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A heavy fog had hung over the city since dawn, but the bustle and turmoil of traffic went on the same, and Vivian Grey, as she sat at an upper window overlooking the street, smiled bitterly to find herself repeating the old lines: ‘‘Men may come and men may go, but 1 go on forever.”’ ‘‘How just y it might be applied to the heartless old world ’ she thought, ‘‘for men may come and men may go, but the tide of the years rolls on the same for- ever. No, not forever; sometime, some- time there would be an end to it all.” And Vivian, as she leaned her head wearily on her hand, wondered in a vague sort of way, if that end would come to all as it had come to the one she mourned. For only yesterday she had followed a black-plumed hearse away from the noise of the city, away from the turmoil of life out to old Greenwood, and there, un- der the willows and the murmuring cypresses, the cold earth had closed over Magdalen Grey, and Vivian returned to the city, leaving behind her her first, almost her only friend—her mother. Magdalen Grey had been once the pet- ted child of luxury and ease. Spoiled and indulged, she had grown to early womanhood, with the imperious, tantal- izing air of a willful child, an air which, with her, must have been at once pro- voking and fascinating. This much Vivian had gathered from chance ex- pressions of her mother’s. but beyond this she knew little. “It is better, my child, that you should not know, at least, not now,’’ her mother had said, brokenly, as she gazed into Vivian’s great, searching eyes, only one week before. ‘‘You will be a truer woman, Vivian, than your mother has ever been. Icould be willing to leave you now could I consign you to a fath- er’s love.’? And there her mother’s frail, white hand had rested caressingly on her dark, brown locks; but, thin and frail as it was, it had weighed like a bur- den on the head of the fatherless girl as Mrs. Grey continued: ‘‘Lawrence Ever- etts will be a father to you now. And, oh, Vivian, if the time should come when you hear aught that would make you blush for your mother’s name, re- proach her not; but come to me, my child, when the tall grasses are whisper- ing above me, comeand kneel by my side, and let your forgiveness fall like a ben- ediction upon my head.’’ Then the small white hand fluttered like a troubled spirit over the stricken child; one rigid effort, and it was still as death. The last sorrowful interview between mother and child had been rudely interrupted by a paralytic stroke. If Mrs. Grey ever recognized her child again there was no sign, beyond the mute, earnest pleading of the eyes, which, Vivian thought, fol- lowed her as she moved about the room. Only once, as Vivian bent over her, her mother’s hand had wandered to her breast, as if she would tear from it the secret it had carried so long. A thought of something like this crossed her mind as she followed the motion of her moth- er’s hand. Ah, yes; she understood now—the locket which her mother always wore! She drew it from her bosom, and, touching the spring, gazed, for the first time, on the face hidden there. Some- thing there was in that face, or perhaps it was in the gray -light. of the early dawn, or in the slow, heavy breathing of the dying woman, something that made her shudder and draw nearer her mother, as if she, even now, could protect her; and then, asasudden gleam of intelli- gence burst upon her, she clasped it wildly to her breast. ‘‘My father!’ she murmured. ‘Oh, mamma, is it he ?’’ The pale lips moved as if to reply, but too late! If Vivian Grey ever learned her history now, it must be from the lips of astranger; her mother was no more ! The shades of night were falling rap- idly over the lonely little station of Earl- ham, and the cold wind, blowing straight from the northwest, was carrying with it across the gray sky the few remaining clouds, when a solitary traveler stepped from the westward bound train, and, throwing back her veil, stood for a mo- ment on the platform gazing inteutly over the low, bleak stretch of land that lay to the westward, and beyond which the mountains rose like a wall, as if the dreary world ended right there. “You are enjoying this, Miss,’’ said a coarse, yet kindly, voice at her side. se] could a sworn you were, as you stood starin’ over that wild moor yonder; only Lawrence Everetts is the only human bein’ (and it’s doubtful if he’s more’n half human) who could stand out in the midst of the roaring elements and look as though he enjoyed it. Oh, yes, bless you, they say that he rides out on that milk-white mare of his’n in the wildest storms, loping across the prairie and up the side of the mountain, yelling at the thunder, runnin’ races with the lightnin’, and cuttin’ all sorts of mad freaks, till daylight comes, or till the poor critter falls under him, and he stands kicking an’ cursin’ till he wears himself out, too. But, law, Miss, how white you’re geitin’ ! Come in, come into the office till your folks come after you. But, Lord, here, comes the kerridge from The Elms. | That’s Mr. Everetts’ residence. They | must have expected him home to-night. There’s no tellin’ when he may come, for he’s allus turnin’ up when he’s least ex- pected. But excuse me, Miss; if he should be in sight now ’twould be as much as my place was worth to stand here talkin’ on the platform, and the work waitin’? me inside; but you looked lonesome like. And you won’t come in? Then I hope you won’t have long to wait, and good evenin’ to ye.’’ And the old fellow hobbled back to the work awaiting him, while Vivian Grey took her place quietly in the carriage that was to convey her to The Elns, wondering why this last piece of intelli- gence might not have been spared her, at least until she had had time to recover from some of the misfurtunes that had already fallen so heavily upon her. So this was the man who was to be to her as afather! Her heart sickened as she re- called her mother’s words. She buried her face in the cushions, and in her burn- ing brain rose up the memory of a face she had seen but for a moment, but whose image would remain forever in her soul. What a contrast must that youthful face be to the one of the man (if, indeed, he was more than half hu- man) whom she would soon be obliged to meet! Oh, why had her lot been so hard? Why was she deprived of all that could make life enjoyable, and then left, a thing out of place in the great nemeless world, to live on the charity of a man like Lawrence Everetts? Fora moment Vivian felt something like re- proach for the parent who had brought her into the world and then left her alone, so utterly alone. ‘‘Why could you not have taken me with you, mother ?”’ she sobbed, and then tears came to her relief and, for the first time since her mother’s death. she wept. “The Elms, Miss,’’ said the driver, as the carriage drew up before the door of a stately old structure, whose gray stone gleamed ghostly in the starlight. A heavy vine had twined itself about the porch, and the tall branches of an old elm, tossed to and fro by the wind, were tapping now and then, in a weird, rest- less way, on one of the upper windows. This was all that Vivian noted, for just then the door opened from within, and she was admitted into a long, dusky hall, where an elderly lady stood awaiting her. “Miss Grey is welcome to her new home.’? The speaker did not advance. There was no hand grasp, no smile; nothing but the form of words, and the tired, lonely girl felt a heavy sob rising in her throat as she raised her veil to meet the stranger. Something there must have been in the white, tear-stained face of the young girl that touched Mrs. Winn’s heart, for before Vivian had had time to scan her face she had drawn her to a cosy fireside and was bathing the temples of the weary, sobbing girl. “Poor child’? Mrs. Winn was saying. “Why did they send you here? But no, do not sob so. We will see what can be done to make it pleasant for you. My brother will spend most of his time in the city, and I dare say you and I shall be very good friends. But, oh, my dear child, you are so very like your mother !”’ Vivian glanced up inquiringly at the pale, refined face of the speaker. ‘‘You knew my mother, then?’’ she asked, eagerly. . There was something more than sur- prise, something that Vivian did not un- derstand, in Mrs. Winn’s voice as she said: *‘Did you never hear her mention me, Marian Winn ?”’ “T have heard my mother mention but little of her past,’’ said Vivian, sadly. And then she wondered why the lady looked at her in that searching way, and, calling the servant soon after, said she must feel fatigued from her journey, and bade her good-night. The days passed wearily by, the weeks wore away, and gradually Vivian Grey became more accustomed to her sur- roundings. Sometimes her theughts would wander back to her more active life in the city. There were evenings when she cried herself to sleep, thinking of a grave at Greenwood, and there were nights, long, lonely nignts, when a fair, delicate woman came to her in her dreams, pointing to a mysterious locket which she wore, and always trying to tell her something which she never told. And then Vivian would wake, and count away the hours till the first streaks of dawn found their way into her lonely chamber to remind her that another day was at hand. The autumn had been unusually stormy, and at times the old mansion had been almost like a prison to the young life shut up there. And when, at last, the bright days of Indian summer came, Vivian was glad to take advantage of the sunshine to explore the old wood sur- rounding The Elms. It was late in the afternoon of a glori- ous autumn day when she came upon what had once been a much-used path, but which was marked now only by the long, tangled grass that had fallen in its bed. She followed it mechanically, wonder- ing sometimes if the furrow had been, worn by feet as young, as restless, as her own; wondering, too, if they still left foot-prints on the highway of life, or if they, like the feet of the one she had loved, were laid away, to tread the thorny path no more. Her mind was filled with thoughts such as these when, at last, she reached the foot of a_ hill, pelow which a rapid stream was making its way to the river. It was spanned by an old bridge, overgrown with moss, and rapidly falling to decay. An old oak grew on its brink, and under its gnarled branches stood a stone seat, moss-cov- ered, like the bridge. Vivian made her way slowly over the rotten planks, clinging to the railing as she heard the dashing of the water sev- eral feet below her. half way across, to decipher a rude cary- ing on the rails. Feeling some curiosity to know whose the name might be en-' graven there, she proceeded slowly to eut away the moss. _ Her task was but half completed when she stopped, breathless, to examine the work. Slowly she spelled the letters: **M—-A-—G—D-A 7? “Magdalen!” ex- claimed a deep voice at her side. Her knife went crashing down among the rocks. Sheturned quickly. With one hand grasping the back of the moss-coy- ered seat, a man stood watching her in- tently. His face was pale as that of the dead. What was there in the deep, gray eyes, darker and deeper because of the pallor that o’erspread his face, that seemed so familiar to her? Slowly, and in some indefinite way, Vivian felt that face associate itself with her mysterious past. There was something in it all that she could not understand. They had never met, and yet, sometime, some- where, she had seen a face like that. “The name is Magdalen, Miss Grey. Did you feel some curiosity to know ?”’ The words were careless; the air, that of a gentleman perfectly self-possessed. Only in his tone there was a world of irony as he continued: ‘‘Pray, allow me to assist you from your perilous posi- tion. A lady accustomed to the solid pavements of the city would do better, I fancy, to remain on terra firma while at The Elms.’’ Vivian felt the sting that his words implied. He had thought her guilty of prying. She replied, coldly; ‘1 have no need of your assistance, sir.’’ She loosed her hold, but her head was dizzy. She tottered forward a step or two, and had it not been for the assist- ance of the stranger she must have fallen. He supported her gently to the stone seat, waited a moment for the color to return to her face, raised his hat politely, and was gone. Vivian sat for a moment, with her face buried in her hands. What had it all meant? Vivian would have wondered yet more could she have seen the back- ward glance of the stranger as he as- cended the hill, or heard the muttered exclamation: ‘‘My God, so like her mother "’ ; Again and again Vivian recalled the words, the manner, so ingpnsistent with his first appearance. And then that haunting memory, that was not quite a memory, came, bringing with it that face that had in it something so familiar and yet so strange. Some fragment of 2 for- gotten dream it might have been; but no, it was too painfully distinct. The dinner hour had arrived when Vivian reached the house. There was an unwonted stir and commotion among the servants as sbe passed through the hall. Mrs. Winn met her on the stairs. She appeared nervous and uneasy. °S 16 one of your headaches ?’”’ Vivian asked, kindly. Mrs. Winn did not reply; but, laying her hand on the girl’s arm, she said, quietly: ‘‘Lawrence has arrived. 1 want to ask a particular favor. Can you uot lay aside your mourning for this one evening? He seems especially irritable to-day, and—and he has an aversion to mourning. My dear, you will find it very hard to please him.’’ There was just a little tremor in Marion’s voice, but her eyes looked very determined as she replied: ‘‘I shall do what I ean to appear pleasing to Mr. Everetts, since I am dependent on him, but this much is due my mother’s mem- ory, and I cannot comply with your re- quest.’’ ‘Marian, I wish to speak with youa moment.’? The library door had been left open, and the stern voice sounded plainly from within. The look of dis- may that swept over Mrs. Mrs. Winn’s countenance told plainer than words could have done whose the tones had been. Vivian shuddered involuntarily as she passed on up the stairs. So he had arrived at last, and unex- pectedly. What would he be like? Imbecile and eccentric, no doubt. Well, she would try to please him, and if she failed She thought of the thousands of home- less girls in the great city where her life had been spent, and wondered if she could live like them. It was full fifteen minutes later when the lithe, girlish form of Vivian Grey entered the dining- room, where’ Lawrence Everetts and his sister awaited her. She was dressed in deep mourning, her face was very pale, but her step was firm as she advanced to meet her guardian. ‘Lawrence, this is Miss Grey,’’ Mrs. Winn had said. “Miss Grey is very welcome to The Elms.’’ Vivian started. It was not the quick, stern tone she had heard in the library a few moments before. The voice was the same, but the tone so calm and grave, yet so full of irony that it almost contra- dicted the words he said. Yes, she had heard that, too, to-day, at the bridge. She reached forth her hand in a weak, petitioning sort of way, but Lawrence Everetts either did not see or did not heed the movement, for he only bowed profoundly and took his place at the head of the table. Once during the evening, as the light fell upon his face, Vivian looked up from her corner to take a more leisurely survey of his features. His age she could not guess. Time or trouble had left traces on the swarthy countenance, and fringed the temples with iron gray. That hand- some face had a,history, though few might read it. He had lived much, whatever his years, and he had suffered much. Vivian was beginning to feel something of pity for the cold, proud man, when her reflections were cut short by a quick glance from under the finely penciled brows. He seemed to have divined her thoughts. Had some pitying spirit dropped a tear for fallen Lucifer he could not have replied with a look of such unutterable scorn as that which flashed from the dark, penetrating eyes. She stopped, when ‘When you have finished your observa- tions, Miss Grey, perhaps you will favor us with some music.’’ Vivian started. She had not touched the piano since her mother’s death. How could she wake again the old familiar airs, when she whose pleasure they had been could listen no longer? She was about to refuse, but, at a beseeching glance from Mrs. Winn, she rose and moved toward the piano. Slowly her fingers moved over the keys, striking only low, mournful notes at first, and then through the old halls rang out the wild, sweet music of ‘‘Auld Lang Syne,’’ accompanied by a voice which Lawrence Everetts had heard equalled but once be- fore. It had heen a favorite air of her mother’s, but little did Vivian dream that in that room, years ago, another voice had followed the same sweet notes—a voice so like her own that Mrs. Winn’s face lost its color as she glanced anxiously toward her brother. Lawrence Everetts remembered. too. Uerose from his chair, and, as the last nof€s died away, Vivian turned to meet a face transfigured with emotions that had slumbered long. He clutched her arm with a grip like that of death. “Curse. you, girl!’ he eried. ‘‘How dare you taunt me so?” But he said no more. Vivian had fallen at his feet. ‘‘Miss Grey is ill, and does not desire any breakfast,’ the maid had said the next morning, and it was late in the day before Mrs. Winn could prevail on her to come down. She met Mr. Everetts. He did not apologize; there was no trace of last night’s excitement in his manner; he was cool and self-possessed, as before. Vivian avoided him as much as possible during the days that followed. When they met he was cool and polite, but that was all. The days passed. Mr. Everetts would return to the city soon on his way io Liy- erpool, where business required his pres- ence. He would extend his journey. and would spend some time on the Continent. It was with a feeling of relief that Vivian iearned this. He had made home un- pleasant for her, and she would be glad of his departure. It was a stormy evening late in Decem- ber, and Mr. Everetts’ last one at The Elms. He was busy in the library. Mrs. Winn had asked Vivian to remain with her in her sitting-room for awhile. Both ladies worked silently. Mrs. Winn stopped now and then t» wipe the dew from her glasses. She would miss her brother. Stern and haughty as he was, the old place would not be quite home without him. Vivian worked busily for some time. Her companion evidently was not in a communicative mood, and she made no attempt at conversation. She laid down her work at last, and walked to the win- dow. The wind was wailing wildly out- side. A few flakes of snow were falling, but to Vivian, in her restless mood, the storm was more soothing than the sweet- est music would have been. ‘‘Miss Grey. Mr. Everetts wishes to see you a moment in the library,’’? old Henry’s voice broke in upon her reverie. She wondered what he could want with her. Mrs. Winn motioned her to go, and she left the room. She paused a moment outside the library door. She had ecare- fully avoided him since the evening of his arrival, and now she must meet him, and alone. She opened the door, and Mr. Everetts advanced to meet her. ‘‘I wished to speak to you, Miss Grey,”’ he said. ‘‘I shall detain you but a few moments,” He drew a chair to the table and mo- tioned her toaseat. He was standing facing her, with his back to the fire, as he commenced; ‘I leave America to- morrow. You have learned enough of my character, perhaps, to know that my movements are controlled by impulse alone. Should impulse prompt me to continue my roving, I may, perhaps, re- main abroad for years. Inalife such as. mine there are few influences to bind one to any spot in particular, and with a curse like that of Ishmael hanging over me, 1 wander the earth, finding no pleasure in travel, yet not seeking rest. As there is no certainty as to the time of my return, I thought best now to make arrangements for the carrying out of a trust that cannot but be sacred to me. Until this evening I was not aware that you have been kept in entire ignorance as to your antecedents. “A half-hour ago a letter reached me from the solicitors of the late Mrs. Grey, informing me of the conditions on which your history was to be made known to you. One of these conditions was your intended marriage; the other, the less momentous one, of my death. In either case, you will receive, by addressing my counsellors at No. —, Oxford street, a letter from your mother containing all you wish to know. You will find a home here as long as is agreeable to you, and if Iean be of service at any time, you can command me.’? He turned to a desk in one corner of the room, and, taking from it a small morocco case, placed it on the table at her side. ‘‘Thi-,’’ he said, ‘‘came into my possession, it mat- ters not how. It may be of value to you, and your right to it is indisputable.” [CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE.} Perfection Scale. The Latest Improved and Best. a =e Weight Dues Not Reguire Down Will Soon Save Its Cost on any Counter. For sale by leading wholesale grocers. \45 The Michigan Tradesman AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. J.C. Kendall & Co. have sold their stock of millinery at 75 Monroe street to Corl, Knott & Co. Eliza (Mrs. Josiah “‘W.) Sherwood has sold her restaurant and bakery business at 15 Canal street to D. B. Monroe. All the local jobbing houses are crip- pled more or less by the sickness of either principals or employes with the prevailing malady. E. J. Mason & Co., the Grant jelly and preserves manufacturers, have placed their goods on sale with Goss & Doran, at 138 South Division street. Rindge, Bertsch & Co. have taken pos- session of the Frank E. Piper boot and shoe stock, at Charlotte, and have shipped the same to this city. W. H. Brooks, who holds the first mortgage on the Wilson drug stock, at Sand Lake, replevined the stock from the attaching creditors, one day last week, but was unable to give bonds and permitigd the stock to revert to the hands of the attaching creditors. AROUND THE STATE. Waldron—A. F. MeFarland, has assigned. Jonesville—T. J. Hughes, the meat dealer, is dead. Fenton—C. L. Corigen has sold his gen- eral stock to John O’ Hare. Clare—E. B. Horning has sold his stock of groceries to J. Ackerman. Lapeer—H. E. Hatch has sold his stock of hardware to Bennett Bros. Clinton—C. S. Burroughs has sold his drug stock to Myron Calkins. Lansing—F. J. Sindlinger has sold his grocery store to Frank Moore. Fife Lake—E. F. Foster has sold his meat market to C. T. Kimball. Detroit—H. A. White, of the firm of A. White & Son, tailors, is dead. Marion—A. J. Jones has added a stock of dry goods to his grocery store. Detroit—V. E. Schratz succeeds V. E. Shratz & Co. in the drug business. Jessieville—Chas. Anderson succeeds Goodwin & Co. in the meat business. Vermontville—G. S. Downs’ general store is closed under chattel mortgage. Manistee — Lewis Swanson succeeds Hulm & Swanson in the meat business. St. Johns—R. B. McCabe has sold his stock of boots and shoes to H. D. McCabe. Bronson—Burt Shepard has bought the drug and book stock of M. O. Rock- well. Wayne—Hosie & Stellwagen, general dealers, have sold out to D. M: Chambers & Co. Midland—The boot and shoe store of James A. Jay has been closed by cred- itors. Ovid—R. N. Thompson & Co. have sold their stock of groceries to Reeder & Loay. South Haven—E. A. Parker & Co. are succeeded in the clothing business by S. -. ah. Whitehall—The store of Gottlieb C. Funk, tailor, has been closed by the sheriff. Addison—Howd & Brooks, the cloth- iers, will start a branch store at Kelley’s Corners. Lake Odessa—Haller & Butler will continue the grocery business of C. Hal- ler & Co. Union City—Coddington & Olney suc- ceed Coddington & Allen in the meat business. Remus—lIt is reported that C. E. Morse will close out his general stock and locate elsewhere. Vicksburg—Will Cline, formerly of Prairie Ronde, has gone into the harness business here. Midland—Hecox & Lee, dealers in sec- ond-hand furniture, have sold their stock to Rhinehart & Co. Detroit—Rudd & Dewey, produce and commission dealers, will be succeeded by Chas. W. Rudd. Adrian—Johnson & Wheeler are suc- ceeded by Alfred Johnson in the grocery and drug business. Constantine—The notion stock belong- ing to the estate of Geo. M. Madden has been sold to Nicholas Hill. Kalkaska—A. T. Kellogg succeeds A. T. Kellogg & Co. in the grocery, crockery and meat market business. Hesperia—Dr. H. Carbine, formerly engaged in the drug business here, died a few days ago of consumption. Detroit—McPherson & Bordeau are succeeded in the stove and hardware business by Malcolm A. McPherson. Charlotte—C. S. Barrett and Fred L. Shepherd have formed a copartnership, and will carry a line of cigars and candy. Waldron—Wm. Bushong has retired from the firm of W. D. Bailey & Co., gen- eral dealers. The firm name remains the same. Lake Odessa—Teeple & Tice, who as- _ Signed last week, have satisfied their creditors, and will continue business at the old stand. Lowell—Chas. Althen has purchased the McGee block of Ort Hill and will oc- eupy it with his clothing stock. Consid- grocer, eration, $2,500. Greenville—Fowler & Briggs are mak- ing preparations to move their hardware stock into the store formerly occupied by Rasmus Nielsen. Laingsburg—James Lawlor nad C, H. Frain have purchased the building owned by the late Frank Cooper and have opened a produce exchange. Waldron—There may be enough saved from the McFarland failure to compen- sate the assignee, but the creditors will get little or nothing. Muskegon—Wm. B. Kieft, formerly engaged in the grocery business on his own account, is now behind the counter for C. M. Philabaum. Hart—C. G. Messinger, formerly of the drug firm of Garrod & Messinger, at Allegan, has purchased the drug stock of Dr. H. B. Hatch, here. Fennville—A. M. Johnson and J. F. Barron are associated with W. M. Bale in the grocery and crockery business un- der the style of W. M. Bale & Co. Chippewa Lake—Geo. A. McHenry & Co. have sold their drug stock to Jay Wilson, for several years past clerk for Barry & Co., the Rodney druggists. Galesburg—Richard W. Wells, who re- cently purchased the Turney grocery stock, has placed the business in charge of his father-in-law, Ezra Beckwith. Ferry—Theo. Landon has started a store in the building lately vacated by G. H. Mason. Itis understood that A. G. Avery, of Shelby, has furnished the stock. South Haven—R. T. Pierce & Co. are enlarging their already extensive pack- age facilities by erecting three com- modious warehouses opposite the Wil- liams warehouse. Muskegon—Gates L. Rosenthal has re- tired from the firm of Rosenthal Bros., clothiers. The business will be contin- ued by Sol. and Sam. Rosenthal, under the same firm name. St. Louis—J. W. Fenn, a boot and Shoe dealer, whose stock was to have been sold on the 15th, patched matters up with his creditors, and will continue business at the old stand. South Haven—The extra train service of the Toledo & South Haven Railway has been discontinued, there being now but one train aday. Much dissatisfac- tion is expressed in consequence. Paris—B. A. Webster, of Big Rapids, has bought the store building occupied by W. D. Hopkinson. Mr. Webster pro- poses to make several needed repairs and erect a twenty-five foot addition. Detroit—Emil S. Heineman has with- drawn frem the firm of Heineman, But- ze! & Co., wholesale clothiers. Business will be continued by Magnus and Martin Butzel under the style of Butzel Bros. & Co. Big Rapids—F. R. Ritchie and E. P. Shankwiler have formed acopartnership, under the style of Ritchie & Co., for the purpose of continuing the flour and feed business formerly conducted by C. J. Hood. Detroit—The dry goods firm of W. N. Winans & Co. has been dissolved, W. N. Winans and George Taylor acquiring the interests of C. S. and H. J. Herbert. The business will be continued at the old stand under the name of W. N. Wi- nans & Co. Sault Ste. Marie—A powder house be- longing to Collins & Farwell, containing about 100 pounds of powder, blew up on the 13th, the shock being felt throughout the town. Fortunately, no one was in- jured. The prime cause of the explosion is not known. Cheboygan—The stock of clothing and boots and shoes formerly owned by Wertheimer Bros., and bought at chattel mortgage sale by J. Brown & Co., De- troit, has been placed in the hands of John Wertheimer for disposal. He will close it out at retail. \ Muskegon—A Muskegon grocer has just discovered that he has been for many years using a weight stamped four pounds, but which in reality weighed four pounds, four ounces. He is now figuring on a scheme whereby he can honestly get even with his patrons. Millbrook—T. O. Pattison has divided his meager stock of drugs and groceries, moving one portion across the street, where business is conducted under the management of his son-in-law, W. R. Stringham. As Pattison is a P. of I. dealer, and Stringham is not, it is sup- posed that this move was made to hold the scanty trade of the old concern. Cheboygan—H. Chambers, having de- cided to discontinue business on account of the depressed condition of trade, has transferred his stock to the wholesale house of Burnham, Stoepel & Co. The stock has been inventoried and is now being arranged under the supervision of John D. Leahy, who has been with S. Highstone, St. Ignace, for the past seven years. It has not been definitely settled yet whether the business will be contin- ued or not, but Mr. Leahy thinks it will be, for a time, at least. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Brookfield—John Kay’s new sawmill is in running order. Owosso — Woodard Bros., manufacturers, have dissolved. Detroit—Heck & Hemel are succeeded by the Heck & Hemel Lumber Co. furniture Climax—Osgood & Derhammer are building a new sawmill near the depot. Eaton Rapids—A. G. Baker has sold his foundry to Fisher & McCue, of Delhi. Lee—J. Foster & Co. are putting in a}. lath bed slat mill and will also cut fence pickets. Sunfield—C. M. Haddix has sold his saw and planing mill to Robt. and W. Ramsey. Detroit—The Bay State Manufactur- ing Co. has been closed under chattel mortgage. Owosso—Daniel Burhans has bought the stock and business of the Owosso Cigar & Candy Co. Manistee — The Filertown furniture factory, which was recently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt. Bay City—The capital stock of the Moore & Whipple Lumber Co. has been increased to $35,000. Evart—Collin & Phelps have leased A. J. McCarn’s mill. They are repairing it and getting it ready to run. Owosso—F. E. Brooks & Co. are the successors to E. M. Brooks in the gro- cery, produce and lumber business. Cheboygan—Morrissey & Noll, cigar makers, have dissolved partnership. The business will be continued by John Noll. Bay City—Eddy Bros. & Co. are mak- ing some improvements to their mill, among other things putting in a new band saw. Carrollton—The Pease, Robinson & Jackson Co... manufacturer of lumber, has been dissolved and will be succeeded by Robinson & Jackson. Big Rapids—James G. McElwee & Co., manufacturers of lumber and mouldings, have incorporated under the style of the McElwee Manufacturing Co. Cadillac—J. C. Born and John Lett are preparing to engage in a new entér- prise—that of manufacturing the Bur- dock center-support bed spring. Belding—The Miller Casket Co. turned out 800 caskets last month, and received orders for 700 during last week. Several new pattenrs have lately been gotten out. Muir—Geo. W. French, who has sold his lumber yard to A. J. Webber, of Ionia, has gone to Tennessee, where he is interested in a manufacturing com- pany. Kalamazoo—At the annual meeting of the St. John Plow Co., a handsome divi- dend was declared and it was decided to increase the traveling force during the present year. Vassar—The Vassar woolen mills are again looking for a new site. Bay City is tempting the company with sugar, sor- ghum and molasses, but has nat yet secured a favorable reply. Durand—F. H. Potter, receiver for Bennett, Ranney & Co., has sold their planing mill at this place to Gustine & Bozard, of New Lothrop, who will put in the sawmill maehinery at once. Bay City—John Welch started his saw- mill some time ago, cutting car stuff, but ran out of logsand shutdown. He ex- pects to receive logs by rail soon, and will then run his mill the rest of the winter. Bay City—N. B. Bradley & Sons brought over 15,000,000 feet of logs out of the Saginin, a small stream on the bay shore, last season, and there are as many more new logs mow banked on the stream. Manton—The stave business of the late C. W. Millard, who suicided Christ- mas morning, has been put in charge of M. E. Taylor, his former manager, and it is thought that the factory will be run as usual the present season. Alpena—The firm of Fletcher, Pack & Co. expired by limitation January 1. The river mill will be operated next sea- son by Albert Pack, and the bay shore mill by the Messrs. Fletcher. Some parts of the present partnership business will be continued. Atwood—Mr. Nash has _ purchased eighty acres of timber near his mill from Daniel Flanigan, and has been cut- ting logs on the tract and drawing them tothe mill on trucks. The mill is now running night and day, and is doing a good business. Jackson—R. A. Gibson, the plumber, contemplates engaging in the manu- facture of plumbers’ supplies under the style of the Jackson Plumbing, Heating and Lighting Co., in which case he will be associated with Chas. S. Safford, late of Los Angeles, Cal. Detroit—The stockholders of the new- ly-organized Dwight Lumber Co. are as follows: Joseph H. Berry, 4,997 shares; William G. Smith, Alden O. Carter and William M. Dwight (formerly head of the defunct firm of William M. Dwight & Co.), one share each. Charlotte—The lumber and planing mill business of the Richardson Mill Co. has been consolidated with that of R. H. Bohn, of Chester, and the new firm will be known as R. H. Bohn & Co. Opera- tions will be continued at both places under the management of R. H. Bohn. Hilliards—The general stock of L. D. Foote has been foreclosed by Spring & Company, who sold the same to H. E. Parmelee for a consideration of $1,000. Mr. Foote was subsequently arrested at the instance of Moran, Fitzsimons & Co., of Detroit, for obtaining goods under false pretenses. Foote had arranged to CROWN PRINCE. Neate e — — rin ANN a \ IN i vit eT aoa \\\ Ph a \\ é a fH ii OWL. Rising Sun Buckwheat, ha In order to more thoroughly introduce our Rising Sun * Buckwheat Flour,* which is the leading brand of = roller process buckwheat fiour on the market, we will deliver same at ‘any ‘railway station (where freight rate does not exceed 25 cents per bbl) freight prepaid, for $4 per bbl., cash to accompany all orders. a Newaygo Roller Mills, NEWAYGO, MICH. remove to Fremont and in the manufacture of cigars. Manistee—Rumor has it that S. Bab- cock proposes removing his hoop factory to Copemish, or some other point on the Manistee & Northeastern Railroad, where the supply of raw material is unlimited, and will go into the manufacture of that class of goods on an extensive scale. This factory has lain idle for the past year, owing to the difficulty of procuring the right kind of logs at a minimum of expense, and experience has demon- strated the fact that the place to locate such a plant is among the timber. Bay City—Indications are that a large quantity of logs will be rafted to this place next season from outside points. It is this increase of resources that will continue the importance of the Saginaw River as alumber manufacturing point for years. Logs will be brought here next season from Canada, Escanaba, Naubinway and other Upper Michigan points, from Presque Isle county and other Lake Huron points. There is yet back in the Kawkawlin 7,000,000 feet; in the Rifle 5,500,000 feet; in the Au Gres 8,000,000 feet. Lake City—Louis Sands has a crew at work on his new purchase in Missaukee county, and will have a _ portable mill running ina fewdays to get out the boards and bill stuff for his large circular and band mills. It is said that the latter will be located near the old Cody & Moore slide on Muskrat Lake, a mile or more from Lake City, and be new throughout. The county is fortunate in now having another chunk of its raw material manufactured at home, and no little benefit will also accrue to this place and Cadillac as the nearest dis- tributing centers for camp and mill sup- plies. East Saginaw—The case of Lucy Clow vs. Charles H. Plummer, the well-known lumberman, occupied the attention of Judge Edget’s court last week. The case grew out of a claim for damages for timber cut from a tract of land located near the village of Ogemaw. The tract formerly belonged to George E., Charles and Abram Clow. Mr. Plummer owned adjacent lands. He bought George E. Clow’s interest. Subsequently he lum- bered the entire eighty. Charles and Abram Clow died, Charles leaving a widow and daughter and Abram a daugh- ter. The three heirs united in a suit, which was brought by Lucy Clow, widow of Charles, to recover for3the undivided two-thirds of the timber which had been taken from the ttact in question. There was no defense against their ownership, but if the timber was taken by Mr. Plummer by virtue of what he supposed to be a full title, the plaintiffs would be entitled to stumpage value only. If it were taken with Mr. Plummer’s full knowledge that he was not the owner, then the plaintiffs would be entitled to the value of the logs at the mills where they were sawed. The question as to Mr. Plummer’s knowledge was_ passed upon by the jury, and by its verdict it found that he took the timber knowing ghat he had no title to it. The jury ren- dered damages. for the amount of the value of the logs at the mills where they were sawed,$5,852.80. The case will, un- doubtedly, be taken to the Supreme Court. engage a -- He Kept it Still. Customer—Do you keep old Cheshire cheese still ? Dealer—We ain’t had no trouble as yet, sir, but we can muzzle it, you know, if it shows a tendency to run off, 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. FA. Wurzburg & Go., Exclusive Jobbers of DRY GOODS, HOSIERY, NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR, 19 & 21 SOUTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. 1UW CASKS! 6-ftcase like above by If 4 6-ft case, square, with metal corners, same price. The above offer is no “bluff” or snide work. We shall continue to turn out only the BEST of work, All other cases at equally low prices. ARYMAN & GOMPANY, 63 AND 65 CANAL STREET, Grand Rapids, Mich. WHOLESALE Carpets, Oil Cloths, Rugs, China Mattings Draperies, and Parlor Screens Smith & Sanford, Ottawa and Pearl Sts., Ledyard Block. ESTABLISHED 1870. CHAS. SCHMIDT & BROS,, OManufacturers and Dealers in Foreign and American Granite and Marble MonUments a Statvary Having erected a New Granite Factory with the Latest Improved Machinery, we can Guarantee all Work First Class and Fill Orders Promptly. + WORKSHOP AND POLISHING MILLS: Cor. West Fulton and Straight Streets. OFFICE AND SALESROOM: 93 Canal Street. GRAND RAPIDS, = MICH. LION ; COFFEE < Merchants, YOU WANT THIS CABINET Thousands of Them Are in use all over the land. It does away with the unsightly barrels so often seen on the floor of the average grocer. Beautifully grained and varnished and put together in the best possible manner. Inside each cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with screws. Kvery Wide- Awake Merchant ° Should Certainly Sell UN, THE KING OF GOFFEES. An Article of Absolute Merit. It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees. only in one pound packages. Put up in 100-lb cases, also in cabinets of 120 one-pound packages. For sale by the wholesale trade everywhere. Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States. Woolson Spice Co., TOLEDO, OHIO. L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. * s Packed * ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT. Michigan Business Men’s Association. ident—C. L. ———y Muskegon. “Qyriet Vice President—C Bridgeman, Flint. Becond Vice-President—M. C. Sherwood, Allegan. Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. n 1 freasurer—H. Ww. Parker, Owosso. Executive Board—President; Frank ro Lansing; City; N. B. Blain, Lowell Chas. T. Bridgeman, Flint; O. F. Conklin, @ ids, Secretary. Gamnemee on Insurance—O. F. Conklin, Grand Rap ids; Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Owosso. Committee on Legislation— Frank. Wells, Lansing; H. H. Pope, Allegan; C. H. May, Cli Committee on Trade 1 a wes ag, {aoe ‘Hamilton, Trav Frank Hamilton, Traverse — erse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. W. Sprague, Ih oom - Transportation—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint; Sherwood, Allegan; A. O. Wheeler, Manistee. ousuaues on Building and Loan Associations—N. B. Blain, Lowell; F. L. Fuller, Cedar Springs; P. J. Con ell, Muskeger. a theeres 0k. H. Moore, Saginaw. Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The following auxiliary associations are oper- ating under charters granted by the Michigan Business Men’s Association ° Ne. i—Traverse City B. M. A. President. J. Ww. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings. _ No. 2—Lowell B. M. A. _B. Plain; Secretary, Frank T. King. No. 3—Sturgis B. M.A. President, | H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. No. 4—Grand Rapids | M. A. President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. No, 5—Muskegon B. M, A. President: Secretary, C. L. Whitney. No. 6—Alba &. M. A. President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. No. 8—Eastport B. M. A. President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A. President, H. M. Marshal; Secretary, J. H. Kelly. x M, A. No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson. No.1Li— Kingsley Bb. MM. A. H. P. Whipple: Sec retary. ry, D. E. Wynkoop. _ No. 12—Quincy B. M. President, Edson Blackman; Secr etary, No. 13—sSherman 5S. M. A. President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin. No. 14—Ne. Muskegon B. M, A. President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens. a No. 15— Boyne City B. M.A. President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. ee No. i6—Sand Lake B. M. A. President, J. V. Crandall; Secretary, W. Rasco. No. 1?7—Plainwell B. M. A. President, Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle. B.M, A. No. 18—Owosso 5 x esident, Warr en P. W roodard; Secretary, Ss. Lamfrom. w ~ No. 19—Ada B. M. A. President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel. No. 20—Saugatuck B. M. A. President, joun F ohn F. Henry; etary, N. L. Rowe. No. 21—Way President, C. H. Wh President, N esident, A. W.H. Lockerby. id B. M. A. arton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt. No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M.A. R. Clarke. President, A. B. Se shumacher; Secretary, a. No. 23—Carson City B, M.A. President, John W. Hallett: Sec retary, l.. A. Lyon. No. 24—Morliey B. M. A. President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond. No. 25—Palio Bb. M.A . A. Hargrave; ' Secretary, I.5 Ne. 26—Greenville 3. M. A. President. A. C. Satterlee: Secretary, E. J. Clark. " No 27—Dorr 5B. M. A. .s20ns, a 8. Botsford; S« Seeretary, L. N President, F 5. Jeffers. N. Fisher. 23—Cheb« ygan B. M. A President, - = Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer. sts int oneal No. 29-—Freeport B. M. A. President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough. No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. President, A.G. Avery; ee No. 31—Charlotte B. M. i President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury. No. 32—C oopersville B. M. A. President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson. No. — Charlevoix B. M. A. President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane. No, 34—Saranac B. M. i esident, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. W illiams. — No. 35—Bellaire B. ™M. A. President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore. Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M.A. President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden. No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore. No. 38—Sceottvi lle B. M. A. President, = E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins. No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A. President, W. §. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert. No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A. President, C. H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner. No. 42—Fremont B. M. A. esident, Jos. Gerber; Secretary C No. 43— Tustin B. M. A. President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom. No. 44—Keed City B. M. A. President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith. No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A President, D. H. Hallenbeck; Secretary, oO. ry Halladay. No. 46—Leslie M, A, President, V Wm. Hutchi ins; Secre “tary, B. _M. . Gould. No. 47—Flint M. U. President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W.H.Graham. No. 48—Hubbardston B. = A. J. Tabor. President, Boyd Redner; Secretary,{W. No. 49—Leroy B M. President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith. No. 50—Manistee B. M.A. | President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis. No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A. President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon. No. 52—Grand Haven B. MA President, A. S. Kedzie; Secretary, F.D D. Vos. No, 53—Believue B. M. A. President, Frank | Phelps; ere: E. Fitzgerald. No. 54—Dougias 3B. M.A. Thomas B. Dutche “on — C. B. Waller. No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A. President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman. No. 56—Bangeor B. M. A. N. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman. No. 57—Roeckiord B. M. A. Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham. o. 58—Fife Lake R. M. A. Plakely. President, President, President, Peeciaent, 1 sident, L. 8. Walter; Secretar; ,C.¢ No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. President F. 8. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen. No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt. No. 61—Hartford B. M. A. President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. No. 62—East saginaw M. A. President, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mulholand, No. 63—Evart B. M. A. President, C. v. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell. Ne, 64—Merrill B, M. A. President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton. No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. ident, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, O. 8. Blom. No. 66—Lansing B. M. A. President, Frank Wells; Seeretary, Chas. Cowles. No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A. President, W. L. Garrett; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield. No. 68—Aliegan B. M.A. President, H.H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand. No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison. No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, President, Wm. Boston; Secretary, Walter “Webster. No. 71—Ashley B. M. A, President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck. No, 73—Belding B. M. A. President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster. . No. 74—Davison M. U. Wysiaent, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. C. W. Hurd. No. 75—Tecumseh B. M, A. President ee Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. Presiden’: ee 8. MeCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong. o. 77—South Haven B. M. A. smi E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross. No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A. President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders. Ne. 79—Kast Jordan and So. Arm B. M. A, President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison. No. 80—Bay City and W. Bay City R. M,A. President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Lee E. Joslyn. No. 81—Flushing B. M, A. ident. L. a Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom. 82—Alma B M, A. President, = = Webb; Secretary, M. E. Pollasky. 83—Sherweood B. M, A. President, z Ss. 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. 86 Millbrook and Blanchard B. M. A. President, T. W. Preston; Secretary, H. P. Blanchard. Ne. 87—Shepherd B, M. An President, H. D. Bent; Secretary, A. W. Hurs No. 88—Ovid B. M. A. BHaicent, J. A. Andrews; Secretary, L. D. Cooley. Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling. . J. Rathbun. Good Words Unsolicited. J. H. MeMurtrie & Son, druggists, Three Rivers: “Weenjoy very much its interesting trade notes and punctual price changes.” Carman & Childs, millers, Rowland: ‘Please continue to send your valuable paper. It seems that we could not do business without it.” (2-2. —__ Election of the; Rockford B. M. A. From the Rockford Register. The Rockford Businéss Men’s Associa- tion held a well attended meeting last Wednesday evening. The following ex- cellent officers for the coming year were elected : President—G. A. Sage. Vice-President—Jackson Coon. Secretary—H. S. Holden. Treasurer—Joshua Colby. Executive Committee—J. Hessler, S. E. RyKert. The Association discussed some im- provements, of which we shall have more to say later on. ———_=> 4 The P. of I. Dealers. The following are the P. of I. dealers who had not cancelled their contracts at last accounts: Adrian—Powers & Burnham, Anton Wehle, L. T. Lochner. Allendale—Henry Dalman. Almont—Colerick & Martin. Altona—Eli Lyons. Assyria—J. W. Abbey. Bay City—Frank Rosman & Co. Belding—L. S. Roell. Big Rapids—W. A. Verity,A. V. Young, E. P. Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk, J. K. Sharp. Blanchard—L. A. Wait. Blissfield—Jas. Gaiintlett, Jr. Brice—J. B. Gardner. Burnside—Jno. G. Bruce & Son. Capac—H. C. Sigel. Carson City—A. B. Loomis, sions. Casnovia—Ed. Hayward, John E. Par- eell. Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A. Fish. Charlotte—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. Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt. 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—aA. J. Halsted & Son. Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wil- zinski, Brown & Sehler, Volmari & Von Keppel. Hart—Rhodes & Leonard. Hersey—John Finkbeiner. Hesperia—B. Cohen. Howard City — O. J. Knapp, Bros., E. C. Pelton. Hubbardston—M. Cahalen. Imlay City—Cohn Bros. Jackson—Hall & Rowan. Kalamo—L. R. Cessna. Kent City—M. L. Whitney. Laingsburg—D. Lebar. Lake Odessa—Christian Haller & Co., E. F. Colwell & Son. Lakeview—H. C. Thompson. Langston—F. D. Briggs. Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jen- nings. Lowell—Patrick Kelly. McBride’s—J. McCrae. Maple Rapids—L. S. Aldrich. Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lep- per & Son, Jno. Butler. Richard Butler, John Fletcher. Mecosta—Parks Bros. Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. 8.) Knight. Millbrook—T. O. (or J. W.) Pattison. Millington—Chas. H. Valentine. Milton Junction—C. A. Warren. 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 ccs Homrich. Ogden—A. J. Pence. Olivet—F. H. Gage. Onondaga—John Sillik. Orono—C. A. Warren. Reed City—J. M. Cadzow. Remus—C. V. Hane. Richmond—Knight & Cudworth. Riverdale—J. B. Adams. Rockford—B. A. Fish. Sand Lake—Brayman & Blanchard, Frank E. Shattuck & Co. Shelby—Angus Rankin. Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow. Sparta—Dole & Haynes, Frank Heath. Springport—Powers & Johnson. “ Stanton—Fairbanks & Co., Sterling & 0. Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter. Trufant—l. Terwilliger. Vassar—McHose & Gage. Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson, H. C. Breckenridge. White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W. Wiley. Williamston—Thos. Horton. —— oe 2 VISITING BUYERS. J. Vanden Bosch, Zeeland. E. 8. Botsford, Dorr. Den Herder & Lahuis Z’1'd. G. &. Walbrink, Allendale. M. Heyboer & Bro., Oakl’d. A. J. White, Bass River. John Bishop, Montague. L. Cook, Bauer. Orentsen “” Stronk, Bald- — Giles & Co., Lowell. Annual Coon, Wes. A. Y. Ses- J. 5B. Herold win, Wis. A. Denton, Howard City. S. M. Vinton, Leetsville. Frank Narregang, Byron J. Tunk, Muskegon. genie A. J. White, Bass River. J.H. Hoogstraat, Conklin. T. Van Enenan, Zeeland. A. Purchase, 8. Blendon. Ashley & Burnett, Howard. D. H. Decker, Zeeland. Smallegan & Pikard, For- M. Minderhout, Hanley. est Grove. John Gunstra, Lamont. — Senior. Kings- Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland. ley. Johnson & Seibert. Caled’ a J. W. Mead, Berlin. Geo. J. Noteware, Bellaire Geo. Meyering. Vriesland. Frank A,Cole& Co., Bell’re Frank Cornell, Sebewa. H. Bownyard, Lake. Cole & Chapel, Ada. John Smith. Ada. W.R. Lawton, Berlin. J. Raymond, Berlin. W. J. Butler, Sand Lake. J. Hornrich, North Dorr. HH. Childs, Rockford. J. Reddering, Drenthe. Rhodes & Leonard, Hart. W. Kareten, Vriesland. Munger, of Munger, Watson H. Van Noord, Jamestown. & Dell, Sullivan. John Dametra, Gitchell. Alex Denton, Howard City. J. ae. Kinney. R. J. Side, Kent City. L. M. Wolf, ceaiearviile. Cc. 8. Comstock, Pierson. &, i. Deming, Hammond. F. D. Vos & Co., G’d Haven. Marten & Hammond, Smith & Bristol, Ada. Grandville. B. Watson, Coopersvile. H. Meijering, gaomee W.H. Hicks, Morley. J. W. Anderson, Holton. J.L. Thomas, Cannonsburg. J. De Vries, Jamestown. i N. Wait, Hudsonville. P. Breenahan, Parnell. a. C: Peckham, Freeport. S. ao Co., Byron Cen- FADED/LIGHT TEXT P. of I. Gossip. D. Lebar has signed with the P. of I. at Laingsburg. The P. of I. have placed a boycott on Tustin and Leroy for sixty days. Muir correspondence Lyons Herald: “The Patrons of Industry have not yet induced any of our merchants to adopt. the 10-per-cent.-cash-system.”’ Mecosta correspondence Big Rapids. Current : ‘‘Our P. of I. store does notseem | to be doing avery rushing business. Remus and its P. of {. store are too near.”’ OGrand Rapids Workman: ‘‘Van Driele & Kotvis, flour and feed dealers, have withdrawn from the P.’s of I. They say they have tried the scheme thoroughly and have had all they want of it.’’ oAllendale correspondence Coopersville Observer: our town and Henry Dalman has changed his store toa P. 1. store. But we notice the P. I.’s come to I. J. Quick’s occa- sionally to trade.’’ J. P. Berg, P. of I. organizer for Grand | Traverse county, protests against being referred to as a dead-beat. MAN-has made a thorough investigation of the charge and finds that Berg is a bigger dead-beat than it originally sup-| posed him to be. Grand Traverse county is entitled to | the sympathy of more fortunate portions of the State. Dead-beat Berg has been reinforced by the sainted Elder Payne, whose name once occupied a prominent) position on the criminal calendar of the | Kent Circuit Court. Henry Henkel, the contract dealer at | Howard City, has thrown the P. of L. overboard. the organization has yet received, as Mr. Henkel isa man of considerable means and carries the best stock of any dealer | who has ever catered to the Patrons. Sparta Sentinel: ‘‘The P.’s of I. who hold their meetings at the Dowling school They | built sheds for teams and | house have over 100 members. have lately claim to be in fine order for business. Like nearly all such organizations, they seem to abound in faith, but their works are not so apparent. much better in theory than in practice.” Lakeside correspondence News: Friday Patrons of Industry organization, but the | crowd did not seem to materialize very substantially and the gentleman only got | five subscribers. The people of the Eighth Ward do not seem very prompt to recognize the merits of this institution. A Cadillac correspondent writes: ‘‘The P. of .’s are upon us. A. man by the name of Johnson, of Kent county, is the} organizer—at $10 a lodge. He organized three lodges last week, with a total membership of about 200, and is at it again this week. When every township is organized, a county convention is to be held—the usual procedure, I sup- pose.’’ One of the most amusing scenes con- nected with the P. of I. movement is to note how quickly the Patrons drop a con- tract dealer who manages to insert.in the | contract a clause to the effect that the: concession is not to be granted to any one who already owes him a_ book ac- count. Paying book accounts, or any other kind of accounts, is not set in the curriculum of the P. of I. Allegan Gazette: ‘‘Agents are traveling about the State selling certificates of membership in the National Union Asso- | ciation, the object of which, they rep- at manufacturers’ claim that the ated under the laws of the State. pretense is as false as the others, yet, considering the favor with which that equally impracticable swindle, the Patrons of,Industry, was received, we prices. shall likely soon hear of the equal suc-| cess of this one among aclass who are too dense in their wits to be otherwise than ‘too poor to take a paper.’ ”’ The Belknap Wagon and Sleigh Co. is considerably annoyed at the frequently- repeated false statements of the P. of I. organizers, to the effect that a Belknap wagon can be had at a considerable re- duction by joining the Patrons. There is no foundation whatever for the state- ment, as the officers of the company have repeatedly refused to negotiate with the committees of the P. of I., and have never said or done anything which would lead the Patrons to think that the matter of a concession was considered for a mo- ment. The rascally organizers will, of course, continue to repeat the falsehood, but this explanation is made for the ben- efit of those who might be constrained to believe the report, were it permitted to go uncontradicted. Manton Tribune: ‘‘We are informed that an organization of the Patrons of Industry has been formed at Colfax, with eighteen charter members. It didn’t get here as soon as la grippe, but may do more mischief, for all that. Don’t let any of our farmer readers become of- fended because, as the headlines would seem to indicate, we are opposed to or- ganizations among the farmers. On thé contrary, we are in favor of such organ- izations as tend to benefit its members | without necessarily injuring others, and— “There is a P. of I. lodge in' THE TRADES-| This is the most severe blow | Their. plans work , Muskegon | ‘‘An organizer was in this ward; evening attempting to form a) down | ‘association’ is incorpor- | That | ‘we also believe this to be the object of , Such organizations as the P. of L, but, ‘in many instances, they are controlled _by the vicious class of their members, | whose sole object seems to be to injure ‘somebody, even though they destroy themselves in the endeavor.”’ Oceana County (Hart) Tribune: | **Rhodes & Leonard, of this place, have entered into a contract with the P. of IL. association of this vicinity to sell them ‘groceries and dry goods on a basis of from 10 to 20 per cent., with an average | profit of 15 per cent. The contract en- tered into terminates at the expiration of three months from the 13th of January. | Their per cent. profit includes the arti- cles laid down here—to be figured from , their invoice bill with freight and cart- age added. _In signing the contract, the firm repudiated (struck out) the clause | which compels them to buy all farmers’ | produce, whether the same be good, bad | or indifferent. They have gone into the | scheme merely as an experiment, hoping _ to become satisfied at the termination of their contract whether the objects of the association are practicable or not.’’ ee cai Purely Personal. | C. C. Philbrick has gone to New York | on a pleasure trip. | Brokers Freeman and Hastings are down with la grippe. | Frank J. Wurzburg has returned from | Lockport, N. ¥., whither he was called to attend the funeral of his wife’s sister. ; Geo. J. Noteware, druggist at Bellaire, and Frank A. Cook, hardware dealer at the same place, were in town three days | last week. | Will Hugh, of the lumbering firm of Higbee & Hugh, and the milling firm Wm. Hugh & Co., at Morley, | town over Sunday. Frank Potter, formerly with the drug firm of Garrod & Messenger, at Allegan, is now behind the prescription case of the successor of the late firm, W. J. Gar- rod. Geo. A. McHenry, was in has pre-empted 160 acres of land. E. J. Mason, the jelly and preserves} | couple of days last week, on _ home from the annual convention fruit manufacturers at Benton Harbor. his way | of ; Geo. B. Caldwell, confidential clerk for | Tucker, Hoops & Co., left last evening for Dayton, Ohio, to attend the annual meeting of the Union Association of Lumber Dealers. He will accompany the delegates to Chicago, returning home Saturday. ea An Appeal to Cesar. The East Saginaw Mercantile Associa- tion has sent the following appeal to the employers of labor in the Saginaw Val- ley: EAST SAGINAW, To all who employ labor: We, as an incorporated association, with a present membership of 125 of the principal business men of the Saginaws, and auxiliary to the Michigan Business ; Men’s Association, would respectfully | call your attention to the matter of col- ilections. As we are compelled to assist ithe laboring man, more or less, with credit, we can see no way to dispense | with the credit system, without causing | hardship among many people. There- | fore, we ask your kind assistance to col- ‘lect our accounts, knowing that the abil- ity to collect debts from those who work Jan. 20, 1890. is, that at times some of our members have had orders on different employers, and in most cases have been told then | that they paid their men and would not take any trouble to collect bills for others. Some have advised us that we should sell for cash and not trust, in which ease we would not have any debts to collect. Under existing circumstances, however, ; we earnestly ask your co-operation, and , hope you will use all the influence you can to help us and yourselves as well. a a Falsehood as an Aid of the P. of I. Scene—P. Steketee & Son’s store. Trade Committee, P. of I.—Is Mr. Stek- etee in ? Clerk—Yes; would you like to see him ? Committee—Yes; we want to make a contract with him. [Clerk carries the message to Mr. Stek- etee and returns. | Clerk—Mr. Steketee requests me to say that it will do you no good to see him, as he does not wish to consider the matter. * * * = * % * Scene—Spring & Company’s store, teri minutes later. Committee—We’ve come to see you, Spring, about contracting to sell (the P. of I. Steketee is crazy to take our trade, but we’ve come to see you first. Better sign now and get ahead of Stek- etee. Mr. Spring—How do you know Mr. Steketee wants to sign your contract ? Committee—’Cause he’s followed us around all day, beggin’ the privilege. Better sign now and we won’t go near him. a Association Notes. AB. M. A. has been organized at Ovid, with sixteen charter members. Application for ad- ‘ mission to the State body secured Charter No. ; 88. J. A. Andrews is President of the new organ- ization and L. D. Cooley Secretary. of ; formerly engaged in | the drug business at Chippewa Lake, has | arranged to embark in the same business | ; at Gulf Port, Miss., near which place he | manufacturer at Grant, was in town a | for you lies largely within your power. | f | The reason for asking this favor of you! resent, is to enable farmers to purchase | wagons, buggies and farming implements [ The agents | Dry Goods. Prices Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. Atlantic A. .c.. 2.2: 74|Integrity XX........ 53 Atlanta A. A........ 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No.1 Sun, wrapped and labeled Sellars Epc caer ae 3 70 Ge ete 47 No. ae e - fee eos weet pte 470 La Bas No. : Sun, ‘plain bulb, per | = eda esl veedbs 13 No. piveaccceasck Oe No. i crimp, per. doz.. No. 2 STONEWARE—AKRON. Utter COCKER, POT BAI... iio is ccs cance > Jugs, % Bal., per doz. ces cea eos eureuontoas eo. % Hee ONG, ces ceed eas ecleue oe Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 65 ac “ + “cc if ( “ 900) :... 8 ssl TOOLS *1 Wee endeavor to carry a full assortment. Foster, Stevens & Co., 10 and 12 Monroe St., 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HARDWARE. Prices Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. a Ives’, old style Rs eis s eee ss 60 a ee 40 Pensines SeMMIne. 6.6.8 s. le 25 Jennies , MAHON 2.60222. 50&10 AXES, Hirst Quaticy. 0. B. Bronze.) ...-.... 2.2... #7 00 bis i -B Brenze 2-2... 11 00 cn mB SS Steel si 8 50 - DoS. ‘Steel ioe oe ee oa 13 00 BARROWS. dis. TRE $ 14 00 Garden ee: net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. Oe ee eo 50&10 Carriage new list. [ee 70 Pie ee ee ae Mee eae cas 5 sue 40&10 Sleigh BOC 70 BUCKETS. Wel pit 8 3 50 WOH SWivel 030i. a le BUTTS, CAST. dis @ast Loase Gin fisnured. 0.0 233. T0& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 66410 Wrougnt Loose Cin. 2)... 60410 Wrought Table ...-..... peau ees Wroucnt imsige Bind. .......... |)... ‘ Wrouens Brass 1. 8. se Bing: €igtes. - 7O&10 Blind, ee ee oe 70&10 Blind, SCPE See 7 OCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list Aiea ie. Oe. 40 CRADLES, rein. dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. Caat Steed perb 5 CAPS. Rive? 00 ce ls erm 6S Pees Cf... ess oe: - 60 S88 | Se Cea Gee aD eee aan a 5 - 35 PPGGECE . 60 CARTRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50 iim Bire. United Staten. ............ 2... dis. 50 Central Were. dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. MOGkCS Pitter 7O0&10 SQCKCt Mrawiine. 02 70&10 BOCKCLOOIHOE.. of 70&10 MOCECE SUIGES 920025005. ee 70&10 Butcnere Tange Wirmer................ 0... 40 COMBS. dis. Girry, taiwaenee so. 40 HotehKiss .....-..-....------+--2----2+e----s 25 CHALE. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 28 14x52, 14x56, te 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..60 100060... 25 Cold Rolled, cee ee. a. 25 WOUOIEA os ‘ 27 DRILLS. dis. Morse s Wit SteGks | cs ie 40 Paper and straight Shank..................- 40 WOtke 6 SADCO NOAM 2 40 DRIPPING PANS. Snislt SigG8, SOT POUNG . 202. te cs. 74 HhGtee sisGk, per pound 6.0... 6% ELBOWS. Com 4 piece Gin... eo net 15 COPene alee 2 7% 20&10&10 PernGeere ooo dis. 40.410 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, $18; ry WG... 30 yes’, 1, $18: 2, G4; 3 Ge 25 oe ew List. dis. DIRS oe - -60£10 New American.. Soo ae cece a a ca MPIOMONSOTE GS oo 60&10 overs. eee clues 50 OHGr fe HOEHC TOABDR. 8. 50 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2% and 2%; 27 28 List 12 13 14 15 18 Discount, 50410 GAUGES. dis. Staniey Ruloand Leyel Co.’s..-..:......... 50 HAMMEBRS. Maydelo & CO Be ce dis. 2% WON ee dis 2 Wortes & Cum s....-.. 22. dis. 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........-.:...... 30¢ list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30¢c 40&10 HINGES. Gate: Claris, 1,253. 2. dis.60&10 ECE CRN S Has RE IC asa A r doz. nt 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. a 14 and OEE oe cre ca ee eles coemieas 3% Screw Hook and Eye, SG net 10 ee ee. net 8% be ca = ee ecw as ues net 7% . _ - WB ee ecu e ae) net 7% Strap and es dis, HANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Champion, anti-friction.................... 60&10 Kidder, woodtmek 40 HOLLOW WARE. Te ae 60 OC 60 POON ees 60 iciray onamerod. 22.003 e 40&10 HOUSE FURNISHING 00D Stamped Tin Ware... 61... . 2... new list 70&10 Japanned Tin Ware....... Ree ee a 25 Granite Iron Ware .....-......... new list 3334410 HORSE NAILS. = —_ feee esr og ales uc di KNoBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porcelwin, SPEIER io tds 55 Drawer and Shutter, -pepipr es ob coe eeus 70 LOCKS—DO dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s anon Hst ..--. J: 5 manors. woceler @ C076. 0 os... ek MMEOU 25500, se WOOP ee sc cs LEVELS. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 70 MATTOCKS. ORO MG. yc ios $16. * dis. 60 Hunt Eye.. 815.00, dis. 60 SIWME ook oe $18.50, dis. 20.610. 8. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, Tantaed ’ MILLS. dis, ee Parkers O08 oe ee ik 40 P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.. 40 af Landers, Merry & Cl 27s... 0.6... 35. 40 . Enterprise eerie Cie sanaeeee ise | ae MOLASSES GATES. dis. Hechpre © Pattern. ee. oe, 60&10 Steboi = Gonna: 6010 Enterprise, self-measuring..-............... 25 NAILS Advance above 12d nails. FENCE AND BRADS. ee tO Oe 25 1 OE ePID ecu Ee Ina cine a me 10 Oe 25 OF ane i. 40 = an@ 5G... 25... EE en nO eels 60 00 50 00 50 00 50 60 % 90 10 50 2 25 35 15 60 85 5 detae : PLANES. dis. ne Tool Co.'s, faney 9) <> — — eee eG 0 Saridusky Toot Co's, fancy... 40@ Bench, first quality ie eee sn aa 10 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 20&10 PANS. Wry, AGM a. dis, C ommon, VOMANeE dis. 20 RIVETS. dis. irom aad Tiumed. 40 Copper Rivets and Bure. oe 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 S 27 10 2 ‘“*B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken packs 4c per pound extra, ROPES. Binal, 3¢ neh and larger 2.1... cl... 14 Mae c SQUARES, Stéel and Iron..... . ee . ory ae eevee 60 TR 20 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. ee 4 20 %3 10 15 to 17 ee ee ek 420 3 10 ee: 4 20 3 20 Bee ec. 4 20 a2 PRO 6 ee 4 40 3 35 Se ee 60 3 45 4 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inch wide not less than 2-10 extra oO m SAND PAPER. East BCG6, 12M dis. 40&10 L ke, Whit . — Silv er Lake, OO ec li 5 PTSD A o 4 - White Bo . 50 . Peap B.. 2 a 55 — Witte Ce . 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS, ia Hove per ton $25 SAWS. dis. Ane 25&5 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,. 70 Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 Champion and Electrie Tooth X Gums Bel PM ee 28 TRAPS. dis. Baeel, Ga 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35 Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s.... 70 IGUCHEIS 70 Poa We Mie Coe 70 Mouse, Srekee a 18¢ per doz. Mouse, CCI $1.50 per doz. WIRE. dis. Dre) MAREE ee 65 mumeniod MaAPECG oe... 7 Coppered Markee ee 60 ‘"enned Market...) . 8... 62% Coppercd: Sprins Steel... 50 Barbed Renee, salvanisod...........5.. 0... 4 00 PAlneeG oe 3 40 WIRE GOODS. dis. TUE ae ee ek lc 70&10&10 CROW SOVON 70&10&10 MOOR 70&10&10 Gate Hooks and —_ ee eee cee ---70&10&10 CHES. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, “miokeled See ete t eee: 30 Cees Genwi 2 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ Coes Patent, maltieahie. | 810 MISCELLANEOUS, dis. Prd Cares oo Meade coe ae 50 Pumps, Cissera..... 1.1.5. ee = serews, New List...0........ Sac Coasters, Hed and Plate... 6... tiisoaio Dampers, EMC es ue. Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... & METALS, PIé TIN. ee ee a ae 26¢ Pe Os, 28 Duty: Sheet, 2%c per eee 600 pound casks....... 0 ices sue dee deus 6% Or POCRG seve tee SOLDER. Re ee 16 Extra Wiping wnewsewemetiseee cece Cue coma ce cad “o The prices of the many other qualities solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ac ANTIMONY. OO ee MOORS oo _ =_— is IN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 ae Charcoal pda ccs eck eger a ice cacaes 86 60 eee eee 6 60 10x14 1x, oe eas cgi me sds) bulb e pom vars 6 8 35 Each sattona on this grades erie 8 —ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, CGhuropal Sees oceuce cy ola. scesee.8 6 OD 14x20 IC, - 6 00 7 50 7 50 14x20 IC, WORN ue 6 00 14x20 IX, i 7 50 20x28 IC - 2 50 14x20 IC * 5 25 14x20 IX 73 Mic. 00 cx cs 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. PEO Ro cay ceils a $13 OME Macs oe et (ck Seeceverecvcne ch OD 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i 14x60 IX, .s | per pound.... 9% \4" The M ichigan 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 1890. 9 22, AN INSPECTOR NEEDED. The American Analyst, published at New York, contains the following: On the first day of this year the sale in this State of bogus vinegar as cider vinegar became a punishable offence, the law having been passed by the last. Leg- islature at the instance of reputable vin- egar dealers who had suffered from com- petition with men who sold doctored acids as genuine vinegar. The new law forbids the manufacture, keeping, or sale of vinegar which shall not have acidity equal to the presence of at least 4144 per cent. by weight of absolute acetic acid, or any cider vinegar which shail have less than 10 per cent. by weight of cider vinegar solid upon full evaporation over boiling water. It is un- lawful to offer for, sale cider vinegar any product which is not such, or to use in the manufacture of any vinegar, lead, copper, sulphuric acid or other ingre- dients injurious to health. Every man- ufacturer must brand his packages with his name and address. Fines varying from $50 to $250 may be imposed for vio- lation of the new law. A vinegar law, passed in 1887, could not be enforced on account of a lack of funds for prosecu- tion. The State Dairy Commissioner has been given $5,000 to enforce the new law, and the vinegar inspectors will pair off with the milk inspectors and act as wit- nesses for one another. The Michigan Legislature, at its last session, also passed a stringent vinegar law, prohibiting the use of the brands ‘cider’ or “fruit’? vinegar, unless fruit or fruit juices were used in their manu- facture. The sale of vinegars below a certain standard of strength was also prohibited. This law went into effect on July 1, 1889, but all sorts of vinegar continue to be sold under the brand of ‘cider’ or ‘apple’ vinegar, and quite as as much vinegar below the standard is sold as ever. When the law went into effect, there was a general sentiment in favor of observing its provisions, but as soon as it was seen that no concerted effort was made to punish those who violated the law—that no provision was made for an officer to attend to its enforcement— all thought of the law and its penalties faded inte forgetfulness. The same is true of all laws of a simi- lar character which have emanated from the Legislature. No one undertakes to live up to the law, because there is no one to prosecute violators of the enact- ment. The statute books contain several chapters relating to the sale of bogus butter, but they are all dead letters, so far as being any benefit to the people is concerned. In spite of the law that all hotels and restaurants using butterine shall post a sign to the effect over the dining-room door, no one has ever heard of such a step being taken. This subject appears to have been dis- cussed at some length at the annual meeting of the Fruit Manufacturers’ Association, which was held at Benton Harbor last week. President Almen- dinger is reported to have said, in the course of his annual address : I saw a single shipment of glucose jelly from a Detroit concern of 4,000 gal- lons to one wholesale house labeled ‘*‘Pure Fruit Jelly,’? and sold as such, when there was probably not 100 pounds of pure fruit in the whole lot, that single shipment taking the place of more than 750 barrels of cider boiled into jelly. If the State ‘of Michigan tolerates such de- ceit, we hold her to be one of the parties to the fraud. True as the above charge probably is, the cities do not turn out all the un- wholesome food. The fruit manufac- turers themselves are not faultless in the matter, as a circumstance known to THE TRADESMAN bears sufficient evidence. Within a hundred miles of Grand Rap- ids, a jelly factory converted into jelly hundreds of barrels of cider made from rotten apples, straw, manure and other articles of a foul character. A glance at the pile of filth sheveled into the cider press was enough to turn the strongest stomach. Yet the man who was respon- sible for this crime against his customers was loud in denunciation of the bogus jelly manufacturers’ of Chicago and Detroit. The same condition exists among nearly every branch of food producers. The dairymen have discussed this sub- ject for years, and at their last conven- tion expressed their sentiment by the adoption of the following resolution: WuerEASs, The enactment of a meas- ure providing for the appointment and maintenance of a Food Commissioner has become arecognized necessity; there- ee That we appoint a commit- tee to bring this matter to the attention of the Legislature and adopt such meas- ures as would tend to secure the desired end. The business men, too, have devoted much time to the discussion of the food question and have arrived at about the same conclusion. Few people desire to see the present reign of sophistication and adulteration continue. The majority prefer pure food and are entitled to get what they pay for. As state laws—without a spe- cial officer to enforce them—seem to be powerless, and as national enactments appear to be too cumbersome to afford any relief, the only way left open seems to be to follow the example set by New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota and several other states, and press for the appointment of a Food Commissioner. Such officers have done good work in other states. Why not in Michigan ? “THE TRADESMAN” AND THE P. OF I. Beeause THe TRADESMAN has taken issue with the P. of I. movement, it is frequently asserted by P. of I. organizers and sympathizers that it opposes organ- ization among the farmers. Such is not a fact. THE TRADESMAN has always favored organization, whether the ma- terial be business men, farmers or Hot- tentots. It believes *that every class, clique and clan can benefit itself through he medium of proper organization. It has always approved of the Grange, be- cause the leaders of that organization are actuated by honest motives and the mem- bers are benefited in a rational manner. t opposes the P. of L, because the men who originated the movement are mas- querading under false colors—pretending to be in sympathy with the farmer, when they are not; because the organizers are, in the main, dishonest and irresponsible men: because the members are, in a majority of cases, completely carried away by the false doctrine and intrigued into schemes which men of good judg- ment reject as impracticable and detri- mental to all concerned. THE TRADES- MAN has exceptional opportunities for ascertaining the merit and status of the movement, through its hundreds of cor- respondents all over the State, and it has yet to hear of a case where the member of a P. of I. lodge has secured any ben- efit commensurate with the time and ex- pense involved in uniting with the or- ganization. The question of permanence ought also to be considered. An organ- ization which will not stand the test of time is not capable of accomplishing re- sults of a solid character. None of the original P. of I. lodges are now in ex- istence, the first charter issued by the ‘“supreme”’ officers having been surren- dered within eighteen months after it was issued. Such, in brief, are the reasons why Tue TRADESMAN opposes the P. of I. Experience has demonstrated that instead of being a benefit to the farmer, it isa positive detriment. If the damage stopped there, it would be Bad enough, but it does not. It follows every branch of industry, withering for atime every department of our business activity, re- tarding every movement of a progressive character. With nothing in its favor, and everything against it but the av- ariciousness of a few cunning agitators, it is no wonder that it finds an early death. The only wonder is that it is permitted to exist for even a brief period. There is one good thing to be said of the glass trust. One can see through it. Falsehood and vituperation are weap- ons which never served any man or set of men to good purpose; and the P. of I. will eventually come to realize that they are no exception to the general rule. There never was a better time for the Business Men’s Associations of the State to show their hands than at present. Business is quiet in most branches and one evening a week could profitably be given to discussions of existing ques- tions, such as the best methods of cur- tailing the credit system, and ways and means to augment the manufacturing in- terests of the town. Manistee—During December there were only 38,700 barrels of salt packed at the various blocks at Manistee, but as the present open weather has allowed the boats to take out some of the barreled product from all the producers, there will probably be more sent out in Jan- uary. The new through route via Man- itowoe and Ludington to the seaboard was inaugurated last week, and the first shipment was two train loads of flour from Minneapolis. The claim is that this route is 300 miles shorter than any other at present in use, and, of course, correspondingly lower rates can be made. ——$—__—< 9 <> ——__—- Cadillac—About two years ago C. K. Russell, of this city, loaned O. A. Clark $250, taking security on his shingle mill near Lake City. The mill is in Caldwell township, near the line of Lake, and through a misunderstanding the mort- gage was filed with the clerk of the lat- ter township. Several weeks ago Clark abandoned the property and located else- where, and four attachment suits were begun by as many other ereditors to se- cure their claims. After the first attach- ment, Russell discovered his error and properly refiled his mortgage. Regard- less of this, however, the sheriff sold on the several attachments and delivered the property to its purchasers, and Rus- sell has now begun a suit against the officer to recover the amount of his claim. CHUNKS. Chopped off for “The Tradesman” by Geo. L. Thurston. I'll tell you, my friend, If you'd like a straight tippe, That no man nowadays Is regarded as flippe, Who hasn’t at least Had a touch of La Grippe. x % Professor—Name some ofthe most noted Irishmen of to-day. Student—Muldoon, Moriarty, Dennis, Gallagher and McGinty. x & *€ No matter who, or, as the old maid said, ““O, Lord! anybody,’’ can belong to the Knights of the Grippe now. % & POETICAL. Mistress—Marie, with whom were you ‘talking so long at the gate last evening? Maid—Madame, that man is the one radiant star of my life’s dark night! x + LOOKING BACKWARD. Government store, year 2000. ribbon counter. New Clerk (just coming in)—Were you waiting for something ? Edward Bellamy—Yes, I have been waiting ever since 1887 for my wife to select those ribbons, and every time she about has her mind made up, in comes a fresh lot of samples. = = = Dead stock—Coffin trimmings. THE SAME OLD GAG. Their chairs were quite close to each other. So close, in fact, that a sheet of paper which chanced to be strolling about the room became wedged between them in trying to pass through. ‘“‘Are you sure you love me, James 7 asked the beautiful girl, who occupied one of the chairs. “Sure! Ah, Jennie, do you doubt me? Ask me, rather, do I care for life. You are the one bright spot in my existence. Without you the world would be one dead, horrid void.”’ “Still you do not answer me,’’ she pouted. ‘‘Tell me, or I shall cry.”’ “Love you! I love you more than Antony did Cleopatra. As water to the thirsty caravan, is my love for you.”’ “Will you do something to prove it and her pleading glance shot through the half gloom of the drawing-room and kindled in his bosom a _ recklessness which he had never before experienced. ‘Name the task!’ said he, ‘‘and if it be to quench th’ eternal fires of Vesuvius, will I do the deed.”’ “Oh! it?s not hard, love. ’Tis only this: Where did you get that hat ?”’ And then, over the half gloom of that apartment there stole a sudden silence, broken a moment later by footsteps seek- ing the front door. They were produced by the feet of a man, and, as his hand turned the door knob, he glanced over his shoulder one fierce, soul-destroying glance, and hissed: “That hat? I gotit from your brother, Dan McGinty.”’ ————__ > ->___ Business on a Cash Basis. From the Chicago Herald. There was'a time in the history of the country when the credit system was al- most an absolute necessity. Farmers who did not have wool to sell received little or no money, except when they disposed of their crops and fat stock in the fall. Teachers and many other pub- lic employes were paid for their services semi-annually. Few mechanics received their pay oftener than once a month. Many of them received no wages until the job they were employed on was fin- ished. But this state of things no longer ex- ists. Farmers sell some products al- most every month during the year. Per- sons in the employ of the State, county, town or school districts receive their pay monthly. Weekly payments to me- chanics, domestic servants and common laborers have become general. Persons engaged in almost every kind of employ- ment are not only well paid but prompt- ly paid at a specified time. They have accordingly little or no occasion for buy- ing goods on credit. Still, in the opin- ion of many, more persons contract small debts than at the time when pay days were uncertain, or at best very far apart. The custom of anticipating salaries or wages has become general among numervus classes. They are al- ways a week or month behind in their payments. They never enjoy the pleas- ure of having ready money. ‘They are expected to visit their creditors at a cer- tain hour every time they receive their pay. Cash payments for goods promote thriftand prosperity. Southern farm- ers, before the war, were always in debt and at the mercy of their creditors. Yankee farmers, however, who raised few commercial crops, kept out of debt, and many of them became wealthy. The credit system is expensive because it involves many risks. Every manufac- turer and dealer adds a certain percent- age to his prices to cover losses caused by selling goods to persons who do not pay for them. These losses fall event- ually on the last persons who buy the goods. No one expects to buy a postage stamp on credit. If he has not the money to pay for one, he cannot mail a letter. No one expects to buy a rail- way ticket on credit. If he has no money to pay his fare in advance, he must remain at home. The like is true in regard to riding in streetcars. Tick- ets to places of amusement are not sold on time, but for spot cash. No trouble occurs on account of these arrangements, and none would occur if every retail store conducted business like a post-of- fice, railroad or theater. —___—__ >>> Kalamazoo—North & Coon have opened a hardware store at the corner of Portage At the 999 and Vine streets. Liability of Patent Medicine Manu- facturers. . A person named Cooper, who resides. in Atlanta, Ga., brought suit, some time ago, against a patent medicine concern for damages. Cooper claimed that his health had been injured by taking the nostrum of the company ‘‘strictly ac- cording to directions,’’ and the jury, after listening to his tale of woe, gave a verdict for $1,000. ~The case was ap- pealed to the Supreme Court, where the judgment was affirmed. Heretofore when any persons undertook to medicate them- selves with nostrums they took their lives in their hands—so to speak, with- out any recourse—as it were. But now let the patent medicine maker beware. If his liver-searching, kidney-curing or consumption-effacing nostrum does not do what is claimed for it, a suit for dam- ages will be the remedy. The precedent here set is a good one. Let every person who has been injured try and obtain re- dress. ———-—-»_-s-—-s——_ A Foolish Boycott. From the Philadelphia Cash Grocer. The traveling salesman has fallen un- der the ban of the Farmers’ Alliance, a Southern organization. The Alliance states that it has discovered from sta- tistics that the ‘‘drummers”’ of the coun- try are paid salaries aggregating $1,500,- 000,000, all of which comes out of the pockets of the husbandmen, who are com- pelled to pay that much more for their goods. This astounding discovery has led the Farmers’ Alliance to declare a boycott against all dealers who buy of traveling salesmen. This is an unkind blow aimed at an industrious and amiable body of men, especially as they must eat to live, and in other ways spend their billions, a good part of which finds its way into the farmers’ hands. These Al- liance farmers are foolish, and the Knights of Labor had better cut loose from them. " 8 $_——- 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. -o <> Bay City—C. H. Plummer is putting in a stock for his mill at Ogemaw Springs, about 5,000,000 feet, which will exhaust his timber in that loeality. He is ar- ranging his business for the year, and ex- pects to go South shortly to look after his timber and railroad interests in Ar- kansas and Louisiana. MICH. COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIATION, President—E. H. MeCurdy, Detroit. Secretary—M. J. Matthews, Detroit. DETROIT, Jan. 16, 1890. Editor Michigan Tradesman: At an adjourned meeting of the Board of Trustees of the M. C. T. A., held Jan- uary 11, the death of John H. Riggs, a member of the Association, was an- nounced, and 4 warrant was ordered drawn on the reserve fund in favor of his beneficiaries for the sum of $2,500, when the proofs of death are presented. and approved. Many members are taking active in- terest in increasing the membership, as is evidenced by the call for application blanks and the applications which are coming in by mail. Keep the ball roll- ing, boys, and we will show a large in- crease before the year closes. M. J. MaTruews, Sec’y. —<~ 9 Who Can Best be Spared ? From the Medical Record. Young men, this is the first question your employers ask themselves when business becomes slack, and when it is thought necessary to econgmize in the matter of salaries. spared 2’? The barnacles, the shirks, the makeshifts, somebody’s proteges, some- body’s nephews, and especially some- body’s good-for-nothing. Young men, please remember that these are not the ones who are called for when responsible positions are to be filled. Would you like to gauge your own future for a po- sition of prominence? Would you like to know the probabilities of your getting such a position? Inquire within! What are you doing to make yourself valuable in the position you now occupy ? If you are doing with your might what your hands find to do, the chances are ten to one that you will soon become so valua- ble in that position that you cannot be spared from it; and then, singular to re- late, will be the very time when you will be sought out for promotion for a better place. ———_—~-+2<—>—__—- Warning to Potato Shippers. From the Hart Journal. E. S. Houghtaling lined one end of a ear of potatoes which he shipped to New York with tarred paper. He re-, ceived word that the tar so scented the entire load that they are unfit for use. We give this item as a warning. Putnam Candy Co., HEADQUARTERS FOR FLORIDA ORANGES, LEMONS, NUTS, ETC z® GEO. H, REEDER, = Lycoming Rubbers zs é a ae = © Medinm Price Shoes. * £ Grand Rapids, Mich. EGG CASES & FILLERS. Having taken the agency for Western and Northern Michigan for the LIMA quantity. No. 1—30-doz. Cases, complete.........-- No. 1—36-doz. “° * No. 1—Fillers, per set......-------+++++-> EGG CASES and FILLERS, we are prepared to offer same to the trade in any Lots of 100. Less than 100. ee oe ccs Se. 35¢. Sse ea eee ee ee eee 38e. 40c. a. ca 10¢ 10e. 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 St., Grand Rapids. WM.SEARS & CO. Cracker Manviacturers, 37, 389 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. BLIVEN & ALLYN, Sole Agents for the Celebrated “BIG F” Brand of Oysters. In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS. We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time. We solicit H. M. BLIVEN, Manager. consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, suc: as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, etc. 63 Pearl St. NO CHARGE FOR PACKAGES. CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, 2 PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 ana 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. A. FL BROOKS & CO, WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF Pure Candies. The Only Hovse in the State which Puts Goods Up NE? WEIGHT. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH “Who can best be! NEW MOLASSES1. We have received large shipments of molasses, direct from the planters in Louisi- ana, which we are offering to the trade at our usual low prices. = Telfer Spice Company, IMPORTERS OF TEAS, COFFEES AND SPICES. 1 AND 3 PEARL STREET. P. STEKETEE & SONS,* Wholesale Dry Goods. & Our new line of fancy prints are all in stock for coming season. Allen’s, Hamilton, Washington, Indigo, Merrimac, Simpson’s, Gar- ner’s, plain and satiae styles. Also our new _ imported fine Satines in new colors and patterns. Dress Ginghams, Seersuckers and Fancy Flannels, Zephyrs, Toile du Nord, Amoskeag, A. F. C., Cotton Hosiery, Underwear, Overshirts, Jackets, Overalls, Pants. A large line of Notions, Neck- wear, Windsor Ties, Etc. Correspondence solicited. ¢ We Import All Our Fancy Buttons and Laces. y 88 Monroe and 10, 12, 14,16 & 18 Fountain Sts, GRAND RAPIDS. Lemon & Peters, WHOLESALE GROCERS. SOLE AGENTS FOR s Lautz Bros. & Co,’s Soaps; Niagara Starch, Amboy Cheese, GRAND RAPIDS. “Our Leader” Good Having stood the test of time and the battle of competition and come off victorious, we have no hesitation in recommending to the trade our line of Our Leader Cigars, Ovr Leader Smoking, Our Leader Fine Cut, Ovr Leader Baking Powder, Our Leader Saleratvs, OUr header Brooms. WHICH ARE NOW ->__—- Not Disposed to Invest in Silverware. From the Jewelers’ Weekly. ‘We meet some queer people among the many who are constantly flitting into and out of this store, but an old man and his wife, upon whom I waited a few days ago, took the prize for pure, unadulter- ated simplicity. The couple were evi- dently on their first visit from the coun- try. When I approached them the old lady, who was undoubtedly master of ceremonies, stated that they wanted to purchase a soup tureen. ‘© Do you want plated ware or silver ?’ I asked. *‘ ‘Solid silver, ter be sure,’ the woman responded, with a glance that, had I been anybody else than a salesman, would have frozen me. “After seeing a number of designs the old lady decided upon one and inquired the price. ‘““sOne hundred and twenty dollars,’ I answered, as I called to a boy to take the article to the shipping room. ‘“*sWhat! she almost screamed. ‘One hundred and twenty dollars for that? Wall, Iswan.’? Fora few minutes they gazed at me as if I had expressed an in- tention of robbing them, after which they conferred together. Presently the old gentleman turned around, and, ina quivering voice, said he guessed they’d better buy a plated tureen, as that was just as good. ‘“‘We have several dozen designs in plated ware in stock, and, after eriti- cally examining each one, the old lady plucked up courage enough to ask the price of one that had only recently been produced, and was selling for $18. When I mentioned the price, she looked blank- ly at her husband and said she guessed we didn’t have anything to suit them. As they were going out of the store l overheard the remark: ‘What mighty dear stores these in New York are, ter be sure. I wouldn’t pay mor’n $3 fer a soup tureen—no, not if it was the only one in the country.’ ”’ >» .->___- Well Rated. Father—Clara, I think the Count will propose to-night. Clara (excited) — What makes you think so, papa ? Father—I discovered him in the hotel, = to-day, looking me up in ‘‘Bradstreet’s.”” Torturing Live Poultry. From the New York Sun. The country dealer in live poultry packs (there is no word that better de- scribes the process) his geese, ducks, chickens, ete., in crates of the smallest possible height that he can get the fowls into, and each crate is packed until the fowls are as close to each other as dead sardines are in their boxes. Then the crates are stowed in two rows, from ten to twelve feet high, on a flat car or in an open cattle car, and away they go. When the car reaches the New York terminus, it is drilled about on the switches and finally, after no one knows how many hours of misery on the cars, the fowls are placed on trucks and driven to the consignees at the markets. There the dead are taken from the crates and the living, during that day or the next, go to the retailers. Itis not until after three or four days in that vile prison that the fowl is relieved from its torture by death. That they suffer real torture is evident on a moment’s consideration. It is a pity that the shippers could not be made to realize what the torture is by packing them shoulder to shoulder, in crates so low that their heads must be kept for- ward, and theirchins on their breasts con- tinually; or, to approximate the condi- tion of the fowls accurately, they should be obliged to stand with their backs bent at an angle of 30 degrees. People who have tried to sleep with their legs curled up in a railroad seat, and have waked up with the cramp, wishing they could straighten out for just one minute, may form a slight idea of what the fowls suf- fer during a three days’ confinementin a coop. The fact that a definite percentage, tolerably well known among poultry dealers, of the fowls die from their suffer- ing is also conclusive evidence that the suffering is great. Further than that, they are kept for a long time without water to drink, while the lower crates in the stocks on the cars become intolerably offensive from the drippings from the upper tiers. There does not seem to be any ade- quate remedy for this condition of af- fairs. losses from death, and find that the losses are less than what the increased cost of freight would be were fowls shipped in crates high enough to allow them head room. That the fowls get the headache and become feverish is a fact of no con- sequence to the shipper, because it does not diminish his profit. In many meat markets in the city, one can see signs saying that fowls will be killed to order. The .buyer has an idea that he can there get fowls in better con- dition than when he buys the country- killed fowls. Very likely he can in some well-managed shops, whose proprietors take pains to turn their fowls out in a clean yard to recuperate, but it is almost enough to give a person the typhoid fever. to eat a fowl killed out of one of the miserable crates they must travel in when coming to New York. _ If any one thinks this is overdrawn let him watch a truck load of crates, as it arrives at one of the markets some morning. The cruelties mentioned by the Sun are as commonly practiced in the North- west as in the East. and the practice is undoubtedly due to thoughtlessness in most cases, rather than to a desire to be cruel. Itis tobe hoped that the ship- pers will see the torture they are inflict- ing and provide more roomy crates for poultry. ~ +2 The Hardware Market. The rope market is on a rampage, sisal being quoted in New York at 13 cents and manilla at -15.=5 The Grand Rapids price is 1 cent3higher. The factory price for steel nails has been advanced to $2.50 base and the freight from the factory is 174g cents per keg, in spite of which the Grand Rapids jobbers are selling nails at $2.65 base. a A eR The P. & B. cough drops give great satisfaction. MICHIGAN KNIGHTS OF THE GRIP. President, L. M. Mills, Grand Rapids. Secretary, Jno. J. Bush, Lansing. REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY. LANSING, Jan. 17, 1890. Editor Michigan Tradesman: Lenclose you herewith a complete list of Michigan hotels granting concessions to the members of the Michigan K. of G. Will you please publish same in your next issue of THe TRADESMAN ? Everything is progressing in a very satisfactory manner. Our membership now numbers over 1,000 ‘‘brave and val- iant’’ Knights. I shall very soon hand you for publi- cation a full and complete list of all officers and the chairmen of all commit- tees. Have been delayed in getting it out, owing to the delay of some in send- ing in their acceptances as chairmen. All members who have changed their place of residence since joining the association should send their present address to me at once, as that will ex- clude the possibility of their not receiv- ing any matter which I may from time to time address to them. Yours truly, Jno. J. Busu, See’y. THE HOTEL LIST. The list above referred tois as follows: Hotel Cadillac, Detroit. Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids. The Northern, Big Rapids. Hibbard House. Jackson. Park House, Richland. The Steele, St. Johns. Hotel Phelps, Greenville. Hotel Marquette, Marquette. Wright House, Alma. Kalamazoo House, Kalamazoo. Mears Hotel, Whitehall. Moore’s Hotel, Shelby. Exchange Hotel, Baldwin. Westera Hotel, Big Rapids. Train’s Hotel, Lowell. De Haas Hotel, Fremont. St. Charles Hotel, Fremont. Elliott Hotel, Ludington. Imus House, Pentwater. Vigton House, Hart. Phenix Hotel, Charlotte. Commercial Hotel, Vermontville. Sherman House, Allegan. Hastings House, Hastings. Hotel Miner, Lake Odessa. New Tinkham, Grand Ledge. Hotel Exchange, Otsego. Williams House, Battle Creek. American House, Kalamazoo. McElrain House, Vicksburg. Goodwin House, Cassopolis. Three Rivers House, Three River. Hotel Belding, Belding. New Con mercial, [onia. Brackett House. Big Rapids. Hotel MeKinnon, Cadillac. Pipp House, Kalkaska. Manning House, Kalkaska. United States Hotel, Boyne City. Commercial House, East Jordan. Cushman House, Petoskey. Forest Hotel, Fennville. Smith’s Hotel, Grand Junction. Central Hotel, Goblesville. Higbee House, Benton Harbor. Dyckman House, Paw Paw. Bennett House, Mt. Pleasant. Duncombe House, Decatur. St. Joe House, Mendon. Arlington House, Coldwater. South Michigan House, Coldwater. Russell House, Jonesville. Quincy House, Quiney. Alger House, Clare. Decker House, Lakeview. Retan House, Ithaca. Commercial House, Boyne City. Smith’s Hotel, Hillsdale. Bryant House, Flint. Keefer House, Hillsdale. ‘Brown’s Hotel, Union City. City Hotel, Holland. Commercial Hotel, St. Louis. New Paddock, Union City. Lawrence House, Adrian. Mancelona House, Mancelona. Sherwood House, St. Ignace. Gilbert House, Reed City. Depot Dining Rooms, Reed City. Hotel Jackson, Cadillac. Commercial House, Manton. Park Place, Traverse City. Cook’s Hotel, Ann Arbor. Welch House, Portland. Hotel Hodges, Pontiac. Snow’s Hotel, Ludington. The Oakland, Oxford. Sherman House, Mt. Clemens, Edwards House, Marine City. Commercial House, Richmond. American House, Romeo. Atlantic Hotel, White Cloud. Lake View House, Elk Rapids. Lewis House, Torch Lake. Davis House, Lowell. Miller House, Carson City. Oaks House, Reed City. McKinnon House, Cadillac. Hotel Downey, Lansing. Whipple House, South Lyon. Sherman House, Flint. Moore House, North Branch. Tremont House, Cass City. Marathon House, Columbiaville. American House, Cadillac. New Everett, East Saginaw. Sebring House, Bangor. Depot Hotel, Hartford. Bond House, Niles. Coburn’s Exchange, Howard City. Abram House, Lapeer. Brooks House, Sand Lake. Bailey House, Ionia. Campbell House, Bay City. Wildermuth House, Owosso. Evart House, Evart. Phenix House, West Branch. Otsego Lake House, Otsego Lake. Grayling House, Grayling. New Cheboygan, Cheboygan. Hotel Whitcomb, St. Joseph. Filer House, Ludington. Hotel Marquette, Marquette. Snow’s Hotel, Ludington. Northwestern Hotel, Hancock. Bennett House, Galesburg. New Winchester, Au Sable. New Winchester, Oscoda. Davis House, Lowell. New Strong House, East Tawas. Caro House, Caro. New Harrington, St. Louis. Central House, Corunna. Merrill House, Owosso. Fenton House, Fenton. Lawrence House, Plainwell. Hudson House, Lansing. Dow House, Sand Beach. Anderson House, Eaton Rapids. Palace Hotel, Milan. Stadden’s Hotel, Centerville. Albion House, Albion. Commercial House, Homer. Grand Central, Stanton. Kirtland House, Galesburg. Rust House, Farwell. Mansion House, Imlay City. ‘‘Aldine,’’? East Saginaw. Barnard House, Lyons. Burt’s Hotel, Capac. Resort Hotel, Port Austin. 2 The Grocery Market. Sugars are firm, .on account of a scarcity of refined grades. What little refined sugar is being turned out is sold ahead, refiners holding orders for some grades a week. Coffee is fluctuating nearly every day, but no permanent change has occurred. Canned goods are quiet. Dried lima beans are _ higher. Hand-picked beans are stronger. Do- mestic rice is firm; we may look for higher prices. Low grades Japan tea remain firm. Dried fruit very quiet. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment ¥ BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—IN THE BEST TOWN OF itssizeon the G.R.& I. R.R.,a clean, new stock of groceries and three houses, besides some vacant lots; also five and one-half miles west of Traverse City. an 80 acre piece of timbered land, all of which is ow ned by a party who, for good and sufficient reasons, de- sires to remove ‘farther south; the village has a popu- lation of about 2,000, and is the county seat; any one wanting to buy or having 2 good business to exchange for any or all of above, is invited to correspond; it will bear investigation. Address K., care Michigan Trades- man. OR SALE—$5,000 STOCK OF HARDWARE, STOVES, furniture and: crockery, with full stock of tools for tin, water and gas jobs; a bargain for cash or part cash and time; low rent for building. Lock box 73, Greenville, Mich. 571. OR SALE—STOCK OF DRU GS, LOCATED IN A VIL- lage surrounded by a good country; ; good trade; chick of selling, practice here. Address Dr. H. E. Hun- gerford, Stetson, Mich. 572. 5 J ANTED—TO EXCHANGE FARM OF 120 ACRES OR village property for stock of goods, hardware preferred, Address No. 573, care Michigan Tradesman. 573. ARGAIN- $3,500 STOCK GENERAL MERCHANDISE for sale cheap, or will exchange oe improved, rentable real estate; must sellsoon. W. Wood, Sheri- dan, Mich. 574. OR SALE—AN ESTABLISHED MANUFACTURING business, paying from 100 to 150 per cent. profit on product; manufactures a specialty sold to grocery 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 OR SALE—CLEAN SfOCK OF GENERAL MER- chandise, situated ia 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 OR SALE—HARDWARE STOCK, INVENTORING about $4,000, doing a very prosperous business; can 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 F YOU WANT TO EXCHANGE YOUR STOCK OF goods for a farm, large or small, write to No. 563, care Michigan Tradesman. 56° ‘OR SALE—DRUG STORE—STOCK INVENTORIES about $3,500; sales, $10,000 per year; good location; population of village, 4,000; easy terms. Address No. 561, care Tradesman. 561 OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRY GOODS, GRO- ceries, boots and shoes, hardware and drugs, situated in good trading point; will inv entory about $3,000; sales for past three years, $42,000; reason for selling, owner has other business. Address No. 559, care Michigan Tradesman. 559 HAVE SEVERAL FARMS WHICH I WILL EX- change for stock of goods, Grand Rapids city prop erty, or will seil on easy payments; these farms have the best of soil,are under good state of cultivation, and located batw een the cities of Grand Rapids and Muskegon. O.¥. Conklin, Grand Rapids, Mich. OR SALE—WE OFFER FOR SALE, ON VERY favorable terms, the F. H. Escott drug stock, at 75 Canal street, Grand Rapids, Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Price, $4,000. 531 MISCELLANEOUS, EGIN THE NEW YEAR BY DISCARDING 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. GAMPLES OF TWO KINDS OF COUPONS FOR W retailers will be sent free to any dealer who will write for them to the Sutliff Coupon Pass Book Co, Albany, N. Y. 564 EB. Je Mason & Co., Proprietors of Uld Homestead Factory GRANT, MICH. MANUFACTURERS OF Preserves, Evaporated Apples Jellies and Apple Batter. Our goods are guaranteed to be made from wholesome fruit aml are free from any adulteration or sophis- tication. See quotations in grocery price current. The Grand Rapids trade can be sup- plied by GOSS & DORAN, 138 South Division street. Telephone, 1150. Creamery Ontit For Sale or ‘Trade, I have on oud a x acomplete creamery outfit, consisting of the following : One 200-gallon square churn. Two 200-gallon cream vats. One Mason butter worker. Six galvanized gathering cans. One Reids’ shipping box, to hold 120 pounds of butter in trays. One I. X. L. butter print machine, 1-pound prints. Two skimming pails, covered. One strainer pail. One buttermilk strainer. A quantity of glass testing tubes. Lot of pointed skimmers. About 100 5% g-gallon Fairlamb setting cans. Will sell the whole outfit at a bargain. Tt is all practically as good as new, hav- ing run but four months. The country here is too new for the business. I will sell this ata big discount for cash or good security, or will take in tradea good team of work horses. Would take a good Perkins or Hall shingle mill ora planer and matcher, but machinery must be in good repair, practically as good as new. If parties have a good shingle mill without power, will pay the differ- ence. Is I can not sell all together, will sell any of the articles separate. JOHN KoopMAN, Falmouth, Mich. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Dealers hold winter fruit at $2.5@ $2.75 per bbl., Beans—Dealers pa $1.25 for unpicked and $1.30 for _ — ng at $1.75 per bu. Beets—40c pe Butter is alittle ‘more active, fair sean of dairy being in moderate demand at 16@17 _— Flour—# per bbl. for now York Cabbages—#5@86 pe: Cheese Pair ad go full cream commands 10%@11%e. Cider—9@10e pe Be 9. Cooperage—POrk arrels, $1.25; produce barrels Oranbertios Ca Cod readily command $11 @312 per bbl. ell and Bugle arein good de mand on $12 per bbl. Bell and Cherry are held at $11 per bbl. Dried Apples — Evaporated are held at 8&@ 8%c and sundried at 5@5\c. Eggs—The market is a little livelier, jobbers paying 15c for fresh and holding 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 15c per Ib. Onions—Dealers pay 55@65¢ for clean stock, holding at 80e@#1. Pop Corn—4e per Ib. Pork—Buyers pay 4c, shipping out at 4%e. Potatoes—There is a fair shipping demand buyers paying 35@36c here and at the principal buying points throughout the State. Squash—Hubbard, 2c per Ib. Sweet Potatoes —Jerseys and Muscatine stock are out of market at present. Illinois stock commands $4.50 per bbl. Turnips—30c per bu. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. MCES MIGWe ee ee 16 00 SHOT CHE ee 10 00 ixira clear pie. short Gut... ooo. 2. oc. sy. 12 00 Hemera Clear, Heavy. os oc 12 00 Clear, tat baer oe 11 50 Boston clear, SNGEL CRE 12 00 Clear back, short cat... 2200001). - 12 00 Standard clear, short cut, best.............. 12 00 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average 20 | Soo eee eee esses. ues 8% Seige eee ee 94 ae . 12 to 14 Pe eo 9% Oe BCE ee 6 Pe (DORE DOIGIORS. 20. 8c ne ae 84 Breaktast Bacon, boneless... .°:. 02.0... 2. 8% Dried beef, ham prices epee eo oes eee oe 8 Long Clears, BCAVN. a 6% Briskets, TOME uO en ne 64 Hebe oe A 64 LARD—Kettle Rendered, PICTOCR eee ey < - % POT Te ee 7% LARD—Refined. ERC 5% said DEED PREDS ee 6 oi. Paes: 0 is 8 G88 634 5 lb. Pails, PEE CORO ss ce ee 6% 10 lb. Pails, OMS Cane 6% 20 Ib. Pails, ATH A GARG ee 64 ST Oe 6 BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs. Extra Mess, Chicago packing. BONGICSS, TEMP DUEA,.. 6. coc. SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. OTR OUUNARE. oe ea 6 EPO NOUSAMe Ss 12 Tongue Sausage........... ee ese ees 9 Frankfort Sausage. Binad Sxunave oe 5% Bologna, a See eee ee cee 5 Bologna, thick.. Se Sie cee es cee ce. oo Head CHCCRO es : 3a PIGS’ FEET. te Balt barrage 3 25 Pi quarter barrels. 0003 2 00 TRIPE, Pe Half Derrela oo 3 00 In quarter barrels. ote GR FRESH MEATS. eee Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, wo... 444@ 6% hind quarters ee ee Se ke 54%@ 6% . fore ee 38%@ 4 bs POR 8 @9 SP IS 7@vwm%, CO OCR es @10 ORR ee 44@ 4% Pore toms... i... @ 6% e)) SROUIGCES. 0c on @ 4% OMG a @5 Sausage, blood or head. ......-:........ @5 _ TVer, 25. oe @5 . MrawktOre.. @s8 Wratten. oe --. T4@ 8 OYSTERS and FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH, WHIKCHAR ee @ 9% - SIHOROCG@ (oo oe @ 8 TOUS sa a @9 ISIS ee: @20 eRe @7 CinGees @ 6 OYSTERS—Cans, Maarhayen Counts... 00.00.02 @35 Bee 22 @27 eo De @20 PEMIGMOCR ee @18 Btanagards: ee @16 WAVORIES ee @14 OYsSTERS—Bulk, SOUSEELCERCER on 15 CIOGIS oe oe @ 150 RIN ee @1 50 Bers oo es @1 50 SCHMIODS fo = 50 PIOrseragigh) ee 75 Shell oysters, per 16050) 0050 Bee ow oe 1 oi 50 « elams, ee es %5 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS, The Putnam er Co. quotes as follows: TICK. Standard, _ boxes. Seeoeee ee eee ee. 9 Twist, ee Cut Loaf, op ee 10% MIXED Royal, ees Pe I = Extra, 25 oo " pails Bee cee ees es 10 oe Te Bliss 9% tevech ts Cream 25:10, patie. oo 11% FANCY—In 5 lb. boxes. Renew POMS ea 12 Sour Dros oo 13 Peppermmrnt Drape 14 ROCOIRSG PITOD Se ee 14 HM. — DPropee rs 18 Ga DORR 10 PACOTICS POPS. si 18 ‘A. Ptcorice Prope. 14 Lozenges, Pi 14 DIG 15 PRCT 14 Ne 15 rere are, -13 Motises Har 2 te 13 MORMINCS 16@18 aad Made Creag: a 18 Pree CrOMes 16 Decoritet Cromme 6 ts 20 Bering oem oo 15 arnt AUAONGs.. ee 22 Wintergreen Herries: oe 14 FANcY—In bulk. Lozenges, plain, ra ee 12 Oi 11 ef printed, = nd ay ERE TSE sees See 12% 6 IR ee 11% Chocolate Drops, ia seid ees ea Joc oe Gum Drops, = Paso. ae sac! O86 OS eo 54 Moss Drops, in — pees ese 10 ee Oe ie eee ec 9 Sour Drops, i cas Sec cieaclet Vine sees ao 2 Imperials, = —_ Deere cece eee ee OR es a UITS, Oranges, er choice eee esi cae oe 3 60@3 = se nf gg See cea, aes is 50@4 oO fe c golden russets....... 3 00@3 25 Lemons, Messina, choice, BOoc sc... -3 00@3 25 oe oo “ a fancy, S600. 202 4 00 - e . 5 1 See ee 4 50s 75 Malagas, choice, ripe. . Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers. Seecu 14 ChoieG 2 | ice. 11 Bits po CRMC AD load oa. Dates, frails, ee ia g a trails, 50 ID. os. s ieee Siete @ fe Fard, 10- on box ee eoses se cose @10 Se Deer lee ook ag ho oe @8 ie Deisie: EID. Der 6 @6% NUTs. Almonds, POCFAPOM hoof @16 AVRCG se : @15 = CAltOrnia. co a mae @16 BERENS ee oe te @12 Walnuts, Grenoble. 5 @16 r CaNIOrnia. fo) oe es od @14 Feeans, Texas, HP oc... case a ite F H. P., Bell oo @8 ancy, CE ss sa ce % , doasted ...4 ce eae es @10 Fancy, H. P. Su uns ..... avis amaw sas @ 8% Roasted oul. 2.0. @10 Choice, H. P., G.. pe iegeesu se. @ 7% = «"” «" "Roasted........ Se @9 Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. APPLE BUTTER. E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 5 AXLE GREASE. WPASOP'S jot so. a, $2 60 eee ee 1% PBN. ee ea 1 60 BAKING POWDER. Absolute, 4 = cans, od «i 50s..10 00 . . 50s. 38 7% Telfer’ 8, x ib cans, doz.. a “ce = “ce oe nth 14 50 Acme, 4% tb. cans, 3 doz.... % fs Se ee fips 4 oe ee . ee eee es ae Our Leader, iP Cans..... 45 in 90 < fb ee, 1 60 BATH BRICK. English, 2 doz. in ease..... 80 Brio. 2. % American. 2 doz. in case.. 70 BLUING. Dozen Mexican, OO 30 Bee 60 SOS 90 BROOMS. No. a Sleeves beens lt 1 ING Be 2 00 No. : Carpet ee 2:25 Beli e Ui side oie ol oad 2 50 Parlor em 2% Common Whisk... . 1... |... 90 WerIChOHRE: 03) BUCKWHEAT, Kings 100: Th. @nnes 22.0... 450 Oe th: Cases.) 3 85 BUTTERINE Dairy = packed)... 12% eae eae 13 Griaaee. wold iupaaaes 13% ine rolls _. 2 CANDLES Hotel, 401b: boxes: . 6... 10% Star, 40 oT 3% POEMIMe ks 12 WACkING 2 25 CANNED Goops—Fish. Clams. 1 lb, Little Neck..... 1 Clam Chowder, 3 Ib.. 2 Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand.. abd ve i. | / ie 90 Lobsters, 1 — picnic Sao cea 1% Oe epee 2 65 3 1b, "hee aie as on 2 10 @ fee SURE s Lt .0 15 Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 85 1 iS. Stand... 2. 1 20 & 21 00 cf 3 1b. in Mustard...2 85 = 3 1b. soused....... 2 85 Salmon, 11b. Columbia.. ..2 00 Lib: Alaska... .... 1 90 Sardines, domestic 48 ass. 5 ee @9 Mustard om sia aed @ 9 — imported 44 04%@16 Be spiced, 4s. Soe 10 Trout, 3 ih. broek: -.... |. CANNED eoops—Fruits. | Apples, gallons, stand. 25 Blackberries, stand..... 90 Cherries,red standard 1 10@1 20 te Ppattea =o 1 40 PIAOMS oo 1 15 Egg Plums, stand..... 1 — 35 COO8eDerriICS {-) 2605... CESDCR Green Gages. .-..... .. 1 15@1 3% Peaches, all yellow, stand..1 70 e seconds... -... 1 10@1 45 - BAG cee es fi CRT 1 25 PAMCAPDICN (06. oo. 1 10@1 50 GEINGOR to 1 00 Raspberries, Cxera 3.2: 1 POG ol: 1 40 Strawberries .......... 1 15@1 35 Whortieberries. (6002.00. 75 CANNED, VEGETABLES, Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... Beans, Lima, stand... ..... 85 . Green Limas.. @1 2 Ho OSGGINSR 2. @ 9 " Strimgless, Erie... ...: 90 ‘« Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40 Corn, Archer's Trophy... ..... 1 00 : Morn’g Glory.1 00 Ks e Early Golden.1 00 meas Hreveb 8 1 68 “ extra marrofat.. @1 25 SS (OWMMOCG io oa o r ) CAIN: SEAMG. bo, | 1 40 eed 1 65@i 85 *¢ French, extra fine... .1 50 Mushrooms, extra fine...... 2 15 Pumpkin, 3 1b. Golden. .85@1 00 Succotesh, standard... .90@ 1 40 SanARR 1 10 Tomatoes, Red Coat.. 95@1 60 Good Enough95@1 00 " Ben Har ... 95@1 00 = stand br.... ~95@1 00 CHEESE, Michigan Full Cream 1114 2@ 12 Sap Sago... ce. 16 @16% CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S. German Sweet. ||... 2 POT 5 ose ce 3 CGG@8 co es... Breakfast Cocoa.......... 4 Ce 37 CHEWING GUM Rubber, — lumps feces. = Cen Ss eis wie s 3] SEPECC 0 30 CHICORY, Bee. Oe mM cor FEE—Green. Rio, fair. good re EPG! ae * fancy, washed ...19 ee o golden ee ec ea 20 ioe eae 7 Mexican & Guatemala 19 PCADELEY oo. 20 Java; Interior... . 20 ‘* Mandheling. .. .26 Mocha, genuine....... 25 @2i To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add 4c. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. BRS COFFEES—Package. 100 lbs PAO oe COPEBOES MecLaughlin’s XXXX.. ae DUrNaM 24 Thompson’ 8 Honey Bee... .26 Wiper i256... 24 Geod Morning. |... 5... |: 2444 COFFEE EXTRACT. Naley City en : CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft....... per doz. 12 - SO Fe... 1 50 les as “ 1G OTe. og. 2 00 . SO fe. 32. 5.. - 2B Jute GOte...... " 1 00 ne a2 ie: . 115 CONDENSED MILE. I a 7 50 Anglo-Swiss.......... 6 00@ 7 60 CRACKERS. Kenosha Butter: . 2... 200... 8 Devnet (9 a oS 6 MICE ae. 6 6 we IBGM IS oi le, ale OR ee 8 Cit — Ses Se ee ca 8 DOGG oo. el: 6% S. Opn Ce es ce ses City jccoete ee 6 CNG CREAM TARTAR, Strictly pure::.. 5 oe... 38 CrpCera 24 DRIED a Apples, sun-dried.....5 @ 5% evaporated... @8 Apricots, “a 2 @I16 B ackberries eee ee 7 Nectaraon (oe 14 Peaches Se ues Ske 14 Plums oe ee a maspperries “ ... DRIED FRUITS—Citron. Ta Grune s: In DOxeR ec, DRIED FRUITS—Currants. Zante, in barrels...... o inless quantity @6 DRIED FRUITS—Raisins. Wieloneing so ooo oss @ 8% Ondarass 2. ooo. 9144@10 DUIANSE oso. ys 12 @i2% London Layers, Cali- fornia a 75 London Layers, for’: n. Muscatels, California.1 oe 35 DRIED FRUITS—Prunes. ae Soa peaye coe e. 4%@ 5 GEM es rece ue. e 54@ 6 CaurOrnin, oo. 7" DRIED FRUITS—Peel. Lemon...... ue eae CRORGC 2 ooo FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 100 Ib. kegs......... 04 Hominy, Der BE... oo 50. Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.. 60 . imported oaks @ 9% Peer Harleg | 24@ 2% BOGS, STOCN es. @1 10 CMB os @3 Sago, tent ee eine @ 6% Tapioca, fi’k or p’rl.. 6@ 7 Wheat, cracked....... @5 Vermicelli, import.. @10 domestic... @60 FISH—SALT. Cod, whole 7... 5 @6 ** boneless... -. T%@ 8 Malo ee 9%@10 Herring, —— \% bbl.. 275 SIDDEd st . 2% 5 Holland, bbls.. 12 00 . ir kegs, new @ 75 DORIOG oo, 20@ 22 Mack. sh’s, No. 2, % bbl 12 00 | 12 Ib kit. .1 30 oe “ce a “ “ut 20 Trout, 2 6 Ds ayia 4 00@4 50 60 PUR a White, No. a, Oe bie 2. 5 75 Tb, kite 2. 1 00 es sy O ib. kits: .... 80 _ Family, 4 ae “2 50 Ce ee. 50 GUN ae NeCe 5 2 Half ReGN 2 88 HERBS. es 9 PEO 14 JELLIES, E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6 Chicas6é soods.. 2. 32... oa LAMP WICKS, OO 30 Oe 40 NG ee 50 LICORICE Pee 30 Cyrene 25 2 ae 18 MATCHES. No. 9 sulphur... 00)... See Anchor parlor..... Mees caes. 1-0 MO. 2 BOme 1 10 HEpOre parlor. 3.1... 4 00 MOLASSES. Pisce Say 2S. 2i Cuba Baking... | 22@2 Porte Hace to 2435 New Orleans, Sond. 25@30 Choice... ... 33@38 ig fancy 48@50 One-half barrels; 3c extra OATMEAL. Muse atine, BOreeis oo. 2. t 5 75 Half barrels... °. 3 00 . Cases -% 15@2 25 ROLLED OATS Muscatine, bic oar @5 75 Half bbls... @3 00 be Causes... 2 15@2 2 OIL. Michigan Test.. oe Weiter White 1014 PICKLES, Medium See oc 5 — 95 Shoe .. 3 40 Small, b I. Bo eee sae 6 75 \% bbl. Joc oe OO PIPES. Clay, NO. ee 16 ») full count... .._. ao Cob, No soe ee io PRESERVES E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 8 RICE, Carolina BORG st 6% el 5% e Ge 54G@ : NOos ot Japan. = 54@6% SALT Common Fine per bbl....... 80 Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks.:... 27 = pocket eee eee ees ee 1 90 ae 2 00 100 Ce ce oe: 215 Ashton bu. bags eee 75 ape | i Warsaw ‘‘ roc 35 ne ee 20 SALERATUS. Pebane’s: pure... 5 Church’s, "Cap Heat. oo. 5 WING 5 Weyeer eg 5 Gur Beaders 434 SEEDS, Mined Hird... 4% CALAWAY... ANSEy 3% PROP 4 PONG oe oo . | eat 4% EMStSTO. T%, SHOE POLISH. Jdetiine, | doz. in box...... to SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, Pe Ars 35 French Rappee, in Jara... . 43 SOAP. Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands. SUMO 3 30 Ceen AMNG cc. 3 8 Germau Hamily.. ........- Mottled German....... | | 3 00 Old. German. 2. 27 U.S. Big Bargain.... «--e OO MrOgG: Higster.. 000.00. 8 9 Cocoa Castile ...2.22222.27 3 00 Cocoa Castile, Fancy.. -3 36 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Happy Mamily, 75)... 0.. 2 2 9 Old Country, 80... 0.0.1... 3 30 Si TG 3 65 Bouncer, EO) Ae ele 3 15 sPicEs—Whole. AMS PICE 2 ee, 10 Cassia, China in mats....... 8 es Batavia in bund....11 - Saigon in rolls. 40 Cloves, Amboyna...........2 = Zanzibar.. -suee Mace Hatawia. oo 2. - 80 Nutmegs, i seney ne ae 80 Nee % . No es ua ee cn, 65 Pepper, Singapore, black....18 white... .26 “ Ct se 20 sPIcEs—Ground—-In Bulk. PRMOG os cc 15 Cassia, Batavia lias Sas a cu 20 and Saigon. = = Sai GON -.-.-.-.- 20s. Ginger, African Pee eee. — ' OCHA = gaia oe eee ecu as 8 jeace Batavia: 90 Mustard, English Sl aaa = and Trie.. e VIGNE. oo ee Fo Nutmegs, No 2 0.2... a: 80 Pepper, Singapore, Black... 21 . white. .... 30 ug Cayenne. :........- 25 Herbs & Spices, pinalt. .... 65 targe, ...- 1 25 STARCH. Mystic, Gt Berea: 4 48 Dagtelg es cs, 6 SUGARS. an TOG. @8 i @ 7% Powdered... 2... @ 73% Standard Granulated. @6 81 Wine... oo 5. @6.81 Confectioners’ A...... @ 6% White — c.. : @6 Zor e- ae evaculc @ 5% Use wien oe ase 54@ 5% Yellow Sets cate ca uuG @5 SAL SODA, POUM ie Soetoro ue 1% aad DOxee oo. 2 SAPOLIO. Kitchen, : doz. in box ean 2 50 Hand, wees SO piieninkiin” Silver Thread, 15 gallons....2 90 ss oo ae ee SYRUPS, Corn, Derrein. 00 Q2z one-half barrels.. @29 Pure Sugar, PO es ce half barrel. ...30@38 SWEET GOODs. x Rex Ginger Snape. ......: .. 8% Sugar Creams......... 8% Frosted Creams.. Q 9 Graham Crackers... 8% Oatmeal Crackers..... 8% soDa. PES scat ep ae aiGam ais Sau e ala 5 i | om English TEAS. | JAPAN—Regular. POET oe eset os 14 @16 POOR oo 18 @22 CNeee 24 @20 CHGiCeRE: 2 @38 | ‘ai SUN CURED. es oe ae 14 15 ONG oe 16 Gx Cheieees ios 24 @2s8 | Choleeat 2.0 o 30 @3s | BASKET FIRED. | Fair @20 | @2 @35 oe cpubonwen, | Common to fair....... = @35 | Extra fine to finest... Qs Choicest fancy........ 75 < a ommon to fair....... 20 @35 Superior tofine........ 4) @bo YOUNG HYSON. Common to fair....... 18 @26 Superior to fine.......30 @40 OOLONE. Common to fair... ... 25 @30 Superior to fine.......30 @50 Fine to choicest....... 55 @65 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. ORE oe 25 @30 Cee. 30 @35 CAE sees a 65 Wea Dest. 8 Se TOBACCOSs—Piug S. W. Venable & Co.'s 7 vain. Nimrod, 4x12 and 2x12 37 Reception, 22-5x12, 16 oz...... 36 Nineo, 126. 42a Ho 30 | Big 5 Center. amie, 120m)... .. Be Wheeb Gta i 37 PrRReL S29 8 ge 25 Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands, something Good,..... 7. 38 Meuple Pedra 38 Resch Fie Wedding Came Bie 38 POpHCeGr 20 cs 38 TOBACCOs—Fine Cut. D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands. Hiawatha Lo 62 sweet Cue. 620. 70): 37 Our Leader TOBAC cos—Smoking, Oar Hesdée RICCO. ease ae Piew Boy, 2 og... 12. 2 " Oe ee. 31 Pe 32 TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS. = 2, per hundred Deyeeee 2 50 pede ce cee. 3 00 $10. zs re uted 4 00 $20, . ee cae 5 00 Subject to the following dis- counts: 200 or over. - 5 per cent. ee 10 fe 1000 20 ‘. VINEGAR, Calg Eee ECD a 7 50 gr. 9 $i for ‘barrel YEAST, Fermentum, Compressed. . MISCELLANEOUS, Cocoa Shells, bulk.. oe PAPER & WOODENWARE PAPER, Curtiss & Co. quote as fol- lows: PORN ee 160 bigpne Wetong. 200 BUSAD 80 Hardware 2% ORC 2% Dry Googe 6 eate Mania 8 mead Mxpress No. t...:....) 5 is Oe 4 TWINES AS COMMON 22 Cotton, No, ali aida da vie a ca 20 eee ea eS . Sea Island, assorted. ; No. 6 Hemp ..... Epo sie ‘6 No. 8B. ee aces Se Oe 8 WOODENWARE, Tubs, Nef ‘ Oe eo a 6 Po Nese 5 Pails, Lg 1, two-hoop.. 16 No. 1, three- hoop.. 1 Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.. Bowls, 11 inch. pease ees ucee ut 00 00. 00 60 5 60 00 25 00 2% ‘« assorted, 17s and 17s 2 50 _ ** 15s, 17s and 19s 2 % 40 50 90 95 25 25 50 25 00 Baskets, market. 6. DEBHGE Co... 1 e ‘* with covers 1 willow eP ths, No.1 5 a No.2 6 cr 77 “e } vO. 3 7 ¢ splint ~ Nel 3 ra se se No.2 4 { se ae oe No.3 5 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS w HEAT, White) 2 80 Ree 80 All wheat bought on 60». test. FLOUR. Straight, in sgeks.: 7)... 20 DOI 440 Patent * sacks. a. oo - barrels........ 5 40 MEAL, BOMCG ae Granulated). 000000000077, 1 10 MILLSTUF 11 00 11 50 MEECORIOM 0 11 00 MGR es. eee MMraed Weed 2000 13 50 Coarse mieal 13 50 ! CORN. Beant lefts 36 ya . Oelee tees ues 33 OATS, : Small lots ee see eeu ey. 30 Cee 25% RYE. Az ° ort S 88 HIDES, PELTS and FURS. : Perkins & Hess pay as fol- Ows: é HIDES. ‘ Ce es cae %4@ 4 | bars Cured... |. 2 - ee es 4@4% | = steers, extra. . |D a a -5 @6 y Kip Se. 1 Oo @é Caltskins, green 3 @4 eured...... 4%@ 5 Deacon sking. 10 @20 ¥ off for No. 2. PELTs, Sheartings . 30.8... 6... 10 Estimated wool, per 20 @28 ea as 00@4 00 Martin, Ogee... ou53) 1 25@3 00 . pale & yellow 60@ %5 Cae, Gare... eee 6 00@8 00 WO eee 00@3 00 Sone De ee cpa cee: 15 00@20 00 PCOWOE eo osu il. 2 00@E 00 CppoesuMn 6. co. , 20 Deerskins, per Ib...... 1b@ 2% Above prices for No. 1 skins only. cuaes WOOL, QRNOG foes a oe 25@30 Un WeRROG Se 12@22 MISCELLANEOUS. aoe -3 @3X% Grease butter.. -3 @5 WCE oes oe clacas @ 2 1% Ginseng... 5 060.. --..% OO@2 £0 Drugs % Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. ‘© 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. F Meetings during 1890—Grand Rapids, March 4 and 5; Star Island, July land 2; Marquette, 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 See’d Vice-President—Henry Kephart, percion 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 eee 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. Escoit. 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. BORROWING AND BEGGARY VS. BURGLARY. Written for THE TRADESMAN. I was well pleased with C. M.’s re- marks on the chronic borrower, and al- though I cannot hope to add anything very new and original to his experience, it may be that I can turn on a little side light that may prove worth while. I once settled in a new section, the most unsettled, at the time, of any part of this still undeveloped Northern Mich- igan, where there were eleven voters to thirty-six square miles of territory. The people were homesteaders, and were, with few exceptions, the original, square- rigged ‘‘mossbacks,’’ pure and undefiled. Mill and market were twenty-five to thirty miles distant, over trail roads blazed through the dense forest, and it cost almost the price of a barrel of flour te get it from the nearest town. I saw, on the start, that there was going to be trouble over rations unless precaution was taken, so I invested my last cent in half a ton of flour, and hired it hauled in upon hard winter roads, and supplied my fort, a cabin 10x14, with plenty of the needful at that time. Neighbors— some half a dozen of the ‘‘unluckiest’’ class ever known—from two to six or eight miles distant, who never could learn by famine to provide ahead a single month’s rations, gravitated to me, one after another, often pleading pitifully for hungry children, saying that they were “going to town next week and would return it in a very few days.’ And, of course, you know, I, being a ‘‘very nice and clever sort of a fellow” and ‘‘very benevolent,’’ accommodated them, and they were ‘‘so very, very thank- ful,’? etc. In six weeks from the start, with a year’s rations of bread on hand, all my money invested in flour and the necessaries of life, 1 was brought down to genuine hunger and became a beggar —begging justice of my specially ‘‘thank- ful’ friends. Well, I thought, before that day, that I had seen trouble enough. In the war I took a very big, bitter dose and got out with over half my working power ruined forever. Not three years before this I had been ousted out of a beautiful home, that I had pounded out of the solid timber, by a crash from which no business genius and work could have saved me, and then, just as I was erawling up ashore, tired out, like a shipwrecked sailor, to start again, un- der most forlorn conditions at best, the chronic borrower came, and I was re- duced to the very verge of absolute pau- perism, with abundance due me. I am touching the margin only of this story of being hounded almost into the grave by the borrowing ‘‘friend.”’ 1 lived on potatoes and salt that the bor- rower might have good bread, and, in every instance, 1 lost my friend and a part or all of my bread lent him, just at the very time of all my life when I most needed my own and true friends. By accident I escaped pauperism that time, but that was only a trifle in my schooling and graduation in the dismal science. Iwas the only man in many miles who had half of a decent outfit of tools to carry on the necessary work of a pioneer—spade, mattock, augers, chisels, etc., for dirt digging and rude building arts, and in less than a year I was about the only man nearly desti- tute of these essentials—the borrower got them and I lost them and my lamb- like friends. Positively, I never before that hour realized the truth of what hu- man enmity is in its very lowest stage of finished and fiendish diabolism. Ye pitiful gods! No man can believe it until he sees it worked out, which will be somewhat after this manner: In a few weeks or months, the friend will again be on his feet, with surplus prov- ender, and will return and beg what professional beggars never dare ask of an enemy, i. e., another favor, as if noth- ing had happened to estrange them. Repeatedly did- I see a ‘‘very respecta- ble’ and oftentimes very ‘‘pious’’ ele- ment of slums, owing the only friend they had who would trust them, bor- rowing cash and bread, yet knowing the utter inability to pay, and never trying to make even the slightest apology or excuse for broken promises. Had I been strong-handed, they would have tried to keep their credit good and ex- cuse themselves for broken promises; but, seeing me down near their own level, they despised me worse than as if I had robbed them instead of sharing my last loaf with them. Never before did I realize who the very chief of thieves and man’s deadliest foe really is. I thought that poverty was almost too much to bear, but to have to be the slave of such spirits gave me an education that no other school could have done. Ina few years the mortgage nailed that whole crowd, not one escaping, and when my revenge came it was more cruel than I could have desired, even in my red-hot wrath at the vermin. I did not want it; it sobered me, for every dollar of their profits out of the fool-friend’s simplicity cost them twenty-five dollars at last, and the friend outgrew the stings and prospered in spite of all. And I saw a certain small percentage of the crowd, not of it, who could not beat a friend, who would rather steal from strangers or die than rob the friend, rise slowly out of the pit and gain, if on'‘a small scale, solid prosperity, while he who wanted a dollar so badly that he would beat his friend, or anybody out of it, went through life scourged by that want of a dollar. Now, you may be sure that, when a certain class of men persist through life in a course that is equivalent to suicide (worse than suicide, because a morally and mentally sound man would certainly prefer any kind of death to the loss of a friend), who borrow nothing aud lend everything (which holds them down to continual want, causing them to contin- ually cut their own throats), here is indeed a phenomenon of immensely greater significance than most of us have yet imagined. Itis certain that, when men pay 100 fer one and stick to it, although scourged by continual want and the necessity of borrowing, when they imagine that it is a ‘‘profit,”? but which by force of resistless natural law must prove their ruin in a financial and every other sense, there is a real lack of mind or soul or, at least, a sense of| vision which, in a morally developed | subject, utterly prohibits such idiotic | folly. The chronic borrower is positive proof that there is such a disease or) deformity of mind as moral idiocy, as | | low’’—and I,am not certain that it would literal a deformity as mental imbecility, | except that the mental idiot does not | accommodate him has, in the end, far more respect for the one who turned him away empty and made him an enemy than he has for the man who yielded to his importunities and received many thanks for his stupid folly, miscalled benev- olence. When doing the righteous deed, and speaking the righteous ‘‘No’’ brings enemies, then let us begin the making of enemies at once and persist in it until all men are foes; for, if we fall back after that first attempt and yield to please men, we shall finally land in despair, and we shall be compelled to rally against them or sink to perdition. Even those who require us todo an unbusiness-like action, and to yield to expedients in or- der to pamper the weak-kneed friend- seeker, although made foes by a firm, square and decided ‘‘No,’’ respect a firm master, the man who knows them and accords to them simple justice. Such men must have ironclad friends, or they become destroying demons and most eruel to the friends who helped them. I would rather be suspected of stealing a horse than let acommunity look upon me as ‘‘a clever, accommodating fel- not be better policy ta steal a horse and imagine that he knows things and facts, | suffer the extreme penalty of the law while the moral fool does imagine but | lacks wholly the capacity of solid think- sion, gratitude, ete. | rules. ing and the feelings of shame, compas-| rule. if a man could | keep this scientific fact in view, @. €-1| that no man ever attempts the impossi- | than to lend outside of strict business The business rule is a righteous C. H. BaRLow. a oe The Check System in Drug Stores. The explanation given in a Monroe ble while he is aware of the nature of | street drug store of the system in use the powers that enviton him, or persists | in a suicidal course in life’s business un- less some sense of vision or capacity of ; feeling or perceiving is blinded or par-) alyzed, and that all men naturally desire to get their full time or money’s worth, he certainly would no more censure the moral idiot and financial suicide than | any other form of imbecility or insanity. | None but the dead beat (or moral | corpse) could teach this world the real | scientific law of true benevolence. The, man who solicits favors or kindnesses | via free loans and popular benevolence | will shortly teach his victim that, in the: long run, it were ‘a greater act of be- | nevolence on the part of the dead, beat to borrow his friend’s last loaf, and then kick him out because it was all he had, than it was in the simple friend | serving our customers.’ The system of to give and lend, expecting as much in! return, or to give alms in public and let | the right hand know the giving of the | left. Bitter medicine this, to be kicked | | and insulted because you pitied a man in| need and loaned him your last crust, but | kind of false benevo-| it was just this lence that made the sham man and got him into the habit of neglecting business | and going to friends for help, when, in | time, it cost him two dollars to beat the friend out of a single dollar. What can! we know of real benevolence except by | I saw the man who got the: its results ? kicks and insults, in return for lending ; and giving until he was hungry and then | was insulted and struck at for his com-| passion, at last rise up strong, repent of his folly in giving and lending to shams} and learn the lawof genuine benevo-'! lence, that compels man to help himself until the habit is formed, making him a lender but never a _ borrower, an easy, natural self-helper—always ‘‘lucky.”’ Then I saw the poor beat, who did the insulting and kicking of his foolish friend, landed in the pit, and every: dollar’s help that he got turn out like free whiskey to a toper—utter ruination in its deadliest phase. which is the best kindness—to ‘‘sugar over’? aman and let him suck until he bites his ‘‘benefactor’’ to the bone and be- | comes a parasite, or that kicking out and the insult for mistaken kindness which | waked up aman and taught him to say | No when it ought to be said? Too many | of us are moral cowards, and are afraid to offend one whom we know does not get beaten, and make him a foe at last, after all our trouble and loss. Isn’t it best to iron down to fixed principles, or laws of nature—resistless forces that will ruin us unless we do learn to adhere strictly to the steel clad rule? Whena man is made an enemy by what is right and just ’twixt man and man, better make him an enemy at once, for that character will certainly be either a secret ' or an open enemy, in spite of all you can do. Better make him an open enemy quickly, and done with it, for an enemy he is at best, and all the more deadly and until his day of sale, when he coolly swaps your confidence for thirty pieces of silver, more or less. It cost me more than $10,000, I am positive—all dug out of the ground, real dollars—for my ‘“‘little education,’’ and this mostly taught me by the various kinds of beats. I don’t begrudge it at all, but long ago I ceased to blame the dead-beat for my losses, or rather, for the whole, clear profits. Had I known the law and the art of saying ‘‘No,’’ in other words, had I not (with many of you ‘‘smart business men’’ for company) been the tool of the worst fool ever known on earth until this century, the American sham, who thinks one tricky dollar worth ten honest dollars, I had escaped free. ’Twas not the poor fool’s fault that it took him twenty years to thus teach me the truth. When a right- eous ‘‘No” offends an acquaintance, or any other man, and a weak, foolish ‘Yes’? pleases him, say the ‘*No”’ quickly, though the heavens fall, and bid him depart at once or that weak ‘‘yes,’’ that ‘‘accommodation’’ and compromise with your friend, the help-seeker, will return later, with his scorn and the dead- liest kind of enmity on earth—the hatred of amoral idiot, whose folly you have gratified by false benevolence—and you will have yourself to thank beeause you lacked the spirit to speak a righteous re- fusal and plant the ‘‘No’’ where it be- longed. I dread to crowd upon youin this style, and doubtless I shall softly land in your waste basket, but it seems to me that this real law of truth and benevolence, which appears so hard and selfish on the outside, should be demonstrated like any fact in science. This fear of offending people who ask favors that they have no right to ask, which a healthy mind would not and could not ask, is a dire curse upon many a well-meaning man and often sinks him and only intensifies the trouble that appears at the time to be over. Let it be remembered that the man who is offended by ajust refusal to | not a bad one. ting vas retty, I trugs.’”? The apothecary, who was the], | there of giving a check when a prescrip- tion is received, and taking it back when the phial is handed to the customer, is ‘**You see,’’ was the ex- planation, ‘‘when a man has a prescrip- tion filled he wants to feel sure that he gets the right medicine. People stand somewhat in awe of drugs, and havea fear of getting the wrong thing. When they ‘check’ their prescriptions they seem to feel confident that no mistakes | will be made. But, in all seriousness, it saves a great deal of annoyance, and is | generally the most satisfactory way of taking care of prescriptions, and of using checks is gradually spreading into every industry and trade. ——_—_—~. -¢<.___ |'How the Druggist May Kill His Busi- ness. There are more ways than one of the | druggist standing in his own light, and | we opine that when he loads his counters with five cent packages of different | kinds of medicines, which are bound to appeal to that desire to economize which is the motive power of self-medication, he robs himself of the sale of a twenty- five or fifty cent package with its 100 | per cent. profit, while the five cent pack- age which catches the customer yields him a beggarly profit of two cents. It is ‘‘the little foxes that destroy the vines,’’ and the druggist wants to pin his faith : to the articles that represent the largest returns, and gives them the place so | oftenoccupied by a lot of troublesome ‘and unprofitable goods. There is no question whatever that if every five cent package was banished from the counter of the pharmacist the people would, in a short time, become educated to the use _ of higher priced remedies, instead of, as ,is now the ease, creating an ever-in- Earth over, these facts are seen, and: creasing demand for cheap ones, and _ finding a sort of ‘‘Fool’s Paradise’? in a | cut rate store and a five cent package of | cough drops, etc. ————_ Requisites for the Drug Business. ‘“Af I vas in der trug peeziness again to staid,’ said the German apothecary, as | the third woman who bought postage i st d th h the door, ‘‘I ] deserve help or credit, afraid to make a} a —— Ce _— man our enemy, so we lend or trust, and | first puy me a clogck, a directory, and some sthamps. Den, berhabs, ven gfery- vould put me in some reverse of lean, and who looked as if but a small portion of his time was passed in ‘‘culling simples,’ or gazing upon ‘‘a beggarly array of empty boxes,’’ voiced a common complaint of his class. | For time, for place and for postage, the drug store is the great American ex- change. There is no good reason why it should be any more than a meat market, but so itis, and there seems no likelihood of the custom being altered. The drug- destructive as a ‘‘much esteemed friend”? | a ee tion, and oftentimes the would-be buyer of the government label for his letter is disappointed by finding the dealer is “Just out’? of stamps. A Finding a Ready Sale. Agent (to druggist)—I have a prepara- tion here, sir, which you will be glad to have on hand. Iam selling large quan- tities of it to the trade. Druggist—W hat is it for? Agent—Touching up postage stamps. A very little applied to the back of a postage stamp creates a feeling of nausea the moment it comes in contact with the tongue, and your customer at once calls for a dose of medicine to allay this stomachic irritation. It makes postage stamps a very profitable line of goods to handle. Druggist—Put me down for a dozen boxes, and [’1l try it. ——q@q@@2£ oe —_ A Good Appointment. Governor Luce has shown his usual good judgment in naming O. Eberbach to succeed himself as a member of the State Board of Pharmacy. Mr. Eberbach is thoroughly qualified, both by educa- tion and experience, to discharge the duties incumbent on the position, and his re-appointment is a compliment he cannot fail to appreciate. ss» > The Drug Market. Quinine is higher for foreign brands. American brands will probably be ad- vanced soon. Gum opium is very firm. Antipyrin is still out of market. Sup- plies are expected daily. Gum guaiac has further advanced. Malaga olive oil is advancing. Oil bergamont is higher. Oil copaiba ishigher. Paris green has declined. a. It pays to handle the P & B. cough drops. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Oil Bergamont, Oil Copaiba, Gum Guaica, Quinine (foreign). ACIDUM, WAmtipyrin 00 sce, 1 35@1 40 Mocticum 2.35.5. 2.55. ta 10 Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 68% Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 OG t ATRenIGHER 220000. %@ = Wovadsie ook. see seeks 30 | 1 Balm Gilead Bud..... 338@ 40 Carbolicum .... . 40@ 45 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 33@ 3: | Bismuth S.N......... 2 10@2 2 Giiricum 2... 50@ 55 | Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15 oe Chlor, 1s, (48 i drochlor .. 3@ 5 Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 oe. 9 ie ieecmeini oo 10@ 12| Potass Nitras.......... 1@ 9 Cantharides Russian, Oxalicum . 10@ 12| Prussiate.............. POG Od BOs cu cee @1 75 Phosphorium dil. 99 | Sulphate po........... 15@ 18 Capsici Fructus, ac... @ 18 Salicylicum .. 1 40@1 80 RADIX. a ce os @ 16 Sulphuricum. 1%@ 5 hiscasts ale on po. @ 14 Marieutiy 6 .icce- 1 40@1 60 UNE Soe 20@ aryophyllus, (po. 28) 23@ 25 Tartaricum.....-.-«--- 40@ 43 | Althae................. 25@ 30; Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 f . POC DUBR oes cokes. 15@ 20; Cera Alba, S. &F..... 50@ 55 AMMONIA. oe DO oc lesa toss = ps OW 23@ 30 os | CAIBINUS. 5 0... ons 20@ WEGHS oot @ 40 ae SS =e ¢ | Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12] Cassia Fructus........ @ 15 Carbonas oo 11@ 13| Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18| Centraria.............. @ 10 = on alge Re 2@ 14 oo Canaden, Cotnectin 3.) 2s. @ 35 ee ae (po. BO ee @ 45| Chloroform ........... 50@ 55 ANILINE. = —— Ala: po... ia = a a = a ce @1 00 .2 00@2 25 | Inula, oe pe ee ones oral Hyd Crst...... 1 1 75 ut erases eee ce > 80@1 00 | Ipecac, po............. 2 00@2 20} Chondrus ............. ue 25 — eats selene - 150 50 Iris meet (po. 20@22) .. a 2 Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ 2 ete ee ee te IAPS, PE. cece cae se € German 10 VWollow .25..:-<-.5----= 2 50@3 00 Maranta, %8...... :. @ 35| Corks, list, dis. per 1@ BACCAE. Podophyllum, po.. a = é Cento on 60 re Ss 7 Treasotum ..... 50 oS ote eet. @I 75] Creta, (bbl. 75). 2 Xanthoxylum......... 25@ 30 oS -- @1 3 E eos a 5 pNeee ss 48@ Precip: 22s. +. 10- BALSAMUM. Sanguinaria, (Po — Qo Wt Batra... 8 Copaiba........ ee 70@_ 75 | Serpentaria.. : BOGS SOU CTOCUE 60s iiss te . 85@ 38 POP! oo. oss csi -=- <2 IGS a) | SCHCRS 2. COQ 6b] Cudbear..= os... @ «4 Terabin, Canada ....- 45@ 50 | Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40; Cupri Sulph.. i. 6a Si Tolvtall .,.-2<20-<-—- «- 45@ 50 si = M @ WO! Dettrine< og 1S Seiliac, (pe: 35)... .-... 10@ - 2} Hther Saitoh... 68@ 70 CORTEX. Symplocarpus, Feeti- Emery, = numbers. . @ 8 Abies, Canadian......------ $8), Gus, POs eee cae CO soy pee lt, @ 6 Cassiae. ....-2-<-----. 85 FLORA. SPIRITUS. Liquor Arsen et “Hy- os Arnica i) oi. 144@ 16 Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 rare Tod p06 60.. Anthemis ...... ... 30@ 35 De RL 1 7%5@2 00) Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 Matricaria ...... .---- SOO oe se a 1 10@1 50| Magnesia, Sulph (bbl FOLIA. sine Co. 0. 'T:..:1 Tea & BP ce ss es p 3 Barosm 10@ 12] caacharum N, 8......1 10@2 00| Morphis, & B.& W...2 GeG2 90 aacharum N. orphia, S. 90 Cassia Acutifol, ‘Pin- 25@ 28| Spt. Vini Galli......711 75@6 50 LN. Y. Q&S nive Yovveee oy 35@ 50 Vini Oporto ; =... .--.1 25@2 00 Ce 2 Ae: 2 65@2 90 4 Wink: Alba... ooo. 1 25@2 00| Moschus Canton...... 40 Salvia officinalis, 48 N a ; 10@ 12 fvristies,.No 1.0... . 60@ .70 as aaa ae SS _s-° Florida sheeps’ wool, Os. Sepia. ee ec, ae 32 coer cartiage: 0000020, 2 25@2 50} Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. cacia, ist picked.... @100|wassau sheeps’ wool «= | .CO-:- ---+----------- 00 — 2d ee @ 1 carriage Se ee 2 00 —_ Lig, N. C., % gal 66 3d 6 ea @ 80 Velvet extra sheeps’ a sas cal | lll @2 00 “gifted sorts... _@ 65] wool carriage....... 1 10 Picis Liq., quarts ..... @1 00 a ee 75@1 00} Extra yellow sheeps’ pints . @ 70 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60} carriage............. g5 | Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).. @ 50 “ "Cape, (po. 20).. @ 12] Grass sheeps’ wool car- Piper Nigra, (po. = @ 18 “ Socotri, (po. 60). @ 50| ‘riage ...............- 65| Piper Alba, (po g5).. @ 3 Catechu, 1s, (448, 14 48, Hard for slate use.... 75| Pix Burgun........... @ 7 (oes ee aoe @ 1 | Yellow Reef, for slate Plumbi Acet .......... 14@ 15 i aes ee = 20a) ae) nee 1 49| Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 Assafcetida, (po. 30)... _@ 15 Pyrethrum, boxes H Benzoinum.......----- 30@ 55 SYRUPS. D: Go., doz... @1 25 Camphore.......----+- 45 SC Accaein: oe 50| Pyrethrum, pv........ 30@ 35 Euphorbium po .....- So@, IO tb Zingiber . 0. 50| Quassiae .............. 8@ 10 Galbanum 02020... 7. OM Oi ineese 0 e 60} Quinia, 8. P. & W..... 2@ 47 Gamboge, po.....----- 90 Werri fod.) 50 S. German.... 37@ 47 Guaiacum, Spe. Ba). @ 50] Auranti Cortes..........-... 50| Rubia Tinctorum..... 12X@ 14 King, (po, 23)..2 4... @ Wi Rhet Arom. ):).000 0000002. 2: 50| Saccharum Lactispy.. @ 35 Martie (tui, @1 00 | Similax Officinalis.......... 60| Salacin................ 2 25@2 35 Myrrh, (po. 45y cs se @ 40 “ “ €o. 59 | Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ Opii, (pc. 5 10).....--- S co@e GO Senos ol ct 59; Santonine ............ @4 50 Shellac) ee etl on gcse ine 50| Sapo, W --- 123@ 14 « pleached...... mI SO Oo su e 50; Sat Asateoigae. oe 50 Soda, Bi-Carb......... 4@ 5B Thymus, V.......----------- 25 | Atrope Belladonna.......... OO) Sodn Ash) 3@ 4 Densewh. 2 es. oe, 60 | Soda, Sulph MAGNESIA. a Seda, Sulphas.:.....:.. @ 2 CO. eee 50| Spts. Ether Co 50@ 55 Calcined, Pat.........- bo@ 60) Saneuinaria. 202000000. .o 50| “© "“Myrcia Dom... @2 00 Carbonate, Pat........ WG 22 Baroemna |... es « Myreia Imp... @2 50 Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 25) Cantharides................. %| & ini Rect. bbl. Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36| Capsicum ...............+... SOL ogee ce ae 1 coe Cardamon. acces. Less 5c gal., cash ten days. Co. -+++ee++ 75] Strychnia Crystal 1 Absinthium . ......-.: 5 00@5 50 Castor .... .1 00 Sulphur, Subl......... 2u@ 3% Amygdalae, Dulce... .. 45@ 7%] Catechu... 50 cee 24@ 3 Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@8 25| Cinehona .. Sl immarinde % i... .1 90@2 00 Be. | maton Veuscs. BE 30 Auranti Cortex - _ @2 50| Columba.... Sl whenicamaa oo Bergamii 2 Okes 2) | Coninm . 20 2 MO) wane 9 00@16 as Cajiputi ie) ee OO Gubena 2. i sl) 50| Zinci Sulph.......... 7@ 8 Caryophylli Pehl SO Pigttatia ooo col) eed! Be oer ae oe. Oo Hrpet. 60 eo 50 Ors. Chenopodii ........... @i i Gentian. 50 : Bbl. Gal Cinnamonii .........-- 1 a1 ee a 60 | Whale, winter........ 7 = 70 Citronella ............- @ Bi Guaica 50 —“ = weet eeee ees 5560 Conium Mac.......... 35@ 65 ee Meee a 60 | Lard, No. 1........... 45 56 COnsibe: o.oo el ft Sot oo Zingiher os fol 50| Linseed, pureraw.... 60 638 G@upebae 620k 16 00@16 50 | Hyoscyamus ................ 50| Lindseed, boiled .... 63 66 Exechthitos........... Oe OO | Todine ea a 75| Neat’s Foot, winter — Mricoron (02.0). 000 8! ft 20a 30.1) **) Colorless) 01. 75| , Strained ..... ees 5068 Ganitheria 000000002) 2 20@2 30 | Ferri Chloridum............ 35| SpiritsTurpentine.... 50 55 Geranium, ounce..... @ Sine 50 PAINTS. bbl. Ib. Gossipii, Sem. gal..... Seg Ts | fobelia 50| Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 Hosoi {.........:-: 2 10@2 2] Myrrh.................0..:.. 50 | Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 paipert oc 00 | Nax Vomiea).f.00 00020 50 Ber...... 1% 2@3 Lavendula ............ ee ee 85 | Putty, commercial... .24 2%4@3 Eamonisg 1 50@1 80} “ Camphorated........... 50]. —r pure.....244 24%4@3 Mentha Piper.......... #10@2 35) “ Deodor 0/000... 200| Vermilion Prime Amer- Mentha Verid......... 3 50@2 60:1 Auranti Cortex.............. Bee eee 13@16 Morrhuae, gal......... S01 O08 | Gussie 50| Vermilion, —— 75@80 Myreia, Ounes, 0200.5. NMA oes ssi5e' 50 | Green, Peninsular.. @75 Olive 1 A ek, 50 | Lead, red.............. @i% Picis Liquida, (gal. ie 10@ 12 Cassia Acutifol............. 50 white ........... @i% ied oe, ‘vet 8 he 50 | Whiting, white Span.. @i0 Rosmarini......... %5@1 00 | Serpentaria ................. 50 | Whiting, Gilders’...... @%9 Rosae, ounce.......... @6 00 | Stromonium................. 60| White, Paris American 1 00 Sacemi = 45 Tolutan a ae 60 Whiting, Paris Eng. Sapine 222.52. se. HIGHAM 2.000502 02... aoe. A ee es ee Saniah 2. 3 50@7 00 | Veratrum Veride............ 50 | Pioneer Prepared Painti 20g! “ Sassafras. .... .. O@ 55 Swiss Villa — Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65 MISCELLANEOUS, Painge 32 e 1 00@1 20 Tigiii.......... @1 50! Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 28 VARNISHES. [= - OT 4B... 30@ 32] No. 1 Turp Coach..... 1 10@1 20 stcabeccuer : 15@ 20 Alumen ...........:... 346 3% | Extra Turp............ ioe 70 * -) ground. (po Coach Body. .: 0: ...2: 27 POTASSIUM. 2) aoe oe 3@ 4| No.1 Turp furn.....- 1 00@1 10 Bi Card. 3 ee Om IS Anna 2 ooo. 55@ 60] Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 Bichromace ..........- 13@ 14 Antimoni | po. becca sc. @ 65 = Dryer, No. 1 Brounge..... 2... 87@ 40 "et Potass T. 55@ 60 TP ee ao Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Co. ORGANIZED 1881. GASH CAPITAL $400,080. CASH ASSETS OWER $700,000. LOSSES PAID $500,000. D. Whitney, Jr., President. Eugene Harbeck, Sec’y. i The Directors of “The Michigan’”’ are representative business men of Fair Contracts, our own State. Equitable Rates, Prompt Settlements, Insure in “The Michigan.’ a THE MOST RELIABLE FOOD For Infants and Invalids. Used everywhere, with unqualified isuccess. Not a medicine, but asteam- the books. 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, ete. Call at “The Tradesman” offi ce and inspect E. A. STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids. OUL% s Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Brooks’ Hand Force Pump, In- stantaneous Water Heater, Hot Air Furnaces, Mantels, Grates and Tiling, Gas Fixtures, Ete. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Plumbers’ Supplies. 184 Kast Fulton St, Head of Monroe, Telephone No. 147. 21 Scribner Street, Telephone No. 1109. GRAND RAPIDS, THE BEST Accident - MICH. Furnished POLISHINA (TRADE MARK REGISTERED.) The Best Furniture Finish in the Market. Specially adapted for Pianos, Organs and Hard Woods. will remove grease and dirt, and will add a lustre which for beauty and durability cannot be excelled. is clean and easy to use, as full directions accompany each bottle is put up in LARGE BOTTLES, and is sold at the moderate price of | CHARLES B. PEET, Twenty-five Cents. is the Best Furniture Finish in the Try it, and make your old furniture look fresh and new. is for sale by all Druggists, Furni JAMES R. PITCHER, ture Dealers, Grocery and Hard BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. FOR SALE WHOLESALE HAZELYINE & PERKINS DRUG GO.,|320-324 Broadway, New York. GRAND RAPIDS, Insurance ited States Mutual Accident Association Is that by the President. Sec’y and Gen. Manager. MICH, LIQUOR & POISON RECORD COMBINED, Acknowledged to be the Best on the Market. E. A. STOWE & BRO 15 GRAND RAPIDS SUSPENDED ! 100 Louis St., CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address PECK BROS., Wholesale Druggists, GRAND RAPIDS. 2 SSS Sala mika \O1O& Zing, EG a VL me os Use Pte Ure ee a= WOO0OD.3.METAL- Pagan) aD UBY} I9YJO Zulssoiq ‘ Bee eoug WIq Zuyjes Aq wy uO Sc ex ea L es0dul] 03 19;vep OY} SUpMoTTe 10g Warranted not to Thicken, Sour or Moldin any Climate. Quality Guaranteed Against Injury by Freezing. All others worthless after frees ing. See quotation. MARTELL BLACKING CO., Sole Manufacturers, Chicago, Tl. aa. bela ceive them. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug 60, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HAZEL TINE & PERKINS DRUG CoO. Importers and Jobbers of —~-DRUGS— Chemicals and Druggists’ Sundries, Dealers in Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Sole Agents for the Oelebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints. We are Sole Proprietors of WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY. We have in stock and offer a full line of Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines, Rumse. Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co., Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite Rye Whisky. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar antee Satisfaction. All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we re= Send in a trial order. Gr © Michigan Tradesman A LONGER PRESIDENTIAL TERM. It has become a truism in this country that it takes a score of years to crystalize and shape public opinion into a national statute. As a nation, we politically live in the present, forgetting and avoiding all contemplation of ‘the history of the past, or thought in the preparation for the future. Abvve all things, ours is an easy-going nation. The news of the day is the most important matter in the minds of the mass. The thought of the hour is the tempting morsel for the craving appe- tite of the thinking classes. The prob- lem of to-day-is the absorbing question, which is soon forgotten in the problem of the morrow. We live from hand to mouth. The earthquake of one week gives place to the boat race of the next, which in turn sinks out of sight upon the advent of the suc-eeding sensation. Events, hike briiliant-dyed leaves on the trees in autumn, fall to the ground, to attract attention but for an instant, then to wither and dry. History is written with a swift pen, two facts this week, one the next. half-a-dozen following, dis- appearing before scarcely noticed, to give place to those in their wake. List, while some of the dead leaves are rustied: Lincoln falls by the assassin’s hand: sixteen years later, history repeats itself and Garfield is murdered, one life separates the nation from an interregnum of——. what? Congress meets and ad- journs; hearing the voice of the people, it heeds not; seeing the predicament the nation is in, it acts not, and not until the nation has gone through four years more of unknown and perilous risks. are we given the Presidential Succession Bill. The choice of the people and the electoral college is set aside. Yet ten years have elapsed and no better provision has been given the country for the ascertaining and earrying out the will of the people as expressed by the ballot for President. The cumbrous electoral college remains. Another question every four years con- fronts the nation and demands attention, and as each election slips by is forgotten with an ease and fool-hardiness that is both ridiculous and appalling. itis con- cerning the length of the Presidential term of office which every quadrennial excitement calls out loud and strong for aremedy. Who can estimate the injury wrought by the last three Presidential campaigns? The one of 1876 was long and bitter, only to be followed by months of uncertainty. The succeeding cam- paigns followed fast upon it, being more months of bitter political excitement. A breathing space again ensued, to be fol- lowed by another great fight. In 1888, from the time of the Chicago convention until the November election, the country was one vast whirlpool of excitement and contention. In these, as in preceding campaigns before them, every other thought, project or problem gave way. The fever of politics entered our banks, counting-houses, manufactorics, boards of trade, commercial houses, churches, professions, trades and even our homes. The press lived and thought at a white heat. Stocks rose and fell with each day’s news, millions lost. millions made. Each day kept us on the qui vive for the news of the next. A; the goal is neared, Wall Street always and purposely be- comes panicy, and the lambs are fleeced, business is at an ebb, manufactories shut down, a cessation of trade ensues and bankruptcies are numerous. Plagues of all kinds attend and surround these cam- paigns as they have been. The voice of the pe»ple ascends on high and questions the times, crying out loud for help and protection against these ills. With one common assent, it is agreed that this feverish state should not exist as it does, or that there should be some antidote to counteract the harm done. Thus far, the only remedy that has been suggested has been a less frequency of these campaigns. A presidential term of seven instead of four years, we will say. Let us see the wisdom of this. We may assert, with little fear of con- tradiction, that while at present the Eng- lish Government is what may be called a constitutional monarchy, our own has a tendency to be a monarchal republic. This may need further elucidation. While the Empress of India reigns at Windsor, and the House of Lords is com- posed of peers of the realm and is the upper house, the House of Commons, the people, are the supreme rulers. Parliament and the House of Commons have grown to be almost analogous terms. The Commons dictate, the Lords feebly oppose, but in the end acquiese, and the Queen obeys her Commons. Given a political issue, the expressed will of the people immediately instructs as to the opinion of the country, which upsets eabinets, prorogues parliaments, forms new ones, prescribes the administration, even to the appointment of heads of de- partments and the Queen is powerless to resist, or, at least, she does not attempt to doso. From the day King John sub- mitted to his nobles and signed the Magna Charta, the voice and power of the peo- ple, the Commons, have been growing in England until this day, when we may say that the crown is the figure head—a costly one—but a monarchy hedged in by a written and unwritten constitution, which robs it of all kingly power. In our land it has come to pass that the executive branch of our Government has assumed a position above its coequal powers, warping the strength of the legislative by absorption, and building up the judicial to sustain its own posi- tion. It has come to pass that we make a President,« who arrogates to himself monarchal powers, then depose him to set up in his place a new ruler, filled with great notions of the importance of himself and the office he fills, who con- tinues the work of his predecessors in bringing all power to a focus in himself. It has come to pass that our Executive, instead of administering the laws as he finds them, the only duty of the executive office the framers of our Government had in view, sets up his own views and opin- ions in all his actions, ignoring those ex- pressed by the legislative. It has come to pass that our Chief Executive sits ona throne with seven satellites surrounding him, to each of whom he has delegated the power he has usurped tohimself. It has come to pass that ‘‘the Secretary of the Treasury has declared the gold dollar the unit of value,’’ notwithstanding the statute of February, 1878, ‘‘to coin the standard silver dollar and maintain the legal tender thereof.’’ internal revenue in 1885, to accomodate the distillers. That the Secretary of the Treasury admitted the Chinese. at San Francisco, in spite of the law. And that the Postmaster General withheld an appropriation of $400,000 voted by Con- gress. Need we illustrate further. Itis a bald and naked fact that our Executive has assumed function after function, in direct opposition to the spirit of the Con- stitution and the laws on our statute books, until it has come to pass that we have a strong centralized republic with marked monarchal tendencies. Even in Congress we yield our opinions every two years to our representative, and they are molded as he molds his. There is no appeal to the country in the height of a discussion, no hitting of the hammer when the iron is hot. Two years we give our legislators. They represent us; if good, we are satisfied; if bad, we threaten. No-great public opinion commands them in the heat of a question. Their terms having expired, their commissions are forgotten, their omissions ignored, and, ere the mass of voters are aware, the politicians have nominated our candidate for the following two years, and through blind partisanship the same are elected, and again we wait their performances, to forget them. If four years of such ruleof our Execu- tive is intlicted upon us, why wish for more? Why puff up the Executive with three more years of this ruling, adding to our ills and intrenching him in his position? Why jump from the frying pan into the fire? We would not. We would gladly see the country relieved from the frequency of the ills attending campaigns of a national kind and given a seven years’ breathing spell instead of four, but at the same time we would clip the adventurous wings of our Executive. We would place him where the framers of our Constitution meant him to be. Our Constitution, inits very first words, expresses for whom it is, what it is that creates it, and who are the sovereigns— ‘‘We, the people.’”? We, the people, do ordain and establish that ‘‘the executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.’”? To which the elected. before entering ‘‘on the execution of his office,’’ shall take the following oath or affirmation: ‘‘I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”? After which the President’s powers are carefully defined and set forth, ending with this special injunc- tion, ‘‘He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” After the ratification of the Consti- tution, we, the people, called upon the father of his country to be our President, to execute the laws for us. He obeyed the call. In succession, to be brief, calls were obeyed and we, the people, were represented in our executive capacity by a line of Presidents, who executed the office of President as the Constitution meant it to be until we come to Andrew Jackson. km ‘‘Old Hickory”’’ we find the most positive expression of that kind of President the country has had for almost two decades, aone-man government. The positiveness, yea, even stubbornness of Andrew Jackson made his administration Jacksonian. In later years our Presi- dents swing back to the class first men- tioned. In Abraham Lincoln is embodied the spirit of democracy. He, whom the people trusted so well, and to whom, out of love, they would have willingly given more power than had yet been vouchsafed to any of our Executives, was the most patient and attentive listener for the still voice of the people and abided by whatever it might be. : When he spoke, he re-echoed the feel- ings of his countrymen. Whatever he uttered found a responsive chord in the breasts of the people. He was in sym- pathy with the people and their govern- ment. He said: ‘I would save the coun- try with slavery, I would save the country without slavery. I would save the coun- try.’ Whatever the people thought was for the best found a most willing ally in him. Andrew Johnson was made to feel his responsibility to the people. Aftera wonderful and beautiful reign of the people, we abdicated. Alas, for how long? The feeling became widespread, after the war was over, that the hero of Appomatox must be crowned with fresh laurels. Loud calls were made for the great soldier to act as our Executive; he answered the call. Hardened by the ex- posure of war and being of a naturally strong character and individual great- ness, he was the great silent man, born to be a ruler of armies. When he ascended to the Presidential chair, he took with him the cloak of his military power, which still hung upon his shoul- der. From the first, he was distinctly U. S. Grant, President of the United States. He formulated a strong govern- ment. He was to his administration what the hub is to the wheel. He brought the work of centralization to a science. His was the ideal one-man government. We can all remember the great battle of the stalwarts to continue the estab- lished one-man rule for a third term, but the voice of ‘‘we, the people,’’ said ‘nay.’? The juggernaut car of one-man rule in this country has continued in the same groove U. S. Grant placed it in until the present day, ever and anon assuming to itself new trophies or pow- ers. Attimes the clamor of ‘‘we, the people,’? has stopped its progress and compelled attention to our demands. = [t may be said that the Civil Service law was arecognition of the protest of the people against centralized government. We have a President now, of whom it is boasted that he knows his own mind, owns himself, follows his opinions and beliefs with a bull dog tenacity. That he is the President; that he compels obedience to his mandates by his inferiors in office; that he says what he means and does what he says. It will be said, this is the very best kind of a President to have. We admit it, but we object to the absolute ownership of himself, his mind and his opinions. Would you have them owned by any other than himself? Upon his inauguration, he should have dedi- cated them to ‘we, the people.’’ The voice of the people would have to become very strong and loud, we are afraid, be- fore President Harrison would yield his}. own opinion to it and govern his actions, not as he thought best, but as the people had thought and expressed. ‘‘Butif you That the same. Secretary delayed the collection of the’ We say, let him be a mummy. take from him such attributes as he has he would bea mummy, we hear said. But let us have some wise and great President, wise because he knows how to execute office and administer the laws as he finds them cleariy laid down in the Constitu- tion and upon our-statute books, and great because he does the bidding of the people, without questioning whether it meets his approval. Give us an Abra- ham Lincoln, who heard at all times the voice of the people and who delighted to obey that voice. Give us one who can serve his Government like he did his. Not a government of the people, by the President. for the President, his friends and party. How could such a state be brought about? We would clip the prerogatives of the President and give the country the longer rest between Presidential cam- paigns by a term of seven years instead of four. We would extend the Civil Ser- vice law, relieving the President of the appointment of as many efficials as pos- sible, in order that office holders would not feel under obligations to the Presi- dent for their positions. We would take away the power from the President to chop off the official heads at his pleasure and disposal, only yielding to him suffi- cient power in this direction to obtain sympathetic bureaus. We would have all of our officials more responsible to the people for their positions than the Presi- dent. We would absolutely require all Presidential appointments to be made ‘yy and with the advice and consent of the Senate.’? We would remove the star chamber secrecy of the Senate. We would have the discussion of all treaties and appointments at the capitol open and free to the people. We would amend the laws of impeachment, that, without doing any damage to the dignity of the Presidential office or offering any great inducements to undertake such proceed- ing, it would bea simpler and easier matter than at present to impeach the Executive for any willful disobedience of the laws or any neglect to execute them. We would remove the judicial further from the executive. We would make the judicial office more of an honor to be received from the people. The members of the United States Supreme Judicial bench owe their positions to the Executive, and would it be surprising to find that bench partial to the Executive in any contest between it and the people? They are and should feel themselves to be the servants of the people. We would have a President whose sole prerogative would be to execute—to carry into effect. One who ‘‘shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed,’’ not as the Presi- dent thinks, but as ‘‘we, the people,’ through the legislature, have recorded on our statute books. Lastly, we would rob the President of the power of veto. The veto is a kingly power. Constitu- tional monarchies have abolished it. It has outgrewn its use in this country, when, in one session of Congress, the President has used it more times than all his predecessors since the founding of the Government. It has become a dan- gerous power. We, the people, can cer- tainly be trusted in the framing of laws to govern ourselves. We, the people, in the halls of the House of Representatives, are wise enough to know what would be for our good and what not, and, should we err, the Senate could be relied upon to correct our mistakes. After three readings, an open discussion and a refer- ence back, we should be, and are able to decide camly and wisely what laws we wish passed. We can know, with our committees, reports and debates, whom we wish pensioned, or the public build- ings we wish built. It is contrary to the spirit of our institutions that the Presi- dent should veto a pension the people have declared in favor of. Itis possible we may err, but nine times out of ten we will be right, yea, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, and when we err the hun- dreth time it is within our power to re- consider. Such changes as we have favored would require an amendment to the Constitu- tion. We do not presume that we could add anything to that wonderful instru- ment. The spirit of it is all that can be desired; the letter of it has been taken advantage of. We would alter the letter in order to bring back its spirit to every department of our Government. The Constitution has not been in the wrong, and is as full of liberty, equality and union as when ordained and established; but our strong one-man rule has got itself beyond its influence. It has gone wrong: it has assumed too much and should be brought back to a sense of the position required, and the ene which was delegated by the fathers. Who can estimate the benefits to be derived from an Executive who would execute, and a seven years’ term in place of four? It would drive away from our pelitics much of its viciousness, its ex- citements, its ruinous results. It would be more a question of fitness of the in- cumbent than platforms. And what do the latter amount to, anyway? We would have a simpler government, one in which the spirit of democracy would be broad- cast. We would have a nation that would not bring untold trouble on our heads by a mere change of Executives. Our legislative department would frame the laws, our judicial determine and con- strue them and our Executive would exe- cute them. Ours would be a Government more fully imbued with the spirit of the immortal Lincoln, one ‘‘of the people, by the people and for the pecple.” Wma. ArcH. 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