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The Michigan Tradesman.
r WOE, Gc
GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1889.
NO. 279.
F. J. DETTENTHALER,
JOBBER OF
Sad L
And Sait Pish.
Mail orders receive prompt attention.
Sce quotations in another column.
GRAND RAPIDS.
CASH SALE CHECKS.
Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of
running book accounts by using Cash Sate
@hecks. For saleat50 cents per 100 by F. A.
STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids.
Orders from Re-
Guaranteed Absolutely Pure.
tail Trade solicited.
Newaygo Roller Mills
NEWAYGO, MICH.
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A. J. BOWNE, President.
Gro. C. PIERCE, Vice President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier.
CAPITAL, - $300,000.
Transacts a general banking business.
Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts
ef Country Merchants Solicited.
DO YOU WANT A SHOWCASE?
SPECIAL OFFER-—tThis style of ovalcase; best
quality; all glass, heavy double thick; panel or
sliding doors; full length mirrors and spring hinges;
solid cherry or walnut frame, with or without metal
eorners, extra heavy base; silvetta trimmings;
6 feet long. 28 inches wide, 15 inches high. Price,
$11, net cash.
I makethe same style of case as above, 17 inches
high, from walnut, cherry, oak or ash, for $2 per foot.
WPoxing and cartage free.
D. ©. CODE.
21 Scribner St... Grand Rapids, Mich.
POTATOES.
We give prompt persona! 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 Cesired.
Wil. i THOMDSOL i (i,
OMMISSION MERCHANTS,
166 South Water St., CHICAGO.
Reference
FELSENTHAL, Gross & MiuLeR, Bankers,
Chicago. ‘
J. W. Welton’s Commercial College
_ This College offers the most extensive course of study
in business college branches at the most reasonable
terms. Do not fail tosend for a forty-page catalogue
giving full information in regard to course,tuition,etc.
Address
> ae :
Welton’s Commercial College,
23 Eountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
ACTUAL BUSINESS
PRACTICE ®t the Grand Rapids
Business College, Ed-
ucates pupils to transact and record business as
it is done by our best business houses. It pays
to goto the best. Shorthand and Typewriting
also thoroughly taught. Send for circular. Ad
= A. S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens-
ere.
Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co,
Importers and Jobbers of
Dry Goods
STAPLE and FANCY.
Overalls, Pants, Etc
OUR OWN MAKE.
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A COMPLETE LINE OF
Fancy Crockery and
Fancy Woodenware
OUR OWN IMPORTATION.
Inspection Solicited. Chicago and De-
troit prices guaranteed.
KDWIN PALLAS,
Proprietor of
Valley Gity Gold Storage.
Packer and Jobber of the Popular
Solid Brand
AND
Daisy Brand
OF OYSTERS.
Butter, Eggs, Sweet Potatoes,
Cranberries, Etc.
Sole Proprietor of
Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Mince Meat
Made of the best material. The finest
goods in the market. Price, 7 cents
per Ib. in 25 Ib. Pails.
Salesroom, No. 9 N. lonia Street,
GRAND RAPIDS.
WALKS - GOODYEAR
and Connecticut Rubbers.
THE PARAGON
Misses’ and Children’s, Heels and
Spring Heels.
G. RR. Mayhew,
86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.
TWO GREAT LEADERS
The above head-line does not refer to the great
leaders in the political parties, but to two of the
GREATEST SELLING Cigars on the market to-
day—namely:
Warren's Spcekled Havanas
AND THEIR RUNNING MATES
Warren's Silver Spots.
The ‘‘Speckled Havanas” for a Ten Cent Cigar
and the “Silver Spots’ for a Five Cent Cigar
stand without rivals wherever introduced. Ev-
ery dealer in Fine Cigars should secure these
two brands, as they are TRADE WINNERS.
Full particulars in regard to prices, terms, etc.,
ean be had by addressing
GEO.Y. WARREN & GO.
Mfrs, High Grade Cigars,
FLINT, MICHIGAN.
illers, Attention
We are making a Middlings
Purifier and Flour Dresser that
will save you their cost at least
three times each year.
They are guaranteed to do
more work in less space (with
less power and less waste)
in Ladies’,
than any other machines of
their class.
Send for descriptive cata-
logue with testimonials.
Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
KDMUND B. DIKEMAN
THE GREAT
Watch Maker
= Jeweler,
AL CANAL SY,
CREOLE STRAIGHT GUY.
To all Merchan's Handling Cigarettes:
‘A new era has been reached whereby all dealers
selling cigarettes may now make a larger profit
than heretofore on any other brand. The
CREOLE STRAIGHT CUT.
Which has recently been introduced into the
| State is becoming very popular, it being the only
| straight cut sold for five cents, thus giving tl
he
dealer a cigarette with which he may please all
classes of cigarette smokers. The same are nicely
put up in packages of ten and packed with ac-
tresses’ photos. There is also a variety of other
inducements, a notice of which is contained in
each package.
Give the CREOLE a trial and you will
find it a big seller.
Sold by all Grand Rapids jobbers, and mz
factured by
S. F. HESS & CO.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
Manufrs of High Grade Cigarettes.
REMOVED.
THE GRAND RAPIDS
PAPER BOX FACTORY,
W. W. HUELSTER, Proprietor,
Formerly located at 11 Pear! St., has been
removed to
81 & 838 Campau St.
Cor. Louis, where I shall have more room
and far etter facilities for the manufac-
ture of Paper Boxes.
All work guaranteed first class and at
the lowest rates. W eall for esti-
mates. Telephone
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And all dealers are invited to send sam-
ples and write for prices that can be ob-
tained in this market.
We do a COMMISSION BUSINESS
and our aim is to obtain the highest mar-
ket price for all goods sent us. Not only
BEANS
but also ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE.
We can sell as well as anyone.
We invite correspondence.
BARNETT BROS.,
159 So. Water St., CHICAGO.
SAFES!
Anyone in want of a first-class Fire or
Burglar Proof Safe of the Cincinnati Safe
and Lock Co. manufacture will find it to
his 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 Satety Deposit Co., Basement oi Wid-
dicomb Bik.
eer Sed & Ae
The Finest 5-ct. Cigar Manufactured.
LONG HAVANA FILLER.
THEY HAVE NO EQUAL.
A. S&S. DAVIS,
70 Canal St,, Grand Rapids, Mich.
BUY
Muscatine
Grand Rapids, - Mich.
Industrial School of Business
Is noted for THOROUGHNESS.
Its graduates succeed. Write
W.N. FERRIS,
Big Rapids, Mich.
ROLLED
OATS
IF YOU WANT
THE BEST!
THE HOUSE BEHIND THE TREES.
In 1874 I was in the habit of leaving
London ogeasionally to spend a night
with a friénd of mine who lived in a se-
cluded villa about twelve miles from
Hyde Park Corner. He was a literary
man and had acharming wife and two
children. Ourtalks were generally pro-
tracted to a late hour, and more than
once in summer we have risen from our
whisky and water and our tobacco, and |
pushing aside the curtains have seen the
light of dawn steal over the slumbering
valley and heard the cock crow from the
other side of the mist-breathing brook.
The “hours”? were delightfully irregular
in Yule’s establishment, and Mrs. Yule
never complained. If a confirmed bach-|
elor were ever to marry (which is absurd)
he ought to get just such a wife
she is.
Our conversation turned a good deal
upon that class of phenomena known as
the supernatural. Yule’s stock of ghost
stories was unusually copious. ‘There
was a spectre—audible but not visible—
in his own study; a former occupant had
committed suicide there, and sometimes
in the dead of night Yule affirmed that
he had heard a stirring on the carpet as
of adying man writhing in the agonies
of death. Yule had a theory about
everything, and used to argue in favor of
ghosts with much ingenuity, and some-
times toward 3 o’cloek in the morning he
has nearly sueceeded in convincing me
that a ghost was the most probable and
natural thing in the world—or out of it.
But, to confess the truth, lam rather
fond of marvels and seldom allow a good
one to to waste for lack of a little
credulity.
Yule had spoken several times of a
certain house in the neighborhood which
was said to be haunted, and we cherished
achronic fntention of going thither to
inspect the apparition. The road on
which the house stood made a/ sharp
bend, and it was only from the apex of
this bend that the dingy eastern gable
could be seen. The edifice itself was
otherwise concealed behind a sereen of
trees and bushes which had sprouted up
since the period at which it became
haunted. It stood on a low eminence
about eighty yards back from the high-
way. Broad, low meadows lay on either
side the ghostly precinets. There was a
earriage-drive winding up from the road
as
go
to the house door, but it had been so
long disused that turf and shrubbery
had overgrown it. At one corner of the
demesne a black signboard lurching for-
ward toward the passer-by informed him
in white lettering that the premises were
on sale for building purposes. But so
old and weatherbeaten was this sign-
board it seemed to forma part of the
natural order of things. and was as un-
noticeable as a dead tree would have
been. It only served to add to the pre-
vailing impression of human abandon-
ment which the whole place produced.
One June day, when the sky was ten-
der blue and the sun warm, I said to
Yule:
“Suppose we go over and investigate
that house behind the trees.”’
‘All right,’? Yule replied. ‘‘A good
innovation, too, to approach it by day-
light. I have always questioned the
conventional notion that ghosts were
visible only in darkness. I maintain
that a ghost is as liable.to appear to you
and me, at this present moment, say, as
at any other of day or night; for it is not
so much that they appear as that our
eyes are opened to behold them, and that
might occur at any time. Yes, let us be
off at once; Mrs. Yule and the kids shall
follow in acouple of hours with the luneh-
eon basket. And you'd better put this
ecandle-end in your pocket. Now come
along.’’
We set forth, but instead of approach-
ing the house by the road, we took a
short cut across the fields, and having
clambered over a couple of fences found
ourselves in athick and tangled planta-
tion of ragged trees. After fighting our
way through this for some time and com-;
ing to nothing, I inquired of my compan-
ion whether he had any idea where we
were.
“Not far from the heuse,” he an-
swered. This young forest covers what
was originally the garden belonging to
it. See, here are traces of former gravel
walks. Look there—that little flight of
steps; and yonder is the basin of the old
fountain. We shall be all right in a
minute.”’
We struggled forward, pushing aside
the branches and catching our feet in the
underbrush, and I was on the point of!
quoting something from Tennyson’s
“Sleeping Beauty,’? when Yule stopped
short and pointed.
Following the direction of his finger,
Isaw, between masses of foliage, a flat
wall rising directly across our path. It
was of a dull gray hue, but the. rains of
many seasons had tinged it with streaks
of mouldy green. Fragments of the
plaster had fallen here and there, dis-
closing the unsightly substratum of
brick. Thick grass of a peculiarly dark
hue grew along the base of the wall,
seeming to derive vigor from its decay.
We advanced alittle further and stood
almost under the eaves of the edifice we
had come to investigate. The panes of
the lower windows were mostly broken,
but had been replaced by boards, now
rotten. The upper wifidows were not
boarded up, but the dust wasso thick
upon them that they were no longer
transparent. In the very threshold of
the kitchen doorway (we were at the
back of the house) was ‘growing an elm
which could not have been less than
thirty years old. Its lower branches
were flattened against the wall, its upper
ones lay upon the roof. Circumventing
with some difficulty the eastern wing of
the house we came round to the front.
Here was a similar intrusiveness of un-
kempt vegetation; tall, shaggy shrubs
clung to the wall and seemed to peer
through the windows into the dark in-
terior. A low terrace descended to the
sweep of the carriage-drive; beyond the
land plunged again toward the road,
glimpses of which were visible through
the confusion of shrubbery. Along the
windows of the upper floor extended a
It
wooden baleony with carved railings.
was much decayed, and parts of it had
fallen. The main entrance of the house,
in front of which the carriage drive
ended, was at the western end. It was
embellished by a gabled porch, and was
reached by four stone steps. The door
itself was asingle slab of wood witha
rusty knocl hanging somewhat awry
upon any a year must have
any human hand had
that knoeker end rapped for ad-
against that mouldering but
ty door.
The genius of decaying loneliness
brooded over this house; though the sun-
rested upon it, it seemed to be in-
vested with a spectral gloom; there was a
stealthy hush about it, and a clammy
dinginess of aspect peculiarly repulsive.
No being with a heart still capable of
human sympathies had any right to be
lu. I
passed since
lifted
mitta
siill
ail
s
as
Shine
there. The walls were slowly rotting
beneath the influence of a curse; the
house was a corpse, affronting heaven
with its unburied squalor. But nature
was making vigorous efforts to give it
decent interment. She assaulted it with
winds and storms, with heat and cold;
she sapped its foundation with mould
and damp: she gnawed its timbers with
dry rot; she strangled it with the writh-
ing growth of rank and insolent vegeta-
tion. Her victory would soon be com-
plete, but meanwhile the potential en-
ergy of the conflict was in ugly contrast
with the dank and unwholesome stillness
that accompanied it, l which the soft
brightness of the June day, so far from
dispelling it, tended rather to enhance.
All the lower windows being barred
there was nothing for it but to attempt a
burglarious ascent to the upper story.
Returning to the back, we discovered an
iron hook projecting aboye one of the
window frames: by means of this hook
it was possible to reach the sill of an
upper window, and the rest waseasy. In
a few minutes we were standing, breath-
less and dirty, in what appeared to have
been a bedchamber. The privacy of the
haunted house had been invaded for the
first time in no one could tell how long.
The interior had been partially dis-
mantled and much defaced: heaps of rub-
bish lay here and there: there were holes
in the floor and the ceilings looked in-
secure. The arrangement of the rooms
was peculiarly bewildering. They were
none of them upon the same level; they
were of various sizes and the oddest
shapes. Socomplicated asystem of exits
and entrances I have never seen, and in
ane
Lit
addition to ordinary doorways there were
sliding panels in the walls admitting to
secret passages in the thickness of the
brick work. The house was a deliberate
system of ambuscades.
divest myself of the persuasion that
some appaling event was about to occur.
As weentered room after
untarily braced my nerves for the shock.
In those of the chambers that were not
wainscoted strips of wall paper dangled
downwards in ugly tatters. Yet the
house was not so ancient that the korror
of which it had been the scene might not
have occurred within living memory, if
indeed we had not ourselves been in some
What was yon-
way connected with it.
der stain upon the dusty floor? was it
fancy, or some indistinct recollection that
inspired us with the notion that we had
been present when it was made? Why
was it that, as we paced curiously hither
and thither, a footstep seemed to tread
behind us? and that each darksome cor-
ner into which we peered seemed but the
moment before to have been tenanted by
some lurking presence.
pany in these vacant rooms and empty
passages; the seeming solitude was a
guilty deception: we were dogged from
door to door, and, without exchanging
any words, we were careful not to pass
out of each other’s sight and reach.
From this floor we made an excursion
up a ladder into asort of cupola that
dominated the roof, and in which hung
a large, rusty bell. The wooden
piece to which it was fastened was so
much rotted by damp that when Yule
swung the bell on its pivot it seemed on
the point of giving way. We did not re-
main here long for there was still the
ground floor of the building to explore.
The cupola was directly over the well of
the staircase, which last was broad and
easy, the bannisters being handsomely
earvyed in brown wood. But it descended
into darkness. the boarding up of the
lower windows excluding the light. In-
to this darkness we stepped cautiously;
a damp, torpid air breathed upon us, and
the walls when our outstretched hands
came in eontact with them felt cold and
slimy. took out the candle-end I had
brought and lighted it. Thecircle of its
illumination was small, and the shadow
of the hand that carried it prevented our
seeing the floor immediately under our
feet; nevertheless, it was some safe-
guard. But the shifting glimmerings it
cast along the walls, and the strange as-
pect it gave to ordinary objects, kept our
nerves on the alert. The general char-
acter of these rooms was similar to that
of the upper ones. In a corner of the
dining-hall we found a large heap of
dusty papers which, upon examination,
proved to be carefully-executed drawings
of buildings in India. A draught of air
coming through an aperture in the wall
sighed through the room and rustled the
papers on the floor. On the back of one
of the sheets we deciphered a name,
written in faded ink, ‘‘Colonel Robert
Ilgode.’’
Yule seemed impressed by this discov-
ery. ‘I have heard that name before,”’
he remarked, “and in connection with
this very spot; ’tis an odd confirmation !’
“Confirmation of what?’ I asked.
‘Well, it is not a long story, and it
could nowhere be so fittingly told as here
where it is said to have happened. Let
us go back to the ante-room and sit down
on that pile of lumber, and there you
1 could searcely
room I invol-
There was com-
cTross-
shall hear it, if you like.’’
The chief visible feature of this ante-
room was the large hole in the center of
the floor. The planks seemed to have been
hacked through with an ax, and the work
bore signs of violence and haste. Into
the black pit beneath we could not pen-
etrate, and I docbt whether either of us
would have much cared to doso. We
seated ourselves near the brink of the
hole and set the candle on the floor. Yule
then fixed his gaze upon the wavering
flame and communicated to me the fol-
lowing facts:
‘Colonel Ilgode was the last occupant
of this house. He was young for his
rank, and his career in India had been
brilliant. Our venerable friend, Dr.
Carbunele, who saw him once, tells me
he was a strikingly handsome man—tall,
erect, with black eyebrows and Napo-
leonic mouth and chin. He married the
beauty of the day, a certain Beatrix
Mornington. It was the general opinion
that Ilgode was alucky man. But some
very queer stories had followed him home
from India. A man who is handsome at
forty-eight may have been handsomer
still at five-and-thirty, and perhaps more
reckless and impassioned. And some
Indian women are ravishingly beautiful
and fascinating in a degree we can
scarcely conceive of in this climate. Add
to this that the Colonel was rumored to
have killed an Indian prince for no os-
ttensible reason, and you will know as
much as was ever known about the ro-
mantic secret of his Indian career.
‘After he and his wife had occupied
this house in apparent felicity for a year,
Mrs. Ilgode’s mother fell dangerously ill
and the daughter went to London to take
eare of her. The Colonel drove her into
town in his carriage and pair, returning
the same day. He then took the singular
course of dismissing all his servants,
with the exception of a valet whom he
had brought with him from India. Not
many days after this general house-
clearing, however, the report went about
that the Colonel and his valet were not
the only oceupants of the place. A
countryman passing along the road late
one night heard a female voice talking at
a high and furious pitch and in a strange
tongue, and saw through the lighted win-
dow two figures in violent altercation.
Suddenly the light was extinguished, the
balcony window was burst open and a
struggle seemed to be going on there,
though whether the Colonel were trying
to throw the woman out or to prevent
her from throwing herself out, the spec-
tator could not tell. After a few min-
utes the struggle ended, the window was
closed, and all was still.
‘After this sort of thing had gone on
for about three weeks and had got to be
the whispered topic of the neighborhood,
the Colonel was. seen one afternoon
driving rapidly toward London in his
carriage and pair. It was midnight be-
fore he returned, and then he was seen
by only one person. This was a boy who
had been setting snares for rabbits in the
adjoining grounds and who was hiding
behind a clump of bushes opposite the
house entrance. He saw the Colonel
drive up the avenue, the wheels crunch-
ing along the graveled track, and pull up
his horses at the door. Mrs. Ilgode sat
beside him. ‘The Colonel got donw,
mounted the steps of the porch, beat a
tattoo with the knocker, and then re-
turned to the carriage and helped his wife
out. She went up the steps and when
she reached the highest turned to speak
to her husband. At that moment the
door opened anda strange black-haired
woman. looking, as the boy expressed it,
more like a gipsy than a Christian, ap-
peared on the threshold. .She held some-
thing in her right hand; a flash anda
sharp explosion eame from it and Mrs.
Ilgode, without uttering a word, fell
back down the steps. The Colonel bent
over her, lifted her in his arms and stag-
gered into the house, carrying her. _o<—____—-
exclaimed a
‘*What is
>
is not
“its
If a word spoken inits time is worth
one piece of money, silence in its time is
worth two.
How New York Merchants Catch Shop-
Lifters.
Correspondence Chicago News.
The New York merchant has found a
means of circumventing the Christmas
shop-lifter, who has long been the bane
of his existence. There is in the big
shops during the two weeks at the end
of December one vast, turbulent sea of
struggling females. Not only are New
York’s million of inhabitants shopping,
but Brooklyn’s 700,000 are added to the
mass, and the millions who live in close
contiguity to the metropolis stream in
from Hoboken, Jersey City, Williams-
burg, and the myriad towns and villages
that lie within a few hours’ ride of us.
The crush and struggle in the big haber-
dasher shops is something terrible, the
clerks are cruelly overworked, and neces-
sarily great quantities of goods must lie
upon the counter in great confusion.
Every element is in favor of the shop-
lifter, and she never fails to improve her
opportunities. In the private office of
the owner of one of the largest shops in
New York, the head of the firm told me
that he had for the past seven years lost
at Christmas time goods to the ameunt
of over $3,000 by this light-fingered
gentry.
“But. said he, “I think we have
found a means of at least checking this
great leak. The shop-lifter who habit-
ually steals is suppressed by this method
and those just beginning in their career
are frightened by it into reform. All
the merchants are adopting it. It was
my idea, but I was glad to give it to the
others, and now we circulate between
one another a black-list of habitual of-
fenders, that the professionals are
finding this a pretty hard season. Here
comes one of them now,’’ he said, as a
large, stern-looking man appeared in the
so
doorway, accompanying a well-dressed
woman, who looked half sullen, half
frightened.
“The same thing, I
proprietor.
“Yes,’’ said the large man, who proved
to be one of the firm’s detectives, and a
very acute and active one. ‘‘She an
old hand. ‘This is the third time she has
been caught in the act. It was handker-
chiefs at the bargain counter this time;
the time before it was Christmas cards,
and the time before that jewelry.”’
“Tt isn’t true,’”’ said the woman, fierce-
ly. ‘It’s alla mistake and V’ll make you
smart for this.”’
“There are two clerks outside as wit-
nesses,’’ explained the detective, loftily,
to the proprietor, totally ignoring the
woman.
“Pl) pay for the handkerchiefs,”’
she somewhat more humbly.
“No, madam,’’? answered the proprie-
tor: ‘‘we don’t care for your custom. It’s
too expensive. All we wish is that you
should sign this paper.”
The woman took it reluctantly, read it
over, and flew into a fury, declaring she
would never put her name to such a doc-
ument. After some persuasion, however,
accompanied with a clear statement of
the alternative of arrest and imprison-
ment, she put her name to it and was
conducted to the door of the shop by the
detective. Then the proprietor let me
read the paper she had signed. It ran
like this:
“J, the undersigned. hereby confess that 1
suppose,’’ said the
is
said
) pon
’ 24 day of December in 1888 I stole handker
chiefs and other small articles from the dry
goods shop of——and was arrested with these
articles in my possession. I make this confes-
sion with full knowledge and understanding
that it is to be used against me if ever I again
set foot in said shop. Mrs. Frances S—
‘«__9th Street, New York City”’
Then he folded it up and. slipped it
into a pigeon hole of his desk, where
were some twenty more papers of the
sort. ‘‘All similar confessions,’ he told
me, and that as soon as @ Woman signs
one of these papers her nameis furnished
to the general black-list of the dry goods
men, and the floorwalker at the door re-
ceives a description of her, so that when
she appears he suggests to her in a low
tone that she had better make her pur-
chases elsewhere. The proprietor went
on to say that the fact of these confes-
sions being in his hands had terrified the
shoplifters to such an extent that he
found his losses this holiday season
diminished by one half as compared with
previous years. His floor-walkers hag
been shown the women who had been de-
tected and they warned them out of the
shop whenever they entered it, and he
found the plan to work better than to
prosecute the offenders—in the first place,
because nota few of the signatures on
the documents in his possession were
names that he did not wish to drag into
the law courts, but that old offenders, as
soon as they got out of jail, came back,
and he had it all to do over again, where-
as while he had their signed confessions
they kept out of the way.
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Food for Thought.
Everything good in man leans on what
is higher.
Not all a man’s millions ean buy a mo-
ment’s delay.
If thou tellest thy secret to three per-
sons ten know it.
The boneless tongue,
weak, can crush and kill.
The tongue destroys a
than does the sword.
The camel desired horns and his ears
were taken from him.
The way to get out of a very small
place is to be very efficient in it.
It is probably the attention paid it that
makes the weather-vane.
Two pieces of coin in one bag make
more noise than a hundred.
The doctor who prescribes gratuitously
gives a worthless prescription.
If aman has brass he can get
with a very moderate supply of tin.
Man sees the mote in his neighbor’s
eye, but knows not the beam in: his
own.
The power of concentration is one of
the most valuable of intellectual attain-
ments.
snrall and
so
greater horde
along
The Michigan Tradesman
Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.
Retail Trade of the Wolverine State.
&. 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.
a
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23,1889.
MUST ACT IN FIVE WEEKS.
‘che business men of Michigan now
until Mareh 1 to
they want to put into operation the in-
have decide whether
surance plan devised by the Insurance
the
Men’s Association and approved by the
Board of
if they want it, they must put their
Committee of Michigan Business
Executive that organization.
hands down in their pockets for $100,000,
as a guarantee that they will patronize
the that
these who do patronize it will get the in-
company and as a guarantee
demnity they pay for, in the event of a
loss. Wealthy men stand ready to ad-
vance the necessary amount, confident
that the investment would be a good one,
but THE TRADESMAN prefers to see the
men who will furnish the business for
the company hold the stock.
THE SENATE TARIFF BILL.
The Senate is making such progress
with the revenue bill as indicates that it
can be passed and sent to the House
within the time agreed upon. It is true
that the sugar, wool and lumber sched-
ules, which still await discussion, are
among the most important in the bill and
the most likely to be attacked by the
minority. The fish has been
much improved by placing fresh fish of
all kinds under a duty of half acenta
pound. At present it comes in free of
duty even when preserved by ice, which
was not the intention of the authors of
the present duty. The committee which
drafted the Senate bill proposed a duty
of half a cent on fresh fish preserved in
ice. whereupon Mr. Plumb objected that
this was a discrimination in favor of the
seaboard States, as they still would get
fresh fish free of Cuty. The represent-
atives of the seaboard States were very
glad of the suggestion. They agreed to
put freshly caught fish under the same
duty as refrigerated fish, when it is the
take of Canadians or other foreigners.
So all Canadian fish will be under a duty
sufficient to counteryail the bounties paid
Canadian fishermen out of the Halifax
schedule
award.
As to
Senators are disposed
free list,
a few of the Western
io put it on the
to please the farmers. One
Minnesota and one Kansas Senator are
believed to favor It ought to be
easy for the managers of the bill to show
that the repeal of the duty would effect
no cheapening of lumber to American
lumber,
this.
consumers. It merely would enable the
Canadian government to charge the
higher rent for its timber lands, and thus
divert the duty out of our treasury into
that of the Dominion.
The cpposition of these Senators to the
lumber duties probably will the
weaker, as they have been propitiated in
matter Mr. Allison and
his committee have agreed to supplement
the reduction of the sugar duties by a
bounty on home-grown sugar of all kinds.
Mr. Plumb is confident of the fu-
Kansas as a sugar-producing
be
the of sugar.
very
ture of
State, and every
lighted to see his
A bounty will not
but if the experiments with sorghum at
Fort Scott are any indication of indus-
trial possibilities, it may not be needed
permanently. The West may soon sup-
ply our whole sugar demands at a lower
price than we ever have had sugar from
the cane.
One of THE TRADESMAN’s exchanges—
which is evidently not familiar with the
history of the beet sugar industry of
Europe—thinks to give edge to a sneer at
the proposal by instancing France asa
country where the people consume sugar
produced under a bounty. The beet sugar
consumed in France, Germany and Aus-
tria-Hungary gets now not a penny of
bounty from the government. Under the
stimulus of the bounty system begun by
Napoleon, but long ago as
needless, the production of beet sugar
on the continent of Europe has become a
vigorous and independent ,industry. It
has driven cane sugar out of the field,
and, instead of getting anything from
the government, it contributes its full
share to the taxes. To stimulate its ex-
port, France and several other nations paid
an export bounty which was merely a re-
mission of taxation. It was this policy
which nearly ruined the sugar-refining
business of Britain, drove cane
sugar out of that market, and led the
present British ministry to secure an
agreement that no more such bounties
should be paid. It effected this by a
threat of discrimination against such
patriot would be de-
expectations realized.
be easily administered,
abolished
Grea
sugar-producing countries as would not
sign the agreement. No doubt it was
these ‘‘bounties’?’ which led our contem-
porary into its mistake.
A SWEEPING DECISION.
The decision of Judge Barrett, of the
Supreme Court of New York—to which
reference was made by THE TRADESMAN
last week in a reference to the sugar
trust—is one of the most important
judicial acts of our time. The points
raised by the defense were that the acts
of the stockholders of the company were
not the acts of the corporation itself,
that there was no law against the consol-
idation even if the corporation were held
responsible for it, and that certain acts
of the state did authorize consolidation
of corporations. The Judge overruled
all of these pleas. He refused to make
any such distinction between an agree-
ment of stockholders and one of the cor-
porations themselves. He showed that
the law forbade consolidation except for
certain specified purposes and within
specified limits. And he declared the
present consolidation was not one of
those the law had contemplated. In
fact, it was inherently unlawful, as tend-
ing toward amonopoly such as it is the
public interest to prevent. He said:
It is not acase where a few individ-
uals in a limited locality have united for
mutual protection against ruinous com-
petition. It is the case of great capital-
ists uniting their enormous wealth in
mighty corporations and utilizing the
franchises granted to them by the people
to oppress the people. First, they util-
ize the corporate franchises to guard
themselves against the dangers incident
to personal association; and second, they
centralize these franchises in a single,
gigantic and irresponsible power fur-
nished with every delegated facility for
regulating and controlling at will, not
only in the State, but throughout the
entire country, the production and the
price of a particular and necessary arti-
cle of commerce. When I say an irre-
sponsible power, I mean no reflection
upon the gentlemen personally in whom
the power is vested. I mean a body of
individuals who, in their trust capacity,
are entirely outside of the corporate
being. and are subject to no legislative
power. Combinations that were pigmies
in comparison with the present have been
repeatedly denounced by the courts and
pronounced to be unlawful, as tending
to breed monopolies.
In conclusion, he pronounced for dis-
solution of the company and forfeiture
of its charter. Of course, the several
partners could go on as a partnership in
the business of refining sngar, but only
on the basis of unlimited responsibility
for the debts and obligations of the com-
pany. They would be exactly in the
position of the stockholders of the Glas-
gow Bank, if the company should fail.
Nobody can tell what will be the final
outcome of any suit prosecuted before
the complicated court system of New
York, until several courts have been
heard from. This case has been ap-
pealed from the ‘‘Supreme’’ to the Court
of Appeals of the State, and in the
meantime the defendants go on with their
business on the present footing until they
are assured that appeals are of no use.
But the adverse opinion of so ablea
jurist as Judge Barrett, and the weight
of authorities and precedents with which
he sustained it, have caused no small
consternation to the members of this and
other trusts. This is a gratifying result,
as is the evidence which the decision fur-
nishes that the whole question of trusts
can be disposed of in a legal way.
Judge Tuley of Chicago has decided
very properly that the Anarchists have
the same rights of free speech as other
people, so long as they do not abuse it
by the direct incitement of crime.
the Haymarket tragedy there has beena
very strong feeling among the orderly
classes against the party, and the police,
who were the sufferers,
steps to prevent their obtaining the use
of any hallinthecity. Judge Tuley finds
that the present constitution of the As-
sociation contains nothing which points
to the use of violence for the overthrow
of the social order; and he declares that
under the Bill of Rights in the State con-
stitution they have the same right to
meet for the peaceable diffusion of their
principles as any other body of citizens.
He declines to place this natural right of
free speech at the mercy of policemen
who might happen to regard the objects
of a meeting as treasonable.
This is not only the justest but the
most prudent disposal of the matter.
Nothing would be gained by driving the
Anarchists to secrecy. If they still
think murder a justifiable instrument of
reform, they would not abandon it be-
cause they found there was one law for
them and another for other men. They
merely would make their preparations
under the cloak of greater concealment,
and the kind of evidence on which Spies
and his associates were hung would not
be forthcoming. It was their speeches
at public meetings which proved their
responsibility for the Haymarket mur-
ders. And as for making converts, ex-
perience has shown that secret and pro-
hibited societies grow more rapidly ‘than
any other. Their position as outlaws
makes membership in them attractive to
a great number of ill-regulated minds.
The Camorra and the Carbonari counted
their membership by myriads and drew
Since
especial took
upon all ranks in the social scale below
the highest.
HOW TO CURTAIL CREDIT.
The Morley B. M. A. has appointed a
special committee to devise some plan to
eurtail the credit business of that town
by shortening the time usually allowed
in credit transactions. The committee is
a unit in the belief that settlements
ought to be made as often as once a
month, but is confronted by the deplor-
able fact that most of the people insist
on taking a year or more to adjust their
accounts. How to bring about the re-
form without inducing unnecessary fric-
tion is the problem now seeking solution
at the hands of the committee.
It occurs to Tur TRADESMAN that
some of its readers may have met with a
similar experience and thus be able to
throw some light on the subject. Those
who can offer suggestions in the prem-
ises are invited to do so, to the end that
all of the afflicted may be_ benefited
thereby.
Morley evidently has a man who re
sembles Chauncey Depew in his liking
for a banquet, if the following extract
from the proceedings of the last meeting
of the local B. M. A. is any criterion:
John Pierdon offered the following resolution:
WHEREAS, A year has rolled around since our
last banquet: therefore,
Resolved, That we again banquet.
The directness manifested in the word-
ing of his resolution shows that either
Mr. Pierdon is very hungry or else he
has a brotherly feeling for the other
members of the Association. If the
second annual banquet of the Morley B.
M. A. proves to be as successful an event
as the first one was, the members will
have good grounds for congratulating
themselves.
AMONG THE TRADE.
GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
sueceeded in the ma-
the Dodds Ma-
Alex. Dodds is
chinery business’ by
chine Co. a
Olney, Shields & Co. have begun suit
against B. F. Reed & Sons, of Montague,
for $296.77.
Tournell & Co. succeed Peterson Bros.
in the grocery business at the corner of
Fifth and Stocking streets.
Geo. W. Reed has re-engaged in the
grocery business at Stanwood. Hawkins
& Perry furnished the stock.
Morris H. Treusch & Bro. have rented
the store at 46 Ottawa street, formerly
occupied by the Telfer Spice Co., and
will take possession of the same about
Marchi. The firm will discontinue the
retail devoting themselves
entirely to the jobbing trade. Morris
will buckle on the armor again and saun-
ter forth on the road.
business,
At the annual meeting of the Grand
Rapids School Furniture Co., the old di-
rectors were re-elected for the ensuing
year and the directors, in turn, re-elected
the same officers which have served the
company sinee its inception. The past
year has been a very successful one with
the corporation and the coming year
promises to be even more so.
George G. Steketee & Co. will open a
branch drug store on the corner of Turner
and West Leonard streets, under the
management of Albert G. Steketee and
Dennis Baker. John G. Steketee and
George G. Steketee, Jr., enter the firm
and will be found at the main store, 84
Monroe street. The Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co. furnishes the stock for the new
store.
AROUND THE STATE.
Benton Harbor—E. H.
opened a jewelry store.
Hudson—E. J. Williams,
maker and dealer, is dead.
Manistee—Louis Sands has closed up
his general store until April 1.
3erlamont—E. H. Luce succeeds Burk-
holder & Luce in general trade.
Northport—Ludwig Selig succeeds Se-
lig & Barth in the meat business.
Morenci—John Hanna succeeds Downer
& Hanna in the harness business.
Northville—J. R. Carson has assigned
his general stock to E. K. Simonds.
East Saginaw—Samuel J. Scott
sold his grocery stock to H. J. Weil.
Chelsea—Jabez Bacon has sold his
hardware stock to H. S. Holmes & Co.
Mackinac Island—Geo. T. Arnold has
sold his grocery stock to James Doud.
Warren—Cartwright & Danes succeed
Oliver Barton in the grocery business.
Jackson — Geo. S. Dewey succeeds
LeLain & Dewey in the drug business.
Alma—H. L. Lockwood sueceeds Lock
wood & Moore in the grocery business.
Bronson—P. A. Buck has sold his
building and groceries to Frank Norton.
Detroit—N. P. Raths & Bro. succeed
N. P. Raths & Co. in the grocery business.
Marshall— Snyder & Pryor succeed
Thomas Rollinson in the furniture bus
iness.
Sunfield—J. H. Rose has sold his har-
ness to Mr. Terrill, late of
Muir.
Escanaba—The mortgage on the John
G. Walters grocery stock has been fore-
closed.
Mt. Clemens—Ackert & Essig succeed
Anthony Leach in the grocery and saloon
business.
Goldman has
the harness
has
business
Petoskey—W. S. Canfield’s oyster and
fish stock has been foreclosed on chattel
mortgage. i
Manistee—E. P. Snyder is closing out
his boot and shoe stock and will remove
to Tacoma.
Eaton Rapids—Geo. Seaman has sold
his confectionery stock to T. A. Brown,
late of Charlotte.
Saginaw City—L. Chappell has opened
a confectionery 4nd grocery store at 410
Genesee street.
East Jordan—F. J. Cutter’s confection-
ery and restaurant has been elosed on
chattel mortgrge.
Pontiac—Joseph Nusbaumer has sold
his grocery and provision business to
Jno. Kallenbach.
Manistee—Fred. W. Cron has sold his
half-interest in the upholstering business
of Cron Bros. to A. Baumann.
Wexford—J. A. Purvis has sold his
hardware stock to Geo. Cook and will
engage in the same business at Manistee.
Grand Ledge— Geo. H. Sheets has
bought the clothing stock of G. B. Gris-
wold. The latter continues in general
trade.
Nunica—J. J. Wiseman has sold his
grocery stock to Jubb & Needham, who
will continue the Mr. Wise-
man intends removing to Oregon.
Davisburg—James McKibbin, who has
been in the grocery business here for the
past ten years, has traded his store and
stock of goods to Mr. Newman, taking a
farm in payment.
Hastings—E. Y. Hogle has sold his
grocery stock to Spary E. Phillips and
Will Fuller, who will continue the bus-
iness under the style of Phillips &
Fuller.
business.
STRAY FACTS.
Dimondale—H. M. Towsley is buying
grain again.
Muir—Z. Chase has bought W.
Burden’s harness stock for $600.
Dimondale—D. R. French has bought
We
I. D. North’s agricultural implement
stock.
Detroit—Wayton & Rogers are suc-
ceeded in the plumbing business by the
Western Plumbing & Heating Co.
Red Jacket—All the business men in
ted Jacket except one firm agreed to
close their stores at 8 p.m. Yelowstein
& Sons held out, but the other night the
salesmen of all the other stores armed
themselves with ‘‘twofers,’? Houghton
“‘Stinkers’’ and “Karly York Fillers,’’
and, taking possession of the Yelowstein
store, literally smoked the customers out.
They affirm that they will keep it up un-
til the firm surrenders or the bad cigars
have disabled the assaulting forces.
Cheboygan—D. H. Moloney created a
stampede to his grocery store last week
by lighting a big candle and soliciting
guesses to how long it would burn.
There were 9,878 guesses recorded, and
twenty-five were given. J.
Clune, formerly of Traverse City, won
the first prize, guessing to a second the
exact time, which was 105 hours,
minutes, 30 seconds. The prize was
a handsome gold watch. Another party
guessed within one second and took sec-
ond prize. The guesses ranged all the
way from nine hours to 1,000.
St. Johns—The Republican is responsi-
ble for the following:
Gripsack Brigade.
Walter E. Cummings is visiting the
Detroit trade this week.
Scott S. Swigart is putting in a couple
of weeks in the Saginaw Valley.
W. W. Tenney is working the city
trade this week for the Newaygo Roller
Mills.
Both of Jas. N. Bradford’s children are
ill with malarial fever, his wife having
barely recovered from an illness of the
same nature.
Geo. F. Owen is spending the week in
Detroit, arranging his sample trunks—in
case he decides to allow Stanton, Samp-
son & Co. to remain with him another
year.
Geo. F. Owen requests Tnr TRADES
MAN to state that any traveling men who
wish their friends invited to the fifth an-
nual social party should send in their
names to him without unnecessary de-
delay.
Chas. B. Elliott, formerly traveling
representative for the Haney Manufac-
turing Co. in the State of Kansas, is in
town for a few days as a witness in the
suit brought by Haney against Messrs.
Perkins, Hess and Peregrine, of the Grand
Rapids School Furniture Co.
Arrangements have been made with
the Women’s Exchange to furnish a sup-
per the night of the annual dance for 75
cents per plate. The supper will be
served in Elk’s hall, directly below the
armory, where the dance will be held.
The announcement in last week’s
paper of the marriage of Perley W. Hall
to Mrs. Almira Lamereaux was without
authorization on the part of Mr. Hall,
being the outcome of a practical joke
perpetrated by a couple of Benton Har-
bor gentlemen, who went so far as to
have printed and circulated 300 an-
nouncements of the ceremony. Perley
says he enjoys a joke as much as anyone,
but he’d rather be allowed to send out
the invitations to his own wedding, when-
ever the time arrives for that event to be
celebrated.
22> ___-
Bank Notes.
M. B. Divine has disposed of his bank-
ing business to the Belding Savings Bank.
Frank L. Fuller, proprietor of the
Northern Kent Bank, at Cedar Springs,
was in town one day last week.
The banks belonging to the local clear-
ing house have agreed to charge all cus-
tomers for exchange on and after Feb-
ruary 1.
Fred H. Clark has severed his connec-
tion as book-keeper with the Second
National Bank of Owosso. Heis not yet
fully decided as to his future movements.
The Second Wational Bank of Ionia
has gone into voluntary liquidation. The
business will be continued by Geo. W.
Webber and A. J. Webber the
style of Webber Bros.
Corunna Independent: J. D. Leland,
having resigned his position as Cashier
of the First National Bank, refused to
accept the position of Assistant Cashier,
to which he was elected, and thereby
severs his entire connection with the
bank. Mr. Leland actively
connected with the the
nineteen years.
—— <<
Sherwood Srarts a B. M. A.
SHERWOOD, Jan. 16, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR Sir—After a hard pull, I have succeeded
in getting united the business men and we want
the charter, constitution and full instructio&s
for joining the State B. M. A. Please send by
return mail, as we have another meeting on
Tuesday, Jan. 22, to perfect the organization.
Yours truly,
W. R. Manpico.
under
been
for
has
bank past
‘ i
1000 Cigars Free!
On or about April Ist, 1839, we propose putting a new
brand of cigars on the market which we shall sell to
the trade at $33 00 per thuusand. Now we want a NAME
for this cigar, and want it badly. Hence we make the
above offer of 1000 of these cigars (the first thousand
made) tu eny wholesale or retail dealer who will send
us an Original name that will be acceptable, subject to
the following conditions, viz.:
Ist. The NAME must be one that has never been used
for a cigar and one upon which we can get a trade-
mark patent.
2nd. The name must to us upona letter head, bill
head or card of the firm or member of the firm sending
it. The firm must bea bona fide retail or wholesale
piers in cigars. Names from all others will be re-
jected.
8rd. This name must not reach us later than March
15th, 1889, as the award will be made on March 3lst, or
as soon thereafter as possible.
4th. The award or salection of the name will be left
to a committee of three (3) consisting of the editors of
the following papers published in this city: The Flint
Evening Journal, The Wolverine Citizen, The Flint
Globe. We_ shall accept tne name __ selected
by this committee, andif upon investigation, we find
it has never been used asa cigar brand, we will for-
ward to the winner one thousand cigars by express,
charges prepaid.
5th. Should the committee select a name, that had
been sent to us by more than one firm or dealer, the
thousand cigars will go to the first firm or dealer
sending it, as all NAMES will be numbered in rotation
as received. No firm or dealer will be allowed to send
more than one NAME.
A postal card containing the award or selection by
the committee will be mailed to all contestants.
Address,
GEO. T. WARREN & co.,,
Mfrs. High Grade Cigars. Flint, Mich.
J. S. WALKER,
MANUFACTURER OF
PICKLES ax» CATSUPS,
And Jobber of
VINEGAR, PRESERVES and JELLIES.
I quote the trade the following rock bottom
prices on Pickles;
Medway i PRs ee ne
mween Gnerkin im bpls, 9 50
MEXed TODOS . 6 50
Eerse in @asks 45eale: 0 4 £0
Smal inbbis fo. _.. ... 5 eo
Guerin in bps 6 00 |
Medium, in half-bbls..... Ce
Sweet Gherkin, in half bbis..... 4%
Mixed : . . o 19
ae 3 00
Gherkin “ : __............... 4 a0
Chowcnow..... lo
These goods are sold on 30 days time and war-
ranted to be pure, home-made pickles. Satisfac- |
tion guaranteed or no sale.
J.S. WALKER,
P.O. Box 471. Grand Rapi:ls, Mich.
| yet reached in wri
‘* A Great Success.”’
From the East Jordan Enterprise.
D. C. Loveday is now using the credit
coupon system advocated by THe Micui-
GAN TRADESMAN. He pronounces it a
great suecess, and we would advise all
our merchants to look it up.
FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.
NC LNA NAAN ht that
Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one centa
word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.
FOR SALE.
e's SALE—STOCK OF CLUTHING AND GENTS’
furnishing goods, located in a good town of 1,300
people in southern Michigan. but one other place in
town handles clothing For particulars address “C &
T.” care Michigan Tradesman 357
tHATEST INVENTION OU's ENGAGE YOUR
A territory and realize a few thousand dollars
quickly and easily. Sample sixty cents. Remember
the above! E. A. Foster, inventor, Port Clintos:,O. 358
— EXCHANGE—GUOD ImérROVED FAKMS IN THE
beautitul and productive Republican Valley
county in Nebraska for merchandise of any kind. E.
W. Giles, Real Estate and Loans, Oxford Neb. 359
OR SALE-—STOCK O# DRUGS AND FIXTURES FINE
enough for any city. Invoice $1,800 to $2,000.
Will trade for Grand Rapids city or farm property.
Address, ‘‘ Druggist,” case Tradesman. 352
7 SaLE— DESIRABLE BAKERY AND CONFEC-
tionery establishment, including oven ana all
necessary fixtures. Seven years in trade. Good run
of custom. Correspondence solicited. Address No.
359. care Michigan Tradesman. 350
i. SALE— HOTEL IN GOOD RESORT TOWN, WITH
nineteen beds. House furnishea complete. Price
$3,500. $2,000 down, balance on time to suit. Poor
health, reason tor selling. Barn, 34x6@. Sam,le room
and livery office. 16x24, good livery. Mail and stage
line in barn. House paying $100 per month now. For
particular , address “ Hotef,”’ care Teadesman. 349
ao. SALE—OUR RETAIL STOCK OF GROCERIES
at 110 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. Goods are all
new. Thestand is in the best location in town and
ean be leased. Bemis Bros. 307
ie SALE—A CLEAN, WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF
A «general hardware, stoves and tinware. Tin shop
in connection. Will inventory about $6,000. Located
centrally and one of the best points for retail business
in the city. Good reasons for selling. Address Hard
ware, care Michigan Tradesman.
CE LOT ON ONE OF
frok. “SALE—GOOD RE
st pleasant streets ‘‘on the hill.”” Will ex-
Address 286,
O86
tock in any good institution.
Trades n 286
AT AT BARGAIN.
FOR EB Ar
F. Willams, Caledonia, Mich. 355
WANTS.
\ 7 ANTED—SITUATION BY RE
f cist. Reference. Add
7ISTERED PHARMA-
356
6, this office.
\ J ANTED-—A position as bookkeeper. Four years’
experience- Best of references given. Address
K., 63 Monroe St. 351
\ JANTED—TO EXCHANGE 100 ACRES OF TiM-
bered l+nd in Southern Illinois sor horses or
hardwood timber lands in Michigan or stock merchan-
dise. Address G., 226 Michizan s'reet, Chicago, *45
VW ANTED—TU EXCHANGE OR SELL a GOOD BUS-
iness property and stock of drugs. Real estate
consists of two frame stores well located for business
on corner. One store, 24 x 80, with nice living rooms
above. Other store, 20 x 60 (adjoining) one story.
Large lots with garden spot, barn, ice house,ete. Title
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ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.
Michigan Business Mon’s Associatien.
President—Frank Wells, Lansing.
First Vice President—H. Cham bers, Cheboygan.
Seeond Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo.
Seeretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand oa
easurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
es Board President: Cc. i. hitney, Muskegon;
Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell;
Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; Hiram DeLano, Allegan;
eretar
canes on Insurance—Geo. B. Caldwell, | Green-
villa; W.S. Powers, Nashville; Oren Stone, Flint.
Committee on Legislation—S. E Parkill, Owosso; H.
A. Hydorn, Grand Rapids; H. H. Pope, Allegan. !
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barne-, Trav erse
City: Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw; H. B. Fargo, Mus-
kegon. i / eo
i spor —James Osborn,Owosso;
mittee on Transportation James ¢ ;
oy F. Conklin, Grand Rapids; C. F. Bock, Battle
Creek. :
i Building and Loan Associations—Chaun-
Commtrong, Kalamazoo; Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids;
W. E. Crotty, Lansing.
Local Secretary—P. J. Connell, Muskeger.
Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
; i iliary associ 8 are Op-
The following auxiliary association 2 Op
erating under charters granted by the Michi-
gan Business Men’s Association:
No. i—Traverse City B. M. A. |
President, J. W- Milliken; Secretary, E. W- Hastings.
No. 2—Lowell #8. M. a
Secretary, Frank T. King.
turgis B. M. A.
President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn.
“No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A.
President, E. J. Herrick: Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
President, N. B. Blain; *
=
No. 3
5_Muskegon B. M.A. |
A. Miller; Secretary. C L. Whitney.
President, John
No. 6—Alba &. M. A. i
President. F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
President, T. M. Sloan: Secretary, N. H. Widger.
Pte ee AT
No. 8—Eastport B. M. A. |
President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.
ee
No. 9- awrent
Secretary, J. H. Kelly. _
xo. 10—Harber springs B. M. A.
President, W. J. Clark; Seeretary, A. L. Thompson. _
No.ii—Wingsley B. M. A. /
President. H. P. Whiovple: Secretary, G. W. Chanfty. _ |
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.
pee es
No, 13—ShermanL B. M. A
President, H. B. Sturtevant: Secretary, W- !
" § ceo M. A
No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A.
President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, Gc. Cc. Havens.
No. 15— Boyne City B. M, A.
President, R. R. Perkin ; Secretary, F.M.Chase. __
No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A.
President, J. V- Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco.
No. 17—Plainwell B. M. A.
President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No. 18—Owosso B. M.A.
President, Albert Todd; Secretary, Ss. Lamfrom.
—— Scie
a Austin.
eT
No. 19—Ada B. M. A.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
No. 20—Saugatuck B. M. A.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.
No. 2i1— Wayland B. M. A.
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
to. 22—G& ,dge B. M.A.
No. 22—Grand Ledg Se ite
Persident, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary,
No. 23—Carson City B. M.A
President, F. A. Rockafellow; Secretary, cG
No. 24—Merley B. —A.
President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond.
No. 25—Paie B. M. A.
n; Secretary, H. D. Pew.
President, Chas. B. Johnso
No. 26—Greenville }. M,. A.
President. 8. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.
President, E. - es Fisher:
pte ae es = Dozer.
President, Ey i reeport B. Me cesebrough.
President, Ka 30—Oceana B. Wo vioughtaling.
No. ‘lott
" Bailey.
1—Charlotte B. M. A.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson.
No. 33—Charlevoix &. ee
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Seeretary, R. W. Kane.
ee —-
No. 34—Saranzc B. WA
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, rE. By Williams. _
——No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A.
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C- E. Densmore.
Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M.A.
President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden,
No. 37—Battle treek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F. B : Secretary, E W. Moore.
ee ee
No. 38—S
Sttville B. ME. A.
9—Lawrence B. M, A. |
THE PLAN APPROVED.
The Executive Board Endorses the Report
of the Insurance Committee.
The Executive Board of the Michigan Busi-
ness Men’s Association met in the Pioneer hall
in the Capitol at Lansing last Wednesday morn-
ing, all the members of the Board being present
except Hiram DeLano of Allegan. The principal
feature of the meeting was the consideration of
the insurance project and all the members of the
Insurance Committee were present except Oren
Stone, of Flint. Stanley E. Parkill, Chairman of
the Legislative Committee, and O. F. Conklin, of
the Transportation Committee, were also present
at the meeting.
President Wells congratulated the Board on
the status of the State and local bodies, the
benefits already secured by both and the oppor-
tunities presented for future exertion.
The Secretary reported a balance of $162.75 in
his hands and in the hands of the Treasurer.
On motion of Mr. Whitney, the action of the
Secretary in the case of the Kalamazoo B. M. A.
was approved and he was authorized to receive
a half year’s dues from any association prefer-
ring to remit in that way.
The Eastport B. M. A. having ceased to exist,
the Secretary was instructed to request the
return of charter No. 8.
The following communication was read and
referred to the Committee on Insurance:
East SaGinaw, Jan. 15, 1889.
To the Executive Board, M. B. M. A.
Accepting your urgent request to have every-
body who has anything to suggest on the ques-
tion of the Michigan Business Men’s Insurance
Co.—that is to be—I give you my views, hoping
they will prove to be only one among many and
by mutual discussion be able to glean something
that will be of interest to all. While we recog-
| nize the difficulties in the way of forming an in-
surance company that will meet with the approv-
al of everyone and appreciate the Committee's
arnest efforts to frame something that will be
satisfactory to the business men and st the same
time guarantee him first-class protection, we
also feel that too much care cannot be taken to
start right.
Your plan would generally meet with our ap-
proval, but think that some of its features could
be improved on. One of the main objections to
your plan, as now proposed, is that you have no
limit to sales of stock to any one party or par-
ties. Anyone wanting to invest in good-paying
stock, such as you seem to think this would be.
could buy up a controlling interest and then
have the complete control of its management
without regard to the wishes of policy holders
or minority stockholders, thereby making it an
ordinary stock company and, perhaps, finally
pooling with other companies, when, as regards
insurance, we would be no better off than we are
now. What we would advise is to form a com-
pany as nearly mutual as possible and render it
impossible for any one person or clique of per-
sons to obtain control of its stock and manage-
ment. To do this we would suggest that the sale
of stock be limited to four shares to any one
person and if possible allow each policy holder
one vote, same as the stockholder; that its
officers be elected at each annual convention of
the Michigan Business Men’s Association—in
fact, have it as nearly as possible a Mutual
Michigan Business Men’s Insurance Co. We
think that this would, if properly conducted,
beget their confidence, insure their support and
prove a bond of mutual interest that would
unite the business men of the State; would give
first-class protection and prove a first-class bus-
iness venture.
We think a dividend of 7 to 8 per cent. on the
stock enough, as it is not the stock that we ex-
pect to get our benefits from but from the re-
duction in the cost of insurance by mutually
bearing its losses and participating in its profits
as policy holders—the stock being a secondary
consideration and a necessity in order to obtain
first-class protection. We think that the proper
plan would be to allow the stockholder a fair
rate of interest on his money, say 7 per cent.,
establish a reserve fund from the profits, said
reserve fund to be always in ratio to risks in-
curred, as has been proved necessary by insur-
ance statistics, the ratio to be determined by a
careful investigation of insurance history—the
balance, after providing for interest on stock
and establishing reserve fund, to be returned
pro rata to policy holders.
We would have all losses adjusted promptly
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 39 -Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
ee :
No. 40—ELaton Kapids B. M. A.
President, C. T. Hartson: Secretary, Will Emmert.
No. 41—Breckenridge B.M, A.
President, W. O. Watson; Secretary, Cc. E. Scudder.
No. 42—Fremont 3. M. A.
President. Jos. Gerber; Secretary Cc. J. Rathbun.
ili ci a :
No.43—Tustin B.M.A. __
resident, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, A. Lindstrom,
No. 4 eed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, Ww. H. Smith.
No. 45—Hoyiville B. M. A.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, oa. Halladay.
No. 46—Leslie B. M.A. |
President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B.M.Gould.
“No. 47—Flint M. U.
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W.H.Graham.
lini. sin :
No. 48—Hubbardston B. Mm. A.
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, Tabor.
No. 49—Leroy B M.A. |
President, A. Wenzell; Secretary. Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M.A. |
President, A. O. Wheeler secretary,C. Grannis.
No. 51—tedar Springs B. M. A.
President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W.-C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. 8. Kedzie
No, 53—EB
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary,
ellevue B. M. A.
John A. Xork
No. 54— Douglas B. M. A. i
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary. A. C Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor B. M.
President, N. W. D Seeretary, Geo. ¢
No. 57—Rockfora B. M. A.
President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
No. 58—Fife Lake R. M. A.
President, L. S. Walter; Secretar} , Plakely. —
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, P. S. Swarts.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. 4A.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
No. 61—Hartford B. M.A.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
No 62—East saginaw M.A.
President, G. W. Meyer; Secretary, C. Ww. Mutholand.
No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
President, C. x. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Be
», 64—Merrill B, M. A
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Alf. G. Drak etary, C. S. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M.
President, Frank Welis; Secretary, Ck
€ vliet B.] | a.
President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hail.
No. 68—Allegan B. M. A.
President, A. E. Calkins; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A.
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. S. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.
No. 71—Ashley B. M. A,
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, iO. ¥. Webster.
%o. 74—Davison M. U.
President, J. F. Cartwright ; Secretary. L. Gifford.
No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A.
President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A.
President, S. S. McCamly; Secret ry, Cha
No. 77—South Haven B. M. A.
President—C. J. Monroe; Secretary, S. VanOs
No, 78—Caledonia B. M. A.
President, C. F. Williams; Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
Noe. 79—_Mast Jordan and So Arm B.™. A,
President, Chas. F. Dixon; Seeretary, L. C. Madison.
No. 80_Bay City and W. Bay City E.M, A.
President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Geo. Craig.
Two Opportunities for B. M. A. Effort.
James Kelly, of Newark, Ohio, owns a boiler
works plant which he wishes to remoye to some
Michigan town. What town wants such an es-
tablishment?
The following advertisement appeared in a
recent issue of the Detroit Fre’ Press:
We are desirous of locating a factory for the
manufacture of a full line of bells and builders’
hardware in some enterprising city with good
shipping facilities. Correspondence solicited.
Address box 1,077, Battle Creek, Mich.
, Chauncey Strong. |
and paid at once, without waiting the sixty days
| customary in old line companies. This course
; would cause the Company to be regarded asa
| strictly honorable dealing one and would great-
| ly add toits popularity and the volume of its
| business,
| As regards your plan of having only a general
| office and no paid agents outside of that office,
| we think it would prove to be a hazardous ex-
| periment and would result in securing many
bad risks which would incur heavy losses to
the company. If the business be done through
one office, would suggest that the company have
traveling agents enough to visit each risk a
least quarterly. Would like better to have an
agent appointed by each local association to so-
licit risks, salary to be paid by commission on
business secured. We think in this way we
would have a man thoroughly acquainted with
each risk in his locality and would not be as
likely to take as many poor risks as in other
plan. Would secure the services of men of
known ability in insurance matters.
We think, then, that by having each policy
holder directly interested in the Company’s suc-
cess, we would be in the front franks of insur-
ance companies in a short time.
Hoping these suggestions may awaken interest
on this all important subject, causing a full dis-
| cussion, and that we may finally succeed in get-
ting a company satisfactory to all, lremain,
\ Yours truly,
| Jos. H. Moore.
The Secretary reported the receipt of an in-
yitation from the Grand Rapids Board of Trade
to appoint a committee to act jointly with a com-
mittee from that body and a similar committee
from Merchants and Manufacturers’ Ex-
change of Detroit in the preparation of an ex-
emption bill to supplant the present very im-
perfect and very unjust law.
The invitation was received and adopted,
when W.S. Powers, Frank Wells, Frank Ham-
ilton and E. A. Stowe were appointed such
committee. who will receive their traveling ex-
penses on the occasion of the joint meeting.
Chairman Caldwell then presented the report
of the Insurance Committee, which was put in
the hands of every association member in the
State, introducing at the same time a number of
letters and resolutions from local associations,
favoring the plan.
On motion of Mr. Hamilton, the report was ac-
cepted and the Secretary instructed to read it,
section by section. It was gone over carefully
and discussed at some length. But two changes
were made—‘ Present underwriters’ rates’? in
the third paragraph being changed to “current
rates of other responsible stock companies,” and
‘“ share and share alike,’’ in the same paragraph,
to“ prorata.”” The plan was then approved and
the Committee given until March 1 to see how
much subscriptions to stock cam be secured,
Mr. Hamilton offered the following resolution,
which was adopted:
the
Resolved, That the Insurance Committee be in-
structed to notify the local associations that the
insurance plan has been approved by the Ex-
ecutive Board, which has granted the Insurance
Comittee until Mareh 1 to secure subscriptions
for stock, and make the necessary arrangements
| preliminary to organization, and report the same
to this Board or to a mass cenvention to be held
at Lansing on or after March 1.
The following bills were presented and audited:
F, Hamilton, traveling expenses, $ 9 60
C. i, Whitney, 7 Q 5 5D
N. 3. Blain, 3 20
Geo. B. Caldwell, 3 05
W. 8S. Powers, 2 54
©. T. Bridgeman, 2 67
E. A. Stowe, S es (2) 7 00
Geo. B. Caldwell, postage, etc., 3 60
E. F. Grabill, printing circulars, 15 00
The advisability of holding amass convention
at Lansing some time during March was dis-
cussed, and the matter left to the discretion of
the President.
The meeting then adjourned,
During lhe afternoon session an adjournment
was taken for a short time to make a call on
Governor Luce and at the conclusion of the meet-
ing the President escorted the gentlemen to his
own beautiful home, opposite the Capitol, where
a hearty welcome and a toothsome spread awaited
the visitors. Governo Luce and daughter were
present by invitation and assisted the genial
President and his handsome daughter (both are
beautiful, but the elder one is meant this time)
in carrying out the programme. No vote of
thanks was necessary to attest the appreciation
of President Wells’ hospitality.
———_«
SOMEWHAT MIXED.
tatus of the Muskegon Association on
The Insurance Question.
From the Muskegon News, Jan. 17.
A number of business men yesterday in dis-
cussing the organizations in this city known as
the Muskegon Business Men’s Association and
the Muskegon Board of Trade, were deploring
the manifest lack of interest that the great ma-
jority of business men have, regarding the two
societies. ‘I see by the News,” said one of the
gentlemen “‘that the official organ of the Michigan
Business Men’s Association, THE MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN, in referring to the action and con-
clusion of a handful of gentlemen in this city re-
garding the insurance question, publishes it as
the action and expression of the business men of
Muskegon. Now we all know. that it is & fact
that the Business Men’s Association, comprising
nearly 200 members, has atits meetings but a few
members—not on the average a score, and when
the insurance matter was degided there were pres
ent but twelve or fifteen persons. Moreover, it
will be noticed that of those present, some of the
most active are theorists, rather than hustling,
hard knocking business men. Let ussee: Were
the live, very wide awake boot and shoe deal-
ers; the eager, active. shrewd, elothing mer-
chants: the successful dry goods merchant;
the progressive hotel men; any of the repre
sentatives of the grest lumbering and man
ufacturing interests- short, were the recog-
nized leaders of any of the many branches of
business that have made Muskegon a ‘hustling’
metropolis, present, when ‘the Muskegon bus-
iness men’ decided upon a Certain style or class
of insurance? The Association is a good one;
lama member of it, but insist that the action
of a few of the members on insurance the other
night should not be charged, or credited to the
business men of Muskegon. Of course, the ab-
sentees have no ground for ‘kicking.’ They
should have been present. J speak of the mat-
ter merely to show the apathy of the majority of
men when they become members of such organ-
izations. A few men ‘resolve,’ and ‘do,’ and
their action being acquiesced in is taken as the
action of the whole.”
-- The same,” said another gentleman, “ might
in a general way be urged against the rank and
file of the Board of Trade. This is an organiza-
tion that is capable of doing much good for the
city. Every business man in the city is aware of
this fact, and many of them became members.
The only evidence of their membership there-
after, however, is the appearance of their names
on the books. They never go near the meetings;
haye nothing to suggest—do nothing. tight
now is the time, when sites are cheap, and docks
may be obtained, to advertise this city to the
world, in view of planting here productive in-
dustries. No body of men or agency is as Capa-
ble of doing this successfully as 2 municipal
Board of Trade—an organization of the repre-
sentative business men. Muskegon has reached
that period when this advertising and push must
be accomplished. The old Board has been dis-
solved, expunged, dismissed, and with it all
obligations and credits balanced and the books
closed. A new Board is being organized, and
the business men are again asked to step in to do
whatever may be found necessary to be done.
If the new organization is but the ghost of the
one just prorogued, there is but little use of the
succession. The purposes of this new Board,
like that of the Business Men’s Association, are
for the best interests of the city, and it seems to
me that if it is worth any one’s time to subscribe
to its policy, he is personally pledged to carry
out that policy. I for one hope to see a renewed
interest in the new Board of Trade.”’
The committee appointed to draft or propose a
plan of reorganization will probably be ready to
report by the first of next week, when the chair-
man of the committee will call a meeting.
The gentlemen above quoted undoubtedly
voice the sentiment of a large number of busi-
ness men of this city. Nothing can be done by
such an organization unless each individual
member recognizes some personal responsibility
in the premises.
OPINION OF A MEMBER.
The following communication appeared in
the News of the 18th, from the penof M. C.
Kelley:
Permit me a few words in reply to THE Micur-
GAN TRADESMAN and your anonymous critic in
this morning’s paper, on the insurance question.
THE TRADESMAN basing its article upon your
account of the action of the Muskegon Business
Men’s Association, which was not quite full and
complete, proceeds in a very impolite and over-
bearing manner to crack its journalistic whip
over the heads of the Muskegon Association in a
way which would do credit to the former slave
drivers of the South. It complains that the
average Muskegonite is ‘‘forever unsatisfied.”
Thanks; we accept the compliment. Discontent
is. and always has been, the pioneer of progress.
it then complains that ‘the plan” submitted
by the State Association, which it claims has
been accepted by fifty associations throughout
the State (doubtless without discussion by ex-
perienced men), should be rejected by the Mus-
kegon Association, after full discussion, with
the assistance of all the insurance agents in the
city, who pronounced its statements untrue,
misleading, and the whole scheme a *‘snare and
a delusion.” Inits circular describing its plan
the State Association says: ‘If this does nat
satisfy you, and you can amend or offer a sub-
stitute, let us hear from you.” The Muskegon
‘Association would doubtless have this privilege
if not offered—then how insolent and insinuat-
ing is THE TRADESMAN’S Statement that the
Muskegon Association would be untrue to its
record if they did not reject the proposed plan
and substitute in its place a scheme of its own.”
Does THE TRADESMAN mean thatthe Muskegon
Association could do nothing but the perfunctory
duty of endorsing the scheme it so hotly cham-
pions, x scheme as full of holes as any riddle?
The Muskegon Association only recommended
that the State Association apopt a real ‘‘mutual
insurance plan,’ adapted to the whole State,
instead of the stock plan recommended, and
only as a dernier resort to forma mutual com-
pany for three counties. That such a company
would be better than any stock company is con-
clusively shown by the very report of the Citi-
zens’ Mutual of Kent, Allegan anda Ottawa
counties, printed by THE TRADESMAN. That re-
port shows that the losses paid by that company
during the year of 1888, only amounted $1.15 per
$1,000 insured, while the average rate of premi-
ums paid in all the insurance companies of the
State amounts to $13.20 per $1,000 insured. Fur-
ther comment is unnecessary.
As regards the number of business men present
at the meeting which rejected_ the State Com-
mittee’s plan, and recommended a mutual plan,
it is true that only fifteen or twenty members
were present, although adjournments had been
made to secure a larger attendance. This is not
true, however, of the insurance agents and
those interested in present established insurance
companies. They were out in force at every
meeting and did some lively kicking, using the
sume arguments which your anonymous critic
uses, and denouncing the plan and circular sub-
mitted by the State Association in the strongest
terms. The report, however, was unanimously
adopted by all present except the insurance
agents, who evidently thought the establishment
of any sort of insurance company would affect
the profits of their business, and therefore should
be opposed, ‘he result of that meeting would
without doubt be endorsed by nine-tenths of the
business men of the city if they could be got to-
gether for that purpose.
It is to be expected that insurance corporations
will oppose anything that is likely to compete
with their interests, and seek to impair confi-
dence inthe action of any number of business
men who seek cheaper insurance. From the
time of Alexander the coppersmith, to the last
railway syndicate, every vested interest, or as-
sociation of similar interests, has cried out
against anything which threatens their profits,
and if the insurance interests represented in
Muskegon can defeat the action of the Business
Men’s Association by sneers, innuendo and de-
preciation, or otherwise, they will doubtless do
so, and it only remains for the business men to
keep their eyes wide open and_ properly appre-
ciate the tactics resorted to, and not leave their
insurance interests to be throttled or defeated by
a trust or 2ssociation of insurance corporations.
The unfairness of Mr. Kelley’s statements and
the injustice of hisreferences to THE TRADESMAN
will be readily apparent to all. He assumes to
criticise the plan of insurance presented by the
Insurance Committee, and approved by the Ex-
ecutive Board, but refuses to accord THE
TRADESMAN the privilege of criticising the plan
substituted by the Muskegon Association—in
r $20,928
other words, he refuses to accord the same lat-
itude to THE TRADESMAN that he assumes for
himself.
Regarding the charge that THE TRADESMAN is
‘‘ impolite” in its references, Mr. Kelley is invit-
ed to peruse the closing paragraph of the article
in question, which begins as follows:
THE TRADESMAN does not wish any of its read-
ers totake its jocular references to Muskegon
people in seriousness, etc.
It is not to be wondered at that a man who is
unable to distinguish a joke, when it is plainly
labeled, should work himself up to fever heat
over an imaginary affront.
THE TRADESMAN is the organ of the Michigan
Business Men’s Association, and as such is in
duty bound to further the ends sought to
be accomplished by that organization. At no
time has the Association and THE TRADES-
MAN been more thoroughly in accord than in the
present stage of the insurance agitation, and no
amount of legal invective on the part of recent
acquisitions to the ranks of the organization—in
which THe TRADESMAN has grown gray in the
service—can swerve the paper from the path it
has chosen to follow in hopes of leading the in-
suring public out of the wilderness.
_$_—<» 9 <____—
YEARLY REVIEW
Of the Work Aceomplished by the Mus-
kegon B. M. A.
The officers of the Muskegon B. M. A. have
issued the following address to the members:
The officers of your Association heartily con-
gratulate all members upon the growth and suc-
cess of our organization during the past year
and the favorable prospects of the present year.
OUR GROWTH
during the year just past, 1888, has been good,
steady and permanent. We had about eighty
members at the beginning of the year and have
now one hundred and eighty members with the
prospect of the addition of several more in the
near future, maintaining our position as the
largest organization of the kind in the State, and
there are over eighty others. You can do much
to continue the growth and increase our num-
bers still more by circulating copies of the con-
stitution and by-laws among our worthy citizens
and informing them of the objects of the Asso-
ciation and taking their applications. Blank
applications, copies of the constitution, etc., can
be had of the Secretary on application. :
OUR MEETINGS,
which are full of interest to all, are being better
attended and give promise of good results.
They are held regularly on the first and third
Wednesdays of each month at 8 p. m. in the
rooms of the Association, 109 Western avenue.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
to more fully meet the requirements of the or-
ganization, will hold a regular meeting on the
second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p. m.—
and when necessary will meet on first and third
Wednesday at 7:30 p. m.—at the Association
rooms.
THE SECRETARY
has arranged to be at the rooms every Wednes-
day at 7:30 p.m., when_ business relating to his
office can be done and information, blanks, etc.,
2an be obtained.
THE COLLECTION DEPARTMENT
has more than met the expectation of the Asso-
ciation during the year. The letter system,
using the Blue Letter and second or white let-
ter, has aided much in collection of bad and out-
lawed accounts. Sixty-six members have used
this system, sending 911 Blue Letters for the
amount of $13,853 and have collected thereby the
amount of $2,450, with the slight expense of
postage, which will not exceed $20 in all, secur-
ing fully 18 per cent. of the claims. Better
results would have been had if the second or
White Letter had been also sent, the names
having been duly reported to the Secretary.
We are pleased to announce that improved,
revised forms of Blue Letter and Second Letter
have been prepared and are ready for use. The
Blue Letter, to be sent by the creditor, can be
had in blocks of fifty, bound stubs, at 25 cents
per block of the Secretary. In using the Blue
Letter, be careful to fill the blanks on the stub
and sendin an envelope printed with address
and a request to ‘return in 10 days if not called
for.” If this letter is not answered in 15 or 20
days you should report the name and amount to
the Secretary of this Association upon the proper
blanks furnished by him and he will prepare the
second or White Letter for you to send and will
keep a record of the same. If the debtor does
not give the matter attention in ten days the
third letter from the Executive Committee will
be sent and then in due time the name of the
person still delinquent will be placed upon the
delinquent list and a copy sent to every member.
The last delinquent list contains the names of
262 delinquents, reported by only 30 persons.
Eighteen names that were reported for the
former lists have been removed from this list,
their accounts having been settled.
A COLLECTOR
was employed by some of the members of the
Association by an agreement made in April last,
when bonds were duly executed. Since then, as
the collector's report shows, eighty-three mem
bers have placed accounts to the amount of
in his .,hands for collection, of which
he reports $3,074 collected and he is still col-
lecting from the accounts in his hands. The
collector’s year will close April 1, when further
arrangements will need be made.
THE FUTURE
has much in store for us. The collection system
will be useful as we use it.
The important question of how to prevent bad
debts is a most essential one and will take much
of the time and attention of the Association.
Every member should be interested in it.
The matter of increasing our manufacturing
facilities is an all important one and upon it will
depend the future of our City.
Questions relating to transportation and har-
bor will be brought before the meetings at an
early day and require our careful attention.
Insurance is a theme now being discussed by
every similar association in the State and a
Business Men’s Insurance Company may result
from it.
City extention and improvements, including
the improvement of highways and streets, parks,
ete., will come in for a share of our time and
need careful thought and discussion.
The trade interests of all look to the establish
ment of a public city market and the restricting
and regulating of peddling of all kinds upon the
streets,
The State Association, representing over
eighty local associations, will meet here in July
or August—a most important gathering for this
city. With all these great questions and import-
ant measures before us,is it not the duty of
every member of this Association to be up and
doing—attend all meetings and aid in every way
possible to further all of the objects of this or-
ganization?
Our motto should be ‘‘whatever we find to do,
strive to do well.”’
Your officers wish you all abundant success.
For them I subscribe myself.
tespectfully Yours,
C. L. WHITNEY, Sec’y.
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Bangor Pays Her Second Year’s Dues.
BANGOR, Jan. 16, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR Srr—Enclosed please find draft for $19.50
as payment in full of State per capita dues for
the year ending Sept. 30, 1889. We would be
pleased to receive the delinquent list for this
year (in book form) as soon as convenient. We
are a little late in sending our dues, but trust
that even at the last hour we will be entitled to
full fellowship, for it is said, ‘“‘ The last shall be
first.” We will try and be more prompt in the
future and think there will be no danger of it
occurring again, as our members are beginning
to more fully understand the necessity of being
associated with the State department. Jam sat-
isfied that the B. M. A. will be more appreciated
the more fully it is understood by the working
classes. Our Association has done considerable
work in trying to get some manufacturing con-
eern to locate here, but have failed thus far,
although we still have hopes and if there are any
such that are contemplating a move to some
other location I am satisfied that it would be to
their interest to give Bangor acall first. Will
let you hear from here occasionally and hope to
be able to send a good report.
Respectfully yours,
GEO. CHAPMAN, Sec’y.
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Sault Ste. Marie Agitating Organization.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Jan. 10, 1889:
Frank Wells, Lansing:
DEAR Srr—Please send us instructions for the
organization of a Business Men’s Association,
copy of by-laws now in use, etc.
Yours truly,
Jas. E. Wirt & Co.
Grand Rapids Mercantile Association.
The annual meeting of the Grand Rapids Mer-
cantile Association was held at THE TRADESMAN
office last Tuesday evening,- but owing to the
fact that the attendance was not as full as was
desired, the election of officers was postponed
until the first Tuesday ih February.
O. F. Conklin and J. Jacobs were elected mem-
bers of the Association, membership to date
from January 1.
Treasurer Harris presented his report and an
estimate was made of the expense necessary to
maintain the Association for the ensuing year,
when it was decided to reduce the dues from 33
to $2 per year, payable quarterly in advance.
An arrangement was entered into with Joseph
H. Terrell to collect the dues up to January 1, of
all members delinquent in this respect; also to
solicit the applications of new members.
The insurance project put forth by the State
body was discussed at considerable length. All
present favored the project, but definite action
was deferred until the next meeting. ~
A
Annual Meeting of the Morley Association.
MorteEY, Jan, 17, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR Sirn—An adjourned meeting of the Mor-
ley B. M. A. was held on the 14th inst., President
J. E. Thurkow presiding. The minutes of the
last meeting were read and approved. The Ex
ecutive Committee reported a settlement with
the Treasurer, as follows: Total amount of
money received since last annual settlement,
$14.62; paid out, as per vouchers, 1.82, leaving
a balance on hand at this date of $2.80. On mo-
tion, the report was accepted.
Moved and carried that the Executive Com-
mittee be empowered to fix the compensation of
the Secretary for the past year.
On motion, made and @arried, the President
appointed P. Hanson and W. H. Richmond a
committee to make an estimate as to the cost of
compiling the delinquent list and report at the
next meeting.
John Pierdon offered the following resolution:
WHEREAS, A year has rolled around since our
last banquet; therefore,
Resolved, That we again banquet.
On motion, made and earried, the resolution
was received and adopled.
On motien, made and earried, the chair ap-
pointed H. Strope, J. Pierdon and Dr. B. F.
Brown a committee to make the necessary ar-
rangements for the banquet.
The election of officers for the ensuing year re
sulted as follows:
President—J. E. Thurkow.
Vice-President—Dr. B. F. Brown.
Secretary—W. H. Richmond.
Treasurer—H. Strope.
Executive Committee—W. O. Lake, J. Pierdon
and J. B. Loshbough.
It was moved and carried that P. Hanson, J.
E, Thurkow and H. Strope be a committee to de-
vise some means to curtail the credit system.
W. H. RicuHmonp, Sec’y.
HARDWARE.
The Hardware Market.
Manilla rope has advanced to lic. in
New York and 16c in Grand Rapids.
Other articles in the hardware line are
without material change.
Prices Current.
These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
ives) Gla style ee 60
ee ee 60
CeOeR ee 40
Jennies SCHMINe 3 25
gennines, imitation -......2....2-. 6... 50&10
AXES.
Hirst Quality, S. B. Bronze...¢-.....-. $ 7 00
B Brovze. es 11 00
i“ S65 steel 8 50
oi D. B Steel... 2. 13 00
BALANCES, dis.
Serine
BARROWS. dis.
Maiirongd.................. fe % 14 00
Garden... net 33 00
BELLS. dis.
Mond 6. 6010410
OW TO
Ca 380&15
—-.............. Ct. . 25
Door Surette 60&10
BOLTS. dis,
et s Oo
Carmace new Hist... 3. 70&10
ee 50
let NGC 70
Wrought Barrel Bolts. os 60
Gust Barrel Bolts. -) 40
@ast Barred, boass mobs...) 2... 2... 40
Cast Square Spring....... Se eee 60
€asi Cham 7. 40
Wrournt Barrel, brass Knob................ 60
Wirouent square... 60
Wroucht sunk Wins: 3. 2.28 60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60£10
CC eee 6010
BRACES, dis.
Barer eo 49
BAGRMS 50&10
SponOr 50
Am Bat... net
BUCKETS.
Wel pian... _-..0 3 00
Well qwive:. ee 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast Loose Pin, feured..-..... 8... ~ 40
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed......- . -0&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10
Wreucnt Boose Fin. 60410
Wroucht Loose Pin, seorm tip......-..-.. 60&05
Wroucnt Loose Pin, japanned ............. 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05
Waourhs Fable ee 60&10
Wreacnt Inside Bling = =. 60&10
Weroueht brass... 1
Bind) Clarks)... 70&10
Biimd Parkers 70&10
Bund Shepard 0 70
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85......-.--.. 40
CARPET SWEEPERS.
Bissell No. 5..-..0..8 |: per doz.$17 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop pan .......- C 19 6
Bissell, Grand =. . 36 00
Grand Rapids... --. . 24 00
ay “© 15 00
CRADLES,
Guin... dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.
Cast Stee per ib 04
ron, Steel Poms... [ 3%
CAPS.
Hiv? 16 ee per m 65
mers ©. be a 60
cp... ...... ee : 35
MRRGE ee . 60
CARTRIDGES.
2im Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list. . 50
tim Wire, United States......_.....-_.. dis. 50
Central Pire. .... -3 dis. 25
CHISELS. dis.
Socket Bimmer. TO&10
Sackett Hrammie ce 70&10
SeGhenOOrner 70&10
Ndexet SlickSs .....0.-.. FO&10
Butehers’ Tanged Wirmer..............-.... 40
Barton s SOCKeL Firmicrs.-.-.....--.... 20
Cad net
COMBS. dis.
Cumy, Lawrences 2 40&10
Mitchel. 25
CHALK.
White Crayons, per @ross......---- 12@1214 dis. 10
cocks.
Brass, Hackmed 00 0. 60
ge oe 60
Beer ee. 40&10
Wenms). 02... eal ee 58
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 33
oi Pixbe Fixe, x68 2c. . 31
Cold Rolled, 14556 and 14560... .._-.- 29
Cold botied t4m45. 0-7 29
Bomemws oe 30
DRILLS. dis.
Momes Bit Stocks -.........5.--..: 5. . 40
Paper and straight Shank............-...-..- 40
Morse’s Taper Shamk..................-....- 40
DRIPPING PANS.
Siaall sizes, ser pound 6.6.1.2... 2s. 07
Large sizes, per pound..........-......-.... 644
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................-- doz. net 5
Corvugnted (.. 002 6... o.. .--.--di8. 20610410
Adjustable..... Seca e eae woe ....-dis. 4&10
WHOLESALE
-‘cornered’”’ and very high.
diay is,
Our price in Grand Rapids
PRICES.
cess.
Office of
Foster, Stevens & Co.,
HARDWARE.
- Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 16, 1889.
The fiber from which Sisal and Manilla Rope is made is now
The price of rope in New York to-
Sisal, 12 1-2 cents per pound.
Manilla, 14 1-2 cents per pound.
is ONE CENT ABOVE THESE
We have in stock a new rope called
NEW PROCESS.
Its superiority te Sisal in every respect is now universally ad-
mitted, and where it has been substituted for Manilla, favorably
impresses the purchaser with confidence in its utility and suc-
It is manufactured in all sizes, the smaller coils being
made up ina ball cord shape, thus avoiding the necessity ofa
reel. We keep in stock ‘New Process” from 1-4 up to 5-8
inclusive, and our price to-day is only 9 cents a pound for any
size. This price, however, will not hold and must go higher if
Sisal and Manilla keep advancing. i
A trial coil will convinee you the days of Sisal rope are
A 1 1 Tur To ) :
numbered. FOSTER, STEVENS & CO.
10 and 12 Monroe-St., 33, 35, 37 39 and 41 Leuis-St.
, : EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. i SAND PAPER.
Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26..............-. So) Hist feck 19 So. 1. ..¢as) 4a
ives, 1, $18; 2 O24; o, s00 5... 2 SASH -CORD
i | FILES—New List. dis. Silver Bake. White A|................... list 5D
American File Association List............. 60&10 re ab a. . 55
RE eee ae alata 60&10 wone Se BOD
New American.........-.....--...-----+-++- 60&10 abe .. . tl... 5d
Nicholson’s ........-..2.+2. sees es eeee ee eee 60&10 Cn ace 35
Heller's... -.-. 0... 222 0e eee cence ee et ee eee eee 50| Discount, 10.
Heller's Horse Waspe.......-.....--..-...... 50 SASH WEIGHTS
i GALVANIZED IRON. Sold Myes.. per ton $25
— 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 26; 27 = 28 SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS
aoe = 13 14 15 18] Miles’ “Challenge’’....per doz. $20, dis. 50@)50&05
S , 3 Perry per doz. No. 1, $15; No. 0,
GAUGES. ee ee ee #21; dis. 50@50&5
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............-- SO Draw Cue wea ....each, $30, dis 20
4 HAMMERS, Enterprise Mfg. Co.................. dis. 20&10@30
Naydole £@e'3 0. dis. 25 BeIger Ss oo dis. 40&10
Bape OO dis, 2] | \ SAWS. dis,
Merkes) 2 Piumpia. ee dis. 40&10 | Disston’s Circular................-.-.++-. FQ ABE
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30¢ list 50 i Cress Ce 45@45&5
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10 FE eee ee Mae uae Ki WEO2BES
HINGES. *Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
Cun a 2 dis. 60 Atkins’ Cireular.....--.. dis. 9
Stace. 0000! aa per doz. net, 2 5 ip — Steel Dia, X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
—— and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and a MT Seortal i — = = - ~~. i se
Se ewe ae a a \ se : Se — oe fea
Serew Hook and Eye, %.....00.0........ net 10] .,,Champion and Electric Tooth X
“6 “ “ 52 ‘i @ats, per foec.... 28
i HW i ee . met 8 eee
i i i 4 Se os cee net 7% L TACKS, dis.
‘ i net ‘%%| American, ahi 60
Strap sand 200. 2... Meee eee ae oe dis | Steel all Kinds 60
Swedes, all kinds. : 60
silica dis. vi Pes
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 oe aa cont LT S
a: oo Dee cae ee eee ee ae 60&10 Finishing ee 50
sager, WOOG Uraex ..-........ oe ied) ciel 40 Common and Patent Brads....... ae 50
HOLLOW WARE Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks....... 50
ee 60&10 Trunk and Clout Nails..............--.- 50
ee 60&10 | Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails.......... 45
Spiaects - eee 6010 Leathered Carpet Tacks.... ' 2
Gray cnamcicg 6... 50 TRAPS dis
SEE ae GaeetEnaeeeeniel eerie Steel, Game oa ce ee eee eae eee aay t 010
Stamped Tin Ware................. new list 70&10 —— Community, Newhouse’s........... 35
SRE ET ne een eee 25 | Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's o
Granite from Ware .. 8... 25 oe wee O
(oon mie Coe ...........,......,.... FO
HOES. Mouse, Chokce... .__«..«....._.. ..18e per doz.
Grub 1.02.2... 2 cece eee eter ee eens $11, dis, 60 | Mouse, delusion... a 31.50 per doz.
Grub 2 Ce $11.50, dis. 60 WIRE.
Grupa Sie, dis. 6) | Bright Market.............._...
HORSE NAILS. Annealed Market..... oe
eee dis, 256:10@25410&10 | Coppered Market.......... 2
en dis, 5&10&2144214 | Extra Bailing .....-....---... 22+. .e02 0s. 5D
Northwestern. 0 0 dis. 10€10&5 _< — eee | ieoee
es ena : immed EEOGm.........- .... per pound 09
KNoBs—New List. dis. Tinne aSg Pee ,
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... -__- 55 a ae eae Steel. _ -pee pound 83
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55| Tinned Spring Steel..... Te maw
Door, porcelain. plated trimmings.......... bo | pian Bence 7. Tae! eee sian 103
Door, porcelviit; trimmings....-........--.. 551] Barbed Fence, galvanized.... Teasdale ve
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 “ ean ul a "SOD
Picuure, Bt dudd & Covs. |. | 4080) Copper ree ae .
Memathe 45 coo ae rae Ta _
LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Ee li
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55| Brig mule ii ces
Mallory Wheeler & Cols yc) 55 — ‘Eyes ao
Rovwalk’ "al AS EAE MME ot "70k 10410
D Ceo : 59 | Gate Hooks and Eyes...... oe “8&I0K10
LEVELS. dis.
Stantey Rulejand Level @ols. 0000 /0000)0000 7 | @Oy : : Cee dis.
cnet ne Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled............ 30
igclttee erties Gees! Gremermne da ee 50
ee $16.00, dis. 60 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,......... 7%
ea ae uate aie ate a ana? .--.$15.00, dis. 60} Coe’s Patent, malleable............. 75&10
Bane #18.50, dis. 20610. ay a
MAULS. dis. : MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handled......... a 50 ee sk le ao
Pamps, Cistern.......- %5
MILLS. dis. | Screws. New Li ae ca ai
PS TET i na . & New fish...) |... : _.... ee
—— ot Co. ee 40; Casters, Bed and Plate....... 50610610
Sk W . Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40| Dampers, American................ ay 40
—— Co a eee 40 | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...-.. 6635
MserpEISG 2 Po Couper Babee 0c
| a MOLASSES GATES. dis. aaa
Stepbin’s Pathera. 60&10 METALS,
Se 60&10 PIG TIN
Enterprise, self-measuring........ . ||| 2011 Pie Tarce ce 28
. 3 ee « « AIO
NAILS Pic bars...) . .30C
Advance above 12d nails.
FENCE AND BRADS. : vel
BO EO Cee ee ee ee 95} Duty: Pig, Bar and Ingot, 4c; Old Copper, 3¢
TE 10 Manufactured (including all articles of which
EET 25 Copper is a component of chief value), 45 per
Bd 40 cent ad valorem. For large lots the following
40 angse ee. 69| quotations are shaded:
= eee 1 00 INGOT
SN 50 i
‘suiaie duaivau lake. ee 1334
hl i Oe He ol 1 00 et rt a sua
3d ee 1 3 ZINC.
Ee 200] Duty: Sheet, 2%4c per pound.
CASTING AND Box. 600 POU Cae
ES re la unde aa a aR DER GA DALE RENE 1%
10d . nasa ste ceescescssseensceeesce tenses 60 LEAD.
= to = ee. 75| Duty: Pig, $ per 100 pounds. Old Lead, 2c per
6« to a eee ec 90 pound. Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.
4d to 5d i... 1104; American ee
Se at is...
COMMON BARREL. Bee ee
Ce os Sheet |... .8e dig. ao
ee 2 i SOLDER.
ee TE .16
idk 1 95| Extra Wiping ..........-..0.0..ceeeeeeee ne, "43%
aoe a1, ca ee ane i 5 The prices of the many other qualities of
ee 1 > solder in the market indicated by private brands
a LLL lc
EG 1D ANTIMONY.
Each half keg 10 cents extra. Cookson... =. per pound 144
f ee : 11g
OILERS. dis. Se eee
Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent............._... 60c&i0 a ae
Wine. with peass bottom. 200600 oe 50 | 10xi4 IC, Charcoal........................... # 6 00
Brissior@opper eee -- 60
Bede per gross, $12 net |12X121C, Pees eee eee eee eee eee 6 25
Cee BOKIO | 14X14 IC, eee ee eee ee eee ee eee . 10 00
acne dis, | 10x281C,
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The Michigan Tradesman
OF A COLLECTING
TRIP.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
INCIDENTS
**Well, dear, what did you do to-day?’’
asked my wife this evening after I had
returned from a trip out in the country.
“Oh, nothing much. I collected.’
*-Yes, of course; but tell me about it.
Wizat were you doing all day and where
did you go, and did you
know?’’
see anyone I
You
than Ie answer.
wis riding all day, I went over into Bal-
sain township and I did see somebody
ycu know. Is that satisfactory?’’
“Charles!” exclaimed my wife, looking
very severe, ‘‘will you never have done
with Now, go on and
teli me what happened.’’
“So you make your demand with some
show of authority, do you? Well, I sup-
pose I shall have to acquiesce. Nothing
‘-Hold on. are asking questions
faster an Let’s see, I
your nonsense?
happened.’’
‘‘Now, Charlie, here. You know
there was never aday of your life but
something happened, and, of course, you
know that whatever happens to you
interests me. JI am _ prepared to listen;
but, Charlie, please don’t tell me any
see
shockingly untrue stories.’’
“No, my dear. I shall this time adhere
strictly to facts, though I believe I could
make my narrative much more interest-
ing by enlarging a little occasionally.
But here goes:
“In the first place, I had to see old
man Butler. You know what a beastly
piece of road there is through that Butler
Well, when I got about half
way through there, I met the old fellow
coming towards town with a load of
wheat. Just before I met him, his wagon
got stuck in the mud and he couldn’t get
his cattle to pull it out.
“I waited a few
he’d do, and when, at last, he had to un-
load most of the wheat to get out of the
scrape, I turnedin and helped him.
‘At Jim Watson’s they were in a peck
of trouble. Watson was away from home
and the horses had got out of the barn
yard and were having things their own
way. The women were trying to catch
them and they weren’t helping matters a
particle. The rain water barrel had been
ipped over and one end of the pig pen
was broken open so that the hogs had all
escaped. Their big
around promiscuously, barking at every
thing and everybody, aud the whole cay-
swamp.
minutes to see what
dog was running
aleade was charging back and forth
through the currant bushes and other
small fruit in the garden. So it at once
became my duty to help them out of the
scrape. ThisI did with becoming dig-
nits I don’t think there was more than
ten dol
lars’ worth of damage done to the
orchard.
“At Pete
woodchuck
Upham’s the boys had a
holed. There were three of
them and all were digging away for dear
life. A hunt
enough
woodehuck is a good
thing for
woodchuck until Mrs. Upham ealled us
We didn’t get the animal,
had ends to its
discovered after we had dug
me and sol hunted
in to dinner.
It
we
either. two hole,
which
clear through.”’
Mrs. Charles. I
don’t see why you men always want to
kill everything yousee. I’m glad that
he get away.’’
‘Good!’ exclaimed
“‘Now, see here, wife,’? I remarked,
‘if you are going to moralize on every-
thing I do, I shan’t tell you another
thing.’’
“Oh! Haven’t you finished?’’
7(No. Of course not.”’
“Well, go on.”’
*‘I don’t care to. You're tired now.’
‘No; ’m not. I am awfully interest-
ed. Now please finish.’’
“Well, Walsh’s folks had a fire
Peter’s people had the meas—’’
*‘Oh! Did they have a fire?’’
MeS.?7
“‘Well, what about it?’
““The fire?’’
“Yes, of course.’’
‘“Why, it burned.’’
“Oh! Agravation! What did it burn?’
‘Wood, I suppose, since they have no
eoal.”’
’
and
“You provoking wretch. Didn’t their
house burn, then?’’
‘No, certainly not. What made you
think their house might have burned?’’
‘You said they had a fire.”?
“They did. I went in to get warm,
and I was just thinking it is getting chilly
here.”’
*“You are the worst tease I ever saw.?’
‘“‘Now, Molly, you’re not sorry that Mr.
Walsh’s house isn’t a bed of ashes, are
you2”’
“Ye—no; [’'m not. But I wish you
wouldn’t talk that way again.”’
“Then why don’t you put some wood
in the stove?’’
“J saw Daniels, and Smith, and the
other Smith, and Smith with the wooden
leg and the Williams, and Conroy, and
Jacobs, and—and—and—”’
“You saw lots of people.
money did you get?’’
‘How much what?’’
**Money, goose.”’
~*Money?’’
How much
YOU HANDLE IT?
AS UARAN, ? LS
Lehn SSS
“Yes, money.’’
“Didn’t get any. Why should I?’
‘Why, you were out collecting, weren’ t
DO
you?’’
‘Oh! Yes, of course, but my dear lit- i [uel éRMAN B
tle wife you must know that above all
things one never gets any money when
Meicaren
Oro fous
he goes collecting.”’
‘-Not get money! Then what does one
S .
get?’’
‘He ets lett.”’ C.
ee
MOoOoOLS
O. D.
MEDICATED
A
Good Storekeepex Teg We
It has long been a subject for debate [NeRPMAN MT uN j
in country lyeeums, whether tact or “Rang ITY Sod
talent was the superior endowment. But
for a stoorkeeper the question can be de-
cided without debate; for whatever else
he may have or may lack in the line of
qualifications, unless he has tact in deal-
ing with customers, he has nothing. In
previous articles we have dwelt upon the
right buying of goods, and the right dis-
play of the same in windows and upon
the shelves. Now, the storekeeper is
HOG CHOLERA.—Cause,
Cure and Prevention. Cir-
culars & Testimonials Free
For sale by Druggists, Gro-
ce:s, ete.
Gives Universal Satisfaction for
a
Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep,
Colts, Calves, Pigs, Lambs.
Has the finest line of illustrated advertising
and most attractive Lithograph Label. List
price reduced August 1, 1888. A 75 cent. cash
guarantee on every box you sell, = 1,00 illus-
ready to deal directly with those who | fated cireulars in each case. Rubbérstamp and
self-inking pad free with your first order through
wish to buy. s (
There is such a thing as uneonscious —— —— ——— a
. a eae a aes p ae arge trade with every s lipment. ur new circu-
influence, emanating from a human pet lar, “Hog Cholera—Cause, Cure and Pre-
sonality, which exerts more power Over | ventive,” is attracting universal attention.
others than allstudied efforts in the same = ss and siya hi facts
aa oe ie . 8 in regard to this terrible disease, and only known
line. This silent radiation of power and positively successful treatment. Gives’ valua-
influence from a human spirit, is some- | ble information in regsrd to swine-raisin
: ; : &
times called a man’s atmosphere—that =e — a — —— —— ——
~op a6 : oe se eaiog ol inds of stock. The facts contained in these
unseen canopy W hich encircles oY SUI- | circulars are worth many dollars to every enter-
rounds one without the person himself | prising farmer or stockman. Dealers! We have
knowing it. Itis just this atmosphere | Withdrawn our salesmen and solicit a continu
exuding from the personality which in | 22C¢ of your trade through prominent jobbers,
2>xuding J
one case makes a storekeeper a good fel-
low, popular and sought after, and in
another case makes him repellant and
shunned.
Send to them for their special circular“TO THE
TRADE,” for full information in regard to rub-
Some men attract others to themselves
as clover blossoms attract bees. They
ber stamp—free—and also our GRAND CASH
do nothing in particular to create and
PRIZES. See circulars for testimonials of reli-
able dealers from all parts of the country. This
trade is about equally divided between drug-
gists, general dealers and grocers. A good trade
for one insures a satisfactory trade for the other.
Order at once, save freight and commence turn-
ing your money every thirty or sixty days, at 71
gain confidence, but it comes to them | Per cent. profit. i
unsought. People like them without be- SOLE MANUFACTURERS:
ing able to tell why. Their atmosphere Th ¢ M eos (‘ j
is winning. Generally such people are ewerman Aedicine somp y
easy-going and good-natured, laugh and Minneapolis, Minn.
joke a good deal, but not always; for
laughing and joking are dangerous ele-
ments to deal with unless a storekeeper
knows exaetly when and how to use
them. Enemies are frequently made in
this way and mortal offense given, when
nothing of the kind was intended.
If a storekeeper is the fortunate pos-
sessor of the quality we are trying to de-
scribe, he will get along well, whatever
else he may have or lack in the way of
ability; for people will like him, and, as
a rule, when people like a storekeeper
they will also like his store and will pat-
ronize it, if they are treated at all de-
eently. Such a person can be more care-
less of himself and of his store than
would be entirely fatal to the other man
who does not radiate an agreeable influ- |
ence. |
When aman unconsciously to himself,
exerts a repellant influence upon cus-
tomers, it requires the most careful man- | §
agement to hold his trade. If he cannot |
draw people to his store by his personal |
qualities, then he must draw them by his |
goods and by his prices, and by his man-
ner of selling the same. And right here
comes in the value and importance of |
tact. The storekeeper who is not blessed |
with a winning personality, will be com- |
pelled to work harder than his neighbor |f
whom everybody styles a good fellow,
but he can make his power felt by able
management, notwithstanding. |
In order to deal with customers proper-
ly a storekeeper should know them
thoroughly; all their little weaknesses
and peculiarities, their foibles and fail-
ings, as well as their good points and
commendable traits. And when once in
possession of this knowledge, he will
vary his manner to suit the customer’s
nature. As Paul the Apostle said he
became all things toall men that he
might by all means win some to a belief |
in Christianity, so a good storekeeper
will exhibit the same fertility and versa-| To THe MERCHANTS OF
tility in resources in winning patronage | Marble and Granite
for his store. It is often said there is no Monuments
friendship in trade, but there is certainly
at a closer margin of profit than any concern in
something that is closely akin to it.
Noone knows what human nature the State. Write for estimates on Building Stone
or semetery work. First class material and work-
in all its many-sidedness, until he has ‘
manship only.
had an oportunity to study its commercial
SAM 4 MOFFEYY, Manager,
side from behind the counter of a store.
LHE GERMAN
WMOoouw
For sale in Grand Rapids, Mich., by Hazeitine
& Perkins Drug Co. and Hawkins & Perry, whole-
sale grocers.
age) a gee eae
Micuican — We offer
are
LS
The essential meanness and littleness of
people are never fully displayed until
they go into a store to trade. Then it all
comes out. To save five cents they will
often put themselves to twenty-five cents
of expense, and four times that amount
of trouble. Just asin sailing a boat the
least deflection in its course will land it
wide of its proposed destination; so in
making a trade with some customers, the
least little thing coming up before the
bargain is completed, will wreck the en-
tire transaction unless the storekeeper’s
tact, like a skilful pilot, brings the head
of the boat round again toits straight
and proper course. :
In short, the occasions for the exercise
If you have any
to offer send
samples
of tact in a storekeeper’s life and work
are humberless, and unless he can make
up his mind to accommodate himself to
the whims and notions of the people, and
frequently yield in the sense of stooping
to conquer, he had better sell out at the
first opportunity, and go into some other
kind of business.
Saat a
Buy flour manufactured by the Cres-
cent Roller Mills. Every sack warran ed:
VoigtMilling Co.
aa
and
amount and
willtry to buy them
W. T. LAMOREAUX,
71 Canal Street.
DANIEL LYNG
Successor to FRED D. YALE & CO.,
Manufacturer of
Flavoring Extracts,
; IW. A.
Tiree
BMA
i.
Michigan
Hhusiness Men’s
And especially adapted, both in Quality and Price, to the requirements of the
RETATL GROCERY TRADE.
Named in Compliment to the
Association,
AbSo
[nk BRST 0 Cent Cigar on Karth!
PRICE, $30 PER THOUSAND.
Ine Telfer Spice Company,
MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS.
Alfred J.Brown
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We quote prices as follows:
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made when desired.
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS
157 South Water St., CHICAGO.
Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids.
Nuts
PUTNAM & BROOKS.
The Best Fitting Stock-
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Sole Agents,
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presented, you are requested to return it tothe
Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive
anew garment.
SHANTON, SAMPSON &) © OL,
Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich.
We carry a large stock of all
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Nuts and are prepared to sell in
any quantity.
Mich.
_ Morse Elevator Works,
RLRVATORS sie
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H. MIDDLEBROOK, Agent.
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—CALL AT——
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WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.
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Manufacturers of the following well-known
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9 Lock Box 173, ~ GRAND RAPIDS
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CLIMAX
Can now be bought at the following exceptionally
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Packages. Ass’t’d lot
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FOURS, 6 x 2, 4 02.. 42. 30 & 12
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FIVES, 6 x 1%, 31-5 0z., 45, 25% & 16 “
TWIN FOURS, 3 x 2,7 to Ib, 41, 27 & 13% “ 43 Al 4]
FIGS, 3 x 1, 14 to lb., 41,31 &17 *
THESE PRICES LOOK TOO GOOD TO LAST.
BEST Hn & Fox.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S.A. §
MANUFACTURERS OF ,
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Carry Engines and Boilers in Stock
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Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery,
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And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample
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The Michigan Tradesman.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1889.
LEISURE HOUR jOTTINGS.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
A COUNTRY MERCHANT.
BY
ne
ng
tis alittle singular that. after years |
of experience with the modern system of |
sensational advertising, so many people
place almost implicit reliance in every
which ap-
ordi-
announcement of the nature
pears in print. How a person of
nary thinking capacity can follow the
of, say, a clothing dealer
who advertises a ‘‘cost’’? sale for three
months; a “half-off’? sale for another
three months; a ‘‘fearful slaughter’ for
the third three months; fiils up the bal-
ance of the year by offering ‘‘goods at
two-thirds off manufacturers’ prices,”’
and repeats the programme season after
season, the remotest faith in
his honesty and truthfulness, is almost
incomprehensible. Yet these traders
will often retain the same customers, by
means of their great bargain offers, for
year after year. These customers know
that traffic in any species of merchan-
dise is conducted with a view to money
earning instead of money squandering:
they see the sensational advertisers ap-
parently prosperous, yet they fail to use
proclamations
and have
the sense they may possess in easily con-
vineing themselves that any g business
conducted as the announce
that their own is conducted, could, by no
possibility, be made self-sustaining.
advertisers
—— “3 * %* * * *
What oceans of useless patent nos-
trums have been poured into the human
stomach: what cords of foolish and un-
needed trumpery has been piled up in
American what mountains of
frothy and pernicious ‘‘literature’’ are
accumulating for the demoralization of
homes;
the rising generation; what vast amounts
grain,
are being purchased:
of bogus and bogus
‘“*blooded’’
how the snide patent right sharks flour-
‘‘premium’’
stoek,
ish, and the various grades of confidence
men luxuriate on their ill-gotten gains.
through the medium of sensational
alluring appeals to that class of people
who are perennially looking for individ-
and
uals who are doing business for philan-
thropic reasons, and with no desire what-
ever to profit by their labors. Yet, while
the swindles, devices and frauds of the
advertisers are so conspicuous that any
one but an imbecile should detect them.
imbeciies, in the great army of victims,
are by no means in a majority.
‘I thought, three or four years ago,’’
said my friend Howdy, “that old man
Gripper had started a crusade for exter-
minating untruthful advertising,
guess it was only an effort to extort
money, after all. The last time B——’s
big show was here, I had a youngste1
who was terribly anxious to see his first
eircus, and myself and a half-dozen
adult members of the family generously
personal ineli
When
got into the animal tent, ] was astonished
resolved to surrender our
nations for his enjoyment. We
to see Gripper, with his wife and whole
family, making the rounds. Anxious to
learn what had induced the old fellow to
indulge such unwonted
agance, I left my party to interview him.
As lL approached, 1 noticed that Gripper
was checking off from a show bill, while
his oldest boy was making minutes in an
old memorandum book. Then I heard
Gripper say:
‘¢*What’s your last item, Isaac ?’
‘**Four elephants short, $2,’ replied the
youth.
** ‘Correct! Now put down, ‘for injury
to feelings of self and family, by having
palmed off on me and them a little one-
horse a sea lion, Got it?
Well, now charge ’em up for
substituting a stuffed hippopotamus for
alive one, and fifty cents for calling a
twelve-foot snake thirty feet long! Vl
learn ’em to swindle the public! Now,
Tilda, and children, keep these
things in your mind, so you can testify
to’em !
‘*Then the old manturned toan attend-
ant and asked where the crocodile from
the Nile was located, and, on being cour-
teously informed that it had died a few
days previously. remarked to Isaac:
*““’ve been wanting to see a crocodile
life, this
in an extray-
seal oo.
as
a dollar
you
all and
my fraud hurts me
more’n all the rest! Make that an even
$5, my son! This bill says there’sa
hundred parrots in one cage; count ’em!
Thirty-five, eh? Well, charge ’em a dol-
lar for that; and now let’s go into the
circus, and look up the rest of the swin-
dles.’
““At this point I lost sight of the Grip-
per family,’’ continued the narrator,
‘but it’s an actual fact that the old man
had the manager of the show arrested
for obtaining money under false pre-
tenses, and, as the matter never came to
trial, itis a general opinion in the com-
munity that the showman paid Gripper’s
bill rather than subject himself to the
absurdities and annoyances of defending
such a case.’’
The casual reader will please take no-
tice that I do not vouch for the truthful-
ness of Howdy’s little narrative, but, if
| Strongly intimating to
veracious, hadn’t Gripper an equitable
case ?
%* *% * % = * *
I started this paper with the idea of
suggesting more truthfulness and less
buncombe in business advertising, but I
find myself incapable of manufacturing
any suggestions that will practically
dove-tail in with the times. I thought of
Mr.
that pattern of Christian virtue and re-
spected pillar of the sanectuary—that his
professions and praetice, were drifting
widely apart in the matter of announc-
ing his attractions for the buying public;
but does any one imagine for a moment
that Mr. Slimmer would appreciate my
motives, and adopt my recommendations,
if I should submit to him that something
like the following ‘‘ad’? would be more
consistent with his moral ‘‘pose’’ than
Slimmer—
the one he is now running ?
‘I cordially invite the public to come
in and look over my stock of $6,500 (not
$20,000, Mr. 5.) worth of Dry. Goods.
sut about a quarter of the assortment is
new (you say itis all new, Mr. S.), but
the old ‘shop-kKeepers’ you will
find my genuine bargians. Of course, I
don’t keep a very large line of fine dress
goods, but what I have are offered at an
average profit of about thirty per cent.
(not eclese to jobber’s prices, Mr. S.).
I have a good variety of calicos and
cheap dress goods, but I trust that cus-
tomers will make the selection of a
dress, on which there is only ten cents
profit, inside of an hour. (You say it is
no trouble to show goods, Mr. S.)’’
But I will cut Mr. Slimmer’s proposed
announcement short. Finished, it would
bring Mr. S. before the public as a party
whose practices and professions coin-
cided, but I fear that Mr. S. is of earth
too earthy to confine himself to absolute
truthfulness in advertising matters.
$9 <_____
The Railroad Liar.
It has always been a source of wonder
to me what a railway corporation expects
to gain by keeping the movements of its
trains profound mysteries from the tray-
eling public, especially during periods of
sudden emergencies, accidents and annoy-
ing delays. ‘The passengers on the train,
the waiting friends and expectant pas-
sengers at the stations are alike snubbed,
misled by evasive replies, or directly and
intentionally misinformed. All this
makes the delay doubly exasperating to
the waiting people, and it doesn’t move
the delayed train a minute faster and
doesn’t add to the popularity of the road.
When the recent flurry of snow and
boreal winds and Arctie cold swept over
the land I waited ata great city station
of one of the greatest railroads in America
for a train due at 5 o'clock p.m. I
pected the train would be late. By dili-
gent inquiry I managed to find five men
in the uniform of the railroad company’s
employes, who assured me that they
didn’t know anything about that train.
Well, general thing, a railroad
man is not expected to know anything
about the trains on his own road I sup-
If that is so, these five neatly uni-
formed men in the handsomest station in
America filled the bill to perfection.
That is what the brakeman Melias and
conductor Hanford knew, and they have
and an indictment for it.
continued my and un-
one or two more uniformed spec-
imens of | ignorance of all matters
remotely pertaining to the railroad, one
of the specimens, the one with the bluest
coat and buttons, expressing
great sur at learning there were
2 road that day.
ently I found a . Who deliberately
me the exp only forty-five
minutes behind time. I afterward learned
that he was not the regular liar, but was
a Supernumerary who was just learning
his business, and only went on in star
when the regular liar was sick.
But on this occasion there were so many
anxious people asking questions that the
entire force of liars at the disposal of the
company was on the stage at once,
sisted by the full strength of the entire
ballet. I met most of them. I founda
light comedy liar who, when I asked him
how much was ‘22’? behind, said it was
all behind the engine. The sareastie liar
finished telling a nervous old woman that
the train would be in before morning,
and then when I asked him where it was
now he said his watch had stopped, and
went away to tell another passenger it
would be along in twenty minutes. At
last I found the premiere liar, who is
never sarcastic, never evasive, always
polite, always direct. and never ill-na-
tured. He looked me straight in the
eyes, and in tones earnest with convic-
tion told me at 7:30 p. m. the train was
only one hour late. He told me the same
thing again at 8 o’clock; quietly and
earnestly he repeated this declaration at
9:15 p. m.; at 10:20 he re-affirmed it: he
stuck to it at 11; when midnight paused
in the sky he called upon the stars to
witness that what he said was true: he
Stuck to if at 1 a. m.: and at last, at 3
o'clock in the morning, that train came
in, ten hours behind time, and the pre-
miere liar was still telling the question-
ing people that it was an hour behind
schedule time.
Now what good did all this deceit and
misrepresentation do the railroad com-
pany? It didn’t make a pound of steam;
it didn’t clear away a snow-drift: it
didn’t deceive the public, who have come
to disbelieve almost anything a station
employee tells them about delayed trains.
It would be some comfort to a man wait-
ing fora train to know about how loug
he has to wait. If itis going to be ten
hours, he will go home and start next
day. And when a train is ten hours late
surely somebody in the employ of the
company must know something about it.
It is true the employees are pestered and
bothered by the endless questioning of
the waiting, impatient, restless crowd,
but if they can’t stand questioning they
should leave the railroad and go to work
in a powder-mill, where people will not
crowd around them and ask questions.
There is need of a great reform here, and
the people who wait for trains will rise
up and call that railway company blessed
that gives its employees opportunity and
permission to tell the truth about delayed
trains.
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Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING NORTH.
Arrives. Leaves.
Traverse City & Macxinaw.......... 7:00 am
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 9:05am 11:30am
Krom Cmemmati 7:30 pm
For Petoskey & Mackinaw City..... 3:55 pm 5:00 p m
Sagmaw Express). 11:30 am 7:20am
- ee 10:30 p m. 4:10pm
Saginaw express runs through solid.
7:00 a. m. train has chair car to Traverse City.
11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Petoskey and Mack-
inaw City.
5:00 p. m, train has sleeping car for Petoskey and
Mackinaw City.
GOING SOUTH.
Cmetnnat Expresg.............__. 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express. .......... ..10:30 am 11:45am
Cincinpati Express (600: 4:40pm 5:00 p m
From Traverse City................ 10:46 pm
7:15am train has parlor chair ear for Cincinnati.
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.
5:00 ¢. m. train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama-
zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadian
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.
Sleeping car rates—$1.50 to Petoskey or Mackinaw
City; $2 to Cincinnati.
All Trains daily except Sunday.
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Leave. Arrive.
ese 10:45am
Oe ee 4:45pm
ye 7:45pm
Leaving tim
at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.
C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.
Micuican CENTRAL
The Niagara Falls Route.
DEPART.
Detror Express 6:45am
Day Express 1:10pm
New York Exp 5:40 pm
*Atlantic Express. 0:45 pm
ee 6:50am
U depp os tmaee 6:00 am
ecw PASsen ger 10:00 am
Se 3:15 pm
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run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from
Detroit. Parlor carsrun 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.)
O. W. RUGGLES, Gen’! Pass. and Ticket Agt., Chicago.
FRED M. Briees, Gen’l Agent.
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING WEST.
Arrives. Leaves.
thorning Expross..... 2. 1:05 pm 1:10 pm
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+Grand Rapids Express... - 10:40 pm
*Night Express........ - 6:40am 7:00am
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-10:20 am 10:30 am
" 3:40 pm 3:50 pm
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tDaily, Sundays e _ -
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direct connections for all points East, arriving in New
York 10:10 a. m. nextday. Limited Express, East, has
through sleeper Grand Rapids to Niagara Falls,
connecting at Milwaukee Junction with through
sleeper to Toronto.
Through tickets and sleeping car berths secured at
D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot.
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Detroit, Mich., April 9, 1888,
Specialty Dept. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
GENTLEMEN—I duly received the case of
your ‘“‘Best”’ Tonic and have since had a great
many inthis institution. I must say that the
beneficial effects on weak and debilitated
patients have been most satisfactory, espec-
ially to those in a stage of recovery after se-
vere sickness.
I write this thinking you might like to have
my opinion on its merits. I certainly shall
prescribe it in future, where the system re-
quires building up. either from constitutional
weakness or otherwise.
Yoars truly,
Wo. GRAY, M. D.
Medical Sup’t.
Midville, Geo., Feb. 24, 1888.
Speciality Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
GENTLEMEN —I think the “Tonic” a splendid
medicine for all forms of Dyspepsia and Indi-
gestion. It is giving me great satisfactiou.
Very respectfully,
J. M. JOHNSON, M. D.
Yardiey, Pa., March 18, 1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
DEAR Sirs—I have given your ‘‘Malt Tonic’”’
a trial in several cases of Enfeebled Digestion
and General Debility, especially in the aged,
where the whole system seems completely
rostrated, with very satisfactory results. I
ave used many of the so-called *‘Malt Ex-
tracts,’’ but believe your preparation to be
superior. In the aged where the digestive
functions are exhausted, and there is a loss of
the nerve vital force, I found its action to be
rapid and permanent.
ELIAS WILDMAN, M. D.
Work-House Hospital,
Blackwell's Island, Feb. 10, 1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
GENTLEMEN— AS a matter of persona! inter-
est, Ihave used your ‘‘Best”’ Tonic in several
cases Of impaired nutritition. The results in-
dicate that it is an agreeable and doubtless,
highly efficacious remedy. 1am,
Very truly yours,
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BLIVEN & ALLYN,
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EXTRACT OF
MALT XK HOPS.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Troy, New York, January 28, 1888.
Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co,,
DEAR Sirs—Your agent left me a sample of
your liquid extract, Malt, and as I use much
such in my practice,I thought to compare
your product with some from another house
i had on hand; and finding yours superior in
the great essential, the palitable nutriant as
well as in tonic stimulant properties, felt anx-
ious to know about what it can be furnished
the dispensing physician.
Yours truly,
E. JAY Fisk, M. D.
East Genessee Street,
Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1888.
Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
GENTLEMEN—I have used the “Best’’ Toni¢
with most gratifying resultsin my case of
My case was a bad one, 1 had no
ach; looking as though I had consumption,
and after taking this tonic I never felt better
in my life. I think it will cure a bad case of
dyspepsia. You may recommend it for that
case. Wo. O. JAEGER,
322 South Fifth Street,
Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co., 28 College Place, N. Y.,
GENTLEMEN—I have tested the sample of
“Concentrated Liquid Extract of Malt and
Hops” you sent me, and find in my humble
judgment that itis a very pure and safe arti-
cle. I will not hesitate to recommend it in
every case of debility where a Tonic of that
kind is indicated.
Respectfully,
E. H..BEuL, M. D.
New Orleans, La., April 6, 1888,
Specialty Depart. Ph. Brewing Co.,
GENTLEMEN—Having tried your “Best”
Tonic to a great extent amongst my practice,
I will state in its behalf that I have had the
best results with nursing mothers who were
deficient in milk, increasing its fluids and se-
creting a more nourishing food for the infant,
also increasing the appetite and in every way
satisfactory for such cases.
Very respectfully,
D. Bornio, M D.
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Grand Rapids,
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Mich.
GROCERIES.
The Grocery Market.
Sugars continue to decline, which leads
the consumer to hope that more decisions
of the same tenor as Judge Barrett’s may
Coffees are firmer, induc-
‘se in package brands
prunes are
are that the
give their
The latter
be recorded.
ing an advance of
on the 19th. furkey
higher. The indications
Standard people propose to
new competitors a lively tilt.
cut oil ‘4c to the city trade, which im-
pelled the Standard to reduce their
prices ‘se to both the city and country
trade on Monday. Some of the grocery
jobbers expect to see prices go down to
6e unless a truce is patched up. Of
course, the retail trade would unite in
saying ‘‘amen’’ to sucha condition.
There are no changes to note in the
prices of oranges, lemons, dates, figs or
Ve
nuts, except peanuts, which are strong
and higher prices are looked for at any
Bananas be plenty this
moment. will
week.
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Hides. Pelts and Furs.
The wool market is firm at quotations,
but manufacturers buy only for imme-
diate wants, having obtained no advance
on cloths over last year’s prices, although
they have sold freely of the new open-
Pd ing.
Hides are lifeless and tanners are slug-
gish buyers at the heavy decline, not
knowing they are cheap, even at lower
prices than have ruled for years, simply
waiting for the shoe men to take their
leather thai will them a margin.
The past year’s outcome is not satisfac-
tory.
Pelts are some lower in the absence of
any speculative feeling.
Tallow and grease are lower, in syin-
pathy with lard. Plenty of tallow, plen-
ty of lard and cotton seed oil, and nothing
to warrant any higher prices.
Furs are in demand, with considerable
exoitement and higher prices, which are
likely to be changed by the London sales,
beginning the 22d.
47 000
otal: $306 480
Which is chiefly as a fire protection to the city.
We are taxed annually $15,000 for the mainten-
ance of our fire department.
The insurance companies seem
these facts and put us on the same
villages and poorly protected cities.
I have shown through an article in the Jack-
son Duily Patriot that this city paid in the last
four years for fire insurance about $233,000;
losses paid during this period, $57,000; leaving a
gross profit to the companies of about $196,000 in
four years, or nearly $50,000 annually out of this
city alone.
Tf such an enormous drain on our resources
can be stopped or reduced, it seems to be the
most important work that our organization can
accomplish.
That the companies can do better in general
and should reduce the ratio in Jackson is shown
by the enormous surplus capital accumulated by
some of them and the rates of dividends paid.
I have given some instances of dividends from
21 per cent. annually to 75 per cent. annually for
the past fourteen years, and after paying these
dividends, an accumulated surplus of from 100
to 400 per cent. representing the net profits earn-
ed and not divided and subject to distribution
among the stockholders at any time.
The cost of insurance in the Mutual Pulaski
(Jackson county) Fire Insurance Co. for the
period of two years has been less than #1 per
£1,000, W. C. Wheeler, secretary of this com-
pany, writes me that only one assessment has
been made by their company since its establish-
ment, October, 1886, of $1 per $1,000 and 25 per
cent. of that money is on hand yet.
The best authority on mutual insurance in
Michigan, or perhaps in the United States, Hon.
Moses Kingsley, of Kalamazoo, who has been
identified with mutual insurance for the past
twenty-five years, gives me the following result
of his experience:
+The expense of insurance in the Farmers’
Mutual Insurance Company of Kalamazoo Coun-
ty for the past seventeen years has averaged $1.50
per #1.000, the stock companies charging for like
risks $3.33 per $1,000, three years in advance.
“The rate of insurance in the Citizens’ Mu-
tual Insurance Company of Kalamazoo city has
been #2 per $1,000, as against $5 per $1,000, charg-
ed by stock companies for like risks, or $333 per
$1,000 if paid three years in advance.”
Besides the mutual plan, there is now laid be-
fore the merchants of Michigan, a mutual or
risk company plan combined, guaranteeing a 10
per cent. dividend, and returning the earnings
above 10 per cent. among the policy holders.
received a prospectus of that plan from the
Michigan Business Men's Fire Insurance Co.”
Even with a stock company organized in our
city by Jackson capital, one of the greatest ob-
jections to the payment of the stock companies’
rates would be overcome, as then the outtlow of
capital through that source would be checked
and Jackson would be benefitted by the increase
of wealth and capital, of its resident stock-
holders.
Ex-Mayor Prindle aske«
had been made of the
surance companies of the east. The difficulty,
he suggested, of mutual companies doing busi-
ness in the city would be the large amount of
risk it would be obliged to take. In this State,
mutual companies are compelled to confine their
business to three counties. The New York Mu-
tual Commercial Co., he understood, had madea
decided success, but they took risks not only in
New York but in various other states.
Mayor Loennecker said the principal object in
bringing up the matter was, if possible, to induce
the ins ce companies to reduce their rates.
All the circumstances of efficient fire protection
do not seem to have any effect in this direction,
and he thought that if the Association would
pass a resolution requesting the agents in this
city to urge their companies to reduce their rates
here it might have the desired effect. He pre-
sented a prospectus of a proposed commercial
mutual insurance company now being organized
in the State which he thought would be about
what is wanted in this city. Geo. B. Caldwell,
of Greenville, chairman of the Insurance Com-
mittee of the Michigan Business Men's Associa-
tion, is the author of the prospectus.
John T. Tuomey stated that a company had
been organized in New York which proposed to
do business throughout the country through
sub-companies. This compaly, Mr. Toomey
said, was even more careful in taking risks than
some of the old companies.
R. Waldron said his father was a prime mover
in the organization of the first mutual company
in Michigan. He thought the farmers’ mutual
companies afforded little protection. A risk ina
town with good fire protection was preferable to
a farm risk and it seemed strange to him that the
people did not take hold of it, He thought if a
company could be organized in this city it could
take, perhaps not all of the risks of the city, but
it could take a large portion of the risks at lower
rates than the people are now paying, and it
would help to induce the insurance companies
to place their rates on a more equitable basis.
He was certain that at least one-quarter or one-
half of the insurance of Jackson can be carried
successfully by a company organized right here.
Mr. Pringle said the difficulty with the stock
companies is that they do not take into conside-
ration the amount of the risk. The inspection
really amounts to very little. He thought the
most hopeful plan would be to invite solid mu-
tual companies to come to Michigan and take
risks. Those companies will do everything in
the way of inspection if they take any risks.
The only really successful mutual company in
this State is the St. Joseph company. This com
pany employs inspectors, who wnake it a business
to inspect every risk before it is taken.
The matter was referred to the Commit-
tee on Insurance, with instructions to report as
early as convenient.
to overlook
basis with
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1 whether any inquiries
mutual commercial in-
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The Conqueror Conquered.
W. Foss in the Yankee Blade.
In southern archipelagoes he’d fought the
bloody cannibal;
He'd skinned and tanned the crocodile and
found him very tanable;
Not a word of fear he’d uttered, not a word and
not a syllable,
When he killed the Bengal tiger, and he found
him very killable.
He claimed his strength was very for
bears and lions suitable;
He used to boot the grizzly bear, and found him
very bootable;
He claimed in killing monstrous snakes, that he
was very capable,
No boa-constrictor could escape, for he was
unescapable.
great,
In fighting hippopotami, he said he was in-
vincible,
No jaguar could make him wince, because he
wasn’t winceable;
He made the ramping elephant no longer re-
cognizable.
And pulverized the roaring bull, and found him
pulverizable.
Just then his wife came in and said, e“I’d think
it quite commendable;
If you'd come and ’tend the baby, for you'll find
him very tendable.”
The way she took him by the ear will make this
poem readable;
She pulled him out and led him home,
found him very leadable.
and
oO
Petoskey Independent Democrat: The Michi-
ness Business Men’s Association has done seve-
ral things which have benefitted the people of
the whole state. One of the last wasin con-
nection with the adoption of a uniform insur-
ance policy. Through the efforts of the Asso-
ciation the Insurance Policy Commission has
adopted a form of policy which must be used by
all the insurance companies doing business in
the State, and which will save the public thous-
ands of dollars besides doing away with much
of the litigation growing out of losses by fire.
BLANK BOOKS
Stationery,
TABLETS, STEEL PENS,
VISITING BUYERS.
Henry JHopkins,Marquette H B Wagar, Cedar Springs
‘A G Glark & Co, White Cld H Colby & Co , Rockford
J ¥F Clark, Big Rapids C H Loomis, Sparta
Henry S Church, Sturgis Stoddard Bros Reed City
W G Hastings. Kent City HC Carpenter, Woodland
Sullivan Lumber Co, Wm Otto, M:ddleville
Sullivan JC Scott, Lowell
Jas Ward, Harvard Wise & Varnes,
S D Thompson, Newaygo Middlebury, Ind
Chas Glasgow.Lake Odessa F Narregang,Byron Center
F E Campau, Alaska Purchase, So Blendon
E W Ives, Coopersville GH Remington, Bangor
Smith & Bristol, Ada JS Toland, Ross Station
W J Clarke, HarborSprings Geo P Stark, Cascade
EMSmith. Cedar Springs Mills & Mills, Ashland
P F Knapp, Sebewa CS Comstock, Pierson
W J Bonnett, Charlotte G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove
DenHerder & Tanis J DenHerder&Son,Overisel
Vriesland W McWilliams, Conklin
H Van Noord, Jamestown
John Gunstra, Lamont H Meijering, Jamestown
N ¥F Miller, Lisbon Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland
JC Benbow, Cannonsburg Smaliegan & Pickaard,
S H Ballard, Sparta Jamestown
ASFrey.Slocum’sGrove Geo Meijering, Vriesland
L Maier, Fisher J Van Farowe, Beaver Dam
P Dyk, Muskegon S Stark Cedar, Springs
RT Parrish, Grandville Gus Begman, Bauer
W S Adkins, Morgan HA Dailey, Lumberton
John Damstra, Gitchell L Creighton, Nirvana
L M Wolf, Hudsenville John Baker, Chauncey
J Raymond, Berlin E Hagadorn, Fife Lake
W Ver Meulen, Beaver Dam E E Hewitt, Rockford
Ezra Brown, Englishville Muider & Breuker,
M Heyboer & Bro, Drenthe Graafschaap
Chas W Head, Webberville
——__< >>
Manistee Advocate: The Manistee Business
Men’s Association have rented one of Van Bu-
John Smith, Ada
ren’s stores and will fit it up as a club room and
exchange. The officers of the society are inde-
fatigable workers and promise a big year for
Manistee.
Charlotte Republican: The Charlotte Business
Men’s Association isan excellent organization.
If properly sustained the organization may be-
come of great value to the city.
Crockery & Glassware
LAMP BURNERS.
No O0Sen.... 50
Note 5o
Noe fo 7D
Pager. o
LAMP CHIMNEYS.
6 doz. in box,
wo Osun..._...__-.........-.. CS ,
Not - oo Se ee ee oe 2 00
no? Sl hlUL 3 00
First quality.
No. 0Sun, Crimp top..-._.-.-----...- 2 19
No.1 ~— - ee a 2 2
No. 2 3 2
XXX Flint.
No. 0San, Gimp top.._----..--..---
20 and 22 Monroe St. |
Not 8 ee.
| No. 2
Pearl top.
e No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.........-...-3 7
Nos ] . eee eee eee 470
No. 2 Hinge, ~ .4 70
"Pp NRW er *y | La Bastic.
OUR NEW LINE OF i No. 1 Sun, plain bulb =... 12
1 [No.2 © a Se 1 50
Pe (erm eee 1 40
d BS | No. 2 = RENEE GLASS aE SAE EIEN 1 60
\ STONEWARE—AKRON,
es : | Butter Crocks, per eat 0615
are ready for inspection. | Sues 06 pal, pee doe. 65
ft | ee 90
| — 2 Oe ee eee eee ce 1 80
Meat Hubs. 1@eal exch. 0100) 8
a " Le ee 1 00
r a ee do
a 2 1¢
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 60
- . af “ { = Se... @&
for
‘Quickmea
GASOLINE STOVE.
H.LEONARD XSUN
Sole Agents for Western Michigan
the
§
THE SUCCESS OF T
1 SEASON JUST PAST.
and from those who would |
Has eight separate and important improvements for 1889.
Now is the time to arrange for the selling agency for your
town, and we invite correspondence from previous agents
ke the agency for the coming
season. Discount, terms of delivery and dating of invoice
given on application. Catalogue for 1889 now ready,
Hi. Leonard & Sons,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Jobbers of Crockery, Yinware and Lamp Goods.
Stationary
88,90 and 92 SOUTH DIVISION ST.,
Ww. C. DENTISON,
GRNERAL DEALER IN
and Portable Kngings and Boilers,
Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting and Marine Engines. Steam Pumps, Blowers and Ez
haust Fans. SAW MILLS, any Size or Capacity Wanted.
Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—In fair demand at $1.50@#2 per bbl.
Beans—Handlers are paying about $1.25 for un-
picked and getting $1.65@81.75 for hand-picked.
Butter—Creamery isin fair supply at ‘ i
aa is easier, No. 1 readily commanding 18@
20c.
Cabbages—Home giown command 83@% per 100
Celery—i18@20c per doz.
Cider—8@10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce barrels
5c
Cranberries—$7.75@38 for Bell and Cherry and
$8.50@39 for Bell and Bugle.
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried
at 4144@5c and evaporated at 6@6'4c.
Eggs—Fresh are coming in freely, having
oe to 18¢., with prospect of further decline.
Pickled and cold storage stock are being pushed
out at 17¢.
Grapes—Malaga, H@%5 per keg.
Honey—More plenty, being easy at 15¢.@16c.
per Ib.
Onions—Buyers pay 20@25c.
35e. per bu.
Pop Corn—2%%¢ per 1b.
Potatoes—The market is looking up a little, on
account of a limited demand from the South for
seed stock. There is no visible stiffening in
prices, however.
Squash—Hubbard. 1c per Ib.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried Jerseys, 38.75
bbl.
Turnips
and hold at 30@
per
25¢e per bu.
PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provi-
sion Co. quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRE
Mess, new. a
Ghort cut Moream. st... Hb
Hxtra clear pir, shart cut/.........-..-..... 16
extra clear. heavy... .... 16
Olese quill shoreent | 0000 r eT. ae
Boston elear, short ¢at).......--.-...--..--- 16
Clear back, shert cut......--- i. ._
Standard clear, short cut, best.........-...- 16
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, sverspe' 20 lbs. 600... 1) ee
ee . 16 ee
Bisnis ............_.... es
PIEMe 9
ORE DOMEICSS......-.5.5:....... 2. 2 1245
SHOUIGCES (oo ee S15
C boneless
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..-..-........------10%
Dried beef, extra... ... ts -. 8
= . Ham pees
dione Clears béavy............---.-.-...-....7 &
Briskets, mcdiuny .-..-. :
mi iphg. |... -. . 8
Larp—Kettle Rendered.
Macrees 0 es a. 9
ee eS
fib fins M6
LARD—Compound.
Merges ee. t%
Shand cs) ib. Pups. .....--.--.--2.-- 8
Sib. Pais, 20im 2 Case... it 856
Bib Pails i2ima case ...-.----_--_-.--_-. . 8%
10 1b. Pails Gina ease)... ss . 8%
S08 1b. Pails 4in a case... .-- 86
Bo ib. Cans ....-:...--_-..-_.-. ee:
BEEP IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 7 50
Biace .....- a ee
Hees Pike 16
Boneless, ramp butts.........-,..----.-..---- 9%
. re ppl 5 50
sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
Pork Sausage... = T%
Blam Sausage... .---..... 12
Tongue Sausage.........-. Soe 1.3
raitoct Saweace. 0000004
Bigod Sausase,. 5%
Bologna, straight.......-......-.---...-....-.. 5g
Bolorna: thiek-.. .. 1. 3 5%
Bea@Oncese 8 3%
PIGS’ FEET.
in alt Darreis. «- Ss oo
Im quarter barrels..-...1-- 2... .. 2
TRIPE.
in half Harrels. ......-- 3... ee
in quarter barrels....--..-.--........--.-._... 1%
In kits. oo 85
FRESH MEATS.
| Beet, Carcass ---_- : 4 @6
| bind quarters... -. 5 @s6
fore Te > @4
Mees oe oe. @ 614
Parc 1aLs.llt:trt:ti<‘C Csé‘COSCOC:S*:*;C*t:*;*;*=*;«*=téstsS a8
Suomiaces = @, 7%
Boloriia -..-..... . @ dD
Frankfort sausage... @ 8%
Blood, liver and head @, 5
Mittew ....... a 5 @5
OYSTERS and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS IN CANS.
iccce...Cltwt«Ci‘(‘y(N#N:CNNCNCCOC#C#CC.C..... @16
Amenors ...2............. 4. @18
Seles 21 @i
HWaippavyel Counts. -.__---_.......---__- @35
OYSTERS IN BULK.
Standards .. 10
Seleceee....__... 1 40
ons 12
Black Bass... .-
Mreue 2...
Whitefish
aed
Perch... _..
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as foll ws:
STICK,
} :
Standard, 25 lb. boxes....... .- 9
Twist, = i . 9%
Cutsoa 2 = oC 10) |
MIXED.
moval. col pails... 3
200 Tb. bls... -.-.... ss - RYg
Eoctra. 25100 pails = 10
bal 2215 oc. CCCCCCCCCwC#‘C#N#¥(NCNWNNS 2}
HMrench Cream, 25 !p. pails.................- lus
Gut ese OS i cases oT
Broken, 1401p. Bask 000 914
* ae o
FaNcy—In 5 lb. boxes.
hemoen OFOps.. 13
Sour OFOPR 2 14
Penpermina Drops. 14
(HocoIatC DTOpS.. .....-.... -_ st
i M. Cheeoiste Props......--..--. 18
Cum trop. Ce 10
bicorice Props. Ct 18
A. B bicoriee Props...
Eezences, pas ee 14
= printed __.- oe
imperial
Motiees ee 15
Cream Bar.
Mioglasses Bar... ...: i
Caramels. 2... 19
Hiand Mage Creams...........-._..... 19
Plain Creams.......-.-...... 3... ...16
Decorated Creams.........-. 2 ee
Simp Hoek
Burt Atmonds... ...0. 22
Wainterercen Serries) =...) fs 14
FaNcy—In bulk.
Ibezenees plain, in pas... ee
- mpbise oo. 11
prmted impasse 1214
« CTT ee 11%
Cheeolste Praps i patis.........-...-..... 12
Gum Drops, ii pais, ee 6
_ “ mops... ee oo
Moss Drops, mi pails - 10
a . moon... 9
Sour Drops, mm pais.
Pripertals dBA ee 11%
cs ODIs ee 101%
FRUITS.
ee
Oranves, Mloridas, 9c 2 50@3 50
hemens Cagiee. --. 8... 2 75@3 00
ua PCy 3 50@3 75
Wigs layers, Mew.) ls) 10@15
Bees SOI @ 6
ipates pears. o0 Ip. @ 414
. a2 femiis oo ib: @ 5%
“Ward dete. pox Qa.
' 60k 8 @
- Persian, 50-1p. DOx.-...-......... 6 @T%
NUTS.
Mimonds, Paeraconma. 9-9... ---:. @17
“ faen @15
‘ Calltorsia.................... 14@16
Brags. oe ee 7 Gis
Hilberts) Sicily 0.300.002) sl 11 @11%
Walnuts, Grevopie..__.- -.-. is @
es Brenen @
Peeans Texas MH. P...... 8... 8 @
Cocosnuts, per 100... -......- <5. 4 25
Chestupta :....0 2-21.12. ss
PEANUTS.
Mlieetree fichtsg 2 ote. G@i%
Peacocks (0 ee @7
See @s6
oo ee eee @5
ee ee @5
\|
{|
Wholesale Price Current.
The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
BAKING POWDER, 3 6% SYRUPs.
|S. 614 | Corn, Darrela.....:.......: 24@25
| ee one-half barrels... .26@%
Oe cans.... 95 Penie 6% eee eo
Ib. “ 1 40 CREAM TARTAR. Pure Guear, 01......_... 25@32
6 02 1 90 | Strictly ; Tl ate ‘Os
S 9) | Strictly pure............... 38 : - half barrel....27@34
i. ib. ** we Peproecers ee 2 SWEET GOODS.
12 02. 3 80 DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. x AR
b. 4 95 | Apples, sun-dried..... 54@ 6 Ginger Snaps........--. 9 914%
21% lb 11 78 “ evaporated.... 7 @ 7% | Sugar Creams.........9 9%
B Ib. .13 75 | Apricots, Se 16° | Wrested Creams... ... 9%
: --WG “6 BISCRMCEIICS 10... is x Graham Crackers..... 9
ao on | N +
22 20 ——— See ee 14 Oatmeal Crackers..... 9
Peaches tn a mM 7 Topaccos—Plug.
Plums i oe LCGiaee o.oo 39@41
Pi concedes... Gp eg Comer stone i 00 ct Te 39
“ “ «5 | _. DRIED FRUITS—Foreign. Doawe Pedro... 2.5... 40
2 ""* 4 gg | Citron, in drum....... @2: Pesen Pie... . 0c)... 40
ee bexes. |... @2%5 | Wedding Cake, bik.......-...40
: Bip eae 8) Oo Currants. ....-.....-+-- @ 5% | Something Good.........--...-. 40
Absolute, 14 Ib. cans, 100s..11 75 Lemon Peel........... 14 woe 40
és izib. “ 50s..10 00 | Oranse Beet. 3... 14
‘ 1lb. * 50s..18 % Prunes, Turkey......- @ 5 TEAS.
Telfer's, 14 Ib. cans,6doz. 270] ,,...; Imperial ...... @ 6%4 | JAPAN—Regular.
‘ 14 Ib cer ice Gk ee Raisins, Valencias.......... 6) Pee Iz @Dp
1h Ue eee at Oren 0 Se eee @16
Aeme, Ib. cans,3doz.... 75 Domestic Layers...2 45| Choice.............. -.24 @&
Toe fe ee ee tt cee a Boose Californias. .2 65 | Choieest.........-..... 30 @33
. ce a " 300]... FARENACEOUS Goons. | SUN CURED. 7
Hee og | Farina, 100 TD. Heese... .. Of Wale 12 @15
Red Star, 4 1b. eans,12doz 45 Hominy, per a 400 Goed ......_.._......- 16 @20
és ne 6 * 35 | Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.... 60 Cheiee 2 2... 2A @B
11b 4) pot - imported. __- @ | CHEIGESE.............. 3 @as
ca Pearl Barley... .... .. @ 3 BASKET FIRED.
ae BATH BRICK. Peas creen.. @i 40| War... @20
Fnglish 2doz.inease..... 3 “ spli ae ee oe
= ao Ls oY SOHe @ te | Chere... @25
“ade a Cees Sago, German......... @ 6s Choitced............... @35
American. 2 doz. in case... 65 Tapioca, fi or pri... @ 6144 , Extra choice, wire leaf @40
| ||| BLUING. Gross | Wheat, érgeked..:._.. @ 6% | GUNPOWDER. me
Aretic Liq, 4-0z.........-.. 3 60 | Vermicelli, import.... @10 | Common to fair...... 235 @35
“ Be Be eee 7 00 - domestic... @6o | Extra fine to finest. @65
1 .......... 10 80] _ FLAVORING EXTRACTS, | Choicest fancy........% @s
8-oz paper bot 7 20 Jennings’ Lemon Vanills IMPERIAL, i
Pepper Box No. 2 3 00] 2 02. Panel, doz. 1 35' Common to fair....... 20 @35
i 4 00 | 4 0z. " 1 40 2 95 Superior tofirie........ 40 @50
ee * 5 9 00}60z. 2 2 3 2 YOUNG HYSON. _
owe No. 3, 1 00 1 60; Common to fair.......18 @2
Nea Qian 20 —- ia 4 00 ; Superior to fine....... 380 @40
No a 555) NO-10, | ~ 450 " 600 OOLONG.
No. 2 Carpet... 2 50 No. 4, Vaper, “* 1 60 2 eo) Common to fair....... 2 @30
So 2 75 1 pt, Round,~ 4% 7 50 Superior to fine....... 30 @50
ee eee - + § 50 15 00 | Fine to choicest...... 55 @b5
Goa wae 90} FISH—SALT. ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
Se oT 1 00 | Cod, whole... ga, tat. 2 @30
Sa Domelers) @ii | Choice. 30 @35
aoe S pp) ae ee 12s ee 55 @65
BUCKWHEAT. Herring, round i 27 | Yea Bust... ..-... 8 @10
Kings 100 Ib. cases ..........5 00 i 12 er. | 2 oe Topaccos—Fine Cut.
Tenth oases. aoe Holland, bbls.. 1000; Sweet Pippin.......... f
BUTTERINE Holland, kegs.. @% | Hive and Seven....... 50
Dairy, solid packed........ 13 y Sealed......... 30 Hiawatha ............. 68
ee i4 Mack, sh’s, No. 1, % bbl....9 50 Sweet Cuba. .......... 45.
Creamery, solid packed.... 15] i “+ 12 Ib kit..1 45| Petoskey Chief........ Sy
‘ ee 16 i “ 10 “ ..1 36) Sweet Russet.......... 40
CANDLES. Trout, % bbls.. oe Gs | tise... 42
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes..... foie a 20) ibe Bee ee 86 Wiorida............. 65
Star, 40 es BTV White, No. 1, % bbis........ 6 00) Hose Lear............. 66
Paraffine .. i i . 12 1b. Kite... 4 1 hed Domino........... 38
ee si ° 2 o E. kits.....1 | Swamp Angel... -..-. 40
CANNED GOODS—Fish. = Family, ¥% bbls...... 3 00 TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.
Clams, 1 1b, Little Neck..... 125 - “i Wiis... _Sogite | S 2, per Hundred... 2 59
Clam Chowder, 3 eo to. GUN POWDER. a 8 5, if Se 3 00
Cove Oysters, 1 1b. stand....1 00 Regs... ee eee eee eee eee 5 25 S10, ooo tttteresee 4 00
“ ts pe ea ee Holt bees 233 co eo 5 00
Lobsters, 1 lb. pienic........ i LAMP WICKES. a | —— to the following dis-
‘“ Si 2 65 | NO- 0.---- 2 eee eee ee ee eee eee counts:
Fib) Stee oe = SO 40 | —- or over......... 5 per cent.
‘2 Sears SO et nea sane tae ey
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce. foe eS leccalel sis ay
7 fb!) Stang. 0/1 1 95] Pure... .-.-.-.-..eeeee eee e ees 30| .. a
“ San ea 2 oo | Calabria..............--..... ee 9%
Sie tn Sheteed SOY 22 c(h RE ea RERRRERB EE 11
- 3 ib. soused....... 3 00 ou mortee | SO EF. -------- nenennee ence on K®
Salmon, 1 lb. Columbia..... 2 09 | Buckets .......... -........ 6%4| $1 for barrel.
“ 2 Ib. ee 2 95 | Half bbis................... 6 | MISCELLANEOUS.
1 1b. Sacramento...1 70 __ MOLASSES. | Cocoa Shells, bulk......... 3%
2 1b. 6 iS “5 Diack Sep 16@17 Jelly, 30-1b. pails eo %
Sardines, domestic \%s...... 5 Cuba Baking.............. ZA SABe..-------- eevee eee ee ly
“ 6 ce ae Porto Rico................ 24@35 ET
Mustard %4s...... @10 New Orleans, good....____ 23@30 PAPER, WOODENWARE.
‘ imported 14s.....10@11 i choice.... ..38@40 PAPER.
“spiced, 48.......10@12 / _.,_ fancy.......45@48 Curtiss & Co. quote as
Trout, 3 Ib. brook... | One-half barrels, 3c extra. follows:
CANNED GoopDS—Fruits. (0) veshareay ge |
Apples, gallons, stand......2 00 Muscatine, Barrels .........6 00 © wn Licht Weicht.... ..... 1
Blackberries, stand......... 1 00 i Half barrels 315: guoar ... ee te z
Cherries, red standard......2 50 Cases......2 25@2 35 pas sugar “Ou
eT a 2 60 ROLLED OATS oe 2%
Damsons 1 00 | Muscatine, Barrels.......... 60 Bak aD NY ae
Bee Plums, stand... 20 iH Half barrels.....3 15 py, : ae yds... —
Gooseberrie 4 Cases......2 2@2 35 ry TOOGS 06. ee eee eee eee ee OD
Ca a Bae Jute Manilla...-........-+-+.8
yi a Michigan Test.... 9 Red Express, No. 1 _..
Peaches, all yellow, stand..1 45 Water White.......... 11% i" oe a
: sceands (0... t 25 oe eee : oT
Pie fi Oa CERRO ee eee eee 4 75) 48 Cotton........-........... ae
ee qu “ 14 bbl "9 gg Cotton, No. 2........ 20
FO kh a oh L HK Se tp mT oo 2
ce ie oy ge ena Be. 5 % ee 18
a a : sii i a : in bbl La er Pa aa a al 3 38 sea, Island, assorted silane aay 40
Raspberries, extra. ! i | i a 25 : ss No. 8 a eT _
a a aa pci, Ne OM .. ‘eee '
Strawberries ......-.-- 110@1 25]... F-D,fullcount........ ao WOODENWARE. -_
Whortleberries..............1 20 | Cob- No. 3..--..------.----.- @ wa
D€ a ups, Net... .. [D>
CANNED VEGETABLES. a RICE. eS “bts
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... 4 9p|| Carolina bead 00. Gs! .. No. Sinn - a
a : i oe E 2 sé oft... met ( ANO. Decee se scecseccece “9
Beans, Lima, stand Ce 1 00 No 2 :3:--8'2 | pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 160
Green Limas.... @1 10 NO. Bees seen ee S4@G | "
wee ae - Se Se an No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 7
Stringlesg, Erie...... a ET a ig ys hl boxes... Go
Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 45 ae aoe B a is
Corn, Archer’s Trophy...... DeLand 5, pure. 7 __ ee 15 ee 1 para
é “ Morn’g Glory.1 10 SS Cap Siieaf....... 5 | 7 ee a 090
“s “ i ey CO Lo Cs oe 2
Peas, French —_ Gold...1 = Taylor's... SS ns — - a 2 50
j eet ag — i Cd ‘* 15s, 17s and 19s 2 7%
extra marrofat... @1 lv a ee askets cok Tae
soaked.............--., | Common Fine per bbl... . oe oe 1 60
June, stand...... 1 40@) 501 “4S carlots.. 80 “6 Te hae eee
ge a Pead | re a =5 | Solar Rock, 56 1b. sacks..... 28 iT] with covers 1 =
French, extra fine... 14 v0 28 pocket..................-.2 00} halcaresathy el ths, a 5 5
Mushrooms, exira fine..... 0 2 10 ‘ Ne3 -
Pumpkin, 3 1b. Golden...... Se sce sana 2 20 ie ee
Succotesh, staundard..... @ 85| Ashton bu. bags 9 eae + ioe
ee ee ts 5 ge
Tomatoes, Red Coat. @110;¥98v" —------------ 35 ——
: y y i SAL SODA. aan aa re,
i aS : ee iy! GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
, Stand br....1 G5@1 10] Granulated, boxes.......... 1% | white ee mn
Seas L iq SAPOLIO. z a ee 95
Michigan Full Cream 12 @12'% Kitchen, 3 doz, in box. rol | ean a 95
Sap Sago... ._. oT 16Q@17 Hand, (3 7 oo SO! Getehe is a = -
ya w i __ SAUERKRAUT. Straight, in ee So . > 2
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet 22 | Silver Thread, 30 gal........ 375 | p ——— )
i “6 3 20 ie a -_ 5 atent
Premium..... 33 a > 00 |
‘ BHosrCocoa... 371...) FN Sabie
Breakfast... 48| Mixed bird.................. 436 | poltec i
aura OC 1011} eit Tia oe
eet hee cs : Cee ny iranulated.. scans seas 3 00
a? Ong i 5 pe 4161p Tanmnamanani ann
Se ee See al bs aio aA 84 Ships i =a
CHICORY i Rape i ee ne ne 15 50
i . : Mustard ": os | SGrCOmiemlee .o0 0... 6 14 00
Bulk 6 Ee ie} . .
gees. i ooo =i Widdries................. 17 @
ET 1 G4 Ve Le | Mixed Feed Y dives
COFFEE_Green. 4 | Seoteh, in bladders.........37 [7777 pom satel i
Rio! face 16 @I17 Maccaboy, in-jars...........35 | auiadd tate CORN. A
ae 7 @is |F rench Rappee, in Jars..... ea pa CN ene le 6
—— is @is |. SOAP. - To ”
fancy, washed...19 @20 Dingman, 100 bars.......--- 4 00! gmall lots oo "
ee » G@o{ | Don't Anti-Washb ae et
Santina 15 @18 aan00............ 2a: |... a
Mexican & Guatemalalz7 @i9 | Queen Anne.........-..----3&5 |. aor
Peer aun 17 @ig | German family..........-.-. 249) NO. 4, per 10 tbs... 2 00
Save. ENSELIOR. | 0.0 2 @2 | Big Bargain............-.--. Hoe) Sn
Ae 0. 3 @25 TT ee ee ee 30
‘¢ Mandheling. 6 @28 BOXCS owns escent eee nn a8 4 | Dre a ear aaa tas eis 110
Mocha, genuine....... 25 @26 | Kegs, English.........-...... 4% | HAY
To ascertain cost of roasted} .,,... spices—W hole. we 14 00
coffee, add 1c. per lb. for roast- Allspice ..--.-.---- +--+ +--+ ++ Ce ae
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- | C@SS!4, bP erie oe ea CT vaste
ape. - 3atavia in bund....11 mos Se ea oc
: es Saigon in rolls...... 42 HADES, PELTS and FURS.
© "100 Ibs | Cloves, Amboyna........ : Perkins & Hess pay as
ho eae i |) Zanzibar......... _ follows:
‘* in cabinets .........--.- 2314 a rae ce ten swee « for HIDES.
oe Be eee NO Loe celeeOS | QTOCMvn- se --oe esses 4 @ 4%
Mag Por ea € No. 2 eo | Part Cured............ @4
s Ys a y t 7 rv om
Meee ie 315, 21% 2g | Pepper, Singapore, black. ...18%4 | a £4@
sexsi 28 ae + 6 white.....98 | DlY--::------ +--+ 2-2 -e> 5 @ 6
aga oa 93" Ee nT SETA ‘See go
MS ee | Calfskins. ereen...... < O)
Arbuckle’s Ariosa..........- 2234 spices—Ground—In Bulk. | a aaa . = ;
. AvOMGE. 200. Sim —EAlispiee (0... . 1. im | ee * 20
_ AVOTICa. - p ee ea a ‘ econ SEIng../.....-. 2
McLaughlin’s XXXX.......22% | Cassia, Batavia............. 20 | — has 7
Honey Bee 241, . «and Saigon.25 | ~° ee
Nox A. 2314 |} Saison 0 4 | PELTS.
0 6 9214 | Cloves, Amboyna...........35 PSheamlingsy icici. 10 @30
Te eee ee 2M “” “Zanzibar...........28 | Estimated wool, per b 20 @28
COFFEES—50 lb. bags. Guiser, African... 1... 12% | FURS.
Arbuckle’s Avorica..... 20 . Geeta =... 15 |10 per cent. above following
- Quaker City....2 Jamaica ....-. Ss 4 prices.
i Best Rio........ 22 Mace Bathvia............... in | Mink... 5@ 65
Prime Maricabo 25 Mustard, Hupiish._.....-.. 22 Cogn... -- 5@i 00
o COFFEE EXTRACT. am <)Vond frie S| | Skimk....-...-... 2... 5@1 10
Valley City..............-.. (s Wrresie 27 | Muskrat.... a
Bel... Tt 10) Natmers, No 2... c. “ | Ox red............. | 5@1 50
CLOTHES LINES. i Pepper, Singapore, black....22 | CTOSS..-...-.... 50@5 00
Cotton, 40f...._.. per doz. 1 25 ae white.....20 | rey... ..-.. 5@ 80
eT eee eee Cayenne: 200). | | Cab, omees 6.) -5@ 2%
“ Of - 1 60 STARCH. wee 5@ 50
ri wot. z 2 Ob | Mystic, 1 1b. pkes_.-..-.---- a Le 1 00@6 00
“é é ¢ " :
: 80 ft....... Tae parrels. oe 6 | Ey 5E3 00
Jute GG it....... . 1 00 SUGARS. | Marin, dark. ......_.. 25@3 00
. eo: “ ? Cut feat... @ 83% | pale... 10@1 00
CONDENSED MILK. €upes 5... 21s... 2... @ 75, | Otter oe 50@8 00
oe Powaeree _.:....-.-.:- @ i) Well 50@3 00
Anglo-Swiss Granulated, Stand.... @ 7ig)| Beak). ee ae
: CRACKERS. - ONE a. @ ee 50@6 00
Kenosha Mutter S | EGanfecuonery Al... | @W0G |) Badger 5@1 00
Seviiggr 2 32.50... 6% Standard A. ..------- @7 | Deerskins, per ip...... 5@ 40
Butter. ceca aed 6% | No. 1, White Extra C.. @ 6% | MISCELLANEOUS.
: family,............-... 616 | No. @ Extra C.......-. m 64 | Tallow... 444@ 5%
DISCWIE 2. 60. 7 . PNoe. 3G, golden....-... @ 6% } Grease butter......... @ 8%
DOM. esos tk a 8 |No.4C, dark.......... @6_ | Switches .............. 2 @ 2%
City Bode... 0s 8 iNe5 Co o02. @ 6% | Ginneng..-...-..- 2 W@2 16
Drugs # Medicines.
State Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Your Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
President—Geo. McDonald
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasearer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At the lecture room of Hartman’s Hall,
Grand Rapids, Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5 and 6.
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. :
First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lamsing.
Second Vice-President—H. M Dean, Niles.
Third Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ana Arbor.
Treasurer— Wm Dupont, Detroit. :
Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman, Manistee; A. Bas-
sett, Detroit; F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; W. A.
Hall, Greenville; & T. Webb, Jackson.
Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit.
Grand Kapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.
Detroit Pharmaceutical Seciety.
President, J. W.Caldwell. Secretary, B. W. Patterson.
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Associatien.
President, Geo. L, LeFevre. Secretary, Jno. A. Tinholt.
POPULAR PREPARATIONS.
Constituent Elements of Patented and
Other Remedies.
CAMPHOR ICE.
500 gms. lard, 125 gms. white wax, 50
gms. camphor, 20 drops oil cloves, 3.5
gms. bitter almond oil.
BROWN HAIR DYE.
Dissolve 8 parts pyrogallic acid in 16
of alcohol, and mix with a solution of 1
part sulphide sodium in 48 water.
SYRUP OF CODEINE.
are dissolved in 33
and 35 gms.
codeine
alcohol
1.25 gms.
gms. 60 per cent.
water, and mixed with liter sugar
syrup.
JESUIT DROPS.
180 gms. copaiba balsam, 30 grams
resin guaiac, 15 gms. chios turpentine,
15 gms. potassium carbonate, 3.5 gms.
cochineal, 1 liter alcohol. Digest one
week and filter.
OINTMENT
White precipitate, 5;
trate, 5; ointment glycerin,
daily.
TO CEMENT
FOR FRECKLES.
bismuth subni-
2. Use thrice
WOOD AND GLASS.
Mix together finely pulverized well
dried zine white with sufficient clear
eopal varnish to produce a half-liquid
preparation, and spread over the parts
to be joined.
ANTISEPTIC SOAP.
Oil almonds, 72; lig. soedzw, 24; liq.
potasse, 12; zine sulpo-carbolate, 2. Otto
rose, q. S. to suit.
LANOLIN TOILET CREAM.
Lanolin, 5 grams; oil sweet almonds,
5 grams; precip. sulphur, 5 grams; oxide
zinc, 2.5 grams; extract violet, 0.5 grams.
Extract alkanet, q. s. to the desired tint.
SYRUP OF LICORICE.
40; ammonia water,
water, 180. Macerate 12 hours, strain,
add honey (unstrained) 120. Warm till
limpid and transparent: cool, filter, add
sugar 120, bring to a boil.
ARTIFICIAL CARLSBAD SALTS.
Ziemssen suggests the following asa
cheap and effective substitute:
Sodium sulphate, 40; sodium carbon-
ate, 6; sodium chloride, 1. Dissolve in
hot water, evaporate, and powder the re-
maining salt. Dose, 1s teaspoonful in
hot or carbonated water.
ELIXIR OF EXTRACT OF LICORICE.
Dissolve 30 parts licorice extract in 90
parts aq. foeniculi, add 5 parts liq. am-
mon. eaust. (10 per cent.), shake well,
cork, allow to stand a few days. Then
add one part oil of anise dissolved in 24
parts alcohol, and allow to settle. Allow
to stand 8 days, decant the clear liquid
and filter the remainder. 0 <_
The Test of Loyalty.
From the Charlotte Republican.
is the 1 1
The object of the B. M.
ract sense is coextensive
Shall it continue?
existence in this ¢
A. in its truest and
with all the legitim interests of the
surrounding country. It i: an
for any one man or set of men, but for
whole. How shall it be conducted?
man or set of men, but by the whole.
class organization. Its meetings are open to all
citizens. whether members or not, and all are
invited to attend and take part in its delibera-
tions. It is not controlled by the merchants or
by the professional men, nor yet by the manu-
facturers. It belongs to all, including the me-
chanie and the laboring man. Are the times
hard and dull? Can they be bettered? We want
suggestions. Is the laborer out of employment:
What can be done to furnish more’ work
Baboring men and mechanies speak up. You
interests are at stake.
neeessity
Hecessity
not assoc]
Not by one
for and encourage?
and let us see.
increase the growth and prosperity of the city?
Come and let us reason together. i
By nature, the county of Eaton is one of the
best counties of land in the State.
situated in the center of the county, east and
west, and very nearly in the center, north and
south. It is the county seat, the largest place in
the county, and must of right control the busi-
ness interests of the county. It could not be
better located for railroad advantages. There
are many places in Michigan about the size of
Charlotte vll vieing for advantage and suprem-
acy. The question now is, shall Charlotte excel
and take its rightful position at the front or
shall it be allowed to lapse back and be an in-
ferior town? It all depends upon its citizens.
The B. M. A. will hold its next meeting in the
council rooms next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
How many of our citizens will be present?
you loyal to Charlotte and its interests? If so, be
present and let us see if we cannot accomplish
something toward increasing the growth and
prosperity of our City.
a a
The Drug Market.
Opium is very firm and likely to ad-
Manufacturers, be present
vance. Quinine is still very low. Bal-|
sam copaiba will be higher. Oil sassa-
fras is lower. Alcohol is higher. Lin-
seed oil is higher.
oO
Owosso Times: The annual banquet of the
Owosso Business Men’s Association was held at
Wesener hall last evening,
large, the spread fine and the toasts par excel-
lent. The speakers from out of the city were
Frank {Wells, of Lansing, Dr. E. B. Ward, of
Laingsburg, and Frank Hamilton, of Traverse
City. Other toasts were responded to by H. W.
Parker, J: W. Turner, C. C. Duff; W. H. Geer.
Geo. M. Dewey and short remarks were made by
. Rey. Cenoyer, Rey. Davies and Rey. Spencer.
for its |
city and |
the |
It is nota |
Is there any thing we can do to}
QNs etty is}
Are |
The attendance was |
The Typical Drummer.
| Atthe Maine Commercial Travelers’ Banquet
in Portland the following poem was read by
Robert Rexdale, author of the new novel ‘‘Saved
by the Sword”:
The Drummer—bless his jolly face,
Has goodly right to fame!
No matter what his creed or race,
He glories in the name.
He’s open-hearted, brave and kind,
And loves a noble deed:
In him ill-luck will always find
A friend in time of need.
In every land beneath the sky,
He’s cosmopolitan,—
A brother of that broader tie
That binds us man to man.
He'll pledge with you and jest with you,
And fight, if need there be;
But should he get the best of you,
A generous foe is he!
He works alike in sun or rain,
Yet thinketh not of praise;
You meet him on the morning train,
In trade's o’er-crowded ways.
Oh, he is versed in all the tricks
That travel on the road;
Of science, love and politics,
The drummer knows the code.
His’standard to the breeze unfurled,
Floats o’er the distant isles!
He moves the commerce of the world,
And basks in beauty’s smiles.
SSUEEEEIEEEiectttiie titan a
The Condition of Trade.
From the New York Shipping List.
A quiet feeling has prevailed in com-
mercial and financial circles since the
close of last week, and, so far as the vol-
ume of business is concerned, there has
been very little if any marked improve-
ment. The distributive movement of
general trade seems to be restricted by
the same influences that have operated
since the new year commenced. The
business depending upon the ordinary
requirements of consumption continues
fairly active, but thus far there has been
very little disposition on the part of
dealers or manufacturers to stock afresh
for future requirements or to hnter upon
new operations, and as a
both trade and speculation have contin-
ued in a waiting attitude. The general
dullness of trade in the principal mer-
chandise markets has developed an easier
tendency for values, and in a majority of
cases prices are lower, but there is no
department of either trade or industry
that has developed any unfavorable fea-
made to adjust railroad affairs upon a
permanent basis are being watched with
keen interest, for not only the future
prosperity of the railroad interest de-
pends in a large measure upon the sue-
cess of these efforts, but there is alsoa
close relation between trade and trans-
portation that will be influenced thereby.
It is scarcely possible to expect that rate
cutting will be entirely eradicated and
that all the evils that have grown up
within the past few years will be at once
swept away, but their occurrence will be
reduced to a minimum, and the promise
that bankers will in no way assist a fur-
ther unhealthy expansion of railroad
construction is a blow at the prime cause
of much of the recent demoralization.
The response of Wall street through the
stock market to the improved condition
of railroad affairs has been rather disap-
pointing, as a strong bull market was
confidently predicted as the result of last
week’s meeting of managers and bank-
ers, but operators have been so often de-
ceived heretofore by unfulfilled prom-
that there is’a desire to
completion of these negotiations before
undertaking fresh operations. Mean-
while, however, there has been an active
demand for bonds anda large business
ises
has been transacted on investment ac-
count. ‘The financial situation continues
to improve, the money markets both
home and abroad having developed an
easier tendency. London, Paris and
Berlin have quoted lower rates for loans
and discounts, and here loanable funds
have been in abundant supply at 2@214
per cent.
in this direction
the bank statement shows a heavy in-
crease in surplus reserve. Foreign ex-
the moderate supply of commercial bills.
and accordingly bankers say that a re-
sumption of gold exports is not improb-
able, but the country can easily part
| With liberal shipments without incon-
; venience. The only new feature in the
| produce markets has been a further sharp
| drop in the
; the bearish character of the statistical
estimate of the crop made publie by the
Bureau of
placed at 415,000,000 This
bushels.
port during the next eight months, but
still too much above exporters’ limits to
stimulate business in that quarter.
and cotton are both lower, and the ex-
port movement has been fairly active.
Speculation in petroleum continues
drag, with narrow fluctuations. The
outlook is unsettled by uncertainty as to
| the probable action of producers in exer-
| cising their privilege of a call from the
standard
Are there any manufac- |
turing interests that we can speak a good word |
at 62 cents under the agree-
ment of November, 1887. The demand
| for anthracite coal continues slow and
| rather disappointing,
iflects a tame feeling. Prices are not
obtain concessions.
Probable Colla
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pse of the Copper Syn-
dicate.
From the New York Shipping List.
The French copper syndicate that now
| practically controls the copper trade and
industry of the world appears to be get-
|
|
|
|
On the ist of January the monthly state-
ment of stocks showed that there had
accumulated in Great Britain and France
a visible supply over and above the re-
quirements of consumption of not less
than 110,000 tons fine copper, which the
syndicate has had to take and pay for.
In addition to this quantity, it is esti-
mated that the same parties are carrying
in this country an unsold stock of about
39,000 tons, in all about 145,000 tons,
which, at £70 per ton, represents in value
£10,150,000, or $50,000,000. The ex-
|
| perience of the past twelve months has|
gigantic |
speculative deal that during the coming |
; Shown the managers of this
!twelve months this supply is likely to
| be increased by a further addition of not
jless than 100,000 tons, to provide for
! which will put a strain upon the financial
consequence |
tures calculated to influence the future
or lessen the feeling of confidence that
prevails. ‘The efforts that are being |
await the
at}
Money has been flowing freely |
from the interior, and |
change rules steady, chiefly on account of |
price of wheat as a result of |
Agriculture and which is now}
in- |
dicates a large surplus available for ex-|
notwithstanding the decline prices are |
Corn |
to |
and the market re- |
quoted lower, but buyers could readily |
| ting into such deep water that it has been |
found necessary to take fresh measures to |
strengthen its supports and resources. |
resources of the syndicate that it feels
| unable to stand in its present position,
| and hence some new scheme for raising
ithe wind has had to be concocted and
put in operation. Here is the way the
peculiar arrangement is being worked. ac-
cording to a cable received from Paris,
dated the 13th instant: ‘‘The copper syn-
dicate, having reached the end of its re-
sources, is about to launch a metal bank
to relieve its necessities. The Societe
des Metaux will take 40,000 tons of cop-
per and the Metal Bank will take 90,000
tons and also the contracts for the next
two years.”’
A bank with a capital of copper is a
novelty in France, and probably in any
other financial center of the world. The
so-called bank is evidently nothing more
nor less than a pawn-show, where the
Societe des Metaux will pawn its surplus
copper, and get in exchange the cash of
the shareholders in the bank—in other
words, it is an attempt to get the public
to come to the rescue of M. Secretan’s
bubble. The knowledge that the Societe
begins to feel the strain of the weight it
has attempted to carry is not calculated
to strengthen public confidence in its
ability to maintain much longer its po-
sition, and were it not for the fact that it
is impossible to measure or even esti-
mate the limits of human credulity, the
fate of this speculation would be near at
hand. After witnessing the faith with
which the French will hand their money
over to a Lesseps, and the English will
invest in Electric sugar shares, it is diffi-
eult toeven hazard an opinion as to the
possibilities of aman like M. Secretan.
The Metal Bank may prove to be the
salyation of the copper deal for another
year, but it is scarcely possible that it
will go beyond that date; but until the
suceess of this scheme is assured, the
situation is critical, not alone for the
metal trade, which, after all, would per-
haps suffer the least, but for the holders
of copper shares who have purchased at
a heavy premium, and most of all to the
mining companies, who would have to
stand a heavy shrinkage in the value of
their properties and be forced to market
their product for at least a year upon a
very narrow margin of profits.
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Washington,
Detroit, Jan. 17, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR Str—The commercial travelers
of Michigan have arranged for an ex-
cursion from Detroit to Washington and
return, to take part in the inauguration
of President Benjamin Harrison on
March 4. We respectfully ask business
men to join us.
We will leave Detroit by the Michigan
Central Railway on Friday, March 1, at 8
p- m., arrive in Hornellsville on the
Erie Railway for breakfast Saturday,
March 2, from there going via the Erie
and the Lehigh Valley to Philadelphia,
stopping over at Mauch Chunk, ‘‘the
Switzerland of America,’’? four hours,
giving all who wish to avail themselves
of the opportunity of an excursion up
the Switch Back. From Philadelphia,
we take the B. & O. to Washington, ar-
riving in Washington on Sunday morn-
ing, March 3. We will spend Sunday,
Menday and Tuesday in Washington,
leaving there at 6 a. m. Wednesday morn-
ing, arriving in Baltimore at 7 a. m.,
where we will take breakfast and have
three hours to visit the Monumental City:
then on to Philadelphia, where we will
take dinner and have until 7 p. m. to pay
our respects to the Quaker City. We
will then take up the march to the City
of the Straits, arriving home on the 7th.
The cost of transportation and one
berth in sleeping car both ways will not
exceed $22.25 per capita. Berths in the
sleeping ears while at Washington can be
had for $1 per night. We have secured
ten of the finest Palace sleeping cars on
wheels for this excursion, and in order
to supply all who wish to go with us, we
$10 on or before February 1 (to enable us
; to know what accommodations to secure). !
| Please correspond with F. T. Collver,
Secretary, care Michigan Club, Detroit.
F. T. Coriver, Secretary.
E. Mortiock, Treasurer.
~> © <-> -
Save Your Discounts.
There is more money made in buying
| goods than in selling them.
old saw. And itis true in a great meas-
jure, too. Don’t trust the buying to an
| inexperienced, or shiftless clerk, for in
close buying is the foundation of all bus-
Save your discounts and
iness success.
way in the year, and you will be
; prised at the amount.
pened in aretail house one rainy day,
and business was slack, but the enter-
| prising proprietor and clerk were busy
| figuring on bills. “TF thought,’ Sard the
| proprietor, *‘I would see what I could
jmake by discounting some bills that I
| have received in this morning’s mail, and
| I find that I will make exactly $6.75 send-
ing out checks for these bills this morn-
ing, and that is more than | could make
net by waiting on customers for several
hours. In fact, lam making more this
morning by its being rainy than I would
|if it had been pleasant.’? And there is
not a grocer who could not save money
; every day by discounting his billsas they
come. ‘There is one grocery in this city,
| probably the largest in this city, that
makes quite a fair profit by discounting
jall sugar bills. Don’t let anything get
away, no matter how small. You are
| entitled to discounts, provided that you
| take advantage of them.
ee
Passing a hardware store, I saw some-
| thing that may give auseful hint to some
retailer. I saw aman affixing labels to
bright tin boxes, and, investigating the
process, found each tin was well scrubbed
with a hot, strong solution of washing
soda, the surface was then rubbed with a
raw onion (or onion juice), and the label
pasted and fixed in the usual way. Itis
said to be almost impossible to separate
paper and metal so joined.
__——@—@—~<—
A bill has been introduced in the New
| York Legislature reducing the legal rate
'of interest in that State to 5 per cent.
<9 3a@., 40
Ganoicen 40@, 45 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 2%@ 32) Bismuth S. N.........2 15@2 25
aie 55@ 60 | Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15| Calcium Chlor, 1s, (48
Hydrochlor ........... 3@ 5 Potass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10) 11; 44s, 12)...... a @ 9
Mane 10@ 12] Potass Nitras.......... i 9; Cantharides Russian, at
Gxancan 13@ 14| Prussiate.............. 20@ 28} Ppo..........-......-. @i %
ea ; SUlpHAte Mo. ... 1... 15@ 18] Capsici Fructus, af... @ 18
Phosphorium dil...... 20 “ ss 0 @ 16
Salicylicum .......-.-- 1 a 80 ene a ke si ie
ee ia 20@ 25) Caryophyllus, (po. 30) 25@ 28
Tac oes Soa be Altpae %@ 30| Carmine, No. 40....... _ GB
ee cas oS AMGHUWRA 8. 1o@ 2); Cera Alba, S. &F..... 50@ 55
AMMONIA. Aan PO... 20. one = —— MIA 22. 8 ~~ =
- | Colnmmty oc @® 50] Coccus................ a,
Aqua, 16 deg era - | Gentiana, (po. 15) ..... 10@ 12] Cassia Fructus........ @ 15
Carbonas ............. 11@ 13] Glychrrhiza, (py. 15).. 16@ 18} Centraria.............. @ 10
Chloridum _.... 122@ 14| Hydrastis Canaden, Cetaceum ............. _@ 35
ae ae rT (p6.65) 00. @ 60| Chloroform B0@ 55
ANILINE. : one Ala, po... b@ @ " squibbs .. @1 00
Black 9 Go@e 25 | Inula, pol)... 15@ 20} Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1 0@1 1%
ee Shad 0b | (PeC#e, pO... |... 2 do@e 30; Chondrag) - 10@ 12
ee ee 4y@, 50 | Lris plox (po. 20@22).. 18@ 20] Cinchonidine,P. & W 15@ +
Red. | 5003 (op poebipa, pre... 28. s 23@ 30 ae German 5@ 12
EO cas acne ae Maranta, is... ...... @ 35} Corks, list, dis. per
BACCAE. Podophylium, po_..... 15@ 18] cent ................ @ 60
Cube: 1 60 1 eae oo Bue. 7x@1 00} Creasotum Cee @ 50
eco oc @ 10 ee @i 7%! Creta, (bpL 7) .-._... @ 2
ee Sm Sn ee fob se 6 BEER 5@ 5
Xanthoxylum ...---..- oe ee 48@ 53 reer 8@ 10
BALSAMUM. Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ ®@ Le RUDEA........... @ 8
Copaiba ...........---. T@ %| Serpentaria............ 30@. Crocus eo 30@ 32
Pern. io | Senesa THE Cudbear............... @ 4
Terabin, Canada ..... 50@ 55 | Similax, Officinalis, H D € upri Sulph (@ 8
Poltan 6... 45@ 50 : o M @ 2| Dextrine.............. 10@ 12
Scillae, (po. 35). ..._._. 10@ 12 Ether Suipk ss 68a 70
CORTEX. Symplocarpus, Feeti- ae Emery, all numbers... @ 2
Abies, Canmadian............ 15 dus, pe... a a 2 po... eee @ 6
cobalt re eee kee 11 | Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ 2% Ergota, (po.) 45....... 40@, 45
Ginchons Blave ee German... 15@ 20| Flake White.......... 12@ 15
Euonymus atropurp...-..--- 0) aineiper a 10@ 15 Galla Oe » 88
Myrica Cerifera, po.......-- Of) | Aimeiber jo... 1.1... 22@ 25| Gambier. .............. 8
Prunus Viteini 26.2. 12 a Gelatin, Cooper....... ® #
Gulla sr 12 ee ay French........ 40@ 60
Cascatras 12} Anisum, (po, 20).....- @ 15) Glassware flint, (9 per cent.
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10} Apium (graveleons).. 10@ 12] _ by box 6625, less oT
cn rd i 4m 6 Gime Brown... 9@ 15
EXTRACTUM. Carat (po. 15)... ... 12@ 15 ; . White........... = 20
“Mivevirhiza Glabra... 24@ 25|Cardamon............. 1 00@1 25| Glycerina............. 23 2
. ieee = ||) sq 35) Corlandrum. ......_.. 10@ 12 or [eee = =
§ atox. 15 OX Mm 1) Cannalis Sativa....__- 34@ 4 (ie ne 2500,
ener ale =. sii ia =. 141Cvdonium. ....._... 75q@i 00; Hydraac Chior Mite.. @ &
& ie). ae 25 | Ghenepedium |... |. 10@ 12 7 (Cor ©. @
° a2g......... 16@ 1% | Dipterm Odorate..._.- 1 75@1 85 Ox Rubrum @ 9
ae Poeniegiam —'_... @ 15 Ammoniati.. @1 10
FERRUM. Poenugreek, po....... Gm &§& as Unguentum. = bo
i ate —_ @ ites... 4 @ 4% ydrarcyrum......... _@
ptr apc 2 @3 50) Lint, gerd, (bbl. 4 )... 44@ 4%} I hthyobolla, Am: .... i. 2D1 50
Gitrate Soluble... .... @ 80 Lobelia. ee eee Bod 40 Indigo. wevsttetet tees 75@1 00
| Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50 | PharlarisCanarian.... 34@ 45 lodine, Resup]........4 v0@4 10
Solué Chieride....... @ 15) Rapa... 5@ 6 | Iodoform.............. _@5 15
Sulphate, com!.._---- 14%@ _ 2] Sinapis, Albu 1. 8@ 9 ee 85@1 00
ce pure, |... a % "i Niera.......- 11@ 12}; Lycopodium.......... 5@ 60
Maecis _.............. SOQ 85
FLORA, SPIRITUS. Liguor Arsen et Hy-
jes 4 6] Eramenti W.D. Co. 2 G0@2 50; drarg tod... @ 7%
cit a 20 = D. F. R.....1 75@2 00] Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Matricarial 30@ 35 - _...s... 1 10@1 50} Magnesia, Sulph (bbl
a guniperis Co. 0. T....1 a@l ee 2a Ss
FOLIA “ co 1 oo bo} Manns SH. K@1 00
Baroswad 000 ls 10@ 12] Saacharum N. E...... 1 %5@2 00| Morphia, S. P. & W...2 55@2 80
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Set. Vint Galli 1 75@6 50 7 SONY @ &
miveliyy | 20, 25@ 28] Vini Oporto........... 12 60) ©. €o 2 55@2 70
ert i Ax. 30 O0 want Aiba) 1 25@2 00! Moschus Canton...... @ 40
Salvia officinalis, 4s Myristies, Net... | 60@ 70
SHG S66 10@ 12 SPONGES. Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10
Urea Ursi. 8@ 10 Florida sheeps’ wool Os. Sepia. viene cay 2A@ 29
GUMMI mee > o=mo -o| Pepsin saac, H. & P. 1.
+UMMI. Carriage... _. penne cee ae 1@2 50 Go a @2 00
Acacia, 1st picked.... @10C] Nassau sheeps’ wool Picis Liq, N. C., %4 gal
Te og Cc @ 9 7 ee Seas 2 00 dee me a2 70
fe 3d oe @ 80} Velvet extra sheeps’ eae oe ce o~
a sorts... @ 65]. wool carriage....... 1 10} Ficis oo aoe =
& DO. 1 Extra yellow sheeps’ Pil Hydrarg, ( ca 80) @ eo
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60] Carriage............. S| ee wee’ a ~~ es
“ "Cape, (po. OD). @ 12] Grass sheeps’ wool car- Ser Alina fees $5) .. Cf @ 35
“ Socotri, (po. 60). @ 50 Hage 65 Pi Buen ae @ ~
Catechu, 1s, (148,1414s, — sg oy o Hk | Plumbi Acet .......... 14@ 15
_ ae eee one . cry ee on 1 40 — meet et -_ 10@1 20
Amm Ce ee ea oe Se yrethrum, boxes
———— (po. 30)... a = ee : & P. D. Co. doz... _@i 25
Camphore ee So@ | Se; acener 501 ¢ Goeae Y a — .
Euphorbium, po......- S00 10 ee eee 50} Quinia, S.P.& W..... 45@ 50
Calpatum. 9.0... . CG eC eee 60 RT Geman || Seen a0
Gamboge, po... Seg) do Bee TO eee OO er abis Meera i 0) erage
Guaiacum, ( MO. 45)... @ 4 Auranti Cores... -..-..... 50 Saccharum Lactis py. j @ 35
Kino, (po. 25).....---- @ 2) Rbei Arom...--...- 501 Salacin................2 50@2 75
Mastic a a @l : Similax oe a as = Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50
rhe: ie (¢ satan a ee ‘ S: inc... a4 5
Oni A 4a | seme eeieeere 50 Sane Pe so ee]
Cee om eee ea a aa
"bleached. <2-.: 1 BOY ot aeons = - 2 = Ge
esemeamte 62222. v5 ——. ee = ue @ B
HERBA—In ounce packages. Fe ee a [| Siapis. @ >
i * on TINCTURES. = Opte..-........ ae wD
Absinthium a 20 oe Snuff, ace, De
Eupatorium ..........---++-- 30 | Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 ee ce ie ta @ 3
— Seay a 1 50| Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 35
ea _ ween ee i a 60 Soda Boras, (po: 12). 1@, 12
te Slat ee aC EE 60{ Soda et Potass Tart... 38@ 35
Vir SET TT a eee ee ee ee OH Socaeeure | un iin Y@, 24
Rue cee c tes ae By p Asafcetida. 30; Soda, BrCarb..._._._. ae 5
Tanacetum, V......- 7 7) 62) Atrope Belladonna || 60) Soda Ash |. aa, 4
Tovanas, Vo.--.......)...__. OPT MTG ious Sen a
MAGNESIA. “ ee ou | Spts, Esher €o ....___. 50@ 55
@aleined Pat. 0 0. cen GO Lee iarin.. lt ttw(##C§§§NW§W Myrein Dom... .. @2 00
Carbonate, Pat |) | 36g) oe i Barosma 20 Myrei imp... . @2 50
Carbonate, K. & M...- fh) 25) Canaries i) Vini Rect. bbl.
@arbonate Jennings) 36@) so; Capsicum =. «st MF ey @2 11
PE Cardamon... “>| Less 5e gal., cash ten days.
Absinthium ...........5 00@5 50] ao. EO deca tes: ae eercnes AINTS. DDL. Ib.
Gossipii, Sem. gal---". 50@ 75 | Topelia 0.2, 3p | Red Venetian... 134" 2@:
Hedeoma ............. 1 15@1 25 | Myrrh 222222222 50] Ochre, yellow Mars. -.1%
ee oo = Nux Vommca int) SOR i Ber... 1%
| Lay endula oe —— . een 2 Ce eS oy, Commercial | 2
| Limonis ............... Coe Camphorkted 50] “strictly pure.....2% 23
Mentha Piper. ......... 2 oe: > ee 2 00| Vermilion Prime Amer-
Mentha Verid.........: 3 00@S “5 | anrantiCortex.......... 50] _1an ..... 2... carte: 13@16
Morrhuae, gal......... 80@1 00) Qnassia 20.0.) 50| Vermilion, English.... 70@75
—— Ounce)... |. _ oon / 2] 59 | Green, Peninsular... TOTS
Olive 2... ese ee ee es ee
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35) 10@ 12 cae Mewtitoy 0 So White .........., 6%4@7%
Ricini eregecteee cesses 96@I 10 cc ‘6 66.0 59| Whiting, white Span... @iW
PUM Ta nee = Serpensarea 000 50| Whiting, Gilders’...... @9
nongares gpm ea i : Steomonium 00 60} White, Paris American 1 00
= oe an, . Cee 60| Whiting, Paris Eng.
nee Te ee Ne 50| _ cliff ............... ze: 1 40
Sov --+--+-~ 3 SOGT 00 | Verstrnm Veride........ |... 50| Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20@1 4
Sassafras. ............ 50@ 55 Swiss Villa Prepared
anaes, C85, nace... =o eS MISCELLANEOUS. Paints | 1 00@1 20
a ae — “Ether, Spts Nit, Ss lo : 26, 28 i VARNISHES.
i opt ne an 60 ie " ay 2e Pe oe Ha. Edd Coach... : = =
r oe fe oni? eat Zee oe Meetea Tarp... HQ 7
Theobromas........... 15@ 20 “ground, (po. Gaask aa. “TTT 53 00
i POTASSIUM. 2 3@ 4) No.1 Turp Furn......1 @1 10
BUCaED 15@ 18|Annatto............... 55@ 60| Eutra Turk Damar._..1 55@1, 60
Bichromage o00 2s. 15@ 16] Antimoni, po... |... 4@ 5| Japan Dryer, No. 1
Brende | 37@ 40 ao et Potass fT) Soa 60) Porp 0, . te &
The Insurance Plan Before the Kalama-
zoo B.M. A.
From the Kalamazoo Herald.
The Kalamazoo Business Men's Associatioa
met in the Recorder’s court room last Tuesday
with President Edwards in the chair. The
special subject for discussion was the plans for
a Michigan Business Men’s Fire Insurance Co.,
as prepared by a committee of the State Associ-
ation. After considerable discussion, the mat-
ter was referred to the Committee on Insurance
with instructions to investigate and report at the
next meeting whether it was better to unite in
the State insurance company, which is to be mu-
tual stock, or to organize a local company on the
mutual plan.
A letter was received from Retail Grocers’ As-
sociation of Detroit, enclosing a petition for cir-
culation asking the Legislature to amend the
laws of garnishment so as to exempt only $1 per
day ins ead of a gross sum of $25 as at present.
The matter was referred to the Committee on
Trade Interests with instructions to correspond
with the Detroit Association with a view to in-
clude an amendment allowing municipal cor-
porporations and state institutions to be gar-
nisheed.
Ware & O’Brien and Dr. A. J. Holmes were
elected members of the Association, and the
constitution was then amended so that the regu-
lar meetings are to be held on the third Tuesday
of each month instead of the first.
President Edwards announced the chairmen
of the several committees as follows:
Manufacturing—Jas. H. Dewing.
Transportation—Thos. R. Bevans.
Trade Interests—D. O, Roberts.
Insurance—H. Prentice.
Entertainments—Sam Folz.
The other members of the committees are to be
appointed by the chairmen of the same.
A One-Sided Law.
From the Petoskey Independent Democrat.
The $20,000 libel suit brought against
THE MIcHIGAN TRADESMAN by James
C. McAdam, formerly engaged in busi-
ness at Cadillac, was ordered stricken
from the calendar of the Kent Cireuit
Court by Judge Grove, McAdam having
failed to file the required security for
costs. But although the fellow knew he
didn’t have acase, and probably never
intended it to be brought to trial, he has
put THE TRADESMAN toa couple hun-
dred dollars expense for nothing, and has
his revenge. Such law is nonsense anda
man who indorses it is a fool or a scoun-
drel.
~~ -9- << ___
Grand Traverse Herald: The adjourned meet-
ing of the Business Men's Association, which
was to have been held Tuesday evening, will be
held Saturday evening instead. Please bear in
mind the change. It is hoped every member of
the Association will be present. The question
of electric lighting for the town will be dis-
cussed. This subject is one that will interest
every business man in town. The convention to
be held at Cadillac next week to consider the lo-
cation of a college in Northern Michigan, will
also be considered, and delegates appointed.
Other matters of interest will also come before
the meeting.
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APOTHECARYS BRAND.
LoDoclows
WCE MADE.HAVANA, CIGARS
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FICIAL FLAvoniy
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EVERY CIGAR BRANDED!
FREE PRESS EW BEi.
if ,
08 () ( Ore VORING, is a ci-
: gar that will hold
fire, contains one-third more pure Havana tobac-
co than any ten-cent Key West or two for 25 cents
imported cigar you can get.
FREE SMOKING, MILD AND RICH.
oo Sale by 20,000 Druggists throughout the
a.
JIsfree from AR
TIFICIAL FLA-
Hazelting & Perkins Drug Ca.,,
Wholesale Agts.,Grand Rapids
Should send $1 to
E. A. Stowe & Bro.
GRAND RAPIDS,
for one of their Improved
DRUGHISTS
LIQUOR & POISON RECORDS
CINSENG ROOT.
DIAMOND YEA
CURES
Liver and
Kidney Troubles
Blood Diseases
Constipation
—_AND—
Remale
Complaints
|
| Being composed entirely of HERBS, it
| is the only perfectly harmless remedy on
| the market and is recommended by all
who use it.
Retail Druggists will find it to
their interest to keep the DIA-
MOND TEA, asit fulfills all that
is claimed, making it one of the
very best selling articles handled.
| Place your order with our Wholesale
| House.
| 1 t ’ /
Diamond Medicine Go.,
| PROPRIETORS,
DETROIT, - MICH.
| ae
'Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,
WHOLESALE AGENTS,
GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH,
WHITE LEAD
C Mi & COLOR WORKS
DETROIT,
MANUFACTURERS OF
LATEST
ARTISTIC
SHADES
OF
A Interior
AND
EXTERIOR
DECORATION
F, J. WURZBURG, Wholesale Agent,
GRAND RAPIDS.
CIRCULARS, TES TIMONIALS AND GUARANTEE
, (FOR ALL KINDS OF STOCK) FREE
HOG CHOLERA—CAUSE. CURE & PREVENTION
WORTH MANY DOLLARS TOEVERY BREEDER.
THE GERMAN MEDICINE CO.MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.
FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS. GROCERS. ETF.
Tock Koo?
| For Sale to the Trade by
| Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Wholesale Drug-
gists; Hawkins & Perry, Wholesale Grocers; Me-
Causland & Co., Wholesale Grocers, E. Saginaw;
W. J. Gould & Co., Wholesale Grocers, Detroit:
D. Desenberg & Co., Wholesale Grocers, Kalamas
ZOO.
HAZELTINE
& PERKINS
DRUG CO.
Importers and Jobbers of
--DRUGS-~
Chemicals and Druggists’ Sundries.
Dealers in
Patent Medisines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
e
We are Sole Proprietors of
WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY.
We have in stock and offer a full line of
Whiskies, Brandies,
Gins, Wines, Rums.
Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co.,
Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash
Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite
Rye Whisky.
We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar-~
antee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and
Invoiced the same day we re-
ceive them. Send in a trial order.
fazelting & Perkins Drug Go,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
we
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The Michigan Tradesman
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BUSINESS LAW.
Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in|
Courts of Last Resort.
NOTE—CROP—LIEN—HOLDER.
The Minnesota statutes authorize the |
holder of a seed grain note upon condi-_
tion broken. to take possession of the
crop raised from the seed for which it is
given, and the holder thereof may in
such case enforce his lien as against the
holder of a subordinate lien thereon who
has taken possession, and may maintain
an action against him for the conversion |
thereof.
EXEMPTION—DEBTS DUE PHYSICIANS.
The Supreme Court of Georgia lately
held that debts due a physician, in the |
earning of which his skill was the prin- |
cipal factor, and the use of exempted |
property, such as the living ina house |
set apart asa homestead and riding an}
exempted horse in paying his physician’s |
calls, was merely an incident, were not)
exempt from garnishment on the ground |
that they were the proceeds of a home- |
stead and exemption set apart to the
physician as the head of a family.
INSURANCE—FOREIGN CORPORATION.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has |
rendered a decision in the case of The
State ex rel. the Attorney-General vs.
the Fidelity & Casualty Company of
New York, holding that quo warranto is
a proper method of proceeding to deter-
mine the right of a foreign corporation |
to carry on business within the State.
The suit was brought to determine
whether the insurance company had a
right to carry on within the State of
Minnesota the business of insurance
against three classes of risks, viz., in-
jury or death of person caused by acci-
dent, breach of trust by persons holding
places of public or private trust. and the
breakage of plate glass, without having
made a deposit of each. branch of the
business as required by the State Insur- |
ae
ance Commissioner. i
CONSIGNMENT—FIRE—BILL OF LADING. |
An interesting decision was rendered |
lately by Judge Lacombe, of the United |
States Circuit Court at New York, in the |
ease of Arnold et al. vs. National Steam- |
ship Line. The suit was brought to re-|
cover the value of a number of cases of
linen which were destroyed by fire on}
the Inman steamship pier. The goods |
were brought into port on the National
steamship Egypt. but the pier of that)
line being crowded, the ship was dis-|
charged at the Inman pier. The plaintiffs
contended that the steamship company
was liable inasmuch as it only gave no-
tice of the change of pier to them after
the fire had occurred. Judge Lacombe,
however, decided that the company was
exempted from liability for the merchan-
dise destroyed by fire under a provision
in the bill of lading exempting them
from liability when goods could be cov-
ered by insurance.
TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S LIABILITY.
A verdict was recovered some time ago
by a Chicago firm against the Postal Tel-
egraph & Cable Company fora mistake
in the transmission of dispatches sent to
their correspondents in New York in re-
gard to the purchase of a large quantity
of coffee. The company lately moved
before Judge Baker, of the Circuit Court,
for a new trial on the ground that their
printed message contained a notice of
exemption from liability, and further
that the transactions were in the nature
of gambling transactions. The judge
decided against the telegraph company
on both grounds. He held that a tele-
graph company was obliged to use ordi-
nary care in the transmission of tele-
grams notwithstanding what had been
printed on its message forms, and that
the errors made raised the presumption
of neglect. As regards the charge of
gambling, the judge held that such
transactions were not necessarily illegal.
If actual purchases were made under
which the buyers were bound to take and
the sellers to deliver coffee in a specified
time and for a specified price, the mere
fact that the purchase may have been |
made with the intention of reselling did |
not neeessarily make it illegal under the |
Gambling act.
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HARDWOOD LUMBER. \
The furniture factories here pay as follows for |
dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls
out:
Basswood, log-run sates tees ORES (0 5
Biren oe Tun. eS a
Biren Nos. land? @22 00
lack Ash. lor-run....._... ..14 0016 00 |
Phen loerun. |. bee OD |
Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2_..-............. 50 00@00 00 |
fier Cun. (12 OO |
cae iceran a pena 00 |
Mane sotulozrzun ......... |. Ob is |
Meanie, Nos iand2.-.. = @2W 00 |
Miagie, clear Hoorme..__ @25 00}
Manic white celectea = = @25 00 |
eee Oak loeran.. =. 18 00@20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.. .24 00@25 00
Red Oak,
4 sawed, 8 inch and upw’d.40 00@45 00
Med Oak 72 sawed,rerular-...__-._..:
...80 00€35 00
ed Gak, No. 1, step plank... _- (25 00
Walnut, log run.... @bd 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and @i 00
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Wannis. cu...
reg fm toe ran
(ae
Wee wood, loetun..........._..
Mghice Oak loptin. «kt
@25 00
12 00@13 05
14 00@16 00
20 004722 00
17 00818 00
BELKNAP
WAGON & SLEIGH GO.
Manufacturers of
BELKNAP’S PAT. SLEIGHS
a
Business and Pleasure Sleighs,
Farm Sleighs, Logging Sleighs,
Lumbermen’s and River Tools.
We carry a large stock of material and have ev-
ery facility for making first-class Sleighs of all
SHOP,
FANCY FRUIT---The Cele-
brated Alligator Brand, direct
from Florida in car lots by
Oranges
Florid
GEO.E HOWES & 60,
Grand Rapids.
COLBY, CRAIG & CO.
MANUFACTURE
=
nes
N EARTH,
We Manufacture to Order Hose and Police Patrol Wagons, Peddlers, Bakers, Creamery,
Dairy, Furniture, Builders, Dry Goods, Laundry, and Undertakers Wagons.
Repairing in all its Branches.
COLBY, CRAM 2 £2.
West End Fulton St Bridge. Telephone No. 867.
P, STEKETER & SONS,
JOBBERS IN
Dry Goods 2 Notions,
88 Monroe St. & 10,12, 14,16 & 18 Fountain St,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
ah
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Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers
American and Stark A Bags
+A Specialty.
MON, HOOPS & PETERS,
Wholesale
Grocers
AND
IMPORTERS.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
WHO URGES YOU
TO KEEP
SA POLIO‘?
Tee PUSLIC!
By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre
ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in
stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort
on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring -purchas-
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER WILL BEGLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.
We carry the Largest Line
Oranges ! |
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS and SHOES
AGENTS FOR THE
Boston Rubber Shoe Co.,
12,14 & 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
W. STEELE
Packing and Provision Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
WHOLESALE DEALERS
IN
Fresh and Salt Beef, Fresh and Salt Pork, Pork Loins, Dry Salt
Pork, Hams, Shoulders, Bacon, Boneless Ham, Sausage
of all Kinds, Dried Beef for Slicing.
i, A HD
Pure and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 50 1b. cans, 201b. cans, 3, 5 and 101b, pails
Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Tripe, Etc.
tric
Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all goods are warranted first-class in every in-
stance. When in Grand Rapids, give usa call and look over our establishment. Write us for
prices.
oN
and
A
CHANG:
OF FPIAM
We have this day admitted asa part-
ner in the firm of Hawkins & Perry,
Mr. W.L. Freeman, who has been in
the employ ofthe firm and its predeces-
sers for the past sixteen years. The
new firm of
Hawkins, Perry & Co.
will continue the Wholesale Grocery
and Provision business at the old stand
in the Hawkins Block, corner of [Ionia
and Fulton Streets.
HA WHEINS, PERRY & CO:
LEWIS E. HAWKINS Grand Rapids, Dec, 24,’88.
GEO. R. PERRY
WM. L. FREEMAN
J. H. THOMPSON & CO.,
TEAS,
COFFEES
SPICES
SPECIALTIES:
Honey Bee Coffee
Our Bunkum Coffee
Princess Bkg. Powder
Early Riser Bkg. Pdr.
MILLS
E
BEE Mills Gd. Spices.
BEE Mills Extracts.
BEE Mills Bird Seed.
SPICE GRINDERS
and manufacturers of
BEE Mills Starch.
BAKING POWDERS. BEE Chop Japan Tea.
59 Jefferson Ave., DETROIT, MICH.
SWIFT'S
Choice Chicago
Dressed Beet
a AN D MUTTON ==
Can be found at all times in full supply and at
popular prices at the branch houses in all the larg-
ger cities and is retailed by all first-class butchers.
The trade of all marketmen and meat dealers is
solicited. Our Wholesale Branch House, L. F. Swift
& Co., located at Grand Rapids, always has on hand
a full supply of our Beef, Muttonand Provisions,and
the public may rest assured that in purchasing our
meats from dealers they will alwaysreceive the best.
Swift and Company,
and make Special Prices on
Round Lots. Union Stock Yards,
PUTNAM & BROORS.
Grand Rapids. : Lemons J CHICAGO. *
THEO. B. GOOSSEN,
WHOLESALE
Commission Merchant,
BROKER IN LUMBER.
Orders for Potatoes, Cabbage and Apples, iu Car Lots, solicited.
Butter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons and Bananas a specialty.
Produce
Shingles
OUTIOW
kinds.
Grand Rapids.
Cor. Front and First Sts..
33 OTTAWA STEET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Telephone 269.
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MICHIGAN CIGAR CO.,
Big Rapids, Mich.
MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED
“AL €C.C.°“Vumyuni
The Most Popular Cigar. The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.
SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER.
WM.SEARS & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,
AGENTS FOR AMBOY CHEESE.
37,39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.
Arctic Manvtacturing Co.
Arctic Baking Powder,
Arctic Bluings,
Arctic Inks and Mucilage,
RED STAR BAKING POWDER,
English Standard Extracts
When making Orders, Mention the Above Well Known Brands.
SEE QUOTATIONS.
O. FE. BROWN i
MILLING CO.
¢
VUBVYOIOW
SIOTTTIN
Brown’s Patent
Brown’s Standard
Every Barrel and Sack guaranteed.
Correspondence Solicited.
CURTISS & Co.
Successors to CURTISS & DUNTON.
Our Baker’s
Vienna Straight
Grand Rapids, Mich.
S,
Our Leia Bra
WHOLESALE
Paper Warehouse,
Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,
GRAND RAPIDS,
M. GLARK & UN,
If our Travelers
MICHIGAN.
do not see you reg-
ularly, send for our
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS
oO
Teas
Syrups
Molasses
Samples and Prices
before purchasing
elsewhere. Wewill
surprise you.
Mail Orders al-
ways receive
prompt attention
and lowest possible
prices.
Wholesale Grocers
MOSEHLEY BROS.
——_W HOLESALE-——
Fruits, Seeds, Oysters? Produce.
All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.
If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be
pleased to hear from you.
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26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., GRAND RAPIDS.