“VOL. 7 SEEDS | Write for jobbing prices on Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke and AlfalfaClover, Timothy, Orchard Red Blue Grass, Grass, Top, Field Peas, Produce and WOOL. C. Ainsworth Grand Rapids. Beans, 76 So. Ss. G. KE TCHAM. DEALER IN Lime, Nair, Cement Division St., BRICK, SEWER PIPE, TILE, ETC., 14 West Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH O. Voorheis, P. GENERAL INSURANCE AND LOAN AGENT, TELEPHONE 980. Widdicomb Building, Grand HARVEY & HEYSTEXK, Wholesale Dealers in Wall Picture Frame Paper| ' Mouldings. — — line of PAINTS, OILS and USHES. Correspondence solicited. 74& 76 Ottawa St.. Grand Rapids, Mich 4t Rapids. _aND Have an Electric Bell Full Can be put up by any one in one In your residence. Complete outfit $2.50. instructions. Address PEN hour. ULAR CO., vIN ' Grand Rapids. REMPIS & GALLMEYER, FOUNDERS General Jobbers and Manufacturers of Settees, Lawn Vases, Roof Crestings, Carriage Steps, Hitching Posts and Stair Steps. 54-56 N. Front St. Grand Rapids, Mich, Best and Cheapest Thorough, Practical and c Jommplete._ \The West Michigan Business University —_ NORWAL SCHOOL, 1| MeMullen Block, 23 South P+ pgp St.,. RAND RAPIDS, Is the ae Place to obtain a T waaotcesy Prac tical and Complete Education. The Best ACTUAL BUSINESS Department in the $ tate. 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. GRAND RAPIDS, Apples, Potatoes, Onions FOR BARNETT BROS, PRICES, WRITE TO Wholesale Dealers, CHICAGO. Fine Millinery. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Bought directly from Importers and Manufacturers. Goods the Best Quality and Prices*the Lowest. Adems & Co., WEDNES 90 MONROE SF., OPPOSITE THE MORTON HOUSE. W. C, WILLIAMS. A. SHELEY. A. 8. BROOKS, WILLIAMS, SHELEY & BROOKS Suecessors 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., SEEDS! Grand Rapids. If in want of Clover or Timothy, Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, Any Kind of Seed, send or write to the Grand Rapids Seed Store, 71 Canal St,, GRAND RAPIDS. W.T. LAMOREAUX. or, in fact, Michigan Tradesman. AY, JUNE 11, LOSS AND GAIN. 1890. Some Elements which Bespeak a Well Rounded Life. Underlying the conditions of life is an | inexorable law of necessity. It involves |a system of checks and balances. Every | human life has its losses and gains. Each day’s transactions show a balance on the | debit or credit side of the account. We |are loath to subtract the We are |eager to add the gain. But losses are in- evitable. Hence, in the boldest scheme of living evolved by the human mind it loss. future contin- our debts. economy to provide for jgencies. We must pay repairs its waste and pays its debts. In nature there is no waste. Not an atom lost. Nature is a rigid econ- omist. Each flying chip and whiff of vapor and grain of dust is utilized in carrying out the scheme of creation in- stituted when order was brought out of chaos. Cosmic matter floats in the at- mosphere in such minute particles as to be invisible to the eye of man. Pro- fessor Nordenskjold calculated that at least 500,000 tons of this world-dust falls upon the snow caps of the mountain ranges and the great ice fields of the polar regions each year. The erosive forces of nature are constantly supply- ing new materials and new motors for carrying on the world’s work. It isa destruetion and a rebuilding all the time. “The minute diatum,’’ says Selina Gage, “tlies from the Amazon waters to the European headland and builds the soil again, and the plant grows and dies, and enriches the earth.’’ In reality, nothing dies. Whatever appears to die, or dis- solve in the air, is incorporated in new forms. Nature could not spare its waste. So in the human mind which econ- omizes its foree and utilizes its energy there is no waste. With each gain a pro- vision is made for future loss. crucial problem, how to get a living, in- is value of money and the uses of wealth. We live by labor. unfits the mind for privation and loss. So, recognizing the fact that gainisa material advantage, we are frequently reminded that loss is a spiritual dis- cipline. All gain and no loss would so disturb the equilibrium of the social body, and alter the conditions of life, that the human race would degenerate into anarchy or chaos. Time is a creditor which serupulously exacts the payment of all debts. We are indebted to time for our lease of life. Our privacy is invaded when we re- pudiate its debts. pulse, it implores, ‘‘Pay your | Bring your wants within your | Let each day’s work be complete. debts.”’ means. dues, to its bound exacts Loki time like time. When delinquent is head. thang was an ancient rune which, trans- lated, read: each day. Do it again and again, forever again.”’ Self-renewal is the labor of life. Many consider life only in its commercial aspects. What if | who live for the future appear selfish to | those who live for the present??? Sup- ja he who lives for the future is not h in emoluments, and denied his aad of praise? There is a finer com- = nsation than the benefits money se- sures or titles confer. Principles make the man. Character is the rock-bed of | human history. Despite the losses, is and however slight |the gains, itis sweet and wholesome to llive. In the sphere of labor the | exerts its highest influence, and reaps its is a fundamental principle of political | As | rigorously as nature exacts its dues, so it | hus the | volves in its solution a knowledge of the | The source of wealth | is industry; the meaning of industry is | work. But frequently the love of gain With its finger on the | Shirk- | jing labor is ignoring our indebtedness to | the | the | rocks, with a serpent suspended over his On the bath-tub of King Tehing- | “Renew thyself completely | and | ‘*those | soul | NO. 351. most substantial reward. is so poor that he cannot quota to the sum of human happiness. The luxuries of civilization have not added an iota to the inventive power of man in improving his social condition and extending his usefulness. Luxuries ij impair the energy of a people. ‘‘Society acquires new arts, but loses old instincts.’’ Whatever instinctive in a man’s na- ture, seeks its freest expression under adverse circumstances. The resources of the human mind are inexhaustible. |Its gains more than compensate for the losses when it utilizes its gift. Conceal jing the losses and sharing the gains, it oxygenates the air, and feeds the flame of life until it burns with renewed brilliancy. All of this assured by cultivating our own acre; we cannot ;reap another’s harvest. Human life be- comes rich in the fruits of labor by working witha single aim in view, and never conveting the flowers that grow in }aneighbor’s garden. The all-absorbing And no man contribute his is is | idea is to better the manhood. This is ithe one end, the true gain, the measure and test of power and human greatness. In Horace’s charming letters to Mecen- as, one is constantly reminded that the j}seeret of contentment is to examine into the nature of our desires, and discover whether they arise from want, or from eaprice and humor. Horace, on Sabine farm, with a few chosen friends, is happier than Augustus on his throne, surrounded by parasites and courtiers. No gain is possible to a selfish person, in whom riches beget a spirit of greed, and whom power makes a cruel tyrant. No loss is possible to a contented mind, whose desires do not exceed the limits of his purse, who has faith in God, and who lives in the spirit. Whosoever gains courage from the conviction that a loss jon the material side is a gain on the spiritual side of life has solved one of the chief problems of existence. e know of no more encouraging fact,”’ a wise teacher, ‘“‘than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate: his life bya +: OS says conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, or to make a few ob- jects beautiful; but itis far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look— which, morally, we can do. Every man is asked to make his life, even in its de- tails, worthy of contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. Sucha life turns its poverty to riches, and its gains are in proportion to its usefulness. >< Successful Profit Sharing. Profit sharing as a solution of the labor | problem is not making the progress that its advocates hoped for a few years ago, | yet in some industries where it has been judiciously applied and adhered to per- | sistently it has proved a decided success. A large manufacturing concern near Cincinnati, which employs many opera- tives and has an industrial village of its own, adopted profit sharing some time since, and has just declared a semi-an- nual dividend amounting to 15!s per cent. on the wages of the operatives, or 30 per cent. per annum. That makes a ivery handsome addition to a working- man’s income. For instance, if he earns | $700 per year, his dividend amounts to $210, which he can very readily lay aside for arainy day. It is needless to say that there are no labor troubles in that concern. The men have no disposition to strike and the interests of the concern jare theirs to an unusual degree. They know that vigilance and industry will | repay them in proportion as they benefit the concern, and the employers find that the increased activity and industry of the men fully compensate them for the | large dividend of the profits paid to them. 2 The Condition of Trade. From the New York Shipping List. A new week and a new month have commenced under favorable auspices with respect to the commercial outlook, | the distributive movement of general | trade being fairly active and of satisfac- | tory proportions in comparison with pre- | vious years, crop conditions, which are | an important factor at this season of the | year in shaping the course of commercial | affairs, have materially improved during | the past fortnight and present a much | more cheerful aspect, monetary affairs | have undergone a satisfactory change by | reason of the flow of funds from the in- | terior to this center, the industrial situa- | tion is undisturbed by any important | strikes and speculation is of a conserva-| tive character, the recent reaction in railroad stocks as well as produce having been healthy and checking a natural tend- | ency toward unhealthy and dangerous overtrading. The long continued dull- ness of the stock market, bordering at times on depression during the first four | months of the year, afforded an oppor- | tunity for substantial improvement, based upon increased earnings and the more satisfactory relations existing between the competing lines of the West, but the bullish sentiment founded upon the prob- | abilities of silver legislation and inflation was a speculative uncertainty that be- came tired by the delays of Congress, and | hence the revulsion of feeling witnessed | during the past ten days. The efforts of | operators in grain to discount the influ- | ence of a prospective shortage in the wheat crop, pushed values up to an arti- | ficial level, and hence liquidation became necessary as soon as more favorable | weather put anew phase on the crop out- | look. A good many different opinions | exist as to the quantity of old wheat likely to be carried over at the end of the | present crop year, some authorities con- tending that it will amount to as much as 25,000,000 bushels, while others claim | that the surplus will be but moderately | in excess of the exceptionally low point | last year, when the reserves in the coun- | try were lower than for any previous | year since 1882, and on a per capita basis | were even lower thaninthat year. Tak- | ing 15,000,000 busheis as representing | approximately the export movement for May and June this season, the Cincinnati | Price Current says: The remaining sup- | plies in the United States on July 1 will | be about 23,000,000 bushels in excess of | last year, varying but little in quantity | from like exhibits for 1888 and 1887, and | 30 per cent. less than the average of such | quantities for July 1 for a period of six | years previous to a yearago. Speculative | influences still control the price of raw) eotton, which is relatively high, and the future course of values will depend upon whether the advance will operate in checking consumption, for the mills are now running at a loss and there does not seem to be any inclination to further ad- vance cotton fabrics. The trading in crude petroleum has been lifeless and values have tended downward. The wool market has ruled dull, the high; prices demanded for new clip having re- | stricted the demand, especially as manu- | facturers do not find a good outlet for | their products. The demand for anthra- cite coal has continued slack. The iron market is steady. Metals quiet, but firm. | Staple groceries in moderate request and | dry goods fairly active. Clearing house | returns continue to show important gains | compared with last year. > o> Earning His Salt. ‘“‘You don’t earn your salt,’? was an/| expression | sometimes heard years ago, | when inclined to neglect my home tasks. Now and then the same remark may be heard, and perhaps some one has won- | dered, as I did, what it means. It meant, when first used, a sort of slavery of the poor peasants of France to their government. It was in the 17th century, when Louis XV was in power, that an enormous tax was laid upon every peasant for his al- lowance of salt, because salt was some- thing the people could not do without, | therefore a commodity that everyone | must buy. To make this tax yield plenty | of money to the king, every person Over | seven years of age was required to buy THE: MICHIGAN TRADE SMAN. seven pounds a year, whether it was wanted or not. This was only one of the many taxes laid upon them, and as pay for labor was small, life often became a burden. By this law concerning salt, people were forbidden to sell it one to another, though a poor person might be in want of it and his next-door neighbor have his full quantity from which he could easily spare. Collectors were sharply on the watch for a transgressor, who was immediately punished. If a starving man ventured to sell his sait for a loaf of bread, it made no difference; he came under the ban of the law. Punishments were of daily occurrence. Not an ounce of the seven obligatory pounds could be used for any purpose | but that of the ‘‘pot and the salt-cellar.” If a villager should economize the salt of his soup to make brine for a piece of pork, lo! his pork was taken away from him and he was fined. Then the man must go to the warehouse and purchase more salt. Woe to him if he had not the wherewithal to pay for the extra supply —he could but sell his pig and go with- out meat at Christmas. Some of the other laws concerning salt | were these: “It is forbidden to make use of any other salt for the pot or salt-cellar than the seven pounds. “It is forbidden to take water from the ocean and other saline sources under a penalty of fine. “Cattle cannot be watered in marshes and other places containing salt.’’ The only legitimate salt was usually adulterated and mixed with plaster. These poor people literally ‘‘earned their salt;’?? there was no other way for them to get it. But at last endurance ceased to be a virtue and they rose in a body for their rights. Thus came about. the | French Revolution, and in time the peas- ants were freed from such oppressive taxes. Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS, oh .ttC:tCCCi(i;‘ajL 40 Beat oe mee ee ee a eee ee 75 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. eo. Oo... ....... eee eee ee ee i ee sl ee mae” 270 First quality. me Seen Ces oe 22 —. ' me . Bae * _ ' XXX Flint. No. 0 fen, Cromp top.............. oeeurse toe 2 60 mat o DT ea cae caer eee creer ae 2 80 no.t *~ _ OF ede pAosee eeee es a+ 55 oe Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. 3 70 yo.3 * ' ies — oe a 47 No. 2 Hinge, ‘ “s a 7 La Bastic. Wo. 1 San, plein bulb, per dos. ............. 123 as _ a ' ee No. 1 crimp, per Gon..........--............... 13 —s Ae 1 60 STONEWARE—AKRON. | Butter Crocks, per gal......-.. -........-+ 06% Cr ———————————— 7 eS a: ie ke clean oa 90 ec .. i ee 1 80 Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 65 te “ce 1 oe “ee ( “ 90¢) oe 78 FIT FOR \ trentlemans Table: All goods bearing the name of THURBER, WHYLAND & CO., OR ALEXIS GODILLOT, JR. Grocers visiting New York are cordially invited to calland see us,and if they wish, have their correspondence addressed in our care. We shall be glad to be of use to themin any way. Write us about anything you wish to know. THURBER, WHYLAND & 00., West Broadway, Reade & Hudson Streets, New York City. WHO URGES YOU TO BREEFP SA POLIO’? THE PUBLIC! By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas- ers to the store, and help sell less known goods. ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. z® GEO. H. REEDER, :e Lycoming Rubbers © Medium Price Shoe ; # Grand Rapids, Mich. AreyouSour? Lost Trade? Cheap Grease! NO DEALER EVER LOST A CUSTOMER BY SELLING HIM THE FRAZER ALWAYS UNIFORM. OFTEN IMITATED. KNOWN EVERYWHEPE. NEVER EQUALLED. NO TALK REQUIRED TO SELL IT. Cood Crease Makes Trade. Cheap Crease Kills Trade. Let Petroleum and Imitation ae AZERO” Package Bears our Trade Mark. Alors and Buy the Genuine’ BDrtr-~ = Roves Cans Pails, Kegs & Bhls- I. M. CLARK & SON., Importers and Jobbers of Fine Havana, Key West and Domestic CIGARS! Sole Agents for V. Martinez Ybor & Co., ‘El Principe de Gales’? Factory, Key West; 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. I. M. CLARK & SON. 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. No. 1—30-doz. Cases, complete............. Cee eee ee eae : "33 c. — ~~“ Pe, Ae, - oie. 10¢e. Parties ordering Fillers have to buy one Case 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. r } ' ep a tt ee ’ | ene = meee agg = cna — — geting ig ame ane care pm S pee Some Lady Customers of the Shoe Stores. The shoe dealer thinks there are a lot of queer women in the world. He won- ders if they are as fussy about every- | thing else as they are about the fit of their boots and shoes. ‘‘Why,’’ said a leading representative of the trade to a/| reporter the other day, ‘‘there are some | who never know what they really want. The most definite thing you can make out is that they wanta pair of boots. They sit and look through every box in | the store for fear that something un- | shown might be more satisfactory. The clerk has to keep his patience and try on and try on, and then, if you will believe | me, such a one is quite likely to go away with some trivial remark like, ‘Guess I will not take that pair,’ which is perhaps the twentieth tried on. She leaves us for fields and pastures new. Joy go with her. We do not begrudge any store such a customer. Another class know ex- actly what they want, just such a shoe, which it is, of course, easy to find, but | One pair has a} ' | band, perhaps, and thus save him the| | from two to four carloads of bananas | . : | ‘ - . then comes a difficulty. toe tip too long, another tow short. It pinches; it is too loose. She will rise and look at her newly arrayed foot first on one side, then on the other. ask you to please put on the other. That was better, then, when that is on, no, it is too long, and so she will waste an hour or even more and finally take the first pair she tried on. “But even these two extremes the shoe dealer prefers to the woman who will | haggle about the price; who is full of information about prices in other stores. ‘Lean get this same shoe at So-and-So’s | for $3.2. The clerk feels like telling her to go and get them there, but instead he mildly says, ‘I think not; this is hand- sewed.’ Then there is the woman who must have asmall foot and wants the | clerk to help her keep up the deception. If he suggests a larger size, she is pos- itive she never wore larger than a No. 3, D. In some stores clerks are instructed to get shoes for certain customers from a locality where they are all marked a size smaller than they really are. “I am glad to say that although we | meet with these experiencesgearly every day, yet most of our customers are ladies | whom it is a pleasure to serve, but even | the nicest are mighty particular about | their footgear. The latest freak of the} extreme common sense kind is to have a boot made from adrawing, which has | been obtained by placing her foot flat on a piece of paper, when an outline is drawn. will not have it.’’ “Do you meet with these cranks and | disagreeable specimens only among the women ?”’? enquired the reporter. “Oh, no; some of the men are quite as | bad, but not as great a proportion; be- | sides, we can talk more plamly to the men, and that is a relief.’ A Woman as a Merchant. From the Commercial Bulletin. Has a womap any right behind =e counter? She is certainly there, and} there are no signs as yet that she intends to vacate. There are many who object | to “trading with a woman,’’ because they | think they could do better if dealing direetly with the proprietor, bers of country customers. It is the She will | When the boot is finished, if it | is not an exact copy or the drawing, she | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. vary from it, as a general rule. objection can apply with equal force to) a gentleman acting in the same capacity. | fe goods, and does not feel at liberty to | There is an undoubted prejudice against ably preferred in the city retail stores. A woman is preferable to a man in there the farmer doubtless feels at ease. When he buysadress for his wife or | child, he prefers her judgment to that of But this | women in country stores; they are prob- | some ——— of astore, and when | the proprietor; when he buys a pair of | boots, and the woman tells him that they | are better than some other make, he re- | gards the statement as unsatisfactory and | | with the merchant himself. There is undoubtedly a place for a | confine herself to the proper department i before she can hold the confidence of 'eustomers. The opinion of customers wishes for an opportunity to talk it over | | will probably have but little effect in| driving her from the country stores, however. She is there to assist her hus- expense of aclerk. Her desire is com- jmendable and should be encouraged. Many a woman has helped her husband | through a period of hard times by her i/adviece and self-denial. It is women of this sort that belong behind the farmer respects her, in spite of the feel- ing that he would prefer not to buy of | her. Woman will conquer opinion in this as in hundreds of other things, and counter. > > Lincoln’ s Experience ne a Bull. Crossing a field one day, Abraham i LineoIn was pursued by an angry bull. He made for the fenee, but soon discey- ered that the bull was overtaking him. He then began to run around a haystack in the field, and the bull pursued him; | but, in making the short circles around the stack, Lincoln was the faster, and, instead of the bull eatching him, he eaught the bull, and grabbed him by the tail. It was a firm grip, and a control- ling one. He began to twist his tail and kick the bull; and the bull bellowed with agony, and dashed across the field, Lin- |eoln hanging to his tail and kicking him at every jump, and, as they flew along. |Lineoln yelled at the bull, ‘‘Darn you, | who began this fight ?”’ ~~ 2 <-- “ Fire Works—Immense line. PuTNAM CANDY Co. Fehsenfeld & Grammel, (Successors to Steele & Gardner.) Manufacturers of BROOMS! Whisks, Toy Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom Handles, and all Kinds of Broom Materials. 10 and 12 Plainfield Ave., Grand Rapids. | A. D. Spangler & Co WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FRUITS «xo PRODUGE And General Commission Merchants. This is the | feeling, undoubtedly, among large numw- | EAST SAGINAW, MICH. natural result of the education they have | received. The country merchant, as a) rule, is nota follower of the one-price system. It is a difficult thing for him to do so, and yet there is no apparent reason why he should not do so. The trouble with the country retail trade is that every man is for himself. It is not so with the wholesale trade. A schedule of prices is issued, andit is adhered to pretty closely. The country merchant depends very largely upon it for informa- tion as to prices. But how would a list of quotations for the retail trade appear? Every person in whose hands it would fall would say, ‘‘Brown sells cheaper than that.”? That tells the whole secret. Brown undersells Jones, or vice versa. The farmer prefers to do business, therefore, direct with Brown, rather than with a woman who may be serving as aclerk. She quotes the market price We buy and sell all kinds of fruit and produce and solicit correspondence with both buyers and sellers. Cook % Bergthold, MANUFACTURERS OF SHOW CASKS. Prices Lower than those of any competitor. Write for cata- logue and prices. 67 Canal St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 3 We Manufacture Everything in the line of andy Correspondence solic- ited and prices quot- ed with pleasure. Write us. MOSELEY BROS. ——W HOLESALE-—— Fruits, Seeds, Oysters? Produce woman behind the counter where she | | will be respected by all, but she must | All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be pleased to hear from you. GRAND RAPID - H ‘ Hh | more fruit than ean be handled by any other house at this market. counter—if they wish to be there. The} 16 and 18 We are receiving a week, which is Remember We Are Headquarters. HEADQUARTERS When in want of large North Division St., GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT AND PRODUCE CO. | will continue to act her part behind the } | A J. BROWN, Wholesale dealer in Foreign, Tropical and Domestic Fruits and Seeds, Direct Receivers of California Oranges=— Lap eae Messina Lemons. California Oranges, we are prepared to make you low prices from fresh cars. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. send for Price List, Issued Weekly Lee | | | | | | Wholesale | | AND JOBBER IN 412 SOUTH DIVISION 12. 14 AND li TELEPHONE 92-3R, RINDGE, BERTSCH & CoO., 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. Im buckle or hook lace. ST.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WORKS I have the agency for several of the best manufacturers of fireworks in the | country and am prepared to quote lower prices than any other dealer in my line. WM. R. KEELER, Confectioner, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS. Send for Price, List. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Blanchard—Willis J. Mills has opened a drug store. Lodi—John Garrett has removed his general stock to Springdale. Ransom—A. F. Hart succeeds J. D. Cornell in the grocery business. Pontiae—Mrs. Harry Hall in the restaurant business. Nashville—B. S. How ham & Reynolds in the grocery business. Vernon—H. BP. sueceeds String- MeLaughlin succeeds THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Delton—Wm. H. Chase succeeds Goss | & Hall in the lumber business. : i x John MeMillan succeeds | Adrian—The grist mill of the Wilson Milling Co. is now owned by Jas. H. Milne. Custer—M. Brayman, general dealer ;and manufacturer of woodenware, is now out of business. Mancelona—John and Nelson Walden have formed a copartnership under the style of Walden Bros. and opened a cigar | factory. Sheldon & McLaughlin in general trade. | Muskegon—Isaae D. Lloyd Lloyd & McShannock in the tea business. | : : : | glass in all its branches. Cadillac — LeBar & Cornwell have opened a flour and feed store at Manistee. Hersey—Andrew McFarlane succeeds | McFarlane & Brooks in the meat bus- iness. | Detroit — Philip P. Blum succeeds | Blum & Haubrick in the wholesale liquor | business. Hamilton—D. K. Dykstra | held last Tuesday, realized $9,000. seneaeda | same property was inventoried at $12,000. succeeds | Detroit—The Michigan Art Glass Co. has been incorporated with $15,000 cap- ital, to manufacture and deal in art Greenville—T. E. Johnson has sold his cigar factory to Walter Halsted, and taken a position as traveling salesman for a tobacco house of St. Louis, Mo. Jackson—Another sale of the assets of the Geo. T. Smith Middlings Purifier Co., The Oscoda—The H. M. Loud & Sons Lum- | ber Co. proposes to build a circular mill Dykstra & Middaugh in the hardware business. Battle Creek — Wm. Schroder has} opened a grocery store at 24 South Jeffer- son street. Paris—The proposed sale of the Stick- ney & Co. stock to L. C. Shaw was not consummated. Decatur—Bagley & Sutton, general dealers in | agricultural implements, have dissolved, | I. B. Bagley succeeding. Saginaw—H. Hughes & Co. have embarked in the wholesale bus- iness on North Water street. Vermontville Fuller & Boardman sueceed Fuller & Rhodes and Edward C. Boardman in the meat business. Hartford—Giles L. Cook has his stock to Martin & Taylor, who also sueceed A. Martin in the meat busi- ness. Owosso—The stock of dry of chattel for $4,525. Kingston—Sharls & Downing, of North Baker its grocery sold grocery W. goods c.. was to & Co. by virtue Osburn & Sons Habbin sold mortgage, purchased the Wm. will Branch, have elevator property and enlarge capacity at once. & Son succeed & Flanagan in general trade. referred to last week, Wacousta—Flanagan Streeter The but was accidentally reversed. Vie r—Newton & Best, chased the remnants of the H. G. stock, added a full and an assortment of T. Inkley admitted to partnership the boot and his father. The style Inkley & Son. ‘arson City Elevator change was ksburg who pur- Baker line of drug have drugs groceries. Greenville—Wm. has been in shoe business of of the Carson City—The ¢ co.” property Bank, sale. Morley—Tue TRADESMAN is informed by R. E. Busk that Mrs. Busk, chased the grocery stock, new firm is T. B. elevator is now the City and the been s real estate of having Carson Savings bid in who pur- Beard is a res- ident of Grand Rapids—not of Ashton, as stated last week. Kalamazoo—Frank Bidelman interest the hardware firm 3idelman & Harwood to Mr. Persing, ¢ Yorkville, N. Y. The new firm known as Harwood & Persing. has sold of »f will be his in iin | estate. to run in connection with the Hurlburt shingle mill purchased by them recently. Saginaw—Peter O’Connell has taken a contract to put 800,000 feet of logs into the Cedar, and has built two miles of tram road over which the logs will be hauled. Paris—H. A. Cone, the boot and goods business, formerly engaged and furnishing leased Stickney & Co.’s sawmill and will operate the same to its full capacity. Midland — Justice Thorington has erected a shingle mill near Howry’s Siding, in Gladwin county, and began the manufacture of shingles last week, the mill cutting 40,000 daily. Saginaw—Some time ago, E.O. & S. L. Eastman purchased a tract of timber on the Tittabawassee of S. Avery. They have started camp, and will cut the tim- this summer. A considerable por- tion of it is hardwood. Gladwin—Neff & Co. have built three miles of tram road from their mill toa tract of timber purchased of the Hoy The mill is averaging 40,000 feet daily, and they are shipping over a car load of shingles daily. Remus—C. E. Morse, formerly engaged in trade here, has arranged to opena general store at Seney, where he will shortly erect and operate a shingle mill. L. S. Wendling will continue to be asso- ciated with him in his new location. Manistee—Louis Sands will build a shoe has ber | narrow gauge road to the Manistee River at execution | Yankee Springs—Wallace Watson has | closed out most of his grocery stock to T. Thurston and removed the remainder to Parmelee, where he will continue the | business, adding a line of dry goods in| the near future. from his pine in Springfield township, where he has 100,000,000 feet to cut. The haul will be from six to ten miles. Other firms have 200,000,0:0 feet or more that will be hauled over the same road. Farwell — The _ Littlefield sawmill started for the season last week. Mr. Littlefield has made some improvements, adding a trimmer, lath machine and saw- dust burner. He has several million feet of logs secured, and expects to keep his mill humming until snow flies. He 900,000 feet of two-inch lock and is shipping it. Detroit—The Keystone Watch Club Co. sued the Detroit Watch Co. for $5,000 damages, claiming that M. Richter, ager of the Detroit company, had said | that the Keystone watches were not} worth the powder to blow them to hades. After a three-days’ trial, a Circuit Court j jury found a verdict of no cause of action. has sold hem- | Manistee—John Canfield has about cut out the group of timber in which his railroad has been working for the last twelve years or so at Hobart, and will take up the rails and either remove them to some other point or sell the outfit, if he can get a good offer forit. This was one of the largest groups of timber in the State at the time operations were begun on it. This will leave the drive on the south branch of less volume in the future. Manistee—James Hadden, who has been managing the White & Friant saw- mill plant since it was put in operation last summer, has been obliged to seek another climate, on account of his health, and left for California last week, to look after the interests of the firm there. Mr. Friant will probably devote more of his time to this point this year than he has done heretofore. They have been shut down for some time for want of logs, and are beginning to think that the boom company is not using them very well, as they claim that all the up-river logs were held back, and that the seuth branch logs were allowed to run in ahead, and that, as a consequence, their logs have been delayed. —_— > Getting a Job. ‘*‘Ever try to get another fellow a job?” So queried a well-known business man | Scauth Geeae te til Haat Oale | situated in center of fine fruit section, yesterday. He added: ‘‘Well, experience and no mistake. it’s a queer A young | | fellow came to me a short time ago, from the East. He was twenty-two years of | age, just fresh from college and as bright as adollar. His education hadn’t spoiled him, either. Hecould write a good busi- | ness letter, and had plenty of horse sense in his make-up. {t would seem that this young man would have no difficulty in getting a job. “Well, I man. We visited office after office. I used all my influence personally. But it was nogo. The young man couldn’t find a place anywhere. It was often laughable, too, to listen to the excuses people would make. One man said ‘he was too young,’ another that ‘he was too old,’ while still another said that he was ‘both too old and too young,’ meaning that a young fellow without a business training was practi- cally useless in the commercial world. ‘*You ask, then, how a young man is to getajob. Let him take what comes along, no matter if it is in his particular line or not. The experience won’t hurt him any. A man whois bound to suec- ceed cannot be kept down by any one ex- cept himself. I fully believe that if you should take a live, healthy American boy, put him on aship bound for Australia, sew him up in a bag, weight it with lead and drop him in the ocean 2,000 miles from land—lI fully believe, sir, that if he has the right stuff in him, he will prove equal to the occasion, will bob up serenely and stand smiling to greet you on the dock as the ship rolls in. That’s my confidence in a thorough-going American youth. A man’s worst enemy is himself; | spent two days with the young | no, no, you cannot keep a live man down.”’ — mee Good Advice. From the Scientific American. Don’t sign, says acontemporary. But | such a caution as this session of his faculties. Yet it is aston- ishing how many people there are, in- cluding good business men, who attach their signatures to papers or documents whose contents might have a serious bearing upon themselves or their affairs, | with searcely a glance at their contents. | Carelessness in failing to acquaint them- selves with the contents of a paper be- | fore signing it has worked incalculable man- | | harm to thousands of well | people. intentioned Then read all papers carefully | before you sign them, particularly those |that express or imply anything in the | nature of a contract or legal obligation. ———__- > -« > Fourth of July goods of all kinds. Putnam Canby Co. seems hardly | necessary to any person in the full pos- FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. POCO COCO OOOO OT TOT Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES, OR SALE—WELL SELECTED DRUG STOCK IN town of 3,000, having three railroads; stock and fixtures inventory about $3,500; patronage exceeds 31,000 a month; rent, only $35 per month; agent U.S. Express, which pays $500 per year; caundcatanes solicited. No. 47, care Michigan Tradesman. OR SALE—STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES AND GRO ceries, with store fixtures; inventory about $1,600; will take first cash offer of $950 before June 15; good store to rent in best location in the county; no banter ing; don’t write unless you mean business. oe Bros., Wholesale Grocers, Flint, \ ANTED—I WANT A ata TO TAKE wits interest in a hardware business in one of the liveliest towns in Northern Michigan, or will sell out entirely; no competition. Geo. W. Wood, Lake brag Mich. OR SALE—SAW MILL PROPERTY, WITH xGEE: lent water power, and other buildings, at Reed City. For particulars, address J. A. Scollay, Reed _ Mich. OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS; TER tory $3,000; no safe or fountain; sales last year $7,700; terms, cash or nearly ull cash; excellent op- portunity for live man; will bear the "closest inspec- tion. Address W, care Michigan Tradesman. 37 OR SALE—AT A BARGAIN, ON ACCOUNT OF THE death of the proprietor, — drug stock; will invoice about $1,000; must be sold at once. Call on or address Box 217, Whitehall, Mich. 36 7}OR SALE—A WELL-ESTABLISHED DRUG BUSI- ness, in one of the best locations in the city; stock small and would sell cheap for cash. For particulars and terms, address L, care Michigan Tradesman. 38 ss SALE—OLD-ESTABLISHED BAKERY AND ICE eream business, having profitable trade. oe ™. care Michigan Tradesman. YO EXCHANGE—80 ACRE FARM, HALF CLEARED: good buildings and location for drugs or general merchandise. Address George, care Michigan Trades- man. 35 N EAT MARKET FOR SALE—DOING GOOD BUSI- i¥i ness; toa practical mana good chance. W. H. ass ll =. V ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A must be cheap. = general or grocery stock; dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. OR SALE—STORE, DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES, including postoffice fixtures, for sale on easy drug store in town, Address Dr. 4 8. J. Koon, Lisbon, Mich. HELP WANTED. | ANTED —SALESMAN EXPERIENCED IN SOAP trade, able to show record. Address B. A. Lynde & Son Company, Warren, Pa. = \ ANTED — A SWEDISH PHARMACIST: MUST speak good English. Address, enclosing re -- ences, F. D. Paquette, Ludington, Mich. W 4ANTED_A GOOD TINNER, GIVE exPERIENY E and references. Address A. W. Gammer & Co., Box 10, Coloma, Mich. 25 SITUATIONS WANTED. TUATION WANTED — AS ASSISTANT OR DIS- penser by young man of six years’ experience in the drug business in Ontario. Albert A. Patterson, 356 Broadway, Grand Rapids. 43 MISCELLANEOUS. f]\0 AGENTS WISHING AN ELEGANT SIDE LINE, which will more than pay their running expenses, we will on receipt of $1.25 send the outfit. Gringhuis® Itemized Ledger Co., No. 28 Canal St., Rooms 15 and 16, Telephone 388, Grand Rapids, Mich. 45 OR SALE—ONE MILLION FEET OF HEMLOCK bill stuff in lots of ten thousand feet or more. For prices write Walter N. Kelley, Traverse City, Mich. 33 S! A 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 its effectiveness. Send for sample order, which will be sent prepaid on receipt of $1. The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. GQ AMPLES ( OF TWO KINDS OF COUPONS FOR RE- tailers will be sent free to any dealer who will write for them to the Sutliff Coupon Pass Book _ : Albany, N. Y. How,to Keep a Store. By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages written from the experience and observation of an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi ness, Location, Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver- tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, etc. Of great interest to every one in trade. $1.50. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes 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 cheaper bicycles, also a splen did assortment of Misses’ Tricycles, Children’s Velocipedes and small Safety Bicy cles. E. G. Studley, 4 Monroe St., Call and see them or send for iarge, illustrated cata GRAND RAPIDS } logue. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. B, Hoffman has moved his boot and shoe stock here from Lowell. J. Hertstein has opened a grocery store at 183 Plainfield avenue. I M. Clark & Son furnished the stock. alae ai | Wallace Watson has opened a grocery store at Parmelee. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock. Mrs. S. Knapp has opened a dry goods at North Ionia | P. Steketee & Sons furnished the and notion store 576 street. stock. Smith & Giffin, dealers in musical in- struments at 283 and 285 South Division street, have dissolved, J. G. Smith suc- eeeding. Miss Annie Wixson has opened a dry goods and notion store at the corner of East Bridge and Union streets. The stock was furnished by P. Steketee & Sons. The remnants of the M. J. Ulrich gro- cery and crockery stock have been ab- sorbed by the three principal creditors— I. M. Clark & Son, H.Leonard & Sons and the Telfer Spice Co. The newly-organized Gunn Folding Bed Co. is considering the plan of erect- ing a large factory building near the Black Hills, in the vicinity the McCord & Bradfield Furniture Co. of Jobn Heinzelman, who sold his meat market at 568 South Division street about six months ago to Geo. W. Tubbs, has repurchased the business and will take possession of the same on the 16th. a Gripsack Brigade. A. F. Peake, the elephantine saleratus - fiend, was in town one day last week. E. K. Bennett, traveling representative for C. F. Happle & Co., of Chicago, was in town Saturday. C. M. Shaw, formerly engaged in the ' drug business at Sparta, is now on the road for Spalding & Co. J. O. Travis, who carries the card of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., of Chicago, was in the city Saturday. The late John H. Melntyre left $5,500 in life insurance to his widow—$2,500 in the M. C. T. A. and $3,000 in the Royal Arcanum. Greg. Luce is arranging to leave for Mississippi about September 1, father and himself having purchased the tract of timber formerly owned by the late Wm. B. Soloman. The M. C. T. A. now has an accumula- tion on deposit of $25,265. Eight cents per day will pay for a membership in the organization, securing $2,500 for the ben- eficiaries of a member on his decease. H. J. Maynard, Michigan represent- ative for the Dingman Soap Co., of Buf- falo, is spending a month or six weeks among the trade of Western Michigan. Mr. Maynard has talked soap for the Dingman people for the past five years. Secretary Seymour will shortly issue a call for a meeting of the traveling men of the city, to be held at Elks’ Hall on Saturday evening, June 28, for the pur- pose of making arrangements for the annual picnic and electing officers for the ensuing year. Sixty traveling men attended the funeral of the late John MelIntyre last Monday afternoon. Had the funeral been held on Sunday, it would have been difficult to have secured vehicles enough his | souled drummer, Johnny Melntyre. to convey the members of the fraternity to the obsequies. Several jobbers and many house men also attended the} funeral. Shelby Herald: ‘‘Many of our readers | will be surprised and pained to learn of | the sudden death of that jolly, whole- | Last | week he was if our midst as strong, | healthy and as full of life as when we} first knew him, He | was one of the traveling fifteen years ago. best known jsalesmen in Michigan, and counted his friends by the hundreds, and the Herald | unites with the numbers in expressions | of sympathy to his bereaved family.’’ — — <-> Purely Personal. | Ed. M. Smith, the Cedar Springs gro- | cer, was in town Monday. L. E. Paige, the Sparta druggist, was in town one day last week. Dr. E. P. Thomas, the Seottville drug- gist, was in town last Saturday. J. W. Pollard, general dealer at Ash- land Center, was in town one day last week. W. H. Beach, the Holland feed and produce dealer, was in town one day last week. W. P. Granger has traded his steed for a Kentucky saddle horse and is as vain as a peacock over his new acquisition. Cc. A. Neweomb, of the dry goods firm of Newcomb, Endicott & Co., of Detroit, was in town a couple of days last week. Wm. H. Calkins will conduct brokerage business of J. H. Thaw during the latter’s absence at Shady Side, Macatawa Park, this summer. J. ©. Seott, the Lowell hardware dealer, now oceupies his new residence on West Bridge street hill, Grand Rapids, spending Sundays there with his family. Daniel Stern, the enterprising pro- prietor of the American Artisan, of Chicago, was in town last Saturday. Mr. Stern is always a welcome visitor at this market. Alfred Crawford, at one time engaged in the grocery business here under the style of Crawford Bros., is now Treas- urer of the New Mexico Coal Co., at Los Angeles, Cal. Robert Armstrong, the Reed City clothier, spent several days in the city last week. Most of his time was devoted to a number of lame ducks who formerly resided at Reed City. A. L. Haight, formerly engaged in the drug business at Woodland, but for the past year with the West Side Pharmacy, at Manistique, has taken the management of a drug store on Cheneaux Island. Mrs. W. F. Blake and daughters have gone to Maine, where they will spend the summer with relatives. They will be joined the latter part of July by the head of the family, who will spend a month among the scenes of his child- hood. >. —-—_—_—— \ Card of Thanks. : The family of the late John H. McIn- tyre request THe TRADESMAN to thank the traveling men for the extreme kind- ness and sympathy extended to them in the hour of their bereavement. 2 <> Good Words Unsolicited. Lever & Lever, druggists, Newaygo: ‘We can’t do without THz TRADESMAN.”’ Weaver & Watkins, grocers, Milford: ‘‘We think Tue TRADESMAN is as good as any trade paper published.” A. Anderson & Son, general dealers, Kewadin: “We cannot get along without your paper. We think a great deal of it.”” — i Lemons—Good time to buy. PurnamM Canby Co. the | ee ee 81 SOUTH DIVISION ST., We are iow ready lu make cuntracts lui Lie stdoun vi GRAND LOVU. Correspondence solicited. RAPIDS. worked in WARRANTED NOT TO These goods all | SILK and SHRINK. are Sent post paid for $2.25 | per dozen. Send for our catalogue and note our» specially low priee on Shoe Dressings. HIRTH & KRAUSE, : Infants’ Genuine Chamois Moccasins. Sy 118 Ganal St, Grand Rapids, Mich. Fishing Tackle, Base Ballsand Supplies, Croquet, Hammocks, Lawn Tennis, Etc. State Agents for A. J. Reoch & Co.’s Sporting Goods. Send for Calaiogue. EATON, LYON & C0., 20 & 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids We respectfully call your attentino to the fact that we carry the most seeds in complete stock of Western Michigan. Send for our wholesale price list and catalogue before buying Clover, Timothh, Red Top, Ete,, Ete, ONION SKTS, In fact, everything in our line at lowest market values. Brown's Seed 510 SS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. DO YOU NEED AN Kngraving of Your Store In advertising your business ? If so, The Tradesman Company is glad tosend samples and quote prices. them 48-50 Long St., Raton, kyon & Go. Magic Coffee Roaster. The Best in the World. Having on hand a large stock of No. 1 Roasters—eapacity 35 at very Special Discount. ROBT. S. WEST, Ibs. —l prices. sell for will low Write CLEVELAND, OHTO, proval | Hstablished 178 ». | “LA BELLE CHOCOLATIERE.” W. BAKER & CO.’S ReGisTerep TraprE-MARE. 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- for hundred years, and are the acknowledged standard ot purity and excellence. more than one ‘Dry Goods. The Drummer Caused Trouble. The trouble that has been caused by | people carrying letters about in their | pockets and forgetting to mail them has no limit. It has formed the subject for untold novels, and has been the cause of many humorous as well as serious in- cidents. A traveling man tells of a case where he neglected to mail a letter and of the result. He was in a eertain Illinois town, in the office of some manufactur- ing establishment, and had just finished his business with the proprietor and was leaving when he was asked to mail a let- | ter on the train he was about to take. | The letter was directed to another man- ufactory, and contained an order for some machinery needed in a hurry. The traveling man had ona light fall over- coat, and into the pocket of this he put the letter. Catching his train, he be- came absorbed in a paper or with some of the boys and forgot all about the let- ter entrusted to his care. It was Satur- day, and the traveler was on his home run. It being mild weather, he did not put his coat on when he reached the city, but carried it on his arm all the way home. The next day it was raw and cold, and the regular fall set in, followed closely by winter, so the drummer did not need his light coat again, and it was hung away at home in a closet to await the coming of spring. was that year a trial to everyone, cold weather did not let up until about | the 1st of June, when it suddenly came off hot and stayed so all through summer. Fall again came around and the travel- | ing man once more pulled out his light coat. His first move shove his hands down inthe pockets, and lo! up came the letter he had put there nearly a year before, unsoiled, uncrum- pled, but in good directed and stamped. im- A sudden pulse seized him, and, when down town, | he dropped the letter in a box. The re- sult of that act was a suit between two big concerns, the amount at issue being about $1,000. The letter was received in due time after mailing, and by some oversight the date was not noticed. goods were such as the concern ordering might need at any time, and they were made ready and shipped. The firm to whom they were sent naturally ‘kicked,’ and the trouble was not fully explained until the case got into the courts. it was settled cuts no figure, but the neg- lect of the traveling man to mail the let- | ter made no end of trouble. > —-_ The Dry Goods Market. The price of raw cotton, which was 10 cents on January 1, is now quoted at 12 eents. in the face of the largest crop whieh has ever been raised. On the other hand, the price of the manufac- tured article has barely held its own, and | in some instances is lower with cotton at | 12 cents than it at 10 cents. crop was never so large nor the quality so good, but the for manufac- } tured goods has been beyond all prece- dent. The talk on printed cloths at Fall River is stronger, and there pect that the market There has silks, dress goods especially. was demand will soon again. been a good and novelty Hosiery bas also for summer ribbon received a fair recognition, particularly in fast blacks. but firm and are in good demand and sat- isfactory shape. Mohairs are the success and both the the domestic products are very firm, of the season, good demand. ——_ ~> + > He Tried to Fill Her Place. ‘“‘“My wife is a great and noble woman, of wonderful domestic endowments.”’ “Why this sudden advance in estimate of her ?’’ “She left me to take care of the dren a couple of hours yesterday.”’ This poetic season | for the | naturally was to} mailing condition, all | The | How | The | be up| Linen goods rule quiet foreign and | with your | chil- | (88 Monroe and 10, 12, 14,16 & 18 Fountain Sts, Prices Current. 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Cocheco fancy...... 6 */ Martha Washington “ madders... 6 | Turkey red %..... ™M Eddystone fancy... 6 |Martha Washington | Hamilton fancy. ... 6%| Turkey red.. mel ' staple... 5%/|Riverpoint rebes.... 5 Manchester fancy. 6 |W indsor fancy...... 6% C new era. 6%) " gold ticket Merrimack D fancy. 6% — ae... 0 TIC KINGS Seok ACA... Te A A... 12% ee 7% Pemberton AAA....1% = Ds ee -.10% . Awning.. 1 ifwitt River......._. T% | Pareer...... +. © Geel Biver....._..__Ees¢ Poet Piiee.......... 1 waeren...... ae COTTON DRILL. | Atienta, D..... . 6% Stark eee 7% SL — ........ + Cliften, K ae 8 10 2} THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. “ec Normandie. . 2 f re Renfrew Dress. T1419 Vestbrook. § Toil du Nord.. ” j0@10%! ae 10 Amoskeag caee eee 6%} York..... . 6% | APC es. 10%) Sse sa 6% Posies .........-. Bhi ermeer oe ee 5 Bains... ........... GX Compermnd.... -... 5 Warwick.... EE eee 4% CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... 18%|Peerless colored...21 GRAIN BAGS. Assoskeag........- 17 [Valley City.........- 16% earmony......--..- 1644 a oe eee om oo 1614 ae... 20 |Pacific. .14 Amerteen..... ...... 17 | THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's....... ....88 Coats’, J. & P. meneealrs..., ...... 88 Holyoke... ..... ITTING COTTON White. ¢ Colored. | White. Colored. 38 3 2 i &. é 38 |No. 14.. 42 - Bee = 16.8 43 -_ ».. 2 -— - ..... 44 . 2... | 2... 45 CAMBRICS, Oe 4x (Waeshington......... 4% White Ster...... ed Cies........... 2 Rid Giove..... ..... 4%\Lockwood.... ...... 434 Newmarket .. 43;|Wood’s. _ = Rewards. ........-.. oa) iBrunswick . . 4% | RED aw | PiVewiON nw... fees a 22% | Creedmore........--27% iF Me ae 2% ‘Talbot XX... . - 30 Zar, £oe....... Nemeions ....-....-- 27%4|Bue keye ee eee 32% MIXED eo Red & Blue, ee .© iGrey SR W........- 17% Union R.. 2244) W een a 18% Windsor... -. "18% DE r.. _-+-- 6 0z Western........ 2 lushing aes 23% Union &......-. .22%%| Mamitoba.... ......- 233 DOMET FLANNEL. Nameless . 8 @ 9%) wa .. + oe ec a 12% CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black.|/Slate. Brown. Black. 9% 9% 914/13 3 13 1044 10% 10% 15 15 15 114% 11% 1144/17 17 17 | 12% 12% 1244|20 20 20 | DUCKS. Severen, po . 9%| West Point, 8 oz....10% Mayland, 80z....... 10% [ 10 0z....12% uaumeed. 9 7% oz.. 944/Raven, 100z.........13% Crepnwood,8en....014istexrk “ .........15 “WADDINGS. | White, doz...... -. 25 |Per bale, 40 doz... 87 00 Colored, dos.......-20 SILESIAS. | Slater, Iron Cross... 8 {Pawtucket 10% | ons Red Cross....9 |Sundie........ 2 . Beet .......+- 104%| Bedford... 10% a. Best AA.....12%i Valley City. .-10% j CORSETS. | Coraline............89 50) Wonderful . . 4 | Schilling’s. . 9 00 Brighton.. . 4% SEWING SILK, Corticelli, doz....... 85 (Corticelli knitting, twist, doz..42%| per %oz ball...... 30 50 yd, doz. 4244) HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS. | No 1 BI’k & Ww hite..10 {No 4 Bl’k & White..15 20 Th mi”: US . ' 3 . 12 |“ 10 C “ae | PINS. | No 2—20,M C.......50 [No 4—15, F 3%......40 | * 2-16,5C........4 | COTTON TAPE | No 2 White & Bl’k..12 No 8W hite & BI’k..20 | 4 ' 15 10 . B | “ec .18 “ 42 “ 26 | SAFETY PINS. Pe ee 28 |No3 Bee bees --00 | NEEDLES—PER M. ee 1 SO\Steamboat.... ...... 40 (rowers &....... .-- i @oom Byed...,...... 1530 Marshalres.......... 100 | TABLE OIL CLOTH. | 3 26)/5—4....195 6—4...2 %} 54....225 64. a ' ..3 10| P. STEKETEE is a pros- | demand | Ury Goods & SONS, Notions, WHOLESALE and New Line of Summer Flannel Shirts Pants, Underwear, all grades. Agents for Georgia and Valley City Bags. from 3.50 per doz. up. Overalls, Jackets and Jumpers in all grades. all weights in White, Gray and Mixed and 25 cases of Cotton Hose, Wadding, Twines, Batts. DE MINS. Amoskeag.. . eeioanrey........ ee 90z.....14%|Lancaster........... 12% | . brown .13 |Lawrence, 90Z...... 1354 | Andover..... a 11%) " No. 220... | Everett, blue.. . 2 | Kg No. 250. Ms . En ' No. 230. ...10% SATINES. Simpson ee S09 (imperial........ ...- 10% ea oe 18 IBlack.......... 8@ 9% - Ee 16 ea. 10% Coechco .10% GINGHAMS Gilenerven.... .....- et Lancaster, staple... 6% Lencashire........-. . fancies ; wlA WNINGS AN TENTS. ee H | wage, Horse and Wagon Covers, Seat Shades, Large Umbrellas, Oiled Clothing, Wide Cotton Ducks, ete. Send for Miustrated Catalogue. | CHAS. COrm. ff Peart Telephone 106. Voigt, Harpolsheimer & Co, | [mporters and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy Street. a. Dry Goods Manufacturers of ‘Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Rts, Complete Spring Stock now ready for inspection. Chicago and Detroit prices guaranteed. Ottawa St., 48, 50 and 52 |GRAND RAPIDS, Urniture sail Wesel MICH. Nelson, Matter | & Co's oo. Y Le: New, Cheap, Medium AND Expensive. Large Variety and Prices Low. heel Headed Business Men and put their on a ICASH BASIS. We are the manufacturers of |Coupous in this country and solicit a trial of either our ‘“Tradesman’’ ‘Superior’ brands. Note quotations in | Grocery Price Current. | Use Coupons 3usiness largest or THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, HARDWARE. Oil Stoves Gaining in the West. From the Metal Worker. Up to acomparatively recent period | the vapor stove appeared to be making | The manufacturers | the most headway. were constantly making improvements and adding conveniences which appealed most strongly to those in search of goods | Oil stoves gained in| of this character. trade at the same time, but not with the same vigor. Many merchants who dealt in vapor stoves kept no oil stoves in stock, as they appeared to believe that there would be no demand for them. Latterly, however, taken place in this respect. are being more freely sold and dealers | are carrying them to meet the views of | their customers. The improvement in this line is ascribed to the general effort made by oil stove manufacturers to in- crease the cooking surfaces of their stoves and ranges. They have made; larger tops and have arranged divided flues so as to conduct heat to more than | one cooking hole fromalamp. The in-| creased capacity thus secured has proved | to be a very great benefit to the oil stove trade. In addition to this, various im- provements have been made in stove con- | struction, in burners and in other re- spects, which have put the oil stove of | to-day far in advance of its prototype of | even five years back. —~ 6 <> Attached Without Adequate Grounds. About six months ago, Stevens & | Farrar, who at that time conducted a| hardware business at Evart, uttered a/| chattel mortgage to Wolf Bros., to secure them for money advanced, and about a | week later assigned the stock to David | Wolf, one of the members of the firm of | Wolf Bros. Fletcher, Jenks & Co., of Detroit, of $3,500, attached the ground that the mortgage was fraud- | ulent and given asa preference. This | claim was contested by the assignee, | who sued the sheriff who attached the stock and secured a verdict in the Osceola | Cireuit Court last week for $3,150. The | Court held that the grounds for attach- | ment were not sufficient, inasmuch as the attaching creditors could have filed a bill, asking that the mortgage be set aside, without prejudicing the interests of the other creditors. G. A. Wolf, of this city, conducted the case for the assignee. ——___— -¢<.___- The Shrewd Farmer. S. S. Dryden, Allegan—I’ve got a fine line of window and door screens I’d like to show you. Farmer Brown — Wouldn’t have ’em for love nor money. Mr. Dryden—But residence in your house in summer will be unendurable, for the place is situated on low land that | just swarms with mosquitoes. Farmer Brown—aAll the better, all the better. Some of our city relations are coming to visit us in the warm weather | and I want the place to be too hot to| They won’t stay more’n one | hold ’em. night. —————_—>_ -*# The Hardware Market. The late advances in steel billets have produced higher prices in wire nails and barbed wire. Whether these advances will be temporary or permanent remains to be seen. The tariff agitation is un- settling cutlery, guns and tinware of all kinds, and some manufacturers are al- ready holding for higher prices. There is no change in the glass market, but an advance will inevitably follow if the searcity supposed to be in store for the country materializes. a marked change has | Oil stoves | Plo who were creditors to the tune | stock on the | _—_ MICHIGAN TRADES) MAN. HAMMEKS, ROPES, Prices Current. Mavdole &Ce#:.....:..... ............die Sisal, % inch and larger .................... 12% Thes : ee dis, 25 | Mani ee 15% hese prices are for cash bwyers, who | Yerkes & Plumb’s..................---- dis. 40&10| 5.0) and I SQUARES. dis, ay promptly and buy i cages. | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............. | 06 Sat G | Secs 7 ye slated y in full package Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30¢c 40&10| Try and Bevels............ 60 wats AUGURS AND BITS. dis. HINGES ae. tt, Se ae 20 Mi aa ees cen ce ant ‘ ’ S ey . SHEE c ~one oa aa ao aie, Me 108. ......-..-..- dis.60&10 Tr a a fener. genie... ee Ne ee ee per doz. net, 2 50| Nos. 10 to 14..... aa ae Janinen. dnitintion 0... oe Se Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 44% 14 and 3% NOs Ee ae 3 =) ee aac ts ght « Tos : 2 a AXES. screw Hook and Bye, 4 Me “net 10 bey ateaae ele es ; a 3 20 First Quality, 8. B, Bronze.................-88 00] | c : ci -.. M6t 8% | Nos, 25 to... esse. 4 40 = - Seen eet - net 74 | Nour sheets No. 18" eo BB, Steed. 202020 14 00 | Strap amd T...-- a oe eee = Wane BARROWS dis Pomp dis. SAND PAPER. ' ' Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood " : ome Le a a 8 14 00 | Champion, anti- friction. Ee asian i Boao eonmmanetudnocian aaa -- dis, 40410 | Gar sg ak oe ec ee seep oe cutee ee net 30 00 | Ridder, wood track ............... ce aeeas 40 | Silver Lake, w hae A oe 50) | BOLTS. dis. . HOLLOW WARE o abs... ne “s 55 | Stov won none sacs ceecereecsee sees ee esse en n+ SOMEIG EE eee 60 ' White B. .. __,. | 5 Carriage ——__——_ r ae... 60 rap Be . . es s Ll “an OO 60 o Waaec........ Ss 35 Sleigh ee Ce on | Gray Gnamieled................... ..40&10} Discount, 10, BUCKETS. HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. ; i SASH WEIGHTS. | well, plain aon Stamped Tin Ware.. “new list 70&10 Bon Meee. per ton 825 lene 4 00 | Japanned Tin Ware.. oe 25 i Ul Sawe. dis. | een, 8. ce. Gane Goa wae eee list 3% &10 me ~ ee VDL | BUTTS, CAST. dis. LEVELS. dis Pe = hibit i - el Dis. X Cuts, per foot, 70 Cast Loose Pin, figured. _seesees-10& | Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s “sl « gieeaee ae: CU Wrought Narrow, bright bast t joint. a 60&10 WIRE G00D8 dis “. @ a OE ne eee. 6 | Wrought Loose Pin... i ee, ne mazhiel cut 1am ion and Electric Tooth X [Weehe fabio 60&10 | Screw Eyes...............- CT aetoaie uts, per foot.. : . 28 [Wrought maida Blind) 00000 60&10 | Hook’s 70810810 | Steel, Game... TRAPS = bo gee ee “an Gate Hooks and Eyes. . ..70&10&10 | Oneida ¢ i Wewhonadle _—- eee 0&1 KNoBS—New List. dis. | Oneida Community, Hawiey & Norton’s 70 1€ eg A a nan 70&10 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .... 55 | Mouse, choker 18¢ per d " Boo Soeeeee......-......... 70 | Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings Loa 55! Mouse, delusion. 1. so0ce oe BLOCKS. nom. ueromaen, plated trimmings ce 55 ’ WIRE. [ ' ar | Ordi ' " 7." oor, porcelvin, trimmings ...... . : Sh Eright Market. 0000000) 00) |. 35 Ordinary Tackle, oo ete d ce 40 | Drawer and Shutter, pore ae 70 aed ee a ae a OCKS—DOOR. dis. C pred Market........ a LR ei dis, 50402 | Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list .. . 55 a. 02 ese eer gag & Co.'s. Loe 55| Coppered Spring Steel... Ce Ba) eee... he 55 . » ae (i | Cast Steel.......... 6... cece ee ese eee ner | 5 aco. ae steiner ae F CAPS, a ties MATTOCKS, sie eae HORSE Nall, eae [ey Oe ee i... rm 65 ZO YO... . ee reer reer ee eese en cerns -OU, GIs, ie... eee ea 025 Hick’s C. F.. ” oo | Hunt Bye. .........-.-------+-+ $15.00, dis. 60| Putn cine: On —— ep ee 35 | Hunt’s..........------ sees eee $18.50, dis. 20&10. eleieaeaien dis. sroh10 | eet et. ' 60 AULS. dis. WRENCHES. dis. Gianna. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, et aed. ae 50| Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled............. 30 : Ss 8. | Coe’s Genuine.... 50 Pee Oe i 50 Coffee, oe Co.’s 40 | Coo’a Patent Acricultural, wre gs ow seeetes vee | ent Agricult eee dis. 25 P.S.& W. Mfg. Co.'s Malleables |) 40| Coe’s Patent, SS w&l0 CHISELS. dis. au tite erry & Clr k’s..... “ = ead MISCELLANEOUS, _ 7) ial Z ie ot re Cages 5 | Soeket fons ae cia elect de eae ald cial se cal — a eels an | Passa, = esr a 50) ae 70&10 | Stebbin’s Pattern. Lis os. ONO | Serta ewe Mint LU TT 5) | Socket ee 7oai0 | Stebbin’s Genuine.. Peete eel. ORG Cantera, Bed and Plate... 00.00. |. | seaes a ie eae Enterprise, self- measuring... . ! 2/ D ors, Ame oT a | Butchers’ Tanged Firmer.................-. 40 ILS | eae be merican. . COMBS. dis. Steel nails, base. ee 2 00} ee and all steel goods os (Chere, Eawremedia 0000 4 | Wire nails, base...... .... ..-...--. ILI 50] ME EOE EE EE 25 Advance over base: Steel, Ww ire. oe " eee . Base Bese) Pie farge....... UT 26 miermae NE TH eae 10 basi Le ea Sees | ae | White Crayons, per gross.......... ee gg 20 aCe | COPPER. = Eee — 10 20 Duty: Sheet, 24%c ” eat Planished, i 02 cut to size...... per pound 28 7 he ON a NE nie anny = = 680 pound casks..... eee ae ek Vee ee aren = = Per pound.. a, co : 7 | Cold Rolled, are a a 26 on 8 ae SOLDER, pI ME, OE nen oes 26 - | 2o2 statetttssseteeesceeseseseeaeeens 16 Ee 4 27 a ar Extra wi iping . Pa . 13% 40 65 The prices of the ‘many ‘other qualities of nt eer DRILLS. dis. ; ee aE = ; = solder in _ market indicated by private brands | Morse’s Bit Stoc Leta ec een ca BO | F- - 2 - wn nen wn nn nn wow sone sew en sa cee ue 4 50! vary according to compositi | Taper and straight an BO | Be --- ---- -- =~ ~~ nnn we ne enw ow ww we 1 50 2 00 ' a | Morse’s Taper Shank.................----. oo Fine Boece cee cece cette eeee eee eee es 1 50 2 00| Cookson............ ee per pound 16 DRIPPING PANS Case 10... ss esee ee ceee as cees weet erences 60 : = Havetig.... 0... 13 | ' ee ts] ( i : | Small sizes, ser pound .. eee ov - cas ce ea ee 90 t Sj texi4 IC, C nage auLTE onaDE. 8 6 60 Large sizes, per pound................ -...-. 6% Finish 7 Be ee eee cee areca eae 85 1 00} 14x20 IC, eee. 6 60 | ELBOWS. ED 2 cape ene Bie = fe Waa ys,|| cD ae 8 35 Con 4 pees Gime CBee lee 5 ee 8 35 ee dis. 2010810 Clinch fe ee 1 a = Each additional X on this grade, 81. %. ee ee ee ee swish CU EXPANSIVE BITS. te ee aes 250} 14x20IC, Ey ; = Clark’s, small, #18; large, 826...........0.++. 30 PLANES. dis, |l0xi4ix, © ae Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 824 3, 830 ee 25 oe 8, fANCY ....---. eee ee eee eee = 14x20 1X, 7 50 Me ee 50) Each additional X on this grade “< FILES New List. os ——— Tool g 0.’s, fancy.. i ae ROOFING phi on eG Bowen, frat quiaitey. @50 | 14x20 IC, Worcester ... New American..........--0.--eeee cere ners 6010 | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... &10| 14x20 1X, ° a : $ a ee ee — 7 nas PANS. ia 20x28 IC, se 6 12 50 ee ry, J See ee cae . dis.60—10 | 14x20 IC, Allaway 4 P Heller’s Horse Rasp8............--++--seeee- 50 | Common, polished... De aac dis. 70 | 14x20 1X, TT _ 6 7 Se ee Iron and Tinned eR aa oases x’ “ “ “ io = 16 . 20; 22 — 24; 2% “— 26; _ = Copper Rivets and Burs.. : aD 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. — <4 £, 60 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ioe iy... 813 Discount, 6 pein ais, a = = 8 — —, Moa Sitaer 16 M)i téust Ee... 11. ae se ° “B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20) 14x56 [X, for No. o~ an Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... Broken packs 4c per pound extra. 14x60 TK. “ a i pound 9% | | | | 10 & 12 MONKOK pT. and 33, 35, 37, 39 & 41 LOUIS 5T., GRAND FOSTER, wee vreaANS & CO, KXDIG88 Wagons. Send for Circular. RAPIDS, MICH, The] Michigan Tradesman : Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. 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. Publieation Office, 100 Louis St. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1890. | BUTTER IN A BAD WAY. Under the head of ‘*‘Ten Cent Butter; its Cause and Cure,”’ at some length at the recent State dairy convention at Allegan, Hon. E. N. Bates, the Moline butter and cheese maker, re- marked : | lg | asked that suitable persons for | Allegan, in February. No answer made to this suggestion, but a few weeks ago the management decided to exhibit a more representative was one 'tendent and judge of the exhibit be | undoubtedly which was discussed | The point that wants to be emphasized | is the thing that we are coming to—the butter that will be sold around in this country during the next year. It will be marketed with more difficulty than it was last year. The ladies who are troubling with the manufacturing of this butter will not get as good returns next summer for their trouble, on account of the disastrous state of the market at this time. Idonet know whether they will get anything for it or not. In our place, a groceryman has refused to buy any more butter. ‘‘We’ll not buy another pound,”’ he said. ‘‘We do not want any more of it.’”’ What is the use of our |the season which requires the largest | amount. The jobbers had become So | getting on our dignity and saying we can | manufacture better butter than Mr. B. ? Why not get together and say, club together and let it go to the c6n- sumer in proper shape?’ and then our butter will not be put in somebody’s cellar to be foisted on the market from there, which is disastrous to everybody who takes hold of it. The question is, “We 1] | ‘all retail dealers buying goods of the /ous ground. | the game worth the powder, >| dietments | United States | who spoke or what are we going to do about it? I say let the creamery men have your cream. if you ean get eight cents or ten cents, do so: if you can get fifteen, take it; let him have the cream at any price, and it will be but a little while before the creamery man, of necessity, will have the markets under his fingers, will all get prices that will be satisfac- tory to you. the market at the present time, the words of Mr. Bates worthy of While the of creamery In view of the condition of are price butter is unusually low—averaging about 15 cents | in the New York market during the past farm dairy butter far below the actual cost of production. The morai to be drawn from the situa- Mr. the creamery. is week—the price of tion is, as sates tersely ex- very pressed it, farmer should the He his cream than he can get more now for can for his dair: but- so that you | butter An Indiana merchant recently en- 'trusted the following message to the Western Union Telegraph Co.: ‘My | reproduction. | | wife is very ill; recommended. Asa result of this cor- | respondence, Samuel J. Wilson, of Flint, |has been selected to act as superintend- | jent and Hon. E. | judge. of Moline, as had the requisite amount of experience and will make the dairy the N. Bates. Both gentlemen have show best exhibit of the kind ever seen in the | State. THE TRADESMAN trusts that the pro- ducers of dairy products in this State | will rally to the support of Superintend- ent Wilson, to the end that the dairy ex- | hibit of 1890 may be a matter of pride to every loyal Michigander. The sugar refiners apparently have the country just where they want it—prac- tically bare of sugar at the beginning of disgusted with the frequent variations in price that they had ceased to believe in the ability of the trust to force prices out of sight, but it now appears that the | | refiners were only playing with their customers, for the purpose of throwing them off the track. ——————$— LN The members of the Patrons of Indus- try lodges which have voted to boycott Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. and Moran, Fitzsimons & Co., are treading on danger- If either house considered eriminal in- from the one could be secured Court against every voted in favor of the boy- eott. On the ground that it does not pay to hunt mosquitoes with cannon, how- ever, no notice will probably be taken of the matter. not expected to live. The cost of sending was paid, and cost of delivery guaranteed. The | pany failed to deliver it for twenty-five days, and the Supreme Court of Indiana | |has just affirmed the verdict of a lower ieourt, giving the merehant a judgment | patronize | ter, and the price of creamery butter will improve from this time while farm butter on, it will in By continuing to make farm but- he glutsa market back ward; not improve, event. ter of ordinary quality, already full to overtiowing and contrib- the every department of the butter utes his quota to demoralization IN GOOD HANDS. dairy exhibit at the was a dismal The hibition last year failure, neither a credit to the Exposition the interest it purported to repre- With a view to being nor sent. securing an of | industry. | autumn. will either remain stationary or go | any | Detroit Ex- | im- | provement in both the amount and qual- | ity of the exhibit for, the present year, the Secretary of the Michigan Dairy- men’s Association addressed a letter to the manager of the Exposition, ing that the matter order of business at the annual gather- ing of dairymen, which was held at be made a special | benefit from suggest- | against the company for $1,250. The Hoosier courts evidently do business on | the principle that the people have some | rights which even the octopus is bound to respect. unfortunate thing for the hitch between directors of the Kent County Society and the West Michigan Fair Association the the The exhibitions given the district fairs and the crowds which have been attracted to the city by reason of the fair have left thousands of dollars behind in the shape of trade for the mer- It will be an Grand Rapids if prives city of a fair of years have been above average chants. Unless an understanding is| shortly reached, it will be in order for the business men who derive so much the exhibitions to and attempt to reconcile the differences. _—_—— step i The certainty that this Congress in-| | tends to pass a law for the restor ation of | our merchant marine has caused quite al The #457, 459, 461, 463 W. revival of ship building in Maine. make the | and | superin- | the | com- | telegraphic | the | de- | coming late | of | | as] yards are busier than for many years |past. More and larger ships are build- ing, and fresh orders are pouring in: 60 will that iron is going to displace wood entirely on the ocean. For great steamships and men-of-war it i must do so; but wood has many advan- tages for tonnage, especially in the elasticity which enables 'it to stand shocks and strains to which The Norw. gian marine | | is almost it has | done fairly well under less favor- able conditions than we expect to furnish | our own vessels by the new not do to assume vessels of smaller iron suceumbs. entirely of wood, and much legislation. Report on the Room at St. Hospital. Seymour furnishes THE TRADESMAN the following report on the furnishing of the room at St. Mark’s Hos- pital: Mark’s Secretary RECEIPTS. From ball game...... . 813.28 a : From £0 cent contributions. ae . $1.50 | | | ee . $94.78 DISBURSEMENTS. Melson, Matter 2 Co ................... . $55.06 | Spring & Company ....... ..--.---- . ore m tog & Soee6 ............. .... 7.%5 David Forbes .. ... 12 ee .. 894.78 The traveling men of the ¢ ity now have handsomely furnished rooms at the Union 3enevolent Association Home and St. Mark’s Hospital. Either room disposal of sick travelers, | already occupied. Is when not —_—_»>->_—— She Had Never Seen a Telephone. Mr. Barrett kept a general store at | Mount Morris. ‘“An’ what de yez think Barrutt?”? asked an Irish neighbor the other day. “Oi think Mishter Barrutt ez a foine | man,’? responded the one addressed. “Will, thin, Oi don’t,’? continued the first speaker. ‘‘Do yez belave it, Missus Maginnus, Oi wentinto Mishter Barrutt’s | sthore yisterday marnin’ wid de intinshun lof buyin’ some mackerel. Mishter Bar- rutt stud wid his face to a hole in the wall, an’ jist as I entered, he said: ‘Hello! hello!” Oi said, ‘Hello! hello? myself. Mishter Barrutt thin repeated his remark, ‘Hello! hello! and Oi said, ‘Hello! hello! agin. Mishter Barrutt then acted mad loike, an’, widout turnin’ of Mishter woman of a at the| iis face to me, said: ‘Hello, Lacky- | wanna dapow.’ Oi was that insulted that Oi lift the sthore widout the mack- erel.’’ i omen |The McIntyre Indemnity Ordered Paid. | Gaining Ground. DETROIT, | Editor Michigan Tradesman: At the regular June meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association, held June 7, proofs of the death of the late John H Meltntyre, of Grand Rapids, | were presented and approved and the Secretary y the beneficiary, Mrs. Me June 7, 1890. | was authorized to _ Intyre, the sum of # | There bs & very }membership, there having been eleven new members added within the past month. The commercial travelers of the State are more fully realizing the benefits to be derived from a mem bership in the Axssociation—from its fraternal and commercial, as well as beneficiary features. Yours truly, M. J. MATTHEWS, Sec’y. satisfactory growth in the >. > | A Young Financier. | ‘Say, mamma, how much am I worth?’ “You are worth a million to me, my son.”’ “Say, mamma, couldn’t you advance me twenty-five cents ?”’ LAR- MUSKEGON CRACKER MANUFACTURERS OF SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL WESTERN AVENUE, The New, Simple Way for Bookkeeping. Have you Gringhuis’ Itemized Ledger ? if not. send at onee for sample sheet and time is money, as the itself what the Bros. & Stedman, Kikhart, Ind., price list, for above book will more than pay for inside of two months. bookkeeper of Keen hardware dealers at See says of the ledger: Genrs—I purchased one of your 240-page item ized ledgers over a month ago and I cannot speak too highly of it. We have found it very eonvenient in making settlements, and it is so simple that any of the clerks can understand it, as well as the person who keeps the books. Yours resp., H. J. Bostwick. We have hundreds of other testimonials from persons who highly recommend the ledger. Office at 28 Canal street, Grand Rapids, Rooms 15 and 16. Telephone 383. HARTMAN’S HALL, June 12 and 138, 1890. GILMORE, His Famous Band, Distinguished Vocalists, MISS IDA KLEIN, Soprano, And with a Quartette of MME. VON DAENHOEP, Contralto, HENRI KALKE, Tenor EDWARD 0’ MAHONEY, Basso. The Grand Rapids Oratorio Society And Its Festival Chorus of 275 Voices; Children’s Chorus of 500. alsoa A ‘treat Musical Festival! Four Grand Concerts! Thursday Afternoon, June 12, at 2:30 o'clock, Thursday Evening, June 12, at 8 o’clock. Friday Afternoon, June 13, at 2:50 o'clock. Friday Evening, June 13, at 8 o'clock. PRICES OF ADMISSION: EVENINGS: First three rows in gallery, reserved . 61.50 Sulance of gallery and lower floor ........ 1.00 admission toe 75e AFTERNOONS First three rows in gallery -+01.00 NT, a _ oe i i ee soc Season tickets, with re served seat in first three rows of the gallery, for the four concerts, 84.00. Season ticket, with reserved seat, in the balance of the house, $8. TERMS OF Sale of reserved seats for SEASON TICKETS will commence at the Box Office of Hartman's Hall, Ionia Street entrance, Monday and Tues day mornings, June 2 and 2 at 9 o'clock. The sale of Single Reserved Seats will com mence Wednesday morning, June 4, at 9 o'clock. Tickets limited to ten (10) to each person, {Nore —Positively no single reserved seat tick ets sold before W ednesday morning, June 4. SEASON TICKETS TRANSFERABLE. CO., SALE: CRACKERS, BISCUITS AND SWEET GOODS. Finest and Freshest Goods in the Market. "EST VARIETY IN THE STATE ORDERS. MUSKEGON, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADE The Popular Craze for Trash. From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter. We believe it to be the duty of every retail dry goods man to combat the craze bany mere for cheap, trashy stuff which seems to day’s freight- From the Albany Express. An interesting story is told of an Al- hant in connection with Thurs- : house fire. On Friday ican|morning an insurance agent met the people. How can an ‘‘all-silk surah’? be | merchant and casually asked him if there sold as cheaply as a good print? How/ was anything new in his business. can dress goods which cost from 40 to 60 | “No, nothing in particular,’’ returned cents a yard to manufacture be retailed | the merchant. ‘I lost goods to the value have taken possession of the Amer at 19 cents? And yet, if we are to be-|of a couple of thousand dollars in. the | lieve the advertisements in the Sunday tire last night, back a little. papers, this very thing is being done. | Think of aState street merchant spending | $100,000 a year for advertising purposes, saved that loss.”’ as much more for clerk hire, and twice | ‘How do you know that the goods as much for rent, and then sell goods the | were at the freight-house ?”’? queried the year round for one-third what they can | insurance man. be manufactured for! Is anybody so | foolish as to believe this story? One| road company.’’ would think so to see the crowds that go| ‘Did you? But when ?”’ into these shoddy stores. The fact is, “Oh, about a week ago, I should say.’ the American shopper has gone wild on “A week ago? Well, then, you cannot the question of cheapness. In many of | make the company pay one cent.”’ Chicago’s big stores, or rather bazaars, a “What do you mean ?”’ asked the mer- good article cannot be obtained at any | chant, a spasm of alarm appearing on price. Good goods are not kept in stock. | his face. Nothing above medium is sold there. The ‘Just what I say. and this will throw Of course, the railroad The railroad com- : : cheap goods are amazingly cheap, but | pany is responsible for goods at the medium-class goods are sold as high as | freight-house just twenty-four hours reliable goods are elsewhere. Goods | after they have notified the consignee of worth 3 cents are retailed in such a place | its arrival. You will find the law hard at 12 cents, and apparently the same | and fast just as L have told you. Have goods are sold elsewhere at 15 cents. | you paid your freight on the goods yet?” The fact probably is, however, that the | “No.”” 12 cent goods are the trashiest sort of an | ‘Well, the railroad can compel you to imitation, and that a decent store| pay this now, even though your goods wouldn’t wrap up packages with them. | are destroyed. Sorry for you, old man, Still the shopper is satisfied if they don’t | but L ean see no relief. You have paid fall to pieces before she gets home, and dearly for your little lesson, and I sup- you would have hard work to convince | pose you will never be caught again.”’ her that for fifteen cents she could have| The study of the merchant’s face, as he gained a full conception of his pre- got goods that would have lasted three | dicament, would furnish an excellent companion piece to the pen pictures of times as long. It isno wonder that some merchants are tempted to swindle their | customers, with such a state of affairs | the disastrous fire. existing. Yet, laying aside all questions | of morality, it will be found in the long | run that old Ben Franklin’s motto is} correct—‘‘Honesty is the best policy.” ———_ > +> P. of I. Gossip. Bushnell correspondence Belding Ban- . co / The Law as to Party Walls. A party wall in law is a wall dividing lands of different proprietors, used in common for the support of structures on both sides. At common law an owner who erects a wall for his own buildings ner: ‘Joseph L. Clark has contracted | eerie is —— pair used = = . . ' : : adjoining proprietor, cannot compe! such with the P. of I. of Bushnell and Bloom- eapaiaes se he shall build wes to er, and will move his stock of general | jt, to pay for any portion of the cost of merchandise from Fenwick to his farm | such wall. On the other hand, the ad- in East Bushnell, where he will try and | joining proprietor has no right to make sell goods at prices that will be satic- any use of such wall without consent of fie : i ' be satis-| tne owner, and the consequence may be factory to the order and with profit to|the erection of two walls side by side, himself.’’ when one would answer all purposes. Lyons Herald (organ of the Fr. of L)- This convenience is often secured by “Ataregular meeting of Dexter Asso- use, one half on each other’s land, the ciation, P. of I., No. 1268, held May 31, parties resolutions were adopted, that all mem- | one is to build at the time, he gets a re- bers of this Association will withhold | span ~~ the -_ _— of half sa : -osts him. Under such an agreemen their trade from any and all dealers who | io aes ane in the i of the purehase their drugs of the Hazeltine & | other while the wall stands, and this ac- Perkins Drug Co., of Grand Rapids, and |companies the title in sales and descent. from all dealers who purchase goods of | But if the wall is destroyed or decayed Moran, Fitzsimons & Co., of Detroit.’’ Hastings Banner: ‘‘Forty representa | deed. tives of P. of 1. lodges in Barry county | met here last Saturday, and by a vote of jequally, but if one has occasion to . ie 0 a strengthen or improve them for a more 30 to 10 decided to puta P. of I. county | extensive building than at first contem- ticket in the field next fall. Time will] plated, he cannot compel the other to show whether a secret organization like divide the expense with him. In some this, which claim to divide the expense. If only ed to be non-political | States | and secured its large membership by right in party walls, and one may un- . : en i . doubtedly acquire right, by prescription, that claim, does a wise thing in going | on a wall built by another, which he has into politics and endeavoring to lead its | long been allowed to use for the support members intoa place it promised to leave of his own structure. i —2- BRADDOCK, T. E. BREVOORT, |g. K. BOLLES. E. B. DIKEMAN. | Ss. K. Bolles & Co., | 77 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | Wholesale Cigar Dealers. s there are statutes regulating the | | | | i erases WE | | | | 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 market. | | | 10 Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. wo 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 July 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. Sec’d Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. Treasurer— Wm Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; E. T. Webb, Jackson; D.E. Prall, East Saginaw; Geo. Mc- Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit. Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday of September, 1890. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. Grand opt President, F. D. ds Drug Clerks’ Association. Kipp; Secretary, W.C. Smith. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, C. 8. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt. Patent Medicines Prescribed by Worth- less Doctors. From the Detroit Journal. ‘Doctors often prescribe patent med- icines for their patients,’’ remarked a Woodward avenue druggist. ‘‘The best doctors prescribe them because they know what they contain, and know that the compound is the proper thing for the ease they have diagnosed; and it is easier to prescribe a prepared compound than to write out an extended prescription. “There are other doctors who order patent medicines because they are in: capable of prescribing themselves anc have heard other doctors say that certain remedies were good in certain cases. A doctor must be pretty well posted to select the proper. simples and get the right proportions for a compound for severe cases. “There is another and quite large class of doctors who know nothing about what they are prescribing, but prescribe any- thing in the line of patent medicine that is popular and has become established by judicious advertising. Many of them, when criticised for this, will change their prescription and give what we call a shotgun prescription, one that will scat- ter and not do much harm if it does not do any good, and may possibly been the other way. nearly always depend on the remedies, though among them, and the older ones as well, to prescribe new remedies. There is a simpler tendency among doctors, as well as other | people, to run after anything novel. There was antipyrine, for instance. As soon as it came out all the doctors were prescribing it before they knew anything | about its qualities, and 1 know of cases where it did more harm than good. ‘“‘There is one great peculiarity about | the drug business that the general public never think of. city that will be scarcely ever called for in another; and one locality will havea certain line of trade that will be unknown almost in the next. In patent medicines, for instance, one locality will buy Ayer’s medicines, while another will have noth- | ing but Jayne’s, and so on to the end | Then, too, the character | of the chapter. of the business changes with the growth of the city, and my early experience and | entirely different | my present are two books. ‘“‘Some years ago we used to have men coming in at all hours of the day and} night to be patched up. They had been in fights and, instead going to a doctor would come straight to the drug store. Now we don’t have one such call a year. One of the amusing features of the busi- | who wants certain ar- | ness is the man ticles ‘for a friend.’ In many cases the articles called for are for some purpose | which would bring discredit upon the purchaser, and he thinks that he can fool us and cover up his own shortcomings by | pretending that he wants the stuff for} another man. ‘‘Plasters are a great thing for people to try this game on. Most men seem to have | something in it that will hit the mark. | It might seem to the majority of people | that young doctors would be prone to} this sort of thing; but my experience has | The young fellows | there is a tendency | Certain articles will be | the principal sale in one locality of the} have a strong dislike to owning up to any weakness, and, if they want a plaster for a weak back, they will say that a friend has requested them to procure it. At the same time we can see by the way they walk that it is for themselves. ‘**Then there is the man, or more often old woman, who comes in and asks our advice on the remedies for half a dozen complaints, and, after talking for a half- hour or more, goes to some other store and buys something entirely different. ‘“‘A man came inthe other day who is well up in society and whose word is good anywhere and asked for nervine. He stated that it was for a neighbor whose health has not been good for some time on account of overwork. I happened to know that my customer had been ona heavy though quiet spree for two or three weeks and wanted the nervine to brace up his own nerves. In ninety-nine eases out of a hundred when a person gets something for another he will either say nothing about it or-will give the name of the person.’’ > + > Antipyrine and Its Incompatibilities. Before the London Chemists’ Assist- ants’ Association, E. J. Millard and A. C. Stark presented a carefully prepared paper under thisecaption. The following is a complete list of the drugs and preparations which they had found by experiments to be incompatible with antipyrine : Acid carbolic, strong solutions, a pre- cipitate. Acid hydroeyanie dilute, yellow color- ation. Acid nitrie dilute, faint yellow colora- tion. Acid tannic, insoluble white precipi- tate. Alum (ammonia), deep yellow colora- tion, fading and precipitating. Amy]l nitrite (acid), green coloration. Chloral hydrate, strong solution gave a precipitate, with weak solutions no ap- parent change. Copper sulphate, green coloration. Decoction of cinchona bark, precipi- tate. Extract (fluid) of cinchona bark, pre- eipitate. Glycerine of carbolic acid, precipitate. Glycerine of tannic acid, precipitate. Infusion of cinchona bark, precipitate. Infusion of barberry leaves, precipitate. Infusion (acid) of roses, precipitate. Iron sulphate, brownish yellow colora- tion, deposit on standing, solution turns red. Mercury perchloride, white precipitate, soluble in excess of water. Solution of arsenic and iodides, dense white precipitate. Solution of iron perchloride, blood red | coloration. Solution of iron pernitrate, blood red coloration. Solution of permanganate of potassium, | reduction quickly takes place. Soda salicylate (solid), becomes liquid. Spirit nitrous ether (acid), green color- ation. Syrup of iodide of iron, reddish brown coloration. Tincture of cinchona bark (simple and | compound), precipitates. Tincture of iron perchloride, red color- ation. Tincture of galls, precipitate. Tincture of iodine, precipitate. Tincture of kino, precipitate. Tincture of larch, precipitate. —_—_——_— oO On the soda-water counter of one of the most popular drug stores in Hartford, | stands one of those patent money drawers | which register the amount of your pur- chase. Above this fancy nickle drawer was placed a glass sign bearing the | legend ‘*Pure soda-water.’’ mercury and rang up a little ticket with ‘‘10c’’ on \it. Shortly afterwards two young men walked in. One of them glanced at the drawer and read aloud, ‘‘Pure soda- | water, ten cents.’? He glanced at his companion, and with the observation, “T guess we’ll go somewhere else,’’ he | led the way out. The proprietor over- | heard the remark, and now the pretty ' glasssign no longer decorates the drawer. A few days | ago two young ladies entered the drug | |store and boughta glass of soda each. | The clerk put the money in the drawer | The Pharmacist as a Manufacturer. W B. Lillard in Druggists’ Bulletin. At nearly every pharmaceutical meet- ing last year, the practicability of the eability. Asto the theory of economy, practical use it was not. of the West, when the above came up, and they stated that for five laboratory products (they made no pat- ents), and after careful investigation, had given it up as an impracticable and non-paying investment—that they as job- |bers found it far more profitable and practical to buy such products of the manufacturers than to make them them- selves. If this is the practical ex- |; perience of a jobber, certainly the re- | tailer cannot make a more favorable one. The second question raised was that if the pharmacist made his own phar- macal preparations, he would know they were strictly U.S. P. But how is he to judge his crude material? He has to trust some one. It is not practical to make a thorough examination of each the retailer, but with the several large manufacturing chemists it is. Then, from a practical business point, is it not far better to buy our preparations from some reliable firm than to make them ? 2 << How to Detect Adulteration. If anyone has a suspicion that white lead is adulterated, he should buy a pound or two of the substance and place inaladle and set on fire. After it is completely burned, there will be a quan- tity of metallic lead in the bottom of the ladle. After the ladle is washed and dried, it may be weighed; should it weigh exactly as much as the white lead before being burned,, then the lead is pure. Should a less weight of lead be found, there is an adulteration, the percentage of which may be obtained by dividing the loss of weight by the weight of the white lead before being burned. W).......- 3 65@3 85 Mee .. ucts .. 22 = Y eached...... 2@ 3 ‘Tragecanth .......-... M@ HERBA—In ounce packages, OE 2 a: Cs eee a 20 Lobelia. . ee Majorum . ed ec aes ee. 28 Mentha ee. eee sae eas 23 Vir See ee mie 30 -_™ OO eee Thymus, V.... 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Sa Sal . squibbs a @1 00 Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1 50@1 75 | Chong. ........... 0@ 2% Cinchonidine, Paw te @ German 4@ 10 Corks, list, dis. per | Cee @ 60} Cressome @ 50) Cretan, (ODL. 75)... @ 2) _ wee. 6 * wee... 8@ 10} | ee @ 8 Crocs ................ 35@ 38 | iter .............. @ 24 | Capri sulph........-.-. = 9 | Demirime ............. ps 1 | Miner Suiph..........- 70 | Emery, all numbers. a ae g Ergota, (po.) 60....... 50a 565 | | Piss Wore.......... 12@ 15} Calta .............-... @ B | Gambier. . —_ oo @e Gelatin, Cooper... @ 9 French........ 5 Glassware flint, 75 per cent. by box 6225 less | Glue, Brawn. ......... 9@ 15} ae 13@ 25} Giycerina .......- 19%@ Grana Paradisi........ 22 | Humulus.. : 2@ 40) Hydraag Cc ‘hior Mite.. @i 00} Cor @ 88) Ox Rubrum @1 10 12 Ammoniati. @1 2) . Unguentum. 47@ a Hydrarsyrum ........ @ Tehthyobolla, Am..... 1 3@1 KX 50 | ee... 75@1 00 | Iodine, Hesubl,....... 3 7E@3 85 | ee @4 70 | Dapuen ........ voces. Go OO] Lycopodium .........- 55@ «60 | meee 80@ 85) Liquor Arsen et Hy- | mor fod... .....-.. @ 27} Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 | ae, Sulph (bbl )..........-...-.-- 2@ 3| Meunia, 8, F......... 45@ 50 | Morphia, S. P. & W...2 85@3 10 | Se idlitz Mixture... @ 2! Lindseed, boiled 65 68 | . nu. ¥. @& Sinepis. ee. @ 18}; Neat’s Foot, winter CG Ge. ow 2 85@3 10 . -—. @ 30] _ strained... 7. 69 | Moschus Canton. @ 40) Snuff, aeien, De | Spirits Turpentine. . 43 48 Myristica, No. 1. _ We ) Voce ............... @ 35} PAINTS bbl. Ib Nux Vomica, (po. 20) . @ 10| Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes @ 35} ae ee On, Seni 30@ 32 | Soda Boras, (po. 13). . 12@ 13 | Red Venetian..........1% 2@3 Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D Soda et Potass Tart... 30@ 33 | Ochre, ye ellow Mars... 1% %@4 | Co 2 00| Seda Carb............ 1%@ 2 | Ber..... 1% G3 Picis Liq, N. C., % gal [Seda, BECarb....._. @ 5 | Putty, commercial... .2%4 24@3 ee i @2 00 | Soda, Ash..... ie 3%¢ 4} strictly pure.....2%4 2%@3 | Picis Liq., quarts @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas @ 2 | Vermilion Prime Avner. se . jams ..... @ 70} Spts. Ether Co . 5O@ 55 | .ican..- wees 13@16 Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80). @ 5; “ Myrcia Dom... @2 00 a a English... eee Piper Nigra, (po. 22)... @ 18] ‘ Myrcia Imp... . @2 50 | Yreen, Peninsular ee Piper Alba, ee. @ 3] Vini Rect. bbl | Lead, aon @is Pix Burgun.. / a @ fe... @2 2 | white .. @i'4 Plumbi Acet .......... 14@ 15| LessSegal.,cash tendays, | Whiting, w hite Span. @i0 Pulvis Ipecac et opii. “1 10@1 20 | Strychnia ¢ ‘ryste ul @i 10| V pay Gilders’.. @# Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Subl i ' 2 4@ 3% | ¥ hite, aris American 1 00 “&P.D. Co.,doz..... @125 Roll... 24@3 | Vhiting Paris Eng. Pyrethrum, pv. 30@ 35|Tamarinds.... : s@ 10} cliff 1 40 Quassiae ee 8@ 10| Terebenth V enice..... 23@ 3! P joneer Pre} yared Paintt 2@1 4 Quinia, S. P. & W 41@ 46 | Theobromae i... SOG) 51 Swiss Vil ia Prepared Li S. German. 30@ 36) Vanilla.. ..9 00@16 00; * aints ...............1 00@1 20 | Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ a Zinci Sulph i. 1@ 8 VARNISHES. | Saccharum Lactis pv. @ 39 i No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Salaei oo... 1 80@2 00 OILs. Etre Vurp............1 Gaga +| Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gali | Coach Body ok cues 2 TK@3 00 | Santomeme | 1.1... .... @4 = Whale, winter.... 70 = No. 1 Turp Furn......1 @@i 0 i jane, W.... [oc ontre........... Eutra Turk Damar 1 55@1 60 - = aS ( 10| Vere: No. t.. 45 50 + ae Dryer, No. 1 ee SEEN aE @ 15| Linseed, pure raw 62 65 : ‘Fore. ie 70@ 75 HAZELTIN & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of -DRUGS~ Chemicals and Druggists’ Sundries, Dealers in Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Sole Agentsfforithe Celebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints. We are Sole Proprietors of WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY. We have in stock and offer a full line of Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wrines, Rumse. » We are Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co., Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite Rye Whisky. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guer- antee Satisfaction. All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we res ‘ceive them. Send in a trial order. Haxelting & Perkins Drug Go, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GROCERIES. A Grocer’s Advice on the Handling of Cheese. Cc. E. Udell in Inter-state Grocer. The r demand for cheese is probably | affected by the quality more than almost | any other article of food. try In this coun- | it is as yet a comparative luxury, | although in Europe it is as much a staple | necessity as meat, consequently the ma- jority of our people call for cheese only as the palate is pleased. The average American will eat ten pounds of choice cheese, where he would not eat one pound of poor cheese. From these facts it is evident that if the retailer would build up a good trade on cheese, he must have the best the market affords. It is very poor economy and detrimental! to his trade to buy it when off in quality because it is one, two or three cents per pound cheaper. Owing largely to the improvement in the standard of cheese made in eountry, largely, as is shown by the fact that only a few years since only about 10 per cent. of our product was consumed at home, while 90 per cent. was exported. Then very few but ‘‘skims’’ were made west of New York, while now a skimmed cheese is an exception even in the West, and conditions are ealled ‘‘faney cheese,’’? which are very emphatic in their impressions upon one’s nostrils, no matter how delicious may be the interior. Always judge a cheese by the inside, not by the external appear- ance. In the early spring, as at all times, the demand from those not posted is fora bright cheese, which is a mistake, as at that time the best have been in boxes and carried since the previous Septem- | ber, October or November, as the case may be, and must necessarily be more or less mouldy and unsightly. If you still want them to look bright on your shelf, scrape surfaces and tear off the cloth bandages. The winter and spring make, while, of course, bright and sightly, are never equal in quality to the fall make. _— > —_- | No Change in Wool--Hides i in Fair De- | market East. this | our demand has increased very | mand--Tallow Weaker. There are no new features in the wool Less has been sold, how- ever, as manufacturers who wish to run have already supplied themselves. New |wools are arriving, but it is doubtful if | they can be sold ata profit. |improvement in reversed, as we ex- | port only about 10 per cent. of our pro-| duct and consume at home 90 per cent., and this in the face of the immense in- crease of production, Wisconsin alone producing from her 600,000 cows 40,000,000 pounds of cheese annually, and this is comparatively a new industry in that State. Much cheese is lost or damaged from not being properly | prices 'for the near future on wool A marked the consumption of goods must be shown before any activity in wools will come. Any pressure to sell will result in lower prices. Buyers are not in the Michigan markets as yet, jalthough it is late for them, and what few have any orders are at much lower a... than anticipated. The outlook is not en- | couraging, but shows more plainly that summer it should be kept in the coolest | place possible, and so covered that flies | eannot get at it; a tight cheese-safe or refrigerator is best. No grocer should be without one or the other, for if cov- ered with the box only or a cloth the fly | is almost sure to getin. Once cut and exposed, the little skipper eggs; they soon hatch skippery cheese. is prejudiced against eating with his cheese and crackers. Many people have a mistaken about swollen cheese, thinking that, acan of fruit, fermentation and position have set in and it is spoiled. They could not be more mistaken; a cheese being swollen does not indicate that it is damaged in the least. The skippers |} demand for late take-off. | must taken care of. In|} fly lays its} and you have| The average American | | i | Greases have declined materially, from ithe drop in lard. idea | like | decom- | chemical action taking place in process | of curing generates a gas, which, if sub- | jected to a high temperature, forms faster than it can escape through the natural the flood of cloths and wool from abroad necessarily make low prices, in spite of the tariff, when it comes. Hides are light in supply, with a fair Old hides are neglected, being taken only at lower prices. Trade in this line is good, with a good demand for leather, but no ad- vance can be obtained in price. Tallow is weaker and slow sale. A draggy market is looked for through the warm weather. ~> © > ——-— The Grocery Market. The sugar market is strong and ex- cited, granulated having advanced °c during the past week. Every indication points to still higher prices. The de- mand on refiners has been enormous and | they are now oversold from ten days to pores, thus causing it to swell, and if cut | | Sugars are in active demand all over the the escaping gas often gives an unpleas- ant odor, but if allowed to stand it will | all pass off and in afew hours not a trace | ‘ : ] 7 C€ | behind on their orders. of it is to be detected. We have been in factory curing rooms on warm days when | half the cheese on the shelves swollen, amoment consider them damaged, but turned them daily, and, if badly swollen, ran a needle into them, gas a chance to escape, and they got back into shape soon as cooled off. It is very important that too large a warm weather. Inno case grocer order more than a two weeks’ stock during the summer months, and it is still better to order every week, thus always having fresh stock and avoid hay- ing any damaged. We must cater to the demands _—_ | by the traveling men of the city on the sumers, the majority of whom mild cheese, while it is a positive fact much more healthy digested; in fact, and more easily if very old, it is an aid were | but the factory man did not for | consequence of which most packers have two weeks in all the leading grades. country and wholesalers everywhere are The pack of early June peas is only about 75 per cent. as large as usual, in | withdrawn all quotations for the present. thus giving the} Codfish is scarce and higher. Cheap finecuts have been advanced 2c | per pound, ostensibly on account of the , : - “| advance in leaf, stock is not bought at a time during j ° ce 4 ‘ss a should the | manufacturers have come to an “under but really because the | standing’’ on some things connected with their business. oo 2 Resolutions of Respect. The following resolutions were adopted | death of the late John H. McIntyre: that, if well cured, sharp or tasty, it is} | Almighty to digestion, and is often recommended | to the dyspeptic to be taken after a full | meal. Another thing by which the inexperi- enced handler of cheese is annoyed is a soaked rind, caused by moisture or sweat- ing by being closely boxed some time, but this need not injure it in the least, if | Grand Rapid | tunity to testify to the many good qual- |ities of head and heart of our WuerREAS, The inscrutable will of the has removed our esteemed brother and co-worker, John H. MelIn- tyre; therefore, Resolwed, By the traveling men of s, that we take this oppor- late | brother and shall long revere his mem- | ory as a happy and representative mem- seraped off and oiled over with butter or | cheese grease. appearance to offend us, but few of us If we allowed outward | ber of our fraternity. Resolwed, That we tender heartfelt sympathy to the our most widow and | family of our esteemed brother, in the would eat Swiss or many kinds of so-! hour of their bereavement. THE MICHIGAN TRADES SMAN. ). J. Gillies & Co., New York, are the largest tea, coffee, spice and scheme spice house in the United States. They are sole owners and proprietors of the famous brands of high grade coffee known as “Crescent Mocha,’’ ‘*Diamond’’ and Breakfast Bacon, bonciess...................- 84 i OE, bee werees.......... 9 Ree ON 6 Brisk cets, eee pode ge. 614 Pee i 64% OYSTERS and FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH, WwW hitefish oo @%% “High Crown Java.’ “Star Maricaibo”’ iia ee 2 ac ee TH and ‘“‘Globe Rio.’? These are the best] Halibut.... @i5 . y , eee 4 goods money will buy. These coffees |*"* ee a e have aspecial care. We first buy the Selects. en Counts............---e sees es oe best after which we thorogeliy sceouri Ff 3. bs. .....-.......... .... @2%5 and separate, thereby removing all dirt, FRESH MEATS. stones, etc. Then they are roasted in| swift and Company quote as follows: our improved patent roaster and placed, | Beet. ‘hind quariers..... ae er 8 while hot, in air-tight cans, thus retain-] ‘ — Hl eppeevasiyes 0g ~~ :. ‘ cc AR, IND. FS... ew ene wets oe ee @ 9 ine their fall strength and Gaver, Wel © Hee @ 8 7 challenge the world to produce better we . g 5% coffee. Write J. P. Visner, Agent, 17 —— ote ee ale ois oe ee e : . . . SE ee t Hermitage Block, Grand Rapids, Mich:,| « shoulders... .................. @6 : : or F for special inducements. 350tf | Sausage, oe vphomecapn g - ~~ a dae coon ‘60 bb 0000 80 coe @ 8 Fire Crackers all sizes and prices. Mette ee ee PuTNAM Canby Co. CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: PRODUCE MARKET. , ‘slave SS Bae Apples—Dried, 6@6'4¢ for sun-dried and 10@1ic aa, = ” oe Ho for evaporated. Colbie, 3 8 ei Asparagus—20¢ per doz. bu. : MIXED. 7 : Beans—Dry stock is scarce and firm, command- Roy al, : ee By ing $1.85@#2.10 for city hand-picked. ee ie a Butter—The market is weak and sluggish. Extra, 25 Bb, ee 10 Farm dairy grades are dull at 8@10c, while fac- 200 ese LL ee 9% tory creamery is slow sale at 14c. French C Jaa 25 tb. palla.. .__ a ae Cabbages—Cairo stock commands $3.50 per FANCY—In 5 lb. boxes. 7 crate; Baltimore stock, & per crate. CE 2 Cabbage Plants—50c per 100. Sour Drops . ae Cheese—Full cream stock commands &c. Peppermint Drops. SC ae Cherries—Sour fruit, $3@%3.50 per bu. Cee ee ee — barrels, $1.25; produce barrels | 7M, ChocolateoDrops........................18 ; : G oe. ) Cucumbers—50e per doz. Licorice eens ee i 18 —— pay 12c and hold at i4e. The A. B. — ES ee \ enges, plain..............66. cess eee Field Seeds—Clover, ee $3.50 per bu.; — aan Ga) = medium, $3.50. ny $1. ~~ bu. ae... Ce et Beans—Wax, 33 pe u. String, #2.75 mesg ee ee eee a oe 15 ee Honey—About out of market. ———— = Lettuce—ize per ib. for Grand Rapids grown. Caramels ooo eee eet eeee cee OBIS — Sugar — 8@10e per lb., according to| Hand Made Creams..... ..................... — Pl Cre OO eee eee ieee eee agle Syrup—75@85c per gal. i Seah abe a i pales oon 1u@12e per doz. Southern, 82] String Rock.............- 20.0... ecee LAS SS .50 per crate. Burnt Almonds. a -as— Vintergree eee Pieplant—#1 per gg of 50 Ibs. Te rs ‘y—In bulk. _— Pop Corn—4e per Loze lain, i a. Potatoes—Old stock is sick, commanding _— Se oo oo Ce 11% poe Mg _ “ = stock finds ready sale at $1.5 “ printed, in — ee r ack . ue oe Radishes—20e r doz bunches. | : Chocolate Drops, in pails. ee 2 Strawberries—Illinois stock brings %2@%2.25 | Gum Drops, in pails ea 6% per case of 24qts. Michigan berries will prob-| « « Ce 5% ably be in market by the latter part of the week. Moss Drops, in pails ors Tomato Plants—35@40c per 100. inbbls..... Wire eteretecciian 9 PROVISIONS. Sour Drops, in pails.. eee The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | M™perials, al og anette rete e ote waka awe we co ———— ee a PORK IN BARRELS. Oranges, Messina, choice, BOD... see oe @ 6 (0 moe, Oem, 8... Ck... a . @ 6 00 i aude cuia tee tueceu panes 12 00 c Florida, choice.......... ie @ Extra clear pig, short cut....... onc ese 13 25 meee. @ — clear, money. - Se SS is ) cg ae @5% Clear, fat back...... ee ' ountain, “ @ Boston clear, short cut................-.--.. 13 25 ‘i . -_ Nav =? a... @ (ner back wanek eek 13 25 c alencias, large @ Standard clear, short cut, best... ......... 13 25| Lemons, Messina, choice, -.....,. @ 4 50 sauUsAGE—Fresh and Smoked, i in @ 4 50 oT EE 7 fancy, -. @ 5 00 eee 9 : ae. 5 00 en oe 9 | Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy lay a 15 “ais See don a ee ee 8 * cent & mae -~ |... | . BBRRS. nec c cs comes sevceceseccecesecees o 2... i ia es ee, 5 Dates, frails, 50 a ee ee he ee G10 LaRD—Kettle Rendered, [ ~~ ................. @8s ee 7%| ‘Persian, 50-Ib. box 54@ ubs NUTS. ee Pee et aes ene anitr este Almonds, en. i, LARD—F amily. . ee @15 oe ee ea de wa 6 i California ee @14 ee eee 6% | Brazile......... eee eee eee @10% 3 1b. Pails, 20in a case.. ee ee Sa. Eee Si, WO UPR OM oei cer ces cocsuse ue 6% ' rene @15 ih Palle Cin meee Cu | ockns, Temen, BF ll. 11 @14 » > Pails, ee a 6% Cocoanuts.......... ee @A 50 ee le ee 5A ANUTS. BEEF IN BARRELS. m Fancy, H. P., —. @ 93 Extra Mees, warranted 200 ihe............... 7 00 “ Roasted eee @ll Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 7 06) Vency, H. P., Game Cocks .... ....... @ 9% ee : . . Roasted... .. iH SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Fancy, H. P., Stags....................., @ 8% Hams, average 20 Ibs ee ee aes ~~ a - eee. @10% eee 10% | Choice, H. P., Stars... ......, @ 8% o : We Oo rec ia ccs. e ee 10% Roasted ao @10 CS eee ee 7% | Fancy, H. P., Steamboats............... @ 8% - ot eee, Roasted....... @10 For Sale by Leading Wholesale Grocers. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 18 4 1 Wholesale Price Current. eis EEDS. oa 5 ne ENGLISH BREAKFAST. Baskets, market. . 40 ie ee ae ee ee a 25 @30 Mae. 2 ; : Ca: : ape > QI NE 1 50 ' The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who sere a 33 G65 “ bow elaha wat ae ; pay promptly and buy in full packages. a LU hl Tea aa 8 Gio . enone Cela ‘ . a * “No? 6 25 : OOLONG. 03 72 é APPLE BUTTER. COCOA — ‘3 i : a 5 . 0.1 3 i E. J. Mason & Co.'s goods.. 6 | Bulk........... oe ea 7% | Superior to fine......_3) (a0 _ oe 8 Nat 3 i AXLE GREASE. Pound packages........ ee SALT Fine to choicest....... 5 5 u 7 “ Nos i Frazer's winuneuneanan ae fe 4 ” a covrne ca @7 Half aus Oo eee we 2 88 Common Fine ae... oe to — Looe 55 @65 ae No.3 5 00 ee SB) Vaney City $ olar Rock, 56 lb: sacks..... 27 i i AINS cE ; Diamond. ‘ _. - 0 Fel anid ee 1 40 ~~. ata ny 9 = pocket beacaeeaas ans <) 90 Boxes ........-..-- reese BG ee ee eee : BAKING POWDER. cOoFFEE—Green, se sug gage Ton a aR a 14 a 2 Kegs, English.......... -++- 48) op Pea : Absolute, 4 Ib. cans, 100s..11 75 } Rio, fae @21 |e 5 Ma 7aLEARe. ‘ io Ce 2 2 ToBaccos—Fine Cut. — i 7 = t Hee 16Gb! “* send... ¢ > 6 4. J. son ‘o.’"8 goods.. 6 shtodn bu. bags ...... 2 Techie Eee oa 3 7 ib - oe me * i... oie O33 Chicage goods.............. 4 Higgins ‘ ~ooT ‘ ae oes i pre ee en tes. Acme, % Ib. cans, 3doz...._ 75) { fancy, washed... @24 LAMP WICKS. Warsaw oii, a UlC KO ; : i cise 8 SS es | heeeen.. |... a Si ee 20| Our Leader........ aa ema 115 e i Ib, cee ee a ee vd mo eee 40 Diamond "Cry stal, cases....1 50 oe i et: see 1 30 ee 290 | Mexican & Guatemala23 @24 | NO.2......-....... ........ 50 28-lb sacks 25 eae aigtany Straight, i nim Our Leader, lb. eang..... 45| Java, Interior......... 2% @26 LICOo a “ 56Ib “ 50|Ja8.G. Butler & Co.’s Brands. |" me ee — ss al mame St me lime. RICE, “ “ 60 pocket.2 25 | Something Good............. 38} Pat , Darrels........ 5 00 — 4 aia B----22 GS | Pure -......----..0-------- 9 ce / 2°. soa... ee oo ee Telfer’ 8, M4! Ib. cans, doz. 45 Mocha, genuine uty 28 @28 Sicily i. “ “ barrels .. .1 75 orcs re.................. 36 mrreie,....... 6 00 . —. ; 2 nd —— cost of roasted| = == te i ” SALERATUS. bo ape ee iavestosejacians | coffee, add %c. per 1b, for roast- ‘ Church’ ‘ h Obacco”’....-....----- eee Set s++++ 13 50 eta ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- Condensed, 2 doz........... 1 25| Dwight’ Sos & Hammer.. an 25 EP Ships. ee ees English, 2 doz. in case. .... 80 | age. MATCHES, | Taylor’s ul Bae Our Leade Screenings. ee 12 00 a ee 5 corrss—Package, Mieke sel aelae sp Sat. ae BM (... 15 | Middlings. a... American.’2 doz. incase... 70] Bunola.. ee oa, | Anchor parlor...............170) | mae 5g Topaccos—Smoking. —— Feed... 02.20, 15 3 BLUING. Dozen “in eabinets..........- 2514 No. 2home............._... 1 30) Our Leager......_.. “IEEE 's* | Our Leader................- ee Mexican, 402.........--.. 30 | McLaughlin’s XXXX_....2514 | Export parlor............... 4 00 SYRUPS onan enn gaa eae Wis eg . © OZ. ..--. ee see 60 Lion ieee 1+ + 25M _,. MOLASSES. Corn, barrels....... co Qi _— Boy, Z OB... + 2.20 32 | Small lots.... weeecrerececs MO we... 90 cei, ets ++ oom Disc Hirap............... 20; ‘ one-half barrels....@29 “ : oz. ne a ree aes BROOMS. a ee .. 24| Pure Sugar, bbl........... 26@35 ee 2 |. oats. : — ee 1 7 | Cotton, = i. per doz. 1 35 New Orleans oe half barrel... .28@37 leans — — HS nena oan netimme No.1 oe... ee eee ee ese e es 2 00 rr 50 ft acl ‘good ST mM SWEET GOODS es " I Maa ha el iy No oe aoe . “ 1% “ Hao tee = Ginger Snaps.......... 8 ls es 0. eS ‘“ ” Z1s : ; Nog 5 ace ee ed ewee ue. 2 75 “ = : i ee mH 2 = One-half barrels. 3¢ extra es ‘eae | > PAPER & WOODENWARE oo 45 Common Whisk Lee 9 | Jute ee “ “ 90 OATMEAL. Graham Crackers..... 8 No. 1 caer aan aha sienns 120) « mae |. «4 49 | Muscatine, Barrels ........- 4 50} Oatmeal Crackers.... 8 PAPER. a [Ss MAM 2.22... ee eee 3S CONDENSED MILE Talf barrels..... 250 Cuties @ Co, guste aa fol 106 Warehouse.. Ase i ce ni Cases......2 15@2 25] Jettine to. hee ax | LOWS: N ane CANDLES Anglo-Swiss........-. 6 0@ 7 60 ROLLED OATS — 7 i sht Weight.... ..... 200 No. 2. Ue Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes. . ee COUPONS. Muscatine, Barrels. . @4 50 EAS Su ee ae o Star, 40 Oe couprons—‘‘Superior.”’ Half bbis.. @2 50 — moa Te 180 | HIDES, PELTS .Paraffine .. ....-..-.---+-++ i $ 1, per hundred ie 2 50 i Cases...... 2 15@2 25 JaPan—Regular. ~ ote ga 2% ee en een e Wee ae 2, oe 3 00 aa BT 14 @16 . Perkins & Hess pay as fol CANNED Goops—Fish. : ie see ce OOH Maia Meme... gy | Good ..................18 @2 | Jute Manilla........ tl tc Clams ith. Little Neck../..190)9) | , wet ete ee 5 00! Water White......00....... ad | CN scl. 24 @20 | Red Express No. 1.0.0.0... 5 TT Clam Chowder, 3 Ib... .....2 10 | #20; Lae WC cc 32 @38 2... . tee 5 @5% Cove Oysters, Jib. stand. ‘115 courons—‘Tradesman.”’ Medi gua One Bones eee eee Part Cured............ 5 @5% 21b. (1017 95 |8 1, per hundred........... 2008 an --@8 50! pair eee aan TWINES. Bot eee ee cone ee 6 @ 6% Lobsters, 1 Ib. picnic eee 175/32, & LL nes a 2501s li, bot eo ee Cane Oe licen... n= 6 @s ie toe Se a es 9 00 ue 29 | Kips,green ..... ..... @5 + a ie Fe 4 00 % bbi............ ....5 00 “ Fe 18 pp cured..--- .e. eee 6 @ 6% . son... Seo... ee PIPES. Sea Island, assorted....... 49 | Calfskins, green...... 4 @6 Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 §5| Subject to the following dis- | Clay, No. 216................ 1% BASKET FIRED. 5 Hemp went en ewceene oo 18 cured.. 5 @i 1Ib. stand oe 1 20 | counts: . 9. fallceamt _.._ @ | Wair....-....._..... @20 0. 6 eee e ee eee ee eee eee es 7 | Deaconskins.......... 10 @2 : 2 ee 2 00 ao orm. serecee B per cent, | Cob, No. 3.. i ns Wool ee An 8 No. 2 hides 4g off. ss 3 1b. in Mustard: ..2 85 i ee : PRESERVES. Choicest............... @35 woo PELTS. “ Sib. soused....... 905) 1000 © canes eee 20 - E. J. Mason & Co.’ s goods.. 8 Extrachoice,wireleaf @4 Tu b N ‘is aamnincauine Sacartiners...-....__... 10 @25 Salmon, i Ib. Columbia 1 65@2 00 CRACKERS. RICE. | GUNPOWDER. . Ne srr+ss++++ 8 00) Estimated wool, per 20 @28 Sardi 7 b. aang -1 40@1 : Kenosha Buaeer...........- 7% Carolina ig a 6% | Common to fair.. "25 @35 . ms. Di ibad oe 6 00 woos re 3 “ Z oe | : RE. ~~ -+ oe ~~ Qs ' 6 OL. nes, omestic 68 “i cla .. oo L as pe aa" ae oa to finest. - 50 @65 Pails, No. / two- hoop.. 1 50 Waece. .............2ae Mustard 48..000.°@ 9) famiglia | NG, se Clee es. ~ [ons “iowa ; ee ees 6s; | Japan, No. i Presniacasttas) 1 IMPERIAL. Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes... o& MISCELLANEOUS “ spiced, a. a CO ee 7% Noe... -. .:.... 5% ee fair...... 0 @% a ; eo Se ase 3 @ 34 Trout, 3 1b, brook. ....... 2 60 ee 1% enue | Superior tofine........ 40 @0 “ = na 1 25 | Grease butter ........1 @2 CANNED Goops—Fruits. so wat nnt dene eeasocian aenn 6 scotch, tn ——.-. a 37 ta tan maa ees 5 Sane REND Oe 50 Apples, gallons, stand. ....3 00| 8, Oyster +2. 54 | Maccaboy, In jars ..25 | Common to fair....... g 26 “ od, 17s and 19s i : ne - ‘ Se er 0 | City Oy aa Xxx" "11! 82 | Brench Heippee, in peng 3 Saauatien o ae ee _ eo Y — 17s and 19s 2 50 Above prices are nominal and Cherries,red standard 1 _— 20 Sheil... .. ee ee ee ee Se ee Te ee 1 40 CREAM TARTAR. Detroit Soap ‘Co.'s Brands. Dee 1 15 | Strictly Aen te BB | SUBCTION...--- --0-oee-----+ 0s 3 30 Egg bern stand..... 1 15@1 35| Grocers’........ 25 — a +8 85 a Gooseberries ............--.. 1 0 ; Se ee oes Sere ome ee sel Silver Quarter | Apples, sun- -dried..... “e 6 ioiag 27 i Gages.. -1 15@1 35 i en rated. @10 id German.....---....--.-- 2 70 i Peaches, » yellow. stand1 75@1 85| apricots. ae ooo Bergain..... . ...2 00 “© seconds ......1 10@1 45] } “ i. 6 ee 37 “ oe. L.LlLULLUL ra 10 ol ie ---— 2 os Cocoa Castile ee ee 3 00 WITH Ce 1 25] Peaches Ao said Cocoa Castile, Fancy........3 36 Pineapples, common..1 10@1 50| Plums AE oniessreeaih 10 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands, Johnson’s.2 50@2 75} Raspberries “ "ut *t "39 | Happy Family, 75.........-.. 2 95 Ove... 100 DRIED FRUITS—Prunes. Ce COmeery,, GU.............. 3 30 Raspberries, extra.........- 1 75] Turkey....... -... BY@ 6% | UNA, 100... --.---.. eee ee ee 3 65 | Pee oie 7 “7. °*@ 7% | Bouncer, TN 315 Strawberries ..... i 151 t Sl Gattienia. |... ‘10 @ll SAL SODA. Whorticherrion.............- %5 DRIED FRUITS—Peel. cee. 1% ; CANNED VhowreRLDs, Lemon ol TT 18 Granulated, Ph secon ie 2 sparagus, Oyster Bay...... POO... su... 5. 18 Beans, Lima, stand... ee 30 DRIED FRUITS—Citron. Kitchen, : doz. in box. 20 ‘“ Green Limas. aa Sn Gram @23 ee aaa 250 2 oc | Siete @ so us bomce. @2 | sniaer’s » SOUP: 0 u Stringless, Erie....... 80 DRIED FRUITS—Currants, i me ee ‘ Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40} Zante, in barrels...... @ 5%} Alls coor toEs— Whole. Packed in 100-Ib. Bins Cc orn, Archer’ ep 7ropny...... 90 6 in less quantity 6 @ 6% Ree ener arr tata ret 10 . Morn’g Glory. > 90 J 4 | Cassia, China in mats...... 8 “ “ Early Golden. 9] ya) — ———. [ se ante in bund....26 | , Peas, French.............--. ; eeneiee a9 ’ Saigon in rolls...... oo 7 4 + . eee crarrofat...”” @l se | QNGFAS.-------------- @11%6| Cloves, Amboyna...... --. 35 |Kach 100-lb. Bin will contain several packages of BUNOLA “c Cee @NZIDAr..... ..---- 16 7 ; ‘“ aa Ca 1 = —_— Layers, Cali- ss en Ta eee wees 80 COFFEE into each of which was placed a oc ee ca i 2 00 utmegs. ew 80 VE ac ak ee a Lo: ndon Lay ers, for'n. see Ipaee 75 SILVER QUARTER-DOLLAB. Mushrooms, extra fine...... 9 15 | Muscatels, Cali ornia.1 9002 25 25 ° No a 65 ea a j _A° a Pumpkin, 31b. Golden @1 50 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Pepper, Singapore — = PRICE---100-Ib. Bins, 251-4; 100-Ib. Cases, 24 3-4. Succotesh, standard. . Wa! 40 | Farina, 100 Ib, kegs......... 04 U white.. "26 ORDER OF ANY GRAND RAPIDS JOBBER Se eee 1 10| Hominy, per bbl............ 3 00 shot.............--. 20 e Tomatoes, Red Coat. @1 00 | Macaroni, dom 12 lb box.. 60 anaes een -In Bulk. Good Enough @1 00 . imported oo . @ 9% Allspice Pee ee 15 : “ Ben Har ... @1 10| Pearl Barley.......... @ 2% Cassia, Batavia eee 20 ee stand br.... @ 95| Pees, green............ @1 00 and Saigon.2%5 ga ae @3 |a [ — eet nae a 42 ° Snider's, % pint........... 135 on ag « geen aa - a oves, eee oe Besides our FINE LINE of CANDY, we are agents for the Best ALL COLORED . pint - ee : 30] Wheat, cracked....... @ 5 Ginger, African LN 12% | FIREWORKS, and have many specialties in this line on which you can make some quart....... . .....3 50] vermicelli, import.... @10 Se gee 15° |money. No old chestnuts to work off. Send for catalogue and get our prices CHEESE. “ domestic... @60 a Jamaica’ -....18 | before ordering Fancy Full Cream.... @8 FISH—SALT. Mace Batavia...............90 i EEE Good, “ : vee @ 7% | Cod, whole............ 5 @6% Mustard, English... cio 22 if i BEST N art Skimmed......... @7 Rien 6 8 and Trie. .25 you want the ST CANDY put up NET WEIGHT, ask 5 Sap Sago........ « 0 | NE ins *G10% Rut ere Ose eee: 2 — ee en ee Oe a @1 00} Herring round, %bbl.. 2 99| Nutmegs, No. 2 ati has ol a | i Te erect 8 A. E. BROOKS & CO, : German Sweet.. .......... 2 7 dw. me | ee.--- ) lo ~ RA ' Premium eee er = a : 7 kegs, now @ @ “ hina cc 25 CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, - G ND RAPIDS, MICH Cl 38 es @ SUGARS. poesia nec... 49 | Mack. sh’s, No. 2, % ‘bbl 12) Cre Eoae..... 7 sy ate Bf ack SN Fe eta ee ox PHREIN & HESS ‘ 10 “ ..120| Powdered ....... @ 73 , ceili Powdered ............- DEALERS IN Rubber, 100 Tumps.---. ee go | Trout, if bbls. AE 4 00@4 25 Standard Granulated. @ 7% e ' PEO, cs oe @ Ts mae eS | wane a cies e ome $e| Ides, Furs W ool & Tallow kits..... 1 00 White HeGe ©... 0... @ 6% 9 3 3 wii CHICORY. ss - 10 ib cia... 80 pane Ta ae BUIK....0. 0.00000 sreseese ees 6 “Family, ¥% bbls... 2.50) Co. .esse.ses ali @ 5% NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, Coa naa ek ds ceed iad aa Pie. ae @ 5% WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. 14 SHE DEARLY LOVES A BARGAIN. | time of freezing and quality of the cream One of the Marked Characterists of| the Average Woman. From the Chicago Evening Post The love of a bargain, particularly in the dry goods line, is the touch of nature which makes the world of womankind akin. The woman, of whatever class or condition, who does not love a bargain is indeed a rare avis. And the shopkeepers all understand this perfectly and shape their business methods accordingly. The seeking of bargains is to a large number of women a regular diversion; to others bargains are a snare and a delu- sion, and there are those who profit regularly and systematically by them, whether they come under the head of ‘special sale’? or some other one of the alluring announcements which are put forth. The first mentioned class are by far the larger and decidedly the more profit- able to the dealers: it includes not only the well-to-do, but the wealthy. Said the managers of a large south side establish- ment: ‘People who are able to pay good prices appreciate bargains quite as much, if indeed, no more, than any other class.”’ A special sale in one of the handsome, conservatively-conducted establishments, which under no circumstances would advertise a Monday bargain day, will often bring a jam of carriages and throng the establishment with ladies whose dainty garments evidence that they toil not, neither spin, and that they are bar- gvain-seekers as a mild, diverting fad. It was Bill Nye who said that moving day was not a burden to the poor, for they had nothing to move, neither to the rich for they did not move, but that to the great middle classes who were in the habit of buying everything that was offered them, with no place to put it and no use for it, moving day came as an overwhelming, erushing burden, and to these same middle classes bargains are, as a rule and of a truth, a delusion and a snare. They buy things because they are cheap, with no present, and, for the matter of that, no definite use for them. In this way they are guilty of extrava- gance which if perpetrated in any other form than in the purchase of a bargain would be considered nothing less than a culpable piece of folly. The woman who makes the bargain in all its forms yield her an advantage is what every woman should be, a good shopper. And, speaking of being a good shopper, to learn to be a judicious buyer ought to bea part of every girl’s education, even if she is obliged to forego the higher mathematics and an exhaust- ive study of the theory of evolution. A woman is of necessity the buyer of the household, and until carefully trained to know the absolute value of money in re- lation to goods she cannot safely trust herself in a crowded shop where not ouly unreliable goods, but false values are likely to be presented, but the bewilder- | ing and temptingly arranged variety is almost sure to be misleading. However, among the swarms of women who throng the shops the good shopper is not one in a hundred, and as the aver- age bargain betrays so largea percentage of women kind, it is safe to beware of it. > -¢ Uses for Old Paper. Most housekeepers know how inval- uable newspapers are for packing away the winter clothing, the printing ink act- ing as adefiance to the stoutest moth, some housewives think, as successfully as camphor or tar paper. For this reason newspapers are invaluable under the carpet, laid over the regular carpet paper. The most valuable quality of newspapers in the kitchen, however, is their ability to keep out the air. Itis well known that ice, completely envel- oped in newspapers so that all air is shut out, will keep a longer time than under other conditions: and that a pitcher of ice water laid in a newspaper, with the ends of the paper twisted together to exclude the air, will remain all night in any summer room with searcely any per ceptible melting of the ice. These facts should be utilized oftener than they are in the care of the sick at night. In freezing ice cream, when the ice is searce, pack the freezer only three-quar- ters full of ice and salt, and finish with newspapers, and the difference in the |is not perceptible from the result where the freezer is packed full of ice. After removing the dasher, it is better to cork up the cream and cover it tightly with a packing of newspapers than to use more ice. The newspapers retain the cold already in the ice better than a packing of cracked ice and salt, which must have crevices to admit the air. : b ia ie a Too Industrious. Clothier—What have you been doing, young sir? New Clerk—Writing some new signs. Clothier—What have you done with those old signs where the former price was marked out with a red cross anda lower price written beneath ? Clerk—I tore them up and wrote a lot of new signs with the price that wasn’t crossed out. Clothier—You are very industrious. Now write a new sign—boy wanted—and then ask the cashier to pay you what you have earned during the half-day you have been here. i > Repentance Column. The following are some of the merchants who have been under contract with the P. of I., but have found the level profit plan a delusion and a snare: Belding--L. S. Roell. Big Rapids—Verity & Co, Blanchard—L. D. Wait. Bridgeton—Geo. H. Rainouard. €asnovia—John E. Parcell. Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner. Chapin—J. I. Vanderhoof. Chester—B. C. Smith. Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodseil & Co. Clio—Nixon & Hubbell. Coopersville—W. D. Reynolds & Co. Dimondale—Elias Underhill. Dushville—G. O. Adams. Eaton Rapids—E. F. Knapp, G. W. Webster. Fork Center—D. Palmer & Co. Fremont—Boone & Pearson. Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son. Grand Rapids—F. W. Wurzburg, Van Driele & Kotvis, John Cordes, Huntley Russell. Harvard—Ward Bros. Hersey—John Finkbeiner. Hesperia—B. Cohen. Howard City—Henry Henkel. Tonia—E. S. Welch. Kent City—R. McKinnon. Lake Odessa—McCartney Bros., Fred. Miller. Lowell—Charles McCarty. Maple Rapids—L. 8. Aldrich. Marshall—John Fletcher, John Butler, Charles Fletcher. Mecosta—Robert D. Parks. Millbrook—T. O. (or J. W.) Pattison. Millington—Forester & Clough. Minden City—Henry Lewis, F. 0. & Son. Nashville—Powers & Stringham. Newaygo—W. Harmon. New Era—Peter Rankin. Olivet—F. H. Gage. Otiseo—G. V. Snyder & Co. Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler. Reed City—J. M. Cadzow. Rockford—H. Colby & Co. St. Louis—Mary A. Brice. Sand Lake—C. O. Cain. Sparta—Woodin & Van Wickle, Dole & Haynes. Sr ringport--Cortright & Griffin. Stanton—Fairbanks & Co. Sumner—J. B. Tucker. Williamston—Michael Bowerman. CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS —- OR— For the best work, at reasonable prices, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Hetfield _ 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 issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and inquiries wil) have prompt attention. January, 1890. S. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer. S. A. Morman, WHOLESALE \ | M K, AKRON, BUFFALO AND LOUISVILLE CEMENTS, Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, Fire Brick and Clay. PETOSKEY, MARBLEHEAD AND OHIO Write for prices. 69 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. RDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, bh CANAL ST. Grand Rapids - Mie = WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Ohicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapids. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. BOwNE, President. Geo. C. P1ERCE, Vice President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Makea Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. Playing Cards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. } | BEACH’S New York (offee Rooms. 61 Pearl Street. | Five Cents Each for all dishes served from bill of fare. | Steaks, Chops and All Kinds of Order Cooking a Specialty. | ' FRANK M. BEACH, Prop. TIME TABLES. | Grand Rapids & Indiana. | In effect May 18, 1890. | TRAINS GOING NORTH. | Arrive. Leave. Traverse City & Mackinaw........ 7:10am Traverse City Express...........-- 9:20am 11:30am Traverse City & Mackinaw........-. 2:15pm 4:10pm From Cincinnati..........-- . a Cadillac (Mixed)........cccsescorceee 6:30 p m Through coaches for Saginaw on 7:10 a m and 4:10 p m train. GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express...... Ja 7:1am Fort Wayne Express...... .-11:45a m 12:25 pm | Cincinnati Express........-..-- . 5:30pm 6:00 pm From Mackinaw & Traverse City..10:40 p m From Cadillac. ........cceccscesceese 9:35am Train leaving for Cincinnati at 6 p. m. and arriving from Cincinnati at 9:20 p. m., runs daily, Sundays in- cluded. Other trains daily except Sunday. Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7:10 a. m. and 4:10 p. m. trains have sleeping and parlor cars for Mackinaw City. South—7:l5a. m. train has chair car and 6 p. m. train Pullman sleeping car for Cincinnati. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & aneneee. e av rrive. PR ivi cnketcdesebcccestnsedc es sdesnans oboe 10:15am 11:15 am. . $45 pm B2dO DM... co ccccccccvccvcsceccscccrcsccscccseces 8:45pm Leaving 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. OC. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. ¢Morning Express..........-..-+++ 12:50 p m 1:00 pm ?Througn Mail........... . 4:10pm 4:20pm +Grand Rapids Express..........- 10:25 pm 10:30 pm *Night Express........ . .. 6:40am 8:45am tMixed....... caste ccne sane teens 7:30am GOING EAST. Detroit Express. .........-scceee- 6:45 am 6:50am ee 10:10am 10:20 a m tEvening EXpress.........ccccseee 3:35 pm 3:45pm Night Express. .....0..00seee+c0e 9:50 pm 10:55 p m Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Detroit Express leaving 6:50 a m has Wagner parlor and buffet car attached. and Evening Express leaving 3:45 pm has parlor car attached. These trains make direct connection in Detroit for all points East. Express leaving at 10:55 p m has Wagner sleeping ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a m. Steamboat Express makes direct connection a Grand Haven with steamboat for Milwaukee. tickets and sleeping car berths secured at D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. Jno. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern. For Toledo and all points South and East, take the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and connections at Toledo with evening trains for Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi- nent points on connecting lines. A. J. PaisLey, Gen’! Pass. Agent MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “The Niagara Falls Route.”’ DEPART. ARRIVE Detroit Bxprees. ..........cccccccees 7:20am 10:00pm eee oe, .. 6:30am 5:00pm Day Exprees.......0.0.-s0+- ..11:55am 10:00am *Atlantic & Pacific Express.. .11:5 pm 6:00am — Tork Eeproe............ ...... Saeem tae a) All other daily except Sunday. Sieeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapid Express to and from Detroit. FRED M. Briees, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe St. G. 8. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. Rueeies.G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago {BEFORE BUYING GRATES vet Circular and Testimonials. Sent Fre.. Economical, Sanitary, Cleanly and Artistic. ALDINE FIRE PLACE, GRAND RAPID’, MICH. | A True Combination of MOCHA | JAVA and RIO. . _ Picture Card Given | With every pound package. For | Sale everywhere. Woolson Rpice Co., Toledo, 0. ~ Tid Creede Ble 8d aac Photo & Zing Engi’ av, rev PTZ VISCO SLC 0S eee oa Woops METAL FURNITURE ee YNa OLE MAPLE. ato ~~ ato ~~ THE MICHIGAN TRADFSMAN. 15 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 Webhle, L. T. Lochner, Burleigh Bros, Allendale—Henry Dolman. Almira—J. J. Gray. Almont—Colerick & Martin. Altona—Eli Lyons. Armada—C, J. Cudworth. Assyria—J. W. Abbey. Aurelius—John D. Swart. Bay City—Frank Rosman & Co, Belding—Lightstone Bros. Bellaire—Schoolcraft & Nash. Bellevue—John Evans. Big Rapids—A. V. Young, E. P. Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk, J. K. Sharp, A. Markson. Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr. Bowen's Mills—Chas. W. Armstrong. Brice—J. B. Gardner. Burnside—John G. Bruce & Son. Jaldwell—cC. 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, B. ripp. Charlotte — John J. Richardson, Daron & Smith, C. P. Lock, F. H. Goodby. Clam River—Andrew Anderson. Clio—John W. Hurd. Coldwater—J. D. Benjamin. Conklin—Wilson McWilliams. Cook’s Corners—W. H. Hanks. Coral—J. S. Newell & Co. Dorr—Frank Sommer. Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt. Eaton Rapids—H. Kositchek & Bro. Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, John C. Devitt. Fenwick—Thompson Bros. Flint—John B. Wilson. Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark. Forester—E. Smith. Fremont—J. B. Ketchum, W. Harmon. Gladwin—John Graham, J. D. Sanford, Jas. Croskery. Gowan—Rasmus Neilson. Grand Haven—N. J. Braudry & Co. Grand Junction—Adam Crouse, Grand Ledge—Frank O. Lord, Geo. Coryell. Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wilzinski, Brown & Sehler, Houseman, Donnally & Jones, Ed Struensee, Wasson & Lamb, Chas. Pettersch, Morse & Co., Famous Shoe Store, Harvey & Hey- stek, Mrs. E. J. Reynolds, E. Burkhardt. Greenville—Jacobson & Netzorg. Hart—Rhodes & Leonard, W. Weidman, Mrs. E. Covel. ‘ Hastings—J G. Runyan, Howard City—O. J. Knapp, Herold Bros., C. E. Pelton. Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan. Hudson—Henry C, Hall. Imlay City—Cohn Bros., Wyckoff & Co., C.J. Buck, E. E. Palmer. Jonia—H, Silver, Wm. Wing, M. L. Steele. Jackson—Hall & Rowan. Jenisonville—L. & L. Jenison (mill only). Kalamo—L. R. Cessna. Kent City—M. L. Whitney. Kewadin—A. Anderson Kingsley—J. E. Winchcomb. Lacey—Wm. Thompson. Laingsburg—D. Lebar. Lake City—Sam. B. Ardis. Lake Odessa—Christian Colwell & Son, Fred Miller. Lakeview—H. C. Thompson, Andrew All & Bro. Langston—F D. Briggs. Lansing—R. A. Bailey, Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glic- man. Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jennings. Lowell—Patrick Kelly. McBain—Sam. B. Ardis. McBride’s—J. McCrae. Mancelona—J. L. Farnham. Manton—A. Curtis, Mrs. E. Liddle. Marshall—W. E. Bosley,S. V. R. Lepper & Son. Mason—Marcus Gregory. Mecosta—J. Netzorg. Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. 8.) Knight, Chas. Gaunt- lett, James Gauntlett, Jr. Millington—Chas. H. Valentine. Minden City—I. Springer & Co. Monroe Center—Geo. H. Wightman. od Strope. Mt. Morris—H. E. Lamb, J. Vermett & Son, F. H. Cowles. Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara. Nashville—H. M. Lee. North Dorr—John Homrich. Nottawa—Dudley Cutler. Ogden—A. J. Pence. Olivet—F. H. Gage. Onondaga—John Sillik. Orange—Tew & Son. Orono—C. A. Warren. Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co. Remus—C. V. Hane. Richmond—Knight & Cudworth, A. W. Reed. Riverdale—J. B. Adams. Rockford—B. A. Fish. Sand Lake—Frank E. Shattuck, Blanchard. Sebewa—P. F. Knapp, John Bradley. Shelbyville—Samuel Wolcott. Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow. Sheridan—M. Gray. Shultz—Fred Otis. Spencer Creek—M., M. Elder. Spring Lake—Geo. Schwab, A. Bitz. Springport—Powers & Johnson, Wellington & Hammond, Elmer Peters. Stanton—Sterling & Co. Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter. Traverse City—John Wilhelm, S. C. Darrow, D. Paine. Vassar—McHose & Gage. Wayland—Pickett Bros. Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson, H. C. Breckenridge. White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W. Wiley. Whitehall—Geo. Nelson, John Haverkate. Williamsburg—Mrs. Dr. White. Williamston—Thos. Horton. Woodbury—Chas. Lapo, H. Van Houten. Woodland—Carpenter & Son. Yankee Springs—T. Thurston. Haller & Co., KE. F. Braman & | |and enjoyment in The Ideal Business Life. A man who has always been active— always doing something in the way of business—cannot withdraw entirely from active pursuits without permanent in- jury. Enforced idleness becomes irk- some, and he is unable to enjoy himself. He constantly longs for the bustle and routine of business, his mind lacks oc- cupation, and he simply rusts from the inactivity unusual to an energetic man. In other words, although aware that his system needs rest, his active mind will not permit him to rest. He finds he has adhered so closely to business that it is difficult to wean himself from it. In- stead of deriving physical benefit from relaxation, it is a positive injury to him, because of his natural indisposition to rest. He cannot throw aside his business habits; he must have something to do. He learns that he should have accus- tomed himself to little periods of recrea- tion all through life, and not postponed his holiday until he has lost the capacity to enjoy it. Every sensible man, who has the means and opportunity, recuperates himself by frequent pauses for recreation. He does not defer his period of pleasure until the closing months of a worn-out life. He is too wise to expect impossibilities of nature—the recuperation of an utterly exhausted body. He has had his comfort due season, and is grateful to Heaven that he possesses the ; means to procure all the comforts of life, which he wisely uses to prolong his ex- istence. -- - © —»>- It Was Out. Customer (to waiter)— Some cheese, please ?”’ Waiter—Beg pardon, sir. sir. Cheese out, sir. Customer—That so ? pect it back ? Prices Then and Now. From the Boston Herald. About a year ago, with the French syndicate in full force, copper was lower than it is to-day with the French syn- dicate collapsed and out of existence. Very sorry, When do you ex- Something New Bill Snort We guarantee this cigar the best $35 cigar on the market. Send us trial order, and if not ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY return them. Advertising mat- ter sent with each order. Charlevoix Cigar Mfg 6o,, CHARLEVOLX, MICH. Wie JAXON GRACKK Is THE BEST IN THE MARKET. TRADE -MARS SEND A TRIAL ORDER TO JACKSON CRACKER 00, Jobbers of Candy, Nuts, Cheese and Cigars. JACKSON,| _ MICH. 1865. Putnam Gandy 60. tay, 1es HEADQUARTERS FOR Bw ate ORANGES, NUTS, ETC, LEMONS, PLN BANANAS, Nuts, etc. CURTISS & CoO., WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse. Figs, Dates, EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THE KEYSTONE BINDERS’ TWINE. Houseman Block, - Grand Rapids, Mich. A. HIMES, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Lime, Cement, COAL AND WOOD Fire Brick, etc. ' Yard and Warehouse on Line of Main Office, 54 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. G. KR. &1L., C. & W. M. and L. S. & M. S. Rys. — —ALL SHIPMENTS MADE PROMPTLY.——— Wagon Duplex Pleasure Business 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 C0., Grand Rapids. Ionia Pants& Overall Co. E. D. Voorhees, Manager. MANUFACTURERS OF Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, Rts. Warranted Not to Rip. Fit Guaranteed. Workmanship Perfect. Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of these goods enables him to turn out a line especially adapted to the Michigan trade. Samples and prices sent on application. IONIA, MICH. W™M.SEARS & CO. Cracker Manufacturers, 37, 39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. _TSs Sees ee A Tendency of Trade. Facility of communication has had a great influence upon the management of business. The railroad, the steamship, the telegraph, the telephone, have revo- lutionized trade. The dealer who does everything ina small way is smaller than ever; in fact, he has become so small that he may be left out of the account. Many of the petty dealers have been snuffed out by the large dealers. The latter have grown naturally by the ten- dency of trade. The man who does busi- ness in a small way cannot command capital enough to keep on hand a suffi- ciently large and varied stock to meet the demands of even ordinary trade. There is no surer note of provinciality in trade than to be out of goods called for by acustomer. The dealer who is frequently out of goods soon finds that he is out of trade. These large dealers, having the advan- tage of capital, do business on a large seale. The existence of such stores in all the cities indicates a tendency of trade. The Bon Marche in Paris, School- bred’s in London, Macy’s in New York, Wannamaker’s in Philadelphia and Leh- mann’s in Chicago, are no mere freaks of fashion. They are the growth of trade resulting from easy communicatien. This particular form of trade is transitional, because the stock. though varied, is lim- ited within the kinds. The customer who enters a country store is struck by the variety of goods exposed to view. On one side is hardware, on another are dry goods, at the rear groceries, to say noth- ing of candy, stationery, boots and shoes. 3ut you have only to call fora particular kind of goods to find that all this appar- ent wealth is real poverty. On a larger seale the same rule applies to the omnibus stores in cities. Theo- retically, they can clothe you from head to foot, but to-day they cannot give you a seven-inch hat or a nine-inch boot, and you find that in yourecase extremes meet, and you are left out. The big store has tried to swallow up the little stores, but, not having the su- pernatural capacity of Aaron’s rod, they have not succeeded. Some of these large ventures have had the fate of the frog in the fable, and have swelled until they burst. They have been called into existence by the temporary necessities of trade, and the reaction will bring about larger special stores for special lines, the only natural channel for retail business. Manufacturing which requires a larger capital than even wholesale trade is taking on a similar form of development. The formation of syndicates and trusts, though similar to the growth of the re- tail trades, has assumed more specu- lative phases and become more dangerous to the community. When producers combine, consumers are threatened. When combinations are formed that tend to create speculative values in staple ar- ticles of food, these movements become of serious moment. They must not be lawlessly assailed, but whatever law can be brought to bear against them should be wisely and judiciously applied. These trusts, like the big stores, are only temporary tendencies. They scattered over so wide an area, and their interests in different sections are so diverse, that they will fall apart of their own size. They indicate attempts to meet the new requirements arising from world-wide traffic, and this has been largely promoted by the great expositions that have been held in Great Britain, the source of so much weather wisdom. ‘Lad,’ said the baronet, ‘Show did you know it was going to rain?’ The boy promptly replied: ‘‘When ye see that old black wether turn his tail to the wind, ye’ll know that a drencher is coming.”’ Sir Walter turned back, no drier and no wiser. If we judge of the weather by the direction of the vane on the near- est stable, we may not be sure even of the direction of the wind, but the Weather Bureau gives us a result drawn from observations taken over a wide area. Likewise, there are tendencies of trade which, if carefully observed, lead to the discovery of laws as regular in their working as those which have been found in the realm of science. —> > > The Florist Was Shocked. ‘“‘You have all varieties of pansies, I suppose,’? he remarked, as he entered a florist’s store. “Vex. sir.’” “Let me please.’” The clerk said nothing; but soon pro- duced some flowers which were distinctly marked with eyes, nose and mouth, like a monkey’s face, and said : “This is the variety you want ?”’ “Yes; make a buttonhole bouquet.’’ “Yes air.” ‘How much ?’”’ asked the when the bouquet was ready. ‘‘Nothing.’’ ‘What! DPve never got anything here under a dollar before.’’ “It’s all right,’’ protested the clerk, with a weary look; ‘‘the shock is worth the flowers.”’ have some chim-panzees, customer, _—> ©. He Was Sure of It. Lady customer (angrily)—I there is water in your milk, sir. Honest Milkman—Yes, madam, there I have on several occasions urged the cows to be more careful, but they in- sist that itis impossible to make milk without water. believe is. _> . <—-- DETROIT SOAP CO’S| ueen Anne Soa 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 QUEEN ANNE SOAP WRAPPERS. Uur Laundry and Toilet Soaps are sold by all Wholesale Grocers. Ww, G. HAWKIN S, L0Cck nox 173. WosteRAl > .o— HAMILTON’S ART GALLERY, GRAND RAPIDS, Makes a Specialty of Life Size Portraits in ‘Crayon, Pastel and Water Colors, at the Low- ‘est Possible Prices. Correspondence solicited. G. T. GRamtertin. aon Drags, Paints and Wall Paper. eRe | Haitford, Mich. 27 A2Z7 1890. f Cxcanrn., ead oe t ; VISITING JS Toland, Ross C F Sears, Rockford F D Warren, Martin C A Brott, Moorland Den Herder & Tanis. Vriesland Wm Mills, VanDecar Maston & Hammond, Grandville Jno Farrowe, So Blendon E P Thomas, Scottville Mrs A H Barber. Saranac L & L Jenison, Jenisonville D JI Peacock, Ashland F Narregang, Byron Center WmVerMeulen.BeaverDam S MeNitt. Byron Center W H Watts. Bowne Center W N Hutchinson. Grant AM Church, Englishville GH Walbrink, Allendale Eli Runnels, Corning J C Scott.Lowell B Voorhorst, Overisel Wallace Watson, Parmelee RG Beckwith, Bradley A J White, Bass River Sullivan Lum Co., Sullivan E S Botsford, Dorr J Jesson & Co., Muskegon G Ten Hoor. Forest Grove HH Childs, Childs’ Mills Geo P Stark, Cascade JN Wait. Hudsonville RB McCulloch, Berlin J Riddering. Drenthe SH Ballard, Sparta | CC Barton, Rig Rapids are | of trade | France, Germany and America. | Many scout the idea of laws of trade. | They say you can tell no more about | j trade than you can about the weather; | yet the meteorologist, by the comparison | of observations made at different points, | knows more about the weather thana single observer, however weather-wise he may have become. So he who care- | fully studies the tendencies of trade be- | comes aware of laws regulative of commerce the but he needs the the large result. Sir Walter Scott was one day riding through the Highlands, when a shepherd boy bawled out: ‘Look out, man, ye’ll be Y? Riding on as as wide wet! minutes, he was drenched from head to} foot. He at once turned back to learn laws of the weather; | outlook to secure | or | for fifteen | i | DeKruif, Boone & Co., Zeeland BUYERS. RG Smith. Wayland Matthews & Chapel,WTroy M Heyboer & Bro., Oakland Gibbs Bros.. Mayfield Smith & Bristol, Ada H J Fisher, Hamilton IF Downey. Lansing H Thompson, Canada Cors JL Thomas, Cannonsburg D F Watson, Ada H Van Noord, Jamestown GW Reynolds, Belmont Smallegan & Pickaard, Forest Grove John Damstra, Gitchell C A Vandenburgh, Howard City A C Barkley, Crosby Kohlenstein Bros., Caledonia H Meijering, Jamestown Ezra Brown, Englishville J Kruisenga, Holland N Bouma, Fisher A D Lashell, Oakfield Mrs A Mulder & Son, Spring Lake Geo A Sage, Rockford E E Hewitt, Rockford S T MeLelian. Denison L Troxel, Elkhart, Ind John Baker Chauncey Chas W Armstrong, Bower’s Mills LM Wolf, Hudsonville ES Houghtaling, Hart C Ives, Coopersville E M Smith. Cedar Springs C M Bradish,Cedar Springs (Formerly Shriver, Weatherly & Co.) CONTRACTORS FOR AA 4 AeCA— f ice ave Ane aro one tn. Ln, F LEMON & PETERS, IMPORTING AND Wholesale Grocers. SOLE AGENTS FOR Galvanized Iron Cornice, Plumbing & Heating Work. Dealers in Pumps, Pipes, Etc., Mantels and Grates. Weatherly & Pulte, GRAND RAPIDS, ~ - MICH, McGinty’s Fine Cut Tobacco, Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Soaps, Niagara Starch, Acme Cheese--Herkimer Co., N. Y. Castor Oil Axle Grease. GRAND RAPIDS.