713 The Michigan Tradesman. VOL. 7. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1889. NO. 322. Raton, Lyon & Go, JOBBERS OF Albums, Dressing Cases, Books And a complete line of Fancy Holiday Goods. EATON, LYON & CO, 20 & 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. Wm. Brummeler JOBBER OF Tinware, Glassware and Notions. Rags, Rubbers and Metals bought at Market Prices. 76 SPRING ST., GRAND RAPIDS, WE CAN UNDERSELL ANY ONE ON TINWARE. Something New Bill Snort We guarantee this cigar the best $35 cigar on the market. Send us trial order, and if not ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY return them. Advertising mat- ter sent with each order. Charlevoix Cigar Mfg Co., CHARLEVOI1X, MICH. BEACH’S New York (Joffee Rooms. OYSTERS IN ALL STYLES, Steaks, Chops and All Kinds of Order Cooking a Specialty. FRANK M. BEACH, Prop. Daniel G. Garnsey, EXPERT ACCOUNTANT AND Adjuster of Fire Losses. Twenty Years Experience. References furnished if desired. 24 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co, Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods STAPLE and FANCY. Overalls, Pants, Etce.,, OUR OWN MAKE. A COMPLETE LINE OF Fancy Crockery and Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION. Inspection Solicited. Chicago and De- troit prices guaranteed. KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, Kh CANAL SY., Grand Rapids, - Mich, W arren’s “Klar of Late” ye Cigar Will be ready Sept. 1. Price, $55 delivered. Send orders at once to GEO. T. WARREN & GO., Flint, Wich. Fine Millinery! AND RETAIL. WHOLESALE Bought Direct from Importers and Manufacturers. Adams & Co., Opposite Morton House. 90 Monroe St., Cherryman & Bowen, Undertakers and Kmbalmers, IMMEDIATE ATTENTION GIVEN TO CALLS DAY OR NIGHT. Telephone 1000. 5 South Division St. GRAND RAPIDS. Lady assistant when desired. W } i hi BUSINESS UNIVERSITY 68t MICHIGa saNbD NoRMAL SCHOOL. (Originally Lean’s Business College—Est’blished 8 y’rs.) A thoroughly ore. permanently estab- lished and pleasantly located College. The class rooms have been especially designed in accord- ance with the latestapproved plans. The faculty is composed of the most competent and practical teachers. Students graduating from this Insti- tution MUST be efficientand PRACTICAL. The best of references furnished upon application. Our Normal Department isin charge of experi- enced teachers of established reputation. Satis- factory boarding places secured for all who apply to us. Do not go elsewhere without first personally interviewing or writing us for full particulars. Investigate and decide for your selves. Students may enter at any time. Address West Michigan Business University and Normal School, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. J. U. LEAN, Principal. K. KNUDSON, MERCHANT TAILOR And Dealer in Gents’ Furnishing Goods. Fine stock of Woolen Suitings and Overcoat- ings, which I will make to order cheaper than — other house in the city. Perfect fit guaranteed. 20 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids. A. E. YEREX, Sec’y and Treas. Business Practice at the Grand Rapids Depa rtm € nt Business College. Ed- ucates pupils to transact and record business as itis done by our best business houses. It pays to goto the best. Shorthand and Typewriting also thoroughly taught. Send for circular. Ad dress A. S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens berg. Cook & Bergthold, MANUFACTURERS OF SHOW GASKS. Prices Lower than those of any competitor. Write for cata- logue and prices. 106 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich. G. H. Behnke, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in COAL, W OOD, Flour, Feed, Grain, Hay, Straw, Ete, 30 East Bridge St., Corner Kent, WEST SIDE YARD: Winter St., one block south of Shawmut Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Muskegon Paper Go,, Dealers in FINE STATIONERY, WRAPPING PAPERS, PAPER BAGS, TWINES, WOODEN DISHES, ETC. Mail Orders Promptly Filled. 44 Pine St., Muskegon, Mich, Magic Coffee Roaster, The Best in the World. Having on hand a large stock of No. 1 Roasters—capacity 35 lbs.—1 will sell them at very low prices. Write for Special Discount. ROBT. S. WEST, 48-50 Long St., CLEVELAND, OHIO. WM. M CLARK, Manufacturer of Gustom Made Shirts, Fit and Quality Guaranteed. Our cutting is done by Chas. R. Remington, who was for nine years cutter for Gardiner & Baxter, who will cordially welcome his many friends in the trade. Mich. 7 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Potatoes, Onions. PRICES, WRITE TO FOR Wholesale Dealers, BARNETT BROS, “ewieads: P. Ranivilte, Manufacturer of LEATHER BELTING JOBBER OF Rubber Goods and Mill SUpplies, 1 to 5 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS, A.D. Spangler & Co WHOLESALE FRUITS ano PRODUGK And General Commission Merchants. EAST SAGINAW,. MICH. MICH. DEALERS IN We buy and sell all kinds of fruit and produce and solicit correspondence with both buyers and sellers. Ve Pe (Formerly Shriver, Weatherly & Co.) CONTRACTORS FOR Galvanized Iron Cornice, Plumbing & Heating Work. Dealers in Pumps, Pipes, Etc., Mantels and Grates. Weatherly & Pulte, GRAND RAPIDS, - - To The Trade! PERSONAL | B. GU, Fite Will hereafter act as our representative in Grand Rapids and vicinity. CEO. MOEBS & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF “Ben Hor” “Record Breakers,” And other fine cigars. DETROIT, - MICH. MICH. ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH. Allen Durfee & Co., FUNERAL. DIRECTORS, 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. Fehsenfeld & Grammel, (Successors to Steele & Gardner.) Manufacturers of BROOMS! Whisks, Toy Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom Handles, and all Kinds of Broom Materials. 10 and 12 Plainfield Ave., Grand Rapids. HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT. How Good Roads May Be Constructed and Maintained.* Macaulay says that of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone ex- cepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civiliza- tion of our species. A nation, or an age of civilization, is perhaps more easily judged and under- stood by the character and extensiveness of its roads, than by any other symbol of progress. Intercourse between communities, and the development of commercial life, have afforded the necessity for regularly adopted routes of travel, and more or less systematically prepared roadways from the time before the building of those famous highways between ancient Memphis and Babylon, over which the untold wealth*of the valleys of the Euphrates and the Nile found means of exchange, where the magnificent cities of Ninevah, Damascus and Tyre, the earliest great commercial centers, sprang up, and over which the splendid armies of Xerxes and Alexander the Great passed in all the pride and glory of those early days. The roadways of which the earliest traces appear, were well constructed, as is evident from the remains found, but they were limited in number, laid out generally in direct lines. and had the ad- vantage in their construction of all the resources of the rich and powerful nations which built them. As the world has grown older, and civilization has spread and ripened, in- tercourse has increased. commerce has pressed out its foot in every direction, from every center, multiplying and ram- ifying its paths in as bewildering an ex- tent as the threads of the spider’s web. Various necessities and circumstances have governed the building and main- tenance of roads, of different times and people. The old countries, where war has been a constant factor, have looked after them as a matter of national policy and mil- itary necessity, and have the result in the finest and most durable ways in the world. The old military roads of the Roman Empire constituted a system the superior of which the world has never seen, in its scope, and the thoroughness with which it was perfected in all directions. The old *‘world-conquerors’’ were good road builders for their day, though Blake crushers and the respective merits of Trinidad, and rock asphafts, and Wheel- ing fire brick, were matters of which they never dreamed; and those of us who have had occasion to form intimate ac- quaintance with American country roads in spring, have more than once found ourselves in positions to heartily wish that some of the rural road makers, who worked out their taxes by plowing up the mud from the ditches, and plastering it over the middle of the highways, had had some good experience in the road gangs under the centurions of Julius Cesar’s army. An eminent writer says: ‘*The road is that physical sign or symbol by which you will best understand any age or people. If they have no roads, they are savages, for the road is the creation of man, and the type of civilized society.”’ The Romans were, without doubt, the best road builders in the ancient world. Their good highways was one of the causes of their superiority in progress and civilization. When they conquered a province, they annexed it by good roads, which brought them in easy communica- tion with the great cities of the Roman world. When their territory was so large that a hundred millions of people acknowledged their military and polit- ical power, their capital city was the center of such a network of highways that it was then a common saying, ‘‘All roads lead to Rome.”’ The best roads in the world to-day are those of England, France and Germany, the excellence of which is due to the fact that those countries were the first to awaken from the long sleep of the dark ages, and the growing rivalry between them necessitated attention to their roads. for the proper prosecution of both their military and their mercantile in- terests. In each country they early came under the national supervision, the results of which are seen in the most splendid highways in existence, costing the least to maintain, and in every way the most satisfactory and economical for those who use them. Up to the advent of railroads, most of the settlements in this country were along our water fronts, and on our sea coasts, lakes and rivers. The invention of steam, and the development of the railroad, seem to have taken all our ener- gies and resources, to the neglect of our roads and highways, and now that we have more miles of railway than the whole of the Eastern Hemisphere, and about all that we can make to pay, at present, we can well afford to turn our attention to the matter of highways, in which everybody should be interested, for all have to use them, rich and poor alike, those that ride and those that walk. No country has agreater road mileage, in proportion to the population, than the United States, but while with character- istic American push and hurry, the most extensive means of communication and intercourse have been provided, we have suffered the consequence of a lack of any general system of public policy, cov- ering the location, construction and maintenance of ways. In many a case, where one’s way leads him through the old farming regions of New England and the Middle States, he may take occasion to do anything but bless the memory of the frugal early set- tlers who, when the necessities of the case seemed to demand that aroad be *Address by Co]. Albert A. Pope, of Boston, before the Carriage Builders’ National Association, at Syra- cuse, N. Y., October 17, 1889. | established for the convenience of pub- ‘lie travel, each contributed a way across his farm, laying, perhaps, over the worst hill, and through the sandiest, or the rockiest, or the wetest land, with a view rather to the economy of his best pas- tures than the saving, in the years to come, of the time and strength of the traveler obliged to use it. American roads are far below the average; they certainly are among the worst in the civilized world, and always have been—largely as a result of permit- ting local circumstances to determine the location, with little or no regard for any general system, and haste and waste and ignorance in building. Old post-roads and turnpikes, in times no further back than the war, afforded the only comfortable travel to be had in many parts of the country; nor could the general badness of the roads, by any means, be attributed to a lack of the proper materials for their construc- tion. Indeed, it often happens that we find them the worst, where natural resources are the most abundant, and the better roads are frequently found where the natural conditions were so bad that the ordinary crude and wasteful expend- itures were out of the question. Fifty years ago, there was some ex- cuse for bad roads, for our country was poor. Now it is rich, there is no excuse. A good road is always to be desired, and is a source of comfort and con- venience to every traveler. Good roads attract population, as well as good schools and churches. Good roads improve the value of property, so that it is said a farm lying five miles from market, connected by a bad road, is of less value than an equally good farm lying ten miles away from market, connected by a good road. A larger load can be drawn by one horse over a good road than by two over a bad one. Good roads encourage the greater ex- change of products and commodities between one section and another. Good roads are of great value to rail- roads as feeders. Various movements, already under way, in the direction of road improve- ments, must have and already are having their effect, in bringing about a material raising of the average quality. The governors of several states have made special and important references to it in their annual messages, and in several states bills have been presented having in view the betterment of state high- ways, by regularly organized systems of work, to be carried out under the super- vision of departments provided by the state. In Pennsylvania a general tax levy of seven and one-half mills has been or- dered by the Legislature for road im- provements. The forces working to bring about such results as this are pow- erful and increasing every day. The high point to be aimed at is the recognition of the importance of the whole situation by the national govern- ment, and the establishment by Congress of a national system. The following outline may suggest some idea of a scheme in the right direc- tion, which might be elaborated by some one better qualified and having more time than I have at my command. A commissioner of highways might be provided for, in the Agricultural Depart- ment, with a corps of consulting en- gineers, and suitable appropriations made for the prosecution of a general supervising work. Under the charge of this commission, full systems of maps should be prepared, based largely, perhaps, upon the working of the state and county boards, showing more or less completely, as circumstances would permit, the highways of the eountry. For co-operation with this central bureau and the prosecution of the work in the most thorough and practical way, each state should have its highway com- missioner, charged with the highest in- terests of the state in the way of main- taining its system of roads under the most approved methods and for the gen- eral public welfare. Then the best prac- tical results could probably be attained by the division of the state into highway districts, consisting of counties, or per- haps townships, each of which should have its overseer in full charge of the opening and construction of new roads in his district and the proper maintenance of all, responsible for the expenditure of the regular appropriations for these pur- poses. These districts ‘could then be divided into smaller ones under sub- overseers. The importance and the value to any country, any section, and every citizen from the highest to the lowest, whether tax-payers or tramps, of well-constructed and properly maintained roads, is not easily estimated, but clearly it is greater than that of many affairs which are con- tinually receiving the time and attention of the people in their homes, counting- rooms, public meetings and legislative halls. It is a matter to be considered side by side with our splendid and always im- proving system of public education, the assessment of our tariff duties, or the appropriations regularly made for river and harbor improvements. But the question of the most particu- lar interest, to-day, to you and to me, as manufacturers and merchants, in this whole question of good and bad roads is, what is the effect on our business? Now, it may be possible that there are those who will think they see an advantage for the carriage builder in poor roads, where in traveling over hills that might easily be avoided, going ten miles to make five as the crow flies, pulling through mud and sand that should be gravel and jolt- ing over rocks that might be macadam, the vehicles of the unfortunate owners would go to pieces in one-half the time they ought to stand under favorable cir- cumstances, and necessitate the purchase of new ones, to the advantage and profit of the manufacturer. But aman who entertains such an idea | would waste no time in killing his goose to secure the last golden egg. It must be clear to any man with the most ordinary business instinets that good roads mean thrift, liberality and wealth. They mean good farms and good value to real estate. They mean that the farmer enjoying their use will save time going over them, will save wear and tear, not only on his wagons, but on his teams, will bearicher man on account of them, and have the more money to buy your carriages, running into higher value, (while his sons and daughters can have their bicycles and tricycles at less ex- pense) and his example must be followed by his neighbors. Now you are honest manufacturers, and have no desire to have your vehicles wear out quickly, that they may be sooner replaced, but you believe, I doubt not, that the better the vehicle and the longer it lasts, the better business and profit will come to you. Good roads mean for you and for me better business. Good roads encourage riding and driving, and the sale of our vehicles, while bad roads mean less busi- ness for you and for me, for where the roads are bad the traffic must of necessity be much less. As a nation, we are a remarkably pati- ent and an easy-going people, considering the enterprise and business activity for which we are noted the world over, and rather too apt to fall into the way of doing things as a matter of course. Asa result of this, very strenuous and con- tinuous efforts are frequently necessary to bring about the farthest reaching and most desirable reforms. From a business point of view, we cannot afford to neglect any opportunity to help along the present movement. As an instance of what is being done. see the work of the League of American Wheelmen, in the appointment of its highway committees, the issuing of road books and maps, the pressing forward of legislative bills, and lately in the publi- cation of a comprehensive little manual on the making and care of good roads, a copy of which I shall be glad to have for- warded to any one who may care to send me his address. Work of this sort can well and_ profit- ably be undertaken by the Carriage #uild- ers’ National Association. With all the great resources at your command you cannot afford not to divert a small per- centage each year, beginning right now, toward helping along in the good work, and it impresses itself upon me most strongly, asa part of your most urgent duty toward yourselves, to appoint at once, if you have not already done so, your committee on highways, clothing them with power todo some practical work, and giving them, under reasonable limitations, at least, the approach to your treasury. A moderate amount of money judiciously expended in educating the people up to their needs and best interests, in showing them how their roads are, and how they ought to be, and how to go to-work to make them so, could not be put out at better interest. Iam ereditably informed that within one hun- dred miles of this building the capital invested in the carriageindustry amounts to seven million dollars; and the interest which I informally represent to you is a true branch of this vast industry. The manufacture and sale of carriages to be drawn by horses and the manufacture of carriages to be impelled by the rider is essentially one and the same. The char- acter of the motive power cannot of course change the character of the vehicle. We, who manufacture bicycles, feel that we have a right to fraternization with you. We seek fellowship with you in your efforts to improve the traveling vehicles of the country and the roadways, by the improvement in which our interests as manufacturers and the people’s pros- perity and happiness are to be enlarged. The bicycle interest is young in years, but it has already become a large one. As an industry, it ranks among the fine arts, while the magnitude of the business and the number of the vehicles made and sold yearly would, we fancy, be a matter of surprise to some of you and of amaze- ment to the public at large. I need not say to this convention that we who construct these delicate carriages propelled by human power are intensely interested in the improvement of the country’s roadways, even as you who manufacture wagons and carriages of the lighter and more elegant sort. It istrue that, in a certain sense, the bicycler is not so dependent as the man who drives his carriage or road wagon on the quality of the roadway, for he can pick his way with much greater facility. Wherever there is ahand’s width of level way there he can easily pass. He can turn from left to right with wonderful ease and quickness. He can even take to the side- walk and so escape many ill-conditioned places which the driver of carriages can- not. Nevertheless, I feel that our inter- ests and yours in good roadways are equal and identical, and lam here to pledge our heartiest co-operation with you in any practical measure looking to the im- provement of the roadways of the coun- try. The history of carriage building and the history of the development of this country alike confirm the truth which I have tried to impress, namely, that im- provement in roads leads to and precedes the use of better and higher grade vehi- cles, and especially induces the use of pleasure carriages. It does not need argument or illustra- tion to persuade you that more roads means more carriages. Where now go the saddle horse and the mule van in wide regions of this great country, ought to be seen the carriage and the bicycle. If local communities and the general public ought to be interested in this sub- ject, how much more should this associa- tion, every member of which not only has this same interest, but a special com- mercial inducement in the result. I hope to live to see the time when all over our land our cities, towns and vil- lages shall be connected by as good roads as can be found in the civilized world, and if we shall have been instrumental in bringing about this result, then indeed shall our children have cause to bless us. _ 9+ An Example to Clerks. One of the most prosperous merchants in New York had his life changed by a simple performance of duty. He was clerk in a big Boston dry goods house at a small salary. He always tried to effect a sale: One day a customer appeared who was more than particular about his purchase. In relating his experience with this man, the merchant said to a reporter: ‘; had a quick temper and at times during the transaction I felt that I could Strangle the customer; but I quickly curbed my temper and went at him tooth and nail. I felt that my reputation as a salesman was at stake, and it was a ques- tion of conquer or to be conquered. At last, lmade the sale. and with it came great satisfaction; but I was not done with the man yet. I wanted to sell him more. He said something about sending his wife around to look at some dress goods. I promised to send samples of new patterns as they arrived. The cus- tomer thanked me and said: * ‘It has taken you a long time to sell meafew goods. Areallof yourcustomers as hard to please as 1? ** ‘It takes some customers but a short time to make their selections, while others wish to be slower; weare bound tu please them all,’ I answered. ‘* ‘Does it pay your house to devote so much time to so small asale?’ he enquired again. ** Yes.’ I replied. ‘I have taken pains to give you what you want. I know you will find the goods asl say. You will have confidence and come again, and the next time it will not take so long.’ ‘After getting his package, he walked out of the store. In three days, 1 mailed samples of the new dress goods to his wife, and the circumstances passed en- tirely out of my mind. I was promoted in a few days, much to my astonishment. One morning I was informed that Mr. B. wished to see me. I went to the office with surprise and some fear. I was more surprised when I saw, sitting beside my employer, my customer of a few months back. He proved to be the moneyed partner of the concern, whose other busi- ness interests kept him away from the store almost entirely. and he was known to but few of his employees, although he knew that I was a new man as soon as he saw me, and thought to see what metal I was made of. That he was satisfied is proved by his making me a buyer of the several departments where I sold goods. My prosperity began with the tough cus- tomer, and now I thank goodness that I got him, and that I did not show any dis- position to strangle him.’’ A Moral Courage in Everyday Life. Have the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money in’ your pocket. - Have the courage to do without that which you do not need, however much your eyes may covet it. Have the courage to speak your mind, when it is necessary you should do so, and to hold your tongue, when it is pru- dent you should do so. Have the courage to speak to a friend in a ‘‘seedy’’ coat, even though you are in company witha rich one, and richly attired. Have the courage to own you are poor and thus disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Have the courage to make a will and a just one. Have the courage to tell a man why you will not lend him your money. Have the courage to ‘‘cut’’ the most agreeable acquaintance you have, when you are convinced that he lacks princi- ple. ‘“‘A friend should bear with a friend’s infirmities, but not with his vices.’’ Have the courage to show your respect for honesty, in whatever guise it appears, and your contempt for dishonesty ana duplicity, by whomsoever exhibited. Have the courage to wear your old clothes until you can pay for new ones. Have the courage to obey your con- science, at the risk of being ridiculed by men. Have the courage to wear thick boots in winter, and insist upon your wife and daughters doing the same. Have the courage to prefer comfort and propriety to fashion in all things. —_———__0<——__ Hard on the Cigarette. “Do you happen to have a cigarette about you ?’’ said one traveling man to another. ‘No, but my brother has a six-shooter that he will doubtless loan you; there’s adynamite factory just out of the city limits, and a drug store where you can buy arsenic just around the corner. Maybe you can find something that would do just as well.’’ Perfection Scale. The Latest Improved and Best. a) — SaEEe Does Not Require Down Weight. Will Soon Save Its Cost on any Counter. For sale by leading wholesale grocers. The Michigan Tradesman AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. F. A. Rice has sold his grocery stock at683 Wealthy avenue to E. F. Thompson. I. M. Clark & Son have removed the H. C. Coe grocery stock from Mason to this city. i Sanford L. Deary, grocer and feed dealer, has been closed under chattel mortgage. Andrew Holmes has opened a bakery and confectionery stock on North Plain- field avenue. A. C. Bauer has sold his drug stock, at the corner of East Bridge and Barclay streets, to T. Gridley. Anew meat market was opened last Friday at 416 South Division street, by a Mr. Wilson, late of Kansas City. F. W. Curtis is succeeded by Bauer & Curtis in the drug business at the corner of East Bridge and Clancy streets. J. A. Holmes & Co. will engage in gen- eral trade at Kent City. The groceries will be purchased here and the dry goods at Detroit. L. H. Austin has sold his interest in the Grand Rapids Mattress Co. to his partner, H. C. Russell, who will continue under the same style as before. Woodward & MeCamly, who are put- ting in a hardwood saw mill near Byers, have opened a grocery store there. Ball, Barnhart & Putman furnished the stock. ee C. W. Shedd has been granted a pat- ent on a vinegar generator, which the inventor confidently expects to see revo- lutionize the manufacture of that staple. Canadian and foreign patents are also pending. Olney, Shields & Co. are arranging to merge their wholesale grocery business into a stock company, under a style to be hereafter determined. John G. Shields will retire from active management in the business, still retaining a portion of his present interest. The Crane grocery stock, at Mulliken, which disappeared so mysteriously after a mortgage on the stock had been fore- closed by Ball, Barnhart & Putman, last August, has been found. One day last week a writ was obtained for a search of the premises of a citizen of the place, who developed a sudden illness by which the search was staved off for a time. Afterward a dense smoke was observed coming from the chimney of the sick man’s house, and the officers forced an entrance, and found a member of the in- valid’s family industriously engaged in burning up the long sought for goods. Plug tobaccos were being smeared with wagon grease to render the combustion | complete. issued, but some one will probably jour- ney to Jackson before long. AROUND THE STATE. Allegan—Danner Bros. have closed their restaurant. Rockford—Carl D. Borton has engaged in the jewelry business. Traverse City—E. Micham has engaged in the restaurant business. Fenwick—J. L. Clock succeeds Clock & Herrick in general trade. Monroe—E. Eberlein and Chas. Hermes have opened a new meat market. Stanton—Epley & DeVine succeed Ep- ley Bros. in the grocery business. Lansing — G. B. Kellogg, clothing dealer, has assigned to J. B. Porter. Wyandotte—Cramer & Murray eeed Jer. Drennan in general trade. Chippewa Lake—Eugene Burtch has sold his notion stock to H. C. Ward. Ishpeming—Maunder & Co. succeed Ugel Lavigne in the grocery business. Gobleville—D. Richardson and R. Dar- ling have engaged in the meat business. Clarksville—Post & Dildine have sold their meat market to a Grand Rapids firm. Ann Arbor—Stimson & Hurlburt suc- eeed Fred T. Stimson in the grocery bus- iness. Battle Creek—D. L. Smith has opened a general store at 46 South Jefferson street. Way land-—Pickett Bros. have purchased the grocery and crockery stock of J. C. Branch. i Manistee—Wm. Mahon has purchased the grocery and crockery stock of John Nessen. Port Huron—Richardson & Green suc- ceed Bockius & Co. in the boot and shoe business. Morley — John Willyard Dwight Waterman in the business. Adrian—G. R. Swift succeeds Chas. Humphrey in the book and stationery business. Wayland—F. H. Beach will erect an addition to his store building, to be used as a tinshop. Martin—Lester Hooper and 8. Bitgood have gone to Grand Rapids to opena meat market. East Jordan—M. A. Helm & Co. are succeeded in the dry goods business by Mrs F. J. Stone. suc- succeeds restaurant Big Rapids—C. A. Verity has sold his grocery stock to his brother, Wm. A. Verity. Edgerton—R. A. Brown & Son have bought the grocery stock formerly owned by McAuley & Co. Agnew—B. Kelly has sold his grocery stock to Fred Churchill, who will con- tinue the business. Sault Ste. Marie—P. H. Davis, dealer in men’s furnishing goods, has assigned to Sutton & Martin. Detroit—Charles H. Roche has sold the Triangle drug store, on Cass avenue, to J. W. and W. P. Doty. Traverse City—J. G. Johnson has built an addition to his drug store, giving him more office and storage room. Kalamazoo—Mesdames H. 8S. Davis and W. F. Rahlmeyer will shortly open an art and fancy work exchange store. Plainwell—Mesdames Dodge & Wheeler have closed their millinery business here, and opened a store at Kalamazoo. Sumner—Geo. McCurdy has sold his general stock to H. L. McCurdy, his wife, who has removed the stock to McBain. Detroit—Gilbert Hart has become a special partner in Jacob Hull’s grocery pusiness, contributing $5,000 to the part- nership. Eaton Rapids—C. E. Phillips, who has been engaged in the hardware business here for the past six years, has moved the stock to Newaygo. Big Rapids—Mrs. J. Stillwell has pur- chased the N. Scott stock of groceries, near the upper depot. Charlie Stillwell will manage the business. Charlotte—J. A. Mikesell has pur- chased Homer Jaques’ interest in the Shepherd elevator and the butter and egg cellar. The new firm will be known as Shepherd & Mikesell. Marcellus—G. W. Jones has bought T. H. Jordan’s property on Main street. Mr. Jones will build a new bank on the lot. and has contracted for 50,000 brick of Lambert & Milliman for the building. Maple City—T. Hebert and Dr. Rn, W. Burke have bought the agricultural im- plement, buggy and cutter stock of Hebert & Nash and have added it to their general stock, under the style of T. Hebert & Co. Lake Odessa—The J. H. Kepnor gro- cery and crockery stock is now in pos- session of Ball, Barnhart & Putman, No warrants have yet been! | Olney, Shields & Co. and H. Leonard & Sons, of Grand Rapids, who will close it | out as soon as possible. | Port Huron—Bockins & Co., boot and | shoe dealers, have been closed on a mort- | gage to J. Richardson & Co., Elmira, |-N. Y. There are three other mortgages lon the stock, in all representing about | $6.000; assets unknown. | Alma—John T. Peters, of Owosso, has | bought the stock and buildings of S. H. Loveland, and will proceed to builda brick block on the site of the old build- ing, which he will occupy with a furni- ' ture and undertaking stock. Ryerson—A. J. Halstead & Son have moved their stock to Grand Ledge, but will continue the drug bus- iness. The vacated side of the store will be occupied by Mrs. J. Davids, the Bluff- ton grocer, who will remove her stock to this place. grocery MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Advance—Graft & Co. are building a sawmill in the town of Wilson. Plainwell — Walter Dwight succeeds Dwight & Stiff in the milling business. Gladstone—Kirbey & Guard will re- move their cigar factory from Charlevoix to this place. Detroit—The Newberry Potato Har- vester Co. has filed articles, with a cap- ital stock of $50.000. Baldwin—McDonald & Bradford are cutting 50.000 shingles, pine and cedar, in their mill near town. Norwood—Guyles & Nash are repairing their sawmill, in Banks township, which they will start up shortly. Detroit—Assignee Hitchcock has sold the stock of A. Loranger & Co., manu- facturing chemists, for $6,480. Marcellus—A new cooper shop, em- ploying twenty to thirty hands, is among the possibilities of the future. : Bay City—N. S. Benson contemplates removing his planing mill and box fac- tory from East Saginaw to this place. Bay City—E. J. Vance, J. M. Seaver and E. C. Hargrove are reported to have formed a copartnership for the manufac- ture of box shooks. Muskegon—The Kelly Bros. Manufac- turing Co. has contracted to make 7,000 refrigerators for the Ridgeway Refriger- ator Co., of Philadelphia. Alger—J. R. Ketchum is stocking two shingle mills owned by 1. D. Potter, of Massachusetts, one located at Culver and the other at Moffat’s crossing. Douglas—So good has been the bus- iness of the Fruitgrowers’ Manufacturing Co., that the capital stock will be in- creased from $10,000 to $25,000. Bay City—F. E. Bradley & Co. have contracted to furnish the Michigan Car Co., of Detroit, 2,000,000 feet of logs, for car silis, 70 per cent. to be 34 feet long. Clare—Josiah Horning has sold his new sawmill on the Flint & Pere Mar- quette Railway to George Archambolt and Fred Lester, for a consideration of $2,100. South Haven—The projectors of the new Novelty Works contemplate remov- ing the machinery of the fruit package factory to the newly erected buildings near the river. Niles—Envious Hoosier cities want to coax the Niles knitting works over the line. The concern pays out about $800 per month in salaries, and Niles does not want to lose it. Bay City—Rust Bros. & Co. have be- gun logging operations. They will put in 20,000,000 feet, equally divided on Wells Creek and on the Alger road, in Ogemaw and Arenac counties. Belding—Angel Bros. have bought the Oatley sawmill, five miles north of Langston, and will remove it to the Beld- ing mill site. It will cut about 20,000 feet of pine and 12,000 feet of hard- wood. Charlotte—Geo. J. Barney has pur- chased the interest of John L. Dolson in the carriage manufactory of Dolson & May. The new firm will be known as the Dolson & May Carriage Works, May & Barney, proprietors. Monterey—C. S. Doud has bought the Runnels & Van Middlesworth shingle mill and moved it upon some of Geo. Huskinson’s land, where he will build a new mill, using the engine and boiler from his mil] at Heath. Detroit—While H. S. Robinson & Bur- tenshaw have sold their manufacturing department to Pingree & Smith, the new firm of H. S. Robinson & Co. will manu- facture some lines of goods, in connec- tion with their jobbing business. Petoskey—W. H. Goodrich has pur- chased an interest in F. K. Winsor’s woodenware factory, and the business will be conducted hereafter under the name of The Winsor Woodenware Co. A sawmill will be added to the plant and the capacity of the factory otherwise in- creased. Muskegon—Hackley & Hume’s mill has shut down for the season, their piling room being exhausted. The other mills are all in operation, and will be stopped only by Jack Frost. It is already evident that there will be a large stock of logs left over—some of the mills having almost a supply for next season. Detroit—The Detroit Odentunder Man- ufacturing Co. has filed articles of asso- ciation, with a paid-up capital of $50,000. “Odentunder’’ is an anesthetic used in surgical and dental operations. Frank S. Cobb, trustee, holds 25,000 shares, and Lucius H. Collins, Marvin’ W. Cobb, Eurates D. Merriam, Frank A. Cobb and Benjamin G. Eaton, 5,000 shares each. Au Sable—The J. E. Potts Salt & Lum- ber Co.’s logging railroad, now known as the Au Sable & Northwestern, which has been extended during the past year and is used for general freight and passenger as well as for hauling logs, has been ex- tended to within 300 yards of the De- troit, Bay City & Alpena Railway. The company has also stretched eighty miles of telephone wire along the line of the road which will be used for operating purposes. Muskegon—The shingle cut of the city will be at least 200,000,000 less than last year. The cut of the Muskegon Shingle & Lumber Co.’s mill has been 60,000,000. The mill has a capacity of 120,000,000. The cut of the Michigan Shingle Co.’s mill has dropped off in about the same proportion. Every mill on the lake has reduced its cut below the output of last year. There will be about 300,000,000 shingles made at Mus- kegon during the present year. Manistee — The salt output nearly touched the 100,000 barrel mark last month, while the total State output for the month was about 412,000 barrels. Louis Sands is evidently going to have enough bin room, as aside from the new building he recently erected, he has torn down one of his old buildings that was settling, is driving piles to make a solid foundation and will enlarge it, so that he will have bin capacity for about 70,000 barrels of salt. That, with his storage for the product in barrels, will make him almost independent of the boats during the winter season. —_——_>?s___— Purely Personal. F. A. Holbrook, the Hubbardston drug- gist, is in town for a day or two- C. F. Walker, the Glen Arbor general dealer, is in town for a few days, buying his winter stock. G. W. Mokma, the Graafschap general dealer, will take a position in the First State Bank of Holland. O. J. Graves, Secretary of the Luding- ton B. M. A., was in town one day last week on business for his Association. L. C. Bradford, of the firm of McDon- ald & Bradford, shingle manufacturers and general dealers at Baldwin, was in town one day last week. Frank E. Chase has received his usual annual consignment of fish from Cape Cod, and remembered his friends until the bottom of the package was reached. C. F. Wheeler, formerly of the drug firm of Wheeler & Holbrook, at Hubbard- ston, has taken the position of instructor in botany in the Agricultural College, at Lansing. ————_—>-+ The P. & B. cough drops give great satisfaction. BOUNCED 180 TIMES. Beating His Way Across the Continent on a $1,500 Wager. From the Kansas City Star. A man arrived in Kansas City this morning on the California express of the Santa Fe Railroad who has traveled on railroads across the continent without having paid a penny for transportation and without having a pass. A little over three months ago Alfred Senter. of Somersville, Mass., and L. B. Griffin, of Lowell, wagered $1,500, Senter to win the money if he succeeded in ‘beating’? his way from Boston to San Francisco and back, and lose the wager if he paid fare while en route. Edward F. Locke, the referee, was to accompany Senter, and his expenses were to be borne by the loser. Senter and Locke arrived in Kansas City this morning. Senter is a hunch- back, and appears to be about thirty years of age. Senter said: “We started out on the evening of July 4,o0n the Boston & Albany Rail- road, and got to Albany without being put off. My troubles began on the New York Central Railroad. I was put off three times the first day, and, of course, Lock had to go with me. Owing to my deformity, [ was not treated harshly. Fifteen times I was put off trains be- tween Albany and buffalo. Between Buffalo and Chicago, on the Michigan Southern, I concocted a tale of robbery, and on promise to pay at Detroit was not molested. In order to deceive the offi- cials, I sent a bogus telegram tv Chicago for money. Altogether I have been ousted from trains 180 times. On the southern roads to California I was al- lowed to ride long distances. At one time I had to plead with an old lady with tears in my eyes not topay my fare, as that would spoil my chances of winning the bet. I have had several offers to have my fare paid, but Locke’s eye was on me and that settled it. I have had a rough experience and would not under- take to do it again for twice the money wagered. It is. all right being put off in a large town where there are good hotels, but to be planted down in a small! village in New Mexico with no place to go to is another thing.’’ The conditions of the wager were that Senter was to travel in first-class passen- ger coaches all the way. Senter says he will write a book when he reaches home. —<> 2 A Growing House. A reporter of THE TRADESMAN re- cently passed by the wholesale confec- tionery establishment of W. R. Keeler, at 412 South Division street, and was surprised to see so large a display of Christmas toys, and so well-selected a stock of staple and fancy confectionery. Mr. Keeler started in business less than two years ago, but he has already worked up a large line of customers and carriesa stock which would be a credit to a much more pretentious establishment. He pursues the policy of selling good goods only, at close margins for cash or short credit periods, and his house is evidently destined to take rank with the leading confectionery houses of the State. | The daily papers announce the ‘‘resig- nation’’ of Manager Baxter, Local Mana- ger of the Western Union Telegraph Co. The resignation was not one of those voluntary separations which the employee sometimes feels impelled to make, but followed as a result of a request to that effect from headquarters. ‘‘Discharged’’ would be the proper word to use in that connection. —_$—<>-9—__—_- “There is no greater mistake that a business man can make than to be mean in his business,’’ says Wealthand Worth. ‘“‘Kyerybody has heard of the proverb of ‘Penny wise and pound foolish.’ A lib- eral expenditure in the way of business is always sure to be a capital investment. —<- > <-__—_—— The First State Bank of Holland will open its doors for business on Decem- ber 15. The P. of I. Dealers. The following are the P. of I. dealers who had not‘eancelled their contracts at last accounts: Adrian—Powers & Burnham, Anton Wehle. f Almont—Colerick & Martin. Altona—Eli Lyons. Assyria—J. W. Abbey. Belding—L. S. Roell. Bellevue—John Evans. Big Rapids—W. A. Verity, A. V. Young, E. P: Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk. Brice—J. B. Gardner. Burnside—Jno. G. Bruce & Son. Capac—H. C. Sigel. Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Ses- sions. Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A. Fish, Mrs. L. A. Gardiner. Charlotte—John J. Richardson, Daron & Smith, J. Andrews, C. P. Lock. Chester—P. C. Smith. Clio—Nixon & Hubbell. Coral—J. S. Newell & Co. East Saginaw—John P. Derby. Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, Stev- ens & Farrar. Flint—John B. Wilson. Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark. Fremont—Boone & Pearson, Ketchum. Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son. Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wil- zinski, F. W. Wurzburg. Harvard—Ward Bros. Hersey—John Finkbeiner. Hesperia—B. Cohen. Howard City—Henry Henkel. Hoytville—Mrs. A. E. Combs. Hubbardston—M. Cahalen. Imlay City—Cohn Bros. Kent City—R. McKinnon, M. L. Whit- ney. Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jen- nings. Maple Rapids—L. S. Aldrich. Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lep- per & Son, Jno. Butler. Richard Butler. Mecosta—Parks Bros. Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. S.) Knight. Millington—Chas. H. Valentine. Morley—Henry Strope. Nashville—Powers & Stringham, H. M. Lee. Ogden—A. J. Pence. Olivet—F. H. Gage. Remus—Geo. Blank. Riverdale—J. B. Adams. Rockford—B. A. Fish. Sand Lake—Brayman & Blanchard. Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow. Sparta—Dole & Haynes. Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter. Vassar—McHose & Gage. ’ Wheeler=-Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson, H. C. Breckenridge, M. H. Bowerman, Thos. Horton. : White Cloud —_——_—»>+-s_—- Card of Thanks. To the Traveling Men of Grand Rapids: In behalf of myself and family, I ten- der my heartfelt thanks to the traveling men and friends for their generous re- membrance. I assure them that the gift is appreciated and I hope to live long enough to be present, in the position of donor, at many other similar occasions. L. L. Loomis. os Bs J. C. Townsend. ESTABLISHED 1870. CHAS. SCHMIDT & BROS., Manufacturers and Dealers in Foreign and American Granite and Marble MonUments ae Statuary Having erected a New Granite Factory with the Latest Improved Machinery, we ean Guarantee all Work First Class and Fill Orders Promptly. WORKSHOP AND POLISHING MILLS: Cor. West Fulton and Straight Streets. © OFFICE AND SALESROOM: 93 Canal Street. GRAND RAPIDS, = MICH. A0W CASKS! il Ht 6-ftcaselike above U ff} ! 6-ft case, square, with metal corners, same price. The above offer is no snide work. “bluff”? or We shall continue to turn out only the BEST of work, All other cases at equally low prices. HEYMAN & COMPANY, 63 AND 65 CANAL STREET, Grand Rapids, Mich. Dr. Talmage Again an Editor. Beginning with January 1, next, the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., will become one of the editors of The Ladies’ Home Journal, of Philadelphia. The famous preacher will have a regular de- partment each month, written by him- self, with the title, ‘‘Under My Study Lamp.’’ His first contribution will appear in the January number of the Jowrnal. Dr. Talmage’s salary is said to be one of the largest ever paid for editorial work. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. en ne ae Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCEs. O EXCHANGE—36,000 STOCK FRESH, GENSRAL merchandise doing good business for timber, oak preferred. 26 Box E, Fostoria, Ohio. 538 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—HOUSE AND LOT, TWO Jt’ blocks from postoffice. in city of 5,000 inkabitants in Southern Michigan; also farm of 76 acres, two miles from same city, clay loom soil. with good buildings; will exchange for stock of merchandise. Address No. 539, care Tradesman. 539 O EXCHANGE—TOPEKA, KANSAS, PROPERTY— $3,000—for a drug store; some cash added. E. J. Barnd, Fostoria, Ohio. 540 OR SALE—NEW STOCK OF HATS, CAPS AND gents’ furnishing goods; will invoice about $4,000; also new stock of boots. shoes and rubbers, will in- voice about $6,000. G. W. Watrous, Jackson, Mich. 537 OR SALE—GOOD, PAYING BAKERY, CONFEC tionery and restaurant business; owner obliged to leave city on account of ill health. Address, No. 541, eare Michigan Tradesman. 541 a HAVE SOME FIRST-CLASS, IMPROVED FARMS IN Manistee county, ranging in price from two to six thousand dollars, to exchange for stocks of merchan 535 dise or furniture. S.S. Conover, Man stee. OR SALE—NEW STOCK OF BOOTS AND SHOES at a bargain, with lease of finest store and location in city of 1,600; cash or will exchange part clothing. 534 Address L. D. Goss, Morrice, Mich. 53: | HAVE SEVERAL FARMS WHICH I WILL EX- change for merchandise, Grand Rapids city prop erty, or will sell on easy payments; these farms have the best of soil, are under good state of cultivation, and located between the cities of Grand Rapids and Muskegon. O. F. Conklin, Grand Rapids, Mich. WS SELL OR TRADE +tROPERTY IN TRAVERSE City, Mich., bringing forty dollars monthly rent, for general stock or special] line of merchandise. _ Ad- dress 529, care Tradesman. 529 ROCERIES—TWO G. R. CITY LOTS IN EXCHANGE for $600 worth of groceries. Address E. S.“Hough- taling, Hart, Mich. 528 OR SALE—WE OFFER FOR SALE, ON VERY favorable terms, the F. H. Escott drug stock, at 75 Canal street, Grand Rapids, Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Price, $4,000. 53 re SALE—DRUG STORES—FIRST CLASS—IN DAY- ton, Ohio; others in various locations. If you want to buy, sell or exchange, write W. E. Donson, Dayton Ohio. 530 OR SALE—AN INTEREST IN SHOE STORE—OR | will join stocks with a good shoe man; old estab- lished business and best locaticn in city. “Shoes,” . are Tradesman, Grand Rapids, Mich. 524 CS AND FINE PROPERTY FUR GOOD MERCAN- / tile establishment. C. E. Barnd, Fostoria, Ohio. 525 R THE city of Muskegon at 75 cents on the dollar; reasons other business. OR SALE—THE FINEST DRUG STORE IN Cc. L. Brundage, Muskegon Mich. 520 re SALE—A GUVOD GROCERY BUSINESS HAVING the cream of the trade; best location in the city; stock clean and well assorted; thisis a rare chance for any one to get a good paying business; poor health the only reason. Address S. Stern, Kalamazoo, Mich. 518 re SALE—GROCERY STOCK IN GOOD LOCATION Willinventory $7 6 to $800 and doing a business of about $13,000. Address No. 502, care Tradesman. 502 HELP WANTED. eS ASSISTANT PHARMACIST —References required. Address 542, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 542 MISCELLANEOUS. re THE NEW YEAR BY DISCARDING THE ID annoying Pass Book System and adopting in its place the Tradesman Credit Coupon. Send $i for sample order, which will be sent prepaid. &. A.Stuwe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 6 ( )( VO COrIES SHEET MUSIC, 10e COPY—COMIC © ye song and joke books, 10c; banjo and guitar music. etc. J. W. Reading, music dealer, Granda Rap- ids, Mich. 536 OR SALE—DRAFT TEAM 5 YEARS OLD — DARK gray; well matched; weight 3,100 pounds. Address M. W. Willard, Kinney. Mich. 522 V ANTED—SEND A POSTAL TO THE SUTLIFF COU- pon Pass Book Co., Albany, N. Y., for samples of the new Excelsior Pass Book, the most complete and finest on the market and just what every mer- chant should have progressive merchants all over the country are now using them. a | | Address | ‘GRAND RAPIDS, | WHOLESALE Carpets, Oil Cloths, Rugs, China Mattings Draperies, and Parlor Screens Smith & Sanford, Ottawa and Pearl Sts., Ledyard Block. FA. DRY Wurzburg & Go, Exclusive Jobbers of GOODS, HOSIERY, NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR, 19 & 21 SOUTH DIVISION ST., MICH. FOR SALE. Portable Sawmill with Engine and Boiler, capacity 5.000 to 10,000 feet per day, engine, Stearns’ winged and sin top saw $600. 30 horse power, $600. One stationary boiler and One set eccentric head blocks with knees, $100; or with both wing gle standard knees, $150. One rig, adjustible, $25. All of the above in good condition and offered for sale for are worn out. good security. Michigan Tradesman. want of use, not because they Terms, cash, or time with Address No. 527, care LION COFFEE Merchants, YOU WANT THISCABINET ea Thousands of Them Are in use all over the land. It does away with the unsightly barrels so often seen on the floor of the average grocer. varnished and put together in the best possible manner. Beautifully grained and Inside each cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with screws. Ever 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. Put up in 100-lb cases, also in cabinets of For sale by the wholesale trade everywhere. only in one pound packages. 120 one-pound packages. Packed a Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States. Woolson Spice Co., TOLEDO, ONO. L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. IF YOU WANT The Best ACCEPT NONE BUT ver Thread ° Sauerkraut. Order this brand from your wholesale grocer. * ® @ President, e Presiden a President, pg ® President, L. 75 ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT. Michigan Business Men’s Association. President—C. L. Whitne. ae. first Vice-President—C. T Bri ridgeman, Flint. Second Vice-President—M. & Sherwood, Allegan. Secretary—E. — igre pids. 7 asurer—H. Parker, Owossv. ancien Board—President; Frank Wells, Lansing; Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell Chas. T. Bridgeman, Flint; O. F. Conklin, Grand pids, Secretary. Gumenttabe on Insurance—O. F. Conklin, Grand Rap ids; Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Owosso. mmittee on Legislation—Frank Wells, Lansing; H. H. Pope, Allegan; C. H. May, Clio. Committee on Trade Interests—Frank Hamilton, Trav erse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. W. Sprague, reenville. Gunman on Transportation—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint; M. C. Sherwood, Allegan; A. O. Wheeler, Manistee Committee on Building and Loan Associations—N. ‘B. Blain, Lowell; F. L. Fuller, Cedar Springs; P. J. Con ll, Musk 2. cestianenetery ten, H. Moore, Saginaw. Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The following auxiliary associations are oper- ating under charters granted by the Michigan Business Men’s Association * Ne. 1—Traverse City B. M. A. President. J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings. No. 2—Lowell B. M. A. President, N. B. Plain; Secretary, Frank T. King. No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A. President, H. 8. Church; § Secretary, Wm.Jorn. No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A. E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A. President, John A. Miller; Secretary. Cc. L. Whitney. No. 6—Alba B. M. A. President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. No. 8—Eastport B. M. A. President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A. Pree H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly. . 10—Harbor springs B. M. A. cada ow. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson. No.11—Kingsley B. M. A. t. H. P. Whipple: Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop. No. 12—Quincy B. M. A. President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon. No. 13—Sherman B. M, A. President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin. No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A. President, 8S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens. No. 15- Boyne City B. M. A. President, -R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A. President, J. V. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco. No. 17—Plainwell B. M. A. President, Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle. No. 18—Owosso B. M, A. President, Warren P. W oodard; Secretary, S. Lamfrom. No. 19—Ada B. M. A. President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel. No. 20—Saugatuck B. M. A. President, — Henry; Secretary, N. L. Rowe. . 2i—Wayland B. M. A. President, = n Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt. No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M. A. President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W. R. Clarke. No on City 23—Carson City B. M. A. President, John W. Hallett: Secretary, L A. Lyon. No. 24—Morley 8. M. A President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond. No. 25—Paio B. M. A, President, H. D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson. No. 26—Greenville !3, M. A. President. A. C. Satterlee: Secretary, E J. Clark. No 27—Dorr &B.M. A. President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L.N.Fisher. No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A President, mt J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer. No, 29—Freeport B. M. A. President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough. No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. 58. Houghtaling. No. 31—Charlotte B. M. A. me a J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury. o. 32—Coopersville B. M. A. President, ww. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson. No. 33—Charlevoix B. M. A. President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane. No. 34—Saranac B. M. A. President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams. “No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A. | President, ,H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, Cc. E, Denemore. Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M.A President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John. M. Everden. No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore. No. 38—Scottville B. M. President, © E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. iiiectns. . 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A. President, 7 8. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. MM. A. President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert. No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A. President, 5 H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner. o. 42—Fremont B. M. A. Gerber; Secretary C. J. Rathbun. No. 43—Tustin B. M.A. __ President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom. 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M. A. President, P. M. ete Secretary, D. W. Richardson. o. 85—Clio B. M. A. President. J. Mey enue Secretary, C. H. May. No. 56" Millbrook and Blanchard B. M. A. President, T. W. Preston; Secretary, H. P. Blanchard. No. 87—Shepherd B. M. A. President, H. D. Bent; Secretary, A. W. Hurst. Good Words Unsolicited. A. J. Youngs, furniture dealer, Buchanan: “It is a good paper and comes to us like an old friend.” Wm. Madison, grocer, Harrison: ‘I consider your paper a very valuable publication and do not wish to be without it.” Boyd Redner, grocer and boot and shoe dealer, Hubbardston: ‘I like the paper and your enter- prise in making it better and better each year.” Omaha Merchants’ Criterion: ‘‘THE MIcHIGAN TRADESMAN has done much for the advancement of the retail trade and is very popular through- out the territory it reaches.”’ John W. Brainerd, harness dealer, Vassar: ‘‘I like the way you treat the P. of I. question, which is hurting business all over the State. I think that by combined effort it may come toa speedy death.” L. J. Law, clothing dealer, Cadillac: ‘I take pleasure in renewing my subscription to THE TRADESMAN. At the price you furnish it, it is like buying staple goods of well-established reputation at ten cents on the dollar. In regard to the size and shape of THE TRADESMAN in the future, would say for myself that it matters little in what shape it comes. Continue to give us the same quality that you have given in the past and we will be glad to get it in any shape. As a mer- chant, 1 acknowledge my indebtedness to you for the excellent paper you publish in our interests.” —_—_———————~»> ¢ a __——_ Reserved for Men. A Pennsylvania editor answers a cor- respondent who propounded the query, “Did you ever see a_ bald-headed woman 2’? in the following strain: “No, we never did. Nor did we ever see a woman waltzing around town in her shirt sleeves, with a cigar between her teeth. We never saw a woman go fishing with a bottle in her hip pocket, sit around on the damp ground all day and go home ‘boozed’ in the evening. Neither have we seen a woman yank off her coat, spit on her hands and swear she could whip any man in town. All of the foregoing ‘privileges’ are reserved for men.”’ > Battle Song of the P. of I. Mecosta, Novy. 16, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR StR—We hand you herewith a little poem in regard to the P. of L, written by one of our farmers who does not think much of the trust: We are a band of P. I.’s, and by the P. I.’s we'll Stang; adic eae ane monopolies we'll banish from the We'll ack all the prices by which we'll sell and buy, And we'll run the blarsted country, or die. Respectfully, root, hog, Woop & WENDLING. Following Another Bohemian Swindle. From the Monroe Democrat. Patrons of Industry advocates assert that the retail merchants make an aver- age profit of 129 per cent. on sugar, and this statement is on a par with the other pretenses of the order. The retail merchant rarely makes a profit on sugar—never more than two per cent. but more frequently sells ata loss. To-day our merchants are selling fine sugars one cent per pound less than cost, and any of our grocers will ‘guar- antee to furnish from one to 1,000 bar- rels at an advance of 25 cents per barrel above cost. Of course, we do not blame the farmers or any other class of mdivid- uals for doing the very best they can. In faet, this is just what we have been urging them to do. Ouradvice has been, and will continue to be—‘‘get all you possibly can for your products, and buy your goods where you can buy them the cheapest.’? This is the true theory of economy. No one can object to it, be- cause it is the basis of success and the foundation of trade. But don’t nibble at everything that comes along. Don’t work to keep up your reputation of being the earliest class on the face of the earth to be ‘“‘guiled’’ by every scoundrel that comes along. A few years ago you were swindled most outrageously by your own neighbors in the Bohemian oat deal. It almost ruined some of the farmers up the river. We told you at the time it was a fraud, and you insisted that ‘‘we Oat didn’t know what we were talking about.’’ But what is the result? There is not a Bohemian oat dealer in the country but what is looked upon with suspicion, and a note or any other trans- action that has the smell of Bohemian oats about it cannot be collected in the courts of the State. Weare not prepared to say that the farmers, individually, are ‘paying too much for their tin whistle.’’ Perhaps not. But, from the best inform- ation we are able to obtain, a few people are becoming very wealthy from this scheme, and in one year they made more money than they had been able to accum- ulate in a life-time. Wedo know thata Patron of Inudstry storekeeper in order- ing a bill of goods from a wholesale grocery house in Detroit asked that es- tablishment to make him two bills, one for the actual cost of the goods and one with 10 per cent. added to the cost of the goods—the latter he wished to show to his customers. We know that grocery drummers are telling their customers that this is becoming a common occur- ence with Patron storekeepers. ed Berlin—B. C. Chappell has opened a meat market. ae 9 VISITING BUYERS. ANorris & Son, Casnovia John Gunstra, Lamont F A Holbrook, Hubbardston E E Hewitt, Rockford JIN Wait, Hudsonville ST McLellan, Denison S T Colson, Alaska A Dailey, Lumberton Geo P Stark, Cascade _ RB Gooding&Son ,Gooding JB Watson, Coopersville Barry & Co., Rodney Dr AG Goodson, Rockford H J Fisher, Hamilton W N Hutchinson, Grant JL Purchase, Bauer L Cook, Bauer Jno Farrowe, So Blendon E Mead, Coral J M Cook, Grand Haven GTen Hoor, Forest Grove CF Sears, Rockford John Spyker, Zeeland LN Fisher, Dorr John Giles & Co., Lowell C K Hoyt& Co., Hudsonville W C Congdon, CedarSprings McDonald & Bradford, H M Lewis, Ionia Baldwin Kelly, Pettys & Co., A & J Griswold, Harvard Carson City CS Blom, Kalkaska Haller & “o.. Lake Odessa E Young, Ravenna GS Downs, Vermontville J Coon, Rockford DenHerder & Tanis, JH Manning, Lake PO Vriesland J a none, Berlin Frank Cornell, Sebewa w E Hinman, Sparta A Purchase, So Blendon Lamoreaux & Beerman, C G Stone, Lowell Fruitport Ida Anaway, Allegan L Maier, Fisher Station J Grutrer, Grandville GF Cook, Grove Alba Handle Co., Alba ES Botsford, Dorr Bartram & Millington, Pickett, Bros., Wayland Paw Paw DRStocum, Rockford GF Whitney &Son,Ionia WY Browny ard, Lake Packard & Betts, Benzonia Lyng ey Bros., Nunica Hams & Van Armen, Wolf, Hudsonville Hastings 5 V Crandall & Co. Sand Lk GB Nichols, Martin HB Wagar, Cedar Springs Frace & Hohn, Saranac A W Blain, Dutton Wm A Hazen, Hastings M M Robson, Berlin C F Walker, Glen Arbor Smallegan & Pickaard, W S Adkins, Morgan Forest Grove Johnson & Seibert Church, Englishville AM Caledo nia WH Pipp, Kalkaska Eli Runnels, Corning CC Tuxbury, Sullivan P. of I. Gossip. It is reported that Parks Bros. will put in groceries in connection with their P. I. hardware store, at Mecosta. Belding Banner: ‘“‘L. S. Roell has signed with the Patrons of Industry, and purchased a stock of goods for their trade.’ Bellevue Gazette: ‘‘Report says that the Patrons of Industry have no contracts with Bellevue business houses. Past contracts were unsatisfactory on both sides.”’ J. L. Clock, successor to Clock & Her- rick, general dealer at Fenwick, writes as follows: ‘‘It is not true that I have signed a contract with the P. of I.’s, The thing is too thin to bear decent investiga- tion and I have no time or means to squander on such a wildeat scheme.”’ Geo. W. Brown, general dealer at Shiloh, writes THe TrADESMAN as fol- lows: ‘“‘You ask me if I have signed with the P. of I.’s. I will answer, nv, sir, nor do I intend to, although they have organized here in this place and have taken some of my best customers. I do not expect to sell much fora while.’’ A. B. Schumacher, the Grand Ledge druggist and grocer, is by no means a large man, but he was big enough to cas- tigate a bully of P. of I. persuasion, a few days ago, administering a punish- ment which the disciple of the Port Huron trio will probably be able to remember as long as he lives. At the end of the en- counter, the bully’s face is said to have resembled a piece of hammered beef- steak. A Conklin merchant writes as follows: “The P. of I.’s have not made much headway in this vicinity. They hada meeting at Big Springs some weeks ago, without success; also at Chester town- house, with the same result. I under- stand that they will have a meeting again this week. This is a Holland and German neighborhood, and as a general thing they areaclass of people not so easily taken in with such taffy as are the Yankees.’’ Grand Rapids Workman: ‘‘We are} pretty fairly convinced that the P. of I. fellows care little about the union label cigar, union beer, the early closing movement, and other matters of | One of the: stores that is a nesting place where the | interest to organized labor. P. of I. people get their feathers beauti- fully plucked is a ‘sheep’ clothing store { on Canal street, near Redmond’s opera ; house. It is a store that keeps open nights and Sundays and employs ‘pull- ers-in.’ ”’ A Belding correspondent writes: ‘We are all of us more or less attached to something besides ourselves. The farmer, in many instances, becomes attached toa raised note; a changed order for tools to | a note in payment for twice the amount; a Bohemian oat note; a patent right: he can swear by eight foreign grains that have been raised in his own county, but are now sold at fictitious prices, and last, but not least, he becomes attached tothe P. of I. He has not yet deter- mined which has swindled him the most.’’ Tustin Echo: ‘‘The Patrons of Indus- try are becoming extensively organized in Osceola county, many lodges having been instituted. Whether the members will achieve all the benefits claimed for them, is a question to us, but we are satis- fied that it will result in accomplishing much good in one respect—it will, in a large measure, do away with the credit business and make the competition in prices more of an object to all dealers, A strictly cash basis would prove a great saving to our people, with the exception of those who pay for their goods with promises.’’ Alpine correspondence Sparta Sentinel. “The P. of I.’s have started in on their second half year, but Iam still vainly waiting to learn of any good they have accomplished. So far, the organization has only succeeded in putting money into the pockets of organizers and causing its members to be systematically humbugged by designing and unscrupulous dealers. It is plain to see that the whole thing must soon prove to be as senseless as: their peculiar tickling grip and is fitly represented by their sign—brushing away an imaginary something that they can neither locate nor control.’’ Reed City Democrat: ‘‘As an illustra- tion of the great benefit which the P. of | I. is to the farmer in buying goods at 10 per cent. profit for cash, a Hersey farmer, who is a member of the order, visited a P. of I. store with his wife, a few days ago, and priced some ladies’ underwear. | She was told that to members of the or- der the price was $1.25. thought the price was too high and con- cluded not to buy. She went to the store where she formerly did her trading, and on pricing the self-same goods, found | that she could buy it for ninety cents, and the merehant doesn’t pretend to sell | his goods for 10 percent. profit, either.’’ Hesperia News: ‘‘B. Cohen has joined the P. of I.’s and has contracted to sell goods to the Patrons of Industry at 15) AS we run our paper in | the interest of the village and surround- | per cent. profit. ing country, and believe this organization to be a detriment to any town or vicinity, we are compelled, out of justice to our to denounce the order as a. patrons, stumbling block in the way of the further The lady | advancement of our enterprising town. We are glad to know, however, that in every instance the P. I. stores are short lived, and in the long run are a benefit to other dealers, and we are also glad of the fact that all of our advertisers and honest American dealers declined to have anything to do with P. I. prices.’’ A Clio merchant writes as follows: ‘“‘Not wishing to see any of my fellow- merchants slighted or withheld from any degree of prominence which may be con- ferred upon them, I adopt this means of telling you that your list of P. of IL. merchants does not inelude the ones at Clio. The name of the firm is Nixon & Hubble—J. W. Nixon and Chas. Hubble. This firm first contracted with the P. of I.’s last winter, but for the lack of some sort of courage (perhaps moral courage), they canceled the contract, and signed an agreement with the rest of us to have nothing to do with P. of I. contracts; but, as there was no forfeiture named in the agreement, they lose nothing by re- contracting with the Patrons, except the confidence and respect of the honest and legitimate dealing part of the community in which they reside, which might be considered enough in most cases.’’ Evart Review: ‘*Wednesday being the day set for representatives of the P. of I. —the new farmers’ society, which has had such phenomenal growth in this locality—to visit Evart for the purpose of making contracts with dealers to sup- ply members of the order with such goods as they may need, eleven associations were represented. Contracts were en- tered into with Mark Ardis, general dealer; E. F. Shaw, boots and shoes, and Stevens & Farrar, hardware. These con- tracts vary, according to circumstances, but the base aimed at is to allow the dealer 10 per cent. above cost for hand- ling the goods laid down in the store. The order has about twenty-five associa- tions in the county, of which US. Hold- ridge, of Hersey township, is President. | The order is sure to cause considerable | disturbance in all business, not excepting ‘the farmer. After the present excite- / ment has subsided, we shall be better able to judge who is to receive the benefit of the agitation—the farmer, the mer- chant, or the organizers !”’ The Grand Rapids Workman, which | looks at things through the smoked glass of trade unionism, is notinclined to favor the P. of I., if the following extract from la long article on the subject is any eri- terion: ‘This is a free country and the farmers havea right to run their busi- ness just as they see fit. It is in their power to change the order of things in a line both commendable and sensible. In the West, the national organization is moving in the direction of the elevators. They propose to store their own wheat. They may go further and corner the wheat, and no one need say nay, as long as that is the order. Why shouldn’t they do their own shipping, charter cars, own cattle pens, build flouring mills and grind their own wheat, buy their reapers and mowers from headquarters, at whole- |sale rates? But when the farmers think | they can get their supplies of dealers at the low rate of 10 per cent. profit, they think wrong. The handling of the goods alone is worth that much. Besides, in this P. of I. deal, they are not hitting those who are their enemies, but those who are their best friends.’ Monroe Democrat: ‘‘Another scheme, known as ‘The Patrons of Industry,’ to eatch the loose change of the farmers, seems to have secured a foothole in the county, and it strikes us, from what we can learn of it, that it is on a par with the Bohemian oats scheme. Of course, the amount of money taken out of each farmer is not as much as the Bohemian oats sharks gathered in, but we believe it to be a swindle just the same, and ad- vise the farmers to keep their hands off until they are satisfied beyond a doubt that it is straight business. The head office is at Port Huron, and a letter ad- dressed to the prosecuting attorney or any of the county officers located at that | place for information, or information ob- tained through the bankers of this city concerning. the standing of the ‘grand officers’ of these ‘Patrons,’ may be relied upon. It is said, but with how much truth we have not been able to inform | ourselves as yet, that the grand officers accumulated about $30,000 to themselves last year—and surely they did not get it out of the business men. Just think the ‘matter over froma business standpoint | and see if there is any reason why every played outcity sharper should resort to the country with his schemes.”’ Grand Rapids Workman: ‘‘The farm- ers who go into the P. of I. have an idea that they will make money by the opera- tion, and perhaps they would, if they could have it all their own way, but it ‘takes two to make a bargain. They ar- 'gue that if they trade at one place and | pay cash they can get goods at bottom rates, but who is going to buy their pro- duce? That’s therub. A grocer may decline to buy their potatoes with the ' full knowledge that they will go home ‘and buy their sugar at the ‘‘special’’ store. It isn’t to be denied but that the credit system is very destructive. Sup- posing acorner grocer has a weekly trade of $400, book business, and 5 per cent. of that trade is a dead loss on the books. Does the grocer lose it? Notif he can help himself. That loss is charged up to the expense account the same as taxes and insurance, and the honest patrons have to pay it. Every workingman who pays his grocery bills also pays the bills of the dead beats and those who are out of work and can’t pay. Now suppose a grocer makes a bargain with 100 families whose average grocery bills are $4 per week that they shall pay cash. That grocer can afford to sell at a good deal less than the ordinary price, but not on a margin of 10 per cent. But this is what we understand to be the plan of the farmers’ trust.’’ oO The Value of Politeness. Hundreds of men owe their start in life to their winning address. you, my dear,’’ said Lundy Foote to the little beggar girl who bought a penny- worth of snuff. ‘‘Thank you, my dear; please call again,’? made Lundy Foote a millionaire. 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Mayland, 8 oz Sees 11 Gréenwood, T% 0Z.. 9% WADDINGS, White, doz......... 20 + bale, 40 doz....$7 25 Celored, doz. :.....: P23) 4 SILESIAS, Slater, iron Cross... 9 (Pawtueket.......:.; 11 Sted Cross... 9 Dandie. 62s eo. 9 a“ ROCHE eg 1.10% BOO oo: ii igs Best AA..... 12% CORSETS. Coraline... ce 89 50/Wonderful........ $4 75 Shilling’s.....: 6.2. $ OO;Brighton... ....... 4%5 SEWING SILK. Corticelli, gow... 2; 85 (Corticelli Se. twist, doz. .42 per %oz ball... - 50 yd, doz. .42 “Thank COOPER TOOLS gi We endeavor to carry a full assortment. Foster, Stevens & Co., 10 and 12 Monroe St., 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HARDWARE. Prices Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. a Old bye ee 60 2" Soles ma sali Re en ERT eI 60 Cook's Se eee ete ee lol. 40 PCRRINGE -POHHING ool 25 Semminen. Fede: 50&10 AXES. First gene BB Browz... 012.6... 3 .. 8 7 00 = se eee eee oe 11 00 = RB Me eCen cl. 8 50 is D. B. ‘Steel eee eee ae 13 00 BARROWS. dis. ESEOR $ 14 00 Gareerw ee net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. ah a 50&10 Carriage now MAb. %5 DIOW eee ee eee iee esc le osc ue 4010 Sleigh SOG ae 70 BUCKETS, Well plate ee 8 3 50 Wel Swivel 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cant Lioese Pin. puted 6 70& Wrought Narrow, bright Sast joint.......... 60410 Wrought Loose Pe cn ae Ln 60&10 Wroucht fable 60&10 Wrought fuside Blind 27)... 60&10 MTOUSING PERKS 75 Bide: Clare 70&10 Bing. Parmer s. 70&10 Blind, Shepard’s ..... Se 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, 86:........-: 40 CRADLES, Cr ee dis. 50&02 CROW BARS, Cast Steel... perb 4% CAPS. VS Se per m 65 Hick’s Ce 60 ee rs 35 ee a . 60 CARTRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50 Rim Hire, United States................. dis. 50 Conta Fire dis. 25 CHISELS, dis. DOG Ch HIRI 70&10 DOCHEL TA 70&10 NeckceCemmer oc. 70&10 ROGCKCUSNCER (ot 70&10 Butehers’ Tanged Wirmer..............._... 40 COMBs. dis. Curry, Eawrences «3... 40&10 Hotenkiae A 25 CHALK. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, errs. 14 oz cut to size...... a noe 28 4x52, 14x56, 14x60... 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........... 24 Cold Rolled: po: ae . 24 BOUGHT 25 DRILLS. dis. Morse's Bil Steeen 40 Paper and straight Shank = ....... 13.6... 40 Morse's faper Saami 40 DRIPPING PANS, Small sizes, ner pound ..0. |... kk. ov Derge sixes per pound... le. 6% ELBOWS. Com 4 piece, Gim........:.......... doz.net 70 Corrugetee oo dis. 20&10&10 PIGHMEADIO dis. 40410 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, $18; ~~ ONO 30 Ives’, fi $18; 2, 824: 3 Se 25 ritas—_N ew List. dis. De 60&10 New American. Nicholson’s . eliers Horse Raspes GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 2; 27 28 14 List 12 13 15 18 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Leyel Cos..... ......... 50 HAMMERS. Mayelole 66606... oe dis. 25 0 EE EO Ee ae dis. & NWeres & Pinmp's: 4.0... dis. 40&10 Mason's Solid Cast Steel... 2. 30c list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40410 HINGES. Gate Ciliates 12S. gt dis.60&10 State T doz. net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. rs 14 and ee 3% Screw Hook and Eye, Me ec. net 10 Se net 8% fe - SE SE eS ai net %% ha . ee net %% OREUEN PE oe din, HANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track....50&10 Champion, anit (rieton.:.. 2... 66... 60&10 Midder. wood ack ....:............ Seve l eae 40 HOLLOW WARE Ge ee 60&05 Ce ee 60405 PUPORCES _ Gray CHAMCIOG ee HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware......-:.... 0... new list 7010 Japanned Tin Ware. 25 Granite Iron Ware ............... new list 3334.10 HORSE NAILS. Au Sables 6 orl: dis. 25&10@25&10&10 Pane dis. 5&10&2% 42% INGEGHWOENBGEH. 2. i dis. 10&10&5 KNoBsS—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porcelain, trimmiigs.... 8. |... 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain... |: . 5... 70 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory. Wheelor & Co.'s. :...00..0.... 6. 55 israsiror a 2... so. : 55 Norwalk’s 55 LEVELS. ‘ Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........... ous 70 MATTOCKS. es Bs SN Rl a = 00, dis. 60 Es Eo a ge EE CE ou cee $15. 00, dis. 60 Co ee $18.59, dis. = Ss. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘bandied So eecas ae ena 50 ILL. dis. Coffee, PATRORA CO Beso es ce a 40 P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s = 40 Manders, Werry & Clark’s..:......... 40 - Enterprise Seu dines cases em abe cea. 25 MOLASSES GATES, PCN Paster 60&10 Steviinrs Genuttie. 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 2 NAILS Advance above 12d nails. FENCE AND BRADS. DOR ee AREGR R BSSSASS SSS SSSSRSR 1 1 NS Te 2 CLINCH, 1% aud es 1 Re 1 2% and 2% ‘“ 1 Binh jay recvecceeenneesevesscenees 344 and 4% ine oo ‘Fach half a 10 cents extra. ‘eect ; LANES. dis. io Tool Co.’s, wat ee eae ale eel oa 40@ a —— ee, : a eles ee cass $0 Naneusky Tool Cos. fancy... 40@ Bench, first quality. .._.... 7 Be eee os Geo Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 20&10 PANS. ry, See dis. 60 Common, polished =. dis. 70 RIVETS. dis. l PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘A’? Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to - 10 20 ““B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken packs %ec gt pound extra. PEs. Sisal, 144 inch and lar —- Bee es a : eee ees Bee SQUARES. dis, ReCer SH Tr 75 by BO Reve 60 TEN aD 20 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Co OS TO 20 83 00 NO inte... 4 3 00 Noe ies 4 20 3 10 Noe tose 420 315 NOS sytG 26 440 so Ne 60 3 35 4 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. Past ACC 19) 86 dis. 40&10 Sil lake, Whit 7 ian ilver oe A, 4 Drab A... |. cy = Yi White B 7 50 - Dp Be “ 55. ae Pte Co . 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. ee per ton $25 SAWS. dis. ha Be a ann) Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . 70 ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 ‘* Champion and Electric Tooth X CUts, Per foge TRAPS, dis. See — Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... Oneida C ommunity, Hawley « Norton’s.... 4 Oe 70 Se ee Ne Ce 70 Mouse, ee 18¢ per doz, Mouse, CORIO $1.50 per doz. WIRE, dis. Cee 67% Coppered ee 5244 Pinned Aree one Coppered Spring Steel 0 50 Plain Fence. Bee per pound 03 $3 45 is. Be 7010410 = — Eyes.. : 70£10&10 Eg ae icicle da core ceaeae coca scat Gate Hooks and Wyes. 3 woelogio WRENCHES, dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 COCR COM ee 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought,........ % Coe's Patten inalicabie. 75&10 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. Be Ce 50 espe, Aer ee = Screws, ee Casters, Bed ane Piste Dampers, American... Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods METALS, i ae PIG TIN. Ne nie . - Dut Sheet, 2% possi uty: ee ¢ per pound. 660 pound casks....... See a eee eee oe cee en CEE SOLDER. MOTE eee eee Cee ee ey The prices of the many other qualities its solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ea ANTIMONY. OOM r See = ite N—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal esa ot oSay Google eee wda $600 14x20 I IC, ees mene meet te ode cel us 6 00 10x14 Tx, ee 7 ”% 14x20 IX, CO 7% Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. tone 10, Ch — eee GRADE. x AICO! .... 2. eee. cc ee noes 14x20 IC, > 10x14 IX ah Each additional X on this grade 81.50. : ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, i WOGROCMB oe 5 50 fo tx, =“ ee: ccceagcu ae wee 1c, Tecate. 11 50 ern i Allaway Grade si vecipeuue 490 ee > 8 a ee 20x28 IX, o ' teetd ee uct a ae oe BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE, eek bees eck coec cua 14x06 IX, for Ni Rus ome paendbessuesseeu ten 56 or No. 8 Bollers, 14x60 IX” per and.... 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, payable strictly in advance. Advertisin; Pu Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office. E. A. STOWE, Editor. Rates made known on application. lication Office, 100 Louis St. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1889. TROUBLE AHEAD. THE TRADESMAN has it on unques- tioned authority that the organization known as the Farmers’ Alliance will shortly State its chief battle ground for the invade Michigan, making the year to come. While this organization will necessarily absorb the membership of the Patrons of Industry, it will not better the situation, so far as the mer- chant is concerned, as it supplants an irresponsible and impotent organization with a strongly fortified league of farm- ers, having working branches in nearly every Western State. In view of these things, the outlook for the merchants of Michigan is by no means re-assuring. Even at this stage of the movement, it is plain to be seen that the margins of merchandising are to be considerably curtailed for some time to come. AFTER THE TRUSTS. The Superior Court of New York has sustained the decision of Judge Barrett that the Sugar Trust is an illegal organ- ization, and ordering its dissolution. Judge Daniels, the author of this new decision, says that such an association, ‘having for its object the removal of competition and the advance of the price of the necessaries of life, is subject to the condemnation of the law, by which it is denounced as a criminal enterprise.”’ This is even more decided than Judge Barrett’s language, as he confined him- self to declaring that it was ultra vires for corporations to combine without the consent of the State. The question now goes by a second and final appeal to the Court of Appeals, by which it can be heard next January. But the friends of the Trust have little hope of a favorable decision there. They talk of ascertain- ing from that Court what are the legally weak points in their arrangement, and of correcting these. Butif the Court sus- tains Judge Barrett in ordering the whole concern into the hands of a receiver, it will be too late to make such a re-adjust- ment of their plans to the requirements of the law. It seems likely that they will be taught that a corporation which accepts its franchise at the hands of the State must keep itself ‘‘within the four corners of the charter,’? and does not possess the freedom of action which be- longs to individuals, who get their fran- chises from their Maker. In Missouri the last Legislature passed an anti-trust law of the most severe de- scription, and the State authorities are proceeding to enforce it. Every corpora- tion doing business within the State is required to file an affidavit of the man- agers declaring that it is a partner in no combination to restrict competition or to affect prices. If the object be to put an end to the increase of corporations, the law is very well conceived. Nobody who has money to invest will select for that purpose a commonwealth which forbids corporations in any emergency or in any way to guard their investments by even a temporary arrangement to avoid cut- throat competition. The law will prob- ably restrict the development of the State without accomplishing what its authors hope for. Private understand- ings without definite agreements will come into use, as among our coal-mining and coal-carrying companies, and even these will be cancelled the day before the affidavit is signed, to be renewed the day after, as was done once in Pennsylvania. The last Michigan Legislature passed an anti-trust law hardly less severe than the Missouri measure, but no attempt has yet been made to enforce the law, nor have any steps been taken looking to- ward its enforcement. NOW FOR BUSINESS. Now that the Pan-American Congress has completed its circuit of the principal American cities and settled down to talk of business, the real value of its meeting will be tested. As THE TRADESMAN has already stated, nothing could be worse for all the countries concerned than to attempt to establish such commercial re- lations as would be sure to cramp the development of the weaker and make them dependent on the wealthier and more advanced. As _ believers in the maximum of national industrial life throughout the world, we must deprecate any arrangement which would inure to the injury of our sister republics, how- ever much it might seem to benefit our- selves. Our problem is to develop that mutual commerce which should exist be- tween couptries, each of which is seeking to develop its own resources to the ut- most and to train its people in every line of production for which they have any fitness. Andon these lines very much may be done, especially if the Congress shall see its way to making any arrange- ment for the establishment of close and rapid communication between the ports of all the free states on the continent. At present we are buying great quan- tities of tropical and sub-tropical pro- duce, but chiefly from the colonial de- pendencies of European Powers, and notably from those which still maintain human slavery. Why not discriminate in favor of the products of the free states of this continent and of free labor? If we were to put such produce on the free list of our tariff, the whole of the north- ern half of South America would be bene- fited, and articles they now produce in comparatively small quantities would become their staple products. As mat- ters now stand, we are the chief commer- cial patrons of human bondage and of colonialism in America — two things which it certainly is not our public policy to maintain. ——— TT THE LESSON FROM LEXINGTON. No review of American events for the past two weeks can well avoid a refer- ence to the shocking occurrence at Lex- ington, Kentucky, when two prominent men, Colonel William Cassius Goodloe and Colonel Armstead M. Swope, killed each other in a sudden and brief encoun- ter in a public place. The details of this affair, we undertake to say, have eaused a more painful impression upon the pub- lic mind than anything which could be classed with it has done in a long series of years. The savagery of the impromptu duel shocks the sense of human, not to say Christian, feeling, and creates a sen- sation of despair that, after all, the pas- sions of men can, in a moment, so over- whelm all nobler convictions and re- straints. The circumstances of the double murder, especially those in the acts of Colonel Goodloe, are hideously painful. And yet it is well known that this man had a most winning, and, ordinarily, a most genial and kindly nature. Is the savage nature of man, after all, so strong —or must we account the action of both actors in this tragedy as a momentary madness, in which reason as well as con- science was eclipsed ? Many remarks have been made on the state of society in Kentucky, in which such things can occur. Most of these are, doubtless, just; the false standard of ‘‘honor,”’ the low valuation of human life, and the disregard of law, are all fea- tures which in that State sadly need bet- terment. ——————— A Detroit paper asserts that P. of i. dealers can get all the goods they want, either of Detroit or Grand Rapids whole- sale grocers. THE TRADESMAN is not authorized to speak for the Detroit trade, but, so far as Grand Rapids is concerned, the statement is false. A Grand Ledge P. of I. dealer spent a day among the wholesale grocers of the city a week ago, but was unable to obtain goods for either cash or credit—and he had both. Some of THE TRADESMAN’S readers may think that too much space has been yielded, of late, to the subject of coun- try roads, but a moment’s thought will convince the most skeptical that nothing is more intimately connected with the prosperity of business men. Good roads mean better business, because they en- courage riding, driving and the sale of vehicles. Bad roads, on the contrary, mean less business, because they neces- sarily lessen the amount of traffic. With this understanding of the subject, it behooves every business man to lend en- couragement and support to every move- ment looking toward the improvement of public thoroughfares. LT In Newfoundland there has been a trial of strength between the two parties who are affected by the law which forbids the sale of bait to our fishermen. Those who are themselves fishermen, of course, ap- prove of the law as helping to hamper the Americans in competing with them in our own markets. But a very large class have been depending on their sales to us for their living, and they embrace the opportunity offered by an election of members of the House of Assembly to make their discontent felt. The result has been a defeat for the present govern- ment, which probably will procure a repeal of the law. And, should New- foundland take this step, Canada will have to do the same, as her refusal to sell bait would do us no harm, while it would enable the Newfoundlanders to prosper at her expense. The break-down of the Cotton-Seed Oil Trust is another happy outcome of the struggle between lawless monopolies and the public interest. To besure, that particular monopoly never was a very strong one. The plant required for crushing cotton-seed and refining the oil extracted is not costly. Rival establish- ments therefore could be originated with little difficulty, and as soon as the price of the product reached a paying figure, they sprang up as fast as mushrooms. As a consequence, the Trust could neither maintain prices nor find work for its own plant. The price of ecotton-seed was forced up while that of the refined oil was forced down to figures which left no margin for profitable manufacture. So, after a brief struggle, it had to succumb. It has been converted into a joint-stock business, and the same economic’forces probably will produce the same results in the case of all these mischievous or- ganizations. CCL Pointers from Our Wise Man’s Pen. You need not fear the wrath of God if you do nothing to deserve it. This paper is printed by electricity, but there is nothing in it to shock the mildest nerves. Certainly, my son, love your enemies, but don’t chew them up, burn them or drink them. Let tobacco and whisky alone. A hunter absent-mindedly used a ten- dollar bill as wadding. A minute after there was a great issue of fractional cur- rency. Some country roads resemble another celebrated road being paved with good intentions, but too many roads haven’ t even that paving. Apples packed in salt will keep a year, says an exchange. And after they have been kept in that way a year, they will keep to all eternity before any one would eat them. Get a good supply of arnica, court plaster, liniment anda good supply of remedies for cuts, bruises and scratches. Then, when in conversation with a red- headed girl, bring in the subject of a white horse. The most prosperous country is that which has the best roads. The farmers who can get to market in any kind of weather will average from 5 to 10 per cent. more for their products than those that are stuck in the mud a third of the time. If good roads are an evidence of civilization, most of us are living in a barbarous country. —_—_— 4 —_— Status of the Engleman Estate. The receivers of the Manistee Salt and Lumber Co. have issued the following statement to the creditors: RECEIPTS. Sale of lumber and other personal PTOPerty ...5...--- eee ee epee eee eee B 552,452 43 Manufacturing, commerce, freights. 38,276 54 Real estate, etc...... Se ee 496,579 15 Rents, taxes, insurance, etc.......--- 3,551 22 Vessel property ......---2.---e+ eee es 34,500 U0 Interest on bills receivable and land contracss.....---. . -..--.---- 7,871 56 Stocks, collaterals, bills receivable . and land contracts and ledger ac- Goumts ........... .....-- 404,021 65 Totel $1,537,252 55 DISBURSEMENTS. Purchasing lumber, shingles, lath, salt and putting in and buying logs$ 252,8(7 78 Manufacturing and freight on lum- ber, 6b 20. 143,442 95 Office rent, clerk hire, traveling ex- PENSES, CtC.... 1. eee eee ee eee eee 13,879 56 Receivers’ salaries ......-.......----- 14,583 34 Taxes, insurance, looking land, etc.. 24,933 84 Bills against vessels... .......--.-+-- 595 36 Interest on secured claims.........-. 8,131 04 Secured claims paid by order of eer 1,049,584 39 Counsel fees. ..........-- “ 15,096 13 Cash on hand .--....-:.... 13,198 16 Metal... 2.0.62) 2 $1,537,252 55 The receivers give notice that they will apply to have their accounts approved by the court on Noy. 22. There are yet two secured claims which are contested, but they will probably be adjusted dur- ing the present term of court, when the cash baJance of $13,000 will be divided among the unsecured creditors. —_—_—__—s____———_ Progress of Beet Sugar. Already more than half the world’s sugar is derived from European beet root. Science, chemistry and mechanical skill have combined ‘to transfer the hab- itat of a prime necessity of life from the tropics, where only it was supposed it could be produced, into the northern lat- itudes. Science has shown the way to prepare the soil for it, has overcome all the mechanical problems necessary to the extraction of the sugar, made its cul- tivation profitable, and given employ- ment to tens of thousands wage earners, and all this within the last twenty years. The future of this great industry seems almost boundless in its possibilities. => > __—_ The Bogus for the Genuine. Health Officer Duffield, of Detroit, states that about twenty grocers of that city persist in selling butterine for butter and warns them that, unless they desist from the practice, he will publish their names in the newspapers and turn: the evidence of illegal sale over to the gov- ernment officers. ——_—_—<>_-2<____ Ready to Drop the Subject. “Why do you put the hair of another woman on your head ?”’? asked a Paris avenue traveling man of his wife, the other evening. “For the same reason that you wear the skin of another calf on your feet,’’ was the reply. ——_»s > The Real Freeman. I honor the man who is ready to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t?other half for the freedom to speak; Caring not for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower. >a Playing cards are produced by the United States and by almost every coun- try of Europe in vast numbers. Russia, however, leads all the rest. With her, the printing of playing cards is a govern- ment monopoly. As gambling is largely practiced in Russia, the demand is extra- ordinary, the daily output of the estab- lishment being 24,000 packs, that is, 7,200,000 packs per annum. DO YOU LIE? Can a Dry Goods Clerk be Successful and Truthful? One day A. T. Stewart walked into one of his departments, and taking up a piece of goods, asked one of the sales- men if it was all wool. Bi “No, sir,”? he replied, ‘‘it is not all wool, but it would sell easily for all wool.’’ ‘Well, sell it as all wool,’’ said Mr. Stewart. “But it isn’t all wool, Mr. Stewart,’’ pleaded the young man. ‘You do as I want you to, please,’’ re- sponded Mr. Stewart, as he walked away. Some time later in the day, a buyer was looking over these goods, and the same man was selling him. “These are all wool, are they not?’ the buyer asked. “They’re not all wool, but very near it.”? answered the salesman. The next day Mr. Stewart sent for the salesman and said: “J understand that you propose to rep- resent my goods differently from what 1 wish you to. If I overlook the mistake of yesterday, will you do as I wish you to do in the future ?”’ “J will be very glad to do anything that you wish me to do, Mr. Stewart, except to lie,’ replied the young man. “Do you consider it a lie to call that piece of cloth all wool, when with the little cotton it contained it was really a better material than all wool ?”’ ‘Yes, sir.’’ “Well, you and go.”’ Before the young man had left the store he was brought back to Mr. Stew- art’s office, received important instruc- tions and was sent to Europe to carry them out. He was afterward frequently employed by the merchant prince to transact business which required strict integrity. A well-known merchant, not. however, in the dry goods trade, was in the habit of asking applicants for work a question something like the following : “If it is necessary to lie, can you do it ?”’ An “Oh, yes,’ in answer, would find the applicant with his name and address on the list, to be called if he was ever needed, which would be never. ‘No, sir,’? would insure the applicant work. can draw your money —_—___—»_.—.— Will It Pay the Patrons? H. G. Barber, in Vermontville Echo. When we wrote our first article that appeared in the Echo a few weeks since, in which we discussed briefly some of the more salient features of the organization known as the Patrons of Industry, it was not our intention to pursue the subject beyond the first article. A number of farmers, however, having expressed an interest in the subject and a desire that we.continue the topic, we have consented, with some reluctance, to do so. Thus far, the question has been agi- tated mainly from the standpoint of those persons who are getting up these organ- izations among the farmers, and who seemingly can have but little interest in the result beyond the pay they obtain in perquisites or fees from the lodges that are organized. These agitators have a personal end in view. Are they philan- thropists and humanitarians or does some other motive govern them? Quite likely they are not public benefactors, but more likely have a political, personal or mer- cenary object before them. It isnot our purpose in any way to antagonize the farming interests. This is an agricultural section almost entirely. All business interests are dependent upon this one. Manufacturing, to any extent, is not a remote possibility in Eaton county. With the success of agriculture depends the success of all our interests. Hence, when the farms are remunerative and the farmers have much to sell, all business prospers. As a merchant, we admit that our business is thus depen- dent. So of every merchant in the rural districts and outside the manufacturing centers. Their condition is one of depen- dence on the farms. But not more so than is the condition of the farmer. His success is better assured by his immedi- ate surroundings. The concentration of more money near him reduces the rate of interest and in a measure increases the values of all real estate and products of the soil. With the scarcity of money comes general depression in the price of every commodity and inability to effect sales. Likewise, with the best competi- tion near at hand comes lower prices for every purchasable article and higher prices for every article of produce the farmer has to sell. This fact is so potent to every person, that the bare .statement makes itatruism. It is not a two-sided proposition. Now, in case the so-called Patrons of Industry accomplish what they are aim- ing at, do they not strike down this com- petition that is the life of trade-and drive capital that is employed in their midst to the commercial centers of trade for pro- tection? In case of success, there can be no doubt of such result. The Patrons say, ‘‘we want only one store of a kind in a locality and that the Patrons’ store.’’ Grant it and what would be the result? A large increase in the cost of everything the Patrons might buy and a less price for everything they have to sell. This would follow as nearly as the law of “supply and demand’’ governs the price of every article bought or sold, be it labor or the product of labor. Ze can see how, in a misguided zeal, the x. ers’ alliances can be made so stron t the Patrons’ store shall, under a penalty, be the only one patronized by the ‘arm- ers and all others have the boycot applied. How long, think you, would capital and brains beg for employment under such strictures? They would both take the first out-bound train possible and seek a more encouraging field for operations. Money will not ve used, only ina limited way and at a high price, where those who want it are hostile to it. Our farms and products are made more valuable by hav- ing a thriving village near by, where business men are striving in competi- tion; where money crystalizes somewhat to meet the social wants; where it builds good school houses and maintains a good school; where it erects good churches and invites good ability. These things add to the value of every farm. We look to these things when we are buying and selling on land. They are considered essential concomitants where we dwell. We can imagine no one thing that would be such a death blow to the prosperity of our country towns as the complete suc- cess of the Patrons of Industry scheme. Why, in this undertaking the farmer is doing just what he should not do. He is building up a huge combination hoping to receive a benefit, which will result in positive injury. If there is any one class of our citizens who should be hos- tile to all forms of combinations in bus- iness affairs, it is the farmer. Heshould oppose for self-preservation and interest every restriction laid upon the freest in- tereourse in business and the free ex- change of commodities. In this direc- tion he would find some of the relief that he is seeking through forced and unnatural channels. He must insist with his voice and vote that other kinds of business shall be conducted under the same governmental methods that his business is conducted. When the farmers, as a class, shall take this position and stand ready to main‘ain it, they will be on the high road to the dawn of amore prosperous era for them. In this direction they will win dollars where in their combinations they will gain cents, if they make any gain. If the farmers, who are the great producers of wealth, could only see the amount of direct and indirect taxation and the proportion they must carry, they would see their greatest burden. From these burdens he can get no re- lief by counter combinations. His com- bine will not relieve the pecuniary pres- sure, nor for any length of time cheapen what he buys. It will rather have the opposite effect by removing competition and giving him poorer goods. The larger the competition and the freer the trade, the better it will be for all classes. Our economic ills are nearly all trace- able to one cause. Remove the cause and nearly all these troubles will disap- pear. ee ut The Greatness of London. From the London Telegraph. Every four minutes marks a birth. In the next two hours after you read this, thirty babies have been born and twenty deaths will have taken place. Think of it, the evening paper that records the births and deaths of the preceding four- and-twenty hours must give 300 separate items. Verily, its joys and sorrows are a multitude. London has 7,000 miles of streets, and if you walked them at the rate of twenty miles a day, you would have to walk almost a year, and more than a year by nearly fifty days, if you should rest on Sundays. And, if you were a thirsty sort of a traveler and couldn’t pass a public house, don’t be alarmed—the 7,000 miles have five-and- seventy miles of public houses; so you need not think of thirst. In a year, Lon- don folks swallow down 500,000 oxen, 2,000,000 sheep, 200,000 calves, 300,000 swine, 8,000,000 head of fowls, 500,000,- 000 pounds: of fish, 500,000,000 oysters, 200,000,000 lobsters—is that enough to figure on? If not, there are some million tons of canned provisions, no end of fruit and vegetables and 50,000,000 bushels of wheat. But how they wash all the food down you might feel glad to know. It takes 200,000,000 quarts of beer. But more than this, they drink 10,000,000 quarts of rum and 50,000,000 quarts of wine—the wine, the rum, the beer, 260,- 000,000 quarts. >> Under Certain Conditions. ‘‘Do you like the Scotch ?’”’ asked one traveling man of another who was read- ing Burns. “Yes,” was the reply, ‘‘if its cold weather and the Scotch is hot enough.”’ JOSEPH JEFFERSON. “The Century Magazine” in 1890—Joseph Jefferson’s Autobiography—Novels by Frank R. Stockton, Amelia E. Barr and Others--A Capital Program. During 1890, The Century Magazine (whose re- cent successes have included the famous ‘War Papers,” the Lincoln History and George Ken- nan’s series on ‘Siberia and the Exile System”) will publish the long-looked-for Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, whose “Rip van Winkle” has made his name a household word. No more interesting record of a life upon the stage could be laid oe the public. Mr. Jefferson is the fourth in a géneration of actors, and, with his children and grandchildren, there are six gen- erations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage, when, asa boy, traveling in his father’s com- pany, they would settle down for a season in a Western town, playing in their own extemporized theater—the particulars of the creation of hi- famous “Rip van Winkle,’ how he acted “Ticket of-Leave Man’ before an audience of that class in Australia, etc.—all this, enriched with illustrations and portraits of contemporar. actors and actresses, and with anecdotes, will form one of the most delightful serials The Cen tury has ever printed. Amelia E. Barr, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, H. H. Boyesen, and many other well- known writers will furnish the fiction for the new volume, which is to be unusually strong, including several novels, illustrated novelettes, and short stories. ‘The Women of the French Salons’? are to be described inga brilliant series of illustrated papers. The imp@@ant discoveries made with the great Lick Teledipe ( cisco (the largest telescope ix the latest explorations relatilgg America ( neluding the famous of Ohio,) are to be chronicled ing E Prof. George P. Fisher, of Yartiga to write a series on ‘‘The Nature am Revelation,” which will attract ev@ dent. Bishop Potter, of New York, will be one of several prominent wziters who are to con- tribute a series of ‘‘Present-day Papers” on liv- ing topics, and there will be art papers, timely articles, etc., etc., and the choicest pictures that the greatest artists and engravers can produce. Every bookseller, postmaster and subscription agent takes subscription to The Century (#4 a year) or remittance may be made directly to the publishers, THe CENTURY Co., of New York. Begin new subscriptions with November (the first issue of the volume and get Mark Twain’s story, ‘‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s S. K. BOLLES. * E. B. DIKEMAN. Ss. K. Bolles & Co., 77 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. W holesale Cigar Dealers. "TOsSea Ur We will forfeit $1,000 if the “TOSS UP” Cigar is not a Clear Long Havana Filler of. excellent quality, equal to more than the aver- age ten cent cigars on the market. P STEKETEFR & SONS; WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, cs Sell the follewing well-known brands staple dry goods: of DENIMS, TICKS. * | Amoskeags, Warren, Clark’s, Amoskeag, Everett, Garner, Lancaster, Pemberton, Lawrence, Otis, =, Warren. Hamilton. 3 GINGHAMS, SBIRTINGS. Amoskeag, Otis, Westbrooks, Scotia, Wellington, Delhi, Lonsdale, Randelman, = Bates, McAden, Eases = Cumberland, Amoskeag, napped. = Lancaster. 83 Monroe and 10, 12, 14,16 & 18 Fountain Sis, GRAND RAPIDS. ¥ BF. J. DETTENTHALER, JOBBER OF Hysters Salt Fish. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in Another Column. CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF WILD GAME SOLICITED. WM.SEARS & CO.,, Cracker Manviacturers, 37, 89 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. * Packers of the well Puinam Candy Co., +B OYSTERS, ABAWENRIGH BRUS. Wholesale Clothiers MANUFACTURERS OF known brand 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. oe) a Selected Herbs «i Spices Prepared by THOMSON & TAYLOR SPICE COMPANY, Cnicago. Is a Combination of The Finest Ingredients for use in Seasoning Meats, Poultry, Game and Fish. SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. NEW HOUSE AND Court,” in that number. CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, - - NEW GOODS, A. E. BROOKS & CO., WHOLESALE Confectionery, Nuts and Figs. Our Specialty-Candy made from sugar and good to eat. GRAND RAPIDS, —_ The Michigan Tradesman WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1889. Plain Talk to the Patrons of Industry. H. G. Barber, in Vermontville Echo. I have been very much interested of late in noting the sentiments of various persons in different localities regarding the effect upon business throughout the State, resulting from the organizations known as the Patrons of Industry. In the main, the prevailing sentiment seems to be that the object sought will not be obtained. Weanticipate different results in different localities. It must depend largely on the amount of capital: em- ployed to accomplish certain results and the character of the men or firms em- ployed as receiving and disbursing agents. In doing business with the farmers and laboring men, who constitute the back- bone of the organization, confidence is an essential quality. There have been so many swindlers of late years who have secured farmers’ notes through various tricks and given absolutely nothing in return, that, in the eyes of the farmer, almost all legitimate business is degraded and looked upon as methods to catch their money. The agents who contract with the farmers’ organization to sell them goods at a uniform profit are like all men working for results. Their aim is to make some gains. It is useless to deny this. All traders are after money, not seeking methods to get rid of money faster. They announce themselves pub- licly your friends, because they want your money. It is allameans to an end. Now, then, can any merchant lay down any arbitrary rule of fixed profitat which he will sell his goods and succeed? With our experience of over thirty years of close attention to this kind of business, we are more than satisfied that he cannot. Why? Because competition and custom require the sale of many goods at much less than 10 per cent. profit, and even at cost and less than cost. This is emphati- cally the case with country stores that deal largely with the staple goods, such as the farmer uses most largely. The large profit is on the fancy goods; the small profit on the domestics and staples. Herein the country stores are at a dis- advantage with the city stores. They are precluded from large sales of fancy goods. But there is a necessity for all mer- chants to conduct their business with some degree of elasticity. What do we mean by this? Simply that no merchant ean iron clad his business with an un- deviating or uniform profit. If he under- takes this, he will soon sell out or fail out. Every merchant soon learns this. The laws of trade are inexorable. Com- petition steps in, supply and demand step in and require the tradesman to do what he dislikes. He must sometimes sell at avery fine profit and possibly without protit on some articles, in order to meet a cut made by a neighbor, or to unload some unseasonable, unsaleable or over- stocked line of goods. Hence we say no merchant can make a contract and keep it with his customers on a fixed profit and succeed. His customers will find that the free trader is beating him on many points and then dissatisfaction begins. As a temporary expedient, for the merchant who desires to close out an old stock of goods, it is probably a good move. But we are not discussing tempo- rary devices or expedients. If a mer- chant can make a closing sale at 10 per cent. profit, he has a big thing. The efforts of all persons engaged in business are—or should be—to make it successful. If the tradesman is in any way handicapped or placed under any restraints, he is very liable to undertake to extricate himself. And here is trouble. It is in the line of deceit and dishonesty and the violation of contract. No mer- chant can or will sell all of his goods at 10 or 12 per cent. profit for any length of time. What is he liable to do in order to save himself? He is liable to obtain false duplicate invoices. This, we are reliably informed, from wholesale sources, is already being done in our good county of Eaton. One salesman in- formed us only yesterday that he hada sale canceled, by a merchant running one of these Patron stores, because he refused to give him a duplicate invoice, adding to it 15 per cent. In many cases this isa sure result. There are other methods that may be resorted to, if the dealer isn’t fire proof. The temptation to beat just a little isastrong one. Changing the brands or cards on the goods, so as to mislead the committee of farmers who have not been initiated into the hidden mysteries; mixing the tea, watering the oil and many other little tricks, to save from loss, you know. They try to beat us, so we will try and beat them. ‘‘It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.”’ It was our purpose, when we com- menced this hurriedly written article, to speak of other burdens that are not imaginary, that rest upon the farmers more heavily than any other class, that they can in a large measure remedy. Space requires us to reserve this for another paper. The farmers, through these combinations, are endeavoring to secure a plan whereby they may cheapen all that they buy. The methods resorted to cannot be very successful. It is not remarkable that the effort is being made. The farmer has as good right to combine as the manufacturer, or the government, even. The difficulty is, he has not an equal opportunity. Money will combine where labor and the product of labor can- not combine. One is independent, per- fectly free to go and come; the other is dependent and trammelled by unjustand unwise laws. We need not go very far to find the best obtainable remedy. i —_——q Po ——_ The Advantage of Self-Denial. The people of this country have the reputation of being the most extravagant in the world. While there are many shining examples of thrift and economy, the people as a whole are extravagant in their way of living. Often this extrava- gance is more real than apparent; that is, people spend so much meney in unneces- sary ways. It is more a misdirection than a willful waste of their money. Re- ferring to this subject, the New York Journal of Commerce remarks: Self-denial is not only the law of great- ness and of goodness, but also of all ma- terial success. The sunken reef on which so many enterprises are wrecked may be labeled with the one phrase, ‘‘self-indul- gence.’’ Sometimes, like the coral bed, itis formed of many minute particles that combine.to founder the adventurous bark; and again it is the single rock against which the voyager is dashed with a sudden tempest. A young couple who had rented a cosy tenement and were making their first essay at housekeeping, found it impossible, they said, to make both ends meet. A wise friend bade them put down for two or three weeks every cent of their disbursements, even where the money went for a postage stamp or a street car ticket, and to bring him the list at the end of that time. He heard nothing from them fer a month and went to see them. The man and his wife both laughed, as he brought up the subject, and said frankly that the expense book was an unexpected revelation. They found that more than half the amount of their earnings had been spent for things which might just as well have been omitted, and a little sober self-denial had made them more self-supporting, for the wife brought out a little wooden bank, the contents of which already jingled with the two or three weeks’ savings. The great bane of the poor, by which we mean those who live from hand to mouth, is their want of a resolute self- denial in the use of their daily or weekly earnings. And this runs all the way up to the man of business, who wastes his thousands a year through self-indulgence on the part of himself or his household, and finally goes down in credit and pocket for want of the capital which might have been gathered in the exercise of a proper self-restraint. Young clerks, whose sal- aries have: been deemed by them to be insufficient for their decent support, would find a surplus left, if they would practice a little self-denial, and would soon be able to lay by something, how- ever small, of a stipend that seemed so inadequate. If every person who has failed to accumulate any savings from his annual income would put down on paper an accurate account of his dis- bursements, he would soon find where a little judicious self-denial would enable him to begin the long-neglected fund for a wet and wintry day. ———_—<_-2 << ___—- Fraud Collection Agencies. From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin. A case of considerable interest to the business world was brought before the public in Minneapolis last week. It was the assignment of a collection company of great pretensions for the benefit of its creditors, who were none other than its customers. The company had collected accounts entrusted to its care and failed to turn over the money to its rightful owners. Growing impatient at the re- peated failure of the concern to disgorge, several patrons threatened legal proceed- ings, and in order to gain time, assignors claim, they took the above step. Investigation disclosed the fact that the institution never had any capital worth speaking of; that a large business was being transacted with an extensive force of collectors, clerks, etc., and that the managers were living in luxury, while the company could not meet its obligations. This condition of affairs, together with a number of questionable methods brought to light by inquiry, con- vineed the creditors that they had not been fairly dealt with, and the officers nave been arrested on several counts charged with embezzlement. The question now arises, can the officers be convicted of this charge? If an individual collector for a private firm should convert funds collected to his own use, there is no doubt that he could and would be convicted tor embezzle- ment, as established by precedent. Whether or not these parties can be convicted of the charge under which they are held, however, is of but little importance to the general public. The oceurrence illustrates how little security is afforded patrons of some collection agencies and shows what an easy matter it is for such firms to come into posses: sion of immense sums, which would not be entrusted to the care of an honest business man without a satisfactory statement of his financial standing, or other security. It will also teach the business man that there are irresponsible collecting agencies as well as irrespon- sible merchants. oe -4- < An Ingenious Idea. An ingenious machine for writing and delivering messages to persons at railway stations, or in elubs and other public buildings, has been introduced into Lon- don. The apparatus consists of a desk at which to write the message, anda cabinet to contain the messages left in charge. In order to write a message, a penny is dropped into a slit of the desk, thus releasing a locked handle, which on being pulled out discloses a paper on the desk. The message is written on this by a pencil provided, and the initials of the sender or other sign are written on a sec- ond slip of paper always exposed to view. On turning the handle back, the message disappears into the cabinet above. The person who expects the message, on ex- amining the machine, sees the initials or sign of the sender, and on dropping a penny intoaslit in the cabinet is enabled to read through a window by turning a handle. The machine, while in working order, does not forget to reveal its secrets. ss 2 Suspicious of the Cutter. From the Pennsylvania Retail Merchant. In a recent visit to one of our flourish- ing towns in Lancaster county the ques- tion was asked, ‘‘Do you get a profit on sugar?’’ Certainly,’’ was the response of the proprietor of the largest and neatest general store in the place. ‘‘My opponent on the other corner for years has sold sugar at or below cost, always push- ing it as an advertisement to the country people who come with their goods to ex- change and buy, but it has created a suspicion among the thoughtful people, and they are afraid to deal with him. It may do in larger towns to sell sugar be- low cost, or give presents with poor tea, but our people are very timid about buy- ing from such merchants, as they have found out the extra twenty-five cents on the shoes and miserable coffee for twenty- five cents is not desirable. >_> Derivation of Bill. Bill means literally ‘‘a sealed paper,”’’ and is derived from the low Latin bulla, a seal. 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Emboldened by her sweet alarm, As on they tore through that eclipse, He iaid her head upon his arm, And friezed a dado on her lips. “Ah me!” the maiden sweetly smiled, As he arranged her tumbled hat, And once again the sunbeams filed In at the window where they sat. ‘Ah me! for once that horrid pest Was robbed of every startling fear; I thank you for your interest; Excuse me, sir, I get off here!” And so she left him drowned in sighs, And on the sea of soft dreams tossed, Of her sweet lips and pure bright eyes, So quickly gained and quickly lost. To dream! but ah, at last to wake And learn that in the tunnel’s din, She’d seized upon her chance to snake His watch and chain and diamond pin! —>—_o <> Safe Remedies. Sir William Gull says that when fagged out by professional work he recruits his strength by eating rasins, and not by drinking wine or brandy. 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DETROIT SOAP CO., Manufacturers of the following well-knéwn brands: MOTTLED GERMAN, ROYAL BAR, CZAR, SUPERIOR, MASCOTTE, CAMEO PHOENIX, AND OTHERS, For quotations in single box lots, see Price Current. quantities, address, M e G., HA VY KINS, ec. uae ee Western Michigan, GRAND RAPIDS. BLIVEN & ALLYN, Sole Agents for the Celebrated “BIG F” Brand of Oysters. In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS, We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time. We solicit consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, ete. H. M. BLIVEN, Manager. 63 Pearl St. WHO URGES YOU TO BEEP SA. POLIO cd Tia fF OU BLIC! By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas- ers to the store, and help sell less known goods. ANY JOBBER WILL BEGLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. CURTISS & CoO., WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse. . We carry the VEBY BEST double or single bit, hand-shaved ax handle ever made. Houseman Block, - AAI ACU BAAN QUEEN ANNE, TRUE BLUE, For quotations in larger Grand Rapids, Mich. nam Gandy bo, 13, 15 AND 17 SOUTH IONIA ST. WM. R. KEELER & CO.,, Wholesale Contfectioners, 412 SOUTH DIVISION STREET. TELEPHONE 92-3R. We wish to announce to the trade that we are prepared to meet all competition in our line, which comprises a full line of confectionery, fruit and nuts. We also carry the Finest Line of Christmas Goods in the City. Do not forget that we are agents for Rueckheim Bros.’ Penny Goods, which are the best goods made, although sold at the same price as other makes. Mail orders promptly attended to. EDWIN RFALLAS, JOBBER OF Batter, Egos, Fairfield Cheese, Foreign Froits, Mince Meat, Nuts, Ete. Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full Blast. Going Like Hot Cakes. Butter and Sweet Potatoes Let your orders come. Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Frvitand Produce bo, JOBBER OF FOREIGN FRUITS. Oranges, Lemons and Bananas a Specialty. 3 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS. MOSHLEY BROS. —WHOLESALE—— Fruits, Seeds, Oysters : Produce. All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty. If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be pleased to hear from you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., “ GRAND RAPIDS. Altred J. Brown, WHOLESALE Foreign ETuts, Nuts, Dates, Figs, 16 and 18 North Division Street, Grand Rapids. A. HIMES, Shipper and Retail Dealer in E ; L Lehigh Valley Goal Co.'s Office, 54 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich. SHIPMENT. ab -(sack) GROCERIES. een ene anaes The Condition of Trade. From the New York Shipping List. The volume of home trade keeps up to surprisingly large proportions, in con- sideration of bad weather influences and the lessened distribution of certain kinds of manufactures which is customary at this advanced period of the Autumn. The foreign trade is also in a. satis- factory condition, indicated by the con- tinued large withdrawals of imports from warehouse for entry into the channels of consumption, and the free exportation of cotton, grain and other agricultural productions. The entry’ of foreign goods at this port is decreasing, which is partly due to an advance in prices of certain kinds of manufactures in Europe to a point which precludes their free importation to be sold in successful com- petition with our own productions of similar character. This is probably the reason why the production of many kinds of our home manufactures, notably iron and its products, has been so largely stimulated of late to take the place of goods which have been hitherto sup- plied to us from abroad. The conditions of the export trade continue favorable. The yield of the principal fruits of the soil has been so large this season that speculators have found it impossible to so manipulate the produce markets as to seriously interfere with the outward movement, as has frequently been the case in some former seasons. Thus during the past month our produce ex-! ports from this port were more than | three million dollars in excess of those} for the corresponding month last year, | and about four millions larger than the; same month the year before. The ex-; ports of cotton from the Southern ports, and of grain from Baltimore, shows; even larger gains than have been made, in our local exports. Our cotton crop, this year is not only a large one, but the | surplus will yield us much more money | than did that of last year, owing to the | higher prices at which the staple is | being marketed. Breadstuffs, it is true, | are much lower than they were last season, but the greater surplus for ex- portation will bring us better returns. During the first four months of the cur-; rent fiscal year the outflow of produce from this port alone shows an increase of ten million dollars over the cor- responding period last year, and the returns from the Southern ports, when completed, will probably show, pro- portionately, a still larger increase, since; the cotton crop was somewhat earlier than usual, and the dearth of supply in England served to greatly promote ship- ments at the outset. In the leading countries of Europe, as in this country, consumption has so largely increased that industrial and commercial pros- perity is the rule. Iron and steel have advanced to a point in England which enable us to successfully compete with her in the sale of these great products in some markets of which she has always heretofore had the control, tosay nothing about the greatly reduced imports of these metals into our own country. It is evident that the volume of business has largely increased in all the leading eountries of the world, and if we are not getting our full share of the export trade we are doing very well, with the pros- pect of doing better in the future. ——— 9 a Gripsack Brigade. Fred H. Ball and Walter H. McBrien spent Saturday and Sunday in Chicago. A. F. Peake, President of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, was in town Mon- day. John H. Jewett has engaged to travel Rice & Co Pacific coast. W. A. Mitchell, traveling represent- ative for the Winfield Manufacturing Co., of Warren, Ohio, is in town for a day or two. Byron Yant, general traveling repre- sentative for Hiram W. Davis & Co., the Cincinnati carriage manufacturers, was in town last Wednesday. Geo. F. Owen has recovered sufficiently from his recent illness to be able to get around town. He will probably not start out on the road, however, before the beginning of the year. The following item is going the rounds of the State press: ‘‘It won’t be lone- some at Lansing about the last few days of December. The Knights of the Grip will be there, several hundred strong, taking their voices and appetites with them. The State Teachers’ Asso- ciation will also be there—but, of course, the drummers wil] not molest the school- ma’ams.’’ Albert C. Antrim has been sojourning at the Ponce de Leon, Alcazar and Car- dova Hotels, at St. Augustine, Fla., and has favored several of his friends with handsome souvenirs of the visit. In a remembrance to Hi. Robertson, Mr. An- trim states that the contrast is somewhat marked between Flagler’s marble palaces and the ‘‘Country Tavern’’ described so graphically by Happy Hi. at the Mus- kegon banquet last summer. If there is anything Lew. Hawkins prides himself on, it is his knowledge of horses. Since serving on the Board of Fire and Police Commission, he has superintended the purchase of most of the horses for both departments, and his seldom-failing luck has usually served him to good purpose. His last purchase, however, proved to be a balky horse, and the quiet ‘‘roasting’ he is receiving in consequence is somewhat annoying. +4 ae Hides, Pelts, Furs and Wool. The sale of fleece wool was light the past week, at no higher prices than ruled during the few weeks previously, while California, Texas and Oregon wools sold rather freely, making the volume of sales fully up. X wools are very quiet, with offers up to We of asking price, but for Carter, ., of Boston, on the the offers are refused. Fleece is strongly held, with little or no disposition to con- cede price, and yet the market can be said to be in buyer’s favor. Hides remain quiet and in good de- mand at the low prices. The leather trade has been good and the boot and shoe men have had a large trade, which holds up. Supplies are ample. Tallow is dull and low, with little de- mand. The fur market has opened at higher prices than foreign markets will war- rant, and with considerable said in the way of cautionary remarks, indicating that the high prices are quoted with con- siderable misgiving as to the outcome. None need be surprised to see these prices break in the near future, especially so if we have continued warm weather. This condition has been brought about by the flurry last year, caused by undue excitement and strife among buyers, of which they repented later. Assortments will be close, and one must buy with caution. $$» <>——__—_- Plans of South American Trade. From the New York Shipping List. Our export trade with the River Plate, which has been more than usually active during the last year or two, especially in Inmber, has recently received a decided check, by reason of financial disturbance at Buenos Ayres, the commercial capital of the Argentine Republic, probably the most progressive of all the South Ameri- can States. The financial system of our southern neighbor is not very unlike that of the United States, and it is now | undergoing a strain similar to that which was imposed upon us during the civil war. The Argentine Republic has been receiving large accessions to her popula- tion from Europe, notably from Italy and Spain, during the past few years. She has also been rapidly developing her re- sources, largely with borrowed capital, and has thus, by having mortgaged the future, accumulated a colossal debt. Thus, with a population of some four millions, her per capita debt reaches the astounding figure of $119, or very nearly double the highest per capita debt of the United States at the period of our max- imum indebtedness after a prolonged and exhausting civil war. Gold has for several years ‘been at a premium in the Argentine Republic, but latterly it has mounted up to 130 or _ thereabouts. This sudden rise seems to have been promoted by the failure of her last wheat erop, whereby she has become an im- porter. instead of an exporter of this cereal, several cargoes of which have lately been drawn from this country. As the recent material advance in the gold premium was not accompanied by a corresponding rise im paper currency prices, the merchants of Buenos Ayres and the other important ports of entry found that they were doing business at a loss, or without profit. AS a conse- quence, many orders for merchandise that had been forwarded to this country and Europe were promptly counter- manded—hence the pause in our exporta- tions in that direction. There have been no unusual failures at Buenos Ayres or at the other ports, however, and no indi- cations of an impending panic. There has simply been a pause, or reaction following over-action, which in the na- ture of things is to” be regarded as a healthful indication. A country so rich in resources and so progressive, withal, will not be apt to remain for any very lengthened period under a_ financial cloud, and after currency prices shall have been adjusted to the gold premium it is quite probable that a revival of busi- ness on amore conservative basis will follow. Meanwhile, our trade with the neighboring ports in Uruguay, of which Montevideo is the chief, has not been interrupted by this financial episode, and even our current exports to the Argen- tine ports would have been regarded as quite liberal a few years ago, though small when contrasted with the very ac- tive movement during the first two quar- ters of the year. Our exports to the River Plate mainly comprise lumber— which during the present year have been the largest on record,—agricultural im- plements, tools, hardware, naval stores, tobacco, petroleum, sewing machines and wooden ware. Of dry goods and other manufactures not enumerated above, our exports, not only to the River Plate, but to all parts of South America, are insignificant in comparison with the exports of such products in that direc- tion from England, Germany and other countries of Europe. How to extend the market for our pro- ducts in the countries south of us, and to broaden and diversify the field of our activities, is a question that has engaged the attention of merchants and states- men for more than a generation; and it was obviously for the consideration of this question the Pan-American Confer- ence was brought into existence. In the estimation of the representative men of the country, irrespective of party, the best and most feasible way to accom- plish this laudable purpose is to estab- lish reciprocity in trade. That would unquestionably open an avenue for profit to this country whose value cannot readily be overestimated. —_—___~<> 2 <> - - Disastrous Competition. It would certainly pay two-thirds of the traders of the land to board and lodge the remaining one-third if they would simply get out of business and cease to annoy and impoverish by expensive com- petition. If one-third of the railways, one-third of the stores and offices were to cease to do business to-morrow, the other two-thirds could better afford to keep the parties concerned at the best hotels in the land, and let them go to the theater every night, than to stand the terrible expense which undue and inju- dicious competition now creates. In the end the public pay for all these extraor- dinary expenses incident to competition. One way or another, the obligations must be met. Failure, loss and disaster may come and do come to individuals in the meantime; but in the great balancing up of a series of years the’ accounts are all squared in the clearing-house of the purse of the public. It must be so, or business would come to a standstill; but meantime is ita problem that calls for reform, this unlicensed expensive and disastrous saturnalia of competition. READY MADE MEALS. How New York Caterers Supply Fam- ilies at Their Homes. “It would seem,’? said a New York woman recently, ‘‘that we have not taken very kindly to what might be ealled the itinerant catering service. A friend from a Western town who is in the city with a crippled child for treatment wrote me to secure for her a furnished room near her physician, and arrange to have their meals served there. 1 went at once, af- ter engaging a very pleasant back parlor, to look up the New York Catering Com- pany, which I hazily recollected used to be on Sixth avenue, somewhere among the forties. Not finding it readily, 1 in- quired in the neighborhood and learned that the concern sold out and went out of existence two or three years ago, pre- sumably on account of non-support. My informant told me besides that he knew of but one other similar enterprise in oper- ation in the city, and that was conducted by a colored man further down the avenue on amuch less extended scale. I found and interviewed this person, and was surprised at the moderate prices he gave me. Seven dollars per week for one, twelve dollars for two, or sixteen dollars for three. He gave me a list of dishes for that day’s service, eggs, chops, a cereal, two kinds of hot bread, and coffee for breakfast, with soup, fish. roast beef and two vegetables, a salad, desert, and coffee for dinner. Only two meals are served. In answer to my inquiry he told me that the roast meat was sliced and served on a small platter, a generous portion being allowed for each. I rather objected to this, and after some further discussion he agreed to serve whole joints, entire puddings and pies and the like, for the two persons whose need I was endeavoring to supply, for $20 per week. My friend is greatly pleased with his service, says everything that ought to come hot does, and all things come garnished and appetizing. | Before I finished with the man I found | out that most of his custom comes from | furnished room occupants and small flats occupied by two or three adults, who can by this means dispense with a servant or need only an inexpensive one. Yet the fact that he has not all the customers he wants and that he is almost the only representative in the tield (I heard later of one other, less prosperous even than he) indicates that the system is not a popular one.”’ -——q, ->—_—_—_— The Chinese Wall a Success. From the Inter-State Grocer. The ‘“‘Inter-state Commercial Associa- tion’? is, or was, the name of a combina- tion of Missouri River jobbing grocery houses, including several states and all the large cities on the Missouri River, with headquarters at Kansas City. The objects of the association were to sustain uniform prices among jobbers, avoid ruinous competition among themselves, and do business at a profit. An execu- tive committee, consisting of members of wholesale houses in Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph and Lincoln, by using | the wire came to aconclusion each day | as to the price staple goods should be sold at, and every member of the association ‘of death. was bound by his agreement to sustain | the price fixed upon by the executive | committee. These prices were wired as | often as necessary from the headquarters | of the association in Kansas City. The | is a sign that some one in the house will retail trade, especially in the State of ‘shortly receive a licking. | you. 7 Kansas, were ata loss to understand the | startling unanimity of prices asked by traveling men from competing cities on) the Missouri River. The Chinese wall, was a success. This combination of jobbers represented at least $45.000,000, and a member of the association has been quoted as stating ‘‘that the com- bination saved at least $25,000 which they would have lost on sugar, through the present recent decline, had it not been for their thorough organization, which enabled them to sustain the price.’ The Inter-state Grocer is in favor of any legitimate organization among either wholesale or retail grocers. By legit- imate, we mean associations organized for the development and enlightenment of the members, and not for a selfish purpose. For instance, the Associated Wholesale Grocers of St. Louis have done a grand work in correcting and reg- ulating various abuses, but have long since recognized the fact that any inter- ference tending to sustain prices and hamper legitimate competition was a false policy, and finally resulted in dam- age to their own interests. ————— Oe The Grocer’s Experience. “‘T want a peck of green peas,’”’ said a young woman, as she entered a grocery store. ‘‘And shake the measure down good, please,’’ she added. ‘‘Lemme see.’’ said the grocer, without moving to wait on her; ‘‘you are Mrs. Small that lives around the corner, ain’t you?”’ S*Wes. Sir.7? “You was in here to get a peck of per- taters, the other day, wasn’t you? and jest as you was a-goin’ to settle, you said you dropped a half-dollar down behind them barrels over there?”’ “Yes, sir—acvidentally, of course,”’ said the woman, apprehensively. “You looked for ity but said that you couldn’t find it’? went on the grocer, “and you said never mind, you would call again for the change when I moved the barrels and found 1t?”’ “Yes, sir. I don’t want to trouble “Oh, no, of course not! I found the fifty cents, but I haven’t got any change for you. It is a bad one, madam.’ “Ts it possible?”’ “‘T believe you knew that it was a bad one, and dropped it on purpose, and didn’t try to find it,’’ continued the gro- cer. ‘Sir!’ “Oh, you women is awful innercent, but you can’t bluff me with your ‘sirs.’” You don’t get no green peas from me, shook dowa or bulged up, till yon settle for them pertaters.”’ The woman went out, with a flaming face, without another word. ““Yes,”’ said the grocer, as she turned the corner, ‘‘that’s another of their tricks to cheat the grccer. I’ve always noticed that them people that’s so particular to have their measure shook down, and an ounce or two added to every pound, is the very ones that would steal a brick house and lot, if they could lug it off.’ —>—>-——- Trite Truths. To meet a funeral procession is a sign To lose a pocketbook containing bills of large denominations is considered very | unlucky. When a cat prepares to wash its face, it On DEE Novelties in PertUmery, Comprising many New Shapes in Bottles, Brass Stands, China Stands, Glass Stands, Wicker Stands, from Jennings & Smith, Grand Rapids, Mich. ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. ALL PHEREINS & DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. NELSON BROS. & CG, Wall Paper and Window Shades, GRAND RAPIDS, BESS MICH, BROWN Engines, Boilers and Mill Machinery, Farm Machinery, ee Implements, Wagons and Carriages. Corner West Bridge and | North & SEHLER, DEALERS IN PRODUCE MARKET. : ples—Dealers hold winter fruit at $2@#2.25 bl., fancy Kings commanding $2.50, Beans Des ers pay $1.25 for unpicked and $1.50 for picked, = ng at $1.75@$2 per bu. Beets—40c per Butter—Dairy ia held steady at 18@20c. Cream- 2 is firm at 24@25c. ; ea Flour—#4.50 per bbl.ffor New York stock Cabbages—_$3@¥4 pe Cheese—Jobbers Reid Bekele and October make at 11%@i tAC- Cider—9@10c per gal. j_cooperage—Pork Saicols: $1.25; produce barrels Cranberries—Cape Cod readily command $9 @#9.50 per bbl. Dried Apples—New evaporated are held at &@ 8%c and new sundried at 54 cans, “ 41 7 “ SR AXLE GREASE. Wraser ss 2200200 s $2 60 OER St 1% Pare ee 1 60 BATH BRICK. English, 2 doz. in case..... 80 Bea: 2 %5 American. 2 doz. in case... 70 BLUING. Gross Arctic Liq, oe .......... 3 40 % pt ee 7 00 . . Pe... e. 10 00 ‘¢ 8-0z paper bot 7 20 _ Pepper Box No. 2 3 00 oT oe ““ “ec 4 4 00 oe “ce it7 ““ 5 8 00 BROOMS. i@ 1 90 2 00 - 22 . 260 90 1 00 3 25 Warchouse....20:. 2. ce: 2% BUCKWHEAT. Kings 100 ID Gane 2... : 4 50 SO ip Cases... 2.5... 3 85 BUTTERINE Dairy, — packed... ... 12% ee eee 13 Creamery, solid —- . 138% rolls 4 CANDLES Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes See 10% a I Parafine 020000 Wachtel, 25 CANNED Goops—Fish. Clams. 1 Ib, Little Neck. ...- 1 20 ©lam Chowder, = Ib-...... .- 10 Cove Oy sters, sJ Ib. oe 2 . 2 Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic Seen 1 50 216 ol 2 65 . 1 ip. RE oc ccc k 2 00 Be 2 ee SORE 3% Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce. Vib. stand 000i. 1% ef Sip 8. 00 C 31b.in Mustard...3 00 . 3 ib. soused......- 3 00 Salmon, ilp. Columbia... ..1 90 tip. Atagica —:... |. 1 80 Sardines, domestic ag8.. 2 5. 5 oc8...... @ 9 - Mustard s...... @ 9 imported 34s..° —_ 16 - spiced, %8..... 10 Trout, 3 ih. Broom. ......-. CANNED Goops—Fruits. Apples, gallons, stand. 2 Blackberries, stand......... 90 Cherries, red standard...... 1 20 . WisneG@e 40 PIQsANOMA 715 Hee Plums, stand..........- 115 (OOKCGDEEFIES -. 20... 1 00 Grapes... .. 8. 3. Green Gages... os: 1s Peaches, all a stand..1 70 hey SeCOHGS ......._.. 3. 1 45 e Pie cs 1% POOR oe. 25 Pineapples ........- 1 20@1 50 Gummeen co Raspberries, extr 12 red.. .-b 40 Strawberries ... ...-. 2... 12 WHortlenerries 2)... 7 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... Beans, Lima, stand......... 85 “Green Limas.. @1 0b we @ 9 “ Stringtess, Eric. .....- 90 “ Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40 Corn, Archer’ s Trophy... .. 1 00 Morn’g Glory.1 00 Early Golden.1 v0 “cc sé Peas, Freneh..-.: ..- 1 68 “* extra marrofat.. @1 2% SOHMCG 80 « June, stand.. : co cl petted a 1155 * French, extra fine... .{ 50 Mushrooms, extra fine...... 215 Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden...... 1 OU Succotesh, standard........ 90 DOUssH eo. 1 10 fomatacn, Red Coat.. @% Good Enough. 1. = re Ben Har...... -..& o stand br.. Ge CHEESE. Michigan Full Cream 114@12% Sap Sae0-...- . 16 @16% CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S. German Sweet: . .......... 23 Prentiss 35 econ... 38 Breakfast Cocoa.......... 48 POMS ce 37 CHEWING GUM. Rubber, 100 lumps. ........-. 25 - ee 35 Spree 30 CHICORY. Bee. HeG 7% cOFFEE—Green. Mid: fair 22. 17 @19 good........ ..... 184%4@20 oo peMNe ot @21 . fae. washed...19 @22 | POIGORL 0) cal. 120 @23 Santee... -.--:.: 17 @2 Mexican & Guatemalal19 @23 IPeupGEEy 002.00... 7. 20 @23 Java, Miterior....._.. - - @25 ce Mandheling.. @29 Mocha, genuine....... @27 To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add %c. per 1b. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. COFFEES—Package. Ibs eS ee 23% ) in) Gabimiers - 2.2... 2414 MecLaughlin’s XXXX....23%{ Piura... lc ee 23% Thompson’ 8 Honey Bee... .25 Wiper...) 24 Good Morning... ...-.. --.. 24 COFFEE EXTRACT. Walley City: (0.02.2. s 2. 7 Wel. 110 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, f “ce “ Jute CONDENSED MILK. se 7 50 Anglo Swiss................ 6 00 CRACKERS. Kenosha Butter..........-.- 8 Seymour = | 1.1... 5 Pentee - 32 6 “* family..............--- 6 ee OE 7 es ee ee ea ccaels ae : Cicy Seda... eda. . 6% S. Oyster ........ 6 City a a so 6 iene | oo 6 CREAM TARTAR, Strictly pure.....-...--..-. 38 Gracere |. 22 ss. 24 DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. Apples, sun-dried..... a 5% re oe 8 Apricots, a : Blackberries “ Recumanes . Peaches Plums na Raspberries ‘‘ DRIED FRUITS—Citron. io) Gran, 2)... < ool S..: in BORGER. ooo. 22. @ DRIED FRUITS—Currants. Zante, in barrels...... @ 5% sinless quantity @6 DRIED FRUITS—Prunes. OO os cess oe 4@6 Wore... cc. os. 5%@ 6% GingerSnaps.......... 9 9% Carronite... iis css 8 @10 Sugar Creams...... 9 9 ; DRIED FRUITS—Raisins. | Frosted Creams....... oe NSICRPIAAS oe cals. 7%@ 8 | Graham Crackers..... Kn Crider, ; Oatmeal Crackers 9 London Layers, Cali- soDA. ‘ — Lier oa > 50 ek eee eercs ee peice 51% vers, i. ees, Baglin Muscatels, California. @2 00 . CO ayes oes ees 4% DRIED FRUITS—Peel. | TEAS. POTOOI 5 cosas aS | Ao Oratiee 2 oo ce. 14 Pair... sera ne _ FARINACEOUS GOODS. GOO ih eticiicc ce 18 es Faria, 100 Tb. kegs. ........ Of Cheese 24 @20 Hominy, per bbl............ 50 Choicest...... . 30 Macaroni, dom 121b box.... 60 SUN CURED. _ fs imported..... mM 24 Bate. : ..: 1 Pearl Barley.......... ae Got = @i5 bm green. se. @iw Chsice 24 SS es, split... a =<. Choicest.... 2. ......5.130 @33 Tapioca, fi’k or p’ rh. @ 6% Fair ore rn @20 Wheat, cracked....... @ 64° Choice = Vermicelli, import. . @10 Choices = domestic. . @60 | Extra choice, wire leaf = FLAVORING EXTRACTS. GUNPOWDER. ” Jennings’ D.C.Lemon Vanills Common to fair 25 2oz. Panel, doz. 85 125 Extra fine to finest...50 Ges ey i a 1 40 225 Choicest fancy........ 75 = No.3 . o i 00 ; 60 Common t — @35 Ho 5. a “ 2% 400 Superior ao @50 — a “450 6 00 YOUNG HYSON, o. 4, Taper, “ 1 60 250 Common to fair.. 18 72 pt, "Round, * £2 7 50 Superior to fine....__/39 on ae oo Common t — . 0 Ce Cod, | whole. Be etedie 44@ : ,, Superior to fine.. “2 ae: eGo 74 Fine to choicest Herring, round, ‘% ‘bbl... “ Fiolta oa bine ae 25 cm ollan Ss. 1 tent ae a 5 «Ue ukegs,new @ 10 Tea le 3 Mack. sh's, No. 2, i ee ee ee 2 Ib. kit. 130 Nimrod, 4 a ci a | ieee ea . and oxi es aT Trout, ig bole. as 4 ‘oes 50 Wines. ix6 ia. genet = i Bea 6 B ia. White, No. 1, ¥4 bbis...22.7. 5 25 west enter. 3x12, Agee oni. 100 Trinket Pag ila se ay 37 < “40 Ib, kits... S ino to eo i i 25 ie Family, vB ‘ase a -2 50 Something Good o.'s Brands. “ Be eee ge o tate a POWDER. gee ee eee a ae ee Die ics. 37 iu ctor enarmsi: | TOBAccos—Fine Cut. _ owe le. 30 D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands. No : ea ana lea a = aWweihia 2 sia ° veneevena cs awees Cuba. |... 37 te 30 8 ig tence oe pomeuue > Calseria 25 85 vs =o aa _> Sicily .. 18 $10, se " . 3 00 Ee ee “MOLASSES. #20, « “ : +2 = as a ee 23 Subiect ta tha fallacins Pan make te ia to the following dis- Porto Rico.. 1 agi) SGN exe New Orleans, “good. Pa se os 25@30 500. “ “gh [ cent. a. ot cage 1008 “10 ancy 45@48 Soo a One-half barrels, 3¢ ng 40 gr... re 7 Muscatine, “Barrels 2 Oe eoesceees io : e Half barrels.. = .3 12 _ z Water White... 10% —_—— & WOODENWARE PICKLES, ee Medium.. wee. 4-5 OO@5 25 Curtiss & Co. quote as fol- eT eH uu 2 75@3 00 LOWS: Small, no es 625 Straw ........ tee cieie singe alia 160 Sh. “3 Bo “ Tight Weight... ..... 200 PIPES. RONAN oe io cae 180 Clay, ae we 1B Hiaraware 6 2% D. fullcount...... ee 2% Cob, rsh 3 an ce Dry Goede... RICE. ute Masia 8 Carolina head ul 6% Red Express No.1......... 5 Ne 5% NO. 2.2... 044. 4 : No 8S ee a NOS Stet ccce ww cne MA Jape 5%4@6% Cotton, No. 2. ae accu ewes ad 20 ee 18 Common Fine per bbl..... 7e@go Sea Island, assorted....... 40 Solar Rock, 56 1b. sacks..... 2g No.5 Hemp ee a 16 OR negbem su 205 NO. 8B...... ee tees eee es 17 60 aaah: a 7c LE a0 | _ WOODENWARE. Ashton bu. bags . reg oC 7 2 Higgins “c “cr 7 a No. ee dale ole ella 6 25 Warsaw‘ =‘ 37... No. 3..-..- ro 52 “ webu “ 20 Pails, No. i two- hoop.. 1 60 SALERATUS. No. 1, three- -hoop.... 1% DeLand’s, pure..............5 Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... 60 Church’s, Cap Sheaf......... 5 Bowls, 11 inch 1 00 Dishes 5 | 13% 1 25 Waglors... ....... ee i 1D) - 2 00 SEEDS. | i a 275 Mixed bira 0 4%! ‘ assorted, 17s and 17s 2 50 ee ie “15s, 17s and 198 2 7% Ce 4 | Baskets, market....,....... 40 Cee eT eT TT | bushel............ 1 50 Anise. . a a i “with covers 1 90 2 ee maa : 4% _ ee MM mh No.2 6 25 SHOE POLISH. | E Nod 7 Jettine, 1 doz. in box...... 1 i splint ‘‘ No.1 3 50 SNUFF. | ey [ . No.2 4 25 Scotch, in bladders......... ae iy ‘* No.3 5 00 Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 French Rappee, in Jars..... 43 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS SOAP. WHEAT. Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands. New. Old. Sepewae aon White 0 co... 7 78 Gueen Anne 2... G5 Hee... 2 German Family.. ... --2 40 All wheat bought on 60 Ib. test. Mottled German. : 3 00 FLOUR. Old German................. 2 70 Straight, in SRGES. ......- 4 £0 US Bie Bareain..... .....1 : Darrels,....... 4 70 Wrest, Promer........... ..- 32 Patent saeus....:...: 5 50 Cecon Oeste e * Beerels........ 5 70 Cocoa Castile, Faney.......- 3 38 MEAL. Allen B. Wrisley’ s Brands. Bolted Same cal a 90 Happy amily, 00 Grangiated 2s: 1 00 Gouna soe 3 30 MILLSTUFFS. von a EA 365 Bran......--..--...-....+-. 10 00 Bouncer, 100.. 315 Ships. . Se ee 11 00 sPIcEs—-Whole. Berecenwiga....-... |. 11 00 epee g | Middlings................. 11 00 Cassia, China in mats....... s Mixed LC 15 00 Batavia in bund....11_ | Co@rse Incal.......... 15 00 ee Saigon in rolis...... ao CORN. Cloves, Amboyna...........96 | Small lots................. 39 ce | aetna 20 | Car creer estes eres 37% Mace Batayia....... ....... so | OATS. Nutmegs, aes su go | Small lots......... --25 No. : TE 7 | Car sees »- 23 iz No ee lial = |. RYE. Pepper, Singapore, black if | NG@1.... @35 white.. = i BARLEY ‘“ et 3 No. Se ace 1 10 sale eee -In ae je a 16 Tee 15 " HAY Cassia, Batavia............. 20 | No.1 - 11 00 # and Saigon. 2 NO 8 9 00 . ORE | : eee Cloves, Zante. Ey 2 | HIDES, PELTS and FURS. - SAGE. 3... 35. 2 | Perkins & Hes - Ginger, African. ..-.---12%| lows: ee EE mf FURS. . semetes ........... 18 Mink, dark............ 40@1 25 Mace Maigvia.... 2°... 90 . pale... 3... 25@ 80 Mustard, English. eee = (Coon... 80@1 00 : and Trie. .25 SEM 80@1 20 i MTICSe. 27 Maskest......._....... 16. 20 INGomers. We. 2 202.500. 80 Fos, fed. ............. 1 25@1 75 Pepper, Singapore, —— ——/ Crene 0. ois: 2 00@5 00 {oe So: POM 4 ql i Cayenne... .-.... 25 Badger = ae ot 00 5 5@, Herbs & Spices, small. .... i | Cat wnd............. 50@ 7 : nc. wee 1 25 fom Se 4 00@6 00 eee 8 ee eS 00 Mystic, 64 pkgs.. 4 48| Martin, dark.......... 1 25@3 00 barrels. .. -_.-..... 6 - pale & yellow 60@ 1% SUGARS. Ofer, dark... ......; 6 00@10 00 Cut Loaf pence @ i | Wart 2 00@3 00 Cubes <..... @ 74 | Bear....--...-..-.;-- 15 00@25 = Powdered -:...... fl @ 7% | Beaver .....-...--...-. 2 0b@ Granulated, H. & E.’ S.. @ 7% | Oppossum...... ....... 15@ ia Franklin.. @ 7% | Deerskins, per lb...... 5@ “ Knight's. @ 7% Above prices for No.1 Pac Confectionery A...... @6.94 | only. Standard. ..... 2 0... :- @ 6% HIDES. No. 1, White Extra C.. 6%@ 6% | Green .........--.....- 4 @4% No 2 bxtea ©...) |... 6 @ 6% | Part Cured...... @ 4% No. aC, guiden..__ ___. @oxiFal ~*~ |. @5 No. 4, Gare. oc. @ 5% — Sa es -5 @6 Make @ 5% Calfskins, “gre -5 @6 SAL SODA Calfskins green .38 @4 Ss ee 1% cured - 4%@ 5 Greaiaiok: bewess 0.6... S | Deseon sking.......... 10 @20 eae ¥% off for No. 2. Kitchen, 8 doz. in box..... 2 35 i — nae Se ee 2 35 eases ices gies a -10 @25 = iain stimate eae 20 GB Silver Thread, 15 gallons....2 95! washed... ....... ee 25@30 + eee Gea OR co ce 12@22 SYRUPS. MISCELLANEOUS, Corn, barrels. .....--...--- Ott VaHew i660 sce. coco 34@ 4 “© ~ one-half barrels... @26 | Grease butter......... 3 5 Pure Sugar, bbl........... ,.28@36 | Switches .............. 1%@ 2 5 half barrel....30@38 | Ginseng.......... ....2 WO@2 75, SWEET GoOoDs. Drugs $8 Medicines. sets are ample and can be realized faster - THE DIAMOND. | This year the cut was also 10,000,000 = in liquidation than by a continuance of | feet, which is nowin the yard ready for “THE OLD ORIGINAL.” J = es business, we have sold our stocks and| Speculations of Scientists as to Its shipment. : - Po I SH I N. A ae ea i. oan . business to parties who will continue Probable Origin. RE-PAINT (TRADE MAR Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. the same, while we shall push collections} The origin of the diamond has been a A Point Well Taken. 5 . ae, Seer) eng a are Beach ag as hard as possible and meet all obliga-| fruitful topic for speculation among | There was to be company at dinner, Your Buggy Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit. tions as fast as we can. In the mean) scientists; hence many contradictory | and Bobby’s mother had eautioned him The Best Furniture Finish in the Market. ace See ia time any creditor who prefers can have | theories have been advanced and argued | tO be careful of his behavior, especially for ' Specially adapted for Pianos, Sooner Seo. MeDonald. Kalamazoo. re secured notes, county warrants or real] with some show of reason; but after all to eat sparingly and always to say thank —_— Organs and Hard Woods. ext Meeting—At Lansing November } and }- estate at a price that will make a pay-| that has has been said and written upon YOU when anything was passed to him. 75 cts. — —— ee Ass’n. es eT We can turn out real| the subject, we are still left pretty much aes ~~ — “cea are Polishina ve sees grease one a and sident—Frank Inglis, Detroit. estate that pays 8 to 10 per cent. net| in the dark Theories answer a good, #nd, per aps, tather hungry. At all will add a lustre which for beauty First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. eee xe . s ae Bec'd Vice PresidentHenry Kephart, Bervicn springs. | HOW, and will in all probability be worth| purpose, since they often lead the way events they kept the hostess so busy that : WE ARE HEADQUARTERS — a = Papowge an ee i ice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. : 2 . re j . eae i fis a : . : ‘ ee ey Geen: kon AceOe = to 200 per cont.. more in 10 years or/to truth. But this is not all; they illus- She cae. to — upon Bobby. PoLIShiNa directions accompany each bottle. cee eT aa sien wee ess. H so situated that you can tie up| trate the ingenuity in the human mind in! a ittle er grew esperate. : cabcaicc p li hi is put up in LARGE BOTTLE wane. Sastoun: ny Se can bemihaianee Geo. Me. | & few hundred dollars in productive real| seeking to account for the methods | Say, ma,’’ he whispered, after a time, ih : OLISNING and is sold at the moderate price Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit. estate for a few years, you can help us| Nature takes for the accomplishment of | ‘how can I eat sparingly and say thank SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Twenty-five Cents. a. third Tuesday | out, and make some money, too. her secret operations. Some of these , You if I don’t get anything?’ ii , Polishina she.Best® ug gpa chet npn = Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. Really, this is a pathetic document. | theories about the origin of the diamond | fuphitane took freak: aud: oew. . President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. Inevitably it calls up to mind a picture| are very ingenious and __ interesting, | 2 ‘one is fors i f ade ‘ste : | Polishina is for sale by all Druggists, Furnt- tate, and never will be until new and| hardware many of the new designs are Abies, Canadian. ....------ 18] ‘dus, po......... .... @ 3 eT pon ee @ 6 . lai d ea : a ye : I hods of re | 1 kable for their beauty of finish and Cassiae .-.-..-.++--++- “41 | Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) _@ 25! Ergota, (po.) 45.... isclaimed, making it one of the certain length of time, it becomes harder | a ok te a sa Se neuccglion. Sue me of a Cinchona Flava ...... 18 ss un ia ol wake Whe te = very best selling articles handled. than flint, and almost as transparent as | out. igar has been made ; z . | Euonymus atropurp.. 30 | Zingiber a............. tia 15 Galas : i . glass, and by polishing it seis from sorghum in Kansas, but the cost is} house with the proper hardware—a sub- | Myrica Cerifera, po..... + 20 | Zingiber J..-..--.-..-- 22@ 25) Gambier. .0.02220 000001 03 2 Place your order with our Wholesa!, brilliant luster. It varies in colors ac-| above profitable production. The newly | ject so long neglected—has now assumed aie a 2 SEMEN, eae es a cording to the kind of stone used, and discovered “roasting process’ is alleged its true importance, and is as much the Sassafras Fl ipskccecess| Se oe, eS)... .. @ 15) Glassware flint, 75 & 10 per . 1 191 can be had from a bright red to a beauti- to be the most satisfactory, so far, but| Subject of personal choice on the part of | Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10 —— (graveleons) .. = | —— by box 70 less amon B GIN if ful azure hue. Now. Boorfried’s idea is the plant costs from $30,000 to $35,000, and | the owner as | anything else connected | EXTRAOTUM. aa Ie = plow” bento HN a Poo = " that this liquid of his can be used in oe ——— labor to run it. Where with a —— In bronze — = | Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4G Cardamon.... 11h.) 00@1 25] Glycerina ...00002 00... — = PROPRIETORS, makine = sebote cae pease lis man who is going to put $30,000 pecially, ere is an increasing demand | 6 Os. 33@ 35 Cor andrum.........-. 1 12| Grane Paradisi........ 15 of na aceaay aa t SF — 47 Dealers in @ é ycomes slowly ant. The leaves hav ai | Gamboge, po.....----- 2 50 . por German.... 33@ 45 to pay the husbandman for its produce— a led hay : : v8 — - A resident of Concord had a corn OD Guaiacum, (po. 45) ...- @ | Auranti Cortes.........-.. -. 59, Rubia Tinctorum..... 122@ 14 ac aeudae tesie bes jehaae ende ay and chocolate when broken, | the middle toe of his left foot, which had | Kino, (po. 25)......--- @ 2DileneArom 59; Saccharum Lactispv.. @ 35 i e 8 ei i : Q one es a 2 ee ject to and are of rare green color. Since the} bothered him for many years. | Masties. | 22.2.2... @1 00 | Similax Officinalis.......... go | solace ss 2 25@2 35 Pa casualties 0 ight and insect, flood and , discovery of cocaine the leaves have been One morning he could bear it no longer | Myrrh, (po 45)....---- Cs a Go...... 50| Sanguis Draconis..... @ 50 8 8 aris Bg tempest—the question of credit, as be- exported to Europe; but the sea voyage} and adopted a unique and sudden method | ot eee Ee ante es . — = Sa a ee wn = —— w ND 1 _ a : : : , , cd . . Be ’ . J ( 2 s 10d | Shellac .. .....-.----- 25) Di Sewanee pO, W......-.---.4.- 2 4 ° cae georges - rest of _the com- jis found to rob them of the alkaloids, | of getting rid of it. eee pieached. 2.2: ae ee o Sa - 10 Sole Agents for the Celebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints. panity, is abou 1e most important and, therefore, it is the custom now to He obtained a rifle and fastened it | Tragacanth cae a orees 30@ 75 | Tolutan ........---.---+--+-- sesame aims @ 15 which concerns the general welfare. In’ extr ee . i : npa—In ounce packages Prawns vireo 50} Seidlitz Mixture...... @ su inquiry a0 this subject fom 08 ; extract these in South America and then] firmly, muzzle downward, on a board set | ee — Stapie enn @ 18 aE ae TE sie Si aie ag oo them for the manufacture of| forthe purpose. Then he-laid + beard | Se eee = a on pH SS 30 S, s set | : : : : : : uff, Mace ; s Geach in au adjectine coleman. miny be cocaine. a down under it and fired it twice. The! Lobelia... % Aconitum Napellis R....... = Voes 00 eiica acts @ 3 We are Sole Proprietors of i eee a sap ea Te are Ge i : y | Majorum .....-. : ee aaron .S J discerned the solicitude with which | What Constitutes a Business Man. SS board = exactly Se | Monta Piperita 23 Alo ney cot reas er es i aca al 60 i ee sae aa = honest dealers are apt to look for some | From the Detroit News. ‘hin po only oe eam a . ae = PT oS 50 Soda et Poiass Tart... — > WEATHERLY’S c >MICHIGAN CATARRH REM guidance, chiefly as it may be found in| The ‘business man” cry in local pol-) adjusted, and his aml wave See | Jan oF a a oa a 2@ 214, as EDY. the custom and experiences of those! ities is a decidedly humorous Al ges fee aes 2 was Pe | =a a ere 95 | Atrope Belladonna.......... Sia Gee ae 4Q@ 5 ule ; : J — his bare foot on the board so that th ee 3 | SOda Ash.........-.-. 3@ 4 similarly disposed and situated. We / fellow is a business man if he keeps a/eorn on his toe came aivchtiy ovex pe MAGNESIA. — Sec cena soe aaa = Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2 doubt not that from the replies thereto store or runs a factory. He is not a bus-) py] ee Mek oer ONOE | Callan, Pee = 55@ 60|Sanguinaria................. 50 Bg og 50@_ 55 many interesting facts will be developed, | iness man if, as a lawyer, for instance aa maser being arranged to his sat Carbonetn, 2 -—_---- soe eer a ee old ‘aie 7 a 3 = : a i e i i : Ss , S sai- g on = yrcela imp... .. . z pre ee ay receipt = these it may | he keeps the storekeeper and the factory | jcfaction, he got a ficad =. a Carbosage: es. 300 36 — cee ae 50 — — We have in stock and offer a full line of also be useful to give the points of a|owners on their feet financially by get-| ¢ a 4 seo ce od : Caria... .-c-.coe SP eee ae eee a 2 15 single case which has come before us this | ting their bad claims collected and fest = - ae eS | ee uy CO... . sees ee eres 75 strychnl, oo ee week, in a couple of trade announce-! them the legal advice they need "He : to pull the trigger. The result fully | Absinthium _...--: sce ee ee re 100] Sulphur, Sub eae ox 3% Whisiies, Brandies, ments from another Northwestern state. | not a business man, again, unless he has equaled it did net execed 2 Sr Se 7 oat 50 cones fo = ng BOUL. .-- e002 + 24@ 3 : : ‘ i i ; oe S|tions. The bullet went through his toe | anisi ’ “°F g0@2 00 inehon@ «.....-----0ee eee e 50] Tamarinds ............ 10 Gins AZ se sas are both from the one town. | f store or i gg though he do ten} and carried the corn with it leaving a| Auranti Cortex Ae @2 50 | Columba ee = ee 23@ 30 9 ines, Bums. 1e first is that of a firm, now retired! mes as muc usiness as any of the} | ‘ <7] = eee al ae ee heobromac ---...-... 55 ‘ a : : 2 i : arge ragged hole, which will be -o | Bergamii ...... pee 2 Shas ) | Contam 3... -.- 2... - ae from business, who have carried on an storekeepers and factory owners, and do likely case hick ae Gee Fle ag : Cajiputi ........-.----- 90@1 00 | Cubeba.........--.-------- +: 50 ee Baipn ee 9 G6 00 active trade in hardware, harness and ~ as the genial Col. Mike Jeffers, of the| giq the corn aoe Co ae = —* TG - as ee @ 8 ne ae : Ini cbse ane! : ' : ’ a 7 Hi | Cedar ..... eae ss). 65 | Ergot. ........---0eee eres c ees : iia ha aster pat -Ape| Uae Sarna gs, hy Keeping | "te voce, to have a pholian and eco gg OG Braue, wine 22 8 | as in business saieity iclaaae man if he is employed ie a co ea says a bullet hole is better than a corn | ale eo. a 23 Guaica co eee gemma: 3) Lard, —— 05 60 We are Sole Agents in Michi an for W D & Co., : ss b ris : s yé . > any day. 4 eo 35 ne ee ee Lard, N fc co a and certainly not in mercantile honor _ business man if he has been so long oe a | peace a4 a Cn sont oe i Gs = Linseed, pure raw.... 58 = 18 : and good faith. Withal, they have been | iM business that he has retired as a cap- | Gubebae.............16 0O@16 >| Hyoscyamus .....02..00.01.2. 50 Lindseed, boiled .... 61 64 obliged to wind up the business, selling | italist. The definition of “business From the a cei: oo. ce eu 1 mal 30 Todine aac ie Paembea se a 69 ———— — Hand Made Sour Mash act both their stares, fot dhe pasta cai? te singularly adie i ee aa oe = > ; a : | Erigeron .......---++-- ] ; @ “« Colorless............. to etwas 5 L i a eae eal a 5 < f e little village of Keno, four miles | Gaultheria............ 2 20@2 30 | Ferri Chloridum............ 35| SpiritsTurpentine.... 51% 56 s an i ; a a — —— ee stretched so as not to cover! north of Woodville, is one of the newest | Goramiam, eal. re an = ago Ee = Red ome —- gna Whi Kyi d Druggists Favorite vat wi : eee : : : © | Rocmarint...-..-. Ta 00 | Serpentaria .........-....... , eee * : SS a ci —— a large| vanced, with indications of a higher, Horning, of Big Rapids, to take all this Rosse, Ounee....-:..:- “@6 pomemaaes Ea ee aes 0 White, Paris American 100 ‘ All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we re= a oi = _. eT “—* market. Gum shellacs are lower. Opium | timber from the stump, saw it, cross-pile —— Geeees sacs aaeeee = = — Dee oes cnee at aa a bef ad Paris Eng. 1 49 | COLVE them. Send in a trial order. ars rery Siae : es ot . Ce ots : Be oceans « J MACEIAMN 84. 5. 5.05: Soo SL 2 See oe are se ese sie wie atk cary «edd acant of | Sauiet. Morphia is unchanged. Qui-| and load it on the cars for shipment. The santa) oo... 0000... 3 50@7 00 | Veratrum Veride....... 3p | Pioneer Prepared Paint! 20@1 4 sad e a sh nine is unsettled but advancing. Some | Price paid for this work is said to bia. ee Swiss Villa Prepared o es and accounts is at are nearly all bide ieee / : $5.25 per thousand feet. The mill was | Sinapis, ess, ounce.... @_ 65 MISCELLANEOUS. Paine opr 1 00@1 20 ' well secured but ean’t be collected very gn} nt acturers quote higher than | built last year and everything furnished PPI tess ose, os @i 50 Ather, Spts Nit,3F.. 2W@ Ww VARNISHES. i fast: in addition to which we have sev-| thers. Oil Pennyroyal has advanced. | in time to make a cut of about 10,000,000 eo — - ae 32| No. 1 Turp Coach.....1 10@1 20 eral thousand dollars of live stock. Ow-| /urpentine is lower. fect tn 1088. ai bee : 000, Pt .6..eeeeeee @ 60} alumen..............- 24%@ 3%| Extra Turp............ 1 60@1 70 € ) k : one circular and one | Theobromas..........- 15@ 20 “ ound, ( Coach B 2 ing to poor crops, etc., we deem it to the ee ee ! band ith : : gr » (po. ac: Vivir aes e-s 00 ay best int t of “a 3 It pays to handl ' band saw, with a daily capacity of 70,000 POTASSIUM. Dye kee ees 3@ 4| No.1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10 3 ed tae be ourselves and creditors pays to andle the P. & B. cough feet. The timber is taken by logging = Seale eee iio means ale 4 - perm eel Sewiaes ds wee «as 55@ 60 Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 o win e business u and as s : | ; ., >; Bichromate .......---. 14 | Antimoni, po.......... 4@ 5) Ja Dryer, No. 1 Pp, S our as-! drops | roads direct from the stump to the mill. | Bromide............... 37@ 40 ie "et Potass T, 5@ 60 tor biti oT Sod, Genk 0@ GRAND RAP IDS, MICH. Qe Michigan Tradesman Seen AN OLD STORY. Fisherman John is brave and strong— None more brave on the coast than he; He owns a Cottage and fishing smack, Ag snug as ever need be; cae what is truer than I could wish, Fisherman John loves me. Often and often, when day is done, With smiling lips and eager eyes, He comes to woo me; in every way That a man may try, he tries To win me; but that he can never do, Though he woo me till he dies. Fisherman Jack is a poorer man— He owns not cottage or fishing smack ; But a winning voice and smile is his Where he would not have. Alack! Why should I break my heart to tell? But I love Fisherman Jack. He loves not me, but every night He sits at the feet of Kate Mahon; Never a smile has she for him, For she loves Fisherman John, Who cares no more for love of hers Than the sea he sails upon. Often we wonder, do Kate and I, That Fate should cross us so cruelly; We think of the lovers we do not love, And dream of what life would be, If only Fisherman John loved her, And Fisherman Jack loved ne. —_———_—__—» = THE DRIED FRUIT SWINDLE. Repacking and Reprocessing---Short Weights and Undergrading. ¥rom the Inter-State Grocer “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord.’’ If the proverbial King had chanced to drop into any large city in the United States and acquainted himself with the methods adopted by manufac- turers and packers in the Nineteenth eentury, he might have added, ‘‘and they are all an abomination.’’ It is time to eall ahalt. To the ignorance of the re- tailer, as to the quality and character of the goods which he retails over his counter daily, is due more than anything else, the gross impositions which are practiced by manufacturers and packers. He buys kiln dried, pulverized cocoanut shells for ground pepper—if the price is right; roasted peas and chicory for ground coffee—if the price is right; mo- lasses adulterated with gluscose, in place of straight O. K., N. O.—if the price is right; in fact, what with adulterated spices, baking powder, vineger, etc., in- stead of being—as the refrain of a popu- lar song says—‘‘all a matter of taste, its all a matter of price.”’ A decade ago. before the California raisin industry had attained its present mammoth proportions, Malaga raisins were packed specially for export to the United States, in extra heavy boxes, at short weights ranging from 17 to 18 pounds, when the accepted standard, allowing for natural shrinkage, was 22 pounds net. A thorough investigation of the fraud in conjunction with California competition led to a partial reformation. The prune, however, has gained the greatest victory of any California product in competition with Europe, and the California raisin cured prune is prefered by our home consumers to the French article on account of its rich but delicate flavor, small stone, and meaty quality. French prunes, until this year, have in- variably had the preference, the finest qualities in glass, tin. and fancy paper cartoons, justly so, on account of the eareful manner in which they have been handled, sorted and packed, retaining the natural bloom and delicate flavor of the fruit unimpaired. We no sooner knock out foreign com- petiton and a national product attains a national reputation, than the schemers who live and feed on the ignorance of the retailer, rush in, and by manipula- tion are doing all they can to kill the goose that is laying a golden egg in Cali- fornia, discrediting one of the finest American products in our own market and retarding the growth of a national industry. The California prune was first intro- duced by reliable packers on the Pacific slope in boxes weighing 25 pounds net. Following the foreign custom of grading, they were carefully sorted and packed according to size and the boxes plainly branded, 50-60, 60-70, 70-80, 80-90, 90-100, meaning that the fruit, as packed in that particular box, runs from 50 to 60 prunes to each pound. In addition to this, they have recently been shipping the product in sacks, less expensive than boxing, saving about one-half cent per pound to to the retailer and consumer. Now comes the fraud. For several years past there have been creeping into the trade men who make a business of repacking and reprocessing old fruit, mixing with mew. Oldcurrants have been steamed, syruped, mixed, repacked and sold as new. Zante and Patras currants have been doctored up, repacked in boxes and sold as Vostezzi, and in some instances a reputable importer’s shipping mark has been skillfully imitated and stencilled on the box to give color to the fraud. Old prunes have been steamed, doped and sold.for new. Turkish, repacked and sold for Salonicas, in fact anything to make money, it almost appearing in some instances as though a nickel made in this fashion was preferable to the nickel made legitimately. As we said before, it is time to call a halt. The California prune has made such a splendid reputation that we cannot af- ford to fritter it away. The fruit repro- cessors are laying seige to this article of commerce, and the latest dodge is to re- pack the California sacked prunes into boxes, mark up the quality, that is, brand a small 90 to 100 prune 70 to 80, and in- stead of putting 25 pounds net in the box, put them up at short weights; vary- ing from 23 to 2344 pounds. A 25-pound box of prunes, legitimately cured and packed, may be reasonably expected to shrink in the course of a year about one pound. The reprocessed article, how- ever, will shrink still more. The writer saw alot of California repacked prunes shipped into this market, and though newly packed from sacks they averaged only 23 pound net to the box. This was a steal. The grade was off also a full one-half cent below what they were marked. The retailer who buys Cali- fornia prunes should weigh the goods and see that he gets what he pays for. Look out for boxes topped off with 70 to 80 fruit, while 90 to 100 are filled in be- low. Better than this, if you are not looking for anything especially fancy, buy the California sacked prune and you will be sure to get the weight you pay for. You can see from this that it is not altogether a matter of price and that quality has something to do with it. HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls out: NG SUN” rane log-run . Neer ergmee ane = eR. GOTO oc 56s etd eee cos Bireh, Nos. land ?..........-..-...-.. @22 00 Buckwh eat. Black Ash, log-run.....-......---..-.- 14 00@16 00 (ALWAYS PURE) Cherry, log-ram........-....------+.... 25 00@40 00 Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2...............-.- 60 00@65 00 Cierry. Cull.) ii... ... @12 00 Maple, log-run .........--.++++++++ eee 12 00@13 00 Maple, soft, log-run....-...--++-+-+-+- 11 00@13 00 ee ‘i Maple, Nos. 1 and 2......scseeeerreeees 0 00 We again eall your attention on Se Se o0 aple, white, selected.............--- ° Red Oi log-rums 0200 » asi to the high grade of Buck- ed Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.............-.-- 2 Red Oak, \ sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.38 00@40 00 sat} Red Oak, ig sawed, regular............ 38 og) | wheat Flour characteristic of Red Oak, No. 1, step plank........ Lie 25 00 3 Walnut, log run...... ou @55 00; our mill. Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2............-..-+- @75 00 Wainuts, cull ...... @25 00 Grey Him, jop-ran...........-:---..--: 2 00@13 05 ————— wea eae ig Sines ees fee = 00@16 = tewood, log-Tun.............-++-.- 00@22 oe White eer tetas ae) 17 00818 00 Orders from the trade solicited. White Oak, % sawed, Nos. 1 and 2....42 00@43 00 PRESS FOR SALE. A 7x11 Prouty press, with steam fix- tures, good as new, for sale at a bargain. Call on or address FULLER & STOWE COMPANY, 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, Mich. THE DEYROIY NEWS COMPANY, WHOLESALE STATIONERY, FANCY PERIODICALS. The largest and most complete line of above goods in the Siate, at reasonable prices. Dealers are invited to call. Send for our circulars and price lists. OUR HOLIDAY LINE IS NOW COMPLETE. Corner Larned and Wayne Sts., Detroit. KE. W. HALL PLATING WORKS, ALL KINDS OF Brass and Iron Polishing Nickle and Silver Plating Corner Pearl and Front Sts., Grand Rapids. SEEDS! BOOKS, GOODS, If in want of Clover or Timothy, Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, or, in fact, Any Kind of Seed, send or write to the Seed Store, 71 Canal St, GRAND RAPIDS. W.T. LAMOREAUX. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. BOWNE, President. Gero. C. PIERCE, Vice President. H. W. NasH, Cashier CAPITAL, - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. dake a Specialty of Collections. Accounts ef Country Merchants Solicited. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapide. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Oct. 6, 1889. . TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive. Leave. Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:00am 7:20am Traverse City Express........ec+e- 9:30am 11:30am Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 3:05 pm 4:10pm From Cincinnatl. ..../......: secre 8:45pm GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express.........-ccce-- 7:00am Fort Wayne Express.. ...11:45a m 12:45am Cincinnati Express.... --. 5:30pm 6:00 pm Kalamazoo and Chicago........... 10:40pm 11:05pm Train leaving for Cincinnati at6p. m. and arriving from Cincinnati at 7p. m., runs daily, Sundays in- eluded. Other trains daily except Sunday. Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7:20 a.m. and 4:10 p. m. trains have sleeping and parlor cars for Mackinaw City. South—7 a. m. train has chair car and 6 p. m. train Pullman sleeping car for Cincinnati; 11:05 p. m. train has Wagner sleeping car for Chicago. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Leave Arrive. FO Rin occ cc twsccceseevcccce ence ersccioes 10:15am 11:15 @M.......eee sere ose 3:45 pm BD BR. oo cece ce veneers censcecseceococeunsees 8:45 pm Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. {Morning Express........ccccccees 12:50 pm 1:00 pm 4Through Mall... ....cccccccccecees 4:10pm 4:20pm +Grand Rapids Express........... 16:40 pm *Night Express. ....... ccccccseess 6:40am 7:00am PPRIRO 6 ooo on ccc ewes cctnss 7:30am GOING EAST. Wetroit EXpress............cccsces 6:50am “Tarough Mail. ............ el 10:20am +Evening Express....... oo ee 3:45 pm *Night Express..........0..sssee0- 10: 10:55 p m +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making direct connections for all points East, arriving in New York 10:10 a. m. next day. Grand Rapids express has parlor car Detroit to Grand Rapids. Night express has Wagner sleeping ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a. m. Through railroad tickets and ocean steamship tickets and sleeping car berths secured at D., G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot. AS. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. Jno. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern. For Toledo and all points South and East, take the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail- way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and connections at Toledo with evening trains for Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin- nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi- nent points on connecting lines. tA. J. PaisLey, Gen’l Pass, Agent NEWAYGO ROLLER MILLS. WIDE AWAKE 70a; “The brightest of the children’s 1896 magazines.” — Springfield Republican. A Merry Yea FIVE GREAT SERIALS: THAT BOY GID. By William O. Stod. dard. Young and old will follow Gideon’s adventures and his sister’s on their father’s acres with laughter and breathless interest. THE NEW SENIOR AT ANDOVER By Herbert D. Ward. A serial of school- life infamous Andover — our Rugby. The boys, the professors, the lodgings, the fur.. “THE SONS OF THE VIKINGS.” By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. A right down jolly story of modern Norse boys. BONY AND BAN, one of the best of the Mary Hartwell Catherwood serials. SEALEDORDERS. By Charles Rem- ington Talbot. An amusing adventure story of “ wet sheets and a flowing sea.” CONFESSIONS OF AN AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER. by Alexander Black. Six practical and amusing articles. LUCY PERVEAR. First of 1 series ot graphic North Carolina character sketches by Margaret Sianey. TALES OF OLD ACADIE. Twelve powerful true stories by Grace Dean McLeod, a Canadian author. THE WILL AND THE WAY STO- RIES. By Jessie Benton Fremont. About men and women who did great things in the face of seeming impossibilities. THE PUK-WUDJIES. ByL.J. Bridg- man. The funny Indian Fairy Folk. BUSINESS OPENINGS FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN. A dozen really helpful papers by Sallie Joy White. Twelve more DAISY-PATTY LET- TERS. By Mrs. Ex-Governor Claflin. TWELVE SCHOOL AND PLAY- GROUND TALES. The first will be “ LAMBKIN; Was He a Hero ora Prig?” by Howard Pyle, the artist. {> Postal-card Votes and Cash Prizes. 45) SHORT STORIES sifted from thousands: Santa Claus on a Vegetable Cart. Charlotte M. Vail. Rijane. William Preston Otis. How Tom Jumped a Mine. Mrs. H. F Stickney. The Run of Snow-shoe ——— 30n. Lieut. F. P. Frémont. Polly at the Book- kitchen. Delia W. Lyman. Trailing Arbutus. Hezekiah Butterworth. Golden Margaret. Jamcs >. Purdy. Peggy’s Bullet. Kate Upson Clark How Simeon and Sancho Panza Helped the Revolution. Miss Risley Seward. he Difficulties of a Darling. L. 7. Walford. “One Good Turn.” Harriet Prescott Spofford. iLLUSTRATED ARTICLES, novelties: Dolls of Noted Women. Miss Risley Seward. How to Build a Military Snow-Fort. An | sid West Pointer. How the Cossacks Play Polo. Madame de Meissner. All Around : Frontier Fort. Lieut. F. P. Fremont. Home of Ramona. Charles F. Lummis. A Rabbit Round-Up. Joaquin Miller. Japanese Fight- ing Kites. J. B. Bernadon, U.S. N. Indian Base Ball Players. F. L. Sloane of ‘‘ The Hamp- ton Indian Nine.” A Party in a Chinese Pei- ace. E.R. ocidmore. The Poems. Pictures and Departments will be more interesting than ever. Ra The Christmas Number enlarged 16 pages ' admit a great serial of adventure, D Grant Allen entitled: WEDNESDAY ‘Ht thNtH A Tale of the South Pacific. Wide Awake is $2.40 a vear. New Vol. begins Dec D. LOTHROP COMPANY, Boston. SOAP, ABSOLUTELY PURE. @ ~=TKE BEST FOF THE THE BATH GENERAL HOUSEHGLOD s- USE .. For Sale by all Grocers. ASK FOR IT. THE ELOPEMENT. Slegant reproduction of the famous Water Coloi sy Kaemmerer, issued by us at a cost of ovel 3,000 dollars. A copy sent free to any address or ceccipt of 25 wrappers from the (AK=[EAF SOAP GOWANS & STOVER, Buffalo, N.Y. 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.. / No. 4 Monroe Street, K. G. STUDLRY, Wholesale Dealer in Rubber Boots and Shoes Manufactured by CANDEE RUBBER 60. Send for Large Illustrated Catalogue and Price List. TELEPHONE 464. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Lemon & Peters, WHOLESALE GROCERS. SOLE AGENTS FOR Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Soaps, Niagara Starch, Amboy Cheese GRAND RAPIDS. Job Printing! We desire to call atten- tion to our facilities for producing first-class job printing for the trade. If you live in a part of the State where you cannot get satisfactory work, write us for estimates. Samples and prices sent on applica- tion. ’ Wecarry a complete line of stationery, papers—in fact all kinds of printers’ stock. Send sample of what you want. Fuller & Stowe Company, GRAND ee ‘reqqny Zary004g sur “180M 2 BUI}4LT 880g OULL GEO. H. REEDER, State Agent Lycoming Rubbers and Jobber of Medinm Price Shoes, Grand Rapids, Mich. Putnam Gandy Go, 13, 15 AND 17 SOUTH IONIA ST. Ionia Pants& Overall Co. E. D. Voorhees, Manager. MANUFACTURERS OF Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, te. Warranted Not to Rip. Fit Guaranteed. Workmanship Perfect. Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of these goods enables him to turn out a line especially adapted to the Michigan trade. sent on application. IONIA, MICH. Samples and prices No Combination Here It is hardly necessary for us to inform the trade that we do not belong tothe Wholesale Grocers’ Combination and that we do not sell goods at com- bination prices. Telfer Spice Company. 1 AND 3 PEARL STREET. Bertsch & Co,, Rindge, MICHIGAN AGENTS FOR THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE Co. We carry a full line in stock and guarantee terms and prices as good as any house selling the line. Correspondence solicited. 14 AND 16 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, 12, MICH. THE WALSH--DE ROO MILLING GO., HOLLAND, MICH. Daily Capacity, 400 Bbils. BRANDS: SUNLIGHT, DAISY, PURITY, MORNING STAR, IDLEWILD, DAILY BREAD, ECONOMY. SPECIALTIES: Graham, Wheatena, Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Bolted Meal, Rye Meal, Wheat Grits, Buckwheat Grits, Pear! Barley, Oat Meal, Rolled Oats, iiglivso a. ofst MILL’ ELEVATOR |= Bae 2H 0 Bas —= Correspondence Solicited. Go0d-ByeiePass Boo Adopt the Tradesman Credit Covpon Book, And you will find the saving of time to be so great that you will never permit the use of another pass book in your establishment. The Tradesman Coupon is the cheapest and most modern in the market, being sold as follows: $ 2 Coupons, per hundred.......... $2.50 | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS: $5 “ A 3.00} Orders for 200 or over....... 5 per eent, $10 ee 4.00 . - soe seco. 10 bi $20 . a es oes 5.00 | st 1 « ....... 20 " SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS. E. A. STOWE & BRO., - - Grand Rapids. Buy a Case orf TIGEER s 0 5 VAN DAILY OT A ae > COFP E EF. Sold Under Our Personal Guarantee. I. M. CLARK & SON. 2. * » @ *