ae tes “CALE ROERE PL IIR ee LOS SRI & PRS ye Bee NO) : 7 (OG SEO INTE "4 , a oy) “' CaN wea A A ‘i Le y AS WY a: 4 ye Ve ON \ LEP Ep © GSE OG RY ‘ rs Y, oF AAR es anes mS RCE a f NaS oP we he & 2 FG, raat = ao UE PVRS a y EX NAN) AS 3 Oe) PASS WE (CR > H 4, , U S . . a C= Lt PEED awe J Le ey OAR Ne S, eS PUBLISHED WEEKLY (GN oS ates $2 PER YEAR £ SIS Tae: : Pes LISS ES Twenty-Fifth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1908 Number 1296 A “Square Deal” 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 about 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 }| TOASTED 2] CORN a . FLAKES | | : and are looking for this signature on the package Toasted Corn Flake Co., Battle Creek, Michigan ond —— = Fs cs Ly F im” Y \ x a hs a s! OI) ee ery ars EON ae aca Gi ahr ee ak SOLA es Be aca ara % 7 A [pts Ne ee ATU “Ss 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 isa 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. WORDEN GROCER COMPANY Grand Rapids, Mich. The Prompt Shippers On account of the Pure Food Law there is a greater demand than ever for w% w& #% #% st ot 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. #% wt ° The Williams Bros. Co. Manufacturers Picklers and Preservers Detroit, Mich. Every Cake of FLEISCHMANN’S YELLOW 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. Nakes Clothes Whiter-Work Easier-Kitchen Cleaner. NY AID) eerina "GOOD GOODS — GOOD PROFITS. si ‘ nea i ‘ 2. llth ee LAY xy ak ) 4 SIGs a) ae CHIGAN: Ne Dis SEN) GRAND RAPIDS, IRADESMAN 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 beeame operative July first and will be under the same successful management as the present eombined banks. For atime the old quarters Of both institutions will be maintained: The Kent County Savings Bank, eorner 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 GRAND RAPIDS INSURANCE AGENCY THE McBAIN AGENCY FIRE The Leading Agency Commercial Credit G0., Lid. Credit Advices and Collections MICHIGAN OFFICES Murray Building, Grand Rapids Majestie Building, Detroit ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR .Late State Food Commissioner Grand Rapids, Mich. Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and | jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corre- spondence invited. 2321 Mafestic Building, Detroit, Mich. TRACE 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 SPECIAL FEATURES. ~~ The Boy Rash. News of the Business World. Grocery and Produce Markets. Comb Department. Editorial. Review of the Shoe Market. Woman’s World. i 12. 1 Butter, Eggs and Provisions. 1 “Olid Saurkraut.’ 18. Stoves and Hardware. Interurban Railway. - Political Discussions. The Commercial Traveler. mF NOWOD+NOWHAUNHN,- Drugs Brug Price Current. Grocery Price Current. 80. Special Price Current. MPM NMMhNd - oS TO RAISE RAILROAD RATES. The railroads are about to raise freight rates as much as Io per cent in many instances. The cause assign ed for the advance at a time when conimerce is still suffering more or less from last fall’s financial panic will certainly not appeal very strong- i: the Sreat mass ot Ssnippers, which includes the great majority ol people. The ratlroads claim that with decreased traffic and in- reased lab dT pniie Eres rn expenses due to higher paid and enhanced cost of all sup- their net earnings hi shrunk that they | a tain their credit and their ability to borrow money needed for improve. ments and extensions. The increased cost of labor the railroads claim it is impossible to cut down, owing to the power of the la bor unions, backed by the Govern ment; and the higher cost of sup plies can not be reduced because the manufacturers furnish supplies . ' ine the must charge higher prices owing to the {Oo pay their ] + aces Thar larger wages they are compelled laborers. The railroads, oe aa 1] : adele WIErelOre, COOllyY propose to saddle all these increased costs upon the un fortunate freight payers. has to pay the greater prosperity of labor and make good the losses of the railroads and manufacturers, and that somebody is the general public Something is radically wrong in our industrial and railroad system when, in times of poor trade and money stringency, freight rates and Or- work increased. not exists labor charges must be dinary economic laws do that thing very way, hence there some abnormal, if the railroads The umplicitl y bel are to be believed. companies are not to be lieved, however, as it is a well-known fact that the railroads were the first to ‘cut down the number of their em- | ployes and reduce expenses to meet the shrinking traffic the panic. | Jf ficult to panic to be would resulting from tic they have found it dif borrow money during the period, and are still compelled content with than they like, their experience is not very different from that of most oth- er people. The } a 1@s'S main trouble with the © rail- Somebody }% roads has been that during the perio jee ssed a na Wi ) one by of great business development ind | contract : 1 1 i Hu 23 | expansion they stretched their credit QO s be Le ‘ t. to the limit and incurred much new | 1}, those t s be se every | eal ey . fe ta ca +} pe 1 Indebtedness fOr extensions that Nave | ¢!} r wie Dy 1 \ not paid as handsomely S was ex-| : rOt « he 6 Nanase A VY « we \"\ FATES SVS 1 pected. Being in many cases over i ee at - FLéeo \ I Miel xs lapitalized, they ive sSudierea th n- } ‘ : 1 2 \ r ‘ \ thy peop hy Cvitwoi.e CONSEQUCHCeES OF SUCH COR! a i V ) ) d¢ ‘ tions, and must now retrench and| + 1 _ ee ‘ 1 < tt E Cut their coat more in keepine with |} + i. | t SHICSS £ 1 ete. g nt £ nerea ino | : their cloth. Instead ot increasing | 4 1. fe : fs OT CT I nt pot fey ] ped Sete ee: freight rates and imposing add ' I>, | th i \ \ 3 { i 1 4 a vee : burdens upon business, which ae iN C i { ) ~ ~ ~ ; mess can scarcely bear the plein ; : a +... Beta . t 1 4 eee should endeavor to increase the : ak 1 eo he by improving their facilit ae . . ae ; pul SOU] 1 i giving shippers more considerat OFF [ici a | \n increase in rates would be resent- | 1 < nt yc ¢ ] 1 S iS Ty Ss butt it pres ec 1 prosperow m1¢ ) t pl | : : 4 : 1 Hlay oD , in Hew I 1) ent, with business but barely show-| ; ! | + { } ¢ 1 t socia ( wit ing a revival from the panic, the pro- | , , | : - : | 1 ohts may \ . |posed increase will be fought in every | 7? | or ie n WOTTT ) - Ting in ;POssibie Way | Ciin.g | { } } \ } \ | 1 1 Chat the railroads have suffered 1 \ / 1 i | 103 to tO \ ye lo tee trom 1 Ld VIS¢ rislatyu Sti af | - 1uUEs : iprobable enough, but now th th , ' j ) \ 1) 11S growine up a disposition 7.4 \ ( ~ ( ak i : ' tire rcaS Wi h SPFEALET - ¢ st I 1 1 a it 4 : } 1 1 ‘ = ae. : it would be very bad policy to awa | : J i i VV < pp \ \ il incite resentment by imposing n a ‘ 1 11 - ( % 1 1 1 a } ( ' a@aawt1ona Dur aen pol EVENT y LIS 1 ae f 1 i i 1 nds Ss Oo exel fHeSS Man in the country il vod : < nv ost what he masses who consume the i S eeceor x 1 ansported, amd thus revis evils : " 4 I 1 ne why t ive hostility melt cs 1 ie i wl \ \ S LITY E ce : py : SOCIAL EQUAL ITY ri It Pew persons realize that w A Operation Ny iris CGimine tO a time when there willl‘ { May be wrought t as a be no personal service , mo . 1 . me . + —_——— Che general diffusion of the Amet oe : : Dhis is the seaa fF + ve. hey cam idea of equality Very p ° year Wer . ; : : wees : : : ‘tad 1 c Son 1S socially 1S wee ee yey yo Uy pe ) eX ( 1 wnserves On Peal eat nia . the al 1s| SO0d as every other person w i? ae Lanee 1 plea { 1] a : | ut hey \ oOo tired and ed a Phany Create SUCH Opposition t6 ail | ; : Be 4 E oe 4 a : ;reSst B hy surde tte wh ) S \\ i PCESOHaAlL Service LEyae Tt Ww COME | " 1 r } } t.. ip ( adoes no helieve 2469 , an end. 4 : ’ ue } ‘ } re tatem ) he cas He says Nobody wants to have menial tasks |uy.. _. | u i * | : | You re 1O 1 | k OO) tO €f en performed for them by their s Epis ce ot rt i zt 4 cs c ° a 1 * ie » 8 be i ~ t?) equais he Gea OF SIiVinge yrders 4 1 t p act Or ne contine t co restit + ae decyl a wey) + 1 - tO} your e€quats im social rank is ce ' A ' . = il 1 € SOs to fainiy most ispleasing to those t 1 4. 14 ee : ind the house all day; snooze in a whom the commands are siven |;,. 4 ar 1 pas 3 i ‘ n ae ) ckiIng tall Therefore, with the universal dissem 4 ’ og : i : 20 to sleep o I wok Phat is ination Of “book learning” and of ti t +] 1] esting s loafing. Tell yo he +1 ait } dea MF ea LITG TE Wi D¢ n ae, ] ; | 1 a #3 self hor \ ke to think ye sody left to perform menial services,|... 1. 1 a oe 1 bol = G@ yo GVEY ft y > 1 SG that well have no cooks, hous ¢ ! 4 2 1 re Set { a WilO PREECE FCSTEG naids ( thers wl | ersonal ‘ ind others who do persona Did you ever see a loafer who did service not look tired a time? | DE Therefore our houses will have to}]ple who try to rest ar lways tired j i are Y¢ constructed tO TWreet the demands R¢ SEHIG9 4S the | i dest Wt IX 1 I aad SS 1) 6: 4 : | ] 4 iat ‘ ana science will furnish the service. |w d, when yt make work out of By touching a button, or turnine lit. You e no need to \ . / : ae : faucet, we will have light, heat or|Sunday [wo hours in ch two - . « * + . + fans and iced beverages, while s hihours of t quiet: the sermon: | « . | . 1 1 . food as we may require will arrive | Feadina: the Ip which comes tron my a “dunk waiter” ond Coa ao ac a Be : vi 1uMm’D Waller, and we wt get | cs New ¢ mnets mto whic yout | it on the table for ourselves. There | ought, your mind, is led, will res “4 +. } } will he no ashes to be removed Di physically, morally, intel- no garbage and slops. The dust ne ly, than. w all the day spen be blown out of our houses by com-]in trying to ‘res ee THE BOY RASH. A Disease Which Must Necessarily Run Its Course. Written for the Tradesman. The circumstances are these: A family in Grand Rapids were gather- ed around the breakfast table and in the middle of the repast the tele- phone gave a persistent call. The servant answred it and an instant after came to say that the young man of the family was called for. That person immediately went to the instrument, where a period of con- versational ragtime followed, and only the closing of the breakfast room door put a stop to the intense nausea, which the telephone talk cre- ated. The closing of the door gave an opportunity for the expression of certain ideas and here they are: “That girl at the other end of the line calls up Tom about fifty times a day. It began about half an hour after he got home from school in June and she’s kept it going ever since. After she gets through and before he has finished his breakfast there will be another and then at least half a dozen others standing ready to get the use of the wire, un- til I should think he would begin to get as sick of it and them as I am. “What do they want? As Tom says, ‘Search me!’ I’ve tried to find out and have given it up. It is too much of a conundrum. I have _ at last settled down into the conviction that the city is full of girls of the curfew age who have broken out with the boy rash, a disease that like other fevers must run its course, and nothing- but the most rigorous. and vigorous home treatment can stop it or even keep it within bounds. “Home treatment! I wonder if there is such a thing any longer. When I was a girl if I had run aft- er the boys as girls do now I should have been the town’s talk and trounc- ed for a tomboy, just as these girls ought to be. The eighth grade—there is number two; she’s always trying to ‘make a date’ with Tom and the mo- tor—is the time for breaking out. The dresses are lengthened then and the hair is coiled up for the first time and fastened. The girls begin to gather at each other’s homes and the boys are invited to come and spend the evening and go home with them. From that time on it’s tag- ging and hanging on to the boys un- til school becomes a place only for having a good time and home the place for the telephone. The Riggses had their phone taken out because Jack’s girls(!) pestered them all so they couldn’t stand another day of it. Oh, if these mothers—’ There Tom came to finish his breakfast and the animated monologue came to an end. Making due allowance for the out- pouring of long-suppressed emotion, it remains a question whether the mothers are the only ones to blame for the undesirable condition of things. It’s all very well for Tom’s mother to find fault with Susan Jane’s mother; but she knows, as well as the rest of us know, that, if Tom had a sister and Susan Jane a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN brother the same nonsense would go right on in the same houses and over the same phone. Everybody’s chil- dren does it and they are going to do it until that same _ everybody makes up its mind that he or she has had enough. Candidly public opinion sanctions just this thing, ex- actly as it sanctions other forms of foolishness which society laughs at, deplores and finally stops. That the girls are bold, forward and rude; that the ‘boys—even Tom’s mother’s boy—are getting beyond control is nothing to the purpose. Tom’s man- hood is on a par with “his girl’s womanhood and both are painfully lacking in all that belongs to good breeding. The coarseness of the one and the other’s lack of gentleness are from the same piece and they are telling some very unpleasant stories of the home life that tolerates them. Finally, brethren} it is well to re- member that this same American home life is full of the worthiest pessibilities and will be found equal to any emergencies barring its way. The boy is rough, the girl is independent; but the kindness of heart which both possess—it is the American home atmosphere—will see to it that the rowgh reaches its limit and that the independence, worn gracefully later on, will be the wom- an’s, the mother’s greatest chanm. What if they do say foolish things over the phone? What if they do be- gin to talk with “Say!” and brighten their conversation with bets from “a dollar” to “your life!’ We know that in time they will “cut it out” and that the world in their day is going to be a little better than ours is now! Richard Malcolm Strong. _——__-o2-—————_ Development of the Ice Cream Cone Industry. The ice cream cone is distinctly a modern institution. Who invented it, what bright mind thought it out is not recorded. It is not patented. No royalty is figured in its cost to pro- ducer or consumer. It is somebody’s gift to mankind and so wonderfully popular has it become that it is look- ed upon as almost as necessary an accessory to the church picnic as the pickles or the pie. The great field for the cone, however, is at the cir- cus, the fair, the public celebration and at the street corner stand. Tihe cone solves the problem of dishes and spoons. It makes the eating of ice cream easy, and they are so easily made and cheap that the cone can be given with the goods and still leave a margin of profit. According to Matthew T. Mc- Namara, of the Valley City Brick and Bulk Ice Cream Co., the ice cream cone had its first introduction to the public on a large scale at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. Its first appearance here was. at the West Michigan State Fair in the fall of 1405. “Some of the outside conces- sioners brought in a supply and used them in selling ice cream to the crowd,” said Mr. McNamara a_ few days ago. “They seemed to meet with much favor alike as a novelty and a convenience. My son was at the fair and urged me to add cones to our line. It was then too late in the season to do anything, but I told him if nobody else took hold the next spring I would try it. No one else did tackle it and I went in. The sales were big from the very start. It seemed as though the world had just been waiting for something like this. My banner month that season was 140,000 cones. The total production for the summer was something like half a million, which was not bad for an absolutely new article. I sold be- tween 100,000 and 150,000 cones a month last season and am doing about the same this year. My pro- duction does not now represent the entire output as it did two years ago, however. There are half a dozen others, and perhaps more, making them, mostly Syrians. The produc- tion is probably something like a quarter of a million a month during the midsummer . In the winter the business is practically dead. This city does not by any means consume all the ice cream cones made here. We ship the goods to all parts of Michigan and even into Indiana and Ohio. The summer resorts take a great many of them. The fair, farm- ers’ picnic, reunions, carnivals «and similar functions create a great de- mand for them. The demand _ is steadily growing, but the business is getting split up as competition in the production develops.” Ice cream cones are made of eggs, sugar, flour and a little flavoring ex- tract. The materials are stirred into a thin batter and are cooked or fried in a special waffle iron. When _ it comes out of the iron it is simply 2 thin sheet of perforated pastry. A quick turn of the wrist converts it in- to a cone and in this form it soon hardens and becomes brittle. The irons are usually arranged in a group or gang of three or four over gas jets and a couple of operatives work- ing lively will turn out 3,000 to 5,000 a day. They sell to the trade at about $1 per. hundred. —_—_——— He who sells out his friends lays his own soul on the bargain counter. When in want of Steam Engines, Boilers, Gas Engines Gas Producers, Air Compressors Address TURNER & NORTON Phone 1583 413 Murray Building Grand Rapids, Mich. CASH CARRIERS That Will Save You Money In Cost and Operation Store Fixtures and Equipment for Merchants in Every Line. Write Us CURTIS-LEGER FIXTURE CO. levard, Chicago Knife or Pain Dr. Willard M4. Burleson 103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids Booklet free on application Largest Hestooive Furniture Store in the World When you're in town be sure and call. Illustra- tions and prices upon application. Klingman’s Sample Furniture Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. lonia, Fountain and Division Sts. Opposite Morton House 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 Corl, Knott & Co., Ltd. 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. [DEALCATHNGG GRAND RAPIOS, MICH. z = = AREAS Laine ater see Business Changes in the Buckeye State. Coshocton—The stock in the Rip- peth dry goods store has been pur- chased by Thompson & McKeown. Mr. Rippeth will remain with the new firm for a few days and then will engage in another line of busi- ness after a vacation. Ashlayd--F. J. Bockley has sold his drug stock to W. B. Cousin. New Paris—Maurice Sullivan suc- ceeds T. J. Samuel ‘& Son in the meat market business. Hamilton — Shuler & Sloneker, bakers, are succeeded in business by Bert S. Bartlow. Cincinnati -- The American Glass 3eveling Co. has been incorporate:l with a capital stock of $10,000. Cincinnati-—-W. A. Juliam has sold an interest in the Cincinnati Shoe Co. to Walter J. Wichgar. Cleveland —- The Wilson’ Dress Hook Co. thas been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. Lancaster--S. Thomas will con- tinue the business formerly conduct- ed by the Davis Skirt Store. Marietta—A corporation has been formed under the style of the Burns Oil Co. Oberlin—Geo. W. Preston has sold his interest in the bakery business of Hobbs & ‘Preston. Seaman—The Seaman Creamery Co. ‘has been incorporated with a capital stock of $61,000. Shelby—A corpration has been formed under the style of the Shelby Canning Co., which has an authoriz- ed capital stock of $20,000. Spencerville—Mr. Haas will con- tinue the grocery and meat business formerly conducted by Haas & Champ. Toledo—A corporation has been formed under the style of the Heart of Wheat Cereal Co. Toledo—Raab Bros. & Rall are succeeded in the shoe business by B. R. Baker & Co. . Warren—The Hitchcock Motor Co. has been incorporated with an author- ized capital stock of $20,000. Wellsville—J. H. Doutt has pur- chased the dry goods stock of J. J. Dowling, Youngstown—The capital stock of the Leather Shop Co. thas been in- creased to $30,000. Cleveland—The Graham Linen Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. Cleveland—A corporation has been formed under the style of the Wm. I. Hart Co. to conduct a_ general merchandise business, with a capital stock of $25,000. Dayton —- The Nine Ninety-eight Clothing Parlor Co. thas been. incor- porated with a capital stock of $10,- ooo. Defiance — The grocery business formerly conducted by Martin & Krotz will be continued by F. Krotz. Akron—The Williams Foundry & Machine Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $75,000. Akron—A petition has been filed to have the Globe Sign & Paper Co. adjudicated bankrupt. Bridgeport—Jas. Moses has made MICHIGAN an assignment of his general stock, his liabilities amounting to $16,000. Dayton—The Boring Cash Register Co. has been incorporated with a cap- ital stock of $50,000. Elyria—M. L. Gove has sold his stock of notions to J. N. Dixon. Lima—The Lima Mattress Co.has been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000. —_—_+2.—_— Trade Changes in the Hoosier State. New Palestine—Geo. Minicials ‘has opened a general merchandise store. North Vernon—Alexander Bros., of Seymour, will open a new gro- cery. Anderson—A new drug store has been opened by Chas. Bowlin. Anderson—The Westcott Carriage Co., of Richmond, will move its fac- tory here. Rising Sun—Lew Thorn will con- tinue the drug business formerly conducted by Thorn & Richardson. Richmond—The American Seeding Machine Co. is consolidating the business of its New York and Ken- tucky factories here, giving employ- ment to 750 hands. Moores Hill—The Jennings Drug Co. will be succeeded by Ripple & Roetig, of Cincinnati, about Sep- tember TI. Richmond—Clem Thislewaite has purchased the drug stock of Quigley & Babylon, M. J. Quigley purchasing the drug stock of Hiatt & Co. Greenvield—The Barrett Plevator Co. has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $16,000. Marion—A corporation thas been formed under the style of the Marion Drug Co. Boonville — The bakery business formerly conducted by L. Kuntzman & Son will be continued by Geo. Kuntzman. Farmersbure—The meat business formerly conducted by L. D. Ogden will be continued by Ogden & John- ston, Logansport—Carpenter ‘& Schmidt are succeeded in the grocery and meat business by W. H. Carpenter. Mishawaka—A_ confectionery store has just been opened by Nardi & Co. Pierceton—Frederick Kline is suc- ceeded in the general merchandise busines by Monroe Dill. Washington—W. C. Betts has pur- chased the drug stock of J. N. Jones. Hammond — Mike Lukowski is about to emgage in the shoe business. Tipton—Wm. Smitson has engag- ed in the hardware business. Waveland—Henry and Alex. Moore have sold their grocery stock to Frank and Tom McNutt. Richmond—C. C. Allen will soon open a furniture store. Rising Sun—A new canning factory has ben started here. Anderson—P. J. O’Mearo has en- gaged in the drug business. Geneva—Mr. Acker will continue the clothing business formerly con- ducted by Acker & Teeple. Indianapolis—The Columbia Meter Co. has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $10,000. LaPorte—James Petrulos is about to engage in the confectionery busi- ness. New Castle—A grocery and meat TRADESMAN market is to be opened by Jack Ves- tral. South Bend—M. V. Wilkinson & Co. are about to engage in the gro- cery business. Spiceland -- Isaac Popp contem- plates opening a bakery here. Washington—M. L. succeeded in the undertaking — busi- ness by Foreman & Beck. ——_.-2.___ Steepest Railway in Europe. A remarkable mountain railway runs up to the Virgil terrace on the River Eisach in the Tyrol, and it is the steepest railway known to Eu- rope, far surpassing in this regard the famous Vesuvius railway with a gradient of 62 per cent. and the Men- del railway with a gradient of 64 per cent. In the upper section of the new railway the gradient reaches 70 per cent. while the remainder has a gradient of 66 per cent. Neverthe- less the general structure and brakes of the new railway are said to have less strain than the others which are not so steep. This is because its cars are smaller and because it dis- 3onham is penses with the compensating rope which gives much on the Vesuvius railway. The car is divided into four compartments and two _ platforms, with the outer compartments open and the inner closed. There is seat- ing accommodation in the four com- partments for thirty-two passengers. Engineer E. Strub, of Zurich, who designed the ingenious construction, has carried the railway from the lower station in a westerly direction over a curve 275 yards radius, and then straight up to the Virgil look- out. Here, in connection with the rail- way station, are a large restaurant and large terraces. The lookout is ; great attraction to visitors, and has drawn from 500 to 1,000 visitors daily since the opening of the remarkable railway. —_~++->—___ You are not likely to do much for the poor fellow on the Jericho road if you are anxious for the approval of the Pharisee. HOW TO PAY BILLS Send for sample page and description of our Business Record and Bill Register. Keeps perfect record of all bills, how and when to pay them. Model Ledger Co., 240 S. Mich. St., South Bend, Ind. STRIKE while the iron is hot. Don’t wait until your business suffers or a mem- ber of your family falls ill. Order that telephone NOW. “Use the Bell’ CALL oe 3 H. LEONARD & SONS Wholesalers and Manufacturers’ Agents Crockery, Glassware, China Gasoline Stoves, Refrigerators Fancy Goods and Toys GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN G. J. Johnson Cigar Co. Ss. C. W. El Portana Evening Press Exemplar These Be Our Leaders Our registered guarantee under National Pure Food Laws is Serial No. $0 Walter Baker & Co.’s Ze Chocolate \) a & Cocoa 4 Our Cocoa and Choco- late preparations are ABSOLUTELY FPurRE—- free from ccioring matter, chemical gol- al vents, or adulterants . of any kind, and are oeeintereds therefore in full con- formity to the requirements of all National and State Pure Food Laws 48 HIGHEST AWARDS in Europe and America Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Established 1780, Dorchester, Mass. HOLLAND RUSK? (Prize Toast of the World) moves off the shelves so fast, even active flies don’t get achance to alight. Then with a_ sub- stantial profit on every package, don’t you think it’s the kind you ought to sell? Put in a stock to- day and make more money. Holland Rusk Co. ’ Holland, Mich. Retails Marg9ou3 "Aan RSX com SSRs CE NE i Pt ICON T eotcncrenncenma ite, csepressare: a TR AO TN ee iris en pti cap nse ernemerneneny pemmennntes A 2 FN ES EIT AES Ca mys een wR oe pre ras vere et Canc anarente earpiece oeotae MICHIGAN TRADESMAN STH Maes a = e— £5: Movements of Merchants. Bay City—Jos. Nevieu, grocer, has suffered a loss by fire. Ahmeek—A general store will be started by Felix Orsolao. Lansing—A ci opened by L. E Hudson—Wm. engage in the hardware business. Three Rivers—F. A. Place has sold his shoe stock to C. G. Messenger. Wolverine—H. R. Stevenson, of Gaylord, will install a stock of jew- elry here. Watervliet--C. E. Forster is suc- ceeded in the meat business by F. B. Dustin. Adrian—The Eclipse Fabric Glove & Mitten Co.’s factory has begun operations. East Jordan—George A. Bell has purchased the grocery stock of the J. Hanson Co. Carson City—H. B. McMullen is succeeded in the meat business by E. A: Baker. Cheboygan—J gar store has’ been . Driscoll. Garbe 1s about to S. Ritter cery business. Detroit—G. W. French has pur- chased the bankrupt jewelry stock of John Hellerich. Cheboygan—The Hub Mercantile Co. is the name of the firm that will succeed T. Taylor. Ann Arbor—The Newton & Hag- erty Ladder Co., of Detroit, will re- move to this place. Say City—-John Emery is succeed- ed in the grocery and meat business by Elmer Greenleaf. Cheboygan-—Fred Steiner has again engaged in the meat business under the style of Steiner & Son. “Allegan—Glenn D. Gordon will con- tinue the undertaking business form- erly conducted by J. M. Gordon & Son. Kalamazoo—F. FE. Bryant, former- lv identified with the Model Baking Co., will engage in the bakery busi- ness. Adrian--Upon petition of creditors, Abram Wing has been appointed re- ceiver for the United States Safety Razor Co. Cheboygan—Geo. E. Frost has pur- chased the store property of E. § Taylor, but not the stock of groceries contained. therein. Pontiac—Purser & Harris have purchased the grocery of Aldrich & faughman and will continue the | business at the same location. Crystal—Smith ®& Naldrett, who formerly conducted the business of | the Crystal Pharmacy, have dissolv- ed, J. D. Smith continuing the same. | Calumet—The new warehouse and | cold storage plant of the Lake Su-| Ta aes a a TOUTS es 'Phin Smit! | 5 il] t “or : Shoe Store wi 7 De succeed J. H. Barrowchiff in the gro- | _ sais aoe Store |W i an : ‘carried on under the style of Smith’s istock of $2,600, all of “perior Cold Storage Co. has been completed and is now being occupied by the owners. Jailey——-A. M. Barnum and Freder- ick Barnum have purchased the drug and grocery stock of A. W. Fenton and will continue the business under the style of Barnum Bros. Cheboygan—P. S. Taylor has sold his stock of groceries and crockery to D. J. McDonald, of the Hub Mer- cantile Co., who will continue busi- ness at the newly acquired stand. Three Rivers—C. A. Fellows has sold the stock of drugs at one of his stores to R. B. Campbell, of Hills- dale. He will continue business at the other store for the present. Jackson— The business of the Union Wall Paper & Paint Co. and that of Harry C. and George A. Nich- olls has been consolidated, Messrs. Nicholls taking the management of the same. Lowell — The business formerly conducted under the name of the Cash Shoe Store, the spot cash policy having been adopted. Ann Arbor—The Schuh Veach Co. has been incorporated to conduct a plumbing and heating business. The corporation has an authorized capital which has been subscribed, $100 being paid in in cash and $2,500 in property. Jackson—McLaughlin, Ward & Co., dealers in produce, have merged their business into a stock company under the same style, with an authorized \capital of $50,000, of which amount $37,000 has been subscribed, $2,048 being paid in in cash and $34,952 ‘in property. Battle Creek—The drug business conducted by Charles P. Baker un- der the name of the Baker Drug Co. ‘has been merged into a stock com- ‘pany under the same style, with an authorized capital stock of $6,000, all of which has been paid in in property. subscribed and Hudson—A ruptured blood vessel |in the head caused the sudden death jof James H. Dwyer, a 'grocer and G. A. R. man Tuesday. He prominent was formerly a traveling salesman .and well known in Michigan. He was '64 years old and leaves a | three daughters and one son. widow, Detroit—The firm of F. J. Schwan- -kovsky '& Co., music dealers, has re- |Organized as a corporation, the name being changed to the F. J. Schwan- ‘kovsky Co. The capital stock is $400,000, all of the 20,000 shares of preferred being held by Mr. Schwan- kovsky. The remainder is held by F. J. Schwankovsky, Jr., and Julie de St. Vrain Schwankovsky. Sault Ste. Marie—August 6 is the idate set for the annual butchers’ and grocers’ excursion. The steamers Fortune and Huron will carry the crowds to Hilton, where the day will | be spent. The Algonquin band will | furnish music and a programme of |sports will probably be one of ethe features. Last year the boat was not large enough to handle all the people who wanted to take in the excursion. The crowd numbered about 800 and a large number were left behind. The boats chartered this year, however, have a capacity of 1,550 people, which should be suffi- cient to care for all who wish to go. Detro't—James Wikliam Caldwell, for the last twenty-two years pro- prietor of the drug store at Grand River avenue and High street, and one of the best known druggists in the city, died at his home, to Lincoln avenue, Monday afternoon of heart trouble, from which he had suffered for some time. Four weeks ago Mr. Caldwell went on a trip to Newfound- land in the hope that his health would be improved, but returned home two weks ago in a worse con- dition than when he went away. Since his return to the city he had been confined to his bed. Mr. Caldwell was born in Torento, Ont., sixty-two years ago, and came to this. city when he was 18 years of age. He was a well known member of Detroit Lodge, No. 2, F. & A. M. and is survived by two daughters, Miss Florence L. Caldwell and Mrs. Wil- liam Rhyndres. Sauit Ste. Marie—-The sentiment in the Soo in opposition to street car- nivals has found expression at Es- canaba by an ordinance passed by the city council which puts a prac- tically prohibitive license fee upon carnival companies operating in that city. The cost of operating a street carnival in Escanaba hereafter will amount to $475 per week, which is regarded as more than any carnival company could afford to pay. This action was the result of a request of the Escanaba Business Men’s Asso- ciation, which has taken the stand that such attractions are a detriment rather than a benefit to any town. The argument used is that the great bulk of the money spent during such a carnival is taken from town by the carnival company putting on the show, and that only a mere pittance is given the local organization which stands sponsor for the performance. The additional argument is also used, and we think with great force, that carnivals of this sort have come to have a most demoralizing effect up- on the communities in which they are given, leading directly to excess and immoralities which can not be con- doned by the moral sense of any law- abiding and respectable city. A direct illustration of this tendency may be found in the fact that the Order of :lks, under whose auspices carnivals had the greatest vogue, have denounced the practice and made it impossible for such a carni- val to be conducted under the aus- pices of the order. street Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—The capital stock of the National Cutlery Co. has ben increas- ed from $100,000 to $150,000. Battle Creek—The principal office of the John F. Corl Piano Co. has been removed from Jackson to this place. Kalamazoo—B. Solomon & _ Son, cigar manufacturers, have establish- ed a new factory at 119 East Main street. Port Huron—The S. Butter Furni- ture Co. has filed a trust mortgage for $30,000, running to C. C. Peck as trustee for the creditors. Talbot—The Talbot Lumber Co. is sawing a large stock of mixed timber at its new mill. The cut of this mill will be 4,000,000 feet. Saginaw—A department for the manufacture of feather dusters has been added to the Michigan Employ- ment Institution for the Blind, Lovell—The T. E. Douglass Com- pany has a force of men at work on its new sawmill, which is to take the place of the plant destroyed a few weeks ago. Gaylord--The Dayton Last Block Works, which consumes a number of million feet of timber annually, shut down last week for the season. The year has been a_ successful one. Ingalls—Ira Carley is busy sawing this season’s cut at ‘his mill here. Mr. Carley’s cut is about 3,000,000 feet of mixed timber, which will be convert- ed into lumber, ties, shingles and lath. Mancelona—A corporation has been formed under the style of the Man- celona Creamery Co., with an auth- orized capital stock of $3,500, of which amount $2,620 has been sub- scribed and paid in in property. Epoufette—A corporation has been formed under the style of the Mack- inac Land & Lumber Co., with an au- thorized capital stock of $20,000, of which amount $10,000 has been sub- scribed and $5,000 paid in in cash. Detroit—George L. Fish & Co. have been incorporated to manufac- ture automobile parts and accessor- ies, with an authorized capital stock of $5,000, of which amount $2,650 has been subscribed and $2,500 paid in in cash: Four Mile Lake—A_ corporation has been formed under the style of the Millen Portland Cement Co., which has an authorized capital stock of $500,000, all of which has been sub- scribed, $4,600 being paid in in cash and $495,400 in property. Detroit-—The Michigan Equipment Co. has been incorporated to manu- facture automatic saw gauges. The corporation has an. authorized capi- tal stock of $5,000, all of which has been subscribed, $1,000 being paid in in cash and $4,000 in property. Wolverine—The Wylie & Buell Co, is extending the Nunday branch of the Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central three miles farther into the woods near this place to reach 30,000,000 feet of timber, The branch will be seven miles long when this branch extension is com- pleted. Camps are already in opera- tion on the branch and 2,000 cords of hemlock bark are peeled and piled up along the track, eS a a Sg eERCRRRRNRES = 2 < cr, ———— SAY GER 15804 Tyee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. aby co — _~ s LLY Rae i mai) Wr) dD oa |! = US A The Produce Market. Apples—Transparents and Duchess command $1 per bu. The crop of early apples is large. Bananas—$1.50@2.25 per bunch. Beets—30c per doz. bunches. Butter—The market is steady and unchanged. The make is about nor- mal for the season, but neither the consumptive nor the speculative de- mand is as geod as a year ago, and possibly in consequence prices are about 10 per cent. lower. The mar- healthy throughout and no material change is looked for within the next few days. Creamery is held at 23c for tubs and 24c for prints; dairy grades command 18@19c for No. 1 and 17¢ for packing stock. ket is 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 $2.50 for 54s and $3.50 for 45s. Missouri fetch $2 per crate or 75c per basket. Carrots—2o0c per doz. bunches. Celery—z2oc per bunch for home grown. Cherries—Sour command $1.50 per crate of 16 qts. Sweet fetch $2 per crate, Cocoanuts—$4.50 per bag of an Cucumbers—35c per doz. for nor house. Currants—$1.25 per 16 qt. case, either red or white. Eggs—The market is firm at an advance of tc. The receipts of fan- cy eggs are falling off some and the consumptive demand is good. About half the receipts show considerable heat defects, and have to be sold at Local dealers pay 18c on track, holding case count at 19c and candled at 2oc. Gooseberries—-$1.25 per 16 qt. case Green Onions—rs5e per doz. bunch- es for Silver Skins and trac for Ever- concessions. green, Honey—17c per fh. for white clov- €r and 1s5¢. tor dark. Lemons—-Californias have advanced to $4.25@4.50 and Messinas have ad- vanced to $4.50. Lettuce—Leaf, soc per bu.; head, $1 per bu. Onions—White Silver Skins (Tex: as Bermudas) command $2 per crate. Yellows fetch $1.75. Louisville Yel- lows in 70 th. sacks command $1.25. Oranges—California Valencias have advanced to $4.75 and Mediteranean Sweets to $4. Peas—$1.25 per bu. for Telephones. Peaches—Albertas from Arkansas in 6 basket crates command $1.50 for choice and $1.75 for fancy. Parsley—3oc 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—Both Southern and home grown are now fetching $3.75 per bbl. Many prefer Southern stock on ace count of its being larger in size. Poultry—Local dealers pay 9@toc for fowls and 16@18c for broilers; 1oc for ducks and r4ec for turkeys. Radishes—-toc for Round and 15¢ 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 75¢ for 8 th. basket. Veal—Dealers pay s5@6c for poor and thin; 6@7c for fair to good; 7% (@gc for good white kidney. Watermelons—$2.75 per bbl. Wax Beans—$1 per bu. for grown. Whortleberries—$r@1.25 per of 16 ats. — 2-2 home case Geo. Hirschberg, who was engaged in general trade at Bailey for fifteen years until six and one-half years ago, since which time the has con- ducted a dry goods and shoe store in Grand Rapids, has repurchased the store building he formerly owned at Bailey, 28x70 feet in size, two stories high, and will shortly re-engage in general trade therein. He has pur- chased a new grocery stock of the Musselman Grocer Co. and will re- move his dry goods and shoe stock from 1256 South Division street to Bailey. ++. The invitation extended by the Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association to the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association to hold its annual picnic in Lansing on August 20 has been accepted and, although the exact time for leaving this city has not been de- cided upon, it is understood that a special train picnickers will pull out of Grand Rapids during the early part of the forenoon, be- ing scheduled to run to Lansing in an hour and a half. The fare for the round trip will be $1.30. _———_-_o>-o-o_ E. J. Stanton, Nashville: I expect to re-engage in business in the near future and would not think of doing so without your valuable paper. ——_+>-.—___ A. J. Buskers has sold his grocery stock at 125 Hilton street to A. Tim- merman, who will continue the busi- ness at the same location. nn Ene The difference between what we are and what we know we ought to be is the great opportunity in life. bearing the The Grocery Market. Sugar—Refined sugar is unchanged and there are no prospects of any ad- vance in the near _ future. prices would seem to be out of the question while the summer demand The consumption of refined sugar is now very is on. large and will be larger as the peach crop comes in. Tea—Prices are steady, there being no change in the market. The con- sumptive demand is fair. Coffee slightly -Rio and Santos grades are easier and the immediate outlook is very dubious and tain. Mild coffees and uncer- Mocha and Java are steady and unchanged. Canned Goods—The lack of rain in tomato canning districts is reported § | as seriously affecting the chances for | the crop, and on this account canners | are not so anxious to sell tumbling over themselves. to buy. Corn canners look for a smaller pack | this year, expecting it to be two-thirds of last year's pack, and the market holds evry firm There is no change in the California | canned fruit situation. Opening pric- es are being well maintained with the | exception of a few concessions made | now and then by a few packers who are anxious to book orders. Spot apricots are holding steady, but some firmness is shown in futures. is very Salmon firm. The demand is and spot stocks are so small that it is expected a complete exhaustion of | salmon will soon be seen. are firm, with a Cove steady, the demand being seasonable. Dried Fruits—Prunes are ed and in light demand. Peaches are dull and weak, apricots beine also rood consumption, oysters are unchang- dull and only a little less weak. Rais- ins are decidedly weak, offers of fan- | cv seeded being made week at 574c coast. The demand is light. dull, unchanged. Currants are Syrups and Molasses—The corn syrup market is being to some. ex- tent demoralized by the fact that cer- | tain jobbers are selling below cost, | counting for their profit on the re-| bate they expect to get for exclusive purchasing from the Corn Product Co. Sugar syrup is selling well to go abroad, but the home demand is small. in light Molasses is unchanged and demand. Cheese—There has been no change in this market during the week. The make throughout the country is about 10 per cent. lower and the demand for speculation is much lighter, although the consump- tive demand is about the same. The market is quite healthy at showing an active consumption, and if there is any change it will prob ably be in the nature of a slight ad- vance. Provisions—The demand is about normal and stocks are light all over the country. As the generally receipts are light and hogs show high there will likely be continued high prices. Both pure and com- pound lard are firm at '%c advance, a very active trade being reported cost, Lower} soon as the full tide of futures, | and at the same time jobbers are not about | moderate | cet LOoUd | Sardines | demand for | during the | unchanged and | Other dried fruits are quiet and | than a year ago| present, | ov 1 lin both lines. Barrel pork, canned } | meats and dried beef are unchanged ‘and in good demand. Fish—Cod, junchanged in Salmon is hake and haddock are dull. ruling price and very fairly active at iprices. Domestic sardines are. un- changed in price and in fair demand. Mrench sardines are easter and the |price is much lower than a_ few months ago. Norwegian sardines are doing better and are now in fair de- mand. Mackerel is not materially un changed for the week. New Shores are about unchanged, but new Irish are a trifle easier. New Norways are jsteady, but old Norways are merely inominal. The demand for mackere! is only fair. Fake Schemes. Lansing, July 21 | Lansing After Advertising Some time ago Business the officers of the Lansing Men’s Association determined to pro tect its members and citizens of this icity from advertising schemes by ad notify the | Association when approached by a merchants to vising the stranger with a scheme for sale. An linvestigation of the merits of the ;scheme are then investigated by offi jcers of the Association and a report |made to the merchants. The plan has been successful, but in some. in- ‘stances merchants have failed to re fer the to the them Association, and it is said schemes presented to i that many of them have regreted this ineglect. “Fis is the season of the year when the advertising fakir and solici tor for all kinds of fake schemes jhunts his prey with great vigor,” said Secretary Chilson, of the Busi- iness Men’s Association, after a some- |what warm interview with a stranger | who insisted on canvassing the city |for an advertising programme for the j;coming band tournament, “The gentleman is all right from |his standpoint,” remarked Chilson, |“but it is a one-sided standpoint. | Nothing in it for the Lansing mer- |chant who invested his money. Since jour Association undertook to regu- ilate this class of operators something like a year ago we have turned away a great manly and thave not only isaved our merchants considerable an- noyance, but enough money to pay their annual dues three or four times over. csr * - . Occasionally -some one of _ this class of persons above referred to starts his little game in spite of our refusal to lend it ment. official endorse If the merchant, when he is approached, would ask the solicitor if he has a letter from our Aésociation he can rid himself of their presence with astuteness and dispatch. From an advertising standpoint not one out }of a hundred of these schemes js a payer, and it is throwing |away money to sign over one of the contracts. Fully 75 per cent. of the money collected from allt of il | dividend these schemes is taken out of the city to be spent elsewhere, and unless we [keep the lid on pretty tight the grand total amounts to a good sized sum in the course of a year. Every mer- jchant in the city ought to aid our Committee in keeping the city free trom this class of pests.” ’ Seton aber eR SO phe egy SE esti nee aS tat ry ——— “MICHIGAN TRADESMAN COMB DEPARTMENT. Do Not Put a Man in Charge of the Same. Written for the Tradesman. That merchant makes a grievous error who installs a man in the la- dies’ comb department. In the first place, a man may know that a woman “looks nice” in what she has on, but ask him, “Why?” and he is at a loss for a suitable re- ply; he simply is aware of the fact without recognizing the reason there- for. Of course, every clerk, male or fe- male, who is placed in a department is supposed to make a study of the goods carried at that particular coun- ter; but a man is at a disadvantage by the limitations of masculinity. A woman clerk is quick to grasp details and instantly goes to the root of the secret why a thing is becoming to certain women, while it is utterly “Impossible” to others. A lady who is handsome of feature, ‘with no harsh lines in ther face, no angularity in the contour of her cra- nium, whose head is covered with soft puffs and waves built up and around with innumerable little “rats,” can adopt a comb or set of combs that no woman could attempt whose face showed crabbedness of disposi- tion or whose features were seamed with wrinkles of discontent or those brought on by sickness of body or distress of mind, which condition was accentuated by thin wiry hiair that re- flected, as it were, the disagreeable mental traits of its owner or the situation of things inside the brain- pan induced by a combination of cir- cumstances over which it had _ not been vouchsafed the victim to hold the reins of control. It is a theory of mine, and I think it will hold water, that a person’s hair shows plainly the mental and physical attributes of that person. Take the case of a woman who all her life has wanted to dominate the lives of others, who has insisted con- stantly that her way is the right way, the only way and everybody else must bow the knee to her, and you motice if her hair is not of an unyielding stiffness—hair that the at- tendants at any Beauty Parlor could “do nothing with” other than sham- poo it to an immaculate degree of cleanliness and to brush it into a modicum of tractability with a quan- tity of brilliantine or similar unguent. Mental and bodily characteristics, whether permanent or temporary, have everything in the world to do with the production of a charming coiffure. And it makes no difference whether this statement applies to the And, as I said at the start, a style of comb that would be “just the thing” in one woman’s head of hair would “look like a fright” in that of another. The color of ‘hair a per- son possesses must be carefully tak- en into consideration as well as its quality. A comb that is enchanting in a brunette’s dusky tresses would be too vivid if worn by a lady pro- nouncedly blond in appearance. Per contra, what would look pretty against the fluffy locks of a light- haired person would be but namby- pamby if attempted by a lady with blue-black hair, or even chestnut. “A woman’s crown of glory is her hair,” saith some Solomon in the Bi- ble—I think I am right as to the source of the quotation—and all these details I thave talked about must receive the profound respect of the clerk selling the combs of an es- tablishment if a success is to be made at the calling. A woman clerk, by the very fact of femininity, is more fitted to per- ceive with lightning calculation the elements of a lady’s make-up that should strongly influence the selec- tion of a comb that shall at once be fit and practical. To capitulate: Merchants, debar a “mere man” from the comb section of your place of business. Jeanne. _—_———2.-o oe A Boy’s Opportunity. One boy of 13 years living in the hill district knows an opportunity when he sees it, also how to catch it. Early in the month a man was around peddling tangle foot for the trees to safeguard them against worms and moths. He told those who bought how to put it on, smoothing the bark around the tree and then applying the stuff. It fell to this boy’s lot to tangle foot the trees in front of his own home. He made such a good job of it that the widow next door asked him to fix her trees and then the man across the street called him over. The boy tumbled to the fact about this time that he was within easy reach of a good chance to make his spending money for the summer. He began looking for jobs, and he had not been out long before jobs began looking for him. He was the only one doing that kind of work and he soon found himself in great demand. He has had all that he could do the past two weeks. That he might at- tend more closely to the work and at the same time not slip any cog he employed a younger brother to make out the bills and collect the money on a percentage basis. He has used over I00 pounds of the tangle foot to date and is still spreading it on. | j | 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 given. 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. GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CO. Exclusively Wholesale Beginning June 20 and until further notice we will close Saturday afternoons at 1 o’clock. Grand Rapids, Mich. On July 28th the price of all best staple prints such as American, Simpson, etc., will be advanced to 5c per yard. Up to this date we will sell all of our present stock at the old price 434c orders early in order to secure good styles. Send in your P. STEKETEE & SONS Grand Rapids, Mich. Wholesale Dry Goods Of every description for every purpose. New and second hand. Wm. Alden Smith Building BAGS ROY BAKER Grand Rapids, Michigan see Raneone ug —— seesine lady or to the girl at the Beauty ices Y Parlor into whose hands she com- Corresponding Characteristics, : mits herself. If either one or both You are The Other Fellow is FOOTE & JENKS PURE FLAVORING EXTRACTS are afflicted with wretched attributes Strong-minded, Stubborn, SEI (Guaranty No. 2442) = 1 of mind or body the result is most |Generous, Extravagant, ~ _ yore & See plainly discernible in a dressing that | Tastefully dressed, Foppish, Se a > Pure Vanilla JAXO N is a travesty on the art tonsorial. But | Manly, Brusque, Toa and the genuine aches teins © ae cues oud SOc ont dome Ber [nepatiectic, Inquisitive, ORIGINAL TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON work feel gay of heart and lively of Prudent, Selfish, Not Like Any Other Extract. Send for Recipe Book and Special Offer. j body “ ee -ertcome of ihe a Frank, Rude, Order of National Grocer Co. Branches or Foote & Jenks, Jackson, Michigan : junction is a dream of hair loveliness | Enthusiastic, Fanatical, that is most gratifying to both the | Eloquent, Long-winded, one performing the service and “her | Successful, Lucky, P ‘ ti f, P d D [ lady.” Unlucky, . Incompetent. rin Ing or ro uce eaiers as A gH PENNY ag, inc ARI ee ea Movementss of Michigan Gideons. Detroit, July 21—J. D. Kirkpatrick has moved from Kokomo, Ind., to 6046 Princeton avenue, Chicago. He was in Grand Rapids a few days last week representing the American Milling Co. Mrs. Kirkpatrick is now able to preside over her new home in Chicago, after being in a hospital in the South for several weeks, which will bring sunshine to our brother, who has had his mind and heart full at times while this companion has been laid low with sickness. George M. Jaynes, of this city, has taken the sales management of the seyer watchman’s portable clocks for Hardings Bros. and now has an office at 1040 Lincoln avenue, Chicago. Brother Jaynes carries all kinds of tickers and keeps a single and dou- ble entry record all in the clock. As he meets Gideons he can just pull a ring orf press a button and his clock does the rest and the clock keeps ticking right on. Brother Jaynes was up in the copper country two weeks ago with his watchman’s tools and attachments, except his wife, who still thinks this city is the only place worth the while. Even the Windy City, with all its attractions and all the sweet smiles and the beautiful enchanting words of Brother and-‘his record dials can not as yet compare with the charms of Detroit the Beau- tiful. T. F. Chilton, Traverse City, who sells the secret to collect old debts, which is done by furnishing the deal- er with printed matter to send out to the delinquent, the ink and form of which causes a feeling to come over the receiver to pay over that which belongs to another, bringing happi- ness to all. Brother Chilton invited the writer to attend the Presbyterian church in Traverse City and listen to the Irish preacher who lives at 240 Washington street, T. Boyd Gay, and no sooner had he entered the church than the mind began to flit over the past and a strong desire to be right with the Maker and with all man- kind. As the moments passed and as the heart had been mellowed by the singing, the Irish preacher gave his text, John, 7:46: “Never man spake like this man.” This was the answet of the officers to the chief priest as an excuse for not taking Jesus. “Why have ye not brought him?” The officers had Hstened to words of tenderness and love’ and as they listened their strong hearts were touched. “Never man spake like this man.” The appearance and ges- tures of an orator have their influ- ence, but “Never man spake like this man.’ He had wisdom; he had au- thority. Watching over and caring for, feeding the multitude, healing the sick, cleansing the leper, raising the- dead, going about doing good, show- ing tenderness and Jove with his words and acts and deeds. His wis- dom was shown at the age of 12 when before the doctors all were astonish- ed at His wisdom and with his au- thority. Aaron B. Gates. Detroit, July 21—Detroit Camp, No. 1, held a meeting at the Volun- teers of America hall Saturday night as usual. Owing to the season of MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the year the attendance was small, but the spirit of our Blessed Master was felt. The meeting at the Griswold House Sunday night had a fair attendance. 3rother Wheaten Smith gave an ex- cellent talk which resulted in spe- cial prayers for personal work and for the coming National convention, to be held in Louisville the last of this week. Our National President, Brother Smith, is having his annual vacation for a few days and we miss- ed him Sunday night at the hotel meeting. Brother A. B. Gates, our old faithful busy brother, spent Sun- day in Charlevoix, but his wife was on hand to help us. A, ©. H. _—_e-2-@— Imaginative Modes of Protecting Our Own Individuality. The world is not lumped together as a whole, but is distributed-into in- dividual natures—animals, plants, hu- man beings of every race, species and variety, in the same way that the hand, to be more serviceable, is di- vided into individual fingers. And whatever be the ultimate goal to which it is tending, it is plain that that goal can be arrived at only by the agency of these individual na- tures-—animals, plants and man. Such being the evident ground plan of the world, one sees at a glance that -it is a necessity inherent in the original design that there should be some spe- cial provision for maintaining this in- dividuality and preventing things from being absorbed into one anoth- er. And so, indeed, there is. We find in animals horns, thoofs, fangs, stings, organs of offense and defense ef every variety, all serving as mere instruments or means by which this ground scheme of individuation is maintained. Now, a little reflection will show that, corresponding to these horns, fangs and stings in the lower animals, and to the appetites of fear, hunger and _ self-preservation by which they are set in motion, is what we call the evil nature in man. Besides his coarse physical de- fenses against enemies man has the finer weapons of envy, pride, jealousy, revenge and the like, which are mere- ly these instruments of individuation and self-preservation carried up into the mind and transmuted there into more subtle and flexible rapiers of at- tack or defense. Lesser men defend themselves from absorption by great- er meatis of envy or hold their own against them by contradiction, combativeness or pride. Vanity stimulates men to make the most of themselves and helps them to keep up their individuality. Jealousy pricks them to hold their own against rivals: revenge to make good again on an enemy the injury he has done them. They are stimulated to perpetuate their individuation by means of off- spring having the like individuality, and so prevent things from sinking back again into that undiversified uniformity out of which they had originally to struggle. The highly developed and _ ideal man can, of course, protect himself by positive virtues. ‘He has force enough to defend his individuality without resort to any of the subter- fuges of crime or semi-criminal de- vices. The nearly perfect man would descend to the lesser or more petty immoralities and deceits to shield his weaknesses. And so, too, if we take the more positive and lying, Stealing, murder and the like, we may see that here also no new element active -sins of own individuality at the expense of others; those conditions of fair play and injustice others overstepping sary to enable each to maintain his own individuality and to escape being absorbed or annihilated by another. which does not legitimately to us; if we steal we do the same: and so, too, if we deceive those who trust us, or if we commit murder. Again, if we consider what theo- logians would call “sin in the inmost members”—lust and desires that may go no farther than the mind of the person entertaining them, stopping short before they come to action, envy, impure thought, evil wishing, suspicion, covetousness, selfishness, worldly mindedness, and the like—we shall find that at they are only imaginative modes of protect- ing or aggrandizing our own bottom insdi- viduality; although, if not restrained, they may keep pricking the imagina- tion until, to relieve itself, it forces men into all sorts of unnatural cruel- ties and crimes; or they may so mo- nopolize consciousness as to weaken the authority of those high and no- ble aspirations which we feel by their quality to be the true ends of John Beattie Crozier. = Suggestions for Motorists. If your brake fails .to work at a critical moment, run into something cheap. If you desire to make an impres- sion on a young lady run over her. Common hamanity dictates that you stop when the tires are out of wind, our being. By seating your best girl in front with the chauffeur you will have something pleasant to look forward to during the ride. Should your auto overturn your seat immediately. leave else you may break your nose. run down he should apologize. has been introduced, but all are ways | of aggrandizing ourselves and our | which, in a limited world, are neces-! If we tell lies, for example, we se- | cure for ourselves a point of vantage | belong | You should know your brakes or | If a man gets in your way and is If he | is dead demand an apology from his | wife. —_—_—~—2->2| ao The Lucky 13. On an American twenty-five cent | piece there are thirteen stars, thir- 7 : ’ jteen letters in the scroll held in the | : - : leagle’s beak, thirteen feathers in each of the thirteen taal ; eagle’s wings, shield, thirteen horizontal bars, thir teen arrow-heads, thirteen leaves on ithe branch and thirteen letters in the i words } } |feathers, thirteen parallel bars in the | | { | { “quarter dollar.” —_.-._____ | When a man lets the wind blow all ithe shingles off his house he talks of ithe strange ways of Providence | —eememnens ~ | | Back Up Your Trade Papers Make it possible for us adver- tisers to write a nice note to the editor once in a while say- ing ‘‘we got splendid results from our ‘ad’ in your paper.”’ It cheers him up. All the trouble it will take is a postal card or a letter to us, asking to see samples of our California Jams and Marmalades We do the rest at no cost to you. Don’t overlook what may be a good thing. H. P. D. Kingsbury Redlands, California (Where the oranges come from) W. S. Ware & Co., Detroit Agents DON’T FAIL To send for catalog show- ing our line of PEANUT ROASTERS, CORN POPPERS, &€. LIBERAL TERMS. KINGERY MFG. CO.,106-108 E, Pear! St,,C'xcinnati,Q. ( Formerly called ) | P O S T Elijah’s Manna TOASTIES The “Supreme Hit” of the Corn Flake Foods— “The Taste Lingers.”’ Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. Battle Creek, Mich. | It pays to handle MAYER SHOES | i Case Get Catalog That’s saying considerable, but hundreds of merchants who have bought from us know we make good our claims. We positively guarantee to save you money and give you @ case of better quality. Our direct selling plan—from manufacturer to merchant— makes this possible. We pay freight both waysif goods are not as represented. GEO. S. SMITH STORE FIXTURE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. For Less Money and Prices « MICHIGAN TRADESMAN DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY Grand Rapids, Mich. E A. Stowe, President. Henry Idema, Vice-President. Oo. L. Schutz, Secretary. W. N. Fuller, Treasurer. Subscription Price. Two dollars per year, payable in ad- vance. Five dollars for three years, payable in advance. Canadian subscriptions, $3.04 per year, ayable in advance. . No subscription accepted unless ac- companied by a signed order and the price of the first year’s subscription. Without specific instructions to the con- trary all subscriptions are continued ac- cording to order. Orders to discontinue must be accurmpanied by payment to date. Sample copies, 5 cents each. : Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; of issues a month or more old, 10 cents; of issues a year or more old, $1. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice. BE. A. STOWE, Editor. O. L. Schutz, Advertising Manager. _ ~ Wednesday July 22, 1908 THE UNSEEN SIDE. industry; Both were captains of both were in their working-day at- tire and both had in hand the im- plement of their profession; the one, a hose-nozzle and the other, the han- die of a lawnmower. Both were resting temporarily from their labors and were discussing with all the earn- estness of the excited Celtic temper- ament “the outrageous and high-hand robbery” of that branch of the city government that had levied the tax- es. the culmination of the outrage being this—the forefinger of the right hand slowly and emphatically beat- ing the little finger of the left, while the tongue exclaimed: “Tin dahllers fer a bathtoob! What d’ye think 0’ thot!” Judging from men were born in Ireland, had come better appearances these to the Lower Peninsula to their condition exactly as other men had come and, finding their taxes higher than they had expected, were expressing, as they had a_ perfect right to express, their disapproval of the injustice, as it seemed to them, practiced upon them; and yet had they once dreamed in the old days of being called upon to pay a tax on a bathtub, the amount, had it been twice ten dollars, would have been cheerfully paid and the receipt pre- served as a passport to Paradise! The fact is there is an unseen side to all of this taxpaying business, and while at times the tax—and especially the paying of it—-seems to be all that the lawn-keepers consider it, those sume men belong to an army of kickers, a large majority of whom knows, as*the whole army knows, that the tax stands for a better life and a wider citizenship and is worth all and more than the tax calls for. The case is easily and briefly stated. Forty years ago the fathers of these men—-boys then—had not only no bathtub but no house, no home and no country even, if we are to be- lieve what the Trish home-party They had little to eat and less to wear. With hands ready for work, they had no work. Cultiva- leaders say. tors of the soil, they had no soil; and these men’s boys, born under such conditions, with nothing to help them, had not even the schoolhouse to gladden the gloomy future with its shining light. Then came the crisis. Affairs for them could be no worse, and with the hope of something bet- ter they landed here. Grand Rapids then was not the city it is to-day and the immigrants found themselves among men of an- other race, indeed, but having the same hopes for themselves and their children, with only sturdy hearts and stout hands to realize them—with this difference: the native brawn and brain were toiling for the affluence that included the bathtub as an inci- dental, while they, the immigrants, dreamed only of food and shelter and the transcendant privilege of having a spot of earth they could call their own with the possibility—the last thing then to be thought of—of a bathtub! That the hopes of pioneer and im- migrant have been realized goes with- out saying. There is prosperity to be seen on every hand. The palace has taken the place of the log cabin. The meeting-house has given way to the cathedral and the church and the schoolhouse has expanded into the people’s college. The brain and brawn have been at work and have won and the winnings have not been confined to the pioneer. No caste wall has been put up and the man who shows himself equal to the require- ments finds no check or hindrance to the country’s universal law of “fair field no favor.” So the pioneer is not standing alone in his prosperity. Side by side with him is the immi- grant or the son of an imigrant who a generation ago, with an ocean be- tween him and his kindred, first knew what it is to be free, to breathe un- challenged the pure air of a republic. to live under its blue sky, to enjoy the glory of its sunshine and to hold in his hand the vote which gives him the right to “life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness,” to find these where and when he will and as he will. In a word, he has a country now with ali that the word implies, modified by as heartfelt a “free” as the wind and the water and the sunshine can give him; and this, the unseen side, is what the tax rate stands for and what the immigrant, now an Amer- ican citizen, knows it stands for and is glad to have it stand for, even at the exorbitant rate of “tin dohllers a year fer a bathtoob!” —— Eee TO USE SHORTER WORDS. One of the conditions incident to the learned professions is the use of technical words, names, phrases, etc. Every cientific subject has a nomen- clature of its own and many of the words are unusual and polysyllabic. Botany, chemistry, geology, etc., have words with which the general pub- lic are entirely unfamiliar and there is no particular loss or gain on that account. The terms are technical and only those who make a special study of the subject have occasion to use them. In theology, medicine and law there are also a good many large words coming into play, but the dis- position has been to’ lessen their number and to popularize other words which must be used frequent- ly. If ministers are to be understood and reach the people they preach to, they must address them in language which is clear and plain, so the big words are left for strictly scientific theological discussion. If the clergy- men used them in their every day sermons there would be more people asleep in church than there are now and there are enough as it is, good- ness knows. Practically everybody has to do with medicine more or less and very many unfortunates have to do with law. The affairs of both these pro- fessions are discussed in the news- paper and in public speeches not a little. They have been simplified con- siderably, and another help has been that many formerly unusual words have been popularized. For instance, many who knew what consumption was would not have understood the meaning of tuberculosis, yet by adop. tion and common practice the latter is now the generally accepted word. Appendicitis used to look formidable, but now so many people have it that everybody speaks it glibly, and so the professional and the plain people are coming closer together in this re- spect. As to legal terms there is a reform on in France which might well attract attention in this country. It consists of a simplification of the phraseology of processes, writs and other documents which have to do with the courts. The jargon of juris. prudence has been attacked vigor- ously by Briand, who is called an ad- vanced reformer and an_ iconoclast. He is determined that the verbiage shall be left out and that it meets with popular favor is evidenced be- cause out of 885 replies to inquiry 727 were in favor of a change. The sub- stitution of short words for long ones and of plain words for those difficult to be understood has been accomplish- ed. by a commission and the reform is already giving great satisfaction. Perhaps something of that sort could be done in this country and then the people would be able to understand these legal terms and phrases, and the more they understand about liti- gation the further they will keep away from it. A GOOD MEMORY. This is an asset quite as valuable to the commercial as to the profes- sional or educational field and one quite as easily cultivated. Psycholo- gists show us how the memory can be developed by learning choice quo- tations or bits of poetry. We have all seen the light-fingered person who never went through a room without taking in at a glance what it contained. And we are here drivy- en up against the old motto that fractice makes’ perfect—even in a black art. However well the memory may have been trained in early days, it will require a little directing when the business life is a requisite. And, luckily, the more complete the mas- tery over it the more easily jis it guided along new lines. However, there are some channels which will seem foreign at first, yet which re- quire exploration. There is the memory for names and faces. With some this comes in- tuitively; others seem to pride them- selves almost on their inability in one of the two directions, although not generally both. If a_ stranger comes in and makes a purchase and tells you who he is and. where he lives, he is not flattered if you greet him with a blank expression on his next call. Make it a point to remem- ber your friends who only come oc- casionally; to remember both _ their names and faces, and some of the general matters connected with them which show that you have a friendly interest. This may at first take some effort, but it is an effort that pays. If some one comes in and gives you a special order for something a little out of the regular line, make a mental note of it. If he wears a longer sleeved coat or a larger sized shoe than his fellowmen, just put that down in your mental inventory. Some day you may have some of these odd sizes among the left-overs, and want to know where to look for a customer who wants a bargain. “Just one of those summer _ suits left,’ said an up-to-date merchant recently, “and that is too large for imost of us.” “I wonder if Jones could not wear it,” suggested ‘his partner. “No, Jones’ number is —, but we’ll try Brown. He usually gets a size smaller, but it is a snug fit. If these were marked down he could get the worth of his money out of them, even if they did not fit perfectly.” And so it was with hats, collars, etc. In many instances this shrewd salesman knew the numbers as well as if not better than his customers. It saved lots of time in showing goods, to say nothing of giving the advantage in hunting a sale for the odds and ends of the trade. Besides, it gives that touch of the personal element which always customer. pleases the To feel that one’s indi- vidual requirements are remembered and served is an attention which will be appreciated. A good memory should never be abused. If there is an account to be recorded never burden the gray mat- ter of the brain with it. Not only is this an economy of mental energy, but it is a record that will be taken as much more trustworthy in case of dispute. Again, if an order is given, jot it down in the note book. Do not burden the memory uselessly. When you order goods there are sure to be omissions unless the items are down i. black and white. Train the mem- ory along lines where this special service receives recompense; but never burden it with the service which was intended for note book and pencil. eee If you are dissatisfied with your religion because it does not make you happy ask first whether you make any one else happy. Religion is not to bind back, but to bind together all men, % 2 . aces sumer ; 4 i 5 Smee NIE aN NANO: tut Sit oso pean a SIEM RRINESRINA es) om ng out knowing how to swim. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. So far this summer, as it has been other summers—and the rest of the season will be like unto it—the daily papers have reported and are go- ing to report by drowning the death of numberless persons, old and young. Our own summer resorts have already taken part in the appalling disasters that have overwhelmed communities and homes with — sor- row, and wherever there is water, be it of lake or stream or sea, the death rate will increase more or less’ in proportion as every means of pre- vention is exercised. Wherever there is a crowd there is danger, and it is impossible to guard against every form in which this appears; but it does seem as if something ought to be done to lessen in some degree the number of victims of this dreadful death. Strange as it may seem, this num- her is greatly increased by people who, knowing the danger, still ven- ture upon the water and into it with- It is safe to say that at least half of the boat excursionists who crowd the decks can not swim a stroke; and it is sub- mitted whether, under the circum- stances, the authorities would be up- held if they should insist that per- sons who can not swim must remain ashore. Years ago, and custom has chang- ed little in this respect, the girl and the woman who could swim was something of a wonder, with the sug- gestion, if nothing more, of the tom- boy, exactly as in some parts of the country the girl or the woman who. rides horseback astride is among the immodest. : There lies the mistake. The girl, like the boy, should be taught to swim. As an exercise swimming is unsurpassed. It should be put down as a part of physical education for both sexes; and, to avert the calami- ty which too often attends excur- sions on the water, no community should allow its children to grow up without this means of self-preserva- tion. Whether the town should or should not make swimming a part of the school curriculum is a question which it alone must decide. Cost will have to be reckoned with every- where, and in the sparse population of the rural districts would in most cases prevent even the consideration of the subject; but in the compari- son of city and country it is the country girl who will oftener be found ignorant of the art. Has it yet been asicertained whether she in times of disaster is oftener among the drowned? From the very nature of the case, the boy takes the ‘matter into his own hands and early learns to swim. Giv- en a stream of water—a duck pond will do—and another boy and there are soon two swimmers where there were none before. All the sticks and straps and hair brushes in the world are as nothing; the majority of boys do learn—it is a reproach not to know how and the sign of a molly- coddle; but with the girl it is dif- ferent—and it ought to be different— and, this recognized, should be rea- son enough for seeing to it that classed women, the brighter part and the bet- ter part of the swmmer gathering, should not so often take their lives in their hands in excursion going and, by not knowing how to swim, endan- ger those who do. In some cities the Y. M. C. A. has made the swimming pool a ~ strong feature for its patrons. In those same cities have the W. C. T. U.’s looked as carefully after theirs? And is it not possible for the coun- try folk, not as a fad, but as a neces- sity—a matter of life and death—to hit upon some way to teach the girls to swim so that they may go to the boat excursion with far less fear and far less danger and far less risk of hnding there a watery grave? It is a matter well worth considering. Shall it be considered? YOUR READING COURSE. Time was, mot so very long ago, when the farmer sneered at the edi- tor of farm papers “who wrote his articles in a city attic.” He was cer- tain that he knew “all there was to know about farming,” but he now very different view of the He has found out that these book farmers do know several things which he can apply with profit; that new conditions are constantly arising which he must meet. And to-day there is mo more marked increase in any class literature thaninthat of the farm. Now it is accorded more liberal patronage. That the trade papers have not as yet so extended a patronage is pos- sibly due more to the fact that the farmers so greatly outnumber trades- men. Yet it is a fact that the trade people are in many instances not fully awake to the importance of reading all that can be secured per- taining directly to their trade. No two publications cover thie same ground. The first object should be to compare samples, and determine which is best adapted to your own business. Having made the selec- tion, study it as you would a school text-book. Do. not believe every- thing. Some things may be all right for the majority, but not for your conditions. The paper reaches its highest aim when it secures the fair reading, ‘honest thought and just crit- icism of its readers. It sets them to thinking. The grocer who buys and sells to the best advantage knows something in advance of the condition of the coffee market. The shrewd merchant takes advantage of a failure in the cotton crop to buy a good ‘stock of cotton cloth before the prices which necessarily follow the failure have affected the stocks on hand. Fluctua- tions in market should be as much at the command of the dealer as are the quotations of wheat to the man who makes his money by specula- tion, There are countless facts, hints and suggestions of material value in the trade. Not a day passes but that some one wants to know something regarding a purchase which his deal- er can not answer. He may not ask for the information, but, if it can be volunteered, the competency of the one who gave it will be mire fully established. takes a matter. The trade paper of to-day is, as a rule, one which any well informed person may read with profit. Articles which at first glance seem of a tech- nical nature applicable only to a few contain applications of real worth to the many. Arranging show windows, the care of goods, how to advertise, how to hold the trade—these are but a few of the multitude of which need amplification. The time of dull trade is at hand. Will it not be a good time to in- crease the reading matter along busi- ness lines? The chances are that from a single number one may gain an idea worth the price of a year’s sub- scription. If you are already taking one or two papers see what others are doing along your lines. Stick to that which you have found good; dip imto new fields. Your hold upon busi- ness will be strengthened; your en- topics thusiasm increased; your mission broadened. PLAY FAIR ALWAYS. When a retail merchant or manu- facturer reaches the conclusion that his own personal interests may besi be conserved under all circumstances by refusing to identify himself with any concerted move on the part of the retail dealers or by citizens in general in the community in he lives and which does business the has taken a long step toward commer- cial, financial and civic dry rot. Such an infallible sign of intolerable self conceit the rapid and exhibition is an with irresistible ment of envy, selfishness and inmdif- ference to the public welfare as prominent accompanying characteris- tics. Say what he may, such a man can not fail to hurt his business be- cause he is certain to imcur the dis- pleasure of his fellow itizens in general and so affect unpleasantly his business standing. develop- Say what we may, any of ws, we are all of us more or les dependent upon each other, and it is a certainty that, later, for one reason or another we are each of us required to seek the co-opera- tion of the others in our own behalf. It is the duty of every citizen to maintain a rational, fair and strong spirit of independence; but at the moral sooner or same time ‘he is unwise who permits that independence to project itself against every proposition having the progress and wellbeing of his com- munity in view. True, there must be differences of opinion, honest differences, as to what policies or enterprises are for the best interests of a city or vil- lage; but as a rule it is isafe to as- sume that whatever may be approved by a majority of the members of any business community is worthy of careful and fair consideration even although it seems at first thought op- posed to your own estimate. In brief, it is as much the duty of every good citizen to co-operate to the extent of his ability with his fel- low citizens in: carrying forward every desirable movement inaugurat- ed for the advancement of the gener- al welfare, as it is for him to exert himself to the best of his own ability in behalf of his own personal con- cerns. NO SCHOOLS FOR GENIUS. The genius, the specially smart boy or gir! at school, is not always a dil- igent student. Sometimes the ap- parent dunce is a dunce because he neglects the textbooks while he is gaining knowledge in various other ways, sometimes by mental absorp- tion, and in actual life he shines out as a bright amd even brilliant genius. It is more often that the boy who labors at his books and takes the first honors in examinations nevet reaches any station in practical, every day life above mere mediocrity. [It has been said that the pupils of the average college can be intellectu- ally three sets, the classified into highest of which comprises the few eminently gifted (about 10 per cent. of the total), the intermediate of which constitutes the intelligent but less brilliant average pupils, who number about 80 per cent. and, finally, the lowest class constitutes cent. of the which roughly about to per total. It is a pedagogic truism that all teachers endeavor to fit as class, many as possible for an that they are most of class, and compelled to devote their time to the moderate- ly gifted and telligent over the upper even to the less in- pupils, repeating over and identical rules of gram- mar and the same mathematical the- orems to the intense weariness of the more gifted. Hence the exceptional mentality trained fully to take ad- vantage of their capacities, and dwell in intellectual students blessed with Aare never semi-idleness. It may be said that practically all schools are intended mainly for the benefiz of the moderately gifted, the inter- ests of both the less gifted and best pupils being sacrificed. After all, this is the best that can be done. Average schools are to give education to dren and youths. be made for average average chil- No provision can genius in such The dunces, or apparent dunces, who have sometimes brilliant intellects, must be left to follow in the rear. The bright fellows will develop in cases. time, and the plodders will get some- thing at least. OE Dr. Delamarre, an eminent French army surgeon, who believes the or- dinary ‘house fly is a dangerous con- tagion bearer, says the insect may be exterminated with very little trouble or expense. He recommends a mixture composed of one part formol to nine parts of water. This may be put in ordinary plates and placed wherever flies are likely to congregate. Twenty-four hours lat- er, says the doctor, not only the plates themselves but a considerable space around them will be covered with flies and mosquitoes which the mixture and emanations from the mixture have poisoned. The insects are attracted by the solution as though it were sugar. To be perfectly effective it should be changed every twenty-four hours. Dr. Delamarre says that he has been using this in- secticide in the hospitals under his control for the past sixteen years and has never known it to fail. In a sin- gle room cantaining 521 cubic meters there were killed during one summer an average of 4,000 flies a day, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN For All-around Hard Strenuous Wear Our Hard Pan Shoe has never been excelled. It contains all the foot- comfort there is; and the leather in both uppers and soles is of the proved durability that withstands rough treatment in all sorts of rough weather and where the conditions of wear are unusually severe. Our Hard Pan, the original and genuine shoe of this name, has given - the public this sort of - shoe-satisfaction for a - quarter of a century. tral 6 \ my Hh kan (a \ 1 ))) bar doin FONTS | SHOF W oF THE SH Got x (((U Prd) Fa 3 ‘)), <3) Ty) TF ce, Wher Hes i P D heverreeftls ~ ) Uy Uy SJ f p S \ > WSs MEA yY Marked Improvement in the Shoe sires the sole to wear about as well Trade. as the upper, and owing to this atti- There has been a revival in trad-|tude on the wearer’s part retailers ing. Probably the most remarkable |have been insisting upon good sole feature is the way shoe manufactur-|lcather, with the consequent result ers have come in the market and |that manufacturers were compelled to purchased leather. It is said that |use this method of making footwear. the booming condition of the hide | Prices, however, advanced one cent market forced shoe manufacturers to|per foot on these light leathers, and : purchase their fall supplies... How-j|the manufacturer is again in a di- is ever, in many instances the chief|lemma as to how to overcome this : cause of their reluctance in purchas-}new feature. " ing leather was that retailers did not Side leathers in the different se- place the usual large fall orders. |lections are taking on a much firmer Manufacturers, of course, depend|tene. In the heavy-weight grades greatly woon what the retailers d0.|prices have advanced one cent per oe It has been pointed out before that |foot, with the market showing a ten- It has many imitators. But our pentagon trade mark on the sole owing to the inability of the average |dency to advance still further. The stamps it as genuine and guarantees your customer the Hard Pan a retailer to judge what is going toj/question as to whether colors were to quality and the Hard Pan wear he is paying his money for. a # = 5 & eros sige ora ce wet & Pe ¢ : a sell this fall in the way of leather, it is only reasonable to expect a short- age of buying. Hides that ‘have been booming right along at present are holding steady at high prices. There is some question still as to whether prices will go still higher, but it is expected that the advance movement has been checked especially in packer hides. In country stock the market is unsettled and apparently advancing. Tanners are complaining severely of the rap- id advances and some express the opinion that the boom has to some extent been skillfully engineered in the interest of city and country deal- ers. Tanners also state that it is difficult for them to secure the ad- vance they are compelled to pay for hides for their finished leather. The hide markets are steady at almost the same quotations that were pre- vailing before the panic. This week tanners of sole leather are much stronger in their views. Indeed, they insist upon higher prices for heavy-weight selections. Heavy- weight leather has been in short sup- ply all season and with the buying movement inaugurated by manufac- turers the past week offerings were much reduced. Hemlock packer slaughter was in such unusually good call that some manufacturers have turned their attention to oak sole in Texas X selection. This*leather, of course, is a trifle more expensive than the hemlock slaughter, but can be cut to much better advantage, and some manufacturers claim that it is be in eal this coming fall is stil] un- settled. Many of the larger stores have bought liberal supplies of tan footwear and expect a good sale for shoes of this sort. Oxbloods are fea- tured strongly, even working into the lower priced ‘shoes, which tends to show the popularity of any article. However, it is a safe proposition on the retailer’s part to buy conserva- tively on the color question. During the late summer the average consum- er is going back to black goods. It is found that black glazed kid can be kept clean without any difficulty, and that this particular leather is cool and comfortable as any colored stock. Shiny leather, too, has been selling freely to the younger trade, who insist upon style as well as neatness. Im the upper leather mar- ket black calfskins in both dull and bright finishes are having a_ very good sale, which would indicate that manufacturers and many retailers are figuring that black shoes will _ pre- dominate for fal] and winter wear. All departments of the industry are sounding a healthier tone. The rap- id recovery of hide values, whatever else may be said of it, had a tonic effect on the traffic in leather and all merchandise made from leather. It is evident that a new demand has de- veloped for cheap shoes. But this does not mean reduced prices. There is nothing upon which to predicate lower cost in shoe manufacturing, but it is a fact that heavy footwear suitable for workmen is in better re- quest than for several years past. It Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd. Grand Rapids, Mich. | | We Have Attained the Acme of Perfection in Our Rouge Rex Shoes Our ELK SKIN Shoe with Chrome Sole and Catspaw Slipless Rubber Heel and fair stitch, lead them all. more economical leather for that rea-|is reported that many New England | No. 4490 Men’s Black Elk................ $1 90 son. shoe factories making split brogans |f) No. 4488 Men’s Olive Elk................ I go | There has been a tendency on the |and similar grade shoes have resum- | No. 6598 Boys’ Black Elk .....-.....-20.. 7” | manufacturer’s part to use the lighter|ed operations and have orders |f iy ri ee eS eee — | and cheaper upper leathers in shoesjenough to last them well into the No. 6496 Youths’ Olive Elk ............. Se and then bottoming them with ex- tremely good sole leather. It has been claimed that shoes were not properly balanced in that, the uppers easily outwore two pairs of _ soles. The average consumer, it is said, de- fall. Most shoe manufacturers are go- ing ahead with their fall and winter orders and taking chances on retail- ers placing the remainder of their uncompleted fall orders. It, is said ORDER NOW P. S.—Second quality at 15c less. HIRTH-KRAUSE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN it that shoe merchants have confidence in the future of shoe values and are not holding back orders on account of expectancy of lower prices, but rath- er for the reason that they have good supplies of shoes on hand. However, travelers are not agreed upon this point. Some claim that retailers’ stocks are depleted. Others, how- ever, state that the call from the consumer has been less than for some seasons, and that shoe merchants have considerable of last year’s stock on hand, At any rate, they feel that this fall will be a good business sea- son, and are urging their factories to go ahead and make up stock, re- gardless of whether the retailer has placed his order or not. They also state that dealers are mot in- sisting upon lower prices, as was the case early in the year, as it is clearty understood that the booming hide and advancing leather markets will not allow the manufacturer to make goods at any less price. Indeed, the only way goods can be made any cheaper in price is by taking oui something somewhere, and the aver age retailer is too wise to pay even a low price for a skinned shoe.— Shoe Trade Journal. —_~---s———___ Business Tact in the Sale of Shoes. In the shoe business, as in alimost every line of retail trade, we have the highly successful, mediocre and poor salesman. The successful salesman, with no greater opportunities for making sales than any other clerk, has a manner of pleasing and satis- fying customers by this manner of treating them. Such a salesman has the faculty of adapting his line of argument in selling shoes to meet the peculiarities of each purchaser. He recognizes that he can not appeal to all the people along the same line; what will interest one receives a deaf ear. from another. Where he goes strong on price with one customer he ignores price with another, and talks quality with still another. The clerk, not the customer, is the one to discover which method to use. Good service is invaluable in build- ing up the business of the store and if the clerks will contribute their quota generously their efforts will be recognized. shoe Some time ago a large retail shoe firm made an gttempt to secure bet- ter service from their clerks by is- suing a manual of instruction for their guidance in pleasing customers. This firm has always tried to impress upon its employes the business value of good service; but the members of the finm realized that some custom- ers left their store with a feeling of dissatisfaction at the treatment re- ceived. People always blame a store for the action of the clerks. The effort of this firm tto raise the stanidard of efficiency of their clerks is highly commendable. The instruc- tions are specific enough to make an impression upon the most indifferent clerk. They make clear the fact that every employe represents , the store, and that upon the attitude of the clerks rests the future of the busi- ness. The book declares that two things are vital to the success of any shoe business—good service and good shoes—and that it is the duty of the clerk to supply the good serv- ice. The dealer will supply the shoes. Good clerks are students of char- acter, which means that they must know how to “size up” a customer accurately. This “sizing up” process is most important. After greeting a customer, the clerk should “size him up” as to what style and price shoe he wants to buy. This is the first real step in making the sale. Allimost as imiportant is the presentation of the shoe. It should be clean and at- tractive and not be covered with dust, unlaced, or otherwise unsightly. Much depends upon the introduction of the shoe—the way in which it is brought to the customer. Peo- ple will not have a pair of shoes thrown at them. They must be pro- duced from the carton and present- ed in the most attractive manner. Clerks should use good judgment in the choice of a shoe which should be sold to a customer. A man who is doing heavy work, or who is con- stanthy traveling the streets, like a letter carrier, or a policeman, should have good, strong substantial shoes. Good judgment should also be used when selling patent leather shoes. While worn very extensively in ci- ties, they are not suitable for a work- ing shoe, or for wear in the coun- try, or in very ‘bad weather. If a clerk perceives that he is hav- ing difficulty in pleasing a customer he should turn him over to another salesman, or to the manager, or own- er of the store. But this turning over of the customer must be dione before the customer is tired ou. The clerk’s own good judgment should tell him when it is advisable to turn the cus- tomer over to another. His action may lead to a purchase which he thought lost, and in that way he ts contributing to the success of he store.—Shoe Retailer. —_—— 2 - oe A Craze for Other Lines. There is a sort of craze abroad through the land to dabble in other lines outside of a man’s legitimate business. This is one reason why some firms find themselves hard up. Their energies and their money have been side-tracked into other chan- nels. Instead of pushing their reg- ular business they have gone outside, lured away by some get-rich-quick proposition. The consequence is they have been falling behind in their busi- ness, and they charge it to the dull times, or to some other cause than the right one. Just as soom as a man gets too many irons in the fire he is sure to get into trouble. He devotes his time and thought and money which ought to be concentrat- ed on his real business to these out- side deals, hoping to make a lot of money in a short time. The result in ninety-nine cases out of too is that he loses his grip on his old business, and loses his money on new ven- tures. — i An Easy One. He—What do you suppose I mar- ried you for? She—Probably because nobody else would have you. No. 835—Elkskin Blucher—Leather Sole Tan or Olive CE? TRADE MARK 6H N NS No Scattered, Random Shots A business line for the business shoe man—straight to the point. H. B. Hard Pans mean good business, daily. sales, year round sales, shoes that are wanted by your trade, and the man who doesn’t get them won’t be fooled again, there’ll be plenty of those who do get them to tell him where to go. The season’s business is just beginning on the Elkskin line, that will keep us hustling to hold up our ready-to-ship-at- a-moment’s-notice factory stock where it belongs. Let us have your order early—today. Every boy is interested in the ‘‘Nat- ural Chap,’’ and wherever there is a boy there area family and business. we had your application? Have Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Summer Shoes Are now in demand White Canvas Oxfords Tan Oxfords Tennis Shoes We have them In Leading Styles and at Bottom Prices Black Oxfords Grand Rapids Shoe & Rubber Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan Yu . S.A: TRAOE MARK, * ee a te a pe eee Sea atate Nas snore or sae Me tiie EB 1 2 i : 12 teen iinet anaes aeemeeeee onan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Png Rose ED _ = - A Woman’s Cleverness and Looks. The fiction that has died hardest theory | incom- in regard to woman ts the that beauty and braims are patible, and that if a woman its what “strong-minded’’ she 1s yearning not be Nobody, it is true, has ob- spread of the bloomer nor has Dr. Mary Walker nev- is known as afflicted with an insatiable to wear bloomers that can denied. served any movement, had any followers and imitators; ertheless, in the shadows of the pop- ular imagination there lurks a haunt- intelligence spells frowsiness when applhed to women. Those who still cling to the anti- quated notion that a highly-educated woman is obliged to look like sin will be interested in the statement made by Dean Clarence D. Ashiley, of the New York University, that so far as his experience goes, the cleverest women are the daintiest. Addressing one of the New York clubs recently he said, among other things, in speak- ing of the advanced woman: “Women at the bar to-day are all that is meant by good lawyers, and they are the peers of many prominen: men lawyers. Nor does this achieve- ment tend to destroy their feminine charm. Bah for the man who thinks that knowledge makes a woman mias- culine! Are men conceited enough to think that they can make women like themselves?” These words, from most eminent scholars and ediwcators expresis what ing belief that one of the of our day, merely every intelligent observer knows to be true, yet so hard does an old fai- lacy die that one of the most fre- quently-expresised commients that was heard during the Suffrage Con- vention in New York was surprise at the fact that the women who took part in it were elegantly and fashion- ably gowned. Gail Laughlin’s vel- vet and point lace attracted quite as niuch attention as her fame as the most noted woman lawyer of the day; women divided their admiration ecually between eloquenice and chif- fons, while the reverence paid the most noted exponents was mingled with thrills of appreciation of their stately black silks and boas of rea! lace, and not the least of the en- lightening effects of the convention was dispelling the bugaboo that women who think never think about their clothes. As a matter of fact, slovenliness has never any more been the real hall mark of talent and intelligence among women than it has among men. There was a time when it was esteemed a sign of intellectuality for a woman to wear short hair, but at the same time a man felt it equally upon him to wear long | incumbent ihe ur as a token that he was a genius. ‘In the past the woman who wrote | wore dowdy clothes as an indication ‘that her thoughts were set on higher |things than dresis, but her masiculine jcontemporary also effected a negli- | gent appearance, and poets, novelists, artists, journalists and actors could be recognized at sight by their vel- vet jackets, frayed collars and cuffs and genera! air of needing to be sent to the laundry. All of this, thank Heaven, has changed. Nobody now feels the need of looking the part, and of appear- ing in public with ink stains on their lingers to prove that they can write, or a daub of paint on their clothes as a guarantee that they are artists. Nobody could tell a poet from a gro- cery clerk by the clothes, nor tell a suffrage convention from a_ pink tea by its gowns. In business the same rule prevails. Nowhere will you find girls dressed neater or with more taste and appro- priateness than those who ‘spend their lives working in offices and stores, and so any fear that women will become less dainty or less at- tractive in their personal appearance as they grow more intelligent and self-reliant is a groundless one. After all, the theory that beauty and brains are incompatible is one that has little to- sustain it. Of course it is undeniable that Nature, who is a niggardly jade, seldom en- dows a woman with all the good gifts. What she bestows in one di- rection, she economizes on in an- other, and thus it happens that she who is long om looks is generally short on intelligence. This is all very well as long as a woman is young. Up to 30 her beau- ty is the beauty of youth, the beauty of an exquisite complexion, of a rounded cheek, of regular features and glorious hair. It matters little whether she is intelligent or not, She is beautiful like the roses, but after 39 no woman is beautiful without in- telligence. The charm of the dewy morning has fled. The hair has lost its luster, the complexion its fairness, the cheek its perfection of contour. The woman may still conform to all the outward demands of beauty, but she is a picture without a soul, and one that you grow tired of looking upon. Among the ugliest women in the world are those who have been beau- tiful in their youth, but who in their age degenerate into mere masses of senseless fat, unillumined by intelli- gence or sympathy or comprehen- sion, or who —— away until they are nothing but a “rag and a bone, } } } | } j | The Mill That Mills BIXOTA FLOUR In the Heart of the Spring Wheat Belt The excellent results women are daily obtaining from the use of Bixota Flour is creating confidence in its uniform quality. Grocers handling the line know this—and the result is that all recom- mend Bixota. Stock Bixota at once if you want more flour business at better profits. Red Wing Milling Co. S. A. Potter, Michigan Agent, 859 15th St., Detroit, Mich. Red Wing, Minn. Talked Among Men There is a grocer in this state who, when approached by one of our salesmen after hearing the merits of Voigt’s Crescent Flour, said he didn’t want the flour be- cause he never had any call for it. Our salesman told him we would fix that part of it if he would place a trial order. He concluded to try it, and we certainly did ‘‘fix it,’’ Got a letter from him a few days later telling us to hurry some more flour his way as his trial order lasted just three days. This isn’t an exception, Mr. Grocer. It’s something we can do for you, too. If you feel ‘‘con- victed’’ that you need better flour, just write us about ‘‘Voigt’s Free Advertising Aid.’ We’ll explain it to you and also send you our latest quotations. Voigt Milling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Flour Profits Where Do You Find Them, Mr. Grocer? On that flour of which you sell an occasional sack, or on the flour which constantly “ repeats,” and for which there is an ever increasing demand? Wingold HE FINEST CHIE FINEST FOUR INTHE WORLD) WoRLD is the best “‘repeater’’ you can buy. Your customers will never have occasion to find fault with it. When they try it once they ask for it again because it is better for all around baking than any other flour they can buy. Milled by our patent process from choicest Northern Wheat, scrupulously cleaned, and never touched by human hands in its making. Write us for prices and terms. BAY STATE MILLING CO. Winona, Minnesota LEMON & WHEELER CO. Wholesale Distributors KALAMAZOO, MICH, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, pene as aa on anh Rea Bok Sag es Pees Aes MICHIGAN TRADESMAN and a hank of hair”’—a ghastly wreck of femininity on the shores of time. An intelligent woman never grows this ugly, no matter how plain she was to start with. Her eyes may nev- er have been strictly beautiful in col- or or shape, but the hight never goes out in them because it is kindled at the immortal fires of knowledge. Her features may hiave been roughly hewn by Nature, but thought and ex- perience chisel them as the years go by mto something finer and lovelier, and there is, above alll, an undiefina- ble, intangible beauty of the soul that is immortal. To appreciate how great a factor intelligence is in beauty we have only to turn to the stage. The first time I ever saw Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the great English actresis, I ‘was aware of an acute thrill of disap- pointment. I saw a woman thin to emaciation, gaunt, hollow-eyed, with long bony arms and thin ‘scrawny neck, but she commenced speaking, and so marvelous was the golden music of her voice, so potent the thrill of her magnetism and so strong the subtle grasp with which she held the role she was portraying that she lives in my memory as the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Sarah Bernhardt has not one redeem- ing feature in her face, yet whoever thinks of her as an ugly old woman? Maud Adams is in reality one of the plainest of women, insignificant in statue, pale-complexioned, with hay- colored hair, yet who that has ever been entranced by her airy grace and charm ever thought of her as any- thing but beautiful? Somebody once asked Rejane ‘how she kept her good looks, to which she replied with in- comparable audacity: “I was never beautiful, and IT am now no longer yorng, but I do not care. Age or youth is nothing to me. I shall al- ways be Rejane, and I shall never lose my charm, for [ have intelli- genice.” So far from intelligence being bar to beauty, it ts its most potent ally, and the best advice that could be given to any girl who is seeking good looks is to spend more time in cultivating her mind than she does in massaging for complexion. It will pay better in the long rum. It is al- so worth while calling the attention of the young man who proposes mar- rying for beauty. to the fact that the beauty of youth is fleeting, but that the beauty of intelligence is war- ranted to last through a lifetime. Just what people mean when they speak with honror of tha fear of women becoming masculine if they study certain ‘subjects and enter cer- tain fields of labor that have hitherto been monopolized by men I confess that I have never been able to un- derstand. Nobody, I take it, thinks that Nature is going to revise the specifications upon which women are built, and it is equally ridiculous to suppose that woman's mental and moral nature are going to be chang- ed. Women are going to think hke women and feel like women and act like women to the end of the chap- ter. If femininity were not deeper than the mere conventions of life women would have been men long azo. It is both amusing and amazing to look back upon the windmills women have had to fight to get even the scant distance they are to-day along the road of progress. A hun- dred years ago it was held that it would make women masculine to be taught geography. [very school girl now knows more geography than any man did at that time, but women are sti] women. Later on it was held that for women to go td college would make them masculine. The country is full of college-bred wives and mothers, and nobody has notic- ed any difference in the feminine sex. Until a few years ago it was held that it would make women mascu- line to study the professions or go into business. Tens of thousands of women are so occupied, and tihey are as tender and loving, as ready to siac- rifice themselves, as devoted to their church and as good and desirable as mothers and wives and sweethearts as any women of the past ever were. Old prejudices die slowly, but they die surely, and we may well possess our souls in patience, waiting for the time when the most doubting Thom- as among men will be convinced that intelligence in a woman dioes not render her less attractive, less dainty in her dressing or less fond of fine clothes, and, above all, that there is no danger how much she learns or how many A. B.s or Dr.s or LLD.s or Ph. D.s that she is entitled to tack to her name will render her mas- culine. God settled that question forever when he created Eve a wom- an, Dorothy Dix. —_——-o-oo Wanted to Talk. A blustering, self-important — gen- tleman walked into a barber shop at Peck and wanted his hair cut. He didn’t want any talk—just a plain hair cut, and he wanted it right away. The modest and unpretentious old gentleman in the shop attemipted to explain, but was roughly told to go ahead without a word, After the job was finished the man who knew everything looked in the glass and was horrified at his appear- ance. He fairly stormed around, and indignantly asked the old gentleman if he called that a hair cut. The mild old man meekly replied: “IT don’t know. You must ask the barber. He'll be in presently. I am the editor of the village paper, and was waiting for a hair cut myself, but you wouldn’t give me a chance to explain.” —__»>-<-+__—_. Every Cloud Has Its Silver Lining. One afternoon Mrs. Murphy ap- peared at the settlement shuose all dressed up in her best bonnet and shawl. A huge black and blue spot disfigured one side of her face, how- ever, and one eye was nearly closed. “Why, Mrs. Murphy, what is the matter?” cried one of the teachers; and then, realizing that she might have asked a tactless question, she -hastily turned it off by saying: “Well, cheer up;.you might be worse off.” “Sure and I might,” responded the indignant Mrs. Murphy. “I might not be married at all, at all.” Don’t Wait Unti You Get Before you order Lily White flour. Out We are behind on orders. We are running our mills night and day to fullest possible capacity but orders are coming in faster than we can make the flour. First come, first served. That's fair, isn’t it? To-day we are 1100 barrels behind on orders and if you're going to need any Lily White next week it will be well to place your order NOW. Our increase in sales was 38 per cent. last month and it’s going to be as great this month. We want to keep everybody supplied—therefore please order early. Valley City Milling Company Grand Rapids, Mich. = Its Own Pretty Well, Doesn’t It? . 5 aaa oe Doon | ule LCT Dl TTT wld Ss ra Rea Nu CULT RMT eC cans. Its purity, if label is un- a Sold only in 1, 2 and 3 | broken, always gua ranteed. gestns Lie TERS eT eS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN — -~ = = has — _ a = ~~ 5 = Egg Trade Reaping a Golden Har- vest. “I have never seen a time in the thirty years I have been in the trade when eggs were enjoying such a boom as they are just now,” said a prominent factor in the egg trade yesterday. “Here we were a_ few weeks ago crying at our losses and predicting a slump for the man who stored eggs at the prevailing prices, and now everyone with eggs in hand is the luckiest sort of a chap. It beats me the way the eggs are going out, and I can not recall a time when at this season there was anything like the present consumption.” The receipts are somewhit light for this season; just why is mystery. Some attribute it to the fact that the harvests are earlier than usual and the gathering of eggs is being neg- lected on the farms two or three weeks earlier than usually occurs, and | at a time when the consumption is large. Others are disposed to attrib- ute it to the high price of meats and the popularity and economy of an egg diet. Whatever it is, it is certain that there is an unusual consumption which is not only taking care of all the daily receipts, but large blocks It is estimated that withdrawals exceed those of last year for June by fully 12,000 cases. It is estimated that the storage stock of eggs last year was 855,000 cases at this time of the year in New York warehouses, but that this year the houses contain only 663,000 cas- es. These cost on the average about 18'%4 cents storage charges and insur- ance included until January 1, and on the basis of the average market to- day could be withdrawn at not far from 20 to 21 cents. A few weeks ago it was the genera] impression in the trade that eggs stored at the pre- vailing prices were a bad risk. but now the appearance is different. A sale was reported this week of 6,000 cases of fine April-stored eggs at 21 cents, including all charges until the beginning of the year, which proba- bly cost the seller not above 19 or 1914 cents, or a clear profit of some- thing like 55 cents a case.—New York Journal of Commerce. of the storage eggs. -——_—_o 2-2. Why Meat Prices Are Necessarily High. Retail meat prices are subject to many influences and there is no way to judge them except by experience in a particular locality. As a rule, retailers who have a good trade among people of European origin can sell their prime cuts lower and other cuts higher than retailers with a high class trade can sell the same meats. The reason is that Ameri- cans all want a few cuts, while for- eigners appreciate and pay reasona- ble prices for all cuts. We have known differences of 5 cents and even Io cents a pound between one retailer and another on the highest- priced cuts of beef, due partly to this fact and partly to the different quali- ty of the meats required by differ- ent classes of trade. It is believed that retailers usually advance prices ‘quickly and reduce them slowly, and iprobably this is true. It is human /nature to take a profit when it can /be had and to keep prices up as long ‘as possible. Those who kick about |Meat prices would do the same if they | ‘could; but it can not long be done. ‘The distribution of meats is on a icostly scale because American con- |sumers purchase in a wasteful way. ‘They require certain kinds of meats ‘in small quantities, involving a high percentage of cost for selling and delivering and a sacrifice of good ‘meat at low prices by the retailer, ‘who must charge enough for what they will buy to make up for his ‘loss on what they do not want. If | retailers were able to do a larger |business, involving less rent, ice, la- | bor, delivery and miscellaneous | charges per pound of meat, and _ if ‘they were not under the necessity of ‘losing money on part of their good ‘and wholesome meats. prices would jbe more favorable to the consumer —Chicago Live Stock World. —_-.2-2.—____ Slow But Sure. A Philadelphia clergyman is the |father of a son whose habits of punc- jtuality are a sore trial. Nevertheless ithe youth’s ready tongue is a source of secret delight to the parent. Once the young man appeared at ‘Sunday breakfast twenty minutes lafter the appointed time. With a isorrowful face the minister contem- iplated the transgressor and then ‘his | watch. | “Son,” said he reproachfully, as he held the watch so that the youth imaght see its accusing face, “do you ithink this is right? think it is right?” Do you honestly “Well, father,” returned the young man, regretfully, “I wish it were about twenty minutes fast. but as yout ask me to say honestly, I am afraid it’s just about right.” ec Only Natural. “Did you ever go up in a bal- loon?” asked Mayne. “Yes, accidentally,” replied Spryng. “I happened to be in the basket |when the ropes were cut, and I didn’t have time to jump out.” “I suppose you were angry?” “Yes, it did make me soar.” 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, MIOW. OTTAWA AND LOUIS STREETS FRESH EGGS I want large quantities for my local and shipping trade. Fancy price for funcy quality. ALL GRADES OF DAIRY BUTTER WANTED 13 YEARS’ SQUARE DEALING F. E. STROUP (..2:22,%..) Grand Rapids, Mich. References: Grand Rapids National Bank, Commercial Agencies, Trade c sma. 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, Live and Dressed Poultry, Beans and Potatoes. Correct and prompt returns. REFERENCES Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, Express Companies, T of Shippers. Established 1873 rade Papers and Hundreds PRODUCE Vegetables, Poultry, Eggs, Butter, Cheese, Etc. We buy and sellin any quantity and only solicit your patronage upon merit of goods and Satisfactory dealing, RODERICK-GLASCOTT CO., 39S. Market St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 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 eee ii Peron MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Special Features of the Grocery and Produce Trade. Special Correspondence. New York, July 18—In asking about the condition of the coffee market your correspondent meets with pret- ty much a stereotyped reply—little dog. But this week there is ob- servable among some houses a more cheerful feeling—‘cheerful days and confident yester- to-morrows.” Buyers, to be sure, seem to be show- ing more interest, but they purchase small lots. Stocks here are seeming- ly ample—3,300,841 against 4,022,960 bags at the same time last year. At the close Rio No. 7 is quoted at 6%@6%c. Mild grades have shown better trading this week bags, and some pretty fair-sized sales have been recorded of washed Bogotas, the quotations on which variety ranges from 10'14@13\c. Refiners report a quiet sugar mar- ket, but grocers have had a huge de- mand, and it would seem that with- in a fortnight the supplies would be well reduced. Most refiners hold at 5.0c, less I per cent. cash for prompt shipment. There is a pretty good demand for teas, but dealers generally say the season is not as active as others have been. New Japans and Formosas are attracting most attention, the lat- ter being quoted above the range of last year. The better grades bring full rates, as supplies are mod- erate and buyers want immediate de- livery. Fancy head is decidedly short in supply at the moment and foreign rice 1s being freely purchased. Prime to choice, 6@63--2—___ She Was Invited. A Chicago woman, engaged in so- liciting subscriptions for a charitable institution, was not long ago plead- ing persistently with a Board of Trade man for his aid, but without success. Finally the broker with a smile: Strong, said, “Now, Mrs. Dash, I will give you nfty dollars for this charity if you will promise not to come into my of- fice again until I ask you to do so.” “Certainly, I agree to that,” said the lady, promptly, and walked out smiling with a check. Some weeks thereafter the broker heard a knock at his door. “Come in!” he called, and in walked the lady who had been working for the char- itable institution. She shad her little subscription book under her arm. “Good morning, Mr. Blank,” said she. “I want you to help me with a little matter—” “Come now, Mrs. Dash,” interrupt- ed the victim, “when I gave you that last fifty dollars wasn't it on the ex- press condition that you wouldn’t come into my office again until I in- vited you?” “Why, yes, that was the standing,” under- smiled the lady; “but did- n't you say, ‘Come in,’ just now when I knocked?” ———_+---____ Her Looks Sufficient. Mr. Buggins (whose better half is not renowned for her beauty)—I’ve just bought a hundred dollar bull- dog for my wife to take along for her protection when she goes out walk- ing, Mr. Blunt—Huh! Why not let her go without a veil and save all that expense? 17 A HOME INVESTMENT Where you know all about the business, the management, the officers HAS REAL ADVANTAGES For this reason, among others, the stock of THE CITIZENS TELEPHONE CoO. has proved popular. Its quarterly cash dividends of two per cent. have been paid for about ten years. Investigate the proposition. BALLOU BASKETS arEREST Just A Basket thrown together. Yes, made for the purpose. will outlast dozens of BALLOU common baskets. Write for particulars. MFG. CO., Belding, Mich. But made of good material with good workmanship, not simply Demand Ballou Baskets and get them—-All Kinds-—especially Stave Baskets with Wide Band. and Potato Baskets, braided and reinforced. Tightly One KINGSFORD’S OSWEGO Silver Gloss Starch The basis of the best starching for three generations; any kind of fabric—lace or linen, delicate or plain. Whether used FOR HOT OR COLD STARCHING its efficiency never judgment counts. varies. Absolutely pure; there is no_ starch more widely known, more highly es- | teemed, more uni- Wa) versally demanded by women _ whose Extensively advertised. Sixty-six Years of Superiority T. KINGSFORD & SON, Oswego, N. Y. National Starch Co., Successors MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Ci a ee eee. = = ~— ~ _ a ee —_ = so. aS = = ee Se - 7 — — — - Ss — 73 =. SS Zs = 52 = as ee = a te = +7 ay A ) ” Ss .——7 ) 3 =f ¢ ; OWENS YY, SS SSN +>—_____ To Clean Fish by Machinery. A machine which, it is claimed, will automatically cut and dress 250 fish per minute, or 15,000 per hour, has been placed on exhibition by its in- ventor, a Philadelphia man, in Wash- ington, D. C., and is attracting a great deal of attention. It is stated that the machine can do work of a dozen men, as an expert cleaner and cutter can cut and clean only 1,000 or 1,200 fish per hour. The fish are slid into pockets in the rear of the machine, and two automatic clutches at once grip the fish back of the head and near the end of the tail. A circular knife then decapitates and strips the fish, while three knives on a revolving shaft farther in the ma- chine thoroughly clean it. After this operation the cleaned fish slides down a shaft into a basket, while the head and cuttings are deposited in a seipa- rate compartment. It is stated the machine can be constructed to cut from five to twenty-five fish at each stroke, and can tbe operated by one man and two children. It is fitted with an automatic register, which keeps an account of the fish which are cleaned. —_2-.___ The rule of gold makes the Golden Rule seem sadly unreal. Occasionally people want a change and get tired of Hotel Livingston Grand Rapids We generally give them two weeks to get back. 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. Peerless Moistener and Letter Sealer For Sealing Letters Affixing Stamps and General Use Price 85c. Postpaid to your address Made of aluminum body and Ger- man silver top. Simplest, cleanest and most convenient device of its kind on the market. You can seal 2,000 letters an hour. Filled with water it will last several days and is always ready. Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Mich. TWENTY-SIXTH MEETING. Programme peancea for the Lan- sing Convention. Ann Arbor, July 21—Medicine wag- ons are becoming plentiful in Michi- gan, especially since Illinois and Ohio have shut them out. They sel! condition powders, patent medicines and flavoring extracts and are cutting big chunks of trade, from country stores. Your neighborhood may be visited next. What are you going to do about it? The National pure food and drug law has been adopted and passed by some state legislatures. It requires every package of medicine, even pre- scriptions, to be labeled with the per- cent. of alcohol, morphine, etc. Such a law will passed by our cocaine, doubtless be mext Legislature’ Tt ought to be modified so that it will not be burdensome. In some states the enforcement is entirely in the hands of the Pure Food Commissioner. How would you like to have the man who tests gro- ceries test your tinctures, etc.? Wha: are you going to do about it? A tem- perance wave is sweeping over the land and has already taken effect in eleven counties in Michigan. Some saloonkeepers are blossoming out as druggists and bringing disgrace on our profession and some druggists are weak or mean enough to help. What are you going to do about that? Reformers go to extremes, and ex- treme temperance legislation that will Cause unnecessary restrictions and burdens upon druggists may be intro- duced at Lansing. What can you do to prevent its passage? If a thousand Michigan druggists will meet at Lansing, August 4-6, and carefully plan the work of the Legis- lative Committee of the State Phar- maceutical Association and then go home and get next to their State Sen- ators and Representatives, all these problems and many more can be soly- ed for the good of the drug business and of the public which we serve. Practical papers full of information are being prepared for the meeting and every man who attends the State meetings has an opportunity to meet and receive instruction from the lead- ers in the retail drug business in this State, and he goes back to his busi- ness with new ideas and more enthu- stasm. This alone is worth the cost of the trip and makes it a legitimate store expense. Lansing contains much that is of general interest and this article indicate to you that Lansing gists and the Pharmaceutical Travel- ers’ Association are prepared to re- licve you of ennui. will drug- So go to the phone right now and tell your wife to get ready to go to Lansing with you August 4, but let me warn you that if you take her this year she will enjoy herself so much that she will insist on going to the 1909 meeting too. Programme. All delegates are requested to reg- ister with the local Committee at once upon arrival, paying one dollar tc apply on expense of entertainment MICHIGAN TRADESMAN and receiving a badge which will en- title them to all privileges will be held in the chamber. All sessions Senate First Session. Tuesday, 2 p. m. Address of Welcome—Mayor J. S. Jennett. Response. Address—F. E. Appointment of Committees. President's Bogart. Reports—Secretary, E. E. Calkins; Treasurer, H. G. Spring; Secretary of the Board of Pharmacy, W. E. Col- lins; Committee on Pharmacy and Queries, Leonard Seltzer; Com- mittee on Trade Interests, John E. Peck; delegate American Pharma- Association, F. W. R. Per- to Nea. Reb Ff, Trustees of Prescott memorial Chas. F. Mann. Papers—The Golden Rule in’ Busi- Owen Raymo; What Can This Association Do for the Retailer? J. W. T. Knox. ceutical ty; delegate Muir; scholarship fund, Ncss, Second Session. Tuesday, 7:30 p. m: ~Building Up a Prescription Chas H. Frantz; Prepara- tions of the National Formulary, Papers- Jusiness, Prof, A. B. Stevens. Tuesday, 9 p. m. Visit to Bijou Theater as guests of Pharmaceutical Travelers’ Associa- tion. Third Wednesday, 9 a. m. What Is Supervision of the and Drugs? Session. Paper- State Food Accomplished bv Sale of Floyd M. Robin- son, Report of Legislative A. H. Webber. Discussion of Proposed Legislation. Wednesday, 1:30 p. m Visit to Industrial School for Boys, trolley ride to the Michigan Agricul- tural College, instructive sight-seeing under the leadership of members of the college faculty. Wednesday, 2:30 p. m Games, sports and contests for at- Committee— tractive prizes on College Athletic Field, The ladies will visit the Woman’s building and see the demonstration of ideal housekeeping. The College grounds are naturally beautiful and nothing has been left undone to make them more so, Wednesday, 6 p. m. An old-fashioned picnic dinner wil! and an informal dance at the Armory complete the ing. be served, will even- Fourth Session. Thursday, 9 a. m. Adulteration Executive Report Committee. Report of Commitee. Report of Committee on Resolu- tions. Report of Committee on Nomina- tions. Election of officers. Unfinished business. Adjournment. The ladies will find additional vis- its, excursions, trolley rides and au- to rides planned to occupy their time during the business Expense may be ed by sessions. materially reduc- engaging a room in a private house and boarding at a restaurant. Phar- omitted The local Committee and the maceutical nothing Travelers have that will make the meeting enjoyable. E. G. Calkins, Sec’y. —_--->___ Programme Arranged For K. Convention at Manistee. Thursday, August 6. O p.m. Arrival of official K. train. Met by ; sand. 6p. im. Elks’ quainted. ) of G. Reception Committee and Informal Temple Reception at (Everybody get ac- Friday, O°30. 4. Mm. August 7. Business Meeting for Organization of Convention at Elks’ Temple. 10:30 a. m. Exhibition by Life Sav- a to Public Lodge Fraternal Orders, etc. The Buildings, Rooms of Lo s Rooms of all the leading or. ders will be open during the conven- tion, and members are cordially in- vited to call at any time. They will always find brothers to greet them. 12-1:30 p. m. Dinner. 2-4 p.m. Business meeting at Elks’ Temple. officers and the ladies: automo reception at the Reports of committees. For bile ride and ry Club. 4:30 p. m. Tramp, the Coun- Grand parade. 30ys are Tramp marching.” 6:30 to 9:30 p. m. Banuet at Elks’ ‘Temple. Gov. Warner, Lieut. Gov. Kelly, Wm. Judson, Pres. Nat’! Wholesale Groce. Ass., and other prominent peo expected to be 9:30-12 p. m. Grand will be informal, so don’t worry about suits and ballroom Saturday, ple are present. ball. This dress gowns. August 8. 8:30 a. m. Visit to one of the larz- est Salt Plants in the 10 a m. election of world. and Temple Auxil- meeting Elks’ Ladies Business officers at entertained by Post M. 11 :30-1:30. 2p mo Excursion to Ball game Bathing, a general time. Basket Ladies lary of Dinner. Orchard between 2 Seach, good teams. roller skating, and good & Dp. m. picnic and telling, ete. —_>--___ Attracting Retail Buyers To Sagi- naw. July 21—Phe Interests of the camp fire, story Committee Saginaw Trade has under considera- matters of on Trade Board of tion One of the many importance, which has is the plan for getting he retail buyers to come to when doing their buying. It has been suggested that a 5 per cent. rebate be those goods in this city from outside points, rate to be the railroad point in question. The referred to the Re- Association, Week, which has main features been discussed more of t this city given all purchasing the maximum fare from the matter has been tail Merchants’ The Merchants’ been talked of before in connection with the meetings of this body, has been discussed and the mem- bers seem to think that it was an ex- cellent plan. — Steps the launching of a campaign for this preparatory to event have been talked of, which will give an opportunity of displaying the of G.| om feet manufactories The t mercnants products of the local and jobbing houses. bringing together of the and buy ers would be conducive of better trade relations and John Popp and Secretary Kleinfeldt have been ap- pointed a matter jobbing committee to take up the with the manufacturing and interests. A button to advertise the city has also been brought up by a_ special committee, composed of Max Heav enrich, P. F. H. Morley and John Popp. The Board of Trade has been thinking of this button question for some time and the Committee has decided to communicate with the but. ton mshintactaeets for the of getting mercial purpose some municipal or com- button designs. They have also passed a resolution recommend- offer a of $10 for the best design and mon button. —An- conditions wil! ing that the Directors prize ogram for a Saginaw nouncements of these later. ———- 22 Naval Parade and Fireworks at De- troit. Detroit, At the arrangements were being made by the Wholesalers’ trot be made July 21 time the Association of De- to entertain its guests durin; g the August 10-15, it was suggest- Charles Moore, deust Co, nucleus of week ed by Secretary of ite a fete ger annual affair ibout that time Security river as a a la could be arranged ne was ag toward the The suggestion $100 voted the Wi holesalers’ upon and celebration by Association General! Committee in charge of the buyers week, and ratified by the directors ot the Association. It was then planned have the river fete Thurs- day evening, August 13, so the guests oi the wholesalers, as well as the peo- ple of Detroit and others, could wit- ness it. Mr. Moore took the matter Commerce and decided to make the a joint affair. At a meeting of the held at the Commerce, the date to to have the fireworks and naval pa- rade off the foot of the Island so it can be seen from the Island, the De- troit and Canadian shores. Mr. Moore announced that $525 had al- ready subscribed up with the Board of if «was river fete Committee, rooms of the Board of decided to Tuesday, it was change August Ir, and been toward the event and that probably $1,000 will be raised. Sub-committees appointed and meeting of the Committee will be future to arrange the celebration. were another Genera! held in the near details of the —_———_?>-os——— Menominee—-The Menominee Elec- tric Light & Traction Co. will con- across. the Rapids to develop about 6,000 which transmit- struct an immense dam Menominee River at Grand and expects horsepower, will be ted to this city. A special chute wil! be constructed to facilitate the sluic- ing of the logs so not to interfere with the annual drive of the Menom- 300m Co. The officers of the Electric Co. are the men of Menominee Marinette. Augustus Spies, Mayor of this is President of the company. inee veteran lumber- and city, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN =~ = = ; os Tae = = = = = - = ~_ tl = = . 2k c- . = > fo eS ea SS hon — =| => ~_ —— r - Michigan Board of Pharmacy. Preskaen Hears H. Heim, Saginaw. Secretary—W. E. Collins, Owosso. Treasurer—W. a a t ae Other members—John . uir, Rapids, and Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek. Michigan State Pepenntetion Assoclia- on. President—J. E. Bogart, Detroit. First Vice-President—D. B. Perry, Bay oan Vice-President—J. E. Way kson. Teenird Vice-President—W. R. Hall, Man- eee. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor. easurer—H. G. Spring. Unionville. cones Committee—J. L. Wallace, Kalamazoo; M. A. Jones. Lansing; Julius Greenthal, Detroit; C. H. Frantz, Bay City, and Owen Raymo, Wayne. Methods of Attracting Trade. To advertise their insect powder a large drug firm in Boston are driv- ing around the streets a light vehi- cle, the body of which is a large replica of the package of powder, sur- mounted by an immense powder gun. A Western druggist, with an eye for business, extended his hitching post a couple of feet and placed an electric call bell at the top of it. Pros- pective customers, riage or automobile, press the ton without leaving their seats and the drug clerk immediately attends to | their wants. for night calls. A Michigan druggist, who believes | in public honesty, has this sign in| his store over a box with compart- | stamps: “Help| yourself and make your own change; ments for postage if you can not make change, call a clerk.” of the plan he found that he was four cents ahead of the game. The rapid improvement in storage batteries and their consequent crease in cost is bringing many new | electrical appliances on the market. | Among them are several that drug- gists may advantageously a liberal profit may now be retailed at a price that is within the reach of | the majority. ufactured expressly for sick-room use, and there are clocks with elec- trical light and alarm attachments designed to indicate the periods for the administration of medicines, por- | table call-bells and fans and other appliances, etc. Al of these are of such a design and their uses are of such a character as to peculiarly suited for sale stores. in drug The rush of the vacation season is | at its height. Every vacationist needs several drug store articles dur- ing his absence from town. It be- hooves his town druggist to supply him before he goes away; and it pays to call his attention to such needs by displaying them. Here is a sug- arriving in car- | but- | The same bell is used After two weeks’ operation | de- | handle. | Excellent medical batteries that yield | Portable lamps in or- | namental and simple forms are man- | make them | gestion for a display that should make sales: Gather together as many time ta- bles, route cards, resort folders and the like as can be obtained. A trip to the railroad station and a few cents spent for post cards will bring in hundreds. Scatter these; some part- ly open, some extended and some closed, all over the floor of the win- dow. Intersperse photographs of quiet resorts, as well as maps. Ar- range several traveling bags about the window, with a trunk or large case in the center if there is room. These bags should not be entirely closed, and from their interiors should protrude brushes, soaps, pow- ders, razors, anything appropriate that the stock will supply. Do not get in too many of one article. No traveler buys a dozen hair brushes; and five boxes of soap would be about all a two-weeks’-off man could carry. Do not crowd the display, but place in conspicuous positions cards giving the range in prices of the A large ‘card should set forth the advantage ‘several articles exhibited. of starting forth properly equipped; ,and another might say something ‘about taking along such remedies as ithe traveler will probably need and also state the willingness of the store to forward any desired medicine. ———————— ‘Formula for Making Blackberry Brandy. | Under the name of “blackberry ‘brandy” two different articles are in ‘commerce, the one made from the iberry, and the other, which is really ;more of a cordial, is made from the plant. The ‘following is an excellent formula for ithe first: ‘root of the blackberry Cinnamon ..... Ro 2 parts (Oe i 2 parts NE a 2 parts ieee 3 I part Mix and powder coarsely, and add (to 2,00c parts crushed black berries, freshly picked and fully ripe. Add |§,000 parts of alcohol of 95 per cent. jand let macerate together for two weeks. At the end of this period strain off through woolen, press out, and to the colate add 1,300 parts of ‘sugar, dissolved in 4,200 parts of rain or soft water. Finally add sufficient water to bring the whole up to 12,000 | Parts. Another formula .is as follows: Crush the berries and strain off the juice, and to every 10 gallons of the latter add 25 gallons of good whisky (or alcohol dilute). Dissolve in a | small quantity of 95 per cent. alco- |hol, 1 dram each of oil of clove and oil of cinnamon and 20 drops of nut- meg; dissolve, too, 12 pounds of sug- ar in 6 gallons of water and mix both with the juice and alcohol. It is a good idea not to mix the entire amount of flavoring oils at once, but to use half the amount at first, and if the mixture is not sufficiently high- ly flavored, to add from the remain- der enough to produce the necessary effect. P. H. Quinley. te Formula for Violet Ammonia. An odor somewhat like that of vio- lets may be given to ammonia water by macerating in it a little powdered orris root. The orris imparts also a purple color to the ammonia, but the liquid, even after close filtering, is not bright. Ammonia water may also be per- fumed by the addition of violet ex- tract as prepared for the handker- chief. About a dram to the pint is sufficient. The admixture renders the ammonia slightly opalescent. This method is rather too expensive, and the mixture is usually cheapened, we believe, by using ionone, an artificial substance having an odor resembling that of the violet. According to the manufacturers, about one dram of the Io per cent. solution of this substance (this solution is the form in which it is furnished) in one pint of deodoriz- ed alcohol yields a_ spirit of as strong a violet odor as is exhibit- ed by the customary “triple extract.” At the price charged for ionone, the spirit so made would cost about $1.50 per pint, very much less than the real violet. The ionone spirit would per- haps be satisfactory alone in ammo- nia; for use in the ordinary way it re- quires sweetening with jasmine, etc. Another formula is as follows: Pe OPE oi ae 2 drs OU Weresingt «oi... 2 drs AMOR 1 pt. Stronger ammonia water ..... 6 pts. Water, to maki... 5 gal. isreeiy moe (S. enough Dissolve the oils in the alcohol and add to the water and ammonia water previously mixed. A green color may be imparted by the addition of water soluble chlorophyll as found in the market. J. Morley. —_~++>____ The Drug Market. Opium—Is unchanged, Morphine—Is steady. Quinine—Is weak. Citric Acid—Is very firm and tend- ing higher. Haarlem Oil—Is lower on account of competition among importers, Menthol—Is very firm and tending higher. Oil Bergamot—-Has advanced and is very firm. American Saffron—Has advanced on account of small supply. Gum Camphor—Is weak and tend- ing lower. Quince Seed—Has again declined on account of the arrival of more stock. ——_?-2.-___. Will Study Alcohol Making. The profitableness of making alco- hol out of damaged, unfermenited fruit, plants and vegetables possess- ing saccharine qualities js soon to be tested at the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture under the jm- Tams nest eh sp terete eshasesstseeminsupetannseniselaennnnel eienmnNaNTNRRE mediate supervision of Dr. Wiley. It is expected that one graduate from be present to acquire skill in the produc- tion of alcohol for agricultural and each agricultural college will niechanical purposes. —_>-——___ Denatured Alcohol Output. The production of denatured alco- hol for the first six months of 1907, under the new law covering its man- ufacture, amounted to 1,774,272 gal- lons. The supplemental new alcohol law will, it is estimated, lead to a production of 4,000,000 gallons for the calendar year. The operation of the law has already reduced the cost of wood alcohol from prices varying between 60 and 75 cents to 30 cents a gallon. Grand Rapids Stationery Co. 134-136 E. Fulton St. Grand Rapids, Michigan Local Option - Liquor 1 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. iPrice $2.50, including 50 blank affidavits. Send in your orders early to avoid the rush. TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 _WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Acidum Copaiba ......... Aceticum ....... 6 8 Copal seas 3 ts 1 Selle Co. So Benzoicum, Ger.. 70@ 175|Hrigeron |||" 2 395@3 50| Prunus virg... Boracie ......... 12| Evechthitos |__|. is ClhlChlClClUC Carbolicum ..... 26@ 29/Gaultheria ..." 7) _? 50@4 00 Tinctures Citricum ........ 50 55|Geranium ..... 15 Hydrochlor ...... 8 Gossippii Sem ral 70@_ 75| Anconitum Nap’sR gi Nitrocum ....... 8@ 10|Hedeoma ....... 00g8 60| Anconitum Nap’sF Oxalicum ....... 14 15 | Junipera 40@1 90| Aloes ........... Phosphorium, dil. 16} Lavendula ... |” 3093 60| Arnica .......... c ase VOI 1 30@1 40 Salicylicum 44 47) 1 30@ Aloes & Myrrh Sulphuricum 14@ Mentha Piper |/1 75@1 90 oetida ...... Tannicum ....... g 85} Menta Verid .::7 00@7 25|Atrope Belladonna oe waaee 38 40 Morrhuae gal ..1 60@1 85 guanit Cortex.. mmonia oo sr erteees 3 0093 pos Eonastn oo .... 4 SEP Oa e664 06 kek CO CE PM OT eee ok ae ae ree 10@ 12 Cantharides “.. ’ Carbonas ........ 18@ 15| Picis Liquida gal: 40! Gapsicum ..... |: Chloridum ...... 12 ga; Reinga. 2. oo: 94@1 00 Cardamon ||. !: Rosmarini ...... 3? 00 Cardamon Ge. Aniline Rosae oz. ....... 6 50@7 00 or 1 Black .......-...3 00@2 25/ Succint |. 22277! 40@ 45 yee Co Brown .......... 80@1 00) Sabina .......... 90@1 09) Ginchona |... OO once eee eeeaee 45@_ 50/Santal ..........! 4 50] Cinchona Co. |. WONOW cocci. 2 50@8 00 | Sassafras 90 95 | Columbia ee accae Finals, ess, oz. 65; Cubebae .......| Cubebae ........ 24@ 28) BI we. e eee ees 10@1 20| Cassia Acutifol _ Juniperus ....... ag 10 Thyme yo pea 40 1 = Cassia Acutifol Co Xanthoxylum ... 80 86 Theobromas ..... 15 20 +o gel Balsamum Copaiba ......... : ioge - Potassium ao ae CTU eee eeeeeeeee Gentian Co ..... Terabin, Canada 75 80 a ss a Cuineea 2.8. oc. Tolutan ..3.5.... 40@ 45 Bromide ........ 18 20 oo us Cortex 5 Abies, Canadian. a8 14 Todine, “solorices Cinchona Flava... SOS 8 te Buonymus atro.... 60 | Potassa, Bitart pr — 82 er sees cies Myrica Cerifera.. 20| Potass Nitras opt 10 Nux Vomica ....: Prunus Virgini.. 15 | Potass Nitras .. 8 a 1 ae. gr'd. a 2 Gipeee oc see es 28 fel Ovil, Geccumiccgad 1 Sassafras. ..po ree mee Nes Opil, deo orized. . 2 CB cee we cs « 20 aa a nit a Gla” 24@ 80 | Aconitum ene 20@ 25 - goplleaneins pe ie ra Ht 80/Althae ........... 80@ 35|/Sanguinaria |... Haematox ...... 11 12} Anchusa ........ 10 12|Serpentaria ...... Haematox, ls.. 13 14 —— DO. ie 29 = om ie Haematox, -. ug 15 GAaIOUM 2.56.5. eae sae a ce 17| Gentiana po 15. 15} Valerian ....... ov Glychrrhize py is 16@_ i8| Veratrum’ Verlae Carbonate bree. 15 beaeerie’ = —_ co Pe hens rastis. Can. po Citrate and Se. 200 tonebore, Alba, 120° Se Miscellaneous Citrate Solub z Inula, po ........ 18@ 22! Aether. Spts Nit 3f 30@ oe © ib Ipecac, po ....... 2 00@2 10/ Aether, Spts Nit 4f 34@ Sulphate, ‘com: a. 2 = DIOk 2. oo ca, 35 = Alumen, grd po 7 3@ . . alapa, pr ....... mnstte 2. .2. 0... Suehsperowe, 7 ng) Marantey aa’ 7 0°@ Be] Antimont. "po Ag i : ophyllum po. I Antimont! et po T 40 Sulphate, pure .. Riel 8... 75@1 00| Antipyrin ....... Flora Rhei, cut ....... 1 0001 25) Antifebrin ...... Arnion .. oe 20 35 rly eaehiees et 7 fe ac Nitras oz 108 Anthemis....... 58 60 | Spigella ......... rsenicum ...... es Sanguinari, po 18 15| Balm Gilead . 60 ee om Fa 50@ 65|Bismuth S N ..175@1 Folla ——— piaeetast 85 a po Hale hier. 1s 3 eae. 40 46 | Smilax, offi’s at alcium or Percaine, Acutifol, e Smilax, M ....... 25| Calcium Chior. #5 Tinnevelly : 35 20 | Scillae po 45 20 25 | Cantharides, Rus. @ Cassia, Acutifol.. Nt 80 | Symplocarpus 25|Capsic! Fruc’s af Salvia oMcinalis, Valeriana Eng. 26 | Capsic! Fruc’s po %s and %s .. 18 20 | Valeriana, Ger. 15 20|Cap'! Frue’s B po Uva Ursi ....... so 10 teen : ed - ue ee we ia ae ngiber 4 ....... armine oO. GummIi Cera Alba ....... 50 Acacia, ist pe * Semen S ra Flava ..... “ Acacia, sr pe Anisum po 20 .. 1¢| Crocus .......... @ kcanie: ated ate 1g|Aplum (gravel’s) 13@ 15 | Cassia Fructus .. g — . 5 65 lea 1s et e a Cataceum |.._..” ‘ oa arul po 16 1... @ 18|Cataceum ....... Aloe Barb Buen e a = Cardamon bec 70@ 90 ee a a . co orlandrum ..... Aloe, — . 56 & Cannabis Sativa 7 8 eee Crss 1 ne Asafoctida 2.2... 35@ 40|Cydonium ....... 7521 00 | Cinchonidine P-W 38@ Be ‘ol Ce 50@ 65| Chenopodium ... 25@ 30 Cinchonid’e Germ 38@ Catechu, Is”... 1 | Dipterix Odorate. 80@1 00 | Cocaine 2 70@2 : Dae Cacia = ma Ce GE. 8, esis: ie cB HY Feetere, o:: 1 "s/t lee tw nt" . "@ 40 Unt, Era: boi 2h 3@ 6| Crete ‘bree. cs obelia ......... 76@ 80} Foote & Jenks Coleman Brand 50 70 u4 Lemon No. 2 Terpeneless .... 76 No. 3 Terpeneless ....1 75 No. 8 Terpeneless 2-8 00 Vanilla No. 2 High Class ....1 20 No. 4 High Class...... 2 00 No. 8 High Class...... 4 00 : Jaxon Brand Vanilla 2 oz. Full Measure....2 10 4 oz. Full Measure....4 09 8 oz. Full Measure....8 00 Lemon 2 oz. Full Measure .,.1 25 4 oz. Full Measure....2 40 8 oz. Full Measure....4 50 Jennings D. C. Brand. Terpeneless Ext. Lemon Doz. Ne: 2) Panel. - 06... 75 MO.-* Panel. oc) 1 50 MO: 6 Panel , 300. 2): 2 00 Daper Panel 2.50 6. 1 50 2 oz. Full Meas........ 1 25 4 oz. Full Meas....... 2 00 Jennings D. C. Brand Extract Vanilla Doz, No, 2 Panel’. 3.0.60. 3 1 25 WO. 4 Panel 7.3) 2 00 Mo. 6 Panel ..2.) 0. 3 50 Soper Panel ..... 2 00 1 oz. Full Meas........ 90 2 oz. Full Meas.......1 80 4 oz. Full Meas....... 3 90 No. 2 Assorted Flavors 1 00 GRAIN BAGS Amoskeag, 100 in bale 19 0! Amoskeag. less than bl 19% GRAIN AND FLOUR Wheat New No. 1 White ... me ee New No. 2 Red .... 9 Winter Wheat Flour Local Brands Patents 5 50 Second Patents .......5 25 eifaiseht ....).. bee aeue 0b Second Straight ......4 75 NORE as ys oe Flour tn barrels, 26c pec barrel additional 0| Worden Grocer Co.'s — Quaker, paper Quaker, clotn ..... +-+-4 80 Wykes & Co. MCunse 7 4 80 Kansas Hard Wheat Flour Fanchon, \%s cloth ...5 80 Judson Grocer Co. Grand Rapids Grain & Mil- ing Co. Brands. Wizard, assorted rapeam ogi... -4 40 Buckwheat ...........5 75 ee eeeees GROCERY PRICE CURRENT — oe CHEWING GUM Family Cookie ....... : ithi i iin, : 3 Fancy Ginger Wafer 12 These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within | of mailing, American oe Spruce = Ne hat oe “2 d are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are aa an 65|Fruit Nut Mixed ..._ 16 we i hants will have their orders filled at| Best Pan 45|i*rosted Cream ....... 8 liable to change at any time, and country merchants w Best Pepsin, 5 boxes..2 00| Frosted Honey Cake | '19 ket prices at date of purchase. tik Gk... .. 5| Fluted Cocoanut Bar 10 aiticaed Largest Gum Made 55 es Fae peered : Sen Sen ....... bees ese 55 ainger ems, Iced.... { ADVANCED DECLINED Sen Sen Breath’ Per'f 1 00 Graham Crackers a, L TOM 645524, 45.2. Besa . t Flour Pome Canned Deere : See Te aes ateqic sour 85|Ginger Snaps N. B.C. 7 Spring Whea sai Hop to it ............. 65/Ginger Snaps Square 8 Cheese Spearmint ............ 65| Hippodrome Bar ..... 10 Wooden Baskets RY Honey Cake, N. B. C. 12 Provisions CHICO 6 Honey Fingers. As lee 4? Oats oe 2. ‘anaes ony Santas Bo, + tin pe eae shah ae ew 5 Honey Jumbles, iced = + i and ea ae oleate ice Honey Flake ......... 2% A ceed Ct ne ‘ Household Cookies 6 9 Schener’s . hare a Household Cookies Iced & Ma CHOC Iced Honey Crumpets 10 Index to rkets 1 na Gee & Co.'s és amperinl cy. 6 8 INIA Oysters German Sweet ....... 26) Jersey Lunch ..... 7. ”” 8 By Columns ARCTIC vee Cove, Itb. . Maas ws 7. : Premium |... <:. eee + Kream Mins 0a, 20 ‘ ori ove, 2b 12... @ Caracas 20.05.58 wei YOM oe 11 12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box..75 Gove. 1th. Oval @1 20 Walter M. Lowney Co. | Lemon ROMS 10 Col AXLE GREASE Diane arcmium, 4s :..:..2. 32 Lemon Biscuit Square 8 A Frazer's : Mins =. 5 1 35@2 50| Premium, %s ......... 32/Lemon Wafer ........ 6 Ammonia .......-...+-- : Lib. wood oe _ : m4 ee eneees sy COCOA 39 OO ; - MBS GL cpee ifb. tin boxes, : oz. 2 3d OR DORROrS oes ee Log Cabi Cake... .; 10 oe Sei. tin boxes, 2 doz. 4 20| Marrowfat_ ...... one 1 26 Cleveland NE 41 Lusitania’ Miner cee 11 6B yz} i01b. pails, per doz...6 00 Early June a 15@1 go} Colonial, 4s ......... oi Mary Aun... s Baked Benne Hs z| loip. pant. per stead > Early oo = — Colonial, 48 ......,.. i Marshmallow Walnuts 16 OK ss onen eae 2#oIb. pails, per doz...1: eaches : SDDS oes 4 sia ale 4. BREE a Biuing ae sae f BAKED BEANS Pie nesses ese eees 1 00@1 25 etees bhiss kb ena 45| Molasses Cakes Maus SS |. oc oso ea 1] 1%. can, per doz...... 90} No. 10 size can pie @3 00} Towney. MB claw los yes 86) Molasses Cakes, teed 9 wt reangae MO os 1] 2Ib. can, per doz..... 1 40 Pineapple ‘es pownny, ae Seok ewe . ei os Spee ehasaes oe Butter Color ....... eee 3fb. can, r oz... .. 1 80] Grated ..... eae -owney, Bese g mble i... .)2) eae “BATH BRICK Paleced ........'.... a Mitowney, 18 .......9.5. 40| Newton Meee oe 12 c Ay American § ............. 7 Pumpkin Van Houten, 4s ..... 12] Oatmeal Crackers ..... 8 aie — 1) neigh: ooo, 35] wair Sac 85 | Van es As stuns a paris ge ages 3 Canne OOdS ...+++++- 2 BLUING — 90} Van Houten, 4s ...... val Sugar Cakes .... 8 Carbon Oils ........... Actin ae 1 00|/Van Houten, is ....... 72) Oval Sugar Cakes Ast. 9 CatSup ------seeere reese : 6 oz. Ovals 3 doz. box $ 40 roe Pee 2 O01 We0D G6 ee. tee 35 Penny Cakes, Assorted 8 EEN eke e ne eo eee heer 2|16 oz. round 2 doz. box 75 Wiipur, We 2.141.555. °3 Picnic Mixed = ,.... |. 11% Cheese ap Steadman sens 3 sawyer’s Pepper Box Stand Penpherriee Wilbur, na bet 40 Pretacls, Hand Md.... 8 ewes NOOR eee? Per Gross. ndard ........ COCOA Pretgelettes, Hand Md. § pores heer eaveeee rete 3 No, 3, 3 doz. wood bxs 4 00 Salmon Dunham's %s & %8 26%/ Pretgelettes. Mac. Md. 7% ao, ee eo No. 5, 3 doz. wood bxs 7 00] Col’a River, we : 2ea2 u we _ canes e = Raisin Coo les ee 2 ee ; ol’a River, flats unham’s Xs ......... avena Jumbles ....,. Rigen. . ok sa cece eccn> : No. 1 Con Te -.2 iD Soo Alaska ....1 45@1 50!Bulk ............ ES 12 Revere, Assorted |_|.” 14 eee ree Bias Carpet, 4 sew ..2 40] Pink Alaska ..... 1 00@1 10 COFFEE Gites. 8 —, " anti CoRR 3) No. 3 Carpet, 3 sew ..2 2o Sardines EO ina 10@13% saree aa 8 Gema ss 39 ve i - 11} No. 4 Carpet, 3 sew ..2 10 Domestic, %s ....3%@ 4 I 14% | Scote ookies ....... ee rere ates Sivoertor Gem .........; Ome, a. 6 GPO 88 se oii ose dnds oa 16% | Snow Creams .......; 16 ee te ae ..s--., S100sen Wik 90| Domestic, Must’d 6%@ 9 its rt tteerseccseese 29°" | Spiced Honey Nuts +++ 212 Cream =F nee Fancy Whisk ........ 1 25] California, Pe ou ncy ...... Sead pees ee eoeer acetal ae, 2 a Fruits” or ous ee eo Be Common, esse... OY | Saltann “Forte “Sisccit ts Drie Pen tee ih, 4s ..... 18 28 enor attire sce ees $i | Sunyside Jumbles ....10 Scrub French, pee coe ee oe 164 ‘ : . Solid Back te... Tel tnn | Qhrimpe, 0 | Gnoles ooccecsesc ag cg Farinaceous Goods 8| Solid Back, 11 in..... 95|Standard ........ 1 20@1 40) paneeery es Spiced Gingers Iced: 110 Fish and Oysters ...... 10| Pointed Ends ....... 85 Succotash Maracalbo Sugar roman paar: 3 Fishing Tackle ........ 5 Stove ae Sitti . SB Bone ponet, toed. Flavoring Extracts Oe ee ltinee ._... «5. LOO Ghee 20 19 — quares, large * Fresh Meats .........-- NO 2 oi : 25 Fancy ...........1 25@1 40 Mexica es incre Hees wehbe 5 ae ; ioe ee eee 1 Strawberries as. Euperba ....... foe ; Lady Fingers 25 Shoe Standard ..... Ree caee MANGy. oii, 19 ponge Gelatine .....-++.+++- 7 oe Ss oo 1 00} Wancy 2... 63:6... Guatemala Sugar Crimp ......... Grain Bags_.....+-+++++- Oe 1 30 Tomatoes CnGiee 2 ee. 15 |Sylvan Cookie ....... : Grains and Flour ....... “a i. Ll Gale 95@1 00 Java Vanilla Wafers ....... " m0, @ 64. s 1 90] Yood ....... cus @1 10/ african ................ 12 MACHR eda Z H . BUTTER COLOR a Mi Wivace, Atisan 1 Weee o i Herbs ....--.--+.+++0+- 10| W., R. & Co.'s 25c size 2 00| Gallons... 1...” Gs hie Go 2. 25 i Zanzibar 2.26.3... we Hides and Pelts ....... W., R. & Co.’s 50¢ size 4 00 CARBON OILS P. G. eens 31 ee Gaus Goods — CANDLES rrels er doz. t Peratine 64 2.0.0. 10 PNET POR ctl @10). [Arabian ....;....-.:.;. 21 Albert Biscuit ........ 1 00 J Paraffine, 128 .......... 10) Water White .... @10 reer, putea 1 00 6) Wicking ....-........... 01D. S. Gasoline @15 New 6 00| Arrowroot Biscuit ...1 00 Jelly ipihe cee epee he ae ee CANNED GOODS Gas Machine .... @24 Arbuckle othe es oo eee 14 75 Butter Thin Biscuit ..1 00 L Apples Deodor’d Nap’a.. @13 | Dilworth ............. 15 00| Butter Waters. ....; 1 00 , 6} 3ib. Standards 90@1 00/ Cylinder ......... 29 @34itz |Jersey ................ 14 50| Cheese Sandwich .....1 00 BeeCe | ck cae, Gio, .. 25@2 50 iain ........., 16 @22 Lion Pe eee hitn’s KxXX Cocoanut Dainties 1 00 6 Sere a Black, winter ....8%@10 ene XKXX sold eee Oyster Se ee : 2 ee. . 65.) - ce cee a. re 1 25@1 75 REALS : ay ail all g Newton ...... eee Meat Extracts ......... §) Standards gallons ~ @5 50 erenktast conte | chile Gee ie WF ae O'clock Tea ee Meat ..........- Beans Flakes, 36 1b. 2 6 e Yo., Chica-|Frotana ......... pegees oes peas ccseuse aie Ud 85@1 30 —— Wheat 36 2Ib 4 50 Mot avetiin & Co Ginger Snape. NB Gd ae Mustard ..........c00 6] Red Kidney ...... 85@ 95] Weg-O-See, 36 pkgs...2 35 | 8°- Extract Graham Crackers .-1 00 Srnec 70@1 15] execello Flakes, 36 Tb. 4 50 Holland, % gro boxes 95| Lemon Snap Rosset see 50 ” 11 Wee ....-..- 5s... 75@1 25) Excello, large | pkgs....4 50 Felix, RLORB 48. ..... 1 15|1ondon Cream Biscuit 1 00 Nuts ....... qoccceccces Blueberries Force, 36 2 Ibh......... © PF titanate foil, %& gro. 85 Marshmallow Dainties 1 00 O° Standard §-.....:.. 1 35! Grape Nuts, ee = Hummel's tin. % gro. 1 43 Gateneet | Crackers ....1 be WS fo ke cs SGA Ce 6 25! Malta Ceres, - 222 Af CRACKERS. s ysterettes .......2 .: peeeeet : Brook Trout Malta Vita, 26 Ub....-2 80/ tional Biscuit Company] Old Time Sugar Cook. 1 00 P g| 2%. cans. spiced ..... 1 90 aera Wrako, 36 ye ee = Reand Pretzelettes, Hd. Md. 1 4 PUOS oe eee ces Clams Pillsbury’s itos, + Butter Roya past. 66. a Pickles Wocae §| Little Neck, IIb. 1 00@1 25/ Ralston, 36 2tb....-..... * Seymour, Round ...:: 6 (Salting (2.226210... 1 00 eS tee See A ce g| Little Neck, 2%. @1 30 Sunlight Flakes, 36 1b. 2 8) NH C., Beubre ...::- 6 |Saratoga Flakes ....: 1 60 Potash .....-+..+20405. 6 Clam" Bouillon — Sunlight Flakes, 20 lgs 4 00/N. B. C., Squar Soak Tox fieent ae Provisions .......-..+.. 6! Burnham's % pt. ..... 1 90] Vigor, 36 pkgs.’........ ee ¢ |Soda, N. B.C... 13 R imines Ieee. Cees B ROMR: Bedect -2.- «++. gee Be a ws. af 7 9 Oh, Be Baise ecb ewcanns Ss ray Muaters ...,.2: RS eet. 7) Burnham -Trar ocbae 7 20 Zest. 36 email pkas..._.2 7% Saratoga, Flakes sessed Best: ema gae io Ss Red Standards @1 40 Rolled Oats ore Oyster Uneeda Biscuit ....... 5 a : we eee — Steel Cut. 100 Ib sks. "3 35 N. B. C., Round: ....5. 6 oo a t = Saleratus .......0200002 Corn Steel Cut, . sks. —o 6 |Uneeda Milk Biscuit .. Sate OE 6, we 75@_ 85|Monarch, bbl. ........ ¢ 25 oa. ca rs 7%| Vanilla Wafers ...... 1 09 Mee i.e ee ee 7] Good -.-.-1 00@1 10} Monarch, 90 tb. sacks Ss : nome Water Thin .......... 10 ac Oe |... 7 Fancy es beec cede. 1 45| Quaker, 18-2 ......... : 4 inte. eee ....10 |Zu Zu Ginger Snaps 50 Ss beri eeeeeercscenee 7 French Peas Quaker, 20-5 ......... Aitaetis «Ageortas 10 Zwieback ........ ssn ud 00 Shee Blacking ......... 7] Sur Extra Fine ........ 22 Cracked Wheat cities oe 11 In Special Tin Packages. cee ee ee Sitistra Pine ........:.... Ba Bp faa 8 Per doz. PES coe ee oe cce esses . : FING 6k eee 7 24 2 th. a reas Campaign Cake ...... 10 Posting (21 oa 2 Soda ....-.--+-.-seseeee Moyen 5.5.0... Cc uv ; : = ister ae ele eo SOUPS «+22 r even eoeeeons $| .., Gooseberries --|Columbia, 25 pts...... a roms Gnade ee, . iNatess 2. ies 1 00 Po : Panera. .--- oe - Snider's age ts 1 33 Cavalier Cake ee 14 Champaigne Wafer 2 iy te te ls taal ce Hominy Snider's % cese Currant Fruit Biscuit 10 Per tin in bulk. PVEMOG oc. . esc) 4. Menta 5... 2... 85 a8 CHE @12%|Cracknels ............. 1 Sorbetto i ges oo 1 09 T : . Lobster ile Aomns el, @12 | Coffee rag pl. oe sven . Rahisco Coit eaeee es o Hobbes lil eecs §| eee test eer ee ee @13% | Cocoanu affy Bar .. ities Pecan y epadica Geld cak 9}1 tb. ... ae ; = cake la es @12% Cocoanut Bar .......: ie Bent's Water Crackers 1 40 MIME sie le, 9} Picnic Talls ... tgs i aie Se @13 |Cocoanut Drops ...... Holiand Rusk nT 1 80 Warnes a. @13 Cocoanut Honey Cake 12 86 packages ....... -++2 90 Mustard, lib. ........ - ' Cocoanut Hon, Fingers 12 | 44 uokemes (oo. .ce3 3 20 i 2 2 80| Springdale ...... @12 9 Pp Nipeesr se , 9 orcs at tte eeee i 80 Prick @15 Leanne — Jumbles a 60 packages .......... 4 75 Soused, S se beer sak GE MUEEOMR ge vb scaeees 7 Cocoanu acaroons : .Giteee 2... @15 |C ’ nade FAnrAn Wicking tae ae ieee @19 |Dandelion ............. Fl tarciy of Gee 29 VACHE - nese ww ccesee at Lomato, Wb. ....:.. 6. t 40 60 Dinner Biscuit ....... ieee tee 30 Woodenware ........... a1 Comate, 2. ......:... 2 80; Pineapple ........ 29 Dinner Pail Cake ....10 Boxes es ore "39 Wrapping Paper ...... 10 Mushrooms Sap B 21.55... @16 |Dixie Sugar Cookie .. 9 |Square ca: Be eeiter tens 3 oe @ 24 Swiss, domestic .. Panty Guise ......2 g {Fancy caddies . Yeast Cake ....... paeee £0! UtLONS 420.0225 525:. @ 28 wiss,imported.. @ VG. 0545... ak sis e deanscaeeae MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Py 6 ( 8 9 10 11 Spring Wheat Fiour 50 Wm. tins....advance | 10 fhe. ......._. 1 32 55 Pure Cane Bradley Butter Boxes Peits Koy Bakers Brana 20 Ih. pails....advance %& S Ms 92 MEO bide acces. 16 2Ib. size, 24 in case.. 72/Qld Wood ........ @ w Golden Horn, family 6 00 Smoked Meats SEEDS OGG oe 20 3Ib. size, 16 in case.. VS i bambs ~. 25@ 40 Golden Horn, baker’s..5 90| Hams, 12 tb: average. .131%6| Anise ................ 19 [Choice ............... 25 olb. size, 12 in cuse.. 65|Shearlings ........ luw sv Duluth Imperial ...... 6 30} Hams, 14 th. average. .1314| Canary. Smyrna: ...... 4% TEA UID. size, 6 im case.. bY i anton Judson Grucer Cu. s8 ts14: Hams, 16 th. average. .1346| Caraway ............. 10 Japan Sutter Piaics ING Te cole. @ 4% Ceresota, 4s ........° 6 60; Hams, 18 Ih, average..131¢|Cardamom, Malabar 1 00 Sndried, medium ...... 24 No. 1 Uval, 260 in crate gu} No. 2 ........... W@W 3% Coresota, -4%28 ........, 6 40|Skinned Hams ....... Beye POCICEY oe 15 |Sundried, choice ...... 32 Wo. 2 Uval, 25u in crate 4 W¥ OG Ceresota, %s ......... 6 20; Ham, dried beef sets. . 20 Henmip. Russian ....... 4y%|Sundried, fancy .... 30 NO. $ Uvai, 250 in crate 44) Unwashed, med. ---@i7 Lemon & Wheelers Branu California Flams. .....: 9 Mixed “Bird ....... 0.) 4 Regular, medium ...... 24 Wo. d Uval, 250 in crate ov! Unwashed, tine -@w13 Wingold, %s ...... “6015 Picnic Boiled Hams ..14 Mustard, white ....... 10 Kegular, choice ....... 32 CNnuitte CUNFECIIONS Wineold, Ws a. 6 06} Bolled Hams ......... Oe Pe OONy Gorse ie 9 Regular, fancy ........ 36 Sarrel, 5 gal, cach....2 4u| | Stick Canay Pails Wingold, %s ......... 5 95| Berlin Ham, pressed |. 9 Rape ‘ ne ——. an Ss nid & ou wt sw | OFANMarG = ........ teeeee : Minced Ham ........_. SHO Basket-fired, choice ..38 Standard H H ....... .8 Worden Grocer Co. 8 Braus | 7. Aas : HOE BLACKING Basket-fired. fz ‘ Standard ‘Twi Laurel, %s cloth 6 20 Bacon eee 12144@16 Handy Box, large 3 dz 2 50| Nib: » fancy ....43 Clothes Pins __ | Standa wist ..... : 8% Laurel, 4s cloth 8 10 r - ee Berence 1” Handy Box, small a 25 whines oo an Pitan pe . i - Jumbo, 32 Ib = CALs . - pails....advance Bixby’s Royal Polis ce ee ; ' 1 » Ca a< 4 ee ee te eee nee ° oe oo oT 8 Ib, pails....advance 1 | Millers Con Polish 83 £99 Crates ana Fillers. ie ‘ee i ' os Sausages SNUFF’ Gunpowder Humpty Dumpty, 12 doz. 20| 4oston Cream ..... ++ +42 Wykes « cov. Bologna... 7 Scotch, in bladd Moyune, medium ...... 3 No. 1 complete ........ 40 | Big stick, 30 Ib. case.. 31, Sleepy Eye, %s cloth..6 10 a - onlay rs ers ...... 37| Moyune, choice ..) |” $2 |No. 2 complete ....... 28] Mixed Candy Sleepy Eye, 4s cloth..6 00| Frankfort 11....°°"1'"* S |Prench bean a. = Moyune, fancy ........ tv | Case No. 2 fillerslésets 1 35| Grocers .........00..., 7 Slepy Eye, %s cloth..5 90|Pork ......1/°.°°°°° oe eg Th 4S | Pingmuey, median su | Case, mediums, 12 sets 1 15/ Competition ........., i% Sleepy Eye %s paper..5 90 Veal Pee ee 7 SOAP Pingsucy, choice ...._ 3u Faucets Seti ee ene ae 34 Sleepy Eye, 4s paper..5 90|Tongue ......./..°°° "7° 7 J. S. Kirk & Co. Pingsuey, fancy ....__ 40 Cork, lined, § in...... 70|Conserve ............., 38 Meat Headcheese ......... 1°" 7 |American Family ....4 00 Young Hyson Cork lined, 9 in....... Se eeWee co . ++ Shy et 4... 3 75 Beef moe eee 8 Ome Ml Cheteg sy | Cork lined, 10 in....... 90 /#ibben ........ 6.60.00, do Golden Granulated .. 3 85|/Extra Mess .......... 9 75 ann y Dnd, 100 6 oz. 3 vere 2.000 0 Sb Mop Sticks BrOKeN ........0000. see 8% St. Car Feed screened 31 50| Boneless ce 2 5y|%aP Rose, 50 bars ....3 75 fiGjian sprmg 9... gap Cue feat Y4e pare Oe OU | POUGIORR 13 50] gay I Oolong . “ader No. 1 Corn and Oats 31 50 Rimap, new... 17 00 on mperial cepa e 3 50 For 2 wclipse patent spring.. yo| Leader ..............1) y Whit mosa, fancy ....., 42 ; res i cs Corn. cracked 30 50 ite Russian ......., 3 50 : No. 1 commen ....-.. 80} Kindergarten ........, 1lU4e Ce ee estes Bae Pig’s Feet Dome, oval bars ..) 7! 3 50}amoy, medium ...)) 7. ay TSG 2 pel. irae bonuses bon ‘ton Crean 1 er eet, copree ..80°501% bois 1 00| Satinet, oval Sig; °F, Choice ......... 1om, egini ey Mae eletenes he 0 Winter Wheat Bran 25 00 ei ee 1 Rol Suen ee in es 15 ee 12Ib. cotton mop heads 1 40 »rench Cream ........ 10 Wadines 26 001% bain’ ge ee shel eee . a cakes 4 00 Maan” ish Breakfast ideal Noo G 68... 85 | Olas Steet ae eeseeeees e+-dk Emde Olen BGs So eee ee i r amble Co. WECGIEE c.g. c 7 ., Pails . ._ | fend Made Cream ..17 DBD el at 8 00 DOR oie es @ 25) Choice . 2... 30 2-hoop Standard ...... 215/+remio Cream mixed 14 Dairy Feeds ripe EXOPY, @Om. 0000.7) 4 | Pancy 0. 40 (%-hoop Standard ...... 2 ga| aris Cream Bon Bons 11 Wykes & Co. a oe 20 kvory, 10 oz, 0) 6 75 India- 4-Wire, Cable ......... 2 2d Fancy—in Palis O P Linseed Meal Ot 60/4 bis, 40 he 1 a6 Seer ee 3 25| Ceylon, choice ........ Se | S-Wire, Cable ......... 2 45|Gypsy Hearts ....., -- 14 Bree Sees! -.--31 00/6 niin go me 71° 300} ,LAUTZ BROS. & Co. |Fancy’....... 420 | vedar, au red, brass ..1 49|Coco Bon Bons 222211173 Gluten Heed ......... 30 00 Casings Acme, 76 bars ....... 3 60 TOBACCO Paper, Wureka ....... 2 Z»| budge Squares .......13 Malt Sprouts ........ 23 0U| Hogs, per ID. ........ 30|4cme, 30 bars ....)_" 4 00 Fine Cut WAU hope lac 379} Peanut Squares ......10 Grewers Grains ..... 27 0U| Beef, rounds, set.) 777" 16|4ceme, 25 bars .....77) 4 00|Cadillac ............... 54 Toothpicks Sugared Peanuts .....13 Molasses Feed ...... 24 0U| Beef middles, set... "| 4u| Acme, 100 cakes ...8 50|Sweet Loma ....17'77' 34 Hardwood ......... ..% 69 | Salted Peanuts .......13 Hammond Dairy Feed 24 vwv| Sheep, per bundle . 90| Big Master, 70 bars :'2 90 Hiawatha, 5ib. pails..55 | Softwood . 1...) "! .8 7) / Starlight Kisses ..... 011 Oats Uncolored Butterine Marseilles, 100 cakes -.5 80 Telegram SNisleew ae ge cs f 30 Banquet Weed eeua pee st 1 dy | Sau Blas Goodies ooo AS Michigan carlots ....... 61! Solid dairy 20.57) 10 @l2 Marseilles, 100 cakes 5c 4 06 Bay Cap... 33 Ideal ....... Wee oe 1 60| '-Ozenges, plain ....., 11 mess than carlots ...... 63|Country Kolls --10%@16% Marseilles, 100 ck toilet 4 00; Prairie Rose .......°°) 49 Traps OSENECS, Printed ....12 tain Canned Meats Marseilles, %bx toilet 2 19| Protection ...)°/77°' 7’ 40 | Mouse, wood, Z holes zz|Champion Chocolate ..13 COPlOtS | ee. S1|Corned beef, 2 tb. ....2 50 A. B. Wrisley Sweet Burley .... |||’ 44 Mouse, w » 4 holes 45 | “Clipse Chocolates ...16 Less than carlots ...... 8s) Corned beef, 1 I. ....1 5¢;Good Cheer ......._. OG eee see, 40 | Mouse, wood, 6 uvies.. 7y| “ureKka Chocolates . 2.116 Hay Roast beef, 2 tb....._” 260/0ld Country ..... 001" 3 40 Plug Mouse, tin, 5 hules.. by | uintette Chocolates ..16 No. 1 timothy carlots 10 00] Roast beef, i . 3: 1 50 Soap Powders owe... 31 Mal, Wood ... sv} Champion Gum Drops 10 No. 1 timothy ton lots 11 00] Potted ham, \%s ...... 45; Lautz Bros. & Co. Bee. ..85 |Rat, spring ........ 76| Moss Drops .......... -10 HERBS Potted ham, Ys |... & Sew Boy ..... 4 00 Hiawatha wegeeeecc cc. 41 Tubs Memon Sours ......... 1¢@ BOf6 ooo 15| Potted ham, %s ...... 85|Gold Dust, 24 large | 4 50 ea ST oot ct << 35 | 20-in. Standard, No. 1 3 76| *aperials ............. il Peps ea 15| Deviled ham, 4s 1.11"! 45, Gold Dust, 100-5c¢ ..._! 4 00 a OC Ax 37 18-in. Standard, No. 2 7 75| 4tal. Cream Opera, ....t: Laurel Leaves... |. 15| Deviled ham) igs 11.1"! 35 Kirkoline, 44410. 2... 3 80 Sieiene Eagle ee ce 33 lt-in. Standard, No. 3 6 75 ital. Cream Bon Bons 12 Senna Leaves ........ zo| Potted tongue, 4s .... 45|Pearline ......./.17077° 3 75\s car H aay TS 37 }20-in. Cubie Nb. 1..... 9 25| Helden Waiiles ........18 HORSE RADiSH Potted tongue, i%s 85 Se rope Seuese ees cu. 410 Suear Goca Vaal 47 13-in. Cable, No, 2 ....8 25 Red —_— Gum Drops 19 Pen dos oe 90 RICE a Ce PCG oo 3 75 Nobby Twist % 0% 44 | I6-in. Cable No. 3 ..... 7 25|-\uto Bubbles ....... << JELLY wae 7 @™% ree RG Fee 3 50 cee ae s fo. 2 Bibee 21... 10 25 Fancy—in 51b. Boxes 9 Ib, pails, per doz...2 35|/Japan ...........7 54@ 6% Wisda® sass 3 70) ola Honesty... .2 2217’ = ee Sw. 5. 9 43) Uld Fashioned Moiass- 15 Ib. pails, per pail .. 55| Broken ...../ 7"! : pt | Semina” 3 80 Je 34 INO. 8 Re 8 25| es Kisses, 10Ib. box 1 30 SO ID. pails, per pail .. 98) | SALAD DRESSING | jonnS0aP Sompounds ee 33 Wash Boards Leenee Jelliee .....40.58 LICORICE Columbia, % pint ....2 2 Johiacn's XXX vesese 8 IO) Bier ae 69 | Bronze Globe ......... 2 6v| Lemon Sours ..........60 Pe a 80] Columbia, 1 pint ...11! 4:00|Ning O'clock °°" OT Goct Jack... 71.777! Om Oy anes sec seen. --1 79) Uld > Fashioned Hore- . S) : Nine O'clock i 3 35 Oe eee. 86 Jouble A y hound drops 60 SRE secs prin tes tee | Banco late 2 40% 4 50) Rub-No-More ‘111111271 3 75|Honey Dip Twist .2)!. 40 [single Acme -111117"” 2 2. | Peppermint ropa’ 2.186 OMY (ogee es Ges SINAN 2 doe. 6§ 2g, ee tts ess ack Sta os cts 6 Oo : a secs « Pot... a. see MiB Aiders lates, 1 dom 336) Enoch Manet, cp aa Sule eae nn S aelct, Me Ceee ites eae” MATCHES Snider's small, 2 doz. 1 35 Sapolie, gras’ ines — 00 [Forge ee ana vos eee... 3 60 ia ee woge ro C. D. Crittenden Co, SALERATUS Sapolio, half gro lots 4 59|Nickel Twist .21''1°°"" BS licuule bumee cal Duk wen” at 10 pelea ee th) Packed 66 the. i box. | Sancie. an as Hise eee +s... oe fuente 2 19| Bitter Sweets, as'td “+ 26 we on Doe and Hammer 111 90 | Sapolio. hand .........3 35 | Great TOU ens n = “a (Conveen ..... °° 3 65 | Brilliant Gums, Crys. 60 ew Orleans Sa : Scourine " i Te i et - A. Licori : Fancy Open Kettle .... 40} Dwight’s Cow 1.1117 "" 3 15| Scourine, 7 eecearing & Sweet Core ..... ’ “toes, 34 |i “on “ewe 1 6 lomagie sae oo CNOICG se oe COP el ee 3 00} Scourine, 106 cakes....3 50 Flat Car ........ ‘esos a lis a Ae eee ¥5 | Lozenges, printed . 65 Bait (eee ae zu Wyandotte, 100 %s ..3 00 SODA ar RO ee 26 i6 in. Co eg 30 Imperials eccecccccccce c OO GOOG ce ae 22 SAL SODA TOON ec, ft eto. 16 of. ...... 25 Wood Bowls Mottoes 13.50 Half barrels 2c extra |Granulated, bbls... 85| Kegs, Engilsh | 121°" 7° 4% ff XL, Sim. 2. rrr s] | {8 im. Butter ..........3 @| Cream Bae ...... 0072: MINCE MEAT Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. 1 00 SPICES Hosen” po oF pais °:31 [is i ee 2 25|G- M. Peanut Bar ....60 Per @uee |... 5... 290) Lignp, bbig 80 Whole Spices oe... 4) [td im. Butter 02222111113 78| Hand Made Cr’ms | ‘30@9 MUSTARD Lump, 145 Ib. kegs .1.. 95|Allspice .......) 0 ope linge 40/19 in. Butter |..." ....5 00/Cream Wafers ....... % tb. 6 Th. box ....... 18 SALT Gassia, China in mata, 12} Gree -------..- 6... 33 | AS8orted, 13-15-17 |1111g go| String Rock ......°727! OLIVES Common Grades Cassia, Canton te Ene Wig Cc 33 Assorted, 15-17-19 173 25 Wintergreen Berries ..60 Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 20@1 40/100 3 Ib. sacks ...... 2 25) Cassia, Batavia, bund. 28| Dukes ieectare 700" = WRAPPING PAPER |Qid Time Assorted ..3 7b Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 10@1 30} 60 5 tb. sacks 1.111" 2 15| Cassia, Saigon, broken. 46 ites Gaul “9 |Common straw ........ 1%, | Buster Brown Goodies 8 50 Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 00W1 20] 28 10% Ip. sacks .../2 00| Cassia, Saigon, in rolls, 55|Myrtle Navy) 0077°"" 4 |tibre Manila, white.. 24 | Up-to-date Asstmt. ...3 765 Manznilla, 3 oz........ 75) 56 Ib. sacks ......... 32| Cloves, Amboyna ....° 22 Yum Yum is oa Wee be tibre Manila, colored.. 4 | en Strike No. 1.......6 60 Goces, wiita ..... 2.) 250) 28 tb. sacks ......."” 17| Cloves, Zanzibar (117° 16}Yum, Yum, itb. paiis 49 |N0- 1 Manila ........) 4 | Ten Strike No. 2 ......6 00 Queen, 19 oz. ........ 4 50 Warsaw MACS ee ae 55|Cream ..... _— gg |Cream Manila ........ 3 | Ten ee Summer as- ueen, BW am ........- 7 00/56 tb. dairy in drill bags 40|Nutmegs, 758071777" 85) Corn Cake, 2% ‘oz... 12g | Butcher's Manila °°.) 2% | scientific Asst 1.2.78 Binied bos «8.85... 90) 28 Ib, dairy in drill bags 20|Nutmegs, 105-10 911177" 25|Corn Cake, lib. ../..! % | ee Gum short c'nt. 1s | Eotentilie er mics, 2 Ok .....,... 1 45 Solar Rock Nutmegs, 115-20 ©1177! 20|Plow Boy, 13 oz.....39 | Wax Butter, futi count 20 Cracker Jack 3 25 Muted, 10 of. ........ 240166 sneha... 24| Pepper, Singapore, blk. 15|Plow Boy, 3% oz...1'39 | Wax Butter, rolis ....15 Checkers, 5c pkg case's eo PIPES Common Pepper, Singp. white.. 25| Peerless, S% OZ. ...... 35 _,YBAST CAKE = |Pop Corn 200s 1 35 Clay, No. 216 per box 1 25/Granulated, fine ....... &6| Pepper, shot’ ....-.. |. 17| Peerless, 1% oz. .... 11! ag | pagic, 3 doe........... 1 o3| Azulikit 1008 .. 3 00 Clay, ‘I. D., full count 60|Medium, fine ......°7 7° 85 Pure Ground in Bulk |Air Brake .......1°°""" 36 | gumight, 8 doz ...... | elon Me ee 50 Oe oe ., 90 SALT FISH Meee 6. 16}Cant Hook .. 22000217! 30 | Funlight. 1% dos. ..... 7 Cough Drops PICKLES Cod Cassia, Batavia 11.7.7" 2g|Country Club 1) °°": 32-34 woe Foam, 3 dos.....1 16 Putnam Menthol .....1 0¢ Medium Large whole .... @7_ |Cassia, Saigon .......; 55 | Forex-XXXX o.oo ott, 30 Vanat — ~~..-* o0 | Smith Bros. Sivecccecuck SO Barrels, 1,200 count....8 50|Small whole eS @ 6%| Cloves, Zanzibar ..1."! 24|Good Indian ........): 25 -_— a ee: NUTS—Whole Half bbls., 600 count...4 75|Strips or bricks ).74@10% Ginger, African ....... 15| Self Binder, 160z. 80z. 20-22 “aa mien 1b, | Almonds, Tarragona ....17 Small Ponock oo a. @5 |Ginger, Cochin (1))'": ag) Bovce Woe... 24 | Whitefish Jumbo “—— Almonds, Avica ........ Half bbls., 1,200 count 5 70 Halibut Ginger, Jamaica ....__ 25| Sweet Marie ......1 17! 32 | Whitefish’ No i ‘ji |Almonds, California sft. PLAYING CARDS [Strips ................ 4 en mG Seid 8... (ee 10%} BUG ---+-seerereneees No. $0 Steamboat .-.../ 89[Chunks 00007.) iit aff Cottam. a pre ~ te 10% Brazil ©2022. » digs 0. 15, Rival, assorte 25 Holland Herrin Pepper, Singapor i a Bee eee sas Sena, es TA ay BUDOREA osc cence No. 20 Rover, enameled 1 50! Pollock ........ a 4 Perce Gee ake a Cotton, 4 ply ......... 20 yo or Herring .... 7 Cal Ne. ft .....4:.. No, 572, Special ........ 1 15| White Hp. bbls. 7 50@9 00| Pepper, Cayenne...” 2o| Jute. 2 ply ............ oleae oY 2° | Walnuts, soft shelled @18 So tos Bie Ot 2 CO White Hp. ‘bis. 4 0065 O0|Bage .. 26) ome. 6 ply... wt Ned baie 9; | Walnuts, Marbot ... @14 No. 808 Bicycle ...... 2 00; White Hoop mchs. @ 75 STARCH wax, medium N....... aie 19 |Table nuts, fancy ":.13@16 No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 25|Norwegian ............ Corn ool, 1 tb. bails ..... 8 ia hao tess cae . Pecans, Med. ....... @10 POTASH Round, 100 ths. ....... 3 75| Kingsford, 40 Ibs. .. 7%| wait wh NEGar Son te ee a "19 | Pecans, ex. large .. @12 48 cans in case Round, 40 tbs. ....... 1 90| Muzzy, 20 libs...... 5 Malt White’ Wine, 40 gr 9 Pike eer ee ees g |tecans, Jumbos .... 13 Suiits... .,. Oitesieg 2 13| Muzzy, 40 its...” 4%|Pure Cider’ Bene $0 8T 12% | Bike... see. ee ‘3 | Hickory Nuts per bu. Barreled Pork : Trout Gloss : Po Cldee non ae aa wikis NS enee ses a | Ohio new: Meher i 60) No. 2, 100 ths. .....]. 7 50 Kingsford Pure Cider’ Silk neon 15 sige a poe Cocoanuts ......ss000 eae Mack ..\:...... 1760|No. 1, 40 ths. ........ 3 25) Silver Gloss, 40 libs. 7% waoena UG ee eo ig |Chestnuts, New York Bhort Cut ..........” a ihe t ip he 90|Silver Gloss, 16 3Ibs. 6% 1|No. 0 pet tone ie jen) aes 6 | State, per bu....... Short Cut Cear =: |... uy 00|No. 1, 8 _* tele e e. 75| Silver Gloss, 12 6Ibs. 814,|No. 1 per gross ...|_- 40 fee tia oo : Spanish Pct ™T@ 7% RA a ee, 75 ackerel Muzz (ee sh. ra daa . : = Brisket, Clear ....... 15 25| Mess, 100 Boe et. 15 00/48 1% packages Seceeas 4% ne ; pe eae eee. 7 ped Hoe. = Eee 1 Fecan Halves ..... @45 ke . 18 00|Mess, 40 tbs. ...... 1.) 6 20/16 bib. packages |... 11! 4%| WOODENWARE Stee AND PELTa’ @| Walnut Halves .-/32@35 Clear “Family “112117! 75|Mess, 10 Ths. |... 1... 1 65/12 6%. packages 11.17"! 5% Baskets eee a Alicante tiads”” as Dry Sait Meats meen, * Oe .....: FE $5/ 50 tb. boxer ..........., oe Seen 8... bi iin NG 7 ef ng a7 o © Beles ......:... 10% |No. 1, 100 ths. ...... 14 00 SYRUPs Bushels, wide bund |... 25 | G™ee" +. ere foo ee 1 ihe 2 5 80 Corn PO oi sac. ete a fe 8% | Fancy H. P. Suns 6%@°7% Extra Shorts ......... 9% i|Mo. t, 2) he 5. 1 65| Barrels ....., eke dee cca: 29| Splint, large ... 02)! oe tae 12 7, 30 Om ...25..5; 15 a ee 18 0; 2B Meee... 2... ks 20 Linen Lines ehebe ee eke sebee oe 30 RNR os Sie ews 3s MD. owenckseiadseccece 4 Peles Bamboo, 14 ft., per dos. 65 Bamboo, 16 ft., per dos. Bamboo, 18 ft., per dos. 90 GELATINE Cox’s, 1 doz. Large ..1 80 Cox’s, 1 doz. Small ..1 00 Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 25 Knox’s Sparkling, gro.14 00 Nelson’s ..... ee ae 1 6 Knox’s Acidu’d. doz.:..1 25 ‘fora oc. 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 .6 50 56 cakes, large size..8 26 10@ cakes, small size. .8 5@ cakes, small size..1 95 Tradesman’s Co.’s Brand Black Hawk, one box 2 50 Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40 Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25 TABLE SAUCES Halford, large ......... 3 76 Halford, small ........ 2 26 Use Tradesman Coupon Books Made by Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, ich. Michigan, Ohio And Indiana Merchants — have money to pay for what they want. They have customers with as great a purchasing power per capita as any other state. Are you getting all the business you want? The Tradesman can ‘‘put you next” to more pos- sible buyers than any other medium published. The dealers of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana Have The Money and they are willing to spend it. If you want it, put your advertisement in the Tradesman and tell your story. Ifitisa good one and your goods have merit, our sub- scribers are ready to buy. We.can not sell your goods, but we can intro- duce you to our people, then it is up to you. We Use the Tradesman, use it right, can help you. and you can not fall Give down on results. us a chance. ner MICHIGAN TRADESMAN BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT ave SLO SurelerernamOley nT eTATUCONI TMT SCrat TOTS P \Uvertisements inserted under this head for two cents No charge less a word the first insertion and one cent a word for cea aE Te meCeO Ml esp tae OF ent ar teug rT rian meys eas BUSINESS CHANCES. Wanted—General merchandise or hard- ware store in prosperous farming town. Give full particulars. G. Barrett, Peru, Maine. 896 Wanted—A competent man with $5,000 to buy au interest in and take active management of a large sash door and blind faetory in Bagdad and Pensacola, Fla., that cost $60,000. Must furnish good references.