> e e s F D me eX S D The Michigan Tradesman. VOL. 6. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1889. NO. 287. J. DETTENTHALER, JOBBER OF And Salt Fish. Mail orders receive prompt attention. See quotations in another column. GRAND RAPIDS. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. BoWNE, President. GEo. C. PIERCE, Vice President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. WALKS - GOODYEAR and Connecticut Rubbers. THE PARAGON in Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s, Heels and Spring Heels. G. R. Mayhew, 86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. DO YOU WANT A SHOWCASE’ SPECIAL OFFER-— This saaee oval case: 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 corners, extra heavy base; silvetta trimmings; 6 feet long, 28 inches wide, 15 inches high. Price, #11, net cash. I make the same style of case as above, 17 inches high, from walnut, cherry, oak or ash, for $2 per foot. Boxing and cartage free. D. D. COOL. 106 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich. ACTUAL BUSINESS PRACTICE ® 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 dress A. 8S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens- berg. BLANK BOOKS Stationery, TABLETS, STEEL PENS, INKS. OUR NEW LINE OF Yfalenting Samples are ready for inspection. ” Raton Lyon & Go, 20 and 22 Monroe St. CREOLE STRAIGHT CUT. To all Merchants Handling Cigarettes: Anew 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 the 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, factured by S. F. HESS & CO. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Mannf’rs of High Grade Cigarettes. and manu- WANTED! We want stocks of goods in exchange for $100, 000 worth of productive real estate in Lansing city property and im- proved farms. R. A. CLARK & CO. Real Estate Brokers Lansing Mich. DANIEL LYNG Successor to FRED D. YALE & CO., Manufacturer of Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powder, Bluing, Ete. Grocers ald Droggists’ Sundries. Call and inspect our new establishment when in the city. 19 S. IONIA ST. WwWIN&cos APOTHE CARYS BRAND. Seibucl CUBAN.HAND MADE.HAVANA.CIGARS 10%ts Gach ae FRES PRESS Ewe DEN. it Isfree from AR T IFICIAL FLA- 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. For Sale by 20,000 Druggists throughout the DS. J. Hi. 1. Cagar. The Very Best Nickel Cigar Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Wholesale Agts.,Grand Rapids Millers, 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) than any other machines of their class. Send for descriptive cata- logue with testimonials. Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. RDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Wateh Maker = Jeweler, ik CANAL SY. Grand Rapids, - Mish, 1000 Cigars Free! On or about April Ist, a0, we br opose putting a new brand of cigars on the market which we shall sell to the trade at $33.00 per thousand. 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) to 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 upon a 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 dealer in cigars. Names from all others will be re- jected. 3rd. 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 thiscity: The Flint Evening Journal, The Wolverine Citizen, The Flint Globe. We shail accept the 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 exprees, 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 ecard containing the award or sélection by the committee will be mailed to all contestants. Address, GEO. T. WARREN & CO., Mfrs. High Grade Cigars. Flint, Mich. G. M. MUNGER & CO, GRAND RAPIDS. Successors to Allen’s Laundry. Mail and Express orders attended to with promptness. Nice Work, Quick Time Satisfaction Guaranteed. W. E. HALL, Jr., - - - in America. Manager. REMOVED THE GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX FAGTORY, W. W. HUELSTER, Proprietor, Formerly located at 11 Pearl St., has been removed to 81 & 83 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. Write or call for esti- mates. Telephone 850. WHIPS AND LASHES Se Wholesale Only. GRAHAM ROYS, “Qur Leader’’ The - Grand Rapids. Finest 5-Cent Cigar on the Market. MANUFACTURED BY Jd. E: Kenning & Co, CANAL sT. 56 S = te own oa Ret maa hs vn ~ ~ BEANS 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 sentus. 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. AFES 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 & CoO., With Satety Deposit Co., Basement oi Wid- dicomb Blk. BUY Muscatine ROLLED OATS IF_YOU WANT THE BEST! Voigt, Herpolshelmer & Go., Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods STAPLE and FANCY. Pants, N MAKE. Overalls, OUR OWN Eitc., A COMPLETE LINE OF Fancy Crockery and Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION. Inspection Solicited. Chicago and De- troit prices guaranteed. “CLE.” I, Among the many drooping, pale-visaged creatures daily to be seen crossing back- ward and forward over the only foot- bridge which for several years following the war spanned the James at Richmond into the various cotton and woolen mills located at its southern end, was an at- tractive-looking girl, tall, fair-haired, straight as an arrow, and about eighteen or nineteen years of age. With her com- panions she went by the name of Cle, which was all that was left of the illus- trious polysyllable given her at birth by her parents, in a manifestation of that love of distinguished names peculiar to very poor people, and which tired lips, finding its impractieability, had first shortened to Cleora, and then to Cle, thus reversing the process of the oak and acorn. Asitis hardly possible to con- ceive of Antony addressing his mistress as ‘Cle,’ or even as ‘‘Pat,’’ this consid- eration, I think, should deter people from making so free with great names, seeing that appropriation is not the only and least offense, but abuse follows also. But, however that may be, it is certain that our heroine’s chances in life were not much affected by this extremity of wit, while her econvenience—and that of others—certainly was. Both the girl’s parents had died when she was very young, and she had lived ever since with her grandmother, a bent and broken old woman, who for years had been hopelessly wedded to the wash- tub andironing-board. Four of the nine- teen years of her life had been spent in the mill. Itwas a rough experience, and had left its marks, deep and cruel, which would never rub out. For all that, how- ever, she could still be called handsome. Compared with her mill companions, she was almost a belle. Her cheek was rud- dier, her eye more lustrous, her step more elastic, her spirits lighter, her laugh: gayer, her good-humor more abundant, though only in a relative sense, for in truth the shadow of the mill seemed to remain with all it fell upon. No one unfamiliar with it can form any idea of the weary monotony of mill-life— its distracting clamor and painful toil. The girl’s brain was searcely free even in sleep from the constant whirr and roar and rattle of the machinery. Still, bad though this undoubtedly was, it might easily have been a great deal worse, for as in nature the seemingly lowest deep has all the infinity of space beyond it, so in human life do we never reach the ex- treme of any of its conditions, good or bad, and there were accordingly possibil- ities of suffering beyond her hard lot to which it would have seemed positive bliss in comparison. She was not phil- osopher enough to know this, however, or sufficiently optimistic in her views to find contentment in her present condi- tion. So she sighed for deliverance from it. The main characteristic of her mind was a supersensitiveness to these lowly aspects of her life. She was full of de- sires and aspirations for something less base. And yet, so strange is the human heart sometimes, one of the things least likely for her to do would be to change that life for a better, unless it could be secured by her own exertions. She felt the sting of poverty and mean employ- ment so keenly that she would have hes- itated fully as long to rise out of her humble sphere as to descend below it. This peculiarity borne in mind, all that follows is, I think, consistent and natural. One raw evening in November she re- turned home from the mill to find her grandmother prostrated with a sudden and severe attack of illness. The old woman had been very active and strong in her younger days, but her years and labors now made themselves felt; and as it is generally the case with these sturdy and energetic people that the first signs of failure are not far in advance of the final breaking-up, her chances of recov- ery were slim indeed. If she ever re- gained her feet it would not be that win- ter at any rate—at least, so the doctor said. Here was rest from the mill at last— but what sort of rest was it? None at all, in fact; for now, beside acting in the capacity of nurse to a sick and querulous old woman, the girl had to take her place at the wash-tub, and drudge for a living as hard as she could. Not much relief that! Thus began for Cle a still harder fight with fate, and with little prospect of change, except for the worse. And not only was the battle to be fought out alone, but against many obstacles and through the hardest part of the year. It was a prospect that might well have ap- palled a stouter heart than hers, and often she almost sank under the weight of her task. Trudging after the heavy baskets of soiled linen, then the washing, then the ironing—vyaried by the weari- some exactions of disease and old age— then the trudging back again with the burdens of clean linen—these, with con- stant repetition, made up the sum of her daily life. And yet she had often to be thankful that she had learned to do this labor, despicable though it was. Among her patrons—or rather her grandmother’s—was the proprietress of a small hotel, or gentlemen’s boarding- house, situated in the lower part of the town. It was her custom to take the work home on Saturday evenings, and get a fresh supply at the same time also. She always dreaded the recurrence of these occasions, for the basket was heavy and the distance considerable. One Saturday afternoon, just before Christmas, she took her basket as usual and went to the hotel. A deep snow was on the ground. tain had also fallen during the day and made a slush ankle- deep. She reached the hotel dreadfully tired and almost benumbed with the cold. Her feet, to which the slush had penetrated through her imperfect shoes, were lumps of ice. The arm on which she had borne the heavy basket seemed about to drop from her shoulder. As night was rapidly approaching, she remained at the hotel but a short while. As she descended the stairs on her re- turn, she passed a young man on one of the landings. He was a rather good- looking young fellow of twenty-four or five, fair-skinned and light-haired, toler- ably stout, well-dressed, and had a mild manner and an ingratiating smile. Cle had seen him several times before on her visits to the hotel, and she had observed, without appearing to do so—which is an easy thing for a woman to do—that he seemed to regard her with considerable interest. As he had made no demonstra- tion, however, she had not paid much at- tention to his serutiny. He lifted his hat as she approached, and remarked with a light smile: ‘“‘A bad evening for you, miss. will have a disagreeable walk home. “Yes, sir,’? she replied, without stop- ping; ‘‘it will be very unpleasant, I fear.’’ “I’m. afraid you have made it too late —it is almost dark now,” he rejoined, following her to the door, which was but a few feet away, and holding it open for her. ‘‘Are you not afraid to go alone?”’’ ‘“‘Oh, no, sir, 1 often do. Dm not a bit afraid,’’ she hastily replied, and, bidding him good evening, hurried on into the fast-gathering darkness. When she had gone about half the dis- tanee, and was beginning to falter under the weight of the basket, together with the difficulty of walking through the rough but slippery snow, now fast hard- ening in the night air, she heard quick steps behind her, which soon came up to her side. She saw it was the young man who had accosted her at the hotel. “T beg your pardon,’’ he said at once; ‘‘T hope you will not blame me for com- ing after you, but I was really quite un- easy about you. 1 was afraid you might be molested, or would find your basket too much for your strength. Won’t you permit me to relieve you of it, and to bear you company?”’ As he spoke he laid his ad on the basket to take it from her, but Cle did not relinquish her hold. “i thank you, sir,””? she said, ““but I think I can manage it. I am not much tired, and am almost home now.’’ She spoke quietly, only a little quick- ness of tone betraying the slight trepida- tion she felt at the predicament she found herself in, which was also responsible for her unconscious prevarication. ‘“*‘At least you will let me see you a part of the way,’’ he said, simulating a little grieved surprise at her rejection of his offer. ‘‘I really do not think it safe for you to be unattended at this hour, and with the streets in such bad condi- tion. You might fall and hurt yourself seriously with that heavy basket. Let me take it, I entreat you, if only for a short distance.’’ As he spoke he again laid hold of the basket, and before she could determine how to act he had taken it from her and placed it upon his own arm. The girl was inaquandary. The etiquette of the cotton-mill had not prepared her for such emergencies. She, therefore, did the wisest thing under the circumstances— that is, nothing—but held her peace and walked quietly on by the young man’s side, allowing him to sustain the conver- sation alone, which, it is scarcely neces- sary to say, he found no difficulty in do- ing. They walked on together until the cor- ner turning just to her house was reached. The young man had apparently exerted himself to be agreeable, and had fairly sueceeded. The girl was forced to own to herself that he was a very pleasant young gentleman, and had lightened the walk home considerably. He had re- lieved it to the extent of the heavy bas- ket, at any rate, which of itself was no small item. When they reached the before-men- tioned corner, upon her casually stating its location with respect to her home, he said he believed he would take leave of her there, and bidding her good-night, he went leisurely on his way. This was the beginning of Cle’s and William Lawrence’s acquaintance. She frequently saw him afterward on her trips to the hotel, and he had always a bow and smile and pleasant word to ex- change with her. Once in awhile he walked with her as before. She soon found herself meeting and thinking of him without restraint. She was favora- bly impressed with all he said or did. No one, it is hardly necessary to say, had ever shown her such polite attention. Her inferior appearance and fortune seemed to weigh as nothing against her in his estimation. Altogether, she ad- mired him more than she did any one she had ever met. Now it certain that many a poor and lowly born, would in like straightway have made a fool of herself. Not so with Cle. The peculiar forma- tion of her mind before alluded to saved her from this, and all it might have led You 29 Sirl. Case is to: besides, her hard lot admitted of no such fanciful employment. Ludicrous as may seem the simile, had she suspect- ed the existence of any vagrant feeling for Lawrence in her breast, she would have wrung the life out of it as she wrung the clothes from the wash every day, until the last trace of the sentiment was destroyed. At least, that is what she would have attempted to do; whether her performance would have been com- mensurate with her efforts is another matter. Lawrence, on his part, was scarcely less to be commended. He was one of a numerous class of young men, superficial and careless, not specially aiming to do wrong, yet heedless of results, and inca- pable of systematic pursuit of anything, pleasure ineluded. Carelessness, indeed, is their ruling trait. With such, a flirta- tion is a small matter, easily begun and soon ended. Many, greatly their superi- ors in every way, don’t do half so well in this respect. They have seldom any- thing more serious than a waste of time to answer for—if it be possible to waste that of which there is always a super- abundance. This is not the common be- lief, I know, but it is the truth for all that. The eagle is a high-soaring bird, but is of the vulture tribe, nevertheless. But even granting that Lawrence’s in- tentions were more open to criticism than in faet they were, he would soon have seen that he was mistaken in their ob- ject; that the girl’s serious mind and painful life left her no opportunity or relish for such frivolities. Not having his mind specially burdened with a base motive, however, he had not to wait for this revelation at all, but was cognizant of her true position and the extent to which he might safely venture from the first. His real danger was in something entirely different— an impressionable mind, a sort of heedless universal sym- pathy, common to such natures, which seems peculiarly efficacious in getting its possessors into awkward difficulties, which a cold, careful organization easily avoids. Therefore, the pleasure he had felt from the first in her society soon deepened into a strong personal interest —not love as yet, but that nameless charm which is the invariable forerunner of it. One night when the weather was rough and threatening he met her just as she was setting out from the hotel. He turned and went back with her. A heavy rain began falling as they neared the parting place, and he had consequently to give her the protection of his umbrella the entire way home. For some reason he had never hitherto accompanied her beyond the before-mentioned corner. He stayed to chat awhile at the door and then took his leave, and in doing so ex- tended his hand toward her. She gave him hers, a little hesitatingly, and re- ceived a decidedly perceptible squeeze of it for her pains. When he had gone she busied herself about her household affairs—in supply- ing her grandmother’s needs and bestow- ing some attention upon her own simple interests, after which she went to bed, it being about ten o’clock. Just on the stroke of twelve she was aroused by a sound as of some one moan- ing in pain. She sprang up in alarm and bent over her grandmother, anxiously interrogating her as to her sufferings. The only response she received was a feeble motion toward the left side, speech having apparently deserted the old wo- man. Almost terrified, she hastily threw on her clothes and hurried over to the house opposite for help. She soon aroused the inmates and returned with their promise to follow. at once. When she again reached the sick bed her grandmother was gasping for breath, her withered hands clasped tightly over her heart. The labored respiration grew feebler with every pulse, and when the neighbors presently arrived it was at once clear to their larger experience that the great change was at hand. When the morn- ing’s sun arose and shone over the glit- tering snow-clad streets, Cle stood in the world, which had always frowned so harshly upon her, utterly friendless, hopeless and alone. After the first shock of grief at her grandmother’s death had passed away, Cle aroused toa sense of the necessity for immediate action in her own behalf. She might have continued on as she had been doing, perhaps, though on a smaller seale, her strength being already much impaired. But that she was not greatly disposed to do, the kind of work being very distasteful as well as difficult to her. When she began to look around in her mind, however, she was dismayed to find so few avenues of labor open. She was a very poor hand at sewing, never having done much of it. Of housework she knew nothing, except of the humblest kinds. Having had no experience with children, except the youthful terrors of the mill, she shrank from the nursery. At the various occupations of women and girls in manufacturing pursuits other than the one she had learned she could, on account of her inexperience, make lit- tle or nothing—at least, not for some time—and she must live now. What to do, therefore, in this dilemma she did not know, unless—unless—and she resolutely turned from it a long time, until it was at length forced upon her—unless she re- turned upon her steps and re-entered the mill, whose heavy doors she hoped had closed behind her forever. But as it was clear to her that she must do something, and at onee, her indecision was not of long duration. She saw that there was nothing for it but to back to the miil, and the habit of industry set- eae) ting firmly on her by this time, she at once went about taking steps to do so. The first thing to do was, obviously, to inform her patrons she could no longer serve them. With this object in view, she went down to the hotel one evening in the latter part of January to acquaint her chief eustomer, Mrs. Brown, with her intention. She started on her return about dusk, and at the corner next the hotel ran upon Lawrence, who was just going to supper. He greeted her warmly, shaking hands as though he had not seen her for a year, instead of only a few days. He knew of her recent bereavement, having, in fact, been of considerable service during the period of trouble, which had also moved him a step farther in his attitude toward the girl, her exemplary deportment—she had behaved with much fortitude—under trying circumstances, so different from what his own would have been, eliciting his profoundest admiration. He had not determined how far it should carry him, however, abstractions usually sufficing his careless good-nature. ‘You seem always to be running away when I come,” he said, offering his arm with the intention of going back with her. She answered with a smile that it did seem so, and charged it to the bad hours he kept. He laughed, and said he would reform if she would promise to make it worth his while. ‘‘How is it.’’? he said, when this little pleasantry was exhausted, ‘that you have not your basket with you as usual? It looks odd to see you without it—like Little Red Riding-Hood without her hood.”’ ‘Like a hod-carrier without his hod you mean, don’t you?” she returned bit- terly. ‘I haven’t it because I am not going to have it any more.’’ ‘**You don’t mean that you and Mrs. B.’’—his usual term for his landlady— “have had a falling-out?”’ “Oh, no: nothing of the sort. I’m go- ing to give up washing, that’s all.”’ He was greatly interested. **‘May I ask,”’ he said, ‘‘without seem- ing impertinent, what you propose do- ing?’’ He was fearful lest something might happen to cause him to lose sight of her. Knowing that it was impossible since her grandmother’s death to visit her—but that he had never done, however—he set a high value upon these chance meetings her connection with the hotel afforded. ‘‘T mean,’’ she answered, ‘‘to go back to the mill where I worked before grand- mother was taken sick.’’ She had acquainted him with that fact also. Lawrence was greatly concerned at her announcement. He knew something of the mill by hearsay, and knew what a living death it was. **You don’t really mean that, Miss Cle, I hope,’’ he said. ‘‘I have heard the mill is a dreadful place—for the health. I mean—and the work very hard.’’ Hard labor was his bete noire. He would rather a light purse than a heavy task. “It is bad for the health,” she replied, ‘‘but I cannot help myself. The work is hard, too, I know, but I like it better than washing.’’ “Do anything but go back to the mill!’ he exclaimed earnestly. ‘‘You will kill yourself. Why not continue as you have been doing for a while longer, and in the meantime look about you for some other employment? 1 will help you find it.” ‘Thank you, Mr. Lawrence,’’ she said. “T believe you would help me if you could, but I have thought it all over and there is no other way—I must go back. There is really nothing else to be done.’’ And now his heedlessness played him a trick, indeed. He exclaimed impuls- ively: ‘Then comes to to me!”’ “Oh, Mr. Lawrence?’ Her surprise was genuine; she had not expected this. She dropped her eyes fo i it Come else, you! don’t that! do anything Cle, I love the ground, but only for a moment. Lift- ing them, she looked him squarely in the face. Both had stopped their walk in- sensibly. It wasa quiet loeality where they stood, just off the main business street, and few pedestrians were to be encountered. “Et love you,’ loved you a long thought he had, progress of his infatuation. ) horrid drudgery. Cle, and eare of you!’ ‘*What do you mean?”’ she asked, low tone as even as her glance. He repeated his declaration. he repeated. «‘l have time.’? (He really so gradual had been the “Cease thi let me take ina adding, ‘Be my wife, Cle, and you shall want for nothing again.”’ “You don’t mean it,’ she said, still looking steadily at him. ‘*You marry me! Youcould notdoit. Lam too far beneath you. You only mean to mock me when you say it.’’ “| do mean it,’’ he protested. ‘‘E do love you. I love you, and want your love in return. it would break my heart,’’ he went on affectedly, *‘to see you go back to the mill.’’ ‘And that is what you mean by saying you love me?”’ she returned. *‘You only pity me. No, it is not love, and you de- ceive yourself.”’ This cool, matter-of-fact way of talk- ing was disconcerting to Lawrence. Not having foreseen his declaration he had not the advantage of a previous mental rehearsal. But the girl’s quiet manner and words acted on him as such always do on shallow natures. While ke could not quite understand them, they yet made him underrate her power of resistance and determined him to press his suit still farther. Had she been the most finished coquette she could not have acted betier, He began to plead. ‘‘Please do not mistrust lieve that l love you. Say that I am je- loved in turn. [will do everything to make you happy. Your life shall be free from eare and toil. Together we will live only to know what happiness is. that you love me and will be my wife! The girl did not speak at once. His earnestness, so unusual in him, affected her in spite of herself. Her embarrass- me, Cle. Be- Say "9 ment, however, was but momentary. It did not take her long to prove conclu- sively, to her own mind at least, that she could not listen to what he had said. She did not ask herself if she loved him: to do her justice, she had never even thought of such a thing. She had accepted his friendship gratefully, but she had never dreamed of anything beyond that. Up to that hour, indeed, the question of mar- riage had been farther from her thoughts than any other of the important problems of life. But a marriage with Lawrence, of all men she knew, was to her mind the Icast of all things possible. That he could be in earnest she could not believe. Not fora moment could she entertain any- thing so wildly absurd. He was immeas- irably her superior in every way. He was far removed from her sphere of life. She thought him a gentleman in all the term implies—in both the use and abuse of the word. a man—she the mill-girl, the washerwo- [CONCLUDED ON EIGHTH PAGE, | To think of marrying such. 204 The Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State. | K. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year. Advertising Rates made known on application. Publication Office, 100 Louis St. Envered at the Grand Rapids Post Office. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1889. PATRONS OF INDUSTRY--AN EX- POSURE. Tux TRADESMAN has received the fol- lowing letter from the Secretary of the Davison Mercantile Union: Davison, March 16, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DeAR Str—Do you hear any complaint from members of the Michigan Business Men’s Association in regard to the Patrons of Industry? also, in regard to members binding themselves to sell their goods at 10 per cent. above cost to the Patrons? The Patrons have quite a strong organ- ization here and have induced a member of our Mercantile Union to accept of their terms, which does not give satis- faction to the remainder of us. We think that no legitimate merchant can do business on 10 per cent. profits and pay rent, insurance and the other expenses which it takes to runa business. Con- sequently, we will have to take some steps for our own mutual protection. Many of the Patrons are owing us for goods bought on credit and now pass us by and leave their old debts unpaid and patronize our neighbor prevously referred to, paying him the ‘‘hard cash.’’ While we believe inthe cash system of doing business, we do not believe that this is exactly the way to monopolize it—not in these days of strong competition, where the shrewdest and closest buyer makes the lowest prices, and others have to follow snit or they cannot sell their goods. We think that the manufacturer and job- ber ought to take some steps in this matter in selling to ‘‘Patron Suppliers,”’ as they are certainly aware that no square, legit- imate business can be run on 10 per cent. margins and make a success. We would like to hear your opinion in regard to this matter. Truly yours, ©. W. Hur, Sec’ y. In its of February THE TRADESMAN referred to the movement above referred in the following fashion; The ‘‘Patrons of Industry’’ craze, now having somewhat of a run in certain parts of Michigan, brings out an inter- esting phase of human nature. The or- ganizations are composed mainly of far- mers who band together for the purpose of securing goods at5 per cent. above cost. Itis not usually difficult to find a merchant in each town who will cater to such a class, but the agreement to sell on a5 per cent. margin makes it necessary for the dealer to get two invoices for every purchase—one giving the real prices and another giving ‘‘bulged”’ prices, as the innocent granger usually insists on ‘‘seeing the bills.’? Surely the gullibility of human nature is something remarkable! é Since publishing the above, THE TRADESMAN has detailed a reporter to make a careful investigation of the methods adopted by the Patrons of In- dustry to accomplish certain results, and he has succeeded in getting at the bot- tom facts in the matter, the plan being worked substantially as follows: One or two schemers strike a town and pick out a merchant—the selection us- ually devolving upon aman who is not possessed of average shrewdness—who is informed that in consideration of the payment of asum, varying from $10 to $100, to the schemers that they will turn over to him the entire trade of from fifty to two hundred families. The schemers are invariably smooth talkers and the result is, the victim usually succumbs to their seductive promises and forks over the sum demanded. The rascals then begin an aggressive campaign among the working people and farmers, who are assured that they can secure the privi- lege of buying their supplies at 5 or 10 per cent. above cost by paying certain sums to the schemers—usually $1 for the heads of families and 50 cents for the wives. This money, like the sum paid by the merchant, goes into the pockets of the organizers, who leave town after a week’s work with considerable plunder in their In the meantime, the mer- chant makes arrangements with the job- bers with whom he is dealing to furnish him two sets of invoices—one giving the genuine prices and the other naming prices which are ‘‘swelled’”’ from 5 to 20 per cent., according to the class of goods bought and the arrangements preyiously made. The merchant files the genuine invoices in his safe, but is free to dis- play the ‘‘bulged’’ bills, adding 5 or 10 per cent. to the prices therein named in dealing with his dupes. Such, in short, is the modus operandi of the Patrons of Industry—a scheme conceived in selfishness, developed in avariciousness and carried out in hypoc- ricy and deception ! How totreat the craze—for it is noth- ing else and will soon be numbered among the things that were—seems to The TRADESMAN to be as plain as the nose on a man’s face. The most con- sistent course for merchants to pursue is to ignore the matter altogether, treating it as too trifling for their consideration. 9~ ws issue to possession. In this way, the people who have become a party to the scheme will soon begin to wonder whether they are deriving much advantage after all, and an occasional comparison of qualities and prices will satisfy them that the prices they are paying—ostensibly but a small percent- age above ‘‘cost’’—are no better than can be obtained at other stores where contracts in restraint of trade do not ex- ist. By allowing matters to take their course, the influence of the compact en- tered into with the schemers will grad- ually lessen until it becomes a rope of sand, eventually falling to pieces by its own weight. If, on the other hand, the other mer- chants seek to make a mountain out of a mole-hill; taking it for granted that the contract dealer sells as close to cost as he professes to do, and endeavor to pre- vent the fool merchant buying his goods wherever he pleases, the embers of dis- content will be fanned into a flame; the people will rally to the support of the one merchant, imagining that the low- ness of his prices is a thorn in the flesh of the other merchants and that only by the maintenance of the one merchant can the rapacious designs of the other mer- chants be defeated. In giving the above advice, THE TRADESMAN is guided by the experience of the granger movement, which threat- ened to acquire alarming proportions nearly twenty years ago. Grange stores were established in nearly every locality. Wherever the regular merchants fought the new competitor tooth and nail, the movement flourished for a time, but wherever the matter was treated with contempt and indifference, the co-oper- ative store disappeared. The Patrons of Industry are no more to be compared to the Patrons of Husbandry than is a shadow to the substance. The grange movement possesses elements of stabil- ity which will serve to make its in- fluence felt, socially, as long as the world stands. The P. of I. is a money- making expedient, adopted by men too proud to beg and too cowardly to steal, which will speedily disappear as soon as its true character becomes generally known. THE LEADING QUESTION IN CANA- DA. Canada is exercised over the claims of the Jesuits to the restoration of property whieh was taken from them in 1800. By the terms of the capitulation of 1762, the property of the Roman Catholic Church and of its religious corporations was guaranteed by the British government. The former, including the tithes of the parishes in Quebec, is enjoyed to this day. But the government forbade the Jesuits of Canada to receive new mem- bers; and when the last Jesuit died in 1800, it sequestered the property of the order and applied it to religious, educa- tional, and other uses. At that time the order lay under the edict of dissolution proclaimed by Pope Clement XIV.; and even although that bull had not been proclaimed in Canada, it is hard to see how the order could have perpetuated its existence in Canada after 1800. Both Church and State united in commanding its dissolution; and the property of an extinct corporation necessarily escheats to the State. In equity there should have been some arrangement by which it should continue to be applied to the edu- cational and missionary work the Jesuits were doing. But we do not see how the revived Order of 1814 can make out a valid legal claim to what the older order lost by extinction. In strict law the two are different corporations under the same name. The present agitation grows out of the action of the Legislature of the Quebec province in voting $400,000 as compensa- tion to the Jesuits. The bill might be ‘disallowed’? by the dominion executive government, but Sir John Macdonald has declined to recommend this course to the Governor-General. For the moment the subject has eclipsed all other questions in Canada. The Orangemen generally are furious at the idea of being taxed for the benefit of the black-coated fathers; and it is not unlikely that their indignation will affect seriously the next elections. TOO LITTLE PREPARATION. With the first show of spring, the med- ical colleges of the old type begin to turn out their graduates with commissions to kill or cure, but without the training ad- equate to this tremendous commission. Thus Bellevue College, in New York, on Monday last gave diplomas to 138 grad- uates, after two brief winters of study. We have no doubt that the Bellevue fac- ulty are very able men, and their stu- dents as bright as any medical classes in the country. Butno professor can teach medicine to any class in two short ses- sions, and a college takes a very serious responsibility when it certifies to the community that the graduates of sucha course are competent to take into their hands the issues of life and death. Ex- perience shows that competent chemists and engineers require three full years of professional studies after two years of preparatory work preceded by severe ex- aminations in elementary mathematics and other branches. Not until after his fifth year do most universities give a chemist or an engineer his technical de- gree, and each year runs from September until June. But the questions with which the physician has to deal are much mere delicate and difficult than those with which the chemist or the en- gineer has to deal, and the demand for thoroughness in preparation for the work isso much greater. Yet students of medicine are admitted to many col- leges without any preliminary examina- tion. And their terms of study begin in October or November and end in March. And after two such terms they are ac- credited as ‘‘physicians !”’ THE PARNELL COMMISSION. The case of the Times against Mr. Par- nell and his colleagues ended last Wednesday, its course since the Pigott catastrophe having been the merest tri- fling, producing nothing whatever above the level of contempt. Mr. Parnell was perfectly justified in saying as he did at the great meeting in his honor, at St. James’s Hall, on Wednesday night, that the whole trial had been ‘‘one of the most scandalous wastes of public time and money ever instituted under the guise of a judicial investigation.’”? Much more than this may indeed be said: the trial has not merely been a farce, it has been a gross and infamous publie wrong. The Times had no case, yet the Government joined in giving it the formalities by which it might harass, and as it was hoped destroy the political opponents of the Govern- ment. It was justas much a deadly game for political supremacy as those of the olden times, when the means em- ployed were men in arms, and when the defeated party lost their possessions, if not their heads. The Commission adjourned to April 2, when the case for the defense will be opened by Sir Charles Russell. Mean- time, there will be efforts to arouse a more general expression of public indig- nation over the scandalous situation in which the Government has placed itself. King Milan of Servia has joined the long list of ‘“‘monarchs retired from bus- iness,’’ as he has abdicated in favor of his son, a boy of thirteen, who succeeds as AlexanderI. As the King is only in his thirty-fifth year, the proceeding is very unusual, but is said to be due to ‘mental disturbance and sleeplessness.”’ The facets are that he had played his game as a monarch, and lost it. His policy of opposition to Russia broke down, and his quarrel with his wife, his high-handed divorce from her, and his generally infamous private character, made his further career in kingship diffi- cult, if not impossible. He remains commander of the army during his son’s minority. The influence of Russia in Servia and the adjoining countries is almost certain to be increased by this change. Purely Personal. A. W. Blain, the Dutton general dealer, was in town Monday. L. R. Rogers, the Irving druggist and grocer, was in town Saturday. R. N. Thompson, the Ovid grocer, was in town Monday, on his way to Kalkaska county. Cc. C. Tuxbury, manager of the Sul- livan Lumber Co., at Sullivan, was in town Monday. Geo. H. Minchener, Michigan Manager for R. G. Dun & Co., was a caller at THE TRADESMAN Office one day last week. Morris A. Heyman, of the firm of Heyman & Company, will be married this morning to Miss Ida Wolf, well known in social circles here. The happy couple will spend their honeymoon in New York City. Frank E. Pickett has sold his Cold- spring factory, one mile east of Hil- liards, to N. Hanna, late of Perry, Wy- oming county, N. Y. Mr. Pickett will continue with the factory for the present as secretary and salesman. Chas. Kernan, formerly buyer for Horn- ing & Hart, at Woodville, has taken the same position with the Converse Manu- facturing Co. at Newaygo. Mr. Kernan is well qualified to discharge the duties of so responsible a position. G. Boeckh is spending several weeks in this State in the interest of the German Medicine Co., of Minneapolis. He is ac- eompanied by his wife, who will tarry in Grand Rapids while her husband visits the other cities in the State. John Wiles, formerly buyer for Louis Sands, at Manistee, but more recently connected with the Goodrich Transporta- tion Co. at Milwaukee and Grand Haven, has taken the position of buyer for the Buttars & Peters Salt and Lumber Co. at Ludington. ——_—~<- << How Finnan Haddies are Prepared. Finnan haddies are the same as Finnan haddoecks and are prepared in Finnan, County Kencardine, Scotland. The fish are cleaned while fresh, and, after a cer- tain preparation, are smoked with the green branches of the fir tree, or, better still, the spruce, thus communicating to the fish its peculiar odor and color. The imitation, or what one might call the adulterated Finnan haddies, are pre- pared by the use of pyroligneous acid; but the genuine are always prepared by the use of fir or spruce. The fresher they are the better. In fact, the Scotch feel they are not good after the fourth or fifth day. AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. It is reported that Fecht & Shurley, of Detroit, will shortly engage in the tan- nery business here. Van Every Bros. have engaged in the grocery business at Pellston. Olney, Shields & Co. furnished the stock. A. Van Dyk has engaged in general trade at Thule, Dakota. Voigt, Herpol- sheimer & Co. furnished the dry goods stock. Merton A. Clark, for five years past clerk for Peck Bros., has purchased the drug stock of D. Winter & Son, at 210 East Bridge street. The Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce Exchange has arranged to post all ar- rivals of fruit at the Board of Trade rooms twice each week, on Wednesdays and Fridays. Eaton & Co., who recently uttered a chattel mortgage to the Old National Bank for $3,500, gave a second mortgage to Geo. N. Davis on Monday, the consid- eration of the latter being $1,500. W. G. Hyde, for eight years past en- gaged in the meat business at Grand Ledge, has formed a copartnership with A. P. Verplank and engaged in the meat business at 253 Jefferson avenue, under the style of Hyde & Verplank. Arthur Meigs & Co. have closed a contract with J. H. Haak for all the hardwood timber on 1,000 acres of land on the Deer Lake branch of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, manufac- tured into lumber. It is estimated the tract will cut 10,000,000 feet of maple, rock elm, basswood, black and white ash and gray elm. AROUND THE STATE. Whitehall—Geo. W. Frost is closing out his jewelry stock. Portland—H. G. Stevens succeeds Wm. Morden in the harness business. Caro—W. D. White succeeds Parmelee & White in the grocery business. Jackson—Fred. H. King has the R. Irving Latimer drug stock. Whitehall—Geo. H. Nelson succeeds Linderman & Co. in general trade. Chesaning—G. L. Chapman succeeds Chapman & Waldron in general trade. Coldwater—V. L. Nettleton succeeds PD. Nettleton in the hardware business. Galesburg — Peter A. Potts succeeds Corydon Beach in the grocery business. Marshall—FE. O. Turner has bought the bakery business of Frederick A. Ganka. Montague—John J. Timmer has re- moved his dry goods stock to Muskegon. Imlay City—John J. Forsyth, of the drug firm of Holden & Forsyth, is dead. Republic—Jochim & Co. succeed J. H. McCabe & Co. in the hardware business. Sault Ste. Marie—Louis Jacobs has as- signed his grocery stock to Jay W. Sut- ton. Deeatur—Perry Young succeeds L. T. Rawson & Son in the grain and salt busi- ness. Muskegon—Edgar J. Smith succeeds J. C. Donaldson in the restaurant bus- iness. Bessemer—Osborn & Rutiman are suc- ceeded in the hardware business by P. B. Rutiman. Howard City—A. McMullen has sold his grocery and confectionery stock to Alex. Denton. Albion—Sheldon & Fanning have sold their tinware and grocery stock to Jas. W. Sheldon & Co. Bessemer—Jones & Sheldon succeed Jones & Watson in the drug, paint and wall paper business. Hastings—Ed. Powers has sold his hardware stock to Will Powers, who will continue the business. Glenn—E. R. Hutchins, formerly of the general firm of Hutchins & Seymour, has removed to Hastings. Northport—Will Steele is arranging to build a store which he will occupy as a bakery and confectionery. Flint—C. L. Carman has sold his gro- cery stock to J. K. Montrose and bought the grocery stock of John W. Gillis. Nashville—C. H. Reynolds has traded his elevator for the grocery stock of Cox & Stringham and will continue the bus- iness. Lakeview—Wm. Warren is closing out his grocery stock, preparatory to retiring from business. He will resume rural pursuits. Delton—F. Woodhams, who has en- gaged in the harness business here, hails from Prairieville—not Plainwell, as stated last week. Detroit—August Rasch has become a special partner in the hat, cap and fur firm of Rasch & Reckmeyer, contributing $10,000 for three years. Mancelona—Bachant & Lanning have sold their stock of dry goods and boots and shoes to a man named Shaw, who has removed it to Cadillac. Lakeview—Dr. J. W. Kirtland has purchased the W. H. Bigelow drug stock at Owosso, and will shortly embark in the drug business at that place. Assyria—Geo. S. Hartom has sold his general stock, and rented his store to P. K. Jewell, who has clerked for him several years, and will continue the bus- iness. bought Vickeryville—Barry & Wilson have sold their drug stock to C. F. Grinnell. Dr. Barry will now devote his entire at- tention to his Rodney drug store. Lansing—B. D. Northrup writes THE TRADESMAN that he will now assume the management of the Lansing Medicine Co., owned by Northrup & Robertson. Charlesworth—Geo. Kirkendall has en- gaged in the grocery business. J. H. Thompson & Co. furnished the stock, James D. Wadsworth placing the order. Stanton—J. Weatherwax, of the firm of J. Weatherwax & Co., started for Europe last week, accompanied by Jay Weatherwax, Jr., of Aberdeen, W. T. They will be gone a year. Manton—M. Krohn has retired from the firm of Krohn & Alvin, dealers in dry goods and clothing. The business will be continued by the remaining part- ner under the style of A. Alvin. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Reed City—J. Bittner succeeds H. & J. Bittner in the milling business. Sand Lake — Goul & Carter started up their new shingle mill. Bath—The flouring mill has passed into the hands Garlick Bros., of Owesso. Caro—Wm. Imerfon & Co. succeed Forbes & Co. in the planing mill busi- ness. Detroit—Tackaburg & Bradt have as- signed their Iumber business to J. H. Powell. Hudson—Stevenson & Co. are succeed- ed in the milling business by the Kefuss Milling Co. Eaton Rapids—V. R. Steiglitz has as- signed his cigar manufacturing business to F. Z. Hamilton. Detroit—L. P. Brock has been admit- ted to partnership in the trunk man- ufacturing business of Beals & Selkirk. Saginaw—Rust & Hay have sold to 8. L. Wiggins 5,000,000 feet of standing timber located on the Tittebawassee Salt. Consideration, $25,000. Summit City—The employes of the late Michigan Flooring and Handle Co. have rented the mill, bought the stock of logs on hand and engaged in business under the style of the Summit City Man- ufacturing Co. Harrison—E. J. Roys, who operates a shingle mill at Lake George, on the line of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Mich- igan, has manufactured 6,000,000 since he began operations, September 1. He manufactures 16-inch shingles, mainly from old and fallen timber, a portion of the Gerrish tract, lumbered over several years ago. —_—___—=> + —______ Bank Notes. James E. Forrest, for many years the only banker at Au Sable and Oscoda, died last Thursday of typhoid pneu- monia. He had been a leading business man for fifteen years and had accumu- lated a fortune estimated at $75,000. The Ameriean Trust Co., an auxiliary of the American Banking & Savings Association, at Detroit, has been discon- tinued as a separate business and its $100,000 of stock merged with the $200,000 stock of the Banking & Savings Association, making a capitalization for the latter of $300,000. Both companies were organized April 21, 1887, the trust company for the purpose of assuming the trusteeship of estates and the bus- iness of their settlement. The exper- iment proves there is no field for such a company. have _——____—~. 2+-<.____—_- Gripsack Brigade. Fred. W. Dudlow, formerly with Spalding Bros., at Chicago, is now on the road for L. S. Hill & Co. R. B. Orr, for several years traveling representative for Arthur Meigs & Co., but more recently with Lemon, Hoops & Peters, has rented a farm of 85 acres, one-half mile from Crosby, and will en- gage in fancy farming and stock raising. He says he has learned by experience that it does not pay to set a hen on door knobs. There are anumber of business firms in Alpena and other cities in Michigan that find it profitable to send drummers to the logging camps, to sell goods to the men at work getting out logs. Jewelry and watches constitute a large part of the camp trade, besides which there are merchant tailors who take the measure of those who desire custom-made suits, to be delivered in the spring. Boot and shoe men also do a good trade, as many of the camp men give their orders for “driving boots.’? Tkese merchants take written orders on the firm that the camp men are working for, and, after they are accepted, the amount is charged to the man who gave the order. Photographers also do considerable business in taking views of the men at their camps. At one camp, recently, there were nine of these drummers at one time. oO Hides, Pelts and Furs. Nothing new can be said on the hide, pelt, wool and tallow market. There is a general dullness. Prices are nominal, with all hands happy, looking for some- thing to turn up. Goods will sell, if prices are low enough, just for the sake of doing business. Furs are in good demand, but there is no excitement. All are working for the res ult of the London sales. VISITING BUYERS. H Van Noord, Jamestown JLThomas, Cannonsburg Smallegan & Pickaard,‘ John Baker, Chauncey Forest Grove 8 T McLellan, Denison W Ver Meulen, Beaver Dam J P Degan, Can: ib T VanEenenaam, Zeeland J W Hewitt. Otia DenHerder & Tanis John Dursema, Fremont Vriesland John Farrowe, So Blendon G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove W D Hopkinson, Paris A VanDyk, Thule, Dakota J W Robinson, Stetson AC Barkley, Crosby S Stark, Cedar Springs M Heyboer & Bro, Drenthe Alex,Denton, Howard City John Smith, Ada J W McLenathan,WCarlyle H Dalmon, Allendale A W Blain, Dutton John Damstra, Gitchell RT Parrish, Grandville H Meijering, Jamestown LT Palmer,Traverse City JC Benbow, Cannonsburg John Kamps, Zutphen Brookings Lumber Co, W E Hinman, Sparta Brookings T Armock, Wright SJ Martin, Sullivan Lee Deuel, Bradley C K Hoyt & Co,Hudsonville Mrs JDebri, Byron Center John Crispe, Plainwell L N Fisher, Dorr JB Watson, Coopersville A MChurch, Englishville Carrington & North, Trent Wm Karsten, Vriesland Geo P Stark, Cascade Hi Ade, Conklin F C Foreman, Grand Ledge 8 J Koon, Lisbon J Raymond, Berlin Dr Peter Beyer, Sullivan LM Wolf, Hudsonville JN Wait, Hudsonville Calkins & Freyermuth, Walling Bros,Lamont McCords Dr A Hanlon & Son N O Ward, Stanwood Middleville H Thompson, Canada Cors LR Rogers, Irving J C Scott, Lowell RB Gooding &Son,Gooding Reese & Dettrich Rosina Eli Runnels, Corning FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. i joe SALE—FULL SET OF TINNERS’ TOOLS, SAFE, show cases and hardware fixtures—all in good condition and cheap forcash. Willselloneorall. J. Vander Veen, 122 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. 373 T)RUG STORE FOR SALE — ESTABLISHED NINE years; nearest drug store 6 miles; in one of the best growing towns of 600 in Southern Michigan; a rare bargain for right man; best of reasons given for wishing to sell. Ifyou mean business, address, W. R. Mandigo, Sherwood, Mich. 394 OR SALE—HOTEL IN GOOD RESORT TOWN, WITH ‘ “nineteen beds; house furnished complete; price $3,500, $2,000 down, balance on time to suit; poor health reason for selling; barn, 34x60; sample room and liv- ery office, 16x24; good livery; mail and stage line in barn; house paying $100 per month now. For partic- ulars, address ‘‘Hotel,’ care Tradesman. 399 OR SALE—Shoe stock of about $6.000 in good con- dition with store fixtures and lease; large, well lighted store and good location on Monroe St., Grand Rapids, now doing a successful cash paying trade; reason for selling, to retire from trade altogether. Address, S. N. Watson & Co. 390 OR SALE—HOUSE AND LOT IN BATTLE CREEK. Will take stock of dry goods or lots in this city. Enquire at 666 Wealthy Ave., City. 397 OR SALE—A GENERAL STOCK OF MERCHANDISE; will invoice $10,000, including fixtures; business of 1888 was over $40,000; located in thriving town of 1,500 in Central Michigan; buildings for sale or rent; to parties purchasing, we will give our trade, which amounts to from $600 to $1,000 per month; reasons for selling, other business. Address M, care Michigan Tradesman. 376 R SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, boots and shoes, in live town in Central Michigan; will invoice about $7,500, fixtures included; trade of 1888 about $22,000; will rent or sell building; our trade will be given to buyer; reasons, too much business. Address B, care Michigan Tradesman. 377 $1,200 OR SALE AT A BARGAIN—ONE STEAM BOILER 4x12 feet, 45 3-inch flues, fire front, breeching, smokestack, safety valve, water gauge andinspirator; was replaced by larger boiler; all in good order. J.E Greilick, Lock Box 18, Traverse City, Mich. SNAP—GROCERY STORE IN EAU CLAIRE, WIS. that pays for itself twice a year will be sold to the right party for cash, if it can be sold at once; it will pay to look into this. For particulars, address Box 485, Eau Claire, Wis. 405 R SALE—BRIGHT, CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES, crockery and glass-ware, in growing town of over 1,200; stock and fixtures will invoice about $2,500; business averages $1,500 per month; store building is one of the finest in the State for business and will be rented or sold; reasons, ot! er business needs our atten- tion. Address A, care Michigan Tradesman. 378 HELP WANTED. ee ne mrteeerrecd ANTED—BOY OF 16 OR 18 WITH SOME EXPERI- \ ence in general store for a small Northern town. Address, stating wages expected, No. 406, Michigan 406 Tradesman. Yes... SELL OUR CHOICE AND hardy varieties of nursery stock; many new and valuable varieties. Address, with references, May Brothers, Nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y. 398 \ TANTED—ACTIVE, HONEST YOUNG MAN WHO has had two years’ experience in the drug busi- ness. Address No. 388, care Tradesman. 388 SITUATIONS WANTED. \ TANTED—SITUATION — BY REGISTERED PHAR- macist; thorough qualifications; excellent ref- erences. Address Box 187, Sherwood, Mich. 403 \ ANTED—SITUATION—BY A PHARMACIST, REGIS- tered y examination; best of references. Address No. 402, care Michigan Tradesman. 02 ITUATION WANTED—A COMMERCIAL TRAVELER is open for engagement. Large acquaintance with grocery trade in Michigan. Address Jackson, care Michigan Tradesman. $25 —— WISHES TO REPRESENT GRAND RAPIDS manufacturer to the trade in Chicago, or on the road after April Ist. Address 395, care Tradesman. — MISCELLANEOUS. oh ‘iat EXCHANGE—I HAVE A NEW, BRIGHT, WELL- selected little stock of hardware to exchange for Address No. 401, afarm or city real estate. Michigan Tradesman. CASH BUYS MANUFACTURING BUSI- ness paying 100 per cent. Best of rea- for selling. Address Chas. Kynoch, St. lanes, 22 care 401 sons Mich. J HAVE SOME FIRST-CLASS PROPERTY, WELL improved and nicely located. in South Dakota; also some other property to exchange fora stock of goods. J.C. McKee, 23 Fountain St. 392 bp ary EXCHANGE—PRODUCTIVE REAL | estate in the thriving village of Bailey on the C. & W. M. Railway for house and lot in Grand Rapids, worth about $1,500, Address, D. B. Galentine. Cas- novia, Mich. 372 \ ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214 OR SALE—GOOD RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF the most pleasant streets ‘‘on the hill.” Will ex- change for stock in any good institution. Address 286, care Michigan Tradesman. 286 eS. a STORE-KEEPER WHO READS this paper to give the Sutliff coupon system a trial. It will abolish your pass books, do away with all your book-keeping, in many instances save you the expense of one clerk, will bring your business down to a cash basis and save you all the worry and trouble that usually go with the pass-book plan. Start the Ist ofthe month with the new system and you will never regretit. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent by addressing (mentioning this paper) J. H. Sutliff, Albany, N. Y. 213 Sic we ASete + ra seat oe BZ i Hs SCENE CN A COFFEE PLANTATION CONTROLLED EY, OUR COFFEES HAVE = T Coff2e of America. Always pack air-tight tin cans. CRUSADE BLEND vo contain @ Single Rio bean, and guaranteed to no other coffee will, at a moderate price. 3ac2d Whole roasted (unground), in 1 1b. air-tight coffees. Warranted not to cuit your _ taste as i 4sU RETAIL CROCER selling our coffees. samples to ' CHASE & BROAD STREET, Western Department: 80 Franklin St., Chicago. ES OF PICTURES REPRESENTING COFFEE CULTURE. WATCH aa — a” ¢ FOR THE NEXT. NATIONAL REPUTATION REPRESENTIRG = FINEST CROWN. SEAL PRAND COFFEE in its richness and delicacy of fiavor. JAVA and MOCHA, Sor paesine ot others Justly called The Aristecratic ed whole roasted (unground) in 2 lb. What it has done for them it will do for you, A skilful blending of strong, fla- and aromatic high grade Always parchment packages. Tell us that their cofiee trade has doubled and trebled since buying and Send for SANBORN, - BOSTON, MASS. HERBERT T. CHASE, Representative for Michigan and Northern Ohio, GRAND RAPIDS. C. M. Henderson & Co. E Superior Manufacturers. Product of Our Factory at Fon du Lac, Wis. You can buy a better $3 Men’s Calf Shoe and other grades made by Cc. M. HENDERSON & CO. near your own door than other manufacturers can offer, and this is true of our Ladies’ Fine Dongola and Goat $2.50 Shoe and our $3 Henderson French Kid, and other grades made at our Dixon Factory, where our celebrated ‘Red School House” Shoes are produced. We have special advantages for manufacturing them and make them all on the theory of merit and style. highly appreciate it and are sure it will prove to your advantage. “The proof of the pudding is in chewing the string,’ and if you will test them we shall Our heayier grades of goods made at our third factory are aiso acknowledged to be unequaled. C. M. HENDERSON & CO., Chicago. Factories: Fon du Lac, Wis- Dixon, m1. Chicago, 111. Willard H. James, Salesman for the Lower Peninsula. P. O. address, |Morton House, Grand Rapids, Mich. We furnish electrotypes of our Specialties to Customers. ® AN ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT. Michigan Business Men’s Association. President—Frank Wells, Lansing. First Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan. Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo. Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville. Executive Board—President; C. L. Whitney, Muskegon; Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell; Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; Hiram DeLano, Allegan; Secretary. Cosmas. on Insurance—Geo. B. Caldwell, Green- ville; 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 Barnes, Traverse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw; H. B. Fargo, Mus- k n. Cammnithec on Transportation—James Osborn,Owosso; O. F. Conklin, Grand Rapids; C. F. Bock, Battle Creek. : ‘ ittee on Building and Loan Associations—Chaun- eee. Kalamazoo; Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids; W. E. Crotty, Lansing, Local Secretary—P. J. Connell, Muskeger. Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The following auxiliary associations are op- erating under charters granted by the Michi- gan Business Men’s Association: No. 1—Traverse City B. M.A. _ President, J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings. No. 2—Lowell B. M.A. _ President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King. No. 3—Sturgis B. M.A. President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A. President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. No. 5—Muskegon B. a President, John A. Miller; Secretary, C. L. Whitney. es ee No. 6—Alba B. M. A. . President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. No. 8—Eastport B. M. A. President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A. President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly. sien nts No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A. President, W.J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson. No.11—Kingsley B. M. A President, H. P. Whipple: Secretary, D. E. No. 12—Quincy B. M. A. President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon. — No, 13—Sherman B. M. A. | President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin. No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M.A. President, 8S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens. ee vie Wynkoop. No. 15—Boyne City B. M. A. President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. : a No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A. President, J. V. Crandall; Secretary, W. Rasco. No. 17—Pliainwell B. M. A. President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle. No. 18—Owosso B. M, A. President, Albert Todd; Secretary, S. Lamfrom. ——— — 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. 21—Wayland B. M. A. President,C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt. No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M. A. | President, A. B Schumacher; Secretary, WwW. R. Clarke. No. 23—Carson City B. M. a. President, F. A. Rockafellow: Secretary, C. G. Bailey. No. 24—Morley B. M.A. President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond. No. 25—Palo B. M. A. President, H. D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson. No. 26—Greenville f5. M.A. Ue President, A. C. Satterlee; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell. No. 27—Dorr B. M. A. President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N.Fisher. “No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H.G. Dozer. No. 29—Freeport B. M.A. President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A.J. Cheesebrough. No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. President, A. G. Avery; Secretary, E. Ss. Houghtaling. No. 31—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—Charievoix B. M.A. __ President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane. No. 34—Saranac B. M.A. President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, 2. T. W illiams. No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A. “tresident, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C- E. Densmore. No. 36—Ithaca B. M. A. President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden. No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore. No. 38—Scottville B. M.A. | President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins. No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M.A. President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert. No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A. President, C. H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner. No. 42—Fremont B. M. A. President. Jos. Gerber; Secretary Cc. J. Rathbun. No. 43—Tustin B. M.A. __ President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom. No. 44—Reed City B. M. A. President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith. No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A. President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. 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. 4H. Graham. No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A. President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W.J. Tabor. ee eer No. 49—Leroy B. M. A. _ President, A. Wenzell; Secretary. Frank Smith. No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. | President, A. O. Wheeler; Seeretary,C. Grannis. No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A. President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon. No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos. No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald. 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. A. President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman. No. 57—Rockford B. M. A. President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham. No. 58—Fife Lake R. M. A. President, L. S. Walter; Secretar} C.& Plakely. No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. President F. 8. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen. No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. 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. Presiden, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mutholand. No. 63—Evart B. M. A. President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell. No, 64—Merrill B, M. A. President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton. No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. S. Blom. No. 66—Lansing B. M. A. President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles. No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A. President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall. No. 68—Allegan B. M.A. t,H. H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand. No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison. No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. 8. 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, O. F. Webster. No. 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; Secretary, Chauncey Strong. No. 77—South Haven B. M. A. President—L. S. Monroe; Secretary, S. VanOstrand. No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A. President, J. 0. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders. Ne. 79—East Jordan and So. Arm B.M. A, President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison. No. 80—Bay City and W. Bay City R. M, A. President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Geo. Craig. : No. 81—Flushing B. M. A. President. L. A. Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom. : No. 82—Alma B. M. A. President, B.S. Webb; Secretary, M. E. Pollasky. : No. 83—Sherwood B. M. A. President, L. P. Wileox; Secretary, W. R. Mandigo. Pp ia z Blissfield—Collins & Karner succeed Wm. Rothfuss & Co. in the grocery busi- ness. Cordial Greetings from the Ohio Asso- ciation. AKRON, Ohio, March 14, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR StR—We extend you a hearty and cor- dial invitation to be present and address us at our next convention of the Ohio R. M. A., which meets in Columbus on April 9 and 10. At our last meeting, held in Cincinnati on Oct. 10, a resolution was offered and unanimously carried, ‘That the Secretary be instructed to write E. A. Stowe, Secretary of the Michigan B. M. A., saying that we sincerely regret his un- avoidable absence from our meeting and that it isthe sense of this convention that our most sincere regards be sent him.” As this was the only resolution of the kind offered, you will at once see its complimentary nature and that the warm side of the Ohio heart rests securely against Michigan’s Southern border. Pardon me for not notifying you sooner, but press of business has compelled me to abandon all kinds of labor except this, and this has so multiplied and extended that I have even been compelled to hire assistance. At our October meeting the duties of State Organizer were added to my other labors, as well as that of conducting a legislative campaign, in which [have been com- pelled to meet all the hate, misrepresentation and prejudice that a suborned press, a dishonest legislature and the opposition of organized | labor and combined influence of dead-beatism | could bring against me and our cause. _ c Again, misrepresentation and intimidation, through the press and organized labor, have been busy with their disorganizing influences with some of our associations. I have had to meet | apathy, indifference, ignorance, the howlings of the demagogues, the bleating of the timid and the threats of socialism, but so far have come | out ‘‘on top.” Kindly advise me if we may-expect you. | 1 Fraternally yours, PP. Caerry,Secy. | —___—. +6 | A Word About South Haven. This is the finest town of 2,000 inhabitants in the State, situated on the east shore of Lake Michigan, within one hour's ride of Kalamazoo by rail. We have an Eden, with fruits and | flowers and the finest fishing grounds in the} State. There isno sand to wade through. | stead of sand, we have grassy bluffs, studded | with the finest shade trees that nature can bestow. We have two railroads—one to Kala-| mazoo, East, and the other to I South, | In- | Paw Paw, People who have spent previous seasons here will bear me out in the above statement. | Come and see us this summer. | S. Van OStRanpb, Sec’y B. SE - —— >> A. | South Haven Still Talking Insurance. | SoutH Haven, March 13, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: | DEAR SrR—At our regular meeting, this week, | few members were present. We have not had much suecess securing stock subscriptions. We could get lots of insurance taken as fast as the | old runs out. The fact is, the boys have put up | for different enterprises this spring and cannot | tell as yet where the end is. I think that after those enterprises are secured and in running | shape they may feel different. Our Insurance|! Committee is at work and we hope to secure a } few shares at least. Shall expect to report with | more definiteness at next regular meeting, on the 26th inst. Truly yours, | S. VeAn Ostrann. Sec’y. >< | Vicksburg Anxious to Extend Her Mem- | bership. VicKsBURG, March 15, 1889, E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Sin—Our Association has instructed me to write you, asking when it would be conven- ient for you to come here and give usa little | lecture or talk to our business men and leave us a charter. We now have twenty-one business firms and think if you could give us a good talk } we could get others interested. We wish to} know quite a few days ahead, so we can notice | the meeting in our local paper and havea good | attendance. Yours respectfully, | C. B: Aason; Sec’y. ee Scottville Waking Up Again. ScoTTvILLeE, Mareh. 15, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Str—At a meeting of the Scottville B. M. A., 1 was instructed to write you and find out what our dues to the M. B. M. A. are. I received from you some time agoa circular, stating that they were 50 cents, but the circular has been mislaid. Also please send us a copy of the by-laws of the B. M. A. Insurance Co. Our Association has been slumbering for some time, but the old members are waking up and are trying to get to the front once more. Hoping to hear from you by return mail, I am Yours respectfully, D. W. Hiegins, Sec’y. ——__—< -4 << Good News from Frankfort. FRANKFORT, March 13, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DeaR Sir—At a preliminary meeting, held last evening, it was decided to reorganize the old Business Men’s Association. I, as Secretary. have been instructed to write you for a copy of the constitution and by-laws of the State organ- ization of B. M. A’s. Please send same as speedily as possible. I would say to you that everything starts out very favorably for a flour- ishing Association. WIth F. Perrin, Sec y. ~ __—_ Milk in the Flask. Ned (traveling agent for a Chicago grocery house)—Charley, I guess Har- rison has lost the support and confidence of the drummers of the country. ‘“How So ?”’ “Why, you know about that magniy- cent traveling bag presented to him by the Chicago Drummers’ Club ?’’ ‘*Ves,’? “Well, I’m blest if Mrs. Harrison didn’t fill the flask with milk—milk for the McKee babies. ”’ ———_—_>>-+? Mt. Clemens—Eckert & Wolf succeed Eckert & Essig in the grocery business. THE PEDDLER. How to Handle Him in Cities and Incor- porated Village. Reprinted by request. One of the most perplexing questions which confront the business men of Michigan at the present time is the best method of regulating the peddler. That regulation of some kind is needed is patent to any one who is in a position to appreciate the situation, which is full of gravity to the business public, for unless something is done to che2k the tide of irresponsible, itinerant merchandising, a considerable portion of the legitimate dealers might as well become recon- ciled to the idea of retiring from trade and turn ing their business over to the peripatetic indi- viduals who carry on their nefarious traffic without leave or license and swell their profits by catering chiefly to the gullible side of human nature, In dealing with the peddler, two points of view present themselves: In one case, the peddler travels through country districts, which renders him amenable to the State laws governing ped- dling. In the other case. he operates in cities and incorporated villages, where there should be ordinances prescribing on what terms he can victimize the inhabitants thereof. In the former case, the recent amendments to the general law serve to make the statute sufficiently explicit to ensure conviction in case proceedings are insti- tuted, but the main difficulty seems to lie in getting some one to take the initiatory steps. Until the law is amended in this particular, it is doubtful whether the State law regulating ped- dling will be effectively enforced. In the ease of cities and villages, however, the remedy is more simple and more easily applied. The business men can usually secure the passage of an ordinance covering the ground, and, when onee secured, it is comparatively easy to induce the local officers to enforce it. Several munici- palities have among their local laws ordinances governing peddling which have been put to the test and sustained by the Supreme Court. Among the latter is the Coldwater ordinance, which was sustained so fully and completely that THE TRADESMAN has concluded to give place to both documents. The ordinance is as follows: AN ORDINANCE Relating to Licensing of Hawkers and Peddlers and Permitting Sales of Merchandise on the Streets and Sidewalks. SEc. 1. No person shall peddle, sell or offer for sale on any sidewalk or in any of the public parks or publie places, streets, lanes or alleys of the city of Coldwater, any beef, pork or other meats, except by the carcass or quarter, nor any patent medicine, jewelry, wares, merchandise, or other property. _ This section, however, shall not apply to the sale of fruits, vegetables, fire- wood, dairy or farm produce, second-hand furni- ture and utensils, nor to live stock. Src. 2. No person shall hawk or peddle any meat, goods, wares, or merchandise, from door to door within the limits of the city of Cold- water, without a license from the Mayor as herein provided: Provided that such license | shall not be construed to permit any such person to hawk or peddle such meat, goods, wares or merchandise on the streets, lanes, alleys, parks or public places of said city. Sec. 3. The Mayor is hereby authorized to license any person to engage in the business of hawking and peddling from door to door, as provided in the preceding section, upon such person paying into the city treasury the follow- ing sum, Viz: For a license to sell meat for one year, forty dollars, For a license to sell meat six months, or for any time less than six months, twenty-five dol- ars, For a license to sell any other property pro- vided for in this ordinance, except meat, fifteen dollars for each year, or three dollars for each day for any time less than one year. Sec. 4. Any person who shall violate the pro- visions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or by impris- onment in the county jail not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment. So far as THE TRADESMAN has been able to ascertain, this ordinance has been strictly enforced. About two years after its enactment, a clothes wringer peddler from Sturgis was con- victed of doing business without a license and fined by the court. Instead of paying the fine, he appealed the case to the Supreme Court, his special defense being that the granting of a patent by the general government established the right of the patentee to sell his device where- ever he desired. The Supreme Court took a contrary view of the case, sustaining the main features of the ordinance. The decision was rendered by Judge Cooley and concurred in by all the other members of the tribunal. The full text of the decision is as follows: An ordinance of the city of Coldwater pro- vides, among other things, that ‘‘no person shall hawk or peddle any meat, goods, wares or mer- chandise from door to door within the limits of the city of Coldwater without a license from the Mayor.” For the license, when not for the sale of meat, fifteen dollars is required to be paid for one year, or three dollars for one day. The defendant has been convicted under this ordinance, on evidence that without license he traveled from door to door in said city and sold aclothes wringer. The clothes wringers were manufactured by the defendant at Sturgis, in this State, under letters patent of the United States issued to him and one Shepardson as pat- entees, I. It is objected to the ordinance that if applied to the sale of patented articles it is an interfer- ence with the power of Congress to grant exclusive rights to patentees to make and sell their inventions, and an encroachment upon the rights which the patent assures to the patentees. We agree that if this is the case the ordinance can have no such application. The power of Congress to grant the exclusive right to make and sell the articles which from their originality and value have been found deserving is exclu- sive, and any State legislation which undertakes to limit or restrict in any manner the privileges which the letters patent confers is an invasion of the sphere of national authority, and there- fore void. This was shown in Cranson v. Smith 37 Mich. 309, and what is said there need not be repeated. But the ordinance in question does not assume to interfere with or in any way to abridge the exclusive rights which the patentee may lay claim to under this patent. The ordinance is a police regulation, made under the general police authority of the State, and taking no notice of this or any other patent, or of the way in which any salable commodity may have come into existence. Itis one of the customary regulations for a business. It is well settled now, if it was ever doubted, that any ordinary exercise of congressional authority does not take from the State any por- tion of its general power of police. Pervear v. Commonwealth 5 Wall, 475. The acts of Congress assume the existence of State regulations, and in many respects would prove inoperative and con- fusing if it were otherwise. The patentlaws are as forcible for illustration as any other; they give exclusive rights, but they do not determine personal capacity to contract, or prescribe the requisites for sales of patent articles, or impose the customary restrictions which are supposed to be important to the protection of public mor- als. All these matters are left to the State law. A patentee must observe the Sunday law as much as any other vender; he must put his con- tracts in writing under the same circumstances which require writings of others, and he must obey all other regulations of police which are made for general observance. Patterson vs. Kentucky, 97 U. S., 501. Invidious regulations, applicable to patentees exclusively, might be void, but there is no question of that nature here. We have no doubt that it was competent for the State to confer upon the city the power to pass such an ordinance. That the regulation of hawkers and peddlers is important, if not absolutely essential, may be taken as established by the concurring practice of civilized states. They area class of persons who travel from place to place among strangers, and the business may easily be made a pretense or a convenience to those whose real purpose is theft or fraud. The requirement of a license gives opportunity for inquiry into antecedents and character, and the payment of a fee affords some evidence that the business is not a mere pretense. II. It is urged, however, that the fee demanded in this case is unreasonable if regulation alone was in view, and is in the nature ofatax. The city charter gives power to ‘“‘license and regu- late’? peddlers, but not totax them. But we do not think the fee is excessive, and cannot, there- fore, hold the ordinance invalid on that ground. Regular Habits. “You are drinking too much, Smith- kins; too much for your own good. If you are to remain in our employ you must stop it.’’ “You are mistaken Mr. Jimerax. habits are very regular.”’ “That’s the trouble; they are too reg- ular. I’ve timed you, and you leave the office to get a drink regularly every hour.”’ My OO A Green Grocery Clerk. Grocer (to clerk)—What are you doing there, Henry ? Henry—I am picking the dead flies out of these dried currants. Grocer—You just let them alone. Do you suppose that Iam running this bus- iness for fun? Do you think that I come down here early at morning and toil all day just for the spirit of the thing? You let those flies alone. Bronson— Eugene R. Clark sueceeds L. D. Clark’s Sons in the dry goods bus- iness. EYMAN conPANY Prices Lower than Kver QUALITY THE BEST, VW vite for Prices. 63-65 CANAL ST. HARDWARE. Prices Current. These prices are for cash bwyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. iver, ola style ee. 60 Sueips eo 60 COem Ss ee 40 Jennanes Seneine 3.8. 2 eenmnen, HaibitiOm: 2.22.12. 6 50&10 AXEs, First Qualtty, 5S: B Brovze........ 5... 8... $ 7 00 D. Bo Bronze... 11 00 S. 8 S Stcel.. 8 oe » B. Steel. se 13 00 BALANCES. dis. Se 40 BARROWS. dis. apron $ 14 00 Gareen. 20 net 33 00 BELLS. is. Hang 60&10&10 Co 70 Cn 30415 oe LCL ee ee 25 MOGE SAEVEHE 6010 BOLTS. dis. ee s @ Carringe new Fish.............. OW oe Sicicn shoe... 22. _. Wrought Barre! Boks) 2.0... - ss. 60 Cast Barrel Beis. 40 Cast Barrell, brass knobs......-....°....._- 40 Cag Saungce Spring... 60 Gast Clam 22 ss 40 Wrought Barrel, brass knob.............._. 60 Witousnt Samere, 60 Wirouees Sank Wash. 2.2 60 Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush. . .60&10 iwes Bede... 6010 BRACES, dis. Bareer ss. 40 Baers ee 5010 SOO OE ee 50 Aim Be net BUCKETS. Welk plait $3 50 Well, swivel... 2. ee 4 00 BEETS, CAST. dis. @ast Boose Pim fisured...-... ........: «+o Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.........._.- T0& Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10 Wromcht Loose Gin 60&10 Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip...............60&05 Wrouent Loose Pin, japanned.............. 60&05 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05 Wroueht Tapio 6010 Wrought Inside Blind......... oe 6010 WronenG Brags 75 Bina: Cloaks se 70&10 Bling, PAewers 70&10 Bia. SHCHAEGTS 040. 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85..........- 40 CARPET SWEEPERS. escel NOS... es. per doz.317 00 Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ........ 19 60 Eaece Grane 2. 36 00 Grind Rapids . 24 00 Mage oe . 15 00 CRADLES. Grate dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. opt Steen ee. per b 04 iron, Stee! Poms. 3% CAPS, Big tO ee perm 6 ies € Wa c 60 eo & 35 Mieeekee “ 60 CARTRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list. . 50 iim Mire, United States................. dis. 50 Contral Fire. 900 dis. 2 CHISELS. dis. Saeket Pirmet ce 70&10 Socket Mramine.. - 1 70&10 SpcketCGrnet ee 70&10 Saekes SHEER oo 70&10 Butchers’ Taneved Wirmer....:........:..... 40 Barton's Seeket Firmers................-... 20 Coe net COMBS. dis. Gurey, Lawrences 40&1 Figtemigps 25 CHALK. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 cocks, Paes, RRCKINES oo 60 AOS i 60 Beet ee 40&10 La ee 60 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... perpound 33 o SOc, 2G. 14x60... 31 Cold Golled, ieen6 and Px6@).. 20... . 29 Obeid MOMCG 144s 29 Houde oe 30 DRILLS. dis. Morse s Bit Sipeks, = 40 Paper and stratpint Shank.-.-..-..5..-...... 40 Morse’s Taper Quan .2. 40 DRIPPING PANS. Small sizes, ser pound: )...°. 0... 7 Tisttge sizex, per pound.<......5.-..... ..... 6% ELBOWS. Com, 4 piece, Gin... .2 42.204. ,7 doz. net 5 OCrUeAECG dis. 20&10&10 PATRI A ce dis. 4%&10 The Leading Hardware Housein West- ern Michigan. -3 i Me 3 { GE ee HEATER, WHOLESALE OEPARTMENT SAMPLE ROOM a is EE S : = WOOH NOU! is 5 = 4 o enrwazsocsca OF a [o} The Finest Sample Room in the State. EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark's, small, $18; larce, @6............_.-. 30 ves’, 2, $18, 2 tet. 3 te) 25 FILES—New List. dis. American File Association Hist............ - 60&10 isstOw Se 60&10 ew AMICTICRH 00020. 60&10 D@GHOISOW SG oo 60410 ener eee bee 50 Helfer’s Horse Haspe.....-................ .. 50 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24: 25 and 26; 24 ¢ 14 15 List 12 13 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis Stanley Rule and Leyel Co.'s.........-....: 50 HAMMERS. Waydole &Co7sg......... |. Soe 25 Mas dis. 25 Merkes @ Plum s.2.0 0000.02... 0 1. dis. 4010 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..... Se eeeccuees 30¢ list 50 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10 HINGES. Gote, Garke 12s... dis. 60 Mente oe yer doz. net, 2 50 Pp Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and Toneee oe 34% Serew Hook and Hye %¢ 0 net 8616 me : ba ee net 8% ‘ : . ee net 7% . u . a nese 1% Sicap gid eo dis. 70 HANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track....50&10 Champion. antifriction. ...-.........._..- 60&10 Rigger wood trae 40 HOLLOW WARE POG 60&10 MICGMCR ee 6010 SCES 6010 Gray cuameied 5 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Pin Ware. .¢ new list 70&10 aapanned Pm Ware 25 Granive fron Ware... 2% HOES. Grup t.... $11, dis. 60 Crop? ee $11.50, dis. 60 Ce $12, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS. Mu Sable. 30. dis. 25&10@25&10£10 Pug@am dis. 5&10&24%4&2% Noribwestcrn.....--.-.... dis. 10&10&5 KNOBS—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trummings .............. 55 Deer, porcelain, jap. trimuiimes........_._- 50 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porceiuin, trimmings... --...--..._.. 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 Pieture, &. i. Judd & Cavs... ...... 1... 40&10 Pemseie 8 45 LOCKS—DOOR,. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, Wheeler @ Cos... 55 Bronte es 55 Woerwalrs ..... 5d LEVELS. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 70 MATTOCKS. Adze Hye... ee Oe ais. Ge ec Bye se $15.00, dis. 60 Manes $18.50, dis. 20&10. MAULS. dis. Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handled ©.:....-... |. . 5 MILLS. dis. Cotree, Parters ©ols.....2.......0...... 40 ‘« PS. & W. Mie Cos Malleables.__- 40 ‘© Pandecs, Merry & Clark s......___. 2 40 <<: HMoterrise.-- : 25 MOLASSES GATES, dis. Stepomrs Pattern = 60&10 Stebpin's Genwine.. ge 60&10 enterprise, SCH measmrime......-........... 25 NAILS Advance above 12d nails. FENCE AND BRADS. OO eee 25 a... 10 fadandtaq =... 25 Clauads..... .... 40 Shands. 60 ee. 1 00 Cee 150 FINE BLUED. Se a ea 1 00 Se 1 50 ee, 2 00 CASTING AND BOX. die 30g 50 ~~. 60 Sa ioge es 3 tatea 90 4g fOo0d..... ce. 110 oe ee COMMON BARREL, . ee NT . 2 25 CLINCH. meand men 1% 2 and 24 Ce .. 1 Dee 1 00 Sinpen | ee e 85 Si, aud 456 men vis) Each half keg 10 cents extra. OILERS. dis. Zane or tit, Chase's Patent...............__. 60&i0 ine, with brass botiom..........-......__.. 50 ei ereormer. .-. 50 Sayer per gross, $12 net imaSteRe Se ia ».. BO&10 PLANES, dis. Ohio Taol Co.'s, famey..-. 40@10 Seon Benen 8 @60 Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fauey.............. 40@10 Bench fires Qualiey. 60 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... ....20&10 PANS. Wey. AeGme ee dis. 50&10 Common, polished =... dis. 60&10 RIVETS. dis. Trou and Tamed... 50 Copper Rivets and Burs: ...............5. 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘*a*? Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 “” Wood's 9 20 —_ planished, Nos. 25 to 27... Broken packs 14¢ per pound extra. ROPES. basal, 36 neh and larger 3... 13 ego 16 SQUARES. dis. Scecl and Eran... te 70&10 gry and Bovers. 60 re 20 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. moe 1010 1 $4 20 $3 00 oe See ....... 4 2 3 00 oe Pero ........,.. 42 3 10 WOE Sie 4 2 315 MOS Seto re tu 4 40 3 35 MO Or 4 60 3 35 wd All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra | | SAND PAPER. Hast see 78 Se dis. SASH CORD. Whe A... list aps Waite =, Ce Lo Wee Co : 10. ie 0 Silver Lake, 50 sé 55 50 : Discount, ! SASH WEIGHTS. Bele Hyee per ton $25 ! SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS. Miles’ “Challenge’’....per doz. $20, dis. 50@250&05 Perry............ .perdes. No. 1, Gia: Ne @. fel $21; dis. O@50&5 Draw CaotNoe 4. each, $30, djs 30 Muterprise Mig. Co... 22.0... 5... dis. 20&10@30 VCRs dis. 40&10 SAWS. dis. Dinstons Oregon... 45@45&5 . Crees Cut 45Q@45&5 Hand... .:............... 7... Seo *Extras sometimes given by jobbers. AGEING) CIPGWtar dis. 9 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 7% Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50 * special Steel Dia. X Cuts, perfoot.... 30 ‘Champion and Electric Tooth X Cuts per foot 28 TACKS. dis. Aanerieam ai) Kinds: 601i 60 Racer all Ringe 6 Swedes #ilkigds =... 60 Cian UAee 60 Ciese Box Najis........ ee 50 HWinmsaiie Neate 50 Common and Patent Brads..............,-. 50 Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks..... 50 Trunk and Clout Nails... ..... : 50 ‘Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails........ .. 45 Leathered Carpet Tacks....... 35 TRAPS. dis. Steel Gare 60&1 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 70 accnmie ee 70 Pio. W. Mie Cova 8... 70 Mouse, GCHoEcr. . .. ge per doz. Mouse, delusion............. ... -OL,.50 per doz. WIRE. dis. BrieghG Mareet 6714 pened MaIEeE ee 70&10 Copperca Market... 3... 62% Meare Males 55 ‘immed Maemee 621% ‘iuned Brow... per pound 09 Minmed Meagtress........ per pound 844 Coppered Sprime Steel... 50 Sree Spee SECeL. 40&10 asin Hemee per pound 03 Barhed Vence, ealyanized..........°........ #3 75 _ POUNGCG 3 00 Cope. ew list net Mase .- = i WIRE GOODS, dis, Ce »-0&10&10 serew Hes 8. ,-70&10&10 Heeges . -70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Hyes........_..-_.. -- 10&10&10 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter's Adjustable, niekeled..... =... .. 30 Coos Geuuipe. 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 75 Coes Patent, maticaple. 1... 2... 75&10 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. Dir Cases og 50 Pumps, Cistern 75 Serege, WEW 2486.000000 0. TO&05 Oasters, Bed and Piate................_. 50£10&10 Dampers, American.......... ee, 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 66% Copper Bettomis.. 30¢€ METALS, PIG TIN. Pee Pare ee a a 30¢e COPPER, Duty: Pig, Bar and Ingot, 4c; Old Copper, 3c Manufactured (includin Copper is a component of chief value), 45 per cent ad valorem. For large lots the following quotations are shaded: all articles of which INGOT. ee ee ete 18% ‘Auenor GANG # 18 | ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 244c per pound. Cee eG) Cae 6% Per pene IDI LEAD. Duty: Pig, # per 100 pounds. Old Lead, 2c per pound. Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound. Aipeetcem 8. @5 Wea @ Bee ee es 6 Sheep. 8e, dis. 20 SOLDER. OO nae ee sue a! 16 eaten Wipine 13% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. Coeksen :. per pound 14% HaMeise ne iid TIN—MELYN GRADE. leni4 1¢ Charegal............_. tis an CARH SSaR SRSS . . ~ wom 20x28 IX, qe Each additional X on this grade, #1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. faa i Citareost $ 14x20 IC, . 12x12 IC, . 14x14 IC, " 20x28 IC, =‘ 20x28 IX, Ce 1 Each additional X on this grade 9.50. 1 ROOFING PLATES Maeaeic Terme Moo a & 20x28 IC, 72 i 14x20 IC, 14x22) IX, r 29x28 IC, a Allaway Grade.) 20x28 a, ae es ay ee 20x28 IX, : 7 re SSenatanhea SSS BVGesserts SHRSSSRRSS OE 8 ee etwas ee cue aes { Per pound. .... 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, Teoorx: - . * 3 _ The Michigan Tradesman BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. CORPORATION—STOCKHOLDER’S SUIT. ‘The New York Court of Appeals held, in ihe recent case of Beveridge vs. New York Elevated Railway Company, that a stocisholder of a corporation cannot sue the corporation to recover his share of the accumulated profits until a dividend has been declared, and that that is a mat- ter within the discretion of the directors, and which the courts will not control. BILL OF LADING—INSURANCE CLAUSE. A stipulation in a bill of lading to the effect that in ease of loss the carrier shall have the benefit of any insurance on the goods, does not entitle the carrier to receive such benefit or to a tender of the same before an action can be brought against it for the loss, according to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Inman ys. South Carolina Railroad Company. ELECTRIC LIGHT PATENT DECISION. The case of the Edison & Swan Elec- tric Light Company vs. Holland, decided recently by the English Court of Appeal, was brought to restrain the defendant from infringing two English patents, one known as the Chesebrough patent grant- ed 1878, and another granted to Edison in 1879. The Court of Appeal, reversing the judgment of Mr. Justice Kay, of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, has declared both patents valid. Among the claims of the latter patent which have just been confirmed by the Court of Appeal are the following: ‘‘an electric lamp for giving light by incan- descence, consisting of a filament of car- bon of high resistance made as described and secured by metallic wires,’’? and ‘the combination of a carbon filament within a receiver made entirely of glass through which leading wires pass, and from which receiver the air is exhaust- ed.’ This decision secures to the plaintiff company a monopoly in the electric glow lamp. It is understood that the real party in interest behind the defendant was the American Brush Elec- trie Light Company. CARRIER’S LIABILITY—LIMITATION—CON- TRACT. An important decision has just been rendered by the Supreme Court of Ala- bama in the case of Western Railway of Alabama vs. Little, in which the court ruled that railroad companies may by special contract fix the time when their extraordinary liability of common car- riers ceases and their liability as ware- housemen begins. The appellee sued to recover the value of certain goods shipped from Montgomery to Auburn, and which were destroyed by fire the day after their arrival and after they were unloaded from the appellant’s cars and placed in the depot ready for delivery. The railway company defended on the ground that by virtue of a special con- tract with the consignor its liability as a earrier ceased when the goods were placed in its depot at Auburn ready for delivery. The trial court held that not- withstanding this contract the railroad was liable as a common earrier until the consignee was allowed a reasonable time after the arrival of the goods to receive and remove them. The Supreme Court, however, reversed this ruling, holding that acommon carrier may by contract terminate its liability as such when the soods are placed in its warehouse. AGENCY—UNDISCLOSED PRINCIPAL. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held. in the recent case of Hubbard vs. Tenbrook, that where an agent is put forward to carry on business in his own name the undisclosed principal is liable to those dealing with him notwithstand- ing any secret orders not to buy on eredit. The court said: ‘‘A man con- ducting an apparently prosperous and profitable business obtains credit there- by. and his creditors have a right to sup- pose that his profits go into his assets tor their protection in case of a pinch or an unfavorable turn in the business. To allow an undisclosed principal to absorb the profits, and then, when the pinch comes, to escape responsibility on the ground of orders to his agent not to buy on eredit would bea plain fraud on the public. No exact precedent has been cited. None is needed. The rule so vigorously contended for by the plaintiff in error that those dealing with an agent are bound to look to his authority, is freely conceded, but this case falls within the equally established rule that those elothing an agent with apparent authority are, as to parties dealing on the faith of such authority, conclusively estopped from denying it.”’ rAXATION—EVASION—ASSESSMENT. The case of Shotwell vs. Moore, just decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, was brought by an Ohio county treasurer to recover taxes of the appellant on the ground that he had de- frauded the tax assessor. It appears that the latter was for some years in the habit of withdrawing his deposit in the bank a couple of days before the date on which returns were made by the tax assessors. This deposit he would then convert into greenbacks, inclose them in a package, and without leaving the bank return the greenbacks to the bank officer, requesting him to deposit the same in the bank safe. A week or so afterwards he would have the money placed to his credit as a general depositor. His ob- ject in this proceeding was to evade the payment of taxes under the provision of the Revised Statutes exempting obliga- tions of the United States from State or municipal taxation. The Supreme Court affirmed a decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio against the appellant, holding that such evasions could not be permitted, and further that the selection of a par- ticular day on which to make tax returns did not necessarily preclude the making of the assessments so as to include other periods of the year. BILL OF LADING—EXEMPTING STIPULA- TION. An important decision has just been rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of The Liver- 7 pool & Great Western Steam Company vs. The Pheenix Insurance Comany. The appellee claimed to be subrogated to the rights of the owners of goods shipped on one of the appellant’s steamships, and lost or damaged by the stranding of the vessel on the coast of Wales because of the negligence of the master and officers of the ship. The company contended that it was exempt. from liability for negligence by reason of a stipulation in the bill of lading to the effect that it should not be liable for the negligence, default or error in the judgment of the navigators of the vessel. The court de- cided against this contention, holding that no public carrier is permitted by law to stipulate for an exemption from the consequences of negligence, and that the duties of care and diligence cannot be waived in respect of the servants of the common earrier. The argument that, as the contract was to be performed chiefly upon the high seas it should be governed by the general maritime law, and that by that law such stipulations are valid, the court said, is answered, first, by the fact that there is not shown to be any such general maritime law, and, second. that the courts of the United States have never adopted any rule con- cerning the validity of such a stipulation. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapide. HARVEY & HEYSTEK JOBBERS IN Wall Paper and Paints, (ils, Kts. We are Offering to the Trade some SPECIAL BARGAINS in Wall Paper at Less than Manufacturers’ Prices. Your Correspondence is Solicited. 74 and 76 Ottawa St. Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘CULIONIOS W4UNO TVTML The BEST CRACKER Made We also manufacture a full line of Sweet Goods. Write for quotations and samples. Jackson Cracker C0, JACKSON MICH. HESTER & FOX, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY, at. and > a SES ATLAS INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A. MANUFACTURERS OF ENGINE WORKS aSTEAM ENGINES & BOILERS. J Carry Engines and Boilers in Stock for immediate delivery. Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws, Belting and Oils. And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. Write for Prices. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.,. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WM.SEARS & CO., Cracker Manvtacturers, AGENTS FOR AMBOY CHEESE. 37, 39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. Detroit Soap Co., DETROIT, MICH. Manufacturers of the following well-known brands of QUEEN ANNE, TRUE BLUE, MONDAY, AND OTHERS, SUPERIOR, PHENIX, MOTTLED GERMAN, SUAP MICHIGAN, ROYAL BAR, CZAR, MASCOTTE, WABASH, CAMEO, For quotations address W. G. HAWKINS, cock sox173, Salesman for Western Michigan, GRAND RAPIDS PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE- as in June. KM ] N X 1 PUTNAM & BROOKS. A \ 1) [s warrant our goods to be STRICTLY PURE and first class. PUTNAM & BROOKS. WHY BE A ShAVE To the Pass Book System With its attendant losses and annoyances, when you can supplant it by so inexpensive and labor-saving a system as the Tradesman Gredit Govpon Book, Which is now used by over 2,000 Michigan merchants. Our lemons are all bought at the cargo sales in New Orleans and are as free from frost or chill We manufacture a full line, carry a heavy stock, The Tradesman Coupon is the cheapest and most modern in the market, being sold as follows: $ 2 Coupons, per hundred.......... $2.50 | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS: $5 if ee 3.00; Orders for 200 or over....... 5 per cent. $10 a eee 4.00 e BUG fellas 10 - $20 « “ ee es 20 SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS. R.A. STOWE & BRO,, Grand Rapids, HEAVENRICH BROTHERS WV holesale Clothiers MANUFACTURERS OF Perfect=-Fitting Tailor-Made Clothing AT LOWEST PRICES. 138-140 Jefferson Ave., 34-36 Woodbridge St., Detroit. MAIL ORDERS sent in care L. W. ATKINS will receive PROMPT ATTENTION Nut Putnam & Brooks. Wecarry a large stock of Foreign and Domestic Nuts and are at all times prepared to fill orders for car lots or less at lowest prices. ATTENTION, RETAIL MERCHANTS! Increase your Cigar Trade by selling the 5 BMA. >. 5B. M. A. EB BMA. AX Named in Compliment to the Michigan Business Men’s' Association, And especially adapted, both in Quality and Price, to the requirements of the RETAIL GROCERY TRADE. Abso | THE BEST 6 Gent Cigar on kartht PRICE, $30 PER THOUSAND. The Telfer Spice Company, MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS. O. EK. BROWN MILLING CO. Brown's Patent Brown's Standard UU? Leading Brands. Every Barrel and Sack guaranteed. Correspondence Solicited. CURTISS & Co. Successors to CURTISS & DUNTON. Our Baker's | Vienna Straight Grand Rapids, Mich. WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse, Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WHO URGES YOu TO BEEP SA POLIO’? ‘Looe PUBLIC! 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. Arctic Manufacturing Co. Grand Rapids, OFFER TO THE TRADE WHO BUY 1¢-Ibs Reward Baking Powder, 4-dozen Cases, with 48 Premiums—Glass Dishes, Assorted, All Large Pieces, for - - PRIZE BAKING. POWDER The quality of Reward Baking Powder is unequaled and warranted to make light, nutritious bread, biscuits and cakes. Saves eggs, milk and shortening and makes 40 pounds more bread to the barrel of flour. all kinds of Messina oranges. Oranges! sess" —M. GLARK & SON, If our Travelers $8.00 OT.00 i-lbs Reward Baking Powder, 4-dozen Cases, with 49 Premiums, Decorated China Dishes, All Large Pieces, for - - - The above Prizes are Very Attractive Goods and New Assortments. We are wholesale agents for the Fancy California Mountain Seedlings and headquarters for do not see you reg- ularly, send for our | WE ARK HEADQUARTERS —— FOR Teas Syrups Molasses Samples and Prices before purchasing elsewhere. Wewill surprise you. Mail Orders al- ways receive prompt attention and lowest possible prices. WV holesale Grocers # * 2% The Michigan Tradesman WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1889. LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS. Written for THE TRADESMAN. BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT. To the old, young man who has thor- oughly solved the mysteries of base ball, cricket, polo, and the various popular athletic games; to he whom nature cre- ated ‘‘of horse, horsey’’; to the enthusi- asts in the canine race; to the party who has educated himself on the subject of the American stage and its attractions; to the devotee of boat racing and yacht sailing: to the admirer of the noble art of self-defense; to the gluttinous de- vyourer of Jenkenish society slop, and to numerous gentlemen of pronounced sport- ing proclivities of various names and natures the average daily paper of the times is undoubtedly very nearly aw faut, but, as the years continue to roll around, the average daily paper of the times finds each successive visit to the old fogy less and less welcome. * * * % -- * * For the average old fossil has gradually but surely evolved into a crank, and eranks, rarely if ever, are possessed of that ‘fellow feeling that makes us won- drous kind,’ The o. f., in perusing his morning paper. wants authentic news, evident facts, brainy and instructive edi- torials, and solid information, and when he looks for these he finds that about seven-eighths of the sheet is openly and unmistakably devoted to details and com- ments which the sporting and society cranks, only, delight in. He runs through the entire list of accessible papers, and finds that the modern dailies rarely, if at all, ever recognize the existence of him- self, and cranks of his ilk, and he finally has to sulkily content himself with read- ing the head lines, and occasionally ven- turing cautiously into the fmer print. * -= * * * * * And, after all, hasn’t the o. f. some- thing like reasonable grounds for com- plaint? To be sure his tribe may be out- numbered by the combined sporting and sensational classes, but hasn’t he some- thing near a proportionate right with them as regards the purveying of his daily news? Have we reached that stage of modern ‘‘progression’’ that publishers find it necessary to cater almost exclu- sively to the athlete, the jockey, the bruiser. and, the opposite extreme, the society featherhead? Look at, for instance, the daily that lies before me at this moment. It is a very portentious sheet, both as regards its claims to circulation and influence. The paper contains sixteen columns of advertising, and sixteen columns of al- leged reading matter. A little over one- sixteenth of the latter telegraphic news, a large proportion of which relates to Irish troubles and grievances; the larger partof the rest being sporting news. Then follows three-fourths of a column account of a wrestling match, and as much more giving a minute de- scription of a brutal slugging encounter. Then there is one column on stage mat- ters, and another describing the ladies’ toilets at fashionable gathering. The subjects of coming horse speeding, base ball and boating, supplemented by a biographical sketch of arising young pugilist, utilize three columns more. The editorial page contains a long article on coming theatrical and operatic events, and a lengthy Washington letter is al- most entirely devoted to society twaddle. Now I ask candidly if an old fogy, and even anold fogy of a mild disposition, and humble and easily satisfied wants, can gather much satisfactory mental pabulum from a sheet like this, and whether there isn’t ‘‘along felt want’ in modern journalism which shows no immediate prospect of being reasonably filled? %* is some * x * * = Luckily for the o. f. he is still able to obtain a few publications that retain something like their old-time attractions, but even some of these are slowly suc- cumbing to modern progression. And even the magazines have failed him. The magazine of the day prides itself on be- ing cosmopolitan and esthetic, while the old fogy is neither. Hence there remains nothing entertaining or fam- iliar about the periodical but its old-time covers. He would enjoy a short, pointed American story, but he finds instead a dialect jumble, or a nonsensical translation from some Chinese, Japanese, or other oriental writer. He wouldn’t mind an exploring expedition to some American terra incog- nita, but is given in its place a long paper on deep water soundings in some antipodial sea or ocean. Home history and biography are tabooed, but he finds numerous articles on mythological sub- jects, and Scandinavian traditions. American art and manufacture are un- worthy of notice, but the pages are over- loaded with sketches of medieval furni- ture and architecture. Probably the only American subject treated at all is illus- trated by portraits of female society lights, and their dogs, horses and other necessary attachments; and even the old comicalities that used to conclude the issue have given place to enigmatical sketches, which only a graduate in the higher degrees of dudism can interpret. * * * * * * a I had intended, before finishing this article to make some practical sugges- tions pertaining to the literary relief of the o. f., but more mature reflections on the subject convinces me that Iam not fully prepared for the undertaking. So I will take the liberty of somewhat abruptly entering into another phase of the paper question, by making the in- quiry: Does any reader of THE TRADES- MAN know the modus operandi of stop- ping a Chicago trade journal? (I don’t mean the paper itself, of course, but its regular receipt by a party who don’t want it.) This is a matter to which I haye given much thought and attention, during the past few years, but I am as far off from a solution of the question as when [ began its study. 1 have tried bribery, vituperation, expostulation and entreaty. I have, for months and years either carried back the papers to the postoffice, marked ‘‘Refused,’’? or left them, when noticed, in Uncle Sam’s cus- tody. I have had the postmaster send notice after notice to the publishers. I have, in fact, tried every device and scheme applicable to the matter, but anything and everything has been, and continues to be in vain. I have begun to loose fear of any financial attack upon myself, but sometime, in the dim future, when I, and my witnesses, shall have ‘joined the innumerable caravan,’’ and I shall have, possibly, left behind me some little property, the claims of these trade journal publishers, or their heirs, may be a matter of some considerable moment. AlfredJ.Brown ——-JOBBER IN—— Foreign, Tropical and California FRUITS Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. 16 and 18 No. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. Guaranteed Absolutely Pure. tail Trade solicited. Newaygo Roller Mills NEWAYGO, MICH. CASH SALE CHECKS. Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of running book accounts by using Cash Sale Checks. For saleat50 cents per 100 by E. A. STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids. TO MONTANA, OREGON AND WASHINGTON. If you are going west bear in mind the follow- ing facts: The Northern Pacific Railroad owns and operates 987 miles, or 57 per cent of the en- tire railroad mileage of Montana; spans the ter- ritory with its main line from east to west; is the short line to Helena; the only Pullman and din ing car line to Butte, and is“the only line that reaches Miles City, Billings, Bozeman, Missoula, the Yellowstone National Park, and, in fact, nine tenths of the cities and points of interest in the territory. The Northern Pacific owns and operates 621 miles, er 56 per cent of the railroad mileage of Washington, its main line extending from the Idaho line via Spokane Falls, Cheney, Sprague, Yakima and Ellensburg, through the center of the Territory to Tacoma and Seattle, and from Tacoma to Portland. No other trans-continental through rail line reaches any portion of Wash- ington Territory. Ten days stop over privileges are given on Northern Pacific second class tickets at Spokane Falls and all points West, thus afford- -|ing intending settlers an excellent opportunity to see the entire Territory without incurring the expense of paying local fares from point to point. The Northern Pacific is the shortest route from St. Paul to Tacoma by 207 miles; to Seattle by 177 miles, and to Portland by 324 miles—time corres- pondingly shorter, varying from one totwo days, according to destination. No other line from St. Paul or Minneapolis runs through passenger cars of any kind into Idaho, Oregon or Washing- ton. In addition to being the only rail line to Spo- kane Falls, Tacoma and Seattle, the Northern Pacific reaches all the principal points in North- ern Minnesota and Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Bear in mind that the Northern Pacific and Shasta line is the famous scenic route to all points in California. Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and books giving you valuable information in reference to the country traversed by this great line from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Ashland to Port- land, Oregon, and Tacoma and Seattle, Wash- ington Territory, and enclose stamps for the new 1889 Rand McNally County Map of Washington Territory, printed in colors. Address your nearest ticket agent, or Cuas. S. Fre, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Paul, Minn. our orders. We handle CHOICEST BRANDS; rters’ Prices; ‘Why you should send us nothing but BEST an Seflat Manufacturers’ and Im Ship at ONE DAY'S NOTICE, enabling you to receive goods day following; Fill orders for ALL KINDS of can Window, English 26 oz. Enamelled, Cut and Embossed. Rolled Cathedral, Venetian, Muffied, | Frosted Bohemian, German Looking Glass Plates, French Mirror Plates. The quality, variety and quantity of our stock is exceeded by no housein the United Statese WM. REID, 73 &75 Larned Street West, DETROIT, MICH. Grand Rapids Store, 61 Waterloo Street. Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS. No OSam ee 50 Not oo 55 “os (C............. eee te eo Mibwier eo 75 LAMP CHIMNEYS. 6 doz. in box. No 0 SGM 1 90 Nest | Se 2 00 Ne? ¢ eae First quality. Ne. 0 San. crimp top...2) 0 6 No.t 7 a ee Ne. 2 ' XXX Flint. Wo 0Sun. crimp top.....-.......-:......._._ 2 38 No.1 ** re ee eee cc ee eee 2 80 Ne. 2 7 oe Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled............«3 70 No.2 = a 7 a 0 4 No. 2 Hinge, * 7 ee ee 170 La Bastic. No. tSun, piam bulb... | |. 12 No.2 = ae ll No. fermmp. toe 1 40 NOS 1 60 STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Crecks, per pals... 06% 65 Sues, 46 Sal, per doz.....0 22 eer ary eee & 90 ee ee. 1 80 Mest Tubs teal eseh 20.2.2... fis a rs La a 1 00 an . i 1 65 Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 60 tc “ 1 ‘ Geet Gee a8 $1,000 REWARD!! THE LARGEST AND BEST CLEAR LONG HAVANA FILLED SUMATRA WRAPPED CIGAR SOLD FOR & CENTS. We agree to forfeit One Thousand Dollars to any person roving the Filler of these Cigars to contain anythin, co rua Tobacco. DILWORTH BROTHERS. Amos, Musselman & Co, SOLE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. AWNINGS AND TENTS. Horse and Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Buggy Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, etc, Send for Ulustrated Catalogue. Chas. A. Coye, Telephone 106. 11 Pearl St. VER STARS No Equal in the State. Wherever Introduced itis a Stayer! TO THE TRADE: I guarantee “SILVERSTARS” to bea long, straight filler, with Sumatra wrapper, made by union labor, and to give complete satis- faction. A. S. DAVIS, Sole Manufacturer, 127 hovis St.,GRAND RAPIDS ROASTER The most practical hand Roaster in the world. Thousands in use—giving satisfrc- tion. They aresim;:e durable and econom- ical. No should_ be MAGIC COFFEE grocer without one. Roasts coffee and pea-nuts to per fection. Address for Cata- logue and prices, Robt. S. West, 48-50 Long St., Cleveland, Vhio, Z oh ec tats ae As eer: PA Nee a ray ae a RITZ NOME LCOS tt At VE, = Ima a ee a teh hha Rae aaa Vd » Geo. Grand Rapids, - The Best Fitting Stock- ing Rubber in the Market. H. Reeder, Sole Agents, Mich. gre tienen 2to 48 J _TELANE & BUDLEY C0, AUTOMATIC CUT OFF_ OHN STREET, SB ODLEY C., CINCINNATI, O.: lal Opportunity! Having numerous lines of Glassware, Lamps, Faney Goods and Crockery which we desire to close out and discontinue those particular we offer them at a special discount from our regular catalogue prices of Fifteen per cent., Terms 60 Days, Twenty per cent., Cash in 10 These goods are now displayed tn our rooms, corner Spring and Fulton streets, Grand Rapids, and will be offered in desired until sold. any quantities styles, Days. sample H. Leonard & Sons, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Jobbers of Crockery, Yinware and Lamp Goods, WE BVY TH F Sone THATS NAMED BE ow DAISY TIME anpRoSe TiME WITHOVT. FoR ALL SEASoNS WovLD you 24 HAVE ITAL OS SPRING FAIR AND — Qq pA So IND WiTHouT A DOvBT © WITHIN IF NoT SANTA (us Soar” TiME 15 DA'Sy TIME NICE THINGS ME TOGETHER, SUMMER TIME I§ ROSE TIME GoiPEN WEATHER 3, AuTuma Time 1s FRos! Time FORESr TREES AFIAMING ss FAW TER TIME If BIEAK pay WINTERTIME IS BIEAK Ting Soy W'Ys BEROSE AND Daisy TIME AlLWays IN YOUR DEAR HOME: a, Made by N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., CHICAGO, ILL. DIRECTIONS We hav’ cooked the corn in this can sutiicients: Shouid be Thorvughly Warmed ‘i,ot covked) adding piece of zoo4 Sutter (size of hen’s egg) and gill of fresh milk (preferable to water.) Season to suit when on the table. None genuine unless bearing the signature oi Davenport Cannirg Qo, Davenport, Ia. Wholesale Office under Nat’l City Bank. A. HIMES. Yards, COAL!--- COKE!---WOOD! and Retail Shawmut Avenue, Winter and W. Division Sts. Oranges, Lemons and Bananas! « GRAND RAPIDS, No. 3 Ionia Street, MICH. GRO.RHOWES&CO, | Headquarters MESSINA FRUIT. SPECIAL PRICES TO JOBBERS. MOSELEY BROS. —_WHOLESALE—— 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. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., . - GRAND RAPIDS. Se] 7 a Ty vT\ = = \ 3 COLBY, CRAIG & CO. MANUFACTURE 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. COLEY. ChRAIG & CQ., West End.Fulton St Bridge. Telephone No. 867. MIL. SUPPLIES For sale by Searmnue: lyon, WHO OFFERS THE BEST VARIETY OF ictly First-Class Goods To be found inthis market. NO SECOND GRADES KEPT. Our Leather and Rubber Belting, Hose, Steam Packings, Circular, Shingle and Band Saws, Lace Leather, Buckskin, Files, Emery Wheels, Shingle Bands, Band Nails, Oils and Greases, Lath Yarn, Cotton Waste, Oil and Grease Cups, Lubricators, Brass Goods, Wrenches, Pipe Wrenches, Pipe Sticks and Dies, Steel Oilers and Babbit Metal are all THE BEST and at Fair Prices. Belting Repaired and Made Kndless, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LEMON, HOOPS & PETERS, Wholesale Grocers AND -THA- IMPORTERS. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. Telephone Call 490-2. CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY, Stovewood oles Shi THEO. B. GOOSSEN, WHOLESALE Produce Commission Merchant, BROKER IN LUMBER. Orders for Potatoes, Cabbage and Apples, iu Car Lots, solicited. wButter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons and Bananas a specialty. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 33 OTTAWAcSTEET, Telephone 269, euTIOW eso0yoO GROCERIES. -- TROUBLES OF BOOK-KEEPERS. Employers’ Lack of Consideration-- The Difficulties Encountered. In the course of a conversation on the duties and responsibilities of his calling, a book-keeper recently pointed out a few of its difficulties. ‘‘Book-keeping,”’ said he, ‘tis a thankless work, and few accountants receive the personal consid- eration from their employers they are entitled to. What more, few of us get wages at all proportionate to our labor, to say nothing about our respon- sibilities. It may be that the so-called book-keepers who merely enter the tick- ets of sale in the book, or perform some similar function, get all their work is worth. With all-round men, however, the matter is different, and I doubt if, on the basis of actual time served, the ma- jority of them get much more than com- mon clerks’ wages. “The duties of all-round men are such as to give rise to little errors that have to be hunted up and rectified at whatever cost of time and trouble. Thus many men occupying these higher positions work weeks of overtime in the course of the year, for which they receive no recompense whatever. It is assumed that errors are the fault of the account- ant and that it is nothing but right that he should correct them in his own time. Employers, though, do not stop to con- sider the causes of these mistakes—the multiplicity of duties, the rapidity with which entries come in, the interruptions which are unavoidable when there is but one man to whom to refer many matters, and the like. I will venture to say that book-keepers are really to be blamed for but few of the little inaccuracies that ereep into their accounts, and yet the tenure of their situations necessitates their ferreting out an error of but afew eents. I have actually known men to work every evening for a week or two to discover a mistake of twenty-five cents which was probably made through some- body asking a question when a sale was entered. In such a case, if the em- ployer knew anything of the trouble he would probably say, when the mistake was corrected: ‘Um, that is right.’ *‘In consideration of the kind of work we have to do, I think that a book- keeper who works from § o’clock to 12 and from 1 to 6 has put in all the time that an employer can reasonably expect except in especially busy seasons. If much more be demanded, the quality of the work done will suffer. Yet these are hours which are observed in but few establishments in this city. It is taken for granted that a man can doa certain amount of work. No allowance is made for interruptions or unusual seasons, and the man who is probably taxed to the ut- most extent under ordinary circum- stances is expected ‘to put in a little extra time when occasion demands.’ This isa customary stipulation when a book-keeper is engaged, and, of course, he cannot object when the ‘occasion’ comes, which is all too frequently. “Thave noticed that there is nota point on which employers are more sen- sitive than the salaries paid to account- ants. Clerks fall under the head of manual labor: book-keepers donot. So meny cases of peculation have been traced to small pay and adequate oppor- tunity for wrong-doing that much has been said of the folly of merchants put- ting men in responsible positions at such cut-throat salaries as present competi- tion induces men to offer their services. Still, employers stickle for the lowest eurrent price for labor, and I have even known them to request that the salaries paid be keptasecret. The book-keep- ers are usually as ashamed of their wages asthe employer and are no less anxious is to be thought to get a better remunera- tion than they really do. “So far as the responsibility of our position is concerned, I think few men would not rather do the same work now required of them under circumstances which would remove suspicion and min- imize the possibility of crookedness. Men are willing to assume responsible positions of trust when they are paid for that special feature of their work, but net otherwise. There are book-keepers in the city who have just such positions, but the majority of us get pay only for our work and the responsibility and trust are gratuitous. I have even heard if urged as a recommendation of the place offered, as though it were a great honor to be burdened with an intangible something that means possible suspicion and distrust. Were it not that the check system makes a book-keeper but a half or a third of a book-keeper and cuts down his pay accordingly, we would hail it with joy.”’ —_——>>-<—___— The Coffee Market. Chase & Sanborn write as follows: While the general appearance of the features in connection with the coffee situation have for months back seemed to positively guatantee a high market, the recent advances might not have been so great, and it doubtless would have taken a longer time to establish the present price position, had it not been for the unwilling, yet very material assistance rendered by that portion of the trade, who, while previously holding to bear views and operations, were forced to cover their short sales at prices fixed by the bulls. The late advances have been of such rapid and perplexing a nature, as to perhaps make interesting the following detailed account of each day’s market since the date of the com- mencement of the upward movement, figured at the invoice cost price per 100 pounds fair grade green Rio: Date. 1889 1888. Pepreaty fo $17 45 $14 55 Al Ss 17 50 14 90 iG a... .... 17 60 15 00 isd (2 eae les SESE 7 65 14 40 se 17 60 1 10 ‘ S... 17 60 14 30 ol 17 55 15 00 Be 17 70 14 85 a... 7% 14 80 Se it we 14 70 ‘.- 17 85 14 2 ee 17 9% 13 40 : Se 17 80 13 40 eee et 18 20 13 90 eee ee 18 20 13 90 ee 18 10 12 7 zi... 18 30 12 55 nad —... 18 2 13 00 March ee 18 40 12 60 " Ce 18 60 12 90 [TS Si NS 18 90 12 50 oe pies ee oe 18 80 12 55 6. 19 05 12 60 Ce 19 05 12 15 SS 18 95 12 05 oo 18 90 7 fo 19 15 11 60 ce ete ea el, 19 15 112 Net increase in cost, green, 1 7-10 cents per pound. Net increase in cost, roasted, 2 cents per pound. Above prices are based on exchange quotations, which same are almost in- variably 14 cent per pound below the value of actual goods. Itis, of course, unnecessary to mention that the course of Brazil grades shapes the market on all other descriptions. The following table shows the average yearly price per 100 pounds of fair grade Brazil cargoes green: oe $15 26/1869 ...............$15 8 (oe 15 73 Oo 17 24 shee = a ae 18 66 wee 20 65 2 eR 42 49 Mae 31 18 23/1862 "23 01 ae. 14 01 Bomeee 13 60 Biesg 11 61 7 meee 10 % 76 |. oe 11 04 ea NE pete... 11 03 1874 |. “ae ee Mes ce 10 41 aoe te See 977 ee ee 1870 . a6 S8) Paes canes in currency from 1861 to June, 1865, and after the latter date in gold. From August 6, 1861, to December 25, 1861, coffee paid a duty of 4 cents per pound. From December 25, 1861, to January 1, 187 a duty of 5 cents per pound. From January 1, 1871, to July 1, 1872, a duty of 3 cents per pound. The duty was abolished July 1, 1872 The authority whose opinion and es- timates pertaining to the Brazilian crops and markets has the most weight in Europe has within a week reduced his estimate of the growing crop of Rio down to one and a half million bags. This revision is a decrease in estimates previously given of 1,000,000 bags, and is 2,500,000 bags less than the average yield of this variety. In the absence of any persona! infor- mation concerning the prospective sup- plies, we are as yet disinclined to relin- quish our former prediction of 2,500,000 for Rio, and 1,500,000 for Santos, and still consider that these figures are likely to fairly represent the output of Brazil for 1889 and 1890 (crop year from July 1 to June 30). Recent cables from Brazil report strong and advancing markets, and further say that it is useless to make firm offers to our market at present, as values there are so much above their relative position in this country. The markets in Java and Sumatra ap- pear to be more inclined to buy than sell at the moment, and large blocks of cof- fee which had previously been sold for shipment, have been bought back by res- ident Batavia and Macassar merchants and at prices fully 1 cent per pound above their present worth in the United States. — 0 The Grocery Market. The sugar market has taken a strong upward turn, in consequence of a scarcity of manufactured stock among the re- fineries. Some local jobbers look to see granulated touch 8 cents in New York, while one is sanguine the staple will go to 9 cents before taking a turn. The quotations given to-day may not hold good twenty-four hours. Other articles in the grocery line are without marked fluctuation. With the mild weather, the demand for oranges improves and prices are slowly but surely working up, although the fruit is yet quite cheap. Lemons are relatively in the same condition as oranges, except that they show a more decided advance in price during the past week. Bananas will be more plenty from this time on. Prices are somewhat lower, although the indications point to better prices than last season. ee East Saginaw Jottings. There is some talk of starting another bank in this city. J. H. Lenhoff, who was burned out here some time ago has opened up in the clothing business again near his old stand on Genesee street. The committee on funds to secure the location of the ninth annual fair of the Northeastern Agricultural Society have met with splendid success, so far, and feel confident of securing the fair. Single fare, three cents, or forty tickets for one dollar, is the new rate on the City of Saginaw Street Railway. Jake says he will not meet them, as he gives his passengers better rates than that by transferring them to any part of the city. —————»> +4 A Business-like Drummer. *“You never sit and talk tome now as you did before we were married,’’ sighed the young wife. ‘““No,’’ replied the husband, who was a drummer; ‘‘the boss told me to stop prais- ing the goods as soon as the bargain was struck.’’ THE AMERICAN BANNER OAT. SEEDS! If you want Medium or Mammoth, Alsike, Lucerne or White Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top, Orchard, Kentucky Blue Grass, Spring Wheat, Rye or Barley, Field Peas; or, in fact, Seeds of any Kind for the Field or Garden, write to Grand Rapids Seed Store, We have also a limited supply of the AMERICAN BANNER OATS I offer to the trade at prices that ought to induce many merchants to handle a large quantity of them. They are certainly The Coming Oat And should be introduced into every section of Western Michigan. WRITE FOR PRICES TO T. LAMOREAUX. 71 CANAL ST., Grand Rapids, Mich. w. The devil, Jack! Shark. He’ll do for Bliven & Allyn. We've got a ——— Ema We solicit consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, suc —H M. BLIVEN, Manager. BLIVEN & ALLYN, Sole Agents for the Celebrated .d “BIG F? ig Brand ‘OF udioe In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS. We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time. as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, ete. 68 PEARL STREET. The Family Trade We Do Not Sell Boarding Houses Lumber Camps Restaurants Peddlers Hotels Or Merchants Who Cater to the Patrons of Industry. We Do Sell LEGITIMATE RETAIL DEALERS And None Others. Telfer SpiceCompany, GRAND RAPIDS. STARK A, FRANKLINVILLE A, AMERICAN A, GEORGIA & MARSAC, HOOKER, BURLAP, P. STEKETEE & SONS, JOBBERS IN Dry Goods : Notions, 83 Monroe St. and 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 Fountain St,, Grand Rapids, Mich. Spring Line of Prints, Seersuckers, Toile Du Nord, Ginghams, Hosiery and White Goods Just Received. Kags. Peerless Warp ——AND—— Geese Feathers. He Interceded in Time. Little Peter Frayedback—Say, that’s pers. Shoe Dealer—Yes ? to our next Injun show. boss, my mother over there buying slip- Little Peter—You tell her that ones made of worsted with padded soles is th’ most stylish, an’ you gets a free ticket HYDRAULIC Send for New Catalogue. Tuerk Hydraulic Power Co. eo |NEW YORK: CHICAGO: SS 12 Cortland St. ELEVATORS Water Motors and Specialties 39 Dearborn St. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—In poor demand at $1.25@81.75 per bbl. Beans—Handlers are pa ing about $1.25 for un- picked and getting #1. % for ae -picked. Butter—Creamery is in fair supply a 26C. =, is in good demand at 18@22c, : tacts to quality. Cabbages—Home grown command $3@45 per 100 Celery—Scarce oa hard to get. Cider—10c per g Goopetes Penk barrels, $1.25; 25¢c. Cranberries—$5.50@6.50 for Bell and Cherry and $7.50 for Bell and Bugle. Dried Apples—Commission men — sun-dried at 444@5c and evaporated at 6@6% Eggs—Jobbers pay i2c for all sieiions. but are loath to accumulate much stock, as the staple is weak at all available markets. Honey—More plenty, being easy at per lb. Lettuce—15c per lb. Maple Sugar—10@12'%e per Ib. Onion Sets—#3 per bu. Onions—Buyers pay 18@20c for good stock, and hold at 25@30ce per bu. Pieplant—se per Ib. Pop Corn—2te¢ per lb. Pork—Hogs bring 54@5%c on the streets and sell for 54%@6e from jobbers’ faands. Potatoes—Buyers pay 15¢ per bu., and are anxious to purchase, even at that pric ce. Squash—Out of market. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried obl. Turnips—25c per bu. ; produce barrels 15c@1ie¢ not Jerseys, $3.25 per PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Mess new... 12 7 SHOE GUL MONEAM. (bog. 13 50 Extra clear pig, SHOM CCUG... 5... 14 50 bcira clear beayy..-. «ts 14 50 Ofear quill, Short cut... 30.87... ae Oe Becton Clear: short Cut... ..-.--.-.........- 14 50 lear pack, Shore cut ee. 14 50 Standard clear, short cut, best. 14 50 SMOKED MEATS—Cany aces or Seen Hams, average 20 lbs... Le ae 16S 1024 oc Ptiei4ibs. ..... 7... 103% | plenig 2... 81, < @esL peneless —.. 2) ae Shoulders oe ee ee De 8 Breakiast Bacon, boncless.........-.......... 19 Dried Beef, extra ee 7 ham — 9 Long Clears, heavy. a Briskets, medium.. ee ee ‘ Wehbe 74 LARD— Kettle Rendered, os. lll 81, Oe 814 SOlb. Eins 2)... 8 ss LARD—Compound. Micecen 71g So aud of) i RMS 28s ai Paris 2) i 2 Gases 1% Sib Paws t2in agence... ee 10 0h Pastis Gina ease. 13 ot Fotis Tia ceee |... Th ee a ee BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs).............. G Yb extra Mess: Chicaro packing... ...._. .... 7 06 PEM ee. 725 Mxiea Piste ec. i io Boneless: rump bugs. = 9 OO SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. se ll. 7 Ham Sausage.. be ee ee Tongue $ Sausage. ee ee. 9 Frankfort — ee ee oS Blood Sausage.. ee oe Bologna, straight Ce . 5% Bologna, thick. . oo. ae Heme ceerde oe oe PIGS’ FEET. in boli parrels | Ss BO In quarter barrels... oe TRIPE. : ie half Parrels.- sc 3 00 in Quarier Burren. «se a 75 OE eee $5 FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, carcass. De eee SC oe hind quarters. a fore C aa .. 834@ 4 Hes oe O | Pork loins... ee . 14@ 8 shoulders... Sete ee Q, 6% Belang jo @5 Sausage, blood or head. ee @5 : livers. =... a % . MeQnetOte: 0 @ 844 nin... 6 Gi OYSTERS and FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS IN CANS. Sunes ce @16 a ...,lrtrtrtsCsCsCsCSsC‘ @18 Sciccts: 21 @27 Mairrnaven Counts... ........ 3... 3. @35 OYSTERS IN BULK. Sianaaras 00.000... 1 00 Nelccts. = ee 1 40 Cleame 2 125 FRESH FISH. WHHCHSR oc 8 @i% Sromt.:.....04.)) @ T% CHSCOCR @ 4 Hinnan PaGdies. 0.5... @ i% Halt. @15 RCI ee @4 Pereh: skanne@.-...-..- Se @5 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Standard, 25 lb. boxes. . ee. 9 Twist, 25 Le . 9% Cut Loaf, 25 ee ee 10 MIXED. Royal, 25 Ib. pails Ee 8% Extra, 25 ib. "pails ae Ce ee ee 10 WG ie Peis 9 French C Cream, 25 lp. pails... 2... 11% Cut Loaf, 25 Heleases aa Cas 20 Broken 20ip Bask 914 te Soib Beis 9 FANCY—In 5 Ib. boxes. Lemon Brops 13 ae. 14 Peppermint Drops. Se ee 14 Cnecalate rome. _. oo i. ME Caceomte Drops.......... 18 Gum Brops 10 bieorice Props.:). 18 A. bicorice Drops... 12 Lozenges, plain...... a ele ie ue 14 ig precedes EMperiaig. Mottiees.-_ +. - Cream Bae Molasses Bar... 2. 13 Cape 19 Iamd Made Creams =... 19 Piet Crcams: 16 Decorated Creams. 20 So 14 Burmt Ammengs 22 Wanterercen Bervies..-- se 14 FANcy—In bulk. Lozenges, plain, in = ee 12 te Bhs 11 . printed, = 25 Ce ee 12% a So 11% Chocolate Drops, in aele ee es 12 Gum Drops, in pails Oe : oe Moss Drops, > pa 10 DDI 6 oe 9 Sour Drops, = ee 11 Tanperinis, mi pelis’ 6 11% ea ea 10% FRUITS. Oranges, fancy Califommia.:...°°°:..:.. @3 25 Messina NO ee oc ek @3 00 e CER ee ens sl @3 00 “ “ SOUR. eo ea ae @3 00 ' (Aa eS ea GL @3 00 Lemons, o_e es os ee co 3 00@3 25 fancy .-2... 2506s oe se 3 25@3 50 Figs, layers, new. 5 Bere, om IB... es ic, 6 Dates, Seals 50 We 4 oe frails, Be Ec oe le @ 5% Fard, 10-1b. box ee a @ eee ee 8 @ be Pecan DOLD, DOM. 5.2.52... Le. 6 @T% IOGSMAR eo 1 50@2 50 NUTS. Almonds, Sane. @i7 So @l15 . Catnackia eee oe @l14 Brees: ee ee @% melberts, Sieh @l11 Watnats, Gresoble:... 2) 5 @1214 : pete @10% betans, Texas, Poo ec: 74%4@12 Coceanuts, por 1000: 22s. @4 50 CHiIHIS oo a @1 50 PEANUTS. POREOGER erie. ee @8% SEER ee ee eee @i% ee ae @6% Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash bwyers whe pay promptly and buy in full packages. POWDER. BAKING Arctic, % Tb. cans, 6doz.:: & 4 fb. a ee i“ Ib; = * 2 ta 1 1b. So 2 ae 1 5 lb. a = 00 Absolute, 4 Ib. ¢ cans, 1008. 1 Clb Sis: 10 00 1 Ib. : 50s..18 75 Telfer’s, uy Ib. cans, 6doz. 2 70 > * ss . 2S ii © fo tw Acme, ¥4 Ib. cans, 3 doz.... D 2 -<- Doe ib ay q See ae... 20 Red star, 4 \b. cans, — 45 14 |b. 85 11b 4 "4 50 BATH BRICK. English, 2 doz. in ease..... 80 Bs 2 9 = sh. 75 American. 2 doz. in case. 65 BLUING. ‘Gross Arctic L ‘iq, . OZ... So eo 4 pt. ee 7 00 tpi... 0 So a 8-02 paper bot 7 20 a Pepper Box No. 2 300 [ ' 4 40 5b 300 BROOMS. No. » Hurl Set 2 00 Not 8... 2 2 No. 2 Carpet: _ 2 oe NO 2 Parlor Gem... oe 3 00 Common W hisk oe 90 Houcy ~. -2.. oe. 1 00 Mill . Dee eae ee ae Warehouse 00 3 00 BUCKWHEAT. Kings MO1b. Cares... 5 Oe i enges .... .... 4 25 BUTTERINE Dairy, solid packed _..__.. is fons. 2 0... 14 Creamery, ‘solid packed. =. 5 ° ORS .. <. 16 CANDLES. Hotel, 40 1b. boxes.........- 10% Star, 40 ‘ oe Paraffine . 2...) 6 Wiehe... 25 CANNED GooDS—Fish. Clams.i tb, Little Neck. __- 12 Clam Chowder, 3/lb. 2 Cove Oy sters, A lb. stand. -1 © 21b it 60 Lobsters, - . pienic ee 1 50 oe te 26 i 1 b. ee: 1. “ 2 lb, et a 2 90 Mac kerel, in Tomato Sauce. 11d. stand ...-.. if Sie | ea 3 lb.in Mustard...3 50 : 31b. soused.......3 00 Salmon, 1 Ib. Columbia. _.. .2 00 mm. |. LS 310 1 Sacramento. 1 a2 “2 iD Sardines, domestic “s...... 9 is......@ 8 Mustard - @8 imported 14 10@11 spiced, ae [ee 10@12 Trout, 3 ib. breokk.....__.. CANNED G0ops—Fruits. Apples, gallons, stand.2 00@2 25 Blackberries, stand: ..:..... ia Cherries, red standard...... 1 00 - paired 1. Damsons . 22. ok OO Egg Plums, ‘stand. _ 1 20 Goeneperrcs 1 Grapes. 90 Green Gares |... 1 30 Peaches, all yellow, stand..1 45 seconds .....00..._- 12 Hy Bie 1 00 Pears... 1 30 Eimesappies .-...-..- | _. 1 i0G1 25 Guimecs 1 00 Raspberrics, €xtra.......__- 1 10 . rea... 2 00 MOrOWDerEICn 1 10 Whortieberrics.......-...._. 90 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... 1 80 Beans, Lima, stand......... 1 00 © Green Eimas.... @i te - Same... |. @ % Stringiess, Erie... . 90 ‘* Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 45 Corn, Areher’s Trophy... .. - Morn’g Glory. ; 10 r - Early “Gold...1 10 Peas, Preneh. 2s. . 125 ** exira marrofat. .. @1 10 | S@QRCG 0: rc) * June, sand... __ 1 40@1 50 il m @aeted. 050. 155 ‘* French, extra fine... 14 v0 Mushrooms, extra fine..... 18 00 Pumpkin, 3b. —- eee ue 85 Succotesh, standard.. » 85 Squash... 1 10 Tomatoes, "Red Coat.. @ 10 bg Good Enough.. - 10 e Ben Har... 10 re stand br....1 0561 10 CHEESE. Michigan Full Cream 12%@13 Nap sago. 2: 16@17 CHOCOLATE. Runkel Bros. * Vienna sweet 22 Premium. .._. 33 . “ BHom-Cocoa... 37 . ‘© Breakfast.... 48 CHEWING GUM. Rubber, 100 lumps oe 25 ae 3D Spruce. 30 CHICORY. 6 Ree 7% COFFEE—Green. Rio, fale cee 17 @19 “good a o-.. -1814@20 “premne. @21 ** fancy, washed...19 @22 < Seaden.. 20 @23 Samioe. s) 0. ly @z Mexican & Guatemala 19 @23 Peaberry ....--.... 20 @23 Java, Miterior......._ = @25 ‘* Mandheling.. @29 Mocha, genuine....... "e i @r% To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \%e. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Sere 00 lbs Hoa. 2414 {, Mi Gabinets .....). 2434 Deworth so). ga Maenele. 0 208: 30 lbs 60 a Ane 2344 2314 235, German 2... 241, AS 245 Sickancken’ a REXX 2414 Honey Bee... 26 PEI@OM oe cs 24 io) 25 Oo Bs 24 COFFEE EXTRACT. wallow City... 7 MOM 110 CLOTHES LINES. Catton, 40%¢...._.. per doz. 1 3 bois... 1 50 ° Cote. .... - 1 60 " MOC... " 2 00 - Sef... . 2 25 Jute GOft...... i: 1 00 ie wate... . ee is CONDENSED MILK. Ee 7 60 Wear OWING coe 6 00 CRACKERS. Menosha Butter... 2.5.2... 8 Sever 6% Ree ie 6% oo. SMES os 6% OO PESCHERG % ORS 2 a 8 doy SOGa)- es 8 — ee 61% Se ChVRCGE ool 6% City gate, Oe. 614 Pienie . 6% CREAM TARTAR. Strictly pure.. : ai Grocers ee. DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. Apples, sun-dried..... z @ 4% ev — @ 6% Apricots, 15 @20 Bigenereiesg ss 41, 6 Mectarmce, °c, 14 Pesecuen, ©... 14 Plums Ll 10 Haspperrties “8-2 22 DRIED FRUITS—Foreign. Citron, in drum. -:.. .. 2 ' in Dexes.. @25 Coren... |........ @5 Lemon Feel... --...-- 13 Grange Feet... _....-. 14 ‘Pranes, Turkey... -.. @ 43% Imperial... .. @ 6 Raisins, Valencias....714 @ 8% Ondaraa (0.20 . Oa} Domestic Layers. ..2 40 Loose Californias. .1 65 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 100 1b. kees......... Hominy, Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.. 60 - imported eee @10 Pearl Bariey.«_..__.. @ 3 Peas green...) , @1 40 eit @ 3 Sago, German... _.. .. @ ee Tapioca, 7k or pri... @ Wheat, €rackea.... @ ein Vermicelli, import.. @10 c domestic.. @60 FLAVORING EXTR AC Ts. Jennings’ Lemon Vanills 2 OZ, Panel, doz. 90 3a 4 02. 1e 2 6 Oz. 2 3 25 No. 3, 1 1 60 No. &, 2 id 4 00 No.10, 4 50 6 00 No. 4, Taper, 1 60 2 50 14 pt, tound, [ 425 7 50 1, 8 50 15 00 FISH—SALT. Cod, where... @ 5% Doneless............ @ 7 Babe “11% Herring, round, 1% bbl.. 2 ia = : bbl. 1 50 Y Holland, “bbls... . 100 hy Holland, kegs.. @ 70 sealed... |... 28 Mack, sh’ s, No. 1, oe 50 . e lb kit. q 45 7 ae 1 So Tr rout, , bbls . @4 U5 i eo lb kits eet 78 WwW hite, No. 4, she. 6 00 : ip ts. 1 i a0 Ib. Kits..... 9 Family, 1. bbis.... .2 50 : i... 55 GUN POWDER. Mess. Lee Half keog (00) LAMP WIC KS. NoO | eT 1... CC. 40 | Nee eo LICORICE, rnac. Cares. CO ery. 18 MINCE MEAT PMGMORS ake Hates MOLASSES, Biaek Stray... 16@17 Cuba Bekiip......... | Sages Porto Rico. 2... aia New Orleans, ‘good. 25030 choice.. .. .-B3@40 | fancy. .. 45@48 One- es ulf barrels, 3c extra. OATMEAL. Muscatine, Barrels ........ 6 00 reed barrels «a 15 Cases ..2 25@2 35 ROLLED OATS Muscatine, Barrels... 6 00 Half barrels. Lee Cases... 2% OIL, Michigan eS lig Water Witte... «isi 1034 PICKLES, Medium. . 2. 4 oe 5 bbl . ee 2 i Small, a" LS oe “36 pet... 3 20 PIPES Clay, No. 216... |. oo i. D. falleount....._.. ie Cob, No 5 Peco) oe ‘RICE. Carolina end Neots No. 2 ‘No. 3 oe as a SALERATUS Deband’s, pure........_.... by Clarchs, Cap Sheaf....... 5 Dwiehes. .... lS PIOnA 6 LS SALT Common Fine per bbl....... 88 Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 24 = pocket eee 2 05 eee oc 2 15 100 Ce 2 40 Ashton bu. bags ee 7D Higgins “ ce o Warsaw ee 37 SAL SODA Nee. Granulated, boxes.......... 1% SAPOLIO. Kitchen, 3 3 doz. in box oe 2 3b ee 2a SAUERKRAUT. Silver Thread, = gal -___-_-._o = ph rxed bird. 4% Caraway 10 Comer CO 4 mane. eee ee 4l, MStAre 7% SNUFF. Scoteh, in bladders......_.. a Maeéaboy, in jars.........._ 35 French Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SOAP. Dingman, 100 bars.......... 4 00 Don’t Anti-Washboard..... 4 75 Jaxon. oo --.-.3 a0 Queen te ee German family.........._... 2 40 Big Bargain. . tL. 41 8 SODA. OEOS 514 Mees, Hngtish. 434 SPICES—W hole. MUSRICC 10 Cassia, China in mats....... 7% cs Batavia in bund....11 * Saigon in rolls...... 42 Cloves, Amboyna........... 30 . Mammver.... 2... .. 24 Mace Batavia. .-........._.. 70 Nutmescs, faricy..........._. 75 e No. eee ql " noe... 65 Pepper, ne —? - 18% es 28 ' SHG 2... 21 sPicEs—Ground-—-In Bulk. POG 15 Cassia, Batavi 1 20 . and Saigon .25 _ Saigen .. 42 Cleves, Amiiouna...... |. 35 ii Pansiber. | 28 Ginger, African... ..- 2... 12%, . Ceehia 1... 15 = eammeien 18 Mace Batavis.....:..... 1. 80 Mustard, English ee ae 22 and Trie. .25 a ECR sk. 20 Nutmers, Noo So.) 00... 7 Pepper, Singapore, black....22 ' mo 30 hy Cayenne)... .....; 25 STARCH. Mystic, . Ib. — oe Darren: =. 2.8... 6 SUGARS, : Cut Boat 2... ic... in @ 8% MORES c.0 0 a @ 8 Powdered ......-.....- @8 Granulated, on & E.’s. @ 75% Franklin... @ 7% Lakeside... @ 7% Knight’s... @ 7% Confectionery A...... @ 7% Geanasred Aso... @7 No. 1, White Extra C.. 653@ 63 No 2 wira Cos. -.... @ 6% No. 3C, golden ..:.... @ 63% No.4 C, dark.......... @ 64 Mos © ity 230. @ 63 04 | per boi... 4 00} | SYRUPs. Com, Wise eos. @22 + one _ barrels.... @24 | Pure Sugar, bbl.. .. .25@36 ' half barrel. . 21@38 | SWEET GOODs. x. | Ginger suena... 9 9% | Sugar Creams... ..-..9 9% | Frosted Creams....... 916 | Graham Crackers..... o% | Oatmeal Craekers..... 9 | TEAS. | JAPAN—Regular. Pa 8. 12 @16 Geen es @li Choice. 28 @2 Choicest.. ..30 @34 SUN CURED. Pa 12 @l5 MOMs Ses i = 16 @20 | Choice eee 24 @28 | CROIGGSE: (i 0°.) a Qe BASKET FIRED. Mae @20 PCheiee @25 VGhieieeste @35 | Extra choice, wireleaf @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to fair....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest faney........ 7 @& IMPERIAL, Common to fair.......20 @35 Superior tofine........ 40 @0 YOUNG HYSON. Common to fair.......18 @2%6 Superior to fine.......30 @40 OOLONG. Common to fair.......25 @30 Superior to fine. -- 0 ! GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. ae... 95 Hees... 95 FLOUR, Straight, in Saws... 5 00 | Pempels,.. 2... 5 20 Patent saeme 6 00 - barrels. ....... 6 20 MEAL. Beitea jo. 2 50 Grangisted.....-._../_-..- 3 00 MILLSTUFFS. Bean 14 00 See 15 50 Bercenmigs ............... 14 00 Middiiage................. 17 & Mixed Heed............... 10 % CORN. Sanat lots... 35 Car Se 34% OATS, Santi lots... 5... 30 Car ee oe oe 2814 RYE. io. 1, per 100 Ths... . 2 00 BARLEY. Mai... 1 30 Nae... ts. 1 10 HAY IG, Fee 12 50 Na 2... 11 3 HIDES, PELTS and FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as fol lows: HIDES. Green . . 5 4 @4% Part Cured.. ea @ 4% Fou“ @ 5% ad ec. @é6 = Rigs ..... 2... @ 6 fskins, green. wate 3 @4 cared...... 44@ 514 Déscon sking......---. 10 @20 45 off for No. 2. PELTS. Shearings............. @30 atimated wool, per ib 20 @28 FURS. ia... |. 5@1 00 ee 5@i 10 Siragih lc .. 5@1 20 Muskiet........,...... 1@ 25. Bow, ted, 5@1 50 ee Gls... - 1... yes 50@5 00 Ce MeL 5@1 00 Cat, cas eee oy 5@ 2% Wi 3 5@ Wisner. 0005.0 0. 1 00@6 00 ee 50@5 00 Martin, dark........_. 25@+4 00 _ pale... 8, 10@1 50 eee ee 50@9 75 Welt os 50@4 00 eur... 4. 3@30 00 Beaver 020 0 es 50@8 00 eadece 5@1 00 Deerskins, per lb...... 5@ 40 MISCELLANEOUS. OW oot ie esac 34@ 334 Grease butier.........5 @ 7 tees ooo. 2 @Ww*z% Gise@te. 2... 32: ....2 CO@2 10 2 Drugs $% Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit. President—Geo. McDonald Secretary—Jacob Jesson. Treasurer—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, Lansing. Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles. Third Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. ‘Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman, Manistee; A. Bas sett, Detroit; F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; W. A. Hali, Greenville; E. T. Webb, Jackson, focal Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit. Grand Rapids 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, J. W. Hoyt. Drugs for the Nerves. An elegantly dressed woman of middle ‘age, whose face bore traces of great beauty, entered one of the largest drug stores in this city one evening last week, and walking quickly to the rear of the store, where one of the proprietors was busy mixing prescriptions, handed him a slip of paper. Before she had reached him the proprietor had seen her coming and, stopping his work, had reached al- most mechanically for a large bottle which stood on a shelf behind him and which was filled with some white substance. As he took the slip of paper, whieh was evidently a prescription, he simply glanced at it and proceeded to weigh out a certain portion of the contents of the bottle, which he wrapped up and handed to the lady. Whenshe was gone a re- porter, who had been standing by, asked the proprietor what it was he had given her. ‘Bromide of laconic reply. ‘“‘What is it used for?’’ potassium,’’ was the was then asked. ‘“‘Nerves,’? replied the proprietor. ‘‘You have no idea, young man,’”’ he continued, ‘show much we see of that and kindred hypnotics every day. It is simply awful. No one outside of this business and the medical profession has any idea of the number of educated, well- to-do people who use bromide of potas- sium, bromide of sodium, and chloral every night toinduce sleep. Morphineand opium are perhaps not used as much as they were, for the law is that none shall be sold by druggists unless on prescrip- tion. We have regular customers, though, for opium, who obtain prescrip- tions for the deadly drug in some way. One man comes here every second day for his regular allowance. He is a poor man, too, and I asked him the other night what he would do if he should finally find himself in a position where he had no money to buy what to him is the staff of life. ‘Do,’ he exclaimed, with a look of despair; ‘God only knows what I should do. Kill myself, I suppose.’ ’ “How did that man get into the habit?” ‘“‘“He was severely injured and taken to the hospital. While there his severe paroxysms of pain were relieved by morphine. When he was discharged as convalescent at intervals he had recur- ring spells of this pain, and naturally he turned to the same drug for relief. It is quite impossible for him to break off the habit, for he cannot work unless he has his usual dose, and he is dependent upon his trade for a livelihood.’’ ‘“‘What is the latest fad in hypnotics?’’ ‘Solfonal, a product of petroleum. Before solfonal, antipyrine was all the rage, the latter also coming from petro- leum. There is a peculiar fact about people who use nerve-quieting drugs, and that is the moment a new one is dis- covered, although it may scarcely be- come known to physicians, there is a call for it immediately. I suppose that such people are constantly on the ontlook for something, and when one discovers a new drug he tells the rest. Now this .solfonal isa very recent discovery. Even physicians do not fully understand its effects and use it with great caution, yet people will send for and take large doses of it. Itis known that five grains will quicken the action of the heart, and still I have customers who in their ignorance think nothing of taking fifteen grains. It’s a wonder that some of them don’t kill themselves, but perhaps they do, for all | know.’’ ‘What are the after effects of this new discovery ?’’ ‘“‘“Now, so far as can be determined, unlike opium, it has apparently no dele- terious reactionary effect upon the nerves, but it is almost too early to judge of the properties of solfonal, it is of such re- eent birth.’’ a a Cobalt and Nickel. It is reported that a German chemist has been successful in decomposing the metals cobalt and nickel, and that he has found in both a common constituent which alters the color of cobalt and nickel salts as hitherto known, the color of pure cobalt salts being violet, and that of pure nickel salts dark green. At arecent meeting of the Munich Chem- ical Society, Dr. Kruss described the re- searches which had led him to these re- sults. The problem which at first en- gaged his attention was the more accu- rate determination of the atomic weights of cobalt and nickel, and the method proposed by Winkler was selected for that purpose. After determining the atomic weight of gold as 196.64, a weighed quantity of cobalt or nickel was treated with a neutral solution of gold chloride, and the gold eliminated was weighed. The results thus obtained did not give any constant equivalent propor- tions, although the greatest care was taken to insure accuracy. After endeay- oring in various ways to detect possible sources of error, without success, the gold separated in these experiments was examined, and it was then found that when dissolved in nitrohydrochloric acid, and precipitated by means of sulphur- ous acid gas, there was a loss of weight, while the water with which the gold had been washed had a greenish color. On concentrating these washings they gave a colorless neutral liquid that became green on addition of hydrochloric acid, and gave a white precipitate with caustic potash or ammonia, soluble in excess of caustic potash. These reactions not be- ing characteristic of the metals operated upon, and the quantity of material thus’! obtained being small, Dr. Kruss sought] time on account of sickness. by other means to obtain a more adequate supply of it. Eventually he found that by gently igniting a mixture of freshly precipitated oxide of nickel or cobalt with caustic potash, and treating the melted mass with water, a solution was obtained that contained from two to three per cent. of a substance which pos- sessed the characters above mentioned, while the pure oxides of nickel or cobalt remained undissolved. On adding am- monia to this solution a yoluminous pre- cipitate of a hydrated oxide was ob- tained, which yielded on ignition a white oxide that dissolved readily in dilute hydrochloric acid, and when reduced upon charcoal gave a brown, malleable, metallic powder. A solution of this ox- ide in hydrochloric acid gives with am- monia a white voluminous precipitate. Caustic alkalies throw down hydrated oxide that is soluble in excess, and am- monium sulphide precipitates a dark brown sulphide that is readily soluble in acids. These reactions being different from those of aluminum and zine under the same conditions, they were inferred to indicate the presence of a hitherto unobserved metal. The hydrochloric so- lution of this substance mixed with vio- let cobalt chloride gives a green color to the solution which has probably been misleading in previous separations of nickel from cobalt. Further investiga- tions are in progress for ascertaining the chemical relations of the newly observed substance, and its position in the series of elementary substances, as well as the correct atomic weights of cobalt and nickel. —~> -9§<_____ The Antipyrin Habit. From the American Analyst. The new coal tar product, antipyrin, has already started a vice of its own. This singular compound was discovered by a German chemist, and on account of its remarkable qualities is now used the world over. Ithas the power of reducing the temperature of the body by several degrees, and so is of vast utility in treat- ing fevers and feverish stages ef many diseases. It does its work by depressing the action of the heart, and generally, when employed by physicians, it is ae- compained with digitalis to neutralize its influence in the latter regard. Women use it partly because it is a sedative and patly because it makes the eomplexion beautifully clear and pale by keeping the blood away from the surface of the body. The habit, like all others, grows upon the person who practices it. It does harm, however, from the first. With women who are weak it increases their weakness; with those having a pre- disposition towards heart disease of any sort, it increases the tendency to a terri- ble extent. Besides these results, an- tipyrin exerts a peculiar influence upon the blood, which is not yet thoroughly understood by the faculty. It seems to undergo some decomposition or breaking down when absorbed by the system, de- veloping unknown compounds, which either attack the blood itself or else powerfully influence the nerves and ganglia which control the vital functions. oo +2 He Mistook His Man. “How did I get this black eye?’ re- peated the drummer, as he buckled the straps to the satchel. ‘Well, I tried to be smart.”’ “HOW 27" “i was at Seymour, Ind., and in 2 hurry to get my railroad ticket. So was another chap. The ticket seller was slow, lazy and impudent. The other man pulled his gun, shoved it into the window and got his ticket ten seconds later. It was a hint for me.’’ ‘‘And you accepted it 2’’ “IT did. I shoved my revolver into the window and gave the ticket man a quar- ter of a minute to get me a pasteboard.’’ ‘‘And he jumped ?”’ ‘“‘He did—jumped out of his office and broke me in two over a bagga age truck. He’s got my revolver yet.’ ‘But how did it happen to work in one ease and fail in another ?”’ “Oh, I couldn’t keep my voice from trembling, and then I didn’t have long hair and a buffalo overcoat. He got right onto me for a fake.”’ et A A Boy Should Learn To build a fence scientifically. To fill the wood-box every night. To shut doors in summer, to keep the flies out. To shut doors without slamming. To shut them in winter to keep the cold out. To do errands fully. To get ready to go away without the united efforts of mother and sisters. To be gentle to his little sisters. To wash dishes and make his bed, when necessary. To sew ing. T o be kind to all animals. To have a dog, if possible, and make a companion of him. To ride, row, shoot and swim. To be manly and courageous. To let cigarettes alone. ———~-4 << How He Subdued Him. "2 ll see about it,” he Said: as he handed the bill back to the collector. “It’s only $5, and—’’ “I'll see about it, I told you!” “And we need money. It would bea great favor.”’ **Didn’t I say I would eall ?’’ **Yes, but when ?’’ ‘“‘Look here!’ said the debtor, as he rose up, ‘‘do you mean to insult me ?”’ “‘No, sir; I mean to go down to: the papers and get them to putin a notice that you will soon depart for Europe. Good-day, sir.’’ “Here, come back! Here's your money. Do you suppose I want 500 col- lectors making a rush on my Office? Please receipt the bill. Sorry I kept your folks waiting for it.’’ oo © ee Muskegon Drug Clerk’s Association. MUSKEGON, March 14, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Str—A regular meeting of the M. D. C. A. was held March 12, at our parlors in the Vanderwerp block. All the resident members reported promptly on time. ‘‘Propenyl Alcohol’? was the chief subject under discussion for the evening. Mr. 8. J. Koon is able to attend the meetings again, after being absent some Yours, J. W. Hoyt, Sec’y. promptly and cheer- onabutton and darn a stock- SAVED BY A POET. Spiritus Frumenti Obtained in a Pro- hibition Town by the Divine Afflatus. Asbury Park is one of the few suc- cessful prohibition summer resorts on the Atlantic coast. The place was dis- covered and founded just after the war by James A. Bradley, then a New York brush manufacturer. Mr. Bradley was a firm believer in the cold water theory, and when he sold his cottage plots he caused to be inserted in every deeda clause specifying that the conveyed land should 1evert back to it original owner in case liquor was allowed to be sold on the premises. Founder Bradley’s next move was to induce the State Legislature to enact a special law prohibiting, under severe penalties, the sale of liquor within a mile of Wesley Lake bridge. The knowledge of the fact that there were no licensed hotels or saloons in or ad- jacent to Asbury Park caused the resort to flourish wonderfully. From a village of a few hundred inhabitants during hot weather the place soon grew. until the summer population numbered over 50,000. Temperance advocates from every quarter of the globe passed their summers within its hallowed precincts, and the Park was quoted far and near as being the only exclusive prohibition watering place in the world. While itis a fact that there is not a licensed saloon within its borders, still there is a good deal of liquor swallowed every day. Even Founder Bradley will say this statement is true. Liquor is sold by prescription by nearly every one of the dozen druggists who do business in the Park. Recently a good citizen of the Park was suffering for the want of his usual morning cocktail. He was in a bad fix, for his stock had given out and he had lost his prescription, without which he could not obtain his coveted liquor. In his meanderings he met a local wit. The good citizen informed the wag of his loss and importuned him to help him out of his trouble. The joker obtained pen and paper, and ina few minutes handed his friend the fol- lowing order for a ‘‘life preserver :’’ R. SPrRiTtus FRUMENTI. Q@. 5 Please give to the bearer the above named pota- tion— He’s a pretty good chap, and employed at the station; The liquid he craves is known as frumentum, And my name atthe bottom will tell you who sent him The letters “QS S.,”’ to be very explicit, is a = dodge—know n as ‘‘quantum suf- eit; But, tf a special translation you crave for, It is simply this: Give him all he can pay for. His case is severe, so pray don’t refuse it— He’samember of church, and knows how to use it. So, please, don’t fail this, my first requisition, For ’'m sound on the goose—an old school phy- sician, Jones, M. D. The poet doctor’s unique prescription was honored at the drug store, and the order was handsomely framed and now hangs on the wall of the druggist’s pri- vate office. 9 we The Drug Market. Alcohol has declined 6 cents per gal- lon. Turpentine has advanced. Castor oil has advanced 4 cents per gallon. Flint glassware is lower. Carbolic acid is advancing. Gum campher is very firm. Gum opium is weaker and lower. Qui- nine is easy for foreigh brands. Domes- tic makes are unchanged. Cuttle bone is very firm and advancing. Oil cassia has advanced. Oil sassafras is advane- ing again, on account of scarcity. Cas- cara sagrada bark, true California, is very high. The price is now $1 per pound. Saffron is advancing and stocks are said to be concentrated. Higher prices are expected. _ re She Was Practicing What He Preaches. Henry George—‘‘My dear, this steak is burned to a crisp.”’ Mrs. George—‘‘Mercy me! se it is! ‘“‘And the potatoes are not half done. ‘*So I see now.’’ ‘‘And the bread is sour, and, in fact, there is not a thing fit to eat, and ’mas hungry asabear. What on earth have you been doing with yourself all the morning?’’ “ve been swinging in the hammock, dear, dreaming about how lovely every- thing will be when your millennium gets here.’ rss 3 —__—_ -94 Caution. The seventeenth annual volume of R. L. Polk & Co.’s Grand Rapids City Directory is now in course of compila- tion. It will contain a complete list of all firms, corporations, private individ- uals, ete., ete., also a carefully compiled directory of all trades, professions and pursuits. We would caution the public to beware of itinerant advertising can- vassers soliciting for any business or so- called legal directories. See that the name of R. L. Potk & Co. appears on the order before signing it. R. il. Potx & Co. He Will Be There. Mrs. Veneering—Really, my dear doc- tor, you must come to my ball. Itis Lucy’s coming out affair, you know, and I shall take no refusal, none at all. , Dr. Bygfee—Well, you see, my dear madam, Iamavery busy man. Mytime is not my own. Mrs. Veneering—Say no more. In- clude the visit in your bill. There, I shall expect you. Good-bye. 0 Thoroughly Posted. Cigar dealer—Yes, I want a boy here. Have you had any experience? Youthful applicant—Lots. “Suppose I should mix up the price marks in these boxes, could you tell the good cigars from the bad ones?” ‘‘Kasy ?nough.’’ “How: ’ ‘““The wust cigars is in the boxes wot’s got the purtiest pictur’s > -o- < A Bootless Suspense. , From the New York Sun. Two hundred and sixty pairs of boots have been made for the Emperor of China. The young gentleman has not, we are informed, more than the ordinary quota of feet. The members of the Im- perial Board of Civil Service Commis- sioners are naturally getting very ner- vous. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Oil Cassia, Castor Oil, Saffron, Turpentine. Flint Glassware, Alcohol. Declined—Gum Opium, Gum Opium p., ACIDUM. Re ee 129@ 15 dndinazia eg ates 1 35@1 40 Acetioum . 200.0000: 10 ee (po. 20)...... 18@ = ——— Nitras, ounce 2 68 ; y iS Weme es, TRCMICINA Me ae” —— F se = POGIGGl ye 2 5003 00 Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@, Carbolicum ..........- 40@ 45 | Potassa, Bitart, =: 28@ 30| Bismuth §. N.. 2 15@2 25 Citiana 55@ 60 Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15] Calcium Chior, ‘Is, “(és Hydrochlor .......... 3@ 5 | Petass Nitras, opt Haig 10 oes Sa5, Sees: 9 Witroeum * 10@ 12| Potass Nitras.......... 7@ 9/C ee Russian, eens... 5.2. 13@ 14 | Prussiate.............. 25@ 28) po..... freee es ecee eee @i 7 Phosphorium dil...... og | Sulphate po..........- 15@ 18 capsici Fructus, af. @ 18 SallevHeuray 0.00.00. 1 49@1 80 naa ne i in a