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Bell Phone 87 Citizens Phone 5087 Pure Cider Vinegar There will be a great demand tor PURE CIDER VINEGAR this season on account of the Pure Food law. We guarantee our vinegar to be. absolutely pure, made from apples and free from all artificial coloring. Our vinegar meets the requirements of the Pure Food laws of every State in the Union. Sold Through the Wholesale Grocery Trade a — The Williams Bros. Co., Manufacturers Picklers and Preservers Detroit, Michigan Makes Clothes Whiter- Work Team ey ND dh) pernind GOOD GOODS — GOOD PROFITS. & ® * The ™Kent County Savings Bank OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH Has largest amount of deposits of any State or Savings Bank in Western Michigan. If you are contemplating a change in your Banking relations, or think of opening a new account, call and see us. Paid on Certificates of Deposit Banking By Maii Resources Exceed 3 Mililien Dollars Commercial bred G0., Lid. Credit Advices and Collections MICHIGAN OFFICES Murray Building, Grand Rapids Majestic Building, Detroit ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corre- spondence invited. 2321 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. 7; PREIGHIT and Quickly. We can tell you how. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapids, Mich YOUR DELAYED Easily THIRD RAIL SYSTEM A course in bookkeeping, shorthand and typewriting is like the third rail. It increases your speed toward the goal of success. Se- cure it at the Cons idl Ache UG; a 75, 83 Lyon St. My Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY THE McBAIN AGENCY Grand Rapids, Mick. The Leading Agency Fire and Burglar Proof SAFES Tradesman Company Grand Rapids TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT. Let any man suggest anything about labor with a capital L and in- stantly the little coterie of bartend- ers, graiters, hod carriers, scavengers and house politicians who call themselves the trades and labor coun- get busy with things, ile pro pot cil resolutions and while fessional politicians with a capital P hold their breaths and whisper tremulous nothings and newspapers which are conducted with sole reference to the money till print brave arrays of type warranted not to hurt the subscri or the ption list advertising patronage. And so it happened that a proposi- tion recently made by Wesley W. Hyde to promote immigration to Grand Rapids at tempest in a generated | a ONCE perfect teapot. Vhe actual facts of Mr. Elyde’s proposition are that it was an idea born of a desire to help the condi- tion of laboring men in this neck of fhe woods and with no crow vd out in Grand men at present employed ie or to bring about a reduction of wages. Mr. Hyde’s plan was founded up- on the well-known fact that a con- LiINHOUS Sikeam Of imimieramis is flowing into the United States and that in nearly all large cities organ- ized efforts are made to induce the better class of newcomers to locate in tl result is The make no at ace y tie Leave JQ JS sirable } that a ign belief of- the fore and Hic- ehanics, farmers skilled laborers in Grand Rapids and vicinity have oer who may be induced to leave heir homes in Germany, Great Brit- ain, Belgium, Dent nark, Norway and Sweden and come to Grand jRapids. rants do come bound to citi- securing So lone as the to this join immig daily annually for country y, and are to us years come, why not ask our fellow h eip foreigners who zens to toward us those are wholly de ee 1 : +c J £ Strable, imstead of and indifferently submitting the ge } Be “ Fy git a those very classes which are, b a coming of to ecause of their objectionable characteristics, certain) to hurt labor and all civic conditions. Mr. Hyde’s plan contemplates the Wish 0} remainder. It| etfi re | of to their e according to the request to or give copies there ployes, each + with {hat w write brother uncle, aunt cousins, they copy of the circular in the letter Mr. Hyde’s plan will put it to the skilled his native | | enclose a | Sent. | direct- | ly up laborer at pres- ent in Grand Rapids—possibly a union man, although few union men| are skilled workmen—to induce his | kinsman to come to our city, or| ounty, or adjacent county and be-| gin life anew; it shows a way to es-| cape the wretched situation in cer-| tain other portions of the country where most undesirable immigrants are brought by the trainloads mto sections to bring down wages and still further injure the condition of wage earners in those sections. Trades and labor councils of trade and newspapers can not check the flow of immigra- tion. It 1S a natural and necessary factor in the development of our country. Ehis being the case, the Oresanizations mamed will make : very serious mistake if they longer 1 platform and note the situation there before giving the starting bell. The tle is that with a crowded car on his hands the conductor squeezes md pushes and crowds back and forth from one end of the car to th other, stepping on corns, knocking hats off, jabbing men and women in the ribs, disari inging toilettes and making a muss and fuss generally. Such things are impositions uponthe patrons of the Street Railway Com- pany and there should be sufficient bility and enterprise in the )m- pany to correct the evils. lf it is unsafe to start a crowded car without knowing exactly the back platform situation, remove the ob stiri the conductor’s vie more cars The Str Ss dad Wery poor on I< ( th Cols, bunions and we rroome condition of ladies and gentlemen in the effort , eu LOW nd INCFeaASse e€cerpts an OUT- Faget 1 d upon neglect getting : oe TROUBLE AH iEAD. ly in an effort to secure the very bes a i mie i a Ellis has finally announces classes of such weomers for this : a0 = : TIOh: ¢€ the matte of S lov Section. Ehe State Labor Commis ; a nes _ oan < i ‘ ) c € ieee the ettec e SIONCL Says Sich Classes i J — effect that ] ; saioons should 2 permitted ¢ a] and needed, that there is ; Cae | itted to open : a herr doors on Sanday sad fea | dance of Lean awa s oe an — |trious, thrifty and law-abiding } Open until © oclock in the evening. A ae | As the Mavor is actt 1 solel : ers fzom foreien lands im all depart-| ~~" °° “47?! tuated solely by c at ci politic: nediencv a nw ae ments of in ss [hese men, if}! al expediency and never takes “4 : 1 ‘ z See a4 ans t¢ Et co ane the rieht Sore, will help : 7 4 ‘ 1 _ 1 S maintain the present wage scale ae Ye |will prove strong and most effectiv usion tha In preventing lower wages. POOR MANAGEMENT Te is the unreasonable to of or management the Co. one ids Railwe any other public service t10H can aa be prepared to cy immediately al pany Me€et €vety emercen ptly, but it and perfectly 1 for Such a upon so is unreasonable open cars fortnight cold com- its weather to force during a for characteristics, of and public remarkable its unsea- sonable thereby de- eloping all sorts of physical discom- serious ailments It is true that we of remarkably hot not to fonts and more among its patrons. had day weather, a surprise one everybody ex- preparation of circulars setting forth|cept the street car people. They the advantages of Western Michi-| were ready with the open cars and gan as a farming section; the oppor- | put them into commission. Presum- tunities immediately adjacent tojably to avoid a little expense and Grand Rapids for successful market | considerable effort the company has gardeners and the scale of wages paid | been expecting a return of hot weath- for farm hands, gardeners and me- | €r every day since the change was chanics in and about our city. These | made and so has hung onto the open circulars, printed in the various lan-|cars. Meanwhile people have shiv- guages of Northern Europe, are to be| ered and chattered and ached and placed in the hands of local foreign- | said things. born farmers, fruit growers, con-| Another thing about this same tractors and builders and other em-|management: _< The capital stock of the Hart Mir- ror Plate Co. has been increased from $12,800 to $100,000. —_2.--.—___—_ True religion deals with men as in the sight of God and with God as in the sight of men. The Grocery Market. Sugar—The refiners, by a series of advances, have now pushed up prices to a point where the gross margin of profit between raw and refined is now about 1 cent: They have con- tracted to buy raws for July ship- ment, however, at a price which will reduce the margin at that time to about 85 points unless there is furth- er advance. This will likely come as soon as the demand reaches the usual summer magnitude. Already it shows some increase, but not a great deal, owing to the backward season. Tea—The demand is as it has been, from hand to mouth only, and the line is unchanged throughout. Here and there a line is firm by reason of scarcity, but the bulk of the lines are simply steady. Coffee—Receipts of Rio and San- tos continue to beat all records, and the outlook is not promising to large holders of these grades of coffee. The demand for Brazil is moderate. Java and Mocha are steady at unchanged prices. Milds are steady and un- changed. Dried Fruits—Apricots are so ex- tremely scarce as to be hardly quot- able. Raisins are getting cleaned up and there is at present a good job- bing distribution. Currants are in good demand for the season at rul- ing prices. Apples are firm and un- changed. New prices have been named on future raisins and they show an apparently unsettled situa- tion. Certain large packers have named 8c for fancy seeded, f. o. b. the coast, and* 734¢, which is 2%c above last year. Other packers have named prices %c_ higher. These prices were higher than the trade ex- pected, and have not aroused any business. Spot prunes show no further change, being firm at last week’s advance. The spot Eastern market is still about %c below the coast. Prices on future prunes have not yet generally been named. The prices which have come out so far have been largely speculative, and named with a desire to feel the trade and prepare it for high values. Some Oregon future prunes have been sold at a range from 34@5éc above last year’s opening. Peaches are quiet and unchanged. Cheese — Old is very firm and stocks are about exhausted. What few are remaining are being sought for at firm prices. New cheese is coming in in small shipments and goes out at about 2c below the old. Each shipment shows an improve- ment in quality. There will probably be no change in price within the next few days either in old or new cheese. Provisions—There has been an in- crease in the consumptive demand and the market is firmer than a week ago. Pure and compound lard have advanced '%c during the week, due in the case of pure lard to better de- mand and higher cost of hogs, and in the case of compound to the scarcity and costliness of cotton oil. Barrel pork, dried beef and canned meats are unchanged and in better demand. Canned meats particularly show a better trade than they have for some time. Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are dull and unchanged. Domestic sar- dines show no further change, al- though the outlook seems_ rather firm. Imported sardines are un- changed and steady. No new prices are forthcoming as yet on salmon, but they are expected shortly. Mack- erel show no change whatever, eith- er in price or general conditions, from last week and the demand is very quiet. ——_+---.—___ Light and Electricity the Same. Nothing new under the sun. W. A. Shenstone, FR: S.. says that there is no essential difference be- tween the flickers of light used as sig- nals by a savage tribesman when he waves a beacon to warn his friends a few miles away at the approach of danger and the invisible signals sent over the ocean from the wireless telegraphy station at Poldhu. The savage with his torch and the highly trained electrician at Poldhu, each in his own way, generates waves in that ether which, as we believe, permeates every speck of matter and fills every nook and cranny of the universe, and the success of the signal, in the one case as in the other, depends upon those waves falling upon a suitable receiver—the human eye or_ substi- tute for the eye—at the end of their journey through space. And yet there is this difference between the light waves produced by the savage and the electric waves generated at Poldhu: The latter, to put it broadly, for there is a big gap, may be said to begin where the former cease. For while light waves are so small that many thousands of them can be packed within the compass of a single inch, electric waves are so big that they may be feet, miles or even thousands of miles in length. In all essential qualities, however, except in size, light waves and electric waves, so far as we know at present, are iden- tical. The human eye is responsive to the small waves but not to the big waves. That is why the big waves were not recognized until a_ special instrument had been constructed for the purpose. —_——__222 New Lumber Company. A corporation has been formed un- der the style of the Southland Lum- ber Co., which has an authorized cap- ital stock of $20,000, all of which has been subscribed, $10,000 being paid in in cash. The operations of the company are to be carried on at Matthews, Missouri. The stockhold- ers and the amount of stock held by each are as follows: A: Bo Kroewlson ..2........., $14,400 Vos: FlQrWer .............. 2,600 woe Plermer 20... 1,000 GF Rooks (2..0.0....5 2... 2,000 —_++.—__ Monroe—The_ Seitz Automobile and Transmission Co. has been in- corporated to manufacture automo- biles. The company has an author- ized capital stock of $500,000, of which amount $265,000 has been sub- scribed, $3,000 being paid in in cash and $255,000 in property. ——~ Big Rapids—A. R. Morehouse has purchased the grocery’ stock and store building of George Graham and will continue the business at the same location. nie ait iS ETERS gt a ce STE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN INCUBATOR CLERKS. Girl Clerks Who Have Been Train- , ed at Home. Written for the Tradesman. The dry goods man sat at his desk in the private room. The chief book- keeper stood not far away, armed with pencil and paper. The mer- chant had advertised for four girl clerks and the corridor at the back of the big salesroom was packed with girls—blondes, brunettes, __ pretty, plain, prettily dressed, attired in the garments of poverty. This commit- tee of two was selecting the four from the bevy. The door leading from the corridor to the private office opened and a fluffy young blonde came in; her cheeks flushed, her eyes shining with anticipation. She was one of the prettily dressed ones. She stood before the two men quite self- possessed, showing neither timidity nor self-consciousness. “Have you ever worked as clerk?” was the first question after the name and address had been taken. “Never, but—” “Are you quick at figures?” asked the merchant, not waiting for the girl’s explanation. “Oh, yes, sir.” “Have you a good eye for color?” “T thing so, sir.” “You sew, of course?” “Why of course?” asked the girl. “You don’t want a sewing woman, do you?” “Do you understand needlework?” asked the merchant, a little nettled at being asked questions by the appli- cant. ’ “Certainly, sir. “Where did you learn?” “At school, sir.” “Yes, of course. And you cook?” The girl flushed deeply. “Why,” she said, “I didn’t know that you wanted a cook. I thought I came here to apply for a position as clerk.” “Do you cook?” repeated the mer- chant, sternly. “I can cook,” was the reply, “but I don’t.” The applicant shrugged her shoul- ders and tilted her dimpled chin in- to the air. Her manner said what words could not have expressed so quickly, that she felt herself above the drudgery of the kitchen. “Why don’t you cook?” asked the merchant “Oh, because I don’t have to. We have a cook at home, and I don’t think she likes to have me mussing about the kitchen.” “Where did you learn to cook?” ? “Why, what a funny examination!” cried the applicant. “I never heard anything like it. Do you have to know all about everything to earn four dollars a week clerking in a dry goods store?” The book-keeper grinned. That surely was one on the boss. Per- sonally the book-keeper had never approved of the civil service examin- ations all applicants had to undergo before getting positions in the store. He thought the boss cranky on the subject. “Where did you learn to cook?” repeated the merchant, glancing sharply at the book-keeper ,who was trying hard to keep his keen enjoy- ment of the situation from showing in his face. “I learned at school,” was the re- ply. “We had regular cooking class- es at school, and we had good teach- ers, too,” the girl added, as if desir- ous of impressing upon the merchant the thoroughness of her culinary ed- ucation. The merchant pondered a moment and the girl, seeing both merriment and sympathy in the eyes of the book-keeper, smiled faintly in his di- rection. : “And so you learned to sew an to cook at school,” said the deale-, presently. “How kind of the Board of Education! Did you also learn to sweep and dust and wash at school? Were you taught anything at home?” “Why, mother was always busy,” was the reply. “I can’t see why a girl should know about all these things to get a job clerking.” The merchant opened his mouth to make answer, but closed it without speaking a word. He saw that it would be useless to attempt to ex- plain to the girl that he was asking what she had been taught and where she had learned the things she knew only for the purpose of discovering the amount of training that her mind had received. “Were you taught anything at home?” repeated the merchant. “Yes, sir,” replied the girl, with flashing eyes, “I was taught not to ask impertinent and personal ques- tions.” She turned to the door and passed out. The book-keeper checked 4 snicker. The merchant looked annoy- ed and pained. He turned to the book-keeper and asked: “Is there any way I can protect myself from incubator clerks with- out asking personal questions? Do you know of any system by which I can reach an idea of the amount of brain-culture these applicants have received without asking about their home life and the share of the moth- er in it?” “I guess you have adopted theonly way,” admitted the book-keeper, “al- though the girls do not appear to like it. What do you mean by incubator clerks?” “You may take a first-grade egg,” replied the merchant, sitting back in his chair, regardless of the waiting ones who were scuffling and pushing each other about in the corridor, “and put this first-grade egg in a first- grade incubator and attach a kero- sene lamp to the outfit and put the contraption down in the cellar and watch it night and day until the shell cracks and out pops a chicken with weak eyes and a fluffy head. You'll have to get up nights to at- tend to the lamp, and you'll have to turn the eggs over just so often, and you'll have to do a lot of things in imitation of a hen, but in time each egg will crack open and you'll see a slender-necked chick come out oF ik: “Now, you may take that chick and feed it and wrap it in cotton and cuddle it, and do a lot more things in imitation of a hen, but, after all, it is nothing but an incubator chick- en. Did you ever get the incubator habit? No? Then, of course, you can not know what a frail thing an incu- bator chicken is. There are a list of diseases manufactured exclusively and entirely for incubator chickens. They have things the matter with them that no one ever heard of be- fore. They die if you look at ’em, which is, perhaps, the best thing they can do, for an incubator chicken is not calculated, intellectually, to wage successful conflict with the world. In other words, a chick reared in an incubator is liglt in the bellfry, as the boys say. I don’t know whether it is the incubator, or the cotton, or the kerosene lamp, but it is a sure thing that incubator chicks do not possess chicken sense. I guess the brain doesn’t develop in the machine. “Now, you may take a child and give it out to a nurse in its infancy, and later pay a pretty girl to trun- dle it through the park, and send it off to school in care of a paid at- tendant, and you're just following the course of the incubator and the kerosene lamp. Still later you may keep this child out of the sewing room and the kitchen at home and ermit the public school teachers to teach it to sew and cook; you may shift the duties of motherhood onto the paid teachers all through its young life, and bring it up at public expense, and with only the cold care of the public, until it marries if it is a girl or runs away and enlists if it is a boy, and you’ve got an incubator child. An incubator child is as bad as an incubator chick. I don’t want them in my store. “The incubator child, my son, is in no sense human. It hasn’t got the human heart that sees, understands and sympathizes with the world of its kind. It has been assorted and grad- ed and classified until it is a human machine. It is selfish, intolerant of the rights of others, cold, mercenary, ungrateful. I don’t mean to say that it is shy in the cupola, like the incubator chick, but it is shy in those qualities of the mind which attract friends and retain them. Therefore, I don’t want any incubator clerks in my store, see? I want girls who have been reared under the mother eye, who have imbibed the mother ideas of purity, gentleness and courtesy. “I wish the Board of Education would stop taking the duties of the mother upon its shoulders. Children should be taught to sew and cook at home. They should be drawn out in- tellectually and physically as they are naturally endowed. They should be taught kindness, compassion, charity, and should naturally take a keen in- terest in their fellows. The incuba- tor clerk is” more interested in the clock than anything else. “Now, I’m not pretending to dic- tate to mothers how to rear their little ones, or how not to rear them. I simply say that when they are reared after incubator style I don’t want them here. It may not be the mothers’ fault. I don’t know. [ know only the result. “You. go ahead, now, and pick out four clerks. I’ve spent so much time trying to make you understand that it is home training that makes the man or the woman that I can’t see the thing through. Remember that | don’t want any incubator clerks!” Now you know how this merchant gets good clerks. Alfred B. Tozer. _———-oe--o-> Good Promise Better Than Bad Check. The salesman is always ready to take your order, and it is easy to buy; but paying sometimes gets to be what Shérman said war was. In paying your bills, if you do so by money in the bank, don’t ever calcu- late that Messrs. Jones & Brown will not put your check through for a day or so, and pay another bill with what you have on deposit, hoping for good business or some fellow to pay a bill to tide you over, because it is a known fact that some of these credit men have wonderful intuitive powers, and just about that time the credit man with Jones & Brown is going to rush your check through. And then—well, you figured wrong or the bank was wrong. Don’t do it —if business is quiet, collections poor, or unlooked-for expenses have depleted your cash balance, tell the truth and say that in about ten days or two weeks: you will remit. Al- ways remember that a good promise is better than a returned check mark- ed “No Funds.” Largest Exclusive Furniture Store in the World When you're in town be sure and call. Ilus- trations and prices upon application. Klingman’s Sample Furniture Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Ionia, Fountain and Division Sts. Opposite Morton House IF THERE Is In this state, or elsewhere, who wants to buy a paying, well-established general merchandise business in a thriving town of goo inhabitants, let him write me. Town is located in a pros- perous farming community, on two Jines of railroad, in Western Michigan, and is near good buying markets. Satisfactory reasons given for selling. A hustler can double present profits. Stock in- voices about $10,000. ance easy terms. building, Terms, part cash, bal- Can give long lease on or will sell that, too. Address, S ae man, Grand Rapids, M .O. V., care Michigan Trades- ich, | MICHIGAN TRADESMAN T PORT HURON POST. Some Great Plans Announced for the Future. ~* Port Huron, May 18—Not having seen anything in the commercial travelers’ page of the Tradesman from our neck of the woods for some time, I thought perhaps you would like to know what the members of the Knights of the Grip are doing over here. Speaking of the social side of af- fairs, I will inform my brothers what has been done here in Port Huron. Having organized Post H only a little over a year ago with twenty- three charter members, we to-day have a membership of seventy-five active traveling men, and are taking in from two to five new members at every meeting, which we now hold on the last Sunday afternoon of each month at the handsome Com- mercial Club House. By the way, Post H has a degree team that works a side degree on all the newly in- itiated that has everything else of the kind backed off the boards right. It is certainly a howling success (for that is about all the members do while the candidate is going through his sprouts—howl). It is quite a drawing card to get members to the meetings; and the team is thinking of touring the State, visiting the cit- ies where Posts of the Knights of the Grip are located and exemplify- ing the work. During the winter we held danc- ing parties every other Friday night at the Masonic Temple, which were pronounced the pleasantest parties held in the city. Besides this we hold little family gatherings, which only members and their families at- tend. These are also very enjoyable affairs. Card playing is indulged in, prizes are given, a light repast is serv- ed and then a short musical pro- gramme is rendered. -In this way our families all get acquainted with one another, which is certainly more sociable than that only we_ boys should know each other. There is one thing I wish to men- tion also. Post H is going to attend the State convention at Saginaw Aug. 23 and 24, and will be there with both feet. At the last meeting a committee, consisting of Wm. J. Devereaux, W. A. Murray and A. D. Seaver, were appointed to make all necessary arrangements for the trip. It is expected that we will go by special train, accompanied by the K. of G. Band of this city. Nearly every member will go, accompanied by his wife, and some members who are still in lovely bachelorhood, among them Ed. J. Courtney, Man- ford Watt, R. S. Bennett, Leo Witt- liff, Jno. F. Cannalley and Jas. Fur- geson, have promised to “jump the broomstick” just before that time, so as to take in the convention and honeymoon at the same time. That “srand old man,” W. R. Carson, who is Dean of the corps of traveling men of Port Huron, is going to act as drum major for the band. The other day Uncle Tom’s Cabin was in town and I saw “old boy” Carson following the band and keeping up with the little “nigger” who was the drum major for the company. When he met me he said, “Say, I think I can do just as well as that fellow.” The “old boy” is right there with the goods when it comes to swinging the baton or doing the highland fling. He is strong on either one. Frank Atkins, captain of our base- ball club, told me that he has made arrangements with half a dozen ball players of the Detroit club and in- tends to challenge the Saginaw bunch for a return game of baseball and wipe out the awful stain of that de- feat at Saginaw’s hands last year. Then we are going to play a game of ball in the near future with the policemen of our fair city for sweet charity, and I want to say right here that we have a few members who are some “chucks” at playing the game, among the most notable ones being “Ham” Irving, who is certainly strong on the “high ball” stuff and is without doubt one of-the greatest out-fielders in the business. Then there is my old friend, Mosher, but his preference is for the “straight” ball. One of the best players we ever had was “Billy” Morash. “Billy” has left us and is now proprietor of the O’Mara House at Carsonville, where he is trying to take care of the boys the best he knows how. Bill did not seem to be greatly in love with the game anyway, for he said barbed wires were too hard on a fellow’s clothes. In Will Devereaux, Ed. Monsell, C. A. Fitz Gerald and “Tommy” Atkins we have the great- est “stonewall” in-field there ever was, and Ed. Courtney, our “spit- ball” artist, is the real candy boy. For catchers we have Charlie Howitt and Albert Wagner, who can catch anything from a street car that has a block the ‘start of them to a cold in mid-summer. What we will do to those police- men will be a plenty, and by the time we meet that Saginaw bunch we expect to be in great fettle. “Plunk? Elamilton and | & | R. Beger, so rumor has it (not verified), have leased the Jeffers Theater at Saginaw for the days of the conven- tion and will present there for the first time the playlet written by themselves ,entitled “I don’t like you anymore, or when we were snow- bound.” Among the other princi- pals in the cast are J. P. Smith, Ham. Irving, W. A. Murray, W. R. Car- son, Maxwell Gray, J. B. Corlett and Watson Wesley. All are rehearsing their parts diligently and the show promises to be extremely interest- ing, with some very thrilling cli- maxes. Then we are also going to get up a real live baby show, to which only descendants of a “grip lugger”’ in good standing will be eligible to en- trance. Let me say that no one need worry lest there be not enough en- tries, for most of the local contin- gent of traveling men are firm be- lievers and exponents of President Roosevelt’s idea of the strenuous life and how to replenish this hemi- sphere. “Bob” Mitchell is one of the foremost promoters of the baby show. “Bob,” by the way, is the proud father of a five months old baby girl. The other day he told me confidentially that he would win first prize with his youngster in a walk, “for,” as he expressed it, “she is just too sweet for anything.” Brothers Monsell, Minne and Atkins expect to run “Bob” a close race with their youngest heirs. In closing, let me just say that I think we have a pretty good bunch of traveling men living in our beau- tiful city. They are a sociable and free-hearted lot of gentlemen. Of course, a few never seem to be able to take time to attend a meeting of the Post; some don’t feel like favor- ing us by attending the dancing par- ties or feel like donating a dollar if they don’t attend, and some _ also don’t even feel like attending our family gatherings, which are compli- mentary—cost the members _ noth- ing; but, on the whole, I think we are getting along fine and have the banner Post of the Michigan Knights of the Grip. Kahuka. a Recent Business Changes in the Buckeye State. Fayette — The grocery business formerly conducted by Chas. Camp- bell will be continued by Campbell! & Evans. Blatchford—Cook & Forsythe suc- ceed Cook & Leonard in the general merchandise business. Canton—L. A. Cooper is succeeded in the grocery business by Beder- man & Kinderer. Lorain—W. W. Freeland will con- tinue the grocery business formerly conducted by Freeland Bros. Lower Salem—The general mer- chandise business formerly conduct- ed by Muhlback & Mutz will be continued by P. H. Muhlback. Giddings—R. W. Earlywine, gen- eral merchant, is succeeded in trade by F. Swanson. Hamilton—A petition in bankrupt- cy has been filed by the creditors of K. Shoker, clothier. Marshfield—McClure & Davis are the successors of the hardware firm of Hysell & Duffee. Newark—O’Bannon & Co., bakers, are succeeded in business by Mrs. Richard Kear. Newark—Lissor & Son are the successors of W. H. Reinbolt, gro- cer. Oberlin—C. J. Holgate will con- tinue the racket store business form- erly conducted by Holgate & Wright. Upper Sandusky—E. Rangeler is succeeded in the meat business by Rangeler & Herman. Athens—The G. A. Welty Co. is succeeded in the manufacture of shirts by the Hershey & Rice Manu- facturing Co. Cleveland—Nicholas Volk succeeds Frank Hovorka, grocer. Greensburge—B. F. Hall, general merchant, is succeeded in business by L. O. Skinner. Groveport—J. H. Miller is suc- ceeded in the grocery business by Hancock & Ingram. Hoytville—E. O. McHenry © suc- ceeds E. E. Householder in the meat business. Lancaster—C. H. Uhl & Co. are the successors of J. M. Nolan, gro- cers. Niles—The Niles Iron & Sheet Co. has changed its name to the Niles Iron & Steel Co. Powell—O. M. Smith succeeds H. B. Dobys in general trade. Stout—Storer & Tracy succeed L. A. Miller, general merchant. Findlay—John Cramer, formerly of North Baltimore, succeeds E. M. Sherk & Co., grocers and crockery dealers, in business. Akron—Henry A. Stauffer is suc- ceeded in the meat business by Har- ry Gaugler. Mansfield—Thomas Day is _ suc- ceeded in the firm of Bowden & Day by George Snyder. The feed busi- ness will be continued under the style of Bowden & Snyder. Crooksville—T. F. Brown will con- tinue the grocery business formerly conducted by Brown & Hazlett. New Straitsville — The _ grocery business formerly conducted by Wil- son & Richards will be continued by Dp: J. Richards. Spencerville—-H. B. Sunderland succeeds Harvey & Miller in the ci- gar business. Cleveland — The Cleveland Mer- chandise Co. has removed to Mans- field. Columbus Grove—M. C. Sterling, dealer in cigars, is succeeded in busi- ness by O. 7. Day. Marietta—The W. H. D. Chapin Co. is succeeded in the manufac- ture of pants by the Chapin Pants Co. Mt. Orab—H. & H. Hendrixson succeed Thompson & Hendrixson in the grocery business. Struthers—Thos. Sheridan is suc- ceeded in the grocery business by T. A. Roberts. I Why New Bottles Should Be Used. Physicians in Austria are report- ed to have found it necessary to spe- cify that in case of refilling all pre- scriptions used in infectious diseases a new bottle shall be used. A num- ber of suspicious cases of infection have emphasized the possible danger of infection from bottles taken from the sick room. In a recent case in this country a drug clerk raised the question whether or not bottles re- turned from scarlet fever patients might have been the cause of his taking the disease. The possibility is certainly a present one, especially if the bottle were wrapped in the pa tient’s room and in paper that had been handled by the patient. The conveyance of any one of several diseases by this means should be borne in mind by physicians and pharmacists. The latter, to: prevent error in the transmission of the number of the desired prescription, could have a germicidal garbage-can, into which the messenger could drop the bottle after having held it up for the reading of the number by the pharmacist. The danger is not a pronounced one, but in epidemics every precaution should be taken. _—————»> 2. Lie down with the rabble and you will get up a realist. A learned woman is a literary nightmare. Old and Slow Accounts Easily Collected by My System Mr. Merchant, do your own collecting easily and quickly at little expense. Address J. M. BOTHWELL, Cadillac, Mich, Bn BR i sR alae ae RAR REL ES SAIS TATE raat ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY Grand Rapids, Mich. Subscription Price Two dollars per year, payable in ad- vance. : Canadian subscriptions, $3.04 per year in advance. No subscription accepted unless ac- companied by a signed order and the price of the first year’s subscription. Without specific instructions to the con- trary all subscriptions are continued in- definitely. Orders to discontinue must be accompanied by payment to date. Sample copies, 5 cents each. Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; of issues a month or more old, 10 cents: of- issues a year or more old, $1. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice. E. A. STOWE, Editor. Wednesday May 22, 1907 AMBASSADOR O’BRIEN. Six times has the General Govern- ment of the United States bestowed distinguished honor upon the State of Michigan by selecting from among her most eminent citizens men ap- pointed to fill diplomatic missions of the highest character. And two of these candidates were citizens of Grand Rapids. The list began with the appointment of the late Gen. Lewis Cass:to be American Ambassa- dor at the Imperial Court of France. Then came the Hon. James B. An- gell to be Ambassador to China; next the late Hon. George V. N. Lothrop as Minister to Russia. He was fol- lowed by the Hon. Thomas W. Palm- er as Minister to Spain and next was the late Hon. Edwin F. Uhl, Ambas- sador to Germany. Now comes the well merited promotion of the Hon. Thos. J. O’Brien to be Ambassador to Japan, a port which, under the new order of diplomatic conditions, is second to no similar office with- in the gift of our Government. A resident of Grand Rapids since 1872, except during the past two years admirably filled by him as Min- ister to Denmark, Mr. O’Brien has been intimately and in a large way identified with the interests of Grand Rapids. By his merit as an officer of the Government and his fine character as a man, Mr. O’Brien has bestowed lasting and _ far-reaching credit upon our city. Therefore it is most fitting that the citizens of Grand Rapids, en masse, should be, provided with an opportunity to make a public demonstration of their appreciation of the great honor he has bestowed upon them. With this object in view the Presi- dent of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade has appointed Messrs. W. H. Anderson, Col. Geo. G. Briggs, Amos S. Musselman, Sidney F. Stevens, Gaius W. Perkins and George G. Whitworth, ex-Presidents of the Board of Trade, a special committee to tender to Mr. O’Brien, upon his return to this country shortly, a pub- lic home-coming reception. It is the purpose to make of this event a spontaneous, semi-informal and gen- uinely sincere congratulation and friendly welcome on the part of every one of the eleven hundred members of the Board of Trade, and the make- up of the special committee having the matter in charge is assurance that the function will be an unqualified success. AMELIE RIVES’ DICTUM. With Abe Hummel, | blackmailer, thief and perjurer, doing time at Blackwell’s Island; with Abe Ruef, ex-political boss and grafter of San Francisco, abandoned by _ his law- yers, and exposing Mayor Eugene Schmitz, associate grafter and thief; with the clergyman who performed the marriage service for the Corey- Gillman outfit, returning the mar- riage fee he received and apologizing for his fault, and with young Mr. Gould and Katherine Clemmons, erstwhile protege of Buffalo Bill and present wife of Mr. Gould, going in- to court for nasty revelations, it is en- tertaining to hear Amelie Rives, au- thor of The Quick and the Dead, de- clare that Americans are the slaves of convention. Amelie, the Princess Troubetskoy, the beautiful Virginia girl, whose first husband was Mr. Chanler, says: “We are too much afraid of the vul- gar to be able to overcome it. Our primitive instincts seem to be too ob- viously ashamed of themselves.” This will be refreshing to the chap who cleans his finger nails on the street cars, picks his teeth at table and shovels his food into his mouth with a knife. It will startle those who wear noisy waistcoats and be- deck their persons with an overplus of jewels, and it will simply paralyze those lesser lights who treat the sa- cred marriage rites as they would an appointment with a book agent. But how about the general public, which is openly charged by the daily press of the country with being re- sponsible for the character of sensa- tionalism which dominates that press? Is it because the great Amer- ican public is too much afraid of the vulgar, because its primitive instincts are too obviously ashamed of them- selves, that the newspapers. parade the doings of the Smart Set and give double column, double leaded first page places to all crimes and horri- ble transactions and events? If the Princess Troubetskoy is seeking a little notoriety through the charge she makes she is welcome to all of such reward as may come to her. If she has advanced a theory which, through discussion, may awak- en Americans to a clearer, more gen- uine sense of the truly spiritual con- dition of things, she may, in the final estimate and settlement of matters, be entitled to canonization. The election of Mr. Guy W. Rouse to the position of President of the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Asso- ciation is a worthy honor, worthily bestowed. Mr. Rouse is a_ young man of great energy and is rapidly making a mark for himself in his chosen occupation. His recognition in this manner by his brothers in trade is naturally a source of much gratification to himself and_ his friends. ae It is not far from winking at sin to working for it. EEE Heaven sees our gifts in the light of our gains. NEEDED LEGISLATION. The Tradesman publishes else- where in this week’s issue the full text of the bill introduced by Sena- tor Bates providing for an amend- ment of the present food law prohib- iting the condemning of goods by the State Dairy and Food Commis- sioner or his associates or assistants until they have first been passed up- on by a court of competent juris- diction. The Michigan food law is an old creation and the present require- ments of Section 6 have been wiped out of the statutes of many states for the same reason they should be eliminated in this State. Congress, in its wisdom in enact- ing the National food law, placed in it the very provision that is embod- ied in the Bates bill. In the opin- ion of the Tradesman, when a per- son is accused of a crime—and it will be remembered that our State food law is a criminal statute—he is enti- tled to a hearing before he is treated as guilty. The proposed amend- ment simply takes away from the Food Commissioner the right to publish broadcast over the State that a certain brand of goods manufactur- ed by a certain producer is not up to standard or is adulterated. It has more than once happened in Michi- gan that a brand of goods has beer driven from the market by publica- tion of the Food Commissioner against it, then it was afterwards ad- mitted to have been pure and without fault. Further than that, it has come in this State to be a favored method to condemn goods without bringing any prosecution whatever, which, in the opinion of the Tradesman, is wrong in principle, because it will be appre- ciated that if any condemnation is published the retail trade in the State will not touch these goods and that if a prosecution were brought the State’s case imght fail. Even the ac- cusations against an individual in court are not privileged matter and he must first be convicted before a newspaper would be warranted in publishing the charges. Why should a State officer, with all the courts at his command, have greater liberty to ruin a man’s business than a dail: press of the State in ordinary mat ters? This amendment guards well the interests of the consuming classes and yet will permit a manufacturer to have his hearing before the Com- missioner and his day in court be- fore the Commissioner has a right to assail him through the columns of the Bulletin. If the proposed amendment is add- ed to the law the Commissioner wil} still have the power to notify the trade through his inspectors when- ever they find a questionable article if the same is not salable, which is a common method now’ employed, and he might even use a_ letter if he so chose. All that is asked is that a man shall not be branded un- til he has had an opportunity to “be heard. This question was thoroughly threshed out at Washington during the hearings on the food law held there for ten years before the Com- mittee on the Inter-State and For- eign Commerce, consisting of eigh- teen members, who finally voted unanimously for the present language of the National law, of which the Bates bill is almost an exact copy. The Tradesman thinks it has said enough to convince its readers that the present practice is wrong in both principle and application, and that the proposed law is just to all con- cerned. It protects the consumer, gives the Food Commissioner all the authority he should have and gives the manufacturer his day in court. It has been submitted to dozens of manufacturers, jobbers and retailers, ali of whom join the Tradesman in pronouncing it much needed legisla- tion. DENATURED ALCOHOL. It required a good deal of work and energy to secure the passage of the denatured alcohol bill. Its en- actment was vigorously opposed by the Standard Oil Company, on the theory that it would create a cheap product sure to come into competi- tion with gasoline, for which now that company can ask any price it pleases. It is doubtful if the bill could have been passed were it not for the very strong public opinion in its favor. Since it was made a law, no great amount of advance has been made and denatured alcoho! has not secured a very important place in the market as a competitor of gas- oline or old fashioned alcohol. he most sanguine friends of the legisla- tion have been a little disappointed on this score, but it is well enough to remember that good things usual- ly come slow. What has been ac- complished in other countries and by other peoples can be accomplished here by Americans and to the old method improvement and_ progress will surely be added. It is confident- ly anticipated, that the results will ultimately justify the legislation. When it was up for discussion in Congress, denatured alcohol was most frequently referred to as a com- petitor for gasoline to be used for heating purposes and_ curiously enough its first practical use is rath- er in the place of kerosene as an il- luminant. It is said that many farm- ers in South Dakota are using it for that purpose very successfully. Es- pecially valuable will it prove for in- ternal combustion motors and _ this sort of engines must come into con- Stantly increasing use on the farms. In the year 1905, Germany used 91,- 148,162 bushels of potatoes in the production of alcohol. There are in Europe varieties of potatoes especial- ly rich in alcohol and our Depart- ment of Agriculture has imported samples for seed. Co-operative plants for the manufacture of dena- tured alcohol are suggested where the farmers can use up their inferior grain, defective potatoes and other starch yielding vegetables. Consid- erable progress has been made since the new law was passed and the ad- vance in the immediate future prom- ises to be still more rapid. sca heaped The religion that lays emphasis on views often is remarkably short on I vitality. Ses ae Ses ae MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. In every age of the world the un- equal distribution of wealth or prop- erty has been the subject of much private thought and public agitation, and the cause of not a few social revolutions, and of a vast deal of bloody violence and crime. In early times the theory was put forth that every human creature put into this world was entitled to an equal share of all the benefits found’ in it, but the time came when more or less of the necessaries of life had come into possession of many indi- viduals and were no longer freely at the disposal of any who might choose to take and use. Up to and, indeed, long after the advent of white men from Europe in- to the New World of the Western Hemisphere, the wild animals in the forest or on the plains and the wild fruits of the soil were free to all comers, and while that was the case, there were few or no fixed settle- ments by the red aborigines. They followed the buffaloes, and the buffa- loes followed the grass from its early appearance on the plains of Southern latitudes to its later spring- ing in more Northerly regions. The vast herds of bisons ranged from Texas up into British America as the summer weather and the summer verdure developed, and as winter ap- proached they meandered southward, following the grass. In all the two million square miles of territory west of the Mississippi River for centuries before there was any recorded American history, and for centuries after that history be- gan, there were few or no fixed habi- tations made and occupied by the In- dians, who lived nomadic lives, de- pending wholly for subsistence upon the bounty of Nature. Nevertheless, there was _ private property. The savages took what they needed, and the various tribes did not scruple to rob each other when opportunity offered and they even marked out territory claimed by each tribe respectively, but which each tribe invaded for purposes of plunder when it could be done suc- cessfully. Thus the country was di- vided in an arbitrary way among the several tribes. But among no savage tribes was there any practice of socialism. There was no common or community stock of supplies. The thrifty members got and laid up what they’ could; the profligate and extravagant consumed their substance and suffered when it was gone. Idlers and loafers were not permitted to remain with the tribe. If they would not hunt for a living they were driven away, and if found stealing from those who had something they were additionally punished besides being banished. Thus the rights of private property were recognized from the begin- ning. It was only in communities highly civilized and densely populated that a movement against private property began. It first manifested itself in the form of riots and revolution in which those who had not sought to take by force from those who had. In every case the property owners were able to put down such violence until the time of the French Revolu- tion, about the beginning of the nine- teenth century. In a struggle which lasted near ten years the old French nobility were killed or driven from the country and their great estates were seized and divided. The peas- antry who did the fighting for the new republic got little or nothing, while the wealth went into the hands of the middle classes. The attempt to distribute the wealth failed through the dishonesty and covetousness of the administrators. Where great wealth is to be handled under such circumstances the big rascals always get in control of it. The idea that there should be a new deal in property was never put in any practical form, but while the poor always wanted and claimed it, the duty of dividing it always got into the hands of the cunning, the unscrupulous and the wholly selfish, and they so managed as to get for themselves the greatest share of this plunder. There is no science or prin- ciple in robbery, although there may be a great deal of ingenuity. If there is to be a_ redistribution of wealth it must be made upon a sys- tematic basis. The loafer, the drunk- ard, the “dope” fiend, the habitual criminal can hardly be supposed to be entitled to any consideration in such a division. What has been considered the near- est approach to such a basis is that proposed by Karl Marx, the so-call- ed father of Socialism. Marx holds that manual labor has created all the wealth and is therefore entitled to all the wealth. No consideration can be given to machinery because it is a creation of labor, and if it has multi- plied the power of men so as great- ly to increase production, its prod- ucts should be credited to manual labor all the same. As for the man who owns the factory and the plant and furnishes the raw material, he is working with wealth that was cre- ated by labor, and in the new deal he counts only for one individual to be paid for his labor, provided he ever labored. Count Tolstoi, the Russian Social- ist, declares that no man should be accounted as a laborer unless he works with his hands, and he de- mands that th: hard and horny palm be the test. This would throw out all who merely tend and direct ma- chines that do all the drudgery, while it would utterly ignore the thinkers, the men whose brains have discover- ed, invented, originated and elaborat- ed all the science of machinery, of chemistry, of electricity, which have armed so many workmen, each, with the power of ten and have made of everyday use appliances and contriv- ances that have enormously improv- ed the condition of the masses of the people in sanitation, in transportation and in general convenience and comfort. If there had been none of this brain work labor conditions would be no better than they were centuries ago when the people were little more than serfs, if not actually slaves. When in the general proposition for the division of wealth, no considera- tion is given to brain work, there is growing up among the theorists on that subject that when the divi- sion shall actually be begun it can not be entrusted ito any haphazard method, but will have to be superin- tended by the ablest thinkers and conducted upon a system that will re- quire for its formulation the best brain work obtainable. This idea does not seem to suit the views of those who demand an equal distribution in which no favoritism will be possible upon any pretext, but every individual shall be counted equal, and after the division each in- dividual ,free from all control, shall be entitled to enjoy his own property in his own way. It is not difficult to foresee enor- mous confusion under such condi- tions, and the only apparent escape from it will be the forming of a powerful organization under an abso- lute central authority. In every case, whenever a system of social organi- zation that has long existed has been overthrown or a government uproot- ed and abolished, the utmost disor- der has resulted. Bloody chaos; en- tire disregard of all law made by a government that has been destroyed, and absolute absence of all power ex- cept that of a wild and frenzied mob, have always been the result, and nothing less can be expected when the new deal of wealth shall be com- menced. But such a time seems far distant. Even the small property owners will fear such a possibility and the pos- sessors of wealth, whether great or small, will stand together to resist the storm. If there were any peaceful way to accomplish, upon a+ reason- able basis, such a_ distribution of wealth, the time may come, when the people shall have been properly edu- cated to it, that accomplishment might be possible ,but the masses of the American people are not peas- ants and drudges as are the greatest numbers of the Russians. Our peo- ple will stand for their homes against internal savagery just as they would from external invasion, and the dreamers of the Marx and Tolstoi schools will never realize their wild schemes on this continent. ->__ No one save a man’s’ immediate family knows how high a regard he entertains for himself. _—.o2 oa Superstition often is only a syn- onym for intellectual sloth. Good Advertising. Advertising is based largely on a built-up presentation of the goods, an effort to make them attractive, to bring out their good qualities, to give emphasis and prominence. The only man who can advertise safely is the fellow who contents himself with a business card. Even he is likely to insert the lie directly into his formal advertisement. It was Richelieu, you know, who said that if a man would make even so simple a statement as “Two and two are four’ he would use it as an admission by which to convict him, and did actually do this by showing that such a statement constituted a denial of the Trinity, and was heresy. You have to guard especially against damaging inter- nal evidence in your advertisements when women read them, for woman is a natural logician for all her repu- tation to the contrary, and can see a loophole in an advertisement which may be quite invisible to the man who wrote it. It pays to analyze and cross-examine, so that your proposition may be founded on truth, Then you can cut loose in writing — Printers’ Ink. ee A Profitable Parable. Before the collection was taken, at a negro place of worship out in one of Pittsburgh’s suburbs, the minis- ter, a colored man, declared his re- gret that his brother had retired to rest the night before without- lock- ing the door of his fowl-house, to find in the morning that all his chick- ens had disappeared. “IT don’t want to be personal,” he continued, “but I has my suspicions as to who stole dem chickens. If I’m right in doze suspicions, de man dat stole dem chickens won’t put any money in de box, which will now be passed round.” There was a grand collection, not a single man of the congregation feigning sleep. “Now, brethren,” announced’ the minister, “I don’t want youah appe- tites spoilt by wondering where dat broder libs who don’t lock his chick- ens up at night. Dat broder don’t exist, ma friends; he was a parable foh puhposes of finance.” ee Help All Gone. Mr. Rollingstone Nomoss, in one of his journeys, stopped at the door of a suburban home, and when the “lady of the house” responded to his knock, politely asked: “Can you oblige me with a little help, lady?” “No,” was the response, “I’m afraid not. All my help left this morning. It’s very hard to get help in the sub- urbs.” YOUNG MEN WANTED — To learn the Veterinary Profession. Catalogue sent free. Address VETERINARY COLLEGE, Grand Kapids, Mich. L.L. Conkey, Prin J.W. York & Sons Manufacturers of Band Instruments and Music Publishers Grand Rapids, Michigan Send for Catalogue gS The McCaskey Account STOPS THE LEAKS I FORGOTTEN CHARGES ARE A THING OF THE PAST. YOUR CLERKS ARE COMPELLED TO BE CAREFUL AND ACCURATE. Every transaction must be COMPLETED at the time it is made. It shows you a complete record o Cash Sales, Credit Sales, Cash on Account, C. O. D. and M Money Paid Money Received and From Whom. 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While all lines are well conditioned, some are realizing a larger proportion of profit than cthers, goods of print cloth yarn con- struction being remarkably strong with an increasing strength. Prints—The market is quiet at the present time—rather quiet, that is, so far as staple prints are concerned. Some of the men returning from the road report satisfactory business und- er conditions peculiar to the localities visited. Shirtings are going compa- ratively well at the new prices which recently went into effect. Spots are eagerly sought, quantity that their position is hardly worth mentioning. Recent sales of percales brought the highest prices, but are few in volume. Difficulties at the producing end of certain houses are seriously interfering with deliveries, which would be more no- ticeable where conditions were more favorable, Deliveries are poor, and in some cases thoroughly bad. These latter, however, labor under unfor- tunate conditions, the outcome of which cannot be foretold. Gray Goods—Have been strength- ened by the change of — sentiment among second hands. It is obvious from recent experiences that many of these goods were bought purely in a speculative way, although it may be that the larger portion was. pur- chased to cover needs. However that may be, many buyers who had held goods for some time openly ex- pressed their belief that when certain goods reached a given figure the best thing to do was to take profits, and openly ovowed their intention of do- ing so. This they did, many of the second hands, as has been stated, be- lieving that the prices were going down. It is now apparent that some of these buyers are in the market try- ing to cover on these goods at the same prices at which they sold out. That they cannot do so and are com- pelled to pay advanced prices may be easily imagined. The covering of those who have previously sold short never fails to strengthen prices and the present occasion is no exception to the rule. This is undoubtedly the cause of much of the present strength of the market. Bleached Goods —+ Continued strength and advancing prices char- acterize the bleached goods depart- ment of the market. For the most part it moves along in much the same manner as_ heretofore. Deliveries, while not as bad as they have been, can easily be improved upon. It is because of natural conditions, how- ever, rather than otherwise. Deliv- eries of gray goods to the bleacheries are also behind, which serves as a natural handicap. As far as. gray goods are concerned, however, there is a disposition to believe that some deliveries are being put off and the goods turned over at market prices. While this may be true in some in- stances of other goods, it is hardly thought possible that it is being done to any very great extent anywhere. Handicapped by restricted conditions, it may easily be seen how, with the best of intentions, a house may get behind to an extraordinary degree. The fact that some are hopelessly behind in certain instances gives rise, however, to the above-stated suspi- cions. Hosiery—From general surface ap- pearances the hosiery market is hard- ly more active than at any time dur- ing the recent past. However, the undercurrent is headed strongly in the direction of spring buying, and although the majority have no no- tion of opening up their lines before the middle of the month, many have been taking orders for from two weeks to a month. In isolated in- stances goods have been shown for r—-o People who hunt trouble shoo away their joys. Cameron Currie & Co. Bankers and Brokers New York Stock Exchange Boston Stock Exchange Chicago Stock Exchange N. Y. Produce Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Michigan Trust Building Telephones Citizens, 6834 Bell, 337 Direct private wire. Boston copper stocks. 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About ten years ago the announce- ment was made of the discovery of a method of transmitting human in- telligence through the air without visible means of transmission. This announcement was received with the usual indifferent interest that is ac- corded to a thing that is considered impossible of accomplishment, Sci- entific investigators, however, were not so incredulous as the general pub- lic and saw in the announcement and the accompanying explanation the opening up of a wide field of possi- bility. The result has been the de- velopment and practical adoption of wireless telegraphy, which is now the accepted means of communication over thousands of miles of space without any carrying means for span- ning the space. This accomplishment has done much to upset the early ac- cepted theories of the invisible, in- tangible medium which surrounds the earth. This luminiferous ether was thought to be limited in its useful- ness to mankind to supporting and propagating the waves of light and heat from the heavenly bodies. The new discovery, however, has called up- on the same medium to supply other useful needs and by rapidly charg- ing and discharging with electric cur- rent a conducting pole which extends up in the air, successive trains of elec- trical vibrations are generated which travel off into space very much like the ever widening circles produced by dropping a stone into a pool of water. The atmospheric ether forms the medium for transmitting these electrical wave trains, which, when thus sent out, travel through space until they eventually cross or inter- sect a similar pole extending into the air at a distant point and generate or produce in such receiving pole very weak electric currents which, when thus generated, are too weak and in- finitesimal to be of practical use themselves, but they are sufficient, when conducted through delicate ap- paratus, tu set free stronger electric currents which can produce practical and useful results, and thus wireless telegraphy became a practical com- mercial enterprise. Unlike a great many important discoveries which require years and pears of experi- mental development, the difficulties encountered have been rapidly over- come and while there is still a great deal to be accomplished, yet wireless telegraphy is to-day one of the mod- ern necessities. Among those who have devoted themselves to this work of development of wireless telegraphy and who, as much as any other indi- vidual, has become identified with the wireless telegraphic art is Dr. Lee de Forest. Having developed the art of wireless telegraphy to a point where it can be successfully carried on prac- tically by others Dr. de Forest has turned his attention to other prob- lems and has again invaded the ether- ic realm, with the result that he has achieved an even greater marvel in the discovery of how to use the mystic ether to transmit the human voice or other sound, and we have to-day the successful wireless tele- phone. Of course much labor and patient toil and experiment must yet be accomplished before the new dis- covery is reduced to its simplest form of practical embodiment, but enough has been accomplished to demon- strate the practicability of the idea and every day sound, the human voice and music are being successfully transmitted through the air by the medium of the all pervading ether, not even the massive steel and stone buildings of a great city being suf- ficient to arrest the transmission or to interfere. The apparatus employ- ed is very simple and very similar to the ordinary telephone apparatus. In the operation of wireless telephony the user simply talks or sings or plays his musical instrument into a trans- mitter just as one talks or sings or plays into a telephone transmitter. The sound vibrations are converted into electric vibrations, but instead of these electric vibrations being car- ried along a copper wire or conduc- tor, as in the case of the telephone, they are radiated into space and the marvelous ether becomes the trans- porting agency which carries them to their destination, where they are again converted into sound, each in- flection of the voice, each peculiarity of the original sound, each note of 1 piano, the timbre of each instrument of an orchestra being faithfully repro- duced. This is accomplished wheth- er the transmission has been over land or sea, through buildings or over towers, without being hindered or al- tered and in silent flight. The commercial possibilities of this new invention are beyond accurate estimation. In the first place, any individual may use the apparatus whether to transmit or to receive. This is an important advantage over the wireless telegraph, which requires an expert to send or receive a mess- age. Again, no law of state or na- tion has yet been etiacted for con- trolling the use of the impenetrable intangible ether, and hence it does not require franchise right to oper- ate the wireless telephone. How great a convenience and how economical to install a system of speaking com- munication between Pittsburgh and New York without the necessity of stringing wires across the hundreds of intervening miles of country, or of securing from state, government or individual the right of way for such use. How valuable it will be to trav- el abroad and be able to hold speak- ing communication with your office or family at home! How important to be able while speeding on the limited trains to talk to your busi- ness associates! Distances fade into nothingness with this new achieve- ment of science and the question aris- es, What is to be the limit of human achievement? Samuel E. Darby. _———— oa Mark Twain Obeyed the Scripture. In the Iowa town where Mark Twain used to reside the following story of him is occasionally handed about: One morning when he was busily at work an acquaintance dropped in upon him, with the request that he take a walk, the acquaintance having an errand on a pleasant country road. “How far is it?” temporized Mark Twain. “Oh; about a mile,” friend. Instantly the humorist gathered his papers together, laid them aside and prepared to leave his desk. replied the “Of course, I will go,” he announc- ed; “the Bible says I must.” “Why, what in the world has the Bible got to do with it?” asked the puzzled friend. “It distinctly commands,” answered Mr. Clemens, “‘If a man ask thee to go with him a mile, go with him, Twain!” ‘Fun for all—All the Year.’ Wabash Wagons and Handcars|\ The Wabash Coaster Wagon— A strong, sensible little wagon — for children; com- bining fun with 7 usefulness, it is adapted for gen- eral use as well as coasting. 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It is of metal construction throughout and has a metal hood covering, seeuring the accounts absolutely in case of fire—PROTECTION. It prevents the manipulating of charges by clerks or customers on account of the Individual Book for each customer with the consecutively numbered slipsp—NO DISHONESTY. Write at once for our free illustrated catalog and we will tell you all about it. THE SIMPLE ACCOUNT SALESBOOK CO. Sole Manufacturers, Also Manufacturers of a Complete Line of Manifolding Pads 1062-1088 Court St. Fremont, Ohio, U.S. A. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Success in Society Measured by Un- selfishness. You ate about to make your first plunge into the gay world of society, my dear little sister, and you are anx- iously wondering whether you are going to be a success or a failure— whether your card will be struggled over at the balls and no affair will be complete without your presence or whether you will be left to wither and pine unnoted in the awful shadow of the chaperon’s chair. You have seen other girls just as pretty as you, just as bright and just as well launched, meet both fates, and you ardently wish that some of the successful debutantes who have gone before had left a few sign posts on the way to blazon the path you should tread. Now, just what it takes to make a girl a success no one’ knows, but there are at least a few things tend- ing that way, to which I would call your attention: In the first place I would earnestly recommend you to study the art of expression. That is one of the amenities of life that we are apt to underestimate, yet what a world of difference the mere tone of voice or the inflection of a word can make. You will recall that in Chev- alier’s delightful ditty the hero, in setting forth his complaints, declares that it “wasn’t what ’ee said, it was the narsty way ’ee said it” that gave offense—a state of affairs with which we are all familiar enough to make us sympathize. Who has not writh- ed under some remark couched in unexceptional language, yet uttered in so sneering a tone that it was a dead- ly insult? Who has not felt the keen edge of sarcasm in many a honeyed speech? Women are clever at _ this kind of thing and “it wasn’t what she said, it was the hateful way she said it” that is the real reason of many a girl’s lack of popularity. But while we are all quick to ap- preciate the dark side of this ques- tion, we overlook the fact that there is another view of it as cheering as the other is dispiriting, and it is this that I would especially impress upon you: If there is a “narsty” way of saying things, there is a nice way that is well worth your profoundest study. Acquire that and you have found the open sesame to popularity, for none of us are insensible to its charm or fail to be led captive by it Have you ever thought of the differ- ence in the way of saying even such a simple thing as the morning salu- tation? There is a “good morning” that is as curt as a slap in the face, a mere perfunctory compliance with a custom, and there is a “good morn- ing” that is almost like a-caress and that seems to say that the mere meeting with us is an ever recurring pleasure that makes the day brighter. Only the two commonplace words, you see, but between them is the gulf in which lie our personal vanity and self-love, and nobody is such a dull- ard as not to distinguish between them. In reality, it never matters so much what we say as how we say it, and this recalls to me a little story of a woman I once knew, who, although she was neither very bright nor clev- er, maintained a reputation for bril- liancy simply by the expressive way in which she exclaimed, “How won- derful!” Let a doting mother come to her and babble of the precocity of her children, their beauty and wit. At appropriate intervals she would exclaim in the most interested possi- ble manner, “How wonderful,” and the flattered mother would go _ off singing the praises of a woman who had sense enough to recognize an infant phenomenon when she heard of it. When a chrysanthemum haired football hero discoursed to her of his achievements on the gridiron, she would punctuate his remarks with “How wonderful.” “Clever woman, that,” he would say, “doesn’t ask fool questions —thoroughly understands the game,” although in reality she never knew a right tackle from a quarter-back. Politicians found them- selves drawn out by her “How won- derful” into dissertations on ward politics; business men, after recount- ing their schemes into her sympathet- ic ear and listening to her exclama- tion, declared her head was as sound as a bell and that she hit the nail on the head every time. Everybody agreed she was the most entertaining person in town, simply because she had mastered the art of listening in- telligently and using two little words as if she meant them. This may seem to you an extreme case, but you will not have gone far in your little journey in the world without becoming aware that the most offensive rudeness of our day and the thing we resent most in other people, however much we may be guilty of it ourselves, is the lack of attention. Nobody listens. Nobody appears to pay any attention. I know of a certain woman who met another woman in an elevator of a fashionable shop. “And how is your charming sister?” she enquired. “She has been dead two years,” replied the other, the quick tears rushing to her eyes. “How extremely charming for you,” murmured the first speaker, with un- conscious brutality without listening to the other. She was only a little worse than the rest of us. We ask people how they are in a tone of voice that indicates we don’t care a rap whether they are well or _ ill. We offer condolence without one vestige of pity in voice or expression, and congratulations without even a smile of pleasure to back them up as evidence of good faith and of meaning what we say. We listen to a story of somebody’s experience with an ex- pression that shows that we are bored to death, and then have the nerve to exclaim, “How interesting,” although the most stupid person on earth could not fail to see we are telling a palpa- ble falsehood. Cultivate the art of looking interested. Nothing else in the world is such subtile and intoxi- cating flattery as to feel that we have entertained anybody. If you can ac- quire the ability to speak to people as if they were a personality to you instead of a part of the scenery or a piece of furniture, you will be on the high road to success. Moreover, you will be unique, because nobody else does it. Cultivate also gratitude and appre- ciation. Every young girl thinks that the world belongs to her and that other people exist merely to make her have a good time. That is a mis- take. Older people also have some rights and you can never. tram- ple on them with impunity. Mrs. B., who invites you to her party, may make no complaint because you used her house as a_ picturesque back- ground for your flirtations, and came and went as if it were a public hall; Mrs. C., who invites you to her box- party at the theater, may say nothing of the curt way in which you nodded your good night; the old gentleman, your father’s friend, who sent you flowers, may not speak of your rude- ness in not making any acknowledg- ment of them, but these things are treasured up against you, and the day will surely come when they wil! quietly drop you. There is nothing sweeter to age than the graciousness of youth, and that, my dear, is an- other winning card in your long suit. Learn to sit still without wriggling. It is the most amazing thing on earth that so few girls have any idea of the value of repose. They jingle their bracelets, they twist their chains, they screw up their faces, they wear an observer out with ceaseless mo- tions. Petty, fussy and erratic ways are amusing for once in a way, but no man wants to let himself into a HORSE COLLARS manufactured in our fac- tory are_jmade by experi- enced workmen and by the most up-to-date meth- ods. They simply could not be made better. That’s what makes them so popular with the trade. Try It and See Brown & Sehler Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. WHOLESALE ONLY Established in 1873 Best Equipped Firm in the State Steam and Water Heating Iron Pipe Fittings and Brass Goods Electrical and Gas Fixtures Galvanized Iron Work The Weatherly Co. 18 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich. You may be sure of traveling the sweet road to happiness by eating S. B. & A. Candies They are wholesome and delicious Give them a trial—they will do the rest Straub Bros. & Amiotte Manufacturers Traverse City, Mich. Putnam’s Menthol Cough Drops Packed 40 five cent packages in carton. Price $1.00. Each carton contains a certificate. ten of which entitle the dealer to One Full Size Carton Free when returned to us or your jobber properly endorsed. PUTNAM FACTORY, National Candy Co Makers GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. a ialbiip icin Ks a: Ce eee ee ee {| ] 4 i } x MICHIGAN TRADESMAN continuous vaudeville performance for life. Men value peace of mind and body above everything else, and you will notice, my child, that it is never the fidgety, flighty little minx who makes the best match. When a man with a reasonable amount of sense starts to pick himself out a wife, he looks around for some calm woman with large, quiet ways of looking at things. Nobody in his senses wants to sign articles for a voyage that is going to be a per- petual tempest. Don’t flirt with every man who comes along. Remember that the one who can love and ride away— and that is always the man—has the advantage in that little comedy. Be- sides, some day there will come a man who will bring you a true and real love, and he may have a preju- dice against shop-worn goods. Above all, never flirt with your friends’ hus- bands. It may flatter your vanity to think that you can charm a mar- ried man. It may amuse you to see how jealous you can make his wife, but reflect on the fact that married women rule society, and that they have a very certain coventry to which they send the girl who flirts with a married man, and from which she never returns alive. John Randolph once declared he had found the philosopher’s stone to be, “Pay as you go.” That’s a good motto for girls, too. Don’t be a dead-beat. Don’t take courtesies and give nothing in the way of politeness in exchange. Pay your little trib- utes as you go along to other peo- ple’s self-love, their own interest in their own affairs. Don’t expect every- thing to be done for you and to do nothing for others. In a word, be un- selfish. Society does not set up as an exponent of the golden rule, but when we look at it the closest and study those who are the most popu- lar, we find that they are those who have remembered to do unto others as they would like others to do un- to them. And there’s the case in a nutshell, little sister. Dorothy Dix. 2-2-2 —__. Scenic Beauty of Venezuela. The country beautiful is Venezue- la. In its perpetual summer he only is half a man who does not for a moment forget the needs of civiliza- tion in the intoxication of primitive nature. In the little resort called El Encanto nature seems to have gone mad in cher effort to outdo her pre- vious work. But passing westward, where the valley broadens to hold the lake of Volencia, the traveler must cry, “Europe, I can stand no more.” Here the chivalry, kindliness, hospitality, traditions and costumes of old Spain not yet have worn away. To attend the opera in Valencia is to be transplanted to Italy of the early fifties. The opera is a festival, de- liriously old fashioned, with courtli- ness of manner, grandiloquence of speech. The people are pronouncedly esthetic, decorate their huts and villas with roses or orchids and sometimes completely smother their railway sta- tions with blossoms. ——__+ 2. ___ It is better to have your hero born great than to thrust greatness on him in the last chapter. Power of Flying Things. What is the difference between a butterfly and a_ balloon? Not so much as we might think. Prof. G. H. Bryan, of the University College of North Wales, says they are about equal in efficiency. They both can make headway in the still air. If it were not for the wind we might have aerial regattas with boats suspended from balloons, using wings instead of oars. A pigeon descending shows the great work of the wings in resisting the downward and forward movement of the body, and this is difficult to imitate in a machine flight. Gulls are about the best aerial gymnasts known. They utilize the little eddies of wind thrown up by the crests and troughs of the waves, and know ex- actly where to go to get a lift from the wind. All so-called sailing birds secure all the assistance they can from the air currents. They have to go where the wind takes them to a certain ex- tent, and must rely upon the use of their wings if going in a particular direction. Birds possess much great- er horse-power in proportion to their weight than man or animals. One winged man has been more success- ful than Darius Green. M. Antoine Filippi, a French engineer ,has com- bined a pair of rotative wings with an aeroplane, and is reported to have had good results. —_————-_— oe —————_— Science at Play with Cats. Puss-in-the-corner is the game at Columbia University. A professor is playing with kittens, dogs, chickens and:-monkeys to show in part how animals learn tricks. A box was pro- vided with a door that could be opened from the inside by means of a latch or by pulling a cord or turn- ing a button. Kittens were placed inside the box and a toothsome fish outside. The time taken to get out became gradually shorter, but the professor found that the trick al- ways was learned by accident. One lucky hit would prepare the way for another. He could see no trace of rational inference on the animal’s part. It was not possible to teach the trick by taking the kitten’s paw and pushing the latch, and the seeing another animal do the trick a hun- dred times was no help to the one who had not learned it for himéelf. -_——- o-oo Size of an Atom Explained. “Raise a drop of water to the size of the earth and raise an atom in the same proportion, and the atom will then be in some place between the size of a marble and that of a cricket ball.” Thus said Lord Kelvin in try- ing to explain to the inerudite world how little are things atomic. Prof. John Brashear, of Lehigh University, makes this comparison: “If you fill a tiny vessel of one centimeter cube with hydrogen corpuscles, or elec- trons, you can place therein, in round numbers, 525 octillions (525,000,000,- 000,000,000,000,000,000,000) of them. If these corpuscles are allowed to run out of the vessel at the rate of 1,000 a second it will require seventeen quintillions of years (17,000,000,000,- 000,000,000) to empty it.” With BOUT Quality Goffeas You Have America’s Best Drinking Coffees They are the Perfected Result of Years of Painstaking Experiment and are the Standard of Quality the Country Over You are losing money and business every day without them. Detroit Branch The 127 J. M. BOUR CO. Jefferson Ave. Toledo, 0. Everything Is Up Excepting Mother’s Oats Same good quality Same old price, but an additional profit for the grocer : Why? Because of our Profit Sharing Plan which applies to ) 5 Oats Twos Mi TH R Oats, Family Size Cornmeal Encourage economy by pushing these brands and make MORE PROFIT The Great Western Cereal Co. Chicago MICHIGAN TRADESMAN | THE VILLAGE MARSHAL. He Was Not in Love With His Job. The midday sun was broiling the dust and raising blisters on the paint- ed houses when Eliph’ Hewlitt step-| ped out of the Kilo hotel after his noon dinner. The little book agent stood a minute in the thin streak of shade at the doorway ,combing his side whiskers with his fingers, and then walked briskly into the sun- light. There was but one man in sight, and Eliph’ Hewlitt “made straight for him. At the intersection of Main and Cross streets the city pump stood in the middle of the street, and the mar- shal of Kilo was mending the pump. He was hot and getting hotter every moment. For the first time in the memory of Kilo he had taken off his blue coat with the brass buttons in broad daylight, and his hands and sleeves were covered with moist rust. A streak of it was daubed across his forehead and was trickling down his face, and he grunted as he tried, with a monkey wrench, to loosen a rust cemented nut. “Working?” asked Eliph’ Hewlitt. pleasantly. The marshal’s wrench slipped and his hand scraped across a bolt just below it, taking the skin off a row of his knuckles. He slammed the wrench into the soft mud that sur- rounded the pump and jammed his knuckles into his mouth. Then he wrapped the other hand around them and shook them violently up and down, while he hopped on one foot. “Hurt yourself?” asked Eliph’ Hewlitt, gently. The marshal stopped hopping and glared at the book agent. “No, double bless ye!” he shout- ed. “D’ye think I’d hop this way be- cause I hurt myself? D’ye think I’d yelp and jump ‘round just because [ knocked a yard and a half of skin off my knuckles? D’ye think I care that much for gittin’ myself all mar- red up and crippled for life? Oh, no! I’m carryin’ on this way because I’m afraid I hurt thé pump! I’m yelpin’ because I’m frightened I may have knocked the head off that valuable bolt. Darn this here municipal own- ership anyway!” The marshal wrapped a piece of rag that he had brought to pack the pump around his fingers, picked up the wrench and hit the pump a good rap with it. “Is this part of your official duty?” asked Eliph’ Hewlitt. “Is it?” said the marshal sarcasti- cally. “You ask me, ‘Is it?’ Well, yes, it is. Do I look like a man _ that would come out here in the middle of the hottest sun spot on earth, right when the juice in the thermom- eter is squirtin’ up so vigorous that it would squirt clean out if it wasn’t plugged in, and tinker at this old municipal waterworks just for fun? If I do look that way, tell me, and I'll get my looks changed, for they ain’t telling the truth. No, mister, I ain’t doin’ this manicure job to this pump for amusement and_ exercise. I’m doin’ it because I’m an old fool, and let the good for nothin’ City Council of this here town tag the care and comfort of this municipal owned pump on to me. I wanted of- fice, and I got it.” “This book,” said Eliph’ Hewlitt, “is invaluable to the man in public life. The ten thousand and one sub- jects treated of in Jarby’s Encyclo- pedia of Knowledge and Compen- dium of Literature, Science and Art—” “All right!” said the marshal, wav- ing the wrench. “You can stop right there! If it’s a book I don’t want it; and if it’s a book to fit a public office- holder I won’t have no use for it long, for I’m goin’ to resign out of office as soon as I can catch hold of enough of the City Council to re- sign to. And I don’t want no book to-day, anyhow, for I’ve got my hands full of this rusted out, redhot pump. This ain’t the kind of pump that takes much interest in literature. science and art. What it needs is a new top and bottom and new sides, and I could chuck it plumb full of science and art and it wouldn’t do it no good. This ain’t a literary kind of ; pump; it’s the kind that needs a mon- key wrench. I could recite nice lit- erature out of that book at it all day and it wouldn’t pump water a bit better than it does now. And now it don’t pump any.” “On page 649,” said Eliph’ Hew- litt, soothingly, “begins the chapter ‘Hints to Officeholders,’ giving a full account of the duties of public offi- cials and servants and how to per- form them, how to avoid the clutch- es of the law, et cetery. Recommend- ed by all the leading public men of the day—” “If it gives directions how to git a rusted-nut- off a rusted bolt with- out ripping a public official’s fingers out by the roots, show it to me. But if it don’t, about all the hint this inspector of municipal owned pumps needs is a hint that he was an idiot when he gave up work in the cheese factory to be marshal at $200 a year, and this pump gave me that hint, and gave it to me on my knuckles, and I don’t need another just to-day.” Eliph’ Hewlitt coughed gently be- hind his hand. “The directions for removing rust- ed nuts from rusted bolts are not in the ‘Hints to Office Holders,’” he said kindly, as one would explain a self-evident fact to a child. “Those directions, together with full instruc- tions how to drive nails without split- ting the board, how to mend a crack- ed stove with ashes, how to cut glass and 600 other useful directions for everyday life are found in the chap- ter on ‘Helps and Hints for the Home,’ page 442. Every need of life, private or public ,is met by this vol- ume, the price of which is but $5, $1 down and $1 a month. No inspector of pumps should be without it. Page 879, ‘Medical Helps for Young and Old, telis how to prepare a salve which quickly heals the injured skin, whether burned, bruised, or torn across the knuckles. Page 564, ‘The Ready Letter Writer,’ tells how to write all kinds of letters—love let- ters, letters of friendship or letters accepting or resigning public office. Page 138, ‘History of Common Things,’ gives the history of pumps, wells, hydraulic rams, et cetery, from the earliest days, with pictures of Assyrian, Egyptian and all other pumps, and working plans of their insides, which information makes the common man an expert on the sub- ject of pumps. Page 453, ‘The Guide to Practical Controversy,’ tells how to refute imputations, how to give the lie direct and indirect—” The marshal who had listened to Eliph’ Hewlitt with growing inter- est, held up his wrench and shook his head. “Whoa!” he said. “Now you're get- tin’ out of my class. I was gettin’ interested in that book, but now you ring in that lie and quarrel business you don’t hit me and I ain’t got no use for that.” “You never can tell,” said Eliph’ Hewlitt. “With this book in his hand there is no telling how high a man that has the approbation of his fellow citizens may rise in ptiblic of- fice. A marshal may look forward to being a sheriff when aided by the wisdom of this encyclopedia and compendium, and a sheriff has be- come a president. A president must know how to do everything known to man, and everything known to man is in this book condensed, but com- plete—only $5. Wouldn’t you like to be president?” “IT can’t be,” said the marshal. “It takes so much of my time tinkering up this pump that I haven’t time to get any trusts down on me, and it ain’t no use runnin’ for president un- less you have a scrap on with the trusts.” “True,” said the book.agent. “True; but with this book in hand any man, NLY the finest import- ed piano wire; only the best selected and sea- soned wood; clear white Ivory ; first quality of felt; put to- gether with skill that is the product of forty years’ experi- ence. That’s what Crown Pianos are. Geo. P. Bent, Manufacturer Chicago It would be too bad to deco- rate your home in the ordi- nary way when you can with —_ ‘Wall Coating secure simply wonderful re- sults in a wonderfully simple manner. Write ‘us or ask local dealer. Alabastine Co. 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How many men of Kilo,” he addea, “have occupied large public offices?” “I ain’t heard of none,” said the marshal. “No,” said Eliph’ Hewlitt. “Not one! Because this is the first time I’ve come to Kilo to sell this help- ful and entertaining volume. Why should the nation ask a man who hasn’t this book to step into public office when there’s plenty to ask that has this book and reads it every day? The nation looks first to see if a man has bought a copy of Jarby’s ‘Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art,’ and, if he has, it can use him. If he hasn’t it feels he can’t do the office justice, and it lets him alone. A big public office has lots of ends to it.” “T should say it has!” admitted the marshal. “I found that out when they told me the pump went with the marshal job. I’m thankful we ain’t got a municipal owned street car line. If I had to drive a street car and curry down the mules and monkey with this pufp, too, I’d have my hands about full.” “And that would be nothing at all to what a president has to do,” said Eliph’ Hewlitt. “I don’t see how the presidents ever managed to run this Government before Jarby & Goss published this book. They had to read forty volume encyclopedias, the whole contents of which, and more, is condensed into this one book, which might well be called ‘The President’s Guide and Helper.’ But in them days the presidents wasn’t as hard worked as what they are now. They didn’t have to control the des- tinies of Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America, protect the natives of the West by ridding their mountains of wild and ferocious beasts, sass a trust with one hand while pulling a railroad president up by the roots with the other, or write articles for the magazines before breakfast so as to be in time to re- form the customs and habits of the people while the boy is bringing in the morning paper. Washington is the marvel of the world because he done as well as he did before this book was published.” “When was the book published?” asked the marshal, laying down his wrench and walking slowly toward the shady side of the street. “Tt is revised every week,” said Eliph’ Hewlitt, “to keep it up to date and fresh. If you buy one now you get the latest edition, which practically is a new work, revised from cover to cover. Lincoln was never lucky enough to get a copy of this book, which was not published then, and that is why he wasn’t so great as he might have been. He missed lots of things he might have had a hand in, as set forth in this volume. A president with this book on his table can do his job justice. It tells him how to survey canals, how to handle a gun, how to confute, re- fute and dispute; how to mend pumps, how to plow corn, measure corn in the crib and settle strikes; how to spank a trust and how to avoid race suicide in fourteen distinct and different ways. This book, con- taining information on every subject on earth, from the cradle to the grave, gives the owner a chance to enter joyfully into public office and run it on up to date lines. He can have a hand in everything that is going on. If you ever look to be president you ought to buy a copy of this book right now.” “No,” said the marshal, reluctant- ly; “no, I guess I don’t want to buy one. First thing I know people would get onto the fact that I had a copy, and they would be comin’ around urging me to run for presi- dent, and I don’t want the job. The job of town marshal and veterinary surgeon to the pump is all I’m capa- ble to handle. I looked into the president business a while back, and I guess I don’t want it. It’s kind of you to suggest it to me, but I guess I’ll pass it up. It used to be a good job in the old days but there’s too much work to it now. In them days, when all a president had to be was to be president, it was a nice sittra- tion; but look what it is now. A president has to be the whole shoot- ing match and do all the work, while everybody else loafs around and draws pay. Nowadays a president has to be everything from a revised dictionary to an unexpurgated edi- tion of the ‘Ten Commandments in Words of One Syllable’ When he ain’t busy electing a senator, to save some state the trouble of doing it for itself, he has to be acting as a com- mittee of one to do the -work of Congress, the Supreme Court, eigh- teen South American governments, and a school board. The president has to do all the work, and all the thanks he gets is to be made fun of. I don’t want the job. It’s too big for me, and it’s getting too big for any one man. What we need is a syndicate to do our presidenting for us. This here big country oughtn’r to expect one man to be the whole three rinng circus and the menagerie and the side show at one time, and then call on him to do a prize fight and reform the spelling book and learn us morals simultaneously at once. It ain’t fair. No man can’t live a simple life and do all them things at once. Je wears on a man and takes all the smile out of him.” “Not if he has a copy of Jarby’s Encyclopedia on hand,” said the book agent. “With a copy of this book in his house a president can do some- thing to/all the tenthousandand one things, including every subject known to man, that is mentioned in this book and do them so folks” won’t get sleeply whiles he’s doing them, and can still keep his sweet smile. “Now here,” he said, opening the sample copy, “is the steel engraved portrait of the president. He still smiles.” “Yes,” admitted the marshall, “he’s got a smile or two left yet, but I’d like to see him if he had a Jot of government owned pumps or rail- roads on his hands. I’d like to see him come down to Kilo and tackle this municipal owned pump.” MICHIGAN TRADESMAN “Why don’t you write him about it?” asked Eliph’ Hewlitt. “What would he say?” asked the marshall. “The way to find out is to try it,” said the little book agent, “but I warn you not to. It is a lot safer to buy a copy of this book, $5 a volume, and find out how to do your duty to that pump yourself. And, speaking of what he would say,” he said, turn- ing to page 645, “here is a complete article on dynamite, maximite, force- ite, et cetery, with pictures of the holes in the ground that was all that was left when the experiments with them was concluded.” Ellis Parker Butler. ————— A Good Judge. In a civil action on money matters the plaintiff had stated that his finan- cial position was always satisfactory. In cross-examination he was asked if he had ever been bankrupt. “No,” was the answer. Next question was: “Now, be careful; did you ever stop payment?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Ah!” exclaimed -the counsel, “I thought we should get at it at last. When did that happen?” “After I paid all I owed,” was the answer. 23 Grand Rapids Notions & Crockery Co. 1-3 So. lonia St., Cor. 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Sitting beside him was a man who had been attracting his attention for several hours. “Some people don’t seem to have much trouble selling stock,” he said. “I suppose not,” Tim agreed with him. “But why do you say it?” The man nodded his head towards the room of the commission firm. “I was just reading the orders they are sending over the wire,” he explained. “They do a big business for a town this size.” Tim’s eyebrows went up a bit. “Telegraph operator?” he asked. “Have been,” the man_ replied. “Trying to sell stock in an oil com- pany just now. It’s a chance to get rich or go bust, and I’m going bust— and on a proposition that will make a number of men wealthy some day. It’s just confounded hard luck in not being able to convince any one who has money that I know a good place to put it.” Tim’s eyelids closed lazily over his eyes, and some one back of the nerv- ous man’s chair said: “T’ll put $25,000 in your deal.” The man turned around like a flash and found no one. He laughed again, abruptly. “I’m going bughouse slowly,” he said. “I’m beginning to hear things.” “Well, why don’t you listen to them?” said the voice behind him, speaking again. He squirmed around in his chair and took a long look. Then he turned to Tim, enquiringly, as if to ask if he had heard it. Tim raised this eyes and laughed. “Oh, you did it,” exclaimed the man. “Pretty good; but I don’t ad- mire your taste in kicking a man that is down.” “It just occurred to me,” said Tim, passing over the incipient resentment of the other man, “that a telegraph operator and a ventriloquist might hitch up with profit to both.» I don’t know as I ever heard of the combin- ation before, but it strikes me that something might be done by it. What did you say your name was?” “I didn’t say,” the man answered, mollified, “but it’s Leadbeater—Wil- liam B. Leadbeater—it’s going to be Deadbeater pretty soon.” “Well, William,” said Tim—“ex- cuse my using your first name, but I’m just anticipating a pleasure—I have become the victim of an influx of ideas that look good to me. Sup- pose you come up to my room and take a gaze at them.” Leadbeater arose willingly. Tim got his key and the two departed up- stairs. They were closeted for three hours, and from time to time bellboys car- ried up trays bearing liquids mildly refreshing, which might have indi- cated that heavy thoughts were on the boards. At the conclusion of this conference Leadbeater departed for the telegraph office and Tim entered into negotiations with the hotel man- agement. As the upshot of the latter, two rooms off the lobby were secured adjacent to that occupied by the com- mission and brokerage firm and the management was given to under- stand that the new brokerage firm of Leadbeater & Buster, New York and Chicago, would experiment in the lo- cal field with a view to ascertaining if it could maintain two commission houses. Mr. Leadbeater’s errand was a sim- pler one and involved no weightier financial transaction than the ex- change of $20 between him and a day chief at the telegraph office. The consideration for this exchange was that the day chief should admit, if questioned by any one, that a leased wire had been put in the rooms oc- cupied by the new firm of Leadbeater & Buster. Tim did not imagine that the reali- ty of this wire would be questioned during the period in which the firm proposed to operate, but security on this score was worth $20 and the day chief did not see that any public wrong would be done if he should understand that a wire had _ been put in. Mr. Leadbeater also secured at second hand the necessary battery, key, sounder, etc., which, mounted under and on a kitchen table, also se- cured at second hand, and placed in one of the rooms, was prima facie evidence that the leased wire ex- isted. A sign painter did the rest, making for the new firm a handsome “shin- gle’ to be placed over the door. These preparations were made in twenty-four hours and the firm was ready for business. There was a “holler” from the firm already established, but Tim took the senior member aside and communi- cated to him some mysterious tidings which led him to believe that no in- jury to his firm was contemplated. He was given to understand that the new firm would deal almost exclusively in certain stocks with which the old firm did little or nothing, and that it would be possible for considerable business to be thrown by the one neighbor to the other. Leadbeater and Buster opened ‘for business and Tim felt that he actual- ly was living again and that the breath of life which he pulled into his lungs was no longer saturated by the fumes of the drug business. He had a blackboard hung on the walls out- side the room, visible from the lobby, and quotations were given there. This attracted attention and the firm re- ceived several orders which might have been embarrassing if Tim had not made it a point to transfer them and the commission to the neighbor- ing office. The quotations which Tim wrote on his bulletin board Leadbeater stole off the other wire. 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At the end of the first week Tim started to put in operation the other phase of his scheme. He had discovered the identity of the weighty financial mar of the town and a few of his charac- teristics. This individual was the President of the National Bank, a man of 50 years and white side whiskers. His reputation was for wealth, conserva- tism and closeness. The town ad- mired and disliked him. He never was known to “let in” a fellow citi- zen on any deal which might prove financially advantageous. When he speculated it was not speculation. It was a sure thing, and he had no more chance to lose than he would have if he bought Government bonds. If the other financiers of the place knew that Andrew Nichols was buy- ing in any enterprise they would have sold their underclothes to get in. Tim proceeded to make the ac- quaintance of Mr. Nichols. He did not get far, but he was able, by care- ful lying in wait for the heavy finan- cial person, to be seen on the street with him on several occasions, and once to be seen going into the bank with him. The bank President had a_ gruff voice, and every time Tim heard it he thrilled all over with delight. It was a voice in a hundred to mimic. He scarcely could restrain himself from shaking hands with the heavy- weight and congratulating him—even thanking him—for having such a voice. In the meanwhile the other prepa- rations for the great coup in Onarga oil were being pushed ahead. The tel- egraph racket in the rooms of Lead- beater & Buster continued, and quo- tations were hung up and taken down as if the firm were struggling to get its foothold in the local market, but at the same time some quiet mission- ary work was being done for Onarga oil. Leadbeater and Tim argued and talked with a score of the most prom- ising investors and finally reached an agreement with them =ithat they should come to the offices of the firm on a certain evening and hear Mr. Leadbeater explain with much detail the conditions and the prospects. The men were not enthusiastic— they were the reverse—but they did not feel like refusing so inexpensive a proposition as to give an hour of their time, and accordingly they came. Mr. Leadbeater welcomed them. Tim was absent, but Leadbeater ex- plained that he had been summoned suddenly to confer with Andrew Nichols and that he might be expect- ed to come in at any moment. Sev- eral of the local financiers looked sig- nificantly at each other and Leadbeat- er proceeded to hang a large color- ed chart on the walls and enter upon his explanation. He had been at it about a half hour, with the expenditure of much earn- estness and considerable eloquence— Leadbeater could not make even a “phony” talk about Onarga oil with- out becoming earnest and eloquent— when he stopped and took a long drink of ice water to moisten a parch- ed throat. There was dead silence in the room as he did so. Between this room and the next there were double doors, now closed and locked but consider- ably more penetrable by sound than a solid wall. Through this door, in the silence of the men in Leadbeat- er’s office, came the sound of Andrew Nichols’ voice, gruff pompous and overbearing: “Does any one else know the real value of this property, young man?” It was Tim’s voice that replied. “We have been trying to convince a number of your fellow citizens,” he said, “but we have had no suc- cess. My partner, Mr. Leadbeater, is talking to a number in the next room now.” “If I went into it,” said the voice of Nichols, “I should want to go in alone. I should want a majority of the stock. I should not want you to sell any here. I do not want any of my fellow townspeople associated with me in my enterprises.” Leadbeater put down his glass as if he had heard nothing and prepar- ed to continue. “Now, gentlemen,’ he began, but got no further. A dozen restraining hands were raised in the air and a dozen hushed remonstrances stopped him. Leadbeater looked surprised. His auditors had both ears trimmed in the direction of the other room and were stretching their necks at least two inches out of their collars. Several arose noiselessly and plas- tered one ear against the cracks. The others got up and crowded as close to the doors as they were able. Noth- ing could be heard in their room ex- cept the suppressed sound of hard breathing. Leadbeater’s surprise in- creased. He cleared his throat and would have spoken again, but they waved at him frantically and looked as if they would mob him if he open- ed his mouth. He sat down in disgust, with all the appearance of a man who found himself in a lunatic asylum. Noth- ing rewarded the eavesdroppers but a series of sounds which had become unintelligible. Evidently Tim and Nichols were in close ear to mouth discussion. The men on Leadbeat- er’s side of the door looked extreme- ly pained and worried. Then the sound from the other side waxed stronger. “How much stock do you propose to sell?” they heard the voice of Nichols asking. “The company has issued _ 1,000 shares at $50 a share,” said Tim. “Mr. Leadbeater has taken 80 shares, the Treasurer of the company 20, and I thave taken too shares. This has bought three hundred acres of land at $25 an acre, and the remain- der has been used in sinking one well which now is producing. We have options on 1,000 additional acres. If We are pleased to announce that we have taken the agency for Western Michigan for The Valveless, Two-Cycle Elmore Motor Cars Model 16. 3 Cylinder Elmore, 24 H. 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If inconvenient to call, full particulars and prices will be sent by mail on receipt of detailed information as to the exact size and description desired. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the territory shows that this does not include all of the oil lands in the vicinity we shall double the capitali- zation and purchase more. The peo- ple in the neighborhood consider us crazy and there is no danger of com- petition at present.” “I understood you to say that your partner is making a proposition to a number of men to-night,” said the voice of Nichols. “They are in the other room now, I believe. _I heard voices in there.” “I think they have gone,” said Tim. “Keep them out and I will take the other 800 shares,” said the voice of Nichols. “Maybe it’s too late al- ready.” “T’ll bet a hundred dollars it isn’t,” ‘said Tim. “It was just a prelimin- ary explanation Leadbeater was to make.” “You couldn’t trust those fellows to see through a fence with a board off,” said the voice of Nichols in great dis dain. The men in Leadbeater’s room were hanging to each other’s clothes in their efforts to hear and to keep quiet. A look of great shrewdness came over their faces. “Freeze them out,” said the voice of Nichols, “and come around to me in the morning. Ill take your stock.” ~ “T’ll walk home with you,” said Tim. “There’s another thing I want to explain.” The men took long breaths and looked at each other. “The old fox!” one exclaimed and a few laughed quietly because they still were under the strain of holding themselves in. “Now, gentlemen,” Leadbeater said, “T’ll continue my explanation. Mr. Buster seems to have led Mr. Nich- ols into the adjoining room. It’s my opinion that an unfair advantage was taken of the situation, but we’ll let that pass. As I was saying—” “I think I have heard enough,” saic one of his auditors. “I for one do not propose to let Andy Nichols hog this thing. I propose to take mine right now.” He hauled out a checkbook. The others followed him and crowded up around Leadbeater. “You issue that stock now,” they said, “and Andy can grin out of the other side of his face to-morrow.” “Don’t be precipitous, gentlemen,” said Leadbeater. “Appoint a com- mittee to run down and inspect the property. We don’t want you to join us in any hasty fashion. we are right and can afford to have Fyou come in with your eyes open.” “Andy is good enough eye opener for me,” cried one of the men laugh- ing. “We'll just convert this into a meeting of stockholders. No one but Andy will be frozen out. As we heard from the other side, there are 800 shares to be disposed of. There are about twenty of us here. If it’s agreeable to everybody, we will make an even division. If “any one wants less than forty shares some one can have more. Just step up here and we'll figure it out.” They took matters out of Lead- beater’s hands and figured out ‘that each man wanted his full allotment of forty shares. Before Leadbeater had met Tim the Onarga oil Co. had been incorporated with Leadbeater as President, a stenographer as Sec- retary and Leadbeater’s home banker as Treasurer. The stock certificates were at hand and properly signed. The reluctant Leadbeater, protesting against the improper hurry and lack of business discretion, was forced to fil them out and accept the checks proffered by the men anxious to beat “Andy” out on this game of investment. He in- sisted that the issuance was not nec- essary. He would take their sub- scriptions. The colder he blew the hotter they blew. Finally they had their way and Leadbeater had checks for $40,000 in his hands when the last chuckling man departed. When the coast was clear Tim emerged from the adjoin- ing room, into which he had return- ed quietly after escorting the voice of Mr. Andrew Nichols out of the hearing of Leadbeater’s guests. It was two days before one of the investors, unable to keep a straight face in Nichols’ presence, taunted him with losing out in Onarga. It re- quired a good deal of taunting to beat it into the banker’s head, but when he did get the drift of the story he leughed for ten minutes in a most satisfying way. He never had talked to Tim. He had been nowhere near the hotel that jevening. He knew nothing of Onar- ga oil. He had no thought of invest- ing in Onarga oil. It was his opin- ion that in some way they had been played for a lot of suckers by some confidence men. We know Tim and his partner allowed the storm to rage until it was about sub- siding in pure exhaustion. Then they spoke up. Did any one invite them to listen to what they thought was a private business conference? Did Leadbeater urge them to take stock? Hadn’t he urged them not to do it? Didn’t he plead with them to send an investigating committee to inspect the property? Finally had they been swindled? Did they know anything about it? Did they have any legal cause for action at all? Hadn’t they better investigate now before they hollered too much? The company was given a proba- tion of six months and it made good. If the investors ever could pass Andy Nichols without feeling con- scious that he was grinning at them they would be extremely well satis- fied with the investment into which Tim Buster’s ventriloquistic and pro- motional genius led them. Willis Steuben. —_——__2oea Did He Get Them? The records in the War Depart- ment in Washington are, as a rule, very dry, but occasionally an entry is found that is humorous: An officer of engineers, in charge of the construction of a road that was to be built through a swamp, being energetic himself and used to surmounting mere obstacles, was surprised when one of his young lieutenants whom he had ordered to take twenty men and enter the swamp said that he “could not do it—the mud was too deep.” The Colonel or- dered him to try. He did so and returned with his men covered with mud and said: “Colonel, the mud is over my men’s heads. I can’t do it.” The Colonel insisted and told him to make a requisition for anything that was necessary for the safe pass- age. The Lieutenant made his requi- sition in writing and on the spot. It was as follows: “I want twenty men eighteen feet long to cross a swamp fifteen feet deep.” —_—__2+ > ___ Different Proposition. The Youth—Yes, I’m in business myself, but I don’t seem to be able to meet with any success. The Sage—Nobody ever meets with success, young man. He must over- take it. 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It was 9 o’clock Saturday night when Perkins woke up. He was lean- ing against the bar at McGoorty’s, and he turned his pockets inside out without finding a cent. The fact so- bered him. “I’ve spent all my wages,” he said, turning to Conners with a frightened face. “I’ve spent all my wages.” His voice sank to a whisper. “Every cent. What’ll I tell the old woman? What’ll I tell her?” “Tell her you’ve been robbed, man —and you have, for McGoorty’s a robber if there ever was one. Tell her you’ve been robbed.” “She'll never believe that story,” said Perkins, shaking his head. “Not when she knows I’ve been drinking.” “Tell her you were slugged under the viaduct and that we carried you in here to revive you. Oh, I could make her believe it.” “Then, for the love of Heaven, come and go home with me and tell her about it. She’ll maybe believe it if I’ve got a witness.” “Sure,” said the obliging Conners, “T’ll go home with you. You leave it to me. You just back up what I say and we'll fix it up.” Mrs. Perkins was mad. They could tell that as soon as they entered the house. Conners plunged into his story before she had a chance to say a word. He was an artistic liar, was Conners. He told how he had been coming from the factory just behind Perkins, and how when poor Per- kins passed under the railroad tracks at Fullerton avenue three men sprang out from behind a dark cor- ner and struck him down with a sand- bag and took his money and ran away. “He was lying like a dead man when I reached him, ma’am,” con- cluded Conners. “I got one of the boys to help me carry him into Mc- Goorty’s, and we poured a little stim- ulant into him and revived him. I waited until he was able to travel, and then I brought him home. It’s a lucky thing that your husband is living this minute, Mrs. Perkins.” “How much did you lose?” asked Mrs. Perkins, looking at her hus- band with the cold eyes of suspicion. “T lost the whole $16,” said Per- kins, with his hand to his head. He moaned a little and rocked himself dizzily on the chair. “The whole $16. I hadn’t taken it out of my envelope even.” “And you didn’t even see the three men that robbed you?” “How could he?” interrupted Con- ners. “The men were behind him. I saw ’em, but I wouldn’t know one of them again.” “You seem to know a lot about it,” said Mrs. Perkins, turning toward Conners. “You was behind him, you say. Like as not it was you that got the money.” “Me?” gasped Conners. “Me a rob- ber? Why, ma’am—” “Tt’s my opinion that you was one of three if you wasn’t the only one,” said Mrs. Perkins, showing symp- toms of hysteria. “I believe you have got the money.” “T’ll show you my ma’am,” said Conners, envelope, indignantly. “I’ve spent about 60 cents reviving your poor husband and bringing him home, and the rest of my $16 is in the envelope. If you'll find another cent about me you can have it.” He took his pay envelope from his pocket and shook it at Mrs. Perkins indignantly, while poor Perkins, Scenting trouble, moaned dreadfully and held his head in both hands. It has happened, strangely enough, that Perkins and Conners, getting their pay in the same department and at the same window, had chang- ed envelopes, which wasn’t a serious matter, because each received the same wages. Perkins, however, had spent his money, which was in Con- ners’ envelope, and Conners had spent only 60 cents of his own pay, which was in Perkins’ envelope. The indignant woman snatched the envelope from Conners and read the name of “Peter Perkins’ on the back. She opened it and took out $15.40. “Robber, robber!” she cried as she put the money in her pocket. Conners called upon Perkins to ex- plain, but poor Perkins tow was speechless. He had collapsed in his chair. Loud snores came from him. Mrs. Perkins seized the poker, a formidable weapon in the hands of an enraged woman, and chased Con- ners to the door and out to the side- walk. He shook his fist at her and tried to get back into the house. She locked the door on him. “Robber!” she called through the keyhole. “If you stay here a minute longer I'll call the policeman and have you arrested.” And Conners went sadly up the street, with cries of “Robber” fol- lowing him through the door. Mrs. Perkins kept the money. Perkins declared the next day that he didn’t know what had happened. Conners is biding his time. Ben Burbanks. —_—->->-oa How May Wine Is Prepared. Take enough good woodruff (Waldmeister) of fine aroma and flavor. Remove all parts that will not add to the excellence of the product, such as wilted, dead or im- perfect leaves, stems, etc., and wash the residue thoroughly in cold water, and with as little pressure as possi- ble. Now choose a flask with a neck sufficiently wide to receive the stems without pressure or bruising them, and let the’ pieces fall into it. Pour in sufficient strong alcohol (96 per cent.) to cover the herbs completely. In from thirty to forty minutes the entire aroma is taken up by the alco- hol, which takes on a beautiful green color, which, unfortunately, does not last, disappearing in a few days, but without affecting the aroma in the least. The alcohol should now be poured off, for if left to macerate longer, while it would gain aroma, it will also take up a certain bitter prin- ciple that detracts from the delicacy of flavor and aroma. The extract is now poured on a fresh quantity of the herb, and continue proceeding in this manner until a_ sufficiently concen- trated extract is obtained to give aroma to 100 times its weight of wine or cider. Another process is thus described: Fresh woodruff, in bloom or flower, and from 2 to 4 centimeters high, is freed from the lower part of its stem and leaves, and also of all foreign or inert matter. The herb is then lightly stuck into a wide-mouth bot- tle, and covered with strong alcohol. After thirty minutes pour off the li- quor on fresh woodruff. In another half hour the essence is ready, al- though it should not be used imme- diately. It should be kept at cellar heat (about 60 deg. Fahrenheit) for a few days, or until the green color vanishes. Any addition to the es- sence of aromatics, such as orange peel, lemons, spices, etc., is to be avoided. To prepare the maitrank, add the essence to any good white wine, tasting and testing until the flavor suits. P. W. Lendower. —_---->——__ His Honor’s Joke. A well-known young attorney try- ing a case before Judge Wolcott not long ago was unable to find his over- coat after the noon adjournment. He accused the counsel on the other side of hiding it as a joke on him. When, after a thorough search, he was still unable to find it, he made a great row. “Here, here, it seems to me that you are making a great amount of unnecessary noise,” commented Judge Wolcott in mock: indignation. “Vve lost my overcoat, Your Hon- or,” complained the attorney. “Oh, is that all?” said the Judge; “you are making more fuss about it than if you had lost your suit.” —_~+-.___. And is he not a murderer of the first degree who deliberately kills | Time? | Salesman Wanted We have a choice territory now open for a high grade specialty salesman. All communi- cations held strictly confidential. Address Department M. S. F. BOWSER & CO., INC. Fort Wayne, Indiana We Sell Whale-Back and Ladv Ryan Cigars. Do You? Vandenberg Cigar Co. 816 E. Fulton St. Grand Rapids, Mich. TYPEWRITING, ADDRESSING, ETC- Grand Rapids Typewriting and Addressing Co. Write, call on or phone A. E. HOWELL, Manager 23 So. Division St. Citizens 5897—2R. Seed Oats Send us your orders for thorough- ; ly re-cleaned Michigan White Seed Oats. Can supply promptly car lotsorless. & % © & of We manufacture Buckwheat and Rye Flour, Graham, Whole Wheat Flours and all grades of Corn and Oat Feeds. Try our Screened Street Car Feed, also Screened Cracked Corn, no dirt, no dust, costs no more than others. & Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co. L. Fred Peabody, Mgr. Grand Rapids, Michigan Get in your orders now. Write for catalogue. prompt shipment on any goods in our line. Wolverine Show Case & Fixture Co. 47 First Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich. Weare prepared to make G. J. Johnson Cigar Co., Makers Grand Rapids, Mich. e 28 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN CLEAN UP. Now Is the Time for Merchants To Renovate. Written for the Tradesman. And now comes the “Dinah cl’ar- in’ up time” of the year—when front yards and back yards, upstairs and downstairs and eke the attic and the cellar are to receive the scrupulous attention of the all-seeing eye of the energetic hausfrau, be she German or English, French or American, Nor- wegian or Scandinavian—any wom- an, in fact, who abhors dirt and is willing, you might say, to go through fire and water to gain her desired freedom therefrom. And are you in your place of busi- ness, Mr. Merchant, like the careful housewife in that you are disposed to go to some expense and consid- erable inconvenience in order to reach that degree of cleanliness per- fection that is so difficult of attain- ment and so enjoyable in possession? You may need a new sidewalk in front or more storage conveniences in the rear. Perhaps the store building should have a more _ inti- mate acquaintance with the painter and his brush. Outside stairs to the second story may be rickety and should be “repaired with new ones,” as Erin’s own would say. Does the _ basement require thorough overhaul- ing and fumigation? Few noxious spots are worse than a cellar as a menace to health. I remember stopping last year to admire a window trim in a store in the eastern part of the State. Just underneath the show one there was a small one that opened into the basement, and, instead of standing and enjoying for a few moments the view in the fine display window, I was obliged to move on as. the noisome odors—and such mixed ones, too—welling up from the dank dark regions below were unbearable, nau- seating. I was told afterward that, when that foul hole was cleaned out, two big wagonloads of rotting rub- bish were removed and burned. There had been no air admitted to the cel- lerage for years, I heard, except on rare occasions—and I should judge that it was one of those “rare occa- sions” when I paused at the show window! So much is being done around fac- tories and other work-places, now, all over the country, in the way of landscape gardening. Isn’t there a plot of unused ground around your store that you can beautify with lay- ing of greensward and_ judicious planting of trees and shrubs? If you have no personal love for this sort of work go into it anyway. Make yourself into a Committee of One to demonstrate what can be done with a waste place in the joy it will bring to your neighbors, your cus- tomers and every passer-by who has the love of Nature in the heart. Grass is always better than sand. Set your shrubs so that they will form a bar- rier to trespassing—to the “cutting across” so destructive to the grass. “Constant dripping will wear away a stone,” says the old saw, and con- tinued running across a corner in a straight line is ruinous to the growth of grass. Or you can fence in the spot with gaspipe three feet from the ground. If you use shrubbery for the marking of your line plant it close. After it has got a good start you can thin it out and give the castaway bushes to some one_ too poor to buy. You will thus helo yourself ad also some one else worse off. Don’t, for goodness’ sake, put up a sign: Keep Off the Grass Jacob Riis says that if this earth were covered with a deep, deep layer of Vesuvian lava and ashes, and peo- pled with another race of beings, and they should ever dig down to us, they would come to the conclusion, from the thousands of signs reading Keep Off the Grass that the present inhabitants made a fetish of grass—were grass worship- ers! Plant vines to run over the sides of the store. Of course, this, like the sodding and _ bush-planting, presup- poses a detached building. ‘If, as usual, there is an alley in the rear (or at the side of the store) put that in a fit condition, as well. Make a regular little Spotless Town of your store and its surroundings; then people will point to your premises as a model for others along the lines of sanitation and loveliness in greenery and flowers. : It takes a man of initiative to do this in a town that has been a “dead one” to the picturesque possibilities that lie within easy accomplishment. Will you be The Man? Jno. Burton. -_—-- oo. —_—_- Nothing Mean About Him. Harry Laughlin told at an exhi- bition game in Toledo a_ billiard story: “Once when I had my own parlor in Columbus,” he said, “I was a good deal disturbed by the loss of chalk. Chalk disappeared at a tremendous rate and I said to my helper: ““Keep a better eye on the chalk, Jim. I’m no millionaire.’ ““T know the gents wot pockets the chalk, Mr. Laughlin,’ Jim said, ‘but they’re reg’lar customers. I guess you wouldn’t want me to offend ’em, would you?’ “Well, no,’ said I, I wouldn’t. You might give them a gentle hint, though. Use your diplomacy.’ “Jim, I found out later, used his diplomacy that night. He walked up to one of my best patrons who had just pocketed a piece of chalk and he said: “You're in the milk business, ain’t you, sir? ; ““Yes. Why?’ the patron asked. ““I thought so,’ said Jim, ‘from the amount of chalk you carry away. The boss likes enterprise, and he told me to tell you that if you wanted a buck- et of water now and then you could have one and welcome.’ ” —— oa He Would. Grocer—I pay my boys three dol- lars per week. Applicant—Will I have a chance to rise? Grocer—You bet. You will rise every morning at 4 a. m. or lose your job. —_————-@- : The mighty are always modest. LOOK OUALFOR YOUR RreuTs! SEE THAY * You RECEIVE “SS VOUCHERS FROM YOUR WHOLESALER. A quick and easy method of keeping your accounts Especially handy for keep- ing account of goods let out on approval, and for petty accounts with which one does not like to encumber the regular ledger. By using this file or ledger for charg- ing accounts, it will save one-half the time and cost of keeping a setof books. Charge goods, when pur-hased, directly on file, then your customer’s bill is always _ ready for him, and can be found quickly, on account of the special in- dex. This saves you looking Over. several leaves of a day book if not posted, when a customer comes in to pay an account and you are busy waiting on a prospective buyer. Write for quotations. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids FATHER AND SON. Duty of the Former To Train the Latter. Written for the Tradesman. In a former article the writer en- deavored to make it clear that the successful man who devotes himself to business so closely as to neglect other duties should rid himself of the delusion that by so doing he is sac- rificing himself for the good of his children. In reality, he is simply doing what he best likes to do and flattering himself that he is a high- class martyr. The particular duty which the over-ambitious and over-absorbed man is most apt to neglect, and the neglect of which is most dire in its results, is that of giving a due pro- portion of his best thought and ef- fort to the training of his boys. From the moment when the oldest son is first laid in his proud paternal arms and he knows he has an heir to his name and fortune until the very youngest has attained his majority how many men, even those of inde- pendent wealth, can honestly Say that they have put one-tenth part of the mental effort upon the training of their sons that they have expend- ed upon the conduct of their busi- ness? The father too often makes the fool- ish and fatal mistake of supposing that if he provides well for his boy as regards food and clothing and shelter, sends him to school and furn- ishes him with spending money, he is doing his whole duty. Some one has “well said that a college course later on will not make up to the boy for his present need of his father’s over- sight and sympathy and companion- ship. Neither will good bank shares or railway bonds, or houses or lands, or any material thing whatsoever that the father in blind and mistaken love may provide for his son make up the irreparable loss of his present neg; lect. Consider in what condition a store or factory would be found in a short time if left to run itself as much as many a boy is left to run himself. When you think of it in this light is it any wonder that so many sons of highly intelligent and conscientious parents go wrong? In many homes the government and training of all the children, both sons and daughters, is turned over to the mother. If no one else real- izes that this is a mistake, the boys do. A woman may be a paragon of wisdom and a very saint of goodness and a marvel of practical efficiency in respect to almost everything else under the sun and yet be a dismal failure when it comes to managing a boy. Some few exceptional wom- en have a gift in this way, just as one man in a thousand may be able to soothe a fretful baby, but in the great majority of families the sons will grow up with’ greater love and reverence for their mother if, after the first few years of early childhood, _ the father takes the leading part in their management and control. It is very true that some women who are left widows raise excellent sons. George Washington was _ fa- brought up by his mother. Every one can think of boys of his own ac- quaintance who lacked a father’s over- sight and still became exemplary men, A widow, feeling that she must be both father and mother to her chil- dren, may “rise to the occasion” and do better by her family than will both parents where each is trying to shift the burden of control onto the other. Such instances do not prove that the masculine head of a family would better step down and out. A close study of some of these widow’s- son cases would show that the very fact of losing the father and the cir- cumstances resulting from the loss so develop the manliness of the boy that he needs but little bringing up. The situation is entirely different anyway where the mother is left alone and has “full swing,’ so to speak, than it is where the father is alive and at home but negligent of his duties. In the obituary notice of any man with a family we are likely to be told that “by his death the children lose a kind and indulgent father.” The phrase is hackneyed from _ its long use, and yet of many men it is literally and actually true. But sup- pose one were to read of a man that he had been “not only kind and indulgent but thoughtful and efficient in his fatherhood, that he had taken a deep interest in all that related to the welfare of his children and had given much painstaking study to their education and development, that he had found delight in their companion- ship and they in his, that he had re- garded their training as the crown- ing work of his life.” Should we not think that if this was all true the man of whom it was written must have been very much out of the or- dinary? How many men does the reader know in regard to whom such an encomium, even in an_ obituary, would not be absurd and ridiculous? Of how many could it be far more truthfully said, “Could this man have discharged his paternal obliga- tions by writing a check on his bank every week he would gladly have made the check a large and generous one; but as to giving any personal at- tention to his children, he was busy with other things that he really couldn’t be bothered.” so A capable man can accomplish al- most anything if he puts his mind to it. I should like to see the re- sult if fathers would bend _ their brains to the training of their sons. A Fathers’ Meeting! o————_ What He Knew. The lawyer shook his finger warn- ingly at the witness and said: “Now, we want to hear just what you know, not what some one else knows, or what you think, or anything of that kind, but what you know. Do you understand?” “Well, I know,” said the witness, with emphasis, as he leaned forward easily in the box, “I know that Jim Clay said that Bill Thomson told him that he had heard John Thom- as’ wife tell Sid Smith’s daughter that her husband was there when the fight took place, and that he said that they flung each other about in the meadow pretty considerable.” ——_2-2..____ His Last Resource. “Mamma, can’t I go up to the next biock and play with the Jones boys?” asked Henry, a boy of 6, who was being brought up very carefully. “No, indeed!” answered his moth- er, “they are very bad boys.” “Then can’t I go over to see Mrs. Smith’s little girls?” “No, Henry; I’m afraid to let you go.” The little fellow left the room; later, he stuck his head inside with, “Say, mamma, I’m going over next door an’ play iwth the dog.” ——_>-2-> A hero is a man who has met a psychological moment and embrac- ed it. Hardware Price Current AMMUNITION. Caps. : G. 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Minish & advance .....-....6..05c55. 8S Hinish 6 advance. .......2...<........ . & Barrell % advance ...........ccece00. 8D RIVETS Iron and tinned .............. eaedee se 50 Copper Rivets and Burs ............. 30 * ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean ....... weece @ G0 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean .......... 9 00 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean .......... 15 00 14x20, IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade 7 50 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade 9 00 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade 15 00 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade 18 00 ROPES Sisal, % inch and larger ............ 9% SAND PAPER ist geat. $0 °S@ oe es. dis. 60 SASH WEIGHTS Solid Eyes, per tom ................. 30 00 SHEET IRON Nos. 10 to. 14 .......... ofa old a tlaiga we aa 3 60 Nos. 15 to 17 ..... ecaec ade « ody cus a. 3 70 INOS. IS to Zt 2... oi Mica caceus 3 90 PROS. Aa tO Se ee 3 00 INOS “25 €0 26) oe ce 4 00 UNG A es 4 10 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. SHOVELS AND SPADES First Grade, Doz. ........ Gshecce wees. 6 50 second Gradé, Doz. .....:...-..5..4.. 5. % SOLDER Te Te eo ae es ecco oe 30 @ % The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by pri- _— brands vary according to compo- sition. SQUARES Steel and Iron ......... wee cces aa. 60-10-5 TIN—MELYN GRADE 10xt4 IC, Charcoal .......... dasceccde: GO 14520 IC: Charcoal ... 2.2... 00K -..--10 50 tOmi4 EX, Charcoal 2... co.cc cc ccs -12 00 Each additional X on this grade.. 1 25 ~ TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE 10x14 IC, Charcoal ............. acces 2 00 Haxee FC. @hareoal «2.5. oo... cae. 9 00 HOt EX, Charcoal .<. 2... 020k. ca cee 10 50 14x20 §X. Charcoal ...... 2-4... denee 10 60 Each additional X on this grade..1 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE 14x56 IX., for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per tb. 13 TRAPS Steel, Game ....... es eee cus ou. 296 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..40&10 Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s.. 65 Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ...... 12% Mouse, delusion, per doz............. 1 26 WIRE Bright Market. 2... co... eck ceca 60 Annealed Market ..... - 60 Coppered Market ... -60&10 Tinned Market ........ Coppered Spring Steel ;... Barbed Fence, Galvanized ... 1252 85 Barbed Fence, Painted ............... 2 55 WIRE GOODS Brigit ooo. 5 eo. 3 04 eee Sccweceaectcs sa cQenle Serew TvGs: cays cv esc ccaccecckc cen ieee EROORS oo coos cc wicccccesatawcccacces -.0ek0 Gate Hooks and Byes ...............80-10 WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled ..... seca 80 COCR Gentine 6 occas cc ccccecccecccesscc4l Coe’s Patent Wrought. .78-10 LAMP CHIMNSYS—Secenas. Per box of € dos. Anchor Carten Chimneys Each chimney in corrugated tube - ©, Cemmp (Ope. .....cca5cc ccc cae c ad . 2, Crise £00 2.2.60. i cS, CRM 10D. oe ee ea 2 85 Fine Fiint Glass in Cartons G, Crimp tom <0 oss dines vecs sca ee - Celmap £60 coc. coc c ccs 2 Cemin COG co 5c. cons accces 2.4 10 Lead Flint Glass in Cartons 0, Crimp top ... cccccccescd OO . -, Crimp top ......<.- apace esr 3 a, Crimp tog oo... c ace ks wavuaces -4 6@ Pearl Top in Cartens wrapped and labeled wrapped and labeled .......5 8@ Rechester in Cartens Fine Flint, 10 in. (85c iB 6 4 eeevnvee ¢ ccccccel OC , Lead Flint, 10 in. (96¢ dos. Lead Flint, 12 in. ($1.65 dos.) 8 Electric in Cartons Lime (75 GoOz.) .cccccscccces , Fine Flint, doz. Lead Flint, (95c dos.) LaBastie ,» Sun Plain Top, ($1 dos.) .... Sun Plain Top, ($1.25 Ja CANS spout, per dos.. iron wth spout, per doz.. iron with spout, per doz.. iron with spout, per doz.. iron with spout, per doz.. gal. galv. iron with faucet, pe rdoz. gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. DS @@l. THERES CANW 666 csc isa cccasccl 5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas LANTERNS -~0 Tubular, side lift .......... aoe eae BE EUDUIAY 6 oo ce uc cd. acne . 16 Tubular, dash .............64. 6 No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern seauesenas . 12 Tubular, side lamp .........1 . 3 Street lamp, each .......ccceee LANTERN GLOBES No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each........ 55 No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each ...... 55 No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl. 2 25 No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. e. 1 26 BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS Roll contains 32 yards in one piece. Fine Flint, 12 in. (31.85 don} No. — = bet 1 gal. tin cans with gal. galv. gal. galv. gal. galv. gal, galv. Iwo nr em OO DO an CINE etc Sessssx 2 on tb o 5e 7 6 a a8 #® No. 0 % in. wide, per gross or roll. 28 No. 1, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 38 No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll. 60 No. 3, 1% in. wide, per gross or roll. 90 COUPON BOOKS 50 books, ary denomination ......1 60 100 books, any denomination ...... 500 books, any denomination .....11 1000 books, any denomination ......36 00 Above quotations are for either Trades- man, Superior, Economic or Universal grades. here 1,000 books are ord at a time customers receive specially printed cover without extra charg: 2. COUPON PASS BOOKS Can be made to represent any denomi- nation from $10 down. GO DOOKM ook ccc cekcceccacccncccass.c 2 100 books ...... alae bngcedeccsecs 2.00 GOO DOG ones 6 ica ccc occ cucecueunedh G6 HOGG: DOORS og oc 5 oes eke ek cue ccc cccde OC CREDIT CHECKS 500, any one denomination ..... coun @& 1000, any one denomination ........3 06 2000, any one denomination .... 5 Steel punch 33 POO TH PE eHImS SPAKE SC os Ea>x ORF OD 38 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MERITORIOUS MEASURE. The Food Bill Introduced by Sena- tor Bates. One of the most meritorious meas- ures before the present Legislature is the bill recently introduced by Sena- tor Bates amending the present food laws so as to prevent the condemn- ing of the goods of a manufacturer until they have been passed upon by the court. Under existing conditions the Food Commissioner can _ effec- tually destroy the sale of any brand in this State without publishing the name of the manufacturer in the Bulletin or giving him any chance whatever to defend his goods or be heard in his own behalf. This abuse of authority has been exercised so many times that it has resulted in the creation of a strong public sen- timent in favor of giving the manu- facturer an opportunity to be heard before his reputation is assailed or destroyed. The bill prepared by Senator Bates is practically a repro- duction of the recent Federal enact- ment on this point and is in line with the recommendation of Governor Warner in his annual message to the Legislature. The bill has been re- ferred to the Committee of Agricul- ture, composed of Mr. Bates, Mr. Russell and Mr. Ely, and a public hearing on the measure will occur May 30. The full text of the bill is as follows: A bill to amend section six of act two hundred eleven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three en- titled, “An act to provide for the ap- pointment of a Dairy and Food Com- missioner, and to define his powers and duties and fix his compensation.” Approved June second, eighteen hun- dred ninety-three, said section being Compiler’s section forty-nine hun- dred seventy-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-sev- en, as last amended by act number forty-nine of the public acts of nine- teen hundred and five. The people of the State of Michi- gan enact: Section 1. Section six of act two hundred eleven of the public acts of eighteen hundred. ninety-three enti- tled, “An act to provide for the ap- pointment of a Dairy and Food Com- missioner, and to define his powers and duties and fix his compensation,” approved Jyne second, eighteen hun- dred ninety-three, said section being Compiler’s section forty-nine hun- dred seventy-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety- seven, as last amended by act number forty-nine of the public acts of nine- teen hundred and five, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Dairy and Food Commissioner to carefully enquire into the dairy and food and drink products and_ the several articles which are foods or drinks, or the necessary constituents of foods or drinks, which are manu- factured or sold or exposed or offered for sale in this state, and hz may, in a lawful manner, procure samples of the same and direct the State analyst to make due and care- ful examination of the same, and re- port to the Commissioner the result of the analysis of all and any such food and drink products or dairy products as are adulterated, impure or unwholesome in contravention of the laws of this State, and if it shall appear from any such examination that any such sample is adulterated, impure or unwholesome, in contra- vention of the laws of this State, the Dairy and Food Commissioner shall cause written notice thereof to be given to the party from whom such sample was obtained, and shall also cause written notice thereof to be given to the manufacturer of such sample if known. Any party so notified shall be given an opportuni- ty to be heard, under reasonable rules and regulations to be established by the Dairy and Food Commissioner, and if it appears after such hearing that such sample is adulterated, im- pure or unwholesome in contraven- tion of the laws of this State, it shall be .the duty of the Commissioner to make complaint against the manufac- turer or vendor thereof, in the prop- er county, and furnish the evidence thereof to obtain a conviction of the offense charged, and only after con- viction of such manufacturer or vend- or for the sale of such sample in the Circuit Court of such county shall publication of such sample and con- viction be had according to _ the provisions of Sec. 9 of this Act. The Dairy and Food Commissioner, or his deputy, or any person appointed by him for that purpose, may make complaint and cause proceedings to be commenced against any person for the enforcement of any of the laws relative to adulterated, impure or unwholesome food or drink, and in such case he shall not be obliged to furnish security for costs and shall have power, in the performance of his duties, to enter into any creamery, factory, store, salesroom, drug store or laboratory, or place where he has reason to believe food or drink is made, stored, sold or offered for sale ,and open any cask, tub,~- jar, bottle or package containing, or supposed to contain, any article of food or drink and examine or cause to be examined the contents there- of, and take therefrom samples for analysis. The person making such inspection shall take such sample of such article or product in the pres- ence of at least one witness, and he shall, in the presence of said witness, mark or seal such sample and shall tender at the time of taking to the manufacturer or vendor of such pro- duct, or to the person having the custody of the same, the value there- of and a statement in writing for the taking of such sample. Whenever it is determined by the Dairy and Food Commissioner, his deputy or inspect- ors, that filthy or unsanitary condi- tions exist or are permitted to exist in the operation of any bakery, con- fectionery or ice cream plant, or in any place where any food or drink products are manufactured, stored, deposited or sold for any purpose whatever, the proprietor or propri- etors, Owner or owners, of such bakery, confectionery or ice cream plant, or any person or persons own- ing or operating any plant where any food or drink products are manufac- tured, stored, deposited or sold, shall SPOTS OR FUTURES Canned Tomatoes Saginaw Noiseless Tip Matches Write or phone C. D. CRITTENDEN CO. 41-43 S. Market 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 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 ., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. L. J. Smith & Co. Eaton Rapids, Mich. 14-16 Ottawa St. Manufacturers of Egg Cases And Egg Case Fillers { 7E AIM at all times to be able to furnish the best grades of Ege Cases and Egg Case Fillers. Cases sawed or veneered. Try our bass- wood veneer cases, they are clean, bright and strong, there is nothing better. N ails, excelsior, etc., always on hand. We solicit your inquiries. Let us hear from you. ‘L. J. Smith & Co. - - Eaton Rapids, Mich. be first notified and warned by the Commissioner, his deputy or inspect- ors to place such bakery, confection- ery or ice cream plant, or any place where any food or drink products are manufactured, stored, deposited or sold, in a sanitary condition with- in a reasonable length of time; and any person Or persons owning and operating any bakery, confectionery or ice cream plant, or any place where any food or drink products are manufactured, stored, deposited or sold, failing to obey such notice and warning, shall be guilty of a misde- meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than three hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed ninety days, or until such fine and costs are paid, or both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. —_~-~.___ Why Careless Men Never Succeed. “Hang sorrow; care’ll kill a cat,” quoth Ben Jonson; but many a man since then has found that want of care’ll kill a whole menagerie. There is a man in a Chicago sub- urb who by strenuous effort, by skill- ful watching over his incubator in the midnight hours, and by brooding over his brooder on Saturday after- noons, and we won’t say what he did on Sundays, at last succeeded in owning a respectable number of nice, lively chicks. These he locked up every night; but one night, as two or three seem- ed disinclined to go to roost at the usual hour, he delayed locking them up, and finally forgot them alto- gether. This want of care lost him all his chicks; for a neighbor’s dog played havoc with the entire lot, and the next morning he found the front yard filled with mangled feathered forms. That want of care not only killed the chicks, hut it killed the man’s ambition ever to become a poultry raiser. And the strange part of it is that the neighbor’s dog got the blame for following out his instinct and rob- bing the henroost. It is difficult to estimate amount of damage carelessness make. Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard’s Almanac thus sums it up: “A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.” Here may be seen a chain of con- sequences all proceeding from one apparently trifling cause, each conse- quence in turn becoming a new cause to produce disaster. Success or failure many a time is hinged upon a trifie. The overacute but careless man pays dearly for a sly question, a smart answer given to his employer in business. The retort may have shown cleverness, but the barb sticks deep in the boss’ crop; and the man looses his position because he did not choose his words carefully. : The liar is the most careless man the can alive. He plunges boldly into the arena of sin and knows he must tell a score of lies to make his first one good for anything. Seldom it is that he can exercise enough care to maintain his cause; and, caught in the web of his own weaving, he at last is undone. The get rich quick man is a type of man too careless to look when he leaps. He shuts his eyes and jumps in the dark, never investigating his luvestment until he has paid his cash and bought his worthless stock cer- tificates. Then comes his second thought, and it is a bitter one. The negligent business man who allows his men to work amid un- healthful surroundings, in dark, dingy rooms, in buildings with defective plumbing ,the business man who puts out sweat shop work without enquiry into conditions, will find that through an awakening public con- science a material consequence of his sin surely will ensue. Every day accidents occur which rightly are attributed to the greedy capitalist, who inhumanly engages inexperienced youths to do the work of trained hands. The results are disastrous. Elevator accidents now and then occur, directly traced to the employment of some one a _ novice at the work. A fearful occurrence took place when a boy of 19 was kept on duty as “keeper” of a blast furnace. He had two assistants, aged 18 and 37 respectively. There were four tons of molten iron in the furnace when -t should have run out. The “keeper” and his comrades, en- tertained by drink and talk, neglect- ed their duty and let the time go by. When at last they stripped and started to tap the furnace, a_ fiery stream of molten metal burst loose on them, instantaneously destroying one and fatally burning the other two. The capitalist . who permits mere inexperienced youths to run his works deserves to be filched of his earnings. The merchant who is careless of the worth and value of the product he buys to sell again loses incalcula- ble dollars. The man who is cheat- ed in the umbrella he buys, the wom- an who finds her fresh vegetables withered, her fresh fruit one rosy layer on a mass of either green or overripe berries, rarely patronizes the man who insidiously cheats with the badness of his commodities. M. M. Atwater. —__—_2o--e2._—_ The most diminutive vertebrate creature in the world is said to be a small fish caught in a mountain lake in the Luzon region of the Philip- pines. The largest of the species is less than an inch long, but its small- ness may be best gauged by the fact that it takes about six thousand of them to make a pound. Although so tiny, however, the fish, which is named sinarapan, is an important ar- ticle of diet among the Philippine natives. Obviously it is too small for any net, and is caught in coarse muslin sheets. The fish are prepar- ed by being mixed with pepper and other spices and then dried in the sun. They are a great native deli- cacy. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 39 It’s a great pity that the people who invent troubles do not patent them. We want competent Apple and Potato Buyers | to correspond with us H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO. 504, 506, 508 Wm. Alden Smith Bidg. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. eT anemia Many a man goes back by being too anxious about putting up a good front. What's the Matter with the Grand Rapids Market? Our average selling prices last week were: Live Chicks and Fowls 13€; Dressed 16c; Veal 7%c; Eggs 15%c; Butter 19%c. ‘‘SHIP US.” Prompt Returns BRADFORD & CO., 7.N. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. (The New Commission House) mum ©- Rea A. J. Witzig REA & WITZIG © PRODUCE COMMISSION 104-106 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y. We solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Live and Dressed Pouitry Beans and Potatoes. Correct and prompt returns. REFERENCES Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, es Companies; Trade Papers and Hundreds of ppers Established 1873 Butter We would like all the fresh, sweet dairy butter of medium quality you have to send. American Farm Products Co. Owosso, Mich. Leen reer eee ee aS If you want your regular shipments handled at tair prices mark them to us. Stencils or cards furnished. L. 0. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers, 36 Harrison St., New York Established 1865. We honor sight drafts after exchange of references. Established 1894 BUTTER —AIll Grades of Dairy Butter Wanted EGGS—Get Our Prices Before Shipping Stroup & Carmer = = Grand Rapids, Mich. ESTABLISHED 1876 FIELD SEEDS Clover and Timothy Seeds. All Kinds Grass Seeds. Orders will have prompt attention. MOSELEY BROS., wuotesate DEALERS AND SHIPPERS Office and Warehouse Second Ave. and Railroad. BOTH PHONES 1217 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Traveling Salesman Saves His House From Loss. No salesman, however brilliant, can expect to succeed in the long run who saddles his firm with uncollectible or troublesome accounts. He is a bill of expense. He is the first judge of credits in every transaction. The firm may exercise supervision—may accept or reject his giving of credit—but they depend upon his judgment more than any other source of informa- tion and look to him as the man on the ground. To be a good judge ot credits is a vital requisite, therefore, in a good salesman, and this means a great many things to be avoided as well as accomplished. The shrewdest and most experienc- ed sometimes make mistakes. But they are few. Poor credits usually betray themselves to the close _ ob- server and a general warning may be sounded for the young salesman’s guidance. Do not depend upon rating books. They are a help, but they also are misleading. Commercial ratings sometimes are obtained under diffi- culties and are then colored by the reporter’s personal resertment in be- ing curtly dealt with. Others are too generous—based upon the subject’s own glowing sense of his ability to pay for what he buys. You easily can detect the inaccuracy of commer- cial ratings by comparing the ~ re- ports of one agency with those of another on the same man. They fre- quently are widely different. And this is the principal reason why the house depends upon the salesman for credits. Reports are not reliable. How can a stranger’s credit be judged on short notice? That ques- tion must be solved quickly by the salesman. He sees his customer for an hour or so and in that time com- pletes the transaction—sells the goods and is off. Common sense, eyes and ears which are ever alert, most of all a faculty of intuition, are the qualities which count in sizing up a new man on the wing, as it were. Anybody can find him out in the long run. The trick is to do so swiftly and—casually. Prying into a customer’s affairs and asking blunt questions, even within strictly com- mercial bounds, is offensive and near- ly always resented. It spoils the chance of a sale. This is where in- tuition counts and enables a_ sensi- tive mind to judge on first approach whether or not a man is trustworthy To such a mind the glance of the eye, the lines of the mouth, the twist of the nose are all significant in ways he could hardly explain. It is a fact that no man short of a con- summate actor can entirely obliter- ate the craft which lurks in his fea- tures. To the experienced reader of faces it stands out clearly. The feel of the hand also is a tell-tale. A hand which does not grasp yours with a grip is fellow to a mind which can not grasp anything else. You can de- pend upon it. I remember a bright young man in the country whose application for a responsible job was turned down simply because he offer- ed the employer a limp hand to shake in greeting him in his office. “It felt like a biscuit,” said the employer, and mentally disqualified the young man. A full, strenuous grip of the hand means a frank nature and ener- getic ability. A working knowledge of palmistry will stand a salesman in good stead. Not that he is likely to have oppor- tunities for careful reading of his customer’s palm. But there are many off hand indications of character and ability in the look of a hand—in the shape of the fingers—and the way the hand is habitually held. The thumb is most significant. The top phalanx means will and the lower one logic, so that any short thumb is bad—in- dicating either a lack of will power or inability to reason well. Beware of that type at the head of a business. He is weak. A relatively long fore- finger, well-filled, denotes leader- ship and other good qualities, and a long, well developed little finger marks the man of executive ability— the man who can manage a business. The finger phalanxes nearest the palm stand for practicality if they are well filled and the reverse if they are too thin. The dreamer has long tip phalanxes. He thinks he can do things—but he rarely does them. Look out for his promises. It is better to take his cash. The way a customer buys goods is an indication of his responsib‘lity. The wary salesman always is sus- picious of the man who buys too freely—to whom he can sell without making an effort. It usually is hard to sell anything to a hard headed, responsible dealer. If he does not worry about due dates, he may buy as freely as you like and then forget to pay. And a reckless buyer can not succeed in the long run. He in- vites failure at the start. Sooner or later his creditors come in for a loss. The looks of a man’s office, store or shop is a tip you can not afford to overlook. Any appearance of waste, lack of system, lack of economy, is a warning. Beware of the slovenly, the fellow who piles up his lumber without protection against the weath- er, who allows his stocks to dwindle away in the hands of careless em- ployes. It may be a small matter at any one time, but waste is waste and in the long run it is serious leak- age. I once knew a coal dealer who was a hustler and failed. He knew his business and had plenty of capital. The trouble was waste. He bought more coal than he sold. You could find it rolling out of the dilapidated bins any day and covering the drive- ways in his yard, where it was daily being crushed under the wheels. He did not keep stock books. So he never divined the leakage. Be wary of the business man who keeps haphazard accounts. He does not know the cost of things. He can not tell whether he is making a profit or a loss as he goes along. His col- lections generally are as bad as his payments. No amount of business and no appearance of prosperity will atone for poor book-keeping. Un- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN foolish persons of this sort—merchants whu think it idle to separate and tabulate fortunately there are many their costs. They may be financially sound and actually make a good profit —but you never can be sure of it. A few well directed but casual ques- tions can get a salesman all the in- formation he needs about his cus- tomers’ book-keeping. The talkative man is not a close thinker. He does not restrain him- self. He is a waster of time and words. The clever things he says do not redeem the lack of prudence and self-restraint. If he can not keep his own counsel he can not keep any- thing—including your faith in him. The secretive fellow equally is dan- gerous. This does not mean the quiet, reserved man, who says what he means and then acts. He may be as frank as he is terse. But the tac- iturn, who admits as little as possi- ble and avoids conversation, is a dif- ferent sort. He may be all right— often is. Still it is safer to scrutinize further into his basis for credit. I remember losing $1,000 on a deal- er who had every appearance of be- ing responsible. He apparently was honest, careful and thrifty. He avoid- ed buying any more than he could pay for month after month. He was a hard man to sell—-overcautious. But he was taciturn. You could not get a willing word out of him. He avoid- ed direct questions upon any subject. It mattered not- how indifferent they might be—he seemed unwilling to commit himself. One day he was missing. He had collected all of his accounts and skipped off with the money—-after robbing everybody who had trusted him, including his poor old father. He was not a thief by nature —did not in the least resem- ble one—but he had been leading a double life in town, and got himseli into a scrape where he needed money at once. So he stole it and skipped. That was the secret of his taciturnity --the shrinking of a bad conscience from betrayal of itself. The high liver—however prosper- ous he may appear—is a menace to credit. He may or may not spend more money than he is earning. In either event he is spending it fool- ishly. It belongs in his business. Some time ago a_ business failure came to my notice which illustrated vividly how insidious is the danger of trusting a high liver—just because he has an appearance of prosperity. This one was a thriving coal dealer in a good town in Wisconsin. He did a large business—kept a downtown office sumptuously furnished—and paid his bills. Suddenly he called in his creditors to arrange for a com- promise settlement of their bills. Peo- ple were astonished. They never sus- pected his credit. He‘always had plenty of money in his pocket to spend among friends—dressed in the top of fashion—and was a good fel- low. A score of good houses were caught just because they neglected the one appearance of things which would have disqualified his claim for credit in the eyes of a close observ- er. By adroit borrowing and a chain system of robbing Peter to pay Paul —Paul being the older creditor of the two—his operations had lasted dur- ing a number of years undeteced. Women are better risks in genera! than men. But they can be more tricky. A crooked woman has_ so many dodges which are protected by her sex. Men ascribe them to inex- perience, “innocence abroad,” etc. The chivalrous salesman gets bit. I recall a case where a woman held up thirty creditors who had been called in to arrange some settlement oi a partnership tangle left by the death of her husband. The other partner was willing to continue the business. But the assets were way below the liabilities, so that the widow had no title to the partnership business. The law gave her.a half interest in the net assets. But of such there were none. The surviving partner was ar- ranging to pay 100 cents on the dol- lar if the creditors would allow him to continue the business. Then the widow came on the scene and de- manded Io per cent. of all claims rep- resented. She had no right to do so —no title in law. That did not de- ter her in the least. She had the weapon of hysteria to wield over the surviving partner—her _ brother-in- law—and blocked the game until the IO per cent. was agreed to. It was cheaper to pay the holdup than suffer the bankruptcy to eat up the assets in court fees. John B. Euson. _— o_o Don’t be sighing for a bed of rose leaves. No one ever heard of the owner of one oversleeping himself. —_.>-.———__ Life is a crafty stage manager who keeps luring us on with promises of an encore. regard to line, location or territory. One Hundred Dollars in Gold The Michigan Tradesman proposes to distribute $100 among the traveling men who secure the most new subscriptions for the Michigan Tradesman during the present calendar year, as follows: $50 For the Largest List $25 For the Second Largest List $15 For the Third Largest List $10 For the Fourth Largest List Subscriptions must be taken on the regular order blanks of the company, accompanied by a remittance of not less than $2 in each case. For full particulars regarding this contest and a full supply of order blanks address this office. This contest is open to all traveling salesmen, without MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 41 SUNSHINE. The theories that teach the phyi- cal brotherhood of mankind claim that all human creatures are of one race and family and that the differ- ent physical peculiarities and quali- ties of color, form and organism are the result of external conditions, such as climate, food and the like, to which they have been exposed. Under these suppositions the col- ors of the several varieties of the hu- man species are due to the degree of sunshine to which they are subjected. According to this notion the blacks should be found in the equatorial re- gions, where eternal summer and sun- shine reign. The red and brown races are assigned to the _ semi-tropical countries and the whites to the tem- perate and polar regions. It should also follow under the as- sumption that the “cooking” of hu- man beings from white through the various colors to black is done by the action of the climate, and par- ticularly the sun; that when people of one color are transported to a wholly different climate and kept there through many generation they should experience and manifest in their own persons the effects which the change of climate is scheduled to produce. Actual facts, however, show that even when operating through many centuries climates do not produce the effects demanded of them by the theoretical philosophers. For in- stance, when the hemisphere of America was discovered by whites some four centuries ago, they found the red aboriginal inhabitants occu- pying the country from the North Polar Sea to the remotest lands wash- ed by the Antarctic waters. North America, Central America and South America were peopled by the same or kindred red race, and that they in- habited the country from some pe- riod extremely remote is proved by the fact that they were the sole oc- cupants, with no others of a different race or color to dispute possession with them. According to theories of climatic effects the aborigines of tropical America should have been cooked black, while the lighter colors should have been found in the various zones of climate and sunshine of lesser in- tensity as to light and heat. But nothing of the sort occurred, and there is little reason to believe that the natives of America in the differ- ent zones held much intercommuni- cation, while there is no record in all human history to show that the na- tions of the Old World had = any knowledge of those of the New. Europe, Asia and Africa, being all connected by contiguous lands, and being under the influence of the most advanced races, who were engaged in commerce and frequent wars of conquest, show that there were con- stant movements of population from one region to another, and in not a few cases vast race migrations. But whether in the tropical, temperate or polar countries of the Old World, the races maintained their characteristics, being apparently affected only by the mingling of blood, and not at all by climate and external conditions. - ing question comes up as to the ef- fect of climate, and particularly of sunlight, on human health. It has been almost universally held by medi- cal men and sanitarians that © sun- shine is of enormous value in pro- moting health. It is known that it is highly destructive to all injurious bacterial life, and it is the most im- portant of all germicides. There are no conditions deemed more prejudi- cial to health than tenement houses, rooms and cells from which the free play of sunshine is excluded, while RECEPTION TO AMBASSADOR O’BRIEN. Great Britain seems to be in dan- ger of race suicide, a disaster that President Roosevelt regards as one of the most deplorable that can befall a nation. Vital statistics in England and Wales show that the_birth rate in 1906 was the lowest ever recorded. In all there were 934,391 births, which is at the rate of 27 for every 1,000 population. This is 1.7 per 1,000 below the average rate for the preceding ten years. SS ae ane B. D. Palmer, one of the oldest Grand Rapids, May 21—In recog- nition of the abie manner in which the Hon. T. J. O’Brien has served his country as Minister to Denmark during the last two years and also in recognition of the honor that has been conferred upon him by his pro- motion to the post of Ambassador to Japan, which is a public acknowledg- ment on the part of the Government of his great ability as a diplomat, I deem it a pleasure as well as a duty to appoint a special committee from the members of the Board of Trade to formulate plans for welcoming him on the occasion of his homecoming in June. I name as such Committee the six living ex-Presidents of the Board of Trade, Messrs. William H. Anderson, Col. George G. Briggs, Amos S. Musselman, Gaius W. Per- kins, Sidney F. Stevens and George G. Whitworth, with full power to make and carry into execution such plans as they may deem proper ,in which the entire membership of the Board of Trade may participate. Grand Rapids and the Board of Trade have reason to feel proud of the great honor that has been be- stowed upon our distinguished citi- zen—an honor in which every resi- dent of Grand Rapids can take a commendable degree of pride—and I feel no hesitation in predicting that the Committee named will arrange a programme in thorough keeping with the lofty character of the man we thus delight to honor. E. A. Stowe, Pres. Grand Rapids Board of Trade. sun baths are accepted methods of curative treatment for many dis- eases. _———2o-7 eo _ Hi. U. Bigger, Secretary of the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Asso- ciation, will come to this city from Saginaw June 1 and take up his res- idence in Grand Rapids. Mr. Bigger has entered upon his fifth year as Secretary of the organization and has proven to be a very valuable man in the position he has filled so ac- In this connection a very interest- paper salesmen in the country, is home from Los Angeles and will cov- er Central Michigan for his house, the Cheeseman Paper Co., until Jan- uary. Mr. Palmer was with the pre- decessors of the present house, and while his fellow traveling men insist | that he only sells goods to fill in time, he is so necessary to the house in keeping territory straightened out that he is regarded as a fixture. —_——~>22 It takes a brave man to be willing Grand Rapids Traveling Men To Be Entertained. Grand Rapids, May 21—There is to be a smoker and luncheon at the Board of Trade auditorium on Satur- day, May 25, to which all traveling men representing Grand _ Rapids wholesale houses are invited. As you are aware, this event is to be the initial movement toward per- fecting a carefully thought out plan for greatly enlarging the jobbing trade of Grand Rapids, through co- operation of the traveling salesmen and their employers. It is the earnest desire of the com- mittee having the matter in charge that there shall be, at the smoker and luncheon in question, a proprietory representative of every wholesale house in the city. We want the trav- eling men to become impressed be- yond question of the fact that their employers are sincerely and directely interested in the matter. John Sehler, Chairman Sub Committee. Pittsburg banks now furnish their clerks who handle currency with rub- ber gloves, which it is claimed, will lessen their chances for contracting disease from “tainted money.” A large proportion of the bank de- posits there include money that has been in the hands and pockets of foreigners who are shy of the bath tub and quite liable to carry them the germs of contagious eases. It is a wise precaution. with dis- HOTEL TULLER Detroit’s newest and finest hotel. Absolu tely fireproof —partitions, stairways, ete. CONVENIENT—Only one block from Lower Woodward, on the west side beautiful Grand Circus Park, corner Adams ave., W. ROOMS—Steam, bath,electric lights, $1.50 up. PLAN—American and European. Fine pop- ular priced cafe. Elegant Am. dining room. DINNER —Served 6 p. m.. six courses, 50c. Sunday, 75e. CARS—Take Woodward, Grand River or Fourteenth street. Get off Adams avenue. MUSIC—Until 12 30 p.m Make The Tuller your home while in Detroit. Colored souvenir postal of hotel and park and illustrated brochurette mailed on request. Address Tuller Hotel, Detroit. A Question In Addition and Multiplication Add one big airy room to courteous service, then multiply by three excellent meals, and the answer is Hotel Livingston, Grand Rapids. ceptably to all concerned. to be called a coward, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN easurer—W. EB. Co! ins, Owosso; J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids; Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- . ion. President—John L. Wallace, Kalama- First Vice-President—G. W. Stevens, Detroit. Second Vice-President—Frank L. Shil- ley, Reading. oe hird Vice-President—Owen Raymo, ‘ayne. Secretary—E. EB. Calkins, Ann Arbor. Treasurer—H. G. Spring, Unionville. Bxecutive Committ - O. Schlotter- » Ann Arbor; F. N. Maus, Kalama- soo; John S. Bennett, Lansing; Minor E. Keyes, Detroit; J. E. Way, Jackson. Methods of Shop Mixing of White Lead. When a keg of white lead has stood for some months the lead becomes denser, owing to the soaking away of the oil into the wood. In this condition, while it has undoubtedly improved in quality, it has at the same time made it more difficult to work it up into a smooth paint. To remedy this to a great extent take a stout, narrow paddle, and put it in- to the lead until it strikes the bot- tom, then work it back and forth, from side to side, for a few times, and the mass will soon become quite plastic, and then it may be removed into pots for further breaking up and thinning for use. This will save much time over the usual way of first taking the lead out of the keg, and breaking it up in the pot. White lead should always be beat- en up before adding thinners, and then the japan should be added, and be well beaten up with the lead, aft- er which, if possible, let the mass stand a few hours; then the thinners may be added to the desired amount. This will render the straining of the paint unnecessary, unless skins are present. If colors are to be added, better beat up the colors separately and thin out so that they will unite readily with the paint. The best paint and varnish remov- ‘ing compound seems yet to be in- vented, and there is a fortune for its lucky discoverer. It will come. Great advance has been made in this di- rection since the days of not so many years ago, when the charcoal burner was used, and before which was the lime-and-potash compound, both crude enough. The blow torch, too, has its limitations. For one thing, people object to the danger of fire when it is used around a building: Carbolic acid removers are very ob- jectionable on the score of smell and burning of the flesh when it comes in contact therewith. Fusel oil re- movers do good work, better, indeed, than the carbolic acid compounds, but the smell is vile and injurious, and it is very costly. But there is one varnish remover, cheap, odorless nearly, and open to none of the ob- jections that the others have, and that is glue. Simply glue. Make up a liquid glue, quite thin, and apply it hot to a varnished surface, and let it be where the temperature shall be not lower than, say, about 7o deg. Fahrenheit, and let the object that has been coated with it stand for twelye to twenty-four hours, and the varnish may then be brushed off. A ready-mixed or factory paint is always to be preferred to the shop- mixed article,. provided the ready- mixed paint is high grade, and of which the market offers some very fine examples. It is very finely ground, pigment, base, medium and all, and is ready for use when you open a can, requiring no straining and being perfectly free from anything calculated to mar a smooth effect. The finer ground a paint the better will it wear, and the finer will its color be. Fine grinding improves the color of almost every one of the painter’s tinters. Another of the many good points of the ready mixed is that you may always depend upon getting the same color if you happen to run short on a job. Some paint- ers, the writer included, can match tints or shades perfectly, but many others can not, and in any case it takes time, and a good deal of it, to do so; hence the economy of ready- prepared paint, it is always there. But these statements have no refer- ence to inferior grades of ready- mixed. The covering capacity of different forms of paint, stains, varnishes, etc., is a variable quantity, something de- pending on conditions of surface. But we may approximate the same, thus: Paint for exterior use, on an aver- age painted surface, will take about one gallon to cover 600 square feet. Priming coat, average surface, about the same. Red lead paint, on structural steel work, from 500 to 7oo square feet to the gallon. Enamel paint, for interior use, will cover about 400 square feet to the gallon. Floor paint will require about a gallon to 400 square feet of average floor surface. One gallon of ordinary roof paint will cover about 500 square feet of surface. Ochre priming will cover about 400 feet to the gallon. Oil stain will cover from 700 square feet to the gallon and upwards, de- pending on the nature of surface. Liquid wood filler will cover about 550 feet to the gallon. Hard oil will cover about 600 feet, over liquid filler, and sometimes less over paste filler. Varnish stain will cover about half the surface that an oil or spirit stain will cover. The cheaper grades of varnish are not lacking in body, nor in brilliancy, and in some instances they will wear very well, inside. Nev- er so, outside. The finer and costlier varnishes are thinner bodied, as a rule, and may be spread out very thinly, and here is where a mistake may be made by the user. If a good effect, and not mere economy is de- sired, then do not spread a_ good varnish too much, but get as full a body on as possible. Given a well- filled wood, and a full coat of heavy bodied varnish will give a very good job. But the expert varnisher will take the thinner article and achieve the full effect with that.. The finish is always richer for several coats of good, well-rubbed varnish; they give depth to the effect, and besides which the varnish acts as a buffer for the beautiful wood that it covers. But the varnish should all be alike, from the same lot, in fact, so that there will be no danger of having two or more shades of varnish, and which would cloud the luster. It will take about six gallons of raw linseed oil to mix 100 pounds of dry white lead. For keg lead, five gallons will be enough to mix it into paint. A half pint to a pint of good liquid driers should dry this much paint. From three to four gallons of raw oil will mix 100 pounds of dry red lead. Prince’s Double Label Mineral Brown dry will absorb fif- teen gallons of oil, to bring it to a paint, and the same material in oil will take eight gallons to thin to the usual consistency for application. —_»+-+2.—____ Dull Grind at Small Pay. Probably the poorest job is that of shipping clerk. The men work hard and there is little variety to make their day interesting. While the work seems to be varied with the nailing of crates and loading of wagons, receiving goods and keeping an account of the day’s shipments, it is a dull grind, the same thing every day, and the poor salaries paid make the job undesirable to those who have push and energy. Most of the positions are filled by men who have lost all ambition for anything higher and who plod along daily like machines, hoping for the end of the week and pay day, when they may have a little enjoyment for, a time with the small salaries they earn. Handling heavy boxes and crates is no easy thing and the shipping clerk must be strong and healthy. It happens frequently that telegrams are received by firms from out of town customers who order’ goods and want them shipped the same day. It may be after 3 o’clock in the afternoon that such an order is received and the shipping clerk must have the goods ready for delivery in time to get to the freight house before closing time. Nearly every large concern has a head shipping clerk and some _ as- sistants and the bosses get the most money and do the least work. The assistants do the heavy work, but they have little worry. The head of the department must keep his eyes and ears open at all times, trusting no one. If anything is wrong in the department he is held responsible by the firm. Such a little matter as pasting the wrong label on freight is a mistake which means considerable trouble to him. The wrong customer gets the goods and in nine cases out of ten will open the box or crate and ex- amine the contents merely out of curiosity. The goods are damaged when they finally are returned to the shipping clerk, and the extra freight charges help to put the firm in any- thing but -good humor. It is said that any one who physi- cally is able to stand the hard work can get a position as shipping clerk with any of the large firms. Experi- ence is not necessary, and this alone is what cheapens the job and keeps the ranks of the shipping clerks fill- ed with undesirable men. The good man who happens into the position soon learns there is no advancement for him and gets out. Robert Blair. ———_2-2.—____ Handling Spices in the Drug Store. The drug trade seems to have awakened to the fact that it is now or never if they wish to regain the spice business which has slowly but surely gone into the hands of the retail grocer. They have learned to appreciate that the general public, in order to be guaranteed prime quali- ty, must call on the druggist for their spices. One of the St. Louis jobbers re- cently introduced a line of spices ex- pressly_for the drug trade and they report an unprecedented demand for this class of goods. Their represen- tatives have been called upon to place the line on the shelves of almost every druggist in the city. Their country salesmen report a constant- ly increasing demand for these goods and no doubt other jobbers will fol- low the example. It now behooves the retailer to display spices to ad- vantage and to endeavor by persist- ent efforts to convince the public that the spice business belongs legiti- mately to them; that they can secure from their druggist goods of the bes: quality and nothing but the best quality; that instead of drawing from the bin a ground spice mixed with dust and foreign matter, that they will secure an attractive canister, which will preserve the strength of the spice. In selecting an olive oil, vinegar, preserve or other condiment, we are extremely critical, but in se- curing spice with which these condi- ments are flavored we sometimes be- come careless. Spices, being the foundation of flavors, should be care- fully considered and the goods of a reliable miller should be given the preference rather than those shipped by an irresponsible concern. ——_2>---a——___ Will Improve Allegan Plant. Allegan, May 21—A. Seasongood, of Cincinnati, President and Treas- urer of the Dayton Folding Box Co. announces that the company’s mill in this village is to receive improve- ments that will cost about $10,000. _——>—— When a man gets to be expert at raising the dust he is sure to do it so well as to choke himself. ———_~--.____ There is not much virtue in the teligion whose vitality you have to prove by argument. FIREWORKS Celebration Goods Most complete: line ‘in Michigan.” We admit doing the leading trade in this line. Dealers who place their orders early will get the goods at present”prices. Manufacturers will advance soon. Re- serve your orders for our travelers, who will call soon with accomplete line of samples. FRED BRUNDAGE Wholesale Drugs and Stationery 32-34 Western Ave. Muskegon, Mich. 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Morphia, SP&W 2 65@2 90 apes Mixture 2| Linseed, pure raw 44@ ro Morphia SNYQ 2 65@2 90 Sinapis 18| Linseed, boiled ...45@ 48 Morphia, Mal. ..2 65@2 90 Sinapis, opt Ne aes @ 30/|Neat’s-root, w str 68 VT) Moschus Canton. 40 | Snuff, Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine ket Myristica, No. 1 28@ 80|* Dev : Paints bbl. L Nux Vomica po 16 10 OVO oaks <> © lust Vatn 10 T OC Os Sepia ....... 28 | Snuff, S’h aes §1 Ochre, yel Mars 4 Pepsin. Saac, Soda, Boras 11! Ocre, ‘yel Ber Ppe 00 Soda, Boras, 11 ; % ; Bc @i Poy utty. ies Soda et Pot’s pant : 28 | Putt 8 Picis Tig NN % Scda, Carb ...... 2 y = ig wal dem ....... 2 00| Soda’ Bi-Carb 5 Vermillion Picis Lie qts . 1 00 Soda, Sh. 4 ver ii ii lean aes is Picis Lig. pints. g 60 | Soda, Sulphas 21a " ag ri = Pil Hydrarg po 80 50 Spts, Cologne 2 60 — aria ....29 O38 Piper Nigra po 22 18 Spts. Ether ee Groep, ae euler Piper Alba po = 3 Spts, Myrcia iy 2 00 . vanities : Pix Burgum .... Spts, Vini Rect bbl white S'n 9 Plumbi cet .... 1 Spts, Vi’i Rect 4% Whitin &. Gild Pulvis Ip’e et Opii 1 30@1 50 Spts, Vil R’t 3° ei Whit - { re + i Pyrethrum, bxs H Spts, vii Rt w it's Paris al : a i & P D Co. doz @ 15 | Strychnia, Cryst “3 1 * ae ae _ 14 Pyrethrum, pv .. 20@ 25/Suiphur Subl ... Universal Prep'd 1 St i Quassiae ........ 8@ 10 Sulphur, Roll @ of P 2 Quina, S P & W 20@ 30|Tamarinds ...... Varnishes @uina, S Ger ..... 20@ 30] Terebenth Venice Jaa No. 1 Turp ones 10@1 20 Quina, Nov, 2... 20@ 30!Theobromae 70 Extra Turp .... B0ot 70 rotection o Our ustomers The Secretary of Agri- culture has accepted our guarantee and has given us the number This number will ap- pear on all packages and bottles from us on and after December Ist. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. 44 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ‘GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing, and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. Prices, however, are ADVANCED DECLINED Index to Markets By Columns Ammonia ........-.- Cee ak Axle Grease ........... 1 B Baked Beans .........-- Brushes ....-++eseeeee ‘Butter Color ......-.--- Cc : 5 @ Wt Da a at pt SeAlOD .nnccccssccsccee 2 Canned Goods ......... 1 tereen PE cc5--c--- 8 Ce Be cpeees oe cceeee i Cheese ......-.-e-eeeeee 2 Chewing Gum .......-- 3 Chicory .......-- kpsceee Chocolate .....-++--eees 3 Clothes Lines ........-- Cocoa ....-. -cc eee os Cocoanut ....ceeseeeee a Cocoa § SS ee Coffee .......6- ceeeecce 3 Confections cccsae eee o- an Crackers ......---+- nae Cream Tartar ......--- 4 Dried Fruits ........-.- 4 F Farinaceous Goods ..... 5 Fish and Oysters ...... Fishing Tackle ....... Flavoring extracts .... Fresh Meats ..... G ees: a demomeenee rain Bags ....-..+---- Grains a Flour A 5 ' € Herbs ....ccccccsccccces Hides and Pelts ....... 10 1 d DORY - nna cc nec nnn n> + $ u EAoorioe .......---200.-- é M Bietenes ...--+2+.------> 6 Meat extracts ssckoscee 8 Mince Meat ..........-. 6 Molasses ........... ee Mustard ..........+- ce N DO re ca am Soucy 11 ° FON sks ese en neces. . 8 Pp Pi cece oe eaeses cheese Pickles Se ee eee baie 6 Playing Cards ........ 6 OS SG eae -- 6 Provisions ............. 6 R es ce cones ox 8 Dressing ........ ‘ RRND coc iccocevecs 2 Salt Fish .............. 17 eee 625... s6 euaepcs 7 Shoe Blacking beseuan soe SU ose cebeneeesecas oe BORD (55 eves ccd eeiuees ; Soups ..... Bae : te 9 Spices pie edeeehe cd ae SIMEON. wesc ecesrensivccs 8 BPS ooo se bs 35s ke os - 2 T po oc beeen eee cue 8 Tobacco ........ cones 9 MIRO ook ves eoecs ices 9 Vv Ww Wicking ....... sbekecne e Woodenware ........... 9 Wrapping Paper ...... 10 Vv Yeast Cake ............ 10 ARCTIC AMMONIA 12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box... AXLE GREASE Frazer's 1th. wood boxes, 4 dz. 3 00 1tb. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 = 2461b. tin boxes, 10%. pails, per doz.. . pails, per doz... BAKED BEANS - Can, per doz..... . can, = doz......1 40 doz BATH BRICK eee rere eesscese Early June ...... Early June Sifted aa 65 Yellow aes ee * eee 25 16 oz. round 2 doz. bo Sawyer’s Pepper Box Salmon Col’a River, talls 1 80 Col’a River. flats 1 90 20@ Commoa Whisk is. Fancy Whisk titers Must'd, ¢ b Solid Back 8 in........ Ss rimp Solid Back, 11 in..... Slog igard ss 20@1 40 10 pee eee 1 40@2 00 3 1 BUTTER COLOR , R & Co.'s, 15¢e size.1 25 | Fancy R. & Co.’s, 25c size.2 00 LES Electric Light, 8s..... 9% Electric — 16s....1 @3 CARBON OILS Water White -: CANNED Goons Deodor’d Nap’a.. 3b. Sianieeee eee eee ee nes 75 Standards gallons .. Breakfast Foods Bordeau Flakes, 36 1th. Cream of Wheat, 36 2%b. Egg-O-See, 36 pkgs... Eveello Flakes, 36 tb. Malta Ceres, 24 ta, Mapl- Flake, 36 Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 6 Sunlight Flakes, 36 1tb. Sunlight Wakes, 20 lgs “e- Voigt Cream lakes Aare 2%b 41 Zest, 36 small pkgs.... Crescent Flakes B 2%. cans, spiced Clams Little Neck, 1tb. 1 00@1 Little Neck, 2tb. @ Clam — ache: 8 cot . Standards *1 3001 . 1 50 9 One case free with ten One-half case free with &% cases. me-fourth case free with cases: nr eet Rolled Avenna, Steel — 100 tb. sks. 32 , 90 tb. sacks 2 1 55 ce ae ae 1 10 Sur Extra Fine eee e eres eee eeee Cracked Wheat 2 2 ‘b. mane i Columbia 25 a ieiem ake 4 50/N. Snider’s quarts 4 to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. nace & Co., Chica- Extract Holland, % gro boxes 95 Felix, iy STOSB.. 663530 d = Hummel’s foil, % gro. Hummel’s re % gro. 1 3 CRACKERS National Biscuit Company Brand Butter eres, Round ..... 6 peg wnt Ceicss 6 da WN. B. C. Soda Vokaes ees 6 Select Soda ........... 8 Saratega Flakes ...... 13 Zephyrette ............ 13 oo N. B. C., Round ....... B. C., Seunre Salted g Faust, Shell ss 7% Sweet Goods. ‘Boxes and cans STARA N eS eee a sc 10 Atlantic, Assorted .....10 Cartwheels ............ 8 toe. 10 Seeesceysesh es 16 CREAM TARTAR Barrels or drums ...... 29 TORO ee es ee ch 30 Square cans ............ 32 Fancy caddies ......... 35 DRIED RFUITS Apples Sundried hunger 7 Evaporated ... 8%@ 9 Apricots California. 2.2... 3: 18@20 California Prunes 100-125 25tb. boxes. 90-100 25Ib boxes..@ 89- 90 251D. boxes.. 70- 80 25tb. boxes.. 60- 70 25tb. wvoxes.. 50- 60 25Ib. hoxes..@ 40- 50 25Ib. b xes..@ 30- 40 25tb. boxes..@ ec less in 50Ib. cases Citron Corsican 2375 2.; @18 Currants Imp’d 1 tb. pkg.. @ 9 Imported bulk .. @ 9% Peel Lemon American ......14 oO can .....16 Emblem ......... 14 | Coffee Cake, pl. or iced a Raisins Be ecco Ses 15 Cocoanut Tafty cess ee London Layers, 8 er aieas fot ee @14 Cocoanut Bar ......... i3 London Layers, 4 cr 7. Shows cee ss @15 eopannt apie age .12 Cluster, 5 crown eye ale a ocoanu oney Cake 12 Loose Muscateis, 2 cr Riverside ....... O14% Cocoanut Hon. Fingers12 | Loose Muscatels, 3 cr Springdale ....... @14% | Cocoanut Macaroons . a Loose Muscatels, 4 er 48 Warner's ........ @15 Dixie Cookie .......... Loose Muscatels, 4 cr. Brick ............ 17%|Frosted Cream ........ 3 L. M. Seeded, 1 th. 11% 12 PIGEON Gece ccs... gis Frosted Honey Cake 12 |Sultanas, bulk i Limburger ....... 15 | Fluted Cocoanut .. 10 |Sultanas, package @ 9% Pineapple ......40 @60 |Fruit Tarts ..........112 Sap Sago ........ @22 |Ginger Gems .......... 8 FARINACEOUS GOODS Swiss, domestic. . @16 |Graham Crackers ..... 8 Beans Swiss, import @20 |Ginger Nuts ......... 10 |Dried Lima ...... oot CHEWING GUM Ginger Snaps, N. B. C. 7 |Med. Hd. Pk’d “1 65 American Flag Spruce 50|/Hippodrome ........... 10 |Brown Holland ...222: 2 20 Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 55|Honey Cake, N. B.C. 12 Farina Adams Pepsin ........ 55 | Honey Fingers, As. Ice 13 24 1%. packages 1 75 Gest Pepsin ........... Honey Jumbles ....... Bulk, per 100 oe os 00 aot, Toone. © bases. .2 00 | Household Cookies... 3 Minis AC. PO bios ee oe Household Cookies Largest Gum’ Made |. 55 | feed Toney Crusspeteis | Flake. 50rb. i 1 00 Sen SEN. 6.5 e 5k wNHOTIA Pearl, 200%. sack . --8 70 Sen Sen Breath Per’f 1 00|Iced Honey Flake .....12%| Pearl, 100%. sack ....1 85 Suear Loaft ......:..... 55|/Iced Honey Jumbles ..12 Maccaronl and Vermicellt Waieatamn 2 oc. sk 55 Island Picnic .......... 11 Domestic, 10%. box.. 60 CHICORY Jersey Lunth ......... g Imported, 25tb. box...2 60 Pete = Seis eee Kream Klips .......... 20 Pearl Barley ee ee Lady Fingers ......... 12 Common (ge) ee 3 00 Sera Silem Vom 22260220 11 (Cnester) fo 500 ea 3 50 eal ae we Wie eks cas ; oe CPTI es ie ae! 10 Empire oe wow ae sie 6 ip eco os 3 50 ttt cease cens zemon Biscuit, uar CHOCOLATE ee ee ee ee a Walter Baker & Co.’s_ |temon Cookie ......... 8 | Green, Scotch, b ts German Sweet ........ Wary Ann 3... 8 Split, tb. : es me Premium 4.2 .455.6245.5; 32) Marshmallow Walnuts = Pret Fer eh nae saesae s 4 ATACAR oo cs ws 38) Mariner. 2.20.00. 5. 02. Sago Walter M. Lowney Co. |Molasses Cakes 01... 4 Hast India. -.3. 5. .:.... 7 Premium 8.207 52.55. Be) MOnican (oo oo ews 11 oo Sacks ....... s Premium, os : 30| Mixed Picnic .......... 114% |German, broken pkg... COCOA MOWTON 6 es oot “ Tapioca Baker's 05 ANI NE SUeAr os... o. Flake, 110 th. sacks ....7% Cleveland ............ 41 1 Nic Naes 02.02. 55..052. § Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks ...71% eioaies. Sm este 35 Cotes! Cesckers pois 8 | eearl 24.1. pikes... oc: 7% olonial, Bet ae $3|Orange Gems .......:. 8 gp ial nega 43 | Oval Guear Cotes |. = |" *VERING .. EXTRACTS BUUVICE. aioe secs a es 45 | Penny Cakes, Assorted 8 | Coleman's Van. Le Downey, Ws 262.062.6665 40| Pretzels, Hand Md..... 8 |2 oz. Panel 1 a 76 Lowney, %S8 ...:.......:. 38 | Pretzelettes, Hand Md. 8 3 oz. Taper ..... 200 1 50 Lowney, %s ........... 7|Pretzelettes, Mac. Md. 7%|No. 4 Rich. Blake 2 00 1 60 iowney, 1s ........:.- 37| Raisin Cookies oo+ee 8 Van Houten, %s 11: 12|Revere, Assorted .....; 14 Jennings D. C. Brand. 0 Van Houten, | eee OO RUBe. ool 8 Terpeneless Ext. Lemon Van Houten, %s ..... 40|Scotch Style Cookies 10 %. Van Houten, ae 12 Snow Creams ......... 16 sg 2 Panel 3 75 oe 2g|Sugar Krisp .......... 11 |No. 4 Panel ........... 1 50 Wilbur, eas 36; Sultana Fruit Biscuit 16 No. G Pane 3.5.3. 2 00 Wilbur, Ge _..........- 36|Spiced Gingers ....... 9 | Paper Panel .......... 1 50 Spiced Gingers Iced ...10 2 oz. Full Meas. cesceo chien COCOANUT Sugar Cakes .......... 8 4 oz. Full Meas. .......2 25 Dunham’s %s & %s 27 |Sugar Squares, large or Jennings D C Brand Dunham’s \s ....... 8 Bae oo, 8 Extract Vanilla Dunham’s \&s ....... 29 |Superba ....2...50... 8 Doz. ROU ee ee ee 12 |Sponge Lady Fingers 25 |No. 2 Panel ........ week 20 cops SHELLS Sugar Crimp <......¢.. 8 INO. 4-Panel oo... 3k. 2 00 20D. fo es 2% | Vanilla Wafers ........ 16 No. 6 Panel ......:.... 3 00 Less een” fe i hoe 8 RVAWOENT oo ee 8 Taper Panel 6.0... 6.3: 2 00 Pound packages ...... 4 ZAMPADONS icc cae ck ess 9 1 oz. Full Meas. ...... 85 2 oz. Full Meas. ...... 1 60 ~~ In-er Seal — doz, | 4.0%. Full Meas. ...... 3 00 CRNA fy oi sacs nes 13% | Albert Biscuit ....... 1 00| N° 2 Assorted Flavors 1 00 BA oem ee see 14% /Animals .............. 1 00 GRAIN BAGS PRONE 225.5. 164% |Bremner’s But Wafers 1 00 Amoskeag, 100 in bale 1% WONEE sisi 20 | Butter Thin Biscuit.. 1 00|4™oskeag, less than bi 19% Santos .|{Cheese Sandwich ....100| GRAINS AND FLOUR COMMON. -. 6.262 cess 13 Cocoanut Dainties 1 00 Wheat Ait os cs Cocoanut Macaroons.. 2? 50|No. 1 White .......... 79 poe tee enue eb ee ae 16% oo. Meal ....:.., WO LINO. 2 oRed Bok. 80 secre eee eee eees aust. Oyster’ .......-. 1 00 Peaberry .......-----.- Fig Newton .......... to, eee eee Pier Maracaibo Five O'clock ‘Tea 1 00 Local Brands . Fair ....... ee 16 Wrotane, 1 00 Patents... 5 35 Cinice 9s 19 Ginger Snaps, N. B.C. 1 00 second Patents =......- 5 15 Mexican Graham Crackers .... 1 00 MEVAISt ee ek 4 75 Chotes oe 16%/|Lemon Snap ......... 50 Second SePadehe yey 4 55 Fancy Be Goan ce 19 Oatmeal Crackers 34 06 “lear es oS Aw a was wela lose 4 00 Guatemala Oysterettes ........-.. 50| Subject to usual cash dis- Mhotee .. 55.5 665:. -s.-el5 |Old Time Sugar Cook. 1 00 | count. Java Pretzelettes, Hd Md... 1 00|, Flour in barrels, 25¢ pei Atncag 60... 42 |Royal Toast .......... 1 00| Darrel additional. Fancy African ....... AS” 1Scltine: 206 1 00; Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand OG. Go. .ae See eu te See 25 Saratoga Flakes ..... 1:50| Quaker, paper ........ 4 80 Pe 1. ce eee ta 31 Social Tea Biscuit...1 00 Quaker, cloth: §...2..: 5 00 Mocha Boda, WN. By Co). 3. 1 00 Wykes & Co. Arabian... 2.203 .. 21 POOR, NOICCE. (ois ee. 2 OO ficlpse Doh eee e 4 75 Package Sultana Fruit Biscuit 1 50| Kansas Hard Wheat Fiou: Y = Uneeda Biscuit ...... 50 Judson Grocer Co. New Yor hasis Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer 1 00| Fanch %s cloth ..5 20 Arbuckle ............. Uneeda Milk Biscuit 501G. 10n, #S Cloth .. Pliwetth ....0..<.c04-. 16 B0lyaniie Wafers. 1 oo| rene, Rapids Grain & Mill- SPTSOH oe cs ce kaa oe nee ss id geen . ing Co. Brands. r tise 14 60 Water Thin... 66.0.5 oa: 1 00} Wizard, assorted ...... 4 75 McLaughlin's > en a Re cage ie Snaps ‘ a SPOOAM 6 ces cue es oa 4 0 wmaepeack 6.20. o52.5% McLaughlin’s XXXX sold is ean wis : Spring Wheat Fiour Roy Baker’s Brand Golden Horn, family 5 50 Golden Horn, baker’s..5 40 Calumet <5 see: 5 20 Wisconsin Rye ........ 4 60 Judson Grocer Co.'s Brana Ceresota, %s .......0.. 6 10 Ceresota, 468 2 oie. cae 6 00 Ceresota, eG oye. esis 5 90 Lemon & Wheeler's Brand Wingold, *s ee Sea e 6 25 Wand 48 ee 6 15 Wingold, 4 Sab aes 6 05 irene Og Brand est, %s clo Best, 4s closh cs Best, %s cloth ... Best, %s paper ... Best, 448 paper:....... Best, wooed... sic. 5 70 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand Laurel, %s cloth ..... 5 65 Laurel, as cloth ....... 5 55 Laurel, %s & ¥%s paper 5 45. Laurel, wes Sebo becceas 5 45 ykes & Co. Sleepy We ¥%s cloth.. Sleepy Bye, Y%s cloth.. Sleepy Eye, %s cloth.. Sleepy Eye, 8s paper.. Sleepy Eye, 4s paper..5 50 Srvas1ote1t D> o e H G A N Bolted - Golden Gra 2 SS acinicte aotearoa 3 |e . eee corn and Outs 2 o ice ee 5 fo tt Brankfort eeteeeees 5%/S Ss 0 ewes : i L 2 = ae Ese ae oe 7* Maccab in Toe 9 eed Mid’n 24 00 Tongue Ce ne oa x French i DP = oem se gs 25 ead Sie ae wis aes ey io 3 : = = ae ; appie in ree 36 wozune Gunpowde 10 : ed ae : a Q P Linseed - Co. ce oo oe q Ate S. me ce Pts = = : a ee 00 Rump, Be coun 9 75 Saat an Family Co. 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LTS Hickory cat Bn 20 tb. tins ie et & Poppy. , ai. 4 + Sundried, ch um 2D ley eae small 7 50} Cured No ac ies 8 bi oat - ea : 160 tb. ting... advance ae g | Bes ried, Pon 2 31D. - 24 ig = 59 | Cured a Beery ie Chestnuts, 7 2 i ge ‘ie 8 Re ular, cuant ae BIb. ze, 16 o —— Calfski a. 2 creteeene 72 hestnuts, Gece pm bat ‘advance |% Handy Box eixcnina Hepat holes SME fan: Sze, 8 in Sass: 2 Ea ii Re 1 — ; : : =< : io : 26, 7 ee Calf cins, @ en No. : 1 fo | ! ; : a cas 3 alfskins. eur oO. 3 — st _ : he ines No. 2 Sas tetra 60 skins, nee a : 1 span — : = E 'S a “a i 250 i — Ola W Pelt oO. 2 413 Wake joc : od se i No. $ Oval, ta in ee 3 pe gg oe ”e rae ones 9@10 iftings Meee _ Barrel pte in —— 40 eee 25@ 3 flee A : eeeeesee 14 el, ‘= O aes 50 Ne i. Tallow 30 20 ge simon Barrel, 10 “gai, “eack..:3 68 t... . ‘ Miller's Crows Poliab Fenningn gal, h...2 55) Unw Wim @ 5 |Faney, Pe : B...2 78 Uirceahon none . oas é = ’ ° : | ed, fine .... @2%5 choice, #1 ~ Sonn = ox, olce, EH. ss jue : mb + each Roasted 7 Tambo vo 10% 46 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Special Price Current AXLE GREASE Paragon ..:....... 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER Royal 10c size 90 4%Tb. cans 1 35 60z. cans 1 90 “4ib cans 2 50 %Ib cans 3 75 fm tb. cans 4 80 Cc. P. Bluing Doz. Small size, 1 doz. box. .40 Large size, 1 doz. box..75 CIGARS GJJohnson Cigar Co.’s bd. Less than 500 ........... 33 600 or more ............ 32 1,000 or more ............ $1 Worden Grocer Co. brand Ben Har Perfection .............. 85 Perfection Extras ...... 35 Londres ......... ce nbes ae 35 Londres Grand ...... cs. 5ee: Winnie ....5..55..5- 5.6 35 Puritanos ............... 85 Panatellas, Finas ....... 35 Panatellas, Bock ....... 85 Jockey Club ............ 85 COCOANUT Baker’s Brazil Shredded is ie cee oe coe ee 88 Ib. pkg. per case 2 60 tb. pkg. per case 3 60 FRESH MEATS Beef Carcass ... esas s 64%@ 9 @ @ @ RAS | oases cs @ Dressed ......... @ Boston Butis .. @ Shoulders. ....... Trimmings ...... Mutton artass (25. i..2: @ 9% SONOS 62S @14% Spring Lambs .. Veal Careass .....;...-% 6 @ 8% CLOTHES LINES Sisal 60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00 72ft. 3 thread, extra..1 40 90ft. 3 thread, extra..1 70 60ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29 72ft. 6 thread, extra Jute BOE oo ee 15 MRR ee ese ee 90 Bite 5205. esc. 1 05 a20Ck.. nas ches eececes 1 50 Cotton Victor BOM oo ee ee 1 10 OMe ee Cotton Windsor SO eee eee le ee 0 DO eek cee toe cuc las 1 44 TO eee 18 RG 8 ee eee 2 00 Cotton Braided BOER oe ae ceece ccs. ces BIG. oe ces 1 85 OO eas esc eek ce 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. White House, lth. ........ White House, 2Ibh. ........ Excelsior, M & J, 1th. ..... Excelsior, M & J, 2th. ..... Tip Top, M & J, 1b. ...... moval Seve. ...2°.- 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: Fielbach Co., Toledo. Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00 FISHING TACKLE % te 1 In......+.- Seesces 6 1% to 2 in...... cool echae 7 1% to 2 in...... ecu cece 9 19, tO 8 Us... os ce esse. 2A eA ee 15 Be co es eee ces 20 Cotton Lines No. 1, 10 feet ....:.... 5 No. 2, 16 feet ........< og No, 3, 15 feet .:........ 9 Mio: 4 15 Feet. ncn s ese 10 Ne. G, 46 Beet ....-: 2... 11 No. 6, 15 feet .......... 12 No. 7, 16 feet ...5..... 15 Me. BS; 46 Test ........55% 18 No. 9: 15 feet ...-.:.... 20 Linen Lines RMON cco s ects een 6 20 BECUMIUM 2.506 osecs ee | BORGO foc hiss essa econss 84 Poles Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 65 Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60 Bamboo, 18 ft., per dos. 80 GELATINE Cox's 1 gt. size ...... 1 10 Cox’s 2 qt. size ........ 1 61 Knox’s Sparkling, dos. 1 20 Knox’s Sparkling, gro.14 60 Knox’s Acidu’d. doz...1 26 Knoz’s Acidu’d. gro...i4 90 Neolmon’s ...... Csveececk Oe PURE oi dice seer seses U8 Mrecits Rec 7 G@ectae 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 0/are unable to visit Grand Repids and inspect the line personally, write for quotations. SOAP Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands 100 cakes, large size..6 50 50 cakes, large size..3 25 100 cakes, small size..3 85 50 cakes, small size..1 95 Tradesman’s Co.’s Brand Black Hawk, one box 2 50 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,Aich. you want to sell your business. If you want to buy a business. If you want a partner. If you want a sit- uation. If you want a good clerk. If you want a tenant for your empty _ store- room. If you would trade your stock for real estate. If you want at any time to reach merchants, clerks, traveling salesmen, brok- ers, traderfs— business men generally Try a Michigan Tradesman Business Want Ad On Opposite Page “eo sear Tene perme: MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 47 BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT PWGacermerserr ele ibacme taken ts No charge less than 25 cents. d under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent continuous insertion. Cash must accompany all orders. BUSINESS CHANCES. Administrator’s Sale—The entire stock of general merchandise of Horace G. Mann, deceased, Mt. Morris, Mich., with the fixtures, is offered for sale for cash. Building will be sold or rented to pur- chaser of stock. This is a great oppor- tunity to engage in well-established business with a big trade and in a good live town. Stock and fixtures will in- ventory about $10,000. Store is one of the finest in the state, built of cement and large, with steam heat and gas. En- quire at store or of C. H. Mann, Special Administrator, Fenton Block, Flint, Mich. 891 For Sale—A successful dry goods, cloak, ladies’ and men’s furnishings busi- ness, located in one of the best farm- ing towns of 3,500 population, with sev- eral good local industries. No trolleys to draw trade away. This is the lead- ing store of the county, established 16 years ago, and did business of $28,000 to $35,000 annually. This is an excep- tional opportunity to get into a well- established paying business. For further particulars address M. T. M., care Trades- man. 88 For Sale—Good hotel and livery in one of the best thriving towns of its size in Michigan. Only hotel and livery in the place. Good point for driving commercial men. Reason for selling, ill health. Terms, one-third eash, balance on easy payments. Address W. D. Strong, Alma, Mich. 888 The best paying business, requiring no capital, is real estate. If you make less than $3,000 a year, wish to become independent and financially successful take our correspondence course in real estate and earn large income. Write for our booklet “‘T’’ describing the great possibilities of this profitable business. American School of Real Estate, Des Moines, Ia. 887 For Sale—-My stock of general mer- chandise located in Ithaca, Mich., county seat of Gratiot county. The best town of its size in the state. Consisting of clean up-to-date goods, amount of stock $8,000. Location the best. Rent reason- able. A rare chance for some one. Rea- son, selling on account of health. Ad- dress F W. Balch, Ithaca, Mich. 886 For Sale—One-half interest in my real estate, abstract and insurance business. My business is the oldest and largest in this line, in a city of 7,000, and it has increased to such proportions during the last eight years that I can not take care of it to best advantage without a partner. If interested, write for full particulars. State previous experience, as I will not sell to party without good business experience. Address No. 885, care Michigan Tradesman. 885 Wanted—Good business man with $4,000 or $5,000 to purchase one-half in- terest in general store, Saginaw, Mich. Business well established for ten years. Doing strictly cash business of about $30,000 yearly, increasing each year. Partner wishing to sell out has been silent partner, being increased in other business, Partner wishing to remain wants help. Has a good reputation and is a hard worker. J. . S., Mail Car- rier No. 11, Genesee Ave., Saginaw. E. S., Mich. 883 If you wish to sell your business, list it with business brokers. We sell all kinds. If you wish to buy, write for our list. Do it to-day. Wilson, Hastings, Mich. 881 I have a catarrh clear that will cure any case of catarrh in ten days or it doesn’t cost you one cent. I am so ab- solutely certain that I can cure any case I will send on one week’s trial free absolutely. Have cured 300 cases right here in Los Angeles and could do same thing in your city if I were there. The treatment is very simple. Can be used by anyone, but the best thing about it is that it cures. Write me and I will explain. No atomizer, oil or snuff. C. S. McKenney, 1532 W. 16th St., Los Angeles, Cali. 880 Wanted—Young active partner with $10,000 to $12,000. Cloak, suit and fur store. Extra fine business and an excel- lent chance for a hustler. Write for full particulars. Address No. 879, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 879 For Sale—The best New York racket store in the best town in the best state in the Union, which must be sold this month. Stock new and up-to-date, con- sisting dry goods, notions, millinery and hardware. Stock invoices about $6,000. Liberal discount given for cash. Don’t write unless you mean business. Best proposition on earth, best reason, given for selling. Address A. Andrews, Flint, Mich. 874 D. Benham &| respondence solicited.