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Twenty-Fifth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1908 Number 1295

 

 

 

A “Square Deal”

i for Every Grocer
That’s the KELLOGG Policy

Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes is the only corn flakes that does not put the
average grocer at a disadvantage by selling the chain stores, department stores,
and buying exchanges at jobber's prices. It is distributed strictly through jobbing
channels, and every retailer, great and small, is on the same basis.

° It is sold solely on its merits, without premiums, schemes or deals. The National
Association of Retail Grocers is on record most emphatically as opposed to these.

It is backed by a generous and continuous advertising campaign. Nothing spas-
modic aboat it. It is the most popular breakfast food in America today; sells

+ rapidly, yields the grocer a good profit, and makes a satisfied customer, and that
is why the public insist on getting the

Genuine and Original

TOASTED
CORN FLAKES

) and are looking for this signature on the package

| U2 KK Mog es 5

Toasted Corn Flake Co., Battle Creek, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

LOWNEY’S COCOA has maintained]its high quality unimpaired
regardless of the rise in the price of cocoa beans. For years now it has ap-
pealed to the best trade on its merits and become a staple article with a
sure demand, constant and growing. Wide advertising in street cars,
newspapers and magazines will go on pushing, pushing, pushing. It is a
safe investment and pays a fair profit.

LOWNEY’S PREMIUM CHOCOLATE for cooking is of the same
superfine quality.

The WALTER M. LOWNEY COMPANY, 447 Commercial St., Boston, Mass.

 

 

 

      
 

On account of the Pure Food Law

  

there is a greater demand than

ever for

   

FF Fe eH HSH

 

Pure
Cider Vinegar

 

 

 

We guarantee our vinegar to be

absolutely pure, made from apples
and free from all artificial color-
ing. Our vinegar meets the re-
quirements of the Pure Food Laws

of every State in the Union. x st

 

 

The Williams Bros. Co.

Manufacturers

Picklers and Preservers

Detroit, Mich.

   

 

 

      
 
     

WoRrRDEN (GROCER COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Prompt Shippers

 

 

Every Cake

of FLEISCHMANN’S

YELLUW LABEL YEAST you sell not

  

only increases your profits, but also

gives complete satisfaction to your
OUR LABEL

patrons.

The Fleischmann Co.,

of Michigan
Detroit Office, 111 W. Larned St., Grand Rapids Office, 29 Crescent Av.

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Makes Clothes Whiter-Work Tne Kitchen Cleaner

SNOWBO

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SOWDER,

“GOOD GOODS — GOOD PROFITS.

 

  

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Kent State Bank

A consolidation of the

KENT COUNTY SAVINGS BANK
and the
STATE BANK OF MICHIGAN

with total assets amounting to nearly
$6,000,000

The consolidation became operative
July tirst and will be under the same
successful management as the present
combined banks. For atime the old
quarters Of both institutions will be
maintained: The Kent County Savings
Bank, corner Canal and Lyon streets:
the State Bank of Michigan, corner
Monroe and Ottawa streets, Grand
Rapids, Mich.

OFFICERS
Henry Idema, Pres. Daniel MeCoy, Vice Pres.
John A. Covode, Vice Pres.
J. A. S. Verdier, Cashier
Casper Baarman, Auditor
A. H. Brandt, Asst. Cashier
Gerald McCoy, Asst. Cashier

SRC,

GRAND RAPIDS
INSURANCE AGENCY
THE McBAIN AGENCY

   

 

FIRE

Grand Rapids, Mich. The Leading Agency

Commercial Credit C0., Lid.

Credit Advices and Collections
MICHIGAN OFFICES
Murray Building, Grand Rapids
Majestic Building, Detroit

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

.Late State Food Commissioner

 

 

Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and
jobbers whose interests are affected by
the Food Laws of any state. Corre-
spondence invited.

2321 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.

TRAGE FREIGHT Easily

and Quickly. We can tell you
how. BARLOW BROS.,
Grand Rapids, Mich

 

YOUR DELAYED

 

 

FIRE AND
BURGLAR
PROOF

SAFES

Grand Rapids
Safe Co.

Tradesman Building

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1908

SPECIAL FEATURES.

2. Window Trimmings.

4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Markets.
6. The Kalkaska Fire.

*8. Editorial.

10. Review of the Shoe Market.
12. Woman’s World.

14. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
16. The Road to Prison.

18. Stoves and Hardware.

19. Banker Bunker.

20. Moral Philosophy.

24. The New Book Clerk.

26. Drugs.

27. Drug Price Current.

28. Grocery Price Current.

30. Special Price Current.

 

 

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES.

Fighty-five im the shade, 7 o'clock,
afternoon, and able to read from a
newspaper without ‘the aid of artifi-
cial light,” observed a Grand Rapids
merchant who had just shipped a bill

“c

of goods amounting to two thousand
dollars to a town Up North.

An hour later this merchant had
just made the interurban car transfer
at the Spring Lake junction on his
way to Highland Park, when his at
tention was attracted to the flash
light exhibits made by thousands of
fire-flies. “Now there you are, my
oy, if you can do what those fire-
flies are doing—light without heat
your name will go down in history
alongside of those of Newton, Watts,
Harvey, Edison and all the rest,’ was
his impromptu comment.

a"

There is not anything especially
new in the merchant’s suggestion. It
has been made probably many thous-
ands of times; but because it is hack-
neyed the merchant deserves to be
reminded that he made a_ mistake
when he put the idea into the head
of a boy. It would have been quite
as proper had he said, pointing to
the movement of the waves on the
lake, “There you are, my boy, if you
could produce perpetual motion your
Name, etc., etc.”

There is nothing in natural philoso-
phy, seemingly, which warrants the
development of either perpetual mo-
tion or light without heat from a
commercial standpoint, and. yet
thousands of persons have wasted
their substance and ruined their men-
talities by striving for perpetual mo-
tion as a business asset, while not a
few scientists have studied and work-
ed to uncover some truth as yet un-
known to humanity and so wasted
years in the hope of producing light
without heat.

Here was a man of business talk-
ing to a boy; a boy who probably
looked up to the merchant as a wise
counselor and who, when the _ busi-
ness man revealed a great possibili-
ty in business, tucked it away care-
fully for future consideration so
that possibly fifteen or twenty years
hence people will be referring to that
same boy as “a poor insane fool who
thinks he has discovered a method by
which he can imitate the fire-flies and
produce light without heat.”

 

“Meditation of this sort may be all
right,” as was suggested by one of
Michigan

overheard the fire-fly

the most scientific men in
who had
gestion, “and forty years ago would
have applied to the science of elec
tricity as then understood.” And then
he went on to show how, in 1868, the
telephone, the wireless

1 ie * sh
electric hight,

telegraphy and all of the multitude
of utilizations of electricity of to-
day were undreamed of, and con

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cluded, “It is not safe to call any

studious and persistent investigator a
lunatic or to charge that his mental
ity is deficient in ular.”

 

 

YES, IT IS.

Is Grand Rapids the jobbing center
that it believes itself to be?

Between 7 a. m. and 12.05 p. m
every Monday forenoon’ twenty-one
passenger trains leave our city for

their respective runs out into Mich

 

igan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. and

so on, to more distant territory
Sixteen of these trains begin the |

travels at the Union station fom|

Start from the Grand Trunk stati

at Bridge street and one

Lake Shore station.
And there are 1,200 traveling sales- |
men who reside in Grand Rapids, a|

large majority of whom leave

city Monday mornings and are!

s

back by the followinz Saturdays

These
a |

F and soodiv nartian i Ovnea
ly and goodly portions of Ohio,

men cover Michigan thor

ougl

Indiana,
I

they are’ not traveling for
health. hese facts, together with |

c 1

the fact that, aside from the furniture |
industry and kindred lines of busi-|
ness there are over 100 jobbine hous

es in Grand Rapids, furnish an ade
quate affirmative reply to the enquiry
at the head of this article.
Any person

racy of the

questioning
foregoing reference to
traveling salesmen may at least wit
ness an interesting scene if he will
visit the Union station at 6:30 o'clock
any Monday morning and
there an ‘hour and a half.
He will see

long files of men.

;
rr\1 . > nae of “lo a - coal
yOuns men, as a rule, men who, full

of energy and ambition, are lined
windows,

And

1
f >
pcople,

ticket

earnest and forceful yet serene.

wp for the various
he will see also a lot of
men and women who are not profes-
sional or evem experienced travelers.

And these furnish the contrast. They
are anxious, excited, sometimes ri-
diculous, and once in awhile disagree-
able. They have their ears oper

only to the bells and exhausts of the

locomotives, their eyes upon the

clocks and their nerves focused up
on the ticket window; they become
impatient, can not understand
the cool, sociable and well-dressed
young men do not move more rapid-
ly; can not appreciate why the ticket

why

| purchaser

 

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seller has to do so much writing and

Number 1295

 

punching ot ticketS; see no Sense in
tpe train UrrerFS Warnings and vy
ler wh 1) wot ry! r a +
Cr Wily SO ny peopie crowd to 1
station on Monday mornings. They
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ask all Sorts Of questions of any
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MERE SUGGESTIONS.

 

“Strawberries inside to keep them
from the dust,” read a neatly written
placard Im: IFrOmt OF an equallv nea

Tes i] he 4 ‘
Window. LOW mucn More promilisins

is thin t » of ket f '

FIs Ciall &O Sk 1€ DASKEtS OF OVE!

£ 145 . . ; 4
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nit of unlimited cleansing. The get
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Market and ft YOU are SIifivine
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is Sttflicient to attract any possib

 

Near this card were the finest sme

 

 

nens of let e and radishes, neatly
~ 1 7 sy ch
cke Nm sSeparat compartments

. 1 1 ‘

aI VW en Wate Was constant!y
Ipping ( tainly nese crisp vee
etables stos i. better chance than

Le Na Wiited ones mm display in

Gqjyoiinge windows Half th ra
‘ ; A Yefahles wancehs
I l vegeltabpies wa SIECS
1 their freshness
{ne trst baskets of peaches and

Stapes are always mors empting
1 1OSEe W Ch froilow. otrive O

} thy } } ' r }

OC TNE E€NMNIDITOF OF fhes Nrst truits
1 4, serve them , leasinoe
| co} SERVE IL CHL n L pleasing
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niannet Rosy ta on once fooled

1 ] it Iya tt) r a 1

COPE nto DUYING Breen peacnes

\ ) y re Ties a

with the impression that they wert

scious and melting: but this device
i + 17 s Ds os ] ;

Ss now too well umderstood. It j:;

iil right to keep the fruit well coy

ra ies alt e ‘

ered, but allow the prospective pur

upon
good size and wanted

no matter tf it is green;

JQ

1: they want it to serve with cream

rr tea you will gain nothing in th
end by deception.
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Michionn cil. 2.2...
Michigan railway managers report

traffic thus

far this season is fully 20 per cent
I

summer resort
"a dha £ Tacué raar ts :

Ove that Of last year ‘Phis is 4

surprising statement in view of the

of industrial depression

 

in the regular branches of rail
business. The

ea Pa oe rd : } +}
probably found in the fact that hot

: }
road

1
weatner

much earlier

usual this season. It is not often t

arrived

a heated term in ]

June remains lone
enough to start the procession, but
this year the summer resort hotels

have been obliged to hustle to get
ready for guests. It promises to be
a long and prosperous season for ho-
els and railroads. and

their patrons
worth of their money in
health and pleasure.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

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Don’t Use Hot Looking Colors in
Hot Weather.

For gracious’ sake don’t let your
windows partake of a. stuffy charac-
ter during the present—or any other,
for the matter o’ that—stuffy-hot
davs. Give them just as cool a look
as you can possibly incorporate in
them.

Have them just as clean as ammo-
nia, soap and Sapolio and any other
reliable dirt-exterminators, combined
with aqua pura, can make them.
This helps a great bit in attracting
desirable attention. Install screen
doors and windows wherever there’s
a yawning calling for them. Flies
buzzing around in such numbers as
to be noticeable make a window ap-
pear hotter. Let every venturesome
fly that encroaches on your domain
know that he does so at the peril of
his miserable little existence.
of color
give proper
far as the
“nipping
in autumn. is
that
with

there’s the matter
windowmen
this subject, so
seasons are comcerned. A
and an eager air’ early
enough to remind most of us
Jack Frost is not to be trifled
at all, at all, and warm reds and
browns and black in a window then
are provocative of content, but when
it comes to using them for window
decorative purposes in mid-July or
August that’s another proposition; a
pedestrian’s mind refuses. to pause its
feet before what is sure to
produce additional scorch-weather
discomfort, In torrid days use white,
use pale greens or cool yellows and
ereys, but don’t employ dark colors
in your windows.

Something else: Don’t attempt to
sell left-overs from the winter stock
when the mercury hovers around 98
in the shade; have those for late
fall or early winter sales if you did
not succeed in getting rid of them
in early spring, when you should have

Then
Too few

heed to

owner's

done so. Feather pillows are a de-
light to snuggle into when wintry
winds are howling round, but no

pillow at all is preferable when the
perspiration stands in every pore. sy
the way, the word perspiration re-
minds me of a bon mot I heard the
other day: A humorous college pro-
fessor from the East made the state-
ment, as big beads of moisture form-
ed on his noble brow, where “tomes
of knowledge nestle,” that he was

glowing immensely, just like a
and he added, laughingly,
know the difference—a horse
‘sweats, a gentleman ‘perspires,’ a
lady simply ‘glows!’”

To go back to window business,
when you introduce summer flowers
in your trims select those not cal-
culated to produce a “glow” in the

lady;”
“You

 

 

 

spectator, whether the posies be of
tame or wild variety. The same rule
as to colors in fabrics holds here, al-
so. American Beauties and Tiger
Lilies, likewise Poppies, in the form-
er and brick red Milkweed and Black-
eved Susans in the latter, if placed
in window spaces, certainly are not
likely to give anybody the shivers.
Tan Shoes.

At least two—maybe three
months of tan shoes before us, and
it behooves every St. Crispin in this
Glorious Country of ours to make
hay while the sun shines on the just
and. the unjust. It looks to some
manufacturers as if the tan shoe will
soon become as staple for winter
wear as the ordinary black, but all
do not agree with them and so sales
should be pushed in the legitimate
tan season for all they are worth.

——_s2.-—
Uncrowded Window That Attracted
Much Notice.

Written for the Tradesman.

The other day I was in another
town and, having a spare 60-min. at
my disposal, utilized it to take a run
around the retail district in
of material for this article.

he town is one of about 40,000
and really its store windows would
compare favorably with those of a
place of much larger size. Some of
them overcrowded, just as are
far too many in Grand Rapids, while
others contained just enough of
goods to interest without tiring.

One window in especial was quite
remarkable for the small amount of
stuff it contained, and that was the
beauty of it, in my eyes.

 

search

were

The whole window
palm garden, or,
a palm porch.

was a little
rather, represented
The space occupied
was some 20 feet in length and about
8 feet in depth. Tall perpetuated
palms in mammoth blue and white
bedragoned Jap  jardinieres were
standing on substantial pedestals and

tabourets in the background. Be-
yond these were three-paneled
screens, the frames of which were

filled with green burlap, the oblong
spaces above the burlap being em-
bellished with deep cherry-red
stal fringe.

cry-
The floor was covered
with a handsome green matting rug
with red figured border—nothing in
the least approaching the bricky or-

der, but distinctly what you might
call a “red-red.”

There was a “conversation seat”—-
one of these companionable double

chairs where the speakers face each
other—occupied by a strikingly hand-
some young lady—an “intense bru-
nette” wax dummy—and an equally
dumb (or dummy) young man. As
a foil to the girl’s dark beauty, the

 

young fellow was the most decided
of blonds.

He was rigged out in the bravest
of summer togs—white flannel suit,
sailor hat and the nattiest kind of
linen and neckwear, while his feet
were stylish beyond compare.

The lady dummy was clad in a
shimmering red liberty silk frock
that must have been all of nine or ten
yards around—accordion pleated—
and it was flipped up a little to show
her red silk hosiery above the pro-
verbial “Frenchy touch of black,”
represented by the fetchingest of
fetching patent leather Oxfords, the
dainty little heels of which were
done in red leather that was the pre-
cise shade of the gown. The big
picture hat was of fine red straw,
with elegant black ostrich tips and
a twist of black velvet at the base
of the high crown which with
long black suedes gave additional
“Frenchy hints of black.” .

At one end of the improvised
porch stood a maid, attired in the
regulation garb of service. She was
puttering at a tea-table, decked ‘out
with all the requirements for a cozy
cup of tea--in fact, for two cozy
cups, if you please!

Yellow canaries in gilded
added realism to the charming
and sang away as if their
throats would burst.

cages

scene
silvery
A real cat on
silken cushion blinked and
purred contentedly in the sunshine,
while a brown spaniel lazily basked
on the rug in the same joyful light,
and never seemed to notice what the
bonny blond and the dashing © bru-
nette were saying as they talked the
time away, making such a stunning
couple.

a sott

Nobody went by without stopping
to “take ’em in” and many were the

compliments received by the house
that had gumption enough to get up

such an out-of-the-ordinary window.
There was no need to disfigure it
with a lot of placards or any goods
other than what were made up in-
to the glad rags of the interesting
young people.

The establishment deals exclusive-
ly in men’s and women’s clothes.

Janey Wardell.
ee

The people who are not afraid to
die are the ones the world wants to
live.

 

 

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Dr. Willard M. Burleson

103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids

 

Booklet free on application

 

Largest as Furniture Store
in the World

When you're in town be sure and call. Ilustra-
tions and prices upon application.

Klingman’s Sample Furniture Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
ionia, Fountain and Division Sts.

Opposite Morton House
s

The Perfection Cheese Cutter

Cuts out your exact profit from every cheese
Adds to appearance
of store and increases cheese trade

Manufactured only by
The American Computing Co.
701-705 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, Ind.

HATS

At Wholesale
For Ladies, Misses and Children

eed

 

 

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20, 22, 24, 26 N. Division St.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

“Always Our Aim”

To make the best work gar-
ments on the market.

To make them at a price
that insures the dealer a good
profit, and

To make them in such a way
that the man who has once
worn our garments will not
wear ‘‘something just as
good,” but will insist upon
having The Ideal Brané.

Write us for,samples.

DEALLOTHINGG

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movements of Michigan Gideons.

Detroit, July 14~—-Last Sunday
evening the Griswold House meeting
was led by Brother Wheaton Smith,
who had for his subject, The Whole

Armour of the Lord, followed by
Charles M. Smith and Daniel W.
Souder, of Fort Wayne, Ind. There

were ten present, among them J. S.
Muddell, of Connersville, Ind., Chas.
L. Mitchell and Lloyd D. Grant, of
this city. One soul desired to find
the Pearl of Great Price.

Frank A. Vernor and family are in
Bay View, taking a vacation and
taking in the pure air and the meet-
ings.

Jacob J. Kinsey and family are now
in Three Rivers, where they will re-
main for a short time and get to
Eaton Rapids in August for the Holi-
ness meetings.” It is now expected
that Brother and Sister Kinsey will
soon locate in Saginaw.

Charles M. Smith will begin on
his vacation next week and will spend
most of his time with his mother at
Clarkston. He will start a few days
ahead of the National convention
with Gordon Z. Gage and wife, who
are goimg South to visit relatives.
and will arrive the day previous to
the convention, which occurs at Lou-
isville, Ky., July 24-26. Brother
Smith will return in time to take in
the Lake Orion meeting in August
and join G. S. Webb and wife and
Aaron B. Gates and wife. It is also
expected that Melvin Trotter and an
army of his workers will attend at
about this time, which means a spir-
itual uplift.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

J. A. Stewart has been confined to
his

home with rheumatism, but at
last reports was improving,
W. D. Vanschaack and family

are resorting near this city.

Mrs. G. S. Webb is now in Cleve-
land attending a convention and
Brother Webb is looking over the
cupboard for cold meat and a_ wish-
bone.

Edwin E. Rittzenthaler, 69 Magno-
lia street, with ‘this family, is
sorting near here and looking
cool weather and a good time.

C. H. Joslin has had his auto re-
finished and is now ready to sell
larger and more orders than ever be-
fore. Aaron B. Gates.

Detroit, July 14—A camp of six
members was formed at Parkersburg,
W. Va., last week by National Field
Secretary Bowers and the President
of the U. C. T. assured him that out
of that organization there would
come enough to make a camp of
twenty-five. May it so be.

Wheeling, W. Va., will next be vis-
ited, where a camp is needed much
and expected to be formed. Then for
Cincinnati to rejuvenate that Camp
and the year is closed. Mr. Bowers
has been exceedingly faithful to the
trusts reposed in him. Nine months of
solid work and only once has he
paid his own home a visit, and then
to hold a rally.

The year is closing with over 500
additions to the ranks of the organi-
zation, and this is largely attributa-
ble to the activity of the National
Field Secretary.

A very pleasant time was had and

rc

for

 

enjoyed to the full by the members
and auxiliaries of Detroit Camp, No.
1, last Saturday afternoon, July 11, at

the home of Brother and _ Sister
Aaron B. Gates. The day was a siz-
zler so the lawn afforded the most

acceptable place to visit and do busi-
ness. Not as large a number turn-
ed out as was hoped to see, partly
due to vacation time for so many.
Enough came before the evening was
over, however, to make a good show-
ing and everybody had the best kind
of a time. This is not the first time
the Gates have thrown open their
home to the Gideons, and so they
were not novices in the manner of
entertainment. The Gates were
opened wide, the cordial handshake
was felt, the open hospitality was
clearly manifest, the larder was full,
the delicacies were not forgotten and
everybody had a feast of happiness
that will never be forgotten. Wecan
only add that we wish that more of
these fellowship meetings were held,
as we believe good results accrue.
Long live the Gates family and many
be the invitations they extend to the
Gideons of Detroit Camp No. 1.
C. M. Smith.

—__+--~-___
Rather Small Business for a Mer-
chant.

There is a clothing merchant in a
certain Michigan town who is enti-
tled to the championship belt
smallness and sharp practice. His
title to this distinction in the
manner in which he secures a certain
percentage of his stock at a reduc-
tion. When a _ clothing salesman
comes to Grand Rapids and tele-

for

lies

 

 

3

phones him to come up and look over

his line he demurs, but finally de-

cides to come when promised his ex

penses. He selects a few garments
and intimates that he would like to
buy a suit of clothes and an over-

coat for himself. When he finds what
he would like he enquires what the

salesman will do for him on the
garments and is informed that the
house will invoice them to him at
half the regular wholesale price. In

stead of appropriating the garments
to his own use, however, he immedi-
ately puts them in stock; and does
the same thing over and over again
with every salesman from whom he
purchases goods. By buying of many
different houses he is enabled to se-
sure a considerable percentage of his
stock at a reduction which enables
him to more than double his profits.
The same merchant put in applica-
tions, directly and indirectly, for
eight tickets for the Merchants’ Week
banquet, evidently with the intention
of giving out a banquet ticket as a
bonus with each pair of trousers sold,
but his game was discovered and he
He did not
use the tickets himself, but they put
in an appearance in the hands
third parties who had no right to
them, but who were admitted to the
banquet without question.

Se a eed

Coming Some.
Americans don’t
from

was sent two tickets.

ot

"Vou
art” man

“We don’t, eh?” rejoined the earn
est patriot. “Why, we pay some
Opera singers more than we do base
ball players!”

appreciate

said the abroad.

 

OF INTEREST TO YOU

 

When a grocer sells cheap baking powders he invites dissatisfaction.

 

The

cake being spoiled by the powder, all the ingredients will be classed as inferior, to
the discredit of the grocer who sold them. The sale of lower-cost or inferior brands
of powders as substitutes for the Royal Baking Powder, or at the price of the Royal,

is not fair toward the consumer, and will react against the reputation of the store.

Royal is recognized everywhere and by every one as the very highest grade
baking powder—superior to all other brands in purity, leavening strength and keep-
ing quality. Itis this baking powder, therefore, that will always give the highest

satisfaction to the customer; and a thoroughly satisfied customer is the most profit-
able customer that a dealer can have.

Ask your jobber for Royal Baking Powder.

profit to the grocer than the low-priced alum brands.

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK

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Movements of Merchants.
Battle Creek—Best & Masters have |
opened a shoe store here.
Alma—A bazaar store has
opened by S. S. Gallagher.
Lawton-—J. B. Hoover has sold his |
grocery stock to Bennett & Stoker.
Sumner—J. P. Warren is about to
engage in the hardware business.

been

Kinde—A bakery has been opened |

by Mr. Bouverette, formerly of Bad
Axe.

Ithaca—Geo. T.
Thos. ©.
nesis,

Paw Paw—H.

ceed F. A. Butterfield in the bakery |

business.
Hartford—A new
been opened by E. B.
Lawrence.
Howard City—Perry
succeeded in the meat business by
Edward Finch.

Greenville—P. D. Edsall is mov-|

ing his stationery and book

into his new _ store.
Sturgis—Rice & Reed, of

Milford, Ind., have engaged in the

grocery business here.

Chippewa Station—The saw and)

shingle mill of E. W. Hall has

been destroyed by fire.

Millet—Crane & McGee have sold |

their general stock to Mrs. Flora
Moyer and will remove to Califor- |
nia.

Detroit—Pardridge & Blackwell, |
who conduct a department store, |
have increased their capital stock to)
$1,350,000.

Mesick—Brewster, Larson & Co.
have taken possession of their bank |
building, which has been fitted up)
with new fixtures.

Bay City—Frank Harvey, for sev-
eral years past identified with Arthur
T. Swart, will engage in the jewelry
business for himself.

Alanson—W. B. Gleason, Jr.,
have sold their drug stock to Charles
Carter, who will continue the buss
ness at the same location.

Manistee—Emil Kihnke, who has

held a mortgage against the Manistee |

Candy Co., has bought the property
of that concern and will operate the

Nichols succeeds |
Nichols in the meat bust- |

Engle & Son suc- |
meat market has |
Olmstead, of |

Richard is:

stock |

South |

& Co.

 

|

ias soon as the stock has been inven-
| toried.

Detroit—A corporation has been
‘formed to conduct the general mer-
ichandise businéss here and at Tole-
do, Ohio, with an authorized capital
istock of $6,000, of which amount
$3,000 has been subscribed amd paid
iin in cash.

Ionia—G. W. French has purchased
ithe John Hildrich jewelry stock, at
Detroit, worth about $18,000. The
| stock was in bankruptcy, and was
| sold by order of the court. This will
|not interfere in any way with Mr.
| French’s business in this city.

| Benton Harbor—H. T. Hall, after
'an absence of several years, is visit-
‘ing friends in the Twin Cities. Mr.
Hall conducted a large grocery store
‘in this city and left here to engaze
‘in business in Indiana, where he
‘opened up two stores, one at Fair-
‘mont and the other at Indianapolis.
About a month ago he sold the Fair-
mont store and last week sold the one
at Indianapolis. If he can find a
‘suitable location he will return to
| Berrien county.

| Saginaw—The butchers and_ gro-
icers have decided to hold their an-
Park on
A committee has been ap-
|pointed to handle the details of the
‘event, consisting of John Beierwaltes,
|Fred Hubert, John Huebner, Herman
| Kratz and Jacob Stingel for the
| butchers and Otto M. Rohde, Chas.
Christensen and L. W. Yuncker for
ithe grocers. Sports of all kinds will
ibe featured. There will be boat rac-
‘es, foot races, a potato race, a greased
|pig, etc. Most important of all is
‘the tug of war between the butchers
‘and grocers. The two teams will be
lined up on opposite sides of the riv-
er and the loser will be dragged in.

/nual outing at Riverside
iJuly 20.

 

Manufacturing Matters.
Alpena—The Richardson Lumber
Co.’s ‘mill started a night crew last
week and is running day and night.
Traverse City—A tract of hard-
wood timber in Bloomfield township,
'Grand Traverse county, will-be cut

 

\this summer by the owners, the Yp-
‘silanti Reed Furniture Co., of Tonia,

same under the style of the Cres-/|for use in its factory.

cent Candy Co.

Manistique—The Chicago Lumber-

Owosso—Otto Lindner is succeed- jing Co. has completed the installa-
ed in the meat business by H. E. | tion of its new sawmill in this city

-Nusbaum and H. E. Smith, the lat- |

to replace the one burned last year.

ter gentleman taking active charge |The new mill was bought in Ash-

of the business. Mr. Lindner

move to Germany.

Charles Murdock, two
young men, have purchased the Wil- |

cox, Ainsley & Co. hardware stock, |and shut down. The mill

will ‘land, Wis.,

ice there.
Union City—Clarke Dickinson and |
Marshall | Boman Lumber Co.,

and was formerly in serv-

Gladwin—The sawmill plant of the

at Bomanville,
near this place, ae finished its cut

usually

which recently passed into the hands | manufactures about 2,000,000 feet of

ot a receiver, and will take possession |mixed lumber,

1,000,000 more lath,

 

and about 4,000,000 shingles. The
product goes out by rail via Bay
City.

Menominee—The old log pond of
the Kirby-Carpenter Co., unused for
some years, has been leased by the
Roper Cedar & Lumber Co. for stor-
img cedar. Several large rafts of mix-
ed cedar have been turned loose in
the pond and are now being sortea
and pulled out onto the piers. The
company’s large increase of stock
will necessitate an increase of piling
room,

Gaylord—Yuill Bros.
mill. going at Logan again. The mill
had been idle several months. It has
been extensively repaired andasteam
“nigger” installed. The trams de-
stroyed by fire and the wear of time
have been rebuilt and the plant plac-
ed in excellent condition. Thirty-
five men are now employed there. For
years Yuill Bros. have been exten-
sive lumbermen in their locality and
have had a good business.

have set their

Menominee—During the last week
the lumber shipments by boat from
this port to Southern and Eastern
points amounted to somewhat over
3,000,000 feet, the largest weekly
shipment made since the spring of
1907. Many carloads were shipped
to Western points. Several barges
arrived in port loaded with shingles
for the Roper Cedar & Lumber Co.,
which has a large yard in this city
and makes rail shipments from here
to Western points.

Kalamazoo — William Crooks, a
farmer near the eastern limit of this
city, has sold to Battle Creek peo-
ple five acres of land on which it is
the intention to erect a large box
factory for the purpose of making
boxes for the food factories at that
place. Mr. Crooks says he is pledg-
ed to secrecy as to who the parties
are that purchased the land. He
says they are making their arrange-
ments and hope to begin work on
the factory this year.

Cadillac—Murphy & Diggins have
completed the work of moving their
lumber camp to section 3 in Selma
township, where they will have their
headquarters for possibly five years.
Grading on their railroad will be
completed in a few days. This week
camp will be established and the fall-
ing of timber will again be in full
swing. Owing to fact that the com-
pany must provide more piling space
in their mill yards in this city, it is not
likely that the mill will resume oper-
ations before September 1.

Grayling — The N. Michaelson
Iuamber Co. has just finished the
construction of a large shingle mill
in Roscommon county, near the
Crawford county line, and will let
the contract this week for the erec-
tion of a sawmill. This company has
just been organized. Mr. Michaelson
began the erection of a shingle mill
last fall. The steckholders held a
meeting last week to elect directors
and officers. The main office will be
a: this place. The company has a
large quantity of timber available.

Munising—The new saw and shin-
gle mills of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron
Co. are progressing smoothly. The
sawmill was one owned by the de-
funct Tyoga Lumber Co., a Pennsyl-

 

vania concern, in Onota township,
and was removed to the latter place
last fall. The Cleveland-Cliffs @o.
uses immmense quantities of timber in
its mining operations and will here-
after produce its own timber. It
owns over a million acres of timber
land, including considerable pine, and
will draw its supply of logs from
its own holdings.

Bay City—Notice has been given
that freight rates will be advanced
October 1 by all roads in this terri-
tory. It is not known to what extent
they will be advanced, but railway
freightmen say the increase will be
from 9 to 13 per cent. The railroads
contend that the advance will be so
slight that it will not injure shippers,
but the latter do not look as if much
confidence is placed in the
statement. Lumber shippers in the
Saginaw Valley are satisfied with ex-
isting conditions, and while no official
action has been taken other than to
appoint a committee to take the mat-
ter up with the roads by the Sagi-
naw Valley Lumber Dealers’ Associa-
tion at the proper time, there is but
little question that the lumbermen
will oppose any increase. The yard
trade here has been built up on a
commodity basis and to disturb
it will undoubtedly place this mar-
ket at a disadvantage. The loca}
tonnage is heavy, 373,000,000 feet
having been moved by rail last year.
and this does not include cedar prod-
ucts, hence dealers feel that in view
of the magnitude of the business
no attempt should be made to disturb
it by raising rates and thus disarrange
the entire tonnage business in this
valley.

being

—_—_.---2
Trade Changes in the Hoosier State.
Goshen—The Lyman Paper Box
Co. has moved to Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan.
Marion—W. L. Smith is about to
engage in the bakery business.
Wabash—B. Walter & Co. have
merged their furniture business into
a stock company under. the
style. :

saine

Windfall—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Wind-
fall Grain Co.

Atkinson—The elevator of Luther
Greenwood has been consumed by
fire.

Fort Wayne—The shoe business ot
the Lehman Shoe Co. has_ been
merged into a stock company under
the-same style.

Kokomo—C. O. Duncan has engag-
ed in the grocery business.

Lafayette—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Lafay-
ette Baking Co.

Evansville—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Fitwell
Outfitters to conduct a general mer-
chandise business with a capital stock
of $10,000.

Logansport—Carpenter & Schmidt,
who -conducted a grocery and meat
market, have dissolved partnership,
Mr. Schmidt continuing the business.

Newcastle—Clift & Hayes have en-
gaged in the shoe business.

Wabash—M. Walker has joined A.
Young in the clothing and furnishing
business.

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The Produce Market.

Apples—Harvest fruit commands
$1.25 per bu.

Bananas—$1.50@2.25 per bunch.

Beets—30c per doz. bunches.

Butter—The market is firm at
prices that show no change from last
week. The bulk of the receipts are
showing heat and have to be sold
at slight reductions from the market.
The general trade is quite healthy
and both supply and demand are
about normal. No very important
change is looked for within the next
few days. Creamery is held at 23c
for tubs and 24c for prints; dairy
grades command 18@t1oc for No. I
and 17c for packing stock.

Cabbage—$1.50 per crate for Ten-
nessee; $2 per crate for Louisville;
home grown, small in size, fetch 75c
per doz.

Cantaloupes — California Rocky-
fords command $2 for 54s and $2.50
for 45s. Georgia fetch $1.25 for eith-
er 54S or 45s.

Carrots—2oc per doz. bunches.

Celery-—20c per bunch for ‘home
grown,

Cherries—Sour command $1.50 per
crate of 16 qts. Sweet fetch $2 per
crate. The crop is exceptionally
large in Northern Michigan and
shipments are coming in freely from
the Northern counties.

Cocoanuts—$4.50 per bag of go.

Cucumbers—-35c per doz. for hot
house.

Currants—$1.25 per 16 qt.
either red or white.

Eggs—The market shows a very
active demand, all grades being want-
ed. The percentage of fine eggs is
very small, as the bulk of the re-
ceipts are showing the heat. Under
grades as well as fine meet with
ready sale at relatively low prices,
and the market is healthy through-
out. The demand is wholly seasona-
ble and the trade do not look for any
change during the coming few days,
unless the scarcity of good stock
forces prices up a notch or two tem-
porarily. Local dealers pay 17c on
track, holding case count at 18c and
candled at 19¢.

Gooseberries—$1.25 per. 16., at.
case.

Green Onions—t1se per doz. bunich-
es for Silver Skins and 12c for Ever-
green.

Honey—17c per th. for white clov-
er and sc for dark.

-Lemons—The warm weather has
stimulated the demand very material-
ly, in consequence of which quota-
tions have been marked up about 5oc
per box. Californias are strong at
$4@4.25 and Messinas are in good
demand at $4@4.50.

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Lettuce--Leaf, s50c per bu.; head,

$1 per bu.

Onions—White Silver Skins (Tex-
as Bermudas) command $2 per crate.
Louisville Yel-
lows in 7o fb. sacks command $1.50.

Oranges—California Valencias are
the principal stock offered and navels
are cleaning up rapidly. Receipts are
quite heavy and the market - shows
an easier tone. Valencias range from
$4.50@5. Mediterranean Sweets are
steady at $3.75@4.

Peas—$1.25 per bu. for Telephones.

Peaches—Albertas from Georgia
in 6 basket crates command $1.50 for
choice and $1.75 for fancy.

Parsley—3o0c per doz. bunches.

Pineapples—Cubans and _ Floridas
are now sold on the same basis, as
follows: 24s, $3; 30s, $3; 36s, $2.75;
42s, $2.25; 48s, $2.

Potatoes—Home grown have be-
gun to come in and will soon be in
complete possession of the market.
They sell to-day at $1.25, and will
probably be lower before the end of
the week. Southern fetch $3.75 per
bbl.

Poultry—Local dealers pay 9@t1o0c
for fowls and 16@18c for broilers;
toc for ducks and 14c for turkeys.

Radishes—toc for Round and 15c
for Long.

Raspberries—-$1.85 per 16 qt. case
for red and $1.75 for black.

Spinach—6oc per bu.

Tomatoes—$1 for 4 basket crate.
Home grown hot house fetch 45c¢ for
8 tb. basket.

Veal—Dealers pay 5@6c for poor
and thin; 6@7c for fair to good; 7%
@9c for good white kidney.

Watermelons—$3 per bbl.

Wax Beans — $1.50 per bu. for
home grown.

Whortleberries—$1@1.25 per case

of 16 qts. The crop is large in vol-
ume, fair in size and excellent in
quality.

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Critical Eye For Babies.

The 5-year-old daughter of a
Brooklyn man has had such a large
experience with dolls that she feels
herself to be something of a conmois-
seur in children.

Recently there came a real live
baby into the house.

When it was put into her arms the
5-year-old surveyed it with a critical
eye.

“Isn’t it a nice baby?” asked the
nurse.

“Yes, it's nice,” answered the
youngster, hesitatingly. “It’s nice, but
its head’s loose.”

nn nes
Be agreeable, be enthusiastic, put
life, vim, force and action into your
work; don’t -sulk,

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—It appears to be reasonably
certain that the price of refined sug-
ar will not be increased during the
piesent summer. The American Sug-
ar Refining Co. practically gave this
out a few days ago. This was apro-
pos of the statement made by Smith
& Schipper, New York agents for the
Federal Refinery, that the only rea-
son refined sugar did not advance

was that the refiners were short of

raws and feared that an advance in
refined would stimulate the demand
and work up the raw market. This
is believed not to be the case; the
stocks of raws in refiners’ hands are
said to be of fair size. On account
of the large fruit crops the con-
sumptin of sugar for the current sea-
son is expected to show an increase
of about 7 per cent. over last year.
The norma! increase is about 4 per
cent. The present consumption
would be much larger than it is if the
advances early in the year had not
produced an artificial demand. Much
of this sugar was still standing
around when stmmer opened and
had to be worked off.

Tea—Nothing in the way of cheap
Japan teas is being offered to job-
bers and stocks of these goods in
first hands are cleaned up, yet at the
same time there is very little demand
from Michigan country dealers for
low grades; that is, grades which re-
tail under goc per tb. There is a
strong healthy demand for good and
best grades. The general tea trade
is light, as it usually is preceding the
arrival of the new crop firings. The
market for new crop. Formosas_ is
strong and prices are being upheld,
but, as yet, the local market is un-
changed.

Coffee—Rio and Santos coffees are
steady in price. The trade is buying
only for actual needs, and when there
is added to this the growing tenden-
cy to attack and criticise the syndi-
cate, neither its present mor future
bed looks very soft or easy. Mild
coffees are steady and unchanged.
Java and Mocha are in the same po-
sition.

Canned Goods-—-Tomatoes are in
good demand and packers report a
good trade in futures. Prices are un-
changed. The market is strong and
some canners are unwilling to sell
any more futures. Corn remains un-
changed, but continues to show a
very firm tone on account of the
poor crop outlook, and some packers
have withdrawn prices on futures.
Peas are firm. Practically all the
California packers of fruit are said to
be weakening in their views and are
willing to shade opening prices to
secure orders. Spot peaches are rap-
idly cleaning wp and prices are hold-
ing steady. The same is true of apri-
cots. There is no change in gallon
apples, the market continuing dull
and weak. Strawberries are short
and seem likely to be worth more
mioney after the buying season be-
gins. Salmon is a strong and active
item, showing an advancing tenden-
cy on small spot supplies and re-
ports continue to indicate a_ light
pack. Sardines are firm, with good
demand, Cove oysters are steady

 

and unchanged.

 

Dried Fruits—Currants are quiet
and umchanged. Raisins are still
weak, and some packers have cut
even their opening prices of 634c¢ for
fancy seeded. Other dried fruits are
quiet and unchanged. Prunes
declined from the 4c opening basis,
and can now be bought for future de-
livery at 3%c. The price in second-
ary markets is unchanged; demand is
light. Peaches are weak and prices
show a decline from the
The demand is small. Apricots will
run very small in size this year, as
is demonstrated from some of the
new crop already arrived. Prices are
steady.

have

opening.

Syrups and Molasses—Compound
syrup is in good demand at unchang-
ed prices. Sugar syrup is also in ex-
cellent demand at ruling prices. Mo-
lasses is scarce and is not in active
demand, nor will it be until fall, but
as the supply is low the chance is ar
advance may come at that time.
Cheese—The make of cheese is bet-
ter than last season and the quality
is running fine.
under grades is

The percentage of
about normal ana
they meet with a ready sale. Pres-
ent prices of cheese are 10 per cent,
lower than a year ago, and the trade
is very satisfactory. The market may
not decline again for some time.

Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are
unchanged and dull. Salmon is wn-
changed and in fair demand. Sales of
future Columbia River salmon have
been fair. The other-grades will not
be offered for future delivery for
some weeks. Domestic sardines are
unchanged in price and in fair de-
mand. Foreign sardines are unchang-
ed and in fair demand. Shore mackere)
are unchanged in price and fairly ac-
tive. Irish mackerel are a shade
easier and old Norways could proba-
bly be purchased at a decline if any-
hody wanted them.

Provisions—Smoked meats, includ-
ing hams, bellies and bacon, are in
ample supply and the market is bare-
ly steady at prevailing prices. Both
pure and compound lard are firm at
™c advance, the trade being active in
both lines. Barrel pork, canned meats
and dried beef are in seasonable de
mand and the market is firm at ur
changed prices.

— —22.__
Bankrupt Sale of Clothing Stock.
The balance of stock, consistin2

of clothing and furnishings, of the
firm of L. L. Lovelamd & Son. of
Prairieville and Delton, which firm
is now in the hands of trustees. will
be sold to the highest bidder on
July 30. Interested parties
correspond with G. H.

Trustee, Hastings, Mich.

—_>-~~___

At a meeting of the Grand Rapids
Retail Grocers’ Association held
Monday evening it was decided to
hold the annual picnic on Thursday,
August 20. Frank L. Merrill, Ralph
Andre and John Roesink were ap-
pointed a committee to look up loca-
tions and car service. Another meet
ing will be held next Monday after
noon, when this Committee will
make its report and further details
will be arranged.

—__» ~~».

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Trouble that might break us may
be made to make us.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

THE KALKASKA FIRE.

 

It Will Lead To Better Things in
the Future.*

In this age of absorbing self-con-
sciousness, my friends, it is good that
once in awhile we receive a shock
which lifts us out of the confines of
individual impulse into the broad field
of universal feeling.

The chief weakness of humanity
to-day is its utter absorption by in-
dividual hopes and fears, individual
likes and dislikes, our own personal
motives, our own personal achieve-
ments. We are, all of us, too much
given to seeing and comprehending
only those things which are related
specifically to our own special inter-
ests.

And so, now and then, that she
may jolt us back into the true trail,
that we may see her in a true light,
Dame Nature gives us a hunch that
fairly takes away our breath, and
then, sure that she has fully aroused
us, she says: “Now brace up and
show that you have learned a les-
son,” and passes on about her busi-
ness.

When the news of your great con-
flagration was sent out over the land
it was—-even although the niewspa-
pers did not specify the fact—a mes-
sage to every city in Michigan, in-
viting the people at large to take no-
tice and observe the immediate and
unqualified example which you, of
Kalkaska, would set up of united,
unrestricted and energetic harmony
of action.

It was a declaration that the peo-
ple of Kalkaska had been put to
the test, and that, courageously ac-
cepting the trial, you had wuncon-
sciously ceased for the time being
comprehending only individual inter-
ests that you might show the world
what a unit embodying 1,500 human
beings could accomplish in the way
of co-operation.

There is no way perhaps to reach
a mathematical confirmation of this
assertion, but I will venture to say
that, while the flames were boister-
ously burning their way along your
main street, while great clouds of
smoke were sailing upward to pro-
claim Nature’s victory over Art,
while you were, all of you, putting
forth your best strength, mental as
well as physical, to stay the destruc-
tion, you were never for an instant
in doubt as to the immediate rein-
statement of that street.

You did not have time or the dis-
position to enter a discussion of de-
tails as to how it would be done; you
did not know how it would be done
All you knew or cared was that it
would be done. You knew that your
home town had been put upon the
map of Michigan to stay and that you
were competent to preserve that
permanency.

Locally your town was bewildered,
but above that excitement, that con-
fusion, was a mighty organism lift-
ing you out of yourselves and ad-
justing each one of you to the
time, the task, the opportunity. Un-
consciously, because you were not
John Smith, not James Brown nor

 

*Address delivered by E. A. Stowe at mass
vaeaee of Kalkaska citizens Sunday evening,
uly 12.

 

Tom Jones, but because you were
Kalkaska-—-you were free to give all
your power to objective, creative
work.

And that condition, my friends, is
the chief essential for perfect co-
operation along civic lines.

For this reason, and _ because,
through an intimate acquaintance for
many years with your town, her in-
terests and her business men, I fee!
a sort of pride in Kalkaska and her
future. I was overjoyed when ‘hon-
cred with a request to be with you
at this jollification.

I speak advisedly when I use the
term jollification, because you are
here free from friction and perfect
in your harmony as to power and ul-
timate aims, and in whatever as-
sembly such conditions dominate
there will be found a festivity, a jol-
lification.

True, there are still visible with
you ruins of buildings. The merely
physical conditions are not so com-
fortable as they were. Some losses
will be permanent. Others are not
yet settled and there are disadvan-
tages to overcome; but all of these,
so far as this community as an en-
tity is concerned, are already  dis-
counted by the sounds of saw and
hammer, the trowel and concrete
mixer; by the cheery courage of your
citizens; by the tremendous signifi-
cance of this meeting.

You are telling Dame Nature that
you are awake and ‘have learned the
lesson; you are telling the world that
Kalkaska has not lost her geographi-
cal position and that her citizens are
unafraid.

New and better buildings will go
up. The weaknesses of your means
for protection against fire will be
corrected. Your credit as a mu-
nicipality and the credits of your
business men are unimpaired. Michi-
gan believes in you. Grand Rapids is
proud of you, and this present show-
ing of civic pride and local loyalty,
born of disaster—no, I won’t say
that, because the citizenship of Kal-
kaska has long been rated as loyal
to and proud of its town—but tested
by fire and not found wanting is as
certain to result in an imcrease of
that faith, a strengthening of that
fidelity, as it is certain that Kalkaska
iz more than a thousand feet above
sea level.

And now let me be your oracle for
a little while.

I see your main street with a park-
way along its eastern line; I see a
long line of architecturally attractive
store fronts along its west side; I
see well paved streets with a sewer
system, and water service ample for
a city of 10,000 people; I see an in-
terurban railway—e:ther steam or
electric—from Kalkaska to Traverse
City on the west and Grayling on the
east; I see a new and up-to-date ho-
tel building or two; I see beautiful
lawns, a forest of well-kept shade
trees, handsome homes and a busy,
bustling industrial center, with all
modern utilities in abundance.

I see all these things, my friends,
but, better than all, I see a contented,
thrifty and prosperous community,
where civic righteousness is the dom-
inating influence; where labor ac-

 

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This is the season for selling suspenders. We
have a large and complete stock of Men’s, Boys’
and Youths’ in fancy light, medium and heavy
weight. Have you seen the INVISIBLE? It is
out of sight and holds the trousers right. The sus-
pender to wear under the shirt—a 25c retailer.
Mail orders promptly filled.

 

 

 

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Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Socks
That Are

Warranted
To Wear

 

 

 

We have them packed three pairs in a box to
retail at 50 and 75 cents per box. All defective mer-
chandise is replaced direct to customer by the manu-
facturer, provided the merchant follows instructions
Ask our salesmen about this item, also look
over our line of Staple and Fancy Notions, Hosiery,
Underwear, Ribbons, Laces, Embroideries, Overalls,
Trousers, Mackinaws, Piece Goods, Etc.

given.

 

 

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Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Mich.

Beginning June 20 and until further notice we will close Saturday
afternoons at 1 o'clock.

 

 

 

 

 

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Of every description for every purpose.

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New and second hand.

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cepts no dictation at the hands of
walking delegate or union organ-
izer who lives as leeches live by suck-
ing the life blood of their victims;
where numerous church spires point
the way to Heaven and church mem-
bers live up to the tenets of their
faith seven days a week; where local
prejudices and local jealousies are
relegated to the background; where
business is conducted om a_ high
plane and trade and traffic are car-
ried on without any suggestion of
sharpness or reproach; a community
where high ideals are constantly
taught in its schools and by the
amples of her citizens.

cx

I thank you, my friends, for
opportunity you have so kindly
forded me, and in conclusion I
sire to assure you that you have
esteem and the applause of every
community in Michigan because of
the splendid manner in which youare
asserting your patriotism, your faith
and your good citizenship.

—_2-.__
Eats Early and Often.

Mrs. Johnson—Doctor, you told
my husband he could smoke a cigar
after each meal, didn’t you?

Doctor—Yes; oh, yes.

Mrs. Johnson—I thought so. He
eats six and seven meals a day now.

—___2+-¢_____

The Fall Thereof.
He found her unconscious
the kitchen. But she opened her
eyes feebly for a moment.

the
af-
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, July to—We have a
coffee market filled with ‘heavenily
calm, both for the speculative and
the real article. A war of words has
been carried through the trade
papers and at times personal encoun-
ters were seemingly inevitable. It is
all through the valorization scheme.
One of the backers of the Brazilian
government is one of the big coffee
importers here, and he has detenided
the movement in one of our papers.
Some of the statements were pretty
strong amd for a few days the breeze
was stiff; but this has had only an
indirect influence. The fact seems to
be that would-be buyers of coffee are
taking only the possible
quantities, apparently believing that
it will not be advisable to lay in
larger stocks than are absolutely
needed. In store and afloat there are
3,399,267 bags, against 3,977,110 bags
at the same time last year. At the
close Rio No. 7 is worth, in an in-
voice way,.64%4@6%c. Mild coffees,
like Brazilian grades, are “paralyz-
ed,’ and if prices are well ‘sustained
it is rather by reason of the statisti-
cal supply than anything else. Good
Cucuta, 934c.

on

smallest

Some little interest is shown in
new Japan teas, but so far as sales
are concerned only small lots are
called for, and this equally true
of teas generally. Everybody is hop-

iS

“The cake fell on me, George!” she |ing for some improvement, but it is

{

gasped, and with that she swooned.slow in coming.

again.

A little improvement is noted in

 

the call for sugar, but there is no
boom. Of course, a great deal of sug-
ar is going into consumption and the
refineries are busy; but there seems
to be little, if any, delay in filling or-
ders. Quotations are 5.30@5.50c, less
I per cent. cash, allowing thirty days
delay.

For a long time assortments of rice
have been poor and foreign sorts
have been rushed in, but with the
new crop close at hand there may be
a change. The demand is rather quiet

at the moment. Fancy head, 7c.

Spot spices are in light demand
and buyers are taking small lots.
Cables report higher foreign mar-

kets, with advancing tendency, pep-
per going up 20 points. Quotations
here are about on the same level as

|has prevailed for a long time.

Dulness characterizes the molasses
market and stocks of foreign are run-
ning light. Good to prime centrifu-
gal, 22@30c. Syrups have been in
rather more liberal supply and the
market is fairly well held.

Nothing doing in canned goods.
Sellers of tomatoes are not inclined
to accept less than 7s5c f. o. b. for
full standard 3s and buyers are just
as unwilling to take only enough to
keep things goimg. We hear now
that the long drouth in Maryland has
been broken and the and fes-
tice “love apple” will soon be mak-
ing fine progress. Future tomatoes,
however, do not seem to have much

gay

as to the situation. Peas nvove
and buyers take y little
in the article. The better
grades promise to be a smaller pack

comeern
slowly
interest

Very

| change.

 

7

than usual, but how much smaller
only time can tell. There will be no
famine in peas, however. Corn exhib-
its some firmness, but the market ts
father ~ Other goods
moving simply in an everyday man-

wobbly.” are

ner. As to California fruits it is said
that jobbers have not taken more
than 50 per cent. of thei usual
amounts.

Top grades of butter have moved
up and creamery
worth extras, 2234c; Western
imitation creamery, 20c for firsts; fac
@18%e
There
has been some speculative buying of
the best grades and to this
vance can be ascribed.

a peg special is

491

sc:
tory firsts, I9c; seconds,

‘
process specials, 20'4@atc.

the ad-
Cheese is quiet and without much
Full cream specials, 11'4@
and 1

12%4c; fancy, Itc for small

for

aC
less large.

Top grades of eggs are higher and
the close are firm at 24@25c for
nearby New York and Pennsylvania
stock. The awfully hot weather has
affected many Western eggs and
careful scrutiny is necessary. West-

at

ern extra firsts, 19@2o0c; firsts, 18@
18'4c; seconds, 17@17%4c.
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The Likeness.
“Why is a pancake like the sun?”
“Because,” said the Swede, “it ris-
es out of der yeast and it sets be-
hind der vest.”
————_>~2>-e__
Increased Expenses.
“Are your five daughters all
ried off, Mr.
“No, five

ried on.”

mat-
Brown?”
have

sons-in-law mar-

 

 

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Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich.

_ There’s a Bit of Extra Mon

For the Retail Grocer in a Small “DRIVE” on

RAPE-NUT

The “Sugar” will be fed out, beginning July 15,
1908, not exactly by the ton, but enough to taste
good. Ask jobbers’ salesmen to fix you.

 

 

 

  
 
  
  
 

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Wednesday, July 15, 1908

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE BETTER WAY.
A recent number of the Tradesman
——was it the last?—tells the story of
a woman seeking employment:

“Could you give a starving wom-
an work?”

“Yes; but I must tell you that I
have five children.”

“Thanks.

In itself the joke is hardly worth
the smile it creates. In the first
place it illustrates a fact on the
wrong side of the fence. It is the
starving man that “turns turtle”
when brought face to face with the
immediate exactions of labor; and
there are too many women to-day
bending over wash tub and ironing
board and so keeping themselves and
sometimes more than five. children
from starving to give much point to
the story.

T’ll keep on starving.”

There is, however, a condition of
things which under the most favora-
ble circumstances can not be consid-
ered funny or even amusing—that
which makes starving preferable to
trying to work or even trying to live
in a household where, as one of the
poets puts it, “Discipline at length
grew sick and died;” or, better still,
where the children are not made to
mind. The starving woman knew that
under such conditions it was a choice
between evils and, wise woman that
she was, took that which promised
release in the shorter time.

Were the trouble Jocal, and it
ought to be, the suffering occasioned
might be endured with more or less
composure; but it is not local. If we
take the wings of the morning and
fly to the uttermost parts of the sea,
there, and all along the journey, if we
keep among American families, we
shall encounter the angry tears and
the impudent “talking back” of chil-
dren who have always had their way
and are determined to have it even
at the expense and the discomfort of
the public at home and abroad. A
friend at the east end of the city
has at some expense and with much
taste made “a thing of beauty and
a joy forever”—that, at least, was the

 

end in view—of his lawns. The sward
is thick and soft and green. It is
flecked from the rising of the sun
unto the going down of the same
with patches of sunshine, that de-
lights to shoot through the foliage
ot oak and maple as the wind sways
their branches. Flowers hold up
their painted cups and all day long
they are dripping with such fragrance
as only the rose and the lily know;
but it is only eternal vigilance
and the fear of a shotgun that make
these delights possible. Two doors
off there is a family of children
whose chief joy is playing “hide and
whoop” among the shrubbery and
flower beds of these carefully kept
grounds. Remonstrance with both
children and parents availed nothing,
and it was not until “the big stick”
became not a theory but a condition
that the tramping was stopped.

A party of Americans were leisure-
ly making their way over the Alps
by the Simplon Pass. There are no
lovelier pictures than those that
Heaven has painted in the Alpine
country. From Chamouni to moun-
tain summit, rich in the opalescent
splendor of the sunset, the only
available description is an exclama-
tion, and that is a failure; and from
valley to peak that journey was
spoiled by a 10-year-old who wanted
nothing but what he could not have,
and did not get what that Heaven,
which had painted those lovely land-
scapes, had intended him to ‘have
from the foundation of the world!

Investigation has given mo _ satis-
factory- reason for such a state of
things. Parental affection brings to
the surface a queer kind of parent
who will keep a child with swollen
cheek and aching tooth from the den-
tist because pulling the tooth hurts;
it can not be that. Parental bother
is suggested; but here, too, there
must be a choice of evils and strange
must be the choice that decides upon
a lifetime of misery when “here a lit-
tle and there a little’—or a great
deal, if it comes to that—will change
the misery to a constant delight.

The logical inference here is not
necessarily the correct one. Number-
less homes—homes, mind you—the
land over are not governed by the
stick. The worst of places for the
constant use of the imperative mood
is where childhood and expanding
manhood live and have their being;
but in the real home law and order
and loving kindness, free from all
selfishness, hold continual sway, and
here where it is borne in mind that
“youth is taught in no way better
than by example” will be found the
best nurseries for the best  citizen-
ship. “The word and the blow, only
let the blow come first,” may be the
maxim of the quick-tempered blow-
giver; but the discipline that follows
is not the kind that produces the best
men and the best women.

Given a father and a mother with
love in their hearts and a fair amount
of common sense in their heads and
there will be no racing through the
neighbors’ lawns and no spoiling an
outing at home or abroad through
overindulgence and remissness of :pa-
rental duty,

 

OBJECTIONABLE BILLBOARD.

If the Covenant English Lutheran
church of Chicago has its way the
billboard is again to be brought into
the lime light of publicity. It mot
only is disfiguring the thoroughfares
of the city with the gorgeous and
grotesque, but it now adds to those

objectionable features the insulting
and profane. “Smile, D—n You,
Smile” is its last endeavor to in-

crease the profits of the advertiser,
and the public decency which the
church society represents protests.

There is little which has not been
said against the billboard. From
every point of view it has little to
recommend it. It is no longer nec-
essary for those who run to read.
Rarely, if ever, does it accomplish its

punpose; the cost of such advertising

does not recommend it to those seek-
ing the best results, while to the im-
provement society, everywhere work-
ing to make its locality attractive, the
billboard has proven itself an omni-
present pest. If to its reputation so
far established this last feature is
added it does seem that the commu-
nity so abused should from sheer self-
respect make every effort to banish
the nuisance from its borders.

If the point be raised that the bill-
board catches the public eye where
other means fail, the counter point
is just as strong that the public eye
which the advertiser cares to catch
is the one whose owner buys, and
that same owner depends upon his
newspaper to keep him. posted in all
matters of commercial interest,

If cost alone is considered it has
been conceded long ago that such
promiscuous advertising as the
“dodger” represents never accom-
plished its purpose. To the printing
the cost of distribution must be add-
ed and when all was over the dodger
in wads was often found by the man
who had the goods to sell in alleys
and isolated corners, where the faith-
less distributer had thrown it.
The fact that the country from one
end to the other is covered with the
pretentious advertisement jis little
to the purpose. The consumer of nic-
otine, of malt, of any real or fancied
necessity, is not influenced by what
the top rail of the highway fence
tells him. The “Go to Smith’s,” “to
Brown’s,” “to Robinson’s” has long
since become the laughing stock of
the passerby who reads because he
has to and buys where he pleases.
The fact is the billboard is the hay-
seed of a discarded system; it is cost-
ly and unreliable and the man who
depends upon it to add to his gains
will find himself out of pocket with
only himself to thank for his stupid-
ity.

If it were desirable or even neces-
sary to commend the improvement
society for what it has done, it is
only necessary to say “Circumspice”
to the visitor to Grand Rapids. Five
years ago—ten years ago—it was not
such a beautiful city as it is to-day.

‘Then there were corners and “poke

holes” given up to weeds and _ tin
cans. Then there were more neg-
lected lots. The reign of the bill-
board was at its height, and weeds
and cans and the outheralding  pic-
tures of the billboard did their best—

 

or worst—to make repulsive and
hateful one of the fairest cities the
country boasts of. It was in these
detested corners that harmful _ bill-
boards held high carnival. There
were—-it is needless to recall what—
and now when the coarse and_ the
common are no longer tolerated the
dash-word without the dash has made
its appearance to see if degenerate
Puritanism will tolerate its existence
there.

To Chicago’s credit there is instant
protest. “Perhaps there are people
who enjoy impertinent familiarity;
but we are sure that most people are
tired of the genial vulgarians who
poke us in the ribs and slap us on
the back, and shout at us to say
something to our grocery man or
to Watch This or to Get the Habit.”

Another thing of some importance,
too: Chicago and American life gen-
erally do not desire to have the bill-
beard and its profanity stand as the
exponent of expression and charac-
ter or, more important still, the in-
dwelling spirit behind them. Even
the immediate vicinity of ‘the yul-
garism and the profanity protests. It
is tired of being looked upon as the
promoter of the degenerate, the in-
citer of all that is vile and the cor-
rupter of youth; for the billboard
corner too often stands for all of
these.

It is easy to repeat what is often
said, that the objectionable word,
with or without the dash, is only an
exclamation and so harmless: but the
mischief here, as in other lines, lies
in accepting as respectable the “cuss
word” and so familiarizing the ear
of the boy with what the mouth of
the man, taken at his best, is never
proud of. The swear on the bill-
board or off it, like the bad book and
the bad companion, is an influence
of evil, and the church and the com-
munity that will have none of either
can not be too heartily commended.

bensunnssnEEegnenspememeeens nd

WATER SOAKED SAUSAGE.

People who believe in fair play and
pure food and common. every day
honesty are hoping that the effort of
Armour & Co. to legalize the sale of
sausage doped with cereal and water,
which is being made in the Ingham
Circuit Court this week, will fail.
The Tradesman undertook to cover
this subject in an editorial reference
to the matter last week, and desires
to repeat this week all it said
in its last edition relative to the un-
wholesomeness and fraudulent char-
acter of the doped sausage manufac-
tured and sold by Armour & Co.
The attempt to prove that such goods
are required by the dealer and are
not a fraud on the consumer will
probably fall flat, because they are
fraudulent on their face and the in-
tent to defraud is manifested in every
phase of the situation.

It is to be deplored that Michigan
butchers—-even Grand Rapids butch-
ers—should be inveigled into testify-
ing in favor of such a flagrant fraud
and cheat as water soaked sausage.

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We rarely regret having spoken
too little, but often of saying too
much,
bsnttasesnatienanentGunssseseeee eee

 

Too many measure their means by
their meanness,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

The First Ferry Across the Muske-
gon River.
Written for the Tradesman.

In an early day the Muskegon
was one of the most important riy-
ers in Michigan. It has sadly de-
teriorated in later years, having be-
come a mere muddy canal, the re-
pository of “deadheads” and unmer-
chantable suckers. Steamboats and
log-driving, once the pride of
Muskegon, have become obsolete.

‘Had I the gift of poetizing I could
easily concoct an epic of early days
on the Muskegon that would rival
the best efforts of old Homer. Alas
for thee, old river! I am not thus
gifted, and all thy grand and glorious
past must repose forever in a for-
gotten grave.

Not long since there came to the
eye of the writer a bit of newspaper
misinformation which parallels much
of the stuff which goes into the great
dailies as a matter of news. The
statement was made that there died
recently in Newaygo county one
Harrison Davenport, who was the
originator of the first ferry across
the Muskegon at Bridgeton. There
was an atom of truth in the item,
since Mr. Davenport was one of the
old settlers of the county and may
have been ferryman for a short time
when said ferry was under another
management. As to his being the
original ferryman at Bridgeton, that
is a mistake.

Being in a reminiscent mood I can
not resist correcting the mistake of
this correspondent and set the mat-
ter right.

There passed from life a few
months ago, at the village of New-
aygo, one of the sturdy old pioneers
of the Muskegon Valley who was
not only the original Bridgeton fer-
ryman, but, doubtless, the originator
of that business on the river.

Amos Slater, who lived to the ripe
age of 87, was one of the incorrupti-
ble old guard who punctured the wil-
derness in ante-bellum days and as-
sisted in laying the foundations of a
magnificent state.

The original manner of crossing
the river was not conducive to steady
nerves and healthful sleep—swim-
ming the animals and poling the
wagons across on a float. Mr. Slater
conceived the idea of something saf-
er and more economical of time. He
procured two large dugouts or ca-
noes, made from pine trees. These
he used for the sides of his boat,
crossing them with heavy pine
plank. When completed the ferry-
boat was a respectable leoking scow,
large enough to carry a team and
wagon. The propelling power con-
sisted of a long pike pole in the
hands of the ferryman, who from the
stern of the craft guided and poled
the scow across the stream. Those
were strenuous days which would
have warmed the heart of Roose-
velt had he lived at ‘that time.

I do not recall the length of time
that Mr. Slater ran his improvised
ferryboat, but it was several months
at least, being finally superseded by
the rope ferry built and operated by
David W. Squier, another old pio-
neer, who passed away a few years
ago.

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Politically Mr. Slater was a Dem-
ocrat of the old school, yet so popu-
lar because of his rugged honesty
that he represented the town of
Bridgeton on the Board of Supervis-
ors for many years, although the
town was always strongly Republi-
can,

In the days of the ferrymen busi-
ness boomed along the Muskegon be-
cause of the vast pine industry which
made its banks- the scene of  bee-
hive activity. Millions of feet of
logs were banked every winter be-
tween Newaygo and the mouth of
the stream. Travel on the road
north from Muskegon was something
wonderful. Destruction of the pine
and advent of railroads have chang-
ed all this, and the old Muskegon
road resembles now the air of a de-
serted cow trail.

When the lumbering was at its
height the ferry at Bridgeton coined
money, This was, however, some
time later, when Squier’s ferry did
the business, and men and teams
were passing to and fro in an al-
most endless stream.

Twenty-five cents was paid for the
ferrying of a team and five cents for
footmen. The latter were usually
carried in a single canoe. On one
occasion, when the first bridge was
in course of erection, a tall, gaunt
specimen of the Yankee peddler ap-

peared on the bank and expressed
a desire to cross the river.
“Haven’t got time to take you

over,” said one of the workmen.

“But I must go on,” declared the
peddler. “Where is the man who
tends the ferry?”

“Gone off to git married,” said the
carpenter, which was literally true,
his canoe being hitched at the end
of the bridge.

“Well, I guess I'll try my luck my-
self,” and the man went to the ca-
noe to find it minus a paddle.

“What’ll you give to be taken
across, old man?” called the carpen-
ter, laying down his tools.

“Why, five cents; that’s the regu-
lar price.”

“Ah, I see, you have crossed be-
fore.”

The workman came down to the
canoe, a medium-sized dugout, and

disclosing a hidden paddle requested
the peddler to get in. The latter
did so, with his pack still on his
back. The carpenter’s companions
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There is one thing I have often |

thought of in connection with boot |s

and shoe sales,
advertising. It is, “Why does not
the merchant make more of an ef-
fort to dispose of the odd sizes and
out-of-season goods, instead of the
fresh stock which will go anyway?”

Keeping one’s money tied up = in
unsalable goods is about the least
profitable use to
put it.

Of course it will not do to fill the |
windows and columns of the local |
papers with old out-of-season goods.
You might be thought to have no
other kinds in stock. But you can
divide your windows and advertising
space. You can keep up displays of
fresh goods in order to let the pub-
lic know you have them. You can
then arrange another window,
part of the one already in use if
window space is limited. Here you
should arrange a small display of
real “bargains.” Place here some of
the best of your~edd shoes and boots,
and by means of choice
attention to the large bargain coun-
ter within. Inside, the counter should
contain all the goods, the sale of
which, at regular prices, you may
consider doubtful. Here is a poor
place to be too saving or to use a
false economy. Put on the table
every pair that you consider the least
particle out of style or season. Of
course there are some staple goods
like rubber boots, heavy over-shoes,
and the like, the styles of which sel-
dom change. These it would be fool-
ish to sacrifice, since you are liable to
have a call for them in wet or cold
periods almost any time of year. The
styles change most frequently in the
middle and ‘high-priced shoes for
both men and women. Particularly
is this true of the extremes of style.
They are “in” one season, and “out”
the next. If you find a pair of such
in stock after the leaders of fashion
have decreed a different pattern, con-
sider yourself lucky if you can sell
them for half the original selling
price. But better ethis than keeping
your money tied up in them year aft-
er year, only to take, perhaps, stil!
iess in the end.

The bargain counter must be kept
neat and clean. No dusty goods are
to be tolerated for a moment. To
freshen up shelf-worn goods, many
things may be done which will take
but little additional time or money.
New strings may be put im the shoes
if the old ones look faded, missing
buttons sewed on, and some of the
shoes may be given a coat of dress-
ing. Anything which may be done
to give the old goods a_ fresher,

window displays and |

which one can|

or use |

cards call |

| brighter appearance will be well re-
paid by the increased number of
sales.

On this counter scatter some pairs
lof new shoes of a cheap grade, with
| here and there some of a_ better
i grade. It will pay to lose a profit on
isome shoes, or even sacrifice a little
|in order to give the appearance of
ireal bargains to your goods. Then
| the whole thing should be well writ-
ten up in the local papers.

One thing which will result from
lyour efforts to give a bright, fresh
|appearance to the counter, and to the
‘importance you give it in the local
\advertisements, is to dispel the idea
‘that no one but the poor buy from
\this counter. You should do all you
ican to create a feeling that it is
inot a collection of old style, out-of-
idate goods, such as no one would
purchase who could afford better, but
that it is simply a collection of shoes
of which you thave too few of a kind
to advertise separately, and that you
are selling them cheap for tihat rea-
son. Of course this will be true of
much that you offer, and of nearly all
if you mantage as you shiould to pre-
vent the accumulation of old goods.

Call your customers’ attention to
the high-priced shoes you have on
the bargain counter, oe they
were odd size, or sample shoes, or
something of the kind. Don’t lie
about them, but manage to point to
such goods when you speak. In this
way you can do much to overcome
any prejudice against the goods as
being only suitable for the extremely
poor.

When you have prepared the bar-
gain table and are ready to announce
#%, you should give it a good write-
up in the local papers. Of course
you may advertise other goods be-
sides the bargains, but that should
be the main feature. You can pre-
pare the advertisement in the form
of a city department store advertise-
ment, or make it all in one body. By
the former plan we meam an adver-
tisement that is divided into several!
sections, each section speaking of
one line of shoes. Or you may list
them altogether and speak of each
but briefly. In either case you may
speak of other goods, but we prefer
that the reference be a simple state-
ment to the effect that the public
must not forget the good values of-
fered in staple lines not hsted among
the bargains.

Besides the advertisements should
have attention called to them by
cards in the windows. These should
be written on cardboard, about elev-
en by fifteen inches. There need be
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ability with pen and ink, or - pencil,
can readily perform. They should
call attention to the bargain counter,
the goods found upon it, the special
prices, and anything that will cause
the reader to hunt out the counter
and look over the goods. These
should be placed in the windows, and
in all other departments or on any
counters tn the store.

All goods not sold in these bar-
gain sales may be kept, and ‘later an-
other “special bargain salle’ offered.
At this time several counters should
be prepared, under different prices,
and the goods marked down to the
very lowest possible figure. If the
. ordinary bargain sale has failed to
dispose of any goods they should
now be sold for what they will bring.
Get what you can out of them, and
use the money in other and more
profitable ways.

One plan now in use among some
merchants is as follows:

Whenever any customer of moder-
ate circumstances makes a purchase
the dealer makes a note of the size
and price of the shoes bought. Inthe
future if any shoe is obtained as a
sample or otherwise that is of a size
and grade similar to the shoe this
person uses, a shoe that by reason
of its being the only one of that kind
is not worth advertising, the dealer
will at once notify the penson who
uses a similar shoe, making a special
price, and the customer either gets
the shoe at once or notifies the deal-
er when he will gall for it. In this
way the dealer avoids the necessity
o: carrying over an odd pair of shoes,
and the customer ‘has obtained a
good shoe at a price less. than ‘he ‘has
usually paid for poorer goods. This
plan requires the use of some system
for recording the infonmation about
each customer, and it takes but a few
moments to make the record. For
this purpose either a loose leaf or
card system should be used.

The up-to-date mierchanit isalive at
all times to any plan which enables
him to handle more goods. This is
the great principle of success in any
business, not so much how large a
profit may be made on a single sale,
but how many sales embracing a
small profit may be made in a given
time. Bargain sales, special sales, or
private sales are a few of the ways
which many merchants are using in
order to get money out of unprofita-
ble goods and place it in the kind
which permits of the rapid accumula-
tion of profits, small although they
may be—C. L. Chamberlin’ in
Brains.

> 2

How To Remember Customers.

Last week attention was called to
the value of a good memory in han-
dling customers. It was pointed out
that a ready memory was altogether
a matter of habit, and that it should
be cultivated by every shoe clerk
who aspired to become a first-class
salesman. How to form this habit
is not difficult if it is attempted in
the right manner.

The first thing to do is to get a
clear idea of what you want to re-
member. If it is the size and style
of a pair of shoes make. sure you
have the details distinctly in your

 

mind. If you can secure the nate
of your customer it will aid you in
recollecting what you want to re-
member, but if you can not you must
then endeavor to associate the shoes
you sold with the appearance of the
person to whom you sold them.

Something in your customer will
probably appear to you as peculiar
and different from anyone else; this
peculiarity or difference in  appear-
ance is what you’ should connect
with what you sold, so that when
you think of the peculiarity you wil!
instantly recall the sort of shoes you
fitted on your customer. Then when-
ever you again handle this style of
footwear you should try to remem-
ber to whom you sold it before.
With some practice you will be sur-
prised to find yourself able to re-
call a number of persons to whom
you sold different brands of shoes
as you show them to other custom-
ers.

If it is possible to note down these
sales as they are made, or after-
ward, it will assist materially in se-
curing a certain mental grasp ofthe
details that otherwise would be very
difficult. But it can not be insisted
upon too strongly that the only way
to strengthen the faculty of mem-
ory itself is to use it. All note-book
help should be discarded as soon as
possible, and such aids should nev-
er take the place of an exercise of
the memory.

As was said before, the secret of
a good memory for anything and
for everything is acquiring the hab-
it of recalling what you want to re-
member every time you think of
anything connected with it. If you
will stop a moment to think of it,
those friends among your acquaint-
ance who salute everyone they meet
with a greeting, and the repetition
of their name, as, for instance, “Good
morning, Mr. Smith,’ or “Good
evening, Mrs. Jones,’ never com-
plain of a bad memory for names.
The reason of it is that they  con-
stantly use names; they never see a
face that they know but they at
once recall the name of the person
to whom it belongs.

The same holds true in remiember-
ing what style of shoes you sold a
customer, whether you ever learned
his name or not. Whenever and
wherever vou meet him compel your-
self to recall the sort of footwear
you last sold him, and in a_ short
time you will do it unconsciously
every time you think of him, and
you will acquire the reputation of
having a remarkably good memory.
Once this habit is formed it is al-
most impossible to forget either
your customer or what he generally
wants to buy when he enters your
store.—Shoe Retailer.

—_—__>~-.__—_
If He Is Bigger Than You.

“Never call a man a liar.”

“But suppose” I catch some fellow
in a confounded whopper?”

“Suppose you do. Don’t be im-
petuous. Just look him in the eye
and say pleasantly, ‘You talk like a
weather bureau.’ ”

——_+ +

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Effect of Mirrors on Manners and
Morals.

The legislature of a neighboring |

state recently appropriated a sum
of money with which to buy looking
glasses for the women inmates of
the penitentiary.
the punishment of a woman criminal
has been to deprive her of all means

of “seeing how she . looked” and)

whether her stripes were on straight.
A wise and humane man, however,
finally suggested that this was cruel-
ty that went beyond the purposes of
correction and became persecution,

and henceforward the erring sisters |

in the “pen” are to be cheered on
by such comfort as they can extract
from a contemplation of theif own
images.

Let not the untutored sneer at this
as a final example of woman’s vani-
ty. The smallest purpose of the mir-
ror is to minister to one’s ¢elf-admir-
ation. Rightly used, it is an instru-
ment that makes for righteousness.
As long as a woman cares how she
looks and how she appears to other
people, there is hope of reforming
her. It is when she no longer cares,
when she has no shame in being seen

dirty, dishevelled, drunk, that she is |

utterly abandoned. Personal vanity

is the last memory of better things |

that vibrates in the human heart.

When that string snaps nothing else |

is left to appeal to.

It has always seemed to me that |

there is no other article of our pos-
sessions that we understand so little
and use to such poor purpose as the
mirror anyway. From time imme-
morial it has been the custom to
sneer at it as an article sacred to
feminine vanity, and in a way men
have excused. it to us, on the ground
that it was hereditary weakness we
couldn’t help. The insatiable desire
to gaze upon her own charms is a
sin attributed to our first mother,
whom Milton represents as bending |
over a glassy brook enraptured with
the reflection of her own _ beauty.
and it is
from that day to this every daugh-
ter of Eve has put in most of her
spare time studying her mirror.

Would Heaven they had! We |
should be the better and the seemlier |

for it.
The most emphatic contradiction
possible, however, is offered this the

ory by the spectacle of the women |

one sees on the street and in every
public place. Observe the way they |
are dressed. Gowns that hang sev- |
en ways for Sunday; shirtwaists that |
hike up in the back and make their |
wearers look hunchbacked; belts |
that have parted company with the |
bands they are supposed to cover;

Heretofore part of |

popularly supposed that |

skinny women who give unwarranted
‘anatomical exhibitions of their bones;
fat women who deck themselves out
in flaming garments that look like
‘the jim-jam banners in front of a
iside show; hats that emphasize every
defect of their wearers!

Can any sane person believe that
/women who commit such crimes on
good taste and neatness and appro-
| priateness spend any time before
their mirrors? Never. Any jury on
‘earth would acquit them, on over-
|'whelming circumstantial evidence, of
leven owning a hand-glass, to say
nothing of the utter impossibility of
a woman appearing in public like that
if she had ever taken one fleeting
glance at herself in a good triple
dressing mirror.

If I were: called on to suggest the
best possible remedy for feminine
extravagance, I should say that it
lay in the possession and use of a
good mirror. That seems a little con-
tradictory, but it is not from a wom-
an’s standpoint. What makes wom-
en continually buy new clothes is
i dissatisfaction with the old, and nine
|times out of ten the fault is not so
‘much with the garment as the way
it is put on. There are women who
pitchfork their
iclothes on and who would look like
|a marked-down bargain remnant in e

 

|apparently always

|Paris confection. There are others

|who can look like a fashion plate in
a ten cent muslin. I know a young
‘girl whose simple shirtwaists have
|that smart look that is the despair
‘and envy of half the women who
‘know her and who pay ten times for
‘their tailor-made-to-order waists that

ishe does for the material of which ;

ishe makes her own. Once I asked
\her the secret. “It’s seven safety
/pins in the back,” she answered la-
iconically. She has a looking glass
‘and she uses it like an artist, with
| the invariable result of always be-
ling well dressed and stylish, no mat-
ter how inexpensive her frock may
be.

If I were making the laws I would
‘make it a penal offense for any wom-
.an to live in a house that was not
plentifully provided with good, long
ipier glasses, in which she could not
help seeing herself from head to foot
|whichever way she turned, so there
/would be no possible excuse for her
|going out to outrage her neighbors’
aethetic sensibilities by looking like
la guy. It would also do more than
‘all the sermons ever preached on
| slovenliness and untidiness. No
|woman living would have the nerve
to go about the house in a dirty
| wrapper and with a halo of curl pa-
|pers about her brow if she had to
jsee the hideous reflection of herself

 

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There’s satisfaction in sell-
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And in selling flour—good
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on every hand.
she

It is simply because
does not know how she looks
that she inflicts this dread apparition
on her husband and family.

A house plentifully supplied with
big, unescapable mirrors would also
a silent, courteous reproof to our
manners that we could not gainsay
nor argue down. No persuasion may
be able to induce a  gum-chewing
school girl to stop the pernicious
habit, but if she was forced to gaze
upon her wagging jaws and cow-like
expression as she masticated her cud,
you may depend upon it that she
would at least seek solitude in which
to indulge in her pastime.

be

The most scowling face insensibly
takes on a pleasanter expression as it
catches a glimpse of itself in a mir-
The most sprawling figure that
observes its own lack of grace em-
phasized in a looking-glass uncon-
sciously draws up into a more digni-
fied pose. Our faults as well as our
virtues have been reflected. We have
seen ourselves as others see us and
the picture has hurt our vanity.

What a pity it is, too, that there
are no mental mirrors in which we
might now and then catch a view of
those faults and weaknesses _ that
render us so trying to our friends
and neighbors! Suppose those lov-
ing couples who artlessly conduct
their courtship in public could see
what figures of fun they are? Would-
n’t they go home and pull down the
blinds and barricade the doors be-
fore they goo-goo-eyed at each other
any more? If only the self-important
who weary us to death with long
narratives about themselves and their
families could see what bores. they
wouldn’t the stock of war. remin-
iscences and smart child stories ‘be
cut short? If those who are forever
boasting of their own achievements,
of the splendors they have at home
and the lucrative positions they have
declined to fill, could see what empty

ror.

are,

braggarts they look to us, what
peace should fill the land! If young

could know how shocking it
is to older and world-wise people
when they are loud and noisy in pub-
lic places, what demure maids we
should have at home!

girls

What a sovereign balm it would
be, too, for all domestic troubles.

We do so many little disagreeable
things that grate other people's
nerves and offend their tastes, just
because we are careless of every-
body’s comfort except our own. Then
we are so clever at giving our
false aliases that almost make them
seem virtues.

There is the man, for instance, who
says he is determined to be “master
of his own house” and who makes
that perfectly proper  theory—al-
though for my part I do not see why
it is necessary for a woman to have

a master—the cloak for the most
grinding tyranny. His wife always
sits up in shivering silence, like a

whipped dog, waiting for his sneer on
her opinion, and his children drop
their laughter and sneak away when
his key grates in the front door. Do
you suppose that he would indulge
himself in such conduct if the could
see himself for the coward and brute

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and bully he is?
sand times.

Not once in a thou-

On the other hand, there is the
woman who is always’ bragging
about being “high-spirited” and

“speaking her mind.” There’s never
any use in telling her her faults, for
she will not listen, and so her hus-
band learns to find his pleasure in
his club and her children play on the
streets get out reach of ther
eternal faultfinding and nagging. I
have often thought, “Oh, if you could
only see yourself for the common
scold you are; if you could see how
unlovely, unwomanly, ungentle you
ate, surely nothing on earth could
ever induce you to give away to your
tongue and temper again.”

To see as others see us physically
is the mission of the mirror. It is
a missionary to teach us the gospel
of making the most of ourselves
bodily by getting clothes that flatter
us instead of deride us, by  learn-
ing poses full of grace instead of
loutish awkwardness, and by trying,
as thé photographers say, to look
pleasant. Is it too much to hope
that we may carry the lesson a lit-
tle farther and try to see ourselves
spiritually and mentally as others see
us? Be sure we should be humble
and chastened creatures if we did,
and far, far more agreeable to live
with. Dorothy Dix.

to of

; eo

The Model and the Chief.
A dry goods model fell in love one day
oe an Indian chief standing over the

ay;
She ea that chief with a
great
That her sufferings were hard to contem-

plate.

passion so

But from her position she couldn’t stir,

And the Indian chief couldn’t eome to her.

They gazed at each other with rapturous
glance,

But “beyond those looks they couldn't
vance.

ad-

She thought he ought to be the first to
come,

But she couldn't
dumb.

He wished, of course, to get over the way,

But had, perforce, on his stand to stay.

say so, for she was

So they gazed and gazed till they
grew mad,
A state of affairs that was really sad;

both

3ut ‘twas just as well that they kept
apart,

For the chief had a very bad tobacco
heart;

While she, though she loved him as best
she could,

Had a heart that was merely made of

wood!
And you'll find it isn’t beyond belief
There are mortals just like the model and
chief!
———_.-.
Not Fair.

“Took here, Abraham;’ said the
Judge, “it’s been proved right here
in court that instead of doing some-
thing to help support your wife and

children, you spend your whole time
.

hunting *possum!”
The old negro hung his head.
“Now, Abe, you love your’ wife,
don’t you?”
“Ah suttinly does!”

“And your children?”

ONS isihny!

“And you love them both better—”

“Better evry day, Jedge!’ Abe
broke in.

“better than a thousand ’pos-
sum?”

“Look hyah, Jedge,” exclaimed
Abe, with widening eyes, ‘‘dat’s tak-
in’ a coon ata powful disadvan-
tage!”

le ns
The hardest seats in the world are
those on Easy street.

13

   
     
   
     
   
    

We are Exclusive Handlers of

QO. A. B.

and

iverside
Cheese

The June Make
Are Especially Good

 

 

Judson Grocer Co.

Distributors

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

ymons Bros. & Co.
Saginaw

recommend the _pur-
chase of the reliable
old

White
House
Coffee

simply because experi-
ence has taught that
this superb brand never
disappoints anybody.
is a sort of peacemaker in the
family and a ‘‘soothing syrup” to the worried head
of the household and a blessiug to the cook, who is
proud when she ‘“‘hits it off” right.

hia 7 i iN is

 

 

‘‘White House”

 

 

 

 

 

 

PA RPEINAR RIAD APL Wena ec

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

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Hall

 

 

 

 

We are now ip the season when a
few words of warning may be* timely
as regards the chilling of butter at
the creameries before shipping it.
This subject ~has been discussed in
fonmer years, but it is an important
one to all parties concerned. First,
to the creameries, in whose interest
it is that the butter reaches its des-
tination in the best possible shape.
Then to the dealers, who have been
buying it, relying on the known
quality of the butter at the crearn-
ery, and finally to the tramsportation
companies which are accused, some-
times unjustly, of not properly icing
the cars.

Buttermakers are sometimes prone
to look on the refrigerator cars as
a very easy means of chilling their
butter and forget that they not only
hurt the interest of their own cream-
ery, but also that of the other cream-
eries shipping in the same car, the
transportation companies and the re-
ceivers.

The refrigerator cars can not be
expected to do much more. than
maintain the low temperature in the
butter, and if they are used for chill-
ing it is bound to be mire or less
of a failure all round. Hence, it is
essential that buttermakers chill the
tubs properly before shipping and, if
they do not have the necessary fa-
cilities, that they kick until they get
them.

Butter changes temperature very
slowly, we presume nearly thie saime
in our 60-pound tubs as in the Dan-
ish 1o00-pound firkins, with which the
late Prof. Fjord experimented. In a
room kept at 39 to 40 deg. Fahren-
heit the temperature in the center of
the firkin was 59.5 degrees to start
with and it took twenty-four hours
to reduce it to 56.3, forty-eight hours
to 48 deg. and seventy-two hours to
43.3 deg. Near the wood it was 61.5
deg. to start with, 43.7 deg. in twen-
ty-four hours, 41 deg. in forty-eight
hours and 39.7 deg. in seventy-two
hours.

Some of the tubs thus cooled were
placed in ordinary temperature—61
to 63 deg. Fahrenheit—and the first
tub went up from 43.3 deg. to 43.5
deg. in twelve hours, 46 deg. in
twenty-four hours, 52.9 deg. in forty-
eight hours and 56.3 deg. in seventy-
two hours, all in the center; at the
wood the temperature started at 39.7
deg. and was 549 deg. in twelve

hours; 57.4 deg. in twenty-four
hours; 60.8 degrees in forty-eight
hours, and 61.2 deg. im seventy-two

hours. In another experiment the
tub was placed in a heated room—
83 to 86 deg.—and starting with 45.5
deg. in the center it maintained that

 

temperature for six ‘hours’ and was
46.2 deg. in twelve hours; 52 deg. in
twenty-four hours, and 63.5 degrees
in forty-eight hours. At the wood it
started at 42.6 deg. and was 60.6 deg.
in four hours; 66.7 deg. in six hours;
70.2 deg. in twelve hours; 76.1 deg.
in twenty-four hours, and 79.2 deg.
in forty-eight hours.

These figures prove the necessity
of a thorough chilling at the cream-
ery before shipping and of providing
some protection while ‘hauling to and
waiting at the railroad station if the
butter is to arrive in good shape. The
temperature went wp near the wood
1 deg. in four hours, while in the cen-
ter it did not change for six hours (in
a temperature of 85 deg.), so that if
the tubs are covered with an oil-

cloth first and then with a wet blan- :

ket, there is a fair chance, even if
the outside temperature is 85 or 90
deg., of keeping the temperature un-
der 55 deg. if the butter is chilled to
about 45 deg.

They also prove that if the butter
leaves the creamery and is not chill-
ed, but is, say, 55 deg. all through,
and it takes four hours in 85 or go
deg. temperature to reach the re-
frigerator car, it will be some 70 or
72 deg. near the wood, and if the
car is 39 to 4o deg. it will be re-
duced to 52.2 or 54.2 deg. near the
wood at the end of two days’ jour-
ney.

We do not claim that these figures
are accurate, but they certainly indi-
cate that the refrigerator service
should not be blamed for the arrival
of butter in New York in a soft and
slushy condition if the creamery ‘has
not done its duty in the proper chill-
ing of the butter and its protection
while hauling and waiting for the
cars.—-N. Y. Produce Review.

———

Some Back To Ten Hour Basis.

Holland, July 14—The Cappon &
3ertsch Leather Co. has resumed a
ten-hour schedule with a force of 350
men. The tannery is the oldest man-
ufaicturing institution in this city,
having been established more than
fifty years ago. The plant is being
equipped with a new boiler and en-
gine room, which will be supplied
with two 34 feet uprights, an autio-
matic stoking system and a new dy-
namo capable of lighting the whole
plant. The present capital stock of
the concern is $800,000, the bi-week-
ly pay roll is between $6,000 and
$7,000, the annual consumption of
bark is about 900 cords and the total
volume of business annually aggre-
gates $2,000,000.

It is slow business Catrying a
crooked yardstick on the straight
road.

  

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We Claim Quality Counts

Our brand Fancy White Virginia New Potatoes in full size barrels.
The best grade offered in Western Michigan.

Yuille-Miller Co.

Please try them.

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Citizens Phone 5166 Bell Phone 2167

 

 

 

All Kinds of Cheese at Prices to Please
Write or phone

; C. D. CRITTENDEN Co.
41-43 S. Market St. Both Phones 1300. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wholesale Butter, Eggs and Cheese

 

 

 

BUTTER

We want 50,000 pounds of packing stock and 25,000 pounds of fancy
June dairy butter in jars for storage. Don’t fail to write or phone us for prices
before selling. Both phones 2052.

T. H. CONDRA & CO.

Manufacturers of Renovated Butter Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Our seeds have behind them

SEEDS

than twenty years. They are good; they have always been good.

a good reputation of more

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

 

 

 

 

I want large quantities for my

F RESH EGGS local and shipping trade.

Fancy price for fancy quality.
ALL GRADES OF DAIRY BUTTER WANTED
13 YEARS’ SQUARE DEALING

F. E. STROUP (stroup & Catner) Grand Rapids, Mich.

References: Grand Rapids National Bank, Commercial Agencies, Trade
Company, any Grand Rapids Wholesale Grocer. _—

 

 

 

We sell all kinds field seeds

Medium, Mammoth, Alsyke, Clover
Timothy, Red Top, Orchard Grass

If you have clover seed, red kidney or white beans for sale
send us sample, price and quantity

MOSELEY BROS., WHOLESALE DEALERS AND SHIPPERS
Office and Warehouse Second Ave. and Railroad.

BOTH PHONES 1217 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

REA & WITZIG

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

W. C. Rea A. J. Witzig

We solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Cheese, I

“ive and Dressed Poultry,
Beans and Potatoes.

Correct and prompt returns.
REFERENCES

Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, Express Co
of Shippers.

Established 1873

mpanies, Trade Papers and Hundreds

 

 

PRODUCE Vegetables, Poultry, Eggs, Butter, Cheese, Ftc.

We buy and sell in any quantity and only solicit your patronage upon merit
of goods and Satisfactory dealing,

 

 

 

RODERICK-GLASCOTT CO., 39s. Market St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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Creamery Butter Arriving in New
' York in Bad Shape.

Intensely hot weather has prevail-
ed for some time throughout the
Kast, and it has also extended to
some sections of the West. This
week’s receipts of butter have shown
more or less heat and high acidy
flavors have frequently been talked
about as buyers and sellers have
bored the butter. Some have spoken
of sour flavors, but this has un-
doubtedly been the result of cream
being delivered in an advanced stage
of ripeness and then noc churned
soon enough. It is common to find
this defect in July and August if the
weather is hot, and I am inclined to
think that unless it turns cooler soon
we shall have considerable of that
butter before long.

3ut it is not my intention to dis-
cuss that phase of the question so
much as to allude to the soft condi-
tion in which some of the butter has
been delivered the past week. It is
quite certain that most of the re-
frigerator lines have taken extra pre-
caution to ice their cars, and the bulk
of these lines have kept the stock in
reasonably good condition, consider-
ing the weather; but one of the roads
butter,
eggs and poultry has given poor serv-
ice of late and the butter that has ar-
rived over that line has frequently
been too soft to show.

running refrigerator cars for

“T have just wired a shipper not
to send his ‘butter via ————.”_ re-
marked a receiver on Friday. “1
have had trouble enough and [ do
not propose to stand it any longer.
Remonstrances do not seem to count
fer much, so I will have our butter
come over one of the larger lines
that gives fine service.”

Another receiver had some pretty
strong things to say against the line,
“put I don’t want to get into any
controversy with these people,” he
said, “and so I am trying to do the
best I can with the goods, hoping
for an improvement later.”

This is a very serious thing and
should be remedied at once. If one
iine can bring butter through in good
shape another line can also, provid-
ed the equipment and facilities for
icing cars in transit are as good.

The importance of having the but-
ter cool and reasonably hard when
delivered can not be over stated.
More than one-half of the receipts
are looked at and sold before they
leave the store floor. If the butter
is soft it bores greasy and frequent-
ly has the appearance of being light
Inspector Barrett and [|
were talking maitter the
other day and he said that he found
quite a number of lots that were
really too soft to inspect. “I look-
ed at a lot the other day which I
felt owght to pass as an extra, but
the receiver called my attention to
what he considered weak body and
he thought that my grading was too
high. I told him. to put the lot in
his box and hold it until morning. A
few days after this I saw him again
and he quickly remarked that the
butter came out so fine the next day
that he sold it for a special. This
is only one instance that has come
under my observation, and I do not

in body.
over this

 

MICHIGAN

feel like throwing down a mark be-
cause it is soft.”

To one who is familiar with points
of this kind, as the inspector must
necessarily be, proper allowance can
be made for condition, but the aver-
age buyer forms an opinion of the
body by the way the butter bores,
and if it is soft ‘he calls it weak in
the body, and sometimes rejects it in
consequence. This is particularly
true if the stock is intended for
storage. Not long ago I saw some
butter that was fairly runming out of
the tubs—-absolutely too soft to show
anyone. The whole appearance of
the butter is vastly improved by hav-
ing it cool and hard, and every pos-
sible means should be employed to
get the goods on the market in that
shape—-N. Y. Produce Review.

—___>~- >
Process Butter in Ohio.

The lawspasised by the lasit session
of the Ohio State Legislature regu-
lating the stamping of process or
renovated butter went into effect
July 1. Section 1 of the new law de-
fines renovated or process butter.
Section 2 prohibits the sale or
sesiston with intent to sell of any
butter as defined in section I
unless it has “the words ‘removated
butter’ or ‘process butter’ conspicu-
ously stamped, labeled or marked in
one or two lines and in plain Gothic
letters, at leasit

pos-

such

three-eighths of an
inch square, so that the words can
not be easily defaced, upon two sides
of each and every tub, firkin, box or
package containing said ‘renovated’
or ‘process butter,’ or, if such but-
ter is exposed for sale uncovered or
not in a case or package, a placard
containing said words in the same
form as above described in this sec-
tion shall be attached to tthe mass
in such a manner as to be easily seen
and read by the purchaser. Wihen
‘renovated’ or ‘process butter’ is siold
from such package or otherwise at
retail, in print, roll or other form,
before being delivered to the pur-
chaser, it shall be wrapped in wrap-
pers plainly stamped on the outside
thereof with the words ‘renovated
butter’ or ‘process butter’ printed or
stamped thereon in one or two lines,
and in plain Gotlhic letters at least
three-eighths of an inch square, and
such wrapper shail contain no other
words or printing thereon and said
words ‘renovated butter’ or ‘process
butter’ so stamped or printed on the
said wrapper shall not be in any
manner concealed, but shall be in
plain view of the purchaser at the
time of the purchase.”

Section -3 provides penalties by fine
of $50 to $200 for the first offense
and larger fines or imprisonment for
subsequent breaking of the law.

 

NOW AT 1tco MONROE.

O. E. Brown Company Has Moved
To Its New Location.

O. E. Brown Company, grain and
commission merchant, ‘has remov-
ed from the Weston block to the
Godfrey building, too Monroe street,
rooms 304-305.

_—_-e-o.—_____

One of life’s funniest spectacles is

the man who takes himself too seri-

ously,

TRADESMAN

Natural Advantages.

“Did you know they had erected
a monument to the Petrified Man?”
“Indeed, did they build it by sub

scription?”

“No, he was quite turned to stone
when he died, and they set him up as]

. ~~ a |
his own effigy.

 

 

 

 

M. O. BAKER & CO.

Have big outlet for cherries, peaches
and small fruits. Write us. |

Toledo, Ohio |

 

 

 

Veneer Box Co.

Manufacturers of
all kinds of

Shipping Boxes and Egg Cases
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color

A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter Color,
and one that complies with the pure
food laws of every State, and
of the United States.
Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Cu.
Burlington, Vt.

 

 

 

 

Ground

Feeds

None Better

YX

BRAND

Trane ARK

WYKES & Co.

GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

Dry Sound

Our feeds are made from
Dry Corn. We give
you grain that will draw
trade. Let the other fel-
low worry with cheap,
damp, sour goods. Send
us your orders for

       
       
     
   
   
     
   
     
   
 

Molasses Feed
Cotton Seed Meal
Gluten Feed
Old Process Oil Meal

 

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

 

 

If you want to buy fruits,
vegetables or produce

Buy From Us

If you want to sell vegetables,
butter, eggs, poultry, etc.

Sell to Us

We can fill orders promptly
for any quantity of strawber-
ries, Bermuda onions, pine-
apples, South and home grown
vegetables, oranges, lemons,
bananas.

Our Market Letter Free

 

 

The Vinkemulder Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

_" 2 nO

Some Signs

and what they mean
to a user of an

American
Account Register

THE PLUS (+) Sign Stands For,
First— More profits.
Second— More business.
Third— More friends.

THE MINUS (—) Sign Stands For,
First—Less of work and worry.
Second—Less of trouble and loss.
Third—Less of jangle and dispute.

THE MULTIPLICATION ( ..
For,

First— Many times as much
pleasure in business.

Second— Many times as many
hours of leisure.

Third— Many times the assur-
ance of success.

THE DIVISION (=) Sign Stands For,
First—Expenses divided by 3.
Second— Outstanding accounts

divided by 4.
Third—Book work divided by 5.

) Sign Stands

Then there are the moving adver-
tising signs, found only on the Amer-

ican. They stand for suggestion and
increased sales, for progress and
profit.

‘*Get right with the signs.”’
Don’t take chances any longer.

 

 

The American
Case and Register Co.
Alliance, Ohio

 

J. A. Plank, General Agent
Cor. Monroe and Ottawa Streets
Grand Rapids, Mich.

McLeod Bros., No. 159 Jefferson Ave.
Detroit, Mich.

Cut off at this line

 

Send more particulars about the Ameri-
ean Account Register and System.

IGN Scale,

TPOWE ~o.s «5-5 O48 NS et ence e cess seseceas

SOG oo ee

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE ROAD TO PRISON.

 

Starting Point Often in Some Little
Graft.
Written for the Tradesman.

Collins opened a drawer in his
desk to get a postage stamp.

The little stamp box was empty,
and he set the drawer on top of the
desk and looked through it. There
was not a stamp in sight. He sat
back in his chair and whistled. The
day before he had bought a dollar’s
worth. He knew that he had used
only half a dozen.

“I'll have to keep them in the
safe,” he thought, with a sigh. “I
don’t object to the clerks using a
postage stamp now and then, but
this is gettirig a little too raw. I can
not buy a dollar’s worth every other
day.”

He saw a customer standing at the
cigar case and went forward to wait
on him, as the clerks were all busy.

“Give me a. couple of those
straight-ten Halsteads,” said the cus-
tomer.

Collins looked through the case and
didn’t find the brand asked for.

“T’ve got them, all right,” he said.
“Bought four boxes of ’em only a
week or so ago, and I know they
are not all gone.”

But they were all gone. Two hun-
dred straight-ten cigars sold in six
days! The receipts at the cigar de-
partment didn’t show any such rush
of trade. The customer took an-
other brand of cigar and went his
way.

“T guess I'll have to keep the ci-
gars in the safe, too,” thought the
grocer. “I don’t object to treating
the clerks to a smoke now and then,
but I can’t afford to keep fine brands
for their exclusive benefit.”

As he sat at his desk an hour lat-
er he heard a customer complaining
because there were no stuffed olives
in stock.

“You always keep them,” she said,
“and so I waited until I got here to
buy. Now, I’ve got to go back three
blocks.”

“Wait a moment,” said Collins,
stepping forward. “I’ve got a box
of them in the store room. Have
them out in a minute.”

“I’m afraid not,” said the clerk. “I
looked there yesterday, and the case
was empty. I should have told you
about it.”

“But I bought a gross ten days
ago,” declared the grocer.

“All gone,” insisted the clerk. “You
know the picnic season is on.”

Collins knew that his trade had
not called for any such quantity of
stuffed olives in ten days. Former-
ly a gross would last two months.

“I guess I’ll have to keep the stuff-
ed olives in the safe, too,’ he
thought. going back to his corner to
think over the three recorded in-
stances of graft on the part of the
clerks. He was positive that the
clerks were responsible for the dis-
appearance of the stamps, the cigars
and the stuffed olives. He had no
idea how much other stuff had been
taken away by his employes during
the summer, but he decided to find
out.

He did not believe that his clerks

 

were actually dishonest. He thought
that the system of helping them-
selves to whatever they wanted in
the store had grown and grown un-
til it had become something serious.

The next morning he was at his
desk the minute the store opened.
He did not sit there looking around
the large salesroom, but seemed to
be very busy over his books. How-
ever, he could hear what was going
on. About 9 o’clock, during a little
lull in trade, two clerks—young men
who thought themselves in society—
came to the back of the store anJ
stood talking together, not observ-
ing that Collins was within hearing
distance.

“I've got a misery in my tummy,”
said one of them.

“Too much hops last night?” ask-
ed the other.

“Too much two-step,” replied the
first speaker. “Danced until 3 this
morning. Got up just in time to
hike to the store without any break-
fast. I could eat a fried cat this
minute.”

“We don’t keep fried cat,” laughed
the other, “but we’ve got toasted
corn flakes and cream in the back
room. I often go there and fill up
when I don’t get up in time to get
breakfast.”

“That’s me, too,” said the two-step
clerk. “Imported sardines are pretty
good, too, when you have that ‘all-
gone’ feeling. Well, here I go to feed
my face. Look out for my end of
the store while I’m gone.”

Collins arose and looked througha
window which stood between the
front salesroom and the back room.
The two-step clerk dipped a pint of
cream out of the can and took a
carton of ginger snaps off the shelf.
Then he lifted a bowl from under a
box and sat down to eat.

“That breakfast,” thought Collins,
“will cost me about twenty tents,
to say nothing of the time wasted by
the clerk. I wonder if it would be
possible for me to keep my cream
and ginger snaps in the safe. Great
doings here!”

Collins didn’t say a word to the
clerk. He went back to his desk and
bent over his books again, wondering
how long this sort of thing had been
going on.

Larceny? Of course it was lar-
ceny, but the clerks didn’t look at it
in that light. Somehow the notion
had wormed its way into their heads
that perquisites of this sort went with
the position. They were not thieves,
but they were careless of the prop-
erty rights of others. This two-step
clerk wouldn’t have taken twenty
cents out of the cash drawer, but he
took the goods which would have
sold for that sum and thought noth-
ing of it.

Half an hour later, after the young
man had emerged from the feeding
room, the clerk who had talked with
him came back and put on his hat.
He was not neglecting trade in leav-
ing the store, for there were few cus-
tomers in at the time. Still, there
was no knowing how soon there
would be a rush.

“Where you going?” asked the
two-step man.

“Out to get an egg phosphate,” was

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lily White
Gains 38 Per Cent.

 

 

 

Our state and city sales of Lily White,
‘the flour the best cooks use,” show a gain
of 38 per cent. in June this year over

June last year.

That’s a.good showing for so-called

‘‘hard times.”

No falling off in Lily White sales.

It’s a steady increase just as it always
has been and just as it should be, be-
cause the more people use Lily White
the more convinced are they that it is the

flour of economy.

Every ounce develops the highest
efficiency—not a particle is ever wasted
because every ounce in every sack is

uniformly high grade.

Always alike—always uniform—always

reliable, that is our favorite motto for

ily White

‘‘The Flour the Best Cooks Use’’

And while we have to pay a little
higher wages for experienced men and a
little more for the right wheat, still it
pays in the long run, because that is the
kind of flour experienced cooks want.

We have never spared any expense to
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the reply. “I don’t feel any too

good this morning. Come along?”
“Too much cream,” was the reply.

“Besides, I ane? got the price.”
“That’s easy.”

The grocer saw the clerk reach in-
to a box of eggs and take out four.

“Two for me and two for the girl
at the fountain,” said the clerk.
“Doesn’t cost a cent when you take
four eggs with you. Girl is wise!”

“Vil remember that,”
two-step clerk.

“Pll wager the delivery wagon that
you will,” mused the grocer, “and I'll
remember it, too. How would it an-
swer to keep the eggs in the safe?”

While the clerk was at the foun-
tain next door devouring four eggs
at twenty-four cents a dozen, the gro-
cer stepped to the door and stood
with his back against the casing,
looking out into the street, but listen-
ing. Presently this talk came from
the cigar case:

“Give me a-nickel cigar.”

“When did you get into the five-
cent row?” asked the clerk. “If you
haven’t got the price of a good one,
have one on the house. Here, take
a couple over to the boys. They are
straight-tens, all right. I always
smoke ’em.”

Collins glanced around in time to
see the clerk pass out thirty cents’
worth of his best cigars and put thir-
ty cents’ worth more in his pocket.

This clerk would have starved be-
fore he would have taken sixty cents
out of the cash drawer, but what he
was doing every day was just as
reprehensible as the stealing of mon-
ey would have been.

“T’ll have to get a safe big enough

observed the

to keep the whole store in,” thought
Collins, “or get a new. batch of
clerks, or do something. At present

I seem to be running a free lunch
shop, with a cigar annex.”

Most employers would have fired
the whole bunch, but Collins didn’t.
He kept up his investigations, and on
Saturday night took two dollars from
each pay envelope. When the clerks
came to protest he calmly answered
that the two dollars represented
board and cigars.

“All clerks do the same,’ he was
informed, after submitting an itemiz-
ed statement to each one. “All clerks
eat and smoke on the boss. You can
not find-a grocery where the clerks
pay for the little things they take.”

“You'll find one right here,” de-
clared Collins, “from now on. I’m
not accusing you boys of larceny. If
I thought you were thieves I’d have
you arrested. You’ve got this graft-
ing hahit from others. You think it
doesn’t amount to much if you take
a cigar, or a pint of cream, or a box
of sardines, or a bottle of stuffed
olives. It is a small matter to each
of you, but it is not so small a thing
to me. You’ve cost me $5 a week
each in grafts for months.”

“They all do it,” was all the clerks
could say.

“T don’t believe all clerks carry the
graft to the extent you have,” re-
plied Collins. “Anyway, the thing
stops right here. Perhaps you don’t
know it, but graft is the starting
place on the road to prison. When
one learns to take small things be-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

longing to others, he is on the road
to taking large things. You wouldn't
take a dollar out of the drawer now,
but you will take a dollar’s worth of
goods off the shelves and think noth-
ing of it. In time, you will take
the dollar itself if you don’t quit
taking its equivalent.”

This is not fiction, so there is no

“guide board” needed. Perhaps the
clerks at Collins’ were worse than
the most. Perhaps there are clerks

who are as honest in handling stock
as they are in handling money. I
have no doubt of it. But, all the
same, it is well for grocers to know
what is going on in their places of
business. And it may be just as well
for clerks to stop and think occa-
sionally, no matter how honest their
intentions are.
The road to prison often begins at
Graftville. Alfred B.
_—_—_————_.- 32a
A Fast Record.

Tozer.

At a political convention held in|

Illinois the importance of nominating
a popular man for a certain
district was thoroughly recognized.
A speaker had just renominated a
personal friend for the position, and
in an elaborate eulogy had presentea
in glowing terms his manifold mer-
its, especially emphasizing his great
services on the field of battle, as well
as in the pursuits of peace.

close

After he had finished a voice was
heard in the rear of the room: “What
we want is the man that will run
best.”

In an instant the orator was again
on his feet.

“If you think,” he yelled, “that this
convention can find anybody that can
run better than the gentleman I have
nominated, I point once. more to his
well known war record.”

-_—--_o2.o______
Pulled Up Short.

Professor Charles Zueblin, of the
University of Chicago, was reiterat-
ing at a dinner his belief that most
American philanthropy failed of its
object.

“Many a philanthropist, his heart
beating with love of his fellow man,
would be pulled up with a round
turn,” said Professor Zueblin, “if he
knew what really became of the last
hundred or the last thousand that he
gave to charity.

“Yes, he would be taken as com-
pletely aback as the young man who
said proudly to his girl in the moon-
light:

“*Tell me, my own, when did you
first discover that you loved me?’

“‘When I found myself getting
angry every time any one called you
a fool,’ she replied.”

——_>-->___
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Hicks, angrily, as he tried to eat one
of his wife’s biscuits,

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Hicks. “I’d get a few feathers for
my hat.”
_——__2—2———_—____
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dealer comes nearer being a profes-
sion than that of any other mercan-
tile pursuit; in all other mercantile
lines it takes but a few months to
familiarize one’s self with the sa-
lient points of the business, but in
the hardware line this is not a fact.
In this line it takes years of hard
study to be fairly well posted.

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a mansion; what is the best roofing
to use, the style of locks. and hinges;
kow a flue should be built; the most
convenient place for the refrigera-
tor, sink or range; how the ‘barn
should be built, its size, capacity, etc.
The poultry yard comes in for your
attention; the lawn claims a part of
your time and study. You must
know as to house furnishings.

Even the young ladies will want
to know just the size brass. ring
they should use for such and such
fancy work; the boys want to know
all about the bicycle, the size they
should have; the sporting inclined
man wants to know all about the dif-
ferent makes of guns, rifles, cart-
ridges, shells, fish hooks, trolls, lines
(and sometimes the best brand of |
fish bait).

You have to know the particular
style of plow, harrow or cultivator
that will work best in such soil and the |
crop; how many rods of fence it will
take to fence off the cow lot, farm |
or pasture; how many staples, nails
and posts. Stoves and ranses—you
have to almost know the name of
the miner who mined the iron.

Pocket knives, razors and_ shears
you have to study hard and long; re-
garding granite-ware you must know
the number of coats and its acid-re-
sisting quality, etc.: iron pipe and_|
steam-fitting goods of a_ necessity |
have to be studied much. Pumps you |
much

about, no)
matter how hard you try. Tools and
implements of architecture
years of study. You must, in fact,
be a know-all; for when any article |
is wanted and it is not known who |
keeps it or, in fact, what it is, |
straight-a-way the party goes to
the hardware store; so you see that
it is more of a profession than any
other line.

Now, since we are saddled with
all of these studies, let us be gener-
ous and take on other studies that |
are being sadly neglected all over
our country—that is, the improve-
ment of our country—cities, towns, |
farms, homes, public buildings, roads, |
waterways and forests.

In the rush |
for dollars in this country these

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‘farm the farm and home must be
‘made attractive; some attention must
ibe paid to the wants and desires of
ithe children to make their life on
‘the farm pleasant.
‘the children in the country have such
‘things as lawn swings, tennis sets,
| croquet sets, hammocks, lawn furni-
‘ture, like
‘the cities having?
|their lawns be cut nice and smooth
‘with a lawn mower, the fences and
‘outhouses neatly whitewashed? We
‘must call the attention of the farmer
‘to these things.
‘much it will add to the pleasure of

iness and value of his farm.

We must advocate good roads, | Tiding thing on wheels; more reliable
streets, clean remises attracti and steady than a horse and buggy.
* . iit 39 ee Runs 25 to 30 miles per gallon of §
‘homes, public conveniences, up-to- gasoline and a trifle of oil and is less J

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ikept so as to be
‘mechanics, laborers, merchants, law-

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}and nothing will do more to make
/a man who is looking for a new lo-
‘cation decide to cast his lot with
you than to show him that you have
a live, up-to-date community. The

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the success of the country depends
upon our keeping these up to the
standard. There are too many young
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We must commence a system

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19

 

BANKER BUNKER.

 

He Does Not Believe in Time
Servers.
Written for the Tradesman.

It was one of those serene, silent
days in June when each rare little
gust of wind seemed to apologize
for disturbing the symmetry of the
heat haze as it moved shimmering
upward that John Bunker, the bank-
er, leaned back in his chair and,
looking across his little private of-
fice and through the glass partition
into the general banking office, ob-
served that the teller, the cashier,
the accountants, the discount clerk
and the telephone girl and stenog-
rapher all wore an air of sleepiness.

Business was quiet. It was a dull
day and no mistake, a fact largely
attributable to the temperature, and
the banker, picking up a palm leaf
fan and beginning to refresh him-
self, remarked, “I don’t blame ’em.
I’d be hanged if I would exert my-
self on such a day.”

Just then Walter Atwell, a young
manufacturer, entered the private of-
fice and saluted Mr. Bunker with,
“Yes, it’s hot enough for me, and
I don’t refer especially to the weath-
er when IT make the confession.” At-
well had his coat over his arm and
his hat in. his hand, while the moist
condition of his face confirmed the
expression of impatience and anxiety
that snapped from his eyes.

“What’s the matter, Walter?” ask-
ed Mr. Bunker, as he wheeled a chair
around and motioned his visitor to
a seat.

“No, I don’t want to sit down,”
said Atwell sharply. “What I want
to know is whether your bank has
an idea that it owns me or my busi-
ness? Of course, I know that you
have accommodated me now. and
then. that you have notes not yet due
which T will pay at maturity, but
you do not own me, body and
breeches.”

“Sit down, Walter, sit down,” urg-
ed the banker, and as his visitor
tossed his hat and coat on a nearby
table and wiped the perspiration from
his forehead, he said, “This bank
does not own you, never claimed to
own you and does not want to own
Now sit down.”

Atwell did as. requested and pro-
ceeded, with no little show of ex-
citement, to tell how one of the di-
rectors of the bank, happening to
pass the Atwell office, dropped in for
a visit and as it chanced found At-
well seated and engaged im fanning
himself, while his stenographer and
book-keeper sat upon a_ high stool
hack of the desk eating ice
cones.

“Having a good time?” put in the
banker.

“Ves, and there was no reason on
earth to prevent,” responded Atwell,
who continued: “And yet that di-
rector had the nerve to tell me that
1 was making a mistake; that I ought
to. put up a bluff if I wasn’t busy.
“Make a show of being busy during
business hours, whether you are ac-
tually busy or said. Amd
when I took an opposing position,
saying that I had no use whatever
for eye service or anyone who ad-
vocated it, he got hot and remark-

you.

cream

not.’ he

 

ed that he was afraid my credit
would get hurt if he should tell what
he knows at a meeting of the di-
rectors.”

“And what did you say?”
Mr. Bunker.

“Me! What did I say? I told him
to get out of my office.”

“You said that?”

“You bet I did, and he got out.”

“Say,” said the banker, “you did
just exactly right and—” here Mr.
Bunker reached for his hat and, tak-
ing Atwell by the arm, invited him
t? go with him for a short drive in
his car. Together the two men ipass-
ed out and during the next half hou:
as they were bowled about the city
they exchanged views that were mu-
tual upon various common phases of
pretense and deception.

From being filled with a determin-
ation to take his business to another
banking institution young Atwell
found himself in perfect harmony
with Banker Bunker, and the banker,
on the other hand, went so far as to
Say as a sort of final word before
parting company with his friend:
“Whenever you see a time-server, a
man who watches the clock or whom-
ever is in authority where he is em-
ployed, look out for other crooked
characteristics: whenever you see a
lawyer or a banker or a doctor ipfit-
ting up any kind of a bluff of doing
business he does not do watch him
and he will give himself away soon-
er or later. ‘He’ll be kiting checks
Or worse as ste as you keep your
eye on him.” C. S. Hathaway.

Inc
Business Materially Increased at Bay
City Factories.

Bay City, July 14—The National
Bicycle works has increased its
working force to full capacity, put-
ting on over 100 men during the
last week or two, and has work
enough ahead so that its officers say
they no longer fear a relapse of busi-
ness depression for a long time to
come. The company at no time shut
down, although at one time the
working force was run low.

The Industrial works, manufactur-
ing railroad wrecking cranes, is
adding to its working force, begin-
ning about two weeks ago. General
Manager Perry says new work is
coming in im small quantities, while
enquiries have come ‘with a rush
the last few days, indicating a re-
sumption of activity on the railroads,
with which the
of its

asked

company does miosi
business.

—__+~->__

Gratitude.

Thief (acquitted of stealing a
watch, to his advocate)—I thank you,
sir, from the bottom of my heart. I
have no money to pay you; but here
is the watch; take it: it is the best i
can do for you and I may have an-
other job for you soon,

-_———.-.—e___

A Redeeming Feature.
“It is a pity that there are so

many people who tell falsehoods.”

“Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne,
“but think how much worse it would
be if we had to accept all the gossip

we hear as positively true.”

—_— oo
People who struggle to keep up
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MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

 

It Makes No Difference What Sys-
tem One Believes.

You have often heard it said that it
does not matter materially what sys-
tem of moral philosophy a man be-
lieves, so that he believes it hon-
estly and acts up to his belief. This
statement is usually made very fer-
vidly and dogmatically, and doubt-
less many a man believes the state-
ment to be true. Lots of people
who are perfectly willing to try ex-
periments with anybody’s old ethi-
cal dope on their souls would hes-
itate long before swallowing any-
body’s patent medicine for their
bodies. Suppose I honestly thought
that Chicago lay due north of Minne-
apolis, and acted up to my belief
in trying to get there, J would be a
long time in arriving, now wouldin’t
I? We had a man in our town who
believed that it would not hurt him
to swallow nails, pen-knives, broken
bits of crockery and such, and he
acted up to his belief on a stage at
a dime museum. One day his stom-
ach acted up, and the doctor’s scalpel
ran on to a lot of junk hardware lodg-
ed in a place where it ought not to
be. After he got out of the hospital
he went back to practicing his be-
lief, and shortly thereafter the coro-
ner sat on him. The human body
won’t stand for the “honest belief”
doctrine. A man can swallow a lot
of metaphysical junk without going
to the hospital, and because of the
fact that he still lives and his mind
continues to draw conclusions from
premises he thinks he is not hurt.
But just the same, undigestible men-
tal food creates mental indigestion.
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so
is he.” A man may have a moral
philosophy lying around the house
somewhere done up in a napkin, and
take it out to look at it on Sun-
days, say, or show it to his wife’s
relatives who come a visiting from
the country, without its making any
perceptible difference with his men-
tal and moral processes and _ prod-
ucts. One of my neighbors has a
system of religious philosophy that
works like a jack-in-a-box. Maybe
once a year he will spring it on a
man and half scare him out of his
wits. Then he screws down the lid
and no one would guess that he had
ever entertained a thought that was
not reducible to terms of bread and
butter and pie. So far as its affect-
ing his life goes he might as well
have a mummified cat in the attic. J
know men who claim to hold what
has been proven to be the greatest
and best system of moral philosophy
in the world and it doesn’t seem to
bother them at all in a horse trade
or in a bucket shop. A man can hold
a Bible in one hand and put a scoop-
ful of salicylic acid into a can of bad
milk and sell his mixture for- baby
food. The results of holding a be-
lief depend on where and how you
hold it. As a man thinketh in his
heart—that is, in where he lives—so
is he,

* * *

The proof of the quality of a sys-
tem of conduct is found in the re-
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who really believes it and acts up to
it. That is the way we judge a ci-
der mill or a lawn mower—by what
it does when it is in motion. A
neighbor once unfolded to me a new
religious system that he was _ intro-
ducing. It consisted of a mystified
muddle of all the long and resonant
words to be found in’ the Century
dictionary. He hadn’t yet quite got
the grip on the lingo, but he assured
me that the professor from Chicago
from whom he obtained it could ‘rat-
tle it off fine. I couldn’t see any-
thing to it that would keep a man
from stealing chickens if he felt so
inclined. And it didn’t seem to have
any more ethical effect on my neigh-
bor than though he had learned to
recite the Charge of the Light Brig-
ade. But he was very enthusiastic
and apparently very honest in his
belief. There was once an old wom-
an living in a town near our home
who by turning down the lamp at
night and saying some rigmarole
could call a ghost out of a dish cup-
board, make the washstand dance
stiff legged around the room and
talk with your grandmother in the
spirit land. She kept herself and
her family half scared to death all
the time, and you would as’ soon
have thought of visiting at her house
as you would of eating your lunch
in the receiving vault of the Brook-
side cemetery. It looked to us as
though her system of ethics had
spoiled her family for good citizen-
ship. Being in earnest about her
belief she showed what the _ belief
could do for people.
* * x

If a man is going to cut any kind
of a swath in the field of life he
must have a belief in his heart and
live up to it. If the man who sold
me that last set of subscription books
had not believed in his goods any

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of believe in their Christianity, I
wouldn’t have his books and_ he
wouldn’t have my money. Heart be-
lief is behind every effort that wins.
Any other kind of living is just muss-
ing up things.
x + *

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but stupidity. Suppose you have a
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Shove ‘him over on this side of the
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farther? In this programme there are
no promise of present profit and no
prospect of peace in the end. But
it is hard to excuse meanness in any
man, especially when we are feel-

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neighbor question. Suppose we got
all that was due us from other peo-
ple and from the Almighty; where
would sinners be at this very after-
noon? Looking at the bounteous
good will of Heaven, a man ought to
forget that he has any mean neigh-
bors. When I got up last Monday
morning at five in the early dawn I
took a turn up and down my lawn
just to inhale the abundance of
spring—the tulips in glossy green
peeping up in rows adown the bor-
der; the daffodils in lighter green;
here and there clumps of perennials
that had wintered well and_ started
early; the elm trees up the street all
fuzzy with flowers; the willow tree
heads in a _ pea-green haze, and
through it all and among it all the
song and twitter of birds. I said to
myself, “The old Psalmist must have
been walking in his garden about
five one spring morning when he
sang: ‘Many, oh Lord my God, are
thy wonderful works which thou hast
done, and thy thoughts which are .to
usward. They can not be reckoned
up in order unto thee. If I would
declare and speak of them they are
more than can be numbered.’” I
would like to know of a man mean
enough to speak ill of his neighbor at
five o’clock a. m. im such a summer
as we are having in this year of our
Lord, 1908.
* * *

Planting some shrubbery in the
front yard about sunrise, I perceived
that I had an appreciative spectator
antl! a good companion in the person
of a certain Mr. Robin who seemed
to have inherited an inalienable
right to my premises. He spoke
me a fair good morrow and stood at
attention until I returned his salute.
Then he continued the conversation
in words that seemed to mean:
“Would you kindly step back a few
paces, sir? And be quick about it!”
As I stepped back he came forward,
and boldly plunging his bill into the
earth where I had just plunged my
spade, he brought therefrom the pro-
verbial reward of the early bird. He
stayed with me until he had break-
fasted well, when he went his way
on some important errand. At. this
very moment a Mrs. Robin, who, I
think, writes her name with his ini-
tials, is flying in and out of the
grapevine tangle on the back porch.
Here she is bringing straws and
strings and bits of fabric among
which is a nice strip of antiseptic
gauze, all of which she is cementing
together. with mud she collects where
the hose has leaked in the driveway.
She models the growing nest with
her red breast, and builds with won-
derful speed. Mr. Robin does but lit-
tle of this work. Last year as they
built in the vine on the barn he
brought her a clumsy, unworkable
straw, for which she did roast him
roundly and sent him ‘away henpeck-
ed. But they are good neighbors of
ours despite their family spats. We
could reach their nest from the back
steps, but they know we won’t doit.

* * *

Yesterday morning Neighbor S.
asked our family to join him in a
little run into the suburban land-
scape. This we did to our great

pleasure and to the solid cementing
of friendships. Our trip took us past
three or four country schoolhouses
about the hour of nine. It was a
pieasure to note the attitude of my
host toward the pedestrian world.
His big machine slowed up and
stopped as we overtook a lady with
books under her arm. “Have a ride,
girlie?” It was the teacher at the
schoolhouse a half mile — farther
on. She accepted the invitation
“George!” he exclaimed in an aside
to me, “it makes me feel like an old
man to see how that little chicken
grows. She’s 18. It doesn’t seem more
than a year or two since I held her
i? my arms, and she a baby.” Ten
miles on we overtook a ‘bevy of lit-
tle tots in short dresses trudging to
school with their dinner pails. The
machine slowed up. “Want a ride?”
The children looked scared but pleas-
ed. “Plenty of room! Climb right
in. Get up on their laps. We can
take twenty like you.” In they scram-
bled. Bizz! and the vehicle flew on,
the children giggling under their
breath, too excited and pleased to
talk. These were landed at the
schoolhouse yard. A mile farther on
we stopped to invite a little brother
and sister with dinner pail and book.
They were too shy to accept, and
on we sped. “That’s the way we
educate the farmers,” said my host.
“It beats all legislation, and litiga-
tion and damnation. If a few of the
smart alecks with machines would
only get into line with the rest of
us we'd have all the farmers com-
ing our way and glad to do it. -It’s
fun, anyway.” This also was to me
a lesson in neighborliness. I am
planning to live to see the day when
neighbors will draw their planting
plans co-operatively; when birds will
build nests in every dooryard; when
every automobile roaring up and
down the pike will stop to pick up foo:
passengers just for the fun of it. In
those days the human hog will be i
freak so rare that we may charge
an admission fee to see him.
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food, dainty dishes, hot and cold,
came in from here and there with
cheerful messages—and these from
many people who I had mo reason
to think had any particular interest
in me. And would you believe it?
The manager of the corporation for
which I work came every month
for the four months, bringing my
pay on pay day, regularly, and with
all the courtesy that he would have
shown if he had been bringing the
President his salary!”

Now this attention was not paid
to this man because of his wealth
and political influence. He is an of-
fice man on a salary considerably
less than $1,000 a year. He rents
the house in which he lives. He has
no bank surplus and he supports a
family of three. This looks like an
exceptional case. But it is not. Here
is the explanation: For many years
this man has been doing this kind of
cheer-up work himself. It seemed
to come natural to iim. And so
when he fell sick he just as naturally
drew his dividends from his invest-
ment in the stocks of The Brotherly-
Kindness Conporation, Unlimited. So
this story you may say is only a re-
port of a payment for value received
and therefore is not out of the ordi-
nary,

But this is not all this man told
us. “One night,” said he, “when I
was not able to sleep, the nurse told
me this story: She had _ recently
been nursing in the City Hospital. A
young Jew, sentenced to the work-
house for some crime, had fallen
sick and was sent to the hospital. It
proved to be a most aggravated and
miserable case of appendicitis. They
thought him as good as dead for
three or four days, but finally he
rallied. As he was recovering, a lit-
tle woman came in and brought him
some dainties. She went to the court
and got him freed from the remain-
der of his workhouse sentence. When
he was able to leave the hospital she
took him to her home and nursed
him back to health. And finally she
raised a fund to send him back to
his mother in New York. Not long
ago the young man came back, call-
ed at the hospital and thanked them
for their kindness, looked up the
nurse and thanked her, and went to
the home of this good Samaritan
woman and repaid her the money
she had advanced him. To-day this
Jew is an upright, substantial, profit-
able citizen of Minneapolis. Who
did it? A poor little woman who
makes it her special religious work to
visit the jails and help the men as
they come out on discharge. Why
did she do it? Explain it on any
utilitarian premises if you can.

i hk Me

And expl@in this: Yesterday noon
our Committee had under considera-
tion the raising of $2,400. Of this
amount $400 is to be paid to a Sioux
Indian who runs a line of reading
rooms and gospel shacks up in North
Dakota—log huts he has persuaded
the Indians to build, in which he
provides a little good reading matter
and in which he teaches the Bible
on Sundays. The $2,000 is for the
support of a Young Men’s Christian
Association in Buenos Aires, Argen-

 

tina. These funds are picked up by
littles each year among the young
men and others in this city. This

has been going on for about seven
years. Tell me what earthly reason
a young man has for paying out his
good hard and hard-earned cash to
a Sioux buck up in North Dakota,
or to a Latin-American Sunday
school proposition ten thousand
miles down on the other end of the
carth? What interest have you in
the Sioux Indian? Bought a colored
post card with his picture on once?
What interest in the Argentine?
Consulted the Argentine wheat re-
ports before investing in May wheat?
Possibly you and I have been out in
the dazzle of the world until our
vision is fuzzy. Maybe a kind Prov-
idence will some day lay us by the
heels in an upper room and pull down
the shades in order to rectify our
vision. When we have learned to
leok at the truth clear eyed, we shall
ceme to know that the only good
on earth and the only real life is this
faith and practice of unselfishness,
brotherly kindness, sympathy. He
who eats up his little neighbor and
shoulders the poor off the pike; he
who grabs and holds of this world
enough to gild his shell from heel
to crest—he shall pass away as doth
a shadow. But the little woman at
the jail door shall stay. For now
abideth faith, hope, love; and the
greatest of these is love.
+ * os

“And as soon as her grandmother
and his father’s uncle are dead,” said
a young woman to me this morning,
“and that won’t be but a few years
from now, they come into an inherit-
ance of five million dollars!” She
was visibly agitated with the splen-
dor of the story. “That’s a calami-
ty,” I said. “What’s a calamity?”
“The five million.” “Yes, to the peo-
ple who don’t get it!” she said
promptly, and with evident convic-
tion. “No,” said I, “it’s a calamity
to the man it falls on. It’s bound to
flatten him more or less.” But she
shut her teeth and shook her head.
Poor little woman! Why is it so
many people in these billion-dollar
days, when million dollar things are
se cheap and nasty, are still wor-
shipping million-dollar things? Here
is a young woman whose young
husband has a fine earning power,
enough for their own use, some to
lay up and some to give away—a
good, comfortable, independent _ liv-
ing—and she growing wild-eyel
about five million dollars! Why
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a comfortable living to live in? Do
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the dime museum? Do we wish we
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load of five million dollars? Who
wants to be uncomfortable when it is
cheaper to be comfortable?

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say: “T’ll risk it. I know people who
carry off millions as gracefully as
you and I carry off thousands.” May-
be so. But it is a dangerous propo-
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pleasure of life, the keen relish, the
finer soul enjoyment will be squeez-
ed out when the five million falls
on us. One-half the zest of living
comes from the fight to maintain a
normal life. Suppose you don’t have
to fight. It looks good; but is it
good? A thousand men can success-
fully fight the wolf from the kitchen
door where one can fight an easy
chair in the parlor. Do you know
any easy-chair men? I do, a hun-
dred of them. Out of the bunch only
one or two can smile without crank-
ing up for the effort. And as for a
woman smothered in an easy chair,
Heaven protect us! I wouldn’t give
an average dairy maid for a whole
cargo of them. I can not think of
anything more utterly rubbish except
the woman who has worshipped the
easy chair she never got and fretted
herself sick about it. I suppose all
the Lord ever lets these two classes
live for is to bridge over one gen-
eration, in hopes of something bet-
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Bad Lands of South Dakota—to hold
two better sections of the world to-
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Things To Forget and Things To
Remember.

The things we ought to forget are
the things we should remember, as
a thousand to one. Think what a
great waste basket your head would
be if you remembered everything
that had happened to you or that
you had said or the rest of the world
had said to you! I know a man with
a phenomenal memory—so phenome-
nal that he can duplicate a two hours’
conversation carried on at Elijah
Wyman’s general store at Pocassett
Corners, Me., forty-three years ago
the seventeenth day of last February.
Worse than that, he remembers the
family history, in its divers ramifica-
tions, of the seven men who did the
conversing. And, worst of all, he
insists on telling the whole thing to
me just as I am rushing in copy for
the last form at § p. m of publication
day.

When I have shaken off my z00d
friend of the good memory, and have
time to stop to breathe and pray, |
say: “Tord, I thank Thee that I can’t
remember some things that are past.”

There are two good things to for-
get, namely: The great things you
have done and the mean things oth
ers have done to you. The man who

often sits down to run up the list of ||

smart things he has said or the good
deeds he has done or ithe great bar-
gains he has driven will tire the rest
of the world and lose time he might
well employ adding to the sum of
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The man who remembers his mis-
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of them, comes to be one of the
most disagreeable snags on the
earth’s surface. Better a man who

praises himself than one who pities
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and bacon, the leaky log cabin and
the genera] poverty of his youth, do
you suppose the Lord Almighty and
the American people would have call-
ed on him to save the country? Not
much! countries
are not absorbed in saving their own
bacon, nor im
bacon.

People who save

whining over their
They are so busy
folks that they forget
all the forgetworthy things that are
past. They throw them off as the
life-saving crew throw off their over-
toats, and “press forward.”

spoiled

saving other

IT knew a woman once, a farmer’s
wife, who had about as good rea-
son for pitying herself as had any
woman with nine children, on a four-
hundred acre farm ten miles from
town. But I know from __ personal
observation that when any neighbor
or her baby was sick in the middle
of the night, or at any other hour,
there was a shout to Reuben to
hitch up and drive for Aunt Sarah—
this farmer’s wife. Why should a
whole neighborhood’s
to Aunt Sarah in an emergency? Be-
cause she was wont to harp on her
hardships and pity herself?

No, indeed! If she hadn't pitied
other people more than herself, she
wouldn’t have died for other people

eight years ago. She would have
lived to a green old age like the

people who spare themselves for the
love and pity of themselves.

If somebody in this world hadn't
forgotten unto them-
selves, you and I wouldn’t have such
a soft, easy snap of life as we are
now

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“Yes,” answered Mrs. Torkins sad-
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24

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE NEW BOOK CLERK.

 

Gertrude Describes the Beauties of
Recent Fiction.
Written for the Tradesman.

Another clerk was needed in the
book store. Lottie was away on va-
cation and some of the other clerks
were troubled with “that tired feel-
ing,” which kept them out of the
store for numerous days and_ half
days.

“If I could get a bright
girl,” said the book
chum, the grocer, “it might
trade at the fiction counter.’

young
man to his
help

“You can get girls by the car-
load,” replied the grocer. “I adver-
tised for a cashier last week and

they came in droves.”

“Competent girls?” asked the book
man.

“Every last one was
leave it to them.”

“Any girl can handle
mented the book man. “It is dif-
ferent in the book business. I must
have a clerk who knows something
about books.”

“You go up to the public library,”
advised the grocer, “and note the
girls lugging away tons of fiction,
and you'll conclude ‘that all girls
know something about books. If you
wanted a girl who could cook a
square meal it would be different.”

“You’re a grouch,” observed the
book man. “I don’t blame girls for
not wanting to cook all their lives.
The modern young man wants a wife
to run the front end of the house
and not the kitchen. He can get a
new cook if things go wrong at the
range, but he can not get a new
wife without going through the di-
vorce courts and paying alimony. I
think I'll advertise for a bright young
girl who knows something of liter-
ature.”

“You'll find one, all
the grocer.

So the advertisement appeared in
the morning newspaper, and by 10
o’clock the book man’s store looked
like a millinery sale. He chose a
pretty young girl with blue ribbons
tied into the braids over her ears
and at the back of her neck. She
wore a fetching white gown and
white shoes, and had a nice complex-
ion and spirited blue eyes. Her
name, she said, was Gertrude, and
she seemed to be a little bit afraid
of the book man. When he talked
to her she hung her head becom-
ingly and answered in sentences of
two words.

“You know something about fic-
tion?” he asked.

ees, te”

“Have read all the best sellers and
some of the others?”

"Ves, si”

“Well,” said the merchant, “we
have some very nice customers here.
and you must be careful of your per-
sonal appearance and be sure that
you know what is in stock, so you
can instantly put your hand on any
volume asked for. Cam you size a
book up quick so you can tell what’s
m it?”

“Yes, sit.”

“You are a rather pretty girl,” con-

an expert—

cash,” com-

right,” said

tinued the book man, foolishly, “and |

 

 

 

ought to make a hit at this coun-
ter.”

From that instant Gertrude was no
longer afraid of the merchant. You
tell a girl—especially a young girl
in white, with blue ribbons tied into
her braids over her ears and at the
back of her neck—that you consider
her pretty, and you’ve done some-
thing. From that moment she will
lord it over you. This is a bit of
wisdom pitched in gratis, and does
not add to the price of the story.

When the book man_ deposited
Gertrude behind the fiction counter
and went about his business, she
looked in the mirror panel in the
wall and sighed. Gertrude had been
reared iin the tenement district,
where three rooms, one outside and
two opening on a court, rent for
$5.50 a month, and her playground
had been the street. By strong en-
deavor she had reached the eighth
grade at the ward school.

Probably on the theory that the
blackest soil grows the whitest li-
lies, Gertrude had grown into a
beauty, noted all through the pre-
cinct for her peachy complexion and
the ease with which she assimilated
the peculiar forms of the English
language which thrive there. She
knew the batting average by heart,
and could distinguish one ball play-
er from another when their pic-
tures appeared in the sporting pa-
pers, which, in the language of the
tenement district, is going some for
a pir. -

When the book man walked away
one of Gertrude’s chums advanced
slyly to the fiction counter. The chum
was also clad in white, but the
bunches of ribbon displayed over the
ears and at the back of the neck

‘were a cherry red.

whose

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must ’a’

“Gee!” cried the
name was Estella,
catched on.”

“Sure,” said Gertrude, “an’ I catch
six bones a week. I guess _ that’s
pretty poor for a starter.”

“You look just swell behind there,”
ventured Estella.

“Oh, I ain’t the worst,” replied
Gertrude. “The old man said I was
a nice looker, and if he’s got a son
with a roll of wealth big enough for
an auto T’ll marry into the family
and be his fair-haired little cheild.
Why not?”

“Gee!” said Estella.
a chanst like that.”

“There’s His Nobs rubberin’ this
way,” said Gertrude. “Get busy with
some of them books, and he’ll think
I’m doing business. Do you know
what the big sellers is?”

“No,” said. Estella, “I don’t.
is they?”

“He asked me if I could dope ’em
out,” said Gertrude, “and I said sure
I could. I could, too, if I knowed
what they was,”

“There must be some biz cellers
under these blocks,” suggested Es-
tella.

“Perhaps he meant some of the
Emporiums down on Monroe,” mus-
ed Gertrude. “Anyway, I’m going
to keep me mitt in the air to catch
it if it comes my way.”

“You must be awfully educated to

chum,
“you

?

“TI wish I had

What

get a job like this,” said Estella,
looking enviously at the new clerk.

“Uh-hu,” said Gertrude. “I’ve got
to know all about friction.”

“What’ll Jimmie say?”

“They shake Jimmies off the lem-
on trees down my way,” said Ger-
trude.

Now it chanced that Estella want-
ed Jimmie for her very own, and the
words of her chum pleased her much,
for she could stop at the plumber
shop on the way home and tell Jim,
mie what Gertrude had said, with as
many things as she could think of
while on the way added.

Having this incentive for haste, she
was soon out of the store and on her
way to destroy the peace of mind
of the plumber’s apprentice, giving
place at the fiction counter to a cold
and distant lady who adored the
Higher Criticism on Soul Value, to
paring a lecture on Soul Value, to
be delivered before such members of
her charity class as could be coaxed
together on a summer day.

“I would like,” said the cold and
distant lady, “to examine a set of
Spencer.”

Gertrude sparred for time. She
didn’t know Spencer—not Herbert
If she had she could have explained
that he wasn’t in her row and the
critical lady would have gone away.
But there was a Spencer om one of
the league teams, Gertrude didn’t re-
member which one. Perhaps the
lady wanted to know about him.

“What’s his front name?” she ask-
ed. “There’s so many Spencers in
the leagues.”

The cold and distant lady put up
her eyeglasses and surveyed Ger-
trude with a frost in her eyes which
well nigh broke the lenses.

“Herbert,” she said, icily.

Gertrude ran her hands along the
backs of volumes by Mrs. E. Burke
Collins, Emma Howard Wight, Mary
J. Holmes and others.

“We're just out of Spencer,” she
said, finally. “He’s been making

Peood lately.”

The author of the coming lecture
on Soul Value picked up her skirts
and strode out of the store. Ger-
trude turned to the mirror and smil-
ed at herself,

Then a June bride stopped at the
counter and asked for “Love in the
Twilight; or, How Gwendolyn Made
the Mistake of Her Life.”

“Sure we’ve got it,” said Gertrude.
“Say, if I could swing my  word-
sounder like that girl does in the
third chapter I’d marry a dook if me
meal ticket got away.”

“Indeed!” said the June bride.

“Yes, indeedy,” said Gertrude.

The June bride walked out.

“Have you  Sullivan’s operas 2?”
asked a long-haired man, smiling at
the pretty girl.

“Down to the next counter,” said
Gertrude. “If I had to handle the
works of that mutt I’d get on a trol-
ley and ride away. That old four
flusher! Say, if Corbett—”

“Not the fighter, the musician,” ex-
plained the customer.

If the clerk had been a boy, or
the girl had been ugly, he would—
“But he remained and explained to
the girl what he wanted, and finally

 

 

went off to the right counter. The
manager came down the aisle and
stopped to look at the girl.

“How are you making it?” he
asked.
“Fine,” said the girl. “I’ve follow-
ed the play as far as I’ve got. What’s
Boston going to do with Detroit to-
day? I’ve got a quarter bet she
leaves ’em dead on the track.”
The manager did not reply. He
looked at Gertrude pityingly and
went and found the book man. When
Gertrude received a week’s salary,
two hours after her engagement, and
went her way, the grocer aippeared
at the book man’s elbow.

“How’s the new clerk?” he asked.
“How does it seem to hire girls by
the size of their ribbons and the
peaches and cream in their faces?
Say, old man, you’re up against the
old proposition. Let your wife
come here and hire the next clerk.”
“The next clerk,” ‘said the book
man, “will pass an examination be-
fore Ambrose Bierce and William
Wallace Cook. Gertrude’s a peach,
all right, and she’s wise to the ways
of the world, but. she knows about
as much of books as she does of the
fourth dimension.”

Alfred B. Tozer.

It will take more than talk and
tears to tear down sin’s battle-
ments.

 

 

 

 

 

THE HERKIMER—«European”

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

Electric light, steam heat, running hot
and cold water in every room, private and
public tiled baths, telephones and all mod-
ern conveniences. Rates 50c a day up,

 

 

 

The
Eternal Question

Where are you stopping?
"Tis a decided point in

your favor if your answer
is

Hotel Livingston
Grand Rapids

 

 

 

Errors

are rectified—yes, and often
prevented—by the use of the
telephone.

No business man can af-
ford to be without one.

“Use the Bell”

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

25

 

Complaint Over Freight Service on
G. R. & I.

Petoskey, July 14—As a traveling
salesman who derives his livelihood
from the sale of goods and naturally
wishes to increase his sales to the
greatest possible extent, so as to se-
cure the largest possible measure of
_returns for himself, I desire to enter
a protest against the reprehensible
manner in which the G. R. & I. is
treating the retail dealers and con-
sumers of Northern Michigan during
the present summer season.

Formerly the road carried three or
four refrigerator cars containing
perishable goods on the night train
north bound from Grand Rapids. It
threw one car off at Cadillac, another
car off at Traverse City, another car
off at Petoskey and the fourth car
it turned over to the Duluth, South
Shore & Atlantic Railway at Macki-
naw City. While this service was
given I was able to sell one house
on Mackinac Island $2,000 worth of
fruits and vegetables every ten days.
This season I have not been able to
sell that house a cent’s worth of
goods because the cars that should
come North so as to arrive early in
the morning are now made a part
of the through freight and frequently
arrive in Petoskey as late as 4 o’clock
in the afternoon—too late to be of
any service to grocers for that day.
Considering the prompt service the
resort region is now getting from
Chicago by means of the boat lines,
Grand Rapids is very seriously hand-
icapped and the G. R. & I. is losing
thousands of dollars in freight every
month which it could just as well
have if it cared anything at all for
the interests of its patrons, which it
does not appear to do. In fact, the
road appears to be run with a view
to seeing how little freight traffic it
can handle instead of how much; it
appears to be run with a view to
seeing how inconvenient it can make
it for its patrons instead of how con-
venient; it appears to be run with a
view to seeing how much loss and
annoyance it can cause its customers
instead of how much profit and pleas-
ure it can give them. Just as long
as the road pursues its present policy,
which is not only short-sighted for
itself but ruinous to the people of
Northern Michigan, it will necessa-
rily show a falling off in receipts. It
can not be otherwise because, in the
nature of things, the rights of both
parties must be considered in order
to produce satisfactory results. The
G. R. & I. at the present time has
a quarrel on with nearly every town
in Northern Michigan, and any man
who raises a protest to any official
or the road is damned so promptly
and so effectively that he usually con-
cludes that silence is the best policy.
The result is that many merchants
along the line of the G. R. & I. are
selling out their stocks and closing
out their business so as to get on a
line of road where men are treated
decently and goods are handled
promptly.

I have worked ten or fifteen years
to build up a business for myself and
my house, but I am thoroughly dis-
couraged over the inactivity and the
opposition with which I meet in

 

dealing with the G. R. & I. people.
The moment I say a word I am told
that I am a kicker; that the people
of Petoskey are cranks and freaks
and that their sole occupation is
hammering the G. R. & I.; that the
railroad made the town and turned
a wilderness into a thrifty city; that
a continuance of the present policy
of continually kicking against the
read will result in the G. R. '& T.
pulling up its tracks and going to
some other town where the people
appreciate railway service and are
willing to meet a railroad in the spir-
it of fairness.

Of course all this is hot air, but it
tends to show the policy of the rail-
road. Instead of meeting criticism
fairly and frankly and in a co-opera-
tive spirit, it is met with rebuff and
insult and abuse.

The only official in the system who
appears to appreciate the seriousness
or the situation is Supt. Hunter, who
has always met us in a spirit of fair-
ness and would probably reverse the
present policy of the road if it were
ia his power to do so. Traveler.

—_————
. Tribute Tio Traveling Men.

Every young man, in preparing for
a business career, should spend two
or three years on the road as a trav-
eling salesman. Some of the most
successful men in business to-day be-
gan as traveling men. We never see
a traveling salesman that we do not
admire his easy grace, his politeness
and his familiarity with men and
conditions.

Traveling men are nearly always
well informed; nearly all of them
acquire an education from traveling
around, and rubbing up against
strange men. And an education of
this kind is better than a college ed-
ucation for practical purposes.

Many years ago a joke book was
issued, purported to contain the
“jokes” told by traveling salesmen.
Traveling salesmen are not given to
telling “jokes.” They are serious, and
well behaved. The notion that they
are noted cut-ups originated with the
joke book issued many years ago, and
which is still offered at railway
newstands. Traveling men are near-
ly all married, and we have noted
that they are nearly ail good hus-
bands. In nine cases out of ten
when a traveling man goes on a va-
cation trip he takes his wife with
him. Take a long ride in a Pullman,
and lounge about the smoking room,
and you will note that the cleverest
m@ you meet are commercial trav-
elers. Therefore, if you want to give
your son an excellent business train-
ing, get him a job as a_ traveling
salesman. He will acquire  steadi-
ness, common sense, business ability
and integrity, for a commercial trav-
eler soon learns the importance of
giving everybody a square deal.—
Atchison Globe.

ncn mm
Gripsack Brigade.

A. L. Fisher, of Alma, has gone to
Jackson to accept a position as Mich-
igan representative for the Reliance
Corset Co. Before taking his own
territory, however, he will travel for
a short time in Iowa.

It is to be hoped that there will be
a large meeting of traveling men at

 

 

the Morton House Saturday evening
of this week to make the preliminary

arrangements to attend the annual
convention at Manistee in August.
Considerable interest appears to be

manifested in the meeting and it is
expected that from twenty-five to
fifty Grand Rapids traveling men can
be induced to join in the undertaking.
The meeting will be called to order
at 7:30 p. m. and ought not to con-
sume more than thirty minutes of
time.

Some of the older men now on the
road may remember Fred _ Sellick,
who was probably the best dressed
salesman who ever traveled in Michi-
gan. His plug hat was always in evi-
dence. His laundry was invariably
immaculate and his pointed-toed
shoes were never defiled by either

mud or dust. Fred sold tobacco
most of his life and died about a
dozen years ago out in one of the

Mountain States. He traveled a year
or so for Hawkins & Perry and
when it was time to settle up there
was the usual overdraft. Mr. Haw-
kins suggested that the overdraft be
embodied in a note, which  Sellick
was very willing to do. Four or five
years later Mr. Hawkins offered the
note at half price to a friend of Sel-
lick’s. The friend subsequently met
Sellick and told him what Hawkins
had done, remarking, “If you would
like to have me buy the note for you
I will be glad to do you the favor.”
“No,” said Fred, “don’t buy the note
on my account. I never intend to
pay it.” A few weeks afterward Sel-
lick met Mr. Hawkins on the street
and remarked, “Hawkins, I
stand you are

noite.

under-
trying to sell my
Now, you just go ahead ana
sell it and you and I will go in the
business. I'll make ’em- and
sell ’em.”
nn nee

Bound Tio Make Good Times.

“Gentlemen,” said a man on the
rear platform of the street car to five
or six others of us, “there are to be
no more hard times. The last of the
panic has vanished.”

you'll

“How do you make that out?” was
asked.

“I saw Bryan at Lincoln and had
a long talk with him. In fact, I went
there for the purpose. We sat down
like two old chums, and I told him
that times were so tight in the East
that many of us couldn’t get a glass
of beer a week. He is going to es-
tablish one thousand free breweries
as soon as he -+akes his seat.

“Then I told him about the high
price of meat. He doesn’t eat it, and
had heard nothing about it. He
promptly said, ‘however, that he
would put the best porterhouse steaks
into the market from his famm in Ne-
braska at 8 cents a pound. He said
7 at first, but I told him we'd gladly
pay eight.

“Then I told him how potatoes and
other vegetables had advanced, and
he promised to look into the matter
at once. I suggested the hanging of
about a hundred farmers and two
hundred grocers as a great moral les-
son, and he said that he would think
of it seriously.

“Then I told him that shoes had
jumped 50 cents a pair in the last

 

year, and he could hardly believe it.
He is going to furnish a million cow-
hides and open a hundred shoe fac-
tories and you'll see the price drop
to a dollar a pair.

“And, lastly, I told him about the
scarcity of money with us, and he
made a memorandum on a piece of
paper that he was to send a hun-
dred million dollars East next day
and have trusty agents see that we
all got our share. Whoop! Hurrah!
Anybody that don’t want to live now
ought to be kicked to death by a
mule,”

—_>->___.
Something Else.

They were waiting on a corner for
the street car when the man with the
folded newspaper turned to the man
with the eye-glasses and queried:

“Well, how do you like the Denver
nomination?”

“Um?

“Going

was the response.
to be a strong candidate,
don’t you think?”

“Umi”

“And I shouldn't be in the
surprised to see him elected.”

“Um!

“In fact, I find lots of people who
think it’s time for a change. Per-
haps you think that way yourself?”

Soin G!

least

“At any rate, it’s going to be a hot
campaign from now. on, and, of
course, every lover of his country will
be interested.”

"Um!

“As to Roosevelt, sir-—as to Roose-
velt, while I have no particular fault
to find with him—”

“Are you speaking to me, sir?” ask-
ed the “Um!” man, as he suddenly
woke up.

“Speaking to you! Why, I’ve been
talking to you for the last half hour.”

“About what?”

“About the Denver nominations.”

“Oh—politics! I’ve got a boil on
my leg as big as a teacup, a lawsuit
coming off this afternoon and my
wife packed up this morning and left
the house. Talk to me in a soothing
way or shut up.”

——_+++____
The Drug Market.

Gum Opium—Is steady.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—There will be a bark sale
in Amsterdam Thursday, but it is not
believed there will be any change in
prices.

Cocaine—Has been
per ounce.

Gurana—The larger part of the
stock is held by one dealer, who has
advanced the price 25c per ounce.

Grains of Paradise—Have been ad-
vanced on account of small supply.

Castor Oil--Has declined 4c per
gallon.

Canada Balsam Fir—Is still in a
very strong position. Stocks are
light and prices higher.

Oil Lemon—Is weak and tending
lower.

American Saffron—Is
and advancing.

Gum Camphor—Is weak and tend-
ing lower.

advanced 25c¢

very firm

Quince Seed—Is in better supply
and tending lower.
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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.

Michigan State Peeemecentiont Associa-
tion.
President—J. E. Bogart, Detroit.

First Vice-President—D. B. Perry, Bay

City.
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. Wallace,

Kalamazoo; M. A. Jones, Lansing; Julius |

Greenthal, Detroit; C. H. Frantz, Bay
City. and Owen Raymo, Wayne.

 

How a New Drug Store Made Good.

In a certain Western Massachu-
setts town it would be difficult to
walk two blocks in any direction and
not encouniter a drug store. In the
opinion of many of the druggists the
becoming over-
In fact, the number of the
pharmacies was a universal topic of
conversation.

Being an advertising man and a
resident of the city, I naturally took
an interest in retail conditions. One
day last fall in glancing through the
local paper T noted with  astonish-
ment a half page advertisement her-
alding the advent of a new drug
Following up the advertise-
ment came neatly printed opening
announcements through the mail.

The general tone of both adver-
tisement and literature seemed to be
in keeping with a first-class retail
store so I awaited with keen interest
the opening night and determined to
keep track of the progress of a store
which had jumped into the very teeth
of competition, and of the methods
inaugurated for attracting anid build-
ing up trade.

This I have done during the past
few months and at the present writ-
ing the store is doing the largest
business in the city, with receipts on
the increase. My purpose in writing
this article is to acquaint every re-
tail dealer with the advertising and
selling methods that pushed this
store to the front in the face of such
adverse trade conditions so that they
may take them to heart and adapt
them to their individual needs.

business was fast
done.

store.

If a new store can assert itself
in so short a time and in spite of
keen competition, it certainly lies
within the power of the retail drug-
gist who is already established to
make his store the leading pharmacy
in his community.

It may be well to state that among
other obstacles in the path of the
mewcomer was the outspoken oppo-
sition of the trade. And this oppo-
sition was duly made known to the
customers of the opposing force.

The quick, well-planned prepara-

 

 

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‘tion of the new arrival, however, im-
‘pressed the local dealers with the
fact that they must gird their loins
and prepare for an arduous struggle.

Opening night finally arrived, and
'so heralded was this important ‘hap-
pening that even the people in the
surrounding villages were much jm-
‘pressed and at once made plans to
attend.

Before entering the store I made
a mental note to the effect that the
start was well made and an important
item had been considered: there was
light and plenty of it. Nothing hyp-
notizes the people and draws them
into a store so much as strong white
light. Over each window was a pow-
erful are light, iNwminating not onil'y
the window but also the sidewalk,
and the people were attracted like
moths to a flame.

The window displays were — strik-
ing, inasmuch as they consisted sole-
ly of masses of flowers.

A most attractive sign saying
tersely, “Blank, the Druggist,’ com-
pleted the external appearance of the
store.

Entering the store you caught the
straims of an orchestra, and were at
once cheered by the radiance of the
lights, which thoroughly lighted
every nook and corner-of the sitore—
a condition lacking in not a few drug
establishments.

The neatness and method of store
arrangement immediately caught the
eye. The floor space is about 21x
65 feet. The soda, cigar, candy,
Soap and perfume, accessory and pre-
scription departments were not jum-
bled in a confused mass, but were
distinctly separated. Neat metal
signs overhead told the customers
generally just what was on sale in
each department.

Each lady entering the store re-
ceived complimentarily a neat quar-
ter-pound package of chocolates, and
the gentlemen were presented with a
ismall leather match holder, andthe
general imterest which was display-
ed over these gifts suggests that
every druggist could occasionally
give out souvenirs and profit there-
by.

There was one thing noticeable
which undoubtedly has had much to
do with the store’s success—the en-
thusiasm and courtesy of the clerks.
When you expressed a wish to see
some particular thing, the clerk did
not hand it owt with a few terse
remarks, and then gaze indifferently
toward the street. No, just the op-
posite. Every clerk seemed to take
|4 personal interest in the customer
and freely explained all he knew
about the merits of the article. The

| cigar salesman told me an interesting

 

little story about a §-cent cigar with,
he claimed, a 10-cent quality, and up-
en concluding the purchase, he  in-
formed me, to my astonishment, that
I would be wise if I took advantage
of a special sale of a high-grade
soap that was in progress that even-
ing. Very few times have I heard
a clerk make such or a similar sug-
gestion. But clerks of that caliber
draw and hold trade—a personal ele-
ment that is at once a powerful fac-
tor.

 

Advertising will surely create
trade, but half-hearted indifferent
clerks will as surely drive it away.

We have now covered three essen-
tials of successful store operation:
Good light, well arranged stock and
enthusiastic salesmen.

Extreme neatness is one of the
istore’s most sitriking points. How
ofien have you seen sloppy soda
counters with unwashed receptacles
and show cases that needed dusting
or cleaning, dirty floors, counter dis-
plays arranged unattractively and
other little evidences of careless
management. You may think that
these things do not matiter, but nev-
ertheless they are important factors
in holding trade. The average per-
son dislikes to make his purchases
in a store that is not kept up to the
highest notch of cleanliness. One
block from our druggist is another
pharmacy—the Jargest in tthe town—
which has lost, to my knowledge,
five customers because of the sloppi-
mess of the soda counter. The stale
smells emamating from ithis source
were at last happily noticed by the
proprietor, and the condition was
corrected; still the first order of
things has made its impression, and
will probably hurt the store for some
time to come.

The new druggist is a believer in
signs and frequent window displays.
These contribute much to the store’s
attractiveness. A store is like an ad-
vertisement in some respects—if the
windows are ever changed or
changed at long intervals, the public
cease to notice them, just as they
stop reading an advertisement which
is always the same. The window
displays and signs are so pleasing
and changed so often, that I always
make it a point to examine them, a
thing I do not do with many other
stores. As I am an average human,
[ believe other persons do the same.
I know I always have company
when I stand in front of the win-
dow. These displays have a more
significant value than merely geff¥ng
a person inside. They force the
drug store on the mind of the pub-
lic. When you think of drug
stores, you will think of Blank’s, sim-
ply because ‘he has impressed his
store upon your mind miore forcibly
than his competitors have. Space
does not permit the analyzing of
each display, but let it suffice to say
that any druggist can secure attrac-
tive and wnusual window displays
with very little effort. So, then, splen-
did windows and signs changed
often are two more business-getters.

In the matter of special sales this
druggist is a leader. There does: not
paiss a day, I believe, that some arti-

cle does not feel the slash of the

 

cut-price knife. Combination cigar
sales are popular with the men.
Candy, soap and perfumes are reg-
ularly cut, as are patent medicines
and proprietary articles. It is sur-
prising that more druggists do not
get up fine special sale campaigns
when their trade-drawing properties
are si generally known.

Recently there was inaugurated by
the store a voting contest for the
seven most popular school teachers,
the winner. to receive a free trip to
Washington, D. C., which is proving
immensely popular. Bulletins out-
side the store recording the progress
of the voting are eagerly read and
general interest in the store is arous-
ed. Popular schemes of this order
possess great advertising value.
Last, but by no means least. is
the continuous fire of newspaper ad-
vertisin — catchy advertising chang-
ed daily.

If this talk will stimulate you drug-
gists, and you other retail men for
that matter, into planning for more
trade it has not been written in vain.
—Brainis.

Not Bigoted.
Quoth the married philosopher,
with an introspective smile, “I think
my wife is an angel. She thinks I
am a brute. Possibly both of us
may be mistaken.”

 

 

134-136 E. Fulton St.

Grand Rapids Stationery Co.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

es
Local Option

— Liquor
Records

For Use in
Local Option
Counties

We manufacture complete
Liquor Records for use in
local option counties, pre-
pared by our attorney to
conform to the State law.
Each book contains 400
sheets—200 originals and
200 duplicates. Price
$2.50, including 50 blank
affidavits.

Send in your orders early
to avoid the rush.

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

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_WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Acidum Copa
Aceticum ....... 6 . copaibe foo tea s
Bengzoicum, Ger.. 70@ 76|Erigeron |_.__||2 398@2 50
Boracie ......... 12| Evechthitos |... 10 00g1 10
Carbolicum : 26@ 29|/Gaultheria .... 1)! 3 50@4 00
Citricum .......; 50@ 55/14G ee
yeranium ..... 75
Hydrochlor ...... 3 5 a. Sem nat 70@ 75
Psa teeeees a 5 - Hedeoma ....... 3 00@3 50
Phosphorium, dil. us > fatodoks Se 30 3 30
cylicum ...... 4imons .... 30@

Sulphuricum ....1%@ 5 oe le cent a
Tannicum ...... . %@ 85 "2 haces Ge
To tato 380 ° Monta Verid ...7 00@7 25
pases orrhuae gal -1 60@1 85
a a ee re ea = 3 50

A ua, i... 4 6} [VIVE 22. cee eeeees
ia 20 deg... 6 g| Picis Liquida . 10@ 12
Carbonas ........ 18@ 15|Picis Liquida gal. @ 40
Chloridum ...... 12@ 14 poe ee eS 00
osmarini ...... 00

Aniline Rosae o2 ....... 6 50@7 00
Black ...........3 00@2 25 BHCcinE |. ese, 60g 45
— ° 1 ° Sabina ea. 90@1 00
Yellow .....25112 60@8 00 | Sanectras 7. 99!

Sinapis, ess, oz.. 65
ai OO ak re: 1 10@1 20
Thyme .........: 40 50
Juniperus ..... i) 10 Thyme, opt 1 60
gee «++ 80 85 Theobromas ..... 15 20
aisamum

Coneine See u cess a . o Potassium
Setabi Gacada te an Bi-Carb ......... 15@ 18
’ Bichromate ..... 18 15
Tolutan ......... 40@ 45 Bromide sae 188 a
ortex POE ee 12 15
Abies, Canadian. 18 | Chlorate 3g 14
Oe 20 |Cyanide ............ 80@ 40
Cinchona Filava.. Hej lodide «... 1. 50@2 60
Buonymus atro.... 60} Potassa, Bitart pr 30@ 82
Myrica Cerifera.. 20 | Potass Nitras opt 7@ 10
Prunus Virgini.. 15 | Potass Nitras 6@ 8
uillaia, gr’d. 15| Prusstate ....... 23@ 26
Se f . 26 24| Sulphate po 15@18

assafras...po 2 po... 2... 7
indus ........... 20
Extractum Sans
Glycyrrhiza QGla.. 24 80] Aconitum ...... 20 25
Glycyrrhiza, po.. 28 S0; Althae 21.2... ... 30 35
Haematox ...... il 12; Anchusa ........ “ 12
Haematox, Is.... 13 14; Arum po ........ 25
Haematox, %s .. 14 16| Calamus ........ 20 40
Haematox, %s .- 16 17 — po 15.. a a n
yehrrhiza pv

Ferru
Carbonate Precip. —_ a5/ Hvgrastis, Canaua  @2 50
Citrate and Quina 20

te Sol 5 Hellebore, Alba. 12 15
Sou sauiaees a 49 | Mula, po ........ 18@ 22
Solut. Chloride .. 15 Ipecac, DO ....... 2 00@2 19

Iris plox ........ 85@ 40

Sulphate, com’ .. 2 | Jala . oF 25@ 80
— -— by ‘ tae ie oo 2 g =
r cwt. .. '
euiptale, pure ©: UT) Bgagensiiem 7 Haha

Flora Ot Cat .. 2:3. 1 00@1 25
Arnica. .......... 2 256 | Rhef, pv. ....:... ih: 00
Anthemis ....... 680 60 | Spigella .... 6.5). 45@1 50
Matricaria ...... 80@ 385 oo po 18 sae 2

Serpentaria ..... f

Folla Senega .......... 85@ 9
Barosma ........ 40@ 45] Smilax, offi’s H.. @ 48
Cassia Aoutifol, Smilax, M ....... @ 2

Tinnevelly .... 4 30 | Scillae po 45 20@ 25
Cassia, Acutifol.. 25 80 | Symplocarpus @ 25
Salvia officinalis, Valeriana Eng. @ 25

%s and M%e .. 18 20 | Valeriana, Ger. 15@ 20
Uva Urai <:..... 8 10 eres ea ae bs

ngiber jf ....... :

Gummi
aceite Bie: gt aie

cacia, 3nd p :
Acacia, - Po wii Garis) ae i
Acacia, au sts. 18 RB igs grav 4 8
Acacia, po. ..... 45 65 Car 4 oo 15 18
oe Me FS cerdamon .....- a 90
Aloe, Socotri ... 48 | Coriandrum |... 12@ 14
Ammoniac ...... 55@ 60 aa. eae

ydonium .......
ee ae = = Chenopodium : is@ 80
Catechu, ls .... 18 | Dipterix Odorate. 80@1 00
Catechu. ks .... 14|Foeniculum ..... @ 18
foe Oe 1. 1g|Foenugreek, po.) 7@ 3
Gomphorae Pint 70@ s0|Edni ............. 4g 6
Eu horbium : @ 40 Lint, grd. bbl. 2% 3 6
Galbanum ..... i a 00 —, ees Le °
Gamboge ....po..1 25@1 35 . ariaris Canan sa 6
Gaulacum ..po 85 85) 6 apa ee . SA
King ...... po 45¢ 45 Sinaois —. ta
Batic ...........
Myrrh ...... po 60 45 Spirit
Cele ete 50@6 75 piritus
Shellac ......... 45@ 55) frumenti W D. 2 00@2 5v
Shellac, bleached 60@ 65/Frumenti. ....... 25@1 60
Tragacanth asad 70@1 00 Tes iperis o oT ; ae .
uniperis Co. ....

Herba Saccharum N 1 90@2 10
Absinthium ...... 46@ 60/Spt Vini Galli ..1 75@6 50
Eupatorium os pk 30; Vini Oporto ....1 25@2 00
Lobelia ..... os pk = Vini Alba... 2... 1 25@2 00
Majorium ..oz pk 8
Mentra Pip. os pk 23 Sponges
Mentra Ver. oz Bs 26 . .

Hue oes oz pk 89| Florida sheers’ wool
po ig at deg ne na
Thymus - 08 P' pe
carriage ....... 3 60@3 75
— Velv wi? So i.
wool, carriage 0

Calcined, Pat.. 80 | isxtra yellow sbeeps’
Carbonate, Pat. 20 1 i @1 25
Carbonate, K-M 20 wool carriage .. 5
Carbonate 30 ae eee wool, an
antes carriage ...... :

Hard, slate use.. @1 00

Cleum Yellow Reef, fo~
Absinthium .....4 5 00 slate use a @1 40
a eoneies Aon ee 2% 8 3

mys Ams? Syrups
TS Ee eS 1 70 y
Auranti Cortex. 3 ts 2 85/ Acacia .......... @ 50
Bereamil  .....4%. 4 00! Auranti Cortey 50
Cajiputi &........ 90 | Zingiber ....... 50
Serle wee as ok 10 1 - I - Sea -

doaeeacecue erri fom .......-
Chenopadii_ ......3 4 400 Rhei Arom ..... 60
oo me * ior 1 = Smilax Offi’s 50 =

e See ee a
Conium Mae ..., Seo to] Ceetaad ous @ 60

 

porte. Co ee. 50
OMmtaAn ......... 50
Brena Vit€.::.. 50
Tinctures
Anconitum Nap’ sR 60
Anconitum Nap’sF 50
PIO ac cccl ee... 60
ya ee 50
Aloes & Myrrh 60
WIGa 428... 50
Atrope Belladonna 60
Auranti Cortex.. 50
Benzoin ......... 60
Benzoin Co. ..... 50
Barosma ........ 5
Cantharides ..... 75
Capsicum ....... 50
rdamon ...... 75
Cardamon Co 75
Castor . 26.26... 1 06
Catechu ........ 5
Cinchona ....... 50
Cinchona Co. .... 60
Columbia :...... 50
Cubebae ........ 50
Cassia Acutifol . 50
Cassia Acutifol 50
Digitalis ....... 50
Wirmot . 3 226... 50
Ferri Chioridum 35
Gentian ......5.. 50
Gentian Co ..... 60
Guigce 2 ....6.., 50
Guiaca ammon 60
Hyoscyamus 50
Todine .....,,.... 75
Iodine, colorless 16
Bing .5.....2..5. 50
Lebelia ........ 50
Myron ........... 50
Nux Vomica ..... 50
Ct ee: 1 25
Opil, camphorated 1 00
Opil, deodorized. 2 00
@uaasia ......... 50
Rhatany ...:..... 50
OR eo ea, bats 50
Sanguinaria ..... 50
Serpentaria ...... 50
Stromontum 80
Totutan .....:%.: 80
Valerian ..... 50
Veratrum Veride 50
Zin@iper 22 ...06.5.. 60
Misce!laneous
Aether. Spts Nit 3f 30@ 385
Aether, Spts Nit 4f 34@ .
Alumen, grd po 7 a
AMNAUO ... 22: . ce: hase
Antimont, po ... 4@
Antimont et po T 40@ 50
Antipyrin ....... @ 25
Antifebrin ...... @ 20
Argenti Nitras oz @ 8
Arsenicum ...... 10 ?
Ralm Gilead mead 60@ 65
Bismuth S N 75@1 95
Calcium Chlor, i @ 9g
Calcium Chlor. %s @ 10
Calcium Chior. 4s @ 12
Cantharides, Rus. @ 90
Capsici Fruc’s af @ 20
Capsict Frue’s po @ 22
Cap’! Frue’s B po @ 16
Carphyllus....... 20@ 22
Carmine, No. 40 @4 25
Cera Alba .... 50@ 55
Cera Flava ..... 40@ 42
@rOCus ans 30@ 35
Cassia Fructus .. @ 35
Centraria ....... @ 10
Cataceum ....... @ 35
Chloroform ...... 34q@ 54
Chloro’m Squibbs @ 90
Chloral Hyd Crss 1 351 6"
Cnonerus  ... 3... 20@ 25
‘O“inchonidine P-W 38@ 48
Cinchonid’e Germ 38@ 48
Cocaine 62.35.05: 0@2 90
Corks list, less 15%,
Creosotum . @ 45
Crete. so0.. bbl 75 @ 2
Creta, prep...... a 6
Creta, recip..... 9@ il
Creta, Rubra @ 8
Cudbear  ........ @ 24
Cupri Sulph 8@ 10
Dextrine ........ 7@ 10
Emery. all Nos @ 8
Emery, po ...... @ 6
Bermota ..... po 65 60@ 65
Ether Sulph 35@ 40
Flake White 12@ 15
OMe koe @ 30
Gambler ........ 8@ 9g
Gelatin, Cooper.. @ 60
Gelatin, French.. 35@ 60
Glassware, fit boo 75%
Less than box 70%
Glue, brown 11@ 13
Glue white ...... 15@ 25
Givcerma’ .......- 154%@ 20
Grana Paradisi.. @ 25
Erumurns 2... ...... 35@ 60
Hydrarg Ch...Mt @ 9
Hydrarg Ch Cor. @ 96
Hydrarg Ox Ru’m @1 vw
Hydrarg Ammo’l @1 16
Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
Hyd@rargyrum .... @ 80
Ichtnyobolla, Am. 99@1 00
Mndigo ......-.-% 75@1 00
Icdine, Resubi ..3 85@3 90
lodoform ....... 3 90@4 00
Lupulin ........ @ 4
Lycopodium 70@ 75
Maca .~..«..<.. -.. &&@ TO

 

 

 

Liquor Arsen. et Rubia Tinctorum 12@ 14/ Vanilla ......... 9 00

Hydrarg Iod .. @ 2%5|Saccharum La’s. 22@ 25|Zinci Sulph .. 7 8
Potass Arsinit 10@ 12}galacin .......... 4 50@4 75 Olis

agnesia, Sulph. ..3@ 5 Sanguis Drac’s 40@ 50 i bbl. gal.
Magnesia, Sulph. bbl @ 1% Whale, winter .. 70@ 70
Manns 9. F 46@ 66 Sapo, W ....... 13%@ 16) ard. extra ...._! 85@ 90

» SF. ... 4@ Sane, MM ......... 10@ 12|Lard, No.1 ..... 60@ 65
Menthol ........ 2 65@2 86 Sapo, G 15 Linseed pure raw 42 45
Morphia, SP&W 3 00@8 25 nee ee en elm Linseed, boiled -43 46

a Seidlitz Mixture... 20@ 22 N : : oa
Morphia, SNYQ 3 00@3 25] sinapis ..... + ite oe Se ket
Morphia, Mal. ..3 00@3 25| Sina inapis, om ..... 30 P --Marke
Moschus anton. 40 Maccaboy, Paints bbl 63
Myristica, No. Tr: a ietees ec ueens 51|Red Venetian ..1% 2
Nux Vomica po 15 19 | Snuff, S’h DeVo’s 561) Ochre, yel Mars i 2 S
Oa Sepia .......... 35 “ 40|Soda, Boras ...... 10; Ocre, yel Ber
Pe = Saac, H & Soda, Boras, 10| Putty, commer’! 21 2

Be Co 2.18. 1 00| Soda et Pot's Tart! a 23| Putty. strictly pr 2% 2 @3
Picis Liq N N & Soda, Carb. ...... 2| Vermilion, Prime

gal dom ........ 0 | Soda, Bi-Carb 5 American ..... ae >
| Picis tas qts .... Soda, Ash ....... 4| Vermillion, Eng.

Picis Liq. pints.. Soda, Sulphas 2|Green, Paris a8
Pil Hydrarg po 80 Spts. Galaane a 2 60 | Green, Peninsuiai ag
ree prs a po 22 Ether Co. 55 | Head, req .........

Piper Alba po 365 Spts. Myrcia .. 2 50} Lead, White ......

Pix Burgum Spts, Vini Rect bbl Whiting, white gait oo
Plumbi Acet Spts, Vii Rect % b Whiting Gilders’ 95
Pulvis Ip’cet Opil 1 30 1 5 Spts, Vi'l R’t 10 gl White, Paris Am’r 1 25
Pyrethrum, bxs H Spts, Vi'i R’t 5 ga Whit's Paris Eng.

& PD Co. oo Strychnia, Cryst 1 1 1 “ OME 6... a ee. =<
Pyrethrum, pv. * ® Sulphur Subl..... Shaker Prep’d ..1 25@1 35
Quassiae ........ Sulphur, Roll
Quina, S P & W. - 20 Tamarinds ..... Varnishes
Quina, S Ger..... 18 28; Terebenth Venice & My | No. 1 Turp Coach1 10 1 20
Quina. N..¥...... 18 2g. Thebrromae ...... 50@ 55 Extra Turp --1 60@1 70

 

 

 

the road very soon.

Yours truly,
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Holiday Goods Season of 1908

Our samples of Holiday Goods, books
and toys for the season of 1908 will be on
Our line is strictly
new and up-to-date and embraces the
very best values of all the leading Amer-
ican and foreign manufacturers.

We have added many radical and
entirely new features that will greatly
improve our already popular line.

We shall as usual have our samples
displayed at various points in the State
for the convenience of our customers and
will notify you later of where and when

our goods will be on exhibition.

Ask our representative about Touraine Candy.
We still have a good stock of Hammocks and

will be pleased to receive your orders.

 

 

 

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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,
liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their otders filled at

market prices at date of purchase.

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CHEWING GUM

 

ADVANCED

  

 

 

Index to Markets

 

 

By Columns
Col
A
Ammonia ..-..--+------ 1
Axle Grease .....------ 1
B
Baked Beans .....--++-- 1
Bath Brick .......-.-- ‘. :
Bluing ...-------+e-eees :
Mepoms joo coe ewes :
Brushes .......-c--+e0-
Butter Color ......-.-- 1
Cc
Piamties ...2-cc5sseee ce
Canned Goods .....-.-+- 1
Carbon Oils .....--+.+:. ;
(atsup ....-.-++--+--->= :
homens a ee eee ;
‘@ oe :
Chewing Gum .......- .
RIBGrY oo eae ob eee ee nee :
Chocolate ....----c-+-+-
Clothes Lines ........- :
inn ooo. ae ce sober ee
Ceeoanut .....
Cocoa Shells
Se oie eee
Confections
Pence 42.) pe cae eee
Cream Tartar ......... 4
Dried Fruits ........... 4
Farinaceous Goods .... 5
Fish and Oysters ...... 10
Fishing Tackle .........

Flavoring Extracts .... 5
Fresh Meats

 

Gelatine  ....ccccccnes .
Grain Gages ......5+...> 5
Grains and Flour ....... 5
H
ere = -. 56... Sebo eee 6
Hides and Pelts ....... 10
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ee go be cece ee 6
i
RQDOFIRE 26. co eek s 6
POOR gg oc seco se 6
Meat Extracts ......... 6
Mince Meat ........... 6
Oe ee eS 6
PUUEE «ose a ec ieee ee 6
N
RUS ees be ie eee 11
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OME RE oc gg ee ce eae 6
P
PU gs cece ec cc 6
eS ees eae e 6
Piayine Cards .......;. 6
Pie Se 6
Provisions ............. 6
R
Mae eee q
Ss
Salad Dressing ....... 7
Malerate oo. cece sacs 7
Sal BOAR 2... ccc cesse mes
RIE ws eo 7
eee PS ce 7
SN os oi eke ccc ecce 7
Shoe Blacking ......... 7
ie oo 8
OAD 8 ee, see 8
ee a 8
RS | eg eek a, 9
US ee ee 8
Pee 8
Pyros .. 85 oes, 8
T
See ee §
DOACCS 9
TWP oe 9
Vv
SIDOPRY. 2 9
Ww
Rieke 9
Woodenware ........... 9
Wrapping Paper ...... 10
Y
east Cake .........:.. 20

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OZ.
12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box..75

AXLE GREASE
Frazer’s

Lib. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3
iIb. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2
oleib. tin boxes, 2 doz. 4
i¥ib. pails, per doz...6
loib. pails, per doz....7
ZoIb. pails, per doz...12
BAKED BEANS
can, per doz......
can, per doz..... i
can, per doz..... 1
BATH BRICK
American
fnglish

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sib.

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see ee ew ew ewe eee

Arctic
6 OZ. Ovals 3 doz. box $
16 oz. round 2 doz. box
Sawyer’s Pepper Box
Per Gross.
v0
00

No. 3, 3 doz. wood bxs 4

No. 5, 3 doz. wood bxs 7
BROOMS
No. 1 Carpet, 4 sew ..2
No. 2 Carpet, 4 sew ..2
No. 3 Carpet, 3 sew ..2
No. 4 Carpet, 3 sew ..2
Parr Gem ...5....2. 2
Common Whisk ......
Rancy Whisk ........ 1
Warehouse ........:. 3
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back 8 in.......
Solid Back, 11 in.....
Pointed Hinds ........
No.
No. 2
No. 1
No. 8
mo. 7
No. 4
m0. Bc ec i
BUTTER COLOR
W., R. & Co.’s 25e size 2
W., R. & Co.’s 50¢ size 4
CANDLES
Parafiine, 6s ...........
Faratfine, 228 ..........
Witking _.:.............
CANNED GOODS
Apples
3Ib. Standards .. 90@1
allon ........ 5. 2 50@3
Blackberries
PUD eee neces ck 1 25@1
Standards gallons @5
Beans
Baned 622.523. 85@1
Red Kidney ...... 85@
Sire 24 70@1
Wex 5.000 75@1
Blueberries
Standard ..... ¢.. 1
(SaNOn 5. 6
Brook Trout
2tb. cans, spiced ..... 1
Ciams
Little Neck, 1tb. 1 00@1
Little Neck, 2tb. @1
Clam Bouillon
Burnham’s % pt. ..... 1
Burnham’s pts. ....... 3
Surnham’s. ats. ....... 7
Cherries
Red Standards @1
MMe oo ci: @1
Corn
Par 5... 73@
00 0 ok. 1 00@1
Pamey ..)... 28
French Peas
Sur Extra Fine ........
extra Fige 2. ..5...7 5:
SL ee
MOVER: 2.2.03
Gooseberries
meander. 2... 5, 1
ominy
Brandan .:
Lobster
S DW. oe 2
A ee 4
Picnic Tats 2.2.2... 2
Mackerel
Mustard, 19). 2.25... 1
misinta “SOI. 3 ee 2
Soused, 136%... 2. 1
Bounea: 7m. 2
Pomein. Ip: 2 1
SOMPGtO, 21D. =. 2... 5. 2
Mushrooms
BOA ee @
BUMONS 5.252 -5.5..1; @

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American Flag Spruce 55

 

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Family Cookie ....... 8
Fancy Ginger Wafer 12

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DRIED Bruits
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are| Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 55| Fig Cake Assorted ...12 Woncnd ioe
Adams Pepsin ete 55 Fruit Nut Mixed ..... 16 PVADOTATCR @ 9
Best Pepsin .......... 45|ifrosted Cream ....... 8 : Apricots
Best Pepsin, 5 boxes..2 00| Frosted Honey Cake ..12 California (2000. @13
— Eve een emia 5 oe enn Bar 10 hen Citron :
rgest Gum Made 55|Ginger Gems ......... 8 CPAICAN 4.5.0...
DECLINED Sen’ Sen 26.56.6565. 4, 55; Ginger Gems, Iced.... 9 Currants ens
a Sen Breath Per’f 1 ee Geant crackers 8 di 1 Ib. pkg. 8%@ 9
Re POM i ek inger Nuts ....... i. .40 mported bulk ..8
i Yucatan pease 55|Ginger Snaps N. B. GC, 7 Peel ae 8%
eae Hop to it ............. 65|Ginger Snaps Square 8 |Lemon American ..... 15
Spearmint ............ 55 oo ae ees 10 |Orange American |." °44
CHICORY oney Cake, N. B. GC. 12 Raisins
ss §| Honey Fingers. As. tee 12 | London Layers, 3 er.
Me 7|Honey Jumbles ....... 12 ‘.ondon Layers, 4 cr
a. j| Honey Jumibles, Iced 12 | Cluster, 6 crown seacs 226
ae 2... q|Honey Flake ......... 12 Loose Muscatels, 2 cr.”
Raters ........ §| Household Cookies ... 8° | Loose Muscatels, 3 cr. 7
9 €HOCOLATE ae ee Iced 8 Laone Muscatels, 4cr. 8
Walter Baker & Co’ ced Honey Crumpets 10 - M. Seetted i th, 7@ ¥
Oystere . : samperial 24.40 22 es 8 valitorn
Cove, it. ” yee 90@1 00 Neda Sweet ccaeeet = Jersey Lunch ........, 8 | 0-125 25m. o
Cove, Mh @1 85 tet eens 9,|Kream Klips ....... -.20 90-100 25%. boxes
Cove. 1!b. Oval @1 20 a a ies Ge 31 Lem Wem te 11 | 80- 90 25m. boxes..@ 5”
Plums Premium, 4s ........ *g9| Lemon Gems ........, 10 (0- 80 25tb. boxes..@ 5
Pa 1 35@2 50| Premium, ys 0.112227” 32| Lemon Biscuit Square 8 £0. oo Boi. boxes. .@
Peas COCOA Lemona oe 8 40. 50 2st. oe ry
Marrowfat ae ; 90@1135 Sa ee #9 |Log Cabin Cake 21.11.19 | 30- 40 2etp" boxes. ae
Early June Sifted 1 15@1 go | Colonial, #8 Ssieieees OS ee a ge ‘s — oe, cone
: Peaches eet, ee sla G 3 Marshmallow Walnuts 16 eehGaeua Goops
MO icine ies 1 00@1 25 Hui Pete ae ete ssa 4g| Mariner .............., 11 | Dried Lim: — 1
No. 10 size can ple @3 du Sp oubi ae ae 38 Molasses Cakes ....... 8 Med. Hd ogee ee: 6%
crates Pineal Lowney, 4s 1.2.1.1! 36| Molasses Cakes, “Ieed’” 9 | Brown Holkenar .2071:2 7
ra bee eeeeee @2 50 Lowney. los ‘ 36 Wohak Waa. Farina ;
Ys WS «+... . 0. 49|Nabob Jumble ......: eg
Sliced grist @2 40 owner, 1s pane eh ee a 40! Newton Ae (Petes 2 ak Ib. packages ..... 1 50
eite umpkin sit ee hs i Qatmeal Crackers 111: § — tt tiene 3 50
ee eereeececere © ’ Mo nes ks range Gems Cape ee 8 7).
SAO cc 90) Van Houten, %s 40! Oval S Flake, 50 Ib. sack
er cere ugar Cakes .... 8 ear hea ee 1 00
oy rtesteeeerens 1 00 Van Houten, es 72 Oval Sugar Cakes Auk oor F = => a 00
: COD cece er cesses sece os enny Cakes, Assorted 8 "abe yong roe.
ee Wier, MB ois. of) Picniy “Mixed ..,....; 11% | paccaroni and Vermicelli
Standard ees @ Wilbur, 4s chance cae a 40 Pretzels, Hand Md.... 8 Domestic, 10 Th. box ee 60
Salmon Dunh ony Pretzelettes, Hand Md. § —— 25 Ib. box...2 50
Col’a R =e unham's \%s %®8 26% | Pretzelettes. Mac. Md. 7%} ¢ earl Barley
a River, talls 1 95@2 4 |Dunham's 4p 27 pe %| Common
Col’a River, flats 2 25@2 « | Dunham's Nala 2x | Raisin Cookies ....... © iGheukee: 0 rst -o
Red Alaska ...... [eel Situ |... ig |Bavena Jumbles ...... 12 Empire |,.7:": ioc cc
Pink Alaska |. *.: 1 00@1 10  6OrFEE Revere, Assorted ..... 4 ”ClUlTER
Sardines Rio MAP hee ans iieneceean le Green Wisconsin b 2
Domestic, 4s ....8%@ 4 |Common .......... 10@13% | Scalloped Gems ...... aS. lGveen, Geotel bu oa oe
D. ee : g Scotch Cookies ....... 10 a cm, OU, ....2 70
Domestic, Must'd 6%@ 9 | Choice “227120771 MB | Snow. creemes 20000 es _
California, “e..-11 @14 iPancy ................. 0 aig ey Nuts ....12 | mast India "9° 5
oi aac ae ae dees ee ec cs
eck te — @14 Common dees Sugar Gems 2201.22. 3 en eee, weceee
French, %s |... 18 @28 papa ees pt 14% | Sultana Fruit Biscuit 16 | 7°T™@", broken pkg...
Shrimps ON ick lsc ak 16% | Sunyside Jumbles ....10 | make no ee
Standard ........ 1 20@1 40 rancy Pete ecus eels 19 nr Stowers esa Pearl’ 130 (2. sacks ae .
eaberry ....... cease gers Iced .. earl : 7 2
Fair Succotash 85 Maracaibo Sumer Cakes .......,,. 8 A ae a pkgs...... i%
onl ea Rite... s+eee16 | Sugar Cakes, Iced!!!) 9 CRING EXTRACTS
Fancy (22.12.01.111 a6@1 40/Cholee oo 222000) 19 | Sugar Squares, large ‘or Coleman Bren’
Strawberries Choice exican PAGE Dewteibar cease | 2 L,
pebeinaecisceed 46% |) Superba ..........:.... 8 ‘ cmon
Standard sb ba Senses aaa. 19° | Sponge Lady fingers 25 | N°- 2 Terpeneless .... 76
ge Shed blg aas Guatemala Sugar Crimp ......... No. g pereneless ....1 75
one sip oh (CROME -ess sss ose 15 | Sylvan Cookie ....:11112 |N° 8 Terpeneless ‘:''3 00
Cees sae dee *@1 10 Java Vanilla Wafers .......16 | vanilla
Pane Re ache @i ap |Aftican ............ 0, BO WACtOEN Se 12 No’ 2 High Class ....1 20
oa. $3 $0 Pancy African ......., 17 WON oils ak: 8 Ino : Hise are oe 2 00
ete be 55 556s eee en PAMBIbAT oo. se: 10 ; BSS... 00
CARBON OILS De eee a: 31 Jaxon Brand
Barrels Mocha In-er Seal Goods e Vanilla
P tion... .... ly i Per doz.}2 oz,
Wenge is Zig] AMID secs Lament piu ..2ee S|? ok Pua Menta... 1
. 8. Gasoline @15 New York Basis MOENEAD tees he eb een iss 8 oz. F ce...
Gas Machine .... @24 |Arbuckle ............. 16 00} Arrowroot Biscuit ...1 00 ua -
Deodor’d Nap’a..  @13 |Dilworth ..../../71°"" 14 75| Butter Thin Biscuit ..1 00/2 oz. Fun Measure 1 25
Cylinder ee 29 @34% Jersey mie nes cu eccuees 15 00 ti Pipes ir oe - 4 oz. Full Measure... .2 40
Mee 20 WOH 26 14 50; Cheese Sandwich ..... 8 Rm
Black, winter ....8%@10 McLaughlin’s XXXX Cocoanut Dainties 1 00 pesca ge age AE. =
CEREALS Mcl aughlin’s XXXX sold| Faust Oyster ......... 100! Terpeneless Ext fae
Breakfast Foods to retailers only. Mail all} Fig Newton ......... -1 00 ‘ peo
Bordeau Flakes, 36 1tb. 2 50 orders direct to W. F.| Five O’clock Tea ....1 00 No 2 Panel 02,
Cream of Wheat 36 2%) 4 50|McLaughlin & Co., Chica-|Frotana ......-.....-.1 00| wo 2 Panel ........... 45
ao © a . tb : . > Ginger Guana NRE - bi A Panel 1 50
Z-O-See, gS... . ,N. B.C. 0. 6 Panel .... “2 00
Excello Flakes, on Extract Graham Crackers ....100| Taner Pong UCC
Excello, are 3 4 amend. % gro boxes ; : Lemon Snap aetsas 50 ig ye ge he ee : =
Force, 36 2 tb......... 50| Felix, % gross ........ London Cream Biscuit 1 00}4 62 way age:
Grape Nuts, 2 doz..... 2 70|Hummel's foil, % gro. 85 Marshmallow Dainties 1 00 ta = as 3 00
Malta Ceres, 24 1tb. ..2 40|Hummel’s tin. % gro. 1 43) Oatmeal Crackers ....1 00 Extract val aa
Malta Vita, 36 ltb..... 2 85 _. CRACKERS. Oysterettes ........... 50 anne
Mapl-Flake, 36 1m. ..4 05| National Biscuit Company] Oid Time Sugar Cook. 1 00|No. 92 Panel Doz,
Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 doz 4 25 Brand Pretzelettes, Hd. Md. ..1 00]No. 4 Pana 8 . >
Ralston, 36 2tb.......... 4 50 Butter Royal Toast ...... cvcrk WIMO 6 Banos °°" **** : =
Sunlight Flakes, 36 1tb. 2 85|Seymour, Round © [Balin <2 ......... 1 00] fener Pane 077° *** -
oe Pinkes, 20 lgs : = N, C., ge vag ea tak 6 Saratoga Flakes ..../1 50 tne Full Meas ee 2 Ps
‘igor, PERS. .....5.. oda Social Tea Biscuit ....1 00}2 oz. Full eee
Voigt’ Cream Flakes..14 50/N. B. C Soda ........ 6 |Soda, N. B.C. .......:1 00/4 O% Full Meas.......1 80
m6. 410|Select Soda ....2/272! 8 |Soda, Select 2.:212121[1 00|Noo% Full Meas....... # 60
Zest, 36 small pkgs..... 2 75 ee. Flakes ...... : Sugar’ Clusters ....... 1 00 ae eng 2 oe as
Rolled Oats PORVTECe oo oc Sultana Fruit Biscuit 1 50] | :
Rolled Avena, bbls. ..6 50| __ Oyster Uneeda Biscuit_....... 50 cone ean ag is:
Steel Cut, = tb. sks. : : < B. C., Round ...;.. : oe Jinjer Wayfer 1 00 GRAIN AND Ficus”
onarch, So seen ae OUR as tw ce bes ences i. Uneeda Milk Biscuit .. 50
Monarch, 90 tb. sacks 2 90| Faust, Shell ........ -- 7%} Vanilla Wafers ...... 1 00) New No ca oe
Ranker, 38-2 eases i 50 ae Sweet Goods. Water Thin .....25... 1 00)New No. 2 Red ....).° 89
uaker, = re OIAIR 4 es Zu Zu Ginger Snaps 50 : : Ela,
Cracked Wheat oe Assorted eee Zwieback ....... epee 00 eee mene
ROME A, PYittie ................, - In Special Tin Packages.| Patents ......... 5 50
24 2 tb. packages... 3 Go| Cadet ..........5...... Per doz.|Second Patents ..//'°7§ 25
CATSuUP ae Cake WOGHNG 565 cs sc, 2 60|Straight ............ "8 0%
Cele, Rds pis...... : s peceae co. stteee Nabisco ey 2 56 aoe Straight ......4 75
: . ‘ eee MBDIBCO. 4.20550 os, 00; -lear ....... Ssoscescech OO
Bolder s Bete 1 SCOTT SNE iccaie Wh | oumomiens, Water 2 $9, Pou "Barra pe
Per tin in bulk rrel a on
Acme 4... @12 | Cracknels ............. 16 )| Worde Co.’
mee 5.5. se @12 | Coffee Cake, pl. or iced 10 Scotia ae 7 Quaker, poe pie e ee
Gem a0. @13 | Cocoanut Taffy Bar ..12 |fFestino ..... 11...” 1 50] Quaker, clotn .......14 80
Jersey ........... @12%|Cocoanut Bar ...... --I0 | Bent’s Water Crackers 1 40 Wykes & Co.
Riverside @12%|Cocoanut Drops ...... 12 Holl k UC ae ee 4 80
Warner's @12% | Cocoanut Honey Cake 12 | 9. oa and Rus g9|<ansas Hard Wheat Flour
Springdale ...... @12 |Cocoanut Hon Fingers 12 PACKAGE nar sescars Fanchon, %s cloth ...5 80
rick @15 |Cocoanut Hon’ Jumbles 12 - ae cones Ane -3 20 Judson Grocer Co,
Leiien ... ... @15 |Cocoanut Macaroons ..18 Oeneen A a4 esa ---4 75! Grand Rapids Grain & Mili-
Limburger ...... @19 WanGelion. -.... 66. 10 CREAM TARTAR ing Co. Brands.
Pineapple ........ 40 60 Dinner Biscuit ....... 20 Barrels or drums ......29| Wizard, assorted soeee4 40
Sap “ee es 92 Dinner Pail Cake ....10 BOXES ...es0cecces-senes80{ Graham ........., voce ed 40
Swiss, domestic .. gis Dixie Sugar Cookie .. 9 |Square cans .......... --32| Buckwheat ...........6 75
wiss, imported .. Family Snaps ........ Fancy caddies ,........,35 NO cei oie c sie 2 8

 

 

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Spring Wheat Flour

Koy Baker’s Brand |
Golden Horn, family..5 85
Golden Horn, baker’s..5 75
Duluth Imperial ..... 6 15
Judson Grocer Co.'s Bran
Ceresota, Bo esa 6 46

 

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50 tb. tins....advance 4
20 Ib. pails....advance %
Smoked Meats
Hams, 12 Ib. average. .13
Hams, 14 tb. average. .13
Hams, 16 Ib. average..13
Hams, 18 Ib. avearge..13

x 3 Se 6 30; Skinned Hams .....: ». 14
Coreen #6 eee sae 6 20 Ham, dried beet sets. .20
Salifornia Hams ..... L,
Winseid’ oo - ate Picnic Boiled Hams ..14
Wingold, ws He 6 05 Boiled rams 2. 21
Wingold, %s ......... 5 95| Berlin Ham, pressed .. 9
‘ : Minced Ham ..........
Worden Grocer Co. s Bran fo 1i4@16
Laurel, ¥%s cloth --6 20 oe Bae i
, » +,|10 tb. pails....advance We
Laurel, “4s cloth 610) 5 pails advance 1
Laurel, %4S&%s paper 6 00| ¢§ 4, pails....advance 1
Laurel, %s cloth ..6 00 : Sausages
Wykes & vv. Bologna . 000058206 3. f
Sleepy Eye, 4s cloth..6 10) Liver ..........777. cea @
Sleepy Eye, \%s cloth..6 00; Frankfort .......... coe 2
Slepy Eye, %s cloth..5 90|Pork ............... «. 8
Sleepy Eye %s eb _ io ee cr eo le ey :
Slee } L OROE 6 ck OUT OEMS 6 ie ee ic eee « «
oer ma ae ' Headcheese ..........., t
Bolted 22... ss. e-.5. 3 1h Beef
Golden Granulated .. 3 85|Extra Mess .......... 9 75
St. Car Feed screened 31 50) Boneless ...........7! 13 50
No. 1 Corn and Oats 31 50|Rump, new .......... 17 00
Corn, cracked ....... 30 50 Pig’s Feet
Corn Meal, coarse ..30 50 me Pbls. ee 1 00
Winter Wheat Bran 25 00/% pbbis., 40 Ibs. /0 0/7” 1 80
DAAGGIUIRS oe ecko. Oe ie 3 80
Se ee ea 8 00
Dairy Feeds Tripe
Wykes & Co. pees. 20 We 70
O P Linseed Meal ...31 60 4 Dols. 40 the... 1 50
Cottonseed Meal ....31 00 % bbls., 80 tbs. ....... 3 00
Gluten Feed ......... 30 00 Casings
Malt Sprouts ........ 23 UU| Hogs, per tb. ........ 30
Brewers Grains ..... 27 00| Beef, rounds, set ...... 16
Molasses Feed ...... 24 00| Beef middles, set..... 40
Hammond Dairy Feed 24 vv | Sheep, per bundle .... 90
Oats Uncolored Butterine
Michigan carlots ....... 60|Solid dairy ...... 10 @12
Less than carlots ...... 61|;Country Rolls --104%2@16%
Corn Canned Meats
CMNIOUR oc lk 81} Corned beef, 2 tb. ....2 50
Less than carlots ...... 8s | Corned beef, 1 tb. ....1 56
Hay Roast beef, 2 tb....... 2 50
No. 1 timothy carlots 10 00] Roast beef, 1 tbh. ..... 1 50
No. 1 timothy ton lots 11 00|#otted ham, Tee os, 45
HERBS Potted ham, \%s ...... 45
Baee ee ek. 15| Potted ham, ¥%s ...... 85
MODE occa oc a 15} Deviled ham, \%s ...... 45
Laurel Leaves ....... 15| Deviled ham, %s ...... 35
Senna Leaves ........ zo} Potted tongue, 4s .... 45
HORSE RADISH Potted tongue, %s .... 85
Per Gog) eso lo. 90 RICE
JELLY MONCY coc... 7 @7%
5 Ib, pails, per doz...2 35|Japan ............ 5%@ 6%

15 Ib. pails, per pail .. 55
30 Ib. pails, per pail .. 98

LICORICE
PUTO 4 30
COlBDIIA: oc sec. s tek 23
PHONY cee ok, < 14
ROOL 26.5... eae cceecs Pe
MATCHES

C. D. Crittenden Co, _
Noiseless Tip ...4 50@4 75
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle .... 40
WHOIS Go. ccee cs ves 35
Bair cee sek .
00G 205.8, Foo 22
Half barrels 2c extra
MINCE MEAT

Per Case, pee oes: 2 90
MUSTARD
%@ ID., 6 ID. Dox ....... 18
OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 20@1 40
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 10@1 30
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 00@1 20

Manznilla, 3 o02z........ 75
Queen, pints .......... 2 50
Queen, 19 oz. ........4 50
Queen, 28 oz. ...... -..7 00
Biuren, 0 02 2.00.0 66 2. 9U
Btumed 6 OZ. 6... ca. 1 45
sStuifed, 10 oz: ........ 2 40

PIPES
Clay, No. 216 per box 1 25

Clay, T. D., full count 60
WOO eee ie ce ee 90
- PICKLES
Medium

Barrels, 1,200 count....8 50
Half bbls., 600 count...4 75

Small
Half bbis., 1,200 count 5 70
PLAYING CARDS
No. 90 Steamboat ..... 8d
No. 15, Rival, assorted 1 25
No. 20 Rover, enameled 1 50
No, 572, Special ........ 1 75
No. 98 Golf, satin fin. 2 00

No. 808 Bicycle ...... 2 00
No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 25
POTASH
48 cans in case
MAUD S 2.0045... 4 00
Barreled Pork
POSE 3 ae 6 00
Cjear Back 3... 2.62.0. 17 50
moore CHE oo... 17 00
Short Cut Clear ..... 16 50
POO eo or, 14 75
Brisket, Clear ....... 15 25
PAM fee ee a BO
Clear Family ........ 14 00
Dry Salt Meats
& ©. Relies 2.2... ..., 10%

AMOS ees cece el
Extra Shorts ......... 9144
Lard
Compound ........... 8%
Pure in tierces ....... 10%

80 Ib. tubs....advance \%
60 Ib. tubs....advance %

 

Broken
SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pint ....2
Columbia, 1 pint ...... 4
Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 50
5
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Durkee’s small, 2 doz.
Snider’s large, 1 doz.
Snider’s small, 2 doz. 1 35
SALERATUS
Packed 60 tbs. in box.
Arm and Hammer ....3 10
Deane s 00. 3 00

Dwight’s Cow ........ 3 15
EP 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 %s ..3 00

SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. ...... 85
Granulated, 100 tbs. cs. 1 00
Lumip, bbls... 002 08), 80
Lump, 145 tb. kegs .. 95

SALT
Common Grades
100 3 ID. sacks -<...... 2 25
60.5 3b. sacks ..) 5. 215

28 10% tb. sacks ....2 00

56 Ib. sacks

28 Ib. sacka ......._. IZ
Warsaw

56 Ib. dairy in drill bags 40
28 Ib, dairy in drill bags 20
Solar Rock
56 Ih. sacks .....'50 02... 24
Common
Granulated, fine ....... 80
Medium, fme :.....00,. 85
SALT FISH
Cod
Large whole @7
Small whole .... @ 6%
Strips or bricks --7%@10%
Woelock 5 ..2.....0. @ 5

Halibut
BEPIPS. 2266 13
CounNS. 006. ee 13
Holland Herring
POUOCH 6b. ..

White Hp. bbls. 7 50@9 00
White Hp. %bls. 4 00@5 00
White Hoop mchs. @ 175
Norwegian

Cee eee eee wee

MORIA 13
Trout
No. 1, 100 Hs. ....... 7 50
NO. 1, 40 The... 3 25
No. 1, 10 tha. -... 90
No. 1, $ the ........ ~
Mackerel
Mess, 100 Ibs. ....... 15 00
Mess, 40 Ibs........... 6 20
mess. 10 Ths. .:...... 1 65
Mess, 8 be. <.:..-... 35
Wo. 1, 100 ths. ;..... 14 00
NO. 1, 403s. 2... 80
No. I, 10 ts, :.2;.. - 1 65
NO. 3, 8 Wa i, 1 35
Whitefish
No. 1, No. 2 Fam
POG) TOR os 975 3 50
50 Ibs. .........5 25 1 90

 

20° 758," 2.2 c. 112 55
© TDR: 2222, | 92 48
SEEDS
INGE oe emer ek 10
Canary, Smyrna ...... 4%

CATANEAY oo

10
Cardamom, Malabar 1 00

Celery oe
Hemp. Russian ....... 414
Wixed, Bird 2.2... ...); 4
Mustard, white ....... 10
PODUY 6205. .0 162... 9
Rape ... ft

SHOE BLACKING

Handy Box, large 3 dz 2 50 Ni

Handy Box, small ....1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish 85
Miller's Crown Polish.. 85

SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders ...... 37
caboy, in jars...... 35
French Rappie in jars. .43
SOAP
J. S. Kirk & Co.
American Family ....4 00

Dusky Diamond,50 8 oz2 80

Pure Cane

WO 6c ee, 16
OGG 2250 20
CHOIGe 200 25

TEA

Japan
Sndried, medium ...... 24
Sundried, choice ...... 32
Sundried, fancy - do
Regular, medium ......24
Regular, choice ....... 32
Regular, fancy ........ 36
tet Bend wodingam 21

Basket-fired, choice ..38
Basket-fired, fancy ...43
NING 22k ck, sora 24

Sftings 1)
Gunpowder
Moyune, medium ...... 30
Moyune, choice ....... 32
Moyune, fancy ........ 40
Pingsuey, medium ... .30
Pingsuey, choice ..... 30
Pingsuey, fancy ...... 40

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Cnce: oe 30
Dusky D’nd, 100 6 oz. 3 80 46
ap gr 50 meen ey panes Bates oo. -
Savon Imperial ....... 3 50/ . i
White Russian ....__"! 2 66 | Formosa, oe es 42
Dome, oval bars ...... 3 50 ae 9 pig rtteees 26
Satinet, oval .......... 215;“moy, choice ......... 32
Snowberry, 100 cakes 4 00 English Breakfast
Proctor & Gamble Co. MOU 000. 0
BenOe (os 3 25!Choice ......... Gee ceau. 30
hed + Pcie daeeece le . Manee 40
vory, Of 66 eo: India
Slat 3 25| Ceylon, choice ........ 32
LAUTZ BROS. & CO. |Fancy ........007 007" 42
Acme, 70 bars .......3 60 TOBACCO
Acme, 30 bars ....... 4 00 Fine Cut
Acme, 7 ce eee ‘ 00 ot. eee eee. So: -
cme, cakes ole Wee ous...
Big Master, 70 bars ..2 90|Hiawatha, 5%. pails. 55
Marseilles, 100 cakes ..5 8¢| Telegram’ ........... 30
Marseilles, 100 cakes 5c 4 00|Pay Car .......0002277 33
Marseilles, 100 ck toilet 4 00| Prairie Rose 2.007.111! 49
Marseilles, %bx toilet 2 10 ‘ipa al weet e eee eeee 40
A. 8 Wrisley Tine WnOe fc 44
Good Cheer ........, «04 00] TMBCF. --.- eee, “
OM Country ........ 3 40), Plug
Soap Powders mee CNdse 31
Lautz Bros. & Co. Hias th Seeee ce wg ees cau
snow Boy 0000070 4 00 Kyle” Breese eee ee ee. 41
Gold Dust, 24 large | 14 50 oe 6S sarees 35
Gold Dust, 100-5¢ ....! 4 00| smenicas Regie 37
Birkoline, 24 41... 3 80) Simenican oe =
Soapine 2/°7.7117111:74 18| Spear Head, Tox... .. 74)
Babbitt’s 1776 1.111" 7": 3 75 | Spear Head, 14% oz. 44
SORCING |... --3 50 A hae 55
ws 3 70 SOUW SAP cc 39
Wisdom)... 000000000 80 pid, Honeaty ttt se eee eee 43
Soap Compounds J Be ec eecae cece a. 34
Johnson's Fine .......5 10 Pincr Heidsiek See ess 38
oe ane steee ef 25 Boot at oS 36
Rib-Ne tare 0-08 | Honey Dip ‘Twist | 27". 40
Scourin uae Black Standard ..._ ||" 40
Enoch Morgan's Sons. Gociline peeve esel og: 40
Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00 ee cs sees enee 34°-
anckio, ae, SFO lots £ te Mill (} Wise... pe
apolio, single boxes..2 25|Mill ..... Ae ee
Sapolio, hand ....-....3 9 (Great Navy 0.0200777. 36
Scourine Manufacturing Co s Smoking
Scourine, 50 cakes.....1 80 eee Core ............
Scourine, 100 cakes.” 73 50 Waren iittittresees a
Boxes ae res 16 oz
Kegs, ee Ix L, . a ice a
Whole Spi Honey Dew ........__ 40
Se = tees Woes 40
Cassia, China in mats. 12 bene co eee -
Cassia, Caaton ... - 16) Kin Dried 21
Cassia, Batavia, bund. 28 Duke’s Mixture 90° '"” 40
Cassia, Saigon, broken. 46 Duke’s Cameo ...... 43
Cassia, Saigon, in rolis, 55 Myrtle Navy ......."° 44
Cloves, Amboyna ..... 22 Yum Yum, 1% oz. |_| ‘39
Cloves, Zanzibar ..... 16}Yum, Yum, itb. pails 40
BIACO ee, « OO Cream 2.2. 38
Nutmegs, 75-80 ....... 35}Corn Cake, 2% OZ..... 26
Nutmegs, 105-10 ...... 25/Corn Cake, ith. ...... 22
Nutmegs, 115-20 ..... 20|Plow Boy, 1% 0Z.....39
Pepper, Singapore, blk. 15| Plow Boy, 3% o2z..... 39
Pepper, Singp. white.. 25] Peerless, o% OF. ...... 3
Pepper, shot) 2.000501) - 17) Peerless, 13% oz. ....... 338
Pure Ground in Bulk AY XAKG 6.12... 36
PS ee. 16)Cant Hook ........0 00. 30
Cassia, Batavia ce 28 Country Club his Urelea 32-34
Cassia, Saigon ......., 55 | Forex-XXXX 30
Cloves, Zanzibar ...... 24|Good Indian .......... 25
Ginger, African 15| Self Binder, 160z. 80z. 20-22
‘ oe AD Ra ale eae ilver Foam ........... 24
Ginger, Cochin ....... 18 et t Mari :
Ginger, Jamaica ...... 25] 2wee ee tt ene eens 32
5|Royal Smoke ......... 42
es eee tinea oo oe a TWINE
Pe eo ess Cotton, 3 ply ......... 20
pper, Singapore, blk. 17 Cotton’ 4 pl 20
Pepper, Singp. white.. 28 Jute a IS Sethe 14
A opmad Cayenne ..... « = Hemp 6 ply oes 13
ee ee . Flax, ‘medium N_!/))"/2
STARCH Wool, 1 Ib. bails...” 8

Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs. .. 7%
Muzzy, 20 ltbs...... 5
Muzzy, 40 ltbs...... 4%

Gloss

Kingsford
Silver Gloss, 40 1tbs. 7%
Silver Gloss, 16 3tbs. 6%
Silver Gloss, 12 6tbs. 8

Muzzy
48 1lb packages ........ 4%
16 oIb. packages ....... 45,
12 6Ib. packages ....... 5%
50 iD. boxes o.........3% 3%

SYRUPS

Corn

SGETOIG oo gone ounce ge 59

Half 31
20%. cans \% dz. in cs 2 00
10Ib. cans % dz. in es. 1 95
5Ib. cans 2 dz. in cs. 2 05
242Ib. cans 2 dz. in es. 2 00

 

 

VINEGAR
Malt White, Wine, 40 gr 9

Malt White, Wine 80 gr 12%
Pure Cider, B & B....15
Pure Cider, Robinson 15
Pure Cider, Silver ....15-
WICKING
No. 0 per gross........ 30
No. 1 per gross ...... 40
No. 2 per gross ....... 60
No. 3 per gross .......
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Io 1 00
Bushels, wide band ...1 25
Market .......-.:. enc aee
Splint, large ........ 3 50
Splint, medium ....... 3 00
Splint, small ..... sceeen 70

Willow, Clothes, large 8 25
Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 25
Willow, Clothes, small 6 25

 

Bradley Butter Boxes
2. size, 24 in case.. 72
3Ib. size, 16 in case.. 68
5Ib. size, 12 in case... 6%
lUID. size, 6 in case... 60

Butter Piates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate 35
No. 2 Oval, 260 in crate 4u
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate 46
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate 60
Cnurns
Barrel, 5 gal., each....2 4u
acces, 10 g@i., euch...2 56

Clothes Pins uo
Round head, 5 gross bx 55
Round head, cartons... 70

Egg Crates and Filiers.
Humpty bLumpty, 12 doz. 20
No. 1 complete ........ 40
No. 2 complete ....... 28

Case No. 2 fillerslisets 1 35
Case, mediums, 12 sets 1 15
Faucets
Cork: lined: § in...... 70
Cork lined, 9 in....... 80
Cork lined, 10 in....... 90
Mop Sticks
£YOjRN SDTINg ......... 90
Keclipse patent spring.. 85
No. 1 common ........ 80
No. 2 pal. brush holdér 85
izIb. cotton mop heads 1 40

Ideal No 7 ............ 85
Paiis

2-hoop Standard ...... 215
3-hoop Standard ...... 2 36
a Wire, Cable ......... 2 25
e- Wire, Cable _........ 2 45
Cedar, ull red, braga ..1 26
Paper, Hureka ....... 2 20
Fibre

Hardw

Softwood

Banquet

 

Traps
ouse, wood, %Z holes.. 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes.. 45
Mouse, wood, 6 holes.. 70

Mouse, tin, 0 holes.... 65

Beat, WOOG ....:. 22... 80

et. Spring 2.2... 75
Tubs

20-in. Standard, No. 1 8
18-in. Standard, No. 2 7
l6-in. Standard, No. 3 6 75
20-in. Cabie No. 1..... 9

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18-in. Cable, No. 2 ....8 25
iG-in. Cable Na. 3... .. 7 25
INO. £ Bifre 2.20.2 2. 10 25
ING. 2 Kibrae ...... |. 9 2
NO, 3 Mikro .-... 0. 8 25
Wash Boards
Bronze Globe ......... 50
EIGWey 92.0. 1 75
Double Acme ......... 2 76
Single Acme ......... 2 25
Double Peerless ....... 4 25
Single Peerless ........ 3 60
Northern Queen ...... 3 50
Double Duplex ........, 3 00
G@0G suck ......... .. 2 7
Universal ...0 3 65
Window Cleaners
ce We oe 1 65
46 daccus 1 85
re Oe ce 2 30
Wood Bowls

4S tn. Butter -......... 1

15 in. Butter .. -3 25
l7 in. Butter ..... ecoeed 00
19 in. Butter ...... --..5 00
Assorted, 13-15-17 ....2 30
assorted, 15-17-19 ....3 25

WRAPPING PAPER

Common siraw ........ 1
Fibre Manila, white.. 2%
Fibre Manila, colored.. 4

No ft Manila ....... «a
Cream Manila ........ 3
Butcher’s Manila ..... 2%

Wax Butter, short c’nt. 13

Wax Butter, fuii count 20

Wax Butter, rolls ....15
YEAST CAKE

Magic, 3 doz........... 115
Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 1% doz. ..... 60
Yeast Foam, 3 doz..... 115

Yeast Cream, 3 doz....1 00
Yeast Foam, 1% doz.. 68
FRESH FISH

r Ib.
Whitefish, Jumbo -20
Whitefish, Not 2...) it
rOuG 3. fo 0 oy, 104%
PIAWNGE 2.6 co. it

Ciscoes or Herring .... 7

Bimensh § ...5.20.5... 18
Fave Lobster ....:.... 25
Boted Lobster ........ 25
©eq 2 10
Haddock ......<<.:..< aa 8
PUGMOFGR ..0522...5.., 10
EG ee eco wk ee 3
MGRGH 0. a6. cul... 8
Smoked, White ........32%
Chinook Salmon ..... 16
MACKOPOE 2... 6.3... 16
Finnan Haddie .......
MOe Shad <2. 5.4...
Shad Roe, each ......
Speckled Bass ........ 846
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides x
Green No. ft ..2...2.. 7
Green NO. 202 .i.5 42s. 6
Cured (NG. Toile... ys 8%
Cured Ne. 2 ou ieis ss 7%

Calfskin, green, No. 1 11
Calfskin, green, No. 2 9%
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 12
Calfskin, cured, No, 2 10%

25|Cream Bar ......

 

No. 1
No. 2

 

V¥ ou
Unwashed, med. ...@17
Unwashed, fine ... q@1s
CONFECTIONS

Stick Candy Pails
SEMMGAS ool eo. e ~
standard H HE ....... - 8
Standard Twist ...... 84%

Cases
Jumbo, 32 Wh.......... « &
Patra 2 lu
Boston Cream ........ 12

Big stick, 30 Ib. case.. Sty
Mixed Canay

Grocers 2... q
Competition .......... i%
SUCCIME fo, 84e
CONSGRVG ............ 72 &
HOVaL .....6.; Soca -- 8%
WOOGOH ook. lv
ESEGHON ....5..., secccce 8%
Cac fost |...... 3 942
BCACCY 2... ww, 9
Minderearten ......... 1U%
Bon Yon Cream ...... lu
Brench Cream _....... 10
Star eee kh

tiand Made Cream ..iij
Yremio Cream mixed 14
Paris Cream Bon Bons 11
Fancy—in Palis

Gypsy Hearts ......... 14
coco Bon Bons
Fudge Squares ‘
Peanut Squares ......10
Sugared Peanuts .....13
Salted Peanuts .......12
Starlight Kisses ......11
Sun Blas Goodies

Lozenges, plain ...... 1
Lozenges, printed ....12
Champion Chocolate ..13
Eclipse Chocolates ...16
itureka Chocolates ....16
Quintette Chocolates ..16
Champion Gum Drops 10

 

Moss Drops ...........10
Lemon Sours ......... 1¢
SIBDGIIAIN |. 20... 8. il

ital. Cream Opera ....12
ital. Cream Bon Bons 12
Golden Waffles ........18
Ked Rose Gum Drops 10
auto Bubbles

Fancy—in 51ib. Boxes
Old Fashioned Molass-
es Kisses, 10Ib. box 1] 80
Orange Jellies ..... ++ 30
iemon Sours ....... -..60
Old Fashioned Hore-

hound drops Saudeu
Peppermint Drops .....60
Champion Choc. Drops 76
Hi. M. Choc. Drops ..1 10
H. M. Choc. Lt. and

Dark No. 12 ......1 10
Bitter Sweets, as’td 1 26
Brilliant Gums, Crys. 60
A. A. Licorice Drops ..90
Lozenges, plain .......
Lozenges, printed ....65
Imperials - 60
DEOECOOS oo ccc cece

    
  

G. M. Peanut Bar ....60
Hand Made Cr’ms ..30@9
Cream Wafers .......
String Rock ...........60
Wintergreen Berries ..60
Old Time Assorted ..3 7b
Buster Brown Goodies 3 350
Up-to-date Asstmt. ...3 75
Ten Strike No. 1.......6 60
Ten Strike No. 2 ......6 00
Ten Strike, Summer as-
SOTrtment «i. .ccccccccl Ue
Scientific Ass’t. ......18 00
Pop Corn
Cracker Jack ..........8 25
Checkers, bc pkg case 8 60
Pop Corn Balls, 2008 1 386
Azulikit 1008 ..........3 00
Oh My 100s ...........3 60
Cough Drops
Putnam Menthol .....1 06
Smith Bros. «..........1 %
NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona ....17
Almonds, Avica ........
— California sft.
SGU 2. cei. cy eveueuns

Cal, Na t:.....4..-.

Walnuts, soft shelled @18

Walnuts, Marbot ... @14

Yable nuts, fancy ..13 16
Med.

   

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Pecans, édeeeee
Pecans, ex. large ..
Pecans, Jumbos .... @13
Hickory Nuts per bu.

Obie AGW ...6ce:;
Cocoanuts ...ceccosce
Chestnuts, New York

State, per bu.......

Shelled
Spanish Peanuts ..7@ 7%
Pecan Halves ..... 45
Walnut Halves ...32@35
Filbert Meats .... @2i
Alicante Almonds @42
Jordan Almonds ... @47
Peanuts
Fancy H. P. Suns 6%@ 7%

Roasted ...... 8 @ sv
Choice, H. P. Jum-

b 84

@ %

Me cc ecue cus
Choice, H. P. Jumbo
Roasted ....... 9

 

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AXLE GREASE

 

Paragon |... ....... 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER

Royal

1@c size 90
ib. cansl1 85
60z. cans 1 9@
\%elb cans 2 50
%Ib cans 8 75
itb. cans 4 80
S3Ib. cans 18 00
5Id cans 21 50

 

BLUING

 

6. P. Bluing
Dos.
4mall size, 1 doz. box. .40
Large size, 1 doz. box. .75

CIGARS
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand

 

8. C. W., 1,000 lots ....31
El Portana . 3

ar sac
exemmar ......,........ 32
Worden Grocer Co brand
Ben Hur
Perfection .............. 85
Perfection Mxtras ...... 35
Lee: os. 85
Londres Grand .......... 85
Standard ..... eee! 36
Puritancs ........... oe
Panatellas, Finas ..... 35
Panatellas. Bock ... .. 36
Jorkey Club ..........:2 86
COCOANUT

Baker's Brazil Shredded

 

10 TD. pkg. per case 2 60
85 %Ib. pkg. per case 2 60
88 tm. pkg. per case 2 60
18 %4Ib. pkg. per case 2 60
FRESH MEATS
Beef
Carcass ....:..... 8 @ll
Hindquarters 10 @13
POU ce cweccsecn 1 @16
Rounds .......... 84%41b10
eae... 22. 8 @ 9%
PaRees 2... Ge @ 6%
AVON 25 sec. e @ 6
Pork
ons... .c... @13
eoresped ......... @ 8
Boston Butts ... @10
Shoulders ....... @ 8%
leaf Lard ...... @ 9%
Trimmings ...... @i

 

Mutton
Careags. 3.2... 7. @ 9
Eembs. 22. 55.4: @12%
Spring Lambs .. @14
Veal
arenas .....:...., 6 @ 8%
CLOTHES LINES
Sisal
60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00
72ft. 3 thread, extra..1 40
90ft. 3 thread, extra..1 70
60ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29
72ft. 6 thread, extra..
Jute
oe el 15
WREE, nebo cee cc 9
ina I ee 1 05
120%. ....: is deeeceee 1 60
Cotton Victor
OEE oo cece ee 1 10
OU. conse al ce 1 85
of ee eee 1 60
Cotton Windsor
DOR oes Seeks ce. 1 380
wee 44
WR Se eee eee cs.. 80
Oe gos ee 00
Cotton Braided
OO occ
fee ge ec 1 85
WE pe ceset eee ill a 1

Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell- Wright Co.’s. B’ds.

 

White House, ltb. ........
White House, 2tb. ........
Excelsior, M & J, 1th. .....
Excelsior, M & J, 2tb. .....
Tip Top, M & J, 1th). ......
OVA) AVA -...5...........
Royal Java and Mocha ..
Java and Mocha Blend ...
Boston Combination ......
Distributed by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
, Cady & Sinart, 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

mm 20 0 Om... ..........:... 6
a0, te 8 in... 2.525: 65s <2
ae OD 8 OW... 4. se eke

1% te 8 ie... .....-...-. oe an
OO oc iee ee 15
Be nee e es eee eee 20

Cetton Wines
Mo. 4; 10 fom .... 2: 5
oO. 2: 16 Teet ......-..- 7
mo. 8; 16 feet... -..... 9
mo. 4, 46 feet .......5.; 16
Me, 6. 15 feet .......... 11
No. 6, 16 feet .......... 12
MO, 1; 16 feet. .....5.. 16
No. 6, 15 feet _......... 18
No. 9, 15 feet 20
Linen Lines

wee 20
Menem |... #8
Re ce i as 4

Poles

Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. §5
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 66
Bamboo, 18 ft., per dos. 9@

GELATINE
Cox’s, 1 doz. Large ..1 80
Cox’s, 1 doz. Small ..1 0
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 25

Knox’s Sparkling, gro.14 60
Nelaon’s 1 6
Knox’s Acidu’d. doz....1 26

, 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 50
5@ cakes, large size. .8 26
100 cakes, small size. .8 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 75
Halford, small ........ 2 26

 

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Merchants

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per capita as any other
state. Are you getting
all the business you want?
The Tradesman can ‘‘put
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The dealers of Michigan,
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have merit, our sub-
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We can not sell your
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\dvertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each

subsequent continuous insertion.

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Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale—Drug store, invoicing about
$1,800. Will sell at sacrificen W. B
Minthorn, Petoskey, Mich. 880

For Sale—Shoe business, established
for 80 years. Stock clean and_ up-to-
date, invoicing about $3,500. Town of
about 600. Center of a splendid farming
country. Good reasons for selling. Ad-
dress A. G., care Tradesman. 881

Wanted—To sell or trade good bazaar
stock in Kalamazoo, invoicing about
$4,500, for good city real estate, Big op-
portunity for the right party. The Bar-
gain Center, Kalamazoo, Mich. 879

For Sale-—One of the best up-to-date
drug stores in Saginaw, Mich. Invoices
$8,000. Established 20 years. Owner
wishes to retire from drug business. In-
vestigate. Address No. 878, care Michi-
gan ‘Tradesman. 878

 

 

For Sale—75,000 feet of lumber and
billstuff, located on R. R. track. Ad-
dress James §S. Bicknell, Clare, Mich.

877

Snaps in land in Central Minnesota.

Send for list. A. Murray, Wadena, Minn.
876

For Sale—Whole or part interest in:
good custom flour and feed mill. Hay,
stain and wood business in connection.
Grice Bros., Lake City, Mich. 875

 

For Sale—Stock of groceries, crockery
and glassware in good town 5,000 in-
habitants. Two railroads, water works,
electvic lights, good churches and schools.
A very desirable residence city. Cash
only, Address J. G. Marston, Jersey-
ville, Til. 874

Wanted—To buy good retail shoe busi-
ness in live town or city. Write V. R.
Wakefield, 207 N. Hamilton St., Ypsi-
lanti, Mich. 87

 

For Sale—1,500 M ft. hardwood tim-
ber. Mostly muple, 5 miles from G. R.
& I. R. R. in Missaukee Co. Address No.
872, care Tradesman. $72

For Sale—40 A. land covered with
hardwood timber, mostly maple, in Mis-
saukee Co. % mile from G. R. & I. R. R.
Address No. 871, care Tradesman. 871

 

 

 

For Sale—One good lumber, lath and
shingle mill complete. Address No, 870,
care Tradesman. 870

 

Virginia Farms—Send for free list;
special bargains. Pollard & Bagley, Rich-
mond, Va. 869

For Sale—First-class grocery store in
town of 6,000. Write Fred Brock & Co.,
Big Rapids, Mich. 68

For Sale—17,000 acres, solid boay;
prairie and timber; four miles Columbus
county seat; perpetual water; best Tex-
as colonization proposition. Write for
map, prices, terms. C. E. Sronce, Colum-
bus, Texas. 867

Michigan lath, white and plain maple,
elm, birch and beech lumber and crating
eull, also Arkansas yellow pine. J. S.
Goldie, Cadillac, Mich. 866

For Sale Cheap-—Corner drug store, in-
voices $3,200. Expense $4 per day. Fresh
stock. Will take $1,000 down, balance
good security... Reason, ill health, Ad-
dress C. H. DeGowin & Co., Cheboygan,
Mich. 864

For Sale—Ice cream parlor and soda
fountain, Fine stock of confectionery,
fruits, cigars and tobacco. Lunch coun-
ter in connection. Rent $15 a month, in-
cluding living rooms. A good chance to
make money. Reason for selling, sick-
ness. Address H, Bonebright, Con-
stantine, Mich. 862

are you a retailer? If so, let me tell
you how to sell at competitive prices
and make larger profits than your com-
petitor, or sell below his prices and still
make his profits. R. Randolph, 927 Cen-
tury Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. 861

For Sale—Furniture and china busi-
ness, the only furniture business in busy
town of 5,000 inhabitants. Good factor-
ies, good farming country. Good rea-
sons for seling. Address P. O. Box 86,
Greenville, Mich. 853

For Sale—Furniture, carpet and wall
paper stock in a growing city of 10,000
population in Eastern Oregon. The only
tirst-elass furniture store and the only
one carrying carpets. Business estab-
lished ten years. Sales about $40,000
per annum. Will net 30 per cent. above
all expenses. Large business with the
neighboring towns. Stock will invoice
about $16,000, which can be reduced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

drug store, aucd|
farming country. No opposition. No
rent. Will sell cheap. Address C., care
Michigan Tradesman. 85

For Sale-—Country

 

For Sale—Cheap, or trade for any kind

of merchandise, a beautiful 400 acre
farm. Address Farmer, care Michigan
Tradesman, 855

 

For Sale—First-class grocery and meat
market in Whitng, Ind. Established 25
years; rent $35 per month; reason for
selling, other business to. attend to.
Price for fixtures and stock, $2,500. Ad-
dress Lock Box 166, Whiting, Ind. 849

For Sale—Dry goods stock. Also fur-
niture and fixtures. Enquire of L.
Bushnell, Northport, Mich. 852

For Sale—Wood working plant, Iron-
ton, Mo., with power equipment. Apply
W. Db. Biggers, 1120 Penobscot Bldg., De-
troit, Mich. 847

For Sale—Who wants my new modern
bukery, mixer, gas engine, freezers, etc.?

New stock, Will sell or rent. Weldon
Smith, Phone Citz. 145, Lowell, Mich.
845

 

For Sale—A new McCaskey No. 420
account register and supplies for $100,
regular price is $1380. Address F. A. C.
litis, Le Sueur Center, Minn. 835

For Sale— Well-established bakery in
thriving Western Michigan town. Trade
large and profits good. Reason for sell-
ing, owner has other business. John
Watkins, 815 Prospect St., Lansing, —

 

 

Grocery For Sale—In a town of 3,000
population, the best location in the city.
Doing the most profitable business on
least expense of any store in the town.
Sales run from $18,000 to $25,000 yearly.
Reason for selling, have outside inter-
ests that demand my attention. This is
a bargain. Write to-day. Address No.
833, care ‘Tradesman. 833

 

For Sale—General store, located Ill
miles N. W. Charlotte and 7 miles S. E.
Sunfield. Stock will inventory about
$3,500. Half interest in store building
$425. K. Bosworth & Son,  Sunfield,
Mich. 832

For Sale—In Idaho, stock of general
merchandise. $7,000 will handle it, fix-
tures, buildings and living rooms at-
tached. A chance for anyone wanting a
good business and healthy climate. Ad-
dress No. 830, care Tradesman. 830

Administrator’s Sale—Retail confec-
tionery business in best location in city,
well established; fine business. Price
reasonable. Address Mrs. E, C. Brogan,
116 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, Mich. 829

Business Opportunity—Grip has_ re-
duced my vitality. Doctors say must
rest. Have business worth $50,000. Will
sell all or half interest to right party
who will take active interest. Vernon
Miller, 150 Nassau St., New York. 841

For Sale—-$8,000 moneymaking under-

 

 

 

 

taking and house furnishing business,
established 7 years. Terms. Good lo-

eation. Reasonable rent. Owner retir-
ing. C. R. Temple, Douglas, Ariz. 838

 

Cash and reali estate to exchange for
stock of merchandise. Groceries pre-
ferred. Address C. T. Daugherty, R. D.
2, Charlotte, Mich. 769

$25 CASH PAID

to anyone giving me information about a shoe
store or shoe stock that can be bought cheap
for cash. Will invest from $1,000 to $5,000.

 

P. L. FEYREISEN & CO.

12 and 14 State St. Chicago.

 

For Sale—1,600 acres of land covered
with green timber in Missaukee Co.,
Mich. Land is level and fertile. Ad-
dress No. 768, care Michigan —

Wanted—Best prices paid for coffee
sacks, flour sacks, sugar sacks, ete. Ad-
dress William Ross & Co., 57 S. Water
St., Chicago, Il. 719

 

 

For Sale—Drug store in Southern
Michigan, town 1,500. Invoices $3,000.
Address No. 703, care Tradesman. 703

For Sale—Stock of hardware, imple-
ments, furniture and undertaking; a good
paying business; located in a railroad

 

 

Queen City Furniture Co., Baker City,
Ore, 860

division town of 2,500 population. Ad-
dress Box 71, Chadron, Neb. 816

Farm lands and acres for sale at
wholesale prices. L. A. Larsen Co., 215
Providence Bldg., Duluth, Minn. 837

 

For Sale—Store house and lot with
barns, stock of groceries and school sup-
plies. Also house and _ four lots, two
barns, ete. Reason for selling, old age.
Address L. Box 344, Montague, Mich.

814

 

Cold storage or produce man. I have
a splendid location for produce building
in best produce city in Michigan, 20,000
inhabitants. No cold storage in city.
Site adjacent to four railroads and
steamboat dock. I will build any kind
of a building to suit a reliable renter.
Long lease given. Bert Wilhelm, East}
Jordan, Mich. 785 |

 

 

Wanted—Tailor to locate in commun- |

ity of 3,000 to 4.000 people. Address |
Board of Trade, Montague, Mich. 804 |

 

Neat pencil holder, cigar cutter, com- |
pass, manicure, (over 20 uses). Dozen |
75c. Multiclip, McMechen, W. Va. 790
To Rent—Modern shoe store, 174x60;
feet, steel ceiling, oak shelving, base-|
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Mich. ia jf

G. B. JOHNS & CO.

 

 

AUCTIONEERS
GRAND LEDGE, MICH.
Just closed a very successful ten day reduc-

tion sale for T. D. Hobbs, Kalkaska, Mich.
Write them about it if you are interested.

 

Wanted—Stock general merchandise,
shoes or clothing. Address R. bi. 'Uhomp-
son, Galesburg, tll. 707

For Sale—One 200 book McCaskey ac-
count register, cheap. Address No. 548,
care Michigan Tradesman. 548

 

Tobacco habit cured or no cost. Ad-
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For Sale—Stock of groceries, boots,
shoes, rubber goods, notions and garden
seeds. Located in the best fruit belt in
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Must sell on account of other business.
Geo. Tucker, Fennville, Mich. 538

 

Cash for your business or real estate.
No matter where located. If you want
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HELP WANTED.

 

Wanted—Experienced ciothing sales
man, good reference required. Apply to

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85

Wanted—Salesman who has and can
make large money successfully placing
long-established specialty in various
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seeking legitimate profitable business
opening. 425 Putman Ave., Brooklyn,
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Wanted—Young dry goods man, some
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Bright, trustworthy, hustler, preferable
if speaking German, Norwegian. Well
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Wanted — Salesmen with established
trade to carry first-class line of brooms

 

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Salesman Wanted—To sell enameled

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handling. Pittsburg Stamping Co., Pitts-
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SITUATIONS WANTED. |

Wanted—By married man, position as
clerk in hardware store. Have had four-
teen years’ experience. Best of refernces.
Address E. E. Wonser, Hennepin, Tl.

863

 

 

 

 

 

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GRIFFITH AT LARGE.

One of the picturesque characters
of Detroit is Armand H. Griffith, for
many years Director of the Detroit
Museum of Art. While he is some-
what clear and honest in aesthetic
impulse and because of wide travel,
appreciative observation and more or
less study, he is something of an au-
thority in Art with a large A. He
can talk on almost any old topic—
for from fifteen to thirty minutes at
a time.

His free lectures at the Museum of
Art each Sunday afternoon have
come to be one of the institutions of
Detroit and have done more to pop-
ularize the Museum of Art and cause
the middle classes in the Michigan
metropolis to look upon it as an ed-
ucational institution always available,
gratis, to themselves and their chil-
dren than all the other influences
that have been summoned in behalf
of the establishment.

“Griff.” is self taught; one of those
energetic chaps who, forced to de-
pend from childhood upon his own
efforts, has developed a strong equip-
ment of self reliance and so is not
hide-bound as to some of the con-
ventionalities—social, artistic and the-
ological. Withal he is serene in the
courage of his convictions, however
he may have reached his decisions.

The other day “Griff.” was inter-
viewed by a Detroit newspaper as
to the Directoire gown, in which he
expressed himself with characteristic
plain speech and fervor as unequivo-
cally in favor of the sheath skirt and
gown. Incidentally, he poked fun at
the straight front corset-and at all
corset abominations as offenses
against decency, beauty and morals.

“Griff.” is fond of having opinions
and has a touch-and-go habit of voic-
ing them when suitable occasion of-
fers. Recently he appeared in Grand
Rapids to give one of his talks on
something or other, in which he took
occasion to lambaste the furniture
designers in Grand Rapids, charging
that all the orders in architecture are
seen in most incongruous juxtaposi-
tion—that isn’t the way, exactly, that
“Griff.” put it, but that is what he
meant to say—in the various ex-
amples of high grade Grand Rapids
furniture. He charged practically
that Corinthian capitals, with their
elaborate foliations, are seen wpon
Ionic columns, supporting Gothic
arches embellished with Doric deco-
rations; that Arabesque designs are
shown upon Greek pediments, with
plinths, pedestals, pilastens, brackets,
corbels, panels and all the rest hope-
lessly mixed as to orders, while the
vagaries of the Louis XVI., the Mis-
sion, the Colonial and the Morris
styles dance a mad rout in and out,
around and between the conglomera-
tions in the search of favor.

“Griff.” has made a fine record in
building up the Detroit Museum of
Art with its great lecture room, its
remarkably fine exhibit of industrial
and domestic implements, wearing
apparel and miscellaneous curios; its
instructive collection of casts, the
Scripp collection of alleged Old Mas-
ters and a small but fairly good ex-
hibit of modern paintings. And when,
on a Sunday afternoon, he gives a

 

talk on “The Origin of the Fan,” the
“War of the Roses,” the “Genesis of
Human Frailty,” or some _ other
equally trivial and interesting topic
that can be discussed while you wait,
he is in his element and covers more
ground in an entertaining fashion
than one has right to expect.

When, however, he bloviates in an
oracular way against the skill, the
education, the good taste and keen
appreciation of all artistic values of
the average furniture designer em-
ployed in Grand Rapids, he is talking
just sto ‘hear himself talk. He does
not know that these designers have
given and are giving their lives to
their art, that they are and have long
been students who are enthusiastic in
their chosen work; who command
salaries greater than the salaries paid
to the average art directors of art
museums and galleries, who make
semi-annual visits to the European
art centers as students and who
would no more think of committing
an architectural or an artistic blun-
der than would Mr. Griffith think of
putting up a lot of copies on the
walls of the Detroit Museum of Art
and listing them as originals. And
so, while there are lines of furniture
manufactured which show chronolog-
ical and artistic incongruities, they
are not designed and made in Grand
Rapids and the Tradesman challenges
Mr. Griffith to demonstrate the accu-
racy of his remarkable claim against
the “Made in Grand Rapids” artists
and artisans.

i
REACHING THE LIMIT.

A week ago in Chicago damages of
$1,000 were given by a jury in Judge
Gibbon’s court; a decision which es-
tablishes a precedent in Illinois and
reaches a limit far more important
in and outside that State than the
courts have heretofore set up.

On Nov. 25, 1904, Chullek com-
mitted suicide. For months before
he had been a patron of a certain sa-
loon and had lost his position at the
Illinois Steel Co.’s plant on account
of this patronage. It was charged
that Chullek, while under the influ-
ence of liquor obtained in the saloon,
committed suicide and the widow
sued the saloonkeeper and the Peter
Hand Brewing Co. Mrs. Chullek
declared that she went to the saloon
time after time and warned the keep-
er to refrain from selling or giving
liquor to her husband, but only to
have no heed given to her warning
and to be ordered to leave the place.

Admitting that the $1,000 was so
much more than the drunkard’s life
was worth, there is something in the
“thus far shalt thou come and no
farther” which makes men pause and
ponder. Has it come at last to this,
that the saloon and the power behind
it are to be responsible for the mis-
chief they have done, for the men
they kill? Is the cash value of a
drunkard $1,000; and with this for the
limit are the brewer and the vender
to be fined proportionately as the
victim veers from the standard
of drunkenness? At this rate what
was this drunkard’s life worth before
he patronized the saloon; before, for
instance, the wife” began to support
herself, the little 4-year-old and—the

 

story is an old one—her besotted
husband? Suppose—the conditions
are endless—he had lived five years
and then died, not a suicide, would
the $1,000 be then forthcoming? Yet
the same alcohol killed him through
the same agents; and the years of
suffering, of humiliation and shame
lived through by this devoted woman,
his wife, go for nothing; and they
are the things that count most.

Dropping all this, there is some-
thing else—a something that bodes
no good to these promoters of whole-’
sale destruction. This is a single in-
stance involving a verdict of $1,000,
with the addenda that “if we could
have shown that the brewing com-
pany was connected with the saloon-
keeper I think a greater amount
would have been given.” How many
men died drunkards last year? How
many during the last ten years?
There were more, but we will say
30,000. These lives worth each $1,000
amount to $30,000,000.

What of it?

Simply that again a limit has been
reached—this time to a power, a
passion, an appetite, the evil of which
for time untold has been disgrace and
misery and death. There is no need
of enlarging upon that. Confining it
all to the dying men themselves and
holding the saloon responsible at
$1,000 a man will put a stop to what
has never yet been stopped, the busi-
ness of filling graves with men for
$1,000 apiece where until now it has
been done for nothing.

——_
Armour’s Fight For Water Soaked
Sausage.

Lansing, July 14—Pork Sausage,
beef sausage, sausage containing ce-
real and added water, and sausage
without the alleged adulterants are
on exhibit in the Circuit Court to be
used as evidence in the Armour &
Co. case brought against State Dairy
and Food Commissioner Bird and his
assistants to restrain them from
threatening to prosecute the cus-
tomers of the company because it in-
sists on selling adulterated sausage.

An alcohol lamp and a small] cook-
ing dish also Occupy a place in the
court room and it is probable that
the State’s attorneys will cook sau-
sage before the case is concluded.

Not all of the Sausage on exhibit
was manufactured by Armour & Co.
A part of it was made by other firms
and it is stated that some of this does
not contain cereal. All of the Ar-
inour & Co. sausage contains cereal,
it is said, and it is claimed that it
makes the sausage more palatable.

Forty-one persons have testified
for the State up to date and thirty-
one witnesses have been on the stand
for the company. It is probable that
the last of the State’s witnesses will
D€ sworn this aftermoon or to-mor-
row morning.

The company may introduce rebut-
tal evidence. If this is done, it is
anticipated that the case will occupy
the remainder of the week.

2+» _
The Grain Market,

All grains have been strong the
past week, wheat advancing about 4c
per bushel, corn 3c and oats I@2c,
with a better shipping demand both

 

for export and local trade. The visi-
ble supply of wheat the past week
shows a decrease of 361,000 bushels,
which brings the present visible sup-
ply down to 13,471,000 bushels, as
compared with 47,086,000 bushels for
the same period last year. The visi-
ble supply in corn for the week jin-
creased 233,000 bushels, making the
present visible supply 3,256,000 bush-
els, compared with 8,329,000 bushels
last year. Oats decreased for the
week 634,000 bushels, bringing the
present visible supply to 2,090,000
bushels as compared with 5,364,000
bushels last year.

The wheat situation is puzzling
just at present. The new crop will
undoubtedly move quite freely at
present prices, and on the other hand
the Northwest threatens to reduce
their estimate on the coming crop
very materially, and in the meantime
the prices are strong and advancing.

Corn and oats have both been con-
sidered high through the year, but
the advance of the past few days has
put a new crink in the back of feed-
ers and it would seem that these
values would curtail the consumption
to a certain extent.

Millfeeds are higher again, West-
ern ‘bran and middlings advancing
about 75¢ per ton in sympathy with

coarse grains. L. Fred Peabody.
22-2
Business Changes in the Buckeye
State.

Bucyrus—A furniture store will be
opened by A. Adams.

Dayton—W, P. March & Son, hard-
ware dealers, have made an assign-
ment.

Roseville—The Wabash Pottery
Co. has been incorporated with a cap:
ital stock of $10,000.

Ashland—Frank Zehner has sold
his meat market to Hiram Ewing.

Derwent—C. B. McCoy succeeds
J. W. Lanning in the general mer-
chandise business.

Hamilton—Adolph Herrman -has
sold his drug stock to Bert Hepherd.

Lisbon—Martin S. Welch, manu.
facturer of paint, has suffered a loss
by fire.

Marysville—The grocery firm of
Opphile & Conrad has been dissolved,
Mr. Opphile continuing same.

Hamilton—Schuler & Sloneker are
succeeded in the confectionery and
bakery business by B. S. Bartlow.

Kirby—Krock & Stark, grocers,
have dissolved partnership, W.. T.
Stark continuing same.

——~>+2.___

Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes at Buffalo.

Buffalo, July 15—Creamery, fresh,
21@)23c; dairy, fresh, 16@2oc; poor to
common, 14@16c.

Eggs—Strictly fresh candled, 19@
2Tc.

Live Poultry — Fowls, I1@ti2c;
ducks, I0@12c;_ geese, 9@I0c; old
cox, 8@oc; broilers, 18@2o0c.

Dressed Poultry—Fowls, 12@13c;
old cox, 9@Ioc.

Beans—Marrow, hand-picked, $2.35
@2.50; medium, hand-picked, $2.50;
pea, hand-picked, $2.60@2.65; red
kidney, hand-picked, $1.75@1.80;
white kidney, hand-picked, $2.25@
2.40.

Potatoes—-New, $3.25 per bbl.

Rea & Witzig.

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Better sell 50 cents worth for 48 cents, or put the two pennies in the package where they will be

seen and thus
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