V OL. . GRAND RAPIDS, WE DN Michigan Tradesman. TES DAY, AP R IL. 30, 1890. Ss. G. KETCHAM, DEALER IN Lime, Hair,Cement BRICK, SEWER PIPE, TILE, ETC., 14 West Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH P.O. Voorheis, GENERAL INSURANCE AND LOAN AGENT, | WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. | Bought directly from Importers and | Manufacturers. Goods the Best Quality | and Prices the Lowest. ‘Adams & Co.,| 90 MONROE ST., TELEPHONE $80. ue in 41 Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids. | | OPPOSI lk THE MORTON HOUSE. H A R | k Y y H k Y § T k K | Ww. Cc. WILLIAMS. A. SHELEY. ’ Wholesale Dealers in Picture Frame Paper] | woviings Also a a line of PAINTS, OILS and BRUSH Correspondence solicited. 74 & 76 Ottawa St., Grand Repids, Mich Magic Goffee Roaster, The Best in the World. Wa I AN AND OR a PEE Having on hand a large stock of No. 1 Roasters—capacity 35 Ibs.—1 will sell them at very low prices. Write for Special Discount. ROBT. §S 48-50 Long . WEST, St., CLEVELAND, OHIO. Best and Cheapest __Thorough, Practical and Complete. |The West Michigan | | Business University | AND NORMAL SCHOOL, i] Moliulien Block, 23. South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Is the Best Place to obtain a Thorough. Prae- tical and Complete Edueation. The Best ACTUAL BUSINESS Department in the State. The most thorough and practically conducted Short-Hand and Typewriting Department in the West. Do not fail to write for particulars, A. E. YEREX, President. Write for jobbing prices on Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke and AlfalfaClover, Timothy, Orchard Grass, Red Top, Blue Grass, Field Peas, Beans, Produce and WOOL. 24 Ainsworth, 76 So. Division St., Grand Rapids. | A. 8S. BROOKS. WILLIAMS, SHELEY Successors to Farrand, Williams & Co., Wholesale Druggists, AT THE OLD STAND. Corner Bates and Larned Streets, Detroit. ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH. Allen Durfee & Co., FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. Fine Millinery. & BROOKS SEEDS! If in want of Clover or Timothy, Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, Kind Seed, send or write to the Grand Rapids Seed Store, 71 Canal St,, GRAND RAPIDS. |W.T. LAMOREAUX, or, in fact, Any of Apples, Potatoes, Onions. FOR PRICES, BARNETT BROS, WRITE TO Wholesale Dealers, CHICAGO. HISTORICAL DEAD-BEATS. Ancient and Modern Specimens of the Genus. Some ‘‘Sue a beggar,’’ says an old proverb, ‘‘and catch a louse.’’ If 1 were called on to define a dead-beat I would deseribe him as a man that it useless to sue, and I shall endeavor to distinguish here- after between the honest and the dis- | honest dead-beat. ‘*Pity the Poor Debtor!’ such was the inscription over the colleeting box at the | Fleet prison in London, abolished years is |ago by the powerful writing of Charles | Diekens. Although the prison may be abolished, there still remain the debtors, and we may generally pretty safely as- sume their poverty. The question arises, Do they deserve our pity? This requires a little consideration. The rule has been laid down by many a learned judge that a man ‘‘gives credit at | his peril,’? and such in effect is the wise | policy of American law. In Athens, a few centuries ago, Solon was led to con- | ceive the same view, for he enacted that no person should be imprisoned for debt, and went even further than this, for he i declared all mortgage debts ipso facto | discharged and eancelled. This was the | first occasion of the use of the word ‘‘dis- | charge’? in connection withdebts. Solon |} having unwisely talked the matter over with some friends in an after-dinner / conference, these speculative gentlemen quickly proceeded to open real estate offices and to buy up all the mortgage | equities in the market. It is needless to | say that immediately the new law came jinto operation they held their property | discharged from the mortgage debts, and | selling out, retired with large fortunes, into private life. Who shall say the | Athenians were lacking in enterprise ? | Athens at this time must have been the Paradise of dead-beats, a happy spot, where the claims of the poor were re- spected and where poverty was not re- garded as contemptible. It has been said that ‘if is hard for an empty sack to stand upright,’’ nor are there often found men who are not ashamed of their poverty. Aristides was a noble exception to the rule; an upright | man, though a very empty sack, he pub- licly gloried in his poverty, amidst the applause of the citizens. It would really seem, from the frequent | recurrence of the circumstance, that poy- erty confers a special title to nobility of character or mental genius. Go where we will, we find poverty and genius arm in arm. Euclid, the world’s greatest math- | ematical reasoner, and Epictetus, one of the sublimest of philosophers, were both slaves and by law ineapable of possessing property. Cicero, the great orator, said to have married his second wife in order to enable him to pay the debts, for is which he was responsible, of his first lady. . Rome, in his time, was the home of a multitude of impoverished noblemen and swell dead-beats, many of them perad- venture ruined by the lavish extravagance of a single banquet. Juvenal, in his first Satire, presents a lively picture of his time. The noble patrician, forced by want to turn shepherd, or, if not yet re- | duced to an ebb low, at least com- | pelled to apply the suecor obtained un- der the guise of alms for a distressed friend or needy client to the relief of his own extremities. Turning shepherd seems to have been a fashionable ‘‘last resource’? of dead-beats in those days, and it will be remembered that the prodigal son in the parable turned swine- so |herd. In the present day ‘‘real estate | and insurance’? has been found to pos- | sess superior attractions. [have spoken of men of genius in- A sadily oe- i cluded in the eategory of dead-beats. thousand cases in point will r |} cur to everyone; a few painful and no-} Bath, NO. 345 torious instances therefore will suffice. The poet Tasso was reduced to such poverty that he had not the wherewithal to buy candles, and so was without light to write verses. Cervantes, the immortal author of Don Quixote, was reduced to the very verge of starvation. The great French dramatist, Peter Corneille. died in great poverty. Rabelais declared him- self a dead-beat with the whimsieal humor which was part of his nature. His noneupative will was as follows: ‘I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I give to the poor.’? His story of Master Francois Villon, the lord of Basche, and the ingenious contrivance he used to free himself from the hordes of ‘duns, appar- itors and catch-pcles’? by whom he was beset, shows us with some significance the author’s profound sympathy with those in trouble, and we may well imag- ine that Rabelais himself was never over- burdened with cash. Pope and Dryden both suffered poverty. Chatterton, in despair, poisoned himself in a Holborn attic. Goldsmith was almost a_ born dead-beat, but a heart as light as his purse enabled him to bear with indiffer- ence such outrageous fortune as would have overwhelmed another man. Sir Walter Scott, as well known, was involved in theruin of his publisher, and, to retrieve his fallen fortunes, wrote his celebrated novels, whieh constituted is the most lasting moments of bis fame, paid off the whole of the enormous debt for which he was liable, and made a noble fortune for himself in the bargain. This an instance of a resuscitated dead-beat, but unfortunately such in- stances have been rare. Dr. Sam John- son occurs to me as another instance of a is poor, friendless author, disdaining pat- ronage, and nobly fighting his way to fame. More often, however, the picture isa sad one. Witness the poet Dryden sell- ing several thousand verses for a few shillings to pay for a week’s keep; Boe- caccio, so poor that without the charit- able assistance of Petrarch, he must needs have given up his studies by reason of his lacking money to purchase books. Petrarch left him 50 florins by will to purchase a winter suit. I turn with relief to a few political dead-beats, sovereigns and statesmen, who have earned the distinetion. King John, nicknamed *‘Lackland,’’ oceurs at once to us. The crusades and other wars; the tournaments and_ knightly jousts, and the costly apparel worn, all / contributed to the creation of an army of dead-beats. his empty King Henry VI., treasury, to recruit practiced alehemy with a zeal and devotion that was, it is to be feared, but poorly rewarded. Charles l. and James II. were abjeet paupers and James only kept his head above water by a disgraceful contract to sell his country for Freneh gold, and having obtained the price, fraudulently repudiated and cried off. We may per- haps pity the dead-beat father, but the fraudulent son is beneath contempt. A pauper prime minister is almost as pitiable a spectacie as a royal ‘“‘stiff.”’ Such, in fact, was Sir Francis Walsing- ham, who had the honor of discovering the plot against the life of Queen Eliza- beth; both he and his contemporary, Raleigh, sailor, courtier, poet and states- man, died heavily in debt. In the fol- lowing century Lord Chancellor Claren- don, immortal for his elegant and honest history of his time, died, was buried and sold up. Philosophy is not without its victims and Lord Bacon is aremarkable instance; he died in debt to the tune of $100,000. The claims of fashion to be represented must not be ignored. ‘Beau Nash,’’ the leader for many years of Bath society, and prince of dudes and mashers, and well known in his time as the ‘King of ”? ultimately died in great poverty. 2 Sergt. Ballantyne, the ablest English | lawyer of his time, was achronic dead- beat. A later example is Gen. Boulanger, if current reports are to be believed. In England the ‘‘jubilee juggins,’’ Mr. Arthur Benzon, has achieved an unen- viable notoriety as a huge dead-beat. He managed to get through $1,000,000 in two years, and he is now abankrupt. In order to get a little money, he wrote a book, which has had a large sale, giving his adventures. A bold face, plenty of bluff, and just enough money to pay for necessaries— that is, the things he cannot get credit for—are the stock in trade of the fash- ionable dead-beat. There are in English and, I believe, in American society, hosts of actual and potential dead-beats. They are known, and as long as they observe society’s unwritten law, are tolerated. But let these beware how they game with the sons or flirt with the daughters, for to these there pertaineth a day of wrath they know better than to invoke. j Poverty seems unattractive in the present day, when boot-blacking costs five or ten cents, but in the past many have made it a profession. Of such were Diogenes and the cynics, of such were the stoics, the early Christians and the prophets before them, and later, the numerous orders of begging friars, | monks and hermits. All were dead- beats, from a commercial point of view. | In conclusion, a word of advice. As ‘it is not the cow] that makes the monk,”’’ so, also, it is not the clothes that denote the dead-beat. There are, of course, different species of the same genus, and their ways and habits differ. There is the high-toned commercial, banking, | speculating, stock-broking or gambling | fraud; on the other hand, do we not all | know the humble dead-beat who has} somehow managed to acquire just suffi- cient to purchase a comfortable home- stead, within the statute, but for the life | of him can never get a cent more to pay his debts? Finally, beware of collecting agencies. They are generally of little use in extracting cash and often keep what they get for their expenses, while to the honest dead-beat they bring terror | and perhaps ruin. Remember this and | sometimes ‘‘pity the poor debtor.”’ W. #8. —__ ~__— Made Money by Heeding a Presenti- ment. Not long ago a Monroe street business | Frank E. Shattuck, man received a large sum of money as trea-urer of an organization too late for a deposit, so he took it home with him to tHe SD fICHIGAN TRADESMAN. he could not get tosleep. Yet he was ashamed of himself. Saying nothing to his wife, he got up, took the money from his coat pocket, put it in his stocking and threw it under the bed. In the morning his wife said to} him, in a joking way, ‘‘I wonder what| | condition you were in when you came to | bed last night? There’s your coat on| the floor, your vest is out in the hall, and | your trousers are. across the door-sill.’’ | Being a man of steady habits, it did look suspicious. It did not take him long, | | however, to discover that burglars had | been through the house and his own | money and watch taken. But the stocking under the bed was | safe. | | | ——A T—— Nelson, Matter & Co's STYLES: New, Cheap, Medium AND Expensive. Large Variety and Prices Low. S. A. Morman, MARBLEHEAD WHOLESALE AND OHIO IN Ml L, AND LOUISVILLE PETOSKEY, AKRON, CEMENTS, Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, Fire Brick and Clay. BUFFALO Write for prices. CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS. 69 = ee, —— & (Formerly Shriver, Weatherly & Co.) CONTRACTORS FOR El. Puritano Cigar. The Finest10 Cent Cigar ON EARTH F EL, PURITAN ’ MANUFACTURED BY DILWORTH BROTHERS, PITTSBURGH. TRADE SUPPLIED BY I. M. CLARK & SON, Grand Rapids. ~BRADDOCK, BATEMAN & CO., = Bay City. Detroit. T. E. BREVOORT, AreyouSour? Lost Trade? Cheap Grease! ‘NO DEALER EVER LOST A CUSTOMER BY SELLING HIM THE FRAZER OFTEN IMITATED. NEVER EQUALLED. NO TALK REQUIRED TO SELL IT. Cood Crease Makes Trade. Cheap Crease Kills Trade. FRAZER="" ALWAYS UNIFORM. KNOWN EVERYWHE®E. y Package Bears our Trade Mark. ~ #9 Roxes,Cane Paris, Kegs & Bbis- Let Petroleum and Imitation Greases Alone =n Pay tha Fenuine Ball-Barnhart-Putman-Go CIGAR DEPARTMENT. We are Michigan Agents for Carl Upmann, New York, and can confidently recommend the goods of his manufacture as possessing absolute merit and being particularly adapted to the taste of the trade. We are direct importers of Havana cigars, which enables us to put the goods on the market at half the margin usually charged. Send for our Cigar List. WHO URGES YOU TO HBREEP Galvanized Iron Cornice, Plumbing & Heating Work. Dealers in Le ag a Pe THE PUBLIC! By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in his suburban residence. It worried him, Pumps, Pipes, Etc., Mantels stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas- ers to the store, and help sell less known goods. ‘ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. this money, in a way he could not under- stand. He kept thinking, ‘‘Am I going to lose this money which does not belong to me ?’’ So strong was this feeling that and Grates. Weatherly & Pulte, 'GRAND RAPIDS, i i MICH. .in progress is indicated py the large gain The Condition of Trade. | From the New York Shipping List. The agitation of the eight hour mov e- | ment by labor organizations, both at home | | and abroad, is gradually spreading and | threatens serious interruption to all in-| dustrial enterprises, thereby creating an | uneasy feeling and a disposition to delay important operations until the result of this disturbance has been definitely set- | tled. The preparations for a general | demonstration two weeks hence will pre- cipitate the struggle that has already commenced in the building trades in this country, and whatever may be the final outcome, the alternative is presented of the heavy losses that will be entailed by the enforced idleness of extensive strikes and the increased cost of production that | will be permanently established if the movement is successful. The struggle is | likely to be one of the most formidable that has yet taken place, but the pro- posed change is so radical in its char- acter and far-reaching in its influence that the laborer is likely to be the great- est sufferer in the end, whatever may be the ultimate result. The revival of spec- ulative interest, which was so marked a/| feature of the produce markets last week, has extended to the stock market, which has displayed a firmer tone and a} broadening field of operations, but the | improvement thus far has been due to a| change in the sentiment of professional operators, rather than to a disposition | among outsiders to invest in railroad se- | curities. Theexcellent exhibit of railroad earnings, the prospect of silver legislation | that will materially enhance the value of the metal as well as inflate the volume of money, and reports of greater har- mony among competing roads, have les- sened the chances of suecessful opera- | tions on the bear side, but as yet there | have been no indications of an aggressive bull campaign. The tariff question is being eagerly watched by those whose interests are likely to be affected by the proposed changes, but in the absence of any test as to the temper of Congress with respect to the measure, either as a whole or in part, trade has not been vis- ibly influenced. The new week has} commenced with continued activity in grain, cotton and provisions, but the markets have been less buoyant, and val- ues have shown more or less of a tend- eney toward reaction. The business transacted in wheat last week was phe- nomenal, and the advance in values based upon reports of damage to the crop, which were exaggerated, are somewhat neutralized by the favorable accounts of the seeding of spring wheat. The ad- vance in other cereals was altogether sympathetic, and hence the reaction has been general. So far as general trade is concerned, there has been fair activity, and from all interior cities a good dis- tributive demand is reported, with money easy and mercantile collections fairly prompt. The volume of _ business in bank clearances compared with last year, and the heavy eastward tonnage reported by the trunk line roads from Chicago. ing off, season of the year, the most important | decrease being the shipments of cotton. | From the New England Grocer. John Barbour, of Brockton, Mass., has perfected a simple arrangement by which cheese can be cut without the wearisome labor of using a knife and main strength. It is an attachment to be placed upon the | knife ready for use. It is made to fit any ordinary cheese knife, the power of | force coming directly over the knife | blade, causing the knife to advance | easily, thereby always leaving the cheese | as smooth as glass and inviting to cus tomers. By its use the hardest cheese can be eut wi with ease and without waste. | — 2. <> | Interesting to Cheesemongers. | | | | Lack of | Symmetry in the Eyes. When the average man or woman comes to be fitted with the first pair of glasses, some curious discoveries are made. Seven out of ten have stronger sight in one eye than the other. In two cases out of five, one eye is out of line. Nearly one-half | the people are color-blind to some extent, and only one pair of eyes out of every | fifteen are al! right in all respects. THE |\Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS, = 0 Sun eee ae 40 No: ee ae 60 —— | Ki: LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. ng ae ee) ee 1% No. 1 Dae cue da oes 1 88 | No. :* . -2 70 First quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top eee 2 2 | No. 1 a 2 &@ Na? * e e os; 3 40 XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crimp - _. oe No. 1 o ..2 80 Nef * _ ee -.3 80 Pear! top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled..............3 70 No. = * Ns . _ 4 70 oe ’ : " i oe La Bastic. — 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. a a 1 wo | No. ae per doz " Oe No 1 6 STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Creche, erga... -... --.... 06% Jugs, % 2 gal., per doz ee 1 ee, _ = ee ee eee oe, 1 80 Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c) ... 65 oo ee 1 oe ac i “e 900) 7 “Something New Bill Snort We guarantee this cigar the best $35 the market. Send us trial order, and if not ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY return them. Advertising mat- ter sent with each order. cigar on Charlevoix Cigar Mfg 6o., CHAHLEVOIA. MICH. HE JAXON GRAGKE IS THE BEST IN THE MARKET. SEND A TRIAL ORDER TO Jobbers of Candy, Nuts, Cheese and Cigars. JACKSON, MICH. KDMUND 8. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, 4h CANAL. 87, Grand Rapids - M ICHIGAN 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St. -— - BANANAS | TRADESMAN. 3 We Manufacture Everything in the line of E Candy Correspondence solic- ited and prices quot- ed with pleasure. Write us. MOSELEY BROS. Fruits, Seeds, Oysters i Produce: All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty. If you are in market to buy or seli Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, pleased to hear from you. will be GRAND RAPT: EDWIN. FALLAS, JOBBER OF Butter, Higgs, Fairfield Cheese, Foreign Fruits, Mince Meat, Nuts, & | Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full Blast. Dairy Butter. Special Bargain in Choice Let your orders come. Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mict We are receiving from two to four earloads of bananas which is Remember We Are Headquarters. a week, more fruit than can be handled by any other house at this market. GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT AND PRODUCE C0. | When in want of The export movement is fall- | low prices from fresh cars. as is usually the case at inis JACKSON CRACKER = 16 and 18 North Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. gend for Price List, Issued Weekly A J, BROWN, Wholesale dealer in Foreign, Domestic Fruits and Seeds, Direct Receivers of California Oranges—— ——AND— ——=Messina lemons. California Oranges, we are prepared to make you Tropical and HEADQUARTERS BANANAS. FOR large lots of BESTE R & FO, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILI ———EE ATLA ENGINE WORKS INDIANAPOLIS. IND., U. &. A: o MANUFACTURERS OF STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS. Cesry Engines and Boilers in Stock & for immediate delivery. Be Send for Catalogue an i Prices. Piae, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Sheseaaann Saws, Belting and Oils. | And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. Write for Prices. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St... GRAND RAPIDS, MICB rearing & BESs DEALERS IN Mich Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDs, Wii! CHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Manistee—W. F. Lott grocery store. Campbell—Weter & Wise have opened | another harness shop. has opened a Freeport—D. E. Watters has removed | his drug stock to Remus. Lyons—M. J. Fisk Lester in the meat business. Marengo—A. W. Palmer his general stock to Jackson. Vicksburg—Mrs. C. A. have opened a millinery store. Coral—L. Swem and Geo. soon engage in the meat business. Ludington—H. Blumenfield, merchant tailor, has retired from business. Saginaw—Peter Baum, Jr., Robert C. Hierd in the meat business. Caro—John Axford L. ford & Son in the hardware business. Ann Goetz & Son in the grocery business. Fisk sueceeds Payne & Co. sueceeds Ax- succeeds Arbor—John Goetz succeeds John Milford—I. Tenney & Co. succeed Bennett & Tenney, furniture dealers. Allegan — Kent & Austin have sold their meat market to Jewett & Town. Byron—Walker & Miner have moved their grocery business to Springtown. Fenton—Murray & Turbush have sold their stock of clothing to N. C. Belding. Ann Arbor—Emanue! Wagner has sold his stock of groceries to John Goetz, Jr. Ypsilanti—A. D. Morford is succeeded by Morford & Hyzerinthedrug business. Battle Creek—G. G. Chas. W. Robinson in the meat business. Jackson—John Carey succeeds Carey & Delehanty inthe undertaking business. Lawton—Ross «& of Kala- mazoo will open a drug store here about May 1. Harrison—Witherspoord & Sugnet suc- fobinson sueceeds Rollins, ceed P. E. Witherspoord in the drug bus- iness. Aral—C. L. Crossett & Co., dealers in lumber and general merchandise, have assigned. & succeeded Hubbell, the general! deal- Hoyt Dry Clio—Nixon ers are by Goods Co. —[r. his stock of drugs from this place Ludington C. K. Merriam will re- move to Chicago. Franklin — Mark B. purchased the stock of groceries of O. ¢ Armstrong. Armstrong has Grandville—Mrs. J. H. Bulliment has opened a dry goods, fancy goods and millinery store. Sault Ste. Marie—Beck & Ro» ce, gro- cers, have dissolved. Mr. Royce contin- ues the business. N. grocery business by Bitt- Escanaba—L. Schemme! is the ner & Schemmel. Muskegon—J. P. King, late of tapids, has opened a bakery and cream- ery at 87 Third street. Plainwell—F. V. Collister stock of paints, oils, ete., to O. B. Chesaning—C. sold their stock of ceries to J. W. Getson. Detroit—H. J. N Naum sue- ceeded in Grand has sold his glass, brushes, Granger. L. have gro- Robinson & Co. dry goods and sueceed the business. F. at 79 have stock, an in- Yaumann & Co. & Starke produce A. a grocery inn, Dueweke in flour and commission Detroit—William Teed, Grand River avenue as Teed Bros., filed chattel their horses and wagons, etc., to cover debtedness of nearly $4,000. and George doing business mortgages on & | has removed | Harris will | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | the millinery stock of Miss Molony & Co. and Mrs. Hunt will take charge of the | same. Coopersville—Henry Miller & Co., of | Conklin, have opened a branch store | | here, for the sale of agricultural imple- ments. Muskegon—O. F. & W. P. Conklin have closed their ‘‘ Popular’? dry goods store and are removing the stock to Ra- | venna. Hilliards—The season’s output of the | | Cold Spring cheese factory has been con- | tracted to Musselman & Widdicomb, of Grand Rapids. Flushing—Chas. N. Talbot has retired from the firm of H. H. Chatters & Co., general dealers. H. H. Chatters. will continue the business. Clarksville—Anson Burleigh, Ed. Cole | and T..J. Justice have bought the Clarks- ville elevator of Nims & Co., and will | continue the business. Eaton Rapids—Knapp & Rich, hard- have ©.) Knapp purchased his partner’s interest | and will continue the business. Sherman—A. Bennett and W. G. Shane have purchased B. H. Rose & Son’s hard- ware business. It is reported that Rose & Son will soon open a hardware store at Harrietta. Hastings—S. E. the interest of Geo. goods and grocery firm and will continue under his own name. | Freeport—S. R. Hunt has purceocit| | | ware dealers, dissolved. Phillips has purchased Soule in the dry of Phillips & the Soule, business | Fife Lake—John T. Snushall and John Swain have purchased the hardware | stock of E. H. Foster and will continue the business under the style Lake Hardware Co. Mulliken—D, E. Hallenbeck, Dorkin, B. I. Whelpley, Abram and Chas. Ingles have been bound over for trial in the Eaton Circuit Court for of the Fife | WW. #. Shinkle | ‘thypothecating’’ the Crane stock of) merchandise. Detroit—Gilbert W. Lee, who has been connected with the wholesale grocery house of D. D. Mallory & Co. for the past five years, has purchased the interest of | Ward L. Andrus. The continued under the the old stand. Plainwell—The W. D. shoe stock was bid in at chattel mortgage sale, last Tuesday, by Pingree & Smith, of Detroit, who bid $1,550 and assumed four mortgages amounting to D. Stern & Co., of Allegan, and Oscar F. business will be same style and at Case boot and $862. Conklin, of Grand Rapids, were unsuc- cessful bidders. The owners of the} stock have turned it over to Mr. Case, who will manage it in their interest until able to re-purchase it. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Charlevoix — Sam. Lobdell has pur- chased the cigar factory of F. A. Smith. | Charlotte—H. D. Cove has purchased H. J. Hart’s shop and will run a planing | mill and wood finishing shop. Detroit—F. A. Wright & Co., bought the Greenville plow will enlarge the plant at once. D. Benham, manufacturer | of insulator pine, has sold his factory to A. P. Green and A. T. Storr. Perrinton—Pettit factory and sawmill burned on the 24th. Loss, $4,000, with no insurance. Bay City—S. G. M. Gates has about | 8,000,000 feet of logs on skids at Lowell station, on the Gladwin road, which will | have works and | & Estey’s excelsior | be shipped here this spring by rail. | Optical factory and planing mill. ling mill | Cart Co. } ate a mill | lack | forced to build atram road to get the) balance of the stock on skids. | of 7,500, the reduction to be effected by the | purchase of | recently burned. | timber, Bay City—G. H. Merrill & Co.’ sali jing mill, which has been undergoing im- provements, $5,000 having been ex- pended, will resume operations this week. Nashville—A company has been or- |ganized to engage in the manufacture |of furniture in the Kellogg plant. 'to the amount of $9,000 has been already Stock subscribed. Alpena—Adams & Smith, of Saginaw, | put 16,000,000 feet of logs for Saginaw parties into Thunder Bay river waters the past winter. The logs will be man- ufactured here. Bay City—The Flint & Pere Marquette | Railroad has leased a portion of its dock near the Pitts & Cranage mill to a local syndicate, and alumber yard is likely to be located there. Detroit—Frank a Rasch, H. H. Gray, O. L. Drouillard, A. Bennett and others have incorporated as the United States Co., with $25,000 capital, of which 10 per cent. is paid in. Negaunee—The Anthony Powder Co. will rebuild at once upon the site of the recent explosion. The disaster was the third of the kind which the company has sustained, and yet it prospers. Bay City—It is said that a syndicate contemplates purchasing the Rust Bros. & Co.’s mill site, and will put up a large Another plan- in South Bay City is contem- plated. Coldwater—The stock of the Road has been sold on a chattel mort- gage to A. B. Dickinson, of Hillsdale, for $11,000. The Southern Michigan National Bank bought the plant for $28,000. East Saginaw—The Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central is actively at work hauling logs. It is estimated that | there are fully 100,000,000 feet yet to be hauled, in addition to a large quantity of square timber. Detroit—F. B. Dickerson, C. H. Smith, H. H. Hoamphrey and J. F. Shawhan have incorporated under the style of the Shawhan Motor Co., to make motors for storage battery cars. The nominal cap- ital is $2,000,000. Ontonagon—The Diamond Match Co. lately bought 1,800 acres of pine land, estimated to have 10,000,000 feet on it, and situated on the Ontonagon River, for $40,000, from Webster, Plumb & McCor- mick, of Saginaw. Bay City—Baker & Barnes, in who oper- Gladwin county, were able to secure but a portion of their expected | log crop during the winter, of cold weather. owing to the They will be Muskegon—The West Michigan Lum- ber Co. has decreased its capital stock from $281,250 to $187,500. The number shares are reduced from 11,250 to er | 50 shares, as authorized at a meeting of stockholders held April 14. Au Sable—There is a rumor that the | insurance companies may replace the Au | Sable Lumber Co.’s sawmill, which was | The owners doubtless prefer the insurance, as they have no are practically over in this section. East Saginaw—The manufacture of rafting pins, which are used by the Tittabawassee Boom Co., is quite an in- dustry. D. Hardin & Co. have had the contract for furnishing them for several years. They have just received twenty- five car loads of maple logs from Gray- ling, which will be converted into pins. East Saginaw—Charles Lee has _ his new planing mill in operation. In the summer of 1888 his extensive plant was totally destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $50,000, with no insurance, and Mr. Lee being over 70 years old, it was hardly expected that he would rebuild; but he could not content himself with inactiv- ity, and has asmall but well equipped mill in active operation. oh 2 J. P. Visner, Michigan representative for the famous house of E. J. Gillies & Co., jobbers of teas, coffees, spices, syrups, ete., wants to correspond with every close buyer in the grocery line in Michigan. Write him in care of room 17, Hermitage block, Grand Rapids. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. eee Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise ment taken for lessthan 25cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES, OR SALE—HAVING DECIDED TO GO OUT OF general merchandise business for good, I offer my stoc k and trade for sale; a rare chances. Address C. M. Wight. Novi, Mich. I will take one-half in improved 21 real estate in Detroit. OR SALE — WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF DRY goods and groceries of about $4,500 in summer resort town of Charlevoix, Mich.; sales $25,000, easily increased; rare bargain to quick purchaser. Address J. L. Hurd, 99 Washington St., Chicago. 17 OR SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS, CARPETS, boots and shoes in town of 1,200 inhabitants in Southern Michigan; new double store; clean, fresh stock of about $8,000; an established paying business; junction two railroads; good reasons for selling. Address No. 15, care Michigan Tradesman. 15 ‘OR SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS, MEDICINES AND fixtures in town situated ina thriving farming community, which is also a growing summer resort: ten miles distant from any town containing drug store; a good place to make money on a small capital; reasons for selling, other business. Address Druggist, Crystal, Mich. 16 OR SALE—STORE, DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES, including postoffice fixtures, for sale on easy terms, owing to ill health; only drug store in town, situated in center of fine fruit section, Address Dr. 8. J. Koon, Lisbon, Mich. 4 \ ANTED—GROCERY STOCK; MUST BE CHEAP for cash. Church & Fenn, Charlotte, Mich. 596 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 — Mich. W 7 ANTED—POSITION BY REGISTERED ee pharmacist; best i references furnished. S. Smith, Coopersville, } Mich. | ie T ANTRO STTURTION BY REGISTERED PHARMA- cist; city preferred; good references. Address Lock box 265, Lakeview, Mich. 19 MISCELLANEOUS, \ BOLISH THE PASS BOOK AND SUBSTITUTE THE Tradesman Coupon, which is now in use by over 5,000 Michigan merchants—all of whom are warm in praise of the effectiveness. Send for sample order, which will be sent prepaid on receipt of $1. The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. RET FREE FOR TWO YEARS TO COMPETENT landlord who will furnish summer resort hotel. E. A. Stowe, Secretary Traverse Point Association, Grand Rapids, Mich. OR SALE—ONE NEARLY NEW STEAM POWER and feed mill; good location; owner unable to attend to business on account of sickness; this valu- able property will be sid very cheap. Address (A. Hyg Johnson, Mecosta, Mich. eE HISTORY OF THE PATRONS OF 7. dustry, from the inception of the organization; only a few copies left; sent postpaid for 10 cents per Copy. _ Address The Tradesman Company, G’d Rapids {AMPLES OF TWO KINDS OF COUPONS FOR RE WO tailers will be sent free to any dealer who will SITUATIONS WANTED. a | write for them to the Sutliff Coupon Pass Book Co., 564 | |i and the days of building sawmills | " | with no timber resources behind them | Albany, N. Y. We respectfully call your attentino to the fact that we carry the most complete stock of Western seeds in Michigan. Send for our wholesale price list and catalogue before buying Clow Timothh, Red Top, Ete., Ete, ONION SETS, In fact, everything our line at lowest market values. Brown's Seed S17. S GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ae MICHIGAN THRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Rademacher & Konkle, grocers at 140) West Bridge street, have dissolved. Jo- | seph Rademacher will continue the bus- iness. The Sullivan line of drugs to its general stock. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. furnished the stock. Foster, Stevens & Co. have foreclosed their mortgage on the hardware stock of A. J. Provin, at Cedar Springs, and have advertised the stock for sale. It is understood that the copartnership heretofore existing between Ben. S. White and Chas. M. Goodrich, dealers in grain and options, has been dissolved. Chas. E. Williams and Chas. L. Law- ton both authorize THE TRADESMAN state that the report that they propose join hands ina new grocery untrue. venture The Grand Rapids Indicator and Ad- vertising Co. was organized in Chicago last week and a re-organization will be effected in this city before the end of the week. Jas. Quinn, Jr., has acted as pro- moter of the enterprise, and it is under- stood that Jas. S. Knox will take the act- ive management of the business, which will consist of operating boxes in the street cars of both local lines, indicating the names of cross streets, and incident- ally, the names of houses which arrange for advertising space. —————»> > New Substitute for Coffee. Aceording to the London Grocer, a Swedish dairy engineer has recently suc- ceeded in obtaining a patent for a very novel substance which he proposes to be used as a substitute for coffee. Whey from milk, or whey mixed with milk, is evaporated down in open vessels or vacuum apparatus until most of the water is driven off and a thick paste re- mains. During the process the whey is kept constantly stirred, and the stirring is continued until the pasty mass_ be- comes cold. The paste is then molded or rolled into cakes, which are afterward dried at the temperature of boiling water, and then broken up into pieces about the size of a coffee bean. The next operation is that of roasting, which is preferably performed after some raw coffee beans have been mixed in. Roast- ing turns this whey-paste a fine brown color. On cooling, the pieces are crushed and ground, either alone or mixed with any percentage of coffee. Of course, this substance cannot form a substitute for coffee, although itis said to yield a pleasant beverage. It may find some use, however, as a harmless ingredient in cheap so-called coffee preparations. ——_ > -o<_-—__——— A Shrewd Baker. The meanest or the most ingenious man, which you will, in the world has been heard from, and he lives in Brook- lyn. Heisa baker, and every Saturday a crewd of small boys may be seen around the doors of his place waiting for a chance to pick over raisins, for which they get fifty cents for the day’s work. Each boy is asked in turn by the baker: “Do you whistle?’ If the urchin re- plies, ‘‘Naw,’’ he is not hired. [f he starts off airily on ‘‘Down Went McGinty” or the ‘‘Boulanger March,’’ he is set to work forthwith. The idea is evident. While a boy is whistlng, he is not eating raisins. The baker has used this device for some time and he says that it works admirably. This baker has probably discovered the only occupation in the world in which a boy is more use- ful because he keeps up an everlasting whistling. — i i Baron Liebig the great German chemist says that ‘‘as much flour as can lie on the point of a table knife contains as much nutritive constituents as eight pints of the best and most nutritious beer that is made.”’ | Lumber Co. has added a The | | MICHIGAN KNIGHTS OF THE GRIP. Address from President Mills. GRAND Rapips, April 28, 1890. To the Members of Michigan Knights of the | Grip: It is with much satisfaction that, in response | WM. R. KEELER, Wholesale Confectioner, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS. SOUTH TELEPHONE AND 412 gt. DIVISION ST. 92-31 | |l am Sole Agent for Rueckheim Bros.’ Penny Goods, which are absolutely the Best Goods of the kind on the market. to letters to our Congressmen and through the | daily press, I[learnthat they are unanimously in | favor of the so-called Caruth’s amendment to | thefinter-state commerce law, and such repre sentative men as Hon. Jas. O'Donnell, of Jack son, Hon. J. C. Burroughs, of Kalamazoo, Judge | Chipman, of Detroit,and Hon. Chas. E Belknap, | BEST of Grand Rapids, have pronounced themselves | as endorsing this amendment and will support it tothe best of their ability. This has been brought about largely by the earnest and effec tive work of our Vice-Presidents and members during the past year, who thoroughly canvassed | IN THE every congressional district in the State to this | end; but I desire officer to still urge forward this matter, which is of so much to ask every member | importance to every commercial traveler in our | | State. If you are not personally acquainted with | | | the Congressman from your district, get some influential friend of his to write him a personal letter, requesting his influence in the passage of the above amendment. i Our able Chairman of the Legislative Commit tee, N. B. Jones, of Lansing, is doing valiant work. The outcome of our “bus venture, at Oscoda and Au Sable, has been satisfactory, both to our members and Mr. Elliott, and has demonstrated beyond a doubt, that any aggressive measures deemed necessary by our officers will be heartily | endorsed and supported by every member, which encourages our’ Buss and Baggage Committees to take the proper steps to correct such evils in these matters as the future may develop, know ing that such action is supported by 1,200 active and earnest commercial travelers. A meeting of the Board of Directors, at which each Vice-President is requested to be present, if possible, will be called shortly, and any mat ters of interest or suggestions from any of our members can be brought before the Board, if filed with the Secretary before date of meeting. It has also been suggested that our annual convention be held during August or September. Saginaw, Flint and Owosso have been mentioned in this connection and an expression of our members on above time and places is requested, Respectfully submitted, L. MM. Mirus, Pres. A Common Incident. I entered a shoe store kept by a friend afew evenings ago to buy a pair of shoes. He was very busily engaged with a young lady, who was accompanied by a fine- looking elderly woman. The floor and counter were strewn with shoes of all shapes and makes. His salesman had just left for supper, and as there was no one else present to wait on me, I took a seat and started to read the evening paper. I waited a long time, but just as my patience was about to give out my friend produced a pair that seemed to fit the “tough customer’ (that’s what I ealled her), perfectly. She expressed her delight at having such a ‘‘beautiful fit,’’ and said that she would take that pair. Then she suddenly asked: ‘‘What size are they?’ My friend blushed, then turned pale, and seemed not a little con- fused. He stammered that he thought they were about number six. Thereupon the young lady angrily upbraided him in | the most emphatic terms for trying to sell her a pair of shoes that were two sizes too large. She immediately unbuttoned them, and, putting on her old ones, left the store in a huff. > -<——-———— Gripsack Brigade. R. A. Kanters, who has been covering the trade of the Holland for Lemon & Peters, has severed econ- nection with that house. Frank C. Adams, Wisconsin and Min- nesota traveling representative for Geo. W. Cady & Co., of Cleveland, has pur- chased a new residence on Charles street and took of the on Monday. A Bay City traveling man, who has carried a stiff leg for nineteen years, in stepping from a freight train at Brown City sustained a fracture of the knee joint, which the doctor says will prove a lucky break, and will probably him with a leg as good as new. 2 John Giles, the Lowell grocer, was in town one day last week. colony his possession same and | improve every opportunity to | leave | WORLD! Our Pantaloons, Overalls, Shirts and Jackets are the Best Made. Every Pair Guaranteed and Warranted. Buy these Goods--FPerfect in Fit, Make, Style and Work- manship. Every Garment Felled Seam Throughout. TRIAL ORDERS SOLICITED. Michigan Overall Mfg. Co., IONIA, MICH. | | | | | | | | | We are now ready to make contracts tor the seasun of 150. Correspondence solicited. GRAND RAPIDS. DETROIT SOAP CO’S FAMOUS ueen Anne Soap The Best Known, Most Popular and Fastest Selling Laundry and General Family Soap in the Market. No Grocery Stock Complete Without This Brand Handsome Oleograph, Size 15x20 inches, given for 25 ep ANNE SOAP WRAPPERS. Laundry and Toilet Soaps are sold by all Wholesale Grocers. | Ww G HA WKINS, ane Salesman for Western Michigan, e e K BOX 173, GRAND RAPIDs, 81 SOUTH DIVISION ST., our Dry Goods. Calico and Its History Many centuries ago, in India, the first monarch of the province of Malabar gave one of his towns to a chief. He pre- sented this chief with his sword and all the land in the iimits of which a cock could be heard crowing from a small temple. This formed a dominion named Colicoda, or the cock crowing. It was afterward called Calicut. Here large quantities of cotton goods were manu- factured, and were imported into Eng- | land under the name of Calico. This name is given to white cotton cloth in England, but here in the United States it is applied to nearly all colored or printed eotton cloth. In France what we call ealico goes by the name of Indienne, and in Italy it is known diana, which indicate the source or} country from which the method of calico printing was received by Europeans. Calico printing, or calico painting, has | for centuries been one of the industries | of India, and is very skillfully done. The people of Asia Minor, China, and possibly of Egypt also, were acquainted with methods of printing similar to those of India. Into Europe the art of calico- printing was introduced from India. The French people, who have always been elever and skillful, took to printing cot- ton cloths, came celebrated for their excellent printed cottons, and have remained so. In 1696 we find the art introduced into England, but did not become an industry of any note until after 1768. The silk- weavers vigorously opposed the intro- duction of calico, and the government listened to their remonstrances and im- posed a heavy duty on Indian ealico, and prohibited its importation altogether. In 1720 a new law was passed affecting cal- ico, which forbid anyone to goods. It appears this was done to sat- isfy the silk and woolen manufacturers. However, the course of time brought about changes, for we observe that ten years later the English Parliament allowed the people to wear and manu- facture printed cloth made of cotton weft and linen warp, but fixed a duty of sixpence a yard upon it. After hard labor and much annoyance, was obtained in 1774 from Parliament to print an all cotton cloth, but not until 1831 were all the restrictions and op- pressive laws repealed and this branch of manufacturing industry left to develop by the name of In-} | THE MICHIGAN TRADESM-~ AN. Strtewns Pewee: UNBLEAC CHED COTTONS. | | | DEMINS. Amoskeag oo ie, a es 11% Sos. ... GL ancemer ......... 12% | + brown .13 Lawrence, wos... 24 13% | Andover............-11 no.f0.....5 | | Everett, blue.. 12 . No. 250....11% | " brown. ....12 . No. 280... .10% | | SATINES. | /Saapeon.... ._....- 2 ere... .... .... 10% - ll Blac a 8@ 9% . et aa. re 10 | Atlantic A. —. 2 en CeO........ ee . i... . 6%, Conqueror XX......4 % . Ts 6 (Dwight Ster......... 7 .... ‘ = Exeter A. ~~ Ct a 4 iFull Yard Wide. ' 8% Atlanta aA. . ee Great FPalis #....... Archery Bunting.. . & fonest Width...... 6% | Amory. : oo 7%q| Hartford A... ee Beaver Dam A A. lingesrity 2X........ 5 Berwick L. ot Oi King, : [ oe len ae 64 Blackstone O, 32.... 4 oo Bieck Bock ........ . Ee. 32in.... Bie oo fe ........-.. 6% iLawrenceL L....... 5% ° Me ce -. © iNew MerketS...... 3 ao oe 5% Noibe R i 5S, ee eee 14 Sewon ...... ... -. C PL. 40 inch. ss tt Level Best..... 6% Continental, Co .. 4'Riverstde XX. -- 4% D, 40-in 8% jSea Island R........ 6% i E, 42-inlt [Sh aren © ....... os - W,45-inl1 |Top of the Heap.... 7% _ H, 48-in12 lw iiiemevilie, ...... 7 Chapman...... : ‘ Comet, 40 in. 84 CobeeeetA.......... 4\Carlisle 7% Pees i o New Market L, ‘40in. ™%* BLEACHED COTTONS. Amsburg 7. i eee.......... F Blackstone A A.. S weeee Moee......... 7 oe a..........-. | 4% tceeen Ticket....... 84 | Cleveland ..... 1 7 Great Falls.... .. Cabot. a - 7%|Hope.. oe oo 77 Cabot, - .. Sous Out. ae 43% @ 5 Dwight Anchor..... 9 |King P —_—, ina eee 734 ' shorts. 8% on, ... 7% yer ..........- ‘cumin Cambric. 10% aoe... : Lonedale....... @ 8% oe 7% | Middlesex @5 Fruit of the Loom.. 8% No Name....... 7% Piva ..... .-.- 7% Oak View .. 6 ogee 6% Our Own. 5% and some towns in France be- | wear the! permission } naturally under the management of com- | petent manufacturers. It grew rapidly, and is now avery important industry. Calico-printing was introduced early in | the history of this country. We find that as early as 1824 the New England States | produced printed cottons to the amount of 60,000 yards a week. The quantity produced in this country about the same as thatof England. We consume is more calico for the amount of population | than almost any other country in the world. >.> Summer Flannels. From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter. The amount of summer flannels which have been sold in this market this season has beat anything of the kind heretofore seen. From the South as well as the North, and the Southeast as well as the West, the demand has been strong, and one is led to suppose that very little cot- ton underwear will be worn compared with previous years. The reason is not far to seek. The past twosummers have been cool, with severe fluctuations in the temperatu e. Cool nights have been universal. Squalls from the Northwest, even in midsummer, have been frequent. This calls for warm clothing, though light, even in midsummer. The same effect is seen in men’s wear all the way through. Flannels stand ex- tremes of heat and cold better than any other class of moderate priced goods. They are therefore favorites, and every- body wants them. a The Same Old Dun. *‘Did you tell the grocer that | am not 83 Monroe and 10, 12, 14,16 & 18 Fountain Sts,, receiving calls of any kind to-day ?’’ “Yes, sir; but he said as how ought to appoint a receiver, then you Fruit of the Loom %- 8 |Prideof the West .12 Fairmount.. ...-. 444|Rosalind i Pun Verue.......... 6% Sunlight ..... Lee eu ce 4% Geo. Washington... 8i4|Vinyard eee 8% HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. Ce 7%| Dwight Anchor 8% rarwell....... on UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Tremont N. . 544/ Middlesex No. . Hamilton N.. . 6% .....0 ee en 7 | . ens AT...... 8 | r 7... 7 S....00 I 9 BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Hamilton N. 7%|Middlesex AA...... 11 Middlesex P T...... 8 | ' S 2 . a7... ae ‘ io... 12% ma... thlCU.”mr™”t™~—C—C 17% -_e...... '10%| . 2 16 DRESS GOODS. Hamilton _s |Nameless.. .-20 a i a 25 6 cs ae GG Cashmere...... i CS = Nameless. : I ce eee .-de% Y ee | si (cheese a CORSET JEANS. Biddeford........... 6 |Naumkeagsatteen.. 7% Brunswick. ... . 64 Rockport...... PRINTS. Allen, staple........ 5%| |Merrim’ ek shirtings. 4% i, Repp furn 84 ’ robes........5 [Packie fancy mS | American fancy....6 | ‘ robes....... 6% American indigo.... 5%|Portsmouth robes... 6 American shirtings. en |Simpson mourning.. a Arnold e r reve .. ... long cloth B. 10% - solid black. 6 c. 8i4| \Washington indigo. 6 century cloth 7 | “ Turkey robes.. 7% “gold seal..... 10%4| India robes. . Th Turkey red..10%} ‘‘ plain = ky X x % 8% | Berlin solids. . ' 5i4| _ 10 = ow blue. oe 64 3| “ Ottoman x r ‘ green . 6% keyred. 6 Coc heco oe a /Martha Ww ashington ‘ madders...6 | Turkey red %. % Eddystone fancy... 6 {Martha W ashington Hamilton fancy. 644} Turkey red.. - . staple 544|Riverpoint rebes.... 5 Manchester ancy. 6 | Windsor fancy. a - 6% new era. 6% Y gold ticket Merrimack D fancy. 6% ne blue -10% TICKING Amoskeag AC A....12%} oe — | Hamilton N | 74 Bien AAA. _ S.... ork... .- : “| i Awning.. i Swift iver. . 6% | Pormer...... |Pearl River 12 iret Prise.... "K% ,Warren 14 COTTON DRILL. Atlanta, D - 6% Stark ees ce 7% poe... - eee 1 Clifton, K... _ at * 10 Coechco Make a Specialty of Collections. Glenarven.... ...... 6%. Lancaster, staple... 6% | Ne 6%) a fancies 7 | Normandie..... ... : ° Normandie 8H | Renfrew Dress. Ww estbrook ese Toil du Nord... 10@1 a ee 10 Amoskeag oo CuiTorr..... . 6% on 1034) Mempton.... . ...... 6% Persieam........ o 8% Windermeer. ee 64/C umberland.... .... S Warwick... ARTO os oc yc 4% CARPET WARP. Peeriess, white... . -18%4| Peerless colored. . .21 | GRAIN BAGS. Amoskeag......... 17 [Valley C ~ eee eee 16 Becmomy.... ...-..- 2% |Georgia . ee Se . 19%|Pacific.. oe Amceeen........... 17 *|Burlap... -- 11% THREADS. Clark's Mile End....45 |Barbour’s....... ...- 88 Costin, J. 4P.:....%> iernere.... ...... 88 POE One. .... 02.55. na 2% KNITTING COTTON White. Colored.| White. oan Ne 6:. ..2 38 |No. ... . ... a | 3 - ae 40 44 = 36 41 " 45 CAMBRICS, aor... .. i 4% epee ng oe 4% White Star...... 4'o!Red Cross. .. Kid Glove..... . 4% iockwood.... ...... 4% Newmarket 4%|Wood’s.... - 4% Mawards............ £4) Brunswick - 4%] RED FLANNEL. Fireman...... ey ee . . 22% Creedmore. 27% | ae a Talbot XXX "30 JRF, ee Nameless . 27%) Bue keye.. etcees 32% MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, sist 40 |Grey SK W..... 17% Union &...... ..22%| Western W ........ 18% | Windsor. . "18% ere 18% | 6 oz Western 2. j|Fiushing XXx...... WY, | Union B.... .224%| Manitoba.... 28% | DOMET FLANNEL, | Nameless - 8 @ 9%! . - 9 @10% | a 844@10 a 12% | CANVASS AND PADDING, Slate. Brown. Black./Slate. Brown. Black. | 9% 9% 94113 13 a | 10% 10% 1024/15 15 15 | 11% 11% 114/17 17 ne | 12% 12% — 20 20 DUCK | Severen, 8 oz.. ..... 9%(W est Point, Sor....10% ) Mayland, 8oz. ... "1054. 10 oz. ...12% | Greenwood, 7% 0z.. 9% Raven, 1002. ce Greenwood, 8 uz....11%/Stark | WADDINGS. | Wate, doe........- 25 |Per bale, 40 doz 87 FO} Colored, Gos.... ...20 | | SILESIAS. | Slater, Iron Cross... 8 {Pawtucket 10% | : Red Cross. o ume ....... . e Best ; 10%4| Bedford 1% | ck Best AA. ....12%/Valley City......... 10% | CORSETS. Coraline. ..... .. 0 Si Wonderfal.... ...34 % Schilling’s. . 9 Brighton... .... o. 600 SEWING SILK, Corticelli, doz. -85 {Corticelli en. twist, doz. 42%) per oz ball .....30 50 yd, doz. 4244) HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS. No 1 BI’k & W hite..10 {No 4 Bl’k & White..15 12 “ 8 “ 20 | Use Coupons and » rs ' ee ' . 25 PINS. No 2—20, M C .-50 |No4—15, F 3% . 40 ‘ 3—18,S C ee COTTON TA No 2 White & BI’k..12 No. 8 Ww hite & BI’k..20 ~~. o ae 10 z “ 6 “ “48 | 42 “ " 26 SAFETY PINS. | No2 oe A oe Ca 36 NEEDLES—PER M. A. James .-1 50/Steamboat. ... 40 Crowely’s....... 4a ep@csa Eyed... -..... 150 Marshall's a 2 TABLE OIL CLOTH. 5—4 22 6—4...3 2/5—4....19 6—4.. 2% 2. UF 3 10 P. STEKETEE & SONS, JOBBERS OF Ury Goods and Notions, We h: ve just received 100 Cases of Boys’ Youths’, Men’s, Misses’ in Rush, Chip and Straw, which we offer at) Very Low Prices, and Ladies’ Straw Hats | GRAND RAPIDS, | | inspection. Cook & Bergthold, MANUFACTURERS OF “SHOW GASKS. iAMS. | Prices Lower than those of any competitor. Write for cata- logue and prices. 67 Canal St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. Bowne, President. Geo. C. PIERCE, Vice President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier $300,000. CAPITAL, Transacts a general banking business. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. kevel-Headed Business Men put their Business on a ‘CASH BASIS. We are the largest manufacturers of |Coupous in this country and solicit a of ‘“*Tradesman’’ ‘Superior’ brands. | trial either our or Note quotations in | Grocery Price Current. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. AWNINGS AN TENTS. Flags, Horse and Wagon Covers. Seat Shades, Large Umbrellas, Oiled Clothing, Wide Cotton Ducks, etc. Send for Llustrated Catalogue. CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Pearl Street. Telephone 106. Volgt, Herpolsheimer & Go, Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Manufacturers of Shirts, Panis, Overalls, Ete. Complete Spring Stock now ready for Chicago and Detroit prices guaranteed. 48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | THE MICHIGAN TRADESM AN. <= . : a HARDWARE. Prices Current. ae. : ROPES. ante Seay... .. dis, —_ inch and —— cece ese cew ee eeee 13 i iy eee a 5 Ambition of a Boy in the Store. These prices are for cash buyers, who Veukes & Pramb’s....... ce = 40810 il as seule in From the Chicago Tribune. pay promptly and buy in full packages. | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel... .. ae et aes ee.-.-- fe erenat 7 : | *“* | Blacksmith’s Solid C Ss ‘ aay ad Mevels................. , The other day I was in one of the; AUGURS AND BITS. dis. —e" “ners. er ee, ee tteeceenen cess 0 wholesale houses on Adams street where Fon =~ eal eee ee ene ae Gate, Clark’s, i, 2,3 ..... dis.60&10 Rann eee a number of boys are employed. cote eect ete ecen ee crete eset ee ence neces 40 | State tt doz. net, 2 50} tron Com. Smooth. Com = J 1 A Sea Wenn Se ; H . Nos. 10 to 14.... 2 8688 10 What percentage of these boys be-| Jennings’, imitation ................. 50&10 crew Hook and Strap, to 12 In. 4% 14 and ay; | Nos: 15. t0 17... aa) "gon come merchants ?”’ I asked of the gen- AXES. Screw Hook and ‘Eye, a. aa hea! 40 a aoa eee eae tas dae [= 30 tleman who had them in charge. First Quality, S. B. Bronze..................88 00) aL BB+ +++ 2+ - net 8%] Nos. 25 to 26... 4 @ 3 40 He replied: “More than you would i = = bg oer ee ee ceeds eee e 7 - “ i iC = i Re 4 60 3 20 think. Now and then some are forced in «“ [ae ae = 7 Se ee aes Nebier, rar a Gane here by a father or mother who confess BARROWS | dis B Door Kidd HANGERS. ‘dis, — meg ee \ ane ne a a. : arn Door er Mfg. Co., W ’ ee . that they only want to keep their boys| Ratiroad.............cc.0...ccecccec- -o-.8 14 00 | Chamaplon, aot trietion oo oot TACE-- -BPEIO | List acct. 19, °86.....-.- aa. dis. 40610 off the street. If such boys have any | Garden.....-....0./0. . net 30 00| Kidder, wood track .............. Silver Lake, Wh a natural commercial instinet, they pull BOLTS. dis. HOLLOW WARE —" io. i i = out all right. If they haven’t, they are | Stove. ............-.-..--..+2..-ee ...50&10 | Pots.. 60 ‘ White B- ! Sessa ‘“ bo —_ dnd. The sjets. bow iS 2 S eee ever have an ambition to become com- ao. —- = Pe , 40&10| Discount, . [7 mercial drummers. They see the drum- BUCKETS. HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. sa SASH WEIGHTS. mer come in from the road. They see| well, plain....................--..----.---..8 3 50 | S@mped Tin Ware. new list 70&10 | S0ld Eyes....... ......... -- per ton 825 that he is generally well clothed, and | Well, swivel....................... .....-... 4 00 rey ig gaa ms 25 «“ rea rt a they hear him relating his experiences BUTTS, CAST. dis. pom aisles —— Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, 70 onthe road. That sort of thing catches | Cast Loose Pin, figured........ .... ......-. 70& | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’ he . a = eee Dex X Cuts, per foot = the average boy. There is a good deal | Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10 i shonioathicanthy dis i ecial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot 30 fs : i Wioielt Doone Pim 60&10 | Bright e104 Champion and Electric Tooth X of the Arab ina boy, after all. They | Wrought Table.. iD ..60&10 | Screw Eyes.......... mM&10&10) Cuts, per foot...... 28 are natural wanderers. It is as natural | Wrought Inside Blind. a OGIO | Hake 7, Leber aia dis. . i | Wrought Brass % ney ayy Say M&10&10 | Steel, Game...... 60&10 for a boy to run away from school and go | Blind> Clark’ ng Mae cane cee wren en ween oe 10416 Gate Hooks and Eyes / 7&10&1F | Oneida ¢ ‘ommunity, Newhouse’s ya 35 on a hunt for birds’ nests as it is for him | Blind, Parker’s Cl aed a 2a dis. | Oneida Community, ene ® Norton's... 70 to have freckles in the spring. The life | Blind, Shepard's ........................004. Gel tee. secede, es Geena 2 oe -18¢ per doz. : oo : ' » PB un, Jap. trimmings 55 | Mouse, delusion... . _ 81.50 per d of a drummer has in it a dash of adven- BLOCKS. Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55 | WIRE. a ture which they like. The drummer is | Ordinary Tackle, list April 17,’85............ 40 Door, porcelvin, trimmings 59 | Bright Market Le 35 J D d Sh ~ 65 a ets te : a nl : / rawer and Shutter, porcelain 70) Annesied Market. ... ........ am 1e boy’s hero. Do you see that red CRADLES. LOCKS—DOOR. dis. | Coppered Market a headed boy over there at the telephone ? | Grain................-. wees ses. Gis, 50&02 | Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list 55 | fae ei I heard him talking to some of his asso- CROW BARS. ee Wheeler & Co.'s. 55 | Coppered Spring Steel "BO ee ca : ‘ast S 2 ranford’s ....... 55 | Barbed Fence, galvanized 75 ciates the other day at the noon hour. | Cast Steel................... perme Oo (ewe 55 sainted s¢ He said he would never die happy until CAPS este MATTOCKS ' HORSE X NAILS. “— he got to be a drummer, so that he could | HESS @ #0 Pe" Go | ant, Bye aa 415.00, die. 60 | Putnam: op rr get caught in raileoad smaships or ran | QD ee 35 | Hunt's $18.50, dis. 20410. | Northwestern... = away with another man’s wife. Of | Musket........-........--.-...-seseee. i 60 i dis. a wie” dis. 1010 course, he is an exception. But I'll gam- | CARTRIDGES, Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handled o_" Baxter’ s Adjustable, nickeled.............. "30 ble that he gets there.” eg ee eer 50 | Coffee, Parkers Co.'s r Pa ee Seem ia as cob ta a nt 50 s i tim Fire... 2. eee eee eee eee eee ene : ge Ee 40 | Coe’s Patent A i 7 Pie Centra: Five. ...... -.. ee , dis. 25 PS Mfg. Co.’s Malleables 40 | Coe’s eas. gricultural, wrought, 7. 75 iS " | CHISELS. dis. r ae Ferry &Cl k's 40 | aa : . -7T5&10 A Problem Defying Solution. fae ei 70&10 Enterprise 25 | Bird Cages CELLANEOUS. dis. " ) id i hl hl ey | 5 + . F The Boston Herald produces the fol- | Socket Framing... ....0. 200000200000 sogt0 iia ii ASSES GATES, a | Pipe Cicer | 73 lowing problem, which is worth consider- | Socket Corner. -..-.----- -------- +. -- 70810 | Stebbin’s Genuine... 6010 oe a ing: Assuming that a community of | Butchers’ Tanged ies | an “ . Enterprise, self-measuring.... 25 | Dampers, ‘American Ee stro 100,000 workers can produce in a day, by ie i Ce ia ae NAILS is Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65 the labor of ten hours, wealth to the} curr Lawrence's ..........-...- ial Wee A OE ks ce 3 50 METALS value of $300,000, then if their labor is | Hote kiss . ee 25| Advance over base: Steel. Wire. | " Pl@ TIN. cut down to eight hours a day, they must | CHALK. mn nay : Nene | Wig tenet 26 either work harder or more skillfully in | White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. i ae Seal aah ata 28¢ the shorter period, or there will be one- COPPER. BO. rece cette eee etter eee 10 20; Duty: Sheet, 240 per pound. fifth less of wealth to divide among those | Planished, 14 on cut to size...... per pound =_.8 15 30 | 600 pound casks tees 6% interested in its production. There is 14x52, 14X56, 14X60... 26 | 32"! = i one 7 r : _ Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ... ee nse aaa 15 35 SOLDER, no way of getting over this. At the| Cold Rolled, 14x48................... ee retry en ctree sates 20 40) 4@% i 16 present time the wages earned are paid, | Bottoms .......... ...-..-...- 0... 27 | is = 50 | Extra W EE EA BERET 13% and the capitalist receives his returns DRILLS. NE ee ree TT 0 65) The prices of the many other qualities of : : i : ae es hts i tt bo - @ 90 | solder in the market indicated by private brands from the gross sum of production. If | Morse’s Bit Stocks.................... DS aie Sac ee oe ota tine aaa 1 00 1 50' vary according to composition. this sum is cut down in any way, a loss a. os Pea et vettteeeee eee. = 200) ANTIMONY. is inevitable either on the side of the ” AEE “aaa oy - "/* ae CH Le A (et capitalist or wage earner, or on both}. oy a ET Mee tee re 1 00 ce tik MELYN @HADE. sides. While $5 divi : “igi Small sises, ser pound ..... ........ eo: ¢ ©¢ 90 1 25} 10x14 IC, Ct i. sides. While $5 divided among five men | Large sizes, per pound........ ES, ey ea INS = 2 — : Charcoal. ... 86 60 will give each $1 apiece, there is no ELBOWS. a “1 00 1Slitnisix, * i process of arithmetic by which $4 divided | ¢ -.§ 1S) ir,“ : on ‘ t Com. 4 plece, Ce dos. net 75! oiinch 10 . o 8 35 among five men will produce the same | Corrugated .. Te te MeO Ce a a oa 75| Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. seen I oie ae 8 ee ae . itive oa Ue es delet deal aa sale ue 5 x }, Charcoa 6 ee EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. a ....................... 1 250] 14x20 1€ “ \ 8 6 00 uy 2 PLANES. i rc rt oN The Hardware Market. — a te —,- = Ohio Tool Co.'s, taney Hi “on rae i [3 Prices on iron, nails and wire are tend- vILEs—New List. dis. Sandusky Tool ou fae = Each additional X on this grade 81.50. a) ing downward. The glass manufacturers | Disston’s - ..60&10 | Bench, first quality @>» | 14x20 IC rill New American.. 60&10 | xX) IC, Worcester 6 00 ‘ : LS : .60&10 | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood &1( | 14x20 1X ‘ i 6 predict a further advance in glass, OS-| Nicholson’s. .................... 60410 PANS 20x28 IC. ‘ ts 12 7 cha : 4 : a ee Soi Bre. Acme. __..... : ; coaage| | te “ tensibly owing to the enormous building | qeners Horse Rasps. 50 viv eg rn eae ae = . — < « Allaway Grade 5 25 operations all over the country, but GALVANIZED IRON I Ti , RIVETS. dis. | 2x1IC, ‘ nt i 1 00 really because the manufacturers have | Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 26; 27 28 Ga inna scr i 14 00 List 12 13 14 ‘* is PP are nr oI | BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. the market by the throat. Discount, 50410 Fo ER ET al =m 14x28 IX................ - ++ .0i2 A @auars. dis i A’ Wood's patent planished, Nos. moe Milita Oe............... cs... 14 50 : : ! : ‘BY’ Wood's = planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 14x56 [X, for No. 8 Boilers, an i Detroit—The Hunt Chair Co. has dis- | Stanley Rule and Level Co's. 50| Broken packs 4c per pound extra 14x TX. 9 t per pound 9% solved. Calvin A. Hunt continues the business under the same style. HARDWOOD LUMBER. | The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock, measured merchantable, mil] culls | out: | | | | | | | Ash, Black, log-run. ..... 14 0Q@16 Bo Witte Werun...... ...-.-..--- 14 00@16 00 | ta Oo] Basswood, log-run Birch, log- run. 13 WU@15 15 00@18 Birch, Nos. 1 and 2 22 1 @24 10) Cherry, log- a... ....- 30 0O@40 Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2 60 0O@BES Ot | Cherry, Call...... : i @12 vv | Bim, Grey, fowrun............ ..--.-- 12 W@13 60 | Maple, log-run ........ ..12 00@13 00 | Mapic, soft, log-run..........- 11 00@13 00 | Maple, ote @2 00 | Maple, clear, foormg................ @2° 00 | Maple, white, selected. . ... 25 00@30 v0 | Re Oak, log-run. ee es - VO@22 00 | Red Oak, Nos. 1 and2..... 26 OOM 00 Red Oak, 4 sawed, 6 inch and upw 74.38 00@40 00 | Red Oak, % sawed, regular. . .30 0032 00 | Red Oak, No. 1, step — ee @25 00 | Walnut, log run. ea @55 00 | Walnut, Nos. 1 a Le sn @75 00 | Walnuts, cull . See ae ae @2 00 | Whitewood, log- run Ee 20 00@22 00 | White Oak, log-ru ee he Se 00 | White Oak, eewed. Nos. 1 and 2....42 00! 10 & 12 MONROE FOpa aN STEVENS & CO, 8ST. and 33, 55, 37, 39 & 41 LoU.s T GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 8 THE MICHIG AN TRADESMAN. lhe Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State. The Tradesman Company, Proprietor. 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, Editer. "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1890. The Patrons of Industry hold a county convention at lonia on Thursday. It is understood that a resolution will be pro- was posed asking the sun to stand still during the deliberations of the convention. Is the combination of Detroit factories a trust ? ance being a trust. machinery of a trust. all competition, tinguishing feature of matter rests it has ali the It has eliminated which trust. of local The a with the stockholders and | Kyselka, grocers cracker | It has every appear- | is the dis- | the grocery trade of the State will watch | the indicator. decision of the Inter-state Com- merce Commission, ordering the D., G. H. & M. Railway to desist from making free cartage at Grand Rapids, meets merited denunciation at the hands The Purely Personal. Walter McBrien in Chicago for day or two. Frank Smith, general dealer at Leroy, in town last Tuesday. B. C. Smith, was in town last Thursday. Mr. Bunker, buyer Lumber Co., at Sullivan, Monday. Osear R. Wilmarth is general dealer at Chester, the Sullivan was for in town has taken the man- agement of the Grand Rapids Hand Serew Co. G. W. Hughston, of the firm of Hughs- ton & Read, dealers at McBain, was in town last Wednesday. W. S. Spencer, the dealer, in town for a few days, buying goods and visiting friends. cc &. of the firm of Buck at Traverse City, in town a couple of days last week. Geo. J. Stephenson, the Bangor drug- gist was married one day last week to an estimable young lady of that village. C. F. Walker, general Petoskey boot and shoe is «& was Buck, general dealer at Glen | Arbor, is in town for a few days, on his | way home from Milwaukee and Chicago. Geo. M. Alden, of the former firm of |Alden Bros., has taken a position as salesman in the retail department of Foster, Stevens & Co. Quiney A. Hynes, formerly buyer for Dr. E. H. Lathrop, the Hastings drug- gist, has purchased the drug stock of of the business public and tends to} strengthen the feeling at this market that the law is unnecessary and the Com- mission unduly arbitrary. St. Clair. Lenox, Richmond, Lakeville, Oxford, Ortonville, Flint, Flushing, New saning are very much Lathrop and Che- interested in a urging duce the build it. numerous are every Michigan Central The Vanderbilt short which do not pay | system lines half so well as would the proposed road | from St. Clair to Chesaning. EEE The charter of the Louisiana Lottery is about to expire, and it might seem that | this is a good opportunity to put an end to this demoralizing institution. reason possible to in- | people to} has | | his partner, Romeo, | Goodrich, | | | | | | | | | i | | being succeeded by W. C. Henry Arbour, at Delton. J. N. Zimmerman, the hickory handle manufacturer of Augusta, was in town a couple of days last week, consulting with P. J. Coppens. Fred W. McKinney eashiership of the resigned the Bank, form- has Manistique Marsh, lerly teller in the same institution. railroad between the points named and | of the Chas Reitz Salt and of Manistee, died of paraly- 26th, aged 66 years. Chas. Reitz, Lumber Co., sis on the It was through his enterprise salt was discov- |} ered in Manistee. Jas. A. Morrison ington, Pa., last Tuesday. funeral of his mother, |day and was called to Worth- to attend the who died on Mon- Friday. He is ex- was buried | pected back to-day. But the | managers of the vile concern offer to pay | the State newal for twenty-five half a million a year for a re- and there is that the existence of the years, offer will Lot- people good reason tu believe The tery is defended by even be accepted. decent in Louisiana on the ground that the State cannot do without the money. Ever since the war it has been all but impos- sible to make both ends meet—and, thanks to its repeated repudiation of its debts, the State It is pleaded that if the common- to its it chartering a body of its demoralize the To will appear a case for Jobnson to the has no power to borrow more. continue existence, so by to defraud its own and this wealth is must do citizens and people of other states. most people applying the retort of Dr. fellow who apologized fora life of in- famy by saying, 3ut I must live!’ ‘‘Really, 1 do not see the plied the staunch moralist. necessity,’’ re- If Louisiana ean continue toexist only at such a moral a State sooner cost as sinks it from the lever of to that of a band of pirates, the it extinguishes itself the better. the Fife Lake was in town last Wednes- John T. of Hardware Co., day. Snushall, Harry Matthews, the Chase druggist, and Thos. Heffernan, the gist, spent several days in Chicago last taking in the sights of the World’s Baldwin drug- week, | Fair City for the first time. P. J. Coppens has returned from Ten- nessee and Alabama, where he spenta couple of weeks in search of pleasure Mrs. Chattanooga for yet. Frank Stone Ohio, jobbers of of Pittsburg. The the meeting is to organize an association for mutual protection. and profit. Coppens will tarry at a month or six weeks has gone to Columbus, to attend a meeting of the crockery and west east Chicago main object of Jas. S. Cowan, drug business at Sand Lake and this city, but for the past few years engaged in the extract at Omaha, turned to Sand Lake and will devote his formerly engaged in the business has re- attention to a trio of farms he in that vicinity. McCarty, last witnessing owns Chas. the Lowell grocer, was in town Friday for the purpose of ‘*McCarty’s Mishaps ”’ It would be interesting to know whether the play reminded him of the mishaps he experienced during his brief courtship of the with the committee r. of i. contracting al femus, Mich., Jan. 20, 1890. Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. : Gentlemen—The roller mill put in by you last August has run from twelve to fifteen hours every day since it started and is giving entire satisfaction. Your Purifier and Flour Dresser are dandies. I have used nearly all the best purifiers and bolting machines made, and can say yours discounts them all. Any miller who intends making any change in his mill will save money to use Remus ROLLER MILLS, t your machines, for They Can Do the Work. Yours truly, D. L. GARLING. P.J DRY 2NYHALER JOBBER OF Fresh and Salt ae —AND— Devan Fish Mail prompt attention. See quotations in another column. GRAND RAPIDS. orders receive FIT POR Gentleman s Table: All goods bearing the name of THURBER, WHYLAND &CO., OR ALEXIS GODILLOT, JR. Sa A RR NAN F\ Bicycles, Lop Fricycles, Josey | Velocipedes AND General Sporting Goods Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bro.’s Sporting and Athletic Goods and American Powder Co.’s Powder. We have on hand a complete line of Columbia. Victor and other ¢ heaper bicycles, also a splen did assortment of Misses’ Tricycles, Children’s Velocipedes and small Safety Bicycles. E. G. Studley, 4 Monroe St, Call and see them or send for large, illustrated cata- GRAND RAPIDS logue. S. K. BOLLES. S. HK. CANAL ~~ ae E. B. DIKEMAN. Bolles & Co., ST.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. W holesale Cigar Dealers. "1 Ose Vrt market. The “TOSS UP” Cigar is not a competitor against any other 5c brands, but all 10c brands, because it is equal to any 10c cigar on the THR =WALSH--DE HOLLAND, — GeBaet esd WALSH DEROO MILLINGCO. el i iz (Fe is STANDARD ROLLER MILLS Mur ELEVATOR 31% LER a } ware Housel AY a rh Be me a r ~ CORRESPONDENCE ROO MILLING GO. MICH. Daily Capacity. 400 Bbls. BRANDS: SUNLIGHT, DA ae PURI TY, MORNING STAR, IDLEWILD, DALY BREAD, ECONOMY. SPECIALTIES: Graham Wheatena, Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, ‘Bolted Meal, Rye Meal, W heat Grits, Buckwheat Grits, Pear] Barley,” Oat Meal Rolled Oats. " SOLICITED. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. P. of I. Gossip. Pickett Bros. have signed with the Patrons at Wayland. C. L. Moses has signed the Patrons’ | ‘contract at Caldwell. T. Thurston has arranged to open a} P. of I. store at Yankee Springs. Verity & Co. write THe TRADESMAN that they dropped the P. of I. contract. two weeks ago. North Irving correspondence Freeport Herald: ‘‘The P. of I. meeting held at the Quigley school house proved a failure.” B. C. Smith, the Chester general dealer is no longer a contract merchant, having declined to renew his agreement with the | Patrons. Creswell correspondence of Bellaire Breeze: ‘‘The Creswell P. of 1. has died a natural death and leaves only a few mourners.”’ Dole & Haynes, the Sparta agricul- tural implement dealers, declined to re- new their contract with the P. of I. on} its expiration. Campbell correspondence Local: ‘Patrons of Industry, Canada thistles and Red root are noxious weeds. Look out for them.”’ Tur TRADESMAN wishes to keep its | roster of contract dealers as correct as possible and will esteem it a favor to be made acquainted with any inaccuracies in the list. A Maple Rapids correspondent writes : | “Take the name of L. 8. Aldrich from Saranac | your list of P. of 1. dealers. He says the Patrons have no regard for their | word and he has got enough.”’ Graafschap correspondence Allegan | Journal: “The P. of I. fraternity have | been trying hard to organize a society | here, but so far have failed. Their speaker gave them lots of taffy the other night, judging from the time he occu- | pied.”’ North Leighton correspondence Al- legan Gazette: A P. of 1. lecturer made a feeble attempt to organize a lodge in this vicinity recently, but to no effect. He) only secured the names of three, one of those being a boy and one other a person he brought with him.’’ A Stanton correspondent writes : ‘‘Last Saturday Fairbanks & Co. were open and looking hungry for trade from their P. of I. friends, but Monday morning the curtains were down and an examination showed that the better part of their | small stock had been packed up and sent —=— out of town during the night. A sheriff was sent in pursuit, with an attachment | gotten out by their salesman and a party | to whom they owed quite a bill for rent, and now the stock is in the hands of the | | law. So you can safely cross their name from your list of contract dealers.” Delton correspondence Hastings Ban- | ner: “Speaking about P. of 1L., reminds us that they have not as yet affected Del- ton’s trade. On the contrary, they con- tinue to find it profitable to buy their | goods and sell their produce here. One| of them, a prominent member, too, about to build a new house, went tothe P. of 1. store at Cloverdale to figure on a bill of | hardware. After getting the figures, and | in order to see how closely they came to | those of other dealers, who do not pre- tend to do business on an impossible | margin of 10 per cent., he came to Evans | & Brooks’ here, stating that he had | figures from the said P. of 1. institution. Mr. Brooks promptly told him that he} could not compete with any 10 per cent. profit figures, as he was bound to live, | | | | Mr. ifurnish the desired material for | prices on other articles, 110 per cent. | charged at the Cloverdale P. | ware store.”’ | button | operations | the | tified with | which introduced the Ely and Peninsular | and live honestly, and couldn’t do it on that margin. Being pressed to make the same figures he would to any customer, Brooks did so, and said he could 90. them. of I. The P. of IL. figures were $9.31 for It is neediess to say that the P. | went away with a wholesome idea on the there it is, | You can draw the les- | 10 per cent. question. Now FP. of L friends. son without havingithammered in. The same individual got Evans & Brooks’ below those he said were of I. hard- >> | Another Button Fastener in » the Field. filed pro- the Articles of association will be with the county clerk viding for the incorporation to-morrow of | Elliott Button Fastener Co., which has | been formed to engage in the manufac- ture of the Elliott patent button fastener and other novelties in the manufacturin o 5 |line. The capital stock of the new cor- poration is $150,000, $100,000 of which | has already been taken, as follows: ee $40,000 | ie Cone G. eeeriine ..................... 15,000 Thos. J. 0" ee .. 2000 Gea 2. Mavhew................ . 15,000 ZA core. le 15,000 As soon as the balance of the stock is taken—and applications for about $40,000 | i of the stock have already been received— ‘the company will! lease a factory building and put in machinery suitable for the} the which Elliott automatic the only manufacture of fastener. is machine ever the hopper and the wire from the spool. The machine has been on exhibition at Tue TRADESMAN Office for a couple of weeks and everyone who has witnessed its pronounces it the per- mechanism. Its superiority fection of lover the Peninsular, Heaton and Trojan machines is so marked that every shoe dealer who has the machine asserts that he will supplant his present fastener with an as the same is on the market. As four company were the Peninsular seen new formerly Novelty Co., new in the bus- assistance fasteners, their experience iness will be of material in |directing the operations of the new en- terprise. Fehsenfeld eld & ; Grammel, (Successors to Steele & Gardner.) Manufacturers of BROOMS! Whisks, Toy Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom Handles, ‘and all Kinds of Broom Materials. | 10 and 12 Plaintield Ave., Grand Rapids. Playing Gards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynsh, 19 So. Ionta St., Grand Rapids. and found them | invented which makes its | own fasteners, taking the buttons from | Elliott machine as soon of the five incorporators of iden- | I. M. CLARK & SON.,, Importers and Jobbers of Fine Havana, Key West and Domestic CIGARS! NX. Sole Agents for Martinez Ybor & Co., West; “El Principe de Gales”? Factory, Key Baltz, Clymer & Co.’s “El. Mereto’”’ and ‘“‘Henry Clay” brands; Celestino Palacio & Co.’s ‘La Rosa’’ (full line); Seiden- berg & Co.’s ‘Figaro’? and ‘‘Knapsack.”’ We want your trade on Havana and Key West goods and are prepared to give you satisfaction in every instance. IT. MM. CLARK & SON. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO., Our “Hustler. The best heavy shoe made. Has as much wear in it as a$5 boot. Cut from veal kip or Pfister & Vogel’s Milwaukee grain. Made in two soles or two soles and tap. In buckle or hook lace. | 12. 14 AND 16 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LEMON & PETERS, Wholesale Grocers. SOLE AGENTS FOR ‘Lautz Bros. & Co.,’s Soaps, Niagara Starch, ‘Acme Cheese--Herkimer Co., N. Y- GRAND RAPIDS. 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADE SMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Two Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit. Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Meetings during 1890—Star Island, June 30 and _ 1; 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, —" Springs Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detrei Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. Treasurer— Wm Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—C. A. Bu — , Cheboygan; E. T. & Webb, Jackson; D. E. Prail, East ae Geo. Me- Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroi Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday of September, 1890. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Associatica. President, F. Kipp; Secretary, W.C. Detroit Pharmaceutical “a President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman. —a Drug Clerks’ Association. President, C. 8. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt. NEW VS. OLD. Legal Complications Arising from a Confusion of Firm Names. From the Detroit News, April 25. When Williams, Sheley & Brooks suc- ceeded to the business of the old-estab- lished drug firm of Farrand, Williams & Co., it was thought that Mr. Farrand was becoming too old to again enter upon a commercial life, but he has done so and organized a firm of hustlers, which | adopted the name of Farrand, Williams | & Clark. This was displeasing to the old firm, which complains to the Wayne Cireuit Court that the name under which the new firm proposes to transact bus- | iness is misleading in its character, and asks that an injunction issue restraining the new firm from using the name under which the old house was known for many years. The bill of complaint states that the firm of Farrand, Williams & Co. was organized in 1860, but that it was known as Farrand, Sheley & Co. until 1870, when it was changed to Farrand, Wil- liams & Co. The members of the firm at a time were Alanson Sheley, William . Williams, Jacob S. Farrand, Harvey . Clark and Richard P. Williams. On yc 25 last, it further says, Jacob S. Farrand submitted a proposition from himself, Jacob S. Farrand, Jr., R. P. Williams and H. C. Clark to pay the other members of the firm—Sheley and Brooks—$60,000 for their share in the business, or, if that was not satisfactory, the first named members would sell out to the other two for $120,000. The latter proposition was accepted. One Williams went out and one remained with the old house. The complaint now is that Wil- liams, Sheley & Brooks purchased the good name of the firm when they bought the interests of the outgoing members, and that when the new firm adopts a new name it is misleading and, therefore, injurious. Farrand, Williams are charged with using a similar style of | stationery as the old firm, and also that} they are advertising themselves as ‘‘the | oldest and the youngest drug house in Detroit,’’ and sending out circulars ask- ing for a continuance of the friendly | acquaintance with the trade which ‘has | been enjoyed for many years.”’ Itisa perpetual injunction which is asked for, and the motion will be heard in a few days. The above is a concise explanation of | the trouble between the two great drug | thus far in the} houses as it appears courts, but gives no adequate idea of the row that is on hand. names has resulted in endless complica- tions, and their adjustment mise or judicial finding. A lively money on both to a finish. A. S. Brooks, in discussing the matter with the News this morning, said: ‘‘We have considered the situation carefully, | consulted Ashley Pond and Wm. P. Wells, who represent usin this matter, | and pursuant to their advice have asked for the restraining order referred to. As | everybody knows, the old firm was Far- | rand, Williams & Co. W. C. Williams} was the man who advised the organiza- | tion under such name, and is still! seater iateamenmnantnmnemnenteertnceiscrnasmat oni es o & Clark | The confusion of | seems im-| possible save through amicable compro- | fight | has been inaugurated, there is plenty of | sides, and the go will be | with us. Richard P. Williams, now with the new firm, is a son-in-law of Mr. Farrand, and, though much the junior of Mr. Clark in the business, appears be- fore him in the firm name, the evident purpose being to impress the public with an idea that in dealing with them itis dealing with the old house. “When we bought out Farrand, Wil- liams & Co. we not only paid them for their stock, but gave them $20,000 out- right for their name and good-will. Im- mediately they went down on Woodward avenue and organized—not exactly under the old name, but as nearly so as was possible under the circumstances. As they have a Farrand and a Williams in in their firm, this may be legitimate, were it not that they take advantage of the suggestions of such name and by other means seek to promote their inter- ests in a manner that would be impos- out in good faith, as we understand it. ‘“‘Now, look at this blueenvelope. We were the only drug house in Michigan portance of a trade mark. They adopted as near a fae simile as possible, and, in my judgment, invade our terri- tory by so doing. We have used that envelope for forty years. ‘‘Here’s an article in TRADESMAN of this month, published at Grand Rapids and widely among the druggists of the State. You see that in this they say that they ‘are the oldest representatives of this im-| portant commercial industry in Detroit,’ while in fact they sold us the good-will | of the ‘oldest representative,’ at a good, | | round figure. To show how misleading is their title, here is a bill for that very same article sent to us. have been fooled in the same way, and | they not of such importance. “This is a letter sent to W. Parks, of Reese, Mich. See, it’s written on a letter head of Farrand, Williams & Clark, yet Co. If that isn’t dealing in ‘a com- modity that had already been sold, then I can’t understand the significance of a contract or read good, plain hand writing. “This box contains hundreds of letters, every one of them suggested by mistakes or misunderstanding in regard to names. There are enquiries as to which is the successor of the old firm. There are ad- missions made that orders had been given to the new house which had which we propose using in the prosecu- tion of our action.’’ qa» The Camphor Market. From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter. The German government has decided | | to give up the use of camphor as an in-| | gredient of smokeless powder, the cause assigned.being the too great volatility of the gum. This would indicate either by the inventors of the new explosive, | or that their experiments have been use- | less, and that camphor having failed to fill the office expected of it, the intro- | duction of asmokeless gunpowder will will have to be postponed, if not finally jabandoned. So much secrecy has been observed with reference to all attempts at manufacturing a smokeless that no one but the experimenters seem to have had any clear idea of the import- ance or unimportance of the part played | by camphor in the process of making the explosive. jing the announcement that the German government had abandoned camphor is true, the quantity of the gum used in the manufacture of powder heretofore has been much smaller than was gen- erally believed. The report is that in- | stead of 10 per cent. of camphor only 4% of 1 per cent. was used by the Gantien inventors. | Since the rapid rise in the price of |camphor was partially attributed to the of smokeless powder, it follows stoppage of consumption for these pur- | | poses should result in a corresponding | decline in the market values. So far no |appreciable decline has occurred, but this might be attributed to the reluctance sible were our mutual agreement carried | that used it, and it had grown to the im- | have | THE MICHIGAN | circulated | Our city papers | mistakes made would be laughable were | been in- | tended for us, and even stronger claims, | that some substitute has been discovered | powder | If the statement accompany- | increased use of the gum by the makers | that | of the trade to accept as true the first re- ports of the abandonment of camphor by those who have been making the new explosive; or it may be that the alleged new outlet had really no bearing upon the advance, and hence, remaining open or being permanently closed, it could have little or no effect upon the subse- quent course of the market. Dealers in camphor are inclined to view the recent slight reaction in the market for the crude gum as the result of natural causes, such as usually follow a great rise in the value of any commodity. While undoubtedly they attach the great- | lest importance to the prospect opened up by the use of camphor in smokeless powder, now that there is ground to be- | lieve that the drug will not answer the purpose, they seem disposed to convey | the impression to the consuming trade | that they never set a very high value on the expected new outlet. Whatever may be the ultimate effect of this smokeless powder episode upon | the camphor market, it is evident no im- mediate important decline in the price of the refined gum can occur without a con- siderable loss to the refiners. It is ex- tremely improbable that any marked re- duction in values will originate with them, for the reason that not only is their supply of crude for the next six or | seven months barely sufficient to meet the most ordinary requirements for consump- tion, but all the crude gum that has been ;contracted for to arrive during that period has cost them almost if not quite ie equivalent of the present spot mar- ket price of refined. Should there bea |large consuming demand for the latter | this year, much higher prices may be | expected. On the other hand, a pro- longed continuance of the present dull- ness of trade will no doubt increase the | offerings from second hands, the bulk of | whose supplies did not cost anything near present prices and the result would | be a decline. Recent offerings from dealers at half a cent below manufactur- it is plainly signed, Farrand, Williams &| ers’ prices might be taken as indicating | | the beginning of such adownward move- ment. 2 | The Drug Market. Citric acid is tending higher. acid is still advancing. Balsam capaiba is lower. Spermacetti has again ad- vanced and is very scarce. Gum opium and morphia are steady. Quinine de- clined, but has again advanced. Gum |eamphor is easier, but not quotably |echanged. Gum guaiac hasadvanced and lis very searce. Oil cubels is lower. Oil peppermint has advanced. Golden seal | root is lower. Jalap root is higher. | Nitrate silver has advanced. | has advanced. Oxalic YOU sons ——WRITE TO-— C. W. Johnson & Co, DRUGGISTS PRINTERS, 44 West Larned St., DETROIT, MICH ——FOR. CATALOGUE—— THEY CAN SAVE YuU MONEY ‘Do You Observe the Law? If not, send $1 to THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, For their combined LIQUOR & POISON RECORD. THE MOST gee ate ance Soop For tffants and Invalids. Used everywhere, with unqualifiedy success. Not a medici ine, but asteam-, cooked food, suited to the Weakest stomach. Take no other. Sold byi druggists. In cans, 35c. and upw: OOLRICH & Co. on every la CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price for it. Address ‘PECK BROS,, “2cterais Bris Flax seed | WEAR IS THE TRUE TEST OF VALUE.” “THE We still have in stock the well-known brand Pioneer Prepared Paint. MIXED READY FOR USE. Having sold same to our trade for over ten | years, we can say it has fulfilled the manufac- | | turer’s guarantee. Write for sample card and prices before making your spring purchases. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SOLE AGENTS POLIS? INA TE FURNITURE WHITE LEAD 6 M & COLOR WORKS DETROIT, MANUFACTURERS OF LATEST ARTISTIC SHADES oF FOR Interior AND EXTERIOR DECORATION F, J, WURZBURG, Wholesale Agen GRAND RAPIDS. SUSPENDED! chy ye i 5 aie cS SoS fd RES ° — As S gee ~~ = ce > a @® Seco Ss —Q BES z Ss 2 Bo m - = Bs a b> Ure fQ = S om @® @® JE TTIN EB. Warranted not to Thicken, Sour or Mold :p any Climate. Quality Guaranteed Against Injury by Freezing. All others worthless after frees ing. See quotation. MARTELL; BLACKIN(¢ CO., Sole Manufacturers, Chicago, Tih. Aaton, kyon & Go, JOBBERS OF Fishing Tackle, Base Ballsand Supplies, Croquet, Hammocks, Lawn Tennis, Ete. | | } | | | | | | | State Agents for A. J. Reoch & Co.’s Sporting Goods. Send for Calalogue. EATON, LYON & CO., 20 & 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids _THE MICHIG. AN "oe ADESM. \ N. Ni eenibaiianites I Trice elite a | Morphia, SP. & % 2 85@3 10 | seit Mixture.. @ 25, Lindseed, boiled 65 68 > : . : : “ oN. 1. Qo inapis.. . . @ 18 | Neat’ ip Less Advanced—Tartaric Acid, Gum Guaiae il P i oe --+-2 85@3 10 | i. @ tral cesebongeieny di eit en gees n Guaiac—po., Oil Peppermint, Jalap Root po., Nitrate Silver | sropetar ( i ( | opt. aa a @ 30) _ strained .... -- 50 69 permacetti. Declined—Balsam Copaiba, Oil Cubebs, Golden Seal Root—po. : saneha ei bE ‘anton... cae me 2 | —, Maccaboy, De on Spirits Turpentine 44 50 Nux Vomica, (po 20) . @ 10 | Snuff, Scot “ig 2 PAINTS bbl. Ik ‘ase rn aay as aa 2 2 10) Snu cotch,De. Voes @ 35! i : NTS. . > i ixe * Ce TINCTU pia.. 32 35) 8S %, 13 9 % ne I a“ a Aceticum sr eeee secees 8@ 10 — 90@1 0 : aaranege | Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. . Sone et Poiass art 300 13 fee vance wale ie a Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 Tineron ....... 111 seg 90 Aconitum Napellis R. ' mo Ge... .....c 2 00 | Soda Cs Booey a ee = %4 Os Horace 30 | Gaultheria ‘'1 172 To@2 20 ea AA AR Picis Liq, N. G.,, ai la | arb...... Me Flee « Ber......1% 2@3 faenn |. «1s... 0@ 45 Gerantum, sss ay @ 7 ee al il 2 oad ks _ arb... ee oe . 24 24 @3 meee Fs... 5 5 | Go Ss * ns “ el Oho fia oataria cc a fa : : tly pure.... .2/ Hydrochior ae "10 ° oak ssa 1 oo! = a meee ca 60 Pic is Liq., eee @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas Vermilion Prime Amer-— — Nitrocum LITT. 10@ 12 | Junipert......... in a 50@2 00 ia a ee tm Pil Sees Gon 80) g = | Spts. ic 7 y haiear-P nde See ey 13@16 Oxalicum ...... OT 12@ 14| Lavendula .... .. 90@2z 00 | Atrope Belladonna .. ..... 60} Piper Nigra, (po. 22). @ 18} Myrcia ia Green, P feninstlar an Phosphorium dil...... 20 | Limonis .............-. 1 Shad so) ERMC T 60 | Piper Alba, (D0 $5). @ 3| “ Vini on Lead, ret i W@75 Salicylicum ...........1 40@1 Mentha Piper.... 2 10@2 25 Co... ry | Pix Burgun. a % 2 ini Rect. bbl ar A... Qi Sulphuricum.... 14%@ 5| Mentha Verid... > 502 60 | Sanguinaria.....-.... “"') 59 | Plumbi Acet a 15 ee te @215|.,., White ......-.-- @i4 Tannicum 1 40@1 60 | Morrhuae, gal "772°" go@i 00 | Barosma a ‘+++ 301 Bulvis Ipecac et opii 14@ 15) Less 5c gal.,cashtendays. | Whiting, w hite Spau @i0 an. . si te wo 2 ao pot on § @ o ewe ape SGU Sia = eouecres ac et opi. 1 10@1 20 — os rystal 4 @1 10) basta, aga os @90 Olive 2 .+ Dd 50! Gapsi es ae : : me : 1 phur Sub “U@ 3% hite, Paris merican 1 00 eins Pies peers aks a 1 10@2 %5 oe a 50) _« Fr. D. Co., doz..... @1 25 | Roll 20 3 */ Whiting, Paris Eng. —— Liquida, (gal.35) 10@ 12 Cardamon... ........... ... 7% Pyrethrum, pv 30@ 35} Tamarinds .... ; oi 1 40 Aqua, 16 deg.....----- 1@ 6 R Me ee 20@1 vol a acces 96 | QUassiae - 8@ 10| Terebenth V enice..... 28 39 | Pioneer Prey vared Paintl 20@1 4 een oo oa 4 sso agent an QI 00 | areas Ra FT DTC go || aCe P&Ww 41@ 46} Theobromae 50@ 55| Swiss Vi la. Pees «sees c « “ rai oh Ui aah 26 OO Je 2G ae 2. 8 Ss. Ge . 26 | ry 7 +++ Fl : Chioridum ........---- 12@ 14| Succini................ 400 . Capemome ....k.. 50 Rubia T Saanaedae.. ing rt bi sasogrn | -9 00@16 00 case cae 1 00@1 20 ie Sehtna i . .. a oo; in Co... __.. . g | Saccharum Lactis pv. @ | ii al @ 8 h amnirarncemmat ji fi — = 5O@T 00 Columba Reece cee cess 50) Satecin.......... 1 80@2 00 Ors No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 ae 2 00@2 25 | Sassafras. ... ... BO@ 55|Conium ........... “sss ss.-. BG] Sanguis Drac oni. a a ual ’ Extra Tur -.1 60@1 70 eee 20@1 00 | Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65|Cubeba................... .. 50) Santonine ws Tle , Bbl. Gai | Coach Body... .. .2 T5@3 00 Ey 45@ 50| Tighli............. @1 50 | Digitalis .............. “7. go] Sapo, = rites = 1 a Whale, winter........ 70 70 | No.1 Turp Furn......1 00@1 10 oe 2 50@3 00 Thyme . Lo 40@ 50 Ergot ee a oo 10 Lard, sp a _..... OO 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 ie aus opt. ea - eee ae a 2 a ,ard, ie Lo, 45 50|Japan Dryer, No. 1 . obromas........ 15@ 20 a ol a a @ 15| Linseed, pureraw.... 62 65! Turn. 70@ 75 Cubene (po. 1 60.....-- 1 75@1 85 POTASSIUM. Guaica ........ ee 50 . Joniperds .....-.--.-.-- oe «(10 ) Bi Carp.......... 15@ 18) 7: “ ammon........... . & cee Xanthoxylum......... %@ 90 | Bichromate ..... 13@ 14 weiner... . 50 ; Bromide | are 40 Hyoscyamus SS BALSAMUM. ea 12a 15 —......... le —- — 60@_ 65] Chlorate, (po. 18)...... 16@ 18| p ‘ _ Colorless............. 7% Per u Co @) 30 (eee BO ros Ferri Cijonmos............ Bi Terabin, Canada ..... 45@ 50 ac 2 o> | Kino 5 oahusaa 0@ 45 logree. 2 80@2 90 ee sae : ' 50 | Olaten .......--.---- @ 45| Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 3@ 33 hopetia........ ae AO | CORTEX. om, Bitart, com.. @ 15 wae we pata oc --- 50] ee _| Potass Nitras, opt ... omica, wevereeeee. 5O Abies, Canadian. .. ...-.-- 3 Potaae Niiras.. - nh i 7 Opii eerste eee ., = | Cassiae a a se ek oa L it 25 28 < amphorated . . ++ 50 | es shona vars ao 2 Sulphate po ia et Oe 12 6b QO paper aaa 3) | Sulphate po...... : oT Myrica Cerifera, = ee 20 RADIX. re Corte. i oe a Quillai V — et = — ‘ 20@ 2% Rhatany Le co = ui aia, § ee. eee etme. ......... ean Sb) Rhee | cons eee ae 8 MOeetEGe ....--....-5----++- 21 Anchuse ..-... Lasse | Jo 3 be aaa ae Importers and Jobbers Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10| Arum, po..........-... $ = Cc assia Acutifol a 4 50 P of Calamus. . i .-.- 2@ BO] Serpe va ia EXTRACTUM. eau Db Serpentaria ........ a 50 i 4 ale ana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12| Stromonium........ 6 Glycyrrhiza Glabra.. oo - 25 Glye hrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18} Tolutan . Lo . Haematox, 15 Tb. ‘box.. Ne rr — - anaden, on vi alerian . oo ee Se “Ege tna ast erie... - ia — + 4s. 14@ 15] Inula, po. Co 1h 20 MISCELL. t “ gs. 16@ 17 a po............. 2 — 35 | ther. Spt ncn " FERRUM. ris plox (po. mae. 18@ 2 ther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2%@ 28 Carb P 15 | Jalapa, pr. : @ 45 “ “4F.. 30@ 32 Citrate and Quinis. “+: g 15 | Maranta, ea % 35|Atumen.............. 24%@ 3% Ch i ; Ghrae and Quinis 8 3] Fodpyinn, po... 1, | ay UNE ay emicals and Druggists’ Sundries hag ey Sol. ... @ = Se ny ei - Annatto.. oe , olut Chloride........ a 3, | Antimoni, ‘po.. 4@ 5 Sulphate, com'l ...... 1%4@ 2} spigelia er et Potass T 55@ 60 ice pure. @ 7) Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 20 Antipyrin ............. 1 35@1 40 carers In FLORA. Serpentaria. . 40@ 45 oe a aa @ % Bree gous esses 14@ 16 Similas | Oak -. 45@ 50 Aas eum — ounce = nal . fs a 1 eS 30@ 35 imilax, Officinalis, a @ 4) Balm Gilead | Bud on sme KA 5 Matricaria ...... ..--. 30@ 35] Seillae, (po. 35) ' 08 a Bismuth S. N......... '2 10@2 20 § | 8 aris Bg FOLIA. Symplocarpus, Feeti- i a a hlor, 18, (48 i Sole A ts ; . ; ' Barosmia .......-..--- 10@ 12] ,GuUs, po......... @ 3 i @ 9 0168 en i Pr et Acutifol, Tin @ Valeriana, Eng. (po. ai) @ os caniniriaes Russian, g for the Oelebrated Pioneer epared Paints. nivelly ...... i 22 20 German... 15@ 20| PO cn 7 ae “ ATs! 35@ 50 Saaine ETE 10@ 15 | Capsici Fructus, af. @ 18 Salvia officinalis, 4s mingiber J---------- R@ »%» pe -- @ 16 “and Y8.....----+-5++ 10@ 12 SEMEN. nl i 3 @ 14 Cire w—ams. . 6s Caryophylius, (po. 2) 15@ 18 | We are Sole Proprietors of @UMMI. Se 150 18| Cera Alba,S.&F.... a a Acacia, ist picked.... @1 00 @® 6|Cera Flava............ 33@ 3 WwW 3 “ 2d oc @ W Carui, (po. - Le ee me 12) Coccus .......... La G ) ATHERLY G G " “ 3d co @ 80 Cardamon. os — 1 25| Cassia Fructus........ g > S MI HI AN CATARRH REMEDY me sifted sorts. @ 6 Corlandrum. oe 10@ i2 | Centraria........ ae @ 10 “ pees dae 7K@1 00 ee Sativa. 3% A@ 4)|Cetaceum . ee @ 4 Aloe, Barb, (po. “60). 50@ 60 Grdcateas.—- --- ie, ie = Chloroform . ci . HQ “’ Cape, (po. 20) .. @ @it 4 slg * 2 a. @I1 00 “ ii, Oa (po. 60) . @ 50 ee Levees er = 2 Hyd Crag. .....1 50a %5 * Yatec i Ly PHICUIUM..... -.... ea OKA oF | i i Catechu, 18, (481448, | | Foenugreek, po... = Se is, sew MS Z| We have in stock and offer a full line of Ammoniae Coens 25@ 39 NE eee as @ 4% German 4@ 10 Assafcetida, (po. 90)... @ a Ot se oe | Whiskies, Brandi cominuml.......-.-.- 30@ 55 ata... ee eee an we. Come : , Camphorse TE 60@ 65 — anarian. 4@ 4% | Creasotum ........ $ = : a, Suphorbium po .... 35@ 10| & pect an eter etteees KC 71 Crete, (001 @)........ @ 2 Galvadun. ........- @3 00 | Sinapis, Albu.... te Gins LA in, Rums Gamboge, po..-.-- . ta = Nigra.... ia ft 6Cpeeein.... x 10 | , os, - ons (po. 60) ... @ 5d SPIRITUS. ‘“* Rubra....... @ 8| ino, (po. 35)..---..- @ w Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 0o@z 50 | Crocus ........ a an! i ae eee @1 00 aeR 1 pa oo | Cudbear.... ae 7 = = (po 45)... --- @& & Et 1 10@1 50|CupriSulph........... 8@ 9 oe, 5 20). 3 = 85 | Juniperis Co. 0. T....1 75@1 7 Dextre.) ..... 02...) 10g 18 a eg ee Esra wba se ©) Weare Sole Agents in Michi for W Tragacanth 30@ 75| Spt. Vini Galli... _..1 75@6 50 i. po — a. igan tor .D. & Co HERBA—In ounce packages. Vini Oporto ..........-1 25@2 00 rgota, (po.) 60... 50@ 55 Seelam i 2 Vini Alba.... _.1 25@2 00 +o White. 2g 15 | Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash ae ae as : B wetese eee ae Q@ x Tobelia.. HARARE! FAMpIL.........- 3 @e | 7 : ’ e Majoruzs . oo 3 | Florida sheeps’ wool Gant, < coper ae @ 90| W hisky and Dr uggists Favorite Menth P : .. on | carriage. - 2 252 50 _, rench........ 22 | i] a Wiper eee =| Nassau sheeps’ pene Glassware flint, 75 per an W . Pee a 30 carriage 2 00 bY box 62% less | Rye hisky Tuan v a Sp | Velvet extra sheeps’ Gine, Brown......... 9@ 15 | [ tena vi. ae os wool carriage. t 10: .. ore... 13@ 2% | a Extra yellow sheeps’ Glycerina ........ : 19% 25 | MAGNESIA carriage ........ 85 > maa mradisl....... @ 15 Caicined, Pat... 5D 60 Grass sheeps’ wool car umulus.... 25H 40) s Carbonate, Pat 20@ 2 | Tiage ........ 65 Hydraag ( ‘hlor Mite. @ 9% We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes onl Carbonate, K. & M 20@ 25 | Hard for slate use. % Cor... @ 85 We give our Pe 1A : y- Carbonate, Jennings. 35@ 36| Yellow meet, for slate Ox Rubrum = @!1 05 . : rsona ttention to Mail Orders and Guar: OLEUM use 1 40 eee 2 8 antee Satisfaction. Abetnuthium. .........5 0005 30 SYRUPS. | i" i an _ All orders ar i ~ Apgtntae ate 18B | cone." fe el i alae, Amarae. . 8 8 0@8 25 | Zingiber 50 | Indigo , Am... zt 50 | m. end in a trial order. ee a Tp | , li ui de li a | i ee lees S oo. pe on 60 | Iodine, Resubl........3 15@3 85 | Bergamii .... 2 80@3 2° se Pea ad lodoform............. @4 70 | Cajiputi es 001 7 ase ge torgapabaas aI pone eb 85@1 00 | oe = | é | Lycopoc a 55 0 —— vee 1 = = Similax Officinalis. a 60 | i : tum a ae = tn... 3, 6 . Ca... 50 | ite uor Arsen et Hy je... 1s... Po Se ee = = ao “o 5 age se toms 50 Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 | ay a ee Motte yc = — Sulph (bbl oe WONTON ieee oeay ce 1 20g1 30 Pines tS Sas “ESERIES 50 | Mannia, $F... 45@ 50 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GROCERIES. Wool, Hides and Tallow. Wools are apparently at bottom, and the goods market is still below it. Man- ufacturers no stock, and are free buyers, if holders of wool are willing to have let go at prices that they can use it at, which has been the case in many in- stances to close out the deal of last year, and at heavy loss. Growers are building their hopes on the McKinley bill for high prices the coming season, while dealers have met with heavy losses, are still holding, and manufacturers and clothiers wish to sell, even at a they have made and have on hand. said that nothing but the movement of the goods market can help’ the situation. Hides have had a sharp advance, from searcity, which tanners are loth to pay. They have advanced leather and hold firm. The are well stocked, but enough make the demand good. Pelts are dull and slow sale, thy with wool. Tallow prices. or loss, what goods on tanners are in want to prices larger is in fair > 2 The Grocery Market. Sugars are lower again. their fee manufacturers have declined prices 4c. Canned apricots are higher Canned peaches are firmer in Baltimore, on account of the high price of dried fruits. virtually out of market, and if jobbers had to purchase anew, to fill their ders, they would be compelled to charge $1.50, instead of $1.35. facturers have advanced their product ‘4c per lb. seed are higher. The have advanced tubs $1 per dozen. i — el ‘*El] Puritano ” M. Kern, who has tory for the past seven years for Dil- worth Bros., of Pittsburg, has just placed on the market strictly hand- or- the Hemp and rape manufacturers price Cigar. covered this terri- a made Havana cigar. which he has desig- nated ‘“‘E] Puritano.’’ He has placed the brand in the hands of three jobbers in whose names are given in the in another part of this week’s paper, and is confident it will meet with a hearty reception at the hands of the trade. If the cigar wears half as well as its father, it will active demand. —————_—»> + E. J. Gillies & Co., New York, largest scheme spice and tea house in the world. Write J. P.. Visner, agent, 17 Hermitage block, Grand Rapids, for special inducements. ~~. VISITING BUYERS. W N Hutchinson, Grant W S Adkins, Morgan Thos Heffernan, Baldwin A Purchase, So Blendon H Matthews & Co., Chase Field & Ballard. Sparta JL Thomas, Cannonsburg N O Ward, Stanwood JB Watson, Coopersville F Narregang, Byron Center W H Hicks, Morley Silas Loew, Burnip’s Cors Neal McMillan. Rockford E Young, Ravenna Hessler Bros., Rockford J L Clark, Big Rapids Maston & Hammond, B C Smith, Chester Grandville E T Lockerby, Keno A W Fenton, Bailey Fife Lake Hardware Co , Severance & Rich, Fife Lake Middleville Buck & Kyselka, N Bouma, Fisher Traverse C o John Graves, Wayland W S Spencer, Petosk R G Beckwith. Bradley Hughston & Read, Me Bain E S Botsford, Dorr W 8S Hart, Lake Odessa C H Deming, Dutton L M Wolf, Hudsonville Sevey & Herrington, Herrington A H Barber, Saranac John Gunstra, a JH Manning, Lake P ¢ Sullivan Lum Co., Sulliv an Bakker Bros., Drenthe J R Harrison, Sparta Mrs J H Bulliment, G’dville J Hoogstraat, Conklin L Cook, Bauer Wm VerMeuien.BeaverDam N Harris, Big Springs Wm Karsten, Beaver Dam Smallegan & Pickaard, Forest Grove this State, advertisement always be in are the Frank Smith. Leroy Geo Meijering. Vriesiand Pickett Bros., Wayland E M Smith, Cedar Springs GS Putnam, Fruitport H Van Noord, Jamestown Jno Farrowe, So Blendon Munger, Watson & Devoist, Sullivan J 8 Toland, Ross W G Tefft, Rockford W H Watts, Bowne Center Eli Runnels, Corning Geo A Sage, Rockford E E Hewitt, Rockford AD Farling, Millbrook Gilbert Bros., Trent C F Walker, Glen Arbor It is | in sympa- | | grocery demand, at the old) ; ment | maintain | graph presents something more than an Package cof- | -|to quarrel | for accuracy to be impugned by anyone— Canned squash and pumpkin are | Consolidation of the Detroit Cracker The jelly manu- | of Lawrence Depew & Co., the Vail & Crane i the | dated THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A Question of Correctness. | THe TRADESMAN of last week con- | tained the following statement : | Kalamazoo has seventy-four grocery stores, fully two-thirds of which are con- ducted by Holland people. The Kalamazoo Telegraph copied the | item and added : You are wrong in both statements. Kalamazoo has seventy-eight groceries and the proportion conducted by Holland people is not nearly so large as you state. THe TRADESMAN thereupon enclosed both clippings to its informant, N. J. Whitney, Kalamazoo representative for the Vienna Yeast Co., asking that the | matter be thoroughly investigated. Mr. Whitney’s reply is a follows: Regarding the number of grocery stores in Kalamazoo, 1 was perfectly right. There are just seventy-four grocery | stores here and more than half are con- ducted by Holland people. Since receiv- ing your enquiry of the 24th, I have} spent some time looking into the matter, and find that my previous statement to you was absolutely correct. As Mr. Whitney’s business compels him to make a complete circuit of the trade of Kalamazoo every day, TRADESMAN that state- was and will continue to until the Tele- THE insists its correct its correctness unsupported statement to the contrary. Four stores is a small matter | but THe TRADESMAN | does not propose to permit its reputation grocery over, mueh less so good a paper as the Tel-| egraph. a ee Factories. The four cracker factories of Detroit— Co., the Morton Baking Co. and Detroit Cracker Co.—have consoli- under the style the United States Baking Co. The new corporation has a capital stock of $2,000,000, of which $200,000 is paid in, Cracker of divided among five | stockholders in the following amounts: Lawrence Depew .... $40,000 Geo. M. Vail. eee 50,000 Robert Morton...... .- 20,000 Henry B. Copeland... . 40,000 Wm. 8. Crane. aes £0,000 The coxpetntion is officered : as : follows: President—Wm. S. Crane. Vice-President—H. B. Copeland. Secretary and Treasurer — Lawrence Depew. The organization has every appearance of but THE TRADESMAN | hopes—for the good of the trade at large | —that such is not a fact. a 9 A Sweet and Wholesome Substitute for Butter. From the American Analyst. being a trust, The cheapness of sugarin England has | resulted in an enormous extension of the | jam manufacturing business, and the consumption of jam has become almost universal. It used by the poorer | classes as a cheap and wholesome substi- | tute for butter, costing from four to ten | cents a pound less. The centers of the | jam manufacturing are at London, Glas- | gow and Dundee. During the season, | about 100 tons of soft fruit are into jam in London each day. Every | town of considerable importance has | jam factories, the most of these having | originated in recent years. Several | years ago jam manufacturing began on a} small scale in the city of Dundee, in| Seotland, and already a single firm, that | of Clarke, Nicholls & Coombs, employs | over 1,000 hands. There are many firms in the manufacturing centers which turn out as much as twelve tons of jams and preserves aday. During the season of | 1887, the single city of Glasgow received | daily thirty tons of strawberries, besides | large quantities of other fruits from one is made | 'Seotch valley which lies between Hamil- ton and Lanark, and from this valley Dundee also draws a large part of its |supply. So extensive has this industry become that the factories now consume | about two-thirds of the entire small-fruit | crop, and they serve, also, as a great stimulus to production. In 1887 there were more than 48,000 acres devoted to small fruits. In the county of Kent there are many growers who plant 100 acres in strawberries alone, and some who plant several hundred. About 50,000 persons in this county alone are engaged in the production of small fruits. The consumption of sugar by England’s jam and_ preserve factor- ies reaches the enormous figures of 300,000,000 pounds annually. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Golden or Roxbury russets command $3.50@§ per bbl. Beans—Dealers pay $1.40 for unpicked and $1.50 for picked, holding at $1.75@#18.5 per bu. Beets—40c per bu. Butter—The market is easy, except for strictly choice. Creamery is in good demand at 26c. Choice grades of dairy are in fair demand, dealers paying 14@15c and holding at 16@17c Buckwheat Flour—#1.75 per 1(0 Ibs. Cabbages--Florida stock is scarce and higher, commanding $4.25 per crate. The cold weather }in the South has delayed the maturing of the OYSTERS and FISH. F, J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH, Whitefish. . ee es @%™% Ee @8 a ce ee @6 ES @15 i ee ee @4 oYsTERS—Cans, Walveeven Comnes...................... @35 Selects. ee eee --28 @a0 OEE @25 ee p22 FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, carcass. . 4%@ 6% hind quarters. . 7 in © " = ooo - 44@ 4% - ore ee @10 ee a, @ 8% . ————— 8 @10 ee. 5%@ 6 eee. / \ @5 EE g 8 - ees. @ 6 Sausage, blood or head..... @5 . eee ws ee @5 - a @8 Mutton @ 9 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS, The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK, crop very materially. Cheesé—New full cream stock commands 11% | Standard, = Ib, boxes. 8% @i2c, but the tendency is downward. Twist, o eeu el ene ia ai al - 8% Cooperage— Pork barrels,81.25; produce barrels | Cut Loaf, % ret ee eee ee eee cence rene as 10 ‘ ‘ , MIXED. C nia umbers—$1 per doz. ¢ Dried Apples — Evaporated are held at 10@ Roy al, 3 pac _—---- : 8% lic and sun dried at 54%4@é6c. Extra, = on Se 10 a ao now pay 10cand hold at 11c. 500 ee - 9% Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, $3.50 per bu.; ne oe lll oe medium, $3.50. Timothy, $1.50 per bu. Pee CANA EE GEE. «4. -------+--- 11% Honey —Scarce and nearly out of market. FaNncy—In 5 Ib. boxes. Letence—t2c per ib. for Grand Rapids crown. | Lemon Drope................. 2... -- 25. os on 2 Mannie Sawer-Go@we per Ib, according te | Gaur Drope..... ..........................1... 13 | quality. eee eee 14 | “ Magle Syrup—75@835c per gal. ee, 14 Onions—Green, 2uc per doz. Bermuda, $3] H. M. Chocolate —_—- a 18 per crate. Gum Drops.. ' eee ee oece tae ce. 10 Parsnips—60e per bu. Licorice Drops.. ee ae a ee eas 18 Pieplant—1.75 per crate of 50 lbs. A. B. Licorice Drops. ee 14 Pop Corn—4c per Ib. Lozenges, oom... be) oe ee ee oe 14 Potatoes—The market is lower all around, no printed... 15 sales having been made during the past week at | Imperials...... ........... .14 | over 50c per bu. on track. It is quite likely that | Mottoes............ ee .15 | the price will e@vance again, Out the extreme] Creme Ber... ................ 2.2... see 13 | figures of a few weeks ago are not looked for. — ss e..lt:tCwC... tC 13 Radishes—35e per doz bunches. Ce eee ec 16@18 Spinach—“5e per bu. ond Mace Creame..... ... 2.02... Tomatoes —Early Southern stock commands $1 | Plain Creams....................0 cceceees per peck (7 qts.) box. Decorased Creams................. Turnips—25c per bu. String Rock oes) Vegetable Oysters—30c per doz. a a NE . PROVISIONS. | Wintergreen Pee 14 The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | rancy—In bulk, quotes as follows: Lozenges, plain, = — ee ae a ee ee 0 PORK IN BARRELS. “ er 13 75 : printed, ‘i = SS a _ Ce, tS ee SO eke ae lll ¢ mere Clear pie, short ous.................. 14 — meawn, in pails. ly " — Os, Th perm............. eida pete. ee ree, ne ne oe in bbls "ie i EE Ne Cee en ee Boston a oe Moss Drope, = —--- a ee dele i 7 Cooee peek Ses Ome... Beatin ll Standard clear, short cut, best ..2.0.2.00.21, 14 09 gout Drop all... oe SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. ' «10 eC ee eee nse 7 FRUITS. EE EE eee 9 1 | Tongue Sausage........... ee Ce 9 Coes, Seam, —— Ce Cains +e er Cee 8 “ ae Blood Sausage....... ....- ee cs 5 “ ——, ‘ oo on 2 4 00 ee re ores ie teh — -5 “ Riverside, fancy.............. @ 425 eaten ata a et dha ee : * Soe fo, @ 400 ac UnCCHe, ....... Cen ece a eran a aatiae “ Wash. Navals, eee a @ LARD—Kettle Rendered. . Valencias, large.. ek eee @ a. | Ll 736 Lemons, Messina, choice, Oe. @3 50 De 7M c 300...... -3 75@4 00 oe ee 734 : i fancy, 30 Hehe es @4 00 ee 4 25@4 50 LARD—Family. Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers ..... 15 @16 OE i 534 ae oo 13 @ 14 Ee et. sherri... 2 @ | 3 1b. Pails, 20 in a case.......... SON : Dates, ae a [Oro Pale, tein aceee............. .......... 6% frails, lect Oe EOE Ean @ [me ree Cine ceee............ 6% - ard, 10-Ib. box a @10 | 20 Ib. Pails, 4in a case........ — ee ee, @8 roe eee. ................- 64% - Persion, S)-1b. bem............... 5%@ BEEF IN BARRELS. NUTS. Extra Meas, warranted 200 Ibs............... 70 Almonds, Tarragona. @16 | Brice Mees, Chicago pecking................ 7 00 eee. @15 Bomeioes, ramp bees. se . Cee @l4 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. ——. ides ges ree coins nen eb @i1 Hams, average 20 Ibs..............20.5.-. i. ae ae ‘California... ee anes es eee. 10% : a “ ee 1044 Pecans, Texas, H. P.. --11 @14 picnic - SE En a PEANUTS. “ beat bomeleee 6k. oo 346 Fancy, a. P., Bells Liceke wo ucu as 9 Breakfast Bacon, Somelom.................... 8% en be @10% eee eee, Be res... 9 Fancy, H. P., Lett eae cee pee 9 Sone Clear Nokey 63 we "Roasted Lee e ae @10% Briskets, salen = ou | Choice, &. F., G.... eee ee ® 8 - ee. 64 ' ~ "Meese... @ 9% Su Cau — 7 “Taal ant a 7 gre? For Sale by Leading Wholesale Grocers. : ss ha earns oH SAS Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash bwyers who THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. pay promptly and buy in full packages. APPLE BUTTER. E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6 AXLE GREASE. eg Se a: #2 60 eS ee 1% a... i... 1 60 BAKING POWDER. Absolute, 4 Ib. cans, 100s..11 %5 - 4 Tb. 50s. .10 00 i: * 50s..18 75 Acme, \ Ib. cans, sda.... @& " 6 Ib. a: te " im 1 «|. 300 _ ee... 1... ..... 20 Our Leader, 41]b. cans..... 45 . — . 90 —_— 1 60 Telfer’s, 4’ tb. cans, doz... 45 ' Y% Ib. 85 “oe 1 Ib. “oe “ce vn i? 50 BATH BRICK. English, 2 doz. in case. ._ Bristol, 2 “ 15 American.’2 doz. in case. 70 BLUING. Dozen Merwe, 48. ............ 30 ' ees 60 nal - of............ 90 BROOMS. 2 Hurl Cee tee ae eee eee 1 %5 Warehonuse........ ica. . 2 BUTTERINE Dairy, —_ packed.. . 12% ee ca eee 13 Creamery, solid packed.... 13% e rolls a CANDLES Hotel, 40 lb. - pases 8 Star, 40 | ae os. ............,..., Vee... 25 CANNED aoops—Fish. Clams. 1 Ib. Little Neck.....1 20 Clan: Chowder, 3 Ip... -....- 2 10 Cove Oysters, 1 1b. stand....1 15 “ee “a 2 1b. oe os 95 Lobsters, 1 Ib. pienic........1 % rai 2h * , kate....- 1 00 ay ' 1 id, Bits..... 80 * Family, % bbls 2 50 an 50 @ % | | i | GUN POWDER. a... . ..o Bi Hat keos..... ..... 2 88 HERBS. ae. og Hops.. Looe ee ELL IES 8 Eo. Mason & Co.” 8 goods. 6 Chicago goods. .... i LAMP WICKS. ne ... a 30 Woe ee ee i. 40 Bom... i. 50 LICORICE, Pow. ....... a . 30 Colemeia............ 25 Co 18 LYE. Condensed, 2 doz...........1 3 MATCHES, No. 9 sulphur....... L.-.e ao Anciey parr...............5 No. 2 home eget. 1 10 Export peror.............., 4 00 MOLASSES. Black Strap..... ' 20 Cuba Baking 24@Q25 Porto Rico.. .30@35 New Orleans, ‘good.. . .2AA@28 choice.... ..30@35 . fancy. -42@45 One-half barrels, 3c extra OATMEAL. Muscatine, Barrels ... ...5o@ . Half barrels.....2 65 “ Cases......2 15@2 B ROLLED OATS Muscatine, Barrels... @5 00 Half bbls @2 65 ig e ases... 2 15@2 2 OIL. Michigan Test.. oe Water White..... : 10% PICKLES. Medium. a -- Ge 4 bbl 4 00 Small, vbi _ : ; 3. 20 Me bbl... ...4 2 PIPES. Clay, a 216.. 1% ia ae full count.. 75 Cob, No. S. ... ie PRESERVES. E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 8 RICE. Cc arolina head. No. 1 No. 2. No. 3 oo Japan i 54@h% SNUFF. Seotch, in bladders... 37 | Maccaboy, in jars...... oe | | French Rappee, in Jars 43 SOAP. ‘| | | Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands. Superior. ......... ‘ ¢ Queen Anne. oa ..3 85 German F amily. | Mottled German.......... Old German.... U.S. Big Bargain Frost, Floater Cocoa Castile ..... Cocoa Castile, Fancy.. Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands, w = wP wwwrwes 2 Happy Family, 75 95 | Old Country, 80..... "3 30 | Una, 100... .. 3 65 Bouncer, 100.... cE 3 15 SAL SODA Kegs ec . 1% Granulated, boxes 2 SAPOLIO. | Kitchen, 3 doz. in box | Hand a °¢ r | SOUPS. i Snider’s Tomato 2 40 | sPicEs—Whole. | Allemdee.........- i. Cassia, China in mats 8 | Batavia in bund I ‘ Saigon in rolis......% | Cloves, Amboyna..... 22 , Zanziver..... - Mace Batayia......-. a Nutmege, fancy.............80 ' a .-o i No. 2... .. Oo Pep per, Singapore, black. ...16 white... .2 « shot 20 spices—Ground--In Bulk. Allspice .. 15 Cassia, Batavia... i. .20 " . and Saigon. 25 Y Reign ........ A Cloves, Amboyna... <1 . Zaneipar...... .20 Ginger, Po i 12% Cochin...... a . ee <1; «..-.50 Mace Batavia...... oa Mustard, English. . 22 and Trie..25 _ Tene. ....- « ee Nutmegs, No. 2 . ...80 Pepper, Singapore, black... .18 ° white. ....20 , Cayenne...... ~ ae SUGARS. Cut Loet...........- Q® 1% Cree ........-. 5. @i7 7 Piwacrea............. @7 Standard Granulated. @6.44 ’ eee... .. 5. @b.44 Confectioners’ A. .... @ 6% White Extra C....... 6%@ 6 _— Mee ee @ 5% TE @ 5% Tea Pust.......- 8 @ 5% Common Fine per bbl. Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks ao pOcEet............ 6 ee ales ee Ashton bu. bags Higgins ‘‘ Warsaw ‘‘ iy si lg ee “* Diamond Cry stal, cases. 28-lb sac 56-lb SALERATUS. SEEDS. Mived bird............ 44@ 6 Caraway.......- i. 9 Corey ........¢... 3% Hein. .... . . 8% Anise. i. 8 ‘oe ........,...,..... ._< | ec. T% SALT wt 1 ks Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .5% Dwight'sCom........ ee Taylor's... one DeLand’s Cap Sheaf 514 . pure. 54 Our Leader.. 5 SYRUPS. Corn, barrels. . . ou “” one-half barrels... @26 Pure Sugar, bbl...... 26735 ' half barrel 2837 SWEET GoOODs. Ginger Snaps...... 8 Sugar Creams...... 8% Frosted Creams. 8h4 Graham Crackers.. 8 Oatmeal Crackers.... 8 SHOE POLISH. Jettine, 1 doz. in box..... 75 TEAS. ee Fair . ' -14 @16 Goda ae aus Cheee.............. 2 Ga Cneieent ......... ....92 @aae SUN CURED. vor ...... 14 @15 Goede... ..16 @ Choice. ...... coe ee ye 328 Choicest..... 4 ..20 @33 BASKET FIRED. Fair . @20 Choice iB. i @2z5 ( ‘hoicest. . a @35 | Extra choice, wire leaf @A GUNPOWDER. Common to fair. --.20 @ao Extra fine to finest....50 @6> Choicest fancy........7%5 @s IMPERIAL. Common to fair.......20 @35 Superior tofine........40 @5 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. roar. ..... eo. 25 Cuore. ...... ! Le @ eee. le. ...o Ge 3 @ll SODA, Boxes ... Ls Kegs, English. Hiawatha Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes YOUNG HYSON. Common to fair 18 Superior to fine.......30 OOLONG, Common to fair... 25 Superior to fine... 30 Fine to choicest 55 s Tonaccos—Fine Cut. D. Seotten & Co.’s Brands. Oo j | Bows, 12 ineh.............. 1 00 se 1 25 a 2 00 Mm YT Oa 2% assorted, 17s and 19s 2 50 * 15s, 17s and 19s 2 7 Baskets, market bushel ....- with covers 1 90 wi llow el ths, No.1 5 %5 splint No.1 3 50 ae 4 25 ».3 5 00 | GRz AINS aia FE EDSTORNS | WHEAT. | —— ' . 85 Red. 85 All wheat bought on 60 Ib. test. } MEAL, | Bolted 7 en 1 20 Grant ulated... el 1 39 | FLOUR | Straight, in sacks 4 30 ' ‘* barrels 4 50 Patent ‘“ sacks 5 30 ay ‘ barrels. . Sa | MILLSTUFFS, | Bran 14 00 | Ships 14 00 Screenings ee ticcccee Sa Oe | Middlings.. ' ... ao Mixed Feed 15 50 | Coarse meal a. 15 50 CORN. | Small lote..... ' “ 42 | Car it . 38 | OATS, Small lots... ‘ eee aay 32 | Car oe 1 RYE. No. 1 \ . 45 BARLEY. No. 1. 1 10 No. 2 a 1 06 HAY. No. 1. : eos ee oe oe oe No. : a 9 00 HIDE S, P EL TS and FURS, Sweet Cuba 36 Our Leader.... .. oo | TOBACCOS—Plug. S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands. | Nimrod, 4x12 and 2x12 37 | Reception, 2 2-5x12, 16 oz 36 Vinco, 1x6, 4ls to b 30 Big 5 Center, | 3x12, 12 0z 34 |} Wheel, 5 to tb 37 — 3x9, 9 oz 25 Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands. | fone ioe Good... 38 | Double Pedro 35 | Peach Pie .. 36 Wedding ( ‘ake, blk 35 “Tobacco”’ . 37 TOBACCO— icin: | Our Leader i 15 | ToBaccos—Smoking. Our Leader..... | o.............. ...,.. a Plow Boy, 2 0z.. a | o $ OZ a “ 15 oz oe | VINEGAR 40 gr a OU er... aes ..10 &1 for barrel | | | PAPER & WOODENWARE | PAPER. | | Curtiss & Co. quote as fol | j lows: | | Straw 160 | : ° Light W eigh 200 | | Sugar .... : 180 | Hardware 2% | | Bakers 2% | Dry Goods... 6 j Jute Manilla..... . 8 | ; Red Express Ne. 1.... . | | No, 2 4 | | TWINES. | 48 Cotton.. : 22 | | Cotton, 10. 2.......... ~a lt j sh ee 18 | | Sea Island, assorted 40) | No. 5 Hemp .... 1 | noG” nm | Wool 4 8 | WOODENWARE. | Tubs, No. 1 8 00 | | [ No. 2 7 00 | Me. a . 6 00 | Pails, No. 1, two-hoop. 1 50 a. « No. 1, three-hoop 1f | a | \ Perkins & Hess pay as fol | lows: HIDES. 'Green ........ - 44@ 5% Part Cured...000.00. 4%4@ 5 Full “ eaeen Heavy steers, extra Dry os : —-o @e Dry Kips .......8 @e Calfskins, green a @ 6 “ cured......5 @ 6% Deacon sking..........10 @25 4g off for No. 2. PELTS. Shearlings. 10 @2zx Estimated wool, ‘per fb 20 @2zs WOOL. Washed 20@25 Unwashed..... 10@18 MISCELL. 'ANEOU 8. Tallow ... ee 3 @ 3% | Grease butter ........ 1 @ 2 Switches ' 1%@ 2 | Ginseng 2 OM” FO Above prices are nominal and for immediate delivery only. Roe our Grand Rapids. $1.50 Per Foot—6 Feet or Over. We still continue to sell HEYMAN & CO,, oval or square front show cases with metal corners for The P. of I. Dealers. The following are the P. of I. dealers who had | not cancelled their contracts at last accounts: Ada—L. Burns, Adrian—Powers & Burnham, Anton Wehle, | L. T. Lochner, Burleigh Bros. Allendale—Henry Dolman. Almont—Colerick & Martin. Altona—Eli Lyons. Armada—C. J. Cudworth. Assyria—J. W. Abbey. Aurelius—John D. Swart. Bay City—F rank Rosman & Co. Belding Roell, Lightstone Bellaire Se ve: jleraft & Nash. Bellevue—John Evans. Big Rapids—A. V. Young, E. & Co., Mrs. Turk, J. K. Sharp, Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr. Brice 3. Gardner. Burnside—John G. Bruce & Son. Caldwell—c. L. Moses. Capac—H. C. Sigel. Carlton Center—J. N. Covert. Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Sessions. Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A. Fish, Tripp. Charlotte — John Smith, J. Andre ~ Cc. P. Lock, F. Chip a i Lake . A. Goodseil. ‘am River asleeae Anderson. ‘io—John W. Hurd. oldwater—J. D. Benjamin. onklin—Wilson McWilliams. ‘oral—J. S. Newell & Co. Dorr—Fr ank yg Dushvil G. O. Adams. Deerftie gest W. Burghardt. Eaton Rapids—Knapp « Rich, & Bro. Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, Fenwick—Thompson Bros. Flint—John B. Wilson. Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark. Fremont—J. B. Ketchum, W. Harmon. Gladwin—John Graham, J D. Sanford, Jas. Croskery. Gowan— Grand Haven Grand Ledge Grand Rapids Bros.. Pp P. Shankweile A. M: irkson. or T B. Daron & } Goodby. J. Richardson, r. of. 77 og H. Kositchek John C. Devitt. Rasmus Neilson. N. J. Braudry & Co -Frank O. Lord. Joseph Berle Wilzinski, Brown & Sehler, Houseman, cer wef & Jones, Ed Struensee, Wasson & Lamb, Chas. Pettersch, Morse & Co., Famous Shoe Store, Harvey & Hey stek, Mrs. E Reynolds, E. Sarkherdt. Greenville—Jacobson & Netzorg. Hart—Rhodes & Leonard. Hersey—John Finkbeiner. Hesperis i—B. Cohen. Howard City—O. J. Knapp, Herold Bros., C. E. Pelton. Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan. Imlay City—Cohn Bros., Porter Megan. Jonia—H. Silver, Wm. Wing, E. S. Welc Jackson—Hall & Rowan Jenisonville—L. & L. Jenison (mill only Kalamo—L R. Cessna. Kent City—M. L. Whitney. Laingsburg—D. ‘Lebar. Lake City—-Sam. B. is. Lake Odessa—Chri Halier & Co., KE. F. Colwell & Son, Fred Miller. Lakeview—H. C. Thompson, Andrew All & Bro. Langston—F D Lansing—R. A. Bailey, Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glic man. Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jen Lowell—Patrick Kell ¥ McBain—S: B. Ardis. McBride’s-— Met Mancelona—J. L yham. Manton—A. Cur is, Mr . Liddle. Marshall—W. ,08 ley, 3. Vv. i. Lep} per & Son. Mecosta Re obert D. Parks, J. Netzorg. , r night, Chas. Gaunt ne. tmal J. Vermett & Son, . Cowles. ant—Thos. McNamara. iville—H. M. Lee. Newaygo—W. Harmon. North Dorr—John Homrich. Nottawa—Dudley Cutler. Ogden—A. J. _ 1ce. Olivet —F. -. Tr rew & Son. A. Warren. » Kana & cZ_ A. W. Reed, Rockfor sebewa ey We gton & ( Darrow S -. * V, Wiley. erkate, a A Boston wholesale grocer recently sold pepper that he didn’t know was adulterated and was fined $112.20 for the same. Heclaimed that the goods were made in New York and sold to him as pure pepper. _> *+ => Greenville—T. E. in the retail cigar business. Johnson has engaged THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.— EGG CASES & FILLERS. ; Having taken the agency for Western and Northern Michigan for the LIMA | 'EGG CASES and FILLERS, we are prepared to offer same to the trade in any | quantity. Lots of 100. Less than 100. | No. 1—30-doz. Cases, complete............ ee eae ss 46. 35c. ee ee, 9c. 10¢. Parties ordering Fillers have to buy one C — with every 10 sets of Fillers (no | broken cases sold),making 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. W. T. LAMOREAUX, 71 Canal St.,Grand Rapids, Mich. A. HIMES, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in GOAL AND WOOD, Yard and Warehouse on Line of Lime, Cement, Fire Brick, etc | Main Office, 54 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. GER é&l, CewW. M andi. &. & M.S. Rys. ——ALL SHIPMENTS MADE PROMPTLY.—— ie Putnam Gandy Co uals HEAT QUARTERS FOR FRUIT Oya NUTS, ETC. Pte Te Bananas, Figs, Dates, Nuts, etc. Infants’ Genuine Chamois Moccasins. These goods are all worked in SILK and WARRANTED NOT TO SHRINK. Sent post paid for $2.25 per dozen. Send for our catalogue and note our specially low price on Shoe Dressings. HIRTH & KRAUSE, Canal St, Grand Rapids, Mich. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive. Leave. | Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:10am | Traverse City Express....... 2 20am 11:30am Traverse City & Mackinaw..........3: 3:25pm 4:10pm | From Cincinnati............ --+++-+ 9:15pm | Cadillac (Mixed) she ins cam ig 6:30 p m Through coaches for Saginaw on 7:10a mand 4:10 p | 'm train. | GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express... a 7:bam | Fort Wayne Express. 11:45am 12:25pm Cineinassl Bupross.............--- 5:30 pm 6:00 p m Pp From Mackinaw & Traverse City..10: 40 pm | From Cadillac. ...........0e-seseeeeee 735 am | Train leaving for Cincinnati at6p. m. and arriving | from Cincinnati at 9:20 p. m., runs daily, Sundays in | cluded. Other trains daily except Sunday. Sleeping &nd Parlor Car Service: North—7:00 a. m. | and 4:10 p. m. trains have sleeping and parlor cars for | Mackinaw City. South—7:15a. m. train has chair car | and 6 p. m. train Pullman sleeping car for Cincinnati. | Muskegon. Grand Rapids & Indiana. | Leav Arri pm Teavinin time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. Through tickets and full information can be had by | calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at depot, or Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. CO. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. Sornine Bueees. .... co. cess 12:50 p m 1:00 pm Pe Ey oni wen cece csecenee 4:10pm 4:20pm +Grand Rapids Express........... 10:40 pm POE OI node ccs sechecen ste 6:40am 7:00am ee a 7:30am GOING EAST. EE Pe as ia snteencc ee cun 6:50am hoch ae, amie te 10:10am 10:20 a m ie eo Ee re 3:35 pm 3:45 pm OU EN oi ence we one 10:30 pm 10:55 p m +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Detroit Express and Evening Express have parlor ears attached and make direct connections in Detroit for all points East. Morning express and Grand Rapids express have par- lor cars attached. Night express has Wagner sleeping ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a. m. Through railroad tickets and ocean steamship tickets and _ sleeping car berths secured at D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot. Jas. CAMPBELL, Citv Passenger Agent. Jno. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern. For Toledo and all points South and East, take the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and connections at Toledo with evening trains for Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cinecin nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and ail promi nent points 6 cmon lines. J. ParsLey,Gen’l Pass. Agent | MicH IGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falls Route.’’ DEPART. ARRIVE SE NR i iccw tures 6:45am 10:15pm ay 6:50am 5:30pm | sete cee aedogn 11:55am 10:00am *Atlantic & Pacific NR eae ari 45pm 6:00am = = ee a 5:40pm 1:35pm *Da FIREWORKS Besides our FINE LINE of CANDY, we are agents for the Best ALL COLOREI FIREWORKS, and have many specialties in this line on which you can make some All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapids Express to and from Detroit. FRED M. Brieas, Gen’! Agent. 8 Monroe St. G.S Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 er St. O. W. RucGies. G. P. & T. Agent., Chicay ) | a money. No old chestnuts to work off. Send for catalogue and get our prices | before ordering. | If you want the BEST CANDY put up NET WEIGHT, ask for our goods. | A E BROORS & Cé£., CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST.. - GRAND RAVID*. MICH WATER - F; 9 F A True Combination of MOCHA JAVA and RIO. : 5, Picture Card Given %, With every pound package. For s o Sale everywhere. Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, 0. S 3 oe Zz. | EIT Se UU RET Ss e = » iBEFORE BUYING GRATES z Ss et Circular and Testimonials. pony a = S Economical, Sanitary, Cieanly and Art = > ALDINE FIRE PLACE, GKAND RAPIDS: HiCh, alt |2 3B g = ‘ a e 2\ - S DIRECTIONS = € We nave cooked the corn in this can © oe Wares (not ck aig otal 7 = Fe cet ae g Season to suit when on a table. None genuine unless bearing the signature of By le) bd ade Ame Zine hades Say SS Uae vce Uy ae Be | aol =e nl mee arena T3 is e. EAs? ay RAPIOS M Ge ! THE MICHIGAN ee ee THE DRUMMER’S STRATAGEM. How a Traveling Salesman Got Even and Gained a Customer. Take the ordinary man—add to his faith, virtue, and to his virtue, know- ledge, and to his knowledge, temperance, and to his temperance, patience, and to his patience, godliness, and to his godli- ness, brotherly kindness and charity. Then to these ancient and fundamental virtues add certain more modern and superficial ones—a well-dressed and well- mannered personality, a determined but tactful presence, a shrewd insight into | human nature, and the ability to tella capital story. have the successful commercial traveler | —that characteristic exponent and pro- duct of American business methods and business life. “Tt isa hard hfe, thatof the drummer,’’ said one, yesterday, to whom thirty years of hard work has given the right to speak with authority. ‘It’s a hard life, but it’s an interesting one, and it gives aman a close hold on hard facts and realities. The drummer learns ina hard school, but he does learn, and the lessons pay. What is the first lesson he has to learn? How to manage men; how to approach a reluctant, or an indifferent, or a suspicious buyer, so as to win his confidence and overcome his disposition. ‘*Experience teaches this better than anything else, though some men learn it more easily than others. I remember when I began to travel as salesman—on my very first trip, I think it was, when I was hardly more than a lad—I had an experience that proved very valuable to me. There was one old fellow on my route who had been known for years as the terror of all traveling men. He was declared to be absolutely the worst-na- tured, worst-mannered fellow they had met anywhere, but | hadn’t even heard of him then, and sol entered his store very confidently and handed him my eard. He took it without even glancing at it, tore it into bits and threw the pieces on the floor. ‘Now, sir,’ he said, turning to me, ‘get out of my. store.’ There were two pretty young girls in the store who did not understand the pro- ceeding, and who looked at me as I walked out as if I were an escaped con- vict. ‘Well, I smarted for several days over that affair, during which time I had made up my mind that Pd even matters up with him if I could nexttime. So before I started out I had a card made expressly for my good friend. It looked exactly like the one I had used before, only that it was made of tin. When I reached his town I waited until I saw thestore pretty well filled with people, and then 1 walked in, saluted the proprietor and gave him my card. He took it, just as before, glared at me and gave the card a twist. But it didn’t fall in bits on the floor this time, and he only succeeded in giving his wrist a wrench and raising a titter among the customers. “I was nearly out of the door this time, for I really didn’t think my life was safe. But he called after me and I went back. ‘Come into my office,’ he said. I wentin, expecting never to come out. ‘**What did you want to sell me?’ he asked. ** ‘Dress goods,’ I said. ‘““*Well, goon.’ And I actually sold the old curmudgeon over $1,000 worth of cloths before Ileft. For years after—as long as he lived, in fact—he was one of my best customers, and one of the best friends I ever made in my business.’’ ————_ ~~ 2. > Why Business Was Poor. Drummer (at Moonshineville, Ken- tuecky)—Good-morning, Mr. Crossroads; how’s business ? Store-keeper (disconsolately)—Mighty poor, mighty poor. You see a new store started up in opposition to me, and, of course, I couldn’t stand that, so I jest give my frien’s th’ wink, an’ they com- menced killin’ off his customers; but he had more trade than I kalkerlated on, an’ w’en his customers began to shoot back it made a purty even fight, and both sides killed each other off so fast that now there ain’t either of us got any cus- tomers. All these before you can | BEACH’S New York Goffee Rooms. 61 Pearl Street. OYSTERS IN ALL STYLES. Steaks, Chops and All Kinds of Order Cooking a Specialty. M. BEACH, Prop. | FRANK A.D. Spangler & Co WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FRUITS «xo PRODUGK And General Commission Merchants. EAST SAGINAW, MICH. We buy and sell all kinds of fruit and produce and solicit correspondence with both buyers and sellers. | Established 1780. | “LA BELLE CHOCOLATIERE.” W. BAKER & CO.’S_ ReGisterEp TrRADE-MarK. No Chemicals are used in any of Walter Baker & Co.’s Chocolate and Cocoa Prep- arations. These preparations have stood the test of public ap- proval for more than one hundred years, and are the acknowledged standard of purity and excellence. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO eference: FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Ohicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapids. 7 COUNTY SAVINGS BANK DETROIT, MICH 500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS | Issued by cities, counties, towns and school dis | tricts of Michigan. Officers of these municipali ties about to istue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and inquiries wil] have prompt attention. January, 1890, 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer. CURTISS & CO., WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse. EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THE KEYSTONE BINDERS’ TWINE. Houseman Block, . Grand Rapids, Mich. The Fine Frosting Sugar now being sold in this market is the finest goods known for frosting fine cakes, and all pastry work, and easily used. To prepare icing, simply mix the sugar with a little warm milk or water to the proper consistency and flavor to taste. No trouble to make, no eggs, no beating or boiling to be done. UGAR The Fruit Powdered Sugar, for all kinds of table use, especially for fruit, berries, jellies, ete., and for lemonades and all kinds of summer and winter drinks, has no equal. It dissolves quickly, and when once introduced is always in demand. These Sugars are warranted strictly pure, and sold in pails, half-barrels and barrels by all the wholesale grocers in Grand Rapids. g GEO. H. REEDER, Pe Lycoming Rubbers = © Medium Price Shoes * 2 Grand Rapids, Mich. Business Duplex ,2e" Wagon One of the most perfect wagons ever produced, combining strength, durability and cheapness of price. Just the wagon for light delivery, farmer’s run-about, or for pleasure. Send for price list and description. THE BELKNAP WAGON & SLEIGH CO., Grand Rapids. lonia Pants& Overall Co. E. D. Voorhees, Manager. MANUFACTURERS OF Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, kts, Warranted Not to Rip. Fit Guaranteed. Workmanship Perfect. Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of these goods enables him to turn out a line especially adapted to the Michigan trade. Samples and prices sent on application. IONIA, MICH. WM.SEARS & CO. Cracker Manufacturers, 87, 89 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. all-Barnhart-Putman Co, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF GCGROCEHRIES. Ionia and Louis Streets. GRAND RAPIDS - - MICH. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. Headquarters for Seasonal Goods, ASK FOR PRICES BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDERS. WIRE DISH COVERS. “aes ICE TONGS, From $1.00 to $2.25 Per Doz, Ladies’ Floral Tools From $2 to $7 per Doz. Sets. ee See 5 SAFETY BICYCLE’.