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SPECIAL FEATURES.
age
2. January Sales.
- News of the Business
Grocery and Produce
The Thrifty Swiss.
- Editorial.
9. Work Together.
12. Representative Retailers.
14. Review of the Shoe Market.
16. Price Maintenance.
20. Woman’s World.
22. Butter, Eggs and
26. Drugs.
27. Wholesale Drug Price Current.
28. Wholesale Grocery Price Current.
31. Special Price Current.

World.
Market,

0m Of

Provisions.

 

WHAT ADVERTISING DOES.

Who was the first advertiser? is a

 

settled. Whoever he

and his added en-
business.

him added

first advertiser was the

iS Dliace O71

first man who ever hung out a sign|
rar hj 1a CF hy in . ri +c
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advertising I

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initiative in that direction.

 

sign wa ng out for the purpose of

telling possible purchasers where
J

Paley tices pe hie r
dealer and his found.

 

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passcrs-
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by that
thing of interest.

within they might find some-
shat ¢
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+

to bring the people to his

at
can not make them buy goods. That

there is to see and where it can be

SOmetimes sives

commodity

he first Sale. It 1s for the

h
merchant to so impress and _ satisfy

the customer as to induce the second

Subsequent calls.

as the first

and
Accepting

man

 

who first put out
of his building, the inference is
he put it where he thought the most
people would be apt to see it. A store

qust as

side street as

large and

might be just as
stocked on some
but
coming to the centers
there are. thi
larger opportunities to
Just as the) Store is) pu
most accessible and as the sign is put

well

the merchants insist

elsewhere,

'
because
and the
trade.
where it 1

most people

attract

be seen by the most peo-

mod-
Will at-

the

 

advertisement with
where it

where

methods is put

most attention and

tract
largest number will be apt to see it.
thought that dodgers

Once it was
and posters and handbills would serve
this purpose acceptably, but now al
these out of date
enterprising, intelligent
knows that the regular publications
afford the best facilities of this sort.
I-verybody reads them and many read
them from start to finish. It is
that every copy of a paper or magazine

are and every

advertiser

said

is perused on the average by five peo-
ple. Advertisers long ago came to

|

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12,

appreciate the fact that the very best

|medium for reaching prospective cus-

{tomers is through the columns of an

 

certain he was a little ahead |

110n.
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| up-to-date

lcf the
BOS WAS ee ave gual cL qe ae
' TI |money are annually expended in this
1€ | : os ‘ |
|way and when judiciously invested are |
labsolutely sure to
the | |

 

paper and the larger its
circulation the more they are willing
to pay for the use of its space. It has
come to pass that those who want to
make pur look to the

and trade journals especially for
the they
t

think they may be interested and are

chases newspa-
pers
announcements in which
largely governed in choosing a

ing place by what they see in
t

It is a long way from the pioneer a
the

ions daily follow

present time where
1

srtiser to
| his example in
1

Business

ito sell realize that when their goods |

are bought there is no better
ers ink and that with-

can

ment than print
Out it

 

not gain the

public.

Dring satistactory

A good many people

.
for the prophet who said that this

 

was surely going to be a mild winte
VETCISEMene Can do tora merchant is|.

hKeanct} + f he ANC
breastpone ot the goose,

the squirrel, the procedure of the|
muskrat, etc. As a matter of fact it |
has been quite the reverse, but after |
all it is fine winter weather and no-

body has very much reason to com
plain except those who have had dif-
ficulty in procuring coal enough to
keep warm Think of the) joy | it

iceman, for now cutting
can begin and continue until the har-

After this cold
1- 1

snap it will take a long time of warm

the

brings

vest is completed.

Preselva

weather to spoil the ice for

ticn purposes. It is good sleighing,
so that freicht can be easily trans-

ported around the country, and inthe
city the snow makes work for men
of a job.

various

who otherwise might be ou
Blizzards are reported from
sections of the country and the

Weather Bureau

at Washington fre-
he effect

and

cuently sends bulletins to tl
more
that heavy storms may
expected. In
has been record breaking.

snow is on the way

be confidently

that
several sections the
snowfall
The heavy winds have made a par-
ticularly

disastrous season for the
ceasting vessels on the ocean and the
number of wrecks has been far in ex-
The i
theme
must be ac

cess of the average. weather 1s
always an interesting

cussion, but after all it

for dis-

cepted as it comes.
REALE MEE STS EE DE BP

The fact that you can not get
along with this universe does not

indicate that you are ordained to rule
in another.

_ RAE NOR SIRNPORMREE LE IE ATURE

No man gets far in the business of
living who lives only for business.

 

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laway such things really do

men who have things |.
h
invest- |

notice

Immense sums of'|

are looking |

lis forecast on the]

the fur ot}

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THE GIRL FRIEND.

A woman re

a shopping expedition thor
ly tired

 

answer to the QueTyY as EO 2 shortaz¢
PO ee ;
of clerks during the holiday , she
replied that they had enough cl
:
each was busy entertaining

 

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their friends would consent to De en

tertained when c

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ing to be served. Yet “when the cat

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most approved and modern fash-

manifest reluctance to leave
to wait

stranger, whose wish is, perhaps, in

 

 

|fling purchase, is all too prevalent. |
needless to say that the more
lumble customer is just the one to|
ye more quickly affected by asligl
and tocarry it back to her neighbors
t may bea small matter, but itisab
principle and e which will 00
work damaging tures in any trad
If sir! erks most commonly «
M this matter it is not so much fre
au inclination to :
tho ahtlessness o 1 k of sel S
Sertion and tact when inad
vertently « yt he se s tO. ct
sume time which lawfully belongs t

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|

I will seek
other quarters, confining he tte
tions to one outside of office hours
There is no need of giving offens
in the mere mention that during tl
hours employed you are at the serv
ice Of the public and no _ sensible}

te)
eirl should object to the tactiul re- |"

minder.

 

n recent years there s been
seood deal said and a good deal done

about agricultural schools. Some co!

leges make a great point of

partment and there are institutes held

around in different parts of the «
try for the purpose of providing
form of education. It is suscet
of proof that, other things bh

educated farmer will pros
‘Ehat
the City of

better.
situated in
add an

New

agricultural

ment is attracting considerable
Its students for tl

ment, 1e€

come from the metropolis and most
nothing

of them know absolutely
about farms or farming,
them never saw a plow in operation
Columbia now proposes to
these young men

they wish to take that course.

 

cently came home

and a little out of humor. In

ffain or that

L wait-

upon a

Smithsonian Institution have reg

what purpose it can

 

faunal

Columbia College,

com-

B most part

and some Of
ancestors ¢
educate
American of to-d
jiggest menu that the

in agriculture 11
Elihu
Root once said that the ambition ot

 

 

 

and th part oO tl ambition
ye the most easily attained. Th

thing that co Id happ nm to som
se metropc lita: ( hs WoOl

 

 

, + h 1
on it with th dea of owning
' :
| making its management thei
“i st 4
vork. It will be interesting to
| watch the development of this Colum
Ource an ; - +11 t
yurse and its results. Before
long at this 1.
long at this rate we ought to
: winwn tate of 1
no more talk about abandoned
, NY VY ‘
ms in New York Stat
SL AS NRL
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oc fT , 1
f. Simpson cd a paper at a
tT > 1 y
meeting of American As
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i for \ ncement of
I] IOS PT I WIC Ne Claims
he eo 1 he ch- 1
C HM De Changed to a
1 nd the great race prob-
Sa tiata atolls: ] + tyne :
itistactorily solved. “My experi-
[a - oe eo a
\ its and antmals,” saia
Si yn, nave shown me that
£ ne }
D FECL CONELTOL can be made
somes, the ife giving
] a
S HOF, 11€ HS Or baths
17 1] 1 7
1: hich will result in fu-
y Or 1 1 ]
Q erations becoming | shter o
YY } 1 ] hl
r as may desired. The black
QO ) Ld eé nto a pe fect
tins prt Css Wi nN id that
+ Pp haas } 1
S ) Dacte 1 a starch solu-
1 es : onan annther
nakes red yioment, another
lee 4 ‘
S black and vet anothe white
i : ; “4
of them throw down sulphur
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other products would grow hair
nd horns. Some cause albu-
f oe 2 ‘ +: <1
t orm in sheets, which with a
1 i 4 e ”
phosphate would form bone
ESR RR ROR NAR MRNA HOE
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President Roose t has at fast
capture in the wilds of Africa
: i a
1 gives Dim a iim to the tie O
4
e reat faunal natui iSt Oo tne 126
: :
as dis Ove red 1 Hew Species OF
‘ ‘ ic} } F tli
nimal, which the of Crs OF Ine

for the scood of

naturalist and

 

 

palates € Frespo sible for tne >
nt high cost of living. He is proba

he experts
1 1 3
on the problem.

oe se
ould live and thrive on

prosperous
1 4 7

and hominy, but the
I ants the best and

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professional

f can prepare.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 12, 1910

 

JANUARY SALES.

The Furniture Season Has Auspicious
Start.

The new furniture season opened
with the new year, and it has been
long since a season had a more au-
spicious start. The manufacturers are
confident, the buyers optimistic and
every indication points to prosperity
in the industry. Prices are higher,
but the buyers have been anticipat-
ing the rise and come to market pre-
pared to pay more. They will pass
on the increase to the consumer and
conditicns in the furniture trade are
such that the consumer will never
know the difference. It is so rarely
that a man buys a piece of furniture
that he does not keep track of the
prices, and whether they are up or
down may make a difference with his
pocketbook but he can not explain
why or where. Eggs, butter, pota-
toes and such things as are of daily
consumption are more easily follow-
ed, and a cent one way or another is
instantly noticed, but furniture can
fluctuate in dollars and no comment
is caused. This is where the furni-
ture dealer has the advantage over
the grocer and the dry goods man.

 

There are few changes in furniture
styles this year. The Flanders and
Early English types are more in evi-
dence than in July, but the Colonial
and the well-established English and
French period patterns still predomin-
ate. The Early English and Flanders
goods are attractive, but the Colonial,
New England, Dutch and Virginia
alike, and the Sheraton and Chippen-
dale of England and the Louis XV.
and Louis XVI. of France have ar-
tistic merits that make them stand-
ards or staples, and they will con-
tinue to be popular. They have the
essential elements of grace and beau-
ty, dignity and character and those
who buy them have the satisfaction
of knowing that what they buy now
will be good a hundred years hence.

 

The rise of the Flanders is interest-
ing as showing how furniture “styles”
are made. Berkey & Gay brought
out a few pieces in this style in July,
1908, and showed them in a display
room by themselves. The trade, hun-
gering for “something different,”
hought so freely that the line was
greatly enlarged for the January, 1909,
season and was featured. The goods
miade a decided hit and the line was
further enlarged for July and _ this
season it is larger still. In the
meantime other manufacturers, not-
ing the success of Berkey & Gay’s
new idea, took it up and several of
them had Flanders pieces in their
July lines, and this season nearly ail
of them have something in this style
to show.

 

The Flanders style represents the
Early Elizabethan period in English
history as expressed in furniture. The
Dutch artisans, driven out of Hol-
land and Belgium by the Spanish
persecutions, brought their furniture-
making skill with them. The Dutch
ideas were gradually modified to suit
the new environments and gradually
the styles that are now reproduced

 

2s Flanders, Elizabethan, Jacobean,
and William and Mary were evolved.
The difference between these vari-
cus periods is in detail rather than
general character. They are all solid,
substantial and dignified, and all have
square lines. The American Mission
could easily be evolved into the ear-
ly English periods by substituting
turned posts and putting on a few
simple ornaments.

 

The Early English period furniture,
to be true to type, should be in oak,
for that was the material in which
the original artisans worked, and they
made their designs accordingly. Some
of the modern furnituremakers put
these styles into mahogany and one
exhibitor has pieces in Circassian
walnut, and the discriminating ob-
server weeps at the incongruity. The
effect, however, is not quite as bad
as that of a Sheraton suite in oak,
és was displayed last season.

 

Mahogany leads all the cabinet
woods in popularity, just as it has
for several seasons, and more of it
is seen probably than all the other
woods combined. Circassian walnut
holds second place, although there
are said to be signs of its waning
popularity. In the Early English and
Flanders styles a very fine quality of
quarter sawed oak is used, and oak
has reached such high levels in cost
that mahogany is about the same
price. Some bird’s-eye maple is used
ior special purposes, but it does not
occupy its old place in the affections
of the trade. Birch, which was once
cheap, but is cheap no longer, has al-
most dropped out of sight. For the
cheaper goods oak, used mostly in
veneer, and red gum, both natural and
stained to imitate walnut, are used.
Not much of the cheap stuff is pro-
duced in this market, but the South-
ern manufacturers are “long” on it.
There are no material changes in the
finishes. It may be remarked that ma-
hogany in its natural color is light,
like cherry, and to the trade is
known as tuna. The popular con-
ception of mahogany, however, is that
it is a dark wood, and to satisfy this
popular conception the manufacturers
stain it.

 

The Sligh Furniture Co. has a few
suites in rosewood and brings them
cut this season in a new finish. The
first production was with a dull fin-
ish. Now they are given a polish, and
this greatly enhances the beauty of
the wood, its rich colors and won-
derful figure. The polish makes the
goods more attractive to the eye, but
may, not prove popular because it
takes little more than a glance of the
eye to mar the surface.

 

The Sligh Furniture Co., by the
way, is this season celebrating the
thirtieth anniversary of its organiza-
tion. The company filed its articles
of incorporation on Feb. 27, 1880,
and began operations in a three story
irame factory at the north end of its
present big plant. The cash capital
actually paid in was only $29,000. The
capital now is $400,000, and it has
been increased to this figure in thirty
years by a long succession of stock

 

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Made entirely of cold rolled, drawn, sheet steel, it pre-
sents the handsomest finish ever shown in sweeper con-
struction.

Bail of cold rolled steel rod is brazed into handle ferrule.

A steel screw fastened in wood handle with a pin-locked
ferrule prevents splitting of handle.

Case ends being made of steel allows sweeper to clean
closer to wall than with old style construction.

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Independent dumping dust pans, opening full, made of
heavy tin.

Anti-clogging end cap, preventing hair, ravelings, etc.,
from coming in contact with working parts.

Anti-tipping device, doing away with tipping of sweeper
when drawn back quickly.

All working parts protected from dust.

Guaranteed to sweep when others fail.

Prices absolutely maintained.

No argument necessary. Sell on sight.

 

Sterling and Streator Carpet Sweepers

Guarantee

The Streator Metal Stamping Co.
Streator, Ill.

 

Agreement with the Purchaser: We agree,
at any time, to make good, by repair or replace-
ment, any part or parts that show any defect in ma-
terial or workmanship, provided that such defect
is not caused by misuse or neglect
on the part of the purchaser.

The Streator Metal Stamping Co.
By P. C. FORRESTER, Pres.

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dividends in addition to regular an-

nual cash disbursements. Chas. R.
Sligh, who began life as a tinner and
then was a traveling salesman for
Berkey ‘& Gay for six years, has been
manager of the enterprise from its in-
ception and much of its great success
has been due to his energy and abil-
ity. The company intended to cele-
brate its anniversary by making its
January exhibit in its new 96x132 feet
four-story building on Prescott street.
Construction on this building was be-
gun last fall, but deliveries of mate-
tial were slow and the building is
not yet complete. It will be finished
in time for the July exhibit, however,
and the showroom will contain 60,000
square feet of floor space. In the
basement of this building will be a
diningroom for the factory hands,
reading and smokingrooms, shower-
bath and gymnasium. The company
will not try to exercise too much su-
pervision over this basement, but will
turn it over to the men to manage
in their own way through commit-
tees they will themselves select.

 

A davenport in the Century Furni-
ture Co.’s line has an interesting his-
tory. It is an exact reproduction of
a davenport that was once the prop-
erty of the Washington family in
Virginia. It was made in the Nether-
lands and brought to this country late
in the eighteenth century, and from
the Washington family it descended
hy inheritance to Mrs. E. R. Metcalf.
of this city, and from her passed to
Mrs. T. Stewart White, and is now
a prized piece of furniture in the
White household. It is in mahogany

 

with finely carved legs and carved
back and has much beauty of line.
This davenport, reproduced, has found
much favor with the trade, which is
about as high a tribute as can be paid

to its artistic merits.

 

The Century Co. has
ductions in its line and is especially
strong in reproductions of old New
England Colonial furniture. Designer
Somes was born and brought up in
New England and has family and so-
cial connections that give him the
entre to many of the oldest and most
exclusive homes. He has discovered
many a rare bit of old furniture, but
because a piece is old does not al-
ways mean that it is artistic. He has
the taste, however, to pick out that
which has merit, and this has helped
make the Century line what it is. In
the company’s catalogue the history
of each reproduction is given, and the
utmost care is taken to make the re-
production exact, even to the fabrics
used for covering.

many repro-

 

Two new Grand Rapids lines are
shown this season and this is a larg-
er addition than has occurred in
several years. One of the new ones
is the Marvel Manufacturing Com-
pany’s, which moved to Grand Rapids
from Ionia last summer and remod-
eied the old Harrison plant for fac-
tory purposes. Its line is rockers in
about 100 different styles, ranging in
price from cheap to medium. The
other addition is the Kiel-Anway Co.,
manufacturing leather upholstered
chairs in about forty patterns. The

 

Marvel Co. already has an establish- | break away another year. There are

ed trade, but the Kiel-Anway Co.
an infant industry; however, it is an
infant that promises rapid growth.

 

The Mueller & Slack Company is
making its exhibit this season for the
first time in its own showrooms in-
stead of occupying space in one of
the exposition buildings. The sec-
ond floor of the company’s new build-
ing on Canal street is used as a show-
room, and it is as handsome a show-
room as could be desired, with an
abundance of space and special fit-
tings in which to display the goods to
the best advantage.

It is a sign of development, growth
and strength when a manufacturer
shows in his own factory instead of
in the exposition buildings. It means,
as a general rule, that the line is
strong enough to attract the buyers
to the factory and that it is no long-
er necessary to bring the goods to a
place that is more easily reached.
There are exceptions to this rule, of
course. The John Widdicomb Com-
pany, for exposition
building space because it has not

instance, uses

room at the factory for its display.
This is true also of the Stow & Davis
Table Company and the John D.
Raab Chair Company. Stow & Davis
will have their own showrooms in
the new building that will be erected
in the spring. The Century Co. and
the Chas. S. Paine Co. were gradu-
ated from the exposition building
class a year ago, and it may be ex-

rected that some of the others will

 

is|about fifteen Grand Rapids lines in

the exposition buildings this season,
include those that lack room
The outside exhibits
number 215, and they completely fill
five big buildings. The Klingman,
the Manufacturers’, the Exchange and
the Blodgett buildings were filled last
July. This season the Leonard is
also full, with twelve exhibitors occu-
pying the space. There are half a
dozen outside lines displayed in va-
rious places outside of the big build-
ings. These outside lines, in connec-
tion with the Grand Rapids, cover the
entire range of domestic furniture
from the cheapest to the most ex-
pensive, and for all parts of the house
from the kitchen to the parlor and
out on the porch and lawn.

which

in the factories.

Self-Expression and _  Self-Develop-
ment,

To do something in one’s very best
method and manner, to do the very
best one can at anything, to finish a
job, to complete any work, is self-ex-
pression and self-development. That
skill comes with doing is an old idea
that is true and always must be, be-
cause “practice makes perfect,” to
another homely phrase.

This applies just as much to the
selling of goods as it does to any-
thing else. The salesperson behind
the counter on the floor or out on the
road that doesn’t sell more this year

use

than he did last, that won’t sell more
next year than he does this, is not
using his own power for develop-
ment.

 

 

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Purely

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permitted under all food laws—State and National.

WELLS & RICHARDSON CO.

Manufacturers of Dandelion Brand Butter Color

 

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Movements of Merchants.
Chesaning—A. J. Perrot has opened
a grocery store here.

St. Ignace—R. H. Stevenson has
opened a jewelry store here,
Gobleville—Woodhouse & Brewer

have engaged in the meat business
here.

Clio--W. H. Stout & Co. succeed
Glenn Williams in the grocery busi-
ness.

Pentwater—D. A. Krauss succeeds
Daggett & Gregwer in the meat busi-
ness.

Climax—Carl Schneebelt is suc-
ceeded in the bakery business by John
Schwartout.

Howard City—Merrifield Bros, suc-
ceed Wm. H. Westbrook in the feed
mill business.

Grand Ledge—Clarence Dean has
sold a half interest in his bakery to
Worthy Parker.

Allegan—H. E. Elliott has added a
line of wall paper to his stock of
second hand furniture.

Holly—E. E. Kohler has sold his
stock of hardware to F. B. Ensley,
recently of Howard City.

Petoskey—J. D. Andrews is closing
out his grocery stock and will de-
vote his time to farming.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Sav-
ings Bank has increased its capitaliza-
tion from $100,000 to $200,000.

Highland Park — The Braun-Erb
Lumber Co. has increased its capital-
ization from $10,000 to $18,000.

Traverse City—N. H. Herron has
sold his stock of groceries to William
Gerst, who will continue the busipess.

Buckley—E. H. Cutler has sold his
meat market and taken a_ position
with the Cummer & Diggins Lumber
Co., of Cadillac.

Sears—Davy & Co. will erect and
equip a grain elevator here with a
capacity of from seven to eight thou-
sand bushels of grain.

Geneva—L. S. Sanford has  pur-
chased the general stock of Eugene
A. Clark and will continue the busi-
ess at the same location.

Lake City—The Lake City Hard-
ware Co. has purchased the furniture
stock of Jay W. Carr and combined it
with its stock of hardware.

Chelsea—At a recent mec ting of the
stockholders in the Bacon Co-Opera-
tive Co. Jay Wood, of Lima, was ap-
pointed manager in place of Jabez
Bacon.

Midland—C. H. Smith, who con-
ducts a bakery at Reed City, has
purchased the F. V. Sayles bakery
here and will divide his time between
the two.

Saginaw—E. E. Scott, dealer in
plumbers’ supplies, has merged his
business into a steck company under

the style of E. E. Scott & Sons, with

 

 

 

 

 

an authorized capital stock of $2,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Luther—J. W. Paterson has bought
the remainder of the Ira J. Gilbert
clothing stock, at Reed City, and is
having the store here remodeled for
its reception,

Frankfort—Harmon & Co. have
sold their stock of meats to the City
Grocery Co., which will continue the
business under the style of the Vorce-
Frederick-Sayles Co.

Houghton—The Houghton Copper
Co. has engaged in business with an
authorized capital stock of $2,500,000,
of which $625 has been subscribed and
$125 paid in in cash.

Chesaning — Bert Vansickles has
sold his stock of groceries to Bert
and Guy Cantwell, who have formed
a copartnership and will continue the
business at its present location.

Conklin—Charles Wolter has sold
his interest in the wagon and black-
smith business of Witlenburg & Wol-
ter to his partner, who will continue
the business under his own name.

Sturgis—John A. Gephart has sold
his stock of meats to Charles Reed
and Hudson Porter, recently of Bliss-
field, who will continue the business
under the style of Reed & Porter.

Casnovia — Bonner & Albaugh,
dealers in meats, have dissolved part-
nership. The business will be con-
tinued by W. H. Albaugh, who has
purchased the interest of his partner.

Allegan—Charles Ogden has _ sold
his interest in the implement and ve-
hicle business of Bentley & Ogden
to D. J. Tiefenthal, of Hopkins. The
new firm will be known as Bentley &
Tiefenthal.

Grand Ledge—F. T. Coppens has
sold his interest in the firm of Cop-
pens & Byington, dealerse in shoes,
to his partner, H. M. Byington, who
will continue the business under his
own name.

Morenci—H. D. Pegg, who retires
from business about as often as a
prima donna retires from the stage, is
behind the counter again, having pur-
chased from the creditors the Barden
grocery stock.

Jackson—George A. Nichols has
resigned his position as manager of
the Union Wall Paper & Paint Co.
and will engage in the same business
under his own name at 126 West
Cortland street.

Petoskey—A new company has
been organized under the style of the
Walloon Investment Co., with an au-
thorized capital stock of $4,500, all
of which has been subscribed, $1,000
being paid in in cash and $3,500 in
property.

Detroit—Hiram C. Goldberg, cloth-
ier, has merged his business into a

1|stock company under the style of the

 

Hiram C. Goldberg Co., with an au-
thorized capitalization of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Whitehead & Kales

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

East Jordan — The East Jordan

Chemical Co. has increased its capi-

Belding—Guy Leonard, of Pellston, |tal stock from $150,000 to $450,000.

has been in the city recently negotiat-
ing for the dry goods stock of Spen-
cer Bros. It is expected that he will
assume control of the store in the
riear future.

Detroit—Wm. S. Haight, formerly
crganizer of the international typo-
graphical union, has acquired a gro-
cery store and saloon at 88-90 Na-
tional] avenue. He says it is more
fun to stand behind the bar than it
is to stand in front of it, as most
union men do; besides, it is more
profitable.

Flint—Messages were received here
Monday announcing the death at Pas-
adena, Cal., of L. H. Hayt, proprietor
cf a dry goods store in this city and
formerly of Alma, Ithaca and Sagi-
naw. He went West four years ago
for the benefit of his health. The
cause of his death was typhoid fever.
He was 48 years old.

Escanaba—S. J. Peterson, of Fos-
ter City, and Frank Finman have pur-
chased the interest of the late F. W.
Dahlgren in the North Star Mer-
cantile Co. and with C. A. Carlson,
the senior member of the firm, will
close out their stock of dry goods,
clothing and shoes and add a line of
meats to their stock of groceries and
provisions.

Detroit—Following a long illness
John Downie, formerly a well-known
grocer here, died reacently at his
home, 246 Seventeenth street. Mr.
Downie was 59 years old. He was
born in this city, and for more than
thirty-five years conducted a store at
117-119 Michigan avenue. He had
stores, also, on West Fort street and
Woodward avenue. Mr. Downie re-
tired from the grocery business about
six years ago and of late had been
engaged in the poultry business,

Milford—Charles E, Lovejoy, Mil-
ford’s pioneer grocer, has withdrawn
from merchandising, to be succeeded
by his eldest son, W. Scott Lovejoy.
Mr. Lovejoy started in business in
1870 and has been at it continuously
since, and steps out now only through
the press of justice and probate affairs
which need his personal attention.
Mr. Lovejoy is one of the first men
in Oakland county, always active and
prominent in business and politics, He
has held every township and corpo-
ration office of importance and has
been justice of the peace twenty-six
years.

Manufacturing Matters,
Detroit—The Detroit Socket Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$15,000 to $40,000.

Detroit—The Michigan Crucible

Steel Casting Co, has increased its
capital stock from $30,000 to $61,000.

Milford—The Detroit-Milford Sani-

An inventory of the tary Manufacturing Co. has changed
stock is now being taken preparatory ic name 46

‘/to the change.

the Michigan

Body Co.

Traverse City—The Queen City

Electric Light & Power Co. has in-
creased its capitalization from $60,-
000 to $100,000.

Marshall—Frank Williams has pur-

chased stock in the Dobbins Furni-
ture Co. and will act as its Secretary
and Treasurer.

Bay City--The sawmill operated by
Knapp & Stout, formerly the Har-
grave mill, has started on a day and
night run for the winter with a full
Crew.

Cooks—The Inwood Creamery Co.
has been organized with an authoriz-
ed capital stock of $5,000, of which
$3,200 has been subscribed and paid
in in property,

Detroit—The Lotz Auto Co. has
been incorporated with an authorized
capitalization of $300,000, of which
$150,000 has been subscribed and
530,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit — The Weisgerber-Lowther
Paint Co. has engaged in business
with an authorized capital stock of
$5,000, of which $2,700 has been sub-
scribed and $1,500 paid in in cash.

Watervliet—A new company
been organized under the style of
the Watervliet Paper Co., with an
authorized capital stock of $250,000.
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Hancock—A new company has been
incorporated under the style of the
Hancock Concrete Co., with an au-
thorized capital stock of $5,000, of
which $2,500 has been.subscribed and
$1,000 paid in in cash.

Battle Creek—A new company has
been organized under the style of the
Cronk-Andress Music String Co.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$1,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Chicago Hosiery Co.
has merged its business into a cor-
poration under the same style, with
an authorized capital stock of $75,-
coo, of which $37,500 has been sub-
scribed and $7,500 paid in in cash.

Marshall—There is a strong possi-
bility that the Homer Gas Engine
Co. may be removed to this place
within a short time. Supt. Reek, who
is the inventor of the engine, has al-
ready leased a local block with the
privilege of five years.

Bay City—The maple flooring busi-

has

ness has improved much more than

Saginaw—The Saginaw Pure Ice manufacturers expected during the
Co. has increased its capital stock summer, both in the matter of prices
from $60,000 to $100,000. and in the selling of the stock, There
Kalamazoo—Boylan-Mills & Co. |j; a heavy export demand and mean-

have changed their name to the Kal-
amazoo Implement Co.

Bay City—The Michigan Turpen-
tine Co. has increased its capital stock
from $100,000 to $120,000,

 

time the home trade has picked up.
Building operations promise to be ex-
ceptionally brisk during 1910 and

manufacturers express confidence in
the future of the trade.

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Sugar—The refiners advanced their
quotations Io points last week and the
market is strong at the advance. This
somewhat improved the demand from
first hands, but has not affected the
consumptive demand, which is dull.
It is a little early for sugar to ad-
vance, and whether the refiners will
be able to hold the market up just
10w remains to be seen. It is re-

rted that the Warner Sugar Re-

‘ery will from now on make a dead
set for business. They have acquired
two of Arbuckle Bros.’ most valuable
practical men, and have a daily ca-
pacity of around 2,000 barrels.

 

Coffee—The demand is light, al-
though an improvement in the de-
mand and prices is looked for by

many in the next thirty days, as re-
ports from the Eastern jobbers say
the stocks, although heavy, are firmly
held at present prices. Mild coffees

are wanted to some extent at firm
prices. Java and Mocha are quiet and
unchanged.

Canned Goods—The buying has
been very light in canned vegetables
during the holidays, but is expected
to improve as soon as inventories are
taken, as a great many merchants
have held off buying until after that.
Corn is very firm and some grades are
rot very plentiful. Cheap peas have

b are stil! an object of much | : ,
cence bi ae ou ve |Salmon is quiet and steady. Domes-

interest among jobbers, but there is
not much business of importance at
present. Pumpkin, squash and as-

paragus are steady but firm. There}

but

is little new in canned fruits,
advices. from. the Coast reflect) a)
firmer feeling, particularly on extra

choice grades, supplies of which are
limited. The
dull at the present time, as is usual
at this season of the year. Some of

the advances have not been put on

_canned goods as yet on account of the

light demand. The market is steady.
Salmon continues to sell remarkably
well, although chiefly in small lots.
Some of the jobbers think there will
be trouble next spring in getting the
cood grades of salmon. Sardines are

auiet, with no new features.

Dried Fruits—Apricots are quiet
and unchanged. Raisins are dull,
weak and unsettled. Currants are in
light demand at ruling prices. Fard

dates are scarce and firm, but Hal-
lowiis are in ample supply and no-
strong. The demand for date: ,
figs and citron is moderate. Prunes
sceem to be a trifle easier and have
gone back to the 234¢ bas*s. The de-
mand is light. Peaches are dull, al-

So

though well maintained as to price.
Cheese—The market remained sta-

tionary during the past week. The

stock of cheese is very short and the

Twin City market is| :
2 iday. Prices of

 

 

trade is very light. There is not like-
ly to be any change in the market
during the coming week.

Spices—Some kinds have advanc-
ed considerably the last sixty days,
especially peppers, the supply being
limited. Ginger is the next strong-
est in price. The demand has been
very gcod on the whole line, with the
exception of the week between Christ-
mas and New Years.

Rice—Prices hold about the same
as for some time past, but the de-
mand is expected to increase as soon
as the effects of the holiday trade are
passed. It is reported that about 4o
per cent. of the crop has been mar-
keted and at the same ratio of move-
ment the whole crop will be market-
ed by May 1. Planters, for this rea-
son, are insisting on higher prices for
their rough rice.

Syrup and Molasses Glucose
shows no change for the week. Com-
pound syrup is unchanged and in fair
demand. Sugar syrup is scarce and
high. Molasses is firm. Good mo-
lasses is hard to buy in New Orleans
at a satisfactory price. The produc-
tion so far is about Io per cent. short
ef last year, and this is bound to
make the season firm, especially on
fine grades.

Fish—-Cod, hake and haddock are in
fair demand at unchanged prices.

tic sardines show no change in price
and but very small sales from first

'hands. There is some selling from
‘second hands at shaded prices. Im-
‘ported sardines are unchanged,

steady and quiet. There is still no
demand for mackerel to speak of, al-
though it should resume almost any
Norway and_ Trish
mackerel are about steady.
Provisions—Barreled pork, canned
meats and pure lard are firm at un-
changed prices. Compound lard is
firm at %4c advance over one week
ago. :
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The Drug Market.
Opium and Morphine—Are
changed.
Quinine—Is firm.
Cocoa Butter—Has declined.
Sperm Oil—Has advanced. Stocks
are very light.

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Able and Willing.

There is no service so low and sim-
ple, neither any so high, in which the
man of ability and willing disposition
can not readily and almost daily
prove himself capable of greater trust
and usefulness. Andrew Carnegie.

~~~

Much religious speculation is like
trying to explain the world’s anthems
by the ether waves that carry them.

un-

 

 

The Produce Market.

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

Beets—$1.25 per bbl.

Butter—The receipts have increas-
ed the past week and, as a result,
the market is not quite so strong
as it was a week ago. Local dealers
hold creamery at 35'%c for tubs and
36%c for prints; dairy ranges from
22@23c for packing stock to 27c for
No. I; process, 27@28c; oleo, 11@zoc.

Cabbage—6oc per doz.

Carrots—$1.25 per bbl.

Celery—$1.25 per box.

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

Cucumbers—Hot house, $1.20
doz.

Eggs—The receipts of fresh eggs
continue to run very light, on ac-
count of the continued bad weather,
and owing to the good consumptive
demand the market advanced 2c per
dozen. The stock of storage eggs is
gradually decreasing. The future price
depends entirely upon weather con-
ditions. There is not likely to be
any further advance at this time.
Storage stock is steady at 29@3oc.
Local dealers pay 29@3oc per doz.
for country fresh, holding candled at
32c and fancy candled at 33c.

Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz.

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

Grapes—$5@6 per keg for Malagas.

Honey—t5c per fb. for white clov-
er and t2c for dark.

Horseradish Roots—$6.50 per bbl.
for Missouri.

Lemons—The market is steady on
the basis of $4.25 per box for both
Messinas and Californias.

Lettuce—Hot house leaf, 14c
tb.; head (Southern stock), $2
hamper.

Onions—Home grown, 75c per bu.;
Spanish are in fair demand at $1.59
per crate.

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

Potatoes—The market is steady on
the basis of 24@z25c at the principal
buying points in Northern Michigan.

Poultry—Paying prices are as fol-
lows: Fowls, to@1tc for live and
12@13c for dressed; springs, 11@12¢
for live and 13@14c for dressed:
ducks, 9@toc 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@
oc for good white kidney.

Jerseys and

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Battle Creek Travelers Open Charity
Quarters.

“Charity Headquarters” is a name
displayed over a store in the Ward
building where the traveling men are
receiving gifts and donations for the
city’s poor, sick and needy. Arrange-
ments have been made with the city
delivery line to deliver all packages
at their destination. A considerable
list, larger than at first anticipated,
has been gathered of families which
are in need of help.

 

 

The traveling men will donate
shoes, stockings, potatoes, coal, etc.,
to such sufferers and the public is
asked to co-operate. Heads of de-
partments in stores are requested to
collect a fund, such as the clerks can
afford to give, to help in the cause.
A committee from the traveling men
will call on the stores and various
places of business Saturday to receive
their offering.

The movement has gained in pop-
ularity already. The plan to have
the city delivery line make the de-
liveries is accepted as exceptionally
good, as the neighbors will never
know, when one of those wagons calls,
whether it is charity that is being ex-
tended or the result of a purchase.
The Committee sticks to the original
intention that no names shall be men-
tioned in connection with the move-
ment.—Battle Creek Journal.

——_~+~-<.____

The feature of the week has been
the failure of the Levinson Depart-
ment Store at Petoskey. On Jan. 6
Mr. Levinson uttered a trust mort-
gage to P. B. Wachtel, the Petoskey
attorney, but the document was
drawn that the creditors could not
take any action under it for a period
of six months. In the meantime the
creditors had become alarmed through
the action of Levinson in not paying
any merchandise accounts and had in-
structed Hon. Peter Doran to put the
business into bankruptcy, which he
did, securing the appointment of Ed-
ward E. Gilbert as trustee. Under
the direction of Mr. Gilbert a careful
appraisement of the assets is being
made. Less than a year ago Levinson
filed a report with the Secretary of
State, showing an indebtedness of
only $500 and assets of $25,000. Con-
ditions have evidently changed some-
what since then, because he owes
about $37,000, with about $15,000 ac-
tual assets. The creditors number
233. Among them are Marshall Field
& Co. for about $4,000 and Hart,
Schafer & Marks for about the same.
Levinson made no payments to his
merchandise creditors to speak of
after December 1. He did, however,
pay several notes at one of the banks
in Petoskey, which were endorsed by
a relative.

—_>--.___

A. B. Wootan, the Bellaire drug-
gist, is in town for a day or two, ac-
companied by his bride, Mrs. Frank

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Willett, of Vermontville. Mr. Woo-
tan is receiving many congratula-
tions—all of which are richly de-
served.

——_-- >

A new company has been organized
under the style of the Michigan Pipe
Covering Co., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $10,000, of which $5,100
has been subscribed, $1,100 being paid
in in cash and $2,500 in property.

—__+-.___

The Sands-Heydon Lumber Co.
has been incorporated, with an au-
thorized capitalization of $100,000, of
which $50,000 has been subscribed and
£10,000 paid in in cash.

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Some men come near proving the
devil when they argue on their god.

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He can never know men who will

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THE THRIFTY SWISS.

 

They Have the Most Beautiful Scen-
ery in Europe.

Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 27—The
small country lying in the center of
Europe known as Switzerland is com-
posed almost entirely of rugged and
precipitous mountains piled together
in wild and grand confusion.

Only for two exceptions, the val-
ley along the Rhine and the district
in which Lake Maggiore lies, one
could not say this little country had
any lowland whatever. It is _practi-
cally the reverse of its small neigh-
bor, Holland, with her low flat coun-
try, in being nearly all high and
mountainous.

As is well known, the famous Alps
are the mountains which are celebrat-
ed for having the highest peaks of
Europe, those of Jungfrau and a
neighbor (an unpronounceable name)
reaching a height of over two and a
half miles above the sea level, while
Mont Blanc towers three miles high
nearby. Known by different names,
as Jura Hills, Western, Middle and
Eastern Alps, Pennine, Lepontine and
Rhetian ranges, they are all the same
Alpen range.

These form various districts for
the shedding of the water from their
tops and sides and the most important
of these is the famous St. Gothard,
in whose glaciers the Rhine, Rhone
and the Ticius have their origin.

Many other smaller ones empty in-
to and form the many lakes of which
this country is justly proud, such as
Constance, Geneva,. Lucerne, Zurich,
Brienzer and Thuner Seas. Many of
these have sufficient size to support
considerable traffic on their waters,
and of these mentioned all have a line
of passenger boats doing a profitable
business, running in connection with
the railways in most instances.

There are a little under 3,500,000
inhabitants and they are distributed
over twenty-two cantons, or small
states, into which this country is di-
vided. Its chief cities, from a com-
mercial standpoint as well as popula-
tion, are Zurich, 175,000; Basel, 130,-
000, and Geneva, slightly over 100,-
ooo. The latter two are noted as the
largest manufacturing towns, the
former being noted for its silk and
ribbon factories, while the latter has
watchmaking as its chief industry,
with the manufacture of jewelry of
no small importance. There are but
twenty-one towns of over 10,000 in-
habitants in the whole of Switzer-
land, strictly speaking. However, if
one were to be here during the sum-
mer season they would have to raise
the estimate considerably for the lake
and mountain resort towns are then
quadrupled in size.

Its mountains yield neither miner-
als, coal nor even a fair quality of
building stone. Its iron, cotton and
raw materials generally are import-
ed. as is its furnace coal, which is
selling at $12 per ton at the present
time for the quality burned in the
homes.

The Swiss are an educated and
wide-awake people. Every male must
not only serve in the army of de-
dense, under regulations, however,
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neighboring monarchies, but before
doing so must pass a thorough edu-
cational test, failure being punished.
This people have not only developed
every natural resource, but, importing
raw materials have transformed a
grazing and limited fruit region in-
to a manufacturing proposition. Its
high standard of citizenship, applied
to industrial and commercial  pur-
suits, has not only developed a ne-
cessity for all the better things of
life but created a discriminating
knowledge of the best and cheapest
methods to obtain them.

Swiss shops, even in the smaller
towns, are filled with the best prod-
ucts of the world, the best and the
latest from every country; but the
American or any other manufacturer
must not presume too much on this
point, for while the Swiss merchant
wants the latest he much prefers to
help his brother countryman sell an
American an imitated article, and in
this they are said to be very clever
in copying American styles and nov-
elties. The manufacture of shoes and
furniture, we learned, suffers the most
in this regard,

Switzerland possesses an excellent
railway system, it forming a veritable
network in this small country. In the
building of railways wonderful en-
gineering feats have been accom-
plished, such as the cutting of the
tunnel of St. Gothard and the Sim-
plon, affording a quick mode of trans-
portation from Northern Europe to
Italy, the former from the eastern
parts, while the latter affords quick
passage from western parts. A tun-
rel now in process of construction
through the Centra] Alpen range,
leaving the main line of travel at
Spiez, a town on the southern side of
Thuner Sea, and using an already
constructed road part of the way,
will shorten the distance for travel
through the central part of Europe
by several hours and will be ready
for use in another year, it is thought.
It will be the longest tunnel in the
world, being about fourteen miles in
length. The Simplon, with its thir-
teen mile hole through the Alps, holds
this honor at the present time.

With the nine mile St. Gothard and
the four mile Albula, together with
many others of smaller length, this
country holds the prize for expensive
railway construction.

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much that has made history, and the
names of some great men are closely
identified with it, either in that their
birth occurred here or that some por-
tion of their life was here spent. The
name of Voltaire is closely associat-
ed here and a fine statue of him has
been erected at Ferney, a place that
will be forever associated with his
name, for in reality he founded the
town. He bought the land in 17509,
got together some colonists, set up
some manufactories and built a hall.
This has been modified on several oc-
casions, but it still contains some in-
teresting portraits and

this patriarch of Ferney.

souvenirs of

Here also John Calvin lived for
OVer aquarter of a century, who
was famous in the Reformation move-
ment. The doctrine of the Reforma-
tion, which first preached by
Farel, found a zealous champion in

was

this grand man, who was born at
Noyon, Picardy, France, but moved
to Geneva in middle life, that he

might be in a better position to use
his powerful influence, which he soon
acquired after the cause
and which soon extended over the
whole of Europe. He organized not
only the Reformed church but also
the State; developed public instruc-
tion, already in a flourishing condi-
tion; founded the Academy at Gene-
va, to which place he moved in 1536
and remained until] his death occurred
in 1564. A street (Rue de Calvin) is
named after him and on the site of his
old home there has been a memorial
stone set in the building.

espousing

Switzerland gave to the world the
famous engineer, Charles Favoe, who
devoted his life and all the wonder-
ful resources of his genius to one
of the most gigantic enterprises ever
uudertaken by man—that of boring
through the Alps in the successful
construction of the St. Gothard tun-
nel.

She also gave Jean Jacques Rous-
seau, the great author and_ philoso-
pher, who was born in Geneva.

Then, to crown all, from the stand-
point of the Swiss, is the immortal
Vell. <A large and beautiful monu-
ment has been erected at Altdorf
which shows this half mythical per-
son with his bow slung across his
shoulder, his right hand holding the
bow, while the left rests upon the
shoulder of his son, who stands by
his. side.

During the summer season at a
theater close by there is put upon
the stage a play. representing Tell
shooting the apple from the head of
his son.

Although this little country has
considerable of a handicap, yet she
has much of which to boast. She has
done well in the gift of eminent men;
has overcome many obstacles in or-
der to place herself on a par with
surrounding nations in a commercial
sense: excels all in several manufac-
tures, notable of which are  watch-
making and chocolate. We not alone
admire her for the pluck and energy
cisplayed but for her natural beauty
and the grandeur of her scenery.

If we were asked what country was
found to be the most wonderful to
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present time we should have to an-
swer Switzerland and add that the
mountains make it so.

A trip from the center of the coun-
try, either in an eastern, western or
southern direction, will make one en-
raptured with the grand beauty,
thrilled at the great heights of the
mountain peaks and astounded at the
marvelous engineering skill display-
ed in overcoming obstacles that lay
before the builders of the railways
to make possible the coming of the
iron horse.

Particularly is this true of the trip
from Lucerne to Interlaken, a dis-
tance of but fifty miles, yet taking
five hours to complete. Mountain
sides are so very steep that the
regularly constructed track or engine
will not suffice and a cog wheel ar-
rangement running midway between
the rails is used. This makes it pos-
sible for the powerful little engine,
with a load of four cars, to climb the
steep incline (sometimes close to 50
per cent.), but, as one would under-
stand, at a slow speed.

About the middle of this trip a

point is reached where it would seem
as though it would have been better

 

to have bored a tunnel. The rock has
been cut away and bridges construct-
ed over chasms to make possible the
laying of the track along the side of
the mountain, which towers so high
and precipitously, in many places
being hung overhead with massive
rocks on one side, while on the other
lies a deep gorge, the looking down
into which makes one shudder to
think what might happen if anything
should go wrong with the train.
Equally thrilling is the trip through
the Engadine Valley. which lies in
Eastern Switzerland, where steep as-
cents have to be made, high bridges
crossed and winding paths traversed
in order to reach the end of this
line, St. Moritz. It is on this run
that the Albula tunnel is pierced and
on these mountain sides can be seen
the strange spectacle of looking up
and seeing the track over which you
have just passed, making the railway,

as will be seen, a veritable corkscrew
in appearance.
In our next letter we shall treat

this country from a commercial stand-
point. Chas. M. Smith.

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AN APPETITE FOR NASTINESS.

There is something rotten not in
Denmark this time but in England.
A storm of indignant protest
been aroused in the English press by
the recent publication of certain fic-
tion and of personal recollections of
Lady Somebody, and outraged public
opinion has concluded that it will
have no more of it. Such publica-
tions are demoralizing and any agen-
cy that tends to the circulation of
such literature should be held strict-
ly to account for such misdemean-
or. There the circulating libraries are
looked upon as so many centers from
which are radiating the debasing in-
fluences and the management of these
centers have felt called upon to an-
nounce that they will not place in
circulation any book which, by rea-
son of the personally scandalous, li-
belous, immoral, or otherwise dis-
agreeable nature of its contents, is in
their opinion likely tu prove offensive
to any considerable section of their
subscribers; whereat a writer, high
on the list of authorship, considers
any restraint of the press in regard to
these publications as “unheard-of ty-
ranny,” involving “a serious danger
to literary liberty.”

Taking it for granted that such lit-
erature appeals “solely to the appe-
tite for nastiness,” as one English
periodical states it, the question
comes promptly to the surface, wheth-
er, if this restraint of the press is an
“unheard-of tyranny,” involving “a se-
rious danger to literary liberty,” it
would not be a good plan to exercise
such “unheard-of tyranny,” and
if literary liberty suffers thereby so
much the better for that kind of liber-
ty and a hundred-fold better for the
community and for the country es-
pecially whose sense of decency has
been outraged in order that “the ap-
petite for nastiness” may be continu-
ally appealed to. There is no doubt
that the liberty of the press is sacred
and should be kept invidlate, but
when that liberty has been abused the
abuse must be taken care of and the
author of it should be given distinctly
to understand that liberty is liberty
only when its exercise does not in-
terfere with the righteous happiness
of another. When, then, literary lib-

has

erty exercises its sacred right in ap-
pealing solely to the public appetite
for nastiness it remains to be seen
whether the English people will tol-
erate such liberty to any great extent.
It is an abuse of power, and history
in more instances than one has re-
corded what such abuse always
amounts to.

It is much to be feared that this
appeal to nastiness is not limited to
England and the English. There are
manifestations which indicate in no
uncertain way that this same appeal
to this same condition is made on this
side of the stormy Atlantic. Instanc-
es are plenty as blackberries and here
is one of them: A certain lady, let us
say of this city, on the approach of
the Christmas holidays ordered from
a book store, among other intended
presents, half a dozen volumes of fic-
tion. Desirous of knowing what she
was giving she read the stories and
sent substitutes. As she described
them these novels are filthy as well as
irane and yet they are the products of
what are called popular writers—good
sellers, anyway, which means, if it
means anything, that nastiness is
abroad in the United States of Amer-
ica and that the mighty and sacred
power of the press is appealing to
that nastiness.

The English public fixes the blame
upon the libraries with the intention,
it seems, of holding the management
of the libraries responsible. It is
doubtful if the intention amounts to
anything. We took the theaters to
task as so many pest-centers of ap-
peal to the depraved appetite. Certain
plays were suppressed and_ public
opinion approved the _ suppression.
Tongue and pen and printing press
did each its best to .purify these
plague spots, the muck-rake was re-
sorted to as a cleansing agent and the
moral atmosphere was apparently
rendered fit for breathing; but does
not personal experience tell us that
for all this cleansing it is a pretty
risky business to take to the play al-
most anywhere a lady who does not
want to be appealed to by this appe-
tite for nastiness?

The fact of the case is the human
system, irrespective of nationality, is
morally out of order. The tongue,
upon examination, shows the disor-
der to be general. A bad condition
of the blood prevails. The vitality is
low and—the phrase is a common
one—we “are all run down.” A cathar-
tic is needed. The moral condition
of the country as a whole is calling
earnestly for copious doses of sul-
phur and molasses, an old time medi-
cine of the New England farmhouse
and taken with extreme reluctance,
but a medicine that did its work well
by a thorough accomplishment of its
purpose. That done, the individual
was better, the community was better
and, so purified and uplifted, the
world at large was better and furnish-
ed better instances of its uplifted life.

Let us hear the conclusion of the
whole matter: the individual of the
whole mass must attend to its own
restoration and, that done, the appeal
of book or theater or any other agent
of evil to the appetite of nastiness

 

will fail of its purpose because the

system is in a condition too healthy
to be harmed by it.

DIRECTLY ANSWERED.

Great anxiety is again expressed in
regard to whisky.
after years of use and earnest enquiry
no one knows what it is and, there-
fore, can not tell what it is. Chemi-
cally speaking, it is made up of car-
bon, hydrogen and oxygen and used
to be distilled from grain, potatoes
and malted barley. Recent
have disclosed the fact that modern
methods have been devised, .so that
a compound “just as good” has been
secured and that this “just as good”
concoction has all the qualities of the
original article and is sure to pro-
duce the same results.

First, then, whisky is a poison. It
is not considered so violent as prus-
sic acid, for example, but in the long
run it is as sure to get its victim
to the graveyard. Persistency, its
only quality to be commended, the
centuries have exemplified since time
began.
without fear or favor, but its most
appalling destruction is among the
young. Having once found its way
into a community its work at once
begins.

 

long before the world is aware of it
it has gained its victims, who are
rarely given up. Attacking the phy-
sical first, it is soon found that it is
the whole human being that is as-
sailed. It weakens the will; it de-
stroys the self-respect; it paralyzes
every noble impulse and finally, when
it has done its worst, the dust re-
turns to dust, “unwept, unhonored
and unsung.”

It is an incentive to mischief of
every character and degree. Crime
finds in it a ready and willing pan-
cerer and depends upon it for both
intrigue and execution. Is society to
he shocked by a revolting murder?
“But screw your courage to the stick-
ing point and we'll not fail,” and
whisky is largely depended on to ac-
complish that purpose. Trace to its
source the villainy of passion for a
single year and the path followed will
lead straight to the whisky still, The
terror of lynching and the horror of
the lamppost were unable to accom-
plish what prohibition has already
brought about, and the South by sup-
pressing the whisky traffic is ex-
periencing a relief she has not én-
joyed in years.

There is little need of going on
with this. It is an old, old story, told
always with tears and sorrow. From
beginning to end it is a record of the
wreckage of human life, limited to
neither clime, age nor, pitiful to say,
to sex. It is a despoiler of homes: it
is a mischiefmaker, morally, mental-
ly and physically. In a word, it is
a liquid death, a something to be
labeled with skull and crossbones, if
it is to be kept at all, to be neither
touched, tasted nor tolerated, with no
more idea of its ever being a benefit
than its history shows, and it has

never been anything but a curse. That
is whisky, and neither the President,
the Pure Food Commission nor the
distiller will find it to be anything
else, if they puzzle over it from now

 

until doomsday.

It is found that |

Like any pestilence it kills |

Silently as the thief in the |
night it sets its entangling nets and |

AN UTTER ABSURDITY.
Among the many resolutions of the
year the one most needed and least
thought of is the baneful habit of
worrying. In season and out of sea-
son once it has the upper hand it nev-
er gives up. Morning, noon and
night and between times it comes to
us and stays with us and always at-
tended with that ominous “if” which
never seems to see the bright side of

janything, which denies even the idea
years |

of a silver lining to the cloud, and
asserts with a great deal of insis-
cency that if there be sunshine on
the other side of the clouds, so lonz
28 we are not getting any of it there
is no particular benefit in having it
there. In the fret and friction that
make up the daily round of business,
when everything goes wrong and
one annoyance steps on the heels of
another, there may be something of
lan excuse for the impatience that
finds expression; but when the day
is done and rest and_ recuperation
come in to repair, when the office
‘door is locked and “the cares that
infest the day” ought to betake to
themselves wings and fly away, closer
than a brother the worrying clings
and the day’s torments still go on.

Nobody knows why. The victim of
the worry has done his best, and yet
the overshadowing “if” envelops
him. It spoils his dinner; it casts a
gloom over the pleasures of the even-
ing; he takes it with him to bed and
sleep, frightened, leaves the worry
the master of the situation. © from
day to day the worry goes on until,
the cause of it over, sunshine does
break through, and then the exasper-
ating fact appears that there was no
reason for the slightest worry any-
way!

The utter absurdity of the whole
business was well illustrated the oth-
er day when Williamson, having re-
ported that Johnston was in the
dumps and having been asked the
cause of it, replied, “He’s worrying
about what would happen if his moth-
er-in-law shouldn’t get into the kind-
dom of heaven.” “Mother-in-law?
Johnston isn’t married,” was the re-
ply. “That’s just it; he isn’t, but he
is worrying about it just the same!”

What is to be done about it? The
best answer so far given is this: If
the cause of the worry can be remov-
ed, remove it; if not, all the worry-
ing in the world will never make any
difference. Then stop it; for your
own sake first, because you are the
principal sufferer and, second, for the
sake of everybody in your immediate
neighborhood; for of all the needless
tinhappiness which has so far cursed
the world worrying can -easily be
ranked first. Based upon a fancied
fear, it foretells and foreshadows
only the most gloomy anticipations
and when the worst comes to the
worst the result is as senseless as any
other fabrication of an unbalanced
brain. There has been many a man
who has worried himself into his
grave and there are men now won-
dering what will happen “if,” who if
they would cease their wondering and
put a stop to the death-dealing worry
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Only Way Civic Betterment Can Be
Accomplished.*

Has it ever occurred to you, my
friends, that we are, all of us, too
much in the habit of apologizing firsi
and regretting afterward, like the
careless chap who, picking up a
double barreled shotgun, points it at
and fills his friend full of buckshot or
blows the top of his head off?

“Excuse me!” we cry and then we
assert, tearfully and full of horror,
that we “didn’t know it was loaded.”

It is our business to “know that it
is loaded;” that every proposition is
loaded from the time we begin plow-
ing our winter way through the snow
en the section line road to the dis-
trict school house until, followed by
our weeping kinsfolk and friends,
take our last mysterious ride
eternity.

we
into

And the singularly unknown oddity
about this fact is that every one of
us helps continuously in ramming
each load home for the other fellow.
No matter how trifling and insignifi-
cant may be any act of any individual,
that act, whether great or little, con
tributes to the load that is being pui
into the universal shotgun for others.

For this reason was it that Mat-
thew, ex-publican tax collector
and the author of the first Gospel of
the New Testament, could not, had
he wished to omit from his
record that greatest utterance of all—
the Golden Rule—the root and foun-
dation, the concentrated lesson,
sence and entity of the wondrous Ser-
mon on the Mount.

OT

do ‘so,

es-

For that reason, also, it is the duty
of every individual to keep himself
informed to the very best of his
ability and in accord with his sur-
roundings as to what are the condi-
tions in his neighborhood, his town,
his State and his Nation, so that he
may, so far as possible within his re-
sources and power, know just what is
going on; just how his actions may
affect others and just how that which
others may be doing may influence
him and his interests.

There is no normal man nor woman
living who does not know instinc-
tively when he violates the spirit and
text of the Golden Rule, and all such
do not need to be told that I am not
now advocating the practices of eaves-
dropping, thoughtless gossiping or
cruel slander.

And all such persons, comprehend-
ing in its completeness the spirit and
purpose of the Golden Rule, know
that it prohibits selfishness, jealousy,
avarice, laziness and every other sort
of pretense.

Two weeks from to-day — on
Wednesday, Jan. 19—in the Belasco
Theater, Washington, D. C., will be
held the last session of a three day
conference under the auspices of the
National Civic Federation. There will
be about 600 delegates at this con-
ference, coming from all parts of the
United States, and representing what?

Those delegates will represent the
National Grange, the Farmers’ Na-
tional Congress, the National Asso-

* Address delivered by E. A. Stowe at annual
banquet of the Freeport Business Men’s Asso-
ciation.

 

ciation of State Boards of Arbitra-
tion, the National Association of Life
Insurance Companies’ Presidents and
other similar National organizations.

What is the National Civic Federa-
tion under whose auspices this con-
ference is being held?

It is an association of men and
women representing voluntary, en-
thusiastic, thoroughly sincere and

splendidly intellectual bodies all over
the land—in all large cities and most
of the smaller ones—which are en-
gaged in co-ordinate educational work
to the end that our Nation may, as a
Nation, attain a more _ intelligent,
widespread and effective condition of
civic righteousness.

Why is the conference to be held?

Primarily it is to secure for our
country more uniform legislation in
the various states, or, in other words,
to secure more genetal, more gener-
ous, more righteous co-operation be-
tween the legislatures of the different
states in behalf of the general wel-
fare.

“Oh, it’s easy enough for you to go
on preaching,’ I think I hear some-
one say in an undertone and I agree
with the declaration so that someone
else thereupon asks, “Why are you
filling us full of facts which do not
interest us?”

That is just the point. The com-
ing conference at Washington is load-
ed, loaded for you and for every oth-
er community, and I want you to real-
ize that fact.

Once upon a time a young man was
gaining his first experience as asales-
man in a general store down in Ala-
bama and shortly after dinner, while
the proprietor of the store was busy
at his desk, the young man was re-
quired to wait upon a lady, who made
known her wants, at which the clerk
replied that he was sorry, but that
they did not have the article in stock.

The lady thanked him and passed out |
into the street.
put in the em-|

“See here, my boy,”

ployer pleasantly, “if you expect to|
become a successful salesman you}
must remember always, when you|

have an enquiry for some article you |
do not have, that it is frequently pos- |
sible to sell a substitute—something |
that will answer the enquirer’s pur- |
pose quite as well.”

The clerk absorbed the advice and |
did not forget it—vou see he saw the|
force of the instruction he had re-|
ceived. |

A day or two later a fat, rollicking, |
big-eyed negro mammy entered the |
store, the broad good-natured smile |
en her face showing that she had an|

ing confidentially over the counter— |

ed to the clerk:
face powder for sale
In a judiciously
said: “I’m sure sorry, Auntie,
haven't got it, but we have some ex-
cellent Seidlitz powder and _ insect
powder that can’t be beat.”
The explosion which
showed the clerk the
that the advice given as to salesman-

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and merchant

 

 

 

   

 

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The Crescent Mfg. Co.,
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low tone the clerk |

that the boss back at the desk might |
not know her mission—she whisper- |
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“MORGAN”

Trade Mark. Registered.

Sweet Juice Hard Cider
Boiled Cider and Vinegar

See Grocery Price Current

John C. Morgan Co.
Traverse City, Mich.

 

 

 

 

  

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unusual errand on her mind, and lean- | Mail orders to W. F. McLAUGHLIN & CO, Chicago

 

 

   
  
   

Sawyer’ S eee.
CRYSTAL

a Blue.

2 For the

DOUBLE

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Sold in
Sifting Top
Boxes.

hi

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I} tal Blue gives a
| beautiful tint and
|| restores the color
|| to linen, laces and
goods that are
worn and faded.

; It goes twice
Y as far as other
Blues.

Siete Crystal Blue Co.

88 Broad Street,

 

BOSTON - -MASS.

 

 

 

USTOMER

asks for

HAND SAPOLIO

and you can not supply it, will he
not consider you behind the times?

HAND SAPOLIO is a special toilet soap—superior to any other in countless ways—delicate
enough for the baby’s skin, and capable of removing any stain.
Costs the dealer the same as regular SAPOLIO, but should be sold at 10 cents per cake.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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January 12, 1910

 

Be we
ship and the manner in which the
advice was received were both “load-
ed.” The merchant had not been suf-
ficiently explicit and the clerk did not
have his wits working.

There is no time nowadays when
any person can afford to be indiffer-
ent as to what is going on in all di-
rections; no time when one can af-
ford to be lazy; no time when, with
our schools, the daily and weekly
newspapers, the rurai free delivery,
the steam and interurban railways
and the multitude of aids afforded
by gas, electricity and steam, that one
can decently plead ignorance.

Again, I say, it is our business to
know that it was “loaded” and par-
ticularly that such a co-operative event
as the one down at Washington two
weeks hence is loaded with matters
of deep interest to every man and
woman in the United States.

It is our business to assume that
every concerted effort of the Grange,
the Farmers’ Alliance, the Merchants’
Association, the Board of Trade, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Civic As-
sociation, the Anti-Tuberculosis As-
sociation and of all other organiza-
tions having the betterment of civic
conditions as their purpose is of in-
terest to ourselves.

Why do I make this plea?

Because of considerable experience,
study and observaticn along the
lines of co-ordinate effort in behalf
of the public welfare; because I be-
lieve most firmly in the principle and
practice of co-operation and because
I know that while here and there in
such work one will find self-seeking
pretenders, the enormous majority,
the great rank and file of such work-
ers, know no politics, creed nor par-
ty; no personal, individual interests,
no purpose nor cause except the de-
velopment of individuals and condi-
tions which shall be representative of
the best there is or can be in America.

Not so very long ago in one of the
smaller cities in Michigan a very able,
sincere and enthusiastic lady, full of
a desire to help her local civic or-
ganization, which just then needed the
influence and efforts of every citizen
having resources mental, social and
financial, met an old and esteemed
friend on the street, a gentleman who
owns and successfully conducts a
large farm just outside the city’s lim-
its, besides operating, very profitably,
the largest store in the city.

And she urged him to join in the
work of the Public Welfare Associa-
tion. “We need your help _ tremen-
dously,” she declared.

“No, you don’t,” replied the farmer
merchant with a smile, “I am not in
the swim. You want somebody that’s
in the swim.”

“What swim?” asked the lady with
just a show of impatience.

“Oh, you want somebody that’s in
society, somebody that can put on
style and get up and talk and get his
name in the papers and—”

“Will you please stop right there,”
interrupted the lady, and she contin-
ued: “Your remarks show that you
are just exactly the chap we need.
We want you that we may’ disabuse
your mind of the silly ideas you have
expressed. We want you so that you

can learn something of the value of
co-operative community work.”

“There you go,” said the man, testi-
ly, “with your co-operative twaddle.
ve heard about that stuff until it
makes me tired. What do you mean
by co-operation anyway?”

“It means, Mr. . was the
woman's answer, “the living up to the
Golden Rule so far as possible; it
means the bestowal of time, ability
and money within the limits of a per-
son’s resources in behalf of the pub-
lic welfare and with no thought of
direct or tangible return therefor. It
means good citizenship.”

 

The stubborn farmer merchant saw
that the lady, although very calm and
self-possessed, was irritated and re-
sponded, “Well, I won’t join now, but
I'll think it over. Good afternoon,”
and lifting his hat he went his way.

Hardly had the lady taken six steps
when she was hailed with, “Pardon
me, Mrs. — , but I s’pose William
(the lady’s husband) will be on hand
to-morrow with his team.”

It seems that there had been a
break in the banks of a neighboring
stream caused by an ice jam and high
water, the result of which was the
flooding of about forty acres of bot-
tom lands owned by the speaker and
the washing out of about 800 feet of
highway, and a public “bee” had been
arranged for the following day to re-
pair the break. And so when the lady
responded: “Yes, Will and our hired
man with both teams are going. You
see Will believes in co-operation,” the
man replied, “That’s good,’ and with
a “flea in his ear” resumed his jour-
ney thoughtfully.

And, moreover, two days after this
incident, the bigoted old man joined
the local Association.

Don’t you see clearly that this gen-
tleman did not know, when he turnéd
to make his enquiry, that “it was
loaded?”

Education along the lines of civic
righteousness is not nearly so ponder-
ous and difficult a matter as is as-
sumed, seemingly because of the
four-syllabled words in the sentence.
It is entirely within the reach of any
man who is able to differentiate as
to right and wrong; who is able to
read and comprehend the Golden
Rule. There’s no trouble about it ex-
cept the tremendous difficulty of erad-
icating individual characteristics
which we know full well are harmful
to ourselves.

And every man and woman in such
an effort constitutes an important fac-
tor in the welfare of our Nation be-
cause every act performed by Con-
gress at Washington or by our Leg-
islature at Lansing has a National
aspect and must be judged from that
standard, whether it affects you di-
rectly or otherwise, so it must be
judged by each individual who hopes
to reach really good citizenship, So
it is or will be as to the proceedings
of the convention in Washington two
weeks hence, or the proceedings of
any other National convention.

Get cut of the rut of seeing things
small. Look widely and far that you
may reach a fair estimate as to your
own value as an American citizen. In

 

 

that way only will you be able to see

 

things at home fairly and act right-
eously.

Edward A. Ross, Professor of So-
ciology in the University of Wiscon-
sin, has invented a new phrase and
a catching one—“Sinning by Syndi-
cate.”

The prime or original definition of
the word “syndicate” is a body of
syndics or judges appointed and with
authority to hear and weigh | testi-
mony and render decisions thereon.
But this is not the sense in which
Prof. Ross exercised his ingenuity—
his reference being to great associa-
tions of industrial, traction and finan-
cial interests.

The phrase holds good in its orig-
inal meaning, however, as applying
to those self-appointed, self-seeking
masses who, indifferent to local prog-
ress and so careless as to our Na-
tional development, are given to sat-
ire, misrepresentation and opposition
te co-operation in behalf of the gen-
eral good. As an entity this body is
guilty of sinning by syndicate.

Beyond any question whatever
there is in evidence all over the world
the presence of a great moral awaken-
ing—in China and Russia as well as
in Europe and the United States; in
Freeport, Hastings and Grand Rapids
as well as in New York, Chicago and
St. Louis. The size or location of
the community has but little bearing
on the fact. New standards of char-
acter are being accepted; higher and
better motives and purposes are in
operation and more exalted, more
permanent results are to follow.

You may have gathered from what
3 have said that I am an optimist. I
am that through and through. This
gcod old world is a better one than
it was twenty-five years ago and it
will be still better twenty-five years
hence. Individuals are better educat-
ed to-day than ever before in the his-
tory of education and individual esti-
mates and judgments are better to-
day than ever before since men and
women began to think and reason,

Recently it happened that I was
called to a little four-corners settle-
ment in Michigan and was surprised
by the presence of good roads ex-
tending into the countryside as
far as I could see, north, east, south
and west; by the presence in front of
the thirty or forty homes around the
corners of neat concrete walks and
borseblocks; that every barnyard and
backyard was neat and clean, while
the lawns were as beautiful and rest-
ful as could possibly be imagined.
“How does it happen,” I asked the
merchant I was visiting, “that so
small a place is so well groomed and
attractive?”

“Well, it’s funny,” he replied, “but
a couple of years ago four ladies, old
friends and mothers of families, be-
gan systematically to slick up things
around their respective homes. As
each lady lived on different arms of
the two streets and as their work was
coincident with the building of our
four miles of good roads, their initia-
tive invited and inspired imitation. At
first we had four rivals as to results,
but presently the entire settlement,
taking sides and working hard, got to-
gether and worked as one body. And

 

now even the children are watching
things and working willingly and
cheerfully.”

That is the one prime secret of
good community work. Get together.
Forget that you are an _ individual
when community interests are at
stake. Get together and work for
your town as if its conveniences, its
beauty, its prosperity and its growth
depended chiefly upon yourself,

My own city has during the past
three years and through the efforts
of its Board of Trade made splendid
progress in the direction of educa-
tion and the creation of public opin-
ion in behalf of civic improvement.
There are hundreds of our citizens
sincerely interested and well inform.
ed upon matters of sociological value
and working hard in that direction to-
day who four or five years ago and
because they had given the problem
no thought sneered at the idea of co-
operative effort toward such results.

And Grand Rapids has but barely
made a beginning. Years of continu-
ous effort will be necessary to achieve
the beautiful ends that are aimed at.
Meanwhile, and you must not lose
sight of this fact, the holding of civic
revivals, the presentation of truths as
to what other cities and towns are do-
ing, the enlightenment of our citi-
zens, the broadening and refinement
of their views as to the essentials for
good citizenship, the influence of sucit
work upon adjacent cities and_ vil-
lages and the widespread publicity
given to our city and her interests em
body an ample reward for every dol-
lar spent and every effort put forth.

Proportionately as to population—
for wealth counts for less than charac-
ter and individual souls in such a
case—it is possible for the men and
women of Freeport to register a like
achievement.

Get together as one individual and
work for your town and your triumph
is assured.

—_——_22 oa
A Pink Tea Swindle.

It was prohibition country. As
soon as the train pulled up a seedy
little man with a covered basket on
his arm hurried to the open windows
of the smoker and exhibited a quart
bottle filled with rich, dark liquid.

“Want to buy some nice cold tea?”
he asked, with just the suspicion of a
wink.

Two very thirsty-looking cattlemen
brightened visibly, and each paid a
dollar for a bottle,

“Wait until you get outer the sta-
tion before you take a drink,” the
little man cautioned them. “I don’t
wanter get in trouble.”

He found three other customers
before the train pulled out, in each
case repeating the warning.

“You seem to be doing a_ pretty
good business,” remarked a man who
had watched it all. “But I don’t sez
why you'd run any more risk of get-
ting in trouble if they took a drink
before the train started.”

“Ye don’t, hey? Well, what them
bottles had in ’em, pardner, was real
cold tea.”

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A Gain of 31,587 Barrels

We sold 31,587 more barrels of flour the last six months than we did the

 

same six months last year.
This gain is equal to the entire year’s output of a 100 barrel mill.
[t makes 157 carloads of 200 barrels each.
It takes about 145,000 bushels of wheat to make it.
It required over 9,000 acres of land to raise the wheat.

This constant gain in sales shows the great and steadily increasing

popularity of

 

‘“‘The Flour the Best Cooks Use’’

Remember, we sold this much more flour than for the same period last

 

year and last year showed a gain over the previous year of 13,538 barrels.

Our total sales were over I-wo Million Dollars last year.

 

Our city sales for December show a gain of more than twenty per cent.

over last December.

Won't you be one of ‘‘the best cooks” and help us make it larger next

month?

 

Every sack of the genuine Lily White Flour is sewed.

Valley City Milling Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

This is a reproduction of one of the advertisements appearing in the daily papers, all of which help the retailer to sell Lily White Flour.

 

 

January 12, 1910

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

country. He
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store connected with all the main

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REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.

 

 

 

Columbia Batteries, Spark Plugs
Gias Engine Accessories and
Electrical Toys

 

BUICKS LEAD

CARS $1.000 AND UP

John W. Modders, General Dealer at
Moddersville.

Iter in a fine farming
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; rom € fYailroad at Falmouth an Louis and Ottawa Sts. rand Rap .
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lingen, in the Province of Vriesland, |>. : : :
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a Ee ane > oe One Of seven. vicinity covered with hardwood tim- Grand Rapids Supply Co.
teen children born to Wynand Mod- ber, which is now being cut off by Jobbers ~<
ders and Dora, his wife. sawmills, of which John Snitseler, of Mill, Steam, Well and Plumbing
His grandparents were Huguenot/Grand Rapids, owns some of the Supplies <<
French, who fled to the Netherlands best, and Mr. Modders is looking aft- Catstne tht a 48-50-52-54-56-58-60-62 Ellsworth Ave. _%
during the persecution of the Chris-|¢" his interests there.
tians. His parents came to Grand : i
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to school on Wealthy avenue for a This ae eo pee o pecan Best Equipped —-
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sii os sae hep oe aie A oe those who will look here and there Air Cooled, Light Weight Easy Riding Iron Pipe . Fe
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as to just what they want, but as a Electrical and Gas Fixtures =
general proposition it is safe to say Galvanized Iron Work 2b
‘that when we don’t sell there is
something wrong. The Weatherly Co. -
In such cases do you stop to 18 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich.
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dise that is given you to sell? Motor cars for 1909 covers no less harness. ee —— or? - eS
Remember whatever you do, either than a score of the most important §| NCcreases horse power. Put up in
way, for or against the house, is an |f Téliability, endurance, economy andr and 3 lb. tin boxes, 10, 15 and 25 a
oe efficiency tests of the 1909 season. fib. buckets and kegs, half barrels
expression of you. List of these winnings will be mailed ab 1 ¢
How do you want yourself to | on request. an arrels. <a
sound—“fer or ferninst?” The aos a oe i a
new world's record for the Franklin; °
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ae aor ‘ ee) at Buffalo, N. Y., inthe
the delivery wagon in the grocery one gallon mileage contest, held by fl is free from gum and is anti-rust
line. the Automobile Club of Buffalo. a : ie :
He lived in’ Grand Rapids five I St oe av ator i went sg ipa iaigatd eal :
n Gran z 49 I-10 miles on one gallon of gasoline :
years, when his parents moved to the Coffee Roasters and outdid its nearest romps by ipl
place now called Moddersville. The And teach you to 50 per cent. ¢
Modders family started a postoffice Roast Your Own Coffec if : . oo ert STANDARD OIL CO.
and Uncle Sam consented to have it I can double your coffee ai ianan eee tieke, i aes GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. x
called Moddersville. They also start. “ews your profits naan Welnieas expense—look into the Franklin.
: ~ istric a 2 et prices on my roasted coffees. ]
ed a school district, where John for Sane nenannane Catalogue on request. YOUR DELAYED i
years has been and still is director. | ADAMS & HART :
Like ali good boys, he got married_-| J. T. Watkins ce eae FREIGHT Easily . hd
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1889. Later he heard that of old it Lansing. Mich. 47-49 No. Division St. how. BARLOW BROS., ]
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first wife, Miss Alice Wyma, They |H. LEONARD & SONS Sea Brilliant Gas Lamp Co. ce - -
now have six children, one girl and Wholesalers and Manufacturers’ Agents 2 Manufacturers of the famous Acorn Brass Mfg. Co.
five boys. He has been a farmer for Crockery, Glassware, China i Brilliant Gas Lamps and Climax |: a <
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The Good Roads Campaign Goes On.

Written for the Tradesman.

The Road Commissioners of Wayne
county have organized for work next
summer and many miles of highway
will be improved. State rewards
paid on Wayne county’s roads dur-
ing the past year reached a total of
$11,733. E. N. Hines, of the Wayne
Good Roads Commission, calls at-
tention to the importance of building
permanent bridges and culverts by
use of reinforced concrete.

Marquette and Dickinson counties
will build jointly two miles of high-
way connecting the two counties and
bids for the same are being received.

The Michigan Railway Commission
has decided in favor of the Wayne
County Road Commissioners in their
contention with the railroads over
demurrage bills that have accumulat-
ed in past months. Only two days of
free time were allowed by the car-
riers for unloading cars of crushed

‘stone, which, in comparison with the

three to six days allowed in unload-
ing coal, was deemed unjust.
Kalamazoo county has just asked
the State for $10,000 as reward mon-
ey on twenty miles of improved roads.
Georgia is employing some _ 4,500
prisoners in constructing permanent
roadways and marvelous progress is
being made. Carroll county, for ex-
ample, has 1,200 miles of first class
roads, 800 miles of second class and
no third The little county of
Stevens, in Southeastern Georgia, has
than 150 miles of first class
road. Counties desiring prisoners for
road work must make application to
the Prison Commission in February
and all except about twenty counties
have been using prison labor during
the past year | It is that
every county will make use of the
system in 1910. Georgia abolished its
prison lease system less than a year
ago and the working of prisoners on
with plenty of food, good

class.

more

expected

the roads,

quarters to live in, fresh air and
wholesome work, has improved the
men as well as the roads.

South Carolina is coming to the
front as a road building State. Re-

ports from twenty-four counties show
a total of 560 miles of fine sand-clay
roads built in 1900, aiso fifteen miles
of shell and three miles of macadam.
The New Jersey State Highway
Commission will recommend to. the
Legislature the building of about 800
miles of improved roads, to be paid
for by the State and placed under
its absolute control. This is in ac-
cord with the Governor’s recommen-
dation of a system of highways con-
necting all the county seats. There
are now about 1,400 miles of road
built by State aid and nearly as many
were built by the counties without
such aid. It is the plan for the State
to take over all such roads as now
cofinect the county seat towns and
treat them with a heavy dressing of
the new road metal, a mixture of
asphalt and crushed stone. The cost
cf building such improved roads 1s
from $8,000 to $10,000 per mile.
The winter course for farmers at
the State Agricultural College, Ra-
leigh, North Carolina, provides for
practical instruction in road building.
A movement is on foot to bring to-

 

gether soon all the road organizations

of this country under-the name of

the American Road Builders’ Associa-
tion. Every state will be represent-
ed and a more uniform movement for
a network of
United States

Sacramento county, Cal., will com-
plete during 1910 about 100 miles of
stone road. Oil is introduced in the
top courses, about three gallons to
the squareyard, at a cost of about
$1,200 per mile. The voids of the
rock are filled with rock screenings,
sand or some binding material which
will permit of a compact, solid body,
which holds the oil in place and pre-
vents it from percolating to the sub-
grade. Such a road will bear heavy
trafic and automobile travel without
disintegration. The cost of grading
and macadamizing these roads ranges
from $5,000 to $6,000 per mile.

Duval county, Florida, where Jack-
sonville is located, has appropriated a
million dollars for road building dur-
ing the coming year.

Kentucky is wheeling into line. The
Kentucky Good Roads Association
held a big banquet in Louisville re-
cently to celebrate the victory of the

good roads over the
will be inaugurated.

good roads amendment to the State
constitution, which provides State aid
for the counties.

The Pennsylvania State
nakes broad insinuations of graft in
connection with the operations of the
State Department of Highways and
calls for a reorganization of that de-
The Grange also wants to

Grange

partment.
know why the appropriation for town-
ship roads was cut by the Governor
when there are ten to fifteen million
dollars in the treasury.

The Pennsylvania Good Roads As-
sociation has been organized to con-
duct a campaign for bringing the 90,-
000 miles of unimproved highways in
the State up to the standard of the
4,000 miles that have been improved.

A new compound in which coal tar
oils are the main ingredient is being
used with success in Germany for al-
leying dust and improving the surface

of roads. Almond Griffen.

 

 

 

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BECAUSE

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staple.
it pays you more than an ordinary profit.
_ If you have Minute Tapioca
in stock, push it. It will pay
you. If you haven’t it, send us
your jobber’s name and we will
send you a regular package to
try in yourown home. A trial
will tell you more in a minute
than we can tell in an hour.
When sending for the package
ask for ‘‘The Story of Tapioca.’’
It’s free. We are ready to do
our part. Are you?

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Murray Building, Grand Rapids
Majestic Building, etroit

Mason Block, Muskegon | Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Leading Agency

 

 

No doubt when you installed that lighting system for your store or invested your money in
gasoline lamps for lighting your home you were told to get ‘‘The Best Gasoline.”” We have it

CHAMPION 70 TO 72 GRAVITY

Pure Pennsylvania Gasoline. Also best and cheapest for engines and automobiles. It will
correct the old fogy idea that Gasoline is Gasoline. Ask us.

Grand Rapids Oi! Company MRetfning Co. Lid., Ol City, Pa.

—. More School Desks? ——

We can fill your order now, and give you
the benefit of the lowest market prices.

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.

American Seating Company

215 Wabash Ave.

 

CHICAGO, ILL.

GRAND RAPIDS NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Deliveries

Our reputation for good

 

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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-
facturer. We will carry an enormous stock in the

white, ready for finishing.

Let us
figure
with you
for one
case
or an
outfit

Grand Rapids Show Case Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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of Stock.

The writer has run across. mer-
chants who have been in business
many years but who have never taken
am inventory. Other merchants are
content to take an inventory every two
or five years. On the other hand the
large department stores often take in-
ventory every quarter and none less
often than twice a year.

There are a number of important
reasons why a retail dealer should
take an inventory and accurately fig-
ure just how much money he has
made since the last inventory was
taken. One particularly good reason
for taking an -annual inventory, no
matter how small the stock may be,
is that in case of fire it will be an
easier matter to prove a loss and ef-
fect a settlement.

No small or how
large a business may be, an accu-
rate record should be kept of all its
transactions. Each tet an exact
inventory of all goods should be taken
and the books balanced so that the
present worth of the business may be
ascertained.

matter how

There are many businesses running
along to-day that are apparently mak-
ing money for the proprietors, but as
10 inventories are taken the actual
solvency of the firms can not be stat-
ed—in many cases they are insolvent.

Another reason why an accurate in-
ventory should be taken is found in
the fact that all men are not honest.
Men who have been employed for
many years in one store sometimes
become involved in their private af-
fairs and in desperation begin to ap-
propriate money or merchandise of
their employers. An inventory taken
regularly will soon bring such pecula-
tions to light.

The necessity for an annual inven-
tory being granted, the manner in
which it is taken may well be dis-
cussed. In most cases there should
be two inventories. One should show
the actual invoice prices, while the
other should show the actual value
of the goods at the time of inven-
tory. That is, all goods that may have
depreciated should be ascertained and
the amount of depreciation deducted
from the original inventory so that
both original and depreciated values
are shown.

The usual practice in some stores is
somewhat after the following: The
store is about equally divided among
the clerks and each is given a part
of the stock to “take.” They begin
with a pad and pencil and count so
many pairs at so much a pair, so
many more at so much, and so on.
In most cases the shoes are not even

looked at to see whether they are
mated or in their right cartons. When
inventory is taken in this way there
is absolutely no check upon the work
at all and there are sure to be inac-
ciracies. Some clerks will work
carefully and conscientiously over the
inventory because they may recog-
nize its value to the merchant, but
cthers, anxious to get the work done
and off their hands, will deliberately
guess at results instead of taking the
trouble to count the number of pairs.

 

If any portion of an inventory is in-
[accurate it means that the whole is
| deceptive. Hence, it is perfectly plain
|that there should be a double check
on the work. Here is a method that
may be followed, one that can be used
by any firm, large or small:

Every pair of shoes should be ex-

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Shoes That Stand
Strenuous Wear

The kind of footwear we produce in our
factory is especially built to stand hard usage.

Our trade mark is a positive assurance
of this fact to the wearer.

The margin of profit on our shoes is ex-
cellent. The sales are quick and the volume
of them large.

If a live merchant sends in a trial order
it usually means we gain a permanent and
satisfied customer.

If you will write us where you live we

will bring our samples and show you why.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie @ Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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We wish to call your atten-
tion to our line of work shirts,
which is most complete, in-
cluding

Chambrays
Drills

Sateens
Silkeline
Percales
Bedford Cords
Madras
Pajama Cloth

 

These goods are all selected
in the very latest coloring,
including

Plain Black
Two-tone Effects
Black and White Sets
Regimental Khaki
Cream

Champagne

Gray

White

Write us for samples.

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New Types

Our unequaled manufacturing conditions
in strictly modern factories located in atown
where the best labor is procurable, and our
close touch with the metropolitan condi-
tions provide us unusual opportunity to sup-
ply the best in shoe making and style at
medium prices.

Our shoes are recognized all over the
country as leaders in style and quality. Our
special tannage is distinctive in finish and
has great wearing life; and the other
leathers used in our product are of extra
selections,

Our leading styles are kept in stock for
the convenience of our customers, and we
are prepared to fill orders on all styles at
short notice.

For quality and unusual style in shoes at
medium prices our line is in a class by
itself. |

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amined to see that they are prop-
erly mated, in good condition and in
their right carton. Each line should
be assembled and, for the time being,
kept separate. A slip of paper may
be attached to one of the cartons or
merely slipped in under the cover so
that it may be quickly removed, On
this slip should appear the number of
pairs, the cost and the selling price.
Tf it is desired, and the writer con-
siders it very important, the sizes and
widths may also be shown.

The clerks make out these slips and
attach them to the cartons. If dur-
ing the meantime a pair has been sold
it is checked off the list. Everything
being ready on the morning of Janu-
ary 2, the dealer starts in and him-
self counts the lots to see that they
compare with the lists. As the man-

“ager or proprietor calls them off a

clerk enters them in a book. The slips
are removed and placed on file and
later compared with the book. If there
are any inaccuracies in the book the
slips are taken as being the correct
count.

Now this is a method that is open
to criticism in this way: A clerk who
wished to inflate the inventory to cov-
er up his peculations could do so, but
it should be observed that there is one
thing that might deter him, and that
is the fact that every so often a lot
is carefully examined, pair by pair, to

see that the shoes supposed to re-
pose in the cartons do actually exist
and are there. This would obviate

any false count of the stock.

By this method the _ inventory
would be as accurate as it could be
made unless the dealer: himself exam-
ined every pair and entered them
himself—and he is not infallible. He
might make a mistake. As the dealer
from lot to another he
should examine at least one shoe of
each to see that they are of the value
listed. Odds and ends and unsalable
and depreciated goods should be list-
ed, the amount of the depreciation
noted on the slip and another slip
showing the new cost price and sell-
ing price inserted in place of the one
taken out. After inventory is over
these goods should be carefully gone
ever and re-marked at reduced prices

caes

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and put-on the shelves in the most
convenient places.

These goods should receive’ the
careful attention of clerks and be dis-
posed of as quickly as possible. When
inventory is carefully taken, and the
assets and liabilities figured, the mer-
chant may rest with some satisfaction
that figures secured are correct. The
results may be disappointing, but the
results are accurate and not to be
lcoked upon as being merely approx-
imate. The recapitulation should
show the present worth of the stock
and a comparison with former inven-
tories will whether the  busi-
ness has been carefully and success-
fully conducted or the reverse.

If a loss is shown the merchant
should not sit down and say, “The
times are out of joint.” or “The shoe
business is going to the dogs.” He
should do some sober thinking. He
should carefully go over the year’s
business and compare it with that of
other years. Let him examine his
cash account and his sales. He should

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

carefully look to his expense account
also. If he finds these compare fav-
orably with those of previous years
then he can make up his mind to
one of two things: The last inventory
was grossly inaccurate, or some one
is pilfering.

We would not have the retail sales-
man looked upon with suspicion, but
under these circumstances the mer-
chant has a right to be suspicious. A
wrong has been done him  some-
where. If, however, he finds his year’s
business does not compare as fav-
orably as it should with the figures
of other years, he should begin to
tear his business policy to pieces in
an endeavor to find out why he is
losing his grip. It may have been a
lean year. If that is so all merchants,
including his neighbors, will probably

 

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be in the same boat with him. At any

rate, he should very carefully examine
his expense account. In many cases
this account will reveal the road to
wealth if the merchant will
heed the indications.

In conclusion, the writer can only
urge the reader to see that his in-
ventories taken now are as absolute-
ly accurate as a good sensible system
will make them. Then he may figure
with comfort and enjoy his gains.—
Shoe Retailer.

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A Good Speculation.

“There come Jones and new
wife out of the mansion Jones bought
the day after the wedding!”

“A good speculation that!”

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Our BOSTON and BAY STATE RUBBER Stock is Complete

 

 

 

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weak point.

Will be here now before you know it.
The dealer who is well stocked with
Rubbers will get the start on his com-
petitors, but he must have Good Rud-

— flood and Old Colony

Get in touch with us NOW

There is no need to tell you about the

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What’s In a Name?

Well, it all depends
on what the name is.
Hf its

H. B. Hard Pan

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

on silver.

It means the most sat-
isfactory hard - service

shoe ever put on the

market.

Ht it’s
Shoe

the Bertsch
it means a Good-
year Welt hand Sewed
Process shoe that has
come right into the front

of the front rank.

Dealers everywhere
are re-ordering from first

shipments.

To this add the fact
that they are bound to
be popular because they
Back

of all this are fair, honest

are made right.

prices that will please
you and please your
trade. You can see the

samples of both lines for

a postal.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 12, 1919

 

 

PRICE MAINTENANCE.

 

What It Means To All Branches of
Trade.*

I esteem it a great honor as weli as
a privilege to be requested for the
second time to address so notable a
body of business men as your organi-
zation comprises, on the subject of
“Price Maintenance,” and I can not
help but feel that this augurs well
for the growing sentiment in favor
of this system of business policy.

My talk to you to-day will neces-
sarily be brief, and as we say that
advertising is not literature, so the
treatment of a business topic may
wisely be couched in plain phrase
and not raised to the dignity of ora-
tory. Candidly speaking, if I shouid
attempt a serious oration T am afraid
I would be in the position of the
man who was called upon to make an
after-dinner speech and who said
something like this: “My friends, it
is alleged that, according to the Dar-
winian theory, it took the monkey
four thousand years to evolve into
man. Now, if I should attempt a
speech, I would show you how man
can make a of himself in
five minutes.”

From my point of view the policy
cf price maintenance or __ restricted
prices is so broad in scope, so far
reaching in salutary results, as to
be worthy of the thoughtful consider-
ation and earnest support of every
manufacturer, jobber and retailer in
this country. From an ethical stand-
point price maintenance typifies one
of the best moral elements in the
conduct of business; it is fundamen-
tally sound in principle and pre-emi-
nently just and beneficent in prac-
tice, fostering and stimulating as it
the best ideals in commercial
life; promoting character in business
and securing to its devotees the confi-
dence of the public which is in itself
a valuable commercia! asset.

There are certain inevitable
in trade that affect in common
manufacturer, the jobber and retailer,
and price maintenance recognizes the
basic principle of commercial justice
and equity, namely, that the manu-
facturer, jobber and retailer in the
process of distribution are entitled to
a fair living profit in the sale of any
commodity. Experience has taught,
and I believe you will all bear me out
in this statement, that the mainten-
ance of prices will more nearly in-
sure the maintenance of the quality
of an article than any other factor
contributing to its sale. Not only will
the maintenance of prices insure the
high quality of an article, but also its
very permanence on the market as
well, A hardware merchant of my
awn city told me some time ago that
price cutting to his knowledge had
driven from the market many an ar-
ticle of hardware of the highest merit;
and the reason for this is perfectly
obvious.

In the beginning I said there were
certain inevitable laws of trade that
affect in common the manufacturer,
jobber and retailer and that work out
with mathematical certainty; and one

*Address by Robert E. Shanahan before
American Hardware Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion.

monkey

does

laws
the

 

of these is that the article that is
placed on the market without the stip-
ulation that it must be sold at uni-
form prices, both wholesale and re-
tail, will in a short time, be retailed
at such low prices as to destroy all
profit in its sale, thus killing the de-
mand for it with both jobber and
retailer, leaving open to the manu-
facturer, as a last hopeless course, the
lowering of his prices, which means
the deterioration of the quality of the
product; and so it seems to me that
it can be logically maintained that
price cutting is demoralizing from be-
ginning to end, working detriment,
disappointment and loss to all con-
cerned, manufacturers, jobbers, retail-
ers and consumers.

In order to expound the practical
application of a sound, rigidly en-

 

ever conceived the idea of establish-
ing fixed retail prices on his goods,
and what has been the result? Except
that an intelligent presentation of
this subject demands a reference to
cur competitors and their business
policy, I would not make such refer-
ence at this time; therefore, I trust
I may be pardoned for making com-
parison to more clearly convey t9
you the things that lie at the bottom
of this question, and that will serve
to make clear the effect of price main-
tenance upon a business.

Carpet sweepers were manufactur-
ed and marketed long before the in-
troduction of the Bissell, but the poli-
cy of our competitors from the be-
ginning to the present time has been
to seek recognition through the of-
fering of lower prices, totally disre-

 

ferced system of price maintenance
I hope I may be pardoned for using
in the main the _ Bissell Carpet
Sweeper Co. as an exponent of this
principle, for as I have never been
connected with any other business, for
accuracy of detail I must necessarily
confine myself to what I know about
the policy of price maintenance as ex-
emplified in our business.

When the Bissell sweeper was in-
troduced on the market thirty-three
years ago the policy of price main-
tenance, of fixed wholesale and retail!
prices, same to be rigidly enforced,
was practically unknown, especially in

connection with the sweeper _ busi-
ness. No manufacturer of carpet
Sweepers except ourselves (until

within the last few years when they
have been forced to follow our lead)

 

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garding the retail prices, with the re-
sult that their product has been sold
et any price suiting the whim of the
dealer, killing the profit for every
other merchant handling the goods,
and finally doing the inevitable, kill-
ing the demand for the goods thus
loosely marketed.

I want to emphasize here that it
must not be assumed that our com-
petitors have been nien of mediocre
ability, with limited capital, thus ac-
counting for any little success we
have had. On the contrary, we have
had competitors made up of the ablest
business men in our own and other

cities, backed by vastly more capital

than ourselves; but failure to obtain
prominence in the business has been
due primarily to two things: first, they
have never made the carpet sweeper

 

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an exclusive line of manufacture, and
second, their selling policy has from
our point of view been greatly im-
perfect.

Considering that we have had com.
petition all the time we have been
|in business; that our competitors jn
|many instances have been men of un-
cuestioned ability and pronounced
successes in other lines, and that they
have had in many instances more cap-
ital than ourselves to prosecute their
business; that they have always
claimed to have a superior product
to ours; always offered it at a lower
price than ours, what should be the
reasonable conclusion as to the caus-
es that have made the Bissell sweep-
er the recognized leader throughout
the world? Simply this: With the be-
ginning of our organization we es-
tablished our business on a sound sys-
tem of price maintenance, and saw
to it that our prices were strictly en-
forced. The best proof I can give
the. vital force and far
1eaching effect of price maintenance
in our supplemented by
strong, consistent advertising, is to
say that we are to-day manufacturing
and marketing fully 75 to 80 per cent.

you as £0

business,

of the entire world’s consumption of
carpet The foregoing
statement is not made boastfully ox
jegotistically, nor is it

SWeepcrs.

 

intended to
| show the brilliancy of our organiza-
jtion. What is intended is to dem-
|onstrate to you through facts
‘figures what
power of a

an‘
the
price main-
tenance policy supported by strong
| advertising,

| And now I take it that a brief out-
‘line of our methods of price main-

I conceive to be
well

defined

tenance will be of interest to you: As
Iwe sell the jobber as well as the re-
| tailer, you will appreciate that the
jtask ef maintaining our prices is

imore complex and difficult of accom-
iplishment than if

but
It should be gratifying
manufacturer contemplating
the adoption of a price maintenance
policy, when I tell you that we have
no great difficulty in obtaining the
co-operation of both jobbers and re-
tailers in the strict maintenance of
our prices. It is true that in the
beginning when the policy of restrict-
ing prices had been little advocated,
and when it was not generally under-
stood, many dealers felt that it was a
direct invasion of personal liberty
and a positive usurpation of the deal-
er’s prerogative to attempt to tell
him the price at which he must sell
a piece of merchandise which he had
bought and paid for. We have had
many interesting as well as amusing
experiences in the promulgation of
price maintenance. A few years ago
one of customers in a remote
Western city informed us that one
of his competitors, a sturdy German,
was cutting the price on our goods,
earnestly requesting us to have it
corrected at once. We immediately
wrote the recalcitrant merchant, and
his Teutonic blood was deeply arous-
ed and his reply was as follows: “Gen-
tlemen, I bot them schweepers, unt
@are mine, unt I sell them at any
brice I blease, or gif dem away, oF

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January 12, 1910

 

eat ’em. Now what you say?” We re-
plied that however it might distress
lis alimentary canal, derange his di-
gestive machinery, or test his fealty
we could offer no
valid objection to his eating the
sweepers, nor could we consistently
object to his giving them away; but
that when it came to selling them ai
cut prices, we did interpose most em-
phatic objection, and that we hoped
to have his early assurance that our
fixed retail prices would be. strictly
maintained. Not hearing from hiin
for some little time, we wrote again,
and here is his reply: “Gentlemen,
You tink you can dictate to me. I
tell you I gif away every one of dem
d—n schweepers;” and here the in-
cident closed.

Mark the change of sentiment on
are

to Fletcherism,

price maintenance. To-day we
having the loyal. support and
operation of all the best jobbing and
retail trade in this and foreign coun-
tries; and right here I want to say
that in my judgment there never
was in the history of merchandising
a more opportune moment to inaug-
urate a price maintenance policy than
the present. Price maintenance has
been adopted by so many manufac-
turers during the past few years, and
the principle has been so productive
of good results, and has been approv-

co-

ed so generally by the best jobbing
and retail trade of the that I
would strongly urge and recommend

world

to any manufacturer who is produc-

ing an article of quality, protected b

either patent or trademark, to lose n

time in adopting a policy of restrict-
1

ed prices as far as this is
the conduct of his business.

or | 14
pOssiD et

This is the most wonderful age of
merchandising that the world has
ever seen: never was competition as

keen as it is to-day: never did the
conduct of business demand a higher
erder of talent than to-day: and so
it seems to t]

maintenance
manufacturer who can possibly adopt
it, for its value to 2
been so many times demonstrated as
to make it hardly debatable. Of
course, it is a fact with which you
are entirely familiar that the

me tne DOlcy OF Price

h
should appeal to every

business has

 

to the successful
carrying out o e
policy is to have the article thus sold
protected by patent or trade-mark.
Personally I am so thoroughly im-
bued with the benefits accruing from
a policy of uniform prices, and know-
centage
1

per :
ea

of jobbers or retailers are dispo
to cut prices, if I were manufacturing
an article not protected by patent I
would still surround the
commodity with a
scheme of restricted
to the best business judgment of the
jobbers and retailers of the
to secure their co-operatfon in
maintenance of my prices. I
supplement this with a campaign of
advertising that would create a de-
mand for my product. and by con-
stantly pointing out to the jobber
and retailer the profits to be secured
by co-operation, in the maintenance
of my prices, I would count upon re-
sults that are not obtainable when an

sale of

ieee
well

my
defined
Prices, appealing
country
the
would

 

article is sold on a haphazard plan,
with no well defined selling policy
back of it.

A carefully devised and rigidly en-

forced policy of price maintenance
means lots of thovght and_ hard

work; but once it is properly launch-
ed, the work becomes comparatively
easy and the benefits accruing more
than compensate
pended.

To demonstrate how thoroughly
the trade now understands that the
manufacturer of a patented article has
the legal right to fix the price on his
commodity we have never once beeua
cbliged to go into the courts in this
country to enforce the maintenance
of our prices; and only a few cases
have arisen where a dealer ever
threatened to cut our prices and take

for the labor ex-

  
  

 

USE THE BELL

the matter to the courts in defiance |

of our policy. A few years ago one
f the largest department stores in
Ruffalo threatened to go the
courts in opposition to our policy and

into

spend $10,000 if necessary to defeat
us; but after they took time to in-
vestigate with their attorneys they
concluded that it was best not to go
into litigation, and to-day they are one
of our best customers in Buffalo and
are selling our goods at correct pric-
of the largest

es. Only recently one

department stores in Chicago threat-
ened to cut our prices on our regular

line of goods, if we would not agree
to brand the goods especially for

them, they to cut the special
-rands. We discussed the

them on the broadest lines

on
question
with we

could command, politely refusing to

 

accede to their request and giving
them to understand that we would de-
fend our policy of fixed prices to the
last ditch, with the result that they
receded from their position and will
continue to sell our goods and main-
tain our prices.

There have been some notable de-
cisions during the past few years
sustaining the right of the manufac-
turer of a patented article to fix the
price on his commodity.

We had occasion some time ago to
Eroceed against an English merchant
for cutting our prices, and the court
granted us an injunction and the de-
the English Justice was
most sweeping in the recognition it
gave to the right of the manufacturer
of a patented article to fix the price
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the English Court, in summing up the
case, stated as follows: “The sale of
a patented article carries with it the
right to use it in any way that the
purchaser chooses to use it, unless he
If he knows
of restrictions, and they are brought
to his mind at the time of sale, he
is bound by them. He is bound by
them on this principle: the patentee
has the sole right of using and sel!-
ing the articles; and he may prevent
anybody from dealing in them at
all. Inasmuch as he has the right
to prevent people from using them
or dealing in them at all, he has the
right to do the lesser thing, that is to
say, impose his own conditions. It
does not matter how unreasonable or
how absurd the conditions are; it does
not matter what they are; if he says
at the time the purchaser proposes
to buy, ‘Mind, I only give you this
license on this condition,’ the pur-
chaser is free to take it or leave
it as he likes; if he takes it he must
be bound by the conditions. This
seems to be common sense and not
dependent on any patent law or any
other particular law.”

The Ingersoll watch people, who
maintain a policy of restricted prices,
have had numerous decisions in their
favor. The two most notable deci-
sions which I recall and which have
occurred recently, sustaining the right
of the manufacturer of a patented ar-
ticle to fix his price, are those of the
Victor Talking Machine Co. vs. the
Fair, and the Dover Manufacturing
Co. vs. the Fair. WPhese cases were
fought bitterly and carried to the Su-
preme Court, decisions being render-
ed favorable to the manufacturers.

In all the decisions that have thus
far been rendered the courts have
made it perfectly clear that when the
Government grants a patent it in-
tends to do something more for the
patentee than to merely give him the
exclusive right to make and vend his
invention for a limited term of years.
The only object that the Govern-
ment has in granting patents is to
stimulate invention for the general
good, and there can be no stimulus
to invention unless the inventor is
able to enjoy some profit from his
invention. If he can not fix the price
on his commodity and.if every jobber
and dealer can cut the price, thus kill-
ing the demand for the article, it is
evident that the patentee would be
robbed of his profits, the very thing
the Government expected him to en-
joy when his patent was granted.

And now a word in regard to the
effect of price maintenance on other
lines. Consider the commercial
standing of such products as_ the
Knox and Dunlap hats; consider the
prestige of the E. & W. collar
through their price maintenance pol-
icy. A good example of the vir-
tue of this policy is shown in our
own city through the present status
of the Macey Co. A few years ago
this business was established by
Fred Macey, a young man of unusual
ability, but who in his ambition gave
more thought to building up a busi
ness rapidly than safeguarding it
through a carefully devised selling
policy. Although Mr. Macey was 4

knows of restrictions.

 

most skillful advertiser, and although
he made most marvelous strides with-
in a short period in building up =
business, things did not go right and
finally Mr. Macey died. Mr. Wer-
nicke, the so-called father of the sec-
tional bookcase idea, was called to
take the management of the business,
and in his reorganization of this
Eusiness he put into effect price main-
tenance and has rigidly adhered to
this policy, with the result that while
the business was in bad shape when
he took hold of it, it is to-day in the
healthiest kind of a condition, the
preferred stock paying 6 per cent.
and the common stocking paying -10
per cent,

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The policy of price maintenance, to
be fairly and honestly carried out,
entails upon the manufacturer the
same cbligations to strictly maintain
prices as it does upon the jobber or
retailer. A salesman of ours would
no more think of taking an order at
a cut price than of sending in his
resignation. A manufacturer advo-
cating price maintenance must prac-
tice what he preaches; he must keep
faith with the jobbers and never take
an order, however tempting, at cut
prices. This policy has won for us
the confidence and co-operation of
the best jobbing trade in this coun-
try, and I can say in all candor that
the time is past when we ever hear
of a jobber cutting our prices. Price
cutting is a species of commercial de-
bauchery that rests upon the relent-
less doctrine of the survival of the fit-
test, upon the cold
principle that merchandising is a sort
ef commercial warfare: that  “‘all’s
fair in war” and “the devil take the

narrow, blooded

hindmost.” Price cutting lowers the
commercial standing of the manufac-
turer, jobber or retailer who  prac-
tices it, destroys profits, breeds dis-
trust, fosters prevarication, forfeits
confidence and finally robs the con-
sumer by debasing the quality of the
commodities upon which prices are
cut, if not actually driving many of
them from the market.

When you analyze it, the motive of
the price cutter is always bad. Did
you ever happen to notice that he
usually selects an article for cutting
that is well known and well adver-
tised? He knows that the general
public are better acquainted with
such an article, and he figures that
by selling such a well known article
at a cut price it will give the im-
pression to the buying public that he
is selling all other commodities at
equaly reduced prices. Whenever we
run on to a commercial freebooter of
this class who attempts to cut the
price on our product we invariably
give him the opportunity of a limited
uumber of rounds or a finish fight as
ke may prefer.

In contradistinction to the blight-
ing effect of price cutting, price main-
tenance is in harmony with the
soundest principles in business to-
day. The manufacturer, jobber or
retailer conducting his business under
a broad, equitable system of uniform
prices commands confidence and re-
spect and establishes for a business
that fine personality that we all prize
so much in the individual.

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Managing Mamma Not a Term of
Reproach,

A woman writes to me who Says:

“I have a young daughter who is
about to make her entrance into so-
ciety. She is neither very beautiful,
very rich nor very brilliant, but just
a pretty, sweet, wholesome American
girl, yet I desire her to be a social
success and, as I believe matrimony
to be the happiest destiny for a wom-
an, to eventually make a good match.
Will you tell me how best to achieve
this end without incurring the odium
of beirg called a ‘managing mam-
mar”

In every game the chief element of
success is having a good backer—an
angel, as they say in theatrical cir-
cles—and there can be no doubt that
a mother who knows her business can
do more toward making a girl a belle
than any amount of beauty or wit.
She stands behind the curtain and
shifts the scenes; she turns on the
lime light at the proper minute: she
knows how to cut out faults and work
up strong passages, and, above all,

 

 

 

 

discreetly, unperceived, she leads the
claque and the audience joins in and
gives the girl the glad hand. Success
in society always appears to the out-
sider to be a spontaneous outburst of
enthusiasm over charms. but ninety-
nine times out of a hundred it is a
trcund§ of carefully-worked-up ap-
plause.

In the first place, my dear lady, do
not shrink from being called a man-
aging mamma. Instead of being the
stigma of shame, it ought to be a
badge of honor. Any mother who is
not a Managing mamma—who leaves
her daughter's fate to in-
stead of steering her into the safe
haven of a good marriage—has failed
in her duty. It is impossible that
any should have the
knowledge of life, the experience of
the world, the tact and diplomacy to
know how to conduct a social cam-
Faign, and she has just as much right
to expect her mother to save her
from the blunders she would make in
society if left to her own guidance
little child has to

chance,

yeung girl

look to its

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mother to keep it from being bruised | where she is always a wall

and wounded by falling.

If I had a young daughter who was
about to make her entrance into so-
ciety I should begin by trying to
classify her. I should sit dispassion-
ately down and study her defects and
her beauties, and then I should de-
vote all of my energies to trying to
build up her strong points. There are
many different types of girls and they
are all charming in their different
ways, but there is not one of them
who is universally charming. Many
mothers spoil the one attraction that
their daughters have by trying to
make them something else that they
can never be. It not infrequently
happens that the gay
fond of society has a daughter who is
a prim little the literary
woman’s daughter is a_ girl who is
really interested only in the cook
book, or the woman who admires
dashing girls is afflicted with rolly-
poly offspring.

In such cases the mistake the moth-
ers commit is in trying to make over
their
be done.

mother who is

Samt, or

their daughters according to
own ideals.
You can not set a psalm to ragtime nor
make an apple dumpling as light as
29 omelette soufle; but, after all, an
anthem is better than a coon
and there are plenty of people whose
tastes run to dumplings. Therefore,
the wise mother will waste no tears
over the impossible, but set to
to make the best of the material she
has hand, If a girl is
she will not drag

This can never

song

we rk

on “Serious,”

her around to par-

ties for which she has no aptitude and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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flower; if
she has no fondness for books, her
mother will not make her ridiculous
by pretending she knows things of
which she is ignorant.

On the contrary, she will throw a
halo around her saint and let her
tread the congenial path—and there
widowers

are many eligible inter-
ested in the new thought and the

ligher life—while she will gild the
wings of her butterfly and let Bier

flutter about in that brainless, grace-
ful, merry, light hearted way that

even the most sedate of us find so at-
tractive in youth, while as to the do-
mestic gitl,) surely heaven itself has
peinted the way she should go
devised the frilly-white apron and the
chafing dish for her weapons of con
guest,

and

The next important point js to
nake the house attractive. The gir!
with one beau is like the poor in the
Scriptures that one which
hath shall taken from her
Men are mere sheep and they follow
each other when it comes to admir-
Whether this is he
cause a man distrusts his judgment

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be away

ing a woman.

and feels the need of having another
man back it up, nobody knows. It i:
a fact, nevertheless, and it is abso
a girl the ap
pearance of being a belle if
her to be one.
To this
cretion the

lutely necessary to give
you want
do requires tact and dis-

mother’s part. She
must be neither like the old hen with

on

one chicken, nor yet like a recruiting
sergeant. She
come and yet not have the appear-

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ance of drumming up beaux for~ her
daughter, for men are suspicious of
the mother who gushes over them.
They are afraid she is trying to work
off her daughter on them. Above all,
the mother must know how to be at:
tractive herself and give her home
the proper atmosphere, for men are
not such fools as they appear and
many an attractive girl has lost a
good husband because the man fear-
ed she might grow into a duplicate of
her mother. It takes an idiot or a
hero to marry a girl who comes out
of an ill-kept house.

If I were a mother and wanted to
make my daughter popular in
ciety I should establish an ironclad
rule of no presents, with the cer-
tainty that a grateful constituency of
much-robbed young men would flock
to my standard. Most of the young
men who compose society are strug-
gling along on salaries that are barely
sufficient for their support, and that
out of this they should be expected
to make presents to the girls they
visit is more than an imposition—it
is a high-handed outrage. Of course,
every woman will say that the pres-
ents her daughter receives are free-
will offerings, but unhappily we know
quite otherwise, and there would be
a blessed peace and restfulness and
security about a house where pres-
ents were not only not expected but
were absolutely tabooed. Besides, it
would give a girl a certain cachet. It
would be a distinction.

So-

A wise woman in advising her
daughter about how to manage her
husband said, “Feed the brute,’ and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the tip is just as good in dealing with |

as it is with husbands.
This is both troublesome and expen-
sive, but success in this world al-
ways has to be paid for. A _ few
years woman complained to
me that nobody came to her Sunday
evenings since she had quit having
supper for her guests. “Why do you
not resume the suppers?’ I asked. It
is unromantic, but true, that human
beings are always at their best over
something good to eat, and men al-
ways think tenderly of the woman
who is associated in their minds with
irreproachable cooking.

other men

ago a

The formal affairs, the coming out
teas, the “duty” dinners and lunches
are the A, B, C of entertaining that
every woman knows. Where the real
art of the thing comes in and where
the discreet mother shows fine
Italian hand is in the merry little
supper that is waiting at home after
the play, the cosy bite by the library
fire on a cold night, the long, cool
drink and the seductive sandwich on
a hot evening. It is things like these
that make a girl “popular” and _ in-

her

cline a man’s heart to matrimony,
for he beholds the daughter through
the savory incense of her mother’s
housekeeping.

That the mother of a young girl
should absolutely supervise her vis-
itors seems so much a_ matter of
course that it is a wonder it should
be called in question, but it is. One
would think that a woman was a can-
didate for a lunatic asylum who per-
mitted men to visit regularly at her
house whom she was not willing to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

iet her daughters marry, yet we see
this stupid little tragedy being enact-
ed every day. Mothers let worthless,
dissipated men fairly camp on their
parlor chairs, and then, when they
find out that their adored Maud wants
to marry a_ hopelessly ineligible
young fellow, they are horror strick-
en. Why? What right have they to
expect anything else? It is the log-
ical outcome of propinquity and just
what every one else was looking for.

The mother is a purblind fool who
lets any regularly at her
house that she would not welcome as
a son-in-law. More than that, she is
doing her daughter a great injustice
and cruelty, for she is running the
risk of breaking her heart. Nor is
this all: should
be protected from the bad match, the
girl should be protected from the
man who does not marry and whose
attentions are without intention, In
every city there are a number of old|

man visit

just as much as she

beaux, men who have been in society
year after year, who make it a prac-
tice to single out every season the

 

most attractive debutante and de-
vote themselves to her.
They are connoisseurs in beauty,

adepts in flirtation, past masters of|
the art of flattery, and the girl, young |
and inexperienced, is proud and pleas-

ed at their attentions. They make
younger and more henest men seem
commonplace and she allows herself

to be monopolized by them until she
finds out that she has been driven in-
te a kind of social pocket. The men

have
by she

have

who might married her
|

been kept away and by anc

| past,
know all this, but every middle aged

itures should be in
ileave it.

a1

drifts into old maidenhood and is
relegated to the chaperone seats at
parties and realizes that her day is
No girl could be expected to

woman has seen it happen a thousand
times, and the wise mother maintains
a strict quarantine against these so-
cial deadbeats.

Just how far a mother is justified
in interfering in her daughter’s mar-

tlage is a question that must be set-
tled by individual cases, but we are
not talking marriage now, but of

girlhood and how to make it happy
and brilliant. Girls do not realize it,
but the little interval between the
schoolroom and the altar is the fairy-
time of a woman’s life. It is the
feast of existence where the roses lie
red upon the table and the lights glit-
ter and the wine fcams over the

beaker and all the world is full of

lyouth and music and laughter—it is

the playtime, the hour of sunshine,
before they give themselves up to go
out and meet the storm and stress of
the world, and the pity of the thing
is that so many foolish young crea-
such a haste to
Happy the mother who can secure
her daughter such a girlhood! Thrice
happy the woman who has such a
golden memory to lock back upon!
Dorothy Dix.
Coe life
So Jong as truth is alive it will out-
erow all your tape lines.
Sri aie oe oe
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by leaping into its jaws.

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January 12, 1910

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Modern Farming by Machine
Methods.

The farmer of the hour proposes to
use less brawn and more brains, giv-
ing the drudgeries to machinery and
leaving himself time to solve the farm
problems which can turn loss into
profit. Throughout the Great North-
west the gang plow drawn by 2
gasoline tractor plows one and a
fourth acres in an hour at a cost of
75 cents an acre. If the plow is drawn
by a steam tractor the cost is $2 an
acre. With the old style plow two
acres a day could be plowed, at a
cost of $2.50 an acre.

On a large farm, where three or
four sixteen inch plows are drawn by
a twenty horse power traction en-
gine, thousands of acres of wheat
land can be plowed, harrowed and
seeded within a short time, for tract-
ors are used also in operating seed-
ing machines, both the pulverizing
and seeding being done in one opera-
tion. The threshing outfit of thirty
years ago consisted of an old fash-
ioned separator and horse power.
There were one or two band cutters
and one or two feeders, according to
the width of the cylinder, to feed the
zrain into the machine. Three or four
men measured and sacked the grain,
while three to six men stacked the
straw in a cloud of choking dust.

The modern threshing machine is
equipped with an automatic band cut-
ter, self-feeder, automatic weighing
and sacking device and pneumatic
swinging straw stacker, all operated
by a gasoline or steam traction en-
gine. By the old method of wheat
growing three hours were needed to
produce a bushel, and at a cost of
1734 cents. The modern machines
do it in ten minutes for 3% cents. The
old threshing machines had a capaci-
ty for 175 to 225 bushels a day, the
new for over 2,000.

The cream separator enables the
farmer to double his dairy products
with less than one-third of the work
involved in handling the milk the old
way. The modern improvements in
corn machines make it possible for
the farmer to save 200,000,000 tons of
corn fodder. At the modest estimate
of $5 a ton the husker and shredder
alone, if the whole corn crop were
shredded, would annually add $1,000,-
000,000 to the agricultural wealth of
the country.

The corn sheller enables the farmer
to shell his corn quickly when he
does not wish to market the crop in
the ear. The gasoline engine trans-
forms drudgeries into pastimes. It
cperates the cream separator, churns,
saws wood, shells corn and does num-
berless other chores that were full
cf terrors for the average farm boy,

 

thus contributing more than anything
else to keep the boy on the farm.

 

The Upright Business Man.

A sacred regard for the principles
of justice forms the basis of every
transaction and regulates the conduct
of the upright man of business. He is
strict in keeping his engagements;
does nothing carelessly or in a hur-
ry; employs nobody to do what he
can as easily do himself; keeps every-
thing in its proper place; leaves noth-
ing undone which ought to be done
and which circumstances permit
him to do; keeps his designs and busi-
ness from the views of others; is
prompt and decisive with his custom-
ers and does not overtrade for his
capital; prefers short credits to long
ones and cash to credit transactions
at all times when they can be advan-
tageously made, either in buying or
selling, and small profits with little
risk to the chance of better gains
with more hazard.

He is clear and explicit in all his
bargains; leaves nothing to the mem-
ory which he can and ought to com-
mit to writing; keeps copies of all im-
portant letters which he sends away,
and has every letter, invoice, etc., be-
longing to his business titled, classed
and put away. He never suffers his
desk to be confused by many papers
lying upon it; is always at the head
of his business, well knowing that if
he leaves it it will leave him; holds
it as a maxim that he whose credit
is suspected is not safe to be trust-
ed, and is constantly examining his
books, and sees through all his af-
fairs as far as care and attention en-
able him; balances regularly at stat-
ed times, and then makes out and
transmits all his accounts current to
his customers and constituents.

He avoids, as much as possible, ail
sorts of accommodations in money
matters and lawsuits where there is
the least hazard; is economical in his
expenditures, always living within his
income; keeps a memorandum book
in his pocket, in which he notes every
little particular relative to appoint-
ments, addresses and petty cash mat-
ters; is cautious how he becomes
surety for any person, and is gen-
erous only when urged by motives of

humanity. Freeman Hunt.
ern rst EG np cern cams

A man’s force depends much on the
friends he can make.

 

139-141 Monroe St.
Both Phones
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

For Dealers in

HIDES AND PELTS
Look to
Crohon & Roden Co., Ltd. Tanners
37 S. Market St. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Ship us your Hides to be made into Robes
Prices Satisfactory

Hart Brand Canned Goods

Packed by
W. R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich.

 

 

Michigan People Want Michigan Products

BEAN

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED OO., GRAND RAPIDS, MIC.
OTTAWA AND LOUIS STREETS ‘

We handle all kinds. If any to

offer mail sample, state quantity

and we will make you an offer
for them.

 

 

 

 

The Vinkemulder Company

Jobbers and Shippers of Everything in

FRUITS AND PRODUCE

Grand Rapids, Mich.

WANTED

Mail Samples.

 

 

 

White Beans
Red Kidney Beans
Brown Swedish Beans

State Quantity.

Wholesale Dealers and Shippers Beans, Seeds and Potatoes

Moseley Bros. Office and Warehouse Second Ave. and Railroad
Both Phones 1217 Grand Rapids, Mich.

W. C. Rea REA & WITZIG A. J. Witzig

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

‘‘Buffalo Means Business’’

We want your shipments of poultry. Heavy demand at high prices for choice
fowls, chickens, ducks and turkeys for storage purposes, and we can get highest
prices.

Extreme prices expected for all kinds of poultry for the holidays.
do better.

REFERENCES—Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, Express Companies, Trade
Papers and Hundreds of Shippers.
Established 1873

 

None can

 

 

C. D. CRITTENDEN CO.

41-43 S. Market St.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesalers of Butter, Eggs, Fruits ‘and Specialties

 

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS’ COLEMAN’S ~(BRAND)
Terpeneless High Class

Lemon and Vanilla

Write for our ‘Promotion Offer’’ that combats “Factory to Family” schemes. Insist
on getting Coleman’s Extracts from your jobbing grocer, or mail order direct to

FOOTE & JENKS, Jackson, Mich.

 

 

 

We Want Eggs

We have a good outlet for all the eggs you can
ship us. We pay the highest market price.

Burns Creamery Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 12, 1910

Lemon Oil Product of Sicily.

All the world goes to the Island
of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea
when it wants extract of lemon, or
lemon oil, more _ properly
This Island is the greatest lemon
producing region on earth, and all
parts of the world receive their sup-
ply therefrom. The oil is the essen-
tial oil secreted by cells lying near
the outer surfaces of the rind, and is
a by-product of the crop from the
nas! 'emons, those which can not

pment.

\¢ sponge methods for obtain-
in,  @ Oil the lemons are cut in
pieces by women and children. The
work is carried on most rapidly, the
knife being started through the rind
and the fruit cut in two and thrown
into storage tubs by one motion of
the arm. The pulp is separated from
the skins by older girls and women,
who insert a spoonlike instrument
between pulp and rind, and with one
twist cleanly scoop cut the pulp and
deposit it in the trough, all in the
twinkling of an eye.

The baskets of rinds are immersed
iii water four or five hours and sent
to the spongers, who are always men,
and shave the laborious task of press-
ing out the oil. Each half rind
handled separately and receives three
or four pressings. About 2,000 half
rinds produce about a pound of oil,
the exact quantity depending on the
size, ripeness and freshness of the

termed.

is

lemons. The green fruit produces
more oil than the ripe. A good work-
man can squeeze out two or three

pounds of it a day and then receives
about 5o cents. Phis oil is worth
about a dollar a pound.

For making lemon extract the oil
is dissolved in strong alcohol in the
proportion of five parts oil and nine-
ty-five parts alcohol. It is then fil-
tered and bottled. Five barrels of
lemon oi] and ninety-five barrels of
alcohol make a hundred barrels
pure lemon extract.

The use of machines in producing
lemon oil is confined to the Province
of Calabria in Italy. This oil forms
but a small percentage of the total
troduct. It has a deeper color than
the hand pressed article and is used
to deepen the hue of the latter. The
lemons fed to the machine must be
of uniform size and in small quanti-
ties. The machine method is crude
and no faster than the sponge proc-

esses of the hand workers.
+.

Wonders of the Ant Kingdom,

Slave kidnapping raids are made by
the Amazon ant upon the workers of
other nests to compel them to work
for their own community. An ad-
vance of scouts always precedes the
storming of a castle. A small van-
guard of a few individuals makes the
preliminary assault to draw brown
garden ants forth from their nests.
Then the main body of invaders
rush into the inner recesses, to
emerge again each one with a work-
er pupa in its jaws. An orderly re-

of

treat is made to their own quarters,
where the kidnapped workers finally
emerge into a state of utter slavery.
For they have to perform the whole
work of the red ants’ nest.

They build the passages, make the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

repairs and care for the pupae. All
ants keep cattle in the shape of the

aphides, which they carefully tend
and draw a supply of milky fluid
from. The working ants, whether of

their own or of another species, al-
ways are in slavery. Guests frequent-
ly are entertained, certain beetles be-
ing always found in their nests, where
they apparently serve no useful pur-
pose, but are fed by their hosts with
liberal hospitality.

The large horse ant allows a small-
er species to occupy its home. And a
species known as the Lasius main-
tains in its nest a curious lobsterlike
creature, which frequently seems to
reward its hosts by stealing food
from out of their mouths and then
beating a hasty retreat. The Lasius
appears to be remarkable for its kind-
ness to uninvited guests, for it treats

with wonderful toleration certain
mites which it carries about in its
body, feeding and tending them

most carefully and for no known pur-
pose.

 

 

 

HIGHEST IN HONORS

Baker’s Cocoa
& CHOCOLATE
a §

HIGHEST
AWARDS
IN
EUROPE

AND
a AMERICA

A perfect food, preserves
health, prolongs life

Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.

DORCHESTER, MASS.

 

    

Register
U.S. Pat.

Established 1780

 

 

 

 

 

Fur-Lined Overcoats

 

Our Fur-lined Overcoats are
noted for their style, fit, warmth,
durability and price. The special
values which we have to offer
mean dollars to your business in
this line. They are made by some
of the best coat factories in this
country, and all skins are beauti-
fully matched and thoroughly de-
odorized. If you want to get all
the Fur Coat trade in your vicini-
ty, get in touch with us.

Our line of Fur Coats, Craven-

ettes, Rubber Coats, Blankets
and Robes are noted for their
durability.

Better investigate!

 

 

BROWN & SEHLER CO.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
  

Ground

Feeds

None Better

WYKES & CoO.

GRAND RAPIDS

YX

BRAND,

VRARE BR

 

 

 

NANRIGN YOUR

  
    

 

ZUTLET UMIINSS

COMMISSION EXCLUSIVEL

  

  

 

    
   
    
  
   
  
   

 

   
    
 

Hot Graham Muffins

A delicious morsel that confers an
added charm to any meal. In them are
combined the exquisite lightness and
flavor demanded by the epicurean and
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

 

 

23

 

New and
Second Hand

BAGS

For Beans, Potatoes
Grain, Flour, Feed and
Other Purposes

 

ROY BAKER

Wm. Alden Smith Building
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

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-
fed hogs and cured by the
special ‘‘PEACOCK PRO-
CESS” of

Cudahy-Milwaukee

 

 

 

 

 

   

anon ans 8

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.

 

Stang RAPIDS, HA.

 

—— YENNINGS >
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Jennings’ Absolute Phosphate Bak-
iag 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

Printers:

Send for Pica rule, mailed FREE on request.
G. R. Electrotype Co. H.L. ADZIT

Printers’ Supplies
2 to 8 Lyon Street

Electrotypers
Grand Rapids, Mich.

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

Late State Food Commissioner

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

2321 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

24

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

January 12, 1910

 

 

Reportorial Scoop Secured by Dan-
gerous Undertaking.
Written for the Tradesman.

The elections held in the year 1890
resulted in the choice of the Demo-
crat candidates for State officers and
a majority of the members of the
Legislature were of the same party.
Soon after the Legislature assem-
bled Senator Peter Doran introduced
a bill for an increase of the tonnage
tax levied upon the iron ore and cop-
per mines in the State. The bill cre-
ated an uproar among the owners of
the mines, and a conference was ask-
ed with the Democrat members. of
the Legislature. Don M. Dickinson,
then the leading Democrat of the
State, George W. Hayden, a promi-
nent attorney of the Upper Peninsu-
ia, and other legal representatives of
the interests were ordered to Lan-
sing much time had been
spent in lobbying a caucus was called
to meet in the hall of the State His-
torical Society in the Capitol. The
bill
passed.
the door was locked and
tives of the newspapers refused
trance. A young reporter, William
C. Graves, a brother of Dr. Schuyler
C. Graves, of Grand Rapids, determin-
ed to obtain a of the
and by visiting the fifth fi

and after

was

caucus,
of the

report

1iOOT

Capitol discovered that a stone cornice |
the |

projecting about two feet from

body of the building followed around

the wing of the structure and that by |

window in the

leading to the caucus room he could

raising a

crawl along on the cornice to the east

facade of the building, where he

would be enabled to look through a
window and hear the discussion with-

in. The weather was very cold and

the projection over which he must}

pass covered with ice. The _ stone
pavement lay 90 feet below and the
slightest slip or misstep would. cause
the bold

flagging

reporter to plunge to the
Myr.
sessed a steady nerve and great cour-
age and when the assembled
he undertook the perilous passage to
the The room was hot and
for the
raised 3 4 inches by one of the
members of the caucus. Don Dickin-
son delivered a long speech, in which
he predicted loss of prestige and
strength by the if the bill
should pass. Mr. Hayden followed in
an argument in which he attempted

below. Graves pos-

Caucus

window.

their comfort window was

oF.

party

 

a just one and should have}
When the caucus assembled |
representa- |

line item, which appeared in the Dec.|
en- |

. }
corridor |

tc prove that the mine owners were
paying all that they ought to pay in
the nature of taxes. Members of the
Legislature joined in the discussion
and finally a vote was taken, result-
ing in the determination to pigeon-
hole-the bill.

Through the open window Mr.
Graves heard the speeches delivered
and made a complete list of those
present. At 2 o’clock on the follow-
ing morning he wired a long report
to the Detroit Tribune and when the
train arrived at Lansing a few hours
later copies of the paper were re-
ceived at the Capito] and a great sen-
sation resulted. In order to accom-
plish his purpose Mr. Graves had been
obliged to crawl along the cornice a
distance of sixty feet and return, aft-
er passing two hours in the wind and
cold.

Mr. Graves’ “scoop” was the talk
of the session. Arthur S. White.

 

29 issue of the Michigan Tradesman,
impressed me very much:

“No man helps people much who
thinks only of pleasing them.”

He is gifted, sincere, graceful and
rich with the power of intelligence
who will accept new and _ generous
jideas from a friend if they do create
displeasure for a time.

There is nothing so disgraceful as
to be two faced. Let us learn to
ispeak the truth for the sake of the
itruth if it does causé the whole world
| pain.

People who wish to be entertained
jand have no other thought in their
minds are still children and they
/must expect to be corrected, it mat-
ters not whether they like it or not.
Nature promises the soul innumer-
\able fulfilments, many joys and new
|wants, but before we can attain these
ithings we must learn to endure the
pain of correction.

The unwise seek to dodze unpleas-
ant inevitable conditions which are
sometimes caused by truth.

Life must be understood and those
who can realize that the attacks we
are subject to are necessary are the
ones who will be glorified in accept-
ing them, for it is true that we can
not escape the truth.

There nothing

 

is that hurts so

tgp ee
There’s Nothing Hurts So Much As)
the Truth.
| Evansville, Ind., Dec. 31—A_ two-

|just keeps

 

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It’s a Bread Flour

much as the truth. We are generally
very much pleased if our friends are
silent on all things that they know
we are all wrong on, but, if the truth
were known, our friends are all mak-
ing a great mistake by keeping silent.
We should learn that there are no
secrets.

We should learn that we are never
a real sufferer except by our own
faults. There is a serene and eternal
peace, but we will never attain this
much-desired comfort until we have
learned that nature never puts a tax
on the good and the true.

Most of us are trying
dodgers and we know every one
knows this. Still we get real angry
if some one happens to mention it.

Nature puts us here to study out

to be tax

her laws. She makes us suffer if we
are too lazy to work with her. We
get angry with her because she does
not try to please us, but that does
not change matters in the least—she

on that
cause us pain, and we can cry our

doing things

 

eyes out if we want to, but that will|

not do any more good than

We shun the practical forces

us would call the customs of society.
Edward Miller, Jr.

if we}
lwould get angry at our real friends. |
of|
jour being and lean on what most of|

 

When you see atraveler
hustling extra hard make
up your mind his object
is to reach Grand Rapids
by Saturday night. Sun-

day passes quickly at

Hotel Livingston

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Walter Shankland & Co.

85 Campau St., Grand Rapids
Michigan Agents

American Gas Machine Co.
Albert Lea, Minn.

Send us rough diagram and measurement
of your store, dwelling, hall, schoo] house or
church and we will send you detailed estimate
of the cost of lighting same by the most
economical, safest and best lighting system
ever devised.

 

     

Our Slogan, «Quality Tells”

Grand Rapids Broom Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

FLI-STIKON
THE FLY RIBBON
‘The Gossten Fly . = the World
at 5c. o
The Fly Ribbon Mig. Co. NewYork

‘A ORDER FROM YOUR JOBBER

 
    
  
 
 

  
  

 

The Breslin

Absolutely Fireproof

Broadway, Corner of 29th Street

Most convenient hotel to all Subways
and Depots. Rooms $1.50 per day and
upwards with use of baths Roums
$2.50 per day and upwards with private
bath. Best Restaurant in New York
City with Club Breakfast and the world

famous

“CAFE ELYSEE”’

NEW YORK

 

 

General Investment Co.
Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate and
Loans

Citz. 5275. 225-6 Houseman Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

“CERESOT A”

Minneapolis, Minn.

JUDSON GROCER CO., Distributors, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Made by The Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co.

 

 

 

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January 12, 1910

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

DOCTOR FREEMAN,

renee,

Who Prescribed Effectually
Chicago Jobber.
Written for the Tradesman.

I can see, even now, the dear old
gentleman’s splendidly large and
round head, thatched with its iron
gray, rather coarse and always well-
combed hair and, as I smile over the
forty-year old vision and meet the
kindly, genteel glow of his ruddy
face and catch the wholesome gleam
of his eyes, I remember how uncom-
fortable and impatient was my boyish
spirit whenever I heard his less dig-
nified, less intellectual, less genuine
neighbors and friends address him as
“Doc.”

And not without reason, either, for
were not his tiny little drug store
and its well-nursed, always-orderly
corner, the postoffice, in his charze?
And was he not only the postmaster
of the village but the family physician
for a major portion of the popula-
tion? And who in the village knew
more about everything under the sun
than did the courtly old Doctor Free-

for a

man? And when General Dix order-
ed: “It any man hauls down the
American flag shoot him on _ the

spot!” Wasn’t the Doctor a practic-
ing surgeon in New York? And, be-
sides, there wasn’t any one in the en-
tire township who was a more ac-
curate, authentic and _ entertaining
discourser upon cattle, swine, poultry
and dogs and how to raise them nor
one who could give to us boys more
valuable advice as to snaring rabbits,
netting pigeons, spearinzg bullfrogs,
catching fish or hunting game of any
sort.

Thus it 1s not strange that all of
the girls and boys in the village re-
sented the too common and vulgar
greeting of “Doc.” that was bestowed
upon their good old friend and which
permitted, nay enticed, familiarity.
But “Uncle Doctor’—the old gentle-
man liked that titie. “I would rather
have the good will of all the chil-
dren,” he assured me one day when
he was dispensing a cough mixture—
one of his own prescribing—-for our
hired man and to get which I had
been commissioned, “in any commun-
ity than to bank on the friendship of
half the adults in such a community.”

Of course, I asked the reason for
such a preference. His answer was.
“Because they are nearer to Nature
and-her truth,” and then when I
wanted to know what he meant by
that he continued, “Children—that is,
nearly every child. I have known—are
honest in their likes and dislikes. Un-
less they are misled by careless fath-
ers, mothers, aunts and uncles who
thoughtlessly and cruelly prohibit,
contradict and nag in every way the
average child may be relied upon to
speak the truth.

One time in the long ago, after half
a day of hard work among my
‘wines’”—Uncle Doctor was a Staten
Gland Dutchman and clung to the
practice of an uncommon use of “w”
in place of “v’—“I was called to see
a youngster whom I found with a
temperature and who, his parents
feared, was threatened with serious
illness—From them I learned that on

 

 

the preceding day the boy—he was
about fourteen years of age—had
been out boating and, his boat capiz-
ing, he had taken an involuntary bath
and so ‘caught his death of cold,’ as
the mother informed me. This was
not enough to satisfy me, because I
knew the boy. I knew he was strong,
of ardent temperament and had al-
ways been an_ active out-of-doors
fellow, and so I questioned him.

““How did it happen that your boat
tipped over?’

“And in a nervous manner, with
timidity strongly in evidence, he told
me how, while rowinz, he had been
hailed by a young woman, who of-
fered him 25 cents if he would ‘set
her across the river.’ ‘She was a
total stranger to me,’ the boy went
on weakly, ‘and if I hadn’t “set her
across” it would mean a walk of over
two miles, down to the bridge and
back, before she could reach town,
and, besides, 25 cents does not grow
on every bush, so I “set her over,”’
he concluded.

“Ts that all?’ I asked.

‘No, it isn’t all,’ put in the moth-
er, impatient in spite of her anxiety
for the boy, at which I urged the lady
to avoid exciting her son and to let
Tommy—that was his name—tell the
story.

And then “Uncle Doctor” revealed
the fact that the woman for whom
Tommy had performed the service
was a criminal—had stolen goods of
considerable value from the leading
store in a nearby town; that, know-
ing the police weres searching for
her, she had fled alone and on foot,
and quickly learning that they had
taken up her trail, she had resorted
to the lonely and wierdly-picturesque

 

river road, expecting to be captured,

sooner or later. Overtaking Tom in
his boat, she had made an_ abrupt,
trackless turn in her flight and half
an hour after leaving the boy had the
satisfaction of seeing her pursuerers
across the river traveling swiftly in
a direction opposite that to which
she was holding.

Meanwhile and wholly unrelated to
the ferrying across the river of the
distinguished (?) passenger, Tom had
capsized his boat in an effort to tow
ashore a huge piece of driftwood he
had encountered and had taken his
bath,

“It wasn’t the bath that gave the
boy his temperature,” “Uncle Doc-
tor’ continued, “and I told the moth-
er sO in no uncertain terms. He had
been unmercifully scolded for his
carelessness and sent early to bed
with only a piece of bread for sup-
per. And the next morning, the thief
having been captured and having told
the story of her doubling on her trail
through being ferried across the river
by a boy with a white rowboat, the
parents, identifying the boat and so
their son, had been hammering into
his excited, tired and resentful brain
the enormity of his offense in help-
ing a wicked thief to escape punish-
ment. ‘And he never mentioned the
woman nor the 25 cents!’ said the
mother triumphantly, as though she
had uttered a sufficient explanation
of their tactics.

““Of course he didn’t,’ I responded

 

indignantly. ‘He was afraid to eciee| “Well,” said my father-in-law as he
mit himself as soon as you began/ readjusted himself to a comfortable,

your quick tempered, thoughtless} .+,.)-telling attitude at the head of

punishment for his accident. Had). hte
you regretted the drenched clothing,| © ~~”

provided dry garments for him at | the woman across the river’ and who
once and permitted him to eat his | got wet and went to bed practically
supper as usual you would have heard | without any supper. And my moth-
the entire story almost immediately/er” (here we all paused reverently
and you would not now have a sick] for the sweet-faced old octegenarian
boy on your conscience.’” |who had a seat opposite her son) “is
“Did the boy die?” I asked, full of| the wonderful woman who reformed
interest in the story, at which “Uncle| and who worships the memory of
Doctor,” who had long since wrapped) ‘Uncle Doctor’”!
the cough mixture in a neat package,| “Yes, I do,” sincerely agreed the
continued: ;dear old lady. “We were a thought-
“No, and he didn’t take a bit of less, impatient, selfish pair, living en-
medicine—other than the talking to| tirely within and for ourselves alone.
I bestowed on his mistaken mother.| And after Thomas had heard me re-
Yes, he got well at once; and within|peat the very wise and rational pre-
six months after this experience he|scription that good old Doctor Free:
was at work as storeboy—swept out,| man gave me when our boy there
packed and unpacked goods, slept in| fell into the river we had an awaken-
the store, run errands, delivered pack-|ing. We were poor and the boy was
ages and all that—in the very store | ambitious. Through ‘Uncle Doctor’s’
from which the thief secured her|influence and kindness Thomas II.—
plunder!” | the great big, goodnatured, selfsatis-
“Uncle Doctor’ went no farther|fied chap who has set his mother go-
with his story at that time, because|ing—secured a position in the store
I knew our hired man was waiting | where that thing operated. And
anxiously for his medicine; but last} Thomas Ty. has 7” con-
week when my wife and I were en-|cluded the grand dame, abruptly, as
joying the familly reunion at the|though surprised into silence by her
Christmas table my _ father-in-law,| use of a bit of modern slang.
now a prosperous wholesale merchant| Of everybody about the
in Chicago, asked, “Would you like| family board cheerily applauded the
to hear the concluding chapter of) joint confession and boost, at which
that story ‘Uncle Doctor’ told you! Thomas II. arose in his place and
many years ago?” |said, “Every one here present, arise
Of course, I was enthusiastic over|/and in silence drink to the memory
the thought and my wife joined injof Doctor Freeman.”
the demand for the denoument. | Charles S.

“T was the boy who ‘set

‘made good,

course,

Hathaway.

 

 

 

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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 Retail Druggists’ Association.
President—C. A. Bugbee, Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Fred Brundage,
Muskegon.
Second Vice-President—C. H. Jongejan,
Grand Rapids.
eo R. McDonald, Traverse
ity.
Treasurer—Henry Riechel, Grand Rap-
ids.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion.
President—Edw. J. Rodgers, Port Hur-

on.
First Vice-President—J. E. Way, Jack-
son.

Second Vice-President—Ww. R. Hall,
Manistee.

Third Vice-President—oO. A. Fanck-
boner, Grand Rapids.

Secretary—E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—Willis Leisenring. Pontiac.

 

Remedies of Old
Tirnes.

There has of late been a tendency

among some, lay and medical, to

abolish altogether the use of medicin-

al agents. This attitude of mind has

Some Popular

arisen in part from the utterances of!" . ; ;

|wishes to put other pharmacists wise
has been|
who|

spend their time mainly in the diaz-| :
P y eh purchase amounting to $7 and of-

whose work
laboratory,

medical
chiefly

men
in the or
nosis, not in the treatment of disease;
partly, also, in the nonmedical, from
ons. Now, the term poison in this
relation is a relative term.

on its dosage. A teaspoonful or two

fect if you are fainting; a quart would

probably kill you. Two or three |
grains of strychnine will end life;)
1-Goth of a grain will simply make)

you feel stronger.
amount you take.

Most physicians would be pleased
* to dispense with drugs, but it seems
quite as foolish to make a rule never

to use them as it is in some to buy)

and take indiscriminately
anyone may recommend. If
tural authority is desired, turn to the
Book of Ecclesiastes and read: “The
Lord has created medicine out of the
earth; and he that is wise will
abhor them.”

The
lic. Oliver Wendell Holmes thus
thing from every source that can be
of the slightest use to anybody who
is ailing in any way. It learned from
a monk how to use antimony, from a
Jesuit how to cure agues, from a sol-|

dier how to prevent smallpox. It:

| contained

 

: . jlocal bank.
the idea that all drugs must be pois-|
|presented the

Whether |
: : : : i marked
anything is a poison depends mainly |

‘had $26 in the bank
y is ill av c i =| 2 * . . : e
of whisky will have a beneficial ef imunication with him and he called in

It depends on the! neck at the bank I endorsed it and

this

whatever |.,
scrip-|

not)

land faithful

| Mr.
stands ready to accept anything from|

 

keep a three-colored cat in the house.
For epilepsy take seven drops of
blood from the tail of a cat. Why the
tail? Nor are the cat’s feelings re-
corded. For a felon hold the finger
in a cat’s ear for half an hour. One
wonders who held the cat. For tooth-
ache kiss a mule. For gout wear a
copper ring or carry a potato or a
chestnut in the pocket. Physicians
will tell you that apparently this be-
lief still survives. To cure a wart rub
it with a potato and feed the po-
tata to a pig. This is an economical
remedy—the potato not wasted.
Here is an incentive to early rising
after a summer vacation: Freckles
may be removed by washing in water
in a hollow stump three
successive mornings before sunrise.
Clentworth R. Butler.

a io i
New Swindling Scheme.

A druggist at Spokane, Wash., re-

ports the following clever scheme and

is

 

to the situation.
“This man entered my store, made

fered in payment a $30 check on a
I gave him $23 in change,
check to the bank and
in due season it was returned to me
‘not sufficient funds in. bank.’
“The maker of the check, I found,
I got into com-

person, pretending to be greatly of-
fended and redeemed his check for
$30 in cash and I gave him the check.

“Of course, when I presented the
party now raised the check to
$300, presented it for payment and I
had to stand the loss.

“Whether this bank was a party
to the fraud I am unable to say, but
it does look queer to me. Should any
pharmacist ever have a similar ex-
perience I would advise him ff
scratch off his endorsement before he
returns the check.”

a —

oe “Jeff” Keate’s Last Run on a Loco-
art of medicine is most catho-|

Written for
puts it: “Medicine appropriates every-|

motive.
the ‘Tradesman.
FE. J. Keate, local contracting agent

lof the Grand Rapids & Indiana Rail-
road,

birth, earn-
rendering long
service to his adopted
/country in the United States Navy.
Keate is an engineer and when
“war’s dread alarums” had ceased he

an Englishman by
ed his citizenship by

any theorist, from any empiric who | sought employment in running a lo-

can make out a zood case for his dis- |
covery or his remedy.”

Some of the remedies which were|

popular in past times are rather curi-
ous. For example: To cure malaria

| comotive. To engage in that occu-
pation he came to Michigan and found
employment on the Grand Rapids
division of the Michigan Central
Railway.

 

Mr. Keate recently related an ex-
perience that caused him to abandon
his occupation for all time. He was
driving a locomotive drawing a heav-
ily loaded night passenger train run-
ning from Grand Rapids to Jackson.
The night was dark and rainy and the
engine did not make steam well
as usual. A standing order
the conductor and engineer to run to
Rives Junction, where
night train would
Keate’s train
tion on the night
westbound train was not in sight. In
such an emergency the conductor ex-
at the Junction
whereabouts of

as

directed

Mr. |
June |
the

When
Rives

question

pass.
arrived at
in

pected to find orders
advising him of the
the train running west and instruct-
ing him when to proceed. In the ab-
sence of such instruction the rule of
the company required that the train
continue in motion until it reached
its destination. No re-
ceived at the station and,
misgivings, the conductor signaled
Mr. Keate to continue the run to
Jackson. Mr. Keate knew that if the
westbound train had departed from
Jackson a collision could hardly be
averted. The whistles moving
trains can not be heard by an
neer or fireman an approaching
train on account of the noise of the
machinery and the rumbling of the
cars, but Mr. Keate resolved to sound

orders were

with many

I
ot
engi-

of

his whistle continuously while ad
vancing in the hope that the west- |
bound train might possibly hear it. |

In the meantime Conductor
formerly a locomotive engineer,
been delayed in starting his train at|
Jackson, but finally received his clear-
ance order and, while to the
lccomotive of his train the pur-
pose of conferring with the engineer,
heard Keate’s whistle. “I heard a
whistle sound just IT think
should wait a few he re-
marked. A moment Keate’s
whistle was heard The rail
road tracks north and near the State
Frison at Jackson crooked
and had Baker’s train
diately upon the sounding of the sta-
collision could scarcely
have been avoided. When Mr. Keate
rounded the curve just of Me-
chanic street and commenced ascend
ing the steep grade leading to the
station he saw the headlight of Bak-
er’s train glaring down the track like
a full The strain upon the

eoing

for

now; we
moments,”
later
again.

are very
started imme-

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west

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the westbound |

 

Baker, |

had |

 

nerves of Mr. Keate during the run
from Rives Junction to Jackson was
so great that he resolved to resign
which he did a few days

Arthur S. White.

his position,
later.

 

 

 

COLLECT YOUR BAD DEBTS.
New System. No Other Like It.

Ten days’ examination. Free bookiet, legaj
advice and information. One merchant says:
Ten debtors paid the first week. Another Says:
The system has paid for itself 20 times over in
10 days. 3,000 sold; 1,600 repeat orders. 50¢
credit for return of this adv. C. V. King,
| Collection Attorney, Williamston, Michigan.

NO FEES

Guaranteed.

 

 

‘EXTRACTS.

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

Jennings Flavoring
Extract Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Established 1872

 

Why not a retail store

 

of your own?

 

I know of places in every state

where retail stores are needed—
and I also know something about
a retail line that will pay hand-
some profits on a comparatively
small investment—a line in which
the possibilities of growth into a
large general store are great. An
started
in a

exceptional chance to get
business and
thriving town. No charge for my
services. Write today for particu-
lars and booklet telling how others
this line and

in a paying

have succeeded in
how you can succeed with small
capital.

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

 

 

Packed 40 five cent packages
carton.

Putnam’s

Menthol Cough Drops

10

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.

 

 

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Cassia, Acutifol . 25@ 30] Gerpentaria |... 50@ 55 |p; th SN ...1 63@1 83
Salvia officinalis, nae M @ oboe e
%s and %s 18@ 20) See poset Calcium Chlor, ls @ 9
a oe "! "g@ = 19| Smilax, off’s H.. @ 48|Galcium Chlor, %s @ 10 or in oO Soy
encore Spigella .........1 45@1 50| Gaicium Chlor, 4s @ 12
Se @ 6 Pann mee . 2 a Cantharides, Lippe g *
Acacia, ist d. Gi Nae nae eae + “9 | Capsici Fruc’s a | i
Acacia, 2nd pkd. @ 45|Valeriana, Ger. .. 15@ 20) Gapsici Fruc’s po @ 22 k
Acacia, 3rd a @ 35) Zingiber a ...... 12@ 16 Gap’ Fruc’s B po @ 15 ammoc S
Acacia, sifted sts. @ 18|Zingiber j ...... 25@ 28| Carmine, No. 40 @4 25
Acacia, po ....... 45@ 65 Semen Carphyilus |... <. 20@ 22
Aloe, Barb ....... 22@ 25] Anisum po 20 .. @ 16|Cassia ructus @ 36
Aloe, Cape ...... @ 25| Apium (gravel’s) 13@ 15] Cataceum ....... @ 35 Please reserve your orders for them
Aloe, Socotri @ 45) Bird) ta: 0050... A@ 6) @entraria 22.2)... @ 10
Ammoniaze ...... 55@ 60|Cannabis Sativa T@ > S8\|@era Alba |.:!... 50@ 55
Asafoetida ...... 80@ 85!Cardamon ....... 70@ 90/Cera Flava ..... 40@ 42
Benzoinum: ...... 50@ 55] Carui po 15 ..... 12@ 16| Crocus .......... 45@ 50
Catechu, Is ..... @ 13|)Chenopodium .... 25@ 30]Chloroform ...... 34@ 54
Cas Be @ a Coriandrum ..... a. 14 heii = ows 1 ave a . 7
Catechu, 4s @ @ydenium) 92.5.7. @1 oro’m Squibbs H It & Pp k D C
Camphorae ...... 60@ 65| Dipterix Odorate 2 50@2 75|Ghondrus ........ 20@ 25 azeitine e€rKins rug oO.
oe @, - Daan Bu 72 _ pena hea Germ. ag s
Galbanum ....... Foenugreek, po.. @) inchonidine . e
Gamboge ...p0..1 25@1 35|Lini ............. 4@ 6|Cocaine ........ 2 80@3 00 Grand Rapids, Mich.
Gauciacum po 35 @ 35) Tini, grd. bbl. 2% 38@ 6|Corks list, less 75%
Kino ...... po 4he  §|=@ AD) Vobelia 6.20.2... 75@ 80|Creosotum ..... : @ 45
Mastic .......... @ %5|Pharlaris Cana’n 9@ 10|/Creta ... bbl. 75 @ 2
Myrrh ..... po 50 Gad | Rana 6 5@ 6|Creta, prep. ..... @ 5
Opium: <.....5.... 25@6 35|Sinapis Alba .. 8@ 10|Creta, precip. 9@ 11
Shellac Stare . ae a Sinapis Nigra 9@ 10 = Rubra .... g a
Paeantk et ee Spiritus Gucet ‘aol 3@ 10/]| .
Pe, 7 ee ee iteuie ... le te
i Herba Prumenti ...:..... 4 ae. of incre alt Mes. @ 8
Absinthium ..... 45@ 60|Juniperis Co. . oo Oh iemicts po _..... @ 6
Eupatorium oz pk 20 Pia pe ag ge : ae a Ergota po 65 60@ 65
Lobelia ... oz pk 20 A a tae Scan ce Biher Sulph 3 40
Majorium ..0z i - Vint his ani 4 op a Flake White 12@ 15 COCOA d
Brentra Ftp. o& Pp oe 1 25 @2 on} Galla_ ............ @ 30 an
Mentra Ver oz pk 261 Vint Oporto ....1 25@2 aa 3@ 9
UGH es: oz pk 3 Sponges | Gelatin, Cooper @ 60 wae ne
Tanacetum..V.. 22) xtra yellow sheeps Gelatin, French 35@ 60 CHOCOLATE i carte io aa IE
Thymus V..oz pk 25 wool carriage @Y 25 Glassware, fit boo 75%
Calcnet, “Fat” sea | carriage. $ Gay sa| Om oo ae a
-aicined, at. .. o0@ VU} carriage ..... a7 ° 'Giwe, DrOWn ..... . i
Carbonate, Pat. 18@ 20| Grass sheeps’ wool as Glue, white ..... 15@ 25 For Drinking and Baking
Canosa K-M. ne 4 o_o oa el Fo eve. aoe = x ;
oe Nassau sheeps’ Wool noi. oe Gs These superfine goods bring the customer back
hi 50@7 00/ carriage ...... ( 5| Hydrarg Ammo’! @1 15 :
Amyadalae Duis. 13@. $5| Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydrarg Ch. Mt = @ 90 for more and pay a fair profit to the dealer too
Amygdalae, Ama 8 00@8 25|_ wool carriage @2 00| Hydrarg Ch Cor 90
BA ice cass 1 90@2 00| Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ox Ru’m  @1 00
Auranti Cortex 2 75@2 85| Slate use ...... @1 40| Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
Gsik ay a0. Cen @ 50 fenthyob ola, Au. 9001 00
atpute oo... es a eacia = (200000. ;
Caryophilli ...... 1 20@1 30] Auranti Cortex .. @ 50/ Indigo .......... 5@1 00 The Walter | . Lowney Company
Cegan es. 6s ‘ a. 90| fe Sigua on sie eae g & fodine, Resubi 3 8004
Ghenopadil eauee -0 10@4 O00} Ipecac ..:........ @ @6|fodoform ......-.
Cinnamoni ..... 1 75@1 85 Raa san ideas @ 50] Liquor Se et Barn
Conium Mae .... og 90} Smilax Offi’s 50@ 60 Hydrarg |
Citronella .:::65s O@ Te! Bene~a .......... @ 50 Liq Potass “antais 109 12 Cacaninaaanar Sanaa Sea ee ————O

 

 

 

 

 
 

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; ate of purchase. ntry merchants cng Prices, ne aio ametHEWING Fane 4 a
ADVAN ave their ord ver, are fetnn's Flag Spruce Cocoanut D = ee & 4
CED ers filled at | Goes. oer: . os Drops .-.-.-13 a. <
est Pe * ae ne ocoanut Hi ey Cake Ss ino
Best Donan eee 55 | Cocoa on oe 12 cir gS
psin, 5 boxes .. nut Hon gers mM Watee Crna De ;
DECLINED Pack oon 2 eee 8 oP eceeeet Hon Jumbies a CREAM. aoc 4
ee Gum Ma Re 55 oa ne Cooki roons ..18 Barrels o M TART 1 46 x :
Sen pe Ge .:. ob ielasigien ies Iced 10 a r drums AR - 4 x
see ee ence ces n Ltt ese ese ee seeeeee eee
Yucatan Breath Perf 1 Ditto" sinenr C es oo Pane cans Pree een esos 2
oe 5 ‘amily ‘ookie |. Bitte ¢
a ee 5] Mg Cookie > .. 9 ORIED ++ 82 «
CHICORY 55 . Cake pee a ale FRU -. 85
Index to Markets — PIE Newton ‘Laz | Bvapora Aopen ay
Red oo.sseseenes eetas 5| Fluted C eral gaa geie 2 sh alla

B Bagle (eeeceeeeeeeeeee 7| Fro ocoanut Bar 12% Anriceta 7

y Columns a Se a 5 hae Creams Bar 10 4 | California pricots 3 1% %

A oe 7 oe Fingers seeees 8 Cc Pe 10@1 ~~
1 a aioe 2 wanCHOCOLATE, | ee ale Coole “s orsican wvieren ’ *
A Cio) | 12 92. © ein er Baker & : rait Wouey y Cake ..12 hu! Beetle + 4

pegged —— ;: ne 7 oo ioe oe Oysters Premium s+ ee st rult Tarts heroes soe fine pie. os *

cee ee EA =o Ove, .: (6 ¥wie née araca sees se 6 0'e « i ae erg ie @ ‘
oo 11 ib. ewke sty Cove, ga 800 95 | p Walter “ke Lonanoy 31 a le i 2 |Lemon A ad 1% “*

Bath Beans” sight oo. ce eer e tthe PGT 2 ook “gages ala Ang niaeae Tie Aoi 1 me

eR cae 1| 10%. in boxes oz. 2 ums ums ca te 32 Ginger $ ts 8 can _! 3 ‘ oe

Bl soune Tb. . xes, 2 eee CIbER eWEE) oe inger Snz Leas Clu Ral ol
Brooms ee og Stagg co agen 2 ee * =| Mecrows ot 00@2 50] Reeul IDER, SWEET $2 | inner Snaps foeatty, 7 Cluster, § crown’ “

rushes : es | Sank per don... 7 301 at .. | meee oo 4 oo Oe Lose Muscaten ot ~
Butter C . ee aoe inesl 7 Jone... 90@1 oe ee | aon ell - BC lonne Meee =

olor see ‘ 1/1 BAKED -oca2 00 arly Ju beeee 9 951% Tr mre 28 50 losis Bae” . L. M Muscat 3 or
eau wee . ca BEAN ne Sift 5@1 25 | Boi ade bar gals 4 50| fo ia MM eed T a. * =
lis om a oe. ° Pi oe Sgt ete oe ae a 10 caitee @ oc oe be

Candies c 3Tb. seg per doz...... 90 No. ee aches ard, per gal ee. 50 Spsigied Cake, N 5 ae 100-125 —e Pru ¥@ "
aaaen tapos ......-. a ees co ‘io oc 90@1 25 |B Ae ag 30 fo Wisuers Aa C12 90-100 2m. ——

Carbon O Si ceeeee Ameri TH BRICK _ 1 80 n pie 5 Baker’s i A H y Jumble. s. Ice 12 80- 90 tb. bo --@ 4 ~45
aie Be carer eee eG aa. 2 Grated Pineapple @3 00| Cleveland 37 baa ee tea 70- 80 Ht poxes. .@ 4%

@tSUp se eeeeeeeneeeee aa 75 Hoel 1 colonial y, eee see ee a H , laa 12 0- 70 . dbo . 6 ,
Gereals -o...eses ees 2 ica ce 85@2 50 aoe a ee naa lo ee Mth Baxae. 4
Chewin ee, 2 A ING F P +* 95@2 40 Epps . %s deoda ae 35 Jousehold cokies oe 40- 25tb oxes. .@

. Gem ci 6 oz. rctic ar oot 802 10] Men 33 | iced Cook Leg 50 25th boxes 6%
es 5] S50, ovale 8 aus, box Balt, ee sseetens ae 3 |fced isppy Rasmly contd {f° 90 281. bores. .@ 1
C pocorn as aie ee g Saw nd 2 doz. b Ss 4 Fancy Ce a 85] Lo ae as 45 Imperi oney Cru ve Me less i. boxes. 7 ~
oon a sin yer's Pepper Box eee eet oF Lowney, 48 .-........ 36 gg id mpets 10 FARINACE SOT. cneee

ee °. 3 pes eee 0 y, ee Jubi neh eee 9 o . Cas ws .
pnoonnat ee eee: 3| No. 5, ; one suk txe 450 inane ies Van ie is a es cece 36 peep ae Aiea ite g | Dried LA sh @aoops e
Gocoa Shells ".2--..-.-. 3] Same fox S008 ten 7 b0| Col a @ Van Houten, %s -.... 49 | Laddie eo Hand Pid
Confecti Se re 3 ne. ce . ag ~0 ‘a Rive mon Van H en, ys piece! 12 Lemon Ge en als rown te ‘4a. Ai 8 oe
acc. I Aces 3 N BROO eS 4 00 Col’a rice talls 1 95@ Van ie og i. 20 Lemon Bi mse 9 : land corres sR a
Cream SB wpeeeseeeseens ll 46 1 Carpet . ee Alaska flats 2 oe 00| Webb oitee, 16... 40 Deron a Sean = 1 Farina ces .

—- : No. 3 Carpet, 4 on --2 75 ink Alaska eee 35@1 - Wilbur, “gs oo prea oa ee ulk, aa cee oe as 4
Dried Fruits Pavtor Carpet, ; aw 5 gel ets Sardines 8001 00 edeo . sed MA westeeerseaes 17 | Peart’ ie Hominy ke ~
aaresene Cc em . + sel » AS os. Dunham’ ANU *| Marshmallow Wain — earl, 1 . sack...
4g] Common Whisk *. D ic, 3% .3%@ 4 am’s T Mol low Whlant 9 12 , 100 Ib uf
Fa Whisk ‘eo a0 Domestic Sea Dunham’ es & asses sania 40 earl, 2 . sack .-1 @

Farinaceous e Wavct aaa 90 California % Mus. 6% 5 Soe 4s [7 26% | Molasses yoarioe nienen s 16 oe tb. sack coned 45 ee
Feed . Goods . house 4... 1 25 California, 4s ..11 ,@ 9 | Bulk [ose 977 | Molasses F kes, Iced 8 Donec and 160.4 80 *
Fish and Oysters ... — BRUSHES 3 French. ¥ %s .. Re 28 Iced | ruit C 3 Impo c, 16 Verm!
ce ais oe s Solia sit seg 00| French, bey : i @24 COFFEE 12 Mottled Square ookies E ied. 25 = box _ a.

ing Tackle ......... 0| Solid B: [oe Mottled Square ..... . ;

Flavoring xtradis ..- Solid, Baek ia _,| Standara Silage!’ O8 Common ..rsr1.++.10 Nabob Jumbles 20272! 19 |gemmon Bariey 2
Fresh M oes bs 6s see 5 inted End ee Tl aoe Bair weeeeseeeeees @13% Orance rackers ag 14 Be ee ‘

ah tela a ceial Seras 5 aa eae . OIE Su -.. 30@ Pela ain aan ad P Be a. roe ee a 8 60 ¥
eee oe er holes 000000 ee pe
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= a G No. 4 aryl eee ovaiay 90 isa 1 g5 | Common Santos - 20 Abia Han ae 9 Grae Wisconat es _
leer oc ce a se s'bte e 1. scuce: 1 25] sta nes 1 25@1 2 Feir pe aiauaraae 12@13% Pretzelettes, Ii Poa : Split, | sBeotch, 0
esse p|No- 8 - oe. 4 | ove ame ae =“ || Chotes “eee 14% Pretzelettes, opi Ma. ae teense ee i
Cee gine 7 recta etee ne rs eee Pe ete ae Rev ‘ookies .. fd. 8 t In — .
ee au . No. 3 CHEESES $y | Sood Tomatoes nei oe en 9” Rosalie a. German, ‘sacks pi. :
can oahe "ee oe 70 “ge fr eee e 95@1 10 a iw . ranaibe a aor eee an, broken’ pie..” : -j
bcsueek 10 wo R. & Co’ COLOR 0 Fancy -....eeeee 8@ 90 ce eee coe fete ay 9 Flake, 110 2plooa an
Jelly .. 4 oo & Co's a ee Ge 2. 40 Choice Mexican a9 | Roow cCookles 02. 10 a re gancks.. 6
eee eesir ener P Pe Ni a da ON Ol ae piced ee ae a
8 araffine, 6 LES P Ba cea 16% | Su Currant Cake __ 1g |FLA a. .... 4
beam i Paraffine, 68 owes eeenene 10 Ay tig Gets Choice a oe oe vou Tg me
ee ¢ C ca D. s. Pah at Q10% ee er ee 16 Spiced oe eee Pat i a a
a. 31D NED GOODS | ” Gas Machine 2 eas fa ese ae oe ao. ane 1€ |No. 2 — -
= a 6 Ib. Standards. : ose Nap’a__ @us S a frican _ Sugar ie ae e Iced 10 No. 3 Terpeneiese

at Mtracts oss. Slory, Black be @1 00 ion @121 1G ce sil ee 8 No. erpen ae 4
Molasses WE ae estereehe 6] 2m. piaciber 2 75@3 00 Engine ......... a eee 25 Pi snacnt eeu large or 8 Terenas oe 16 >a
cand Cee é Standards | 5 grad et aa Mocha hee ee Jumbles ..: 9 |No. 2 Vente sono Hy

Ue eet ie aca ards ealior 5@1 an CE cee 4, @10 Y ee a Ss a a a. | 10 No. Hi h a e. li
on naee 6 alions © REAL S Pa Cee es ponge L ee o. 4 g _
B B @5 5b Break Ss N ckage s ey Le cee Hi Class ..
a Baek pees wicca Gr re Arbuckle York, Basis Vanilli Crimp Fingers ‘25 No. 8 High a 225 oe
a i co ae opt 30 Greem of Wheat = 2 50 Dilworth cetteeleeeee a+ Viewers wea 9 Jaxon Bre: ae = . 4

Olives o Ul 70@1 7 sie ak pkgs Tb 4 50 rege ae 3 enete 18 75 Piet anne tate enne eas 17 2 ox. rut Vanilla nd

cence ee Sts ints 75@l a — Se es, 36 ib. 85 Be nek 2S 00 i. bees 1 4 oz. a Measure
P po 6] Galton Asie Sl Gare i. ree pkgs... gles Laughlin’s xxx 25) Albe F Seal Goods 0 |8 ox. Full Mensur ---f 10 -

wel ra ce +2+-% Of 5 in’ cece

ae 21 : a 625 Malta Cores 2, doz ce 2 70 to retallers only, tod cn Animals per doz.|? °%- Full Pony ree 4
Plekles 1.20 joecceccees g| 2. cans, spi rout Mielec Vita se ‘mn. 0|McLa a ee nimals 2.0.0.0. 1 06/4 oz Meam
Potust> a 617 ’ pie eh ag Mapl-_Flake 36 1b. ..2 40} go. ughlin & as WwW. F -vollhel de: Bincuse Lele 1 00/8 so Full Mea re ....1 235
Potash: «-...---2000007) g| little Neck ams 1 90] Pillsbury's * 36 coe 85 S Chien (ore Biscuit 2 oe wall Beco ee :

Pia ; — Neck, at eee Ralston Health Fe as ae Holland oo Waters. ae .1 00 neetaniae So me Fs 2
a : am. Boui @1 5¢ a... a elix, ¥% gro a a ae. oe
—, p one co we ee Wks he? ’ Sarnmate ton. oe © Cheese Sandwich .... 1 00|N = xt. Lem » WA
Salad geregeetsrtes: : Burnham's oe ot. ....1 Sunient toe 36 1% : pe eames foil, 4 ot 1s Cocoanut Waters tteee : oe No . Panel on
aleratus eo ams ai 3 60 ogg’s Toast 20 1% 4 of eee . §5| Faust O ee No. 4 Panel 2100001, Tl
Sal Soda eee : Red St oo 20 wicor a oo | ao National RACKERS. 1 43 | Fie Eig oe 06| Te; 6 Rapa pea es 15 a

Salt Gee 7] white andards ..  @1 40 Voigt Cr Des 2 15 a ey Five O'clock Regt Losi, per Panel «...... -+ 3 00
é i. sees co Nes ee es Zest een Wak 275|N na ma A oe. in ie’ .
sue i oe Bae Grey ising 4 | Berman a ean ets] al ams in
Sn acking ... 1) Good ........... 15@ small pkgs... 4 10 cc Goa” a a oC ennin e ....8 60
Snuft eee Siieeer 1 oaa1 10] Steel ‘Rolled Qate "| Scteet a Hf eG 100; | sxtract Vanilla 4
Soda 8ich French Pe 1 45 Steel Cut 100 bbls. 2 Select ote e nie om Oatme neon |... 1 00 No. 2 a
Soups 8 font Extra a= 5 Monarch fog tb. oe 65 es ee E0 bacdae 6% Old oe a 50 |No. 4 Panel Dos
aon - : rine Ms. 22 Monarch, 90 i. oseeee 2 5 a Saratoga Flakes ..... 3” oo Salt po Peak ot e|No. 6 ote vee 1 2 » =F
Soak Fine eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 19 Juaker, 18 . sacks ‘21 |Zephyrette .... 2. 3 yste . iscuit . 100 Tat anel Secgeccccen OF
a. so. 8 oR ase alee ge 15 Quaker, 2 Regul $s 25FIN ooo 13 us rettes it he ee

ES er anegooiebri f ar. 20 Fa ar ..15 Boo yster . canul Wales °° Va onis Of. nel 52.8 60

becnghiwe tas ; Stanaareo eres 11| Bulk Cracked pid 4 80 Gem .... see ae Pretzelettes, 1d oe se ; oz. . Measure 220.) 09 4
Tea + s eecas tre Lrg | 2f 2D packkai eat vetieereeesticil) 6g | Sau rece, Ha. Md... ath ree, easure ...

Tobacco ....-.. Pangand ey r . packages |. ”! 31. |A Sweet Goode. * Sa tine Biscuit || "” --1 0@/No. 2 A Measure ---1 80 - 72

; oe ee cavnue : nimals Goo -- 8 arato cuit a 0e ssorted |. 08 60
Besse: fie ag coumeneateee 1 elena ja Boca ase ne onan age |”

. > case 81 te poet ee rere * 2 95 Snider’s aie 415 oe Sees es Soda Craks, cae hea 56 Rea 100 in bal ~

inegar ... ean one 4 95 2 pints 2 35 a vt --- 12 ile. Cracks oe C.1 — GRAIN _ than tI 2
oo es 9| Mustard Mackerei es Saciacee HEESE 1 35 | Brittle ealt Caice +16 Uneeda Fruit 5 Sees AND FLOUR % . oA

cking ustard, Pe JOM wees sees ees ' Nimble Reso. en need cuit 1 60| White |. : :
woes S a 1 eee ee @17 st . Sick SN ga aoe a
Wondenwang 000000) 8 Beye ER Rivernide ST Satta OH Ghee at, Si een a,
er 9 Tomato ee R0 ringdale pea oe art wh ‘ips oe seccee 9 Wate afers ult Be Loe eat Fiou . =
steeee 10 women Vit eee seccecen te Warner’s es @17T% Caval eels Ass coe ie Zu a Thin Bi LO Patents al Brands r
Y ¢ Y Cee ee 1 50 Rik @17% Ch jer Cak orted 7, u Gin iscuit 1 0 Second: Ca ea eles
a Mn one a Circle Ho alata Te ean wer Snaps 58 ee - t
gota trom gg [EE gon Wei.” ee oe. Straight 0... s-sseee
0| Buttons 2.202... @ Pineapple Freee @18 currant, Fruit Cookies i. ls Special Tin Pa — . Clear eae ~~
nroome og seleisramse <= get [Cotes Gate cuit esti ckag aa a 5 a
28 ~My 40 a Coffee Ca: eae 14 no P e8.!b oe ts beers 8s 4
inane. c ake seteeee ee eee” er d arre barr 00
domestic oS lo cacr ke, oe Nabisco, tt es ee 3 66 ee, Se per . us
8 Cocoanut — Og hampaene one : Bis oe Tete Co.
r etme Sorbett Per — sc 2 BO. Woches on is cloth 5 50
10 |Nabisco 2277; _Hn in bulk. Goce cer — . r
Oca. eS, cocces 1M Quaker. paper 8 Brand
Snbaveeou * cloth soe eae 6 00
1% Wykes & Ce. 6 & | z
Biclipse ykes & Co 20
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Kansas Hard Wheat Fleur) Short Cut Clear ...... a) OU UNG. flO Ths. c00 . 1 50 Pure Cane a Butter Plates _ Pelts
Judson Grocer Co. BOA Oe a. 20 00 (No. 1, S Wis oo) Dame ee ae 16 | Wire End or Ovals. Old Wool ........ @ 80
Fanchon, %s cloth ....6 50| Brisket, Clear ........ 24 00 Whitefish Goeg 62. 20 | Ib., 400 in crate ...... 30 PORE occ 50@ 75
Jiemon & Wheeler Co. | Pig ....... SA ce eit 24 00 No! 1) No 4 Wan | Cholee | ......... ... 25 ja aa BE COMAG oe 5 «5 be Shearinge .. 2... 40@ 6
White Star, Bs cloth 5 90} Clear Family cee eeees 21 00 100: he 3 975 $8 bu TEA 2 7 aa a éteeeeee 35 Teiew
White Star ae date 616 P. oa Oe ‘i.e in sane 13 Ib., 250 in erate... 40|No. 1 @ 6
ite Star %s clo = conser: £0 Wee 112 655 /Sundried, medium ..24@26/% 1b. 250 in crate ........ 50| No. ea ae 4
Grand Hapids Grain @) chard ot ee, 92 = 48 |Sundried, choice ..:!30q@3g/° 1B. 250 in crate ...... oO Ae oe
ee Oe coe a _" SHOE BLACKING Be ce hg Shure Unwashed, med. @ 28
Purity, Patent -......, & 70 eee 4a Pe % | Handy Box, large 3 dz 2 50| Regular, medium ...24@26 Herc ‘ ep r a Unwashed, fine @ 23
tee 5 90/80 1. tubs::\ladvance i Handy Box, a eesclae’ ney Me so | | eine hae CONF ECIIONS
Wieard, Combed <4 Wu/a8 IB tng Seance Be a oe ae Eee ne ong Hh stanssigh cata ai
: ae 0 Ib. pails....advance %|% Basket-fired. choice @a7\* inch, 5 gross ._...... 60; Standard ........., eee
a eS oe ae SNUFF Coe tg Go 1ist4k toch. Garona 55|Standard HH 177777, 7
"Spring Wheat. Fiour | & Ib. Date cqecuc: 4 | Heoteh, in Blegners «.... oe. "26@30| Cartons, 20 24% doz. bxs..¢y|Standard ‘Twist rei i
oy Baker’s Brand 8 Ib. pails....advance Maccaboy, tre 2S ines . 10@12|,. Egg Crates and Fillers | ases
Golden” Horn, family..5 75 Smoked Meats French Rappie in jars ..43|Fannings ....."”” 14@15 | Humpty a 12 dz. 4 bmg ae cieteee
--6 65) Hams, 12 Ib. average..14 P | . complete ........ | RE ee nr eke. Q
Duluth Smperial s-'+1-8 9¢| fame: 14 I, oveawe: 4 J. 8. Kirk & Co. ane, wnpowder |No. 2 complete 11.7211" a3 | Boston “Cream “18
Duluth Imperial ...... 9; tiams, 14 Ib. 8 vy. 8. Kirk Moyune, medium ....... Sten a ee ail. 5|Big stick, 30 ID
Wisconsin. Rye 2. ...... 4 20; Hams, 16 Ib. average..14 | American Hamily ...-, 4 | movune aliciee 39 | <ase No.2 fillerslosets 1 36 . - Case 8
Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand! Hams, 18 Ib. average..14 | Dusky Diamond, 50 80z 2 80 Moyune, fancy ..._”. 40@45 | 28% mediums, 12 sets 1 15 a Mixed Canay
Seraotas Re 220200008 §0| lain dried pee ia’ “A84 [fap Rode "Sy 200°, O% #8] igh, medias -Aegae| | Fawceta | | Groceranes Cana? ‘
eresota, Bes ess cs ce dé ; ‘ie Be me é se, 00 bars ..... -ingsuey, ¢c : ae) | s. eu. Maa a alae " oe
Geresota, %8 .....500- 6 40| California Hams ..... 11%2|Savon Imperial ....... 3 00 Ping ace oo 19@is | Cork lined, 9 in........ g0/ Special ...... Sedsdese. &
Lemon & Wheeler's Brand) Picnic Boiled Hams ..15 | White Russian ......., 3 15 | a He |Cork lined, 10 in....... $6) COMMERVE ..00.5605055, 7%
Winvold, 48 06.20.00. 6 10) Boiled Ham ..)...... |. 224 |Dome, oval bars ...... 3 00 gis Young Hyson | Mop Sticks RUONOR «asi cessiacicaca ie
Wingo, 4S oo... 6.65: 6 00) Berlin Ham, pressed ..11 |Satinet, oval ......... Be aro n sk ees cawenns 3° trojan sprue. . gy| Ribbon ..... cccececen 16
Wingold) 6s) 02.0.0). 5 90] Minced Ham oo. 3). 1. it |Snowberry, 100 cakes 4 00|Fancy ............... MQW | clipes patent spring 36 oe siiideuceceacs. @
Hitec oT i = Bacon oS 17%. Proctor & Gamble 3, Peraicees fo - a NO. J cOminon 1.) .7.. 3u ph EUnet saa i
aurel, ws clo Oe ala neem Bene a, TaNCy 2... : 5@60! No. : i. brush 61 3 ees Seneeen an
Laurel, 44s cloth ...... GOO Bologna: 2.00... 8 sepa Gog oe 4 ly “mmoy, Medium ....... vai tah, octce mop Neate o ree steccece 1G
one oe cloth Pi. ai Siete dee secede i Ivory) 16.62) 0110 6 15 Amoy, choice ....., dsnncGa ideal MG. 7 .......... 85| Star ream eassrene
aurel, 28 Cloth ..... ° RPOTIRLORG 25 ec ee se Sar 5 English Breakfast ‘le | He aaa \Hhlela ua
Voigt) Milling Co.’s ie es Ace tt aclte seen ales a Lautz Bros. & Co. Med@inm) (01 oe! ees 2 | z-hoop eine ee 2 15 Premio. Getare eee g “28
Voigt’s Leen Decca fee il Acme, 70 bars Sclecls eles Choice Seer eta dy tcaeas 30 | 3-hoop Standard ...... 2 35 | Paris Cream Bon Bons 10
Voigt’s Flouroig He Acme, 30 bars 60)... .. 5; mp PUNGy ..4..5....... --40@45|2-wire, Cable 2 261
(whole wheat flour) 6 00,Headcheese .......... 9 Acme, 25 pare 6... 0 4 00 India ae fan a able. Fancy—in Paiig
Voigt’s Hygienic i 14 09| Some, 100 cakes... 8 25 | Ceylon, choice ...... 20@35 | Cedar, ail red, brass ’-:1 25| Gobo” BaeeEes ee 7
sraham .........0.. Q eC te me cd ce e885 « Big Master, 70 bars ..% PAney oo 45@60| anor porens 4 an} a TB eeeeee
Voigt’s Royal ......... 6 40|/Rump, new .......... 14 00 aon Mctiica 2 85 TOBAGCO @ raed Wureka ........ 2 = Fudge Squares ...... 13
Sings Eee oe ath. ed bk gg German ce’ in ees Fine Cut Veeinieks Sugared Beans *o°°"° 3
eepy Eye, \%s - +6 Ho Resa eeceenes ses German Mottled, 10 bxs CBGUNAG .......... Fa ’ s fase
Slepy Eye, 4S cloth. .6 10 M bbis:, 40 Ibs 2... 2). 2 00 Serman Mottled, 25 bxs 2 75 Secel Lease ae 7 Hardwood Piesedeesece 2 50 Salted Peanuts hedene 13
Sleepy Bye, %s cloth..6 00|/% bbls. ............... 4 00 Marseilles, 100 cakes ..5 80| Hiawatha Sib. paila ..b@ | BOltwood ............. 2 70) Starlight Kisses ...... il
ees ao co as Me { DBE oe eee se ce 9 00 Marseilles, 100 cakes 5c 4 09 Welegeaan oo oe i hl ee lease ganas. ; bo Tomante —— ie
sleepy Kye, 4s paper.. ee : Marseilles; 100 ck toil 4 Pay Car oe He te Pe nglens ce adas « oe , Sey scseee
Meal Kits, 15 Ibs. re teeeees 80 Marseilles, %bx toilet 2 10 Penis oo. . = Traps Lozenges, printed ....12
Bolted 3 90; % bbis., 40 tbs. ........ 1 60 nu Protecti : Mouse, wood, % holes.. 22) h@ampion Chocolate | :13
. wo ot 1% bbl. 80 Ibs 3 00 A. B. Wrisley MOCECUION 5... co... 46 sis : ; -| Eclipse Ch
Golden ger ip esi oe oe 7/2 s., a Gua (Chea: 4 00|Sweet Burley 41 | Mouse, wood, 4 holes.. 45 Muresan Chooses “1a
St. Car Feed screened : ' ‘ ee ee Maer oo eto Mouse, wood, 6 holes.. 70 i Olates ....
No. 1 Corn and Oats 28 5U| Hogs, per ID. .......... 32; Old Country ........... B40 BOT 1. . seen eee ecs ane 7 lMouse. Ga. © holes uses go | Quintette Chocolates 14
Corn, Cracked ........ 28 ». | Beef, rounds, set ...... 26 Soap Powders Plug Rai, woud (2 gy|/-bampion Gum Drops $
Corn Meal, coarse ...28 50|Beef, middles, set .... 80 Lautz Bros. & Co. meee @Oss so. ita euing ..... 76|Moss Drops ......... 10
Winter Wheat Bran 24 00|/Sheep, per bundle .... 90 Snow Boy .....00..... AO so | : 7 Lemon Sourg ........ 10
Miggiings oo... 26 00 _Uncolored Butterine Gold Dust, 24 large ..4 50) Kyle .............05 | 35 ae Stina ve He 14% {mperials ....., cocsee Jt
Buffalo Gluten Feed $8 00)Solid dairy ..... 10 @12 |Gold Dust, 100-5c ..... 4 00| Battle Ax .......... 37 fin aa ~ a N "374% tial. Cream Opera ....13
Dairy Feeds Country Rolls ...1012@16% | Kirkoline, 24 4Ib. ..... 3 80; American Eagle ....... 33 To aameare, Ne. 2% U6) ital Crages Bon Bons 12
Wykes & Co Canned Meats POROUNG oo. icc sac ck 3 75}Standard Navy ....... 87 | 16-in. Standard, No. 3 6 15/ Golden Wafiles 3
O P Linseed Meal ..35 00|Corned beef. 2 tb. ....2 90 Soaping 622.0000), 4 10}Spear Head, 7 oz....... 47 | #0-in, on a 1 ....9 = Red Rose Gum Drops 10
O P Laxo-Cake-Meal 32 50|Corned beef, 1 tb. ....1 65/Babbitt’s 1776 ......... 3 75|Spear Head, 14% oz. 44 | 13-in. Cable, No. 2 <3 3 soe ioe. 13
Cottonseéd Meal ....34 00| Roast beef, 2 tb. ......2 90|/Roseine .............. 3 GOpNobby Twist ........ .: 55 | 10-in. Cable, No, 3 ....7 26 Fancy—in 5ib. B
Gluten Peed 0.5.20... 30 00} Roast beef, 1 Tb. ...... Hi Go| Avmours) 20.0000) 0e0 4. teres FOP ows... 39 fe 1 — eh " = Old Faahinnad yA tiga
Brewers’ Grains ee ne — ee Ke Seen as Wisdom 2c) 3 80 oo apa fai aiclnei ns | = Ne ; bie Sete csneas 3 2¢| _ eS Kisses, 101. bx 1 30
Kammond Dairy Feed 25 00} Po te am, coche Go Soap Compounds | CG@¥ .................. 4 (6 Bilre ........5.; Grange idle
Alfalfa Meal ......... 25 00| Deviled ham, \s ...... tics wo § it. F- <---> ei eeue cl. 33 Waehhearte §=6—|_ Leman fore...” , 4
Oats Deviled ham, ee. css 95 Johns sg XXX 4 25 Piper Heidsick ....... 69 Brenee Gloheé ......... 2 60 Old Fashioned H
Michigan carlots, ...... 3; Potted tongue, 4s .... 55 Mina erelock oll B 30| Boot Jack ee a S@ [Dewey ..............; 1 70] hound drops — 60
Less than carlots .... 45] Potted ne ae cece, 90 Rub-No-More a a 1 aaa pony ae oo cee = oe po Weleauvaee : Ld Peppermint Drops. 60
: a MIGRATE oe. Petngic Acme .......... 2) Che; i
a. @iPancy |... De a ce OE ce: 40 | Double Peerless 2.2211) 3 75| Freon, Choc. Drpe ss
oe Japan 6.6.0.3: 5 6% |_. Eno q an's . Se ee ccc 64°*|Single Peerless ....... 3 15) a :
eae i. . gion Meese ee. ~- Sapolio, gross lots ....9 OO} Nickel Twist ......._|' d2 t Northern ‘Queen coceeee 4 are oy na” — j
Carlots 14 SALAD DRESSING oor ee ee fete FP ........-.....-- 32. |Double Duplex .....:: 3 00! pitter Suse clues
Less than carlots .... 15/Columbia, % pint ....2 25 rene: mere Hates. 2 treat Nay eco: We Gned SOK 4a. 05 555000, 2 18/ Griltians oe on
Columbia, 1 pint ...... 4 0/Sapolio, hand ...... hag moking MIVGPERD 6665 e estes 3 65 ve ' ;
Sage —- .-. 15|Durkee’s, tees 1 doz. 4 50|Scourine Manufacturing Co\Sweet Core ............ 34 Window Cleaners oe Licorice Drops. .90
i... IONS io; Durkee’s, small, 2 doz, 5 25|Scourine, 50 cakes ....1 80]/Flat Car ......1../7° 77° See in 1 6B| (Ozenwes, printed ....65
a poe Looe Spddere larea: 5|Scourine, 100 cakes ..3 50/Warpath ._....0177°°"" 26 in. Sl impertae Pint +++ -+- 88
Laurel Leaves ........ 15/Snider’s, large, 1 doz. 2 35 D Mi oo. ice la 1 85) imperials 60
Senna Leaves ......... 25) Snider’s, small, 2 doz. 1 35 SODA 54 Tt tn ie Oe ME UL vhs bas ensces aeses 2 30 wale ey : a
HORSE RADISH SALERATUS Bases 8 ss. 5y% pS vo cies 27 Wood Bowis Cea cans
Per doz. (o...00500.2., 90; Packed 60 Ibs. in box. |kKegs, English ......-. 4%, fo L, ot oz. pails ..31 1% in. Hutter ........, 1 26 am Fa a S
: JELLY a Arm and Hammer 22003 00 SPICES Gala” Bic. say #0 86 - « ac pm 1b in, Butter ecece ‘ond a Hand Made Crms 80@90
Po nal per soe ne +8 = Dette a oa Whole Spices 10 | Flagman A Ma 6 eee wai, a a pe gor otc eeeceee : i Cream Wafers ..... 65
- pails, per pail ... 55 sht's Cow ......... USCS os hans tenes ue anti : _in. ees nas Strings Bock ........ 60
nn OMAPLEINE "| Wyandotte,” “i60”3js'°273 go] cassia, China in mats, 1./ QMPS ia - ecco t, ai | AStorted! datas 17278 39) Winergreen Herrion’  ¢e
‘ me Cassia, Canton ........ , ia. § , ~Lé- eee Oiu Time Assorted 2 7%
2 oz. bottles, per doz 3 00 SAL SODA Cassia, Batavia, bund. 26 for. ao vieees a. WRAPPING PAPER | Buster Brown Good 3 60
MATCHES Granulated, bbls. ...... 85 Cassia, Saigon, broken 40 Myrtle Navy .....°.": 44 Common straw sense 4 Up-to-date Asstm’t 3 75
C. D. Crittenden Co. Granulated, 100 Ibs. es. 1 00 Cassia, Saigon, in rolls 55/Y¥ ttle Ns aes a Fibre Manila, white .. 3 Ten Strike No. 1 ..8 6
Noiseless Tip ...4 50@475| Lump, bbis. 2...... 6... $0) Gigves hovna 0. 22 , a eee Fibre Manila, colored ..4 |, aaa
MOLASSES Lump, 145 tb. kegs 4 | Cloves, _ oF ig}Xum, Yum, lb. pails 40 ma. 1h weenie 4 Sin ae _ 2 .. 6 00
s , " sore" | Cloves, Zanzibar ...... Cream 38 sa roe ‘Ten Strike, Summer as-
New Orleans SALT Mace 2... GO era St Settee rs + Cream Manila ......... 3 sortment (0)... 6 75
eee eS Eel 6 eee a ap | tee, fn er x ae 1 oe Was Ettan anne id iat | Sclentific. Aut... /.28 o6
ClCe of cece see e ees : J oy ene ee ace é 2 Nutmegs, 105- teeaees ao Plow Boy, 1% Gz. 39 , 9 Po Corn
Pe ee Nutmegs, 119-20 00°20. 20 Flow Boy, 3% os....:39 | Wax Butter, colle a9 Cracker Jack"... 3 2%
Half barrels 2c extra Gh M. wAcks . |... 2... Oper Site wits A Pere 1 OE cote = _ YEAST CAKE Giggles, Sc pkg. ca 8 60
MINCE MEAT: 20 ID: SACKS os 17) Soe 17| ,cetless, 1% om. ...... Magic, 2 dos. ...... ---1 16| Pop Corn Balls 200s 1 36
er POPDOr, SHOE ++ none: opty... es ae *- |Get tae 1 00| Azulikit 1008 ....... 3 2
— ence ” 56 tb. dairy in drill bags 40 Pure Ground in Bulk FN oS ill aid gy Oe ae 30 Sunlight, 1% doz §¢/Oh My 106e ......... 3 50
| eee PMBGe Goes secs. : = t, i aes
44 ID. GS ID. box ........ 18/28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20 ea nee 28 Fo ae oe reast Foam, 3 doz....1 15 Cough Drops
OLIVES Solar Rock “aasia| Sai 55] a : ap Yeast Cream, 3 doz...1 00) Putnam Menthol ...1 00
k, 1 gal. kegs 1 40@1 50/56 tb. sacks ........... i ge Bh) coe JNGian ...---.-.: 26 | Yeast Foam, 1% doz.. 58|Smith Bros 26
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 40 ee Cloves, Zanzibar ...... seit Binder, 1602. sux. 20-22 FRESH FISH -
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 35@1 4 : go|Ginger, African ....... 15 } Silver ia.“ 24 rer tb NUTS—Whole
ie - kegs 1 25@1 a re Pua g5|Ginger, Cochin ....... Es mweet Marie .......... a2 | whictah Jumbo 16 | Senne Tarragona ae
anznilla, OZ. seceeee eee eet tt os: Ginger, Jamaica ...... Royal Smoke ......_.. 42 PHitensn, J sae Almonds, TARO .cccce
Queen, pints .......5.. 2 50 SALT FISH Mace (200 ae 65 Whitefish, No. £ ...... 12 Almonds, California sft.
Queen, 19 oz. ......... 4 50 ; h — 7 ME ae 18 Ceticn ae 24 Prout ........eseeeeee Lit SNA fie. deauea
Queen, 28 oz. ..........7 00| Large whole .... 1.|Pepper, Singapore, blk. 17 : MOY sec cdees ee 621216. Bragia | .... 12@18
Mtuted, 5 OZ. ..:...-..- 90;Small whole ..... @ 6% Pepper, Singp. white .. 28 Cotton, 4 ply .. .......24 FIG@rEing § 6.00. 2..42455, 7 biheice 12@13
Stuffed, $ 07. ..2-.. ...1 45}Strips or bricks 74%@10% Pepper, Cayenne oe Sa); sate. 2 ply o.oo. a... 14 Biueieh ....... eacaes 1444 al wet
: PIPES Ge Pollock Ae Rees” a, 20 Hemp, 6 DIY = i-e+sc+e]8 Live Jobster ..... ea 29-- Walnuts, soft shell 15@16
oO, 2 er pox a » Medium WN ...... oile MAUSCGE. .nsssccce Te 3, Mz is 13
(aay ey, Amt coast 60] Strips ..+-++eeereeseeee 15 STARGH Wooi, 1 Ib. bails ...... 8 COD sc eceeeeeenees 10 Tahie mate nas iin
OD ccs cece alee a caey *AUNKS «2.22... sees eee S 7 VINEGAR addock ..........+6. Pecans, Med. ..... D13
Mei mice ed leases oe oe eee 5% | State Seal ............ re ete tes 12 | Pecans, ex. large .: gis
edium ; 50|Muzzy, 40 1tb. pkgs. .. 6 | Oakland apple cider 14 ee TSS ae nese Pecans, Jumbos ... 16
Barrels, 1,200 count ..6 50} White Hp. bbls. 8 50@9 y Morgan's Old Process 14 |Perch ................. 8 .| Hickory Nuts per bu
Half bbls., 600 count 3 75|White Hp. %bbls 4 50@5 25 ~ ones Barrels f Smoked, White ..... 12% hey , :
” Small White Hoop mechs. @ 7) gkinsttord cere ee oe, tots 15 | QMO, BOW -eeeeenee
Half bbis., 1,200 count 4 50|Norwegian ...... Join Gaoea! ig Stha. 6% No. 0 per grome......... 30 |Mackerel ......... ae Chestnuts, New York
rag Vrcvel bor iaatag 85 Round, one SE ; 30 Silver Gloss. 12 étbe. g%|No. 1 per gross ...111 a (pee mene ehaeeees State, per bu. ....
No. ib, Rival, cae 26|Scaled ...... ieee 13 Muzzy a 2 per gross ....... - i ao Eee ‘Shelled
No. 20, Rover, enam’d 1 50 Trout bp a oles id ala cs ay ‘wocdenwana. Speckled Bass ........ 8% et Tae a
* ae E y 0 ee. 7 50/16 5Ib. packages ...... Ve *ecan Halves ...
Na. 08 Gole satin fs Ete: Ls 48 the oo 3 25/12 61, packages ....... € | pushes nasser cot oo Walnut Halves". ..30@32
: aycio .....; OMe. 20 We 8... O0150ih. bares .. 22.5... Se ILL. \ ilbert. Meats ae
No. 632 Tourn't whist 2 25|No: A ees. 75 SYRUPS ce ee ee ee ee erences ‘te Alicante Almonds oa
: Mackerel orn vat Steet Meee ce ais oe 2 oes ordan monds ..
Babbitt’s por cecnts ine 4 00|/Mess, 100 Ibs. ....... 14 50/Barrels ......... den boa 28 pine. a tt teeeeee 3 Pes eee o enna or Sidi
PROVISIONS Mess, 40 Ibs: 0. .3.53. 6 20) Half barrels 2.2.27... 2. 30 Splint’ aoa eae Calfskin, green, No. 113 Fancy H. P. Suns 6%@ 7
Barreied Pork Mess 10 IDs. .o.6...5% 5 1 65} 20Ib. cans % dz. in es. 1 75 Willow Clothes, large 8 25|Calfskin’ green, No. 2 11 Roasted .... 6%@ 7
Mess, new ...........22 00;Mess, 8 Ibs. ......... 1 85/10. cans, % dz. in cs, : a Willow Clothes’ ae 7 26| Calfskin, cured, No. 1 14 |Choice, H. P- Jum-
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Business-Wants Department.

Advertisements inserted under this head for twocents a word
the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent

continuous insertion.
must accompany all orders.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—One outdoor display case,
marble base, heavy plate glass, water
and dust proof, with nickel fixtures,
Sold cheap if taken at once. Address
No. 309, care Tradesman. 309

For Sale—Stock dry goods, clothing,
shoes and groceries, doing $135,000 yearly
business. Established thirteen years.
Other interests demand owner’s entire
attention. Stock can be reduced to suit
purchaser. Brady Bros. & Co., Winfield,

 

 

 

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For Sale—Only meat market in good
Iowa town of 500 population. Doing a
fine business. Address H. BE. Evans,
Macedonia, Ia. 805
For Sale—Up-to-date furniture store

in good city of 40,000.

Stock A No, 1 in
fine condition.

Nothing old nor stale.
Best location. Good six year lease, at
low rent. Fine Opportunity for right
party. F. B. Penwell, Trustee, Danville,
ill, BUS

Listen, Mr. Merchant,

Why not have a rousing Mid-Winter
Sale? stir things up. Get rid of siow
j seiling goods aud put money in your
business. Now is the time for action.
Dates for Jan. ana Heb. are rapidly
being tilled. I work for protits and
consider your interests. Stocks re-
duced or closed out, no matter
where located. Remember, I come myself
qQualitied by knowledge ana experience. Write
tor open dates. b. M. Comstock,

907 Uhio building Toledo. Ohio

Small stock general merchandise; fix-
tures and stock reduced to suit purchas-
er. Box 127, Crystal, Mich.

 

lsakery and confectionery
sale, complete. Good business in good
Lown. Will sell cheap on easy terms.
address P. M. Jencks, Windom, Minn.
300
tor Sale—$i45 new model six-drawer
National Cash Register, for $360 cash. C.
wv. Owens, 210 E. Fulton, Grand Rapids,
Mich. 299
For Sale—We want you to ask us about
our brick and tile plant and our reasons
for selling. Twenty acres of best clay,
sixty h. p. Atlas engine and boiler, two
patent Kilns, soft and stiff and machines
with capacity of 25,000 each per day.
Everything in excellent condition—but
we wan to sell. There’s a reason. Ask
us. Birmingham Brick & Tile Co. btd.,
Birmingham, Mich. Z
For Sale—Stock -of general merchan-
dise and fixtures, $1,500. Last year’s busi-
ness, $8,000. Strictly cash. A bargain if
sold in the

business for

 

next sixty days. Address
Box 34, Independence, Ind, 295
_ For Sale—Drug stock, new. Located
in farming and resort town, 600 popula-
tion. On river and railroad. Inventories
about $1,400. Chas. A. Carter, Alanson,
Mich. 307

_ 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,

290

Mich, 2S ae
Will pay cash for shoe stock. Address

286
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. 285
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. 29
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,” Fithian, Ill. 282

For Sale—Pure sorghum, black  wal-
nuts, 75c. Write F. Landenberger, Ol-
ney, Ill. av

No. 286, care Michigan Tradesman.

 

No charge less than 25 cents.

Cash

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 Sale or Rent—Store building, 30x
90, in Upper Peninsula Michigan small
town. Good prospects. If interested
write for particulars. Address R. FE,,
care Michigan Tradesman. 274
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 location 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, ig
Zbvo
Tobacco in natural leaf, at 1244c, 15c,
18c per Ib. Send 25c in postage for sam-
ples. Frank Dittbenner, Franklin,

 

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., a
Minneapolis, Minn. 255

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

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

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. Yb

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

 

 

 

For 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

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IF SPOT CASH
and quick action appeals to you, we will 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 woOmaD wants money for. Write us to-

day and we will be there to-morrow.

Paul L. Feyreisen & Co.,
154 Franklin St., Chicago, Ill.

 

 

For

Sale—First-class meat market,
stock and _ fixtures; building included.
Cheap for cash. J. F. Rezac & €o., St:
Marys, Kan. 86

Cash For Your Business Or Real BHs-
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,
ge Adams Express Building, Chicago,

; 26

4 pay “cash for stocks Or part stocks
of merchandise. Must be cheap. H.
Kaufer, Milwaukee, Wis. Ta
_______ SITUATIONS WANTED.
Wanted—Position by an experienced
middle-aged Christian man as clerk ina
general store. Good recommends. John
Graybill, Clarksburg, Ill. 308

HELP WANTED.

Wanted—A competent hardware
at C. ©. & Chester ¢. Sweet’s, Benton
Harbor, Mich.

Wanted—A salesman to sell a first-
class vacuum cleaner at a reasonable
price to the trade on commission basis.
Address No. 297, care Tradesman. 297

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

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

 

 

Want Ads. continued on next page.

 

Special Price Current

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9
Paragon ......... 55 6

BAKING POWDER

Royal
l0c size
%Yb. cans 1
60z. cans |
ID. cans 2
% Tb. cans 3
1fb. cans 4 80
3Ib. cans 13 00
5ID. cans 21 50

BLUING

 

 

Cc. P. Bluing

Doz.
Small size, 1 doz box..40
Large size. 1 doz. bux..75

CIGARS
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand

  

a, © W:., 1000 lotsa ...... $1

Ha Portana | ....2....... 33
Evening Press .......... 32
Mxemplar .. 1.8... 32
O’Halloran Bros. Brands
Tampa Smokers 5c..... $30 00
Linfa
Smokers 5@:...-.......... 85 00

Puritanos 10¢.........: .- 60 00
Londres Grande 2 for 25e 80 00
Estos Si
Reina Fina 3 for 25e°"*::: 55 00

Caballeros i06......-..... 75 00
Panatellas 2 for 25c...... 80 00
Reina Victoria 15c....... 85 00
La Hija de Tampa 10c.-- 70 00
Worden Grocer Co. brand
Ben Hur
Perfection ........ acceue 36
Perfection Extras ...... 35
LQMGVON 2.0.6. woos kc cece 35
Congres Grand .......:. 35
SAMIR (02... eww cok 1-35
Puriteanos ....... ea uae 35
Panatellas, Finas ....... 35
Panatellas, Bock ........ 35
Foekey Gib ............ 35
COCOANUT
Baker’s Brazil Shredded

 

70 5c pkgs, per case ..2 69

36 10c pkgs, per case ..2 60

16 10c and 38 5c pkgs,
per case 2

FRESH MBATS
Beef

Loins
FROUNGS 2.5.60...
Chucks
Plates
Livers

eee eeeresee

Pork
Lome ........... @i6
Erese@ 52.4... ... @1i1
Boston Butts @15
Shoulders ....... @12%
Leaf Lard ne @13
Pork Trimmings @11
Mutton
Carcage .......... @10
beanie .......,.. @12
Spring Lambs @13
Veal
Carcass ......... i)
CLOTHES LINES
Sisal
S0ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00
72ft. 3 thread, extra..1 40
90ft. 3 thread, extra..1 70
s0ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29
72ft. 6 thread, extra..
Jute
OOM. 2b. ee. 15
TN £8, 90
ee 1 05
LP ee ee 1 50
Cotton Victor
DORE 20 1 lv
GORe oc. 8 1 35
WOM oe 1 66
Cotton Windsor
i a ee 1 30
Ae 0 1 44
MGGe 2c ck a 80
SQQU. 6. Le 2 00
Cotton Braided
Aenea. 95
Ge |. 8: |... 1 35
Ge. ee. 1 65

Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1
No. 19. each 100ft. long 2
COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s B’ds.

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White House, 1ih...........
White House 2h..........
Excelsior, Mi & J, 1ih......
Excelsior, M & J, 3ib......
Tip Top, M & J.
ROVal Java... 22.00.02...
Royal Java and Mocha....
Java and Mocha Blend....
Boston Combination ......

Distributed by Judson
Grocer Co., Grend Rapids.
Lee, Cady & Smart, De-
troit; Symons Bros. & Co.,
Saginaw; Brown, Davis &
Warner, Jackson; Gods-
mark, Durand & Co., Bat-
tle Creek; Fielbach Co.,
Toledo.

Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00
FISHING TACKLE

Me C6 2 i 3c. cc. cl. 6
me t0 2... ce. ace
4 tO 2 it. .......,...., 9
Im ta 2 i. ...c.c. ec, it
A ee ci: 15
Sim 2.6. ss. a, 20
Cotton Lines
ING EF OIG feet... ...... 6
INGO. 2, 15 feet .......... 7
No. 3 15 feet ........... 9
ING. 4, 15 feet ........... 10
INO. © 16 feet .........;. 11
Wo. G, 16 feet .........; 12
NO. €. 15 feet .........., 15
NO. & 16 feet ........... 18
ING. © 15 feet ......:.... 20
Linen Lines
PO ee 20
Pace 5... ........ jac ace
EMUGG 65550 s cece sce, dccciee

Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80

GELATINE
Cox’s, 1 doz. Large ..1 80
Cox’s, 1 doz. Small ..1 00
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 25

Knox’s Sparkling, gr. 14 00
INGINORN once ccc eae 50
Knox’s Acidu’d. doz. ..1 26
Oxford 76

Scere esevesesses

 

 

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Full line of fire ana burg-
lar proof safes kept in
stock by the Tradesman
Company. Thirty-five sizes
and styles on hand at all
times—twice as many safes
as are carried by any other
house in the State. If you
are unable to visit Grand
Rapids and inspect the
line personally, write for
quotations.

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

 

100 cakes, .arge size..6 60
50 cakes, large size..3 2
100 cakes, small size..3 86

cakes, small size..

Tradesman’s Co.’s Brand

 

Black Hawk, one box
Black Hawk, five bxs
Black Hawk, ten bxs

TABLE SAUCES
Halford, largé ........ 3 76
Halford, small ........ 2 25

 

 

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32

TR

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 12, 1910

 

NEW YORK MARKET.

 

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

New York, Jan. 8—The spot coffee
market shows a steady although
slight improvement in demand. Hold-
ers seem to have a good deal of con-
fidence as to the future of prices, al-
though the speculative market wit-
nessed quite a drop. Maracaibos
fetch full valeu anyway and the same
is true of the milder sorts. In store
and afloat there are 4,379,138 bags,
against 3,740,445 bags at the same
time a year ago. In an invoice way
Rio No. 7 is quoted at 834c.

Jobbers generally report a reviving
interest in teas and direct imports
are steadily diminishing. Japans seem
to be doing well, and the same is
true of Congous and Country Greens.
Prices show no noticeable variation.

Refined sugar is in the usual mid-
winter rut. All refiners are holding
to 4.95c, less I per cent. cash, ex-
cept one which is quoting 4.85c. Deal-
ers express confidence as to the fu-
ture and some refineries will, doubt-
less, watch with much interest the
workings of the new sugar scales
which Uncle Sam is to install on the
docks,

The demand for rice is good—for
the time of year—and buyers find they
kave to pay full values. From the
South planters are reported to be
holding firmly to their product and,
if the deadlock continues, there will
be, it seems likely, an appreciable ad-
vance. This, however, depends up-
on the demand for cleaned rice. Prime
to choice domestic, 5144@534c.

A moderately active jobbing trade
is reported in spices and quotations
are steady, although without any ob-
servable change.

Molasses is unchanged as to quo-
tations. The demand is all that could
be looked for in January. Good to
prime centrifugals are quoted at 26@
30c.

While it seems probable that stocks
of canned goods in the hands of job-
bers are lower than usual, this fact
has not as yet created any increas-
ed demand. Buyers are taking only
enough goods for present needs and
speculation does not exist. Stand-
ard 3s, Maryland tomatoes, can be
bought for 6oc, but at the same time
these are said not to “come up to the
scratch” when an examination ° is
made, and 62%c is practically the low-
est at which “really truly” 3s can be
purchased. Peas are in light offer-
ing and yet the quantity is appar-
ently sufficient to meet requirements.
Opening quotations on Western pack
are about the same as last year, but
buyers are not much interested. Corn
is quiet and unchanged.

Butter shows some advance, with
creamery specials now at 36c. At the
moment this market is comparatively
short on supplies, as shipments have
been delayed by severe weather. Ex-
tra creamery, 35c; firsts, 32'4@34c;
creamery, held, specials, 33'%4@34¢c;
extras, 32@33c; imitation creamery,
firsts, 26@28c; factory, 24@25c.

Cheese is in good request and quo-
tations are firm at 174%4@18c for full

Receipts of fresh-gathered eggs
have been so small that arrivals have
had scarcely any effect and quota-
tions are tending upward, although it
would seem as if 50c would be the
limit. Western extras are firm at
43@45c; extra firsts, 4oc and from
this down to 34c.

A

Side Light on a Once Popular Land-
lord.

Written for the Tradesman.

Francis Boxheimer was for many
years the proprietor of the Bridge
Street House. He owned the build-
ing and won fame and fortune by the
excellence of the meals he served, the
cleanliness of the rooms and beds
and the good order that the proprie-
tor maintained. One day a disorderly
person created a disturbance in the
diningroom and Mr. _ Boxheimer
promptly ejected him. The rowdy
suddenly whipped out a knife and
stabbed Mr. Boxheimer in the abdo-
men. The wound inflicted, in the
language of Mercutio, was not “as
wide as a door nor as deep as a
well,” and Mr. Boxheimer survived
the ordeal, although he did not re-
gain the rugged health he had en-
joyed before the assault was made
upon his person. In his later years,
the early “seventies,” he engaged in
the business of manufacturing lum-
ber against the advice of friends. The
panic of 1873 nearly crushed his en-
terprise and he died a few years
later, poor in purse and crushed in
spirits. He was a popular, honorable
man. Several of his children reside in
the city. Arthur S. White.

 

 

Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.

Buffalo, Jan. 12—Creamery, fresh,

32@36c; dairy, fresh, 23@3o0c; poor

to common, 18@23c.

Eggs—Strictly fresh, candled, 35@

36c; cold storage, 26@27c.

Live Poultry — Fowls, 14@I15c;

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

cocks, I0@IIc; geese, I14@I15c; tur-

keys, 20@22c.

Dressed Poultry—Old cocks, 12@
12%4c; fowls, 15@17c; chickens, 16@
18c; turkeys, 24@26c; ducks, 18@20c;
geese, 14@I5c.

Beans — Pea, hand-picked, new,
$2.15@2.20; red kidney, hand-picked,
$2.75@2.90; white kidney, hand-pick-
ed, $2.75@2.90; marrow, $2.75@2.80;
medium, hand-picked. $2.20@2.25.

Potatoes—New, per bu., 50¢.

Rea & Witzig.
——2 2 -——--
Safest Vault in the World.

The Bank of England is consider-
ed to have one of the most nearly
impregnable vaults of any bank in
the world. It is sixty-six feet below
the level of the street. Above it
twenty feet of concrete, holding sev-
en feet of water, and below, the same
concrete barrier and depth of water.
In this manner tunneling becomes im-
possible, while with the soldier guard
posted every night, the conservative
Briton has reason to believe in the
security of his “Old Lady of Thread-
needle street.”

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Many men would be religious if
their friends were not so anxious to

Late State Items.
Detroit—A new company has been
organized under the style of the
Wayne Cabinet Co. to manufacture
and sell automobiles, steering wheels
and bodies and auto cabinet work,
with an authorized capital stock of
$20,000, all of which has been  sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.
Kalamazoo—The Van Bochove &
Sons Manufacturing Co. has engag-
ed in business for the purpose of
manufacturing and selling building
materials, with an authorized capital
stock of $25,000, of which $20,000 has
been subscribed, $5,000 being paid in
in cash and $10,000 in property.
Alpena — George N. Fletcher &
Sons, engaged in the lumber business
many years at this place and heavily
interested in the paper manufactur-
ing establishment here, have bought
all the interests of W. A. Comstock
in the Alpena Power Co., Ltd. the
Alpena Electric Light Co. and the
Thunder Bay Boom Co.

Detroit—The San Telmo Cigar
Manufacturing Co. has purchased 195
feet of frontage at Michigan avenue
and Thirty-fifth street and will erect
a cigar plant four stories high and
basement, fire-proof, and of sufficient
capacity to give employment to 1,000
hands within a year. The deal was
negotiated by John E. Patterson for
Carl Bauer.

Rockford—The Hunting Co., man-
ufacturer of implements, has  merg-
ed its business into a stock company
under the style of the Hunting Well
Cover Co., for the purpose of manu-
facturing well covers, cistern covers
and other foundry supplies, with an
authorized capitalization of $10,000,
all of which has been subscribed,
$1,500 being paid in in cash and $4,990
in property.

Ypsilanti—Lewis & Geer, who
about- a year ago commenced the
manufacture of lawn swings and oth-
er lawn furniture, are moving into
their new factory on Railroad street,
east of the Peninsular mill. The firm’s
business has grown amazingly. They
had scarcely got started when the
rush of orders made it necessary for
them to lease the old East Side house
adjoining their factory from the city
and by summertime it was seen that
a new and large building would soon
he a necessity.

Lewiston — The Michelson-Hanson
Lumber Co.’s plant here is expected
to exhaust all available timber owned
by the company in this vicinity and
go out of commission in April. The
greater portion of the remainder of
the year will be required to dispose
of and ship the lumber and close out
the business of the company. D. M.
Kneeland has managed the plant for
many years and is a stockholder. He
largely identified in the two
Kneeland-Bigelow and Buell mills
at Bay City, concerns which are not
unlikely to make investments on the
Pacific coast in the near future.

Saginaw—J. H. and H. L. Berst, of
the Berst Manufacturing Co., have re-
cently invested $100,000 in timber
properties near Portland, Ore., and
the former has taken up his residence
at Portland to look after the interests

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cream specials.

make it seem petty and ridiculous.

ing Co., which manufactures tooth-
picks and one or two other wooden
specialties, has been operating twelve
years and has been very successful
from the start. The plant consumes
about 4,000,000 feet of maple and
birch timber annually, employe 150
hands and manufactures 15,000,000
toothpicks a day. The timber is
bought along the line of the Macki-
naw division of the Michigan Central.
—_+~+.—__
New York City real estate is too
valuable to be occupied by any insti-
tution that fails to be a profitable
investment. Madison Square Garden
will soon be razed to make room for
a skyscraper office building. Within a
score of years this noted structure

‘has been the scene of many of the

greatest gatherings ever assembled
in this country. It was designed by
Stanford White, who met a tragic

death a few years ago from a shot
fired by Harry Thaw at the roof gar-
den of the building. The location
is ideai for concerts and shows, but
unfortunately its income has not
met the expectations of the parties
who spent $3,000,000 on its erection.

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A Government expert who is fig-
uring on the cost of living
that, on an average for the
country, since December 1, beef,
rice, potatoes, raisins, cranberries,
mackerel, silk, olive oil, nails, paper
and borax not only have shown no
increase but have decreased in cost.
Among the items in the price of
which there has been no change are
bread, codfish, molasses, apples, an-
thracite, soft coal, petroleum and
alum. This is quite an interesting ar-
ray.

reports
whole

 

 

SUSINESS CHANCES.

Wanted—Clerk for general store. Must
be sober and industrious and have some
previous experience. References required.
Address Store, care Tradesman. 242

 

 

 

__T ARM LANDS

Texas Orange Groves—Five acres, 50
months old, $1,500. $250 cash, $25 month-
ly for 50 months. No taxes, no interest.

Absolutely favorable contract. Limited
number. Texas lands for sale. Special
excursions Jan. 18 and Feb. 15. Particu-

lars free. H. D. Armstrong, Gen1
88 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich.

Have 480-acre Manitoba farm, 60
from Winnipeg and six miles from
ket. Will sell or exchange for
stock of merchandise and put in
money. J. R. Haslam, Owner,
Lake, N. D.

Have You Land to Sell?

& J.—We have an inexpensive but very

successful plan in selling farms, garden
and poultry tracts, cut-over timber lands, etc.
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

ASt.,
298

miles
mar-
clean
some
Devil’s
283

 

 

630 acres irrigated land (good apple
land), near Spokane, or parts of it, for
sale or exchange for merchandise or im-
proved property;
preferred.
ton: St,

city or farm; latter
Benj. Lindsay, 114 Washing-
Spokane, Wash. 275

SPECIAL FEATURES.

Interest in a live copper gold mining
property, situated between two proven
ore producers, new camp, on the Great
Northern Railway; property working,
miners taking pay in stock at 25c per
share; will sell stock, part cash, part on
contract terms; correspondence solicited.
Address Close Corporation, P. O. Box 65,
Spokane, Wash. 301

_Notice—Cash paid for dry goods, fur-
nishings and shoes. 177 Gratiot, Detroit,
Mich. 984

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.

 

 

 

of the firm. The Berst Manufactur-

Must be cheap. Redfern Bros., Lansing,
Mich, 252

 
 
   
 

   

 
  
  
   
 
    
  
  
   
  
  
   
   
 
   
  
  
   
    
  
  
     
  
  
 
 
   
     
   
 
 
   
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
  
   
 
  
 
  
 
  
   

  
    
 

   
   
  
  

     
  
    
 
  
  
   
  
  
 
   
 
   
   
   
 
  
    
  
  
   
 
    
  
 
   
 
  

    

 
  

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“QUAKER”

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Grand Rapids
The “Right Kind’? Wholesalers

 
 

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HOW DOES THIS LOOK TO YOU?

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

 

The construction wil) 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 FHROUGHOUT

Part of this structure is already in use and the-balance is being rushed to completion with all possible haste.
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

eccurate, garcia and precise work; a condition absolutely essential in the manufacture of perfect weixhing devices.

New building, new location, new machines, new tools and dies, new plating works, new enameling ovens and the old experienced mechanics and employes.
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.

FACTORY Sole Distributers

Moneyweight Scale Co.

58 State Street, CHICAGO

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pays you a good profit. These are the only things you need think about—pleasing your
trade and making money. 7 a
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Lock the Door and Save the Horse

The losses that come to us in this life are for the most
part the result of not living up to our best thought.
Asa good business man you know that you can not afford

to be without

A Bang Up Good Safe

Honest, now, what would you do if your store should
burn to-night and your account books were destroyed?
How much do you think you would be able to collect?
Mighty little.

Don't run the risk, neighbor, you can't afford to. A safe,

a good safe, doesn’t cost you very much if you buy it
from us.

 

It will only cost you two cents anyway to write us to-day
= and find out about it.

 

Grand Rapids Safe Co. Grand’ ar" nich.