he Michigan Tradesman. P yok s¢ ® SPECIAL OFFER-—This style of 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 eorners, extra heavy base; silvetta trimmings; 6 feet long, 28 inches wide, 15 inches high. Price, S11, net cash. i 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 2. GOOR, 106 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich. Katon, Lyon & bo Base Balls, Rubber Balls, Marbles. Base Ball Bats, Fishing Tackle, Archery. BOXING GLOVES. STATIONERY. Raton, Lyon & Go, 20 and 22 Monroe St. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. CREOLE STRAIGHT CUT. To all Merch1n’s Handling Cigarettes: A new era has been reached whereby all dealers selling cigarettes may now make a larger profit than heretofore on any other brand. The CREOLE STRAIGHT CUT. Which has recently been introduced into the State is becoming very popular. it being the only straight cut sold for five cents, thus giving 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 yeu will find it a big seller. Sold by all Grand Rapids jobbers, and manu- factured by S. F. HESS & CO. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Manuf'rs of High Grade Cigarettes. F. J. DETTENTHALER, JOBBER OF OYSTERS And Sak 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. Makea Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. WALES - GOODYRAR and Connecticut Rubbers. THE PARAGON in Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s, Heels and Spring Heels. G. R. Mayhew, 86 Monroe St., 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. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, GRAND RAPIDS Paper - Box - Factory, W. W. HUBLSTER, Prop. Paper Boxes of Every Description Made to Order on Short Notice. We make a specialty of Confectionery, Millinery and Shelf Boxes. All work guaranteed first class and at low prices. Write or call for estimates on anything you mayjwantin my line. Telephone 850. OFFICE AND FACTORY, 81 & 83 Campau St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. EDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, Ah CANAL SY., Grand Rapids, - Mich. S = as > hy > Sam SES ~ ~ *N x gS o SS t4, jetted PZ Lae ——} g 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 sent us. Not only BEANS but also ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE. We can sell as well as anyone. We invite correspondence. BARNETT BROS., 159 So. Water St., CHICAGO. Look Out For Geo. T. Warren a Loe New o Cent Cigar. G. M. MUNGER & CoO., GRAND RAPIDS. Successors to Allen’s Laundry. Mail and Express orders attended to with promptners. Nice Work, Quick Time Satisfaction Guaranteed. W. E. HALL, Jr., - - - Manager. DANIEL LYNG Successor to FRED D. YALE & CO,, Manufacturer of Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powder, Bluing, Ete. Grocers aud Droggists’ Sundries. Call and inspect our new establishment when in the city. 19 S. IONIA ST. lin WINS. cos APOTHECARYS BRAND. Lop Moclotes CUBAN,HAND MADE.HAVANA,CIGARS 108s Pach Few a (225¢hs Bs od RE ke Se YM. AW Wes BY) ‘N)) ) ZY, FLAVORING Z Is free from AR yy a TIFICIAL 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. on Sale by 20,000 Druggists throughout the J. i. & Cigar. The Very Best Nickel Cigar in America. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Wholesale Agts.,Grand Rapids FREE PRESS ENC Obl. “FLOR DE MOEBS,” Straight lue. “BEN HUR,” 3 for 2c. Nk FREE = FRAGRANT. Sold by Dealers Everywhere. ASK FOR THEM. “Reeord Breakers” AND “Detroit Sluggers,” Favorite 5-Centers. MANUFACTURED BY GEO. MOEBS & CO, 92 WOODWARD AVE., DETROIT. MAN® HO PAN Show Case MAKERS. Prices kower than Kver QUALITY THE BEST. W rite for Prices. 63-65 CANAL ST. W. H. BAGH, WHOLESALE DEALER IN GRAIN, SEEDS, BALED HAY, MILL FEED and PRODUCE. BALED HAY A SPECIALTY. HOLLAND, - MICH. ‘“Qur Leader’’ The Finest 5-Cent Cigar on the Market. MANUFACTURED BY J. E. Kenning & Co, 56 CANAL ST. ACTUAL BUSINESS | Friends’ ' from some old letters and papers what a LOVE’S ONLY CHANGE. And did you think my heart Could keep its love unchanging. Fresh as the buds that start In spring, nor know estranging? Listen! The buds depart: I loved you once, but now— I love you more than ever. *Tis not the early love; With day and night it alters, And onward still must move Like earth, that never falters For storm or star above. Iloved you once, but now— I love you more than ever. With gifts in those glad days How eagerly I sought you! Youth, shining hope, and praise; These were the gifts I brought you. In this world little stays: I loved you once, but now— I love you more than ever. A child with glorious eyes Here in our arms half sleeping— So passion wakeful lies; Then grows to manhood, keeping Its wistful, young surprise: I loved you once, but now— I love you more than ever. When age’s pinching air Strips summer’s rich possession And leaves the branches bare, My secret in confession Still thus with you I'll share: I loved you once, but now— I love you more than ever. GEORGE Parsons LATHROP. ——_ -» 2a ___—_ MY GREAT-AUNT ELIZABETH. As I can remember my great-aunt Elizabeth—and I was avery little boy when I used to see her—she was a well- rounded old Quaker lady with the neat- est of caps and aspotless kerchief folded across her breast. What most impressed me was that she knitted gray woolen stockings all the time, apparently never looking at them and never dropping a stitch. This struck me as avery mar- velous feat, and to tell the truth I must still think it so, as 1 do not find ladies young or old now-a-days who can do the same. l never imagined that my great-aunt Elizabeth had experienced a livelier emotion than that consequent on drop- ping a stitch or having a baking spoil. Not till long after she was laid away in one of the tombless mounds in the burying ground, did I learn whirlwind of passion and of pain had swept threugh her life half a century before 1 saw her. She was the youngest daughter of my ‘ancestor, her father, who, with due re- spect to his memory, must have been a choleric and tyrannical old fellow. She grew up a beauty, and as at that time ; marriages were formed early among the _settlers of Upland, where | a widower. | admirers, PRACTIC at the Grand Rapids | Business College. Ed- ucates pupils to transact and record business as it is done by our best business houses. It pays also thoroughly taught. Send for circular. Ad dress A. S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens- berg. to goto the best. Shorthand and Typewriting | | home and stay there. the family lived, her sisters were soon carried off and she lived alone with her father, then Naturally she did not lack some from the surrounding farms and some even from Philadelphia and Newcastle. Two, however, were particularly assiduous—the one, John Hatton, already the prosperous owner of afarm in the neighborhood, the other, ' Thomas Ebsworth, a promising sprig of the law fram Newcastle. The latter was a dapper gentleman of the day, with a wig and black silk stock- ings, and with the courteous manners of the Established Church, of which he and his parents were members. He showed to great advantage in Elizabeth’s eyes in contrast to John Hatton, a heavy youth, slow of speech, wearing an _ ill-fitting Quaker suit of homespun, and inclined to surliness. But her father looked at matters differently. He had feigned bus- iness in Neweastle and found the Ebs- worth family to be, as he expressed it, of the Maryland style of people, spending their incomes in fine living, buying wines and wearing imported goods. Altogether the future of young Ebsworth looked to him very problematical, so one evening he began: ‘Elizabeth, I see thee has two follow- ers who are coming often; I shall not urge thee to marry either, but I shall tell thee one theeshall not marry, and that is Thomas Ebsworth. Nor shall he come again into this house. I shall have no sparks in silk stockings enter my doors.’’ Elizabeth knew well the hard, infiex- ible character of her father. She could never remember to have sat on his knee, nor to have kissed him. Yet she knew that in his way he loved his family be- fore all else, and what rendered her case hopeless was that it was this very love for her that prompted his cruel action. She turned deathly pale, and sinking on a bench, said not a word. Her father had expected passionate remonstrance, perhaps, but not silent acquiescence. He well knew that her affections were for Ebsworth. Many men would have worked themselves into arage to justify their harshness. But he needed no such self-deception. He acted as Friends usually act, with per- fectly clear convictions. “Thee knows that in this I act for thy welfare. I cannot allow thee to enter a family where the hours are passed in worldly pleasures, where religion is a hollow profession, and whose goods are squandered in follies. Let this relation go no further, and now go to thy sleep.”’ Not till she was in her bed did Eliz- | abeth give way to those wild choking | sobs which she had stifled by a mighty effort. Life stretched before her a long | and sterile blank. The light and the} glory had utterly gone from it. Next day she rose pale and haggard and went about her duties as usual. Her father made no reference to the conver- sation. but he was restless. He knew that on Fifth-day evening Thomas Ebs- worth paid his usual weekly visit. This was Fifth-day, and the old man evidently had something on his mind. So had Blizabeth, fearing she knew not what. Toward sunset Ebsworth entered the lane on horseback. He was dressed as | youngest daughter, a girl of eleven, was | | and driven by a liveried coachman in the | usual with much care in the latest Eng- lish fashion, and with the usual black | silk stockings. Ashe entered the yard | the old man went out and addressed him: | “Thomas, thee can turn round and go) I donot wish more of thy visits.’’ APRIL 10, 1889. The young man was taken aback by this language, but lost neither his pres- ence of mind nor his courtesy. “Friend James,’’ he said, ‘‘may I ask why thee treats me thus? I have not deserved it.’? Thomas, though of the Established Church, adopted out of policy the plain language with his Quaker friends. ‘“T will tell thee why. Thee comes for my daughter. Thee shall never have her;’’ and here the hot-headed nature of the old man got the better of him and he burst out: ‘‘I shall never give her to a worldling who thinks to get my money to spend on ecards and wine, and,’’ he added, looking scornfully at the shapely limbs of the young man, ‘‘on black silk stockings. Get thee gone. Neither she nor I want to see thee again.”’ A faint ery from an upper window led both of them to look up. There, prone across the sill, lay the fainting form of Elizabeth. The old man, with an imperative gesture of anger, bade the youth depart. Looking hopelessly at the house, he turned down the lane and never was seen to enter it again. But did he thus give up the chase? Ah! that is where a dreadful mystery comes in. Watched and lectured by ser father, dogged by surly John Hatton, Elizabeth sank into apathy, the roses faded from her cheeks, and at last she was worried into consenting to a mar- riage with this persistent suitor. A year passed, when one day John rode up to the cld man’s, a prey to some excitement which changed his whole features. His father-in-law looked at him with amazement. ‘John,’ he said, ‘‘what is the matter ? What aileth thee ?’’ ‘““Matter,’’ he hissed, ‘‘matter—take thy daughter back. I want no man’s mistress for my wife.’’ But he had not learned the temper of the man he was talking to. With a blow that would have done credit to an arm of thirty, his father-in-law felled him to the earth. : “Take that, thou foul speaker, and may the Lord forgive me my anger. But none shall speak such lies of my chil- dren.”’ ‘“*A lie, isit?’’? said John, slowly rising, greatly cooled by this most inconsistent action of the old Friend. ‘‘Then what does this mean ?’’ and he spread a crum- pled piece of paper before his father-in- law’s eyes. It was with difficulty the old man could read it, although it was written in a clerkly Italian hand. It read: “Will thee not meet me, dear Elizabeth, by the spring in the woods after sunset to-morrow? As we have pledged each other our true love, let us keep our pledge in spite of the one man who standsin the way,no matter how near he is to thee Thy own, THOMAS.” It was not dated. The old man saw what it referred to and said: “This was written years before thy marriage, when I drove Thomas Ebs- worth from the house. But she never met him, as I watched her hourly for days afterward.’’ ‘Perhaps so,’’ said John, ‘‘but it may have been written within a month.’’ As he spoke he backed off to a respectful distance, as he saw a dangerous light in the old man’s eyes. ‘‘John,’’ he said, ‘‘anger me not. Thou art a fool, and thy wife is my daughter. I shall speak to Friend Rachel Wilson and she shall adjust this matter between us. But never speak to me again about it.’’ Friend Rachel was a local preacher of great force of character and discretion. She reported that Elizabeth had received this note from Thomas Ebsworth the day he was driven away, but her conscience was too much under asense of duty to heed it. Unfortunately, she did not de- stroy it. This explanation — undoubtedly the true one—did not satisfy John Hatton, but he dared not openly defy it. He grew more and more surly, soon took to drinking, and, after afew years of do- mestie unhappiness, he fell off his horse one day when strong liquor had weak- ened his brain, and broke his neck. My great-aunt never married again, and for fifty years after his death led that placid existence which is nowhere found in such perfection as in the Society of Friends. And Thomas Ebsworth, what of him ? Able and ambitious, he falsified the pre- dictions of my ancestor and illustrated again how foolish is the wisdom which would fence passion with prudence and love with calculation. He removed to| Maryland, married late in life, and be- came a prominent figure in the early political history of our Union. Once only did the lovers meet. My great-aunt, left with straitened means and several small children, lived | after her husband’s death near the ‘‘Bal-| timore road,’’ the main highway which | in those days led from Baltimore to Phil- | adelphia. One summer afternoon she | took her work to a seat under agreat oak | tree by the roadside. She was still a! comely woman with afresh, sweet face! and brown hair untouched by gray. Her| with her, and itis her account of what | happened that I shall give. | Looking down the road, the child spied a delightful sight—a real private coach, brilliant with shining lamps and varnish, majesty of cockade and buttons. As the coach reached the shade of the) oak, the coachman drew up to rest his horses. Suddenly the door was thrown ; open, and a gentleman dressed in the! ielaborate costume of the day sprang out and, holding out both hands, cried: “Elizabeth ! Elizabeth !’’ ‘When mother heard him,” said my! informant, ‘I saw her turn white and. lean back against the tree; her lips) moved, but she made no reply. ‘Eliz-. abeth! he repeated, ‘have I no place in: thy memory? I have never forgotten, | never can forget.’ ‘What mother answered Ido not know. ' Something she said in alow voice, and for some minutes they talked together in | an undertone. Then mother began to ery and she made a motion to him with her hand, as she did to us children when she wished us toleave her. I heard the words, ‘Thomas, thee has a wife.’ With that the gentleman put his handkerchief to his eyes, entered the coach and was rapidly driven away. ‘*‘Mother sat crying for a long time un- der the oak, and Iwas so frightened I did not dare speak, nor did I say a word about it to her for several years. Then one day I asked: ‘* ‘Mother, will thee tell me who that gentleman was who spoke to thee under the oak tree ?’ “¢rhat, Anna.’ she replied, m her usual calm tone, ‘was Governor Ebs- worth, of Maryland. I knew him when Iwas agirl. But as he was associated with much that was painful in my early life, | should prefer that thee would not speak to me of him again.’ «And I never did.’’ D. G. BRINTON. ———— oa. Bill Nye’s Experience on a Shopping Tour. After a visit to the Old South Church, I like to go around over the Hub and buy things. I hate to contrast any city with my own town, but a nervous person with a shrinking nature can do better and en- joy it better while shopping in Boston than in New York. The Boston mer- ehant evidently bought his goods for the purpose of selling them to the consumer, while the New York merchant appears to have purchased them more for the wild excitement of looking at them him- self. I always have my feelings hurt when I shop in New York. In the first place, lam enraged before I get to the store by 987,236 people, who knock me over and get on the elevated trains be- fore the passengers can get off. Then | go to a store and wait near a stack of wet umbrellas until several total strangers with a haughty air jostle me against the wall. I next speak toa floor-walker, who plays that he owns the store, and is al- lowed to draw that instead of a salary. He looks at me askance, as if he feared that I might be Nellie Bly. He goes over to confer with a heavy-set saleslady to enquire of her, evidently, whether I am there with sinister motives, and while lL am about to be searched for said motives, another man, who plays that he owns the store afternoons, comes along and asks me what I want there. I tell him that I am a simple-minded man, more or less picked on both at home and abroad; that I would spend an enormous amount of money in New York, if I had a chance; that to-day I had contemplated buying or trading for a full set of No. 10 English hose with double soles and a striking re- semblance to each other. Nobody could be any more explicit than that without being offensive. I just tella man what I want right at the start, and then if there should be any delay it is his fault. He looks at me sorrowfully and begins to feelin his pockets for something. I say, ‘‘Put up your gold. Get out with your dross. Iam not poor or crazed by suffering. Eam only waiting to present a letter of introduction to the sock lady, if I can obtain an audience with her.’’ He tells me where the office is, and I go there. She waits a long time before I seem to catch her eye. She looks through me, and so on across the store to a given point. She then says: “Well 2”? ‘Soeks !77 “¥es 27 ‘Yes ? ‘‘What kind, please ?’’ ‘English hose, double — sole, bleached, No. 10, two of a kind.’’ ‘Por yourself 277 “Yes, exclusively for myself.’’ “Well, the men’s hose is on second floor, facing the other street.”’ I then go to a hotel, register, get a room, ring for a messenger and send him for the hose. ——_——__—~-_2 << ___ Ancient Lamps. The lamps used by Gideon in the de- feat of the Midianites were torches or flambeaus, such as are still carried in the East, and the earthen vessel, ‘‘cad,”’ is still in requisition for the same purpose. Lane, in his ‘‘Modern Egypt,’ I. ch. iv., states that the Zabit, or Agha, of the police at Cairo carries with him at night a “torch which burns soon after it is lighted without a flame, excepting when it is waved through the air, when it sud- denly blazes forth; it, therefore, answers the same purpose as our dark lanterns. The burning end is sometimes concealed in a small pot or jar, or covered with something else when not required to give light.””. The torches used by Gideon were ignited. but the burning end was concealed in an earthen vessel. At a given signal this vessel was broken, the torches flamed out, the 300 men each blew a trumpet, giving the seeming evi- dence of a greathost. The affrighted Mid- ianites fell upon each other in their bewil- derment and all the killing, as they fled down the pass, was done by themselves, the followers of Gideon standing still with the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right. un- <> The Whole Truth. The stupidity of servants is a trial to the most even-tempered mistress, but it sometimes serves to amuse the other members of the household. There was a girl who belonged in the familiar cate- gory of ‘‘children and fools.”’ “If anyone should call this afternoon, Mary, say that I am not well,”’ said a mistress to a newly engaged servant. “Tm afraid that rich pudding for dinner, and it, or something else, has brought on a severe headache. Iam going to lie down.’’ A few moments later the mistress from her room near the head of the stairs heard Mary say to two aristocratic ladies who called for the first time: ‘“Yes’m, Mrs. B is to home, but she eat so much pudding for dinner, she had to go to bed.”’ I ate a little too much of} NO. 290. ONLY A COLLAR. How Two Girls Conduct Themselves on a Shopping Tour. “Oh, wait a moment, Flo, I want to step in here and get me a collar; it won’t take me but just a minute.”’ So they went into Linnen & Cotton’s, and, after stopping at various counters to price some ribbon, gloves, lace, fans, hairpins, buttons, silk, chenille, saxony, passamentrie and slippers, none of which they had any idea of purchasing, they found themselves at the collar and cuff counter. ‘‘Let me see some collars, please,’? said Bessie. *‘All linen?’”’ asked the clerk. “Oh, yes, certainly, all linen.” ‘Square or round eornered?”’ ‘T hardly know. Let me see both kinds! What kind do you like best Flo?” : ‘Oh, I don’t know, really. make much difference.”’ ‘*No, So it don’t, for—’’ ‘‘What number, miss?’’ ‘Oh, let me see! I declare if I don’t always forget just what number I do wear. Thirteen, I think. What number do you wear, Flo?’’ “Twelve and a half.’’ “Do you? I shouldn't think I’d wear a larger number than you, would you?” “I don’t know.’’ ‘I suppose my neck is— No, I don’t want so high acollar as that. Do you like a high collar, Flo?”’ ‘IT hardly know, really.” “Of course it depends altogether on the kind of a neck one has. Mine is as long as a stork’s.’’ "OR, Bie’? eohg ist? ‘How ridiculous! I think—’’ ‘‘Here is a lower collar, miss.’’ ‘Oh, that’s too low. Don’t you think so, Blo?’ “It’s rather low, really.” “Of course if is. I always—oh, look at these handkerchiefs, back of us! Aren’t they lovely2’’ ‘“‘Aren’t they? I do love a pretty hand- kerchief !”’ “so dol A real neat—? ‘*How do you like this collar, miss?”’ ‘‘Oh, I don’t like three rows of. stitch- ing at the top: do you, Flo?”’ ‘Two rows look better, I think.”’ It don’t “So dol. Let me see some with two rows.’’ ‘“*Yes’m: here’s one.’’ ‘Yes, 1 see, um—um—um—somehow I don’t just like that either: do you, Bio 277 ‘‘I don’t know, really.’’ ‘‘Looks so kind of—of—I don’t know just how, but I don’tlike it. The stitch- ing is so far apart; don’t you think so Flo?” : : “I don’t know but it is.’’ ‘Let me see something with only one row of stitching. Oh, I don’t like that: do you, Flo?”’ ‘I don’t know, really.’’ ‘It don’t look like it was all linen; does it, Flo?’’ ‘‘No; I don’t believe it does.’’ ‘Tm sure it isn’t. Ive a notion to get some ruching and let the collar go; would you?’’ “Oh, suit yourself, dear.’’ “Do you like ruching?”’ “‘Oh, yes.’ i “I believe I will get it.°? They spend half an hour at the ruch- ing counter, and then race back to the collar department, and finally emerge from the store in just 87 minutes after they enter it, Bessie having by this time concluded that she ‘‘didn’t believe she’d get the collar to-day anyhow,’’ and she doesn’t. ee Proving His Identity. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a _ kind- hearted man as well as a great novelist. While he was consul at Liverpool, a young Yankee walked into his office. The boy had left home to seek his for- tune, but evidently hadn’t found it yet, although he had crossed the sea in the search. Homesick, friendless, nearly penniless, he wanted a passage home. The clerk said Mr. Hawthorne could not be seen, and intimated that the boy was no American, but was trying to steal a passage. The boy stuck to his point; and the clerk at last went to the inner room, and said to Mr. Hawthorne: ‘**Here’s a boy insists upon seeing you. He says he’s an American, but I know he isn t.7” Hawthorne came out of his room and looked keenly at the eager, ruddy face of the boy. ‘You want a passage to America?”’ “Ves. sur.7? ‘And you say you’re an American?”’ ‘Wes, Sir.77 ‘“‘From what part of America?”’ ‘United States, sir.?’ “What state?’’ ‘‘New Hampshire, sir.’’ Towne’ ““Exeter,- Sir.’” Hawthorne looked at him for a minute | before asking the next question. ‘‘Who sold the best apples in your town?’’ ; *“‘Skim-milk Folsom, sir,’’ said the boy, with glistening eyes, as the old familiar :by-word brought up the dear old scenes of home. ‘It’s all right,’’ said Hawthorne to the clerk. ‘‘Give him a passage.’’ ui ee The United States imports from Mexico goods which amount annually to $80,- 000,000, while our exports to that country do not amount to $8,000,000. To hear St. Louis people talk one would suppose that the traftic of St. Louis merchants alone with Mexico would amount. to nearly the latter sum. The Cleveland ice companies have joined in a mutual agreement not to sell ;ice below a certain figure, which is about 120 per cent. above last year’s prices. 2 The Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. Retail Trade of the Wolverine State. E, A. STOWE & 'BRO., Proprietors. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year. Advertising Rates made known on application. Publication Office, 100 Louis St. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1889. GOVERNMENTAL ‘RED TAPE.” The Senate’s special committee to in- vestigate the business methods of the Executive Departments reports the ex- istence of a very great difference among them. In some there have been changes which expedite the dispatch of business, while in others there is an amount of “red tape,’? which makes it impossible to keep up to the business brought to them. Those who have read Mark Twain’s humorous sketch of his efforts to get paid for a quantity of salt beef furnished to the army during the war, will understand that this is one of the features of our government in ‘which an American Dickens might find material for asketch of a ‘‘Cireumlocution Office.’’ But there is an advantage in ‘‘red tape,’’ although it is not one which especially impresses the part of the public which has personal dealings with the Govern- ment. If it causes delay, it also gives security. Every one of the dilatory ar- rangements which these humorists make the subject of their jest, was devised in order to furnish a check upon dishonesty in administration. They were meant for the protection of the country against small and great peculations of people in office, by making it possible to trace every particle of the public property through every hand it must pass, and by associating dishonesty with such cer- tainty of detection as made it foolish as well as wicked. And when it is said that we need the establishment of ‘‘busi- ness methods’? in the departments, it must be remembered that there is no great business carried on with the hon- esty and the thoroughness which char- acterizes the government of the United States, and that the very large corpora- tions find it necessary to copy much of its ‘‘red tape.’’ . THe TRADESMAN does not wish to be understood as asserting that the time has not come for getting rid of some of it. Perhaps it has. The average of public honesty in such matters is higher now than when it was devised, as is shown by the official returns of peculations of public money submitted some years ago to the National Social Science Associa- tion. Such dishonesty, for instance, as was practiced in Gen. Jackson’s time would be the ruin of any party which now would permit it. Even that emi- nent ‘‘statesman,’’ William M. Tweed, was only the last of a long series who plundered New York State and city without exciting a tithe of the indigna- tion heaped upon him. For this reason we probably can afford to obtain a quicker dispatch of public business by dispens- ing with an amount of security which once was imperatively demanded by the condition of public morals. HOT TIMES IN CANADA. The compensation of the Jesuits for the eonfiscation of their property in the province of Quebec continues to agitate political cireles in both that and the other provinces. The Mercier ministry has eompleted a negotiation with the Pope through the head of the Jesuits of the province, by which the sum of $400,000 is to be accepted in discharge of claims growing out of the confiscation; and this transaction would seem to be a finality, as it does not require any con- firmation from the general government ef the Dominion, nor is there any tri- bunal before which the legality of the payment can be contested. But the Orangemen of Quebec are so outraged by the idea that they are to be taxed for the benefit of the Pope and his ‘‘black coats,’’ and their brethren of other prov- inces are in such lively sympathy with their indignation, that this threatens to affect very seriously the prospects of the Tory ministry. The effort is making to force the question upon the Canadian government, although nobody has shown what right it has to interfere in a matter so strictly provincial. The terms of the capitulation of Canada expressly pro- vided for the retention of their estates by the religious orders in that province, and this was ratified by an act of Par- liament in 1774, which was the means of preventing the adherence of Canada to the cause of the colonies. That law is in force in the province of Quebec to this day, and has been reaffirmed a score of times by the courts, and Protestants always have been taxed to carry out its provision securing to the parish priests the tithes of their parishes. This last transaction is only a consistent applica- tion of the same rule. Of course, the payment of this paltry sum, which falls far below the value of the property confiscated, is made the text. for. sundry discourses-on ‘‘papal aggression.’’ But all such talk is beside, the point. The only question is whether there exists a moral claim to the money. If there be one, then it is ‘doing evil that good may come’’—a principle which every Orangeman regards as the very essence of Jesuitism—to refuse to give the order what is its own, lest it should make abad use of it. And this is just the Orange Jesuitism which arrays the order against the claims of the Irish nation to self-government, lest Home Rule should mean Rome Rule. Hides, Pelts and Furs. The wool market is dull and quiet, with little demand. Sales are effected only by a concession in price and even then in small quantities. Hides are lower ec and are bought only to keep the tanneries running—not for the profit in them, as leather does not sell ata price to warrant tanning. A heavy failure in the trade tends to weaken prices. The mild winter has forced the carrying over of large stocks of heavy boots and shoes, and tanners claim that it is next to impossible to sell leather. We have not seen bottom yet, to all appearances. Tallow remains steady, with ample supplies for any demand likely to come. Fur sales of Hudson Bay and London regular were satisfactory, on the whole, but did not bring the advances antic- ipated and now rule 20 per cent. lower than in March. — —»»> -—___—- Purely Personal. C. C. Mitchell, the Gaylord general dealer, was in town a couple of days last week. B. I. Whelpley, the Mulliken hardware dealer, was in town last Wednesday. B. I. should come more often and stay longer. The editor of THe TRADESMAN has gone to Columbus to attend the second annual convention of the Ohio Retail Merchants’ Association. Wilder D. Stevens and family left Monday for Colorado Springs, where they expect to remain a year, although Mr. Stevens will make frequent visits to Grand Rapids in the meantime. C. S. Ramsey. the Kalkaska grocer, is held a prisoner in Grand Rapids by rea- son of his being drawn on the jury of the March term of the United States Court. Louis Kirk, President of the Cheyenne Whip Manufacturing Co., is in the city for the purpose of superintending the organization of the Grand Rapids Whip Co. Can’t Lose a Grip. “This old grip has had some queer ex- periences,’’ said a Detroit drummer the other day as he lifted up the article and fussed with the straps. ‘I just got it back the other day after an absenee of a week.’’ ‘“How was it ?” “TI took it into the eating-room with me at Nashville. When I went out I picked up some one else’s grip by mis- take. I went over to Chattanooga, on to Atlanta and across to Birmingham, taking up a week. As I entered the Florence, in Birmingham, my old grip was resting on the counter, and a young man, who was in the fruit tree business, looked sadly at me and said: ‘“<‘Stranger, if you are quite through with my property, I'll take possession.’ ‘“‘He had made the circuit one way and I the other, and we met as straight as if we had planned it.”’ >a Status of the Nelson & Wall Failure. Assignee Niskern favors THE TRADES- MAN with a list of the creditors in the Nelson & Wall failure, at Manistee, as follows: Bassett Hide & Leather Co., Flint....... 8 52 06 Chas. Bassett = ...... .. cl 47 12 Brown, Hall & Co., Grand Rapids....... 39 7 Hirth & Krause..... oe 118 40 Michigan Germania Oil Co., Detroit..... 9 7 Armstrone & Graham........ _ |. 182 99 gonun Navior & Co...-...-.... oe 143 86 B. H. Helming & Co., Milwaukee........ 54 Geo Dyce... a. 154 83 Carlisic & Co., Mast Sacinaw......_.___.- 76 16 Jd. G. Reeves, Kalamazoo. ............... 9 00 Sanford Manufacturing Co., Westfield, Mss ee Alex Lindstrum, Manistee............... 300 00 MEOGOL oe es $1,246 51 The last named claim is secured. The assets are appraised at $1,000. —————_ 9. ___— Gripsack Brigade. Geo. F. Owen has leased a house at the corner of Jefferson avenue and Maple street and will take possession of same next week. E. H. Ross, the jolly traveling repre- sentative for John Wyeth & Bro., of Philadelphia, was in town a couple of days last week. Eaton Rapids Herald: J. H. Stirling expects to go on the road as traveling salesman for an Eastern boot and shoe manufacturing house, about June 1. > 4 Fooling with the Electric Bell. Mrs. Hayseed (at a big city hotel)— They is awfully attentive at this tavern, ain’t they ? Mr. Hayseed—Yes, siree; they’re bound to give us the worth of our money, I guess. Them errand boys has been ina dozen times in the last half hour to see if we wanted anything. What are you working at, there, Marier ? Mrs. Hayseed—I’ ve been tryin’ for the last half-hour ter see what this ’ere but- ton in the wall is for. ——————.q7~ > __ A new method for preparing paper for wrapping metallic articles to prevent tarnishing consists in incorporating with the paper, or applying toits surface a fine powder of metallic zine. ’ AMONG THE TRADE. : GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Jos. Rewerski, late of Chicago, has opened a boot and shoe store on West Bridge streets, just west of Stocking street. M. Vanderveen, formerly of the gro- cery firm of Rynberg & Vanderveen, has purchased the grocery stock of Chas. Smelcer, at the corner of Hall street and Madison avenue. A. Eaton and M. E. Christenson, com- prising the firm of A. Eaton & Co., have dissolved partnership. A. Eaton con- tinues the cigar business and M. E. Christenson the baking business. Patrick O’ Hearn, for several years past clerk for Phil. Graham, has purchased an interest in the grocery business of L. C. Miller, at 699 South Division street. The new firm will be known as Miller & O’ Hearn. Geo. Kerry has retired from the firm of Cornell & Kerry, produce and com- mission merchants at 32 North Ionia street. The business will be continued by the remaining partner, C. H. Cornell, under his own name. Wm. Sears & Co. are fitting up the ground floor of the block recently pur- chased of Joseph Martin for an office, one of the auxiliaries of which will be a fine vault. The present office will be utilized by the shipping clerk. J. G. McElwee, who made a somewhat peculiar failure in this city about a dozen years ago, has evidently reached the end of his rope at Big Rapids, having conveyed real estate to a local bank to secure a claim of $40,000 and given a bill of sale for $19,000 on other property. S. Claggett and W. Pringle, who have clerked for J. Maurice Finn, at Grayling, for several years, have formed a co- partnership under the style of Claggett & Pringle and will engage in general trade at Grayling. Edson, Moore & Co. will furnish the dry goods and the Telfer Spice Co. the groceries. Chas. E. Williams, E. E. Williams and F. D. Peck have formed a copartnership under the style of the Peck Manufactur- ing Co., to engage in the manufacture of rosettes, escutcheons and wooden or- naments. Ground has been secured at the corner of Fulton and South Front streets, where a two-story factory is now in pro- cess of construction. The Grand Rapids Whip Co. is being organized with a capital stock of $20,000 to engage in the manufacture of patent braided rawhide whips, on a more ex- tended scale than the same is being con- ducted at Cheyenne. A tract of ground has been leased just north of the Wallin tannery, on which a two-story building, 832x100 feet in dimensions, will be erected. It is expected that employment will be given to about seventy-five per- sons—mostly girls. It is intended to get the factory into operation by July 1. AROUND THE STATE. Evart—D. L. Dumon has completed the enlargement of his store. Woodland—Warren Ackley will put in a stock of boots and shoes. Hilliards—L. D. Foote & Co. succeed A. B. Foote in general trade. Northville— Teichner & Co. succeed Lapham & Perkins in general trade. Watervliet—C. M. Becraft will shortly engage in the hardware business here. Manistee—J. Zoble & Sons succeeds F. (Mrs. E.) Levy in the clothing business. Altona—Eli Lyons will put in a stock of dry goods during the present month. Adrian—Michael J. Farrell succeeds Morey & Farrell in the restaurant bus- iness. Detroit—E- P. Kellogg & Co. succeed 30| Kellogg & Greene in the furniture bus- iness. Byron Center—Walter H. Struik has purchased the general stock of Mrs. J. Debri. Coopersville—B. H. Rolph will close out his furniture stock and remove to St. Johns. South Haven—E. P. Townsend has sold his clothing stock to Edgerton & Ransom. Bloomingdale—W. H. Spayde is suc- ceeded in the drug business by Harrison & Spayde. Allegan—H. N. James has gone to Goshen, Ind., where he has purchased a drug stock. Hancock—Matthias J. Gemuend is suc- ceeded by Exley & Roberts in the black- smith business. Maple City—T. Herbert and Dell Nash have engaged in the agricultural imple- ment business. Ovid—E. M. Heddick’s dry goods and grocery stock has been closed under chattel mortgage. Charlevoix—Samuel Lobdell has pur- chased the McLeod meat market and will continue the business. Owosso—B. J. Rogers has opened a flour and feed store in the building for- merly occupied by A. T. Thomas. Owosso—Geo. W. Oakes has retired from the cigar and tobacco firm of M. C. Dawes & Co. The business will be con- tinued by Martin C. Dawes under his own name. Dundee—Geo. W. Hough succeeds W. F. Fry & Co. in the grocery business. Alma—T. A. Miller & Co. have sold their book and stationery business to John A. Day & Co. Evart—Cook & Kelliham have sold their stock of groceries to L. B. Densmore and moved to Saginaw. Dimondale— F. E. Phinney succeeds North & Phinney in the agricultural implement business. Nunica—J. J. Wiseman, having dis- posed of all his interests here, leaves this week for Oregon. Cadillac—Gleason Bros. have sold their meat market to John Patterson, who will continue the business. Clarksville—N. K. Jepson has sold his stock of goods to O. I. Eldred, who will continue the business. Decatur—Squire Bros. is the style of the firm which has bought the clothing stock of Charles Schuster. Berville—E. P. Wyckoff & Co.’s dry goods and clothing stock has been closed out under chattel mortgage. Manton—E. H. Foster, who recently purchased the Frank Rose hardware | stock, has taken up his residence here. Bay City—Bousefield, Perrin & Co. have started their woodenware works, having a full stock of logs for the sea- son. Onondaga—J. Sellick, of Eaton Rapids, has opened a dry goods and grocery store in the block formerly occupied by K.P. Hayner. Manistee—J. P. J. Krogen, whose hardware stock was recently dertroyed by fire, has opened up again with an en- tirely new stock. Schoolecraft—Thos. Hewitt, the dry goods dealer, was seriously injured by the accidental discharge of his gun while out hunting on the 4th. Charlotte—E. J. Patterson & Co. have purchased the Pancoast & McOmber jew- elry stock. Mr. Pancoast expects to locate at Sioux Falls, Dakota. Manton—C. S. DeWitt has retired from the furniture and undertaking firm of Kennedy & DeWitt. The business will be continued by J. H. Kennedy. Hastings—Thomas Spence has been admitted to partnership in the grocery house of Max Hicks. The business will be continued under the style of Hicks & Spence. Manistee—Louis Sands returned from Europe last week, having enjoyed a pleasant trip, although his stay was somewhat shortened by the news of sick- ness in his family. Allegan—Visner & White are moving to the vacant store in the Chaffee block, formerly oecupied by Harman’s novelty store, where they will carry a stock of builders’ hardware. Cheboygan—The Northern Michigan Supply Co. has rented the Nelson store on Main street and proposes to carry on a commission business in flour, feed, fruits and general produce. South Grand Rapids—N. W. Crocker has sold his grocery stock to John Davi- son and the latter has disposed of the stock to Thos. J. Smedley, formerly en- gaged in trade at Byron Center. Ann Arbor—Louis Blitz, of Detroit, bid in the Blitz & Langsdorf clothing stock, at assignee’s sale, for $2,326, sub- ject to chattel mortgages amounting to $14,101—or $16,427 in all. This is about $1,000 less than the appraised valuation of the stock. Battle Creek—Clement Wakelee, the dry goods dealer, died on the 5th from an attack of pneumonia. He was Presi- dent of the Pembroke Knitting Co. and Battle Creek Gas Co., Vice-President of the Battle Creek National Bank, and a stockholderin several other corporations. Nashville—C. H. Reynolds has traded his recently-acquired grocery property to W. P. Stringham, of Augusta, for the lat- ter’s farm at that place. The trade in- cludes, also, Mr. Reynold’s residence property. Mr. Stringham announces that the grocery has now quit changing hands. Detroit—The H. M. Loud & Sons Co., of Oscoda, has bought claims aggregat ing $24,000 against the estate of George Morley, assigned, for $6,000, making the company’s total claim $41,000. The property is now free, except two or three writs of replevin, and will be disposed of by the assignee. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Big Rapids—O. M. Clark contemplates going to Northern Wisconsin to engage in the shingle and lumber business. Fenwick—A. E. Banyard and Robert Johnson have purchased the roller mill and will run it to its fullest capacity. Austin — Because shingle timber is scarce, John Breckon will remove his mill to some point where it is more plen- tiful. Ithaca—A stock company has been or- ganized to engage in the manufacture of clothing. F. L. T. Hassee is the leading spirit in the enterprise. Cadillac — Tbe Cummer Lumber Co. will move its camps this spring, and build another mile of logging road to reach a new tract of pine. Nashville—A factory has been located in the rear end of Putnam Bros.’ hard- ware store, which is turning out the Kelley fence machines at a rapid rate. 'afarm or city real estate. Rodney—Earl Bros. will shortly re- move their shingle mill to Glen Arbor. Moline—Sprik & Veenstra have com- pleted the repairs on their mill and started up again. Ludington—Pardee, Cook & Co., have a stock of 25,000,000 feet of logs on hand, and will get 5,000,000 feet more by sum- mer logging. Plainwell—The Lyon paper mill was sold at chancery sale last Tuesday and was bid in by Mr. Lyon for $3,250, in be- half of the holder of the mortgage on the building. Flint—The machinery of the old Crapo sawmill has been sold to a company of lumbermen in Kentucky, who will re- move it to the scene of their operations during the summer. Port Huron—The new sulphite fiber factory is now in operation. The plant represents about $200,000 of capital, em- ploys forty to fifty men day and night, and is a big thing all around. Northville—The Globe Furniture Co. has arranged to open a branch school seat factory at London, Ont., the city authorities having exempted the enter- prise frem taxation for ten years. Cadillae—George Smith has purchased the Wade shingle mill, and will set it up in the building near the intersection of Cobbs & Mitchell’s logging road with the G. R. & L. Railway. He will get his bolts by rail. Evart—W. F. Glasby, who bought out Jacklin’s mill, went to St. Louisafter the Dwight failure and has done nothing since. It is expected that the mill will start again in a few days, on a more sat- isfactory basis. Bay City—During the week the Charles Martin Match Co. was incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000. P. C. Smith is President. The company will erecta factory for the manufacture of matches at West Bay City. Charles Martin will superintend the operations. East Saginaw—J. T. Hurst, of Wyan- dotte, who purchased the Whitney & Stinchfield tract on the Tobacco for $800,000 a few weeks ago, is grouping the timber into small lots, and has put it on the market. Several manufacturers are negotiating for small lots. Bay City—William Mercer, who was engaged in lumbering at Pinconning, and was President of the Pinconning Manu- facturing Co., operating a saw and shin- gle mill, cutting 6,000,000 feet of lumber and 4,000,000 shingles yearly, died last week. He located in this city in 1863. Evart—Chas. L. Gray has exchanged his red saw mill with Thos. Ruby, for his farm in the northern part of Osceola township. Mr. Ruby took charge of the mill property last Monday, and will keep it running as long as he can get lumber to cut, either custom or purchased logs. —— >_> The Secretary of the Treasury gives notice that manufactures, articles, or wares produced or manufactured in the United States, which may be sent to the Paris exhibition of 1889 for exhibition, will, upen their return to the United States, be admitted to free entry. Cc. F. Williams, formerly engaged in the drug business at Caledonia, will re- move to Reed City and enter a dental office. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements wili be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE—A GENERAL STOCK OF MERCHANDISE; will invoice $10,000. including fiatures; 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 OR SALE—FULL SET OF TINNERS’ TOOLS, SAFE, show cases and bardware fixtures—all in good condition and cheap forcash. Willselloneorall. J. Vander Veen, 122 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. 373 OR SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, boots and shoes, in live town in Ventral 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 OR SALE—AT REPUBLIC, IN THE BEST BUSINESS central railroad town in Upper Michigan, a house and two lotsin the heart of the city, opposite town hall: good chance for business. Address, John Ben- nallack, Republic, Mich. OR 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 ror business and will be rented or sold; reasons, other business needs our atten- tion. Address A, care Michigan Tradesman. 378 HELP WANTED. SS HONEST YOUNG MAN WHO has had two years’ experience in the drug busi- 388 ness. Address No. 388, care Tradesman. SITUATIONS WANTED. \ JANTED—SITUATION — BY REGISTERED PHAR- macist; thorough qualifications; excellent ref- erences. Address Box 187, Sherwood, Mich. 413 WANT A SITUATION WHEREI CAN INVEST FROM $1,000 to $1,500, if satisfactory; general commission or furniture preferred; references given. Address 8., care Michigan Tradesman. 414 JANTED—SITUATION AS BOOK-KEEPER BY MAN of eight years’ experience, who is familiar with general merchandise. Address A. E. Chambers, 95 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 407 MISCELLANEOUS. O EXCHANGE—NO. 1 IMPROVED FARMS IN Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, fur stock of mer- chandise. For particulars, address S. Peck, Barring- ton, Ils. 411 O EXCHANGE—I HAVE A NEW, BRIGHT, WELL- selected little stock of hardware to exchange for Address No. 401, care Michigan Tradesman. 401 HAVE SOME FIRST-CLASS PROPERTY, WELL improved and nicely located, in South Dakota; also some other property to exchange for a stock of goods. J.C. McKee, 23 Fountain St. 392 yy SS EXCHANGE—PRODUCTIVE REAL estate in the thriving village of Bailey on the C. lot in Grand Rapids, Address, D. B. Se 3 & W. M. Railway for house and worth about $1,500. novia, Mich. 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 Mich'gan Tradesman. 286 ANTED—EVERY 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 beg your business down to @ cash basisand 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 regret it. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent by addressing (mentioning this paper) J. H. Sutliff, Albany, N.Y. _— —e 23” C. M. Henderson & Co, 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 C. 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. ‘The proof of the pudding is in chewing the string,’ and if you will test them we shall highly appreciate it and are sure it will prove to your advantage. Our heayier grades of goods made at our third factory are also acknowledged to be unequaled. C. M. HENDERSON & CO., Chicago. Factories: Willard H. James, & Salesman fer the Lower Peninsula. Fon du Lac, Wis Dixon, Ill. P. O. address, Chicago, 01. (Morton House, Grand Rapids, Mich. We furnish electrotypes of our Specialties to Customers. SFEe Cult = WATCH £tXP ONE OF A SERIES OF PICTURES REPRESENTING ry cee ce peony : net COFFE mea scene on a correc LanTaTION CHASE & SANBORN. OUR COFFEES HAVE A NATIONAL REPUTATION REPRESENTING THE FINEST CROWN. SEAL BRAND COFFE surpassing all others in its richness and delicacy of fiavor. Justly called The Aristocratic Coffee of America. Always packed whole roasted (unground) in 2 lb. air-tight tin cans. JAVA and MOCHA, CRUSADE BLEND forpitnd aromatic high grade coffees. Warranted not to contain a single Rio bean, and guaranteed to suit your taste as no other coffee will, at a moderate price. Always packed whole roasted (unground), in 1 lb. air-tight parchment packages. RETAIL CROCERS selling our coffees. What it ha» done for them it will do for you, samples to CHASE & SANBORN, BROAD STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Tell us that their coffee trade has doubled and trebled since buying and Send for HERBERT T. CHASE, Representative for Michigan and Northern Ohio, GRAND RAPIDS. LION COFFEE Merchants, YOU WANT THISCABINE|T Thousands of Them It does away with the unsightly barrels so Beautifully grained and Inside each Western Department: * 80 Franklin St., Chicago. Are in use all over the land. often seen on the floor of the average grocer. varnished and put together in the best possible manner. cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with screws. Rvery Wide-Awake Merchant Should Certainly Sell ON, THE KING OF COFFERS. , An Article of Absolute Merit. It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees. only in one pound packages. Put up in 100-lb cases, also in cabinets of 120 one-pound packages. For sale by the wholesale trade everywhere. Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States. Woolson Spice Co.,« TOLEDO, OFTIO. L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. Packed 235 e SLEEPING BY COMPASS. Items of Interest. THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. “There is no but about it. You re- ASSOCIATION DEPARTM NT. The greatest depth of the ocean is said [ member your promise?”’ Os te I ; te V eC I Ms O x ae Shall We Sleep with Our Heads to the|io be 46,236 feet, or eight and three- Insight Into the Ways of the Men who ‘Y-e-g.”? : 9 e —— etn = eee Equator or the North Pole? fourths miles. Sell Goods on the Road. The mortgage was paid, success con- Presiden an. ells, Lansing. e = * First Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan. “ Listener” in Boston Transcript. A dollar a day saved and at 6 per cent. He was a commercial traveler. pansies) ~ per aoa _ - a XPR Second Vice Prosrowe, Grand Rapids. : The sleep-with-your-head-to-the-north | interest for a period of forty years will _On this point there could be no pos- | PF oa. ys ort , ao ahi . ar . y VW A N os, ———— = —— ee iiiaen ienpciaiti idea had quite a run a few years ago, | amount to $95,041. . doubt. a ses io nage eye an e advice and ald 0 1s benetactor. Executive Board—President; C. L. Whi ’ 3 ps : or harmony i e cas ut one glance ——_> = Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell; and there are still a good many people The war of the rebellion cost the : 3 fi —_* Bridgman, Flint; Hiram DeLano, Allegan; | who, perhaps rather from force of habit United States $6,189,929, 900 win naan upon those matchless garments, spice and An Imaginative Drummer. : : : es $6,189,929,900. apie ‘ : ‘ ‘ osmility op tomurance Geo. 2 Caldwel,green- | than otherwise, range theit beds so that] per of Federal troops was 2,859,182 | shoes jeri page poten a cern Pron ap grb fc a omni eagtlenen ea ville; W.S. Powers, Nashville; area ; stand in line with the parallels of 2 : : ’ a F — tee on Legislation “8. E. Farbe. Allegan. = sie Ana and sleep with the Fonte tothe| Electricity moves 288,000 miles per! heir august being, upon that tremen- flow of wit and humor froma St. Louis e Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse equator,” or as near as they can get to it. second; light moves 192,000 miles per | dously stylish silk hat, would say at once | drummer there on a visit. He is able to oo ee It isn’t everybody’s feet that will reach second: a rifle ball moves 1,460 feet per! that the stranger before him could not| give Baron Munchausen and Eli Perkins Committee on Transportation James OsbormO uote | there. Habits are strong in such a mat- | Se¢ond. possibly adorn any other craft than that | ‘‘pointers’’ in the realm of fiction. He a Be es ee ter. But the ‘Listener’ has just re-| Seeds of the most valuable varieties of | of the professional salesman. Even told some friends how he was oncé stop- Committee on Building and Loan tooe uaton Rapids; ceived, by way of a Washington Terri- einchona bring $1,000 per ounce in Cey- then, after reaching this conclusion, | ping on the fourth floor of a Northern WE. Crotty, Lansing. i tory paper, an account of a brand-new|lon. There are nearly 100,000 seeds in| Should a shadow of doubtarise, or should | hotel when he was aroused about 3 a. m., Local Scere ary ec organ TRADESMAN. theory as to the proper way to sleep. | an ounce. you hesitate one flashing second, in the| by an awful commotion. Looking out : a saan “nes The editor of this Western paper relates} The Paris Exposition will cost suspense that the superb stranger might, the window he saw the hotel was on fire. The following So Sao oe tks ict. that he was greatly troubled with sleep-! $10,000,000. It will extend two and one- could, would or should possibly be a re- | It was bitter cold outside. The firemen erating under charters gran 7 i a : i : porter, or a farmer, or a lawyer, or an|were at work in the street below. He gan Business Men’s Association: lessness and headache at night. No} half miles long and one and one-half ’ : ’ e ’ : . i : : 5 c - une course of procedure that he could resort | mile wide. It will be opened May 5. alderman—you would still have one in-| signa ed two pipemen to direct the stream gegen ig psec ~ a tings. |to brought him any relief. Finally he; pp id and sil inc. eeeieeet fallible index remaining to guide you to|in his direction. They did so. The @ president, J. W. Milliken; Secretary, EW. Hastings |) 1) Gueht himself that it always mad e gold and silver plate De onsing ‘0! the proper haven. stream froze solid and he slid down to No. 2—Lowell B. M. A. bethought himself that it always made | the Duke of Cumberland weighs twelve| py ti Sic: canada dine ee AP President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King. him ill, when he traveled on therailroad./ tons: his precious stones and other a re : ; ee ee 7 No. 3_Sturgis B. M.A. if he rode backward, or if he lay in a| jewels Sad ok ly $5,000,000 Sir,”’ said the reporter, with a beauti- ter this refreshing story he began to President. H. S. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn: sleeping car berth with his head to the ee ful two-storied S to his ‘‘Sir,”’ ‘“‘will you| boast of St. Louis breweries. He an- Ne, 4—Grand Baptts #2. engine; and that, on the other hand, if|, Statistics show that more men are tell me something about the business?’ |swered all Chicago boasts about their President. & 7: toe a. MLA he sat facing the engine, or slept in his killed or maimed for life annually in the} ‘What business ?”’ breweries by saying that one brewery in No, 5—Muske >. Ih. he ~ . Q p a Tm St 3 i ars oF $ a ta , 7 7 cay S 7 president, John A. Miller; Secretary. C.L. Whitney. | berth with his feet to the engine, he slept — antares 2 “The trade, professional calling, occu St. Louis extended twenty-seven stories aT ee aia ae MA. eae well. The reflection led him to apply |!" prc t . — S a collisions, fires pation, employ ment of your craft. i under the ground, and that it was found President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. his experience to the earth itself, which or other railroad accidents. Oh! assuredly. By the way, do you better to employ Chinamen in the lower Write for Illustrated Price List and Discount. 7h ee NE. Witkeer. is a sort of great railroad car, whirling| THe cost of each shell for the dyna-| ever indulge in the blue ethereal ? There !| stories, because it was cheaper, being @ = No = t ee ‘A along from west to east at the rate of| mite guns of the Vesuvius is $750, and| These are the best regalias the firm’s | nearer China than St. Louis. One of his President, F. H, Thursten; Secretary, Geo.L. Thurston. about a thousand miles an hour. He| the iron-clads of a foreign nation should | money can buy.” i : friends rushed to the telegraph office and —— a a ae 7 a A . a i yosition t smashed with “The firm’s money !’? said the seribe, | sent a message to his firm that the drum- No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A. proceeded to arrange his bed so that | come into position to be , g 1 President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly. when he lay upon it his head was to the the second or third shell. If we have to puffing away at a tremendous rate. mer was dead. The firm wired back, 3 co SS west and his feet to the east, and after | fire a dozen or two, we might as well buy} ‘Why, certainly. Legitimate expenses “What's the complaint ?”’ and his friend Erosion SS 11 Kingsley 5. M. A. that he had no more restlessness or head-| the enemy off. are always allowed the commercial trav- — “No complaint atall. Every-/10 & 12 MONROE ST. ao, ao, ai, 39 &41 L oy President, H. P. Whipple: Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop. | ache, but slept profoundly and sweetly, James Martin, who died near Phila- eler. I have all my cigars, w ines, cabs, | body is satisfied. ais sis oo) a = = with his ‘‘feet to the engine.’? He com-| delphia afew days ago. disinherited his theater tickets and bouquets free. vec ee P ee ee ee ay; Se y, Thos. Lennon. ge ep ne at as : = ee ae : Ss? ils y us :XPANSIVE BITS. is. SAN ER. Pee ia Sherman B. M. A. mends his discovery to all sleepless and daughter on account of a scurrilous val- gg tainlv, my dear boy. Bou- oe B — cagera ms _ _ oe Clark’s, small, ae... Dele cuee 30 List acct. 19, eee Lecce dis 40 president, BD. Startevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin, | nervous people; and does not doubt that/entine which he believed she sent him st Ys ae — al an cae w tetas de : _ . Pgs paca Seen’, 1 068; 2 OA 3 25 pS IRE No. 14_No. Muskegon 8B. M. A. he has hit upon a bit of knowledge which | fifty years ago. James was evidently aj UC" Se ee oa ee ee FILEs—New List. dia, | Silver Leke, White A... ...-.......¢.2. list 50 President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens. will prove infinitely valuable to human! good hater. ~~ a — to = existence a _ = oie = a on ac- American File Association List............. — if = A. TE i 55 ——_No.15_ Boyne City B. M. A. is . g ae : durable. sa gener 1ing, commerel unto e lead in it. s use for wrap- | Disston’s .........--. +--+ sees reese --+-0U0&10 WE Doe. eee eee ee eee ee i £ eee Secretary, F. M. Chase. amr —- ci According to the latest returns, the travelers are under orders from the firm ping articles of food has been panels babi eng Oe oo cae oe 6010 iu ae B. eee eee soccer ee a 55 @ No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A. : ee ards O01 /| Duke of Westminster is still the richest! a. to ty ay their time on tl d shall |in Fra Nicholson’s .....-..+. ++ ++0+ sees er eee eee eee 60&10 Hl hite C.....-.e eee eee ee eee 35 president, J. V. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco. railroad trains, and who sleep better with in Great Britain. his fortune being | as to the way their time on the road sha n France. Cee eee cee aa 50| Discount, 10. = 2 = A their heads to the engines of trains and man in Great eee rene &!be employed, but as a matter of fact Heller's Horse Hagpe.--. 2. 50 SASH WEIGHTS No. 17—Plainwell B. M. A. i a Seu set down at $80,000,000. Thisis a pretty |); Se ee ce Es npn i i Solid Ey ; President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle. the bows of vessels? This may be anj;...; te an little attention is paid, or is expected to i GALVANIZED IRON. Solid Eyes......---. 2. see ee eee eee eee e ee per ton $25 . ce 5 ss : 5 J nH : rere a : r . : : : 3 mM: § OA. § oR. ¢ 9 No. 18—Owosso B. M. A. ccotaisicie Wat aise of she *Eicten. | OE pile, but it isn’t overstating it to say | pe paid such instructions. For illustra- HARDWARE. — 16 to 0; = and 2%; % and %; 7 % SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS. President, Albert Todd; Secretary, S. Lamfrom. ree eee : ieee eaviced cue ghee that there are at least half a dozen men tion, the firm for which I travel says: ee os 13 4 5 as Miles’ “Challenge”... per doz. $20, dis. 5O@50&05 a 7S 3 se é ays|; ; vy ow , 4 i : ae z a Ff . > ey. 2... er doz. No. 1, $15; N No. 19—Ada B. M. A. to sleep when traveling sik bac bee in this country who could buy out the ‘Jim, you are limited to $7 per day ex- St es ces Wetec pre nl asc eD Ps — 1S a en President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel. : ’ « Ss | Duke without exhausting the contents of : a ae i a ea il . Geeiieis ten a ete tea ban wed ---- 421; dis. 50@ No. 20—saugatuck B. M. A. the engine or the bow, and gave some | thoi coffers pense account; you are expected to at-| ‘The tin market is stiffening up consid- | °F “WEBNS NEVE EM Bere rrr * | unterprise Mfg. Co... 2.2... oa ab 1030 President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps. very plausible reasons for his philosophy eT tend theater not more than three times : : i HAMMERS. ae ae dis. 20&10@30 — ee The movement of a ae > he cae pie Wl per week; put in your time as you please erably, owing to the closing of several | Naydole & Co.’s............ .+---- rer Gis, 2 Silver's... - 5 cee ee eee ee eee eee e eee dis. 40&10 i . 7a J eis a Hh So nH i f ‘ = a : : r Me Secretary. to supply him with food. Yours truly, F, H. MERRIFIELD, Sec’y. “But—”’ Wasastable. si ...dis, 3,&10 | wide rot less than 2-10 extra teenies, eg ee Re pound..... 09 The Michigan Tradesman BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. LANDLORD AND TENANT—CROPS—TITLE. A landlord has the right at the time land is rented to reserve in the rent con- tract the title to the creps to be grown until his rent and advances are paid, accord- ing to the decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia in the case of De Vaughn vs. Howell. AGENT’S AUTHORITY—SIGNING NOTE. The Kentucky Court of Appeals held, in the case of McAdam vs. Sturgeon et al., that an agent having general au- thority to manage his principal’s business was authorized to sign the principal’s name to a note for the unpaid balance of the purchase priee of land purchased by the principal. NOTES—SALE OF FERTILIZERS. A farmer residing in Georgia by letter written in that State ordered commer- cial fertilizers for his own use to be sent | to him from South Carolina by a dealer in the latter State. The goods were shipped by railroad according to order from South Carolina to Georgia and notes for the price were executed in Georgia and sent to South Carolina. The Su- preme Court of Georgia held, in the case of The Atlantic Phosphate Company Vs. Ely, that the sale of the fertilizers was eompleted in South Carolina, that the laws of Georgia touching the inspection of fertilizers had no application to the transaction, and that the notes were valid and collectable. EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY — MACHINERY. The duty of an employer to see to it that the machinery furnished for the use ef his employes is reasonably safe does not extend so far as to require him to attend to the proper regulation of those parts which necessarily have to be ad- justed in the course of their use and with regard to the particular work to be done, and the adjustment of which is incident to the ordinary use of the machine. So held by the Supreme Court of Minnesota in the case of Eichelen vs. Hauggie. In this case a skilled mechanic, alleging negligence of theemployer in not having amovable table or platform connected with a circular saw properly secure in place, was held chargeable with contrib- utory negligence in not paying attention to the mode in which the same was se- cured, he knowing that the table was movable. TAXATION—JOINT STOCK COMPANIES. Judge Barrett, of the New York Su- preme Court, has just rendered a decis- ion to the effect that joint stock private organizations are not liable to taxation as corporations. The case came before the court upon a review of the action of the New York Tax Commissioners in assessing the capital stock of the Na- tional Express Company. Judge Barrett said, that since the organization of the company in 1853, substantial privileges had been conferred upon joint stock companies. These privileges, he said, were undoubtedly corporate incidents, but did not in terms create corporations, nor did the acts profess to authorize them. On the eontrary, they expressly declared the opposite intent. A corpor- ation cannot be formed by a private agreement between individuals. The franchise must proceed from the State; and even the State cannot compel people to accept its bounty. There is, in fact, no statute of the State providing for the formation of joint stock companies or limiting their organization. It would seem to be reasonably clear that general legislation, merely conferring certain of the privileges incident to corporations on these subjects of private agreement, fails to change a natural into an artificial being, and no more creates a corporation than would general legislation conferring similar privileges upon ordinary partner- ships. —___—>_ 2 << ___ A Cheap Store. A shopkeeper’s reputation is a great part of his stock in trade. By some means or other, people must be led to see, or at least to believe, that he sells good articles at low prices. This was the theory of Hiram J. Miner, who, forty or fifty years ago, set up shop in Camden, N. Y., with a capital of $270. He meant not to be undersold by any other trader. A merchant across the way offered a eustomer some little article worth a shil- ling for a penny off. The man crossed over to Mr. Miner’s and reported the fact, upon which he was immediately offered it at a penny lower still. Not to be outdone, the first man dropped an- other penny. Back and forth the countrymen went until he was tired. Then he took his station in the middle of the street, while thd salesmen in the opposite doors, prompted by their employers, who kept out of sight, bid the price down to nothing. Then they began to offer so much to the man if he would take the article— one penny, twopence and so on—until finally Miner bid a shilling, and his rival gave it up. The happy customer took his ‘‘purchase’’ and his shilling, and went off to spread the news. No doubt he proved an efficient walking advertise- ment; at all events, it was the received opinion in Camden, and all about, that things were always cheapest at Miner’s. One day, it is said, a boy called at the Camden postoffice and inquired if there were any letters for his family. Yes, the postmaster said, there was one. ‘‘What is the price ?’’? asked the boy, for it was before the days of cheap and prepaid postage. “One and sixpence,’’ answered the postmaster. “Oh, well! I won’t take it at that price.’’ said the boy. Miner’s for a shilling.’’ —_——_»>+¢+-—_—_——_- The Woonsocket Rubber Co. has pur- chased the entire Buffum’s Island, an estate of twenty acres at Woonsocket, R. L., on which to erect the largest rub- ber boot and shoe factory in the world, concentrating there the present Woon- socket and Millville plants. “T can buy one at CULTIVATION OF THE BANANA. The Once Despised Fruit Now a Source of Income. | The banana and the plantain have! — always formed one of the staple foods of tropical countries. Improved communi- eation and an ever-increasing demand for the banana here, gave, some fourteen years ago, a great impetus to its cultiva- tion. The sugar-planter of the West Indies was gradually but surely being ruined by beet and bounty-fed sugars. The banana was with him a tree to be hated. In Jamaica every negro had a few planted in the small clearing round his hut, and a bunch of the fruit would feed him and his family for a week. When so provided he saw no need to go out to work in the cane fields. The planter had foreseen this, and with the abolition of slavery disappears the bana- | na, plantain and cocoanut trees. At first the banana-walks were made any- where on the estate; generally on aban-| doned cane-fields, which cost less to} elean, but experience has taught the planter that certain sites suit the tree best. The best place for a banana-walk is a} valley or hillside having a western pros- pect. The large leaves attract the dew, and in the early mornings a patch of bananas looks as if it were encrusted with diamonds. These drops of dew are soon evaporated by the morning sun, but if the trees are shaded the plant absorbs most of the moisture. The ground for the intended patch is througly cleaned and ‘‘stubbed.’’? Then “suckers’? must be obtained, as_ the banana is only known to seed in one small spot on the earth, the Andaman Is- lands. These ‘‘suckers’’ sprout from the root of the banana-tree when it is one year old. They are torn from the parent tree and may be shipped leng dis- tances, being hardy and_ long-lived. About 400 or 500 trees are planted to the acre, and now the chief care is to see that the weeds, and especially the creep- ing ones, are kept down: otherwise they will soon choke the young plant. The banana tree bears fruit in its first year. The bunch hangs down on a stem which springs from the tree just under its frond of leaves. This stem extends beyond the fruit, ending in a purple cone, under which is a small, insignifi- cant bunch of flowers. The early morning visit to a banana walk expose one to the equivalent of a thorough rain-drenching. Aseach bunch becomes full, but still green, the tree is chopped down with one or two blows from a ‘‘machete,’’ great care being taken that the fruit is not bruised. The bunch is then carried on the head of a negro to the dray that carries it down to the port. The bunches are packed be- tween layers of ‘‘trash,’? and on being unloaded from the drays are sorted into ‘nines.?’ *teiphis.’” ete.; that 1S to Say, into ‘‘hand bunches’ of those numbers. A ‘hand’? of bananas is one of the small portions that go to make up a bunch. Bananas are paid for with ready money on the beach, according to the number of “hands” and the time of year. In January, February and March they cost from 12 to 18 cents a bunch; in April, May and June from 48 to 72 cents. In a good year a bunch of bananas costs 4 cents to land at the beach, all expenses included. The planter has his risks‘ however. A hurricane will in an hour destroy every tree, and for that year the cultivation is, of course, a dead loss. In Jamaica and Honduras, at least, the theft by the negroes form a large item. Landed in New York the bunches bring from 50 cents to $2, according to the time of year and the size of the bunch. As soon as the banana begins to give a good shade the spaces between the trees are planted with cocoa, a tree that must have shelter from the sun. Almond trees and the flamboyant are also planted to give the shade for the cocoa when the bananas have ceased to bear profitably; that is, in three or four years. WHIPS AND LASHES. Lowest Prices for Mail Orders, GRAHAM ROYS, Grand Rapids. 54 Lake Ave., - 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 Preduce 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 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, or 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. Noother 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. Freer, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Paul, Minn. rl THE ACME oF UTILITY ano IS REACHED E SAME 1S i I EDWIN FALLAS, JOBBER OF Batter, Roos, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Mince Meat, Nuts, Figs, ite. Eggs Crate Factory in connection. Price List furnighed Catalogue r AT L A S on application. » Prices. Mail Orders Filled Carefully and Promptly at Lowest Market Price. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A. MANUFACTURERS OF HESTEHER & FOxX, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILLI MACHINERY, ENGINE WORKS 4 Cold Storage at Nos, 217 and 219 Livingstone St. Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich, Liberal dis count to the trade. Special Inducements to parties intro ducing this system of store fitting in any locality. O0 © Manufactur- o0 by KOCH A. B. CO.s 354 Main St., PEORIA, ILL BORDEN, SELLECK & CO., Agts., | 48-50 Lake St., Chicago, 114 Water St., Cleveland WANTED! We want stocks of goods in exchange for $100,000 worth of productive real estate in Lavsing city property and im- proved farms. R. A. CLARK & CO. Real Estate Brokers Lansing Mich. a oS bo 3 al = E 2 = = AS Be = C i = x Co 2 2 E aa 2 2 i 4 o e also manufacture a full line of Sweet Goods. Write for quotations and samples. Jackson Cracker G0,, HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS Water Motors and Specialties Send for New Catalogue. Tuerk Hydraulic : Power Co. 7j/NEW YORK: CHICAGO: 12 Cortland St. 39 Dearborn St, AARUEY & HEYSTEK JOBBERS IN Wall Paper and Paints, Oils, Kte, 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. Voigt, Herpolshelmer & Co, Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods STAPLE and FANCY. = JACKSON MICH. Overalls, Pants, Ete,, OUR OWN MAKE. A COMPLETE LINE OF Fancy Crockery and Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION. Inspection Solicited. Chicago and De- troit prices guaranteed. BUY Muscatine ROLLED OATS IF_ YOU WANT THE BEST? ALFRED J. BROWN, WHOLESALE DEALER IN Write for Prices. may C2>7y Engines and Boilers in Stock for immediate delivery. i 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. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Foreign, Yropical and Galitornia FRUITS. a system The Tradesman Coupon is the Headquarters for Bananas. 16 AND 18 NORTH DIVISION ST. o 2: 2 ee 2 ee Beene. ----- _— | > 3 ee " ee ae | F 6 «|< watt ea eee ERE 4.00 | GD ee ee Detroit Soap Co., #20 seeseeses 5:00] ri DETROIT, MICH. SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT Manufacturers of the following well-known brands of QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN, MICHIGAN, ROYAL BAR, TRUE BLUE, SUPERIOR, CZAR, MASCOTTE, MONDAY, PHENIX, WABASH, CAMEO, AND OTHERS, For quotations address With its attendant losses and annoyances, when you can supplant it by so inexpensive and labor-saving as the Tradesman Gredit Covpon Book, Which is now used by over 2,000 Michigan merchants. cheapest and most modern in the market, being sold as follows: SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS: Orders for 200 or over....... 5 per cent. _ O00 10 . 1060 * ' “eé ee YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS. KA. STOWE & BRO, Grand Rapids, W. G. HAWKINS, cock sori7s, GRAND RAPIDS reaRrReings & Bases DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Nut car Wecarry a large stock of Foreign and Domestic Nuts and are at ail times prepared to fill orders for lots or less at lowest prices. Putnam & Brooks. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. P. STEKETEE & SONS; WHOLESALE Dry Goods ? Notions, 83 Monroe St. and 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 Fountain St, Grand Rapids, Mich. New Line of Prints, Seersuckers, Toile Du Nord, Ginghams, Dress Goods, Hosiery, Underwear, White Goods, Laces, Embroideries and Full Line of ARAM ANK 1 BRUS. 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 Neck Wear. Pe Warps, Geese Feathers, MERICAN, gees d § Waddings, Batts BURLAPS. i and Twines, i Sole Agents for Valley City and Georgia Bags. and careful attention. Mail orders receive prompt Our lemons are all bought at the cargo sales in New Orleans and are as free from frost or chill as in June, PUTNAM & BROOKS. ATTENTION, RETAIL MERCHANTS! Increase your Cigar Trade by selling the BE BMA. = FE. M. A. Named in Compliment to the BE BMA. ek Michigan Business Men’s’ Association, And especially adapted, both in Quality and Price, to the requirements of the RETAIL GROCERY TRADE. A080 | THR BEST 6 Gent Cigar on Karth! PRICE, $30 PER THOUSAND. The Telfer Spice Company, MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS. WHY Bh A SLAVE To the Pass Book System @ The Michigan Tradesman WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1889. LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS. Written for THE TRADESMAN. BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT. It is very proper and commendable for people to have a local pride, and to take an active, if practical, interest in what pertains to the welfare of their hamlet, “burgh” or village; but would it not always be wiser and more business-like to always give a careful study to the sub- ject of ‘“‘booming,’’ instead of rushing blindly into an uncertain and, perhaps, disastrous investment? By looking over the map of this State, for instance, it ought to be evident to any level-headed man that there is a superfluity of small communities thickly sprinkled over every portion of the peninsula, even where a bare hold on existence is possible; and will the level-headed man aforesaid al- low himself, after a brief survey, to im- agine for a moment that all the ‘‘booms”’ ever manufactured would transform these multitudinous communities, part of them, intoembryo rival Saginaws or embryo Grand Rapids’? There perhaps, still of this—to use a Celtic simile—milky way of fly-spots on the map that may eventually emerge from local obscurity, but it those cases where natural location, val- uable water power, exceptional facilities for natural products, favorable terminal arrangements, the almost unaided effort of some wealthy property causes as potent and essential, exist or will be secured: while the owners of the subdivisions of the remaining fly-specks ean sincerely congratulate themselves if the duster of time doesn’t eventually brush them into obscurity or oblivion. + * * * * * * If the average ‘burgh,’ then, ‘boomed’? by the way of. manufacturing enterprises, the process must usually be accomplished by means of the pooling of local capital; and as there are always more or less diverse views among the proposed stock holders, and a manifest want of experience and practical sugges- tions for profitable and satisfactory in- vestments of the sums which it is pro- posed to expend, it is not remarkable that great numbers of these schemes ‘‘fall through themselves,’? and that multi- tudes of others collapse after a brief, or Cven 2a are, some is only in Owner, OTF is disastrous and expensive experiment. And by this latter, especially, the ‘boomers’? give a blow to their com- munity from which it is almost impos- sible to ever recover. The discovery of any important nat- ural products, or the concentration of money for large manufacturing enter- prises, will undoubtedly attract the hu- man family to almost any accessible locality, but the reputation of that local- ity, if the one proves a fraud or the other a ‘fizzle,’ 18 not to be envied in the future. * * of * * * * There was, at latest accounts, still in feeble and fluttering existence, a little place called Bighope. It was started amid much enthusiasm, and among many golden visions, at what was supposed would be the junction of two important lines of new road, and every building of any importance in the village to-day was erected before a shovelful of earth had been moved by the railroad people. Un- fortunately for Bighope, one of the pro- posed lines was laid some miles on one side, and the other developed into a small and unimportant ‘‘feeder,’’ and in afew years Bighope property was hardly salable at any price. During the height of the building ex- citement, a country capitalist by the name of Goodwin drew in every dollar he could reach and invested it in Bighope ‘“‘suburban’’ lots, and they proved alto- gether too suburban to let him realize the remotest returns from his investment. For an outlay that would have bought the finest farm in the county, he had enly to show thirty or forty acres of sandy, barren land, which, under the circumstances, was practically useless for any purpose whatever. Of course, Goodwin was sickened and disgusted with his real estate specula- tion, but being naturally of a hopeful, recuperative and sanguine disposition, he never entirely despaired of making his sterile tract return dividends in some manner. In defiance of all the laws and decisions of geology, he would eventually uncover a coal mine from be- neath its sands and rocks. Down by the little creek there were unmistakable evi- dences of petroleum. The outlay of the country suggested salt to any observing man. And then there was brick clay, and potters’ clay and moulding sand, and mineral points, only waiting to be devel- oped. Years passed by without the land add- ing a cent to Goodwin’s income, but he continued to hope. At last the natural gas excitement struck the country, and Goodwin discovered at once the purpose for which he purchased his sterile acres. He had noticed, hundreds of times, the effervescing appearance of a muddy lit- tle spring on his property, and now knew that it was caused by nature’s trying to show him a way out of his disastrous speculation. He took the few business or monied men of the ‘‘burgh’’ over to see the phenomenon, and, being about equally posted with himself on the nat- ural sciences, it was unanimously agreed that a reservoir of gas was anxiously awaiting release. Excitement ran high; Bighope again saw itself a metropolis, and Goodwin fondly imagined himself a millionaire of the future. At this juncture a smooth, oily, per- suasive individual named Piper put in an appearance at Bighope. He was looking after some quiet country town in which to settle down and enjoy a snug little fortune, which he had made out of nat- ural gas wells in Ohio. ‘‘Was he an ex- pert in the new product?’ ‘‘Had ought to be after sinking seven successful wells!’ ‘Couldhe judge of the chances of finding gas by external indications and surroundings 2”? ‘‘Had never failed yet! What? they believed it could be found here? He doubted it very seriously. There was certainly a belt of the product leading in this direction, but lexperts all claimed that it bore many | miles to the west.’’ At last the incredulous gentleman was persuaded to inspect Goodwin’s tract. Nothing seemed to attract his attention until he reached the vicinity of the little spring, when he suddenly paused, looked critically around, and, after a few mo- ments, remarked slowly: “Gentlemen! I give it up! If there isn’t an inexhaustable supply of natural gas under your feet, I'll pay the expense of boring, and say that I don’t know any- thing about the business, to boot!’ At present, the most of Piper’s eap- ital was invested, or he would sink a well at his own expense, but as machin- ery could easily be obtained on time, he thought it advisable to make arrange- ments with Goodwin, form a stock com- pany, and get to work at once. A dozen or so of the more able Big- hope burghers eagerly became respon- sible for some thousand dollars’ worth of machinery; Piper was engaged to super- intend the drilling, and in a short time the hole was commenced, and Bighope bubbled over with excitement. A company had been formed, of which Goodwin was president, Piper secretary and treasurer, and various other parties directors. The shares were to be held by the officers until gas was struck, when their price was to be fixed and a portion of them placed on the market. In a much shorter space of time than could reasonably be antieipated, Piper announced that the great, economical light and fuel had been reached, as he would demonstrate in the morning. By daylight hundreds of people surrounded the well, and at 9 o’clock the superin- tendent unscrewed the cap of the pipe, touched a match to the opening, anda bright, clear flame shot up four or five feet, amid the yells and cheers of the spectators. Piper shortly turned off the blaze, and explained that from appear- ances only a pocket of the great natural reservoir had been struck, but that, to an expert, it was perfect and absolute evi- dence that the supply was unlimited. A meeting of the company was at once held, and it was decided to subdivide the shares, to place them within the reach of the poorer classes, and to place half of them immediately on the market. Ina couple of days the secretary procured the necessary blanks and opened his office, having first, by representing the difficulty of always finding the other officers, procured their signatures to the certificates. In two days more a number of thousand dollars in stock had been exchanged for cash. On the fifth day there seemed to be almost a craze for stock among small buyers, and toward evening Piper announced that he must, for his own safety and that of the com- pany, go to the city to deposit his cash. He went, but he never returned. The pipes were ‘doctored’? with’ gas of Piper’s own manufacture; and _ the ‘“‘well’? was more useless than a post- hole, and the collapse of Bighope’s sec- ond ‘‘boom’’ was immeasurably more disastrous that that of the first, for it entailed such a succession of suits, trials, re-trials, appeals, injunctions, etc., that hardly a Bighopeburger of any property can, even yet, form any reasonable esti- mate of his prospective financial stand- ing. —_— 2 How One Kind of Maple Syrup is Made. Grocer—Jerry, have you got the cheap molasses, the glucose and the extract of maple on the wagon ? Boy—Yes, sir. Grocer—Very well. Take ’em up to my house; my wife will know what’s wanted. And—hold on, Jerry, when you come back, get out those colored labels we had printed that read, ‘Maple syrup, guaranteed absolutely pure,’ and paste em on those bottles in the cellar. So long as I’ve gota brother in Vermont who sends me maple sugar direct, the purity of my goods ’ll never be ques- tioned; hey, Jerry ? —_——__—~. -4 —=______ A Hard Question. Judge Duffy—Ain’t you ashamed to be hauled up here for beating your wife with a stove-lifter until she had to be taken to the hospital ? Mr. Pounderhard—Well, what do you do when your wife says you are no gen- tleman ? AWNINGS Horse and Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Buggy Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, etc. Send for Illustrated Catalogue. Chas. A. Coye, Telephone 106. 11 Pearl St. LONG HAVANA FILLER. THEY HAVE NO EQUAL. Ss. DAVIS, 127 Louis St., Grand Rapids. MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER A. - The most practical ot hand Roaster in the world. Thousandsin use—giviug satisfrc- tion. They aresim;:e durable and econom- ical. Nou grocer should be without one. Roasts coffee and pea-nuts to per fection. Address for Cata- logue and prices, » Robt. S. West, 48-50 Long St., Cleveland, Ohio, Why you should send us your orders. 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