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The Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

VOL. 7.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1889.

NO. 323.

 

 

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THE LOSER’S’ GAIN.

I sold my land to cne who had
No ready cash, it seemed;

He pe foritin promises
That ne. er were redeemed.

I went to court, hut after years
Of struggle, all in vain,

My farm to lawyers went, for fees,
And there it will remain.

I gave my friend: hip to a man
vho v ith deceit re; aid
My every act of friendliness,
And every trust be rayed.

To crown his deeds of infamy
This heartless traitor plied
His art to win from me the lass

Who was to be my bride,

He gained the prize—a termagant
She soon was f. und to: e:

And there’s today no man on earth
More justly scourged than he.

Now I’ve no farm to worry me,
No wealth to bring me st: ife;
And better still, no faithless friend,
And best, no scolding wife.

I’ve lost much preeious time, ‘tis true:
Yet time is left to me

To ponder how a man may lose
And still a gainer be.

For he that haply wisdom gains
In losing all his stor:,
Is not a loser, but, in truth,
Is richer than before.
GaTH BRITTLE.
——__—_—. 2 ~<

CONFEDERATE GOLD.

 

 

A Thanksgiving Story.

Mr. James Kendall, of the law firm of
Kendall & Morris, sat at his desk on the
second morning after Thanksgiving Day,
confronted hy a pile of letters.

‘‘Fifty-three ’ he exclaimed, despair-
ingly, ‘‘representing every variety of
feminine handwriting and every type of
female character. Most of them, | sup-
pose, contain pitiful tales of want. Why
ean’t people present their business
qualifications without appealing to one’s
sympathies? Now, here’s the first one,’’
hastily running over a closely-written
sheet. ‘*The writer doesn’t understand
short-hand, but will undertake to qualify
herself in four weeks if, meanwhile, I
will give her some copying todo. Hasa
widowed brother-in-law and three small
nieces to support. Better marry the
brother-in-law,’’ he commented vindict-
ively, ‘‘and let him support her. Here’s
another: ‘Dear Sir—lam the daughter
of wealthy parents, but desire to be in-
dependent.’ No more of that!’ tossing
it in the waste basket. ‘Say, Morris !’’
he cried, looking up hopelessly at his
partner, ‘‘what’s to be done? I can’t
possibly wade through all this.’’

The other laughed unsympathetically.

“Well,’? he said, ‘‘you would adver-
tise.”’

Kendall groaned. :

“It?s a frightful penalty,’? he said,
“‘and there’ll probably be as many more
by the next mail.’’

‘“‘Well,’’ said his partner, ‘‘read on un-
til you come to a good one; then send
for her before you go any further. Most
likely she’ll suit.’

Kendall read on as he was advised, in-
terjecting comments that were not always
complimentary, and dropping one letter
after anotherin the basket. Finally, he
came to one that seemed to demand more
eareful attention. Heread it twice, then
spread it out in frontof him and brushed
the others away.

“I think this will do,’’ he said.

“Who is it?” asked his _ partner.
‘What does it say 2”’
“She signs herself ‘Alice Harts-

horne,’’’ replied Kendall, ‘‘and it’s re-
freshingly brief after the autobiogra-
phies I’ve been through. [ll send for
her, at any rate.’’

Morris rose, preparatory to leaving the
room.

‘Well’? he said. “I hope, for your
sake, she won’t turn out an antique.”

“Oh! I don’t care if she’s a hundred,”’
declared Kendall, ‘‘so long as she can
write short-hand.’’

He was not displeased, however, the
following morning, when Miss Harts-
horne was ushered in, to find that she
was young and prepossessing. Indeed,
she was decidedly pretty, and her voice
when she spoke impressed him as agree-
ably as her face.

‘Have you ever had any experience
as a stenographer ?”’ he asked.

‘‘Not in office work,’’ she replied.
have taken sermons and lectures.’’

He pointed to a chair.

‘Sit down,”’ he said, ‘‘and I will give
you some dictation.’’

She sat down, took off her gloves and
wrote rapidly while he dictated several
letters.

“That will do,’ he said
“Can you read your notes ?”’
She glanced rapidly over the paper.

“Oh, yes, sir,’? she said; ‘I am quite
sure I can do that.’’

‘*“Very well, then,’’ he said, ‘‘sit down
at the desk outside and write them out.
The clerk there will give you pen and
paper.’’

‘I can use the type-writer,’’ she vol-
unteered, ‘‘if you wish them done with
that.’’

Kendall began to feel that he had an
acquisition.

“Ah!? he exclaimed, ‘‘can you? That
is so much the better. By all means, use
the type-writer.’’

In half an hour she brought him back
the letters neatly and correctly tran-
seribed.

“That is very satisfactory,’’ Kendall
said, when he had looked them over.
‘Do you live in New York, Miss Harts-
horne ?”’

“Yes, sir,’? she replied; ‘I live with
my father. He is out of employment at
present.”’

‘‘And can you come to-morrow ?”’

‘I can stay now, sir, if you want me.’’

“Oh, to-morrow will do—’ He hes-
itated fora moment. ‘‘As to salary, we
pay about $10 a week at thestart. Would
that be satisfactory ?’’

Miss Hartshorne inclined her head.

‘Quite satisfactory, sir,’’ she said.

‘That is all then, at present. You had
better be here to-morrow about nine
o’clock.’’

ae

at length.

 

She bowed and left the room, while
Kendall’s partner entered from another
door. :

‘Oh?’ he exclaimed, catching a
glimpse of the departing visitor, ‘‘a lady
client ?”’

“Our new stenographer,’”’ explained
Kendall. ‘I think she’s a prize.’’

Morris laughed.

‘*You’ll have arow with her inside of
six months,’’? he said. ‘I never knew
you to get along with a woman yet.”

A frown gathered on Kendall’s face.

‘*My relations to her will be purely
official,’? he said. <‘*There will be no
occasion for a disagreement.’’

“Oh, you'll get interested in her,’’
prophesied Morris. ‘‘You’re too sym-
pathetic. You can’t help it. And then
you’ll make her mad. You can’t help
that, either. You’re too brutally frank.”’

Kendall never allowed himself to be
angry with his partner.

‘Well, I believe she is a prize,’ he
insisted.

And, notwithstanding the other’s fore-
warnings, he looked forward with some
expectancy to her advent on the morrow.

* * * * * * *

Mr. Hartshorne’s fortune was securely
invested—so securely, indeed, that he
had not been able to realize a cent of it
for fifteen years. His daughter, who
had been a little child when he made his
investments, did not believe that he ever
would realize upon them; but Mr. Harts-
horne himself was more sanguine, and
looked confidently forward to the day
when he would collect, if not the whole,
a good part of his original $250,000. The
securities which represented this sum to
Mr. Hartshorne, and which for so many
years he had had locked up in his tin
boy, were bonds of the extinct Southern
Confederacy. There were no more hope-
ful signs now, it is true, than there had
been at any time of their being paid;
but he clung to the idea that some day or
other, when there came a change of par-
ties in the national administration, the
United States would assume the Con-
federate debt, or so much of it, at least,
as embraced his particular loan, whose
claims for consideration had always
seemed to him peculiarly strong.

With this hope Mr. Hartshorne had
gone into every Presidential campaign
since the war, only to be disappointed
when the result of the canvass was de-
termined. This had been his fate in
1868, 1872 and 1876; and now, in 1880,
when his candidate was once more de-
feated, his disappointment was partic-
ularly keen. What made it even harder
to bear was the possible loss of the posi-
tion which he held in the Department of
Sewers and Drainage in the New York
City government. It was not a very
lucrative office, but the salary kept Alice
and himself from want; and, until the
bonds should be paid, he could illy afford
to lose it. But the local political faction
to which he had linked his fortunes was
also defeated; and it was not improbable
that in the distribution of rewards one
of the faithful would receive his place.
When a fortnight had gone by and noth-
ing was said by his chief, he began to
hope that his well-known devotion to the
party in the past, and especially during
the war, might countervail this solitary
lapse. But at length the blow fell; and
as if the chief designed it for a piece of
grim ireny, it descended on the night be-
fore Thanksgiving.

“Circumstances have made it neces-
sary,”’ he said, by way of explanation to
his daughter, ‘‘for me to resign my
office. It is a little inconvenient, of
course, to be deprived of a regular in-
come, but I shall have the more time to
devote to my larger interests, and there
is no doubt but that eventually we shall
gain by it.’’

Alice understood her father, when he
spoke of his ‘‘larger interests,’’ to refer
to the bonds, and listened with some im-
patience as he expatiated upon his hazy
prospects. As a matter of fact, to be
deprived of the income was not onlya
little inconvenient, but positively ruin-
ous. They had very little ahead; her
father, she feared, could not easily ob-
tain another place, even if he were dis-
posed to look for it, and the burden of
their support seemed likely to fall on
her. She was not wholly unprepared to
meet it, for she had been taking short-
hand lessons for some time, and could
already write with a good deal of facility;
but how could she find a position where
the knowledge would be of use to her?
She searched the papers the next morn-
ing without discovering an advertise-
ment. It was Thanksgiving; the church
bells were ringing, and peopée every-
where were preparing their savory din-
ners. Even Mr. Hartshorne had caught
the infection of the day; only in Alice’s
heart there was no thankfulness, while
the dinner which she served was meager
and poor.

On the day following, however, she
came upon the ‘‘Want’’ of Kendall &
Morris and answered it, though without
much hope of being successful in her
application. It was a genuine surprise
when the letter came summoning her to
appear in person at their office; and
when at length she was elected to the
position, her elation knew no bounds.
Not even her father’s severe, displeasure
could dampen it.

‘A stenographer, Alice!’ he ex-
claimed. ‘‘Did I understand you to say
that you had become astenographer 2”’

Alice was folding up her cloak.

“Yes, sir,’? she said, arranging the
garment with extra care, in view of the
long service which it must still render
her, ‘‘you did. I have accepted a situa-
tion to-day in a lawyer’s office down
town.’’

‘“‘And may I ask,’’ he inquired, majes-
tically, ‘‘why you stoop to that menial
occupation ?”’

Alice smiled.

“Simply because it is necessary to do
something,’’ she said, ‘‘and that is what
I know best.’’

Mr. Hartshorne frowned.

‘You seem to have forgotten,”’ he said,

 

“that you are the daughter of a South-
ern gentleman.”’

‘‘Well,’’ said Alice, conclusively, ‘that
won’t buy bread and butter.”’

This was obvious, even to Mr. Harts-
horne, and the subject was accordingly
dropped. Alice went to her work the
next day, and the days that followed,
without any more opposition. and with
the greater satisfaction on her part since
her father did not succeed in getting any
other position. His time was so fully
occupied, indeed, with correspondence
relating to his bonds that he could find
no leisure in which to look for other and
more profitable employment. While
Alice was laboring for his support and
her own, he was engaged in devising
elaborate schemes for the payment of
the confederate debt, and urging his
plans in long and persuasive letters upon
various members of Congress.

In a little while Alice had learned the
details of her business. As she came to
know her employer, she grew to like him.
He treated her frankly and with consid-
eration, as, indeed, he treated all his
clerks, without reminding her that she
was a woman. He was a little distant
withal, and Alice was secretly afraid of
him. That did not prevent her, how-
ever, from doing her best to win his ap-
probation, which, as the year went on,
she felt that she was doing. She had
been about ten months in her place,
when Mr. Kendall sent for her one day
to come into his rvom with her note-
book.

‘“*Good morning,’’ he said, as she came
in, ‘‘will you take aletter for me ?”’

She bowed and took her seat.

‘‘Address it, if you please,’’ he went

on, ‘‘Israel F. Josephs, Esq., Barnard’s
Inn, Holborn, London. Have you got
that ?’”

“*Yes, sir,’’ she replied.

“Then go ahead: My Dear Sir—lIt is
rumored here that a large amount of
Confederate gold has remained on deposit
in London—whether in the Bank of
England or with some private concern is
not stated—since the close of the war in
1865, and that it is applicable to the pay-
ment of a certain issue of Confederate
bonds—”’

Miss Hartshorne gave a sudden start.

‘“*Eh? did you speak ?”? asked her em-
ployer.

The girl blushed.

‘**No, sir,’’ she said, ‘‘I did not.’’

“Oh! I thought you did. Well, goon:
Confederate bonds, of which one of our
clients is alarge holder. Our client de-
sires us to inquire whether the rumor
has any foundation in fact, and if the
present speculation in Confederate bonds
may be accounted for on those grounds.
Will you kindly give us the benefit of
your valued opinion, and advise us, also,
if such a fund exists, what steps should
be taken on behalf of the bondholders
in the English courts. Have you got
that, Miss Hartshorne ?”’

Alice was just taking down the last
words.

**Yes, sir,’’? she said.

‘“‘Well, then, write it out, please. I
want it to go by to-day’s steamer.”’

She rose from her chair, but hesitated
before leaving the room.

‘‘Would it be improper for me to ask,”’
she said, ‘‘what class of Confederate
bonds is believed to be covered by that
deposit ?’’

He looked at her in a little surprise.

‘“‘They are the issue of 1865,’’ he said,
‘“‘for supplies and munitions of war. It
is supposed that the war came to an end
before the money could be spent. Are
you interested in Confederates, also,
Miss Hartshorne ?’’

‘“*My father has some,’’ she said, ‘‘and I
think they are of that issue.”’

‘“‘Ah, indeed ’ he said. ‘‘Then I hope,
for your sake, there is some truth in the
report. I will let you know, Miss Harts-
horne, what answer we get from
Josephs.’’

She bowed her pretty head.

‘“‘Thank you, sir,”’ she said, as she
opened the door, ‘*I shall be very glad to
know.’’

All the rest of the day Alice found
herself in a strangely excited state. For
the first time in her life she began to ex-
perience the fascination of the bonds
and to build air castles upon the chance
of their payment. She had never en-
tertained the least faith in her father’s
notion that the United States would as-
sume them; but this idea of an unex-
pended balance, out of which they might
be paid, seemed not at all incredible. In
that case, what luxury would they not
once more enjoy! How soon would they
leave New York and go back to the
South, where she had lived her child-
hood and where her mother was buried!
As Alice contemplated this, however, the
thought of leaving her business gave her
a strange pang. How much she would
miss the regularity of her occupation,
the discipline which it afforded her
mind, the education which she got from
Mr. Kendall’s briefs and correspondence,
and the charm of his conversation! In-
deed, when she came to think of it, she
did not want to go back to the South.
She would far rather stay in New York
and enjoy the agreeable society of people
like Mr. Kendall. Alice had never cared
about riches, because they had always
seemed unattainable. Now it appeared
to herself that she had suddenly become
avaricious and as anxious about the
bonds as her father himself.

She would not, however, tell her father
anything about the rumor until it should
be authenticated; though when she came
home that night she found him more dis-
posed than he had been for some time to
talk about their prospective fortunes.

‘‘Perhaps you have noticed, Alice,’’ he
said, after a little, ‘‘that there is quite a
speculation in London in Confederate
bonds.”’

The girl’s heart beat fast, but she did
not betray any concern.

“Yes, sir,’? she said, quietly, ‘‘I did
hear of it. How much are they selling
for ?”’

Mr. Hartshorne waved his hand.

 

‘A purely nominal price,’’ he said;
“$2 a thousand, or something of that
sort. But the fact that they are market-
able at all is very significant. I shouldn’t
be surprised if they sold at par within
three months, but if I can get eighty-five
for mine I will let them go for that.
There’s a muvement in them, Alice;
something is in the wind.”’

Alice wondered if he had heard the
rumor itself.

“What do you
murmured.

He took a little scrap of paper from
his pocket and handed it to the girl.

‘‘Read that,’’ he said.

It was an advertisement stating that
holders of Confederate bonds, issue of
1865, for ‘‘supplies and munitions of
war,’’ would learn of something to their
advantage by addressing Messrs. Moses
& Levy, —Chancery Lane, London. Alice
read it with kindling cheeks.

‘‘Well ?”? she said. interrogatively.

Her father’s voice dropped to an im-
pressive whisper.

“TI wrote to them to-day,’’ he said.
‘*Those are the bonds which I hold. In
a month we shall know whether we are
to be rich once more.”’

During that month Mr. Hartshorne was
in a fever of anxiety, while Alice her-
self was scarcely less concerned. In
her case the suspense was the more try-
ing, since she had never had to bear it
before. It did not seem, indeed, that she
could wait for an answer either to Mr.
Kendall’s letter or her father’s; and
though she did not neglect her work, her
mind was inatumult of unrest which
Mr. Kendal was not slow in observing.

‘You are worrying about something,’
he said one day. ‘‘What is it 2”’

The gir! blushed.

“It isn’t anything,’’ she said, hur-
riedly. ‘‘Is my work unsatisfactory, Mr.
Kendal! ?”’

His forehead contracted.

“No,’’? he said, abruptly, ‘it is never

suppose it is?’’ she

unsatisfactory. But your mind is not
always on it.’’
She tapped her pencil nervously

against the table, while her eyes had in
them a far-off, anxious look.

‘That is true,’? she murmured.
will try and do better, Mr. Kendall.’’

He got up from his chair and came
over to where she was sitting.

‘I do not want you to do any better !’’
he exclaimed. ‘‘What you do is always
right. But I would like to save you
anxiety.’’

She lifted her eyes gratefully to his.

*““Ah!? she said, ‘‘you are very kind.
But this is not anxiety—it is only sus-
pense. AndIam afraid the object is
not a very worthy one. By-and-by I will
tell you about it. Shall I go now ?”’ she
asked, remembering that her work was
done.

He nodded and went back to his desk,
while Alice left the room. Thesuspense
was not lessened by what he had said,
but it was made easier to bear, and Alice
possessed her soul with all the patience
she could command until four weeks had
gone by since the letters had been sent.
Then one day she was summoned to Mr.
Kendall’s room.

‘Do yourecollect,’’ he asked, ‘‘writing
a letter to Josephs, in London, about
Confederate bonds ?’’

Alice’s heart leaped.

“*Yes, sir,” She said, °*E do.’?

‘‘Well,’’ he said, ‘there is the reply I
have just received. I am sorry, for
your sake, it is not more encouraging.”’

Her hopes, which had gone up at the
first announcement, fell like lead. She
took the letter, mechanically. It was
written in aclerkly, English hand, and
read as follows:

Messrs. Kendall & Morris, No.—Nassau St., N. Y.

DEAR Sirs—Referring to yours of the
—ult., in the matter of the alleged de-
posits applicable to the payment of a
certain class of Confederate bonds, I re-
gret that 1 cannot give your client any
encouraging information. The bonds in
question were marketed in London, and
the proceeds were, no doubt, deposited
temporarily in the Bank of England to
the credit of one McRae, who was finan-
cial agent of the Confederacy at that
time. The money, however, was shortly
afterward disbursed by McRae for the
supplies and munitions, to purchase
which the loan was made, and a full ac-
count was rendered by him to the Con-
federate government. I am confident
that not a penny remained; or that, if it
did, the United States government took
possession of it, along with the other as-
sets of the Confederacy, at the close of
the war. McRae, in fact, was sued by
the U. S., and died in Spanish Honduras
in circumstances of great poverty. You
may assure your client that the specula-
tion in Confederate bonds, so far as it
may be based upon any funds existing in
England, is purely fictitious.

Yours faithfully,
IsRAEL F. JOSEPHS.

This, then, was the end of her little
dream. She looked up at the lawyer,
and her face was ashy pale. ‘*Thank
you!’ she faltered; but the effort to
speak was too much for her composure,
and she burst into tears.

Kendall looked stupefied.

“T had no idea,’’? hecried. ‘I could
not imagine you would be so much con-
cerned.’’

In a moment she had controlled her-
self.

“IT beg your pardon,’’ she said. ‘I am
very childish. But I had allowed my-
self for a little time to think the bonds
might be paid, and the disappointment
was very keen. It will not be so hard
to bear, though, as the suspense was.
You will not find me worrying any more,
Mr. Kendall.’’

‘Ah?’ he cried, ‘‘that is what you
were fretting about then.’’

She smiled faintly through her tear-
dimmed eyes.

“It was an unworthy object,’’ she said,
‘‘was it not? I dare say you will think I
am very mercenary.’’

He seemed to struggle with some vio-

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The Michigan Tradesman

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
Thos. Leak has engaged in the grocery
business at Rosina. Lemon & Peters
furnished the stock.

Amos S. Musselman & Co. sold the
grocery stock to J. A. Holmes & Co. the
new dealers at Kent City.

 

Bartholomew & Hodge have engaged
in the grocery business near Hopkins.
Ball, Barnhart & Putman furnished the
stock.

Palmer & Crozier will remove their
boot and shoe stock from Traverse City
to this city in about two weeks, locating
at 29 Canal street.

 

Chester J. Carrel has sold his interest
in the grocery firm of Carrel Bros., at
598 South Division street, to his brother,
who will continue the business under the
style of E. J. Carrel.

 

W. H. Chilson & Son, general dealers
at West Sebewa, have opened a general
store at Woodbury, the new town at the
junction of the D., L. & N. and Lowell
& Hastings Railways. The Olney &
Judson Grocer Co. furnished the gro-
ceries.

Ball, Barnhart & Putman have arranged
to merge their business into a stock
company under the style of the Ball-
Barnhart-Putman Co. The corporation
will have a capital stock of $85,000, all
paid in, and the management will be in
the same hands as in the past. Enos
Putman will serve the company in the
capacity of President, Willard Barnhart
as Vice President and O. A. Ball as Sec-
retary and Treasurer. The incorpora-
tion papers went to Lansing yesterday
and will probably be filed with the
County Clerk to-day.

As foreshadowed last week, the grocery
business of Olney, Shields & Co. has
been merged into a stock company under
the style of the Olney & Judson Grocer
Co. The capital stock of the corporation
is $80,000, all paid in, the stockholders
being Chas. E. Olney, Wm. Judson,
Heman G. Barlow, Edward Frick. Jas. A.
Morrison and R. R. Bean. Chas. E.
Olney is President of the company, Ed-
ward Frick Vice-President, and Wm.
Judson Secretary and Treasurer. With
the exception of the retirement of Mr.
Shields and the accession of Mr. Barlow,
the business will be conducted the same
as before, no change being made in
either the office or traveling forces.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Evart—Mrs. A. Seeker has opened a
notion store.

Marion— Asa Borland has opened a
meat market.

Fraser—John Fisher
Bliel in general trade.

Elmira—T. S. Jordan has sold his gen-
eral stock to his wife.

St. Ignace—Frederick Kruger, general
dealer, has been burned out.

Bellevue—James Johnson has sold his
meat market to Geo. Miller.

Hesperia—W oolpert & Darlington have
opened a new meat market.

Allegan—The sales of the grange store
during October were $17,973.

Port Huron—A. B. Carlisle, grocer,
has been closed by creditors.

Crystal—H. J. Beach succeeds Hamil-
ton & Beach in general trade.

Battle Creek—W. N. Clark succeeds
J. C. Deuel in the fruit business.

Iron Mountain—King & Kneebone suc-
eeed Richard King in the meat business.

Howell—Frank A. Burkhardt has sold
his grocery stock to A. W. Balch.

Carland—Jos. Vincent has sold his
general stock to Scott & Shannon.

Cannonsburg—J. C. Benbow will re-
move his general stock to Hartford.

Boyne City—R. R. Perkins succeeds
R. R. Perkins & Co. in general trade.

sueceeds John

Lake Odessa—Fred Wager, of Ionia, |

has opened a boot and shoe store here.

Hancock—C. Simmer, Jr., dealer
groceries, has been closed by creditors.

Muskegon — T. M. Lander has em-
barked in the grocery business at 93 Pine
street.

Detroit—Matthew Vice has assigned
his merchant tailoring stock to Chas.
Cohen.

Kalamazoo—C. A. Merrill & Co. have
sold their flour and feed business to S. J.
Carson.

Glenn—Wm. Earl is erecting a new
building, which he will use as a meat
market.

Chippewa Lake —H. C. Ward has
bought the bazaar stock of Eugene
Burtsch.

Howell—Kellogg & Horning succeed
Kellogg, Garland & Co. in the clothing
business.

East Jordan—H. Wilensky has chattel
mortgaged his clothing stock to a Detroit
creditor.

Hancock—Jacob Rohlman, Jr., dealer
in groceries and fruits, has been closed
by creditors.

Ironton—J. G. Peterson’s new store
building, to replace the structure burned
afew weeks ago, has been completed.
It is 22x36 feet in dimensions and two
stories high.

in

 

Edward C. Judd, the Broadway grocer,
was recently married to Miss Lillie V.
Wright, an estimable West Side lady.

Ishpeming—Markert Bros., provision
dealers, have been closed on a mortgage.
Debts, $2,000; visible assets, consider-
ably less.

Watervliet—A bout $400 worth of goods
were stolen from the stores of S. D.
Walden & Co. and Hiram Pierce last
Tuesday night.

Hudson—Mr. Fowle has sold his inter-
est in the bakery firm of Fowle & Pratt
to Samuel Lee. The new firm will be
known as Pratt & Co.

Eaton Rapids—Mr. Glieman, formerly
in partnership here with S. Amdursky,
has bought F. A. Montgomery’s dry
goods and grocery stock and will remove
it to Lansing.

Greenville-F. W. Briggs, of Dexter, has
purchased the interest of A. C. Satterlee
in the hardware business of Fowler &
Satterlee. The new firm will be known
as Fowler & Briggs.

Whitehall—The A. W. Veal boot and
shoe stock was bid in at mortgage sale
by M. D. Wells & Co., of Chicago, who
sold it to a Big Rapids dealer. Mr Veal
will remove to Tampa, Fla.

East Saginaw—C. M. Hill and James
E. Vincent have let the contract for the
erection of a new hotel, to be built here
at once, at a cost of $100,000. It will be
completed October 1, 1890, and has been
leased to Detroit parties for ten years.

Reed City—C. J. Fleischauer, who has
been engaged in the grocery business
here for the past twelve years, has sold
his stock to his son, A. Fleischauer, and
his brother, N. J. Fleischauer, who will
continue the business under the style of
A. & N. J. Fleischauer. The old grocer
will probably not remain out of the har-
ness long.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Maple City—Cook & Weston will start
their sawmill on January 1.

Remus — Benj. J. Shrouds succeeds
Shrouds & Hughes in the manufacture
of shingles.

Geo. S. Curtiss, the Edgerton lumber

and barrel head manufacturer, was in
town Monday.
Detroit—The Latimer Cash Register

Co. has been incorporated, with a capital
stock of $20,000.

Gould City—R. D. Conway will erect a
mill for cutting cedar shingles and paving
blocks near this place.

Otsego Lake—The Nicholson & Hanson
Lumber Co. has incorporated, with a
capital stock of $100,000.

Haneock—The South Range Mining
Co. has filed articles of incorporation,
with a capital stock of $1,250,000.

Bay City—The Hathaway Mowing Ma-
chine Co. has been incorporated and will
carry on business on an extensive scale.

Maple City—Chas. Elsonhimer is build-
ing a shingle mill and sash, blind and
frame factory, and will have it running
by February 1.

Cheboygan—Dr. M. B. Champion and
C. O. Gardner have leased the Langdon
feed mill and are fitting it up and will
soon begin the manufacture of feed, un-
der the firm name of Champion &
Gardner.

Manistee—Thomas R. Lyon, of Lud-
ington, has been in Manistee frequently
the past few days, and it is reported that
there is an extensive pine land deal on
the boards, the particulars of which will
come out later.

Bay City—Jas. A. Green is patiently
awaiting a decision in the Green &
Stevens litigation over the Stone Island
sawmill premises, and he if it
proves favorable he will erect a large
sawmill on the site.

Saginaw—The A. W. Wright Lumber
Co. is doing some hustling work on its
logging road, in Clare and Gladwin coun-
ties. Week before last, from two camps,
it took from the tree and put into the
stream 2,153,430 feet of logs.

Detroit—Howard H. Parsons recently
executed a chattel mortgage for $15,000
in favor of Isaac Parsons and Butman &
Rust, of Saginaw, covering his lumber
yard anda land contract for the same.
A mortgage for $20,000 to the same per-
sens, filed week before last, was dis-
charged.

Manistee—D. W. Lewis, who has a
lumber yard at Jacksonville, Ill., has at
last succeeded in giving away the bal-
ance of the machinery in his shingle mill
on the river here. A Saginaw firm has
secured it and will take it to the Upper
Peninsula during the winter months, and
have it ready for operations in the
spring.

Muskegon—Samuel S. Watson has re-
cently purchased the wood and planing
mill of Johnson & Lind. He is engaged
in putting in new machinery, new
boilers, etc., and will soon have a good
planing mill. Mr. Watson is recently
from ‘‘down east,’’ and is a brother of
W. G. Watson, the well-known Muskegon
manufacturer.

Manistee—Fred Babcock, who has just
returned from a land-looking expedition
in Minnesota, is not enamored with the
outlook in that region. He says the
country is so rough and the brush so
thick that it costs a great deal more to
log than it does in this country. The
character of the timber that he saw was
not very inviting.

says

 

East Saginaw—Merrill & Ring have
purchased of E. F. Gould a tract of pine
in town 20, 2 west, the consideration for
which was $40,000.

Manistee—Fred F. Huntress, of Du-
luth, has been here for the past few days,
and it is reported that there is quite an
extensive land deal in the wind, the par-
ticulars of which will not transpire un-
til the details are completed. .

East Saginaw—J. H. Freeney, prob-
ably the only colored lumberman in the
State, who operated shingle mills here
the past two years, one of which was de-
stroyed by explosion, has removed to
Wise, Isabella county, where he is run-
ning a sawmill, cutting about 25,000 feet
daily. The shingle mill here operated
by him has passed into other hands.

Bay City—While old sawmill plants
are going out of existence, new ones are
being organized. W. H. Tousey has
purchased a fine site during the past
week, and it is understood that Tousey
& Turner will establish a planing mill
and lumber yard. J. M. Seever and F.
C. Babst have leased the site and build-
ing of the Bousfield, Perrin & Co. wood-
enware factory, and will convert the
property into a box factory and planing
mill.

East Saginaw — When J. T. Hurst
grouped and parted company with the
Tobacco river tract of pine, which he
bought of Whitney & Stinchfield last
spring, he held on to about 20,000,000
feet, which he proposes to lumber him-
self. He will put in 8,000,000 feet of
this timber this season, and has started
camps. The logs have been sold to the
Saginaw Lumber Co. It is reported the
price to be paid is $12 a thousand de-
livered in the Tittabawasse boom limits.

qr».
The P. of I. Dealers.
The following are the P. of I. dealers
who had not cancelled their contracts at
last accounts:
Adrian—Powers & Burnham,
Wehle.
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.
Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.
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,
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 Beries, 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.
Lake Odessa—Christian Haller & Co.
Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jen-
nings.
Maple Rapids—L. 8S. Aldrich.
Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lep-
per & Son, Jno. Butler. Richard Butler.
Mecosta—Parks Bros.
Milan ©. ©. (Mrs: 0. S_) Knight.
Millington—Chas. H. Valentine.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Mt. Morris—H. E. Lamb,
& Son, F. H. Cowles.
Nashville—Powers & Stringham, H. M.
Lee.
Ogden—A. J. Pence.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler.
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—J. C. Townsend.

—_——__—> >
The Experience of a P. of I. Dealer.
SUMNER, Nov. 20, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Srpr—In reply to yours of the
12th, asking my experience with the
P. of I.’s, would say that I think that if
JT had not canceled my contract, I would
have found myself in the position of the
man inthe picture enclosed.

Yours truly, J. B. TUCKER.

The illustration Mr. Tucker incloses
is substantially as follows:

Anton

B.A.

J. Bb.

 

 

J. Vermett

 

Portraits for the Holidays.

Send a good cabinet photograph to
Hamilton’s Art Gallery, 79 Canal street,
and get a first-class, life-size, crayon por-
trait for $10. Correspondence solicited.

———> 2 <<

It pays to handle the P. & B. cough

drops.

 

P. of I. Gossip.

Belding Banner: ‘‘The person who is
always looking for the cheap class of
trade is oftener fleeced than the one who
saves time and buys at home.’’

Belding Banner: ‘‘Royalty on patents
and copyrights is not a bad thing in the

mily, a s yalty : :
family, and we presume the royalty On| whose talents and energies are enlisted

the P. of I. order amounts to no small
sum.”’

Evart Review: ‘‘The P. I.’s have
swallowed the P. T.’s in this vicinity,
and now reigns supreme. The National
Farmer’s Alliance have struck the State

3

and will soon superceded the P. I[.’s.’’

Borlaad correspondence Big Rapids;

Current: ‘‘Wiltsie & Charrier have
started their store again with a fuller
stock than they had before. This looks
asif the P. I. scare was about over here.’’

Pentwater News: ‘‘The Hesperia News
denounces the P. of I., because they pay
only 10 per cent. profit on goods. We
don’t know anything about the P. of L.,
never saw one of the animals, but from
reports judge that it is woolly and has
long ears.”’

Alpine correspondence Sparta Sentinel:
“The Alpine P. of I.’s are again agi-
tating the question of investing a share
of their funds in fitting up a hall of their
own. As they have nearly $5 lying idle
in their treasury, they can afford to be
independent of the Grange for a place in
which to hold their meetings.”’

Sears correspondence Evart Review:
‘“‘A lodge of Patrons of Industry was or-
ganized at the Gregg school house with
twenty-five members. We hope it will be
both pleasant and profitable for its mem-
bers, but we are in some doubt, feeling
like the old deacon when he prayed for
the first Good Templar lodge. He did not
want to commit himself, so he prayed:
Oh Lord! if it is a good thing bless it, if
it is bad, curse it.’’

Parks Bros., who have signed with the

Mecosta P. of I.’s, write THE TRADES-
MAN aS follows: *“‘The P. of 17s are

giving us a nice trade, and we are well
pleased with the results. ‘Cash is King,’
and if all would adopt the P. of I. plan
and pay cash, there would not be any
trouble in the dealer’s paying for his
goods and keeping his financial standing
as it should be. This trusting out goods
to Tom, Dick and Harry, and waiting on
Tom one year, and Dick three years, and
have Harry leave the country between
two days, is no way to do business.”’

Owosso Times: ‘‘On Wednesday, A. L.
Osborn, a Cleveland drummer, registered
at the Merrell House, leaving his grip
near the writing desk in the office while
he went down the street afew minutes
to do some business. Coming back, he
opened his grip and found four of his
mileage books gone. An officer was sent
for, and as soon as he came and began a
search, one of the men in the room,
named B. Rosenthal, went down cellar
to the wash-room, returning to the office
in ashort time. The tickets not being
in the office, a search was made in the
wash-room and the tickets found. When
accused of stealing the tickets, Rosen-
thal did not deny it. Hotel men are
warned to look out for him.’’

George A. Sage, the Rockford grocer,
recently had an amusing experience with
aP.1l. of that place. The sturdy rustic
had a load of carrots to sell and George
purchased the entire lot at the highest
market price. When the carrots had
been deposited in the cellar of the store,
the former owner hinted that there were
several articles in the grocery line he
needed, whereupon Mr. Sage announced
himself in readiness to serve his cus-
tomer with the best his store afforded.
The P. L. thanked him for the offer, with
the remark: ‘“‘George, you knowlam a P.
I. from the ground up. If there is any-
thing the P. I. store hasn’t got, P11 come
back here forit. Guess I’ll take cash
for them ecarrots.’? And George shelled
eut the hard cash for a load of truck he
will have no little difficulty in disposing
of for as much as it cost him.

Philadelphia Cash Grocer: ‘‘The
Patrons of industry must be a measly
coneern. Organized originally by men
who are neither farmers nor the sons of
farmers, it has developed into a combi-
nation of sneaking fellows whose chief
aim is the suppression of the village
grocer. Once organized in a county,
they go to the village grocers and threaten
to boycott them if they will not sell
goods to them at special prices or below
the rates given the general public. THE
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN is making a vig-
orous war on the contemptible organiza-
tion, and with great success. We ob-
serve that one of the head men of these
‘Patrons of Industry’ recently lost his
wife by death, and the town authorities
had to assume the expense of the Poor
woman’s burial. The story is told to
show the impecuniosity of some of these
Patrons, who profess to buy for cash,
and, therefore, should be given 10 per
cent. discount below regular rates to
other customers. Here isa chance for
the country retail grocer to try the effect
of organization. Wherever these Patrons
exist, the grocers in the county should
combine and decline to sell to them ex-
cept for cash at full prices. Two can
play at the boycott game, and the grocers

ean do itif they will only combine and
post their city brethren as to the scamps
of the patronizing order.’’

 

The Men of the Future.

The Boston Boot and Shoe Recorder,
in an excellent article on ‘‘Tone in Bus-
iness,’’ ridicules the pretensions of the
fashionable fad that professional oceu-
pations impart to their followers a kind
of superiority, and an ‘“‘elevated individ-
ualism,’”’? that distinguishes them from
their brethren who tread other paths, and
or mercantile matters.

in mechanical

From the partiality of parents to put).

their children in the professions, a good
many square pegs are getting into round
holes. The boys who leave school in
order to earn food and clothing are, as a
rule, the men who in after years consti-
tute the foundations upon which rest the
structure of a greater and grander civil-
ization. The men who can be the least
spared are outside of the professions.
That the theoretical is more honorable or
praiseworthy than the practical in voca-
tions, is the reasoning of the snob, and
itis high time that the parents of this
country began to make something besides
impecunious parrots of their boys.

 

 

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rr SALE—NEW STOCK OF HATS, CAPS. AND
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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. 4

LESTERE Co.

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale!

This corner brick store, center of thriv-
ing village, with well assorted stock of
Leading trade

dry goods and millinery.
in the village. LESTER
Odessa, Mich.

& ©O., Lake

 

LADIES AND MEN'S

 

Overgailters.

Ladies’, 7 buttons, $12 Net.
Men’s, 5 = $10 “
™ 6 $11

LOWEST PRICES ON ALL KINDS OF

Findings, Shoe Sture Supplies, kts,

Whitcomb & Paine’s Calf Boots, Rub-
bers, etc. A beautiful Smyrna Rug given
with each gross dressing.

G. R. MAYHEW,

86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mi.h,.

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The above offer is no

snide work.

We shall continue to
turn out only the BEST of work,
other cases at equally low prices.

 

AKYMAN & COMPANY,

63 AND 65 CANAL

Grand Rapids,

 

 

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GEO. H. REEDER,

State Agent

Lycoming Rubbers

and Jobber of

Medium Price Shoes.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

L.1O
COFFEE |

 

 

Merchants,
YOU WANT THIS CABINET

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.

 

Rvery Wide-Awake Merchant

Should Certainly Sell

ON, THE KING OF COFFEES.

An Article of Absolute Merit.

It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees.

only in one pound packages.
120 one-pound packages.

Packed

Put up in 100-lb cases, also in cabinets of
For sale by the wholesale trade everywhere.

Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States.

WV eoison Spice Co.,

TOLEDO), OFMIO.

L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids.

 

 
 
 

IF YOU WANT

The Best j

ACCEPT NONE BUT

Silver Thread

Sauerkraut.

 

Order this brand from
your wholesale grocer

 

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.

 

THE D

BOOKS,

ETROIT NEWS COMPANY,

WHOLESALE

STATIONERY, FANCY

GOODS,
PERIODICALS.

The largest and most complete line of above goods in

the Siate, at
eall. Send f
OUR

reasonable prices. Dealers are invited to
or our circulars and price lists.

HOLIDAY LINE IS NOW COMPLETE.

Corner Larned and Wayne Sts., Detroit.

 

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HALL PLATING WORKS,

ALL KINDS OF

Brass and Tron Polishing
Nickle and Silver Plating

Corner Pearl and Front Sts., Grand Rapids

 

 

 

 

ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.

Michigan Business Men’s Association.

President—C. L. Whitney, Muskegon.

First Vice-President—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint.

Biecond Vice-President—M C. Sherwood, Allegan.

fecretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Treasurer—H. W. Varker, Owosso

Executive Board—President; Frank Wells, Lansing;
Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell
Chas. T. Bridgeman, Flint; O. F. Conklin, Grand

pids, Secretary

Oominitiee ‘en Insurance—O. F. Conklin, Grand Rap
ids; Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Owosso.

Committee on Legislation Frank aa Lansing;
H. H. Pope, Allegan; C H. May, Cli a

Committee on Trade Y toreste—-Krank ‘Hamilton, Trav

erse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. . Sprague,

Greenville. :
tee on Transportation—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint;

Se eee. Allegan; A. O. Wheeler, Manistee.
and Loan Associations—N. B.

on Building
eae ara: EL: Fuller, Cedar Springs; P. J. Con

ell, Muskeger.
Local’ Secretary—Jas. H, Moore, Saginaw.
Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

iliary e€ oper-
The following auxiliary associations ar
ating under charters granted by the Michigan

Business Men’s Associ: ation’

 

Ne. t—Traverse City B. M.A. |
President. J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings.

No io. 2—Lowell B. B. M. A.
= Plain; Secretary, Frank T. King.
No. 3—sSturgis B. M. a
President. H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. _

Neo, 4—Grand “Rapids ™M. A.
President, E. J. Herrick: Secretary, E. A- Stowe.

No. 5—Muskegon 5B. M.
President, John A. Miller; * Secretary,

No. 6—Alba 6. M.A

W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
M.A.
.H. Widger.

President, N

 

 

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President, F.
No. j—Dimondale -
President. T. = Sloan; Secretary,
>. $§— Eastport = M. A.
President, F. od Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.
ee
No. 9—Law rence B. M. A.
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly.
Harbor springs B. M. A.
President, W. 3. Clark; Secretary. A- L. Thompson.
ican li ne iit a
Ne 11—isingsley i. M. A.
President. >" ; Secretary, D. E D. E. Wynkoop.
ea to. 12—Quincy B. M, A.
President, C. : Secretary, Thos. Lennon.
a “Wo. 13—Sherman Bb. M.A.
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin.
ee
No. 14—No. —— B. M. A.
President, 8. A. How ary, G. C. Havens.
it ae as: oy ne ae = M. A.
President. R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.
nd Lake B. M. A.

ne. 16 q
President, J. V.C randall: Secretary, W- Rasco.
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No. i7—Plainweli B. M.A.
President, Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No. 1‘. oe B. M,. AL
President, \ Warren P. Wood Secretary,
~ No. 19—Ada B. M. A.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, . E. Chapel.
No. sng rm oT k = Mw. A.
. Henry; Seeretary, N. L. B Rowe.

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President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. v. Hoyt.
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President, A. B B. Se shumacher; Secretary, Ww. R. Clarke.
No 25—Carso B. M. A.
lett Secretary, A. Lyon.

President. John W. Hal
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No. 24—Moriey B. 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 ts. M. A.
President. A. C. Satterlee: Secretary. * J. Clark.
No 27—Dorr 5B. MM.
President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, s
No. 28—Cheboygan B. = A
President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
No. 29—Freeport B. M. A.
President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Che
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A.
President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling.

J. Fisher.

esebrough.

 

No. 31—Charlotte Bb. M. M.A.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary. A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson.
33—Charlevoix B. M.A. __
President, “i D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
No. 34—Saranac B. M. A.

President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. z. Williams.
No. 35—Bellaire B. M.A
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E.

Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M.A
President, oO. F. Jackson; Secretary, John. M. Everden.
No. 3 7—Battle creek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E W. Moore.
No. 38_Scottville EB. M.A.
President, = E. Symons; Secretary, >. W. Higgins.
. 39 -Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, — S. Willer; Secretary, F. id Sheldon.
_40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A.
President, G. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A.
President, C H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner.
No. 42—Fremont &. M. A.
President. Jos. Gerber; Secretary Cc. J. Rathbun.

 

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No. 43—Tustin B. M. A.
President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.

No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.
No. 45—Hoytville B. M. 4a
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. - Halladay.
No. 46—Leslie B. M. A.
President, , Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. -M. Gould.
No. 47—Flint M. U.
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W.H. Graham.
~~ No. 48—Hubbardston B. we AL
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
No. 49—Leroy B M. A.
President, A. Wenzell; Secretary. Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A.
President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis.
No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. c. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, 53—Bellevue B. M.A
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald.

 

 

No. 54— Douglas B. M. A.
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
Wo. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor pM. A
. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
5%—Rocktord B. M. A.
G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
58—Fife Lake BR. M. A.
President, L. S. Walter; Secretar; ,C.& Plakely.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. 8S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
No. 61—Hartford B. M. A.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
No. 62—East saginaw M. A
President, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mulholand.
No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
No, 64—Merrill B. M. A.
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, AS G. Drake; Secretary, C. S. Blom.
o. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, ae Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67— Watervliet BK. M. A.
President, W. L. Garrett; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield.
No. 68—Allegan B. M.A.
President. H. H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A.
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
President, Wm. Boston; Secretary, Walter Webster.
No. 71—Ashley B. M. A,
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.

President, N
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No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.
no. 74—Davison M. U.
President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. C. W. Hurd.
No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A.
President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A.
President, 8. S. McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.

 

No. 77—South Haven B. M. A.
President, E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross.
No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A.
President, J. 0. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
Ne. 79—Kast Jordan and so Arm B. M.A,
President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison.

 

 

 

No. 80—Bay City and W. Bay City R.M, A.
President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Lee E. Joslyn.
No. 81—Flushing B. M. A.
President. L. S Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom.
o. 82—Alma B M. A.
President, B. - Webb; Secretary, M. E. Pollasky.
No. 83—Sherwood B. M.A.
Presidert, 1: P. Wilcox; Secretary, W. R. Mandigo.
No. 84—Standish B. M. A.
President, P. M. Angus; Secretary, D. W. Richardson.
No. 85—Clio B. M. A.
President. J. M. Beeman; Secretary, C. H. May.
fas ee and Blanchard B. M. A.
W. Presten; Secretary, H. P. Blanchard.

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President, ¥ D. Bent; ey,

 

 

 

 

THE LAKE TIDES.

 

Sensible Explanation of the Variations
of the Water.

Considerable has been said of late over
the lowness of the water in the Great
Lakes, and many theories have been ad-
vanced in explanation of the phenome-
non. It has remained for G. N. Smith,
aresident of Northport, to present the
most plausible explanation, which ap-
peared in the last issue of the Grand
Traverse Herald:

The question raised in the Herald a
few weeks ago concerning the so-called
lake tides seems to me to have an ex-
planation which I have never seen
offered. It is simply the secular excess
or deficiency of precipitation.

I have lived all my life in the vicinity
of the Lakes, having resided at North-
port since June, 1849, and have carefully
observed the phenomena in question all
this time. Over forty years’ observation
four aman with his eyes open is worth
something. My conclusion is that the
alleged seven years’ business is all a
fable; that the land sinking and rising
is alla myth; dredging the St. Clair tail
race below the dam is the same. Rain
is all. When 1 mention it to any one
who has lived here for a good many
years, the answer always comes quick:
“That is true. Ihave noticed that wet
seasons and high water, and dry seasons
and low water have somehow gone to-
gether.’’

Let us look into the reason of this:
Here is Lake Michigan, for example,
like a great mill pond, fed and emptied
like any mill pond. The rivers from the
surrounding water-shed feed it. its
sluiceway at Mackinac straits drains it.
Given a certain nearly fixed rate of
drainage at the straits, what follows but
the big pond is going to fill up with
greater water supply, and run low with
low water supply? And is not that all
there is of it?

Now let the oldest citizens recall a few
facts: ’Forty-seven—eight-nine and ’ fifty
were dry years. Forest fires everywhere.
Low water in the lake, good, wide beach
everywhere, teams driven easily from
here to Boardman mill, now Traverse
City. Sueceeding years of the ’ fifties
were wetter. Lake slowly rising. Bach-
way all gone. Repeatedly the
thing happened afterward, but most
notably in the ’eighties. ’Eighty-one
ended a somewhat dry period, water
quite low. The fall of that year was
almost a cloud-burst, over the drainage
area of Lake Michigan. And with each
heavy rainfall I could see the water come
up on my rain gauge stone in the bay in
front of my house. It kept on raining
and filling our big pond until it over-
flowed all its beach upon its banks; up
into the trees, washing them out by the
thousand. Four-foot saw logs were car-
ried to where they lie to this day, above
landings that had been used for years.
We had no landings any more. ’Eighty-
five brought aturn. For four years it
has been steady arid drought. Steadily
the big pond has run down, until now the
water is lower than I ever saw it since a
similar time forty years ago. Drought,
and the pond runs down. That is all.
Let this cease and the rain begin to come
again, and we shall see it begin to fill up
again, as I have often after even one
long, hard rain, almost as much by my
bay rain guage as by my land rain guage.
And why not? The little bucket and the
big bucket are filled by the same rainfall,
and, of course, ought to fill alike. Only
the big one will keep on filling from its
rivers after the rain is over. So that an
inch in my land rain gauge means an
inch on the lake, and a great deal more
in a few hours: afterward, less only the
nearly constant outflow through the
Mackinac sluice.

The same facts account for the rise and
fall in the inland lakes, and they are the
only facts that do, as I believe a little
thought will readily show.
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Satisfy Your Customers.
From the Merchants’ Review.

It would be well for all retail mer-
chants if they would take special pains
to let no customer leave their stores dis-
satisfied with either the quality of goods,
prices or treatment. As the great world
is made up of all kinds of people, it is
too much to expect that any merely
human retailer can always succeed in his
endeavors to please the public, but he
ean at least deserve success by deter-
mination and perseverance. It requires
constant vigilance; as for the most part
the merchant is compelled to rely upon
assistants in supplying the wants of his
trade, and he must keep a sharp watch
upon his clerks to seé that patrons are
not driven away by neglect or impolite-
ness. The inattention or brusqueness of
those behind the counter is undoubtedly
the cause of much loss of custom in the
retail trades, but another important
source of dissatisfaction among custom-
ers is the deception practiced in regard
to quality. When a patron restricts the
merchant to a certain price in purchas-
ing goods, quality will, of course have
to suffer—the chief aim desired being the
satisfying of the customer’s wishes; but
when the price is not mentioned and the
best goods are asked for, it is poor policy
to palm off on the customer an inferior
article because, owing to the light call
for them, they either never have been in
stock or have been sold out. The wisest
plan in this case is to let the would-be
customer go unsatisfied as to his wants,
but satisfied regarding the square deal-
ing and honesty of the merchant. It is
often advisable to offer in place of an
article called for another one which is
equal in quality and price, but this isa
bad practice unless the substitution is
made with the knowledge of the con-
sumer. To sum up, the chief aim of
the merchant should be to satisfy his
customers in every respect, and no better
motto can be selected for a retail store
than the following: ‘‘No customer al-
lowed to leave this store dissatisfied’’—
ponies a it is lived up to.

oe Macc caraN se ERs cea
A Serious Loss.

Dr. Ipecac—You seem to have pretty
good luck with your cases, Belladonna.

Dr. Belladonna—Yes, I flatter myself
I do.

Dr. Ipecac—You never lost a case,
did you?

Dr. Belladonna—Yes, one. He went
to Canada. I needed that hundred dol-

 

 

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same |

i;eould be
'methods were the same.

 

The Status of the Blakeley & Jenison |
Failure.

Assignee Jamison has completed an
inventory of the estate of Blakeley &
Jenison, the South Division street hard-
ware dealers, from which it appears that
the liabilities are $9,715.76, divided
among fifty-two creditors, in the follow-

ing amounts:
*Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand =. _ _ 00

42 83

*Mrs. C. F. Blakler, - is 500 00
*DeGraaf, Vrieling & Co. © ” 421 17
*Mrs. M. A. Pardee, = nd 25) 00
*Brown, Hall « Co., Be . 20 00
Mrs. C. G. Fullers S ee ;. Bee
Gunn Hardware Co., e = 2 To
Ha: eltine & Perkins Drug Co 0., c e 61 74
Hester & Fox, i 13
Daniel Ly neh, . . Ti i%
Daily Leader ag? . 36 00
Chas. Parish, . . 15 (0
E. G. Studley, - a 49 18
Fred Shriver, . f 2 3 70.
Weatherly & Pulte, ne “s a 10
M. J. McCarthy, . re TZ 20
J. Keelman, o e ig 10 00
Thos. E. Wykes & Co., . igs i 9 98
Sproul & MeGurrin, _ iz e 44 85
J. M. Jamiso: , re . 91 15
G. R. & 1. Railway, C He 7 48
G R. Gas Light Co., ™ eS -7 68
W. C. Denison, a na 5 79
Labor indebtedness, a ss 44 66
Black Flay Stove Polish Co., ‘Detroit rales 8 50
Ww m. Reid, io
ee 1. | SG Oe

a Huron Stove Co ee 8 25
Adams & Westlake “tfe Co., C hicago.. 51 36
Burdett, Smith & Co., : 3 50
Cutler, Woodrough & Co., ° oe 348 18
Chicago Spring Butt Co., S aes 22 00
Hintz & Buker Co., cf i... ofr 00
Morrison, Hannah & Allen, ’ oe 12 98
W. C. Metzner, - 17 45
American Screw Co., 74 38
Carey Ogden Co., ' ee 25 70
Claflin Mfg Oo. Vfevelnmd. 0 22 15 90
¥.H. Penfiel:1, ee ee 11 36
Van Clive Gisas CO.) cee 2 ne -s - 156 62

Ireland Mfy Co., Cincinnati ad co ty
Howard Furnace Co., Syracuse es 85 7

Kiechefer Bros. & Co., Milwaukee. . 23
Pittston Stove Co., Pittston, . ... 306 05
1.8 &£M. Peckham, Utica.....--.-.---- 64
Wilcox Mfg Co., Aurora, Ill. : 68 75
*S, Heyser & Sons, Jackson...........-.- 935 58
*Burdette, Smith & Co., Troy. 2 .- 1,000 oo
*Miss Patience Sherw ood, New ark, ‘9 50u 60
| +. G. Pitts, oo
Phillips & Ce., Pittsburgh... ._...--.. -- 3.9 94
Langdon Miter Box Co., Miller's Falls,
ee ee eee 10 00

The claims marked (*) are in the form |

of notes, but there is no secured indebt-
edness.

The assets are set down at $8,287.98,
comprising stock appraised at $6,787.98
and book accounts to the

$3,946.19, appraised at $1,500.

The failure of Blakeley & Jenison can-

in general, and furnish food for refiec-
tion to those who have thought it neces-
sary to cut prices,
business.

It is now some seven years since Fred
Blakeley commenced business in this
city. He started with less than $1,000
capital and immediately sprang into a
driving trade.

How did he get it ?

Simply by cutting prices—by selling | :
Simply 0; ae, a & | meddlesome, envious,

margin of profit than}

goods at a lower
afforded. In job work, his

All kinds of
tin work he would take for less than the
regular dealer, and, by so doing, he would
get the business.

By this course of action. he has been
the means of depreciating prices to such
an extent that it has been hard work for
the retailer to make both ends meet.

Ordinarily, one’s symyathy would be
with a person who has been obliged to
suspend business, but in this case, Blake-
ley & Jenison do not deserve sympathy
from the hardware trade of Grand Rap-
ids. If the creditors of Blakeley. & Jeni-
son compromise their claims and allow
themeto continue in business, they do not
deserve the patronage of any dealer in
Grand Rapids who is trying to do a fair
business at a reasonable margin-of profit.
The jobbers who have sold them in the
past should not again step in, and, by
compromising their claims, furnish them
capital to continue in business and thus
keep up their demoralizing methods.

With assets of $8,000 and liabilities of
$9,000, the lesson taught is that goods
must be sold at a profit, if the dealer in-
tends to pay a hundred cents on the dol-
lar.

a
Time Would Tell.

Patient—Great heavens! young man,
that’s a pretty strong medicine.

Young Doctor—Yes, it’s very power-
ful. Sometimes it cures and sometimes
it kills.

Patient—Well —I say — here, young
man, is there any danger in my case ?

Young Doctor—I can’t tell for an hour
yet, Mr. Moneybags. Now, calm your-
self.

 

———__——_»>--—-_——
Good Words Unsolicited.
T. Herbert & Co., general dealers, Maple City:
“We cannot get along without THE TRADESMAN.”
M. P. Peterson, grocer and lumber dealer,
Langston: ‘Could not well get along with-

out it.”
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VISITING BUYERS.

John Spyker, Zeeland F D Smith. Coopersville

DenHerder & Tanis, Munger, Watson & Devoist,
Vriesland uliivan

AM Kingsbury, Edmore Sampson & Drury, Cadillac

Struik Bros, Byron Center Barry & Co:, Rodney

Jno Riddering. Drenthe Geo § Curtiss, Edgerton

J R Harrison, Sparta Alex Denton, Howard City

John Damstra, Gitchell S D Thompson, Newaygo

John De Vries. Jamestown C L Glasgow, Nashville

H Meijering, Jamestown CL Doty, Casnovia

H Van Noord, Jamestown DH Meeker, Perrinton

Ww MeWilliams, Conklin Miss Ella Wamsley,

G Ten Hoor. Forest Grove Cedar Springs

Smallegan & Pickaard, T H Shepherd &Bro.,Martin

ForestGrove Hubbell & Cheney, Ionia

N F Miller. Lisbon John Crispe, Plainwell

G W Reynolds, Belmont E Medes, Coral

Frank Smith. Leroy Spring & Lindley, Bailey

Isaac Quick, Allendale W G Tefft, Rockford

SH Ballard, Sparta W C Congdon,CedarSprings

J D Noab, Moline Miss A Peake,CedarSprings

John Smith, Ada J O*Jeannot, Muskegon

N Bouma. Fisher Thos Heffernan, Baldwin

AC Barkley, Crosb John Graves, Wayland

Herder & Lahuis, eich RA Hastings, Sparta

R Osterhof, Ferrysburg D E Watters, Freeport

C8 Comstock, Piers “g Maston & Hammond,

B Voorhorst, Overisel Grandville

J V Crandall & Co.,Sand Lk Whelpley & Cogswell,

Brookings Lumber Co., Mulliken
Brookings L Perrigo & Co., aw Paw

T Armock, Wright Severance & Rich,

CB Moon, Gedae Springs Middleville

L Maier, Fisher Station J W Lovely, Howard City

oz Westerliend, Muskegon L eo Ada

J Raymond, Berlin o A Sage, Rockford

J Coon, Rockford Ww 4 Whitman, Montague

AM Porter. Moorland T W Preston, Millbrook

CH Deming, Dutton Eli Runnels, Corning

GH Nelson, Whitehall S T McLellan, Denison

H Ade, —— A Purchase, So Blendon

L Cook, Bau FW VanWinkle,Shelby

BE Dpieeaker: “Holland ES Houghtaling, Hart

B Gilbert & Ce., Moline G H Spencer, Cleon

John Gunstra, Lamont C DeJonge, Holland

w E Hinman, ‘Sparta J A Holmes & Co.,KentCity

Carrington & North, Trent Phelps & Soule, Hastings

RB Gooding&Son,Gooding

 

, he would

|:dent
amount of

in order to succeed in}

‘favored class;

THE OFFICE BOY.

 

How He May Get Promoted and How
*He Mav Get the Other Thing.

Are office boys never promoted, then ?
Jertainly. Ihave known several cases,
and I will give a free translation of
three. I wrote a note to a book house
that ran after this fashion:

“J want you to try as a boy Fred ——.
He is plucky, means business, will not

whine about promotion, will work as)-

early and late as you wish, will hold his
tongue, and will earn $2 for every $1
you pay him. He will be contented with
$3 a week.’’

I received this reply in substance:

“T have no vaecaney amouvg the boys,
but such a boy as you mentioned will

always pay twice over. It was a loud
commendation you gave him. If you
dare stand by it, send him along. I shall

keep your indorsement for ready refer-
ence.’’

Fred reported for work the next morn-
ing. He began at the bottom. sweeping,
dusting, clearing up, taking away books,
carrying off waste paper, etc. In a short
time the store looked as it never did be-
fore. He was the first there in the morn-
om and the last at night. He never

ked what to do next, but found some-
ae to do until new work was assigned.
He kept his mouth shut, his eyes and
ears open, and his feet and thoughts
active. The fifth week they raised him
to $5 and gave him work above four other
youths whom he found there. At the
end of four months he was raised to $12
a week, without asking it.

Ben went from the high school into an
office at $3 a week. They told him
plainly that there was no probability of
promotion, as no boy had been promoted
for twelve years, but there was a possi-
bility. There was nothing about him
that was promising. He had not stood
high in sehool, was not a good penman,
was not strong physically; but he went
to work with the full determination that
‘yet there.”’

A few days after, the senior member
of the firm saw him going to the post-
office, and was so delighted with his evi-
intent to boom the mail business,
that he said to his associates: ‘I wish
there was some way to label Ben, ‘This
boy is from the house of & :

 

 

oe iIt is worth something to have such an
not fail to have a good effect on the trade |

exhibition of business on the street.’

In the course of a few months another
boy was secured, and Ben was given 36,
until, in less than three years, he was
having $20 a week, making a place for
himself by the way he did everything.
In those three years a thousand other
boys in Boston had changed from place
to place, and were still working for 33 or
$4 a week.

The boy who is merely an office boy
will never be promoted, neither will he
who is above being an office boy; who is
lazy, indifferent, talkative, sulky, moody,
jealous, afraid of
doing more than his share, and bound
not to earn more than he is paid for. He
will be promoted who makes himself
equal to every emergency; who loves
work, learns how to work, how to be
cheerful and loyal, lending a hand every-
where; who puts brains into his work,
who lets his ‘head save his heel:’? who
will work anywhere, at any time, at any-
thing, without complaint.

—————————_—<>-o<___—_
Expecting Too Much.
From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

The Patrons of Industry, an agricul-
tural organization, have secured con-
tracts from merchants in some parts of
Michigan agreeing to sell them goods at
a small percentage above cost. Such
contracts are not based on true business
principles, and the parties who enter in-
to them will eventually find that they
have made amistake. No class should
expect to be favored above another.
There is no reason why a farmer should
buy his goods for less than a mechanic
or aclerk, andin the long run he does
not buy them cheaper, even though the
contract be ironclad. Dealers who sign
such agreements acknowledge their
weakness, for no merchant whose posi-
tion is assured will agree to discriminate
in favor of one class and against ancther.

It is a one-sided affair, anyhow, as the
dealer agrees to sell at a certain low rate
of percentage, while the parties who
take advantage of the concession—when-
ever there is any advantage in the deal—
do not bind themselves to trade at the
contract place; whenever they can
secure better bargains (as they often
ean), they buy elsewhere. It is hardly
probable that the dealers who sign these
contracts expect to sell cheaper to the
Patrons of Industry than to other cus-
tomers: if they do then they expect to
confine their trade to that organization
alone. for when it is learned that a mer-
chant has entered into a contract to sell
certain persons goods cheaper than
others, his customers who are not mem-
bers of the class in question withdraw
their patronage, as they do not propose
to pay more for their goods than the
and the Patrons of In-
dustry are not sufficiently numerous to
justify any dealer in confining his trade
to them exclusively.

The conclusion is inevitable that those
dealers who enter into such contracts do
not expect to fulfill them, and no honor-
able man will be a party to an agreement
which he does not expect to observe;
neither will an honorable dealer agree to
discriminate in favor of any class of per-
sons. Merchants of unquestioned honesty
have signed the contracts referred to, but
it was done without a true appreciation
of the situation, and they are now seek-
ing to rectify their mistake by withdraw-
ing from them, though in doing so they
injure themselves as much with the Pat-
rons as they had previously injured
themselves with their customers who are
notmembers of thatbody. Otherdealers
have agreed to the contracts because
they expected to obtain the custom of

 

| the Patrons and ‘get just as much for

‘their goods as they ever did, or more.

The farmers are justified in attempting

| to secure goods as cheaply as possible;

‘but they have no right to expect that
they will be favored above other classes

a fact as true as the gospel that when-
ever a dealer agrees to sell them goods

|
of citizens, and they may put it down as
!

| cheaper than others, that dealer is either
crazy or dishonest, and is an unsafe and

unsatisfactory person to trade with.

 

He Knew Latin.

Mr. Banks—Come into this drug store,
Harriet, and let’s havea glass of soda
water.

Mrs. B.—I will, if you’ll promise not
to wink. I know what that means, you
know.

*‘All right, I promise.”’

Mrs. Banks (after leaving the drug
store)—What was that spiritus frumenti
that you had, George ?

“Spiritus frumenti? That’s
for raspberry and cream.”’

—_—_>+.>__-—-
A Sufficient Recommendation.

Gentleman (to village cobbler) —W hat
is that yellow powder you are taking so
eonstantly, my friend ?

Cobbler—It’s snuff—catarrh snuff.

Gentleman—Is it any good? I’m some-
what troubled that way myself.

Cobbler (with the air of aman who
could say more if he chose)—Well, I’ve
had eatarrh for more’n thirty years, and
I’ve never took nothin’ for it but this.

—_—_——— a
All He Could Promise.

Dunn—When can you settle this ac-
count, Mr. Short ?

Short—Oh, come around next week.

‘““Will you pay me then ?’’

“J can’t promise that, exactly; but I
ean tell you then, wher to come again.”’

ot
A Very Bad Case.

First Doctor—I hear you treated my
neighbor for typhus fever. Was it a bad
case ?

Second Ditto—V ery bad; the man never
paid his bill.

———————$t —2-<————————

_the Latin

 

A wealthy merchant who began life as
a bootblack was once sneered at for hav-
ing blacked shoes in his boyhood.
‘“Didn’t I shine them well?’? was his
answer—which points a moral that many
might profit by.

 

 

Dry Goods.

 

 

Prices Current.

 

UNBLEACHED COTTONS.

 

 

 

 

Atlantic A... 1% intesisy SM. 2... She

Atlanta ALA So wins Ee. :.. 6%

Archery Bunting... 4% . foe 5k Oke

Amory. ee re EC, in. .

Beaver Dam A A... 5%{|LawrenceLL....... 54

Berwick &.--..:°. = New MarketB...... 5g

Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Noibe R. i. Ook

Chapmcn . 2): - 4 INCwton ..5... 2... . Cae

Corssset A... %34\Our Level Best..... ’

Comet 2.0 oc. 7 | Biverside <3 . ” -

Clifton © CE... 1. 6%iSea Island BR. ...2::: 6%

Conqueror XX. ..... 5 Sharon BS 24.2.0. .-.. 634

Dwaene Star... 7144|Top of the Heap.... 7%

iBxeter Ao... e. 6%4| Williamsville. ...... 7

Kall Yard Wide. ---- 6%|Comet, 40 Pcs 8%

Great Falls E....... ‘ Carlisle ee Th

Honest Width....... 7 |New MarketL,40in. 7%

Hartford A... 5%

BLEACHED COTTONS.

Bisckstone AA... & iFivst Prive... ....-. 7

Bent Alte. 444| Fruit of the Loom %. 8

Cleveland .....- .:; 2 | Wagrpiouns..... 2.2 --

Canoe (227... | 7%|Lonsdale Cambric. "10%

Cabot, 4 :...5..-... 6%| Lonsdale Lec soe. 8h;

Dwight’ Anchor ee 9 | |Middiesex ... ...... 5%

shorts. ~~ NGM... 1... 7%

Howards ..9°--. 7” ak View... 52... 6

Empire: 220-5... -- ic lOur OWN.---..-ss0es 5%

Parwent. 2. ......... § iSunlignte so... 4%

Fruit of the Loom.. 8%; Vinyard...<.......-- Si

Witehyville ..... ...- va

HALF BLEACHED COTTONS,

Cabeb. 2.2.2." 2... 8. 7%4|Dwight Anchor..... 9

Parweit 2.02 224: V4}

UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Tremont N....-...... £%{Middlesex No. 1....10
Hamilton a... 674} . * 2.0

a g ’ ee
Middlesex at oe Sy es eng
_2 | : Soe ae
No.3 2 |
BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Hamilton N...-..- TI Middlesex Ava! 11
Middlesex P 7...... 8 | 2 12
“ we ne AO. 12%
a ws. 9 . ee 17%
a es: 10%| ee 16
— JEANS.

Bradetord 50.0... |Naumkeag satteen.. 7%
Brunswick. -... ..-. on HOcKpore.. 2... |... 6%
PRINTS.

Alien, staple... ..-. 6 |Merrim’ck shirtings. 5%
es fariey........ 6% ne — - 8%
. PODCS. 3.55. 6%} Pacific fancy. . = 6

American fancy.... 6 FODCS..t ....- ee

Americanindigo.... 6%/|Portsmouth robes... 6

American shirtings. = Simpson a .. 6%

Arnol 1d greys: - 6%

solid black. 6%

long cloth B. 10% i
. 8%|Washington indigo. 6

- cchieetiok 2 | ‘ Turkey robes.. 7%

 

yw gold seal...” 10%4| ‘‘ India robes.... 7%
«< ‘Purkey red. 10%! a plain el ie a x % 8%
Berlin a aS SM) -.10
pine... ... Ge. “ cha SP ar.
a green . -<" keyr
Cocheco fomGy... 5: "leathe, ‘ ashington
madders. . 5 | Turkey red %..... %,
Eddystone fancy... 6 {Martha Washington
Hamilton faney ... 636... Burkey red... |. 2. %
staple . 6 |Riverpoint rebes.... 5
Manchester ancy. 6 | Windsorfaney.._... 6%
fs new era. 6% . gold ticket
Merrimack D fancy. 6%} indigo blue....... 10%
TICKINGS.
Amoskeag AC A....13%|Pearl River......... 12%
Hamilton N.....-- 744i Warren. eee eee
DEMINS.
Ammoskeag..:... ..-- TSteVeretE. 0. 12%
Amoskeag, 9 02..... 15 |Lawrence XX....... 13%
ANGOVer (0.00.52... 114 | Laneaster ... <2... 12%
GINGHAMS.
Glenarven.........- 6% Renfrew Dress...... 8
Leamcashire.-:.._.... 644) Tottdu Nord: |... .. 10%
Normandie..... .-.-
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, white...... 18%|Peerless, colored...21
|
GRAIN BAGS.
Sobre de 20 |\Georgia a sos 16
Asperiean 20... i? (Pactie: (0: 14
Valley City... ..:-.. 16: [Burlap 025. 4. 11%
THREADS.
Clark's Mile End... 45 |Barbour’s........._. 88
Coats J. & B.... 8. 45> |Marshall a... .....- 88
Holyore..-....-... 22%

 

KNITTING COTTON.
White. Colored.| White. Colored.
N — 42

 

No 6). Ges 38 |No. 14.......37
ne So 34 39 7 7. oo 43
. 35 49 a... 39 44
° we. 36 41 el 40 45
CAMBRICS.
Sinter: 20.00 2... 45¢\Kad Glove..-...:.... =
White Star...... ..- 4% |Newmarket.........
RED FLANNEL.
oe See We 22%
Creedmore. 3)... See aie
Walbot <2 4... 2... os ee, eee 35
Nameless .o02 3s: 27% Buckeye Cece eae wie 382%
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, plaid. .40 |Grey Saw. 17%
Unien Boos +-2244/W — Woo 1844
Winsor. 3.5208. .4 1StciD BOP. ce ek ses 18%
6 oz Western........ 21 "IR lashing XXX. ... 2: 23%
Union Bo 291,|Manitoba. ..) . 2.262: 231%
DUCKS.
Severen, 8 02........ 944|Greenwood, 8 oz....11%
Mayland, Soe. 2... i West Point, 8 0z.... 9%
Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9%)
WADDINGS.
White. doz... ...:: 20 ee bale, 40 doz....$7 25
Colored, doz... ...- 25
SILESIAS.
Slater, Trom-Oross. .. 9 {Pawtueket. .2. .:...- 11
Red Gross... 9: | Dundie. .-..- cee 9
“ BOs se i036 Bedford. ... 2... 55. 11
< Best AA... 12%
CORSETS,

Coraline ee 89 50|Wonderful .... .... $4 75
Shillings. 25.2... 3. 9 00|Brighton Ue acc s hee: 475
SEWING SILK.

Corticelli, doz....... 85 {Corticelli knitting,
. twist, doz. .42 per %oz ball......30

er 50 yd, doz. .42

 

COOPER TOOLS

 

on Hl

 

 

Wie erideavor 10. carry “a Tull
assortment.

 

¢
.

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

10 and 12 Monroe 8St.,

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.
ives’ Old style ...- ce 60
Sets oo 60
Goons fo. is eee 40
JONNINEH’, LENUINE. ..--.---- c- we o ew ewe 25
Jennies’, WHIEALION ......................_. 50&10
AXES,
First > Ss _ Broanze.) 0.6 os. $7 00
D. BrOuge.. 26. tee. 11 00
s S. B S. Sieeb. 22. 5. 8 50
- Pe Sea. 13 00
BARROWS. dis.
Barene 8 14 06
Se net 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
eee ~~
Carriage new Hag... 00 3. eT
Plow. ese ee ee 40&10
Sleigh STE 70
BUCKETS.
Well, pinin eee $ 3 50
Well, Bwivel. <0. co. 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured..:...... .-.--..-....- 70&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60410
Wrought Loose Se 60410
Wrougi Pablo 60&10
Wrought Inside Blind...............---.---- 60&10
Wrought Brass... 2... .. s,s 75
Brad, Clark's 2.00... 2... Sn ene et el 70&10
Blind, Posi@r 8 000) FOK10
Blind, Sheps se 70
Ordinary Tackle, list April “in, ee 40
CRADLES.
Ce dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.

Gang SheCl perib 4%
CAPS
Migsi10 perm 6
enn ©. : 60
Cea. - 35
DEGRECE ee ' 60
CARTRIDGES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50
Him Wire, United States................- dis. 50
Centrat fire... dis. 25

CHISELS. dis.
Soeketsurmer oo 70&10
Sackos Pruviene. 70&10
RecHeeCerner fo FO&10
OCKCE OHCES fe 70&10
Butchers Tanged Wirmer.................. 40
/ COMBS. dis.
Cur OW PEHEC 6S 40&10
Se eT 25
CHALK,
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
COPPER,
— 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 28
4552, $4n50, 14x60... 2s... 26
Cold Rolled, 14xn@ and t4xe0 24
Cold Rolled, Pee . 24
Bottemin se ee 25
DRILLS, dis.
Morse's Bit Steeks. 40
Paper and straicht Shank ........-. 2... .. 40
Morse’s Paper Saank: 00.0. 40
DRIPPING PANS.

Gmail sizes, ser pound... 12)... oe 07
Beers simes, per powna. 3... 8 6%
ELBOWS.

Com. 4 picce Gin. -... 8. doz.net 70
COPPHIP GIO oe dis. 20&10&10
oe ee dis. 40&10

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark's, small, $15; larce @26.......-......-. 30
ves’, 1, G16; 2 G24: 5.50 «.: .. 25

FILES—New List. dis.
DAssiOw Ss oe 60&10
New American. .:.-. 1... 60&10
a See ae 60&10
EO 50
Heller’ : ore Hasme: oo. oo 0c 05 ols 50

GALVANIZED IRON.
Nog. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27 2%
List 12 13 4 15 18

Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ......-.. 50
HAMMERS,
Maydele @&€e 8... se dis. =
Mis dis.
Werkes. & Plump se :.. 2.2.0... dis. 40810
Mason's Solid Cast Steel... 1. 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30¢ 40&10
HINGES.

Gate Clark's, 1.2.3 20-0 dis.60&10

State per doz. net, 2 50
a = and Strap, to 12 in. ra 14 and

 

i ieee AT LS: 3%
Screw "Hook and Eye, ¥% Louse oes eee s net 10
ee net 8%
eee Ce ea net 7%
“ a i Ee Ss net 7%
Sorap GHG foc os sl dis
HANGERS dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.. - -50&10
Champion, anti-friction.................... 6010
Midder, wood Gack... ... 40
HOLLOW WARE
ee ae 60405
Wotiios 2) 60&05
SPICES sooo ce i tee ee eee 60&05
Gray enameled...........................-.- 50
HOUSE FURNISHING G00D8
Stamped fin Ware. 2...) new list 70&10
dapanned Tin Ware..---.. ...- 25
Granite fron Ware ....:.....:.-- new list 3314 &10
HORSE NAILS,
Aa Sepia dis. 25&10@254£10&£10
Peiem. oot ec a dis. 5410&2%42%
Worth WOMserl.... 7.26000 600500. 62, dis. 10&10&5
KNoBS—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55
Door, porcelvin, feos Ge Sera ea 55
Drawer and Shutter, poOrcelgan, 2.5.5... 70
LOCK8—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s................... 55
GEC ee ee 55
ONG WES oo 55
LEVELS. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 70
MATTOCKS.
Mee yO. s sooo, ec $16. - ~ 60
HUB Eye ois ee aie $15.00, dis. 60
Bae es . $18.50, ‘ite’ —"
MAULS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............... * 50
MILLS. dis.
Coffee, ECR no cae cies ee 40
"PS. &W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.. 40
ss Landers, _— . —_— Bc. eas 40
ss Enterprise .. Sebo dak oo nema wn 25

 

 

 

MOLASSES GATES. dis.
Stephin h Pattern oe oo. 60&10
Sebi s Genuine ooo es 6010
Enterprise, self-measuring..................
NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.
FENCE AND BRADS.
wa tO GM 25
Ce ee 10
Be * 25
Ol 40
AG OA Oe: 60
Bd... ee eee eee cree ee cette eee teat e ee eee es 1 00
a An Aiea earl Sp a ach 1 50
D
Le ei 1 06
Ce 150
ee lel ea 2 00
CASEING AND BOX
TO SO 50
Ga... 60
Se %
te ee 90
St ee es 10
ee ae 150
‘COMMON BARREL.

Ae ee
ge eas 2
CLINCH
1% and 1 PE tee a ee CC NE esa at al 1 3
2 and 2 CO 1p
2% and 3 2% ee 1 60
a4 Miche. se

Each half keg 10 cents extra. i
PLANES. dis.
Ohio Too! Co.'s, Fancy 40@10
Sciota Bench.. ee @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’ 's, ‘fancy. bist ceuieaie c cl  ed . .40@10
Benen firstaualitg
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 20&10
= ‘ PANS,
ry, Acme. ee
Common, polished. . Sele sage were 2
/ RIVETS. dis
from ang: TINO oo "50
Copper Rivets end Bursa) 0) 50
PATENT FLANISHED IRON. i
‘‘A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
““B’? Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 toz... 925
Broken packs %c per pound extra.
alga a aes ROPES.
Sisal, 4 meh and farcer: 3
Mania ni Po Be
SQUARES. dis.

Mitre ee
SHEET IRON.
Com.
Nos toa ng “"s
INOS T5tO Ec 4 20
INOS, TetOet 4 20
Tos, 22 420

INOS 2GO 2a)
OG ee 4
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inch
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.

 

Feo co coco BS
S wRosese 88a

hing ace 10 Se dis. 40&10
ASH CORD,
Silver Lake, White - ee ee list 50
OE A 55
’ Wea Bo . 50
. A * 55
= Witte 7 35
Discount, 10.
SASH WEIGHTS.
ee per = ‘aw
SAWS.
. “a oon Pieced ceo selicue culos
ilver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, ..
c — Steel Dex X Guth ee foot... 3g
‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30
“ Champion and Electri¢ Tooth X
Cuts, per foge
TRAPS.
eee! Galera wos0

Oneida Community, Newhouse’s

 

Oneida Community, Hawley « N 7
Piggenicige . ae wri
PS. ow. Mie ee
euse, CHOMCr 6.
Maes, een $1.50 per do.
WIRE.
right Mareet 67%
Aimedied Markets 70&10
Copperce Markee. 000 62%
Tinned Mareet —
a Spree SeoCt
St POMC O e
Barbed. Fence, saivagiesd coco Per Pot 03
PAMee es 80
ek WIRE GOODS.
A
oo ee rosin
Oe
Gate Hooks and Eves... Lo: Tmai0ai0
WRENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. * 50
Cee 8 GOMUIhe oo ee =
Coe’s Patent ee ‘wrought,........
Coos Patent malleable. =... 810
aecaaal
Bir Gases oe ees cel aie aa 7“.
Paepe, Casern a

merows. New Uist. coe
Casters, Bed amd Fiate. 3... siisoaio
Dampers, AMMCTICHE oo

 

Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 4
METALS,
is PIG TIN.

Be es a
Mie ME eka ec a eels nia ese “See
Duty: Sheet, 2%c per ak
600 pound casks... Per Do eee ee eee ee 6
FOE POU ee en

SOLDER.
oe EC NE eC eee 16
Extra Wiping a

The prices of the many other qualities
solder in the market indicated by gual Sradde
vary according to composition. rf

 

   

 

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The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

Retail Yrade of the Wolverine State.

E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

 

 

 

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
strictly in advance.
Advertising Rates made known on application.
Publication Office, 100 Louis St.

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office.
E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1889.

 

 

The quantity of oleomargarine is
greater this year than last, there is an
increased number of persons engaged in
its sale, and there is an increased con-
sumption, both at home and abroad.
This all goes to show that the tax on it

was not made heavy enough.

 

Great Britain has become alarmed at
the inadequacy of the defenses on the
Canadian Pacific Coast and proposes to
send a military force there which shall
be paid and sustained by the Dominion
government, but controlled by the im-
perial authorities. The Dominion re-
fuses, however, to submit to any such
arrangement and insists that Canada
must control any force which it has to
maintain. The Canadians are perfectly
right in assuming this position. There
is a limit to good nature.

 

 

 

 

Muchas there is to contemn inthe mor-
ibund organization known as the Patrons
of Industry, it cannot be denied that
some of the farmers who go into the
combination are honest in the belief that
they will thereby be enabled to save
money on their purchases. And there is
no dollar that deserves as much to be
saved as the farmer’s hard-earned dollar.
“The farmer’s dollar is heavy,’’ said
Emerson. “It is no waif to him. He
knows how many strokes of his labor
it represents. His bones ache with the
day’s work that earned it. He knows
how much land it represents—how much
rain, frost and sunshine. He knows that
in the dollar he gives you is so much
discretion and patience, so much hoeing
and threshing. Try to lift his dollar,
you must lift all that weight.”

 

The binder twine discussion in the
agricultural press, a few months ago, re-
newed the interest in the home produc-
tion of fiber plants. It has been known
for years that ramie, jute and other val-
uable fiber plants could be successfully
grown in many parts of the South, even
over a wider area than cotton. But the
industry remained undeveloped because
there were no cheap processes and good
machines for separating the fiber from
the plant and preparing it for manufac-
ture into cordage and textile fabrics.
There are good prospects that the indus-
try will be developed in the near future.
There have recently been inyented
machines and processes for the cheap
production of white fiber directly from
the green ramie plant, and a company
has recently been formed for establishing
and developing the ramie industry in
this country. The company proposes to
distribute the plants among cultivators,
loan them the decorticating machines for
separating the fibre from the bark, and
buy the product. Ramie is one of the
most valuable fiber plants known. The
fiber is fine and strong, almost equaling
silk. It can be made into thread, twine,
rope, coarse cloth, or fine fabrics for do-
mestic use. Since the impopted fibers,
with their manufacture, amount in value
to more than two-thirds of the cotton ex-
portation of the United States, the im-
portance of any invention that will help
develop the home production of fibers
can be readily seen.

They Had Agreed to Disagree.

A jury in a petty case before a Lyon
street justice of the peace, the other day,
had been out of court deliberating for a
leng time and the justice finally sent for
them.

“Have you agreed upon a verdict?’
asked the justice.

‘‘We have, Your Honor,”’ said the fore-
man, rising.

‘““How say you ?”’ the justice continued.
“‘Do you find the defendant guilty or not
guilty ?”’

“We find,’? the foreman answered,
“that we stand seven for acquittal and
five for conviction.’’

“Then you haven’t agreed,’’ replied
the justice. ‘‘You may be discharged, if
you cannot agree.’’

The intelligent foreman and his asso-
ciates retired and the peculiar verdict
was not recorded.

——_— -
Novel Price List.

A manufacturing company of Cincin-
natiis using a novel means of presenting
its specialties to customers, by printing
a price list of several pages in copying
ink, the pages to be torn off and signed
by a custemer asking discounts, the
added matter. then all being made in
copying ink, by the company, and a copy
taken. By this means an exact record
is kept, involving but little labor, and
one which eannot fail to be a great con-
venience in any following business trans-
actions.

 

Politeness in Business.
From the Philadelphia Cash Grocer.
There are some men who, in business

relations, seem to ignore the etiquette |
which they are prompt to recognize in |

the social amenities of life. It is almost
a fixed principle with them to be gruff,
and to cut off short all who have other
dealings with them than those which lead
to satisfy their selfish greed. They are
rough to all who may approach them
with any other purpose than to buy their
goods. ‘‘Live and let live’? is not a
maxim with them; the maxim is a plati-
tude only equal to embracing themselves.
Such men make a grand mistake, and in
the final make-up of their account it will
appear ina diminished amount on the
credit side of profit and loss. The man
who pursues a business with a view to
helping himself as much, and others as
little as he possibly can, makes, indeed
a miserable failure. There are notafew
men of this kind in every city, but their
places of business can easily be pointed
out, if one takes a newspaper in his

hand as he walks the streets. Why take
a newspaper? Because their advertise-
ments will not be seen in it. Their win-

dows are decorated withink-pot placards,
for to have them printed is regarded by
them as helping another’s interest at the
expense of their own. Likewise they
look upon advertising, and everything
else which does not contribute directly
to their cash box. They are too thick-
headed to see that whatever they spend
in making known their business, or em-
ploying the agencies held at their dis-
posal by other interests, does necessarily
make for the success of their own busi-
ness. Fortunately, most of the business
men of this city are of a superior type.
They are men of great force of character
and intellectual vigor. They are easy
to approach, and possess a suavity of
manner that is decidedly characteristic
of the culture and learning of this vener-
able city. They know the great commer-
cial value of politeness which comes
from the heart, and they know also how
much of their own success depends upon
a judicious patronage of other interests.
They are men who live not for them-
selves alone, but also for the good of
others. They are men who treat the
representatives of other interests as they
would like to have the representatives
of their own interest treated. The man
who thinks that his gruff, cynical man-
ner of dealing with men is regarded as a
trait of a sagacious business man, should
go and have his ears clipped.
~<a
Business Notes and Gossip.

About 5,000 persons are constantly em-
ployed in the boot and shoe trade of
Chicago, and at least $5,000,000 is invested
in the business.

The total cost of the Paris exhibition,
according to a rough estimate of the
department of public works, cannot fall
far short of $30,000,000.

Extravagant recommendations of goods
to purchasers by salesmen and clerks,
have done more to cut down prices than
almost anything else.

The Quebee Chronicle says there are
in that city twenty-eight boot and shoe
factories and thirty-four tanneries, and
that the trade is more active than for
some time past.

Erastus Wiman says that the goods
sold by the United States to the five
millions of Canadians amount to as
much as to the fifty millions populating
the Southern countries represented in
the Pan-American Congress.

Large department stores are adding
teas to their stock. Mankind can be
thoroughly supplied by one of these uni-
versal establishments and can get every-
thing wanted, from the baby linen to the
coffin department.

Among the Chinese no relics are more
valuable than the boots that have been
worn by a magistrate. If he resigns and
leaves the city, a crowd accompanies
him from his residence to the gates,
where his boots are drawn off with great
ceremony to be preserved in the hall of
justice.

In the old English guild system the
master fuund the apprentice in food,
lodging and clothes for four years; in the
fifth year he paid him about five dollars,
and found him in tools, and the appren-
tice fed and clothed himself; in the sixth
year he paid him ten dollars, and the
apprentice supplied himself with every-
thing; at the end of the seventh year he
was free to engage in business on his
own account, and to take to himself a
wife.

>> __—_

Men Whom We Have No Use For.
From the Northwestern Lumberman.

The man who knows it all.

The man who is always blaming his
competitors for everything amiss in the
market.

The man who goes it blind on general
principles, assuming that the rest of the
world must come to his terms.

The man who wants his own market
boomed, by printing screeds against
competitors elsewhere.

The man who is constantly making
attempts to secure free personal adver-
tising, under the guise of gratuitous
market reports.

The man who writes anonymous let-
ters at any time and under any circum-
stances.

The man who advertises a lie, either
by word or with printer’s ink.

The man who vibrates around an office,
while making a call, until he has man-
aged to read all the upturned letters and
caught a glimpse of the order book.

The man who makes regular calls,
of an aimless nature, and invariably
winds up with an invitation to ‘‘Come
out and be blown off.”’

The man who takes offense because he
fails to comprehend a joke.

The man who, when he feels that he
has a grievance, tells it to everybody but
the individual whom it directly interests.

s+
The Three Best Books --- A Sensible
Reply.

Wilkie Collins, when asked for his
opinion as to the three best books for
young men, answered: ‘‘Setting aside
the first and foremost difficulty of illness,
which has obliged me to defer answering
your kind letter for a whole month, I
see two other difficulties in the way of
my recommending books to ‘young men.’
In the first place, I am not the right per-
son to offer literary advice of this sort.
Except when I was forced to do it at
school I never remember reading a book,

 

because I had reason to suppose that it
would instruct me. If a book interests
me I go on with it. If it fails to interest
me (no matter who may have written it,
or how many editions it has gone through)
I very respectfully shut it up. In the
second place, I don’t know how to pick
out any three books from the vast mass of
literature at home and abroad, which
presents books equally worthy of being
specially chosen. If I had health enough
and time enough to doit, I should find
it easier to recommend 300 books than
three. In asking you, therefore, to ex-
euse this late reply, I must also ask you
to let my apologies cover a confession of
incompetence.’’

SEEDS!

 

 

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.

NG SUN”

Buckwheat.

(ALWAYS PURE)

 

 

We again call your attention
to the high grade of Buck-
wheat Flour characteristic of
our mill.

 

NEWAYGO ROLLER MILLS.

BE SURE,
MY FRIEND,
TO GET

 

 
  
      

after the painting by Kaemmerer, issued by GOW.
ANS & STOVER, Buffalo, N. Y., at a cost o
over 5,000 dollars, a copy of which they send free
: any address on receipt of 25 wrappers from
the

QAK-[EAF SOAP

TIME TABLES.

 

 

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
In effect Nov. 17, 1889.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.

Arrive. Leave.
Traverse City & Mackinaw.........+ T:1l0am
Traverse City Express............. 9:20am 11:30am
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 3:15pm 4:10pm
Brom Cincinnati. .......-... 23 .c00 8:50 p m

Cadillac (Mixbd).....-....-. -------- 6:30 pm
Through coaches for Saginaw on 7:10 a m and 4:10 p
m train.

GOING SOUTH.

Cincinnati Express............-+-. 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express..........+..-: 11:45am 12:50am
Cincinnati Express...........-.++. 5:30 pm 6:00 pm
from Mackinaw & Traverse City..10:40 p m

Brom Cadillac... .... ecco ees 9:55 am

Train leaving for Cincinnati at 6p. m. and arriving
from Cincinnati at 9:20 p. m., runs daily, Sundays in-
eluded. Other trains daily except Sunday.

Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7::0 a.m.
and 4:10 p. m. trains have sleeping and parlor cars for
Mackinaw City. South—7:l5a. m. train has chair car
and 6 p. m. train Pullman sleeping car for Cincinnati.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
In effect Nov. 10, 1889.

Leave Arrive.
POO OW ae oie ccc lle cscs ccesseciedecson 10:15am
ULI & MN... ce ccccccrccccccscccccccccscccccescover 3:45pm
5:40 8:45pm

240 PM... 2... cen ccce cen ccsccccccccsccccccccccce
Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.
Through tickets and full information can be had by
ealling upon A. Almquist. ticket agent at depot, or
Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent. 67 Monroe St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

  
 

 

  

GOING WEST.

Arrives. Leaves.
+Morning Express..........s+eee+- 12:50 pm 1:09 pm
+Through Mail.............- cow S10 PD ™ 4:20pm
+Grand Rapids Express.. ..10:40 pm
*Night Express........ .... 6:40am 7:00am

ee 7:30 am
GOING EAST

+Detroit Express..........-ssee00- 6:50am

Bh Mail... cccesecscccovece 10:10 am 10:20am

.. 3:35pm 3:45 pm

*Night Express.........-+seereeee 10:30 p m 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 sleepi
ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a. m.

Through railroad tickets and ocean steamship
tickets and sieeping car berths secured at
D., G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot.

AS. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent.

Ino. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit.

ss

 

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., an
connections at Toledo with evening trains for
Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin-
nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and ail promi-

 

nent points on connecting lines.
A. J. PaisLey, Gen’! Pass. Agent

A. HIMES,

Shipper and Retail Dealer in

Lehigh Valley Goal Go. s

Office, 54 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

SHIPMENT.

MICHIGAN CIGAR CO.,

Big Rapids, Mich.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

“MM. C. C.”?“Yum Yum’

The Most Popular Cigar. The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.

SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER.

COAL

THE ABOVE COMPANY’S COAL IN CAR LOTS [ALWAYS ON TRACK READY FOR

 

A. EK. BROOKS & CoO.,

WHOLESALE

Our Specialty--Candy made from sugar and good to eat.

CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, - - GRAND RAPIDS,

For 18 9O

€ ° sys
Consider ScRIBNER’S MAGAZINE when you are deciding upon your

reading matter for next season. The subscription rate is low—$3
a year.

The standard of the Magazine is high,

 

 

DETROIT SOAP CoO.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known brands:

 

, AE GO PE.
QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN, ROYAL BAR, CZAR,
TRUE BLUE, _ SUPERIOR, MASCOTTE, CAMEO.
PHOENIX, AND OTHERS,

 

 

For quotations in single box lots, see Price Current.
quantities, address,

W. G. HAWKINS, voce 601%. "GRAND ‘RAPIDS,

For quotations in larger

Its spirit progressive,

The illustrations are interesting and of the best.
There is not space here to give even a summary of the features to
appear next year, but among other things there will be a NEW
DEPARTMENT and ADDITIONAL PAGES, and groups of illustrated
articles will be devoted to the following subjects:

African Exploration and Travel,

Life on a Modern War Ship (3 articles),

Homes in City, Suburb and Country,

 

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 pre ared to quote prices at any time. We solicit
consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, etc.

H. M. BLIVEN, Manager.

63 Pearl St

Providing Homes through Building Associations,

The Citizen’s Rights,

Electricity in the Household,

Ericsson, the Inventor, by his Authorized Biographer,
Hunting,

Humorous Artists, American and Foreign.

 

There will be 3 serials.

Robert Louis Stevenson will contribute in 1890.

 

WHO URGES YOu

TO BEEP

SA POLIO*’e

THE PUSLIC!

By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre

ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in
stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort
on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas-

ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.

ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS,

Each subject, and there will bea great variety this year, will be treated
by writers most competent to speak with authority and with interest.
Readers who are interested are urged to send for a prospectus.

25 cents a number; $1 for 4 months.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743 Broadway, New York.

 

Fr. S'TEKEIER & SONS,

WHOLESALE DRY GOODS,

 

CURTISS & CO.,

WHOLESALE

Paper Warehouse.

We carry the VEBY BEST double or single bit, hand-shaved ax handle

ever made.
Houseman Block, - Grand Rapids, Mich.

 
  
  

 

WM. SEARS & CO.

Cracker Manvtacturers,

87, 89 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. ,

 
 
 
   

83 Monroe and 10, 12, 14, 18 & 18 Fountain Sts, GRAND RAPIDS.
BP. J. DETTENTHALER,

 

 

WM. R. KEELER & CoO.,,

Wholesale Confectioners,

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
Mail orders

the best goods made, although sold at the same price as other makes.
promptly attended to.

JOBBER OF

Uysters

aM

 

EDWIN FALLAS,

JOBBER OF

Butter, Eggs, Fairfield Cheese, Foreign Fruits, Mince Meat, Nuts, kt

Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full Blast.

Going Like Hot Cakes. Let your orders come.

Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mict

Butter and Sweet Potatoe:

Salt FIsh.,

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in Another Column.
CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF WILD GAME SOLICITED.

Putnam Candy Co.

 

 

 

Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce bo.

JOBBER OF

FOREIGN FRUITS.

Oranges, Lemons and Bananas a Specialty
3 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS.

Packers of the well

oer PRB OYSTERS

PHEREINS & HESS

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

. NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF (CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

 

 

MOSELEY BROS.

—WHOLESALE——

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters ? Produce
All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be
pleased to hear from you.

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., . -

Alired J. Brown,

WHOLESALE

Foreign ruts, Nuts, Dates, Figs,

 

16 and 18 North Division Street, Grand Rapids.

GRAND RAPIDE

Selected Herbs # Spices!

Prepared by

THOMSON & TAYLOR SPICE COMPANY,

Chicago.
Is a Combination of

The Finest Ingredients for use in
Seasoning Meats, Poultry,
Game and Fish.

SOLD BY ALL GROCERS.

 

NEW HOUSE AND NEW GOODS.

Confectionery, Nuts and Figs.

MICH

Jagan Sell the following well-known brands of
staple dry goods:
x DENIMS., TICKS.
| Amoskeags, Warren,
| Clark’s, Amoskeag,
| Everett, Garner,
/ Lancaster, Pemberton,
Lawrence, Otis,
Warren. Hamilton.
GINGHAMS, SHIRTINGS.
i Amoskeag, Otis,
re Westbrooks, Scotia,
|| Wellington, Delhi,
| Lonsdale, Randelman,
: page-i Bates, McAden,
Page 5 Cumberland, Amoskeag,napped.
= Lancaster.

*

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The Michigan Tradesman

 

 

WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 18389.

 

 

CONFEDERATE GOLD.
[CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. |
lent agitation, and, compressing his lips,
walked away to the other side of the
room,

“Is there anything more, Mr. Kendall?”’
she asked.

He turned around and came back.

“Your father had better burn the
bonds,’’? he said abruptly; ‘‘they are not
worth the anxiety they have given you
in the last month; and if he does not
burn them you had better dismiss the

thought of their ever being valuable.
It will only be a snare to you. Nothing
is more demoralizing than to chase
through one’s life the ignis-fatuus of a
fortune.”’

She looked up apologetically.

“It is very alluring,’ she murmured.

“Ah!? he said, “that is the danger. I
hope you will dismiss it.’’

A shadow came over her face.

“J do not see that I can do anything
else,’’ she said.

He did not seem to be altogether sat-
isfied.

“Tet me convince you,”’ he said, *‘that
there is not the slightest chance of the
bonds ever being paid. Josephs is abso-
lutely authoritative. He was a high
Treasury official in the Confederacy, and
what he says may be taken as fact.
Don’t delude yourself, Miss Hartshorne,
with any idea to the contrary.”

“You are very kind,’’ she said.

‘As the doctor is,’? he said grimly,
‘when he administers a disagreeable
dose. Itisn’t palatable, I know, Miss
Hartshorne, but it is preferable to the
disease.”’

It was not palatable, and Alice, when
she came to think it over, concluded for
the present, at least, she would not take
it. Messrs. Moses & Levy were still to
be heard from, and it might be that their
reply would place the matter in a more
favorable light. At any rate, until that
should come she would not say anything
to her father about it. A week later, on
returning at night, she found Mr. Harts-
horne in a state of great elation.

“Well, my dear!’ he exclaimed, ‘‘I
have heard from Moses & Levy, and shall
sail for England myself on Saturday.”’

Alice dropped into a chair.

“Sail for England!’ she
‘What do they say?”’

He handed her a folded sheet, which
she opened and read. It ran as follows:

“DEAR Str: In reply to your esteemed
favor of the —ult., permit me to say that
a large sum of money has been accident-
ally discovered on deposit in Messrs.
Buckingham, Travis & Percy’s Bank,
applicable to the payment of the Con-
federate loan of 1865, of which your
bonds area part. Weare about taking
legal proceedings to recover this money
for the bondholders, and will include
you in the suit on receipt of a retainer
of £20. If we recover the money our
charge will be ten per cent. of the
amount: if we do not recover it there
will be no charge at all. No time should
be lost in signifying your purpose, and
in event of your acceptance of our propo-
sition we recommend a cable transfer of
the retaining fee.

“With assurances of the highest es-
teem. weare, dear sir,

Yours respectfully,
MosEs & Levy.

“John Hartshorne, Esq., New York.”’

‘Well?’ said Alice, raising her eyes
from the paper.

“Well.’’? he replied sagaciously, ‘‘this
may be all right. or it maynot. lam too
old a bird, my dear, to be caught by any
confidence game. Solam going to Lon-
don to conduct the negotiation in per-
son: I have secured passage in the
Manitoba for Saturday, and, my dear’’—
Mr. Hartshorne seemed a trifle embar-
rassed—‘‘I am afraid I shall have to
trouble you for a portion of the passage
money. When the bonds are paid you
shall have it back.”’

Alice’s face was very pale.

“If you are going, father,’’ she said,
*‘T shall go, too.”’

Mr. Hartshorne stared at her in help-
less surprise.

‘But, my dear!’ he exclaimed, ‘‘what
will become of your business?’’

“J shall give that up,’’ she calmly
said. ‘‘Mr. Kendall will no doubt give
give me a letter to some one in London,
so that if we are detained over there I
can find employment.’’

Of late Mr. Hartshorne had accustomed
himself to be guided in unimportant
things by his energetic daughter.

‘‘Very well, my dear,’’ he replied; ‘‘if
you can let me have the money I’! go to
the steamship office at once.’’

Alice had a little store which she had
been saving against some emergency,
and whichshe now produced. She knew
there was no use in attempting to dis-
suade her father from his purpose.
When Mr. Hartshorne made up his mind
to anything it wasinflexible. But it was
with a beating heart that she undertook,
the next day, to tell Mr. Kendall of her
determination.

“Going to London!’ he exclaimed in
his surprise. ‘‘What for, pray?’’

Alice’s cheeks burned.

“‘My father has assurances,’’ she said,
‘‘that there is a deposit of Confederate
gold in one of the London banks. He is
going over to negotiate his bonds, and 1
eannot let him go alone. Will you give
me a letter to some of your London
friends, Mr. Kendall, that I may find
employment while I am there?”’

The blood rushed up in Kendall’s face.

‘JTt’s afool’s errand,’? he exclaimed
hotly; ‘‘I have told you there is abso-
lutely nothing to be got out of the bonds.
They are as worthless as waste-paper.
The people who tell you that they can
be collected are swindlers. If you will
tell me who they are, I will cable to our
correspondents in London for informa-
tion.’’

Alice shook her head.

‘‘] am much obliged to you,’’ she said,
“but my father would not be satisfied
unless he svent in person. Will you let
me have the letter, Mr. Kendall?”’

He frowned sternly.

“No,” he exclaimed, ‘I willnot. I
will not abet your going in that way.”

She turned aside, while the indignant
tears rushed into her eyes.

“T thought I mightask you as a friend,”
she said.

“J am too much your friend,’ he de-

gasped.

clared. coming a step nearer to her side,
“to help you in doing a wrong thing.
You ought to restrain your father from
doing it. I believe you would,”’ he cried
passionately, ‘if you did not have this
maggot of a fortune in your head.”

Alice was now fairly angry.

‘Pardon me, Mr. Kendall,’’ she said
stiffly, “but 1 don’t think you have any
right to lecture me in that way. Indeed,
your language makes it quite imperative
that I should leave you at once.’’

He had turned to his desk.

“Very well,’’ he said coldly.

She waited a moment, and as he made
no other response she opened the door
and left the room. Without speaking to
the other clerks, she walked swiftly out
of the office into the street. Her eyes
flashed and her cheeks burned. ‘‘How
extremely rude!’ she exclaimed to her-
self. ‘I thought that Mr. Kendall was
at least a gentleman.’’ It was impossi-
ble, of course, that she should ever go
back; and as she reached this conclusion
she remembered that she had been in the
office almost a year. It was the day after
Thanksgiving when she answered the
advertisement, and Thanksgiving this
year was appointed for the following
Thursday. Alice wondered vaguely on
her way home why it always came when
she felt the least thankful.

Two days later, Alice and her father
embarked on the Manitoba for Liverpool.
She had not been at the office since, nor
seen Mr. Kendall. A letter had come
from the firm enclosing a check for her
last week’s salary, but without a word of
farewell or regret, at which Alice felt
unreasonably vexed. ‘‘They might at
least have said something civil,’’ she
complained to herself. At the time,
however, she was too busy to think of it;
and it was not until she had got on the
steamer and was sailing down the bay
that she had leisure to recall the dis-
agreeable circumstances of her departure.
With the recollection came a more sober
judgment. Had Mr. Kendall, she won-
dered, been so far out of the way, after
all2 Was she not tempted by the vision
of afortune? And had not Mr. Ken-
dall’s remark been disagreeable because
it was so nearly true? She was still de-
bating the question, when, looking
around. she saw, coming up out of the
companion-way, the apparition of Mr.
Kendall himself.

For a moment Alice felt helplessly be-

wildered. What was Mr. Kendall doing
there? Why had he left New York on

such short notice? And why did he want
to travel by the Slow and Sure line,
which her father had _ considerately
selected on account of its cheapness,
rather than the Cunard or White Star?
Meanwhile, the gentleman had come over
to her and extended his hand.

‘‘I am glad to have you for a traveling
companion, Miss Hartshorne,’ he said
frankly.

But Alice, though her conscience con-
victed her, was not to be easily concili-
ated.

“Yes?”? she said interrogatively.
“Don’t you think it threatens a storm,
Mr. Kendall?’’

He frowned and seemed to be on the
point of making an angry reply when
Mr. Hartshorne came up.

“Ah? said Alice, affably, ‘‘this is my
father. Father, you have heard me
speak of Mr. Kendall.”’

Mr. Hartshorne seemed puzzled.

“T think I have heard the name’’—he
said doubtfully.

‘‘Mr. Kendal was my employer, father,’’
exclaimed Alice; ‘‘don’t you remember
my mentioning him to you?’’

The gentleman waved his hand apolo-
getically.

“Ah!? he said: ‘now that you recall
the fact, 1 do remember it. But it was a
long time ago. And my acquaintance,’’
bowing to the lawyer, ‘‘is very extensive.
It is a great tax upon one’s memory, Mr.
Kimball.”’

‘“‘Kendall, .father,’’
Alice.

Mr. Hartshorne’s face expressed regret.
, “IT beg your pardon, sir,’’? he said.
‘Nothing is so annoying as to be called
by a wrong name, especially when it
bears some analogy to the right one. I
was once addressed, myself, as Mr. Am-
monia, and the person did not remedy
his mistake by explaining that he knew
it was something which smelled strong.”’

Kendall smiled as faintly as he could.
Mr. Hartshorne was the kind of a man
he particularly disliked.

“Yes,’? he said, in answer to Alice’s
previous question, ‘‘I think we shall run
into a storm. In fact, one was reported
in this morning’s papers as moving up
from Cape Hatteras.”’

“Is this vessel a good one, do you
think?”’ Alice asked, as Mr. Hartshorne
moved away.

He shrugged his shoulders.

“This is a second-class line,

“Do you usually take it?’’

‘‘No,’’? he said briefly, ‘‘I have never
taken it before.’’

“T should not have thought you would
have taken it at all.’’

A quick flush came upon his cheeks.

“‘T was a fool!’ he exclaimed. ‘‘I had
better have stayed athome.’’ He turned
away abruptly and walked toward the
stern of the ship. What a power of fas-
cination the girl exercised, and yet how
she irritated him! She had drawn him

gently corrected

9

he said.

could not well afford to leave his busi-
ness, and in a steamer in which he would
not ordinarily have ventured his safety;
and now she made him regret that he
had ever come. His partner would jeer
at him when he went home, but Morris
could not say harder things about him
than he was now confessing himself.
He stood for some time gazing down at
the rushing waters. When he looked
again in Alice’s direction she had gone.

The storm which Kendall had predicted
came that night with a violence that
threatened to wreck the old ship. For
twelve hours she rolled like a log in the
trough of the sea, and when at last the
wind abated and the waves went down,
they left her strained and battered, and
her cabins were so water-soaked as to be
almost untenable. During the blow,
and indeed for three days afterward,
Alice remained in her state-room, while
Kendall, deprived of her society, and
uncertain of her feelings, arrived almost
at the point of desperation. After the
storm the vessel had run into a fog; the
sun had not appeared once since they
started, and so far the voyage had been
run by dead reckoning. lt was now the
fourth day out, and, under ordinary cir-
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Banks; but the ship was slow, and the
storm had kept them back, and Kendall
knew they were not much beyond longi-
tude 55 deg., while from the chill in the
air he judged they were further north
than the captain thought. When he
came on deck that night for a little ex-
ercise before turning in, he found the
ship enwrapped by the thick fog, through
which the hoarse note of the whistle,
seeming to emphasize the danger of their
position, sounded at momentary inter-
vals. The bow of the ship could scarcely
be seen from the stern. An atmosphere
of its own—dull, yellow and impenetra-
ble—enveloped the little world in which
they were moving. Kendall was not
lacking in courage, but he felt an in-
voluntary sense of fright. He strained
his ear to listen for some answering
whistle, when out of the darkness, off
the port bow, came the roar of the sea
breaking upon rocks. At the same
moment the voice of the lookout, who
had heard it as quickly as himself, called
wildly through the night: ‘Breakers
ahead! Breakers ahead!’’

It was not in time, however, to save
the ship. The engines were slowed, but
the danger was too near, and her momen-
tum carried her on to destruction. A
crash, as she drove headlong upon the
rocks, shook her from masthead to keel.
She settled back, and Kendall, as he
picked himself up and ran aft toward the
companion way, believed that the next
moment would plunge them stern fore-
most beneath the waves. Something,
however, held the vessel on the rocks.
She quivered and stood still, though it
seemed that any moment she might slip
off and go down. Meanwhile, Kendall
had hurried down stairs to the Harts-
hornes’ rooms. Before he reached them,
he met Mr. Hartshorne, in a state of
frantic terror, half-dressed and carrying
a large bag.

“Is your daughter up ?”’ he cried.

Mr. Hartshorne shook his head.

‘‘] don’t know,”’ he eried, in his fright;
“T only had time to think of my bonds.
Oh, help me save my bonds, Mr. Ken-
dall!?’

Kendall brushed him indignantly aside
and rushed on to Alice’s room. She had
just come out the door. Her hair hung
loosely upon her shoulders and her feet
were bare, while over her night dress she
had drawn her thick ulster.

“Oh. what is the matter ?’’ she cried,
in distress.

He looked her quietly in the face.

“You must be brave,’’ he said; ‘‘the
ship has struck arock. Go in and put
on something more. It is very cold on
deck, and I will wait. There is time for
that.”’

She went in obediently, and presently
came out more completely clad.

‘‘Your father has gone on ahead,’ he
said, ‘‘with his bonds.’’

He felt a little tremor in the arm which
rested upon his.

“Ah! she cried, impuisively, ‘‘what
must you think of me ?”’

He stopped for an instant, when every
instant was precious, and drew her to
himself.

“TGove you!’ he cried, passionately.
“IT love you! If we must be lost, it will
be a consolation for me to go down with
you. But we shall not be lost!’ he
added, confidently, as he moved on again,
leading her up the steep companionway
to the sea-washed deck.

The captain, they could see, had lost
no time in getting out a boat, and was
rigging a tackle by which the people
were to be lowered. Among the waiting
group stood Mr. Hartshorne, bag in hand.

“You can’t take the bag,’’ said the
captain, when the arrangements were
made and the frightened man pressed
forward.

Mr. Hartshorne’s face grew paler, if
that could be, than it had already ap-
peared.

‘-] must take it!’ he cried. ‘‘It is all I
have in this world!’

“J don’t care if it’s all you’ve got in
the world to come,”’ declared the captain;
‘‘there’s no luggage allowed in the boat.
Leave it here, and if the vessel holds
out, you'll get it again; if it don’t, you
won’ t.’’

Mr. Hartshorne held on to the bag with
a strong grip.

“JT won’t let itgo!’? hescreamed. ‘I'll
die first.’’ .

The captain turned to the other pas-
sengers, who were murmuring at the
delay.

“All right?’ he said. ‘You can die,
then, but you can’t carry that bag ashore.
Come, miss,’? addressing Alice, ‘‘we’ll
send you off first.’’

But Alice had turned to her father.

“Oh, father!’ she implored. ‘‘Leave
the bonds behind! Throw them over-
board! They’ve brought us all the
trouble we ever had in life. You’ll bea
better man and I a better girl without
them.’’

He pushed her away. ;

“It?s aconspiracy,’’ he shrieked wildly,
“to rob me of my fortune!’’

Alice fell back into Kendall’s arms,
while the captain began sending-off the
others. The vessel, meanwhile, pounded
angrily upon the rocks, and it seemed
not unlikely that she would go down at
any moment.

‘‘Now, miss,’’ the captain said, at
length, when all the passengers had gone
but her father, Kendall and herself.

She shivered a little in Kendall’s pro-
tecting grasp.

“Oh! I can’t go,’’ she cried, ‘‘without
my father.”’

The captain motioned to one of his
men.

“Take it away from him,’’ he said,
briefly.

There was a short struggle, during
which Mr. Hartshorne’s cries and oaths
pierced the air. The sailor’s strength,
however, was the greater, and in a mo-
ment the bag lay on the deck.

‘Now, sling him over,’’ said the cap-
tain.

The tackle was adjusted, and, notwith-
standing the victim’s protestations, in
another moment he was dropped into the
boat. Alice immediately followed, and
then Kendall. This made up the load.
Another boat drew up to take in the ship’s
crew, and the first one pulled off. Inthe
blinding fog no one could tell where they
were, and all that could be done was to
lie on the oars ata safe distance from
both ship and shore until morning.

When at length the light came and the
fog began to roll away before the fresh-
ening breeze and the rising sun, they
could see the low line of the coast half
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for the ship. Unseen and unheard, she
had slipped off the rocks and gone down
in the darkness of thenight. Mr. Harts-
horne covered his face with his hands
and wept despairingly, while Kendall
looked into Alice’s tear-dimmed eyes and
drew a long breath of relief.

“Thank God!’ he exclaimed,
have gone!’

She smiled faintly through her tears.

“*Yes,”’ she said, ‘‘thank God that the
temptation is taken away! Iwas too
weak to resist it. How can you respeet
me ?’’? she cried. ‘‘I cannot respect my-
self.”’

He looked down tenderly in her flushed
face.

“Ah!? he whispered, “I love you, and
love is stronger even than death.”

They were now heading for the land,
which at every pull of the oars grew more
and more distinct.

“Do you know what day it is?’ he
suddenly asked.

She thought for a moment.

“Thursday, is it not?’ she said.

““Yes,’”’ he replied, ‘‘and Thanksgiving
Day. We shall keep it on shore, after
al?

And so they did. The coast, which
turned out to be the extremity of Cape
Race, was bleak and inhospitable; there
was no church, and but little food, and
Mr. Hartshorne, on his part, refused to
be consoled. Hesat apart from the rest,
watching the ocean for the bag which he
vainly hoped it would bring in to him.
But, whether it was too heavy to float, or
had got caught in the rigging, or for
whatever reason, it did not come. The
bonds were gone beyond recovery. Every
one else, however, joined heartily in the
service of thanks which the captain im-
provised, and in the fish dinner which
the few natives provided, and, while
waiting for the tug which was to take
them to St. John’s, confessed to one an-
other that in all their past experience the
day had never meant so much.

“It was just a year ago,’’ said Kendall,
meditatively, as they stood arm-in-arm
that afternoon, looking out to sea, ‘‘that
1 first saw you.”’

Her cheeks flushed.

“That was the day after Thanksgiv-
ing,” she said. ‘‘My sky had been very
dark, but you brightened it for me—as
you have done again to-day,’’ she added,
shyly.

He stooped down and kissed her.

“I hope I may always brighten it,’’ he
said, ardently.

‘*they

Some days after their return to New
York, Alice discovered among the cable
news from London the following brief
dispatch:

‘*Miessrs. Moses and Levy were com-
mitted in default of bail to-day for
obtaining money from Confederate bond-
holders under false pretenses.”’

“Ah !? said her father, complacently,
when she ealled his attention to the an-
nouncement, ‘‘you remember, Alice, that
I told you I was not to be taken in by any
confidence game. Now, if I had sent the
twenty pounds to those people, we should
have lost it. I hope, my dear, you will
some time do justice to your father’s
common sense.’’

She did not remind him that their pas-
sage money had amounted to more than
the twenty pounds. He had quite recov-
ered his spirits, and a change in the local
politics having occurred, was expecting
to recover his old place in the Depart-
ment of Sewers. Alice could afford to
forget the past, except as the recollection
of it made her life a perpetual Thanks-
giving. Exior McCormick.

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AUTOMATIC CUT OFF

UNRIVALLED forSTR ENGTH
; DURABILITY AND
Se CLOSE REGULATION.

HE LANE & BODLEY C0.,2 to 48 JOHN STREET,

Sj CINCINNATI, O-«

Puiam Candy Co,

HEADQUARTERS FOR

FLORIDA ORANGES, LEMONS, NUTS, ETC.
The Belkuap Wagon and Sleigh bo.,

Mich.

 
 
 
        

  

 

 

Grand Rapids,

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS IN

SL KIGHS.

SEND FOR CATALOGUE.

in Toys for the Holidays

H. LEONARD & SONS., Grand Rapids, Mich.

ASSORTED PACKAGE NO. 110, TIN TOYS.

The prices on this assortment of staple tin toys are lower this season tham
ever before, and is most carefully selected from the best sellers of the entire holiday
line. The net price—only $14—for the assortment allowing a clear profit of seventy-
five per cent.

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TO THE RETAILER—This advertisement appears but once. Cut out and
send order at once. Holiday bills due Jan. 1.
Wholesale. Retail.
e— 1 Doz.3% Assorted Tin Animals.... ... 42— 42 5— 60
=— : 1 Trotting Horses........--.---+ 42— 2 5— 60
: 2 - ees m— 7 10—1.20 |
a a 1 “ 38 Animals on Wheels.........-. 7 %5 10—1.20
u%* 219 Steamboats...... ------++-++++ 2.00— 67 25—1.00
= 1” “ 434 Horses and Carts............. 70— 70 10—1.20 oe
Lae _ City Cars......--. 80— 80 10—1.20 —_
ee %« 137 “ Wagons..... .....1.25— 63 20—1.20
a «1388 ee wee 2.25—1.13 ‘ 1.50
Q= 1 in ites 02 ll Se 5— 60
co 1-6 ‘* 924B Picture Wagoms.........-.- -4.00— 67 50—1.10
4-12‘ 508-1 Trains of Cars Complete. 9.00— 75 1,.25—1.25
CO 1-12° 400-5 o . a 5.50— 46 75— 75 vcs
1-6 ‘* 490-4 ine . “s 4.25— 71 60—1.29
CO 16 3 Kitchen Sets...... ......-----4.50- 7% 50—1.00 cc
ug ‘ 4 Toy Kitchens....... 3.75—1.25 50—2.00
= a @& [ eee 1.75— 30 25— 50 me
ee | ee ST =" 37 10 60
ag Ss 9 . ee  aoaiee 2— 21 5— 30
= J : 170 Stovesand Furniture........ ja— 75 10—1.20 cA
1.7 Grown Benks  .............. 45-4 & 5— 60 -
a 1-6 500 Mechanical Locomotives.....4.75— 79 651.30
oP : $14.00 824.00

 

 

 

 

SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, AS FOLLOWS:
No. 98--Woodenware, Tinware, Etc.
No. 99—Glassware and Crockery.
No. 100--Holiday Goods.
No. 101--Lamps and Lamp Goods.
No. 102--Silver Plated Ware.

H. Leonard & Sons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 
 

 

 

   

  
 
 
 

 

 
  
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

 
 

 
 

  

 

  

 
 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

  
 

 

  

 

    
      

    

 

 

 

 

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Staie Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Five Years—James Vernoy, Detroit.
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. |
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. i
Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Next Meeting—At Lansing November 5 and 6.
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. |

President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. |

First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. j

Sec’d Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs.

Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor Detroit.

Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ant Arbor. |

Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—t. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; =.
Webb, Jackson; D. E. Prall, East Saginaw; Geo. Mc-
Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit. '
Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday |

of September, 1890.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutica) Society
President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. |
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, F. D. Kipp: Secretary, Albert Brower
Detroit Pharmaceutical Society |
President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, Ww. F. Jackman. j
ince orem alia

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Muskegon Drug Clerks’ 4ssociation.
President, C. S. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.

oom
Should Be a Good Judge of Human
Nature.

The successful retail druggist who
waits upon the counter trade must be
more than an average judge of human
nature. Like all business men who have
dealings with his fellow beings, he must
be able to detect the dead-beat customer
and recognize the sharper who comes in
as a commercial traveler. He must study
how to please the talkative customer who
feels slighted if not recognized in a
familiar manner, and avoid offending
those who never have anything but bus-
iness to talk about, and do not desire to
have him enter intoa general conversa-
tion. All of this and much more he has
in common with the general merchant.

But his task does not stop here. The
pharmacist must be able to read ina
man’s eye the ravings of a murderer
when aman comes in to buy poison to
dispose of some human being. He must
recognize the flush on the cheek and the
nervous hand which is stretched out to
take the morphine intended to end the
customer’s life. In prohibition places
he must catch the tone of voice which
indicates that the liquor demanded for a
sick wife will be used to sicken a de-
praved man. In short, the pharmacist
should be a close observer of human
nature in all the phases it presents itself
to the druggist.

Every young pharmacist should con-
sider ita part of his duty to study human
nature. Some are born with the faculty
well-grounded in their make-up, but
phrenologists and physiognomists teach
us that the faculty can be greatly devel-
oped by practice and study. It is not
our intention to advise druggists to waste !
time over the fallacies of phrenology,
but to study human nature from the gen-
eral make-up of the person without re-
gard to the charts of the ‘bump feeler.”’
Many unconsciously do this, but more
should purposely follow such a course.

—_> 0.>____
Look After the Apprentice.

The duties of a pharmacist to his ap-
prentice is a subject which periodically
agitates the thinking members of the
profession on both sides of the globe.
There is but little difficulty in getting
all to admit that, theoretically, the drug-
gist should strive to educate his assistant
in the fuilest sense of the word. The
trouble commences when it comes to car-
rying out suchaplan. A certain class,
and, we regret to say, it comprises a
large portion of the pharmacists, com-
plain that it does not pay to take so much
pains with the clerks. They make all
kinds of minor excuses based on the
plea that the ethical side of the question
is simply impracticable. As the only
way to reach such men is through a
financial road, we should like to ask
them out onatour of inspection of the
drug stores in any city. We have made
the rounds and find that the most pros-
perous druggists are those who are the
most devoted to the training of their
assistants. The disgruntled faction of
our citizens who are ever endeavoring to
show that true merit is never rewarded
in this world and that the road of the
transgressor, though hard, is smoother
than the path of righteousness, eannot
find ammunition for their old flint-locks
in the stores of druggists who look after
the interests of their apprentices and
elerks.

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Adulterations in Massachusetts.

In the annual report of the State
Board of Health of Massachusetts, it is
stated that under the operation of the
statutes against food and drug adultera-
tion, ‘certain forms of adulteration,
especially such kinds as were distinctly
of an injurious or poisonous character,
have been entirely suppressed, and are
no longer to be found within the limits
of the State. Among these are the
coloring of confectionery and other arti-
cles of food with colors which are
poisonous. New forms of adulteration
are constantly appearing as fraud and
avarice and the inventive faculty of man
find opportunity for exercise, and unceas-
ing vigilance is requisite to detect and to
expose them by the aid of chemistry,
microscopy and such physical processes
as are at hand. Among the principal
newer forms of adulteration which have
recently flourished are those which de-
pend upon the introduction of glucose
into molasses, syrups, honey, mapleé
syrup and other products. Much im-
provement has been secured in this di-
rection by careful inspection and the
prosecution of offenders.”

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The Drug Market.

Gum camphor is scarce and advancing
rapidly. Sal Rochelle and seidlitz mix-
tures have advanced. Tartaric acid is
higher. Cream tartar is very firm.
Gum opium is steady here, but is higher
abroad. Morphia and quinine are un-
changed. Quicksilver has advanced and
all mercurials tend higher. Gum guaiac
has advanced and is very scarce. Oil
peppermint is lower. Oil pennyroyal is
higher. Ipecac root, po., is lower.
Balsam copaiba has advanced.

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Couldn’t Sponge on Him.

“J say, doctor, you know medicine |
from A. to Izzard, what do you do your-;
self when you have a bad cold ?”’

Physician (who does not believe in
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Pills.
The agitation for shérter hours among
pharmacal assistants in Germany has re-

' Suited in the closing of the pharmacies
| in Stuttgart at 9 p. m.
| beginning and may

‘other cities following the example.

This is a good
be productive of
In
America, however, they would rather
keep open all night.

The mournful intelligence that a com-
paratively harmless citizen of Indiana
has gone crazy from overindulgence in
chewing gum will not have been promul-
gated in vain if it serve to moderate the
activity of even a single pair of jaws. |
The chewing gum habit is getting to be,
almost as depressing as the cigarette |
nuisance.

A most singular accident occurred in
front of a drug store in New York the

‘other evening. Anempty alcohdl barrel j,erdown remarked that it was hard work

was standing in front of the large show
window. George Rinely struck a match |
on it for the purpose of lighting a cigar. |
The alcohol on the barrel blazed up, ex- |
pleded the barrel, shattering the plate
glass in the show window and disarrang- |
ing the stock. Rinely was thrown some |
distance by the explosion, but was only |
slightly hurt.
‘A laudable example has been set by the |
Butfalo College of Pharmacy in creating |
a free scholarship for the student receiv-
ing the highest average standing in gram-
mar, arithmetic, geography. elementary |
botany, chemistry and physics, the
terms of competition to be determined by |
the superintendent of education and the |
principals of the high school and normal ;
school, competition to be open to any |
resident of the city seventeen years of |

age and of good moral character. |

In an introductory sessional address
delivered at the commencement of the
School of Pharmacy of Great Britain,
Prof. Jno. Marshall, President of the
General Medical Council, gives some |
sound advice with reference to educa- |
tion. He insists, first of all, that a good |
preliminary education is absolutely neces-
sary to all who aspire to be really accom- |
plished pharmacists, and that in order to’
be really preliminary, in fact as well as
in name, the examinations be thorough |
and passed before the systematic scien- |
tific training is commenced. The attempt
at introducing a preliminary examina-|
tion by leaving the latter optional until |
the student ‘‘is ready for it” will not |
avail. |
——

Insurance Against Burglary. |

The London Pall Mall Gazette gives |
the following scale of premiums for in-}
surance against burglary in that city: |
Private residences—No. 1, 2s. 6d. per|
cent. per annum, when the whole con-|
tents of a house are insured; No. 2, 3s. |
4d. per cent. per annum, when the whole |
contents of a house are insured, but to |
include damage done or caused by bur-
glars; No. 3, 3s. 4d. per cent. per annum, |
where specially selected articles are in-|
sured, such as plate, jewelry, etc.; No. |
4, 2s. 6d. per cent. per annum, where |
specially selected articles are insured, |
but a warranty is given that they are |
kept ina safe when not in use. Business |
premises—No. 5, 5s. per cent. per an-|
numr No. 6, 3s. 4d. per cent. per annum,
when it is shown that special precautions |
are taken to protect the property. The
agreement is made to pay the amount |
insured within thirty days after the loss
is proved, subject to a provision that;
there shall be no claim on the policy if
the whole loss on any one occasion does
not amount.to £5, or that the theft has)
been committed by a member of the |
household, such as a servant oT person |
living on the premises, or ‘‘by loot, sack |
or pillage by insurgents or military or |
usurped powers.’’

Le
Should Work Both Ways. |

It is quite a common occurrence for |
retail druggists to make use of the argu-|
ment that cheap prices indicate poor or |

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adulterated medicines when a customer |
comes in and states that a druggist over |
the way will fill prescriptions at ex-
tremely low rates.
see the force of such an argument when
he is dealing with his customers, but it |
seems to be quite another thing when he |
comes to order from the wholesaler. It
is too apt to be alow figure he wants,
with no thought given to the quality.
The same old rule certainly applies with
equal force here. If the retail druggist
has any doubts about it, he should test |
the goods and see if price and quality do |
not go hand in hand. The customer |
must take the retail druggist’s word for |
the quality of medicines in most in-
tances, but the druggist should be rea dy
to satisfy himself about the drugs he |
buys, se that he will be able to guaran- |
tee them to the community.
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Benefits of Local Organization.

From the Western Druggist.

Local pharmaceutical associations do
not always flourish as long as the found-
ers would like to see, but this should |
not discourage those who undertake the |
work of reviving old ones or starting |
new oues. They serve a good purpose |
while they do last, and, like the day fol- |
lowing night, they sometimes are all the |
more appreciated when resurrected after |
a disappearance. The number of
organizations through the country is on |
the increase, and they help to foster and |
feed the state and national associations. |

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A Time-worn Suit. |
A Russian paper notes the termination |
recently of a lawsuit begun in 1490, or |
four centuries ago. The litigation was |
over a forty-acre tract of uncultivated |
land, has been handed down through |
numberless generations, and, canes
enough, has been finally settled by peace-
ful arbitration. This protracted litiga-
tion, as well as the satisfactory manner
of its termination, reminds us of the
celebrated case described by Rabelais in
which Pantagruel acted as umpire. This
classic lawsuit had lasted many years be-
tween two French nobles. Innumerable
law papers had been prepared on both
sides, and all the courts had been gone
through, with the result of utterly be-
fogging and mystifying the claims of
both parties. The umpire above men-
tioned being appealed to, agreed to de-
cide the matter provided that all the
papers and documents should first be
burned up and the claimants then should
plead their own cause personally before
him. As, owing to the lapse of time,
they had both forgotten altogether what
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respective arguments were made up of
blind and incoherent repetitions of such
of the legal jargon as they could recol-
ject from reading the documents drawn
up by their lawyers. Therefore, Pan-
tagruel gave his decree in language
equally unintelligible as the pleaders’
statements. Both parties were fully
content with the incomprehensible
sentence he passed, neither of them
seing anything in it to make him think
he had lost his cause. When this satire
of Rabelais was published, somewhere
about 1534, the Russian lawsuit had
already been progressing over fifty years.
— or?
Hard Work.

Old Simmerdown, at dinner the other
day, found the cheese very lively. He
managed to get along with that, but when |
he drew a hair. out of the butter, Sim- |

for a man to have to eat his dinner with
mite and mane.

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The P. & B. cough drops give great |
satisfaction.

———
GINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price forit. Address

PECK BROS., "Silas REsess"

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Acéticum ..2.. 5--3- 8@ 10 | Chlorate, (po. 20)...... 18@ 20
Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 ae sreceeseeeesees 50@ =
Boracic «.-.--- oq | Potsesa, Bitart, pure’. BO 3
— a 500 = Potassa, Bitart,com... @ 15
H -drochlor eS aie 3@ 5 Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10
| ween ssrrettt'TT 0G) 49 | Potass Nitras........-- 7 9
| Gee cs cen 183@ 14| Erussiate.....-.--.---- 25@ 28
i Phosphorium dil...... Sulphate po......----- 15@ 18
Salicylicum ee 1 4901 80 a
Sulphuricum.... ----- :
aie —_—e =o =
Tartaricum......----+- 40@ 43 ee cece wee sale ces :
AMCHUBA ........-.-6.- 15@ 20
AMMONIA. rot pe... Po =
MAE sca
Aqua, . “~ semen = : Gentiana, (po. 15)....- 10@ 12
ieee ll as (pv. 15).. 16@ 18
Chioridum ..... Cb pa Hydrastis Canaden,
oe sre snge eee @ 45
= _— Als, po.-.. a =
as g5 | Inula, pO.....--+++++-- 5
ee fe 2 O0GS % | Ipecac, pO.....--.----- 2 00@2 20
Red or ae 45@ Iris plox (po. 20@22) .. 18@ W
ae 2 50@3 00 Jalapa, pr.....-- ... BQ WD
ee Maranta, 148..... @ 3
BACCAE, Podophyllum, po.....-. 15G, 18
Cubeae (po. 1 60 Rhei oe Pee ees = =e
suniperes s--~° ee
Xanthoxylum ..------- aE gaa a ee 48@ 53
BALSAMUM. : ——— (po 2).. — 20
Copaiba .....---------- 70 | Serpentaria.........-.-
oe @1 30|Senega .......2.---2, 60D
Terabin, Canada ....- 45@ 50 | Similax, Officinalis, H @
Woluten...-...---= <5 -- 45@ 50 ie - M @
Scillae, (po. 35).....--- 10@ 12
CORTEX. —— Feti- @ %
i anadian.....----.-- 18 He, pO. ....4---.--.. 3
ere ro ee ee ** 41 | Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ %
Cinchona Flava ....---- | 18) 0 erman... 15@ 2%
Euonymus atropurp..--.--- 30 | Zingiber a.....--.----- 10@ 15
Myrica Cerifera, pO.--.----- 2 | Zingiber j........----- 22@
Prunus Virgini....-------+-- 12 sia
Quillaia, QTG.....---ee ee eee 2 :
GausafPas .......-------+-<*" 12} Anisum, (po. 20).-...- @ 15
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)..-.-- 10} Apium (graveleons).. 10@ 12
Bicd, is. '-...-7-3.: @ 6
EXTRACTUM. —_ (pe. 18) -.-- ----- : od =
Glabra... 24@ 25|Cardamon.....--.----- 00@1 25
sec aaa Ou cae cuss 338@ 35 Corlandrum......-.--- 10@ 12
Haematox, 15lb. box.. 11@ 12 Cannabis Sativa....... 34@ 4
. da_.....-.-- 13@ 14|Cydonium.... .- =. oa 00
“ a ae 14@ 15}C enopodium ........ 1u@ 12
. ogo 16@ 17 | Dipterix Odorate.....- 1 75@1 85
nue Foeniculum..........- @ 15
a : Foenugreek, po....- : 8
Carbonate Precip....-- OQ at es 4 @4%
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 | Lini, grd, (bbl. 4 )... 44@ 4%
Citrate Soluble.....--- @ 8 \ipbelial... 0020: ....-- 35@ 40
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50 | Pharlaris Canarian.... 34@ 4%
Solut Chloride.....--- @ 15] Rapa .......----eereees 6@ 7
Sulphate, com’l.....-. 14@ 2) Sinapis, Albu......... s@ 9
‘6 pure...-.-+-- @ it ee pera 11@ 12
FLORA. SPIRITUS.
Arnica :.. --:-------<- 14@ 16) Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50
Anthemis ewecs sce ae 30@ 35 ‘“ DFR 1 T5@2 00
Matricaria .....- ----: 30@ 35 ; “ ee = =
uniperis Co. 0. T.... 7
epee ae Se 75@3 50
OOO ae a mean 10@ 121| seacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00
Cassia Acutifol, Tin” 9. 9. | Spt. Vini Galli......-. 1 75@6 50
nivelly ..-;;- “Are! 3@ 50 Mani Opera |... 1 25@2 00
i " _— a Mink Alte......-.-...- 1 25@2 00
Salvia officinalis, 48
and 168. ....---<.+--- = . SPONGES.
Ura Ursi..-.-- ras Wiecida  choces’ seul
GUMMI. Garriape. |. 0006 2 25@2 50
Acacia, 1st picked.... @1 00 | Nassau sheeps’ wool
ee 901. cartiage .... -..---- 2 00
“« 3a “ .... @ 80] Velvet extra sheeps’
« gifted sorts... _@ 65] wool carriage....... 1 10
pO. eee 1 00| Extra yellow sheeps’
loe, Barb, (po. 60)... 601 carriage |_|... 2. 85
“’ Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12! Grass sheeps’ wool car-
‘© Socotri, (po. 60). @ 50] riage .........------- 65
Catechu, 1s, (448, 14 48; Hard for slate use.... %5
46). ....2 eee @ 1 | Yellow Reef, for slate
Ammoniae ee = = = 2 1 40
Assafcetida, (po. oo. a
| Benzoinum....-..-++-: 30@ 55 SYRUPS.
| Camphor®..-.------ (2. 42@ 45| Accacia ........ 2-01 eeeeree es 50
| Euphorbium po ...--- S5@. 10| Zixigiber .22...22<5-+-------. 50
Galbanum. ...---++--> @ 80] Ipecac........------2eeeee ee 60
Gamboge, po.--------- 80@ 95| Ferri lod........-------+-+++ 50
Guaiacum, (po.50)..... @ 45| Auranti Cortes....-.-.------ 50
Kino, (po. 25)----+---- @ 2|Rhei Arom.........--.---+-- 50
Maste =. (2. 5... @1 00 | Similax Officinalis.......... 60
Myrrh, (po 45)..------ _@ 40 “ és Go .2.: 50
Opii, (pe. 5 10).------- 3 50@3 5d | Senega .....----- +--+ eee ee 50
Shetine .. ..--------- 2@ 35|Scillae......-.---.-+--eee+ eee 50
. bleached...... 2G 30 ‘f | Co. | oe
Tragacanth .....------ 30@ 75! Tolutan ..... Doon col 50
HEeRBA—In ounce packages. Promeus Vité---. -.-.+--- -<'--- 50
Absinthium ......-------+++- = TINCTURES.
i _-_ =
Bupatorium ---.---+-7---7-17 33 | Aconitum Napellis R....-. 60
Majorum .--- +. ee | sto F....... a
ee a ee
ious 2 i rc TINTED gp] amd myrrh.-.......--- 60 |
Rue 30 aed ee 2
manaeete yee og | Asafcetida......-..--.++-----
oe. 25 | Atrope Belladonna........-- 60
Tyger, Vo. ~~ Bowie 60
MAGNESIA. ' Ce. ........--------: 50
Caleined, Pat.....----- 55@ 60 | Sanguinaria......-...------- 50
Carbonate, Pat ......- 2@ 22) Barosma ........---+++-+ ++ 50
Carbonate, K. & M.... 20@ 25| Cantharides......-.-.-.----- %
Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36 | Capsicum .....------+-+++++- 50
Gardamon...22-....-.------. 7
— i: Coe
Absinthium. ....----- 5.00@5 50 | Castor ...:.--..-------------- 1 00
Amygdalae, Dulc... .- 45@ 75|Catechu... 50
Amydalae, Amarae....7 25@7 50) Cinehona -.....-----+-+---+- 50
Anw@.... .....--------- 1 $0@2 00 ns Cc 60
Auranti Cortex....--- @2 50 | Columba ........---.----++--- 50
Bergamii .......------ 80@3 00 | Conium ..........-- 50
Cajiputi ......-.------- 90@1 00 | Cubeba........---.----- 56
Caryophylli ......----- @1 50 | Digitalis ........------ ++++> 50 |
@edar ..-...---- 2-5... 35@ 65 | Ergot........------222-++++> . 50
Chenopodii .....------ @1 75 | Gentian .....-..---- +--+ +--+ 50
| Cinnamonii ......-..-- 1 35@1 40 . co 60
Citronella ........----- @ | Guaiea........---. --------- 50
Conium Mac......---- 5 65 : qmmoen.-) 4... =: 60
Copaiba .........---+-- 90@1 0C | Zingiber .....--.--- --++++-s 50
Gubebae ee 16 00@16 50 | Hyoscyamus ......---------- 50
Exechthitos......-.--- 90@1 00 | Iodine.........----0+5 eeeee+ 75
Erigeron ......--++++-- 1 20@1 30} “  Colorless.......-..--- 75
Gaultheria ..........-- 2 20@2 30 | Ferri Chloridum..........-. 35
Geranium, OUNCE..... @ Wi Kino 7.2) s eee. 50
Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ 75 | Lobelia........---+----++++-+ 50
Hedeoma ........----: 2 00@2 10 | Myrrh..........-- 2-22 -eee ees 50
Juniperi.......--.----- 50@2 00 | Nux Vomica.........------- 50
Lavendula .........--- 90@2 00 | Opli .-.-..-.-..-..=-- ------- 85
Timenis:....---. i ---- 1 50@1 80| ‘ Camphorated....... oe
Mentha Piper.........- 2 10@2 25} ‘* Deodor........--------- 2 00
Mentha Verid........- 2 50@2 60 | Auranti Cortex......-..----- 50
Morrhuae, gal......--- 80@1 00 | Quassia ....----. +--+ eee eee 50
Myrcia, ounce........- 50 | Rhatany .....-..-------- --- 50
Olive... 26.05. .iease- 1 Wa hel:. oi. 52s se os =e 50
Picis Liquida, (gal..35) 10@ 12) Cassia Aeutitel. 25.0.2. 50
Picigl ....-. 23. <a 1 24@1 36 “ fe eo. ee 50
Rosmarini......... 75@1 00 | Serpentaria ........--------- 50
Rosae, ounce.........- @6 00 | Stromonium........---.-+++- 60
Suceimi...........-...- 45 1 Vota .... - 2s... : es 60
Saas 9.2... 90@1 00 | Valerian .........--.-. +--+: 50
Santal ...... .°..-.+-- 3 50@7 00 | Veratrum Veride..........-.
Sassafras. .......--.-- 55@ 60
Sinapis, ess, ounce.... @ 65 MISCELLANEOUS.
Meme we co | Be SR NE. Op
oo. es Alumen ......-.-...-.- 24@ 3%
eobromas.........-- 5@ “ ground, (po.
POFASSIUM. Dee eee ee 3s@ 4
i Cars os 15@ 18] Annatto.........------ 55@ 60
Bichromate ..........- eo 14 | Antimoni, po.........- 4@ 5
Bromide... :..-..-.... 37@ 40 . et PotassT. 55@ 60

   
  

   

     
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amtipyeing.......- 4. a 1 1 40
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 68
APRGEIGUED 2... .. 35. <
Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@ 40
Peswmute S&S No... 2 10@2 20

Calcium Chlor, is, (%s
ids Ge, te) 9

Cantharides Russian,
Pee eo @1 75

 

 

po
Capsici Fructus, af... @ 18
a... @ 16
“cc “cc po. @ 14
Caryophyllus, (po. 28) 2@ 25
Carmine, No 40..<:...- @3 75
Cera Alba, S. &F..... 55
Cera Plava....-:-....- 30
IN ie ce niet @ 4
Cogs Fructus. ;.<.--- @ 15
Ceomrareae @ 10
Cemceum  .:)5......5. @ 35
@Chaproform ........ .. 82@ 35
- squibbs .. @1 00
Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1 50@1 75
Chenegris.:.. 0-5... 25
Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ 2
ms German 4@ 10
Corks, list, dis. per
Gent ee. 60
Creansoim 02.0.2... @ 50
Cress, (bbl: 75)... ....-- @ 2
‘s prep...-.-.-.-... 5@ «5
“| precip ...._..... 8@ 10
' supra... co... @ 8
crecus -... 2... 38
24
9
12
Wiper Sutph..... 3... 70
Emery, all numbers... @ 8
= pe 5... @ 6
Ergota, (po.) 45....... 0@ 6
Higee Waite ......... 12@ 15
Gaia sor lost @ B
Gambier... 00... 10@ i1
Gelatin, Cooper....... @ 9”
e French... 40@ 60
Glassware flint, 75 & 10 per
cent. by box 70 less
Glue: Brown...:) 2.0. 15
Waite 13@ 25
GIVCOMNA so cioce cuss 3 2R2@ 2%
Grane Paradisi........ 15
Mumps... <5. 5. 2 40
Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ 9
i - Cer o..: @ 80
. Ox Rubrum @1 00
- Ammoniati.. @1 10
C Unguentum. 45@ 55
Piyerareyrom—--:--: @ 80
Ichthyobolla, Am..... 1 25@1 50
Indigo................- 75@1 00
Jodie, Resubl.....-.- 3 7E@3 85
Todoformm:........ Ss a4 7
pws es 85@1 00
Pycopodiym:.........- 55@ 60
Minette 2)... ooo 85
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
fare Joc... ..... 27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12

Magnesia, Sulph (bbl

C. Co
Moschus Canton......
Myristica, No.1... .... 60@
Nux Vomica, (po 20).. G@
ie, pepia.
= Saac, H. & P. D.

5G oa ee ae ts
Picis Liq, N. C., % gal
got
Picis Lig., quarts .....
rn Paice... c.. @
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80) .. @
Piper Nigra, (po. 22) .. @
Piper Alba, (po ¢5).... @
Pie Bare... 0 .c.. . @
Plumbt Acet 2... 14@
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1
Pyrethrum, boxes H

 
 

& PD. Ca. doz. .. @1
Pyrethrum, pv.... D
Quassine ...-.....- . =o
Gua 5 2 sw... R@

. S. German.... 3
Rubia Tinctorum..... 12
Saccharum Lactis pv.. @
BOlQet. 22. 8). 2 B@2
Sanguis Draconis..... L0G
Santeane _........... @A
SAPO! OV 28. oe dees, 12@

'_ =. &@

ee @
Seidlitz Mixture.... = @
Sanseee. 2.5... @

2 (Opt...) 5... @
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
| Woes.) 32-2... @
Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes G@
Soda Boras, (po. 12). . 11@
Soda et Potass Tart... 30@

Soda Carp... -...-..-

 

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SS

aan lee. .2 65@2 90
@ 40

Soda, BiCarh......... 5
Seda, Asm... _.... |... 8Q@ 4
Soda: Suiphas..:.....- a 2
Spts. Ether Co .-.....- 0G 55
“| Myrcia Dom..... @2 00
« Myrcia tmp... .- @2 50
Nani. Reet. -bbL
e Oeh 2c se @2 15
Less 5¢ gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal..... @1 10
Salphur, Subl......... 24%@ 3%
. Hole. 2). 24%@ 3
(Paraarinds (2.000 5.655 8@ 10
Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30
Theobromae .. = soa So
Varia... -°.. ...9 00@16 00
Zine: Purp... .... 1 §&
OILs.
Bbl. Gai
Whale, winter. ...-..- 7 7
Tsed, €xtra- >< 55 60
Para No 1.) 45 58
Linseed, pureraw.... 58 61
Lindseed, boiled .... 61 64
Neat’s Foot, winter
murnrned 69
SpiritsTurpentine.... 0% 55
ae a PAINTS. bbl. Ib.
ec encitan... 1.5... t @3
Ochre, yellow Mars... iz aoa

Ber.....1% 23
Putty, commercial....24% 2%@3

© ‘strictl
Vermilion rime Amer-

pure..... 24 2%@3

Sen 13@16
Vermilion, English.... T0@75
Green, Peninsular..... WO@T5
ead, Tred... ..:.....--. 64@7%q

< nie 2 64%@7T%
Whiting, white Span... @70
Whiting, Gilders’...... @90
White, Paris American 100
Whiting, Paris Eng.

ee 1 40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20@1 4
Swiss Villa Prepared

METIS ot es 1 00@1 20
VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp Coach..... 1 10@1
Wxtra Turp......-. --.--
Coach Body........--- 2

No. 1 ‘Turp Furn...... 1 00@1

20

2 8

10

Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
2 Dryer, No. 1
Woe oe eee see 0@ 75

 

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is claimed, making it one of the
very best selling articles handled.

Place your order with our Wholesal:
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(TRADE MARK REGISTERED.)

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Polishina will add a lustre which for beauty
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tohi is clean, and easy to use, as full
Polishina directions accompany each bottle
Palishina is put up in LARGE BOTTLES,

and is sold at the moderate price o
Twenty-five Cents.

‘ ‘ is the Best Furniture Finish in the
Polishina market. Try it, and make your old
furniture look fresh and new.

1 ; is for sale by all Druggists, Furni
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Wholesale Cigar Dealers.

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Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co.,
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the Michigan Tradesman

SS
Hints for Employers.

Scolding is not wise criticism. Conse-
quently itis not educational. Scolding
is not stimulating; on the contrary, it is
discouraging. Scolding does not promote
Sympathy of ideas; widens the gap. An
maumerited scolding is not always wiped
out by a subsequent pat on the back. Too
much even of adverse criticism finally
produces a reaction which neutralizes {ts
ect.

The worst culprit has a right to be
heard in self-defense before judgment is
passed.

The pupil has as much right as the
teacher to have his feelings respected.

Faithfulness and trustworthiness are
more valuable than intelligence, for they

*

are very much harder to find, and cay’;
By va, ’

“be bowght:

You can’t frighten intelligence into}

anybody, or bulldoze trustworthiness out
of him.

The best employe is one who has affec-
tion for his employer, as well as respect.

Affection is a plant of slow growth; it
cannot be forced. It is, moreover, very
sensitive, easily » chilled, or totally
blighted.

When you puta responsibility on the

shoulders of any one, don’t take it away
at the first mistake.
make several before he learns hew to

properly use his authority, and another |

would have to go over the same ground.

Don’t intimate to an employe that you
consider him a blockhead, for his irre-
sistible conclusion is that, if so, you’re
another for keeping him. If he don’t,
after ample opportunity, grow big enough
to fill the place assigned to him, give him
another, or discharge him in kindly lan-
guage.

A man isn’t stupid by preference ;
hence, a dull comprehension is his mis-
fortune, not his fault. It is even useless
to reproach him for having incorrectly
represented himself as skillful. That
was probably his honest conviction. It
is only the man at the head of his trade
who knows enough to recognize his own
shortcomings.

Do not coerce any one by withholding
his pay until his necessities force him to
humble himself before you. It is not
chivalrous for the strong to humiliate the
weak.

After you have broken the spirit of an
employe, you might as well discharge
him. You have spoiled him for all but
eye service. He may escape doing any-
thing very bad, through fear of punish-
ment; he will never do anything particu-
larly well—he gets no credit for it.

Have system and enforce discipline,
but remember you can overdo both. Too
much of the former becomes red tape,
and discipline disproportionate to the ex-
igencies ef your business reduces your
employes to mere machines.

Cultivate esprit de corps in your em-
ployes, or, at least, be very careful not to
mar any already existing. This is another
of these extremely valuable elements ina
successful business which cannot be
bought.

Don’t think that the prosperity of your
business is due alone to your capital of
money and brains. Recognize the fact
that every one, from the office boy up, is
contributing his quota of the brain part
of the capital. Consequently. don’t dole
out their wages as if it were charity.

Stop looking for that ideal employe.
He’s in business for himself. Besides,
you couldn’t get along together. He
would be too independent to suit you,
and you would appear simply brutal to
him.

Don’t keep continually discharging
your employes and hiring others, in the
search for better men. Those you already
have are probably all right, if properly
developed, and a man’s value to you
ought to grow in proportion to his length
of service. If you don’t sufficiently
remunerate faithful and intelligent ser-
vice, you will never get good men, or at
least you won’t keep them.

———————>_ 2

Cool Presumption.
rom the Albany Express.

One of the leading Pearl street mer-
chants was an eye witness yesterday to
the utter demolition of all previous rec-
ords in the way of cold nerve. He was
busy at one of his counters and did not
look up as the quick step of a woman was
heard in the front of the store, nor as its
owner passed him, going toward the rear
of the place. He even thought it might
be his wife, who is a frequent visitor at
her husband’s place of business. A min-
-ute later he went back himself to his
little private office in the rear, and reached
the door just as a well-dressed and emi-
nently respectable woman, whose name
is in the recently published list of Albany
*“‘society,’? and whom he knew slightly,
but only slightly, closed his cash drawer
with a bang, and looking up as he
stopped, thunder-struck, on the thresh-
old, said coolly: ‘‘Well, you haven’t got
change enough to change my $5 bill, sol
won’t bother you.’’ Then she swept out
of the store, leaving the merchant in a
state of mental and physical collapse
from which he has not yet recovered.

—_— ae

Missouri’s Anti-Trust Law.

The enforcement of the Misseuri ‘‘Anti-
Trust’? law is placed in the hands of the
Prosecuting Attorney and the Attorney-
General. The Secretary of State is re-
quired to address all corporations incor-
porated under the laws of Missouri, and
is directed to revoke the charters of those
failing to make reply, under oath, after
a given time, to his enquiries. On Nov.
11, the Secretary of State issued an ulti-
matum to all corporations, requesting
them to comply with the law on or before
Noy. 14, or their charters would be re-
voked. On the 13th inst., it was stated
that all the corporations of Missouri, in
the Lead Trust, had withdrawn there-

from.
a

Good Advice to the Farmers.
From the Farm and Fireside. ,

Try the plan of paying cash for every-
thing you buy. If you have not the
ready money, borrow it. The banker
will loan it to you at a less rate of inter-
est than you will have to pay the mer-
chant for credit. When merchants sell
on time, without notes or security, they
are forced by necessity to cover their
risks by charging high for credit. It will
not pay you to make a banker of your
merchant. Pay him cash, even if you
have to borrow the money with which to
do it.

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Charles E. Olney,
William Judson,
Edward Frick,

DIRECTORS: |

Heman G. Barlow,
James A. Morrison,
Richard R.

Mail orders solicited, to which

Successors to

Importers and Wholesale Grocers.

 

 

 

   
  

Bean.

ihe management will
be the same as in the
past, with the addition
of Heman G. Barlow,
formerly of Ball, Barn-
hart & Putman.

 

QLNKY & JUUSUN GRUGKR COMPANY, |

Olney, Shields & Co.

 

 

 

 

 

Special attention will be paid.

 

 

 

Fac Simile of the Label of

 

Netncrcanstenn

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The Best Scouring and Cleaning Seapinthe World

Costs as much to manufacture as Sapolio, yet sells at
about half the price ($2.75 per box of 72 cakes). Can be
retailed for as much with equal or better value to the
consumer, although it is generally sold at 5 cents a
cake. Cut this out, and ask your Jobber to send youa
box of Pride of the Kitchen. It is worth trying.

Good-Byein Pass Boo

Adopt

 

 

the

Tradesman Gredit 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 ZA ee ees 3.00 | Orders for 200 or over....... 5 per eent.
$10 Ee Specks s cee 4.00 sh eo Bee sce 10 “6
$20 ‘ NE a 5.00 | nf e100 eo 20 ee

SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS.

 

E. A. STOWE & BRO., - - Grand Rapids.

 

K. G. STUDLRY,

Wholesale Dealer in

Rubber

Boots and Shoes

Manufactured by

CANDEE RUBBER 60.

Send for Large Illustrated Catalogue and
ice List.

 

TELEPHONE 464.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

ARAVENRIGH BROS.

Wholesale Clothiers

MANUFACTURERS OF

Perfect-Fitting Tailor-Made Clothing

AT LOWEST PRICES.

138-140 Jefferson Awe., 34-36 Woodbridge St., Detroit.

MAIL ORDERS sent in care L. W. ATKINS will receive PROMPT ATTENTION.

Putnam Gandy bo,

13, 15 AND 17 SOUTH IONIA ST.

No. 4 Monroe Street,

 

 

 

Ionia Pants& Overall Co.

E. D. Voorhees, Manager.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, Ets,

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.

Samples and prices

IONIA, MICH.

 

 

 

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NEW MOLASSES|

 

 

We have received large shipments of
molasses, direct from the planters in Louisi-
ana, which we are offering to the trade at our
usual low prices.

tener Spice Company,

IMPORTERS OF TEAS, COFFEES
1 AND 3 PEARL

AND SPICES.
STREET.

Rindge, Bertsch & Co,, |

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.

12, AND 16 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS,

THE WALSH--DE ROO MILLING 60,

HOLLAND, MICH.

14 MICH.

 

Daily Capacity,
400 Bbls.

BRANDS:
SUNLIGHT,
DAISY,

 

PURITY,
MORNING STAR,
IDLEWILD,
DAILY BREAD,
ECONOMY.

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STANDARD ROLLER Mi SPECIALTIES:

a ia BR A Uy : Graham,

: 1h AK Wheatena,

a i f BA a9 Buckwheat Flour,
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Rye Flour,
Bolted Meal,
Rye Meal,

Wheat Grits,
Buckwheat Grits,
Pearl Barley,
Oat Meal,
Rolled Oats,

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