oe a eee: « a a ( fr owety yagi «hfweiy ene tan é The Michigan Tradesman. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1888. NO. 261. Voigt, Herpolshemer & G0, Tmporters and Jobbers of DRY GOODS Staple and Fancy. A Overalls, Pants, Etc., OUR OWN MAKE, A Complete Line of Faney Crockery Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION. Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed. SILVER STARS No Equal in the State. Wherever Introduced itis-a Stayer! —— TO THE TRADE: I guarantee “SILVER STARS” to bea long, straight filler, with Sumatra wrapper, made by union labor, and to give complete satis- faction. : A. S. DAVIS, Sole Manufacturer, 70 Ganal St., GRAND RAPIDS. FERMENTUM! The Only Reliable Ccmpressed Yeast. Handled by a Majority of the Grocers and Bakers of Michigan. Send for sam- ples and prices. L. WINTERNITZ, State Agent, Grand Rapids. APPLES We make a specialty of handling AP- PLES in car lots and less and would be pleased to open correspondence with a view to receiving your shipments. Will at all times make liberal advances. “Prompt returns at top market price,” is our maxim. S. T. FISH & C0., BOOK-KEEPING ANS No Pass Books! No Gharging! No Posting! No Writing! No Disputing of Accounts! No Change to Make! TRADESMAN - Credit Coupon Book. THE NEWEST AND BEST SYSTEM ON THE MARKET. ————_$_— We quote prices as follows: 189 So. Water St,, CHICAGO. $ 2 Coupons, per hundred..............---- $2.50 ao eee ee 3.00 20 Ol eS . 4.00 eo ee i 5.00 Subject to the following discounts: Orders for = Or OVEF....-. +++. ++++- a “se 1 “ 20 ry 600 Send in sample order and put your business en acash basis. . BA. STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids. EDMUND B. DIKEMAN | | | | THE GREAT Wateh Maker . Jeweler, bh GANAL 8Y. Grand Rapids, - Mich. SAFES! AND Anyone in want of 2 first-class Fire or Burglar Proof Safe of the Cincinnati Safe and Lock Co. manufacture will find it to bis advantage to write or call on us. We have light expenses, and are able to sell low- er than any other house representing first- class work. Second-hand safes always on hand. C. M. GOODRICH & CO., With Safety Deposit Co., Basement ot Wid- dicomb Blk. BELKNAP Wagon and Sleigh Co. 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 ali kinds. - € Special attention given to Repairing, Painting and Lettering. ll I Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich, THURBER, WHYLAND & C0, NEW YORK, RELIABLE FOOD PRODUCTS. ° [It is both pleasant and profitable for merchants te occasionally visit New York, and all such are cordially invited to call, look through our establishment, corner West Broadway, Reade and Hudson streets, and make our acquaintance, whether they wish to buy goods or not. Ask for a member of the firm.] CASH SALE CHECKS. Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of running book accounts by using Cash Sale Checks. For saleat50 cents per 100 by x A: STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids. ASK FOR ARDENTER MUSTARD - BEST INTHE WORLD SHEDS! IF YOU WANT |Medium Clover, | Mammoth Clover, | Timothy, Alsike, Alfalfa, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top, Orchard Grass, Blue Grass, Field Peas, Spring Rye, Spring Barley. OR ANY KIND OF SEEDS SEND TO W. Y, LAMORBAUX, 7x Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. KLEIN GLOVE KMPORIUM Gloves and hitteiis a ys ae Buckskin, Dogskin, Napha and Sheepskin. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC KID GLOVES A SPECIALTY, Fuil Line of MISSES AND YOUTHS’ GLOVES, Mail Orders will receive Prompt Attention. OTTO KLEIN, Manager, 79 PEARL STREFT,) 9 Grand Rapids. - Mich. FRED.) YALE & G0. MANUFACTURERS OF Imperialand LaBelle BAKING POWDERS And ali kinds of Rxtracts and Flavorings JGBBERS OF TEAS, TOILET SOAPS,CIGARS and GROCERS’ SUNDRIES. Grand Rapids. BEWARE! it has come to our notice that unscrupu- lous manufacturers of cigars are putting an inferior brand of cigars on the market under a label so closely imitating our ‘‘Sil- ver Spots” as to deceive the general public. At first, we were inclined to feel flattered at this recognition of the superior merits of our ‘Silver Spots” by a brother manufac- turer, knowing full well that it is only arti- cles of standard or sterling worth that are imitated, but we feel that we should be derelict in our duty to the public should we not warn them against this infringemext, and also to dealers in cigars, as we feel positive that no first-class dealer would knowingly countenance or deal with any manufacturer who had to depend upon other manufacturers to furnish him brains to originate brands or labels for their cigars. A counterfeiter is a genius, but amenable to the law, but a base imitator who keeps within the law, or just ventures near enough to be on debatable ground, is not worthy of recognition in a community of worthy or respectable citizens. The ‘‘Sil- yer Spots” are to-day the best selling five cent cigar in Michigan. If you den’t be- lieve it send us a trial order. Gro. T. WARREN & Co., Flint, Mich. ESTABLISHED 1866. Barnery BROS. We do a General Commission Business and offer as inducemésits twenty years’ ex- perience and clear record. The best equip- | ped and largest salesroom in the business in this city. Ample storage facilities—full 20,000 feet of floor space in the center ot the best market in the West. tal and first-class references on file with Ample eapi- Tax TRADESMAN. Write us if you wish information, whether to buy or sell. it will cost you nothing. BARNETT BROS. WM. L. ELLIS & 60, BRAND Baltimore Oysters Broker in CANNED GOODS. Salt and Sea Fish. B. F. EMERY, - Manager, 20 Lyon St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, RENEE. Written for Tus TRADESMAN There was a mystery surrounding the girl from the first. She always came to the store at the same hour—about five in the afternoon—always made her purchases of the same clerk, if possible, and always kept her face invisible by reason of the thick folds of a dark veil. But, for all of the veil, there was not a clerk in the store who would not have staked his last dollar that the girl was handsome. She became the sole topic of conversation in the store and, at last, the topic was brought to the attention of Dick Somers, the junior partner in the firm of Black & Somers, dealers in dry goods and notions. Dick had arrived at the quite mature age of eight-and-twenty, and had yet to ac- knowledge to himself more than a passing interest in anything feminine unless, per- haps, we may except his mother and sis- ters, to whom he was devotion itself. Often and often Dick had wondered if it would ever be his lot to meet some fair girl who could excite more than a passing interest in his mind and lead him, a willing captive, to the chains of Hymen. But thus far, l say, such a ‘‘consummation devoutly to be wished” had not been reached, and when he overheard the clerks in their rhap- sodies upon the, as yet, invisible charms of the mysterious customer, he laughed at them and ridiculed their impressiveness. ‘“P’]] bet you four to one she’s as ugly as Dick Deadeye,” said Dick, as be vainly en- deavored to repress the enthusiasm of one of the younger men. ‘“‘I have not yet had the pleasure of seeing this imaginary beauty, but I shall watch for her to-morrow. Five o’clock, you say ?” The clerk replied in the affirmative, and the subject was dropped for the time. Dick Somers did not forget it, however. Somehow, the idea of a beautiful stranger buying goods in his store around whom clustered so singular and mysterious a fas- cination as to cause all his clerks to go into eestacies at any and every possible oppor- tunity pleased his fancy and excited his curiosity to such an extent that he detected himself several times imagining himself face to face—or, face to veil, rather—with this person, devising means whereby to dis- close the ripe, dazzling beauty of the mod- ern ‘‘She.” It isa somewhat singular fact that the more a man openly boasts of his imper- viousness to the attacks of curiosity, the greater is that same curiosity within the secresy of his own bosom. And it was thus with Dick. He really felt all the curiosity, if not more, of his clerks whom he ridi- culed and was secretly ashamed of it. But, nevertheless, Dick was unostenta- tiously and seemingly accidentally posted the next afternoon ina place of vantage wherefrom he might take an observant view of the mysterious veiled lady. At about five, as usual, the young lady entered and took up her position at her usual counter, and the clerk who seemed to please her so well at once advanced to offer his services. It was plain to be seen the girl was youpng—the gracefully moulded outlines of her form told that plainerthan words. And, now Dick understood, or thought he did, the reason for his clerks swearing that she was beautiful without even catching a glimpse of her face. There was a name- less charm which seemed to emanate from her presence as perfume might from her dressing-case. The longer Dick gazed at the young lady, the stronger becathe his curiosity concern- ing her. And now he formed a most sin- gular resolution for a young man of his position and accredited reputation. He de- termined to make an errand for an excuse and see for himself where the young lady resided. Dick would not, for the world, have allowed one of the clerks to suspect his infatuation, so he went to the safe, took therefrom a bank book, together with some checks and drafts, and went—to the bank ? In the meantime the young lady had completed her purchases and gone from the store. Dick, at a respectful distance, watched her get into a cable car, when he immediately took the car ahead in which the gripman stood. It was fortunate for Dick that none of the clerks saw this manceuver, for the car line led directly the opposite way from the bank with which Black & Somers transacted business. The grip carried Dick several squares, until it reached a most fashionable quarter of the city before the young lady manifested a disposition to alight. As she did so, a fortunate temporary stoppage of the cable enabled Dick to watch the young lady as she tripped lightly up the steps to a hand- some residence of which he took a mental picture. Dick rode along 2 few blocks further. Then he alighted and walked slowly back. As he passed the house at which the girl had stopped, he endeavored to read the name on the door, but was unable te do so, it being printed in small German text, not distinguishable at that distance. The num- ber, 3743, was plain enough, and as Dick strolled past, he was so lost in thought that aman standing upon the steps of the next house was compelled to salute him twice ere he received an answer. ‘Hello, Dick! I am glad you came up to see me. It’s deuced lonesome sitting in the house nursing this confounded rheuma- tism. But come in, won’t you?” Dick was so lost in his own thoughts that the salutation teok him unawares, but he managed to stammer out: “Why, John! Bless me, but you’re so much of a stranger that your appearance startled me. Ihave just been looking at some property above here that I’m thinking of buying, and didn’t know you lived around here.” Adroit liar. But he went in and talked awhile with his old friend and schoolmate, John Clinton, upon ordinary topics, all the time longing for an opportunity to present itself by which he might ascertain some- thing of John’s next door neighbors. At last, it came. “By the way, Dick, you should make ita point to come up to my wife’s party next week. Our next door neighbors will be here, and Frank Bufort has as pretty a sis- ter as one could wish to see—a perfect Juno.” And John Clinton thereupon gave Dick a history of the family since their advent in the neighborhood. They were from the South, he said, and there were three of them—Mrs. Bufort, Frank, her son, and Renee, her daughter. They were reputed rich and their establishment, although plain, bore evidence of solid wealth and taste. Dick left the house with the firm inten- tion of being an attendant at the party. It was seldom he attended a ball, but there seemed to be a nameless something drawing him toward the young woman with a veil, and here was an unexampled opportunity to make her acquaintance. Dick, although he well Knew the proper hour at which to be in attendance at a fash- ionable ball, allowed his eagerness to be- come master and arrived most suspiciously early at John Clinton’s handsome residence. He excused the unseemly hour on plea of his watch being sadly out of repair—a most outrageous slander, by the way, upon the aforesaid chronometer, it never having been known to vary a moment in a month. The guests arrived in twos and threes, and Dick’s heart beat faster each time the door opened to admit some new acquisition of womanly perfection. At last, after hours, it seemed to Dick, although it was really but a half-hour, the object of his ad- miraticn entered, accompanied by a tall, stylish young man whom Dick at once knew to be the brother. I cannot tell you how Dick knew the young lady who had just entered was Renee Bufort, any more than I can tell why it was that theclerks of Black & Somers knew she was beautiful, never having seen her face, but he was con- vinced the moment his eyes rested upon the small, queenly head crowned with a wreath of golden hair, which needed not the art of the hair‘dresser to make a most fitting crown for the lovely face beneath it. I will not attempt to describe her. She was simply beauliful and had a queenly air of calm refinement which was in perfect ac- cord with her graceful movements as she took her place among the guests. Dick had, at lest, met his fate, and he acknowledged the truth to himself, almost unconsciously. Then followed an evening of unalloyed enjoyment for Dick, and he inwardly blessed his friend who had thus given him an opportunity for making this fair creature’s acquaintance. Dick was fortunate enough io get a waltz with Renee, and then a quadrille, but the girl complained of the heat and Dick had her all to himself for a quiet promenade in the garden. When he went home Dick had a cordial invitation from both Renee and her brother to visit them. DolI need to say that he took advantage of it? I think not. For the next three months, he was a constant visitor at No. 3743 Lyon Place. Several times, Dick met Renee in the cable cars, he on his way to his boarding place and she home. Upon one of these aceasions, there was a large crowd in the ear and when Dick got home he missed his keys. Among them was the key to the store, and Dick at once purchased a new lock for the front door, supposing that his pocket had been picked by some one with the intention of robbing the store. He forgot, at the time, that a key unlocking a small sear door had been returned to him that day by a cash boy, which he had not been in the habit of carrying, and which was on the ring, and, therefore, that lock was not changed. In the meantime, Dick continued his at- tentions to Renee, and was apparently en- couraged by the other members of the fam- ily. Dick finally mustered up courage, declared his wish to make her his wife, and was shyly and blushingly accepted, as be- came a young and lovely maiden. The en- gagement was announced, and Dick busied himseif in happy preparation for his union, when something happened to change the current of his thoughts foratime. I had forgotten to mention that the fashionable firm of Black & Somers carried, in addition to their other lines, a large and vaiuable jewelry stock. Just previous to Dick’s pro- posal to Renee, the firm had received, on commission, of course, a large quantity of diamonds, valued at about $50,000. He teld Renee of this, adding that he wished her to pick ont her own engagement ring, which she did one evening after the store was closed, and all the clerks gone, leaving no one present but Renee, her brother and Dick. After the selection had been made, Dick placed the diamonds in the safe, amid joking remarks about burglars, etc. Dick laughingly assured Renee that were those diamonds stolen, he would be ruined and their marriage wouid have te be postponed. And then he added, ‘‘But there’s no dan- ger, [ guess, in this safe,” as he closed and locked it. The next morning there was weeping and gnashing of teeth in the store of Black & Somers. The diamonds were gone, and with them about eight hundred dollars in currency! Unless they were speedily re- covered it was, as Dick had said, ruin, for the diamonds were oncommission and must be paid for, which would utterly cripple the firm. Detectives were at once employed, but, shrewd as they were, not the slightest clue could be gained as to the thief or thieves. Renee had nobly declared her intention of keeping her engagement, the more so, she said, as Dick was in such trouble and needed her. One of the detectives had been employed as aclerk, unknown to all but the proprie- tors, and one day he chanced to overhear a conversation between Renee and Dick, which he thought worth listening to. Dick had referred sadly to the selection of the engagement ring and the conversation which had then ensued. He was somewhat surprised when Gryce, the detective, requested him to relate the conversation in detail. When Dick fin- ished, the detective gave utterance to an ejaculation of satisfaction. ‘‘You don’t, for an instant, dare to sus- pect Miss Bufort of complicity in this theft ?” said Dick, savagely, as the detect- turned away. Gryce thought it wise to conceai some- thing, so he remarked, in a quiet voice: ‘Not fora moment, my dear sir. But, you know, a detective must have eyes and ears for everything, and the circumstance excited my curiosity for 2 moment.” Dick was satisfied, but he would not have been had he heard Gryce mutter: “TJ thought I had seen thai face before, and now I am sure of it.” Gryce said nothing and appeared to do nothing for nearly a week, when he met Messrs. Black & Somers in their private office with an announcement which brought great cons3lation and rest to their anxious, troubled minds. ‘IT have found the thieves !” “What!” Black and Somers almost shouted at the same moment. “*T have found the thieves. One of them was arrested at the depot as he was about to take the train for Detroit and the crim- inals’ harbor—Canada. The other, although under constant surveillance, is still at libs erty, and I only await your orders to ar- rest.” “Why, of course, arrest him at once! Don’t give the scoundrel a chance to escape. But are the diamonds recovered ?” “Yes, all but one, which the other wears—the one I have not yet arrested. But, gentlemen, I wish to exterta confes- sion from this one, as I think I have dis- covered one of the shrewdest and most dan- gerous criminals in the country—one whom the police have long been endeavoring to capture, and I need your assistance.” The two gentlemen immediately left the store and Gryce conducted them to the cable ears.: AS they approached the house wherein Renee dwelt, Gryce said : “Mr. Somers, as we may attract attention by being so mysteriously together, I wish you and Mr. Black to make a call upon Miss Bufort, where I will join you in a few moments.” / “Is it Miss Bufort ?” gasped Semers, as he started, pale and trembling, from his seat. “J did not say so,” quietly remarked Gryce, and his calm tone served to quiet the young man’s apprehensions wonderfully. “J wish you to promise, on your honor as gentlemen, that you will make no men- tion of your errand to the ladies. The thief is an inmate of their home, and might become suspicious.” Dick breathed freer. ‘“‘A servant, un- Coubtedly,” he said to himself, and both gentlemen gave the required promise. Miss Bufort received the gentleman in her usual gracious manner. Mr. Black was a frequent caller, in company with Dick, and his presence excited no comment. Dick tried to assume an air of attention to the conversation, but he failed miserably, and was much relieved when a servant ai- nounced Mr. Gryce. “Ah, one of our clerks, Miss Bufort,” said Mr. Black. ‘‘Undoubtedly he has something important to communicate. May we receive him here ?” Renee gave an almost imperceptible start, but quickly regained her composure and gave assent. Mr. Gryce entered : “Good evening, Miss Bufort, good even- ing, gentlemen.” “Are you, then, acquainted with Miss Bufort 2?” It was Dick, and his voice trem- bled as he asked the question. “Oh, yes. 1 knew her some years ago, but she has undoubtedly forgotten me. What I wish to say is, that the thieves have been discovered—no, don’t leave the room, Miss Bufort, my communication is intended for you, as well;” and Mr. Gryce quietiy went to the doors and locked them, putting the keys in his pocket. It was a singular action on his part, but he took no notice of the looks of surprise on the faces of Somers and Renee. Mr. Black suspected some- thing, but said nothing. “J have alittle story to relate, in this connection, which will interest you, ’m sure. Pray be seated, Miss Bufort.” The detective continued: ‘‘Four years ago, the large jewelry house of Bartlett Bros., in Chicago, was robbed in almost the identical manner as yours was. The thieves were sought for everywhere, but, until this day, have never been discovered. They are identical with the ones who robbed you.” ‘‘And what has all this to do with me?” asked Renee, haughtily, buta close observer would have noted the lines of a sudden fear and something repressed in her man- ner. “Simply this,” said Gryce, with his most pleasant smile, ‘‘one of the thieves is now under arrest as he was about to leave the country and has confessed everything. The other stands there!” and he pointed the finger of a Nemesis at Renee, who stood, white and trembling, astatue of fear, hatred and shame. Her beauty was gone, and there remained only the evidences of a sin- ful life as depicted in the hard lines of her face.. For one instant she stood thus, and then with a wild ery, ‘‘My husband !” drew a dagger from her dress and raised her arm to strike. But Gryce, who had been expecting some- thing of this kind, was too quick for her, and the dagger was in his possession in an instant. Then she confessed all. How she, with her husband—for her reputed brother was really such—had located here, after the storm of the former robbery aad blown over, intending to settle down quietly. Then came Dick, and Renee’s husband, seeing another opportunity for a rich haul, had laid the plot which had so nearly ended in his ruin. She had led Dick on until, by a clever manceuver, she had gained the keys and the incident of the diamonds had come to their knowledge. They determined to strike while the iron was hot, and when Dick thought he locked the safe, Renee’s husband stood with his knee in such a po- sition as to hold the combination, which Dick, in his infatuation, had not noticed. Poor Richard left the mansion, wherein he had hoped to gain an earthly treasure, a changed man. He loved Renee, in spite of this horrible discovery, and he could not bear to remain in the place where he had passed so many happy hours. He sold his interest in the firm of Black & Somers, and the last I heard of him he was on his way to Australia. Renee and her husband were duly tried and convicted, and are now serving a ten years’ sentence each. RELLUF. ————_ >. > —_— A phenomenon in banking in the direc- tion of unusual svecess never has as-mueh attention drawn to it as does the reverse. It is as well once in a while, by way ofa change from defalcation, and failure, to take a glance at wonderful prosperity. This can be seen to no better advantage than in the ease of the Chemical Bank of New York. With a capital of only $300,000, this bank shows a surplus of five anda half millions and a deposit line of twenty millions. Last year it paid dividends bi-monthly, amount- ing to 100 per cent.. and carried $900,000 into surplus fund; this year, its bi-monthly dividends are 25 per cent., or at the rate of 150 per annum. The stock is quoted at $3,- 600 per share, but it is rarely sold except when a few shares appear in settlement of an estate. Away back in 1844, Jacob Wolfe bought 200 shares for $20,000. That par- ticular lot is stillin the hands of his des- cendants, and is to-day worth $720,060, be- sides having paid over $1,000,000 in divi- dends to its holders. Much of the so-called ivory now in use is simple potato. A good, sound potato washed in diluted sulphuric acid, then boiled in the same solution, and then slowly dried, is all ready to be turned into buttons, poker chips and innumerable other things that ivory was used for once upon a time. PERFECTION SCALE The Latest Improved and Best. = = a BOES NOT REQUIRE DOWN WEIGET Will Soon Save its Cost on any Counter. GEO. C. WETHERBEE & CO., Detroit. for Sale by HAWKINS & PERRY, Grand Rapids. McCAUSLAND.& CO., E. Saginaw And by Wholesale Grocers generally. Send for lus trated Catalogue. 2 The Michigan Tradesman @fficial Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. 4 WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. ‘Subscription Price—One Dollar per year. _ Advertising Rates made known on application. “Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1888. A SIXTH YEAR. With the last week, THE ‘TRADESMAN completed its fifth year of publication and the issue of the present week marks the beginning of a sixth year issue of and volume. The success which has attended the pub- dication of the paper from its inception, ‘coupled with the permanent position it now occupies in the esteem of Michigan business men, render it unnecessary at this time to make any extended reference to the past or pat forth any promises for the future. Substantially the same policy which has Seer followed in the past will be pursued No feature which has be- come familiar or valuable te the patrons of the paper well be omitted, nor is the intro- ‘duction of any innovation contemplated. Briefly stated, Toe TRADESMAN will con- tinue to be a welcome weekly visitor at the -Offices of 5,000 business men. ia the future. Mr. William Seully, the Irish landlord ‘whe was driven out of Tepperary by the force of public opinion, and who has tried with some success to introduce the methods of Irish landlordism into this country, has -:een brought to change his course by the - alien land law of the Stateof Illinois. He owns some 60,000 acres of the best land in the corn belt of that State, and for decades vast he has gone on laying house to house arg field to field, until it seemed as if his estate would embrace whole counties. The new law took hold of his methods at two vulnerable points. It declared void the contracts by which he bound his tenants to pay the takes on their farms during the -terms covered by their short leases, and it ‘zaquired the escheat to the State of lands ‘lem by aliens if they were claimed by alien heirs. His heirs would have to take steps to become citizens at once, with grave ap- »prehensions lest he should die before the ‘five years’ term should have expired; and ‘his tenants are relieved from the burden of State and local taxation, which has been much heavier than formerly during the last few years. Itis noticed that his agents no tonger buy up property in the neighborhood of the estate, and that they have disposed -of several fine farms at good but not ex- ~cessive prices. There is reason to believe ‘they are prepared to sell Mr. Scully cut as fast as they can get such prices for the sands, which are of superior quality and well situated. The wonder is that he sheuld have been able to find people to oc- ‘cupy his farms on the oppressive terms he “exacts, with so much good land in the Mis- * 3issippi valley to be had at homestead rates. ‘He also owns some 40,000 acres in Ne- brask, which he has been renting in the : same fashion. tis a bad sign for the immediate future ‘oft England that the Trades’ Union Con- «gress becomes with every year more dis- tinetly the organ of social and economic discontent. This year it reiterated its de- mand for the nationalization of the land by “the imposition of a tax equal in amount to the rent. This isa good sign, in so faras it shows that one class of Englishmen are awake fo the fact that in England the land “question is the real quostion, as_ it ‘is not in Ireland. But it is a bad sign, as showing that the injuries in- flicted on the common people by their being tent from the land has begun to make them indifferent to those rights of ownership whose overthrow would inflict direful injury ‘on all classes. The English problem really is te effect in the matter of land ownership @ change as sweeping as would be effected %y a socialistic revolution, and yet to avoid undergoing such a revolution. In common with the majority of the trav- ~eling men of Grand Rapids, who have work- ed together very harmoniously in the past, “Tus TRADESMAN regrets that any of the members should be so unwise as to seek to ' divide the fraternity in a political matter. -Such a step having been taken, however, “there is nothing left for the other side but “9o-astept the same tactics and then for both itactions to put the best foot forward. A Turtle Farm. ‘It oecurred to an enterprising Yankee that ‘turtle farming might be made to pay, anc ‘he accordingly established a terrapin farm, which is situated about sixty miles from Mobile. An enclosure of three acres ‘im extent-contains several immense ditches 188 feet'in length and 10 feet in width, and these are filled with salt water by two -ganals. in these ditches about 30,000 tur- ties are domesticated. In winter they lie imbedded in the mud, and are very con- venient creatures to keep, seeing at this season they never eat any food. Itis not astonishing, therefore, to hear that these zvarties cost no more than $1 per season to feed, and that New York cheerfully pays as “much as $17 per dozen for them. AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. John Den Englishman has sold his gro- cery stock at 614 Canal street to Wm. H. Sigel. Chas. Mack has engaged in the grocery business at NewSalem. I. M. Clark & Son furnished the stock Mrs. D. Polasky has opened a grocery store at Kalamazoo. Olney, Shields & Co. furnished the stock. Geo. O. Hodge has engaged in the grocery business at Superior. Lemon, Hoops & Peters furnished the stock. This being ‘‘fair week,” the jobbing trade is looking for the usually large influx of visitors peculiar to the event. Orian Hightower has engaged in the grocery business at Ferry. Amos S. Mus- selman & Co. furnished the steck. The O. E. Brown Milling Co. has just completed a warehouse, 28x100 feet in di- mensions, and three stories high. It hasa capacity of 7,000 barrels. Quinn & Richardson have removed their brokerage office from the Ledyard block, on Ottawa street, to larger quarters under the Grand Rapids National Bank. Mr. Flanagan has retired from the boot and shoe firm of Murray & Flanagan, at 26 Monroe street. The business will be con- tinued by W. C. Murray and D. E. Murray under the style of W. C. Murray & Co. Elijah Haney is attempting to organize another stock company to succeed the Haney Manufacturing Co. in the manufacture of school seats in a new factory at South Grand Rapids. Mr. Haney has not been very suc- cessful in his business undertakings in the past, but may meet with better luck this time. J. M. Annisansel, Local Manager of Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle’s tank line, has completed the construction of a tank sta- tion at the junction of Alpine avenue and the M., G. R. & I. Railroad, and will be ready to begin operations next week. Offices have been secured in the Blodgett block on South Ionia street. AROUND THE STATE. Allegan—Walter Kibby has re-opened his meat market. Ashley—Demas Adams has opened a con- fectionery store. Shelby—W. L. Paige will shortly engage in the bakery business. Gresham—F. L. Ryan has sold his gener- al stock to Jas. S. Smith. Ashley—J. V. Blair, the Ola grocer, is building a store at this place. Big Rapids—E. Fisher & Son have opened a shoe, notion and jewelry store. Ashley — Tripp & Mills succeed C. J. Winslow in the grocery business. Ashley—F. B. Van Hoten has opened a confectionery store and restaurant. Jonesville—Witter J. Baxter has bought the clothing stock of E. B. Thorpe. Bangor—Geo. J. Stephenson succeeds H. D. Harvey in the drug business. Edmore— Mrs. J. D. Sanford has re- moved her fancy goods stock to Gladwin. Ashley—Mrs. Cora Hasbrook is erecting a building to be occupied as a millinery store. Marshall —Caroline Klugman succeeds Henry Klugman & Son in the boot and shoe business. Moline—John Noah has put a grocery stock in the store formerly occupied by Nevins Bros. Cheboygan—H. Chambers has shipped his general stock to Elsie, where he will re-engage in business. Lake Odessa—J. H. Gibbons and J. B. Gibbons have opened a jewelry store under the style of J. H. Gibbons & Son. Coopersville—Ives & Son have sold tieir meat market to Geo. Lonsberry, late of Oakland county, who will take possession October 1. Wayland—A. Sessions has opened a stock of confectionery, tobaccos and cigars in the building formerly occupied by the late J. W. Sessions. Owosso—N. McBain has sold his clothing and merchant tailoring business to Wm. McKeand, late of Northville, who will con- tinue the business. Boyne Falls—Wm. A. Davoll has pur- chased the interest of his father in the gen- eral firm of W. P. Davoll & Son and will continue the business in his own name. Sparta—S. 8. Hesseltine has exchanged his interest in the Hesseltine & Ballard fur- niture store and goods for the farm of Charles S. Field. The new firm name is Ballard & Field. Charlotte— Henry Levy and Emanuel Levy have purchased the interest of J. H. Green in the clothing firm of Levy & Green. The new firm will be known as J. Levy & Sons. Allegan—Chas. D. Smith has sold his in- terest in the grocery firm of Smith Bros. to engage in the grocery and meat business in Chicago. The business will be continued by Henry C. Smith. Blanchard—L. M. Mills has purchased of Arthur Meigs, of Grand Rapids, the store formerly occupied by the Pangborn general stock and W. J. Mills has bought the ad- joining building. The former will be occu- pied by the Blanchard Drug Store and the latter by the postoffice and express office, an archway connecting the two stores. STRAY FACTS. Merrili—H. L. Gladwin is building the best brick store between Saginaw and St. Louis. He will soon move into the same with a complete stock of drugs. Manistee— Johnson & Bridge succeed M. G. Smith & Son as lessees of the Dur- ham House. Muskegon—Houseman, Donnally & Jones purchased the I. H. Goldman clothing stock at chattel mortgage sale for $7,000. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Belding—There are 110 names on the pay-roll of the silk factory. Belding—The refrigerator factory is now turning out sixty refrigerators per day. Belding—The flouring mill now turns out 170 barrels of flour each twenty-four hours. Gladstone—The Bischoff sawmill has a daily capacity of 70,000 to 80,000 feet and employs at present some forty men. This number will soon be increased, as they are putting in a lath mill of large capacity. Mastadon—MclIntyre & Co. are said to have made $100,000 at their sawmill during the past five years, and that there is a good opportunity for parties to make as much more by cutting the 30,000,000 feet of pine between the Paint and Michigamme rivers. Charlevoix—The newly-organized Mich- igan Shaved Shingle Co. has begun the erection of a mill, in which will be placed two machines. The corporation is officered as follows: President, A. Buttars; Vice-Pres- ident, Geo. A. Gage; Secretary and Treas- urer, F. A. Smith. a ee Gripsack Brigade. Many of the traveling men are staying in this week to help entertain the visiting merchants. Chas. E. Hall is working the outside trade for the O. E. Brown Milling Co. and B. B. Luten the city trade. Jas. A. Crookston, the veteran traveler, is spending a few months among old friends at Saratoga, N. Y., and vicinity. Dick Prendergast is still confined to his house by the sprained ankle sustained at the traveling men’s ball game two weeks ago. John C. Bryer, traveling representative for the Globe Rubber Co., of Fairmount, Va., died at the Commercial House, at Lansing, on the 11th. He was 25 years of age. The ingenious ‘‘warble,” described by ‘Jesse Lange” in another column, is the property of Geo. F. Owen, and the circum- stance described actually happened about a year ago. J. H. Browh, Western representative for P. Lorillard & Co., was in town Monday. He was accompanied by Ethan Allen, who is connected with the home management of the house, Chas. Godbold is no longer on the road for Reeder, Palmer & Co. The house is re- presented in the Northern portion of the State by J. M. Fell and in the Holland Col- ony by K. VanDyk. The Democratic members of the Grand Rapids traveling fraternity met at Sweet’s Hotel Saturday afternoon and organized a Ford Traveling Men’s Club and the Repub- lican boys will meet at the reading room of the Morton House at 3 o’clock next Satur- day afternoon for the purpose of forming a Belknap Club. The heartfelt sympathy of the fraternity goes out to F. L. Kelly in the death of his wife by consumption. The demise occurred on Friday and the obsequies were held on Sunday afternoon. The Grand Rapids Traveting Men’s Association sent a hand- some floral offering, in the form of % sym- bolical representation of ‘‘Gates Ajar,” and about thirty of the boys attended the services in a body. Albert C. Antrim has returned from a trip through the South in theinterest of the Alabastine Co. He was in Jacksonville when the quarantine regulations were pro- claimed and the manner in which he escaped serious detention at the hands of both state and government officials is a matter of con- gratulation. He left Jacksonville in com- pany with about 300 persons, but when the party arrived at Savannah only nine—of which Mr. Antrim was one—would admit having come from the fever-stricken city. He was kept in surveillance there over night, sleeping on improvised beds in the passenger coach, when he was started North. A day or two afterward he was again taken into the custody of health offi- cers, when a slight variation from the truth would have saved him that inconvenience, and compelled to remain over night ina locked passenger coach. Mr. Antrim says that the average traveling man is quite as capable of getting frightened as people in other walks of life, over 300 having left Jacksonville within six hours after quaran- tine regulations were proclaimed. ——————q@qocr-o—_ The Michigan Salt Association will here- after ship the product of members oper- ating on the shores of Lake Huron to the west via Detroit. Heretofore all salt from shore towns has been taken by water direct to Chicago, and thence sent west by rail. The new order of things will make Detroit the point of transfer, and the Wabash will move west every barrel taken into the City of the Straits. The Association will at once build on the Wabash docks ware- houses, 240x150 feet in size, with a capacity for nearly 100,000 barrels. or? OS Bank Notes. Hillsdale Standard: It is rumored that Reading will have a new savings bank in the near future, with a capital of $25,000, and the stock will be taken by citizens of that place. As regards the Waldron un- pleasantness, Mr. Northrcp expects to be able to realize enough on bills receivable very soon to makea pro rata dividend to depositors and eventually settle with all in full. The Figures in the Goebel Failure. The assignee has filed 2 schedule of the ‘| assets and liabilities in the estate of H. M. Goebel and John Goebel & Co., Grand Rap- ids; Smith, Cook & Co., Kalamazoo, and H. M. Goebel & Co., Battle Creek, from which it appears that the liabilities are $58,343.85, divided among the four stores in the follow- ing amounts: Canal mireet store. 3. $16,361.49 South Division street store............ 674.85 Battle CUrece store. 40.63 Mmlamnzoe SEOFG 11,266.89 The assets are appraised at $43,346.23, divided among the four stores imthe follow- ing amounts: H. M. GOEBEL. Cost Appraised Value Value Oe $16,119.61 $11,764.34 URGES | gaaceo 241.86 Goods attached.............. 925.44 841.31 " a Kent street........ £487.24 3,892.16 Bay View 106.00 125.00 100.00 Svock Nason Lumber Co..... 1,800.00 1,800.00 “* New Eng. Furn. Co.... 2,259.00 2,250.00 Accounts receivable......... #,969.41 4,601.47 Cash balanes. 314.96 314.96 Stock at house............... 200.00 159.00 JOHN GOEBEL & CO. Stock and fixtures...........$3,132.15 $ 2,262.53 * DasSement......_.. 3,242.89 2,837.52 Accounts receivable......... 665.91 640.75 H. M. GOEBEL & CO. EOC $3,323.44 2,522.58 PERAMECS 165.00 120.0e SMITH, COOK & CO, SOC $10,090.75 Accounts receivable. ....... 835.98 Mr. Goebel selected his exemption, cost- ing $310.17 and appraised at $250.03. Goods costing $925.44 and appraised at $841.31 were attached. The failure is attributed largely to the abandonment of the wall paper pool, which caused such a serious decline in the price of all grades of wall paper. ——— —< -0 2 Purely Personal. Frank O. Lord, the Grand Ledge grocer, is in town for a couple of days. J. H. Thaw has returned from Shady Side, where he spent the summer, and lo- cated at 29 North Ionia street. John G. Shields and family will leave about October 1 for Colorado Springs, Col.. where they will spend the winter. F. W. Schwartz, General Manager of the Fermentum Yeast Co., of Chicago, has been in town for a couple of. days inspecting the Grand Rapids agency. Dr. Chas. 8. Hazeitine has returned from Saratoga, N. Y., where he attended the annual convention of the National Whole- sale Druggists’ Association. L. F. Swift, Treasurer of Swiftand Com- pany, of Chicago, was in town last Wednes- day on his way to Muskegon to inspect the new plant of the corporation. Henry Strope, the Morley merchant and lumberman, is lingering in the shadow of the valley of death, on account of the injuries he received in a runaway last Mon- day. H. B. Hawley, the Westwood general dealer, was in town last week for the pur- pose of adjusting the claims held against him at this market. So far as learned, he was successful. Wm. E. Ramsay, of the Bradley-Ramsay Lumber Co., Lake Charles, Louisiana, ac- companied by his wife and son, are in the city, visiting Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Gifford, Jr. Mr. Ramsay was formerly of Saginaw, and is now one of the most prosperous lumbermen of Louisiana. $ 8,265.43 730.38 —— ~+._9?—s>_- Acknowledgement. W.H, Herrick, State Agent, Pacific and Acci- dent Ins. Co., Grand Kapids, Mich. DeEaAR Str—I take pleasure in acknowl- edging receipt of your check for $30 in set- tlement of my claim for injury to my ankle received while playing ball in Detroit Au- gust 25. I filed my claim to-day at your office and was agreeably surprised to re- ceive settlement of same immediately upon execution of proofs. Such prompt treat- ment of claims justly entitles the Pacific to the patronage of all who desire accident in- surance, and I shall take pleasure in recom- mending your company whenever the op- portunity is afforded. Yours truly, S. B. Morrison. —_—_ > Cheap Excursion Rates to Chicago. ’ The Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway announce very low excursion rates to Chicago and return for the Exposition. The round trip rate from Grand Rapids, in- cluding one admission to the Exposition, is only $5.15. Tickets will be sold on Tues- days, September 11th, f8th and 25th, Octo- ber 2d, 9th and 16th, good going on date of sale, and good to return up toand including Monday next following date of sale. The route of these tickets is via Grand Haven and the Goodrich Transportation Company to Chicago, and the price of the ticket includes berth on steamer between Grand Haven and Chicago in both directions. qq 2a _____ Card of Thanks. GRAND Rapins, Sept. 17, 1888. I wish to avail myself of the medium of THE TRADESMAN to return my heartfelt thanks to the many friends who have ex- tended a helping hand and expressions of sympathy to me in my great bereavement. Especially are my thanks due to the Grand Rapids traveling men, both at this time and at a previous occasion: to Spring & Com- pany and the employes of the house; to friends at Morley; and others, known and unknown, who have so kindly shown me such generous kindness. I shall never for- get them, even if words are too weak to express my gratitude. F. L. KeELvy. —-——. +4 <> _____ **Gage’s Saturday Gazette.” The first two issues of Gage’s Saturday Gazette fulfill the @laims set forth by the enterprising publishers previous to the in- auguration of theventure. Thetypograph- ical appearance of the paper is handsome and the contents are interesting and almost wholly original. Tue TRADESMAN sees no reason why Gage’s Saturday Gazette should not become a permanency. —_—