> Pere nencenlnntE he Michig GRAND an Tradesman. NQ., 1&4. GIANT t LUDWIG WINTERNITZ, Fermentum! 106 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. STATE AGENT FOR The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast. Manufactured by Riverdale Dist. Co. TELEPHONE 566. Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for heir town on this Yeast by applying to above address. None genuine unless it bears above label. “id TRADE MARK | re - — dur Order Departmen Secures to out-of-town customers the most careful attention and guarantees perfect sat- isfaction. We are the LARGEST HOUSE in the STATE aaah man Use Heckers Standard MONNICH & STONE, Flint, Mich. Overalls, Pants, Etc., Fancy Crockery: Fancy Woodenware Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit MANUFACTURERS OF Send for Sample Order. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co, Importers and Jobbers of DRY GOODS Staple and Fancy. OUR OWN MAKE. A Complete Line of OUR OWN IMPORTATION. Prices Guaranteed. Manufactures. 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An eight-page monthly paper devoted to the subject of good advertising for country merchants. It gives a multitude of good suggestions. It furnishes a great variety of ready written advertisements for every purpose and of ev- ery description. It gives plain Girections and designs for Win- dow Dressing and Store Decoration. It furnishes all the news of the day from a na- tion of advertisers. Samples sent free to any merchant on application to MERCHANTS’ PUBLISHING .CO., 314 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. {# Mention this paper when you write for samples. MVM Muzzy’s Corn Starch is prepared expressly for food, is made of only the best white corn and ts guaranteed absolutely pure. a 3 The popularity of Muzzy’s Corn and Sun Gloss Starch is proven by the large sale, aggregating many million of pounds each ® year. . The State Assayer of Massachusetts says Muzzy’s Corn Starch for table use, is per- fectly pure, is well prepared, and of excel- lent quality. Muzzy’s Starch, both for laundry and table use, is the very best offered to the con- sumer. All wholesale and retail grocers JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE EDMUND B, DIKEMAN, THE— GREAT WATCH MAKER, JHwWHLER. 44 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. JUDD ce CO. And Full Line Winter Goods. 102 CANAL STREET. EATON & LYON, Importers, Jobbers and Retailers of BOOKS, Stationery & Sundries, 20 and 22 donroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Show Cases. Having embarked in the Manufacture of Show Cases at 38 West Bridge street, we are prepared to supply merchants and others with the best goods on the market at prices way below other manufacturers, as we do all our own work. All cases fully warranted. Write for prices or call and see us when in the city. COOK & PRINZ, Grand Rapids - - - POTATOES. We make the handling of POTATOES, APPLES and BEANS in car Jots a special feature of our business. If you have any Mich. produce line, let us hear from you, and we will keep you posted on market price and prospects. Liberal cash advances made on car lots when desired. Agents for Walker's Patent Butter Worker. Rarl Bros., Commission Merchants, 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. of these goods to ship, or anything in the, POTATOES. . We give prompt personal attention to the sale of POTATOES,APPLES, BEANS and ONIONS in car lots. We offer best facilities and watchful attention. Consign- ments respectfully solicited. Liberal cash advances on Car Lots when desired. Wu. H Thompson & Co, 166 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference FELSENTHAL, GROSS & MILLER, Bankers. HEMLOCK BARK! WANTED. The undersigned will pay the high- est market price for HEMLOCK BARK loaded gn board cars at any side track on the G. R. & I. or C. & W. M. Railroads. Correspondence solicit- ed. N. B. CLARK, 101 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. —WHOLESALE—— SEEDS, FRUITS, OYSTERS, Ana Produce. 26, 28, 30 and 32 OTTAWA ST., G’D RAPIDS MUSCATINE OATMEAL. Best in the world. Made by new and im- proved process of kiln-drying and cutting. All grocers keep it. barrels and cases. MUSCATINE rels and cases. MOSELEY BROS. Put up in barrels, half ROLLED OATS. Made by entirely new process, and used by everybody. Put up in barrels, half bar- For Sale by all Michigan Jobers. THE SECOND SUCCESS. {Continued from last week. ] The President then stated that the advis- ability of incorporating the Association would be considered for a short time, and asked H. H. Pope, of Allegan, to lead the discussion. H. H. Pope—This takes me by surprise. I did not know that I was to speak on this subject. Business Men’s Association be incorporated. I thought at first that it would cost too much, but now that we have a membership of 1,700 I think itis time that we had a charter. When one Association makes out their delinquent list, I think that the whole State should back them up. Suppose a man sends out a Blue Letter and the man who receives it goes and gets out a capias and has the man put in jail. Now, if this Asso ciation was incorporated, the man would be figlfting the whole Association, instead of one. man, and if we were incorporated we would all use the same form of letters and have the same rules. I believe we ought to make our Association solid, now that we have got it so well started, and I for one shall say that we oughtto have the Associa- tion incorporated, so that when aman pit- ches on a fellow, the rest can stand behind and see him through. [| Applause. | H. C. Peckham—I would say that, now that we have a flourishing organization, we ought to have it incorporated. I may say, what use is the State Legislature, when you have the city council? By all means we should be incorporated. Newton Dexter—I think that it is abso- lutely necessary that the Association should be incorporated. It is just as Mr. Pope has said. If one little organization is pitched onto, the State Association is at its back to help it out. I can give you my own experi- ence about that. I was arrested for black- mail for sending out one of these letters. I had several examinations in a lower court and then it was carried to a higher one. The matter was finally settled by his withdraw- ing the suit. We immediately got out a new form of letter at a cost of $500, and then we made the letters ‘‘iron clad,” so to speak. We have had no trouble since. If the Asso- ciation is not incorporated, the State does not recognize us and we cannot hold any property. If our Treasurer should run away with our money, the State would do nothing to punish him for us. My advice would be to get incorported at the earliest possible moment. Geo. E. Steele—I had this matter brought tomy attention prominently this winter, from the fact that the State Engineering So- ciety was considering the advisability of whether or not to incorporate, and when we came to look it up we found that there was no law by which we could become incorpor- ated as a single society: but you can pass a law whereby any number of societies can be incorporated, and a society of business men would come under the same act, so that it must be general and nota single society. Then we are prepared to buy or sell prop- erty, sue or be sued, and then the officers can be held responsible for any money that they may hold in trust. I move that the matter be left with a committee, and that the matter be made the special order of business this evening. Mr. Steele’s motion was adopted, when the chair appointed as such committee Messrs. Pope, Steele and Stowe. A. C, Barclay, of Crosby, then read an answer to query No. 6, relative to the pub- lication of quotations by newspapers, as follows: Who of us has not had trouble from_try- ing to depend on them? Do not our obser- vations teach us that, as a class, they are worthless to us? And who of us has not watched the effect that they have on our customers? One of mine came in a short time ago, and on learning that I charged 614 cents for granulated sugar, said that they were selling it in Grand Rapids for 6 cents, but he believed it was a little higher now, 614 cents, he believed. But L doubted it a little and he referred me to the Grand Rap- ids Eagle. My observation is that this is about the way it operates: A good many whether they are reading wholesale or re- it is for their use. ‘The quotations are read, SWEET —==SOoA P= The Best Laundry Soap on the Market TRY iT: CHARLES A. COYE, Successor to A. Coye & Son, DEALER IN AWNINGS £ TENTS Horse and Wagon Covers, Flags & Banners made to order. 6 FOR SALE BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. Oiled Clothing, Feed Bags, Wide Ducks, etc. good now received perfectly quoted? wagons; that, perhaps, may be a_ benefit. who need them cannot depend on them MANUFACTURED BY pay for our goods? += tel or all epson : = epee sky Sb — - “ J. V. Crandall—There are two sides to| Teas..............-----.. ha colon wane a iw Oberne Hosick & Co this question. Those who remember the old | Low grades of sugar (high grades | 9 “|New York Tribune know that it was the} .T8rely adulterated).......---++++-20 farmer’s Bible and almanac, and_ that he| Milk Twhen not inspected)........-.50 OHICAGO. looked there for all of his prices. When he| Cream of Tartar.........-..----+++ a a A, HUFFORD, General Agent, was going to town to sell his wool, he con- Baking Powder, about. 40 Oy Box 14. Grand Rapids. | sulted the columns of the Tribune Se aa earn teen e see rec tees 7 prices. little hehind the times. ference. S. E. Parkill—At the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associatior in the daily papers stopped. the daily papers at Detroit sell it. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK. 78 CANAL ST., = ~ GRAND RAPIDS. I think it very desirable that the Knowing the. read them and do not stop to enquire tail quotations, but take it for granted that especially in the weekly papers, where the readers have but little reading and read it through from beginning to end. And no few of them think that they ought to get them at the price quoted. And if they can- not, what benefit is it to them? And since all live business men take a trade journal that is supposed to be reliable, does not the harm it does us more than overbalance the from the prices so im- I do not wish to be un- derstood to oppose prices from farmers’ But if it is best to continue wholesale prices before the public at all, would it not be best to do it by means of characters not under- stood by only those who hada **key” to them? But 1, for one, should think it bet- ter if they were discontinued, since those and experience so much trouble from them. And who cares to have the public know what we I believe that a man who is in busi- ness and does not take a trade journal is a I think the prices should be printed in plain figures. Lots of the people who pick up the paper and read there the prices of certain articles do not know the difference between wholesale and retail prices, and then I think the farmer who takes his bi-monthly paper is so far de- Jersey, in which he says that rigid enforce- hind that it does not make very much dif- last meeting of the they agreed to try and have the quotations So I went. to and requested them not to publish the drug quotations and they replied that they published their papers they did not publish ‘the quotations of De- troit that they would publish the quotations of New York, which would be very much lowen I think it would be a very hard matter to stop them. Ihave not found any way to do it yet. J. L. Alger---I take several trade journals, Bro. Stowe’s included. I take special pride in putting them on my counter for the perusal of customers. It does not bother me a bit. N. B. Blain—I think there are two sides to this question, and while I may have been sometimes by customers snowing the wholesale prices, 1 know once then 1 was not. A neighbor of mine wanted to know the price of bed ticking and I told him the price and the quality. He wanted to know if the price was for the best goods and I told him that it was. Then he wanted to know why there was so much difference in my prices and another store. I told him I did not regulate my neighbor’s prices, but I regulated my own. He then asked me for my prices on my lower grade of goods and [ told him, and | also told him that my neighbor, had no better grade of goods, and as the result of his knowing the price I made him a customer of mine. Robert M. Floyd read a paper on the “Effect of Labor Organizations on Trade,” which was given in full in last week’s issue. The paper was well received and a vote of thanks tendered,the writer. The secretary then read a paper on **Cut- ting Prices and the Result”—which was given in full last week—contributed by F. H. Spencer, of Saranac, who was unable to be present through. illness. A vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Spencer for his paper and the sympathy of the Association extended to him in his affliction, when the convention adjourned until evening. Tuesday Evening, On re-assembling in the evening, the special Committee on Incorporation present- ed the following report: Your Committee, to whom was referred the practicability of the incorporation of the Michigan Business Men’s Association, beg leave to report: 1. Weconsider it of very great impor- tance that the Michigan Business Men’s As- sociation should be incorporated at the earli- est practicable moment. 2», Wedo not find inthe statutes any general act by which the objects of this As- Sociation can be accomplished and its incor- poration effected. 3. We recommend that the members of this Association present at this meeting unanimously sign a memorial to the Legisla- ture to pass a suitable act of incorporation; which memorial shall be presented in person by one of our members appointed for the purpose, and, if necessary, urged to adop- tion, through the proper Legislative Com- mittee, by the present Legislature. H. H. Porr, Gero. E. STEELE, K. A. STOWE, Committee. The report.was accepted and the subject made the special order for 10 o’clock Wed- nesday morning. Chairman Barnes, of the Committee on Trade Interests, presented the following report: Mr. President and Gentlemen: In submitting the following report, I am placed in no agreeable position. This report claims to come from the Committee on Trade Interests. That Committee was made up of Mr. Ranney, of Kalamazoo, Mr. Westgate, of Cheboygan, and myself. Neither of these gentlemen has come to my aid in formulat- ing this report. Hence, you can readily see that it represents a one-third interest in and, presumably, only a one-third proportion of, its value and force, as against what it might have done, had the writer been aided by the counsel and ability of the other two-thirds of the Committee. It is submitted to your kind criticism, gen- tlemen, as the crystalized conviction of not a day nor a year, but as the mature conclu- sion of years. Let me bespeak for it the consideration which the writer would will- ingly accord to any one of you, gentlemen, were you placed in his position; particular- ly, as friend Stowe has, in his editorial of to-day, thrown a wet blanket over it. Still, it is just possible that it may thereby be cleansed of any cobwebs or barnacles which may attach thereto. Mr. Floyd aptly says, ‘‘We are the ones who feed and nurture the community.” If so, shall we not see to it that we furnish pure nutriment? When statistics go to show that the average cost for food for individ- uals in the United States is about $1.60 per week, there seems no good reason why any human being should use other than pure food. Added to the cheapness of food is the fact that no other nation in the world produces such a variety from which to select. What applies to human beings necessarily should apply to animals who depend upon their owners for sustenance. Theoretical statisticians, who can obtain information from only very limited sources as compared with .a dealer, state that adulteration as applied to staples is about as follows: These parties claim that the greatest dan- ger to health, in the way of impure foods, comes from the sale of bad meat, impure and adulterated milk and impure water sup- ply. Through the courtesy of Mr. Hamilton, I have had the perusal of a letter from W. K. Newton, State Dairy Commissioner of New ment of laws bearing on food adulteration should be provided for. Occasional adul- terations are poisonous; instance, use of 1| salicylic acid as a preservative, which has been prohibited in both France and Ger- many. The damage is greater wrong than the deception. Dr. DeWolf, in reply to Mr. Hamilton, says that, aside from special articles, such oring matter used in candies, syrups for soda water, ete., he does not regard the adulteration of food in Chicago as largely a sanitary question. In these articles there is danger; in other articles where sophisti- cation is found, it is a commercial rather than a sanitary question. The live grocer gf to-day, who possesses much greater facilities for ascertaining facts, in a general way, than any theoreti- eal professor who must base his informa- tion upon a small line of samples submitted to him for analysis, ought to know things from a practical standpoint. ; When the manufactory is visited and one is let in behind the seenes, whieh can only be done by special permission, and one sees the number of things which, it is openly | claimed, are used for the purpose of lower- ing the price of many different articles | which come into daily use in every family | in the United States, it is a fact beyond | doubt that such information must overtop the theoretical report of the professional | chemist, who could, uncer no cireumstances, | obtain admission to such establishments. | When one is shown tons of buckwheat bran, dozens of tons of terra alba, or white clay, | | tierces of alum, barrels of turmerie for col- oring, carloads of rejected and musty fiour, loads of middlings, sacks of almond shucks, tons of inferior corn meal, piles of chicory | and earloads of starch, oné is strongly im- | pressed with the idea that white clay is not | the most digestible compound, alum or tur- | meric particularly nutritous nor that reject- | ed flour, when used for food, is likely to produce longevity. We are none the less impressed with the inherent wrong of using the articles named above, for the purpose of cheapening these products, which are claim- ed to be one thing, while one-half or two- thirds of them are nothing better than bran, middlings, clay or vegetable coloring mat- ter. When one looks at the price-list in which rice hulls, oat hulls and such value- less truck are quoted, and understands that hundreds of carloads are used by metropol- itan makers who grind food, for the purpose of cheapening their product, and compre- hend the villainy of using such articles, which are merely woody fiber and cannot be taken into the stomach of an animal without causing suffering, producing sick- ness and, in many cases, death, we begin to have alittle idea of what adulterated food means. There are those who think it not improbable that, in some cases, maple saw- dust is used for this same purpose. Pursuing our investigations a little far- ther, we find that, for the purpose of meet- ing the demand of unprincipled dealers for low priced articles, which are sold and rep- resented to be honest, the wrong has but just commenced. We find handsomely deco- rated cans of tomatoes, oysters, corn, peas, ete., ete., that are put up and furnished to the trade as ‘‘slack-filled goods,” which can be purchased for one-half or two-thirds the price of honest goods, put up by reputable concerns. When, to this, the dealer adds, by way of inducement, prizes in chromos, crockery, silverware, engravings, music- bozes, mirrors, ete., the matter assumes a still graver form. The latest proposition reported is perhaps the worst yet heard of. It is made by asoap manufacturer, who offers to give a sewing-machine, costing $45, to every one who will buy ten boxes of his soap at $4.50 each. This is equivalent to saying that the soap is worth nothing at all. This apparently absurd proposition is, how- ever, no worse in kind, if a little more in- tense in degree, than is any one of a dozen others with which many of our dealers are familiar. Among others are the following: 100 Ibs. assorted spices, one toilet set. 100 Ibs. assorted spices, one Elgin gold watch. 50 lbs. baking powder, fifty wax dolls. 50 Ibs. baking powder, one set dishes, 96 pieces. Two pails tobacco, one easy chair. One case tobacco, one oil painting. 1,000 cigars, one set chairs. 1,000 cigars, Grant’s history of the war. 1,000 cigars, one cabinet. This is only a small list of gifts offered in the United States. If you will examine the list, you will sée that a retailer can begin housekeeping on “‘gifts” and Kill the unsus- pecting consumer, by selling adulterated spices and baking powder. They «are ille- gitimate as business methods, demoralizing alike on the merchant and customer, and should, therefore, be discountenanced by every one who deserves or aspires to be thought an honest man. Once let the buyer be satisfied that no sane man will part with more than the money’s worth, either by sale or ostensible gift, and the fakir would be punished by being let severely alone. If it were once understood that the merchant who offered premiums with his wares does so be- the latter would soon be deserted for others -who have the reputation of acting squarely creased patronage by resort toa game. ‘ And this is not putting the case too harshly. The honest trader, who is willing cause a reflection upon his intelligence. he understands that he can buy a tive-gallon of five gallons, or ten pounds of sugar which weiglis only nine and a half pounds, or buys they claim to do. chant of to-day not only should the weight and measure for which he paid. if he can make more money tegrity with his money. Might it not be wise to be more rigid in the election of to receive as members those who are notec f for the information of the people, and i as condiments or so-called fruit jellies, col- cause they are not worth the price asked, and fairly and without seeking to gain in- | j ; : orspi peeking to gain IM-| treated with prussic acid. confidence | to work for a small profit for the sake of in- | creasing his business, will do so by lowering the price on what his customers want to buy | a ao them be the best judges as to the ind of goods desired to be purchased with | canters Se dens a stated sum of money. The “eiving” of | - eee the states. eye something not wanted with an article that is | ter the ‘inner temple” of the concern, the really needed is an insult to the buyer, be-| When the’customer’s eyes are opened and | there are manufacturers who put up just what | The high-minded mer- | but does persist in selling goods on their merits, call- ing things by their right names and giving is The unscrupulous dealer argues that by selling dis-|80 per cent. adulteration, branded ‘“X XX, honest goods, he ean afford to pocket his in- men to membership and be satisfied of their | and, business integrity in this direction, declining | tailer who was not ‘‘welkup” for their want of integrity in this way? | Should the State Asssociation, as a body of intélligent business men, reprobate the sale of impure and adulterated food and the giv- ing of prizes, would it not be a wise thing todo? Would it not be wise to educate the business men of to-day to understand that it is not only discreditable to business to sell articles of little. worth for the genuine, but that he should sell just as many pounds or gallons as he pretends to and the constaner is made to pay for and that he should sell just what he claims to, so far as qualities are concerned, representing in the sale | whether the article sold is pure or if mixed with other material for the purpose of low- ering the price? Should the consumer not be taught that he who offers ground goods for a less price than the unground goods are | worth must be perpetrating a fraud, and that, if he offers a prize with his goeds, he is probably selling inferior goods as com- pared with the honorable competitor who offers no prizes? If this were done, would not healthy public sentiment ! be strong enough to aid in. abolishing this system? | Let the dealer get upon a healthy plane so far as handling adulterated food is coneern- ed, and he will neeessarily purchase goods only of jobbing houses whose integrity for handling honest goods is beyond question. Should Congress not be as ready to pass a national law, compelling all manufacturers to state if their goods offered for sale are pure oradulterated, and, if adulterated, to state what per cent. of adulteration and the material used therein, and to have their trade marks bear these facts on their labels or bills of sale and compel the jobber and retailer to do the same, whether it be food or drink for man or animal, as it has recent- ly been in passing the Oleomargarine Bill for that purpose? : Dr. Newton claims that State law and the education of the people are the best methods to control this wrong. Then there would be no need of national legislation, except to forbid importation of debased or impure food. He claims that the national government has no jurisdiction over the states and that the State Board of Health the best medium to correct this villainy. He seems to entirely forget the two cases instanced below, the Ofeomargarine and the Inter- state Commerce Law, just passed, which show, conclusively, that national law has jurisdiction over the states. In Dr. DeWolf’s opinion, it is best con- trolled by a national and a state law and lo- eal agitation. But the law should be na- tional rather than state, to be uniform and binding on all. For instance, a law in Ii- nois against sophistication, with no law in Ohie; how could Illinois compete with Olio for the Michigan trade? In this connection, it seems to me perti- nent to urge upon all human beings the im- perative importance of knowing that the water they drink is pure, beyond question, and free from ‘‘septie poison,” which is swept into the ground by the rainfall, and which acts as ascavenger on all surface filth contained in cess-pools, barn yards, swill holes and dirty back yards andalleys. The numberless deaths caused by'this insidious poison cannot be laid at the door of adul- terated food, but are the result of criminal neglect and carelessness on the one hand or want of intelligence on the other. “The mills of the gods they grind exceed- ing slow,” than which no truism has more force. If this be so, with a passive public, who, in too many cases, have ‘‘axes to grind,” and a ponderous moving general government, who must ordinarily be reach- is ed through political mediums and not through the ‘‘voice of the people,” can we reasonably look for any redress for the abuses of adulterated food and drink pro- ducts, unless it be reached by a law similar to, as sweeping in its generalities and as | overpoweringly needed as the so-calle dl ob- noxious oleomargarine law, now being pul into force as a national law?" If we wait for the Boards of Health to eradicate the root of this wrong through State legislation, I think we shall all hear old Gabriel’s trumpet before it is aecom- plished. Judge Finletter, of Philadelphia, in ren- dering a recent decision, says, practically, this. Anything that cheapens food is a blessing, but itis not a blessing for a man to buy an article manufactured out of some- thing else than what it is repgesented as be- jag manufactured from. Which, put into plain Anglo-Saxon, is this: That, when a man buys pepper, he should not pay for buckwheat bran: if mustard, he should not pay for white clay or corn-meal; if cinna- mon, he should not pay for almond shucks: if ginger, he should not pay for damaged flour; if baking powder, he should not pay for alum: if tomatoes, he should not pay for river water; if cotfee, he should not pay | for rejected beans or wormy peas; if sugar syrup, he should not pay for glucose mate | from corn combined with sulphuric acid; it | tea, he should not pay for some sort of leaf In other words, man should pay for what he gets, and just exactly what he pays for, as represented by the dealer. Some years since, an opportunity offered it- i self by which I was permitted to see the inner workings ef a ground goods manufae- | a | get |tory in one of the principal metropolitan Being. invited to en- proprietor made a voluntary exhibit of orig- | inal orders given by some of the then largest jobbers in the country, east, west, north and | south, covering the commercial centers from | the Pacific to the Atlantic. My attention keg of syrup, so-called, of one dealer for | +. at . Ss “ > > ate y considerable less than of another, and ascer- —o : culled - the Snel oh ans oo ins tl 7 a —s | orders, a gjngle sample of which might be tains that his purchase holds four and a) 6¢ interest by way of illustration 500 boxes quarter or four and a half gallons in place | ,¢ at a ate < _ alf gall n place | of ground pepper assorted as follows: 50 boxes with 30 per cent. adulteration. K ee sé & * . se a fifty-pound keg of fish on the same basis | ot ; and learns to his sorrow that it contains; 190 © — | # only forty pounds, then he begins to realizes Lo. the difference. It is beyond question that | a eg ve os a Corresponding orders for other ground /goods would. run from 20 to 80 per cent. adulteration, all put up in different colored | labels, with one noticeable feature, viz.: the | greater the adulteration the stronger were the marks which indicated purity, such as: | pure,” or 60 per cent. adulteration branded | ‘strietly pure,” evidently showing the in- for local associations | tention on the part of the jobber to entirely business | misrepresent the quality to the consumer in too many cases, to mislead the re- in the busi- 1 | ness. Within the last five years, correspond ng * iS . has just taken in passing the Inter-state © Ress ~~ THE SBOOND. chance presented itself, when I was per- mitted to go through angther establishment, wherein I saw but a very little indication of a tenden¢y towards adulteration; but, on the contrary, a“large amount of goods being manufactured with no intermixture, but pure goods as the label represented. Added to ground goods, Such articles as the following enter largely into consump- tion: Olive oils, which, in too many cases, are made up from cotton seed oil or other vegetable oils, an evidence of which came to my knowledge in both France and Italy, where L saw large lots of cotton seed oil in hogsheads just received from America and, on inquiry, was informed that it was used quite largely for mixing with olive oil to make pure olive oil for export to the United States. No secret was made of this, and the residue was used in lieu of butter. An- other discreditable feature is the making of cheese in which coloring matter is used for the purpose of simulating richness, while, in point of fact, it damages the article. The farmer who makes butter, in many cases considers it important to give it a rich color, for which purpose he buys of the druggist annatto, thinking thereby to gratify the buyer’s fancy in supposably securing a choice class of butter. Later on, it seems that, for the purpose of making some money, the same farmer buys oleomargarine and turns out ‘superior butter” at a less cost than he can produce it from his dairy. The dealer certainly cannot find fault with the farmer for adulterating any product which he may be able to, even to furnishing artificial eggs, so long as the farmer buys adulterated food product from him. This abuse will steadily increase as the years go on, unless it is nipped in the bud by a law as widespread as the Union and as omnipotent as Congress can make it. The American people of to-day are good imitators, and, if money can be made by fraud in one direction, it will stimulate the unprincipled man to find some other means by which he can climb up the ladder of for- tune. With the very great step that Congress Commerce Law, there would seem to be still well-grounded hope for the success of the popular demand of the successful, thoughtful, high-minded business man of every business community, in making it plain to the law-makers at Washington that this villainous habit of adulterating food products in any and every form must be legislated upon, and the practice once and forever prohibited under extreme penalties of the law. Herbert Spencer, in his able essay on “Over Legislation,” to which our live Secre- tary, Mr. Stowe, has called my attention, takes the ground that the stronger the laws against adulteration, the more the eyil thrives. The thinking, conservative man, I opine, will, on mature, eareful deliberation, agree with me that the more heroic the treatment, the simpler and more direct the ptan; the more force with which the axe is laid at the root of this abomination and the more concentrated the effort made to check by one fell blow—covering the entire Union —this cancerous curse, the sooner will the good name of all honorable concerns be re- lieved from its spreading fibers, and the earlier will the cicatrice be completely healed and the business body be freed from its in- sidious poison and resume and regain healthy conditions. No doubt Mr. Spencer may be correct in his conelusions, were the legislation of the cireumlocution order, run- ning through public sentiment, Boards of Health, State legislation and, finally, at the end of the generation having inaugurated the movement, through Congress. With forty-six states and territories to be con- sulted in rendering a prognosis by way of a nationa! consultation as to the proper treat- ment of the patient and the possibility of recovery without resorting to the knife, it is very easy to comprehend that but few of the profession would coincide as_ to the treat- ment, whether it be by pill and potion or by a clear-cut incision by the hand of the sur- geon-general, performing an immediate sur- | gical operation and relieving the body-poli- tic from all possibilities of future suffering. Submitted—That it is justas wrong for the state or nition to be a party to educate its citizens to dishonesty-as it is fora pri- vate citizen to educate his family or em- ployees to steal. If we neglect to keep peo- ple honest by not throwing about them such guards as seem necessary, are we not just as much to blame as if we educate them to be thieves? The business men of the en- tire nation are the only ones who are com- petent to understand or remedy the growing evil. * United we stand: Divided we fall.” o Robert M. Floyd—I have to thank Mr. Garnes for his explanation in regard to the adulteration of food. i have taken great interest in this matter for years and I have said many things in regard to it. One of the worst adulterated articles is imported olive oil, made from American cotton seed oil. That is but one of the many poor arti- cles which are brought into this country as pure imported goods. Twelve or fourteen years ago the great working populace of England were attacked with unknown dis- eases and some of them could ,only do in twelve hours what they had formerly done in five or six. Examinations were made by eminent chemists of cheese, bread and beer, which are the staple diet of the poorer classes in London, and they were found upon examination to contain from 40 and 50 per cent. of adulteration, and they found such things as aconite, ten drops of which would kill. ,Gentlemen, when an agent comes into your store to sell you goods, do not ask him how cheap they are, but ask him how pure they are. If you do not be- lieve him, take them to your chemists, and find out how pure they are. Show me one place in the United States where any pun- ishment is meted out to any one who sells adulterated goods, except in Hi State of Pennsylvania. I say that goods* should be labeled just what they are, and not be label- ed “Extra Pure” when they contain 40 per cent. of adulteration. Newton Dexter—I would like to say a few words upon this subject, as it is a sub- ject very dear to the heart of the New York4 ‘Association. While I most thoroughly agree with many of the remarks and sug- gestions made, I think there are many that have not yet been mentioned.” I think we should call things by their right names. We believe that we can do more goed by local legislation than we can by national. A few days ago I went into the store of a friend of mine at Troy and failed to finda prize offered with any article he had for sale, while 4 little while ago the store was nearly crowded’with articles that were sold with prizes. I asked my friend why it was that he did not have prize goods any more, and he replied, ‘The Association work has done it.” Itis the aim of our Association pure goods. We have in New York State what we call an adulteration law and our New York State Association is trying to en- force it. Wehave analyzed a number of samples of spices and found that some con- 4 tained over 50 per cent. of adulteration, which brings them under the law. The members of our Association are now asking, “How pure are the goods?” and not *‘How low they can be bought?” and I hope all of them will ask that question of the manu- | facturers before long. W. J. Haughey—When a drummer comes into my store, I ask for strictly pure goods. I do not ask his price. Now, there is an establishment inthis town—I won’t tell you which one—and_ there is not one per cent. of pepper in their goods. How do I know? I will tell you. My business is a butcher. We make bolegna sausage and we have to use strictly pure pepper. I can take ten pounds of this ground pepper, and put it in ten pounds of sausage, and I will defy any man to taste one single part of that pepper init. Now, is there a man here that wants to sell an article that he calls pepper, when there is not a particle of pep- per in it? Do not be so hard on the retail- ers, but just look attersome of the manu- facturers. I think when a man gets poor pepper served to him, he should be reported to headquarters, and treated the same as a dead-beat. Smith Barnes—I am glad to see this mat- ter brought up by my friend. While the retailer is necessarily the agent, or medium, through which the public is reached, the wholesaler, I fear, is very much more to blame than the retailer. Mr. Floyd came from Chicago, some other gentlemen from New York an some other gentlemen from Pittsburg. Each of the jobbers in these towns certainly have rivals. We will sup- pose that Mr. Jones gets his sales up to fourteen millions of dollars. What does he do now? He says, I could make it eight- een millions if I could touch a class of trade a little lower down, so I will adulterate my goods and mark them XXX and adulterate them so that I can make 15 per cent. more. This gives the retailer a chance to make a larger margin on lis goods. Sometimes it is the fault of the retailer, though. A friend of mine went to Grand Rapids and said that he wanted some ground pepper, and they were going to charge him 8 cents for it. ‘I don’t want to pay that price” he said: “I want some that I can sell for 5 cents. My neighbor across the street is selling it at 5 cents and I want to meet his prices.” We have had a sign painted, say- ing ‘task for pure goods,” and have it hung up in our store in plain sight. L. W. Sprague—I think this whole trouble arises from the general disposition of , the public to deal in snide goods. I don’t think all the blame lays with the retailers. When.a man comes into our store and says, “What do youask for such an article?” and we reply ‘‘forty cents,” he says, oe can go right across the street and buy it for sixteen.” ‘That article can not be manufac- tured for less than 25 or 28*cents. Now, gentlemen, you can tell what pepper costs, as it comes from the Indies, and you kuow what it costs the grower. Now, if you can buy it for less money than that, it is about time that you began to smell a large-sized mice. - The fact is, I don’t believe that I am going to eat any more pepper, any way. The fact is, customers want pure goods, but do not aant to pay cost price for them. If a man wants 8 cent pepper you have got to keep it, because if you don’t, somebody else will; but a man who goes and buys an article for four cents and expects to get pure goods is too verdant for this world. If the public wants snide goods, they are going to be sold. . W. E. Kelsey—I can recognize the drift of what the gentlemen have said. Some years ago, we got out of a certain grade of cinnamon, for which I was then paying 45 cents a pound. Being in need of some, I interviewed a certain drummer and asked him if he had any pure cinnamon. He said that he had, and I looked at it, and it looked as good as my 45 cent goods. When I asked the price, what do you think he told me? Only 23 cents. When you come to pepper and ginger, it is just as bad. What does the customer do who relies upon the honesty of the groceryman whom he buys from? There is one house in the East which sells nothing but pure goods, and I think if there were more such houses in the country that they would do a great deal in setting the trade aright. C. K. Buck—We are very earnest in this work about pure goods. We always keep both kinds, and if people want cheap goods we sell them, and if they want pure goods, we have them. I have readsthat it costs 17 cents per pound to advertisé Royal baking powder. We handle another powder which gives a 17 cent prize with it. I would like to know which is the better method? Newton Dexter—I say give the 17 cents to the newspapers, by all means. It costs but a little over 6 cents per pound to make baking powder and as it is sold for 40 cents per pound, you can see that there is quite a little margin to the manufacturer. We have a law being passed in New York, mak- ing the offering of prizes and inducements to the purchaser of any food a misdemeanor and the violator liable to a fine of $25. If this law goes into effect it will do away with the gift system in our State, even the great American and Pacific Tea companies. After further discussion, Mr. Barnes was tendered a unanimous yote of thanks and the subject matter of his report was made the special order of business for 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. The Question Box was then opened and several enquiries answered, the substance of which will be given under another head later on. The convention then adjourned, being escorted to Sweet’s Hotel by. Wurz- burg & Bronson’s band, where an elaborate banquet was served, followed by toasts and responses. The publication of the re- port of the banquet will be deferred un- til after the completion of the report of the convention proper. Wednesday Morning. On re-assembling Wednesday morning, . the Secretary presented the following opin- jon on the “Legality of Our Collection System:” GRAND'RApips, March 16, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Sec’y M. B. M.A. DEAR Srr—You ask our opinion: 1. On the liability of members of the Re- tail Grocer’s Association for sending by mail to a delinquent debtor a letter notify- ing him that his name, with a statement of his account, will be handed to the secretary, unless the account shall be settled within fifteen days. ; 2, On the liability of the Retail Grocers’ Association for sending a notice to a delin- quent debtor, who has been reported to the to induce the grocers to sell nothing but Association, that, unless his account is set- tled within teri days, he will be declared a delinquent and his name published in the Delinquent List of the Association. 3. ‘On the liability of the Retail Grocers’ Association and of the Michigan Business Men’s Association for publishing such De- linquent List. As to the first and second propositions, under the laws of Michigan, differing radi- eally in this respect from the laws of New York and many other states, there would be no legal liability attached to the sending of the threatening communications, because the publication, if false, would not be a criminal libel (Howé@il’s Statutes, Section 9315, as: amended by Act No. 210, Laws of 1885), and sending a communication in a sealed envelope directed to the person charged is not a sufficient publication to support a civil action for damages. The threat to publish the debtor as a delinquent does not come within the Michigan Statutes against threats for the purpose of extorting money (Howell’s Statutes, Section 9093). Upon the third proposition, if the infor- mation contained in the publication be true, no liability would attach to the Association | { for publishing the Delinquent Lists, but w are of the opinion that under the decision Cg both the State and Federal Courts,th> ~-* lication would not be a privileged communi cation and the Associations would be liable, if the information should prove to be false. Sunderlin vs. Bradstreet, 46 New York 188 and cases cited. Trussell vs. Scarlett 18 Federal Reporter 214 and full vote. Odgers on Libel and Slander p. 193 and cases there cited. Yours truly, FLETCHER & WANTY. On motion of L. W. Sprague, speeches on any subject were limited to five minutes. The report of the Committee on Legisla- ture was then taken up and each recommen- dation was presented in detail and acted upon. The Committees on Legislation and Trade Interests and the Executive Board, with an attorney, were instructed to pro- ceed to Lansing at the earliest opportunity and present to the Legislature the necessity of reducing the exemption in garnishee eases, in accordance with Mr. Kelsey's measure. The Secretary was instructed to correspond with like officers of other State organizations, with a view to securing through Congress a uniform system of weights and measures. The Lansing Com- mittee was instructed to do all that lay in their power to further the bill forbidding the giving of prizes with articles of food; also the bill amending the present statute relative to peddling. Jas. A. Coye—A week ago Tuesday, I was at Lansing on business, and, while there, Mr. Stowe called my attention to the bill introduced through the instrumentality of Mr. Kelsey. In an interview with Mr. Webber, of lonia, he said that the matter had not yet been referred to the Judiciary Committee, but he was in favor of the mat- ter himself and would endeavor to have it receive a favorable notice from the Com- mittee. Again talking with Mr. Webber, he said that in case the report from that Committee was favorable on the bill, they would not put it to passage at once, but they would wait until after the Michigan Business Men’s Association met, so that we could bring as much power upon the matter as possible. W. E. Kelsey then read the following p.- per on ‘Material Benefits of Local Organiz- ation:” Having been assigned by the architects of the present programme the not altogether enviable duty of answering the comprehen- sive and important inquiry, ‘‘What are the material benefits of local organization?” I desire to say, at the outset, that I have just recently, in reviewing the constitution of our local association, given this subject my careful attention, and, believing that the thotghts adduced and the conclusions reached will, at least, partially meet the question, I take the liberty of incorporating them in this paper. WHEREAS, it being the manifest duty of beneficent citizens of every community to do all in their power for the well-being of their fellow men, and WueEREAS, this object can better be com- passed by co-operation than by individual effort, therefore be it Resolved, That the business men of Ionia form an Exchange, having for its aims the several objects hereinafter enumerated. 1. The collection of debts here and else- where, outlawed or otherwise, that are in fact, or believed to be, non-collectable under legal proceedings, by methods, peaceable, honorable and void of persecution. 2, The control of the credit system within safe practicable limits by instrumentalities fair and open alike to buyer and seller. 3. The encouraging of customers by strict- ly honorable dealing, to pay their debts promptly within thirty days, thereby insur- ing to themselves a rating by this organiza- tion as A 1, and as worthy of credit on the most favorable terms. 4. To join hands with similar associations in sister cities, actuated by the same hopes, in order that this Exchange may join the Michigan Business Men’s Association and enjoy the benefits that must inevitably pro- ceed therefrom. 5. To earnestly seek, by co-operation, the speedy introduction of manufacturing en- terprises in this city; 1. By securing an amendment to the city charter, which shall permit a limited tax to be levied on the property of citizens for public and beneficial improvements; 2. By the raising of money by subscription, to be held, controlled and disbursed by a committee of responsible cit- izens, as bonuses, when the object sought can be best secured by such course. 3. By the formation of stock companies, each, respectively, with a view to affording work to those unemployed, who, by lack of some- thing to do, are compelled to forego actual necessities, to strangle innate pride, and apply for aid to public almoners, orto leave, unwillingly, home and friends to seek the means of subsistance among stangers. 6. To guard with jealous care railroad and freight interests, so that local com- merce may not be endangered and drawn to other and smaller towns that ought to be tributary to Ionia. 7. To take such action as shall best pro- mote the welfare and happiness of the citi- zen; to legitimately enhance the business of the merchant and professional man; to in- crease, the wealth of the city; to curtail and mitigate the damaging effects of intemper- ance, licentiousness and gambling, so un- deniably flagrant and widespread among young and old, and to improve, through the agency of churches and schools, the moral, intellectual and physical development of our sons and daughters, who are, on every hand, tempted by foes insidious and dan- gerous, foes none the less real that they are ‘unseen, in their enormity, by unsuspecting and often deceived fathers and mothers. The foregoing enumeration of possible benefits growing out of loeal organization might be supplemented by many others, but this list discloses very clearly that there is much for the good, true, active, self-sacrific- ing business man to do, not only in his own behalf, but also for the individual on his right hand and on his left, and for the com- munity in which he has cast his fortune. But, to my mind, the material benefit pro- ceeding from local organization that under- lies, that towers above and that is paramount to all others is the almost certain ability that local associations possess to cope suc- cessfully with the eredit system. It was, most certainly, this hope that first suggested the formation of the first association in this State, and it has been the watchword of every succeeding association. The same is true of the associations formed in Detroit, in New York State and in Pennsylvania and will be probably true of every state that shall, in the future, fall into line. The more thought I give to this question, the mu ° «strongly am I convinced that, so long : . «mig oy, ever-heaving and restless canof commerce rolls, so long will the | great ship of credit be borne upon its bosem, freighted with the interests of every civil- ized nation of the globe; in its course as it goes sailing swiftly and proudly along from town to town, from state to state, from na- tion to nation. Losses will follow and wreck will be the Sad fate of many. Never- theless, blessings have followed and_ will follow in its wake. And why, Mr. Presi- dent, is this so? Simply for the reason that the gigantic volume of the business of the world is done through the channel of the credit system. This is no opinion of the humble speaker, although observation and experience have shown and taught him that the opinion is founded on fact. The fol- lowing paragraph, taken, I think, from the columns of THE TRADESMAN, attests the truth of the opinion expressed: ‘‘When the credit system is carried on duly and properly, and within legitimate limits, it is the most ingenius method ever devised for promoting commerce.” It is not in one case in ten that failure ensues by reason of the system; but failure does ensue because the system is not in wise, judicious hands is not carried on duly and properly, is not held within legitimate limits. ‘There is. not a nation of the earth to-day that does not see the blessings flowing from the credit system. Itis that which has made Great Britain the most powerful and the-wealth- iest of modern nations. It was the credit system that carried us through the sad, costly, bloody ordeal that the Almighty de- creed, in order that the poor, down-trodden bondsmen might be recompensed for the suffering and toil undergone for an unjust, arrogant people who regarded neither God nor man. In view of these facts I am con- strained to say that our permanent success and cohesive power, as locals,-depend al- most entirely on our controlling the credit system within presented legitimate limits. The Great Teacher, centuries ago, bade the Christian to seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all things should be added unto him. May I not say, seek first to duly and properly establish and con- trol this vexed system, and all these other benefits will accrue to you. The next material benefit in rank that has its origin in the local association, is in bringing the business men of a community into close, friendly, cordial relations. in selfishly seeking fO~@nhance and promote the interests of No. 1. He confines himself more elosely to his pursuits than he ought, leaving his home” early to enter upon his daily routine; taking no recreation for body or mind; giving little attention to his home, excusing hisnon-attendance at the social ser- vices of the chureh, by pleading that his master—business—is inexorable and will not spare him the brief short hour to strengthen and nourish his spiritual nature; absenting himself from. the family pew on Sundays for the reason that he is too tired from the rasping, grinding duties of the preceding day; is never seen at the lecture to hear the grand truths that are taken from a well-garnered mind. His children, who have long attended the public schools, and who have developed into bright, intelligent, promising youth, under the watchful care and intelligent guidance of one of God’s noblest works—the faithful teacher—his children, I say, how gladly would they see him cross the threshold of the school room, how would a happy pride mantle their faces. They never see him there, and why? Bus- iness, business, business. For God’s sake, Mr. President, is there not something in this fleeting world to do except to toil, delve and grow prematurely old for the cold, the unfeeling, the shriveling, the sometimes damning dollar? A writer, 1 know not who, once uttered the grand truth: He who does nothing for others, does nothing for him- self. How certain it is that there are many, very many, in every community who were as well buried from sight, as for all the good they do. The active local organization is a cure for this fatal, this enervating, this de- plorable selfishness. It opens up avenues on every hand leading to good deeds to be performed. It enables us to earnestly seek the prosperity of our city, by giving per- sonal encouragement to propositions having for their aim the bringing in of manufactur- ing interests that shall give employment to sons and daughters who are now a_ burden to fathers and mothers anxiously praying that their children may not, through the wickedness consequent upon idleness, be dependent outcasts upon the streets by day, in the saloon by night, drowning shame, discouragement, misery, in the damning cup that hurries the son to crime and to the se- clusion of the prison cell, and the daughter to the brothel, in which she yields all that God and humanity account most precious to woman—virtue, honor, eternal life. Organized effort enables us to control hours of business, that, to all persons en- gaged in retail business, have, undeniably, been too long and wearing for both employ- er and employed. The speaker has in his employ a faithful clerk, who, for several years has been obliged to leave his home for business before his children are up. He goes to his dinner before they return from school and does not get home until long after they have gone to their beds. Liter- ally, he is to his children what a city busi- ness men, about whom I recently read, was to his child. Going home in the day time, on one occasion, he saw his child—being before his own door, he assumed the child to be his—doing something wrong, and, placing the infant terrible across his knee, he punished it, ofter the approved style, on the basement made,and provided by nature, and sent the child to its mother. When | asked who whipped him, he said that he | did not know his name, but it was the man | who stayed there Sundays. Mr. President, our business hours are wearing and unnecessarily long, and, from my standpoint, I believe that the employer who does not earnestly try to effect shorter hours, if not for himself, for his over-work- the absence of organization, each man is’ ed,. indifferently-paid, faithful clerks, is lit- tle less than a self-elected tyrant, who does not deserve the esteem and much less the faithful service of his clerks. JI am no ad- voeate of strikes, but I do say, with full knowledge of all the facts, that I wish it were possible for the large army of clerks in Michigan to declare war against working from October 1 to April 1 earlier than 7 o’clock a. m. or later than 7 o’clock p. m., and from April 1 to October 1 later than 8 o’elock p. m. These hours would enable our clerks and us to attend our lodges, the social church meetings, leetures, concerts, ete., without neglecting our business and without enslaving our help. In Ionia, we intend to enlist the churches and the secret societies, as well as the local organization, and we are sanguine that shorter hours will prevail. Every local organization is, unfor- tunately, fated to.have in its membership at least one, sometimes more, in each line of business who interposes objections to ear- lier hours. How to surmount this difficulty has been, no doubt, a question with many. It is a fact, self-evident, that if all closed at a given hour, no one would suffer disadvan- tage. On the other hand, if certain ones, in the hope of profiting at the expense of an early-closing competitor, refuse, it creates dissatisfaction and necessarily makes it dif- ficult to accomplish. the object sought. If such instances arise, I firmly and unhesi- tatingly advocate the early closing friends to stand by the faithful-in the matter of ex- change trade. If A and B were in the same line and refused to accede to the early clos- ing movement, I would feel justified in pur- chasing of A. Every proprietor should be privileged to remain in his store for private purposes, but his clerks should be allowed to go and his doors should be closed to cus- tomers. I commend to all merchants aftlict- ed with a desire for long hours the lectures of Wm. Blakie, of New York, on the sub- ject of overwork, lack of recreation and physieal exercise. He boldly proclaims that the disregard of these respites from incessant care and unceasing labor is the prolific source of the frequent cases of apoplexy, paralysis and the breaking down of apparently strong constitutions. Had the speaker in earlier years, better appre- ciated the value of physical development and better understood the laws of health, -ehis life had not been so clouded with anx- iety. But can the mistakes of twenty years ago be corrected? » As well attempt to bring back the tiny snow-flake after it has been reeeived on the ocean’s surface! There are several other ways that and control the giving and extending of un- safe credits; can bring business in every community to a practically cash basis; can, in great measure, suppress the notorious evil involved in the unnecessary and sense- less practice of cutting prices, especially on standard articles kept in every stock; can enlighten members on laws governing trade in its many ramifications; can create a taste for all Shades of literature, by creating a fund for the establishment of association libraries that shall inelude trade journals, political journals of all shades of opinion, magazines devoted to romance, poetry and history, ordering that such libraries shall be accessible to all employees of members; can, in like monner, establish gymnasiums on a limited scale, which shall also be open to employees, and, lastly, what West Point is to the Soldier, what Annapolis is to the sailor, legislative bodies are to the statesman, a local association ean be to the business man, a literal school of instruction. Every asso- ciation should adopt a carefully drawn con- stitution, by-laws, standing orders and or- der of business, which should respectively be adhered to, so that all business may be dene in order, carefully and promptly. Suitable committees should be appointed, so that as many members as possible may be made to feel a responsibility, thereby en- suring both the interest and the attendance necessary to the success, usefulness and permanency of any association. Questions of general business interest should be intro- duced by written resolution, should be re- ferred to proper committee, considered by it, reported back with recommendation, lib- erally discussed under parliamentary laws by as many members as possible and prop- erly disposed of, either by immediate pas- sage, by laying on the table, by postpone- ment to a definite time or by indefinite post- ment. In proceedings of this character, the more reading and study required the better for the committee. It was the great phil- osopher Bacon who said: ‘tReading maketh a man full; writing maketh him precise, debating maketh him quick.” These are qualities which, it should be borne in mind, are absolutely necessary to every person who desires successfully to participate in publie affairs. And, contending, as I em- phatically do, that it is every business man’s duty to hold himself ready to take active, conspicuous part in local publie affairs, I aflirm it to be every man’s duty to read, study, ponder, write and talk, in order that he may creditably perform any duty assign- ed to him. Do you say you are too young? Does another say he is too old?. Bryant composed ‘*Thanatopsis” at twenty—wrote more beautifully at eighty; Macaully wrote his masterly criticism of Milton at twenty-five: Gladstone was prominent in 1839 and is the greatest living statesman to-day. Lord Byron was famous at thirty- six, when the finger of God touched him and he slept; Grant was a hero at forty; Stevens, although a cripple and an invalid, was intellectually a giant at seventy-five; Garfield had been representative, senator and president at fifty; Napoleon had crim- soned Europe with blood at forty-three; Wellington conquered Waterloo at forty- six. But why extend the list? The events of the world are on the shoulders of middle life. It was a grand response that the aged contraband slave made, when he said, ‘‘I’s never too old to be free!’ May we never be too old to learn, too old to discharge every honorable duty, never too young nor too old to be a blessing to mankind in every situation in this life of golden opportuni- ties. In conelusion, I beg to lay down the proposition that the local organization is no exception to the universal rule—Work! Since Omnipotence created the universe and since the morning stars first sang together, the heavens have been telling the Glory of God; all has been ceaseless activity. Who has not stood ona clear night and looked with wonder and awe, as the Great Com- mander marshalled his starry host across the boundless firnament; as Orion, the Plei- ades and the countless constellation silently pass in review to the music of the spheres, music unheard by mortals? Who fails to realize that this same Creator set in motion the beautiful earth we inhabit, putting life into every creature and compelling all to join in the ceaseless round of daily toils? Is man, the noblest work of God, any ex- ception to the universal rule? No. Each has his appointed work and happy is he who seeks to know what duty demands of him. Itis clearly for us not to seek our life work at some point far removed from loeal | associations can be of material benefit: for | instance, they can unquestionably restrain | our every day life, but to discover it in our homes: in our places of business; in doing good to our neighbors; in looking to the, moral welfare of our employees; to guard them from every shade of vice; in setting the face of our sons and daughters toward the plane of useful manhood and woman- hood; in forming a publie opinion that shall stay the strong tide of intemperance, lust | and gaming; in supporting churches, schools, the lecture, the coneert—in fact, every in- | strumentality that tends to elevate, en- lighten and strengthen, in word and deed, | In our local organizations, | every citizen. the harvest is ripe, the golden grain ready for the sickle. Are they many or few? Time is on the wing—seconds glide into minutes, minutes into hours, hours into days, days into— eternity. Let me leave with you the grand sentiment embodied in this beautiful retrain: Going by, going by, As the years go rolling by; Oh, the good we all may do, As the years go rolling by. All the loving links that bind us, While the days are going by, One by one we leave behind us, While the days are going by. But the seeds of good we sow, Both in shade and shine, will grow— Will keep our hearts aglow, While the days are going by, Going by, Going by, : Going by, Going by, Oh, the good we all may do, While the days are going by. [Continued next week. } ——> -9- <—— Alba to Organize Friday. ALBA, March 24, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: Dear Sin—From consultation, we favor of a Business Men’s Association. We wish to organize as soon as possible and would like to know what steps are necessary, the expense, ete. Can you manage to meet us any time in the near future? Yours truly, Smirit Bros. > oo <> . Lawrence Alive to the Benefits of Organ- ization. LAWRENCE, March. 24, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Srr—The business men of this fown are talking of organizing a Business | Men’s ‘‘Association, and we you to give us a few pointers. not fix some date to visit our place near future? Yours truly, STEBBINS & HOXIE. would like in the Jersey Butter Tubs SS ee = CE = S These are the Finest Lathe- Turned Ash Butter Tubs in the | market. Every tub is smooth and perfect. Good goods should . % be put up in good packages. oi cn da ccc cena deieewss 23 cents 46 ** ie ee ee 60 oa oe 2 st Special Price in Car Lots. URTISS & DUNTE Grand Rapids. SEEDS FOR EVERYBODY. For the Field or Garden. f you want to buy Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Orchard Grass, Kentucky Blue, Red Top, Seed Oats, Rye, Barley, Peas, Onion, Ruta Baga Mangle OR * Wurzel, Anything in the Line of SEEDS, Write or send to the Seed Store, 71 CANAL ST,, W. 7. LAMORBADY, Agent Where are the harvesters? | find | that the business men of this place are in | Could you | | : ‘ ‘ ‘ | Flint Unites in Pronouncing it a “Good Thing.” FLINT, March 24, 1887. |B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Str—Since returning from the con- vention, we have eanvassed somewhat among our business men and they all seem anxious to have the September meeting held here, if possible. I notice that Owosso also put in an invitation. Now, Owosso and Flint settled that point by ‘drawing cuts” while in Grand Rapids and Flint drew the larger straw, and they said they would as- sist us all they could. Our next meeting will not take place un- | til the first Friday in April and then we will undoubtedly send money for member- ship ‘1the State Association. W careall equipped and in running order and a good many dollars have already been collected with the Blue Letter. All of our members unite in saying, ‘tit is at good thing.” Please do what you can for us in getting the fall meeting held here. Yours truly, J. L. WILLE?rT, Sec’y. Hides, Pelts and Furs. Hides are unsettled with an wnwarranted flurry in some grades. Pelts and wool are dull and weak. The Hudson Bay, Lamp- son and London sales, which have occurred during the past week, may be summarized | as follows: Rat sold 10 per cent. lower ithan at the previous sales; lynx, 45 per eent.; mink and martin 20 percent. Coon iand fox showed an advance of 5 per cent. and bear an advance of 30 per cent. Spring {and small and poor skins are neglected. MISCELLANEOUS. Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, ,}or 50 cents tor three weeks. Advance pay- ment. Advertisements directing that answers be sent in care of this office must be accompanied by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, etc. NOR SALB—One-third interest in a grist- mill, doing a good business. For sale at a bargain. Fine location. Small capital re- quired. Callon or addres Wm. H. McCormick & Co., Fennville, Mich. 185* prek SALE—SL,t00 will buy my property, - practice and drug stock, if sold before the | Istof May. Established 3% years, and doing good business. Address M. D., 1i7 Fourth St., | Grand Rapids, Mich. 184* VOR SALE—WATCHMAN’S CLOCK, Im- hauser patent, nearlynew. J. L. Buchan- an, 463 N. Front St., Grand Rapids. is+* NOR SALE—Drug, book and stationery store doing good business in best location ina thriving Northern Michigan railway town. Ad- dress “Junction,’’ care TRADESMAN. 188* |; (YOR SALE—Clean stock of dry goods, cloth- ing, hats and caps and boots and shoes, | situated at Plainwell, a lively town with two | railways. Stock wiil inventory about $3,500. | For terms of sale. apply to W. H. Hoops, at Buikley, Lemon & Hoops, Grand Rapids. 177tf i R SALE—A thirty-year old grocery stand | in Kalamazoo. A two-story frame store, | with good tenement rooms above, and a good tenement house on same lot, aiso barn. Three blocks from M. C. depot. $3,500, part down, balance in eusy peyments. Possession given in May. J. Van Zolenburg, Petoskey. 1i4tf } yes SALE—Best bargain ever offered for | general stock in growing town in good i farming community in Northern Michigan. Stock willinventory about $4,000. Sales last | year were $60,000. Address* The Tradesman,” Grand Rapids. 17itf | hat EXCHANGE—For dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes or gent’s furnishing goods, desirable residence lot and dwelling house at Grant Station. The house is x24, with two large wings. Address ©. M. Wood- ward, Kalamo, Mich. 136 \ YANTED--Revistered Drug Clerk. Address, giving referencesand wages expected, “Black,” Tradesman office. 1k6* Wwe 0 or 500 cords of dry basswood bolts for excelsior. Donker & Quist, Grand Rapids. 187* \ YANTED—Situation with a wholesale house to sell on the road, or any position with | chance to rise. Have had experience on road. | Moderate salary. Address “S,” TRADESMAN | oftice, Grand Rapids. 185* ee by young man | grocery or general store. Four years’ | experience. Best of references. Address 3., | Box 354, Fremont, Newaygo Co., Mich. —1S87* | aginst angi nonsgge by young man as trav- eling salesman or salesman in store. in a Have had several years’ experience. Reter- ences furnished. Address S. E., care ‘*Trades- man.”’ Grand Rapids. 182* | eee as clerk in a drug or | drug and book store, by the undersign- | ed, a registered pharmacist, and member of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- tion. Care and precision exercised in com- | pounding prescriptions, Satisfactory referen- | ces given. Gideon Noel. Good Hart. Mich. 183* | | ! | | VV 4nteD—4 man having an established trade among lumbermen to add a spec- ial line and sell on commission. To the right man a splendid chance will be given to make money without extraexpeuse. Address “B,” | eare Michigan Tradesman. V7stt YOR RENT—Good and beautiful location on _ the lake shore in Emmet county, for a | business requiring $600 or $800 capital. For in- formation address Gideon Noel, Good Hart, | Mich. 183* \ TJANTED—Stock in Kent County Savings Bank. Address, stating terms demand- ed, *‘Purchaser,”’ care “The Tradesman.” ay City Miling Co Nt , - no fF SNOW FLAKE p fyreccer in” ; Flour | OUR SPECIALTIES: } | Buckwheat Flour, R lour, Granulated Meal, Bolted Meal, Coarse Meal, Bran Ships, Middlings, Screeninzs, Corn, Oats Feed. OUR LEADING BRANDS: Roller Champion, Gilt Edge, Matchless, Lily White, Harvest Queen, Snow Flake, | White Loaf, Reliance, Gold Medal, Graham, Write for Prices. ‘Grand Rapids, Michigan. ~ © 219 a The Michigan Tradesman, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Hercantile and Mauefacturing Interests of the State. BE. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Adver tising rates made known on eee WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1887, Grand Rapin Traveling Men’s Association. President, L. M. Mills; Vice-President, S. A. Sears; Sec retary and Treasurer, Geo. H. Seymour; Board of Di- rectors, H. 8. Robertson, Geo. F. Owen, J. N. Brad- ford, A. B. Cole and Wm. Logie. aS “ Subscribers ‘and ‘others, “when writing to advertisers. will confer a favor on the pub- lishers by mentioning that they saw the adver- | tisement in the columns ot this paper. Ataconvention of alleged workingmen held one evening last week, Hon. John Kil- | lean’s name was mentioned in connection | with the nomination for Mayor, when the | anarchist editor of the Workman arose in | the dignity of his depravity and opposed Mr. Killean on the ground that he is a mem- | the Retail Grocers’ Association, ‘which advocates starving workmen to, termsin case of strikes,” and ‘‘whose organ | —Tur TRapesMAN—is the deadly enemy of organized labor.” The Retail Grocers’ Association does not advocate starving men | to bring them to terms in the event of | strikes and Tun TRADESMAN is not the | enemy of organized labor. With these two exceptions, Mr. Hathaway’s two statements were correct, although he was never known to get as near the truth before in his life. If he should ever get within sixteen feet of the truth, the shock to his nervous system would kill him quicker than a stroke of lightning. ber of 5 onmanicraconsasacaNsea oo Simultaneous with the failure of the co- operative store at Battle Creek comes in- formation of the inauguration of a new venture of that kind at Holland. If the Holland people want to save money, they would do well to send for the fool-killer. Except in rare cases, co-operative distribu- tion has not proved successful in this coun- try. The representative of a leading wholesale grocery house pays his respects to package coffees this week in a way that will be ap- preciated by the retail trade. The other side of the question will be given next week in the shape of replies by the manufacturers of package goods. Chieago’s new trade journal, the Indepen- dent Grocer, comes out in the same fori as THe TRADESMAN and presents a handsome appearance, editorially and typographically. AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Jennie E. (Mrs. C.E.) Westlake succeeds C. E. Westlake in the drug business at8 re A. B. Wolf has engaged in the grocery business at Carson City. Cody, Ball, Barn- hart & Co. furnished the stock. Rynberg & V anderveen have Sbought the grocery stock of Jacob Maus, at the corner of South Division and Hall streets. Waldy Janschefsky hes engaged in the grocery business at 12 3 Jefferson street. Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock. i T. Crane & & Son have resumed the grocery business at the corner of Hall street and Mad- ison avenue. Amos S. Musselman & Co. furnished the stock. Stanley Erasmus, formerly a clerk for Jos. Glowezynski, is about to start in the grocery business on his own account, at the corner of Muskegon | and Eighth streets. W. T. Lamoreaux hase losed out his bean business for the season, having shipped eighty-three car loads since last fall. This amount is more than is handled by any other five dealers in the State. J. M. Peaslee will shortly build a block next tothe one’ now occupied by him as a grocery store, on Wealthy avenue, which will be occupied by a gentleman named Stewart with a f urniture stock. Peter Brautigam has sold an “interest in his business at North Dorr. to his brother and the firm will hereafter be known as Brautigam Bros. The firm has added a line of dry goods, furnished by P. Steketee & Sons. a. Clark, Jewell & Co. are laboring under the delusion that they will get into their new quarters in the new Houseman build- ing by April 15. 1f they are settled there before May 1, Tue TRADESMAN will waive all claims to prophetic insight. AROUND THE STATE. Lacota—J. B. Watson, grocer, has sold out. Jackson—Jos. Smith, grocer, has sold out to L. C. Hurd. Cassopolis—C. C. Nelson succeeds the Cassopolis Furniture Co. Cheboygan—Wm. 8. Smith has sold his saw-mill to Lewis P. Swift. Lowell—S. A. Wingler, grocer, closed under chattel mortgage. Lacey—Bristol & Nickerson will engage | in general trade aboutfApril 1. Jamestown—C. H. Joldersma succeeds | Henry DeKline in general trade. . Linden—Harris & Shepard succeed Myron | Har ris in the hardware business. Jackson—S. B. Kauffman, clothing deal-| er, has been closed py creditors. Clifford—R. L. Ferguson, succeeds Jas, Ferguson in the hardware business. has been | | Co. has arranged to open a large yard here, Kalkaska—Dora Rosenthal, dealer in dry goods, clothing, ete., is closing out. dissolved, F. G. Rouser continuing. Ovid—David A. Armstrong is closing out | his grocery and restaurant business. Owosso—C. Mahaney succeeds Brown & Mahaney in the dry goods business. Manistee—Wm. Miller & Co. will embark ‘in the hardware business about April 1. ‘Lansing—Darling & Sindlinger, grocers, have dissolved, D. M. Darling continuing. Lapeer—Mellick, Mapes & Co., general | dealers, have dissolved, H. D. Pike retiring. Laingsburg—R. A. Walters has bought out the grocery business of J. W. Murray. Franklin—Harvey Higby is succeeded by | Higby & Gordon in the dry goods business. | Hubbardston—Jas. McDermott has bought ‘the hardware stock of E. Matthews & Son. | Holland—A co-operative store, with a “capital of 35,000, is the latest business ven- ture. Manistee—Bradlee & Campbell have en- gaged in the furniture and undertaking bus- iness. _ Nottawa—J. W. Schermerhorn’s liabili- ‘ties are $29,000. He shows assets valued ats 331,000. | | (of Erdman, Kilmartin & Tew, was buried on the 24th. | Battle Creek—G. C. Steele, wholesale and retail dealer in variety goods, has sold out to Hiram 8. Warner. Owosso—J. F. Laubengayer, for several years a druggist here, died on the 22d, after an illness of several weeks. Hastings—W. E. Powers has purchased the hardware stock of John A. Greble and will continue the business. Archie—Dr. C. E. Clapp, formerly en- gaged in the grocery business at Martin, is now engaged in general trade here. Dexter—Croakin & Son have purchased the dry goods stock of Croakin & Porter, at Jackson, and removed it to this place. Bristol & Nickerson, who have engaged in general trade at Lacey, bought their boot and shoe stock of Rindge, Bertsch & Co. Otsego—-J. Armstrong writes THE | TRADESMAN that the report that he will engage in the grocery business is erroneous. Dowagiae—Dewey, Defendorf & Lyle, dealers in dry goods and carpets, have dis- solved, and are succeeded by Defendorf & Lyle. Charlevoix—Will See has purchased the grocery stock of E. M. Clark and will han- dle ties, posts wood and bark in connec- tion. Imlay City—J. H. Waterland has bought out the harness business of W. F. Dodge. The latter still retains his boot and shoe business. South Blendon—John Farowe, of the former firm of Farowe Bros., is building a new store here and will shortly engage in general trade. ‘ Unionville—F. L. Coy, (Mrs. J. 5.,) druggist and banker, is succeeded in the banking business by D. A. Reynolds & Co. She still retains the drug business. Ryerson—Ada L: Johnson has purchased the remnants of the Johnson Bros.’ general stock at assignee’s sale for $500 and will continue the business at the old stand. Battle Creek-—-The co-operative grange store has been closed on chattel mortgage. The venture was a losing one from the start and the result was predicted months ago. Elk Rapids—Cal. L. Martin has formed a copartnership with Jas. E. Mahan, of Bay City, and well engage in the drug business here under the firm name of C. L. Martin & Co. Traverse City—Osear Simpson has retired from the boot and shoe firm of Frank Friedrich & Co. The business will be con- tinued by Frank and Alfred Friedrich under the firm name of Friedrich Bros. Newberry—The report in Time TRADEs- MAN of last week that Trueman & MeLaugh- lin succeed J. Trueman & Co.jn the gro- cery and saloon business is untrue. True- man & McLaughlin have started in anew. Battle Creek—A correspondent writes as follows: The co-operative store has been closed by virtue of a chattle mortgage held by Henry Dubois. The institution has been in existence ten and a half years and is sup- posed to be good for all demands against it. H. B. Hoagland, the present secretary and manager, will conduct a coal and wood bus- iness here. STRAY FACTS. Detroit—Oswald H. Voigt, carriage mak- er, is dead. Detroit—Thos. H. Candler, dealer in tal- low, has sold out. Petoskey—Watson Snyder has sold his brick yard to L. G. Grimes. | Bessemer—The Gogebic Powder Co. has merged its business into a stock company. Elk Rapids—W. A. Sprague has removed his harness business from Kalkaska to this place. Hubbardston—Campbell & Grill succeed Boyd Redner & Co. in the agricultural im- plement business. Kalamazoo—John Hummer and G. Laep- ply, of Holland, are negotiating for the old Appledorn tannery, with a view to engag- ing in the tanning business. Sault Ste. Marie—The Hibbard Lumber ‘of which H. F. Snyder is to have charge. | The company has leased the water frontage _ between the St. Mary’s school grounds and ; the James Seymour property. Docks will | be built and slips dredged. | begin in about a week. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Alpena—Fletcher, Pack & Co. are putting | three new boilers in their river mill and one in their bay shore mill. Lansing—Rouser & Walker, grocers, have ' Orange—Mr. Erdman, of the general firm: Oyerations will Mancelona—The new wooden butter dish factory will be 115x140 feet and will covered with an iron roof.® Hersey—C. N. Leach has purchased the saw and shingle mill known as the ‘‘Cat Creek mill’? and will operate the same to its fullest capacity. TYakeside—Stimson Brothers are rebuild- ing.the refuse burner at. their mill and are adding a shingle mill, which will have a capacity of 100,000 a day. <2 -9-<—-—_-—_—_——- Organization Notes. Kalamazoo Herald: The business men of this city who attended the Michigan Business Men’s Association convention, at Grand Rapids, have returned greatly pleased with their reception and treatment in the Second City, and highly gratified at the results at- tained by the meeting. Elk Rapids Progress: C. L. Martin has returned from Grand Rapids, where he at- tended a meeting of the Michigan Business Men’s Association. Many valuable papers were read and in making his report Mr. Martin will present much that will interest our business men. The editor of Tur TRADESMAN has made the following engagements for this week: Luther, Wednesday afternoon; Fife Lake, Thursday evening; Alba, Friday forenoon. Next week he hopes to assist in forming as- sociations at Watervliet, Lawrence and De- catur. Traverse City Journal: THe MIcHiGAN TRADESMAN contains many complimentary mentions of our townsman, Frank Hamilton, President of thes Michigan Business Men’s Association. The late session of above As- sociation was a great success, many proofs of good work being mentioned. Traverse City, in various ways, is honored by this flourishing organization, which is doing so much for all honest classes of people. Referring to the recent State convention, the Traverse City Hagle remarks: ‘Our fellow townsman, Frank Hamilton, Presi- dent of the State Association, made many friends by the able manner in which he pre- sided over the deliberations of the body. Many valuable papers were read and dis- cussed, and much business of great interest was transacted. The organization is prov- ing one of which Traverse City may well take pride, in having been the starting point.” W. C. Pierce, President of the Flint Mercantile Union, writes: ‘‘Matters are progressing here all O. K. We would be very much disappointed if Flint was not selected for the September convention. Will try and entertain all right. When will the matter be decided?” The selection of the next place of meeting lies with the Execu- tive Committee, who will probably announce their decision the first time they have a meeting. When that will be Tur TRADES- MAN is now unable to announce. _— — = o> Organization Formed at While Cloud. With the assistanee of the editor of Tor TRADESMAN, the business men of White Cloud organized an association of twelve members last Wednesday evening. P. M. Roedel acted as chairman and M. D. Hay- ward as secretary. After a full explana- tion of the objects sought by associated ef-| fort had been made, A. G. Clark moved that the organization of an association be imme- diately proceeded with, which was adopted, when the following gentlemen presented themselves for charter membership: P. M. Roedel, A. G. Clark, Jacob Cohen, FE. A. Bradford, R. Gannon, R, 8S. Trask, J. D. Champion, H. T. Reed, M. D. Hayward, M. A. Teachout, J. C. Townsend, M. M. Cole. On motion of A. Cohen, the constitution and by-laws presented by Mr. Stowe was adopted for the government of the Associa- tion. H. T. Reed moved that the election of of- ficers be proceeded with, which was adopt- ed, resulting as follows: President—P. M. Roedel. Vice-President—J. C. ‘Townsend. Secretary—M. D. Hayward. Treasurer—R. Gannon. Executive Committee—President, Secre- tary, A. G. Clark, Jacob Cohen and M. A. Teachout. Business Committee—E. A. Bradford, J. D. Champion and R. 8. Trask. Jacob Cohen moved that the Committee on Trade Interests be deferred until the next meeting which was adopted. Jacob Cohen moved that the collection blanks presented by Mr. Stowe be adopted, which was carried, when the Executive Committee was instructed to procure the printing of the same. The editor of the White Cloud: Business was requested to publish the constitution and by-laws in full in his next week’s paper and the meeting adjourned. - > -- > Imitating Jas. Dibble. The sensation of the week has been the exchange of the Harley B. Church boot and shoe stock for a 200 acre farm in Muskegon county. The deed for 160 acres was made out in his wife’s name, and the balance, which he will hold as ‘a homestead, in his his own name. He refuses to liquidate any of his indebtedness, and his son is reported to have said that his father’s creditors have made enough outof him in the past to make up for the present loss. One creditor has taken judgment against the gentleman, and others threaten to follow suit. Good Words Unsolicited. Geo. Austin, grocer, Sparta: “Like your paper.” Lusher Bros., grocers, Elkhart, Ind.: a good paper.”’ O. E, White, druggist, Maple Rapids: paper is a good one.” Geo. A. Deitz, formerly engaged in trade at Cadillac, but now at Dayton, Tenn.,writes: “It is just as entertaining and useful to mein “It is “Your Tennessee as it was in Michigan,” The Gripsack Brigade. T. M. Sheriff, of Kalamazoo, has engaged to travel for the Independent Oil Co., of this city. }.u. K. Walton, general traveler for Cur- tiss & Dunton, was laid up last week with partial blindness. F. H. Lester, Indiana representative for, Amos §. Musselnan & Co., reports a. good r tradg and excellent prospects for the future. Joseph L. Proud, formerly on the road for ‘the Mills & Lacey Manufacturing Co., is ly- ing at the point of death at the Beulah faith cure establishment on Baxter street: Mr. Proud’s difficulty is consumption of the stomach. Dave Haugh suggests that the traveling men vary the monotony of a picnic this summer by a two days’ trip to Niagara Falls. The party can leave the Union depot ona train of sleepers early Friday evening, ar- rive at the Falls early in the forenoon, spend the day there and leave in the evening for Detroit. Arriving at the latter city Sunday morning, the forenoon can be spent in at- tending church and the afternoon in driving about the city and riding on the river. Tak- ing the sleepers again late in ‘the evening, the party can arrive in Grand Rapids early Monday morning, in time for the male members of the party to see their wives home and take the outgoing trains. The trip could be made at an expense not to ex- ceed $20 per couple and would, doubtless, prove to be a very enjoyable one to all who participated. A Manufacturer’s Opinion. One of the largest manufacturers of spices in this country recently remarked to the ed- itor of Tore TRADESMAN: The subject of adulterations is a eommer- cial question with a moral basis and should, therefore, be treated in the same way as moral questions. Instead of attempting to secure legislation to make men_ honest, which can nevér be done, the proper way to proceed is to educate the people up to the advisability of using pure goods, by creat- ing a public sentiment in their favor. A man should be entitled to buy whatever he desires, so long as the purchases are not absolutely injurious, and I defy anyone to point out any adulterant used in the manu- facture of spices which has a bad effect on the human system. Adulterations are swin- dles only-—crimes against the purse and not the stomach—and the sooner the public come to recognize this fact the better it will be for all concerned. Every manufacturer puts outa brand of spices under his own name which is abso- lutely pure, and if the trade would insist on buying such goods only, there would be no need of raising any trouble on this score. The idea of securing legislation which will compel persons to buy certain grades of goods seems repugnant to me, as tending to jeopardize the liberty of the individual. The right of individual action was recog- nized by our forefathers and is in aecord with the genius of the constitution. Any abridgement of that right should be vigor- ously opposed and successtully contested. All attempts at centalization are the fore- runners of eventual anarchy. baroware. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 30 Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $54 00: 3, $30 00. dis FILES—New List. | American File Association List...... dis 60&10 | WEMMARON A se ics hess Vuk cnven seus dis 60&10 WOW AMOGFICAD... . oo. occ. soca kane dis 60810 | Bn a ae AS A a epee dis 60&10 | PROUOM ia dis 55&10 | Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 50 } GALVANIZED IRON, | | Nos. 16to20, 22and 24, 25and26, 27 28) ‘List 12 13 14 15 8 | Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. } GAUGES. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50 | HAMMERS. Maydole See ee dis 25 | BAO 8 ois se Bice e cette ects cece ene dis = Terkes @ Prem eo dis Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 50 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 ¢ 40&10 HANGERS. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track 50&10 Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60&10 Kidder, wood track................... dis 40 HINGES. pon ieee &, 22, Hi ee dis 60 GAs book seen g ce vanes cues er doz, net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 I OO a ois oe ik bn ive iden. ccd den 3% Screw Hook and ive, & ..... 6... s-s net 10% Screw Hook and ye %.............. net 8% Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net i% Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net % Ry Ns cee ic oe ns ees an dis 65 HOLLOW WARE. ee ka aes as cc, a. 60 We eel ieee eye cies 60 WON ce en a 60 Cray Gnameled. .... .... 5c coe koe. 50 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware.............. new list 7d JODBENGS Tin WAT... .. 2.6 eee sone cases 25 Granite fron Ware............:.......<. 25 HOES. ea, $11 00, dis 60 Ore ke i cc le... 11 50, dis 60 Ore... ey ee 12 00, dis 60 KNOBS—NEW LIST. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....... dis 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... 55 Door, porcelain, trimmings............. 55 | Drawer and Shutter, percelain Laas dis 70 Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.;: ........... 40&10 PRCA GNEO ick be baw ns en eeciacns dis 45 LOCKS—DOOR Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list. .dis 5d Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............. dis 5d PVA CONE ©. ohh case Cakes cues s cess, dis 55 Norwalk’s Bee eek ie © Wa ous bas dis 5d " LEVELS. Staniey Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 70 MATTOCKS. Adze Bye...... hee eae ease ces $16 00 dis 60 WPS OVO is se ecu caac lca aks $15 00 dis 60 PE Bo cae ee $18 50 dis 20 & 10 MAULS. Sperry & Co.’r, Post, handled........... dis 50 MILLS. Coffee, Farmers Col. ooo ca. cs cic aces seccss dis 40 Coffee, P.S.& W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables ... dis 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s.......... dis 40 Coffee, BIMterprise. .. 5 co.cc cc cece cenees dis 256 MOLASSES GATES. Stebbin’s Patterm .............0.c0008 dis 60&10 Stebbin’s Genuine...... ............. dis 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring.......... dis 25 NAILS—IRON. Common, Bra and Fencing. Od tO Gi ia oa aa eee # keg $2 5 RE TAG GORY. cw hove opi vias bene ccssuasecas - 25 OO AGO TO BAU. occ ie cae 50 MO ON BO ON nos on ccc coke ic ccs. 75 Te oe ie oc oc cae baa teeness 150 GOH IO BEA VONOO: ooo ee ceca cc ceases sce 2 26 Ce OU, BG gc ake cern tenes ccass 1@ Finishing 13 10d 8d 8d 4d Size—inches f 2% 1 Adv. # keg $125 1 50 its 2 00 Steel Nails—2 70. OILERS, Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent.............. dis60&10 Zinc, with brass bottom............. 2... dis 50 PRPASE OF COMET. ions coca cic cc cccecues dis 50 TRIO acs cls as sends ences ne per gross, $12 net Onasteaa’a ee ea ae 50&10 PLANES. Onio Tool Co.'s, fangy.......... 2.5.65... dis 30 Sciota Bench............... . dis ee Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ......... Bench, first§quality...............0.... dist 50@! 33 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .dis20&10 PANS. TER ON oan os ec vs hua cn cas dis 50&10 Common, polished....... o . .dis60&10 TerOp ae ic Bb 6% RIVET Iron and Tinned.......... Lie .. dis 5D Copper Rivets and Burs............. dis 60 PATENT FLANISAED IRON. ‘“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 . = “B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 Broken packs \e # b extra. ROPES. Sisal, 4% in. and larger............... 11% promptly end Duy itis peekaees. ..... ivanin | ets AOCERA AND BITS. aa... 13% Ives’, old style Ae AS, gaia te a ae - ° Steel and Iron 70&10 Peek Gee odds aches oscee 8 ee 2 TOA occ icge ok dis ou > <_- - Quoting Prices of Staples in Characters.* Have we not all watched this method as it has been used by the hardware and drug trades and seen by the many letters in its favor from druggists recently printed in THE TRADESMAN, What perfect success it seems to give? Now, why do they care to have their prices printed in trade journals in that way? Do they not know that even these papers are read by many whom they do not care to have ‘‘catch on to” their prices, remembering that those who have a right to read said papers and do not handle drugs must be their customers and that they must have, many of such customers. And the arrangement pleases them. As it now stands they have the advantage of under- standing their neighbors’ prices, while their neighbors do not understand theirs. Now, cannot this be so adjusted as to put all on an equal footing in the matter? For, if it is of so much advantage to one line of trade, is it not of equal advantage to the rest? Perhaps some one can suggest a better method than Lam able to. But, I will sug- gest two methods for your consideration, one of which it would seem might be used: 1. To use a method similar to the one now is use by the hardware dealers and have the ‘‘key” kept only by the wholesale dealers and their agents and given to those buying and handling goods im their line. The wholesale dealers can easily tell who are handling goods in their line and who ought to have the ‘‘key,” as has been proved in the case of the hardware trade. 2. Another method is to use blind letters or characters, similar to those used in marking goods, the ‘tkey” to be kept and given out, as above described by the wholesale dealers. Said key can be changed as often as may seem necessary to keep it out of the hands of those who should not have it. Of course, it would be necessary to give this ‘‘key’’ to some who do not handle said goods, such as those who are authorized to publish them, and perhaps others. I simply make these suggestions, hoping that you will give them your careful attention, as many of you are, undoubtedly, better able to decide on the matter than Iam. But, since it has given suchgood satisfaction to those who are al- ready using a similar method, why can it not be put into practice by the rest, with equally good results? C. Barclay before recent * Paper read by A. Men’s Asso- eonvention of Michigan Business ciation. ———— We carry « full 'ineof Seeds of every variety, both for field and garden. Parties in want should CEE] \ write to or see the GRAND-RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED (0. 71 CANAL STREET. TIME TABLES. Chicago &West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives. FMBAL co. cccvcccccccsccencsaccscsces 9:10am 3:55 pm +Day EXpress......-sseeeeeeeeeeree 12:30 pm 9:45 pm *Night EXpress......-++eeeeeeereees 11:00 p m 5:45am Muskegon Express.....-+. ++ seers 5:00 pm 11:00 a m *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through parlor ear in charge of careful attendants without ex- tra charge to Chicago on 12:50 p.m., and through coach on 9 a.m. and 11 p. m. trains. Newaygo Division. Leaves. Arrives. EXpTess ......eeeeeeeee eres .... 3:45pm 4:50 pm EXpYIess.....--+seeeeeenenee ...- 8:00am 10:30 am All trains arrive and depart from Union Depot. The Northern terminus of this division is at Baldwin, where close connection is made with F. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and Manistee. W. A. GAVETT, Gen’l Pass. Agent. J. B. MULLIKEN, General Manager. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Traverse City Express....-+++s++++ 7:00am Traverse City and. Ma naw Ex.. 9:20am 11:30am Cincinnati Express......---++++++ 7:30 pm Petoskey and Mackinaw Express.. 3:40 pm 5:05 pm Saginaw EXpress.....-++++seeserees 11:25am 7:20am sf Sf ca seewesmnnetueekete 10:30 am 4:10pm Saginaw express runs through solid. 7a m train has chair car fer Traverse City. 11:30 a m train has chair car for Petoskey and Mackinaw City. 5:05 = train has sleeping and chair cars for Petoskey and Mackinaw. GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express......-++-++++++ 7:15am Fort Wayne Express......-++++++++ 10:30 a m 11:45am Cincinnati Express......-++++s2+++ 4:40 pm 5:00 pm Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. -11:00 p m 7:15am train has parlor chair car for Cincinnati. 5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Leave. Arrive. 2B DM. neces ence cnnccssscescnsscoressseos .. 9:15am 1:00 PM... eee eee e eee e eee eretees .. 1:00pm 5:20 PM... see rene eee ces ee cess secenees .. 7:10pm Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. I C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Kalamazoo Division. Leave. Arrive. Ex. & Mail. N. Y. Mail. N.Y. Mail. N. Y. Ex 4:35pm 7:45am. _Grand Rapids. 9:45am 6:10pm 5:65pm 9:02am..Allegan......+ 8:28am 5:00am 7:05pm 10:06am. ‘Kalamazoo... 7:30am 4:00pm 8:30pm 11:35 ayn. “White Pigeon. 5:55am 2:20pm 2:30am 5:05 p m..Toledo ........11:00 pm 9:45am 8:30am 9:40pm. “Cleveland..... 6:40pm 5:35am 2:50 pm 3:30 a m..Buffalo. ..11:55am 11:10pm 5:40am 6:50p m..Chicago....... 11:30pm 6:50am 4 local freight leaves Grand Rapids atl p m, carry- ing passengers as far as Allegan. All trains daily ex- cept Sunday. J. W. McKENNEY, General Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express..... 6:25am +Through Mail....... ..-10:40 am 10:50 am +Evening Express ... 3:15pm 3:50 pm *Limited Express.... ... 9:20pm 10:55 pm ¢Mixed, with coach........++++++++ 11:00 a m GOING WEST. +Morning Express......-++++++++++ 1:05 pm 1:19pm tMbrough Mail.......----seeereee ee 5:00 pm 5:05 pm +Steamboat Express.....+-++++++++ 10:40 pm 4MixEd.....-.ceeececeseeeceeceserees 7:45am *Night EXpress....+--s+ersseeee ness 5:10 aan 5:35am +Daily, Sundays excepted. . Passengers taking the 6:25 am Express make close connection at Owosso for Lansing, and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 10:30 am the following morning. The Night Express has a through Wagner car and local sleeping car from Detroit to Grand Rapids. D. Porter, City Passenger Agent. Gro. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager Chicago. Michigan Central. DEPART. Detroit EXpress......scsceeeeereceersste se ee crete 6:15am Day EXpress.......seeeseecsessersccesesessreres 1:10pm *Aflantic EXPress. .....+esereeeeeeeeseesceeeere ss 10:10 pm MISO clisssncccedcscscecncancesncre cesses ee ehaen 6:50 am ARRIVE. *Pacific EXpress........seccereeeesentseeeeenrers 6:00 am MUN. cocdedccccecesncnsccasasrecadordensessaeet 3:00 pm Grand Rapids Express......-ss+++ereeseseeerers 10:15 pm MiKOd cc cncccetaccccernveccnsnsesevsnssseeceseabss 5:15pm *Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars Express trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapids Express to and from Detroit. Direct connec- tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.) D. W. JoHNSTON, Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids. O. W. RUGGLES, Gen’! Pass. and Ticket Agt., Chicago. run on Atlantic and Pacific Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette. Going West. Going East. 7:00am 8:00am,.St. Ignace..... 8:40pm 5:55pm > eee vegebeden ae oat :30 pm 730 pm 05pm. 7:00am 4:00 pm Marquette .. } 1:55 pm 4:35 pm, .Negaunee..... 1:2 pm 4:45 pm. Ishpeming... .12:55 p m 8:00 pm,.Houghton’... 9:25am 8:20 pm..Hancock ..... 9:00am Mixed train leaves St. Igpace at 7am; arrives Mar- £. W. ALLEN, uette 5:30 p m. n, Pass. and Ticket Agent, Marquette. complete line of ‘GARDEN SEEDS. by placing his order with us. the Seed business for years, is with us in this new department. Hoping you will favor us with attention, I am Very respectfully yours, ALFRED J. BROWN, Seedsman, 16 and 18 North Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I would respectfully call your atten- tion to the fact that I am handling. a Representing the well-known house of James Vick, of Rochester, anyone wishing Seeds in large or small quan- tities can obtain them, true to name, John A. Brummeller, who has been in orders, which will have our prompt BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS, Importers and Wholesale Grocers. Sole Azszents for Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Celebrated Soaps. Niagara Starch Co.’s Celebrated Starch. “Jolly Tar” Celebrated Plug Tobacco, dark and light. Jolly Time” Celebrated Fine Cut To- bacco. Dwinell, Hayward & Co.s Roasted Coffees. Thomson & Taylor's Magnolia Coffee. . Warsaw Salt Co.’s Warsaw Salt. “Benton” Tomatoes, Benton Harbor. Mr. now your ORANGES 1865 PUTNAM & BROOKS WHOLESALE CAN FRUIT 1887 Spiwt PEA NUTS LEMONS OYSTERS) | “Van Camp” Tomatoes, Indianapolis. “Acme” Sugar Corn, Best in the World. In addition to a full line of staple groceries, we are the only houseSin Michigan which carries a complete assortment of fancy groceries and table delicacies. Mail orders are especially solicited, which invariably secure the lowest prices and prompt shipment. Satisfaction guaranteed. 9 97 and 29 Lonia St.and 51, 53, 95, 97 aud 49 Island St, Grand Rapids, Mich. PEREINS & HESS, DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. RLOW BROS. ‘S.L11.N SPRING & COMPANY JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS. Hosiery, Carpets, Ete. and 8 Mouroe St., Grand Rapids. aetel cache . NS) KO DLC WEVER MADE 10 FOR (Routar DE PRESENTS WITH BAKING POWDERS Order a Case. White Star Baking Powder. Pound cans, 2 doz. in case for $9. A large piece Decorated China given with each can REMOVAL. We shall remove to the HOUSE- MAN BLOCK, corner Pearl and Ionia Sts., April 15. Curtiss & Dunton, EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE PAPER & WOODENWARE Family Baking Powder. Pound cans, 2 doz. in case for $8. Given with each can, a large Hob Nail Oblong Berry Dish, as- sorted colors. Silver Spoon Baking Powder. 10 oz. cans, tall. 3 doz. in case for $7.75. With each can, choice of a quart Pitcher, 8 inch Nappy, 7 , in. Comport. All Mikado Pattern, Crystal Glass. » © ‘Arctic Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids, MOSELEY BROS., WERrOLESALE Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce, ALL KINDS OF FIELD SEEDS A SPECIALTY. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO, ,- MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES. AGENTS FOR THE If you are in Market to Buy or Sell Clover Seed, Beans or Pota- . toes, will be pleased to hear from you. 06 98, 30 & 32 Ottawa Street, “GRAND RAPIDS. BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO. ° 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. .@ 4 * * The Michigan Tradesmal. _ Our Land Policy. There is occasion for regret that Congress saw fit to adjourn without repealing the Pre- emption, Timber Culture and Desert Land laws, and had it added to this the repeal of the Homestead law, it would have increased the obligations under which it would lay the country. It was an unfortunate omission by which the Pre-emption law was left un- repealed at the time when the Homestead law was passed. The one policy should have superseded the other, if it was to be adopted at all. But now that the limit of land capable of conversion into farms with- out irrigation or some great outlay of that kindis distinctly in sight, it surely is our duty to reduce the ways of| access to the public domain, so that some part of it may be left to coming generations. Thus far, we have followed a spendthrift policy which has been unwise on many accounts. It has been unwise as putting an exces- sive premium on the development of our agriculture. Free Traders often speak of the manufacturers of the country as the re- cipients of the favors which are withheld from other kinds of industry. Butis thisin keeping with the facts? We doa vast deal for commerce by opening harbors, construct- ing breakwaters, endowing railroads, main- taining consulates, and otherwise diminish- ing the risks and the costs which attend in- vestment of capital in the business of trans- portation. And to the farming population we offer 160 acres of Jand in fee simple at a ost merely of the fees for survey and for registration, which amount only to from $37 to $46 for each homestead. If we offered those who would set up new factories the sites for their business and the chief raw material for use in it, such factories would be multiplied much more rapidly than they are under a protective tariff. And this is what we do for the farmer who settles on the public domain. It is true that what isoffered to the home- stead farmer is very much less than it seems. A real “farm” is a manufactured article, not a product of nature. One hundred and sixty acres of wild land are no more a farm than are a mass of lumber and cordwood a ship. To convert these acres into a farm involves an outlay of labor, a self-denial in the matter of all household and social con- veniences, and an exposure to disease and climatic severities which constitute in the aggregate a very high price for the land. But if the Government gives little, it seems to give much, and its offer has a most at- tractive force to draw the land-hungry of both continents to our Western lands. Hence the settlement of millions in that do- main since the law was passed. There has been no such addition to the total of human happiness and prosperity as the figures of that settlement would indicate. But it will go on until the domain is exhausted or the law is repealed. Our present policy is unfair to the farmers of the older States. When the law was passed it excited no alarm in the East. It received the votes generally of the repre- sentatives of the very class which has suf- fered by it. It was thought that the re- moteness of the lands thrown open to culti- vation would prevent any vigorous compe- tition with the farm products of the Eastern States. And for a time this was true. But with the extension of our railroad system, and the application of nevel and not always righteous maxims, to railroad management, the case was altered. Western wheat pro- duced on virgin soil at the expense of that soil proved more than a match for the pro- duct of the wheat growers of our Eastern States. When the Eastern short-haul traffic was made the means of paying the cost of long-hauls from the West, the farmer in the East found he had been cutting a rod for his own back. Railroad policy had made Dakota as near to our great cities as Eastern Pennsylvania or Western New York. Hence the transition from wheat to tobacco and similar exhausting crops in the East. Hence also the emigration of farmers’ sons from the East to take up homesteads in the West, through the idea that the most favorably placed farms on this continent can be run only at a loss as long as the Western farmer gets his Jand for nothing and his transpor- tation for less than it costs. Our policy is a bad economy of our land. We have stimulated wheat-growing for dis- tant markets by it, to the rapid ruin of the natural capabilities of the soil. The wheat belt has been driven farther and farther back from the Mississippi toward the Rocky Mountains. The soil-butchery which char- acterizes so much of our farming has been more atrocious in the West than anywhere else. As Mr. Carey says, the farmer who produces for a distant market is continually injuring or breaking an instrument of great power and utility ; he who lives near his mar- ket is continually improving it. The former must grow some one great staple, with noth- ing like a rotation of crops. He must send his product so far from home as to lose the opportunity of making those returns to the soil which are possible only in the vicinity of centers of population. His land cannot but deteriorate through the methods he must use, and its annual product is drawn from the capital of the nation. This is true generally of Western farming, just because it has outrun the growth of our manufac- tures. Whatever would check that growth would be a saving of our resources. What- ever would force the former to rely less on those consumers who are at a distance of thousands of miles would be the better in the long run for the quality of his farming. It may be that the law to regulate railroad LION every package. COFFE the PUREST and BEST Package Coffee sold--A QUICK SELLER--satisfying the Con- sumer--Profitable to the Merchant. It will be found all that is claimed for it. every Merchant in Michigan, as well as everywhere else, who is not now handling “LION” to try a sample shipment, assuring them that they w sult. See quotations in price-current in this paper. Boautiful “Haster Cards” GIVEN AWAY FREE LION COFFEE, From March 5 to April 10 (Easter Sunday). LION COFFEE is For WOOLSON S$ EE, WITH y MANUFACTURED BY THE PICE CO, is to-day recognized by a mighty army of consumers and retailers over the land as We want OLD BARRELS grocer realizes the value of handsome and convenient fixtures, and to meet this demand the WOOLSON SPICE CO. have designed their LION COFFEE CABINET, of which the accom- panying cut gives but a partial idea. In this Cabinet is packed 120 one-pound packages of LION COFFEE, and we offer the goods at a price enabling the grocer to secure these Cabinets with- out cost to himself. They are made air-tight, tongued and grooved, beautifully grained and ill be more than pleased with the re-| varnished, and are put together in the best possible manner. A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE-CARD in | fruit, bread and a hundred other articles. : | barrel, and do away with these unsightly things in a store. MERCHANT! WE WANT A WORD LION COFFEE! setting about a store are unsightly, be- sides the projecting nails on them are dangerous to clothing. The enterprising | t Their use in every grocery, after ithe coffee is sold out, is apparent; just the thing to retail oatmeal, rice, prunes, hominy, dried Further, they take up no more floor-room than a In every Case of “Easter Card” Cof- fee there is a 2-color Poster for retailer to display in his store, ana aso Advertising Matter for Distribution among Consumers, Sale by all WHOLESALE GROCERS Everywhere. TOLEDO, OHIO. traffic between the States will have this | effect. If so, no section will be more bene- fited ultimately than the West. Our present policy is a bad one politically. Our Homestead law puts the foreigner who has declared his intention of becoming a | citizen on the same footing as a native | American or a citizen long naturalized. The result has been to fill up whole districts of the West with settlers who may have every other virtue, but who lack that of being Americans, and who lack the best means of | becoming Americans, as there is no proper mixture of native Americans among them. How such communities may isolate them- selves from the life and progress of the country at large may be seen in the history of Lower Canada, and in the earlier history of Eastern Pennsylvania. The barrier of a different speech, carefully maintained by such communities from any common under- standing with the country at large, and thus make them a burden instead of a help inthe march of national development. And they are worse off than they would have been at home, for while language tends to keep them outside American nationality, emigra- tion has severed them from their own. The Canadian Frenehinan is a Frenchman of the reign of Louis XIV. His mother country has lost influence over him, and his adopted country has not acquired any in its stead. He came to America from the most culti- vated kingdem of Europe; he has fallen be- hind both worlds in his culture. For these reasons we should have been glad to have seen the last Congress go far- ther in regard to the preservation of the pub- lic lands than has yet been attempted. The time is ripe forthe repeal of the Home stead law equally with the Pre-emption law. WHIP For Prices and terms, address GRAHAM ROY8, Grand Rapids, Mich. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY 25th day of April, 1887, at 2 church and school, may serve to shut out] A) From 2 to 156 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills | Grist Millis, Wood Working Machinery, Sbaft | ing, Pulleve and Boreas. Contracts made for 6 OV +O re WY. fo APA ARIOEKA, | i 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, | ' GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. | | 354 MAIN ST., NOTICE. To Restore Lands to the Public Domain. Pursuant to instructions from the Commis- sioner of the General Land Office, dated March 8, 1887, the following lands will be restored to the public domain and become subject to set- tlement and entry as other unoffered public lands, and rated at $2.50 peracre. That onthe o’cioek p. m., said lands will be subject to entry. The lands to be restored are as follows: NORTH OF BASE LINE AND WEST OF MERIDIAN. MICHIGAN PRINCIPAL *s PARTS OF SECTION SEC TOWN RANGE ACRES All of Pe, 1 54 4 647.75 Sika eae feces cee uae 3 3t 4 631,58 hese e eee ee teen eee ees U 34 4 640.00 Sete e eee e tees eee eees 13 84 4 640.00 ' CoG take ete aace 15 3t 4 640.00 (sae Ghee se 23 34 4 640.00 eet ee tsetse teen ces 25 3k 4 640.60 27 Bt 4 640.060 Se a Gate, RUE 3) 34 4 640.00 W', of ne4, nw'4 and ‘ e% Of swi4............ , 2B ke RT POL 3. is i 5 25 4 613.20 oe nee ee see e eee ee anes 7 35 + 621.82 W's ne, se% of ne4 : OG OG ike a 9 a | C4 440.00 Sw of nw44ands%.... 11 35 4 360.00 PRA AE a ob ba Shoes cece se 13 35 4 640.00 E% of ne44 and se4..... 15 35 4 240.00 N% of ney and n% of WN es eae VW 34 4 160,00 ANE is ie cn no os boas Coe 1Y 35 4 96.17 W% of sey.neyandw’ 23 35 4 560 00 E% of nw, and ay. ....: 2% 35 4 400.00 AOS er ia 35 35 506.56 Nw, n%,sw andny of BIg. 2... ees ee ee eee 25 36 320.00 S% Of..............0. 00s: 27 «364 8200 Me ie eek uae ce esye 31 35 4 811.85 AM OF ooo wees eee e ee 33 36 4 640.00 W of nw\.....:....... Bd 36 4 80.00 12,426.66 U.S. LAND OFFICE, Reed City, Mich., March 14, 1887. . . NATHANIEL CLARK, W.H.C. MircHeny, Register. Receiver. Lia\dls KocH’s PATENT © py K SF oO) O eApnistanie , KH week | SSRACKETS WUE a ‘SHELVING ) CAN BE READILY igs _ PUT UP BY ANY i ly ONE AND MOVED | eo A § °° EASILY AS §TOCKe ONE rox nn SVITABLE FOR VARIOUS \t f) WIDTAS OF SHELVING. ¥y PATENTED OCT. 19, 1887. Manufactured by KOCH A. B. CO. : b PEORIA. ILL, Liberal discount to the trade, or parties hg putting up these brackets in any local- y. co, B. B. & CO. LARGEST BXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE GROCERY HOUSE IN MICHIGAN. Cor. Ionia and Louis Sts., Grand Rapids. PL STEKRTER & SUM JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS, AND NOTIONS, 8383 Monroe St... AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers American and Stark A Bags + A Specialty. ORDER A SAMPLE OF OUR PURE SMOKING TOBACCO, - - ON TIME FINE CUT, - - - - . UNCLE TOM “ & eles cee eo NOX ALL be Sk CINDERELLA “ IRON PRINCE CIGARS,- - - 15c 60c 37c - 85c - 25c $35 per M JH. THOMPSON & CO, Wholesale Grocers 69 Jefferson ave., Detroit, Mich. 15¢ per pound. Our Leader Sherts, 16c per pound. | | } | | | | \ | ORDER Our Leader Smoking Our Leader Fine Cut 33c per pound. Our Leader Cigars, $30 per M. The Best in the World. Clark, Jewell & Co, SOLE AGENTS FOR Dwinell, Hayward & Co.’s Royal Java Coffee; and O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.” See Our Wholesale Quotations else- where in this issue and write for Special Prices in Car Lots. We are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anything we handle, A.B. KNOWLSON, 3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich. FULLER & STOWE COMPANY, Designers Engravers and Printers Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice. Engravings and Electrotypes of Buildings, Machinery, Patented Articles, Portraits, Cards, Letter, Note and Bill Heads and other Office Stationery a Leading Feature. Address as above 49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich. The Michigan Tradesmad. BULK VS. PACKAGE. Some Ressons Why Package Coffee ‘“‘Must Go.” Written Expressly for THE TRADESMAN. During the last two or three years the package coffee business has grown to im- mense proportions, almost driving green coffees and bulk roasts out of the market; but during the last four months a reaction has taken place and the bulk roasts have rapidly come to the front again and their gaily-colored cousins—the ,packages—seem to have gota bad black eye. Manufacturers of the Jatter, who are really the only ones making any money on them, are quick to see this and are resorting to all kind of schemes in the way of extraordinary adver- tising and gifts to reinstate them; but, in my opinion, they must and ought ‘‘to go.” Green coffees, we all know, have had their day, as the great improvements in roasting apparatus have so cheapened the expense in roasting and improved the quality of the goods after roasting that the consumer finds it in every way to his advantage to buy the roasted article, instead of attempting the slow and tedious process of roasting—or burning, rather—himself. There are two or three reasons why package goods will, and ought to have, a “hard row to hoe.” One is that putting coffee up in packages is an unnecessary ex- pense. This will be met by the manufac- turer with the claim that the coffee being put up in sealed packages will retain its strength and aroma to such a degree as to more than repay the consumer, and will prove it by a very elaborate and scientific article on the label. This much-talked-of advantage is, in my opinion, much more imaginary than real. If the goods were packed in an air-tight metal or glass pack- age, this claim might have some merit; but the package generally used has very little virtue in this respect. The main reason why package coffee will and ought to be re- tired is on account of the ruinous competi- tion onit. Take, forinstance, the ‘‘Ariosa”’ or ‘“‘“XXXX” brands. The retailers fight each other on them ‘‘to the death,” making them leaders, cutting and slashing and of- ten selling ata loss. The jobber is com- pelled to ‘‘follow suit,” and the result is nobody but the manufacturer makes any money. This is all very fine for him, but is ‘‘death to the frog,” as the old fable goes. » The goods are sold on a sugar margin, if not worse, and in these days of hot compe- tition we want as little sugar deal as possi- ble. . On the other hand, a living margin can generally be made on bulk goods and still no one is robbed on them. Competition is extremely sharp, both among jobbers and retailers, and neither retailer nor consumer pays any exorbitant profit on groceries to- day. Again, the retailer can buy as much or as little bulk coffee as he wishes or as his trade demands, whereas the package goods are put up in large cases and as there are a dozen different brands inthe market, he is compelled to carry a stock of each; and as he has to buy a case of each, he soon finds his store full of a dozen different brands of coffee, some of which are sure to get old before he can sell them. There are other reasens why both jobber and retailer are bound to discourage the sale of package coifee, but these are the main ones and, in my opinion, are entirely suffi- cient to enlist the careful attention of the dealer. H. G. B. —> e > Waterviiet and Coloma Talking Organiza- tion. WATERVLIET, March 24, 188 E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: Dear Sim--I have been thinking for some time of trying to organize a Business Men’s Association here. How many mem- bers is it necessary to start in. with, or doesn’t it matter? We have only ten busi- ness men in this place. I thought perhaps it would be a good idea to unite with Colo- ma. ‘The two places are near together, and by going together we could make quite a representation. Please give me all the points in the matter and I will see the Co- loma people and talk them up toit. We have lots of dead-beats in this vicinity, and I know it would be a good thing for the Co- Joma people as well as ourselves. Yours truly, F. H. Merririevp. ——__—-9-<——— “Return to the Work with New Vigor.” KALAMAZOO, March 23, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: Dear Sm—There was a fair attendance at the regular semi-monthly meeting of the | Retail Grocers’ Association, last evening* After the regular business had been dis- posed of, each delegate to the State conven- tion had something to say, which made the meeting interesting, and all spoke very highly of the right royal style in which they were entertained, and of the courtesy ex- tended us by the O-Wash-ta-nong Club. We all feel that we were well repaid by.4 the visit, and return with new vigor for the work before us. Yours truly, M. S. ScoviLuy, Sec’y —~> -6 <> The Grocery Market. Sugars exhibit a slightly firmer tendency, asaresult of the increased freight tariff which goes into effect Thursday. Eastern salt is tending higher, from the same cause. Turkey prunes are a little lower. Package coffees are up 34 cent. Other articles in the grocery line are about steady. _-—>-? > The universal sale of ‘“Tansill’s Punch” 5-cent cigar is proof or its extraordinary merit. The live dealer will always avail himself of an opportunity to make money. The ‘‘Yansill’s Punch” is unquestionably the most profitable cigar to handle as dem- onstrated by the testimony of their numer- ous agents located in every state and terri- tory.—New England Grocer. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples—Good truit is scarce, readily bring- ing $3@$38.50 per bbl. Ruta Bagas—#$1 # bbl. Beans—Country hand-picked command $1. 15 ® bu., and city picked $1.50. Beets—tic ® bu. Buckwheat—2\e # b. Butter—Dairy is very scarce, no jobber be- ing able to fill all his orders. All offeringg are quickly grabbed up at 24@25. Cabbages—$3@$5 #% 100, according to size. Carrots—35e # bu. Celery—Very scarce, poor readily command- ing 25c # doz. Cheese—Fall stock of Michigan full cream is firm at 184%@14e. Cider—12%ec ® gal. Cranberries—Choice Bell and Bugle steady at $1(@$10.50 8 bbl. Crown, $il. Cucumbers—$1.75 ® doz. Dried Apples—Evaporated, 13c # ; quarter- ed and sliced, 6@7c ® b. Dried Peaches--Pared, l4c. Eggs—The active demand and cool weather is reducing the supply in sight very material- ly. Jobbers pay 18¢ and sell for l4c. Honey—Good demand _ at 10@18c. Hay—Baled is moderately active at $14 per ton intwoand five ton lots and $13 in car lots. Lettuce—18e # Ib. Maple Sugar—l0c #@ Ib. Onions—Good stock is scarce, readily com- manding $1.10 # bu. Parsley—30c 8 doz. Potatoes—Buyers are paying 36@38e for Bur- banks and 40@42c for Rose. Pop Corn—2%c # b. Radishes—40c # doz. Spinach—$1 8 bu. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys $4 # bbl. Strawberries—40c ® qt. Squash—Hubbard, 2c ® b. GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. Wheat—Steady. City millers pay 75 cents for Lancaster and 75 for Fulse and Clawson. Corn—Jobbing generally at 45c in 100 bu. lots and i0c in carlots. Oats—White, 36c in small lots and 30@3lc in car lots. Rye—48@50c #8 bu. Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ® cwt. Flour—No change. Patent,$4.80% bbl.in sacks and $5.00 in wood. Straight, $4.00 ® bbl. in sacks and $4.20 in wood. Meal—Bolted, $2.40 8 bbl. Mill Feed—Screenings, $13 # ton. Bran, $15 ®ton. Ships, $15 #ton. Middlings, $16 @ ton. Corn and Oats, $17 #8 ton. are PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. quote as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. MinGW. 8 oe es 18 00 re Moh, CHORE cs os occa ve es eons esse cccae 16 75 Re OP I I oso cbc en So esccoaese ce 16 00 Extra clear pig, short cut......... ........ 18 00 Extra clear, heavy.............. cece cece eee 18 00 Clear quill, short cut.....................-. 18 00 Boston clear, short cut..................... 18 00 Clear back, short cut....................00- 18 00 Standard.clear, short cut, best............ 18 00 DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. Long Clears, N@AVY..... 2-2 00cecereceoeee 8% 834 . lig 834 Short Clears, heavy............-...:.00. 9 do. WOTEILIND, os icc uss edee bes 9 do. BETAU coo eecsbc send ccseees ¢ SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. Hams, average RN es ccs wicca) vs chae 12 BE Posse nso sannsseesic 12% ag “ BS 0 1 WB, oi os ane ec se 1234 - MOE a icin cc bbe e cece eeaneteo re 9% . POE DOMGIONE.. ooo. s oes ce cccs vsee nese ll Shoulders Bk ce cdo bead es cwese cues eees 8% WOTIDIONS 5. wos cence pace ek cae 9 Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................. 10% Dried Beef, OU cise os oboe boos os peasant’ we HOI WHORE... ck. oes aces 12% LARD. UN a eas Soke connie sce 74 BO ard BO & TS oc os concen o> - eo 2 o>e ene ee 73g LARD IN TIN PAILS. 3 & Pails, 20 in @ case................... 8 5 b Pails, 12 in acase..................- (34 10} Pails, 6 in a case ................65- TY 20 Pails, 4 pails in case............... 738 BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 Ibs........ 8 00 BONnBIOBE, ERITR, ..- cocs cn cscs sett acess scene's 11 50 SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. Pork Sausage.......... shes seceuees en cee os TM% WUGN FORUNAE sox cs isco eco ce ccnsavenses.as ll Tongue se WREST FORGE ESRC SSE rer Ut 9 Frankfort Sausage.................2.08 ese 8 REDD PSNR gc on os ok apc ones peas etindose 6 Bologna, BtVAIGHt...... .. 50s n ees cccecces 6 BROLORVIN, THIOK, . .5 os ons cs concn one rece ce ceeee 6 MUA CODON. oaks vs oo os =o oe cess keen 6 PIGS’ FEET. Tin TRIE WATOAIS, «i555 sce eo 20s os sas don coae 38 00 In quarter barrels................+2eeeeeee 1 65 HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as follows: HIDES. Green....#@ b5%@ 6 |Calf skins, green Part cured... 7 7%! orcured....7 @8 Fullcured.... 74@ 8 |Deacon skins, Dry hides and | # piece..... 20 MIDS . oss cus @12 | . a PELTS. Old wool, estimated washed ® b...... 25 @28 Watt oe ees oh eke eee oes "8 @ 3% wo Fine washed #@ ib 25@28) Gone washed.. — Medium ......... wpm |Cnwedhed Leelee FURS Bear Ss ps tgeed da ee eee etc * 00@25 00 a each cacy ses cs ane 4 00@ 6 00 ONIN co ays ke ooses beads Cocce ores 5 75@ 1 00 WSN 5s os ce decny ines sbee sss 50@ 75 WU EAG,, ci vs os oso os ge. 8 bs e505 0a d2 W@ 20 Fox, red..... Boeck ooo ses rece eee 1 00@ 1 30 I oo ooo nos oe ceg serine see 3 00@ 5 00 EY oy cescn arena eee ae ie teen ree 1 00@ 1 2! Waar oo vie A ooh onus sk 00@ 8 00 BN oo vpee se cese cere eson psess Adewes 3 0@ 6 00 hig os oe os a ds ec Sop oes ese 20@ _ 69 EE ei ccs Sua en cenoeuens 75@ 1 00 Webi ee ee 5 00@ 8 00 ON ceed cbuadae cee eens LQ W eet ca a, ago u beams cemecee us @ 9 ME a ee lei eee 2 00@ 3 00 Muskrat, winter... ..........-52.5..; @ i2 . Be el eve cp eewe es eka ens 06@ v8 " - BU ss oe ess @ 16 The ook cose ye oe esc es 5@ 2 These prices are for prime skins only. OYSTERS AND FISH. _E. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS. ° Now VOrK COUR. oo nccs ok bs eee tee rece vnee 3d Th PR. & CGB BOCs ois oo. os cae sso caee sek 30 ae vicee® Codegacsure leis eee ee 24 DAI i os a hin ks Bek he te sks es 20 RN ig ib bss oe ea dos kb eeer 18 Ralenhs. Dil, W OBL... a6 ios cs so atonsneens 1 50 Standards, bulk, as 055 sess ce ee 110 New York C Jounts, BOD os caves cues vase ace 12 shell, ® 100............... 1 40 Clams, shell, WD iain c ici sac owt oS Se 80 FRESH FISH. Ce pial ceee a pes ey ee eee @9 Haddock i as DLGT Ue y kee cede loeereeete @7% EI sos ccs dc tyes eens oees 15 @20 Mackinaw Trout. .........2..200020500- @ 8 BM cs beea visuseaweres @3 aN ee i a doo oben es 10 @ll WU ICOUNED os vo cs reba oe nee cdoseresee @9 OILS, ILLUMINATING. Water WHIUG., ...crcscc svcceccesce Wedndapvas 11% MRSGISIOONE OND: coos Sager edccoies choosed cote 10% LUBRICATING. CERN ig gs og bs ss os ae he eto et 1% Capitot Cylinder. .......60.002cscc0ceens 2 BOG Model CyltiGer....... 6.205205. sccsasno cesses 31% EE COVUIIOR, Bik occ ck phe certs coins hess ssss aon iar MORI, oc. vos o oss sc avckes ch ssevee Peerless Machinery...................0.200% a Challenge Machinery................+2-+++0- 19 SMAINGI 5 dass dc sacels sontdnen ss pens dans cane 20% Black. Summer, West Virginia... ......... TAO TO OG oo eo no os de csnp eeeeeee ae 10 Biack, 167 C. oT. pied since os 1 TO Ss is ae Se pesca io oa esis FIELD SEEDS, Clover, mammoth................+.+55 4 25@4 5) - OAT os oi i ee teas wes 4 25@4 5v Timothy, Prime.........00cecectee cere 1 95@2 00 CASES. Dealers will find it to their advantage to eorrespond with us, as we are in-the posi- tion to make A No. 1 goods at the lowest pos- - sible prices. Corres pond- ence — solicited from the job- bing trade rela- tivetopremium cases. Address AMERICAN SHOW CASE WORKS, 27 Taalie Street, Chicago. Send for Catalogue and prices. L. D. HARRIS, Wholesale Deaier in PA PH RR, 83 NORTH IONIA STREET, CRAND RAPIDS, J.T. BELL & CO, Wholesale Fruits and Produce, BAST SAGINAW, MICE. A.D. SPANGLER & CO. FRUITS eoneral Commission Merchants PRODUCE, NUTS, BERRIES, ETC. Consignments Solicited. 200 and 202 North Washington Ave., East Saginaw, Mich. HIRTH & KRRAUSH, DEALERS IN Ftides, Furs =< Tallow, Prompt returns made on Consignments. Lis Canal st., Granada Rapids. Es. FATLLAS, Makes a Specialty of Butter and Eggs, Fruits and Oysters. Cold Storage in Connection. All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention. We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND” Oysters. No. 1 Egg Crates for Sale’ Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used. 50 cents each. 217 and 219 Livingstone Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. MICE. L, M. CARY. CARY & LOVERIDCE, - GENERAL DEALERS IN Fire and Burglar Proof SAFES Combination and Time Locks, F il Tonia Street, = Grand Rapids, Mich CEO. E. HOWES, L. L. LOVERIDGE., oreign and Domestic Fruits, ial cas Tee Mean: 3 Ionia St., GRAND RAFIDS, MICE. CERMAN COFFEE, Best Package Goods on the Market. TOLEDO SPICE CO., TOLEDO, OHIO, Order Sample Case of your Jobber. See quota- tions in Price-Current. T, R, ELus & C0,, Book Binders PAPER RULERS, Blank Book Makers, 51, 58 and 55 Lyon St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ORGANIZATION -OUTFIES,| Full outfits ie toe the. the Collection Depart- ment of a Business Men’s Association, con- taining all the late improvements, supplied to order for $13. The outfit comprises: 1,000 “Blue Letter”’ Notification Sheets, for member's use. 500 Copyrighted Record Blanks, 500 Association Notification Sheets, and 500 Envelopes. Money can be sent by draft, post-office or express order. Fuller & Stowe Company, 49 Lyon Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Groceries. | FISH. PLUG. Fe, co ies cence hccebe siosahncasnndes f@i'4 Eye Opener.......... 25/Blue Blazes... . & | Cod, boneless....... ........- fi dada We adedane 54@7 | Pauper ah hab ue selec ae CNIIIOE «os oc ws oc wh even 35 Os enn tuseah, 60 ants 84@I1C% | Peach Pie.. oe MUEVBINOE, ve cce, dnccsnns 2% WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. ei oe ¢ — eae eh eka da dens ew wy i | ae : Night Cap.. iweeces —— NA ous ewe ccee nsec | a SR < - “| Herring, Holland, ME os be cac cu cksne 1 00 Clipper : «see ited WO isc ccccc ae These prices are for cash buyers, who pay | | Herring, Holland, Kegs................. 75@ 8) | Corner Stone. MiBia Drive.: « S a . ‘* % pint, round....... 450 750) aaa bale eies sce 27 Bight Hours.. 24 corer UE bs | .......9 00 1500! Navy Clippings......26 Lucky .. de... 645s sence sees 1 10 Pepper Sauce, green, large ring.. @l1 50 | p OB owes were cers csenaccceeccaes @5 00 MO a ia onc o's oY aw owas ce 115 Catsup, TOMA, DIDIS............ 60 : 90 Powder, } 4 Keg.... @2 %5 ‘© Maple Leaf.............. Be 110 | Catsup, Tomato, quarts .............. BU WW | ase orice eter ete ces eeceeceeeeene @ IS = gc ea cree occ as ore eo ae 1 20 Halford Sauce, pints Nese sueceecce @3 50 Tree a eee ee eres er eeee ees OT ——— De eee sae e esse : 35 Halford Sauce, % pints.... ........... 2 2 MOO + seen cennadacusssecesscesce ee: @i - WO de dcs cea iced cw deces 50 sat a oh eneaenni a ee Sea 1 00 er CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS “ New gana aaa au ee ae nue as 1 00 PO i esac: 3 85 Sutra Chicago Fam- Putnam & Brooks quote as folloy ys “ Bartlett . es 110 DEMMOe 8 i cisyc.. ae cacao enc ee 2 94 cae age Wii WIN rk coke canines 150 New Process, 1 b..3 85|Napkin............. 4 %5 | Standard, 25 D boxes................ ... 84@ 9 Peas, extra marrofat.... .......2.2.: 1 20@1. 0 New Process, 3 D.. < 96| Ee ‘ass siriares 8 = Twist, do a PO WO ec chen nee eceees >, DATS........ 3 5d ite Marseilles..5 50|Cut Loaf do a. : a Early June, stand............... 1 50@ 1 '75| Acme, blocks... 3 05 White Cotton Oil..5 50 as. ss ‘ eo ed 2 oo| Best American....2 .o oe ec daas 3 50 | Royal, 24D pails........... @ 9 ‘“ French, extra fine.................06- z re oe ee ee OU. Fade occ este Ae 1 Mets Bite Oe I ooo occ dae cccecce @ 8 Mushrooms, extra fine.. ue leas 20 00| Big Five Center. 3 85 ‘My stic White....... Pe eS ee em 7 Pumpkin, 3 Med 100 | Niekel.............. 3 45/Saxon Blue........ 2.60 | Mxtra, 200 ® Obld................ @ 9 Succotash, peavey ge aban 1 30 ren, iia 2 25 Palmer's, — bars. 4 50 French Cream, 25 & pails....... oo @ll'4 a cick eee cee ce 1 00 , UDE......, % 55) i g ..4 25 | Cut loaf, 25 ® cases............ D110 Tomatoes, standard brands............:... 1290 | London Family.... 2 30/Star call OO | PONE BE PRIN 55 on 5o cscs ccacccees G10 CHEESE. SPICES—WHOLE. Broken, 200 B bbis.. ms «©6GH Sees ee ee. penes ten DOMME FAMINE ns i sacesnees -a+eso neyo: 7 FANCY—IN 5 BOXES. York State, Acme............... + @14 | Cassia, China in mats.................. 7 Lanne Drope.. perder @1- CHOCOLATE. ‘* Batavia in bundles............ Lt Sour urORS. eseccncsececrccscccsenccs QI Wilbur’s Premium..35|German Sweet....... 23 «| Palen In VOlIS...... ........5.. 42 | Peppermint Drops... @ls - Sweet......25| Vienna Sweet ....... COVOR BOT oo sees nn cca. 30 Para Drops. 14 “ -B’kf’tCocoa 45! Baker’s ............ 4. 3 ES CO i ae 2g | HM oa quotes the trade selling runes, Frenc Ree tics eek bese es 2 e Meigs............ WR i iwece ede 52 | prices as follows: . MEPOTICU, By ois wae ces seces bees 10 @10%| Red Bird............. 80 Blaze Away.......... nF OE FIOGT, BOG, 6 on once ds iene ctecccce 54@ 7 «French, 110s and 120s......... @ 8 | Prairie Flower ...... 65|Hair Lifter....... ... 30 | Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 64@ 8 PORES; POEROF ois. ee eee ce geet 5%@ 6 | Indian Queen........ 60; Hiawatha ............ We BRINN PROUD. 5 550s cc chedccnsccdeencues 74@ 1% Waistos, WObBGIA.....¢....26.605. 00.5. 3 50@5 00| May Flower.......... TOIGIODG: foe sciccceces ccc oes ccusnul ca deasncee T144@ 8 oo oe acattagl GIS COI Tod ey ooh pl Buin dPinye Ordiesied ss Wig haham hah] )~ <> > Completion of the Muskegon County Or- 4 a ganization. The organization of the Muskegon County Druggists’ Association was completed at Muskegon last Thursday afternoon by the adoption of a constitution and by-laws and the election of the following officers; President—W. B. Wilson. Vice-President— Fred. Brundage. Treasurer—Jacob Jesson. Secretary—George Wheeler. Board of Trustees and Audit—cC. Brundage, J. Jesson, J. R. Tweedale, O. Halstead, J. H. C. VanDeinse. Board of Censors—The President, Vice- president aud Secretary. Committee on Legislation—C. L. Brun- dage, C. F. Van Deinse and A. H. Ecker- man. Committee on Trade Matters—J. R. Tweedale, L. F. Hopkins and T. D. Quinn. Pharmacy—Jacob Jesson, F. Brundage and W. A. Sibley. The next meeting will be held on Thurs- day evening, March 31. —_— or Oo Pharmacy Laws in Other States. Alabama pharmacists are rejoicing over the passage of a pharmacy act, which be- came a law on February 28. The failure of the Indiana pharmacists to secure the passage of a pharmacy law at this session of the Legislature is attributed to the apathy of the great majority of the druggists of the State. The Poole bill has passed both Houses of he Legislature in Colorado, so that the Cen- tennial State now boasts a good pharmacy law. The druggists of Pennsylvania have an idea that they are entitled to do a ‘‘counter prescribing” business, and they have, ac- L. A. cordingly, secured the introduction of a bill A in the Legislature, legalizing such a prac- tice. The physicians of the State are op- Qrosing the bill with all the energy at their «command. . _ oOo John Baar, grocer, Mt. Pisgah, Ind.: *Like “a” aceount of VANILLA. Where it is Found, and How Prepared for Market: The vanilla plant is found native in Mex- ico, South America, and the West Indies; but it is only in the wild valleys near the eastern coast of the first-mentioned country that the vanilla bean is found possessing the characteristics which make it valuable for the use of man. In the other countries it attains no perfection, and is practically worthless. The vanilla is an orchid, and is cultivated rudely by the Mexican Indians, and by them brought into the seaports and marketed; very largely in Vera Cruz. Of the great natural beauties and wonderful tropi- cal features, especially the profuse tropical vegetation of Mexico, the reader has doubt- less heard or read. In the great valley of Mazatlan—an immense sunken hole in the ground, a depression of more than 6,000 feet in its immediate surroundings, where every manifestation of nature is on a grand scale, vegetation unrivaled in luxuriance and beauty, ferns being found seventy feet in hight—in this valley vanilla flourishes in a wild state, and here the supply of that flavoring for the chocolate of Montezuma was obtained, and the region round about is the vanilla center of the world. Nothing can exceed the jealousy of the natives in guarding its production from the éyes or the cognizance of the outside world, and all the pecularities of Mexican outdoor life are illustrated in the brigandage which both protects and preys upon the industry. But few whites ever penetrate to Mazatlan, and it is only at great risk of life, and lavish outlay, that excursions are ever made to that point. Few care to attempt the ad- venture, The Indians cultivate by tying to a serub oak, when, being an vegetates upon the air. For the first four years of its life it bears no fruit, and after that continues in bearing until fifteen years old. The blossoms are in clusters, some- what resembling lilaes, but white in color and of the most powerful perfume, similar to tube roses. The green fruit, or beans, depend from a stalk, clustered like bananas, which they nearly resemble in size, every way, while the fruitis green. Itis gather- ed when not quite ripe, but before the har- vesting the beans have diminished two or three on a stalk. These green beans, when gathered, weigh from sixty to seventy-five pounds per 1,000 (they are handled and sold by the thousand), but dwindle in the process of curing, so that their weight finally is but from ten to fourteen pounds per 1,000, and shrink from an inch, or rare- ly two inches, in circumference to an at- tenuated pod not much larger than a pipe stem. To cure properly requires about ninety days’ time and the manipulation is almost infinite, each bean being handled, critically trom three hundred to five hundred: t timd&’ in the process by the Indians. The green beans, as gathered, are disposed of in layers —first, a layer of beans, and then a_ blank- et, and so on till a pile is formed ‘of alter- nate layers of beans and blankets. This is called the sweating process, and during its continuance the piles are turned two or three times a day, until most of the water has been ‘“‘sweated” out. This process is followed by drying in the sun, and here the natives exercise the utmost care and atten- tion. When finished, the beans are to be the color of a very dark cigar. The atten- dant picks up each bean occasionally, ex- amines its length upon all sides, and if he observes that one end or any part of the pod is coloring more rapidly than another, he twists a bit of leaf around the spot or sec- tion until the action of the sun shall have affected all alike. When the process is finished, the beans are tied in bundles of forty, and then packed in cans containing fifty bundles, or 2,000 beans each. In this form commerce finds the article. Twenty years ago the entire crop of beans cultivated and marketed amounted to from 500,000 to 700,000 yearly, and the prices received ranged frum $2.50 to $3 per pound. Now the annual production is 5,000,000, and the present price from $8 to $14 per pound. A single firm uses one-fourth of the whole crop. Itis the most perplexing of all pro- ducts to deal with, being so easily liable to injury. Itis kept in vaults prepared for the purpose, but these must not be below the surface of the ground, otherwise the bean will become moldy and spoiled by moisture; neither will it answer to store it in upper chambers, for in that case a dry rot will attack it. Strange as it may seem, it is yet true that thousands of people really believe vanilla to be a product of the tonka, or ‘‘snuff bean,” and multitudes use a flavoring extract made from this article sold to them under the name of vanilla. The tonka bean can be purchased at its best for about fifty cents a pound, and its pungent, sickening flavor is no more to be compared with the true van- illa than a rose with a burdock. It is the tonka bean which certain street peddlers, standing upon the highways and at the cor- ners of streets, display for sale; and they are not at all adverse to their customers fooling themselves with the idea that they are purchasing vanilla, if so inclined. In the shops a preparation of tonka beans in balsam of Peru is generally sold as good extract of vanilla, which it resembles about as stated above. This preparation is nau- seating if taken in quantities which would not at all be excessive use of vanilla; but with the amounts generally used in the pre- paration of foods, it is not dangerous to health, only disgusting to one who knows the true vanilla flavor and attributes. To ask for vanilla and get tonka is to ask for the plant orehid, it port wine and get dectored elderberry ex- tract; yet the practice is similar in dealing with either commodity, and the public is often satisfied if the purchase bears only the name of the article desired. A yearly con- sumption of 50,000,000 vanilla beans would not suffice to color even the various decoc- tions which are sold under the name of vanilla extracts and flavorings, yet, as shown above, less than 5,000,000 are raised for g¥neral supply. ~~ oo VISITING BUYERS. The following refail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders withthe various houses: Eli Runnels, Corning. C. J. Fleischauer, Reed City. Gus. Begman, Bauer. Peter Hansen, Hansen Bros., Morley. R. Weertman, Zeeland. M. Gezon, Jenisonville. R. S. Sheffert, Bridgeton. H. E. Hogan, ‘So. Boardman. N. Bakke & Son, Drenthe. A. Purchase, So. Blendon. D. H. Dekker, Zeeland. John Van Enenaam, Zeeland. Cc. ¥. Sears, Rocktord W.S. Root, Talmadge. L. Cook, Bauer. A. F. Harrison, Sparta. Wm. Karsten. Beaver Dam. Brautigam Bros., No. Dorr. Ed. Roys, Coral. KE. E. Rice, Croton. Cc. E. Coburn, Pierson. O. House, Chauncey. E. M. Reed, Coopersville. Jas. Colby, Rockford. Dell Wright, Berlin. F. P. Hopper, Middleville. A. Sessions, Wayland. Pp. T. Cook, Reynolds. Cc. N. Leach, Hersey. a Farowe, Farowe & Dalmon, Allen- ale. Cc. H. Adams, Otsego. J. F. Hacker, Corinth- Walling Bros., Lamont. Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia. Dr. 8. J. Koon, Lisbon. John Tiesenga, Jamestown. John Crispe, Plainwell. M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake. 8. E. Young, Burnip’s Corners. Henry Baar, Grand Haven. peeeoe & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mill. . FE, Williams, Caledonia. ( ‘apt. Cc. G. Perkins. Henderson, Ky. Geo, W. Beaman, East Jordan. 1. J. Leggett, Paris. A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville. ‘ kB. MeNeal, Byron ¢ ‘enter. G. H. Walbrink, Allendale, ne Karsten, Beay er Dam. )» FL & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna. L, N. Fisher, Dorr. Cc. H. Deming, Dutton. D. Cleland, Coopersville. W. Hz. Struik, Forest Grove. Darling & Roberts, Sparta. A. Rower, Hastings. J. Smith, ‘Ada. Hoag & Judson, ¢ ‘annonsburg, Bristol & Nickerson, Lacey. M. M. Robson, Berlin. Mrs. E. S. Ellis, Casnovia. Velzy Bros., Lamont. M, M. Cole, White Cloud. M. &. Woodward, Kalamo. Frank W. Foster, Newaygo. A. B. Foote, Hilliards. DenHerder & Tanis, Vriesiand. N. Bouma, Fisher. G. W. Stevens, Austerlitz. Jno. Damstra, Gitchell. Herman Thompson, Canada Corners. O. Ball, Morley. Byron McNeal, Byron. A. L. C arpenter, Baldwin. S. Bitely. Lilley Robert Stuart, Battle Creek. John Gunstra, Lamont. E. Roberts, Darling & Roberts, Sparta. Huizenga & Son, Eastmanville. Smith & Bristol, Ada. A. W. Blain, Dutton. M. D. Hayward,Champion & Hayward, White Cloud. J.C. Benbow, Cannonsburg. A.M. Church, Alpine. L. A. Paine, Englishville. M. V. Crocker, Byron. S. Cooper, Jamestown. Norman Harris, Big Springs. Jas. Barnes, Austerlitz. 2-9 0 | Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ea Lh tneensreceasemenesmranaaahinp teane @l i | Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 y me sade rintttnaie tsar = = | Putty, commercial ............ 2 2%@ 3 hoch teen en sabe der ess eceneewcncees @ 60 | Putty, strictly pure............ 2%@ 3 > Be ek isi cage cass 16@ 20! Vermilion, prime American... 13@16 POTASSIUM. : | RUAN, noc. cca ce 55@58 HEN 2 reen, Peninsular............. 16@17 ae es cee Chee oe ab as suas gees po = Lead, red str ictly pose ei. ak 6@ 6% elieaan Wo. 29) eek ae as ange qe asa) ee eso na 5 | Lead, white, strict y pure..... 6@ 6% ’ :, pS Oe Si ieerdias co wea tes eos , OO 22 | Whiting, white Spanish,.... : Qi oe ens te cence seceececeesieceeaseees 3 W@S 2 26 | | Whiting, Gilders’.............. @” PUES oes eee ce We ki ewns 25@ 28 | White, Paris American........ 1 10 RADIX. Whiting nee English cliff. . 1 40 : a o 9, | Pioneer Prepared | aints..... 1 20@1 40 Alth: Os See Gy Se alec ca ve ek ces mo a | Swiss Villa Prepare’ Paints.. 1 O@1 20 PONG oa oe ees cesses 15@, =| Arum, ih gestae. coca Ati. @ ‘aaa. Calais 0 20@ 50 | | No. 1 Turp Coateh...... 2... eee eeecee ee 1 10@1 20 Gontiana, (po: 15)... 2... W@ 12) Extra ED so hoe ass Wee gt betes eyes 1 60@1 70 Glyebrrhiza, (py. 7 et 16@ 18 | Joach Hod ARNO EHO 00 Cd Rde Os aban ceeeni 2 75@3 00 Hydrastis Canaden, (po. 35)........... @ No. 7 Turp Furniture... 2... 66.6.0 a0e: : 00@1 10 Hellebore, Alba, po................-.. 15s@ 20 | | Extra Tork Damar... ....:........s0. 1 55@1 60 jaule, BN ee ee as ese 15@ 2; Japan Dryer, No.1 Turp............ -- 01@ 7 TOO ss ces cs ves bse eco ot dacs 1 6C@L 70 | SNE. ys coco sh aes tet aaee sls cnc: 25@ 30 | CN on oaks os ca eke es ness @ 35) a DO. ciis5 Ne acl asa ede 16@ 18! TE a ge nck vacances THE 1 00 | we Ns gk eee ete es Coie c eas ci aces @l | Te gi is ick sl eanawin wens cn unleesn T5Q@1 3F Spimeria ...,.....-.-.e-sececcesecse nace 5U@ 5B Sanguinaria, (po. 25)..............20005 @ 20 PAL NT Sele gaia Pin peer Gen foes cl ans ceae 40@ 45) BORON ec uibch secc ac teed ieee ces 50@ 55 . ‘ : Smilax, Officinalis, Ht oe ea : 2 3 40 We have a full stock of this weil-known o Sy a sey @ w brand of nee. WO. a cece. 10@ 12 | mplocarpts, Foetidus, po.......... :@. 2) Valeri riana, English, (po. 3). ne ax ean. @ 2% A i = & D & 4 z Ww < German a _ 20 | and having sold it for over SLX YEARS can Anis oo @ 18 | recommend it to our customers as be- oes (graveolens). i. RG@ Wb. ing a First Class article. We sell it OE Bs ag a ee ek Gea cces cobes . Oeral, (0. 20h: fo cad ced ceeiccccc aks. be a On the Manufacturers’ Guarantee: Dr | ; ee Pie re cat rne erat ss eo l - a | When two ormore coats of our PIONEER PRE- C ee “+ PARED PAINT is applied as received in original annabis Sativa..«........... cee eee 3%@ 4° packages, and if within three years it should crack or Ce ac i ok es iene kd 76@1 00 | peel off, thus failing to give satisfaction, we agree to Chenopodium ine t 10@ 12 | re-paint the building at our expense, with the best Dipterix Odorate................ 0.06. 1 TB@L &5 | White Lead or such other paint as the owner may se- ee civ ese et cess @ 7c a - oS oe TEN. SEES ROSEN RIN: He Foenugreek, p0................ cece eeee “2 . — BOM ees a crass da pean aes 34@ 4 T. H. NEVIN & CO.. Pha gra, a. 2. id se rena he antevea 7A@ ‘a Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead. ch hea Oke a haere o oc0 ‘Pittsburg Pa.) Sire ce DUA ok ek can seks adap eeein vs * 6 6 . . Sinapis, WAN ss Ca haca Sia eee 8@ Nigra Ske ha a 8@ Write for prices and UE Card to SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W.., ¥ O OG) 6 6c tiie. 2 Prumenti, De Fe Bais. os. cis cad neces 17 Frumenti’ Berge terns arent Ss 1 Wl 20 METUIIOTIS CO. Qe Tis is ns gas oes os wasn 1 Li guni ris G9. bagitretrttesteneanee teres 1 10003 BO 50 Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids. aacharum N.E......... Pashbekiaiave 1 75@2 00 | er Spe. Vini Galli..... ee ial Aerie aaa as 1 75@6 50 | mp OLIS Furn ini Oporto............5.. MIEN see oo! Try P HINA, best, iture Fin- Vind AMA. eee ee eeeceeeeaseeee 1 25@2 00 ish made. TAAL TINE \ PERKINS AUG OU. WHOLESALE Druggists! 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 8g, gr, 63 and 95 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, aut Drnggist's saniries v Pharmacentical Prepara- lous, Find Extracts and Blixirs GENERAL WHOLESALE AGNTS FOR Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. Whiting, Manufacturers of Fine Paint and Var- ish Brushes. THE CELEBRATED Pioneer Prepared Paunts ALSO FOR THE Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu- facturers of Hair, Shoe snd Horse Brushes. WE ARE SOLE OWNERS OF Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Cure’ Which is positively the best Remed; of the kind on the market. We desire particular attention of those about purchasing outfits for new stores to the fact of our UNSURPASSED FACIL- ITIES for meeting the wants of this class of buyers WITHOUT DELAY and in the most approved and acceptable manner known to the drug trade. Our special ef- forts in this direction have received from hundreds or our customers the most satis- fying recommendations. Wine aud Lignor Department _ We give our special and personal atten- tion to the selection of choice goods for the DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit the high praise accorded to us for so satis- factorily supplying the wants of our custom- ers with PURE GOODS in this depart- ment. WeCONTROL and are the ONLY AUTHORIZED AGENTS for the sale of the celebrated WITHERS DADE & C0,’S Henderson Co., Ky., Sour Mash and Old-Fashioned Hand-Made, Copper- Distilled WHISKEY. We not only offer these goods to be ex- celled by NOOTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but superior in all respects to most that are exposed to sale. We GUARANTEE perfect and complete satis- faction and where this brand of goods has been once introduced the future trade has been assured. We are also owners of the Nrigeisis Favorite Eye, Which continues to have so many favor- ites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Gils, Brandies & Fine Wines. We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations which we aim to make as complete and perfect as possible, For special quantities and quotations on such articles as do not appear on the list, such as Patent Medicines, Etc., we invite your correspondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co, ~ c ro pe .N ay The Michigan Tradesman. eee Shorter Hours for the Merchant.* 1 was surprised and almost dumbfounded when Mr. Parkill, my neighbor, informed me that I was on the list to talk to this As- for Business Men.” but later I received a that no excuse would be accepted. Now, I never wrote an essay nor attempted to speak in meeting. have always been a quiet listener. Those acquirements belong to a different profes- sion, as separate and distinet as drugs are from hardware. If you should want your watch repaired you would not go to a black- smith. Business men, as a rule, are not public speakers. Their speeches are usually made in the office or behind the counter to small audiences and are very brief. Time is too precious with them for extended re- | marks. An English writer, in speaking of Amer- jcans, said: ‘“They kill themselves in their great rush to get rich; to outstriy¥ their com- petitors.” The business man hurries to his place of work, labors until noon, rushes out } swallows it as fast as he can, i is back to labor until tea time, and then | His wife greets him with | to talk to her. | He must have his meal as quick as possible | for a lunch, rushes for home. a smile, but he has no time —John Smith is to meet him on important pusiness—he can’t stop, Tired and weary, he drops into his easy chair to rest; but does he rest? brought his business home with him. thinks it over and over again, until, from sheer exhaustion, he retires to bed and tries to sleep, but only slumbers and dreams horrid dreams of railway catastrophies and disasters of a kindred nature. He awakes early in the morning, when his business rises before his mental vision like a great panorama, and nothing but magnified diffi- culties, disasters and delinquent debtors appear on the canvas. He becomes restless, turns over and over in bed, tries in vain to sleep, until the morning sun comes to his relief and the phantoms disappear. He rises nervous and weary and repeats the same over again day after day. Now, how long can a pérson expect to stand this high pressure? How long can he successfully battle with the clear head of his neighbor, who is growing stronger and more proficient every day by the observance of proper hours and laws? The late Henry Ward Beecher said, in one of his sermons, ‘“‘I care not who your exemplar is, by departing from the great influences and laws of Nature there is many a man wears out prematurely; he grinds his very life out by over-work and over-hours. Men laugh at the old-fashioned New Eng- land customs of going to tea at 4 o'clock and to bed at 9, but the men whom that custom made are not to be laughed at. The men that are wearing out are city men. The city, like the grindstone, takes off the edge and the very steel from the sword. No great city could perpetuate its power were *it not for the continual recuperation from the country of country-bred men, who have kept proper hours and observed wholesome, natural laws. Over-work and over-hours, from their depressing influence, tend to make a man dishonest; and, when dishon- esty is allowed to enter, he soon loses his hold and his downfall is almost certaimt Honesty is the corner stone of a successful business. To be successful, you must be honest in your dealings and with yourself. I believe that the man who succeeds in HEH. LEONARD | sociation on the subject, ‘Shorter Hours | At first I doubted hin, | letter from the Presi- | dent informing me of the fact and saying | Like most business men, I) and away he goes | to see Smith. He returns at 10 or 11 o’cloek. | No; he has | He | | o_O | j } Jobbers of CROC 4134 TO 142 EAST FULTON STREET, KERY, GLASSWARE and BARGAIN COUNTER GOODS. . | | \ | it up for you. | Delinquent List, but Tre TRADESMAN Can- not advise such a course in cases where the | person is responsible and is amenable to the to make use of them. answered and prices quoted, no matter Ww wanted is in our line or not. business has time to eat his meals, time to| law. do a hard day’s work in proper hours, time | to talk to his wife, time for recreation and | annie cacti il eller His Salary Didn’t Go Up. time for sleep. When he locks his office or store in the evening he leaves his business inside those walls. He does not carry it home with him.” The life of a merchant is a hard trial upon his character. Surrownded by selfishness and severe competition, his integrity is sub- jected to the severest tests. The Dry Goods Chronicle truly said: “*The aim makes the merchant; the spirit and energy, the greatness or bitterness, of the character and life. When a merchant’s aim is right, he will have something that shall survive deteat and glorify even pov- The final suecess of a demonstrated in the universal law—the sur- vival of the fittest. Now, ,gentlemen, who shall be your exemplar? Shall it be the man who, by excess, by over-hours and by continued infractions of nature’s unchanging laws, has impaired his physical being and who, in the great army of business men, falls by the wayside a straggler? Or shall it be the man who, by the observance of these natural laws, is made strong and clear-headed, who survives the struggle and marches on with firm step in the phalanx of the successful? Gentlemen, I leave it for you to decide. —_—___~>-9-—— The Proper Use of the Blue Letter. PrEWwAMo, March, 10, 1887. B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Sin—We would like to hear from you as regards the proper use of the Blue Letter. Is it policy to send it to represen- tative men? Suppose a case like this: Having had a deal with a farmer (who is perfectly respon- sible for all you can get against him) for a short time, he leaves you, owing you an amount say under $2 and says nothing about it. It runs along for a year or more. In the mean time this Business Men’s As- sociation is formed. Do you think it advis- able to send the Blue Letter to such a man? Pewamo Business MEN’S ASSOCIATION, E. R. Holmes, Sec’y. Tur TRADESMAN’s answer to the above enquiry would be that where a debtor is re- sponsible—that is, collectible by law—that the better way would be to sue on the ac-| count, obtain judgment, and proceed to col- lect the judgment by execution. In the collection of accounts and other debts, the Association is supposed to step in where the law affords no relief, and until the law has been tried and found wanting, THE TRADESMAN would not advise resorting to the Blue Letter. A man who is responsible is not a Dead-beat, although he may be en- titled to the designation of “Slow Pay” or “Undesirable Credit.” A Dead-beat is a man who has no means with which to pay, and should not be allowed a cent’s worth of credit, or one who has his property s0 cov- ered up as to be execution proof. Either are proper subjects for the Blue Letter and *Paper read by Jas. Osburn before recent en of Michigan Business Men’s Asso- ciation. | J Wad been working for three years for one of our old time wholesale houses,” said a Detroiter who was calling up reminis- cences, “and I finally concluded that I ought to have a raise of salary. I began on | $4 a week and was raised to %6, but there | it had stuck for two years. The head man ‘of the firm was a cold, stiff, austere man, who seldom recognized an employe and was known to be hard-hearted. I hesitated a } | Jong time before daring to approach him on | the subject nearest to my heart, but one day . st : business man is | 7 glid into the private office when I knew he | was alone. “Well, sir,” he snaps out, short, as pie crust. “] ‘—1 came to—to’— ‘Came to what, sir?” ‘+ ‘JJ came to ask you if you—you did | not think’— “See here, William!’ he said, as he wheeled round on me, ‘i¢ my daughter loves you, and you love her, I’ve no objec- | tion to your marriage. Fix it up between you and don’t bother me again.” ‘The old reynard!’ He had a daughter, i but I had never spoken to her in my life ‘and he knew it. He answered me the way he did to stop me from asking a raise of salary. It was a year and a half after that before I was lifted to $8 per week. | STEAM LAUNDRY, 43 and 45 Kent Street. . STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICA Orders by Mail and Express Promptly At- tended to. BELKNAP Wagon and Sleigh C0 MANUFACTURERS OF Spring, Freight, Express, Lumber and Farm WAGONS! Logging Carts and Trucks Mill and Dump Carts, Lumbermen’s and River Tools. We carry a large stock of material, and have every facility for making first-class Wagons of all kinds. ("Special attention Painting and Lettering. Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich, given to Repairing, PURCHASING DEPARTMENT. rs eves eoucamamanaaaanesc neste CeO ALCAN For the convenience of our customers we have added a Purchasing Department to our business, and placed the same under care of Mr. Frank A. Stone. Our facilities for obtaining all kinds of merchandise at Bottom Prices are so excellent that our friends are invited | All ‘correspondence promptly Send to us an For the Field and Garden. The Grand Rapids Seed Store, 71 Canal Street, Offers for Sale all Kinds of Garden Seeds in Bulk. Medium Clover, Mammoth Clover, Alsike Clover, Alfalfa Clover, White Dutch Clover, Timothy, Red Top, Blue Grass, Orchard Grass, Hungarian Grass, Common Millet, German Millet, Flax Seed. hether the article No. 4. Same construction on No. 3. d we will look Ba oT Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with nZoor>s OH ae BOY'S WAGONS. The Wagons are well-made and neatly finished, Wheels Turn Under, Curved Front Wood Axle. No. X. Size of Box 10x20 inches, Wheels 8 and 12 inehes, Sold only in erates of 1 doz. each, per doz... ..$4 Size of Box 12x24 inches, Wheels 10 and 14 inches, Curved Wood Axle, Front Wheels turn under, , packed in crates of 1g doz. Sold only by the Size of box 12x26 inches, Wheels 10 and 14 inches, 4 Axles Curved and strongly braced, packed !y doz. , in erate, sold by erate only, price per doz. .....$9 Same style as No. 2, only box 13!4x27 inches. Nicely painted outside and inside. Adjustable Tongue Brace. Packed 14 doz. in erate. Sold by erate only. Price per Ol cic aeen eas $12 Size of box 1415 x29, Wheels 12 and 16 inches. Packed ‘4 doz. in erate. Sold by erate only. Perdoz......... (Tinned Hub Caps.) | } i DIRECTIONS p We have cooked the cornin this can sufficiently. Should be Thoroughly , Pail Warmed (not cooked) wading piece of Hiomeeel| Good Butter (size of en's egg) and gill Pmal| of fresh milk ( erable to water.) Season to suit when on the table. None * NY genuine unless bearing the signature of signature and stamp on each can. THE NEW Soap Company. As previously announced, the trade is now being supplied with Soap from this new factory. Two brands are now introduced, Headlight AND Tittle Daisy: Both free from adulterations of all kinds, and contain pure Ceylon Cocoa Oil, Steam Refined Tallow, Glycerine and Borax. The former is a first-class Laundry Soap, and the latter, being fine and milder, is one of the best Bath, Laundry and Toilet Soaps combined now on the market. For terms, please apply to the factory, in person, by letter, or telephone. (Telephone No. 578-5 rings.) Shall we receive your encouragement by way of a trial order? Respectfully, Grand Rapids Soap bo. The Stuadard of Excellence KINGSFORDS Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, THE PERFECTION OF QUALITY. WILL PLEASE YOU EVERY TIME! ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOCDS. | “Silver OSs Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc. ‘ ¢ crate, price per dOZ.......6. 2 ee eee eee eee $7 & Iron Ax e,Iron Boxes in hubs, Front and Rear , Front 50 00 00 .815 00 NO. 2, IRON AXLE EXPRESS WAGON. ! No. 350. No. 20. No. O. No. 1%. TOY CARTS. Body 5x9 inches, 6 inch wheels, no tires, painted in bright colors. Sold by the dozen only. Per doz. Same as No. 30, except wheels have tin tires, Price per dOZEN. .. 6... ee eb eee ee eee teen eeees $1 : Body 5x10 inches, 6 inch wheels, tin tires, price per dozen.......+++ .-O1 ! Body 51x11 inches, 6 ineh wheels, tin tires, price per i oc ccs ok pin ann 0 etd 04 40 6n ing 44st Body 7x12 inches, 8 ineh wheels, tin tires, price per Be cc idsk rs nccerierecamsiar Body 7x14 inches, 8 inch wheels, tin tires, price PerdOzen. .. 6. ce cece cece eee e cece cree eben ene ee S&Olc Agents, 60 00 The accompanying illustrations represents the | Boss Tobacco Pail Cover. It will fit any pail, and keep the Tobacco moist, and fresh until entirely used. : It will pay for itself in a short time. You cannot afford to do without it. For particulars, write to ARTHUR MEIGS & CO. Wholesale Grocers, ‘ ? td 77 to 83 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS