I ees, A \ e Ww ¥ aK a 3 sii vf a! ALE IN LYS Q WN FASE AES BD ISAK ZEN QTE Swe ) ARS. RSS ZAGER ASIA AMAR rc): Yi tear GA Sy VES S ) iv 4 e 5 yi | y ” AS 2 TRADESMAN COMPANY. PUBLISHERSR—3 SEEAG' EDO, a FFISUE STE NS SI” LS Eg aaren rear SSS OE se BYE) T oy GN We a ao aot a mai < N , Para PLES i FS NEAWING se Me GP CS & a Cea Ce : way 1 IE svi > SN ee TIA a AN HUAI’ ase ra BPEZE-S Ne SORTS ; Ce LTP as Su LoS ORE EA SU =—S wer LIRR Twenty-Sixth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1908 Number 1303 That. Window Display Problem Let Us Solve It For You _ We have solved it for hundreds of grocers and are ready to help you make your window an effective salesman at no cost to you save a few minutes’ time of one of your clerks. Here’s Our Liberal Offer: We have on our staff an expert window trimmer—a man who knows window salesmanship, who devotes his entire time to the devising and in- stalling of windows that sell goods. He has planned a very simple but effective window (the other day a grocer wrote us that it had doubled his sales on K. T. C. F.) that your junior clerk can install in 20 minutes without worry or trouble on your part. We will send you absolutely free, transportation prepaid, all the necessary material and full instructions, if you will agree to install it promptly and leave it up, say two weeks. May we do it? A simple request on your business stationery is all we ask. Address all correspondence to the house TOASTED CORN FLAKE COMPANY BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN i Floor Space For Rent. For Manufacturing Purposes In the New Raniville Power Buildings When you can secure our modern buildings with all up-to-date facilities, at low rates, you can’t afford to build your own blocks or rent cheap property. After you have seen our buildings and heating and power plant you will find we offer a good proposition. We can furnish large and small rooms, office and storage space. Apply Offices of F. Raniville Co., Pearl St. 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. On account of the Pure Food Law there is a greater demand than ever for sw oF 2% & 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 yt The Williams Bros. Co. Manufacturers Picklers and Preservers Detroit, Mich. a OMCs CR Easier- fae Wer MC AI) pariina ACLS RCL Le) Een OLO) 0) a Bact a peel eesti ctpgpeienna eee Po CaN 2 Sy e x Ny 8 a CDSG. ; Vee Twenty-Sixth Year GRAND RAPIDS FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY THE McBAIN AGENCY Grand Rapids, Mich. The Leading Agency Commercial Credit C0., Lid. Credit Advices and Collections MICHIGAN OFFICES Murray Building, Grand Rapids Majestic Building, Detroit ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corre- spondence invited. 2321 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. TRACE FREIGHT Easily and Quickly. We can tell you how. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapids, Mich YOUR DELAYED Kent State Bank Grand Rapids Has the largest Capital and De- posits of any State or Savings Bank in Western Michigan. Pays 3% per cent. on Savings Certificates of Deposit. Checking accounts of City and Country Merchants solicited. You can make deposits with us easily by mail. FIRE‘AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES Grand Rapids Safe Co. Tradesman Building GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1908 SPECIAL FEATURES. 2. Window Trimming. Representative Retailers. 3. Death of O. F. Jackson. 4. News From the Business World. 5. Grocery and Produce Markets. 6. The Bean Business. 8. Editorial. 10. New York Market. 11. Green Houses. 12. Woman’s World. 14. Butter, Eggs and Provisions. 16. Dry Goods, Fancy Goods and WNo- tions. . Wealthy Heights. 22. Review of the Shoe Market. 24. The Commercial Traveler. 26. Drugs and Druggists’ Sundries. 27. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 30. Special Price Current. AUTOS AND GOOD ROADS. The relation of automobiles to the roads is a matter of no small impor- tance in these days, and it is bound to grow more and more important year after year. The good roads move- ment has gained such headway in this State and is in all respects so popular that before long there will be plenty of fine highways running in all directions. The automobiles wear the mout much more than _horse- drawn vehicles. Now there is no use in finding fault with any of the whiz wagons. Like the good roads they are growing in popularity and number. Pretty much all the old ones are still puffing along and new ones are bought every week dur- ing the season. The gasoline car- riages have just as good a right on the roads as the horse-drawn equi- pages that only a few years ago had a monopoly of the highways. It is doubtful if the farmers themselves would want the automobiles driven from the roads. They give animation to the scene as well as cover it with dust and they make near neighbors of those living at a distance. The new vehicle has arguments in its fav- or and anyhow it is here to stay and must be reckoned with accordingly. The danger and the damage inci- dent to automobiling are wholly de- pendent upon the speed with which the machine is urged. It is those that whiz along at a rapid rate that whirl off the top dressing of good roads and lay bare the stone founda- tions. The larger width of wheel distributes the weight over a greater surface and so has less tendency to leave ruts, but the larger wheel when rapidly revolving also makes more dust, and on an improved highway dust is only another word for top dressing. a It seems hardly credible that it is less than sixty years since the dis- covery of kerosene oil in this coun- try, but such is the fact. It was on August 28, 1849, that the bit in the original Drake oil well, near. Titus- ville, Pa., pierced the oil sand, and it was demonstrated that oil in pay- ing quantities could be taken from the earth. That event has worked wonders in the world of science, in- dustry and commerce, and will never be forgotten by the people of the lo- cality. The Titusville Herald says the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution are prepar- ing a personal appeal to the people of Titusville and of oildom generally for funds with which to erect a suit- able memorial which will be unveiled August 28, 1909. A discovery of the magnitude of that of Colonel Drake needs something more than a pass- ing notice in the newspapers, and the response to the appeal of the Daugh- ters should be prompt and generous. SSL ABENDINSSn. Sie, lh >n_SESSEASESR When the Pennsylvania Railroad Company found about a year ago that it was liable to have a large amount of idle cars on hand for some time a large number were shunted off the track on the ground. It cost something to get them off the rai!s and more to put them back, but it was generally supposed that it was mecessary on account of a lack of room on the sidings. It now appears that this wasa mistake. A report from Pittsburg says: “It has come out that the real reason that the differ- ent railroads entering Pittsburg some months ago lifted thousands of idle cars off the rails and placed them on the rights of way was not be- cause of there being no room on the sidings, but because it had been found that a road meed not pay taxes on a car not on the rails.” i Eee While sawing a walnut log into boards in the Montgomery I Co.’s mill at Crawfordsville, Ind., a few days ago, the big band saw, 30 feet long, was ruined by coming in contact with a plowshare which had been completely imbedded in the log. The saw struck the plowshare square- ly, snapping all the teeth from the saw even with the blade. It is a mystery how the plowshare became imbedded in the log unless, years ago, some farmer stuck the point of the share into the tree, since which time the tree has grown so much larger that gradually the plowshare was hidden. The plowshare was triangu- lar in shape, with outside dimensions of six inches between the angles. a a Wisconsin farmers are. gradually abandoning the culture of tobacco and increasing their acreage of sugar beets. It is estimated that the tobacco crop this year will reach 38,000,000 pounds, grown on 35,000 acres. Next year not more than 30,000 acres of tobacco will be planted. Tobacco growing requires some skilled labor, which is scarce and comes high. In the cultivation of sugar beets poorer labor can be employed, and at present it is the most profitable crop the Wis- consin farmer can put on the mar- ket. Jumber Number 1303 Tainted Money Is Harmless. Tainted money from the viewpoint of Warren W. Hilditch, of Yale Uni- versity, means money with bacteria. He used the most soiled money he could obain from railroad, trolley and theater ticket offices, banks, drug stores and individuals. Some bills were than others, soft, cracked and soiled, with frayed edges. The numbers of bacteria present in the bills gmnged from 14,000 to 586.- 000, with an average for twenty-one bills of 142,000. There seemed to be no connection between the amount of dirt and the number of bacteria present. The cleanest bill he used had next to the highest count, 405,- ooo. The bill that looked most soil- ed had but 38,000. When a bill has been in circulation for a short time and has become cracked and its pe- culiar glaze worn off, the bacteria easily cling without the presence of dirt and He inoculated guinea pigs, but none of them gave any indication of even temporary ill- ness. Mr. Hilditch does not believe more worn grease. that soiled money is dangerous as a transmitter of disease. He _ thinks that money constitutes an unimpor- tant factor in the transmission of dis- But he does not regard his ex- periments as order to obtain any conclusive evidence on this point it would ‘be necessary to make a careful study of hundreds or even a thousand bills from hospitals and private sick rooms, drug stores and various other sources. A bank teller said: “If one stops to think, money can’t be 2 common means of transmission, for if it were there wouldn’t be so many of us alive to- CASE. conclusive. In day; the escape from sure dec-:h of those whose duty calls for the con- stant handling of money is certain- ly not merely due to chance.” —_—-_-s2-.>______ Apples for Sleeplessness. The apple is such a common fruit that very few persons are familiar with its remarkably efficacious me- dicinal properties. Everybody ought to know that the very best thing they can do is to eat apples just before re- tiring at night. Persons uninitiated in the mysteries of the fruit are lia- ble to throw up their hands in hor- ror at the visions of dyspepsia which such a suggestion may summon up, but no harm can come even to a delicate system by the eating of ripe and juicy apples before going to bed. The apple is excellent brain food, be- cause it has more phosphoric acid in easily digested shape than any other fruits. It excites the action of the liver, promotes sound and _ healthy sleep, and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. This is not- all: the apple prevents indigestion and throat dis- ease. _ oo Our neighbors are not lifted up by looking up their records. Rea ve MICHIGAN TRADESMAN yu y WIN DOW AND INTERIOR Li i DECORATIONS BOY DG et SW \ | lu 2 yi SINS SEZ EG, TD a Lady Dummy Made Hit in Clothing Window. A window trimmer the other day told me that he often received in- spiration for a window from trivial sources, For instance, he picked up a recent and popular clothing periodical—he is employed by a men’s furnishing goods establishment—and made an exact reproduction of the front cov- er for his next window. The cover was done in colors and just struck his fancy. There were bright bits of green, blue and red in it—enough to give a cheerful aspect. The scene depicted was a corner of a summer resort hotel piazza with four young people standing or sit- ting in nonchalant attitudes. One of these was a typical “sum- mer girl,” clad in a beautifully tail- ored costume of light Copenhagen blue wool goods, with a _ hint of mauve somewhere in the weave. The daintily-gloved fingertips of her left hand—she was one of those stand- ing—were thrust into one of the cute little pockets of her natty jacket, while in her right hand, jauntily swinging over her shoulder, was a smart red parasol with two bands of darker red for a border. The girl’s droopy mauve hat was covered in front with white wings tipped with blue, held in place by a small knot of blue velvet the same shade as her gown. Her hair was all fluffy around her face and pulled out especially wide at the sides in the present pre- vailing fashion. As befits the beauty of the summer resort this one had attracted a bunch of good-looking young men—college students—although one of these was decidedly derelict in paying her the homage her due. The latter was trigged out in all the bravery of proper paraphernalia for a_ ride *cross country. A crop of the latest style rested on the flat arm of the willow chair in which the equestrian was comfortably seated, reading “The Man’s Book’ at lazy ease. ~ A second college student leaned carelessly against the piazza railing. He had on a lounging suit of dark hunter’s green, a wide turnover white collar, buff and white striped shirt and very narrow red four-in-hand, witha tiny gold stickpin. Another athletic young exponent of swelldom—omnipresent pipe in hand—leaned against the porch pil- lar. From head to toe he carried out the blue and white idea: white felt hat turned down behind and up in front, with blue and white folded band, white collar and white shirt, with narrowest four-in-hand of blue and the merest suspicion ofa stickpin, blue wool coat, white duck trousers with a lovely fresh crease and turned up at the bottom in the most ap- proved mode, blue hosiery just a shade lighter in tone than his short coat, and white canvas low shoes with wide flat canvas bows. A thhandsome Scotch collie was making himself friendly with the party, his face turned expectantly to- ward the red-vested horseman inthe willow chair as if ready to bound off with his master at an instant’s no- tice. To complete this charmingly natur- al-looking window the background was a painted canvas done in vivid oils. A blue sky with fleecy clouds hung over a white-capped lake. On the crest of a wave bobbed a skim- ming dish, with two fellows in bath- ing suits managing the tippy craft, ready to sit on the top edge or take a ducking up to their necks—or more. Along the hard sandy beach bowled a big red divil of an auto, with nobody in it but the chauffeur. A wide-porched, low-roofed, pillared- piazzaed, dormer-windowed boat club house directly back of the hotel gave the finishing touch to what must have been an altogether very attractive window. This windowman was a fellow of initiative. Few of his kind would have had the gumption—or been will- ing to go to the bother—to get up a window like this. He borrowed the girl dummy of an accommodating trimmer, a chum of his employed in a neighboring dry goods establish- ment. She certainly made a hit in her unnatural—her adopted—environ- ment. 2 +. Changes in the Buckeye State. Utica—Jos. Lewison is about to en- gage in the clothing business. Canal Dover—E. J. Vickers has sold his grocery stock to W. A. Roe. Eaton—A. H. Weir has embarked in the meat business. East Youngstown The East Youngstown Drug Co. has been in- corporated with a capital of $2,000. Martins Ferry—Ralph FE. Rider, grocer, has made an assignment. Glouster—A grocery store will be opened by A. A. Gessall. —_+ >> ___ A Sign. “T didn’t know your mother was dangerously. ill,” said the observant neighbor. “Why, she isn’t,” replied the dainty daughter. “What made you think that?” Business “IT saw you washing the dishes this morning.” And is it any wonder that they nev- er speak as they pass by? REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. J. L. Norris, the Veteran Casnovia Merchant. It is fortunate to be born with so- cial position and to inherit the ad- vantages which wealth may give, but it is rather the character of the man— what he has done in the way of up- building—that counts with those who are given to weighing with an un- biased mind the qualities of an indi- vidual. To every person, no matter at what level of the commercial world he may have entered, who has creat- ed to a point where he can be con- sidered successful must be given the genuine approbation which his acts have merited. A man must, partially at least, be judged by his associations in either the business or the social fabric. Should his connections industrially be those of the best and command the respect of competing houses in the same line of trade it must be accepted that there is something of worth in the individual or he would not be in the position occupied. Of necessity value must play a promi- nent part in the gaining and holding of a station of responsibility and trust, for such are not given to the incapable or untrustworthy. And as for social recognition it is an indis- putable fact that to enter the folds of the better and creditable strata of society requires that the applicant have the attributes of birth and cul!- ture. In no other section of the country is more demanded of a man in the matter of industry and integrity than in Michigan. Brains count here for their truest value, because it is a battle of giants to conduct business where competition is so strong as to place the inefficient in the back- ground. Only those who have the mental equipment can stay at the fore, and the less fortunate fall back into the ranks of the masses who aspire yet fail. James L. Norris was born at Cli- max, Kalamazoo county, Feb. 16, 1861. When he was 9 years old the family removed to Eaton Rapids, where they remained three years. In 1873 they removed to Casnovia, where the family has resided ever since and where they have been iden- tified with mercantile business and grain trade continuously for the past thirty-two years. Mr. Norris was ed- ucated in the public schools of Cas- novia, Newaygo and Big Rapids, aft- er which he spent several months in Swensburg’s Commercial College, in Grand Rapids, in 1881, when he re- turned to Casnovia and entered into co-partnership with his father under the style of A. Norris & Son. The business consisted of a general store, an elevator and a drug store, the lat- ter of which was managed by the junior member of the firm. This co- partnership relation continued until 1898, when James purchased his fa- ther’s interest. Four years later he disposed of the mercantile business, retaining the elevator and grain trade, which he still continues. Two years ago he admitted his son, Leon C., to partnership in the business, which is now conducted under the style of J. L. Norris & Son. Mr. Norris was married June 3, 1884, to Miss Effie Squier, of Cas- novia. They have two children, Leon C., aged 23, who is identified with his father in business, and Harry, aged 16, who is still attending school. Mr. Norris is a Mason, being a member of Lisbon Lodge, also an Odd Fellow, belonging to Casnovia Lodge, No. 340. Mr. Norris attributes his success to patience and hard work, but those who know him best will probably agree with the Tradesman that care- ful training, long experience and na- tive shrewdness have also been dom- inating factors in his career. Mr. Norris is characterized by his friends as having an even temperament and is the same pleasant gentleman to all who come in contact with him. He is easy to approach and ready to ac. commodate, even in the midst of ex- acting burdens devolving upon him in connection with the numerous duties. In no trying situation does he lose his balance, but calmly and efficiently meets any and every emergency. Such has uniformly been his just treat- ment of his customers that all have a kindly regard for him; and although his decisions and actions are always in accord with strict business poli- cies, he has offended none so seri- ously as to make an enemy of any one. Equability of temper and a sy s- tematic way of doing business are his strong points. He is absolutely reliable and truthful in his dealings and knows when to talk and when ta remain silent—rare qualities indeed— and has proved himself to be an able and safe administrator of affairs. ———_2++~-_ The man who has grit in his make- will not throw it in his neighbor’s ace. We Want Hides, Tallow, Pelts Furs and Wool at Full Market Value Crohon & Roden Co., Tanners 37-39 S. Market St., Grand Rapids A DIVIDEND PAYER The Holland ee cuts your fuel bill in The as less joints, smaller joints, is simpler and easier to operate and more economical than any other furnace on the market. It is built to last and to save fuel. Write us for catalogue and prices. Holland Furnace Co., Holland, Mich, GONE BEYOND. O. F. Jackson, the Well Traveling Man. O. F. Jackson; Secretary of Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, died at the femily residence, 763 South ette street, Sunday Known Lafay- morning, as the result of cancer in the head, from which deceased had suffered for sev- eral years. The funeral was held at the late home of the deceased Tues- day afternoon, being conducted by Rev. Geo. Killeen, a Methodist cler- gyman of Hartford, who had been a long-time friend of the departed. The interment was in North Oakhill cem- etery. Biographical. Oscar EF. Jackson was born at Westminster, near London, Ont., May 11, 1848. His father’s antece- dents were English, but both his fa- ther and grandfather were born in Vermont. His mother’s antecedents were English and American. His fa- ther was a school teacher by profes- sion. When Oscar was 8 years of age, he removed with his family to Almont, Lapeer county, where they lived two years. They then remov- ed to Lapeer, where Oscar complet- ed his schooling at the age of 17 and served an apprenticeship in the tinning trade with W. J. Loder, with whom he remained five years alto- gether. For two years subsequently he was employed by Davis & Peters, hardware dealers at the same place, when he moved to St. Louis, Mich., in 1871 and entered the employ of Wessels '& Scriver, hardware dealers, as book-keeper and salesman. He remained with this house seven years, when he removed to Ithaca and took a position as salesman in the hard- ware store of O. H. Heath & Sons, where he remained eight or nine years, resigning to accépt a position as Eastern Michigan representative for the Saginaw Hardware Co., with which house he remained eight years. Jan. 1, 1900, he severed his connec- tion with the Saginaw Hardware Co. to take a similar position with Fos- ter, Stevens & Co., with whom he remained until two or three years ago, when failing health compelled him to relinguish active road work. He conducted a grocery store for a time, but was obliged to dispose of it because he found the duties too ex- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN acting. He continued, however, to act as Secretary of Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, U. C. T., and prov- ed to be one of the most efficient offi- cers ever elected by that organiza- tion. Mr. Jackson was married Sept. 4, 1870, to Miss Cynthia S. Ney, of Lapeer. They had three children. The oldest daughter married John Wat- son, the Ithaca druggist. The son, Arthur, is married and resides in this city. Hazel, the younger daugh- ter, lives at home with the mother. Mr. Jackson was a member of the Fountain Street Baptist church. He was a member of the Michigan Knights of the Grip and the U. C. T., besides being affiliated with the K. Bb. t ©. ©. BR. A, and F. ©) FE. During the time he was a resident of St. Louis he was Village Clerk for two years. During the time he re- sided at Ithaca he was a member of the Council four years, Deputy Coun- ty Clerk four years, Chief of the Fire Department eleven years, Secretary of the Gratiot County Agricultural Society nine years and Secretary of the Ithaca B. M. A. three years. He was also Secretary of the Michigan State Firemen’s Association four years and President of the organiza- tion one year, all of which goes to show the esteem in which he was held by his associates. Mr. Jackson attributed his success as a salesman to genuine American grit, but those who knew him best and wa'ttched his career with close scrutiny insist that it was due more te sterling honesty and to the fact that he never indulged in any mis- representation in dealing with his customers, who soon came to under- stand that he never tired in the pur- suance of his duty and gave his work the benefit of his best thought and best effort. His practical experience as a tinner was of great value to him in counseling his customers; and he was also well versed on law points, so that he was able to advise his customers understandingly on these matters. Oscar Jackson was the very soul of honor, and integrity was “the im- mediate jewel of his soul.’ He was incapable of an act that savored of meanness. His nature ‘was frank, generous, noble. No man in misfor- tune ever applied to him in vain, and in ameliorating the sorrows of the suffering he found especial gratifica- tion. His charity was dispensed in a manner as unostentatious as it was generous, and on more than one oc- casion he assumed heavy burdens, far more heavy than he should have taken, in order that a little light might be let into the darkened souls of others. Is it any wonder that a man of so simple, so sympathetic and so unsel- fish a nature was beloved by those who knew him? And is it a marvel that his death should cause such gen- uine grief? We might admire his in- tellectuality in the cold light of rea- son, but we never could contemplate his warm-blooded and magnanimous nature without being drawn to. the man and kept close to him by irre- sistible bands. The glowing light of his mind is put out, the voice that comforted and counseled and inspir- ed is still, but to those who knew Oscar Jackson well his memory will be ever dear, a palpable reminder of a lofty spirit. —$_ <2 Trade Changes in the Hoosier State. Bloomingdale—Autumn Mater has sold his grocery stock to Allen Mor- rison. Alexandria—The Citizens’ National Bank has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. Fort Wayne—An undertaking es- tablishment is to be started by Getz & Cahill. Frankfort—The Mollett Grain Co. has merged its business into a stock company under the same style, with a capital stock of $35,000. Jeffersonville—C. A. Schimpff has suffered a loss on his drug stock caused by fire. La Grange—Geo. Steel, who con- ducts a racket store, has admitted Homer Andrews to the business with him. Logansport—M. McNeens has sold his cigar stock to Yeagley & Son. Marion—Ethe! Foster is succeeded in the bakery business by Ernest & Mooning. —_>+____ Mercantile Changes in the Badger State. Dodgeville—Jos. Rowe has sold his general stock to Henry Rowe. Black River Falls—-A meat market has just been started by Nels Han- son. Fort Atkinson—H. B. Wilson has engaged in the grocery business. Platteville—W. G. Hymer has sold his meat Roseliep & Bowen. market tod 3 Sampson—Chas. Lafebyre is about to engage in general trade. Superior—Bernard Wilson has en- gaged in the grocery business. ——— a No Need To Ask Her. “Johnny, where’s your sister?” “Up in her room.” with her “I quarreled yesterday and I am sorry. Won't you go and ask ther if she’ll make up?” “She’s makin’ up now.” For Systematic Investigations Corporations Consult The J. U. Smith Detective Bureau 93 No. Division, Cor. Pearl Citizens 6189 Bell 42 Mica Axle Grease Reduces friction to a minimum. It saves wear and tear of wagon and harness. It saves horse energy. It increases horse power. Put up in 1 and 3 lb. tin boxes, 10, 15 and 25 lb. buckets and kegs, half barrels and barrels. Hand Separator Oil is free from gum and is anti-rust and anti-corrosive. Put upin ¥%, 1 and 5 gallon cans. STANDARD OIL CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. reaches us. 93 Pearl Street Electrical Supplies Do YOU Need ANY? We carry a Large Stock. | Our prices are right. Telephone your orders at our expense. We'll do the rest. M. B. Wheeler Electric Co. We deliver day order Grand Rapids, Mich. WoRDEN (GROCER COMPANY: Grand Rapids, Mich. The Prompt Shippers MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Movements of Merchants. Vermontville—John Spadafore, Lansing, will open a fruit store. Flint—Springer | | merly a baker in Chicago, is remov- of ing his fixtures from that place to | Muskegon and will conduct a bakery & Vickery have, business under the style of the Mus- purchased the Clarence A. Fox shoe kegon Baking Co. stock. : Cheboygan—James O’Connor Schoolcraft—The private bank for- has|merly conducted by C. C. Duncan & sold his stock of groceries to John|Co. under the name of the Kalama- 'zoo County Bank has been merged Boyne City—M. S. Meacham has| into a State bank under the name of sold his grocery stock to Andrew the Kalamazoo County State Bank. Karwick. Brockway. Detroit—J. M. Clifford & Co. is the Howell—-C. L. Cook & Son have|"ame of a new firm to open a lumber sold their grocery stock to Kreager | yard in this city. & Larkin. South Boardman—Rich & Main are succeeded in the meat business by ® C. J. Darling. Charlotte—John V. Sassama has purchased the drug stock of Black-' hardwood, mar & Brackett. Lansing—A shoe store will be con- | ducted here by J. F. Waidelich, form- | erly of oe New ing for a shoe stock. . | | The stockholders jare J. M. Clifford, F. W. Mowbray land E. O. Rabiason, the latter two gentlemen being in business at Cin- | cinnati, O., under the style of Mow- bray & Robinson. The new yard will make a_ specialty of wholesaling paying particular attention 'to oak and cypress. Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—A corporation has been . Heycoop is making formed under the style of the Soul- preparations ts erect a store build-| Kiss Candy Co. , with an authorized | capital stock of $2,000, of which Freeport—Charles V. Reigler has $1,000 has been subscribed and paid in closed out his stock of groceries and/in cash. retired from business. Saranac—Kenney & Beattie succeeded in the meat business by A. Richmond and J. Kresher. Kalamazoo—The Lemon & Wheel- er Company has sold a new grocery stock to S. Baldwin, of Mendon. Traverse City—Martin B. Harner! is closing out his stock of musical | instruments and will remove to De-| troit. Woodland—A millinery store has been opened by Williams & Crahan, who succeed Katherine Stevens in business. Holland—John Wabeke has sold his grocery stock to George TerHaar, who has been engaged in general trade at Drenthe for some time past. Petoskey—J. A. Hendricks has withdrawn from the Hendricks & Zipp Lumber Co. and the business will be continued by George T. Zipp. Lansing—C. F. Lapham has taken Frank C. Stabler as a partner with a half interest in the clothing busi- ness, the firm to be known as Lapham & Stabler. Lansing—R. Newman, dealer in dry goods and millinery, who has been in business for the past twenty- eight years, has closed out his stock and gone to Columbus, Ohio. Cassopolis—Joseph Elson, of Chi- cago, has purchased the interest of G. H. Orr in the firm of G. H. Orr & Co. Chas. Elson, his brother, was already a partner and will remain with Joseph Elson: Muskegon—G. H. Flickenger, for- ee a eee are. Detroit—The Eby Manufacturing Co. has merged its business into a stock company under the style of the Detroit Handle Co., with an author- ized capital stock of $5,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Mancelona—The Antrim Iron Co. |has nearly completed repairs on its furnace and will probably resume operations about Sept. 15. Lansing—The Auto Body Co. has increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $150,000. Millersburg—It has been reported that at the close of the present sea- son the Gardener, Peterman & Co. stave and heading mill here would go out of commission, but R. P. Holi- han has secured an option on _ the plant with the view of continuing it. There is a ten years’ supply of tim- ber yet available in that vicinity. Constantine—The Crescent Motor Car Co., of Detroit, will remove to this place, the stock being mostly owned by the stockholders of the Hawley Auto Co., Ltd., which was removed to Mendon recently. The new company will take over all the property of the Hawley Auto Co.,, Ltd., and erect another building 4ox 150. Bay City—There is more enquiry for lumber cars, but the trade has not been as active as it should be. It is said the holding up of the rail- road business is affecting the lumber industry, that once the railroads get busy there will be activity of the old- time stamp in the lumber trade. Meantime local dealers are bringing in stock and piling it in their yards. About 12,000,000 feet have arrived during the month just closed at the two ports on the Saginaw River. Bay City—W. D. Young & Co. are adding another band mill outfit to their plant and will erect a ware- house. This is probably one of the most complete plants in the country, having its own fire fighting outfit and water supply, all machinery operated by individual motors, etc. When completed exclusive of the real es- tate, this firm will have an invest- ment approximating $200,000 in val- ue. The concern is getting orders for flooring and material freely of late and is doing good business. —__.--+ Third Dividend on _ the Estate. Lansing, Sept. 8—Creditors of the E. Bement’s Sons have received checks from the Detroit Trust Co., receivers, for their third dividend. The amount paid was five per cent. Bement Since the last previous dividend of IO per cent. was paid Dec. 25, 1907, the receivers have sold all of the ma- chinery, merchandise and _ personal property, except the remaining bills receivable, and also a small part of the real estate for $13,000. The re- mainder of the real estate is being held at $72,000. Out of the proceeds of the sale of the real estate it will be necessary to pay mortgages to which it is subject, amounting to $6,700 principal. The receivers think there will be realized from the re- mainder of the accounts receivable between $500 and $1,000. The last dividend was paid on claims amounting to $546,540.95 and the amount disbursed was $27,327.16. In all $335,988.52, or about 54 per cent. of the total indebtedness, has been paid to creditors. A disputed claim upon which no dividends have yet been paid amounts to $53,807.51. There is now about $5,000 on hand. The disputed claim is that of the Centra] Implement Company, Ltd. Litigation respecting it is still pend- ing in the Supreme Court of Michi- gan, Every effort has been made by the receivers to find purchasers for the remainder of the real estate and buildings, by advertising, personal solicitation and otherwise. They have had negotiations with a num- ber of prospective purchasers. It is the opinion of the creditors committee, in which the receivers concur, that it will be more profit- able to the creditors to hold the property longer until better financial and industrial conditions prevail, at which time it is hoped that fair sales of the remainder of the real estate and buildings may be made. —>++____ Evening Things Up. Mother--What did Mrs. Meanly give you for cutting her grass? Willie—Nothing. Mother—Why, she promised you Ic cents, didn’t she? Willie—Yes, but I used her sickle to do it with and she charged me 10 cents for the use of it. ee er eee Nee Yona eae eee SESS T ST aS NTS a aS The Boys Behind the Counter. Benton Harbor—B. Jackson, of Chicago Heights, has commenced his duties in the men’s furnishing de- partment in the Young, Peck & Co. department store. Mr. Jackson has been employed for several years by the Martin Wall Clothing Co., at Chicago Heights. Ann Arbor—Julius Ungerer, for many years clerk in the dry goods store of C. H. Millen, has resigned his position and accepted a_ similar one with Wm. Goodyear & Co. Jackson—E. Lantenslager, former- ly of this city, who for the past three years has been acting manager of the Ferguson Supply Co., at Pitts burg, Pa. has taken a partnership with J. Mahoney in the fixture busi- ness. Ann Arbor—Aaron Walker, ot Byron, has taken a position with Mack & Co., in charge of their men’s furnishing department, which place has been recently vacated by the resignation of Fred Benz, who has gone to Denver. Mr. Walker was formerly with his brother in the clothing and grocery business in By- ron, ee Hard and Soft. “What,” asked the teacher, anthracite mean?” “That's a kind of coal,’ said little Willie. “Yes. Anthracite coal is what we call hard coal. So ‘anthracite’ must mean ‘hard.’ Now, can you tell me what ‘bituminous’ means?” “That’s coal, too,’ Willie replied. “But it isn’t the same kind of coal that anthracite is, is it? Bituminous coal is what we commonly refer to as soft coal. Now, Willie, let us see if you can form a sentence containing the words anthracite and _ bitumin- ous.” Willie thought the matter over for a minute and then said: “Here’s one: ‘This morning be- fore pa started down town ma want- ed $5 for groceries and things, and she tried to get it by saying bitumin- ous words, but pa gave her an anthra- cite look, and when he disappeared around the corner she bituminously.’ ” “does was weeping ———_+-~>__ Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po- tatoes at Buffalo. Buffalo, Sept. 9—Creamery, fresh, 20@24c; dairy fresh, 16@21c; poor to common, 14@I6c. Eggs—Strictly fresh, candled, 21@ 23¢, Live Poultry — Fowls, 11@12¢: ducks, 11@12c; geese, 9@lIoc; old cox, 9c; broilers, 13@14c. Dressed Poultr$}—Fowls, 13@14c; old cox, 9@Ioc. Beans—Marrow, hand-picked, $2.35 @2.50; medium, hand-picked, $2.40@ 2.50; pea, hand-picked, $2.60@2.65; red kidney, hand-picked, $1.75@1.80; white kidney, hand-picked, $2.25@ 2.40. Potatoes—New, $2@2.25 per bbl. Rea & Witzig. —__2+<+___ He who runs away from all sor- Tow is ultimately drowned in the slough of despond. —_~+~--__ You can not bless men until you believe in them. Aina, een — ee ae — Aina, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN dD ity (tes a OCERY“»» PRODUCE MAR iL = n say} (NG Nos my The Produce Market. Apples — Wolf Rivers command $1.25 per bu.; Duchess fetch 85c; Maiden Blush, 90c; Alexander, $1; cooking stock, 75c. 3ananas—$1.50 for small bunches; $2 for Jumbos and $2.25 for Extra Jumbos. 3eets—6Ooc per bu. Butter—There is a very active trade for extra fancy butter. Under grades do not sell so well. The make of butter arriving shows an improves. quality and the demand for it is ex- cellent. Present conditions seem like- ly to continue until we go into frost, when prices on all grades will likely advance. The market is stationary and healthy. Fancy creamery is held at 24c for tubs and 25c for prints; dairy grades command 17@18c for No. 1 and 16c for packing stock. Cabbage—Home grown commands 75c per doz. Carrots—6oc per bu. Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz. Celery—18c per bunch for home grown. Cocoanuts—$4.50 per bag of go. Cucumbers—6oc per bu. for large. Eggs—The receipts of fresh eggs have fallen off during the week. The eggs show better quality and meet with ready sale at unchang- ed prices. The market is in a very healthy condition and seems unlike- ly to make any change during the next few days. Local dealers pay 17 @i8c on track, holding case count at t9c and candled at 2o0c. arriving Grapes--Wordens command per 8 th. basket and 65c¢ per % bu. basket. Green Corn—t1o@1z2zc per doz. Green Onions—15c per doz. bunch- es for Silver Skins. Honey-—16c per th. for white clover and msc for dark. Lemons—The market is unchanged on the basis of $4.50@5 for both Mes- sinas and Californias. Lettuce—Leaf, soc per $x per bu. Musk Melons—Home grown com- mand 85c per crate of about 12. Onions—Home grown white com- mand $1 per 7o fb. sack. Oranges—California Valencias are in good demand on the basis of $4.50 @5 per box. | Parsley—z2sc per doz. bunches. Peaches—Elbertas and Late Craw- bu.; head, fords fetch $1.75 per bu.; Barnards. ; $1.25; Engels, $1.50; Prolifics, $1.25@ 1.50. This is the big week of the Grand Rapids peach market, the warm days hastening the ripening. Pears—Clapp’s Favorite, $1 per bu.; Bartletts, $1.25 per bu. ee Peppers—$1.25 per bu. for and $1.50 for red. Pickling Stock—-White onions, per bu.; small cucumbers, 20c 100. Plums—Lombards, $1.25 per bu.; Bradshaws, $1.50 per bu.; Green Gages, $1.35 per bu.; Egg, $1.50 per bu. Potatoes—Local dealers pay 75c per bu. on the local market, holding at 85c, but Northern Michigan buy- ers are able to secure their supplies on the basis of 50@s55c per bu., hold- ing at 58@6oc in carlots. Poultry--Local dealers pay 8@r1oc for fowls, 12@13c for broilers and lt1c for spring ducks. Radishes—-toc for Round and 12%c for Long. Spinach—6oc per bu. Tomatoes—so@60c home grown. Veal—Dealers pay 5@6c for poor 7 $2 per per bu. for land thin; 6@7c for fair to good; |@o%e for good white kidney. | Watermelons—$z per bbl. for home | grown and $2.25 per bbl. for Indiana. | _———_—.-oa———————— Retail Grocers Adopted Union Labor Methods. { | River Rouge, Sept. 8—The recent | lexcursion of the Suburban Retail |Grocers’ Protective Association has | been the indirect cause of a_ boy- leott that is in full blast at this place. 'Wolf & Willett, of all the grocery | firms here, refused to close their store for the excursion. This refusal curred the enmity of all the other grocers in the village, who set their heads together to agree upon some form of retaliation. The strike was made through the bread venders who run wagons for the city bakers, certain dealers re- fusing to longer buy bread of them if they sold to Wolf & Willett. A temporary bread famine was the re- sult at their store, which has been bridged cover in various ways, and the contest is still on. Wolf & Wil- lett are looked upon by the other gro- cers as seceders from the ranks of merchants who stand for uniform and universal closing by mutual agree- ment or tacit understanding. On the other hand, Wolf '& Willett contend that, aside from the regular evening closing hours, picnic and other days should be discretionary with individ- ual dealers, none of whom in River Rouge are members of the Wyan- dotte Association; and furthermore, they object to being dictated to by arbitrary methods of boycott. ee A Color Scheme. “Papa,” said Freddy, “a greyhound is usually grey, isn’t it?” “Ves,” responded paipa. “Well, then,’ resumed Freddy, “why isn’t a purp usually purple?” in- The Grocery Market. Tea—The market is rather quiet in all lines. Japan Nibs are very scarce and high. Practically all of last year’s stocks are cleaned up and the market is bare of spot goods. New Nibs will not arrive until about the last of September. New Congous are arriving and the quality is fair, with prices a trifle firmer than a year ago. Altogether the general demand is only for present wants. Coffee—The very large receipts at Rio and Santos, which would indicate another record-breaking crop, are ex- plained by the syndicate as being due to the desire of the growers to push their coffee out with all speed in or- der to avoid the additional export tax which wil! shortly become effec- tive. Whether this true or is not it is establishd that the current crop| will be much larger than the syndi- cate claimed four months ago. The buying trade in this country still fol- low their hand-to-mouth policy, in spite of the fact that in European countries the movement has become more liberal. Mild coffees are changed and steady. Java and cha are steady at ruling prices. un- Mo- Canned Goods—The feeling among | tomato packers is firm, although here and there a needy seller is will-| t ing to make slight concessions to turn goods into cash promptly. Pric- es on corn are firm and there is more |stocks very small and prices tion is very good as well as for spec- ulation. The make of cheese is nor- mal and the quality fine. The future of the market depends on the specu- lative demand. Syrups and Molasses—-Sugar syr- up is unchanged and quiet. Molasses sold better durinz the few cool days, but is quiet at best and rules at un-s changed prices. Provisions—Bacon and _ sugar-pic- kled bellies are firm and unchanged. Pure and compound lard are very firm at unchanged prices. Barrel pork and dried beef are firmly held, steady. Canned meats are unchanged and fair trade. Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are inchanged in price. There is some demand for future cod, but very little as yet for spot. Salmon is unchanged and in fair demand. The mackerel market is firm, on account of com- paratively low supplies. The shore catch is virtually a failure, and stocks in are very low. Irish fat mackerel lare scarce as yet, and no fat Nor- ways have come forward as_ yet. Prices are unchanged throughout. DMomestic sardines are unchanged ex- cept for the fact that certain pack- ers outside the Trust who have been interest shown. The trade is enquir- | ing more for new corn, but packers are apparently making no special ef- fort to additional Peas are beginning to attract more attention. Some of the big packers are said to be cutting down on or- ders at least 25 per cent., as they are finding the pack is shorter than was secure business. expected. There is little new to re- port on canned fruits, but advices from the coast report a firmer feel- ing, particularly on extra choice and extra grades, the pack of which is undoubtedly short. Spot California fruits are weaker under pressure to clean up before the arrival of new goods. There better feeling shown in gallon apples, the market for which quite active. Eastern small fruits continue firm. There are no new developments in salmon. The bulk of the pack seems continuing futures. is 2 1S business on this season’s to have been done, prices firm both Sardines are not yet obtain- able for immediate delivery, except on contracts, packers still being far behind on orders, while been no material increase in the run of fish as yet. Imported sardines re- main scarce and firm. on spot and has there Dried Fruits—Raisins are unchang- ed in price and not particularly want- | desire to laccount of light stocks. }and ed. Other dried fruits are dull and unchanged. As the time for the de-| livery of future dried fruits approach- es it is becoming more and more ap- | parent that the future sales were this | year much less than usual. Prunes | are unchanged, both spot and future, | from last quotations. The demand light. Peaches are steady at un- changed prices and in light demand. ; is | | | | | ithe Treasurer. | sisting underselling the combination price for months have ceased to do so on Norwegian French sardines are unchanged and in moderate demand. —— — 2 The Drug Market. Quinine — Has declined Ic per ounce. Opium—Is weak and slightly low- er. Morphine—Is unchanged. the states have passed laws restricting the sale of Cocaine—Some of this article, and now the Post-office |Department has issued an_ order making it unmailable. Glycerine—Is very firm and higher prices are looked for later on. Guarana—Has declined. doubled in value on account of reports of very short crop. Quick Silver—Has advanced. Tonka Beans—Remain very high and stocks are reported very small. Manna— Has Oil Cassia—Is higher on account of small stocks. Short Buchu Leaves—Are_ very firm and tending higher. ——___—» 2. Butchers Join Hands With Grocers. Lansing, Sept. 8—A dozen Lansing butchers have already signified then join the Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association and are ready to pay their dues when called on by The committee, con- O. H. Bailey, Newton Blake and Gottlieb Reutter, has not found a single butcher who objectea to being enrolled on the Association’s membership list. The committee will visit all the butchers who have not yet been heard from and it expected that every butcher in the of is Apricots show no change, being still icity will join the Association. At the steady at ruling prices. Currants are wanted for future delivery. Spot goods are dull. Cheese--The demand for consump- next meeting the name of the or- ganization will probably be changed to the Lansing Retail Butchers and Grocers’ Association. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THE BEAN BUSINESS. Magnitude of the Industry Developed in Michigan.* I take it that I was asked to speak on this occasion because, to speak in the vernacular, “I do not know benas”—about beans; and any . one doubting the accuracy of my confes- sion has only to ask my neighbors as to the dire failure I had this sum- mer with a bed of beans I tried to raise in my garden. The vines grew rank, the pods were small and shriv- eled and then the rust put in appear- ance and then—I pulled up the whole outfit in disgust. When I awoke to a full realization of the fact that I was to talk to the Michigan Bean Jobbers’ Association and began to consider what I should say I resolved that I would do as did the forehanded disciplinarian ofa father who found his table over- crowded with guests one day at din- ner and made one of his children wait. They had beans for dinner and one of the children remarked when she was being served: “I don’t like beans.” “You don’t like beans?” echoed the father. “Well, you'll have to like beans or rise right up and give your seat to Mary Ann.” And so I say to you, you'll have to like beans or rise right up and give your seat to Mary Ann. After all, the bean is a very ancient institution and possesses intense ver- satility. Our old friend Plutarch— the student, essayist and philosopher, who was also an optimist nearly eighteen centuries ago and whose fame has not yet withered—advised children as follows: “Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public of- fice, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.” By the way, that use of beans— ancient when Plutarch was a lad— was the genesis of the present day practice in vogue in secret organiza- tions where the black ball bars out a prospective candidate for member- ship. In the olden time the black bean was as potent as the black ball of the present. Then there is the Bean Feast, a festivity held on the twelfth day after Christmas in honor of the Three Wise Men of the East, where a Twelfth Day cake containing a bean is provided. This cake is cut and the pieces are drawn by lot, the guest drawing the piece in which the bean is located being declared king or queen of the festival, according as it is a man or woman who is_ the lucky participant. And so, as the Twelfth Night prac- tice has been traced back to the Roman Saturnalia, it is fair to as- sume that the “bean in the cake” is the original of the present day wed- ding festival observance of a “luck- ring in the cake.” The bean is not only ancient and protean, but it inspires sentiment. I am acquainted with a Michigan vet- eran cavalryman who says that the meanest thing he did during the Civil War was to rob his horse of a hand- ful of beans when the exigency arose where either himself or his horse had *Address by E. A. Stowe at annual conven- tion Michigan Bean Jobbers Association Sept. 9, 1908. to go hungry. And the man is sin- cere in the statement, his regret over that act seeming to grow more keen as the years gather. The original bean of prehistoric times was practically the same as the field or horse bean, while the cul- tivated kinds of beans are of Amer- ican origin. It is said that the In- dians along the New England coast were acquainted with beans—a sort of half cultivated wild bean—when the Pilgrims took up their abode on the Massachusetts shore, and the statement is supported by the well known fact that succotash (corn and beans) is an Indian name for a very nutritious and satisfying concoction which they knew how to prepare and which the Pilgrims were not slow in imitating and improving upon. The origin of the contmptuous phrase designating a person’s ignor- ance: “You don’t know beans,” is not positively known; but the most likely explanation goes on to say that when the citizens of Boston first began to become “chesty” over their city’s rep- utation as “The Hub” and the home of baked beans a citizen of Philadel- phia, a Quaker, visiting in Boston, was trying to convince a resident of that city that Boston baked beans were no better than were the beans beked in Philadelphia, until finally the Bostonian ejaculated: “Oh, you don’t know beans,’ at -which the Quaker responded: “Friend, thee does not know how to bake them.” “You don’t know beans!” again shouted the Bostonian, at which the Philadelphian replied: “Thou art right, friend. Thou are a bean and I thought thee a man.” One of the most interesting of the many offshoots of the bean is the bean dealer. Were we in the north of England we would hear the bank officials of that section referred to as bean peddlers, the word “bean” being a synonym for our slang terms: dough, mazuma, stuff, simoleons, and so on. But being in Michigan and talking to Michigan bean dealers we must class them respectfully and at their full value. And what is the full value of the Michigan bean dealer? Michigan being the banner bean State of the Union the bean dealers doing business in our commonwealth |: must naturally be accepted as the ban- ner ban dealers. The bean crop. of Michigan this year will come close to five million bushels—and that, too, in spite of the widely-knowr and more ‘widely-advertised drouth we had during June and July. When one stops to realize that the bean dealers here represented handle five million bushels of beans annually, the thought invests the personality of this organization with a dignity that is unmistakable. Five millions of anything, even although nothing but beans, means a tremendous weight, a magnificent volume, a huge factor in our State’s prosperity; it means wages to a large number of people; it means a vast amount of freight for our railroads; it means food for mil- lions of people. I tell you beans are no insignificant matter. It is all well enough for farmers to speak contemptuously ofa certain area of soil, finishing their knock with, “Why, you couldn’t raise white beans on that land,” but just the same there is great good in beans and to you, as the promoters of such good, as the manipulators of one of the largest and most reliable crops produced in Michigan and as genuine benefactors of the human race, I extend a most cordial wel- come. -———_ 2-2 Meeting of Directors of M. K. of G. Saginaw, Sept. 8—The Board of Directors of the Michigan Knights of the Grip held a meeting in J. J. Frost’s tent on the State Fair grounds Sept. 5. The meeting was called to order by President Schram. Members present—J. W. Schram, J. C. Wittliff, M. V. Foley, H. P. Gop- pelt, J. J. Frost, N. B. Jones. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting were dispensed with. The Secretary presented his report as follows: Death Benefit Fund. No. I assessment, 1,330....$ 2.00 No. 2 assessment, 1,292 to LS itiisive ........... No. 3 assessment, 141 to Lie7 incisive: 60. 1,974.00 General Fund. Annual dues 2,256 to 2,202..$ 7.50 Change of beneficiary 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153. 3.50 14.00 Promotion Fund. Honorary receipts, 832 to nee one S$ 705 $2,007.50 Disbursements. By check No. 40 to Treas..$ 500.00 By check No. 42 to Treas... 500.00 By check No. 43 to Treas... 500.00 By check No. 44 to Treas... 490.00 By check No. 45 to Treas... 7.00 By check No. 46 to Treas... 10.50 $2,007.50 Treasurer Wittliff presented the following report: General Fund. Receipts. Balance on hand ........... $ 225.21 Check No. 45 from Sec’y or... 10.50 Transfer 5 per cent. from D. im. tged on $1,900 ....... 99.50 ere 2.52 $ 337.73 Disbursements, Check No. 1,046, war. No. 803, J. W. Schram, B. M..$ 1262 Check No. 1,047, war. No. 805, M. V. Foley, B. M.... 10.44 Check No. 1,048, war. No. 806, A. A. Weeks, B. M.. 8.04 Check No. 1,049, war. No. 807, M. C. Empey, B. M.. 9.86 Check No. 1,050, war. No. S08, N. B. Jones, B. M.... 13.62 Check No. 1,051, war. No. 812, M. V. Foley, salary. . 140.65 Check No. 1,055, war. No. 816, McIntyre Co., print.. Check No. 1,056, war. No. 817, Kelsey & Son, print. 1.10 Check No. 1,057, war. No. 804, J. C. Wittliff, B. M... Check No. 1,058, war. No. Sop; J. J. Prost, BoM. :.. 20.25 12.90 10.26 Check No. 1,059, war. No. 810, H. P. Goppelt, B. M.. 9.84 Check No. 1,060, war. No. Sir, J. ©. Witt, ‘salary. 56.26 Check No. _ 1,063, war. No. 818, J. A. Johnson, stenog. 10.22 $ 317.06 Balance on hand ... 0.3 $ 20.67 Death Benefit Fund. Receipts. Balance on Hand 9200) 5. 3: $ 935.80 Check No. 41 from Sec’y Boley ie ee 500.00 Check No. 42 from Sec’y HOley Co ee 500.00 Check No. 43 from Sec’y Holey) ose ao 500.00 Check No. 44 from Sec’y Holey 490.00 $2,025.80 Disbursements. Check No. 1,061, war. No. 288, Mrs. Mary Voorheis..$ 500.00 Check No. 1,062, war. No. 284, Chas. M. Randolph.... 500.00 Check No. 1,064, war. No. 260, Hiorence H. Clary.... 500.00 Check No. 1,065, war. No. 285, Alice B. Angell....... 500.00 Transfer 5 per cent. to gen. tind on St000 2) 8. | 99.50 $2,099.50 Balance on hand 2.50) $ 826.30 Employment and Relief Fund. Receipts. Balance (on Hand |). 00... $ 106.27 Disbursements. Check No. rose war. No. 813, M. V. Foley, Sec’y, Dyer assessment No. 3 J. 2.00 $ 104.27 Promotion Fund. Receipts. Paiamce on Haad .......... $ 13300 Check No. 46, received from Becy Filey 7.00 $ 140.00 Disbursements, Check No. 1,053, war. No. 814, N. Christopgerson, mew members ... 1... $ 12.00 Check No. 1,054, war. No. 815, Lee Barnhard, new mempers: (2 5.00 $ 17.00 Balance on hand ....... .. $ 123.00 Total all fends $1,074.24 30th reports were approved by the Finance Committee and accepted and adopted by the Board. Assessment No. 4 for 1908 was or- dered called to close Oct. 31. The Board then adjourned to meet in Saginaw Nov. 14, M. Vv. Foley, Sec’y. ——_+~-~___ And She Is Proud of It. Two ladies were lunching together one day, when one who is a mem- ber of the Colonial Dames said to the other, “Why do you not join the Colonial Dames? be eligible.” “Oh, yes,” responded her friend, “I forget just now the name of my ancestors, but I know we have been descending for many years.” You surely must oa The critical eye remains longest in ignorance, eames aaa ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN -] Only One Week More Then Comes the Big Show West Michigan State Fair Sept. 14-15-16-17-18, Grand Rapids OR several years the great West Michigan State Fair has been growing—in size, in importance, and in degree of success. The k people of the State have come to recognize that Grand Rapids is an ideal fair center; and they have come to know from satisfied experience that our State airs are a veritable revelation from every standpoint. The 1908 show will be the best ever. Profiting by the experience of former years, backed by liberal resources, assisted by scores of enthusiastic exhibitors, it is a safe prophecy that the West Michigan State Fair for 1908 will eclipse anything of its kind in the history of Western Michigan. You Must Visit the Big Fair Grounds to Know. You Will Find a Day at the Fair a Liberal Education Dairy Department Agricultural Implements The Horse Show The extra premiums offered and the entries Space in the Agricultural Implement field is The exhibit of horses this year will be A received will make the exhibit in this depart- all taken and the Superintendent of that De- Wee ae ee “ass ment the best ever shown in Michigan. The partment is making every effort to take care of Crouch & Son have entered 16 head of Percher- Dairy and Food Department has charge of it. the overflow. The Oliver Chilled Plow Co., the ons, Belgiums and —— Coach Horses. a si . ane : 4 : ee evo a See Af These faney-groomed anc veribboned horses, ae ce = = acne cee ae Pere Oe Mee 2. Pp Case rpreaking _ with their attendants in uniform, are a show in operation upon four cows. Near the Sheep chine Co., the Huber Manufacturing Co., and themselves. The parade of heavy teams in Department there will be a sheep. shearing the Appleton Manufacturing Co. are among the competition for the Martin Draft Horse Trophy machine in operation exhibitors this year who did not exhibit last will be a feature of Wednesday. The Shetland year. ponies entered number upwards of 60 head. Carriage Building Livestock Exhibits Poultry Show Ten of the best manufacturers of carriages The cattle show last year numbered 400 head; Exhibits in this department must be owned and vehicles in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan there will be as many this year. The premiums in Michigan. The West Michigan Poultry As- have reserved space and will make exhibits in the sheep department and in the swine de- sociation promises an exhibit of 350 birds. in the new carriage building. partment have been increased 50 per cent. There are numerous other entries. The Art Hall Will Bulge With a Splendid Showing and There’ll Be Fun on Every Hand High grade vaudeville and Al circus acts will be given free in front TUESDAY of the grandstand between races and race heats. The program pro- So ce ae vided includes: et OAR OURS ee a es 500 MR. peepines HARDY. - j 34 -mil Shoo... De ees Ae Sensational high-wire artist, known as the American Blondin. The Sees: a naa — ave only man living who ever successfully walked over the great Niagara Running. S6-mNe GAs ooo ccc ccc ceca ct eet. 200 Falls, on a slender wire cable. WEDNESDAY MR. MAT GAY. 9- ‘ye as America’s first and foremost sensational back somersault high-diver, 2:18 Class, Pacing Bee ase ee cece ee ee esc eat ec ec $600 doing his wonderful back somersault high-dive of ninety feet, into three web OlAss: ORIN ek ce caa ces aes ees fesse eae ecec-ee-. GOO feet of water. Running, mille and Vepeae ¢ 6.8 eee eee ci ee 200 : THE BIJOU COMEDY FOUR. ECU, Fouhe CT ee ees ane ete ts ces eet le 200 America’s greatest colored organization, showing the pastimes of the South, and introducing coon melodies. THURSDAY THE FLYING BALDINES. 2:08 Hass Faeins eee dese ee age R eee og cl $600 America’s greatest and best sensation casting act, embracing feats 221) (OlaSs) SPRObEIMe ooo ee ec ek ee ee ce cack, cee e ca... Bee never before attempted. Doing their sensational feats, forty feet in the Runnin Semie das 05 cee et a ek ec ee . 200 air. Runnings, %-mile dash. .........5..00.-. ccs cee fetaGies cleuGtee eae ace cs eeee SOG VARNELL AND LAMPSON. Premier Roman Ring Artists. Europe’s most marvelous acrobats FRIDAY and perfect formed gymnasts. Introducing new feats never before at- POO CRASS) OU ee ue ua ce $600 tempted on the flying rings. ed Class ACI eos as ee ec cs occ leeks awe cca slees eu. 500 THE HILL TROUPE OF ACROBATS. Running, 5g-mile dash (205.5 eres nae as 200 America’s funniest and best Acrobatic act, introducing Mr. Harry Bunning. %-mile Gash, NON-WINNers oo. koe ec ce pecs cee ce -. 200 Hill, America’s smallest and funniest clown. SPECIAL DAYS Tuesday will be School Children’s Day, when a special program for the entertainment of school children will be furnished and in charge of Monday will be Opening Day. a special committee, M. H. Sorrick, A. E. Ewing and C. W. Garfield. Tuesday will be Fraternal Day, Schooi Children’s Day. The Elks will attend in a body under command of exalted ruler, Frank Wednesday will be Grand Rapids Day. B. Winegar. The soldiers will be there, too. The Grand Rapids Battalion Thursday will be Farmers’ Day. will go to the Grounds Tuesday on special cars in command of Gen. W. Friday will be Political Day. T. McGurrin. West Michigan State Fair © °;CONGER rer arn ; 4 c E Ee LE Ps ss PS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published ‘Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY Corner Ionia and Louis Streets. Grand Rapids, Mich. E A. Stowe, President. Henry Idema, Vice-President. 0. L. Schutz, Secretary. W. N. Fuller, Treasurer. Subscription Price. the past year, he never failed to take |to receive inote of and when the | ment that a litt | Michigan (his congratulations current events, a Tradesman reached the twenty-fifth mile post in its career last month the venerable merchant imiller calied at the office to tender and to say that the had read the first copy of the ipaper when it appeared in 1883 and ‘had careful and critical reader For over a dozen years been a ever since. iMr. Voigt prepared each week a mar- i ket review of the Two dollars per year, payable in ad- | vance. Five dollars for three payable in advance. Canadian subscriptions, $3.04 per year, | payable in advance. No subscription acce companied by a sign price of the first year’s subscription. years, Without spertfic instructions to the con- | trary all subscriptions are continued ac- cording to order. must be accomnpanied by payment to date. Sample copies, 5 cents each. Extra copies of current issues, 6 cents; of issues a month or more old, 10 cents; of issues a year or more old, at the Grand “Rapids Postofiice as Second Class ‘Matter. SA, ‘STOWE, ‘Editor. oO. a Schutz, Advertising 1 Manager | Ente red Wednesday, one 9» 9S DEATH OF MR. VOIGT. Ane death of Carl G. A. Voigt, which occurred yesterday at his fam- ily residence in this city, is a sad loss to the community as well as a deep affliction to his family and friends. Although not making him- self prominently observed in meas- ures of public concern he was always furthering enterprises of general moment; willing to lend as- sistance in a quiet, unobtrusive way counsel was carry plans for the good of the city in which he spent nearly his whole life. In Mr. Voigt, then, the community has lost one it earnest in whenever money or needed to out can ill afford to lose at the present time. The mortality list has grown sadly large this year of men who have contributed to the solid business reputation of Grand Rapids, but it contains no name that will be spoken with more tender sorrow and regard than his. It is well that such cour- tesy of grief goes out to his memory among our people, for he was essen- tially a Grand Rapids man. His life has been spent, in a quict, uneventful manner, among those whom he ap preciated and who appreciated him. We had some marked characteristics, but they were those which brought him the respect and confidence of his associates as well as” their kindly wishes. These characteristics in his business life were caution and ener- gy to a remarkable degree. He nev- er entered inte a speculation, al- though always willing to go into a legitimate venture after giving it careful examination, and it was fre- quently remarked among all his friends that he never took hold of any enterprise without making it a success, In fact, the marked point of his career was unwavering pros- perity. He met with no eventful changes of fortune during his entire business life, and from a moderate beginning steadily built up a large estate. Although he was constantly occu- pied with his extensive private busi- ness and had been in poor health for grain trade for the Tradesman. It is common to sing the praises and to bury with honors men who ‘have held high public office, but here ted unless ac-. order and the) ja century as a i j i i Orders to discontinue | is one who lived for three-quarters of private citizen, and who has nevertheless been for a long period a conspicuous figure in the life of Grand Rapids, and one of her most esteemed and honorable sons, and although his life-work was done in a private station, it is none the less worthy of praise, and not less is his memory worthy of all honor. cnseeneiasaenistieitdatacnes A MOMENTOUS QUESTION. With the incoming of September the home life of the country is deep- iy stirred on the opening of the schools. Public or private, there arises the same confusion, attended always with the prevailing idea of expense. Here, if anywhere, at the beginning of the school year must the fact be met. The old has passed; all things have become new. The school authorities will settle the matter in regard to books, but the home -will instruction taining to anything else. One thing custom has already the chil dren must start in everythiny new. So the ran- sacked for Piece-goods and ready-mades have been liberally patronized and from landsend to landsend there will be no fairer sight to look upon than the vast army of recruits that will assail the school- houses of this United States on the “first day” of the fall term. long as the children remain in lower grades and are at home the momentous question of expense need not he agitated. It is only when the boy and the girl fancy they putting on maturity that the question becomes important, and this is emphasized in proportion as pa- rents thoughtlessly give way to what they believe to be public opinion. “They” in too many households hold undisputed sway. The style of dress, its cost and so its quality and _ so the idea it conveys of the fi- nancial standing of the family have to be taken into account; and these points settled there comes up the wants receive—no per- fixed: with have bargains. stores been the are again most momentous question of all, “How much pocket money must these maturity-assuming young peo- ple have to keep up the appearances called for by the requirements of the upper grades?” is where a_ little common should be depended upon, which leads up at once to the ques- Here sense tion, “How much do they need?” and which is best answered by a_ single word——nothing. Food, shelter, cloth- ing have all been provided. Nothing else is needed, and the call for more, which is sure to come, is not a matter | i imuch concern whether little attention. The state> le money in the pocket iengenders a manly independence con- tains something of reason and oughi to be respected, but it is a matter of this “little” should be increased. Those who watch well-provided- for young people will soon learn where their pocket money goes to. The boy takes to billiards, et cetera, and they who have them in charge will find it to their advantage to look well after the et cetera. Too often the words cover a multitude not nec- essarily ofsins, but, what is worse, the beginning of them. The girl becomes the patron first of the candy-coun- ter, and the human nature in her will carefully and persistently look outs for what is left; but boy and girl alike will see to it that the weekly allowance is promptly paid, attended with the statement that the other boys, or the other girls, have allow- ances much larger and they do not see why they can not. It is the children away from home that make the pocket-money ques- tion a momentous one. Granting what is often openly asserted, that such children are sent away to school because they have got beyond home control, it makes the management all the more difficult if the pocket-mon- ey allowance be large: The _ school furnishes every need, and experience is constantly showing that anything more has a downward tendency in every direction. At home the parent can, i he will, see to it that the money is spent in proper channels; at boarding school this is impossible and here the headstrong youth have and take every advantage. So the letters home are full of the strongest appeals for more money. The table is outrageous—so the letters declare —and extra funds are needed to pre- vent starvation. “All the boys are going to”’—-the what each writer’s imagination states—“and can’t you send me at once an extra V?” Too often the money is forthcoming to the detriment of all concerned—to none more than to the boy who gets the cash. To make this already too long story short, how much money ought the student to have? and the answer equally short and sharp is, 50 cents weekly. More than this engenders evil and whoever disregards the ad- monition is not wise. THE USUAL EXPERIENCE. A significant feature of the recent Republican primary election in this city was the defeat of C. D. Hamill, candidate for the nomination for member of the House of Representa- tives. Mr. Hamill has undertaken to make himself prominent in local pol- itics for some time as the man who held the union labor vote of Grand Rapids in the palm of his hand. He is a member of typographical union No. 30, and during the big strike of two years ago was chairman of the Board of Trustees and of the Strike Committee. On several occasions re- cently he has undertaken to “deliver the labor vote” to candidates, and as these efforts have not been generally successful Mr Hamill’s undertaking to deliver the union labor yote to himself was watched with consider- able interest, as affording a reasona- bly accurate indication of the strength of union labor dictators in local poli- tics, The element of personality, might have clouded the issue, was removed by the indorsement of Mtr. Hamill by both the Voters’ League and the Liberal League, representing opposing elements on _ the liquor question. No better test could have been imagined. When the votes were counted Mr. Hamill was found to be fifth in the race. The result did not surprise those who have been in touch with industrial conditions in the city, because Grand Rapids is essentially an open shop city. Organized labor can not govern it by its usual weap- ons of riot and terrorism, nor by the ballot; and a labor union candidate for office in our community will get exactly as many votes as he deserves —-no more and no less. Notwithstanding this experience, which is repeated at every election, men will undoubtedly be found who will wallow in the filthy trough of trades unionism by using the union label on their printed matter and submitting to being blackmailed by the union leaders who wax fat on the credulity of candidates whose ambition overtops their which good sense. ANOTHER THINK COMING. Horatio S. Earle, State Highway Commissioner and the man_ who, more than any other single person, kas brought about a public sentiment in favor of good roads, made frank and fair announcement some months ago that he would be a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomina- tion. He also announced that if he failed to get the nomination he would resign his position as State Highway Commissioner. Mr. Earle received something over 25,000 votes at the primaries—about 65,000 votes short of what would have given him a plurality—and now he declares that he will make good his threat by resigning on the first of January. The bitterest enemy of Mr. Earle is willing to admit that he is no fool and hundreds of thousands of citi- zens of Michigan freely declare that he is a rustler of the first grade, an entertaining speaker, a sincere advo- cate of his good roads hobby and man who can accomplish great good in the direction of that proposition. And none of these are willing to ad- mit that he can secure any result by carrying out his promise to resign that would reflect credit upon him- self or gain benefits for the people of Michigan. Comparatively speaking, Mr. Earle is a young man. He has a very wide acquaintance with the people of Michigan and he has a large follow- ing of admirers. His good roads work is but just begun: it is a work that must be continued and no man can do it with better grace or greater energy than can Mr. Earle. And so, Horatio, think the matter over. Do not “bite off your nose to spite your face,” “by gum.” esssantennnestiinseanesiensmenmee ne need You will find nothing of the divine if you refuse to obey the voice of every day duty. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 THE GREAT FIRE WASTE. There is a general complaint all over the United States that insurance costs too much, and there is no doubt that by comparison with the pre- miums exacted in other countries the complaint is well founded. But, as in all other matters, there are two sides to the problem. If premiums in this country are higher than else- where it should also be frankly ad- mitted that fire losses are also much higher, im fact, many times higher, resulting in the unsatisfactory condi- tion that the underwriters do not make a reasonable profit out of the business, notwithstanding the com- paratively high premiums. It is a striking and _ discreditable fact that fires are more frequent and fire losses greater in the United States than in any European country. Thus, in thirty European cities there is a yearly average of only eighty-six fires to each 100,000 inhabitants, while in the cities of the United States there are no fewer than 405 to the 100,000. Again, in those European cities the average yearly loss from fires is only 61 cents for each inhabitant, while in American cities it is $3.10. In the whole of France the yearly loss from fires is about 30 cents for each in- habitant; in the German Empire it is 49 cents, and in those two countries and Austria, Denmark, Italy and Switzerland all taken together it is 33 cents, while in the United States it is $3.02. It is difficult to find any legitimate and proper excuse for such a state of affairs. We are accustomed to boast of the efficiency of our fire depart- ments, particularly in the large cities, and we are quick to ridicule the mili- tary fire fighters of most European cities, yet we have many times more fires than they have, and have to pocket fabulous losses in comparison with their very slight losses. If our fire departments are so very efficient and still we suffer many times great- er fire losses than other nations, there must be something radically wrong with us. Our buildings may be a trifle more costly than those of European coun- tries, although that is a debatable question, but the difference in value is not sufficiently great to explain the disparity in the fire losses. We boast of our fireproof construction, yet the great buildings of Europe stand for centuries, while most of ours go up in smoke within the memory of a gen- eration. It is perfectly evident that the American people can not continue in- definitely to stand this immense fire waste. With proper building laws, strict enforcement of laws for pre- vention of fires and fire’ protection and with efficient fire departments and adequate water supply the fire waste can and should be reduced. It is ri- diculous to complain of high insur- ance premiums and at the same time do nothing to reduce the fire waste, on which alone the premiums are bas- ed. As long as fires continue fre- quent and costly as they have been in this country, we must expect to see insurance premiums advance. The only possible way of reducing them is to cut down the losses which the companies have to pay Premiums are based upon probable losses plus expenses and a reasonable profit. The losses of a coming period can only be gauged by the actual losses of the period say a year just preceding. In order to bring about a reduction in the cost of insurance the facts must first show an actual reduction in the fire losses. erceeresieemmesiecnen It has been said that every living thing was created for some good pur- pose, and it is often found that some apparently useless création can be made to aid the work of man. In Burmah and other parts of the Far East, where sandalwood grows, and *s worth its weight in silver, the com- mon ant, which is a nuisance in this country, is a great helper. The hard and fragrant heart is the only part of the tree that has any value and as the tree grows the heart is over- laid by a soft and worthless layer forming two-thirds of the trunk. When a tree is felled and cut into lengths the loggers let the timber lie. At once the ants begin work upon the soft wood, which is sappy and sweet enough to attract them. In a _ few weeks, less than a month im the case of the hardest butts, the ants deliver the heartwood free of all the worth- less sapwood. The Japanese at the close of the Russian war started in for a great world’s fair to be held at Tokio in 912. The project was received with enthusiasm at home and abroad. Re- cently considerable opposition has de- veloped on the ground that it would be unwise to spend money in an ex- position at the present time. It is said that a majority of the Japanese cab- inet favor postponement to I917 and some want it abandoned. There is a division of sentiment in the cabinet regarding the size of the appropria- tion and a hostile attitude toward President Kaneko. The proposition to appropriate about $15,000,000 is meeting with violent opposition from certain cabinet members, who argue that the impoverished condition of the country and the plans for naval enlargement make such an appropria- tion at this time an unwarranted bur- den. * : The Shawmut National Bank, one of the largest financial institutions. of Boston, has equipped a shooting gal- lery in the basement of its building, and every employe is required to take a turn at target practice for half an hour daily. Automatic guns are furnished every employe from mes- sengers to bank cashier, and the em- ployes are sent off in squads for their practice, which is under the super- vision of the chief watchman of the bank. A wave of murders, robberies and hold-ups has recently swept over that State and ihe officers of the bank regard it wisdom to be prepared for a visitation of any character that comes along. It is foolish to say sharp, hasty things, but it is a great deal more foolish to write them. Spiritually the most helpless are those who refuse to help. The doors to Heaven are often in earth’s lowliest places. Our new crop Japan Teas have arrived. The quality is excellent. They are picked and fired especially for and imported by us direct from Japan. Our 1908 crop Congous and Gunpowders are now en route direct to us from China. A new importation of Ceylon Teas is now on the water direct to us. We Do Not Buy Old Crop Teas because they are cheap. Our grades are maintained to the highest Our goods are fresh and new. point and our prices as low as the lowest. We are Western Michigan Distributors for Tetley’s Cel- ebrated Ceylon and _ India Teas. Judson Grocer Co. Direct Tea Importers Grand Rapids, Mich. Be sure and visit the West Michigan State Fair September 14 to 18. Tea Talk FA : eos i eae iV OT A 8 Aa aire mates from 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN NEW YORK MARKET. Special Features of the Grocery and Produce Trade. Special Correspondence. New York, Sept. 5—The speculative ‘coffee market is mighty quiet. Every- body is guessing at the size of the growing crop and meantime the market shows little. variation one way or the other. At the close the situation is easy and a decline of about 5 points is to be noted. The market for actual coffee is reported by jobbers generally as quiet, al- though some tell of fair orders from roasters. In store and afloat there are 3,416,293 bags, against 4,041,352 bags at the same time last year. The receipts of coffee at Santos and Rio from July 1 to Sept. 2 aggregate 3.077,000 bags, or only 34,000 bags less than during the same time two years ago, with the phenomenal crop. Mild coffees have had a quiet week. although there is something doing all the time. Quantities in the hands of roasters indicate light supplies, but orders are still for the smallest pos- sible quantities. Good Cucuta, 9%c. In the refined sugar market there was quite an active demand for a a rush day or so, Wednesday being almost a rush period. Buyers seemed to stock up to the full and since then the demand has been of comparatively small proportions. Granulated gen- erally is quoted at 5c. The number of orders sent in for teas has been quite large, and while in no particular instance was any not- able amount called for the aggregate has been quite “sizable.” Cable esti- Japan are 52,000,000 pounds for export this season, against 32,000,000 pounds last season. Prices usually are fairly steady. Grocers are purchasing rice in a very conservative manner, holding off for the new arrivals which will soon be here. Prices are well. sus- tained and sellers look for a market tending their way the whole season. Prim to choice domestic, 6@65¢c. With the advancing year the call for spices becomes more active and the week has been comparatively live- ly, although there is still room for improvement. Quotations remain practically unchanged on the whole list. Molasses still moves slowly, but with the advent of cooler weather the outlook shows signs of improvement. Stocks are moderate and prices well held. Syrups are in light supply and firmly held. Canned goods are dull anl uninter- esting. The effort to make a show of a short pack of tomatoes creates little attention. Probably there will be quite a shortage; but there will be no dearth and the consumer will pay no appreciable advance on a can. The market generally is showing some improvement over past weeks and some packers have withdrawn their 75c quotation on standard 3s. Brok- ers say, however, they can name such a price, but the trouble for them is to find the buyers at the figure. Corn is quiet and buyers take small quan- tities. This article, also, is said to _be likely to be short pack. Peas are quiet and the market is rather de- moralized. Gallon apples are doing well and prices are well sustained at $1.00@2. Buyers ask $2.10@2.15. Peaches are firm, but there is no no- ticeable amount of business forward. going The butter market is firmer and some advance is noted on top grades. While 24c is the nominal rate a half cent more or even one cent more might be obtained for some brands. Creamery extras, 231%4@2334c; firsts, 21@22'4c; imitation creamery, firsts, 191%4@20c; Western factory firsts, 19c; seconds, I8@18%c; process stock is working out at all figures from 18@21%4c, latter for specials. Cheese shows no change. The de- mand is moderate and the supply is fully equal to requirements, but there seems to be no undue accumulation. Full cream is held at 12%4,@13\c. Eggs are steady, with top grades of Western held at 23@23%4c—for extra firsts; firsts, 21@22c; seconds, 20@20%c. _—. oo Electricity Is Life of Vegetables. The hackneyed aphorism that elec- tricity is life has found fresh demon- stration in fruit. Plants and vegeta- bles are now said to be nothing more nor less than small electric accumula- tors, possessing only a small unit of electric energy, but which at the Same time can be conclusively de- tected by means of a suitable sensi- tive instrument. It is found that all fruits, whether of solid flesh, like the apple, or composed of a number of cells, like the orange, are duly re- plete with what corresponds to the positive and negative plates of a stor- age battery. For instance, in the ap- ple the fleshy part constitutes the positive and the core divided or insu- lated from the flesh by a thin skin is the negative cell, the respective terminals being the flower end of the fruit and the stalk. In the orange, on the other hand, the successive di- visions form alternately positive and negative cells, insulated from one an- other by the skin walls, while the whole is completely insulated on the outside by the peel or rind. Tio sub- stantiate his thesis the investigator secured an extremely sensitive Kel- vin galvanometer, the magnetic re- flecting indicator of which is so light as to be suspended by a single strand of a spider's web. By means of this apparatus a scientist was able to deflect the needle from one side to the other, according to the con- nection of the stalk or flower ends of the fruit with the instrument, and that such movement was not attribu- table to chemical agency is borne out by the fact that by reversing the ter- minals of the fruit reversal of sign was obtained. Again, such deflections were not merely temporary. They lasted until either the insulation of the fruit was broken down or decay had set in. He also found that de- composed fruit had no action upon the instrument, but only that in which life was still extant. 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All Busy Preparing for the Fall Busi- ness. This is a busy time with the flor- ists. For them it is the season that corresponds with the spring time for the ordinary farmer. There is not much doing in the line of trade, and not much money is coming in, but there is a world of work on hand getting ready for the fall, winter and spring campaign. The green houses must be put in repair, the heating ap- paratus overhauled, the benches load- ed with fresh earth and most im- portant of all there is the planting to be done. This all seems to come at once and to neglect any part of if may impair if not destroy all hopes of reward the coming year. Putting the houses in order is not particularly interesting. It is more or less the job of common labor. It requires ex- pert supervision, of course, but it deals largely with hammer and saw and shovel, and it is impossible to arouse much enthusiasm over the operations performed. With the planting, however, it is different. In this department we come in close touch with Nature, gain an insight into mysterious ways, and the im- agination does not have to be an active one to find a fascination about the work. Some plants are propa- gated by seed, others by bulbs, still others by cuttings, and how what goes into the earth can develop in- to what the florist offers a few weeks or months hence must cause the most careless to marvel. The florists just now are making their cuttings and getting them planted. These cuttings are chiefly of the summer bedding plants, coleus, Zeranium, argeratum, double petunia and helitrope. There are a few oth- ers, but these are the principal va- rieties. Except the geranium and double petunia these plants all grow readily from seed and the seeds grown make stronger and_ thriftier plants than those from cuttings. But for the florist color is often an im- portant consideration. The seeds do not always come true to color, the cuttings never fail to do so. There- fore the cuttings are used. And they are used by the thousand. In the city green house at John Ball Park for use in the city parks next summer 10,000 coleus cuttings, 15,000 gera- nium and 15,000 ageratum are being planted. What the city is doing at John Ball Park is small compared with what some of the florists are doing for their trade next spring. In making cuttings of gera-- nium, for instance, the live healthy stems are broken off the old plants, thrown into a basket and carried in, usually to girls or women, to be trimmed. The superfluous leaves are taken away and the stem is cut off just below an “eye” or leaf joint, and when reduced to a length of three or four inches it is ready to be planted. This is to stick them into small thimble pots of wet sand. The thim- ble pots are packed closely together in a bed of moist earth, and then a gentle bottom heat is applied. In a very few weeks the cuttings are rooted and begin to grow. When the roots fill the thimble pots the plants are transferred to larger pots and next MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May will be ready for the garden or border. The plant when purchased by the home adorner, it may have been observed, has its roots filling the pot completely. There is method in this. There is economy in cost and space in the use of small pots, but from the florist view point almost equally important is the fact that the flower is in bloom when offered for sale. Crowding the roots tends to force the bloom. Beside the cuttings, which must be saved before the old plants’ are frosted, the florists are planting thousands of bulbs for midwinter and early spring blooming. The bulbs are planted some singly in small pots, others by the dozen in large pots, and as soon as planted will be placed in some cool and dark place to make roots. About six weeks be- fore they are wanted in bloom the pots will be brought in to the light and warmth, and the artificial sum- mer which the florist knows how to produce will force the bulbs to rapid growth and blossom. Beyond get- ting the bulbs right side up there is no particular knack in planting them, but one can hardly realize that from the insignificant looking objects planted will come a gorgeous tulip or a sweet scented hyacinth. Planting, however, is not the only activity at the green house these days. The chrysanthemum crop is just now at that point where it needs close attention. The plants are planted about six inches apart each way in low benches that extend the length of the green house. They are given bottom heat and top heat, lots of moisture and plenty of fertilizer. Under this treatment they grow like weeds, and as they grow they are tied to stakes or wires. The chry- santhemum season opens the latter part of October and culminates at Thanksgiving, and the florist with the dates in mind hastens or checks the growth to the end that the flow- ers may be in bloom when most needed. Not every bud that comes is allowed to bloom—not by a good deal. Size and brilliancy are gained for a few flowers by sacrificing many buds, and it is with a ruthless hand that the florist uses his scissors. The rose houses at this time are also receiving close attention. The rose season opens in December, as chrysanthemums wane, and_ reaches its height in January and February. The bushes in the hot houses are be- ing encouraged to their fastest and most thrifty growth. They are being “fed” with bone meal and liquid ma- nure three or four times a week and the heat is regulated to their liking. The buds are already appearing, but are nipped off, the purpose being to save the strength of the plant for the rose season. Size gained by throwing the entire power of the plant into a single bloom. is There is activity also in the carna- tidn houses and in those houses where the violets grow. These flow- ers are in greatest favor in midwin- ter, during and after the holidays, and the florist who wants flowers then must work for them now. Not all the florists, but some of them, deal in perennial plants and shrubbery. The perennial plants such as the florists grow themselves are usually started in the houses during the summer dull sea- son. The seed could be planted in the garden, but with drouth, too much rain and insects to contend } with the results are not so certain. | The green house started plants are | now being transplanted to the open} field for the fall growth and to re- main out over winter. Not much | shrubbery is grown here, the large| supply coming from nurseries in the | { East or in Europe. 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There’ A Lon g of any man who is looking for as good a 5c cigar as is the Ben-Hur. lover of a good smoke who is willing to go far out of his way to get to a store stocked with this peerless cigar. you ina position to catch such a man’s trade? Tramp Ahead Many’s the Are GUSTAV A. MOEBS & CO., Makers Detroit, Mich. Worden Grocer Co., Distributors Grand Rapids, Mich. BS § = a ye eS ee a i So Miao MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a CROSSE ° SFE — — = — —_ — — xy = = WOMANS ‘WORLD Bis at se w)] Choicest Gift Fate Can Bestow Upon Man. Every woman is by nature a hero worshiper. From the cradle to the grave she spends her time burning in- cense before some demi-god, or some little tin-god that she endows with he- roic attributes. At. times this causes her to make kind of a‘fool of herself, as, for instance, when she kissed the too-sweet Hobson into oblivion, and mobbed Paderewski to obtain a single precious hair from his flowing locks. In the main, however, it is an amia- ble weakness, and her ability to glori- fy an ordinary man—for woman’s genuflections are always made _ be- fore a masculine shrine—and see in him an unappreciated genius, or a knight of romance, not only adds to the interest of life, but enables her to actually enjoy being sacrificed to her divinity. This is a most valuable faculty, and its possession explains many feminine inconsistencies and peculiarities. As long as a man is heroic in a woman’s eyes she will stand any sort of treatment from him. It is only when she discovers that her idol’s feet are mud that she hurls ‘him into the divorce court, or otherwise rebels according to her re- lationship to him. It must not be thought, though, that women are constant from youth to age to the same hero. On _ the contrary, a procession of heroes file through their fancies, so to speak, and the different types of men that a woman worships at different periods of her life offer an interesting and instructive study. A girl’s first attack comes on ear- ly, while she is still a little tot in short skirts and with her hair in pig- tails down her back. The inspirer is invariably some big boy who attracts her attentions by turning cart-wheels before her on the pavement, or cut- ting figure eights on the ice, or who can conceal the half of an apple in his bulging cheek when the teacher turns an investigating glance upon him. She looks on with awe and ad- miration at his feat, and thinks how strong, and clever, and wonderful he is, and betrays her adulation by hang- ing about him as much as the great one will permit, taking meekly his snubs and chalking his name up to fame on the bill boards as she goes to and from school. This is merely a juvenile complaint, as inocuous as the chickenpox, and it passes harmlessly without leaving a scar upon the heart. ‘ The next hero of a little girl is the Fairy Prince, and little as the man so honored may realize or appreciate it, this is one of the most wonderful experiences that can ever come to him, for to be worshiped by the pure heart of a little child is to be a king among men. The Fairy Prince is al- ways a grown-up, generally either a college friend of an older brother, or a suitor of a big sister, but he takes note of the child, and talks to her, and brings her candies or takes her riding or to the theater, and she ad- mires him for it. In her eyes he is an Apollo of beauty, a marvel of wit and wisdom, the hero of all her child- ish imaginings. It is then, for the first time, that love and marriage en- ter into her conceptions of life, and she dreams of herself as going away with the Fairy Prince to live in a candy castle, and feed upon choco- late creams forever and a day. When the Fairy Prince finally rides away and leaves her she sheds salt and bit- ter tears, and refuses to be comforted by his promise to come back for her when she gets grown. After the Fairy Prince has gone the way of all masculine flesh and mar- ried, there are several years in which the girl is immune from hero wor- ship. She scorns the grubby little boys of her own age. Her horizon is limited, and no knight of romance appears upon it, and so she arrives at the age of 16 or 17 when the fem inine passion for hero worship be- comes an acute peril, for there is no telling when she will be idiot enough to try to translate some of her imag- inings into reality. The gentleman who wears the halo at this period of a girl’s life is generally her profes- sor. Preferably he is her music teach- er, or drawing master, but it does not much matter for at this stage of the game her appetite for heroes is so voracious that she can swallow any- thing, even a grumpy professor of mathematics. Give her a _hollow- chested and aenemic teacher, with lanky hair and broken English verbs, and she can see in him that unappre- ciated genius, pining away in an alien land, and picture herself as a benizn angel coming into his lonely life, bearing love and sympathy in one hand, and a bag of her father’s good long green in the other, and thus lift- ing him into a region of ease and plenty, where his art would have opportunity for free expression. If, on the contrary, the professor is fat, and middle-aged, and bald, it jars her ideals, but it does not smash them. She knows that he must be unhappily married, and she has vis- ions of shuddering ecstasy in which she imagines hherself as this affinity. renouncing love for duty, both vic- tims of Fate, yet leading a sad sweet life of resignation uplifted by a glo- rious passion. Of course, the worship of the professor will be easily ex- plained on the ground that he is gen- erally the only man in sight in a The Mill That Mills BIXOTA FLOUR In the Heart of the Spring Wheat Belt ORR gRENNC Ra os 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. Red Wing, Minn. S. A. Potter, Michigan Agent, 859 15th St., Detroit, Mich. | { ted 1848. eS asFORDs LWAYS on the move, ¥ oswEGo ? . because every cook knows its excellence and purity—its absolute goodness. 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Similarly, girls pass through a stage in which they long to renounce the world and be- come sweet-faced Sisters of Charity, or gray-robed hospital nurses, or set- tlement workers with uplifted ex- pressions and year-before-last .clothes. These noble aspirations are inspir- ed by a good-looking preacher, for it is notable that the piety of the feminine portion of a congregation is always in direct ratio to the per- sonality of the clergyman. Under its influence a girl goes to church three times a day, prefers prayer meetings to balls, and regulates her life by what HE—a preacher-worship- er always speaks of the parson in capitals—says. Fortunately, when a preacher marries he tumbles off of his pedestal so far as the majority of his female flock are concerned, al- though there are some women to whom the preacher is a hero to the end, and who spend their lives break- ing their alabaster boxes at his feet. The the heels matinee nero follows close on of the clergyman. This marks a virulent stage of feminine hysteria. It is a malady that few women escape, and none ever remem- ber without wondering how the fool- killer happened to overlook them while it lasted. The outward symp- are a mania for going to hear some particular actor or singer act the same play, or sing the same song, with precisely the same tremor in his voice, the same clutch at his heart, the same adoring glances and pas- sionate outcries at the same cues, day after day, or night after night. Still she is thrilled by it. She sits in the self-same place, and flatters herself that her hero must differentiate hher face from the dull, uncomprehending faces of the audience, and she won- ders if he is not conscious of her presence—if there is not some rap- port between them. When she has it very bad indeed, and has no kind friend to shut her up in a padded cell in a lunatic asylum, she writes him mash notes, telling of her love, her devotion, her willing- ness to leave home and family and friends and fly with thim. At this time she also spends her allowance in sending him flowers, which he gives to other women, and in buying his photographs before which she burns candles and says her prayers. Generally, the matinee hero-worship craze does no particular harm. Some- times, however, it is necessary to use violent measures to wake a girl up who is in a trance about some ro- mantic actor. The best way to do this is to let her make his personal acquaintance under properly chaper- oned conditions. A romantic actor with his upholstery off is about the least romantic person on earth, and a girl is forever after an apostate where the stage is concerned. toms MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Following the matinee hero, and far more dangerous, because he has to be dealt with at close range, across the parlor lamp instead of from the safe distance across the footlights, -is the man with a dark and lurid past. Nobody can explain the fascination that a bad man has for a good wom- an. Neither can anyone deny that it exists, and is especially potent with ignorant and innocent young girls. Charlotte Bronte was an unsophisti- cated country maiden when she creat- ed the wicked and sinister Rochester, ready to commit any sort of a crime to get the woman he loved, and that sort of man always was and always will be the favorite hero of young girls. Heaven alone knows why a woman should find anything romantic in a man who has been a drunkard, or a gambler, or a rogue; but she sees him through some sort of a glamor that makes his sins appear pictur- esque, instead of sordid, and it is while she is under this hypnotic spell, while she believes that her worship is a lasting passion instead of a pass- marriage that she spends the mainder of her life in repenting. fe- If she escapes this sad fate, if she chances to find out that her hero wasn’t so black as he painted himself, or she has the good fortune to meet him when he is drunk, instead of hearing his poetic account of dallying with the wine cup, and it is becaus2 women hear about things instead of actually seeing them that they make such bitter mistakes, she is generally safe for the next few years. True, she breaks out with spasmodic attacks of worship of some great pianist, or she burns a few joss-sticks before Ib- sen, or some famcus lecturer or trav- eler or artist, but this amounts to little. It lacks the fervor and the fire of her previous devotion. Then comes her final great per- formance as a_ hero-worshiper, the culminating triumph of the feminine imagination, that enables her to see im some perfectly commonplace man the ideal of all her dreams and fan- cies. She falls in love, and straight- away the homeliest, shambling, tow- headed man that ever walked be- comes a paragon of masculine beau- ty; his most stumbling speech be- comes thrilling eloquence, and _ his occupation, no matter how prosaic, becomes a field of adventure. She has found her hero at last, and she sits down joyously to pour out adula- tion before him. 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St. Louis Office and Showroom, 1331 Washing’n Ave. Under our own management The Largest Show Case Plant in the World 4 : & 4 d a Bs hs AS el mst inchs che Se Seite ‘where I went to see- 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WNC I) : ef nye «( epee = and, © wa PN \ By ont ‘A oe UU Handling a Hog From Start To Finish, One authority who is supposed to know all about it says beef tongues should be first put into an 80 deg. plain pickle for twenty-four hours, and gives the reason for so doing that this will take all the moisture out of the tongue, or all the saliva, as it is termed. The tongue hasbeen, brush on the killing floor to remove all the saliva from the outer part, so that there is nothing of this kind ad- hering to it. This authority goes on to state: Aft- e: remaining twenty-four hours in this plain pickle the tongues are tak- en out and put into an entirely differ- ent pickle—a sweet one—to cure, and which, by the ingredients mentioned, will be about a 70 deg. pickle. It certainly is surprising how dense some men in this line are, and men from whom better judgment might be expected. Of course, the tongue, as I have already shown, contains a large percentage of moisture, but in- stead of putting the goods into a plain pickle of 80 deg. to extract this moisture, why not put them at once into a 90 deg. sweet pickle to cure in? This moisture which is extracted is the natural juices of the tongue and the “life” of it, if I may be permitted to use such an expression, and in- stead of curing the tongue in this first pickle where it will absorb again some of those juices, this authority would have you take it away after it has lost those juices, or the best part of them, and put it into an en- tirely new pickle to cure in, so that all benefit by absorption of those natural juices in the pickle is en- tirely lost to it. There is a great loss in strength of tongue pickle the first twenty-four hours, as the absorption of the salt forces the natural juices out; but as they become mixed with the pickle, and a part of it, they are again ab- sorbed—in a diluted form, it is true, but still absorbed. I am pretty well acquainted with the handling and curing of meats, but I have yet to learn that the entire loss of the natural juices, or part of them, is any benefit to the meat. They are bound to come out, but why not give the meat an opportunity of regaining some, at least, of them, and cure it in the pickle in which they are? Chill and cure the tongues as I have directed, and there will be no trouble with them. I can pledge my word that I observed a sour tongue only once, and that was in a house some beef tongues that had been purchased by the people whom I was with. The pickle for curing tongues in I mentioned as 90 deg. mixed sweet pickle; this is right, and later on, when I take up the question of mak- ing pickles, this, with the other kinds, will be described. The handling of the hams. and bel- lies, calas, etc., were left at that stage where they were nearly ready ; ifor “smoke” shipment, or storage if as already described, washed with a) there was no demand for them. We will say that the demand for hams and bellies was small, although a large stock was in pickle, with hogs, on foot, cheap, which meant big “runs” and consequently big killing and cutting, so that the room for packing was required. Were the premises extensive enough, as I once before intimated, with proper facilities for so doing, this stock could be carried better in pickle by turning on the refrigera- tion and dropping the temperature to around 20 deg. above, which would so solidify the meat without freezing that it would absorb no more salt, while, being in pickle, it would be pro- tected from the influence of the air. Now, department heads, this is no “pipe,’ but if you think so I wish you would contradict me and give the readers the benefit of your knowl- edge(?), or, if I don’t make myself clear, be good enough to ask me to be more explicit and perhaps I may receive an inspiration from you by which I will be able to put my views in such a manner that you will be convinced. You have already seen that I men- tioned free fatty acid, which is a component part of the fat of hams, calas, bellies, etc. (ask your chemist or lard man), and it occurs where rancidity does not exist; but it ‘has been demonstrated by chemistry that rancidity is caused by the action of light and air upon the free fatty acid aforementioned, so that you will readily see, I hope, the reason why this class of meat will hold better when protected from light and air. But, being unable to have it this way, the next best plan is to have a storage room—which every house of any importance should have—a room which is so fitted with refrigeration that it can be kept at 20 deg. Fahren- heit. Have daylight excluded, or, if there are windows in it which are fitted as cold storage windows, let the glass be yellow, or covered with a yellow semi-transparent composi- tion, so that the light which enters will be non-actinic. Should the room be “piped,” let it be so around the sides, not overhead. 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REFERENCES Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, Express Com panies, Trade P. i of Shippem e Papers and Hundreds Established 1873 the curing room and pile them on racks to drain, when, after two or three days, they are taken to the storage room and wiped clean, on a temporary bench or table; not rub- bed over, but wiped thoroughly clean and dry with cheesecloth, and then neatly piled, skin down, on the floor until the last tier, which should be placed face down. A space should be left all around clear of the pipes, if any, and the hams should be sup- ported by racks braced from the sides of the room. Three feet will be high enough for the pile; any higher would cause too much press- ure on the lower tiers. Hams carried in this way will come out bright and clear and free from any rancidity in the fat, but if the room is large enough it would be preferable to pack the thams in clean tierces, headed up, and “blown off.” The storage room should have only one entrance, so that there would not be a current of air, the door shut- ting tightly and kept closed unless when absolutely necessary that it be open. in the same man- come out at the end of three months, as the case may be, better than when they were put there, an: will take a very pretty smoke if they were put in storage fresh cured, so that they would require little more than a wash before going to “smoke.” Bellies handled ner will or four looking in A storage room with half to one million pounds of bellies on storage in this way is, indeed, a very pretty sight, with its white painted walls and clean, dry floor, perfectly odorless, and the department head may well point with pride to the stock stored there, and its bright, clean look. I do not think, although essentially necessary as it is, that every house has a storage room of this kind for carrying cured stock—not even some of the largest houses, excess It is a great mistake to carry S. P. hams, calas or bellies in pickle in the ordinary temperature after being cur- ed, as they go on, day after day, ab- sorbing salt until, when they are re- quired for “smoke,” they have to un- dergo such a “soaking” in the wash- room that the chances are in favor of their being spoiled, as, let the foreman in the washroom be ever so good a man, he is liable to give the meat more than it really requires, with the result that, in the case of the hams and calas, sour butts will en- sue. A properly equipped storage or car- rying room is as essential to the up- to-date packing house as any other part of it, and, having a surplus stock of hams, calas bellies coming along, they should be pulled out as soon as cured and put into this stor- age in the manner described. Of course, some judgment will have to be used as to how much should be put in storage, making due allowance for the requirements of the trade. The bellies mentioned here are being carried in the storage room are the ordinary S. P. common clear, of all averages; not the light 6 to 8 and 8 to 10 pound bellies which make the fancy breakfast bacon, and which are cured in a much sweeter pickle. So much sweetening is used in this pic- or MICHIGAN TRADESMAN kle that after ten to twelve days out of pickle, piled on racks on the floor in the curing room, fermentation can be easily detected by smell in the fat. There is such a demand for this fancy breakfast bacon that there is not very often a surplus; in fact, it is more the other way, and there is a shortage now and again. Still, there are times when there is a surplus, and instead of trying to carry it a3 the fancy grade, it were much better to turn the excess over to _ the “smoke” ‘house, when it is required, as common clear bellies, for ordi- nary breakfast bacon; as, from the large amount of cane sugar used in the curing pickle, it is impossible to carry it any length of time in per- fect order. I have seen this class of bellies put in storage such as I have described in this article; seen them sent to the freezer, on being cured, and carried in a frozen state; seen them “smok- ed” when just cured, and then put in the freezer after they were properly cooled, and carried there until want- ed, when they were thawed out and given a light “smoke” again, and while this latter plan seemed to car- ry them with better results than any of the others, they were not at all the bellies when “smoked” just as they were cured, all being due to fer- mentation, which, from the greater amount of sugar in the curing, shows greater activity than it does in the common clear belly, which does not contain so much sweetening. Perhaps to people not accustomed to this fancy grade of breakfast bacon the fermented flavor would not be very noticeable, but to anyone in the habit of using it often for breakfast and whose sensibilities of taste are not blunted, the slightest change is very easily detected; the presence of salt, while of course there, is hardly perceptible, as it is overcome by the soft, mellow flavor given by fermen- tation in its early stages and before it has passed a certain point—Butch- ers’ Advocate. ee Horrified By His Speech. The students of a college grew so reckless in their behavior that the professor thought to improve their conduct by a lecture on morality. They listened with due humility. In the course of his lecture he said: “My young friends, the floors of hell are paved with champagne, automo- biles and chorus girls.” He was hor- rified to hear one of the students say in a sepulchral tone: “ ‘Oh, Death, where is thy sting?” Ground Feeds None Better YX BRAND. TRADE ARIK WYKES & CO. @RAND RAPIDS M. O. BAKER & CO. Have big outlet for cherries, peaches and small fruits. Write us. Toledo, Ohio Grand Rapids, Holland & Chicago Ry. vo GHICAGO _In Connection With Graham & Morton Line Steamers Puritan and Holland Holland Interurban Steamboat Car Leaves Market St. Depot FARE s2 Nightly 8, Freight Boat Every Night You do a good stroke of business when you recommend to your cus- tomers the original Holland Rusk (Prize Toast of the World) They find it comprises all that’s good and whole- some, with just the right flavor. Then they come back for more and that means increased business and more profits for the dealer. Holland Rusk Co. Holland, Mich. RETAILS E86 15 Veneer Box Co. Manufacturers of all kinds of Shipping Boxes and Egg Cases Grand Rapids, Mich. Dry Sound Our feeds are made from Dry Corn. We give you grain that will draw trade. Let the other fel- low worry with cheap, damp, sour goods. Send us your orders for Molasses Feed Cotton Seed Meal Gluten Feed Old Process Oil Meal Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co. L. Fred Peabody, Mgr. Grand Rapids, Michigan Huckleberries Wecan handle your huckleberry shipments to good advantage. We sell all berries according to quality and have a large outlet and are in position to command the highest market price. Send us your shipments. Returns sent promptly. We also sell all kinds of fruit packages. The Vinkemulder Company 14-16 Ottawa St. Grand Rapids, Mich. A Case With a Conscience is known through our advertising, but sells on its merit. The same can be said of our DE- PENDABLE FIXTURES. They are all sold under a guarantee that means satisfaction. GRAND RAPIDS FIXTURES CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. Jefferson and Cottage Grove Avenues PRO DUC E Vegetables, 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. Poultry, Eggs, Butter, Cheese, Etc. 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. BA Of every description for every purpose. ROY BAKER Wm. Alden Smith Building Gs New and second hand. Grand Rapids, Michigan 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN — = ~ ~ _ FAN “yO = SO ErHH = = = = Us DRY GOODS. =<, S UCAS Spring Samples of Shirts Are Now Ready. ~ Business. for spring, 1909, is the principal matter of present concern with the manufacturing shirt trade, the Eastern members of which are not of one mind as to whether it shall be an early or late showing of samples. It was a doubtful question at this time last year, but for dif- ferent reasons than those now pre- vailing. The matter of ability or inability to secure cloth supplies for fulfilment of orders was then in de- bate, as was also the menace of con- tinuously advancing costs of mate- rials. But the whirligig of time brought its revenges and removed these contingencies, so that they have not to be considered in the present reckoning. What now ap- pears to be in the balance is simply | “shall we go out early and miss it, | or play a waiting game and hit it?— and we may hit it or miss it either way.” Shirt stocks are known ‘to be low with retail furnishers, for they are not the heavy buyers of job par- cels such as are placed with depart- ment stores; but if the furnishers are to be as slow in placing spring orders as they thave been in their current purchasing from stock their caution may cause disappointment. Only time will decide. ious to get away, for they know they can unload summer shirts for fall selling at inducing prices, and two- thirds of the factories still have quantities; this many of them can do even should their customers be coy in listening to spring order talk, and departures for the road this month will pay for the trouble one way or the other. . Spring samples are ready. It is claimed that novelties are to be found in some of the assemblies, carefully preserved from enquiring gentlemen. What they are only their creators know. They may be patterns or they may be originalities of construction. Freaks of the latter variety have short lives, but exclusive examples of design in patterns carry weight when “secured.” We are told that the printed lines will carry renewed life in their 1909 patterns; that mer- cerized white effects will shine by themselves as new lights and in as- sociation with woven color and with printed color; that white mercerized cords on white cloth are good things; that double stripes liberally spaced will continue in favor, and that all the soft cloths will hold their popu- larity. More will be known in a few | weeks; meanwhile the foregoing in- formation should be considered as positively exclusive. The attack made on colored shirts in general by a London journal of Salesmen are anx-| recognized standing in the medical profession has obtained wide pub- licity in our land through the press. It is a question if it will receive se- rious consideration even in serious- ly-disposed Britain, and certainly not here—not unless a pronunciamento against the “microbe-breeding gar- ment” should be issued from Wash- ington. Narrow black stripes seem to be destined for lasting popularity, whether arranged in clusters or in single lines of broader character. The ‘two-color and three-color stripe pat- tern of this season is to be in next year’s lines, and broad ground space remains a marked feature in all for- eign goods.—Clothier and Furnisher. —_>-~+___ Clothing Merchant’s Novel Window. | Written for the Tradesman, A clothing dealer hates to have an ‘antiquated lot of suits left on his hands. Nobody wants to buy them. “Might’s well be dead as be out of |fashion” is am expression as true to- |day as when it was penned. But one ‘of those objectionable left-overs of the merchant may be utilized to point a moral and adorn a tale, as I saw (in the window of a popular store imot long ago, one that reaches out after the trade of the younger ‘shopping element. The window’s. background consists (of a painted canvas, representing (a suburban road with trees and ibushes and goldenrod on either side. |This was repeated in the window. |with the realities themselves, which lexactly matches on to | the painte J jscenery, like the panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg over in the Windy City. Two dummies were posed at the left of the window, a little distance apart, both looking in ;the same direction, the object claim- ing attention being a young man dummy over at the “right center” of the window. One of the pair at the left has his arm outstretched, point- ing with derision at the out-of-date suit of the “fifth spoke of the wheel,” the vent of the latter’s coat being wired to stand out at a disagreeable angle. It isn’t good form to point, but the scene of the window being laid in the country, it is to be pre- sumed that no one is looking while the friends are having their — little fun at the expense of the unstylish party. The former are clad in the most modish of fall suits and are ‘evidently very well satisfied with ‘themselves. O. kk: { -_—__ sea _ It is a great thing to be a man, but ‘it is a finer thing to be a master—- |master of yourself. —_>-.__ | Keep the heart healthy and happi- ness will take care of itself. How One Man Buys and Sells Cloth- ing. Did it ever happen to you as a buy- er of clothing? Have you ever seen in a competitor’s window a suit you are selling close at $25 marked $18? Have you ever wondered how his price was lower than yours? You thought the fabric and the style a good one, that it would stand good tailoring and good trimmings, and while believing the suit would bring more, you decided on a close margin of profit to make it a leader, and then you discovered somebody else had it cheaper. Perhaps it has started you thinking you were offering great values, that you were selling close, and then find another retailer appar- ently selling the same thing for less. The difference may be in the grade of make and in the way the clothing is bought. It is not an altogether agreeable experience for any retail clothier to get, after making his fabrics and style selections most carefully and exercising his best judgment in the matter, deciding that such and such a style ought to be well tailored, well trimmed and well put out in general and then in the finished garment con- sider that it is good value at such a price, only to find that some com- petitor has the same pattern selec- tions and is selling what appears to the clothes wearer to be identically the same garments for less money. And it is just this sort of experi- ence that almost every retailer gets at one time or another. Customers come in, look at the garments, and say that they can get the same thing “down the street” for less money. It may therefore interest the cloth- ing merchant to know the way a clev- er and successful clothing man has undertaken to offset this kind of com- petition; how it is that he solves the buying problem. The clothing man in question was recommended impartially by several reliable and disinterested parties as a clever operator who had successfully solved the problem of buying cloth- ing according to the needs of a suc- cessful business, reaching a popular to medium class of trade. This clothing man was asked how he made his selections, how he bought clothing? He said he kept an accu- rate and full record of each season’s business, noting carefully always what moved quickly and what lagged at different times in the season, With his records as data on which to base new purchases, he went into the mar- ket with full memoranda of his re- quirements, and always anticipated just enough to safely allow expand- ing the stock right on top of such purchases with opportune and advan- tageous buys ‘he would find on his visits to market. He first picked his fabric styles from manufacturers’ swatches, then decided on the models to be follow- ed, and the kind and quality of trim- mings each style and fabric must car- ry, always figuring on the cost and what the garments when made could be retailed for. When asked if it thad ever hap- pened to him that some of the gar- ments he had selected to retail at cer- tain prices were sold by his competi- tors for less, he said it had, and oft- en. His store is the center of a re- tail district where competition is acute, and customers have frequently told salesmen they could get the same thing at some one of the neighboring stores for less. The policy of this store is that salesmen are to show a customer the best grades first, un- less the customer names a_ specific price he wishes to pay. If the salesman shows a suit at $25 to the customer and the latter says he saw the same thing at an- other store for $20, the salesman of- fers no argument, but shows the cus- tomer identically the same goods in a different make at $18. When the clothing man was ask- ed how the operated, he said he se- lected a standard fabric made by some one of the prominent mills, in fact, he made up in his orders an assortment that he judged would be popular for the season. If the fab- tic was of good grade, he would start it in a suit at $25 and place his or- der for such suits with a house do- ing fine tailoring and using good quality trimmings. Another house equally good for its class of work, but specializing on a somewhat cheaper grade, he would have make the same goods up to retail at $18, and so on, getting for his stock the best possible fabrics, tailoring, trim- mings and style for the price at which the garments were to be re- tailed. At the beginning of the season he selects a range of novelties to retail at, say, $28, during the early part of the season. He will also thave the same goods coming in from another manufacturer which he can sell at a good profit at $22.50, and will ‘have the same goods coming in from still another manufacturer which he can ‘sell at a fair profit at $15. Now this clothing man contends that the man who pays $28 for this suit will get good value and all that he paid for, and equally so will the man get full worth for this money who later pays $15 for the suit. “We buy our clothing and sell it as intelligently as we know,” con- tinued the clothier. “Of course, there are lots of retail clothiers who, no doubt, would be afraid to put into the stock more than one grade of make in one quality of fabric, fearful that they might conflict, but you see that by our method there is an in- telligent way of handling the propo- sition.” And, after all, isn’t it the intelli- gence that makes for success?—Ap- parel Gazette. eg A Matter of Looks. Isaac had made the sale and re- ceived the money. His customer picked up the trousers that he had just purchased and started to leave. “Won't you throw in a pair of sus- penders?” he asked. “You don’t need any,” replied the shopkeeper, gruffly. “Tt doesn’t look well to go without suspenders.” “Vell, of course; but didn’t I vant you to puy a coat und vest?” —_~+~--___ When everybody says a man is “all wrong right” it means that he is somewhere. b- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN A Good Start ts Half the Race Proper preparation for a good Fall trade includes a trip to Chicago to buy some ~ of the quick-selling, profitable novelties. A broken line of staples in your store is the best possible inducement for ‘‘your” customers to go to your com- petitors for what they want in novelties. Our Free Selling Helps for Fall will be ready for mailing in a few days. A copy free if you ask Dept. roo. We do not sell to Catalogue Houses. Many a merchant has lost a full month’s business because he failed to prepare himself to take care of trade when people got into the mood of buying. | Many a merchant has lost his years profit by waiting for people to get into the mood of buying. Many a merchant wonders why “his” customers pass his store by and go to his competitor—when the reason is easy to find in his competitors window displays and advertisements. Many a merchant is swimming against the current, by offering “bargains in summer goods— when people are interested in Fall styles. Get Busy Now! JOHN V. FARWELL COMPANY Sole Distributors of DEPENDON Dry Goods CHICAGO, THE GREAT CENTRAL MARKET 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Extent To Which Clothing Has Been Standardized. It is always to be noted that the “best is none too good” for Uncle Sam, and so it has come about that the clothing made for his army and navy has been standardized according to the most minute of specifications. Although probably not very many persons realize it, this same demand for “perfection,’ which in Uncle Sam’s army and navy has resulted in standardization, has been a prime factor in bringing about the extra- ordinary prestige now possessed by the American ready-for-service cloth- ing. The demand for standardization at the present time is. growing to be a more insistent one. Our American men are satisfied with nothing but the “best,” and they are going to have it, too. It is doubtful if many in the trade realize that the greatest successes in the clothing business have been the houses which have standardized their product. Some of these concerns do not themselves realize that this has been done. If they do not the majority can not. There is much false thinking about the clothing business. Unfortunately the old traditions are yet vivid in the minds of the many. It is common to hear, even in these days of the high- er development of the clothing indus- try, the expression, “He made his money out of the rag business.” In former years, and it is not so many years ago, blue flannels were about the only garments sold ready- for-wear. For years flannels were in vogue, and then followed serges and clays. To-day it is unnecessary to remind anyone that clays and flannels are dead fabrics. It does not neces- sarily mear that because at present there are so many more different fab- rics, such a multiplicity of colors, such an enormous variety of styles, made and worn by men, there can be no standards in clothing. Some hold that the industry is such an artistic one that they consider the possibility of standardizing art as extremely doubtful. Against this view the fact stands out that there are at least a score of houses, each one of which has established a repu- tation that is recognized among all factors in the industry, and these rep- utations are based upon the stand- ards that these concerns have set for themselves. They have standardized their garments. So have some fabric mills standardized their clothes. And notwithstanding the fierce on- slaught of competition and the keen fight for business, such clothing man- ufacturers and such mills have main- tained their supremacy. No matter how much below them prices have been cut, these concerns continue do- ing business. And may it not be that the price reductions rebound to the benefit of the concerns they are in- tended to injure? They have contin- ued to maintain the standards, and although many may misrepresent and attempt to cut under such standards, and at times buyers may be attract- ed thereby, does not the business fin- ally come back to the standard hous- es, because such buyers have found they ‘had been fooled and did not get what they bought? Let us suppose for the sake of con- tending that clothing can be standard- ized that about twenty representative retail merchants would get together, as a result of the depreciation of fab- rics and the deterioration of colors, and agree that they would not buy a garment unless it met certain well specified requirements, would there not be immediately created a stand- ard? Would not the best manufac- turers struggle to sell this coterie of retailers and cheerfully compete to fulfill their specifications? And if they did, would not the successful ones herald this achievement through- out the trade—that their garments met thé requirements of the most ex- acting of representative retail mer- chants in the United States? And would not such success be a great feather in the cap of such resourceful sellers? The possibilities in the direction of further standardizing clothing pre- sents a great question. We place it before the trade for its fullest consid- Apparel Gazette. —_—__ +. Hints on Selling White Dress Skirts. Written for the Tradesman. In trying to make a sale of a white separate skirt to a customer don’t at- tempt to show her too mamy at once. This is apt to,confuse her as to styles and prices, materials and _ qualities. Rather endeavor to discover at the outset something definite as to the sort desired. Of course, there are quite a few patrons who like to have a great va- riety to select from and such as these can not be put off with a moiety. That course would be sui- cidal to trade so far as they are con- cerned. To be sure, clerks, as a rule, are not given the character of being overzealous to display their stocks. But this is not true of all, and it is those of this description whom f ‘had in mind at first. They are the ones who need a word of caution not to exhibit to a patron too many white dress skirts at once. Instead of haul- ing out a lot of this class of mer- chandise, save yourself exertion and the customer confusion of ideas by laying stress on the good points of four or five skirts that you judge will be likely to suit her circum- stances. Get Jher to stand in front of a full-length mirror while you hold some skirts against her so that she may see what the effect would be on her. If you are a practical and observing clerk you can tell in a jiffy what style is adaptable to any figure. Some people never would look good in anything in a _ thousand years. These you can show what would be the least undesirable for them. When a customer with a good form presents herself—well, “the world is yours!” Without being rude bring it into the conversation that some patrons are so hard to find something satisfactory for by reason that they have no style and no fig- ure, but infer that there will be no difficulty along those lines in ther case, etc., etc., etc. A woman, be she 20 or 70, who is the possessor sof a fine physique is so proud of that fact that any complimentary reference thereto fills her with deep delight— Any Merchant Can Sell Canvas Gloves Because nearly everybody has some use for them. We aim to offer only the well-made, good-fitting article. Our range of styles and prices is as follows: Men’s gloves with plain wrist, 65, 75, 85, with knit wrist, 75, 80, 90; gauntlets, 90 cents per dozen. Men’s mittens, 75 cents per dozen. Boys’ gloves with plain wrist 62%, and with knit wrist 72% cents per dozen. Mail prompt attention. orders are given Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich. You are cordially invited to make our store your headquarters while visiting the State Fair. Until further notice we will close Saturday afternoons at 1 o’clock. The Sun Never Sets where the Brilliant Lamp Burns And No Other Light HALF SO GOOD OR CHEAP It’s economy to use them—a saving , of 50 to 75 per cent. over —,—=-d| any other artificial light, GS which is demonstrated by the many thousands in use for the last nine years all over the world. Write for M. T. catalog, it tells all about them and our systems. BRILLIANT GAS LAMP CO. 24 State Street Chicago, Ill. 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. Tali eae MICH. iam — vs aap aaunbanasadistaa NK iti si apa A Se NRRL OR IES [ocean RRNA RRNGUR ATES arr e i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN even if the suggestion does border on the personal, which good breeding eschews. But, im the purchasing of wearing apparel there are many re- marks entirely permissible to the clerk that are tabooed in good so- ciety. This circumstance taken advantage of by the clerk who “knows ‘her p’s and q’s;” she need not hesitate to please patrons by various nice little remarks of this kind. And these come in very handy when dis- playing white dress skirts, Some women are all for “some- thing that will wear,” and, no matter how pretty a skirt may be, if it will not come up to this particular re- quirement they “will none of it.” These must be catered to by another method. Bring out something with the quality of durability strongly im- printed thereon and you have about made a sale already without any great amount of persuasion. Study your customers in general and each one in particular. Be so amiable in your dealings with them that if they buy a skirt of you this summer you will have a repeat or- der from them next June, July or Au- gust. Jeanne. ——_+---___ Get in Close Touch with the Fall Races. Written for the Tradesman. As interest in these increases day by day ideas may be developed along the “horsey” line that should make famous windows, One that would claim universal praise could have a background of forest wallpaper that would have at regular intervals groups of horse- men and horsewomen. The _ people should be of a size to be distinguish- ed easily from the edge of the side- walk. This motif could be repeated in the border, which might be sepa- rated from the lower paper by a row of horseshoes placed close together, while a duplicate line of them could mark the top of the border. Cover the floor with olive green denim put down very smoothly, and employ horsesMoes here, also, all around the four sides of the floor space, just meeting as on the border. It would be better yet to have real sod and a rivulet. At either side of this equestrian window, which would have to be an unusually large one, stand a lifelike dappled horse, mounted by a correctly-equipped gentleman and lady rider. The former pose in the act of raising his hat to the lady and she should be gracefully returning the salutation. Of course, she must be sitting with the skirt of her habit on the side toward the street. Put no goods in the window, as this display is for the sole purpose of “making talk.” Never Jet an opportunity go by to get in a hit on pleasant local happen- ings that are in everybody’s mouth. Jo Thurber. The Unwise Clerk. Customer—Why doesn’t that spin- ster, Miss Brown, deal at your shop any more? Butcher—One of my clerks insulted her. Customer—How? ; Butcher—She overheard him telling some one that she was our oldest customer. may be Red Cloth Prevents Sunburn. Waterproof clothing belongs to the nineteenth century; sunproof to the twentieth. It is especialky designed for the tropics, where it is important that the sun’s actinic rays be absorb- ed by the proper coloring matter, and thus supply the substitute for the dark pigmentation of the native races of the tropics. White material, being transparent, offers no resistance to the passage of the actinic rays. The wearer accordingly suffers. Were the white lined with red there would be complete relief even under Sol’s fierc- est beams. An enterprising firm has patented a fabric with a red backing which is interwoven with the exterior cloth so as to form a homogeneous material. In this way the tropical resident can secure the various rang- es of popular blues, browns, or grays, with as much facility as his fellow citizens at home. Great difficulty at first was experienced in preventing the red from showing through, but this has been successfully surmount- ed. By this ingenious device one is able to wear any description of mate- rial, pattern, color, wool or cotton, with perfect equanimity as if he were in his native temperate zone. It is also convenient for summer wear in cooler climates. Moreover it is adapt- able to winter wear, for during cold weather it constitutes an essentially warm fabric. This magical cloth is shower proof, a strong recommenda- tion in warm weather when electric storms are frequent. ——_>-~2___ Put Yourself En Rapport With Cus- tomers. Written for the Tradesman. Never argue with customers. An argument signifies a variance of opin- ion, and where opinions clash there js always apt to be rankor differing only in degree. Strive to put your- self, in speech, looks and manners, en rapport with the patrons. If con- versation gets around to the danger point adroitly turn it on to some top- ic about which there can be no dis- similarity of ideas. I don’t mean for a clerk to be entirely devoid of puissance in his makeup, but it is a poor place to exhibit it by debating with a customer. I saw a lady leave astorein a huff. the other day, because a clerk was so indiscreet as to keep up a disser- tation to the point where she lost her temper and very plainly display- ed the fact. Ten to one that patron never goes to that clerk again if she can find some one else to wait on her. Still worse is it for the proprietor of an establishment to lose control of himself. Not only is this unwise on general principles but it sets 2 bad example to the force of em- ployes. They think: “Well, if the ‘boss’ says things back I can.” When the whole clientele are of a quarrelsome habit or tendency the atmosphere of the place gets per- meated with the spirit of disputation, liable, like a volcano, to break out at any moment. Jeanne. -_— 2.2 >____—_ The enemy soon would be on the run if saints were not so strong on the rest. Light Economy Your lighting expenses can be most effect ively reduced by using superior lighting sys- tems. The Improved Swem Gas System not only costs less to operate but gives a clearer and brighter light. Write us. SWEM GAS MACHINE Co. Waterloo, Ia. TRADE WINNERS. Pop Corn Poppers, Peanut Roasters and Combination Machines, Many SrTvies. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Send for Catalog. KINGERY MFG, CO., 106-108 E, Pearl St. Cincinnati, 0, USINESS UILDERS Why do you pay 25 per cent. more for your show cases than we charge? Every case that leaves our factory is guaranteed to be better built with highest grade of material—beautiful in finish and design. We are anxious to prove all our claims to your entire satisfaction, and if not as repre- sented we guarantee to pay freight both ways. Catalog and prices upon application. Geo. S. Smith Store Fixture 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? inscold 7HE_FIN. A EST Flo B UR IN THE WORL 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 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, KALAMAZOO, MICH. The AMERICAN, the world’s greatest Account Register. Let others buy systems that are incomplete—machines that soon ““bog down.”’ You be wise —buy value. Get the system and machine that are absolutely right in all points—in beauty—permanency—perfection. The complete American is years It takes care of every credit account with in advance of all others. speed, ease and perfection. It has the automatic light, automatic alarm and the auditing indicator. But still more it has the greatest of advertising devices, the auto- matic moving signs. These spur customers to buy and clerks to sell. No such money saving and nidaey making proposition was ever offered by any other company to the mer- chants of America. You owe it to your business to investigate. The American Case and Register Co. Alliance, Ohio J. A. Plank, General Agent Cor. Monroe and Ottawa Streets Grand Rapids, Mich. McLeod Bros., No. 159 Jefferson Ave. Detroit, Mich, Send more particulars about the American Account Register and System. TGRWNTE oie eee ieee SRR ooo 5 is was cee eo css ce taee (Seen APR Ee RM tN aa ANME ARTO enn MICHIGAN TRADESMAN | WEALTHY HEIGHTS. Changes Which Fifty Years Have Wrought.* Ever since the day, now _ nearly two years ago, I was first elected to the presidency of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade I have had a more intelligent respect for Shakespeare’s most profound egotist, Malvolio, who first voiced the universal truism that “Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” There is one advantage possessed by the man who has greatness thrust upon him: Those who thus favor him are in duty bound to accept, at least in respectful silence, whatever he may choose to say to them. And while I am not only not competent as an orator, and do not believe the present time is suited to oratory, I feel that the people before me are eutitled to a word or two of encour- agement and praise for having plac- ed Wealthy Heights very distinctly upon the map of the city of Grand Rapids. It was my good fortune more than a quarter of a century ago to be a member of the editorial staff of the old Daily Eagle, which brought me into close relations with Albert Bax- ter, then managing editor of the pa- per and afterwards the author of Baxter’s History of Grand Rapids; and among the pleasantest memo- ries of those early days are the con- troversies which were settled every afternoon on the arrival of Thomas B. Church, Prof. Franklin Everett, Sluman S, Bailey, Wm. N. Cook and other congenial spirits who gathere.l at the Eagle office as soon as the paper went on the press and thresh ed over in detail the events of Grand Rapids in the early 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. I was an interested listener at these daily discussions, and being the unofficial Secretary of the gathering I took copious notes of the facts established by this coterie of pio- neers—all but one of whom have since gone to their reward—which have been of great value to me ever since. Notwithstanding this precious memorandum, which I cherishas my most valued possession, I was somewhat dismayed a few days ago when Mr. White called at my of- fice and notified me that I would be expected to cover the reminiscential portion of your programme _ this evening, because I recognize in Mr. White a veritable antiquarian who probably has more facts concerning the early history of Grand Rapids stored away in his cranium than any other man now living. Considering the infallibility of his memory and the long and useful life he has led in this community, I approach my task with fear and trembling, be- cause I realize that any lapse on my part will be noticed and probably commented upon by the Nestor of the printing trade and editorial fra- ternity of Grand Rapids. It is entirely probable that there are many people here present who clearly remember that Wealthy ave- nue fifty years ago began at Divi- *Address delivered by E. A. Stowe at Wealthy Heights celebration Sept. 3, 1908 sion street and, as an ordinary coun- try road, practically stopped at Mad- ison avenue; that the nearest impor- tant city houses in this vicinity were the Damon Hatch house on the north side of Cherry street, second door west of College avenue; the old Nel- son homestead on Cherry street, now occupied by Mrs. Eugenie A. Ledyard, widow of the late Wm. B. Ledyard; the Holbrook homestead, midway between Lake avenue and Cherry street, on what is now the west side of East street, and “San- ford’s Folly,” that fine old colonial structure at the southwest corner of Cherry street and Paris avenue, at present occupied by Lewis T. Wil- marth and family. In those days there was a sort of cow-path from Jefferson avenue east to Madison avenue, carrying the line of Wealthy avenue to a sandy road- way which wound its way from Cherry street and College avenue southeasterly through shrub oaks. to about the corner of Union and Sher- man streets, and so on to what is now called Kalamazoo avenue. This was through tracts of land originally entered at the Government land of- fice by E. R. Murray and V. L. Bradford—territory almost wholly covered with hazel bushes, elder and other undergrowth, with Dunham’s Pond—located about where East and Dunham streets are--as a famous skating place im winter and a resort for ducks and frogs in summer. All the territory east of Madison avenue and south of Cherry street was farm land, with the Boynton farm, the Kellogg farm, the Morti- mer Smith farm, the Bostwick, the Holbrook, Abel and Mills farms as notable properties. Judge Jefferson Morrison’s farm was south of Cherry street along the east side of Jefferson avenue and ex- tending to Wealthy avenue. It was Judge Morrison who gave the name of his wife, “Wealthy” (Davis) Mor- rison, to your beautiful thorough- fare. Squire Abel’s farm extended from Cherry street to Wealthy ave- nue along the east side of Lafayette street. In 1858 a much-traveled route from “down town” out to where we are at present left Fulton street at Sheldon street and passed diagonally across from Sheldon street at Island street to the corner of Oaks and Lagrave streets, thence diagonally to the cor- ner of Jefferson avenue and Cherry street, up the latter street to College avenue, and then out the bush road that twisted its way to the junction with the old Kalamazoo road. The only houses still standing which were on that route fifty years ago are the old Damon Hatch thome- stead, recently sold by Jay D. Utley to Charles B. Judd; the Francis Gil- bert home (later known as the Mor- tis home), at present occupied by D. D. Cody; the Morrison home, the small brick house on the south side of Cherry street, two or three doors east of Jefferson avenue, and at pres- ent occupied by Mrs. Elvira O. Ea- ton; the frame house at the south- west corner of Cherry street and Jef- ferson avenue and the brick resi- dence of Wm. N. Cook at 80 La- grave street—a house which Mr. ‘There Is A Great Difference Mr. Merchant, you undoubtedly know that the ordinary bill of sales slip sent with goods is considered merely as a memoranda of purchase. If the price is right and the goods are there, no further attention is given to the slip which is often lost or destroyed. But ifa customer gets a slip showing the ITEMS and AMOUNTS and the PREVIOUS BALANCE brought forward with EVERY PURCHASE they are not thrown aside or lost, but are preserved in regular order for future reference as they constitute a COMBINATION BILL AND STATEMENT. The McCASKEY SYSTEM of handling accounts STANDS GOOD IN LAW. It is the greatest COLLECTING SYSTEM ever devised. It PLEASES the CUSTOMERS, it will PLEASE YOU. It isa TRADE WINNER. It will give you COMPLETE INFORMATION regarding EVERY DETAIL of your business. Accounts handled with only ONE WRITING. If you wish to simplify the handling of your accounts, drop us a postal. Information is free. THE McCASKEY REGISTER CO. 27 Rush St., Alliance, Ohio Mfrs. of the Famous Multiplex Carbon Back Order pads; also the different styles of Single Carbon Pads. Agencies in all Principal Cities. There’s Nothing Like It Quality of stock, roasting, packing, sanitary handling, entirely by auto- matic machinery, all conspire to make an ideal coffee for best ~} ‘} family trade. & st ot st ot WHITE HOUSE DWINELL-WRIGHT CO. BOSTON.— Principal Coffee Roasters ——CHICAGO, COFFEE With the passing of each week more and more grocers are finding it expedient to take it on, and its popularity increases with big Strides. & st % st st ot ot ~} SYMONS BROTHERS & COMPANY SAGINAW, MICH. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS —_—— Cook built and in which he and his wife have raised a family and lived for nearly sixty years. An interesting feature of this route from Fulton street diagonally to Cherry street was the presence of a bridge over a small stream which passed from Jefferson avenue at State street across Lagrave street just where fire engine house No, 1 is now located, the bridge being where the back end of the engine house now stands. Standing at Henry and Cherry streets or at Diamond and Cherry streets fifty years ago one could see, looking southward, naught but farm houses, barns, rail fences, fields of growing crops, meadows with wood- lots plentifully inierspersed. It was, in truth, a rural picture, much as those we see nowadays in the farm- ing districts, except that the wood- lots were not only plentiful but they abounded with real timber—beech, maple, elm, hickory, walnut, oak, cherry, butternut and pine. Yes, pine trees, great fellows three and four feet through at the butt and straight as arrows, with trunks that would cut four fifteen foot logs handily, were quite common south of us here a mile or so fifty years ago, while only three miles to the south one might see a solid wal) of such piné as a sort of barricade enclos- ing all of Paris township. And Indians were plentiful—real greasy, lazy, shiftless red men who, coming from Gunn Lake and_ the Thornapple River district twice each year to Indian payment weeks at Grand Rapids, were picturesque, but not wholly agreeable. Loaded with baskets made by the squaws, filled with berries or nuts, gathered by the squaws; with ponies, carrying the camp equipments, packed and led or ridden by the squaws, these indolent braves(?) would walk as they pleased, by road, cow-path or through the fields, and reaching town would beg, get drunk and take things not their own, lying around the corners. of Market and Louis streets or down on Island No. 1, about where Cam- pau street now is, until ordered by the authorities to get out. With such reminiscences fresh in your mind look up and down Wealthy avenue; look to the north and to the south and: try to realize the changes that have taken place - in fifty years: See the beautiful new Sigsbee street school building and fancy yourself with a neckyoke across your shoulders carrying maple sap to be boiled in a sugar bush that was located where the schoolhouse now stands; picture the presence of a pile of four foot beech and maple wood, corded up in two tiers, each one over 300 feet long, near what is now James and Logan streets. Then’ look at the spacious homes, well furnished and surrounded by beautifully kept lawns and gardens; think of the sew- er system, the lighting system, the water system—or rather the apology for a water system—the fire protec- tion, the police protection, our public library, our scientific museum, our schools and churches, our paved streets and street car system. And then give a thought to our taxes. By the way, we can not eat our cake and have it. Our taxes are all right, take them by and wide. We are better, our children are better and our children’s children will be better because of the city we have helped to build and are still helping to build. The city of Grand Rapids has not yet reached its growth. There are plenty of young people here who will live to see Grand Rapids a city of 200,000 inhabitants. And if the Mon- roe street property holders do not wake up pretty soon they will live to see their old shacks given over to light manufacturing purposes and warehouse uses, while Sheldon street and Wealthy avenue — will become leading retail business streets. Fifty years ago there was nota sin- mercantile establishment south- east of Fulton and Division. streets, look at Wealthy avenue today with its trim well gle stores, filled with sea- sonable goods. There is every rea- son why it should become a great business thoroughfare. It passes through the very best part of our city. It has a_ village of several thousand people at its extreme east end; it is tapped at that end by Lake avenue, the prettiest suburban road- vay in Michigan; it has 30,000 peo- ple to the south and 40,000 to the north, while to the west it goes to an additional 30,000 people. Wealthy avenue, already strong, al- ready active and already harmonious, must by the very nature of things become metropolitan in its aspect, and it rests with you people of Wealthy Heights to take the initia- tive which shall develop a compre- hensive civic plan so that it shall be not only metropolitan but beautiful. Consult with the Comprehensive City Plan Commission of Grand Rapids so that your avenue may build to the general plan to be adopted; do not go ahead on your own hook and aim- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN lessly. You have a grand avenue. See to it that it has a fair showing in the city’s general plan of parks, boulevards and architectural excel- lence, so that fifty years from now | the people of all Grand Rapids may | point with joy to the foresight, the civic pride and neighborhood har- mony of the people of to-day who have in less than forty years made Wealthy what it is and who are on the right track for fu- ture development. Sg Depths of Depravity. avenue A Michigander out in Minnesota found himself at a social gathering of a sect whose ideas of morality| were somewhat stricter than those tc which he had been accustomed. Onc that the commandment | “Thou shalt not kill” made it wicked) to eat meat, fish and even oysters| and clams. A woman, unmarried and} unmarriageable, was gazing at an angular faced man who was busy | with the vegetarian refreshments. “To look at Mr. Wells,” she said! to the Michigan man, “you would! life he used to| | | belief was never imagine the lead.” No, Michigander. the| certainly | if the theft of an | green crab apple and a fragmentary puff at a corn silk cigar-| ette would cover all his misdeeds, | with something to spare. Prepared,| however, to hear a dreadful story of | dissipation, if not of actual crime,! the alien asked: | | a 4 uy | “What did he do?” | “Sometimes he danced until 2 or 3} o'clock.” you wouldn’t,” Mr. thought Wells looked as in-| finitesimal | ae naa | Most of the self-made men we see | | prove our ¢laims. 21 100% DIVIDENDS An Improved Hanson Gasoline Lighting Sys- | tem pays for itself every few months in reduced light bills and increased business. Differeat from all others. Let us give you full information and American Gas Machine Co. Albert Lea, Minn. ‘Some More of That Same Kind”’ Does that sound good to you? Means a nice, easy sale and a satisfied customer, doesn’t it? All the effort it takes on your part is tosay, ‘‘Pleasant weather we are having, Mrs. —, isn’t it? Now is there unything else this morning?’’ Stock the goods which will make them come to YOU, and say, ‘‘Some more of that same kind.’’ Drop a post- card—costs a cent—for sample and prices of our California Jams, Marmalades and Pre- serves. H. P. D. Kingsbury Redlands, California (Where the oranges come from) W. S. Ware & Co., Distributors DETROIT, MICH. spend a great deal of their time on | their pride. The Trade can Trust any promise made in the name of SAPOLIO; and, therefore, there need be no hesitation about stocking HAND SAPOLIO It is boldly advertised, and will both sell and satisfy. HAND SAPOLIO is a special toilet soap—superior to any other in countless ways—delicate enough for the baby’s skin, and capable of removing any stain. Costs the dealer the same as regular SAPOLIO, but should be sold at 10 cents per cake. oe ROP po eck SEs Sie OA ve i Me bh bo MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Reasons for the Failures of Many Shoe Dealers. : There has been and always will be a large field for the consideration of the topic which the writer proposes to weigh in this article: treating the best and most efficient and profitable methods of buying stock. But after all that has been said and written on the subject we still see announce- ments of “Mr. So-and-So’s shoe stock advertised to be sold at public auc- tion without reserve to the highest bidder.” There are two classes of shoe mer- chants that usually resort to this method: One is the man who is retir- ing from business of his own accord, and second the man who is forced to resort to this method through fail- ure to conduct his business on a profitable basis. The man who has been unsuccess- ful in the shoe business can easily find the reason for his failure, but there | are several important reasons which | I want to consider, some of which I shall enumerate, and, after doing so, I think I can show clearly how fail- | ures might, in a great many cases, have been avoided: First, they have been caused by poor managers in charge of the busi- ness; that is, men have been install- ed in that position who lack the nec- essary experience and ability to make it a success. Second, a great many failures are caused through poagr judgment in buying. Lines of shoes are purchased that they could get along without. They often buy lines that are similar to those they are} carrying, just because they get them a little cheaper, and for the same reason they buy broken lines just because they can get them at a sac- rifice. Before they are aware of the fact they are in possession of a lot of broken lines and sizes, for the reason that the regular lines ‘have been neglected in the sizing-up proc- ess on account of the amount of money allowed for that department to be invested in job lots and broken lines and the condition soon fol- lows, that instead of these dealers or manager buying job lots they are los- ing sleep and looking for some one who will buy such stock. This is us- | ually the time when the services of an auctioneer come into play, with the result that they are compelled to take what the auctioneer can get for their stock and then they finally re- tire from the shoe business altogeth- er, and complain that “luck” was against them. I might say at this point that there is no such thing as “luck” in con- ducting a successful retail shoe busi- ness. The kind of “luck” found in business is good judgment, good oa : = e = = ; 3, Ss yy SHOE MADKET 5 By W oF tHE SHOE MARKET : C = = 24 28 F = ae = OL ory as Ka Sh Lp "ZAG : SEX QZ management, good discipline, impar- tial ruling, pleasing of address, slow to judge but unchangeable in deci- sions when they are made firm, but not too exacting in matters of minor importance, always considerate of those in their employ, whether it be the errand boy or the assistant man- ager. Treat all customers with the same courtesy, do not lavish too much at- tention on one customer because you happen to know him and at the same time utterly ignore a customer sit- ting alongsidé of him. Customers resent any inattention, especially when shown by the dealer or man- ager. If, after addressing the per- son known, the dealer and manager would turn to the party not known with an “Are you being served, Ma- dam?” or “Have you been given at- tention?’ he will invariably see a smile spread over her countenance with a “Yes, thank you,” and she will leave the store thinking to herself iwhat a nice man they have for a | | manager. | If, having all these qualities, ‘the buyer is lacking in judgment when purchasing stock, the business |will hardly escape the services of an jauctioneer. Buy right and the goods |will sell themselves. If the reader. |in going into a shoe store, will take ‘the trouble to look over the lines car- |ried he will find a similarity of styles iall through the stock, from the $2.50 shoe up to the $6 shoe. There is a |Sameness seen in all of the lines |wherever these conditions exist. It is the result of one man’s opinion in the selection of styles. Now there is no one man that knows it all. You might ask, if the manager did not attend to the buying, who should do it? I will say that there are always competent clerks in shoe stores who are better qualified to tell in a general way what is want- ed than the man who actually does the buying, and a buyer of any shoe department makes a mistake if he fails to secure or ignores the opinions of the different employes with refer- ence to placing certain styles and ‘lines of shoes. He can learn through ithem if there has been a demand for what extent. It is not always good policy to buy a certain line of goods even if there is a call for them. The demand may not warrant that amount of money to be tied up in the line for the number of pairs that would be sold. It is far better to lose a dozen sales on some lines asked for and not carried in stock than to tie up hundreds of dollars in stock, so I repeat, that the buyer can buy better and more ‘intelligently if he will con- certain styles or lines, and if so, to <@ WAR ‘PANE 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 isa boy there are a family and business. Have we had your application? No. 835—Elkskin Blucher—Leather Sole Tan or Olive Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Be sure and visit the West Michigan State Fair September 14 to 18 > TRADE MARK 6 j> se Cy NS Visit The West Michigan State Fair tN VNTR ED ad Sept. 14 to 18 This year’s fair will surpass in interest anything ever attempted before. Make our office your headquarters. Go through our factory and learn how shoes are made. We will show you why the shoes bearing our trade mark are better. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd. Grand Rapids, Mich. & : : : i ab a — ab a — on ae sepa dover: 554 aaa OIA sult his help. They are always in a position to know what is in most de- mand, what is selling best, and al- ways being in touch with the trade they are in a better position to hear the demands of the public and the styles of shoes that are productive of the best returns. A great many buyers indulge large- ly in buying one or two cases of goods at a time just to try them out. A traveling salesman comes along and displays his samples for inspec- tion and it usually follows that he has some special line he wants to sell, and sell badly. He tells of cer- tain parties who have bought heavi- ly of these particular lines and he urges this particular buyer to get in on the ground floor, more especially as he considers him a good friend, and because he would not want to sell these goods to every merchant. The buyer in most cases overlooks the fact that this is exactly what the traveling man is paid to do—to sell goods and to sell them to any per- son who will pay for them. The buyer protests, saying that he has all the lines the can carry, and, in fact, all that he intends to carry at present. But eventually he falls down and finally places an order for one or two cases of assorted sizes in order to try them out. This is where he makes a mistake. In ordering these goods he can not do justice to the manufacturer. If these goods were what he wanted, or if they were lines he could use he is taking the wrong step to find out whether they will take or not. Am I right? Let us_ investigate. The order is being placed for one or two cases of assorted sizes of these shoes, say seventy-two pairs in all. Upon arrival, which usually follows close upon the placing of the order, the goods are imspected and _ look fine. Then the process of trying them out begins. Some are placed in the window for display and the remainder are placed on the shelves to be sold. Can justice be done goods bought in these quantities? I say, no, they can not. Why? In the first place, there is not a full line of sizes to start with and after a few pair have been sold from the two case shipment, and with those in the window out of reach, it practically makes the trying out process of these lines valueless. Not having all sizes it is impossible to make the showing necessary to war- rant adopting the lines. The shoe clerk who understands his business will not show these lines, for the rea- son that he is unable to fit the cus- tomer and the result usually follows that after a dozen or more pairs have been sold the balance are so widely separated in the matter of sizes that not one sale is made. What shoes are left are counted in among the rest of the odd sizes and_ broken lines, to be disposed of at a reduction of the former selling price, and the buyer comes to the conclusion that the lines were not what he had’been told because they did not sell. When the traveling salesman visits him again he tells him his lines are no good and that they did not sell, but he forgets that, in the first place, he did not have enough of them to MICHIGAN TRADESMAN sell and that the fault, in most. in- stances, rests entirely with the buyer and not with the salesman or the goods. There is only one answer to this question. The buyer either want- ed the goods or he did not. If he did want them he should have bought the lines in full; if he did not want them he should not have bought one Or two case lots. A great many buyers make a seri- ous mistake in allowing the sizes of staple lines to run low. But how many shoe stores are there that this rule does not apply to? Why it is so remains to be explained. Staple lines are always in demand and sell every working day of the year. A buyer can not purchase too many of these goods for the size of his busi- ness, for the reason that they are always salable and in demand, and ne matter what condition the selling is in, these staple lines are invariably shown in the show windows. The intending purchaser selects some one ot the staple styles shown in the win- dow and enters the store with the intention of making a purchase, and the rule usually follows that he is informed by the clerk that they are out of his size. Then the customer will wane to know the reason, ex- plaining that he has tried several dif- ferent times to get what he selected in the window, only to be told that they did not have his size and he wants to know why they are dis- played in the window.—Shoe Retailer. —_—_—_.-~-<—_____ He is lost already to whom sac- rifice appears as folly. MAYER Martha Washington Comfort Shoes hold the trade Established in 1873 Best Equipped Firm in the State Steam and Water Heating Iron Pipe Fittings and Brass Goods Electrical and Gas Fixtures Galvanized Iron Work + The Weatherly Co. 18 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich. CHILD, HULSWIT & CO. INCORPORATED. BANKERS GAS SECURITIES DEALERS IN STOCKS AND BONDS SPECIAL DEPARTMENT DEALING IN BANK AND INDUSTRIAL STOCKS AND BONDS OF WESTERN MICHIGAN. ORDERS EXECUTED FOR LISTED SECURITIES. CITIZENS 1999 BELL 424 411 MICHIGAN TRUST BUILDING, GRAND RAPIDS 23 AICHIGAN SHOE COMPANY CONS 99 New Specialty Shoe Mishoco for or ‘‘Josephine’”’ for Women Made in all Leathers Snappy up-to-date Lasts DETROIT Selling Agents Boston Rubber Shoe Co. The Eveready Gas System Requires No Generating Nothing like it now on the market. No worry, no work, no odor, no smoke, NOISELESS. Always ready for Turn on instant use. the gas and light the same as city gas. Can be installed for a very small amount. descriptive matter at once. Send for Eveready Gas Company Department No. 10 Lake and Curtis Streets Chicago, Ill. Overland Shoes Up-to-date Quality, Style and Fit Men’s Patent Colt, Gun Metal and Velour Blucher - $2 60 Men’s Russia Calf and Wine Calf Blucher_~ - . 275 Boys’ Patent and Velour Blucher - - - : 2 00 Carried in Stock Grand Rapids Shoe & Rubber Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan U.S.A: TRACE MARK, Be sure and visit the West Michigan State Fair September 14 to 18 3 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a2 By! Ro: LULU getting Vetere ors ( = 16000 ¢, eee atl (f HECO ~2 Tale of Two Cigars. It was a moonlight evening, and Jenkins was smoking a fine-flavoreJ Havana, when he met a friend. “Have a cigar?” he enquired. “Thanks,” said the other, grateful- ly taking and lighting the proffered weed. After a few experimental puffs, however, the friend removed the ci- gar from his lips, looked at it doubt- fully, and, with a very evident abate- ment of gratitude in his tone, asked: “What do you pay for these ci- ” gars? wil suggestion showing “Two for a quarter,” replied the original proprietor of both weeds. taking his own cigar out of his mouth and looking at it with considerable satisfaction. “That cost me 20 cents, and that 5 cents.” ——__+.-.—____ Lack of Material. “Freddy, why did Aaron make a golden calf?” asked the Sunday school teacher, “?Cause,” replied Freddy, “he did- n’t have enough gold to make a cow.” MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Yy CCS { «© DRUGGIS —+-; — F G ¢ = S = = = = x Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—Henry H. Heim, Saginaw. Secretary—W. E. Collins, Owosso. Treasurer—W. A. Dohany, Detroit. | Other members—John D. Muir, Grana Rapids, and Sid. A. Erwin, Battle Creek. Michigan State Pharmaceutical. Associa- tion. President—M. A. Jones, Lansing. First Vice-President—J. E. Way, Jack- son. Second Vice-President—W. R. Hall, M. Miller, Manistee. Third Vice-President—M. Ann Arbor. Sparta. Milan. Secretary—E. E. Calkins, Treasurer—A. B. Way, Formulas for Ink Powders and Tab- lets. The basis of ink powders is usually The formulas have been published: Car- an aniline color. following mine—4o parts of eosine, 3 parts of lunar caustic and 7 parts of gelatin. Green—44 parts of aniline green, 2 parts of lunar caustic and 4 parts of gelatin. Purple—4o parts of aniline violet, 2 parts of lunar caustic and 4 parts of gelatin. The substances are separately converted into fine pow- der, mixed, and the mixture placed in capsules, each capsule being dis- | solved in the desired quantity of water to make the ink. The powder requires about an hour in which to dissolve. Other aniline colors may be substituted. Various qualities of ink in the solid state are prepared as a convenience for travelers, so as to avoid the ne- cessity of carrying bottles and the risk of breaking them. The best sub- stance for the purpose is aniline black, which can be readily dissolv- ed in 80 parts of water, and furnishes at once an excellent writing fluid. A portable ink may be made, it is said, by saturating several sheets of paper with aniline black and pressing them into a compact and portable mass. For writing it is but necessary to tear off a piece of the paper and steep it in a little water. We have made ink tablets with aniline-soluble colors on a compress- ing tablet machine, wsing as a basis for the tablet a mixture of dextrin, sugar and powdered talcum, a little antiseptic being incorporated to pre- serve the ink. In our experience, not all aniline colors make desirable inks. Blue, black, red, green and purple are the best shades. Aniline yellow is not to be recommended. The amount of any color to be put in- to each tablet depends upon the qual- ity of ink to be made therefrom. Thus, to produce a desirable shade of black ink, it is necessary to use I part of nigrosin to about 80 parts of water; and, of course, the size of the tablet must be made upon this as- sumption. For red, blue, violet and green inks much less dye is neces- sary, as the tinctorial power of these aniline colors is much greater, one part of dye to 150 to 250 parts of wa- ter being the usual proportions. The ink should not be made too concen- trated. If the writing, after drying, has a copper-like gloss, the ink should be diluted. We suggest you do a little experimenting along the lines indicated. P. W. Lendower. ———_---2—_____ A Grape Juice Display. Our attention was called to an ex- cellent window display in which bot- tles of grape juice were the promi- nent feature. The bottom and sides of the window were covered with a sort of pea-green cloth, tufted and shirred to suit convenience. Quite a number of quart bottles of grape juice were packed close together in a manner to form a large square. On top of these bottles rested a large pane of glass, and on the glass were arranged a goodly number of pint bot- tles of the same kind of grape juice. On top of the pints rested another sheet of glass, and on this glass were arranged half-pint bottles. Still another sheet of glass rested on the half-pint bottles, and on top of that were arranged the individual or 10- cent bottles of grape juice. Of ‘course the glass resting on the quart |bottles was the largest one, the next one smaller, and so on up, making a ipyramid effect. Over the top and |interwoven among the bottles of al! |sizes were lengths of artificial grape- |vines, bearing bunches of grapes so | natural, in fact, that a person would jhave to look pretty sharp to detect ‘them from the real. These vines ery artistically arranged, and _ the 'whole display was pleasing indeed. |The main object of this display was ‘to introduce the brand of grape juice |at the fountain, and also to induce |people to buy it by the bottle to take ‘home. For the benefit of those who ido not know about the artificial lerapevines with fruit, we will say ‘that one may find specialty houses ithat deal in them. Other artificial | plants are also made for decorating ipurposes, such as palms and: ferns, ‘and maple leaves and hanging baskets ifilled with various novelties. Better iget wise to these accessories, which are very nice for the fall displays. |This idea of a grape-juice window imight come in handy for other dis- iplays of bottled fruits and juices for ithe soda fountain. Surely there is a |chance to do some planning along these lines. No reason why an ordi- |nary store can not vie with the best | merchants in the business when it comes to window displaying. Put a little time into the study of bottled goods displays.—Confectioners‘ Jour- nal. Best Method of Testing for Boric Acid. One of the chief qualitative reac- tions for boric acid is that with tu- meric paper, but it is often forgot- ten that several precautions are nec- essary for its success. Thus the pa- per to be prepared with the tumeric solution should be a good filter pa- per, and when prepared it should not be exposed to light or it will lose in sensitiveness. The presence of dides, iodates, sulphites, pre- vents the reaction, which is also in- terfered with by free sulphuric acid or acid sulphates. The flame reac- tion may be even more misleading. especially if concentrated sulphuric acid was used to liberate the boric acid. The presence of much sodium chloride, potassium or calcium salts may mask the reaction which, more- over, may be made far more deli- cate ,with methyl alcohol instead of ethyl. It must not be forgotten that methyl and ethyl chlorides color the flame green and may lead to error. According to O. von Spindler, the only rational method is by liberating the boric acid with sulphuric acid, adding methyl alcohol, and passing a slow stream of ordinary coal gas through the mixture; 0.0001 gm. boric acid with roo c.c. of methyl al- cohol in a 250 c.c. Wolff’s bottle gave in two minutes a distinct coloration lasting about a minute. The pres- ence of water must be as far as pos- sible avoided, andi the stream of coal gas must be slow enough to give a colorless flame. Thos. Willets. + What Is Time To a Hog? A certain young Northerner was spending his summer vacation trav- eling through the interior of Ken- tucky, and one afternoon he stopped for a few minutes’ chat with a rath. er Jank and Jean resident of the com- munity and fell into conversation io- iC. of | with him about the resources of the surrounding country. Finallly, the young man said, “How do you peo- ple around here gain your living?” “Out of them,” said the mountain- eer, pointing to some razor back hogs feasting on acorns, some _ distance away. “But don’t you think,” said the in- quisitor, “that you could make more money and save a great deal of time hogs up into I[h- for market? Sure- a great saving in by shipping those nois to be fattened ly, that would be time.” The mountaineer looked at him for a moment, took his blackened clay pipe out from his teeth, and leaning up against the opposite side of the cabin door, said in a slow drawlinz voice, “Well, son, what’s time to a hog anyway?” ——_- >» 2. Spiritual wealth may often depend on willingness to experience material poverty. ——_-»-4 Revenge never is so sweet as when foregone. Grand Rapids Stationery Co. 134-136 E. Fulton St. Grand Rapids, Michigan The Jennings Line of Natural Flower Odors Special Offer for Fall Season The line comprises the following popular perfumes Halves With every order for five pints of perfume above listed we will give one pint FREE. Take advantage of our offer NOW. The Jennings Company Perfumers Grand Rapids, Michigan ~ Crab Apple Fleur de Lis Frangipanni Harvard Carnation Heliotrope Hyacinth Just Lilac Kent Pink Roses Kent Violets Lily of the Valley New Mown Hay Patchouly Rose Clover (Trefle) Rose Geranium Sweet Arbutus Trailing Azalea True White Rose Wilhelmina Lily Ylang Ylang eer seeeenscsteernenenene MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 ae i a scence FPR JG P PRICE CURRENT Liquor Arsen et ae ——— i Hydrarg I Rubia Tinctorum vcetioum A&taum a | ee A Bi caccharum Tar 12@ 14 Vanilla, ......... 9 00 sitenimh 5.5. (a see 1 75@1 86 | Seill otass Arsinit 10@ 12}¢ a’s. 18@ 20|Zinci Sulph .. q Benzoicum, Ger.. 270@ 75 ase tees 53,15 2 25 Solllae Co. pecans g 50 Magnesia, Sulph. ..3@ 6 _o Cedaes aga 4 50@4 75 Olls ; mcie oo. a Tel Bvechthitnn hoo Ol Prince vice |!” 0|Mag : anguil F 4 aoa oe Evechthitos ..... lenin 50 able Sulph. bbl @ 1%| sang. Ww Drac’s 40@ 50/4, bbl. gal. 4 Citricum 50 eultheria . ag? b0@4 0 ee. 666. fT 13%@ 16); cal¢. winter .. 10@ 70 ‘ Hydrochlor ...... oe ee a: 6 Tr Menthol ........ seme” 8 16@ 13\ lard. Nook)... 85@ 90 4 Nitrocum ....... 8@ 10 Hedenon Sem gal 70@ 42|Anconitum Nap’sR go | MovPhia, SP&W "3 00@8 25 Sane, @ ........; @ 15 Teed pp ith tae 800 65 z a ai q 15 Juntpera scceeee® . 3 $0 ‘loos. Nap’sF 8|Morphia, SNYQ 3 00@3 25 Seidlitz Mixture... 20@ 22 Roe boiled 3 < 4 sph ; | dil. 15| Lavendula ...."" 90@3 69|Armica .......... 60 | Morphi Sinapis .. eat’s-foot, w str Sainte |... o ae .. 90@3 60|Armica .......... hic Mak ..3 06004 tal dicen Ge 16 | ute Yo r 65@ 70 Siemens a | mone a hg go Alamgir, RO gs as| Sian gt’. 3p] SPH Feepentane: Monet Tanunicum |....... 5G Ment: @1 90) ergs eet : 5 "Dev : Paints Tartaricum ..... seg : sbi bs 5 00@5 50 Atrope. adenine a a po 15 10|Snuft. Sh Devo's g 51|Red Venetian wm é diceonte Myricia fal 1 0) S| Seneca on tne ise lace * 6@ 10|Ocre. "yal. Mars 1% 2 @4 wees vance COGS 50 lea. tf eee ° seeeee E e @ Agua, 18 deg. ... 4¢ 6 Olive sess 1 0003 o Benzoin Co. ..... aa D Co ....... @i 00 poe Pores, De-- Oe Putty, “commer” 7. 2it Aqua, 20 deg. .. 64 Picis Liquida .... 10 12 Barosma ........ 50|Picis Liq N N %& baa et Pot’s Tart 25@ 23/| Putty, strictly 2 2492 Carbonas uae ee co Pleis Liquida gal. > 40 Cantharides ..... Pi | pia! dos «;....-. 3 00 |seah Sere Ke 2 Vermilion, Prime. % 2 oda ol: 12@ 14] Rosmarini | // 77" 94@1 00| GaPsicum ....... 60. Picis Lic ata .... 1 00| Soda’ Ash 7 5|_American .. 13 ’ + arini . Cardamon },Picis Lig. pints.. a, Ash ....... 3% 4| Vermilli = 15 Aniline Roeraliog, lu 1 00 aos a 75\ Pil Hyd 60 | Soda, Sulphas on, Eng. 75 80 fe . Mess, 6 50@7 90) Gardamon Co. .. 15 ydrarg po 80 50 | Spts. 2/Green, Paris ...29 Brown “Cocco ed go] Sabine oo $28, $3 | Gate 00 oemeee 2 eee oe ME, alee eee ie Red wees esse ee eee 45@ 50| Santal ea fa. 50 | Pix Bur vase pts. Myrcia .... @250|Lead, White ...... Vallow 008 2 50@3 00| Sassafras ee a4 50 ao 50 | Plumbi on es 8 | Spts, Vini Rect bbl @ i Mh ae 8 Baccae Sinapis, ess, oz.. og a Columbia i 50 Pore Ip’cet Opil1 30@1 3 Paton vi age Whiting Gide 7 : bees 4R’t 10g) . = 9 @utieeee aoc. ss: Sia oc 3 Ont Hie nes eh Ge dex pts a wits ba ) @ T 20 50| & P Spts. Vil R’t 5 ris Am'r @1 25 Juniperus eee 8@ 10 one Dee ce cca. 40 50 — Acutifol . 50 pho a 16 Gtryehnin, Cryst _ Whit’ Paris Eng. Se abe Bel tele 1 60 es Acutifol Co inlaw OCS each See 23 DT ea Bek Balsamum omas ..... 15@ 20|/Mrgot ....0°°1 11) 50 ae S P& Ww. @ = Guenue, sro 23% si, Shaker Prep’ -..1 onmt 8 35 ee cl mee = tee Creme ee t oe oe wie: cain og | Pom (eee: EL BS, Bg Ba oy Pacts cians AG" Bes Hg algae SB GH hebrromas “00 9 Brisa “inp St Mat B ae @ 45 Bromide ase e e 15 Gui Midietele seg «4 50 Cortex on Ce 18@ 20 aca ammon .. 60 Abies, Canadian. 18 Cals ey ” 15 ao oe 50 @assiae .. 0.52.4. 90|Cyanide ....... ine Be 14| Todine, “coloriess | 15 Cinechona Flava.. 18 | lodide ee seas 40! ino ” orless 15 3uonymus atro.. 40| Potassa, Bitart pr 300 wien |. ...... 50 Myrica Cerifera.. 99 | Rotass Nitras opt 7@ S72 Mierrh .......... 58 Prunus Virgini.. 15 Potass Nitras . 6@ 10) Nux Vomica .... = Quillaia, gerd. i i5| Prussiate ae — ae ae + Sassafras...po 95 24 Sulphate po ......: 15B@18 Opil, cam horated iz Wine oe, 20 "| Opil, deodorized. 2 00 | Extractum Radix "ava Senses 501 Glycyrrhiza, Gla.. 24@ 30 Aconitum ...... 206 ia sete ae 56 Glycyrrhiza, po.. 23@ 30 ANCRAG oo... 309 - Sanguinart 6s eiaisisls 50 ’ bracmatox | 1.0... 4i@ 19|Anchusa ........ 10 12 Seniedtaria ee 5a} | Haematox, is .. 13@ 14 Arum po ........ 25 Stromonium Oa 50/1) Haematox, %s .. 14@ 15 owe See. 20 40 | Tolutan Saale 60 Haematox, %4s .. 16@ 17 ae po i5.. 12@ 15| Valerian ....... | 80 The Potent, Sarit Boaraic ene 15 16 1g| Veratrum Veride i: Gute and Quis 15| Hydrastis. Can. po | os 60 ee Palatable Digestive itrate an uina 2 00} Hell Citrate eniable. e Pe. ae Alba. 2s @ 15 Miscellaneous CARRIED IN STOCK BY DRUG J Ferrocyanidum §$ lee ae ‘ ae 22| Aether. Spts Nit 8f 30@ 85 OBBERS GENERALLY oer ieee & 40 ee we 0@2 19| Aether, Spts Nit 4f 34@ 38 Sulphate, com’l .. 9| Jalapa, pr ae —- 40|Alumen, grd po7 3@ 4 ‘ Sulphate, com’l, by Maranta, Ys .... - 3 Annatto ee 40@50 Eup Geena] Cadevhytit os.” ash aR] Antmont eb'po tO ae CU, Sulphate, pure .. 7| Been 4. ...--..- 75@1 00 | Anti po 40@ 50 ANUF : - ‘i Flora eee ny ieee 1 so! oo| Antifebrin 722.7. 2 ACTURING cnet: APnica ial isos. 20@ Oblanivelia 9 00| Argent! Nitras 02 ‘GRA Anthems ....... 50@ eo See 4, po 18 1 45@1 50 ae 7 on 53 ERAN) RAPIDS, bv MICHIGAML Matricaria, | ...... 30@ 35 Serpeetaria el 50 - e oe buds | 60@ 65 Folia Senegal 00) c5 0) 5| Bismuth S N_ ..1 75@1 95 Barosma: ii... 40@ 45| Smilax, offi’s a. m8 t etn Chior, is i "3 Cassia Acutifol, 5 ae @ Fo Caion Chlor, %s 10 Tinnevelly ..... 15@ 20 Scillae’ po 45 |.. 20@ 25 Gute ne 6S lL Cassia, Acutifol... 25@ 30 Symplocarpus . g 25 | Capsi : ica ag @ Salvia officinalis, Valeriana Eng. . 25 Ganon rugs a es e 4s and %s ... 18@ 20 oo. Ger. .. 159 29 |Cap'l Frue’s a Le 22 Uva trst 200).. 8@ 10 er A eae 12@ 16|Carphyll . 16 g Zingiber j 2 wl yllus_...... 20@ 22 a {Gummi eee 5@ 28 ae No. 40 @4 25 Acacia, ist pkd. ( A a. @ io 2nd pie $ 5 Ant —_— eae gee 109 2 Are No O Acacia, 3rd_pkd. @ 35| snisum po 20 .. STOCUS .......... 30 5 W ° ° ; Acacia’ siftea'sts. @ 18|Sha™ig eer 18) Cain Rivets |) '@ ap ne of Our Easiest Selling Lines Acacia, po ...... 45@ 65 p18 ele. 6 10 Aloe, Barb |...). 2@ 25 Carui ne 19 |... 15@ 18 Cataceum ....... 35 There are many r . Aloe, Cape ..... @ 35 pico > aoe 70@ 90 co bares: 340 54) 0 celebrated ee ae Socotri .... @ 45 aoe cos 2a " Chor aifina ce i- Gna : , popular and best selling Holiday Ammoniac .....-. 55@ + an 60 oods s i Asafoetida ...... 350 40 eo a mol. 61 00 Ginchontal e Ply 00. 25 iE Je oe the State. Just afew of them Rose. eee ae podium... 25@ | 30! Ginch ne P-W 38@ 48/§- are given below, viz.: Gitcoha Is oD @ - eee Odorate 2 00@2 25 oo e Germ 38@ 48 W 1 OM enna misnlum. oo. @ IS Ree ee Catech, %s "1... @ 14| Foenugreek,’ ‘po. @ Witnnnt eee e study the wants of our customers and Catechu, Ys ..... @ lim im i tal. chase the goods they nd pur- Comphorae ee 70@ 80 ape grd. bbl. 2% ss Sevial ue bbl 75 “ W | ey selec Euphorbium .... obelia ..... : vreta a Ve employ ex s l Gan - . eas 88 80 oo oe .. — i i th ploy expert buyers who secure the cream ae .26po..t 25@1 3b oe cece ea 5@ 6 ase ahea .... 8 3 sect ea coat tauciacum po 35 °|Sinapis Alba ........ 4 Cudbear ........ a : Kino cum af @ 23|Sinapis Nigra ad 19 Guprl Sulph & 24 We pay spot cash, get the lowest prices and Mastic (2.0.11... 7 Meee ee aeons | ive © fj —— not DO) 50 g i: Spiritus aoe all Nos.. % % - ie customers the benefit. pium 2.00, a d bmery, po ...... 4 e . ° Cee or 8 Ne tad ramen WD. Oe cel uther saich' som 65ih oe the best selection and the largest Shellac, eo ee ae aor 25@1 50 ee Snip .... 3B@ 40/8) riety to choose from. agaca ; , lake ; Zacanth 22. 70@1 00| Juniperis Co. ....1 75@3 50 e White .... 12@ 15/8 We offer the newest ‘‘up-to-the- ns Herba Saccharum N E 1 90@2 10 Gavia | ........4..:. @ 30 i I e-moment goods ae ee cal et, il, Sem Eee 30 Commer in the country. Eupatorium oz ok oA Vini Oporto Pe a 8@ 9 Ww Lobelia oe 20) vinl Alba... 0: i aseee oe — Sen: @ 60 e have all samples marked m plain figures at Majorium oz. pk j atin, French.. 35@ 60 ri i : Mentra . S 28 ios ee ah ben ine | i so that customers can easily pur- hoe ee oe 25| Florida sheeps’ wool Léad than fox ti% | e goods best suited for their locations Tanacetum..V : 92 ec a tego 3 00@3 60 | Glue, brown .... N@ 13 and trade. Thymus V..oz pk 25 |. oe Oe Glue white .. 15 | W i “¢ 5 carriage .....-. 5 a: @ 2% e make a liber , sdecia peaTnnge -+5545:8,00@8 18 | Glycerina ....... 15%@ 20\9 eral allowance for the expense of Calcined, Pat... 55@ 60 amool | carriage @2o0|Grana Paradisi.. @ 25|] customers. arbonate, at. {xtra yellow she : j carbonate, EEG ag Bh| Bao ceerage /25) @1 28 |tivdrars Gh. ak” We ship out perfect goods packed by experts arbonate ...... 18@ 20 rass sheeps’ wool @ ae. 87 If you desi : . . , | ae sire to do the Holiday G Bas Oleu carriage ...... @i 25|Hydrarg Ch Cor. @ 87 : : iday Goods Busine Absinthium gece OU Hydrarg Ox Ru’m @ 97 in your town this season and at the same sia ‘Amygdalae Duic. 75@ 85| slate use’... . @14 Hydrarg Ammo’l @1 12 make a good profit f Amygdalae, Ama 8 00@8 25 WO aece Weenie see te Gedova with Pp or yourself, place your MIS 3. Tha 5 ji oe Guess 1502 $5 Acacia elie @ 50 Hydrargyrum ... @ 1% vo "i a ee 5 , r telepnon f : Ecrgamii Cneeee 3 a4 feo ee UE Ichthyobolla, Am. 90@1 00 ae sah aga ae for any further infor- og 850 | 90 Zingiber eae ® 30 rr 75@1 00 il acigcea ates to look over our samples. We oa i. a ee @ 60|lodine, Resubi ..3 85@3 90 | pleased to see you at any time that will best suit rp sca ore sevees3 75@4 00 Rhet ol ie @ 50{Iodoform . 3 90@4 00 | ee innamoni ae a eh : noc cee @ 50 fe SS whaeane : 500. 80 ep see “2 “awe ia: oF Haze i $ Yonium se @ 60}/Senega .......... 50 opodium ..... 170 5 It & P k Mac .... 80@ 90! Scillae .......... @ 50 Macis ..... ents ea a | a er ins rug Co | | e | 28 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN sans : sas CHEWING GUM These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing, American Flag Spruce 55 and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are a ee re A liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at Best Pepsin eee ts 45 : es epsin, oxes.. market prices at date of purchase. a 5B pecuest Gum Made .. = ED NE On Sen co es ok ADVANC DECLI D Sen Sen Breath Per’f 1 00 Rone Tom: 26i52 2.656": 55 PUCAIAN oo. ss 8 55 Mop to it 2.65.06... es - 65 Spearmint .. 1... 6... .. 55 CHICORY Ba ee. 6 RO eee deck... a. RUARIO el es 5 MYAMCK Ro. e etl: di BCHONCT BR oo co. Index to Markets 1 2 wanGQCOLATE, oe alter Baker : AMMONIA Oysters German Sweet ....... 26 — neeeus Doz.| Cove, il, .. 2... |. ae “4 peo oe _ a as 2 doz. box. 751 Cove, 2%. . 35... BYaACHe oe aa 12 SS GREAGE Cove, 1tb. Oval @1 20 Walter « Lowney maar A Frazer’s Piums Premium, Ws ........ PRUROTID oops cc ee cece s 1 Llib. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00! Plums .......... 1 00@2 50; Premium, neck eee s 32 Axle Grease .........-. 1 it. tin boxes. 3 doz. 2 35 a. ee 3%elb. tin boxes, 2 doz. 4 25! Marrowfat ...... tt lec 41 S 1] 10%tb. pails, per doz...6 00| marly June 11")! [Gt as = Baked Beans .........- 4|15Ib. pails, per doz....7 20 Early June Sifted 1 15@1 80 er 4s seeee eee. - Bath Brick ........00¢ 1|25Ib. pails, per doz...i2 00 Paice ee = ee es BAKED BEANS i tsi, 45 vanes ud ao wakes -. 1]1tb. can, per = beeen : a. No. 10 size can pie @3 0u Lowney. Se 36 ME ec 1/ 2%. can, per doz..... Lowne Bs oe or Oe. ------ 3Ib. can, per doz..... 1 80! Grated aiinsossecige ae hee ea ances 36 c BATH BRICK Mice @2 40|Lowney, Is ........... 40 dies Sacoecposucs Ba American =. ........ 5. 75 Pumpkin Van Houten, %s ..... 12 Cenuea GibME 5. -iis-s: a4 tnehsh o). a... 85 Fair Foe agin gs|Van Houten, %s .._.! 20 Carbon Oils ........ woe 2 BLUING aa g0|Van Houten, %s ...... 40 CatSup ..--eeeeeereees -- 2 Arctic Maney... 1 00| Van Houten, is ....... 72 Cereals ......---seeeeees 216 oz. ovals 3 doz. box » Micanon 2 250) WeDo 8. coe. 35 GORe 6... 4s. -s.-->-> ‘7 16 oz. round 2 doz. box 175 Raspberries Wilbur, *s Pee. - Chewing Gum 3 Sawyer’s oreet. ae Standard... eae Peesusts ies 31 No. 3, 3 doz. wood bxs 4 00 : _ Salmon Dunham’s %s & \%s 26% Clothes Lines No. 5, 3 doz. wood bxs 7 00| Col’a River, talls 1 95@2 00) Dunham's se bo 27 bibkese cee 3 BROOMS Col’a River, ats 2 25@2 75 Dunham’s Ys .........28 ea. a kened 3 No. 1 Carpet, 4 sew ..2 75| Red Alaska ....1 45@1 60! Bulk Cocoa Shells .......... - 31No. 2 Carpet, 4 sew ..2 40| Pink Alaska ..... 1 00@1 Ce cu eee es 3 No. 3 Carpet, 3 sew ..2 25 Sardines ConfectionS .......++.++ 11) No. 4 Carpet, 3 sew ..2 10} Domestic, \%s ----3%@ 4 CrackerS ...--+-seeeeees 3 Parlor Gem 2.05) 5..%. 2 40| Domestic, %s wee @ 5 Cream Tartar .......-- 4! Common Whisk 1.221! 90} Domestic, Must’d 6%@ 9 Fancy Whisk 22... 1 25) California, %s...11° @14 D Warehouse .......... 3 00} California, %s...17 @24 Dried Fruits ........... 4 BRUSHES French, \%s ..... 7 @14 : Scrub French, %s ..... 18 @28 dl 16a tsiastin 5|Solid Back 8 in....... 75 Sheimos BRON mor vos see vnn oA et Oo ee tel Rolla. back, 40 in). 95|Standard ........ 1 el OTs Fishing Tackle Sioee ee Pointed Finds ..,..... 85 Succotash hiciae chs Flavoring Extracts .... 6/ Spo 90| Bait, ---+----+---- 1% Bait ooeeeceeeeeeeeeees 16 See ener beeen erees* wm 8 [Mie ey 1 25@1 401° eset G Br A mora eeecsvanses 18 Standart aw berries Choice ........0...0+0. 16% ouccaaee mrigA oo Bney See tas ee 5| No. . Peete eee eee enne ; = Fancy 7 Cece ccccccs Guatemala ‘< ins and Flour . NO. 7 cesses eee eeeee eee omatoes Choice (2.02 Grains and Flour ....... 5 MG 4 : 9 Pair 052 5@1 09 ce is NO. 3 ....2+.-.--++02--1 90] ood .... Atrigam 9.6006 38 ls 2 b eS 6 BUTTER COLOR HemCy. 2.5. 6k | @1 40|/Fancy African ........ 17 a cat hie 2 10| W., R. & Co.’s 25c size 2 00! Gallons 1.2... Ottis 2 25 ona eg : W., R. & Co.'s 50¢ size 4 00 CARBON OILS PG ee oe 31 1 CANDLES Barrels Mocha Paratine, G5 ..-:.2-..... 10 Perfection ....... M1i6t | Arabian 20306026. 4.2. . 21 Paraine, 928 3 10| Water White .. @10 Package, OU 6 oc obs ose ne eee Si Wicking ......-..2....: S. Gasoline @15 New York Basis Om : eee Sone Gas Machine .... g- —— [eee cose ie Apples Deodor’d Nap’a.. @13 {Dilworth ............. 4 TROOTICE ...0 04252-5050 6|3tb. Standards .. 90@1 00 Cylinder ......... 29 @atls Jersey ................ - . Gallon. .....,.,5. 2 25@2 50|Mngine ........_! 16 @22 Lion eo areeacaees 5 h o *6 Blackberriss)5q1 75| Black. winter ....8%@10 MeLaushiin's XXX sold Matches ............... he 5@1 75 in’s XX Meat Extracts ......... : Standards gallons @5 50 gh fo es ony. Mail all Mince Meat ........... : Beans Bordeau Flakes, 36 itb. 2 50 aici naghlin & Co. Chiles. BURNQOOES io. cece bcc cos 6 Baked) 3 85@1 30 Creams of Wheat $6 21 4 50 . BN cc ca a ceca Red Kidney ...... 85@ 95 Egg-O-See, 36 pkes...2 35 | 8° eee Ste oes. 70@1 15] Bxcello Flakes, 36 tb. 4 50 biatlied. 4 ce tones. 95 Nuts ee eee 11; Wax eee 25] Excello, large pkgs....4 Bp Nix & aoe. 115 ete ueberries Force, Sue ke ne nee A ro. 8B ° ptandard =. .2552%, 35!Grape Nuts, 2 doz.....2 70 oe eg rl ig 1 43 CIWS oo oes ee wee esse 6] Gallon ....... oe 6 25 Malta Ceres, sa im. 3 - CRACKERS. Brook Trou Malta Vita, w+ 2 85 : iscuit C an Pipes sf 2mb. cans, spiced’..... 1 90 a Hioke, * ID. .-4 05 National — Company G8 oo cnc biobecewns eine rea na Sa al aN la Little Neck, 1!. 1 00@1 25] kalston, 36 2tb........-- eo Playing Cards Little Neck, 2m @1 50| Sunlight Flakes, 36 itp. 2 >|Seymour, I ound : POUOSN -o2 esses 00: Clam Bouillon Sunlight Flakes, 20 lgs 4 00|N. B. C., ae steeee Provisions ......--..... Burnham’s % pt. ..... 90} Vigor, 36 pkgs. ........ 2 75 NBC ote 6 R Burnham’s pts, ....... 3 60 ce: de on rere @ . cae Mae 8 : Bio kee. 7 20 | Zest, PAD So eee ice we hECE HOGA «se eeeeeee Se 7| Burnham : ae cn ec a ed Saratoga, Flakes it 13 Red Standards @1 40 Rolled Oats AODNITOILE | oe oe. sks: Salad Dressing ....... Ws @1 40] Rolled Avena, bbls. ..6 75 ie heal oe MBRCPAMIS . 5 oc i cc cee 7 Corn Steel Cut, 100 tb. sks. 3 40 = aA : Sal Soda ........3..... wey 2... 75@ 85|Monarch, bbl. ........ 6 50 le PoC aide pagan oe De eee es. cece hens 7 aun 623 1 00@1 10 Monarch, 90 tb. sacks 3 10 aust, : ; ca eet WU fg ca tke es 7 ancy ..2.....5.. 1 45] Quaker, 18-2 ......... 50 . or - Seeds settee eeecrecceees 7 French Peas Quaker, 20-5 ......... 65 came eee eee . wate Blacking ......... ; Sur iWxtra Fine ......-. z ae Cracked Wheat Brittle ae Br ete me es Se en = xtra Hine ..2.........2 th A Brittle .......... ee eee, Soap Se 15|}24 2 th. packages ..... BO es hedescinee se 8 8 MOVER: 2225 el. Se 11 CATSUP Campaign Cake ...... 10 9|* Os Columbia, 25 pts...... 415 ee Soc ece es es : St Standard... ...5,..:. 1 75} Snider’s pints 25.23 3S Cassia ee Cigars ai : 8 ominy Snider’s % pints ..... 1 35; Cavalier Cake ........ SYTUPS ......-2.5+ cones 8] Standard ............. 85 CHEESE Currant Fruit Biscuit 10 Lobster BOMe 2. 55.3.55 5: @13%| Cracknels ............. 16 * Be ee ee C20) Soe oa. @12 Coffee Cake, pl. or iced 10 a“- nee cite @12% | Cocoanut ‘Taffy Bar ..12 are oe ee S: Picnic Tails. ....,..2<; 2 75 Jersey pee eet @14 oe per ote tne . INO ooo hec ce cosy aracianct Riverside @13 nme on rope |... Mustard, 1b. 2.522... 1 80} Warner's @14 |Cocoanut Honey Cake 12 AREER. hace ecsins see O1 Mustard” 8% (226662 2 80] Springdale @13 |Cocoanut Hon. Fingers 12 ROOT oo cS ep sinc a vc 9} Mustard, 2tb. pring 2 a Soueee, 16 .,.... 1 $6 dick... 5... @15 | Cocoanut Hon’ Jumbles 12 Soused. PAD. eye ee 2 1b) Goeiden ©. 3... 65.3. @15 Cocoanut Macaroons ..18 Wicking ..-......+..4. 9] Tomato, 1tb. .......... 150|]Limburger ...... @i0. | Datdelion .........-..: 10 Woodenware ........... 9 Tomato, Gip. 6..5..- op 2 80| Pineapple ........ 40 @6u Dinner Biscuit ....... 20 Wrapping Paper ...... 10 Mushrooms Sap Sago ........ @22 |Dinner Pail Cake ....10 sees es ce 2 wiss, domestic .. os Hotels .... @ 24'Swiss, d ti @16 | Dixie Sugar Cookie 9 weast Cake ........ eee. 101 Buttons ............. @ 28 wiss, imported .. @20 |Family Snaps ........ 4 Family Cookie* ....... 8 Fancy Ginger Wafer 12 Fig Cake Assorted ...12 Fruit Nut Mixed: ..... 16 irosted Cream ....... 8 Frosted Honey Cake ..12 Fluted Cocoanut Bar 10 Ginger Gems .. 0062 .: : Ginger Gems, Iced.... 9 Graham Crackers .... 8 Ginger Nuts Ginger Snaps N. B. C, 7 Ginger Snaps Square 8 Hippodrome Bar ..... 10 Honey Cake, N. B. C. 12 Honey Fingers. As. Lee 1? Honey Jumbles ....... 12 Honey Jumbles, Honey Flake oo oer, 12% Household Cookies ... 8 Household Cookies Iced 8 Iced Honey Crumpets 10 dmperial: ¢o.: 8 Jersey Linch ...,. 2. . 8 Team, Kling (| .. 55) | | 20 em Vem 27s 1 eee 10 Lemon Gems Lemon Biscuit Square 8 semon , Water: 2). 0). 16 Siemens, |e 8 oe Cabin, Cake |...” 10 Lusitania Mixed ...... ag Mary Ann eehie sc boca 8 Marshmallow Walnuts 16 Mariner (eo a Molasses Cakes ....... 8 Molasses Cakes, Iced 9 Motican) (0 1 Wabob Jumble ....... 14 Newton 22.0501) 12 Oatmeal Crackers ..... 8 Orange Gems |...... (| 8 Oval Sugar Cakes .... 8 Oval Sugar Cakes Ast. 9 Penny Cakes. Assorted 8 Picnic Mixed Pretzels, Hand M4é.... Pretzelettes, Hand Md. § Pretzelettes, Raisin Cookies Ravena Jumbles ...... 12 Revere, Assorted ..... 14 Rube 8 Scalloped Gems ...... Seotch Cookies Snow Creams .......- Spiced Honey Nuts ....12 Sugar Fingers Sugar Gems...) 22: Sultana Fruit Biscuit 16 Sunyside Jumbles ....10 Spiced Gingers ....... 9 Spiced Gingers Iced ..10 Siisar Cakes... 8 Sugar Cakes, Iced .... 9 Sugar Squares, large or Sind SUVEOR eee 8 Sponge Lady Fingers 25 ee eee 11% 8 Mac. Md. 7% Sizer Crimp ...,..... 8 Sylvan Cookie ....,::; 12 Vanilla Wafers ....... 16 Noctote 0 2 WAVORY 6.55) 50503 0); 8 Waneayar oo. Se 10 In-er Seal Goods Per doz. Albert Bisciit +2... ... 1 00 Ama oe 00 Arrowroot Biscuit 1 00 Butter Thin Biscuit ..1 00 Butter Wafers ....... 1 00 Cheese Sandwich ..... 1 00 Cocoanut Dainties 1 00 Haust Oyster ........: 1 00 big Newton § ......:... 00 Five O’clock Tea 00 Mrotane (22000. 00 Ginger Snaps, N. B. C. Graham Crackers Lemon Snap London Cream Biscuit Marshmallow Dainties 00 Oatmeal Crackers Oysterettes ........... 50 Old Time Sugar Cook. Pretzelettes, Hd. Md. . . ° ° Fh pak kek bak pak bak ft fk pt ° S Royal “Toast 22.6.0 oe. 00 Baltine 2.0... ke, 1 00 Saratoga Flakes ....: 1 50 Social Tea Biscuit ....1 00 Soda. NB 6 oo, 1 00 Boda Select 623.250 72: 1 00 Sugar Clusters 1 Sultana Fruit Biscuit 1 50 Uneeda Biscuit Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer 1 00 Uneeda Milk Biscuit .. 50 Vanilla Wafers Water Thin see cee eeee ee tee 1 00 00 Zu Zu Ginger Snaps = 5 DRIED RFUITS Apples Sundried mvaporated 9 6.2265... @ 9 pricots California (fies) 13 itron Corsican «...0.... @20 Currants Imp’d 1 th. pkg. 84@ 9 Imported bulk ..8%4@ 8% Peel Lemon American ..... 15 Orange American ....14 Raisins London Layers, 3 er. London Layers, 4 er. Cluster, 5 crown 2 25 Loose Muscatels, 2 er. Loose Muscatels, 3er. 7 Loose Museatels, 4cr, 8 L. M. Seeded 1 th. 84.@9 California Prunes 100-125 25tb. boxes. -@ 4 90-100 25tb. boxes..@ 4% 80- 90 25tb. boxes..@ 5% 70- 80 25tb. boxes..@ 6 60- 70 25tb. boxes..@ 7 50- 60 25%. boxes..@ 7 40- 50 25%. boxes..@ 8 30- 40 25tb. boxes. @ 8% 4c less in 50tb. cases FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Dried Tima...) 2... 6% Med. Hd. PE'd. ......9 75 Brown Holland ....... Farina 24 1 tb. packages ..... 1 50 Bulk, per 100.the ...). 3 50 Hominy lake, 50 1b sack .._.. 1 00 Pearl, 100 tb. sack ....2 45 Pearl, 200 th: sack ... 4 80 Maccaroni and Vermicelli Domestic, 10 tb. box .. 60 Imported, 25 th. box...2 50 Pearl Barley - Common ie - 8 00 Chester 200i -- 8 00 BMADITE: 2. - 8 65 Peas Green, Wisconsin, bu..2 60 Green, Scotch, bu. ....2 70 BDHG I oe 04 Sa East India meceesccc & German, sacks .....,. § German, broken pkg... Tapioca Flake, 110 Ib. sacks .. 6 Pearl, 130 tb. sacks .. 5 Pearl, 24 th. Dies 1% FLAVORING EXTRACTS Foote & Jenks Coleman Brand Lemon No. 2 Terpenelesg i 4 No. 3 Terpeneless ....1 75 No. 8 Terpeneless ++--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 { oz. Full Measure... .4 00 8 oz. Full Measure....8 00 Lemon 2 oz. Full Measure ~ck: 26 4 oz. Full Measure....2 40 8 oz. Full Measure....4 50 Jennings D. Cc. Brand. Terpeneless Ext. Lemon Doz. No 2 Fane, 2). | 75 No.4 Panel 8 1 50 NO. 6 (Panel (20h 2 00 Haper Panel oi 8 1 50 20%, Hull Meas. 00)! 1 25 4 02) Full Meas.) 2 00 Jennings D. C. Brand Extract Vanilla Doz. No: 2 Panel 2. 3 1 25 No: 4 Panel oe 2 00 ING: 6 Rangel) ohas is a 3 50 Taper \Panel a. 2 00 1 oz. Full Meas........ 90 2 oz. Full Meas.......1 80 4 0%. Wull Meas... ). 3 50 No. 2 Assorted Flavors 1 00 GRAIN BAGS Amoskeag, 100 in bale 19 Amoskeag, less than bl 19% GRAIN AND FLOUR Wheat New No. 1 White ocieny: 80 New No. 2 Red ...... 90 Winter Wheat Fiour AWiCVRCK Foc oe oe Brands i i Packages.| Patents ............,, .6 50 mn Rpeeial Fin Per 5 ay Second Patents ...... .6 25 Hestmo (000 250|S0aicht 5 06 Nabisco 252s). 2 5|Second Straight ...:! 4 75 Wabisco 2.2552 5.. TOO} ear 0 ee vseees ed 00 Champaigne Wafer .. 2.50]. Flour in barrels, 25¢ per Per tin in bulk.| >arrel additional, Sombette. 220 a 1 00| Worden Grocer Co.’s Brana Nabisco 62. .56).027.. 1 75| Quaker, paper ......., 4 60 esting 63. a. 1 50| Quaker, cloth .......: 4 80 Bent’s Water Crackers 1 40 Holland Rusk 386 packages 40 packages 60 packages CREAM TARTAR Barrels or drums ...... 9 ORCS 2 se ess, 220030 Square: cans’. 2.022... 32 Fancy caddies ......... 35 Wykes & Co. Biclpse 2 ee 4 80 Kansas Hard Wheat Flour Fanchon, %s cloth cvese 10 Judson Grocer Co. Grand Rapids Grain & Mill- ing Co. Brands. Wizard, assorted .....4 40 Graham 200.060. 5c Buckwheat ...........5 76 <3 ¢ 4 60 rT TSP eee ee sce sree ae SHAS Sy z MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Spring Wheat Flour (50 Ib. tins....advance %| 10 Ibs. ......... a2. ob i Pure Cane Koy Bakers Brana |20 Ib. pails....advance % S Ws ose, 92 ASIST 6 dae kG Golden Horn, family 5 80) Smoked Meats SEEDS OGG 2. ee 20 Golden Horn, baker’s..5 70; Hams, 12 tb. average..13 | Anise Peete ls #0) FOnOle el: 25 Duluth Imperial ...... 6 26, Hams, 14 Ib. average. .13 Canary, Smyrna ...... 4g TEA Judson Grucer Cvo.s wiaiic | Hams, 16 Ib. average. .13 Calaway 125.7 5 3. 10 Japan @eresota, Ws 20 6 80! Hams, 18 Ib. average. .13 Cardamom, Malabar 1 00 Sundried, medium ....24 Ceresota, 148) eo. oo. 6 70! Skinned (SLQINS oo. 14% | Celery Bese aa escce es 15 Sundried, choice ...... 32 Cerésota. 365 2.00.5... 6 60; Ham, dried beef sets. .21 Hemp. Russian |)... 4% Sundried, fancy ...... 36 Lemou & Wheelers wiane| California Hams ..... 8461) Mixed Bird 000)... 4 Regular, medium ..... 24 Winccld i464 fo) 6 20 Picnic Boiled Hams ..14 | Mustard, white ......_ 10 |Regular, choice ....... 32 Winsold, Ws iis. oc. 640 Dolled Hams) 1.10.1... 22. |ROpDyY 6.0.00. ¥ |Regular, fancy ......! 26 Wingold, 4s ....-.-..-. 6 00 Py hacia pe pressed .. Nea pot ‘ Basket-fired, medium 3 : Sncan Oo 4 Bi | Mince aM .......... ) SHOE BLACKING Basket-fired, choice ..38 hei ye den ao Sige gdb ee 122@16_ | Handy Box, large 3 dz 2 50|Basket-fired, fancy |143 pen Eye ose ame eu 10 TD. pails....advance a Handy Box, small ....1 25 Nibs ees 22@24 Laurel, 4s&%s cloth 5 g/g P Palls:--advance 1” | Lixby's oval Polish’ g9| Siftings’ 1.10.1..." qt Laurel. %s cloth 5 9u 8 Ib. pails....advance 1 | Miller’s Crown Polish.. 85 ome eae ae ee ee Sausages SNUFF unpowder Wykes w vv. Bologna |... |. . See Scotch, in bladders ...... 37|Moyune, medium ..... 30 Sleepy Hye, 4s cloth..6 10) Viyer | 712001120: Maccaboy, in jars...... 35|Moyune, choice ....__. 32 evcuy oe vas fee a yy brankfort ne French Rappie in jars. .43 pose. taney he. 40 Slepy Hye, %s ¢ eee POR oy ingsuey, medium ....3 sicepy live tes Daper..6 90) Veal... 8) 3.8. Kirk & Ca. Pingsuey, choice ...__ 30 Sicepy tive, 4s paper. .5 90) Tonene ....0....) || American Family «1-4 00) Pinesuey. fancy |... .. 40 Meai i | Efeadcheese ....2)-..... Dusky Diamond,50 80z.2 80 Young Hyson Bolted ............+.. 38 Beef Dusky Dind, 100 602.3 36:@holee .....-...:. |... 96 Golden Granulated .. 3 90 Akita Mess 0k Jap Rose, 50 bars ....3 75| Fancy Gee ae St. Car Feed screened 33 00; Boneless ...... ----eo240,00| avon Imperial |) /)... 3 50) | Oolong No. 1 pinch ap Oats oe rs wimp, new 0.0.0.0) 15 50) White Russian ...;... 50 a ee eal. 42 Corn, cracked ....... 3: fer Dome, oval bars ......3 50} Amoy, medium ....... 25 Corn Meal, coarse ..32 00), i1), eas ee 1 00|Satinet, oval ......... 215|Amoy, choice ........! Winter Wheat Bran 26 00/ % ois aoe 1 g9|Snowberry, 100 cakes 4 00 English Breakfast MId@ines te... 27 50 ie Be 3 g0|, Proctor & Gamble Co. |Medium .........., os 0ea0 Buttalo Gluten Feed 30 vv si ccs see es ca. Q Henox | eile AG @MOlee 22k. 30 Dairy Feeds A DDL eee e eens oO ieee, 6 om 5..:.......4 Oe PARC 0... fae. «55340 Wykes & Co. oe _ . Tripe goiter: 10 om ....... o.@ (6 India O P Linseed Meal ...32 5u{ Kits, 16 Ibs. .......... Ge 25| Ceylon, choice ....... 32 1 3 : 2 “4 Oble, 40 Ths. .. 20... 1 60 ie PARCy coe 42 Cottonseed Meal ....31 00 : F autZ Bros. & Co. Gluten: Heed .......°. 30 oy| %@ Dbls., 80 Ibs. ....... + U0) Acme, 70 bars ....... ..3 60 TOBACCO Malt Sprouts 1 128 00 Casings Aeme, $0 bars (00000: 4 00 Fine Cut eee ese rea ae 6g eee Per WD. ........ thems 3 bag 1! 40 Cadiiae oo 54 Brewers Grains aces Beef, rounds, set ..... 290 ne iy Sweet foma = 34 Molasses Feed ...... As Ob Se : Lor 70 Aeme, 100 cakes ....: 3 50 \ : 34 Hammond Dairy Feed 24 vy | Beet middles, set ao Big Master, 70 bars ..2 90 Hiawatha, 5tb. pails. .55 Oats Sheep, per bundle Marseilles, 100 cates 5 S6l clesram 2.00 1 |. 30 Michigan carlots ....... 55 neaiseee a ees Marseilles, 100 cakes 5¢ 4 00 Pay Car ............... 33 Less than GCariots (1... .. os Solid dairy ll oe 10 Mes, Marseilles, 100 ck toil. 4 00 | Prairie pROSO Coo Ls. 49 a Corn Country Rolls ..10i2@16% Marseilles, %bx toilet 2 10| Protection ....../.1°7° 40 Carlota) 0000) Beal 85 Canned Meats A. B. Wrisley Sweet Burley .........44 Less than carlots ..... g7| Corned beef, 2 Ib. ....2 50) Good Cheer ........... 400) Piger «6 ec, 40 Hay Corned beef, 1 Ib. . vel 50 | Old Country oo 3 40 : Plug No. 1 timothy carlots 10 00 Koast beef, 2 ip....... 2 50 Soap Powders med Cross... 31 No. 1 timothy ton lots 11 gy} Roast beef, 1 Ib. cence i 50 Lautz Bros. & Co. Palo Gees eee eal. 35 : HERBS i Potted ham, 4s ...... Misnaw Hog... 4 00)eawatha 41 Sage Da eden oa Bai Ported Ha, Be nents 45/Gold Dust, 24 large +14 50 Pe gers tc tte ence ne Hong (ee 15| Potted ham, 2s Beso 85 Gold Dust, 100-5c .4 00 ro ule SS ia oe ee ay Gen Weaces 1p} Deviled ham, 4s ...... 45) Kirkoiine, 24 41. 11113 80 simerican Hagle .. oir hig amoeba ana » | Deviled ham, les ...... $5 | pearing 3 75|Standard Navy ... senna Leaves ........ 20 | = : tac AG | eS deters cee Spear Head. 7 oz... HORSE RADISH Potted tongue, 4s Bi Soapine, 200000040) noes Meee go| Potted tongue, %s 85 | Babbitt’s 1776 ........ 8 76|RPcar Head, 14% oz Ber Ge oe os. 90 RICE Eo ate 3 50 | Nobby Uoist 2 55 JEELY al pene 1 @ 1% eo . See cece c 7 20 | Jolly a... 39 5 tb. pails, per doz...2 25 ey Ctweeeseues« f v big # oa So celsilaeie ay 6 ude }Old Honesty oe 43 15 Ib. pails, per pail Bai dapan celle 5% @ Wisdom 2020 a 80 | Toady ‘ Fy 30 Tb. pails, per pail ‘. 93| Broken ......... Soap Compounds Lo ge "LICORICE SALAD, DRESSING |_| Johnson’s Fine ......5 10) Biper ‘Heldsicic 1.1" 69 RUNG oes uo... 30; Columbia, % pint -2 25|Johnson’s XXX ...... 4 25 | Boot Waele ie 86 Calabria oo v1.2) 23) Columbia, 1 pint 2.5. - 4 00| Nine Ovclode | (15.0) 0. 3 35 Honey Dip Twist .. 17! 40 oe 14| Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 50|Rub-No-More ..... -++-8 75' Black Standard..." 40 ROGGE.) . 5 iaece. 11) Durkéee’s small, 2 doz. 5 25 ‘l Scouring Gadiligg 20 40 MATCHES Snider’s large, 1 doz. 2 3 Enoch Morgan’s' Sons. IBORPG re ae: C. D. Crittenden Co Snider’s small, 2 doz. 1 35/Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00!Nickel Twist 1.11117"! 52 ae eee roma Th Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 50 Mi 32 Noiseless ‘Tip ...4 50@4 75 SALERATUS Sapolio, single boxes..2 25|Great Nave 32 MOLASSES Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Gaon aca ‘3 ogi Navy et 36 ~ New Orleans Arm and Hammer SAO | enone Scene ge a Smoking > = : ’ 00; Scourine Manufacturing ColSweet Core .....-...... 34 Fancy Open Kettle .... 40 Deland S sereeeeeeees 203 15|Scourine, 50 cakes ....1 80|Fiat Car). 7007110777" Pd Sar aes ie ee eo oe oe a of oO Cow "r1tt'3 99/Scourine, 100 cakes ..3 60 oe 26 ee 22) Wyandotte, 100 %8 -.3 00) pore, SODA oy ree ee oF a Hell Darcie 20 extra SAL SODA g Kees, Hugin ...:1.,..@ 18 © 1. id on” palis "Sn MINCE MEAT Granulated, bbls. ...... = | een Honey” Dew ..-.. 140 Or CHRO) cee ke 90; Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. 1 00 Sopra dete ache ae Ca a ee 80) Whole Spices Geld Block ......... 40 MUSTARD Lump, bbls. ......-.... = Alispice o..0 0 ol 1 Wi biemon) a0) M4 10... 6 Ibs bow)... 18] tuump, 145 th. kegs .... 95 Chea, China in aa eee = OLIVES : : SALT | Cassia. Cauton | Weihin Dried 21 Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 20@1 40 Common Grades ccslteedea Hees ba g\Duke’a Mixture ||" *” 40 Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 10@1 30/100 3 Ib. sacks ....... Se ge ee lke cece” he Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 00@1 20| 60 5 tb. sacks ...... 220) oe ee ae Myrtle Navy 44 Mancnila ae 012 th) snoka 2 00| Cassia, Saigon, in rolls, 55 Y Y Lt tttteees f anznilla, : O7:....... : Bs 28 10% fh "11: 30|Cloves, Amboyna ..... 23 a oe ao oe Oe we ee eR ct-> Bl cee Coe oo” ecg tS Queen, 28 oz. ......-.-7 00 " “Warsaw ee aa as 3 se Corn Cake, 2% oz... 126 Stuffed, 5 oz .......... 90/56 Ib. dairy in drill bags 40 Sree 105-10 i, geCorm Cake, 1m. |... .. 22 Stuited, 3 Oz, 2.1.2... 1 45} 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20 Nutiacee 115-20 “17.°" 99|Plow Boy, 1% oz 39 Stuied, 10 02. ........ 2 40 Solar Rock Pepper, Singapore, blk. 15|L!0W Boy, 3% oz.....39 PIPES 56 Ih) sacks 2.202. .025. 24|)+epper, Singapore, "on; reenioss, $16 oz. 2... 35 Clay, No. 216 per box 1 25 i Common Pepper, Singp. white.. 7 Peerless, 1% oz. ....... 38 Clay, T. D., full count 60|Granulated, fine ....... 80} Pepper, shot .......... fic Binke 3). 36 Ob 0 Medium, fine joo 0G) 85 Pure Ground in Bulk 16 Cant Book .........._. 30 PICKLES SALT FISH Psa ig et og | Country Club 22221! 32-34 Medium Cod “o para Selacn teccece 55 Gua oe ea ee “a Barrels, 1,200 count....8 50] Large whole .... coe or acess OG _ indian ....... +6225 Half bbls., 600 count...4 75|Small whole .... @ 6%| Cloves, eT tenes . Pp Self Binder, 160z. 80z. 20-22 Small Strips or bricks ..744@10%|Ginger, African ....... Silver Boam -. 2.0... |. 24 Half bbls., 1,200 count 5 70|Pollock .........;. @ 5 |Ginger, Cochin ...... - 18)/Sweet Marie ........_! 32 PLAYING CARDS "Halibut Geet faenalea \+..-+- 29 | Royal re caus 2 ; ue 13 MEO Gel, wens 2 Ceeeahont ica 7 pana ea 4% | Mustard 22023000000. is) Cotton, 3 ply... |. 20 No. 15, Rival, assorted 1 25|Chunks ..........- nee P Singapore, bik. 17} Cotton, 4 53 oA No. 20 Rover, enameled 1 50 Holland Herring epper, Singapore, — es 2 : Diy ¢. cl. ek No, 572, Special ........ 1 75) Pollock (2.20... 4 | Pepper, Singp. white... 28; Jute, 2 ply ............ 14 No. 98 Golf, satin fin. 2 00| White Hp. bbls. 7 50@9 00|Pepper, Cayenne ...... Z a © BS aagriress - No. 808 Bicycle <..:.. 2 00} White Hp. %bls. 4 00@5 00|Sage ..... pounce Lo on oo : No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 25| White Hoop mchs. @ 15 Ss — ool, Lp 2p aa POTASH Norwesian =... 1.0... 3. : Pane 1b 1% | Malt White, Wine 40 9 48 cans in case Round, 100 ths. .:....- 8 75| Kingsford, Ss. .. Ma ite, Wine, gro Babbitt’s 400i) Round 40’ ths. |... ::. 1 90| Muzzy, 20 fia... .. 5%4| Malt White, Wine 80gr 1216 PROVISIONS Sogied 3|Mugzy, 40 tits... 20... & | Pore Cider, B & 5..... 1b B led: Pork Trout Gloss Pure Cider, Robinson 13% Mess set ; 18 00} No, 1; 100.tbs. ....:.. 7 50 Kingsford Pure Cider, Silver ....15 Clear Back ..|. Las OGIO TF 40 whe 3 25'Silver Gloss, 40 1Ibs. 7% WICKING Short Cut 17 501No. 2 10 Ihe 0) 90| Silver Gloss, 16 3Itbs. 6%iNo. 0 per gross ...... 30 Short Cut Clear... 17 50|No. 1, 8 ths. ......... 76|Silver Gloss, 12 6tbs. 8%|No. 1 per ee 40 Bean 14 75 ac” agora ie on BG espa : a a an a, cette me seared oe ee ioe a 8 oe packages ..... 4% WOODENWARE Clear Family 1/2117! 14 75|Mess, 10 ths. ........ 1 65/12 6Ib. packages ..... 6 Baskets Dry Salt Meats Oe ee 495 160%. boxes ........., 4 |Bushels ..... hang ct SP. Betlics 0.0.0... No. 1, 100 tbs. ......14 00 SYRUPS Bushels, wide ban 1 25 Bl ee No. 1, 40 ths. ...00.. 5 a Corn - Base eens 3 20 ' i Arrels 26.06... s+eeeeee.82 Splint, lz tee as cs ea. ee el eee ere: 1 35 | Halt barrels \-°.5.0.0"12°84 Splint, ‘medium “1-8 00, Hee i 20tb. cans z. in es. Splint, small ....:.... . Se gree aoe — oo 2 Fam 10Ib. cans % dz. in cs. 1 95 Willow, Clothes, large 8 25 80. tb eo ee % 100 Ibs. ........9 75 3 50 5Slb. cans 2 dz. in cs. 2 05 Willow. Clothes, me’m 7 25 60 Ib. tubs....advance % 60 Ibs. .....+--.5 25 190 2%Ib. cans 2 dz. in cs, 2 00 Willow, Clothes, small 6 25 Bradiey Butter Boxes 2Ib. size, 24 in case.. 72 sib. size, 16 in case.. 68 5Ib. size, 12 in case.. 63 10tb. size, 6 in case.. 60 Sutter Plates No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate 35 No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate 40 No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate 45 No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate 60 Churns Barrel, § gal. each ....2 46 Barrel, 10 gal., each..2 55 ULiotnes Pins Round head, 5 gross bx 55 Kound head, cartons... 70 Egy Crates ana Fillers. Huimpty Dumpty, 12 doz. 20 No. I complete ........ 40 No. 2 complete ....... 23 Case No. 2 fillersl5sets 1 35 Case, mediums, 12 sets 1 15 F aucets Cork. lined, & in...... 70 Cork lined, 9 in....... 80 Cork hned, 10 in....... 90 Mop sticks : FITOJGN. SPRING ... 4658 6k 90 whlipse patent spring.. 85 NWO. | common ....-... 80 NO. 2 pat. brush hoider x5 -(b. cotton mop heads 1 40 Ideal Na 7-2... : 85 Pails 2-hoop Standard ...... 215 3-hoop Standard ...... 2 35 a-Wirke, Cable ....._ «-<4 20 o Wire, Cable .-...... 2 45 (edar, ais red, brasa ..1 25 taper, Hureka ee Fibre 2 78 Toothpicks PIGtawdod .2....5 5... 2 50 SOltwood ............. 2 75 Bamequet .............. 1 50 10@ay 1 50 Traps Mouse, wood, 2 holes.. 22 Mouse, wood, 4 holes.. 45 Mouse, wood, 6 holes.. 70 Mouse, tin, 5 holes 65 Rat, wodd' 2.2. ..2..., 80 ac, Spring =... .. 7d Tubs 20-in. Standard, No. 1 8 75 18-in. Standard, No. 2 7 75 1é-in. Standard, No. 3 6 75 20-im. Cable No 1 ..... 9 25 £8-in. Cable, No. 2 .. 28 96 i6-in. Cable, No. 3 ....7 26 NG. Lf Mibre oo. 10 25 No 2 Mitre .... 22... 9 25 No. 2 Pibte ........... 8 25 Washboards Bronze Globe ....-.... 2 50 DEwWev ....525.....,. ovek 15 Double Aeme .......; 2% Single Acme .......... 2 25 Double Peerless ...... 4 25} Smele Peerless ....... 3 60) Northern Queen ..... 3 50) Double Duplex ....... 3 00) Good Huck .....:..... 2 75 Umiversal | .........0.,.. 3 65 Window Cleaners EA AR 1 65 2 ee ee 1 85 i ee 2 30 Wood Bowls Fo in. -Butter .......,. 25 Is im, Butter ......... 2 25 i wm. Butter ......... 3 75 IY in. Butter ._.:..... 5 00 Assorted, 13-15-17 .... Assorted, 15-17-19 ....3 25 WRAPPING PAPER Common straw ....... YA, iibre Manila, white.. 2% Fibre Manila, colored..4 NG | Manila .......... Cream Manila: ... 0.2... 3 Buteher’s Manila ..... 2% Wax Butter, short e’nt 13 Wax Butter, full count 20 Wax Butter, rolls coe YEAST CAKE Magic, 2 dOa, . 5.55... 1 15 Stinlieht, $ doz. ...... 1 00 Sunlight, 1% doz. . a6 Yeast Foam, 3 doz....1 15 Yeast Cream, 3 doz. ..1 00 Yeast Foam, 1% doz... 6&8 FRESH FISH Per 1d Whitefish, Jumbo ....20 Whitefish, No. 1 ..... 121% WEOUU oo oie ccc esa 12 PISEDUE (oslo ce, 9% Merine ....... 7 Biefish = .2..5....2.. 16 bive Eobster ......... 25 Boiled Lobster ........ 25 COG eee eo, 10 HMageaocke 2... ..2..2... 8 PIGHOVGR cui. ecuae sce 13 Pie cle 9 PeCGn 2c ec, 8% Smoked, White 12% Chinook Salmon ...... 16 Mackere) ..2......... 16 Binnan Haddie ....... 12% moa: Ginad <. 26.2... Shad. Hoe, each ...... Speckled Bass ....... HIDES AND PELTS Hides Green No 7 22. ..02 ce. 8% Green No. 2 .......<¢. 1% Gured Wo. 7 1.2... 6: 10 Cured No. 2 2.11... 9 Calfskin, green, No. 1 12 Calfskin, green, No. 2 10% Calfskin, cured, No. 1 13 Calfskin, cured, No. 2 11% Peits Old Wood ......... @ wa Bambee 2.0.2.2... 25@ 50 Shéarlings . 2.2... luw sv Tallow No te .. @ 56 ING. oS cu @ 4 woo: Unwashed, med. ...@17 Unwashed,~- fine ... -@13 CUNFECIIONS Stick Candy Pails StQRGGE .c.5 5c ccacccae & Standard Hi H ......c. § Standard Twist ..... - 8% Cases Jumbo: 22 Uh... .i.... & Extra Th ...... 10 Boston Cream ........19 Big stick, 30 Ib. case.. 8h, Mixed Candy Grecers .i.4 065.6. ca 8 Compctition .......... 1% Species 2. .......,555.. 84% COMSGEVG .............. 9 MOUSE 6.66 et Sdenudees 84% AiDbOGn ..... éeesccccccclll POMON 2405.2. svecceee 8% Cut Toaft .....,.. 2.2 9% ROQGGr ...50... 050 eee 8 Kindergarten ......... 1042 Gon Ton Cream ...... 10 Breneh Creamy ....._ . 10 EAE oc: Sd edacavaueceae Hand Made Cream ..17 Premio Cream mixed 14 Paris Cream Bon Bons 11 Fancy—in Pails Gypsy Hearts .........14 Coco Bon Bons .......18 Fudge Squares .......13 Peanut Squares ......10 Sugared Peanuts .....13 Salted Peanuts ... Starlight Kisses San Blas Goodies Lozenges, plain ... Lozenges, printed Champion Chocolate ticlipse Chocolates ...15 ureka Chocolates ....16 Quintette Chocolates ..16 Champion Gum Drops 10 MOSS Drops ......0c05ch8 Lemon Sours .........1@ imperials 2->—______ Increasing Use of Water for Power. Uncle Sam _ uses 4,500,000 horse power of water and has 10,000,000 horse power available. France has 4,500,000, of which 800,000 is utilized, the French Alps bringing the figure to this height. Italy has an equal amount available, but has utilized only 300,000. In that country falls of to,- 000 horse power are abundant. In Switzerland 300,000 horse power are in use. The available horse power in Germany is 700,000, 100,000 horse power being in use. In Norway go0,- 000 horse power has been estimated, and in Sweden 760,000, a large part of which in both countries has been developed. Russia heads the list of available power with an estimated 11,- 000,000 horse power that could be taken out of the Russian rivers. Only 85,000 horse power has been devel- oped. Great Britain and Spain come last with only 70,000 horse power utilized in either country. It is said that Japan has available water pow- er of 1,000,000 horse power, but has developed only 7 per cent. <<. No man is undone as long as he has a work to do. cl BUSINESS CHANCES. Do you want to sell your store, busi- ness or real estate? [I bring buyer and Seller together. No matter where lo- eated, if you want to buy, sell or ex- at any price, address Frank P. Cleve- The 1261 Adams Express Bldg., Chicago, .: i8 ee All Kinds of Cut Flowers in Season Wholesale and Retail ELI CROSS 25 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids i | Policyholders Service & Adjustment Co., Detroit, Michigan A Michigan Corporation organized and conducted by merchants and manu- facturers located throughout the State for the ‘purpose of giving expert aid to holders of Fire Insurance policies. We audit your Policies. Correct forms. Report upon financial condition of your Companies. Reduce your rate if possible. Look after your interests if you have a loss. We issue a contract, charges based upon amount of insurance carried, to do all of this expert work. We adjust losses for property owners whether holders of contracts or not, for reasonable fee. Our business is to save you Time, Worry and Money. For information, write, wire or phone Policyholders Service & Adjustment Co. 1229-31-32 Majestic Building, Detroit, Michigan Bell Pkone Main 2598 Hot Weather Candy Pure Sugar Stick Candy, about 28 sticks to the pound. Improves with age. Never gets sticky. Pails 20 pounds. Iced Raspberry Jelly Tarts Melt in the mouth but not in your candy case. Boxes 25 pounds. bring you business. every respect. These goods will We guarantee them in PUTNAM FACTORY Grand Rapids, Mich. YOU OUGHT TO KNOW that all Cocoa made by the Dutch method is treated with a strong alkali to make it darker in color, and more soluble (temporarily) in water and to give it a soapy character. But the free alkali is not good for the stomach. Lowney’s Cocoa is simply ground to the fineness of flour without treatment and has the natural delicious flavor of the choicest cocoa beans unimpaired. It is wholesome and strengthening. The same is true of Lowney’s Premium Chocolate for cooking. The WALTER M. LOWNEY COMPANY, 447 Commercial St., Boston, Mass. RRS AES NST Soa eS P. Steketee & Sons Come to Michigan’s Best Fair September 14 to 18 Make our store your head- quarters and inspect our lines of Fall Dry Goods and Gents’ Furnishings. P. STEKETEE & SONS Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich. We close Saturdays at 1 o’clock. THE NEW IOWA) CREAM SEPARATOR The machine that gets all the butter-fat at all times of the year. The kind that doesn’t come back on your hands because it breaks the back to turn it or because it won’t do thorough skimming on cold milk or because it cannot be thor. oughly flushed. Have youseen the New Iowa with its anti-friction worm gear,the most wonder- ful invention to avoid wear? The New Iowa has a low supply can, gear entirely enclosed in a dust proof frame, smallest bowl with the largest skimming capacity. The farmers readily see the great super- iority of the New Iowa. They know a convenient and practical cream separa- tor when they see it. Why not sell it tothem-THE NEw Iowa? Write for our large illustrated and des- criptive catalog or ask to;have our repre- sentative call on you and demonstrate the : merits of the easiest selling cream separ- ator you ever saw. 102 Bridge St., WATERLOO, IOWA IOWA DAIRY SEPARATOR CO., 3 MECHANICAL PRECISION Nothing stimulates confidence as quickly and surely as absolute reliability. This fact is especially true in connection with accuracy of weights and values. Your customers do not ask or expect you wilfully to give more than 16 ounces to the pound. They are satisfied to get what they pay for. es 5A @ (FE COMPUTING SGALE © OOAXTON, C110 Loose Methods Unsafe A slip-shod way of serving your trade dis- courages confidence. You must be careful but mot slow. There is only one system which will give perfect results in rapid and accurate weighing. Dayton Moneyweight Scales are recognized by all competent authorities as having reached the highest degree of scale construction. They areaccepted and are being used not only in the United States, but in England and many other foreign countries. The new low platform Dayton Scale Four High Court Decisions attest to the efficency and accuracy of our computing scales. Now is the time to decide whether or not it will pay you to use this system. Investigation costs nothing, so send the attached coupon or a request for catalog by return mail. Money weight Scale Co,, 58 State St., Chicago. Next time one of your men is around this way,I would be glad to have your No. 140 Scale explained to me. This does not place me under obligation to purchase. EMGG@- ce. occ. eo DAY TOM. Of. meveet ana We... ...-.. 1.1... ac, PORWR oi sinc ct cine cee Weegee. 9s... RENO aa on ooo os de din ce css cacs MONEYWEIGHT SCALE CO., 58 State St., Chicago Visitors to Grand Rapids During the Fair Do not leave the city until you visit | KLINGMAN’S The ‘‘World’s Largest Furniture Store’’ 14 acres of beautiful furniture, includ- ing the product of the great factories of Grand Rapids, which have made this city famous the world over as the ‘‘Furniture City.” You are equally welcome as a visitor or buyer. Free souvenir postals all the week. Klingman’s Sample Furniture Co. | { | j | lonia-Fountain-Division | Opposite the ‘‘Morton House’ PAW-NEE OATS Tne sun or Perrecnon’” Ts not an “Indian Meal,” | but thousands of Ameri- cans make breakfast of it and consider that it Gives the Right Start for the day's work. Get it into your store and see how it gives you the right start, too. It is the finest grade of rolled White Oats that can be sold at popular prices. We let you make an average profit of 25 per cent. and make your own price to the consumer. You can't start sell- ing it too soon. The H;O Company \ AY EO) We get them in part payment for new Fox Visible Typewriters and then we fix them up here in our factory | We have Remingtons, Smith-Premiers, Olivers, Underwoods and some especially good bargains in some second- | If you have only a small amount of correspondence it is quite possible that one of these machines would It Is Just Possible a Second-Hand Typewriter Would Do We have them in large numbers—all kinds and sell them at low prices. hand Fox “regular” models. answer every purpose. Just write us that you are willing to give the typewriter question some consideration and then see what we do. Write to-day. FOX TYPEWRITER CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ™ Underwood