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> ¥ Page| SPECIAL FEATURES. er the bullfight or the gridiron be} UNRESPONSIBLE REPORTER but the stirrer-up of the strife. ti
a ! ¢ : : a ji : T-ulp OF He Sstiire n
rine 4. ee. Wierid. the arena for the display of muscle,| Like the rest of humanity the re-|'nprincipled and unresponsible re
= oe ae oener Market. the brute, the beast, will exult over|porter is on the lookout for the Al | port r, got in his work and receive:l
\ 10. Energetic Laziness ke ee and a too, in propor- mighty Dollar. with this diff rence, |" _ a ae money for it and
a i ee ae on as 7 attended with the sac-|that the rest of humanity is at times 5 ra ee i a ees wee
. i 16 ee ie, a ihe and eH It au come ence a little at least by the pro | eae nib a on
- ae oe. to ~— then, that the brute element |prieties and the reporter laughs t fhand why would it vcd be cal
it 22. Butter, Eggs and Provisions. prevails at the football game and|to scorn. He is after the money mad lthe senate ha told tic ” pe)
26. Le amet Traveler. that same element is what has de- that obtained, the c ynsequences a | he ct ai sane fe e oo |
roe 4 oe Poe eee Current. csraded it until game and crowd alike ; matter of utter indifference. Am¢ [late : the Mecsit ity | La
30. Shecial Brice Gureent partake of the degradation. So the|ica has been recently visited by  ]one of the most Pie id a
oe college boy, the cream of the coun-|4istinguished English poet. Suffering | ] nglish anh life te uv nee " vl
> THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE_|t'y. goes to the game and lets loose |from mental disease, he makes cet the sae eee A ie Seen hi
It is a month or more since the |e beast that is in him. So he comes tain statements which only a minid | ceandal: Why aa) fet fi : : le! b
“<> last gridiron contest and press and back with more of the spirit and the demented would make and the re-| aac to aaa a ot iL ‘ a. a
people still imsist on talkime about | etre of the beast and so is not|porting sleuth, scenting the unsavory |the tale and let a seid nicture 1
ant A football. “Something,” they say, “has strengthened the intimacy between|scandal afar off, gets the subject | se ittered b a 7. ae , 1 a
got to be done about it. It is Pha-|beast and text-book, a condition of|matter of his story and, of course. | { ) it the . dina bli a Ly se
if ¥ raoh’s last plague right over again. It things not at all to the credit of foot- | his ney for it, snaps his fingers in| nd k ‘ : the : ‘ dus par ae ’
is taking our first born, the family’s ball and not one that commends it to|the face of an exasperated public, in-|dollar is willing to sn h the fair
-” ! ~ best, and so the nation’s best, and sound learning and culture. sultingly asserts that everything i ao ‘as as . : ; na v
« ieaving a nation of fathers and moth- There is something else: The rec-|fish which comes into his net, asks hough that 4 r¢ | 1 i b Poethee
ers to mourn over sons killed for the |Ctd of the college muscle is the rec if there were only one answer to t Dé 5 t Nation’s - I
oH ho seke of amusing the masses crowd ord Of the soft snap.’ Time ma acento, if this is a free country « : oe ‘ i” L — ree b
ing the benches of the ballground. Ir| “hen the boy who went to college |!o and whether the sacredness of the | picture be . exp cia
et is worse than the bullfight of Spain, | went with the idea of studying with | Pptess is to remain inviolate, and, last |showine t nublies onini i ay pe
i worse than the eladiatorial contest of |@l! his might and came home at the of all and most impudently of all,land then let 4h a iy 1 scdioas
m= < the Romans, and stopped it must be.|¢"d of his four years with his world what we are going to do about it? |pneighbcrhood it laine ‘ha nee
But how: widened and himself greatly benefited. With a regret that can not be nis of 4 sath a a ae
One pleasing sign in the discussion With the coming of athletics came {soon nor too earnestiv expressed su id his we : Let him f ' the an
J Hu which will not be stayed is the ex- the idea that mere time spent in the |amends have been made as the condi . ere a. work and “t
} pression heard everywhere to the ef-|classroom has a full measure of value.|tions call for, the poet's sanity h n ‘i t his tt a . i
3 fect that the young lives sacrificed | Hence it followed as a matter of |explained the reasons for his unu a : o bia
only last Thanksgiving Day were too] COurse that a student who has spent |ttterances and the contemptible from tha
7 precious to the world to be given | four years at college ought to have |porter, with his money jingling in/at heart d spis
up to such a senseless purpose; and | Ris diploma for that if for nothing |his pocket, starts out for anothe: In itself on
7 in that one reason, it is believed, lies|more. Time, however, is‘ not down |“scoop” in his favorite cesspool o! thet i on
the conclusion of the whole matter, |in the course of study and to make |journalism and trusts tl luck leenest reoret
The bereaved parents are not willing lup for that the student’s one idea was |a kind Providence will again reward|fered by — th
to mourn in silence over their inex | £0 select studies with no other fea-|him for his strict devotion to busi hom dis o
7 pressible loss and the nation needing |ture to recommend them than the|ness. reporter, the
nt this same young life for the accom- |!cast possible time called for for their Whether the publisher or th e-|far sympathize
plishment of its far-reaching purpos-|lTreparation+-the less the time called|porter is the responsible party i |t¢ “a iicwledue and confess his man
- es can not tolerate any longer the for the softer the snap. Is it any such instances is a question for the |isold sins and weaknesses” and sin no
criminal lengthening of the death-list,|wonder, in this battle of brain andj;courts to decide, but how would b uose? From what the world so far
The time has come when the captain brawn, that brawn won; and is it at|do for the newspapers which publis f
cf the team is to say no longer bo fall surprising that with the beast such matter to give the reading pub- |
* the family, “You are to sacrifice your |ahead that same beast should show lic the name of the newsmonger? He |
i son in the interests of the next grid-|itself at all times and in all places? ought to have what benefit comes |
iron contest.” The game, when it| That is exactly what has taken |from such work and the public tha
* comes to that, will be given up and | place. In college life the rowdy |condemns or approves of it ought al
there are grief-stricken homes. the i reions. The old law has been revers-|So to know who cooks up such vers- .
‘ country over which are saying injed and matter is ruling over mind, or,|es for it to swallow and digest—if it yy
their sorrow, “Would that this deci-|as it has been said before, the beast |can. It may be 4 matter of Httlel_wount of mones paid for it, the on
> sion had been reached long ago.” - ahead: and that is the something |consequence to make a personal mat-{thing written for and the one object
| With the death-clause eliminate |else which underlies the game _ of/ter the subject of public concern, if] > be constantly kept in view ea the
from the game the thoughtful por-|football, which has made the college |by so doing the reporter can put|]meantime it remains to be seen how
+ tion of the American community are|course a series of soft snaps and has |money in his purse. Reputation long the public will put up with such
4 wondering how much of the rowdy |done its best to make the rowdy the |nothing; position is nothng; whether] pusiness and, when iecd sf it. as they
- “ element attending these games  of|pet of the social world. both are to be sacrificed for the sake|jre ooing to be, what will be its
| football is the natural and inevitable} It is safe to conclude, then, that the }of a story as shameless as it is uN-| method of resentment.
‘ae result of such games. Spain’s favor-|remedy for the eviis attributed to true is nothing. There is a chance —__
a4 ite pastime centralized in the exhibi- football is not to put an end to the |for a dollar and for the sake of that From man’s point of
_ tion of muscle and the applause of|game, but to kill the brute, the beast unit of value a mistake or a misfor-|View on reatest paradoxes
aa the crowd at the contest went to the|in it and controlling it. Let mind be|tune is magnified into a mountain of |15 4 bachelor who has to take the rest
‘ beast that won, whether he had four|restored to its throne and death will evil the disastrous results of which re
. legs or two and the popularity of the |¢cepart from the gridiron. Study will|the instigator alone escapes. So men a 5 on he ae fou oe
sport depended upon the fact that |again take up its home in college and|high in the nation’s regard were ee ae a be ee
5 « the brute element upon the benches|the old educational life will again charged with misdemeanors during the i pepe pape 4 ihe nie
4 applauded the brute element on the |send out its generations of men,|last political campaign. It made a n eS a ae ait
: arena. It is the one touch of nature}everywhere in action and in speech good story and the story started the If we paid more attention to en
the |expected scandal which so far has|forcing good laws we would waste

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THE NEW MERGER.

 

Advantages and Disadvantages of the
New Arrangement.

The plan has been made public for
the merger of the gas, traction, elec-
trical and power interests in this
State of Hodenpyl, Walbridge ’& Co.,
of New York, E. W. Clark & Co.,
ef Philadelphia, and W. A. Foote, of
Jackson. The plan is very compre-
hensive, hitting most of the high
spots in the State, and it is also some-
what complicated, but in brief it is as
follows:

The developed and _ undeveloped
water powers on the Muskegon, Kal-
amazoo, Grand and Au Sable rivers,
that is the Commonwealth, the Grand
Rapids-Muskegon and the Au Sable
power companies, together with the
electric distributing plants at Grand
Rapids, Saginaw, Bay City, Kalama-
zoo, Battle Creek, Jackson, Flint,
Pontiac, Cadillac and numerous inter-
mediate points are to be organized
into One company to be known as the
Consumers Power Company. What
the capitalization of this company is
to be in preferred and common stock
is not given.

The Michigan Light Company,
criginally made up of the gas prop-
erties at Jackson, Kalamazoo and
Pontiac, is to be enlarged to take in
the gas properties of Saginaw, Bay
City and Flint, with a capitalization
of $2,500,000 preferred and $3,000,000
common stock.

The Grand Rapids Railway Com-
pany, with $1,500,000 preferred and
$2,000,000 comon stock, and the Sagi-
naw-Bay City Railway and the rail-
way between Saginaw and Bay City
are to retain their individual organiza-
tions.

The Commonwealth Power, Railway
& Light Company, with $6,000,000
preferred and $12,000,000 common
stock, is to be organized under the
laws of Maine or some other state to
take over the commen stocks of the
Consumers’: Power Co., the Grand
Rapids Railway Co., the Saginaw Bay
City Railway Co. and the Michigan
Light Co. The common stocks of the
various corporations taken over ex-
ceed the preferred stocks and by
acquiring the common stocks the new
Commonwealth will control the indi-
vidual properties. The gross earn-
ings of all the properties involved for
the past year were $4,487,177, operat-
ing expenses $2,317,561, taxes and in-
terest on $16,677,000 bonds outstand-
ing $1,049,373 and dividends on
$6,894,000 underlying preferred
stocks $398,640. After the payment of
all these charges there still remains
$721,603, which allows 6 per cent.
dividends on the $6,000,000 preferred
stock of the new Commonwealth Com-
pany and leaves $361,603 or about 3
per cent. for the $12,000,000 common
stock.

To bring the various common
stocks into the Commonwealth $125
of new common stock will be given for
each $100 of the Commonwealth and
Grand Rapids-Muskegon Power Com-
pany common stocks, $90 preferred
and $90 common for each $100 of the
Grand Rapids Railway Co. common,
$40 preferred and $60 common for eaca
$100 of the Saginaw-Bay City stock,

 

and $120 preferred and $35 common |
for each $100 of the Michigan Light |
properties |

common. When all the
have been acquired and what is left of
the preferred and common stock has
been scld the company will have in its
treasury $1,150,000 cash, $300,000 of
the Consumers’ Power Company’s
preferred stock and $200,000 Michigan
Light preferred with which to devel-
op its properties, make additions and
improvements and for working cap1-
tal.

In transactions involving public
utilities there are two viewpoints to
be considered, that of the investor
and that of the consuming public.
From the investor’s point of view it
is certain the proposition will look
excedingly attractive and  subscrip-
tion rights will probably command a
premium, although the subscription
rights are issued on an unusually
conservative basis. The present sur-
plus earnings of the combined proper-
ties show 3 per cent. on the common
stock, and as the various properties
are developed it is certain these earn-
ings will increase so rapidly as to
put the common stock on a dividend
basis. The gas and street railway
properties will yield increased earn-
ings as the cities in which they are
located grow larger, but the greatest
increase will be in the power depart-
ment, which is now little more than
in its infancy and which has immense
possibilities of development, The
union of all these properties under a
single control, with the superior tal-
ent in the management which large
capital can command, and the econo-
mies which will be effected by work-
ing together will add to the earnings
very materially.

The new Commonwealth, which
will be an overload for all the proper-
ties, is based on the water that has
been injected at various times into
the individual properties, and it is
possible when the people recall that
all its $6,000,000 preferred and $12,-
000,000 common stock is made wealth
instead of invested capital they may
think they have a grievance, but when
they forget this they will never know
that anything has happened. The
rates, which are fixed by local fran-
chises, will be unchanged. The lo-
cal management will be the same un-
less better men are put in charge.
And it is likely the service will be
improved, especially in the power and
light department. For this city in the
matter of power and light the plan
will have its advantages. The three
big power companies, the present
Commonwealth on the Kalamazoo,
the present Grand Rapids-Muskegon
cn the Muskegon and the Au Sable
rot yet developed will be connected
up and in the event of an accident or
shortage in the supply on the Muske-
gon the other sources of supply can
be drawn upon and the service will
go on without interrutpion. As far
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ground of complaint because in re-
cent years the company has pleaded
poverty when asked to make exten-
sions and improvements. The ex-
change of stocks will increase the
company’s common stock dividend
charges to $108,000, or $28,000 more
than has been paid, and there will be
$1,800,000 Commonwealth common
loaded upon the Grand Rapids com-
mon, which will eventually demand
recognition. Much of the criticism of
the financial operations no doubt will
disappear if early announcement be
made of plans for extensions and im-
provements. President C. M. Clark,
of the Railway Company, has not in
the past shown any great zeal in the
development of the Grand Rapids sys-
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He was a little German man, and
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“Something good has_ happened,
eh?”

“Der best efter. Schmidt. und I
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“Let’s see? Schmidt is in the ice
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“He vhas.”

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him?”

“Shust so.”

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“Und to-day we vhas partners. I
vhas tooken in. Schmidt he handles
all der money und I handles all der
ice. By golly, but I vhas a happy
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Jia paper capitalization of $500,000,| about last New Year’s, but stopped
pa i never owned any tangible property,|after furbishing up about four boards
Zea ar 1 il fiy i e and therefore has no right to $16,000] of the wainscoting. Pointed hints
i i reese Si ve worth of property belonging to Fred-|since have had no effect on the easy

   

    

   
 

  
 
    

 

 

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Movements of Merchants.

Howell—Barker & Chapel have
opened a drug and jewelry store here.

Clio—W. H. Stout and Ralph Gil-
lett have formed a copartnership and
engaged in the grocery business here.

Wayland—E. A. Bragg has sold his
stock of groceries to F. A. Burling-
ton, who has combined it with his
stock of meats.

Caro—Charles H. Campbell has
purchased the Moreland building and
taken over the implement business
of Isaac, Lowe.

Greenville—E. Perks has sold his
stock of meats to his son, Leslie
Perks, who will continue the business
under his own name.

St. Johns—A. T. Smith has sold his
blacksmithing and wood working
business to George Fletcher, who
took possession Jan. 1.

Dexter—A. S. Yost, dealer in dry
goods and groceries, who had been
in poor health for a year or two, died
recently of Bright’s disease.

Dexter—The Novelty Store, con-
ducted until recently by Miss Keal,
since the death of her father, has been
reopened by Mrs. O. Conger & Co.

Yale—Newell & Ponsford have
sold their stock of general merchan-
dise to C. S. Cochrane, who will con-
tinue the business at its present lo-
cation.

Greenville—Miller & Harris, furni-
ture dealers of Grand Rapids and
Hastings, have taken a lease of five
floors of the Gibson block and will
open a furniture store here Jan. 15.

Detroit — The wholesale grocery
business heretofore conducted under
the style of Lee, Cady & Smart will be
conducted hereafter under the name
of Lee & Cady.

Durand—G. A. Stambaugh has sold
his stock of bazaar goods to F. L.
Larry and Ola Wallace, who have
formed a copartnership and will con-
tinue the business.

Holland—The Fred Kleyn stock of
shoes has been sold to Edward West-
fair for $2,400. Westfair held a chat-
tel mortgage on the stock. Kleyn re-
cently went into bankruptcy.

Grandville—J. Hudson has sold his
interest in the general merchandise
business of the Hudson-Hoekzema
Co. to his partner, P.- J. Hoekzema,
who will continue it under his own
name.

Lansing—C. F. Riede & Co., of
Kalamazoo, have purchased the dry
goods stock of Kositchek & Bros.
and will continue the business at its
present location. Mr. Riede will as-
sume the management of the store.

Battle Creek—B. W. Pinch has
sold a two-thirds interest in his shoe
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Calendar, formerly employed as
clerks in the store. The new firm
will be known as Pinch, Calendar &
Wilks.

Zeeland—Peter De Pree, who was
employed at the Wm. De Pree Co.’s
store as tinsmith, has opened a tinshop
on Church street next to the Cammer-
cial Savings Bank. Mr. De Pree serv-
ed the De Pree Co. for more than
fourteen years.

St. Joseph—Gustave H. Knaak has
merged his drug business into a cor-
poration under the style of the Knaak
Drug Co., with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, all of which has been
subscribed, $3,000 being paid in in
cash and $9,700 in property.

Muskegon — The partnership of
John J. Stulp, Peter L. Cloetingh and
Egbert Dekker, known as the Stulp
Hardware Co., has been dissolved,
Egbert Deker having sold his interest
to his partners. The business will
be continued under the same style.

Traverse City—J. E. Brown, who
has managed the Hannah & Lay Mer-
cantile Co. for the past three years,
has resigned to take the position of
manager of the jobbing house of Re-
villon Freres, at Edmundton, Alber-
ta, Canada, one of the largest jobbing
houses in the world.

Grand Ledge—W. R. Clarke, who
has been engaged in the hardware
business here for several years un-
der the style of the Clarke Hardware
Co., has merged the business into a
stock company under the same style.
The change is made solely to en-
able Mr. Clarke to admit his mana-
ger and clerks to a share of the prof-
its of the business.

Traverse City—Clapp & Son, the
South Union street bakers, have
branched out into the cracker and
biscuit business and have added an
outfit that is capable of taking care
of their present business in that
line. The company now manufac-
tures twenty different kinds of bis-
cuits, cookies, snaps and other pas-
tries, which are all put up in a twelve-
pound sanitary display case, which is
a very attractive package.

Elm Hall—Thomas J. Blair, for
the past two years ‘postmaster alt
this place, has tendered his resigna-
tion to take effect when his succes-
sor is appointed. In doing this Mr.
Blair takes the first step looking to-
ward retirement from active business
life. For 36 years he has been promi-
nent in business and political life of
the county, and as soon as he dis-
poses of his stock of merchandise in-
tends to enjoy a well earned rest.

Nile—Judge Coolidge has decided
that the Michigan Cold Storage Co.,
a Benton Harbor concern, which had

 

erick W. Steele, of Chicago, who is
said to be the only one of the found-
ers of the company who ever paid
in any money. The suit for posses-
sion was brought by another officer
of the concern.

Cadillac—Trustee Fred M. Breen
reports that the office supply stock
of A. E. Johnson & Co. has been sold
to W. PF, Fank of Chicago, for
$1,125, enabling the company to make
another payment to creditors of 18
cents, a total to date of 33 cents on
the dollar. Mr. Funk has sold the
business to Tom Keily, of this city,
one of the largest creditors of the
company. It is expected that he will
sell to the company, who will con-
tinue the business.

Detroit--The Peninsular Savings
Bank will erect a new fireproof bank
and office building on the site of the
present five-story structure at 40-42
Fort street west, the ground floor of
which is occupied by the bank. Gran-
ite and bronze will be used extensive-
ly in the new structure, which is ex-
pected to cost about $500,000. The
Bank will take temporary quarters
on Griswold street this month, other
tenants of the building also vacating
so that the present structure can be
torn down at once.

Detroit—At the- annual meeting of
the Wayne County Savings Bank
Jan. II, a proposition to increase the
capitalization from $400,000 to $1,000,-
000 will be voted on by the stock-
holders. It is proposed to pay for
$300,000 of the increase from the un-
divided profits of the Bank, the
stock to be issued to the stockholders
in proportion to their holdings. The
other $300,000 is to be offered to
stockholders at par in the proportion
the $300,000 bears to the present cap-
ital stock. The Wayne Bank was or-
ganized in 1871. The statement of
Nov. 16 showed $14,111,693 resources
and $11,532,245 deposits. The un-
divided profits were $303,705.

Detroit—Thomas L. Wilson has

‘purchased an interest in the R. S.

Webb provision and cold storage
business and it will hereafter be con-
ducted under the name of the Webb
Packing Co. Mr. Wilson assumes
the office of President and Manager
of the new company and will give
his entire time and attention to the
business. R. S. Webb remains with
the company in the capacity of Vice-
President. The business to be con-
ducted will be the wholsaling of
meats and the operation of a cold
storage plant at 269-285 Grand River
avenue. Mr. Wilson was prominently
connected with Hammond, StanJish
& Co. for twenty years, where he
became thoroughly conversant with
every detail of the packing business.
The Webb Packing Co. will have a
capitalization of $200,000.
Owosso—An Owosso business man
who rents his store tried hard to get
the owner to paint it. The owner
is a personal friend of his tenant,
and likes to sit around in the cozy
office. Likewise he is not stupend-
ously industrious. He started to paint

going owner, so the tenant tried, this
week, what he fondly believed would
be a more effective method of call-
ing the owner’s attention to his de-
linquency. He prepared 14 signs
of various sizes, but all very readable,
even from a distance. Each bore the
legend, “Fresh Paint!” Three were
stuck on the ceiling, three or four
on each side wall, three on the floor.
and two on the favorite chair of the
owner. The latter never flickered an
eyelash the morning the display greet-
ed him. He sat around, as usual.
talking about the chances of the
Tiges for next year, and ignoring the

puzzled glances of customers who
came in and saw “paint” signs on
dry, dingy walls. He has not re-

ferred to the signs since, though they
are still in place. Nevertheless, the
tenant thinks he sees signs of weak-
ening, and believes the interior will
really be repainted by April 1.

Manufacturing Matters.
Hopkins—W. H. Noggle will equip
and operate a sawmill here,
Kalamazoo—The Enameled Steel
Tank Co. has changed its name to the
Enameled Tank Co.

Detroit—Morgan & Wright have
increased their capitalization from
$1,800,000 to $2,500,000.

Detroit—The Michigan Ammonia

Works has increased its capital stock
from $100,000 to $250,000.

Manistee—The McKillip & Hopper
Manufacturing Co. has been changed
to the Hopper Lumber & Land Co.

Detroit—The principal office of
the Detroit-Milford Sanitary Manu-
facturing Co. has been changed to
Milford.

Escanaba—The tie preserving plant
has been closed down for a few days
this week for repairs. The plant will
be run all winter with a full crew.

Millersburg—R. Mitchell will oper-
ate the “little mill” at this place,
formerly owned by J. T. Hamilton,
and will put in a stock of 2,000,000
feet of timber.

Detroit—The J. C. Hinz Furnace
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $5,000, all
of which has been subscribed and
$1,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Butcher Lumber Co.
has bought a lot on Greenwood ave-
nue, adjoining its yard, and is build-
ing an artistic frame office building,
using basswood siding.

Ontonagon—The Ontonagon Lum-
ber & Cedar Co,’s sawmill, which has
been idle for the last few weeks, has
resumed operation. There is every
prospect of a fine season’s cut.

Detroit—The Lullabye Cradle Co.
has engaged in business with an au-
thorized capital stock of $20,000 com-
mon and $5,000 preferred, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
In In property.

Plymouth—A new company has
been organized under the style of the
Yates-Upholt Brass Co., with an au-
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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The supply of Cuban raw
sugar is increasing steadily, and from
now on prices will doubtless show a
downward tendency. Refined sugar
has made no change since the last re-
ported decline, which took the mar-
ket to-a basis of 4.85¢ for N. Y. gran-
ulated and 4.75c for Michigan. The
demand is very light.

Tea—The trade of the new year
has hardly commenced, but the mar-
ket reports of most lines, especially
in Japans, Formosas and Ceylons, re-
main firm. The better grades of me-
dium Ceylons show an advance of 4
@%c and latest cables report the
market price firm all around, quota-
tions of Greens being high, with an
upward tendency. India teas show
light supplies and very strong posi-
tion. London reports large purchases
cf Congous, which are relatively cheap
compared with Indias and Ceylons,
but ruling prices are anticipated after
the general election, with a business
revival.

Coffee—The demand is very good.
Reports of a poor crop next year are
current, with various interpretations,
although not uniformly accepted at
full value. Temporarily the large visi-
ble supply keeps the interior con-
servative. Much the same situation
exists in mild grades. Some whole-
salers expected, as usual, to pick up
some coffees at a bargain just before
the first of the year, but were unable
to do so, which indicates a_ very
strong market.

Canned Goods—The tomato pack is
2 little lighter than generally expect-
ed by anywhere from a million to a
million and a half cases. Corn is mov-
ing well at present. Peas are hold-
ing firm and the demand for some
crades is good. Beans are moving
slowly and holding at the same pric-
cs. Asparagus tips have been in good
demand and some of the markets are
nearly cleaned up. The market on
canned fruits is about the same. The
demand was light the past week, as
most grocers are invoicing and buy
just what they are compelled to in
order to fill orders. The situation in
California fruit appears to be a strong
cne. The supply on the coast is more
closely cleaned up than for many
vears past at this season, particular-
fy in the more popular grades, while
Eastern jobbers are tinderstood to be
carrying unusually small — stocks.
Southern fruits, as usual at this time
cf the year, are neglected, but as the
holdings of packers are not burden-
some there is no pressure to sell and
prices are maintained at the previous
quotations. Southern pears are very

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Dried Fruits—Apricots are dull and
unchanged. Raisins are still weak, un-
settled and dull. Currants are in
moderate demand at unchanged pric-
es. Apples are steady to firm, but
not very active. Figs, dates and cit-
ron are all unchanged and in light
demand. Prunes are unchanged on
last week’s quotations; demand is
light. Peaches are steady to firm,
but show no special demand.

Cheese—The demand is very dull
on all grades of cheese, which is cus-
tomary for the season. The stocks
in storage are very light and we do
not look for any change in prices
during the coming week. The market
to-day is ruling at 15 per cent. high-
er than it did one year ago. We look
for a better consumptive demand aft-
er the holiday season.

Rice—Reports from the South say
brokers are feeling more cheerful, as
the offerings of desirable grades of
Japans are finding bvyers despite the
fear in some quarters that lower pric-
es will be seen later on, which would
be almost impossible.

Syrup and Molasses — Glucose
shows no change for the week. Com-
pound syrup is in excellent demand
at unchanged prices. Sugar syrup is
active at ruling high prices. Molasses

is unchanged and in moderate de-
mand.

Provisions — Everything in the
smoked meat line is very dull. There

is ample supply and the market is
barely steady at %e decline over a
week ago. Pure lard is firm at un-
changed prices, while compound is
firm at %@%c advance. Barreled
pork, dried beef and canned meats are
unchanged, with a very light sale.

Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are
steady and fairly active. Salmon are
well maintained as to price, but quiet.
Domestic sardines are not moving at
all in first hands and are unsettled as
to price. Imported sardines are steady
and unchanged.

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The Produce Market.

Apples—$3@3.25 per bbl.
winter varieties.

Beets—$1.25 per bbl.

Butter—The receipts of butter this
past week have been very light. The
bulk of the arrivals are showing sea-
sonable defects. All grades are firm
at the advance a week ago. The
make is below normal for the season
and we look for a continued scarcity
at slightly advanced prices. Local
dealers hold creamery at 35%4c for
tubs and 36%c for prints; dairy rang-
es from 22@23c for packing stock
to 27c for No. 1; process, 27@28c;
oleo, 11@2o0c.

Cabbage—6oc per doz.

Carrots—$1.25 per bbl.

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Celery—$1.25 per box.

Cranberries—$6 _ for
$6.50 for Late Howes.

Cucumbers—Hot house, $1.20 per
doz.

Eggs—The market is very firm at
unchanged prices. There has been a
very active consumptive demand and
all grades of eggs have met with
ready sale at the top of the market.
We look for a continued good de-
mand at slightly advanced prices.
The future prices of aggs depend
entirely upon the weather conditions.
Storage stock is steady at 26@27Cc.
Local dealers pay 28@30c per doz.
for fresh, holding candled at 32c and
slickers at 33c.

Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz.

Grape Fruit—Florida is steady at
$3.75 per box for 54s and 64s and
$3.50 for 80s and gos.

Grapes—$5@6 per keg for Malagas.

Honey—t5c per tbh. for white clov-
er and 12c for dark.

Horseradish Roots—$6.50
for Missouri.

Lemons—The market is steady on
the basis of $4.50 per box for both

Jerseys and

per bbl.

Messinas and Californias.
Lettuce—Hot house leaf, r4c per
tb.; head (Southern stock), $2 per

hamper.

Onions—Home grown, 75c per bu.;
Spanish are in fair demand at $1.50
per crate.

Oranges—Navels, $2.75@3;
das, $2.75@3 per box for 150s
176s.

Potatoes—The market is steady on
the basis of 24@25c at the principal
buying points in Northern Michigan.

Poultry-—Paying prices are as fol-

Flori-

and

lows: Fowls, to@1ic for live and
12@13c for dressed; springs, 11@12c

for live and 13@14c for dressed;
ducks, 9@1oc for live and 13@14c for
dressed; turkeys, 14@15c for live and
17@18c for dressed.

Squash—tc per tb. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—$3.50 per bbl. for
genuine kiln dried Jerseys.

Turnips—-soc per bu.

Veal—Dealers pay 5@6c for poor
and thin; 6@7c for fair to good; 8@
gc for good white kidney.

2.
Merged Into a Corporation.

Henry A. Brink, shoe dealer at 195
Plainfield avenue, has merged his
business into a stock company un-
der the style of Brink’s Shoe Store.
The authorized capital stock is $3,000
preferred and $5,000 common, of
which $2,600 has been paid in in cash
and $2,000 in property. The officers
of the corporation are as follows:

President—Carl W. Frey.

Vice-President—Henry A. Brink.
Secretary and Treasurer — Carl
Burgstahler.

Neither Mr. Frey nor Mr. Brink

will be active in the business, Mr.
Brink retiring to his entire
attention to his manufacturing inter-
ests. Mr. Burgstahler, who will man-
age the business hereafter, was clerk
in the shoe store of Rindge, Krekel
& Co. for seven years, but for the
past year has traveled for the Weyen-
berg Shoe Manufacturing Co., of Mil-
wattkee.

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Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

The question of prohibition is one
that has been before the people many
years, and the pros and cons of the
liquor traffic are at times forced upon
the attention of the individual through
some particular incident. The follow-
ing brief death notice appeared in the
Evening Press:

“William Stennenberger, 27 years
old, having taken a mixture of wood
alcohol and chloroform with suicidai
intent. He was single.”

With the exception of a very few
people this item was passed by un-
noticed. However, was there not in
this particular instance one person at
least whose life (not the physical
existence) was made or marred by
the victories or defeats that befell the
above suicide?

Wilhelm, as he was no doubt fondly
called by his mother, lived the life
of the average boy, and when he
expressed his determination to emi-
grate to the United States a mother’s
blessing was extendel to him and, no
doubt, he was remembered in her
prayers. William was a good heart-
ed individual and generally indus-
trious. Drink and those who enticed
him to drink were his only enemies.

Owing to the fact that inventory
season was at hand the shoe factory
where he was employed was closed
down for several days. Time may
have hung heavily on his hands and,
as the dispenser of Old Year andl
New Year’s drinks him
most cordially, he slipped a cog, got
drunk and became so thoroughly dis-
gusted with his conduct that he re-
solved to make an end of it by poison.
After taking the same he told his
aunt, with whom he was stopping, ‘“t
have done it and I can see the devil
coming for me.” The mother, living
in her humble cabin across the
ter, no doubt was mentally
him a joyous and happy New Year,
and,when she now receives the news
of his untimely death her declining
years will be weighed down with sor-
row to the end.

welcomed

wa-
wishing

Was this man entirely to blame for
his untimely death and the sorrow
brought upon the poor old mothe-
or were others, actuated by greed, als»
to blame, and still others by
tributary negligence by granting li
censes to sell liquor to parties who
have no sense of responsibility and
are willing to dish it out as long as
there is a nicke] forthcoming? The
tragedy of the above is an untimely
death and a sorrowing mother.

In the perfection of the human
race, which no one but an extreme
pessimist will deny must eventually
take place, we must leave behind
us those habits which our forefa-
thers handed down to us but which
science informs us are destructive in
their very nature. In our education,
which is going on from press and
platform, in school and church, are we
not in the meantime under obligations
as individuals to seriously conside:
the question, Am I my _ brother’:
keeper? G. Adolph Krause.

Sansa eae

The Walter K. Schmidt Co. has in-
creased its capital stock from $40,000
to $66,000.

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Germany the Greatest of Four Euro-
pean Countries.

Berne, Switzerland, Dec. 20—After
having visited four countries on the
Eastern continent it is very easy for
us to see that thus far Germany is
the greatest, without taking into con-
sideration the number of square miles
she possesses.

In traveling about for knowledge,
as well as sightseeing in these va-
rious countries (Holland, Belgium,
Germany and Switzerland) one can
not help but observe that a cause must
exist for the location and size of the
cities that dot the land so numerously.

We have mentioned in one of our
former letters something regarding
the number of large cities along the
Rhine or western part of that coun-
try; but throughout that kingdom
much evidence exists in the way of
large and prosperous cities, although
not so plentifully that it will prove
the assertion of the above statement.

While the character of her cities
is such in general as to reveal much
that is of ancient construction, yet
there are many that are extreme-
ly modern in appearance: and most
2ll of the large cities have these sec-
tions separated and named as old and
new parts.

There are some differences to be
noted in these cities compared with
those in Michigan. But few of the
homes have any yards attached,
scarcely an inch going to waste, the
same as it is with the business sec-
tions.

The government does not allow
buildings to go higher than twenty
meters and this is the cause of a
similarity of which very few Ameri-
can cities can boast.

Imagine a street where for blocks
the buildings do not vary a foot in
keight and you will have the appear-
ance of the new sections of German
cities. This applies to the business
as well as residence sections.

Now let us consider some of the
special points that characterize this
country. Let us first take her stand-
ing army, ranking second to none in
the world, as it does. Every man
arriving at the age of twenty years
must commence a service of three
years. As her population is so very
dense this gives her a large stand-
ing army. The men are not. only
well fed but well clothed, and as they
are seen marching by to attend morn-
ing church service or in moving from
one post to another a very fine ap-
pearance is made.

Nothing like the number of soldiers
are seen in any of those other coun-
tries, and it is evident that a vast sum
of money is expended to maintain
such an army as Germany has to de-
fend herself with in times of neces-
sity.

Again, she owns nearly all of the
railroads within her borders and the
system of ticket selling and collec-
tion of fares. The numerous trains
dispatched and the number of men
and women employed for same are
all such as make us open our eyes in
amazement.

She has the good fortune of hav-

 

ing many rivers within her borders,
and although none of them can be
classed as large still many are rapid
flowing and furnish finé water powers
Some of these have sufficient depth
to admit of a large commercial busi-
ness on their waters—the Rhine, Elba,
Main and Spree being some on which
we have seen a surprisingly large
amount of freight transportation—
but the water power is a great fac-
ter in the inducing of great indus-
tries to locate their plants upon them.
Of some of these we have already
spoken. Another that will bear men-
tion because it is the largest of its
kind in the world, we were informed,
is the Krupp Gun Works, located at
Essen, on the Ruhr River.

This company, founded by Alfred
Krupp, employs 30,000 men at. this
point and as many more at_ other
points in the kingdom. Since the
death of Mr. Krupp a monument has
been erected on one of the most
central squares of this city of a quar-
ter million, which shows him at the
anvil clad with his leather apron.

He was blessed with two daughters
and they married men who, by spe-
cial act of the Kaiser, were granted
the right to add to their name that of
Krupp in order that the name of the
founder of this great business might
be perpetuated.

Still another and one that will in-
terest the druggist reader is that of
E. Merck, Darmstadt. The connec-
tion of this name with chemistry
dates back to Aug. 26, 1668, when
Frederick Johann Merck entered in-
to possession of the Engel Apotheke
in Darmstadt and was granted the
right to exercise his profession by
Ludwig VI., of Hesse.

This pharmacy, which was to prove
the nucleus of the factory, has re-
mained in unbroken possession of the
family. It was the fifth to succeed
to the family heritage who was to
transform the pharmacy to a world-
famed concern — Heinrich Emanuel
Merck, who took possession of the
retail store in 1816.

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installation of steam machinery, about
1850, atropine and its salts, canthari-

din, theobromine, caffeine, digitaline
and colchicine were placed on the
market. In 1862 cocaine was first

prepared, but twenty-two years elaps-
ed before this now indispensable drug
was admitted into the materia medica.

In a modest building in a garden
situated just outside the town walls

the foundation of E. Merck’s chemi-
cal works was laid, but very soon

more accommodations became neces-
sary and in the course of time build-
ing after building was erected until
a space of over twenty acres was oc-
cupied by the factory. Soon further
expansion became impossible and it
was decided to erect completely new
190.4.
These occupy an area of seventy-five
acres and yet additions must still be
to accommodate the _ firm's
«rowing business. Other branches are
located at Halle, Germany, and im
New York City.

What was written in our last letter
on welfare of employes, as relating
to the Farben-Fabriken, will apply to
a considerable degree to both of the
above named firms, especially to the
latter. One feature, in addition, is
worthy of mention: As with the EI-
berfeld firm, this firm also has a pen-
sion fund for its employes and it
speaks volumes for the condition of
the workers to hear that every year
witnesses a number of jubilees of the
twenty-fifth, or even fortieth, anni-
versary of the entry of some employe
into the firm.

works, which were opened in

made

These events are always duly cele-
brated, partners and staff meeting to-
gether to spend some hours untram-
ineled by the routine of work, and on
these occasions the factory band and
the different glee clubs vie with each
other in efforts to make the
evening a success.

their

We have now given several illus-
trations and mentioned some points
that have helped to make Germany
one of great importance and when we
add that, in the main, she has a fer-
tile soil and an industrious people.
inaking her a great agricultural as
well as manufacturing country, we
have given the chief reasons why she
stands so high among the powers and
is such a wealthy country.

Figures are always convincing and
especially when they refer to facts
relative to one’s own affairs, so
feel in adding some figures pertaining
to articles produced here and shipped
to us we can elucidate more clearly
the question before us.

Germany has more than twenty of
cur consular agencies located within
her borders, and while they vary con-
siderably, of course, in amount and
kind of exportation, still a report of
two of the leading ones will serve to
show where she excels us in many
lines of goods. For the year 1908
there was exported to the United
States from consular districts here as
follows, viz.:

we

Dresden Frankfort
Hee $ 983,085

Artificial flowers
Agate ware
Asbestos

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$ 95,000}

 

a and pamphlets 12,500 oo amounts were exported to us that we
shina and earthenware 798,015 , ae c J
Celluloid wares ......... 15.675 | Have not referred to for lack of space,
Cotton poods ............ 81,784 4 but together with above mentioned
AEUStS “COIOUS. 1.6.6. 17,802 5,25 pes sien: a f a
Dolls and dolls’ heads 30,058 they make a grand total of $25,000,000
ce and chemicals #8009 4,820,763! as the value of goods shipped to the |
ussentia ORES pease ees ie es m. o ‘ |
Fancy goods and toys 44,421 65,150| United States from these two dis-
Muses safety . . 22. 8,989 Ce mae ate Po. ae
Glass ware ............. 75038 : tricts, that of Frankfort (ranking
Gelatine ee pri third in importance) having dbout
Grass seeds .......... 40, p 4 ; :
Tae Calle 45.900 four-fifths to its credit, the remainder
iain, POAtS 22 100,000 longin: Vrecde
ee horse 2... 26,259|Pelonging to Dre den. ae
PIONS oe 10,625 Chas. M. Smith.
: 4 O45 95
Poe nee Bede ie! 40.945 oe *Under item of Drugs and Chemicals
Lithographic prints a 362.405 56.7251 are included coal tar colors of over $4,-
Leather wares : uals 480,050 | 009,000 value and caustie potash, $200,000,
Laboratory goods ee 9.088 103500 the balance being made up of antipyrine,
Machinery ee ee: 146 122 41.250 benzoic acid, bronze and bleaching pow-
Matal goad... 144.607 56.255 ders, tetrachloride of carbon, naphthol,
Musical instruments 1.662 62.500 orthoform, quinine and resorcin.
OW paimitings .....).... 9,890 1,050 —
@peredis: ol... 59,625 :
Haper MOONS {2.2 6i el. 53,502 128,500 Noah Identified. i
Piarinpan ee Epp A resident of Detroit went to New
CAMS fot. k ce... ,900,00 :
Rubber waste ......... 4.448 35.000; York City several days ago to make
MAUSRIOS Th an adc Ho Ae : nt oive he an
on sani 141'300|29 § Idress at a banquet given by a
Silverwares 0 0)0...... (ee agricultural society, and in the course
Skins, Calf <......... 2,250, : :
Cee ta 597. ot his remarks he referred to Daniel
SOAPS -- sev eeeeeeee cease came 23/9 | Webster as the greatest of Americans
Straw braids ........ 13,975 : : :
Straw pula 207000. 27,398 3,250;and the man who compiled the dic-
Surgical instruments .. 9,089 6,250 ,:
Stones, precious: ...... 4,440,000 tionary.
aoe aga veces ic Pl 53,950| A friendly hand pulled his coat tails
obaececo and cigarets ,097,416 i ; .
Woolen goods ......... 23,708 and a still, small voice whispered: |
Watch glasses ....... 24,500] «rr, oo : A aa .
Weed eee 675,000 Noah was the one who made the
aoe ees (Oa ee 165,000} dictionary.”
Varn; worsted ........ 39,260 ae : :
Zine and tin dust 1,450,000 No,” replied the orator with a su-
A number of other items of lesser|perior smile, “Noah made the Ark.”

 

 

 

 

 

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January 5, 1910

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TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF.

Turning over a new leaf has large-
ly gone out of fashion. Even the
boys and girls do not write out a
string of good resolutions for the
uew year, as did the boys and girls
of thirty, forty or fifty years ago.
Dealers in liquors and tobacco still
expect a slack season in their busi-
ness during the earlier part of Janu-
arty, because of the annual swearing
off of a portion of their customers, but
not nearly so many swear off as form-
erly. The man or woman who would
give it out that during 1910 he or she
was going to cut.out giving way to
a bad temper or indulging in pet ex-
travagances or make a serious ef-
fort to overcome some other short-
coming well might expect to be in
for a deal of “joshing” from friends
and acquaintances.

The old custom was based on the
theory that when the fair white page
of the New Year was turned we
could, by heroic effort, keep it pure
and unblemished, no matter how sul-
tied the preceding pages had become.
When we lapsed for the first time—
which sooner or later we were quite
sure to do—we felt like the boy who,
having become very angry on the
morning of the first day of his
good resolutions, bewailed bitterly:
“There’s another year spoiled.”

For us as individuals and for the
race the old theory is exploded. We
have learned that there is no such
thing as turning over an absoluteiy
new leaf. When Jones wakes up on
the morning of January 1, he is not
greatly different—in the nature of
things he can not be greatly differ-
ent—from the Jones who went to
bed on the night of December 31.
The calendar has undergone a mark-
ed transformation, but the change in
Jones, if there has been any change at
all, is so slight as to be impercepti-
ble. The old traits and tendencies,
the old weaknesses and _ idiosyncra-
sies are all there.

It used to be held that a man was
made over new, physically, every sev-
en years. Scientists now hold that
some parts are renewed much oftener
tnan others, but for the entire chanze
of all the tissues a longer time than
the old seven-year period is allowed,

 

For a man to become a new crea-
ture, mentally, morally, spiritually,
kow long is required? Precise an-
swer can not be made to this ques-
tion. Development may be rapid,
even sudden. An unused, dormant
faculty may be roused to undreamed-
of capability and power, but reai
change in character is a slow and
gradual process. By a mighty effort
of the will a man may break once
and for all with an evil habit, but for
long years he must struggle against
the old desire.

The Jones of 1910 will be the old
Jones of ‘1909. If he is twenty or
forty or sixty years of age, then in
making any change whatever in him-
self he must deal with the tenden-
cies accumulated in the twenty or
forty or sixty years that he has lived.
The students of heredity tell us that
he must deal with the traits and ten-
dencies of all his ancestors as well.
Fortunate indeed is Jones if from
his more immediate progenitors he
receive no handicap of vice or de-
pravity.

The old theory, taken as a whole,
is exploded, and yet it contained one
vital element of truth. Change, im-
provement, uplift and transformation
of character are possible, only it can
not be done while the bells are toll-
ing out the Old Year, as we once
supposed. It is better that radical
improvement in character should
come cnly as the result of long and
patient effort. It adds to the dignity
of the attainment that it can not be
gotten cheaply.

The moral ennui, the cynicism that
scoffs at the good resolution and the
high resolve are among the most de-
plorable tendencies of the times. The
man who is trying to gain the mas-
tery over serious failings is a more
hopeful subject than the one whose
faults are smaller but who sits com-
placently, allowing them to grow.

A musical instrument must be in
tune or it is worthless. The old way
of taking an annual inventory of our
failings, and for even a few days hold-
ing ourselves to a higher standard of
conduct, had in it a note of moral
soundness which we can ill afford to
lose.

Whatever are his weaknesses and
shortcomings, it will be well for
Jones to be humble and old fashioned
and turri over a new leaf; only, in-
stead of a spasmodic, short-lived ef-
fort, he must keep persistently on-
ward in the pathway of high endeav-
er, in spite of oft-repeated falls and
lapses. In time he will compel the
respect and admiration of even the
cynics and scoffers. While holding
continually before him the ideal of
character which he is striving to at-
tain, occasionally he may with profit
picture to himself that other Jones,
the deteriorated, degenerate Jones,
that, were he content to drift with
the current and make no struggle for
betterment, he inevitably must be-

come.
‘Sa AI RT SRE RENE

—_—_—
Some men think they are not spir-
itually minded save when they are

conducting clinics on their own souls.
PER NR ATMA NN FREE ART

Doubt is a good thing to forge
through but a poor thing to fatten on.

 

BELGIUM’S NEW KING.

The new King of Belgium is a
good deal more of a man in many
respects than his predecessor. Leo-
pold’s personal character is repre-
sented as being about as bad as it
could be, but he was a good business
man and many Belgians believe that
under his direction a great deal of
importance and value was secured
and by the same token some of his
business transactions were decidedly
shady and of the sort that he should
have been ashamed of and never un-
dertaken. King Albert is 34 years of
age and more respected than his un-
cle was. His wife is the daughter of
Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria,
who died last month. They have
three children, two boys and a girl,
which would seem to insure the con-
tinuance of the succession. Albert is
a@ man who would be esteemed and
highly regarded for his own sake and
on his own account independent of
royalty. There is every reason to be-
lieve that he will be one of the most
intelligent and successful of European
rulers.

He set studiously about preparing
himself for the kingship. One of the
things he did ten years or’so ago was
to spend about a year in the United
States traveling about incognito. He
made it his business to visit mines,
manufactories and _ especially iron
working plants. He made the ac-
quaintance of many prominent mer-
chants and financiers in this country.
One of the scandals of his uncle's
reign was connected with the Congo
country and Prince Albert made an
extended visit to that valley, travel-
ing many miles on foot in order to
get a thorough and personal under-
standing of the situation. He was not
deceived by the representations on
either side, for both were exaggerat-
ed. It is said of him that he has tact,
courtesy and good judgment. That
he has tact is evidenced by the fact
that he has avoided being mixed up
with any of the court scandals, and
was meanwhile on friendly terms with
all of royalty. Although he refused
in any way to countenance Baroness
Vaughan he did it in a manner which
made no break between him and his
uncle. He has an enormous fortune
in his own name and need not tax his
subjects exorbitantly to maintain the
royal household. .The Belgians be-
lieve that his administration will be
in every way commendable and sat-
isfactory and there is good reason
for this opinion.

 

 

THE POSTAL DEFICIT.

How to lessen the deficit in the
Postoffice Department is a subject
much talked about in Washington
and frequently mentioned in the
hewspapers. Nearly every President
talks about it in nearly every message
to Congress. President Taft pointed
out that there are a good many pe-
ricdicals which pay a penny a pound
that ought to pay a good deal more.
and if the postage was put up high
enough to drive them out of business
no harm would be done. There are
magazines which are nothing more
nor less than price lists and advertis-
ing mediums of no public interest or
benefit, which get into the mail by

 

conforming to the letter of the Cw
and enjoying the advantages to which
in the spirit of the law they are not
entitled. It is in this way that some
stores are enabled to build up a big
mail order business and maintain it.
There is no criticism to be offered

against a mail order business
any more than there js against
any wholesale’ or retail con-

cern, but when the pamphlets, price
lists, etc., are sent out broadcast ail
over the land at a cent a pound they
are getting something for nothing
and the Government can not afford
to be a silent partner in that busi-
ness, where it gets none of the profits.

There is another way in which the
postal deficit could be reduced con-
siderably without any injury to the
country’s welfare or prospects: Under
tne present system tons and tons of
speeches made in the Senate or the
House of Representatives by. this.
that or the other one are sent all
over the country. When a Califor-
nia man makes a speech and sends a
ton to his constituents the Postoffice
Department has to carry that weight
3,000 miles, and it has to pay for it
just as much as it would Bay for 2
daily paper or a letter. The depart-
ments send out a lot of stuff practi-
cally every day in the year except
Sundays. Much of this is of value
to its recipients. To be entirely fair
about it, however, these several de-
partments, should be charged for
postage and should pay it. Instead
of that all this, because printed, is
termed second-class matter and han-

|dled as such and charged up against

the newspapers, magazines, periodi-
cals, etc. If the suggested changes
were made it would be found with-
cut meddling at all with the postal
rates On newspapers that the deficit
would be nearly, if not wholly, wiped
out and removed. That would be only
fair and just. There is no reason why
the Postal Department should be ob-
liged to be the distributing agent for
every other department without gct
ting any credit for it. The Postal
Department has to pay the bills un-
der the present system and in all
fairness this service should be distrib-
uted and paid for by those who send
out the printed matter, whatever de-
partment, and if this resulted in few-
er speeches being sent around to con-
stituents there would be no very loud
lamentations on that account.
ianauntinettntieieesiee

 

 

Anderson Brothers, scientists of
Copenhagen, have brought out an in-
vention by which we see at a dis-
tance as we now hear by means of
the telephone. The patents are for
“an apparatus for the transmission of
Pictures by wire, showing color and
motion.” The brothers could not ob-
tain money in

their own country to
cefray the

expenses of preparing
working models and procuring pat-
ents, but they were helped by a Paris
concern, which paid 80,000 francs for
all the rights and also has agreed to
pey 8 per cent. on the earnings re-
sulting from the invention,
=—==__—XX_

The church locks itself up as dark
aS a sepulchre all the week and con-
demns youth for seeking light and
Joy,

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9

 

NOT MAKING GOOD.

The Yankee is good at talking and
he talks large. There is nothing ot
the seven by nine about him, and it
the subject-matter be one pertaining
to “My Country, ’tis of Thee,” noth-
ing but the Atlantic and the Pacific
will shut him in and even then he
slops over if he thinks of the Philip-
pines and the West Indies and Hono-
lulu; and he always thinks of them.
For a while past he has been letting
himself out. He got hold of Secre-
tary Wilson’s report the other day
and then the eagle did scream. “Of
course this is the biggest country on
earth. Farm products for this year
are not a cent less than $8,700,000,000.
How does $1,720,000,000 look to you
for ’og’s corn crop? What do you
think of $850,000,000 for a year’s by-
products of cotton—by-products,
mind you? No famine, boys, with the
wheat-bin holding $725,000,000 worth;
and if you want to laugh until your
sides ache, hunt up the report and
see what it says about hay, oats, po-
tatoes, barley, flaxseed, rice, rye and
hops. Oh, we’ve got ’em all right;
and remember the sum of all these
figures is for what the farmer gets
out of the ground. Big country?
Well, I guess, and if I didn’t fear
your charging me with bragging, I’d
let out a little on our resources.- I
guess I could make a pretty good
story, too, about our mining and
manufactures; but our farm products
are enough for you to chew on for
a spell;” and away he went chuckling,
while the listener, an over-sea man,
looked contemplatively at some fig-
ures he had been making and _ re-
marked that “there are two sides to
this as there are to most other
things.

“The United States has nothing to
be ashamed of with something over
an eight billion farm crop and the
rest of the earth have no fault to
find; but there is reason for believing
that the European farmer from his
point of view may not find those
flattering products to him particular-
ly depressing. In the first place, the
Yankee does not seem to be aware
that he is a trifle shiftless. He has
on the average the most fertile soil
and the finest climate of any Nation
in the world and yet the states pro-
duce on an average only fourteen
bushels of wheat to the acre, while
England raises an average of thirty-
two bushels an acre; Germany, twen-
ty-eight; the Netherlands, thirty-four
and France twenty bushels. The
United States raises an average of
twenty-three bushels of oats. to the
acre; Engiand, forty-two; Germany,
forty-six and Holland, fifty-three. In
potatoes the average yield for the
states is eighty-five bushels an acre,
while Germany, Belgium, Great Bri-
tain and Holland average 250 bushels
each. The corn crop, worth a billion
and three-quarters dollars, is not to
be despised—we can appreciate the
value if we do not the commodity—
but we have no produce to compare
with it and candidly admit that the
Yankee is ahead of us in that; but
with no desire to take the wind out
of his sails, we still believe that all

 

things considered our excess of 165
bushels of potatoes to the acre has a
world of meaning in it and we are
willing to let the whole matter rest
right. there.”

The bragging mood over, America
down deep in her heart knows that
she has not been making good. With
the best country in the world she
has not made the most of it. She
has done what the prodigal always
does—waste. The very ground, which
in a single year has poured forth
these bountiful harvests, is proof
enough of her prodigality. New Eng-
land was first hers. The soil was
thin and not over fertile. No mat-
ter; she exhausted it and left it. Why
not? It was easier to leave that old
place and go West. A little nearer
sunset, in the Valley of the Mohawk,
for instance, the land was cheap and
fertile. Hoe-tickled, the crops were
enormous; hence the abandoned New
England farms and the thickly settled
valleys of New York State, for a
while. Then the old story was re-
peated: Richer lands were in Ohio,
in the Mississippi Valley, in the Mid-
dle West—anywhere where the land
was new; and, rather than stay and
by cultivation keep the soil produc-
tive, she turned it to waste and went
where the skimming process could
be repeated. Until recently the mak-
ing two blades grow where one grew
before was something to laugh at, a
something which has resulted in an
excess Of 165 bushels of potatoes to
the acre in favor of the Old World
farmer, and showing, as nothing else
can, that with all her bragging and
with all her resources the country is
not making good.

Not many years ago the writer was
making the most of a glorious sum-
mer among our relation on the oth-
er side of the sea, and wherever he
went, he found nowhere a bit of earth

 

large enough to hold a seed that did|creasing people. It is simply making
not hold it. Not an inch of earth| good and until the Yankee emulates
lay fallow. If that inch was sterile,| Europe’s worthy example, he may
it was made fertile and so all over|exhaust the soil and abandon the
the breast of thiskly populated Eur-|farm, but he is not making ood—a
ope the land is forced to do all it|conclusion which is not a fact to
can do to maintain its constantly in-| brag of.

 

 

 

 

The
Discount
ona
Dozen

cans of Van Camp’s Pork and Beans

 

“GET SOME”’

doesn’t have to be large to make a woman
take them. Everyone who eats Van
Camp’s Pork and Beans once will not
only do so eleven more times, but will keep

right on, so it’s easy to

‘Sell her a dozen cans.”

 

 

The Van Camp Packing Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

 

 

ROGRESSIVE DEALERS foresee that

certain
on as sellers.

articles can be depended
Fads in many lines may

come and go, but SAPOLIO goes on
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1

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Costs the dealer the same

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10

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 5, 1910

 

ENERGETIC LAZINESS.

 

How Even Severe Cases Can Be
Cured.

“Flitters” is one of the bogies that
afflict workers that is much more
common than is generally supposed.
Masquerading in the guise of legiti-
mate ambition and an honest desire
to succeed, it really is a sort of ener-
getic laziness—and it is fatal to suc-
cess. At the bottom of “flitters” is a
well developed case of hankering for
a soft snap, a position which will
pay a good salary without entailing
the necessity of hard work.

The flitter and the floater are dif-
ferent propositions. The floater has
a legitimate place in the present or-
der of human industry; he floats be-
cause there is no work for him to do
at a place, not because he will not do
the work that is offered. Usually
the floater is a wage worker; nearly
aiways the flitter is a salary worker.
Floating is a natural result of condi-
tions; “‘flitters’”’ is a mental disease.

“I know of a case that will illus-
. trate the bad effects of flitters and al-
so show that even a severe case call
be cured,” said a department store
manager. “He was a young man who
was born in Chicago—I have known
him nearly all his life—with the tra-
ditional shrewdness and cleverness of
the city bred youth of a family in
moderate circumstances. His father
was a small merchant and kept the
boy in the public schools until he was
dismissed in the third year of his
high school work. He was well,
strong and quite energetic when en-
gaged in doing anything he liked.

Good Training for “Flitters.”

“Bob Rowe—I’ll call him that—had
shown business ability even before
ne was turned out of school for a se-
ries of infractions of the rules. He
had made some money every summer

.doing odds and ends. Sometimes he
would work as a soda fountain clerk
through the summer, sometimes he
would find employment at one of the
summer amusement parks.

“It was from his work in the parks
that he gained the idea for his first
venture after his school days. were
over. He had had some experience
with advertising solicitors—people
who sought advertisements for pro-
grammes for special events—and he
took up this work. It looked like a
soft snap. He knew the commissions
were large and the work did not seem
difficult or exacting.

“Bob started in with a vim and in
the first flush of enthusiasm—always
keeping his eye on the time when he
would have the programme privilege
and others would do the work for
him—he made rapid headway. By the
end of six months he had nearly $200
in the bank and a well stocked ward-
robe; he always had been attentive
to his clothes and he became more
so as his means to gratify his tastes
increased. He had averaged a little
more than $25 a week in commis-
sions.

“About this time a friend—whom he
had met in his new work—secured a
big advertising contract that netted
him several hundred dollars in com-
missions. Bob was openly envious;
he did not begrudge his friend his

success, but he wanted something of
the same thing for himself.
Job Too Slow For Bob.

“I think I'll try your line,’ Bob
said. ‘This is all right for a starter,
but it’s too slow. I may be working
on this for a year before I can make
more than thirty or forty dollars a
week. Besides, it comes in driblets
and it’s hard work.’

“So Bob quit his place and secur-
ed a position with his friend’s em-
ployer. He landed a big contract the
first month, making nearly $300 on it,
and this aroused his enthusiasm. He
was certain he had finally found the
soft snap. The enthusiasm carried
him through the following six weeks
—his enthusiasm and the $300 com-
mission—but he secured no more
contracts. At the end of the six
weeks he closed another deal, a small-
cr one. Bob stuck to the new work
for six months, and counting up the
profits from the work, discovered thai
ne had averaged less than $25 a week.

““Huh,’ he said, ‘this is a shine.
The big commissions are all right
when they come in, but they don’
come often enough. If I had an agen-
cy it would be different. Then all
these duffers who are breaking their
backs and walking off their legs and
talking their tongues out soliciting
advertisements would be working for
me. That would be a soft snap—but
I haven’t the money to start an agen-
cy. I'll try something else.’

“Summer had come and one of Bob’s
cold amusement park friends suggest
ed that they put a show in one of the
parks. The two discussed the propo-
sition and decided they could make
more money out of it in the summer
than they could make in the entire
year at their present occupations.
Each had some money, and they in-
vested $250 each to secure the con-
cession and fit up the ‘show.’

Easy Money at Beginning.

“The expenses were light; the show,
although it amounted to little, proved
popular, the weather was good and
the attendance big. By the middle
of the summer Bob and his partner
were holding jubilation dances every
night when the park closed. The dol-
lars were pouring in. They had found
the softest soft snap ever.

“When the park closed in the fall
they counted up their gains. The
show had been worked out and_ the
$500 invested in it was a total loss.
They might sell the tent and seats
ior a few dollars, but that was all.
Their assets consisted almost entirely
of cash, and of this they had $1,000,
just $500 each. The last two months
of the summer had been cold and
rainy, and the attendance had been
poor; the big profits of midsummer
had been eaten into by expenses.

“Bob had $250 to show for his five
months’ work—$15 dollars a month—
and his $250 capital had practically
earned nothing. Each of the part-
ners had taken a few dollars a week
for expenses. Their ‘plant’ was worth-
less; the work they had done would
be of no value anywhere else, and
not much .value in the park another
season, even if they should decide to

 

try it again. They had practically
lost half a year in their efforts to

reach the top. When the subject of
next season was broached Bob de-
cided that the work wasn’t a soft
snap and he would try something
else.

“Bob went back to his programme
employer for a position through the
winter, but that man said he didn’t
have anything. He had just enough
work for his steady solicitors and
couldn’t take any away from them
for a ‘flitter.’

Insurance Game Tried Next.

“Then Bob, impressed with what he
had read and heard about the big
commissions made by life insurance
solicitors, thought that would be the
thing for him. It sounded pretty nice
to be able to get $25 or $50 commis-
sion just for talking a few hours to a
man. He secured permission from
one of the large agencies to solicit
and started to work.

“Most ‘flitters’ are not as energetic,
enthusiastic nor capable as Bob, but
with all his efforts he found it diffi-
cult to write a policy. He hadn't
learned how. When the next summer
came he figured he had made just
$15 a week at it. Another dream of
a soft snap was shattered. That sum-
mer Bob wandered across to one of
the Michigan lake summer resorts and
took charge of a photograph while
you wait and souvenir stand. He did
fairly well, clearing nearly $20 a week
for the season, and he met a level-
headed Chicago girl that set him to
thinking.

“When the resort season was over
Bob came back to Chicago and spent
2 great dea! of time with this girl.
He was much in love with her and he
wanted to marry. Prudence was her
name and she lived up to it. She told
Bob she was fond of him, but she
wouldn’t think of marrying him un-
til he settled down—even if he didn’t
get more than $15 a week.

“Bob settled—after making one or
two false starts; he began in an ab-
stract office, stayed there for a month;
tried a real estate office for a month
and then got into the auditing depart-
ment of a railroad. After he had
stuck there for six months Prudence
married him. Bob stayed with the
railroad for three years, saved his
money, bought a little home in one
of the outlying districts and stared
in business for himself. He’s still in
it and is doing well. But he _ has
iearned that he must work and stick
tc a thing if he wants to get any-
thing of value in return.

“I do not mean that a girl will al-
ways cure a man of ‘flitters’ or vice
versa. But Bob’s case is a story from
life and it shows that the girl will
prove a remedy in some cases.”

Philip R. Kellar.
2 -~<—____.
Special Features of the Grocery and

Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Dec. 31—The spot cof-
fee market at the end of the year
here is about as dull as it has been
for some time. The grocery trade
in the interior seems to be pretty
well stocked and individual sales are
cf comparatively small quantities.
The supply is, seemingly, ample to
met all requirements for some time

 

and matters are likely to move along

 

in the present channel for a month.
In store and afloat there are 4,419,080
bags, against 3,658,663 bugs at the
same time a year ago. At the close
Rio No. 7 is quoted in an invoice way
at 854@834c. Mild coffees are mov-
ing moderately and quotations are

reasonable. Especially is this true
of washed Bogotas. Good Cucutas,
934 @Ioc.

All the business transacted in the
sugar market has been in the way of
withdrawals and dealers look for no
improvement until January is pretty
well advanced. Standard granulated
is quoted by almost all refineries at
4.85c, less I per cent. cash.

Japans and country greens in teas
are well sustained and there has been
a fair demand, but the market gen-
erally lacks animation. Holders are
uot disposed to attract trade, ‘how-
ever, by setting any goods on the
bargain table and all hands look to
the future with a good deal of confi-
dence.

There is a little better enquiry for
rice and it is thought that some ad-
vance may take place in quotations
next month in Japans, as such sorts
seem to be more sought for than oth-
ers. The general condition is one of
quietude.

Neither buyer nor seller of spices
seems to care whether school keeps
or not. This indifference applies to
about everything on the list. Quo-
tations are unchanged, but can be
called fairly steady.

Molasses is doing as well as could
be expected. The intensely cold
weather has created some _ slowness
and, as inventory time is at hand,
there is likely to be little of inter-
est for several weeks. Syrups are
quiet and unchanged in any respect.

The most interesting item in the
canned goods market is the improve-
ment in tomatoes. Scme liberal-sized
quantities, it is said, have been mov-
ed on the basis of 60c and enquiries
are still coming in at that figure. The
cold and snow have prevented free
deliveries in the country districts and
upset business to quite an extent.
Sellers are certainly confident and
look for steady improvement next
month after so long a period of ab-
solute rest. Corn seems to attract
little attention. Holders of New
York State stock ask 85c and buyers
apparently think this most too much,
so there is a stand-off. Other goods
are quiet.

Butter is quoted at 38c for cream-
ery specials; extras, 37c; firsts, 34@
36c; creamery, held specials, 334@
34c; imitation creamery, 26@28c:
Western factory, 24@25c.

Cheese is firm and showing some
advance. New York State full cream,
174Z@ri18c. Stocks are light and in
strong hands.

The cold weather has given eggs
a boost and prices are in the upper
stories. Extra Western, 28@3o0c; ex-
tra firsts, 35@36c; refrigerator stock,
24@26c.

——_—

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would be won if we would ignore the
imaginary ones.

Se tee

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How To Make a Profit Selling Hard-
ware.

Our business is practically divided
into three parts, namely: Buying, sell-
ing and collecting. These, however,
are not distinctively divided. As soon
buying paves the way for good sell-
ing, so good selling paves the way for
good collecting. The success of the
husiness and profits from the same
largely depend upon the capability of
the merchant to perfcrm these three.
The best buyer is not always the man
who buys the largest amount of
goods, nor is he the man who buys
the cheapest goods. Strange as it
may seem, he is not the man who
pays the least for the goods he buys.
But the best buyer is the man whose
goods sell best.

The keynote of successful buying
is to make the salability of the goods,
not the price, the first consideration.
When an article is offered to a mer-
chant his first thoughts should be, “Is
it. wood?” “Will -it sell?” “Is it. a
money maker?” “If not, I do not
want it at any price.” Slow selling
goods are dear no matter what you
pay for them. The successful buyer
considers first whether the article of-
fered will sell readily at a fair profit,
and then and not until then he en-
deavors to get the lowest possible
price on it.

It is not the first cost of the zoods
which counts but what can be made
cut of them, all things considered. I:
may be good business to pay more
for one article as compared with an-
other, because you can make more out
of it. An article weil bought is half
sold. But before we sell the other
half let us first know what the sell-
ing price must be. Here is where
some men make a mistake. They sell
an article for little more than invoice
price without considering other costs,
thinking they are making a profit,
when in reality they are getting mere-
ly the total cost.

I do not believe in making a large
profit on one article and nothing on
the next, but rather have a certain
per cent. profit on all things sold, As
a rule I find the method of having a
fixed price more successful than to
mark goods above what they ought
to be sold at in order to allow one
to give a reduction so as to make 2
customer think he is getting a bar-
gain. The bargain should be in the
goods, not in the price.

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comes into the life of almost every
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end the time of payment vividly im-
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to settlement near the stated time.
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liable to receive payment before the
note draws interest. An open account
would be promptly paid.
I think one should go at collections
with as much energy as at selling.
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for payment? The money is yours,
why not ask for it? The sooner you
get it the more profit it means for
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sales if you are not to receive pay-
ment? Your customer has been us-
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How Two Jobbers Defeated a Con-
temptible Trick.
Written for the Tradesman.

Because of the industry, ability and
thrift of a father who was a brick and
stone mason John Gaines inherited a
considerable fortune--largely real es-
tate but including income-producing
investments so_ that, unfortunately
for the young man, he did not find
it necessary to work in order to live
very comfortably. And still more of
a misfortune was it, he being an only
child, that within a year after the
death of his father he became an ab-
solute orphan by the passing of a
mother who had been his worshipper.

With an annual income of about
2,500 Gaines developed a passion for
gambling and the society of gamblers,
but it was a passion which, probably

probably because of an inheritance

unknown to and unappreciated by
him, he was able to control. That
is to say, he put aside a liberal week-

“losses by chance,”
limits of which he never

ly allowance for
xeyond the

yassed. Thus far he was master of
is chief weakness.
In this way Gaines was able to

income and at the
a standitie as 3

ive within his
same time to gain
“sport,” an achievement which seem-
ed to satisfy his ambition. In this
way, too, he lived to see some of the
had inherited
advance in

estate which he

very

real
make pronounced
value.

One of these lots—a site having
42 feet front on Main street, adjoined
the four-story brick structure occu-
pied by the McNally Grocer Co. and
the senior member of this firm ap-
proached Gaines with an offer to pur-
chase the 42 feet, together with the
tumbledown two story building on
the lot, at a price $5,000 above the
assessed an offer which
declined.

valuation,
Gaines immediately

“That's all rmeht John,” said the
merchant. “Now, then, will put
up a four-story building on the prop-

you

erty, planned to suit our _ busi-
ness, and lease it to us for ten years
at a price which will net you 7 per
cent. 27

Gaines promised to think the matter
over and give an answer within a
week and not ten minutes later was
rehearsing to a group of his noisily
dressed associates how he had the
McNallys on the hip and was going
to make some money out of the firm.
“They've just got to have more room
and rather than move they will poney
up big,” he added.

But the McNallys felt otherwise
when Gaines’ offer developed a rental
which, allowing 5 per cent. for in-
taxes and up-keep, would
net the owner at least I5 per cent.
upon a $20,000 investment, whereas
the architect’s figures showed that the
real investment would be less than
$17,000.

“Why shouldn’t I put my figures
high?” said Gaines. “You’ve got to
have more room and if you move it
will cost you more in the end—build-
ing up a new location and all that—”

“Of course you can demand 50 per
cent. net if you choose,” said the
grocer, “but we’ve been too long in

surance,

 

business to submit to mere bulldoz-
ing. I wouldn’t take your property
now at any price.”

And they didn’t.
McNally Co. had bought a lot on the
side street and across the alley back
cf their store, and upon this lot they
erected a five-story structure which
was connected with the original es-
tablishment by bridges over the al-
ley. This was not accomplished
without meeting with bitter opposi-
tion from Gaines nor was it done
without being obliged to reject most
humble pleadings by Gaines, who,
when such efforts failed, resorted to
threats.

Threats are not lawful, as the de-
feated landlord learned to his
and so in order to carry out his idea
getting even” he had a sign paint-
er produce the picture of a hog on
a large sign-board and this was saw-
ed out in silhouette fashion to fit the
outlines of the animal. Then the de-
vice was fastened to the front of the
two-story structure adjoining the
McNally store, and
at once became known
block;” the
deal of time
showing what
were,

Did the McN

COS,

“cc
of

Gaines’
as the “Hog
owner spending a greai
in circulating a version
hogs the McNallys
Yallys suffer from this?
Not at all. They did not say a word
in explanation of the “Hog
story. For a year or more they per-
mitted Gaines to spread his libel un-
til it was known in every detail not
only throughout the entire city but
all over the State- At last,
they published the .exact facts
case, giving fac-simile reproductions
ef Gaines’ written proposition, attest-
ed statements as to his pleadings and
threats, copies of the estimates by the
architects and, in fact, every item
showing how they had escaped extor-
tion.

The next

block”

however,
in the

this ¢ex-
announce-
copyrighted
trademark
travelers

day following
posure appeared another
ment that they had

"Near Elom block’ as 2
and simultaneously their
taking orders for
articles of
copyrighted
packages and

were more than
a score of staple
chandise carrying the
prefix upon the various
iabels.

“Near ‘Hog block’”’ this and that be-
came current phrases and as_ the
soods thus marked were of standard
auality the oddity of the title help-
ed to sell them.

For a dozen years Gaines fumed and
fretted, but all to no purpose. The
McNallys prospered and ignored him
and when, because of the death of
both of the brothers—each one of
whom left a large estate—the com-
pany went into liquidation and stop-
ped doing business, Gaines was still
striving to dispose of his ‘Hoe
block.” Indeed, it is said that the
“Hog block” cost its owner not only
the ill will of a majority of his fel-
low citizens, but that it has never
paid over 2 per cent. per annum.

Max Wurfel.
———_.->__—

No man is fit for good society who
does not help society to goodness.

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The piety that slops over in meet-
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Deliveries

Our reputation for good
work is unexcelled—for

deliveries a little slow.

This has been due to one cause only—too many orders

for our capacity— but this refers to the past.

With our new addition we will have a capacity

of $2,000,000 annually, which means you can get

more prompt deliveries than from any other manu-

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Two Types of Women Shoe Salesman
Meets.
Written for the Tradesman.

The sale was as yet not entirely
lost, but neither had it been won by
any means. The lady remarked witi
en air of finality:

“I am sorry, but I haven’t found
just what I am looking for. You
might leave that pair out for a little
while (here she pointed to one of the
large number of shoes that had been
brought out for her inspection); those
come the nearest to being what would
answer my purpose. Still they are
not just what I want. I will go to
some other places, and if I can not
find what I wish to get, perhaps [|
may come back and take that pair.”

“Well, now, just what do you
want?” asked the shoe salesman with
a suggestion in his voice that his pa-
tience and suavity had reached a low
ebb.

Very tersely and with just a tinge
of spirit in her tones the lady re-
plied:

“I want a shoe that has a sole of
about the thickness and projection of
that shoe there, and that fits my foot
as well as this shoe (here she picked
up one that the salesman had insist-
ed she ought to buy because it was
such an elegant fit); and one that has
2 heel no higher than this shoe I
tried on last.”

“Will you wait just one moment,
please?”

The salesman went back to the
stock, selected two pairs that, as
nearly as he could judge, conformed
to the requirements she. had laid
down, took them to the customer who
had been about to leave and tried
them on her feet. One pair fitted
well and was purchased.

The sale was saved. That much
could be said to the credit of the
salesman, but it could not be said
that his manner of handling the case
had been a masterly one. He had
worked hard enough. He had brought
out pair after pair of shoes. He had
tried to be polite and genial and per-
suasive. And still an observer watch-
ing the whole proceeding would guess
that when that woman wanted an-
other pair of shoes she would try
some other store before she came
to this one.

The “come-back” impulsion, which
is the crown and glory of a really
successful sale, was entirely lacking.

The trouble lay right here: Not un-
til goaded to it by the fear of losing
the sale had the salesman given se-
rious attention to what she had had
to say as to just the kind of shoe
she wanted and then he had displayed
a touch of pique that she had not seen

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ready been shown her. Under these
circumstances it could hardly be ex-
pected that the customer, even al-
though she purchased a pair of shoes,
should have a specially warm feeling
for that store, nor bubble over with
enthusiasm to her friends as to the
merits of that particular salesman.

There is no denying that fitting that
particular foot with just the shoe
wanted was an unusual proposition.
She had a slender foot and the good
taste that would be satisfied with noth-
ing but neat, comely, well-made
shoes, still she did not want any-
thing in the fashionable styles. But
the difficulties in the case did not
furnish justification for the tactless-
ness of the salesman.

The very shoes she wanted were
right there in stock, and he knew the

 

 

 

 

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stock well. He simply had to be driv-
en to it before he would take the
trouble to get clearly in his mind
that which was perfectly clear and
well-defined in her mind. When she
liad spoken of a medium-weight sole

ke had blandly argued that soles
should either be thin or else extra
heavy. When she had complained

that the heels he was showing her
were altogether too high, he had
maintained that a considerable height
of heel was absolutely necessary or
a shoe “was right down in the mud.”
When she had explained that the low
heel was imperative, he had suggest-
ed that a few lifts removed from the
high heel would make it into a sat-
isfactory low heel, which time-worn
delusion and snare she was not to be
entrapped into.

His fundamental error was in not
sizing up his customer correctly.

who has to do with sell-
ing footwear knows the woman who
comes in want some
shoes that will give me a little peace
and comfort. I don’t care whether
they have any style about ’em or not.
Bring me just the broadest thing
you’ve got, with no more heel than
a grandma shoe.”

Every one

declaring, “I

When this last woman is taken at
her word, and the mildest type of 1
common-sense shoe is placed on her
foot, she looks at it and laughs. Then
she places her foot in a different po-
sition and looks at it from another
way and laughs again. This perform-
ance, which she seems to regard as
a wonderfully funny little joke, may
go on for some time, but all the
“nature lasted” shoes that can be
shown her only appeal to her very
keen sense of the _ ridiculous. No
headway toward a sale is made until
the latest things in footwear. are
brought and ten to one in the
end she will march off blissfully hap-
ry with a pair of shoes of the narrow-
est toes, highest heels and most ultra-
fashionable cut that the ‘store affords.
She will tell her friends with an
earnest little quaver in her voice, “I
did so want to get something sensi-
ble, I just abominate high heels. But
IT looked all over and tried on ever
so many shoes and this was just the
only pair that I could find anywhere
that fitted my feet .comfortably.”

Ott,

3ut not all customers are like his
one. There is the other woman who,
when she says low heels, means low
heels and will be satisfied with noth-
ing else. All she has to say as to
the kind of shoes she wants can be
depended upon absolutely. It is well
to listen carefully to whatever de-
scription she may give, and heed it
to the letter. If the thing wanted is
not in stock, then it may or it may
not be wise to suggest a substitute.
That depends. But do not try to ar-
cue her into something else when the
atticle she has in mind is right there
waiting to be sold. Quillo.

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Proof of the Pudding.

Shoe Dealer—Here are a pair of
boots that will suit you exactly in
your next dash for the Pole. How
did you like the last pair I sold you?

Arctic Explorer (reminiscently)—
The best I ever tasted,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Right On Time.

He was a man with a sober, think-
ing face. He was a man of pro-
found thought, who paid but little
attention to the trifles of everyday
life. For instance, he did not see the
icy spot ahead of him as he sauntered
along with his hands under his coat-
tails on New Year’s morn, and there
were logical results. His feet went
up and his body came down, and as
another pedestrian held out a hand
to assist him to rise the victim
claimed:

ex-

“By George! By George!’
“Sir, you slipped.”

“Yes, I shpped.”

“Sir, you fell.”

“yes fell

“But I trust you did not do your-|

self a mortal injury.”

 

'time to give the

“T did not, sir.
fortune-telling?”

“Not a bit.”

“But should

Do you believe in

believe—

you -yes, Sir,
you should. Here is living proof that
those astrologists are correct.”
“T don’t understand.”
“Why, it was only four days ago

that one of them told me that the

year 1910 would be very lucky for
me, and here she is before noon of
the very first day.”

“But, sir, you fell down.”

“I did—on the sidewalk. Suppos-
ing I had fallen from the forty-
seventh story of a sky-scraper!”

It is always easy to be good if
you can be absolutely lonesome.

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Well, it all depends
on what the name is.
If it’s

H. B. Hard Pan

on a shoe it means as
much as ‘‘sterling” does

on silver.

It means the most sat-
hard - service

the

isfactory
shoe ever put on

market.

H it's
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year Welt hand Sewed

the Bertsch

it means a Good-

Process shoe that

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of the front rank.

Dealers everywhere
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shipments.

To this add the fact
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are made right.

prices that will please

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16

 

HOME MAKING.

 

Both Parents Should Share in the
Responsibility.

When Franklin made his discovery

of the identity of lightning and elec-

tricity people asked: “Of what use is

it?” The philosopher’s retort was:
“What’s the use of a child? It may
become a man.”

Goethe said: “What the women

leave unfinished in our education the
children complete in us.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes tells us that
“many of the noblest and most beau-
tiful traits of a man’s character are
left undeveloped and unperfected un-
til he knows what it is to have a child
look up into his face and say, ‘Fa-
ther.’” If this be true of a man, how
much more so is it of a woman that
she is undeveloped and unperfected
until she knows what it is to have
a little child look up into her face
and say, “Mother.”

Children are the poetry of the
world, the music of whose rhythm
tivals angelic hymns and fills all lis-
teners with a heavenly delight; they
are apostles of hope and love and
sanctify the soil of earth to bring forth
benedictions to cheer the careworn.

What is a home without a baby? It
may be quiet, but it is also dull. Whar
a bond of union is the baby! What
an incentive to tenderness! The man
whom the baby does not save is
damned sure enough. Nothing has
such a sobering influence as the baby.
It gives incentive to life.

Baby King of America.

The employer will tell you that the
man with a baby at home, as a rule,
gives greater satisfaction than the
one who is not tied down with such
a responsibility. A baby famine would
be the greatest calamity, the worst
financial disaster, that could befall
this country. The babies are the best
national asset we have, and are worth
more than all the other crops put
together—for without them the prod-
uce would be valueless. The baby is

king of America.

If you haven’t a baby go and adopt
cne. Two children of a man at whose
house Emerson was spending an
evening were playing when the father
remarked, “Just the interesting age.”

“And at what age,” asked Emerson,
“are children not interesting?’ He
regarded them with the eye of a
philosopher and saw the possibilities

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

that surround their being with infinite
interest.

When the children come what shall
you do with them? What duties do
you owe them? What is the parent’s
part in making the home? The re-
sponsibility rests upon both parents.

The man who is too dignified to
play with his baby or help the little
ones in their games not only lacks
one of the finest elements of true
greatness but fails in one of his du-
ties to his children.

The mother is with the children a!!
Gay, and carries the burden of their
entertainment all days and hours.
Surely it is only just to her that the
little time the father is in the home
he should relieve her. Besides, no fa-
ther can afford to let his children
grow up without weaving himself in-
to the memories of their golden
youth.

Happiness Right of Childhood.

One of the inalienable rights of
your children is happiness at your
hands. The richest heritage you can
give them is a happy childhood—ten-
cer memories which will brighten the
coming days when the children have
gone out from the sheltering home—
memories which will be a safeguard
in times of temptation and a_ con-
scious help amid life’s stern realities.

Blessed is the son who can speak
of his father as Charles Kingsley’s
eldest son does: “ ‘Perfect love cast-
eth out fear’ was the motto on which
my father based his theory of bring-
ing up children. From this and the
interest he took in their pursuits,
their pleasures, their trials and the
petty details of their everyday life
there sprang up a friendship between
father and children that increased in
intensity and depth with the years. To
speak for myself, he was the best
friend, the only true friend I ever
had. At once he was the most fa-
therly and the most unfatherly of fa-
thers—fatherly in that he was our in-
timate friend and our self-constituted
adviser; unfatherly in that our feeling
for him lacked that fear and re-
straint that makes boys call their fa-
ther ‘the governor.’ ”

No success in-professional or busi-
ness, political or social life can possi-
tly atone for having neglected the
care of your own home and _ the
training of your children. However
well the devoted mother may do her

 

duty, her faithfulness can not atone

 

January 5, 1910

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We are anxious to make new friends
everywhere by right treatment.

We can also ship immediately:
Teachers’ Desks and Chairs
Office Desks and Tables
Bookcases Blackboards
Globes Maps

Our Prices Are the Lowest

 

We keep up the quality and guarantee satisfaction.
If you need the goods, why not write us for prices and descriptive
catalogues—Series G-10. Mention this journal.

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gasoline lamps for lighting your home

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January 5, 1910

for the father’s unfaithfulness. A
home is not merely a spot in which
to eat and sleep, to rest when tired,
to be nursed when sick, to receive
one’s friends, to keep one’s treasures
and a place to go when you can go
nowhere else.
Home Place for Growth.

Most married people aim to have a
showy house, but home is not merely
four square walls; it is a place for
growth, for growing together, “like a
double cherry seeming parted:” It is
a place for children te grow into phy-
sical vigor and moral health.

Don’t surfeit your children with se-
vere religion unless you want to turn
them against it. Let the surroundings
of the home be cheerful and attrac-
tive. However small the home let it
be neat. The decorations, however
simple, should be pleasing to the eye.
No room should be too fine for the
children to romp in, while the play
room should be the brightest and
the sleeping room the airiest.

Few people can indulge in _ fine
paintings—the aristocracy of art—
but the masters are now reproduced
in lithographs — the democracy of
art—and -it is possible for a fewcents
each to have fine reproductions of the
world’s greatest masters. The value
of pictures and pretty things in the
house in influencing the life of a child
few people appreciate. As people ad-
civilization they only
but put beauti-

vance in not
build better
ful things in them.

The degraded live in hovels. The
first step to improve the masses is to
They need not
few
the

houses,

provide better houses.
and expensive. A

since I spent a night in
place of a millionaire, It
was oppressive. This, I told,
cost so much, that much The
next day I spent with artistic
friend who lived with his lovely bride
in a log cabin. It was cheerful and
attractive, chaste and pleasing to the
eye; there was love in the cabin, mis-
ery in the palace, for a few days lat-
er the newspapers told the story of
the millionaire’s separation from his
who for

be elegant
nights
gaudy show
was
So
an

young wife, married him
money.

Unselfishness the Great Element.

If, like my artistic friend, you can
afford but two rooms for your home,
nut into them just as much educating
power as possible.

The law of unselfis
the essential element of the
spirit. Perfect love casteth out selfish-
One selfish soul in the home 1s
thorn bush in

must be
home

hness

ness.
not only like an ugly
the midst of a garden of flowers, mars
the joy, but it destroys the sweetness
of the home.

Fill your home with sunshine. Do
not keep all your brightness for stran-
veers abroad and sternness and dull-
ness for home consumption. No child
can grow up in rich development in

?
an unhappy and gloomy home. Don't
drive your children to seek their
amusement away from home. Better

a billiard table in your own home than
the boys downtown in public pool
parlors. (
Many children of the most pious
people in every community turn out
badly because their parents’

narrow

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

notions drive them forth into the wil-
cerness of life. An unhappy child-
hood is the fate of too many children
of otherwise good parents because of
their antipathy to amusements which
may be innocent enough in them-
selves under favorable environments.
Many an unhappy childhood in se-
verely religious homes has so filled
lite’s fountains with bitterness as to
sadden all the after years.
Fill the young lives with sweet:
ness, and make your home a garden
of flowers, where joy shall bloom
through childhood’s hours.
Madison C. Peters.

—_—_-~. ___
Wonders of the Modern Clock.
Grandfather’s clock is outdone. It
had a calendar hand which told the
day of the month, also the day of the
week. Sometimes a window was cut
in the upper part of the dial through
which could be seen a humanized
moon face slowly moving across the
opening and giving the phases of the
moon. In most cases if the calendar
mechanism was not out of order the
moon mechanism certainly was, and
in the evening one could rarely tell
which date it was because the hand
was about halfway between.
The first of the month the calen-
dar hand had to be set for the correct
number of days—thirty or thirty-one
or twenty-eight. The modern calen-

dar clock takes care of these mat-
ters automatically. Every four years

it automatically adds another day to
February. It needs winding only
once a year.

Few persons consider the clock as
a piece of machinery, especially when
gotten up in the cheap forms which
are now so universal. But the prin-
cipal clock builders employ — skilled
engineers, electrical and mechanical,
whose inventive minds are shown in
the ingenious makeup of some of the
automatic clock devices which are
becoming more and more commer-
cially popular in the effort to pro-
vide uniform standard time through-
out the country. If simultaneous ac-
tions in different parts of a large es-
tablishment are dependent upon the
clock, all the clocks in the different
departments must tell exactly the
same time. By the old way there
were used many high grade clocks,
each expensive and even then liable
to vary from each other. The mod-
ern way is to install one high grade
master clock which automatically
regulates any number of secondary
clocks throughout the establishment,

so that all exactly agree.
————.--—~
The tendency to correct all creation

is often mistaken for the creation of
correct character.

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Klingman’s

Summer and Cottage Furniture: .
Exposition

An Inviting

It is none too soon to begin thinking about toning up the

Cottage and Porch. Our

previous efforts in these lines.

present display exceeds all
All the well known makes

show a great improvement this season and several very

attractive new designs have been added.

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WILLS

Making your will is often delayed.

Our blank form sent on request and

you can have it made at once.

We also

send our pamphlet defining the laws on

the disposition of
property.

The Michigan Trust Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Executor
Agent

 

 

 

real and _ personal

 

 

Trustee
Guardian

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _

 

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Plea for the Old Fashioned Mother.

In any transition period there is al-
ways a painful breaking away from
old traditions, old methods, old ties.
This disseverance leaves behind it a
lot of odds and ends that seem to
have no hold upon any life structure,
and are doomed to the mercy of the
winds and tides of change, until they
grow weary and fall at last to rest
in that happy state where oblivion
gives opportunity for reconstruction
and a new life.

Under the rapid and radical chang-
es of the present time the mother
who belongs to the period of yester-
day is, we may say, the end of the
broken thread. Her sons and daugh-
ters go away from her; they are bit-
ten by the microbe of the Spirit of
the Times and they become new crea-
tures. They are no longer a continua-
tion of the mother-life, but they have
a new life of their own, of more or
less coherency, that they have found
somewhere outside. And the moth-
er can not understand this new life,
any more than the children, under the
spell of the new influence, can under-
stand the mother’s life, with its pe-
culiar needs, its hopes and its ambi-
tions.

There is, in fact, a complete sever-
ance, an entire alienation between
the offspring and the body and soul
that bore it. This, of course, is not
recognized by the child to any great
extent, because what lies behind it is
of less importance than that which
lies before it. But to the mother it
comes as a severe shock and it gives
her unspeakable pain as long as she
“Their ways are not my ways,”

of
ever

lives.
she tries to tell herself by way
consolation. But the question

arises in her mind, “Why are their
ways not my ways?” And she feels
that it was not meant that a moth-
er’s life should end so tragically and
so abruptly. For, to the old fashion-
ed mother, the child’s life is, in the
very nature of things, but a continua-
tion of her own. It was for this that
she approached near to the door of
the grave, that she might take up her
life again, and renew it in her chil-
dren. It was ever her dearest hope
that she might see them in the vigor
ef their youth following in her foot-

steps, taking up the burdens as she
laid them down for her long rest.
For her such an experience meant

eternal life.

But when, as is so frequently the
children zo off into new
re hewn strange voices, follow-
ing where she has never been, and
where she can never go, it is as
if her life had come to an end before
its time, and the future lies empty and

meaningless before her,

Many young people who have ab-
sorbed the progressive ideals of this
rapidly moving age, although they be
well meaning at heart, are too fre-
quently careless to the point of cruei-
ty in their treatment of the old fash-
1oned mother. Tongte-tied by her ig-
norance of modern worldliness, she
is ignored when consultations for en-
lightenment are held, and the judg-
ment of a newly made and too fre-
quently frivolous friend is given more
consideration than is hers. If. she
timidly offers a suggestion regarding
clothing or conduct, the suggestion is
heeded or flippantly allowed to pass,
according to the humor of the one
addressed.

“Old fashioned” is a phrase that has
'been bestowed upon the home-bound
mother to cover all her shortcom-
ings; and everything she says and
everything she does are lightly set
aside with this odium attached to it.
“Old fashioned!’ How she hates the
term!

“It seems to me that in the main
principles underlying our lives we are
about the same to-day that we were
when I was young,” said a mother to
me recently, who was chafing under
the stigma of “old fashioned.” “It is
only in outward things that we dif-
fer. And these outward things
be changing forever,
good of making a fetich of them,
giving up our souls to them?”

will
the
of

so what is

This mother is not more than five-
and-forty. But she has three daugh-
ters of the exuberant, high-headed,
ultra-progressive, work-a-day _ type,
who, although still in their “teens,”
regard themselves as quite grown and
thoroughly capable of managing
themselves without the interference
cf a mother with Methuselah-like
ideas. Yet the mother is far from ig-
norant. She was in her early youth a
governess in certain noble families ot
both England and France. In Paris
she lived at one time “just around
the corner” from Victor Hugo, Emile
Zola, Sara Bernhardt and other tal-
ented folk, and she talks with perfect
knowledge of the conspicuous and in-
conspicuous members of the royal
families of all Europe. She is fa-
miliar with the names of great writ-
ers and great musicians, and is ac-
quainted with many of their best
works. She has tutored more than
one prominent citizen of New York
City, and she knows something of the
philosophy of life, and of the shams
and failures of human _ society. But
since marriage abundance of wealth
has not been hers, and the demands
of an ever increasing family have

 

caused her to submerge her welfare
in that of her children, as all moth-

 

ers with large hearts and moderate
means will do.

The result is that they all turn
about and call her “old fashioiied,”
and this at a time whet she  niost
needs consideration and affection and
the respect of children reaching ma-

turity.
In the twentieth century great
strides are certainly being made 1n

the way of progress. But also there
is a tumult which, when its efferves-
cence vanishes in thin ait, will count
for nothing. It is 1 wise head that
distinguishes between this tumult and
the real forces that ate working for ad-
vancement. Many young people fol-
low the siren voice of noise and vain
show over the hills and far away from
true progress. And the mother whe
is thoughtlessly derided as old fash-
ioned and inconsequential sees this
delusion, but her warning is unheeded.

It is poor policy to disregard her—
the old fashioned mother—entirely
Such disregard adds nothing to the
spirit of social growth and individual
development and it fills her hungry
heart with an intolerable loneliness
and sense of futility. Dorothy Dix.

_———
Unique Electrical House in Paris.

In the heart of Paris is an electric-
al household. The door is opened
by pressing a button, the telephone
receives the object of the visit. In
the dining room there is no waiter,
but an electric elevator rising from
the kitchen to the center of the table.
On the table beside the host are four
push buttons. When the host presses
the white button a little drum beats
in the kitchen. Immediately the doors
of the elevator shaft open, the soup
tureen ascends to the table, and the
doors close and conceal the opening.

By pressing a red button to the
right or left the dish is caused to
travel around the table in the cor-
responding direction. It is arrested
at any point by removing the finger
from the button. The function of
the fourth button is to cause the dish
to rotate in order to assist the guest
in helping himself. The dish is re-
turned to the elevator and thence to
the kitchen by the operation of the
buttons.

Attached to the electric range
the kitchen are a_ switchboard, an
electric clock, a rheostat by which
the strength of the current and the
heating effect are varied, and an am-
meter which measures the current
employed in cooking each dish. With
the clock every dish can be cooked to
the precisely proper degree. At the
moment when the desired number of
minutes has elapsed the current auto-
matically is cut off and an electric
bell announces the fact to the chef.
Milk is automatically drawn into the
stewpan. Sauces and cakes are mere-
ly placed on or in the range and the
current does the rest without risk of
burning.

In the laundry are electrical wash-

in

ing machines, drying stoves, irons,
and ironing machines. In the hed-
room is an electric bed warmer.
Press a button and an elevator con-
teated in a table by the thedside
brings breakfast and the morning
paper. Electric spies distributed. in

all the rooms behind wallpaper and

hangings and cotineeted sett Setisitive
tnicrophones make it possible for the
master of the house by pressing a
button without leaving the bed to
know all that is being said and done
in the house.

 

Embarrassing For Her,

A Milwaukee man and his wife re-
cently received a cal! from an old
friend whom they had not seen for
years, Just before the three sat down
to a little supper in the German style
the wife, seizing a favorable oppor-
tunity, enteey to her husband:

“We have only three bottles of beer
in the house—just enough to
around—so please don’t ask for any
more.”

“Very well,” answered the husband.
who chanced to be thinking of some-
thing else at the time.

Half an hour later the host, to his
wife’s consternation, asked the guest
to take more beer. The invitation
was politely declined, but still the
host did not desist. A dozen times
the caller was urged to drink; a doz-

go

en times he firmly refused,
When he had departed the wife
took her husband to task. “What on

earth made you persist so? Didn’t I
tell you there were only three bot-
tles? Why did you insist upon his
having more beer,
beer?”

“Mercy!” exclaimed the husband. “I
forgot entirely.”

“But,” continued the wife, “why did
you suppose I was kicking you under
the table?”

more beer, more

“My dear,” blandly replied the
husband, “you didn’t kick me!”
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A Gleam of Sunshine.

A San Francisco mother-in-law
went to the Orient and, coming back,
caught trying to
lot of choice silks,

She had to pay
Then there was
action to follow.

Her son-in-law
toms official. “Is it possible,” he ask-
ed in a severe tone, “that after my
mother-in-law has paid the duty on
that stuff and her fine contem-
plate criminal action?”

“We are considering it,” the
toms official replied gravely.

“And if my mother-in-law were to
be convicted, as she probably woul!
be, she would have to go to jail?”

“IT think so.”

“Do you mean to tell me you in-
tend to do this thing to a woman—a
lady who has already
fault and recompensed
ment?”

“T do; but look here, old chap, don’t
take this too hard. I’ve got to do my
duty, you know. Don’t feel so badly
about it.”

“Badly?” shouted the son-in-law.
“Why, my dear sir, this is the first
gleam of sunshine that has entered
my home in twenty years.”

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DIVORCE AND SUFFRAGE

 

Handled Without Gloves by Famous
Woman Novelist.

One of the most striking things in
the woman of to-day is the evolution
of the sense of individualism and
sense of social responsibility, one of
the special instances of which is di-
vorce, for divorce is supreme _ indi-
vidualism. Somehow or other, since
the brute became the man, we have
hammered out of bitter experience
one hard fact, namely, that because
cf what we call property the matter
of descent must be kept clear.

It goes back to the cave dweller,
whose stone axe must descend to his
son by his woman and not to another
man’s son by the same woman. Here,
curiously enough, in its naked crudi-
ty, is the beginning of the sense of
honor governing the relations of a
man with another man’s wife. Out of
this crude idea of honesty came the
belief that the relationship of the man
and the woman, once entered into.
must be permanent. Thus the family
was created.

The process does not seem a very
lofty stepping stone to a divine and
spiritual ideal of marriage, but with
the race as with the man it apparent-
ly must be first that which is natural.
then that which is spiritual. So in ail
these painful ages of evolution body
and soul have wrestled together, but
as the ideal has become clearer we
have come to say one husband and
one wife until death us do part. Man
is—well, imperfectly monogamous.

The Family.

Man builds his civilization in the
indestructibility of the family—-one
traces it down through the State, the
tribe, the family, a series, as Sir Henry
Maine expresses it in Ancient Law, of
concentric rings, and in the center of
the rings marriage. Civilization, lik=
a pyramid on its apex, rests, there-
fore, on the permanence of marriage.
Any one who tampers with the solidi-
ty of that base tampers with civili-
zation.

It is an entirely social point of
view, of course. The individual
crushed by that delicately balanced
apex suffers, and now the individual
is beginning to protest, and he—or
more frequently she—prctests in the
divorce courts. The fact is this mat-
ter of divorce—most intensely socia!
question of the world—is treated as
an individual question.

It is base for a man and woman
who hate each other to live together,
and on that we must surely all agree.
Indeed some of us would protest that
bad marriages are not dissolved often
enough for the good of the child,
which means the good of the State.
Fut the individual morality which rec-
cgnizes the baseness of a marriage
without respect goes too often one
step farther than mere parting—mere
legal separation. It is not content
with that which would answer every
rurpose of safety, honor and decency.
Following the assertion that marriage
must be dissolved for the sake of
morality comes the admission that tt
is to be dissolved for the sake of the
individual’s future happiness.

The individualist believes that hap-
piness is the purpose of marriage,

 

whereas happiness is only an inciden:
of marriage. Happiness and marriage
may go together—God send they do.
But if the incident of happiness is
lost, if love is lost, duty remains, the
obligation of contract remains. Mar-
riage remains.
The Self in Divorces.

We must all admit that the honest
reason for nine-tenths of the di-
vorces is self, and nothing but self.
We will admit that it is not for the
sake of society that a man and wom-
an are divorced. It is for their own
personal happiness. But when persona!
happiness conflicts with any great
human ideal, the right to claim such
lappiness is as nothing compared to
resigning it.

Over and over we see this belief
that happiness is the purpose of mar-
riage leading to the divorce court,
and almost always—alas, that we
must say it!—the woman leads the
way. This belief expresses itself oft-
en in terms at once logical and piti-
ful; it expresses individualism itself,
with a perfectly honest sympathy for
the unhappily married man or woman.

“Why should a wronged and inno-
cent person who made a mistake in
marriage once be compelled to re-
rounce the chance of happiness in
remarrying? What can be wrong i
that?” demands the individualist ar-
dently. Nothing; individually there
is nothing wrong in it.

nN

The advocate of the remarriage of
divorced persons replies to this that
to forbid remarriage would be to en-
courage sin; perhaps, yes, but it would
discourage divorce. As for the in-
creased sin what shall we say—that
sometimes the integrity of the great-
est number is paid for by the wrong-
doing of the few? That is a hard
saying.

The Suffrage Question.

The sense of socia! responsibility is
expressing itself first and foremost in
the determination of women to exer-
cise the suffrage. Out of that deter-
mination spring, of course, many fine
and noble hopes and purposes which
would contribute to the general wel-
fure of the race. Woman would try
her hand in government, and_ inci-
dentally in the excitement of her
high purpose and dogged intention
to have the ballot, even if she upsets
the whole kettle of fish. She would
force upon men the feminine view of
morality. “Let me get the reins in
ny hands,” she says, “and I will make
men temperate; I will make them
pure; I will reform their corrupt pol-
itics. In fact, my vote shall make
human nature cease to be human na-
ture.”

What the outside,

thinks of us
statements we do

gaping, anxious
when we make

stop to

world
such
hear.

Heretofore the work of woman in
the arts has simply been work, con-
sidered irrespective of sex. Now it
is classified as feminine and loses im-
measurably in consequence. A curi-
ous thing has happened: she has ap-
parently forgotten that she has
secured by intelligent influence and
plain unsensational common sense a
large number of rights and privileg-
es without the ballot.

not

 

I hope I shall not be thought too
dogmatic if I say that I believe that
there was very general regret among
thoughtful women that there should
have been a Woman’s Building at
Chicago in 1893, and that it was, on
the whole, a humiliating display. How
much better if the few great things
there, the noble pictures, the valuable
inventions, the dignified expressions
of any art or science, had been placed
among their peers and not put aside
as noticeable because women did
them.

Reaching For Power.

Take this matter of suffrage for
which the new woman is clamoring so
that she may right the wrongs of
time, does she stop to reflect with
what terrible elements she is playing?
She is reaching out, panting for, in-
sisting upon power! Power to make
for righteousness, truly; but to grati-
fy that desire, noble in itself, she is
willing to multiply by two the present
ignorant and unconscientious vote, a
vote which many thoughtful persons,
anxiously doubting democracy,  be-
Iicve is already threatening our Na-
tonal existence.

Universal man’s suffrage has cer-
tainly not proved itself a success, but
that does not discourage the new
woman in asking for the further com-
plication—tniversal woman’s suffrage.

She has never, so far as I know,
suggested an educational qualification
for women, far, far stricter than that
which has accomplished so little for
man; or perhaps even a
qualification, although, of course, that
is still a doubtful proposition in de

property

mocracy—she says, “All of us or none
of us. Just many
absolutely unqualified to do so vote,
let many absolutely unqualified wom-
en do the same.”

Could there be wilder—in fact,
(alas! that I should say so!) more
feminine—logic?

because so men

An educated, responsible woman
says: “I’m surely better qualified to
vote than my coachman.” Undoubted-
ly, but shall suffrage therefore be
given to her cook? We have suffer-
ed many things at the hands of Pat-
rick; the new woman would add
Bridget also, and—graver danger—to
the vote of that fierce, silly, amiable
creature, the irresponsible, uneducat-
ed negro she would add the vote of
his sillier, baser female.

I hope I am not misunderstood as
being opposed to woman’s suffrage. I
am only opposed to suffrage for all
women, just as I am opposed to suf-
frage for all men. My opposition is
not at all because of any traditional
sentimentality as to woman’s inher-
ent unfitness. I am not at all im-
pressed by any cant phrases about
the hand that rocks the cradle being
unfit or unable to cast a ballot. When
it is so foolish or so incapable a hand
as that, it is more dangerous to the
State to trust a cradle to it than to
trust a ballot.

Question of Expediency.

No; my objection is only on the
ground of inexpediency; all things are
lawful—to go back to St. Paul—but
all things are not expedient. If there
could be a qualifying suffrage for men
and women—but the unqualified men

 

won’t give up what they have, and
the unqualified women are trying to
get what they don’t deserve. It is the
lawless, sentimental, emotional shal-
lowness, the lack of thoroughness in
the way in which we women approach
social questions which is the alarm-
ing thing in the matter of woman’s
exercising the suffrage.

In nothing is shallowness more
alarming than in her indifference to
law—the most majestic thing humani
tv has evolved is surely the abstrac-
tion called law. That the administra-
tion of law is defective is neither here
nor there. Of course, it is defective.
That we should have evolved
shows us to be a part of the eterna!
law which is called God.

And how does the new woman re-
gard this majestic thing? She flouts
it, she makes merry of it, she treats
it as something to be used for her

law

amusement and well-being or else
down with it! Woman’s disrespect as
regards her own conduct is terribly
alarming, especially in the example 11
places before the rising generation.
As instance cf this women
sprung up in the night like mush-
rooms declaring that they are capable
of solving the «riddle of the painful
world. that old riddle which is tan-
gled up with the very fibres of hu-
man nature, that which is full of mys-

have

tery and misery, and which is in some

 

strange, dark way built upon ever-
lasting law. Marzaret Deland.

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Airship Railway Invented by Ger-
man.

The airship railway is a cross be-

tween the electric railway and the

airship and it hails from a German

engineer named Leps. A balloon sup-
ports the weight of passenger cars
which aerial cables and are
propelled by electricity. The  bal-
loon is a horizontal cylinder with
conical ends and is about 200 feet
long and thirty-three feet in diame-
ter. Below and attached to the bal-
loon is the car, capable of accommo-
dating sixty passengers.

They are made of steel, wood, and
canvas and provided with
There is a small forward compart-
ment for the motor and motormen.
The larger compartment has folding
tables, revolving chairs, and electric
light and heating and other con-
veniences. The cars are propelled by
electric motors capable of developing
a speed of 125 miles an hour.

To test the Leps aerial railway a
short experimental line is to be con-
structed from Marburg to the sum-
mit of a neighboring hill. The pro-
moters believe that the operating ex-
penses of a railway of this sort would
be about one-fortieth those of an or-
dinary railway and that the diminu-
tion in the cost of right of way would
reduce the initial outlay to about
$30,000 a-mile.

They believe that the 6,000 mile
journey from Berlin to Vladivostok,
now occupying seventeen days via
the Siberian railway, could be
achieved in three days by the Leps
system. But the incredulous point to
engineering and financial objections
to the novel aeronautic railway and
declare that this fanciful road is nev-
er likely to exist save on paper.

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Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

Many of the fresh gathered eggs
lately arriving in this market have
been more or less seriously damaged
by freezing. And unfortunately, the
fullest and freshest of the eggs, in a
shipment exposed to freezing condi-
tions, are the most likely to be split
open by the frost, since the older,
shrunken eggs have room to expand
without bursting the shell, while the
fresh and full eggs have not. Stock
showing frost has to be cut in price
more or less according to the extent
of the damage; when only a few split
eggs appear in the samples shown a
concession of 1@2c is usually suffi-
cient, but when the proportion of
frozen eggs is large much greater re-
duction in price often has to be made
—sometimes as much as 6@8c per
below what the eggs would
have sold for had they been free from
frost.

dozen

There is no doubt that the wintry
weather prevailing in egg producing
sections during the past three or four
weeks has improved the situation of
the remaining stock of cold storage
eggs. The signs of increased produc-
tion that were apparent early in De-
cember have disappeared so far as

 

the West is concerned, and have
lately been restricted to a few south-|
ern sections where there has been'
very little snow and where tempera-
tures have not yet fallen low enough
to prevent a moderate seasonable in-
crease in the lay of eggs. Still it
must be considered that Eastern mar-
kets are carrying over an unusually
large stock of storage eggs and that
the recovery in prices so far realized
has not been sufficient to permit
sales at any average profit over the
original cost of the goods. It looks
now as if the abundance of storage
eggs and the general desire to move
them at cost or a small profit would
prevent the maintenance of any very
extreme prices for fresh stock here-
after, even under comparatively small
supplies and even with some further
advance in the held goods. I notice
that some shippers of fresh stock
from Western points are placing high
limits on their goods, but there seem
to be few chances that their extreme
ideas of value will be realized. It has
been the experience so far this win-
ter that whenever the price of high
grade fresh Western ezggs has been
pushed above about 34c more trade
has been diverted to storage stock
than could be spared from the fresh
arrivals and the market has quickly
fallen back. All such extreme ad-
vances have been supported under the
influence of strong interior advices

fresh eggs which has not yet been
realized, even though receipts have,
at times, fallen to small figures. And
there really seems now to be little
prospect of any actual shortage of
fresh gathered eggs so long as the
supply of storage eggs remains com-
paratively large, affording dealers a
profitable alternative.

But the greater dependence upon
storage eggs has, as remarked above,
improved their position and prices
for them have ruled steadily firmer
in spite of the recent decline in fresh
stock. Through these changes in val-
ue the recent extreme range in prices
between fine fresh and fine storage
eggs has been reduced, but it is still!
abnormally wide for the season, and
likely to be still further reduced; that
is to say, if continued wintry condi-
tions in producing sections should
permit a maintenance of present pric-
es for fresh gathered eggs some furth-
er improvement in desirable storage
stock is quite probable; and a reac-
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Extreme prices expected for all kinds of poultry for the holidays. None can
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of storage eggs need be

should increase

Seprcted|
only if the supply of fresh gathered

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the table. In order to appreciate the
capon, one has first to eat him.

enough to force a) Plump, thick of flesh, with all that

further decline in their value here. | tender, juicy richness of flesh of the
The latter result, however, is not be-| young broiler, the capon is a_ king

yond the range of probability since’

the demand for fresh is now small
and advices indicate fair supplies in
transit.
tendency toward milder weather in
producing sections of the South and
Southwest—N. Y. Produce Review.
reac eer
Turkeys on the Farm.

In this day of rapid progress the
farmer should not lose sight of the
large profit to be derived from the
turkey. There is no poultry or other
like stock that will return so large
a profit to the successful producer as
will turkeys when properly handled.

If domesticated enough to be rais-
ed naturally they well may be termed
self-sustaining foragers. The mother
may be placed in the meadows with
her baby turkeys and they will need
no feed nor attention if there are con-
venient water and shade and the
fencing is in order. And we find that
fences that answer for sheep likewise
answer for turkeys.

Here they will secure their entire
living; much of it from grasshoppers,
bugs and the various insects that are

really detrimental to the growing
grain. They are veritable gleaners,
picking up the wast grain in their
‘wanderings, which assures steady

growth at no expense. The farm is
an ideal home for the turkey and the
turkey is the ideal profit-bringing
bird for the farmer, and as soon as
the farmer understands managing and
rearing it he will be glad to be called
the turkey’s friend. He will also
realize that the turkey is truly the
farmer’s friend.

It should be encouraging to the
farmer to know that the market de-
mand for turkeys has always been
greater than the supply and the price
has gone steadily up. Nothing looks
more promising in the future than the
turkey market. The flesh of the tur-
key is so generally used now that it
seems impossible to meet the demand.
Sandwiches and salads now call for
turkey meat and there is great de-
mand for the poults as broilers.

We certainly advise the rearing of
turkeys on the farm and further ad-
vise the choosing of those that are
highly domesticated. To us none are
quite so good as the White Holland.
We began with this variety and have
tried no other. They have grown
more domesticated all the while and
have proved themselves the most
profitable thing we have. They are
not quite so large as some, but are
so easily raised that we believe the
obstacle of size is over-balanced. Any
farmer who tries them will be most
sure to say they have made him hap-
py on account of good results gained.

—Farmer’s Wife.
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The Popularity of Capons.

What the steak cut from the well
fed steer, as compared with a piece of
the indurated fibrine of the back of
the bull, is exactly what the rich,
tender flesh of the capon is like as
compared with the ordinary rooster,
when it comes to placing them upon

among delicacies. To offer them for
sale is to create a demand at a very
marked advance over the ordinary

There is also, at present, a|market price for fowl, live or dressed.

Now that poultry has reached such
a high price in the city markets the
importance and profit of growing
them should take a place equal to
that of the production of pork or of
beef, and if rightly gone about it is
much more profitable.

There would be just as little sense
in sending two or three year old bulls
to market instead of steers as there

instead of the far more _ profitable
The operation of caponizing
is one easily learned and practically
safe. One has only to purchase a set
of caponizing tools and follow care-
fully directions. After the operation
the young bird seems to suffer little
in any way, and he at once com-
mences to gain flesh rapidly, grows
bigger, fattens more quickly, and is
altogether more profitable than he
would otherwise have been. All sur-
plus male birds should be caponized,
and a regular market at a much bet-
ter price than for other fowls would

capons.

soon be established.
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One of His Specialties.
Squartleigh—I see by the papers
that Roosevelt has sent home an-

cther big lot of elephant tusks.
Jonas—Yes. Teddy always
great on teeth.

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Grand Rapids Broom Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

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ORDER FROM YOUR JOBBER

  
    
   
    

 

 

PEACOCK BRAND
Leaf Lard

and

Special Mild Cured
Hams and Bacon

are on sale by all live, wide-
awake, up-to-date merchants.

Why?
BECAUSE

they are trade-winners and
trade-keepers, on account
of their being the ‘‘best in
the land.’’

The Lard is pure leaf and
the Hams and Bacon are
selected from choice corn-
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special ‘‘PEACOCK PRO-
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is in sending a lot of young roosters}

 

 

 

 

 

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Hot Graham Muffins

A delicious morsel that confers an
added charm to any meal. In them are
combined the exquisite lightness and
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the productive tissue building qualities
so necessary to the worker.

Wizard Graham Flour

There is something delightfully re-
freshing about Graham Muffins or Gems
‘—light, brown and flaky—just as pala-
table as they look. If you have a long-
ing for something different for break-
fast, luncheon or dinner, try “Wizard”
Graham Gems, Muffins, Puffs, Waffles
or Biscuits. AT ALL GROCERS.

 

Wizard Graham is Made by
Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co.
L. Fred Peabody, Mgr.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

Frankly and honestly, Mr.

Grocer, are you selling or
have you ever sold a brand of
flour that causes as much satis-
faction as ‘‘Crescent?’’

The fact that you hear no
complaints regarding its quali-
ty, and that the first sack
means continued orders, should
make you very positive in rec-
ommending it to new cus-
tomers.

You may be selling other
brands of which you will hear
more about—but what grocer
likes to hear continual ‘‘kicks’’
concerning his wares?

Have you plenty of all sizes
in Crescent flour?

VOIGT MILLING CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

   

   
 

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Jennings’ Absolute Phosphate Bak-
ing Powder has been thoroughly tested
with unqualified success—it is now ready
for market.

Order from your jobber or direct.

Jennings Baking Powder Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Established 1872

The Diamond
Match Company
PRICE LIST

BIRD’S-EYE.
Safety Heads. Protected Tips.
5 size—5 boxes in package, 20 packages incase, per

Gane 20 ov. Wes oo $3.35
essem quantities, i.5.,.....0. 2. $3.50

BLACK DIATFIOND.

5 size—5 boxesin package, 20 packages in case, per

 

Case 20 or. lots $3.35
esses quantities 0... 005.1... $3.50
BULL’S-EYE.

1 size—10 boxes in package, 36 packages (360 boxes)
in 24% gr. case, per case 20 gr. lot.......... $2.35
Eesser quantities’. ..:...2..... 01... $2.50

SWIFT & COURTNEY.

5 size—Black and white heads, double dip, 12 boxes
in package, 12 packages (144 boxes) in 5 gross
Cas, per ease 2o oF. 1Ots ... 2 2... 6.5, ccc cee $3.75

Lesser quantities

BARBER’S RED DIAMOND.

2 size—In slide box, 1 doz boxes in package, 144
boxes in 2 gr. case, per case in 2o gr. lots.. $1.60
Lesser quantities... 64... 666. 665i... $1.70

BLACK AND WHITE.
2 size—1 doz boxes in package, 12 packages in 2 gr
case, per case in 20 gr. lots
RGssen Gumititles. 4.02 once e os ieee acetic. $1 90

THE GROCER’S MATCH.

2 size—Grocers 6 gr. 8 boxes in package, 54 pack-
ages in 6 gross case, per case in 20 gr. lots. .$5.00

Resses quantities. ...50 6606.0... 1.5... ideas $5.25
Grocers 41-6gr. 3 box package, 100 packages in

4 1-6 gr, Case, per case in 20 gr. lots....... $3.50
Lesser qugntitieg:, 0... 6 edi cca eos cscs ae $3.65

ANCHOR PARLOR [IATCHES,

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two gross case in 20 gr. lots... 0666 0056s. 1.40
Lesser quantities........ aa (men «504 Gee

BEST AND CHEAPEST
PARLOR MATCHES.

2 size—In slide box, 1 doz. inpackage, 144 boxes in
ma oy. Case, tt 20 er. 10s. oo oie ss oun se :
Reawer GuAneiled ss yo... o505 a lee seu ce uac $1.70
3 size—In slide box, 1 doz. in package, 144 boxes in
3 wr, case, in 0. gr. lots... cio... .
BsOueet GUANEINIES. ss... 555s ccg cea siueas osc; $2.55

SEARCH-LIGHT PARLOR IlATCH.

5 size—In slide box, 1 doz in package, 12 packages
nS gr case, in go ar. lots, - 2... 3. :
WOGGHCY CUANCINCRs coc cases caecccedel.. acucs, $4.50

UNCLE SAM.

2 size—Parlor Matches, handsome box and package;
red, white and blue heads, 3 boxes in flat pack-
ages, 100 packages(300 boxes)in 4 1-6 gr, case,
per case in 20 ar, IGG... cu. ee ss $3.35

eamer quantities.) os $3.60

SAFETY MATCHES.
Light only on box.

Red Top Safety—o size—1 doz. boxes in package
60 packages (720 boxes) in 5 gr. case, per case
Sis 20 BP Tots od cee. ca ee ..+- $2.50
E@Sceh QURNUC CS. ooo os aac cs cheeae va 2.75
Aluminum Safety, Aluminum Size—: doz,
boxes in package, 60 packages(720 boxes) in
§ gr. case, per case in 20 gr. lots ....,.«.. $1.
EGGSON GUAMENICS - 5 oc cans oc So ose oceania cdhe $2.00

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

January 5, 1910

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good Health the Bulwark of Success.
It is harder to say why some peo-
ple fail than to tell why others suc-
ceed. One thing is certain—that a
man with health stands a far better
chance to succeed than one without
it. Writers talk with pride about Rus-
kin, Pope, Mrs. Browning and oth-
ers who did much with little strength.
few, and how much more these might
have dene with better health.
Successful work is measured by two
standards—quantity and quality. It is
self-evident that a man in good health
can do more work than one who is

not. When it comes to a question of
quality, ability and creative power
are needed, but they must. be

strengthened by good health. It is as
foolish for a man to expect to ac-
complish a great deal without health
as for an architect to plan a fine home
without a good foundation. As Luther
Hi. Gulick, who has made a careful
study of efficient work, says: ‘The
work of the thinker, of the financier,
of the executive genius demands an

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alertness of all the faculties, an abili-
ty to grasp, to originate, to carry out
a trained perception. He must be
the master of a delicate high grade
machine calculated to carry out high
grade work.”

The more skilled labor is the more
it depends on the quality than the
quaritity of the output. “Live at your

They forget that these are only the |best” is a safe motto for men and

women called upon to do a high grade
of work. The head of a large retail
louse in the East said the other day
when interviewed on this subject:
“We do not want men and women in
our employ who are in poor health.
In selecting our men we _ consider
their health as much as their ability,
and we help to keep them in good
physical condition. We give them a
three weeks’ vacaticn every year,
pleasant surroundings and plenty of
exercise. Upstairs we have a large

|gymnasium and here every man and
;woman exercise every day.”

A half hour or less of purely mus-
cular exercise will help much to keep
a@ man or a woman in trim. For the

oa .
!man and woman who can not go 1n-

to a gymnasium some simple syste-
matic exercises taken at home, swim-
ming, boxing, bowling and playing
golf help to bring into play the big
muscles of the body and make the
whole body respond energetically.

There are plenty of able organizers
and workers who are expending from
25 to 50 per cent. of unnecessary enr-
gy in business every day. The fault
is they allow themselves to be ground
down by the deadly details of their
business and therefore let the real
things, the real opportunities, slip by.

Many a man and woman fail be-
cause they spend so much time in
worrying. They do not understand
that worry slows down the circulation
and lowers all the faculties. It does
wonders to tire mind and body. Work
is the best cure for worry and dis-
ccuragement.

Vitality is as necessary to efficient
work as it is to good health. It means
more than freedom from disease. It
represents power, ability to do things
Every worker must learn to do as
niuch work at as little cost as possi-
ble. Some men do their best
chained to a desk. Others work spas-
modically, they need day dreams, in-
spiration of thought and
ings to call out the best.

But health and good work depend on

work

surround-

growth. We may stop growing in
stature when we are 20, but there is
no check put on our mental and mor-
al growth. Right ideals and righ’
living are pretty certain to result in
good health and successful work.
William A. James.

 

 

Hotel Cody

Grand Rapids, Mich.
W. P. COX, Mgr.

Many improvements have been made
in this popular hotel. Hot and cold
water have been put in all the rooms.

Twenty new rooms have been added,
many with private bath.

The lobby has been enlarged and
beautified, and the dining room moved
to the ground floor.

The rates remain the same—$2.00,
#2.50 and $3.00. American plan.

All meals 50c.

 

 

 

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Addition and
Multiplication

Add one big airy room to cour-
teous service, then multiply by
three excellent meals, and the
answer is

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If a Retailer cannot use five cases of Post Toasties, he can make a five-
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Just so an order for five cases of our products is placed, he can buy
Post Toasties at $2.70 the case.

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January 5, 1910

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Concluding Sessions of M. K. of G.

Lansing, Dec. 29-——At the conclu-
sion of President Frost’s annual ad-
dress to the annual convention of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip he an-
nounced the following standing com-
mittees:

Credentials—John C. Saunders, of
Lansing, John W. Schram, of De-
troit, and W. J. Devereaux, of Port

Huron.

Rules and Order of Business—John
A. Hofiman, of Kalamazoo, Prank L.
Day, of Jackson, and John Raymond,
of Lansing.

President’s Address-—F. N. Mosher,
of Port Huron, BE) Gass, of ia-
peer, and George S. Hyde.

Resolutions—M. S. Brown, of Sagi-
naw, W. H. Griffiths, of Howell, and
M. C. Empey, of Bay City.

Mortuary Resolutions—George F.
Owen, of Grand Rapids, Manley
Jones, of Grand Rapids, and. Van
Dailey.

Communications—M. S. Brown, of
Saginaw, J. C. Witthff, of Port Hu-
ron, and Frank Lawrence, of Lan-
sing.

Letters—John A. Hoffman, of Kal-
amazoo, William G. Tapert, of Sault
Ste. Marie, and B. L. Gass, of La-
peer.

The visiting Knights of the Grip
and their ladies were tendered a com-
plimentary banquet by Post A Tues-
day evening. A bountiful repast,
creditable talks and entertaining
music comprised the early programme
and later dancing in the ballroom
was in order.

At the banquet J. C. Saunders in-
troduced James F. Hammell as toast-
master. Clever stories are always
told at the banquet table, but Mr.
Hammell’s witty assortment was
equal to any which have been heard
in this city for some time.

Following was the programme as
carried out: Invocation, Rev. F. G.
Ward, Lansing; “Michigan,” Rev. Fr.
Wittliff. of Port Huron; solo, Mrs.
W. F. Davis, Saginaw; “Michigan
Knights of the Grip,” J. J. Frost, Lan-
sing; “Memories,” N. B. Jones, De-
troit: “The Early Traveler,” J. A.
Hoffman, Kalamazoo; “Hotels,” M.
S. Brown, Saginaw; duet, Mrs. Davis
and Ben MacGahen; “The Ladies,”
Manley Jones, Grand Rapids; music,
Ladies’ Auxiliary Symphony Orches-

tra. All the addresses were appropri-
ate, to the point and _ heartily re-
ceived.

That the ladies are prominent fac-
tors in the success of Post A was de-
clared by Manley Jones in his toast
on that topic. Mr. Jones stated thaz
the Lansing Post surpassed any oth-
er in Michigan and he said that the
reason for the success was that the
local Post has an active Ladies’ Aux-
iliary,

The special Committee on Commu
nications presented the following re-
port:

“We believe in informing the con-
sumer that the value of farms de-
pends to a certain extent upon the
nearness of the farms to a good live
town, and any agricultural town re-
ceives its prosperity from the support
of the consumers in the vicinity of
the city. We believe that the con-
sumer should be educated to the fact

 

that a continual support of mail or-
der houses means the annihilation of
the hustling villages and towns,
which on an average pay about 30
per cent. of all taxes. If the con-
sumers succeed in destroying these
towns and villages, the consumers
must pay the extra tax and charge
its pro rata amount to the cost of
mail order goods.

“Further, we should educate the
consumer to be consistent. The re-
tailer always extends a running cred-
it to the consumer, while the mail
erder houses demand cash. The con-
sumer’s home selling market depends
entirely on how well he supports his
home town. This is especially. true
in the case of the farmer, for the un-
written law is that the larger the
tewn the more elevators there will
be, and thus greater competition and
higher prices.

“We must educate the consumer to
know that when he purchases from
nail order houses he must take into
consideration that there will follow
increased taxes, depreciated real es-
tate values and lessened competitive
markets. We believe above all that
it is the business duty of the trav-
eler to discuss with the retailer con-
stantly these principles and ask him
in turn to take the matter up with
the respective boards of trade and
they in turn reach the consumer with
these arguments.”

The report was adopted.

The election of officers resulted as
follows: President, Charles H. Phil-
lips, Lapeer; Secretary, Frank Acker-
man, Lansing; Lreasurer, Lou J.
Burch, Detroit; members of the
Board of Directors, Henry Goppelt,
Saginaw, re-elected; John D. Martin,
Grand Rapids: Wm. J.) Devereaux,
Port Huron.

The only fight was over the secre-
taryship, and Ackerman received for-
tv-nine votes to sixteen for M. V.
Foley, of Saginaw, and twenty-six for
Wm. J. Devereaux, of Port Huron.

Twelve Vice-Presidents were chos-
en as follows: H. 1. Day, Jackson:
George C. Steele, Battle Creek; F. M.
Whitbeck, Benton Harbor; George
F. Owen, Grand Rapids; John W.
Newall, Fiint: E. J. Courtney, Port
Huron; Thomas Olivie, Saginaw; N.
D. Barnard, Manistee; V. W. White,
Traverse City; Wm. G. Tapert, Soo.

It was thought that Kalamazoo
would offer a bid for the meeting
next year, but it did not come out as
scheduled and Lapeer was chosen
without a dissenting vote.

Post A, of Lansing, which enter-
tained the visitors during the conven-
tion, was tendered a hearty vote of
thanks for the fine way the visiting
brothers and their ladies had been en-
tertained.

The Wayfarer.

Did no one see an Old Man go
Alone across the fields of snow,
His tattered cloak blown in the wind
And all his treasures left behind,
Faring a way he did not know—
Did no one see that Old Man go?

 

Did no one mind a tolling bell

And did no voices call farewell

Adown the wind with piteous haste

To one upon the wintry waste?

Oh, bells ring loud and voices cry

And bid the going Year good-bye!
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He who can not laugh like a boy
can not labor like a man,

 

Elevation of John D. Martin.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 4—When the
Michigan Knights of the Grip elect-
ed John D. Martin one of their Board
of Directors they voiced the senti-
ment of every traveling man within
the boundaries of the State of Mich-
igan. For nineteen years John has
traveled in Michigan and in _ that
time has sold goods in nearly every
city, town and hamlet in the Lower
Peninsula and he counts his cus-
tomers as his personal friends. For
eighteen years he has been a mem-
ber of the Michigan Knights of the

 

 

 

 

Grip and for sixteen years a mem-
-Eer of the United Commercial Trav-
elers of America, being one of the
charter members of Saginaw Council,
No. 43, instituted in 1893, and enter-
ing the Grand Council in 1900, after
which, by transfer card, he became a
member of Grand Rapids Council, No.
131. At Battle Creek in June, 1908, he
was elected to fill a vacancy on the
Executive Board of the Grand Coun-
cil and again re-elected in Kalamazoo
in June, 1900, for a full term.
placing of him by his friends on the
Board of Directors of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip gives him the
honor of being on the directorate ot
both State organizations of traveling
men, which has never happened be-

fore. Admirer.

2. ____
Changed His Mind About Lansing
Police.
Dec. 290—M. S. Brown, of
Saginaw, is alleged to have loudly de-
clared a few weeks ago while mak-
ing a trip through the northern part
of the State that this city’s police de-
partment was a joke.

“Why, I can lick the whole bunch,”
Brown is alleged to have He
has changed his opinion, however, and
so declared this morning after Chief
of Police Behrendt and three husky
policemen had placed him under ar-
rest during the morning’s business
session of the M. K. of G.

Mr. Brown was given a ride in the
automobile patrol and taken to the
nolice station. There he declared that
he had made a terrible mistake. Es-
pecially did this seem true, Mr. Brown
said, when he gazed at half a dozen
more policemen of the six foot va-
riety. Later Mr. Brown was taken
back to the capitol and escorted to

Lansing,

said.

The |

 

the representative hall. He was loud-
iy applauded by his brother knights
and gave a neat little speech compli-
menting Lansing upon its police de-
partment.

—_—_—_.-..—__

Gripsack Brigade.

Geo. A. Pierce and wife have gone
to Milwaukee, where he will spend
two or three months opening the
Wisconsin territory for the O. F.
Schmid Chemical Co., of Jackson.

A meeting of the old and new di-
rectors of the Michigan Knights of
the Grip will be held at Saginaw Sat-
urday, Jan. 15, to pass receipts and
install the new members and officers.

3eginning Jan. 1 Weingarten Bros.,
manufacturers of W. B. corsets, will
be represented in Indiana and part of
Michigan by Gerald O. White. He
will carry a full and complete line of

W. B. and La Vida corsets.
An Eaton Rapids correspondent
writes: Hugh ‘Walker has secured a

position with the Billings-Clapp Co.,
of Boston, and will start traveling
next week throughout Southern
Michigan and the Northern part of
Ohio and Indiana.

A Hastings
as follows:

correspondent writes
Louis Shulters, who re-
cently secured a position as traveling

salesman for the Mishawaka Rubber
Co., left for Mishawaka Sunday.
After a few weeks at headquarters

he will go to Missouri and take up

his work in the territory assigned
him. Mrs. Shulters will accompany
him.

———— i> ><
Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.
Jan. 5—Creamery,
dairy, fresh, 23@3o0c;
to common, 18@23c.

Buffalo,

32@36c;

fresh,

poor

Eggs—Strictly fresh,
35c; cold storage, 26c.

candled, 34@

Live Poultry — Fowls, 14@15c:

springers, 15@17c; ducks, 16@18c; old

cocks, I0@IIc; geese, 14@I5c; tur-
ikeys, 20@22c.

ssed Poultry—Old cocks, 12@
fowls, 15@17c; chickens, 16@
s8c; turkéys, 24@26c; ducks, 19@2o0c:
geese, 14@I5Sc.

Pea, hand-picked,
(@2.20; red kidney, hand-picked,
(2.90; white kidney, hand-pick-
$2.75@2.90; marrow, $2.75@2.80;
medium, hand-picked, $2.20@2.25.

Potatoes—New per bu., 45@5oc.

Rea & Witzig.
———_. - ~< ____
Proud of Their New Honor.

Lapeer, Jan. 3—An informal recep-
tion was given C. H. Phillips on New
Year’s night at the Marshall in hon-
or of his election as President of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip. Busi-
ness men and citizens generally feel
it an honor that one of our traveling
should be chosen
they will be able to assist in the way
of entertaining the first State con
vention ever held in this city, which
will be in December of this year. Mr.
Phillips will assume office Jan. 15.

—————_—_~~—

Albert W. Crittenden, formerly en-
gaged in the grocery business. at
Howard City, has re-engaged in trade
at that place. The Judson Grocer Co,
furnished the stock.

 

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—W. E. Collins, Owosso.
Secretary—John D, Muir, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—W. A. Dohany, Detroit.
Other Members—Edw. J. Rodgers, Port

Huron. and John J. Campbell, Pigeon.

Michigan Retall Druggists Association.
President—C. A. Bugbee, Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Fred Brundage,

Muskegon.

Second Vice-President—-C. H. Jongejan,

Grand Rapids.
iam ai R. McDonald, Traverse
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ta rensurer—Henry Riechel. Grand Rap-
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Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-

on.
First Vice-President—J. E. Way. Jack-
son.
Second Vice-President—W. R. Hall,
Manistee.
Third Vice-Prseident—M. M. Miller,
Milan.
Secretary—E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Willis Leisenring. Pontiac.

 

TAKING STOCK.

 

Grand Rapids’ Totals in Excess of
1908.

Let’s take stock. Everybody is do-
ing it these days to ascertain what
the old year has done for them and
to speculate on what the new year
has in store.

 

over 1908 ,but not as large an increase
as might be expected for a year fol-
lowing a panic and hard times, when
it Is necessary to clear away more or
less wreckage.

Among the well known citizens
who died during the year were Wm.
S. Gunn, who died in Paris, France,
jau. 2; L. D. Steward, Jan. 18: W.

j Arthur Stowe, Feb. 8; Judge E. A.
| Burlingame at Ishpeming, Feb. 13;

 

tion. | Dr.
President—Edw. J. Rodgers, Port Hur-|

A OO duten Mar 6: a.
Drury, Mar. 18; Bishop Geo. D. Gil-
lespie, Mar. 19; L. W. Wolcott at
Seattle, Mar. 28; Dwight Goss in Cal-
ifornia, Mar. 29; Wm. Miller, April 3:
Mrs. C. S. Udell, April 6; Frederick
Immen at Washington, April 19; Pat-
rick H. Carroll, April 29; John D.
M. Shirts, May 10; Ralph B. Love-
land, May 26; Mrs. E. P. Fuller, June
6; Henry Snitseler, June 8; N. W.
Northrup, June 16; Wm. T. Powers,

|Fune 17; Jas. Cox, Aug. 19; Geo.- H.

Reeder, Sept. 9; Harvey J. Hollis-

|ter, Sept. 24; John Killean, Nov. 1;
\Jchn C. Wenham, Nov. 5; M. J

Stock taking involves |

statistics—long and many columns of |
them. But in the present instance the |

figures will be results rather than de-
tails, the footing and not all the
items, and in this tabloid form the
statistics may not be wearisome.
During the year there were 2,614

births in Grand Rapids and_ 1,393
deaths, compared with 2,755 births
and 1,527 deaths in 1908. There were
1,713. marriage licenses issued and

430 divorce bills filed, compared with
1,563 marriages and 422 divorce bills
in 1908.

The City Building Inspector issued
1290 permits, representing $2,870,627
in 1909, compared with 1,064 permits
and $2,181,758 value in 1908.

The bank clearings for
22.23 per cent. over 1908 and of 3.12
per cent, over 1907. The total for the
year makes a new record for the year,
and it was the large increase the sec-
ond half of the year that made this
showing possible.

The banks paid in dividends during
the year a total of $281,500 and in

addition the Old National and Kent |
State paid the taxes, about $25,000 |

more. The banks added $131,550 to

surplus and undivided profits. The.
commercial deposits gained $540,304, ;
the savings and certificates $996,378

and the total deposits $2,104,499.
The business embarrassment
ported to the R. G. Dun & Co. Com-
mercial Agency in the
counties constituting

this district

numbered 117, with total liabilities of |
of to charity, they were more liberal to
increase |the tax collector.

$1,355,103 and assets reported

$1,054,161. This shows an

Clark, at Globe, Ariz., Nov. 23.
There were thirty-seven estates in
probate court during the year of $10.-

'c0o0 Or more, with a total of $2,812,-

| 233.

This total does not include the
estate of Melvin J. Clark, which has

‘not yet been inventoried, but which

'gett’s in 1908.

will total $1,500,000 or more. The
Clark estate is in a class by itself,
just as was that of Delos A. Blod-
The estates that ex-

ceeded $100,000 were:

'M. J. Clark, estimated
Mics. © F. Baller .......5..

. . $1,500,000
584,231

|Harvey J. Hollister (esti-

mated) 66) 350,000
Wo S Guan ......0 6... 201,227
Ww 2 Powers: 3 232,809
Jote ©. Wenham ......... 146,985
Frederick Tmmen -.-._....- 108,066

the year |
were $123,728,804.07, an increase of |
ibequests were small, with a total of

1 ore

The public, church and benevolent
enly $75,793.50, not including several
small residues. The largest single
bequest was that of Bishop Gillespie,
who left his entire estate to the dio-
cese over which he presided for so
many years, but during their life the
‘income from this estate will go to his
daughters. Christian Science church-
es and institutions received $10,773.30
in one bequest, Roman Catholic
churches and _ institutions received
£4,650, Park Congregational church
$5,000, Butterworth Hospital $5,000,
i'C. O. S. $3,000, the Humane Society
i$too, D. A. Blodgett home for chil-
‘dren $3,078.12, State School for Chil-

twenty-four |dren at Coldwater $1,539.17 and oth-

ler churches $150.
If the estates did not yield much

The total of the

-{have been

 

inheritance taxes collected was $83,-
799.86. The largest tax was that on
the D. A. Blodgett estate, $45,832.45.
The estate of F. M. Morris netted the
State $7,502.09, that of Samuel Sears
S1.06013° and that <«f S. 5S.
$5,144.07. These deaths occurred in
1908. It takes about a year to assess
and collect the death dues.

The year brought prosperity to the
city industrially. The records
that fifty-four industrial institutions
established or have en-
larged or have enlargement plans un-
cer way, and most of this activity has
developed the last six months. The
largest new industries are the Mar-
vel Manufacturing Company, which
moved here from Icnia and which
employs 125 hands, and the Ameri-
can Paper Company, which has spent
@ year in building its plant and will
Start operations about Feb. 1. The
new industries and the enlargements

Gay

 

Assure the satisfaction of your cus-
tomers with Jennings’ Flavoring Ex.
tracts—for 38 years the highest stand-
ard of purity and strength.

show

Jennings Flavoring
Extract Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Established 1872

 

of the old will represent an increased
labor employment of between _ 1,500
and 2,000 hands the coming year.

JOWNEY'S

COCOA and || 4
CHOCOLATE

For Drinking and Baking

139-141 Monroe St,
ee On rd
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

MR
comin
Chocolate

 

 

| These superfine goods bring the customer back
| for more and pay a fair profit to the dealer too

 

 

The Walter [1. Lowney Company
Co BOSTON

 

 

 

 

Putnam’s
Menthol Cough Drops

Packed 4o five cent packages in
carton. Price $1.00.

Each carton contains a certificate,
ten of which entitle the dealer to

One Full Size Carton
Free

when returned to us or your jobber
properly endorsed.

 

PUTNAM FACTORY, National Candy Co.
Makers
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

sear a rn ne
Are you looking for a chance

to go into business for yourself?

I know of places in every state where retail stores are needed—and I also
know something about a retail line that will pay handsome profits on a
comparatively small investment—a line in which the possibilities of growth
into a large general store are great. An exceptional chance to get started
in a paying business, and in a thriving town. No charge for my services.
Write today for particulars and booklet telling how others have succeeded
in this line and how you can succeed with small capital.

.EDWARD B. MOON, 14 West Lake St., Chicago.

 

January 5, 1910

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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we rum 12@ i4i Vanilla ....:..-. 9 00@10
a _ 70@ 175|Saccharum La’s 18@ 20|Zinci Sulph 7@ 10
ae Acidan ae eae thos eicues aa ened fon 65@ (0) Salacin ......... 4 50@4 75 Olls
Benzoicum, Ger.. @ 175 Subebae ..... -.--3 00@3 25] Scillae Co 50 | Mz e — SF eee Pace ae oe
Boraple 070... @ 12|Erigeron ...... 2 35@2 50| Tol . agnesia, Sulph. bbl @ 1%|Sapo, G ......... @ pete oe «-.-. 350» 90
Carbolicum ..... 16@ 20] Bvech a ee en ere est @ 50/Mannia S. F. 75@ 85|Sapo, M 10@ Par, NO: Fo 5s 5s. 60@ 66
Citricum 42@ 46 vechthitos .....1 00@1 10] Prunus virg @ 50| Menthol 3 15 5 ae @ 12/Linseed, pure raw 70@ 75
Hydrochtor .... - 29 ) caultheria ...... 2 50@4 00| zingib Morphia, SP&W 3 56O3 80|Scphita Mixtare | nae ee ha a ee
Hydrochtor ..... Re Genicom 2 er soe @ 50 Morphia, SNYQ 3 BeOS = aoe Mixture a. 22| Neat’s-foot, w str 65@ 70
cum ....... PR cise nctures We occu ee aac ® 18| Turpentine, bbl...... 32%
Enesthovank. ail 14@ 15)Gossippii Sem gal 70@ 175) Aloes ............ 60 oe aaa = 80| Sinapis, . opt. @ 30| Turpentine. less... 67.
Salicylicum es : 44@ 47 Hedecoma .:...... 2 50@2 75] Aloes & Myrrh 60 Myristica, anton 25 10 ae viisceaboy, @ 61 — Pane, ae :
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ietsicia 38@ 40 Co eels ales : a if Anconitum Nap’sR 60 Pepsin. > noma H & Soda. eae po BO 10 a ne 18 a
DUNOTS 5 6 ono cisco ( Arnies 22.5.5 0.0) 50/7. 42 Oe eee eee @1 00 Soda’ t P t’ Ty rt 25 ona i ait
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8 ase Verid ...2 75@3 0U| Atrope Belladonna 60 | Picis Liq — .. @1 00 aaa apa helen sno : tous P leom Hs 7
orrhuae, gal. ..1 6¢@1 85/ Auranti Cortex.. 50, ie ee pints .. @ 60|/Soda, Sulphas @ 2| Putty, strict ue 21 5 2%, @3
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Picis Liquida .... 16@ 12|Benzoin Co 50|Pix Burgum> "3 | Spts. Vini Rect bbl S "Wwocme wee
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a. saan ulvis Ip’cet Opil 1 30@1 50|Spts. Vii R't 10 gl @ Whiting Gilders’) = @ 95
ween eens apsicum ....... 50|Pyrenthrum, bxs. H Spts. Vi'i R’ Thit? oe, @ %
a eo. aace i &  ée pts. t 6 gsi @ Whit’g Paris Am’r @1 25
Cehehaa. ae 2 ete tee Cardamon ...... 75 Porcine ay aon 75| Strychnia, Crys’l 1. 10@1 30| Whit'g Paris Eng.
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Bal Santal .......... nator ...0 1 .. 1 » ». tees a Terebenth Venice 28@ 30}Extra Turp ..... 1 60@
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Co ae 1 90@2 00|Succini .......... e ASlGiacons Co. a0 ee oo .
Terabin, Canada 78@ 80|Thyme .......... 40@ 5°|Columbia ... 50
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Cortex oe tte To@, 20) Digitalis ........ 50
Abies, Canadian 18| Vi See ec alee SO@1 OOP misot (oc... 8... 50
Cassing (000 30 Potassium Ferri Chloridum 35
Cinchona Flava.. 1g|Bi-Carb ......... 5@ 18}Gentian ......... 50
Buonymus atro.. 60 Biehromate ..... 13@ 15|Gentian Co. ..... 60
Myrica Cerifera.. eo Eromide ......... o6q@ 301 Guiaca .......... 50
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Sassafras, po 25.. a Cyanide ......... 30@ 40\lodine ........... 75 e Extend to Our
Cheese (7. aq Wodide ..........: 2 50@2 60| Iodine, colorless 7
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Haematox ...... 11@ 12|Sulphate po .... 15@ 18]Opil ............. 1 25
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Ferru Anenusa 6 000000. Ww@ 12|8hatany ......... 50
Carbonate Precip. 15|Arum po ........ @ 25 ia ee ete ee 50
bat and Quina 2 00 on see poe 20@ 40 nc aiace pag ce oF om ;
aia eae 55|Gentiana po 15.. 12@ 15|Serpentaria’ ..... C pl f the S
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Solut. Chloride 15|Hellebore, Alba 12@ 15 bo een teteeeees 60
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Sulphate, pure " Ipecac, po ...... 2 00@2 10 Misceilaneous May the Year of
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Flora Talapa, pr. 65@ 70 Aether, Spts Nit 4f 34 38
AIOE irda cece 20@ 25|Maranta, \%s .... @ 35|Alumen, grd po ' 3 4
Anthemis ....... 50@ 60|Podophyllim po 15@ 18 Annatto ...-.++-- 40 50
Matricaria ...... 30@ 35|Rhei.. 75@1 09|Antimoni, po .... 4 5
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Barosma ........ 50@ 60| Rhei, pv. -...--;. 7@1 00} Antipyrin 1...... 25
Cassia Acutifol Sanguinari, po 18 @ 15 eS @
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Salvia’ officinalis ee ss 50@ 55|Biemuth SON nd 651 83 Bri
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Gauciacum po 35 @ 35| ini 6 i ok ae Cocaine ........ 2 80@3 00
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Tragacanth ..... 70@1 00 Spiritus Bee nar ssa oe * I
; Frumenti W. D. 2 00@2 50|Cupri Sulph ..... 3@ 10}})
: Herba Promenti: ........ 1 25@1 50| Dextrine  ........ 7™@ 10
Absinthium ..... 45@ 60|Juniperis Co. ..1 75@3 50| Emery, all Nos... @ 8 .
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Amygdalae Dule. 75@ _ 85| Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydrare Cn Mt 8 30
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

January 5, 1910

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,

and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

Prices, however, are

liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
market prices at date of purchase.

 

ADVANCED

DECLINED

 

 

 

 

 

Index to Markets q
By Columns ARCTIC AMMONIA |
‘Ze
Col 12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box..75
A AXLE GREASE
1 Frazer's
Ammonia ....-- soeeeer 1] 11. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00
a PN ater it). tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35
B 34th. boxes, ; doz. : :
10%. pails, per doz....
posed Soe Se tee : 15tb. pails, per doz....7 20
er help eas alae eel 1|25tb. pails, per doz...12 00
TOWAINNS 5. boo ses ae ene 1 BAKED BEANS
TAPER ooo os cces-seeee : — can, per _ beekese 5 4
Dr cc cesses , fan. per Gox...:..
— r Sib. can per doz... ...- 1 80
Cc TH BRICK
enien «nw <5 ss s0oe- +s a) American ....2....-5;>2 75
Canned Goods .......-. a) ienetien |... 6.5. - 85
Carbon WON 5c csseen oes 2 BLUING
PRBS oo bok ese oe eeee 2 Arctic
OBERT nw. <b 0c ce secens ° 2 6 oz. ovals 3 doz. box $ 40
ye OS a a res 2 16 oz. round 2 doz. box 15
Chewine Gum .....--- 3 Sawyer’s Pepper Box
CMIOOTY on oc cee en avecce 3 Per Gross
Chocolate .........---.+- 83] No. 3. 3 doz. wood bxs 4 00
Clothes Lines .......-- No. 5, 3 doz. wood bxs 7 00
(Ge ee eee 3 Sawyer Crystal Bag
Cocoanut .........------ a) Rae oS, 400
Cocoa NS okces eee e 3 BROOMS
ER ce eee nba ce 31No. 1 Carpet, 4 sew ..2 75
Confections .........---- 111No. 2 Carpet, 4 sew ..2 40
Crackers ........-.---+» 31No. 3 Carpet, 3 sew ..2 25
Cream Tartar ........-- 4)No. 4 Carpet, 3 sew ..2 10
Parlor Gem ..:.....-:. 2 40
DB Common Whisk ....... 90
Deed Fruits ......--..- 4 Fancy Whisk ......... 1 25
Warehouse ...-...-.: 3 00
r BRUSHES
Farinaceous Goods .... 5 Scrub
Ween es eee eeee 6] solid Back £2. 15
Fish and Oysters ....... 10} solid Rack 144 in |... 36
Fishing Tackle ......... Pointed nds .:..2.... 85
Flavoring Extracts ... 5 Stove
Re aa Plan £ oe. 90
Fresh Meats ....-..---- Noe 2 2... 1 25
Mo. toe 1 7
G Shoe
Gelatine .....-..-+-- tee we kt ok. 1 00
Grain Bags ........---- Sie ¢ oe a 1 30
Grains ....-+++++++++++: So 8 1 70
Noe 2 22 1 90
H BUTTER COLOR
CAN laces eee 6 W.. R. & Co.’s 95e size 2 00
Hides and Pens es. 10 ww. F & Co.’s 50c size 4 00
: CANDLES
Paratine, 68 | .-........- 10
NN gcc a nook ee ese es Sl earatine ia 6.061208 10
Meike 8 5 ee 20
u CANNED GOODS
RBGATROR os ows peeks nn 6 Apples
3tb. Standanis 1 00
M een. 2 75@3 00
ee ee ee oe 6 Blackberries
Meat Extracts ......... Ciom  e. 1 25@1 75
Miince Meat .......---- 6| Standards ei @5 50
DORON onc eee an oes 6 Beans
Deen oe ck ae, Gimsied. 85@1 30
Red Kidney ...... 85@ 995
N Siring 6.62... 02.4° 70@1 15
MONI bo ee ee ee oe ees Mimax 2 15@1 25
Blueberries
oO Standard ....-..--- 1 35
CNBR foo cake. e es Sleston = =... 6 25
Brook Trout
P 2th. cans. spiced .....- 90
POO kc chao ec es 6 Clams
Pickles ..........- 6] Little Neck, 1th. 1 00@1 25
Playing Cards 6| Little Neck, 2th. @1 50
PE cn eek e ks ee 6 Clam. Bouillon
PPOVISIONS |... ..<-.5.-- 6] Burnham's % pt. ....1 99
Burnham’s pts. -...... 3 60
R Burnham's ats. ......- 7 2
We ee i ek ce ens ee 7 Cherries
Salad Dressing ......... 7| Red Standards @1 40
Naleroeta ............... Ti White @1 40
Penn eee ke 7 Corn
ARG eee ele ee eee titfet 75@ &F
Akt SUR 4... .-->->-- Tifaen 1 00@1 10
ROOM eee kg eee cere 4\Weacy 2... 45
Shoe Binacking ....-.....- 7 French Peas
ee es 8 Susy Winters Fine ....... 29
MED 6k eto wkend Rivtstran Fine ..........2: 19
RMON bcs) ose nec oes Bitten 15
Sater oad On gee Di Maven 2.03). 00 0s 11
Spices Ltvehh cae ae eee ee 8 Gooseberries
PON SiStandart 2... .......: 1 75
OV TUIE oc eeee o eens 8 Hominy a
minneene  s 85
T Lobster
OR occa case eacee see cs Bitch Ck. .s 2 25
PRORPOD = kc ie basco ee ss mitt. ooo. ces. se. 4 25
WOOO 2 cece kss cus e: Si Fienic Falls 2... 2..-3: 2 75
v i 1 80
Mustard, See cee
Vinegar ce ap ee beeen s sees 9 Mustard, a 2 20
Ww Soused. 14610. ..--..--- 1 80
MICMNO ooo ooo oc ks eens 9|Soused, 2tb. ........-.. 2 75
Woodenware ........... 9| Tomato, 1m. .........- 1 50
Wrapping Paper ...... 1y | Tomato Re eka ee 80
Mushrooms
- SS gues achat @ 2%
Weems Caio... cece sense: 101 Wettes =... 5s. @ If

 

Col’a River, flats 2 25
Red Ajleska ..... 1 35
Pink Alaska .... 90
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Domestic, 4s
Domestic, %s ..
Domestic, % Mus. 6%

Egg-O-See, 36 pkgs.

Excello, large pkgs...
Force, 36 21b.

Grape Nuts, 2 doz.
Malta Ceres, 24 litb.

Mapl-Flake, 36 Itb.

Ralston Health Food
Oo 21D. coca eee

Sunlight Flakes,

Vigor, 36 pkes. ....:.
Voigt Cream Flakes
Zest, 20 2%b.
Zest, 36 small

Rolled Oats
Rolled Avena, bbls.
Steel Cut, 100 Ib.
Monarch, bbl.

Ouaker, 18 Regular
Quaker, 20 Family
Cracked Wheat
ROEM ce ee oe eae
24 2%. packages
CATSUP
Columbia, 25 pts.
Snider’s pints .......
Snider’s % pints
CHEESE

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Riverside .......
Springdale .......
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Excello Flakes, 36 tb.

Malta Vita, 36 IIb. ...
Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 dz.
36 1b
Sunlight Flakes, 20 1Ib

Kelloge’s Toasted Corn
Flakes, 36 pkgs in cs.

pkes..

sks.
Monarch, 90 Tb. sacks

yster’s
Cove 1b. 2: @ 95
Cove, 21D. ....... 1 mot §
Cove, 1tb., oval .. 1 20
Plums
FUMS 45... 1 00@2 50
Marrowtat =. ..... one 25
mary. June... 95@1 25
Early June Sifted 1 cel 80
Peaches
BAC oe cee ee @1 25
No. 10 size can pie @3 00
Pineapple
Creten . 25.6.6. 1 85@2 50
Bion 22.6... ceo. 95@2 40
Pumpkin
PO oes. 85
SOOM ecco. ae 90
Paney 2335 .....2: 1 00
Gallon ..........5. 2 50
Raspberries
Standard ...:....
Salmon

Col’a River, talls 1 95@2 00

@2 75
@1 50
@1 00

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Cc alifornia, 4s ..11 @14
California, %s ..17 @24
French, is oe 7 @i4
French, 4458 ...... 18 @23
Shrimps
Standard .......; 90@1 40
Succotash
1 ee eae ne 85
[rape 245.56 ..c... 1 00
Waney .2.....)... 1 25@i1 40
Strawberries
Standen ...,05....
BAMCY 2. 66k. 6k.
Tomatoes
000 44.6... ee 95@1 10
OI. ogee ae 85@ 90
Waney . 2.065 sk @1 40
Galions .........-..- @2 50
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Perfection *....... @1v04
Water White @10
D. S. Gasoline @13%
Gas Machine ... @a4
Deodor’d Nap’a @124
Cylinder ....... 29 @34¥
Heine ......... 16 @2
Black, winter ... 84@10
CEREALS

Breakfast Foods
Bordeau Flakes, 36 1tb.
Cream of Wheat, 36 2Ib

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CHEWING GUM Cocoanut Drops ...... 2 | Festino ......... 1 50
American Flag Spruce 55/|Cocoanut Honey Cake 12 | Bent’s Water Crackers 1 40
Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 55| Cocoanut Hon Fingers 12 CREAM TARTAR

Adams’ Pepsin ........ - ae — Jumbies : ao or drumem 2.2.5... -
SPRL PRDSI i. se 56 css oo ocoanut caroons .. OCB csi e ks... Cassie vee
Best ete 5 boxes ..2 00| Currant Cookies Iced 10 |Square cans ............ 82
Black Jack ........-:.. Soi angelion «6246. es. 10 | Fancy cad Ves
Largest Gum Made ... 55/]Dinner Biscuit ........ 0 ORIED FRUITS
Hen BON occ cess ss cee 55] Dixie Sngar Coankie 9 les
Sen Sen Breath Per’t 1 a #amiiy Cookie ...... 9 Sundried ........ 3 7
Yucatan ..... pba ee ke ees rug Cake Assortea ...1z | Evaporated ...... 1%
Spearmint .....,..-.--- be Mie Newtons ....2..... 12 Apricots

CHICORY Mlorabel (Cake (000)... 2 124% | California ........ 10@13
Bulk: 5... se ae 5| Fluted Cocoanut Bar 19 Citren
eg oe ee 7| Frosted Creams ...... = | Corsican (2.2... @15
Maggie ...,... 5 | Frosted Fingers ..... 16 Currants
Franck’s 7| Frosted Ginger Cookie 2s |Imp’d 1 ke. @ 8
Schener’s 5 - 7% pane oe -. . Imported uak*s- @ ™%
: oney Cake : Peel
ee eee 8 ea Breit Tarts 25... 60... 12 |Lemon American .... 13
German Sweet ........ 22|Ginger Gems ......... 8 ‘Orange American .. 13
Premium .......;. viii] 31} Ginger Gems, Iced.... 9 Ralsins
Caracae (620.0665. 31; Graham Crackers 8 |Cluster, 6 crown ..... 1 75

Walter M Lowney Co. }| 7inger Nuts 19 | Loose Muscatels 3 or.
Promium, US ao... .::: 32| Ginger Snaps Family 8 Lose Muscatels 8 er. §
Premium. %s .....-... 32|Ginger Snaps N. B. C. 74| Loose Muscatels, 4 of. of

CIDER, SWEET — _ 3 eC. 5 L. ‘os = 6%@ 7

“Morgan’s” | z,50Uare .........s eee. alifornia Prunee
Regular cane 50 gals 7 50 Spiga ne Bar ..... 1@ | 100-125 i.Ib. boxes..@ 4
Trade barrel, 28 gals 4 50 oney 210 Cake +14 90-100 25tb. boxes..@ 4%
1% Trade barrel, 14 gals 2 75} 0ney Cake, N. B.C. 12 80- 90 25%. boxes..@ 6
Bolled, per pal .......4 50| Honey Fingers. As. Ice 12 70- 80 25%b. cae 6 €
Hard, ger fal 6... 6.22. 9)| Honey Jumbles, Iced : 60- 70 25%. boxes..@ 6%

GOCOA Floney Finke <..;...... 50- 60 25tb. boxes..@ 7
Cakes $7| Honey Lassies ........ 10 40- 50 25%. boxes..@ 7
Giessiand oe 4i| Household Cookies ... 8 30- 40 25tb. boxes.. ie
Colonial, 448 ........- 35 -siberg sg oom on? %e less in 80%. cases
ce appy Family .

BDDS nse teeesscsssce 42] feed, Honey Crumpets 19 | FARINACEOUS aoops
Huylier |... 45 ot sls lane dal 9 |Dried Lima .... sees 8
Lowney. Use .........- 86 Minered rishi Gia Med. Hand Pk’d .... |"
Lowney, 48 .........- 86 Sat a Klips “/ a Brown Holland .......
Lowney, 4s eeaeeles $6 co ee $ a Farina

Rey Tee eo RO ee oe ere tet e ele ne pac We ci ce
Van Houten, %s ..... 2 oo seth oe : Bulk, per 10@ tee. ue oe
Van Houten, \%s ..... M0 en Fra. i a Hominy
Van Houten, %s ...... 40 na os Square ae Flake, 50 tb. sack 1 6
Van Houten, 1s ....... 72 oo. Or ere eae 7 Pearl, 100 tf. sack |...$ 45
ead Be oe ee oe ale - Mary in 9 Pearl, 200 tb. sack ....4 86
a ae eens: 40 a teelion Wainuts lo Macearont ok.  .

te eet olasses Cakes ....... ae
Suchente a. ; 26% | Molasses Cakes, Iced 9 |!™ported. 25 tb. box..2 60
Sas cee Molasses Fruit Cookies | ao Barley ooo
pee ree es Cea ........6...... 10 {omen «2... ete
a gg s Se Mottled Square ....... 19 | Chester teescccceee 8 OO
COFFEE Wabob Jumbles ....... 14 Empire ctinessasces 8 6S
Rio ee a. Coe: Ms Geae. :
range Gems ........ consin,
Common ---.--++>+ ner? Penny Assorted ...... 9 |Green, Rooteh, a >
Feanut Gems |........ y |Split, rm. Besse v cu ce'sc
Pretzels, Hand Md..... 9 "Sago
Shee Pretzelettes, Hand Md. 9 | Hast Indie Oe |
Cammon 0c. 12@13% Pretzelettes, Mac. Md. : German, sacks ........ 8
feo ee ee 14% maicin Cogkies ....... | German, pee pkg...
Pee ooo 16% | Revere, Assorted ..... 14 Tapioca
ee 49 1 OsaIe ee, 9 |Flake, 110 Th. sacks.. 6
ee Rube Ey el 9 Pearl, 130 . sacks.... 41
Maracaibo Scalloped Gems ...... 10 Pearl, 24 tb. pkge.
el a 16 {Scotch Cookies ....... 10 | FLAVORING EXTRA o
Woe ok. 19 |Snow Creams ........ 16 ss oa.
Mexican Spiced Currant Cake ..10 Colem Bre
ee es 16% |Sugar Fingers ........ 12 a
Maney 2.2 a.e 19 Sultana Fruit Biscuit ” No. 2 Te re
Guatemala Spiced Ginger Cake .. No 4 ee te
Miiee oc 15 |Spiced Ginger Cake Icd 10 Sg erpeneless ....3 78
Java Suear Cakes ......... 9 No. 8 n,ventla | -+--8 06
eee coke eee Sugar uare:
a African =... ..; 17 on aad : a . ig 2 High Clase ....1 28
OG 8... oe 25 {Sunnyside Jumbles ... 10 = ; High Class ced 00
eG... - 2.088) lsuperta ..06 0106 es, 8 0. 8 High Class ..... 4 00
Mocha Sponge Lady Fingers 25 Jaxon Brané
PiArawian 52. ...00...3... a. iSugar Crimp... 70): "; 9 Vanilla
Package Vanilla Wafers ...... 17 |2 oz. Full Measure ...3 10

New York’ Basts VietOMm .....-... ...... 12 | 4 02. Full Measure ....4 00
Arbuckle ........ secs 12 2D| Waverly ..0.....02..., io |8 oz. Full Meagure....8 00
DUWOFEN 6 cee ect aes 13 75 in-er Seal Goods Lemon
SEIAOU o565.55)5.5024.5 15 00 per doz. 2 ox. Full Measure ....1 25
Lion ...+- ee esses eee 14 25) Albert Biscuit ........ 1 00|4 Oz. Full Measure ...3 40

oe _oce ae Animals ..... 2... ....1 00/8 Oz. Full Measure... .4 66
is viniers Gate. Mail: al ere 00k Biscuit ....1 00 Jennings D. C. Brana
lace’ Aivert to aronet Biscuit SA 1 00| Terpeneless Ext, Lemon
MeLaughlin & Co. Chica. | Pvemner’s Butter bls ca Dor.

a) ereeerseseeeerte ane sere teis ca. 5
e ct ee Sea «+ 1 08iNo. 4 Panel °...- oe
Holland, - gro boxes 95 Cocoanut Dai yt ° "1 00 No. 6 EAne 2.266... 2 60
Helux: 46 Bross .......- 1 15] Faust O an Bs 1 00 Teper Panel... . |... 1 50
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85 Fig Hexion teen eeeee i ee 2 oz. Full Measure ...1 25
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43 ive O'de& wa 9 4 oz. Full Measure ....2 00
Nati ae a RAO ooo eo cepa as 1 00 Jennings D. C. Brand

ato Brand pany Ginger Snaps, N. B. Cc. 1 00 @xtract Vanilla
Butter eed ere = No. 2 Panel o
~ Lae be <ite eb eae wee 6p 7 o +16 A 20:6 o: #
etl Ts ee $3 Lemon Snaps ......... 50 «|No. 4 Panel ...........9 00
: sega Oatmeal Crackers ....1 0@|No0. 6 Panel ...........8 50
BC 64% Old Time Sugar Cook. 1 00| Taper Panel ......... -3 00
Bae tte giz | Oval Salt Biscuit ..... 1 00/1 oz. Full Measure .... 90
Saratoga Flakes... .. is Oysterettes =. .....:.. 5 56/2 oz. Full Measure ...1 80
Toamente 18 neanut Waters... : 1°00;4 oz. Full Measure ....3 50
Goaer a eee Pretzelettes, Hd. Md. ..1 06| No. 2 Assorted Flavors 1 00
N. B.C. Round 6% Royel Tonat ......,... 00 GRAIN BAGS
ao 61; Saltine Biscuit a 1 00 Amoskeag, 100 in bale 19
Mee sien. Saratoga Flakes .....1 5@|Amoskeag, less than bl 19%
samt Gos | Social Tea Biscuit ....1 00 GRAIN AND FLOUR
Aaiipeie oo te yng Pace - 1 a Red j Wheat 112
; — F acts elec { A oe teeeececce
Ferner ig ee = Sultana Fiuit siscuit 1 68 White 22700050 uo: - a1)
Arrowroeot Biscuit |. _.16 Pree Biscuit ....... Winter Wheat Flour
Avena Fruit Cake “JJ/ag | Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer 1 00 Local Brands

eackie A Uneeda Lunch Biscuit §@|Patents ........... cc. 6 10
Seitie fen 19 | Vanilla Wafers ...... 0@;Seconds Patents ..... 5 60
ae 9 Water Thin Biscuit 1 00 Straight 32... : vcace B20
Carmation Tips ...... 16 eee Snaps 1 = sabe Straight ..... a
Ceariwnecis “Assorted 20) |r tte etecee ek We EEE: ae estes sd th craig eg
Cavalier Cake ........ Flour in barrels, 25¢ per
Pnitclite orice pase is oe so — ee 1 Cc
Circle Honey Cookies 12 | Fe bees ‘ emon eeler Co.
Currant Fruit Biscuit 11 hatin 3 to ee = Big Wonder %s cloth 6 50
Cracknels «-.0..5.00 00. a8 [Nabisco 100 0 00 Big Wonder \%s cloth 5 50
Comea Cake .....0..... 10 Champagne Wafer |. 2 50 Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand
Coffee Cake, iced .... lua a ‘un in bole Quaker, paper ........6 00
Cocoanut Taffy Bar ..12 |Sorbetto ........... tee | Quaker, Oo teasiecees

ocoanut Bar ........ y

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x 21 501N ae 0 Pure Cane i Butter Plates
Kansas Hard Wheat Fleur pet Cut Clear’. ..... e Be hi ‘ » Lata Pe : = See 16 Wire gud or Ovals. -
rocer Co, OAT coe cee as. eee : co ee 20 4 Ib. 20 i Sta
Puncne 6s ase ..-.6 50; Brisket, Clear ........ _ - oe po ~~. oe 25 i Id... 200 in crate ee 30
‘ r Co, DI ee ce i ae Gn 4; . am. ns: 200 ID Fate «~~... - «30
White Star Mea cloth 9 90|Clear Family ........ 21 00! iyo De ..... +2469 75 3 dU io. 2 Ib., 250 in crate ....... 35
White Star %4s Cloth 6 80 Dry Sait Meats on ; : Sundricd on 24@26|°% 1+ 250 in crate ........ 40
White Star \%s cloth 6 70;@% P Bellies tease Tbe, 220s. 1 12 55 rete oe en & ib. 250 in erate .... 50
Grain 6 Lard ; S IDS. ccc ke 92 48 | Sun ried, choice 2 3 Giaene
Grand ——— 2 Pure in: tlerees  :..... 13% SHOE BLACKING Sundried, fancy 6@ Hated § ae Gek os te
— ee ee 7y| Compound Lard ...... Handy Box, large 3 dz 2 50 Regular, medium 24@ 26 Barrel, 10 gal.. each..2 55
Woon fo ea Se eee Handy Box, small ....1 25| Regular, oe eeees 30@33 Clothes Pins
wee cnc 3 oy 39 Mh. tubs: <oladvance i abyss Royal Polish 8>|Regular, fancy ...1136@40 Round Head
Wizard, Graham ...... . 7 160 i. tind... advance Bixby'’s Roya Polish 85 | Basket-fired, medium ..30 or eo 50
Wizard, Corn Meal .. 4 UU 20 tb Sele aca cee Miller's Crown s Basket-fired, choice 35@37 z L a -
Wizard, Buckwheat “< a 10 Ib. pails....advance % oe 37 et fired, fancy sana Cotas 30 6 doz. bxs. .60
piped eta tt ger - pails....advance 1 |Scotch, in bladders ..... ee gece, 26 ‘ ——- a
Spring Wheat Flour 3 1 pa. advance 1 Maccaboy, in jars ....... 35 | Siftings ... 11111 . 10@12|,, = 9a Crates and fa
a coe noe 76 Sarai Meats French Rappie in jars ..43)/Fannings 14@15 me ueaee * 40
Gee. Bore, Sane. 5 J average. .14 SOAP Gunpowder i ia. 28
Golden Horn, bakers..6 65; Hams, 12 Ib. ay te ne J. &. Kick & Co eens ( No. 2 complete ........ 28
i ams ac = eT i acoune, Medium ....... 28/Case No.2 fillerslosets 1 35
Duluth Imperial ...... 5 95| Hams, 14 Ib. average fb anatl arent: eat eae Sc p : L
i i ; é Log age..14 |American Family . Sg peyvune, choice ......_. 32 | Case, , 12 sets 1 18
ee Gos ‘Sina Bare. 18 Ib. average. .14 Dusky ae — : a Moyune, fancy ...... 40645 Case eo 8
Q : Skinned Hams ........ 151 | Dusky D’n On > ey| cingsuey, medium ..25@28| .__
oer” a Tee cee : 7 pain atid teat sets ..16%/ Jap Hate, 50 Pa thes : = Pingsuey, Ghdicea (.. i= 30 Cee teseees a
tee ae ‘aliforni ES 5 oss J1i42|Savon Imperial ....... "ingsuey, fancy ....4)@45 NUE a co
pe bese te mate eck a 5 | Whi ae 3 15 4) Cork lined. 10 in....... 90
Lemon & Wheeler's Brand | Picnic Boiled Hams = poe ee ae 3 00|.. . Young Hyson esas epbi
Wingila, 4s ......5..; 6 10| Boiled Ham Nee ae eee a | iene ee eee Peey i sicag a 90
Winseld As ae : 90 Minced a. CG Snowberry, 100 cakes 4 00/"@NCY ak cscs 40@30 ~enuee patent spring °
: ieee: Oo ‘= Bi ac / “OC Be Gs . ng No. COmman ........ at
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand | Bacon ot ean ses 17%.! proctor & Gamble eo a. |Pormocs, fancy .__.. MG ne 4 al aus cea
Parks #8 oe 208 ie ae ausag 8 oo Seer isnt ‘= Amoy, tedium Ce Wel iath eta ae Meet a
eigth . 05.6 00 Bologna. oor, a. : Po: ; . ‘ d. cotton 0
Lane $8 4s Cloth GB GO ERVer et. Dm Uivaew, 36 Ga isch. 6 75 moy, choice Cease soees-32| Ideal No. 7 rteteteenees 85
Laurel, %s cloth ..... § 90 | Pranktort 22.70.00... a a Son 25 wea Entish Breakfast al. sea pals —
: ‘ae ie Brana Fork 2... coo. og. 6k Lautz Bros. oO. COU ota c ees aa sse--40/2-hoop Standard ...... # lo
Vous Cremant” odes 6 00} Veal ............006., It | Acme, 70 bars ......... COOlee tesco... Saige 30) 3-hoop Standard ...... 2 36
Voigt’s Flouroigt HOMOGE sete ll Beme, s0 pars ......... A OO Waney . 20.1.0. -.--40@45 4-wire, Cable ......... 2 26
(whole wheat flour) 6 00; Headcheese .......... 9 |Acme, 25 bars ......... 400} India g-wice, Calle =. | 2 46
Voigt’s Hygienic Beet 14 00|4cme, 100 cakes ...... ; a Eovion, choice -..... sees Cedar, - reed brass <A a
BEADAML Cocca ce & 40] Boneless. 0...) cs . Big Master, 70 bars. ..2 90|Waney’........ """"° Pacer, Buea... . 2 26
Voigt's Hoyal --....... 640 | Rump, new 222222271. 14 00| German Mottled ....... 2 85 TOBACCO WAN co, 2 70
Wykes & Co. % bbl Pig’s Feet 1 09 | German sonics, . he 2 ce uni Fine Cut o Toothpicks a id
io --6 20 Be rene t ee sicc see serman Mottled, XS BONA oe eee ae Coe :
Saat Hye 4s cloth. 6 10% bbls. 40 Tbs. ....... 2 00 Gorman eating, 25 Dxs 2 13] Sweet on. oe Hardwood .....-+++0+. 2 60
5 s , S$ cloth..6 00/% Be rere ey sees Marseilles, 100 cakes ..5 lawatha, - pails .. MONGuet ...2......,.5. 1 bu
pisces i es paper..6 00)1 bbl. ....... oct es 9 00 Marseilles, 100 cakes Ge 4 @0/ Velegruam ......... ++. 80 coat a 1 60
Sleepy Hye, 4s paper..6 00| _ hie Marseilles, 100 ck toil 4 00) bay Car 2... nT! 33 tin
Meal Sg trees , 30 | Marseilles; tgbx toilet 2 10 Prairie Rose ........, le went Vk
Bolted (0005 es. 3 90)% bbls., 40 Ibs. ee 7 A. B. Wrisley Protection ..........: 40 Mouse. wood. 4 holes... 46
Golden Granulated oes o % bbls., a aries Good Cheer 2000.00)... ‘ “ tet Burley .. ee Mouse, wood. 6 holes.. 70
St. Car Feed screened 28 5 $9|Old Country .......)... om 40) PIROr ow et... 8 ’ ous, bin hk Ce
No. 1 Corn and Oats 2850 | Hogs, per Yb. .......... : Sine a... Poe
Se ack 28 ou. | Beet. rotinds, set ...... 25 Soap Powders at, )
Gorn Her cs ce 50 Beef” middles, set 80 Lautz Bros. & Co. pase Cross ........ oe RG, soriig ...........,. 76
Winter Wheat Bran 24 00|/Sheep, per bundle 90/Snow Boy nteteeeeeees 4 00 Oe crt es - Tubs _ :
iddli 26 00 Uncolored Butterine Gold Dust, 24 large ..4 50/Kylo ................... 0 z0-in, Standard, No. 1 8 76
Migagbngs | .- 2.65.0... eee re ; S 100-5e 34 00; Pattie Ax  .....-...... di Standard. N 27 i
Buffalo Gluten Feed 33 00|Solid dairy ..... 10 @12 |Gold Dust, BC... ef American Eagie 33 | 48-in. Standard, No, ;
Dairy Feeds Country Rolls ...1014,@16% pine 24 41h. ook. q ve aaceet wee a icin, Standard, No. 3 & 7
$ Canned Meats HeCavine 200s... k Se ANY bees. é z20-in. Cable, No. «o+-9 28
De bee ee 00|Corned beef, 2 Ib. @ 20) Soapine 25... 4 10|Spear Head, 7 oz....... | lie te Gable No % 8%
O FP Linseed Meal ..35 : 4 F ae a 3 75{Spear Head, 14% oz. 44 ‘ : =
‘ cake-Meal 32 50|Corned beef, 1 Ib. ....1 65| Babbitt’s 1776 ......... ‘ Ld 4 16-in. Cable, No. 3 ....7 26
oh ao ass 34 00|Roast beef, 2 tb. ...... 2 90) Roseine 2..:0..0... 004 3 50 5 ogl SOE, ee Ke tj ewe id 25
Sr oe fea a 00 Roast beef, 1 J: beaees j ee oad ad bulge oe pe ales _ i ee No. 2 Fibre tee eae: : -
: ina |). 28 00; Potted ham, \s ...... 2 ISQOME 2 oooh. Tod oe aa No. We
Peaunoad tere Feed 25 00| Potted ham, %s ...... 95 Soap Compounds _ 2" _ ee = eel ic
Alfaita ‘Meal... 2... 25 00| Deviled ham, 4s ...... Boi) Fonnsan eS Nie (40-21, 5 10 Pines Matick Gina. 2 60
_— et eo as ND = Johnson's XXX ....... 2h te 86 (Dewey -..........-... 1 7
Michigan oo tteeee ~ os ine i. es pine 0 ok necmnes ses : = Honey Dip Twist ..... 43 pone Acme as cageess : .
Less than carlots .... : us ie aplesiondiecowihe a tcteGls Gite Black StaudGaiu .......4u  |Single Acme .......... 3 15
Corn ee Scouring Cagiige oo 7. -40 |bouble Peerless ....... 3 75
Cariots  ........... nes 65 eee une s ces 18 Hs Enoch Morgan's’ Sons. WOMEG 8) so. 34: | Single Peerless J eee , 15
Less than carlots 68 Aa Foret eietee - . Sapolio, gross ig gy . apy Wists... ae ee i
ee Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 6 Oe 32 ouble Duplex ....... ;
Panels poeecs a - Gchati e nee 25 Hately. single boxes..2 a Great Nay pes 4p Sod oes sade auas es 3 is
Less than carlots .. _ ia, | sees Sapolo, Hand 20.7) 2128 20 moking niversal .............
oe 15| Durkee's’ large, 1 doz. 4 $0] Sesurine meee ctteing, Cap sment Core «........ B lag agtVindow Cleaners
SABE wee eee eee e cere eee ‘a ; : =|S ine, 50 cakes .... free Caro... 6... 2 OA oe docile.
foe es 15 | Durkee’s, small, 2 doz. 5 25 | Scourine ne Geces a aan Sige i)
pe oid eaves ......,. 15|Snider’s, large, 1 doz. 2 35 | Scourine, a is ic a 35 ee reese 2 20
Senna Leaves ........: 25 | Snider ieee 1 35 ead: 8 ee Gt ee Oly ow... 27 0 Wend Bowls 2
P —<— oe 90}, Packed 60 Ibs. in box. |iegs, Hnglish ........ 4%, itcnen” a pails o 13 Lg nll ae 1s
OF GOR ec l . ee in oe S ik ae
JELLY arm and Hammer ....3 00 SPICES Gola Bigek ........... 40 {ii in, Butter ......,, 2
lis per doz..... 2.25) Deland’s ...3...3..:. 3 00 Whole Spices fans. 40 ‘1 whi |... 00
ei aie ber on IT" §5|Dwight’s Gow 1121101.. S38) Alionien (2.6.6... ose -s- 10 Chine po teste 33 yell oun se
301D. pails, Peewee. I 3 00) Cassia, China in mats. 1- ia. UC 3 \geeee aa
‘ pe MAPLEINE Wyandotte, 100 %s ..3 00 Cassia, Canton ........ 161 Duke's tins 40 WRAPPING PAPER
2 oz. bottles, per doz 3 00 SAL SODA Cassia, Batavia, bund. 26/puxe's Cameo... 43 |common straw ..... 2
MATCHES ee a - Cassia, Saigon, broken 40 | Myrtle Navy ....11)"! #4 | Fibre Manila, white .. 3
Cc. D. Crittenden Co. Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. 1 v0 Cassia, Saigon, in rolls 55fyiam Yum, 1% oz. ....39 Fibre Manila, colored ..4
Notaclesn Dip ...4 00@4 >| Lump, bbls. ........... 80 Cloves, Amboyna ...... 22} yum, Yum, 1. pails 40 ieee. ae 4
OLASSES Lump, 145 Ib. kegs .... 9 Cloves, Zanzibar ...... ma 2... ‘ Cream Manila -....... 3
New Orleans c a. Mace feet it : Corn Cake, 2% OS: ... bs Butcher's a cura
Kettle .... 40 ommon Nutmess, 75-80 ........ 3°!Corn Cake, ee 29 Wax Butter, short cu
Fancy — a oe Gale apie So, 1003 iD. Sacks > 2... .. 25 Nutmeges, 105-19 ...... 25 Plow Boy, 1% on... a6 Wax Butter. full count 20
Choice 2
MOOG coe te 22, G0 5 Ib. sacks .<...... 2 lo Nutmegs, 115-20 ...... 20} Plow Boy, 3% Ox... .39 Wax Butter, rolls ..... 19
Pain tee 20} 28 104% tb. sacks 2 be Pepper, Singapore, bik. Peerless, 3% oz. + 26 YEAST CAKE
Half barrels 2c extra i pyr Seaee sagas 17 Pepper, ol white .. 17 pheg-oa' 1% O68 ...... - Magic, 3 ea. cal f 2
MINCE MEAT “ a ee cle. Pepper, shot .......... y Etake .......-....., Sunlight, i
ik sg ROG 2, 30 i 1i4| dom: ...2 66
Per casa... 00.5.4... 90} _ Warsaw 40 Pure Ground in Bu 44| Cant Hook 30. | Sunlight. 1%
STARD 96 Ib. dairy in drill bags Ailsoies Co ne Country Club ...177! St-04i caus Woean & den 4 18
% Ih. 6 ip. box a 18} 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20 Geet Gatavia ....... 28| Korex-XXXX | me |youe cree 2 ak ke
OLIVES Solar Rock Cassia, Saigon ........ 55/Good Indian .......... 6 |Yeast Foam, 1% doz.. 58
Bulk, l-gal. kees 1 40@1 60/56 ib. sacks ........... 24 Gloves, Zanzibar ...... 24) seu Binder, 1602. doz. zu-22 FRESH FISH
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 35@1 4 Common Ginger, African ....... 15} Silver Foam ........... 24 Per Ib
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 25@1 40 Granulated, fine ....... 80! Ginger, Cochin 11.1.2: 18/sweet Marie ...._....! 82 | whitefish, Jumbo 16
Manaznilla, 3 oz. 75| Medium, fine sane 85 Ginger, Jamaica ...... ae Hoyal Smoke ....... =. 42 Whitefish, No. 1 ...... 12
Queen, pints Sane & H pace pete reas naar eae . TWINE » rout js 11%
spin, yd pg eg MEMO seen nos erties: proton, 8 OO ooo ce cs. 2 pe ae
Queen, 28 on. 2020012. Se eee @ 6% | Pepper, Singapore, bli. 13 oe, Oe .- 3. A i eing |... -.. 7
oe 45|Strips or bricks | 7141042 |Pepber, Singp. white aime, Sele co 1A 1 BIGGGIE ag 35 cess 55 14%
Ren aca eert why pick. —— *@ 5 |Pepper, Cayenne ...... 9o| rlemp, 6 ply .......... 13. | Live Lobster eeu 29.
Be age eee RAMS <ncese nents settee Flax, medium N ...... 24 | Boiled Lobster ........ 2
Halibut mn : 3
aay eae ee bes + 2 15 STARCH Ween te Os 88. 8 et oes
CPIDS cee c ee cee. <<
Clay, T. D., full count 30 ara ea a sis ale ec a ainte G ° i i. 7 VINEGAR eer
Cob 2.05.5. a ences Holland Herring Kingsford, 40 Ibs. ..... e) iaiate oar 12 ic eee 2
gio m Pole... 4,0. Bee te ee -- PN Oatiand apple cider "14 Pi Beto :
1s 1,200 eaeet .-6 50] White Hp. bbls. 8 50@9 50|Muzzy, 40 ioe DK&S. Morgan’s Old Process 14 Oe ae ee 12%
Half bbls., oo Ree oe Oe ee a Kingstord ae ee Chinook Salmon ...... 15
Small ——— loss, 40 Tips. (4 | Mackerel «i. ...<..;
Half bbls., 1,200 count 4 50| Norwegian ...... ees oe i6 3tbs. 6%|No. 0 per gross ........ 30 aaah teens
Ronnd; 100 tbs, 3.0... 3 75 | Silver . 4, |No. 1 per gross ...... 40 u
PLAYING CARDS. s5| Round 40 tbs. ....0..-. 1 90|Silver Gloss, 12 6Ibs. 8% No. 2 per gross ....... 50 Roe Shad eekaree tenes
No! is, Rivel cmiontad'd asiGealed ...... eee yy ate cane Coime 307 aoe 7 |Bhad Hoe, cach --..-.-
No. 20, hoe ——* : - ie aout o) @ gel ie que necuanee ..... 4% baae™ yoo tae HIDES AND PELTS
No. 572, Special ....... vO. fae wa oe woe a
No. 98 Golf; satin fin. 2.00|No. 1, 40 Ips. .......... elt has 4 SUSHEIR we oes teen the hie. 11
sia ee ae 00} No. 1; 10 Toa)... 3 Bushels, wide band .1 25 ar a
No. 682 Tourn't whist 2 25|No. 1, 8 MDB. oe eaeeseee 75 gir) Market oo seseseees es lee ae 13
ibopieds 0|Mess, 100 Ibs. ....... 4 50|Barrels ....-.... See Ae eames re e-8 SOi ices wor # ooo. 12
Mehthtn oe ae 20|Half barrels ........... 30/Splint, medium ....... 2 15 Calfskin, ereca, No. 111
Sy ace Mess, © tm... 2... 1 65/ 20m. cans % dz. in cs. 1 fh Willow Clothes, large 8 26 | Calfskin’ green, No 2 i
Barreled Po 22 00!Mess, 8 tbs. ......... 1 35/ L0tb. cans, % dz. in cs. 17 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 26| Calfskin, cured, No. 3 i
Mess, new soy eeee 50 No. 1, 100 tbs. ......13 00 5Ib. cans, hen 2 cs. : = Willow Clothes, small 6 z§!Calfskin, cured. No.
nar ye OO a . 1, 40 Ibs. ........ 5 60 8461. cans, n cs. .
Short Cut Setacceue ce cue 50 No. ’ ©

 

Pelts
Old Woe) ........ @ 30
Lambe. ...2...... < 75
Shearlings ....... 40 66
Tallow
NO EL ce. g *
NG. 2 ...43. 4
Weool
Unwashed, med. @ 2
Unwashed, fine @ 23
CONFECTIONS
Stick Candy Pails
SOCQNGGRG ...6.....4... 9
Standard HE EL ....... 9
Standard Twist ...... 8.
Cases
Jumbo, $2 Whe ......... 71%
Rxtra HH ....... Saeeuke
Boston Cream ..... oo de
Big stick, 30 Ib, case 8
Mixed Candy
GEOCGEN ic... sh
Competition ......... 7
speCial ..... Sedeccesas @
CONMEIV@® cc. ucc 0. 1%
Royal ...... ae cadeaccecde
Ribbon ..... seeedecs 16
Broken Seeedécgeaey 4
Ul Edet .. 02.6. ay
Reagen |... tvéucacea fi
Kindergarten ¢hcaee
French Cream .... wea
MME 11
Hand Made Cream ..16
Premio Cream mixed 14
Paris Cream Bon Bons 10
Fancy—in Paiig
Gypsy Hearts e¢edceccchl
Coco Bon Bons .... 14
Fudge Squares ..... wena
Peanut Squares ...... g
Sugared Peanuts du eaeka
Salted Peanuts ......_ 12
Starlight Kisses ...._" ll
San Blas Goodies ..._ -13
Lozenges, plain ..,... 1é
Cone. printed AZ
Champion Chocolate | -13
Eclipse Chocolates .. 14
Hureka Chocolates .. - 16
Quintette Chocolates 14
Champion Gum Drops 3
Moss Drops ...... «oe JG
ean Soura ......... 10
imperiala ...... Sense 9°
dial. Cream Opera ....13
ital, Cream Bon Bons 12
Golden Watfties ...... -13
Red Rose Gum Drops 10
Auto Bubbles ........ 13
Fancy—in 5tb. Boxes
Vid Fashioned Molag-
es Kisses, 10Ib. bx 1 30
Orange Jellies ...... 60
Lemon Sours ..... es ©
Uld Fashioned Hore-
hound drops ..... - ©
Peppermint Drops . 60
Champion Choc. D:; 66
- M. Choc. Drops 1 10
Hi. M. Choe. Lt. and
Dark No 1% .... 1 ly

Bitter Sweets, as'td. 1 26
Brilliant Gums, Crys, 60
A. Licorice Drops. .90

Lozenges, printed ....65
Lozenges, plain ...... 60
Imperials Sedesceys @&
DMEOtlOem  .... 2.5.5. - 6
Ckéam Har ....,.... 60
G. M. Peanut Bar .. 60
Hand Made Crms 80@90
Cream Wafers ..... 65
String Hoee ........ 66
Wintergreen Berries 60

Olu Time Assorted 2 75
Buster Brown Good 3 50
Up-to-date Asstm’t 8 75
Ten Strike No. 1 ..6 60
Ten Strike No. 3 .. 6 00
Ten Strike, Summer as-

sortment ...... -« €78
Scientific Ass’t. ....18 v6

Pop Corn
Cracker Jack .......
Giggies, 5c pkg. ca 8 60
Pop Corn Balls 2008 1 36
AZulmit 100m ...c6es 26
Ob My 1066 .......;, 3 50

Cough Drops
Putnam Menthol ...1 00
Smith Bros. ........4 %

NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona 16
Almonds, Drake ...... 5
Almonds, California sft.

SHOU 65446. a deecede
Brazils
reorye
Cal. OO 2 cadac a3
Walnuts, soft shell 15@16

Walnuts, Marbot .. @13
Table nuts, fancy 13@13%
Pecans, Med. ....«; 13
Pecans, ex. large .. 14
Pecans, Jumbos ... @16
Hickory Nuts per bu.
ORI TOW oc ccccceee
COCOARUES ici ccncdse
Chestnuts, New York
State. per bw. ....
Shelled
Spanish Peanuts 9
Pecan Halves ... 58
Walnut Halves ...30@32
Filbert Meats 27
Alicante Almonds 42
Jordan Almonds 47
Peanuts
Fancy H. P. Suns sno 7
Roasted ...<.; 6%@ 7
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SMS 25s eee @16 Printers’ Supplies Electrotypers
Letina Butts ... tH 2 to 8 Lyon Street Grand Rapids, Mich. ® sg x
Shoulders. ....... @12% i
Leaf Lard . : talogue is ‘‘the
ork Trimmines’ Bil oe °  ||/ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR . ,
Mutton world’s lowest market Late State Food Commissioner
came cee O12 because we are the Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and ie,
Spring Lambs .. @13 jobbers whose interests are affected by ,
Veal largest buyers of general the Food Laws of any state. Corre- *
Carcass ......... 6 @9 b . : spondence invited.
Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00 merchandise in America.
Paragon ......... 55 6 00 CLOTHES LINES Full line of fire ana burg- 2321 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. * » a
BAKING POWDER Sisal lar proof safes kept in -
ey the Tradpemen And because our com- >
Roya 60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00;Company. Thirty-five sizes HIGHEST thy HONORS <
10c size 90 | 72ft. 3 thread, extra..1 40/and styles on hand at all ak >
4th. cans1 35 | 90ft. 3 thread, extra..1 70| times—twice as many safes paratively inexpensive e
lace 60ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29/as are carried by any other : 9
6oz. cans 1 90 | 72ft. 6 thread. extra.. house in the State. If you method of selling,
. are unable to visit Grand .
‘lb. cans 2 60 Jute Rapids and inspect. the through a catalogue, re- *
Op canes 76 G0. |... tse... = line personally, write for
ie tO Oo ee duces costs. > Na
nh ua Ge tN. | .c-s...--.s 1 60 . nr '
om con sh | | Cotten ie ee We sell to merchants *
— 8 2 1 35 at ‘ae
—— WO os eee 1 60 u only. ‘
Cotton Windsor 18 Z +
Re. eet eee :
Mee aes i 44 Ask for current cata
-_ Se NDER | logue. HIGHEST | « ~-*y
Cotton Braided
aor. ce ee 95 e AWARDS ® e
BOR ee alee 1 35
ae 1 65) 100 cakes, .arge size..6 60 IN
Catvanteed Wie, 1 yy[190 cohen, saat sins: Be %
No. 20. each 100ft. long ib , “°
No. 19. each 100ft. long 2 1u| 50 cakes, small size..1 96 Butler Brothers EUROPE wl
COFFEE Tradesman’s Co.’s Brand s AND
, Roasted N Y k wn 6 4
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s B’ds. 4
Cc. P. Bluing ee ew ror Registered, AMERICA
Doz. : A J. 5. Pat. , e
npr — 4 - pos. <r Chicago St. Louis A perfect food, preserves
ao) ia health, prolongs life 7“
— Minneapolis
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand Pp Walter Baker & Co lid . ol
Black Hawk, one box 2 60 s e qe
Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40 Established 1780
Black Hawk, ten bxs 3 25 ce DORCHESTER, MASS.
TABLE SAUCES i
Halford, large ....:.:. 3 76 » wt
Halford. amall ........ 225\)5:> a eae pen rnacie :
| <a woe
Mar Portana =... 6... ss 33 ( ) : j
Evening Press .......... 32 y tj. Mr. Retailer, €
MMGrAY <3) sss ces 32 t E b : f i. ‘ ,
O’Halloran Bros. Brands are not in bDusiness tor your heaith,
Tampa peor DR... $30 00 |
Uinta White House, lib........... | - be OF
Smokers 5¢.-+--+---+++++: 35 00| White House, 2tb.......... | You doubtless want to ‘get yours” out of every re
Puritanos l0c.-----.--- -- 60 00) Excelsior, M & J, lib......
Londres Grande 2 for 25¢ 80 00| Rxcelsior, M & J, 3¥b...... sale n ~
Estos Si Sip: Top, M & J, Wib.....- Use :
Reina Fina 3 for 25¢""""* 55 00| Royal Java .............. a
eee Bl saee ae eae _ You also without doubt want to mak re sales t
ani s2 for 25¢ --.- po é
lots Viecanin ope. 85 00| Boston Combination ...... O make more Sales to le
La Hija de Tampa 10c.-- 70 00 ee —. —— your trade
Grocer Co., Gren pids. :
Worden o toga brand Tien Ca io & Sma rt, De- ma:
troit; Symons Bros. 0., :
PICT ec oeeecee 36 Ss : - B D T d > : .
Perfection Extras ....-. Shi Gecas Sakcea.” Gee raaesn.an Aud probably you would not mind getting a nice , wa
ee 35) mark, Durand & Co., Bat- : f :
Londres Grand ......... 33|tle Greek; Fielbach Co., slice of somebody else’s trade. y
cca nga poe eec eee — Toledo. eC
Panatellas, Finas ....... 35 | Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00 . :
Panatellas. Bock ........ 35} FISHING TACKLE The question always is, how to get more good a
Jockey Club ............ 351% to 1, in. oy hese oe $ h
COCOANUT Le a eee customers without s i
Baker's Brazil Shredded |1% to 2 in. ............. : Coupon uch expense as will eat . 14
Bein seers 1 up all the profits. F
Mo foe eee ee Ps
Cotton Lines The answer is: Become !
No. 1, 10: feet .....-2.... 5 Be
Me. 2 15 feet «2.22.35. 7 is > ; ”
in, % 16 fom... 9 6 SS a Sealshipt Agent.
a < % Geet... csc 10 OOKS ER. ys
ae . 4 ered Greece one 4 : 3 Wri q . i
vo. 6, REE oe. see o z . rite us todav and we :
et Me tee... 15 Ss 7 y “
ae ta Ne. B 16 feet ..: 6 .s.55;. 18 EALSHIPTICASE . . 8
By ee we ©, 16 Oe 8 20 ( will teil you how it’s dé
TOT ec 4 Linen Lines os d (
rvvswcrmn cee | UY a 20 pl. one.
es a... 26 AL SHI «
70 5c pkgs, per case ..2 60 RIATBS ons coc eoks 52k $4 7 A
MS ibe eat t bc Deis Rams 4 - doz. & Made by »%
e an c pkgs, amboo, t., per doz. 55 : ‘ ,
Se. 2 60| Bamboo, 16 ft., ae doz. 60 The Sealshipt
‘ Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80 O i € ¥
‘ ae GELATINE T d 5 wes : sant yster System, Inc. @ .
Cox’s, 1 doz. Large ..1 80 = 4c
Carcass ..5...4.4 64%@ 942|Cox’s, 1 doz. Small ..1 00 radesman Company t EALSH TEM [Ne South Norwalk | " 4
Hindquarters ....8 10% | Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 25 ‘ IPT OystER SYS v i
— hes oboe a6 "ues as Sparkling, gr. * = Grand Rapids, Mich. @ pOUTH NORWALK,CONN C \ te
ee oe ee ee. . i
ia ...... il 7°@.7%| Knox's Aciawa. dos. 11 36 connecticut |
Plates ..... ie @ 5. | Oxford ....... inaecls T , o4
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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

‘Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents
subsequent continuous insertion.

 

No charge less

a word the first. insertion and one cent a word for ‘each

than 25 cents.

Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Wanted—To lease or buy well located
Michigan elevator. Address No. 292, care
Tradesman. 292

For Sale—Clean stock dry goods and
groceries. Located in best farming com-
munity and village of 1,000. Yearly sales
$21,000. Stock and fixtures will invoice
$5,000. Can be reduced. Address No.
291, care Tradesman. 291

Grocery and restaurant combined, for
sale at a bargain. Located in thriving
town in the heart of Western Allegan
county fruit belt and doing a _ thriving
business the year around. Or will sell
the stock and fixtures and rent the build-
ing to the right party. For full particu-
lars address W. E. Stedman, Fennville,
Mich. 290
Will pay cash for shoe stock. Address
No. 286, care Michigan Tradesman. 2x86
For Sale—New clean stock of groceries,
shoes and general store. In a Central
Michigan town. A No. 1 place for busi-
ness. Best location in town. Best of
reasons for selling. Inspection invited.
Address No. 285, care Tradesman. 289

For Sale—General merchandise stock
and fixtures. Will inventory about $4,000.

 

 

 

 

 

Best location in thriving town 500. Clean
stock. Well established business. Not a

chance for speculators but rare opportun-
ity to purchase a going business at right
price. Address V. B. Newcomer, Deer-
field, Mich. 292
Notice—We

 

are desirous of interest-
ing parties with $50 to $100 to invest in
a loan company in a western State; any
interested party will learn something to
their advantage by writing to us at once.
“Loans, Eithian, Hi. 282
For Sale—$125 safe for $85. $325 Hall-
wood cash register for $85. $90 Dayton
Computing Scale, $40. Diehm Bros., Re-
mus, Mich. 281

For Rent--Large store building in live

 

Northern Michigan town. Splendid op-
ening for someone. Best location in
town. Address L. H. Smith, McBain,
Mich. 271

For Rent—Best and largest store build-
ing in Milan, Mich., completely furnished.
Splendid opening for general store in
thriving town of 1,600 population. For
particulars address, A. E. Putnam, Milan,
Mich. 1¥o

For Sale—At a bargain, first-class wall
paper aud paint business; well estab-
lished and in excellent location; busi-
hess growing nicely; will sell for cash
or trade tor good real estate; good rea-
sons for selling. Address Bargain, care
Michigan Tradesman. 995

 

 

Kor Sale—In Southern Michigan, a gen-
eral store, complete stock, in fine loca-
tion, best trading point in the State, with

building if desired. Address No. 124, care
‘Tradesman. 124
For Sale—First-class meat market,
stock and fixtures; building included.
Cheap for cash. J. F. Rezae & Co., St.
Marys, Kan. 86

 

For Sale—A good clean stock of hard-
ware and implements; tinshop in con-
nection; a good location; will inventory
about $5,000. For further particulars ad-
dress Jos. F. Pierce Hardware Co., Lo-
gan, N. M. 47

IF SPOT CASH

and quick action appeais to you, we wili buy
and take off your hands at once all the Shoes,
Clothing, Dry Goods, Furnishings, ete., or we
will buy your entire Shoe, Clothing, Dry Goods
and Furnishing stocks. We buy anything any
man Or woman wants money for. Write us to-
day and we wili be there to-morrow.
Paul L. Feyreisen & Co.,
184 Franklin st., Chicago, iI.

Cash For Your Business Or Real Es-
tate. No matter where located. If you
want to buy, sell or exchange any kind
of business or real estate anywhere at
any price, address Frank P. Cleveland,
1261 Adams Express Building, Chicago,
til. 26

 

 

1 pay cash for stocks or part stocks
of merchandise. Must be cheap.
Kaufer, Milwaukee, Wis. C7

 

For Salé or Rent—Store building, 30x
90, in Upper Peninsula Michigan small
town. Good prospects. If interested
write for particulars. Address R. \

274

care Michigan Tradesman.
~» Listen, Mr. Merchant,

eg? Why not have a rousing Mid-Winter
$. ®\ Sale? sur things up. Getrid of siow
i] seiling goods aud put money in your
business. Now is the time for action.
Dates for Jan. and Feb. are rapidly
being filed. I work for profits and
consider your interests. Stocks re-
duced or closed out, no matter
where locaved. Remember, I come myself
qGualitied by knowledge ana experience. Write
for open dates. b. Mh. Comstock,
907 Uhio building Toledo. Ohio

For Saie—Pure sorghum, black wal-

     
 

 

nuts, 75c. Write F. Landenberger, Ol-
ae, es eeu
_For Sale—40 acres land Altamont
Springs, Florida, 14 acres in oranges,

part bearing. Some timber, a small clear
lake on the place, 10 acres good garden
land on side track, five minutes’ walk
from hotel, the finest winter resort in
Florida. Good water, four large lakes
within a tew minutes’ walk of each oth-
er. Good market, fine tocation for ducks
and poultry raising. I guarantee it the
most healthy spot in the United States.
No_ buildings, two one acre lots from
Main avenue. Will send photograpn if
interested. Address J. O. Therien, Alta-
mont Springs, Fla., or Minneapolis, Minn.
200

Tobacco in natural leaf, at 124¢c, 15c,

18c per Ib. Send 25c in postage for sam-

 

ples. Frank Dittbenner, Franklin, Ky.
266
For Sale—General store; good stock;
good trade; moneymaker; post, railway

ticket and express offices in connection.
Address Abbott, Livingston, mich. 259

For Sale—Patent on attachment for
hitching weight strap for team that will
adjust itself automatically on pole from
weight to bit. Have other business.
Will sell on terms to suit. Address Wit-
zeg Bakery, 1400 Marshall St., N. E.,
Minneapolis, Minn. 255

For Sale—One 300 account McCaskey
register cheap. Address A. B., care
Michigan Tradesman. 548

For Sale—Cheap, a nice shoe stock in
small manufacturing town. Let me tell
you about it. Address No. 246, care
Tradesman. 246

A splendid town site or irrigation prop-
osition, very cheap. D. J. Myers, Boulder,
Colo. 203

 

HELP WANTED.
Local Representative Wanted—Splendid

income assured right man to act as our
representative after learning our business

 

thoroughly by mail. Former experience
unnecessary. All we require is honesty,

ability, ambition and willingness to learn
lucrative business. No. soliciting nor
traveling. An exception opportunity for
a man in your section to get into big pay-

ing business without capital and become
independent for life. ‘Write at once for
full particulars. Address E. R. Marden,
Pres., The National Co-Op. Real Estate
Co., Suite 371 Marden Bldg., Washington,
Dp C. 289

 

A skilled mechanic, competent to man-
age the factory, and having $5,000 or
more to invest, may secure an interest in
an old, well-established manufacturing
business in this leading Southern com-
mercial and manufacturing center. Henry
M. Wiltse, Attorney, Chattanooga, Tenn.

288

Wanted—An experienced office and tea
salesman for the State of Michigan for
an old-established ‘route. Apply to J. G.
Flint Company, Milwaukee, Wis. 287

Wanted—At once, a _ practical planing
mill foreman, one that understands the
manufacturing sash doors, doors, blinds.
store fixtures and a general line of mill
work. Apply to The Bailey Mills Co.,
Victoria, Texas. 269

 

Salesman—On commission or $100 and
up per month with expenses, as per con-
tract; experience unnecessary. Premier
Cigar Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 198

Wanted—Clerk for general store. Must
be sober and industrious and have.some

 

 

 

previous experience. References required

Address Store. care Tradesman. 242
FARM LANDS

Have You Land to Sell?

D & J.—We have an inexpensive but very

* successful plan in selling farms, garden
and poultry tracts, cut-over timber lands, ete.
We reach buyers in four states. Write for

 

our plan. It costs nothing. Decker & Jean.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Established 1892. Refer-
ence: Any bank in Grand Rapids. 279
Have 480-acre Manitoba farm, 60 miles
from Winnipeg and six miles from mar-
ket. Will sell or exchange for clean
stock of merchandise and put in some
money. J. R. Haslam, Owner, Devil’s
Lake, N. D. 283

 

 

630 acres irrigated land (good apple
land), near Spokane, or parts of it, for
sale or exchange for merchandise or im-
proved property; city or farm: latter
preferred. Benj. Lindsay, 114 Washing-
ton St., Spokane, Wash. 275

Real estate mortgages
8%. Any amount.
The West has the opportunities, you
have the money. Write Marcus W.
Robbins, Grant’s Pass, Oregon, for in-
formation. Bank references. 248

«SPECIAL. FEATURES.

Notice—Cash paid
nishings and shoes.
Mich.

Wanted—Location for hardware in
good town. Would buy small stock.
dress B., care Tradesman.

Extraordinary Business
Advertiser can deliver
poration owning the
Canadian patents for one of the very
best manufacturing propositions ever
offered; unlimited market and large prof-
its. Investment necessary, $20,000,
which can be furnished either by one
man or several men, one of whom shoula
be capable of assuming management at
a good _ salary. The proposition is a
clean, fair business deal that stands the
closest investigation, and will appeal to
the highest class of business men. Prin-
cipals only need apply. Address 907 Ma-
jestic Bldg., Detroit. Mich. 276

Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex-
pert and locksmith. 114 Monroe street,
Grand Rapids. Mich. 104

We pay cash for stock or parts of
stocks of dry goods, groceries, shoes.
clothing and all general stocks of goods.
Must be cheap. Redfern Bros., Lansing,
Mich. 252

Wanted—By northwestern hardware
jobber, young men, high school graduates,
two years or more retail hardware ex-
perience. Address No. 165, care Trades-
man. 165

 

net you 6% to
Safest investment.

 

 

for
Lit

dry
Gratiot,

goods, fur-
Detroit
284

 

 

Opportunity—
control in a cor-
United States and

 

 

 

 

 

Wanted—To buy stock shoes, clothing
or general stock, give price, description,
first letter. W. F. Whipple, Galesburg,
{ll. 134
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Here Is a
Pointer

 

Your advertisement,

if placed on this page,
would be seen and read
by eight thousand of
the most progressive
merchants in Michigan,
Ohio and Indiana. We
let-

have’ testimonial

ters from thousands of
who have

people

bought, sold or ex-
changed properties as
the direct result of ad-

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 5, 1910

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Jackson—A new company has been
organized under the style of the P.
A. Gordon Lumber Co., with an au-
thorized capital stock of $20,000, of
which $10,000 has been subscribed and
$2,800 paid in in cash.

Middleville—The Middleville Co-
Operative Co-Partnership Creamery
Association, Ltd., has engaged in
business, with an authorized capital
stock of $2,820, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Wavenlock Co. has
been incorporated to manufacture and
sell hair and scalp tonics, etc., with
an authorized capital stock of $20,-
000, of which $15,000 has been sub-
scribed and $5,000 paid in in cash.

St. Clair—The Nelson Mills Lum-
ber '& Manufacturing Co. has been
incorporated with an authorized capi-
tal stock of $75,000, of which $50,000
has been subscribed, $600 being paid
in in cash and $49,400 in property.

Sault Ste. Marie—The Lake Supe-
rior Wrench Co. has been merged
into a stock company with an author-
ized capital stock of $50,000, of which
$40,500 has been subscribed, $500 be-
ing paid in in cash and $5,300 in prop-
erty.

Saginaw—F. H. Mertz has merged
his cigar manufacturing business in-
to a stock company under the style
of the F. H. Mertz Co. The corpor-
ation has an authorized capital stock
01 $12,000, all of which has been sub
scribed and paid in in cash.

Portland—C. A. Aldrich, formerly
connected with the Ramsey-Alton
Manufacturing Co., has purchased a
half interest in the washing machine
and marble business of E. L. Good-
win and the work of manufacturing
the washer will soon begin in the
firm’s own building on Maple street.

Au Sable—When the H. M. Loud’s
Sons Co. bought a big interest
in a large tract of hardwood timber
jand in Presque Isle county of Her-
man Hoeft & Sons, of Rogers City,
it was not the intention to lumber
it to any extent right away. Heavy
forest fires got into the tract, how-
ever, and it became advisable to lum-
ber extensively. No doubt the fav-
orable outlook for the hardwood in-
dustry and existing excellent prices
helped stimulate the concern to ac-
tion.

Plainwell—With partnership liabil
ities scheduled at $2,309.65 and as-
sets at $863.34, the matter of the
Plainwell Creamery Company, James
A. Stout and Barton C. Shayler, ad-
judicated voluntary bankrupts, has
been placed in the hands of Judge
Henry C. Briggs, referee in bank-
ruptcy. Stout’s liabilities are $2,126.02.
assets $123.49 and Shayler’s liabili-
ties are $470.28, assets $724. A first
meeting of the creditors, mostly milk
producers in Allegan county, is call-
ed for Jan. 22.

Marquette—The Marquette branch
of Armour & Company will be ready
for business on Jan. to. For a num-
ber of weeks the building on Lake
street, which was put up a number of
years ago but never used, has beea
undergoing extensive repairs and re-
modeling and the work is now ap-
proaching completion. Within the

 

 

iast few days the building has been

made resplendent with a coat of

yellow paint and across one side
in large letters is the firm name, “Ar-
mour & Co.” The interior has been
even more changed and when fully
completed the building will be one of
the best equipped branch houses of
the company in the Upper Peninsula.

Detroit—Lumber dealers report no
improvement in terminal conditions.
One concern is waiting for the de-
livery of a carload of lumber that
reached the city November 29. An-
other has waited since November 11.
Ordinarily these transfers are ac-
complished within twenty-four hours.
The Detroit Traffic Association and
other crganizations interested are do-
ing their best to secure relief for the
shippers. The situation has been
complicated by an ice blockade in the
river which has seriously interfered
with the transmission of freight be-

 

tween Detroit and Windsor, but this
finally has been broken and the car
ferries are now doing their best to
keep a channel open.
Saginaw—Loca] lumber
closed the year with a satisfactory
business to their credit. The Bliss &
Van Auken plant manufactured about

concerns

13,000,000 feet of lumber, a large por-
tion of which goes into hardwood
flooring. The Thomas Jackson Co.
has been a heavy manufacturer of
doors and other inside work and as
usual has been successful. E. Ger-
main has handled several million feet
of lumber in the manufacture of doors
and other finished products. Mr. Ger-
main is heavily interested in the Ger-
main-Boyd Lumber Co., operating a
large sawmill at Atlanta, La. The
Booth & Boyd Lumber Co. has han-
dled over 8,000,000 feet of lumber in
its planing mill and factory.

 

The American Motor Car Manu-
reports. that
82,000 automobiles of all grades were
built in America in 1909, which is
more than 50 per cent. more than
last year and about four times as
many as in 1907. There are about
275,000 cars in private ownership in
this country, with a list value of
about $410,000,000. It is estimated
that next year there should be 450,-
000 with a list value of $650,000,000.
Of the $200,000 cars which manufac-
turers will turn out in I910, 165,000
will be pleasure cars, 30,000 will be
the high-wheel buggy type and 5,000

will be commercial vehicles.
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A fertile imagination often  mis-
takes itself for a generous heart.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
Wanted—Shoe clerk at once. Must be
honest, reliable and know how to sell
shoes. References required. Address
No. 294, care Tradesman. 294

 

 

 

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Michigan State
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The tremendously increasing sales of
**White House’’ Coffee point to the
evident conclusion that its superb quality
is being recognized all along the line,
and that folks are using IT in preference
to other. available coffees, IT has be-
come the favorite of. thousands upon:
thousands of people who drink it every
day in the year and find pleasure and
solace in it. All this suggests that YOU,
Mr. Grocer, may find ‘‘White House’’
just THE coffee with which to com:
pletely satisfy not only your critical
customers but that other type of patron
which believes in you and trusts you to
give him the best and most reliable
coffee the market affords—that’s

“WHITE HOUSE”

Symons Bros. & Co.

Wholesale Distributors

 

 

  

 

Inthe old days your fathers and grandfathers had their merchandise
hauled with ox carts. They weighed their. goods with the old steelyards.
They kept their accounts.on a slate. ;

~ Later the horse was substituted for the ox, the spring balanced scale for
the steelyards; thé day book and ledger for the slate.

Today many merchants are using the automobile,
The automatic computing scale has displaced the spring balance.

The McCASKEY ONE WRITING CREDIT REGISTER SYSTEM
has displaced over 50,000 day book and ledger systems among the up-to-date
progressive merchants of the United States and Canada.

The McCASKEY is a time saver, money saver and money maker.
Your request on a one cent postal will bring complete information.

 

 

 

THE McCASKEY REGISTER COMPANY
Alliance, Ohio
Mfrs. of the Famous Multiplex, Duplicate and Triplicate Sales Books, also the
: different styles of Single Carbon Books
Detroit Office, 1014 Chamber of Commerce Bldg.
Phone Main 3565

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250 x 410 ground space. 150,000 square feet of floor space.

The construction will be of the most modern for factory purposes. The roof is of the well known saw-tooth style, assuring the greatest amount of daylight without the heat
and blinding glare of direct rays of the sun.

This style of construction also facilitates the securing of perfect ventilation.

FIRE PROOF CONSTRUCTION THROUGHOUT

Part of this structure is already in use and the balance is being rushed to completion. with all possible haste. 2 #
All machines, assembling and adjusting tables will be placed on separate foundations. This eliminates all vibration from the building and makes conditions most ideal for

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‘What better prospects could we have for the supplying of the ever increasing demand for the famous DA YTON-MONEY WEIGHT SCALES?
_ Shipment of our goods will be greatly facilitated by our own private switch track making direct connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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