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means the best in breakfast foods. It means the most delicious flavor

and dainty crispness; it means

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That is why it sells and sells fast. It’s the “call-again-food.” One
package means many more, because it tastes like more.

_ The public is demanding Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes. Its eye is
on the signature to. prevent being imposed upon by substitution.
Keep your eye on the trade, Mr. Dealer, by sticking to the genuine

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Tradesman Building

PAST AND PRESENT.
Vacation time is again ended and
again our citizens will be enjoying
screened doors and windows, freedom
from fles, musquitoes and other in-
again will they lie in com-
fortable beds and have their meals
regularly and well prepared and serv-
ed. They will don starched collars
and things, wear their trousers creas-
ed and their skirts, shirt waists and
hair conventionally adjusted. The bar-
bers, hair-dressers and chiropodists
will resume operations and the letter
carriers, the ice man, the butcher’s
boy and the fiends who read gas me-
ters and electric light meters will no
onger wander about in loneliness.

sects;

Everyay routine is resumed, with
its scope enlarged, perhaps, by rem-
iniscences as to fishing experiences,
yachting and canoe trips, visits to
this or that friend here and there
and the pleasant times had through
the visits of others from far away
cities to the homes in Grand Rapids.

To-day a vacation trip may include
i visit to European countries or a
jaunt to Japan and other lands in the
Orient without exciting comment be-
yond the expression of hope that a
pleasant trip may be the portion of
the travelers, or it may be a canoe-
ing and camping trip covering a week
Or two of time; but, as a rule, the
nowadays vacation, wherever it is
taken, offers little opportunity for rest
Or recreation. there is in
plenty, but it is almost invariably di-
luted by large doses of railway and
steamboat time tables, disappointing
but beautifully printed menu cards, in-
sistent porters, bell boys, waiters, bag-
gage men, and the like, while the
guides, the boatmen, the hunters and
the fishermen professionally dispense
sizable tales of their adventures, with
their eyes, meanwhile, upon one’s fi-
nancial resources and the probability
that their guests this
their victims next

Pleasure

season will be
season.

What with palace sleepers, elegant
buffet cars, magnificent steamboats,
great automobiles, telegraphs,  tele-
phones, and all the rest, the summer
vacation in 1907 is exceedingly more
comfortable and_ satisfying
was half a century ago.

Ts it? And how do we know, that
is, how are we’ who were not taking
vacations in 1857 able to make the
comparison?

than it

It is said that in the fall of that
year, when the new-born Republican

party had John C. Fremont (the
Pathfinder), of California, and Wm.
L. Dayton, of New Jersey, before the
people as their candidates for the
presidency and vice-presidency, an-
nouncement was made weeks ahead
throughout Western Michigan that

on a certain date a great State mass
meeting of Republicans would be held
in Kalamazoo. It was intimated that

 

Gen. Fremont would address.the

 

 

meeting and that “Hon. William A.
Howard and Hon. Austin Blair, of

Michigan, Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of

Illinois, and others”
dresses.

Straightway, so far as the Grand

would deliver ad-

River Valley was concerned, those
who were outright Republicans or
Abolitionists and those who were

but half convinced began to plan to
attend this function. There were no
railroads north of the Michigan Cen-
tral so that travel was by
team and wagon or buggy,
back, or on ©

stage, by
on horse-
‘shanks’ horses,” so that
a journey of fifty-one miles, even for
so rare a thing as a mass meeting,
must be coupled with some other
purpose to make it worth the while.
Thus it happened that everybody be-
tween the
and the the Grand
open two or three
to the thousands
living to the north, were taking their
vacation by
southward and “visiting the folks.”
A notable exception to the rule was

Valley of
house for

accommodate

leisurely

 

Valley of the Kalamazoo |
kept |
weeks |
who, |

journeying |

;thbat the

o . ~ * |
furnished by the late Frank B. Gil-|
bert and his neighbor, the late}
George C. Nelson, who resolved

on|

the day before the mass meeting to|

Mr. Gilbert
young bay mare and Mr. Nelson own
ed a buggy and harness. They pooled
their assets and the mare, being a

be present.

owned a |

good stepper, made the fifty-one mile |

the
evening and,
as Mr. Nelson used to tell it: “Frank's
mare was as fresh, seeming!
her stall tn
as when we started.”

And so Messrs. Gilbert and Nelson
heard speeches by Mr. Howard, then
most prominent as chairman of the
Congressional Commission to investi-
gate and report on the Kansas re-
bellion against the abolition or anti-
slavery situation; by Mr. Blair, who
four years later became the war Gov-
ernor of Michigan, and by Abraham
Lincoln—reward enough, one might
say to-day, for such a trip, but it was
not, because it was the beginning of
a week’s vacation passed in Kalama-
zoo and at points between that city
and Grand Rapids while on the way
home.

The old-time vacation never came
until after and because of
slowness of transit facilities a jour-

trip between To o’clock in morn-

ing and 7 o’clock in the

when

y,
she went to Kalamazoo

harvest,

ney of fifty or seventy-five miles was |

about the limit except for the very
wealthy, who had their own coaches,

horses and coachmen and who could!

afford to visit Saratoga, the Sulphur
Springs, the seashore or the moun-

tains without noting time or ex-
pense. There was a deliberateness, a
repose about the old season of rec-

reation which does not obtain to-day
and, consequently, there was a pic-
turesqueness about it which is abso-
lutely missing from the pleasure time
of the present.

 

ancy a business man to-day tak-
ng his family in an automobile and
their luggage in another motor vehi-
and of
hundred home
of old and dear friend —who al-

automobiles

alter

miles

traveling a couple

stopping at the

some
so and

owns things.

of the rocking,

] } reo oe ns ] < eg cE 4%

old horse-drawn coach, instead of the
£ tl

winding o

Instead

rumbling

née cOachimans horn to

announce the arrival, instead of the
spontaneous cheer of the welcoming
group at the old gateway, instead of

the unaffected, hearty, homey recep-
1}

+\t r + at ‘ : ta S c
tion and the genuine gladness of all,
what would see? What would

hear?

we we

Ostentation everywhere. More than
likely the expectant host would meet

the coming guest forty or fifty miles

iaway and, proud of his ned mo-
bile, would give him a race home
just for the fun of determining who
had the better car and the more ex

chauffeur; it is a al certainty

mor

he “honuk-honk-honk” has super-

S ] l t} > ) Oo t the h ? and jt 16
Cded the SONS OF [he HOrm, and it 1
} -

FOUL OF

having d

1 possibility that an two al

1} ‘a 7 e
the table, after ressed fo

dinner, will be devoted to explaining

why eight hours of time were re

quired to make the 200 miles instead

Of turnine the trick inside of

{ seven
hours.

Ostentation is the keynote every-
where of the modern vacation time.
Clothes, i i conver-

sation,

and all, constitute a continu-
ous performance in which pretense
cuts a very large figure; and the only

possible excuse for such a showing

is the fact that a vast amount of cash
is kept in circulation in consequence.
ee

JETr-

I
Minister of Edu-

The
tioned the
to

merchants of Berlin have
Prussian
cation the

the

make study of English

obligatory in German
Skillful as the

nical industries

evimnasia,.

Germans in tech-
and
of

leading men of

are
excellent as is

their knowledge economic sub-

jects, the this great

commercial city believe that the

course of training in the gymnasia

should be broadened. They point
out how ignorant Germans are on the
subject of colonial politics and how
exceedingly advantageous would be
a careful study of the methods which
to

fluence of English spirit and success

have contributed spread the in-

and of English institutions. Before
any steps are taken it is possible that
the Esperantists may also wish to be
heard.
ace seers
Our consul at Tsingtau, China, an-
nounees that a

did a

and

German brewery

there thriving business during
of
encouragine. It
commendable

1906 declared a dividend 75
per cent. ‘Phis is

shows a desire to step
into line with the leading Christian

nations.

      
        
           
          
          
        
   
     
       
      
         
     
      
         
     
      
        
               
    
  
  
   
  
 
   
    
    
   
  
    
  
 
 
  
   
    
     
 
   
    
     
 
   
   
   
  
  
      
  
 
    
 
   
    
  
    
            

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

PARCELS POST.

Strong Position Taken by President

 

: Judson.
Wm. Judson, President of the Na-
tional Wholesale Grocers’ Associa-

tion, recently received the following
letter from the Secretary of the Na-
tional Retail Grocers’ Association:
Cleveland, Sept. 1—I have before
me a letter from Massachusetts quot-
ing a speech made by the Postmas-
ter General at an outing of the lead-

ing Republicans of that State, in
which he says:
“T also think we should consider,

and Congress should see fit to give
the Department the right to estab-
lish, a parcels post throughout the
country, the weight not. to exceed
five or ten pounds as a ttrial.”

I have received a copy of letter
from our Illinois State Secretary, who
has written to the Postmaster Gen-
eral. I have also written the Presi-
dent and the Postmaster General,
asking that they carefully consider
our position and not recommend or
advise anything that would be detri-
mental to the interests of the retail-
ers.

I do not think with all of the warn-
ing that been given that we
realize the position such a bill as
what is known as the parcels post
bill would place us in.

This five or ten pounds recom-
mended by the Postmaster General
is not so bad, but it is only the en-
tering wedge.

Last fall the National League of
Republican Clubs, which met in Phil-
adelphia, passed a resolution recom-
mending the passage of the parcels
post bill. It has been given to me
frequently of late that it would not
be surprising if both the great par-
ties had a plank in their next plat-
form endorsing the parcels post.

has

I simply call your attention to the
facts as they were presented to me,
believing that your organization,
made up of the most influential men
in the country, would have a great
deal of influence both with the Post-
master General and the President, and
sincerely hope that you will take this
matter under careful advisement.

John A. Green, Sec’y.

President Judson’s reply to this let-
ter was as follows:

Grand Rapids, Sept. 2—This par-
cels post matter something in
which we are all deeply interested,
and I am pleased that you are doing
all in your power to prevent such a
law as you mention being enacted by
the next Congress. I believe it can
be fairly shown that a universal flat
postage rate for delivery of merchan-
dise would be detrimental to the in-
terests of the consumer, whether he
lives in the country or in the city. If
he lives in the city, it is fair to pre-
sume that he has a home of his own.
Nearly all of our working people own
their own homes; therefore, their in-
terests are far and away from being
along the line of the excessive growth
of large cities somewhere at some
distance. The growth of his home
town is much more to his interest. If
he lives in the country and cultivates
the land there is nothing so valuable
to him as a home market for his farm
products. The parcels post would di-

is

 

vert much trade from the village
store or the medium sized town or
city store to the large centers like
Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, etc.
In the largest cities big catalogue
houses have grown up under the pres-
ent laws and a parcels post law would
be greatly to their advantage. I do
not believe that these large stores
are helpful to the general consumer.

If the housekeeper buys from. the
catalogue and makes up her’ mind
from a picture, [ do not think she will
be as satisfactorily served as if she
were to go to the country store and
make a comparison of the quality and
price on the spot. I believe an oc-
casional visit to her home merchant
would be much more educational and
valuable than the perusal of a printed
catalogue at home.

The President of the United States
and the members of his Cabinet, I am
sure, wish to be practical in these
merchandising matters. They are

/naturally interested in taking care of

the consumer. The multitude of mod-
est homes in our beloved country need
their careful and thoughtful protec-
tion. I sometimes fear, however, that
they are not altogether practical and
do not give careful examination to
real, actual conditions.

I shall be pleased to assist you in
any way I can because I think you
are right. I am just as much in love
with my countrymen as any one. I
want them served well, not badly.
They do not need a parcels post law
which will eliminate natural condi-
tions of distance. They need to be
educated to a high degree of loy-
alty that is due to their locality. A
farm is worth much more if it is in a
well-supported local market than it
possibly can be if it depends upon a
market in a far distant city, and that
is true of a house and lot in any of
our medium sized towns and cities.

William Judson.
—_————-.-o.-a
Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Aug. 31—August has
not been a very active month, so far
as the spot coffee market is concern-
ed, but with the incoming month and
the general resumption of business
after the summer season it seems
probable that more activity will pre-
vail. At any rate sellers are hope-
ful and certainly are making no con-
cessions to effect sales. It seems in-
evitable that higher quotations will

be made. At the moment Rio No. 7
is quoted at 6%c. In store and afloat
there are 3,925,367 bags, against

3.296,560 bags at the same time last
year. Mild coffees have been in very
moderate movement and the situation
is practically without change, with
good Cucuta at 9%c.

The improvement in the tea mar-
ket which has been noticeable for
several weeks continues and dealers
are very much encouraged when they
compare the present outlook with a
year ago. Interest is shown in all
parts of the country, and it seems
as though tea were really “coming
into its own.”

Sugar has been in only moderate
enquiry. The extremely dry weather
covering a large part of this section
has sadly interfered with the plans
of packers and crops will be so short

 

that much less sugar will be required
than ordinarily. Still there is some
business being done and quotations
are pretty well sustained at 4.70@
4.80c, less 1 per cent. cash.

While purchasers of rice have tak-
en only small amounts, the orders
have been quite numerous and, in the
aggregate, a very good business has
been transacted at full rates. Good
to prime, 5@53c.

With the advancing season a lit-
tle more activity is shown in spices
and holders seem quite satisfied with
the situation. The steamer Gibraltar
in a few days will bring a full car-
go of spices and the market will then
be in shape so dealers will know
“where they are at.”

There is a better demand for mo-
lasses not only in the way of with-
drawals under previous contract but
as regards new business. Stocks are
not large, although there seems no
dearth, and rates are firm on pre-
vious basis.

In canned goods both buyer and
seller of tomatoes seem to be rest-
ing on their oars. The crop is not
yet secure and packers are unwilling
to consider any figure below 85¢c,
promptly declining 82%c f. o. b. Peas
are steady, although most of the de-
mand is for grades worth 87'4%4.@ooc
Corn is strongly sustained and other
goods as well seem to favor’ the
seller.

Top grades of butter “specials” are
held at 27c; extras, 26%c; firsts, 241%
(@26c; extra factory, 21'4@22c; firsts,
2Ic; process, 21@23%c. The market
is very firm, especially for the better
grades, and full figures are obtained.

 

Other sorts are also doing better, but
the improvement is not so pronounced
as with the better qualities. Retail
figures have advanced to a point that
will cause some falling off in con-
sumption, perhaps, for a good many
families can not stand 35@4oc.
Cheese seems to sympathize with
butter and 133%%c is now quoted for
the best, being 1%c advance’ over
three weeks ago. The supply is sut-
ficiently large to meet the demand.
Best Western eggs are worth 21@
22c; firsts, 20@2Ic; seconds, 174%@
19c. Refrigerator stock is being trot-
ted out and sells for 18@2ic, prob-
ably showing a fair profit to those

who loaded up in the spring.
———_2+2———_

Sermon in a Few Words.

We were very much impressed by
something we saw and heard while
passing along the street a few even-
ings ago. A young girl was _ stand-
ing in front of a store, and near her,
with a hang-dog expression on his
face, was a young stripling of a
youth. As we passed the two the
girl said to the boy: “Any one who
speaks of my father as ‘the old man’
is not worthy of my respect.” From
the tone of her voice, we know that
the girl spoke from the impulse of a
moment, but there was a whole ser-
mon in her utterance. We don’t
know the girl, but if she lives she
will develop into a noble womanhood,
and the world will be better for her
having lived in it. And the boy, if
he has any redeeming qualities in
him, will profit by the lesson given
him in that one sentence.—Burlington
Chronicle.

 

 

You Pick a Winner When

 

You Buy for “Spot Cash”

 

Do you wish to buy standard make of Mason jars,
equal quantities, pints, quurts and % gallons, at $3.75

per gross?

If so, write us for the deal.

We have broken lines of good Leaf Jap teas at 14,
16, 18 and 20 cents, also a car of bulk and package dust

at decided bargains.
ples.
in right.

If interested write us for sam-
Teas are booming and this is your chance to get

Our import brands Biwa and Haruha Chop are
finest 50 and 35 cent retail teas sold in the State.
Prices and samples upon application.

Fine New York Granulated Sugar at 5 cents spot
cash, f.o. b. Saginaw, is a better price than 5 cents
f. o. b. Toledo, offered by Toledo jobbers.

A Few Good Futures

Standard 3’s Tomatoes............ 2. oo
Mich. Marrowfat Peas now in stock.. 85
Fancy Sweet Cort. ...........-... ». oe
Pink Alaska Salmon................. 921
Choice Red Alaska Salmon .......... I 27%

 

 

THE STEWART MERCANTILE CO.
Saginaw, Mich.

Sept. 3, 1907.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Grand Rapids Banks All in a Healthy
Condition.

More than ordinary interest at-
tached to the bank statements pub-
lished last week, showing the condi-
tions at the close of business Au-
gust 22. The Wall street panic, the
scarcity of money, the advance in in-
terest rates—these and other circum-
stances made the bankers want to

know ‘how each other stood. Condi-
tions were not right for a “good”
statement, and yet the = statemens

average well whether compared with
those of May 20 last or with those
of Sept. 4 a year ago. Here is a
summary of the totals—with those of
May 20 for comparison:
National Banks.
May 20. Aug. 22.
Loans and dis-
counts «+++. -$12,859,069.47 $12,927,506.15
Stocks, bonds, etc. 858,184.44 833,698.94
Due from banks 2,338,092.32 —1,794,704.10
Cash and cash
1,069,751.43 1,111,752.28

items ieee oe
Surplus & profits 1,214,377.93 | 1,167,657.73

Commercial de-

DOSItS | ..).5..0.. 7,469,821.66 7,488,733.02
Certificates - 4,049,627.09  3,800,316.47
Due to banks .. 2,641,096.59 2,592,719.99
Total deposits $14,634,689.01 $14,250,643.07

State Banks.
Loans and dis-

counts 3.2.23. $ 6,128,944.66 $ 6,198,297.83
Stocks, bonds,

Cte. ee cs 4,501,745.40  4,671,031.49

Due from banks
Cash and cash

iHems .:...... 734,769.68
Surplus & Profits 287,284.49
Commercial de-

1,419,014.93 1,226,096.16

726,079.02
285,281.46

DOSHES. 2.2.05... 2,423,028.63  2,103,544.93
Savings & Certifi-
Cates 6003 .: 9,031,305.09  9,343,950.83

Due to banks . 164,587.66 159,585.14

Total deposits $11,630,863.48 $11,613,183.96

Total State and National.
Loans and dis-
Counts (2.20... $18,988,014.13 $19,125,803.98
Stocks, bonds,
GQtG. 5s... 5,359,929.84

5,504,730.43
Due from banks

 

MICHIGAN

Surplus & profits 1,871,681.66

1,726,138.80
Commercial de-

posits 2.52... . 9,892,850.29  9,592,277.95
Savings & Certifi-

cates’. .......... 13,080;,982.18 13,144 267.30
Due to banks ... 2,805,684.25 2,752,305.13
Total deposits $26,265,552.49 $25,863,827.03

In round figures the National banks
show an increase of $68,500 in loans
and discounts as compared with May
20 and of $20,000 compared with a
year ago. The States ga‘n $70,000
since May 20 and $451,000 since a year
ago.

In stocks, bonds, etc., other than
Government, the Nationals carry
$25,000 less than on May 20, while
the States have added $150,000 to their
holdings. Compared with a year ago
the Nationals have $107,000 more and
the States $395,000 more.

Since May 20 the Nationals have
reduced their reserve deposits by
$544,000 and the States have done
the same by $193,000. The changes
from a year ago are about the same.

The cash and cash items show an
increase of $42,000 for the Nationals
and $8,700 for the States.

The surplus and undivided profits
show a decrease of $47,000 for the Na-
tionals and an increase of $1,100 for
the States. Compared with a year
ago the Nationals have gained $72,-
ooo and the States $86,000.

The statement of deposits is some-
what peculiar. The Nationals show
a gain of $19,000 in commercial and
a decrease of $240,000 in certificates,
while the States lose $320,000 com-
mercial and gain $3%2,000 in savings
and certificates. The National banks
credit their savings deposits to the

 

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TRADESMAN

two accounts given separately, that it
might be known to what extent the
savings deposits saved them from a
decrease in their commercial showing.
Baring the high prices of all the nec-
essaries of life the times have been
exceptionally favorable for those who
have the saving bank habit. ‘here
has been great activity in all the in-
dustries the past season and wages
have been high. The State Bank re-
ports show that the savings deposits
have been climbing up at the rate of
$100,000 or more a month. It may
be surmised that the savers who pat-
ronize the Nationals have been equal-
ly thrifty.

The total deposits show a decrease
in the Nationals of $384,000 and in
the States of $17,700, a total decrease
of $401,700. And yet the total now
is $250,000 more than a year ago.

For a new institution the South
Grand Rapids State Bank seems to
be doing very nicely. It has been in
operation less than a year and yet
has accumulated
amount of $147,420.71, of which $113,-
584.68 are in savings and savings cer-
tificates. Its loans and discounts
amount to $25,215.40 and its bonds,
mortgages, etc., to $117,384.66. Its
unemployed funds in reserve and on
hand amount to about $26,000, or ap-
proximately 17 per cent. of its de-
posits, which is tolerably close.

It would be interesting to know
what great head in the State banking
department devised the form of state-

deposits to the;

 

3

tistics desired, but they are so ar-
ranged that it takes a pile of figuring
to find out what may be wanted. In
the matter of assets, for instance,
“Due from banks” and “items in tran-
sit” are placed in the
“due from banks in
exchanges for the clearing house and
cash are placed in a side column with
the total carried to the main column;

main column;

reserve cities,”

finally, “stocks and other cash items”
is given in the main column.
body wants to know what “due from
banks” a State bank carries he must
add crosswise from main to side col-
umn. If it is desired to know what
are the cash and cash items the ad-
dition must be from the main to the

lf any-

side and back to the main column,
skipping the “due from banks.” It

would be just as easy and much more

intelligible to follow the National
bank model, giving the “due from

banks” in the side column with the
total carried out, and then the cash
and cash items in the way.
Then it could be seen at a glance as
to how the bank stood in quick as-
The Fifth National’s statement
most satisfactory of any of
the banks for easy understanding.

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suffering from varicose
veins, |

same

Sets.

is the

Irishman was
enlarged or
suggested his going to bed
until the swollen veins had gone
down, after which I could apply an
elastic stocking or bandage, and left
him, telling him to be sure and goto
bed. “IT hate like the
divil to go to bed; there has been so

His reply was:

a oe : 3,757,107.25 3,020,800.26 | “deposits subject to check” account.!ment used by the State banks. The }d—n many people die there.”
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Movements of Merchants.

Dennison—J. D. Borchers succeeds
L. W. Moore in general trade.

Sturgis—Oliver Moore, grocer, has
sold his stock to Loetz & Gilhams.

Pontiac—A new men’s furnishings
store has been opened by Burt Len-
hoff.

Muskegon—A new shoe store will
be opened by Albert J. Schultz, about
Sept. I5.

Mt. Pleasant—A new jewelry store
will be opened by Roy S. Dean, of

St. Louis.
Albion—Miss Emma Crittenden is
succeeded in the millinery business

by Lura D. Baker.

Brest—The grocery store and stock
of McLaughlin & Mattison has been
destroyed by fire.

Petoskey—The Brackett Hardware
Co. has changed its name to the
Northern Hardware Co.

Cheboygan—The W. & A. McAr-
thur Co., Ltd., has sold its grocery
stock and store to E. S. Taylor, of
Pickford.

Cadillac—The general merchandise
business formerly conducted by Win-
ter & Baker will be continued by A.
kK. Baker.

Yale—-There has been a change in
the grocery firm of Burt & Griswold,
Nat. Kerr succeeding Frank Gris-
wold in the business.

Hastings—W. F. Hicks has engag-
ed in the bakery, ice cream and res-
taurant business under the style of
the Hicks Home Bakery.

Ludington—Thomas Ford has sold
his grocery stock to David Gibbs and
Martin Larsen, who will continue the
business at the same location under
the style of Gibbs & Larsen.

Lansing—The grocery stock and
fixtures of Hallett & Son have been
purchased by B. M. Underhill, form-
erly of Bellaire, who will continue the
business at the same location.

Elwell—M. C. Lathrop, formerly
with the Tyroler Dry Goods Empor-
ium of St. Louis, has resigned that
position to accept a similar one with
the Hilsinger Mercantile Co. here.

Cedar Springs—Frank E. Bassett,
for many years head clerk in the
Mather store, succeeded by his
son, Roy, and he goes to Newberry
to clerk in the general store of J. A.
Shattuck.

Beaverton—Ora CC. Bowker has
sold his grocery stock to George Mil-
lard, of Gladwin, and Frank Jackson,
of Detroit, who will add a line of
dry goods and continue business at
the same stand.

Bay City—The Black Diamond
Coal Mining Co. has been incorporat-
ed to deal in coal, with an authorized
capital stock of $200,000, of which
amount $100,025 has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Jackson—William M. Palmer has
made his son William M. Palmer,
Jr., his partner in the boot and shoe
business, with a half interest, which
will be c@fitinued under the style of
the Palmer Shoe Co.

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Lapeer—A petition in bankruptcy
has been filed by Bagley & Smith,
grocers, who state that their assets
are $1,208.76, and _ their liabilities
$1,427.78. They claim $200 worth of
personal property as exempt.

Detroit—E. S. Rickel & Co. have
opened a new hat store at 23 Mon-
roe street. The firm is composed of
FE. S. Rickel, formerly with Dickerson
& Co., dealers in hats and caps, for
several years, and M. F. Tynan.

Brown City—C. H. Trumble has
purchased the drug stock of Brown
Bros. and will continue the business
at the same location. Brown Bros.
will hereafter devote their entire at-
tention to their drug stock at Davi-
son.

Burr Oak—G. W. Hagenbaugh
and Ona Swihart have purchased the
meat market of L. E. Milliman and
also that of Wm. Fray. They have
moved the Milliman stock to the
I'ray stand, where they will continue
the business.

McBain—Hughston & Co. have
merged their general merchandise
business into a stock company under
the same style, with an authorized

capital stock of $9,000, of which
amount $6,500 has been subscribed
and paid in in property.

Pontiac—A corporation has been

formed under the style of the Fay-
Freeman Hardware Co. to engage in
the hardware and plumbing business,
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,500, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Iron River—John W. Molloy, the
veteran logger of this place, has tak-
en a contract from the Oliver Min-
ing Co. to cut and bank 2,000,000
feet of timber the coming winter near
Ross Siding in Gogebic county. The
contract price is $9 a thousand.

Flint—A brick building 4o x 80 feet
in ground dimensions, and two stor-
ies high with basement, being
erected by Flint P. Smith and will
be completed about Oct. 1. It is to
be occupied by the Princess Manu-
facturing Co., which makes skirts.

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Traverse City—The Julius Camp-
bell Co. has merged its hardarwe and
furniture business into a stock com-
pany under the same style, with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000, of
which amount $20,000 has been sub-
scribed, $14,000 being paid in in cash
and $6,000 in property.

Albion—A new clothing store will
be opened here by James O’Connor,
who is engaged in the same line of
business in Lansing. The store will
be managed by Frank Laphan, who
has been with Mr. O’Connor in Lan-
sing for some time, and he will be
assisted by Thomas O’Connor.

Coopersville — A co-partnership
has been formed by W. D. and Ros.
Reynolds, who will deal in coal and
feed under the style of Reynolds
Bros. W. D. Reynolds. will close
out his dry goods and clothing busi-
ness here and his brother, who is en-
gaged in general trade at Shultz, will
soon remove to this place.

Grand Haven—Announcement has
been made that Chas. Wiltshire will
retire from the business of the Wilt-
shire Glove Co., which will be con-
ducted in the future with Grand Hav-
en men at the helm of the new stock

 

company to be formed. It is under-
stood that the officers of the new
company will be, President, S. B.
Ardis; Vice-President, Mark Ardis;
Treasurer, Andrew Thomson; Secre-
tary and Business Manager, P. H.
Berijamin. The business will be con-
tinued as before.

Manufacturing Matters.

Muskegon—The capital stock of the
Racine Boat Manufacturing Co. has
been increased from $250,000 to $400,-
000.

Holly—The capital stock of the
Michigan Manufacturing & Lumber
Co. has been increased from $75,000
to $80,000.

Niles—The Kawneer Manufactur-
ing Co., which makes store fronts,
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $75,000.

Lake Odessa—Richmond J. Stahe-
lin, of Bridgman, has purchased a
site upon which he will erect a two-
story evaporator 32.x 74 feet in di-
mensions.

Cheboygan—A new frame mill, to
be covered with corrugated iron, is
being erected by the Cheboygan
Flour Mill Co. to take the place of
the one which was destroyed by fire.

Croswell—-The Croswell Creamery
Co. has been incorporated to manu-
facture butter, with an authorized
capital stock of $6,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Petoskey—The Hollow Wall Ma-
chine Co. has been incorporated to
manufacture moulding apparatus,
with an authorized capital stock of
$50,000, of which amount $38,000 is
subscribed and paid in in property.

Lake Odessa—The Lake Odessa
Milk Company has been incorporat-
ed to manufacture condensed milk
and milk products used for food, with
an authorized capital stock of $50,-
000, of which amount $40,000 has
been subscribed, $10,000 being paid in
in cash.

Niles—William Stroup and Wm.
Cantrell, of this city, have formed a
partnership and leased the business
and what is left of the once large
Niles Milling Co.’s plant and will put
the business on a footing it enjoyed

before the disastrous fire some
months ago.
Detroit—A corporation has been

formed under the style of the Uto-
pia Heater Company to manufacture
water heaters and -cooking and heat-
ing devices, with an authorized capi-
tal stock of $30,000, of which amount
$15,000 has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Grandvilie—The Novelty Wood
Works, of Grand Rapids, of which
W. C. Hammond is the owner, will
soon remove to this place. The fac-
tory will turn out piano and organ
stools and wood seats for churches
and opera houses.

 

Pontiac—A corporation has’ been
formed under the style of the Oak-
land Motor Car Co. to manufacture
automobiles and accessories thereto.
The authorized capital stock of the
company is $200,000, of which amount
$20,000 is subscribed, $11,000 being
paid in in property.

Detroit—A copartnership has been
formed under the style of the Ideal
Heat Retaining Kettle Co., Ltd., to

 

manufacture heat retaining kettles and
dinner pails. The authorized capital
stock of the company is $25,000, all
of which has been subscribed, $100
being paid in in cash and $24,900 in
property.

Bay City—The Kneeland-Bigelow
sawmill has suspended operations for
about ten days to enable some re-
pairs to be done. The mill has been
in operation steadily day and night a
year, and as soon as the necessary
improvements and repairs can be
made it will start on another year
night and day run.

Lansing-——-At the annual meeting of
the Reo Motor Co. it was reported
that the output of the factory during
the past. year was $4,300,000. Dur-
ing the year $882,000 was paid out
in this city for wages and material.
R. E. Olds was re-elected President,
Reuben Shettler Vice-President and
k. F. Peer Secretary.

Pontiac—The Busha Cereal Coffee
Company, which manufactures cereal
coffee and other food products, has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style, with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, of
which amount $6,000 has been sub-
scribed, $100 being paid in in cash
and $5,900 in property.

Detroit—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Amer-
ican Sanitary Manufacturing Co. to
manufacture foundry goods, castings
and brass goods. The company has
an authorized capital stock of $40,000,
of which amount $20,000 has been

 

subscribed, $3,000 being paid in in
cash and $14,820 in property.
Jackson———A corporation has been

formed under the style of the Hall
Rittenhouse Co. with an authorized
capital stock of $100,000. The com-
pany will manufacture internal com-
bustion engines and gas producers.
The head office of the company is at
Bucyrus, Ohio, of which the locai
office is a branch. The amount of
cash paid in is $10,000, the remainder
being patents.

Saginaw—J. T. Wylie & Co. own
and operate a large stave, heading
and hoop plant at Gaylord, another
hoop plant at this place and still an-
other large plant at Boyne City. This
firm owns more than 150,000,000 feet
of hardwood timber in Northern
Michigan. Mr. Wylie is a_ large
stockholder in the Batchelor Timber
Co., operating a saw mill at West
Branch with 80,000,000 feet of tim-
ber behind it and manufacturing 12,-
000,000 feet annually. He is a stock-
holder in the firm of Wylie, Buell &
Co., of this city, owning extensive
tracts of mixed timber in Northern
Michigan and operating a shingle mill
at Wolverine; he is also a stockhold-
er in the Strable Manufacturing Co.,
operating a hardwood lumber plant
here, and also has’ other interests.
While business from the heel up, he
has a genial personality, holds an
enviable position in society and busi-
ness circles and is a champion golf
enthusiast.

——_2-+___

A special meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Turtle Lake Lumber Co,
will be held Sept. 6 to consider an
increase in the capital stock from
$300,000 to $400,000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Produce Market.

Apples—75c for Red  Astrachans
and $1.25 for Duchess.

Blackberries—$1.50 per 16 qt. crate.

Butter—The immediate future of
this market is in doubt, but unless
there comes the increase in supply
which is due at this season prices
will advance again. Under-grade
creameries are hardly as scarce as
the finer grades, but all have advanc-
ed in sympathy with the finest. The
future price depends largely on the
weather. Creamery is held at 26c
for tubs and 27c for prints. _Dairy
grades command 22c for No. 1 and
18c for packing stock.

 

Cabbage—soc per doz. for home
grown.
Cantaloupes—Osage, $1@I1I.25_ per
crate.

Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz.

Celery—2oc per bunch.

Cocoanuts—$4 per bag of 90.

Cucumbers—15c per doz. for hot
house. —

Eggs—The present outlook is not
for any change in prices, as there is
likely to be an increase in the sup-
ply as the weather cools. The cool-
er weather will enable holders’ of
storage eggs to withdraw them, as
they can be sold at a profit on the
present market basis. The bulk of
the receipts are now good enough for
table grades. Dealers pay 17c for
case count and 19@2oc for candled.

Egg Plant—$1.25 per doz.

Grapes—The crop is about three
weeks late in this locality. Ordinarily
Concords are in market by the first
week in September. This  season’s
Moore’s Early are just beginning to
turn.

Green Corn—10@Izc per doz.

Green Onions—15c for Silver Skins.

Green Peas—Telephones fetch $1.

Honey—16@17c per tb. for white
clover and 12@14c for dark.

Lemons—Californias and Messinas
have declined to $5. Heavy importa-
tions at New York are_ responsible
for the decline of 50 cents per box.
It is not considered probable that
prices will get much lower and with
a good spell of hot weather to bring
up the demand an advance is likely.

Lettuce—-75¢ per bu. for head and
soc per bu. for leaf.

New Beets—zoc per doz.

New Carrots—rtsc per doz.

Onions—Spanish command $1.40
per crate. Louisville fetch $1.75 per
sack of 65 tbs. Large stock from
Illinois and ranges from $1.90@2 per
go th. sacks.

Oranges—The demand has’ been
unusually large owing to the high
prices of other California fruits. The
present price is $5.75@6 per box.

Parsley—z2oc per doz. bunches.

Peaches—Early Michigans com-
mand $2@2.25 per bu.
Pears—$1.75@2 per bu. for Bart-

letts and Flemish Beauties.
Peppers—75c per bu. for green.
Pickles—Cucumber fetch 20c per
100.

Plums—$2.25@2.50 for Burbanks,

 

Bradshaws and Lombards. The crop
is large and growers are coining
money on the crop as they have nev-
er made money before.

Potatoes—so@6oc per bu.

Poultry—Local dealers pay g9%ec
for live hens and 11%c for dressed:
8c for live ducks and toc for dressed:
14c for live turkeys and 16@2oc for
dressed ;live broilers, toc. The de-
cl‘ne is due to unprecedented receipts
last week. Dealers were compelled to
ship stock to Chicago to clean up the
local market.

Radishes—t2c per doz. bunches for
long and toc for round.

Summer Squash—sSoc per bu.

Tomatoes—Home grown command
75c per bu.

Turnips—6oc per bu.

Sweet Potatoes—The first arrival
from Virginia was in during the week.
The potatoes are of good quality and
the crop is said to be a good one.
The Jerseys will be in soon.

Veal—Dealers pay 7@8c for poor
and thin; 9@toc for fair to good;
1o@to%c for good white kidney from
go tbs. up. Recipts are moderate, be-
ing inadequate to market require-
ments.

Watermelons—Sales are mostly in
barrel lots, $2.50 being the ruling
price for 8, 9 or to melons.

Wax Beans—7sc per bu. for home
grown.

2a

Willis F. Cornell, who traveled in
Michigan many years for’ Barnhart
Bros. & Spindler, of Chicago, has tak-
en the management of the Hotel
Cobden, at Alpena, which he _ has
thoroughly overhauled so that it is as
fresh and inviting as a new house.
Mr. Cornell was always painstaking
in pleasing his customers and will un-
doubtedly carry the same ideas into

execution in dealing with his guests.
————_>.->

L. M. Mills (Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.) has purchased the gaso-
lene launch Leontean, 21 feet long,
and has anchored her in Grand River
after taking a trip from South Haven
to Spring Lake, including stops at
Black Lake and Grand Haven. The
craft is a model one in every respect,
having been built by the Truscotts

at St. Joseph about two years ago.
>. s—__—_

H. B. Fairchild (Hazeltine & Per-
kins Drug Co.) leaves Sept. 28 for
Denver to attend the annual conven-
tion of the National Wholesale Drug-
gists’ Association, which will be held
in that city Oct. 5, 2 and 3. The
following week he will make a trip
to Spokane, returning home via the
Canadian Pacific Railway.

—_—_2e2 2 —____

Dr. J. A. Ferguson has engaged in
the drug business at Rudyard. The
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. furn-
ished the stock.

_——> 2-2.

A harness shop has been opened in
Montague by Axel Johnson, who pur-
chased his stock of the Brown &
Sehler Co.

——_.--.—____

The capital stock of the Michigan
Pearl Button Co. has been increased
from $1,200 to $20,000.

cea celle

The Michigan Art Carving Co. has
increased its capital stock from $10,-
000 to $15,000.

 

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Raws are steady to firm
and some sales have béen made at
I-32c advance. Refined is unchanged
and probably will show no change in
the near future. The demand for re-
fined is fair, but nothing more.

Tea—Values are steady and the en-
tire line is selling at full prices. Prices
in the primary markets on the other

side are still firm and high. Some
grades of Japans seem _ particularly

The demand for tea in a con-
sumptive way Is fairly good.

Coffee—The market has ruled weak
to steady during the greater part of
the week. The demand has been
light. Mild coffees are unchanged
and steady, Bogotas being particular-
ly firm. Java and Mocha are steady
and unchanged, demand fair.

Canned Goods—Tomato packers
have taken fresh hope and some of
them have advanced their quotations
2@3c per dozen. Many of the East-
ern packers are not anxious to sell
at all. Some buyers think that toma-
toes have touched bottom and they
are making their purchases on that
basis. There continues to be much
confidence in canned corn. In nearly
every canning district the corn crop
is late and somewhat uncertain. The
situation in peas is unchanged. It is
an effort to get the right quality
goods to sell at present prices. String
beans are strong. Baked beans are
steady and asparagus is high and
scarce. Nearly everything in the line
of canned vegetables is strong. Ex-
treme scarcity is the feature of the
market. In spot goods stocks are
badly broken. In futures everything
is decidedly strong with an advanc-
ing tendency. Very few California
packers are in the market. The en-
tire list of California canned fruits
for future delivery is decidedly
strong. In Eastern fruits gallon ap-
ples are high and strong and every-
thing in the line of small fruits shows
an advancing tendency. The trade is
waiting for the opening prices on new
pack Alaska red salmon. It is pre-
dicted that this price will reach a
figure that will mean about $1.50 per
dozen to the retailer, the highest
price known for this popular salmon
in many years. All other lines of sal-
mon continue high and the market
is very strong. Sardines, cove oys-
ters and lobster are in about the same
position as last reported. The mar-
ket is steady on each item.

firm.

Dried Fruits—Apricots are scarce
and all obtainable are now selling
well. Apples are scarce and firm.

Currants are in good healthy shape.
The market abroad has weakened
somewhat, but is steady on this side.
Raisins show nothing new, being still
firm and quiet. The first lot of new
foreign Valencias will be shipped
this week. The California raisin crop
will be a little earlier than was ex-
pected. Nothing is doing in prunes
of any moment, either in spot or fu-
tures. The future market is. still
strong. Peaches are slow in Phila-
delphia, but fairly active in New York.
Prices are unchanged.

Syrups and Molasses—Sugar syrup
is in light demand at unchanged
prices. Molasses is quiet and un-
changed. Glucose has advanced 10
points, and has carried compound

 

syrup, both in bulk and tins, up with
it one cent per gallon.
is due to the

The advance
high
Practically all manufacturers of and

price of corn.
dealers in syrup have joined in the

syrup advance. The advance caused

quite an increase in the demand,
particularly with some dealers who
took orders at the old price. The

scarcity of staple fruits seems sure
to heavily stimulate the demand for
syrup.

Rice—-Reports from the South say
that the quality is good. The market
is high, as is usually the case at this
time of year. What it will do later
arouses much difference of opinion.

Cheese—The market is firm at the
recent advance of “%c per pound, due
to the falling off in the milk supply
of the producing sections, as well as

the demand for

storage purposes.
The quality of the present make is
very fancy; plenty good enough for
catrying purposes. The price now is
considerably above normal, and no
advance is looked for in the near fu-
ture. Under grades have advanced
in sympathy with better grades.
Provisions—From all appearances,
we will have lower prices on smoked
meats in the near future. Pure lard
is firm at an advance of 4c. We are
approaching one of the
sumptive months for

best con-
lard, and the
price may advance even further. Com-
pound lard is unchanged, though cot-
This will
probably soon cause compound lard
to advance and remain on an ad-
vanced basis until the new crop of
cotton oil is available in October.
Barrel pork and canned meats are un-
changed and dull. Dried beef has ad-
vanced 1@2c on all cuts.

Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are
duil on spot, and rule at unchanged
prices. Some business has been done
in futures at high prices. This year
hake rules about at the price of had-
dock and haddock at about the price
of cod. Cod is YW@tic above last
year. Domestic sardines are un-
changed at the last advance, and in
light demand. Imported sardines are
firm and unchanged. Prices on both
sockeye and red Alaska salmon have
been named during the week. Sock-
eye prices are $1.65 talls, $1.80 -flats,
and $1.10 for % pounds coast, against
20 cents less last year. Red Alaska
opens at $1.15, which is also 20 cents
above last year’s opening. Spot red
Alaska is firm. The past week has
seen a sharp advance in Irish mack-
erel of $1@1.50 per barrel. The wind-
ing up of summer fish is the reason.
From now on fatter and better mack-
erel will come forward and will com-
mand higher prices. Norway mack-
erel and new shores are about un-

ton oil has advanced again.

changed. ,The market is firm, and
the demand fair.
——_+ +. -—__

The Tappan Shoe Manufacturing
Co., of Coldwater, announces to the
trade in Ohio and Southern Michigan
that J.. A. Hach, Jr, will report for
duty on its spring line September 1.
Mr. Hach has been seriously ill for
the past few months and has just
returned from the Colonial Sanita-
rium at Martinsville, Ind., very much
improved in health.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

MEN OF MARK.

J. E. Coulter, President Grand Rapids
Shoe and Rubber Co.

This is an age in which opportu-
nity seeks the man rather than the
man the opportunity. It was thought
in former times that the man who
wanted to get on in the world should
constantly be on the alert for chances
to step into promising opportunities
as they would pass by in the proces-
sion of life. Indeed, even in these
later times the individual, before his
ability and achievements have become
well known by powerful interests
must reach a_ recognized position
through taking advantage of any
promising opportunity that is pre-
sented. But once he has made his
mark, has demonstrated that he can
do extraordinary things, has the fac-
ulty of both analysis and synthesis,
can organize as well as handle de-
tails, and possesses executive ability
as well, he no longer needs to look
for opportunity, for men of affairs
and judgment, who have great inter-
ests at stake, are constantly looking
for and are eager to secure men of
superior faculty to take control of
special enterprises of various sorts.

The opportunities for men of su-
perior ability, experience,
and organizing power have multiplied
within recent years on account ofthe
marvelous growth of great industrial,
commercial and transportation inter-
ests that require elaborate organi-
zation and division of operation into
departments.
be managed by a head man and two
or three subordinates, but require nu-
merous heads of departments, su-
perintendents, experts, financial man-
agers, etc. Many of these great con-
cerns have branches and _ separate
plants, each under a special organiza-
tion, all requiring a force of men as
heads of departments of first class
ability. Such men are scarcely nu-
merous enough to meet the demand,
while it is the particular province of
the men in chief authority to seek
out, duly estimate without the risk of
mistake, the men who are eligible to
the different positions that it is nec-
essary to fill. Thus it is that the
managers of great enterprises are al-
ways on the lookout for the better
men, and he who has demonstrated
that he belongs to that class soon
finds his opportunity to take a posi-
tion certain to insure him honor, trust
and pecuniary profit.

It is said of the gentleman whose
portrait graces this page that because
of his ability as a successful business
builder he was elected Manager of the
Grand Rapids Shoe and Rubber Co.
over a score or more of applicants,
without himself being an applicant.
thus affording an illustration of op-
portunity seeking the man and mak-
ing no mistake in the choice.

executive

Such concerns can not

Joseph E. Coulter was born at
Ontonagon, April 29, 1861. His father
was a Pennsylvania Dutchman and
his mother was descended from
Scotch-Irish stock. He graduated
from the high school at Ontonagon
when 16 years of age and subsequent-
ly spent one year at a military acade-
my at Yonkers, N. Y. He then took
a four years’ course at the Michigan
Agricultural College, graduating from
that institution in 1882. He received

 

the degree of Bachelor of Science, be- |

ing the first native graduate from the
Upper Peninsula. His first employ-
ment after graduation was as mana-
ger of the wheat farm of Charles
E. Holland, of Detroit, in the Red
River Valley in Minnesota. He re-
linquished this position at the end of
two years to become station agent at
Calumet for the Mineral Range Rail-
way. Not liking the railway business
he resigned at the end of six months
and took an office position with the
late Felix Raniville, manufacturer of
leather belting on Pearl street, Grand
Rapids. At the end of six months he
was offered a more lucrative position
as book-keeper for the Capital Wag-
on Co., at Lansing, which he accepted,
remaining there five years. He then
took the position of traveling sales-
man and general office man for the
Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co. The

He has no social nor fraternal affilia-
tions, being a member of no organiza-
tion of other character except a Greek
letter fraternity which he joined while
at college. His only hobby is his
home. His tastes are domestic and
his highest ambition is to rear his
five boys so that they will reflect
credit on themselves and be an honor

to the family name.
—_—_-

All Indications Point To Large At-
tendance at Fair.

If you are getting into your head
the notion that the country is going
to the dogs, that the depreciation of
railway stocks and trust bonds is a
real falling off in values, that the suc-
cess of finance depends on Wall
street, La Salle street, or any other
tunnel of steel and stone in any big
city—if you think that there is some-
‘thing wrong with the business of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph E. Coulter

 

first two years he sold all the woke |

and kept all the books, but later on
he was given an office assistant. He
remained with this house fifteen
years, retiring a year ago to take the
position of general salesman for the
Hood Rubber Co. September 1 he
resigned to take the position § of
President and Manager of the Grand
Rapids Shoe and Rubber Co.

Mr. Coulter was married Jan. 4,
1888, to Miss Alice Weed, of Lan-
sing. They have five boys, ranging
from 7 to 18 years of age. The two
oldest boys will enter the Michigan
Agricultural College this fall, one on

the mechanical and the other in the}
The family resides}

forestry course.
at 307 South Union street.

Mr. Coulter has long been a mem-|
Congregational |

ber of the Park
church, and has served as chairman of
the Business Committee several years.

land, take a day off and go out to the
grounds of the West Michigan State
| Fair Association. You need not wait
luntil next week, when the fair is
lopen to the public. Go now, when
/merchants are putting in their exhib-
lits. when the concessionaires are
| erecting their tents and stands, when
ithe officers of the Association are get-
|ting ready for the big show. A trip
ito the fair grounds will not only con-
| vince one that this is one of the fat
;years of the world, but also that the
West Michigan State Fair this year
will be the biggest ever held on the
grounds. It will be large in its in-
dustrial and business showing, it will
excel all previous years in its repre-
isentation of the products, farm and
otherwise, of the State.

If you look at the books of Secre-
jtary E. D. Conger you will see that
|the White City will represent the

 

whoie sweep of things modern, in-
structive and entertaining. You will
see that the business men of the
State have confidence in the future
prosperity of the State, for their ex-
kibits will surpass anything ever seen
here, if not in the State. There will
be no gambling on the grounds. The
local newspapers will have no cause
to record the arrest of the proprie-
tors of “skin games,’ on the orders
of the men who took their money
for the privilege of fleecing the lambs.
There will be no intoxicating liquor
sold on the grounds, so one can take
his mother, his wife, or his sweet-
heart to the big show without fear
of having her jostled and insulted by
some drunken pup who ought to be
in jail.

And there will be plenty of fun at
the big fair, too. The farmer boy
will be there with his cider barrel.
The lunch man will stand in front
of his booth and extol the merits of
his hamburgers. There will be pretty
girls in every one of the six or eight
dining halls. Buckskin Ben’s Family
will be there to show how cowboys
live, and how they train horses, dogs
and monkeys. There will be real
cowboys there, and they will show
how to rope ponies. The races prom-
ise to be speedy. The purses are
large, and the good horses are com-
ing. Communications received from
all parts of the State by Secretary
Conger show that people are coming
from about every township and
school district. There will be long
excursion trains rolling into the city
every day next week, and the inter-
urbans will contribute tens of thous-
ands to the rush. Grand Rapids will
be in the lime light next week. Let
us meet the visitors in such a way
that they will take pleasant memo-
ries of the time to their homes, and
next year they will come again and
bring their neighbors with them. It
is good for the business of the city
to have these strangers visit us, and,
besides, we want to make the big
day of the Detroit Fair look like thir-
ty cents when it comes time to com-
pare admissions. Get ready for the
big fair.

——_>--.
Even Beggars.

Jacob Riis, at a convention § of
school teachers at Atlantic City, de-
cried contentment.

“There is too much contentment,”
he said. “Contentment is often a
euphemism for conceit. It is through
dissatisfaction and not through con-
tentment with ourselves that we im-
prove.

“Every man is too apt to be con-
tented—that is, to be conceited—to
think himself about as fine, and
strong, and good, and wise as any
one in the world.

“Even beggars! Why, I know a
gentleman who, on being accosted by
a beggar, said:

““Why don’t you go to work? Why
do you waste your time begging”
“The beggar drew himself up.
““Did you ever beg?’ he asked.
““No, of course not,’ said the

man.

“*Then,’ said the beggar, ‘you don’t
know what work is.’”

ee ee wo

They who never stop for little joys

‘find no larger ones.

 

By:

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Farwell Service

BLYGONTHS before you see even samples of what
444) you may need for next season, our buyers have
been inspecting manufacturers’ lines, suggesting
a change in finish here, a better weight there, a more liberal
measure in this garment, a better dye in this cloth, improv-
ing the appearance and quality, and often paying a premium
to have our numbers better for the price we ask—
that is one phase of what we call Farwell Service.

Our resident buyers, in the Eastern markets and
abroad, see to it that prompt deliveries are made. If a
mill is likely to favor us on deliveries because of advance
payments, we pay for the goods before they arrive, and
we are thus able to keep our open stocks in better
condition than would otherwise be possible.

When your busy season is at hand and you want
goods in a hurry, we have a special corps of early
workers who classify and divide your orders, so that,
when the regular department force arrives, the filling and
shipping can proceed without delay—with the result
that you get your goods quicker.

But Farwell Service does not end even here. We
help you sell your goods—the best that money will buy
—in such a way that you reap the largest possible
profits and effect your sales in the easiest possible way.
If you want to know how, just ask for a copy of the
September issue of our Free Selling Helps.

John V. Farwell Company
Chicago, the Great Central Market

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

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Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice.
E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 4, 1907

 

 

VOTE FOR GOOD ROADS.

Fortunately for the reputation of
the Tradesman the defeat of the
Lake Michigan water proposition was
predicted in these columns before
Mayor Ellis declared himself, so it
will not be safe for that official to
prance around exclaiming, “I told you
so!” because we got there first. Be-
yond question, there is no hope for
the Lake Michigan water plan, and
its defeat will be largely because of
its great cost. Upon this point it is
only fair to the Board of Trade Com-
mittee to state the truth, that at
least one-third of the increased cost
over the figures given by that Com-
mittee is attributable to the advance
in materials and labor during the past
e‘ghteen months. And the other fact
is still unquestionably in force, that
a considerable number of the people
of Grand Rapids prefer Lake Michi-
gan water to water from any other
source and will have it as as
they feel able to indulge in the cost
of bringing it to the city.

There is another matter and a most
important one to be voted upon Sept.
17, and one which the communities
directly interested in can not afford
to permit to pass to defeat because
of their indifference.

That is the proposition to create
what shall be known as the Grand
Rapids Good Roads District. This
plan contemplates including the town-
ships of Walker, Grand Rapids, Paris
and Wyoming, the village of East
Grand Rapids and the city of Grand
Rapids in a single district, where
good roads may be built jointly by
the district and the State. Kent coun-
ty is now paying its proportion of
the $270,000 appropriation by the
State for the building of good roads,
and under present conditions is not
getting anything in return. If the
Grand Rapids Good Roads District
is created through the vote to be
cast on Sept. 17 our county will then
get value received—its share of the
appropriation.

Not only that, but the income will
not stop with the receipt of checks
from the State. Good roads in any
district mean easier and more speedy
hauls during all seasons of the year
for every farmer in the district; they
mean an increase of the daily busi-
ness in every business center in the
district; they mean closer and more
intimate acquaintance between com-

soon

 

munities; they mean greater comfort
at less expenditure on the part of
all who travel over the roads, wheth-
er it be on foot or in carriages; they
mean added and permanent value to
every acre along those roads. And
Grand Rapids is already a long way
behind other counties in Michigan in
this matter.

The county roads system has been
adopted in Marquette, Menominee,
Dickinson and Alger counties, in the
Jpper Peninsula, while in the Lower
Peninsula townships in the counties
of Bay, Barry, Calhoun, Charlevoix,
Cheboygan, Crawford, Huron, Ionia,
Isabella, Kalkaska, Monroe, Oceana,
Saginaw and Tuscola are already ap-
plicants for State rewards under the
Good Roads District system—the
system to be voted upon on Sept 17.

For four years the Grand Rapids
Board of Trade has been working to
get this proposition before the voters
of Kent county and now, after no lit-
tle opposition, it has succeeded in the
effort. The Board can go no farther
in the matter. It is at last up to the
voters and it behooves every person
in the district specified to vote in fav-
or of the district system. If the
proposition is defeated it will mean
that we will not have another oppor-
tunity to vote upon it until two years
are passed, and if it is defeated it
will be the result of indifference on
the part of those who really desire
good roads but either do not vote at
all or, voting, neglect to vote for good
roads.

OUR CONEY ISLAND INCUBUS.

Among the annual spectacles which
visit Grand Rapids there are none
more pretentious in their preliminary
announcements than are the Pain’s
fireworks exhibitions presented vari-
ously under the titles of the Siege of
Port Arthur, the Bombardment of
Santiago, and what not.

They tell how many thousands of
dollars’ worth of fireworks are to be
burned up each evening, how many
hundreds of actors there are in the
respective casts of characters, and by
the use of all the adjectives in the
showman’s vocabulary succeed in at-
tracting goodly crowds, who almost
invariably return to their homes dis-
appointed.

The outfit for these exhibitions con-
sists usually of several hundred feet
of profile scenery with practical arch-
es, doorways and windows so adjust-
ed that buildings may fall and ruins
be left exposed, which, with a lot of
incoherent marching and _ counter-
marching, absurd pantomime and al-
leged dancing, constitutes a back-
ground incomprehensible for a_ dis-
play of fireworks—sometimes gener-
ous and striking, but, according to
the size of the audience, moe often
meager, and they are almost mean-
ingless.

With an audience seated from 100
to 300 feet away from the fireworks—
a wise precaution probably—and in
the dark, and with a brass band pick-
ing up its disjointed cues and blaring
away with might and main the al-
leged mimicry is unheard and _fre-
quently unseen because of the smoke
and the distance, and so, with a hur-
rah-boys-everything-goes, circus fash-
ion, the spectacle wends its way. It
may be that, permanently located for

 

 

 

three or four weeks or longer, with
the mobs, the posses, the crowds of
citizens, and so on, well drilled and
with the musicians thoroughly _ re-
hearsed for their effects, these efforts
may reach the dignity of a real spec-
tacle, but coming to Grand Rapids
for a week and as a side show at-
traction they are a delusion and our
city has had its fill to repletion.

And there is another disagreeable
fact about the catch-penny conglom-
eration at the Lake: It simply de-
moralizes the city’s street car service
on all such occasions as the Japanese
nights. Surely the citizens of Grand
Rapids who have bestowed upon the
Railway Company the privilege of
operating its street car system in
this city are entitled to decent con-
sideration at all times, whether or
no Ramona pays 3 or 30 per cent. on
the investment. The service is bare-
ly adequate under ordinary condi-
tions without “rubbing it in” two or
three nights each week in the effort
to make the enterprise at the Lake
particularly profitable.

 

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

Fine spun theories are more liable
to find expression in Massachusetts
than in any other state in the Union.
Presumably this is so because Boston
counts itself the best educated, most
cultured and altogether the most in-
tellectual community on the globe. In
pursuance with Chapter 127 of the
Acts of 1907 in that State, Governor
Guild has appointed a commission of
five persons to “investigate and con-
sider the various systems of old age
insurance or the systems of old age
pensions or annuities and report up-
on the advisability of establishing an
old age insurance or pension system
in this commonwealth.” The commis-
sioners do not get any pay, are not
permitted to travel outside the State
except at their own expense and are
to report in January, 1909. Presuma-
bly there are various theoretical ar-
guments to be advanced in favor of
this proposition. When people are
old they are not able to earn as much
as when in middle life. If they have
not prepared for age in advance their
declining days are liable to. see
something of distress. An insurance
scheme of course implies the payment
of premiums during youth and middle
life to be paid out again in annuities
when a given age is reached. It is
difficult to see why the State should
undertake this enterprise when there
are private companies perfectly sol-
vent, and with large resources, will-
ing to do this work at no public ex-
pense.

It would be very generous for Mas-
sachusetts or any other state to pen-
sion all its people at so much annual-
ly after they are 65 years old. It is
respectfully submitted, however, that
there are a great many other things
which the State might better do for
its citizens and that to pension them
would not be rendering them a real
service. The certainty of being cared
for at public expense would prevent
ir many cases that enterprise and in-
dustry which would be more cred-
itable during what might naturally
be regarded as the working days.
There would be less incentive not
only to work but to save. The people
would say there is no use, since the

 

 

State will provide all the réquired
comforts and conveniences. There is
such a thing as being so generous
as to pauperize people and this propo-
sition apparently comes under that
classification. The great majority of
old people have made some provi-
sion for their declining days or they
have children who take care of them.
The demands of filial devotion are not
very often disregarded and where they
are, there should be some legal meth-
od of enforcing them. A loss of indi-
vidual responsibility and increased de-
pendence upon the State are not. lia-
ble to improve the citizenship nor the
industrial and social conditions of the
Bay State. Most people need a good
deal of incentive to do their best and
taking away that incentive is a posi-
tive detriment. The State takes care
of thousands of its unfortunates an-
nually, whether the misfortunes were
self-imposed or otherwise. To go in-
to the pension business and hand out
money to everybody over 65 years
of age is not an enterprise likely to
be attended by good results, nor is
it probable that after due investiga-
tion the Massachusetts Commission
will recommend it.

 

OUR LOGICAL RESOURCE.

By their vote last spring the peo-
ple of Grand Rapids placed their un-
qualified disapproval upon the filtered
water proposition and by reason of
the very recent report, showing the
cost of securing water from Lake
Michigan, a large increase over the
estimate made last spring, that .alter-
native will be defeated beyond any
question by the vote to be taken
Sept. 17.

And so our city is thrown back
upon the double system plan suggest-
ed many years ago by the late Thos.
D. Gilbert as its most logical  re-
source. This plan embraces the re-
tention and improvement of the pres-
ent city plant with its mains, through
which a supply of water ample for
fire protection, street sprinkling and
lawn purposes can be provided, and
the purchase of the Hydraulic Co.’s
plant—which can be obtained at a-
reasonable figure—with its mains,
through which a supply for culinary
purposes abundant for a city of 200,-
000 population may be delivered.

Grand River water will answer
every conceivable need in cases of
fire, dust and irrigation, and there
will be no necessity for ripping up
streets to lay new mains; on the
other hand, the spring water at pres-
ent controlled by the Hydraulic Co.
is the largest and most reliable sup-
ply of portable water available under
present circumstances, and it may be
had at a minimum of cost to the
city. For these reasons it would
seem that there should be no further
contention over our forty-year strug-
gle for water. There are scores of
cities larger and having much larger
assessed valuation, as well as net
debt, which are not so well off as
Grand Rapids would be under the
double system plan in the matter of
water supply.

Whether or not our fight contin-
ues; our city is entitled to the best
we can afford to give and we should
give it at once.

 

 

 

 

SOCIALISM AND PATRIOTISM.

One of the strongest reproaches
heretofore urged against Socialism
has been the announced determination
of many of its leaders not to fight
against the enemies of their country
in the event of war. These oppo-
nents of patriotic devotion to coun-
try hold to the so-called internation-
alism or universal brotherhood of
man, and contend that to fight even
where their country should be attack-
ed would be a violation of the tenets
of such universal brotherhood.

The leading German _ Socialists,
while deprecating a resort to arms
in settlement of international  dis-
putes and advocating the abandon-
ment of large standing armies and
the evasion of military service as
much as possible, still announced
their willingness to fight in the event
that Germany should be attacked by
a foreign enemy, thus avowing  pa-
triotism to the extent of fighting for
defense of the fatherland, even al-
though unwilling to fight the father-
land’s battles in any but -a war of
pure defense.

The French Socialists have been
heretofore more pronounced than the
Germans in opposition to all sem-
blance of what is termed patriotism.
Many of their leaders announced un-
willingness to bear arms under any
circumstances and boldly ridiculed
patriotism as out of date and incon-
sistent with the brotherhood of .man.
It now appears, however, that the
French Socialists have thought better
of their position and have adopted the
doctrines of their German confreres.
In their recent convention a resolu-
tion was adopted by a good majority
to the effect that Socialists should be
willing to fight in defense of the coun-
try against foreign aggression.

While this change of front on the
part of the French Socialists in a
measure removes from their party
the stigma of passive treason, the
mere fact that it was found necessary
to adopt such a resolution and the
further fact that it was not unani-
mous indicates that the tenets of So-
cialism are antagonistic to true and
unadulterated patriotism, as that term
has been applied from time imme-
morial, a patriotism which makes the
country’s enemies the citizen’s ene-
mies, without regard to the cause of
the quarrel or whether it leads to
aggressive or defensive warfare.

Even under the most indulgent in-
terpretation of the Socialists’ doc-
trine their allegiance to country is
but grudging and unreliable and bas-
ed rather upon the natural tendency
to defend one’s own home and fire-
side than upon a pure devotion to
the country’s honor and welfare, with-
out regard to individual interests. The
Socialist idea of internationalism, uni-
versal peace and disarmament is as
Utopian asa universal religion, or uni-
versal honesty and rectitude. But
even granting all that, it is a distinct
improvement that the Socialists have
announced their willingness to fight
in defense of their respective coun-
tries.

Under the system of universal mil-
itary service, which obtains in prac-
tically all the countries on the conti-
nent of Europe, quite a leven of So-
cialists serve in the armies.

It was

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

a_distinct source of weakness to feel
that a good per cent. of the soldiers
could not be counted on to fight in
the event of war even in defense of
their country. As most armies are
maintained for defense, the abandon-
ment of the doctrine of inactivity
under .all military demands and the
recognition of the obligation to fight
in defense of the country when at-
tacked will thus be a distinct gain to
the military strength of countries de-
pending on universal military service.
Of course, in countries where mili-
tary service is voluntary the Socialists
will no doubt keep out of the Army
by choice, although they -will be
liable to service in the case of a
forced draft for defense in the event
of invasion.

 

 

The report is published that the
General Electric Company proposes
to retrench, which means that fewer
men are,to be employed in its works.
The reason for it is that the increas-
ed difficulty in borrowing money
makes lighter demand for electrical
machinery and appliances, and the
company is determined to shorten its
sail in accordance with the breeze.
Last year, it is said, the company
employed 15,000 men at Schenectady,
whereas now the number working is
only 13,500, and report has it that
there will be a still further reduction
Of at least to per cent. . There are
rumors that the Lynn plant may lay
off two or three thousand men. The
General Electric industry is about
all there is of Schenectady, and on
it the city’s prosperity is based and
depends. A considerable reduction of
the working force in that plant would
be an unmitigated disaster to the
place where it is located. The les-
son which this particular text teaches
is the desirability of diversified in-
dustries in any city. If there can be
industrial enterprises in a dozen dif-
ferent lines it is much better, be-
cause all are not likely to be in a
bad way at the same time. Other-
wise when business is dull with one
industry it affects the whole com-
munity.

 

 

A Texas man is reported to be tak-
ing a daily diet of clay, on the theory
that it will prolong his life. He ex-
pects to live 400 years yet, outdoing
Methttselah by several laps. That fel-
low may enjoy many improvements
that are only visions to the present
generation. If he wants to go to
New York or London he will signal a
passing air ship that will come down
and take him on board. On the way
he will keep in touch with his busi-
ness at home by the use of the wire-
less machine that he carries in his
pocket. Possibly he may see some
sections of the barge canal approach-
ing completion.

 

Senator Platt has never claimed
remarkable ability as a statesman, but
he knew how to set the wires to hold
back the parcels post and late revela-
tions indicate that he knew how to
put the United States Express Com-
pany in the way of making big mon-
ey and keeping a good share of it
for himself and friends.

 

The greatest sermons are those

outside of sentences.

BURIAL AT SEA.

and in these days that experience is
no longer a distinction—has had the
trip saddened if only for a few min-
utes by witnessing or hearing about
a burial at sea. It may be only a
stoker or it may be a passenger. It
is surely ghoulish to feel the ship
stop in mid-ocean and to see or know
that over the rail the remains of a
man or woman are thrust, weighted

the food for fishes. To most people
there is something exceedingly repul-
sive about it.

difficult perhaps to say why it is less
objectionable to be food for worms
than it is to be food for fishes. Ever
since ships have sailed the sea those
who have died thereon have’ been
buried in the ocean, the burial some-
times preceded by brief but impres-
sive services. There is an agitation on
foot to desist from that practice.

what they were years ago and the
reasons then imperative do not now
exist. Formerly it

from Liverpool to New York.

was no means to preserve the re-
mains. The embalming process was
unknown and ships did not even car-
ry tons of ice as they do nowadays.
Sailors are proverbially superstitious
and in the old days of sailing ves-
to oppose the keeping of a dead body
on board.
misfortune, but steam hes revolution-

as well as less numerous. It is only
a sentiment, of course, which prompts
relatives and
the bodies of their dead be buried in
the family lot, where monuments can
be erected to mark the place. It will
make no difference at Resurrection
Day, but that sentiment is too deep
seated and too strong to be argued
with or contradicted. So long as this
is so and with all appliances of mod-
ern times there is really no reason,
if there is any objection, to continue
burials at sea.

friends to desire that

With remarkable promptness after
the American possession of Cuba

Whoever has crossed the ocean— |

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Conditions are different now from |

took about  as|

many weeks as it does days to come}

_ | sary.
It was -
unsanitary, indeed, it was positively |

dangerous to keep a body so long on| lif hi , ee ia ed
, : \life on his recent visit to Englanc
board. Then, too, at that time there| 5 ?

because the authorities compelled
cleanliness and adopted modern sani-
tary methods. Before that, yellow
fever had been a scourge which took
many lives every year and it was re-
garded as one of the established in-
stitutions on the island. The Ameri-
cans showed the Cubans how to save
their lives and gave them a very
thorough practical demonstration. All
the latter had to do was to keep it

: jup and be assured of practical and,
to sink to the depths, perhaps to be| indeed, almost absolute safety. When

left to their own devices the Cubans

i . |again became shiftless and dirty and,
Wirth the deceased if| = =... .. ae oe el
: oe ., {as was to be expected, yellow fever
makes no difference and it is really}

followed. It is no wonder that the
American officials who worked so
hard in the first instance were dis-
eusted with the islanders. It is for-
tunate for the Cubans that the Amer-
icans are again sufficiently in com-

mand of affairs to compel another

ifumigation and Goy. Magoon has or-

dered it. By decree he has placed
the work of sanitation of Havana in
the hands of army experts, who can
be depended upon to do their duty.
It seems strange that a second object
lesson of this sort should be neces-

Mark Twain had the time of his

ibut it will result in postponing his

no private

ized trans-Atlantic travel and sailors |

<3 e \for f reeks ave fe
are less superstitious than formerly, |!0T UT weeks, but I have felt no

'funeral for which preparation was in

progress for at least seven years. He
ioked with the King and Queen,
feasted with all the big societies, and
citizen of America ever

i ue (had a more enthusiastic reception by
sels their superstition prompted them | . a ption by

ithe upper clas

in England. in an

S

a i linterview on tl day he sail

They thought it brought | so y he sailed for
;nome

Mark said: 2 have led 4a

violently gay and energetic life here

|fatigue and I have had but little de-
|sire to quiet down. I am younger
inow by seven years than I was and

if I could stay here another month
| could make it This 1s
the most enjoyable holiday I have
ever had and I am sorry the end of
it has come. I have met a hundred
old friends and made a hundred new
It’s a good kind of riches—
there’s none better, I think. For two
years past I have been planning my
funeral, but I have changed my mind
now and have postponed it.”

fourteen.

ones.

 

It is easy to make a dollar go a

long way when you get up speed on

yellow fever was stamped out simply |the down grade.

 

 

 

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10

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.

 

Frederick J. Baldwin, Hardware Deal-
er at Coral.

Whether it is fortunate for a man
to be born rich depends on what use
he makes of his wealth. It is possi-
ble for the inheritor of a large es-
tate to make it conduce to his use-
fulness, happiness and honor among
men. Such will be the result if the
beneficiary possess a sterling charac-
ter and has received that heritage
from his parents which is better than
lands, stocks, bonds or anything else
that counts for wealth, namely, an
education and training that should
give him the right tendencies in life.
On the contrary, the individual who
was born “with a silver spoon in his
mouth,” who lacks both native char-
acter and correct tutelage, is likely
to make a shipwreck of his fortune,
of himself and of all else entrusted
to him.

An individual who was born of
worthy parents, who inherited a
high quality of blood, brain and char-
aster, and whose life has brought him
in contact with those who have help-
ed him into paths of rectitude, so-
briety, industry and success, is real-
ly more fortunate than he who was
born rich merely in this world’s
goods, because the child of wealth
must encounter all the dangers that
are involved in the possession of
riches acquired without educatiye or
fortifying effort of his own.

In these reflections the writer has
in mind one who has been exceeding-
ly fortunate in his parentage, his fra-
ternal relations and the naturalness
of his advent into a business career
that, although he is still standing on
the threshold of manhood, has al-
ready reached the eminence of a
remarkable success. His father was
a man of great intelligence, sterling
character and thorough-going  busi-
ness habits, who would “rather be
right than be President” or success-
ful and prominent in any relation in
life. It would be better to say that
the elder Baldwin believed—and he
lived up to his faith—that the man
would be the mostly truly success-
ful in every relation of life who
should adhere to the principles of
rectitude, square dealing with his
fellows, temperance and regularity of
life, good citizenship, high moral
character, fidelity to family relation-
ships, and all that pertains to a de-
cent and worthy manhood. He was
truly a good man and a gentleman
from the crown of his head to the
soles of his feet. Thus his sons were
fortunate in the kind of fortune that
we have hinted at in having a father
who from boyhood to early man-
hood trained them in the principles
and habits that he, the father, es-
teemed as beyond price in business
relations as well as every obligation
of life.

Frederick J. Baldwin was born at
Dexter, Mich., Sept. 27, 1867, being a
descendant from Richard Baldwin,
who emigrated from Buckingham-
shire, England, to Milford, Conn., in
1638 and who, in turn, was directly
descended from Chief Justice Bald-
win, the famous jurist of the fime
of Henry VIII. His mother was a
Sherman, being a descendant of the
celebrated Colonial family of that

 

rame. In 1871 his family removed to
Coral, where he attended public
school, subsequently spending three
years at Albion College. In 1882 Mr.
Baldwin went to work for the hard-
ware and implement, firm of LaDu &
Baldwin, purchasing a half interest of
each partner in 1893. In 1901 he and
his brother, C. A. Baldwin, purchased
the interest of the other members
of the firm, retaining the old firm
name of LaDu & Baldwin, under
which they are still conducting the
business.

Mr. Baldwin has two brothers in
the newspaper business, Levi Bald-
win, of the Escanaba Journal, and
Eugene Baldwin, of the Pickford
Clarion. Another brother, George
Baldwin, is engaged in the hardware
business in Munising. One sister lives
at home with her mother.

Mr. Baldwin has been a member of
the Methodist church since he was
13 years old, a trustee since he was
21 and is the Bible class teacher in the

 

 

 

 

Sunday school. He is a member of
Howard City Lodge, No. 329, F. & A.
M., of the Maccabees, the Odd Fel-
lows and the Michigan Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution.

Mr. Baldwin was married to Mary
Haviland, of Lakeview, Nov. 6, 1890.
Miss Haviland is a grand-daughter of
Laura Haviland, whose labors in be-
half of the anti-slavery movement
gave her a National reputation. She
resided in Adrian, where she was one
of the leaders of the so-called Un-
derground Railway, which flourished
for fifteen or twenty years during
ante-bellum times and which assist-
ed thousands of slaves to escape from
the thraldom of the South to the free-
dom of Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Bald-
win have two children, a boy 7 years
old and a girl 6, and reside in their
own home.

Mr. Baldwin’s only hobby is
conduct a good hardware store. In
his earlier life he made a_ collec-
tion of postage stamps, but of late
years his ambition has been to ac-

to

quire a comprehensive library on
American history, traditions and
Government. He has succeeded to

the extent of securing 900 volumes,
all bearing directly on the subjects
which he decided to make _ his
life study. He attributes his success
to the training and teaching of his
father and mother.

In 1883, 1885 and 1887 Mr. Baldwin

was a messenger in the Legislature.
Although he has never been an office
seeker, and never expects to be, he
was appointed a member of the State
Library Commission by Governor
Warner last spring for four years and
he has been drawn on a Grand Jury.
In response to the importunities of
his friends he has become a candi-
date on the Republican ticket for the
Constitutional Convention from the
18th Senatorial District and confident-
ly looks forward to his election on
Sept. 17.
—_>-+ +
When It Happened.

Thomas A. Heuston, the cham-
pion pool player of the world, re-
plied to a toast on “The Spring.”

“The spring,” said Mr. Heuston,
“has its joys. It has its sorrows,
too. Here is a story:

“Smith was suing Jones, his next
door neighbor, for five feet of
ground, which he claimed had been
encroached on. Jones’ lawyer began
cross-examining him.

“‘“Now, Mr. Smith, the lawyer
said, ‘did you, or did you not, tell
my client, last year, that the five feet
of ground in question belonged to
him?’

“ *Permit—

““No, I permit nothing. Answer my
question, yes or no. Did you tell Mr.
Jones those five feet of grounds be-
longed to him?’

“‘Ves, I did,’ said Smith, desperate-
ly; ‘but please remember that the
month was April and we were both
working our lawn mowers at the
time.’ ”

 

The Calamity.

All at once the street car sort 0’
And then, with a
stopped,
For another car was just ahead,
As motionless as if ’twere dead.
Another car was ahead of that,
Two men inside, one lean, one fat;
And ahead of that was another car
With one lean man of the G. A. R.
Another car was ahead of that,
In which a sleeping copper sat;
And another car ahead of that
Was as empty as a looted flat.
Ahead of that was another car,
And ahead of that another car,
And ahead of that another car,
And ahead of that another car,
And another ear ahead of that,
And another car ahead of that,
And another car ahead of that,
And another car ahead of those,
And ahead of those were others still,
And stretching ahead were others still,
While each was silent as the tomb
And a veritable, cave of gloom.
THE CAUSE:
For a wagon filled with soft coal slack
Had broken down on the street car track.
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When a man is a god to himself
he is the opposite to all others.

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THE SUGAR MARKET.

 

How a Bit of Bad Weather Knocked
It Out.

Written for the Tradesman.

The sugar salesman tossed a sam-
ple case into a corner of the store
and dumped himself into a chair by
the merchant’s desk.

“How’s trade?” he asked.

“Rotten,” replied the merchant.

“How’s your supply of sugar?”

“T haven’t opened the last consign-
ment.”

The salesman snorted.

“IT expected that,” he said. “It has
been that way all along the line.”

“T don’t know why,” observed the
merchant, at the end of a little min-
ute of silence, “but sugar is not in
it this year.”

“T can tell you why,’
man.

“T am waiting.”

“The sugar market is flat because
we had some disagreeable weather
last fall, and some more of the same
kind last spring.”

“Why don’t you go on
beginning of the world?”

,

said the sales-

back to the
laughed the

merchant. “What has last  fall’s
weather to do with the sugar mar-
ket?”

“Oh, I’ve gone back far enough.
Fully far enough to show the strange
way in which various elements of

business are’ niseparably linked and
entirely interdependent. You can
not smash one branch of _ busi-

ness without wounding another.”

“T thought you were about to ex-
plain the sugar situation.”

“That’s the point I am making.”

“But how in the name of the seven
seas can you lay the depression in
the sugar market to a few bad days
last fall and last spring?”

“Well,” said the salesman, “I want
you to understand the point first. You
knock one business, and you knock a
dozen.”

“Granted.”

“T first got track of this thing
through the refiners. They said that
sugar was dead as an auto without
gasolene. There was no go to it. I
said that I could fix that. You see,
I thought the salesmen were not
working hard enough, or were giving
out the wrong line of talk, or some-
thing like that. When I got out on
the road I heard the jobbers saying
the same thing. Then came the wails
from the retailers. After that I be-
gan to look around for the cause.”

“And you lighted
bad weather?”

“You bet I did. It is like this:
Last fall the frost came early. Last
spring the frost came late. There you
are.”

“:1-a streak of

“Is this a four-act drama, with the
mystery concealed to the end?” ask-
ed the merchant, with a smile.

“Oh, didn’t I mention the fact that
the bad weather ruined the berry
crop?”

“So that is the point, is it?”

“Ves, that is the point. The berry
crop was late this year owing to the
backward spring, and when it did
come on it was short lived.”

“Yes, I see.”

“You didn’t sell your usual quanti-
ty of sugar during the berry season,
did you?”

“I surely did not, but I didn’t go

fruit land up North the other

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

back to an early fall and a late spring
for the cause.”

“And your berry trade was not up
to the usual standard?”

“That’s right.”

*“Now you see how the two ele-
ments of business are linked together.
You might go on and bring the fruit
jar trade in, and all that.”

“T fell down on that trade, too, and
have a large stock on hand.”

“Of course. In every home the
season was short in the fruit line.
Berries were high. Look what one
had to pay for every kind except
strawberries, which were quite rea-
sonable in price for a time. Why,
the berry season is the sugar sea-
son, and this year there was practi-
cally no berry season. Women are
not going to can berries at 20 cents
a box. If they did there would be
just ground for divorce.”

“They didn’t buy berries for the
table, even.”

“Why should they? You buy a
box of red raspberries, for instance.
You pay 20 cents for it. When you
empty it out it won’t fill a pint cup.
The bottoms of the berry boxes are
getting nearer the top every year.”

“And every year it requires more
sugar to sweeten a cup of tea.”

“Oh, .never mind coming back at
me. I know about the berry boxes,
and so do you. Well, the women did
not buy berries for the table. They did
not buy berries to preserve. But you
haven’t got to the worst of it yet.
There is no fruit in this State this
year. Oh, there may be a patch here
and there. I read about a fertile
day.
But the fruit regions are barren.
There are no peaches. There ar no
plums or pears. There are few ap-
ples.”

“Then the sugar market has not
yet touched bottom?”

“It is not the right thing for me to
say, but that is the fact. There will
be mighty few pounds of sugar dump-
ed into dishes of peaches and cream
this year. My wife says she is go-
ing to can green peas and tomatoes.
We'll fill the cans up with something,
you bet, but I’m afraid sugar will
not be one of the ingredients.”

“We'll have to start the children to
making fudges,” laughed the mer-
chant.

“Tt is all easy enough to under-
stand,” continued the salesman. “The
bad weather damaged the fruit trees
and the berry bushes. The yield of
fruit was light—in some _ sections
nothing at all. People did not buy
berries, and so did not have to buy
sugar to eat on them. They did not
invest in fruit cans, and they are a
drug on the market. All this shows
just what I expressed in the begin-
ning, that business interests are so
closely tied together that you can not
injure one without striking in some
unexpected place.”

“What are you people going to do
with your sugar?”

“We are going to sell it.”

“With every retail store full
unopened barrels? I guess not.”

“Yes, we'll sell it, all right. I’m
going to sell you some before I leave
the store. I can show you by nine-
teen different processes of reasoning
that sugar will be higher next year.
There never was a fruit year like

of

this that was not followed by a big
crop.

enough. -You’ll wish when the time

der.”
“ec =

But next season is a long
ahead.

way
I can’t carry sugar over for

well buy it as I need it in the busi-
ness.”

“Next year,’
man, “will be a corker. Even now
the fruit trees are full of peaches and
plums and pears clear down to their
toes—to the ends of the rootlets, I
mean. Even with the slump in sugar
this year we have been able to fill
our orders and that is all. I don’t
hear of any new refineries starting
up. There will be a sugar famine
next year—a famine which will last
from the June strawberry to the Oc-
tober peach. You give me your or-
der now and we'll send the goods on

>

we have on now?”

“Perhaps you’d better make it for-
fy, aS you are ordering for next
spring.”

The merchant sat back in his chair
and laughed.

“T think you are right about next
year’s fruit crop,” he said, “and I'll

|next year.
ifruit cans on the same _ supposition.
| We have a few on hand which we can
isell at cost.

: 4
continued the sales~

‘fore, business is all tied up

whenever you want them. Can you|
use twenty barrels?”
“Twenty barrels, with the stock

| that
| day.”

 

| give you an order, to be delivered
Next season we shall not be! subject to order.”
able to turn out the sweet stuff fast |

“That’s all right. As I was say-

jing, you can’t smash one business
comes that you had doubled your or-| without wounding another. Also, you
ican’t dump a business without count-
ling on a time when there will come
ja reaction. Look here! You're buy-
a year or more, when I can just as|ing sugar on the supposition

that
be a bumper fruit crop
Yes, and you will buy

there will

Sort of a side line, you
As I stated once or twice be-
in a

sec.

knot. Yes, this was a bad year for
berries and fruits of all kinds, also
for stigar and fruit cans, but next

year will make it all up.
for it.” “
And before the merchant knew it
the salesman who had opened his talk
with complaints about the slump in

Get ready

ithe sugar market had booked a large

order.

“T guess business is all tied up in
knots,” thought the merchant as the
salesman went his way, “and I guess
wasn’t born  yester-

Alfred B. Tozer.

—_——_2-.—___

salesman

Many never write the check of suc-
cess because they wait for the world’s
indorsement they
draw it.

before begin to

 

 

 

 

bench on an easy pop-fly.

When You Pull Down a
Ben-
Slow Sellers Retire

The Ben-Hur has been in the game
from the moment it was cal.ed.
decision made by the umpire, Public
Opinion, has been in its favor, and in
accord with the best judges of good
playing in the grand stand as well as
with the late comers in the bleachers.

Time and again it has made a lucky
hit with the dealer when it looked to
him that,
with trade prospects,
about even between securing the pen-
nant of best pay trade or being rele-
gated to the ranks of the tail enders.

No man’s customer has to fumble a
Ben-Hur in order to pick out a good
one, for he might look over a million
without tagging one as poor.
Hurs have had to play against some husky competitors, but there
have been few but what have fanned out or have been sent to the
Add the Ben-Hur to your pay roll,
Mr. Dealer, and note what a steady winning play it will make for
the highest trade standing percentage in your locality.

 

 

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

Hur in Your Mit

Every

filled

score was

his bases all

the

with

Ben-

 

 

 

 

 

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3 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

How To Make a Retail Shoe Store
Pay.

was a hot, dusty day when I

dropped in to have another chat with

my manager-friend. Outside the heat

waves were dancing, and somewhere

high up in a cool, shady nook the

It

weather man was sending out con-
soling bulletins to the effect that there
was no relief in sight. On the streets
below people were making remarks
about the weather man and the soar-
ing mercury--what times they
not mopping the
from their faces.

were
oozing perspiration
My friend was in. He was at his
desk in his snug little office. There
were not many customers in the store
at the time, and while the manager
was busy over some _ state-
ments--and he has, the way, a
wonderful knack of keeping busy
even the hottest days as well as the
coldest—he not busy to
look up and smile when I hove in.
He promptly laid aside his papers,
and kindly consented to take up the
thread of his loquacity where he had
laid it down the week before.

going

by

was too

“Let’s see,” he said, “do you hap-
pen to remember where I was at?” I
reminded him that he had been talking
about some negative qualities that
have a way of scaring off the timid
bird success; and that the last of these
negative qualities stated by him was
the lack of freshness and originality
in the matter of advertising shoes.

“Oh! I remember now,” he said,
“it’s funny how I started in on that
subject in a negative way, isn’t it? But
the logic of that little speech of mine
wasn't perhaps so bad after all; we
can sometimes tell how to do a thing
by showing precisely how not to do
it. We can even define by negation:
state what a thing is not, and then
proceed to show just what it is.

“The thing that’s been of most val-
ue to me in my experience in the re-
tail shoe trade is my everlasting han-
kering after the new, the striking, the
(1 like that word “fetch-
ing; it means to go out after, get it,
and then bring it in. And that’s pre-
cisely what success in shoe retailing

fetching.”

means. It means going out after
trade, getting trade and _ bringing

trade in and converting it into good
coin of the realm.)

“IT believe in trying things on. Nev-
er read of a_ feasible scheme _ for
boosting the business but I make a
note of it hére in this little book.”
(And he proceeded to fish out from
a pigeon hole in his desk a little red
book filled with notes, clippings and
hastily drawn little sketches for ad-
vertisements, window-cards and win-
dow-trims.) “I’m always on the
outlook for something to try on. If I
hear of an advertising stunt that
sounds good and looks good, I pro-
ceed to duplicate it. I long ago made
up my mind that I’d havea first mort-
gage on every good idea that floats
my way. I’m much obliged to the
genius who dug up the idea—some-
times wish I could see him face to

 

 

face; but pending such a greeting I
utilize the fruit of his brain. That’s
the way Shakespeare did, so the crit-
ics say. Shakespeare and I are very
much alike in that respect at least.
“I try window effects that are far
enough out of the ordinary to at-
tract attention. I’ve had a live alli-
gator, a bald eagle, chickens, ducks,
and divers and sundy other swimming,
creeping, crowling and flying crea-
tures in my windows at various times.

I once had a typical tramp in my
window for three days. He was the
limit. You should have seen him.

Dirty, ragged, bewhiskered—the per-
sonification of indolence and degener-

ation. The only thing about this
‘weary Willie’ that wasn’t positively
discreditable was a_ patent colt

blucher, ‘without spot or wrinkle or
any such thing,’ which he wore on
his right foot. During his stay in
that window he rolled cigarettes and
cast happy glances at that swell pat-
ent colt blucher. He would sagely
lift his shaggy eyebrows and reluc-
tantly divert a wistful look from that
elegant shoe member to the bystand-
ers. That look said much although
his lips remained silent. it said:
‘Gentlemen, behold that shoe! Kindly
focus your peepers upon it! Isn’t it a
peach? Mark you how it sets off the
rest of my elegant attire! Gentle-
men, there is nothing sweller in this
blooming town than this blucher—
unless it is something else in this
man’s line. Friends, this man_ cer-
tainly is good to me. Note, will you,
how tranquilly I sit here in the um-
brageous sheltering of this window!
Isn’t it nice of him? He’s a nice man;
in and let him prove it!’ And
you should have seen how the people
foregathered at that window. It gave
me a boost.

“And the window-cards I have de-
signed from time to time. I believe
in They have a tell-

come

window-cards.

ing effect. No doubt about it. That
is, provided they are gotten up in a

telling way. You have to keep on
effects, however.
And it is truly wonderful how the
on window-cards come troop-
ing in when you get into the swing
of designing them. So many facts
and incidents of local or general in-
terest can be incorporated in one’s
window-cards. Mr. Somebody, high
up in the political or industrial world,
goes somewhere, or does something
or other to get himself newly written
up and photographed. Very’ good;
use his picture (or sometimes a car-
toon of him) together with a big
headline, then break off abruptly or
otherwise, and proceed to say things
about your shoes. The community
gets stirred up over some happening
or other; very well, hinge your state-
ment about your shoes onto this bit
of local news. It tells.

“And contests—well, I’m nearly al-
ways in the midst of a contest, or
thinking of inaugurating one. I do
not know whether contests work
everywhere, but I do know they work
here. It seems to be indigenous to
the soil. Our people are interested
in a contest. Of course, the princi-
ple of novelty must be utilized in
working them up. People will not
go on continually guessing at grains
of corn in a half gallon Mason fruit
jar; but if ingenuity is employed in

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getting people to guess at something
or other they will guess all right.
People love to guess; and everybody
naturally imagines that he can guess
just a little better than the other -fel-
low. When you add to the natural
desire to excel in guessing the further
stimulus of getting a five dollar gold
piece or a five dollar pair of shoes,
they will make an effort for at least
one fling at it—and that’s all you
want. You get your money | back
from the multitude of flings.
“Another thing about the contest
proposition: if you want to make a
big success of it be sure to arrange
in such a way as to include and in-
terest the little folks. Little folks
are on the outlook for such things.
It exercises their imagination to read
a glittering proposition about how one
can secure a big prize just by a
lucky guess or by the display of a
little skill in some way or other. They
will be sure to rehearse the proposi-
tion at home, and they will din it in-
to- the of the grown-ups until
bye and. bye the grown-ups will be-
come interested. I always make it
a point to keep in touch with the lit-
tle folks. My special window trims,
many of my advertisements, and most
of special holiday boost material are
designed and constructed with refer-
to the childish imagination. I
figure that if it is sufficiently simple
and meaty to fire the imagination of
the little people, it is plenty good
enough for the other heads. And it
will not do to assume that just any
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old thing is good enough for
folks, such is not
They are capable of appreciating the
very best. I believe with Kipling
that grown-ups often make the sig-
nal success of ‘talking down to their
superiors.’ I try to give them some-
thing both in my advertisements and
in my trims that is really
worth while.

“Tt is a shoe dealer’s business
attract attention. He must somehow
get the impression generally borne in
on his fellow townsmen that he is on
the map. This result can be accom-
plished only by novel and origina!
devices. If one just moves along at
the old dog-trot pace he will never
succeed in focusing attention. He
must be a twentieth century _ flyer.
The world is full of average men. We
find average men everywhere. But
it is not the average man that leads
crusades, inaugurates reformations, or
cops the biggest slice of the world’s
business. It isn’t the ordinary shoe
dealer in the community who gets the
trade. He may be as honest as the
day is long, and he may know shoes,
and conscientiously try to retail the
very best shoes that can be retailed
at the price; but if he is deficient in
the quality of trying on new methods
and of adopting unusual devices for
capturing attention, it’s no go. Peo-
ple will find their way to the shop
of the man hatches new ideas
and startles them with new devices.

“Tsn’t it funny how we like to be
startled? A brand new idea, a novel
device, a catchy window fairly sets
one’s nerves a tingle with the thrill
of excitement and pleasurable emo-
tion. Now that’s a fact. The sur-
prise and joy one finds in the tingle
at the end of a line of poetry; the
thrill and surprise and joy one

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suddenly and

surprise one feels (although he might

to a fly; the delight

indignantly deny any such pleasur-
able emotions) over an impromptu
dog fight—something of the same

thing one appreciates when he unex-
pectedly butts into the man who has
generated a new idea and set it forth
in striking form. When one consid-
ers the satisfaction wrapped up in the
new and fetching, it is really a won-
der shoe retailers not strive to
conduct their business along new
and fetching lines.

“But, of course, it remains to be
said that the old, the tried and the
beaten paths are the smoothest. One
can see one’s way through when he has
gone over that road repeatedly in the
past. No danger of getting lost. No
likelihood of losing out. And doubt-
less undue caution, over-conservatism

do

and unwillingness to plunge lie at
the basis of much present day old
fogyism.

“One of the penalties incident to

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that out from my experience. |
Not all of my schemes work. Some
of my novelties, for instance, fall on
a flat and unappreciative public. Once |
[ was fooled on an alleged novelty |

I have found |
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which proved to be a rejuvenated an- |
tiquity. It was so old it was funny— |
and it cost me lots of
But I took my medicine.

money, too. |

“And I keep on trying things. Bet |
your life I do. Because one novelty
failed I should be a fool to decry all |
novelties.

“And in the meantime I am on the}
hunt for new ideas. I read the trade
papers, daily and weekly papers, mag- |
azines, books on advertising, etc.— |
and whatever I read, and wherever I |
read it, I find help, suggestion and
inspiration for a little brain-exploding |
on my own account. The good ideas!
are still plentiful—perhaps the best of |
all of them vet
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Arranging the Hardware Stock Ad-
vantageously.
Competition in all lines is now so

keen and brisk that no careful hard-
ware merchant will let his efforts to
be at the top of the heap cease with
the careful buying of his goods and
attractive advertising. Every such
hardwareman realizes the value of
having his store attractive in arrange-
ment and clean and neat in appear-
ance. As one man put it at a recent
convention of hardware merchants,
“There are thousands of hardware
stores to-day that are as clean and
neat as a jewelry shop.” One reason
he gave for this welcome change from
former conditions of chaos and dis-
order was that so much _ hardware
buying is now done by women. How-
ever dul] and lacking in the artistic
one may consider a hardware store
to be under normal conditions, yet
the merchant can no longer afford to
fail to make his store attractive to
the prospective customer. It is nec-
essary to please the eye of the buyer.

First of all a handsome and artis-
tically arranged window display,
showing a modern line of goods, clean
and bright, will make a valuable im-
pression on the passer-by. He will
study the display of such a window
when he would not give a second
glance to a badly arranged hardware
assortment behind a dingy window,
dirty and unattractive. Even if he
is not in the market for hardware,
the sight of an artistic layout will
please him, and the first time he needs
something in the hardware line the
chances are ten to one that he will
drop into the store whose window
shows a spirit of progressiveness on
the part of the proprietor.

Once in the store the customer will
be impressed, either favorably or un-
favorably, with his surroundings.
Neatness, cleanliness and convenience
in arrangement of the goods give the
customer immediate confidence in the
store and its proprietor. Further,
these attributes please the eye, make
his stay a pleasant one and incline
him to return for future purchases.
On the contrary, a store which has
the appearance of confusion is an an-
noyance to the customer. It makes
him scorn the whole establishment,
spoils his temper and makes him
several times harder to please than
would have been the case had his
surroundings been agreeable. If it is
necessary to keep him waiting for
a few moments, through stress of
business, he has the more time to
see the confusion and chaos. The
wait does not improve his temper,
and, having nothing but unpleasant-
ness to look upon, the chances are
favorable to his leaving the store in
a bad temper without purchasing
anything. Not only does he thus be-
come antagonistic to the store, but a
vision of the badly managed store is
apt to come up in his mind several
times during the day, and he is like-
ly to tell his friends about it, and
influence them against that shop.

 

Even in a small shop the careful
merchant can arrange his stock so as
to make a comprehensive display, yet
maintain neatness. There is a decid-
ed commercial value in the careful
arrangement of stock, for a moment
gained in reaching the article desired
by the customer often results in a
sale to other customers in the store,
who would have left had there been
a long delay in filling the first man’s
order.

A few hours spent in a careful study
of how every inch of space in the
store may be utilized to best advan-
tage will pay the proprietor many
times over. It is just such points as
these which put one store ahead of
its neighbor.

In America to-day the retail hard-
ware merchants of every section of
the country hold annual meetings at
which they discuss with one another
such points as these. The result has
been marked, and the same spirit is
being shown in other parts of the
world, notably Australia, where the
progressive hardware man keeps a
watchful eye on what his American
brother is doing. One means which
progressive hardware men are using
to increase their sales is the installa-
tion of phonographs and other attrac-
tive novelties, which tend to _ bring
women and children into the store,
as their influence is potent on future
sales. Also, by making the hardware
store attractive, the merchant edu-
cates the public up to a higher re-
gard for hardware stores and dispels
the old-fashioned ideas regarding
dullness.

Merchants find it very much to
their financial advantage to make
their stores as neat and attractive as
possible. The effect is far in excess
of the effort——American Exporter.

————_>--.___
Seeing Things in Wrong Relations
and Incorrect Proportions.

For several years I have preached
again and again in these pages on
the virtues of concentration. And I
have not one word to take back of
all my protestations as to these vir-
tues; for there can be no doubt that
concentration of thought and act is
absolutely necessary to the accom-
plishment of result. But a larger
observation of the human problem,
and the broader view of human powers
and limitations which comes with
later wisdom ,admonish me now to
qualify my earlier statements. This,
then, is my new pronouncement: Con-
concentrate your thought and pur-
pose, but not to the exclusion of
other thoughts and purposes. Al-
ways keep the use of your two men-
tal eyes. Do not become a one-eyed
man of one idea.

The one-idea man sees things in
wrong relations and incorrect pro-
portions. All questions outside of
the one thing are thrown out of
focus. His judgment is perverted;
he is insane in a minor degree; the
validity of all truth is measured by
its relations to the one thing.

 

There are examples a-plenty of the
starving and _ futile effect of the
entertainment of a single idea. The
Irish peasant, bréught up entirely on
potatoes, has weak eyes; the sailor,
kept too long upon salt pork, ac-
quires scurvy. The body cries out
against continuous feeding on a single

 

food. So with the soul. It bears
relation to such a wealth of truth,
such a multitude of interests cluster
about it, it touches and receives im-
pressions from other souls at such
an infinite variety of points that it is
absurd to suppose one idea can feed
it, even for a day.

The temperance enthusiast, for in-
stance, exploits a worthy cause; yet
temperance as an idea is not enough
to furnish food for a human soul;
and if I should wish to quickly find
a narrow-minded and_ uncharitable
person I would look for him among
those who have made temperance the
specialty of their lives—not because
temperance is bad (for it isn’t) but
because one idea is bad. And _ so
with the whole body of agitators and
reformers on specialized lines. The
reform enthusiast, whatever his spe-
cialty, permits no liberty of judg-
ment, no range of opinion.

It is not the quality of the idea
which a man entertains that hurts
him. The body will sicken if one
fares exclusively on beets as on beef,
on peaches as on parsnips. And the
soul, too, because it demands partici-
pation in every expression of the Di-
vine life, will dwarf and starve upon
even the grandest single idea. There
are hundreds of sad and sapless Chris-
tian ministers who are living thin,
stingy lives because they have shut
out all ideas save religious ones. The
greatest preachers are those who have
largest knowledge of and sympathy
with their fellowmen and the widest
acquaintance with all the ideas that
enter as motive into human conduct.
The fault of the narrow ones is not

 

that they have too much of Chris-
tianity, but that they have not
enough of anything else.

Money-making is entirely proper.
It is right to try to get rich, when
wealth can be honestly won. But
when money-making becomes the su-
preme object in life, when the mon-
ey-making idea is made the pivotal
motive of all action, the soul starves
as rapidly as the purse fattens.

Whatever may be said of the effect
of devotion to a single idea on the
devotee, nothing is better proved—
nothing in philosophy is more clearly
demonstrable—than the fact that it is
hurtful to the idea. The man is so
much interested in the prosperity of
his idea that he is not competent to
testify in relation to it. He can not
entertain a rational comprehension of
its relations to himself and the com-
munity. He does not possess’ the
idea; the idea possesses him.

Ask the one-idea man, when
brought face to face with his enthu-
siasms, as to his credentials. How
large a man is he? How broad are
his sympathies? How wide his
knowledge? How catholic his tastes?
What is the relative importance of
his single idea to the complex total
which makes for the needs of the
whole human society? The man him-
self will answer your last question
off-hand, with confident assurance;
but he is the least qualified of all
persons to sit in judgment on the
question. The one-eyed man of one
idea can not be an impartial judge.
He is blind on _ one _ side—John

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REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.

 

Chas. M. Alden, President Michigan
Retail Hardware Association.

Perhaps the “question before the
house” is one of unusual interest. Per-
haps it has been handled through all
stages of vehement argument to
acrimonious debate, even to the verge
of interchange of unpleasant personal-
ities. That danger line reached, one
man—usually he is located in an in-
conspicuous place in the council cham-
ber—rises to his feet, is recognized
and enters calmly but vigorously the
list of the dehaters.

The effect upon the surcharged at-
mosphere is immediate, electrical.
Raucous voices are hushed, Heaven’s
first law succeeds disorder, the mem-
bers lean eagerly upon his words.
Quietly he offers an explanatory in-
terpretation of the question in a few
incisive words that clear the atmos-
phere as have none of those of the
previous speakers. The chances are
that he is, although he may not be,
better posted generally upon the dif-
ferent angles of the problem under
consideration than are others of the
members, but his influence upon them
and upon the legislation is paramount,
decisively effective. His argument
may be inherently no stronger, his
eloquence less dramatic, than that of
his predecessors, yet his words pre-
vail as against those of the numbers
who have preceded him.

A unit only among a number, with
no apparent advantages in his rea-
soning, an explanation of the cause
of the outcome must be sought be-
neath the surface. It is found in his
recognized personality and further
analysis finds the phase of that per-
sonality which tends to force and ef-
‘fectiveness—the dominating phase of
actual sincerity.

The assertion, usually uncontradict-
ed, has long been made and as long
has been accepted as true that no
other argument is as strong as ridi-
cule. Granting that the assertion is
in part true, it is so only within lim-
itations;. ridicule is but cephemerally
effective. A generation ago upon a
popular candidate for the presidency
were concentrated the shafts, pictor-
ial and literary, of the contemporary
most finished masters of ridicule and
sarcasm, yet but for the eleventh
hour contretemps of a mentally un-
balanced clergyman the candidate
would have triumphed overwhelming-
ly. Ridicule will turn the tide of pop-
ular decision for the time being; sin-
cerity, recognized as an_ infinitely
greater force, will reverse its effects.
Consciously or unconsciously, men of
all grades of mentality or morality,
from the least enlightened and the
least culpable to their antitheses, rec-
ognize the force of sincerity and find
nothing to nullify it permanently.

Civilization will hail riches, prow-
ess, honors, popularity, but it will
bow humbly to sincerity in its fel-
lows. The exponent of known sin-
cerity, of great singleness of  pur-
pose, has his exemplification in all
bodies of men; he is found in every
association and to him defer its high-
est officers. Such an exemplar, whose
daily life and whole life work have
been dominated as their most con-
spicuous characteristic by sincerity,

 

is the subject of this biography. But
not alone in sincerity does Mr. Al-
den reflect the sturdiness and _ stal-
wartness of his New England ances-
tors, for he embodies every quality
that enables those who know him
best to call him a man in the truest
sense.

Charles M. Alden was born at Pon-
tiac, Nov. 14, 1853, being the eighth
descendant of John Alden of Colonial
fame. When he was 2 years old his
family removed to Grand _ Rapids,
where his father, Dr. John M. AI-
den, was elected City Physician, be-
ing the second practitioner to hold
that position. In 1858 the family
moved to Detroit, where the father
died Jan. 27, 1870. They then return-
ed to Grand Rapids, where Mr. AlI-
den attended school in the old stone
school house on Turner street. When
he was 16 years of age his mother
died, and he thereupon went to work
in the factory of Henry S. Smith,

 

 

 

 

 

 

driving wooden teeth in hay rakes.
He subsequently worked for the
Michigan Barrel Co. and on his 18th
birthday he apprenticed himself to
learn the tinsmith trade in the hard-
ware store of J. Whitworth & Son.
The work in the tinshop was super-
intended by George G. Whitworth,
subsequently President of the Grand
Rapids Board of Trade and now
Treasurer of the Berkey & Gay Fur-
niture Co. In June, 1875, he purchas-
ed an interest in the firm of J. Whit-
worth & Son and the firm name be-
came J. Whitworth & Co. In 1880
he purchased George G. Whitworth’s
interest in the business, when the
firm name became Whitworth & AIl-
den. ‘Fhis relation continued until
1885, when he sold his interest to his
partner and formed a copartnership
with his brother, George W. Alden,
and engaged in the hardware business
on West Bridge street under the style
of Alden Bros. In 1889 the firm
sold out to Barnett & Richards and
Mr. Alden served as clerk in the re-
tail department of Foster, Stevens &
Co. for a year. On the death of John
Whitworth, in 1890, he and Karl S.
Judson purchased the stock and have
continued the business for the past
seventeen years under the style of
Alden & Judson.

Mr. Alden was married Oct. 11,
1877, to Miss Nellie S. Garrick. They
have four children—three girls and a
boy—and reside in their own home
at 277 Scribner street.

Mr. Alden has been a member of
the First Presbyterian church since
he was a boy. He has been an elder
of the church since 1887; clerk of
the session since 1898, superintendent

of the Sunday school for twenty
years and choir master for twenty-
five years. He is also President of

the Grand Rapids Sunday School As-
sociation.

Mr. Alden has always been an ad-
vocate of organization. He was one
of the founders of the Grand Rapids
Retail Hardware Association and
served as its first President. He has
jong been a member of the Michigan
Retail Hardware Association and was
elected Vice-President at the con-
vention in this city a year ago. At
the annual convention held in De-

troit two weeks ago he was elected

| painstaking effort.

 

| : . . :
President, and it goes without saying

that he will give the organization the
benefit of his best thought and most
He has been a
member of the Grand Rapids Board
of Trade for many years and has al-
ways been active in furthering the
interests of that organization. At
the last annual meeting of the Board

he elected a Director.

+

Plans for the Future.

Sentimental

Was

bridegroom—Why | is
my darling so pensive? Is she plan-
ning some love-inspired project for
our mutual happiness?

bride—Yes,

was wondering whether we'd better

Practical dearest, =|

send the washing out or have a wom-

an come in once a week.

 

 

 

 

Welcome, Merchants!

 

 

We extend to all merchants attending
the West Michigan State Fair a most

hearty invitation to come and smoke

with us our

S. C. W.

oc Cigar

 

 

G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Makers

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

out of it.

is a great risk.

A grocer is in business for the money he makes
He makes his money not from the spas-
modic sales here and there, but from the
daily trade of his customers.

Any little thing he may do to betray the trust
that is put upon him to scll his customers good stuff
If he wants to treat his customers
squarely and fairly he wants to sell them articles
that will always give satisfaction.

One of the most noteworthy examples of this
kind is Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts.
right from every point of view:
strength, quality and price.

If you are not handling them now let us know.
There is no time better than the present to begin.

   
  
 
    
 
   
  

steady

They are all
flavor, purity,

 

 

C. W. Jennings, Mgr.

 

Jennings Flavoring Extract Co.

ESTABLISHED 1872

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

16

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

SMART SOCIETY.

 

Why It Worships at the Shrine of
Mammon.

Naturally those who exist only for
pleasure object to me. It does not
suit them to be told, as I have told
them in my sermons, that one of the
symptoms of our National decadence
is our greed of gold. Our God
Mammon—we praise, reverence and
worship wealth. Hence the rush for
quick returns, for dividends, for ready
money. Men and women alike admit
that they measure happiness’ by
wealth, and by wealth they measure
respectability. And so down some
of them drop in prostrate admiration
before the golden calf, to which they
are prepared to offer any sacrifice,
provided only the oblation will secure
for them an immediate return of
gold.

What is the explanation of this
rush for the flash of gold? Do peo-
ple worship wealth for its own sake,
and seek it for the mere excitement
of making it? No; besides liking
wealth so much for its own sake, we
pursue it as fiercely as we do because
we want pleasure more. There is a
fever thirst for pleasure. All this I
have said, and a great deal more, and,
naturally, it has evoked denials.

Some of my correspondents, in tak-
ing me to task on account of the
subjects of my sermons, have assured
me that it would have been better had
I discussed in the pulpit such ques-
tions as woman’s rights, vaccination

is

and vivisection, while other uncon-
scious humorists have pointed out
that in my series of discourses I

might have dealt with rabbit shoot-
ing and horseracing.

A large number accuse me of ex-
aggeration—ignorance—but I suppose
I must be familiar with what is go-
ing on among my own class. If I
am in the habit of meeting certain
kinds of people, I can not well avoid
learning how they conduct them-
selves—that is, unless I keep my eyes
shut. As a matter of fact, | know
more than J have chosen to reveal.
Those who maintain that there is
nothing wrong with the state of smart
society either have a sight so dim-
med that they can see nothing, or are
accustomed to low principles, or are
so extremely innocent that their eyes
have not been opened. No observant
man or woman can fail to notice that
we are on the down grade.

I claim to be acquainted with the
conditions governing every grade of
life—poor and rich. I fraternize with
all classes. People do me the honor
of coming to solicit my advice; there-
icre I must understand what they are
suffering from. I can not tender ad-
vice unless I am informed of the
position of things upon which I am
requested to advise. It falls to my
lot to diagnose cases spiritually, just
as a physician has to diagnose physi-
cally. As for the confessional, and
what is asserted as to its not being
secret, anybody who has sense is
aware that a priest knows nothing
out of the confessional of what is told
him in it. To make use of any de-
tails brought to light at confession,
either directly or indirectly, would be
about the biggest crime that a priest
could commit.

But one does not require any such

 

 

intelligence to perceive what is taking
place in London. People may con-
tend what they please about Paris,
Berlin, Vienna and Rome, but, what-
ever villainy flourishes out there, you
may be quite sure that there is more
of it in this mammoth metropolis,
which is called, on the continent, “Eu-
repe’s nursery of vice.”

The national character is changing
for the worse. There can be no doubt
as to that. There is a great deal
too much imported villainy from
other places through Paris, and if, in-
stead of following the example of the
viciousness of these places, we imi-
tate some of their virtues, it would
be more to the point. We are alto-
gether too fond of amusement, and
as we can not have amusement with-
out money people must have money,
and as money is mostly in the hands
of men, women will do anything to
get some of it from them, and if you
venture to exhort them to stand in
the rear of their affections and to
hold themselves a little dearer they
will calmly turn round and reply that
seemly behavior is too dull, that life
is not worth living unless they can
get into the swim and taste of what
fruit they want, and drink at what-
ever fountain they wish, and stoop
to any villainy that is handy.

I don’t mean that all women hold
these views, but it is curious that
people should ask one to wait until
the whole mass is on a level _ be-
fore lifting one’s voice. It would be
a poor business if our florists and
fruiterers adopted this principle in re-
gard to their wares, wouldn’t it? On
the contrary, when I am journeying
early of a morning east or west, I
find the fruiterer is chucking out the
rotten apples and the tainted oranges
from his barrels, and that the florist
is changing.the water in which the
flowers stand and tossing aside all
the bloom that fades, and droops, and

dies. But, of course, if a priest at-
tempts to act in any analogous way
when dealing with the bloom’ and

fruit of a higher creation he at once
is pelted by all the rotten oranges,
apples and eggs that are to be dis-
covered in the neighborhood.
Expression of opinion as to
what one does may come in the form
of praise; then it is a southwesterly
wind. Jt may come in the form of
blame, and then it is a northeasterly
wind, but in either event it is an idle
wind. I respect the voice of my con-
science, which is the voice of God,
before everything else on this little
planet, and as Jong as IT am on good
terms with it IT am as happy as a man
can be who is living a life of proba-
tion, waiting for a better one to

come. Father Rernard Vaughan.
————

Mrs. Sol Grundy
Hired on Monday

Mary Ann Johnson as cook.
Mary quit Tuesday.
Therefore, on Wednesday

Maggie McGinnis she took.
Thursday had Nora;
Friday got Flora;

Till Saturday noon had Estelle.
Mrs. Sol Grundy
Packed uv on Sunday

And moved to a family hotel.

———— << _—- ——————

Consider well your actions,
What's done you can’t recall;
No use to pull the trigger,
Then try to stop the ball.

———— >

—

“Boil it down until it simmers,
Polish it until it glimmers;

When you have a thing to say,
Say it—don’t take half a day.’’

 

The Factor That Keeps the Wheels
Moving.

In the distribution of American
manufactures a very important part
is played by the traveling salesman.
Opinions may differ as to whether
he is indispensable or not, but it is
safe to say that it will be long be-
fore he is eliminated as a factor in
American commercial life. “

With cheap postage and a tireless
printing press, more or less deter-
mined efforts have been made from
time to time to do without the serv-
ices of the commercial traveler, but
few manufacturers have solved the
problem of dispensing with his serv-
ices, hence he continues to be regard-
ed as the necessary missionary of
trade. This being the case, the man
who gets the orders and keeps the
wheels of the factory moving ought
to be given the consideration and
respect he deserves.

There are those who fail to accord
such consideration to the traveling
salesman, including some cold-blood-
ed individuals and journals that su-
perciliously refer to him, if they give
him any notice at all, as “a neces-
sary evil.” Such a view of the mis-
sionary of trade is, we believe, an
unjustifiable one.

If the man who sells goods
the road” for a manufacturer or a
wholesale house is no more than “a
necessary evil,’ the retail salesman
and saleswoman might be placed in
the same class, but we have not yet
heard of anyone senseless enough to
call the retail] salesman “a necessary
evil.”

Taken as a class the commercial
travelers of America are a credit to
their country and to the communities
in which they claim residence. More
than once they have proved their
patriotism and they are citizens of
credit and renown. In the communi-
ties in which their families live and
to which they return with eager
speed whenever the’ exigencies of
business will permit, they exhibit a
high type of citizenship and are not-
ed for their progressiveness and their
public spirit, while in the communi-
tres which they visit in their eternal
aquest for orders they are ever wel-
come and their presence sheds
bounded joy.

On the railroads of the United
States the commercial traveler is a
perpetual delight, brightening the
darkest day and lightening the gloom
of night.

“cc

on

un-

Does a sick and weary traveler need
the comfort of human sympathy? The
commercial traveler is there to extend
it in a whole-souled jovial way that
fills the bill.

Does a case requiring charity pre-
sent itself? The commercial traveler
is ever charitably inclined and his
omnipresence makes him invaluable
to the needy.

Does an emergency arise demand-
ing courage, patience, energy, clear-
sightedness, self-sacrifice? The com-
mercial traveler is the first and read-
iest to respond.

Are there difficulties and dangers
to be met and surmounted? The com-
mercial traveler is found to be a lead-
er of men as he is a pioneer of trade.

Watch him as he enters the country
town in quest of business, Note the

 

cheery smile that wins him a wel-
come. See the fraternal ease with
which he greets the station agent and
the baggage master and the village
marshal and the bus driver, and note
the warmth of their recurring wel-
come.

As he enters the hotel and regis-
ters for a brief stay between trains,
see how cheerily, almost affection-
ately, he is greeted by the proprie-
tor or the night clerk. Do not worry
lest he should be given an uncom-
fortable room, for his welcome is a
genuine one and he will get the best
there is in the house. -

Watch him as with sample case iti
hand he starts to see his trade in the
town, or prepares his display in the
sample-room, which he _ transforms
temporarily into a wholesale _ store.
Note the confidence, the conscious
rectitude in every move, and see how
he impresses himself upon those with
whom he comes in contact, for confi-
dence begets confidence and _ the
cheery man has all the world for
friends.

In the store of the country mer-

chant note the diplomacy of the
missionary of trade. Observe the

care and good judgment with which
he comports himself—treating no two
men alike, but all as brothers; look-
ing at things from their point of
view apparently, but in the end im-
pressing his own views upon his cus-
tomers as surely as the casting
formed by the mold.

Note his patience under rebuff; his
perseverance in.the pursuit of trade;
his disregard of personal discomfort
and the petty hardships of traveling;
his unfailing optimism under all cir-
cumstances—and who shall say that
he is not, in his thousands, a power
in the land and a mighty influence
for good.

1s

Remember that on the efforts of
this one cheerful, energetic, business-
like individual the welfare of fifty or
a hundred American workmen de-
pends; that it is he and his like who
keep the mills and the factories at
work; that in the distant city “the
house” depends upon his efforts from
day to day to dispose of its output
and keep its employes at work—and
then call him “a necessary evil” if you
will, but in the name of truth and
justice lay due emphasis on the word
necessary.

For the commercial traveler is as
necessary to the business life of
America as raw material is to a fac-
tory, or power to an engine. He is
the motive power of the manufac-
turing world—the factor that keeps
the wheels revolving and the ma-
chines at mork.—American Artisan.

——_+++____

The Transportation Question.

Sister has an auto

Bubble wagon green—
Careful folks skedaddle

When she strikes the scene.

Brother for his outings
Has a motor boat

Chugging through the waters,
Beating all afloat.

Mother has a carriage
And a pair of bays;

When she takes her airing
Lordly dust they raise.

Just how father travels
None have heard him state,
Save we hear him mutter
That he pays the freight.
—— i

The crooked saint will have a hard
time at the straight gate.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17

Perpetual

Half Fare

Trade Excursions
To Grand Rapids, Mich.

Good Every Day in the Week

The firms and corporations named below, Members of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, have
established permanent Every Day Trade Excursionsto Grand Rapids and will reimburse Merchants
visiting this city and making purchases aggregating the amount hereinafter stated one-half the amount of
their railroad fare. All that is necessary for any merchant making purchases of any of the firms named is to
request a statement of the amount of his purchases in each place where such purchases are made, and if the

total amount of same is as stated below the Secretary of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, Board of
Trade Building, 97-99 Pearl St.,

will pay back in cash to such person one-half actual railroad fare.
Amount of Purchases Required

 

If living within 50 miles purchases made from any member of the following firms aggregate at least................ $100 00
If living within 75 miles and over 50, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .................. 150 00
If living within 100 miles and over 75, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ................. 200 00
If living within 125 miles and over 100, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ,................. 250 00
If living within 150 miles and over 125, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ........ ......... 300 00
If living within 175 miles and over 150, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .................. 350 00
If living within 200 miles and over 175, purchases made from _ y of the following firms aggregate .................. 400 00
If living within 225 miles and over 200, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .............. --. 450 00
If living within 250 miles and over 225, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .................. 500 00

as purchases made of any other firms will not count toward the amount
Read Carefully the Names of purchases required. Ask for ‘‘Purchaser’s Certificate’ as soon as

you are through buying in each place.

ART GLASS
Doring Art Glass Studio.
AUTOMOBILES
Adams & Hart
Richmond, Jarvis Co.
BAKERS
Hill Bakery

National Biscuit Co.

A. M. Scott Bakery

BELTING AND MILL SUP-
PLIES

F. Raniville

Studley & Barclay

BICYCLES AND SPORTING
GOODS

W. B. Jarvis CO., Ltd.
BOOKS, STATIONERY AND
PAPER

Edwards-Hine Co.
Grand Rapids Stationery Co.
Mills Paper Co.
M. B. & W. Paper Co.
BREWERS
Grand Rapids Brewing Co.
CARPET SWEEPERS
Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co.
CEMENT, LIME AND COAL
S. P. Bennett Fuel & Ice Co.
A. B. Knowlson
8. A. Morman & Co.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
Woodhouse Co.
CIGAR MANUFACTURERS
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.
Geo. H. Seymour & Co.
CLOTHING AND KNIT GOODS

Clapp Clothing Co.
Ideal Clothing Co.

COMMISSION—FRUITS, BUT-
TER, EGGS, ETC.

Bradford & Co.

C. D. Crittenden

J. G. Doan

E. E. Hewitt

Yuille-Zemurray Co.

CONFECTIONERS

A. E. Brooks & Co.
Putnam Factory Nat’! Candy
Co.

CROCKERY, HOUSE’ FUR-
NIS

HINGS
Leonard Crockery Co.

G. R. Notion & Crockery Co.
DRUGS AND DRUG _ SUN-
DRIES
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

DRY GOODS

Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.

P. Steketee & Sons

ELECTRIC SUPPLIES

Lewis Electric Co.

Lynch & Ball Co.

M. B. Wheeler Co.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS AND
PERFUMES

Jennings Manufacturing Co.

GAS ENGINES
Lynch & Ball Co.

GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED
G. R. Grain & Milling Co.
Valley City Milling Co.

Voigt Milling Co.

Wykes & Co.

GROCERS

Judson Grocer Co.
Lemon & Wheeler Co.
Musselman Grocer Co,
Worden Grocer Co.

HARDWARE
Clark-Rutka-Weaver Co.
Foster, Stevens & Co.
HEARSES AND AMBULANCE
Michigan Hearse & Carriage Co:

HOT WATER—STEAM AND
BATH HEATERS
Rapid Heater Co.

ICE CREAM
Kelley Ice Cream Co.

MEATS, FISH, OYSTERS &
FANCY GROCERIES.
Dettenthaler Market

MEN’S FURNISHINGS.
Otto Weber Co.

MILLINERY
Corl, Knott & Co.

MUSIC AND MUSICAL IN-
STRUMENTS
Julius A, J. Friedrich

OILS
Standard Oil Co.

PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS
V. C. Glass & Paint Co.
Harvey & Seymour Co.
Heystek & Canfied Co.
Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.

PIPE, PUMPS, HEATING AND
MILL SUPPLIES
Grand Rapids Supply Co.

SHOES, RUBBERS AND FIND-
ING

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.
Hirth-Krause Co.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie &
Co. Ltd.

PLUMBING mall oe
SUPPL

Ferguson Supply a Ltd.

The Federal Co.

Wolverine Brass Co.

POST CARDS AND NOVEL-
TIES

W. P. Canaan
READY ROOFING AND ROOF-
ING MATERIAL
H. M. Reynolds Roofiing Co.
SADDLERY HARDWARE
Brown & Sehler Co.
Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.
SAFES
Grand Rapids Safe Co.
SAUSAGE MANUFACTURER
Bradford & Co.

SEEDS AND POULTRY SsUP-
PLIES

A. J. Brown Seed Co.
SHOW CASES AND STORE
FIXTURES
Grand Rapids Fixtures Co.
STOVES AND RANGES
Wormnest Stove & Range Co.
TELEPHONE COMPANIES
Citizens Telephone Co.

Mich. State Telephone Co.
TINNERS’ AND ROOFERS’
SUPPLIES
Wm. Brummeler & Sons

W. C. Hopson & Co.

UNDERTAKERS’ SUPPLIES
Durfee Embalming Fluid Co.
Powers & Walker Casket Co.
UPHOLSTERING SUPPLIES
A. F. Burch Co.

WALL FINISH
Alabastine Co,
Anti-Kalsomine Co.

WALL PAPER
Harvey & Seymour Co.
Heystek & Canfield Co.

WHOLESALE FRUITS
Vinkemulder & Company

WINES AND LIQUORS
Dettenthaler Market

If you leave the city without having secured the rebate on your ticket, mail your certificates to the Grand Rapids Board
of Trade and the Secretary will: emit the amount if sent to him within ten days from date of certificates.

Li RABE EIDE RARE? STR RR DRONES IRR TT  TP EN IES RORY TNS TT ENOTES

 

18

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

BLAME THE TYPEWRITER

 

If Anything Comes Out Wrong in

Your Letters.

Said the public stenographer
typewriter in the hotel:

and

“Yes, there are many funny happen-

ings in the careers of stenographers;
a great many pathetic occurrences
and loads of irritating ones. The
ludicrous ones are caused mainly
from the indistinetness of the dic-

tator’s articulation, instead of the na-
tural stupidity of the

as he is prone to think.

stenographer,

“For instance, one man said to his
stenographer, in
for a Christmas
deavor to

friend
will
the
‘will

thanking a
present: ‘] en-
let-

never

reciprocate,’ and
ter came back to
reciprocate.’

“The shorthand pen wielder had
wondered at such an expression, but
nevertheless, having asked him three
if that was

him:

times
and

what he had said,
receiving an affirmative reply,
This was the last let-
ter for that day, so Miss Steno-
grapher put her hat on and went
home before it was signed. The next
day her employer said to her, laugh-
ingly:

so wrote it.

“*You did the darndest thing yes-

terday.’
““I know what it was now, she
replied, ‘but I asked you several

times if that was what you had said,
and you said “Yes.” What did you
do about the letter?’

“Oh, replied the boss, ‘I corrected
it and sent it off.’

“"Well, I wish you wouldn’t swear
at me at
woman.

“*When did I swear at you? I nev-
er did—at least, not where you could
hear me, the employer added smil-

any rate, replied the young

ingly.
“Another man_ dictated ‘Rolling
Jeems’ (a slang expressing of his

own for the James River), and the
perturbed sent it off
‘rolling wondering all the
while what it meant.

stenographer

jeans,

“The recipient of the epistle made
this the occasion for a letter, saying
that such
the

names were desecration of
beautiful river, so the old
gentleman dictated another letter, be-
ginning: ‘I hope you will pardon the
error of a stenographer, who
solemnly swears that with the help
oi od she will never so grievously
err again.’

nice

new

“One man used to chew his words,
and what forth for cne letter
one day sounded as much like “Prow-
ler’s Protective as any-
thing else, and although that seem-

1 doubtful

came
Association’

ed a association, after
thinking and thinking, I finally wrote

it as it sounded,

very

and | called
down in a high handed manner when
the real fault was that of the dictat-
or.

was

“These and many similar errors are
caused either by defective hearing or

lack of proper dictating, but the
blame usually attaches to the poor

stenographer. The employer thinks,
no doubt, that there is no use of hav-
ing a secretary if the fault for all
mistakes can not be put upon her. As
a fascinating red haired woman once
exclaimed, ‘What’s the use of my red

 

hair if I can’t have a temper?’ So
with the secretary: if they are net
to be scolded when the boss is out of
temper they are no use whatever.

“Some men, most men I may say,
expect mind reading to be one of the
qualifications of the typewriting girl.

“One man who has come under my
observation a good deal would pick
up a bunch of letters and read them
for a while, and then start off, ‘Tell
what's name,’ and then he would pro-
ceed to dictate at the rate of a pub-
lic speaker. In the office which this
man manages 160
agents and loads of personal friends
to whom he might write, and which
one ‘What’s name’ might be is na-
turally a puzzle to the stenographer.

“When this nice old man would
reach the end of this letter, before she
would have time to ask him the name
of the man to whom he was writing
he would start another, probably giv-
ing that name correctly.

“When the dictation was finished
and his stenographer asked him the
name of the man he would say, ‘Now,
you must remember when I say any-
thing. [| have dismissed that particu-
lar matter from my mind. I expect
you to get it down on your note book.
I’ve forgotten all about it now.’ So
the stenographer had to appeal to
the chief clerk, who would look at
her as if he thought she were an
idiot, to tell her to whom such a let-
ter might be written.

“Sometimes the stammering = and
repeating man has to be dealt with.
He will say, ‘No, don’t put that last
down. Take out from there to there,’
putting his finger on the note book
and insisting upon having that par-
ticular part scratched out.

“‘What do you want taken out?’
asks the stenographer.

“Right down there at the bottom
of the page, where my finger is.’

“And then the stenographer will be
at sea, for she knows he has no more

there are about

idea of the meaning of the notes un-
der his finger than he has of the in-
habitants of the or what is in
King Edward VII.’s mind.
“Sometimes

moon
their dictation is ex-
English, and when the sten-
ographer undertakes’ to

ecrable
punctuate
and revise she is told never to change
anything he says. Then real trouble
comes when she hands him out a let-
dictated it. He de-
clares and swears he never used such
English in all his life and hasn’t the
girl got any sense at all? But he still
insists on saying, ‘It was a matter be-
tween Mr. Smith and |’ Why, I
know a man who made a girl write
a letter over because she changed it
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neither is she all the time at fault.
There are cases of funny typograph-
ical errors. Owing to the arrange-
ments of the keys, f being just below
t, it is easy to say ‘Deaf Sir’ instead
of ‘Dear Sir,’ also ‘Dear Sis,’ or ‘Dear
Sit,’ all of which would be rather puz-
zling to the man not understanding
these small things.

-“Another cause of trouble is from
the fact that the girls from different
states come here to work, and do not
understand the colloquialisms of this
place, nor does the employer under-
stand those’ of the region whence his
new employe comes.

“Some people now in New York
say ‘lawr’ for ‘law,’ and ‘drawr’ for
‘draw.’ So when a man dictates that
to his stenographer who does not un-
derstand his peculiarities of speech
the result is disastrous. Other troub-
les arise from the fact that people
coming from certain parts of the
country are supposed to say ‘flo’ for
‘floor’ and ‘dough’ for ‘door,’ so com-
plications abound.’”—-New York Sun.

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cure for the annoyance of English
sparrows. It is fly paper—just com-
mon, sticky fly paper. A colony of
sparrows had built their nest under
the eaves of his house, and were spe-
cially boisterous in the early morning
hours, when the family wanted to
sleep. After trying in vain to drive
them off with stones, eggs, shot and
burning their nests, he happened to
think of fly paper. He wound the
water pipes and tacked strips along
the eaves. The following morning
there was an unusually loud noise in
the sparrow colony, but it did not
last long. By the time the owner
arose for the day there was utter
silence about the eaves. An _ investi-
gation developed the fact that there
was not a sparrow in the neighbor-
hood of the house. That there had
been some was evident for the fly
paper was pretty well covered with
feathers. Judging from the assort-
ment the owner of the house has an
idea that there were some “great do-

ings” when the sparrows and _ the
sticky paper came together.
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A good many professions of re-

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ART OF GOOD TALKING.

Much Depends on Cultivation of the
Voice.
Tradesman.

Written for the

Nature shows great partiality in
distributing her gifts. To only a
few, and those her prime favorites,
does she grant the priceless boon of
a full, rich, sweet, melodious, per-
suasive voice. Beauty of voice is
more to be desired than beauty of
face or figure. It has a deeper and
more enduring charm.

From earliest times men have rec-
ognized the power of the voice. The
ancient Greeks had _ their  silver-
tongued orator, the eloquent Nestor.
“the words from whose tongue flow-
ed sweeter than honey.” According
te Homer, he ruled over three gen-
rations of man, counseled the Hellenic
chieftains in the Trojan war and was

held to be as wise as the immortal
gods.
The most commonplace remark

may be saved from dulness by musical
utterance. “Just a soft twang in the
turn of the tongue” is a gift all of us
may well covet.

According to our foreign critics the
American voice is bad. Loud, harsh.
high-keyed, strident, nasal, rasping,
raucous, irritating—-these are some of
the uncomplimentary adjectives ap-
plied to the tones emanating from our
vocal organs. Humiliating as they
are to our national pride, we can not
gainsay the strictures of our judges
from over the water. We can only
take our medicine and strive as best
we may to mend our vocal ways.
main causes
disagreeable

There are three for
harsh and voices:
The all but universal cold in the head
induced by our climate, the high
nervous tension under which we
work and the general ignorance and
indifference which prevail in regard
to everything pertaining to the speak-
ine voice, Ti a girl
promise of becoming a singer, the pa-
rents will tug hard at the purse-
strings to advance the money for the
necessary training, but if a child
shows no especial musical talent they
will let him grow up making no ef-
fort to faults in the voice,
even when these are so serious that
every word he ‘speaks is a punishment
to his hearers.

our

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Of course, no elaborate system of
vocal improvement can be given in

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practical suggestions that
can follow.

Let us, so far as possible, get over
our catarrh,

Let us do all that circumstances
will permit in the line of intelligent
voice-culture, aiming especially at the
betterment of the ordinary conversa-
tional tones.

everyone

Let us cultivate repose and ease
down on the excessive tension, so
that our voices may not have that

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the nerves of both speaker and
hearer.

One should strive never to betray
impatience or irritation by the voice.
This is an important point in self-
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der good control, reacts and soothes
and quiets the fretted spirit.

The voice,

By good rights everyone should
have a phonographic record of his
own voice. He could study it then

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self and note the defects and also the
points of excellence. In lieu of this
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talk. Then make habitual use of only
those tones that are pleasing to the
ear. A little effort and practice will
often result in a surprisingly
modulation of the voice.

good

While talking too loud is the much
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meaning.
tal timidity may account for the use
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Physical weakness or men-

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ity.
The monotonous manner of talk-
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versational and any ad-
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE BANK ROBBER.

 

Mutual Relation Sustained by Bank
and Jail.

John Ford came into the two

rooms which we were pleased to des-

ignate as our sumptuous apartments,

threw a dust covered handbag into
the corner, turned up the light, and

said: “Beer! Quick!”

Obediently and hurriedly I rushed
to the back room, dug laboriously in-
to the ice filled trunk that served the
purpose of refrigerator, and rescued
from the wreck of the night before
two lonely bottles.

“Here,” I said, “and thank the gods
that you're rooming with somebody
at
creature

who’s got sense enough to stay
home and look after the
comforts of the establishment instead
of somebody like yourself, who would
run away and leave the shop beerless
and without a word of explanation.”

Ford did two things that took about
two seconds each. He emptied the
first bottle of beer. Then he emptied
the second. When this process was
accomplished he breathed heavily for
a minute, regarding me with the
complaisant air of a satisfied man
who is looking at a dissatisfied one,
and said: “You are a good side kick-
Also a good provider. For the
sake of the beer which you have
furnished and the reprimand which
you think you have extended I will
tell you of the exciting and interest-
ing adventures which befallen
me in the last few days, during my
absence from this palatial place of
residence. But thank the beer, young
man, for the tale. Had the place been
beerless I assure you I would have
gone to bed without a word to you
about my absence or anything else.”

I said: “Let me hear the tale, then
I will say if the beer was well spent
or otherwise.”

“Exactly.” Ford brought out his
dirty little pipe and lighted’ up.
“Judge you if the tale be well,’ and
if it is, keep the ice box well filled
in the future.

cr.

have

“T have been in the country, mon-
cher—out the tall lies and
the uncut hair. For two days I have
forsaken the harsh, dishonest ways of
the city for the innocent, unsophisti-
cated paths of rural existence. For
the last four days I have abided in the
land of plenty, peacefulness and pare-
I have deserted the pursuit of
the thieving clerk and the robbing
manager, for four days of existence,
in the country, where nobody steals
anything from anybody—unless they
think they can get away without be-
ing caught. What did I go out into
the honest country for?

“To catch a thief, of course.

“The First County Bank of De-
borah has trouble on its hands. No
mention at first what kind of trouble
it is. First telegram to me_ reads
simply: Will I take the case?

“T sit down and wire back: ‘What
might the case be?’ or words to that

among

goric.

effect. Comes back an answer: ‘Will
you take it? And I reply: ‘Nit! Go
to the Bankers’ Detective Associa-
tion; they’re your people.’ And the

County Bank of Deborah obeys my
injunction.

The bankers’
Deborah and

“One week goes by.

detectives go out to

 

come back. Nothing doing. The
County Bank certainly is in trouble;
but the Association men don’t seem
to be able to discover where _ the
trouble starts, so naturally they can
not stop it.

“Another wire to me: ‘Will I take
the case now?’ ‘No,’ I wire, ‘not un-
til you explain.’ ‘Can’t explain,’ they
say. ‘Come, anyhow.’ Try the Pin-
kertons, I advise; and they try the
big fellows for another week.

‘But they don’t have any more
luck than the people who are paid
by the year and then County
Bank of Deborah sends me the wire
that cinches me on the job.

“*Bankers’ Association and Pinker-
tons have fallen down. Will you take
the case now?’

“And I ran to the nearest telegraph
office and sent: ‘Yes, will be on next
train.’

“You when the bank men and
the Pinkertons both fall down it’s a
cinch that the case is worth while.

the

sce

“Deborah was a nice little sleepy
town in the middle of a county where
they raise ninety bushels of corn to
the acre and where every acre is un-
der cultivation. It was the county
It was small and sleepy, but,
Oh, my! it was one of those coun-
try towns where they keep it all at
home and the total amount of the de-
posits that the County Bank of De-
borah carried would have _ shocked
anybody who accustomed to
thinking that $4 was a lot of money
in the country.

“And thebank was haing trouble
Oh, it was having lots of trouble. It
was being robbed—actually robbed—

seat.

was

systematically and it didn’t have any
more idea of how the trick was be-
ing done than it did of how Morgan
manages to run the country.

“The losses were out of the daily
cash. They weren't big; $10, $15, $20
at a time. But they were consistent
and the funny thing about it was that
the cashier himself discovered and
reported them. Now if the cashier
had not reported them there would
not have been anything strange about
the case at all. The number of bank
thefts where the cashier does not re-
port them are so plentiful—but you
read the papers about how they get
arrested a few weeks later when the
woman gets tired of having them
around the flat and decides to cut in
on the reward. That kind are com-
mon. The only question is: Who is
the woman?

“But this was different. The cash-
ier was an old fellow, and he hadn’t
left town, and Deborah wasn’t quite
up to the snug little flat game, and
he owned too much stock in the Bank
to need to take anything small enough
to need reporting. There was no ex-
for suspecting him if it had
of the usual cases. This
cashier simply had discovered that the
daily cash turned up $15 or $20 short
every so often, and he’d been trying
for thirty days to get a glimmer as
to how and by whom the trick was
being turned.

cuse

been one

“And he wanted to find out. That
was the difference between this gent
and sundry other cashiers in similar
circumstances whom I [hae known.

“There were three other employes
in the Bank besides the cashier. There

 

 

were his assistant, a teller and an 18-
year-old boy who was sweepout, mes-
senger and book-keeper, as the case
demanded. They were the regular
type of small town bank employes—
nice, pale young men, who used ‘Oh,
mercy!’ as their strongest cuss word
and had about as much backbone as
a tame rabbit. However, that’s the
kind that rob their employers to pay
for somebody’s stockings, and I gave
each and every one of these young
men a looking over that would have
shocked their parents had they known
it was going on. The result disgust-
ed me. The worst that 1 could find
about them was that one of them
sometimes smoked cigarettes, another
played bottle pool for the cigars and
the third had a girl who had played
Topsy in a home talent ‘Uncle Tom’s
Cabin.’ And they were the pick of the
town!

““Your underlings are perfectly
safe,’ I said to the cashier. “They have
not nerve enough to pick up a pocket-
book that a blind man’s’ dropped.
Give me a position in your Bank so
that I may see how the thefts have
occurred, if they have occurred, and
don’t change a thing from the way it
has been running.

“Next day I was general assistant
to everybody in the place. I was a
young man from another part of the
State whose father was going to put
him in business or do something or
other awful to him, and who wanted
to get an insight into the way bank-
ing was conducted on a country town
scale. I learned. It took all of fifteen
minutes to get next to their system.
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was all moonshine about the thefts;
they couldn’t have occurred, couldn’t
possibly have occurred, unless the
cashier himself had committed them.

“*You are the robber,’ I said _ to
him; ‘or else there haven't been or are
not any.’

““How do you know?’ says he.

““T have looked in the Bank and
have seen, says I. ‘None of your
young men would rob you; nobody
else could. Count your cash again
and tell me where you’ve been mak-
ing mistakes.’

““Did you count it this evening?’
he asked.

"1 did?

““That’s good,’ he said.
you see the safe locked?’

“Aye, aye.’

“*And sealed?’

““Ditto. Will you see me about to
to-morrow? Thanks,’

“At Io there was much consterna-
tion in the County Bank and I was

‘And did

the most consternated of them all.
We opened the safe together at
that hour and some miscreant had
performed the impossible while we

slept the sleep of the just and unjust.
Twenty dollars had been amputated
from the wad that I saw locked up
there the evening before.

““Fine, said the cashier. ‘It hap-
pens every so often, and it was due
again now. That’s why I wanted to
be sure that you counted the mazuma
and sealed the coffers. Now you see
the result. Look around a little more,
and see if you can’t see something
that has escaped me, and the Bank-
ers’ Association men, and the Pinker-
tons.’

"Pm the goat, 1 admitted. Fil
look until I do find that, if I have
to stay in this town until I’m gray
headed.’

“T meant it, too.
ashamed.

I certainly was

“*Now,’ said I to myself, ‘you look
around outside the Bank and see what
you can see.’

“And I certainly did. About the
first thing I saw was that the sheriff
of the county whose jail was across
the street from the Bank was an in-
telligent and sociable sort of gent. I
fraternized with him from the take-
off.

“““Say, he says at the third drink,
‘come over and let me show you a
character. I’ve got a fellow in jail
who was sentenced to sixty days on
an error, but who get out;
won’t let me put him out. Says he
was sentenced to serve sixty days,
and insists that he’s going to do it,
whether I want him to or not. Come
on, let me introduce him to you.’

won't

“The fellow was a new town bum,
but he had his notions of a citizen’s
duty. ‘The law says that I must
serve sixty days,’ says he, ‘and I’m
going to do it. Say, boss, can’t you
get a fellow a drink?’

“*VYou’re sure you need anybody
to give you the price of a drink?’ I
asked. I’d got a glimpse at the man
while he was sizing me up on the
sly, and the man wasn’t at ease, far
from it.

“Sure! What d’ you
that?’ he says.

mean by

“But I didn’t trouble to explain. To
make a long yarn short and sensible,
I had had a hunch that connected

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the bum with the Bank. I can’t ex-
plain how those things come; it would
take too long to try, anyhow. But I
went back to my hotel and thought.
And the end of my thinking was a
stone wall that looked like this: The
money has been taken out of the
vault at night by somebody who got
into it without going through the
front door. Now, whoever that was
came in from the outside of the
Bank—

“[ jumped up and kicked myself.
I ran as hard as I could to the cash-
ier’s home, and all the way _ there
kept ringing in my ears the name of
the bum in jail and the robbery.

“I roused the cashier out of the
bosom of his home, and he got the
President, and we went down and
opened the vault. It the old
kind of vault, set in the wall of the
building, and with nothing but a half
inch plate between the money and
the masonry below. And that plate
vas loose—the bolts holding it to the
edges of the vault had been cold chis-
eled off. It was the old tunnel trick.
The tunel was way below. We got
into it and groped into the darkness.
We went quite a Then we
knocked up against some loose bricks.
I poked them out of the way and I
shoved my head and shoulders up
through the floor of the cell of my
friend the bum.

““

Was

Ways.

There was a fine little mixup when
he noticed my intrusion, but I manag-
ed to catch him by the feet and down
he came. When we had him secure-
ly fastened we stood around and ask-
ed him one big question: ‘Why didn’t
you take it all you had the
chance?’

while

“Huh! says he, ‘if you'd waited un-
til my time was up youd ’a’ seen
what I’d done. I was waiting for the
end—that’s why I wouldn’t leave my
But I didn’t dig the tunnel; I
wouldn’t have worked that hard for
the whole Bank. It was here when
I came. Some fellow who was _ in
here before me must have dug it
and then got chucked out just before
the thing was ripe. I wouldn't take
that chance; that’s why I stuck, and
I was just stealin’ enough to keep me
in good grub and drinks and tobacco.
Now do worst.’

cell.

your

“The cashier looked him over. ‘All
right,’ says he, ‘you’re too big a fool
to waste a trial on, so—here!” And
he kicked him straight the
cell.

“And _ that’s
tery. Are you sorry you
the beer?” James

——_ + <.____

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A merchant, who carries a
special line of goods and handles from
seventy to a hundred men, has come
that his employes
are only children of a larger growth;
that most of them have a marked de-
velopment of the smaller capacity of
the average boy either to industri-
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“I don’t like to work with Schmidt
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retail

to the conclusion

also

sociable,

days

again. Those men seemed to be gen-
tlemen, and you acted like a_ bar-
tender. This is no kindergarten for

salesmen.”

A clerk left for his midday lunch,
and did not reappear at the store un-
til next morning. “How’s this? You
seemed to be well enough when you

left. You didn’t complain of any-
thing.” Yes and no. After some
floundering the clerk admitted that

the base ball fever got the better of
him. As a rule this employe is
among the fairly reliable clerks, and
when the boys got ready to leave that
night the proprietor made a general
announcement: “Whenever anybody
wants to go to a base ball game, let
me know, and I'll let him off—if he
wants to be docked. But don’t play
hookey like a kid. There have been
several applications, and, under the
new rule, they have all been granted,
even during the busiest of days and
hours.”

In most retail stores it is a rule
if a salesman finds that for some tem-
peramental reason or for Jack of skill
or character penetration he is not
adapted to the handling of a custom-
er, he may turn the latter over to an-
other employe. A certain clerk, whose
record for sales was above the aver-
age, was assigned his customer and
almost immediately asked for a sub-

 

stitute. Although surprised, the man-
ager sent another clerk, who prompt-
ly made a sale. Mr. Manager looked
at the clock; it said three minutes
after 6. The next day salesman No.
1 was let out without explanation,
but for cause. Any one who would
allow two or three minutes overtime
to stand in the way of a sale for the
house was certainly splitting hairs so
minutely as to be especially valueless

to the business. It was a trick, too,
but not played with sufficient skill
to deceive the man used to handling
men.

A retail house on State street, Chi-
cago, is one of the busiest in the city
at certain hours of certain days, and
after the rush periods it is customary
for the salesmen to pick up papers
or other refuse and generally “clear
up.” While this slicking up was pro-
gressing one day, in which process
most of the men were engaged with
various degrees of energy, one of the
clerks strolled past another and
winked; smiling then, in a superior
way, he walked toward the front of
the store as if to wait upon a cus-

tomer. But neither a wink nor a
smile escapes those who habitually
handle three or five score men. The

winking and smiling employe soon
made another sale, but half an hour
afterward, as he was standing unoc-
cupied, the proprietor edged up to
kim, saying politely: “Mr. Jones, if
you think you are above that porter
like work of clearing up after the
rush, you’d better try a more high-
toned place. Don’t think I failed to
see you pass the wink to Mr.
Fletcher.

A good man was leaving the house

to go into business for himself. The
proprietor took him out to dine,
and said incidentally: “Now, if there

is anything crooked going on in our
business that I ought to know, I think
you owe it to your honor and to me
to tell me about it. Understand, I
don’t ask for names; for if you gave
them you might be injured, and I
know the feeling against boys and
men who ‘peach’ or ‘snitch’ on each
other.”

The man who was to become an
ex-salesman replied that he did not
know of anything more than the reg-
ular carelessness and the desire to
have a good time—sometimes at the
expense of the house. Then he hesi-
tated.

“There is something else,”
merchant, looking at him sharply.

“It may not amount to anything,
but perhaps I ought to speak about
it, for it hasn’t seemed exactly
straight to me. But there is a man
who openly boasts that he gets more
credit for less cause than any one
else in the house.”

said the

The proprietor looked annoyed,
then dark, but his face cleared as he
thanked his employe, and said he
would investigate, as if there was
anything in business which nettled
him and was demoralizing to the en-
tire force it was for a man not only
to shirk but to boast of “pulling the
wool over the old man’s eyes.”

Since that day the general mana-
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into the boss’ confidence, each of the
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The chief deduction from the above
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the name of the offender. In his han-
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through his lieutenants, he has made
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his employes to take a course which
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Said a well known retail merchant:
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credit of good suggestions even to
the point: of openly putting them in
practice. One of my managers made
one the other day which was so good
and yet so simple that I was aston-
ished I had not thought of it myself.

“With us Monday is the great
complaint day of the week, and here-
tofore it had been customary for my-
self, my managers and two or three
of my most polite and diplomatic
clerks to receive kickers and smooth
their tempers. About noon of one of
these days a_ particularly
bumptious customer got fastened to
me, and crushed my attempts. at
smoothing by roaring at me like a
wild man, and threatening to ‘follow
me around all day’ if I didn’t give him
back his money. My nerves were
frayed, and self-control left me. ‘You
will follow me around just about one
minute before you get pitched out of
the door,’ I -yelled in his own key.
And he went.

“At the close of the day my head
manager suggested that hereafter he
should divide the kickers among the

harassing

entire clerical force, sizing up the
kicker and the’ seriousness of his

kick, and assigning each case to some
one judged competent to handle it,

but never giving more than two or
three cases to each man, thereby sav-

ing the nerves of the most competent
salesmen and leaving them in a con-
dition to do justice to themselves and

the customary trade. ‘Under the
present arrangement,’ he — said, ‘all

men are simply “all in”
Monday noon, and unfitted to do
good work for the balance of the
day.’ And it was so; I realized how
it was myself. Well, since his ar-
rangement has gone into effect the
kickers of Monday and every other
day have been disposed of without
even friction to the working force.”
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A very young man owes it to him-
self to lay up in store a part of his
earnings against the future. The
thought is age-old, but none the less
important in the present day. Indeed,
it is probably more necessary nowa-
days to be able to stand on one’s
own feet when mature manhood
reached than it has been at any period
in the past.

We hear much of the oppression of
capital upon the middle and poorer
classes. Unquestionably the leaders
of industry are unheedful of the
wrongs committed in the completion
of their vast enterprises. They deal
with big figures, subdivide their work
into contracts, or leave the execution
of their to subordinates, and
make no complaint provided their
ends are accomplished and adequate
profits are computed. Little time
have they, and less inclination, to en-
quire into the conditions under which
their plans are perfected. It is up to
the superintendents, managers or
contractors if the treatment of em-
ployers does not measure up to the
modern standard of business morality.

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So it has come to pass that the line
between the moneyed set and the toil-
ers is more clearly drawn. Only re-
cently a noted financier gave utter-
ance to the sentiment that the chasm
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near future the man without
substantial backing
to an extent at the mercy of others
possibly less capable but better off
in this world’s goods. There will al-
ways be a living for the fellow who
has talent and knows how to use it.
But lacking the power of means for
investment even he will be materially
handicapped in the race for
livelihood and little luxury
side.

It resolves itself, then, into
question on which side of the gulf
the young man of to-day will stand
a decade Saving on
small salary is no easy task.
is beyond dispute that many of the
wealthiest men of the day laid the
foundations of their fortunes in the
years of small income, acquiring then
the qualities which stood them in
good stead later on in life. Ofcourse
it requires determination of the grim-
mest kind the With-
out an inflexible purpose to accumu-
late against all odds the effort
vain. As a matter of fact the young
men who learn this lesson and profit
by it, say, in the twenties, are mighty
few. It is the old story of the child
who knows more than his father, and
awakens some day to a realization of
his mistake. Oftentimes it is a waste
of to tell clerks and others
what they ought to do in this respect.
There is here a failing in human na-
ture probably never to be eradicated.
The best one dare hope for is that
some will take heed and profit by the
advice of men who have been through
the mill and corrected their short-
comings in time to recoup. If only
young men could understand what a
few years of close reckoning would
mean afterward; if they could be
made to know how consistent and
persistent economy would enlarge the
bank account; if they could see how
fast interest accumulates, no urging
would be necessary, and the number
of veterans holding down scanty po-
sitions would diminish continually.

But to the practical point: As the
young man has a duty to himself to
perform, the employer is
bound by common ethics to evolve
and carry into effect a practical work-
ing plan for the benefit of those un-
der him. Welfare work, so-called,
has progressed remarkably, and prov-
en its efficacy as a means of better-
ing service. In course of time the
movement will develop new phases,
and without a doubt the personal in-
terest of the workers will become a
vital part of this beneficent scheme.

In England establishments
have instituted what is called The
Provident Fund, the object of which
is to aid employes to save for them-
selves. They put aside, or, rather,
the firms put aside for them, a given
amount regularly, the interest being
compounded. There are just penal-
ties imposed upon the shirkers, and
the employe discharged for cause los-
a part, at least, of the increment.
It is surprising what results are be-
ing obtained on a small scale by some
of the benefit associations in various
houses in our own country. Where
there are fifty or more employes one
of the best plans works as follows:
New members pay an initiation fee
of $1 and a like sum for death bene-
fits, and weekly dues of twenty-five

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mem-
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terest is paid over to the heirs to

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loan department conducted, in
which generous rates of interest are
charged.

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Fevenue.

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a
large permanent fund. Rather, at the
end of each year, or two weeks

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cases does
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below the of dues for
Usually liberal
vance, and in addition to the life pro-
tection and the loan feature
receive stipulated sum weekly
case of sickness or disability, for a
period not exceeding fourteen weeks.

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the aid of the man who needs
or ten spot to tide him
or two, and the heads the house
ought to take an active interest
the plan to make it effective.
While this particular system is
adapted the haberdashery trade
only to the larger outfitting establish-
ments there are ways of helping the
clerks in the average shop to help
themselves. We have told of the plan

over
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in

practiced by one Gotham merchant
who rewards faithful service by ap-
propriating a share of his _ profits
semi-annually according to. salaries,

the positions being graded and_ pro-
motions made whenever
Other retailers adopt the policy with
employes who a salary suffi-
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They Would Compel the Human
Race To Starve.

New York, Aug. 21—In reviewing
Dr. Wiley’s latest work, “Foods and
Their Adulteration,” I find that it
contains some very valuable informa-
tion. The matter on preservatives,
however, I cansider open to. criti-
cism.

On page 37, in a paragraph on
Chemical Preservatives, he says:

“In the quantities used they neither
impart a taste nor odor to a preserv-
ed meat, but by their germicidal
properties prevent the development of
organic ferments and thus make the
preservation of meat far more certain
and very much less expensive. For
this reason the practice has gained
a great vogue, not as a means of ben-
efiting the consumer but rather as
a means of enriching the packer and
dealer. Chemical preservatives are
also highly objectionable because they
keep meats apparently fresh while in
reality changes of the most danger-
ous character may be going on.”

Any packer who reads this  para-
graph will refute the statement that
he is enriched by using preservatives.
The pork packer or the fish curer
could preserve his products by salt,
which would be more economical for
him than borax or boric acid.

On page 37, in a paragraph on
Preservatives Used, he says:

“The principal. chemical preserva-
tives used in the curing of meats are
borax and boric acid and sulphite of
soda. There are many other chemi-
cal preservatives which have been em-
ployed, but these are by far the most
useful, the most certain and the most
widely employed. Borax and _ boric
acid, of the two classes, are by far
the more common. * * Borax has
the property of paralyzing fermenta-
tive action and thus securing immu-
nity from decay.”

As borax and boric acid are the
most useful, the most certain and the
most widely employed, why should
they be condemned as food preserva-
tives? As they are certain preserva-
tives, changes of the most dangerous
character could not be going on.

Continuing in the above paragraph
the Doctor says:

“The use of any kind of a chemi-
cal preservative agent on meat is
most reprehensible, no matter what
kind they may be.”

I do not see how a preservative
can be reprehensible if it will pre-
serve the article it is used on, there-
by keeping it in a fresh, wholesome
condition until it is consumed. The
Doctor continues:

“Unfortunately experts differ re-
specting the influence of these chemi-
cal preservatives upon health. The
users of chemical preservatives have
employed experts of known fame and
distinction to testify in favor of these
products, while the consumer, per-
haps, is not able to go to the ex-
pense of securing expert testimony,
and therefore, as respects numbers of
witnesses at least, chemical preserva-
tives have an advantage. In a case
of this kind the accused must be con-
sidered guilty until proven innocent.”

This is contrary to law. A defend-
ant is always considered innocent un-
til he is proven guilty, and the pre-

 

ponderance of evidence in reference
to the effects of boron preservatives
on the human system is that they
are innocent when used in quantities
necessary to preserve perishable arti-
cles of food.

On page 38 Dr. Wiley says:

“No expert would testify that bo-
rax has never been injurious. Even
those who appear in its favor admit
that, but plead that it is generally
used in small quantities, and therefore
can not be harmful.”

To preserve food only a_ small
quantity of required, and
there is no evidence of persons par-
taking of foods thus preserved ever
having been distressed by so doing.

On page 38, in the paragraph on
the Arguments of Small Quantities,
he says:

“The fallacy of the argument for
small quantities is so evident that it
needs only to be presented in brief
form to show the intelligent and
thinking people of this country the
fallacy of the claims of experts in
favor of chemical preservatives.”

There is no fallacy as to the argu-
ment that small quantities of boron
preservatives are non-injurious tothe
human system. This fact is thor-
oughly demonstrated by the English
nation, who have consumed borated
foods for twenty-five years and wax-
ed fat on the diet.

On page 40 he says:

“Tf the admission of small quanti-
ties is permitted then there can never
be an agreement among experts or
others respecting the magnitude of
the small quantity, and continued liti-
gation and must  fol-
lew.”

This statement is not correct. Eng-
land permits one-half of I per cent.
of boric acid in butter, one-quarter of
I per cent. of boric acid in potted
cream. Experts abroad agreed that
that was a sufficient amount. The
benzoic acid advocates claim that one-

borax is

disagreement

 

tenth of I per cent. of benzoic acid
is sufficient. If laws are made per-
mitting the use of preservatives, stat-
ing the amount permitted, there
would be no litigation in reference
to the quantity.

On page 55, paragraph on
servatives, he says:

Pre-

“The preservatives which are prin-
cipally used in meat are borax, boric
acid, sulphite of soda and _ benzoic
acid. All of these preservatives have
been shown by researches in the Bu-
reau of Chemistry to be deleterious
to health. They should be rigidly ex-
cluded from all meat, as well as other
food products.”

Researches made by the Bureau
of Chemistry proved that borax and
boric acid were beneficial instead of
detrimental, as the members of the
borax “poison squad” were in better
health (according to Dr. Wiley’s own
statement) after the borax diet of
seven months than they were when
they voluntarily offered their stom-
achs to Uncle Sam for experimental
purposes.

On page 81, in the paragraph on
Beef Juice, he says:

“A true beef juice must be extract-
ed from the cold meat and not with
the aid of heat, hot water or other
solvents. It is difficult to preserve
an extract of this kind without ster-
ilization, and the heat required for
sterilization is likely to coagulate the
albuminous material which is express-
ed. It is a great temptation, there-
fore, in some cases to preserve the
beef juice by a chemical preservative
other than common salt. Boric acid
and sulphite of soda may be used for
this purpose, but these substances are
objectionable on the score of possible
injury to health.”

On page 55, the Doctor says re-
searches made by the Bureau of
Chemistry prove boric acid to be
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On page 83, in the paragraph on
Preparation of Blood, he says:

“There is no doubt of the valuable
nutritive properties of blood, and its
preparations are sometimes used as
foods.”

It is a well known fact that salt
withdraws blood, while borax or boric
acid comparatively closes the pores,
thus preventing the loss of blood. Ac-
cording to Liebig, by salting consid-
erable proteins are extracted from
the meat and one-third of the nutri-
tive value of meat is lost in this way.
Borax would prevent this loss, conse-
quently it should be recognized as
an ideal preservative.

It seems the Doctor is desirous of
decreasing the consumption of meat,
as he states on page 93:

“Tt may not be amiss, however, to
say that probably, in the United
States especially, a larger quantity of
meat is eaten than is either neces-
sary or wholesome.”

On page 116, in the paragraph on
Poisonous Principles in Eggs, he
says:

“While fresh eggs for most people
form a food product entirely devoid
of danger, nutritious and easily diges-
tible, eggs may easily become injuri-
ous and even poisonous. * * There
are many people who are remarkably
sensitive to the influence of eggs, and
those who possess this idiosyncrasyv
are injured even by eggs which are
perfectly harmless to other people.”

According to Dr. Wiley’s theories,
however, if eggs are injurious to the
weakest of those who are called up-
on to partake of them, they should
be condemned as a food product.

On page 125, in the paragraph on
Salted and Dried Cod, he says:

“Under the modern’ system of
quick curing the salting and smoking
have largely disappeared, and the fish
are cured in brine, and with the help
of borax a product is produced which
is less palatable than the old fashion-
ed cured fish.”

The above method does not apply
to the method of curing codfish in
Gloucester, which is the largest fish-
ing center in the United States. For
the past twenty odd years the cod-
fish in Gloucester have been cured
by 50 per cent. of dry salt and 50 per
cent. of boric acid dredged along the
backbone. This process makes a
mild cured fish and prevents a fungus
growth along the backbone, which
salting alone does not prevent. Cod-
fish cured with boric acid and salt
are in a much milder condition than
if cured with salt alone, consequeitly
it is not necessary to parboil them,
resulting in their being more easily
digested and far more nutritious.

On page 137, in the paragraph on
Canning of Salmon, he says:

“Cases of poisoning from eating
canned salmon have been reported

and in some cases they may prove
fatal. Every can of salmon which is
to be eaten ought to be examined
carefully in order to see if there are
any incipient signs of decomposi-
tion.”

On page 156, in the paragraph on
Canned Lobsters, Clams and Crabs,
he says:

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these canned products as those men-
tioned in the case of salmon. Numer-
ous instances of illness, and some-
times of death, have been reported as
the result of eating these canned
products which have been imperfect-
ly sterilized.”

‘Irrespective of the number of cases
of poisoning and deaths that have oc-
curred from eating canned fish, lob-
sters, clams, etc., Dr: Wiley most
strenuously objects to boron preserv-
atives, which would preserve the fish
in a wholesome condition until it was
eaten. Irrespective of thorough
sterilization at the canning establish-
ment, it does not prevent the forma-
tion of ptomaine poison when the
can is left open for a while in the
home of the consumer.

On page 164, in the paragraph on
Adulteration, he says:

“The chief adulterations of oysters
are the floating and the treatment of
shucked oysters with formaldehyde,
boron compounds and other preserva-
tives to keep them from _ spoiling.
These processes are thoroughly rep-
rehensible and are rapidly disappear-
ing.”

The above paragraph would lead a
person to believe that the formalde-
hyde, boron compounds and_ other
preservatives that were used to keep
the oysters from spoiling were used
together. Such is not the case, how-
ever. The combination of borax,
boric acid and salt is the preserva-
tive mostly used, and as the preserva-
tive keeps the oysters from spoiling,
thereby preventing the formation of
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sider the use of a preservative repre-
hensible.

On page 184 he says:

“It is a common supposition that
salt in butter is a preservative. This
is true when used in large quantities,
that is, in quantities which render the
butter somewhat unpalatable. The
very small quantity of salt used pure-
ly for condimental purposes can not
be regarded as aiding in any material
way the preservation of the product.”

The above is the reason the butter
for the English market is preserved
with boric acid. The Englishman
vigorously objects to heavily salted
butter, and by the aid of boric acid
he obtains a lightly salted, sweet, nu-
tritious butter, with the original flav-
or retained. Dr. Wiley would serious-
ly object, however, if the American
buttermaker desired to place on the
market butter lightly salted, preserv-
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On page 185, in paragraph Coloring
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

On page 189, in the paragraph on
Adulterations of Oleomargarine, he
says:

“Since the coloring of oleomarga-
rine is permitted upon the payment
of a tax, oleomargarine which is col-
ored can not be said to be adulter-
ated when the tax has been paid, al-
though if coloring were not a legal-
ized operation it would be an adul-
teration.”

It is evident from this paragraph
that an aduiterated article can be
made unadulterated simply by the
payment of a tax.

On page 196, in the paragraph on
American Cheese, he says:

“* * %* * Rennet is sometimes
treated with borax to preserve it dur-
ing transit. In such cases the borax
may not al] be removed by the whey
and is consequently found in ripened
cheese. Its introduction in this way
should be avoided.”

One part of good rennet will co-
agulate one thousand parts of milk.
One-half of 1 per cent. of boric acid
would preserve the rennet, conse-
quently the infinitesimal amount that
might not be removed by the whey
could only be determined by a chem-
ist, who could hardly find a trace of
the preservative, consequently the use
of boric acid in rennet should not be
condemned.

On page 214, in the paragraph on
Digestibility of Cheese, he says:

"* %* * Attention must also be
paid to idiosyncrasies in these cases,
as there are many people who find it
impossible to digest cheese in any
form.”

As cheese produces deleterious ef-
fects on some of the weakest of
those who are called upon to partake
of it, according to Dr. Wiley’s theory
it should be condemned as a food
product, irrespective of the boric acid
used to preserve the rennet.

On page 253, in the paragraph on
Harmfulness of Baking Powder Resi-
dues, he says:

“The question of the harmfulness
of residues left by the various forms
of baking powder is one which has
been of much interest to the hygien-
ists and physicians. * * * The
principal question which has been dis-
cussed is, Which of them is the least
harmful?”

It is evident from the above state-
ment that baking powders are harm-
ful, and if Dr. Wiley’s theories were
enforced, the use of baking powder
would be prohibited.

On page 312, in the paragraph on
Souring and Swelling of Canned
Corn, he says:

“= * * dn the case of canned
corn and other canned vegetables the
nitrogenous decomposed products are
not usually very poisonous. On the
other hand, in the case of meat, and
especially of fish and crustaceans, the
degradation products from nitrogen-
ous constituents of the food become
poisonous and are known collective-
ly under the name of ptomaines.”

This paragraph states that canned
corn is not usually very poisonous.
As the statement shows that canned
corn is poisonous sometimes, why
does not the Department of Agricul-
ture permit the use of a preserva-
tive which would preserve and there-
by prevent the propagation of poi-
sonous germs?

 

On page 313, in the paragraph on
Adulteration of Canned Peas, he says:

“k * * ‘It is greatly to the credit
of the canners of the United States
that the use of sulphate of copper
has never come into use in this coun-
try.”

The Doctor must have written the
above before he made his reputa-
tion as a food expert. It is a well
known fact that sulphate of copper
was used for the coloring of peas,
beans, spinach, etc., in the United
States quite extensively prior to the
passing of the pure food law.

On page 315, in the paragraph on
Adulteration of Canned Tomatoes, he
says:

“* *& *& * ‘The use of antiseptics
to insure the conservation of the con-
tents of the can was formerly prac-
ticed to some extent, salicylic acid
and benzoic acid being the chief anti-
septics employed. Since it has been
made possible to easily, speedily and
economically sterilize the contents of
the cans, the use of antiseptics is
practically a thing of the past.”

According to the press there were
over one hundred and fifty merchants
in Washington a short time ago who
declared to the Agricultural Depart-
ment that their business would be
ruined if they were not permitted to
use benzoic acid, which shows that
the use of preservatives in canned to-
matoes, catsup, etc., is not a thing of
the past.

On page 316, in the paragraph on
Tomato Catsup, he says:

“* * * A catsup bottle carefully
opened and used in such a way as to
avoid infection and then returned to
the ice box can be kept for many
days without danger of fermenta-
tion.”

That statement is correct, but we
must remember there are millions
of families consuming catsup who
do not have ice boxes, consequently
some other method of preservation
must be resorted to so as to preserve
the catsup until it is consumed.

On page 330, in reference to
Worms in Apples, he says:

“It is evident that the farmer can
not be held responsible in all cases
for this condition of the fruit. Nev-
ertheless, it is only fair to state that,
in the modern development of the
spraying industry, the ravages of in-
sect pests can be restrained and con-
trolled, if not entirely prevented, by
the proper spraying of the fruit. This
spraying introduces another danger
which can not be forgotten, namely,
the remaining upon the surface of the
fruit of some of the spraying material
itself.”

It is evident from this paragraph
that Dr. Wiley approves of modern
methods of preserving the apple on
the tree, but obiects to modern meth-
ods preserving the apple in the can.

On page 495, in the paragraph on
Adulteration of Mince Meat, he says:

“When mince meat is made in large
quantities, transported long distances,
and sometimes kept for a long while
on the shelves of the grocery, the
subject of preservation becomes a
matter of serious importance.”

If it is of serious importance to
prevent mince meat from spoiling, it
certainly is just as important a mat-
ter to prevent other meat products
from spoiling. According to the press

 

during the last nine months there
have been over forty-one hundred
cases of ptomaine poisoning and one
hundred and fifteen deaths resulting
from partaking of foods that had de-
teriorated so as to favor the propaga-
tion of poisonous germs. The above
clearly demonstrates that there is.a
vital necessity of properly preserving
perishable articles of food.

The remainder of Dr. Wiley’s ex-
cellent work is devoted to Part VI.,
Vegetables, Condiments, Fruits; Part
VII,. Vegetable Oils, Fats and Nuts;
Part VIII., Fungi as Foods; Part IX.,
Sugar, Syrup, Confectionery and
Honey; Part X., Infants’ and Inva-
lids’ Foods.

Dr. Wiley’s work is certainly of
value in reference to the chemical
and nutritive composition of food
stuffs in general. However, the work
would be far more valuable to the
public if it contained information in
reference to the digestibility of
foods. Dr. Wiley has frequently
stated that if a substance was inju-
rious to the weakest of those who
were called upon to partake of it, its
use should be prohibited.

According to Doctors Friedenwald
and Ruhrah, in their work, Diet in
Health and Disease, the digestibility
of various foods is commented upon
as follows:

On page 78, “With some persons
eggs in any form are __ indigestible
and produce unpleasant  eructations,
nausea and headache.”

On page 87, “There are several va-
rieties of fish that are poisonous.”

Crustaceans. “In some persons the
crab and lobster are especially apt
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other more distressing conditions.”

Shell Fish. “The hard muscular
portion is tough and rather indiges-
tible, and it is best omitted from in-
valid dietaries. Oysters should nev-
er be fried for the sick.”

On page 92, Legumes. “Of the
legumes the pea and bean are the
most important food products;
legumes are apt to produce fermenta-
tion, and in this way occasion flatu-
lence and gastro-intestinal distress.”

On page 95, Sweet Potato. “When
boiled it usually becomes mealy, but
is often converted into a stringy, sod-
den mass that is difficult of digestion.”

On page 96, “Cabbages contain a
considerable quantity of sulphur, and
on this account are apt to cause flat-
ulence.”

‘Sauerkraut. “Owing to the fermen-
tation it produces sauerkraut is con-
sidered indigestible.”

On page 97, “Cucumbers are very
indigestible.”

On page 100, Bananas. “The many
varities differ in digestibility and in
flavor. The ordinary banana as ob-
tained in the United States is con-
sidered indigestible.”

Grapes. “The habit of swallowing
the skins and seeds of grapes is most
pernicious, as intestinal irritation is
often brought about in this way.”

Raisins. “They are indigestible un-
less well cooked.” :

“Melons are considered indigesti-
ble.”

“Nuts are not easily digested.”

On page 102, Chestnuts. “They are
often eaten raw and are quite indi-
gestible.”

“Walnuts are quite indigestible.”

“Cocoanut is exceedingly indigesti-
ble.”

On page 103, “Mushrooms are apt
to produce gastro-intestinal irritation
and disagree with many persons.”

On page 106, Spices and Condi-
ments. “In certain gastric disturb-
ances, as well as diseases of the kid-
neys, they act as irritants and should
be avoided.”

On page 133, Tea. “Tea retards
digestion. For this reason tea _ is
not a suitable beverage for persons
suffering from gastric disturbances
Among the more prominent symp
toms of excessive tea drinking are
gastric disorders, cardiac distress and
a variety of nervous symptoms, such
as excitability, sleeplessness and mus-
cular inco-ordination.”

Coffee. “It is an excitant of the
nervous system, and in some persons
produces nervousness, excitability and
insomnia.”

It can readily be seen from the
above that if Dr. Wiley’s theories
were enforced the human race would
have to be relieved of idiosyncrasies.
obtain new digestive organs or starve
to death. H. H. Langdon.

——_—-~> >
So Foolish of Her.

“She acts as if she were the only
girl he ever loved.”

“Yes; and she was telling me he’s
just a perfect lover.”

“Thats the silly part of it. She
calls him a perfect lover and she for-
gets that it’s only practice that makes
perfect.”

—_——.-2 oa"

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Finding the Donkey.

The usual group was gathered
around the country store, talking of
Dick Mullins’ lost donkey. Every one
had been looking for it, without suc-
cess, since it had strayed out of the
pasture lot a day or two before.

Jim Thompson, a lanky individual,
regarded. as more or less of an im-
becile by the townsmen, finally spoke
up:

“T think I could find your donkey.”

“How can you find him, Jim,” ask-
ed the owner, “when the best men in
town ain’t been able to git a trace of
him?”

“Waz-al,” rejoined Jim, “I kin try,
can’t I? How much is it worth to
ye?”

The owner “allowed” it was worth
a dollar.

“All right,” said Jim, and walked
away on his search. To the surprise
of all, he returned in-less than half
an hour, leading the missing donkey
by a rope halter.

“Sakes alive!” exclaimed Mullins, as
he paid over the dollar, “how in the
world did ve find him so quick, Jim?”

“Waz-al,” returned Jim, “I thought
to myself, ‘Now, ef I was a jackass
where would I go?’ And so I went
there, and he had.”

——_»> 2
The Rule of Contraries.

A man’s life is full of crosses and
temptations.

He comes into this world without
his consent, and goes out against his
will, and the trip between the two is
exceedingly rocky. The rule of con-
raries is one of the important fea-
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When he is little the girls kiss him,

but when he is grown the little girls},

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If he is poor he is a bad manager;
if he is rich he is dishonest.

If he needs credit he can’t get it;
if he is prosperous everyone wants
to do him a favor.

If he’s in politics it’s for pie; if he’s
out of politics you can’t place him,
and he’s no good for his country.

If he doesn’t give to charity he is
a stingy cuss; if he does it is for show.

If he is actively religious he is a
hypocrite; if he takes no interest in
religion he is a hardened sinner.

If he shows affection he is a soft
specimen; if he seems to care for no
one he is cold-blooded.

If he dies young there was a great
future ahead of him; if he lives to an
old age he has lived beyond his use-
fulness.

The Road is Rucky, but Man Loves
to travel it.

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lack of help, as the work has hitherto
been considered clean and fairly easy.

 

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NEXT TO THE HUSKS.

 

This Clerk Finds Fortune an Elu-
sive Dame.
Written for the Tradesman.

Dear Ex-Boss: When I left little
old Grand Rapids I figured on re-
turning in a parlor car. I am on my
way back, all right, but I am riding
on the rods when I am not hiking
through the dust. That is, I think I
am on my way back. I don’t know
where this train is going, except that
the general direction is east. In oth-
er words, I don’t know where I am
going, but I am on my way. I am
now sitting in the shade of a tank
out on the boundless prairie, waiting
for brakey to get out of sight so |
can mount the rods again.

I am hungry and sleepy, but I am
not sobbing. It serves me good and
right. When a grocer clerk
good position, he can
money and dress and live like a gen-
tleman, he ought to _ have
enough to stay put. There are possi-
bilities in a position like that. <A
young man may make almost any-
thing of himself if he will only hold
that self down. It rests with his
own self whether he is to be a
thrifty merchant or a hobo, ditched
in a desolate land and asking hand-
outs from door to door. I couldn't
see it in that light when I was open-
ing your store at 6 a. m. and waiting
for the pretty little milliner girl who
used to come early for her bottle of

has a

where save

sense

milk. If you see Nellie, tell her that
I am coming back. She will believe
in me.

Since writing you I have been away
out in the timber country, and also
down in the brick country. I used
to kick when I had heavy work to
do at the grocery on the corner. I
think you heard a few of my re-
marks about moving heavy barrels
and boxes. You used to laugh when
I kicked. JI remember that you said
once that kicking did not pay, and
you explained that when a_ horse
stopped to kick he wasn’t pulling. I
shall always remember that, and the
way you said it. Out in the timber
country I worked in a stave mill. If
I felt like joking I should say that
it was a staving bad job. That is
one of the places where the tender-
foot does all the hard work.

Of course I didn’t have to cut the
trees down or cut the staves. All I
had to do was to stay in a steam vat
about as large as your butter room
and pass red hot bolts to a husky
man on the outside. It was a nice
job! The steam was so thick that I
couldn’t see, and the bolts were so
hot that they burned my hands.

During the few days I worked in
the steam vats I thought a good deal
about the cool grocery, with the
pleasant-faced customers and_ the
nights on the shady streets of old
Grand Rapids, with the moonlight
shining through the foliage and the
high lights rivaling the moon. But J
was not in Grand Rapids. I was
away in a swamp seeking my fortune.
Say, why is it that when a young
fellow goes out to seek his fortune
he usually goes to the tough country?
I guess that there is a devil in the
human heart which prompts him to

 

do fool things as soon as he gets
where he thinks his people won’t
know about it. It is a sure thing

that when boys go out to seek for-
tune they look for it in mighty queer
places. Here I was looking for mine
in a stave mill in a swamp, a thou-
sand miles from God’s country. If
I could have seen just the old white
apron I used to wear at the store I
should, have hugged it.

We used to sleep in the barn
the hay, there in the swamp, because
the mosquitoes were so large and so
thick that we couldn’t sleep in the
house. Anyway, there wasn’t beds in
the house for us all. They say that
mosquitoes operate wuere
there is a loft of hay, but they got
me, just the same. I have been think-

on

won't

ing the matter over since, and I firm-
ly believe that they landed on the
outside of the barn, bored through
the planks and reached me, lying
close to the wall on the inside. This
may seem to you like exaggeration,
but I can explain my wounds in no
other way.

I got the ague, there in the swamp,
and shook until the filling dropped
out of my back teeth. That served
me good and right, too. Of course
I had a right to go out into the
world if I saw fit, but the idea of
my mixing with the tramps and the
thieves! I thought I was seeing the
world, but it was only a mighty cheap
imitation. Be it known that life is
not in the slums, as many suppose. It
is where there is earnest endeavor
and patient effort. There! That
reads like something out of a_ book,
but I didn’t get it out of a book. I
got it while I was riding the rods,

and while I was shaking with ague
there in the swamp.
They moved me into the house

when | took sick, and kindly left me
there alone, with nothing to eat or
drink, for two days. I guess they
were afraid to disturb the sweet re-
pose I was supposed to be enjoying.
Say, but I wouldn’t have kicked on
moving the corner of the store then!
Like many another grocer clerk, I
thought I was abused in the old days,
but you let one of these discontented
chaps get up against such a game as
that and he’ll be back the next week
for his little old pay envelope, wheth-
er there’s a dollar or ten in it. You
bet he will. I want to say right here
that if I ever go out to seek my for-
tune again I’ll go as a gentleman, and
not as a hobo. What can a young
man be thinking of to look for an
opening in life among hobos who car-
ry tomato cans to cook in and would
drop stiff at the thought of a bath?
I'm dead sore on this thing, as you
have probably surmised from the tone
of this gentle epistle.

When I crawled out of that bed
in the attic—I had to crawl out, for
the rafters would have bumped my
head if I hadn’t—there was no one
in the house but me. I frisked to the
pantry for something to eat, and all
| found was a pail of brown sugar.
I lit into that until I felt like a fuz-
zy little bee. Next morning I hop-
ped on the wagon that was going to
the station.

 

“Where are you going?” asked the
boss.

“Going away.”

“But we need you here.”

I said that I wouldn’t
gave me the mill.

“Well,” he said, “if you quit this
way you won't get any pay for the
work you have done here.”

stay if he

it?
Anyway, I got on the wagon and
was landed in a little blind siding
of a place where there wasn’t any-
thing to eat. About that time I be-
gan to think of the cracker barrel
at the back of the store and the big
cream cheese under its wire roof out
by the door. I guess I had this
game coming, all right. Anyway I
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blind siding that night it carried a
hungry man on the rods. Come to
think about it, it carried two hun-
gry men, for there was a chap from
Pittsburg on the car ahead of me.
We introduced ourselves in the ditch
after brakey threw us off. Clint was
He had a dime, and
we bought bread with it at a bakery
down in the bad lands and we feast-
ed. All I contributed to the banquet
was good advice. He listened pa-
tiently, and said he'd think it over.
Clint may take a_ brace
but he will have to get
if he does.

a good fellow.

sometime,
made over
He is one of the fellows
who thinks he is collecting a living
from the world, and who is paying
double inferior goods.
That is the way with most of the
boys who think the world owes them
a living. They do double work for
all they get, and what they get isn’t
worth Lots of people get
the notion of getting something for
nothing. You advise them to try it.
They'll back water if
against the hobo game.

prices. for

having.

they get up

Right here I want to say that this
man Josiah Flynt and this man Jack
London have done incalculable mis-
chief in throwing the glamor of
romance over the life of the tramp.
They tell their stories well, and the
best print them.
make interesting reading, but

magazines They
they
raise the Old Nick with any young
man who is at all inclined to dis-
contentment. Flynt is dead, and
will never more make the life of a
bum look attractive, and Jack Lon-
don is sailing around the world in a
yacht. If the thousands of men Jack
London has started out on the road
could get hold of that boat I reckon
there would be a wet mess of it di-
rectly.
ception and prison life seem attrac-
tive. His influence over young men
is, almost as bad as the Buster
Brown pictures are for the kids.

He makes hard fare and de-

I am not advising every clerk to
stay put and never try for anything
better, mind. I have a notion, though,
that it is better for a clerk to go
out as a gentleman and look for a
position which would be an improve-
ment over the old one than to wake
up in the morning on the sunny side
of a haystack, with the farmer’s dog
nibbling at his heels. At least it
looks that way to me. I don’t know
as I shall ever get over the vicious
ideas I drew in from the Weary Wil-
lies. If I do it will be because I
know now how false and vicious they
are. But there are plenty who never
do get over them. The human mind
is about like a board. You get it
warped out of shape and it will nev-
er be right again. You may
it, and steam it, and do what you will
to correct the fault, but it 1s a warp-
ed board still, and always will be.

press

I guess you think by this time that
I am writing you a sermon. Well, 1
want you.to know how I feel about
it. I want you to read this letter to
Charley and Mike when they get the
side-door Pullman fit on again. In
the meantime, I am working toward
home on the rods. You save the
southeast corner of the store for me,
and leave the window unfastened, as

 

[ wrote you once before, so I can
crawl in when I get back and fill up
on crackers and cheese.
Yours on the rods,
Ex-Clerk.
The boy is not home yet, but is
daily expected-—on the rods.
Alfred B.
—_—— a>
Science Studies the Occult.

four things are asked of the scien-
tific world to prove ere it rejects. And
Sir Oliver Lodge does the asking.
i. The influence of mind on mind
by other than the ordinary channels

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of sense—the phenomenon in general
called telepathy; telepathy from one
living mind to another, either spon-
taneous or induced experimentally.
2. The receptivity or sensitiveness of
certain persons—-sometimes in a more
or less unconscious state, sometimes
by mearis of a portion of their or-
ganisms released from
conscious control—to influences
which are inoperative or at least un-
noticed, and consequently often are
spoken of as occult. This condition
of hypersensitiveness is referred to by
such terms as clairvoyance, or lucid-
ity. Clairvoyance
garded as the direct perception—not
through the matter by
mind; but in this form it may _ per-
haps never occur, because it is pos-
sible that mind is only able to per-
ceive directly the contents of another
mind, as by telepathy, and that it per-
ceives matter only through the senses
of the organism it is connected with.
3. There appears to be an extended
kind of telepathy possible, viz., tele-
pathy from deceased persons, which
may be either spontaneous or induced
through a special trance state of the
living person acting as conductor. 4.
The influence of an organism on mat-
ter beyond the ordinary range of its
accustomed action—the production of
movements in bodies without  per-
ceptible contact, the production of
light, the rearrangement of chemical
elements, the transformation and
transfer of physical energy in unusual
directions—all apparently accomplish-
ed by some kind of subliminal, so-
to-spéak, distilling, activity; in other

temporarily

sometimes is re-

senses—of

words, the group often called by a
recognized abbreviation — psychical
phenomena. Sir Oliver Lodge looks
forward to an anti-materialistic re-
vival, the signs of which he already
sees.

—_—__—_..-.—__.

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was asked to, perform a marriage
ceremony by a young negro couple.
As he had employed the groom for
a year or two, he consented, knowing
what prestige would come to. the
couple by reason of having been
married by a white minister. At the
appointed time the happy pair arrived,
and the ceremony proceeded.

“Do you take this man for better
or for worse?” the minister asked.

For all her shyness, the bride spoke
up bravely.

“No.: sah: Ah don’t,” she said.
“Ah’ll take him jest like he is. If

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he’d die; an’ if he was ter git any
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Striking a Blow at the Root of Per-
sonal Liberty.

I had the pleasure of a cali last
week from a young man whom I saw
grow up in Grand Rapids from early
childhood to young manhood, who is
now a resident of Baltimore and trav-
els through four or five Southern
States in the interest of a large school
desk and church furniture company.
He told me that one of the first
things he had to learn when he be-
gan traveling in the South was that
nearly every man with whom he was

compelled to do business must be
addressed by his assumed title, on
penalty of utter failure in case he

this important requisite;
that every school teacher, no matter
how young or inexperienced, is a
“Protessor:” that man who
works in a drug store is a “Doctor,”
and that every lawyer is a “Colonel.”
My young friend showed me a clip-
ping from a Richmond paper, stating

overlooked

every

that a society had recently been form-
ed in Virginia for the “suppression of
titles,”
airily refers to

Bloodgood” or

when a man
“Colonel

General

wealth,
himself as
“Major
have to that
and died for his

he fought, bled
country. No
lor courtesy titles will pass muster.
The society has itself
with an

prove

provided
ironclad constitution
says, among other things:

that the
bestowing of titles, regardless of the
recipient’s real claim to distinction,
carried much too far, this
society is established with a view to

“Believing

is being

eliminating such titles except in cases
where the recipient can prove a right
to have his name prefixed by a word
implying distinction.

“We further, that the be-
stowal of spurious titles is degrading

beheve,

to the worthy and cheapens the worth
of such appellations.”
Seemingly all the privates in the
killed and few officers
were left of lower rank than colonel.
This that all per-
sons Me
unless the
Now, I have not a doubt that the
Society for the Suppression of Titles
means well, and is sincere in inaug-
urating what it believes to be a need-

civil war were

society

presumes
addressed as
contrary is shown.

should be

ed reform, but in reality it is making
mistake. It
deadly and insidious blow at the very

a terrible is striking a

root of personal liberty and is tres-
passing on grounds where it has no
right to poach.

The sources of happiness are not
so plentiful in this world that they
should be unnecessarily curtailed, and
if a pleasure in

man can get j
adorning his name with gewgaws, it

any
is nobody’s business whether they are
genuine or pinchbeck, and he should
be left to enjoy his harmless idiosyn-
erasy in peace. You remember Oliv-
er Wendell Holmes’ story of the
man of whom he stood in such awe
for years because the papers always

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spoke of him as the “most worship-
ful supreme ruler” of something or
until he found out that the
long string of august titles belonged
to the little lame shoemaker around
the corner. Once I knew a dull lit-
tle lawyer, who, through some chance,
served as police justice for a couple
of days, but ever after his wife spoke
of him with awe and_ respect as
“Judge Smith,’ and he went through
life so encircled with a judicial halo
that in time he came to believe him-
self that he had adorned the Supreme
bench. Shear many a man of his
title of doctor or professor or cap-
tain and he is like Samson shorn of
his hair--there is nothing left of
him.

other,

Now, I maintain that no committee
has any business to go poking its
nose into a man’s past to see if he
is entitled to all the distinction he
claims. A title is like a bank note.
It ought to pass at its face value,
and if a man feels military or judi-
cial enough to be a captain or a
judge, and looks the part enough to
make other people accord him the
honor, he has a perfect right to all
the satisfaction he can get out of it.
There are people who are so pomp-
ous, even in the cradle, it seems ab-

cans isurd to address them as plain “Mr.”
and hereaiter in that common- |

Of course, requiring a man to make
good his right to bear a title would
be for the glory of those who really

have established a record. If col-

par- | onels were as scarce as kings in a

miles to see
If judicial ermine was not as
marked-down remnants
of calico we would have a greater
of it: but democratic

republic we would go

one.

awe this is a
the greatest number is the fundamen-
tal principle. and there is no use in
robbing the vast majority of their
cherished glory for the sake of add-
titles of the few.
And of one thing you may be very
sure, the self-brevetted are never go-
ing to offer themselves up as a sac-
tifice for the glory of the real col-
onels and judges.

ing luster to the

Another why the Society
for the Suppression of Titles should
that
will
carry its baleful researches. It may
not stop at clearing up military ti-
tles and one can but shudder at the
thought of the awful slump in hu-
man happiness there would be if all
the people who are enjoying reputa-
tions as beauties and wits and _phi-
lanthropists and artists and for be-
ing literary were suddenly called up-
on to make good their right to these

distinctions.

reason

be suppressed and muzzled is

there is no telling how far it

Perhaps the idea of one enjoying
what the Virginia society stigmatizes
as a spurious distinction does not ap-
peal to me as so heinous an offense,
because of a gentle little old maid I
knew who went through life
enveloped in an adulation of author-
ship that real authorship seldom
brings, yet who never published a
line.

once

When I first knew her the gentle
old face was as reminiscently beauti-
ful as a rose long pressed between
the covers of a book, but she still
wore girlish frocks and her _ hair

drawn back in flowing ringlets, as
becomes a daughter of the muses.

We always spoke of her as a poet.
The local paper invariably referred
to her as one of our most talented
authoresses or sweetest songbirds,
and in the ‘little village in which we
lived we guarded her as something
almost too fine and precious for hu-
man nature’s daily food. When guests
from the cities came to see us we
took them to see her, proudly con-
scious of the distinction of living
cheek-by-jowl, as it were, with genius,
and somehow Miss Aurelia, sitting
in her dim old parlor, with its faded
brocade and carved mahogany, or
wandering down the paths of her
rose-scented old garden, looked so
much the very incarnation of poetry,
nobody ever thought to question her
right to the title.

Only once was the matter brought
into discussion. Maria Wheat’s cous-
in from Chicago, a rude, material
young man, coming home from Miss
Aurelia’s, asked Maria what Miss Au-
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talent on mere common newspapers,
like you do,” said Miss Maria,
freezing reproof; “she is writing a

great book. She doesn’t have to
publish a thing the minute she

,

writes it.’

And, indeed, none of Miss Aurelia’s
writings had ever print, but
there wasn't a house in the village
where, hidden away in the leaves of
the family Bible, vext where was
written in a trembling hand, “Little
Janey, or Baby Tom died on—” there
wasn’t one of Miss Aurelia’s poems.
Perhaps they were faulty in construc-
tion, childish and commonplace in
sentiment and would not have passed
a single canon of literary criticism.
God knows. We blistered them with
tears and somehow they seemed min-

isters of healing.

seen

Miss Aurelia had been left a little
property that sufficed for her simple
wants, but by and by she did a
strange thing. She turned her beauti-
ful old house into a boarding house
and filled it up with strangers. We
grieved over it as if it had: been a
public misfortune, for we felt some-
how that the atmosphere of board-
ers was inimical to poetry and that
the great book that she was writing
would be postponed, but Miss Au-
relia only smiled at our protests, and
said mysteriously that she was doing
her greatest work.

We did not understand
never thought of putting two and
two together; not even when the
blacksmith’s oldest son, who had tak-
en every honor the village
could offer, suddenly went off to
college. We wondered a little how
he got the money, for his father could
not afford to give him a penny, but
we forgot even this in surprise and
admiration at the reports that
back of the boy’s success.

and we

schools

came

Two years, three, four passed. Miss
Aurelia still kept her boarding house.
The lad finished college, went into
journalism and wrote a book’ so
simply sweet and true to life that it
took the country by storm and swept
him into sudden fame and fortune.
Strangely enough the first copy reach-
ed that little village on the day when
Miss Aurelia, having come to the end
of the last chapter of life, lay dying,
and then we knew the whole story,
and that she had worked and toiled
and sacrificed herself in order that
the boy’s flower of genius might come
to its full fruition.

Very gently we put the book into
her hands, and the feeble fingers wan-
dered caressingly over it. “Long,
long ago,” she murmured, brokenly,

“I knew that—that I was a fraud—
that [ could never write the book
everybody expected and I did not

deserve the praise and admiration you

@ave me, but [ could not. bear to
part with it. It was so sweet and
it made my life so_ beautiful. I

was not consciously dishonest, you
know, at first. I believed in myself
and afterwards I didn’t have strength
to tell you that I was just a poor
farthing rushlight of talent that could
never do anything worth while, but
now I have atoned. I have given to
the world a genius and another hand
shall write my great book.”

And it did, but over Miss Aurelia’s

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

“Miss Aurelia doesn’t waste dis epace we carved the word, “Poet,”

‘for, as Maria Wheat said, it is just
with}as much a poem to live beautifully

as it is to write beautifully, and Miss
Aurelia’s whole life had been one
glad, sweet song. Dorothy Dix.

——__+>+____
Some Japanese Proverbs.

Speak of a man, and his shadow
comes.

A tongue of three inches can kil!
a man of six feet.

The fly finds the sore spot.

A small-minded man looks at the
sky through a reed.

A woman to rule is
to crow in the morning.

Good doctoring needs not half from
marvels.

Love

as for a hen

flles with the red petticoat
(only unmarried girls wear this gar-
ment).
If you hate a man let him live.
Many words, little sense.
To be over polite is to be rude.
The doctor can not cure himself.
Hell’s torments are measured by
money.
There are thorns on all roses.
Enquire seven times before you be-
lieve a report.
He is a clever man who can preach
a short sermon.
Treat every old man as thy father.
A man who lends money to a
friend will never more see his friend
nor his money. ;
Thine own heart makes the world.
The poet at home sees the whole
world.
The throne of the gods is on the
brow of a righteous man.
a
Swimming on the Railroad.

A tramp has beaten all known rec- |
ords by swimming twenty-seven miles
. : |
He did not mean

in thirty minutes.

to do it. He merely tried to steal a
ride from St. Louis to Chicago on the
rear of a locomotive tender. When
the train started he fell over back-

ward, through the open manhole, into
the water tank.

The noise of the train drowned his
cries for help, and he was obliged to
swim until the first stop was reached
at Alton. When taken out he
nearly dead, but the engineer was so
unfeeling as to call his attention to
the fact that the water was only four
feet deep, and he might have stood

Was

up.
The conductor also, unfeelingly,
asked him for his ticket, but the

tramp said he had not come by rail
but by water.
——_
Held Up.

“Stop!” shouted the man on_ the
country road, holding up a warning
hand. Muttering about
rural cops, the automobilist obeyed.

“Turn around and come back to
town with me,” said the stranger.
“You were going at least thirty-five
miles an hour.”

“You're a constable, I suppose,”
said the automobilist, with a covert
sneer, when they had reached the vil-
lage.

something

“Me?” replied the passenger. “No,
I’m the farmer and had to come in to
town when all the teams was busy.
Nice growing weather. Thanks. Good-
by.”

Ensuing
omitted,

comment is purposely

When Not To Advertise.

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cease to advertise? Yes—-when trees
grow upside down; when the beggar
wears a crown; when the ice forms
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you

brass—when these things all come to

pass, then only the man that’s wise

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with a hairpin in her mouth and do-
ing her best to pull on a pair of re-
fractory “Why don’t you
dress in the house,’ he growled. “I
would as soon see a woman put on
her stockings in the street as

sloves.”
gloves.

gloves.

“Most men would,” she said
sweetly, and then the silence was so
intense that you could hear a choco-
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THE YOUNG MAN.

 

Some Things He Should and Should
Not Do.

Some one, with criticism in his
tone, has asked me where, out of the
myriad callings in which men start
out with ambition to an end that shall
betray them at the last—where is that
definite line in which ambition
may expend itself to the end of a
full and ripened life of satisfied con-
tentment with its accomplished suc-
cess?

There is no one such infallible line
of endeavor for individual
ever born and trained to civilized life!
Burdette, the humorist, years ago ex-
plained why this statement true
and his explanation is as good as any
other I ever heard or read:

“God allows sin and discontent to
rule the world in order to keep the
angels from wanting to emigrate!”

one

any

one

is

It is one of the ironies of fate that
it is the young and untried man who
is charged with choosing or accept-

ing his occupation in life, virtually
that he may discover at the end
whether he “likes it or not.” Ask the

first mature man you meet who has a
son in school—-ask him if he is intend-
to up to the
profession or trade or business which
he himself has followed all his life.
This of the supreme
of the mature man’s real satisfaction
with himself and with his calling in
lite. It remarkable few men
there are in any walk of life who are

ing have his son

grow

is tests

one

is how
willing to say that they would choose
for an only son that path by which
they have reached either failure
worldly success. Or if the father be
make this choice for his
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refuse to accept it.

Ordinarily that man who has made
much money in business would enter
his son for one of the professions.
That man who has struggled through
a profession which has doled his
a
i

tving out to him is most likely to

or

willing to

oose a business career for his son,
lich is one of the great working
forces that tend to keep the equilib-
rium of the world. Seeking for the
cause of this leveling influence it will
be found always in that one word—
discontent! In some way something
has Ways to
it, means to the end, success or fail-
ure—something has been lacking.
“What ng to do?” is that
inevitable question which comes to
t young man in any position in
life. If a dead father shall have left
him $100,000,000 as a legacy he must

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not satisfied ambition.

am I go!

he

ask what he is going to do with it.
If a father shall have left him pen-

niless he must ask himself how he
shall acquire at least a moiety of
money which must be his passport
in the world.

But when the question is asked by
the young man who has everything
tm gain, he must ask the further ques-
tion, “What have I do it with?”
A man with a wood chopper’s ax ask-
ing whether he should cut wood or
sink a shaft to a coal bed 200 feet
below him would be a fool. If he
should have only a pick and attempt
to become a wood chopper, society
would put him in a madhouse.

I am chary always in referring the
young man to some of those old,

to

 

basic truths of right living, the nurs-
ing of ideals and holding fast by them
though the heavens fall. Most of
them have fallen into disrepute be-
cause of having fallen into disuse and
because of didactic and hypocritical
pratings by the man who preaches
one thing and who does another.
3ut I had that rare opportunity not
long ago of talking with a business
man who had just drawn checks for
$50,000 in payment of outlawed debts
which the law said he didn’t owe, and
if I am a judge of men $500,000 or
$500,000,000 would not have bought
the look that was in that man’s face
or taken the light from his clear gray
eye. Here was a man, too, who, fail-
ing once in his business life, would
have his son pursue that line of work
to which he had lent dignity and
honor by one individual act of hon-
esty! Would you ask why?

I have told that young man who
would ask the road to an ambitious
goal which shall be all-satisfying that
no such goal is possible. It is a fal-
lacy which was ordained a fallacy in
the laying of the foundations of the
world. Absolute satisfaction and con-
tent is as chimerical as the scheme of
perpetual motion. Perpetual lack of
motion would be the result of abso-
lute content; also an impossibility in
nature. Contentment merely to die
when one has reached the limit of
life may be the only realization of
this condition.

But at the same time discontent is
a certainty in such varying degree in
the world that the modification of
that discontent is worth The
law of compensation good
through all the complex organiza-
of civilized social life. In his
adaptability to that life in which na-
ture left him. with the instinct of
self-preservation the young man must
find his compensation as he moves
toward his ambitions. Those _ intri-
cate mechanisms of the social body
are so adjusted in such intricate de-
sign and movement that I would not

while.
holds

tion

risk saying that the most accom-
plished burglar in the world were a
better man for refusing to commit
burglary! How could I when _ too,-

ooo decent guardians of the law make
a decent living because of the burg-
lar’s menace to society?

As a final broad counter question
of my young friend, What is ambi-
tion that it should seek a profound
fulfillment of its ends?—take from the
highest order of the ambitions that
personal element of selfishness and
you have crippled the ambitious man
at the starting line! And if I were
the ruler of the destinies of men and
might wish to endow an _ individual
with the miseries of the damned, I
would make him wholly selfish and
turn him loose that he might earn
them all! John A. Howland.

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A woman on the train entering
Grand Rapids asked the conductor
how long the cars stopped at the

Union Station.

“Madam, we stop just
to

He replied:
four minutes, from two to two,
two two.”

The woman turned to her compan-
ion and said: “TI wonder if he thinks

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The merchant who has not received
an answer to his dunning letters for
a long while should send his debtor
a statement with a higher amount
than he owes. Of course you should
not expect to make him pay the
higher sum, but in almost every case
you will at least get, without delay,
a more or less polite answer in which
will be stated that the amount
wrong, that he owes only so and so
much, and that he will pay that and
no more by to-morrow, in a week
or a month, etc. It will close more
than likely with the well-meant ad-
vice to employ a book-keeper who
can figure, if you can not do it your-
self.

The more or less spirited remarks
must not bother you. Your purpose
is accomplished, and you have, if not
more, at least an acknowledgment of
his debt in your hands, which gives
you a fine opportunity to tackle him
again and remind him of his promise,
at the same time excusing your mis-
take.

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Gayboy—Didn’t stay long? I was
there forty-eight hours, and there
wasn't a blamed thing pulled off in
all that time but a teachers’ conven-
tion, an auction sale and a prayer
meeting.

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Trade Mark.

The retail dealer who does not real-
ize the extent of his personal, work-
ing interest; his actual proprietor-
ship in the popularity and_ selling
power of a well advertised, well!
known trade mark, is overlooking one
of his most valuable assets. Count-
less millions of dollars are spent
every year in aggressive national ad-
vertising campaigns that have made
the buying public about as familiar
with certain trade marks as they are
with the Nation’s flag. They have
learned by experience the quality
these trade marks stand for, and they
honestly want it.

And right here we come to a great
commercial truth: The general public
recognizes nothing as “Just as Good.”
The science of modern publicity has
taught the public what it wants. And
—nothing—else—goes!

It is true that an occasional dealer,
who thinks he has a sufficient reason
for pushing a less widely and favor-
ably known article, may, by using his
personality and persuasiveness as a
fulcrum, overcome the inclinations of
a customer. He may even _ possess
sufficient salesmanship and commer-
cial vitality to stem the tide of trade
mark popularity for a time, or even
make a little local headway against
it. But what does it profit him in
the end?

While he has been pushing the
“Nearly Good” article and making
one-sixth of a cent extra profit for
two cents’ worth of extra work, his
neighbor grocer has been handing
out the Real Thing and lots of it. His
customers come in and ask for it,
and recognize it because it bears a
well known trade mark that even the
children know is a guarantee of uni-
form excellence.

At last there comes a time (it al-
ways comes) when the “Nearly Good”
article reaches the end of its string.
It may have been put out of busi-
ness, it may have been skinned in
quality until it is business suicide to
handle it any longer, or any one of
a dozen other reasons may make a
change imperative. Has the trifling
extra profit paid for the trouble of
pushing it instead of selling it—for
the unknown, but none the less cer-
tain, percentage of dissatisfied cus-
tomers—and finally for the up-hill
work of beginning all over again with
another new brand of goods? Well,
hardly!

In the meantime the dealer who
handles the “Real Thing” still keeps
passing called-for goods across the
counter under the same old trade
mark. He needn’t push them; that
has been done for him, better than
he could do it.

As an illustration of what trade
mark value means to the retail deal-
er, take the products of the National
Biscuit Company for instance.

Does the grocer ever have. to
stand sponsor for the quality of the
contents of a package of biscuit,
crackers or wafers bearing on either
end in red and white the well known
trade mark of the National Biscuit
Company? Not that he recalls! That
trade mark stands for nation-wide

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quality and value as standard as a
national coin, and a quality index of
the store where it is prominently dis-
played. Where could you find a wom-
an—or a child—who does not “Know
Uneeda Biscuit?”

Now, Mister Retailer, you are
brainy enough to hold “good will” as
of greater worth to you than “stock
and fixtures.” Let’s get right down
to brass tacks and figure it out. Does
it pay you to push an article that’s
“Almost Good” for the sake of a
doubtful promise of a doubtful prof-
it? Apply this argument to anything
you handle. It matters not whether
it’s flour in bags or flour in biscuit.
One mighty truth applies alike to all:
A cut in cost means a cut in value,
and the Public is wise to the game!
Where you think you see a fraction
of a cent greater profit, there really
exists a shortage somewhere; it may
not appear on the surface, but it is
there. Do. not forget that a _ trade
mark that sets a national standard,
and is accorded universal recognition,
has its proportionate, personal value
to you, if you only get in line. Such
a trade mark may be likened to the
fag of a mighty nation—it is the em-
blem of a prosperity in which you
may share.

Don’t be an “Almost Good” gro-
cer. Be a commercial patriot. Come
in under the Flag!—American Gro-
cer.

——
He Could See His Finish.

Two city men went to the country
to spend their vacations, and in a
field one hot afternoon a bull made
for them. Frightened out of their
wits, the two men scampered round
and round the field, the bull too
close to their heels to give them
time to scale the barb-wire fence. At
length, though, the nimbler man gota
small lead, and managed to get over
the fence to safety. He stood in the
road, then, and shouted encourage-
ment to his friend. His friend need-
ed encouragement. He was certainly
having a dreadful time of it. Round
the field he dashed ,and the bull’s
lowered and ferocious head was al-
ways within a few yards of his coat-
tails. Quite fifty times he must have
made the circuit. On the fifty-first
he shouted, as he tore past his com-
rade: “Give my farewell messages to
the wife and little ones. This is my
last round.”

++.
How Stoneware Is Made.

The common = stoneware plates,
bowls, etc., are made from a compo-
sition of clay and flint. First the clay
is beaten in water, and thus purified,
mixed with the flint, which has been
calcined, ground and suspended in wa-
ter. The mixture is then dried in a
kiln and afterwards beaten to a prop-
er temper. Then it becomes fit to be
formed at the wheel into dishes, cups,
bowls, etc. These are baked in a fur-
nace and glazed with common salt.
The salt being thrown into the fur-
nace is volatilized by heat, becomes
attached to the surface of the ware,
and is decomposed, the muriatic acid
flying off and leaving the soda _ be-
hind it to form a fine, thin glaze on
the ware, which resists ordinary
acids.

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best city in Michigan
fora STATE FAIR.

It isin the center of
the fruit belt. It has
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GRAND RAPIDS

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H. T. STANTON, Treas.

WM. JUDSON, Prest.
H. G. BARLOW, Sec’y

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Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.
Sheetings—The volume of trading
has been considerably less in these
goods during the past week, but it
may be expected to improve when
the business picks up in a week or
so. The cessation is doubtless the
result of the nature of the period
through which we are passing and
may have been to some extent pro-
duced by agitation in other quarters.
Bleached Goods—The demand for
these goods keeps up with unabated
vigor, and as many houses are af-
fected by the shut down, complaints
regarding the difficulty produced by
it are numerous. Prices remain prac-
tically at last week’s standards, no
advances having been made in any

of the important tickets.

Domestics—In some lines the de-
mand is as strong as ever. In others
it is hardly as much so. There is
little change over the conditions
which obtained last week, nor is a
considerable improvement looked for
until after the approaching holiday.

Prints—The best activity of the
market is perhaps represented in the
demand for prints. The new season’s
goods are being well taken, particu-
larly in fancies. The vacation period
will be a serious handicap to many
that are included in the mills to close
down, and for these houses in partic-
ular could not have come at a worse
time. Large factors located in other
sections will not close down. Little
is heard about the further proposed
advance, but this is no indication that
it will not be forthcoming.

Dress Goods—There is not much
change in the general aspect of the
market this week over the one pre-
ceding, and the idea is becoming more
and more generally confirmed that
the season is to be pre-eminently one
in which plain staples are to play the
larger part. Were fancies likely to
play a large part it is apparent that
their appearance in force is now
overdue, as the time is fast growing
exceedingly short in which to make
and deliver them. Some are being
taken, to be sure, but as explained
last week, they are only of the most
subdued character, particularly in the
cheaper goods.

Underwear—There has been very
little change in the knit goods situa-
tion since last week, general condi-
tions holding strictly to the lines to
which they have adhered all summer.
However, the market is not any more
quiet than would naturally be expect-
ed under normal conditions at this
season of the year, and, in fact, it
is if anything a little more active
than usual. The fact that the buyers
were short on goods last year has
evidently taught them a lesson by
which they intend to profit. For this
reason reorders are still being placed
for the season of 1908. Although
this business is being carried on in
such a quiet manner that it is prac-
tically impossible to calculate its
volume with any degree of accuracy,

 

it is none the less as steady as could
be desired. The bulk of this busi-
ness is coming in spontaneously, since
it is entirely unsolicited by the mills.
Most of them are sold up well into
1908, and it is difficult to understand
how buyers can reasonably expect to
secure very early deliveries. In spite
of this, quite a number of the mills
are accepting this business, and
agreeing to the deliveries asked for.
As to whether or not they will be
able to put this business through on
time it is rather a doubtful proposi-
tion.

Hosiery—The situation in these
goods is still strong, and as far as
firmness is concerned this branch of
the knit goods market is far in ad-
vance of underwear. The feeling of
optimism which has made itself evi-
dent in the hosiery market is still
much in evidence and shows no signs
of abating. Not only is the business
good with the general situation strong
on fall lines, but also on lines for the
spring of 1908 there are considerable
activity and a marked degree of
strength. It is a well-known fact
that many of the hosiery mills are
completely sold up on their lines for
next season, and that they are posi-
tively refusing to accept any more
orders until they can tell more defi-
nitely where they stand. In regard to
the lines of goods which are to be
most popular for the season of 1908
there are at present many predictions.
It seems safe to assume that gauzes
will be even more in evidence than
they were last season. However,
since there is no doubt about the fact
that in hosiery especially there has
been a trend toward the better and
more expensive grades of goods, the
prediction that laces and fine em-
broidered hose are to be much
stronger than they were this last year
seems to bear a good deal of weight.
In fact, it is thought by many that
these goods will show an increase
in popularity over the past several
seasons.

+--+ —_—_

It has been more than once sug-
gested and sometimes on very high
authority that it would be better and
more effective if some of the offend-
ing magnates and millionaires who,
as heads of corporations, violate the
anti-trust laws could be imprisoned.
The suggestion is that they have
plenty of money and paying a fine.
even of a big sum, does not frighten
them nor inconvenience them very
much. No man, rich or poor, would
willingly spend very much time in
jail, and most people are willing to
walk pretty straight to keep out of
state prison. Another feature which
is an added argument is that the fine
imposed upon the corporation is tak-
ing money from the stockholders, and
that the guilty ones have to pay for
their offense only proportionately,
just like the innocent. Those who
have bought the stock for an invest-
ment and who have done no wrong
at all are compelled to contribute
just like an old offender. There are
some very bad corporations which
have some very good shareholders,
That phase of the criminal prosecu-
from the side of the public prosecu-
tion is attracting attention both
tor and that of the unoffending stock-
holder.

R. S. V. P.

Although Johnnie’s and Wvillie’s
mothers are warm friends, those boys
are always fighting each other.

After a recent battle the victorious
Johnnie was urged by his mother to
go and make friends with h’s fallen
foe. She even offered to give him a
party if he would go over and invite
Willie to come to that festivity.

After much urging Johnnie prom-
ised to do as his mother wished. So
the party came off at the appointed
time and was violently enjoyed by
all present. But Willie did not come.

“Now, Johnnie, did you
him?” asked Johnnie’s mother.

“Ves, I did! Yes, ma’am, I invited
him!” answered Johnnie. “I invit-
ed him,” he added, reflectively, “and
I dared him to come.”

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THE RUBBER INDUSTRY.

 

Increasing Demand Due To Improv-
Methods.

It is not often that the industry
producing the by product is the only
outlet for its own waste, as is the
case with India rubber. In this in-
stance, practically the whole output
becomes, sometimes in a very brief
space of time, a waste product. In
some cases, as with motor car tires,
mechanical deterioration takes place
long before chemical changes cause
disintegration; but in others oxida-
tion of the material renders it unfit
for its original purpose.

For many years, especially while
abundant supplies of crude rubber
were obtainable at moderate prices,
little attention was paid to waste rub-
ber, although as early as 1846 it was
recognized that such waste might be
utilized with advantage, and Parkes
laid the foundation of the alkaline
method of recovery. Of late years,
however, there have been remarkable
developments in the India rubber in-
dustry. The increased demand, main-
ly due to electrical progress and im-
proved methods of locomotion, has
more than equaled the immediately
available increase in price.

The total production of rubber last
year was about 68,000 tons, and the
increase in the annual output has
been about 15,000 tons in five years.
America easily leads the way with a
production of 42,800 tons, of which
41,000 tons, or nearly two-thirds of
the whole quantity harvested, is cred-
ited to Brazil. Much has been said
and written lately about the produc-
tion of rubber in Mexico, and con-
siderable amounts of American capi-
tal have been invested in guayule rub-
ber; but last year the whole produc-
tion of Mexico only amounted to 200
tons, so that the quantity of this low-
class rubber is not yet of importance.

It has been calculated that only
about 300,000 tons of the shrub from
which guayule rubber is extracted are
available, and, with a yield of 6 per
cent. of rubber, this quantity would
only produce about 18,000 tons of
rubber. Africa comes next as_ re-
gards quantity, the output being
23,400 tons. The Congo Free State
is here the largest producer, having
brought 4,500 tons into the market. In
view of the methods by which this
rubber is obtained it can scarcely be
expected that the production will be
materially increased in this district.
Germany is devoting much attention
to rubber in her African colon’es, and
will soon be producing plantation rub-
ber.

The rubber derived from Asia and
Polynesia is estimated at 1,800 tons
per annum; but this quantity will
probably increase rapidly within a
few years, and no doubt plantation
rubber will in time displace Para from
its premier position as regards quan-
tity. Some of the rubber sent from
plantations in the East is of excel-
lent quality, quite equal to the best
Para, and very free from impurities;
but many of those who grow rubber
are not sufficiently informed as to the
requirements of the user, and there
is here a wide field for the trained
chemist, as compared with the chemi-
cal inventor who has not been trained.
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planted should, in about ten years’
time, yield some 25,000 tons of rub-
ber per annum; but too little is
known of the influence of climate,
soil and diseases of the trees to make
this a reliable estimate.

The great bulk of the rubber pro-
duced is of good quality, and, if it
went into consumption in the state
of purity in which it is received by
the manufacturer, the average quality
of the waste would also be high. Un-
fortunately, however, substances of
the most varied properties are added
during the process of manufacture.
Mineral matters of various kinds
sometimes make up the greater part
of the weight of what is sold as India
tubber, while the rubber itself is
largely replaced by substitutes, gen-
erally consisting of some form of
solidified oil.

One ingredient, however, is com-
mon to nearly all forms of manufac-
tured rubber, and it is this that has
proved the stumbling block to most

inventors who have endeavored to
utilize rubber waste. It is the sul-
phur used in vulcanizing, part of

which enters into chemical combina-
tion with the rubber and which is
very difficult to expel again without
injuring the quality of the material.
Vulcanization is at present a neces-
sity, for no other process has yet
been discovered which renders rub-
ber so inert to changes of tempera-
ture. Once the vulcanization takes
place, however, the cut surfaces of
rubber will no longer adhere to each
other, and the material can not be
worked into a homogeneous mass.
It is probably the sulphur that is the
cause of the disintegration of. rub-
ber, because crude rubber will keep
for a great number of years without
deterioration.

Nearly all other vulcanized arti-
cles contain traces of sulphuric acid,
due to the gradual oxidization of the
free sulphur, and this is probably the
main cause of the deterioration. Rub-
ber which has become brittle through
age can not be regenerated by any
of the present processes at present
in use, and is practically valueless.

In many cases, however, rubber ar-
ticles have to be discarded long be-
fore chemical disintegration sets in.
Motor car tires and shoes are worn
out by attrition, sometimes in a very
short time, and are valuable material;
tubes of bicycles and motor cars are
the best waste available on a large
scale; but as they can be utilized by
grinding and mixing with fresh rub-
ber without undergoing any chemi-
cal process, they command a rela-
tively high price. Manufactured rub-
ber contains mineral matters of vari-
ous kinds, known as filling materials.

In regenerating rubber it is not
necessary to remove all of these; but
their presence naturally diminishes
the value of the product obtained.
Perhaps the most troublesome im-
purity in rubber waste is fiber derived
from the fabrics which so frequently
form the basis of rubber goods. In
a motor car tire, for instance, there
ma ybe eight or ten thicknesses of
fabric in about half an inch.

The best method of removing fiber
is the mechanical one, as this does
not deteriorate the quality of the
rubber. The whole mass is ground
into a coarse powder, which is then

 

exposed to a current of air, by means
of which the fibers are removed, and
the rubber is left behind. The sepa-
ration is only partial; but the remov-
al of the fiber is generally complete
enough for practical purposes.

There are, however, some materials
in which the fiber is so intimately in-
corporated with the rubber that it
can not be separated by mechanical
means. In such cases the grinding is
continued until the fiber is
to a powder, which remains in the
recovered rubber, as the fiber is de-
stroyed by chemical means. The
chemical reagents used differ accord-
ing to the nature of the fiber.

Vegetable matter is destroyed by
treatment with an acid, generally
sulphuric acid, or an acid salt, fol-
lowed by heating. The decomposed
fiber can then be washed out, togeth-
er with such mineral matter as is
soluble in the acid used. For the
destruction of animal fiber, such as
wool, an alkaline solution is prefera-
ble, followed by drying and subse-
quent washing. Although India rub-
ber is less acted upon by both acids
and alkalis than the fiber with which
it is mixed, yet there is always suffi-
cient action to deteriorate considera-
bly the quality of the recovered prod-
uct.

Innumerable attempts have been
made to recover rubber by dissolv-
ing the waste in a suitable solvent;
but most of these have failed, owing
to the fact that vulcanized rubber be-
comes insoluble in the usual solvents
for raw rubber. It will swell in many
liquids, but will not dissolve till sucha
degree of heat is applied that the

reduced |

 

30

rubber itself is decomposed. Vulcan-
ized rubber can be converted into a
homogeneous mass by superheating,
but this causes a
the rubber

product can be used in admixture with

decomposition of
itself, and, although the
fresh rubber, and has even great ce-
mentitious powers, it is deficient in
elasticity and tensile strength. Many
of the varieties of recovered or re-
generated rubber in the market are in
reality overheated, while some are
overworked.

In spite of the poor quality of the

irubber recovered by the old process,

the trade in this article is consider-
able, especially in the United States.
No less than 40,600 tons of waste

rubber were imported into the United
States last year. The recovered rub-
ber exported amounted to 380 tons,
of which Great Britain took 211 tons.
—N. ¥Y. Commercial.
——_.- 2 __

to attribute to foes the
faults.

Fe is
failures

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For Ladies, Misses and Children
Corl, Knott & Co., Ltd.

20, 22, 24, 26 N. Div. St., Grand Rapids.

easy
due to our own

 

 

 

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Moore & Co.

Wholesale Dry Goods

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DETROIT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

MEN OF MARK.

Amos S. Musselman, President Na-
tional Grocer Co.

Wise is the builder who is capable
of designing a structure and fortunate
is he if he may be privileged to par-
ticipate in its erection. When the
foundation on which the structure is
to stand is laid he should see that
every detail of the work is properly
carried out and at each subsequent
stage must he be on hand and exer-
cise that discriminating care and su-
pervision without perfection
can not be achieved. If the coveted
goal, perfection, is to be reached it
is necessary that he direct the opera-
tions, watch every detail, see that
every part of the building is satis-
factorily completed before subsequent
additions thereto shall be begun, to
leave no flaw behind which may re-
sult in the undoing of his labor. With-
out the exercise of this high degree
of concern may creep in carelessness of
construction to nullify all the anxious
thought and watchful labor that have
been expended.

which

Many worthy enterprises are aban-
doned or left incomplete because the
attention and interest of the originator
are allowed to waver. Concentration
of every energy and application un-
til the project has
carried to a successful

been
conclusion or
admitted failure are necessary quali-
fications for those who achieve more
than ordinary success or position.
The originator must follow closely
the lines that he has designed, giv-
ing no greater heed to the gratuitous
advice or recommendations of others
than meets with his approval and co-
incides with his own judgment. Of-
fers of and
greater honors must be weighed in
the balance with the aims, hopes and
endeavors which beckoned at the be-
ginning, and on the comparative
showing made must the decision ul-
timately be based.

Not all the universe
will make a success of a man destin-
ed to failure nor, on the other hand,
can the difficulties and obstacles which
circumstances sometimes build up in
the path of the ambitious serve as ef-
fectual bars to their progress. If wise
be the man who understands what he
wants and how he is going about it,
then doubly wise is he who is equip-
ped with that saving grace of phi-
losophy and that indescribable attri-
bute which enables him to understand
and appreciate his fellows and to
bind them to him and his interests
with the substantial bonds of friend-
ship, based on a proper recognition
of their rights and their welfare which
always secures mutual respect.

conceived

greater remuneration

logic of the

The only kind of business success
worthy of the name is that which
permits of the accumulation of a
fortune and the retention of old
friendships and, what is’ probably
more to the point, the perpetuation
of the disposition and character which
distinguished the builder
project was begun.

when the

Amos S. Musselman was born on
a farm eight miles from Gettysburg,
Pa., October 19, 1851. He attended
common school until he was I5 years
of age, when he entered the
sylvania College, at

Penn-
Gettysburg,

 

where he pursued the classical course
The death of his
father compelled him to leave college
take the
farm, on which he remained’ two
years, when he resumed his studies
at the Gettysburg College. The panic
of 1873 resulted in the failure of an
enterprise with which he was_ con-
nected and in which he had invested
his entire means, necessitating a
change in his plans for the future,
and he thereupon entered Eastman’s
Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., whither he went in 1875. He took
the entire commercial course at this
institution, and was so proficient on
graduation that he was engaged to
teach in the banking and business de-
partment of the institution. In Oc-
tober, 1876, Mr. Musselman came to

for three years.

and management of the

? Amos S.

 

 

business on
This copart-
five years,
when Mr. Musselman purchased the

Loveridge, opened for
South
nership continued for

Division street.

interests of his partners and formed
a copartnership with William Widdi-
comb under the style of Amos S.
Musselman & Co. Three years later
the firm mame became Mussel-
man & Widdicomb, and the place
of business was changed to its pres-
ent location, in the Blodgett building
on South Ionia street. In February,
1893, Mr. Widdicomb retired from the
business and the firm was succeeded
by a corporation, with a paid-in cap-
ital stock of $70,000, of which Mr.
Musselman was the President and
General Manager. As an evidence of
the esteem in which he was held by

the business public it is only neces-

Musselman

 

Grand Rapids, and accepted a _ posi-
of Graff & Mc-
Skimmin, jobbers of teas, coffees and

tion with the firm

spices at 56 Kent street, representing
Mr. Peter Graff, whose entire time
was engrossed by his milling inter-
ests. The firm subsequently purchas-
ed the wholesale grocery establish-
ment of Samuel Fox & Co., and Mr.
Musselman remained with the house
until January, 1879, when he resigned
to take the position of book-keeper
with Hibbard & Graff, who were at
that time the leading flour millers
of the city. On the failure of this
firm, in February, 1881, Mr. Mussel-
man decided to embark in the whole-
sale grocery business, and in June of
that year the firm of Fox, Mussel-
man & Loveridge, composed of James
Fox, Amos S. Musselman and L. L.

 

sary to refer to the fact that his as-
sociates in the company included men
of large means and great shrewdness,
and that when it was known he was
to have the management of a newly-
organized grocery company many of
the leading financiers of the city were
among those whose application for
stock could not be granted.

So prosperous was the house and

so aggressive was the management
that two branch houses were sub-
sequently established—one at Trav-

erse City, under the management of
Howard <A. Musselman, and another at
Sault Ste. Marie, under the manage-
ment of John Moran. Both of these
houses soon came to be strong fac-
tors in their respective localities and
carved out for themselves careers
quite as creditable, relatively speak-

 

ing, as that enjoyed by the Grand
Rapids house.

Mr. Musselman was one of the
chief factors in the organization of
the National Grocer Co. and was
elected First Vice-President. About
two years ago he was elected Presi-
dent of the organization in place of
Mr. Higginbotham, since which time
he has had the management of the
business.
of thirteen different houses and the
annual sales aggregate $9,000,000.

Mr. Musselman has been a mem-
ber of the Westminster Presbyterian nee
church ever since he came to Grand
Rapids, and is one of its most prom-
inent and hard-working members. He
took an active part in the organiza-
tion of the Madison Avenue Presby-
terian church, of which he was practi-
cally the founder. When he took
hold of the project there was only
a small Sunday school.
is a prosperous and growing church

society, located in a building of its ;

own.

Mr. Musselman is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, including the
Knights Templar, the Knights of
Pythias, Royal Arcanum
Peninsular and Kent Country Clubs.
He is a member of the Board of
Trustees of the Michigan Reforma-
tory at Tonia, which he has served
since he was first appointed by Gov-
ernor Pingree.

Mr. Musselman was married in 1877 |
to Miss Ella Hostetter, of Lancaster,
Penn. For many years they resided
in a comfortable home at 38 South
Prospect street, but about two years
ago they purchased a tract of land
on Robinson road, overlooking Fisk
Lake, on which they have erected one
of the most beautiful and commo-
dious country houses in Michigan. No
children have come to grace the fam-
ily circle, but both are fond of chil-
dren and they frequently entertain
them at their home.

Mr. Musselman was for
years Vice-President of the Grand
Rapids National Bank, but subse-
quently identified himself with the
Fourth National Bank, which he
serves well and faithfully in the ca-
pacity of director. He is an officer
and director in the Boyne City Lum-
ber Co. and Boyne River Power Co.
and connected, financially and_ offi-
cially, with numerous other leading

essences eet NS ELE NEA

several ii

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and the ¢

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industrial and manufacturing institu-
tions.

Mr. Musselman was a charter mem-
ber of the Grand Rapids Board of
Trade and has been a director of the
Board of Trade ever since it was or-
ganized, and has also served the or-
ganization in the capacity of Presi-
dent and Treasurer. He has also act-

ed as Chairman of the Committee on 4

Statistics and the record he made in
that office caused him to be selected
by the Census Bureau, on the rec-
ommendation of ‘the Board of Trade,
as the most eligible person to pre-
pare the manufacturing statistics of
this city for the general census of
1890. This duty was discharged so
acceptably as to win for him the en-
comiums of the Census Department.

Mr. Musselman has given cheer-
fully and largely of both time and

money to every good project which: a

has been brought to his attention.
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city, commercial, moral or spiritual,
receives his deepest sympathy and
earnest support.

Mr. Musselman is a firm believer in
heredity and so takes no credit to
himself for being the man he is, but
modestly attributes his success to his
ancestry, which was of good old
Dutch stock, from which so many of
our best citizens sprung. That he
is an honor to his ancestors and
training will be admitted by all who
know him.

During the recent senatorial cam-
paign conducted in the interest of
William Alden Smith, Mr. Musselman
acted as chairman of the Executive
Committee and much of the success
of the campaign was due to the ener-
gy with which he directed the work
of the several committees and hun-
dreds of workers. On the successful
termination of the struggle Mr. Mus-
selman’s name naturally came into
prominence in connection with the
office of Governor and many of his
friends are urging him to stand as a
candidate. Whether he will finally
yield to these importunities remains
to be seen.

——_+-~<____
Magnet Lifts Six Tons.

Electro-magnets are much used in
connection with cranes and other con-
veyors for lifting heavy pieces of
iron or steel. The Illinois Steel Com-
pany has a magnet weighing 1,200
pounds, which lifts six tons. In
Belgium magnets are used to lift tons
of hot metal in founderies and roll-
ing mills.

The power of the electro- magnet
is regulated by the switch controlling
the current. The magnet is lowered
to the object needed, with the cur-
rent turned off. When the switch is
closed the magnet becomes active,
holds the articles to be lifted while
they are raised and transported to
their destination. When they are
lowered the switch is opened and the
magnet immediately releases them.
As the operator of the crane controls|B
the action of the magnet through the
switch, this one man can attend to
all the details of transferring heavy
metal objects. No assistant is need-
ed to attach them to the conveyor
or to release them when they reach
their destination Technical World
Magazine.

——
Nineteen Hour Days.

“Our hours,” said a nature student,
“are nothing to the birds. Why, some
birds work in the summer nineteen
hours a day. Indefatigably they clear
the crops of insects.

“The thrush gets up at 2:30 every
summer morning. He rolls up_ his
sleeves and falls to work at once.
And he never stops until 9:30 at night,
a clean nineteen hours. During that
time he feeds his voracious young 206
times.

“The blackbird starts work at the
same time as the thrush, but he ‘lays
off earlier. His whistle blows at
7:30, and during his seventeen hour
day he sets about too meals before
his kiddies.

“The titmouse is up and about by
3 in the morning, and his stopping
time is 9 at night. A fast worker, the
titmouse is said to feed his young
417 meals—meals of caterpillar, main-
ly—in. the long, hard, hot day.”

 

Hardware Price Current

 

 

AMMUNITION.
Caps.
G. D., full count, per m.............. 40
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m............. 50
Musket. DOP Me. oo... eae ae. 75
Ely’s Waterproof, per m.............. 60
Cartridges.
INO. 22 short, per W..... oc. os oe 2 50
No. 22 long, Der M...... sonst ce ee 3 00
NWO. 32 ShOrt. per Mi. oes. eee 5 00
INO: Sc lone Per Mi... eo... sel. 5 75
Primers.
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m...... 1 60
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..1 60
Gun Wads.

Black Edge, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M. C... 60
Black Edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m.... 70
Black Edge, No. 7, per m............ 80

Loaded Shells.

New Rival—For Shotguns.

Drs. of oz. of Size Per
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 4 lly 10 10 $2 90
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
128 4 1% 8 10 2 90
126 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00
200 3 I 10 12 2 50
208 3 1 8 12 2 50
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65
265 3 1% 5 12 2 70
264 4 2 2 70

3% 1 1
Discount, one-third and five per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded.

No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64

Gunpowder.
Wees 25 IbS:., per Kem ..:2............ 4 75
le Kegs, 12% Ibs., per % keg......... 2 75
% Kegs, 6144 Ibs., per 4 keg ...... -1 50
Shot
In sacks containing 25 Ibs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than B........ 210

AUGERS AND BITS
SOUS ce cee cee cece ceacececs ce case GM
Jennings’ genuine

Pee ee ener eeeerecceece

Jennings’ imitation ....... Dee ee vege 50
AXES

First Quality, S. B. Bronze ......- 6 00

Bronze .........9 00

First Quality, D. B.
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel ........7 00

First Quality, D. B. Steel .......... 10 56
BARROWS
Railroad §..2....... ice Cobla gees crs oc 16 00

 

IRON
Bar Iron oo... ck cece ieee cca 2 25 rate
Tight Band .......2............. 3 00 rate
KNOBS—NEW LIST
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings ...... 75
Door, Porcelain, Jap. trimmings .... 85
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis. 50
METALS—ZINC
G00 mound GCasnS . 2.2... <0... 2.58. 91%
Per POUnG 22 10
MISCELLANEOUS
Pk @aGCS ec. 40
Bitmps: Cistern. 2. ccc ce ecu, 75
morews New lst... 2. ic. co... 874
Casters, Bed and Plate ...... 50&10&10
Dampers. American ~....:.2......5.... 00
MOLASSES GATES
srennins Pattern... .. 3c: 8k. 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring .......... 30
PANS
Uy ACM oe
Common. polished ................. 70&10

PATENT PLANISHED IRON
“A’’ Wood's pat. plan'd, No. 24-27..10 80
“B" Wood's pat. plan’d. No, 25-27.. 9 80
Broken packages %c per tb. extra.

PLANES
Ohio Pool Co's faney ...............; 40
Seto Beneh 25)... -- §&@
Sandusky Tool Co.’s fancy .......... 40
Bench, first quality ......... 6.02.6... 45

NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel & ay
mc@er Nails, Nase - 20.0... . 2.1.6... 00
Wine nails) base o.oo... ee. ll, 3 35
20° £0 GO AG@VANCe. 2.0.5... ck cece ee. Base
10 TO TG advance .... 2.66.55. ec kl.
 (MGNAMCe. oc ccc ceca eek
G AQVaOnee oo. oe te - 20
G SOVANCE oll. Saeec ecu - 30
BEG Vic CG oe ee el Sea es ce . 4
@ GQOVGNCe oo. ee eo ioc ck. 70
HiNG @ AQVANEO .. 3. 8... ee. 50
Casme 10 a@vance .... 2... ccc cw cs ce 15
Casa & @QVance ... 6.55. c cles ce « 20
Casime G AGVANCE ... 2.6... ec ce cae cece 35
Hinish 10 advance ...........0.ccccuc 25
Hamish -& a@vance ..... 2. occa cca wc 35
Finish 6 advance ..... eu cechecee ccs ce . &
Barrell % advance ........ Shee ee oe $5

RIVETS
PFON ANG tINNGE 22. 6. ook kk cc es cence 50
Copper Rivets and Burs ............. 30

ROOFING PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean ............ 7 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean .......... 9 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean .......... 15 00

14x20, IC, Charcoal,
14x20 IX, Charcoal,
20x28 IC, Charcoal,

Allaway Grade 7 50
Allaway Grade 9 00
Allaway Grade 15 00

20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade 18 00
Garden ROPES
St BOLTS Sisal, 4 inch and larger ............. 9%
ONG) coco ee Wal eee oe sella.
Savecceeseupegueuces: AG SAND PAPER
ae a — eC ae GG List acct. 19 “SG .................. dis. 50
BUCKETS SASH WEIGHTS
Well, plain ...... Die dewedsic weet ua. 4 60|Solid Eyes, per ton ................. 30 00
BUTTS, CAST SHEET IRON
Cast Loose, Pin, figured ....... ace) MeeINos. 10 to 14000 ee, 3 60
Wrought, narrow <................... WGP Mos 15 tO Fe oo ool. 3 70
CHAIN IOS, ES CO 2) ee 3 90
INOS: 22°10 28 ic een ae cw ccs 3 00
% in. 5-16 a 5a Oe ee HG be HG oon ces anc cnc aes 4 00
Common =e ae 5%C 5 §-10¢ | N° a... LL. 4 10
BB... see eee 8igc....7H4C... 1 c 8% ¢|" All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30
BBB. ........ C....8 C....7%C..7 Clinches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
CROWBARS SHOVELS AND SPADES
Cast Steel, per ID. .......---.e eee eee Mite Ginde Waa ..-............-2..: 6 50
CHISELS Secand Grade. Doz. ................:- 5 75
Socket oe De heee cede cusses ccuuees = SOLDER
Socket Framing .... a ia eke tcc 30
Socket Corner ............ San ieeen ges 65) “Wie prices of the many other qualities
Socket SHCKM -: 22 5..532-..-.4-5..-- 2 « 65 of solder in the market indicated by pri-
ELBOWS vate brands vary according to compo-
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz... 2.65 net 65 sition.
Corrugated, per QAR ooo iki cagcceas SQUARES
Adjustable .......... levee es eee u sie s0a10 Steel and Iron .......... .60-10-5
EXPANSIVE BITS TIN—MELYN GRADE
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 ..... «+ 4@|10x14 IC, Charcoal .........-..2-<s-- 10 50
Ives’ 1, $18; 2,-$24; 3, cochipeaccace ae} 14020 IC Charcoal ..:...........-.-- 10 50
FILES—NEW LIST HOmr4 EX. Chareoal .................. 12 00

New American see erates eee. Ae

Nicholson’s ......... ee ee eee e ccc ac
Heller’s Horse Rasps ............. 70
GALVANIZED IRON.

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 37, 28
List 2 13 14 15 16 17
Discount, 70.

GAUGES

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... -6Odr 10
GLASS

Single Strength, by box .........dis. 90

Double Strength, by box ........dis. 90
By the light .......-seseeseeeesecs dis. 90
HAMMERS

le & Co.’ 8 ner Hat ...... dis. 33%
. - Plumbd's .......-. ---dis, 40&10
Mason’s Solid "Cast Steel ...... 30c list 70

HINGES
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3 .......+.. .dis. 60&10
Pots 50
Kettles 50
Spiders 50
Common 50

 

HORSE NAILS
coeeaees ae secceccees Gis. 40&10

Au Sable .

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS

Stamped Tinware, new list .......... 70
Japanene TTPANWOTO oo 6c cccecccrene cc bee

 

Each additional X on this grade..
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE

bOxt¢ IC. Charcoal ............26... 9 00
n4x20 IC Charcoal ......-..sscccs ces 9 OL
$Ox14 EX. Charcoal .... 2.00... .6c.000- 10 50
$4020 EX, Charcoal . occ sp cccncescce cs 10 50

Each additional X on this grade..1 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
14x56 IX., for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per Ib. 13

TRAPS
Sreel Game 2.22 oc ied. ccc ee senses

Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 4&10
Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s. san

Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ......
Mouse, delusion, per doz............. 1 26
WIRE
Bright Market .......... Coueas Goce eee 60
Annesiced Market .....ccccccciscacccs 60
Coppered Market ...........seseeeee 50&10
Mined: WMGYERCO. oo. nck cc wc cec cece -50&10

Coppered Spring Steel ...............

Barbed Fence, Galvanized ........... 2 85

Barbed Fence, PSIG 2... cs 4 ese 2 55

WIRE GOODS

rigMG 2.20. cis ec nes Da oe sue eoacgee . 80-10

Screw WVGR oc... cans ccdaccs «ede cee « caeene

FEQORS |... ccs cceacnees Wescecececeasu seed

Gate as ‘and Eyes medecycceeacess 80-10
; WRENCHES

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled . «erecee

Coe’s Genuine ...

 

edcediwaseusies 0 2000, any one conor wa
Cer’s Patent “asricaiture), Wreovekt. 70-18 & :

Crockery and Glassware

appa cas rc a
STONEWARE
No charge for packing.
Butters
Ma Gal: per Gon (222... 52
£ tO © gal per dos. 2... ..2:....., bY
4S Bal CHEN... occ 60
MO Mal Caen oe) sg, 7a
ba Sal, GAG ..,. 2.1... sl. 90
I6 gal. meat tubs, each .....-..... 1 2
40 gal meat tubs. .each ........... 1 70
+ mal. meat tubs, exeh ..........: 22
$0 gal. meat tubs, each ..........., 2 835
Churns
= t0 G gal per eal... 4... The
Churn Dashers, per doz............. 84
Milkpans
4% gal. flat or round bottom, per ag 52
1 gal. flat or round bottom each. 6%

Fine Glazed Milkpans
2 gal. flat or round bottom, per ae 60

1 gal. flat or round bottom, each. 7
Stewpans
* gal. fireproof, bail, per doz...... &
gal. fireproof, bail per dozg........1 16
Jugs
Mmak per doe ..2. 7.2... 2. 68
% Gal. per dog. ...............2...., 61
i t@ & fal per gal |... 8%
SEALING WAX
: “4 doz.
Pontius, each stick in carton........ 40
: LAMP BURNERS
ING. O Sim ..0... 2. 38
No ESua |. .3.... 40
No. 2 Sum ........., . tetgececcas
Noo Sun ..... 1.1)... aa 87
DOMMAE <4, Ge
IUGR: &t
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps
RIES oie a< Ta
Quar CS eee. Mo ees eeedceua 5 80
% oe he Ch ewe endececads cucadec cus < 70
CO ics cc ese caucs ue %

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconas.
Per box of 6 dos.
Ancher Carton Chimneys
Hach chimney in cerrugated tube
No. 0, Crimp top...... 7
No. 2 Cina fOb 22... 2.1.5.2... 1 85
No. 2, Crimp ton ............. Sbawaus 2 85
Fine Flint Glass in Cartons
No. © Crimp top ............... eee.
No. Ft Crimp tap .........2... saceuce ae
Ne. 2 Crimp tom ..:...........5......4 18

Lead Flint Glass in Cartons
No. ©, Crimp top <................. 8%
No. 1, Crimp top ............ oe
No. 2, Crimp top . oe te yee acccaccle Oe
Pear! Top in Cartons
No. 1, wrapped and labeled .........4 6¢
No. 4, wrapped and label eccccecl &

Rochester in Cartons
No. 2 Fine Flint, 10 in. (85¢ do:

--4 60
No. 2, Fine Flint, 12 in. a 35 omni 7
No. 2, Lead Flint, 10 in. (95c doz. 8
No, 2, Lead Flint, 12 in. ($1. 86 dez.) 8 7

Electric in Cartons
No. 2, Lime (75e doz.) .... adacee
No. 2, Fine Flint, (85¢ doz.) cea cae
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Present Conditions Compared With
Those of Earlier Periods.

A prominent operator was in a
reminiscent mood when I met him
the other day, and as | rather enjoy
contrasting present conditions and
experiences with those of earlier peri-
ods I soon became an intent listener,
venturing to ask a question now and
then to keep up the interest.

“Say, young fellow, do you remem-
ber those years when we had 14@15c
prices for finest creamery in the sum-
mer—that year for instance when the
quotation, based upon the selling val-
ue of the butter, was 15c for ten con-
secutive weeks?” was the way my
friend went at me. Continuing he
said: “What a time that was, and yet
it was probably the most destruct‘ve
to the dairy interests of anything that
has happened in twenty years. It
simply discouraged every farmer who
had a dairy, and they began to give
up keeping cows. I met an old fel-
low out Iowa who had a good
farm, well stocked, and I asked him
whether it paid to milk cows when he
got so little for the butterfat. ‘No
sir,’ was his quick reply, ‘and you bet
I ain’t agoing to do it. Neither my
boys nor me will pull teats at them
prices.’ A year later I saw him again
and he had sold more than half his
herd. That was the
however, and

in

turning point,
have had _ better
prices every year since, and it is my
firm conviction that the production of
butter is not keeping pace with the
increased consumption due to the
larger population the country,
Think of 15¢c for June butter in 1897,
20@2Ic in 1906, and an average of
23@25c for June, 1907.

we

of

“But the improvement in values
for farmers’ butter has been equally
as great. In those days when farm
separators were not much in use,
and there was no way of working
over the ‘packing stock’ as it is call-
ed, except by the ladle packers, it
was no uncommon thing to buy car-
loads of the farmers’ butter at 8@1oc
per pound New York. I am inform-
ed that one of our tropical packers
had at one time nearly half a mil-
lion pounds of this stock that cost
between toc and tic. That wasn’t
sO many years ago after all. Com-
pare the prices that are now paid and
tell me, if you can, what has caused
the change. Well, I’ll tell you what
I think about it. The introduction
of the farm separators was perhaps
the first important thing to bring
about the change. It gave farmers an
opportunity to separate the cream at
home and the creamery agents were
soon on hand to buy this cream to
ship to some central point for churn-
ing, leaving the good skimmilk for
the farmer to feed to his stock. This
has materially lessened the quantity of
butter made in the private dairy on
the farm. When the method of re-
handling this farmers’ butter by
melting, rechurning, etc., was discov-
ered, and the packing stock of the

country so manipulated as to make
a palatable table butter, it enhanced
the value of the dairy butter at least
50 per cent., some years even more.
Look what the packing stock of the
country
at Far Western shipping points, and
up to 20c or more at Chicago. The
process or renovated factories are
the big buyers, and they store mil-
lions of pounds of these goods dur-
ing the summer to work over when
the fall and winter trade sets in.

“Don’t think that I am a Rip Van-
winkle, just waking from a sleep of
twenty years, to discover’ these
mighty changes, for I am not. I
have been in the heat of the fight and
have watched intently the develop-
ment of these changes; and I want
to say to you candidly that the fel-
lows who come after us—those who
are here twenty-five years from now
—will see even greater changes than
I can recall. Put that down in your
note book, and some day I'll talk
with you again.”"—N. Y. Produce
Review.

2+. ___

The people who are climbing ‘nto
the ecclesiastical band wagon are not
the ones who are amking the heaven-
ly music in this world.

 

 

 

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Dairy .Feeds

are wanted by dairy-
men and stockfeed-
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mik producing
value. We make
these a specialty:

Cotton Seed Meal
0. P. Linseed Meal
Gluten Feed
Dried Brewers’ Grains
Malt Sprouts Molasses Feed
Dried Beef Pulp
(See quotations on page 44 of this paper)

Straight car boads;
mixed cars with flour
and feed, or local
shipments. Samples
if you want them.

Don’t forget
We Are Quick Shippers

 

 

Established 1883

WYKES & CO.

FEED MILLERS
Wealthy Ave. and Ionia St.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

 

 

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Manufacturers of
Band Instruments and
Music Publishers

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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We buy and sell anything in the Fruit and
Produce lines. Ready to buy of you or ship goods
to you any time. Let’s hear from you.

YUILLE-MILLER CO.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

     
 
    

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We handle nothing but eggs; we study nothing but eggs; we think of
nothing but eggs; we give our whole time to eggs. That’s why our service is
so good—why it is better than you can get elsewhere. THEN WHY NOT
SHIP TO US?

Stencils and cards furnished on application.

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

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

MILLET

If in the market ask for samples and prices.

 

 

 

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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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.
W. C. Rea A. J. Witzig
PRODUCE COMMISSION
104-106 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y.
We solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Live and Dressed Pouitry é
Beans and Potatoes. Correct and prompt returns.
REFERENCES
Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, = ress Companies; Trade, Papers and Hundreds of
ppers
Established 1873
We are in the market every day in the year for
Packing Stock Butter. Write or wire us for prices,
or let your shipments come along direct to the )
factory and get outside prices at all times.
We are also manufacturers of fancy Renovated and

 

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in any quantity, 60 pound and 30 pound tubs or | pound
prints. Write for prices.

   
    
  
  

 
 
  
  
 

American Farm Products Co.
Owosso, Mich.

   
  

   

 

  

Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.
The estimate of egg stocks made
by the Daily Trade Bulletin, of Chi-
cago, shows the increase in total
holdings on August I was about 25
per cent. as compared with last year.
The compilers give the holdings in
New York State as 1,010,300 cases,
which seems low if the Jersey City
holdings are figured in with those of
New York City, which is usually
done. We had about 872,000 cases in
New York and Jersey City August 1
and the addition of stocks at Buffalo,
Albany, Troy and Interior New York
houses would certainly make a total
far above the preceding estimate.

The Trade Bulletin estimate for
Illinois is 1,125,442 cases, which is
considerably less than the estimates
for Chicago alone that have come
to us from Chicago operators; but, as
we have before pointed out, the Chi-
cago estimates heretofore printed by
us have been out of harmony with
the reports of receipts at that point
and the Trade Bulletin estimate is
more in line with the probabilities.
With uncertainty of Chicago holdings
and the wide range in the estimates
there is, of course, an element of
doubtfulness in the general position
of the market, but the general infor-
mation obtainable makes the Trade
Bulletin estimate of a total increase
of 25 per cent. over last year look
at least conservative.

The decrease in volume of fresh
egg movement during August has
been favorable to holders of storage
goods and has led to a greater out-
put of the latter than is often realized
in August, if, indeed, it has not been
greater than ever before recorded—
as it certainly has been in
places. It now looks as if Boston
will wind up the month with nearly
50,000 cases reduction from her high-
est point and New York’s August re-
duction promises to be fully 60,000
or a little more. The stock going
into consumption has, naturally, con-
sisted chiefly of the cheaper goods—
such as were put away during June
and July—but has included a moder-
ate quantity of moderate priced May
packings and a few cars of Aprils.
The opportunity to move refrigera-
tors has been rather eagerly seized
by holders and there is a very large
quantity of stock available at about
present prices. The comparatively
free early movement has given a

some

good many of the trade a more hopeful

feeling as to outcome of the season’s
storages, but the present situation,
while immediately satisfactory, is not
without some rather unfavorable fea-
tures, which should not be overlook-
ed. The shortening supply of fine
fresh eggs has forced prices for such
to a point where consumptive demand
is quite likely to be affected, and al-
ready some of our local dealers are
complaining of a lessening output.

It is unfortunate that consumers
can not more universally get the
benefit of retail prices for eggs in
fair relation to.their actual whole-
sale value. As fresh laid eggs be-
come scarce, and advance to high
prices under the demands of a fas-
tidious class of trade, there are many
retailers who take advantage of the
wide difference in price between fresh
and storage eggs to substitute the

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

latter for the former and make big
profits at the expense of the general
market. It is by this means, largely,
that free consumption is restricted
and holders of storage eggs in first
and second hands are deprived of the

full outlet to which the moderate
price of their goods should entitle
them.

If the consuming public could gen-
erally secure the good to fancy stor-
age eggs now offering on the whole-
sale market at a range of, say, 18@
2Ic at the lowest retail prices that
would afford a fair profit, there would
be strong probability of maintaining
the recent large scale of consump-
tion; but fresh eggs that now sell at
say 20@22c cost jobbers considerably
more than that when candled out and
they are obliged to charge retailers
about 27c for the No. 1 grade; and
this makes a retail price so high as
to invite a trade killing substitution.

If any one can suggest a cure for
this unfortunate evil we should like
to hear it.

The Board of Health is still onthe
warpath here in the effort to stop the
sale of spot eggs in consumptive
channels. And we understand that
the inspectors are- now inclined to
seize and condemn any lots of infe-
rior country packed stock that con-
tain an excessive proportion of spots
and rots. Under these conditions
eggs that contain many of these un-
salable rejections—even if not enough
to condemn them totally—are strong-
ly discriminated against by buyers and
the presence of the worthless eggs
seriously detracts from the value of
the better goods with which they are
mixed. The necessity for country
candling—-at least to the extent of
getting out the rots and spots, and
such poor eggs as are likely to be-
come spots in transit—is becoming
more and more urgent-—N. Y. Prod-
uce Review.

—_———o-o-_ a

Judge Landis evidently made an un-
intentional error in fixing the amount
of the Standard Oil fine. The rail-
road rate for shipping oil was ‘six
cents per Ioo pounds in carload lots.”
The Judge assumed a carload lot as
the unit offense, and as 1,462 carload
lots had been shipped at the unlaw-
ful rate, he imposed the maximum
fine of $20,000 for each carload thus
shipped. But the rate was by the Ioo
pounds. It was equally open to him
to assume that each hundred pounds
shipped at six cents constituted a dis-
tinct violation of the law. This would
have made 292,400 separate and dis-
tinctive violations, which at $20,000
each, amounts to $5,848,000,000.
These are figures that might stagger
even the great octopus, but if the
statement is correct that whatever the
cost may be it will eventually come
out of the people in an advance in
oil, it will be best to let the fine stand
as the sensational Judge made it.

——_. >.

The saddest infidelity is being faith-

less to the best we know.

 

 

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.

 

 

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APPLE BARRELS

Can deliver anywhere in Michigan.
Get our prices before purchasing.

GRAND RAPIDS COOPERAGE CO.

Manufacturers of Barrels and Dealers in
Slack Barrel Cooperage Stock.

310 SOUTH FRONT ST. BOTH PHONES GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Potato Bags

new and second hand.
ceived.

Shipments made same day order is re-
I sell bags for every known purpose.

ROY BAKER

Wm. Alden Smith Building Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

We Need More Fresh Eg’¢'s

Until Sept. 6 will pay 17 cents, delivered in Grand
Rapids, for fresh eggs. Write or phone

C. D. CRITTENDEN CO.
41-43 S. Market St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Established 1894. Always in the market for

Fresh Eggs and All Grades of Dairy Butter

Get prices and mark shipments to
F. E. STROUP, Successor to Stroup & Carmer, Grand Rapids, Mich.

A New Member

Mr. Wilbur S. Burns, State agent for Oak Leaf Soap, has purchased an
interest with us and we are now in a better position than before to handle your
consignments. We buy and pay cash for your poultry, butter, eggs,
cheese, veal and lambs.

Bradford-Burns Co.

Successors to Bradford & Co.

 

 

 

7 N. lonia Street

References:

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Commercial Savings Bank and Mereantile Agencies.

 

 

 

 

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SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN

 

Michael V. Foley, the Veteran Cigar
Salesman.

Michael V. Foley was born at Du-

His fa-

ther was an Irishman and his mother

buque, Iowa, May 21, 1841.

was a native of Kentucky. He was
educated at Sinsinawa College, Grant
county, Wisconsin, near Galena, IIl1.,
but at 15 years of age he terminated
his school career and embarked in
steamboating on the Mississippi Riv-
er. On the breaking out of the war
in 1861 he enlisted in the 19th IIli-
nois Infantry at Galena. On the ex-
piration of his first enlistment he re-
enlisted in the 31st lowa Infantry, re-
maining in the service altogether four
years and two months. He never
got higher than the rank of First
Sergeant, owing to the fact that no
officers in his company resigned or
killed. From 1865 to 1883 he
followed steamboating as an occupa-

were

 

 

 

 

 

 

tion, serving in every capacity from
cook to captain. In 1876 he com-
manded the C. J. Peck on a trip
from Pittsburg to Fort Benton, Mon-
tana, a distance of 4,515 miles, being
the longest trip that can be made
by fresh water in this country. In
1881, while in command of the steam-
er Black Hills, he took out of the
Yellowstone 12,037 loose dry Buffalo
skins and 150 bales of furs, being the
largest load of the kind ever taken
out of the Yellowstone region. In
the spring of 1884 he retired from the
river service and traveled for E. J.
Ressegieu, of Sioux City, Iowa, sell-
ing cigars in South Dakota and
Northern Towa for one year. Dur-
ing the next two years he sold ci-
gars for W. S. Conrad, of St. Paul,
covering the same territory. He then
engaged to represent Moshier Bros.,
of Stillwater, Minn., in Minnesota and
Dakota, which he continued to do
for two years, at the expiration of
which time he removed to Saginaw
and engaged to travel from Philadel-
phia to the Pacific coast for the Ben
Hur Cigar Co., which he did _ for
twelve and one-half years. On the

 

termination of his connection with
this house he engaged in the cigar
business in Saginaw at 213 Genesee
avenue, selling out to the trust two
years later and engaging in the tea
and cigar brokerage business, cover-
ing Saginaw and Bay City. In addi-
tion to his other duties he conducts
a temperance pool and billiard room,
which is patronized quite extensively
by the traveling men of the Saginaw
Valley, and which is the common
visiting place for traveling salesmen
who reside in Saginaw or who hap-
pen to be sojourning in that market.
It is not at all strange that this should
be the case when Mike’s individuality
and personality are taken into con-
sideration.

At the recent annual convention of
the Michigan Knights of the Grip,
held at Saginaw, Mr. Foley’ was
elected Secretary of the organization.
He will assume the duties of his new
position January 1, 1908, at which
time the headquarters of the associa-
tion will be removed from Jackson to
Saginaw.

Mr. Foley was married Dec. 21,
1879, to Cornelia A. Hays, of Belle-
vue, Iowa. They reside at 710 Jones
street, Saginaw.

Mr. Foley is an attendant at the
Congregational church and is a mem-
ber of the United Commercial Trav-
elers and of the Foresters, in both
of which organizations he has always
been regarded as a reliable member
and trustworthy adviser.

_—_———— > oo
Why Woren Should Not Sacrifice
Themselves.

Of all the idealist abominations
that make society pestiferous, I doubt
if there be any so mean as that of
forcing self-sacrifice on a woman un-
der pretense that she likes it; and, if
she ventures to contradict the pre-
tense, declaring her no true woman.
In India they carried this piece of
idealism to the length of declaring
that a wife could not bear to survive
her husband, but would be prompted
by her own faithful, loving, beautiful
nature to offer up her own life on the
pyre that consumed his dead body.
The astonishing thing is that women,
sooner than be branded
wretches,

as unsexed
allowed themselves to be
stupefied with drink, and, in that un-
womanly condition, burnt alive.

No man pretends that his soul finds
supreme satisfaction self-sacri-
fice; such an affectation would stamp
him as a coward and weakling. But
men are not the less loved on this
account. No one ever feels helpless
by the side of this self-helper; while
the self-sacrificer always is a drag,
a responsibility, a reproach, an ever-
lasting and unnatural trouble’ with
whom no really strong soul can live.
Only those who have helped them-
selves know how to help others and
to respect their right to help them-
selves.

It is not surprising that our society,
being directly dominated by man,
comes to regard woman not as an
end in herself like man but solely as
a means of ministering to him. The
ideal wife is one who does everything
the ideal husband likes, and nothing
else. Now, to treat a person as a
means instead of an end is to deny
that person’s right to live. Woman,

its in

 

if she dares face the fact that she is
being so treated, either must loathe
herself or else rebel.

The young wife finds that her hus-
band is neglecting her for his busi-
ness; that his interests, his activities,
his whole life except one small part
lie away from home and that her
business is to sit there and mope un-
til she is wanted. Fortunately things
do not remain forever at this point.
The self-respect she has lost as a
wife she regains as a mother, in
which capacity her use and import-
ance in the community compare fav-
orably with those of most men in
business. She is wanted in the house,
wanted in the market, wanted by the
children; and now, instead of weep-
ing because her husband is away in
the city thinking of stocks and shares
instead of his ideal woman, she would
regard his presence in the house all
day as an intolerable nuisance.

This prosaic solution is satisfactory
only within certain limits. It depends
altogether upon the accident of the
woman having natural adaptability
for domestic management and_ the
care of children, as well as upon the
husband being fairly good natured
and livable with. Hence arises the
idealist illusion that adaptability for
domestic management and the care
of children are natural to women and
that women who lack them are not
women at all. If we have come to
think that the nursery and the kitch-
en are the natural sphere of a woman
we have done so exactly as English
children come to think that a cage is
the natural sphere of a parrot—be-
cause they never have seen one any-
where else. No. doubt there are phil-
istine parrots who agree that it is
better to be in a cage than out, so
long as there is plenty of hempseed
and Indian corn there. There
be idealist parrots, who per-
suade themselves that the mission of
1 parrot is to minister to the happi-
ness of a private family by whistling
and saying “Pretty Polly,” and that it
is in the sacrifice of its liberty to
this altruistic pursuit that a true par-
rot finds the supreme satisfaction of
its soul. I will not go so far as to
affirm that there are theological par-

even
may

rots, who are convinced that impris-

onment is the law of the universe written across every
because it 1s unpleasant. But 1 am ee

confident that there are rationalistic

parrots, who can demonstrate that

it would be a cruel kindness to let a
patrot out to fall a prey to cats, or
at least to forget its accomplishments
and coarsen its naturally delicate fib-
ers in an unprotected struggle for
existence.

Still the only parrot a free~souled
person can sympathize with the
one that insists on being let out as
the first condition of making itself
agreeable; a selfish bird, you may
say, one that puts its own gratifica-
tion before that of the happiness of
the family—who. is so fond of it—be-
fore even the greatest happiness of
the greatest number; one that in
aping the independent spirit of man
has unparroted itself and become a
creature that neither has the home
loving nature of a bird nor _ the
strength amd enterprise of a mastiff.
All the same, you respect that par-
rot in spite of your conclusive rea-
soning. Bernard Shaw.

—__o-+
What Mary Said.

Judge Brewer cites a striking ex-
ample of the sort of spoke which the
trickster can insert in the wheels of
justice.

A witness testified in a certain case
that a person named Mary was pres-
ent when a particular conversation
took place, and the question was ask-
ed: “What did Mary say?”’This was
objected to, and after some discussion
the Judge ruled out the question. An
exception to this decision was imme-
diately taken, and on appeal the high-
er court reversed the verdict and or-
dered a new trial on the ground that
the question should have been an-
swered.

At the second trial the same enquiry
was propounded and elicited the in-
formation that Mary said nothing!

“The mile That
Won't Come On”

They all wear it in some
hotels. The moment
you step in HOTEL
LIVINGSTON you see
the word WELCOME

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Power for the Ice Cream Freezer, the Washing Machine and the Sewing
Machine saves time and drudgery in housekeeping.

 

 

 

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$s Illumination for the Merchant extends sales for his goods.

- Heat, for numerous devices, offers Convenience and Cleanliness without
destroying the pure air, so desirable in a merchant's store.

Power saves space, reduces cost of insurance and facilitates the doing of

 

 

business.

se Illumination for the manufacturer increases his production with same
facilities

as Heat for Ovens, Soldering Irons, Glue Pots and numerous other factory
appliances makes the workshop as comfortable as the home.

ee Power turns the wheels of industry toward Prosperity and Success.

a
The Advantages of Electricity

will naturally extend its use among all classes
and with the Proposed New Rates of the

 

Grand-Rapids-Muskegon Power Company

all consumers will share the benefits

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Henry H. Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—W. E. Collins, Owosso.
Treasurer—W. A. Dohany, Detroit.
Other members—John D. Muir, Grand
Rapids, and Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

Examination sessions—Houghton, Aug.
19, 20 and 21; Grand Rapids, Nov. 19, 20
and 21.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-

ion.

President—J. E. Bogart, Detroit.
a Vice-President—D. B. Perry, Bay

ity

Second Vice-President—J. E. Way.
Jackson.

Third Vice-President—W. R. Hall, Man-
istee.

Secretary—E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—H. G. Spring, Unionville.

Executive Committee—J. L. Wallace,
Kalamazoo; M. A. Jones, Lansing; Julius
Greenthal, Detroit; C. H. Frantz, Bay
City, and Owen Raymo, Wayne.

 

Dangers of the Rubber Nipple and
Its Dummy.

The dangerous nature of the long
rubber tube that connected the nipple
with the bottle is now well known,
but the danger of infection, due to
difficulty of thoroughly cleansing, was
not wholly escaped when the long
tube was done away with, as Dr. Ern-
est Wende demonstrated most con-
vincingly several years ago. The doc-
tor found that rubber teats, after they
had been in use for only a short time
and their cleansing had been punc-
tiliously attempted, teemed with mi-
cro-organisms, not only on the sur-
face, but deep in the substance of
the rubber.

 

But it seems that gastrointestinal

disease is not all the evil that the
rubber teat is capable of causing. In
Paediatrics we find an abstract of a
very interesting paper by Dr. Tom
F. Pedley, of Rangoon. Dr. Pedley
fully appreciates the dangers arising
from bacterial contamination of the
rubber teat, but his special purpose
in this paper has been to set forth
certain observations of his own
which make it almost sure that the
use of the rubber teat is apt to lead
to certain deformities of the alveolar
processes which result in an abnor-
mal permanent denture that predis-
poses the child to dental disease and
perhaps to adenoid disease in the
pharynx, also to an irregular forma-
tion of the hard palate.
' These results Dr. Pedley is inclin-
ed to ascribe to the faulty shape of
the teat, whereby the child is forced
to suck its milk instead of squeezing
it into its mouth as it does from the
mother’s breast. “If,” he says, “we
have in the past given this matter a
thought, we have come to the con-
clusion that Nature has especially and
mercifully endowed the infant with
great powers of suction. This is an
error, for the muscles concerned
should not be called upon to do much
more than those of a man drinking
from the hollow of his hand.” He
Suggests as a substitute for the teat
the end of a rubber finger stall large
enough to cover a man’s thumb, but
he adds that a baby three months
old can quite easily be taught to drink
from a cup, and that no harm can
result from a baby’s drinking without
sucking.

The trouble wrought by the rubber

 

teat finds a powerful accessory cause,
in Dr. Pedley’s opinion, in the exces-
sive employment of its dummy, the
baby “comforter,” or “pacifier,” a rub-
ber teatlike device for deluding the
child into the feeling that it is receiv-
ing food and for enabling it to close
its jaws on a soft substance.
——_v-2--e __
Insinuations Are Dangerous.

A case occurred recently in Eng-
land where the druggist had to pay
$500 in damages to a proprietary
manufacturer, on a package of whose
preparation he had attached the fol-
lowing sticker:

Caution: Sold without our recom-
mendation or responsibility and sup-
plied only upon this understanding.

In the course of the trial the drug-
gist said that he preferred to push
his own goods to those of others, but
was practically compelled to keep
articles which were advertised, as
there was “a demand for them from
the gullible public,’ on many of
which, as in the present instance, he
made very little profit. He admitted
that if an extra 2%4 per cent. discount,
for which he had been contending, had
been allowed, the caution label would
not have been used.

It would be policy for druggists
to exercise great care as to the meth-
od they adopt in belittling a prepara-
tion or in any way attempting to dis-
courage its sale. No self-respecting
pharmacist will sell anything that he
knows is a fraud, but at the same
time he has no right to injure an
upright manufacturer’s business even

‘|by insinuation, simply because he does

not make the profit he
should.

thinks he

—_—_»+-2
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is very firm at unchanged
price.

Morphine—Is_ steady.

Quinine—Is firm but unchanged.

Cocoa Butter—Is very firm at the
fecent advance.

Glycerine Continues very firm
with higher tendency.

Balsam Fir—Has advanced and is
tending higher.

Oil Peppermint—Is steadily declin-
ing on account of marketing the new
crop.

Oil Cloves—Has declined on ac-
count of lower price for the spice.

Gum Camphor—Has again declin-
ed and is tending lower.

Gum Aarabics—Are very firm and
tending higher on account of small
stocks.

Linseed Oil—Is very firm and tend-
ing higher on account of higher price
for the seed.

a

Spanish Olive Oil Adulterated:

The increasing adulteration of
Spanish olive oil, particularly with
rape-seed oil, is the subject of strong
complaints in Spain, and government
interference is asked for. The flimsy
suggestion is made that adulteration
should be permitted where the oil is
to be exported, on the ground that
other countries permit such admix-
tures!

 

le
The man who thinks he is weighty
because he is wordy usually is short
weight when it comes to works.
——_2+-.—__-
The church is a shelter for the
sinner; but not for his sins.

 

The Tenure of the Jobber Secure.

Jobbers or wholesale dealers have
always been conspicuous figures in
the commercial affairs of the civilized
world, and so far as it is possible to
look into the future, we may still see
them important factors in commerce

jso long as civilization shall last.

In the earliest times as recorded in
both sacred and profane history we
find the wholesale dealer suiting him-
self to the conditions of the period.
In Genesis it is recorded that a com-
pany of Ishmaelites came from Gil-
ead with their camels bearing spicery
and other articles. These goods, car-
ried across the desert sands, were dis-
tributed among the retailers. The
early Egyptian civilization had its
jobbers, who were men of mark in
their community. Later, in Greece,
Rome, Carthage and all other civiliz-
ed countries, the wholesale dealer
domestic and imported products ap-
pears as a historical figure of great
commercial importance. He was a
distributor. He was something more
than this, for it was a part of his
business duty to seek out from all
quarters of the civilized and known
barbaric world goods for domestic
and export distribution.

What the wholesale dealer of his-
tory was doing in the long ago the
wholesale dealer of to-day is doing.
He was a necessity in the days of
the earliest known civilization, just as
he is a necessity at the present time,
and in view of the fact that he has
endured through the ages it is safe
to suspect he will hold his conspicu-
ous place secure so long as civiliza-
tion shall last.

Times have changed. So has the
jobber. Instead of sending his men
over the hot desert sands on the back
of camels to distribute goods, he
sends his men out to-day in luxurious
sleeping cars to take orders for goods
that follow in fast freight trains or
go by faster express. He touches the
telegraph wire for a train load of
goods to be loaded at a factory a
thousand miles or more away. He
does not have to go on long and te-
dious journeys to look for goods to
distribute. He may sit in his office
and order from every quarter of the
globe. The fast mails, the telegraph
and the telephone, together with fast
trains and fast boats to all parts of
the world, have had their influence
on the business of the jobber.

No class of business men at any
time in the world’s history have been
quicker to seize upon improved meth-

jods and appropriate them to their use

than the jobber. It has ever been
their plan to get goods at first hands,
in large quantities, in the quickest
time possible. To do this it. has been
necessary to anticipate values months
beforehand; to anticipate demand and
general conditions. Because his mar-
gin of profit is small, he must needs
judge accurately and avoid waste of
energy or loss of goods. To get goods
on time, to get them at the lowest
market price and to get them from
distant points at the smallest possible
cost is an important part of the job-
ber’s business. It is his trade to
know when and how to do these
things economically. The machinery
for this branch of his business

changes from time to time, and he

finds it necessary to keep everlast-
ingly at it in order that it shall al-
ways be in good repair and work
smoothly.

In the matter of distribution the
jobber must create and maintain a
most complicated and expensive ma-
chine, of which all the parts must
move in harmony. To sell and dis-
tribute his goods at the least possi-
ble cost, and to deliver them in the
quickest possible time and in the best
condition is the work of this machine.
Opportunity for small leaks and
losses mount into sums representing
a handsome profit. These must be
saved, and in order to save them the
jobber must keep a constant and
watchful eye on his business affairs.
In short, because the jobber has
created and maintains a perfect busi-
ness machine for receiving, selling
and distributing goods economically

mercial world that he can not be
disturbed by those who have not a
jobbers’ organization.
——_~~->—_-—
Her Condition.
A widow, coy and sweet, was
wooed by a bluff old sailor, who
thought the world of her. But not
trusting himself to make a direct pro-
posal of marriage, he decided to speak
to her in the metaphor of the sea.

“Kate,” he said, “your boat is drift-
ing down the sea of life, with no
strong hand to steer it safely past the
rocks. May I be your captain and
sail it for you?”

“No, Jack,” she answered, with an
engaging blush, “but you may be my

7

second mate if you like!

he has such a firm place in the com- .

 

 

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free. Address VETERINARY COLLEGE,
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The sale will be enormous.

 

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Wholesale Drugs
Stationery and Holiday Goods
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Knife or Pain

Dr. Willard M. Burleson

103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids

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WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

 

Acidum
Aceticum .......
Benzoicum, Ger..
BOTSCie . iiss.
Carbolicum .....
Citricum
Hydrochlor .....
Nitrocum ....

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Oxalicum .......
Phosphorium, dil.
Salicylicum ......
Sulphuricum
Tannicum .......
Tartaricum .....
Ammonia

Aqua, 18 deg.....
Aqua, 20 deg. aos

Carbonas ........
Chloridum ......
Aniline
Black .......623¢
Brown ...... ec
OO eevee ieee ecae
WOHOW 2 is el ees: 2
Baccae
Cubebae Seles
Juniperus .......
Xanthoxylum ...
Balsamum
Copatba :.........
Pere ye eo, eo
Terabin, Calada
MPoMtan 266.5556.
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.

Cassiae ...
Cinchona Flava..

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Buonymus atro....

Myrica Cerifera..
Prunus Virgini..
Quillaia, gr’d .

Sassafras. . .po "85
Time cs. ek

Extractum *

Glycyrrhiza Gla..
Glycyrrhiza, po..
Haematox ......
Haematox, Is....
Haematox, Xs ...
Haematox, 4s ..

Ferru

Carbonate Precip.
Citrate and Quina
Citrate Soluble...
Ferrocyanidum §S
Solut. Chloride ..
Sulphate, com’l ..
pes com’l, by
bbl. per cwt. ..
Sulphate, pure ..

Flora
ADRICH 5.356 cs,
Anthemis
Matricaria

Barosma ........
Cassia Acutifol,
Tinnevelly ...
Cassia, Acutifol..
seg officinalis,
Ss an ee
Uva Ursl .2::....

Gummi

Acacia, 1st pkd..
Acacia, 2nd pkd..

Acacia, 3rd_ pkd..
Acacia, sifted sts.
Acacia, ‘po. .....
Aloe Barb .......
Aloe, Cape ......

Aloe, Socotri ....
Ammoniac ......
Asafoetida
Benzoinum . ....
Catechu, 1s _ .....
Catechu, #8 eek

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Catechu,
Cpmphorae .....
Euphorbium :
Galbanum ..... .
Gamboge ....po..1l
Gauiacum ..po 35
ING oes po 45c
WMAGEIG yoo os cause
MYTTh. ccs 5 po 50
a. eicee chee s
SHCNAG. ck... ees
Shellac, bleached
Tragacanth oan
‘Herba
Absinthium ......
Eupatorium oz pk
Lobelia .....02 pk
Majorium ..oz pk
Mentra Pip. oz pk

p
Mentra Ver. oz pk
Rue .....-..0% pk
Tanacetum..V...
Thymus V..o0z pk

Magnesia
Calcined, Pat....
Carbonate, Pat..
Carbonate, K-M.
Carbonate .......
Oleum
Absinthium .....4
Amygdalae Dulc.
Amygdalae, Ama 8

 

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BRIE ic ca acce vcs 1 003
Auranti Cortex. -2 75@2
Bergamii .... eo eo"
Cafiputi Goes eane ee
Road ophiBi ..... 1 35@1
Be ees | OO
Coon oesiaii grees a -
Cinnamoni ......1 1
Citronella ....... és
Conium Mac .... 80

 

 

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Copaiba ......... ; ise =
Cubebae ......... 35@1
Erigeron ....... 2 138302 50
Evechthitos ..... 1 00@1 10
Gaultheria ...... Bo 50@4 00
Geranium ..... 75
Gossippii Sem gal, 70@ 75
Hedeoma ........ 4 00@4 50
Junipera ......... 40@1 20
Lavendula ...... 90@3 60
MONS =....... 0. 75@3 00
Mentha Piper ..2 00@2 25
Menta Verid..... 3 25@3 35
Morrhuae gal 1 60@1 85
Myricia ......... 00@3 50
OHV 065 oo 1 00@3 00
Picis Liquida .... 10@ 12
Picis Liquida gal. @ 40
iene ....6. 0 i635. 1 06@1 10
Rosmarini ...... @1 00
Rosae of. ....... 6 50@7 00
Suecemr: oo. oo c.. 40 45
Sanne. oo. cee c5 a | 00
mantel ©... @4 50
Sassafras . 90 95
fa ess, oz. 65
Pietn ce eo. 10@1 20
TRVMeE 2... 2.635. 40@ — 50
Thyme, opt ..... 1 60
Theobromas ..... 15 20
Potassium
Bi-@arb 222.2087. 15@ 18
Bichromate ..... 13@ 15
Bromide ...... 25@ 30
APO a es 12@ 15
Chlorate ..... po. 12@ 14
CVERIG® 220005008: 30@ 40
Tedide ... 0.02... 2 50@2 60
Potassa. Bitart pr 30@ 32
Potass Nitras opt 7@ 19
Potass Nitras 6@ 8
Prussiate  ....... 23@ 26
Sulphate po ....... 15@18
Radix
Aconitum ....... 20@ 25
ANN@C oii. 20M Bh
AMC@HUSA  .....;.. 10@ 12
Arnm po......... @ 25
Calamus ........ 20@ 40
Gentiana po 15.. 12@ 1°
Glychrrhiza pv 15 16@ 18
Hvdrastis. Canada @1 9F
Hydrastis, Can. po @2 00
Hellebore, Alba. 12@ 15
ula, po .....:.. 18@ 2?
"necaec. po ....... 2 00@M2 10
Tris plox. .......: 35@ 40
Jeans. DF -...<... 25@ 30
Maranta. Ys ... @ 35
Padophyllum po. 15@ 18
MICE oa ic cs 75@1 00
Rhet, cut ....... 1 00@1 25
Wenet, pV. ......-. 75@1 00
Svigella ......... 1 45@1 50
Sanguinari, po 18 @ 15
Serpentaria ..... 50@ 55
Seneen  .200200055. 85@ 90
Smilax, offi’s H.. @ 48
Smilax, M ....... 25
Scillae po 45 20@ 25
Svmplocarpus 25
Valeriana Eng... @ 25
Valeriana, Ger. ... 15@ 20
Aingiber A .......- 12@ 16
Zingiber j ....... 25@ 28
Semen
Anisum po 20 .. @ if
Anium (gravel’s) 13@ 15
Bird. tS oc... 4@ A
Carui po 15 ..... 12@ 14
Cardamon ...... 70@ 90
Coriandrum ..... 12@ 14
Cannabis Sativa 7@
Cydonium ....... 75@1 00
Chenopodium .. 25@ = 30
Dipterix Odorate. 80@1 00
Foeniculum ..... @ 18
Foenugreek, po.. 7@ 9
Pin’ 2.0... 4@ .6
Lini. grd. bbl. 2% 38@ 64
Honea. ..-.. ses 15@ 8&0
Pharlaris Cana’n 9@ 10
Rana 2... 2... 6s 5@ 6
Sinapis Alpe 2.0. ese 8 10
Sinapis Nigra ... 9@ 10
Spiritus
Frumenti W D. 2 00@2 50
Frumenti........ 1 25@1 50
Juniperis Co O T i FAMZ 1%
Juniperis Co. ....1 75@3 50
Saccharum N E 1 90@2 10
Spvt Vini Galli ..1 75@6 5”
Vini Oporto 1 25@2 00
Vini Alba ........ 1 25@2 00
Sponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage ...... 00@3 50
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage ....... 3 50@3 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage @2 00
Extra yellow sheeps’ a
wool carriage .. 1 25
Grass sheeps’ wool,
carriage ...... 1 25
Hard, lake use. 1 00
Yellow Reef, for
slate use ..... 1 40
Syrups
Aeacia § ...:..6- +s @ 50
Auranti Cortex.. @ 50
Zingiber ....+.+. 50
Ipecac ......- ; 60
erri Iod . a 50
Rhei Arom ..... 50
Smilax Offi's .... 50@ 60
Senega ....6..- @ 50
Salas nc eccnes « @ 50

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liquor Arsen et Rubia Tinctorum 12@ 14| Vanilla ......... 00@
Hydrarg Iod @ 25 Saccharum La’s. 22@ 25}Zinci Sulph : 7@ 8
Liq Potass Arsinit 10@ 12/salacin .......... 4 50@4 75 Oils
Scillae Co. ...... 50| Magnesia, Sulph. ..3@ 5] sanguis Drac’s 40@ 50 bbl. gal.
Tolitean 2........ 50| Magnesia, Sulph. bbl @ 14] 4 r 21 @ Whale, winter .. 70@ 70
mano, W ....2.. 13%@ 16 Sos Or > )
Prunus virg ieee 50 Mannia Ss. F 45@ 50 Sano M 10@ 12 panes bi ee vau 85@ 90
nih a OME wcccccsas a 2| Lard, No. 1 60@ 65
Tinctures nee es 2 0G Ol Gano, G ......... @ 15 posable pure raw 40@ 43
orphia, SP&W > 3 45@3 70] a,;4); : bE ,| Linseed. boiled 41@ 44
Anconitum Nap’ sR 60 : oot Seidlitz Mixture.. 20@ 22 Pcie. hie a 5
Anconitum Nap’sF 50|Morphia, SNYQ 3 45@3 70 Sineapis ......5.- @ 18 ae "Gag ine aie
Aloes cc 0 0s, 60|Morphia, Mal..... 3 45@3 70|Sinapis, opt ..... @ 30 : ; -
AQUICR oi cases 50|Moschus Canton. 40 | Snuff, Maccaboy, ‘ Paints bbl L.
Aloes & Myrrh .. 60|Myristica, No. 1.. 25 DeVoes .._.... @ 51|Red Venetian ..1% 2 @3
Asafoetida ...... 50|Nux Vomica po 15 @ 10|Snuff, S'h DeVo's @ 61/Ochre, yel Mars 1% 2 @4
Atrope Belladonna 60!Os Sepia .......... 385@ 40}]Soda, Boras ... 9@ 11|Ocre, yel Ber ..1% 2
Auranti Cortex.. 50 | Pepsin a. H & Soda; Boras, po-.. 9@ 11] Putty, commer’! 214 2%@3
Benzoin ......... 60' PD Co ....... @1 00] Soda et Pot's Tart 25@ 28 Putty, strictly pr 2% 2%@3
Benzoin Co. ..... 50/ Picis tia NNY¥% Soda. Carb. ...... 1%@ 2); Vermilion, Prime
Barosma ........ 50' gal doz ........ a 00|Soda, Bi-Carb .. 3@ 5 American ..... 13@ 15
Cantharides ..... 75{Picis Liq qts .... 1 00|Soda, Ash ....... 3%@ 4| Vermillion, Eng. 75@ 80
Capsicum ....... 50 Picis Liq. pints.. 60| Soda, Sulphas 2|Green, Paris 29% @33%
Cardamon ...... 75 | Pil Hydrarg po 80 50|Spts. Cologne @. 60|Green, Peninsular 13@ 16
Cardamon Co. .. 75| Piper Nigra po 22 18} Spts, Ether Co. §0@ Soi; Lead, red ......... 7%@ 8
Castor 3....006 1 00| Piper Alba po - 30|Spts, Myrcia Dom @2 00| Lead, White ...... 7%@ 8
Catechu ........ 50 | Pix Burgum ... 8|Spts, Vini Rect bbl @ Whiting, white S’n @ 90
Cinchona ....... 50|Plumbi Acet ... 15|Spts, Vii Rect %™%b @ Whiting Gilders’ @ 95
Cinchona Co. .... 60| Pulvis Ip’ — Opil1 3001 50|Spts, Vii R't 10 gl @ White, Paris Am’r @1 25
Columbia ....... 50 | Pyrethrum, Spits. Vii Rt bigal @ Whit’g Paris Eng.
Cubebae ........ 50 & PD Ge ae @ 75)jStrychnia, Cryst’l1 05@1 25 ele = .......... @1 40
Cassia Acutifol . 50} Pyrethrum, pv.. 20@ 25]|Sulphur Subl..... 2%@ 4 Shakes Prep’d ..1 25@1 35
Cassia Acutifol Co 50|Quassiae ........ 8@ 10}]Sulphur, Roll 2%@ 3%
Digitalis ........ 50|Quina, S P & W..-18@ 20] Tamarinds ..... 8@ 10 | Varnishes
MPO cc. eo oe 50/ Quina, S Ger..... 18@ 28|Terebenth Venice 28@ 30 ‘No. 1 Turp Coachi1 10 1 20
Ferri Chloridum 35 | Quina, N. Y...... 18@ 28'Thebrromae ....... G0m@ 7% isxtra Turn. ....3 60061 70
Gentian: ....... .. 50
Gentian Co ..... 60
Guiaea. 2.2.56 50
Guiaca ammon .. 60
lyvoscyamus 50
Todine. ........... 75
fodine, colorless 75
MIO. ne ees 50
WopeHa ....<:... 50
Myrrh 2. 00.5c55.. 50
Nux Vomica ..... 50
MD oe eee kes 1 25
Opil. camphorated 1 00
Opil, deodorized.. 2 00
Quassia ....:.... 50
Rhatany ........ 50
Behe... eee 50
Sanguinaria ..... 50
Serpentaria ...... 50
Stromonium .... 60
‘Tohtan §.<2...2.-. 60
Valerian <<... .5... 50
Veratrum Veride 50
Zingiber 26.1.8. 2... 60
Miscellaneous
aciher Sots Nit at 30a $f
Aether, s Ni =
has ott fe We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,
Amatto, ..2......% a
Antimoni, po

Antimoni et po T 00 50
Antipyrin
Antifebrin 6
Argenti Nitras oz @ 58
Arsenicum 10@
Balm Gilead a, 60@ 65
Bismuth SN ....2 10@2 25
Calcium Chlor, ‘is @

9
Calcium Chlor., s @ 10
Calcium Chlor. 4s @ 12
Cantharides, Rus. @1 75
Capsici Fruc’s af @ 20
Capsici Fruc’s po @ 22
Cap’i Fruc’s B po @ 165
Carvhvilus....... 25@ 27
Carmine. No. 40 @4 25
Cera Alba 50@ 55
Cera Flava ..... 40@ 42
Crocus oo. oes. 60@ 70
Cassia Fructus .. @ 35
Centraria: ....... @ 10
Cataceum ....... @ 35
Mhloroform ...... 34@ 54

Chloro’m Squibhs @

g|Chloral Hyd Crss1 35@1 69
20@

Chondrus
Cinchonidine P-W 38@ 48
Cinchonid’e Germ 3&@ 48
Cocaine ........-; 2 85@3 10
Corks list, less 75%

frenosotum . @ 45
Creta ..... bbl 75 @ 2
Creta, prep...... @ 5
Creta, precip..... 9@ 11
Creta, Rubra .. @ 8
Cudbear «2.2.2.2. @ 24
Cuvri Sulph ...... 8%@ 12
Dextrine ........ 7@ 10
Emery. all Nos.. @ 8
Emery, po ...... @ 6
Ergota ..... po 65 60@ 65
Ether Sulph 70@ 80
Flake White .... 12@ 15
OI Ses ce ce @ 30
Gambler ........ 8@ 9
Gelatin, Cooper.. @ 60
Gelatin, French.. 35@ 60
Glassware, fit boo 75%
Less than box 70%

Glue, brown 11@ 13
Glue white ...... 15@ 25
Glycerina ........ 16@ 25
Grana Paradisi-. @ 25
Erumulus: 3. .c oes 35@ 60
Hydrarg Ch...Mt @ 90
Hydrarg Ch Cor. @ 8:
Hydrarg Ox Ru’m @1 00
Hydrarg Ammo’l @1 10
Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
Hydrargyrum ... @ 1%
Ichthyobolla, Am. 90@1 00
FAQIGO 25.650. c es 75@1 00
Iodine, Resubi ..3 85@3 90
Iodoform ....... 3 90@4 00
Lupulin ....... : @ 40
Lycopodium 70@ 175
Macis .........-. 65@ 70

 

Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

We are dealers in Paints, Oils and

Varnishes.

We have a full line of Staple Druggists’

Sundries.

Weare the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s
Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

We always have in stock a full line- of
Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines and

Rums for medical purposes only.

We give our personal attention to mail

orders and guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same

day received. Send a trial order.

 

 

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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,

and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

Prices, however, are

liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
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Index to Markets 1 9
By Columns ARCTIC AMMONIA i. Oysters
OZ. Ove, 130)... @1 05
12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box...75]| Cove, 2M. ........ @1 85
Col AXLE GREASE Cove, 1tb. Oval @1 20
* 1b ‘tore ta 8 —
ci ceceeeee: - Woo OXes, Z. PS cl ee ce
a o-oo! gli. Gin boxes, 3. don 2 35 che
3%. tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 25|Marrowfat ....... 90@1 3°
8 10Ib. pails, per doz....6 00| Early June ...... 90@1 60
@aked Beans ..........- 1/15!b. pails, per doz...7 20} Barly June Sifted 1 15@1 80
Bath Brick ..........-. 1) 25ib. pails, per doz....12 00 Peaches
on ieeesncessanhe = BAKED BEANS Me). a
Brooms cc bseoces 2115p. Can, per dez....... 90] Yellow ©.:.....:..- 2 00@2 75
Brushes .....ccssseesee 4] 2%b. can, per doz....... 1 40 Pineapple
Butter Color .........-. 1/3. can, per doz...... 480) Grated .......... @2 50
* _BATH BRICK i. Sliced eect: @2 40
Sc TRETECAR eee cebeen cee 6 um in
Dandies ....-eseeeeeees B/ English 20202 cc ia... 80
Canned obaneeene BLUING MON 5c. oe
Carbon Oils eeccesossece 3 Arctic Fancy en eRe ence se 4 i 00
Cereal coerecereter tT . 6 oz. ovals 3 doz. box $ 40 Gallon Ah eo ote 2 60
coe eee “TTT g] 16 oz. round Sox. bos 75 | standard Pp
posses cc eeee Saws oneer cok and: ao
Chewing Gum .....-+e- : y a. Gross. | 1/1 Russian er 2
Chicory .----- eereereee?’ Bio. 3, 5 ioe Wood ha 400) 7 FO 7 00
Chocolate ....-.- Soiieee -. No. 5. 3 doz. wood bxs 7 00| 2/b. cans ............. i
— Lines ...... a wh Gans ...050.. 2... 12 00
ceecccceceseese eee 8 BROOMS Salmon
cn Cee No. 1 Carpet, 4 sew....2 75|Col’a River, talls 1 80@2 00
aaa Shelis ........-.. 8|No. 2 Carpet, 4 sew....2 40|Col’a River, flats 2 10@2 20
Coff TT cpwcecccoee 81 NO. 3 Carpet, 3 stw--..2 251 Roa Alaska ..__. 1 30@1 4»
Confections Hoes = —- Carer, 3 sew : . Pink Alaska ..... @1 00
cocccvccscceese arior Ce Sek ee ee o Sardines
Crea evieP ...-c---- *#1Common Whisk -.....- 90| Domestic, 3 ....3%@ 33,
mT Fancy Whisk ......... isn. a 0 ee
o Warehouse ............ 3 00] Domestic, Must’d 6 @ 9
Dried Fruits ......---.- 4 BRUSHES California, ™%s...11 @14
Scrub California, %s...17 @24
Solid Gack 8 in......... 751 French soe 7 14
Goods 6} Solid Back, 11 in 95 _ i @
Gee ed Gees ----<- | Ponted meas ee ee
ee Pearse a s. Sins. suede go| Standard ........ 1 20@1 40
Fresh Meats ....-.-+--: Ma 23 1 25 Succotash
NO A 26 eee eee 9°75) Petr Ww. s sense 85
@ Shoe 008 o.56.0..,.0. 2 00
Gelatine ...-scccrcsoere NO So ae ee 4 601 Fancy .:........- 1 25@1 40
Grain —— ecccevcccese : No. Does ieee eee eres ss 7 30 Strawberries
Grains and Flour .....- - M es : = Standard ........ sk 05
FO. DP bob eec ee oes ese eee © a CRO ee
H . BUTTER COLOR gee cone
Gerbs — W., R & Co.’s, 15¢ size 1 25 .
Hides and vseveee I) W! R & Co.'s. 25c size 2 00] Balt, .------------ gi &
1 “ere Conner s Wanty .........:. @1 40
< 6s ae
3 han ion 10 a 2 wee -
jdlly ....- eo cccchaceus Od WVIGIEOE .. ee 20 nreele
en GOODS Perfection poses @i0
es Water White ....
CE ccccncveccsecee © < strain tie ‘a nite @10
olb. Standards .......-- D. S. Gasoline .. @17
NM ethos ooo ees. 4 00] Gas arachine ree @24
Sc Sibes | 3 o- esse Blackberries _ Deodor’d Nap’a.. @14
Meat Extracts ....----- S/om. 000... 90@1 15| Cylinder ......... 29 @34%
Mince Meat ....-.-ceces 6 Standards gallos. Mmpine ......-..- 16 @22
Molasses .......0---e00s : fr winter "8, @10
Serre weeereoerrreeers Tig 80@1 30 CEREALS :
te idnegy ......- 35 @ 5 reakfas oods
' 12 a peccche. rowl is Bordeau Flakes, 36 1%. 2 50
Nuts ....-.cccccceeseces Mae 75@1 25 ge side - 2tb : a
° Blueberries Egg-O-See, 36 pkgs...2 85
RGN ccclccscceccseers WiBtandand ©... .4... eb oo ee =
P GROW once cs Sorc. 96 ~~ 450
ae Brook Trout aq | Grape Nuts, 2 doz.....2 70
Cries ee e 2%. cans, spiced....... 1 90| Malta Ceres, 24 1tb. oe 40
Cards... 6 Clams Malta Vita, 36 1fb.....2 85
coer seseeers Bl Little Neck, 1fb. 1 00@1 25| Mapl-Flake, 36 1Ib. ..4 05
Provisions ............. 6|Little Neck, 2m. = @1_-50| Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 doz 4 25
Ss Clam Boultion Ralston, 36 2Ib........-. 4 50
R Burnham’s ¥% pt....... 1 99 | Sunlight Flakes, 36 1Tb. 2 89
Rice ........-- sseeeeeeee 1) Burnham's pts ......-. 3 60 wi a oe 20 Igs 4 Soe
8 surnham Ba, cio pee 7 20 eke’ Cvenen eee - 50
4|Red Standards 1 30@1 50| Zest. 20 2tb............. 4 10
Seleratus *** 691 White Zest, 36 small ee 75
coc Se as Rpcounat Fnaaes
Sal ee ee ae Corn OMe GASe (5.27.45... 2. 50
Balt .......-66- o @ EE ee en eee oe 65@75 Five cases 2 40
sees | ee’ eer ae 85@90 aan Boos Atk ten
Salt 7 en ee ee eee ” 10 One case free with ten
oes een? * ee Pad veces wscecceceen ee cases.
a Blacking ee Z French Peas One-half case free with
i a | eer Bae Pie ...--...- “ 54 ones: ' me
i extra fine .-....--.-.-.- 9} One-fourth case free wi
Si Mu Amc Wipe... s,s se 15|2% cases.
roar vie oe ; Moyen (i. 0.,... 04. yes 11 Freight allowed.
g BB aseaernsnernseres os Rolled Oats
8 2 i Gtagpdarl 5. Rolled Avenna bbl. ....6 75
yrups ..... ipseseseccbes s oe ‘ Steel Cut, 100 tb. sks. 3 35
tT iin g5| Monarch,’ bbl. ........ 6 50
ae J Sie Monarch, 120, B- sacks 3 15
“lees abled Ce ict. 2 25| Quaker, 18-2 .......... 5
rome CSCS Ae . oe. 4 25 er  aaeeert 20
Se nae ae nae : Picnic Talis ...........2 75
Vv Mackerel WO ee eee eas -. 8%
eee ee ee 1 s0| 24 2 "D. packages 2 50
Mustard. 21. 2. .555-. 2% 2 80 CATSUP
w Moused, 145 th. .......- 1 80|Columbia, 25 pts...... 4 15
Wicking ....cccccccccs. 9) DO0uSed, 2Ib. ........-.. 2 80] sntder’s pints . 2 25
WooGenWere ...ccccose. 9) LOmato, lib. ........... 1 80} Snider’s % pints ..... 1 35
Wrapping bocce, BO Tomato, 2. ........... 2 80 CHEESE
Mushrooms Agme.-.... +22... @14%
v WMS (2... as 19@ 20'Cimax .........! @13%
Yeast Cake .,.,...,.--. 3@'Buttons ............ 24@ 25 Bisie ..........-- 13

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em en |. ..55 25.55. s%5
Sen Sen Breath Per'f 1 00

Colonial, %s
Epps

Huyler
Lowney ¥s ..
Lowney, %s .
Lowney, ¥%s .
Lowney, is
Van Houten, \¥%s .... 12
Van Houten, %s ...
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Mexican
CHOICE ...-..,.-5-56- 3 16% |G
BAMCY. 2 ose ss tee ese 19
Guatemala
CHOICE Aloo. hse aets 15
Java
Atrican oot eee ss 12
Faney African ........ 17
1 ose seks Soba ee
PG oias ean
Mocha
Arabian 22... cece :s. 21
Package
New York Basis
ArbuCKIC .......-5<b00 16 00
DUWerm -3.5.-25...--% 14 75
SOTSCY ooo ees eo 15 00
210G ee Ge 14 50

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meems 3 .4..2...;5 3
Currant Fruit Biscuit 10

33 | Nic Nacs ...

Emblem ........ @ Cracknels %.....< 6.205 16
em Lee. @15 Coffee Cake, pl. or iced 10
pes. ge @14 Cocoanut Taffy ....... 12
TOrsey ...--..-5.- @141%4| Cocoanut Bar .........
Riverside ....... @141%4|Cocoanut Drops .......12
Springdale ...... @13% | Cocoanut Honey Cake 12
Warners. 2.5%. .255- 15 Cocoanut Hon. Fingers 12
Brick 202... 5 @16 Cocoanut Macaroons ..18
Seiden... sss: @15 Dandelion .......... 10
Limburger ....... @15 Dixie Cookie .......... 9
Pineapple ........ 40 @60 Frosted Cream ........ 8
Sap Sago ........ @22 Frosted Honey Cake 12
Swiss, domestic .. @1i6 |Fluted Cocoanut ......
Swiss, papoet @20 |Fruit Tarts ........... 12

EWING GUM Ginger Gems .......... 8
adeeae Flag Spruce 50/Graham Crackers ..... 8
Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 55|Ginger Nuts ......... [
Adams Pepsin ........ 55|Ginger Snaps, N. B. ee
Best Pepsin ........... 45|Hippodrome ...........
Best Pepsin. 5 boxes. .2 00 Honey Cake, N. B. C. 12
Black Jack .....4:.5.<; 55

Honey Fingers, As. Ice 12
Honey Jumbles ....... 12
Household Cookies .... 8
Household Cookies Iced 8

Bugar Loat ...;........ 55|Iced Honey Crumpets 10
Yucatan ..............- 55|Imperial ...........-..- 8
CHICORY Iced Honey Flake ..... 12%
Bulk. ..... Shee ek kes Iced Honey Jumbles ..12
BOR owe sve ee- oes Island Picnic .......... 11
MASAO oes - |) Jersey Lunch ......... 8
Pyanek’s ....-........-. %@]Kream Kaips .......... 20
Schener’s ... S\ tem Yem ...........s-- .
CHOCOLATE Lemon Gems ..........
Walter Baker & Co.’s Lemon Biscuit, pane .
German Sweet ........ Lemon Wafer .........16
Premium .............- 83|lemon Cookie ....... 528
CAVACHS 2 oc. is555. ea Sil Mary Ann ............> 8
Walter M. Lowney. Co. Marshmallow Wainuts 16
Premium, 4s ......... $3|Mariner ....... coke 11
Premium, %8 ........- 33 ee Cakes ..1..: :
coc MORICAD 2. isc ct seas 11
Bekers (5-03.40. Mixed Picnic .......... 11%
Cleveland ... Nabob Jumble ...... 14
Colonial, \s Newton ..1.:..2..0000% 1

2
Oatmeal Crackers .... 8
Orange Gems
Oval Sugar Cakes ..
Penny Cakes, Assorted
Pretzels, Hand Md.....
Pretzelettes, Hand Md. 8
Pretzelettes, Mac. Md. 7%
Raisin Cookies ........ 8
Revere, Assorted serenade

secre rece

2 0800

Van H ii ace 72 | Rube
Webb inated lel . 29|Scotch Style Cookies 10
Wilbur, %s «........---- 39|Snow Creams .........16
Wilbur, Ys ............ 40 | Sugar eee teoes » 12
Sugar Gems ....... 08
COCOANUT Sultana Fruit Biscuit 16
Dunham’s %s & %s 26%|Spiced Gingers sharers
Dunham’s Xs ........ 27 Spiced Gingers Iced .
Dunham’s %S.......:. 28 Sugar Cakes ..........
WOU ee eee ss 14 Sugar Squares, large or
me COCOA SHELLS . atone base eeeeae se ae
20TH. bags .............244 | SUDETDA — «2+. eveveceee
Less ana Gy Ie 3 |Sponge Lady Fingers 25
Pound packages .......4 |Sugar Crimp .......... ;
COFFEE Vanilla Wafers ........ 1
Waverly ......... ccc oe
ities Rio 13% Zanzibar .......ceeeee 9
PARE isis ee ee In-er Seal Goods
Choice ....... sieee ose 16% Per doz.
Pancy ...55s54 bide bo ee Albert Biscuit ...... - 100
Santos ANIMAIA so. scsi ee - 1 00
Cammon 2.00... 6265532 13144| Butter Thin Biscuit.. 1 09
Raa boas sw ee bees 14144| Butter Wafers ........1 00
CMmine fo. s... asa 164%4| Cheese Sandwich .... 1 00
Maney 625. ee 19 Cocoanut Dainties 1 00
Peapeery (2206 os bia esse Faust Oyster ......... 1 00
: Maracaibo Fig Newton .......... 1 00
Pai 064.14 6iseaaseas48, | Bive O'dock Tea.... 2 08

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WTOPANR oo sss isc eves ss
7 er Snaps, N. B.C. 1
am Crackers ....1
ton BAAD -3nasss.s
Oatmeal Crackers .... 1 00
Oysterettes ........ 0
Old Time Sugar Cook. 1
Pretzelettes, Hd Md... 1
Royal Toast .......06. 1
Saltine
Saratoga Flakes 1
Social Tea Biscuit...1 00
Soda, N. 1
Soda, Select ......... 1
Sultana Fruit Biscuit 1 50
Uneeda Biscuit ..... 50
Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer 1 00
Uneeda Milk Biscuit.. 50
Vanilla Wafers 1
Water Thin 1
Zu Zu Ginger Snaps 50
Zwieback 00

CREAM TARTAR

to retailers only. Mail all
orders direct to W. F.|Barrels or drums ...... 29
McLaughlin & Co., Chica-| Boxes ......... Del ads aad 30
go. Square cans ..........-. 32
Extract Fancy caddies ......... 35
Holland, % gro boxes 95 DRIED RFUITS
Felix, % SYross ........ 1 15 Apples
Hummel’s foil, % Bro. 85) sundried .......-
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43 Evaporated 914@10
CRACKERS Apricots
National Biscuit Company | ,., : _.. .22@24
Brand California. ..2......5% @
Butter Callfornia Prunes
Sovenner. Round ..... 6 | 100-125 — boxes.
8B C., Square ....., 6 90-100 tb. boxes..@ 6
‘ 80- 90 OBIb, boxes..@ 6%
cucen” g | 70- 80 25%: boxes..@ 7
Select ee 8 60- 70 25tb. boxes..@ 7%
ti t Flakes ......13 50- 60 25Ib. boxes..@ 8
contetetts “IIiting | 40- 80 251. boxes..@ 8%
phyre Lecbincueese 30. 40 25Ib. boxes..@ 9%
Oyster Ke fee in 50%. cases
Bae Citron
Faust, Shell ........... 7% | Corsican ...----- @
oon es and co ‘
oxes and cans/Imp’d 1 tb. pkg..
Jsuehe ee — Imported bulk .. $ of
NR condone vichacce AL Peel
Cart ; Lemon American ..... 13

 

Orange. American ....14

Raisins
London Layers, 3 cor
London Layers, 4 er
Cluster, 5 crown
Loose Muscatels, 2 cr
Loose Muscatels, 3 cr
loose Muscatels, 4 cr 10
ae Muscatels, 4 cr. 10
4 eeded 1
Sultanas. bulk igi
Sultanas, package @12

FARINAGEOUS GOOoDs

Beans
Dried Tima 7.25.0... 6Y,
Med. Hd. Pk'd!.))''"* 2 00
Brown Holland .,...., 2 25
Farina
24 Ith. packages....., 1 75
Bulk, per 100 tbs...... 8 00
Hominy
Flake, 50tb. sack piace 1 00
Pearl. 200%. sack... || 3 70
Pearl. 100th. sack Bees 1 85
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10th. box... 60
Imported, 25tb. box...2 50
' Pearl Barle
Common ......... aor 75
Ciester: oo) 3 75
Mmpire ee 4 35
Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu. 2 15
ean Scotch, bu....... 2 25
Nout Wh. 0
Sago
East India = Paes 6%
German, sacks ........ 7
German, broken pkg..
apioca

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Flake, 110 th. sacks .. 7
Pearl, 130 th. sacks ... 6%
Pearl, 24 th. pkgs. tes 7%
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Foote & Jenks

Coleman’s Van. Lem.
2 0z. Panel ...... 1 20 75
3 oz. Taper ..... 200 1 60

No. 4 Rich. Blake 2 00 1 50

Jennings D. C. Brand.
Terpeneless Ext. Lemon

No. 2: Panel... | 3 7
No. 4 Panel...) | 1 50
No. 6 Panel ..2,.00 0°) 2 00

Si For mon.

4 oz. Full Meas........ 2 8

Jennings D C Brand
Extract Vanilla

 

No. 2 Panel

No. 4 Panel ...

No. 6 Panel

aper “Panel o... 6: 2 00
1 oz. Full Meas........ 85
2 oz. Full eMas....... 1 60
4 oz. Full Meas....... 3 00

No. 2 Assorted Flavors 1 00
GRAIN BAGS
Amoskeag, 100 in bale 19
Amoskeag, less than bl 19%

GRAIN AND FLOUR

ft Wheat
New No. 1 White .... 91
New No. 2 Red ........ 92

Winter Wheat Flour

Local Brands
PALONUS 0.65. ce 7
Second Patents ....... 4a
Siraient  ........, ade 440
Second Straight ..... 4 25

ee ea kee eeu 80
Subject to usual cash dis-
count.

Flour in barrels, 25¢ per

00 barrel additional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Quaker, paper ......... 4 50
Quaker, Cloth ooo, 302 4 70
ykes & Co.
MCMC oe 4 80

Kansas Hard Wheat Flour
Judson Grocer Co,
Fanchon, %s cloth....5 35
—— Rapids Grain & Mill-
ng Co. Brands.

Wizard. pieaiipcgcoas aes 4 30
CATAROM : oo ok ee 4 25
Buckwheat ee Sniseacec act 0

ae Wheat Flour
Roy Baker’s oe
Golden Horn, family..5 35
Golden Horn, baker’s .5 25
Wisconsin Rye alee Owe 4 45
Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand
5

Ceresota, %6 ......... 80
Ceresota, %s ......... 5 70
Ceresota, %s ......... 5 60
Lemon & Hace s Brand
Wingold, %s .......... 00
Wingold, ie Pay vies be 5 90
Wingola. 448 .......... 5 80
Pillsbury’s Brand .
Best, %s cloth ........ 5 60
Best, %s cloth ........ 5 50
Best, %s cloth ....... 5 40
Best, 4%s paper ...... 5 40
Best, 48 paper ....... 40
FSCSE, WOOK 2 eek ces ce ces 5 70
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel, %s cloth ..... 90
Laurel, %s_ cloth.....5 60
Laurel, YUs&I4s paper 2 =
Laurel, pas teks eeaes

Sleepy Eye ks cloth. .6 00
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth..5 90
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth. 2 80
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Golden ‘Granulated |”! 3 20 | Bologna sages
Ne sa ie pepe a Frank ee Scotch el 10
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Bare = Oats 28 ” oe ae He Maccaboy, re woe es 37 | Moyune pu owder 11
Corn’ Meal, eh aha 26 50 | Veal Pitteteteeeeeitenss 8 “rench Rappie im lanes Moyune, a 30 | Round toe Pins .
itsher Wheat Bran a4 60 ee 7 3|Moyune, fancy ........ 7 lee Lo ee CONFEC
oe ot wae 24 00|Headcheese ............ 7 Is a Pingsuey, Oe Jee 40 cca ead, cartons.. 70 ia « TIONS
ow Feed ng 26 00 Be oe SL ct Americ: . Kirk & Co. ngsuey, choi woul H ete and © Stand: andy ae
eee ise a ee 95 eef ‘an Family Pings ’ oice .....30 umpty D illers. cA sails
Dairy Fee ...25 00; Extra Mess e : Dusky Diamor ys: -4 00 uey, fancy ...... Nat umpty, 12 doz. Bo Standard HH 1.1727” 8
aa OP Wykes & no saci eet 9 75 Dusky gee wae ah 8 022 80 Choi Young ao No. 2 pri i te cce. Standard wie oo. 8
_ ) P Linseed Meal ....30 5 wae tow. i in| dap Roee, 60 bars... 3 39 |Choice .... . Case nplete ....... an eo SU
= Cottonseed a -...30 50 aero 11 25 | Savon pas 50 bars i325 aa 30 | Case No. 2 fillerslisets 1 23 Jumbo, 32 th Gases
| Gluten Feek 2 30 00| % bbls. mie s Feet White foo oe 3 50 a 36 , mediums, 12 sets 1 13 | OX‘? a Oa eee .
MNt Sproups ........ = 30 “4 bbls., 40 he 1 19 | Dome, oval | orate. 3 50| Formosa, f olong Fa S| Hoston Cream 10
oo Gee 23 00 im bbe... See 1 85 Satinet, oval are 3 50|Amoy, oot uguce. 42 Cork, lined, ucets he ed am SE Otrae :
Dried Be weed wo... 23 00 Ps ? 33 Sere: 106 cakes 4 OG Amoy, choice ......... 25 | Cork Ee eo bb. , 30 Ih. case 8
eet Pulp ..... 00 | a ae 7 7 onlas Gai Cae Cie 32 rk lined, 16 tu....... 0 Mixed
sachigsh come re Ee ae a ee. 70 — Tene Meaium Breakfast Mop Sti a = Competiti oe
pscigan, SMe... a 8 bh 8 |S as #59 |Chotoe wo [trom epee gy | Sorta a,
Yar Con ea Oo; Star) 225: ic ere uel 400) Fancy 2.2.0... eeeeees N patent spring.. 85 Gas oe
Carlots . Hogs Sh 85 ns AO o. 1 comm s eis. erve So 7%
Less than carlots 11... 10 Beef Ren a ra este 2 LAUTZ B 50 | Ceylon, “ane - No. 2 pat. real (eae ol.- 80 ee ae 8
a ee 72| Beef middies Seb... 5, ig | Acme, 70 Seas & CO. Fancy CG 2.8. 32 Leal cotton mop holder 85 Ribbon Sart ceed ansee as 8%
No. 1 timoth Sheep : ; SCL 3... 45 Acme, ee |) 0) yeeAcco 42 eal No. 7 ail eee a 10
No. 1 ti y car lots 14 00 Ue, per bundle ...... Ol Nowa’ 38 PANS 6... ee, mn oo la g5 | cut “nl tect ey 8
5 meee lots Io Solid oe ee . Acme, 100 eS eee 4 ae Cadillac Fine Cut 2-hoop saver a pects tis ses 8%
aBe ... Country Rolls _, @12 sig Master AKCS ...... oe ae 54 & ha stan ao pe e rgarten a 81,
Hops PP e em eee eeessece 15 Cc olls 104 Li @ 161 Marseilles : 100 bars 4 25 Hi MONI ec ok ga 4 oes oP Standard ee to 20n Min en, 10
sete coesce an ( Vy silles, 10 25 awatha, "aa |ewire. Gable ......_.. 2 35| Fre ream ...
ae Tone 5.2... 15 | Corned eee Meats sche 100 — be .6 00| Telegram = pails. 55 | 8-wire, praca eo 3 35 a ih Cream 9
enna Leaves ........ oe 15 Corned beef, 1 tbh. ..... 2 40 Marseilles, 100 ck toil e yt eae ee 30 Cadil, ois vee. aus 2 45| Hana Tao c aoe Li,
HORSE RADISH 95 | Roast beef, 2 tb........ 1 35 A. B. W ilet 4 00| Prairie Rose .......... 33 | Paper, E , brass ..1 25/ Premi ide Cream
oo BOR oe ce Roast beef, 1 Ib. ....... 2 49| Good Cheer ee Peatection s 6(| Bites .. ureka ....... 2 23|;9 . Cream mixed a.
. , JELLY teesece 90 a ham, Ys Ue oe 1 30 Old Country ee 3 Ta Burley Rs z a Se 2 70 orehound Drop 10
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15 . Ls per doz. Be eee tec es oe ge 85 1 hh la 40 ideas nee Faney—in tas
30 tb. pails se oe Re wales 5o ed hea ham. as eee 45 a a Bros. & Co Boa Gre Plug Softwood ce Ps 2 50 Gypsy Hearts oe a
, € » f € oes Q5 ‘| wroce PMO sg, =| Batigquet -... so 0) 2 7 >¢ 2 oe es
Pure Peropell --398[ Potted tongue, 4S 20: 83/Gold’ Dust, 34 iargé ‘174 50 ee oe 213 |Pudge Squares 2.20.1) 12
Cheese bien & ‘ zue, % a6 0 D ..4 50 iawath:; oe FO canine q a a a
Calabria <........... --- 30 16s .... 85| Kirk ust, 100-5¢ .. Kyl Me cs. : --f G0) c,,. Squares .
Sper Cee all, 23| Fancy ... posi a Peatiee 2441. ee “ Battle aoe 2 co Mouse wee Salted | | Peanuts oa
MOOt ......; eee scceue fidanee ..... 7 @7% See Sect e Seg eas cy 3 75 Americar Xe e cece e ee 37 Mouse. wed 2 holes.. 2p| St: ailight Mac oe 13
MATCHES _ ig peronen «4... 5%@ 6%4|Babbitt's 1776 2222021 4 10 Se wee Mouse, wood. € holes”. 45|San Blas os ou
% Cc. D. Crittends SALAD DRESS aa |Moccing «0. 3 75 | Spear Hoe an 37 | Mouse, tin, 6 foe zy | Lozenges can 7 12
= TP al re Columbia, % ESSING Aeinones: 22. ......02... 3 50| Spear Head 142: reteeee 47 par wood .. ee |. os Lozenges, nant sete eee 91,
MEAT E 50@4 75 Columbia. 1 a Vee | We wc 3 79 | Nobby Twist 4% O02. 44 tae, auving |... |. 80 Champion Che ea 1 10”
Armour’s, 2 XTRACTS, Durkee’s, co yeaa 4 00 Pea ee 3 80 aaa | 15 Eclipse Shece "419
armor t.4 ae 4 45 pu were small, : doz. 4 50 Johnson's : 2ompounds Old Mocs 2 3s 20-in. Sti Tubs fureka Chacat ies so + «i8
Aiea toch i acd 8] Snider's final, B dow. § Sp] Johnson's SRS giaguonedy CR A Sators NSE Sutstte Geoenithes “i
ee Ee ox. 2 25| Snider's small, 2 - 23 Nine O'elk prc | See 8.8. ----. : 16-in. St: ard, No. 2 7 @ 1ampion Gum _ es ..13
Liebig’s Im ago, 4 oz. 5 50 S all, 2 doz. 1 35 Rub-N NOM ccc... 3 35 Pat Weideicn 28 20-1 : tandard, ma ee 73 Macs “bee eae -
1S 2 ALER o-More 3 35] Bo idsick ........ ( in. Cable N . 6 7lLe i
Liebig’s a emg 2 oz. 4 5d P oe 3 75 ot Jack 66 1S 5 No 1.. 75|I.emon Sours 1.1.1...’ ¢
ported, 4 oz. 8 acked 60 Ibs. i -3 79] Honey Di weet eee eee 80 s-in. Cable, No, 2 «<9 20! Tapesials ia ‘a
MOLASSES 50; Arm and Haw in box. Scouring Black ip Twist .. 40 1b-in. Cable N » 2 a 6-28 2d| It Tals 0.
sew Orlean mee eae noch Morgan's § slack Standard ...111) Ne lie $ 20| Ital. Cream Opera 1. 11
‘ [2 Peeeteees 2 lo) Sapolio, g s Sons. Cadilla ee. 40 vo. 1 Bibre ..... 5 | Ital. loss | 4a
zancy Open Kettle .... 40 rmbiem Gon ae Sapolio, Tah gt ic 4 Nicks Cae ae 40 |No. 3 Fibre [ae Goes Weta i
re 35 EM eve e eee eeee ees 3 . Sapolio, singel ots 4 50 ic kel Twist Sees 34-- . Se 5 2 Old Pashia: iM 9
See eae ae 7 Pe nee e ee eee eee es tee Sapolio, 1 gle boxes..2 25 Mill... eae Ww «-« 9 00 ce poems Weabya.
Od operas att wee 2 Wuanannic. 100 %s oo a SU peat ton ""3 95] Great Navy Slee es. | a er Globe aon Or: ange Sie box 1 20
S Se 3a SAL : courine | oreo) as aed ee a 36 oo er 2 50 Fancy— Ss ...... 50
Per case NCE MEAT Granulated, oo Scourine, a ty “1 80/Swee Smoking Doubie pikes tees saat i bei Gar om. Boxes
depatetees st eile 100%. cs. 85 cakes. a aileee ,, [Single Ac Me csesssecd Ole ie...
Horse Beau | a. a oe bee, cs. 1 00] Boxes SODA War Car esta. Double Dee tess steeeeee 2 2a und dee Hore-
Horse Radish fg ae 75 sump, 145tb. kegs ..... re eo pe 5ly sh, See fig 28 a Peo, | mare eas 4 25 Peppermint wr See 19
OLIVE ...3 50 SALT er a es 4% {I XL, 5Ib. OZ. ......25 iat 1ern Gucck 3 60 iocolate Drops. . noe nld
Bulk, 1 gal. ice “as Common Grades Columbi: ors IX L, 16 oo ae eS Davlesk ........- S a iE M. Choc. Tous’ 130
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs coaee ¢ 1 65 60 3 Ib. sacks .. 9 Red Rettee a ai ag 3 00 Honey Dew | pails ..3 rar LUCK weeks 00 ; “ Gis te “"90
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...... 1 60} 9 8 th. sacks... 7 10 HGUECE ge cus. 90 oad wee 40 iversal 2 0 2 7a pipark No. i2 - and |
Gicen Bie ee * 90| 28 10% I. sacks ...... 1 90 SPICES Rlagman 000.02... 7, Windaw Cleaners “| Griliant Guan as'td 1 15
tte ol, e » tb. sacks...... Ww ae 0 in, oo, nt Gums, C Li
Gucan ook 2 50 56 Ib. sacks on ee oe 1 90} Allspice noe Spices main Deed oo oe EA Me sie aa, 1 6o - A. Licorice ten =
Suarea, pe Ta a ‘ 50 O80). cacke ........... =e pps Go 12 Duke's Ee 21 “ae UU 85 ee nas pian ps ..90
teen, 28 om... IIIT OO, Warsaw cassia, Cé ats. 12 uke’s Mixti e 2... oe ee 2 30 anges, printed... 55
Stuffed, 3 pa Pr nee es 4 = 56 Ib. aaiey Ur ori b Canale. Wt as 16 Myrtle ee fe 3 [13 in wie Bele Imperials print d 255
: uffed, 10 0z.......... 5} 28 Ib. dairy i ‘ill bags 40 Sassia, Sai a, bund. 28 Yum Yum, 124 oz. .... 44 is Ge (Guttce 1 25/¢C nee ;
. 2 ae 2 40 airy in drill bags 2 Cassi , walgon, broken Yu m, 1% oz. "3c 7G z a d 5 Da init eah ent ake a
i : =s 3 Solar R gs 20/Cassia, Saigon, in rolls. 4y)|Yum, Yum, 1 tin Bolte .......... 2 25/1G a os 55
2 Clay, No. 216 56 Ib. s: ock Cloves n, in rolls. 55| Cre , il. pails “40 19 j Cr ..... 25)G. M. Pear etteee eed re
o Clay, 0. 216 per box 1 2 . sacks ... ale es, Amboyna . 65) Cream ...... in Butler 9 a! Ean anut Bar ....6
eS , No. 216 per box 125] == Common 2 ove z Oyna ..... ¢ Cor ‘ airtter teed et ee ee ee ee ee He nd Made Cr’ a “0
5 Cok T. D., full count - Gr Common 4 Mece Zanzibar ..... a Born oan: 2% 02... = ee 13-15-17 — 00 | Cream Sa Aa * 80@90
f te ee ee ae, 90 coe fine Mace eve eeeceeeees 55 | Plow Fst is 65 orted, 15-17-19 |... /3 - String Ptc aiagy To 65
Medium. UE ey 80|Nutmegs, 105-10 ".2.22. ga|Plow Bos, 15 of." [common "straw avr S| Wintergreen Terties "an
: Barrels, 1,20 SALT FISH 5] Nutmegs. Ld cess 35 | Peerless ~ i 6m... 39 mon straw a a or
@ Half bbls., 0 count....8 00 SH Pe gs, 115-20 ..... 30 | Pee pe ay OZ. ..... re bibre Manila Sesenacs S06) aster See 3 th
: 600 cou ra | La . Cod pper, Singapor . 8opFeerless, 13% oz. 35 lve Se white.. 2% | Up-to- wen Guadiua ss
Halt pois, 180 nA 90) small whole 22 a7 |Pebbee: Singp. white.’ 2 pair Brace ee 00000a8 | Srean dalla” colored. 4™ | Ten Sirtke: Not" Sun
: -, 1,200 co Strips Bes ses @ 6Y4 ar, shot ... a “é ae oe ee 4 Te wa. 3 7%
‘ Op ebbiae coe ; al an " 7yw1oie | a phure Ground a 17| Country Club 2.0... = Sues Maino 3. |'Ten Strike No. 272222226 00
| No. i. Steamboat .... 8) a Ge “@ a Allspice sae in Guik | An deat eae Ce 32-34 | Wax Butter, char wees 2% atneat Summer as-
No. 20’ Rover” a es oo Bataviva 12121! 16} Scit Binder. oo ae ae full count” 20 Scientific Ass't. 1.11.14 6 75
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o. 98 Golf, satin finish ‘7 Se ..+..13% | Gin ’ nzibar Ces ee ees 4 wan aad benae aut a
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. 682 Pournt oer - mae Hoop, % ha” L 00 | Ginger, Tinata te clas 18 ee 2 eet 3 doz. ee 15 ae Corn Fritters, i66 2 75
48 i le ay White no ace @. 75 ane one eas 25}Cotton, 3 — es 14% doz 2 50 rn oc Toast, 100s 20
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Bubbitiperercgsresseoog go] ound. 100 i &] Pepper, Singapore, bli 17] Hemp, d,pO IRE PSS Foam adog.01 09 | Fon Cor re keer
auc 3 00|Round, 40 Ibs. ..2..02. 3 75) P : Pp. white... 98) Bias, a , oz. 68| Cicero Corn s, 200s ..1 20
eee eg p EN DE pete 75) Pepper, Cayenn .. 28|Flax, medium N....... 13 F : pha leak Cakes . 20)
Mess Barreled Pork sara ie : Sage ie has bee aan a Wool, 1 te. bats ee 24 a RESH FISH, . Pee ROX eeeereeeteeey 60
al eee tefish, r lO] r Se 3°
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Short —— peste a sects 18 00 oh 1 aOthe ea 7 50 1tb. esol oon Gloss Malt white Le Lh peg No. 1 ae eae eee yet 2 50
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8 P Bellic Salt Meats Mees, Sie, ......-..-: 1 65 a packages ...... 5 Ps 0 Wer erodd........ 30 haa ei osgcesdcsaes: ‘a Almonds, oo cos
i. Bellies Br. os be 2 sombe. 6... 1 35 . packages ..... 4% @7 ae per gross ......40 | Pick Ke Oh Almonds, bie on”
fare tio 11% No. 1, 40Ibs. oe ae SYRUPS me foe on on fee | eho | peg eT.
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Shas Smoked Meats io 1 Sha... 1 65 , Belge a. ee 2 WOODENWARE 19 Forth, dressed as . 94 patnes ts grt redaeees 15@ 11
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peasy 14 Ib. eee ae Wot No. 2 yen _ _ dz. in cs i pose pete 10 ae oe epee soft shelled @16
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Ham, dried 2 rae tn £12 60 z.in es 2 00| Splint, ck eta 3 ES AND PELTS Pecans, ex. an ae
California Hams pia "SEEDS 92 50) Fair Pure Cane Splint, small .......... 3 Pecans, Jumbos oS
Picnic Boiled Ha eeeeee is Anise DS a. 16 W illow, Clothes. 1 Mralssigia a a Hickory Nuts a 20
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& erlin Ham ercsecd - araway eeu a 25 illow Clothes, : C 7 25 wa.
a ’ 4 See ee tes se ma Kk Ches Bs hoses @ 5
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Sees i size , es
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Pure in thers 2222. SBR esis. Mg Bande "ai oR |B ier cage a] Guha” ited Sor £8] Seca ‘shelled
80 tS tubs. ~ advance o4 toe ngae white ...... OX eee canes ees 86 lot. size, 6 a a 80 alfskin, cured No. 2 13% Pecan i --.9@10
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10 tb: pails../-advance | % ron StiQE, SLACKING, | Basket trea: medivan’ [NO 3 Oval: 230 In erate 35| Shearlings"....1. 25@ 80 Alicante Almonds’ 43
- pails....ad Handy Box, Nin? 60 |Beckot-fred. fancy 04 me aa oe a T Almonds ... @47
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. ae xby’s _+se-1 25|Nibs .. y ...4 crate 60| No- 1 .----- ‘ : Peanut
advance 1 Miller's oon ao 85 Sittings“. ete eg Barve). & ao e me... as g 6 roti = x Suns TY O73,
cs ‘ann: res Barrel, 10 » €ac 2 40 w se enee < pa H. P. age 44
ings v.e00018@14 | Barrel, 15 Pay each.. -2 58 awash, a a cae ws eee
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Mica. tin boxes....75 9 00
Parenon = ........: 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER

Royal

10c size 90
\4Tb. cans 1 385
foz. cans 1 90
Ib cans 2 50

ll. cans 4 86
ae tb. cans 13 60
51d cans 21 50

 

SLUING

 

Cc. P. Bluing
Doz.
Small size, 1 doz. box .4v
Large size, 1 doz. box .75

CIGARS

 

GJ Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd.
AY cuantity ...........3
Ml FPortana _........... 33
Eveping Press 32
Exemplar

 

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Worden Grocer Co brand

 

Ben Har
Peerertion $4.2... 6. 35
Perfection Bxtras ...... 35
Sores «6... fe 35
Londres Grand .......... 35
menue =... .......-...5 35
SOUeON 4.5. ee 35
Panatellas, Finas ....... 35
Panatellas, Bock ....... 35
Jockey (lb .....-.-..... 85

COCOANUT
Beker’s Brazil Shredded

5 i (
is 3 SS ais
88 %Ib. pkg. per care 2 60

tb. pkg. per case 2 60
FRESH MEATS

Beef
CRPCRe. =..555.--- 544@ 9
Hindquarters ....742@i0
BOD ossecesccs oon 14
a 7@ 8
SD owe scenes 6 6%
PUM och vecccs. 5
ROWED nee cie eee 8
Pork
ROE 645. eek. o*
Brenmed § ....cesss 8%

Boston Butts ... @
Shoulders ........

%Ib cans 3 75 o

 

Mutton
Carrcaee 2... . @9
Damas . 3... see 138%
Spring Lambs .. @14
Veal
Carcass .........): 6 @ 8%
CLOTHES LINES
Sisal
e0ft. 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
BG ee ee ccc es 75
OO. oe ees eee 90
DO 2ok ee eee. 1 05
SOR. ee 7 50
Cotton Victor
DORE oo oe eee eee eee 1 10
Bre. oo ee ee 1 35
We 1 60

jon <8 1 80
Me 4 cs 2 00
Cotton Braided
oot. 5. esl. Le. 95
De feo eee eee ee, 1 85
BOM 56 e ee -1 65

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, 1th. ........
White House, 2fb. ........
Excelsior, M & J, 1th. .....
Excelsior, M & J, 21h. .....
Tip Top. M & J, 1th. ......
Royal save .......:........
Royal Java and Mocha ...
Java and Mocha Blend ...
Boston Combination .....

Distributed by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
Lee, Cady & Smart, De-
troit; Symons Bros. & Co.,
Saginaw; Brown, Davis &
Warner, Jackson; Gods-
mark, Durand & Co., Bat-
tle Creek; Fielbach Co.,
Toledo.

Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00

FISHING TACKLE
OG te 2 .. . te eee 6
1% to 3 im........... oe oe
6 te 8 i... ........-.- 9
255 tp 8 W.....---.--<2- 11
See ee cies es sos Oe
BS oink eee ese see eh eee 20

Cotton Lines
Mo. i, 59 feet 1.2.2.2... 5
No. 3, 16 feet ....:...-: 7
No. 3, 15 feet .........: 9
No. 4. 15 feet -<.:.--.... 10
Mo. &, 1 feet ........<. 11
No. 6, 16 feet ...-....... 12
Ne. 7, 15 feet .....--.- 15
me. & 86 feet .....-.-3. 18
Me 8 & feet ....;- <4... 20
Linen Lines

ee Sc see 20
Ret Sn gs coe so ecce eas 26

a ie ees 84

Poles

Bamboo, 14 ft., per dos. 55
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 66
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80

GELATINE
Con's 1 Gee. .-...->-
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 20
Knox’s Sparkling, gro.14 00

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Melee .. 6555s: 1 50
Knox’s Acidu’d. doz....1 20
OeGe 4... 1.5 76
Plymouth Rock ....... 1 26

 

SAFES

 

Full line of fire and burg-
lar proof safes kept in
stock by the Tradesman
Company. Thirty-five sizes
and styles on hand at all
times—twice as many safes
as are carried by any other
house in the State. If you
are unable to visit Grand
Repids and inspect the
line personally, write for
quotations.

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

 

100 cakes, large size..6 5
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 60
Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25

TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ......... 3 76
Halford, small ........ 2 26

 

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at prices consistent with
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For Sale—Good Cary safe. Medium
size. Box 86, Manton, Mich. 180

Notice—Will pay spot cash for shoe
stock. Address 285 E. Warren, Detroit,
Mich. 178

 

For Sale—Small grocery store and resi-
dence property combined, on one of the
principal streets of Cadillac. Store do-
ing a good business. Only store in this
part of city. Good reasons for selling.
Address L. W. Phillips, 363 Granite St.,
Cadillac, Mich. 177

Circulars written, literary assistance
given. Material for club papers, toasts,
speeches and debates gathered. Address
Bureau of Research, 318 E. 5th St., New
Albany, Ind. 176

Every merchant, home owner, church,
business college, etc., should use a ‘Big
3” gas plant for lighting, heating and
cooking. Agents wanted. “Big 3” Gas
Co., Sycamore, Il. 175

Wanted—Good location for drug store
or purchase established business. <Ad-
dress No. 174, care Michigan ‘Tradesman.

174

For Sale—Paying coal and wood busi-
ness. Best location in Jackson, Michigan,
on Michigan Central railroad. Sales past
three years, over $25,000 annually. <Ad-
dress Jackson, care Tradesman. 173

For Sale—A clean stock of hardware,
tinware, agricultural implements and tin
shop. and tools in Coloma, Mich. Also
store building and residence. This prop-
erty must be sold and can be had at a
bargain. Communicate immediately by let-
ter or in person, with J. J. Rutka, Trus-
tee, c-o Clark-Rutka-Weaver Co., Grand
Rapids, Mich. 72

For Sale—Young black Shetland, brok-

 

 

 

 

 

 

en; a pet. Emmel, Barnevald, Wis. 171
160 acres of good land free to. old
soldiers and Spanish war soldiers. Ad-
dress A. W. Giffin, Roll, Okla. 169
Wanted Tailor—To locate in beautiful
and growing village of Montague, Mich.

Address Secretary Board of Trade, Mon-
tague, Mich. 168
For Sale—Clothing, furnishings and
shoe stock of $20,000. No. 1 loeation in
town of 6,700. Last year’s business $52,-
000. Reason for selling, poor health. Ad-
dress P. O. Box 427, Minot, N. D 167
Yo Exchange--For stock general mer-
chandise or groceries, 316 acres land
eleven miles west Traverse City, one mile
to good market. School house on place.
Small cranberry marsh, young orchard,
gravelly loam clay subsoil and good wat-
er. Land slightly rolling. Stephen A.
Pike, R. F. D., Cedar Run, Mich. 166
If you want to buy, sell or exchange
property, any kind, anywhere, or if you
want a partner, additional capital, posi-
tion or location, state what you want and
send 10c for the Investor’s Guide, 370
Bank Commerce Bldg., Minneapolis, —:

 

 

 

 

For Sale—On easy terms, $3,000 gen-
eral stock near Gaylord. Splendid cash
business. Would take part real estate.
Address California, care a

 

Wanted—To exchange first-class city
property, vacant or improved, for good
stock of general merchandise, with lo-
cation in manufacturing town of not less
than 5,000. Write Vicksburg Clothing
Mfg. Co., Vicksburg, Mich. 155

For Sale—Long-established drug busi-
ness in Michigan city of 40,000. Reason,
death of owner. Best display windows
in city, good fixtures, good stock, good
business opportunity. Last invoice $3,000.
Address A, care Tradesman. 154

For Sale—-Clean stock dry goods, car-
pets and notions, invoicing $10,000, in
a live Michigan town. Address X. Y, X.,
care Tradesman. 153

For Sale—Cheap, a complete set of
grocery fixtures, good as new. Address
S. W. Cline, Route 38, St. Louis, cna

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For Sale—Laundry in best growing
business center of 20,000 in Michigan.
Money-maker for right party. Address
No. 150. care Tradesman. 150

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ment placed in over 100 different maga-
zines, (going in every single one) only
10e line. Big discounts on all publica-
tions. Our lists, partculars, ete., free.
Queen City Advertising Co., 207 St. Paul
Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio. 149

A first-class drug store for sale. En-

xy, Hesperia, Mich., or
quire of F. Utley p Gand
1

Hazelting & Perkins Drug Co.,

‘about $9,000.

 

Rapids, Mich.

For Sale—General — stock, invoicing
Leading business in smali
town. Clean stock, good business for
right man. Sales for 1906, $35,000. Ad-
dress No. 161, care Michigan Tradesman.
161

 

for Sale--Beautiful farm of 320 acres
finely improved, 8-room house, fine or-
chard, steel barn, two windmills, water
piped to house and barn, 60 acres in al-
falfa; beautiful home six miles from
Lincoln, 243 miles from Havelock; price
only $85 per acre, cheap at $100. En-
quire of J. F. Lansing. 202 So. lzth
Lincoln, Neb. 146

Free Bookleis—How to
not a theory but a fact. We do the
work where others fail. Write to-day,
G. E. Breckenridge, Edinburg, Ill. 142
_ Wanted—Small, good paying drug stock
in Michigan. $1,000 down, balance on
time. Address No. 143, care Tradesman.

quit business,

 

For Sale—Bakery,
and restaurant. Only bakery in town of
1,500 population. Doing a good business.
At a bargain if sold quick. Part down,
balance on time.

ice cream parlor

 

A good location for furniture business.
eee B. J. G. Bettelheim, Brookfield,
oO. :

123

For Sale or Exchange—¥Ffor desirable
real estate. a $1,500 bazaar stock. A bar-
gain for immediate sale. A. E. Shadduck,
Lansing. Mich. 108.

For Sale—Lumber yard, oldest estab-
lished in thriving Ohio city of 17,000.
Fine farming country surrounding. No
real estate. Possession about Nov. 1.
Reason, owner must go south. Address
Box 44. Chillicothe, Ohio. 105.

Country store four miles from depot
and six miles from bank town, in best of
farming country in Central Michigan.
Doing good business. Have stock reduced
to about $1,000. Will sell reasonable on
account of other business. Building 24
x 50, can be leased reasonable by year
or term of years. Address No. 102, care
Michigan Tradesman. 102.

 

 

 

 

For Sale—Meat market in south end.
Doing good business. Address No. 380.
care Michigan Tradesman. 80

For Sale—Small stock of general mer-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Address Home Bakery, . : : . 2 :

Mallia ic a chandise. Doing good business in coun-
Witiamston. Mich. 14} try town. Address Box 145, Williamston,
Bakery—Bake shop complete and up-| Mich. 52

to-date. Roberts portable oven (new).

horse, wagon, sleigh, store fixtures. For Sale—Seven hundred dollars worth

Good location. Splendid business. Cause,|of men’s and young men’s suits at 75e

poor health. $800 cash. C. Harold, Mt.|0n the dollar. Address No. 14, care Mich-

Jewett, Pa. 140 igan Tradesman. 14
For Sale — Confectionery business. For Sale—Corner drug store, inventor-

Handsome new _ furniture, all white|}ies about $3,500. Reason, ill health. Box

enameled, with beautiful, new, up-to-| 7&7. Cheboygan. Mich. 2

date soda fountain. Metal tables and -

chairs. Walls covered with mirrors. For Sale—Four floor cases. 1 umbrella

Linoleum on floor. Elegant silver andjcase. 1 triplicate mirror. 3 folding tables,

glassware. Store well stocked. Good |2 shoe store settees. All in first-class con-

trade in town of over 5,000 population.|dition. Address No. 15, care Michigan

Investigation solicited. A bargain. Ad- | Tradesman. 15

dress No. 187, care Michigan Tradesman. .

Grand Rapids, Mich. For Sale—Stock of dry goods, shoes,
: ae gents’ furnishings and crockery. Strictly
For Sale—Hardware stock, consisting | cash business established. The only store

of builders and general hardware. tin-/in town of 400 population carrying the

ware, plumbing and _ heating,  tinshop| above lines. Address No. 999, care Michi-
tools and store fixtures. Will invoice|gan Tradesman.

near $8,000. Reason for selling, failing -

health, must change climate. For furth- Cash for your business or real estate.

er information address No. 1386, care|No matter where located. If you want

Michigan Tradesman. 136 to buy or sell address Frank P. Cleve-

ca land, 1261 Adams Express Bldg., Chi-
For Sale—Grocery and crockery stock.| jon Ty 961

— about a some ae sey eho ‘ :
ast year’s sales $20,000. o trades; or Sale—Small country store doing

ee Write Lock Box 610, oo strictly cash business. A moneymaker.

nA : Address No. 770, care Michigan Trades-
For Sale—On good terms, only har-| man. 770
ness shop in town, with buggy and farm

implements. V. . Nagler, Howard

City, Mich. 135

 

For Sale—Stock general
in best business town 1,300
Michigan. Will inventory
Doing good cash business.
all or part cash. No trade.
158, care Tradesman.

merchandise
in Eastern
about $2,000.

Address

 

For Sale——Clean stock groceries, fine.

location. Doing good _ business. Tl
health cause for selling. Address Judson
Grocer Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.
160
Wanted—Several parties to join us in
developing a mining ‘property of excep-
tional value in the best mineral belt in
Colorado, Clear Creek County. For par-
ticulars address Weber & Cooper, Idaho
Springs, Colo. 130
For Sale—Only drug store in small Ken-
tucky town. No others nearer than 8 to
16 miles. Poor health. Prescriptions
average 300 per month. Address Thomp-
son, Knottsville, Ky. 126
For Sale—Stock of cheese factory and
creamery supplies. Tinshop in connec-
tion. Doing jobbing and furnace heating.
Kstablished twenty years, in a fine dairy
country. Reason for selling, poor health.
Address P. Y. Jones, 12-3rd St., Fond
du Lac, Wis. 127

To Exchange—Sixty acre farm one
mile north of Saranac, for a drug stock
in or near Grand Rapids. Address Box
333, Saranac, Mich. 22

A Bargain—Stock clothing, furnishings
and shoes. Live town. Large territory.
New stock. Must be sold at once. For
particulars, write F. J. Schwab, Churdan,
Iowa. 121

For Sale—An_ old-established grocery
and meat market, doing good business
in good location. Will sell reasonable if
taken at once. P. O. Box 981, Benton
Harbor, Mich. 120

Coal Property for Sale—Now
ping; has large body of semi-anthra-
cite; market unequaled; tract of 640
acres; title clear; a rare chance. Address
Willard W. Hills, Box 343, Boulder Poy

 

 

 

 

ship-

 

Will sell for}

 

| WANT TO BUY

From 100 to 10,000 pairs of SHOES, new or
old style—your entire stock, or part of it.

SPOT CASH

You can have it. I’m ready to come.
PAUL FEYREISEN, {2 State St., Chicago

 

 

For Sale—A clean stock of drugs, fix-
tures, etc., complete. Everything up-to-
date. Stock invoices about $2,700. An-
nual sales $5,000. In town of over 2,000.
Store centrally located. An old stand.
Expenses light. Reason for selling, other
business requires attention. Address No.
591. care Tradesman. 591

 

Special Attention—Drug stores and po-

sitions anywhere desired in United States

or Canada. F. V. Kniest, Omaha, Neb.
951

 

Wanted—Best price paid for coffee
sacks, flour sacks, sugar sacks, etc. Ad-
dress William Ross & Co., 57 S. Water
St., Chicago, Ill. 960

 

For Sale—Stock of shoes, dry goods
and groceries located in Central Michi-
gan town of 350 population. Living
rooms above store. Rent, $12 per month.
Lease runs until May 1, 1908, and can be
renewed. last inventory, $2,590. Sales
during 1905, $8,640. Good reasons for
selling. Address No. 386, care Michigan
Tradesman. 386

For Sale—Stock of groceries, boots
shoes, rubber goods, notions and garden
seeds. Located in the best fruit belt in
Michigan. Invoicing $3,600. If taken be-
fore April 1st, will sell at rare bargain
Must sell on account of other business
Geo. Tucker. Fennville, Mich. 538

Wanted—Two thousand cords _bass-
wood and poplar excelsior bolts, green
or dry. Highest market price paid, cash.
Excelsior Wrapper Co., Grand Rapids,
Mich. 859

 

 

 

 

 

 

HELP WANTED.

 

Wanted—Clerk in general store.
have had experience. Married man
ferred. Good position for good
Charles N. Cowles, Riley. Mich. 181

Wanted—Experienced for general
store. Must be a Box 86, Man-
ton, Mich. 179

Wanted—Salesman calling on large re-
tail dry goods trade, to carry something
strictly new in ladies’ hand bags. Address

Must
pre-
man.

man
hustler.

 

for particulars, Thos. A. Sutton, Johns-
town, Wis. 170
Wanted—Salesman who is acquainted
with grocery and drug trade, Western
and Northern section Michigan. Light-
ner-Seely Co.. Detroit. Mich. 143

 

Wanted—Competent and hustling sales-
man to take charge of dry goods, cloth-
ing, boot and shoe department in gener-
al store. Also first-class meat cutter
for head of meat deparement. Only
good men can fill these places. Must be
correct in character and habits: Refer-
ences -required. J. A. Shattuck & Co.,
Newberry, Mich. 119

 

SITUATIONS WANTED

 

Position Wanted—By registered pharm-

acist 36 years old. Married. Registered
17 years. Am working now, desire a
change. Address No. 165, care Michigan

Tradesman. 165
Wanted—Position as clothing man and
advertisement writer, 15 years’ experi-
ence, Successful manager. Writer of
business bringing advertisements. Can
assist or take charge. Open to propo-
sition Sept. 10. Address No. 157, care
Tradesman. 157

Wanted Position — Salesman,
man (25) married.

 

young
Eight years experi-
ence clothing and shoes, four years as
manager and_ buyer. Al references.
Ready Sept. 1. Address Clothing, care
Tradesman. 134

 

Wanted—Position as window trimmer
and card writer. Can furnish best of
references. Address 1341 5th Ave., Grand
Rapids, Mich. 128

 

Want Ads. continued on next page.

 

 

do a credit
business it will be
to your interest to
investigate our cou-
pon book system.
It places your busi-
ness on a cash basis
in the easiest, sim-
plest and cheapest
manner yet devised.
We will cheerfully
send samples, prices
and full information
if you will let us
know you are inter-
ested.

If you

¢

Tradesman

Company
Grand Rapids,
Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

48

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

FORTY-TWO YEARS AGO.

How the City Looked at the Close of
the War.

Written for the Tradesman.
Presuming that work will be com-
menced upon the new postoffice build-
ing in the not far distant future, I
am reminded of the postal business of
Grand Rapids as I found it when I
entered the city forty-two years ago.
While a charter had been granted to
the city by the Legislature of the
State, the place was a mere village.
It was not as large as Kalamazoo,
which was known as “the largest vil-
lage in the West,” it then having a
Grand
Rapids was a quiet, sleepy little place.

village form of government.

One-half of its population might have
been seen on any pleasant day sit-
ting on the big boulders in the river
and the remainder standing on the
bridges, watching the movements of
their neighbors with fishing rods and
spears. The war between the states
had just closed and the people seem-
ed to require a period for rest and
reflection before engaging actively in
3ut

to return to my purpose: The post-

the business affairs of the world.

office was located on Lyon street and

the Arcade, which is now the rear

of the Giant clothing house. A sin-
gle room, 20x40 feet in size, was used,
and the postmaster, the late Noyes L.
Avery, had three assistants—tCharles
Cole, W. E. White and James D.

Lyon, all of whom passed away many

years ago. Mails were received daily
by stage from Kalamazoo, Hastings
and Greenville, and three times each
week from Newaygo and Big Rapids.
The only railroad connecting the city
with the outside world—now the
Grand Trunk—brought one mail daily
from the East and the West, and it
was the habit of the people to as-
semble at the postoffice at 6 o’clock
and witness the distribution of the
same. Mr. Avery and his assistants
were experts in their employment,
and when the windows were thrown
open the boxes were cleared of their
contents very quickly. Every man
was his own letter carrier, and in the
transaction of business he did not
have the typewriter, the telephone, the
copying press or the card index sys-
tem to expedite his work. Only one
stenographer lived in the city at that
time. The testimony of witnesses in
the trial of cases in the courts was
written “long hand” by the clerks
and the attorneys, and trials were
necessarily long and tedious. The
stores were small and the _ service
poor. No. deliveries of purchases
were made and there were but two
public drays in the place. The ground
upon which our half million dollar
postoffice will stand was but partly
occupied, and considered of little
value. When the location was se-
lected for the present structure many
protests were filed with the officials
at Washington because of its remote-
ness from the business center of the
city. 1 might “go on” as_ long
as Tennyson’s brook with these rem-
iniscences, but to do so might create

 

the impression in the minds of your
reads that I am an “old man,” which
I am not. Arthur S. White.
—_++.—____
New Jobbing House Flashes in the
Pan.

About June 15 Frederick D. Helm-
er came to this city from the East
and announced his intention of en-
gaging in the jobbing of grocers and
druggists’ sundries, including wines,
liquors and tobaccos. While his an-
tecedents were somewhat indistinct
and indefinite, it is pretty generally
conceded that he was on the road
for Gus H. Ebelings, wholesale li-
quor dealer at South Bend, from 1902
to 1905, traveling in the State of In-
diana. He also claims to have been
manager of the Greenwood Lake Ca-
sino, at Greenwood, N. J., during the
season of 1906, but as this resort is
now out of existence and as the own-
er is in Europe there is no way of
verifying this statement. Helmer is
a man about 47 years of age and
claims to be a widower. He came
here with $600 in money, claiming to
have real estate in Chicago and one
or two other properties. He rented
the vacant store at Io Lyon street
and began sending out orders indis-
criminately for liquors, tobaccos, pat-
ent medicines, toilet preparations,
etc. So far as can be learned no pay-
ments have been made, it evidently
being the intention of Helmer to have
the bills come due about Sept. 1,
which, by the way, was a somewhat
notworthy date with him because that
was the date he was to get married,
and on which date he was to start
out on the road and also issue a cata-
logue None of these plans have ma-
terialized so far as the Tradesman’s
knowledge goes. For the past three
or four days there has been no one
in the store during business hours,
and so far as is disclosed from the
front windows nothing is left to speak
of except a little office furniture and
a half famished cat. The bank ac-
count was garnisheed Sept. 3. by
Hon. Peter Doran on a claim for $117
held by the Horlick Malted Milk Co.
and the landlord has taken steps to
regain possession of the property by
means of a landlord’s lien. But for
the cautionary reports sent out by the
local representative of the Bradstreet
Co., who quite early evidently reach-
ed a conclusion that there was some-
thing shady in the enterprise, the list
of creditors would probably have
been very greatly augmented.

—~~+-+.
Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.

Buffalo, Sept. 4—Creamery, fresh,
22@27c; dairy, fresh, 18@25c; poor
to common, 17@20¢c.
18@20c;
fancy, 22@23Cc.

Eggs—Choice,
21@22¢;

candled,

Live Poultry—Broilers,
fowls, 13@14c; ducks,
cOx, 9@Ioc.

Dressed Poultry—Iced fowls, 13%
@14%c; old cox, Ioc; springs, 16@
18c.

Beans—Pea, hand-picked, $1.65@
1.70; marrow, $2.15@2.25; medium,
$1.65; red kidney, $2.40@2.50; white
kidney, $2.25@2.40.

Potatoes—White, $2@2.25 per bbl.;
mixed and red, $1.75.

Rea & Witzig.

IS@16c;
12@13c; old

 

The Grain Market.

There has been considerable
strength in all grains the past two or
three weeks, wheat having shown an
advance in futures of practically toc
per bushel, corn about 5c and oats
6@7c.

The demand for wheat both for do-
mestic and foreign shipments has
been active with moderate move-
ment. Harvest in the Dakotas is now
progressing rapidly and the general
opinion seems to be the wheat crop
of this country is practically made,
although it is a little early yet for the
extreme Northwest and some reports
would indicate that the frost had done
considerable injury and that there
would be more or less damage to
quality. Foreign crop news is fav-
orable; at the same time we are now
on an export basis for spot ship-
ments and there is very little anxiety
on the part of wheat holders.

Old corn is in good demand and
the market seems to be advancing a
little each day. Feed prices are ex-
tremely high and until the season is
far enough advanced to insure the
corn crop we do not look for any re-
lief for the feeders.

While the price of oats is sensa-
tionally high, they are still following
corn and the large shortage in the
crop throughout the country is likely
to hold prices very firm throughout
the year.

Mill feeds have advanced from week
to week in keeping with coarse grains,
bran in middlings now selling in car-
lots from the West at from $24@27
per ton, and the demand really is in
excess of the supply.

L. Fred Peabody.
2-2

It is reported that Sir Thomas Lip-
ton is again to challenge for the cup.
Desirable as it is to have yacht races
and interesting as they are, it would
be better perhaps 1f somebody else
would come over from the other side
with cup lifting intentions. Sir Thom-
as’ attempts have been very sports-
manlike, but unsuccessful. There
would be more general interest if
some other individual or some foreign
yacht club, by the aid of a syndicate
of foreign nautical men of means,
would make the effort. It is all very
patriotic and public spirited for Sir
Thomas to keep on challenging in
definitely, but it is monotonous. It
is barely possible that he is not un-
mindful of the advertising which goes
along with this enterprise. Probably
Americans think it is better for Mr.
Lipton to make repeated challenges
than to have none at all, but all must
agree that somebody else could do
as well.

—_+<-

A Hillsdale correspondent writes:
Chas. Kalder has resigned his posi-
tion as traveling salesman for Fred
3rundage, of Muskegon, and goes
this week to enter the employ of Nel-
son, Baker & Co., of Detroit, as spe-
cial traveling representative the
West.

in
—_——__2@2— a ———

The International Stewards’ Asso-
ciation, which during the past week
has been in session in Chicago, has
declared in favor of the intelligible
menu card, one printed in English
and not in French. No reason has

 

ever been given why the menu should
be printed in French unless it is the
fear of the hotel proprietors that those
who have not had a course of train-
ing in some female finishing schoo
would actually get something to eat,
if they could tell what they were or-
dering.
+2.

St. Ignace—Edward Jones, a Sagi-
naw lumberman, has moved his band
sawmill to this place, where he will
rebuild and furnish employment to
about fifty men. The mill has a ca-
pacity of 60,000 feet of lumber daily.
Much of the timber has been guaran-
teed, while Mr. Jones himself owns
large tracts of timber in Chippewa
county. The mill will saw both hard
and sofe timber. The new mill is
built on the site of the old M. L.
Co.’s plant, which Mr. Jones bought
for $8,000.

——__ 2

Indianapolis has at last torn down
some of the signs which offend the
city ordinances. It is over a year
since the owners of these eyesores
were warned that they must comply
with the law. This shows how well
ordinances of the kind are enforced.
That is no fault of the law, however,
and it is to be hoped that within a
short time more of them will be
passed. Even a patch of weeds is
more sightly than a huge bill board
slathered with glaring advertise-

‘ments.

—_>->—___

E. L. Crossman, who was on the
road several years as salesman for
the East Jordan Lumber Co., has
taken the position .of subscription
agent for the local office of the Brad-
street Co. He succeeds I. H. Wal-
den, who has been promoted to the
position. of Superintendent of the
Green Bay office of the same com-
pany. Mr. Crossman is a gentleman
of wide experience and excellent rep-
utation.

—>-~—____

A writer in the Worker’s Maga-
zine is of the opinion that girls do
not eat enough. He probably never
had the pleasure of setting up a
light lunch for one of these slender
creatures, he would re-
his Those who get
along on a ham sandwich, an order
of pie, a glass of iced tea and a
piece of pickle are few and far be-
tween.

otherwise

vise diagnosis.

——_+-

Owosso Press: Alwyn Pond _ has
secured a position as traveling sales-
man for the Cummins Co., of Wor-
cester, Mass.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—Retail grocery with
stock of tinware and dishes. Invoices
about $5,000. Reason for selling, going
into the wholesale exclusively. Can re-
duce stock and will make liberal terms.
G. W. Ryan, Great Falls, Mont. 186

y

"Wanted — Experienced saleslady for
general store, (no groceries). Town of
2,000. Address X. Y. Z., care Tradesman.

 

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Wanted — Registered pharmacist to
work in drug store and hardware. Henry
Eoff, Fountain, Mich. 184 ©

Printing—Wonderfully low prices, let-
terheads, envelopes, etc. Samples free,
tonne Printing House, Walkerton,
nd. 183

 

For drug stores in Michigan,’ city or
country, address National Drug § Ex-
change, 814 Chamber Commerce, Detroit,
Mich. 182

For Sale—Second-hand Kidder  print-
ing press, chase 14xli. Will sell cheap,
Address O. & W. Thum Co., Grand Rap-
ids, Mich. 187

 

 

 

 

 
  

Money
Thrown
Away

y throwing away money in the handling

 

  

 

Many merchants are positivel
of their ACCOUNTS!
It is only a little each day and they do not notice it; it’s like a little

LEAK from a barrel, just a drop ata time, but if it is not stopped the
barrel will soon run dry.

STOP THE LEAKSI :

They amount to a great many dollars in the course of a year.

DOING USELESS WORK isa LEAK.

FORGETTING TO CHARGE GOODS isa LEAK.

Errors and disputes cause loss of trade.

LOSS OF TRADEIS A LEAK.

THE McCASKEY ACCOUNT REGISTER handles ALL YOUR
ACCOUNTS with only ONE WRITING, showing EVERY DETAIL
oi the business.

Then why spend your time in copying and posting?

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Mfrs. of the Famous Multiplex Duplicate and Triplicate Pads; also
Single Carbon Pads in End Carbon, Side Carbon or Folded Pads...

J. A. Plank, Tradesman Bldg., Grand Rapids, State Agent for Michigan
Agencies in all Principal Cities

 
  
 
   
 

   
  
    
 

  
 
   

 

 

 

        
        
     
    
      
     
     
 
   

 

The purity of the Lowney products will
never be questioned by Pure Food Officials.
There are no preservatives, substitutes, adul-
terants or dyes in the Lowney goods. Dealers
find safety, satisfaction and a fair profit in
selling them.

The WALTER M. LOWNEY COMPANY, 447 Commercial St, Boston, Mass.

 

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You See It Coming

FILLING A GLASS LAMP FONT
-is a very simple operation because the
. surface of the contents is seen rising
toward the top. Carelessness is the
only excuse for pouring in too much
‘and going beyond the capacity.

A METAL FONT is not‘so easily
filled because you can only guess how
much isin it. Experience may enable
you to guess fairly close but absolute
accuracy is impossible.

' OLD STYLE SGALES present the
4 same difficulties. No weight is shown
a until you have too much and the scale
goes down. You must either take a
little out or suffer a loss.

MONEYWEIGHT AUTOMATIC
SCALES show at all times the weight
on the scale and you pour on the goods
until the correct weight or money

value is indicated. This means a prevention of loss and a saving of
- i money. ns

  

 

 

The new lew platform No.
140 Dayton Scale

 

 

 

OLD STYLE scales prevent you from seeing their defects, with
the accompanying loss of merchandise and profit.

We ask the opportunity of showing you what it amounts to. Let us
send our representative to you.

 

 

tgasa] Moneyweight Scale Co.
oivinree, | 58 State St., Chicago

  

 

 

  

 

What Is the Good

Of good printing?

   

You can probably
answer that ina minute when you com-
pare good printing with poor. You know
the satisfaction of sending out printed
matter that is neat, ship-shape and up-
to-date in appearance. You know how it
impresses you when you receive it from :
some one else. It has the same effect on
your customers. Let us show you what
we can do by a judicious admixture. of
brains and type. Let us help you with

your printing.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids

 

  
       
       
    
    
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
  
 
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leonard Crockery Co.

Wholesale and Commission Merchants

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Celluloid
Case Goods
and
Novelties

 

 

Genuine
Rich Cut Glass
, a
Specialty

 

 

 

Decorated
Bohemian Glass
Water Sets
' Wine Sets

 

 

 

Largest Stocks
of
Imported
Decorated China

 

 

 

Agents for
Rogers Bros. 1847
Oneida Community
S. L.&G. H. Rogers
Wm. Rogers

 

 

 

 

We Carry
A Complete Line
of Genuine
Sterling Silver

 

 

If you intend visiting our beautiful city
on account of the

West Michigan
State Fair

September 9 to 13

you should not fail to visit our stores and view our grand
- exhibit of profitable merchandise.

Make this house your

Headquarters

and we will see to it that your visit will be both pleasant
, and profitable.

Our newly decorated salesrooms
134 to 140 East Fulton Street

(Just two blocks from the Union depot)
are resplendent with
Most Beautiful and Extensive Lines of

Holiday Goods

Come early to make your personal selections and secure
the best bargains. Take advantage of our

Special Terms to Early Buyers

Half Fare Rates on All Railroads During Fair Week

Selling Agents for
Homer Laughlin’s
Semi-=Porcelain
Dinner Ware

 

Imported and
Domestic

TOYS
Of Every Description

 

 

 

Teddy Bears
Wood, Tin, Iron,

Mechanical Toys
Books, Blocks and Games

 

 

Complete Lines of
House-Furnishing Goods
at
Lowest Prices

 

 

 

Decorated Parlor Lamps
Glass Lamps

Burners and Chimneys
Gas Lights, Gas Mantles, Etc.

 

 

 

 

 

Over 60 Patterns in
Imported and Domestic
. Decorated
Dinner Ware

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Remember We Make

NO CHARGE FOR PACKAGE OR CARTAGE

On Any Goods Shipped From Grand Rapids