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VOL. 7.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1890.

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A LETTER TO EVA.

« Now that you have left my life as one
leaves a house in a strange land to which
there shall be no return; now that I
move on alone in the darkness, the cold-
ness and desolation of my days, only one
thing holds any hope of comfort for me,
and that is to live over in my memory the
only happy days of my life. I think of
them; I dream of them; and now I have
bethought myself to write out a con-
nected account of them, and address it
to you, just as if you would one day
read it:

Yesterday I walked up to the house
where I first met you, on the first of
July, five years ago. I saw that the
house was to let; and I got permission
to go overit. As I stood in the large,
empty drawing-rooms, the place was
changed for me, as by magic. It was
again richly furnished—again brilliant
with light, thronged with people. I
heard again a clamor of voices, as when
I stood that night in the doorway. A
hand fell on my arm and my hostess said:

‘Mr. Archer, I want at once to intro-
duce youtoamost charming woman, a
great admirer of your novels. She has
had a romantic story of her own.’’

So saying, she piloted me ‘across the
crowded rooms, and we stood before you.

‘‘Miss Linton, here is Mr. Archer. I
told you I would bring him.”’

“IT have very often wished to have the
pleasure of meeting you,’’ you said,
turning to me, and frankly putting out
your hand.

Those were the first words you spoke
to me. For the first time 1 heard my
ideal voice—the low, subtle, thrilling,
sympathetic voice, with a note in it of
tender, pleading music, unlike any other
voice that I have ever heard. Did I take
in all its beauty that night? Hardly, I
think, yet I felt it keenly, and from the
first you charmed me.

Oh, fair, * face, lit by the fair,
gracious soul! Oh, perfect, passionate
mouth, such as the old Greeks loved—
formed for kisses and music! Oh, beau-
tiful, deep, changeful eyes, and white,
thoughtful brows, with their crown of
soft brown hair—in how short a time
they began to come to me in my dreams
at night! You know, too, I thought you
had the queenliest figure that ever
woman had. No woman ever held her-
self so proudly or so graciously. There
was something in the touch of your
white, smooth, small,,but withal strong,
hand, that seemed to speak tome. You
wore that night a soft, luminous dress;
you had a red rose in your bosom, and a
red rose in your hair. I sat down by
you and we began to talk. Our talk was
about novels, poetry, English and Amer-
ican, and of the places we had visited.
When you rose to leave, I went with you
to your carriage, and“ you asked me to
come to see you. I had been longing for
you to do this. Looking back, now, I
see that, though I did not realize it then,
I must have been in love with you that
night.

{ went back to the house after you left,
but remained only a few minutes. It
seemed so worse than uninteresting when
you were gone. All night I lay awake
thinking of you, recalling your voice,
longing to hear it again.

I turned away ‘yesterday, sadly as one
leaves a friend, from that house over
whose floors your feet had passed, that
had been swept by the hem of your dress,
and where I had first seen you. I came
back into the heart of London, and
walked to and fro in front of that other
house you had till so recently occupied,
over the threshold of which I had passed
so many times. As I walked up and
down, in the raw air of the November
night, hearing the discontented wind
sweeping along the leaves that had fallen
from the trees in London square, the
pain and loneliness of my life seemed
more than I could endure. A boy with
a basket stopped in front of the house
and rung the servants’ bell; alight ap-
peared for a moment at one of the upper
windows and then vanished. -I should
have liked to kneel down and kiss the
dear stone steps which your beloved feet
had crossed so many times.

Slowly I turned back then to my cham-
bers to think of you, then finally to find
some rest from thought by means of
kindly chloral. It will kill me in the
end, perhaps, but what matter !

That night I had such a wonderful
dream of you. I thought I was walking
in a strange, lonely, sunset country,
something like country I have seen, but
unmistakably dream-country. No one
was in sight, but from the tranquil field
and from the patient hill [heard asound
of many divine voices singing, and I
knew they were singing of you, and my
heart leaped and thrilled in me, and the
song told that you were coming; and,
just: for great delight to think that I
should see you again, the tears burst
forth and [I wept like a child. Then all
in a minute you stood before me, your
face more beautiful than ever, in the
sunset light of that fair dream country.
It seemed to me that you were the queen
of it, and when you saw my tears, think-
ing them tears of sorrow, you threw both
your beautiful arms around my neck,
and I laid your subtle lips to mine. I
felt you clinging close to me. I thought
I should have fainted from the joy of it;
instead, I awoke—oh, the bitter awaken-
ing that it was!

The day I next saw you after the first
meeting was the 5th of July, the day on
which you told meI might call. It was
a brilliantly fine day, too intense for most
people, but not so for me. Besides, your
drawing-room, with its tempered sweet-
ness, its flowers, its delicate tints, was a
heaven of shade. Not as Isaw you on
one day only do you appear to me in
memory, but as I have seen you on many
days. Still, visions of you, as I saw
you on certain special days, beset me
specially, and very oftenI see you as I
saw you that day. Your soft dress was
veined with blue; you looked a divine
blending of heaven and _ earth—you
might have been a Saint to die for; you

 

were a woman to live for.
the tone of voice in which you said, ‘‘I
am very glad to see you.” Just asif
really you were alittle glad. Then, of
course, we fell to talking of what a hot
day it was, and from that of people who
like compromises with nature as with all
things. I said I was always in extremes;
but, all the same, a great believer in
compromise; and you laughed, a little,
a half-perplexed laugh, and said that you
believed only in things that were abso-
lute. You seemed to draw me on to talk
of myself, which, as I told you at the
time, is not a favorite subject of conver-
sation with me. Before I left you, you
knew, I think, the lonely, reserved man
I was—made cruelly lonely by a nature
utterly insufficient for itself, yet not find-
ing in any companionship that for which
it sought, for which it still craved cease-
lessly.

When I rose to leave you, I saw tender
sympathy for me in your dark gray and
so compassionate eyes, heard sympathy
in the tones of your voice, felt sympathy
in the touch of your fair, firm hand. I
went to the club that night, but did not
hear what any one said, so lost was I in
trying to recall the way in which you
spoke. I fell asleep and awoke early,
my heart flooded with the thought of you.
This interest which I had in you—I, who
until then, had been interested in no one
—seemed to remake life; for when I
looked back on the internal loneliness of
the days before I knew you, I wondered
how I ever could have borne them.

That day I made some pretext on which
to write to you. Two days after I called
upon you, in the evening, as you had told
me I might. It was a hot, windless even-
ing, witha storm brooding. You received
me very kindly, and we sat for a happy
hour in the twilight. Presently you
said:

‘Is there no chance of cure for your
loneliness??? and I answered: ‘‘A week
ago I should have said no such chance
could be. Now I say there is; it rests
with you.’’

*““With me?’’

‘Yes, with you; will you be my friend?
Will you let me be yours?”’

“7 think I need a friend as much as
you do,’’ you answered, with a little sigh.
Then, with one of those dear impulses,
which were so adorable in you, you put
out both hands, and 1 took them and held
them in mine for a minute.

When did the feeling first burn home
to me that what I felt for you was love—
love in the sense of being in love—not
the friendship I had imagined? I could
not keep away from you; could not keep
from writing to you. In one letter, I
remember, I asked you to explain me to
myself. Here I have your answer—the
handwriting is faded with time, that
beautiful handwriting, which, like every-
thing about you, had on it the impress of
your own gracious individuality. Oh,
dear letter, once warm from your own
hand; a letter in which I almost seem to
hear you speak. You say:

“DEAR FRIEND—Your letter, half sad,
half glad, came to me this morning with
many others. I turned at once to yours.
You ask me to explain yourself to your-
self—to tell you why it is that while you
are glad in my friendship—gladder, you
are good enough to say, than of anything
else in your life—you are yet so restless
at times, even so despairing.

‘“*As a rule, no woman is more stupid at
explanations than am I; but I think this
a problem that I can solve. By yourown
account, when you met me you werea
lonely, reserved. self-contained man,
never having known areal friendship.
You say that your friendship with me
made you, for the first time in your life,
live. I have made a new world for you,
you tell me—given a meaning to the sum-
mer it has never had before.

‘““My friend, a sudden friendship stimu-
lated you thus; but you see now, don’t
you, that it is not by any means all you
thought it would be? Hence your rest-
lessness; hence your despair; but I, your
new friend, am hopeful for you. Your
power to feel so much shows me a capa-
bility of feeling still more. It has been
my good fortune in life, when I never
thought to be of any more good at all, to
rouse you from lethargy, to plant in you
some knowledge of what life may be
made. Am1a little sorry to think that
another friend must complete what I
have only begun? Perhaps I am—I know
ITam—selfish. Isuppose I should have
liked this friendship, which came to you
so unexpectedly, to have been the com-
pletest of your life; but I will try to be
glad of what is best for you.

‘Will you come to-morrow and talk
over with me the plot of your new novel?
I want this, your next book, to be very
much alive. I half feel as if the sun of
our friendship were setting. Come to-
morrow and tell me that it is not quite
sundown yet—it often turns so very chilly
in the twilight. Your friend,

“HVA.”

The next day I reproached you with
your letter, which, all the same, had
been so dear to me, as evidence that you
did value my friendship. Your face
brightened when I told you that never
another such friendship could come
to me.

“T am glad that, at least, you think so
now,’’ you said, in atone that was as
sweet almost and as subtle as aearess. I
passed the evening with you. You did
not know then, my Eva, how I longed to
kneel down by you—to kiss your lips,
your hands, your dress, the heavy gold
locket hanging at your white, wonderful
throat. And I had to sit ata little dis-
tance from you and dared not even reach
out and take your hand. You were gay
the early part of that evening. Talking
of an acquaintance of ours, supposed by
most women to be very dangerous to
men’s peace of mind, you said:

‘She is a bright, noisy little brooklet
of a woman—pretty to look at, but too
shallow to drown in.’’

Do you, at this date, remember describ-
ing to me a sunset you had seen once on
the coast of France—a wonderful opal

I remember

 

sunset, in whose strange light shore and
sea seemed translated?

“It was a sunset that hushed you,’’
you said. ‘‘It seemed like the glorified
ghost of a sunset.’’

I have seen in your eyes, my love, when
talking of anything that greatly moved
you, a look of passionate inspiration, as
if they saw deep into the mystery of
things. In your voice, too, at such times,
was a rapture I knew well, which corre-
sponded to that look which I have seen
in no eyes but yours, as I have heard
that subtle, thrilling tone only in your
voice.

As the evening wore on, you felt sad;
thus, sometimes, after a day of brilliant
sunshine and perfect stillness, just at
sunset a sad little wind begins to moan
among the trees, and the sky grows gray
and hopeless. So seemed to me the
change in you; nor was it the first time I
had noted this sudden transition. Do
you remember my asking you why you
were so sad? You answered:

‘How do you know lam sad? Have I
said so?”’ :

Then I did take your hand, and I said:
‘*“Eva, could we be the friends we are,
and I not know, without your telling me,
when you are sad? Will you not tell me
what makes you so?’ Oh, my God, how
I longed then to draw you close to my
heart and kiss all shadow of trouble from
your face; to banish all trouble from
your heart!

‘“‘What are you thinking of ?”’ I asked.

You answered, looking down, ‘Of
something that isover. I will try not to
be sad when you are here. Indeed, I
ought not, remembering how cold and
lonely I should be now without your
friendship.”’

Soon after, it was time for me to go,
but all that night I could not sleep, so
haunted was 1 by your sad, yearning,
pleading, almost hopeless eyes; by your
low voice, which had in it that pathetic
elemental music, that soft, rainy trouble,
which we hear in the summer wind that
comes before the rain.

‘“‘What is her trouble?’ I pondered, as
ITlay awake that night, and owned at
last to myself that I loved you madly—
that if, by dying for you, I could make
you happy, I would so gladly die.

You may remember my calling on you
the next afternoon. You were going for
a walk, and you let me go with you.
Your very sad mood of the past night
seemed to have passed away. You were
gay—gay in your own bright way.

Oh, love of my life, who shal! say what
it was that most of all in you enthralled
me—the wonderful voice, changing with
every emotion as the beautiful eyes
changed, or the delicate imagination,
that divine sense of ideality which con-
trasted with your strength of will, your
power to conceive rapidly and execute
surely,and made you not only a beauty and
arefuge in the world, but a positive good?
Or was it that exquisite, unnamable
fragrance of womanhood which escaped
from you—the rose scent from a rose?
Or was it your moods of sweet way-
wardness, like the shadows of April trees
shaking in the sunny, windy course of a
rapid brooklet? Or was it your sad-
ness, which sounded in me unknown
depths of pity? Oh, my poet! oh, my
busy, kindly worker! I loved each sep-
arate charm of yours ten hundred times
more than the most passionate lever ever
loved the whole united force of his mis-
tress’ attractions. You were, even in
those days, what you are now, what you
must always remain to me—my beautiful
wonder of women. It was the fifteenth
of August when [I left England for
Rocherville, on the coast of Normandy,
where you were to follow in a few days,
with a party of friends. You thought it
best that I should go first and I obeyed
you. We passed the evening of the four-
teenth together. I wonder if you remem-
ber it at all? You were sad and said
you should miss me. lIasked you to
write to me and you smiied, as if pleased,
and answered, ‘‘I don’t think the sun of
our friendship has begun to set as yet.’’

I remember how a street piano played
under your window. It was playing the
“Carnival de Venice.’’ Whenever I hear
that tune now, it brings back to me your
drawing-room in the twilight; yourself
lying on the sofa—for you were tired
that night—while I sat close by, wor-
shiping you, yet not daring to tell you of
the great love which was making me
afraid of mvself.

Do you remember telling me to talk
and calling me stupid? You did not
know then that I could not talk because
Iwas so full of grief at parting from
you, even for afew days. Oh, did not
the shadow of that parting forecast this
greater shadow, which is even as the
shadow of death ?

Shall I ever forget the twentieth of
August? I did not expect you until the
twenty-sixth. I had been roving all day
about the shore, thinking of you and
longing for you, when, coming back,
about nine o’clock, passing the window
of the hotel, I saw you sitting there,
your dear eyes bent down, the lamplight
shining on your warm brown hair. I
entered without your having seen me,
and in another mcment we stood face to
face.

“IT have been wondering where we
should meet,’? those were your first
words. ‘‘You are surprised to see me
before my time. It was the sudden
arrangement of my friends. They found
they could leave London earlier than
they had hoped.’’

‘‘Heaven bless your friends!’ I said,
as I pressed your hand close in mine.

Then we joined your party and sat all
together on the beach. Oh, the joy of
that night—-the supreme comfort of
knowing you were with me! Unseen by
the others, you let your hand rest in
mine. All that night I could not sleep
for thinking of you. To the immaculate
moonlight and the everlasting sea I told
my love. Whichever way I looked, I
seemed to see you before me, as I had
seen you so unexpectedly in the salon of
the hotel, the lamplight falling on your

 

soft, brown hair, the face bent down, the
dear eyes never meeting mine.

How I must always love Rocherville
for the sake of the days that followed!
For a week you seemed less sad; but
after that, the old pensive moods came
back very frequently, until there arrived
that never-to-be-forgotten seventh of
September.

It was a bright, gusty day, and we
were walking along the high road, when
heavy raindrops began to come down, so
we took shelter under some trees. The
ground was carpeted with leaves, and on
them we sat down. I came nearer to you
than I had ever dared to do before. Then
my love could no longer be kept under.
I flung my arms about you and you did
not move from me. My lips clung to
your neck; just then, we heard voices of
people we knew approaching, and rising,
we were on the instant once more only
friends. I did not see you alone again
until evening; we had been visiting your
friends, the Stones, you may remember,
and it was my good fortune to see you
back to your hotel. Do you, I wonder,
remember the brilliant moonlight of that
night, and the high west wind bringing
to us, as we walked, the sound and the
smell of the sea? We walked on until
we came to the beach and there we sat
down together. Then, for the first time,
1 kissed your lips and felt your kiss
answering mine; thenI lay with my head
in your lap, while you leaned above me
and your fingers played in my hair. The
white waves, exulting in their strength,
shimmering in the pure, potent moon-
light, filling the spacious night with
their own wild, matchless music, will be
forever associated in my mind with the
memory of that night.

The next day 1 called to see you at
your hotel—a wild, windy day it was,
with occasional bursts of rain! A bit-
ter day for me, my love, that dead day
was.

1 found you restless
up and down the room. When I went to
kiss you, you drew back, and I hear
again the tone, half of pity and half of
terror, in which you said, as you shrank
from me: ‘‘No, you must not; I have
wronged you enough already. You
must hear me!’ Then you sat down,
elasped your cold hands elosely together,
and told me about yourself and Frank
Leinster. Then I heard that the man
you loved, whose wife you had promised
to be, had, without one word of explana-
tion, left you; that he had last been seen
on his way to France, in the companion-
ship of a woman about whom report did
not speak too favorably; that, notwith-
standing this, you had for five years
cherished the belief that he would, in
the end, return to you, as the only wom-
an he could ever really love, as he was
the one man that you could ever really
love. All this you told me; and told me
how. the day before, you had been for a
few hours betrayed into thinking that
you would give up all hope of a future
with him and draw from my love what
happiness you could; but that, alas, this
could not be! ‘Some day,’’ you said, ‘‘I
feel certain he will return; for were we
not made for one another? And then,
dear, if you were my husband, what
could we do? Would you not suffer even
more than we? Can you forgive me for
having given you false hopes ?’’

Did I not forgive you, Eva? You let
me kneel beside you and kiss your
hands. Then, just as a child might, you
leaned your head on my shoulder and
the tears came; and so full of pity was I
then, my darling, I hardly felt my own
suffering. lI realized how terrible must
have been those long years of vain wait-
ing; how day after day hope would rise,
only to fall stricken at night, when no
word came from him; and still, after all,
hope was not dead. Then I asked you to
let me be your friend—one always long-
ing todo your will; and if, I said, ‘‘in
the course of many years he should not
have come, or you should hear of his
marriage, then, perhaps, you will be
mine, though you can never love me as
you loved him.”’

You answered, with a faint smile
through yourtears: ‘‘What! do you
think you shall love me like this when I
am old, as [ should be then? Iam nota
young woman, even now.”’

“To me,’’ I cried, ‘‘you must always
be the same. You will let me be your
friend, then,’’ I pleaded. And you an-
swered, earnestly pressing my hands:

‘*Yes, my very, very dearest friend in
all the world.”’

At the end of September you left Nor-
mandy, and shortly after I followed. I
came back to town to find vast masses of
work awaiting me. I wrote hard through
the gray, hopeless days; then how good
it was to come to you in the evening!
What joy, what rest I found in you, my
pure of heart! Of course, seeing us so
much together, people began to talk, to
wonder why we did not marry; but we
eared little what they said. You were
the whole world to me, and you felt me
nearer to you than any but that one.

As I write to you, here in my dreary
room, this gloomy November night, I
have your picture before me and a
packet of your letters. As I turn them
over, what a fragrance seems to escape
from them! Here is one dated the 6th
of December. You write:

‘*DEAREST FRIEND: I have to pass this
evening with an old school friend. I
shall greatly miss seeing you. More-
over, I am very sad to-day. God bless
you, my friend, for all your tenderness
to me and patience with me; but, dear, I
want to write to you what I can better
write thansay. It is that I feel I am
doing you a wrong in letting you devete
yourself to me as you do. I feel still
that he will come back to me; but, if he
does not, could I, even after many years,
marry any one else? I am shadowing
your life with the sorrow of mine. Iam
sad. This cruel waiting has worn away
my health. You think me pretty now;
in a little while you will not think me so.
You must try to see less of me—must try

and sad, pacing

 

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The Michigan Tradesman

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Samuel K. Beecher succeeds Beecher
& Co. in the grocery business.

Geo. Voorhis succeeds Geo. Voorhis &
Co. in the wholesale lumber business.

Francis Van Dugteren has purchased
the drug stock of Theo. H. Rathbone, at
79 Plainfield avenue.

W. F. Wiliemin has removed his gen-
eral stock from Oakdale Park to the cor-
ner of Hall and Clark streets.

 

M. Torecuette has opened a grocery
store at Volney. The Olney & Judson
Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

 

H. M. Patrick has opened a grocery
store at Harriette. The stock was fur-
nished by the Olney & Judson Grocer Co.

 

Speicher & Co. have removed their
drug stock from Oakdale Park to the
corner of Jefferson avenue and Sycamore
street.

W. M. Bale & Co., crockery dealers at
Fennville, have added a line of grocer-
ies. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co.
furnished the stock.

 

J. L. Thompson, boot and shoe dealer
at Harbor Springs, has added a line of
groceries. The Olney & Judson Grocer
Co. furnished the stock.

ee

The Alba Lumber Co. is settling with
its creditors at from 20 to 40 per cent.
It is understood that most of the com-
promises are made on the basis of 35 per
cent.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Belleville—F. A. Dean, the furniture
dealer, is dead.

Beech—Geo. Beveridge succeeds Bev-
eridge & Smith in general trade.

Flint—Gordon & Stevens succeed Gor-
don Bros. in the bakery business.

Kalkaska—cC. S. Ramsey has bought
the grocery stock of W. F. Stuart.

Cheboygan—W. A. Lynn succeeds W.
A. Lynn & Co. in the meat business.

Allegan—Wm. J. Garrod succeeds Gar-
rod & Messenger in the drug business.

Fowlerville—Frederick Kuhn has sold
his hardware stock to T. J. Cook & Co.

Gregory—N. E. Moore succeeds Dan-
iels & Moore in the hardware business.

Bristol—B. D. Payne has sold his gen-
eral stock of goods to James H. Sutton.

Port Huron—Edward J. Rogers suc-
ceeds Rogers & Bernatz in the drug bus-
iness.

Jackson—C. Schwarz has
grocery store at 128 North
street.

Oxford—Gregg & McCarthy have as-
signed their general stock to Chas. F.
Randall.

Buchanan—Wood & Hoffman are suc-
ceeded in the hardware business by Treat
& Godfrey.

Waldron—H. T. Du Bois & Co., gen-
eral dealers, have called a meeting of
their creditors.

Eaton Rapids—V. J. Bowers has sold
his boot and shoe stock to F. P. Monford,
late of Mt. Clemens.

Bay City—Brucker & Co.
Brucker, Craig & Co. in
and retail fruit business.

Jonia—Klinginberg & Slowinski have
turned over their stock of tailoring and
furnishing goods to creditors.

South Allen—Jobn Herring has sold
his grocery stock and grist mill to Bowen
& Green, of Litchfield, for $9,000.

St. Joseph—Hager & Mielke, news
dealers, stationers and tobacconists, have
been closed under chattel mortgage.

Charlevoix—Geo. L. Beaman, formerly
engaged in the drug business here, pro-
poses to start a cigar factory at Ishpem-
ing.

Hartford—L. W. Riegel has bought the
confectionery stock of C. Boynton, and
is moving it into the building heretofore
occupied by Earl] Hemenway.

Evart—J. P. Paddack & Co. have dis-
solved, Mr. Paddack assuming the own-
ership of the Novelty Mills and John C.
Devitt that of the Standard Mills.

Flint—H. D. Sanderson has been ad-
mitted to partnership in the dry goods
firm of Pierce Bros. & Co. The new firm
will be known as Pierce, Sanderson & Co.

Detroit—W. C. Gupp has been ad-
mitted to partnership in the wholesale
paper business of John B. Price. The
new firm will be known as J. B. Price
& Co.

Galesburg—Richard W. Wells, travel-
ing salesman for H. E. Bucklen & Co.,
of Chicago, has purchased the grocery
stock of Mrs. E. L. (H. E. Turney, Ag’t)
Turney.

Nashville—C. L. Walrath has sold his
interest in the meat market firm of Down-
ing & Walrath, and the new firm will be
called B. B. Downing & Co., Victor Fur-
niss being the Co.

Owosso—John Salisbury succeeds Sal-
isbury Bros. in the boot and shoe bus-
iners. The retiring partner, David Salis-
bury, will embark in the boot and shoe
business at Lansing.

Howard City—E. G. Pipp has sold his
stock of hardware and tinware to E. C.
Pelton, late of Esterville, lowa, who will
add to the stock and add a line of agri-
cultural implements, contracting with

opened a
Mechanic

succeed
the wholesale

 

 

the Patrons of Industry. Mr. Pipp re-
tains his boot and shoe business for the
present, at least, being undecided as to
just low he will conduct the business
hereafter. '

Muskegon—Geo. H. McKillip and Wm.
Wallace have purchased the flour and
feed store of the C. Peterson estate, and
will deal also in pine and hardwood. Mr.
Wallace is the managing partner.

Hillsdale—The stock of dry goods and
millinery recently assigned by B. W.
Warner to H. B. Claflin & Co., has been
sold to Fisher, Eaton & Co., of Toledo,
who will reduce the stock here and
move the rest to Toledo.

Muskegon—R. P. Anderson, who was
formerly in the wholesale commission
business, has purchased the stock in
the Muskegon Cracker Co. formerly held
by C. L. Gunn, Mr. Gunn having re-
signed his office as Secretary of the com-
pany.

Detroit—Parker, Webb & Co., with a
capital stock of $250,000, all paid in, has
been incorporated by Willard F. Parker,
Albert H. Webb, Richard C. Wilby and
George D. Playford, for the purpose of
engaging in the wholesale and retail meat
business.

Morrice—The store of E. F. Purdy
was broken into last Tuesday night, and
a pair of rubber boots, a pair of gloves, a
gold watch belonging to a clerk, and
some jewelry, pins, etc., were taken.
The young man, an amateur, was easily
traced and was apprehended while hunt-
ing the next day. .

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Detroit—The Dwight Lumber Co. suc-
ceeds W. M. Dwight & Co.

Detroit—The Michigan Chair and Fur-
niture Co. has sold out to Smith, Day
& Co.

South Arm—The Parker Lumber Co.
has been incorporated, with a capital
stock of $50,000.

Hudson—G. W. Carter, who has been
engaged in the manufacture of carriages
for the past thirty-five years, has assigned
to Ira Swaney.

Allegan—Wm. Barnes has retired from
the Spiral Spring Cart Co. The business
will be continued by W. R. Church under
the same style.

Saginaw—Kelly & Stowe will cut out
square timber on their newly-purchased
tract of land at Oqueoc. They have
thirty-eight men at work.

East Saginaw—W. B. Mershon & Co.
are employing 250 men in their box
factory and planing mill, and are run-
ning a day and a quarter time. .

Port Huron—Henry Howard & Co.,
manufacturers and dealers in lumber,
have dissolved, Antwine Marontate re-
tiring and Henry Howard continuing.

Cadillac—F. A. Diggins & Co.’s mill
has not yet started up this winter owing
to lack of stock. About 750,000 feet of
hardwood is on the skids in the woods
waiting for snow.

Williamsburg—D. Vinton & Son are
doing a heavy hardwood lumbering this
winter. They have 500,000 feet of logs
on the skids and expect to put in 2,000,-
000 feet this winter.

Cadillace—W. F. Chittenden, of Ma-
chias, N. Y., has purchased an interest
in the lumber firm of Chittenden & Her-
rick. The new firm will be known as
Chittenden, Herrick & Co.

Detroit—The Wayne County Electrical
Co., with a capital stock of $10,000, has
been incorporated by Charles M. Smith,
Edward D. Steff and Thomas Hislop, for
the manufacture of electrical apparatus.

Mason—L. D. Irish has, notwithstand-
ing the open winter and bad roads,
turned out from the stave mill about
200,000 pork barrel staves, with a pros-
pect of as many more before the season
is over.

Detroit—The Moore Lumber Co. has
contracted with some of the Tawas mills
to saw Canadian pine next season.
Emery Bros. will saw some 12,000,000
feet and the other mills will be given all
they can handle.

Cadillace—Cobbs & Mitchell have al-
ready built and equipped camps for their
recent investment in Boon township, and
are now actively pushing, cutting and
skidding. The logs will be railed into
their mill here as soon as the hauling
season begins.

East Saginaw—It is said that J. E.
Austin, of Farwell, has associated him-
self with George M. Brown and S. S.
Wilhelm, of this city, and the mill that
the two last-named gentlemen intended
locating in Ogemaw county will be erect-
ed at Standish. The firm has 15,000,000
feet of timber to stock the mill with.

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Bank Notes.

W.C. Pond succeeds Pond & Smith
as proprietor of the Exchange Bank, at
Vicksburg.

The Commercial and Savings Bank of
Ludington has been organized, with a
capital stock of $50,000.

David B. Dennis has been elected
President of the Coldwater National
Bank, left vacant by the death of Hon.
George Starr.

The First State Bank of South Haven
is simply the First National Bank under
anew name, C. J. and L. 8S. Monroe re-
maining in charge. That is assurance
enough that it will remain as it has been,
one of the soundest and most wisely

 

 

managed financial institutions in the
State. é

The Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank of
Milan has been authorized to do busi-
ness, with a capital stock of $25,000.

A new bank with a capital stock of
$200,000 is among the possibilities at
Lansing. H. R. Wagar, of Ionia, is
pushing the project.

The State Bank of Reading has been
organized, with a paid-up capital of $35,-
000. 4H. F. Doty is President and W. B.
Northrup Cashier. It will replace the
Exchange Bank of Doty & Northrup,
which has been running since the failure
of C. W. Waldron’s bank.

The Charlevoix Journal, in noting the
increase in the capital stock of the Char-
levoix Savings Bank from $25,000 te
$40,000, states that the Bank was organ-
ized Aug. 4, 1884, when but 60 per cent.
of the capital stock—$15,000—was paid
in. On Jan. 7, 1889, the surplus amount-
ed to $10,000, when the stockholders
were issued paid up certificates. The
Bank paid two cash dividends during the
past year, aggregating 9 per cent.

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Purely Personal.

J. A. Lindstrom, Secretary of the Tus-
tin B. M. A., was in town last Friday.

Wilder D. Stevens and N. L. Avery
leave on the 24th for a tour of Old Mex-
ico.

Capt. ©. G. Perkins, of Henderson,
Ky., isin town for the purpose of at-
tending the annual meeting of the Hazel-
tine & Perkins Drug Co.

Both partners in the wholesale jewelry
firm of W. F. & W. M. Wurzburg have
gone to Providence and New York to
place orders for their spring stock.

P. H. Hoonan, the Reed City druggist,
is in town to attend the annual meeting
of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., of
which corporation he is a stockholder.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Widdicomb have
the heartfelt sympathy of the trade in
the death of their youngest daughter, a
beautiful child of five years, who died
Sunday evening and was buried Monday
afternoon.

J. L. Thompson, the Harbor Springs
merchant, was in town several days last
week. He was suffering from a severe
attack of the prevailing epidemic, but
managed to find time to purchase a new
grocery stock.

James. Fox, formerly engaged in the
wholesale grocery business here, but now
a resident of Denver, Colo., has pur-
chased the interest of Mr. Phillips in
the extract and perfumery business of
Warren & Phillips at that place. The
new firm will be known as the Warren
Manufacturing Co.

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Gripsack Brigade.

W. D. Clark, representing Parke,
Davis & Co., of Detroit, was in town
over Sunday.

Duff Jennings, formerly with the Ding-
man Soap Co., but more recently with
the Schulte Soap Co., is now on the road
for W. J. Gould & Co.

Louis Immegart and M. M. Mallory
played the Siamese twin act last week,
and are continuing the combination this
week, to the delight and satisfaction of
all concerned.

Ben. F. Parmenter and family return
thanks to the Grand Rapids Traveling
Men’s Association for the handsome
floral offering sent to the house on the
oceasion of their recent bereavement.

‘The drummer—bless his jolly face—
has goodly right to fame; no
what his creed or race, he glories in the
name. He’s open-hearted, brave and
kind, and lovesa noble deed. In him
ill luck will always find a friend in time
of need.”’

ee
The Annual Social Party.

At the meeting of the traveling men,
held at Sweet’s Hotel last Saturday even-
ing, it was decided to hold the annual
social party at the Ionia street armory
on Friday evening, February 11. The
management of the affair was placed in
the hands of the following committees:

Invitations—Geo. F. Owen, J. N.
Bradford, Jno. D. Uttman, Geo. H. Sey-
mour.

Reception—L. M. Mills, A. D. Baker,
Wm. Logie, Byron Davenport, Wm. K.
Manley, J. L. Strelitsky, W. G. Hawkins,
Valda A. Johnston, W. F. Blake, Man-
ley Jones, D. S. Haugh, Sam. B. Taylor,
¥F. L. Kelly,.J. F. O. Reed, A. B. Cole, C.
C. Crawford.

Banquet—Geo. F. Owen, John D. Utt-
man, Geo. H. Seymour.

Floor—Chas. F. McLain, Chas. 8. Rob-
inson, Chas. M. Falls, Sam. Morrison.

Door—W. H. Jennings, Thos. Fergu-
son, P. Reynolds.

——_—_—>_2.
Flushing Items.

P. of I. seem to be on the decline
here. They are making preparations
for La Grippe, and are figuring with
Menzer of Flint to supply the furniture
and coffins.

Bro. Partridge, State Vice-President
of the P. of I., was not promoted at the
State Grange meeting. He is losing his
grip.

I will give you the names of the De-
troit and Saginaw firms who are furnish-
ing dry goods and groceries to P. 1.
stores next week. I will also give you a
little history of W. A. Russel, of New
Lathrop, one of the anointed.

Mr. McConnell, now on the road for

 

matter ;

 

Sprague, Warner & Co.’of Chicago, is
said to be selling the P. I. store here.

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“ P. of I. Gossip.

Wright correspondence Coopersville
Observer: ‘“The P. I.’s have an easy mat-
ter to secure two or three hundred mem-
bers,~for they take them as they come,
men, women and children.”’

J. I. Vanderhoof, of Chapin, who con-
tracted with the P. of I. a few weeks
ago, has failed. After shipping a quan-
tity of pork for several farmers around
Chapin, he left for parts unknown. e

Mt. Pleasant Enterprise: ‘‘The P.’s of
J. should be careful of the villages and
cities. Destroy them and you destroy
the value of your market. Down with
trusts and combinations of every kind,
but look well to the interests and pros-
perity of the community in which you
live.”’

Marshall Statesman: ‘‘About a dozen

representatives of the Patrons of Indus-
try were in the city Monday for the pur-
pose of renewing their contracts with
the merchants who signed for 1889. We
have not succeded in learning without
doubt, but we are quite sure that the Pa-
trons were disappointed evey where.”
. Marshall Statesman: ‘‘There can be
no doubt that every farmer, artisan, la-
borer, or other person, who persistently
sells his produce, labor, or results of his
labor, for cash only, and always pays
spot cash for what he buys, will secure
all the financial benefits which the Pa-
trons of Industry organization promises
those who become members of their as-
sociations. Of course, there are social
benefits to be derived from the gathering
of neighbors and friends in all such so-
cieties, but that these can be had ata
comparatively small cost by means of
literary societies has been clearly dem-
onstrated during the past few years by
the half dozen organizations in the east-
ern part of this county—notable among
which are the Uuion Literary Society, of
Eckford, Albion and Marengo; the Riv-
erside Club, of Sheridan armel Albion; the
Marengo Literary Society; and the Maybe
Society, of South Albion and Homer.
The promise of financial gain to the in-
dividual members through the Patrons of
Industry, or any similar society, is a
myth. We believe the credit system of
doing business, which by sufferance has
become so thoroughly rooted to the very
life of the people, is the real cause of the
present financial depression, and that
nothing short of the total abolition of
the system will make business of any
nature perfectly satisfactory.”’

New York Merchants’ Review: ‘‘The
organization of farmers bearing the title
of Patrons of Industry has interfered
considerably with the trade of retail
merchants in Michigan and _ several
Western States, either by the establish-
ment of farmers’ stores for the sale of
produce and merchandise, or by special
arrangements made with one or two mer-
chants in a neighborhood whereby the
latter agree to sell to members of the or-
der at a special rate—10 per cent. above
actual cost, we believe. Experience has
shown that the latter method, though
apparently preferable of the two for the
merchant, is a delusion and a snare;
that the merchants who have tried it in-
variably regretted that they did so. The
inducements held out to the dealers,
however, have been so plausible that had
it not been for the enterprise of THE
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN in exposing the
scheme, no doubt many more merchants
would have been deluded. That sterling
journal has devoted column after column
to the Patrons of Industry and their pe-
culiar methods, and at present it looks
as though the danger is past, as far as
the legitimate merchant is concerned.
If there should be any dealer so verdant
as to believe that there is a chance of
profit in an arrangement with the Pa-
trons on the terms mentioned above, a
perusal of THE TRADESMAN for a couple
of weeks will dissipate such a thought.’’

2
A Question of Salaries.
DETROIT, Jan. 10, 1890.
Editor Michigan Tradesman*

To correct an erroneous report that is
being circulated by some of the traveling
men of your city and vicinity, @. e., that
our firm have hired some low-salaried
men to travel for us this year, we want
to say that it is false in every particular.
We pay our old men more this year, and
our new men from $1,000 to $1,300. We
believe we pay 10 per cent. more for sal-
aries for traveling men this year than
any grocery house in Michigan, and if
any person is interested enough to put
up $100,.we will furnish alike amount,
the $200 to go for the benefit of the Tray-
eling Men’s Association if they prove
our assertion to be incorrect. To those
who have busied themselves in this mat-
ter we want to say now, put up or shut up.

Yours very truly,
PHELPS, BRACE & Co.

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A Thrifty Druggist.

Druggist—James, I wish you would be
particularly careful about your prescrip-
tions this week.

James—Yes, sir;
ful as possble, sir.

Druggist—Be especially particular not
to use arsenic by mistake when you are
putting up quinine pills.

James—l trust that my regard for hu-
man life would prevent me making such
a stupid blunder.

Druggist—That’s all very well, as far
as it goes, but I see by this morning’s
paper that arsenic is way up, and we
don’t want to waste any.

 

[Pm always as care-

Notice to Stockholders. _

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Rail-
road Co. will be held at the general
office, in the city of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
on Wednesday, March 5, 1890, at 1
o’clock p. m., for the election of thirteen
directors constituting a board to serve
for the ensuing year, and for the trans-
action of such other business as may be
presented at the meeting. ;

J. H. P. HuGHART, Secretary.

—————————>-

After the Honeymoon.
She—You do not love me any more!
Oh, but I do!

Oh, no! no! You used to take half an
hour to button my shoes, and now you
do it in two minutes. :

: ie
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.

—————_—<_-4-<___—_
The P. & B. cough drops give great
satisfaction.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

Fa AN AA A AAR APIA AD DAS PAPA PAOD PLIGG
Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one centa
word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.
BUSINEss CHANCES.
OR SALE—AN ESTABLISHED MANUFACTURING
business, paying from 100 to 150 per cent. profit on
product; manufactures a specialty sold to ‘rocery
and hardware trade; no competition and are of the
best sellers offered to the trade; reason for selling,
owner has too much outside business to give this
proper attention; an excellent opportunity to a person
desiring an established manufacturing business, grow-
ing daily; capital required, from $3,000 to $4,000.
Those only meaning business address Lock Box 256,
Lacrosse, Wis. 569
AOR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise, situated in a lively railway town in the
Grand Traverse region; stock will inventory about
$5,000, but can be considerably reduced; present own
ers have other business and will turn over to pur-
chasers all their mill trade; will rent or sell store.
Address “‘C.,” care Michigan Tradesman. 565
ho SALE—HARDWARE STOCK, INVENTORING
* about $4,000, doing a very prosperous business;
ean reduce the stock to suit purchaser; best of reason
for selling. Address A. L. Paine & Co., Reed City
Mich. 568
OR SALE—STOCK OF CLOTHING, FURNISHING
goods and hats and caps in the best city of 6,000
inhabitants in the State; other business; no trade
taken. W.R. Dennis & Co., Cadillac, Mich. 567
Pig YOU WANT TO EXCHANGE YOUR STOCK OF
goods for a farm, large or small, write to No. 563,
care Michigan Tradesman. 563
rt SALE—DRUG STORE—STOCK INVENTORIES
about $3,500; sales, $10,000 per year; good location;
population of village, 4,000; easy terms.
561, care Tradesman.
OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRY GOODS, GRO-
ceries, boots and shoes, hardware and drugs,
situated in good trading point; will inventory about
$3,000; salesfor past three years, $42,000; reason for
selling, ownér has other business. Address No. 559,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 559
re SALE—75-BBL. FULL ROLLER MILL—BOTH
water and steam power, near two good railroads;
good town and doing good business; good reasons for
selling. Address Thomas Hoyland, Howell, Mich.
55
eS WANT TO CONSOLIDATE STOCKS
with a man who has a good trade; I have a stock
of clothing worth $6,000 and thoroughly understand
the business. Address, No. 555, care Michigan Trades-
man. 555
ld O PER CENT. PER ANNUM—OWNER OF RETAIL
o grocery wishes to engage in exclusive wholesale
business and desires to sell; now carrying $15,000
stock; trade very good; profits as above; rent reason-
able. Address, The West Coast Trade, Tacoma, Wash.
548

 

 

 

 

 

 

Address No.
561

 

 

 

 

HAVE SEVERAL FARMS WHICH I WILL EX-

change for stock of goods, Grand Rapids city prop
erty, or will sell on easy payments; these farms have
the best of soil, are under good state of cultivation,
and located between the cities of Grand Rapids and
Muskegon. O.F. Conklin, Grand Rapids, Mich.

JZIOR SALE—WE OFFER FOR SALE, ON VERY
TC favorable terms, the F. H. Escott drug stock. at 76
Canal street, Grand Rapids, Hazeltine & Perkins Drug
Co. Price, $4,000 531

OR SALE—THE FINEST DRUG STORE IN THE
city of Muskegon at 75 cents on the dollar; reasons

other business. C. L. Brundage, Muskegon, Mich.
520

 

Te SALE—A GOOD GROCERY BUSINESS HAVING
' ‘the cream of the trade; best location in the city;
stock clean and well assorted; thisis a rare chance for
any one to geta good paying business; poor health
the only reason. Address S. Stern, Kalamazoo, Mich.
518
SITUATIONS WANTED.

eS BY REGISTERED PHARMA-
cist, or would buy interest in desirable drug
business.

 

Address 560, care Michigan Tradesman.

 

V ANTED—SITUATION IN DRY GOODS OR GRO-

cery store; four years’ experience; good refer-
ences. Address No. 562, care Michigan Tradesman.
562

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

i Dygeo- SALE—MACHINERY—COMPLETE OUIFIT FOR
sawmill and hoop factory; second-hand engines
and steam pumps; large stock of new and second-hand
wood working machinery; write for prices. F. B.
Wiggins & Co., Machinery Depot, East Saginaw, Mich.
557

 

 

\ J. GRINER, DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHAN

iVi. dise, dry goods, groceries, hats, caps, boots,

ao and patens medicines. i
ich.

DWEGIN THE NEW YEAR BY DISCARDING

Print and Nessen City,
566

THE
- annoying Pass Book System and adopting in
its place the Tradesman Credit Coupon. Send $1 for

 

sample order, which will be sent prepaid. E. A. Stowe
& Bro., Grand Rapids.
AMPLES OF TWO KINDS OF vOUPONS FOR

retailers will be sent free to any dealer who will
write for them to the Sutliff Coupon Pass Book Co,‘
Albany, N. Y. 564

FOR SALE.

THE ENTIRE STOCK OF

DRY GOODS,

Notions and Fixtures
Of John J. Timmer, Muskegon, Mich:. the ap-
praised value of which is 82,200. Will be sold
at a great bargain.

 

FOR FULL PARTICULARS, APPLY .TO__
SPRING & COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich. i

 

 

 

FAA. Wrsburg & Co,,

Exclusive Jobbers of

DRY GOODS, HOSIERY,

 

 

 

 

NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR,

 

 

 

19 & 21 SOUTH DIVISION 8T.,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

 

 

 

 

LION
‘COFFEE

 

 

Merchants,
YOU WANT THIS CABINET

Thousands of Them

Are in use all over the land.

ye

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.

 

Kvery Wide-Awake Merchant e

Should Certainly Sell

ON, THE KING OF COFFERS.

An Article of Absolute Merit.

It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees.

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

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

Packed

a

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

Woolson Spice Co.,

FTOLEDO, OHIO.

L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids.

 

 

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EGG CASES & FILLERS.
HAVING TAKEN THE AGENCY FOR WESTERN AND NORTHERN
MICHIGAN FOR THE
MA KGG. CASES & FILLERS,
We are prepared to offer same to the trade in any quantity.
¢

No. 1—30-doz. Cases, complete............--

No. 1—36-doz. ip

No. 1—¥illers, per set. 62.5. i. os ee i oe cine weno @ 0c.

Lots of 100. Less than 100.

ee. eee 35C.
ees eee ee oe 38c. 40c.
10¢.

Parties ordering Fillers have to buy one Case with every 10 sets of Fillers, mak-
ing 10 sets with Case $1.25 (10 Fillers and 8 Dividing Boards constitute a standard
set). Strangers to us will please remit money with their orders or give good

reference.

LAMOREAUX & JOHNSTON,
71 Canal street, Grand Rapids, Mich

 

 

 

 

6-ft case, square, with metal corners, same prise,

The above offer is no
We shall continue to

snide work.

turn out only the BEST of work,

“bluff” or

All

other cases at equally low prices.

HEYMAN & COMPANY,

63 AND 65
Grand Rapids,

CANAL

 

STREET,
- Mich.

 

 

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= GEO. H. REEDER,

% Lycoming Rubbers
& ae —— of rf
&  Medinm Price Shoes.

® Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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 Rapids.

THE DETROIT NEWS COMPANY,

WHOLESALE

STATIONERY, FANCY GOODS,

PERIODICALS. #

The largest and most complete line of above goods in
the State, at reasonable prices. Dealers are invited to

for our circulars and price lists.

, OUR HOLIDAY LINE IS NOW COMPLETE.
Corner Larned and Wayne Sts., Detroit.

 

 

Fehsenfeld & Grammel,

(Successors to Steele & Gardner.) ~
Manufacturers of

BROOMS!

Whisks, Toy Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom
Handles, and all Kinds of Broom Materials.

10 and 12 Plainfield Ave., Grand Rapids. ¢

 

  

 

 

 

ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.

Michigan Business Men’s Association.

L. Whitney, Muskegon.

Vice-President—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint.
Vice-President—M. C. Sherwood, Allegan.

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

W. Parker, Owosso.

Board—President; Frank Wells, Lansing;

Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell

Chas. T. Bridgeman, Flint; oO. F. Conklin, Grand

ids, Secretary.

Gaamistes on Insurance—O. F. Conklin, Grand Rap
ids; Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Owosso.

Committee on Legislation— Frank Wells, Lansing;
Hi. H. Pope, Allegan; C. H. May, Cli

Committee on Trade Geeta eae ‘Hamilton, Trav
erse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. W. Sprague,

ville.

uncapetae on Transportation—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint;
M. C. Sherwood, Allegan; A. O. Wheeler, Manistee.

Committee on Building and Loan Associations—N. B.
Blain, Lowell; F. L. Fuller, Cedar Springs; P. J. Con
nell, Muskege?.

Local ’Secretary—Jas. H. Moore, Saginaw.

Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 
 
 
 
  

The following auxiliary associations are oper-
ating under charters granted by the Michigan
Business Men’s Association -

 

1—Traverse City B. M. A.
piabnak. I Ww. Milliken, Secretary, E. W. Hastings.

No.2_Lowell B. M.A.
President, N. B. Plain; Secretary, Frank T ..
No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.
President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn.
ae 4— Grand Rapids M. A.
President, E. J J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A.
President, John A. Miller; Secretary, C. L. Whitney. _
No. 6—Alba &. M. A.
President, F. W. Sloat; ecretary, P. T. oo in.
No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A
President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H.W idger.
tsi

No. 38— Eastport | B. M. A.
President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.
———— + 5 _ yawrence B Mi. A.

No, §$—Lawrence 5.
President, H. M |. Marshal; Secretary, J. H. Kelly.
fae rai ieee

No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A.

President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.
lnm hth ond SSS eee

No.11—Singsley B. M. A.
President, H. P. Wh Whipple; Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop.

No. 12—Quincy B. M.
President, Edson Bl: ackman; Secretary
ice

 

 

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

A.
y, W. H. Lockerby.
Wo. 13—Sherman B. M. A.
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Seeretary, W. J. Austin.

No. 14—No. Muskeg gr SB. Mi. A.
Howey: Secret 3. C. Havens.

 

  
 
 
   

No. 15
President, R. R. _R. Perkir ; :

No, 16—Sand Lake B. 3. M. A.
President, J. V. Crands cretary, W. Rasco.
echt lias eee

No. i17—Plainwell B. Mi. A.
Fresident, Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle.

No. 18—Owosso B. M, A.
President, Wa arren P. Woodard; Secretary, 5. Lamfrom.
No. 19—Ada B. M. A

President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. “Chapel.

No. 20—Saugatuck B. _ A.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, ee . Rowe
eS

 

 

No. 2i— Wayland B. = A
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, MY. more.
oilers
No. 22—urand Ledge B. M.
President, A. E hum: acher; SOGHEEAETs Ww. & Clarke.

  
 
 

   

No ms
President, —_ Ww. Ha lett: Secretary, ee Lyon.
. 24—Morley B. M. A
7 Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond.
No. 25—Palo B. M. a.
President, F. A. Har¢ grave; Seretary, I. S. Jeffers.
_— 26—Greerville 3. M. A.
C. Satterlee: Secretary, E. J. Clark.
“No 7—Dorr Bb. M. A.
President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.
No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A
President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
No. 29—Freeport B. M. A.
President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A.
President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling.
No. 31—Charlotie B. M. A.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson.
No. 33—Charlevoix 8B. M. A.
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
Wo. 34—Saranac B. M. A.
President, ‘A. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams.

President, J

President. /

 

No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A.
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore.

No. 36—Ithaca B. M. A.
President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, i M. Everden.
No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. Moore.
Se il
No. 38—Scottville B. M. A.
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. os. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A.
President, Cc. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A.
President, C. H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner.
No. 42—Fremont B. M. A. 24
President, Jos. Gerber; Secretary C. J. Rathbun. 2:
No. 43—Tustin B. M. A.
President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.
No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay.
No. a a Bt M. A.

No. 47_Flint M. o ie
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
No. 48—Hubbardsion B. M. A.
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary,JW. 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, Ww. C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos.
No, 53—Bellevue 5. M. A.
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald.
No. 54— Douglas B. M: A.
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
Ne. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
56—Bangor B. M. A.
President, N. We Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
No. 57—Rockford B. M. A.
President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A.
President, L. 8. Walter; Secretar3,€.G Plakely.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. 8S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. 4.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
No. 61—Haritford 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.

Presidext, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
No, 64—Merrill B, M. A.
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. 8. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, Frank Wells; Seeretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—Waterviiet B. 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 5. M. A,
President, Ms Boston; Secretary, Walter "Webster.
o. 71—Ashley B. M. A,
President, M. acon Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.
No. 74—Davison M. U.
President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. C. W. Hurd.
No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A.
President, Gica®: Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A.
Presi 55 McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.
o. 7i—South Haven B. M.A.
aimee E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross.
No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A.
President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
Ne, 79—KEa+t 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.
o. $t—Flushing B. M. A.
President. L. A. Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom.
No. 82—Alma B M, A.
President, B. 8. Webb; Secretary, M. E. Pollasky.
No. 83—Sherwood B. M. A.
President, L. 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.
No. ae and Blanchard B. M. A.
Presiden W. Preston: Secretary. : Biancher’:

. $7—Shepherd B. M
President, x D. Bent; norcotaey, A. ws ce

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annual Meeting of the Quincy Asso-
ciation.
Quincy, Jan. 10, 1890.
Editor Michigan Tradesman: :

At our annual meeting, held on the 1st,
the following officers were elected :

President—Edson Blackman.

Vice-President—T. Rathbone.

Secretary—W. H. Lockerby.

Treasurer—M. S. Segur.

Yours truly,

W. H. Lockersy, Sec’y.
————>_-—___——
“Holding Its Own.”

Palo Correspondence Ionia Standard.

The Palo Business Men’s Association
elected efficers for the present year as
follows:

President—F. A. Hargrave.

Vice-President—C. H. Mandeville.

Secretary—I. S. Jeffers.

Treasurer—C. L. Grace.

The Association appears to be holding
its own in spite of the many predictions
to the contrary, and its influence seems
to be felt, especially among the class that
desire to live upon the hard earnings of
others.

TFhoca MER cone ak TORS a
Sherwood in Good Shape.
From the Sherwood Press.

The Sherwood Business Men’s Asso-
ciation assembled last Tuesday evening
at the home of H. Runyan. The best of
friendly feeling has existed between all
of the members for the year past and
everyone seemed fully satisfied in the
good that had been received in a social
as well asa business way. The report
for the year showed that there had been
collected in the past year through the
collection department of the Association,
the sum of $278.86 in doubtful, execu-
tion-proof accounts, and all felt that it
had amply repaid them. All are for
Sherwood’s best interests and feel that
united we can help, when alone we
could not, and we go into the new year
with renewed vigor and friendly feeling
toward all. Two new members were
admitted, J. F. McIntyre and M. E.
Wattles and the following officers elected
for the ensuing year:

President—L. P. Wilcox.

Vice-President—E. Gordon.

Secretary—W. R. Mandigo.

Treasurer—sS. K. Thurston.

Executive Committee—S. Spurlock, J.
French, M. E. Wattles.

~<a +4 <a
Concerted Action to Boom Grand
Traverse Region.

A member of the*Traverse City B. M.
A. writes THE TRADESMAN as follows:

The Traverse City B. M. A. has in
prospect a project of some dimensions,
including a banquet and an advertising
scheme we are trying to work in connec-
tion with the same. We have a circular
letter in the printer’s hands, but, as it is
not available, will say, briefly, that the
plan contemplates the gathering of as
many as possible of the representatives
of the various interests that should be
keenly alive to and willing to aid in de-
veloping Northern Michigan. We shall
invite a representative from all transpor-
tation lines, all real estate men,owners
of town plats, resort associations, ete.
If we can secure a reasonable attend-
ance, we will try to hold a meeting,
either before or after the banquet, to
consider plans for a combined push in
the interest of this entire north country.
We propose to undertake a combined,
vigorous, extensive advertisement, to
which every interest shall contribute
and be represented in, something in the
way that Southern California has been
advertised, only not sorosy. We shall
keep within speaking distance of the
truth, at least, that people who might be
attracted by the advertisement would
not be as bitterly disappointed as have
some who have visited Southern Cali-
fornia. So far as we have written par-
ties regarding this plan, we have had
favorable replies, and all concede that
the work is needed, and that now is the
“accepted time.’? The success of not
only the transportation lines but almost
every other interest depends on the de-
velopment of this section, and it seems
hardly possible that they will refuse to
consider the matter.

———_——>_4¥
Annual Meeting of the Muskegon As-
sociation.
From the Muskegon News, Jan. 9.

The annual meeting of the Muskegon
Business Men’s Association was held last
evening, with Vice-President Connell in
the chair.

The annual report of Secretary C. L.
Whitney was very comprehensive and in-
teresting. It showed that on January 1,
1889, there were 168 members belonging.
The increase for the year was fourteen,
or a total membership of 182. During
the year fifteen have withdrawn, ten
have left the city, and eleven have been
dropped for non-payment of dues, leay-
ing the membership at date 146. ‘‘This,”’
says the Secretary, ‘‘leaves the Muske-
gon still the largest association in the
State.’? The receipts of the Association
for the year have been $194, and the dis-
bursements $217.21. The report also
went exhaustively into the system of col-
lections used by the Association, point-
ing out what it had done, and in what
manner it could be made more effective.
The report declared that a larger per-
centage of the debts had been collected
than could have been done in any other
way. There are debts of the Association
outstanding to the amount of $114, and
unpaid dues to the amount of $157,
which may be counted as available. The
dues for the quarter of April 1, 1890, are
also due, amounting to $70. The report
concludes with the statement that there
is a field in Muskegon for this Associa-
tion to work in, and that the prospects
for the coming year are good.

The report of Treasurer Jesson showed
a balance in the treasury of ninety-nine
cents.

President Miller being absent, there
was no report from that officer.

A communication from the National
Board of Trade, asking the Association
to send delegates to a convention of com-
mercial bodies, to be held February 6, at
Washington, was read and placed on
file.

The election of officers for the ensuing
year resulted as follows:

President—Jacob Jesson.

Vice-President—P. J. Connell.

Secretary—C. L. Whitney.

Treasurer—A. Towl.

Executive Committee—M. C. Kelley,
Dr. C. P. Donelson, N. B. Lawson, and

 

 

 

the general officers of the Association.

After the meeting had adjourned, the
Executive Board met and organized, with
Jacob Jesson as chairman and C. L.
Whitney as secretary.

The following standing committees
were then appointed :

Insurance—M. C. Kelley, R. S. Miner,
J. D. Vander Werp.

City Improvements—Dr. C. P. Donel-
son, Max Lange, J. A. Miller.

Manufacturers—P. J. Connell, 8.
Stevens, J. Castenholtz.

Trade Interests —N. B. Lawson, A.
Towl, M. Duquette.

Transportation and Harbor — Wm.
Peer, W. H. Barney, W. 1. McKenzie.

H.

 

 

Good Report from Owosso.

One of the most faithful secretaries in
the State is S. Lamfrom, of the Owosso
B. M. A. At the last meeting of that or-
ganization—the third anniversary of its
birth—Mr. Lamfrom made his annual re-
port, as follows ;

Our organization at this, our third an-
niversary, is constituted of seventy-nine
members—seventy-seven active and two
honorary.
added since our last annual meeting is
seventeen, and the number of withdrawals
since that time by reason of business
changes is ten. The number dropped
for non-payment of dues is three. Num-
ber of deaths, one. Total number of de-
crease, fifteen, which still brings our
membership a gain of two for the year
ending December 31. The number of
delinquents reported during the year is
217; eighty-six of them paid or made sat-
isfactory arrangements, and 131 went on
the delinquent list. Our receipts during
the year for membership fees and dues
have been $181.97, leaving a balance still
on hand of $59.87.

The number of meetings held during

the year was nine—eight being regular
and one special meeting. Although the
attendance at our meetings has not been
as satisfactory as could be desired during
the past year, yet the Association in gen-
eral has worked with a will and energy
for the improvement of our prosperous
city and for the welfare of its inhabit-
ants. Our business men do not seem to
realize the important work to be accom-
plished. . However, there is not a single
member in active business that would
wish to drop out of our ranks, but they
all cheerfully pay their dues and seem to
be well pleased with the results accom-
plished, and as we have now a much
pleasanter and more cheerful hall to hold
our meetings in, I trust the members will
appreciate it, and will manifest their ap-
preciation by a prompt attendance sat
our regular meetings, which will have a

tendency to inspire the officers with en-|

ergy and the accomplishment of good and
satisfactory results.

We have succeeded in laboring har-
moniously with our City Council and by
it have accomplished extensive improve-
ments. Our wagon roads have been ma-
terially improved, and our efforts to ob-
tain additional railroad communication
and concessions in treight rates have
been satisfactorily rewarded. Our man-
ufactories have been generally enlarged
and improved, so as to employ more help,
and are in a healthy and prosperous con-
dition.

The Blue Letter and Association sheet
have not been used quite so extensively
as the previous year, but those members
who have made use of them report good
and satisfactory results.

The credit business in our city is stead-
ily decreasing, our customers using more
caution in asking it for fear of the de-
linquent list, and the merchant, with the
strong competition now in the field, being
compelled to sell goods at very close
margins, has come to the conclusion that
to be better able to meet said require-
ments he must sell goods for spot cash.

Our closing system has proved asuc-
cess, the members cheerfully conforming
to the rules adopted by the Association.

We are looked upon by our citizens as
an organization of power and strength.
Now, let us make our utmost endeavor
not to betray their confidence; let us con-
tinue our labors with energy and exer-
tion to advance the business interests of
our city and continue to crown our efforts
with prosperity and success.

>_<
‘‘Been of Considerable Benefit.”
GOBLEVILLE, Jan. 10, 1890.
Editor Michigan Tradesman:

The annual meeting of the Gobleville
B. M. A., which was held on Friday eve-
ning, showed that the Association had
been of considerable benefit to the busi-
ness men of the village, and it was de-
termined to coutinue the organization
another year. The following officers
were re-elected:

President—A. U. Myers.

Vice-President—J. H. Darling.

Secretary—A. B. Clark.

Treasurer—W. S. Crosby.

Yours truly,
A. B. CLARK
—_——_—> > —
Association Notes.

Manistee Times: ‘“‘The meeting of the Manis-
tee Business Men’s Association, Monday even-
ing, for the purpose of electing officers for the
ensuing year, was adjourned until next Monday
evening, for want of aquorum. Itis hoped that
the next meeting will be largely attended. This
organization should be maintained. and the only
way to make its meetings interesting is for the
members to attend them. Nothing is more dis-
gusting to the officers of an association than to
hold meetings with no members present. Let
the members attend the meetings, and make this

Association a power for good in Manistee.”
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Wool, Hides, Pelts and Furs.

The sales of wool were light, being
first week of the year, with cloth market
unsatisfactory, owing to sickness among
manufacturers and employes, discussion
of the wool tariff, ete. Fleece wool is
still tirmly held, and grades of combing
that will take the plaee of foreign are
eagerly sought after and sell at full
price, while the heavy, inferior territory
wools are neglected.

Hides are weak, with light demand
even at the reduced price, being lower
in price now than ever sold before in
this country, and hide dealers predict
still lewer prices; hence, America is
giving us large quantities of dry stock,
and exporters are buying green for for-
eign market, which has a tendency to
change values on grades and keep prices
firm.

Tallow is weak and
with large accumulations.

lg to Ye lower,
A shrink-

| age in value is still looked for.
The number of new members |

The season is lost for the home trade
in furs. and no amount of cold weather
will now materially affect it. There are
large stocks unsold, and no one wants
new skins to make up. Prices of the
future will be governed entirely by Lon-
don sales this month and Leipsic sales
in February. Prices must go lower.
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The P. of I. Dealers.

The following are the P. of L dealers
who had not cancelled their contracts at
last accounts:

Adrian—Powers & Burnham,
Wehle, L. T. Lochner.

Almont—Colerick & Martin.

Alton j

Assyria—J. W. Abbey.

Belding—L. S. Roell.

Big Rapids—W. A. Verity,A. V. Young,
E. P. Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk.

Blanchard—L. A. Wait.

Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.

Brice—J. B. Gardner.

Burnside—Jno. G. Bruce & Son.

Big Rapids—J. K. Sharpe.

Capac—H. C. Sigel.

Carson City—A. B. Loomis,
sions.

Casnovia—Ed. Hayward, John E. Par-
cell.

Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A.
Fish.

Yharlotte—John J. Richardson, Daron
& Smith, J. Andrews, C. P. Lock, F. H.
Goodby.

Chester—P. C. Smith.

Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell.

Clio—Nixon & Hubbell.

Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.

Coral—J. S. Newell & Co.

East Saginaw—John P. Derby.

Eaton Rapids—Knapp & Rich.

Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, Stev-
ens & Farrar, John C. Devitt.

Fenwick—Thompson Bros.

Flint—John B. Wilson.

Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark.

Fremont—Boone & Pearson,
Ketchum.

Gladwin—John Graham, J. D. Sanford,
Jas. Croskery.

Gowan—Rasmus Neilson.

Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son.

Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wil-
zinski, Brown & Sehler.

Hersey—John Finkbeiner.

Hesperia—B. Cohen.

Howard City—Henry Henkel,
Bros., E. C. Pelton.

Hubbardston—M. Cahalen.

Imlay City—Cohn Bros.

Jackson—Hall & Rowan.

Kalamo—L. R. Cessna.

Kent City—M. L. Whitney.

Lake Odessa—Christian Haller & Co.

Lakeview—H. C. Thompson.

Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jen-
nings.

Lowell—Patrick Kelly.

McBride’s—J. McCrae.

Maple Rapids—L. 8S. Aldrich.

Marshall—wW. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lep-
per & Son, Jno. Butler. Richard Butler,
John Fletcher.

Mecosta—Parks Bros.

Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. S.) Knight.

Millbrook—T. O. (or J. W.) Pattison.

Millington—Chas. H. Valentine.

Morley—Henry Strope.

Mt. Morris—H. E. Lamb, J. Vermett
& Son, F. H. Cowles.

Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara, Geo.
H. Wright & Co.

Nashville—Powers & Stringham, H. M.
Lee.

North Dorr—John Homrich.

Ogden—A. J. Pence.

Olivet—F. H. Gage.

Onondaga—John Sillik.

Reed City—J. M. Cadzow.

Remus—C. V. Hane.

Richmond—Knight & Cudworth.

J. B. Adams.

Rockford—B. A. Fish.

Sand Lake—Brayman & Blanchard,
Frank E. Shattuck & Co.

Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow.

Sparta—Dole & Haynes, Frank Heath.

Springport—Powers & Johnson.

Stanton—Fairbanks & Co., Sterling &
Co.

Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter.

Trufant—I. Terwilliger.

Vassar—McHose & Gage.

Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson,
H. C. Breckenridge.

White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W.
Wiley.

Williamston—Thos. Horton.

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Niagara Falls in Art.

The Michigan Central, ‘‘The Niagara
Falls Route,’’ has published a remarka-
bly fine reproduction of Graham’s water-
color of Niagara Falls. <A limited num-
ber will be furnished the public at fifty
cents each, which is much less than their
commercial or artistic value, but not
more than two copies will be sent to any
one address. Send postal note or money
order for the amount to O. W. Ruggles,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
Chicago, Ill.

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A Nice Taste.

‘“‘Here’s a Connecticut man just died.
Papa says he smoked more herrings in
a year than any ten other men in New
England.’’

‘‘Preferred the herrings to Connecticut
cigars, I suppose ?”’

 

 

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Dry Goods.

 

 

Prices Current.

UNBLEACHED COTTONS.

 

   
 

 

 

Atlantic Ao ts 74|Integrity XX........ 5a
Atlanta AA: .. <<: Gg Bing. Bic sys. 6%4
Archery Bunting... 44; ‘“ EX........... 6%
POM sa leo Bete Oe, a os 5%
Beaver Dam A A... 5%|Lawrence ga oc - 5%
Berwick 1... 0.2... <- 6144|New MarketB...... 5g
Bisekstone 0, 32:... 5 Noine H... 2... 5%
Chapman.:3: 23°. .-.. Newton... 2... ... 2: Oe
be Pee gies ocs 744|Our Level Best..... Ka
Comet. 6s. sos 7 \Riverside XX. ...... 4%
Clifton CEC]... 6%|Sea Island R........ 6%
Conqueror XX...... 5 iSbaron B 2): 3... 634
Dwight Star......... 744|Top of the Heap.... 74
Exeter A 6%4|Wi oe fj saswre
Full Yard Wide..... 6%|Comet, 40in.
Great Falls E....... z Carlisle “
Honest Width....... 63%{|New Market L, 40in. ue
Hartford Ajo. 3. ..: 54

BLEACHED COTTONS.
Blackstone AA..... @ MWiirst Prize: 7
Beats All. >... .c..-- 414|Fruit of the Loom %. 8
Cleveland 3.0.05: <. ERE o's 4
ANOG cso ess 744) Lonsdale Gaiabie: -10%
Calin, Mes ca ox Lonsdale.. Sea Oe
Dwight Anchor ea Middlesex.... ...... 54

shorts. Sx INO Name. 2.65.83: 7%
mawards: 222-50 1.., Oak View..... Tose. 6
ere... ; Or OW. ess. 5%
Warwell 2.624. MAL POUHMEME, 6 occ cc.5c. s4 4%
Fruit of the Loom.. 83|Vinyard...........-. 8%
Picehyitie -.2 60.3... 7%)

HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.

Canoe. ..:o0 82st. 7%4|Dwight Anchor..... 9
Barwell. os... coe 7%

UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Tremont No: oo... 5. eo Middlesex No. 7605340
Hamilton Wee ooo kh

Bets ? 7S 58

Middtesex AT..:.... 8 | Ce eee

fr Be sf eee ae
INO: 25... 9 |

BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Hamilton N........- 74|Middlesex AA......11

Middlesex P T...... 8 : ees 12
re Ato. 9 ee AOS. 13%
. Me Ans... 9 es 403. TY,

ee x... 0%) = Be
CORSET JEANS.
Biddeford........... 6 |Naumkeagsatteen.. 7%
Branswick. .......- Gi4| Rock pert. .0.5 . =... 644
PRINTS.

Allen, Staple: .....: 6 |Merrim’ckshirtings. 5%
faiey 2... 5.5 6% ee Reppfurn . 8%

- PODER. ou. 64|Pacifie fancy........ 6
American fancy.... 6 Oe EPR: otis < 6%

Americanindigo.... 6%}Portsmouth robes... 6
American shirtings. 5144|Simpson sn baa -- 6%
Arnold - 6% i ereye .. >. 6%
“ long cloth B. 10% Sol black. 6%
ag C. 8% Washington indigo. 6%
“  eentury cloth 7 “ Turkey robes.. 73%
“gold seal..... 10%} ** India robes..... 7%

‘“ Purkey red..10%| ‘ plain T’ky x % 8%
ray “cc oe Bee .10

 

Berlin SONGR. 20. 32 s% 5%
eo Gir OG oe 64%] ‘ Ottoman Tur-
- “i preen;... G46), Rey red 9-22: ..: 6
Cocheco Fancy... 6 |Martha Washington
madders... 6 Turkey red %..... T%;
Eddystone fancy... 6 {Martha Washington
Hamilton fancy. ... 6%| Turkey red........ “9%
e stapie..... 6 Rivorpalat rebes.... 5
Mane hester ancy.. 6 |W indsor TAHNCG 5... 6%
new era. 6% gold ticket
Merrimack D fancy. 6%} indigo ie ao eo 10%
TICKINGS.
Amoskeag AC A....13%4|Pearl River......... ig
Hamilton: W... 52: 74|Warren........
DEMINS.
Amoskear...... 18% |Everett.......-..... 12%
Amoskeag, 9 02..... 15 Eawrenee XX... |. 13%
AUGOVEr.. 26 .. 2c. 1134|Baneaster 220550... 12%
GINGHAMS.
Gienarven..-. ...... 63%4|Renfrew Dress...... 8
Lancashire: ...-..: iy Teil du Nord.;..-.... 10%
Wormandic.......
cai WARP.
Peerless, white.....-. 18} [Peerless colored. ..21
GRAIN BAGS.
Sigen. 2... Of iGeermia 2 oo... 16
Aierviesn: <2) ..2... a7 jeaeine, oe 14
‘Valley City..-....... 16 Burlap. Lo 11%
THREADS.
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour’s....... .-.-. 88
Coats, J..4 F....2.. 45° Marsnalls.... .... 2: 88
Holyoke Ste eres Rye

 

KNITTING COTTON,

White. Colored. |} White. SS
Goss 38 |N 37

 

 

 

        

No. te OO 14.52... :
et SO. te | 60s: 38 8
- 90- a 40 & AS s ooo 44
Sf 42.5.3 oe 41 ce 40 45

CAMBRICS.

SIRlGe | oe. 4% (Kid Glove. .:..-..... 43
White Star........- 4% |Newmarket......... 434
RED FLANNEL,

Piven. 2352: . 8. eee We ee 22%
Creedmore. . Demeee (Po Ss eats an

Talbot XXK.......). SO te te OR

Nameless... -:.:. 27% Buckeye Seed. oy

MIXED FLANNEL,

Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 7%

Ui 22% cece 18%

Windsor.. cl aeeee ie Be. cae oo 18%

6 oz Western........ 2 *| Flushing Se 2314

Uaion B..... 2S. 201,| Manitoba... ..;.... 23%

DUCKS.

Severen, S.02...:.... $14|Greenwood, 8 oz....11%

Mayland, Sez... 11 |West Point, 8 oz... 9%

Greenwood, 7% 0z.. 9%

WADDINGS.
White, dea... 2... - 20 |Per bale, 40 doz....87 2
Colored, do0z....... So 4
gpa
Slater, _ Cross. . 4 eta i Poeeiocione. li
Cross... . ic nO sin ee 9
a Best eogiea oulcn ag Belton oe ee 10%
re Best AA. .... 12%
CORSETS,

Oorenne 0. n ce €9 50|/ Wonderful .... .... $4 75
Shillige’s..)... - <2. 9 60 Brighton: . 220.0... 475
SEWING SILKE.

Corticeli, doz... .-<- 85 {Corticelli Se

twist, doz. .42 per %oz ball......
50 yd, doz. .42

 

HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
No 1 Blk & White..10 [No 4 BI’k & White..15
oe 2 “ce a 12 “ 8 “cc c 20

 

“ 3 “ Le hs 16 t . 25
PINS.

No? 30. M 6.1... :: SO [No4 15, F 336... 5... 40

ee Ses 45 |

COTTON TAPE,

No a k, - Ze & Bl’k. a
“ ; “ce “a “ce Bt “ .26
SAFETY PINS.

NO... 22 eo. ote 28 ‘aa co eect. ooo
NEEDLES—PER M.
a 1 be|Steamboas. -..: . 2... 40
Crowety 8:54... 255: & sorgeld ved... 3. 1 30

IMOreHaINS. ..:....... 1 00)
TABLE OIL £LOTH.
195 6—4...2 95

5—4....225 6—4...3 25|/5—4....

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oe 0 Sum se ee 45
No 1. = 48
No.2 “* 70
Tubular .. %5
‘LAMP CHIMNEYS. —Per box.
6 doz, in box.
No. : ee eee ce tes aes 1 85
a 2 00
ye eck ee oe cw ee 3 00
First quality.
No. : Sun, crimp top eo ioe ete ag 2 25
a Sob aia peaieas a ceca ae 2 40
Ne: 2: * = ce eee cee ee 3 40
XXX Flint.
No. ’ Sun, crimp top ete eat sheet ewas aca 2 60
WG de ee ae eect meso eee 2 80
No: 2. “ ee ee eee 3 80
Pearl top.
—s 1 Sun, wrapped and —— Parag GR apes apts
No, 2 Hinge, & by oe
La B
No. 1 Sun, ‘plain bulb, ae cas seek coawics A ae
No. eta veuk OO
No. i crimp, per, O66 ee aoe ea ia
a
Butter Crocks, per gal......... .-sceceseees: 06%
Jugs, 2 gal., per, doz eae ace =
“ = Ae osc oe ces er aw eek 1 80
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. = s =

 

COOPER TOOLS

 

 

 

We endeavor to carry a full
assortment.

 

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

 

HARDWARE et i
e Stobbinen Pattern ce 6010
PLOWOEE 6 GCMUIN Gog oo ec ee core eee 60&10
Hinterprise, self-measnring. ... 2. i... os. 25
Prices Current. NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.
i FENCE AND BRADS,
These prices are for cash buyers, who 25
pay promptly and buy in full packages. =
AUGURS AND BITS. dis. 40
Eves). OlO Style - 2... tt es 60 60
RAOIPR es 60 00
en ee 49 50
Jennings’, genuine......-..... 2... ee eee eee 25
Jennings’, lnitation ........-..-.--.-.-..... 50410 00
AXES. 87 _
First Qualit = M BrOnee 7 00 ;
eee 11 00 | 194 to 30d eee
: D. B. Bromagecrevvvrresrertst TR BA 12d to BOD... sees ce eeeeeeeteeseeteaeeese ns 50
“ DR reek ee 13 00 S
BARROWS. dis. 90
Rates se % 14 00 10
Cares ee A net 30 00 1 50
BOLTS. . dis.
Es i eo Ones 2 25
Carriage new list............--....--..-...... 75 - CLINCH.
Plow ee ea gl a Cee PSG, Stee 1% inch ee 1 35
Sleigh shoe. ee 70} 2 and 24 eee cee ee 1p
BUCKETS. Bis and 2% ee ae eee s Le 1 00
Wh wie $350] 54 and 4i4 ino 2220200 _
Well, swivel.. settee tema secenwes 4 00 Each half keg 10 cents extra.
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured........ ...-.-.-...-. W0& PLANES. dis,
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 6oi10) Chie Tool Corn, Caney. 40@10
Wrought Loose Se COSI0  Retae BORG ee @60
Wrougut fable. f:. 2.5.8 se G0G10 | Sanduaky Tool Co.'s, fancy......:.. 0.2... 40@10
——— ee a — Bench, first OMG
TOURDt DEasS 26.6 ses Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... ....
BUG Oe ee Tse PANS. — —
Blind, Peete eee cee eee oak Meet Pe ACME dis. 60
Blind, SHOpArG 6 (20s ee cee 70 Common, uelkea oo dis. 70
BLOCKS. ui RIVETS. dis.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 4p | Iron and Tinned... ss... sees teense eee 40
apace Copper Riv ea Cee cease. 50
y ° EN’ ANISHED IRON.
Grain............-- trae Speargaae dis. 50&02 Ay Wood's patent planished, Nos, 24 to 27 10 20
: 8. oo Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...
Case Gece! 2 el perth 4% Broken atk ie per pound a 2 9 20
CAPS. ROPES,
MigatiG io perm 65 | Sisal, is inch and Pa ee eee cue cas 11%
Riek a Ce ee i vulesesap ty 13%
Ce. _ 35] _ SQUARES. dis.
Migakee....- 320s 5e ee . OG ¢ Mlecl ane ron... ek ce 5
_, CARTRIDGES, Ey BT eC 60
Rim Fire, U. QO. & Winchester new list.. i ed etc a ati coe cine we 20
Rim Fire, U men Meteo dis. 50 SHEET IRON.
Gertral Wire die. 351 . Com. Smooth. Com.
: Mos. te 14 84 20 3 10
CHISELS. dis. Nos. 15 7 3 10
Becket Pirmee 3 70&10 | Nos. 3
Re 10&10 | Nos. 22 ~
Cee es 70&10 | Nos =
STUN cca wae. “ia. sm ee
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer................-.. 40} All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
COMBS. dis. wide not less than 2-10 extra
Curry, L&wrence’s......-........es0s see... 40 SAND PAPER.
RCT ee ee S| Fase MOCt 19) OG oe ee, dis. 40&10
CHALK. SASH CORD.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 Silver Lake, Whee Ae: list 50
COPPER, Deh A oe. . 55
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per oe 28 i Write Boe ee 50
14x. PAROG, $OEOO o.oo coe cy os cc 26 st Pap Bes . 55
cola Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... 1.0.2.0... 25 : Wile Co - 35
Cold Rolled, eee i. 25| Discount, 10.
BOUOms (6.0. 27 i SASH WEIGHTS.
ELLE. dis: SONG WVCH per ton $25
Morse’s Bit Stoeke 40 LE SAWS. dis.
Paper and straight Shank................... 40 Hand .-.. ee. seen eens e eee
Morse’a Taper Shank, 26 65..0..000500......- 40 ., Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,. 70
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot... 50
DRIPPING PANS. . 7 ecial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30°
Siinh S1fO8 BCE POHNG 26. cose. ov = ampion and Electric Tooth X
Large sizes, per pound............:... 6144 Gam Ber FO0G ee,
ELBOWS. THAFS.
Com. 4 piece, 6in...........065 _.doz.net 75 | steel,Game..................... setteteeee cess 0 10
Corcusated .. dis, 2010610 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...........
Matactaples a dis. 40&10 | Qneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. 70
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Hotehiies’.... ..- ptyritt tres eeee ee ete nese ees 70
Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26................ "g0| B.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’8 .....- 26s eee eee eee 70
Ives’, 1 818; 2, 824: $e a 25 a Phenol ee ee eee 18¢ per doz.
ae: eo kee dis. se, delusion...... ao 81.50 = —
PRGGGOMEN 20200. 00s. se a COGIC | Bright Market. 000.0 65
New American.........-+----+0+eeeeeeee eee COGIO | Arinealed Market. 000. - 20
Nicholson’s ....-------+-+-+s+eeereree ee eeees COIS | Copnered Market... 0000530005651 60
Heller's. .-...... ++. 22. s eee ereece es asset SOE Pe 624%
Heller’s Horse Rasps.....-..-.+---+eeeeeeees 50 | Coppered Spring Steel... . 22.0... .........- 50
GALVANIZED IRON Barbed Fence, salvaniaed............0550.; 4 00
Nos. 16 - 20; 22 and %; % and %; = 28 PAINGOM es. 5. a 3 40
List 13 14 18 WIRE 600D8. dis.
Dineen 50410 ee 70&10&10
UGES. dis. rere SOC gs 70&10&10
Stanley Rule and evel O82 Tt OG ee ee a ..» -70&10&10
HAMMERS, Gate Hooks and yes... oc. cle 70&10&10
Maydelo & Co's... 03202... . 8 dis. = WRENCHES. dis.
Kip’s dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........:...
Yerkes & Plumb’s....... . dis. 0&0 Coes GOnGIng o.oo ee 50
Mason's Solid Cast Steel.....:.........-. 30c list 60 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, .. vis)
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10 ; Coe’s Patent, malleable..................... 5&10
HINGES. MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Crate, Claris 1 208 ooo ee dis 60210 , Hird Cages... 3s io cue veeua 50
State ee a Ee te per doz. net, 2 50 Pumps, CUMGI  e  oes >
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. a 14 and Berowe New Tase oo. ccc sic cc. ee
SON GOE oe 4 Casters, Bee and Piste.. oo. 2. soioaio
Screw Hook and Bye, 4 Mai eu net 10 Dampers, UAOrI@a ce
ee eae net 8% | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... &
“ ef ee a, ee
« “ = See aa a net 7% METALS,
Sirap ane Toe ace dis. ‘0 PIG TIN.
HAN dis. ie re oe ae 26¢
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co. Wood track....50&10| pig Bars 28¢
oe = agama ee cee Oe ee ee ae
Ot WOOO UPHOM 20. . 40| Duty: Sheet, 2%c per und.
HOLLOW WARE 600 pound casks. es a eae Cee eae 6%
POR oe poe eee ea CO er Oty 7
PR oe ee ea 60 SOLDER.
CE ee ke ee cs Olea ee : 16
Gray OMARION os oe ccna oes ene 40&10 | Extra Wiping ee a ee
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. The prices of the many other qualities —
Stamped Tin Ware........-......:. new list 70&10 | solder in the market indicated by private brands
Japanned Tin Ware.........-....++---+.+--. 25 | vary according to composition.
Granite fron Ware <.......<...... new list 3334 &10 cosh ANTIMONY.
HORSE NAILS. OO pclae ees cee r pound 16
Au _— oy cia nas aiieeens a ea cle dis. ee FR ee ee = EP 13
PUG eee oe sons oe hp oo os TIN—MELYN GRADE.
Worthwesteri Mele ewes eee ae dis. ote 10x14 IC, Charcoal Gade ere sve ada es cag aig $8 6 60
KNoBs—New List. dis. 14x20 IC, . 660
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............- 55 | 10x14 IX, . 8 35
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.. poacea 55 | 14x20 IX, 8 35
ae ee Plated 1 trimmings... ae a 55| Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
oor, porcelvin, trimmings................. 55 Aras BAD
Drawer and Shutter, — a oe icin wate 70 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal pon er $600
ae aa a es ee ‘.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s now HG cose 551 40x14 1X. eae oe ere 7 50
eee Whocler @ Co. 8. 3.050.206.0255. BB | 44x: 4x20 IX, eee ete er 7 50
PONIONOH ooo ee ee eek S5i tach oddtianel ¥ in ti one
ee so
LEVELS. 8.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s....... ie 00 70| 14x20 IC, *  Worcester....---.+.0.0. 0-0 6 00
MATTOCKS. 14x20 IX, . : Hisbebeehoeuseeus ae
Dios B65 ssc ss ia . 916.00, dis. 60 Se yr. panes sone enees 12 50
MEM ok ewes 815.00, dis. a 4 . : =
ee iced sake os eee es : 2
Hunt’s $18.50, dis. mai. 20x28 IC, 100
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, thandied CeeeateE cleus 20x28 Tx, “ bese 4 00
J dis. BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
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The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

 

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Retail Trade 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, JANUARY 15, 1890.

 

 

The appointment of Chas. Buncher,
of Detroit, to succeed himself as a mem-
ber of the Insurance Policy Commission,
will be very generally commended by the
business men of the State. Mr. Buncher
rendered the insuring public an invalua-
ble service in the adoption of a standard
form of insurance policy, and his contin-
uance on the Commission is a graceful
recognition of his efforts at that time.

 

Some one once remarked that ‘‘the mills
of the gods grind slowly but they grind
exceedingly fine,’? and the Patrons of
Industry are beginning to realize the
truth of the aphorism. The channels
of trade may be diverted from their orig-
inal courses for a time, but just as sure
as water seeks its own level, just so sure
will the old channels be resumed and
trade follow its former bent. THE
TRADESMAN is not arguing that what-
ever is, is right—far from it! It firmly
believes that there are wrongs to be
righted, and plenty of them; that there
are abuses in trade which ought to be
eradicated, root and branch; but such
reforms are not brought about in a day,
nor are the crusades which end in victory
begun by irresponsible and avaricious
schemers. A project born in iniquity
and encouraged by the ignorant and de-
based—even though the rank and file is
composed of honest people—may flourish
for a time, but its career will be meteoric
and without beneficial results to anyone.
This is the reason why the Patrons of
Industry are vanishing faster than new
recruits are coming into the field, giving
ground for the belief that one year hence
the organization will be numbered among
the things that were.

 

An Insurance Question.
From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

In the adjustment of a loss caused by a
recent fire in St. Louis, a serious ques-
tion presented itself, and itis of so im-
portant acharacter that every business
man has a personal interest in its solu-
tion.

One of the burned-out establishments
saved its books, but lost its bills and in-
voices, and when aclaim for the insur-
ance was made, the agent of the com-
pany demanded the showing of the bills
to prove the value of the goods and ma-
chinery that had been burned, notwith-
standing the fact that in placing in-
surance upon the property he had ac-
cepted its valuation at a time when, if
he had so desired, he could have seen the
bills and invoices on file in the office of
the establishment. That was the proper
time for an inspection of the property
upon which the risk was to be taken.
It is a grievous wrong, after an untimely
fire has extended to and consumed a
man’s property, to require the insured
to furnish proofs that were not pre-
viously deemed necessary, and also throw
upon the unfortunate victim the burden
of proof at the very time when, through
the occurrence of the ever-possible fire
that he had insured against, it may be
absolutely impossible to secure the re-
quired proofs.

There should be a law compelling in-
surance companies to inspect the prop-
erty at the time the insurance is placed,
and the valuation fixed at that period
ought to be accepted by the company if
it afterwards becomes necessary through
the total destruction of such property to
adjust the loss; unless, of course, the
company had positive evidence to war-
rant itin the belief that some of the
property had been disposed of since the
issuance of the policy. Without this, or
some other safeguard, no business man
has any guarantee that his insurance
will be paid to him promptly and with-
out recourse to the courts; while, on the
other hand, the delay may cause his com-
plete ruin financially.

Business men cannot exercise too
much caution in insuring their property,
and it will be a small but very wise in-
vestment if every merchant has a compe-
tent attorney inspect his insurance pol-
icy before he accepts it.

~~ a
Another New Ism.

Antipyrinism is the name of anew
malady caused by the abuse of the latest
fashionable drug, antipyrine. In a lect-
ure delivered just before Christmas at
the Sorbonne, the university of Paris,
Dr. P. Regnard, who is one of the most
eminent medical authorities in France,
uttered an emphatic warning against the
abuse of antipyrine. It is well known
that excessive smoking produces narcot-
ism; the abuse of alcohol gives rise to
alcoholism, and that of morphine to
morphinism. In the same way, the inju-
dicious use of cocaine is followed by co-
cainism, and there are at the present mo-
ment a number of patients in the Paris
hospitals under treatment for this mala-
dy. With regard to antipyrine, Dr. Reg-
nard admits that it does wonders in cases
of great nervousness, and that it is
praised by the patients. But he points
out that in disturbing and arresting the
natural action of the nerves by a chem-
ical substance, although that action may
be accompanied by very great pain, the
penalty for such intemperance will have
to be paid sooner or later. And the
penalty in question is a horrible one,
for among the numerous evils to which
the excessive use of antipyrine gives rise
are epileptic fits.

 

HOW FORTUNES ARE MADE.

 

Some of the Prevailing Business Tend-
encies Likely to Bring Success.
Erastus Wiman in the New York Tribune.

Why do men succeed in business, and
why do men fail, with the equal advan-
tage of being born poor? He would
needs be a wise man who could satis-
factorily answer this question. The
longer one lives and the greater the op-
portunity to study the problems that
surround us, the more difficult does it
appear to be to solve questions appar-
ently so simply as this. In this country
of abundant opportunity, the chance of
suecess for a business man would seem
to be so great that failure is almost in-
excusable. Yet the percentage of fail-
ures to that of success in a series of
years is always surprisingly large, and
it is a most natural and interesting sub-
ject of inquiry why it should be so. The
ordinary estimate of what real business
is would make it appear to consist al-
most solely in supplying each other’s
wants. The vast aggregation of people
in the civilized world would seem to be
either producing, handling, buying, sell-
ing, paying, distributing, or in some
other sense employed in the supplying
of some want in the human family, each
thus employed being at the same time
the recipient of a like service from his
fellow beings.

The sagacity would seem to be of an
ordinary character that would enable
one to buy cheap on the one hand and to
sell dear on the other, and to have be-
tween these two essential operations of
trade a margin sufficient to yield a living
and an eventual competence. Now,
when it is realized that the world is as
old as it is, and when the sciences of the
rocks and the stars have reached a point
so marvelous and so accurate as to tell
long ages and vast distances to a precise
point, is it not singular, in this age of
figures, that the art has not been dis-
covered by which the wants of the
human family could be measured? Why
should disaster and loss and failure be
constantly met with in this attempt to
supply these: wants? Why should not
the sources of supply be so perfectly .un-
derstood, or regulated so precisely to
suit the demand, that the excess would
never be created by which profit would
be destroyed, or loss incurred? It would
seem as if a period had arrived in the
education of the human race when the
class to whom had been committed, by
the law of natural selection, the duty of
transferring merchandise and money
from one hand to another, would so
thoroughly fathom all the possibilities
that profit would be certain and failure
impossible.

But such isnot the case. The vast
commerce of the world seems to be an
utterly unregulated quantity. Competi-
tion is the most potent force of the hour.
Whether it is trading muskrat skins for
food in a remote settlement, or obtaining
on credit a year’s supply for a farmer’s
family from the country store; whether
itis the millions of annual sales in a
jobbing house in New York or Chicago,
or the building of a thousand miles of
railroad; whether it is the importation
from foreign lands of cargoes for the
supply of known wants, or the baseless
operationsin options or futuresin purely
speculative markets—all these opera-
tions, little or big, are in direct competi-
tion, one with another, without organiza-
tion, without accuracy of knowledge and
without certainty of profit in the long
run. True, distinctive transactions are
consummated with a knowledge of prices
—oftentimes with an accurate acquaint-
ance with the extent of the supply and
the probability of demand, and if there
was nothing to consider but the act. of
buying at one price and selling at an-
other, the business of the trader would
not be so complex as to involve disaster
and loss. Yet simple as exchange and
barter seems to be, the laws which regu-
late it, the circumstances which surround
it, and the difficulties which stand.in the
way of universal success, make the really
successful business man as rare as the
great scholar, the astute statesman, or
the most ingenious inventor.

It is true that the growth of wealth, so
marked on this continent, finds its ex-
emplification in the growth of individual
fortunes. But it by no means follows
that this rapidity of accumulation is the
result of individual shrewdness, or the
display of a higher form of business
sagacity than ordinarily prevails. Some
men are born under conditions that
highly favor fortune; some seem almost
to be born lucky. Not afew of the great
fortunes of the day have come to their
possessors in spite of themselves; some
are the result of a direct violation of the
presumed correct laws of commerce,
while others have followed from the ir-
resistible development in the resources
of the country; others from the invention
of a useful device, and still others from
a policy of the Government which en-
forces a system of taxation by which, at
the expense of many, a great advantage
is conferred vpon afew. It will thus be
seen that to define why men succeed in
business is in acertain sense to define
the circumstances in which their lot is
cast, and the favorable or adverse con-
ditions that surround them. The task
to set forth the reasons for success in
individual cases is all the more difficult,
when it is often discovered that the rich
men of many localities are not the able
men; that the industrious, frugal and
energetic men are not always the most
blessed with this world’s goods; but that
the least likely, the least enterprising,
the least far-seeing, are apparently the
most suecessful. This circumstance,
that it is often the stupidest that are the
richest, adds interest to the constant in-
quiry—What are the elements of success?

Perhaps it will always be found that
some great principle underlies all suc-
cessful careers, whether success be
achieved by real ability or stumbled into
by stupidity. Some may say, and with
truth, that the man who keeps near to
the shore has his affairs well in hand,
seldom owes much, never embarks into
an enterprise without counting its cost—
that he who observes these simple rules
lays broad the foundations of success.
But when the youth looks abroad and
singles out the great fortunes that im-
press the world, he will find that these
have been created by a policy widely dif-
ferent from this narrow one. He proba-
bly thinks that if he can discover the
key by which the door was opened for
the happy possessors of these vast accu-
mulations, he, too, may follow in their

 

 

steps. But he will find that each age,
nay, almost each generation, furnishes
conditions and maxims peculiar to itself.
With the introduction of such forces as
steam, machinery and electricity, the
laws which prevailed fifty years ago no
longer avail. This is aptly shown in the
remark of the French economist, who
said: ‘In ancient days, when fortunes
were made by war, war was a business;
in these later days, when fortunes are
made by business, business is war.”’
The differences in conditions thus re-
ferred to are not more widely marked
than the conditions which prevail.in bus-
iness almost within half a life-time.
Poor Richard’s maxims, good in them-
selves and the basis of many a fortune,
will hardly apply nowadays, for in this
age of rapid money making the very
great fortunes of the hour have been
achieved without the slightest reference
to principles so homely and so simple as
those of Franklin’s time, fortunes now
existing yielding incomes every year that
in his day would have been ample re-
ward for a life-time.

The fortunes that fill the public eye
to-day are largely the result of combina-
tion, while those which were achieved in
the days of our fathers were the result
of competition. Co-operation of capital,
in the shape of organized efforts, by the
construction of works too large for indi-
vidual enterprise, has been the out-
growth of liberal laws, whereby wide
powers have been granted and individual
liability limited. Individual effort has
thus been enormously supplemented,
while, as is always the case, one or two
leading minds in each organization have
dominated the rest, achieving by co-op-
eration what would have been inipossible
by personal effort. It is not quite clear
whether the result has been to lessen
the chance of individual achievement, or
to narrow the field to some extent for
those who are out of the range of co-oper-
ative influence. Butitis certain that a
still further consequence has been the
result of competition among organiza-
tions thus created, for, while competition
between organizations may have de-
stroyed the chance of a profit of each, it
has not infrequently rendered it possible
to combine organizations one with an-
other, until now such combinations form
the basis of fortunes phenomenal even
in this golden age. The axiom that
‘swhere competition was possible con-
solidation was probable’’ illustrates a
tendency of the time fruitful of fort-
unes, these being created by combina-
tions of existing combinations.

Thus the wealth of the Vanderbilt
family first found its greatest additions
in the union of competing railway sys-
tems entering New York. In time these
were added to by connections extending
West, and subsequently solidified and
strengthened by the purchase of compet-
ing enterprises, until to-day a system of
transportation, essential to the growth of
of this great country, is in the control of
the grandchildren of the original com-
biner, which, for extent, area of popula-
tion served, productiveness of territory
and completeness of service, is unap-
proached in any other country in the
world; with revenues greater than those
from many a government; with profits
centered in a single family larger than
those enjoyed by lines of kings, and
more certainly susceptible of increase
than dreamed of by the founder of any
dynasty in ancient or modern times.
How much of this vast aggregation is the
result of individual effort no one now
ean tell. How far it will limit or cir-
cumscribe individual pursuit in the
future in competition with it, it is easy
to see. True, combinations of enter-
prises so widely operative as these open
up fields of employment for great num-
bers, but whether the employe is ever
the entirely successful man, as the world
estimates success, making the most of
his abilities and energies, will be doubted
by the ambitious reader.

The great fortunes of the Standard
Oil group of money-makers is the direct
result of combination in industrial pur-
suits, the tendency toward which is one
of the most marked feAtures of the hour,
and without considering which it is use-
less to attempt to describe why men in
this day succeed. In this organization
practical control is secured of an article
of prime necessity, and by the exercise
of rare business capacity, it is produced
in quality safer, by processes cheaper,

distributed better and at less cost, and}.

applied to a greater variety of uses, than
could be possible under competition.
There are numerous other departments
of industrial activity in which combina-
tion is as essential as the sun, if profit is
to be secured, as in white lead, bagging,
sugar, cottonseed, glass, wire, steel rails,
window-glass, envelopes, and other
equally important but less known opera-
tions of similar character. For, while
the public mind is agitated over this tend-
ehcy and the press vainly seeks to stop
it by condemnation, and Legislatures by
adverse legislation, the fact is apparent
that, while the liberty of the citizen re-
mains, he must trade with his fellows on
such terms as will yield a return; and
the business combinations, trusts and the
like will go on creating more fortunes,
frequently reducing prices, and achiev-
ing more beneficial results than the keen-
est competition or the wildest specula-
tion. The anxious seeker for guidance
in fortune making must bear this grow-
ing tendency in mind as the newest de-
velopment in the battle of giants for the
highest prizes. In former times the be-
lief was universal that competition was
the life of trade. To-day its excess is
regarded as the death of profit, A
thousand influences have brought about
this reversal of conditions. and it must
not be ignored in contemplating the
way of success for the coming genera-
tion. Again, referring to the forces of
steam, electricity and machinery, the
enormously increased power of produc-
tion, the equally great increase in the fa-
cility of transportation and distribution,
arevolution has occurred in which all
the avenues of effort seem unduly
crowded. In the professions, in bank-
ing, and especially in business pursuits,
the number employed has reached a
point far in excess of a possibility of
profit. There is hardly a locality in
which the number of stores and business
establishments could not be reduced by
one-third, to the great advantage of all
concerned; and it has been suggested
that if one-third of the entire business

 

population were to be supported by the
other two-thirds, the profit possible by |
the saving of the waste of competition '

would be greater than where all were at-
tempting to live out of a business yield-
ing no adequate return.

Other great groups of fortunes most
familiar to the public are those of Mr.
Jay Gould, mainly the result of combi-
nations in telegraphs and railroads; of
Governor Stanford: and his  asso-
ciates on the Pacific Coast, by the ad-
vance in values from railroad ‘building;
the Canadian Pacific magnates, based on
the purchase of Northwestern proper-
ties in the United States at a period of
their greatest depression, and numerous
other instances, whereby the grant of
privileges of transportation has been
contributory to yast accumulations, while
at the same time great losses have been
incurred by individual stockholders by
unwise expansions in the same direction.
The money sunk in competitive railroad
construction and operation in the last ten
years far exceeds the amount made by
the great public during that period: but
the shrewd manipulations of the subse-
quent operators, who aim at combination,
illustrate the point that it is by consol-
idation rather than by competition that
fortunes are now-a-days made.

The prospect for the young fortune
hunter is not, therefore, a cheerful one,
and to attempt to set before him why
men succeed and why men fail, with an
ardent desire to help him to safe con-
clusions, seems a hopeless task. It has
been shown that by combinations for-
tunes are made, and by competition they
are lost. Even this tendency, in these
times, restricts the chances and oppor-
tunities, and it would seem asif the poor
boys of the present generation will
hardly have the chances of the men who
preceded them. The invention of the
Canadian, Alexander Bell, in the tele-
phone, imparting a facility of instan-
taneous communication, hardly leaves
room for another device of a similar
character in which to duplicate the for-
tunes made in that splendidly adminis-
tered organization, the Bell Telephone
Company. The south shore of Lake
Superior will hardly develop another
copper mine like the Calumet and Hecla,
which in a quarter of a century has
yielded $30,000,000 on a capitalization of
$2,500,000. The nickel that is now being
mined at Sudbury Junction, on the north
shore of Lake Superior, at a profit of
$1,000 a day, for a group of Cleveland
capitalists, will supply the demand to
such an extent that opportunities in
nickel will be pretty well filled up. The
profits of railroad building and of railroad
operating appear to have reached a
climax for some years to come, and what
new field for this peculiar class of activ-
ity is open it is difficult to discover. The
boom in real estate, in which many fort-
unes have been made, one would think
had reached its safety point, conceiving
that there is on the one hand an unlimited
supply of land and on the other a con-
siderable limitation in the demand. If
this is all true, the conditions are hardly
so favorable for fortune making in the
future as in the past, and there is, there-
fore, all the greater need for the exer-
cise of the best ability and the greatest
energy.

Meantime, the success in fortune-mak-
ing in the generation now in possession
of the fields of effort, and gradually
passing away, has removed the necessity
in numerous instances for similar pur-
suits in the generation now coming for-
ward. There are in the United States
more rich young men and rich young
women, ready to share their wealth with
partners for life, than it was ever esti-
mated there could be in a period so short
in the history of the country. This is
shown in the perceptible growth of’ the
leisure class everywhere, and especially
the tendency toward crowding into the
cities and towns. The absence of stim-
ulus for effort, which follows the pos-
session of wealth, in time will lessen the
number of those who strive for the
worthy achievement of success, and, ex-

 

cept in the mere duty of holding onto}
what has already been accumulated, rich |
men’s sons and daug hters need not be;

expected to do more than occupy the
field held by their fathers, while even

this poor satisfaction is denied to not a
few of them. The belief that ‘‘in
America there are only three generations
between shirt sleeves and shirt sleeves,”’
remains to be fully demonstrated, and
the prediction remains to be fulfilled that
“every third American must go back to
the soil.?’ The most difficult thing to
keep by the average man is money, and
the ease with which fortunes are dissi-
pated by speculation, injudicious invest-
ment, or mistaken judgment, by extrav-
agance and idleness, make it reasonably
certain that, hard as it has been for the
rich fathers to make fortunes, it will be
a great deal harder for the sons to keep
them.

It is just here where comes the advan-
tage of being born poor. No _ better
preparation exists for making one’s way
than having a way tomake. The stim-
ulus of effort from poverty, the necessity
of industry, the advantage of thrift and
the achievements possible alone to en-
ergy of character, are all heritages of
the poor young man, better fitting him
for the battle of life than a fortune left
him by the efforts of others. How. best
with the avantage of being born reason-
ably poor to unlock the golden gates of
fortune in these days it would be vain
even to attempt to say. But this is cer-
tain, that to those who are quick to take
advantage of every opportunity the
prize will come the soonest. Employ-
ment is the first essential, it matters not
at what. In the field, on the farm, in
the workshop, in the office, on the street,
work is the one essential preparation for
all future life. Hard work, honest work,
the kind of work that makes one’s em-
ployer pleased, that wins the confidence
of superiors, is what is possible to every
young man. Instead of waiting, like
poor old Micawber, for ‘‘something to
turn up,’’ he should turn it up himself,
and push forward even a wheelbarrow
with energy, and the pride of doing it
better to-day than it was done yesterday.
To live within the income earned, no
matter how small, is a safe way; always
to keep alittle ahead, even if ever so
little, so that it grows, is the basis of a
thousand fortunes. Not to let the hours
and days step by without a gain in
material, mental and physical possession
is the surest road to self-reliance on the
one hand, and on the other to the con-
fidence of those who will soon have it in
their power to show an appreciation of
real merit.

The world is wider than ever before
for honest effort. The facilities of bus-
iness expand its operations enormously;
men must be had upon whom reliance
can be placed, men of character, of
training, of industry and of brains, and
even yet there is no royal road to for-
tune except that which the humblest,
the poorest and even the richest can
attain.

—_—>-2 <<
No Nickels for Virginia City.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

“This talk about introducing copper
cents in San Francisco reminds me of the
attempts made to bring five-cent pieces
into circulation in Virginia City,’’ said
General Daniel O’Connell.

‘“‘A dime has always been the smallest
coin there, and the nickels that men
brought in their pockets from California
had either to stay there or be thrown
away. No one in Virginia City would
compromise the dignity of the place by
accepting them. Finally, a dry goods
merchant returned from the city with a
lot of the half-dimes. He didn’t want to
lose them, so he advertised a great 20-
cent sale. His scheme was to give the
nickels in change for the quarters that
would be tendered for his bargains.
Well, do you know, sir, that as soon as
the ladies got onto his scheme they just
boycotted his place, and within two
months he had to close his shop. That
stopped the nickel business, and to this
day adime is the smallest change you
can get on the Comstock. If there is
fifteen cents in change coming to you,
you lose five ceuts, andif you complained
the whole town would jeer at you.’’

 

 

BLIVEN & ALLYN,

Sole Agents for the Celebrated

“BIG F” Brand of Oysters.

In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS. We make
a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time. We solicit
consiguments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, etc.

H. M. BLIVEN, Manager.

63 Peari St.

 

PEREINS & HESS

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

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

A. B. BirOOKsS & CU.

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF

Pure Candies.

The Only House in the State which Puts Goods Up
Net Weight.

NO CHARGE FOR PACKAGES.

CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,,

: GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

 

Wall Paper and Window Shades.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

NELSON BROS. & CO.

68 MONROE STREET.

 

Putnam Candy Co.,

HEADQUARTERS FOR ~

FLORIDA ORANGES, LEMONS, NUTS, ETC

WM.SEARS & CO.,
Cracker Manvtactvrers,

37, 39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.

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THURSDAY MORNING, D&G. 26,

And will continue until the entire balance of
our fall and winter stock is disposed of.

ONCE MORE!.

And on a Grander Scale than Ever. -

 

Our great and genuine sale of

Une-Quarter ||-4)

Commences on

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(34) off.

his departure.

This will be a grand opportunity to all of our customers, as
nothing will be held back.
Cloaks, Shawls, Blankets, Comfortables, Silks, Satins, Dress Goods
of all kinds, Cloths, Cassimeres, Dress Flannels, Skirts, Shirting
Flannels, Table Linens, Napkins, Damasks, Carpets, Oil Cloths,
Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Laces, Embroideries,
Ribbons, Woolen Hoods, Fascinators, Leggins and Fancy Goods
of every description, all go at the uniform discount of One-Quarter
Our usual low prices are all marked in plain figures,
from which we deduct 4 off.
the grandest sale we ever had, as the Proprietor leaves for Europe

on January 27, and is determined to clean up stock previous to

Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s

We positively intend to make this

 

 

 

 

- WwW WURZBURG. ;

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The Michigan Tradesman

A LETTER TO EVA.
[CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.]

 

 

 

to take interest in some weman happier
and younger than I am. I shall be
lonely when I see you less often; but I
shall know thatitis best for you. As
tired children long to go to bed and
sleep, so it seems to me that I long to be
out of the pain of living. I think some-
times that will be before very long.

‘Because you are not coming to me
this evening, do not pass the time in
working. You looked ill yesterday. We
shall miss each other, 1 know; but I
know, too, that it is for the best.’

Did you not know, my love, that I
would not, could not, keep away from
you? Do you remember how sometimes
we would sit together quite silently
through the long winter twilights, see-
ing visions in the fire? I can hear your
voice come softly through the twilight,
‘Are you tired, dear?’ ‘Tired! Was I
ever tired in your presence ?

To me that winter passed like a
troubled yet happy dream. To love you
had been the supreme revelation of my
life. 1 had before been, as it were, my
own prison-house. “It was you who
broke down the bars;
out into God’s light; you who made me
know the divine possibilities of life.
Had I not reason to worship you, my
heart’s queen ?

Do you remember that April day when
we took our first spring drive together ?
You were gay that day, my poor darling
—in one of your glad, childlike moods.
To me you would always remain young.
It was the day that we went over Hamp-
ton Court together. A few days ago I
went there by myself. Along the paths
I seemed to see flutter again the hem of
your dress. Inthe palace I seemed to
have a vision of you standing before a
favorite picture. I got strangely in peo-
ple’s way, I know, being blind to all but
that vision of you.

When the third year of our friendship
had passed, and still he came not,
stronger than you knew grew in me the
divine hope of making you my wife.
Yet I reproached myself for being glad,
knowing how you pined for him—for
that other man. Did I think that my
love might, in the end, come to make
you love me more? Perhaps I did.
You never, I think, really understood
just how well I loved you. Yet that I
loved you well, you did certainly know.
Sometimes you would say, so piteously,
with that sad look in your eyes:

‘No one, I think, will ever be as good
to me as you are. Itis not often that
a man loves a woman as you love me.”’

Ah! but when before had there been
such a woman to love ?

You can hardly forget the Ist of May,
1871. I had sat up all the past night
working, and came to you to be rested
and refreshed. I was strangely alive, as
people often are for a while when they
have been sitting up through the night.
What a spring day that was—a haze of
heat hung in the windless air! It was a
day when sounds could be heard with
wonderful distinctness. Long after he
had passed the house, we could hear a
man, with a barrow, crying, ‘Fine
flowers, fine flowers—all a-blowing, all
a-growing !’’? And you said the sound
lingered in the air as if it had not
strength enough wholly to pass away.
Your rooms that day were fragrant with
blossoms. You wore a soft, blue, cling-
ing dress, such as I loved.

Do you remember how, before I could
prevent, you came and knelt down by
me, and said, laying your dear, cool
hands on mine: ‘I have been thinking
of many things. I am not happy as
things are. Dear, if I give you all that I
can—all that has been saved out of my
existence—do you still care to make me
your wife ?”’

You know what answer I made—with
what rapture I fulded you to my heart, to
be at last my very own. How happy I
meant to make you! Ah, that was my
life’s crowning day !

We arranged the marriage for early in
October. Yet, my love, I knew even in
those days that though you took the
shelter of my love, and longed to make
me happy, you still remembered that
other man. Often I saw that your gay-
ety was forced; I saw, as it were, the
tears quivering behind the smile. When
we were silent, there would come into
your eyes a strange, far-away look, and
at such times I knew that your thoughts
were with him. WasI pained? Was lI
not proud to be anything to you? Had
you loved me as I loved youl could not
have suffered for you. I did not hint
to you that 1 knew how often your heart
was far away from me, and you were
grateful, I know, for my silence. As the
days went on, your health failed more
and more. It was the last day of July
that you went, for change of air, to visit
a relative at Dover. Dover is dear to
me, for your sake, ever since, yet sad
withal now as a graveyard where the
heart’s beloved are buried.

Were you wasting away? Were you
going to die? The cold drops stood on
my forehead at the thought. 1 remem-
ber how, one day when I had gone out
thinking to take a long walk to induce
sleep at night, these fears so possessed
me that I turned straight back, and, en-
tering the room where you were, found
you lying on the sofa, and crying softly
to yourself; only because you were
weak, you said, drawing my face down

to yours—your dear face, wet with tears. |

It was that day that I persuaded you to
go to Dover, where I soon followed you,
arranging to go up to town once a fort-
night for consultation with my publish-
ers regarding some works then in prog-
ress. What strange, sweet, sad months
were those of August and September !
We were to be married the 2nd of Oc-
tober. The sea air seemed not to do you
the good it ought. Should I lose you be-
fore you had ever really been mine? I
suppose it was good for me that I had to
work. I used to ehurry through the
mornings feverishly, and then go to you.
How sweet you always were—sad as
death, I used to think sometimes, but
sweet as the after-piece of heaven! One
day I could bear it no longer. I knelt
down beside you, and I cried out:
“Eva, is my love killing you?
God’s sake, tell me the truth.”’
Oh, how sad your voice was when you
answered me, and it seemed to come like

For

you who led me}

a whisper from some far place beyond my
reach. You said:

“No, dear, no! It will save me if any-
| thing can.” And then you said, over
lagain, still more faintly, ‘if anything
ean,” and you put out your hands to me,
‘and I saw how the bracelets fell back
‘from the little, wasted, blue-veined
' wrists, and realized more than ever what
/amere shadow of your former self you
‘were. But I thought no more of giving
‘you up. You had said that my love
| could save you if anything could, and I
‘clung to that. Of what use was lin the
| world but to save you—to help you—
even if to do so had been to break my
own heart? I looked forward with a
_ feverish, unreasonable hope to our mar-
iriage. I thought, vainly, perhaps, and
| foolishly, that when I could take you
‘into a new life, and, amidst new scenes,
fill up your time with new interests, you
would forget at last—you, with your pas-
sionate, faithful heart!

I remember—God pity me, how well L
remember !—the 30th day of that Sep-
tember! I spent the whole day with
you. I was going to London early the
next merning, to make the last arrange-
ments for our marriage, then so nigh. Z
gave myself, that day, a long holiday
with you. I thought you seemed a little
better. 1 read to you in the morning,
| while you lay upon the sofa, some poems
that we both loved. “The Haystack in
the Floods’? was among them, and your
eyes kindled at that with something of
their old fire. Inthe afternoon I drove
you myself for miles along the sea, and
we listened to it, throbbing its heart out
against the shore, as you said. Then,
when the tide began to ebb, anda low
wind, sad with prophecy, arose, I took
you home.

That night when I bade you good-bye
I held you close in my arms—lI, your
lover, so soon to be your husband. I
kissed your dear, consenting lips; but all
the time the far-away look never left
your eyes, and a pang pierced me, for I
felt that some presence I could not see
came between you and my kisses. And
yet what a good night that was, if I had
only known!

The next morning I went up to town;
and, first of all, l went to leave some
copy at my publishers’. There quite a
packet of letters was handed to me, and
the first one I looked at gave me a sensa-
tion something as if I had seen a ghost.
It was the very peculiar, unforgetable
handwriting of a man who had been my
closest friend at Oxford, yet of whom t
had lost sight utterly, since, a year or
two after our university days were over,
he had gone to America for his health.
I do not believe much in presentiments,
but there was something in the very
touch of that letter which gave me a cold
chill. I opened it, and this was what x
read :

“My DEAR ARCHER: I have long lost
you from sight, though not from mem-
ory; but I will not stop to fill up the
gaps now, except so far as is neccessary
to what I have tosay. I pretty well recov-
ered my health in America, studied med-
icine, and have got on well. Last spring
I found myself getting run down again,
and I put my practice in the hands of a
friend, and came abroad for the summer.
I have spent the last two months in
Paris, and here I have formed an inti-
macy with a French physician, who
asked me, three days ago, to go with
him to the hospital to see a very inter-
esting patient—a countryman of my own,
just released from long ineareceration in
a French prison. I went witha languid
sort of interest, and found—is not truth
always stranger than fiction ?—Frank
Leinster, a friend of long ago, of whom,
however, you have never heard me
speak, as we met first on the steamer
that carried me to America, whither he
was bound for a pleasure trip. Iwas
very ill during the voyage, and he
nursed me like a brother, and with that
our intimacy began. When he returned
to England, we corresponded for. a time,
but a little more than eight years ago
sudden silence on his part fell between
us, and I have never heard of him
sinee till I found him, three days ago,
lying more dead than alive ona pallet in
a French hospital. Since then I have
learned his story.

“He was always a half-mad Repub-
lican in theory, and at one time he got
himself naturalized as a French citizen,
and joined a secret communistie or so-
cialistic association, binding himself by
all sorts of oaths to obey, on the instant,
the orders of his superiors. At the time
of his mysterious disappearance he was
suddenly summoned to Paris. | He went
in company with a Madame Vautrin, a
fellow-conspirator, summoned at the
same time with himself. No sooner had
he reached Paris than he was betrayed
by a spy who had been set to watch his
movements, and thrown into prison. He
was only released six days ago.

“Figure to yourself what those eight
years would have been to any man.
They were something worse to him. He
was engaged to a woman whom he
adored. Her name was Eva Linton.
When he started at an hour’s notice for
France, he meant to write to her the mo-
ment of his arrival, but he was arrested
before he had even reached his hotel.
For eight years she has had every reason
to believe him faithless. She is married,
very likely—or dead, perhaps — who
knows? But he judges her by himself,
and clings to some wild hope that she
has trusted in him through all and
waited for him. ‘They seem to think
I’m booked fer death,’ he said, when he
told me the story, ‘but, Grey, you must
find her first.’

‘‘He told me that she was living, when
jhe left England, with an aunt at 10
| York Road, South Kensington. Pat

once telegraphed, and found that neither
! Miss Linton nor her aunt had been heard
| of there for more than five years. I can
| see that to find her is the one hope for
|saving my friend’s life. His anxiety
| about her is consuming him, as the swift
| flame burns the oilinalamp. 1am not
| willing to leave him. I will only do so
as a last resort. In this extremity { be-
think myself of you. Iknow your old

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| used to tell you you ought to be a police
‘detective. I fancy it was this turn of
‘mind that made you a novelist. You
‘know London, and the ways of London.
'1 ean reach you, no doubt, through your
| publishers. My appeal to you is a for-
lorn hope; but I know you will spare no
| pains to help me, were it only for the old
_ time’s sake. Yours faithfully,
‘\JOHN GREY.”’

passion for ferreting out mysteries—L !

 

I suppose men do not usually faint or
ery out when the ninth wave strikes
them; at any rate, [did not. I read this
letter through as quietly as if it had been
on some ordinary matter of business.
Then I folded it deliberately and put it
into my pocket, and spoke a few civil
words to the man who had banded it to me,
and went out into the street. There was
no more to be done about my marriage.
Not for one moment did I doubt what
that letter meant in my life; and in the
midst of my keenest anguish I thanked
God that it had not come too late. I
wandered about the streets, I .know not
how long: but I took the afternoon train
to Dover, by which I reached there a lit-
tle before 7 o’clock. How it rained all
the way down! When we stopped, the
howling wind drove the rain in volleys
against the carriage. All the way I was
trying to realize what life would be, now
1 had lost you.

I shall never forget shivering through
the streets that 1st of October to your
friend’s house at East Cliff. When at
length I came level with the sea, and
heard its dull, heavy waves, dark as
night, breaking on the beach, it seemed
to me that sea was not more dreary than
my life, without you, must henceforth
be. Then bitter remorse of heart took
hold on me that I could be so unhappy
when I had the supreme blessedness of
bringing back to your life that light
and joy which you had thought lost for-
ever.

You knew my knock at the hall door,
and came to open it yourself.

‘My poor, wet darling,’ you said;
‘what a night it is!’ Then you put
both arms round my neck and raised
your lips to be kissed, and drew me into
the dining-room, where all things looked
so warm and bright. I thought that din-
ner would never come to an end; but it
was over at last, and then we went to-
gether into the little sitting-room at the
end of the drawing-room, which had
come to be regarded as your own, and
seemed pervaded by the sweetness and
potency of your presence. ;

Oh, my love, how well I remember
everything about that evening! You
wore a dress of silk and velvet that made
a soft swish upon the floor as you
walked. You had pearls in your ears,
and your pearl locket was hanging at
your throat. You had never looked love-
lier or seemed so at rest since I had
known you.

Outside we heard the falling of the
rain, the bitter complaining of the wind,
and through all the troubled voice of -the
sea. 1 remember just how you turned
shivering to the fire, and how, kneeling
down by it, you leaned your cheek
against my hand. Dear, I cannot help
lingering over that night. If only you
had been in one of your sad moods, that
might have given me strength; but no,
you seemed at rest, and of your own
accord began talking about our marriage.

“T am going to try and be just the best
wife that ever was,’’ you said, half play-
fully, yet earnestly meaning what you
said. You went on: ‘‘How happy it will
be when we are together all the time. I
never seem other than alone now when
we are parted. I am quite lost without
my dear.”’

“Bless you!’ I said, under my breath,
and then you leaned your dear head on
my shoulder.

God knows I take no credit to myself
for whatI did that night—I could have
done nothing else; but oh, my love, my
love, your divine tenderness made it all
the harder, for I began to believe that r
could have made you happy at the last,
even I; and it hurt—God knows how it
hurt—to think I must put you out of my
life just when you were beginning to be
so fond of me, and go on my dark way
alone. You remember questioning me
why I was so silent ?—‘‘Did I love you
less ??—‘‘Was Lafraid of to-morrow ?”’
—‘‘Should you read to me?”? And then
the warmth of the fire and the silence
within soothed you, and, being very
weak withal, you fell asleep there, with
your head upon my shoulder, just as con-
fidingly as if you had been already my
wife.

I had made up my mind to tell you all
at half past 9, and just before the half
hour struck you awoke with a start,
opened wide your eyes, and said tenderly,
as you fixed them on me:

“T am so very glad to have you back,
my dear. I dreamed that you had not
returned, and I was most unhappy, and
began to think something dreadful must
have happened. And I thought what it
would be if I should never see you
again. I shall not let you go again with-
out me.’’

Oh, my love, when I remember that, I
do think I might have made you happy
in the end, but who knows? I said to
you these words in answer :

‘Eva, my darling, I shall go away
from you. You will never see me again;
but you will not miss me.”’

Can Lever forget the tone of voice in
which you said, lifting your head from
my shoulder, and with a light I had never
seen there before blazing in your eyes,
while the blood came and went in your
cheeks:

“You have news for me?
What is it ?”’

For answer I put John Grey’s letter in
your hand. When you had read it
through, I think you forgot my presence
for a moment. There was a wonderful
light of rapture on your face, and you
said, in a voice as low as a prayer,
‘‘Faithful and true through all—faithful
and true !’

Then I sawa cloud pass over your
face and the light failin your eyes, and
I knew you were thinking of me and of
your promise to me, and I made haste to
tell you that you were free, quite free—
that I knew all must be over between us
now; and you were by no means to be
unhappy for me, because your good and
your joy must be mine. And then, one
dear last time, you clung to me and wept
—a great flood of healthful, saving tears
—for sudden joy is as dangerous as sud-
den grief.

I offered, I remember, to take you to
Paris the next day—the day that was to
have been our wedding day; but you
spared me that. You told me your
cousin would take you, and I was thank-
ful. When it was time to go, you told
me how good I had been to you, and
once more you gave me your lips to kiss.

I walked about long that night in the
wind and the rain; and when I went
home and slept at last, 1 dreamed of you,
and that to-morrow was our wedding
day, and we were never more to be

Quick!

 

parted. Then I woke again to the whole
bitter truth, and I heard the clamorous
wind and the cry of the empty, hungry
sea; and the rain fell upon the roof as if
it were falling upon a grave, and I knew
that my life was dead, but that its ghost
would haunt me until I, too, who have
outlived my life, should cease to be.

* * * * * * *

[The writer of the foregoing letter has
now been four years dead. I, his friend,
have printed it, using other names than
the real ones, but making no other
change. Its publication will harm no
one; and if some time it should meet her
eye, it will not be amiss that she should
know how well he loved her who loved
in vain.

Puitie BoURKE MARSTON.

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RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

We are to have a good year for busi-
ness, unless all indications prove at
fault. The natural in¢rease of popula-
lation and the growth and enterprise
which are shown in everything, form the
basis for this sound condition of affairs.
Certainly nothing could be better, and
all the other incidental questions be-
come of little import, having no disturb-
ing influence. The country is now so
vast in territory, and its productions are

 

so varied that its prosperity cannot be}
affected by mere local or sectional events
regarding business or crops. Business
men have a broad and inviting field be-
fore them under all circumstances, and
the present year throughout its different
business seasons promises to afford full
scope for their most enterprising efforts.
* %

Failures are not an indication of a gen-
eral financial weakness in business when
they can in each case be traced to some
radical evils and mistakes in manage-
ment. All recent large failures have
been thus explained, and though they
produce losses and depressions, have no
reason to affect the sound condition of
commercial and financial affairs at large.

+ + *

If there is one thing which the busi-
ness man wants more than another, it is
to foresee thefuture. Developed, actual
events and conditions do not concern him
to the same extent as those which are the
subject of conjecture. When each sea-
son is to be prepared for, his judgment
and foresight are the sole reliance which
he has for his heavy investments of capi-
tal and as the basis of all his plans. It
is a great risk to take, and when he con-
siders it under the light of daily events,
he often finds his utmost courage fully
taxed to sustain him. Taking all the
departments of business where this ex-
traordinary judgment is required, no
one can fail to marvel at the general
accuracy, amounting almost to the wis-
dom of prophets, which characterizes it.
And itis this pressure of thought and
anxiety which is the wearing and pros-
trating thing in business life. It is not
so much the labor and energy which are
required in selling goods and advancing
trade, as it is the absolute necessity of
reading in some degree coming events.

x & &

Competition is glibly said to be the

life of trade. In the abstract it pro-
motes it—that is, it leads to the pushing
of goods, and, no doubt, their greater
sale. Butcompetition which amounts to
strife and opposition unsettles prices,
prevents any proper considering of ad-
vance in raw materials and increased
cost in manufacturing. One seller sim-
ply undertakes to make a better price for
the buyer than his competitors, or to
give some discount or dating which has
an advantage in it. As we know, fre-
quently quite different considerations
than the absolute cost of the goods enter
into the calculations upon which they are
sold. However, every sale that is made
has its influence in a greater or less de-
gree upon the current market prices.
Competition of this kind is not the life
of trade, but it is an operation which
draws away all the vitality which gives
it life. Itis because of this method of
business which is now carried to such a
fierce and limitless extent, that the best
descriptions of goods fail to command
their value. Look at linens last fall
with an advance in flax and yarns, or
look at silks now with a heavy increase
in the prices of raws. Competition
was and is master of the situation,
making the prices even in defiance of the
natural laws of trade. That competition |
which promotes activity in business 1s
the very handmaid of enterprise, but the
other competition that sacrifices and)
crushes goods and owners is Ruin at the |
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MANUFACTURED BY

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Jobbers of cConfectionery and Cigars,
Cheese and Nuts,

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WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

FRUITS ao PRODUGK

And General Commission Merchants.
EAST SAGINAW, MICH.

 

We buy and sell all kinds of fruit and
produce and solicit correspondence with
both buyers and sellers.

 

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DETROIT, MICH.

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Issued by cities, counties, towns and school dis-
tricts of Michigan. Officers of these municipali-
ties about to issue bonds will find it to their
advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds
and blanks for proceedings supplied without
charge. All communications and inquiries will
have prompt attention.
January, 1890. Ss. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer.

BANK,

 

FIT FOR

A Gentleman

TABLE:

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of Thurber, Whyland
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Begin the New Year Right!

By using the “Complete Business Register,”
the best arranged book for keeping a record of
Daily, Weekly and Monthly Sales, Expenditures,
etc. Call at ‘“The Tradesman” office and inspect
the books.

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= Districts of Wisconsin and Mich-
izan is opened by
through revte to the st.
SPECIAL ADVANTAGES
to PARTIES WHO Erect
SAW-MILLS and FAC.
TGRIES, Mill machinery
transported FREE. Choice
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mation address LAN? DEPARTMENT Soo”
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TIME TABLES.

 

  
 

 

 

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

Arrive. Leave.
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:10am
Traverse City Express...........++ 9:20am 11:30am
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 3:15pm 4:10pm
From Cincinnatl..........26 sescess 8:50 pm
Cadinas (Mixoed)....... 2... 6:30 pm

Through coaches for Saginaw on 7:10am and 4:10 p

m train.

GOING SOUTH.
Cincinnati Express............+++. 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express........0.++.++ 11:45am 12:50 pm
Cincinnati Express.............-+. 5:30 pm 6:00 pm
From Mackinaw & Traverse City..10:40 p m
From Cadillac. .......ccscccccccsecess 9:55 am

Train leaving for Cincinnati at6p. 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—7:15a. 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.
F008 BR. oi vccecrcccccccceecsgesdecdnguemesanes 10:15am
FETS IG icc Socccccccccccncccccbeansessassmcsccce 3:45pm
5:40 a 8:45 pm

240 PM... -cccescvcveccscsvecsctcccccccenceses
Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.
Through tjckets and full information can be had by
calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at depot, or
Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
CO. L. Lock woop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING WEST.

 

   

 

HARDWOOD LUMBER. =e fee
The furniture factdries here pay as follows for : cihouiianes
dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls) 7:00 a m
t 7:30am
outs sae GOING EAST.
Basswood, log-run ead 13 00@15 00 | }through Mail. ....... gan ene
Birch, log-run.........---+--++e--e eee 15 00@16 00 | tEvening Express.... --. 3:35pm 3:45pm
Bireh, Nos. 1 and 2.........--+-+---++- @22 00 | *Night Express...........+.-+-2-+- 10:30 p m 10:55 pm
Black Ash, log-run..........-..--+---- 14 06@16 00| +tDaily, Sundays excepted. *Daily.
Qherey lowrin. 2 beh es 25 00@40 00 Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making
Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2................-- o her a Sn a
Cherry, Cull.........------e eee eee cere @12 00| Grand Rapids express has parlor car Detroit to
Maple, log-run ......-.-----++e+ sees eeee 12 00@13 00| Grand Rapids. Night express has Wagner sleeping
Maple, soft, log-run.........--.---+-++- 11 00@13 00 | car to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a. m.
Maple, Nos. 1 and2......-..-.----++++- @W 00 Through railroad tickets and ocean steamship
Maple, clear, fiooring.........--.----. @25 00 | tickets and sleeping | oe berths secured at
Maple, white, selected...............- G25 00 | Dr & H-&M-R’y olllecs, SS Momrco Se, ope eer Agena.
Red Oak: lop Tun 3.20 2s 2220 it tt 20 00@21 00| Jxo. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit. ’ :
< = Nos. 1 ee ue Tes eo 00@28 -
ed Oak, 4 sawed, 6 inch and up .38 00@40
Red Oak, 4.sawed, regular............30 00@32 00 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern.
Red Oak No. 1, step plank. Se eek @25 00 For Toledo and all points South and East, take
Walnut, log run...........- @55 00 | the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail+
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........-..--+8- @75 00 | way from Owosso J unction. Sure connections
Walnuts, cull... -<3-.- eons @25 00 | at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and
Grey Elm, PPT ks ek eee a 2s 12 00@13 05 | connections at Toledo with evening trains for
White Aso, log-run.............+-++++- 14 00@16 00 | Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin-
Whitewood, log-run.............--.+-- 20 00@22 00 | nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi-
White Oak, log-run............--++-++- 17 00@18 00 | nent points on connecting lines.
White Oak, 4% sawed, Nos. 1 and2....42 00@43 00 A, J. PAISLEY, Gen’! Pass. Agent

 

oA EW COUNTRY?

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention.
CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF WILD GAME SOLICITED.

F. J. DETTENTHALER,

JOBBER OF

Uysters

——AND-———

Salt Fish.

See Quotations in Another Column.

 

SOLE

Lemon & Peters,

WHOLESALE

GROCERS.

AGENTS FOR

Lautz Bros. & Co,’s Soaps,
Niagara Starch,

Amboy Cheese,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

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EDWIN FALLAS;

JOBBER OF

Butter, Kegs, Fairfield Cheese,

Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full Blast.
Dairy Butter.

Foreign Fruits, Mince Meat, Nats, Itc.

Special Bargain in Choice
Let your orders come.

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

 

Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce bo,

JOBBER OF

FPOREIGN

Oranges, Lemons and Bananas a Specialty.
3 NORTH IONIA S8T., GRAND RAPIDS.

FRUITS.

 

iF ruits, Seeds,
| 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

MOSELEY BROS,

——_WHOLESALE——

Oysters; Produce.

St, - - GRAND RAPIDS.

 

Alfred

J. Brown,

WHOLESALE

ForeiguFruits, Nuts, Dates, Figs,

16 and 18 North Division Street, Grand Rapids.

 

Good-By

great that you wil
another pass book i

The Tradesman Coupon is

$ 2 Coupons, per hundred..........
$5 eee cco acai
$10 . oP ale oa selma s
$20 . See aia

 

E. A. STOWE & BRO,,

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the

Pass Book

 

: Adopt the

Tradesman Gredit Govpon Book,

And you will find the saving of time to be so

1 never permit the use of
n your establishment.

 

the cheapest and most modern in

the’market, being sold as follows:

$2.50 | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS:

3.00} Orders for 200 or over.....-- 5 per eent.
4.00 oF OO asieeiee 10 _
5.00 ie < 100 seuss cee °

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

Grand Rapids.

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GROCERIES.

Three Dull Articles.

*‘By all means, ask the retail trade not
to send us any more butter, eggs or dried
apples,’’ said a grocery jobber, the other
day. ‘‘The market is completely glut-
ted with these articles and no sales which
we can make are likely to be satisfactory
to the consignor. Warn the trade on
this point, and you will be doing
them a service they will appreciate.”

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The Condition of Trade.
From the New York Shipping List.

General trade has been of~ moderate
proportions during the past three days,
the improved demand for merchandise
in several branches noted early in the
week having slackened, and the specula-
tive markets having refiected rather a
tame feeling, so far as the expansion of
business is concerned. The demand for
pig iron has been rather disappointing,
the orders booked since the ist inst.
having been much smaller than ex-
pected, but this is due to the fact that con-
sumers provided for their requirements
pretty freely during the month of De-
eember and still have a good deal of ma-
terial due on old contracts at cheaper
prices than are now current. There are
no indications, however, of any falling
off in consumption, and the present luil

 

 

ereates no uneasiness respecting the
future. The mills and foundries have a
large amount of work ahead, and have

only taken a natural precaution in coy-
ering their requirements of raw material
before an advance in price was generally
established. A moderate business has
been reported in metals, but, with the
exception of copper, which is strong and
advancing, prices are easier. Dry goods
have been quiet, and, with the excep-
tion of sugar, staple groceries have been
in moderate request. The improved de-
mand for raw and refined sugar has
stiffened prices, but tea easier, the
large offering disposed of at auction hay-
ing caused lower prices, and coffee is
barely steady, with trade only of a hand-
to-mouth character.

The cold snap has revived the hopes of
the coal trade, but a day or two of low
temperature is not very encouraging in
the light of pastexperience. The money
market has been steady throughout the
week, with the tendency easier, and loan-
able funds have been available at com-
paratively low rates, but this fact has
had no influence in stimulating specula-
tion in either railroad stocks or pro-
duce, and in both instances the trading
has been of a professional character and
of narrow proportions, the only excep-
tion being raw cotton, which has been
active and advancing, on account of the
larger requirements of foreign consum-
ers and a falling off in plantation ship-
ments. The mild weather, which has
had a depressing influence upon some
branches of trade, has benefitted railroad
traffic, as shown by the enormous ton-
nage of freight that has been passing
over the lines and the increased earnings
exhibited from week to week. The
shipments last week out of Chicago by
the trunk tines amounted to over 113,000
tons, which is said to be the largest on
record. he export movement of pro-
duce continues active, and shippers are
experiencing some difficulty in securing
sufficient reom upon outgoing steamers.
The easier rates for money has stiffened
sterling exchange, and bar silver
again higher, which influences the cost
of all produce imported from the East
Indies.

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—_———~» +? 2
Meeting of Trustees of the M.C.T. A.
DETROIT, Jan. 10, 1890.
Editor Michigan Tradesman:

At the regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the M. C. T :
held January 4, Thos. McLeod was
elected chairman for the ensuing year,
S. B. Sinclair was elected a member of
the Board to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of M. J. Matthews, who
had been unanimously elected Secretary-
Treasurer.

Proofs of death of L. S. Scott, of Battle
Creek, were presented and approved, and
a warrant was ordered drawn in favor of
his beneficiaries for the sum of $2,500.
Assessment No. 1 for 1890 was ordered
to be dated January 20 and close Feb-
ruary 19.

The following gentlemen were elected
members of the Association: M. B. Mills,
Michael Howarn, Detroit; Adolphus B.
Cole, Grand Rapids.

By the unanimous vote of the Board of
Trustees, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
was chosen official paper for the Associa-
tion.

The importance of haviuga more de-
sirable location and room for the office
of the Association was discussed, and
J. i. Lowry, J. ©. Pontius and Geo. L.
Sampson were appointed a commitlee to
procure a suitable office , and have since
that date secured very pleasant quarters
at 34 Congress street, West, under the
Wayne County Savings Bank.

President McCurdy announced the fol-
lowing committees :

Finance—Geo. W. Edson, with Edson,
Moore & Co.; E. E. Davis, with Stanton,
Sampson & Co.; H. H. Hodgson, of
Hodgson & Howard, Detroit.

Railroads—Edwin Mortlock, Detroit.

M. J. MATTHEWS,
Secretary-Treasurer.

(et et
She Lost Herself.

A stout and aggressive woman elbowed
her way up to the silver counter at one
of the big stores the other day, and said
pompously to the clerk, who was waiting
at the time on some one else:

““How much are your tooth-picks ?’

‘“‘We don’t keep them at this counter,” |
said the girl.

The portly and haughty woman!
crushed the girl, or tried to, with a look
of scorn, and repeated :

“T asked you how much those tooth-

 

 

picks are!”’

The girl was evidently mystified, and |
replied again :

**We don’t keep them here, madam.’’

‘You don’t keep them? Then, what!
are those!’ exclaimed the woman, with!
a haughty gesture toward a little velvet-
lined box containing a dozen sharp-
pointed implements four or five inches
long.

“Those are nut-picks, madam,” said |
the girl, in a cruelly distinct voice. |

The haughty woman lost herself in the |
crowd with neatness and dispatch. |

THE EXPERT ACCOUNTANT.

Some Doings of the Men Who Work
at Figures.
From the New York Sun.

The expert accountant is one of the
necessities of modern civilization. He
knows all the intricacies of figures and
account books. Heis indispensable to
the great corporations. He can take
great masses of books and evolve a bal-
ance sheet. He compiles reports; he ad-
justs averages for the insurance com-
panies. He is called in to settle the bus-
iness arrangements of railroads and
stock companies, and he gets order out
of chaotic masses of figures. He knows
how to make annual reports look attract-
ive, and not unfrequently makes ugly
accounts look straight.

One of the most important functions
of the expert accountant is to show up
defaulters. It often happens that busi-
ness men find their affairs getting en-
tangled. They know they have been
making money, but, somehow, they are
running behind. They have relied upon
some trusted book-keeper. So far as
they can see, the books are all right, but
the results are unsatisfactory. They do
not like to suspect the trusted servant,
but they want to be satisfied. The ex-
pert accountant is called in with great
secrecy, and ordered to go over the books
at night. Then the exposure comes; and
crooked accounts are exposed; the forced
balance is shown up; the amount of the
defaleation is set down in plain figures.

Itissurprising how many concerns there
are doing large business who are abso-
lutely dependent upon their book-keep-
ers, and are utterly helpless to find out
exactly where the trouble is, although
they may be convinced that something is
wrong. The expert accountant may
strike it at the first glance. He may
delve for weeks before he reaches the so-
lution. He learns lots of secrets, but he
is dumb as an oyster, and keeps his dis-
coveries only for the ear of the employer.
if he is kind-hearted he advises the de-
faulter to pay up before the exposure
comes. There are a number of expert
accountants in New York who make a
business of anraveling tough accounts.
Their charges are high, but they are in
great demand. It is saia to be almost an
invariable rule that when an expert ac-
cowntant is called in to go over crooked
account books the culprit will own up
and help in getting a correct statement.

2-2 <—_____-
Inconsistency of the Patrons of In-
dustry.

From the Saginaw Courier-Herald.

A Saginaw farmer who, apparently,
does not belong to the organization
known as the Patrons of Industry, in
speaking of that body and its rapid
growth, said: ‘‘In the first place, the
farmers have organized for the purpose
of mutual protection. They think by
acting in one body to be able to combat
with trusts and monopolies. Now, in
my estimation, this is all right, but is it
what they are doing? No. They are
trying to form one by all buying of one
grocer in each town. Now, I know that
there is no monopoly in the retail grocery
trade, and I will venture to say that
there is less profit and more work for the
capital invested than in any other bus-
iness in this State, and there is no man
who stands between the poor man and
want as firmly as the corner grocer does.
When we are out of money, our families
are sick or misfortune of any kind over-
takes us, who is ourfriend? The corner
grocer. And, in regard to trusts, I will
ask the Saginaw patrons whose crackers
they buy. Now, there is a cracker trust,
and when this trust was formed, some
three months ago, all cracker factories
were invited in. The object was to raise
the price of crackers one-half cent per
pound. Pomeroy, Kruce & Kern, of
East Saginaw, said that they were satis-
fied with the prices as they were then,
and would not go into the trust. But the
trust was formed and the price raised,
and the firm to which I refer kept selling
at the old prices to the detriment of the
trust; so the trust authorized the Detroit
factories to cut the price in the Saginaw
valley, which they did, making a price
one cent per pound cheaper than Pom-
eroy, Kruce & Kern, hoping by this
means to force them either into the trust
or into bankruptcy, and you are helping
the trust to do it by buying Detroit
crackers of your patron grocer in Sag-
inaw. Now, what matches do you use?
Up to within the past year there were
two competing match factories in this
State—the Diamond Match Co. and one
at Grand Haven, and the common
matches cost the retailer $1.10 per case.
The Diamond factory made the Grand
Haven factory an offer of fifty cents per
ease on all they would make to shut
down, which was accepted, and then the
Diamond factory raised the price fifty
cents per case, and inside of two months
after they raised them to $2 per case, the
price they are now; but there is one fac-
tory still out of the combination, and
that is the Portland Star Match. Nine
out of ten of you will use the Diamond
match when the Portland is a better and
cheaper match. What rolled oats do you
use? The Excelsior Milling Co.’s, of
Marlette, or do you use trust oat meal ?
Do you use trust sugar? Do you use
trust oil? Do you use trust syrup?
Or did you use trust at the corner gro-
cery and now want to repudiate ?’’

fn se
New Way to Pay Old Debts.
From the Cincinnati Enqnirer.

‘“‘We want some money.”’

*‘T ain’t got any.’’

‘You'll have to raise it in twenty-four
hours.’’

The speakers were a carpet and fur-
niture dealer and a customer of the es-
tablishment. The scene was in a weekly
payment store on West Sixth street in
this city. The time, Saturday, as the
firm was about to close up for the night.
The customer, whose name the firm
would not divulge, had bought a bill of
carpets and furniture from it on the in-
stallment plan, paying but one install-

ment on the purchase, and, though re-
| repeatedly dunned, the direlict customer

would only put the firm off again and
again.

Saturday the dealer managed to in-'

veigle the customer into the store to ap-

' ply the pressure to him once more.

“I tell you I ain’t got a cent,’’ re-
| peated the customer in a despairing tone.

“Well, if that’s the case, ll have to
take back the goods.’’

“You will, eh? Well, that’ll put my

 

family out o’ doors, and I ain’t got any-
thing to live for anyway.”’

CO Before the dealer was aware, the man
pulled a razor from his pocket and
opened it. At first he supposed that he
was about to make a murderous assault
upon him and sprang back in affright.
But the man turned the edge of the razor
to his own throat, and his action showed
that he meant business.

‘“‘For God’s sake, man, stop!’ shouted
the dealer; ‘‘stop, and you can owe me
the bill for life.”’

Just as coolly as before, the man put
the razor back into his pocket and left
the store.

The dealer says he will not try to col-
lect the bill or attempt to take back his
goods.

>?
The Vocation of the Middle or Com-
mission Man.

As far back as can be recollected since
books were first printed, and even before
that time, you will find it mentioned in
the Bible, in St. John, second chapter,
verses thirteen to sixteen, and again in
Mark, eleventh chapter, verses fifteen to
seventeen, that markets or exchanges
existed for the convenience of those
whose wants required them to purchase,
and to meet the necessity of those who
desired to sell or interchange. I should
judge, however, from the manner in
which it is spoken of there that some
abuses had erept into the management of
the temple greatly to the discredit of the
trade or profession. It would appear
then. in a calling so ancient, so continu-
ous and everlasting, that there must be
some good reason for its existence or it
would not have been prolonged until the
present day. The record of this busi-
ness, therefore, being so well known, so
old and so venerable, it ought, appar-
ently, to be greatly respected and hon-
ered by everyone, but this feature of it
does not appear to have been always en-
tertained by some.

The present occasion, however, will
only allow the consideration and expla-
nation of the single item of butter, in
which we are all most directly interested.
So, allow me to call your attention to the
fact that it is within the memory of
every person here who has reached the
age of maturity that the now universal
and popular creamery was once compar-
atively unknown and unheard of, also
to the giant strides which it has made
and to the obstacles which it daily
overcoming. which astound every one—
except, perhaps, a Western man. While
so much has been accomplished, there is
considerable yet to be done before the
goal you seek is reached. The goal is
not simply perfection, but uniformity in
perfection. A known quality or stand-
ard uniformity, regularity and reliabil-
ity must be secured. To attain these
qualifications in your manner of making,
packing and shipping your butter, it has
been my observation that you need bet-
ter organization, closer brotherhood or
more intimate and constant relations be-
tween farmers and producers to procure
that boon, uniformity and perfection.

I have heard it said that some states
contemplate establishing schools and
hiring teachers and making laws, per-
haps, requiring a standard in weight for
a package of butter, and aproper meas-
urement or shape would also be included.
If you would bring the much desired
market to your door and regulate the
prices yourself, you must first give such
confidence and assurance in what you
offer to sell this distant buyer that he
knows positively what he is going to get
and that he will not be asked to pay for
something he may not want—in short, he
gets the standard in which the law pro-
tects him in all the details. This may
seem impracticable and difficult to attain
in the immediate future, but therein,
however, lies the commission man’s
living, welfareand success. The greater
the variety of the qualities of butter in
regard to shape of packages and part fill-
ing, like olden times, with numerous
other matters, the more work is entailed
in the handling and selling and hunting
for customers; but the increased expense
does not enhance the value of the goods,
but rather reduces it so that the producer
doubly pays for this lack of better meth-
ods. I think I have made it clear that
the producers and the commission men,
as at present constituted, are a necessity
to each other and, being friends by
necessity, they should enjoy each other’s
confidence and respect.

Before closing, I desire to remark that
there has lately appeared in public a
new invention called ‘‘The Extractor,”’
which, if successful, as it s¢ems to be,
may prove the happy goal for which we
have been seeking. Uniformity in per-
fection might, perhaps, be attained by
the assistance of this new machine, but
this still remains untried and in doubt,
as it is rumored that this revolutionary
idea did not meet the approval of the old
European style of making butter; but as
—with Americans, at any rate —most
things are possible, I have much faith
that the Western creamery man will
make a success of it eventually.

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*Paper read by Jas. Anderson, of New York, before the
Minnesota State Dairymen’s Association.
————q@r-0o_—

William Indulges in Repartee.

“Be calm, William, be calm.”’

‘JT assure you,I should like to be,
ma’am,’’ said the angry butler, ‘but I
?ave observed, ma’am, as ’ow precious
few Bills are ever collected in this

?ouse.”’
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—__ —__—@-
VISITING BUYERS.

R Gannon, White Cloud Geo A Sage, Rockford
I F Sleesman, Alpine John Gunstra, Lamont
P Long & Co. ete, Ind . B Se wee a Gooding
F E Piper, Charlot te WS Clark & Co., Holton
Geo Lentz, Croton Watrous&Bassford, W Troy
H Van Noord, Jamestown §T McLellan, Denison
OB Granger, Plainwell
A & E Bergy, Caledonia
Carrington & North, Trent
J C Scott, Lowell
Pickett, Bros., Wayland

NW Wiley, White Cloud
Pp H Hoonan, Reed City
Amberg & Murphy,

Battle Creek

Eli Runnels, Corning

J Reddering, Drenthe
DenHerder & Tanis,
Vriesland

J Raymond, Berlin

L Cook, Bauer

Maston & Hammond,
Grandville

T Armock, Wright

L Maier, Fisher Station

W K Pringle, Muir

 

Home Made Mince Meat. ek
With cold weather comes a greatly in-

ereased demand for Mrs. Withey’s
Home Made Mince Meat. Remember
that this is the finest ever offered to the
trade. No pains or expense are spared
to make it good. Itis made of the best
materials and as neatly as can be done in
your own home. It is now put up in ash
pails and cans, and a great perservative
is used, which is cut with alcohol, thus
adding to the flavor as well as its keep-
ing qualities.. I quote: 20 and40 pound
pails, 64g cents; 2 pound cans (i}¢ net)
$1.50 per doz.; 5 pound cans (44% ney)
$3.75 per doz.

Let your orders come.

EDWIN FALLAS.
<<
Not All Bad.

Customer—You sold me, two weeks
ago, one of your combination ten-dollar
outfits.

Proprietor —Well—er—we can’t change
anything we’ve sold.

Customer—Oh, that’s all right! There
isn’t enough left of the outfit to return.
But the linen collar was really good, and
I thought I’d stop in and see if it wasn’t
a mistake.

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Choice Dairy Butter.

I now have a large quantity of choice
dairy jar butter which I offer at the low
price of 16 cents per pound. This but-
ter is not rank or strong, but nice table
butter. Send trial order. If not satis-
factory, it can be returned at my ex-
pense. Cansend you one or two gallon
jars, or larger, if preferred.

EDWIN FALLAS.

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Apples—Dealers hold winter fruit at $2.25@
$2.75 per bbi.,

Beans—Dealers ay $1.25 for — and
$1.50 for picked, pe ding at $1.75 per

Beets—40e per. b

Butter—The ated is dull and stocks are
accumulating, prices being no better than they
were during the fall.

ne Flour—#4 per bbl. for New York

ock,
s tabbages—85@86 pe
meted eek ‘ar full cream commands
10%@i1%
Gider—9@10¢ p
oamerane: Pork ee $1.25; produce barrels
25e.

Cranberries —Cape Cod readily command $11
@$12 per bbl. Bell and Bugle are in good de
mand at $12 per bbl. Bell and Cherry are
held at $11 per bbl.

Dried Apples oo are held at &@

8c and sundried at 5@5%

Eggs—The market is ara,
about 15¢e and selling at 18c.

Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, $4.35 per bu.;
medium, $3.75. Timothy, $1.50 per bu

Honey—Quiet and slow sale. Clean comb com-
mands 15e per Ib.

Onions—Dealers pay 5(@55ce for clean stock,
holding at 75@s80c.

Pop Corn—4c per Ib.

Pork—Buyers pay 4c, shipping out at 4i<c.

Potatoes—There is a fair shipping demand
buyers paying 35@36c here and attthe principal
buying points ee the State.

Squash—Hubbard, 2c per Ib.

Sweet Potatoes —Jerseys and Muscatine stock
are out of market at present. Jlinois stock
commands $4.50 per bbl.

Turnips—3s0c per bu.

jobbers paying

 

PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.

  

MPRA OW oa ee ee ee es oe 10 00
BGrE Cts 225 10 60
Extra Clear pie, short cub... 2c. ee. 12 00
xtra clear, Reavy co ce ee 12 00
Coens 200 DRC ci i 11 50
mosten Clear, shore CUt. =... 605 cs os 12 00
ene Deen SOF CUR ee 12 00
Standard clear, short ent; best... -..-- 2... 12 00
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average ee, cee. ts 9
16 PS cs ee 934
" _ 12 6 14306 2
™ fe ce mses se
bs Cal DOne Ose SiS elt ee 8%
Breakfast Bacon, boneless: --6 ri... 8. 8%
Dred beet. ham prices. o. soo

  

  

 

     

 

 
 

  
 

 

bong Clears: heavy. ..2:2 22.025 e .. 6%
Briskets, inedinm SU 6%
. Pe ee ee ee 6%
. LARD—Kettle Rendered.
WIPRCCR Soo. So oo oes Sosa ecg toe wiae ay 4
Sy oe ees eo ea 7%
oeip, Ding::..- Bae dee io ue og e ea ne us 7%
LaRD—Refined.
IOreeCS oe oe ek eee le 5%
BO sid: oO IDy PROS oe es ec ec eo a j
Si Pa 20 8 CONC so ee 6%
Dip. Paria. (240 @ CARE es ce es. 654
$0 1D. Pats, 6 is Cane ce ec 6%
20 1b. Pails, 4 in a case. : 7. OE
BE UD CRS ee oe a ea es 6
BEEF IN BARRELS.
ixtra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs. .....-........ 7 60
sixteen Mess, Chiengo packing. ..2.. 0.50.25... < .
Boneless: rump bitte) fos & 7
sAusAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
POLE SAUSASE 2 ee ol ie ee ee 6
EAR ORR ee aes a 12
POHIGTIO SOUSASG ee eo 9
Hranktore Sausgee: 30 se
BiOGG SAUKEPE, ee i ee 5%
BOMeng, SUING. 250 a es 5%
Borden, Giese 5%
Peaa Cece. 8 5%
PIGs’ FEET.
in Beart Darreis cg ee ee ec 3 25
7 guareer UerTelt ee ee s 2 00
TRIPE.
a BRIE DAMPEIS. Coe oe in ees 3 00
RM QUATTOL PAFLGIS. = ot coe a el 2 00
Pee ec eeae oe cece ace %
FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, GRCCRRR ee ee 44@ 6%
hind quarters Cee Sia cote e nee 5%@ 64
SO PORG ee os 34@ 4
ie 1Gtns. 8 @9
: yee. G7
rl LOUEUCS Coe eos @10
Fe eee 44D 4%
Pork POMIS. 50 oe ace @ 6%
fC | FROUIGCEE. eo ce aie @ 4,
Boiens 20-2 ee @5
Sausace, blood or head...-..... 2s... @5
. NIVOr. 20 oS eo ee @5
. MranmetOre. 2 3000. @8
Mution ..-.... 6 fee: . 6%4@ 7
OYSTERS and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.
NWaCOhe oc ee @ 9%
o BMORGG 6005-0 Joi 5 0. os @8
PEPOMG oe ie cs @9
Figlibut ... - ee @20
MEROGICR: ooo e a ese ee oak ee @7
CARCOCR soo ee ee eee a @6
oYsTERS—Cans,
Warbaven Counts. .3. 000000606...
LOCGS oe ee oe de ates ee 22 @27
od DOS oe ee
PIMCHOIR. occa eel eee @i18
Standards 2.500.052... @16
EG CIRC oe oe ea icine @i4
oystEeRs—Bulk.
RIGRIUO GEOR ps ae as os @$1 15
SOIGCHE 20s ae eo oe Coa @ 150
Pipes ee eee one @1 50
NCEE os eee ee per ecce @1 50
Semone.) 2 oe ees ee @1 50
PIER GEARISN 20 e ese @ %
Shell oysters, per MOO eee ee 1 00@1 50
«- clams, oe aa @ &
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK.
Standard, 25 lb. boxes eee ue eee sd. 9
Twist, ie eee ee ee eS
Cut Loaf, 25 Be ee ee ees Siiewias wee se 10%
MIXED.
Royal, 25 Ib. Les ee eer §
SOG TR Ola os ee 8%
Extra, 25 Dib. ee oe ecsae ccawtce cee: 10
SOO TO: PSs. es co a ee 91%
Wrench Cream. 26 1D. pails... 11%
FaNncy—In 5 Ib. boxes.
TGRAONE PUTO E oo oes cst een ideaecneae es 12
SOUEE ROTI 13
Peppermint Drops... io. es ot a ore
Chocolate Drops......... sce
EM: Chocolate Drope:..-220. o02 6 cs, coke
Cali POPS ee 10
WAGOIIOS STORRS. oo oa os 18
A. 2D. Siecoree Brepe. cos... 2 PeOee ce ecg sane 14
Lozenges, Pe oe ce cee cece. 14
PEVHCOG So ge 15
SCE 14
MiOGOCS: oe ee 15
CrCne DSPs. o.oo. oe ee ec es 13
MGIBSSON DSP 2 boo. 13
TRI ce oa —
Hand Made Creanin. 3 ooo. oo. cot. ci 18
Pipi (PORIAR 2 ee ce ee 16
Decorated Creams. 2220
Bane MOCr cas 2 a0
Burnt Almonge, oc Se a ee 22
Wintererecn Berries 22. 14
FaNncy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, = PRR 12
Me 11
ce printed, = coy nels clea 12%
- We coisa ao: 11%
Chocolate Drops, in eae Peasy oSulSuee Walla goles
Gum Drops, Oi PRE eco ee nos rv
MIN oo eet. eet os seas 54
Moss Drops, = PARI ee eee 10
PNR ooo 9%
Sour Drops, in Pe 12
Imperials, 2 — Sede eos ees 11
DRI coe eae snes 10%
FRUITS.
Oranges, gore choice es Cues cee @3 (0
eg en cacs @3 25
ae . a Gees ueky cass 3 50@3 75
ee i golden russets....... 2 75@3 00
Lemons, Messina, ‘choice, ec. -3 00@3 25
Bess lo. @A 2%
es i fancy, BO eas @4 00
ee Oe a 4 50@4 75
. Malagas, choice, ripe. ........ @
Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers pisses 14 @15
engles 2 “eco. at _—
At MIOROC. oA ease OS eaten cate
Dates, frails, WO Se oes oe a ce g
\y% frails, BOM oc. occ ews cca @
: Fard, fel, bok 5) @10
BS OE ee cae coc see cas @ 8
~ Persian bbb. DOR. 2.5.23. ces 5 6 @ 6%
NUTS.
Almonds, eee pertinent @17
PVBCR cos ecg ou tie aw oh @15
- California See eee tases sso @15
PRP oe ees oa ss oe ek seen sca ee @12
Walnuts, Grononle. 20000552) bcc @16
= ChIEOIIIA 62 gees ones @i4
Pecans, Texas BOP. ooo ates sis Que
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H. P. PIIOH AC oct ee dey deer yas @ 8%
= he ested ....5. eaeebctes @10
Fancy, a. P., PS ose @ 8%
cs eased Piceieiens ee arias @10
Choice, H. P., G.. peas auto oa @™%
an a Doasiedcc @9

 

Wholesale Price Current.
The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash bwyers who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

 

 

  

Arctic, YA Ht cans, 6 doz... 45
oe
: ib a 3 ner oa eae
. Tp. Mo Dake ae ae
“ “cc 1 oe a “2 00
Absolute, ig a cans, 1008..11 75
4% Ib 50s..10 00
« fib. 3 .-18 75
Telfer’s, g Ib. cans, doz.. 45
oe A Ib. “ “ ss 85
m1 rip. © oe
Acme, 4 1b. cans,3doz.... 7%
ey cab Se Be ed oe
e Bo ee Seo a Oe
- DHS es ceiie phe ee 20
Red Star, 4 > cans, 45
%1 85
2 1 ib a 1 50
AXLE GREASE.
reser es sea $2 60
PurOre. . 32.4 c a £6
DOR oo. scat 1 60
BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. in case a aise 80
Rt eee 5
American. 2doz. in case... 770
BLUING Gross
Arctic Liq, BO ccc cess 3 40
= Pees a 7 00
es de € pe... 10 00
. _ 8-oz paper bot 7 20
re Pepper Box No. 2 3 00
oad af of “ 4 4 00
ae ae oe sc 5 8 00
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl ca snuas Se 1 75
fe eo tee: 2 00
No. 2 Carnet. co oe 2 2%
No. es ae alee cae ai 2 50
Parlor Germ... 20. ck. SIS
Common Whisk. .......:. 2. 90
Fancy Pe goer deat uly 1 O
Ms ee & 2
Warehouse.. fous See
BUCKWHEAT.
Kings 100-1R Cases . 2... 20s: 4 50
80 Th. Cases i. ss 2. 3 85
BUTTERINE
Dairy, solid packed... ... 12%
POMS: 13
Creamery, solid RIES: . 18%
rolls 14
CANDLES
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes Pelco 10%
Star, I%
Paraffine 12
Wireline oe, 25
CANNED Goops—Fish.
Clams, 1 Ib, Little Neck..... 1 20
Clam Chowder, 3 ib. :. 2... 2 10
Cove Oy sters, 1 Ib. stand.. a
2 1b. Ae
Lobsters, 1 ae picnic cys os 1%

 
 

. 1 ib. Star..
- S ip: Slr. ic.
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 85
Lp. stand 1
= ee ae 2
3 lb. in Mustard ...2 85
a 8 lb. soused 2

Salmon, 11lb. Columbia.. ..2 00
1ib. Almsks........ 1 90
Sardines, domestic 568..." . 5
ee @ 9

. Mustard 4s aa. @9

e imported 34s...1044@16

= spiced, tea)... .. 10

Trout, S ib. brook. ..... .-

CANNED GooDs—FTruits.
Apples, gallons, stand, .....2 25
Blackberries, stand......... 90
Cherries,red standard 1 10@1 20

 
 
  

pitted Seema. 1 40
Pemegns oo. ccs 1.15
Egg Plums, stand..... 1 15@l1 35
GOOse@DErITICN ...,:-.02....2-5 1 00
CTRDCS ee cs ee ee
Green Gages.......... 1 15@1 35
Peaches, all yellow, stand..1 70

o seconds ......1 10@1 45
re eo 1m
Petre ol 1%
Pineapples ............ 1 10@1 50
CWInGOR 1 00
Htaspberries, extra.......... 1 iw
e red
Strawberries .....

Whortleperrics 0-0...
CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay......

Beans, Lima, stand......... 85
« Green Limas.... @1 2
Se eEBER oo os. @ #9
“ Stringless, Hrie....... 90
‘* Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40

Corn, Archer’s Trophy...... 1 00
a Morn’g Glory.1 00

sé “e

Early Golden.1 v0

Peas. PreHeh 2 so soc. 1 68
‘extra marrofat. . @1 2%

© “SORRCG eos oo. eo. 80
(sone. SUR ooo. 1 40
. ‘*  Sittea).... 1 65@1 85
‘* French, extra fine... .150
Mushrooms, extra fine...... 215

Pumpkin, 3 1b. Golden. .85@1 00
Succotesh, standard....9@1 40
SAGRSE es 1 10
Tomatoes, Red Coat.. 95@1 00

Good Enough%5@1 00
c Ben Har ... 95@1 00
af stand br.... 95@1 00
CHEESE.
Michigan Full Cream 11¥ 2@12
Sap SAGO... .00...2 16 @16%

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.

German Sweet... .......... 23
Premium. . ©. ..5°.... 0. <2. 35
MOCO ee ae. es 38
Breaktest Cecos.....-...- 48
PGMOR ce ee 37
CHEWING GUM.
Rubber, pes lumps fo aga sete =
Sorice 2. 30
CHICORY.
bop) Oe eRe hs A 6
eG ee. Th
coFFEE—Green.
Rio, fo. 2a 9
— Sos 184%4@20
‘* prime........-.-.. @21
* fauey washed...19 @22
* eoidens: 7...) 20 @23
Santas. ooo else eso. 17 @22
maaiees & Guatruale @23
Peaberry 2... 1... @23
Java, interior. ..:....- 0 @25
‘«  Mandheling.. - -26 po
Mocha, genuine....... 25

To ascertain cost of fomeed
coffee, add %c. per 1b. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age.

cCOFFEES—Package.

100 Ibs

Tage: 2444

4 CobinCIe... 3, .2 2.3 24%

MeLaughlin’s XXXX....24%4
Pea ce  . e- 24
Thompson’ 8 oS Bee....26
FISEE. oi oe =a 24

Good Morning.............. 24%

COFFEE EXTRACT.

Valley City....-..:....-.... 85
OC ee le so 1 10
CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 f6....... per doz. 1 25

= SOte..:. 5). - 1 50

a Gott. :.. + . 1%

m0 i632... = 2 00

= 60 €5..:.-.. . 22

Jute GO... - 1 00

es eee as . 115
CONDENSED MILK.

WOGGIG oe ce a 7 50
AUg1O-SwWiss..,--.---- 6 0@ 7 60
CRACKERS.

Kenosha Buiter: .........-. 8
Seymour  o 2..0.,2.4.-. 6
Buen ss cs ca 6
“¢ family.....-...-....--. 6
Be Mineiee ooo acts Le :

   

8
neon 6%
i
City ees — eu ees ted 6
Picnic. eines og oda peace 6
CREAM TARTAR,

Rivictiy. pure. 2s... ee 38
POGPTe oon ee 24
DRIED FRUITS—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried..... 5 @ 5%

c evaporated... ~ @ 8%
Apricots, ; @16
Blackberries ‘‘ extos eae i.
WPCISRINGN So occu. 14
Peaches ee gaye sae a 14
Plums ages cm eoe
Tiaspperrics ss 28

DRIED FRUITS—Citron.
Pt ss
Th POSCS? ks @2

DRIED FRUITs—Currants.
Zante, in barrels...... @ 6
oe in less quantity @6%

 

DRIED FRUITS—Prunes.
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PHREOY 222s 33 cases. Y@5 | Xxx

ORR oi ko se 54@ 6 | Ginger Snaps.......... 8%

Calorie: ote. 9 @10 Sugar Creams, ....:... 8%
DRIED ee ee Frosted Creams....... 9

Valencias.. oe pee @ 8% Graham Crackers..... 8%

OnePass, jc. 94%@i0 Oatmeal Crackers..... 8%

MOERRA Sh oc cock 12 @12% SODA.

London Layers, Ts OR el, Ae ae 54

fornia.. 2 50@2 75 Kegs, — oat Sars sey ce 4%
London Layers, for’ n. @ TEAS.

Muscatels, California.1 85@2 35 JAPAN—Regular.

DRIED FRUITS—Peel. | Goo 14 @i6
DORON o so a 18 Boag 225 18 @22
RTO ey et oc: 1S | CHO a as 24 @20

FARINACEOUS GOODS. PATOICORE Soe ee 32 @38
Farina, 100 1b Megs: . SLs 04 SUN CURED.

Hominy, DOr Es cs, 350

Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.. 60

ies imported..... @ 9% Ges

Pearl Barley... 2c. 24@ 2% Choicest.. @33

Peas, — pace cae @1 10 BASKET. FIRED.

SUNS 2 Qo. Pair ee @20
Sago, German......... mt Conc @3
Tapioca, fi’k or p’rl.. GG) 7 | CROICCRE a. @35
Wheat, cracked....... @ 5 Extra choice, wire leaf @A40
Vermicelli, import.. @10 GUNPOWDER.

. domestic... @60 | Common to fair....... 25 @35-

FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Extra fine to finest....50 @é65
Jennings’ D.C.Lemon Vanills Choicest fancy........ 7 @s
2 02. Panel, doz. 85 1 2 IMPERIAL.

4 oz. 1 4 2 25 Common to fair....... 20 @35

Gonz. a 2 325 Superiortofine...... 40 @50

No.2, | ‘4 00 1 60 YOUNG HYS an

No. 8, * ae 4 00 Common to fair....... 18 @26

mo1G.  ** “ 450 6 00 Superior to fine....... 30 @40

No. 4, Paper; =. + 60 2 50 OOLONG.

4% pt, Round, “* 4 25 750 Common to fair... ...2 @30

ae e « § 50 15 00 Superior to fine....... 30 GN

FISH—SALT. Fine to choicest.. 55 @65

Coa: Whole. 22... 0; 5 @6 ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

** boneless.. ae - xe 8 err eo 25 @30
TAAHIOUS 2 5 oi %@10 CHOIGG oe 8 30 @35
Herring, round, % bbl. Oe ENON G Ses ewe oa aak 55 @65

shbed. os. 275 Yeu Dust oe | 8 @i0
es Holland, bbls.. 12 00 TOBACCOs—Piug
‘* kegs,new @ % S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands,
& Scaled ..:.....20@) 2 Nimrod, 4xt2 and 2x12... ...; 37

Mack. sh’s, No. 2, 4 2 bbl 12 00 Reception, 22-5x12, 16 oz...... 36

u . * a2 ip Kit. 1 SO! Vimeo, 1a6, 446 to Bo 30

bas . i 0 -1 20 Bigs Center, S812 12.62... .; 34
arout, 34 ple. 4 G4 oO Wheel. 5 to Wo 37

nal io PD bate 60 Trinket, ee SO os a ee. 25

Ww hite, No. 1, SC 5% Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands.

22 i. eita.. s.: 100 Something Good..... .38

- re 10 Ey, Rita... - 80 Double Pedro........... .....38

cede y. 26 DDESs.. 0 U2 OG PCACH Pie mols 38

cs ree Oe Su 50 Wedding Cake, ee 38

GUN POWDER. bi DOMBCEO es es 38

Ber es 5 25 TOBAccos—Fine Cut.

Half Ce seek 2 88 D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands,

LAMP WICKS Eiinwathae i.e: 62

BN oo Sweet Cubas-:...2.... 37

se 40 TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.

UGG ec 50 2, per hundred Dieta uee te 2 50

LICORICE. ye aaa, 3 00

Cat ee es AO 30 #10, ce ee 4 00

aE So: Sp Te aaa oe 5 00

CE 18 Subject ‘a the following dis-

_ MOLASSES, counts:

IBC SOMep eel. 21; 200 or over. ........ 5 per cont,

Cuba Baking.. OEE 10 ‘

Porto Rieco.. vel. AQ —_— | 20

New Orleans, good.. Sea ae 25@30 VINEGAR.

cndice:....: I | ee ele 7

= Taney. 6. Ae OO ee 9

One-half barrels, 3c extra $1 for barrel

OATMEAL. YEAST.

Muscatine, Barrels .........5 75 Fermentum, Compressed. .

Half barrels..... 3 00 MISCELLANEOUS,
. Casen 2... 2 15@2 25 | Cocoa Shells, bulk......... 2
ROLLED OATS Jelly, Min. pails... ..... 2. 4

Muscatine, Barrels.... a 70) SGRG6 eee i se, 15

Half bbls.. @3 00 _—_

: Cases......2 15@2 25 PAPER & WOODENWARE

OIL. PAPER.

michivan Test... .-:....... 914 Curtiss & Co. quote as fol-

Mater White... -3...5 ce. 104% lows:

PICKLES. ROPAW coe laces, cubes 160

Medium eed 5 a 95 * Tagnt Wein G0 t, 200

MO 2.6. S40 SUGAR oo ee 180

Small, bbl. Oe eee ee G6 & Hereware.... 2. 24%

te GR cs S86 Bester 2 os
PIPES Day Goede co... 6

Clay, NO. 26 iw duee Manila... o, 8

~ ob a0, fe COune.... . eo , Red Woupress No. i....:..:. 5
Cob, No. 3.. aie .1 2 = No. 2. hou

RICE. TWINES,
Carolina =e eds eee es cee Gia | 48 Cotlen...... ..- ow, 22
Neots ec 5% Cott on, No. ee ees oe oa 20
« No. 3 ee 54@ oo 18
is Oe co Sea Island, assorted....... 40
ADEE en sou feel. Sica@ot, | Noe. Gilenip .... cca. 5s 45.2 16
SALT ING See ee 17

Common Fine per bbl....... SOU Weer... 8

Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks. 27} WOODENWARE,

OS OCR OG. sol, 106) Tubs, Not... 7 00
7 SOO eo Ra nO ae ney 6 00
ee eee ed ewe ee 2 15 S MGS cl 5 00

Tolstein be. Paes 2. 7 | Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 60

Higgins ‘ Ce ea ae % | No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 7%

Warsaw ‘“‘ Fo eg 35 | Clothespins, Ser. Dexes.... 6@

= Mie es a 20 Bowls, 11 inch Sede ca 1 00

SALERATUS, | Te 1 25

Deland! Pures. ..0:. 2... .- 5. ‘ eS 2 00

Church's, Cap Sheaf......... BY . Ce 275

WWIERE A eos a SI ‘* assorted, 17s and 17s 2 50

WayIGR Se ee 1 . “15s, 17s and 19s 2 %5

SEEDS. | Baskets, WAAEEGE. Ue... 40

WIKed OG es 4% | tl PGSIGR Dyce 1 50

Onrimaw ee ea, ag a ‘* with covers 1 90

IE ee a a a willow cer ths, _ 15%

Rempel | . No.2 6 25

EG ek. 8% | rr o “ No.8 7 25

Ce a eo 4% - splint NOt 2.80

Mustard 6 ee 7% | a * No.2 4

SHOE POLISH. | . " * Noo 6 OG

Jetting, 1 doz, in box...... .7%5| GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

SNUFF. | WHEAT.

Scotch, in bladders. .:.....- a New. Old

Maccaboy, in jars.. fe bo ate ae a

French Rappee, = Jars..... 43 Siete Ci cia hmslaie a sae 3 80

All wheat bought on 60 Ib. test,

Detroit jon “Co.3s Brands. i FLOUR
SUCRE 3 320) Straight, in sacks......... 4 20
G@ucen Anne... .......5 5... 3 85! - —o Sei 4 40
German Wamily:. ........-: 'Petent *‘ saeka.. oe
Mottled German...........- 3 00 | as - bearela. Leeda 5 40
ad Geran.....:........... 2 | MEAL,

a) S. Bip Bareain..... ....- ell ncaa ee een eee Be

Wrost, Wiogter...-.-..... ..- 3 7 Granulated 00/0 1-10

Cocoa Castile. ..... a 00 | MILLSTUFFS.

Coeoa Castile, Fancy.. ee 3 36! ie Se - =

7 j EDS snes seccccccscses coves
Allen, B. Wrisley' 6 Brands. P Sereenies ..... 3... 11 00

Happy Family, 7o:.......... 2 95 | Miadlin 3 00

Old Country, 80.00.0200. 0... 3 30| Mi Somes sae sca aes :

ed Me 3 65 | Mixed Feed............... 13 50

Bouncer, 100....... ogee 3.15 | Coarse wee gina 3 13 50

sPices—Whole. , ae

DUN crac nce St >

Cassia, China in mats....... g | Car ei -- &

«Batavia in bund....11 | ga71 jot Caen
te Saigon in Tolls... 40 | a ots wep oe ee wees 6 eek ea ol >
Cloves, Amboyna... .. 0. 386 i re a eriege eae a %
@anzipee.:.:...-.... 20 | No.1 ee 40
Mace Batevie 3... 152.36: re TLE cba a tp @
Nutmegs. fancy a 9 |x saa i id
Se "5 | NO. ee Cai eee owas i 10
i ee : eae ee Be 1 PR Rice one hte teens 1 05
| HAY.

Pepper, Singapore, ae NO. bees cseseeseses seeees 10-00

‘ce gk ee 20 | PGs Meson Cel owed a eles clad ae 9 00
oa oa |

PE emg Ground ‘Tn Bulk. | HIDES, PELTS and FURS.

Cassia, Batavia... ./..\1/.\la0 | | Perkins & Hess pay as fol

“ and Saigon.25 | lows:
e Seiron tog cole 2 | a ee 33

Cloves, Amboyna i000. .) 00) so } Green ...-.% - 34@ 4%

Vancipar 230.00 9 | _ Cured os ree hee 4 g a
: ie | ead
Ginger, — eas aera gy | Heavy steers, extra..
i oe Eg es 5 @ 6
Jamaica ..... ae anes
Mace Batavia. 2). 050.0... 02. 9 | cal kine on s+ 5 @E
Mustard, English........... 92 | Vallskins, green...... 3 Ue 4
and Trie. 2 | Cured.....: 4} 14@ 5
“ Wiese Co ee a7 | Deacon skins DS oodles aie’ 10 @20
Nutmegs, Wo a, 80 36 off for oe
ee eee 10 QB
‘¢  CaweneGy. cl. 95 | Estimated wool, per b 20 @28s
Herbs & Spices, small be 65 A full 10 per cent. off the fol-
large..... 1% lowing prices:
STARCH, deck FURS.
Mystic, 64 pkgs.. fa Mink, na ee —_ 00
barvela ot: 6 shee tain enact a -@ 60
TenCCOOR ... Soe eel. 80@ 90
SUGARS. Shane 6 oo. 80@1 00

Cut beet... 20). @ Ss | Muskrat. 2c... so. 15@ 20

Cee nae eck @ 7% | Wax, rea... 1 25@1 50

Poweered : 2... .- 403. @ 7% A IAS oe ena ip on 2 00@5 00

Standard Granulated. @681| ‘‘ grey.......-...... 40@ 70

vi Pe cs Gat | Badece oo. 20... v... 75@1 00

Confectioners’ A...... @ 6% | Cat, wild.............. 50@ 75

White Extra C......; 5%4@ 6 : 00

Extra ©. <2... Go a cits @5 | Ly 00

Cee cas 54@ 5 Moran, Gaerne... .2..- 00

Velkaw 00002, sos 4%@ 5 |" pale & yellow 6@ 7%

oe ar | Otter, lark............ 6 00@8 00
Wii Og Paco aneeaeeae =
Gea toned Boxes. 2.6... 2 Bear.....-----++++++ 15 00@20 00

| oo eres odes 2 00@6 00

SAPOLIO. | Oppossum...... ....+-. 20
‘Kitchen, 3 doz. in box iS Re 2 50} eekine. per Ib...... 15@ 2%
Band, a ee 2 50 Above prices for No. 1 skins

SAUERKRAUT. | only.

Silver Thread, = — im WOOL,
c@ a | Waphed. 2) iv. cric ae 256@30
Unwashed...... ......... 12@22
ae MISCELLANEOUS,
Gorn, barrela.: 0.2.0.5... @2r| PHNOM cr ler ls 3 @ 3%
one- half barrels.. B29 | Grease butter......... 38 @5
Pure Sugar, bbl........... | 28@36 | Switches .......... .. 2. 1%@ 2
half barrel. . ee ers -+- 2 00@2 75

 

 

 

 

Drugs & Medicines.

 

 

State Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.

Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.

Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.

Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit.

President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.

Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.

Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.

¥ Meetings during 1890—Grand Rapids, March 4 and 5;

Star Island, July land 2; Marquetje, Aug. 13 and 14;

Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—Frank Inglis, Detroit.

First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. 2

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

Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.

Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; E. T.
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 Pharmaceutical 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, W. F. Jackman.

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, C. 8. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.

 

The Drug Market.

There is alarge demand for quinine
and antipyrin, caused by its use in treat-
ing the ‘‘grip.” Antipyrin stocks are
exhausted. The agents in New York
are entirely out. Small lots are held at
$2.50 to $3.00. The Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co. report a small. stock on hand,
which itis selling at the old price in
limited quantities. Phenaticum is equally
searee.” Quinine has advanced, under
the large demand, but, there are
larger stocks, it probably will be only
temporary. Opium and morphia are
unchanged. Wood alcohol has advanced.
Gum shellacs are higher. Gambier has
advanced. The opening price for Paris
green is as follows:

as

 

250 Ib. packages...... --..---eceecsee eee renee 14

172 ‘* te ee 1414

14, 28 and 56 lb. packages.......---.--- ee

7 Ib. packages .....__-.--- ee eee 16%
ee 18%

r+
4 tc

 

 

Decision Against the Sugar Trust.

Another decision has been rendered
against the Sugar Trust, this time in
California. Judge Wallace, of the Su-
perior Court of California, has handed
down a decision in the case of the Peo-
ple the American Sugar Refining
Co.. in which he gives judgment against
the company, holding that it has for-
feited its corporate franchise on grounds
similar to those upon which the courts
of New York State decided against
the North River Sugar Refining Co.
The findings of the judge are as fol-
lows: ‘In the year 1885 the defendant
became and has ever since continued to
be a corporation, duly organized to carry
on the of sugar refining, to
purchase, sell, manufacture and deal in

vs.

business

sugars and the products thereof, to pro-
cure, sell, hire, lease, maintain and op-
erate sugar refineries and refining works,
and generally to do and perform such

other acts and things as might prove
necessary, useful or auxiliary to the

objects of its incorporation. The Sugar
Refineries Co. is, and on the 29th day
of February, 1888, was, an incorporated
association organized with the intent,
and has always since its formation been
operated for the purpose of deteriorat-
ing the quality and diminishing the sup-
ply of throughout the United
States: of increasing to consumers the
cost and price of the article, of destroy-
ing competition in its production, creat-
ing a monopoly and the general restraint
of trade in sugar as an article of com-
merce and consumption. On the 29th
day of February, 1888, defendant, aban-
doning and disregarding in that behalf
all the purposes and objects for which
it had been so incorporated, and with in-
tent and design to thereby foster, assist
and promote the establishing of the said
monopoly, surrendered to the Sugar
fineries Co. the management of its cor-
porate concerns and the control of its
entire corporate business, and since its
surrender defendant has not at any
time resumed such management, nor has
it then, fact, carried for
itself the business nor any of the busi-
ness for the earrying on of which it had
been so incorporated; but, on the cen-
trary, has since such surrender
been and become amalgamated with the
said Sugar Co.,.and in. this
manner has wholly ceased aud
tinued the exercise by it of said several
corporate functions, for the proper ex-
ercise of which it had been incor-
porated.”’

——_ sa

sugar

>
ve-

since in on

ever

Refineries

diseon-

so

What Would Happen Were Perpetual
Motion Possible.

After showing that friction makes per-
petual motion impossible, Professor Hele
Shaw reflects upon the state of affairs that
would follow if friction were to cease to
act. The whole force of nature would
be at once changed, and much of the
dry land and most of our buildings
would disappear beneath the sea. Such
inhabitants as remained a short time
alive would not only be unable to pro-
vide themselves with fire or warmth, but
would find their very clothes falling
back to the original fiber from which
they were made; and if not destroyed in
one of the many possible ways—no
longer dissipated by friction through the
air, or by falling masses of water no
longer retarded by the atmosphere and
descending as rain—would be unable
to obtain food, from inability to move
themselves by any ordinary method of
Jocomotion, or, what would be equally

 

 

 

serious, having once started into motion,
from being unable to stop except when
they came into collision with other un-
happy beings or moving bodies. Before
long they, with all heavier substances,
would disappear forever beneath the
waters which would now cover the-face
of a lifeless world.

———__—»> +>
Silk Ribbons Case Decided.

The so-called silk ribbons question has
at length been passed upon by the Su-
preme Court of the United States. That
question, as our readers may recall, is
whether ribbons composed of silk and
cotton, in which silk is the component
material of chief value, being used ex-
clusively as hat trimmings, and having
commercial value for that purpose only,
are dutiable at 50 per cent. ad valorem,
as goods not specially enumerated, of
which silk is the component material of
chief value, or at 20 per cent. under the
tariff provision for hat trimmings. The
Collector of the Port of New York as-
sessed duty at 50 per cent., the importer
claiming that 20 per cent. was the proper
rate of duty. In the case of Robertson,
Collector, vs. Edelhoff et al., the Su-
preme Court, in an opinion by Justice
Blatchford, says that the only question
is as to whether silk hat trimmings are
embraced in the provisions of schedule
N of the tariff act, which reads: ‘‘Hats,
material used for making hats, bonnets
and hoods composed of straw, chip grass,
palm leaf, willow, hair, whalebone or
any other substance or material not es-
pecially enumerated or provided for in
this act.’ The Circuit Court held that
they did come under that provision, and
this court affirms that judgment. The
court says that it seems perfectly clea
that the words ‘‘composed of’’ relate to
the eight articles especially named, and

not to hats and bonnets, and it cannot) third party,

agree to the conviction that the word
‘“Jike’”? should be inserted in construing
the words ‘“‘any other substance or mate-
Fial.7’
silk and all other materials for hat
trimmings which have been elsewhere
made dutiable, regardless of whether or
not they bear an assimilation to straw,
whalebone or any of the other substances
named. The case is also held to be
governed by the decision in the velvet
ribbon case of Hartranft against Lang-
feld. Under this decision the govern-
ment willbe obliged to refund several
million dollars to importers.

—= -4- =

The Smart Clerk Will Now Try Some- |

thing Else.
There is a spruce young dry goods

--New Yo-r-r-rk, sir,”’
distingue of that metropolis which sticks

years and it may be forever. He had
several little knacks of forcing trade, he

told his employers, and he sprung them j

Made Him a Preferred Creditor.

There was a chap keeping a clothing
store in a western town that went up the
spout a couple of weeks ago, and he
went around among the houses he owed
to make some kind of a compromise with
them. He came to one jobber, who said
to him:

“Now, see here, you know I’ve been a
great friend of yours, and you ought to
make me a preferred creditor.”

“All right,’? said the clothing man,
17] do it.”

After a few days the friend heard that
the clothing man had made a compromise
and was giving ninety days’ notes to
everybody he owed, so the friend went
to see about it.

“Hew is this,’? he said, ‘‘where do I
come in? You're giving notes to all the
rest of the fellows, and leaving me out
in the cold.”’

“Nol ain’t,’? said the clothing man.
“Ym making you a preferred creditor.
Nobody ain’t going to get a cent, and I
tell you so now, while all the rest of the
creditors will have to wait ninety days
to find it out. If you ain’t a preferred
creditor I’d like to know what you are.”

— ei Oe

The Gift System in Trade.
From the Monetary Times.

“Prizes” and ‘‘presents’’ are still the
order of the day with some people. The
prevailing desire of the greedy public to
get something for nothing will always
find persons to cater to it, who will fool
the eager public to the end of the
chapter. Instead of books being given
away or sold for a song, @ practice to
which we referred a fortnight ago, a new
concern in Toronto gives away jewelry,
good and bad—gives the good away care-
fully, however, placing it just where it
will do most service. One shrewd mer-
chant, seeing the spread eagle advertise-

 

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These words, it holds, include}

| clerk in this city who came here ‘from |
de
and has the air!

| toa man like the measles, it may be for}

ment of the new store, called in and
bought a package of tea, and on opening
found aring of good value. Returning

yr} to his counting-house he sent an employe

for another package: the employe cutely
using the merchant’s name received a
package of tea with a good scarf pin. A
from the country and un-
known to the prize package people, hear-
ing of the merchant’s luck, also went to
the enchanted palace, planked down his
money, and received a parcel of tea worth
about one-third of his cash, and found
therein a trinket worth 10 to 15c! The
man went away sorrowful. But the
police have visited the place, and the
lottery stands a chance of being stopped.

>>

The Cost of Protest.

A Chicago salesman recently sold a
bill of shoes to the keeper of a general
store in one of the Upper Peninsula
counties. The buyer asked for time,
and, as the man owned a house and a
| farm, the jobber agreed to take a note on
four months. It was tobe made payable
at abankin a neighboring city. The
salesman was instructed to impress on
the storekeeper the importance of taking
up the paper when due. A blank note
was sent on for signature.

‘*Now, Mr. ,? said the salesman,
‘‘you must be at the bank the day this
note is due, with the money to pay it, or
| it will be protested.’

‘What will happen then ?”’
‘Why, you will have to pay the cost of
| protest, in addition to the amount of the
| note.”’

“Oh, well, just add the cost of protest

 

 

on Detroit people when they weren’t | now, and I will give a note for the whole

looking. One of them was this:

the purchaser.

He | thing.”’
would receive the bundle and change for |
The last he would hand |

———$_—_
The Salt Association.

An East Saginaw correspondent

her with a grand flourish of his air dis- | writes:

tingue. Then he would ask his prize |

question:

“Shall I send this out to your carriage, |

madam?’’

The annual meeting of the Michigan
i Salt Association will be held in this city
January 16. A movement has been
started at Ludington and Manistee to
organize an independent association, but

It worked fairly for a few days. Mad-| those who claim to have inside informa-

am would blush and look pleased, or stare |
coldly at him and say she would carry it |
herself, but one day he struck a snag. |

The customer and rather
pretty.

‘Shall I take this out to your car-
riage”? he asked, changing the active
verb to suit the occasion.

was young

For a moment her eyes twinkled, then |

she answered readily:
‘“*Thank you,
package for me to carry,”
moved toward the door.
He was somewhat abashed at being
taken at his word, but he followed her
out to the sidewalk. Carriages were

and she

there, but she walked right along, and;

he could do no less than accompany her,
hatless as he was. When they reached
the end of the block she beckoned a pas-
sing car, and when it stopped she got in
and went to the further end of the car,
her shivering escort at her heels. Then
she thanked him politely and took the
bundle. He smiled a demoniac grin, for
the car had carried him half a_ block
further on. He has brought out another
knack now and is trying it on.
ee ee eo -

Have Purchased Twenty-five Thousand

“Tradesman” Coupons.
From the Manistique Sun.

Commencing with the new year, the
Chicago Lumbering Co. has inaugurated a
new system of credit business at its sev-
eral stores in the city. Hereafter its
customers will have to plank down the
hard eash before the goods are delivered.
Employes of the company who have
credit at the office can procure coupon
books, of amounts to suit, which will be
honored at the counter te same as cash.
Unless you have the cash or a coupon
book in the future, it will be useless to
apply at its stores for goods. It would
be a grand thing for everyone if there
was less credit business done. It would
be better for the buyer, because he is
not likely to make as many unnecessary
purchases where he has to produce the
cash as he might if he were having them
charged on a pass-book, and at the end
of the month he has no large bills star-
ing him in the face. It would be better
for the seller, for the reason that by do-
ing practically a cash business he is not
likely to have the legitimate profits of
his business eaten up by bad debts.

It is rather an awkward |

|

tion assert that it is simply done to em-
phasize the demand of the Ludington
| and Manistee people for a good-sized
| differential, that it will be granted, and
| that there will be no trouble. It is as-
| serted thatit is tothe advantage of every
manufacturer to maintain the associa-
tion, as wereitto go to pieces every man-
ufacturer would be compelled to market
his own product at a tremendous disad-
vantage, both as to market and freights,
and the result would be to demoralize
the salt manufacturers of the state by re-
ducing prices to a point that would be
disastrous.

——————_—=>_-+ as
Information from a Drummer.
She was a young woman of an inquir-
ing turn of mind on her way home from
college, and during a delay ata station
she walked'up and down the platform
calculating the ponderabilities.
“J wonder,’? she said to her papa,

‘“‘what is the weight of the train ?”
‘Really, my dear, I couldn’t say,
but .

 

“‘T know what it is,’? interrupted an
impatient drummer; ‘‘it’s about four
hours and a half.”’

Then the girl went in and sat down to
think awhile.

= —————

—_______—_—=i>—
He Knew His Wife.

Jones (much excited)—Carlson, your
wife has eloped with another man.

Carlson—Guess you are mistaken.

Jones—No, ’m not; 1 knowit. Man
alive, how can you take the news so
calmly ?”’

Carlson—I know it’s not so.

won’t elope till to-morrow.
i —____—~< -2

gree
The Meanest Man on Earth.

The meanest man in the world is
named Brown and lives in Manistee.
He sold his neighbor, Jones, a half inter-
est in a cow and then refused to divide
the milk, maintaining that Jones owned
the front half of the cow. The cow re-
cently hooked Brown, and now he is
suing Jones for damages.

————> 7

The aggregate value of the provision
and dairy products exported from this
country during the past year is one hun-
dred and five million dollars. This is
almost double the amount of the exports
for the previous year, and shows that the
general prosperity is not on the wane, as
many seem to think.

————»>->—
It pays to handle the P & B. cough

 

drops.

I prom-|
ised to bring her home a new sack to- |
night, and you can depend upon it she |

 

Wholesale Price Current. :

Declined—Gambier.

 

Advanced—Gum Shellac, Quinine.

 

 

 

 

  
 

  

 
 

 

 
  
  
 
   
  

 

 

ACIDUM. Ge aes rare ia : a Page t 1 40
See 10 orate, (po. 18)...... rgenti Nitras,ounce @ 68
SS German.. ones 99 | Cyanide .......----+--- 50@ 55! Arsenicum............ 7
BoersHie 39 | lodide...........---.+- 2 80@2 90| Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@ 40
Carbolicum ........-.- 40@ 45 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 33@ 3.| Bismuth S. N.......-. 2 10@2 2
pPatean ee 50@ 55 Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15| Calcium Chior, is, (4s
Hedsochier sic. .2 ss. 3@ 5 | Lotass Nitras, opt..... Sa 10: its tgs, 12)... 3... 9
Nisccua ecg 10@ 12 | Potass Nitras.......... 7@ 9| Cantharides Russian,
Gealicdin. ese 1 Prussiate ..........-++- 2@ 2B) PO...----...2- esses @i %
Phosphorium dil...... 29 | Sulphate po........... 15@ 18 Capsici Fructus, af aes
Salicylicum .......---- 1 40@1 80 RADIX. es > ee @ 16
Sulphuricum.... --.--, 14@ 5) 4 00; 25! © h po. @ 14
Wakaiteni: sees te 69 | Aconitum ............- 20@ aryophyllus, (po. 28) 2@ 2
Tartariciin.....--><2+- Althae...........------ 25@ 30/ Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75
aie PPETIOS Co oo on oo wos a= 15@ 20} Cera Alba, S. &F..... 50@ 55
AMMONIA. aon PU cece went @ = rset UAVS oc oes oes 2@ 30
a 5 | Calamus...........---- 20@ OCCUS ..........-.---- @ 4
Aqua, = pin aes a ¢ | Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12} Cassia Fructus........ @ 15
Gienas 0 ne 11@ 13 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 36) OGHiUAIIR. 6c. cio. @ 10
Chiceidaé <..0--- “" 49@ 14 } Hydrastis Canaden, Cotaceun..:22..2. 22... @ 3
sigan a ee Co eees @ 45| Chloroform ........... 50@ 55
Hellebore, Ala, po.... 15@ 2 * squibbs .. @1 00
innia, pe. 15@ 20} Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1 50@1 75
APCCaG, POWs... 0. 55-- S 00@2 207 Chondrun .-)< 2... <. U@ B
Iris plox (po. 20@22).. 18@ 2 Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ 2
Fdlapa, pre. ..2.... Oe es German 4@ 10
Maranta, 48......-.-- @ 35| Corks, list, dis. per
BACCAE. ees pe.:..-: oe = oe eee ies @ 60
A 85@2 eae ce eee ee TORSOCII So... lS @ 50
Funiperus en 8@ Oe mk = i %| Crete, (DDL. 75)... .-.. : g 2
an es 25@ Oe We ss foe sees ep. oe a 5
Xanthoxylum ....----- 7 Spigelia COO reece 45a 581 > precip. 25520... 8@ 10
BALSAMUM. Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 2] ‘ Rubra........... @ 8
Copaiba .....--- tones 70@ 75 | Serpentaria........---. 40 35} CreCes jo ea 35@ 38
Peres 6...) os ee os @1 30] Senega ........... ee 65) Cudbear.-..-.-........ @ w#
Terabin, Canada ....- 45@ 50|Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 Cupr Sulph....... 7... 8@ 9
Tolutan ...-...+----++- 45@ 50 te < M Mh) PEKING 25. 10@ 12
Scillae, (po. 35).......- #24 Biher Sulph. os: 32... 68@ 70
CORTEX. . Symplocarpus, Feeti- - Emery, ail numbers.. @ 8
i MRAHIAT © oo tee coe MS, POs 5 eee cae é = Peo es @ 6
pa Re eee casas’ 11 | Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ 25| Ergota, (po.) 45....... 40@ 45
Cinchona Flava ...----+++-- Bs German... 15@ Piake White... .....: 12@ 15
Euonymus atropurp....---- 30 | Zingiber a........----- 1 15 Galla ..., eee cea @
Myrica Cerifera, po...------ 20 | Zingiber j........-. 25| Gambier’............-. T4%4@Q@ 3%
Prunus Virgini......-.---++- 12 Gelatin, Cooper....... @
illai 12 SEMEN: ‘G ) renGh: .. 0
Quillaia, BIA......- seer ees i i: Ble oe. 40@
Sassafras. ..-.-----2---++-°** 12} Anisum, (po. 20)... .- @ 15} Glassware flint, 75 & 10 per
Ulmus Po (Ground 12).....- 10| Apium (graveleons).. 10@ 12| cent. by box 70 less
St PAE EB cs ie ass 4@ 61 Glue, Brown.....-.. .- 9@ 15
EXTRACTUM. —— (po. 18) 2.5 ; on: = as WHitG see. 183@ 25
iza Glabra... 24@ 25|Cardamon......-.--.-- 25 VCCTHIG foo... 2RQ@ 2%
Se ga $5| Corlandrum.-°.../... J0@ 12| Grana Paradisi. @ 15
x, 15 lb. box.. 11@ 12j| Cannabis Sativa....... Y% HUGS ss 25@ 40
— fess >. 13@ 14] Cydonium.... ....---- 7@1 00} Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ 9
“ %s 14@ 15| Chenopodium ........ 12 me ORE oo. @ 80
n BES ees 16@ 17 | Dipterix Odorate...... 1 75@1 85 : Ox Rubrum @l1 00
ERRUM Foeniculum..........- @ 15 C Ammoniati.. @1 10
= Foenugreek, po..... =< 6 8 o Unguentum. 45@ 55
Carbonate Precip.....- O Siig 4 @ 4%| Hydrargyrum......... @ 8%
Citrate and Quinia....  @3 50) Lini, gerd, (bbl.4 )... 44%@ 4% | Ichthyobolla, Am.....1 25@1 50
Citrate Soluble.....--- @ Wivopeta 5 Pnilico. 0 75@1 00
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50 Pharlaris Canarian.... 34@ 4% | Iodine, mesh), ....... 3 7E@3 85
Solut Chioride.....--- @ 39) Rapa). sc. tools 6a 7) lodofarm. 0s @A4 70
Sulphate, com’l.......1%@ 2] Sinapis, Albu......... a 9) taipuln 1 00
we puTe.- 2225. -- @ i ‘ Nigra. :.....- 11@ 12 i pate ee ae 5s@ 60
Miaeig co 85
: SPIRITUS. Liquor Arsen et Hy-
Arnica ... 144@ 16 | Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 pare lod 950 @ 2
Anthemis . 30@ 35 o D. F. R.....1 %@2 00| Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Matricaria . 30@ 35 oe 1 10@1 50} Magnesia, Sulph (bbl
Juniperis Co. O. T....1 %5@1 75 134) .-----..- esse eee 3
B ss 10@ 12 . pie . 5@3 50} Mannia, SF ek 45@ 50
param Stifol, Tin Saacharum N. E...... 1 %5@2 00] Morphia, S. P. & W...2 65@2 90
SS ax@ 28| Spt. Vini Galli......-. 17@650) “ SN. Y.Q&
nivelly ....;- are 350 59 | Vini Oper... 22.0.2 1 25@2 00 CG io, 2 G5@2 90
oe oa ae Wind Albe.::......-..; 1 25@2 00; Moschus Canton...... @ 4
Salvia officinalis, 148 o@ 12 Myristica, No. 1....... 70
ee Oe 10 SPONGES. Nux Vomica, (po 26). @ 10
beeen a Florida sheeps’ wool Os. Sepia.............. 32
GUMMI. Carriage. 2000s. 5... 2 25@2 50| Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Acacia, ist picked. —s @1 00 | Nassau sheeps’ wool Co... eee me Sota @2 00
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‘6 sifted sorts... @ 65 wool carriage....... 1 10 1C18 Ligq., quarts Some 6 @1 00
6 IO we oc eele'- 75@1 00| Extra yellow sheeps’ Pu Hiva pints ....... @ 70
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60) carriage........-...- 85 Pi ct (po. 80) . . @ 50
“’ Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12] Grass sheeps’ wool car- iper Nigra, (po. 22).. @ 18
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Assafotida, (po. 30)... _@ 1 Pyrethrum, boxes
Benzoinum.......----- 30@ 55 SYRUPS. & P. D. Co., doz..... @1 25
Camphore......---+-++ 45@ 410+ Aceacia |..........¢.--- _.... 5o} Pyrethrum, pv........ 30@ 35
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Mase: @1 00 | Similax Officinalis.......... 60 0 BCID og oe + = « Lente 2 25G2 35
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: : Benzoin....-....------- +--+ 60} Soda, Sulphas @ 2
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Carbonate, Pat.......- 20@ 22) Barosma....... peace cess eee 50 “ Myreia Imp... .. @2 50
Carbonate, K. & M.... 20@ 25| Cantharides............----- 51 «  Wini Rect. bbl.
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a i CO... eee eeee eens ‘5 | Strychnia Crystal..... @1 10
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Hedeonia 080 ue., ee Beek 50 | Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4
Sumipe a. 50@2 00 | Nux Vomica................ 501 p Ber..... 3i%. 2@3
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The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1890.

 

 

 

 

TALK WITH A TYPEWRITER.

 

The Average Employer Wants a Ma-
chine Not an Intelligence.

“Tam always the one that gets left,”
complained a rapid and correct operator.
*‘T went early this morning to answer an
advertisement for a typewriter, and
thought I should be the first one in the
office, but the advertiser told me he was
already suited.”

‘Possibly he told you a story,’’ thought
her hearer, glancing at the disappointed
girl—a girl with a turkey-egg complex-
ion, and hair that would set unkind per-
sons to speaking of white horses; a girl
with half her teeth gone, and the remain-
ing half discolored; a girl with square
shoulders, and the voice of a file. How
was the advertiser to know that here was
a typewriter who would identify herself
with her employer, and attend con-
scientiously to al! her office duties?
How was he to know that, ‘‘in a book of
moral beauty she might have her por-
trait painted at full length ?”’

“‘T am always the one who is taken,”’’
observed another girl, one ‘‘stylish’’
enough to pass for being pretty, and one
who, in the language of the bread-win-
ner, could always speak up for herself.
‘J leave a place directly I find that
things there are not going to suit me, be-
cause I know I can step into another
within a week. I am not such an aw-
fully fast writer, either. i ean, on a
spurt, go as high as eighty words a min-
ute, but usually I write about fifty—
that’s enough, dear knows! No, I don’t
work steadily all the time I am in the
office. Sometimes I carry on half the
day with the other girls—the girls who
_ are addressing circulars by hand. My
present boss—well, employer, then—
sends out just 1,000,000 circulars every
winter, and that keeps a lot of girls busy
for afew months. They are awfully en-
vious of me, some of them, because my
place is a permanent one, while they will
have the grand bounce as soon as the
circulars are all sent out; and, besides,
my working hours are shorter than
theirs, and I earn just twice as much as
most of them do. One of the girls—she
isn’t a girl either, but on old woman,
thirty-five at least—tried my _ type-
writer at recess the other day, and
it seemedto do her so much good to
show me how much _ neater’ her
work was than mine—as if it matters
a pin about the letters being all on a
line, and the spaces of the same width!
It seems to surprise her that she cannot
get a place as typewriter, as she has a
certificate from somewhere to show that
she is competent. I don’t tell her so,
but she is too old, for one thing; hardly
anybody would employ a typewriter over
thirty. Why should that be the dead
line? Well, I suppose it be-
cause women are set in their
ways after they are out of their
twenties, and think they know it all.
The girl—I mean the old maid—I am
speaking of had a place some time back,
and she told it herself that sometimes,
when her employer would be dictating to
her, she would stop him and tell him
how the letter could be better worded.
Did you ever hear of such cheek? Why,
if my b—employer said nothing but
‘High-diddle-diddle,’ I’'d take it down
just as he said it. It’s my fingers he

is

 

wants, not my brains—supposing I had
any. One day this person I am talking
about heard me ‘scolded because I had
written to acustomer that we had no
more goods of acertain kind, and ina
hurry had spelled no, k-n-o-w, just like
the other know. She was delighted at
catching me in a mistake, and didn’t let
me hear the last of it until I said:
‘“Well, madam, In-o know how to geta
place as typewriter, and earn $12 a week,
while you earn only $5 with your polky
addressing.’ It is silly, isn’t it, to laugh
at a girl because, when she is rushing
through with her work, she doesn’t
always spell like Daniel Webster? Noah,
was it? I thought his name was Daniel.

“‘At the typewriting school they used
to tell me that my ignorance of punctua-
tion would keep me back, but I am not
bothered much about such matters; if 1
sprinkle a few commas here and there,
asl go along, my employer seems to be
satisfied. I have heard stories of dread-
ful consequences from misplacing one’s
stops, but I don’t let them trouble me,
being convinced they are all my grand-
mother. Leaving out a comma is very
different from leaving out a ‘not.’ I have
done that more than once, and it has got
me into hot water. Capitals are the
trouble with some girls, but my employer
has given me only one rule about them,
and itis easy to remember; the first day
I wrote from his dictation, he said to me:
‘When in doubt, use a capital. Capitals
out of place will be forgiven, but small
letters, never.’

‘No, mine isn’t brain-work; it is hand-
work caltogether, and there is a lotof
sameness about it. Some days I have to
write the same fibs toa dozen different
customers, and it becomes so monotonous
that I nearly go to sleep over it. Doesn’t
the pricking of conscience keep me
awake? Well, I should like to know

what my employer’s fibs have to do with
my conscience. * He invents them, and 1,
who only follow dictation, am not sup-
posed to know that they are fibs. Ido
know it, though, and if I were his Sun-
day-school teacher I might sometinies
feel it my duty to ask him where he ex-
pects to go when he dies, but, thank
heaven! I am only his typewriter.”’

> >

PAYING OFF THE MORTGAGE.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The mortgage indebtedness of Amer-
ican farmers must aggregate a sum
frightful to contemplate. Whether
there are any reliable statistics extant
from which could be summarized this
vast debt, I know not, but, suffice it to
say, we see evidence enough in every
neighborhood to suggest the universal
extent of the system. What does a man
do when he borrows money in this way ?
He virtually sells his farm to the lender,
reserving only the right of redemption
and a precarious residence thereon. For
the privilege of becoming a tenant on
his own premises to the money lender,
he must pay that individual an amount
of interest often footing up to more than
the annual .rental of the farm is worth.
This is servility with a vengeance, and
such a state ef affairs ought not to exist
in free America. Yet the mortgagees
should have their pay. They have lent
money on solicitation and justice de-
mands that they receive it again with
recompense. We have no disposition to
denounce those wealthy individuals who
hold money for mortgage investment,
but we do protest against the short-
sightedness of farme*$ who borrow of
them when not really needing the money
and trust to blind luck for repayment.
Nothing but ill-luck ever accrues. In
nine cases out of ten mortgaging a farm
shows bad judgmeet in the owner, un-
less it is for the purchase money. Farms
secured the latter way are generally paid
for, because the purchaser has in view
the securing of a home.

Along in the seventies, when times
were more flush than at present, a great
deal of money changed hands from the
city lender to the agricultural borrower,
which was only recovered through the
power of sale clause in the securing doc-
ument. Farmers all over the Union in
mortgage debt, who borrowed to build a
better residence, or amore commodious
barn, or to buy stock, or to pay off some
preceding encumbrance, now find it very
difficult to even keep up the interest.
To discharge the principal they were
unable, unless by a sale of a portion or
allof their lands. Itis useless now to
point out how that mortgaging could
have been prevented—folly to ‘ery over
spilt milk’’—but it is expedient to con-
trive some way to escape from debt’s
thrall and yet save the homestead which
shelters their heads.

I think that there are myriads of
cases where an escape from debt can be
effected directly through the dairy and
its assistant, stock raising. In the first
place, you must have as a prime object
the liquidation of the debt and reserve
all money netted above actual expenses
for that purpose. Live well through it
all; that is, do not scrimp on good,
wholesome, nutritious food—it is the
worst economy in the world to do that.
Another thing, do not depend upon your
dairy for a debt reducer, and for acon-
tingent fund for other expenses, too, un-
less it is so profitable to you that it does
not pay to turn your attention to other
modes of farming. When you must
have available cash for some particular
purpose it is the best plan to set aside
exclusively some enterprise from which
you are sure of obtaining ready money
and consecrate that enterprise to the ob-
ject in view. -As, for instance, suppose
you possess a dairy of fair cows and that
their product in butter or cheese will
always command the cash. You also
raise on your farm a mixed variety of
crops, which are always salable
through barter but are sometimes diffi-
cult to dispose of for uniform cash prices.
Depend principally on such crops for
living expenses, and the purely cash in-
come apply on your mortgage indebted-
ness. The main thing about the whole
business is to make it an object to pay
off that mortgage and cause everything
to be subservient to such an endeavor.
Young stock will grow up quick and
command cash prices. You will not
have to buy the calves because your
dairy furnishes them, and you can select
the best favored ones to raise. Mate
steers and grow them, and as young
oxen they will command a better figure
than they would singly in beef. I once
knew the indebtedness on a farm to be
raised in just this way. It looked dis-
couraging at first, in the face of hard
times, because the money was actually
needed to repair buildings and add im-
provements. Things were patched up,
however, until the encumbrance was
lifted and interest stopped, and then the
owner, being spiritually rejuvenated,
went to work to add beauty and conven-
ience to his farm.

The very immensity of a mortgage
amount will sometimes so discourage the
farmer that he falls by the wayside and
permits a foreclosure without even an
attempt at redemption. If such a one

 

would go right to work, employing his

 

brain as vigorously as he does his hands,
the mountain would eventually become
a mole hill, and the toiler would grow
rich in self reliance, independence and
forethought. The writer is not theoriz-
ing in all of this—far from it. He has
been “through the mill’? himself and
knows the way it goes. There are sea-
sons of deep disappointment to pass
through, periods when it seems as
though the toi! of long years would be
swept away by an inability to make a
connecting link, but pluck, economy and
an unwavering allegiance to one object
will carry you through.

Women sometimes possess far more
business tact than men when it comes to
lifting a family debt. I know of one
case where a married lady invested $10
from her private purse in a weakly Jer-
sey calf. She was laughed at by her
husband and the neighbors, who con-
sidered it the height of folly to expend
such a sum for a mere calf, even if it
was a Jersey. Thecalf grew, however,
in spite of ridicule, and developed into a
trim little heifer, with soft, mellow-look-
ing eyes and velvety, yellow-tinted hair.
It is the best cow in the neighborhood
now and yields its proud owner more
butter money than any other creature on
on the place. Give her half a chance,
and a Jersey cow will maintain the repu-
tation of the breed every time. In this
instance it took a woman’s shrewdness
and forethought to establish in a skeptical
community the worth of the Channel
cattle.

In closing, we advise farmers to think
long and deeply before becoming en-
tangled in a mortgage indebtedness. If
nine-tenths of those who do obtain mon-
ey in this way could know of the long
years of anxiety which would follow;
could see the furrows grow deeper on
their brows and whiteness rob their hair
of its youthful luster, while they strug-
gled against the weight of the oft-recur-
ring interest—I say, if they could see this
picture in contemplation as vividly as it
will be portrayed in reality in the cruel
years to come, there would be fewer
farm mortgages on official record. Those
farmers to whom it seems necessary to
mortgage will find that just the bare in-
terest will generally be all that they
can afterward raise, to say nothing of
laying up a sum to obliterate the princi-
pal. Pluck can overcome it, however,
but, better yet, forethought can keep you

out of the scrape.,
Gro. E. NEWELL.

—————~-2 =< -
The New Industrial Era.
From the Electrical Engineer.

Eighteen years ago a commission was
appointed in Great Britain to investigate
the question of the probable duration of
the coal supply of the kingdom. Some
of the results of this official inquiry,
given in a paper read before the Sta-
tistical Society, suggest some startling
probabilities. At the average rate of
increase and consumption which has
been going on for the past twenty years,
it is computed that the Newcastle coal
district will be exhausted in ninety-
four years, the South Wales district in
seventy-nine years, and the remainder in
even less time.

Nothing in the future appears more
probable than that within the lfetime
of persons now living the industrial su-

premacy of Great Britain will pass away |

with the exhaustion of her coal fields.
Switzerland, Italy and the Scandinavian
peninsula are destined to become the
great manufacturing districts of Europe.
This extraordinary industrial revolution
will be brought about by the transmis-
sion and _ distribution, by electrical
means, of the inexhaustible and perma-
nent water power which is now running
to waste in those countries. Indeed,
this power is already beginning to be
successfully utilized by the skill of the
electrical engineer. More than a year
ago we visited in Switzerland a woolen
manufactory of 36,000 spindles, with the
usual complement of, auxiliary machin-
ery, which was operated wholly by elec-
tric power conveyed from a distant
stream, deriving its never-failing supply
of water from the melting of Alpine
snows. To an electrician, the sight was
an inspiring one and full of significance.
In the new era which is advancing with
such rapid strides the Swiss republic
may not improbably become the fore-
most industrial nation of Europe. Noth-
ing is more certain than that the next
quarter century will witness amazing
changes in the commercial relations of
the nations of the earth, in consequence
of the development of the conception
of the electrical distribution of energy.
————_s>_.—>__—_-
A Business Woman.

Jones (to a former sweetheart)—So
you are going to throw yourself away on
old Jimson ?

She—Throw myself away! I guess
you don’t know that he has a million and
a bad case of heart disease. Call that
throwing myself away? That’s what I
eall getting fancy prices.

———__~>-=_____—
A Nation of Letter Writers.

During 1889, says a recent report,
234,826,607 letters and 30,130,678 postal
cards passed through the New York
postoffice, an increase of 19,886,000 let-
ters and of 5,315,885 postal cards as com-
pared with last year. In all, 312,038,132
pieces of mail matter were delivered and
$5,934,456 worth of postage stamps sold.

—a_- 9

He Fell into the Trap.

He—Tell me, confidentially, how much
did that bonnet cost you ?

She—George, there is but one way in
which you can obtain the right to inspect
my millinery bills.

He popped.

———_—>>___—
And Drugs Everywhere Else, Too.
“Drugs can be made of almost any-
thing now,’’ remarked Gilroy.
‘‘For instance ?”’? asked Larkin.
“Skates and sleds are drugs in the
market.’’

Ionia Pants & Overall Co.

E. D. Voorhees, Manager.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, Rts.

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. Samples and prices
sent on application.

IONIA, MICH.
HESTER & FOS,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY,

 

 
  
  
  
  

 
 
  
 
    

=, AT i A ENGINE
3 prices. .

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A:
MANUFACTURERS OF

STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS. a

® Ce:-y Engines and Boilers in Stock rr
for immediate delivery. mae Sia

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WORKS 4

  

 

 

Saws, Belting and Oils.
And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Samp:
Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.

Write for Prices. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICK

 

We manufacture all our

goods. Warrant them pure

and first class. Carry an

immense stock. Fill orders

promptly and solicit the

correspondence and patron-

age of all legitimate buyers

 

 

in our line.

PUTNAM CANDY CoO.
WHO URGES YOU

TO BREEYP

SA POLIO‘?

THE PUBLIC!

 

By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre
ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in

stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort

on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas-
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.

ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.

 

K. G. STUDLRY,

Wholesale Dealer in

Rubber

Boots and Shoes

Manufactured by

CANDEK RUBBER 60.

Send for Large Illustrated Catalogue fand
Price List.

 

TELEPHONE 464.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

No. 4 Monroe Street,
CURTISS & CO.,

WHOLESALE

Paper Warehouse.

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

ever made.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Houseman Block,

 

Ss. K. BOLLES. E. B. DIKEMAN

Ss. K. Bolles & Co.,

7% CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

W holesale Cigar Dealers.

‘1 Use Ve.

We will forfeit $1,000 if the “TOSS UP”
Cigar is not a Clear Long Havana Filler of
excellent quality, equal to more than the aver- Zz
age ten cent cigars on the market.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DETROIT SOAP CO.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known brands:

 

ELE AEE MER PI SA NE LTS
QUEEN ANNE,

MOTTLED GERMAN,
TRUE BLUE,

SUPERIOR,
PHENIX,

ROYAL BAR,
MASCOTTE,

CZAR,
CAMEO,
AND OTHERS,

 

 

 

 

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

W, G. HAWKINS, sood SRV "SR

GRAND RAPIDS.

For quotations in larger

  
  
    

Al £ Use,

NO CHE Mic,

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DIRECTIONS P
%4| Weoav’ cooked the cornin this can [P4
Ai sutlicients Should be Thvuroughly ies
Warmed uot cooked) adding piece vi is.
4} 2.008 Sutter (size of hen’segi.) and gil [Gy
=i; .- fresh milk (preferable t6 waiter.) ts
Season to suit when on the table. None
genuine uniess bearing the signature of

 
 

Davenport Cannirg Co,

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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.
14 AND 16 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

THE WALSH--DE ROO MILLING G0,

HOLLAND, MICH.

12,

 

Daily {Capacity,
400 Bbls.

BRANDS:
SUNLIGHT,
DAISY,

PURITY,
MORNING STAR,
IDLEWILD,

c - eS Se
ohn a eee a —
BANDARD = MILLS poaeeen if SPECIALTIES:

: Graham,
Wheatena,
Buckwheat Flour,
Rye Flour,
Bolted Meal,
Rye Meal,
Wheat Grits,
Buckwheat Grits,
Pear! Barley,
Oat Meal,
Rolled Oats.

 

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se eh
 iALSH DE ROO MILLING.
Beg i ia

   

Correspondence Solicited.

The Belknap Wagon aud Steigh CO,

Mich.

 

Grand Rapids,

AND JOBBERS IN

SkIGHS,

SEND FOR CATALOGUE. :

THELANE & BODLEY C0.

MANUFACTURERS

Road
Logging
Delivery
Pleasure

 
   

THE LANE & BODLEY CO., 222,28. 30HN STREET:

A. HIMES,

COAL

THE ABOVE COMPANY’S COAL IN CAR LOTSOALWAYS ON TRACK READY FOR
SHIPMENT.

 

Shipper and Retail Dealer in

Lehigh ValleyCoalGo,'s

Office, 54 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich.