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Che Man Who Wins

The man who wins is the man who works—

The man who toils while the next man shirks;

The man who stands in his deep distress

With his head held high in the deadly press—
Yes, he is the man who wins.

 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
     
   
   
     
    

     
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
       
   
       
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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The value of pain and the worth of woes—

Who a lesson learns from the man who fails,

And a moral finds in his mournful wails:
Yes, he is the man who wins.

   

The man who wins is the man who stays
In the unsought paths and the rocky ways,
* And, perhaps, who lingers, now and then,
To help some failures to rise again.
Ah, he is the man who wins!

The man who wins is the man who hears

The curse of the envious in his ears,

But who goes his way with his head held high

And passes the wrecks of the failures by—
Oh, he is the man who wins.

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What do we plant when we plant the tree?
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We plant the mast to carry the sails,

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The keel, the keelson and the beam and knee;
We plant the ship when we plant the tree.

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We plant the houses for you and me.

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We plant the studding, the lath, the doors,
The beams and siding, all parts that be;

We plant the house when we plant the tree.

What do we plant when we plant the tree?
A thousand things that we daily see.

We plant the spire that out-towers the crag,
We plant the staff for our country’s flag,
We plant the shade, from the hot sun free;
All these we plant when we plant the tree.

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1907

ALWAYS ON TOP.
The number of pitfalls which have
President Roosevelt

been dus for

and into which he has not fallen is
legion. About once in so often and
sometimes twice in awhile, envious
statesmen announce that they have
“put the President in a hole.” It us-
ually happens that in a little while
casual enquiry reveals the President
large as life and just as natural and
the most diligent search can not find
the hole about which so much has
been said. It is noticeable, too, that
the people who are always putting the
President in a hole are those whose
practices have been such as to bring
them into unpleasant notoriety be-
cause of Roosevelt’s independent way
of hewing to the line, without very
much regard to who is hurt thereby
or where the chips may fall. For ex-
ample, the meat packers were Very
angry, but they were compelled to
clean up, and when that fracas was
over the President was more popular
than ever. Then the railroad mana-
gers and the trusts favored by re-
bates were going to put the President
in a hole.
fell into it themselves.

 

land, incidentally—that t

{purely local estimates as

trip him. The people are
disposed to trust h!im and he is to-
undoubtedly the
personality in this country.

able to

day most forceful

 

UP TO MAYOR ELLIS.

Speaking of the futility of locking
the barn door after the horse is stolen
One of the fact
Mayor has taken time by the fore-
lock by asking the Police Commis-
sioners to detail two censors to listen
dramatic

reminds

to and witness a certain

performance soon to be given in this] ..
city, that the municipality may have |

intelligent information as to whether
Or not it will be wise to permit a

that our|

 

 

 

second presentation of the play in|

Grand Rapids.

Inasmuch as the suspected play will
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Number 1224

:
EDISON’S STORAGE BATTERY.

that
electricity is the ideal motive power
provided that the
right sort of a storage battery can be

It is very generally conceded

for automobiles,

devised and furnished at a reasonable
There considerable

particular
comparatively it

cost. has been
improvement along these
and

lines yet has
not been very extensive so far as pub-
i There
electric vehicles, but the

th ey

lic use is concerned. are a

can £0 is compara-
limited. They are fine around
e ] ral _a r
a LEVEl CIty,
than forty or
country

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for a ride of
gasoline

must be the

 

motive power.
batteries to

torage

 

s even a Short dis-

not be here within a week or more. | a :
he ai ce {tance is very grea Chen, too, it
the censors—whoever they may be—| en Le of
Wt ; hich cal ukes aS long to fill up with power as
I ave ample time in whic oO} - yi
Will lave mpie re in a : Et | ii do q + run it ut and, of course,
delve amone the writings of famed |, - : : ; : ‘
} — ‘ 1 , 1 i LOIS OFYy an be done in places equip-
-ensors who have preceded them dur- . , : :
Soo ero ve peceeced «me ved not only with an electric plant,

ing the past two or three centuries
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1ey may have
to dramatic

|decency, to support, modify or ren
ider more stable the standards they
set up—they might interview “Vox

They dug the hole and|
(Populi, Old Subscriber,’  Y

Now, no one, not even his staunch- |
est defenders, undertakes to say that |

the President is without faults.

One

Right and a few others who pay

5 a ae i a vt
1@SS attention to

MOFrEe OF

|public policy.

of his faults is that he is too impetu- |
ous and speaks out his mind pretty |

freely, but, after all, perhaps it is|

just as well, for certainly there can
be no charge of deceit under such cir-
cumstances. There is a great differ
ence between impulsive speech
reckless action. The wisdom of his
position and of the action he
taken or recommended has usually
commended itself very thoroughly to
the American people. Roosevelt may
be impulsive but he is honest. That,
after all, is the most important vital
part. ft is

and

NOE expected that any
man will live his life without mis-
takes, but if they are honest ones

the people are not disposed to find
very much fault. It has never been
shown or even suspected that any-
where in his own official life Presi-
dgnt Roosevelt ever profited by a
dollar in any transaction. He has
never made any political bargains for
his own advancement, because this
advancement, for the most part, has

come without his request. He was
nominated for Governor of New

York because just at that time, fresh
from San Juan Hill, he was thought
to be the very strongest and proba-
bly the only one who could be elect-
ed. He did all he could to prevent
his nomination for Vice-President,
without which nomination he would
not now be President. At the last
National convention he had no oppo-
sition. Roosevelt’s strength lies in
the fact that the people believe in his
sturdy, rugged honesty and that is
why his adversaries have never been

 

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proposition which 1 Nadie TC ta }nhewspapers put off buying whiz wag

Meanwhile, if Mayor Ellis is really
in earnest and is not lending his nam
bold

tO a scheme for advertising a
|

might
mgt

the Clipper or

1erits. he -onsult
MIETIUS, iG CONSULT

Mirror,

Om iS own
the Dramatic

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ours for |

ithe Bill Poster and so learn the itiner- |

lary Of the
has |

 

combination in question.
Then, learning where this play is to
1ith oF

might secure the good

be presented on the r2th of
this month, he x]

offices of some friend or city official

iin the city to be thus favored on the

days in question who will, without

prejudice and fairly, render
ion as to whether or mot the play
should be presented in this city. In-
deed, the Mayor might himself travel
to witness performance, I

such and

surely anyone would accept his ver-
dict in the matter.

There are a dozen ways by which
the Mayor might inform himself on
the subject, and so, if the play is real-
ly objectionable 1 should

anc not be

; presented, he would save the first and

test performance which he proposes
to permit.
bears the earmarks of insincerity on

1
}
i

foresight and “nerve” on the part of
those who are charged with the work
of advertising a theatrical attraction.
If the representation is truly objec-
tionable, it should not be given the
right to a single performance and, so
long as he has brought the matter to
public notice, it is clearly up to the
Mayor to see that it is not presented
Inere at all if tt 1s really right that
such action should be taken.

an opin- |

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1Says
lee » whole thing|, ~ . “11
Indeed, the whole thi © |however, there is still
1

the part of the Mayor and of shrewd |

t
DLEODer

but with a | special apparatus

purpose
and sellers

makers

ymobiles are al-

steam aut

 

ess provoked at Edi-

   

but because every now
announces that he has
lished his desire In this di-
will soon have it on the

does not come, but peo-
the

 

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ms on the theory that “next year”
Idison’s new storage battery will en-
able them to buy a a less, smell-
less, easily managed vehicle, just such
s they want. Next year” has been
coming since 1900 and, of course,
must be getting annually closer at
hand. An interview with Edison,
published the other day, says that he
has battery for automo-
biles completed and his

 

manufactory for their production
claims for

the severest
; :

test for two and a half years and that

ready for occupancy. He

1 that it withstood

has

he can now say with certainty there

is nothing more to be done save to
put it on the market. His new fac-
tory has a capacity of a thotsand

storage batteries a day, which ought

to be nearly enough to supply the

demand. If what the

ereat inventor
is actually so, it is important. If,
any
and realization,

further delay and

l hitch be-

tween anticipation

there will be some
the gasoline and steam cars will con-
tinue to be popular. The general in
troduction of the Edison storage bat-

tery, if it will do what is claimed for

  

it, will materi: increase the auto-
mobile output and likewise will en-
able every man to be his own chaf-
feur.

Many fail because they plan on
making post-preparation.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

RETAIL MARKET.

It Can Be Combined with a Conven-
tion Hall.

The convenience of a retail market
needs no argument for one whg has
lived in a city where such aaree
maintained. They simplify the work
of the provider for the household im-
mensely, and at the same time they
are an advantage to farmers and deal-
ers inasmuch as the market sérvice is
the best and quickest way for bring-
ing buyer and seller together with the
least possible expenditure of time and
effort. The buyer has the great ad-
vantage of the largest variety of ar-
ticles to choose from, together with
the ability of selecting both as to
quality and price. In European cities,
especially in England, these markets
are usually maintained as a part of
the municipal government, and have
been from the earliest times. Many
of the older cities of the country, in
laying out the town, provided for a
public market place in the same way.

The public markets of a city be-
come one of its show places. Here
one sees the real life of all the people
better than in any other single place,
for in our larger cities they are visit-
ed by tens of thousands of people
during the few hours they are open
each day.

“To what extent the municipal mar-
ket has become a part of the life of
the people in England may be real-
ized from the following summary,
which is taken from the 1906 edition
of the Municipal Year Book. Two
hundred and eighty-six towns in the
United Kingdom, outside of London,
maintain municipal markets, and of
these, in the column referring to the
date of the acquisition or inaugura-
tion, forty were established in ancient
times; that is to say, the markets
were in existence in those towns al-
most from the beginning of the
towns. An extended study of this
table relating to English markets
would be exceedingly interesting. The
latest available statistics are given
and, in addition to those already re-
ferred to, they give the capital ex-
penditure, the amount repaid or in
sinking fund, the receipts for the year
1904-05, the expenditures for the year
1904-05 and the annual amount of in-
terest and sinking fund for each city.
In at least thirteen of these cities the
total amount of capital expenditure
was paid off in full at the time of the
report, and in a large number of
others no report is given with :efer-
ence to capital. The following are
the amounts of receipts and the ex-
penditures for 1904-05 in the several
towns. These towns were selected
simply. because they are well known:

 

Aberdeen, Scotland .. 6,821 3,001
Repts. Exp.
Town ibs. tbs.
Belfast, Ireland ...... 12,364 6,953
Derby, England ...... 7,901 4,979
Dublin, Ireland ....... 0,860 5,544
Edinboro, Scotland ...11,873 4,441
Liverpool, Eng......... 36,810 17,500
New Castle-upon-Tyne,
ee a ee 18,581 9,687
Sheffield, Eng. ........ 29,340 8,400

Multiplying the number of pounds
by five in the above table and we
have the receipts and expenditures in
terms of dollars.

In London there are a whole series

 

of markets, but the statistics are not
given as a whole, separate reports be-
ing given for the separate markets.
In the fish and cattle markets the ex-
penditures are sometimes. greater
than the receipts, but the central
markets at Smithfield, London, which
are larger than all the others com-
bined, show the gross receipts for
1904 as 134,050 pounds, and the ex-
penditures as 95,293 pounds.

The city of Lancaster, Pa. my
home town, has about one-half the
population of Grand Rapids and less
than one-quarter the area of this city.
There is maintained here one central
market which is part of the munici-
pal government, the annual receipts
from the rental of stalls being about
$7,000. There are 218 stalls, the rent-
al for each being from $30 to $48 per
year. The principal item of expense
outside of repairs is $300 per year for
the market master. This market is
a source of revenue for the city, listed
in the budget at $6,500 per year. It is
open two mornings a week. This mu-
nicipal market dates back to the
eighteenth century.

In the two last generations four ad-
ditional markets in various parts of
Lancaster have been organized, these
being stock company markets, having
five public markets in all for the
whole city. With reference to these
four stock company markets the fol-
lowing is the price of the stock as
given in the newspaper reports of lo-
cal stocks and bonds, the par value
being $50:

Northern Market, selling price.$75 00
Eastern Market, selling price. 70 50
Southern Market, selling price. 51 50

Stock in the Western Market, or-
ganized in a new part of the city,
much farther away from the business
section than any of the others, is sell-
ing at $25.25 per share. Some idea
of the size of these markets may be
realized when we remember that the
Northern Market house is 245x96 feet.

It will be seen from this that in
one of these stock companies the
stock is at a premium of $25 a share,
and that two more are selling above
par. This simply shows that a pub-
lic market of this sort can be man-
aged as a paying investment.

In the city of Baltimore all the
markets are a part of the municipal
government, and there are twelve or
fifteen of. them. The area of that
city is about one and one-half times
that of Grand Rapids. In connection
with about: half of these markets
there is a hall on the second floor of
the building, which is used for politi-
cal conventions, public meetings, etc.
These halls, it may be said, do not ex-
tend over the whole of the market. In
one of the buildings was an armory
for one of the regiments of the Na-
tional Guard. This armory, however,
was too small, and recently the State
has erected a new armory at a cost of
several hundred thousand dollars. The
combination of these public halls with
a market in Baltimore, and in a num-
ber of other cities, is a demonstra-
tion of the fact that it is possible to
unite these two features. in a satis-
factory way. The value to the com-
munity of a retail market of this
sort, simply as a public convenience,
is also a demonstrated fact.

Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall Mar-

 

ket, Boston, is, perhaps, the best-

known of these city institutions in
this country, but similarly large mar-
kets are in successful operation in
Philadelphia, Washingon, Cleveland,
Detroit, etc. With reference to
Cleveland it may be remarked that
action has recenly been taken for the
erection of another new market house
at a cost of more than $160,000.

It would seem from the foregoing
that the combination of a retail mar-
ket and convention hall of this kind,
for which there is. great need in this
city, would be well worth consider-
ing. The advantage of the conven-
tion hall proposition by uniting it
with the market would be that the
property in this way would yield an
income which, if we may judge by
the experience of other cities, would
not only maintain the whole building,
but would also pay a reasonable in-
terest on the investment.

The great drawback to the success-
ful operation of large halls is the
cost of maintenance. They can be
used such a small number of days in

 

the year for such purposes that -the
expense of maintenance has wrecked
a number of such enterprises, — the
stockholders losing practically every-
thing they put in. The history of
Music Hall in Baltimore is an illus-
tration of this fact.

It, therefore, seems desirable that 4
special effort should be made at this
time to combine both the market and
the convention hall proposition for
this city. Whether this should be
made a municipal enterprise or be
done by a private corporation I am
not prepared to say, but I feel very
strongly that whatever is done with
reference to this should be done in
such a way that ultimately the whole
matter could be taken over by the
city and become a municipal institu-
tion for both the market and the hall
and minister to the needs and the con-
venience of every member of the com-

munity. Samuel H. Ranck.
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FREIGHT AGENTS.

Should They Be Appointed by the
Nation?

Are our railways public highways or
private roads? Just think for a min-
ute of these public highways of the
country, open to all on absolutely
equal terms by the law of their be-
ing, being used to enable some men,
a few men, to destroy their business
rivals, drive them out of business and
beggar them and their families, by
means of favoritism in freight rates.
It is the basest, I do not hesitate to
say the most dastardly, crime of our
day and generation. What sort of a
death do men expect to die who have
amassed millions in that way? I do
not have to stop to remind intelligent
people that if I can get my freight
carried at a rate so much lower than
yours | am thereby enabled ruin-
ously to undersell you in the market
and you must quit; you are ruined
and I am left without a rival, with 2
monopoly, to dictate prices and do as
I will. Transportation rates enter
controllingly into the price of com-
modities as they are produced to the
consumer.

 

Now, if I give an illustration it is
not for holding any one man up to
reproach above others. About 1870
I went through the oil region of
Pennsylvania after coming home
from school. There I saw a wilder-
ness of derricks spread out over the
country over wells and engines pump-
ing oil. Hundreds of people owned
such wells and were producing oil. In
about five years all of these wells
had passed into the ownership of one
man or set of men. All the others
had failed and joined those unfortu-
nates who fall by the wayside in the
struggle for existence. And why and
how? Were these few men able to
dig wells or pump oil, or refine it any
better than the hundreds of others?
Not at all. Then how did they ruin
and drive away every one but
themselves? Why, they went to the
few powerful individuals who con-
trolled the railroads, the public high-
ways and conspired with them,
breathed with them, and got them
to carry their oil to market for, say,
$1 a barrel, while every one else was
charged $2 and more a barrel. More
than that, they got these railroad au-
tocrats and defiers of law secretly to
pay over to them a part or all of such
extra rates charged to all excepting
them, and then there was a division
among them all.

Of’course, this favoritism in freight
rates enabled them to undersell and
destroy their rivals. Poor unfortu-
nates, destroyed by the unlawful use
of the public highways, open by law
to all on the same terms, destroyed
by the neglect of their government
to enforce the laws of these high-
ways, nothing was left to them but to
quit. Life to them was a failure.
And this same thing since has been
done in respect of all of our principal
products. All of our commercial
trusts have been built up chiefly by
this favoritism in freight rates. It is
the mother of trusts. Every one in
business has to pay our protective
tariffs alike; no one gets any abate-
ment of them. But this favoritism in
freight rates given to a few gives

 

 

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them a controlling advantage over all
others.

And let no one be under the delu-
sion that it is now to cease. You
can’t stop an evil by merely passing
a law against it. One coterie of five
men or less is receiving $25,000,000
a year by this rate favoritism, and
another has’ received $500,000,000
since 1887, and so on through a long
list of industries. So great is this
rate favoritism that the gross freight
receipts of some roads compared
with the total tonnage carried is less
than if all freight had been carried
at the rate for coal, which is the low-
est of rates. Do you think ‘these
men are going to give up this vast
means of aggrandizement without a
long struggle lasting a generation or
more? You know little of human na-
ture if you do. Some have come to
the conclusion that government
should take the railroads and run
them in order to end the abuse. It
is certain that if the abuse can be
ended in no other way the people will
compel government to take the roads.
The people have only to become more
and more incensed at the state of af-
fairs, the present state of affairs has
only to be brought more prominently
into the view of the people, and we
will have the whole clamoring for
government ownership. :

This country and government of
ours are great enough to do any-
thing. There is nothing radical or
startling about government owning
and running railroads when one-half
or more of the railroads of the world
are owned and operated by govern-
ment. For my part I would rather
not see government do it. Private
enterprise is too valuable to be elim-
inated from railroad building and
management if it can be avoided.

My own view, which I express with
diffidence, is that it is only necessary
for government to appoint the general
freight agent of every railroad, for
he could stop all rate favoritism at
once. It would not be his office to
fix the schedule of rates, but only to
see that every one paid the schedule
rates, no more and no less. The sum-
mary dismissal by him of any local
agent who gave a false rate and his
criminal prosecution by government
would soon destroy the evil.

Some at once cry out that there is
no law for this, or that it is uncon-
stitutional, as though our laws and
constitutions were like those of the
Medes and Persians, never , to be
changed. Laws and_ constitutions
must be changed to conform to
changed conditions. Lincoln said a
political constitution should not out-
last a generation in its entirety. Ma-
caulay says of the British constitu-
tion that, although it is constantly
changing, there never was an instant
of time when the chief part of it
was not old. William J. Gaynor.

So
Indefinite.

“They say that cigars affect the
brain,” observed the young man with
the exhibit of necktie, “but they. will
never bother me that way.”

“No?” murmurs the young woman
with the vigorous chin.

“No. I never use ’em.”

“Never use which?”

3

 

Weare the Largest
anders in Michi- FIQC House Lettuce
RADISH, PARSLEY AND RHUBARB

C. L. REED & CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

> JENNINGS
A MangFACTURING CO’

owners of the
Jennings Flavoring Extract Co.
19 and 21 South Ottawa St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Manufacturers of the celebrated

Terpeneless Extract Lemon

Absolutely Pure and Colorless Fiavor for Food or Drink

     

 

 

 

 

 

The Jennings Terpeneless Extract of Lemon and process were sustained
by the Supreme Court of Michigan in 1903. The National Pure Food Law
(Act June 30, 1906) clearly defines the. standard for Terpeneless Extract
of Lemon, ‘‘F. I. D. No. 19,’’ thereby making the product lawful
under the Federal Law.

To our Friends and Patrons: February, 1907.
Subject:—MANUFACTURERS’ GUARANTY
‘*The Food and Drug Act June 30, 1906.”’
Referring to the above, we have filed with the Secretary of Agriculture
a general guaranty. Upon receipt of its official acknowledgment and accept-
ance we will advise the public of our ‘‘Serial Number,’’ and same will appear
in due time upon our packages, ‘‘Guaranteed under the Food and Drug Act,
June 30, 1906, Number ——.”’ ‘
We thank you for past, and commend ourselves to your future patronage.
Yours very respectfuliy,
JENNINGS MANUFACTURING CO.,
C. W. JENNINGS, President.

 

 

 

 

      
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
    

When Ordering
Don’t Forget the QuaKer Brands

Quaker Tea

Quaker Coffee
Quaker Spices
Quaker Flour
Quaker Can Goods
Quaker Mince Meat

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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TATE

Movements of Merchants.

Ypsilanti—D. B. Seeley, jeweler,
has moved his stock to Milan.

Onsted—J. S. Kane has sold his
stock of wall paper to W. F. Muck.

Vermontville—H. H. Kirk isadd-
ing a line of groceries to his meat
market.

Rochester—Frank Shoup has sold
his stock of groceries to Mr. George,
of Troy.

Pentecost—C. L. Austin will soon
close his general store and remove
to Ohio.

East Jordan—The new meat market
and grocery of Bowen & Barnett has
been opened.

Pinckney—The L. L. Holmes
Clothing Co. will soon open a cloth-
ing store here.

Saginaw—J. H. Eno has sold his
grocery stock to Houch & Ham-
mond, of Oxford.

Owosso—The Owosso Paint and
Wall Paper Co. is succeeded by C.
H. Strabler & Co.

Mt. Clemens—Groesbeck & Wal-
lace will succeed H. V. Groesbeck
in the cigar business.

Clifford—The general stock of
Luther Lathrop & Co. will be sold at
trustee’s sale on March 7.

Detroit—Brownlee & Co. are suc-
ceeded in the wholesale lumber busi-
ness by the Brownlee-Kelly Co.

Otsego—E. J. Franklin will con-
tinue the grocery business formerly
conducted by Wolcott & Franklin.

Sturgis—Mr. Schier, of Benton Har-
bor, has purchased the stock of dry
goods and cloaks of Geo. B. Tomp-
kins.

Coldwater—Wells Knapp has sold
his stock of boots and shoes to F.
C. Stillson, of Fremont, who will
continue the business.

Portland—A. & D. Friedman, who
recently moved their stock of cloth-
ing to this place, have turned same
over to Albert W. Schloss as trustee.

Charlotte—C. V. Roblin & Co. have
discontinued their branch store at Oli-
vet. Ernest Roblin, who was in
charge, will return to the Charlotte
store.

Saginaw—John King, for the past
thirteen years manager of the meat
department of the Hayden Fancy
Grocery Co., will open a meat market
of his own.

Maple Rapids—A. H. Gruber, form-
erly engaged in trade at Middleton,
Alma and Shepherd, will soon engage
in the undertaking and _ furniture
business here.

Adrian—Geo. W. Tietz, formerly
employed by J. Fred Betz, has form-
ed a copartnership under the style
of Tietz & Freytag to conduct a
grocery and meat market.

Marion—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Marion
Grain Co., with an authorized capital
stock of $8,000, of which amount
$4,000 has been subscribed and $1,000
paid in in property.

Rockland—R. J. Kneebone, of
Ontonagon, and Geo. W. Stannard,
of this place, have formed a_ co-

 

 

 

partnership and purchased the meat
market of the Richard Chynoweth
estate and taken possession.

Mesick—Donnelly & Co. have sold
their stock of general merchandise to
L. J. Tripp and Chas. Dean. Mr.
Tripp was formerly engaged in trade
at the same stand and Mr. Dean has
been employed as salesman in the
store for several years past.

Lansing—Carl Le Barron and
Murray Williams have formed a co-
partnership under the style of Le
Barron & Williams and engaged in
the grocery business here. The stock
was supplied by O. P. De Witt, the
St. Johns wholesale grocer.

Detroit—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Kuser
& Mullin Co. to conduct a general
market business, with an authorized
capital stock of $10,000, of which
amount $5,700 has been subscribed,
$1,000 being paid in in cash and $4,700
in property.

Rochester—H. J. Finsterwald has
sold his clothing stock to his broth-
er Louis, who will continue the busi-
ness under the style of the Roches-
ter Clothing Co., as heretofore. H.
J. Finsterwald will remove to De-
troit, where he will engage in the
umbrella business.

Port Huron—A confectionery fac-
tory will be conducted by a new cor-
poration under the style of the J.
B. Haviland Co., which has an au-
thorized capital stock of $10,000
common and $3,000 preferred, of
which amount $11,000 has been sub-
scribed, $1,000 being paid in in cash
and $1,000 in property.

Manton—The Meyer Hardware Co.
has re-organized its business and been
incorporated under the same style.
Louis Meyer, the senior partner, will
retire from active work and L. H.
Meyer has sold his stock, although he
will probably remain with the firm for
a time. R. P. Manwaring, of Grand
Rapids, is one of the new stockhold-
ers. Carl O. Meyer, for the past three
years identified with the wholesale
hardware department of Foster, Stev-
ens & Co., in Grand Rapids, will re-
turn to Manton and give his attention
to the sales department. Fred H.
Meyer will be the manager. The of-
ficers of the new company are: Presi-
dent, R. P; Manwaring; Vice-Presi-
dent, Louis Meyer; Secretary, C. O.
Meyer; Treasurer, F. H. Meyer.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Gaylord—The Huff-Mitchell Co.,
which manufactured wagons and
sleighs, has changed its name to
the Gaylord Manufacturing Co.

Assyria—The Assyria Creamery Co.
has sold its plant to F. E. Allen, of
Dowling, who operates the cheese fac-
tory there. He will convert the
creamery into a cheese factory.

Detroit—The Howell & Spaulding
Co., which manufactures steel horse
collars, is succeeded by the Johnston,
Slocum Co. The capital stock is in-
creased from $25,000 to $35,000.

Hastings—About two-thirds of the
machinery in the new plant of the
Press & Tool Co., of Chicago, is in
place. Forty-two hands are employ-
ed. Fifteen skilled men from Chi-
cago are instructing local young men
in the work.

 

Sault Ste. Marie—The Peninsular
Bark & Lumber Co. has merged its
business into a stock company under
the same style and increased its capi-
tal stock from $25,000 to $35,000.

Tustin—Spencer & McDavitt, of
Marion, Ind., have purchased the old
grist mill building here and will es-
tablish therein a first-class heading
factory. It will employ about fifty
men.

Carson City—H. P. Fitzpatrick is
succeeded in the ownership of the Car-
son City Cheese Factory by Louis
Ligrow, of Carson City, and Harry
J. Wilson, of Butternut, who have tak-
en possession,

Holly—Operations at the new plant
of the Holly Cabinet Co. will begin
as soon as stock arrives. Ten or
twelve expert men will arrive to be-
gin work shortly. The force will be
increased gradually.

Detroit—The Sibley-Houfley Ma-
chine Co. has been incorporated to
conduct a manufacturing business.
The company has an authorized capi-
tal stock of $5,000, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Marquette—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Con-
sumers Lumber Co. to manufacture
forest products, with an authorized
capital stock of $35,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.

Coldwater—The Pratt Manufac-
turing Co., engaged in the manufac-
ture of cutters, is arranging to build
extensive additions to its plant, by
which it will acquire about 5,000 feet
of floor space. The addition is to
be three stories high.

Ludington—The Ludington Basket
Co., which conducts a manufacturing
business, has merged its business in-
to a stock company under the same
style, with an authorized capital stock
of $18,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Detroit—A corporation has been
formed to manufacture duplicating
machines, with an authorized capital
stock of $65,000 common and $35,000
preferred, of which amount $75,000
has been subscribed, $10,000 being
paid in in cash and $65,000 in prop-
erty.

Detroit—-The Michigan Alumin-
um Foundry Co. has been incorporat-
ed to manufacture aluminum  cast-
ings. The company has an authoriz-
ed capital stock of $10,000, of which
amount $6,000 has been subscribed,
$1,500 being paid in in cash and $4,500
In property.

St. Ignace—The entire holdings of
the Simmons Lumber Company,
whose mill and headquarters are at
Simmons, on Duel Lake, in Macki-
naw county, have been bought by a
newly organized concern, the Earle
Lumber Co. The railroad connect-

ing Simmons with the Soo line, the
sawmill, the timber limits, the village

buildings and property are all taken
over in their entirety. Superintendent
A. G. McClellan, whose activity and
business energy brought the model
village of Simmons into being, is en-
gaged in a similar capacity with the
Earle Co. The mill is already run-
ning and the hum of industry stirs
Simmons again. Dr. W. G. Earle,
the head of the new concern, is Pres-
ident -of the Wisconsin Land and

 

Lumber Co., said to be the largest

manufacturer of hardwood flooring

and other dressed hardwood  prod-
ucts in this country.

—_—_~+~-<-_____

Business Changes in the
Buckeye State.
Portsmouth—The Murphy Shoe Co.

is invoicing its stock preparatory to

selling out.

Swanton—J. F. Grove, dealer in
general merchandise, is dead.

Cincinnati—Geo. J. Lampe is suc-
ceeded in the dry goods business by
Geo. Lierup. :

Columbus—Hartwell Tuller is the
successor of T. J. Boyd, dealer in gen-
eral merchandise.

Columbus—The fruit business form-
erly conducted by Pietsech & Sutton
will be continued in future under tle
style of the Fulton Market Co.

Forest—W. A. Mapletoft will con-
tinue the hardware business formerly
conducted by Mapletoft & Ernest.

Kinsman—The Kinsman Refining
Co. is succeeded by the Kinsman Milk
Sugar Co.

Columbus—Bryce Bros. & Co., clo-
thiers, have merged their business into
a stock company under the same
style.

Columbus—L. J. Streng will contin-
ue the clothing business formerly con-
ducted by Streng, Fox & Co.

Geneva—The dry goods business
formerly conducted by J. B. Stephens
& Son will be continued under the
style of the J. B. Stephens Son Co.

Hillsboro—R. E. Donohoe will con-
tinue the bakery business formerly
conducted by Donohoo & Donohoo.

Marion—The Marion Lumber &
Coal Co. is succeeded by the Wollen-
weber Lumber Co.

Mt. Vernon—Bartlett & Norrick
will continue the grocery business
formerly conducted by E. Bartlett.

Cincinnati —- Robt. Quehl succeeds
A. C. Quehl in the drug business.

Cincinnati—Chas. Fraid is succeed-
ed in the manufacture of skirts by
Fraid & Gralsky.

Marion—Keeler Bros. are succeeded
in the jewelry business by L. D.
Keeler & Co.

Massillon—Jos. Warth will contin-
ue the grocery business formerly con-
ducted by Warth & Lux.

Youngstown—Wm. McIntosh suc-
ceeds J. S. Black in the grocery busi-
ness.

Columbus—Isaac David will con-
tinue the clothing business formerly
conducted by Osterman & David.

Greenfield — Allen Bros. succeed
Ward Allen, grocer. ed

Sabina—J. S. Lesh is succeeded in
the implement business by Lesh &
Jenkins.

Toledo—The Merrill Co. succeeds
the Co-operative Merchants’ Co.

Toledo—John Schaefer is C. O.
Deimling’s successor in the grocery
business.

Williamsport—R. D. Griffith will
continue the business formerly con-
ducted by the Haynes Furniture Co.

Recent

Mrs. Harriett M. Stafford, 341 E.
Bridge street, is succeeded in the gro-
cery business by Klaas Bakker, ot
131 Jennette street.

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The Produce Market.

Apples—There is plenty of good
stock in market and demand is good
on about the following basis: Spys,
$3.25; Wagners, $3; Baldwins, $3;
Greenings, $2.75; Colorado stock in
bushel boxes fetches $2.25 for Jona-
thans and $2 for Kings.

Bagas-—$1.35 per bbl.

Beets—$1.50 per bbl.

Butter—The market is firm and un-
changed. All grades are in good de-
mand and the outlook is for a steady
and unchanged market for the next
few days. There can be no notable
increase in the supply as long as the
cold weather continues, and until it
breaks conditions will probably re-
main strong. Creamery is held at
32c for No. 1 and 33c for. extras.
Dairy grades are held at 26c for No.
t and toc for packing stock. Ren-
ovated is in fair demand at 24@25c.

Cabbage—8s5c per doz.

Celery—28c per bunch for Jumbo
and 75c for California.

Cheese—The market is very firm
and there has been a further general
advance of %c in all markets. Stocks
of cheese are lower than usual at this
season, and as prices are above nor-
mal any further radical advance is not
likely in the near future.

Chestnuts—t12c per tb. for N. Y.

Cocoanuts—$4 per bag of about 90.

Cranberries--Wisconsins have de-
clined to $8.50 per bbl. Late Howes
from Cape Cod have been marked
down to $9 per bbl.

Eggs—The receipts of fresh have
increased during the past week, and
the market has declined 4c per doz-
en in consequence. The quality of
the current receipts is very fine and
the consumptive demand good. As
prices are still above normal there
will probably be a decline when the
receipts increase still further. Stor-
age eggs are now quite exhausted,
and the trade is being supplied en-

‘tirely by current receipts. Fresh
range from 16@t7Cc.

Grape Fruit—Florida commands $5
‘for either 54s, 64s or 8os.

Grapes—Malagas command $6@7
per keg.

Honey--16@17c per fb. for white
clover and 12@14c for dark.

Lemons—Californias are weak at
$3.65 and Messinas are in small de-
mand at $3.50.

Lettuce—13c per tb. for hot house.

New Beets—soc per doz.

New Carrots—soc per doz.

Onions—Local holders are strong
at $1 per bu. f. o. b. for red and yel-
low Danvers. Spanish are finding an
outlet in a small way at $1.75 per 40
tb. crate.

Oranges—California navels are not
showing the keeping qualities they did
some weeks ago, and it is said that
the trees are blooming now, which ac-
counts for this. As soon as the bloom.
ing is over the fruit will be in fine

\condition again. Floridas are steady
at $3.25. California Navels range
from $3 for choice to $3.25 for fancy.

 

Parsley—4oc per doz. bunches.

Pieplant—toc per tb. for Garfield
hot house—grown in the dark and
colored more beautifully than out-
door grown stock.

Potatoes — The market
change in price or condition.
Radishes—-30c per doz. bunches.

Sweet Potatoes—$4 per bbl. for kiln
dried Jerseys.

without

—__2-—.
Controversy Over Price of Tomatoes.

Battle Creek, March s5—Secretary
Gibson, of the Business Men’s Asso-
ciation, is in receipt of a letter from
the Lutz & Schram Co., of Allegheny,
Pa., calling off the proposed local pre-
serves and pickle industry. The rea-
son given for dropping it is that the
farmers surrounding Battle Creek are
insisting upon 25 cents a bushel for
tomatoes, while the company is not
willing to pay to exceed 21 cents. The
writer of the letter insists that the
farmers do not know their best in-
terests, and points out that tomatoes
can be raised at 15 cents per bushel
and money made. The institution has
several factories scattered over the
country, and 21 cents is the most paid
anywhere, while in La Grange, Ind.,
they pay only 19 cents. The farmers
everywhere are growing prosperous
from the industry, and besides, the
factories employ a considerable num-
ber of helpers in putting up the pre-
serves. Accordingly the additional 3
cents per bushel wanted by the rural-
ists has defeated Battle Creek in land-
ing the enterprise.

————-2.—._____

Out in Colorado there is a town
with the bristling name of Brush, the
chief distinction of which has been
its dirty streets. The authorities
were importuned, without avail by
good citizens and especially the wom-
en, to clean up at least once in a
while. They only laughed until the
other day the wives, mothers, daugh-
ters, sisters and sweethearts of the
citizens put on their short skirts,
shouldered their brooms and made
the entire maim street in that city
look like a transplantation of a
thoroughfare in “Spotless Town.”
The modern woman may scorn the
broom and duster, but instinct and
heredity are so strong that when she
does take them in hand things hum,
and mere man, along with the cat,
seeks refuge outside. So in this case
they did a good job and the men
who laughed now laugh no more, the
streets are cleaned and the women
have added another to their growing
bunch of laurels.

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The President is reported as fav-
oring the leasing of the public do-
main in the West for grazing pur-
poses for a small fee, with the reser-
vation that the homesteader who
wishes to create a home for his fam-
ily shall be protected. Not the least
interesting phase of this decision is
that the plan to be followed is as old
as the Anglo-Saxon race and _ the
ancient institution of the “no man’s
land” where the animals grazed is
revived thereby.

~—_—_—.-o oo

The Bacon Lumber Co. has chang-
ed its style to the Marshall JLum-
ber Co.

 

The Grocery Market.

Tea—There is a continued steady to
firm undertone and prices are main-
tained fully up to the level of quota-
tions last week. The low grade teas,
especially Indias and Ceylons and
Congons, are firmly held ag the of-
ferings are very limited at present.
The situation is pretty strong all
around.

Coffee—Both Rio and Santos grades
show an advance of 4@34c from the
lowest point. Much of this advance
has occurred in the last two weeks.
The coffee tendered on March con-
tracts proved much smaller than the
expectation, and practically all of it is
said to have been taken by Crossman
& Sielcken and Arbuckle Bros., the
two controlling forces of the market,
who seem just now to be acting in
harmony. The receipts of Rio and
Santos coffee are now 6,000,000 bags
in excess of the receipts up to the
same period of last year, and the mar-
ket is 244c higher than in 1901-02,
when the next largest Brazil crop was
harvested.

Canned Goods — No interest is
shown in future New York corn, the
prices demanded for favorite brands
being considered too high, while those
which are offered within buyers’ lim-
its are not apparently sufficiently well
considered to admit of business.
Maryland packers appear to be mak-
ing no effort to sell future Maine
style. So far as can be learned none
of them have yet made opening prices.
Spot peas are in very small supply
and generally held at prices which
buyers are reluctant to pay. There
is still a market for future peas, but
few of the packers seem to be in a
position to avail themselves of it. The
business in future beans has been
heavy, but is about done. Some of
the brokers say that they sold twice
the quality they were able to place
last year and attribute this to the fact
that all of the jobbers bought short
last season and found themselves
without stock long before the con-
suming demand had been. satisfied.
Their liberal purchases out of the 1907
pack were made to prevent a repeti-
tion of that experience. California
asparagus packers have not yet an-
nounced opening prices on the com-
ing season’s output, but brokers have
no fear that the large advance orders
already booked subject to approval of
prices will not all be confirmed. Spot
tomatoes are dull and in the absence
of demand prices are nominal. Ad-
vices from Baltimore report greater
activity than last week as a result of
the concessions made by some pack-
ers.

Provisions—Hams are high, which
has caused less trading and smaller
consumption. There is likely to be an
increased supply in the near future,
and this will lead to lower prices. All
other smoked meats are in the same
position. Pure and compound lard
are both firm at unchanged prices.
Canned meats are dull and unchanged.
There is a fair demand for dried beef
at unchanged prices. Barrel pork is
firm at unchanged prices.

Dried Fruits—Raisins are scarce
and high, both loose and seeded. The
price is gradually working up, and the

 

demand is for small lots only. Apri-
cots are scarce, but dull.- Apples are
in slow demand at unchanged prices.
Prunes remain unchanged. There is
a good demand for large sizes, but
practically no demand for smali.
Large sizes are very scarce on the
coast. Peaches are slow, but are still
scarce and high.

Syrup and Molasses—Glucose is
unchanged, having made no fluctua-
tions for many months. Compound is
in good demand at ruling prices. Sug-
ar Syrup is quiet at unchanged prices.
Molasses is in small demand at un-
changed prices.

Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are
unchanged and firm; demand fair.
Salmon is unchanged and dull. The
combine of sardine packers announce
another advance of 30c in quarter oils
and Ioc in mustards. This does not
take effect, however, until March 15,
and meanwhile the faithful may come
in out of the wet with orders at the
old prices. This sop has not gotten
any business to speak of, however, as
buyers claim to be able to buy from
second hands considerably under the
market. The consumptive demand for
sardines is dull. Imported sardines
are steady to strong, but in quiet de-

mand. Norway mackerel are firm,
scarce and in good demand. Trish fish

are inclined to be weak and quiet.
The Grain Market.

Prices have been selling off grad-
ually during the past week, making
a net loss on wheat of about 14c pec
bushel. Yesterday’s market, how-
ever, showed a slight reaction from
the lowest figures of the previous
day. May wheat in Chicago is now
quoted at 76c per bushel, with July
and September at about Ic per bushel
premium. The visible supply show-
ed an increase in wheat for the week
of 1,371,000 bushels; corn, 1,235,006
bushels. Decreases in oats of 548,-
ooo bushels; rye, 12,000 bushels, and
barley, 60,000 bushels. This brings
the present visible supply of wheat
at 44,884,000 bushels, compared with
47,283,000 bushels last year; corn at
11,102,000 bushels, compared with
16,208,000 bushels last year, and oats
at 10,904,000 bushels, compared with
24,451,000 bushels last year.

Corn holds steady for cash, with
options a fraction lower. The de-
mand for shipment has been quite
brisk, both export and domestic trade
taking hold quite freely.

Oats have suffered a sharp decline
during the week, more particularly in
the options, but a part of this de-
cline has been regained, while cash
markets have shown very little, if
any, weakening. There has been a
good demand, with comparatively
light offerings from first hands.

Millfeeds are firm and higher, sell-
ing at from $2@3 per ton above the
price of corn and oat feeds, an un-
natural condition. Corn is low as
compared with other feeds, and the
general feeling seems to be that high-
er prices are in order.

L. Fred Peabody.
—_—_—_+-2-2———-

The Baxter Co., 55 Monroe street,
which conducts a laundry and cloth-
ing and men’s furnishing business, has
increased its capital stock form $100,-
000 to $125,000.

   
    

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Appearance of Celebrities Should Be
Taken Advantage Of.

That general store certainly had an
eye to the main chance, the other
day, when it had a special sale of
Black Cat hosiery with one large
window devoted entirely to the ex-
ploitation of this particular brand of
footwear, which was accomplished by
the introduction, high and dry, of
clotheslines hung full of all sizes of
the Black Cat goods, common
clothespins of the “pincher” sort be-
ing employed for the attachment.
The hose were graduated as to length,
running from longest to shortest on
ene line, which arrangement was re-
versed on the next, and so. on
throughout the window space. In a
large clean wire cage, right up next
to the glass, so that a near view
might be caught by pedestrians, was
the piece de resistance of the exhibit:
a handsome big black cat and her
precious family of six as inkish lit-
tle specimens of cathood as_ ever
you saw. They were old enough to
have had their eyes open for some
time—had reached the period of their
baby lives when a kitten begins to
sit up and take notice, as ’twere.
Their mother had her own ideas of
feline propriety and cuffed them
around when she wasn’t coddling and
feeding them and washing them up
for their performance in public. The
floor outside the cage was covered
evenly with thick layers of cotton
batting, forming a striking contrast
to the B. C. hosiery on the clothes-
lines high above it, while the floor of
the cage was sprinkled with white
sand to the depth of a couple of
inches.

* * x

In a recent trade journal, much of
whose contents is turned over to the
subject big-typed at the top of this
tolumn, I ran across to-day a clever
idea carried out in one of the illus-
trations, which was that of a window
gotten up by James W. Mann for the
B. B. Fowler Co., of Glens Falls, New
York. Here is the description given
below it:

“This window was trimmed to help
the sale of tickets for a comic opera,
‘Priscilla.’ The ceiling was hung with
pine branches and then festooned
with long strands of Southern grey
moss—Florida moss. The mirror
frames were covered with bark to
represent trees. A scene in the opera
shows Priscilla sitting just outside
a cabin spinning. This idea was car-
ried out in the display with the cabin
made of slabs, the spinning wheel
and a figure posed to represent Pris-
cilla. The figure wore the same cos-
tume used in the play. This was giv-
en by local talent for the benefit of
a local institution. The pictures were
of the different members of the cast.
Fine Cluny, Japanese and Mexican
drawn work were shown. One piece
held in stock for two years was sold
by this display for $28.”

T wish I might have shown a cut

 

of the magazine picture, but I did
not see it in time to have one made.

Such a window is shown to have
been a paying investment as it was
the means of disposing, for a goodly
price, of a piece of merchaidise long
held in stock.

I am wondering why more Grand
Rapids dealers did not take advantage
of the presence in the city of the re-
nowned Arctic explorer and lecturer,
Commander Robert E. Peary. Either
a large or a small window could have
been entirely given up to a display
pertaining to polar expeditions. Even
a grocery store could have had a
touch of reflected fame by the use
of a picture of Mr. Peary, with a
short description of some of his ex-
peditions. Canned goods of every
kind could be put in such a window
and they would not soon be forgot-
ten. Lack of enterprise only can ac-
count for this failure to promote
publicity.

——_-2.
Keep Animal Cages in Show Win-
dows Absolutely Clean.
Written for the Tradesman.

I have noticed, occasionally, in the
regular contributions to the Window
Trimming Department of the Trades-
man, mild references to a topic which
should be handled more harshly; I
mean the subject of cleanliness in re-
gard to the employment of live ani-
mals in an exhibition window. Ii
they are used merely as a drawing
card, without merchandise in -con-
junction they may be allowed the
freedom of the window (which should
first of all be provided with a tight
pan the exact size of the space) and
be confined there simply by wire
grating in the background. If any
goods are displayed they should be
attached high to the sides of the
window or hung in the center above
reach of the animals. Sometimes a
large cage holds them, in which case,
also, a tight pan should be placed
underneath or you will witness the
turning way of a disgusted public and
your window will then have frustrat-
ed its purpose. John Burton.

—__—_s-2>___
An Ungallant Actor.

A well-known American actor, who
is old enough not to consider himself
a matinee idol by any means, was
somewhat surprised and pleased in a
St. Louis hotel a short time ago when
a pretty girl stopped him in the cor-
ridor and presented him with a rose,
without saying a word. He was more
surprised and less pleased to receive
a note the following day reminding
him of the incident, and asking him
to send the giver of the flower two
seats at the theater in which he was
playing “as a memento of the occa-
sion.”

“My dear young lady,” the actor
replied, waxing sarcastic as he realiz-
ed what had been the object of the
attention he had been paid, “I would
be glad to send you the seats you ask
for, but, on consultation with the
manager of the theater, I have been
informed that the seats are all fasten-
ed down, and that he is opposed to
having them sent away as souvenirs
in any event, so that you will have
to be contented with an autograph
for a souvenir of your benevolence
of yesterday instead,”

WIDOWS AS WIVES.

Why Merchants Should Not Marry
Young Girls.
Marry a woman between 36 and 40
years of age, no more, no less, if you
would be a success in life. To marry
a woman under 4o years of age is to
double the chances of failure, and
to marry one over 40, unless a widow,
means that the chances of failure are
even greater.
In these rules all question of love
is eliminated, and also all widows
are excepted. It is dangerous to
wed a widow under 35, while above
that age they are of great assistance
to helping a man forward in world-
ly paths.
Perhaps half of the failures in life
are due directly to marriage. The
great trouble is that men who are
forced to work for a living let their
hearts rule their brains and, in choos-
ing their life partner, they use bad
judgment. They marry girls, perhaps
pretty, perhaps charming, perhaps
wholly lovable, but entirely impossi-
ble as helpmeets and simply an added
weight to the burden.
While not advocating or even sug-
gesting that the quality of love
should be considered a negligible one,
or that men who work shall be barred
from the pprivilege of loving, yet it is
a fact that the man who works gen-
erally hurts his chance of success
rather than helps it by getting mar-
ried. It can not be argued from this
that marriage itself is to blame. It
is not. Marriage is one of the great-
est economic steps ever taken by a
man. It is the purest form of com-
munal endeavor, and, if both parties
to the marriage contract do their full
duty, the task of earning a liveli-
hood and the burden of life itself are
made easier.
The trouble is that the man choos-
es a wife who, instead of being the
“helpmeet” that she was supposed to
be under the original marriage plan,
merely is a creature to be loved and
supported at an added expense. A
man can afford marriage on a salary
which barely suffices to maintain
himself if the woman is competent
to assume the household duties. No
man can afford marriage if he takes
unto himself a wife who can con-
tribute nothing to the family and
merely expects to be supported and
supplied with necessities and luxuries.
American men have, through their
intense respect for womanhood, come
to look upon marriage in a false light.
I have seen men, who ought to know
better, ready to fight because some
one suggested that perhaps their
wives contributed something to the
support of the family. I have known
men to grow angry and abusive be-
cause some one enquired if their

 

wives did their own work. They con-
sider it a disgrace for the wife to
work, either for some one else or
in their own homes. Yet these same
men would grow even more indig-
nant if their wives were classed with
the kept woman who merely sells her
favors for the luxuries of life and
to avoid working at honorable toil.

No other nation on earth, either
from a social or economical  stand-
point, is so foolish as to consider it
disgraceful for the wife to be any-
thing but a handicap to her husband.

A sensible man, when he enters in-
to a business partnership with an-
other man, investigates, studies his
partner, weighs his capabilities care-
fully, considers every possibility. He
would not think of forming a part-
nership with any one who would not
help him. Yet this same man will
deliberately enter into a life part-
nership with some woman, probably
incapable of assisting him in any
way, and possibly one who will ruin
his prospects and handicap him so
heavily that he can not succeed, and
then, instead of trying to train her
so that she will carry a little of the
burden herself, he will insist that she
do nothing.

In doing this the man does not
only himself but his wife a grave in-
jury. He cripples his own earning
power and at the same time makes
her more incompetent to make her
own way in case he dies and leaves
her helpless.

These things being true, the man
who seeks business success. and
money enough to insure a comfor-
table old age either should ignore
marriage entirely or marry some
woman who will assist him and at
the same time herself.

That brings up the age question.
Now the man who is marrying mere-
ly for business purposes, meaning to
advance himself in the world either
socially or financially, should marry

-a widow, provided she is old enough

to have outgrown the silly stage that
follows, in most cases, the doffing
of the first mourning. A widow over
35 years of age and any place be-

 

 

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tween that and 55 will be found to be
the most profitable investment for a
man who desires help, comfort and
home comforts. He can not, under
the circumstances, expect any over-
weening or passionate love or any
maudlin sentiment such as might be
lavished on him by some school girl.
’ The second best investment is an
unmarried woman, preferably one
who has been forced to support her-
self in business pursuits, and who
is somewhere between 36 and 40
years of age.

At 36 a woman has outgrown most
of that sentiment or dreaminess that
wrecks so many families. Her ideals
have been replaced by the realities.
She has learned to appreciate instead
of to expect, to help instead of pout-
ing because the man has not time
to be her slave, to realize that the
man has some right to have friends
besides herself, and to be willing to
strive to return and repay the favors
shown to her.

Physically she has outgrown the
likelihood of grave disorders so
common in womankind. The chances
of her handicapping the man by de-
veloping diseases or disorders that
produce chronic invalidism, of neces-
sity expensive, and wearing surgical
operations are reduced to the mini-
mum.

The man who marries a girl who
has not passed the stage of puppy
love usually repays for a year or two
of happiness and passionate love with
years of sickness, nervous disorders,
or, wliat is worse, by seeing the love
die without giving birth to that
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make later life happy and fill it with
contentment. If he marries the girl
on the verge of “old maidhood” he
generally finds her in the transition
state, possessing most of the silliness
of girlhood and little of the training
and experience of womanhood.

At 36 she begins to realize the du-
ties entailing upon her as a partner
in the marriage contract. She has
gained experience. She has’ seen
glimpses of a lonely life, and she has
longed for a man to help and protect
her. Therefore she is ready to help,
competent to be a real partner and
prepared to appreciate. Furthermore,
she has a deep knowledge of man-
kind, and knows how to manage a
man so as to make him contented and
happy, and how to make him and
train him to fulfill her own wishes.

The average woman who passes 40
unmarried begins to sour.

That is a hard statement, but it re-
mains a fact.

After the average woman passes
40 and still is single she seems sud-
denly to revert to 18, as far as com-
mon sense is concerned, and she usu-
ally remains in that condition, if still
single, until she reaches the stage
where she passes it up as hopeless
and is willing to admit herself at least
“middle aged.” She becomes cranky,
perverse and hard to get along with,
and is a bad business partner for any
man.

If he must wed a woman of the
age known as “uncertain” he should
take one above 55 rather than  be-
tween 40 and 50.

It is a significant fact that the ma-
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successes are men who have married
women who had passed the girlhood
stage. One may seek through hun-
dreds of cases before discovering one
in which the man would not have
been better off, from a purely busi-
ness standpoint, if he had been jilted
by the girl he made his wife before
she was 21. If he made a success of
life, investigation will show that he
made it after the first spasm of love
passed and they began to get ready
to either hate or endure each other,
in spite of the handicap. It was not
by her assistance.

There are exceptions to all rules.
Occasionally a girl of 18, wiser than
her years by far, sees her duty, faces
it bravely, aids and supports the man
in his endeavors and makes a heav-
en for him.

But as a general rule it will be
found that men capable of winning
big successes in the world get no
such help, and also it is the rule that
the girl who develops the greatest ca-
pacity to suffer, to endure, to work
and strive and help towards the up-
lift of the family is wasting her ef-
forts on some man who is not worth
the effort. In other words, necessity
has developed her abilities.

Of course, the workers who read
this will marry the girl they think
they love—but the question is, would
they not be happier and more pros-
perous if they used common com-
mercial sense in selecting a wife rath-
er than permitting some fancied love
or strong passion to sway them?
Would it not be better to wed a wom-
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er, a chum, than a bundle of nerves,
a pretty face, and vanity half reveal-
ed by inexperience? Eli Muntz.
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Branch Plant To Be Erected.

Port Huron, March 5—The Meisel
Milling Co., one of the biggest manu-
facturing industries in this city, an-
nounced last week that it would soon
begin the erection of a branch plant
at Port Arthur, Ont., at a cost of
$75,000.

For several months past Robert M.
Meisel, senior member of the con-
cern, has been in Port Arthur nego-
tiating for the erection of the plant.
While at that place he secured ex-
clusive Canadian rights, which means
that the concern will be the only one
in the Northwest to manufacture farm
and milling machinery.

The change will not affect the lo-
cal plant in the least and the factory
here will run the same as ever with
a full quota of men.

On April 1 Contractors A. J. Smith
& Sons will begin the erection of the
new St. Clair County Bank building
at the south approach to Military
street bridge. The new building is
to be erected at a cost of $40,000. [It
will be one of the finest bank build-
ings in Eastern Michigan. It will be
built of Bedford stone. The struc-
ture will be fire proof.

All of the machinery has arrived
for the Fead Knitting Works ani

the same will be installed at once.

The company reports a large number
of orders on hand and promises to
give employment to a large number
of men and girls.

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THE ARMY WINS OUT.

It with absolute honesty that the
‘Tradesman assures its readers that
President Roosevelt had not given
it even a hint of his intentions in re-
lation to the Panama Canal situation
when it published the editorial] last
week entitled, “Engineering Proposi-
tion.”

As though to vouch for the accu-
racy of the Tradesman’s showing in
regard to civilian civil engineers and
military civil engineers comes simul-
taneously the announcement of Mr.
Stevens’ resignation as engineer in
charge of the Panama Canal and the
appointment of Maj. Geo. W. Goe-
thals, U. S. A., as his successor.

Accompanying the announcement
was given the fact that the tremen-
dous international improvement will
be made under the direction of the
War Department by army officers
and without the letting of contracts.

If there is one thing in the carry-
ing out of great national engineering
projects which hampers the very best
of civilian civil engineers who are em-
ployed by the Government to direct
and push such enterprises it is the
interminable red tape routine insisted
upon by the War Department. If
there is any single phase of direct-
ing such a work in which the military
engineers are incomparably superior
it is in the disbursement of funds
appropriated for the carrying on of
the work.

The military engineer may make a
mistake of many thousands of dol-
lars in his estimates as to the cost
of a certain improvement and, so far
as the public is concerned, no harm
is done. On the other hand, it is
rare, indeed, that a military engineer
is unable to account for every sin-
gle penny applied to the prosecution
of an engineering problem.

Thus we get at the nub of the per-
petual political conflict between civil-
ian civil engineers and military civil
engineers. The civilian knows how
a thing may be done thoroughly and
in the shortest possible time; and his
professional pride, his energy, his best

skill and his patriotism all combine |

to urge him on to do things quickly.
The military civil engineer knows
how a thing may be accomplished,
but he also knows that bureaucratic
tradition gives him all the time there
is in which to achieve the results de-

 

‘sired. And, besides, it is not good
military form to become anxious and
earnest over any particular situation.

The civilian civil engineer sees need
of a great derrick of some especial
design or is informed as to the abso-
lute necessity of having another bot-
tle of India ink at once. In either
case he knows that it is possible to
meet either demand quickly by using
authority and the wires, and chafes
under the delay caused by Depart-
ment routine in the way of recom-
mendations, requests and requisitions
and, by and by, just as various em-
inent civilian civil engineers had done
before him, Mr. Stevens resigned.

The appointment of Maj. Goethals,
U. S. A., to the position thus vacat-
ed practically ends a four years’ polit-
ico-engineering struggle, with the
United States Army victorious. The
digging of the Panama Canal will
now proceed with due dignity, de-
liberation and thoroughness, so that
when the State of Oklahoma cele-
brates the semi-centennial of its com-
ing into statehood it will be possible
to cross the Isthmus by boat.

 

A PURELY LEGAL RESOURCE.

To those who know the record of
the man it seems incredible that form-
er United States Senator William E.
Chandler would lend himself and his
ability as a lawyer to any cause in
law which could have about it the
least suggestion of persecution.

For this reason alone it is fair to
assume that Mr. Chandler is thor-
oughly convinced that there is good
reason for his appearance as speciai
counsel in the filing of a bill in equity
asking for an accounting of the finan-
cial affairs of Mary Baker G. Eddy,
the founder and leader of Christian
Science.

The bill is directed specifically
against nine persons who have had
for years the practical management
of the material affairs of a wonderful
woman, who has reached the age of
86 years and was sought, so Mr.
Chandler declares, in no spirit of dis-
respect for Christian Science. More-
over, it is an effort, so Mr. Chandler
claims, really in Mrs. Eddy’s interest.

It would be not at all strange or
remarkable if even sych a woman as
Mrs. Eddy has proven herself to be
should fall into the hands of dishonest
men and, on the other hand, it would
be very remarkable if, with such an
opportunity as has been and is being
afforded to those who have control
of the lady’s business, every one of
the nine men should prove absolutely
upright and unwilling to “feathe-:
their own nests.”

In plain English, the bill in equity
means that there are grave suspicions
that one or two or all of the nine men
against whom the bill is directed
have been dishonest to the end that
Mrs. Eddy’s son and other legal heirs
may be deprived of their rights in
her estate and that some or ail
of these men have personally profit-
ed thereby.

That is what is meant, and the

tribute the greatest victory to Chris-
tian Science that has yet been record-
ed. In keeping with the tenets of
their faith Christian Scientists do not
discuss the “error,” as they term it,

 

and there are hundreds of thousands
of the faithful all over the world
who are “holding the right thought.”
That is their privilege and right and
if “mortal thought” in this case can
be so overcome the triumph will be
faultless. :

From whatever aspect the case 1s
viewed it will prove a good thing for
Mrs. Eddy because, under the formal,
strict usage of the court, the truth
will be revealed. If the men suspect-
ed are really guilty the facts will be
much more serviceable now than to
have them brought out five, ten of
twenty years hence. If they are
proven innocent the result can not but
prove almost a benediction to every
Christian Scientist living.

There is not theshadow of a color
of religious prejudice or persecution
about the proceedings. It is purely a
civil case in law, so that there is no
call whatever for the opponents of
Christian Science to gloat and glee
over the downfall of a faith they are
not interested in or informed about.
On the other hand, it would be idle
for Christian Scientists to worry over
it—but we are reminded that that
is one of the many human weaknesses
that members of the faith do not per-
mit to enter their consciousness.

 

 

THE ARMORY PROPOSITION.

It is a fact that the older and more
wealthy states of Massachusetts, New
York, Pennsylvania and Maryland
provide, and have for a long time
provided, ample and admirably equip-
ped armory buildings for the use oi
the militia troops within their bor-
ders. It is also a well demonstrated
fact that it is a necessary, as well as
an admirable thing, for states to en-
courage and maintain a_ sufficient
quota of citizen soldiers.

The State of Michigan has main-
tained companies, regiments and a
brigade of militia for many years and
at a very considerable expense. One
part of this expense has been a cer-
tain allowance for rent of armories
for individual companies.

There is a battalion of militia in
Grand Rapids to which the State pays
annually for rent of the armory, it is
stated, the sum of $1,200. The armory
at present occupied, while it is well
worth the price paid for it, is in no
sense adequate for the needs of the
organization or at all commensurat2
with what it deserves.

And so it happens that there is a
measure now before the State Legis-
lature which, if it becomes a law, will
provide armories, according to needs,
for companies, battalions and regi-
ments. i

This being the situation the Grand
Rapids Battalion is conducting a cam-
paign looking toward the erection,
with the State aid indicated, of an
armory building which shall combine
everything that is desired in an arm-
ory and at fhe same time provide all
the essentials of a great convention
hall or auditorium.

The plan is a good one and should

be carried out, but with the perpet-
charge, if proven to be false, will con-;

ual and unequivocal understanding
and appreciation of the fact that such
an enterprise may never ‘pay a net
profit on the investment, that is, di-
rectly. Indirectly, there will come to
the city in general a generous profit.

 

Grand Rapids needs an auditorium
which can comfortably seat at least
5,000 people and more if possible.
With such an auditorium available
our city might secure both National
and State conventions, which we can
not now accommodate; it would be
possible with such an auditorium to
secure exhibitions, grand orchestral
concerts, musical festivals and other
public functions which are denied ts
now becausé our present audienc:
tooms will not, at popular prices, “hold
enough money” to make such ven-
tures profitable. Thus is presented
another side of the situation.

Now as to possibilities. There is
now and then in the Eastern States a
building of steel construction. and
splendidly designed, which is utilized
as a public retail market on the street
or ground floor, as an auditorium 01
the second floor and as an armory
on the third floor, which, because of
the between-joists heights, is from
70 to 80 feet above street level. A
splendid income from the market
floor and fair incomes from the two
remaining toors produce a net profi
in some instances of from 2 to 2%
Per CEN:

It would seem with such an incen
tive as now exists in,the needs of the
State troops, the needs of our city
and the possibility of pfoducing a
proposition which will at least pay its
way that the Grand Rapids Battalion
might evolve atid carry out a plan
successfully, thus securing a building
which would provide all that is te-
quired.

 

The Chamber of Deputies in France
is likely soon to pass a series of laws
that will reform entirely the system
of cating for the insane in that coun-
try. The principal fault has been
that hundreds of people have been
confined in order to get hold of thei=
money when they have not been at
all insane. We know how willing our
“celebrated” alienists are to go on
the stand and swear according to the
wishes of the man who holds the
bank notes, and in France they easilv
bribe men to do the same thing. No
more terrible crime can be imagined
than to confine a sane man in a mad
house, and if necessary the whole
body of lunacy laws should be over-
turned to prevent it. Some reference
has been made to a similar state of
affairs in America, but it by no means
approaches alarming proportions.

 

The railroad lobby is beginning to
assemble at Lansing for the purpose
of discrediting the bills already in-
troduced for the regulation of pas-
senger and freight traffic. It is very
generally believed that a coalition
has been formed by the railroads, the
International Harvester Co. and the
private banks of the State to prevent
legislation along any of these lines.
It is known that the Senate, which is
generally the center of the railway
cabal, is devoid of such an obstruc-
tion this year, but reports are cur-
rent to the effect that fifty-six of the
members of the House have banded
themselves together for the purpose
of defeating any legislation which is
not desired by the three interests
above named.

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Review of His Long and Useful
Life.

John Ball was born in 1794 on
Tenny’s Hill, Groton township, Graf-
ton county, New Hampshire. This
was in the second term of Washing-
ton’s administration. He was forty-
two years old when he first came to
Michigan and had a life full of ad-
venture and travel before that time.
I will have time to relate but a few
instances of his early life, choosing
those that had bearing on his charac-
ter and work here in Michigan.

One of his earliest recollections
was the election of Thomas Jefferson.
Before this election the pastor at the
town of Hebron where his parents at-
tended church preached a political
sermon in favor of Jefferson’s elec-
tion. His parents and about half of
the congregation were Federalists
and took decided exception to this
sermon. One of the _ parishioners
said:-““We employed you, Mr. Page,
to preach Christ and him crucified,
and you have preached Jefferson and
him justified.” This matter caused a
division in the church, a bitterness
among the neighbors, and a lifelong
sorrow to my grandmother. The
whole matter was freely discussed be-
fore father, who was then considered
too young to understand what was
going on, but wise beyond his years,
it made a great impression on him
and set his mind to thinking on re-
ligious subjects. A few years later
there came a revival in the township.
Everyone was converted but four and
the lad of eleven or twelve was among
the four. But his doubts on the nar-
row doctrines preached in those days
blossomed into a broad liberality and
charity that I can not better explain
than by telling a story of pioneer
life here in Grand Rapids. In early
times when everybody had to be hos-
pitable, Wm. H. Godfroy was enter-
taining at his house on Ionia street,
where Sherwood Hall’s store now is,
a gentleman whose name I do not
know. Father was calling that eve-
ning and heard this gentleman criti-
cising the Catholics. He stopped
him. saying: “Do you not realize, sir,
that your host here is a Catholic and
a true gentleman?” Rebuking him for
his lack of charity, he continued,
“There is not a God for every de-
nomination, but for Catholics, Pres-
byterians, Congregationalists, there
is but one God.”

In those old days everyone re-
spected and loved my father, but
there were many good orthodox per-
sons who had serious doubt of his
future state, but I have lived to hear
his very doctrines preached from our
pulpits and know that he was only
two or three generations ahead of his
time.

His early struggles for an educa-
tion were probably the cause of his
deep interest in the foundations of
our public schools here in Grand
Rapids. When he was a lad New
Hampshire did not have a state fund
for education, but each tgwn was as-
sessed according to the number of
children and this gave the town of
Hebron but a few weeks of school
during the year. Grandfather Ball

deemed that this was sufficient edu-
cation for his boys, together with a
thorough knowledge of farm work,
and took it quite unkindly, when his
youngest son, at the age of sixteen
or seventeen, importuned him to send
him to a private school. He finally
gave a reluctant consent. No sooner
had father more instruction than he
began to teach, and so between farm-
ing in summer and teaching a term in
winter, he got through the Salisbury
Academy, took his examination and
entered Dartmouth College in 18106.
He was then twenty-one. When he
informed his father of his resolution
the old man was surprised and far
from pleased. He said, “Well, John,
you must expect no help from me;”
but his father was better than his
word and did advance him money to
the amount of two hundred dollars,
but, in spite of this help, and the
help of his good mother, who clothed
him by her spinning and weaving,
and his continuous labor summer and

 

 

 

 

 

John Ball in 1855

 

winter, he found himself in debt to
the college when it came time to
graduate. According to the rules of
the college, the diploma was not giv-
en until the tuition was paid in full.
Father’s classmates, learning of the
situation, had him sign his note and
the majority of them endorsed it so
that he might receive his parchment
with the others. Father, in writing
of this in the latter part of his life,
said “I am an old man now, over
eighty years of age, but the tears
come to my eyes when IJ think of this
act of kindness on the part of my
classmates.” He began immediately
to read law, still supporting himself
as best he could by teaching.

It was natural sequence of this
long struggle for an education, with
his conviction that it was the need of
every child, and with his warm heart
and love of children, that thirty years
of his mature manhood should be
given to the service of education here
in Michigan. When hg was in the
State Legislature in 1838 he was on
the Educational Committee and
helped frame the laws that govern our
University. In 1839, when there was
talk of having a branch university
here in Grand Rapids, a fact that gave

 

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of our streets, we find his name on
the subscription list for twenty-five
dollars. This list was headed by Jef-
ferson Morrison with $100.

The loss of the early records of
District No. I prevents my stating ac-
curately when father became connect-
ed with the early school boards. Mr.
James H. McKee who was clerk for
many years, while father was moder-
ator, says that it covered a period of
some thirty years, presumably be-
tween 1840 and 1870.

In speaking of these early school
matters, father himself said, “Our
village gained some in population and
business, and some of us began to
look about to see what were our
schools, and found that the provision
was very deficient. So about 1848
we agitated the subject, and after
several trials effected a junction of
the two districts on the east side of
the river into one Union District.
There was then no school house, the
one on Fulton street had been burned
down, and the schools we had were
poorly kept part of the year in priv-
ate houses.

“We got a place for a house and
against much opposition succeeded
in raising the sum of $2,500.00 to pur-
chase a site and to build a house. For
a site we pitched upon the present
one of the High School building. It
was then all woods back of there, not
a house. We had paid $600 for the
land and contracted with David Bur.
nett to erect the old stone’ school
house, which all older citizens will
remember, for $2,700.00. I gave to
help on the enterprise $100.00. The
school opened in Nov., 1849, with six
teachers in two rooms. But we soon
made the basement into another to
supply the want.

“A Mr. Johnson was the principal,
and Miss Hollister and one other
lady were assistants. In the secondary
or primary department were Miss
Mary T. Webster, now my wife, and
Miss White and Miss Hinsdall, her
assistants. There was much interest
taken at the opening of the school,
and a number of the citizens came
in at that time. The principal made
quite a long prayer on the occasion,
at which some of the citizens, the
Catholics, took alarm, and complain-
ed of it. So the trustees, six in all,
of which I was one, considered the
matter, and wishing’ our school should
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place and means of instruction to all
the children of the village, unan-
imously adopted this rule: that teach-
ers in opening the schools’ should
only read or rehearse the Lord’s
prayer. And it proved satisfactory
and all went on smoothly. And so
many applied for admission that we
at once went to work to fit up the
basement of the building for another
primary department. And the next
quarter, that, too, was filled. At
the end of the first quarter Mr. John-
son resigned, and the Rev. Mr. Bal-
lard was employed to take his place.”

I learn from the early teachers that
the task of finding, and he generally
had to send East for that purpose,
and employing the teachers fell on
him. He looked after them all with
true fatherly care. They were met
at the depot and taken to my father’s
and mother’s home and entertained
until they found suitable boarding
places. He frequently visited’ the
schools and entertained the children
with stories of his life out West
among the Indians.

In 1854 the Grand Rapids Lyceum
of Natural History was formed, fath-
er being president. This Grand Rap-
ids Lyceum in 1868 joined with the
Kent Institute, forming the Kent
Scientific Institute, and in 1869 there
were drawn up articles of agreement
between the fractional school district
No. 1 of the City and the Township
of Grand Rapids, parties of the first
part, and the Kent Scientific Institute
of said city, party of the second part.
These articles were signed by John
sall, Moderator, and Thomas D. Gil-
bert, Director, of the first part, and
John Ball, President of the Kent
Scientific Institute, of the second part.

The above is about all that can be
learned of these early schools. The
loss of those early records is ir-
reparable.

But to go back to my father’s child-
hood:

One of the neighbors of grand-
father Ball in New Hampshire was a
Mr. Ordway, whose son, Sergeant
Ordway, was member of the Lewis &
Clark expedition. On his return he
had no more eager listener to the
story of his travels than young John
Ball, and traveling was one of the
passions of my father’s life. Travel
he did and travel he would, from the
time he was a little boy and wandered
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farm to get a more extended view ot
the White Mountains to the time he
was an old man eighty-nine years old,
and went once again a few months
before his death, in company with his
sister, three years older than himself,
to see again together the scenes ot
their childhood. Prudent and careful
always in his expenditures, when it
came to travel for himself or his fam-
ily he threw economy to the winds.
During his life he traveled over the
entire United States, over Europe,
visited the Sandwich and Society Is-
lands, rounded Cape Horn and
stopped in Rio Janeiro. His most ad-
venturous trip was a trip to Oregon
in 1832. He went in company with a
Bostonian, by name Captain Nathan-
iel Wyeth. I do not think that this
expedition of Captain Wyeth has
been given the notice in history that
it deserves, for it was only the third
_expediton that had crossed the Rocky
Mountains in the United States, Lew-
is & Clark’s and the Astorians being
the other two. The missionaries,
Jason Lee and Marcus Whitman, came
after him. It is perhaps because the
object of his trip, being an attempt
to establish a fur and salmon trade
in rivalry to the Hudson Bay Com-
pany, was a complete failure that we
hear no more about it.

I have not the space in this pape1
to give any of the details of this trip.
Will only say that while at Fort
Vancouver father returned to his old
vocation of school-teaching, and had
for his pupils half-breed children,
whose names, David McLaughlin,
Tom and Wm. McKay, and Ranald
McDonald, later became well known
in the annals of the Hudson Bay
Company. Ranald McDonald has
been made the hero of a book by that
name, written by Mrs. Eva Emily
Dye, of Oregon, and father is made
one of the minor characters.

During the Portland Exposition in
1905, due honor was given father as
the first school master in Oregon and
the first American who raised a wheat
field there.

Some two years after father’s re-
turn from Oregon he was practicing
law in Troy, New York. This was
in 1836, a great year of speculation,
when conservative Eastern capitalists
speculated wildly in Western govern-
ment lands. Some of his friends
there, knowing his love of travel, pro-
posed to him that he take their cap-
ital West and buy and sell land on
speculation. Father readily accepted
the offer. He left Troy, July 31,
1836. It took him one week to get
to Detroit. He crossed New York
State by the Erie Canal to Buffalo,
then left by boat for Detroit. He went
down to Monroe and Toledo, but
found prices of land too high, though
these places were very small. He
then made an excursion into the
southern tier of counties, learning at
that time the surveyors’ marks and the
art of following the blazed trail
through the woods. He found some
land that suited him, but on return-
mg to Monroe found the land office
closed. Quite disheartened he re-
turned to Troy. His friends were

not at all discouraged and sent him|

back. A land office at Ionia for the

 

sale of the iands in the Grand River
Valley had been opened and he was
told to try his luck there. He re-
turned to Detroit October Ist, bought
a horse and started for Kalamazoo
by the territorial road. He found
company in Eastern friends until he
reached Kalamazoo, and on the sug-
gestion that they continue with him
to Ionia they said they would not risk
their lives and health in any such en-
terprise, so alone he turned north-
ward, spending the first night at Yan-
kee Springs, where Mr. Lewis had
his log cabin. My father in common
with all the travelers of that day al-
ways paid a glowing eulogy to the
hospitality he received at Yankee
Lewis’ Tavern. Mrs. Lewis had the
best of suppers, and there was the
biggest of fires in the fire place to

 

tious houses. There were a few
small houses on Waterloo street and
warehouses on the river. The Eagle
Tavern was the only hotel; the Bridge
Street House was just started. There
were also a few houses north of Mon-
roe street, but lots were selling for
fifty dollars a foot on Canal and
Kent streets, so father thought it no
place to speculate in, and immediately
started for the woods, locating and
purchasing lands in Allegan and Bar-
ry counties.

I can not tell all of his adventures
in land locating, but one of his first
trips was in Ottawa county. He and
Mr. Anderson started from _ J[onia,
spending the night at Grand Rapids,
and before breakfast the next morn-
ing went to Grandville. They went
to the house of Mr. Charles Oakes,

 

invite the hungry traveler. The next
day he stopped at Mr. Leonard’s on
the Thornapple, when night brought
him to Mr. Marsac’s at Lowell. Fol-
lowing the Indian trail he reached
Tonia the next day.

Ionia at that time consisted of a
half dozen houses, the land office and
a tavern. After studying the maps at
the land office, he started for Grand
Rapids, arriving here Oct. 18th, 1836.

He described Grand Rapids at that
time as being inhabited by half
French people, who had followed
Louis Campau, and half speculators,
like himself, and a very lively little
place. Mr. Louis Campau’s house,
situated where the Widdicomb Build-
ing now is, and Richard Godfroy’s
house, standing on the site of the
Aldrich Block, were the most preten-

 

John Ball in 1873

 

who protested that he could not feed
them though he would care for their
horses while they went into the
woods, but after some urging Mrs.
Oakes got them a scanty breakfast.
They were sent on to Brush Creek
where a saw mill was being built,
and Mr. Boynton kept a boarding
house, to get supplies to take into
the woods. Mrs. Boynton had no
bread for them, and they were forced
to wait while she baked a loaf of un-
leavened bread, so with this and some
taw beef they started to locate some
pine lands that Mr. Anderson had a
Memorandum of.

They started due west on the sec-
tion line, and, after walking all day,
did not find their pine land, so roast-
ing their beef by the fire, they rolled
themselves in their blankets and lay

 

down to sleep as best they could,
though the howling of the wolves and
the trampling of the deer could be
heard all around them. The next day,
on going a little farther, they came
into a dense forest of beautiful pine,
and spent the day trying to learn its
extent. They slept that night with-
out their supper, saving the little they
had left for breakfast. They contin-
ued their researches the next morn-
ing, but warned by their failing
strength they started north thinking
to find a road between Grand Haven
and Grandville. They did strike an
Indian trail and some Indians, whom
they tried to induce to take them up
the river in their canoes, but the In-
dians were going on a hunting expedi-
tion and the silver dollars offered
were no inducement to them. So they
footed it the best they could, and
night overtook them again before
they reached the settlement. The
next morning found them near Grand-
ville, and fortunately there was 4
supply of food, to which, after being
out three days on one day’s ration,
they did ample justice.

A little later father returned and
located 2,500 acres of pine land.
These pine lands had oak openings,
and there grew the largest oak that
was ever seen in Michigan. It was
seven feet in diameter and had a clean
trunk about 70 feet high with a beau-
tiful spreading top. It was cut down
and sent East for navy purposes.

The winter of ’36 and ’37 was an
open winter and was spent by father
in camp or on horseback. He ex-
plored through the counties of Kent,
Ottawa and Muskegon. At one time
he went down the Grand River in a
sleigh to Grand Haven and _ there
made the acquaintance of Mr. Ferry
and Mr. White and T. D. Gilbert,
lifelong friends. In the spring of
'°37 he was poled down the river by
Capt. Sibley and his men, and walked
up the beach to Muskegon where he
found the Indian traders, Mr. Fron-
tier and Mr. Lasley. The former had
a clerk, Martin Ryerson, the father of
the Mr. Ryerson who has given us
our beautiful library. On returning

|to Grand Haven, he came back in a

log canoe. Paddling up the river in
a log canoe is not the most enjoy-
able way of navigation, and he got off
at Mr. Yeoman’s, the only settler on
the river below Grandville, stopped
there over night and footed it the rest
of the way. ©

In the spring of 1837 he took up
his residence permanently in Grand
Rapids, boarding at the Eagle Tavern,
which was then kept by Louis Moran.

He was obliged to make many trips
to Detroit to change his notes and
drafts into specie as President Jack-
son had decreed that only specie could
be exchanged for government land.
He took this trip in as many different
ways as were possible, the two prin-
cipal ways being either by Battle
Creek on the territorial road, or by
the northern route, as it was called,
which from Detroit brought the trav-
eler the first day to Kingston, the next
to Mr. Williams’ on the Shiawassee,
the next to Mr. Scott’s on the Look-
ing Glass, these being the only set-
tlers in Shiawassee and Clinton
counties. At one time he stopped at

 

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Mr. Edward Robinson’s,
in a log house a mile below Ada. He
had a baker’s dozen of children but

who lived

still welcomed the traveler
small quarters.

to his

This continued traveling soon made
him well known to all the isolated
settlers of Michigan. It was also
known that in politics he was a Dem-
ocrat or Jackson man, having first
voted for Andrew Jackson in 1824.

In the fall of 1837 Governor Mason
was up for re-election and father was
nominated on the same ticket for
State Representative for the wunor-
ganized counties of Ottawa, Kent,
Ionia and Clinton. I find among
father’s papers a curious old dodger
gotten out by Mr. Mason’s opponent,
Mr. Trowbridge, in which the settlers
on government lands were warned
that they would be arrested if Mason
was re-elected. The only polling place
for Ottawa county was Grand Rapids.
Seventy men came down the river on
the steamboat and -marched in line
to the polls.
votes out of the 505 cast.

He was the third Representative
from the district after the organiza-
tion of the State Government, the first
being Maj. Britton from Grandville,
Judge Almy, of this city, being the
second.

It was in the middle of the summer
before Grand Rapids began to feel the
effects of the great financial panic
of 1837. It was so far away from the
center of civilization that it was sev-
eral months before it felt the depres
sion that was affecting the Eastern
cities. So when it came time for fath-
er to take up his duties in Detroit, he
practically had no business to leave
behind him, for buying and selling of
land had ceased. He was still a bach-
elor and had no family cares to wor-
ry him. All he had to do was to put
his effects in his saddle bag and
mount his horse. He left Grand Rap-
ids December 15th, arriving at Detroit
the 23rd. He put up at the old Na-
tional Hotel, and at first had a room
to himself, but as the hotels grew
more crowded he was requested by
the landlord to receive a roommate.
It proved to be Mr. Barry, afterwards
Governor Barry. This incident later
had a bearing on the growth of Mich-
igan, as we will see as I continue my
story. One of the tasks of that Leg-
islature was the appropriation of the
five million dollar loan on different
State improvements. Thirty thousand
dollars was laid aside to improve the
navigation of the Grand and Maple
Rivers.

The organizing of townships took
up considerable time. The number of
townships was quadrupled in father’s
district, and Grand Rapids was _ in-
corporated as a village. It was that
winter that the Canadian Patriot War
occurred that helped to bring emi-
grants to Michigan. General Scott
came to Detroit on business connect-
ed with this war on a steamboat dur-
ing a January thaw. That thaw oc-
casioned a great flood in Grand Rap-
ids, quite as large if not larger than
anything we have experienced in
these days.

Legislature did not adjourn until
April 7. Father sold his horse and

Father received 307

 

returned in a wagon in company with
Mrs. O’Flynn, Mrs. Watson and Miss
Lucy Genereau, Mr. John Godfroy’s
first wife. The passage took them
six days, but they had such a good
social time that the journey did not
seem long.

On arriving at Grand Rapids father
found everything dead. It was no
longer the lively little place he found
when he first came here. Everyone
was leaving who possibly could. A
blight had fallen on Michigan, its
lands and its finances were at a dis-
count, for this was the time of wild-
cat banking. The Peoples Bank, of
which Mr. Louis Campau unwilling-
ly became president, had commenced
Operations, but not having the re-
quired specie on hand when the bank
commissioner called, this commis-
sioner, Mr. D. N. Bell, after giving
them a month’s grace to raise the
funds, put it in the hands of a re-
ceiver, appointing father. The sum-
mer was passed in winding tp that
business. He spoke of taking but
one trip at that time and that was to
Port Sheldon, a village that was start-
ed by Philadelphians and was expect-
ed to outrival Grand Haven.

Everyone was leaving Grand Rap-
ids that had money enough to get
away. Father went East to visit his
mother, but came back, much to the
surprise of his friends, who had not
expected him to return and expressed
regret that they had already nomi-
nated Robert Finney for representa-
tive in the Legislature. I have often
wondered why father did return to
Grand Rapids at-this time, but he was
in love with Michigan and thought
that there was no more beautiful site
in Michigan than right here.

The lands that had been purchased
from the Indians north of Grand
River by the Washington treaty of
1836 were surveyed in 1839, and the
few settlers who had “squatted,” as
it was then called, upon those Goy-
ernment lands were in great trouble
There was no money with which to
purchase their farms, and so when
the lands were brought into market
they were in great fear that they
might be bid off on account of the
improvements upon them. Some rais-
ed money at the rate of 100 per cent.
in order to bid off the lands, but
they need have had no fear for there
were no buyers.

The following years were indeed
hard years for Grand Rapids. Every-
thing was done by barter, as may be
seen from the following advertise-
ment:

“Grand Rapids, Jan. 21, 1843.

“Wood wanted immediately in ex-
change for salt at the salt works. 110
pounds of salt will be given per cord
for good hardwood, including white
and yellow oak, delivered at the
works. The wood is to be cut four
feet long, split in suitable size for
burning and compactly corded. The
salt is warranted to be of good qual-
ity.

“N. B.—Salt constantly on hand
for sale and most kinds of produce
received in payment.”

About the only money that came
in was in the fall, when the Indians
received their annual payment. The
Indians then had a good time and

 

left all their money behind them

But socially probably the people of
Grand Rapids never had a better
time than in just those years. They
were all poor together and there was
no rivalry. Impromptu sleighrides
and dancing parties were gotten up,
and the young men would come to
my father and say, “Now, Mr. Ball,
you must come with us, because then
the mothers will let their daugh-
ters go.”

There were also more formal oc-
casions, as will be seen by these in-
vitations, which I find in my father’:
papers. One reads:

“The Grand Rapids, Fort Sheldon
and Grandville Committee respect-
fully solicit the company of Mr.
John Ball at Mr. Osgood’s Hotel
on Thursday next at 4 o’clock p. m.

“Monday, Jan. 28, ’30.”

Another reads:

“The managers respectfully solicit
the company of John Ball, Esq., at
the Eagle Hotel on Friday, the 29th
imst.; at 4 o'clock p. m.

W. D. Roberts,
W. H. Reynolds,
A. W. Pike.

“Thursday, Nov. 20, 739.”

The third one is printed. It reads:
“New Year’s Ball.
“Gentlemen and ladies, come, let us

unite

In peaceful union and social delight

 

With music and dancing our spirits
to cheer

We'll kick out the Old and wing in
the New Year.

 

“The company of
“Mr. John Ball, Esq., and lady
“Ts respectfully solicited at the as-
sembly room of S. Withey, in Kent,
on Wednesday, the 1st day of Janu-
ary, 1840, at 2 o’clock p. m.
James A. Rumsey,
Abram Snively,
Perry Hill,
Matthias Rollison,
Hezekiah Green,
Lovell Moore,
Managers.”
The young people not only had a
good time but there would be occa-
sional weddings. The marriage of
Mrs. Richard Godfroy’s sister, Mrs.
Fay, to Mr. Bridge was one of the
social events of the time. The chil-
dren, too, had their _enjoyments,
white and Indian children playing to-

gether. My father often  contrib-
uted to the good times of the chil-
dren. Mrs. E. B. Powers, daughter
of Mr. Wm. Godfroy, told me the
other day how he would give chil-
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bury had given them their supper
they would form in two lines and
taking the mandrakes they had gath-
ered he would throw them down the
line, having a prize for those who
caught the most, then gathering them
in his carriage, behind his old horse,
he would take the child that lived
the farthest away home first, until
they were all finally returned to their
parents.

Another social event probably re-
membered by old settlers was when
the Rev. James Ballard would give
a husking bee on his farm at the cor-
ner of Burton avenue and_ East
street. Mr. Ballard thought dancing
was sinful, so the day was ended
with kissing games.

In 1840 father formed a law part-
nership with A. D. Rathbone. Their
office was where the Gas Company’s
office now stands. There was a
school house in the same block. A
Debating Society was formed. The
greatest debaters were Rev. Mr. Bal-
lard and C. I. Walker, later of De-
troit, and it was in this school house
that was given the first agricultural
address ever given in Kent county.
Mr. Bridge was to give this address,
but, as he was sick, father took his
place.

In the fall of 1840 was what was
called the “hard cider campaign.”
Father was the Democratic candidate
for State Senator, Henry P. Bridge
the Whig candidate. When the re-
turns were coming in father’s uncon-
cern as to the result quite exasper-
ated his friends, Col. Finney saying
to him impatiently, “Oh, Ball, how
can you keep so cool?” But coolness
was one of father’s strong character-
istics. ° He was defeated, and I think
never ran for office again except on
educational matters.

The United States offered to the
new Western States five hundred
thousand acres of land, to be used
for internal improvements. Michi-
gan gladly accepted this offer in the
session of 1841. Mr. Barry was then
Governor, and knowing father and
his experience as a woodsman he
asked him to select these lands in the
southwestern portion of the State.
Father had hardly enough business
in his law practice at that time to
prevent him from accepting the offer,
which he gladly did, happy for a
chance to get into the woods again.
He asked the Governor for some ad-
vice as to whether he should make
these selections near the settlements
or down the lake, and whether they
should be pine or farming lands. He
answered that he would leave it en-
tirely to father’s judgment.

He started out exploring, taking
Frederick Hall, of Ionia, with him
and James Lyon, son of Judge Lyon,
of the Bridge Street House, with
whom he was then boarding. On his
first trip he explored the eastern part
of Ottawa county, north of Grand
River. He found most of it first class
beech and maple lands. Then he
made a trip to the Muskegon River
to see the prairies near Croton, but
found them only miserable _ pine
plains. He then struck the Flat River
and explored around where Green-
ville now is. Luther Lincoln and
son were then the only inhabitants of
Montcalm county. He also explored

 

as far as the Pere Marquette River,
following the Indian trail to Muske-
gon Lake, where he found one saw-
mill and a half dozen houses. Swim-
ming his pony across the head of
the lake after a boat, and doing the
same at White Lake, where Mr. Chas.
Mears was the only settler, he struck
the lake shore at the Clay Banks,
where he found Indian planting
grounds. He returned by a more in-
land route, and thought this trip one
of the hardest he had ever made.

After giving a good deal of thought
to the matter he decided to report
sections of land nearest the settle-
ments. This was opposed by some
people, they fearing the State would
hold the price of these lands so high
that it would impede immigration,
but father reasoned that the State’s
indebtedness was so widely diffused
among its inhabitants that enough
pressure would be brought to bear
upon the Legislature to put the lands
on the market at a reasonable price.
The result showed that his opinion
was right.

In the fall of that year he was ex-
ploring in the township of Bowne.
There was one day he stayed in camp
as the weather was dark and threat-
ening. Towards night a high wind
from the southwest came up. He
and his camp boy, Michael Thorne,
could hear the crash of the falling
trees in every direction, but they did
not know as they would better
themselves by trying to get out of
the woods, so father wrapped him-
self in his blanket and slept his usual
sound sleep, but not so with Michael.
He stayed awake, keeping a good fire,
expecting a tree on him every min-
ute. The next morning the icicles
hung thick from their ponies’ sides,
and it was snowing hard, so they
decided to reach the first settlement,
which was Ada. When they arrived
there was already two feet of snow
on the ground. This was the famous
cold winter of ’42 and ’43, when the
cattle froze and food for man and
beast became short before spring. It
was a winter that father did not
camp in the woods. The first day
of April the thermometer was at zero
and there was four feet of snow on
the ground. Teams could cross on
the ice in the river up to the 2oth.
We had the counterpart of this cold
winter a few years ago. It was this
year of °42-’43 that the Rev. James
Ballard held a_ protracted revival
meeting, called the forty days’ meet-
ing.

Father selected four hundred thous-
and acres of the five hundred thous-
and of improvement lands. He made
his selections near the settlements,
and it resulted as he anticipated. The
Legislature of 1843 passed a law put-
ting the price of these lands at $1.25.
They were payable in State dues,
which at first could be bought at 4o
cents on the dollar, and settlers who
at first were afraid he would select
their lands now came to him to do
so, so that they could get them at
the cheaper rate. In this father
obliged them as much as possible,
and so the squatters on the north
side of the river, who had remained
with fear and trembling thinking that
they might lose their improvements,
were now able to buy their farms.

 

Father had to receive his pay, too,
in State warrants, which was unex-
pected by him, and on his complain-
ing to Governor Barry he was an-
swered that the law provided only
such funds for that purpose, and
that he should have noticed the pro-
vision of the law before. The Gov-
ernor suggested that he indemnify
himself by making some good pur-
chases with what funds he had. These
lands were first offered for sale in
August, 1843, at the State Land Of-
fice in Marshall. Father was there
and bought some lands for some of
the settlers who had furnished the
means. Those were all the sales that
took place at that time. No one of-
fered to purchase them on specula-
tion.

Up to this time all the emigration
was going past Michigan to Illinois
and Wisconsin, but, hearing that
there were selected lands in Michi-
gan to be hac at a very reasonable
rate, the emigrants stopped and look-
ed at them. Father kept a run of all
the sales in the Land Office and had
corrected plats. He was there to meet
the emigrants and give them his
knowledge in regard to the lands, so
most of them, although they came
just to look, remained and others fol-
lowed them.

Father was tired of living in the
backwoods alone and he threw his
whole heart and soul into the work
of detaining these emigrants. It is
a saying among the old settlers that
anything he undertook generally suc-
ceeded. Anyway the flood of emigra-
tion began to come in. Father aided
them in every way possible, not only
with advice but with money, for but
few of these early farmers could
boast of five hundred dollars, and
many of them had not enough to buy
their places. Many times father would
make the payments for them and give
them time on his fees.

How warmly and kindly he spoke
of these first settlers who built their
log cabins and cleared the forests,
their wives, too, playing their parts as
well as the men, and after a few years
of privation and hardship they found
themselves in possession of farms,
houses, cattle and horses. This kind-
ly feeling toward these farmers was
fully returned by them. I think it
must have been about this time that
father gained the affectionate title, by
which he was so well known in South-
west Michigan, of “Uncle John.” He
took as much interest in their pros-
perity as if they were his own family
and they all looked to him for ad-
vice or assistance.

All these mewcomers had to
come to Grand Rapids for their sup-
plies, and, as little money as they had,
what they brought was of great help
to the poverty stricken villagers.
Father made a great effort to bring
the Holland colony, headed by Mr,
Van Raalte here to Grand Rapids.
Mr. Van Raalte said his people want-
ed to be near the water and father
thought there could not be a better
place than the Grand River, but, no,
he wanted his people by themselves
to keep them uncontaminated. A
suggestion that they could go to
Muskegon county was answered that

+he would like some settlers between

 

his people and the wolves, and so
they settled in Holland. They had
seen but few trees in their country

and were poor woodsmen. In chop-

ping down the trees they chopped in
all directions so that they lay helter

skelter on the ground, and had to get
experienced choppers to help them
out of their trouble, but with their
indomitable industry they eventually
got on quite well. In spite of the ef-
forts of their reverend leader to keep
them compact, they had to come to
Grand Rapids for supplies and some
remained for employment. Their good
guilders also helped our struggling
village.

Slowly but surely the village grew,
Some of father’s relatives and ac-
quaintances followed him here to
Grand Rapids, and father was so hap-
py to have them come he could not do
enough to make them welcome.

It was under these circumstances
that he gained the reputation, and |
think justly, of having done more than
any other man of early times to pro-
mote the settlement of our city and
county. Lucy Ball.

——»+-.
Save Time.

There are three ways to save time:
by working as rapidly as is consistent
with thoroughness and carefulness;
by having a method so that you pro-
gress in a straight line toward your
objective, instead of zigzagging to-
ward it; by filling up unavoidable de-
days with some sort of useful occu-
pation.

Take your recreation after closing
hours, your rest at night. Do not
sandwich small allowances of recrea-
tion and rest into the hours that
should be devoted to work. Make
every minute count through the day.

Minutes make the sum of hours.
dimes make the sum of dollars. Con-
serve your small change of one kind
as well as the other. A spendthrift
in the use of time is as pitiful as he
who wildly sows his money to the
winds, and lives to ask alms in old
age.—Salesmanship.

——_~+--2—____

In Canada there is a very earnest
crusade on foot which seeks to les-
sen the use of profanity. It is urg-
ed that the habit of swearing is not
only wicked but vulgar and utterly
without defense or excuse from any
point of view. That this is so there
is no disputing and even those who
now and then or habitually indulge
in an oath are entirely willing to say
when asked that the practice is inde-
fensible. A good many boys and
young fellows indulge in it because
they hear their elders and somehow
think it makes them grown up and
big. The English language has suf-
ficient expressive words and phrases
so that there need be no resort to
that which is vulgar or profane. It is
a mistake to suppose that profanity
is bright or clever or that it indicates
moral strength or courage. Those
who are habitually profane are not
any better understood or more em-
phatic than those who find other
words in which to convey their sen-
timents. The Canadian newspapers
apparently have joined in, the cru-
sade, which promises to be and any-
how ought to be successful.

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Lee, Cady & Smart

Succeeding

Lee & Cady
Phelps, Brace & Co. and
The Smart & Fox Co.

Owning and Operating the Following Plants:

Lee, Cady & Smart, Cass & Larned Sts., Detroit
Lee & Cady, Eastern Market Branch, Detroit
The Smart & Fox Co., Saginaw
H. W. Jennison Branch, Bay City
Valley City Coffee & Spice Mills

 

 

This company will offer to the trade of Detroit and Michigan the advantages
and facilities of a modern metropolitan wholesale grocery house in keeping with the
requirements of a great city and state.

Realizing its position of service in the community, IT WILL ORGANIZE ITS SALES
DEPARTMENT along lines that will guarantee to the trade the attention and efforts
of men of large experience and close application to the study of their wants.

THE SHIPPING DEPARTMENT will be conducted with the determination of fully
meeting the demands of the day for rapid and careful filling of orders.

THE CREDIT DEPARTMENT will be conducted in a spirit of liberality, which
will assure every dealer the fullest possible accommodation which the circumstances
will permit.

THE BUYING DEPARTMENT will be conducted by experts of recognized ability,
which will guarantee to the patrons of the house the purity and reliability of the
goods handled.

Hoping to receive favorable consideration at the hands of the trade, we remain

Yours very truly,

LEE, CADY & SMART.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

 

 

 

 

Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples. .

Domestics—The demand for all
classes of merchandise classified as
domestics continues uninterruptedly.
Small orders are received from every
known quarter. Interest for the past
two or three weeks has_ centered
largely in napped goods, the curtail-
ment in the production of which is
now a matter of history, but the real
effect has not as yet manifested it-
self. It will be interesting to watch
the course of these fabrics during fu-
ture developments. That higher
prices will be received for goods
bought in the future goes withoui
saying. It may be that buyers are
not aware of this or the attempt to
place further orders would show it-
self at once. Certain important lines
have signified their intention to do
this, while others equally and per-
haps more important have replied in
the negative. Tickings, denims and
fabrics of this character call for 2
good volume of business as a regular
thing and the past week shows no
cessation of this demand.

Bleached Goods—The demand for
bleached goods is fully as good as
at any previous time, with the possi-
bility of securing available spots
growing more and more rare as the
season advances. While some have
sold for future. delivery far down in-
to the balance of the year and in
same cases have completed the year,
others have deemed this course un-
wise and have acted accordingly. One
large house has sold its bleached
goods as far ahead as August and
September and has withdrawn them
temporarily with a view of reopening
them later on. This course may be
recommended for at least-one excel-
lent reason, this reason being the fact
that it will enable them to catch up
somewhat on deliveries, find out
where they stand and establish a
better price basis for future opera-
tion. Houses handling quilts and
such fabrics report being in very sat-
isfactory positions. One house states
that it has sold all and perhaps more
than it can deliver. The improvement
in conditions, so far as these fabrics
are concerned, has been general and
is not localized in any one connec-
tion, as was formerly the case.

Dress Goods—While jobbers are
not yet through as a matter of final-
ity, they are so nearly so that the
difference is a very smal] matter. The
results can hardly be called eminently
satisfactory, and yet a very good vol-
ume of business has been done. Wor-
sted fabrics to the jobbing trade had
a very large call, some very satisfac-
tory orders being taken. The com-
ing week will see further openings on
a more extended scale, no doubt, or
rather about the first of March. Some
quiet testing of the trade for these
lines has been going on for a week or
more, but the general openings are
yet to come. Some houses are not
a little behindhand with their sam-
ples, owing, no doubt, to the large

 

volume of spring business now under
way. Duplicating orders continue to
come in very satisfactorily for spring
goods, and follow, for the most part,
the staple lines, such as panamas,
voiles, etc. Continued favor for chif-
fon broadcloths is also observable.
That the coming spring season will
be a successful one there is not the
least reason to doubt, so far as the
retailers are concerned. Many of the
latter will no doubt be compelled to
handle different lines than has form-
erly been their habit, but for this
they have no one but themselves to
blame. Of the improvement in wool-
en goods for this period little can be
said that has not already been touch-
ed upon and, as for the fall season, it
has become quite marked. The ab-
solute elimination of worsteds that
was predicted by some overardent
enthusiasts will not be an issue of
any importance, as the jobbing trade
took hold of the latter altogether too
readily for such a thing to be possi-
ble. Doubtless one of the most pop-
ular fabrics for fall will be cloth
viaids. They have done very well
for spring and a continuation is not
at all unlikely. Any fabric suitable
for suiting purposes will be well tak-
en, since this is a popular form of
street apparel.

Hosiery—Conditions in this mar-
ket are not at all active, most of
their filling in for spring goods hav-
ing been purchased. Out-of-town
buyers, however, keep up a good in-
terest in the market, both in filling
in for spring and placing orders for
fall. There is no restriction in the
buying as it covers the general mar-
ket, embracing all lines. Most goods
bring handsome premiums over their
first prices, although there are still
buyers who think that they ought to
operate on the original terms. Those
familiar with the real conditions are
glad to pay thé prices asked, provid-
ed they secure the desired delivery,
and in some cases the fact that they
are able to secure any delivery at all
is satisfactory. Many other lines are
fast growing scarce, and as far as
some lines are concerned it is impos-
sible to secure them at all, the mar-
ket being thoroughly cleaned out;
144-needle goods have long been very
scarce and advances of 2% and 5c
have easily been secured, but as there
are none now in the market advanc-
ing the price avails nothing. In the
lower grades the scarcity is almost
equally pronounced and the prices for
favorable deliveries strong.

Underwear—The market is neces-
sarily not very active, in this respect
being not unlike hosiery, unless it be
that there is a better prospect for
hosiery as a whole, for the reason
that it is not as closely sold. Toward
the latter end of the week there was
very little business on account of the
holiday, but the early part of the week
could not be called much of an im-
provement. There was some busi-
ness transacted in ladies’ popular
priced goods and also ladies’ carded
yarn ribbed goods. Other lines are
comparatively dull. In the lines above
referred to the most reputable makes
are now fast drawing into a well-sold
position. To be sure, some will have
the opportunity to increase the busi-
ness booked, and will be able to take

 

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Wholesale Dry Goods Detroit, Mich.
SOLE AGENTS

Sleepy Hollow
Blankets

Made on special looms. An en-
tirely new finish. Each pair pa-
pered separately. Finest wool-

blanket finish.

Sample pairs of these blankets will
be ready for delivery in about two
or three weeks, and will be for-

warded only on request.

EDSON, MOORE & CO.

 

 

  

 

 

 

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care of it; however, this does not af-
fect their present position as a
whole. Certain lines of medium-
weight wool goods have enjoyed 2
remarkably good business this sea-
son and the forward prospects are
very favorable. Deliveries in almost
all cases have been very poor. Som:,
to be sure, have been immune to the
prevailing trouble with which the
trade has been wrestling for some
time, but these are those mills that
run on one weight the whole year
around. For instance, whether it be
heavy or light weight, they run on
those and nothing else, not six
months on light weights and six
months on heavy weights. This is
an excellent policy, provided there are
no “off” years. Stocks can be cre-
ated and deliveries made at a time
when customers most desire imme-
diate goods. Several houses netted
handsome returns under this system.
There has been an_ exceedingly
fair call recently for medium grade
sweaters and a reasonably decent de-
mand for the finer makes also. For
the most part it is a sort of between
seasons for them just now, being too
late for the jobber for the most part
and far too early for the retailer.
Some retail buying has been done,
however, although not to a very great
extent. The local demand has not
been thoroughly bad; at the same
time it has not been at all exciting.
Oxford is the color the most
frequently called for and is one upon
which the most business can be done.
This, to be sure, is in the higher class
goods. The medium’ grades’ have
found their best business in boys’ and
youths’ goods in mixed colors.

Chattel Mortgage Sale.

By virtue of a chattel mortgage, ex-
ecuted by McCausey & Sprague, of
the city of Grand Rapids, to Heber
A. Knott, as trustee, of the city of
Grand Rapids, dated at Grand Rapids
the 22nd day of December, A. D. 1907,
and filed in the office of the clerk of
the city of Grand Rapids, on the 22nd
day of December, in the year afore-
said, and upon which default has been
made, I have taken and shall sell
the property therein mentioned and
described, to-wit: All their stock of
men’s and ladies’ clothing, furnishing
goods, millinery and notions, of every
name and nature, together with fix-
tures, shelving, counters, show cases,
chairs, stools, racks and all book ac-
counts, at public auction, at the store
room known as 163-165 S. Division
street, in the city of Grand Rapids,
on Friday, the 8th day of March, A.
D. 1907, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon
of said day.

Dated at Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb-
ruary 23, 1907.

Heber A. Knott, Trustee,
Peter Doran, Atty. for Trustee.

———__. 2.2 —————
Enlarge Jenks Factories.
Harbor Beach, March 5—The
Jenks interests in this city are plan-
ning to completely remodel  theit
buildings in order to make them fire
proof. It is announced that over
$25,000 will be spent with this end in
view. The capacity of the big starch
factory will be doubled. Numerous
other changes also will be made
Work, it is expected, will be begun
at once.

Optimism in Missouri.

There has been a dreadful flood in
Missouri. One old fellow, who has
lost nearly everything he possessed,
was sitting on the roof of his house
as it floated along. He was gazing
pensively out over the waters when a
man in -a boat approached.

“Hello, Bill.”

“Hello, Sam.”

“All your fowls
Bill?”

“Yes; but the ducks can swim,” re-
plied the old man, with a faint smile.

“Peach trees gone, too, eh?”

“Well, they said the crop would be
a failure, anyhow.”

“T see the flood’s away above your
windows.”

“That’s all right, Sam. Them win-
ders needed washin,’ anyhow.”

washed away,

 

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Good time now to fill in your stock.

 

Summer Underwear

Men’s, Ladies’, and Children’s Full Line.

Ladies’ from 45c to $4.50 per dozen.
Children’s from goc to $2.25 per dozen.
Men’s from $1.75 to $9.00 per dozen.

 

Also a nice line of Men’s, Ladies’ and Children’s Combina-

 

 

Wholesale Dry Goods

 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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that your customers
place in you is baasd
not so much on your
personal character as
on the class of mer-
chandise that you

sell.

Whether that faith
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or wiped out de-
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entirely on

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If time and again
you are obliged to
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are not likely to put
‘much faith in what

you may say about

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hand, people find
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is: poor, it will fail to give
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

OCTOGENARIAN’S VIEWS.

 

Make Good To Your Employer The
Wages Received.

Written for the Tradesman.
A lengthened life of almost four

score and ten years, more than one-
half of which has been spent behind
the counter, is the only excuse I deem
necessary for publishing this address
‘to the toiling host of wage earners,
both male and female, whose daily
lives are made up of one continual
round of patient work, and in many
cases of meek forbearance.

In the various pursuits you have
chosen it is presumed that all of you
are ambitious and anxious to succeed
and make good to your employers the
wages you receive. The question that
naturally occurs to you should be,
How can we best’ do this and main-
tain our integrity and self-respect?
For, depend upon it, the places that
you occupy carry with them not only
great responsibilities but great temp-
tations. Alas that you should some-
times be employed by those whose
methods and instructions for dealing
with customers, if literally obeyed,
would shock the sensibilities of those
of you who have been bred from in-
fancy to believe that “Honesty is the
best policy,” and make you distrust
the occupation you have chosen if
such methods are necessary to suc-
cess. Fortunately such cases are rare,
but I recall one instance of the kind
that came under my _ observation
more than fifty years ago:

A strong healthy boy 15 or 16 years
of age, whose home influences had al-
ways been along the line of strict
honesty, took a notion to leave school
and learn the grocery business. He
readily found a situation with a gro-
cery house doing quite a large busi-
ness in a country village. All went
well for a few weeks until one day
a country customer brought in a lot of
Strictly fresh laid eggs. The clerk
counted them and the proprietor paid
the woman the cash for them, glad
to get them because they were scarce.
A basket of eggs standing on the
counter from which they were retail-
ing had proved to be anything but
fresh, and the new clerk had = said
so when the question was asked by a
customer. His truthful answer he
saw angered his employer, but he
thought no more about it until the
customer who had sold the fresh eggs
had left the store. Then the proprie-
tor told the clerk to take the two
baskets of eggs into the back room
and carefully mix them. “Then,” said
he with a sneer, “you will have fresh
eggs to sell the next customer.” The
young man innocently suggested that
the transaction was not quite honest,
but he was met with the reply that
it was his business to do what he
was told and ask no questions. He
mixed the eggs as he was ordered,
but when pay day came around te
promptly threw up his job. That
grocer’s business did not prosper
long. He was obliged to sell out or
go into bankruptcy, while the clerk
who persisted in his ideas of strict
honesty became a successful business
man and an honored citizen. He is
still living, in a beautiful village in
Southern Michigan.

I would earnestly impress upon the
minds of all those to whom this ad-

 

dress is dedicated the necessity and
duty of being courteous and faithful
to your employes and customers—
very courteous and very faithful. As
for myself, realizing from experience
the strain upon good nature to which
you are often subjected, I am indif-
ferent to any sort of treatment if it
be not absolutely rude; but my anger
is aroused when I witness rudeness
to a woman and constant negligence
of the interests of an honest em-
ployer.

As it is for the boys behind the
counter that this address is espe-
cially meant, I would remind you that
intellectual culture, as far as it comes
within your reach, should never be
neglected. As far as possible keep
well posted in the current events of
the day. If your daily duties admon-
ish you that your education has been
neglected in some branches’ with
which you ought to be familiar in
order to be more useful to your em-
ployer, and which are necessary to
your own rapid advancement, use
every means available to fit yourself
for all the requirements of your sit-
uation. A course of lessons at even-
ing school, or business college if with-
in your reach, would afford the best
opportunity for improvement and
would be time and money well spent.
In your efforts I am aware that you
will find yourselves somewhat handi-
capped, especially in any course of
reading you may wish to pursue, from
the general aversion on the part of
employers to any kind of reading
matter in sight during business hours.
This difficulty may be overcome by
reading at home, or at the Young
Men’s Christian Association rooms
or some other good reading rooms.
By all means give the Y. M. C. A.
rooms your patronage in preference
to the pool rooms. Cleanliness in all
your habits and neatness in dress you
should regard as of the first impor-
tance. Frequent visits to the bath
and total abstinence from the use of
tobacco in any form are great aids
to advancement if not absolutely nec-
essary to perfect success. At this
point I am reminded of a conversa-
tion I overheard between two ladies
as they came out of a popular fancy
store in the city of Owosso a_ few
days ago. One of them remarked to
the other, “How very polite and ob-
liging Mr. always is.” “Yes,” was
the reply, “but did you notice the
odious stench of tobacco he carried
about him?”

 

Besides the disgusting odor that is
sickening in the nostrils of your fair
customers, there are other more im-
portant physical reasons why you
should shun it as you would a pesti-
lence. A physician of great experi-
ence in the hospitals and _ private
practice in an Eastern city has well
defined it as that “bane of youth,
that stupefier of expression and of in-
tellect, that deadener of bright eyes
and elastic limbs, tobacco.” We all
know that it lowers the nerve forces
when smoked, greatly stimulates the
desire for drink, creates a thirst that
water will mot quench and add to
this the useless expense that it in-
volves and is it not enough to make
you shun the useless habit if you have
not already acquired it, or use every
mental effort yoy possess to over-

come it if you have? I am aware that
many of my young friends who read
the Tradesman will sneer at what
they charge as a foolish prejudice
against tobacco, but, depend upon it,
maturer years will bring many of you
to think as I do. Do hot wait until the
fitful flutterings of a cigarette heart
or the premonitory symptons of nic-
otine paralysis warn you that it is too
late.

My friends, the ladies behind the
counter—it will not be necessarf for
me to remind them that, in addition
to uniform courtesy and politeness, to
be tidily gowned without extrava-
gance is an absolute requirement to
success as a saleswoman. They seem
to know that by intuition, as a walk
through any of our up-to-date dry
goods stores will fully demonstrate.
As a rule you will meet with the most
agreeable manners and a _ taste in
dress that would not be out of place
in a drawing room.

In conclusion I would admonish
you all that the unwritten history of
your own lives that you are making
now will be very plainly written up-
on the tablets of your memories, to
be recalled when your eyes have
grown dim and your limbs are pal-
sied with age. What shall the record
be? A clean and useful life that has
enjoyed seeing others around them
made happy, honesty in dealing with
all, integrity in public affairs, loyalty
to your country and to God, justice
to yourselves and charity to all, for-
giving your enemies as you hope to
be forgiven. If all of these are re-
corded to your credit when you reach
the “lean and slippered age” and un-

 

roll the scroll of memory, then you
may wrap your mantle around you,
assured of sweet repose.

W. S. H. Welton.
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Legitimate Trade and Mail Order
Trade.

With the eyes of all business men
on the action by the courts on com-
binations for the restriction of trade
there is no occasion for those who
unite in co-operation for a commenda-
ble purpose to entertain any nery-
ous anxiety. There is a need, how-
ever, for conservatism in any move-
ment to protect legitimate trade in-
terests. There is a strong disposition
at the present time to unite in some
method of counteracting the demoral-
izing effect of the mail order houses.
Although well within the pale of the
law, their methods of marketing
goods have in far too many instances
had a baleful influence in every re-
spect. Those who conduct their busi-
ness in conformity with the rules
which have been established as legiti-
mate through time-honored observ-
ance are outspoken in their testimony
as to the generally low quality of the
wares distributed by the catalogue
houses and as to the demoralizing in-
fluence which the prices they have
made have had on the business of
the men who stand in the large city
or at the crossroads to serve con-
veniently people in their vicinity.
These tradesmen suffer from the com-
parison made with the prices they
quote on high grade goods, which
class of goods they must distribute
to maintain their reputation in the
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The Earth a Steam Boiler.

Steam from the earth is the steam
for to-morrow. It is proved beyond
peradventure that the heat of the
crust of the earth grows gradually
greater from the surface inward. This
localities. A
thermometer lowered into the wells
near Pittsburg and Wheeling showed
an increase for every fifty feet. The
temperature at the bottom of the
Pittsburg well was 129 degrees. Sup-
pose two holes were bored directly
into the earth’s surface 12,000 feet
deep and fifty feet apart. According
to the measurements made in the
Pittsburg well, at the bottom there
would be a temperature of more than
240 degrees, far above the boiling
point of water. If heavy charges of
dynamite or some other heavy~ ex-
plosive were to be lowered to the bot-
tom of each hole and exploded simul-
taneously, and the process repeated
many times, the two holes might
have a sufficient connection estab-
lished. The rocks will be cracked and
fissured in all directions, as in deep
oil wells when they are shot. If only
one avenue were opened between the
holes it would be enough. The shat-
tering of the rocks around the base
of the holes would turn the surround-
ing area into an immense hot water
heater. The water poured down one
hole in the earth would circulate
through the cracks and fissures, the
temperature of which would be more
than 240 degrees, and in its passage
it would be heated and turned to
steam, which would pass to the
earth’s surface through the second
hole. The pressure of such a column
of steam would be enormous. Aside
from the initial velocity of the steam,
the descending column of cold water
would exert a pressure of at least
5,000 pounds the square inch, which
would drive up through the second
hole everything movable. This done,
the water heater would operate itself
and a source of power thereby be
established which would surpass any-
thing now in use. It is estimated
that the plan could be carried out
near Pittsburg for $50,000. The Yel-
lowstone valley probably would yield
commercial temperature at shallow
depths.

_———__.-2oa
Heroism in Labor.

We agree with a contemporary who
says there is plenty of heroism in
common life. It may be a sort of
passive heroism, but it is heroism just
the same. He who does the hard task
with cheerfulness, who shakes hands
with hardship as if it were his friend,
who bears His burden without com-
plaint, who does drudgery with un-
daunted spirit—there is something of
the hero in him. No one unless there
is something of this spirit inside of
him can rise above his task and be
content. It is the unheroic who al-
low the task to master them. And
especially is there heroic stuff in that
man who goes cheerfully to the work
that is uncongenial to him.

Morris tells us that art is the ex-
pression of a man’s joy in his work.
And he who faces the work he dis-
likes to do with cheerful spirit may
not be an artist, but he has hero’s
blood in his veins. The father who

 

goes to a daily grind that does not fit
his taste, but who does it joyfully be-
cause he can thereby minister to his
own, is a hero—commonplace, per-
haps, but a hero. The mother who
takes up the drudgery of her house-
hold, not because it meets her pleas-
ure, but because she finds joy in do-
ing for her loved ones—she is heroic.
Our human nature is full of this he-
roic action.

On the other hand, he who whines
because his task is unfitting and sput-
ters about it for sympathy’s sake may
get sympathy. But he will not get
admiration because he does not de-
serve it. In its heart of hearts hu-
manity loves the brave man who
fights on to the death and goes down
with the colors flying and the drums
beating the march. It adores the
hero who battles on with broken
sword. Only its eyes are not open
to see these things in everyday life.—
E] Paso Times.

—_2>2
Build for To-morrow.

It is not enough that you have
closed one successful day, although
there is in it the promise of another
day to-morrow.

The wise merchant is the one who
founds his business on the rocks of
good goods, fair prices, fair and
square treatment, personal acquaint-
ance with your customers and the in-
evitable square deal.

It benefits you nothing if in your
merchandising you get the better of a
buyer to-day because the buyer is
sure to become cognizant of the
fact and his trade is in the balance.
One price is the rock of retail safety.
Then there can be no aggrieved cus-
tomers. The fact that you favor a
customer in the matter of price makes
him at once suspicious of the stabil-
ity of your price and question wheth-
er or not some other customer is not
more favored.

Peddlers, itinerant merchants, box-
car merchants here to-day and away
to-morrow care nothing for the aft-
ermath, but the merchant who ex-
pects to continue in business can not
afford to lose a single opportunity to
strengthen his position.

Know your customers. Know them
personally. Make a study of them
as you do of the profession of mer-
chandising. Know their resources.
If you make a practice of this you
will not lose so much. Know their
tastes in groceries, in dry goods, in
all things.

Knowing your trade is one of the
most important aids to good mer-
chandising. It is so much easier to
suit your customers in short orders
when you have‘them sized up as sug-
gested. This leads to satisfaction.

———_—_2~« ~~. —_____
An Improvement.

“The Uncle Tom’s Cabin show at
the op’ry house last night was con-
siderable better than when it was here
a year ago,” grimly said the landlord
of the Pruntytown tavern.

“How so?” inquired the picture en-
larger,

“O, they had one more dog and
three less actors.”

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THE POTATO MARKET.

 

Promoter Believes That He Can Cor-
ner It.
Written for the Tradesman.

He was long and lean and _ his
shoulders bent forward as if blown
in by the winds of adversity. His
headpiece was an_ old-fashioned
“plug,” which had been battered un-
til it looked like an accordion. His
coat was buttoned close about the
neck. It was frayed at the wrists,
and greasy in front, and faded to a
dirty plum color at the back. His
trousers were ragged at the bottom
and shiny at the knees. Taken al-
together he looked like a man who
. had missed all the red lights thrown
out by Fate and blundered into the
excavations of hard luck.

He walked into the grocery with
a shyness which seemed to indicate
a doubt concerning the character of
his reception. The door was left on
the latch, as if to expedite his jour-
ney to the outer air. He approach-
ed the grocer with a ragged and soil-
ed fold ‘of legalcap displayed in both
dirty hands.

“Good morning,” he said, with as-
sumed dignity. “I see you are not
busy at this time. Might I presume
to present to your notice a little mat-
ter of business? Yes. I have no cards
with me, unfortunately, but among
business men that hardly is neces-
sary. I am the man from the potato
country.”

The grocer sat down on the end of
the counter and looked the man over
critically.

“You look it,” he said.

“Exactly. From the potato coun-
try. I’m offering an opportunity for
investment. Chance of a_ lifetime.
Dividends never less than 200 _ per
cent., with a sum equal to the orig-
inal capital placed in the reserve and
undivided profits each year. This is
one of the rules of the company.
There are only a few shares for sale.
How many shall I set aside for you?”

“What’s the game?” asked the gro-
cer.

“Ha! Ha! Ha!” laughed the visit-
or. “That is a very good name for
it! Yes, a very good name! In fact,
it is a game; but a game of skill, and
not a game of chance. No, sir, not
a game of chance. Skill, sir, is the
word.”

“All right,” said the grocer, “go on.
Dip in.”

“I had supposed,” began the visitor,
“that every man, woman and child
in the great Northwest understood
the game, as you facetiously term it.
As I said before, I am the man from
the potato country; from the fertile
fields of Northern Michigan, where
the tubers grow as big as your head
and where they can be bought for
the insignificant sum of ten cents a
bushel—ten cents, sir. You wouldn’t
believe it, sir, but they can often be
bought for less than that—even for
. six cents. But we will, for the sake
of argument, say ten cents a bushel
the year round.”

“You are doing a lot of talking
without advancing the plot,” said the
grocer, who had once had a short
story rejected by the editor of a
ten-cent magazine. “Get down to
the works.”

“Briefly, then, I am in the city for

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a few days for the purpose of sell-
ing a few—a very few—shares in the
Great Northern Potato Company,
Limited. We guarantee 200 per cent.
dividend, and also guarantee to leave
each year an equal sum in the undi-
vided profits and reserve funds.”

“You buy potatoes at ten cents a
bushel,” said the grocer. “That’s all
right. Now, what do you do with
them?”

“Sell ’°em for $5 a bushel. Yes, sir,
for $5 a bushel. We are able to do |
this because we use my _ air-tight,
moisture-proof, anti - combustible
shield. This shield, sir, will in time
revolutionize the world of commerce.
We take the tubers from the ground.
We boil ’em. We bake ’em. We
French-fry ‘em. We German-fry ’em.
We cream ’em. We fix ’em in all the
ways which will tempt the flagging
appetite or please the blase million-
aire’s taste. When they are ready we
enclose ’em in one of my patent
shields. Hot, and fresh, and bursting
with the natural richness of the tub-
er, they are popped into one of my
shields. Each potato has a shield,
unless they are mashed. Each pack-
age has a shield. You can send ’em
to the North Pole and open them
there and you will find ’em just as
good as the day they were put up.
They also keep the heat, these shields.
They will keep anything enclosed in
their tenacious grasp, sir. Why, not
long ago we received a letter from
a man living exactly under the Equa-
tor. He wrote—”

The grocer began moving toward
the door.

“T’ve got to go,” he said.

“All right, I’ll walk up to the bank
with you. This man wrote that we
ought to send out a little more cool
air with our potatoes. He said that
when he broke the shield off a bak-
ed potato it was just as hot and mealy
as the day we had put it up. Now,
what do you think of that for a
proof of merit? Look here. You’re
in the provision business. You now
have to go down cellar, or into the
back room, or somewhere out of your
ordinary line of duty to fill an order
for a half bushel of potatoes. Well!
You patronize the Great Northern
Potato Company, Limited, and you
don’t have to do that. You step back
to that shelf when you receive an
order for potatoes. You say:

“Will you have ’em fried, or bak-
ed, or mashed, or credmed, or: how?’

“The customer wants ’em mashed,
for dinner, say. You take down a
little package about as large as a
brick, and there you are. There’s
your mashed potatoes! The  cus-
tomer takes ’em home and heats ’em
in the oven, puts a little butter on
top, and the men folks will swear
that they were just taken from the
kettle.”

The grocer stopped at the front
door. :

“T don’t want any stock,” he said.
“I own a big potato farm out here,
and I don’t want that sort of competi-
tion.” 4

“Ah! Then you are just the man
I’m looking for. You see, we need a
farm close to the city to start with.
We can’t be bothered with freight
delays, and all that. The fact that

dollar a bushel for your potatoes
would not matter. Observe the sell-
ing price! That is where we come
in. On the selling price. And the
shipping point is something, too.
Now, you can have 100 shares of this
stock, original price $10 a share, for
$50. How does that strike you? We
are about to launch an enterprise
that will astound the world, and you
can get in on the ground floor for 50
cents a share—half a dollar, five
dimes, two quarters. Do you hesi-
tate? Then I’ll give you a written
guarantee to take the stock off your
hands in ten days at an advance of
100 per cent.”

“You talk like a mining company’s
advertisement in a mail order paper,”
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933 Mich. Trust Bidg.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

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keep the stock if it is going up so
fast?”

“Tt is the expenditure of the money
we are getting for stock which
bounces up the price. You still hesi-
tate? Then, let. me make you one
last offer—let me make one more at-
tempt to place you in the Rockefeller
row. Give me a chance to put you
in the Hall of Fame as one of the
men who rejuvenated the world by
investing in the Great Northern Po-
tato Company, Limited.”

“What is your patent shield made
of?” asked the grocer.

“Ah! That is my secret! Millions
will be benefited by it, but none
shall ever know the secret. Not un-
til I cease to be. Let me tell you
what it will do: You take a pig two
months old—a roaster. You clean
and dress this pig, and roast him,
and get him all ready for the table.
Stick a carving knife in him if you
want to and have him stuffed with
oysters, then you treat him with a
little of my _ air-tight, moisture-
proof, anti-combustible shield, prepa-
ration. There you are. You may
ship this pig to a friend at Manila,
or a chum at St. Petersburg, or put
it on a ship going around the world.
When the shield is removed that pig
will be just as rich, and juicy, and
crisp on the outside as if it had just
been taken from the oven.”

The visitor’s mouth watered as he
talked of the juiciness and crispness
of the roast pig, and he looked so
hungry and so tired, and so nervy
under all his burdens of poverty and
wrong-headedness that the grocer
began to feel sorry for him.

“And you still hesitate? Then I'll
tell you what I’ll do: I’ll sell you the
1oo shares of stock in the Great
Northern Company, Limited, for $25,
and guarantee to take it off your
hands in a week at $100. This is the
best offer ever made. -In addition
I’ll let you into the secret of the
shield which is to revolutionize the
world. Now, then?”

The grocer backed out of the door.

“Tf that won’t answer—”

The grocer was halfway to the cor-
ner, but the visitor had him by the
tail of his coat.

“Tf you could advance me $1—only
four quarters, ten dimes—on a quan-
tity of stock in the Great Northern,”
he said, “I’d esteem it as a_ favor.
I’m expecting a couple of thousand
from a financial concern in the East,
and I’ll return the money at exactly
2:30 to-morrow afternoon.”

The grocer handed out the dollar.

“Go back to the store,” he said,
“and tell the clerk to give you a can
of beans and some crackers and
cheese. A man with the imagination
and the nerve you have has no right
to go about hungry.”

And the grocer found him still eat-
ing when he returned from the bank.

: Alfred B. Tozer.
—_—_>+2——_—_
Dead Heads.

“Conductor,” said the gasping pas-
senger, vainly trying to raise 2 win-
dow, “there are at least a_ billion
microbes in this car.”

“You ought to be able to stand
that if the company can,” growled
the street car conductor. “We don’t
get a blamed cent for carrying 7em.”

  

 

Promoted for

Being Polite—Dis-
charged for Being Rude.

This is the day of little things, and

the worker who can do half a dozen

little things perfectly has a better

chance of recognition and success
than he who can do one big thing
well, but whose execution of the lit-
tle things of life is faulty.

It requires no wonderful equipment
of intellect to tell a man that when
at a restaurant another man stops at
his table to talk to him or to the
woman that he is with he should rise
and remain standing until the visitor
asks him to sit down. Anybody ought
to know this. Yet because one man
remembered it and did it one night
in a cafe in Chicago at which his em-
ployer, unknown to him, happened to
be dining, the polite man got a better
job.

“T can use men who understand
the little things of life,” the employer
said. “That man did not wear the
silly grin that many men think should
be the inseparable companion of lit-
tle acts of graciousness. He seemed
to be respecting himself and the man
for whom he rose. The chances are
that if he were placed in another
position in which courtesy would be
of value to the house as well as to
himself he would be courteous. I
can’t get too many of that kind of
men.”

An able man once lost a good job
simply because he looked over the
shoulder of his boss, who was read-
ing a newspaper. The boss was not
interested in the newspaper. He
willingty would have passed it to Mr.
Inquisitive if the latter had express-
ed a wish for it. But asking for what
he wanted was not the other’s way.
He rubbered over the buss’ shoulder
and he rubbered himself out of a
job.

A man may be the most honest
and able man in the world, but in the
few minutes’ conversation he has with
a newly met acquaintance on the
street or in the store or the office or
the shop he has no chance to prove
this.

The man he meets is impressed by
the way he handles himself, not by
the qualities that may be inherent in
him and that may form his chief
claim to distinction. Upon first meet-
ing there is no opportunity-for the
possessor of those shining and sterl-
ing attributes to prove that he has
them. For all the man who has just
met him knows he may be the bright-
est man in the world or the thickest
headed dullard. The first impression,
which is likely to be a lasting one,
or, if it is not lasting, it requires evi-
dence to remove it, is formed upon
what the man looks like and what he
says.

And he can not say anything that
can counterbalance an _ unfortunate
manner. As Emerson says, “How
can I listen to what you say when
what you are is thundering in my
ears?”

It is up to the man who wants to
get ahead fast and surely to be agree-
able to those people he meets.
Courtesy is the small change of life.
Everybody ought to have some of it
in his pockets. Yet there are hun-
dreds of breaches of the simplest
rules committed every day and by

 

people that ought to know better.
Sometimes they amount to nothing.
They may be committed in the pres-
ence of people who themselves know
no better or who do not care. But
there always is the chance that, like
the employer who was lining in the
restaurant and like the employer who
was reading the newspaper, some man
whose opinion counts may be around.
Men in business find that they get
along with little friction simply by
thinking of others instead of them-
selves in connection with the small,
courteous trifles of life. A man who
always is thinking of himself is bound
to be awkward and to be put out of
countenance many times because all
things can not go to please him. The
man who is thinking of the comfort
and well being of those with whom
he happens to be thrown in contact
seldom is embarrassed. He always is
looking for a chance to do a friendly
turn to somebody else. Every time
he finds such an opportunity he finds
at the same time a little cement with
which he unconsciously cements clos-
er to him and to his interests the
men for whom he has done the little
favors.

It is by the little things that men
climb. Many a man who might have
done tremendously well has been held
back and handicapped simply because
he has held the foolish opinion that
the man who is courteous and friend-

Asa
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manners. But whether the
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

' HE KNEW TOO MUCH.

 

Even Education May Unfit a Weak
Brain.
Written for the Tradesman.

The young drug clerk had just re-
ceived his certificate from the State
Board and had an idea that he was
about the only person in the world
who really knew anything about
chemistry. To his mind a test-tube
was greater than a battle ship like
the Oregon. He knew all about drugs
and he didn’t care who knew it.

But knowledge is a good deal like
a diamond: if you don’t show it peo-
ple will not know that you possess
it. Who would buy.a thousand-dollar
diamond and hide it under the lapel
of his coat? Who would learn all
about the ingredients of the things
sold in drug stores and keep the
knowledge secreted under a fairly
even part of brown hair? Not this
young clerk, to be sure. So the clerk
talked confidentially with his custom-
ers, while the proprietor said things

-under his breath and hoped he’d get
over it.

One day a dainty thing in a violet
suit and a picture hat that was a
wonder came to the clerk and asked
for rouge. Of course she blushed
as she mentioned the thing she want-
ed, possibly just to show the clerk
that the red stuff wasn’t for her pretty
cheeks. And, really, she didn’t need
it for that purpose, for the red blood
showed through the velvet surface of
her transparent skin like anything, and
the clerk was quite fascinated. He
stepped to the toilet case and took
out the article required.

“T was told to be sure and get the
genuine thing,” said Miss Beautiful,
with a fascinating pair of eyes fixed
upon the clerk’s face. “There are so
many imitations in the market, you
know, that—”

“Oh, this is the genuine thing,” in-
terrupted the clerk. “I really can’t
see why any one should imitate this
sort of thing.”

“Couldn’t it be made cheaper if they
udulterated it?” asked the girl. “I’m
just afraid to use it, anyway, because
there might be some harmful thing
it. You’re sure this is pure?”

“Absolutely,” said the clerk.

“Funny stuff, isn’t it?’ asked the
girl. “TI wonder what it’s made of?”

Right here is where she made a
mistake. The clerk had been aching
every minute since her appearance to
show her that he wasn’t any common
drug clerk, that he knew a thing or
two about science, and was long on
the_whenceness of things, even if he
did work for a stipend of $7 per. Here
was a chance to get into the lime
light, and he lost no time in do-
ing so.

“Tt is made of Venetian red and
iron pigment,” he said, loftily. “These
materials are cheap enough, but the
process of manufacture is expensive,
and that’s what makes ‘rouge so
costly.” :

The boss shook his fist at the
clerk, and acted as if he was getting
ready to throw something, but the
clerk was too busy with his burning
thoughts to notice what was going
on at the back end of the store.

“To be honest about it,” continued
the misguided clerk, “the materials
come mostly from the old tin things

,

 

which are thrown out into alleys and
picked up by peddlers.”

“It must be awfully nice to know
so much about everything,” giggled
the girl. The boss was wishing that
a fire would break out, or the soda
fountain would explode, just to pre-
vent his going forward and killing the
clerk.

“Tt’s all in the business,” continued
the clerk, joyfully, for the flower
showers which came his way were
not many and not of a character to
cherish fondly. “You see this rouge
is made of a by-product.’

“The idea!”

The girl didn’t know a by-product
from a rough weather signal, but she
wanted the clerk to think she did, ‘and
so they talked, all unconscious of the
danger signal which was flying in the
rear of the store.

“You wouldn’t think, to see a load
of old tin go rattling through the
streets, that this beautiful product
came from it,” continued the clerk.

“Why, I should think it would cut
the—the face, you know,” ventured
the girl.

The clerk smiled superiorly.

“Our tin things,” resumed the
young ‘man, “are not tin. They are
iron washed with tin.”

“Fawncy!” said the girl.

“And they put the old tin cans and
things into a pickle—”

-“Mercy! And is that where the
pickles get so—so—”

The boss was approaching.

“Oh, it’s not the kind of pickles
you're thinking of,’ blushed the
clerk, “not the kind you get at res-
taurants, you know, in a little long
dish, but a pickle made of acids and
water.”

“My, but it’s interesting!” faltered
the girl, beginning to back away.

“It’s a very interesting studiy,” re-
plied the youth. “The acids and wa-
ter leave the iron clean, you know,
but there is the sediment in the wa-
ter. Then there is a finely divided
iron rust floating in the water.”

The beautiful creature laid the
rouge down on the show case and
looked out into the street.

“The very idea!” she said.

The boss got within pinching dis-
tance, but just then the clerk side-
stepped, and the muscular motion
which would have relieved his arm
of about half a pound of flesh went
to waste.

“Then this water is evaporated,”
said the clerk, but the girl stopped
him. :

“Why, aren’t there microbes and
such wiggly things in alleys?” she
asked.

“Of course,” replied the
“but the process—”

“Won't they bite if you get them
on, your face?”

“Oh, but the process the Venetian
red and the iron pigment are put
through—”

“I’ve heard papa say that you just
can’t kill microbes,” said the _ girl.
“Do you suppose they could get out
of that box and bite through my
glove?”

“Oh, but there are no microbes
there,” hastily explained the clerk.

The boss was reaching down under
the counter for something -heavy

clerk,

enough to drive the clerk through the
floor into the basement, where he
could finish him with approved meth-
ods of torture.

“You said they got this rouge off
alley cans,” said the girl. “How do
I know that there isn’t one of those
alley microbes crawling on my new
hat this minute? I should think you’d
be ashamed to sell such things.”
“But this Venetian red,’ began the
clerk, “is—”

The girl pushed the rouge away and
moved toward the door.

“IT know I shall see them in my
sleep!” she wailed.

“Tf you'll just wait a minute,” be-
gan the clerk.

Miss Beautiful tilted her chin and
made for the door. There surely
was now no need of rouge on her
pretty face.

The boss stepped forward.

“T wouldn’t like to have you leave
the store thinking—”

The girl turned an angry face.
“Mercy!” she cried. “Have you
got a new line of the things they
get in alleys?”

“But that fool clerk—”

The fair creature botnced out of
the store and made for the corner.
The clerk saw the boss reaching
for him and made a run for the door.
The girl saw the clerk escaping
from the vengeance of the boss and
thought he was pursuing her.
When the clerk reached the side
of the big policeman who was. try-
ing to quiet the fears of the girl the
minion of the law dropped the girl
and took him by the neck.

“What does this mean?” demanded

 

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the clerk, who seemed to see all the
great facts of nature getting into a
muddle. “Take your hands off me!”
“Be aisy, now!” said the officer.
“He’s crazy,” said the girl, “and
he’s been putting things on me that
he caught on tin cans in the alley.”
“IT just tried to explain,” the clerk
started to say, but the boss came up
and said to the policeman:
“He's crazy. Take him in.
as a March hare!’
The policeman made a grab at the

ty pevaicy
druggist.

Crazy

“He's crazy, too,’ said the girl: “I
just know he’s got a handful of
something to throw at me.”

“Be aisy, now,” repeated the police-
man,

sut the druggist got back to his
store just about a foot ahead of the
officer and made _~ explanations
through a locked and bolted door.

The clerk came back for his coat
late that night. The girl never came
back at all, and all her friends think
the store the abode of lunatics. The
druggist now hasaclerk 75 years old,
who won't answer a civil question.

Alfred B. Tozer.
———_——_e-2a
How Trifles Sometimes Cost Appli-
cants Desired Positions.

“Tlow shall I find a job?”

There is no one question in all this
industrial and commercial age more
frequently uttered and more general-
ly hard to answer by the person who
reiterates it or by the one who is
expected to make the suggestion.

“What kind of a job?’ one may
ask, only to receive the still harder
implied question, “Oh, anything! I
need the money.” Or, at the other
extreme, the optimistic one in too
full confidence suggests that he is no
common type of salaried man—that
something approaching his real
worth, without having to work up to
it, would appeal to him at the mo-
ment.

In comparison it is almost nones-
sential to make the point that this is
an age of specialties, and of special
men of special training. It is between
these two types only that a lay sug-
gestion has a hope of carrying—be-
tween the man who wants anything
and the man who is seeking to put a
slipnoose around a star.

For the man anywhere seeking a
position at anything for which he is
competent it is lost sight of that in
an application for a position the
ereatest impediment to securing a
place is the personality of the appli-
cant. Men in the business world of
tong experience are disposed to over-
rate their ability to read character
and judge of the fitness of men. Long
ago the best cerebral diagnosis of the
most popular phrenologist became
discredited with the masses. Ask the
keenest of neurologists, alienists and
psychologists of to-day to look over
1 man and attempt a reading of his
character save on the broadest lines
above mediocrity, and a fee will not
tempt the expert to put himself upon
record. But the business man with-
out professional record at stake per-
sists in his character reading of his
applicants.

In most of these judgments of an
applicant the business man is the in-
strument of his own _ prejudices.

 

 

There are a few things in the man-
ner, speech and actions of his fel-
low men which he detests. For an
applicant to give expression to even
one of these shortcomings of the em-
ployer’s measure is for the applicant
to lose all hope. Manifestly it is im-
possible for the average applicant
to find a line on these petty preju-
dices in detail. Yet as manifestly
the proposition comes home to the
applicant that he, too, might profit
a little by character reading of his
prospective employer.

I think I have done my full indi-
vidual share in this world as an un-
licensed and unpaid labor agent. I
feel that the number of occasions on
which I have brought a worker to
a prospective employer, if reduced to
a total in figures, might sumprise even
myself. Yet how many times I have
brought this prospective employe to
an employer and seen and felt the ap-
plicant more surely shatter every
chance he might have had than if he
had made a week’s study of the means
of failure!

Types for all positions naturally are
conceded. Uncouthness of manner,
for example, would have little bear-
ing in the case of a sober, sturdy
man seeking the position of stoker
in a boiler house. But in many of
the most promising positions for men
in higher places the merest suggestion
of such a thing is ruinous to all pros-
pects.

T recall a case in which I accom-
panied a yoting man of considerable
ability and promise to the private
office of a friend, asking considera-
tion for the young man for a posi-
tion which I knew to be vacant. We
sat down in the office and the em-
ployer began to question the young
man. Doubtless the young fellow
was nervous—perhaps a little ill at
ease—but in the first three minutes
of the interview I saw every possible
chance that he might have had fade
into nothingness. In the beginning
the action was the crossing of one
ankle over his knee and the rubbing
of one corner of the mahogany desk
with the toe of his shoe; the last
straw was the thrusting of both feet
against the base of the employer’s,
revolving chair, one lee crossed over
the other as if applicant might have
been employer stretched at ease. Yet
in leaving that private office that
young man expressed disappointment
that my recommendations had prov-
ed: unsuccessful. ~

It would be too much to say that
there are not lines of work in the
world where such evidences of easy
sang froid might be regarded favor-
ably by a prospective employer. But
there are a thousand other lines where
the unmannerliness of such an ac-
tion might call for rebuke on the
part of the man giving audience to
the applicant.

There aré few places in the world
where the expression of innate good
breeding is misunderstood. For a
young man to receive good breeding
it is anticipated that he must have
courage and backbone. Without these
comstitutional requisites breeding be-
comes a cloak for shams, but with
them the two qualities are set off in
the most primitive company. The
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not be long in recognizing that breed-
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men.

Few young men appreciate how the
nervous temperament in busy men
makes them intolerant of the small
laxities of speech and manner. Pre-
pare for this condition, for it exists.
If you can command experience of
men, prepare to make use of the
knowledge. Remember that the pros-
pective employer is “sizing you up”
from the moment he fixes his eyes
upon you. Prepare to do a little
“sizing up” on your own account. If
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and under nervous strain, size ‘him
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ruffle or offend. Let him lead—you
will have done quite enough if you
can follow. R. N. Horace.

_—_-- o-oo
We Need More Such Men.

He has achieved success who has
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children; who has filled his niche and
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SUNNY SOUTHLAND.
Grand Rapids Man Enjoying Him-
self in Florida.

Written for the Tradesman.

Miami, Fla., March 2—Your sug-
gestion that I write a letter to the
Tradesman is, for me at least, a good
one and a happy solution of a prob-
lem. I am, thank God, blessed with
many friends and so many of them
put in requisitions for letters
that it was a serious question to me
how I was going to comply, as 1 am
too poor to carry with me a com-
petent stenographer—or any other
kind—and too lazy to write them all
myself, so you can readily see what
a godsend that suggestion of yours
was and the reason I avail myself of
its advantages. I am going to write
you the letter and let you distribute
it. Only those who wish to need
read, no compulsion about it, so no
harm done.

As you are aware I have contracted
the last two or three years the habit
of dodging our severe February and
March weather by a visit to the Sun-
ny South, where the birds are ever
singing, the flowers always blooming
and the hotel keepers ready and anx-
ious to relieve us of any financial
burdens we are carrying about us in
our pocketbooks.

Originally I came for my health,
but I think now that I am under some
obligations to my _ good friends,
Fowle, Udell and others in the fuel
business, who have slowly but surely
elevated the prices of that very nec-
essary article so far heavenward that
I am forced, from economical mo-
tives, to keep up the habit and they,
consequently, contribute to some ex-
tent towards expenses. I hereby ten-
der to them my thanks.

It’s a perfect morning, as it has
been every morning since our arriv-
al, the mercury standing at 72 deg..
and at noon it will be in order to
stick to the shady side of the street.
It is hard to realize that you people
up in Michigan are wading around in
the snow.

Now I will not’ weary you with
an extended account of our trip from
Grand Rapids to New York over the
Grand Trunk and Lehigh Valley Rail-
roads, although I might relate many
amusing incidents along the route.
Suffice it to say it was a very pleas-
ant ride. The route of the Lehigh
Valley is always very, very fine. I

will say this, however: The way to
come to Florida, if you have the time
—and those who come are, of course,
supposed to have all there is—is to
go to New York and sail from there
to Jacksonville via the Clyde Line.
The steamer was large enough—al-
though of course not a Cunarder—
was clean and comfortable, the ship’s
officers were pleasant and accom-
modating and the table was good.
We enjoyed the trip exceedingly.
Stopped about ten hours at Charles-
ton and had a good opportunity to see
that interesting old war town, with
its famous old forts, Sumpter and
Moultrie, its narrow old-fashioned
streets, its climbing honeysuckles and
wisteria vines, its old Saint Michael’s
church, where long, long ago wor-
shiped George Washington and Laf-
ayette.

As we waited before turning into
one of its narrow streets for a mule
cart to come out, old Captain Mac-
Gee, who was riding with us, remark-
ed: “Now if that mule would tip his
ear just a little the other way there
would be plenty of room.” The Cap-
tain is a “jolly old sea dog” and
related to me a story about a trip
he was making once. In the com-
pany was a good-natured priest, who
kept continually firing at passing
flocks of ducks, without ever hitting
one but succeeding splendidly in scar-
ing them away so that no one else
could. At_last one of the party, a
little out of patience, remarked,
“Well, if you don’t do better work
in your congregation than here you
won’t accomplish much good.” “Ah!”
replied His Riverence, “if I succeed
in scaring them half as bad I will
be contint.”

We reached Jacksonville at 10 a. m.
and, having made the acquaintance
of some very charming people on the
steamer who were going up the Saint
Johns River to Sanford, concluded
we would change our proposed all-
rail route to Miami and go up the
river with them. The Saint Johns
is a nobie river and the trip was
very enjoyable.

We sailed at 3 p. m. on the steam-
er Frederick De Barry, after a pleas-
ant call on our ‘old friend, Arthur
Meigs, and his family, whom we
found well and happy.

About the first thing we “ran up
against” on the boat was a merry
scrap between two darkies to settle

 

the important question of who should

 

own a certain colored girl. Such
questions often lead to serious differ-
ences of opinion, you know. They
were having a regular “monkey and
parrot” time of it when the Amazon-
ian stewardess suddenly appeared
on the scene and it rapidly changed.
She cuffed them right and left, using
her tongue meanwhile quite as lib-
erally as her hands, and soon _ set
them to thinking. She was a veri-
table Napoleon at quelling riots, al-
though she did not particularly re-
semble him in other ways. Explain-
ing the matter to me afterwards she
said: “Oh, dem ole fool niggahs!
Yo’ can’t do anyt’ing wid ’em, but
Ill Varn ’em, I'll l’arn ’em.” And she
certainly did—she was a whole col-
lege faculty in that line.

Everything then ran smoothly until
suppertime, and over that I would
fain draw a veil. But someone has
said that the best thing one can do
who has made a mistake is to warn
others so that they will not fall into
the same error, so I will say to any
one and every one contemplating this
trip: “Provide yourself with lunches
in Jacksonville before sailing.” The
table on the Clyde Line of ocean
steamers is good, and I am sorry
I can not say as much for their river
steamers, but they haven’t given it
much attention, I fear, and it
simply “the limit;” I smell ’em yet.
Why, one of those meals would make
a mummy seasick in the middle of
the Sahara. We profited, however,
by our experience at suppertime and
for breakfast took ours in “original
packages” only, such as oranges, ba-
nanas, crackers, eggs boiled in the
shell, etc. and examined carefully
to see that “signatures on each were
genuine” and “seals unbroken.” I
suggested to the waiter that it would
be economy in dishes to have the
milk and cream served in the same
pitcher, with two spouts labeled re-
spectively “Cream” and “Milk;” but
the joke was lost on him. He sol-
emnly replied, “Yes, sah,” and I felt
guilty.

is

The night ride is through the rive:
in its widest parts, stretching out oft-
en into lakes, but in the morning
you reach the narrow river, where
it is very pretty and interesting. The
banks are lined with palms and va-
rious colored vegetation of all kinds,
contrasting beautifully and forming
a magnificent view. They say the
river is full of alligators, but I didn’t

 

see any. Small loss, as I don’t han-
ker after either ’gators or turtles. Oc-
casionally you see dreary little habi-
tations with two or three Florida
crackers sitting outside sunning them-
selves, apparently well content. To
me hell would have at least this one
advantage, company.

We reached Sanford at io a. m, a
rather nice little town claiming
2,000 inhabitants, but I think they
must include the fish in Lake Mon-
roe, on which it is situated. We had
to put in the time until 11:35 in
some way. Our very pleasant coni-
panions, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mor-
gan, of Brooklyn, left us here,

so
we seated ourselves on the hotel
porch, after a-walk. of inspection

around the town, and rested. An at-
tache of the hotel asked us if we in-
tended leaving on the 11:35 train and
we replied, “Yes.” “Well,” said he,
very politely, “it is twenty minutes
late.” We thanked him and set our
minds at ease and about five minutes
before train time (11:35) sauntered

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leisurely down to the depot—just in
time to see the train pulling out.
Well, your Uncle and Aunty made

some rapid moves for about thirty

seconds. They would have made in-

teresting moving picture subjects for
our friends—and our minds were ex-
ercising themselves pretty lively, too,
I guess. I know I would like to have
seen that young man for about a
minute before we left; but it’s prob-
ably just as well I didn’t. We got
aboard all right and he did not ac-
complish his “hellish design,” which
was simply to “hang us up” at his
tavern for a day. The train, we
learned, was made up there; it was, in
fact, the end of the stub line and, of
course, was never late. I wonder
how many poor unfortunates he suc-
ceeded better with. I am remember-
ing him in my prayers.

We reached the main line of the
F. E. C. R. R. on time, but the fast
train for Miami had passed half an
hour before. Did you ever realize
how dead sure a train is to be on
time when you are not? And did you
ever see anything quite so slow as a
baggage man about traintime—ever
note how deliberately he does things?

We concluded to wait for the fast
train next day, so registered at the
“Indian River House.” It is a melan-
choly ruin, a “has been,” and _ all
around are ‘signs of its departed
glory, what had once been beautiful

_ grounds—roses, oleanders, palms and

shaded. walks—now ‘grown up. to
weeds. Probably not one-third of
the building is now in use and _ it
looked lonesome and made us feel
homesick. On entering, however,
one thing we found retained all its
youthful vigor and voice: the office
bell. It was not surpassed by either
that of the Ponce de Leon or Royal
Poinciana, and the proprietor seemed
to have an idea that it made amends
for all deficiences and evidently took
immense satisfaction in pounding it
vigorously and then flying around in
front of the desk and answering it in

person. He was a very condensed

individual, embodying in himself pro- |

prietor, book-keeper, cashier, chief
clerk, night clerk, porter and bell
boy; but he was pleasant, accommo-
dating and entertaining. Another very
important .feature in this temple of
hospitality had evidently been re-
tained and that was the cook. The
meals were good and even the table
linen and china might not compare

 

unfavorably with The Morton. But
the beds! Oh, the beds! Well, they
were clean, so much can be truth-
fully said; but they were anything
but downy couches, in fact seemed to
be made of putty or some similar
material, and the forms of those who
had rested(?) in them from time to
time had formed a sort of composite
mould that fit nobody and in which
it aws impossible to turn over. Be-
sides, the putty had gradually hard-
ened, as putty will, you know, in time,
and as I lay there I mentally likened
myself to a kind of bas-relief, as it
were, and imagined what a_ hand-
some figure I would make in a nice
black frame. However, we would
have slept fairly well had it not been
for the cussed Southern roosters,
which don’t seem to know night from
day and crow all night long. Now,
why they do this I can not imagine.
I noticed, though, that the hens all
stuffed their ears with cotton on re-
tiring; and I have developed a fear-
ful appetite for roosters.

I like ’em fried and I like ’em broiled
and I like ’em baked with rice;
In fact, cooked roosters in any style

are particularly nice.

You know what a reputation the
colored man has for an appetite for
chickens. Well, for me the mystery
is solved, I don’t blame him. As I
lay there in misery the following
suggested itself to me and I proceed-
ed to put it on paper in the morn-
ing:

And the rooster, never slowing,

Still is crowing, still is crowing,

Crowing louder, louder, louder than
he ever did before!

And his crowing has the meaning

Of a demon mad and screaming,

And the moonlight o’er him stream-
ing

Shows him bigger than before.

Will he ever stop that crowing?
Quoth the rooster, “Nevermore!”
(With apologies to Ed. Poe.)

And later on came this:

Nobody sleeps ’cause the roosters

They don’t sleep at all,

But crow all night till broad day-
light

As loud as they can bawl.

Nobody cries but the roosters

When they go into the pot;

Nobody sighs when the chicken pies

Come on to the table hot!

much in

 

We left this town at 12:56 p. m.
and after a 7-hour ride of some two
hundred miles farther south on the
railroad of Uncle Henry Flagler, as
he is familiarly known, reached Mi-
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~ How Will Square Toes Take?

This question is being debated by
last manufacturers, shoe manufactur-
ers and retailers of footwear. The
square toed, short vamp effects are
being brought forward in shoes for
the fall and winter of t907, and their
popularity is a question of no little
interest to all concerned. A good
number of shoe manufacturers feel

that the public will welcome a change-

from the pointed toe, which has had
a long run, to a square toe last.
Again, on the other hand, there are
makers of high grade footwear who
ridicule such change as going “from
the sublime to the ridiculous,” and

look upon their bringing them for- |

ward as a hopeless case. While the
controversy is going on, there is
favor of the square toed
First, there is a marked sav-
the cost of cutting leather,
which is decidedly profitable to the
manufacturer, because the last is a
full size smaller than lasts mow in
vogue, and means a saving in both
sole and wpper stock. The square
toe last suggests cutting off the toes

shoe.
ing in

of the pointed toe lasts now in use.

To do this means trouble, because
doctoring up lasts in this manmer
means ill-fitting lasts, inasmuch as
the last would be too full across the
ball of the foot and let the foot go
forward in the shoe instead of hold-
ing it back in the manner’ which
properly -special-made, square toed
lasts would do. Cut-off lasts would
kill the new styles, as it would be
impossible to get perfect fitters. Ill-
fitting shoes relegate shoes to the
P. M. pile quicker than anything
else. The public is anxious to get
“something new in footwear style,”
and there’ need not be any fear in
bringing out the square toed shoe
provided they are made on the prop-
er lasts with correct patterns, as
every shoeman knows that the short-
er shoe is best adapted for easy
walking and thas a snappier, more
stylish effect. They will become
popular, too. Let them come.—Shoe
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LITTLE MISTAKES.

 

They Are Serious Handicaps To an

Established Business.

Errors of routine long have been
regarded as the most serious handi-
caps of established business. In the
first place the error of routine al-
ways appears a needless error. It is
hard to explain satisfactorily.

“What is the matter with your or-

ganization?” is the inevitable counter
question when a customer making en-
quiry of methods is told just how the
error came about.

In the business of this house most
of the complaints come from out of
town, either by telegraph or mail. In
the system devised for discovering
“What is the matter with our organ-
ization?” a mail clerk and corps of
assistants are established whose duty
it is to open all office mail not di-
rected personally to officials and
heads of departments. A clock dat-
ing machine marks the day, hour and
minute of the receipt of a letter.

Mail matter in the ordinary routine
of business is passed on up to the
proper place in the proper  depart-
ment. All mail matter complaining
of errors in any department of the
business is passed on to the complaint
clerk of the house, whose duty it is
to start the first move for fixing the
responsibility for the mistake that is
complained of. Acting in conjunc-
tion with the complaint clerk is an
organized body made up of represen-
tatives of several departments of the
house. Wherever a complaint seems
to be of sufficient weight to prompt
investigation and the necessity of
placing the personal responsibility,
this board is required to investigate
the circumstances and return a find-
ing. Unless the general manager
shall find reason to intercede, the
finding of this body is final and with-
out appeal.

If the error be a minor one, not
likely to recur in the course of busi-
ness, a notification of the error to
the proper department head forright-
ing is sufficient to dismiss the inci-
dent at his discretion.

In the comparatively short life of
this system in this one house the ab-
surdity of certain types of errors al-
ready has been made manifest in
a striking way. One of these errors
in good business method may be de-
scribed in point:

One of the house’s customers at a
distance sent in an order for goods
from a small Western city, inclosing
his personal check for $7, referring
to the check by number and amount
in the letter which inclosed the com-
mercial paper. But through an over-
sight on the part of the customer the
stenographic letter enveloping the
check was not signed. Several weeks
after the receipt of the first letter in-
closing the check, and after the
formation of the complaint bureau,
this new department of complaints
received a letter of enquiry from the
customer asking reasons for the de-
lay in shipping. As the date of the
first letter antedated the complaint
bureau itself there was additional in-
terest in running the matter down.

It was found that this unsigned
letter which named the bank on

 
  

drawn, the check number, and_ the
check, total, had been’ “held up” in
the order department awaiting this
second letter of protest in order that
the name of the man might be dis-
covered. In this process of retention
this order had passed through the
hands of six persons in the depart-
ment and had been held by each of
them on account of the absence of
the customer’s name from the order
letter, although it had been signed
properly to the check! And to a de-
scribed $7 check from a town of 1I0,-
000 population in Kansas!

In tracing this order through the
many hands in the house it was dis-
covered that when the letter was
opened the mail clerk had passed the
check to the cashier and the order
letter to the shipping clerk. When
the shipping clerk was asked to ex-
plain he showed that the check had
not been seen at all in his depart-
ment; that, therefore, his department
was not responsible.

“But the name of the town, the
name of the bank, the number of the
check and its amount were all recited
in the order letter,” contended the in-
quisition board.

“But the check was gone—gone
long~ before,” was the reply. “What
chance had we to discover the name,
which hadn’t been signed to the let-
ter?” :

Yet scarcely one door away from
the office of this house was the bank
with which the house did business,
and a messenger sent to the bank
with the memoranda that was in this
order letter could have had the name
of the careless correspondent in fif-

 

teen minutes! Instead the order had
been held up three weeks for the lack
of that one easily found necessity!

At least this plan for tracing mis-
takes of detail is promising the house
an immunity from the small person-
al and départmental frictions of a
great business that so inevitably fol-
low a complaint serious enough to
involve two or more departments,
each of which may be seeking to es-
cape responsibility.

In such a case where two or more
departments may have been involved
and where no one of them has final
jurisdiction, the controversy—for lack
of some final authority to settle the
case--may become such as to disor-
ganize an otherwise admirable esprit
de corps. The general manager may
not think it important enough to call
up for a hearing to the end, he may
not have the time for the investiga-
tion. Self-interest, or often an inabil-
ity of the one in error to recognize
his responsibility, may prompt all
possible parties to an attitude of self-
defense against all charges. All of
which leaves the too busy manager
himself in doubt of the proper place
in which to ask for greater concentra-
tion and attention to detail.

In these days of the philosophy of
“get the business,” it has been too
easy for the business man to over-
look the necessity of delivering the
goods. A salesman who might sell
a thousand orders a day for 300 days
in the year would have to go out of
service in a week if his house could
deliver only 500 orders a day.

In the smooth running organization
of a great business lies its greatest

 

strength. No salesman can repre-
sent in whole hearted manner a busj-
ness house whose methods are such
as to make prompt delivery of his
sales an uncertainty. There is some-
thing wrong in a business organiza-
tion where customers’ complaints are
looked to as one of the inevitable,
never-failing concomitants of that
business. Merely to correct errors
when a customer has pressed the er-
ror home to the house and taking
no means to discover the cause of the
error and prevent it in the future is
not consistent with good business
methods. Neither manager nor cus-
tomer can find assurance for the fu-
ture in the circumstance.

Mistakes of routine probably never
will become impossible anywhere. At
the same time the mistake of routine
may be among the most serious that
happen to any business. The sug-
gestion of needlessness in the error
almost always is present, and doubly

so to the customer who has been
the victim of it.
In this manner a system in any

business which will show where mis-
takes are made and which will go
further, investigating why they are
made and everywhere planning to
make a similar mistake again impos-
sible, is a system which ought to ap-
pear worth while. Irwin Ellis.
—_--2
Is it strange that the heart is
starved when we give it neither food
nor mealtimes? :
I
You do not have much faith in your
Father unless you have some in his
family.

 

 

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Pertinent Hints To the Butcher.

One of the most important things
for the retail butcher to keep in mind
is attentiveness to customers, both by
himself and his. clerks. The Amer-
ican people are high strung, and con-
sider themselves of great importance,
and this is especially true when they
get a little money to spend. It is
human nature to like to be treated
courteously, and aside from business
reasons it is the duty of every man
to treat his fellow manina courteous
manner. Every man and every wom-
an looks for it and resents every form
of discourtesy. But when a man
starts a butcher market he is depen-
dent upon the people for his success,
and although he may be tired, and
although he may be in a bad humor
as the result of business annoy-
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form of annoyance. A smile begets
a smile and a beaming countenance
drives away impatience. There will
be times in every market when some
of the customers will have to await
their turn, but it is practically invit-
ing your customers to seek a new
market to allow them to stand around
unnoticed while half a dozen custom-
ers are waited upon, and: then to say
in a gruff, hurried voice, “Well, what
can I do for you?” Such treatment
tells your customer that you do not
care a continental for him, all you
want is the money he will leave with
you, and that you do not care how
much you inconvenience him so long
as you get the money. When the
prospective customer crosses your
threshold you should immediately
greet him pleasantly. Give him to
understand that you are SOrry 0
keep him waiting and that you will
giadly serve him as soon as possible.
Don’t forget that the littie girl or the
little boy who comes to your mar-
ket has influence at home and that a
cheery salutation with a genuine ring
to it will make the little girl and
boy your business ally in his house-
hold. One of the great assets of a
butcher and one of the most valuable
qualities of a clerk is to be able to

keep waiting customers in a good
humor. But you can not do that
by ignoring those in waiting. You

can not keep them from leaving your
store by ignoring them.

Another mistake that many butch-
ers make is to smile most defferen-
tially upon the rich and influential
customer in the presence of a num-
ber of other customers, and then to
vent their spleen wpon the half doz-
en or more customers who hav no-
ticed the former affability. Did it ever
occur to you that the poor man eats
just as much and perhaps more than
the rich man? He may not buy the
choicest cuts and may not leave quite
so much money with you, but you
well know that if every one purchas-
ed only the choicest meats you would
lose all the medium and cheaper
grades of meats. Further, the poor
are vastly in the majority, and with-
out them your business would be
ruined. Then, too, the poor man or
woman appreciates courtesy much
more than the rich, for they get it
everywhere and think nothing of it.
They often resent assumed courtesy,

 

for they are able to detect it quite
readily. No American likes one who
makes himself a slave in manner.
Make your courtesy natural, but make
it the same for all. Don’t stoop to
silly flattery, but flatter people by a
genuine desire to serve them well
and by courteous attention. Abject,
senseless flattery is not only resent-
ed, but breeds distrust. The cus-
tomer is likely to weigh his purchas-
es when he arrives at home if the
proprietor or the clerk has put onthe
coat of flattery too thick.

Perhaps it will be thought that a
word of caution with regard to the
Over-representation of goods is en-
tirely superfluous and ungracious. I
wish this were the case, but I fear
that the observation is not at all out
of order. Very often the zeal and am-
bition of the clerk carries him farther
in this direction than his employer

would wish him to go. Again, there’

are those in the business who al-
low their desire for gain to impart an
elastic quality to their. consciences,
and who lose sight of the fact that
nothing can be more fatal to their
final success than misrepresentation,
no matter how mild.

As a sheer matter of policy, it is
far better for the butcher to under-
state than to overstate the merits of
his goods. When a butcher gains a
reputation in his community for nev-
er misrepresenting his goods he is
on the high road to success. He will
command the trade of his neighbors
and he will hold it against obstacles.

In selecting his clerks every butch-
er should give careful consideration
to securing those that have _ tact,
pleasing manners and all that is in-
cluded in the term “a good personal
address.” At the same time it will
be well for him to remember that a
clerk may have all of these qualities
and still be a comparative failure.
FHiere is a clerk, for example, who
outclasses all his fellow-workers in
personal popularity with customers.
His graces of manner attract the pa-
trons of the store to him to a degree
marks him as an exceptional
In spite of this, the totals
from week to week fall
below several of his co-laborers at
the counter. He puts in as many
hours as they do and works as dili-
gently as they. Here, on the face of
things, is a clear contradiction which
is decidedly puzzling to the butcher.
What is the difficulty? The answer is
plain to the thinking business man.
The clerk just described lacks that
decision of character that is neces-
sary to the successful salesman. He
can not decide what the customer
wants and he talks about what the
customer does not want until much
time is taken up, and the customer
buys a piece of meat that is not cared
for and goes away half or wholly
dissatisfied, and then gets the im-
pression that the meats in that mar-
ket are of an inferior quality.

which
favorite.
of his sales

Before leaving the subject of what
the storekeeper should consider in the
selection of his help, let me say
that, as a general thing, the employ-
ment of relatives is to be avoided.
The man who selects his assistants
because they are relatives is not at
liberty to make the selections onthe
broader line of their real qualifica-

 

tions for the work in hand. Further,
the relatives of a man consider them-
selves above other employes, and
think they are as good as the cus-
tomers, and are in many cases apt
to show their importance by irrita-
bility whenever they are out of sorts
as the result of ordinary business
annoyances.
—_+-.____

merchant moved from

a one

store to another every month he

never could succeed. A_ prosperous
store keeps one location. Your ad-
vertising in your newspaper should
occupy a certain place on a certain
page regularly. It can be found there
at all times. It costs more for 2
certain place? You willingly pay more
rent than your competitor on a side
street, don’t you?

 

 

 

 

 

  

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GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES.

The Attitude That Should Be Main-

tained Towards Them.
Written for the Tradesman.

“Well, forevermore! Wasn’t that
chap a smooth talker; though?” en-
quired Jason Bartram of the village
merchant, who had just said good-
bye to the alert, well-dressed young-
ster who, with his grips hanging
heavily at either side, was hurrying
toward the station to make the 4:40
train.

“Yes, he’s a fine fellow. Sorry I
couldn’t give him an order,” replied
the merchant, who in a half abstract-
ed manner busied himself straighten-
ing up the few piles of clothing on
the table extending through the cen-
ter of the store.

“Beats all,” resumed Jason as he
changed legs so that his right hip,
which had been leaning against the
counter, might have the rest it so
much needed, “how them _ traveling
men kin talk. They jes’ seem to
know exactly the word to use every
time and whether they sell or not
they’re always as polite an’ nice as a
basket of chips.”

“That’s why they keep their jobs,”
replied the merchant. “Now, there’s
that young man. I don’t know a
thing about him more’n I knew five
years ago, when he first began mak-
ing this town once a month. I know
he’s the representative of a big house
in the city, that he’s always in a hur-
ry, but not so much so that he’s nerv-
ous, that he is forever in good humor,
is a good story teller, tells good clean
stories and knows every time he calls
just about what I need in his line.
More’n that he’s square. If he hap-
pens to have a pointer on spring
prices or prices any other time dur-
ing the year he never fails to tell me
and he never grumbles if 1 seem to
overlook his opinion on the matter
and buy or don’t buy, as I feel
like it.”

“An’ he looks as though he lived
mighty well without sloppin’ over,”
ventured Jason. “I s’pose he has an
easy time though an’ gits good wages,
an’ that’s more’n half.”

“T’ve never smelled liquor or to-
bacco on him,” answered the mer-
chant, “so I guess he’s temperate all
right.”

“Smellin’ don’t tell everything,” re-
sponded Jason, “with these new fan-
gled things to take the breath away
after havin’ had a drink.”

“Mebbe so,” said the merchant,
“but a man can’t drink steady like
and cover the ground that young man
covers. You said he prob’ly has an
easy time. He doesn’t. He makes
three an’ sometimes four towns every
day. He practically lives on the
cars.”

“Forevermore!” ejaculated Jason.

“He figures that it is just so much
gained whenever he can sleep and
eat on the cars. Time is what counts
with him. He’s just got to see about
so many customers each day and that
is all there is to it.”

“How much do you s’pose he gits?”
asked Jason as he walked back to-
ward the stove with the merchant.

“IT dunno. Maybe a hundred dol-
lars a month and a certain amount
allowed each day for expenses.”

’

SE SE i Si

 

“Go on! A hundred a month an’
expenses?” responded Jason.

“Some get more an’ some less,”
continued the merchant; “but I would
not want to tackle the job at any
price.”

“Prob’ly ‘cause that ain’t jes’ es-
actly your lay,” came Jason’s opin-
ion. ae

“No, that ain’t it,’ was the reply.
“I can sell goods all right and I know
how to meet folks; but I like my own
comfort too well. I’m no gadabout
and never was. It’s an awful job for
me to go anywhere and then, too, I’m
very fond of my home. Why, if I
couldn’t go home for meals three
times a day I think I should just
about go crazy in a week or so. Now,
that young man just in here has a
wife and two children, mighty pretty
children, and a fine woman, too, and
his home—he invited me to his house
for dinner once when I was in the
city—is a beauty, just as swell as
you'll see most anywhere. And yet
he’s away from that wife and those
children a week at a time usually and
sometimes two or three weeks. I
just couldn’t stand that sort of thing.”
And the merchant stepped forward
quickly to meet a customer who had
just entered the store.

“A hundred dollars a month an’
expenses,” mused Jason Bartram as
he stooped and picked up a lump of
coal that had fallen from the scut-
tle. “An’ away from such a wife, such
children and such a home fer a week
or more at a time. Of course, it’s
good wages, but—my! wasn’t he a
good talker though! Them words of
his jes’ seemed to flow out his mouth
like hog grease from a skillet.”

“Say, Jason, step here, will you?”
came from the front end of the store,
and when he joined the merchant he
introduced: him to ‘Mrs. Watson,
mother of John Watson, the young
man who clerked for me and went to
the city three years ago to take a
position in that wholesale store. Re-
member?”

“*"Member him, should say I did.
He worked for me on my farm one
winter, "fore he worked for you, did-
n't he, Mrs. Watson?”

The widow allowed the correctness
of the statement and then, at the re-
quest of the merchant, related how
she had just received a letter from
her son that he had been promoted
to the position of salesman and that
the territory assigned to him covered
a good portion of each one of three
states.

“And Mrs. Watson came in,” said
the merchant, “to ask my opinion
about it. She wants to know if I
think John has acted wisely in ac-
cepting the position. What do you
think, Jason?”

“Le’s see,” pondered Jason as he
rubbed his bald spot, “John’s ’bout 25
years old, ain’t he?”

“Twenty-four,” said the mother.

“Married?”

“Goodness, no; no thoughts of it.”

“Well, under them conditions I
think it’s all right, provided he gets
good wages.”

“And so do I,” said the merchant.
“Not because of the wages so much
as because it shows that John is a
comer. He’s made good in the city
and by the time he gets too old to

>

 

travel he will be so well fixed as to
position and income that he will not
be required to travel.”
“Forevermore,’ responded Jason
reverently. David Washburn.

How Pearls Are Made in Oysters.
Parasites act in the making of
pearls. In the Ceylon pearl oyster
the formation of péarls is due to cer-
tain larvae which undergo a portion
of their development in the tissue,
gills and mouth of the pearl oyster.
Of these larvae, such as for some
unexplained reason do not succeed
in carrying out their life cycle  be-
come immured in the center of a
pearl. Economically, these unpleas-
ant little creatures are of supreme
importance to the Ceylon pearl fish-
ery, as their presence in the oyster
causes the formation of the finest
quality of pearls and those of the
highest luster. In 1859 Kelaart call-
ed attention to the possibility of in-
fecting other beds with the larvae
of pearl producing parasites in or-
der to increase the quantity of pearls.
Beds of Ceylon pearls thus might
be grown in other parts of the world.
Kelaart says that the nucleus of an
American pearl is of nearly the same
form as that found in the pearl oys-
ters of Ceylon.
——~---———___
A hard and fast theology often
leaves many hazy lines in morality.
—_+ +.
If your faith possesses your heart
it will propel your feet.
—_——-co-oon
Days are sacred in proportion as
they serve high ends.

 

 

 

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Louis Consolidated Salvage Company is
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Why Lou Changed His Place.

The rolling stone may not gather
moss, still it receives a polish that
enhances its value.

There was Lou. He was not the
rolling stone; in fact, he was anchored
to the earth.

Born and raised in a small town,
he learned the machinist trade in the
one shop in the town, and was de-
prived of even a common school ed-
ucation, being compelled at an early
age to help support a widowed
mother.

Lou was a plodder, steady as a
cart hotse. He loved work for its
own sake. Wages? Why, he received
the limit—that is, he did until he was
married, and then the company kind-
ly reduced them. But a little thing
like that never feazed Lou. He was
in for a steady job and that is what
was promised him.

He devoted his evenings to his
books, for fortunately he was left a
library by an elder brother, and be-
came: well posted on current topics,
and he studied mechanics persever-
ingly, until he became an authority
on the subject. He was ambitious
and possessed initiative—that is, he
did at one time, but the foreman came
near destroying this ambition.

While serving his apprenticeship he
constantly was improving the various
devices used about the shop. Given
six large crank plates to turn up and
face off, he decided that it was fool-
ishness to stand there at the lathe all
day and work a handle by hand, so
he “rigged” up an automatic cross
feed, which worked beautifully, and
Lou sat down with a grin on his face
and watched the machine do the
work.

When he had about finished the
job and was turning up the last one
the foreman came over to him and
said: “Lou, what do you call that?”
With commendable pride and visions
of a raise in his wages, he replied:
“Mac, that is my patent automatic
cross feed.” Looking at it for fully
two minutes in silence Mac finally
said: “Take the d—n thing out and
throw it in the canal!”

At another time, given a difficult
and intricate piece of work that re-
quired much thought and many costly
experiments, Lou finally perfected it
and showed it to the foreman, who in
turn took it to the superintendent,
who was delighted with it, and said
he wanted the President to see it. In
the meantime Lou was “on edge.”

“Gee,” said he, “if they offer me a
quarter more a day I won't take it.
Nothing goes here but a half dollar.”

The President came out of his office
and looked the sample over, saying:
“That’s fine; that’s all right.. That’s
just the way I always wanted to have
it made.”

After that Lou made no more im-
provements—not in that shop. _

Still, he hung on to the job and
saved money—yes, actually saved
money—at $2 a day, for another pet
hobby of his was that no matter how
small a man’s wages were, he should
save something. Aided by a faithful
and economical wife he managed to
lay by enough to purchase three
houses, thus adding to his income.
He became a fixture in the town, was
elected councilman, also director in

 

the Savings Bank. But on an evil
day the Treasurer of the Savings
Bank absconded with all of the funds,
and the directors were sued to make
good the loss. This left Lou almost
penniless.

“IT am ‘down and out,’.” said he. “I
will ‘become a rolling stone. I am
paying too much of a premium for
staying in this town, anyway.” And
he got up and got out.

That was four years ago. To-day
Lou sits in the superintendent’s chair
of one of the largest manufacturing
concerns in the State, in full and
complete control, with every one at
his beck and call. His talents are
recognized and appreciated. Taken
from the depressing environments of
a “one horse” town he has a fair
field and full sway.

A letter form him the other day
stated that he had a better position,
was making more money, atid was
better satisfied than at any time dur-
ing his life. His only regret was that
he had not become a rolling stone
twenty years sooner.

He also said that he was ready at
any time to roll again if he could roll
uphill—always uphill.

J. W. Younger.
4.6
France a Prosperous Nation.

Parisian prosperity is miraculous.
Notwithstanding limited natural re-
sources in respect to coal, iron and
other metals, with not a pound of
cotton or petroleum produced within
her borders, with a stationary popu-
lation and heavy burden of public
debt and national defense, France is
one of the most prosperous of na-
tions. Paris, gorged with money, has
become the banker of continental Eu-
rope. The underlying sources of this
prosperity are summed up in a sen-
tence: A genial climate, a soil nat-
urally fertile, and kept to the highest
point of production by intelligent in-
tensive cultivation; industry and fru-
gality of. living on the part of the
working classes; and, above all, the
instinct of artistic taste, fostered and
developed by education and govern-
mental influence until it has become
a national attribute. France indus-
triously is prosperous because’ she
commands the rarest and surest of
assets—-the esthetic taste which cre-
ates models and standards for other
peoples, and the consummate handi-
craft which multiplies in the product
ten, twenty, or a hundred times the
value of the material of which it is
composed. It is this which enables
French ateliers and workshops to
turn out the choice products whica
defy the tariff walls of other na-
tions and make Paris the Mecca not
only of cultivated amateurs but of
the merchants from foreign countries
who deal in the choicest and most
valuable forms of merchandise.

_—o.-— oa
Didn’t Work.

“T wonder why it is,” remarked one
of the two men who had just lunch-
ed, turning to speak to the other,
“that they always have pretty cash-
iers at these restaurants.”

But the pretty cashier, although she
blushed and smiled, did not fail to
detect the Canadian quarter he threw
down in payment of his check,

 

 

 

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WINNER.

 

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The Oyster and Some Other Things

An oyster is the most conservative thing in creation. He hooks him-
self onto a rock in a certain place, opens his shell and waits for what comes
his way. Sometimes it’s alittle food, sometimes some unproductive drift-
wood, but oftener a competitor in the struggle for existence, better equip-
ped than he, comes along and gobbles him up. Only one oyster in many
thousands lives to reach maturity.

There’s a business moral in there, somewhere. Let’s see if we can
find it.

More grocers than you'd think attempt to conduct business in the same
way. They havea stock of goods and a store, and- then wait. A little
neighborhood trade comes to them, a little of the unproductive poor-pay
element, but that’s all. The man down street who is equipped to give his
customers the best food in an up-to-date way gobbles most of the business

and sometimes gobbles them as well.
Take sliced meats, for in-

stance. That is—or ought to
be—one of the most profitable
lines. Suppose you were able
to give better-looking, better-
cooking, better-tasting ham
and bacon and dried beef and
sausage, and more slices for the
same money. Don’t you know
that people would come to your
store and buy, and buy other
things as well? Of course they
would.

 

 

 

 

 

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Difference Between Old Ideals and
New Realities.

Among the most valued of my
friends is a charming and accomplish-
ed gentleman, whose sole grievance
against life is that fate deprived him
of the precious privilege of marrying
his grandmother. Not literally, of
course. That worthy dame has been
in her grave these many years, and
there are obstacles of time and place
even if there were no legal objection
to the match, but my friend still cher-
ishes the fond belief that woman‘s
progress has been backward and that
the modern woman is but a poor
and miserable representative of the
female angels who once inhabited
the earth.

“I tell you,” he is wont to say,
when he mounts his hobby, “that the
so-called woman question is one of
' the curses of the day. The mania
women have now for deserting com-
fortable homes and rushing into the
cities in search of careers, and to go
into business, and—”

“How many women,” I interrupt,
“have you known, personally, who
had a good home, but left it for the
delirious excitement of pounding a
typewriter all day in a back office or
the hilarious fun of standing behind
a counter for ten hours on a stretch?
Did you ever know any woman who
worked who did not have to?”

“And who thereby,” he goes on.
airily waving my question aside with-
out answering it, “throw away wom-
an’s most potent weapon—her cling-
ing dependence on man.”

“You can not cling, no matter how
adhesive you are, if you have not
something to cling to,’ I interpose,
but he does not notice me.

“It is one of the most lamentable
mistakes of modern civilization,” he
continues. “Just think of the modern
woman, self-sufficient, independent,
crowding man at every turn in the
business and professional world, and
compare her with our grandmothers,
gentle, timid, shrinking women, whose
whole horizons were bounded by their
homes, and who were content to be
merely the graceful vine that wreath-
ed itself about the sturdy oak.”

“Well,” I say, “a vine is not pre-
cisely my ideal of what is noblest
and best in life. I like something
with a little more backbone to it. Be-
sides, I have seen more than one oak
choked to death by the vine that
clung about it until it smothered it
and pulled it down. And I have seen
many a poor vine bereft of its sup-
port, and with no strength of its own,
lie flat upon the ground to be tram-
pled under foot by the hurrying
world.”

“Ah,” says the man, ignoring my
remarks, “that was the type of woman
men admired, and women have made
the mistake of their lives in getting
away from it.”

“We have gotten away from _ it,

thank heaven,” TI reply fervently,
“and what is more significant still is

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

that men have gotten away from it,
too. You may rail all you please at
the modern woman, but you would
not stand for the old woman with
her faints and her helplessness and
her ignorance one minute now. If
your grandmother should come back
she would bore you to death. You
can not any more go back to the vine
type of woman than you can go back
tc stage coaches and tallow dips, aft-
er you get used to automobiles and
electric lights. The modern woman
is simply a modern convenience and a
labor-saving device we can not get
along without.”

The beauty about an argument is
that nobody is ever convinced, and
you can always start fresh every time
and go over the same ground again.
The man and I have threshed this
subject out dozens of times, I al-
ways contending that a woman has
just exactly as good a right to make
money and enjoy the pleasures and
perquisites of life as a man, and he
holding that her only aim in life
should be to cling to some man.
Neither one of us ever change our
opinion a particle, but the other day
the argument had a rather curious
ending.

It chanced that both of us were
invited to a studio tea where a lot of
the newest new women had gather-
ed. One was a popular actress, an-
other was an expert buyer for a big
department store, another was an ar-
tist whose pictures sold, another was
a physician with a paying practice,
while still another was a successful
newspaper woman. All were low-
voiced, gentle-mannered, refined, cul-
tured and beautifully gowned. The
man enjoyed himself. He is bright
and witty, and I could see his face
flush as his bon mots were caught
up and his funny stories made their
appeal at every subtile turn to the
clever audience that was listening to
him and applauding him.

We left the house together and I
said, “I felt awfully sorry for you.
The new woman is so emphatically
your bete noire that it was rather rub-
bing things in to invite you to such
a gathering. There was not a woman
there who did not contradict your
grandmother theory at every point.
The actress ought to have continued
io eat the bread of dependence of her
ungracious relatives .She did not. She
defied the kinsfolk who thought she
ought to be willing to wear their
cast-off clothes and darn the chil-
dren’s stockings and do most of the
housework for her board and clothes.
She owns an apartment house of her
own now. The business woman was
left a widow without a dollar and a
crippled child to support. She has
made things lively for a good many
men who wanted the fat job she is
holding down. The artist kept the
wolf from the door while her husband
was writing a book. If the newspa-
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“Every one of these women,” I

continued, “started without a cent.
She has made a good living for her-
self. She has helped others. Best

of all she has not been a burden on
any poor, over-worked father or
brother and, if she is not worth as
much to the world as your lackadaisi-
cal, timid, shrinking vine, I do not
know what’s what, that’s all. More-
“over, for the life of me, I can not
see why the woman who turns first
in the morning to the stock report
in the paper is not just as womanly
as the one who turns to the ‘married
and died’ column.”

But the man only grunted in reply
to my words.

A few days after that he came to
see me about a poor family we were
interested It was one of those
pathetic cases where the breadwinner
dies suddenly, leaving a houseful of
helpless women to face the world
alone.

in.

“They will have to go to work,” I
said.

“They can not,” he replied, “they
do not know anything to do. Why,
I do not suppose Mrs. Blank ever
decided a question for herself . or
bought a railroad ticket or checked a
trunk in her life. She would not even
know how to go about it. She is one
of those gentle, timid, clinging little
creatures that do not know a bit more
about the practical affairs of life than
a baby.”

“Well, that kind of woman is al-
ways so appealing to men,” I sug-
gested, maliciously; “it is what they
like.”

“Don’t you believe it,’ he ejaculat-
ed, “it’s a confounded nuisance when
you are trying to help them. I was
up there this morning for two hours
trying to explain some business to
her, and she did not understand it any
more than a blithering idiot. I never
saw anybody so unreasonable. How
on earth any woman can be so ignor-
ant of the common commercial us-
ages in this day beats me.”

“Why don’t you marry one of the
girls?” I asked. “They are just the
sort of women you admire—they do
not dabble in stocks or keep up with
politics or feel they have a right to
vote or desire to compete with men
in business, and either one of them
would ask nothing better than just
to cling to a man through life and let

- him do her thinking for her.”

“Thanks, awfully,” he. returned,
“but when I choose a method of sui-
cide it will be something less painful
than being bored to death. Fancy life
with a woman who never read and
did not know anything!” Then he
looked up and our eyes met.

“T am converted,” he said, with a
laugh, “and I am glad I did not marry
my grandmother.”

“In my library,’ 1 said, “fl have a
pair of beautiful old silver cande-
labra.”

“Ves?” he said, interrogatively.

“And I have had them fitted up
with electric bulbs. They are just as

picturesque as they ever were,” I. went
on.

“Ves,” he said again.

“But they give more light,” I added
Dorothy Dix.

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Business and “Fame.”

Surprise has now and then been
expressed that no “business man,” no
man of affairs conspicuous for his
achievement and meantime contribut-
ing to the world’s betterment, has as
yet found a place in the Hall of
Fame, that decidedly unique institu-
tion in the New York University.
Soldiers have won niches there; so
have orators and poets and invent-
ors, great authors and statesmen and
philanthropists; but never a_ great
“captain of industry.” This seeming
discrimination was explained — or
sought to be explained—by Chancel-
lor MacCracken recently.

He was addressing some hundreds
of the graduates and undergraduates
of the University’s School of Com-
merce at their fourth annual dinner,
along with their invited guests. Only
the official “one hundred electors,” he
said, “can tell exactly why they have
as yet placed upon the roll of the
famous the name of no man of busi-
ness ‘who confined himself to business
activities.’

“My own theory is,’ he continued,
“that it is because no mighty man
of business has ever convinced the
world that he was striving to serve
his fellowmen by means of his busi-
ness activities as his chief object.’

Could all the “famous” whose
names occupy places in the Univer-
sity’s Hall of Fame have stood that
test? Was it the “chief object” of
every author and orator and states-
man thus honored to serve his fel-
lowmen? Did not the sordid purpose
of keeping the wolf from the door
move many of them, initially? It is
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most famous orators used to admit
that he lectured chiefly for f-a-m-e—
“fifty, and my expenses.” And there
is at least one name in the Hall of
Fame to the possessor of which the
“one hundred electors” could. not

 

perhaps have applied this test at all
with any show of consistency—much
less this slightly further test, as ex-
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has yet been chosen to the Hall of
Fame who did not convince the peo-
ple that it was his purpose to serve
them.”

 

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science and of achievement. But he

took up arms against his country and
participated conspicuously in spilling
the blood of her patriots. Did he con-
vince the people of the United States

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them?”
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stated period of years before his
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of Fame. The electors are _ only |
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THE WILL TO. DO.

 

Young Woman Had It, So Made a
Perfect Home.
Written for the Tradesman.

It was just a matter of two times
one. When Fred Jackson and Mi-
nerva Williams announced their com-
ing marriage it was the suddenness
of the culmination of the long-expect-
ed that threw the town of Cart-
wright into commotion and set every
tongue a wagging; and right in the
face of that, like a thunderbolt out
of a clear sky, came the statement
from Frances Kingston’s own lips,
as if it were one of the commonest
things in the world that Minnie Wil-
liams’ wedding day was to be hers
and that after that interesting cere-
mony she would be known “to her
friends and admirers as Mrs. Rupert
Cole, thank you.”

That last was what did the business
and made the two times remark an
absurdity. Two times one! Say four
times—eight times—ten times—and
come somewhere near the fact! Who-
ever thought of such a thing—who-
ever dreamed of it! Frances King-
ston, the Superb, with her Vassar
and her Europe and her ancestral
culture behind her, coming down the
aisle of the Cartwright meeting house
as the wife of Bert Cole, the—the—
well. just Bert Cole! In the Minnie
Williams affair that was quite anoth-
er thing. Everybody knew they had
been intended for each other from the
foundation of the world. They had
grown up together, gone to school
together and been together ever since
a board in the back fence had been
removed to let the children through
to play together. But this other—
well! what were Squire Kingston and
Madam, his wife, thinking about to
be satisfied with Bert Cole when she,
“Frances, my Queen!” could, should
she so will, hold court in the best
houses in the State?

To come right down to bed rock,
in regard to Cole, he might be a
good fellow enough, behave himself
and all that, but he hadn’t a dollar
in the world, and the Kingstons were
people who had a pretty fair idea of
that coin of the realm and its value
and for Frances Kingston to turn
down Jack Hazzard, and Hal Worth-
ington and William Williamson
among the rest and take Bert Cole
was too much like going through the
woods and taking the crookedest
stick at the last.

When public opinion had reached
this point the next natural thing -was
to do something about it, and Mal-
vina Robinson, the best dressmaker
in the town,
patrons to reason with the imperial
Frances the first time she should
come in to consult her about her
wedding things, as she undoubtedly
would, a duty which the angular
Malvina did not enter upon with re-
luctance.

“Mother wore a veil and a skirt of
old lace, that has been in the family
for generations, when she was mar-
ried and I shall have that, with white
taffeta for an underskirt. The quick-
er the skirt is made the better and
if I have the silk here by Wednes-
day couldn’t you go to work on it at
once?”

“Why, yes; but, Miss

Frances,

tongues wagging.

was appointed by her-

 

don’t you think it’s a tremendous
come-down for ‘Squire Kingston’s
daughter to take up with Bert Cole?
Cartwright is considerably interest-
ed in the ’Squire’s daughter and does
not like the idea of giving her best
to her poorest.”

The danger signal was instantly
displayed in. Lady Frances’ cheeks,
but the voice, without temper, asked,
“Why? Does Mr. Cole steal or lie?
Is he lazy? Does he gamble? Is he
dissipated? Is he morally insane?”

“Why, no, but—”

“Very well, then, I’ll let
Browning answer you for me:
““Very rich he is in virtues—very no-

ble, noble, certes;

And I shall not blush in knowing

that men call him lowly born!’”

By this time the danger signal ap-
peared in the angry maiden’s eyes,
which looked straight into the dress-
maker’s face, who, without further
comment, gave undivided attention
to the details of her patron’s order.

This was before the introduction
of the telephone, but for all that the
result of the interview was all over
Cartwright in less than half an hour

Mrs.

-|and more than one wise old head, ir-

respective of sex, was lugubriously
shaken as the owner thereof impres-
sively remarked, “Wed in haste, re-
pent at leisure.”

That wasn’t all that kept the
It came out that
Frances Kingston was going to do
her own work! Everybody knew that
the “Squire was going to give his
daughter the old Weldon house just
out of the village on Wareham Road
and furnish it;.but when they heard
that Frances wouldn’t let him furnish
it and that she was going to use only
the first story, which she insisted
on furnishing herself, “just as she
wanted to,’ Cartwright resounded
with “Well! I never’s” enough - to
reach from Dan to Beersheba.

Didn’t. the Sewing Circle have a
good time though! Not a thimble,
not a needle, not a tongue was ab-
sent or idle for six weeks before the
wedding, and at the Circle a fortnight
before the wedding who should open
the door and come in but Mrs. King-
ston and her daughter!

The dead silence which followed
might have been awkward had not
the incoming young lady remarked,
with a laugh which set them all ago-
ing, “Where was it you left off when
we opened the door?”

“IT was just saying,” replied Mal-
vina Robinson, “that I couldn’t, for
the life of me, see—and I can’t now—
why you shouldn’t let the ’Squire

furnish your house from cellar to

garret ’f he wants to, and—”
“Why, Ill tell you: There are
twelve rooms in that house—six

rooms apiece for Mr. Cole and me.
What do I want to take care of
twelve rooms for when four, at the
most, are all that we want to use?
To do that would be as silly as_ it
would be for me to set the table
three times a day for six where there
are but two of us; and how Cart-
wright would laugh to see me wash
the dishes for six and cook for six
when there are just two!”

“That is a different thing.”

“How is it? Suppose the house be
furnished, as it would be if Daddy

had his way. Then I’d have to keep
it clean, washing, sweeping and dust-

ing every week. What fun!”
“Yes; but you'll have help, you
know;” and at this, with an arch look

in her eyes, she swept the entire Cir-
cle.

“Well, that is a brilliant idea!” The
tone was pure sarcasm. “Rupert has
$100 a month. To keep that house
as Mrs. Helton keeps hers would
take two girls, at least, and that
would cost $6 a week, rain or shine,
not taking into account their living,
which would come to just as much
more, without saying a word about
what they’d waste and destroy—all
for the sake of—I’d like to have you
tell me what.”

“But you're going to have one girl,
aren’t you?”

“Yes, and just one—and Bert is
going to marry her, or she him, ‘two
weeks from to-morrow. They’ve ar-
ranged a sort of partnership and are
going to divide the net proceeds. She
is going to do all the work inside
and he’s going to do everything out-
side. You see, she comes from fami-
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a young woman wasn’t born to feed
on the fat of the land without earn-
ing it, any more than her husband
was, and she’s bound to do her share
from the start. So she has been
learning how. The world doesn’t owe
her a living without her working for
it, any more than it owes him one,
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learned them, mind you—and then,
with the parlor part of the house pio-
vided for, she rolled up her sleeves
and went into her mother’s kitchen:
and if there is a woman in the Cart-
wright Sewing Circle, or out of if;
who can wash and iron or cook and
keep house any better than she can
she is desirous of taking lessons and
paying for them. If you'll believe
it she can make her own dresses if
she wants to and she can make al!
the millinery she cares to wear. The
fact she’s ready for business—
home-making—and that is what Ru-
pert Cole and Frances Kingston Cole
are going to have in the lower part
of the old Weldon house out on
Wareham Road, where she hopes to
entertain you all from time to time
with samples of housekeeping and
_ cooking like mother used to moke—
This seam is finished; what shall |
take next, Mrs: President?”

There was little to be said after
that; but after the Circle had taken
a chance to breathe Minerva Williams
ventured to ask if the weekly wash-
ing wasn’t going to be too much for
a novice.

is,

“But I’m not a novice; and that
makes me think to tell you why I’m
going to furnish the house myself:
That kitchen is going to be a model
time-saver. I’m not going to travel
five miles or more every time I have
a meal to get up. Things are going
to be convenient and within reach.
Half the work in the common kitchen
is wasted, and the weekly wash, that
every housekeeper dreads, is harder
tnan it ought to be twice over, be-
cause the housekeeper simply thinks
she must do as her grandmother did.
V’m not going to get up as early in
the morning as my grandmother did,
and I’m not going to slave as she
did; but I am going to have meals on
time and I am going to have things
cleared away as early as she did and
I’m not going to let it wear me out
as I know it wore her out. Because
my grandfather reaped with a sickle
is no reason why his grandson should
use the same implement. Because
my grandmother cooked over the fire
in the fireplace is no reason why I
should.”

“The theory is all right, but about
the time you’ve hung out a week’s
washing I don’t believe you're going
to be good for much for the social
side, which must be taken care. of
nowadays,” Mrs. Williams hastened
to remark. “I tell Minnie that that
must not be neglected; and a_ girl
with her hands parboiled in dishwater
is hardly fit to entertain company in
the evening, or at any other time, for
that matter. What is going to be-
come of your college course and your
three years abroad if you're all brok-
en down with drudgery?”

“Why, Mrs. Williams, can’t you see
that the one precludes the other?
Vassar taught me to keep well and

strong and I am just that. Why
should I not use that health and
strength in this home-business I’m

going into? My study and travel made
my language practical, and can’t you
see how it’s going to rest me to scold
Bert in French and German after I’m
tired of talking English? And then
how I will drive away the wrinkles
of care with the music that I mas-

 

tered in dear old Munich. Ah, la-

dies, it all comes down to this: The
butterfly ideal of womanhood has no
foundation to rest on, and never had.
We women were made for our busi-
ness as the men were made for theirs
and we are not true to our trust, any
more than they are, if we enter upon
it unprepared.”

Then there was an explosion. Every
one of the twenty-five members could
restrain herself no longer, and the
Circle broke up in confusion, which
went on as long as proximity per-
mitted a tongue to speak and an ear
to hear.

What of it?

This:

After the wedding Mrs. Rupert
Cole carried out her ‘“new-fangled
ideas” to her heart’s content. She

began in her four rooms, shutting up
the rest of the house, and lived a
peaceful, happy life with her hus-
band. She did her own work; and
the holder of this truthful pen can
testify that she did—is doing—it well.
Only last week he passed a delight.
fulevening at the old Weldon house,
where Mrs. Bert’s piano and her hus-
band’s flute gave ample proof that
music in that house is not a_ neg-
lected art; and when the _ refresh-
ments came in—home made, remem-
ber—they were simply  unsurpass-
able. I want to testify that there. was
no dust on the furniture; that the
napkins were white and glossy; that
the glass was clear, the service irre-
proachable. My hostess was charm-
ingly dressed in a home-made gown.
but with not a hint of the home-made
look about it. Remembering the re-
mark that Mrs. Rupert had made—
it was the town’s talk at the time—
about “resting herself by scolding in
three languages,’ I asked if they were
keeping that up, to be told that they
read to each other first a German
book and then one in French and
then trusted to luck and a kind Provi-
dence to keep up the talk in both as
they felt like it.

“But all this must take time. How
do you manage it, Mrs. Cole?”

“The same as you—the same as
anybody manages his business: Get
up in the morning while lazy folks
are abed and keep everlastingly at
it. I’m well, and keep well, and the
work is at the bottom of it. I’m not
bothered with servants and so am
sweet-tempered. My kitchen is one
of the pleasantest places in the house
and it’s a joy to work in it. It’s small
and convenient and things are kept
where they belong. It’s what I’ve al-
ways said: The woman who ‘isn’t up
to her job’ is a degenerate, and, un-
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the women of the country to a realiz-
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things now going on in the world as
a result of that degeneracy are as
nothing to those which are sure to
come.”

And, do you know, I think she is
right! Richard Malcolm Strong.

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Horse Power. 2400 lbs. 60 miles an hour. Ironed for top and glass
front. Full lamp equipment.

This car is the present-day limit of touring car ability. It seats seven
facing forward. It’s sumptous design, upholstering and appointments are
in keeping with its ability.

It was a Franklin H converted into a Runabout, but with a load bring-
ing it up to 3150 pounds, which made the astonishing record of 15 days 2
hours and 12 minutes over the roughest roads in the Uniied States from
San Francisco to New York. More could not be said for its usuable
power, reliability and endurance

Ask for the book containing story of this world’s record—also the new
Catalog of 1907 Franklins.

Shaft Drive Runabout -
Light Touring Car

Three speeds and reverse.

$1800.06 Large Touring Car - - $2800.00
= $1850.00 Six Cylinder Touring Car $4000.00

ADAMS & HART, West Michigan Selling Agents
47-49 No. Division St. Grand Rapids

 

 

   
  

  

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Things Seen and Heard in a Shoe
Store.

It was a big, airish store, impreg-
nated with the ozone of prosperity.
Good taste was evident in all of its
appointments, from the potting of the
palms to the location of the findings
case. Over it all my gifted and genial

. friend Tom presided, with an alertful
eye and a winsome smile—one of
your thawing-out kind that sticks in
your memory even after you have
gone out and gotten bumped into by
somebody. The store stands for
men’s high class footwear, together
with such high class business princi-
ples as affiliate therewith.

I was there partly on business and
partly on a tour of inspection. (Tom’s
store has quite a notable way of get-
ting itself inspected.) When the busi-
ness feature of my visit was duly dis-
posed of I lingered a while to let the
general impression of that fine room
photograph itself upon my mental
film. Standing back of the cashier’s
desk in the cozy little office which is
partly, but not completely, partition-
ed off from the main store room, I
could see and hear what went for-
ward there.

Benson was moulding a young fel-
low’s foot into a dull leather blucher
button boot of medium weight, and
talking as he laced. He was saying:

“Now, my friend, you’ll pardon me
for differing with you on that propo-
sition. I assure you I don’t do it
for the sake of argument, for I’m
willing to stretch a statement to the
very limit in order to chime in with
another fellow’s views. And I’d real-
ly agree with you in this if I could.
Mit 1 can’t. I don’t know where
you got your ideas of chrome tanned
leather, but I do know where I got
mine. I got them from contact with the
goods. I know what chrome tanned
leather is. And I know it’s away and
beyond better than the old grease-
loped sort that your father wore
when he was a boy. It is lighter and
more flexible, hence easier on- the
feet. The pores of it let more fresh
air in, at the same time keeping out
the damp quite as_ effectually. If
properly cared for these shoes will
actually last longer than shoes made
of old-fashioned leather. Do you think
for a minute that the big tanners of
to-day-—and tanning never was done
before on such gigantic proportions—
would employ a method of tanning
that destroyed the life of leather? No;
they’d still stick to the old method if
they weren’t dead sure they had it
beat a block.”

“Well, maybe you are right,” ad-
mitted the young man, “but I seem
to have had a pretty hard run of bad
luck. Those old shoes cost me $3.50
and I’ve had ’em only about three
months, and you see how they look.”

“Well, the price of leather just at
present is such that you can hardly
expect to get the best grade of shoes
for that money; and besides I should
judge you are pretty hard on shoes.

An active man can take a good many
steps in three months—

“How does that shoe feel?”

“I guess it’ll do,” said the young
man. :

While the young man was waiting
for his parcel my attention was at-
tracted to Collins and his customer,
to the left down near the front. Col-
ins raised his voice just a trifle and
said:

“Of course, now it does not make a
particle of difference so far as the
profit of this sale is concerned wheth-
er you take the D or the B. It’s al.
one to Marcus. But it will make a
difference to you. That leather isn’t
the stretchy sort. It did about all
of that it was capable of when it was
on the last. Now you admit it’s
tight. Why not take, the D?”

“But there’s a wrinkle there under
the instep, isn’t there?”

“Sure there is when you lean over
like that. But you ain’t going to walk
with your nose down on a level with
your ankle, are you? Suppose you
stand up on that shoe again and let
me look—

“There! no wrinkle as I can see.
Looks to me like the foot fills the
shoe al] right. Now, what you want
in an everyday shoe is comfort and
service. When a man is at work he
hates to have his feet pestering him.
I do. Makes me cross. If you were
buying a dress shoe for occasional
wear I would say take the B, but
my advice to you for a comfortable
everyday shoe is a D. What do you
say?”

“Tie up the D’s,” said the young
fellow.

Just then three people came irfto
the store: a clerical looking gentle-
man in black clothes, a tall young
fellow with a dress suit case and the
mail carrier. While Uncle Sam’s rep-
resentative was making his way to the
desk with the morning mail—and he
had a pretty hefty bunch of it—
Benson took in charge the man with
the dress suit case, telling the clerical
looking one to be seated; that Mr.
Collins would be at leisure in just 4
moment and would attend to his
wants. And Collins wasn’t long in
tying up his parcel and going to the
cashier’s desk for the change. With a
cordial “Thank-you-sir-call-again!” he
turned to the newcomer with a win-
some “Good-morning-sir!”

“T am Rev. So-and-So, of the
church—”

“Oh, I see!” said Collins.

pleased to meet you, Doctor.
name is Collins.

 

“T’m
My

“And now, Doctor
do for you?”

, what can |

 

“I am getting up a special pro-
gramme for an entertainment to be
given at our church; and while it’s
something of a nuisance to be solicit-
ed—-and while we don’t make a habit
of doing it—we thought in the pres-
ent instance we might be excused for
pestering our friends. As you see
from this dummy, it’s to be quite an
affair; and we’d like to have an ad-
vertisement from you people.”
Collins took the dummy and look-
ed it over.

“T haven’t the authority to act in
such matters, Doctor; but just step
back here to the desk and speak to

 

Mr. Hissom.” And he led the way
back. Of course, Tom had_ heard
every word that was said while he
was ljooking through the mail—Tom
is one of those rare fellows who can
do two or three things at the same
time, and do them better than a good
many people can do them one at a
time.

“Mr. Hissom!” said Collins (Tom
looked up), “this is Doctor and
he wishes to speak to you about ad-
vertising space in a programme.”

Tom advanced to meet the doctor,
and greeted him cordially. He said:

“IT am certainly glad to meet you,
Doctor. Your predecessor, Doctor
and I were great cronies. Ill
never forget a day he and I spent out
on Clear Creek fishing. My! but he’s
a sportsman to the center of his be-
ing. You ought’ve seen the string of
bass we brought in—by the way, Mr.
McKay, pardon me: Doctor
shake hands with Mr. McKay. And,
by the way, Doctor, how’s our friend,
Doctor -—--— getting on with his
work at his new charge?”

“Nicest kind, so I understand, Mr.

Hissom,” said the doctor, “but he’s
the kind of a man who would do well
anywhere or at most anything. But,
now, I realize, Mr. Hissom, that your
time is valuable, and so if you'll ex-
cuse me, I’ll make my statement at
once. (And he did in substantially
the same words that he used prevy-
iously. It was a clear-cut, manly
and inoffensive proposition.) Tom
looked over the pages for a minute
and said:
“All right, Doctor; I’ll take a half
page of your programme—and do it
gladly. Of course, you realize that
as an out-and-out advertising propo-
sition, this space hasn’t a great deal
of intrinsic worth to me: but I want
the respect and good will of you and
your people, and of all other good
people in the community. And I’m
willing to pay the price. And _ be-
sides, I like to feel that I have some
part, slight though it may be, in every
good work in the community. I’1]
have the copy ready for you to-mor-
row. Give me a conspicuous place.
And drop in any time. I. shall be
glad to see you.”

 

 

 

 

As the doctor was taking his leave,
I directed my attention to Benson
and his party. Benson had him tog-
ged out in a pair of patent colt but-
ton boots and standing on the rug
before the big plate glass mirror to
the right. It was evident from the
admiring glances that the young fel-
low cast upon those shoes that Ben-
son had struck the center of his fancy.
And that’s a trick Tom’s men some-
how seem to learn. They learn it
from Tom. I suspect if Tom had a
man in his employ who couldn’t
learn that trick in a reasonable length
of time, he wouldn’t be in Tom’s em-
ploy for long.

“They'll do all right,” said
owner of the dress suit case.

the

“T thought you’d like them,” said
Benson. “But now,” eh went on,
“T want you to get the full measure
of comfort and service out of those
shoes. They are good shoes—made
well—and made out of excellent ma-
terial. But a pair of shoes like these

 

   

  

tion. Have you got a pair of trees?”

“Sure thing! had ’em for two
years.”

“Do you use them?”

“Well, no; to be perfectly frank, I
guess I’m too lazy to get the best
service out of them. I think just
now they are mixed up with a lot of
hunting togs, hip boots, etc, in an
old closet.”

“Now, friend, it’s a cinch those
trees aren’t going to keep the wrin-
kles out of these shoes if you bury
them under a pair of hip boots in
the closet, isn’t it? Won’t you take
my advice, please: fish those trees

out and use them on these shoes
every night. It won’t take much
time. A good habit is the easiest

thing in the world to form. T’ll bet
you waste ten times as much time
every day looking at the wall paper
as it would take to tree these shoes.
Don’t you?”

At this point Tom cut in with
line of talk about a swell window
trim that he proposed putting in
shortly, and when I looked up again
Benson was off to meet a tall, elderly
gentleman who had just come in,
while Collins was in the midst of an
animated talk with his customer. Col-
lins was saying:

“You are right there, my friend;

a

the average man doesn’t for a fact
know when he’s fitted. And that’s

the cause of nine-tenths of the trou-
ble people have with their feet.
“Now there are just three things
about a shoe that a man ought to
watch. He ought to be sure that a
shoe is wide enough cross the ball
of the foot. That part of the foot
is made up of the seven metatarsal
bones, and these bones which really
form an arch crosswise of the foot,
support most of the weight of the
body. If you crowd these bones to-
gether and squeeze them up in a shoe
that’s too narrow for the foot it
works harm to the whole mechanism
of the foot, and then the shoe ought
to be long enough—but that rule isn’t
so often violated; and finally a shoe
ought to have a good, strong shank
that won’t break down and bring on
foot troubles of a serious kind.
“I’m sure this shoe fills the bill in
all these respects; aren’t you? How
does it feel?”
“I think it will do,” said the man.
“And, besides, I believe you figured
this thing down to a fare-you-well—
and I won’t go up against another
man’s game. You may wrap them
io.!
I really should have enjoyed stay-
ing longer, but it was time for me to
mosey.—Cid McKay in Boot and
Shoe Recorder.

—_——_~---___
As a business creator what is there
better than advertising? Have you
ever asked that question of your-
self? The millions that advertising
has made for merchants are unac-
countable, yet there are business men
who even now don’t believe in adver-
tising, just as there are people who
still think it is safer and more con-
venient to travel in a prairie schoon-
er behind a pair of slow oxen than
in a Pullman palace car. Yet this
type is of business men who are sel-
dom rated in commercial rating

 

require just a little care and atten-

books,

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 33

Mayer’s Advance News
On Fall Shoe Styles

We are just putting the finishing touches on our new Fall line, which, when
ready, will be worthy of the serious consideration of every PROGRESSIVE
MERCHANT. This fact will have to be admitted when you see the line.

Custom Made

SHOES

possess the style and workmanship that places them far ahead of any other line.
THE QUALITY IS ALWAYS THERE, regardless of the cost of material
or market conditions, and that is one reason why Mayer Custom Made Shoes
ALWAYS GIVE COMPLETE SATISFACTION. There are some
shoes you can buy cheaper, but the difference is taken out of the goods. Poor
goods mean dissatisfied customers and loss of trade.

 

The enormous increase in our business during the past year has taxed our
All Mayer Shoes | facilities to the limit, but our large new addition to the present plant will soon
are made with |] Ȣ ready, giving us an added capacity of three thousand pairs of shoes per day.
a Our rapid growth is the best evidence that our prices are as low as possible
consistent with the quality of our goods.

Wait==Hold Your Orders

Do Not Buy Until You Have Inspected the Fall Line

GN

It will pay you to wait until you have hada chance to examine the new Fall
line. Nowhere will you find as good a line to build up your trade. With Mayer
Custom Made Shoes go not only the advantages of ESTABLISHED

WJ QUALITY BUT THE PRESTIGE AND POPULARITY CREATED
| BY EXTENSIVE ADVERTISING. If you have not heretofore carried the
FULL VAMPS Mayer line this is the time to begin. Write for particulars.

 

 

 

 

 

F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co. wiscowsis

 

 

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34

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

MEN OF MARK.

 

David D. Cady, Vice-President Lee,
Cady & Smart.

Much has been said and written to
the effect that an individual starting
out in life should study his own
adaptability and, having clearly as-
certained it, should determine his
course in life accordingly. It is oft-
en laid down as a positive rule that
each person, man or woman, has a
capacity for some particular calling,
and that his or her success will de-
pend on whether the right one to fit
the case shall be chosen. Like nearly
all theories abstracted from practice,
we find that this one is a mere struc-
ture of words that is more plausible
than provable by actual demonstra-
tion. Probably it can be shown that
any individual of ordinary faculty is
capable of any one of several par-
ticular undertakings that if persisted
in with energy and singleness of
purpose will eventuate in more or
less success. Yet this does not prove
that any other pursuit, followed with
persistency, energy and singleness of
purpose, may not have been equally,
perhaps more successful. The fact is
that any well equipped mind, backed
by a steadfast purpose and support-
ed by a fairly strong physical nature,
is capable of successfully accomplish-
ing numerous things that will be a
credit to the individual. The lives
of many men and women demon-
strate this conclusion without  re-
course to abstract theory or superflu-
ous argument in its behalf.

The truth is that in the majority
of instances accident, environment,
opportunity or other incidents in ear-
ly life give direction to one’s avoca
tion or pursuit. The vastly greater
number depend on chance or oppor-
tunity to give them a start in life. As
a general thing necessity has much
to do with the first step or succes-
sion of steps. In the outset we most-
ly do what we can or what we have
to, not what we would desire. It is
true that in the learned professions,
in mechanics and the arts, where pre-
liminary tuition is possible and deter-
minable, there is often an early choice
of pursuit which is carried into effect
after the training has been completed.
But the great mass of men are thrust
by the force of circumstances into the
avenues that lead to their settled ca-
reers. Many individuals see no other
choice than a general resolution to
get on in the world and seize the first
opportunity that is presented. Such
persons apparently are as apt to-ob-
tain wealth, position and honor as
others who have made a specific se-
lection of calling and have relied on
their special adaptability to it for a
successful outcome. Especially is this
resolution true of men beginning life
in lowly and straightened circum-
stances; they have no opportunity, no
power of choice, but are forced to
dodge into the first opening that ap-
pears. Such tentative movements
may be the initiative of a triumphant
career, or only the beginning of a
desultory effort to keep soul and body
together; but in either outcome there
was no choice in respect to inclina-
tion or adaptability to the avenue of
effort which may-have offered.

 

In the following biographical sketch
the subject is ushered before the pub-
lic without preliminary heralding.
There is no description of a remark-
able boyhood, of a long line of illus-
trious ancestry, of brilliant scholar-
ship, of training for future employ-
ment, of struggles with adverse con-
ditions before a successful start was
made. This recital is concerning 4
man who seems early to have gone
at the first work that was obtainable.
He was, as a youth, employed in a
grocery store—a business that he has
since followed. There was nothing
especially strenuous or spectacular in
the way his career began. He simply
persisted in the pursuit that opened
to him, and by industry, a set pur-
pose to acquire a knowledge of the
business and a skillful application of

 

he embarked upon his career as a trav-
eling salesman. He next entered the
employ of Wm. Phelps & Co., subse-
quently known as Phelps, Brace &
Co., which house he represented for
six years. He was subsequently iden-
tified with the grocery establishment
of Platt & House, on Woodward ave-
nue, where he remained until he

formed a copartnership with James.

E.. Brewster and engaged in general
trade at New Hudson under the style
of Brewster & Cady. Two years later
he returned to Detroit and entered
the employ of W. J. Gould & Co. He
was with this house fifteen years,
eight years on the road and seven
in the house. After the third year
he was taken in as a partner, which
relationship continued until he retired
from the firm in 1892 to form a co-

 

 

David D. Cady

what he learned he has attained a)
large measure of success.

David D. Cady was born at Ply- |
mouth, Michigan, about  fifty-nine
his antecedents being
American on both sides. When he
was 8 years old his parents removed
to Ypsilanti, where they remained six
years, when they took up their resi-
dence in Detroit, and the subject of
this sketch completed his education,
so far as schoo! books go, in the
Barstow school. At 16 he was em-
ployed in the grocery store of a man
named Watson, with whom he re-
mained a year. He then went into the
wholesale and retail grocery house
of E. A. Drury, where he stayed for
several years. His next engagement
was with the wholesale grocery house

of W. & R. Miller, during which time

years ago,

 

|had purchased

partnership with Gilbert W. Lee, who
the fancy grocery
business of D. D. Mallory & Co. in
1885 and had been conducting the
business under the old name. Lee &
Cady was selected as a firm name
and this copartnership relation con-
tinued without interruption until
March 1, of this year, when it was
changed to Lee, Cady & Smart, in
consequence of the purchase of the
Phelps, Brace & Co. and Smart &
Fox combination of stores in Detroit
and the Saginaw Valley. The busi-
ness is conducted by a stock com-
pany with $750,000 capital. The
present headquarters of Lee & Cady
and Phelps, Brace & Co. will be oc-
cupied temporarily, but the house has
an option on a location with both
railroad and boat facilities, on which

 

it will shortly erect an enormous
building especially adapted for the
wholesale grocery business.

Mr. Cady was married about thirty
years ago to Miss Brewster, a sister
of the gentleman who was his part-
ner in the retail trade at New Hud-

son. They have four children—two
sons and two daughters—and Mr.
Cady is a grandfather. Mr. Cadv

and his wife and their two unmarried
children left Detroit Monday for New
York, whence they sail to-day on the
Ryndam for Rotterdam. They will
spend three or four months in South-
ern Europe, returning home about
July 1.

Mr. Cady is a Mason up to the 32d
degree, a’-Knight Templar, a member
of the Detroit Club, Country Club
and Old Club and Vice-President of
the Standard Pure Food Co.

Mr. Cady attributes his success to
hard work and to a firm determina-
tion never to let anything interfere
with his business. He is one of the
most methodical and _ painstaking
business men in the city of Detroit
and probably puts in as many hours
at his desk as any man connected
with the wholesale grocery business.
He has few hobbies, although he
owns up to a weakness for angling,
and of late years he has become in-
terested in automobiling. He is a de-
voted adherent to the family circle
and finds his greatest pleasure in min-
istering to the comforts and require-
ments of his family. Mr. Cady is to
be congratulated on the fact that dur-
ing the forty-three years he has been
identified with the grocery business
he has not permitted himself to be
so shaped to one groove that he can
not travel in another, and that his
mind and his tastes have not been
so centered in the mere making of
money that he can not find rational
enjoyment in the pursuit of other
things.

—_———-.-2- oe
Old Flour Mill Is Sold.

Plainwell, March 5—By a transfer
made yesterday the second oldest
flour mill in Allegan county was dis-
posed of by the Farmers’ Milling Co.,
of Allegan, to the Allegan Light &
Power Co.-and Baker & Co. Capt. A.
E. Calkins, the President and Secre-
tary of the Farmers’ Milling Co., has
been in charge of the mill for thirty
consecutive years, taking the manage-
ment in 1877.

Grain was brought from miles
around to the mill in the early days,
when it was the chief industry of
the county. Capt. Calkins has been
very successful in the mill, but as it
needed new machinery and other im-
provements it was thought best to
dispose of it. He desired also to go
into other business. Although well
advanced in years he feels that he is
yet too active to retire from business.
It is expected the mill will be used
as a warehouse.

——_e-+>—___
To Rebuild Burned Mill.
Chelsea, March 5—The Chelsea
Milling Co. has awarded the contract
for a $12,000 flour mill to the Meisel
Manufacturing Co., of Port Huron.
The company is to erect the building,
equip it with machinery and have it
ready for occupancy July 1. This
is to replace the flour mill that was
recently burned.

Seer e econ seat

  

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

35

 

 

Boot

your customers with

Goodyear
Glove
Boots

and you will have no

kick coming,

  
  
   
   
    
  
 
 
 
       
   
   
      
 

In fact,
‘they will deem it such
a pleasure
that they will
come back and let

you

Boot

them again.

"
Hip Boots

Sporting Boots
Storm King Boots
Duck Vamp Boots
Light Gum Boots
Cadette Boots
Women’s Boots
Misses’ Boots
Child’s Boots
Boys’ Boots
Youth’s Boots

Boots

Boots Boots

 

 

  
 

Hirth-
Krause Co.

Grand Rapids,
Michigan

 

       
 
      
   
   

Workingman’s
Shoe Trade

is a paying portion of your business.
To keep it you must give them the
most you can for their money.
It takes quality to do that. And shoe-
quality is just that combination of leather,

Wear, fcot

workmanship and comfort
people have found in our shoes for over
forty years.

It is a pleasure to sell them—they al-
ways Satisfy. Our trade-mark guarantees

thai and your customer knows it.

 

 

 
  

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

     
 
  
 
     
 

 

     
        
 
      
      
   
   
   
   
       
  
  

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Of the Right Kind of Leather and the
Right Kind of Making

Every pair from our factory reflects the care given to its
production. Using stock that we know to be the best pro-
duced in this country, we put full value into the making.

For boys’ as well as men’s wear the quality of workman-
ship is Hard Pan quality, and that 1s the best. So sure are we
about both making and stock that we put our name on the
strap of every pair and guarantee the quality.
~ New customers are coming into line
every day. Have you joined the Retail
Shoe Dealers’ Hard Pan Association?
Send in your applicution today..

Our Name on the Strap of Every Pair

 

 

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

Makers of Shoes
Grand Rapids, Mich.

REEDER

GRAND RAPIDS

Have a large stock
for immediate

delivery

HOOD
RUBBERD

 

The goods are right

The price is right

They are

NOT

made by a

TRUST

 

BOSTON.

 

GeO. H. Reeder & C0.

Date Agents

 

GTand Rapids, Mich.

 

36

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

REACHING THE FARMER.

Working Rural Delivery Routes To
the Limit.
Written for the Tradesman.

“Do I look like a farmer?”

It was the shoe man who asked the
question.

Half a dozen business men were
sitting at the back of the big hotel
dining room, having a little feed of
their own.

“Come to think of it,’ said the
grocer, “you do have that horny-
handed look which goes with the po-
tato harvest.”

“He sure does look like butter and
egg money,” suggested the hardware
man.

“I noticed him reading the signs
as we came down the street,” said
the hatter, with an exasperating grin.

“Any further remarks?” asked the
shoe man.

‘Does this lead to a little talk for
our own good?” asked the clothier,
who was a chum of the shoe man
and had learned to understand the
symptoms.

“You fellows are all right,” said the
shoe man, “but you need revising in
some particulars. Perhaps I do look
like a farmer, but isn’t this sort of
stuff enough to bring a man into con-
tact with the tall weeds? Just cast
your cosmopolitan eyes over this
bunch of rubbish.” *

The shoe man laid a pile of letters,
" pamphlets and circulars on the table
as he finished speaking.

“Suppose you explanation us,” said
the clothier. “What does all this
truck mean? Are you going into the
bill-distributing business at your time
of life?”

“Last spring,’ said the shoe man,
“T moved out into my new house. It
is about nine feet over the city line,
and so I get my mail by rural free
delivery. I’m nearer to the postoffice
than a lot of fellows who live inside
the city limits, but the wise men at
the Federal building have placed me
on a rural route.”

“The postmaster appears to have a
talent for classification,” said the gro-
cer. “You can’t fool him with any
of your city ways. He knows a farm-
er when he sees one.”

“Just as soon as I moved out
there,” continued the shoe man, “and
had my mail sent to the new address.
I began to receive the attentions of
the mail order houses. I found that
the average retail merchant is a rob-
ber and a traitor to the State, espe-
cially the shoe merchant and the
clothier.”

“Never too late to learn,’ mused
the grocer.

“And as for the provision man, the
lake of fire is not hot enough to burn
away his villainies—according to the
ma‘! order advertising man. I found
out a lot of things about my neigh-
bors’ way of doing business that I
had never suspected. Then I began
to receive instruction as to how to
get along without the avaricious mid-
dle man and how to amass a for-
tune.”

“On the farm?” asked the grocer.

“On the farm, of course.”

The men drew back from the table
and lighted cigars.

Just look at that pile of advertising
matter,” s2’4 the shoe man. “There

 

 

you can learn how the farmers on
the rural routes are worked by mer-
chants who do not keep in touck
with their advertising men. Observe
that these circulars and letters are
all from men who are doing business
right on my street, and know me
personally. Look at that.”

“That” was an eight-page produc-
tion printed in red and green on a
cream book paper. The clothier pick-
ed it up.

“T presume,” he said, looking at the
first page and holding it up to the
view of the others, “that this is a
picture of you. You seem to be
standing on a load of wheat, driving
a pair of magenta horses, with a har-
vesting machine in the distance. That
is a good idea, having the harvester
off in the distance. This grass looks
a little fresh and green for harvest
time, but it may have rained there
under the trees and skipped the yel-
low gold of the rustling wheat. Eh?”

“Yes, that’s me,” said the shoe man.
“That’s me as I appear out on the
farm, nine feet from the busy haunts
of men. I’m a farmer, see? And this
is the con. my bank throws into me.
The communication opens with the
statement that each year we watch
the ripening grain, and we know that
we've got to go some to annex the
life-giving sheaves. Note the gentle
allusion to sowing and reaping. Here
it says that they trust the thoughts
in the little booklet will cause me to
begin the planting of my spare dol-
lars in a savings account. I suppose
the banker has a notion that in order
to reach the bulging pocketbook of
a farmer he must talk shop to him—
drag in all about plowing and reap-

ing, and the patient labor of the
fields.”
“What's the use of kicking?” de-

manded the grocer. “If the banker
thinks you really work for your liv-
ing, where’s the harm? Let him think
so.”

“Then,” continued the shoe man,
“here’s a red picture of a team of
spirted horses prancing merrily
across the newly-plowed field, at-
tached to a-drill. I guess that’s what
they call the machines they sow
things with. The horses are dash-
ing along with heads up and _ tails
rising, and I suppose that’s me on
the seat.”

“You seem
in every act,”
ought to be
man.”

The clothier took the booklet into
his hand.

“Tere’s where it tells about saving
your butter and egg money to pay
the mortgage on the farm. Do all
farms have a mortgage? Or do they
spread it on in the fall like land
plaster and take it off in the spring?
Here’s a picture of a hen, four chick-
ens and an egg. The egg is in a
nest, and is larger than the hen and
the four chickens.
of eggs you rear out on your farm?
And here it says that the only way
to have money is to get some ahead.
Have you got some money ahead,
and how far ahead is it? Why, this
seems to be a very nice little book-
let.”

“Yes, indeed!” echoed the others.
“A very elegant little book.”

to be getting a ride
said the hatter. “You
grateful to the bank

Is that the kind’

 

“Here’s where you get instructions
about the milk business,” continued
the clothier, “and here’s where you
win out again. There are five cows
and you don’t seem to be milking
them. The book says that when you
get pay for the milk you sell you
must put a part of the money in the
bank. Do you do that?”

“When I sell any milk,” said the
shoe man, “I’ll have to make _ the
Scotch terrier give down, for that’s
the nearest I ever came to having a
cow, you see.”

“But if you did have a cow, and
got up in the morning at 4 o'clock
and milked her, carried the milk off
to a creamery and sold it for two
cents a quart, you would put some of
the money in a bank, wouldn’t you?”

“You bet I would,” said the shoe
man. “I’ll put it all in when I get up
at 4 o’clock in the morning. Here’s
a picture of a man with $100 in a
bag. I guess he’s just got it out of
that fence corner to put in the bank,
for there’s a mad-looking hog
making faces at him on the other
side of a stake-and-rider fence. I
hope that man with the money is me.
Yes, this is a nice little booklet, and
the tact it uses in talking shop to the
farmer is remarkable! I suppose, now,
that a farmer wouldn’t understand
about running a savings account un-
less it was all explained to him in
the language of the farm!”

“Oh, you’re sore because they sent
one to you,” said the grocer. “You
don’t want people to know that you
are a farmer. I can’t see any disgrace
in being a farmer, I’m sure. What
if they do have your commercial ac-
count at the bank? They want your
farm account, too.”

The shoe man sorted out another
booklet from the heap of papers on
the table.

“Took here,” he said. “This is
an invitation to call into a certain
store and get warm, whenever I am
in the city. The grocer who sends
the bid also asks me to bring in the
children and leave ’em there while I
go about peddling me farm produce.”

The grocer turned red and made a
grab for the paper.

“Never you mind,’ said the shoe
man. “This is private mail, sent to
a farmer who does business in the
city and lives nine feet from the cor-
poration line. See here: This grocer
says he will give me a cup of hot
coffee every Saturday afternoon if I
will come into his store and leave
the baby while I put out the oxen.
Now, that’s mighty good of the gro-
cer.”

The grocer arose from the table
and made another grab for the book-
let, but the shoe man dodged him
and went on:

“And if I take more eggs to the
grocer than any other farmer between
now and spring I’ll receive a $5 gold
piece, and get pay for the eggs, too.
This grocer seems to be all right, eh?
Of course he knows I live away off
in the country, and so he writes let-
ters to me. The grocer knows me,
too.” -

The grocer sprang to his feet once
more, red and angry.

“T’ll fire that advertising clerk,” he
said. “What does the fool mean by
putting you on that farmer list? That

 

is worse than the bank’s break.”

“There’s many a rural route list
needs revising,” said the shoe man,
“and many a booklet needs rewriting
by a man of sense.”

Alfred B. Tozer.
—_——_2-—__—_
The Shortage of Cobblers.

Much has been said about the
shortage of good help and how diffi-
cult it is to secure mien that can do
the work properly and speedily. At
last we hear of a cobbler famine. It
has been surprising to us for some
time that shoe repairers have not
been in short supply. The work is
hard, hours long and pay small.
Chicago has a half dozen repair shops
each employing about twenty men.
These men are well paid and work
the regulation ten hours a day. Take
the conditions prevailing in shoe
stores, with but one man to do all
the work: In proportion to the con-
centrated work of a single man at
the large repair shop, the work of
the individual does not show up one-
half so well. Of course, salaries us-
ually depend upon the earning power
of the man. If a man in a larger
shop working the same number of
hours can by the aid.of modern ma-
chinery do three or four times the
amount of work the man in the small-
er shop does in the same space of
time, naturally his salary ought to be
larger. Within the past few years
there has been a general advance in
all the necessities of living. Ex-
penses on every hand have gone up
and are larger. Still, very few shoe
dealers have found it advisable to
raise the price on general shoe re-
pair work. Some of them possibly
feel that their repair shop should be
a sort of advertising feature of their
regular store, but they do not think
that the cobbler in the shop should
receive more salary because they do
not receive more for their repair
work. It may be a good idea to hold
down expenses in your store and
your repair shop, but it is to the ad-
vantage of every retailer to pay this
help well and have a good experienc-
ed man to take care of repairing. The
same reasons that make it necessary
for shoe dealers to advance prices
on shoes can be offered to raise prices
on repair work. If a. retailer feels
like doing any advertising the best
place to do that is in his windows,
through newspapers or other meth-
ods. The repair shop, like the find-
ings counter or other parts of the
store, should bring a profit and the
cobbler should be given his share
and paid as well, in proportion, as a
clerk selling goods—Shoe Trade
Journal.

——~>-o--—___-

A Kansas paper calls attention to
the fad which some people seem to
have of making wills, and calls at-
tention to the case of a Pennsylvania
woman who left at her demise no
less than six of them. The confu-
sion that results makes business for
the lawyers and the beneficiaries
have the satisfaction of seeing their
heritage dwindle day by day. The
man who devises a rule to govern
all such cases will receive the appro-
bation of a public sick and tired of
these contests over the remains of
dead men,

 

    

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Perpetual

Half Fare

Trade Excursions
To Grand Rapids, Mich.

Good Every Day in the Week

The firms and corporations named below, Members of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, have
established permanent Every Day Trade Excursionsto Grand Rapids and will reimburse Merchants
visiting this city and making purchases aggregating the amount hereinafter stated one-half the amount of

‘their railroad fare. All that is necessary for any merchant making purchases of any of the firms named is to
request a statement of the amount of his purchases in each place where such purchases are made, and if the

total amount of same is as stated below the Secretary of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, Board of
Trade Building, 97-99 Pearl St.,

will pay back in cash to such person one-half actual railroad fare.
Amount of Purchases Required

 

 

If living within 50 miles purchases made from any member of the following firms aggregate at least................ $100 00
If living within 75 miles and over 50, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .................. 150 00
If living within roo miles and over 75, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ................. 200 00
If living within 125 miles and over 100, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ,................. 250 00
If living within 150 miles and over 125, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ........ ......... 300 00
If living within 175 miles and over 150, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .................. 350 00
If living within 200 miles and over 175, purchases made from y of the following firms aggregate .................. 400 00
If living within 225 miles and over 200, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .............. 2... 450 00
If living within 250 miles and over 225, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .................. 500 00

‘as purchases made of any other firms will not count toward the amount
of purchases required. Ask for ‘‘Purchaser’s Certificate’ as soon as

Read Carefully the Names

you are through buying in each place.

ACCOUNTING

CONFECTIONERS GROCERS READY ROOFING AND ROOF-
A. H. Morrill & Co.—Kirk A. E. Brooks & Co. Judson Grocer Co. 41NG MATERIAL
wood Short Credit System. Putnam Factory, Nat’l Candy Lemon & Wheeler Co. H. M. Reynolds Roofing Co.
— S we aoe oe SAFES
Doring Art Glass Studio. CLOTHING AND KNIT GOODS The Dettenthaler Market. Tradesman Company
BAKERS Clapp Clothing Co.

Hill Bakery
National Biscuit Co.

BELTING AND MILL SUP-
PLIES

Studley & Barclay
BICYCLES AND SPORTING
GooDs

W. B. Jarvis Co., Lted.

BILLIARD AND POOL TA-
BLES AND BAR FIX-
TURES

Brunswick-Balke-Collander Co.
BLA De LOOSE

Edwards-Hine Co.
BOOKS, STATIONERY AND
PAPER

Grand Rapids Stationery Co.

Grand Rapids Paper Co.

Mills Paper Co.
BREWERS

Grand Rapids Brewing Co.

CARPET SWEEPERS
Bissel Carpet Sweeper Co.

CARRIAGES

Brown & Sehler Co.
Sherwood Hall Co. Ltd.

CARRIAGE AND WAGON
HARDWARE
Sherwood Hall Co. Ltd.

COMMISSION—FRUiTS, BUT-
TER, EGGS, ETC.

Cc. D. Crittenden

E. E. Hewitt

Yuille-Zemurray Co.

CEMENT, LIME AND COAL

A. Himes

A. B. Knowlson

§. A. Morman & Co.

Wykes-Schroeder Co.

CIGAR MANUFACTURERS

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.
Geo. H. Seymour & Co.

CROCKERY, HOUSE .UR-
NISHINGS

Leonard Crockery Co.

DRUGS AND DRUG SBsUN-
DRIES

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

DRY GOODS
Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.
P. Steketee & Sons
ELECTRIC SUPPLIES
M. B. Wheeler Co.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS AND
PERFUMES

Jennings Manufacturing Co.

GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED
Valley City Milling Co.
Voigt Milling Co.
Wykes-Schroeder Co.

HARDWARE

Foster, Stevens & Co.
Clark-Rutka-Weaver Co.

HARNESS AND COLLARS
Brown & Sehler Co.
Sherwood Hall Co. Ltd.

HOT WATER—STEAM AND
BATH HEATERS.
Rapid Heater Co.
LIQUORS, WINES AND MIN-
ERAL WATERS.
The Dettenthaler Market.
MATTRESSES AND SPRINGS
H. B. Feather Co.
MEATS AND PROVISIONS.
The Dettenthaler Market.
MUSIC AND MUSICAL IN-
STRUMENTS
Julius A. J. Friedrich
OILS
Standard Oil Co.

PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS
Goble Bros.
Vv. C. Glass & Paint Co.
Walter French Glass Co.
Harvey & Seymour Co.
Heystek & Canfield Co.
Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.
PIPE, PUMPS, HEATING AND
MILL SUPPLIES
Grand Rapids Supply Co.

SADDLERY HARDWARE
Brown & Sehler Co.
Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.

PLUMBING AND HEATING
SUPPLIES
Ferguson Supply Co. Ltd.

SEEDS AND POULTRY SUP-
PLIES

A. J. Brown Seed Co.
SHOES, RUBBERS AND FIND-
INGS

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

Hirth, Krause & Co.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie &
Co. Ltd.

SHOW CASES AND STORE
FIXTURES

Grand Rapids Fixture Co.

STOVES AND RANGES
Wormnest Stove & Range Co.

TINNERS’ AND ROOFERS’
SUPPLIES

Wm. Brummeler & Sons
W. CG. Hopson & Co.

WHOLESALE TOBACCO AND
CIGARS

The Weodhouse Co.
UNDERTAKERS’ SUPPLIES
Durfee Embalming Fluid Co.
Powers & Walker Casket Co.

WAGON MAKERS
Harrison Wagon Co.

WALL FINISH
Alabastine Co.
Anti-Kalsomine Co.

WALL PAPER
Heystek & Canfield Co.

WHOLESALE FRUITS
Vinkemulder & Company
WHOLESALE MILLINERY.
Corl, Knott & Co., Ltd.

 

If you leave the city without having secured the rebate on your ticket, mail your certificates to the Grand Rapids Board
of Trade and the Secretary will remit the amount if sent to him within ten days from date of certificates.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

 

 

 

 

Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

It is not often that a liberal stock
of fresh eggs is allowed to accumu-
late in this market under shippers’
orders in expectation of a deficiency
in receipts, when the accumulations
are so well cleared under a realiza-
tion of the expected corfditions as
has been the case during the past
week.

The following table will give a
fair idea of the statistics of our mar-
ket during the past five weeks:

Week ending Rec’ts Accumulation
January 26 ....51,563 5,000
February 2 ....63,633 25,000
February 9 ....6%,764 40,000
February 16 ....49,028 20,000
February 23 ....43,491 4,000

It will be remembered that the pe-
riod of severe cold weather which led
to the speculative accumulation of
surplus fresh eggs here occurred
from about the close of January un-
til about February 5, and it is worth
noting that the full effect of this in-
terruption to production was not felt
in our receipts until the third week
afterward.

An analysis of the figures given in
the above table shows a considerable
variation in the apparent trade out-
put from our wholesale market dur-
ig the five weeks covered; this is
due to the variation in the disposi-
tion of jobbers and retailers to buy
ahead or to use stock on hand, and
also to the variation in out-of-town
trade. During the week ending Jan-
uary 26 local dealers were in many
cases buying considerable stock ahead,
which they were inclined to use up
the following week under the influ-
ence of heavy receipts, and as we
were at that time having very little
yut-of-town trade the wholesale out-
mut in week ending February 2 was
smaller than usual, and it was only
the rapid accumulation of surplus un-
der shippers’ orders that sustained the
market. During the two weeks ending
February 16 and February 23 we
enjoyed liberal out-of-town demands
_ which, with local trade carrying no
surplus and compelled to buy daily
for all needs, absorbed the accumu-
lations closely, cleaned up all the re-
maining storage eggs except a few
lots held by dealers or coffee men,
and left our market practically bare
just at the time when an increase of
receipts was about due.

It was a pretty good fit all around
and our market is now in shape to
slide downward toward the spring
basis in a most healthy and satisfac-
tory condition. i

At this writing there is some un-
certainty as to the rapidity of the in-
crease in supply which everybody be-
lieves is at hand. So far this week
advices of commission shipments have
not shown a large increase, but many
shippers who usually forward on com-
mission sold on track last week rath-
er than take chances of the amount
of break in this market, and it is gen-
erally expected that our increase for
the current week will amount to fully

 

as much as the amount of reserve
stock that we disposed of last week.
So far the receipts for two days,
22,180 cases, show an increase of 5,803
cases over the same two days of last
week. All reports indicate liberal
collections in most sections (ex-
cept the Northwest) and as consid-
erably lower prices will soon be per-
manently established receivers are
disposed to let the market down as
fast as necessary to insure a daily
clearance.

In the wake of the National pure
food law we may expect a train of
fool measures introduced in various
state legislatures, for once the ques-
tion of food regulation is taken up
there are always a lot of cranks who
are stimulated to air their notions. In
the Indiana Legislature we  under-
stand that a bill was introduced by

Senator Stephenson designed to pre-

vent the sale of eggs which had been
placed in an incubator or which were
in a decaying condition. Who is to
say when an egg is in a “decaying
condition?”

A similar bill was reported to have
been introduced in the Wisconsin
Legislature a short time ago and
some wag, evidently conscious of the
absurdity of such measures, introduc-
ed a bill providing that “every egg
producing fowl shall, upon proper
application made to the Secretary of
Agriculture, be provided with an au-
tomatic dating machine, and it shall
be the duty of every such fowl to
date consecutively each egg laid, in
order that the public may be proper-
ly informed as to the age and edible
qualities of such hen’s product.”

The distributing egg markets of the
country are approaching the season of
normally heavy receipts in unusually
healthy condition. All are practically
bare of accumulations and even the
jobbers and retail dealers are han-
dling goods from hand-to-mouth. It
may confidently be expected under
these conditions that we shall have
a very heavy distributing trade as
soon as full supplies come forward
and prices fall to what dealers will
generally consider to be bottom
prices. Should there be no further
return of severe wintry weather in
producing sections we shall probably
have a very heavy run of stock in
March. During the past five years
our March receipts have ranged from
340,257 cases in 1902 to 411,665 cases
in 1905; last year they were 301,197
cases, and if present weather condi-
tions continue we may count upon
a record breaker this year. But even
with upward of 400,000 cases next
month it is not probable that there
will be much surplus accumulated in
first hands; the trade is now so well
cleared that consumers will quickly
get the benefit of the decline in
the wholesale market, and the ex-
panding consumption will indice job-
bers and retailers to carry larger
working stocks, which alone will-ab-
sorb many thousands of cases.—N. Y.
Produce Review.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Never mind how the market goes—if you
can ship us fancy fresh stock—we can use

You Don’t Have to Worry

about your money—or the price you will th in: rices—i ‘
get— when you ship your small lots of fancy Dept. ee aid Caer
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. :

 

 

 

 

W. 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, prone Companies; Trade Papers and Hundreds of
ppers

Established 1873

 

 

A New Commission House

We get you the highest prices. We give you a square deal.
We send the money right back.
We can sell your Poultry, Veal, Hogs, Butter, Eggs, Cheese,
in fact anything vou have to sell.

BRADFORD & CO., 7 N. Ionia 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.

 

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

41-16 Ottawa St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

Clover and Timothy

All orders filled promptly at market: value.

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

 

 

 

 

ESTABLISHED 1876

We Sell All Kinds

Field Seeds,

Peas, Beans,
Apples,

Onions, Potatoes.
If wishing to sell or buy, communicate with us.

MOSELEY BROS., wno esate DEALERS AND SHIPPERS
Office and Warehouse Second Ave. and Railroad.
BOTH PHONES 1217 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

 

 

$7,000

worth of SAGINAW NOISELESS TIPS sold in Grand Rapids in 20 days by
C.D. CRITTENDEN CO. We want all merchants to share
in these good matches. Order some to-day.

C. D. Crittenden Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Wholesale Butter, Eggs, Cheese and Produce

 

  

 

 

 

 

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

New York, Mar. 2—As the season
advances there seems to be a little
better demand for spot coffees and
jobbers generally report quite a satis-
factory condition this week. There
is a firm tone and sellers seem quite
hopeful notwithstanding large stocks.
At the close Rio No. 7 is worth 7%c.
In store and afloat there are 3,995,-
552 bags, against 4,131,068 bags at the
same time last year. The receipts of
coffee at Rio and Santos from July
I, 1906, to Feb. 28, 1907, aggregated
14,871,000 bags, or almost 5,000,000
bags more than for the whole of last
season, when the receipts for twelve
months at the two ports were 9,968,-

ooo bags. Mild grades have been in
moderate request, but quotations
seem well maintained. East Indias

are steady.

Within a day or so sugar has ex-
perienced a more active call, and it
may be the forerunner of spring and
summer trade. The situation for
granulated is very firm and quota-
tions show a tendency to advance,
although 4.60c less I per cent. cash
is about the correct rate.

Orders for teas have been individ-
ually rather small, and buyers are not
disposed to purchase ahead of cur-
rent requirements. <As_ previously
noted most strength is shown in low-
grade Indias, Ceylons and Congous.

There has been a fairly satisfactory
jobbing trade in rice and quotations
are firm. This seems especially true
of Japan, which is not in large sup-

ply. Choice to fancy domestic head,
44%4@534c; Japan, common, 3%4@
454c.

Spices are doing well and jobbers
have had good call from grinders for
cloves, nutmeg, mace and black pep-
per. Other articles show no varia-
tion from the usual every-day de-
mand.

Holders of molasses are firm and
stocks are pretty well reduced. Most
of the business seems, however, to be
of withdrawals under old contracts,
and there is little new. Good _ to
prime centrifugal, 27@35c. Syrups
are steady and the market is pretty
well cleaned up.

It is said that 81c is about the min-
imum rate for future tomatoes and
brokers are finding packers very firm
in their views. Cans have been ad-
vanced, and taking the upward ten-
dency on almost everything that en-
tets into the goods, no surprise need
be felt if the range tends to con-
stantly higher rates. Little new can
be reported of spot goods, which are

 

held at about 924%4@o7c. Corn is dull |

for spot and there seems as yet to be
nothing doing in futures. Peas are
selling well and holders are very firm.
Other goods are quiet and showing
little, if any, change.

Butter shows scarcely any change.
The supply is apparently equal to the
demand and extra Western creamery
is quotable at 33'4@34c; seconds to
firsts, 26@32c; imitation creamery, 24
@27¢; factory, 19!14@20%c for sec-
onds and 21@21%c for firsts; reno-
vated, 22@25c.

Cheese is in fair demand and stocks
are running light. Full cream has
advanced to 15c, but the quality must
be choice to bring this price.

Heavy supplies of eggs are confi-
dently looked for next week and a
big tumble may be expected. At the
moment, however, quotations are
very well sustained at 27%c for fin-
est selected Western and 27c for
firsts.

-_—-2o-o- oo
Large Automobile Plant in Prospect.

Adrian, March 5—Manufacture of
an automobile which it is believed
will revolutionize the business will be
taken up by J. Wallace Page, Presi-
dent of the Page Wire Fence Co. Mr.
Pag made this announcement to the
Business Men’s Association. He says
he will establish a business which
will employ several hundred men and
turn out several thousand machines 13
year.

One of the cars, built nearly a year
ago, has been in constant service in
this city and vicinity and has run sev-
eral thousand miles without accident
or breakdown. It has been submit-
ted to the severest tests in all weath-
ers and circumstances.

The. Ideal Fence Co., this city’s
youngest industrial organization, has
purchased the large plant of the
Adrian Brick & Tile Machine Ceo.,
which has been standing idle for
some time. The consideration is not

announced. The building is a fine
three-story brick structure. The pur-
chase also included the machinery-

and the company, in addition to mak-
ing fence, will continue to do a gen-
eral business in heavy machine work.
The company is capitalized at $100,-
000.
Miss Otilla J. Becker has retired
from the management of the advertis-
ing department of the Page Fence
Co. : Miss Becker started with the
company nine years ago as stenogra-
pher. She rose gradually through
successive grades until, when Dr. Rey-
nolds died two years ago, she was
chosen to succeed him.
——_»-2-

The most heavenly pictures seen on
earth are men and women doing
common loving kindnesses.

——_.++.—__

Health is a large part of happiness
and happiness of health, while both
are essential to holiness.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

   

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Secondhand Egg Cases
For Sale Cheap

Write at once for particulars to

HARRISON BROS. CO.
9 So. Market St. Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

 

 
    
    
   
 
    
    
  
  
   
   
   

BUTTER We offer 23%c delivered here for this week’s shipment
good roll butter.

EGGS Highest market price remitted soon as sold.

Our pure Michigan Syrup and Sugar Cakes will satisfy your most
critical maple trade and are labeled to comply with all State and Federal
laws. Our guarantee has been filed with the U. S. Government and ac-
cepted and Serial No. 5463 assigned to us.

Price List Pure Michigan Sugar Cakes
¥.O8 2 1b: cakes, Sa lbs: to the box, per lb....3.. ..._....5....2.... ...9¢
5 oz. cakes, to retail 5c, 40 lbs. to the box, per Ib..... .......... .-.. 9c
Pure Michigan Syrup

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§ galion jacketed cans, per gallon. ....:.....:..-2......0. 2, .80

Order two or more packages, either sugar or syrup.
OUR OFFER We will prepay freight charges.

Sample every package. If they suit you and are in every way satis-
factory, remit the price within ten days.

If you are not entirely suited, return at our expense and you have not a
cent to pay. We take all the risk. Can an offer be fairer?

Order now for immediate or future delivery. Can be ordered through
your wholesale grocer.

Free sample by mail on request.

Stroup & Carmer, Grand Rapids, Mich.

  

 

 

  

Butter

I would like all the fresh, sweet dairy

  
 

butter of medium quality you have to

send.

American Farm Products Co.
Owosso, Mich.

 

 

ESTABLISHED
1883

MANUFACTURERS AND
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

WEALTHY AVE. AND S.

WYKES & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO WYKES-SCHROEDER CO.

FLOUR, GRAIN & MILL-PRODUCTS

IONIA ST.

THOS. E. WYKES
CLAUDE P. WYKES

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

 

 

 

 

Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President F. N. Mosher, Port uron;
Secretary, Frank L. Day, Jackson; Treas-
urer, John B. Kelley, Detroit.

 

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Grand Counselor, W. D. Watkins, Kal-

— Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy,
nt.

Grand Rapids Council No 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, W. . Simmons;
Secretary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

How To Make Quality Justify Price.

There are a great many salesmen,
in all lines of business no doubt, who
are so accustomed to hearing their
prices complained of by customers
that they have almost involuntarily
come to take the customer’s point of
view in this matter of price.

A certain percentage of prospective
sales must be lost, in any line,
through the fact that the salesman
is not at liberty to reduce the price
which the house has given him. A
house can better afford to lose such
sales than compromise on the matter
of an equitable price. But when an
order is lost in this way it is natural
for some salesmen to wish that the
price had not been so high; and this
wish begets the idea that the price
demanded by the company is not
justifiable.

There are salesmen who, not hav-
ing the ability to get trade in spite
of a high price, are more willing to
consider the house exorbitant than to
consider themselves unequal to the
work entrusted to them—which is
that of not only selling goods but
upholding the price while doing so.

These salesmen have not the met-
tle that is particularly necessary in
their business. It is the duty as well
as the interest of every salesman to
side with his house on this question,
the same as he sides with it on the
question of quality. He should main-
tain that its prices are right and that
they are significant merely of his
firm’s importance and the excellence
of its service to the trade.

So far from pulling against the
house on this subject of price the
salesman should, whenever the op-
portunity presents itself, do a little
missionary work with a view to mak-
ing it practicable for his firm to ask
still higher prices for these goods in
the future.

If the firm is to prosper—and by
prospering to help its salesmen to
prosper—it must exercise its legiti-
mate right to get as high a price as
it can for the goods it sells. It can
exercise this right only with the sup-
port and co-operation of its salesmen.
But there are a great many salesmen
who fail to see this; who think only
of how much less exertion it would
take to get orders if goods were
given away instead of sold at right
prices, and who do not look so far
ahead as to calculate what the effect
would be upon their house and upon
themselves if right prices were not
maintained.

Instead of thinking of the price ob-
jection as a difficulty, a salesman
would do better to welcome such an
objection from his customer—simply

 

because it offers him an opportunity,
first, to prove to the customer the
special merit and  desirableness of
the goods; second, to prove to himself
and to his house his own special ca-
pability as a salesman.

By gaining the first point—that is,
by. proving to the customer that the
price is right—he paves the way for a
future campaign when he shall offer
still greater values at still higher
prices, and make for his company
and for himself a still larger margin
of profit.

One of the best salesmen in our
employ formerly traveled for a lamp
factory. While he was on the road
with that line his house sent him a
sample of a new specialty—one which
was particularly attractive and quite
different from other items in the line
—but in sending it the house omitted
to inform the salesman as to the price
he was to ask for this item. The
salesman wrote to his manager ask-
ing the price, but he did not wait for
his manager’s reply before starting
out to get orders for this new spe-
cialty. From appearance he judged
the article to be worth about $6.50 a
dozen, and this therefore was the
price which he quoted to the trade.
He heard no murmurs against the
price and a good many of his cus-
tomers bought from one to twenty-
five gross at that figure—the sales-
man stipulating in each case that the
order would have to be passed upon
by his home office before it should be
considered valid. He had an idea
that perhaps he was asking too little,
and this stipulation was meant as a
safeguard in the event that the arti-
cle proved to be worth more than he
had calculated. Judge of this sales-
man’s ‘surprise when he received an
answer to the letter of enquiry which
he had sent his manager; in this an-
swer the manager requested him to
sell the article at $2.75 a dozen. There
was even a postscript to the mana-
ger’s letter warning him against cut-
ting that price of $2.75 per dozen!

There was considerable enthusiasm
at the home office when it was learned
that this salesman had been booking
orders right along for this article at
$6.50.

We know that some salesmen will
never run beyond a certain amount
per month or per annum, and this is
their own fault exclusively. There is
practically no limit to the amount of
goods a man can sell. What he re-
quires is ambition, push and energy
and to be wide awake. :

The self-satisfied salesman never
gets great results. He stays at the
same old 6’s and 7’s year in and year
out, and naturally at the same rate of
salary or commission.

How much better it would be if
that kind of salesman would check
himself up short and stop to think
about as follows: “Last year I sold
$30,000 worth of goods and received
so much for my work. With a little

can sell perhaps $45,000 to $60,000
worth, and when I do that the house
must pay me a great deal more or I
will go where my services are better
appreciated.” That is the sort of talk
that wins.

If twenty salesmen all started out
at one time it would be found (in the

 

course of twelve months’ time or
less) that three to five out of the
twenty -men had push and ambition
to lift themselves up out of the rut.
These will not only sell twice as
much goods as the other fifteen, but
will also make greater profits. They
see the opportunities and know how
to grasp them.

One never pleases a merchant by
selling him cheap goods; he simply
loses confidence in you and if he
finds you are easy he will never be
satisfied with the prices you give
him. He will always think you have
something else up your sleeve, and
by a little extra bluffing he will force
you down a little lower still in prices.

Having worked you he shows your
sales ticket to the next salesman in
the same line, and makes him come
down in his prices, also, since the
next man has perhaps not nerve
enough (in the face of what he has
seen you do) to uphold his own
prices. The result is a general demor-
alization of trade and prices and the
ultimate letting out of the salesmen
guilty of that sort of practice.

Much moral courage and skill are
required to be a_ successful sales-
man. Have a price and stick to it.
Make your talk about quality your
main argument. Show them that that
particular article you are discussing
at the moment is worth fully the price
you ask, and you are not permitted
to cut.

When the merchant sees you are
firm and can not be imposed upon
he may refuse to do business with
you for the time being, or may pos-
sibly cut down his order, but there
is one thing certain—he appreciates
the fact that you can not be trifled
with, and that you will not stand for
any cutting of prices. This leads
him to the conviction that your qual-
ities are right.

Firmness, together with sound,
wholesome, intelligent argument, will
give him confidence in you, and he
will give you credit for being honest
and sincere. Exercise a little judg-
ment and he will understand that you
have only one price, and that that
price is the lowest that could be
asked consistently with the superiori-
ty of your product.

Selling goods is entirely a matter
of meriting, winning and retaining
confidence. Be pleasant with the mer-
chant—don’t brag, don’t boast, don’t
run down competitors; speak well of
everybody, be a careful listener and
treat with respect and consideration
the opinions of the merchant. Fig-
uratively speaking, if he says black is
white, don’t argue with him more
than is absolutely necessary in order
to correct some mistaken impression
about the goods themselves.

We don’t mean by this that a
salesman should not have ideas of
his own. We simply mean that it
does not pay to get into arguments

lon subjects foreign to the salesman’s
extra exertion, with harder work, I

line of ‘business. Religion, politics
and local squabbles should be left
severely alone. Any country town
has enough local quarrels to disrupt
a firm’s business if noticed—H. C.
Grote in Salesmanship.

——__2>..—___

The good we do is the best antidote
to the ill we rue.

Journalistic Enterprise.

One of the favorite comments made
when contemplating modern facili-
ties for transmitting information and
for annihilating distances to be cov-
ered by travelers is, “This old world
isn’t so very large, after all.”
And it loses considerable force
when one realizes that, ~ beginning
Nov. I, 1906, there has been in oper-
ation during the past three months
an International Exhibition of In-
dustries, mineral, agricultural, pomo-
logical and live stock products, ed-
ucational, art and scientific displays
at Christchurch, New Zealand, and
that this exhibition will not close un-
til about April to.

The enterprise is under the patron-
age of the colonial government and
has nearly every government on the
globe represented among its displays,
in spite of the 8,000 miles of sea
between Christchurch and San Fran-
cisco, the 1,500 miles to Australia
and the 3,500 miles to China. More-
over, in spite of these distances, it is
estimated that upward of 400,000 vis-
itors from various parts of the world
have already attended the exhibition,
having made the long journeys for
that especial purpose.

So far as the daily journals in the
United States are concerned and so
far as a very large majority of the
industrial interests of this country
seem to be aware, no such _ exhibi-
tion has been or is being held. It is
simply and utterly being ignored by
them.

The grounds occupied by this exhi-
bition comprise the 400 acres of land
known as Hagley Park, and are with-
in a quarter of a mile of the com-
mercial center of the city of Christ-
church, and the buildings and
grounds in their landscape and light-
ing effects are said to be quite on x
par with similar effects at the recent
American exhibitions of that charac-
ter. While a large proportion of the
foreign patronage of the exhibition
came from Australia, Tasmania and
India, it is estimated that over 25,-
ooo Americans have visited the en-
terprise and have expressed unquali-
fied admiration for its completeness,
its very superior management and
the wonderfully interesting variety of
exhibits.

There are still about two months
of the Southern fall season before
the winter in that country will put
in an appéarance, so that even now
the phenomenal American newspaper
still has time to find out and demon-
strate to its public that after all this
old world isn’t so very large.

 

 

 

Like the Little Red School
House in the poem

Hotel Livingston
is ‘thalf way up the hill”

No more

convenient location

Just high enough to catch
the freshest, purest air

 

 

 

 

  

   

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

41

 

Annual Banquet of Grand Rapids
Council.

The annual banquet of Grand Rap-
ids Council No. 131, U. C. T., which
was held at the Hotel Pantlind last
Saturday evening, proved to be one
of the most enjoyable affairs of the
kind ever held under the auspices of
that organization.

After the invocation by Rev. S. T.
Morris and a discussion of the menu,
whieh was served in eight, courses,
Toastmaster Btirns introduced the
oratorical programme with the fol-
lowing remarks:

We are again assembled here to ex-
emplify the teachings of our word Unity.
What a great subject for a sermon in this
word ‘‘Unity.”’ Nothing can_ succeed
without it. There must be unity in the
home in order to secure happiness. In

 

 

W. S. Burns

 

business unity must play an important
part for the greatest success. The church
must be united in order to do the great-
est possible good. This order has been
able, by acting unitedly, to be of great
assistance and comfort to its members and
their families. There are others here who
will tell you of its benefits. Not only
have we accomplished much in a mone-
tary way, but we have been able to ac-
complish much in rectifying certain evils.
bringing influence to bear which has se-
cured for us, as well as the traveling pub-
lic, conveniences which we_ otherwise
could not enjoy had we not acted united-
ly. The future was never brighter for
our beloved order than it is to-day. I
believe it the duty of every citizen to in-
terest himself in public affairs. We are
all inclined to be negligent of civic mat-
ters. The commercial traveler, if he will,
can be a great power for good in the
community. It is true that many of us
are deprived of voting by being out on
our trips at the time of voting, but how
much more good we can do by using our
influence with our customers in moulding
public sentiment, in urging them to vote
for the best man. I presume that each
of us will average three hundred custom-
ers. We have in this council 250 members.
If we would use our influence success-
fully with 50 per cent. of them, we could
reach 40,000 voters. They, in turn, would
influence a like number. Thus it can be
easily seen that the power of the com-
mercial traveler can be made the greatest
power on earth for good. President Mc-
Kinley attributed his first election to the
commercial traveler. Now, how far_as
an order shall we go into politics? We
should interest ourselves to the extent of
seeing that good men are elected to office
—men who will best represent and care
for our interests and the interests of the
people at large. It has been the custom
of great corporations to have lobbyists to
protect their interests and, _ unless we
make ourselves felt in the political world,
we can expect but little consideration.
When once we discover a man loyal to
our interests, then we must be loyal to
him. For instance, we commercial trav-
elers have felt that we have been un-
justly dealt with as regards mileage books
by the railroads of this State. Had you
or I as individuals gone to the railroad
officials and asked for a hearing, we
would have received but little considera-
tion, but when we act unitedly we re-
ceive some attention. :
The railroads, by clothing the Bailey
Act in ambiguous language, were able to
pass at the last Legislature, the most
damnable and disreputable law ever per-
petrated. on a civilized community. If
your wife, your child or anyone in the
State of Michigan is killed by a railroad,

 

and they have no one depending upon
them for support, damages can not be re-
covered, even though the railroad admits
that death was caused by carelessness.
Fifty per cent. of the people of Michigan
are traveling to-day at their own risks.
I am thankful to say the author of this
bill went down to defeat at the hands of
the commercial traveler last fall.

There are more accidents in the United
States than in all England, Germany and
France together. At this day and age a
device to increase speed finds a ready
market, but a device to protect life is a
drug on the market. The man who sees
that this unjust law is repealed should
receive the everlasting gratitude from the
hearts of his people.

W. D. Simmons and O. F. Jackson
spoke briefly in regard to the merits
of the order and the advaritages of
maintaining membership therein.

Governor Warner spoke mainly on
the subject of the proposed 2 cent law
and presented statistics which conclu-
sively disproved the contentions of the
railroads that they can not afford to
go on the 2 cent basis. He formaly
announced that he favored the ex-
emption of the law in the case of
railroads whose passenger receipts
fall short of $1,000 a mile.

Railway Commissioner Glasgow
spoke at considerable length, his
speech being the leading feature of the
evening. He referred to the charac-
teristics which serve to make a trav-
eling man successful and cited many
illustrations in substantiation of his
position to the effect that only sober,
cheerful and energetic salesmen can
ultimately succeed.

Wm. Judson spoke briefly and point-
edly on the advantages of organiza-
tion.

John Snitseler was down for a talk
on the Credit Man, but interspersed
his remarks with a number of apt il-
lustrations and amusing incidents
which brought down the house.

Mrs. S. H. Simmons spoke for the
wives of the traveling men in a way
that reflects much credit on her ob-

 

 

C. L. Glasglow

 

servation and acumen.

Frank A. Symonds presented the
husband’s side of the question in a
manner that proved to be entirely sat-
isfactory to the audience. Jefferson
Webb gave a number of excellent im-
personations and Rev. S. T. Morris
closed the programme with a talk on
the moral side of the traveling sales-
man.

Excellent music was furnished by
Miss Minnie Reynolds and Miss Wini-
fred Meech and a quartette of travel-
ing men composed of Harold Rutka,
Walter R. Rider, E. C. Jones and A.

Cordial Greetings from the New
President.

Port Huron, March 5—In assuming
the position of President of the Mich-
igan Knights of the Grip, to which
you have elected me, I can assure
you that I appreciate and thank you
for the honor and the confidence
shown in one who has never been
prominent in an official way before.

We have an Association to be
proud of, founded on principles of
brotherly love and protection to its
members and earnest in its efforts
for the welfare of all commercial
travelers, as is shown by the fact
that in the eighteen years of our
existence we have bettered our con-
ditions by improved service among
hotels, bus and baggage lines and
with transportation companies. Much
of this is due directly to the efforts
of our Association, but greater than
all these has been the ever-ready
helping hand which has been extend-
ed to brothers in distress and to the

 

 

Frank N. Mosher

 

sorrowing family of some brother
who has made his last trip and gone
to his long home, never more to cheer
and contribute to the support of the
wife and little ones, or, perhaps, to
the dear father and mother.
Brothers, our records, which are
open to all members, will show many
deeds of charity of which you little

know or think while enjoying the
blessings of good health, and the
good that our death benefits have

done can only be realized by those
te whom this affliction has come, and
which of us can say who will go
next?

Since organization our Association
has paid nearly five hundred death
claims in full. Many contributions
for charity have been called for and re-
sponded to in a liberal manner by
our members. Twenty-five of our
brothers departed this life during the
year 1906. Since Jan. 1, 1907, four
more have been called to lay down
their grips for the last time. Let us
stop and think what all this struggle
for an existence is for and what
the end will be. It is a well-known
fact that but few of us lay up much
of this world’s goods for the pro-
verbial rainy day, and except in as-
sociations like ours what protection
do we leave for those that are near
and dear to us to keep the wolf from

 

 

K. Marriott.

the door when we are gone?

I appeal to you, brothers, to take
an individual interest in building up

the membership of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, have always
ready an application blank, solicit

your fellow traveler to become a
member of one of the best organiza-
tions of commercial travelers in the
world, show him the good we have
done, tell him he is, if a traveler in
Michigan, enjoying the fruits of our
labor in the way of an acceptable
mileage book, not obtained by any
other state; good hotels and land-
lords, many of whom are honorary
members of our Association, and our
interests are looked after by ener-
getic, earnest men on _ important
committees, such as Railroad, Legis-
lative, Bus and Baggage and Em-
ployment and Relief, to which com-
mittees all matters of dispute or for
the betterment of conditions can be
referred, with the assurance that the
matter will be taken up promptly
and adjusted fairly.

No member need hesitate a moment
to report any just claim or griev-
ance to the proper committee or to
any officer of the Association.

In conclusion, brothers, I wish
again to thank you for the honor of
being your President. I shail take
a deep interest and pride in our
good work and hope you, one and all,
individually and_ collectively, wil!
show your friendship for me and our
cause by sending in as many appli-
cations for membership as _ possible.

 

Don’t stop with one, get several—and
then get -some more.
Organize local posts where you

have sufficient members, get the la-
dies interested by organizing a Wom-
an’s Auxiliary. The social features
connected with this are a great help
to our Association, bringing togeth-
er, as they do, our members and their
families for a closer acquaintance,
which begets more interest and bet-
ter work for all. The present officers
of the State Woman’s Auxiliary are:
Mrs. C. W. Stone, President, Kala-
mazoo; Mrs. W. B. Hogue, Secretary,
601 Lincoln avenue, Detroit, to whom
I refer you for information.

I wiil thank any member for sug-
gestions that tend to build up our
membership and the good of the or-
der and will promptly answer all
letters.

Give me your support and I will
prove that I am a worker. Remember
in union there is strength.

Frank N. Mosher, Pres.

 

Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.

Buffalo, March 6—Creamery, fresh,
27@33c; dairy, fresh, 20@28c; poor to
common, 18@z2oc; roll, 23@25c.

Eggs—Fancy, 20c; choice, 19¢.

Live Poultry — Springs, 13@14c;
fowls, 13@t4c; ducks, 15@16c; old

cox, 9c; geese, Io@tic; turkeys, 14
@i6vc.

Dressed Poultry—Fowls, 13@15c;
chickens, 13@15c; old cox, Ioc; tur-
keys, 16@2o0c; ducks, 16@18c; geese,
1Oo@I2c.

Beans — Pea, hand-picked, $1.45;
marrow, $2.25@2.40; mediums, $1.50@
1.60; red kidney, $2.25@2.35; white
kidney, $2.40@2.50.

Potatoes—White, 45c; mixed and

 

red, 40c. Rea & Witzig.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

 

 

 

 

 

wee Board of cere.
ne H.
Secretary—Sid.
Treasurer—W. n Collins, Owosso; J. D.
te ng Grand Rapids; Arthur H. Webber,

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
on.
President—John L. Wallace, Kalama-

Z00.
First Vice-President—G. W. Stevens,
Detroit.

gg eo Vice-President—Frank L. Shil-

1 ng.
wtinird Vice-President—Owen Raymo,
‘ayne.
vee A 3 = ot Ann Arbor.
Treasure’ Spring, Unionville.
Executive ¢ Commute T O. Schlotter-
Ann Arbor; F. N. Maus, Kalama-
zoo; John S. —— Lansing; Minor BE.
Keyes, Detroit; E. Way, Jackson.

 

How They Lighted Their Cigars.

A Frenchman a German, an Eng-
lishman and an American were sitting
before an open fire, each one telling
of the greatness of his native land.

The Frenchman took from his wal-
let a dollar bill, rolled it up, touched
it to the coals and lighted a cigar
with it.

The others were impressed, and
soon the German opened his wallet,
brought forth a ten-dollar bill, rolled
it up, touched it to the coals and
lighted his cigar with it.

The Englishman thought it  ex-
tremely foolish, but he could not be
outdone nor have it appear that Eng-
land was not the richest of all, so he
calmly took a one hundred dollar bill
and sacrificed it to light his cigar.

The American looked on in won-
der. He hadn’t even a dollar bill with
him and yet he knew he represented
the leading race of all—which
never outwitted nor outdone by any
one or any country; so he quietly
drew forth a check book, wrote
check for $10,000 on a prominent
New York bank, duly signed it, roll-
ed it up, touched it to the coals and
lighted his cigar with it, while his
companions watched him with inter-
est and curiosity.

 

was

—_————_.>-o.-o_——
Decolorizing of Tincture of Iodine.

Having a call recently for some col-
orless tincture of iodine, and being
out of sodium hyposulphite, I tried
a few drops of hypophosphorous acii
instead as an experiment. It worked
like a charm. In a few minutes I had
a perfectly clear liquid with no sedi-
ment.

In decolorizing iodine with sodium
hyposulphite, sodium iodide and so-
dium tetrothionate are formed. In
decolorizing it with hypophosphor-
ous acid, hydriodic acid and. phos-
phoric acid are formed. In neither
case, consequently, is any free iodine
left in the solution, and this is why
all decolorized preparations of iodine
are worthless.

No phosphorus is set free in using
hypophosphorous acid. as the decol-
orizing agent, however, and so no
fear need be felt on that score.

: M. M. Black.

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Population To Jump Fifteen Thou-
sand.
Battle Creek, March s5—The feel-
ing that the new Grand Trunk car
shops, to be constructed in this city

this-summer, will become one of the

 

.|000 being already in the hands

 

largest industries in America, which
belief is encouraged by admissions
from high officials of the road,- is
more general now than it was before
work began.

American railroads are now having
a very hard time to secure _ steel
cars, orders amounting to $150,000,-
of
the steel car building companies oi
Pittsburg and other districts for this
year.

Enquiries to these industries show
that orders for $30,000,000 more will
follow. Practically every steel car
building company in the country is
booked ahead for more than a-year,
and the need of more cars is becom-
ing more urgent than ever.

The completion of the Grand
Trunk’s $3,000,000 car shops here,
covering 120 acres, will undoubtedly
mean immediate work in manufactir-
ing the cars and locomotives needed
on the company’s own lines, and then
those required by the Grand Trunk
Pacific, now under construction.

As the shops will unquestionably
have to work night and day for the
first year or two years, at least, t
is very evident that the statement
that 3,000 workmen would be em-
ployed is not so far from right after
all. As the employment of such an
army of men would mean the increas-
ing of the local population by from
10,000 to 15,000, the city has scarcely
been able as yet to comprehend what
the new shops mean to this city.

Supervising Engineer Eastman,
who says work will begin on laying
steel April 1, declares that the shops
will be the most modern in America,
adopting every new device which in-
dividual concerns have tested.

The Union Steam Pump Co. has
begun to widen its territory for fu-
ture building purposes, having ac-

quired all land between Noble, Madi-
son and Jefferson streets except the
corner occupied by the Saratoga Ho-
tel. The property was sold by War-
ham Noble, of Chicago, and plans
will be made for machine shops ani
power plants to be erected on the site.

At the Hygienic Food Co.’s plant,
South McCamly street, the roof has
been pushed up and a fifth story add-
ed, increasing facilities considerably.
A wing five stories high is also be-
ing added.

—__.22——__
More Trouble.

“More trouble!” sighed a horny-
handed son of toil, putting on his
coat. “If it ain’t one thing it’s an-
other.”

“What is the matter now?”
his wife.

“More labor troubles,”
the toiler.

“Not another lock-out, I hope?”
queried the partner of his sorrows.

queried

answered

“No, it’s worse than that,” answer-
ed the alleged head of the house.

“The firm has yielded and I’ve got
to go to work again!”

——_.-.>—_—_
Got Him Into Trouble.
Deacon—By the way, that man

Brown you married a year ago, has
he paid you your fee yet?

Clergyman—No; the last time I re-
minded him of it he said I’d be for-
tunate if he didn’t sue me for dam-
ages,

 

Earnestness Pays Big Dividends.
of labor—a
whose large success has set him up-

An employer man

on an irremovable pinnacle in his field
of activity—was asked to give an idea
for publication. He reflected for a
moment and then said:

“T would place a substantial value
on earnestness. In the end I believe
it pays the biggest dividends. I do
not wish to speak of myself, but I
shall try to elaborate the idea briefly
and generally. The man who _ has
genuine earnestness all through life is
bound to get somewhere ultimately—-
to do something worth while. He
may, and undoubtedly will, make mis-
takes like the rest of creation, but
he goes at everything with a set pur-
pose. If he finds himself on the
wrong track, if one policy or course
fails, proves weak, untrue or unfeasi-
ble, he doesn’t swerve, lounge in idle-
ness, give way to gloom, despair or
dissipation. He just buckles his belt
a notch tighter and goes at it again
on another tack.

“The earnest man, nine times in
ten, has it in him to labor tirelessly
in the accomplishment of a desired
purpose, and, moreover, he will have
that purpose fixed and outlined before
him. He takes pride and pleasure in
his work. He wants to do something
that counts. He is never a blowhard
or a braggart. He is intent on re-
sults, and what others say or what
goes on around him bothers him not
at all. Earnestness and intelligence
give birth to great achievement and
surmount difficulty with ease. The
earnest man seldom wastes his time.
He knows that that man’s best
possession and he is ever reluctant to
put off until to-morrow what may be
done to-day that he may indulge in
amusements. I would rather be sur-
rounded by earnest men who can not
be dishonest or careless than by 2
horde of others claiming the hall
mark of genius and carrying its ir-
responstbilities..—-N. Y¥. Commercial.

ear
Where the Governor Made a Mis-
take.

A couple of years ago
one of the Southern
to Paim Beach, Florida, for a short
holiday. He registered at one of the
magnificent hotels and was assigned
to a luxurious suite of rooms. He
was comfortably installed when a
friend came in to call on him.

"oans 1-2

is

a Governor

Of

wonderful apartment

they have given you,” said the vis-
itor.

“Why, yes,” replied the Govern-
or, “I’ve never enjoyed such luxury

in my life. Never saw such a place!
They just showed me to these rooms,
but I’ve been wondering if they real-
ized that I was a poor man. What
do you suppose they'll charge me?”

“Well, Governor,’ answered the
other, “I happen to know about that.
The last man, a railroad President
from New York, paid $75 a day for
these very rooms.”

“Scissors to grind!” cried the un-
fortunate politician, “I’ve only got
$so. I'll have to leave at once. But
look here, Jim, I. don’t want to con-
fess I can’t pay for at least one day
so you go down to the station and
telegraph me to come home at once.

   

 

I will meet you at the station within
an hour.”

When the Governor arrived at the
station he found the friend waiting
as he had arranged.

“You got my telegram all right?”
enquired the acquaintance.

“Got it!’ said the Governor in a
despairing voice, “I should say so. I
believe I am the unluckiest man alive.
Why, when I went to ask for my bill
what-do you suppose the clerk said?
He told me there was no bill—said
they would be honored if I stayed a

9?

week!

a
Collecting Bad Debts.

A grocer with many bad debts on
his books has adopted a plan for
making his slow patrons come to time
that is both original and effective.
The grocer has a large cardboard in
his store winodw on which are writ-
ten the names of those having aged
accounts, with the statement that he
needs money and will take 90 cents
on the dollar for the accounts. Aft-
ter allowing the first notice to remain
in the window one week the grocer
replaces it with a second notice, stat-
ing that his monetary needs are very
great, and that now he will take 75
cents on the dollar for the accounts.
At the end of the second week he re-
duces his price to 50 per cent. of their
face value. By this time, if his bad
debtors have failed to settle he re-
places the last card with another an-
nouncing that he will accept sealed
bids for the accounts. He says that
he has used this plan for the past
year, and that in every instance but
one his backward debtors came in and
settled in full rather than underg)
the humiliation of having their names
posted indefinitely in the grocer’s
window.

This plan might be adopted with
equally good results by butchers.
although it rather seems as if the re-
tailer who employs it confesses to a
certain business inability in that he
fails to collect his debts.

LIQUOR
MORPHINE

Ee 27 Voars Success
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Buonymus . ro. Potassa, Bitart pr 80 Kine 2.7.0. 50
Myrica Cerifera. Potass Nitras opt Lobelia .......... 60
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sue oa @ Cannabis Sativa Centraria ....... 10
mmoniac ...... @ Cydonium ...... Cataceum ....... 5
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Guaiacum ..po

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Qpiym: 660. ee es 3 80@3

Shellac 60 2

Shellac, * bleached

Tragacant Ha. c 70@1

Herba

Absinthium ..... 4 50@4

Eupatorium oz pk 20
belia ..... ozs pk

Majorum ...oz pk
Mentra Pip. oz pk
Mentra Ver. oz pk
RUG: 2. cs se oz pk
Tanacetum ..V...
Thymus V.. oz pk

Magnesia

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Carbonate, Pat..
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Sinapis Nigra ...
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Frumenti D. 3 7:

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Spt Vini Galli ..

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Vina Alba ......

Sponges

Florida Sheeps’ wool
carriage .......8 00
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carriage

Velvet extra sheeps’

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Extra yellow sheeps’

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Grass sheeps’ wool,

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Yellow Reef, for

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Morphia, SN YQ 2 45@2
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Piper Al ae -
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Gelatin, French . 35 60
Glassware, fit box 75
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cee tae AaNCY ....... A ll Stiear 625s...
= ica eaeaeeeaian 3 "sa box $ 49| Gallon ........... 2 60) Baker's = eae Nie Mace 8
= eS io pt 2doz. box’ 7 Raspberries Cleveland ............ 41 | Oatmeal Crackers 8
po ee Sawyer's Pepper Box Standard ....... Colonial, %s .......... 35]/Orange Gems ...... i
eese i coerce eeee 3 y Per Gross “tb Russian Cavlar 3 75 Colonial, %s ......... 33 ond ee ee e 5
oe GSM -...- nso SiBo. 8 3 don wr : + CANS ...........4, Epps .........s.s0.... 42 | Pretzels, Han ey
ee ee x Ib. cans ............ 7 00 poe Pretzelettes, Hand Md. 8
Chocolate ee ae = ‘eo oa 4.00 i — **" "42 00 pntaeel + iygeuaiivan aa ~ Pretzelettes) Mac. Md. 7%
Clothes Lines .........- 3 . ba 4... 7.00 ’a Ri oe. 80@1 95 | Lowney, %s ...........,. 38 | Raisin ee ae
eo Elen 1 ee alone ee Ree eee lene
ae Ble eee 35 to “ae Wan Houten, igo 202.02 /Rube acs
ections ........---. 11|No. 3 Carpet ......./2 Sardines an Houten, teense le
zee meee eens” arenes ..... 40/Snow Creams .....
Bim é Carpet .......-.1 75] non catic “43. 8%@ 3% | Van Houten, fe cee i eee re ie
Crea €/Parlor Gem ........ tic, 1 5 | Van Houten, oe ices
m Tai Po ceccecces Common Whisk Donec ain 6 @ 9 a Ke oo Gincera loca 8
: Warehouse s..72.."1.'3 60| California, “48...11 14 Witter, Ms «os 36| Spiced Sugar Tops .... 9
Dried Fruits ............ 4| Warehouse .......... California, %8...17 @24 ,% oe .
. BRUSHES French, 4s... 14 COCOANUT Sugar Cakes ..1..1.21!
Gooas §| Solid Back $ in 75 | French, a ----18 @28 Dunham's #8 & \%s Hd Buga® Savarese, large or
gece gr “7252 10] Solid Back, 11 in’. 2” 5 hrimps unham’s 4s ....... AMA oss ees
Oysters ...... 10/ Solid Back, 11 in..... 9 Standard .......1 20@1 40|Dunhoms eo ge ee ;
eae Tasaie pees nene Pointed me poeeceeee 85 Suc as 42 eeece ede’ Paubees os
Flavoring ie ee i ee COCOA SHELLS | [Sugar Crimp .....-.... 2
aug Rec og AR] Ry cocoa ase Bb] ft, es gore svc 6 | Vnig Waters 002
Gelati —* ie toa ries 10 | Pound packages -*.*.: 4 Tenminer eects 9
NO accccccessceves eccccee -
pee BAND Bo... 252s pen eeee -1 00 1 40@2 00 COFFEE ace
yom Hour ...-.. 6INo. 7 220220202 veseesel 30] Fancy .......... Rio doz,
Grains and Flour ..... No. ree kee 1 70| matr —_— qi 10/Common 2.2... ..., 18% Almond, Bon coat i
® "BUTTER GOLOR | °0|Gooa “222220005. Arete secs heress Saale
erbs te 6 BUTTER COLOR wea Se @1 40 Choice ....... eA Os 16% eens But ‘Waters 1 00
& 0 15¢ size.1 25 Fan 20 :
er aan ee .----+- Wie ck Gallons .......... @3 60 Pe #tee ar soters aon Butter Thin Biscuit.. 1 00
oS ae ARRON ONS iia oon 18% | Cheese Sandwich .... 1 00
; Barrels ce er Cocoanut Dainties ...
3 Electric Light, ae Perfection ....... @10%|Fair .. ce Cocoanut Macaroons.. 2 50
¢|Hilectric Light, S.... Water White . Uh eee. Soke ae 75
ee ee es acm a 3% D. S. Gasoline . @16% | Fancy ..... rei ee aoe Goer 109
: ae Gas Machine Sales ‘aackeik Fi Newton isis ceete moe ko
ioorice Me accoe 8} WICKIng ..... ee 0 Deodor’d Nap’a.. @15% Maracaibo Five O'clock ‘Tea |... 100
ag es — oe Cylinder ........ 29 @34% | Fair... -seseseeesseene Protana 1 00
Be nana 100|Engine .......... 16 oe Choice ghd Ginger Snaps. N. B.C. 1 09
ee ee ete 2 60| Black, winter ..|.81%¢ an pent oe oe
Mince Meat bees eeees : i Blackberries 75 Sinckitant Etude Fancy - ena: hence 19” See ce 1 00
Mol fegeyecshess BIN as eee ce eas 7 “++ 100
Ae uses , 36 1Ib. 2 50 Oysterettes ...........
aera tape ek ee ocecese 6 Standards — oe @5 50 oe at week 36 2tb.4 60 Choice ee -15 Ola Time Sugar Cook. ; =
SS 30 | Egg-O-See, 36 pkgs... i retz bE oe
Nuts . ee | oo xe sO 85 Excello Flakes, 8 lib. 2 89 a wae Royal Toast sete d 00
= Wax 217.01: 81 25 | Force, 36 2p. REE -4 8010. TEENS ED |Site Fiaies 00000 4 0
6 " Blueberries Grape Nuts, 2 doz.....2 70/|P- dag ne Social Tea gus 1 00
_ gd Serene Standard ......... 7 60) malta Cores, 24 1tb..--2 401, copian Mocha a |Soda, NBO GT. ~+ 1.00
Pp Gallon <2. .:....... Malta a, 36 1tb...... Package : ta ‘me ‘=
a secce sae 6 Brook Trout ; ee yee e New York Rasis eponee wi sce
-Pickl by eee se oe... 6/|2%b. cans, oe... 19 Eitepury . aoe, 4g | Arbuckle ............. 16 09 ea M4
Potash ws esis. 6 | Little Neck, ti 1 00g} 25 | Sunlight Flakes, s@'itb. 2 | Dilworth -..-... SIIB 0] Uneeda Tinier wader 1 00
Provisions’ 2...00000000 # | Tate Neo, Sb, Sunlight lakes ee oe clits, + 30
eae one Clam Boulllon Vigor, 36 pkgs...... 08 cL aughiin’s XXXX Se waren 1 00
R Burnham’s % pt eeceee 1 90 Voigt Cream Flakes ...4 50 McLaughlin’s xXxxxx sold z a2. tees ans 50
urnham’'s pts........ 3 60 | Zest, 20 2tD............ 410 retailers only. Mall all|ZU Zu g p
piecreeere TIE 1 75 | to ¥ Zwicheck’= ............ 00
— = oe moe Flakes» "| orders hlin @ o., Ghies:|_ CREAM TARTAR
alad Dressing ie McLaughlin Co.. “|Barrels or drums ......
standards .1 30@1 50 |QOne case ..... eee as 0 =
& Se | white 1 50 2 40 | 89. Boxes ee Bae
; 21 Wie «Ls: ive CASeCS -........ ace seg te a |e aap p44
oats . 7 orn sie One case free with ten Holland, % gro boxes 95 oe bag oe prtitoees 2
ee geet” ; Good : we ee 85090 oe hie tek “ne Felix, oe as DRIED RFUITS
Shoe Blacking ee e-fourth case free with | Hummel’s a 18 Sundried “Pr » 2h,
oe 5 aad vege aga eS 3 7 Seer allowed National Biscuit Company | #vapora A ;
BGR senses oxtra WR ace eb o =. aka : nericets oon
na ; Seren cS eon. Been Dbl. --4 80)  mour, Butte; : a ) @
Spices : Gooseberries 90 an Ber a banetinegs 60|N. B. Cc. — pe oses 6 100-136 =m. boxes, g “a
Stem Standard ...... eae Monarch, 90 Ib sacks 2 30 oda 90- : -@ 4
—— ' Hominy Quaker, 18-2 .......... 15oiN. B.C. Soda -...:.... 6 80- 90 25%. boxes..
. se Ce ee ee 8 70- 80 25tb. boxes..@ 5%
T Standar@ ..<......... 85 Quaker, 20-5 .......... 00 Saran ag e agate a ; a. 90 gee Come @ §
. ee reckon Wrest tt 13 | 50- 60 25tb. boxes..@ 6%
te oar euaee Die ID. oe ee ee ce od Rik eens 2 Zephyre oS eg Bera Coa oe 2 &%
MG ove cos eo ccs 35s 9/1 hb. eo 24 2 %. pare abe se OC. fone... 6 30- 40 261. boxes ..@ 8%
Vv oo Columbia 25 pts......450|N. B. C., Square Salted 6 %c less in 50%. cases.
Vinegar Mio Columbia, 25 % pts...2 60|Faust, Shell ........... 7 ne
ea 9/ Mustard, 1!b Snider’s quarts .......3 25 Sweet Goods. Corsican .......... @22
Mustard,  2!b. ~ 25 Boxes and cans Gijon
w 1% tb. Snider's pints ........ 3 :
Soused, rr’. ints 2 S0 Animals: sisi cc. feces Imp’d 1 tb. pkg.. @10
Wrecking 3.62.53... +++». 9] Soused, a . Snider’s pints ..... Ateche Aeecited pks.. ae
Woodenware -»-+- 9/ Tomato, 1m. . CHEES @is \Begley Gans... 22. 3 |Imported bulk .
Paper... 1 : ee ese Aeme 55. A iadacate:e 3 Pee!
oe : emt Mushrooms @ coe Oy i Guat Fru E ..... .---10 |Lemon American ......14
Y Botels ......... ae ae 2 Misie eeccee . feikeeesess ae Orange American iveaide
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Ralsins
London Layers, 3 cr
London Layers, 4 cr
Cluster, 5 crown
Loose Muscatels, 2 cr
Loose Muscatels, 3 er

Loose Muscatels, 4 er 914

L. M. Seeded, ‘1 th. 10%@11

L. M. Seeded, % tp.

Sultanas, bulk

Sultanas, package @ 9%
FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Dried Lima

Med. Hd Pk’a
Brown Holland .......
Farina
24 10. packages swnccek 15
Bulk, per 100 tbs, -+e.-8 00

ominy

sack ......1 00
Pearl, 200%. sack --..8 70
Pearl. 100%. sack seeel 85
Maccaronl and Vermicellt
Domestic, 10%. box... 60
Imported, 265tb. box...2 50

Pearl Barley
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Common ......0050 2 65
Chester
Empire
Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 25
Green, Scotch, bu...._. 1 3¢
SPUC IB. 2.20: 4
Sago
past Andina 7%
German, sacks ......_. 7%
German, broken pkg....
Tapioca
Flake, 110 tb. sacks sie chad
Pearl, 130 tb. sacks alee
Pearl, 24 tb. pkegs...... -7%

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Foote & Jenks

Coleman's Van. Lem.
2 oz. Panel ......1 30 75
3 oz. Taper 00 50

cone: 2 1
No. 4 Rich. Blake 2 00 1 50

  

Jennings D. C. Brand.

Terpeneless Ext. Lemon
Doz.
No; 2 Pang 75
No. 4 Panel | <0 be
No. 6 Panel ..... were 00
Taper Panel ... ~.L 50
2 oz. Full Meas, .......1 20
4 oz. Full Meas, .....__9 25

Jennings D C Brand
Extract Vanilla

Doz.

NO: 2 Panel so0 1 20
No. 4 Panel 20 i. 2 00
No. 6 Panck 4..5,.°°7 | 3 00
@aper Panel... || 2 00
1 oz. Full Meas. ...__! 85
2 oz. Full Meas. ...... 1 60
0

4 0z. Full Meas. ....__ 3 0
No. 2 Assorted Flavors 1 00
GRAIN BAGS

Amoskeag, 100 in bale 19
Amoskeag, less than bl 19%

GRAINS AND FLOUR
Wheat

No. 1 White |... 71
No, 2 Hed 0 72
Winter Wheat Flour
Local Brands
Patents 222360 2G 40
Second Patents ....... 4 20
Siraicht 23. 4 00
Second Straight .......3 70
eer -.3 80
foranam 4 75
Buckwheat ..... oosce cc 00
BVO 85

Flour in barrels,

25c per
barrel additional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Quaker, paper ........ 3 90
Quaker, cloth ......... 4 00
Wykes & Co.
CMOse 3 70

Kansas Hard Wheat Flour
Judson Grocer Co.
Fanchon, %s cloth .-4 40
Spring Wheat Flour
Roy Baker’s Brand

 

Golden Horn, family. .4 60
Golden Horn, baker’s..4 50
Calumet - 620. 4 20
Wisconsin Rye ........ 3 90
Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand
Ceresota, Ks 2. 4 90
Ceresota, A260. 4 80
Ceresoia, (465 2.07 | 4 70
Lemon & Wheeler’s Brand
Wingold; 145 22.5.0. 8. 4 95
Wingold, Y%s ........ 7° 4 85
Wingold, %s .......... 4 75
Pillsbury’s Brand

est, %s cloth ........ 4 90
Best, %s cloth bas aicee BD
Best, %s cloth .......4 70
Best, %s paper Deb cceut 20
Best, %s paper ......4 75
Best, wood ..... Sonics 5 00
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel, %s cloth ..... 5 0
Laurel, %s cloth ..... 4 90
Laurel, 4s & &% paper 4 80
Taurel 348 6 4 80

Wykes & Co.

Sleepy Eye, %s cloth. .4 90
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth..4 80
Sleepy Eye, Ys cloth..4 70
Sleepy Eye, %s paper..4 70
Sleepy Eye, \%s paper. .4 70

 

 

 

 

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Corn’ eed roe 20 as “ranktort oe es 5% 1S
Winter aes iver ee oe Maceat in’ bladde 9
Cow hea >ran “9 50 Veal weeeeeeeeeenes . F boy, : adders.
a a Tongs ec PLR hari ia: ws |icon aati 10
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OP _,Wykes rood 50 Extra Mew Be : ae s. SOAP 43 Moyune, choice cue 20 |R cl i
Cottonseed Meal c 29 hoe Se ee 9 Dusky ‘Di Family Co. Pingsuey, one tees ee oe Pins 11 :
en F eal cli) 50 BR eee meee 75 | Dusk iamo ee Pinvones um... 14 Es
Malt S pad es 30 ee 11 25 Ja: y D’nd nd, 508 ..4 00 ingsue . choice <2. 36 Eg ead, ca ss bx 5 Cs
Brewe prouts ... setae 27 00 ¥% bbl Pig’s FE Geers aa 11 0 S Dp Rose , 100 6 oz 2 80 y, fanc onc. 80 Hu g Crate rtons.. 0 CONF ¥
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ee iD . : 00 See 85 atine sill i et ah ee 30 ~aASe No. ete .. a and: ae ee heh z
Michigan Oats ....16 50 | Kit pigeettetee 3 25 anice ae 30 | Formosa ia. 36 Case. oe fillersl5sets | 251 J ard Twist ||” i% Es
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is carlots |...... 44/% b moe: 2 ote Amoy, Medium 2221.2. ag | Cork li Fau eta} is noe ig oa coe ‘
oe aa: ll 45 oe @ ths..-....-. 70 |tvory, 6 oz... mble Co E heise 25.25... 95 | Cork lined, — aan a... 7% 4
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No. 1 ca se Beet,” rou a. RO ae pales Choice. cena: reakfast cca, 2 a Messeeeee i 80 Ib. ne Sugar “seal” &
No. ; timoth y eee Beef’ rounds, . Ce 2 Ss <6 75 ancy. eee ees 20 » in 2. aioe a ae 1c. e
: sinioeny car lots Shee iddles, et .. Bi A a a 3 . teeeeee 2 |G ee 13 a
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ee ee a etantine 70 | ccme, 25 ars Hisosven ia ek Senate o 1 aiouk eusiaa. Speci - .... dena ta
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30 Ib pails, o doz. ..1 Pott eee (no 3 Good A. B toil 00 | Pa ram - pail 3-hoo tandar Ki er cess eee @ j
. pails r pail --1 90} Pot st beef, 1 I....... 40] OL Che . Wrisl et 4 00/P Gar. s..55 2-wi Pp aoe e inder; wewece Sa ceeen ‘4
, per pail.. 42 ted ham, ’s ---1 30 a Cn ey ay Car oo vereeeee 30. «| 3- ire, © rd ...-1 60 | Bon 5 garten -!. °° - 8 4
Pure LICORI pail. Devil d am, 1% eeceee untry ecore Prot @ Rose 3-wire. able ccuacul ao iy Ton Cre oe : ° e
Calahia CE - % Gavia ham Ss .-.. 45 craceseass® cools rie ROse veeeeees. 33 | Cedar, Cee .1 75 | jrench Roses sonnei 4
a led ham, Me ..... 85 Soa seed ee gs 49 | Pe ar, ail a 2d 70 | EOF aan :
— * Se ea wees shes SE Bne outs Hie ee 00) Sweet Burley ......... 42 | Fibre’ Haven wa Te Hand Made’ eos .
Got roeeeeerrere 33 otted aeeue, a 85 ow oy ao 44 ire ... reka .. = 25 Pretnio Cre Git 9% :
Needy bee aces ares 14|F es... 45 | Gol ust, 24 large. ? Red P ao 40 Paratha bahsess ai? * ream mi ue 4
Cc pene reese 11 peeved eum oe. 685 rol a iargs. 074 00 | Palo Cross lug Hardwo Toothpick «+2 70 Horshouné Pron * a4
Nois . Crittend B 22 EO ie aaa Pea line, 24 0-5c. | 4050 | Eiawatha sale deeeee Softw oa . CKS Fan Drop 1 Fs
oot, en Co. roken Hitteien $i aoe Aibessss18 80 eee oe Banquet _siskesss 49 ayeey Te ’ |
armours, EXTRACTS cosnttae nme @ 54| Babbitt wie 3 $3 | Revers ee Banquet 00.0.0 1.00.TGE 60 Coco Bon Bons one :
Li our’s, 4 ec olumb , &% pi NG Ar ne .... a: St rican Pe ee Peanu quare sen §
rises, Gules rate eee ees ag ae ae eT, 2 [eae eee - fete tie :
'8, Chi » 2 OZ. 2 Durkee’s, a a.. Pee : eeecek ; » alte eet ¥,
Lisbis's Imported 4 om: 8 $0 Snider's, jsiiali,2u08.8 30 johnene oo 80 Nobby eae Tog Ht Mone wood, 6 ma. sam ea Peanuts lk i
at ee BD r’s, small. 1 doz.. 5 | Joh sk be olly T st .. oz..44 «(| Bat , tin, 6 holes.. 5 | Loz Tine ¢eene <auculae :
40 1, --2 3 »hnson’ ine ds Old ae a , wood. ho ee 4 Ozer Gna i
a eons 2.8 60| Packed 601 2 doz..1 85 | Rub. yh pac aisases Tod Honesty ... -_| ae ee é3 Lozenges, —— mg ‘
aoe Goan Orleans a 60 spl Bul Nae i a ge a. —— Ma .......... a Champion aoa a :
oo en Sere ge Deland's ee box. ore sere 35 Piper fede * a 20-in, a Sa 75 pee Chines anit Q ;
aon era netes Se Eonen Cae... ee Sapol oh Maes — Honey ‘Di oe 86 16-in, See kT saree, enone nd iy
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Halt barrels go extri 23 ed a | oat. groaer ots ot Bince’ Standard’. 80 | 18a Standard, No. 3 § 00 | Moss "Dro Chocolates”: 14
Oia ta. site 186" See s lio, gro ---9 00} ac .. i a oe » No. 1. oo | “em ops rops” q
EA » 100 sees apolio. sin lot: ie : 40 6-in. eN sees on § nS 4
Horee RiISTARE AT og (Granta se Seourie ae on Se Be ae Ao See 26 imperial. ee
Horse Radish, 2:4: 17 Lump, — oor. sar a Scourine, ree Go — eae “a No. 3 Fibre ns 30 ital, Cream Opera” 22712 H
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Preise gal, —— 1 5 0 3 Ib on Gra glish Seok cc) Re Bar Car eee eeee sees. 34 Vouble he ccescem 80 Fanc pence x 1 20 |
ila eg8.. “71 60} 60 5 . sacks des Cc s Sea e. toute a ac 6 eo Singl eh assests 0 | Lemo y—In ee ie
pints. agB.....-1 58) FF 103g" Ib. oes Red bet Lo 4% IT X 200, 16 oz... ... 26 Double beer a eg . _ Sones. iH
19 oz. cacetesnad 90 - Ib. sack sacks. .-2 00 etter ..8 0 Hon L, 16 0 eee 25 oeae Peerless "2012173 95|P neveshioned “Hore: :
28 MB sees e eA = 8 Ib. sacks ©... -+1 90 ca o poey Dee a pe en ar1eSS «00. 3 90 Peppermint” Dio} ange i
cg 5 Ww weteee eee wee S Flagm a. “a, 1900 S Done oe Chocemate » Ce :
eee a0 $6 tb. dairy in drill ba Cassia, eee Chips Bie Good Tuck. eto Sa ees
“i Cnet cee . ry ass: > na seeuecn ag n D wielan @ 5. eee 40 E adeadeeae v 4 a 10¢c, ap :
Cas aa voe2 40 |56ID ear Gace rat 3 Cassia, aa a ec 46 fa stn Sinn 2 9a | Bitter Sweets Le and. :
Clay; o. 216 . sacks Rock gs 20 | Cassi . Batavi eeee 12 | Duke’ ixture ...) 21 14 in, . w Clean --3 40 Brilli Sweets, seeeee i
Con T. D. it eds 23 ee C sia, Saigo a, bana 6 Myrtle Cameo a ie eo ers A. yay Gunma ad 00
a Hs Granulated, ne vos 20] Gloves, Ar on, "broken. 40 Yum Yuan 426 ‘oa. a | * uc gg ictys. “to ‘
meson: , , Amboy, : m oe i oe oTe3 . 0
ne PICKLES A a pean, tne MO wees as Mave” Zoos =: Cream. ite. o@ 8 11 in. Weed ot , aD Imperials Plain ones 88 i
oe ae = accu $0 | Nutmegs, 75-% neeees orn Cake, 234 ¢ 2 ta Tr... mperials +......60011 165 :
bbis., count FISH Nu egs, 75-80 .... . 1g/Corn oo 38 5 in tter eee e ees _ | Cre: Se ee ;
., 600 ....6 00 | L@ Cc N tmegs, 7 ee 56 | Plc Cake On... 17 in. Butter: 151G am fae ---60 ‘3
Barrels oe 36018 rge whol od aicee: loca P »w Boy. IIb. voce | ao in. Butt oes 1 25) uu: M. P roe. eee ee 60 |
Half bb :3 60 | Small @ see Pe gs, 115- aoe 43 | Plow Boy, 1 ceece ae in. Butter ......00., 2 Han eat mee E
P bia. 1.200 cera Pellbe or bri moog q Pepper, Singapor ao @ ey -_ "3 Assoited, 18 {ore teen 50 Cream —_ Bar’ 2.12.38 i
ae si eds Bi | Pa mea fe ssa EY dE cium Batons. f
ar eles al tel i lee ° Peas ae co n Tete Rs
No: a0" Pa at as | ite cee 48) Allpics ae ivan a | common, Staw eB i ‘Tite A Barris “1.98
No. 57: ver e ed 1 fais Cassi ane n Bulk Fo ry Clu ae ce Fi re Ma raw ER U ster B ssorted ..60 i
No. 2, 8 nameled 20 beers nntee team Cas: a. on rex- bo. og 30 ibre ae teceeee 1 Up-to- rown G aaa iH
No. (808 ey 80 | white Hoop, Soh Cloves Saigon 22000 28 alee CSS | Crag Manila” colored. 4 nen Biike Asstint. «+. 60 1
o. 6323 T cycle 2 00 ite Hoop, bbls inger, nzibar ..... 48 | silver er, 168. So 32 But Man = Ten § rike No. f. 1 4
maak whist White Hoop, Wher , African 21... aes. Team . 8oz. cheva Mani ase 8 7m See oo vee 6 i
POTA! wit 3 00 White Hoop, bbls. 6 “ Greece aa. 18 had Marie Pe 20-22 oo Butt Mania 3 |s sortment. ae ean os8 a !
Ba 48 cans SH 25 e Hoo eg 65@ Ma r, Jamai Gece 15 y' Smok pirates .24 ax Bu er, short e’nt.. 2% cientifi ae er as- 4
oo . in case jan Pp mechs. a a Ce 1g oke satace sn ste Wax nu fon oe 13 c ye eee 16 i
Fas eases 00 Beoper singapore, bk ée Sarton: oe 742} Magi voace rolls ~t Dandy Pop oo 00 ;
sca PROVISIONS 09 | Scaled .. Pepper, Sigg whites 18 ute, 2 pee igi en 22 Sunlight, ear ay mack, 248 1
Clear asia eas * ork No. . Te a oa ose eee age , yenne te... 28 Finn? ela eweeeeus 22 unlight, daa Ceeee 115 Po ‘orn Fei . 1003... 65 i
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Special Price Current

 

AXLE GREASE

  

Mica, tin boxes....75 9 00
Parepon =... ..:..<: 55 «6 00

BAKING POWDER

Reyal

10c size 90
%Ib. cans 1 35
60z. cans 1 90
%lb cans 2 50
%Ib cans 3 75
iIb. cans 4 80
—3lb. cans 18 00
' BIb cans 21 60

 

BLUING

 

Cc. P. Bluing

Doz.
Small size, 1 doz. box..40
Large size, 1 doz. box..75

CIGARS

   

GJ Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd.

Less than 500 ........... 33
600 or more ............ 32
1,000 or more ............ 31
Worden Grocer Co. brand
Ben Hur
Perfection .............- 35
Perfection Extras ...... 35
Emomeres ... 5.5... .5 ce... 35
Londres Grand .......... 35
PPOBINORI abc oso kc ooo see 35
PUTUAROS Ss... ct ccs 35
Panatellas, Finas ....... 35
Panatellas, Bock ....... 35
Jockey Club ............ 85
COCOANUT

Baker’s Brazil Shredded

   

FRESH MEATS
Beef
pes we ae eas 5%@ 8%

Carcass

Jindquarters ..... 6% @10
RAE oa cs nnu cs 8 14
Rounds ........... 6%@ 7%
CoS. 586. pe oe 5 6%
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RAVOES <5. 5055 8

Pork

RMU no cos nese 11
Dressed .-....... 8%
Boston Butts .. 10
Shoulders ... 9%
Leaf Lard ....... 10
Trimmings ...... 8%

 

Carcass
lambs 2.250.232.
Spring Lambs ..

Veal
Carcass o.oo. 2 6 @ 8%

CLOTHES LINES
Sisal

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thread,
thread,
thread,
thread,
thread,

extra. .1
extra. .1
extra. .1
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extra..

 

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Cotton Windsor
ORR oe rel eek pe bs cece ss 1 30
OS 1 44
GUNG oe. cece aces es 1 80
BO oe ee as 2 00
Cotton Bralded
WO een Lee 95
EG ise cece ce ose ee 1 35
DOME ec oe 1

Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell- Wright Co.’s. B’ds.

wats ad (le oe

 

White House, 1th. ........
White House, 2th. ........
Excelsior, M & J, 1tb. .....
Excelsior, M & J, 2th. .....
Tip Top, M & J, 1h. ......
Hoyel Java .. 3. ee...
Royal Java and Mocha ...
Java and Mocha Blend
Boston Combination ......
Distributed by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids:
Lee & Cady. Detroit; Sym-
ons Bros. & Co., Saginaw:
Brown. Davis & Warner.
Jackson; Godsmark. Du-
rand & Co.. Battle Creek:
Flelbach Co.. Toledo.

Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00

FISHING TACKLE
ee $8 4 Oo. coc... ss :

 

No. 1, 10 feet ........; 5
No. 3, 16 feet ......;... 7
No. 3, 16 feet .......:5: 9
No, 4, 16 feet ......:... 10
No, . 15 feet .......... 11
Mo. 8, 15 feet ...56...5. 12
mo. 7, 15 feet ......... 15
Me. 8 15 feet ......--.. 18
No, 9, 165 feet ..:....... 20
Linen Lines

MO 2 5555 scs cece aceus 20
Medium ...... see eua ses 26

Pe as 34

Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80

GELATINE
Cox’s 1 qt. size ...... 110
Cox’s 2 qt. size ........ 1 61

Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 20
Knox’s Sparkling, gro.14 60
Knox’s Acidu’d. dos...1 30
Knox’s Acidu’d. gro...14 00
PEGMOOTD ode voce ccaecck BO
Plymouth Rook ......1 85

 

SAFES

 

Full line of fire and burg-

lar proof ‘safes kept in
stock by the Tradesman
Company. Twenty differ-
ent sizes on hand at all
times—twice as many safes
as are carried by any other
house in the State. If you
are unable to visit Grand

Repids and inspect the
line personally, write for
quotations.

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

a

large size..6 50
. large size..3 25
, Small size..3 85
small size..1 95

Tradesman’s Co.’s Brand

Black Hawk, one box 2 60
Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25

TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ......... 3 75
Halford, small ........ 2 25

 

 

Use

Tradesman

Coupon

Books

Made by
Tradesman Company

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

LOW
We sell more 5 and 10 G. R. & ° RATE
Cent Goods Than Any S iGsceeeer s
Other Twenty Whole- EXCURSIONS

s To many points in the South, Southwest,
sale Houses in the | |Southeast, west ana Northwest.
ICKETS on sale March 5 and 19,
Country. April 2 and 16.

ONE-WAY SPECIAL SECOND-
CLASS TICKETS TO
PACIFIC COAST

And many Intermediate Points in the NORTH-
WEST are on sale daily during Marchand April

TICKETS 172,,t2e, WEST. SOUTH-

WEST, SOUTH and
SOUTHEAST will be sold on March 5 and
19 and April 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30. Ask your Loeal
Agent for full particulars. Address

E. C. HORTON, Cc. L. LOCK WOOD,
Tray. Passenger Agent Gen’! Passenger Agent
Because our goods are always Grand Rapids, Mich, Grand Rapids, Mich,

exactly as we tell you they are. 2 —

Because we carry the largest
assortment in this line in the
world,

WHY?

 

 

Because our houses are the recog-
nized headquarters for these
goods,

Because our prices are the lowest.
Because our service is the best.

 

  

Because our assortment is always
kept up-to-date and free from
stickers.

CURED

<-. without...

Because we aim to make this one
of our chief lines and give to
it our best thought and atten-
tion.

Chioroform,
Knife or Pain

Dr. Willard M. Burleson

103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids
Our current catalogue lists the most com-
plete offerings in this lint in the world.
We shall be glad to send it toany merchant

Booklet free on application
who will ask for it Send for Catalogue J.

Crockery

We are Manufacturers’ Agents and can
save you the middleman’s profit on Crockery.

 

 

 

BUTLER BROTHERS

Wholesalers of Everything---By Catalogue Only

aged bes — atom Grand ‘Rapids Notions & Crockery Co.

 

 

 

Cor. So. Ionia and Fulton Sts. Grand Rapids, Mich

 

 

 

With

the
McCaskey
You Know

ALL

’ The McCaskey Register System handles ALL of your ACCOUNTS
with only ONE WRITING.

 

 

 

 

ALL of Your ACCOUNTS with only ONE WRITING
Think it Over.

 

 

When we say ‘‘ALL,’’ we mean ALL.

It takes care of your Accounts Receivable and your Accounts Payable.
The Running Account or Credit Sale.

The Cash Sale. The Exchange Sale.

The Cash on Account. The C. O. D. Sale and cares for

The Miscellaneous Accounts.

It shows your Net Assets and Liabilities. -

The amount of Stock on hand. In fact it gives you COMPLETE
FINANCIAL Information.

Can YOU afford to Waste your Time and Money by using Incom-
plete Systems or old-time Methods?

Let us explain the McCaskey System to you.

 

 

The [icCaskey Register Co.
Alliance, Ohio
Mfrs. of the Famous Multiplex Duplicating Carbon Back Sales Pads.
J. A. Plank, Tradesman Bldg., Grand Rapids, State Agent for Michigan
Agencies in all Principal Cities

 

 

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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents

subsequent continuous insertion.

 

No charge less

a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each

than 25 cents. Cash must aceompany all orders.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

_ For Sale—aAll or in lots, 250 acres, well-
improved lands within two miles of Au-
burn, county seat of Placer county, Cali-
fornia; this land will produce $500 worth
of berries per acre each year. Address
James Cook, Auburn, Placer county,
Cali. 648
For Sale—Large store building, with
large basement, two stories. Al opening
for drug store with fountain or boots,
shoes and furnishings. Large factory just
completed in town. Rent. $365 a year.
$2,000 if taken in March. Address E. A.
Ferguson, Middleville, Mich. 634
Cash for your real estate or business
wherever located. If you want to sell,
send description and price. If you want
to buy, send for our monthly. North-
western Business Agency, 43 Bank of
Commerce Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. 636

An excellent opportunity for anyone
wishing to engage in the bakery business.
Town of two thousand people, ten miles
from Chicago. No bakery in the town.
Will help get a good man started. Call
on or address A. R. Owen, Riverside, Ill.

635

 

 

 

We make a specialty of selling busi-
nesses. Write us what you have to sell,
or what you wish to buy. Benham &
Wilson, Real Estate & Investment Brok-
ers, Hastings, Mich.

Printer Wanted--Live energetic young
man to establish a printing office in hust-
ling town of Western Michigan, surround-
ed by good farming community. Address
Secretary Business Men’s’ Association,
Alto, Mich. 646

Magnificent prairie plantation, 1,200
acres, 600 cleared; 600 fine timber; 7 miles
from Columbus, known as County Farm;
write for full particulars. Maer Realty
Company, Columbus, Ohio. 645

For Sale—I have about 4,000 double
rolis of wallpaper, bought last year, all
good new patterns. Will sell cheap, as
I am going out of business. H. D. Baker,
Muskegon, Mich. 544

For Sale—No trade, a clean stock of
dry goods and shoes. Would sell separate
or altogether. Shoe stock, $1,500, dry
goods about $5,500. Located in a good
hustling farmers and manufacturing city
of 3,500. Address No. 643, care Michigan
Tradesman. 643

For Sale-—-General stock merchandise,
country town, Central Michigan. Inven-
tories about $3,000. First-class farming
country. Good railroad facilities, ete. Ad-
dress No. 642, care Tradesman. 642

For Sale—For cash only, stock general
merchandise, about $5,000; meat market,
store building, dwelling (10 rooms), ice-
house full of ice, blacksmith shop barn
and outbuildings,. all almost new. This is
a bargain. Must sell on account of health.
Address John A. Miller, Pittwood, ye

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale—$1,500 general merchandise,
must sell; reason poor health. Bargain if
taken at once. Good town, rich country.
ao Address Lock Box 146, La

 

For Rent—Two store rooms, 25x100 feet,
ground floor, suitable for dry goods or
grocery business. <A fine opening for a
strong firm. Located in the best farming
country in Ind. Ter. of 3,000 population.
Wood reserve opening two miles _ west,
same to be developed. The heaviest rail-
road tonnage of any town south of Chick-
asha to Fort Worth, Texas. For further
particulars address E. J. Wyatt, Box 268,
Marlow, I. T. 639

Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
chandise, $3,000 to $4,000. Located in
small town in Southern Michigan. Ad-
dress “‘N,’’ care Tradesman. 630

For Sale—Our transfer and implement
house at Bushnell, Ill., with good lots,
well located, and buildings. Rebuilt en-
gines and threshing -machines (and some
engines not rebuilt.) (This property is
well adapted for transferring, manufac-
turing and retail trade. H. H. Orendorff
Co., Canton, Ill. 632

Hart, Michigan. Fine opening for fur-
niture, crockery and undertaking __busi-
ness. Largest store and best location in
town. Small jewelry stock for sale. C.
W. Slayton. 617

For Sale—A good paying feed, flour and
farm implement business. Also handle
poultry, grain and _ beans. For_ further
particulars address No. 606, care Michigan
‘Tradesman. 606

Timber estimated anywhere in South
and Mexico. Investors interests closely
guarded. Hardwoods a specialty. Farm,
truck and timber lands. Expert on soils
and crops in South and Cuba. Formerly
Bay City, Mich. J. A, Clark, Box 733,
Houston, Texas. 605

 

 

 

 

For Sale—General stock of merchandise,
buildings and fixtures in a good North
Dakota town; annual sales $40,000. Rea-
son for selling, poor health. Will bear
the closest investigation. -L. P. Larson,
Sherwood, N. D. 619

To Exchange—280 acres Michigan stock
farm, 200 cleared, balance pasture and
hardwood timber. Fine houses and barns.
Good soil, level. Fruit. Price $14,000.
Want general merchandise or hardware,
Evans & Holt, Fremont, Mich. 589
_ For Sale—Stock hardware. Only one
in live town. Wade Bros., Traverse City,
Mich. 02

For Sale—A good clean stock of gro-
ceries and _ notions. Well established
business. Located in the most rapidly
growing section of Grand Rapids. New
store building. Good reasons for selling.
Address No. 599, care Michigan Trades-
man. 599

For Sale—Clothing stock, clean, up-to-
date in county seat town Central Michi-
gan. Old-established business. One oth-
er clothing store. Good reasons for sell-
ing. No trades considered. Address No.
598. care Tradesman. 598

Gall Stones—Your bilious colic is the
result; your physician can not cure you;
only one remedy known on earth; harm-
less but positively cures. Brazilian Rem-
edy Co., Box 2926, Boston, Mass. 573

Business Opportunity — Experienced
man in general store (except grocery and
meats) with $3,000 capital to operate
business running 12 years; cause for sell-
ing, old age. In suburb of Des Moines.
For further particulars address Wm.
Hoffman, 6th & Forest Ave., Des Moines,
Iowa. 623

For Sale—Drug_ store, invoicing $1,200.
Lively town. No opposition. Rent
cheap. Address ‘J. E. W.,’’ care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 622

| WANT TO BUY

From 100 to 10,000 pairs of SHOES, new or
old style—your entire stock, or part of it.

SPOT CASH

You can have it. I’m ready to come.
PAUL FEYREISEN, 12 State St., Chicago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     
      
     

 

 

Auction Sale—General Merchandise.
Tuesday, March 12, 2 o’clock. Must be
sold at Northville, Michigan. B. Cohen’s
up-to-date stock dry goods, clothing,
shoes, carpets, to highest bidder. In par-
cels or entire lot, to suit purchaser. In-
ventories about $6,800. Auctioneer, W. D.
Floraday. 628

For Sale—One set 12 ft., and one set
6% ft. heavily tinned meat racks with
mountings. One lard press, one sausage
stuffer, one No. 41 Enterprise chopper,
one 30 gal. lard cooler, one dried beef
cutter, one 3 H. P. Miller gasoline engine,
all in first-class condition. Address G. E.
Woolf, Copemish, Mich. 624

Converting stocks into cash, our hobby.
Our system will close our your business
satisfactorily or no pay. Al references.
G. I. Breckenridge Auction Co., Edin-
burg, Ill. 608

For Sale—A department store, located
in the best trading point in Eastern
Michigan for a town of its size. New
brick store building. Reasonable rent.
Did a $15,000 business on a $2,400 invest-
ment last year. Best of reasons for selil-
ing. Address No. 615, care Michigan
Tradesman. 615

For Sale—Hardware store, house, barn
and lots. I offer for sale my hardware
stock at Falmouth, Mich., with first-class,
up-to-date stock of goods and house, barn
and lots. Store 46x80 with basement
46x46. A good chance for one who wants
a good business. Don’t write unless you
mean business. Reason for selling, have
enough and wish to retire. Address John
Ferwerda, Falmouth, Mich. 614

For Sale—Drug and wall paper stock,
fixtures and all. Only stock in town 800
population, in Central Michigan. Two
railroads, brick building. Best location,
expenses very light. Rent only $10 month.
Will sell right. Inventories close to
$3,000. Sell for $1;200 cash and $800 on
time or take $1,900 spot cash. Sales
average $18 daily. Nothing less than
$1,200 cash considered. Don’t write un-
less you mean business. For particulars
and reason for selling, address No. 613,
care Michigan Tradesman. 613

For Sale—Grocery stock in town of
1,000. Cash sales last year, $18,648.76.
Our books are open for inspection. Pro-
prietor going into contracting business.
Fine farming country. Address abe =

 

 

 

 

care Tradesman,

 

For Rent—Good store building, two-
story, suitable for general store or meat
market, 22x60, with basement. Best lo-
cation. Address D. Vanluven, Crystal,
Mich. 596

The best paying business in the world
(requiring no capital) is real estate and
its side lines. If you make less than
$3,000 a year, wish to become independ-
ent and call time your own, take our
Standard Correspondence Course in real
estate. It makes you competent to earn
a large income. Some of our students
are traveling men who co-operate with
us and make good incomes on the side.
Write for free book, endorsements, etc.
American School of Real Estate, Dept.
T., Des Moines, Ia. 595

“Ten Million Dollars’ for the asking.
Investors write J. D. Blue, Jr., Cedar
Rapids, Ia. 594

A fine suburban business corner, just
over the city line, where taxes are low—
surrounded by a well built up and fast
growing residence district, both in and
outside the city line. Rare chance for a
man with a little money to establish him-
self where he could enjoy city patronage
at village expenses. $1,000-takes it. Ad-
dress Owner, care Tradesman. 592

For Sale—Located on a railroad, a
three-story frame building, 50x100 - with
100 horse power boiler, engine, large dry
kiln, 1% acres of ground, well located to
secure cheap labor. Address Breon Lum-
ber Co., Williamsport, Pa. 61

Wanted—Location for stock of dry
goods, clothing and shoes of $12,000 to
$15,000; give full particulars. Address i

 

 

 

 

 

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586. care Michigan Tradesman. 5

For Sale—Stock generai merchandise.
A moneymaker for someone. Will in-
voice about $3,500. Owner going West in-
to stock business. Will sell or rent build-

ero

ing. E. B. Knapp, Coleman, Mich. 553

Butcher’s Boston Polish is the best
finish made for floors and interior wood-
work. Not brittle; will not scratch or
deface like shellac or varnish. Send for
free booklet. For sale by dealers in
paints, hardware and house furnishings.
The Butcher Polish Co., 356 Atlantic Ave.,
Boston, Mass. 505

For Sale—Old-established candy store,
ice cream parlor and news-stand. Up-to-
date in town near Grand Rapids. Reason
for selling, other business. Address
“Good.”’ care Michigan Tradesman. 506

For Sale—$10,000 to $12,000 stock dry
goods, notions, carpets, etc., largely sta-
ple. Long-established in Southern Michi-
gan city. Part pay, productive clear real
estate. MWasy terms. Address No. 528, care
Michigan Tradesman. 528

For Sale—Plantations, timber lands,
farms, homes, ete. Send for printed list.
Vv. C. Russell, Memphis, Tenn. 928

: For Sale—Pork packing house, capac-
ity 150 hogs per day. Reason for sell-
ing, wish to retire. J. H. Copas, Sr.,
Owosso, Mich. 485

For Sale—Stock of groceries, boots,
shoes, rubber goods, notions and garden
seeds. Located in the best fruit belt in
Michigan. Invoicing $3,600. If taken be-
fore April 1st, will sell at rare bargain.
Must sell on account of other business.
Geo. Tucker, Fennville, Mich.

For Sale—A clean stock of drugs, fix-
tures, etc., complete. Everything up-to-
date. Stock invoices about $2,700. An-
nual sales $5.000. In town of over 2,000.
Store centrally located. An old stand.
Expenses light. Reason for selling, other
business requires attention. Address No.
591. care Tradesman. 591.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale or Exchange—Stock of woolen
tailoring goods and trimmings. Address
No. 577, care Michigan Tradesman. 577

For Sale—Whole or part interest in
high class planing mill and lumber yard
in one of the best locations in Central
Michigan. Additional capital required to
care for increasing business. <A _ desir-
able, legitimate and established proposi-
tion clearing 25 per cent. on investment
at present time. Address W. C., care
Michigan Tradesman. 570

Tent and awning factory for sale; es-
tablished 23 years; doing a good business;
books open for inspection. Will teach be-
ginner. $3,000; terms cash. C. H. Newell,
Saginaw, Mich. 569

For Sale—Hstablished job printing of-
fice. Center of business district, Indian-
apolis, Indiana. Am owner. Other busi-
ness and must sell. Will sacrifice. J.
O. Packard. Cadillac. Mich. 590

Wanted—sStock merchandise in ex-
change for six five-acre lots, Traverse
City, Wade Bros., Traverse City, Mich.

550

 

 

 

 

We buy and sell anything in real es-
tate and merchandise. Right price.
Wade Bros., Traverse City, Mich. 551

For Sale—My well-established grocery,
shoe and notion business. Best location.
Good business. Good farming country.
Also store building 24x70 feet. Good liv-
ing rooms. A ‘bargain. Must be sold at
once. Sickness. Address E. E. Steffey,
Crystal, Mich. 456

Racket store for sale. Positively the
best opening in a farming and_ factory
town of 5,000. Located in Southern Michi-
gan. Will take $2,000 to get in. Best lo-
cation. Do not miss this chance. Ad-
dress ‘‘Business,’”’ care Michigan Trades-
man. 420

Do you want to sell your property,
farm or business? No matter where
located, send me description and price.
I sell for cash. Advice free. Terms rea-
sonable. Established 1881. Frank P.
Cleveland, Real Estate Expert, 1261
Adams Express Building, Chicago, II.

 

 

 

 

For Sale-Stock of shoes, dry goods
and groceries located in Central Michi-
gan town of 350 population. Living
rooms above store. Rent, $12 per month.
Lease runs until May 1, 1908, and can be
renewed. Last inventory, $2,590. Sales
during 1905, $8,640. Good reasons for
selling. Address No. 386, care Michigan
Tradesman. 386

For Sale—Harness, vehicle and imple-
ment business in Northern Michigan.
Town of 1,000 inhabitants with fine farm-
ing country and large territory to draw
from. Stock inventories about $3,000.
Modern buildings, rent $18. Reason for
selling, have large hardware business and
other outside interests so can not de-
vote time necessary. Address No. 355,
care Michigan Tradesman. 355

For Sale—One-half interest in a clean,
up-to-date shoe and clothing business.
listablished 23 years and enjoying a good
trade. Stock and fixtures will inveice
$6,000. Can be reduced to $3,600 or $4,000
if desired. Address Gavin W. Telfer, Big
Rapids, Mich. 329

Retail merchants can start mail order
business in connection with retail busi-
ness; only a few dollars required. We
furnish everything necessary; success
certain. We offer retail merchants the
way to compete with large mail order
houses. Costs nothing to investigate.
Milburn-Hicks, 727 Pontiac Blidg., as

 

 

 

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Wanted—2,000 cords basswood and
poplar excelsior bolts; will pay highest
market price—cash. Address Excelsior
Wrapper Co., or W. F. Mueller, Hall St.
and Godfrey Ave., Grand Rapids,

 

Wanted-—Descriptions, prices and _ esti-
mates Michigan timber lands. Wade
Bros., Traverse City, Mich. 549

Parties with ample means are looking
for a location for a bank in a small city
or village. Any citizen of locality need-
ing a bank is requested to Address No.
540, care Michigan Tradesman. 0

For Sale or Trade—We are willing to
give you a bargain of $3,000; house could
not be built for less than $7,000; good
barn, three lots; one of the best resi-
dence locations in Grand Rapids; will
take $5,500. Would consider outside in-
come property or drug stock to_ the
amount of $1,500. Yes, will give long
time on $1,500. Must change climate.
Address Climate, care Michigan Trades-
man. 482

Wanted—To buy stock of clothing,
shoes or general stock. Address R. E.
Thompson, 427 University Ave., St. Paul,
Minn, 583

 

 

 

SITUATIONS WANTED

Wanted—Position as traveling sales-
man. Can furnish Al references. Ad-
dress ‘‘Traveler,’’ care Tradesman... 601

HELP WANTED.

Wanted At Once—Salesmen calling on
wholesale druggists, to Garry 1l-ounce
druggist sundries as_ sideline. Sample
free. A. M. Irby, Vernon Hill, Va. 638

Wanted—Young dry goods man, desir-
ing permanent position, some experience
in trimming and _ card-writing, bright,
trustworthy, hustler, preferable if speak-
ing Norwegian, German; well recommend-
ed by former employer. State as to mor-
als, nationality, age, if married. Exper-
ience where, salary wanted for first year.
When can take position. North Dakota,
Red River Valley town of 5,000 inhabit-
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Wanted—A good, bright grocery clerk
for general store. Must be of good hab-
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AN AUTOMOBILE RAILROAD.

‘To what extent the automobile can
or will be made a method for trans-
porting passengers at regular inter-
vals and at regular rates is as yet
problematical. If a person has money
enough it is now possible to hire an
automobile to take a quick journey
.of ten, twenty or forty miles. Facili-
ties of this sort, however, are not for
thepoor or even those of moderate
means. If you see a person hiring an
automobile you may know that that
person is either already in affluent
circumstances or on the high road to
opulence. The chauffeurs are not to
be criticised for these high rates, be-
cause it is permissible to charge what-
ever the public will willingly pay for
any service on any article, and as
long as people can be found willing
to pay from $5 to $10 an hour for the
use of a whiz wagon and a man to
run it, there is no need of offering
the accommodation at lower ates.
There are times, of course, when the
cost does not count. For instance,
the vehicle that can quickest carry the
surgeon to an emergency case _ is
cheap at any price, but it is every day
and ordinary transportation that is
under consideration and for such pur-
poses the automobile does not ap-
peal.

There are mammoth machines
made capable of carrying a large
company of tourists where the charge
for each is not more than a dollar an
hour. Such, for example, are those
monstrous vehicles one sees at the
National capital and labeled “Seeing
Washington.” The metropolis has
them and even Boston. They would
not, however, acceptably serve in the
place of a trolley car,’at least on
sunny days. It would appear, there-
fore, that a bill introduced in the In-
diana Legislature by Rev. Z._ T.
Sweeney, and now being considered
by that august body, is either imprac-
ticable or far in advance of the
times. Incidentally the name and in-
itials suggest the character of Zeke
Swinney, made famous by David
Harum. The Dill is asking for a
charter for an automobile railroad.
It is proposed to make the rails of
concrete, with sides high enough so
that the cars can not jump the
track. The report does not. say
whether it is to be a double track or
a single track, with switches. If
safety is to be taken into account
the former is preferable. On this
concrete highway it is proposed to
run automobiles, capable of carrying
from thirty to forty passengers. The
promoters declare that such a road
can be built for half the cost of an
electric road and that the operating
outlay will be comparatively small.

In this section it is hoped that the].

bill will become a law since Michi-
ganders believe the experiment might
just as well be made-in Indiana ag
anywhere else, and if it proves satis-
factory then other similar roads can
be constructed.
et ip.
Twelve New Members
Rapids Council.
Grand Rapids, March 2—The an-
nual business meeting of Grand Rap-
ids Council United Commercial Trav-
elers for the election of officers and
the closing up of the business of the

in Grand

year was held at the hall in the Her-
ald building this afternoon. The
meeting was called at 1:30 p. m. in
order to give the members, with
their wives, daughters and  sweet-
hearts, an opportunity to attend the
banquet at the Pantlind in the even-
ing. A class of twelve, consisting of
the following popular salesmen, were
initiated:

C. Benjamin Newcomb,

Orlando Morsman,

Henry Mendelshon,

Jacob Walker,

Harry E. Marsden,

Max Litchtenauer,

Jeff. B. Webb,

David Hydorn,

Geo. B. Rookwood,

Fred Van Blois,

Roy C. Taylor,

Walter E. Mellinger.

Some of these gentlemen will not
only add to the membership of the
Council, but will also add to the
population of Grand Rapids, as they
are moving here from Chicago and
other cities.

The following officers were elected:

Senior Counselor—John Hondorp.

Junior Counselor—Walter F. Ry-
Cer.

Past Counselor—W. D. Simmons.

Secretary and Treasurer—O. F.
Jackson.

Conductor—J. Howard Rutka.
Page—Walter S. Lawton.
Sentinel-—A. T. Driggs.

The report of the Secretary shows
a steady increase in membership and
the finances in a flourishing condi-
tion. Something like $5,000 has been
paid to members for injuries during
the past year. The Council now has
a membership of over 260 and the
boys are striving to reach the 300
mark before the next Grand Council
meeting, which will be held in Sagi-
naw in June.

By the way, our base ball club will
have the battle of their lives at this
time in Saginaw, as the other clubs
say they are not going to let our boys
walk away with everything, as they
did at Petoskey last summer.

C. F. Jackson, Sec’y.
———2»>-—-eo—"—-

Alto Business Men Join Hands.

Alto, March s5—This place has
formed a business organization to
be known as the Alto Business Men’s
Association. They have elected offi-
cers as follows:

President—Geo. L. Bond.

Vice-President—Wm. H. Watts.

Secretary—Chas. Brown.

Treasurer—Frank E. Campau.

All committees have been duly ap-
pointed and all members are at work
in promoting the best interests of the
town. Geo. L. Bond, Pres.

———? o-oo

Cadillac News: Percy Louch has
resigned his position as salesman in
the Drury & Kelley Co. store to ac-
cept a position as traveling salesman
for the Alert Pipe and Supply Co. of
Bay City. During the time Mr.
Louch has been connected with the
Drury & Kelley Co. he has made a
large number of friends, who will
gladly learn of his advancement and
who will be equally glad to know that
Mr. Louch’s new position is such that

 

he will remain a resident of this city.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Recent Trade Changes in the Hoo-
sier State.

Lapel—W. N. Green will be suc-
ceeded in the hardware business by
the Green & Fisher.

Lima—F. J. Johnson succeeds De
Vinney & Smith in the general mer-
chandise business.

Warren—M. F. Shultz will contin-
ue the grocery business formerly con-
ducted by Shultz & Holmes.

Lawton—U. H. Carey succeeds
Prechtel & Bair in the general mer-
chandise business.

Portland—Mrs, L. Wyckoff will be
succeeded in the novelty business by
B. R. Shipp.

Terre Haute—The boot and shoe
business formerly conducted by A. P.
Kivits & Sons will be continued un-
der the style of A. P. Kivits & Son.

Hymera—H. W. Patton is succeed-
ed in the general merchandise busi-
ness by Gilbert & Co.

Indianapolis—Winifield S. Aldridge
has made an assignment of his gro-
cery: stock.

Terre Haute—Bernard & Bledson
will succeed Otto M. Burge in the
grocery business.

Greenfield—T. H. Selman is suc-
ceeded in the drug business by W. S.
Pugh.

Montpelier—E. T. Harris will con-
tinue the drug business formerly con-
ducted by Harris Bros.

Mooresville—The business formerly
conducted under the style of Wright’s
Bargain Store will be continued by
Lyon’s Bargain Store.

Odon—Chas. Harmon succeeds Per-
shing & Son in the grocery business.

Whiteland—W'm. J. Blunemer is
succeeded in the general merchandise
business by J. W. Drake.

Brushy Prairie—W. A. Austin, gen-
eral merchant, will remove to Ashley.

Goshen—Edward Rimpler has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Robert
Baker. Mr. Baker has engaged in a
harness and shoe repair business.

South Bend—J. H. Palmer and
Howard Brown, of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, will soon open a ladies’ and
men’s furnishings store,

South Bend—The Weber Brothers
Fruit Co. is succeeded by J. Manna
& Co., of Chicago. Weber Brothers
will continue to manufacture confec-
tionery.

Elkhart—Norris E. Felt, for many
years engaged in the grocery business
at this place, has sold his stock to M.
U. Demarest.

————-_—.—-._o
Movements of Michigan Gideons.
Detroit, March 4—Detroit Camp

of Gideons held a meeting in Hotel
Cadillac Sunday evening. The back
parlor was put in readiness by the
hotel management. The  quartette
sang the opening hymn on the stair
steps and then marched back to the
room prepared for the meeting. Aft-
er song service, Brother George D.
Lyford gave a very touching and in-
teresting address, followed by five
others of Detroit Camp, after which
an editor from an Ohio city signified
his desire to live the new life. He
said he had two small children at
home praying for him and a little
baby too small to pray; that he had
a father who had passed away but
a short time ago and that he could

 

remember how peacefully the end
came. There were but few present
at this meeting, but one soul was
touched.

'The members of Detroit Camp hold
meetings in the Y. M. C. A. at 3 p.
m. the first and third Sunday of each
month and every second and fourth
Saturday from 12 to I, and they con-
duct meeting at the Volunteers of
America every Saturday evening.

F. C. Benningfield, of Decatur, T. C.
Simons, of Cheboygan, and F. S. Mc-
Cain, of Reading, are now Gideons.
Aaron B. Gates.
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The recent exhibition of safety de-
vices held in New York did not at-
tract the attention that the dog show
does, but it is presumable that its in-
fluence and lasting benefits will be
far greater. Other cities in this coun-
try have taken the matter up and
are considering the holding of simi-
lar expositions of industry, hygiene
and sanitation. Canada sent a spe-
cial representative and the Canadian
government has already promised
funds to take up the work in thac
country. The toll of human lives
that are lost through carelessness in
our industrial establishments is fear-
ful and it is strange, indeed, that we
have so long neglected the example
of European cities who have long
taken care to exhibit every new safety
appliance.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—A No. 3 Middleby portable
oven and bakers’ tools. Never been used.
Lunch counter, showcase, cash register
and stones all new. Address C. L. Mc-
Intyre, Pinckney, Mich. 649

For Sale—Stock of clothing and fur-
nishings. Must be sold by April 1st., at
a sacrifice. Write A. Ullman, Ovid, —

 

 

 

A good opening for a stock of general
merchandise, including groceries. Ad-
dress No. 651, care Michigan eT

 

A fine location for a good milliner. Ad-
dress No. 652, care Michigan pide

 

I have a brick store which I will sell
at a sacrifice. Address Mrs. M. O. Farn-
ham, Mancelona, Mich. 653

There is money in the furniture and
undertaking business. Here is a location
where you can make it pay. Address No.
654, care Michigan Tradesman. 654

To Rent—Modern double store, 38x60
ft. and basement. Fitted for dry goods,
clothing and shoes. Reasonable rent. J.
R. Lieberman, St. Clair, Mich. 631

For Sale—Small stock of groceries,
store fixtures, horse and wagon, in North-
ern Michigan town of 3,000. Invoices
about $800. A bargain. Address No. 618,
eare Tradesman. 618

For Sale—General store and meat mar-
ket. Small stock, good business.
ing new, 24x100 feet. Potato cellar same
size. New ice and ware houses. Stock,
building and fixtures invoice about $4,000.
Will sacrifice. Best farming and lum-
bering section in Northern Michigan.
New town. Want to go West about
March 15. One-half cash. A snap. Ad-
dress No. 626, care Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

 

 

 

Wanted—-Location for drug store in
town of 500 to 3,000 population. Best of
references furnished and want a good
live town. Address ‘‘Pills,’’ care Trades-
man. 625

 

Inverted Gasoline Lamp
500 Candle Power

Burns 45 hours on
one gallon or 95
hours if turned

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