
Faust Oyster ......... ’
Fig Newtons ......... 1.
Five O'clock Tea 1:
Frosted Coffee Cake...1.
PYOtANA. 6.0... a. 1.0
Ginger Snaps, N. B. C
Crackers
Lemon Snaps ........
Marshmallow Dainties
Oatmeal Crackers

Graham

se eeeee
weeee

Vanilla Wafers ....... mt

 

Ralsins

London Layers, 3 cr
London Layers, 4 cr
Cluster, 5 crown
Loose Muscateis, 2 cr
Loose Muscatels, 3 er
Sage Ree 4 cr

eeded, 1 Ib. 10 11
L. M. Seeded, % = oe
Sultanas, bulk
Sultanas, package @ 9%
FARINACEOUS ‘GOODS

eans
Dried Lima ...........
Med. Hd Pk'd ,.1 ison" 35
Brown —— d 25

arina
24 1%. oa tee 1 75
Bulk, per 100 st neces 8 00

Hom
Flake, 501». oe

eeecee

00
Pearl, 200%. sack ....3 70
Pearl. 100%. sack ....1 85
Maccaron! and Vermicell!
Domestic, 10%. box... 60
Imported. 25tb. box...2 60

Pearl Barley

 

Common
Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 95
a om, bi: 1 90
Spit Ih
Sago
Mast India... .. |. 6%
German, sacks ......... —
German, broken pkg..

Flake, 110 TP sacks et

Pearl, 130 tb. sacks .

Pearl, 24 Ib. pkgs....... "3

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Foote & Jenks

Coleman's Van. Lem.

2 oz. Panel ...... 1 20 76

3 oz. Taper ..... 200 1 50

No. 4 aa songs 200 1 50
nings

‘ices Ext. Lemon

Dos.
No. 2 Panel D. C...... 7%
No. 4 Panel D. Eas 50
No. 6 Panel D. ec. ce 2 00
Taper Panel D. C......1 50
1 oz. Full Meas. D.C... 65
2 oz. Full Meas. D. C..1 20
4 oz. Full Meas. D. C..3 25

s
Mexican mene Vanille

No. 2 Panel D.
No. 4 Panel B.
No. 6 Panel D.
Taper Panel D.
1 oz. Full Meas.
2 oz. Full Meas.
4 oz. Full Meas.
No. 2 ar
GRAIN BAGS

_|Amoskeag, 100 in bale 19

)| Amoskeag, less than bl 19%

GRAINS AND FLOUR
Wheat

 

No. 1 White ./........ 71
No 2 Red 2.0 72
Winter Wheat Fiour
Local Brands
Patents .......).; oor ee4 80
“aig Patents ...->..: 410
Straten es 90
Second Straight 28 S
ie eee 50
‘a eaoaiae nese egeee oe 5 00

Oysterettes _........., Pia in barrels, 25c per
Pretzellettes, H. M. . barrel additional .
Royal Toast ........... 1.00 | Worden Grocer Go." s Brand
RIG oe ens 1.00 | Quaker, Paner ...0 65. : 3 80
Saratoga Flakes Quaker, cloth .......... 4 00
Seymour Butter : Wykes & C

Nociat Ten ..0. 3... 001 roll ykes 0. 8
Soda, NWoB GL MOR SUCHINSG $e. se: 75
Soda, Select .......... 4:

Sponge Lady Fingers..
Sultana Fruit Biscuit..
$ Uneeda Biscuit
Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer
Uneeda Milk Biscuit..

Vanilla Wafers

Zwiebac

ROBO kgs cae wcs cn cue 30
Square Cane ..,..,.....; 32
Fancy caddies
DRIED RFUITS
Apples
SUNGriee  . 0 nan ss aces
Evaporated

190-125 25%. boxes.

90-100 25mm. boxes..
80- 90 25tb. boxes..
70- 80 25%. boxes..
60- 70 25m. boxes..
50- 60 25m. boxes..
40- 50 25%, boxes...
80- 40 _ boxes ..

Imported a at
Peel

Lemon American ......
Orange American ..... 15

CREAM TARTAR
Barrels or drums

Kansas Hard Wheat Flour
Judson Grocer Co.
Fanchon, %s cloth ....4 20

Ss _ heat Flour
, eee Brand

0 Golden: Horn, family...4 60

Water Thin ......... 1.00
Zu Zu ener Snaps..

Golden Horn, baker's. .4 50
Calumet 002... 00
Wisconsin Rye ....... 3 70
Judson Grocer Co.'s “ene
91 Ceresote. Ms .... 0.0. =
Ceresota, %8 ..... 02.5: S00
Ceresota, ks sbi eee 4 90

5|Lemon & Wheeler’s Brand

Ceresota, %s
Ceresota, %s ...
Ceresota, %s 47
Pillsbury’s. Brand
Best, %s cloth 49
Best. %s cloth
Best, %s cloth

 

 

Worden Grocer Co.'s Brenda
Laurel, %s = = cee 49

Laurel, s cloth ..... 4 30
Laurel, %s & \%s paper 4 70
Taurel, 68 ...0c 470

Wykes & Co.

 

Sleepy Eye, \%s cloth..4 70
Sleepy Eve, \s cloth..4 60
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth..4 50
Sleepy Eye, 4s paper. .4 50
Sleepy Eye, Ks paper..4 50

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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Sausages SNUFF Gunpowder
Bolted oe cece 30 . Scotch, In bladders...... 37 ene. pig pete as br
Golden Granulated .. 2 50 Maccaboy, in jars ...... 5 oyune, choice .......
St. Car Feed screened 18 00 French Rappie in jars..43 } Moyune, fancy ........ 40
No. 1 Cornand Oats 18 00 SOAP cieeet =e -_
Corn, cracked 0.70... 17 25 | J. S. Kirk & Co. iceman & Oice ..... 0
Corn Meal, coarse ..17 25 | American Family ..... 4 00 eae a oo
Winter Wheat Bran 23 00 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz 2 80 Choi oung yso 20
Winter Wheat Mid’ng 24 50 _.| Dusky D'nd, 100 6 oz..3 80 F OG ter ine petits as = 36
Cow Heed)... .0025.7 23 50| Extra Mess .......... 9 75|Jap Rose, 50 bars Ce TB PCY we eee ecetw ewe
Dairy Feeds IBONCLESS ee ce ela. 11 25} Savon Imperial ...... 310} Oolong
Wykes & Co. | Rump, NeW ........... 11 25) White Russian ......_. 3 00} Formosa, POC eee a. 42
O P Linseed Meal..... 30 00) % bb Pig’s Feet a | poms, oval en ae 3 2 ey meeom ae *
; 3 Le: é eect mines toe ee fmaeinet, OVAL... 0... 215 MAOY, CHOICE Cot oes...
Guin fa ee 2 00 % bbis., 40 Ibs. ....... 1 85 |Snowberry, 100 cakes..4 00 English Breakfast
Malt Sprouts ........; 20 00 bbis. .............0.. aot) Procter & Gamble Ca. laccainn 20
Brewers Grains ...... S41 601) DDE ..;.... beet ese nese CS) Benom 080 be | OOGhoe 30
Molasses Feed ....... 21 00 Kits, 15 aor 70 avery: i. Oe ere eens : oe WENOy oe a, 40
sc “+ £E sp its, Be a eee vory, Of, 4..52..)
ee ee bbis., 40 tps, .000000) 1 50/ Star’. 2. Gi ee iene 3231 cevton, onli!” “
ichig: S., Se C mM, choice ........
MiChivan oe. 40 | % i LAUTZ BROS. & Co. ee 42
Corn Hoes, per th... 28 | Acme, 70 bars ......... 3 60 TOBACCO
COMM. eee eeeeeee eee eee eee 50 | Beet, rounds, set .... 16| Acme, 30 bars ....... 3 85 : Fine Cut
Hay Beef middles, set ..... 45 | Acme, 25 bars ........3 So CadmaG |. 0... | 54
No. 1 timothy car lots 14 00 Sheep, per bundle -- 70} Acme, 100 cakes ....... 3 15 | Sweet oma). 0... eee
No. 1 timothy ton lots 15 00 Uncolored Butterine Big Master, 100 bars . 4 00| Hiawatha, 51D. pails. .55
i ire 2. 10 Marseilles, 100 cakes...5 80 Weletvam 62.2005... .. 30
HERBS Solid dairy @ ;
Sage 15|Rolls, dairy ..... 10% @11% | Marseilles, 100 cakes 5c 4 00/| Pay Ca ec ee.
Hops |...) Cee 15 Canned Meats ee on ae a 00 ee
pitas ce vce ca. D ye i on
sel Leaves ........ 2 See Bee i7 50|Good Cheer .......... 4 00|Sweet Burley
Senna ie ee ee eae 26 Roast beet. |. 20@2 50;Old Country .......... = 40) Biger oc...
J Potted ham, 4s ...... 45
2g. : Soap_ Powders lug
5 Ib. galls per pal’. a eS snag tuts Bros. & Co. |Red Cross ...s-+1-.0. 31
a ee ee eae Het, $4 is 4 a tents 7 oa
ios. go | Potted tongue, oe Se Suet, Wee eels So 35
fae Poe ettec, tongue toes Kirkoline, 24 4tb......3 80| Battle Ax ...112221112137
alae eed 2 RICE | Bearing (200.000. 3 75|American Eagle ...... 33
ao eG a ** 47 | Screenings ....... > Seapine 2.0.00... 410|Standard Navy ....... 37
“MATCHES Hore rag omg by | Babbitt's 1776 220122112 87> | Spear Head, 7 og... 47
at Renae > | Gaported Japan .. tla rebiee Sit Noney Peet ee
Bet Seen Fair La. hd....... Pi Ween... 1 © a0 | Jolly Tas .. 20.27 *: 39
ID eeeeseeeee eh 50@4 75 Cues te 32... ges Oa ee -
MEAT EXTRACTS ‘ancy ‘ Dees oap Compounds | tToddy ..........22577. 34
Armour’s, 2 0Z........ 4 45/ Carolina, ex. fancy § W744 | Johnson’s Binge 92.2 5 10 Toddy ee US ane 8
° Ce aa : 3
Armour's, 4 0Z ..... -8 20 SALAD DRESSING Johnson’s XXX ...... 4 25 Piper Heidsick ........ 66
Liebig’s Chicago, 2 oz. 2 75|Columbia, % pint ....2 25 Nine O’clock .......... © 35 Boot Jack 2... 1 80
oe a ee i o Danece bate 1 a ze Rub-No-More ......... 8 75 | Honey Dip Twist ..... 40
iebig’s Imported, 2 oz. urkee's, large, o. ; ndard ....... 40
Liebig’s Imported. 4 ox. & 60 Durkee’s, small, 2 uoz..5 25 Scouring ono ie {
Snider’s, large, 1 doz..2 35). Enoch Morgan's Sons. re ae 34
MOLASSES a ; -1 85/Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00/ Forge .................
Snider’s, small, 2 doz. 1 Nickel Twist 52
New Orleans SALERATUS Sapolio, half gro lots 4 50|Nickel Twist .......... 32
Fancy Open Kettle ... 40 Sapolio, single boxes..2 25| Mill ................04,
ry Packed 60 Ibs. in box. l Great Navy ...1)00007 36
oo teens cece oac ee = Ana and Bammer. 4 15 Sapolio, han tegin: ao & ‘ ;
@ir .......0. reese ee 3 courine Manufacturing Co Smoking
Good ee ceearecccccerees 22 ne Scourine, 50 cakes....1 80 ae 34
Halt barrels 2c extra. Scourine, 100 cakes::3 50/Piut Car 200 TTITD 32
MINCE MEAT Te ee ce ae cca SODA Warpath .............. 26
Columbia, per case....2 76 Wyandotte, 100 %s .. Boxes ......:. 5144; Bamboo, 16 oz......... 25
MUSTARD SAL SODA , English .. 2072.7: Er et 2
Horse Radish, 1 dz.....1 75 Granulated, bbis. .... 85 koe ae 4% I X Ll, 16 oz. pails ...31
Horse Raddish, 2 dz ..3 50/Granulated, 1001. es. 1 00 Colonahin 3 00 | Honey Dew ..-......1 40
OLIVES Bump) DbIs. .........-.. 80 Hed Wetter 2 90 Gold Block ........... 40
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs .. -1 65| Lump, 145%. kegs .... 95 Senses ts 8 Hiseman ............. 40
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs......1 60 SALT SPICES @hipe 2.2... Ls... 2
Bulk, al. kegs......1 55 Common Grades Whole Spices Kiln Dried ........... a
Manzanilla, 8 oz....... 90/100 3 tb. sacks .......2 10 Allspice <2.5..22 5.1... 2 Duke’s Mixture ....... a
Queen, pints .......... 250} 60 5 Ib. sacks ........2 00 Cassia, China in mats, 12| Duke’s Cameo ........ 2
Queen, 19 oz, ..........4 50| 28 10% Ib. sacks...... 1 90| Cassia, Canton ....... 1¢| Myrtle Navy ..........
Queen, 28 oz. .........7 . 56 i. sacks sewed a. i 7 Cassia, Batavia, bund. 38 sue — i% oa a
Stuffed, 5 oz. ......... - Sacks ...... eece assia, Saigon, broken. 40 ; - as
Stuffed, 8 oz. ..........1 45 Warsaw Cassia, Saigon, fn rolls. 655 oom. gst aes apes +s a
Stuffed, 10 oz. ......... 2 40/56 tb. dairy in drill bags 40| Cloves, Amboyna ...... 25|Corn Cake, 2% oz...... =
PIPES 28 Th. “7 age bags 20 Cloves, Zanzibar ...... 18 a i on ede ac ae
Clay, No. 216 .........1 70 olar Roc ACE oe. esses eee 56 | Siow Bow ae ae
: S6Ib. sacks ©.....-..... 20| Nutmegs, 75-80 ... 45|Llow Boy, 3 .
yaar eS - full count = Common Nutmegs, 105-10 35 Peerless¢ 8% ORs case
oe Granulated, fine ...... 80|Nutmegs, 115-20 .....: 30 | Peerless, 1% oz. ...... 38
Ss Medium, aoe coat coo. Oe Eepper, Ringapore,, blk. 15 Qa ts Bi be eee chaues a4
r, i E te: 5 ed O8 Oe 6 da 6
Barrels, 1,200 count....6 00 wae i. ae 17|Country Club (2122102) 32-34
Half bbis., 600 count..3 50 hol 7 Fores-Xaee ......... 30
“Small. | a @ 6%| an fire Ground in Bulk 1g | G00d Indian 5... 525,
Barrels, 2,400 count....7 50 Strips or bricks ..7144@101% C )1 Baiavi weeneueee 28 Self Binder, 160z. 8oz. eS
Half bbls., 1,200 count 4 25| peock one @ 4% Cussia’ Sai MA eso es Silver Foam 24
Nak was LR eMOCE -.- 7... ' OW oll. 48 | ¢ :
PLAYING CARDS Hallbut Cloves, Zanzibar ..... 18 oe aoe
o. 90 Steamboat 85| Strips ...... Sec eeees ss 18 Ginger frican 15 Royal Smok
Ro: 2b, Rover enameled 1 60/0 “Herring” Ginger, Cochin 000010 48) Tw. 22
O. ob, ssover enam i ,» Jamaica ...... m, & ply 10)... 2.
No. 572, S re ack 8 Sige we kee oC 65 | Cotton, 4 Diy ......-.. 33
No. 98 Golf, satin fin ite Hoop, . BME oo sicecensss 18 | Jute, Hee cn eesecees
ae. oe pat. -.--8 O0| White Hoop, % bbls. 6 00) pepo pigsiove tac files Cay 2” 13
No. 632 Tourn't whist..2 25) White Hoop, keg 65@ 75 Pepper, Singp. white.. 2g|Flax, medium .......!. 20
- st cg gg pe mchs. 80 Pepper, Cayenne ..... z Wool, 1% balls ....... 6
Babbitt eaaraeressod 00 | Round: wee TB a "STARCH ’ Malt White Wine 40 gr 8%
O."B cece ound, Ss. . -. f : . by
Penne SROVISIONS fae tm, p&gmmen Gloss | Malt White, Wine, 40 gr 10
i ckages ....... ar, aie
ee 00 3Ib. packages sessees @4%Q| Pure Cider. Red Star. .12
ORB oe ceca cays a _ - a sn p i eel Pure Cider Eatineon 12
eee . 18 o 3; s. . pac Noles Galas -ider, s «12
eee eat coe. -17 50|/No. 1, 10tbs. 40 and 50Ib. boxes 31%,@3%| Pure Cider, Silver ....13%
Short Cut Clear -17-50{No. 1, S8Ibs. ..... ae Barrels ..... waclee «- @3 WICKING
ean | - 4... 15 50 Mackerel L Common Corn No. 0 per gross ....... 30
Rig .......--.-- -20 00|Mess, 100tbs. ........ 13 50|20m. packages ........ No. 1 per gross ....... 40
Brisket, ceo 2 e pci a ca eece ae ; = 40Ib. packages ...4%@7 No. 2 per gross |... |. 50
y ly ess, Bocce I ea ee ee ee
Clear bain on 5 Mess, g is ts a 40 SYRUPS No. pees asen 75
SP pete... 2 iY Pes ae ae es 125
i GO. I, 4 10s, <...:..... 5 50
Bees 21... 114% tne. 155|Half Barrels ....... occu 87 Siehoa noone a
Extra Shorts ......... - 9 : 20tb. cans % dz. in case 1 80| Bushels ..............
Smoked Meats we YS eda cee eet a eee wide bald 1G
is i2 ih verage. .13 Whitefis 2F 5Ib. cans 2 dz. in casel 85|Market ................ 40
as. 22 Bree 9. 1, No am | , cae Gane Splint, large 20027077 3 50
Hams, 14 Ib. average. .13 6th 2 975 4 50|2%4Ib. 2 dz. in 1 90 Splint’ oe 3 35
Hams, 16 Ib. average. .13 50D. ........... 5 25 2 40 Pure Cane Splint, small .......! 00
cea GE ase a a _ st eee cease 1 2 = Fair ....+.+0:--.6..-. £6 | Willow, Clothes, large 8 25
Skinned Hams ........ oon ae ce = 5 8 OG coe Lo 20 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 50
Ham, dried beef Bets. -15 SEEDS Choice ...... Daas 25 | Willow, Clothes, small 6 50
oe ae ne “4 _—_ eee te: % a Bradiey Butter Boxes, |
ee oe im : anary, Smyrna 2m. size, 24 in case..
moued Ham ........... 19 Caraway |........... 9 Japan Si. aise. 16 in casa. 68
Berlin Ham, pressed .. 8 |Cardamom, Malabar 100 |Sundried, medium ....24 Sib. sine. 14 in cane. GS
Mince Ham ........... S Galore ee: 15 |Sundried, choice ..... = \10h. sae, 6 ih cane. (60
Lard Hemp. Russian ..... 4% |Sundried, fancy ....... 36 Butter Plates
Compound: ...-:...-... 8% | Mixed Bird ......... 4 Regular, medium ..... 24 No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate 40
Pere 2.000.000. 1014 | Mustard, white ..... . ole a ee cleies = No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate 45
Ren eae . seceecee i ce n crate
= ». Ee... seen # RopEy Re es os 4 Basket-fired, medium 31 bb 2 Sear 250 in crate 60
Se ib. tins....etvence SHOE BLACKING Basket-fired, choice ..38
SS i. Ons. ----% Basket-fired, fan @ Churns
oe ee Pie ee eS V Mme (tor, 5 gee eek... .2 0
i eeee eee a Lee rs” & ies |...) eet lee et oe
; ib 7 eee Milles oroen Poli. 33 Fannings as 12614 Barrel, 15 gal., each...2 70

 

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| Round head, 5 gross bx 60 ope
Round, head, cartons... 70! duns” Candy Pails
| E 9 Crates non 1: d os Cee 6a 6 ee 4
| Humpty Dompiy eae 2 40) Sian a, coer ie ‘
1 No. t, complete ....... 32 | meen steels a.
| No. a COtaplete ....... 18 | Jumbo, $2 Ih 1.2 e 1%
| Faucets {EG Hee 10
[Cork lined § in. ...... 65 | Boston Cream ...... eee kD
| Cork lined, 9 in........ 75| Olde Time Sugar stick
,;Cork lined, 10 in....... $5) $0 ID. case 2...” 13
Cedar 8 in. -......... 5d :
Mop Sticks ania Gandy
aes ile Grocers ....
AtOjan spring ......... DE Gans we ion 6
iiclipse patent spring.. 83 |S oLt on .. s+++ 6%
LINO. 1 common ...2.... 7 Con fo seens Thy
| No. 2 pat. brush holder 8o a SoC tater ew nae 8
i2ib. cotton mop heads 1 40 | RibL, Soret ete s se eee eg 8%
(ideal No. 7 3.1...) |. ee fT -10
Pails LGat Loar ce if
2-hoop Standard ..... 2 G0) Leader |... 8
|3-hoop Standard ...... 1 75| Kindergarten | ./777""" 10
a-Wire, Cable ........, 1 70| Bon Ton Cream secela, @
[a-wire, Calle ......... 1 90| French Cream .....17" 94
Cedar, ait red, brass ..1 26 | Star teeta eewe cece | 11
| Paper, Eureka ....... 2 25 | Hand Made Cream ..16
[RIDG 6.6... ci... e, 270|Premio Cream mixed 13
| Vootholeks o F Horehound Drop 10
LHergwoom ............ 2 60 | Fancy—in Palis
| Softwood .............. 2 75|Gypsy Hearts ........ is
oer tote e eee eeeees ‘ 60} Coco Bon Bons .11!°7"' 13
| EE So cain de ee cue ccccuc 0 | Fudge Squares eee 18
Traps | Peanut Squares 11.77! . 9
| Mouse, wood, 2 holes.. 22) Saltes > Peanuts .....11
Mouse, wood, 4 holes.. 45/ cftgd, Peanuts .......13
| Mouse, wood, 6 holes.. 70) 3: “ae. Kisses ...... li
| Mouse, tin, 6 holes.... 65/940 Blas Goodies ...°13
i Mat, Wood ..,......... | Pome! MMOUN sexes... s
(Rat, Spring ........... 16| ~ conees, Drinted ......, 10
| | Champion Chocolate ..11
| Tubs | Lclipse Chocolates cecada
| 20-in, Standard, No.1 7 0U | Wureka Chocolates eoode
18-in, Standard, No. 2 6 00 | Quintette Chocolates cha
"Boi. Gables NoNS:.°.9 82 | ieaanaon, Gum Lropa” i,
| 18-in. Cable No. 2..... 6 60| Lemon aati
16-in. Cable, No. 3....5 50 Speriglg «Al
jaNG. - Mibte .......... 10 80) tal. Cream Opera secede
|No. 2 Fibre .......... 9 40 /1tal. Cream Bon Bons 11
i No. @ Wibke .........,. 8 55 aan Wafiies Cees su.
| ‘ashioned Molass-
Bronze Globe oe 2 50| OranfaiS8es, 101. box 1 20
eu oo ttt i 7 Orange Jellies ........ 50
| a Coeeeesecoecece . Fancy—in 5Ib. Boxes
| Double Acme ......... 2 75)! Lemon Sours
| Single POMG 2.5... -2 29)| Old Fashioned Hore.
| Double Peerless ......3 50 hound drops ° 10
| Single Peerless +2 75) Peppermint a oe
ies 9 75 ps ....60
| Northern Queen -2 75 | Chocolate Drops 30
| Deuble Duplex -3 00) HM. Choe Drops _ 85
| Good Luck ...... “2 OH, M. Choa Le asd
| Universal tee ceeeeeees 2 65 Dark me Ye ......... 1 00
Window Cleaners pe Sweets, ass’d..1 15
OR stances sak 1 69 | Brilliant Gums, Crys. 60
TOM obese oe uacsce, 1 85|A. A. Licorice Drops. .90
6 2 30| Lozenges, plain ...... 55
Wad ews ia printed .....
w | FORE Sees ncce
pit in. Batter ...,. ..|. 75|Mottoes ..........
Pio tO. Bitter .......... 1 25|Cream Bar ......
(1b in. Butter |... ..... 210/G. M. Peanut Bar 66
Mt in. Butter .......... 3 50| Hand Made Cr'ms._80 90
D9 th. Batter ..:....... 4 30; Cream Buttona .......
Assorted, 13-15-17 -2 30) String Rock .....1.17° 60
Assorted, 15-17-19 -3 25 Gia ee Berries ..60
d Time Assorted ....2 75
WRAPPING PAPER . .
Commen Seae 1% Buster Brown Goodies 3 60

72
Bibre Manila, white.. 2%
Fibre Manila, colored.. 4
No. 1 Manila 4
Cream Manila

Pear eens

3
Butcher’s Manila 2

Wax Butter, short c’nt. 13
Wax Butter, full count 20
Wax Butter, rolls ....16
YEAST CAKE
Magic, 2 doz........... 115
Sunlight, & dog ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 1144 doz. ..... 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz..... 115

Yeast Cream, 3 doz....1 00

 

Yeast Foam, 1% doz.. 658
FRESH FISH
Per fb.
Jumbo Whitefish -@16
No. 1 Whitefish ..... @li4
PPVOUE ooo. eles, @14
Pigtbae. . o.oo. lee. @12
Ciscoes or Herring ..@10
BIUGHSN «2... els. @12
Live Lobster ........ @30
Boiled Lobster ...... 120
COG es os wee ns ccc ecces 12
EIGGCOCK 2... 22-56525
RICMOVel 4.0) 2. l. @13
PG oo. ce iG .. 9
FPereh, dressed ...... @10
Smoked, White ..... @12%
Red Snapper ......... @
Col. River Salmon ..@16
Mackerel ............ @20
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
Green Nid. i ..........; 10%
Cueon NO 2... 91%
Cured No. ft ........., 12%
Grrred ING. 2 .......... 11%
Calfskins, green, No. 1 13
Calfskins, green No. 2 11%
Calfskins, cured No. 1 14
Calfskins, cured No. 2 12%
Peits
Old Wool ....... 30
Pee oe alc. 75@1 25
Shearlings ......... 50@1 00
Tallow
INO owe. @ 5%
ING 2 goes ccs se. @ 4%
Wool
Unwashed, med. ....283@25
Unwshed, fine ....... 20

 

Up-to-date Asstmt. ...3 76
Ten Strike No, 2. <4. <6 66
Ten Strike No. 2...... 6 00
Ten Strike, Summer as-

_ S0rtmoent, ....... +++.6 76
Scientific Ags’t.

Pop Corn

Dandy Smack, 24s .... 66
Dandy Smack, 100s...2 75
Pop Corn Fritters, 100s 60
Pop Corn Toast, 100s 50
Cracker Jack .......... 3 25
Checkers, 5c pkg. case 3 50
Pop Corn Balls, 2003 ..1 20
Cicero Corn Cakes .... 5

Per OCe 625... 60
Azulikit 1008 ....... +28 00
Cough Drops
Putnam Menthol ...... 1 00
Smith Bros. 1 26

NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona ..17
Almonds, Avica ...... ;
Aen California sft.

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| Beagle... ........19@07
@13

Bilverts 22.50.05:
Cal No ft...
Walnuts, soft shelled @16
Walnuts, Grenoble.. -@15
Table nuts, fancy...@15

BCGans. Med |... .. @16
Pecans, ex. large... -@18
| Pecans, Jumbos ... -@20

Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio new

Seer enee

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Cees ecaces @
Chestnuts, New York

State, per bu.......
Shelled
Spanish Peanuts 84@ 9
Pecan Halves ... @75
| Wainut Halves . @38
Filbert Meats ... @27
Alicante Almonds @38
Jordan Almonds @47

Peanuts
Fancy, H. P. Suns.. -@1%
Fancy, H. P. Suns,
Reasted @8%
Choice, H. P. Jumbo..@8%
HOGsted  ... ccccccces @9%

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46 : MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

Special Price Current

 

   

AXLE GREASE Mutton SAFES
;Carcass .......,. @i7 |
Plame 26 9 @l1l
Spring Lambs .. @mi1%
Veal
iCarcaes ........- 54@ 8
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CLOTHES LINES
Sisal

i60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00
| 72ft. 3 thread, extra..1 40
i90ft. 3 thread, extra..1 70
|60ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29

  

Mica, tin boxes....75 9

 

 

76 00! 72Fft. 6 thread. extra... Full line of fire and burg- |
Peregon ..........58 6 00 | i. lar proof safes kept in|
mim oe. 5 | stock by the T
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- sine + a 50ft. ‘Gatton Nistor: ..1 10 | #8 are carried by any other
Id. cans ®| core ee ey 1 35| house in the State. If you
WON. CAM 4 901 TO, Co... iss. asnss 1 60 jare unable to visit Grand
belb cans 2 50) Gatien \iiiadoar Rapids and inspect. the!
Buh cane 8 6 SORE ws... . 545.5555, 1 30|line personally, write for
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Ee ae 1 80}
Bam cans is 06) SOE cise t sce tec 2 00 & SOAP
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No. 20, each 100ft. long t 90
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The 5 and 10c Sale

in our

January Catalogue

That 5 and 10 Cent Sale of ours
is a hint for your own January

merchandising.

Even after Christmas you can

persuade folks to SAVE money.

And that’s what they'll be doing
if you self to them at 5 and ro
cents the special leaders we offer,

all at the uniform dozen

prices of 45 and 95 cents.

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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

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BUSINESS CHANCES. ‘rican DeForest wireless telegraph For le--Retail vehicle and harn q ted iixpert Ve patter fitt
—_— ae c, any part of 1,000 shares, 4uu per! manufact business in live growing pet 1 bras of
A cigar and tobacco busi-/| cent. below company prices. big money-| town of 3,000 in good farming ct i , a; ‘ patte fitting
ness, with billiard and pool tables in con-| making copper-gold mining stock, 10| Central Michigan. Sold 100 vehicles tt t la d fe é
nection, in one of the best and healthiest! cents share. Agents wanted. E. J.| year. Competition light. Will exchangé« id f ( rie Fawcett Mfg. Co.,
cities in the invoices about $10,000} Mackey, 2038 Stout St., Denver, Colo.|for saleable farm | Mecosta or Isa i.td Sack ville ew B wick, Canada
with a good lease. Reason for selling is 426 bella county lands _ preferred. Addres 445
— Address P. OQ. le or to rent, unfurnished 50-room | No. 344, care Michigan Tradesman. 374

 

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f ‘ perfect repair; steam heat; gas and merit business if | 1 j x “r the ma
of n handise are what I want. Let ic lights, baths. Enquire H. Naegely,! Town of 1,000 inhabit ‘ | V A
hear particulars. Have two good brick Genesee Ave., Saginaw, Mich. 425 ing country and lar f yut ft t
store rooms to trade also. Address Box ; ; from. Stock inve! i I a itt
> ae : # +—Drug store nas : oo
688, LaGre >, Ind. 441 Cleat i Modern buildin re { t
: i n, up ee a a i ;
fine stock of bazaar goods Zest reasons f selling, piu a : A 1 “
with fixtures, in a hust- ‘Tradesman other outside Pa in no ae x ). Gil he ¢ J Cofft s
4 Good catio i ~ oe vote time € Addre No. 355, ‘ ‘ 6% ste St New
opening for someor + O} eare Michig: Tradesman S55 ' | NY 146
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48

THE REAL TROUBLE.
Whittled to a point the man with
the job and the man paying for it
have a single difference: the jobman’s
The quarrel—for quarrel there
is-—centers squarely upon that “best.”

best.

“You are not fair. You insist on
the finest of workmanship—the near-
est realization of your ideal—and

when you get it you are unwilling
to pay for it” “Troe” th.
realization,

-VOU

answers

but you can see yourself know
t off that realization

is. Realize my ideal in your hand-

vourself-—how far

craft, in your picture, in your poem;

me, in fact, your

. . ats
est, and if it
|

best, always
meet the condi-

yours, e tact

e
1e reward is Th

Hoe

washboard, scalpel or

} ~ e } NN
to do your best. or hammer,

dishpan or
pen, you come to market with your

: ; ner . eis
haphazard result and_ find

 

fault be-
cause your production is not prompt-
ly taken off your hands at your own
can't come

up to the requirements come as near-

unreasonable price.
ly as you can and be thankful if )
poor work is taken at price.

Without
ing to deny that the man with the
money is often unreasonable and

overbearing the main thought a

stopping and without

all is that really the man with the
goods has not oftered his best and

ithe man

he knows it, and with that same un-}

he justly complains of
first-class price
his work and com-
plains not
The cook the other day left without
a word of warning; he was too far

which

reason yus
he still insists on the

for second-class

he does get it.

because

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

wil find her ideal
ing upon the best—always the best—
and in assi prizes to those

gning the _
only who are winners in

popular pe-

 

 

led workman. Every busi-

ness wants him. The paymaster
stands ready with ul purse to pay
him good wages n his work is
done, only it must be good work—
the ideal must be realized; which is
only another way of saying that
wanted and what only will

n and paid for is the work-

yest. The day of the second-

S gone by. The “no account

and his second-class profes-

sional broth he doctor and the

 

ranted. The two-

has var * Anec ,
Whatever he does tor a

  

 

living oniy until the ten-dollar
article appears; and just so surely

two-dollar man’s wor found

 

 

his best and worth only that,

as surely his going is only a
question of time. The ten dollars
are ready for the man who can earn
them the moment he makes his
vaunting true.

hfe-giving breath
wasted in declaring that with
all the country’s boasted prosperity
without a pull has little

_

A great deal of

is daily

chance. True; only let it be borne |
distinctly in mind that now, as ever,
the pull nine times out of ten lies}
in the fact that it was the winner's
ilevel best—not © shiftless, second-

from town and the carriage was not |
placed at his disposal always. Could |

his would-be successor make good
bread and pastry and boil potatoes

t
and broil steak? The question was an
insult and resented as
a week after a
high the imposter
requested to go his ways, the soggy
potatoes and the sour bread and the
tough piecrust and the spoiled steak

left to intensify a deplorably filthy

later,

Wwage-Tate, was

citche rer ly s any r0fs | ° .
kitchen, were only so many proc 'S | world talking through the
ot |}

that the man is one of the many
his kind who are determined to have
a first-class price for the third-rate
article they are bound to dispose of.

San Francisco, bruised with earth-
quake-shock and blistered by fire, has
been trying phoenixlike to rise from
her ashes and, every inch a queen,
her unconquered courage and her in-
domitable will have determined to re-
build for her on the of the
Pacific Sea; but the and the
months have gone by and that regal
city, still without a throne and beg-

shore
weeks

ging for the best of all that pertains
to the highest excellence in art and | company
handcraft, finds herself hampered and |

badgered and plundered in her dire
distress by the human wolves which
are making of her misfortune the op-
portunity of bettering themselves,
even if it takes from their victim
the last red corpuscle. In her hour
of bitter need they come to her and
force upon her at extortionate rates
their anything but first-class wares.
Graft and greed are together hold-
ing high carnival, and San Francis-
co, restored as she is going to be,

~y9h = + when | - ~
such; but when | jelp of another boy from a Western
fair trial at aj

| renown,
| willingly let die.” It was a boy night-

| work

iendeavor it will be found that only
to sit again upon the exalted throne; | I

 

won him the prize—;
only, irrespective of the acci-
or
Liberty wanted a Nation on the earth |
and a Virginian land-surveyor furn-
ished it.

from a

class work—that
that
dent of

circumstance condition. |

Rebellion arose and a boy|
Western log cabin with the |
First-class
workmen
and
not

yard put it down.
for
earned a
which

tan

called first-class
]

reward
world

first-class

the

who
“will

set the
telephone.
It was the stenographer’s first-class
work that called him from his type-
writer to the portfolio of the Treas- |
ury Department via the office of the |
Postmaster-General and the Secre-
Commerce and Labor;
and so all afong the line of honest

reporter whose level best

taryship of

the first-class wins and that failure
in a large majority of cases is due
and due only to an inefficiency which
might have been the reverse if it only
would.
—_.-.—__
New Bank at Coleman.

Coleman, Jan. 8S—A new banking
has been launched at this
It will be known as the Com-
mercial and Savings Bank. The off-
President, W. D. Gordon;
Vice-Presidents, Thomas E. McCann
and Edwin T. H. Scott; Cashier, Will
E. Reardon. The capitalization is
$20,000. It begins business January
10 in a new building.

_——-o-osa

Detroit—The Magic Gas
Co. has changed its name
Ilito Manufacturing Co.

place.

Cers: are:

Mantle
to the

 

realized in insist-
,

 

i $2,162.40, a
| him

| dered

;count of her claim, except that he

la claim of $2,213.
i for
; duce checks and other papers in relation!

Borrowed Money Freely of His Rel-

atives,

Samuel I. Harrison, the Alma dry
goods and clothing dealer, recently
a common law assignment and
was subsequently placed in bankrupt-
is creditors. Thereupon the
telatives immediately filed a number
of alleged claims for money claimed
to have been loaned the bankrupt.
The for a hearing on

the

Peter Doran.

tion to

 

his clients the following day,
he wrote as

I was at Alma yesterday on the Sam-
uel I. Harrison bankruptcy matter. There

   
 

had been sold at retail worth of
goods for cash, and the ance of th

stock was put up for sale. It inventorie¢
$6.395 and was sold for $3.600.  Harsi-
son owns a patent, but how much it is

worth or will bring is problematical. We
succeeded In electing our trustee, because
the $11,000 or $12,000 or relatives’ claims
had not properly proven. As
as they attempt to prove them. we shall
object to them.

I examined Harrison all afgernoon

 

 

been soon

    

He

 

   
   

pretended to be sick. Among the ec ms

i eXamined him on were the follow i:
M. A. Jaspan, who has a claim of

$1.3i2. ‘This Jaspan is a nephew of Har-

rison He traveled for H. Monness &
n, New York. Harrison claimed he
L

ained the money from Jaspan in 1905
nd 1906. Couldn't tell the amount re-
ceived at any one time, as he claimed to
have received it at different times. Had

 

 

  

 

no memorandum. Admitted that Jaspan
was “‘busted”’ at one time. a few years
ago, and he helped him out. Claimed

that Jaspan got some money from an ac-
cident on a railroad, all of which looks
very “shy.”

A. Harrison, of
brother.

Johnstown, N. :
Claims he owes
for endorsements made for bank-
rupt while he was in business at
Johnsville and Gloversville, N.Y.
him to produce all checks
papers in regard to it

M. Jacobs. She is the mother of bank-
rupt’s wife, and he could give no ac-

Or-
and

her note for money loaned some time.
D. E. Harrison is a

Claimed he owes him

endorsements. Ordered him to pro-

to claim.

  

prietor. Mr. Rigdon has not yet de-
ded what line of business he wil
ke up in the future.

Terre Haute—S. Arnold,

i

 

twenty-four years engaged in
the clothing business and for the past
forty-nine years a merchant here, has

announced his

out

o> —______
Nitric Acid from Waste.
The internal

c
comings so mnid
coming so rapid

ombustion engine is

y imto favor as a

power producer for almost
kind of work that to look for

 

a
of cheapening it would

most supererogatory. How-
ever, an attempt has been made and
apparently with success to utilize
even the waste i

gases of the exhaust
in the making of a valuable byprod-

MLL

The subject has been exhaustively
tealt with by Herr Hauser in a lec-
ture delivered before a branch of
the Society of German Engineers.

It appears
means of a

dinary gas

from his address that by
simple attachment any or-
engine may be made to
produce nitric acid with no serious

|diminution of power.

St. j
| may

Save i

brother who has}!

It is probable that there will al-
ways be a ready market for nitric
acid in almost any quantity, but it
be questioned whether the
amount of acid evolved as a byprod-
uct from the gas engine will have a
sufficient commercial value to make
the extra trouble worth the taking.

|In any case, however, the experi-

ment will be watched with interest
y V1 care D  aee 1 .
Helen F. Harrison is a daughter be- | by = users of internal combustion

tween five and six years of age. Has | engines.

given her a note for $361.92. The only |
se SE : I Ber ee

claim he makes is that relatives had

;}given her birthday presents and put

money in her bank, and he had borrow-'|

'ed the money from her.

Adele S. Harrison is a child ten months!

old. He claims to have given her a

Could not re-

their names

jnote on her birthday for $150 for money |
jrelatives had given her.
member who the relatives were or give|

Bertha Harrison, his wife, has a claim!

of $1,674. He claimed that about the
time he was married, eight or ten years

ago, he got $3.000 from her, which he
has paid up with the exception of this
balance. He does not know where she
got the money, nor whether her par-

ents had any property or not.
Further hearing on these claims
has been adjourned until Jan. 26 at

19 o’clock at Alma.

A peculiar feature of the situation
is that Harrison died the day follow-
ing his cross-examination by Mr.
Doran, which has given the friends
of the latter an opportunity to say
to him that he must never undertake
to cross-examine them.

——_—_22-2.______
Recent Trade Changes in the Hoo-
sier State.

Swayzee—R. V. Slaughter, imple-
ment dealer, who made an assign-
ment last week, announces that his
store will be re-opened as soon as
financial matters can be arranged.
Part of the stock has been removed
by the creditors. The liabilities are
said to be about $5,000, with assets of
about $3,000.

Marion—-Frank Rigdon, who has
been engaged in the drug business
here for the past twenty-three years,
has sold his stock to C. H. Overmain.
Walter Starett, who has been employ-
ed by Mr. Rigdon since 1895, will
probably continue with the new pro-

Making Butter in Armenia.

Butter in Armenia is made in
churns suspended by ropes from the
rafters and shaken from side to side
by the women.

—_+22—__

Chas. F. Kley, Evansville, Ind.: I
herewith hand you postoffice order
for $5 to renew my subscription for
the Michigan Tradesman three years.
Your paper is always a welcome visit-
or and I can not afford to be without
it.

—_—_—_-oa

Albert Stonehouse has sold his in-
terest in the drug stock of Barth &
Stonehouse, 668 Wealthy avenue, to
his partner, who will continue the
business at the same location under
the style of Wm. F. Barth.

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Rent—Corner store in brick block
on best business corner of Belding. Size
of store. 25x85 feet. Newly decorated.
Good fixtures, designed especially for a
clothing stock, for which there is a good
opening. W. P. Hetherington, Belding,
Mich. 460

For Sale—100 acre improved farm; 2
houses and 2 barns; pays 20 per cent. on
investment. Address J. S. McEntaffer,
Nappanee, Ind. 463

For Sale—Seven acre fruit and truck
farm, in Southwestern Michigan. In
high state of cultivation. Eight-room
house nearly new. Good barn, other
buildings. 300 bearing fruit trees. Price
$1,500. J. R. Honeywell, Mendon, —

 

 

 

Business Chances—Reliable party to
rent first room of two-story brick store
for hardware; only one exclusive hard-
ware stock in town of 1,800. For par-
ticulars address Box 237, Paw Paw, —

 

City property and 50 acres, or large
farm to exchange for clean stock hard-
ware. John E. Foster, ——

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