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~ GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1890.

The Commercial Traveler.
He cares not for glory,
Neither silver nor gold,
If he has a new story
For the lambs of his fold.
> a
A ROMANCE OF LABOR.

The unwritten romance of real life far
exceeds in beauty and instruction any-
thing that simple fancy ever imagined;
and I have had only to keep my eyes and
ears open, as I went up and down in the
world, to fill the storehouse of memory
with many a strange drama. The follow-
ing true incident was brought to my re-
membrance this morning, while listening
to the rebellious words of a young man,
who could not see his father’s wisdom in
desiring him to learn a trade.

‘It will make a common man of me,
father,’’ he said, querulously; ‘‘I shall
be as dirty as a blacksmith, and have
hands like a coalheaver.’’

“And if you think, Fred, that wearing
fine clothes and having white hands make
you a gentleman, let me tell you, sir, you
are now a very common man, indeed, to
begin with. A good trade might help
you to truer notions of gentlemanhood.’’

Then I looked at the handsome fellow
—for he was handsome—and I thought
involuntarily of young Steve Gaskill.
Steve has made his mark now, but many
a year agol heard just such a talk be-
tween him and old Josiah Gaskill rela-
tive to the young man learning his
father’s trade of a woolstapler.

‘It’s a dirty business, father,’’ said
the splendid Steve, in a full evening
dress, ‘‘and I hate the smell of oil, and
the sight of those men in blue linen
blouses. I hope I shall do something
better for myself than that.’’

‘*Very well, lad; whaten is thou fain
to be ?”’

‘“*A lawyer, father.’’

“They’re naught but a lazy, quarrel-
some set, but thou sha’ not say I iver
stood i? thy gate. Bea lawyer, lad, Ill
speak to Denham to-morrow about thee.’’

So young Steve was articled to Denham
& Downes, to study law, and specially
“conveyancing.’? He was an only son,
but he had three sisters, and over them
and his mother he exercised supreme
influence. Whatever Steve did, was
right: whatever he said, was beyond dis-
pute. Even old Josiah, with all his
sound sense, was, in spite of himself,
swayed by this undisputed acknowledg-
ment of Steve’s superiority. He would
not have advised his son to be a lawyer,
but seeing that Steve was not afraid of
being one, he was rather proud of the
lad’s pluck and ambition.

It cost him a good deal. Steve’s tastes
were expensive, and he fell naturally
among aclass of men who led him into
many extravagances. There was oc-
casional awkward scenes, but Steve, sup-
ported by his mother and sisters, always
cleared every scrape, and finally satisfied
the family pride in being regularly
admited upon the roll of her majesty’s
attorneys.

In the meantime, his father had been
daily failing in health, and soon after
this event he died. Most of his savings
had been seeured for the benefit of the
helpless women of the Gaskill family;
and Steve now found himself with a pro-
fession and athousand pounds to give
him a fair startin it. People said old
Gaskill had acted very wisely, and Steve
had sense enough to acquiesce in public
opinion. He knew, too, that just as long
as his mother or sisters had a shilling,
they would share it with him.

So he hopefully opened his office in his
native town of Leeds, and waited for
clients. But Yorkshire men are proverb-
ially cautious; a young, good-natured,
fashionably dressed lawyer was not their
ideal. Steve could not look crafty and
wise under any circumstances, and the
first year he did not make enough to pay
his rent.

 

  

NO. 362.

Nevertheless, he did not, in any way,
curtail expenses; and when the summer
holidays arrived, he went as usual toa
fashionable watering-place. Ithappened
that year saw the debut of Miss Eliza-
beth Braithwaite, a great heiress, anda
handsome girl. Steve was attracted by
her beauty, and her great wealth was
certainly no drawback in his eyes. Ina
short time, he perceived Miss Braith-
waite favored him above all other pre-
tenders to her hand, and he began seri-
ously to consider the advantages of a
rich wife.

His profession hitherto had been a
failure; his one thousand pounds were
nearly spent; his three sisters were all
on the point of marriage, a condition
which might seriously modify their
sisterly instincts; and his mother’s whole
annual income would not support him a
month. Would it not be the best plan to
accept the good fortune so evidently
within his reach ?

Elizabeth was handsome and inelined
to favor him, and though she had the
reputation of being both authoritative in
temper and economical in money matters,
he did not doubt but that she would
finally acknowledge his power as eom-
pletely as his own mother and sisters.
So he set himself to win Miss Braith-
waite, and before Christmas they were
married.

True, he had been compelled to give
up agreat deal more than he liked: but
he promised himself plenty of marital
compensations. Elizabeth insisted on
retaining her own house, and as Steve
had really no house to offer her, he must
needs go to Braithwaite Hall, as the
husband of its proprietress. She insisted
upon his removing his office to Braith-
waite, a small village, offering none of
the advantages for killing time, which a
large city like Leeds did; and she had
all her money scrupulously settled upon
herself for her own use, and under her
absolute control.

Steve felt very much as if his wife had
bought him; but, for a little time, the
eclat of having married a great heiress,
the bridal festivities and foreign travel
compensated for the loss of his freedom.
But when they returned to Braithwaite,
life soon showed him a far more prosaic
side. Mrs. Gaskill’s economical disposi-
tion soon became particularly offensive
to Steye. She inquired closely into his
business, and did not seruple to make
unpleasantly witty remarks about his
income. She rapidly developed, too, an
authoritative disposition, against which
Steve daily more and more rebelled. The
young couple were soon very unhappy.

The truth was that a great transition
was taking place in Steve’s mind, and
times of transition are always times of
unrest and misery. The better part of
his nature was beginning toclaim a hear-
ing. He had seen now all that good
society could show him; he had tasted of
all pleasures money could buy, and he
was not happy.

His wife had no ennwi and no dissatis-
faction with herself. There was her
large house to oversee, her gardens and
conservatories, her servants and charity-

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schools, her toilet, and a whole colony of
pet animals. Her days were too short
for all the small interests that filled
them; and these interests she would |
willingly have shared with Steve, but to}
him they soon became intolerable bores. |

Under some circumstances he might |
have found his work in the ordering and |
investing of his wife’s large estate; but
Elizabeth was far too cautious a woman
to trust it in untried hands. Her father’s
agent was her agent; her banker man-
aged all her investments; her park and
farms and gardens were all under the}
care of old and experienced servants,
who looked upon Steve merely as
**Missis’s husband.”’

In the second year of his marriage he
began to have some thoughts which |
would have astonished his wife, could
she have thought it worth while to in-
quire what occupied his mind in the long,
moody hours when he paced the shrub-|
bery, or sat silently looking out of the}
window. But Steve was now ready for
any honest thing that would take him out
of the purposelesss, dependent life which |
he had so foolishly chosen for himself.

One day, greatly to his surprise, Eliza-
beth said to him:

“Steve, I have a letter from a cousin |
of my mother’s, who lives in Glasgow.
She is going to Australia, and wants me
to buy her house. She says it is a great
bargain; and I wrote to Barrett to go and |
see about it. I havea letter this morn-|
ing, saying he is too ill to leave his bed.
I wonder if you could go and attend to
i?’

Anything for achange. Steve showed
a very proper business like interest, and
said :

‘Yes, 1 would be very glad to go.”’

“Very well. I should think you knew
enough of titles and deeds and convey-
ancing, and all that kind of thing. I will
trust the affair to you, Steve.”’

So the next morning Steve found him-
self on the Caledonian Line, with one
hundred pounds in his pocket, and a
veritable piece of business on hand. The
first twenty miles out of Leeds he enjoyed
with the abandon of a bird set free; then
he began to think again. At Crewe he
missed a train, and, wandering about the
station, fell into talk with the engineer
of the next one, who was cleaning and
examining his engine with all the love
and pride a mother might give to a
favorite child.

The two men fraternized at once, and
Steve made the trip over the Caledonian
line in the cuddy of the engineer, who
was a fine fellow, ‘‘one of the seven,”’ he
said, ‘‘all machinists and engineers.’
The young mechanic was only serving
his time, learning every branch of his
business practically; he had brothers
who made engines, and he hoped to do-so
some day.

In spite of his soiled face and oily
clothes, Steve recognized that refinement
that comes with education; and when his
new friend called upon him at the Queen’s
Hotel, he would not have been ashamed
of his appearance, even in his most fas-
tidious days.

‘“‘Mr. Dalrymple, I am glad to see you,”’
said Steve, holding out both hands to
him.

“I thought you would be, sir; it is not
often I am mistaken in my likings. 1 will
go with you now tosee my father’s works,

 

|in Elizabeth’s heart.

 

if it suits you.”’

Never had such a place entered Stephen
Gaskill’s conception: the immense fur-
naces, the hundreds of giants working
around them, the clang of machinery,
the mighty struggle of mind with matter,
of intellect over the elements, was a rev-
elation. He envied these Cyclops in their |
leathern masks and aprons; he longed to
lift their mighty hammers. He looked |
upon the craftsmen with their bare,
brawny arms and blackened hands, and
felt his heart glow with admiration when
he saw the mighty works those hands had
fashioned. The tears were in his eyes |
when Andrew Dalrymple and he parted
at the gate of the great walled-in yard.

‘**Thank you,’’ he said; ‘tyou have done
me the greatest possible service. I shall
remember it.”’

That night Steve formed a strange but |
noble resolution. First of all, he devoted |
himself to his wife’s business, and ac-|
complished it in a manner which elicited

Mr. Barrett’s warm praise. and made
Elizabeth wonder whether she might not
spare her agent’s fees for the future.
Then he had a long, confidential talk
with the owner of the Dalrymple Iron
and Machine Works, the result of which
was the following letter to Mrs. Gaskill:
o‘**My Dear Wire: I shall not be home
again for at least two years, for I have

| begun an apprenticeship to Thomas Dal-
| rymple here, as an ironmaster. I propose
| to learn the whole business practically.
| I have lived too long upon your bounty,

for | have lost your esteem as well as my

|}own, andI do not say but what I have
| deserved the loss.
;redeem my wasted past, and, with His
|help, make aman of myself.

Please God, I will

When I
am worthy to be your husband you will

|respect me, and, until then, think as

kindly as possible of
“STEPHEN GASKILL.’’
This letter struck the first noble chord
From that hour
not even her favorite maid durst make

| her usual little compassionate sneer at
| ‘poor master.”’

Steve, in leathern apron and coarse

| working clothes, began laboriously happy
| days, which brought him nights of sweet-
}est sleep; and Elizabeth began a series
| of letters to her husband which gradually
grew more and more imbued with the

tenderest interest and respect. Ina few
weeks she visited him of her own free
will, and purposely going to the works,
saw her self-banished lord wielding a
ponderous hammer upon a bar of white-
hot iron. Swarthy, bare-armed, clothed
in leather, he had never looked so hand-
some in Elizabeth’s eyes; and her eyes
revealed this fact to Steve, for in them
was the tender light of a love founded
upon a genuine respect.

Steve deserved it. He wrought faith-
fully out his two years’ service, cheered
by his wife’s letters and visits, and when
he came out of the Dalrymple Works,
there was no more finished ironmaster
than he. He held his head frankly up
now, and looked fortune boldly in the
face; he could earn his own living any-
where, and, better than all, he had con-
quered his wife—won her esteem and
compelled her to acknowledge a physical

| strength and a moral purpose greater

than her own.

Between Leeds and Braithwaite Hall
there have been for many years gigantic
iron works. The mills and railways of
the West Riding know them well; their
work is famous for its excellence, for the
master is a practical machinist and over-
sees every detail Their profits are enor-
mous, and Stephen Gaskill, their propri-
etor, is also the well-beloved and _ thor-
oughly respected master of Braithwaite
Hall and of Braithwaite Hall’s mistress.

AMELIA E. BARR.
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A New Check Upon Checks.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“There, ’ve got it down fine at last,
and no mistake,’’ and one of Philadel-
phia’s best-known business men laid his
pen down with asigh of relief and hastily
blotted his name on a check with a blot-
ter.

“Got what down?” asked a visitor.

“A new wrinkle adopted by merchants
and others to prevent their names from
being forged to checks. It is this way:
After signing my name, I turn the pen

|} up and draw a line through it from right
| to left, and it looks as if the name had
| been cancelled.
| at the end where the long line of the pen
|} commences is where the forger of a man’s

The peculiar little twirl

name gets left. He doesn’t tumble to it,

| so to speak, but the cashiers of the bank

where Ido business do, and they know

/instantly whether the signature is genu-

ine or not. You see also, this line drawn
through the name makes the check look
as if it was no good in ease it is lost, and

| the finder will not present it for collec-
| tion.

“It is a great idea and is being adopted

| by many business men of the city. Of
| course, we have to explain it to the bank

people, who, once they know it, have no
further trouble with us overit. But the

| difficulty is the practicing to get it down

fine, and it takes some little work to do
so,’”? and he gazed proudly at the un-
sightly line drawn through his name at
the bottom of a check for $7,000,

 

INTEREST HISTORICALLY CONSID-
ERED.

Probably no method of money-getting
has aroused so much hostility in all
times as lending money at interest.
There has seemed to be something
against nature in making money, which
is naturally sterile, reproduce itself.
Aristotle held that ‘it is the function of
nature to supply food to all that is born,’’
and so making gain from fruits and ani-
mals is natural and praiseworthy. But
the gain connected with barter is to be
blamed, for itis not natural, but a rob-
bing of man from man.

‘*Most reasonably of all, however, is
hated the trade of the usurer, because
the gain comes from the money itself,
and not from the use for which money
was devised, for it came into existence
for the help of exchange; but interest
(which means ‘breeding,’ tokos,)  in-
creases it more and more, whence inter-
est . . . becomes money bred of money;
so that, of the means of making gain,
this is by far the most unnatural.’’

This view of interest persisted all
through the Middle Ages. Curiously
enough, the view of barter or exchange,
that if one party gains by it the other
must lose, survives even at the present
day in the case of international ex-
changes, though no man thinks of accus-
ing his grocer, say, of robbing him by
charging him more than the wholesale
price for a barrel of flour.

The aversion of interest manifested in
the Old Testament is familiar. A simi-
lar aversion is shown in the Koran. The
fathers of the Church, on the whole,
looked with disfavor upon interest, and
the antipathy of the Church in latter
times to this method of gain is well-
known. In uncivilized nations, in gen-
eral, the taking of interest is regarded as
reprehensible. Here the borrower usu-
ally contracts the loan from necessity,
and not for the purpose of making gain,
and the rate of interest is very high.

With an advance of civilization, the
rate of interest usually declines. Accord-
ing toa law of the Visigoths, the max-
ium rate on loans of money was 124 per
cent.; on other res fungibiles, 50 per
cent. The Jews and the Lombards in
France and England took about 20 per
cent. from the twelfth to the fourteenth
centuries. About 1430, the Florentines,
in order to lower the high rates which
prevailed, invited the Jews to their city,
and the latter promised not to charge
over 20 per cent.

In Russia, it is stated, with how much
accuracy 1 do not know, that the rate
was 40 per cent. in the eleventh century.
The decline of the rate of interest in
England and France may be thus ex-
hibited. In the former, under Henry
IIL, the legal rate was 10 per cent.; un-
der James I., 8 per cent.; about 1651, 6
per cent. In the latter, from the begin-
ning of the sixteenth to the latter part of
the seventeenth centuries, the rate de-
clined from 10 per cent. to 5. In ancient
Greece the rate was 18 per cent. in
Solon’s time. Aristotle mentions 12 per
cent., which Demosthenes and Aschines
call low.

In one respect the taking of interest
remains on the same footing as in early
and medieval times. I refer to the busi-
ness of pawnbroking. Here the borrow-
ing is effected from urgent necessity, and
the debtor is frequently not in a position,
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taking. Under such conditions, the bus-
iness of loaning is still considered dis-
honorable by the public, and the result
in this case is that, as arule, only bad
men engage in it, as is usual with a busi-
ness which is necessary and at the same
time held to be disreputable. Many laws
have recognized this fact, and made pro-
vision for it. Thus, formerly Jews were
permitted to receive higher interest than

Christians. Justinian permitted to
“illustrious personages’? only 4 per
cent., to ordinary private persons, 6 per

cent., and to money-changers and the
like, 8 per cent. According to the Laws
of Menu, the Brahmin may receive only
2, the warrior, 3, lower castes, 4 or 5 per
cent. a month. Publie regulation of
pawnbroking does not succeed any better
than the regulation of other business;
secrecy is desired by both parties, so that
laws are easily invaded.

A symptom of a condition is frequently
mistaken for it cause. Thus it was ob-
served that a low rate of interest fre-
quently coincided with a period of pros-
perity, and the inference was drawn that
the former was the cause of the latter.
So, after governments had given up try-
ing to prohibit interest, a plan was con-
ceived of making their subjects prosper-
ous, by fixing the rate. When Louis
XIV. lowered the rate to 5 per cent., he
asserted in the preamble to his decree
that it would promote the welfare of
land-owners and business men, and pre-
vent idleness. Several early English
writers took the same view; thus one
says, that every lowering of the rate of
interest by law produced a correspond-
ing inerease in the national wealth.
Whether or not this is true must always
remain doubtful, because it has proved
absolutely impossible to lower interest
by law. The expedients by which usury
laws were evaded have been many—ac-
knowledgments of indebtedness to a
larger amount than that actually re-
ceived, acknowledging it in a higher
kind of money than that in which the
loan was made, taking commodities at an
exorbitantly high price by the debtor or
selling them to the creditor at a dispro-
portionately low one, fixing terms of
payment in such a way that the debtor is
always forced to let them slip by—the
list is almost inexhaustible. Even if the
government were successful in forcing
interest below the natural rate, less cap-
ital would certainly be loaned, and more
would go to foreign parts; less, also,
would be saved. Governments are able,
however, to make the rate of interest un-
naturally high. In Switzerland, at one
time, those who took less than the pre-
scribed rate were punished, as well as
those who took more. But the most ef-
fective way is for the government to fix
alow rate and impose heavy penalties
for exceeding it; because in this case the
debtor, being usually more in need of ob-
taining the loan than the creditor is of
investing his capital, is forced to pay to
the latter not only the natural interest
but also a compensation for the risk that
is run in violating the law.

More confusion has existed on the sub-
ject of interest than upon most economi-
cal subjects—at any rate, it has existed
longer. As late as 1754, a writer of some
pretensions accounted for interest as
follows: Some _ people hoard their
money, instead of spending it, and thus
produce a scarcity; so others, who need to
obtain some of this money, are obliged
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possessors to lend it. Interest has been
very frequently confounded with the
price of money. The most popular fal-
lacy upon the subject now is that the
rate of interest can be lowered by in-
creasing the amount of currency.
men really wish to borrow usually is
capital—agencies of production — and
money is only a means for the transfer
of these. The amount of currency can
have no effect upon the abundance of
capital, and even an increase in the
abundance of capital, does not always
lower the rate of interest; this is partly
determined by the value of capital ir
use.

The existence of interest depends, of
course, primarily upon the existence of
private property. Until the right of
property is recognized as extending be-
yond actual possession there is not likely
to be much lending. The aversion to
interest has now nearly disappeared; it
is recognized that if one man lends an-
other anything, the first has done the
second a favor, and some inducement
proves necessary to induce men to lend
to one another. The price for the use of
capital tends to become lower and lower,
like the price of commodities. Expecta-
tions have been entertained that it will
eventually become zero; but this stage
will probably be reached only when
economic products become free property
of the human race. ¥. A. i.

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of the Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce Co. Weare handling potatoes in car lots.

biaP ee D J. BROW NN,

WHOLESALE DEALER IN DIRECT RECEIVER OF

California & Florida Oranges
FOreigD FOS ald PrOwUCe, ~~ rosriya TEMONS, g

Headquarters for Bananas.

 

 

24 and 26 North Diwision St., - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Weekly Price List sent on application.
CURTISS & CoO.,
WHOLESALE
Paper Warehouse.

FLOUR SACKS, GROCERY BAGS, TWINE AND WOODEN WARE.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

MOMs: OTL, CoO,

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Oils
and Makers of Fine Lubricants.

OFFICE—19 and 21 Waterloo St. |] WORKS—OnC & W. M.
Telephone No. 319. | mile north of Junction.
The largest and most complete oil‘line in Michigan.
Cylinder Oils, Engine Oils, W. Va. Oils, Lard Oils, Neatsfoot
Signal Oil, Axle Grease, Boiler Purger, Kerosene Oils, Naptha,
seed Oils, Castor Oil, Cooking Oils, Axle Oils, Machinery
Ete. See Quotations.

 

Houseman Block, ~

 

and G. KR. & I. HK, R.,one
Telephone No. 611-3R
Jobbers of all kinds of
Oils, Harness Oil,
Turpentine, Lin-
Grease, Cotton Waste,

 

We Manufacture

Everything in the line of

Candy

Correspondence solic-

ited and prices quot-

ed with pleasure.
Write us.

WM.SEARS & CO.,
Cracker Manvtacturers,

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

 

 

 

We Are Neadquarters, as Usual, for
Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Fruits
d Produce Generally.

CHANT) RAPIDS FRUIT AND PRODUCE. CO,

C. B. METZGER, Proprietor.

3 NO. IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDs.

MOSELEY BROS.
——_W HOLESALE——
Fruits, Seeds, Oysters! Produc:.
All kinds of Figld Seeds a Specialty.

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

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

 

 

 

 

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AMONG THE TRADE.

AROUND THE STATE.
Evart—S. Stephens has opened a bak-
ery.
Grand Haven—Wm. Ballgoyne, grocer,
is dead.
Detroit—W. L. Day succeeds Waples
Grafton in the drug business.
Manistee—L. P. Smith has opened a
jewelry store at 69 Maple street.
Saranac—Mrs. N. T. Hubbell has en-
gaged in the millinery business.
Menominee—O. B. Olson succeeds C,
H. Ludwig in the drug business.
Fowlerville—O. H. Corbett has sold his
stock of groceries to O. A. Fowler.
Hastings—A. D. Cook has purchased
the grocery stock of J. G. Runyan.
Gobleville—F. Post has bought a half
interest in J. H. Darling’s drug store.
Addison — Mrs. Frank Barnes and
*Genie Bowen willopen a millinery store.
Imlay City—Wm. Fairweather succeeds
T. B. Keyworth in the bakery business.
Cadillac—Wm. Hans
Fairbrothers in the restaurant business.
St. Johns—C. M. Johnson has pur-
chased the grocery stock of W. F. Gard-
ner.
Onekama—John

succeeds Isaac

Bond

general store in the Chamberlain build- |

ing.

Nashville—Henry Roe is putting up a|

new building, which he will

meat market.

}
Ishpeming—J. F. Johnston & Son are}

succeeded by Johnston & Butler in the
meat business.

Hesperia—D. Weaver and Co. have
sold out their general stock and retired
from business.

Carney—L. A. Jennings & Co. succeed
C. A. Brown & Co. in the mer-
chandise business.

Cambridge—Onsted & Wemple have
rented the Tipton elevator and will buy
grain at that place.

Kalamazoo—It is reported that A. P.
Connor & Co. contemplate retiring from

general

 

the clothing business.
Brackett & Son, jew-
Brackett,

Lansing—R. E.
elers, have dissolved. R. E.
Jr., continues the business.

Belding—A. M. Simmons will put in a
stock of wall paper and bazaar goods on
one side of A. M. Kenyon’s store.

Sonth Boardman—H. P. Whipple has
sold his grocery stock to Jas. H. Murray,
having purchased adry goods stock at
Belding.

Sparta—E. W. Noble has exchanged
his property
Muskegon, and expects to remove to that
place soon.

Cheshire—John Schoolcraft has bought
out the grocery stock of his brother
Charles, and will continue business at
the old stand.

Onekama—Geo. Williams has sold his
interest in the Onekama bakery to Mr.
Daily, and will take a position in the
Empire Lumber Co.’s store.

Mancelona—D. A. Frazer has pur-
ehased the Burdick building and will
occupy it with his stock of sewing ma-
chines and machine supplies.

Battle Creek—Bowen & Smith, dealers

in clothing and men’s furnishing goods, |

have dissolved. The business will be
continued by Arthur T. Smith.
Muskegon—Albert Bush, who has been
a clerk in the store
Miner the past six years, has purchased
the grocery stock of M. A. Vickers.
Adrian—Peckham & Schroeder’s

grocery

has opened a}

use as a/

here for a drug stock in|

of &. 6.1

mer-

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

by burglars the night of[the 19th. They
‘carried away $300 worth of cloths and
custom made garments.

Mancelona—L. W. Stewart, who re-
cently purchased the stock of Mary S.
Haynes, will handle confectionery, sta-
tionery and notions—but no second-hand
goods, as stated last week.

Detroit—The firm of Peters Bros., car-
pet renovaters, has dissolved. Louis M.
Peters takes charge of A. Posselius &

|Co.’s carpet department, and John B.
Peters continues the old business under
the old firm’s name.

Belding—Cooper & Putney have sold
their dry goods stock to H. P. Whipple,
of South Boardman, the consideration
being $5,000 cash. It is thought that Mr.
Whipple will remove to this place and
make it his future home.

Elk Rapids—After a business partner-
ship of thirty-four years, the copartner-
ship of Dexter & Noble has been term-
inated by the death of Wirt Dexter. All
the property of the firm has been trans-
ferred to the Elk Rapids Iron Co., which
will continue the business under the
same general and departmental manage-

| ment as before.

| Big Rapids—W. A. Verity was ar-
| ranged before U. S. Commissioner Not-
| tingham on the 18th on the charge of
violating the internal revenue law by
selling tobacco without a license. It ap-
| pears that when he purchased his broth-
er’s stock of groceries, some months
|since, he neglected to procure a new
license, under the impression that it was
not necessary todo so. He waived ex-
amination and was held upon his own
recognizance for trial in the U. S. Dis-
trict Court at Grand Rapids in October
next.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Maple Rapids—Jones, Barnard & Co.
have moved their oar factory to Durand.

Gaylord—Brodie & Bolton have en-
gaged in the manufacture of butcher’s
| knives.

Albion—The Albion Malleable Iron
| Works Co. is contemplating removing to
| Saginaw.

Standish—James Norn has contracted
| to manufacture 1,500,000 feet of lumber
for Andrew Kent.

Hart—Geo. L. Spencer has bought a
half interest of P. P. Roberts in the Hart
Tile and Stone Works.

Jonesville—John A. Selfridge, a prom-
inent citizen and lumber merchant, died
| on the 15th, after an illness of two weeks.
| Flint—J. J. Pellet has sold his interest
|in the firm of Pellet Bros. & Co. manu-
|facturers of tables, etc., to Wm. B. Pel-
| lett.

Portland—A company has been or-

ganized for the manufacture of Terriff’s
Perfect Washer, with a capital stock of
| $10,000.
| Gladwin — Cook & Cunningham are
| erecting a saw and planing mill here and
will be in shape to begin operations
| about Sept. 1.
| Saginaw—John G. Owen is arranging
| to put in 5,000,000 feet of logs at his
| mill at Owendale. His sawmill has been
| idle all season.
Meredith—The Wells-Stone Mercantile
| Co.’s warehouse here burned on the 19th.
| It was full of grain. The loss is figured
| at $10,000, with $8,000 insurance.
Muskegon—The Muskegon Cracker Co.
| has plans in preparation for a two-story
warehouse, 50x75 feet in dimensions, and
a two-story ice house and stable, 42x48

 

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chant tailoring establishment was visited! feet in dimensions.

 

Lowell—The Lowell mills have been
sold to King, Quick & King and Charles
McCarty, who have incorporated under
the style of the King Milling Co., with a

capital stock of $25,000.
Fenton—L. C. Gleason, who has op-

erated a factory here for the manufac-
ture of handles of all kinds, has put his
plant into a stock corporation, and will

remove it to Little Rock, Ark.
Cadillac—Cobbs & Mitchell have pur-

chased 800,000 feet of pine in Henderson
township, this county, of Sawyer & Mil-
ler, and the latter will cut and bank it
on the Big Clam Lake this winter.
Manistee—Henry Magoon, who was in-
terested in a sawmill at Clare, has sold
out his interest to his partner, Alf.
Touchette, who will for the future con-
tinue the business in his own name.
Marion—F. E. Stanley and Jas. Allen
are in the sawmill business, having re-
cently bought the Beatty mill, located
five miles east of here, of Chadwick &
Corwin. They are now sawing ties.
Saginaw—H. B. Nease, Son & Co. have
been negotiating for the Hoyt planing
mill, which has been idle the past year.
It is owned by the Hoyt estate, the tim-
ber of which is all closed out. The
price asked is $40,000, which is more
than the Nease people are willing to pay.
East Tawas—Alva Wood has pur-
chased all the timber on lands in 21-4
east, owned by the old Keystone Lumber
Co., of Saginaw. Mr. Wood owns a
small mill at Prescott, on the Detroit,
Bay City & Alpena Railway and will cut
the timber and manufacture it at his

mill.
Manistee—Geo. Billings, of this city,

J. N. Brodie, S. Rice, C. J. Berdan, O. A.
Larue and Thomas Simpson, of Bear
Lake, are making arrangements to erect
a portable sawmill in that township, on
the Glover place, two and a half miles
east of the village. The capacity of the
mill will be about 15,000 feet per day.

Eaton Rapids—Wm. Smith has sold his
planing mill property to J. C. Selby.
The sale includes the building, boiler
and engine, and the balance of the ma-
chinery will be moved away. Mr. Selby
has already put a fruit evaporator into
the mill, and will pursue that business
the coming fall, embarking in the manu-
facture of evaporator machinery during
the dull season for fruit drying.

West Bay City—F. W. Wheeler & Co.
have contracted to build for Cleveland
parties a steamship 310 feet long, 41 feet
beam and 23 feet depth of hold, at a cost
of $125,000. At present there are four
boats on the stocks at this yard, three of
which are steel. Since January 1, twelve
boats have been launched from this yard,
and at the Davidson yard eight wooden
vessels have been launched since naviga-

tion opened.
Muskegon—H. P. Snyder, of Detroit,

has purchased twenty acres of land east
of this city, ten acres of which he will
plat as an addition to the city, the re-
mainder to be reserved as a site fora
furniture factory. Mr. Snyder purposes
to manufacture cheap grades of furniture
and will employ about thirty men at
first. Negotiations are in progress look-
ing to the running of a side track from
the C. & W. M. air line through this
property, across to North Muskegon,
over John Torrent’s land. This will fit
in nicely with Mr. Torrent’s scheme to
dam the Muskegon river and put factories
along the face of the dam. The side
track will run close to the site of the
proposed dam.

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

Advertisoments will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a
word for each subsequent insertion. No adve
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Fro SALE—STOCK OF HARDWARE AND BUILD-
ing in the best town of Northern Michigan. Ad-

dress No. 96, care Michigan Tradesman. 96
R SALE—DRUG STOCK; THE FINEST LOCATION
and best paying store on South Division street,
Grand Rapids; stock and fixtures inventory about

$1,600. Address No. 95, care Michigan Tradesman. 95
OR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STOCK AND
business in Grand Rapids worth $2,500 must be
sold owing to the absence of proprietor on account of

 

sickness; correspondence solicited. Address L. J.
Shafer, 77 Madison Ave., Grand Rapids. Mention
this paper. i

 

OR SALE—THE BEST DRUG AND GROCERY BUS-
iness in live railroad and manufacturing town in
Michigan of 1,200 inhabitants, with splendid farming
country to back it up, with no large town within 20
miles; the business comprises drugs and medicines,
groceries, school books, crockery, wall paper, notions,
etc.; also express oflice and mail to carry to depotin
connection; mail and express pay clerk hire; stock
complete; business pays $1,000 per year net; stock will
invoice about $4,000; business mostly cash; in brick
block; rental low; best location in town; also own
one-third interest in the block, which rents for $1,500
per year; will sell one or both; reasons fer selling,
sickness and death, with other business to attend to.
Address No. 91, care Michigan Tradesman.
Vv SALE—THE MAGNIFICENT ELEVATOR AND
warehouse at Carson City, Mich., recently built
by the Carson City Elevator Co. at a cost of $10,000;
having become the property of the Carson City Sav-
ings Bank now in liquidation, will to close out, be sold
for $5,000; will give time for part. Address J.E. Just,
Ionia, Mich. 86
re SALE—A RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR A SMALL
investment to secure a light manufacturing busi-
aying large profits; correspondence solicited

ness
Drawer No. 831,
90

only from parties meaning business.
La Crosse, Wis.
OR SALE CHEAP—ONE LARGE DRY AIR RE-
frigerator, McGea patent; one coffee mill; show
cases; scales; tea caddies; oil tank, etc., everything in
fixtures to run agrocery store. W. C. Davis, Kalama-
zoo, Mich. 89
OR SALE OR RENT—A GOOD TWO-STORY BUILD-
ing, 24x80 feet, with basement 24x60 feet; the
second story is rented for lodge hall. For particulars
write to J. R. Harrison, Sparta, Mich. 88
| ae SALE — GROCERY STOCK AND FIXTURES,
either by inventory or by bulk; good trade for
cash customer. No. 85, care Michigan Tradesman. 85
?. SALE—25 PER CENT. BELOW COST, ONLY
hardware stock in Baldwin, lively town on line of
two railways; ill health compels sale; store building
cheap. Joseph H. Cobb, Baldwin, Mich. 84
OR SALE—MACHINE SHOP PART OF OUR BUSI-
ness; arare chance. The Castree-Mallery com-
pany, Flint, Mich. 82
tr SALE—STOCK OF FURNITURE AND UNDER-
taking goods in one of the best towns ih Michi-
gan; stock will invoice about $3,000; terms cash;
reason for selling, are engaged in the Manufacturing
business. Address No. 81, care Michigan —

 

| ae SALE—FIRST-CLASS DRUG STOCK; INVEN-
tory $2,000; also real estate; a good chance for
oung physician. Address P. M. Cleveland & Son,
Gunien, Mich. %
JOB OF CONTRACT SAWING FOR SOME RE-
sponsible party; Michi prefe . Address
Holley & Bullen, North Aurelius, Mich. 65
rT SALE—STOOK OF GROCERIES AND FIXTURES,
splendid location; good reasons for selling. For
particulars, address No. 58, care T: 58
ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A
general or grocery stock; must be cheap. Ad-
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26

SITUATIONS WANTED.

ITUATION WANTED OCT. 18ST—AS TRAVELING
salesman, by a man of 30, with 17 years’ expert-
ence in the retail drug and grocery business; would be
willing to work for moderate salary and expenses to
start with. Address W, care Michigan Tradesman %4
pt ieee WANTED—BY REGISTERED PHARMA-
cist of eight year’s experience; first-class refer-
ences. Address 92, care Michigan Tradesman. 92
ITUATION WANTED—BY TRAVELING SALESMAN
of four years’ experience in furnishing goods
line. Address 87 care Michigan Tradesman. 87
Wee ee BY A REGISTERED PHARM-
acist, 8 years’ experience; ood references
given. Address No. 83, care Michigan lesman.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Se oa IRISH {SETTER PUPS From
registered parents $5 each. Chas. K. Farmer,
Hartman, Mich. 93
A BOLISH THE PASS BOOK AND SUBSTITUTE THE

Tradesman Coupon, which is now in use by over
1 of whom are warm in

 

5,000 Michigan merchants—al
praise of its effectiveness. Send for sample order,
which will be sent prepaid on receipt of $1. e
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.

Sgn mn 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 =

a Bicycles,
Trigycles,
Velocipedes

AND |

General Sporting Goods

Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bro.’s
Sporting and Athletic Goods and
American Powder Co.’s Powder.

 

 

 

 

 

We have on hand a complete line of Columbia,
Victor and other cheaper bicycles, also a splen-
did assortment of Misses’ Tricycles, Children’s
Velocipedes and small Safety Bicycles.

E. G. Studley,

4 Monroe 8&t.,

 

Call and see them

or send for large,
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GRAND RAPIDS } logue.

 

 

 

 

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—~{™ ees Or ce ERNE

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

A. D. Cook has re-engaged in the gro-
cery business at Hastings. The stock
was furnished by Musselman & Widdi-
comb.

Fuller & Anderson have opened a gro-
cery stock at the corner of Fifth and
Stocking streets. I. M. Clark & Son fur-
nished the stock.

Joseph Glowezynski, grocer at the cor-
ner of East Bridge street and Grand ave-
nue, has added a line of dry goods. P.
Steketee & Sons furnished the stock.

Subsequent to the foreclosure of their
mortgage on the Snyder & Porter grocery
stock, the partners gave I. M. Clark &
Son a bill of sale, and the stock has been
absorbed in the wholesale store.

W. A. Strong and Ed. Strong have
formed a copartnership under the style
of W. A. Strong & Son and embarked in
the drug business at Reed City. The
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. furnished
the stock.

W. T. Lamoreaux has leased his store
building at 71 Canal street to the West-
ern Beef Co., which will embark in the
wholesale and retail meat business here
about Oct. 1. Mr. Lamoreaux will there-
after conduct his business in a ware-
house, the location of which has not yet
been decided upon.

—— <<
Gripsack Brigade.

Wm. H. and S. F. Downs have re-
turned from Uhion City, where they at-
tended the funeral of their father.

A. S. MeWilliams, late of Detroit, has
taken the position of Upper Peninsula
traveling representative for the Muskegon
Cracker Co.

The veteran Thos. MacLeod, who has
sold shoes out of Detroit for the past
quarter of a century, put in Sunday at
this market.

Clark F. Williams has completed a
fortnight’s trip through the Saginaw
Valley in the interest of L. Perrigo &
Co., of Paw Paw.

The Travelers’ Club, of Detroit,
opened their new club rooms on Monday.
Itis reported that the Club will keep
‘‘open house’’ during the exposition.

G. S. Escott has been called home from
Chicago to assume the office management
of the Valley City Milling Co., pending
the illness of W. N. Rowe at Charlevoix.

Geo. F. Owen is still too weak to un-
dertake the journey to Mt. Clemens, his
attending physician having advised him
to defer the trip for a week or ten days.

Will Campbell, formerly on the road
for Hawkins, Perry & Co., has engaged
to travel for the McNeal & Higgins Co.,
of Chicago, covering the trade of South-
ern Michigan.

W. B. Simmonds is now covering the
trade of this territory for the Vacuum
Oil Co., of Rochester, Wm. H. Swan hay-
ing been detailed to look after the rail-
road trade of the house in this State.

“T have been going to Traverse City
for thirteen years,’’ remarked John E.
Kenning, the other day, ‘‘and in that
time I have lost less than $20 in the
town. I never saw a place so free from
failures or a class of dealers who pay
their bills so promptly as the Traverse
City trade.”’

“The shoe trade does not take kindly
to the 10 per cent. advance we have been
compelled to make on cheap goods,”’ said
a Detroit shoe salesman, the other day.
“The dealers haggle over the increased

 

 

 

price like fury, but we must get the ad-
vance or do business at a loss; and I, for
one, am not at all anxious to book orders
which the house fills under protest.”’
The Detroit traveling men spent $1,200
in entertaining their friends on the oc-
easion of ‘‘Drummers’ Day’’ at the De-
troit exposition last year, but they will
not repeat the programme this season.
The directors of the exposition broke faith
with the boys in refusing to permit the
celebrated New York band to head their
procession, after such an arrangement
had been agreed to by the directors. As
the exposition is a pronounced success,
so far as netting enormous profits is con-
cerned, the travelers very properly con-
sider it the duty of the exposition man-
agers to act the part of entertainers.

Purely Personal.

S. M. Lemon went to Petoskey Monday
morning.

Chas. M. Norton has returned from his
trip to Hartford, Conn.

Cc. H. Hopkins, the Cedar Springs
grocer, was in town last Wednesday.

Jas. Blair, Jr., has taken the position
of receiving clerk for Lemon & Peters.

Harry Fox, Manager of the Muskegon
Cracker Co., was in town fora few hours
last Thursday.

L. Perrigo, of the firm of L. Perrigo &
Co., manufacturing chemists at Paw Paw,
was in town last Wednesday.

Heman G. Barlow and family have
been spending a few days at Ottawa
Beach, the guests of Chas. B. Judd and
family.

E. E. Judd, retail salesman for Foster,
Stevens & Co., is spending a couple of
weeks among the resorts of Grand
Traverse Bay.

W. C. Smith, clerk for E. R. Wilson,
the Monroe street druggist, goes to Chi-
cago Sept. 25 to begin a two years’ course
at the Chicago College of Dentistry.

Frank H. Graves, stove salesman for
Foster, Stevens & Co., is spending a few
days in Chicago and - take in the De-
troit Exposition before returning home.

A. C. Crawford, cashier of the First
National Bank of Traverse City, was the
guest of A. D. Baker a couple of days
last week. He was accompanied by his
family.

M. C. Russell, formerly engaged in the
commission business here, but for several
years past the head of a carriage reposi-
tory in Chicago, put in a couple of days
at Grand Rapids last week.

Sumner M. Wells, assistant buyer for
I. M. Clark & Son, has returned from a
ten days’ trip through the Upper Penin-
sula, going as far west as Republic and
Champion and returning via Sault Ste.
Marie.

Dan. C. Steketee will be married on
Sept. 4 to Miss Gertrude Doornink,
daughter of D. J. Doornink, the cere
mony occurring at the residence of the
bride’s parents, 96 North College avenue.
An evening reception will follow, after
which the happy couple will leave for a
fortnight’s trip through the dells of Wis-
consin, Minneapolis being the objective
point. Mr. Steketee is

will be glad to learn that he has been so
fortunate as to capture so charming a
lady.

 

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For the finest coffees in the world, high
grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner,
17 Hermitage block, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Agent for E. J. Gillies & Co., New York
City. 352tf

a promising |
young business man and his many friends

Extra Cautious.

‘*Have you any eggs?” the girl asked,
as she entered the grocery.

‘*Yes,’’? answered the grocer.

‘Are they nice?’’

**Yes,”?

‘“‘And fresh?’

‘“*Yes, nice and fresh.’’

‘‘How long ago were they laid?”’

‘*‘About a few days ago.”’

‘‘What size are they; are they large?”’

“Oh, medium.”’

‘‘Are they hen’s eggs?’’

**Certainly.”’

**And they’re not limed eggs?

“No. 9?

‘“‘Because I don’t want any poor eggs.

“Oh, they’re all right.’’

“Where did they come from—are they
Cape Cod eggs?’’

6*Vesg,”?

‘How much are they a dozen?”’

‘Twenty-five cents.’’

‘“*And they’re nice and fresh, you say?

**¥ es,??

“Give me one.”’

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The Retail Grocer’s Life.
From the Commercial Bulletin.

She had consumed one hour of the gro-
cer’s time and purchased a quart of blue-
berries for 10 cents. Finally she espied
the stock of watermelons and another
seige commenced. She critically exam-
ined every one, lifted them, pressed in
the rind with her thumb, and at last
asked to have the largest one in the pile
plugged to test its quality. After this
operation had been performed, she said;

“That is good; if you’ve got one as big
as that Saturday for fifteen cents, Ill
take it.”’

After the grocer had recovered from
the shock, she asked to have the blue-
berries delivered at once, as she wanted

.999

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9?

them to use right away. ‘The boy was
hurried up to her house, and in half an
hour came back with the berries. She

had stopped on the road home to gossip

with a neighbor and forgot all about her

rush and the boy who had been dis-

patched in all haste to deliver her fruit.
Such is life with the grocer.

a

Good Enough for Mince Meat.
A local produce house advertises sun-

dried apples, ‘‘good enough for mince

meat.’? The sequel of the announce-
ment is that the apples are slightly

wormy, the inference being that what is
lost in fruit is more than made up in

meat.
—_—>->___—_
Creamery in Operation Again.
Northport, Aug. 21.—The creamery
here, formerly owned by Nelson & Co.,
has been purchased by a stock company
which will conduct the business under

Cheese Co. H. E. Gill is
the corporation and C. b. Kehl, Secre-
tary. Coane were begun on the 20th.

Manistee—R. G. Peters is tearing out|

to make more packing room, and by this
means will have room for about 20,000
barrels more salt. He has had to shut

the style of the Northport Creamery and |
President of |

eight grainers in his old salt block, so as

    

5

down packing for time, as his
storage sheds at this point are all full,
and, as the same _ condition prevails
across the lake, the boats have not been
moving salt freely of late.
have been shipping out
about the only ones
thing just now,
have gone

some

Those who
salt in bulk are
are doing any-
and a good many tons
forward recently, one barge
having made eighteen trips this season

loaded with bulk salt.
——_ > <>

VISITING BUYERS.

L Cook, Bauer S E Phillips, Hastings
Wm Karsten, Beaver Dam J O Doesburg, Holland
M B Pinchcomb,Big Rapids H J Fisher, Hamilton
Geo Hirschburg, Bailey JN Wait, Hudsonville
H Shafer, Big Rapids J C Benbow, Hartford
Silas Loew, Burnip’sCors H L Gleason, Hartford
C P Judson, Big Rapids Alex Denton, Howard City
R G Beckwith, Bradley G F Cook. Grove
C Rosenraad, Zeeland Maston & Hammond,
AH Barber, Saranac Grandville
M M Elder,Spencer Creek A Crouse,Grand Junction
A P Sriver,So GrandRapids Colburn & Bro,Caledonia
GC Willey, Summit City LA Gardiner,CedarSprings
A Purchase, So Blendon Geo P Stark, Cascade
Frank Cornell, Sebewa Eli Runnels, Corning
N O Ward, Stanwood LB Bellaire, Cadillac
W S Adkins, Morgan John Olander, Cadillac
Severance & Rich, 8 R Arthur, Covert
Middle 2ville ye & Drury, Cadillac
BE Terrill, Muir H Hop kins,Cedar Springs
AH AEckerman,Muskegon Dr H C Peckham, Freeport
Wisler & Co. Mancelona E 8 Botsford, Dorr
JS Barker, Morley 8ST McLellan, Denison
Walling Bros., Lamont E E Hewitt, Rockford
W 8S Winegar, Lowell Geo A Sage, Rockford
John Gunstra, Lamont Williams &Kerry,ReedCity
H K Almes, Lake City Jas Lambert, Reed City
DD Walton, Lake City W G Tefft, Rockford
S A Howey, Lake City Stoddard Bros, Reed City
H T Baldwin, Luther Hessler Bros., Rockford
A Steketee, Holland B Steketee, Holland

Pattern Making.
Models of Mechanical Patent Office
Drawings. 131 Front St., West End of
Pearl] St. Bridge.
WM. HETTERSCHIED,
Grand Rapids, - -

who

 

 

Mich.

N@ TROUBLE
(me TO
UILD

if you start right.
The first step
should be an ex-
amination of Mr.
Shoppell’s $ building “designs—the only large
collection of designs that are artistic, prac-
tical and reliable. The estimates are guaran-
teed. Mr. Shoppell’s publications are as
follows:

 

   
  

 

  
  

 

 

 

Price.
* Portfolio of $1,000 Houses, § = designs, $2 00
a7 1 1,500 ad 2 00
” « 2000 - = ’ 200
SS le Sa ae 2 00
" &Gea r a2 [ 2 00
. * § 500 an 36 . 2 00
o ~ <0 ' 30 2 00
| 7 * 5,000 c 30 = 2 00
. * 6,000 ' 28 - 2 00
7,500 c 22 bi 2 00
** 10,000 r 21 v 2 00
“ Stables 19 - 2 00

“The first Portfolio contains designs that cost as
| low as $500, R600, $700 and FR.

Any 3of the above Portfolios for $5; any 7
for $10: the complete set (12) for $15. Bound
volume’ containing over 200 designs selected
from the various portfolios, price $5, return-
able if not satisfactory.

Address R. W. SHOPPELL,
Architect, ¢3 Lb’way, New York.

 

 

 

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1890.

Correspondence solicited,

81 SOUTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS.

 

  

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THE MICHIGAN TRADES SMAN.

 

 

 

Dry Goods.

 

 

Printed Canton Flannels.
From the American Wool Reporter.

Something like ten years ago there was
put upon the market a double-napped
canton flannel, dyed in solid colors, which
was eagerly taken by the trade for the
purpose of door hangings or portieres. A
large demand was created for them: they
furnished persons of moderate means a
cheap. durable and sightly drapery, and
were used for portieres, lambrequins,
mantel covers and the various other uses
to which draperies are put. They were
used to beautify and render attractive
the homes of those of limited means.
They were colored in all the popular
shades of the day, from the dark Turkey
red to the olive and old gold. The sale
for those goods has steadily increased,
and it has furnished employment for a
large number of mills.

The demand for the solid colored fian-
nels opened up the avenues of investiga-
tion, and led to improving the beauty
and desirableness of this fabric. Various
attempts were made to add to the attract-
tiveness of these flannels by printing
designs upon them, but it was not until
about three years ago that these attempts
were successful. The strides in printing
a piled or napped cloth have been rapid,
until the difficulties have been overcome,
and the most intricate and
designs of the most varied colorings
as readily and clearly transferred upon
it as upon a smooth-faced cloth. The
double-napped goods can now be
printed on both sides. There are
five manufacturers in this country,
they are finding an
for their production.

I
American Manufacture of Henrietta.
From the Boston Journal of Commerce.

The manufacture of alapacas for um-

brellas and silk warp henrietta cloths in |
Pre- |

this country is of very recent date.
vious to 1878, umbrella alapacas were
imported altogether.
manufacture was begun on a limited
seale by a Philadelphia concern, and has
been continued with satisfactory results
in the quality of the goods, in lower
prices and greater popularity.
class of goods was made before this time,
the efforts must have been

no impression was made upon the market |
The first success- |

then held by Bradford.
ful manufacture of henriettas commenced
about 1882, but it was not until two years
later that the goods reached a proper
standard so as to compete with foreign
goods.

popularize henrietta cloths in colors
other than black. Before that time the
latter color was alone known,
supposed to be the only one that could
be satisfactorily applied to the fabric.
English, French and German
turers have followed these pioneer efforts
of an American manufacturer. The
ability of our domestic manufacturers to
make anything in this direction
limited by the question as to whether it
can be done at a remunerative _—
> 2 a
Fall River Cotton Mill Profits.
“The dividends paid by the cotton
manufacturing corporations of Fall River
during the past quarter,’’ says the Bos-
ton Journal, ‘‘make a better

elaborate |
are |

had |
some |
and |
increasing demand

In that year their |

If this |

abortive, as |

It is due to the enterprise of an |
American manufacturer to first make and |

as it was |

manufac- |

is only |

showing |

 

 

| Prices Current.

UNBLEACHED COTTONS.

} Atlantic a... Z jClifton CCC........ 6%

Oe cue oe 63% “Arrow Brand 5%
_ re 6 | “ Word Wiese. 7
. Po . 6% ee 5
~ Mi... 5% Full Yard Wide.
Bee. oo. 7% Honest Width..

 

Archery ———-- - = Hartford A

 

 

Beaver Dam A 4 Madras cheese cloth 63
Blackstone O, 32.. 5 meee Be Ly
Beck Bock ........ . 7 |Our Level Best..... 6%
Does, S5............ Terousora i .......... 6%
Chapman cheese cl. 33;/Pequot............-.. 7%
Cees. es ee 7 (ooer...... . 6%
Dwieet Gtar......... 74|\Top of the Heap.. . TH
BLEACHED COTTONS.
Sea... . -.-.-- 2 1Gien Bie. ....-..-- :
Blackstone AA..... 8 jGold Medal......... 7%
meee Oe. .. 4%/Green Ticket....... 84
Cleveland ...... ... 7 iGrest Pails......_... 6%
eee ee 7
a 6x\Just Out...... 4%@ 5
Dwight Anchor. . 9 Ring ee SS 7%
shorts. —  .t.... 7%
Edwards. ..... . 6 |Lonsdale unin -10%
Swe. .......,.. 7 \|Lonsdale..... - @8%
a ete %34|Middlesex.... .. @
Fruit of the Loom.. Suimo Neme............ 7%
Pee... .... Toe Vew........... 8
Pim Fee... ..... 6% Our Own. on
Fruit of the Loom %- 8 |Pride of the W est. .12
Fairmount.. oes A. ......2...- 7
Paes Veree.......-+. Sic Buntient............. 4%
Geo. Washington... 844/Vinyard............. 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
eee 8 7%|Dwight Anchor..... 8%
Pere oe 7%

UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
ee .......-. 5%4|Middlesex No. 1....10
Hamilton i Se 6% Be

a 2 . | oe
| Middlesex ae 8 . _ 7...
i ae z ena Te 9 “cc “ 8. i ee
aa S.... 9
} BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL,
Bamtiion F........- ~~ e eee 11
ener? 8: - -@....- 12
’ De 9 . A 6 Lene ae 13%
_ - oh. _ eas. 17%
or a7... 10% - ONES! 16
DRESS GOODS.
esstiion .......... 8 (Remeiem...... .....
Dees eee uae 9 eee tee eee 25
Lo ae a 27%
GG Cashmere...... 21 DF deer ten cee 30
Nameless ee ene ce 16 oo 32%
oes oe 18 C ee
CORSET JEANS.
Biddetord........--. 6 |Naumkeagsatteen.. 7%
Draseatee. .... .... SE Roeepers....... ...-. 6%
PRINTS.

Allen, SS 544|Merrim’ck shirtings. 44

MROCT....4++. 5% = 8%
“ robes........5 (Pacifie fancy.. os
American fancy.... 6 i ~ ee a 6%

American indigo.... 63{/Portsmouth robes... 6

American shirtings. jSimpson mourning.. 6%
Arnold r 6%) r greys. 6%
solid black. 6%

long cloth B. 10% e

se - 8%) Washington indigo. 6
” ian? 7 | * Darker robes.. 7%
“ gold seal..... 1044! ‘* India robes.... 7%
‘“ Turkey red. -10%| ° plain =" "ky = % 8%
Berlin eee. nus 9 She; ‘
oti bine...... 6%| ‘ Ottoman aa
' * ocoee |... Oi) Revree......... 6

Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Martha Washington
“ madders...6 | Turkey red X..... ™%

Eddystone fancy... 6 {Martha Washington

| Hamilton fancy. ... 644) Tres ree... .. 9
staple .... 54%)Riverpoint rebes.... 5

Manchester ancy.. 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6%

new era. 6% . old ticket

Merrimack D fancy. 6%} indigo blue....... 10%

TICKINGS,

Amoskeag AC A....13 |AC A. ..12%

ee, TI Pemberton AAA. a
“ SL 8iK|¥ ee 10%
. —- 11 \Swift Ee T%,

Farmer. oe |Pearl meee. ....... 12%

First Prize. . -11%4!Warren i iounae

COTTON DRILL.
Avesta, D.....-.... — Stark oe 8
ak... ee ee 7
Clifton, K. ee 10
SATINES.

Simpeon.... .....+-- 20 jimperial ee ie kee 10%
Ce 18 |Black oe 9@ 9%
Ce 16 A rap 10%

COO on eo oe ne 10%}

  

 

  

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mayland, Box... 10

 

 

 

 

DEMINS.
Amoskeag eee be eee 12%
Sou. .... 14%
' ‘ence 13
Seer. ce 11 k
Everett, Die... 2 cs 12 12 No. 250. “hh
Drown. .... Y No. 280....10%
GINGHAMS.
Cienerven.... ...... = Lancaster, staple... 6%
Lancemire.......... fancies .... 7
Normandie..... .... a ' Normandie 7
Renfrew Dress...... 7% WwW —- a
Toil du Nord... .10@10% 10
Amoskeag eh es _ te: . 6%
Bec... 10% ees... wos. 6%
Pee 6. 5 8%| Windermeer.... .... 5
ee a 6%|Cumberland.... .... 5
ee 4%
CARPET WARP
Peerless, white...... Wh jPontom colored. ..21
GRAIN BAGS.
Amoskoae......... 17% [Valley City........-. W
Oe aS ee 1 Meperem............. 17
ee eee ...... 14%
See... se, 17%
THREADS.
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88
Coaiv, J. &?...  ‘Mareneirs.... .....- 88
TRGIV ORO. «2.2 00 sen os 22%
KNITTING COTTON.
White. Colored. White. nnes.
s...-— = ro U....... 37
if oe 8
ee wm 44
— 7 O...... 40 45
CAMBRICS
Es 434 |W ashington aces 4%
wae Sier.......-. 4%\Red Crows........... 4%
ey 43 pom veer oe ese ce 4%
Newmarket......... 434\W Pe one ane 4%
Edwards.........--. 4%|Brunswick .... ....- 434
RED FLANNEL.
Pe ek cue iy a 22%
Creednere.......,.-. og B2%
Tee eee... ....- WEF, xex. 2-8
Rees... .-... 274 iBuckeye.... ........ 32%
MIXED FLANNEL,
Red & Blue, plaid. -40 Grey SR W......... 17%
Se ee 22\4| Western W ......... 18%
{oo 18% ee — a 18%
6 oz Western........ 21 Pleshing Bae..,... 23%
TO ce eee 22\4|Manitoba........... 23%
DOMET FLANNEL,
Nameless ..... 8 @ 9%! oe 9 @10%
ane 84@10 | ee 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.
Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black.
9 9Y 914/13 13 13
10% 10% 1014/15 15 15
11% 11% 1144117 wv 17
12% 2% 12% ost 20 20
Severen, 8 0z i 934]

{West Point, Soz....10%
10 0z....12%

Greenwood, 7% oz.. 94%|Raven, 100z......... Be
Greenwood, 8 0z.. 1146/8 — 15
WADDINGS.
_ i 25 |Per bale, 40 doz....87 00
cease, Gae........ 20
SILESIAS,
Slater, Iron Cross... 8 |Pawtucket.. ms
ed Crom.... 9 iemmaie............_.
- eee 2 Oi peatord.... .... “18%
" Best AA..... igiValiey City......... 10%
CORSETS.

Coraline ............ 89 50;Wonderful .... ....84 75
Seontiiiee 6. ........ 9 Go Grignéon.. ........ 475
SEWING SILK.

Corticelli, doz....... 75 (Corticelli knitting,
twist, doz..37%| per %oz ball...... 30
50 yd, doz. ‘a7

HOOKS AND EYES—PER G

No 1 Bl’k & White..10 No : BI’ k & ‘White. z
“ 2 “e " i
we o ke - 2 ~ “S
PINS.
No 2—20, M C.......50 ‘ewidieand Be ook us 40
" o-35,6C........ 45
TTON TA
No : White & Br ra = [No 3 White & BI’k. _
10 ©
7) ; “oe = | « “ee 12 o "26
SAFETY PINS.
ee sie eee, oe 36
NEEDLES—PER M.
A, ceeek. |. ......... 1 50|\Steamboat.... ...... 40
<wowcne s....... -... i S3\Goid Byed.......... 150
Marshell’s........... 1 00)
TABLE OL CLOTH,
5—4....2 2% 6—4...3 j5—4....195 6—4...2 9%
. 2. *

BEACH’S
2 New York (Joffee Rooms.

61 Pearl Street.
Each for all dishes served
from bill of fare.

Steaks, Chops and All Kinds of Order
Cooking a Specialty.

Five Cents

FRANK M. BEACH, Prop.

&PCOATS

 

 

SIX-CORD

Spool Cotton

WHITE, BLACK AND COLORS,

FOR

Hand and Machine Use.

FOR SALE BY

P. STEKETER & SONS
Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

 

Dry Goods

Manufacturers of

Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Rts.

Complete Spring Stock now ready for
inspection.
guaranteed.

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, - -

Chicago and Detroit prices

MICH

 

P.

than was anticipated, in the face of ad- |

verse conditions existing most
time. Most of the mills delayed pay-
ment until the last moment in order not
to pass a dividend, yet even under that
scheme only twenty-five mills have de-
clared dividends. That number, how-
ever, will be a surprise to many

viduals. During the past quarter,
twenty-five corporations paid $247,650 on
a capital of $13,560,000, or an average of
1.82 per cent. In the first quarter of this
year the rate was the highest ever known,

thirty-two corporations paying 2.71 per
cent., or $487,560 on a capital of $27,933,-
000. In the July dividend list of last |

year, twenty-nine corporations paid $421,-
270, or an average of 2}¢ per cent. ona

capital of $16,383,000, since which time |

the dividend-paying capital has been in-
creased $800,000.”’

of the}

Dry Goods and Notions,

indi- |
the |

STEKETEEF

WHOL

&

ESALE

 

Amoskeag,

Blacks, Silver Gray and Fancies—All New Designs.
GRAIN BAGS—Stark, American,
Valley City.
WADDINGS,

SONS,

New Line of Simpsons Prints in Satine and Delaine Fnish, and Zephyrs in

Harmony, Park, Georgia and

BURLAP, TWINE, BATTS and COMFORTS.

‘BB Monroe and 10, 12, 14,16 & 18 Povntain Sts, GRAND RAPIDS.

 

AVOID THE

Curse of (ret

BY USING

Coupon Books

Manufactured by

“TRADESMAN”
oR
“SUPERIOR”

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

Grand Rapids.
See quotations in Grocery Price Current.

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADES MAN.

 

HARDWARE.

No Uppers for Him.

‘‘Travel never sharpens some people,”’
said the drummer, as he threw the stub
of his cigar out of the window.

“In what respect?’’

‘‘Well, ’ve been on the road for eight
years, traveling by day and by night,
and I’ve never had to take an upper
berth yet.”’

‘“*That’s luck.”’

“No, it isn’t—it’s management. I, of
course, buy a lower berth when I can.
When I can’t, I take an upper. Price is
the same, you know, but there’s a heap
of difference in the comfort. Then the
management comes in.’’

“But how?’’

‘See this bottle of camphor; I’ve car-
ried it ever since I first started out, but
have had it refilled about once a month.
When I get seated in the car I am sud-
denly taken faint. I pull out my cam-
phor bottle. You can smell camphor
from end to endofacar. It isn’t two
minutes before some one comes to ask:
oO ‘Anything wrong, sir?’

O* ‘Pm feeling very badly.’

oO ** ‘Can I do anything for you?’

oO‘ ‘No, thanks. That is—

® * ‘Don’t be afraid of making me trou-
ble. What is it?’

‘* TY have an upper berth, and ’m—Im
afraid I can never get into it. Been
troubled with palpitation for the last ten
years. Reaching up increases it. I don’t
want to ask any one to exchange with
me, but—’

‘s “Why, certainly, I have a lower, and
under the circumstances I shall be only
too glad to exchange with you.’

“That’s all there is to it,’? said the
drummer, as he opened his grip fora
novel; “it’s allin the management. A
proper demeanor—a little camphor—a
few words of thanks, and I snug away
into a Jower and sleep the sleep of the
just. The other man has got all he paid
for, any way, and if he doesn’t sleep well
that’s not my look out.’’

————__iiP>-6-<—————————
The Manufacture of Celluloid.

The manner in which celluloid is made
in France is as follows: A huge roll of
paper is unwound slowly, and while un-
winding is saturated with a mixture of
five parts of sulphuric and two parts of
nitric acid, whichis carefully sprayed
upon the paper. The effect of this bath
is to change the cellulose in the paper
into pyroxyline. The next process is
the expelling of the excess of acid in the
paper by pressure and its washing with
plenty of water. It is then reduced toa
pulp and bleached, after which it is
strained, and then mixed with from 20 to
40 per cent. of its weight in water. Then
follows another mixing and grinding,
after which the pulp is spread in thin
sheets, which are put under enormous
hydraulic pressure and squeezed until it
is as dry as tinder. These sheets are
then put between heated rollers and
come out in quite elastic strips, which
are worked up into the various forms in
which celluloid is made.

et
Shears and Scissors.

For a long time the difference between
seissors and shears was determined by
the former having two sharp points and
the latter one. This difference has gradu-
ally lost its determining technicality, and
the shears of to-day are called so because
one of the bows has room for three fin-
gers. It is not always so, but shears are
generally longer and of heavier weight
than scissors, as would be implied by the
necessity of the strength of using three
fingers in the leverage. The cutting of
stronger textures has led to a difference
in the manufacture and general form of
these articles of cutlery, but what deter-
mines the name is the fact of using three
fingers, or less than that number in one
of the bows.

~~.

Detroit—The Pacific Copper Co. is the
name of anew mining company just or-
ganized for the purpose of mining copper
on land north of the Atlantic mine,
Houghton county. It is controlled by
the St. Mary’s Mineral Land and Canal
Co.

 

Prices Current.

These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

 

 

 
 

 
 

 

 
  
 
 

AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
ee 60
Cook’s 40
Jennings’, genuine..... 25
Jennings’, ee as Sodio

AXES,
First Quality, S te Pee ..............,.. $8 50

6 Geen 12 50

. oe cee ..........,. 9 50
“ mw hee... cs... 14 00
BARROWS. dis.
SE ee a a Ne 8 14 00
Cee net 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
ee 50&10
— new list. 70
a... Ten un
BUCKETS.
oe $3 50
Well, ee yee secu 4 00
— CAST. dis.
Cost Loose Fin, feured........ ............- W&
Wrought Narrow, Dright Geet joimet.......... 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin 60&10
Wrought Table
a
Wrougns Eras... ... os a ee 75
OEE 70&10
Blind, ec 70&10
Blind, Geeeeres ....:...........1........... 70
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 40
CRADLES.
ee dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.

Cost Glee... perb 5
CAPS.
ees... per m 65
ree... 60
Ga. D ' 35
Wee ce ce . 60
CARTRIDGES.

Ha fee... 50
Oe re dis. 25
CHISELS. dis.
Coe a 70&10
ee ee isc ee ce aes W&1
aoe eee... ........... -70&10

es eee .................

 

  

Butchers’ Tanged Wirmer............ a i
COMBS. dis.
Carry, Lawrence’s............... na 40
ee / 25
CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz — {0 eine...... per se 31
Siar biwee, ene... . sw... 29
Cold Rolled, 14x56 Beek ee 28
eT 28
ae ee ‘ 30
DRILLS, dis.
Peers ee ee i... 50
Taper and stral ht Re as 50
Magee se Teper see... i" 50
DRIPPING PANS.
eal einen, Gor potne ...................... oT
Dienme ateee, per pouma.........-...... -.... 6%
ELBOWS.
Com, 4 wiece €f................... doz.net %5
ci cia es wn dis. 20&10&10
Bae dis. 40.£10
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, small, 818; oa 3 ss Me sed aa 30
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 824 cose case uube gee 25
_FitEs—New List. dis.
aoe... —
We Beeeecee........................4..... 60&10
— a 60410
ec 50
Heller’ “ ee ea 50

GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. i6 to 20; ae om =

List 12 15 18
Discount, 60

GAUGES. dis.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50
HAMMERS.

Maydole & C0.'R....... 2-220. sceesscecees dis. 2%

ie wees ee ae nes ee dis 25

Warees © Puts. ..................... 3 dis, "40&10

Mason's Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand.. i 40&10
HINGES.

eet es eee dis.60&10

 

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3.
tate

r doz. = 2 50

 

 

 

3%
screw "Hook and Bye, % a

“ “ 4]

“ “ ™%
ee a ee dis. 70

HANGERS, dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.. ..50&10
Champion, anti- = Deca cee cent ae 60&10
Kidder, i
HOLLOW WARE.
60
=
BplGErs ... 2... eee sercenscrcceresccever cece
Gray a ee 40810
—- Seas eooDs.

Stamped Tin Ware... ............. new list 70&10
Japanned Tin Wiss Lge deep gos ceccupecus ata: 25
Granite Iron Ware ............... new list 33% &10

WIRE GOODS. dis.
ea ce dip enim aisicw (atin Oat
Screw OB isa h cd deneaensccumues cud

Oi ie 70&10&10

Gate Hooks One Beee............... : 1

   

 

 

 

    

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LEVELS. dis. SASH CORD.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s . ae 70 Silver Lake, Wrote Bae. list 50
KNOBs—New List. dis. DrapA.....-............... 55
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 oe White ee. “ 50
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.. 55 . ee. 8, . 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55 . Wate c..........). 1... > 35
Door, porcelvin, trimmings....... a 55 Discount, 10.
Drawer and Shutter, poreeieaml............. 70 SASH WEIGHTS.
LOCKS—DOOR, Gi «| Sola Hyer... er co
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 dis,
Malicey, Wheeler & Caa.........-......... 55 . Hand. 20
ee 55 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, ‘per ‘foot,. 70
eee 8 ... 55 ‘¢ Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50
MATTOCKS. ‘¢ Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot... ow
OT EE $16.00, dis. 60 “Champion and Electric Tooth X
eee ee $15. 00, ae Cote per tout... 30
Te $18.50, dis. 20&10. TRAPS. dis.
dis. Steel, Game.. i - .60&10
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ieames Oe ae eae Oneida C ommunity, ‘Newhouse’s........... 35
MILLS. dis. Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s.... 70
Coffee, paren CO... 8. oo...) sk... a) Meee GnOber 8... 18¢ per doz.
rs. & w. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. ... 40 | Mouse, delusion..................... $1.50 per doz.
“ Lenders, Verry & Cie .E’s............ 40 WIRE. dis
._ eee. ls. Cg«tis..... ee 25 | Bright Market.. i Se
MOLASSES GATES. dis. Annealed Market. eT anes
meee eee |. Games | Comperce Warmest... 60
Seopa es Gemmime.... 5... aie Tet Marcel i2h%
Huterprine, self-measuring.................. 96 | Coppered Spring Steel. ..................... 50
NAILS Barved Fence, salvanised...:.............. 3@
Bose Gee eee. tt. 2 10 _ painted .. : <1. = OO
Wee oa eee... 8. Ck. 2 60 HORSE NAILS.
Advance over base: Steel. Woe. | AuSable. ................... dis. ee
eS a 05
| 10} Northwestern. . — ens dis. “10at0
20 WRENCHES.
90 | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
OO eee 50
35 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, ne oe 75
35| Coe’s Patent, malleable.. bode Ges 54
40 MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Sot Bird Cages ........ LL ee 50
Gt Pure, Cleteen 75
90 | Screws, New List. a / 50
1 50 Casters, Bed and Plate.. ". .50&10810
2 Oo) arepere, Americen......................., 40
2 00| Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65
90
1 00 METALS,
1B PIe@ TIN
til Poe tee... 26c
12 Pic oe CC. eee | oe 28¢
1 50 ZINC.
%5| Duty: Sheet, ae -_ —
90 | 660 pound casks...... Set tcet tcc ceee | =O
* 6... 115 1 00; Per pound.. Loa uee beveeeeteescceae | Oe
Barrell ‘e ee 1% 2 50 SOLDER.
PLANES. ra Ee 16
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy ..........-. + +--+ +++: Ce ee ee tea dui 13%
Sciota Bench............0-.. sss seeee eee eee @)| The prices of the many other qualities of
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy............---.. @) | solder in the market indicated by private brands
Benen, Grat qualtty...................-...... @60 | vary according to composition.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... &10
gy ANTIMONY.
Cee dis.go—10 | COOKson.................---+-+-+-- per pound 16
Common, polished ee dis, | 70) Timllete a... -- an nn none
RIVETS, dis. TIN—MELYN GRADE.
ron ane Tee, 40 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal a $6 60
Copper Rivets and Durs.................... Oe he a 6 60
PATENT FLANISHED IRON 10x14 1X, o i ‘ <.-el.
‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 toz 27 10 20| 14x20 IX, . oo
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 920} Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
Broken packs 4c per pound extra. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
ROPES. I 6
Sisal, 44 Inch and larger ........-..........- 12% | 14x20 IC, COC . 6 =
Manilla.......... Te 7 50
SQUARES. Ee ee 7 50
Steel -— ee ee se cuss cence cua = Each eis X on this grade 81.50.
ao aoe. ee. = Cn a
eT SHEETIRON.  . 14x20 IC, ‘* Worcester............. .... 6 00
Com. Smooth. Com. aa os es eal tala ‘s o
— a ee 3 10lt4x201C, “ Allaway Grade........... 5 25
None a eee - 3 20) 14x20 1X, “ i ey és
Nos. S 3 30 20x28 IC, . . . 11 00
Nos. 2 3 40 20x% 28 IX, . ea “ ........... 2
No 4 60 3 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
at sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches | 14x28 IX..... sl 813
wide not less than 2-10 extra oa Bt eas i See g 14 50
SAND PAPER. x56 or No. 8 o err,
ee. he ee dis.40&10' 14x60IX, “* * ee pound 9%

 

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10 and 12 Monroe St.,
GRAND

 

 

 

Fr
Presses

2 Quart Japanned
List--$3.

4 Quart Japanned
List--$5.

8 Quart Japanned
List--$6.

Write for Discount.

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

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

RAPIDS, MICH.

  

 

 
 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Retail Yrade of the Wolverine State,

Tradesman Company, Proprietor.

 

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
strictly in advance.

Advertising Rates made known on application.

iblication Office, 100 Louis St

 

Entered ‘at the Grand Rapids Post Office.

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1890.

 

 

Uncle Sam has done a wise act in
throwing the Patron’s Guide out of the

mails, as the publication was in nowise |

the
It was not a news-

entitled to transmission through
mails at pound rates.

paper in any sense of the term, being

solely a money-making enterprise—dis- |
seminating a false and malicious doctrine |

at the expense of the people.

cere

The editor of the Lyons Herald—the
pseudo organ of the Patrons of Industry
of Ionia county—sadly announces that
he must cease to treat the editor of THE
TRADESMAN As the indi-
vidual thus deserted was never the equal

as an equal.
of Mr. Reynolds in one respect—having
never worn stripes ina penitentiary (a
privilege once enjoyed by the editor of
the Herald)—the to
borne—terrible as it is to contemplate.

—— LTT

loss will have be

 

to
effect that a syndicate of wealthy coffee

Information comes from Brazil

merchants have banded together for the
purpose of monopolizing the coffee trade
of that republic.
titled the with a
capital stock of $12,500,000, only one-half
The
is to pur-

The enterprise is en-

‘Bagging Coffee Co.,
of which is expected to be paid in.
of the organization
chase coffee direct from the planters, and
ship it direct to the principal markets of
the world, where the syndicate will

purpose

be
represented by agents.
estimate that the enterprise will
annual profit of 25 per cent. on a capital-
of $6,250,000,
the possibility that the members of the
As the
combination starts out on the assumption
that it can
trade, it is safe

ization which dissipates

syndicate are philanthropists.

ignore the ordinary laws of

to predict that it will

meet the same fate as the French copper}

syndicate.

 

Back from Birch Point.

The resorters at Birch Point, situated
on the north arm of Bear Lake, have re-
turned to the city. Those who formed
the initial party this year are D. D. Cody,
Willard Barnhart, O. A. Ball, E. Crofton
Fox, a. FP.

and Gen. I. C. Smith—all

John
who have fam-
accompanied by them.
the
later the
stock
company, under the style of the Birch

Association.
9
Good Words Unsolicited.

ilies having been
Four

present

erected

little

eottages have been

and a

season

property will be merged into a

Point Resort

 

A. R. Gilmore, grocer, Schoolcraft: ‘Your
price list is very good indeed.”

Jus. Lisa, general dealer, Red Jacket: ‘“‘Keep
on sending your good trade paper. Ido not
want to be without it.”

Geo. H. Spencer, general dealer, Pomona:
“Every merchant ought to take your paper, as it
has the ‘get up and get’ qualities about it.”

C. A. Barnes, grocer and druggist, Otsego: |

“Enelosed find #1 for the paper another year.
There is no bill | pay more cheerfully than that
for THe TRADESMAN.
right place.”

the |

The promoters |
pay an|

Hughart, N. A. Earle |

Itis the right paper in the |

MILLS VS. PARTRIDGE.

allacy of a Statement Made by the
Scheming Politician.
| Granp Raprips, Aug. 25.—For some
unaccountable or unexplained reason,
| certain so-called leaders and ten-dollar-
|a-day-organizers of the Patrons of In-
| dustry and Farmers’ Alliance, have been
most vituperative in calling down upon
|the heads of commercial travelers the
most unwarranted and unreasonable
abuse. Their stock argument is, ‘‘We
are an expensive and unnecessary para-
site upon the commercial world in gen-
eral and the poor farmer in particular;’’

“our princely salaries and enormous ex- |
| penses are a direct tax upon the tiller |

of the soil,’’ ete.; and, in the words of a
recognized leader, ‘‘We propose to buy
our goods only of such dealers as buy
their supplies direct from
houses, thereby saving the extra expense
of buying through drummers, as they
| had no drummers twenty-five years ago
| and we ean getalong without them now.”’

Twenty-five years ago the writer was
in the employ of one of the most enter-
prising and successful merchants in
| Western New York. He carried a large
| stock of general merchandise, owned a
| large cheese factory and farm. No sales-
|'man ealled on him, but four times each
| year he was obliged to go to Philadelphia,
|New York and Boston at an expense of
from $75 to $125 each trip. This money
was spent on the railroads and in the
cities named, and was of no possible
benefit to his own town. He was absent
from his business from six to ten days
each trip, very frequently to his er his
customers’ loss.

Now, compare the above manner of
transacting business, with the extrava-
gant (?) and unnecessary method of to-
iday. We will take any reputable firm,
dealing in general merchandise. They
| probably purchase their groceries of two
different salesmen, who call once each
| per month; their dry goods and boot and
jshoes salesmen call every sixty days;
their clothing man four times per year,
making the total number of visits during
the year of forty. We will place the
daily salary and expense of each of these
salesmen at $10, which is far above the
average. We will say that they only
visit five customers per day, which is
far below the rule, making an average
| expense of $2 to visit each dealer. This
amount, multiplied by forty, the num-
ber of visits made during the year,
makes a total of $80 as the expense of buy-
ing goods through commercial travelers.as

| against $300 to $500 per year by the plan |

which the so-called ‘‘commerce adjus-
ters’? propose to return to. Further-
more, the 300,000 commercial travelers of
the United States (not 1,800, as recently
| stated by the would-be P. of L. candidate
| for Governor,) are distributing annually,
i as traveling expenses, to hotels, liveries,
ete., through the smaller cities and towns
| of the United States, the handsome sum
| of over $750,000,000. This immense sum,
instead of being poured directly into the
largest cities, is distributed all over the

smaller cities and villages, which need it |

most.
When a merchant goes to the city to
purchase goods, he is unable to take suf-
ficient time to properly make his selec-
|tions or to compare goods needed with
those now in stock, as where the sales-
man brings his

fully he may go over his stock or make

out his want list before leaving home, he |

is certain to purchase some goods which

he already has in stock or which had

proven unsalable in the past.
Again, any enterprising

dealer will

tell you that he can in many instances |

get closer prices of a salesman than of
the house he represents.
statement, 1 do not charge the salesman
with a lack of fealty to his house, nor
the house with a disposition to take any
undue advantage of customers who, in
confidence, send their orders direct. The
reason is plain. The wide-awake, enter-
prising commercial traveler makes ita
constant study day and night to ‘‘eatch
on’? to the ‘‘euts’’ and ‘‘drives’’ offered
by competing houses, and he is in much
better position to do so by the assistance
|of his customers than is the home office.

wholesale

sample trunks to the}
dealer’s store; and, no matter how care-|

In making this |

Furthermore, an intelligent, earnest,
successful commercial traveler is one of
the best commercial educators possible,
as every candid business man will tell
you that some of his best and most suc-
eessful ideas in the management of his
business, displaying his goods in win-
dows or on shelf, advertising novelties,
or pointers in purchasing goods, have
been received from traveling men, and
any dealer who says he has no use for
traveling men is very certain to have but
little or no use for merchandise or cus-
tomers.

This idea of selling goods through
traveling salesmen is an invention of
which necessity is the mother, and one
which, like all other great inventions or
improvements, has stood the ordeal of
ridicule and opposition; and old conserv-
| ative houses, after years of unsuccessful
striving to do business with the dealer
direct, have been compelled tosend forth
their representatives, in order to keep up
with the advanced ideas of their more
enterprising and successful competitors.
No greater burlesque on truth was ever
perpetrated than the old threadbare
motto, which, fortunately, is but seldom
seen now, ‘‘Save the enormous expense
of buying of drummers, and send your
mail orders direct to us.’’

L. M. MILis.
oe

ee
Quick Work at Muskegon.

About six months ago Julle Bierema
purchased the Wierengo hardware stock,
jat Muskegon, of the Gunn Hardware Co.
A few days ago he gave his nephew,
Lewis Spyk, a bill of sale of the stock,
but as Spyk was never known to have
any property in his own right, several
ereditors immediately attached, on the
ground that the bill of sale was void and
without consideration. Foster, Stevens
& Co., whose traveling representative
happened to be in Muskegon at the time,
| placed an attachment on the stock for
| $450 within an hour after the filing of
| the bill of sale. The Gunn Hardware Co.
followed suit with a claim for $950, and
| the Ohio Valley Foundry Co. and a Chi-
| cago paint house came next with claims
aggregating $1,000. Spyk replevined
the stock, but was unable to give bonds
and finally concluded to compromise the
elaims on the basis of 75 per cent.—an
offer which was accepted by all the
attaching creditors.

a en A
P. of I. Gossip.

The Patrons of Industry have boycotted
Stanton for sixty days.

The Patron’s Guide, the official organ
of the Patrons of Industry, has been de-
nied the privilege of the mails by the
Postoftice Department.

Stanton Clipper: ‘‘In a recent inter-
| view with John E. Taylor, State Secre-
| tary of the P. of L., on the subject of P.
of I. contracts, he said he thought the
contracts were going into disuse and
would soon be a thing of the past. He
| said the reason was because the P. of I.
| movement had had the effect of bringing
prices generally down so low that it was
hardly worth while for the order to go to
| the trouble of negotiating contracts.”

——___—>-2 <> i

The Muir Condensed Milk Factory.

Muir, Aug. 22.—The factory of the
Rogers Condensing Co. is now nearly
| completed and the officers are sanguine
that everything will be in readiness to
| begin operations by Oct. 1. The build-
ing has a frontage of 130 feet—not in-
cluding boiler and engine house—and
comprises basement and one story, the
walls being of stone and brick. Two
flowing artesian wells supply the neces-
sary water. All the machinery is of the
most improved pattern, giving the fac-
| tory a capacity of handling 50,000 pounds
|of milk daily. Condensed milk will be
| the staple product, but both butter and
|cheese can be turned out, if circum-
| stances render achange to either product
necessary.

 

 

WHAT THE CIGAR BOX TELLS.

 

Covered with Comprehensive Informa-
tion Regarding the Cigar Inside.

Few men know that the history of a
cigar can be traced accurately by its box.
The box is like the trunk that a man
takes around with him through Europe.
Every time that it is put into the baggage
van of a train it gets a tab showing where
it is going. The hotel keepers add their
tabs and the steamers paste on theirs.
The tabs show what kind of a traveler a
man is. If he goes in the steerage his
baggage has a paster of one. color, while
if he isin the cabin his baggage has a
paster of another color. A good deal can
be told about a man from these pasters;
agreat deal more can be told from his
empty cigar boxes. They are all opened
differently if they are bought unopened
by the man who smokes them, for no two
individual smokers open cigar boxes
alike any more than any two smokers
hold cigars in exactly the same way be-
tween their teeth and puff in exactiy the
same manner. Some men’s cigars burn
crooked, others burn even. Some of them
open their cigar boxes with a penknife,
and break the blade while they do it;
others take a hatchet, others carefully
cut the stamps and pry the box open by

degrees. This shows whether they are
impetuous, obstinate, conservative, or
emphatic.

Toa much greater degree than the
empty cigar box shows the character of
the man, the brands and stamps on it
show the kind of cigars that he smokes.
There are any number of sizes and shapes
of cigar boxes—the small 25-box, where
the cigars are worth 18 to 50 cents apiece;
the larger 50-boxes, which may hold
domestic cigars not worth one-quarter as
much as the smaller boxes; the big box
of 100 small cigars, and the mammoth
boxes that hold 250. These boxes bear
their history on them. They are made of
cedar in the first place, sawed and planed
to a quarter of an inch in thickness, and
tacked together with canvas strips to
make the hinges of the lid. That is what
the cigar box is in its crude state. Then
it goes to the manufacturer, who has his
lithographs and brands put on it. The
better workmanship and the _ better
lithography usually go with the inferior
cigar; the imported lithographs are
cruder, not so well drawn or so _ well
tinted as those on domestic cigars, but
they have a different and more costly
look to them. The tint of the paper also
shows whether the cigar is imported or
not, for the Havana manufacturers do
not pack their cigars in paper of the same
tints that the domestic manufacturers do.

These interior wrappings and litho-
graphs tell about the cigar when the box
is opened, but more can be told about it
from the outside. It requires somewhat
close observation to note all the marks
on acigar box. Ona box of imported
cigars, for instance, there is branded the
mark of the manufacturer. That is usu-
ally the name of some factory and the
place where the factory is. The name of
the factory gives an indication about its
location. The brand ‘‘Campa Gral de
Tabaco de Filipinas’? shows unmistak-
ably where the cigars that were putin
that box were made, unless the brand is
a counterfeit. It is seldom that counter-
feit brands are found on imported cigars,
as the import stamp is a guarantee that
the cigar has gone through the custom
house. This stamp is put on first. Each
of the Havana factories has its stamp,
the Garcia, the Clay, the Carolina, or
whatever it may be, on the lid of the box.
It may be hid afterward by the revenue
stamp and the lithographs, but the first
thing done is to brand that name on.
The Havana cigars frequently have
stamped on them also ‘‘Habana,’’ with
the Spanish abbreviation designating the
quality of tobacco or the size. This is
put on when the boxes are sorted out to
be filled; the stamp of the factory is put
on them in the first place. This stamp
also is not branded like the factory
stamp, but is put on withastencil. The
name of the factory can not be taken off
without planing into the lid, but the
brand of the quality and color can.

Before the cigars are put in, the box is
further branded with the color, ‘‘claro,”’
*‘eolorado claro,’’ ‘‘colorado,’’ ‘colorado

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

    

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maduro,”’ ‘“‘maduro,’? or, as known to

Americans, very mild, mild, medium,
fairly strong, and strong.

erally approximated.

boxes. There has been some change in
the strictness of marking in recent years
caused by the fact that the American
trade prefers colorado claro and claro to
the maduro and colorado maduro.

When the box has been marked in this
way it is filled and the final tacks are put
in. The manufacturer usually then pastes
some advertisements on it in order that
the box may not be opened and other
cigars substituted without its being evi-
dent to the purchaser. Manufacturers
have labels which they paste over the
seams, which contain advertisements and
notices of various kinds. If the manu-
facturer has taken prizes at any inter-
national exhibition, fac similes of the
medals will probably be found on the
label. Usually there is a picture of the
factory, with the firm name, coat of arms,
and other designs. In this shape, the
box is ready to be sent here.

It arrives with tens of thousands of
other boxes and is examined by an in-
spector. He pastes over it the import
stamp so that the box cannot be opened
without destroying the stamp. The im-
port stamp certifies to the number of
cigars in the box and that the tax is paid.
Besides that, there are blank spaces on
the stamp which the inspector fills out
with a stencil. When filled up, the stamp
shows not only that the cigars went
through the custom house, but the steamer
in which they came, the port at which
they were entered, the date at which
they were received and stamped, and the
name of the inspector who stamped them.
This is an unfailing certificate of the
length of time the cigar has been in this
country. The stamps are finely made,
in order to prevent counterfeit; there is
more tracery and vignette work than on
the ordinary revenue stamp.

When the import stamp has been pasted
on the box, the internal revenue stamp
is put on before the cigars can be sold.
The internal revenue stamp is a cheaper
afiair on bluish-green paper. It is can-
celled at the same time that it is put on,
and with a stamp which, if it were plain,
might show the date; but this stamping
is done much more hastily and does not
aid in the history of the cigar.

A cigar box with an internal revenue
stamp on it and no import stamp does
not once in 50,006 times contain imported
cigars, smuggled or otherwise. Someof
the fictitious smugglers who go around
among down-town offices and peddle
cigars which they say are imported, pro-
duce them in boxes with only the internal
revenue stamp on. Smuggled cigars
have no stamps whatever. Any cigars
that go through the custom house have
the import stamp and the internal
revenue stamp both. <A cigar which has
only an internal revenue stamp has been
stamped at some domestic factory. If it
was smuggled, it was taken to a factory

These are not
enough grades to mark the distinctions
in color and strength, but they are gen-
Some brands of
colorado claro cigars are milder than the
claro cigars of other brands, but the
mildest ones are always put into the claro

that the dealer in refilling the box was
not careful enough to putin cigars of the
same color. But the best way to do is
to examine the box first and then to have
the dealer open it afterward to see if the
cigars are what is wanted. The age of
the cigar can be told from the import
stamp, the color from the brand on the
back of the box, the factory from the
factory brand, and the shape from the
size of the box. Almost everything
about cigars which go through the stan-
dard Havana factories can be told with-
out opening the box. A cigar box with
the blue label of the Cigarmakers’ Inter-
national Union does not hold imported,
but domestic cigars. Domestic cigars
can further be told by an examination of
the bottom of the box and the stamp and
the warning not to use the box again,
which has on it the district and the num-
ber of the factory. According to law,
this warning must be on the box; itisa
sure sign of a domestic cigar.
>. >___—
Belding on a Boom.

Belding, Aug. 25.—The corner store in
the Belding block, which has stood va-
cant nearly a year, as Mrs. Hiram Beld-
ing refused to lease it to any one but a
druggist, has been rented to a Detroit
/man, who will put in a full line of drugs
about Sept. 15.

Belding is growing very rapidly and
good returns await those who invest in
either business or residence property.

C. M. Woodard, of Kalamo, was in
town last week for the purpose of effect-
ing the preliminary arrangements for
embarking in the bazaar business, but
was unable to secure a store.

It is now generally believed that Beld-
ing will secure the Central Michigan
Railroad, as the amount required by the
projectors has nearly all been pledged.

> >_> —

East Jordan—The Bruce stock of dry
goods, groceries, etc., was sold at public
auction last week to A. Heston. Alva
Coulter will probably return here and

open the store for business.

 

 

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to be stamped, which would be foolish-
ness and waste of money on the part of
the smuggler, and besides, he would run
a great deal of risk, as the internal reve-
nue officer who stamped the box could
readily tell, if he was an expert in his
business, the difference between the
boxes used in the Havana trade and the
boxes used in the domestic trade. There
are details in the way of packing, litho-
graphing and branding which show un-
mistakably, unless they are very cleverly
counterfeited.

A man who is going to buy cigars and
wants to be sure of what he is getting,
can tell by the box, if it has not been
opened. It is more risk to take an opened
box, for some unscrupulous dealers will
put cheaper cigars into a box which held
high-grade cigars and sell them as im-
ported cigars. Still, these dealers often
make mistakes, as it is hard for them to
get the same size of domestic cigars and
the same color. if a man is buying what a ahliieets aneines a4 Sop
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is some imposition somewhere, probably | #1. Leonard & Sons, 134-140 Fulton S8t., Gd Rapids.

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No 2 Incan. Lamp, as shown, brass. . . 85,50 Each
oe be

 

 

  

 

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J. HEERINGA,
CENERAL MERCHANT,
find dealer in Butter, 99s. Seeds & Grain,
EAST SAUCATUCK, - MICHICAN.

 

 

 

 

 

We quote the following prices on No 4
tags, delivered to any express office or jobbing
house in this city:

1,000 - $1.50
2,000 - 2.50
8,000 - 4.50

We carry®alljother sizes of tags and can fill
orders on short notice,
TRADESMAN COMPANY,

GRAND RAPIDS.

THE

 

BROWN & SHHULER,

Dealers in ENGINES, BOILERS and MILL MACHINERY, Farm Machinery,
Agricultural Implements, Wagons and Carriages.

 

 

 

   

GRAND RAPIDS,

Corner West Bridge and North Front Sts., - MICH.

HESTEHR & FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

SAY AND CRIST MILL MACHINERY,

 
 
 
 
 

 
  
        

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And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand.
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Drugs # Medicines.

State Board of Pharmacy.
One —S ae eon Kalamazoo.
Two Years—S E. Parkill, Owosso.
Three pees a: Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor

 

 

Pouthens-daeeb Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Next meeting at 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, Detreit.

Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—W m Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—C. A. Bu: — Cheboygan; E. T.
Webb, Jackson; D.E. Prall, East en? Geo. Me- |
Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detr
Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday

of September, 1890.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.

Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ 1.
President. Kipp; Secretary, W.C. Smith

 

 

 

 

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society
President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman.

 

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, P. Van Deinse;

 

 

Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites.
Chas. G. Houser in the Western Druggist.

I have been making syrup hypo-
phosphites compound after the National
Formulary for some time, but have never

been able to get a satisfactory prepara- |
tion when working according to its direc- |

tions. At first I thought the hypophos-
phites were at fault, but,

followed.
nice a syrup as can be prepared,

ing to the following process :
First, I dissolve the quinine muriate in |

accord-

six fluid ounces of water, then added the

calcium hypophosphite to this solution,
and set aside for twelve or fifteen hours,
with occasional agitation. By this time |
all the calcium salt will have dissolved.

Then I added the potassium hypophos- |
This |

phite, and, lastly, the sodium salt.

solution was then allowed to settle, and

the clear solution poured off from the|

sediment. To this insoluble portion I |
added one-half the citric acid directed in
the formula and three-fourths of

solution, and then mixed the two liquids.
The solution of the hypophosphites of

iron and manganese was effected with |

the potassium citrate and the remaining
one-half of citric acid, not being quite so
green as when made with the
amount of acid,
In mixing the liquids with the sugar I |
observed the following order
First, I put the solution of hypophos- |

phites of iron and manganese into the}
one-half the |
sugar, then the tincture nux vomica, the |

bottle; next added about
balance of the sugar, and, lastly,
solution of hypophosphites of
potassium and sodium.
is all dissolved,
make up the measure to one pint. 1 gen- |
erally use a little less sugar than the |
formula calls for, as I find it very difficult |
to dissolve that amount of dry granulated.

If any one has succeeded in making a
satisfactory syrup by following the Na-
tional Formulary, I would like to hear
of it.

the

After the sugar

_— 2
The Drug Market.
Quinine, German, is higher,
upward tendency.
are unchanged. Oil wintergreen has ad- |
vanced. Oil lemon is higher. Nitrate |
silver has advanced and tends higher.

Oil sassafras has advanced.
—_———>-o<——__——

with an

The nostrum trade in Italy is now reg-
ulated by a very stringentlaw. All nos-
trums to be sold must have the sanction
of the superior sanitary commission,
which is given arbitrary power. Its rules
exclude all proprietary medicines not
compounded by apothecaries: of which
the exact working formula is withheld:
the composition of which cannot be con-
trolled; the ingredients of which may be
sold by apothecaries only; which may be
harmless, but by the wording of the label
would prevent patients from seeking
proper medical aid; and finally, the sell-
ing price of which is outof proportion to
their real value.

Secretary, John A. Tinholt. |

after trying |
three different brands, I came to the con- |
clusion that some other method must be |
After a good deal of experi-|
menting, I have succeeded in making as |

a fluid |
ounce of water, making a perfectly clear |

whole |
yet being wholly soluble. |

lime, |

ladd water enough to}

Opium and morphia |

THE COMING MEETING.

 

Appeals from President Inglis and
| Local Secretary Prall.
| President Inglis has issued the follow-
| ing circular address to the members of
the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso-
| ciation:
| Detroit, August 18, 1890.
| To add tothe interest of the coming
| meeting of the Association, it has been
| decided to devote one entire session to
the discussion of business topics. This
will be a new departure and will un-
| doubtedly prove a great success.
| Several interesting papers on matters
|pertaining to business topics will be
jread. Itis hoped that every member
| will be present and take part in the dis-
cussions which will follow the reading
of these papers. The drug business in
| its present state cannot be run on strictly
scientific principles, and, while there
| will be a large number of interesting
| papers presented of a scientific nature,
it is proposed to devote more time than
| we have formerly to the discussion of
trade matters. The Local Secretary in-
forms me that the prospect is good for a
large attendance. You and your wife, if
you have one, will havea good time.
Make it a point to be with us and help
jto make this the most suecessful and
interesting meeting since our organiza-
tion. Very respectfully,

FRANK INGLIS, Pres.

 

OUTLINE OF THE PROGRAMME.

| Local Secretary Prall has sent out the
| following outline of the programme:

SAGINAW, Aug. 21, 1890.

| The eighth annual meeting of the
| Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
| tion is to be held in the city of Saginaw,
| September 16, 17 and 18, 1890.

It is the purpose of the Association, in
holding its meeting in Saginaw, to give
| the pharmacists of this valley and vicin-
ity the opportunity to show their devo-
tion to the true interests of pharmacy, as
exhibited in the work of the Association.

It affords the pharmacists of Saginaw
and the Bay Cities great pleasure to pos-
sess this opportunity of reciprocating
the hospitality so generously accorded at
every former meeting.

To meet the expectations of the Asso-
ciation and satisfy the half-hundred en-
tertainers, the pharmacists of the State
are cordially invited to be present, ac-
| companied by their ladies. The pharma-
| cists of the consolidated Saginaws, of
| Bay City and West Bay City are co-oper-
ating to make this meeting a jubilant
success, and we hope for a generous
attendance to partake of the success of
| our efforts.

The following is
| gramme:

The business sessions will be held in
| the assembly room of the Hoyt Library,
| South Jefferson street (East Side), com-
|mencing Tuesday afternoon, continuing
| Wednesday morning and afternoon and
| Thursday morning. The exhibit will be

|held in the ground floor room of the
| | Aldine building, South Cass street. At
/convenient hours there will be excur-
sions over the F. & P. M. belt line and
| the electric car lines and carriage rides
|}about the city. Tuesday evening there
| will be an entertainment at the Academy
of Music. Wednesday evening a banquet
| at Teutonia hall (West Side), presided
over by Saginaw’s famous toastmaster,
Dr. O. P. Barber.

There will also be informal receptions
at the East Side Club and the West Side
Club and visits to various points of inter-
est. Thursday afternoon and evening
the Association will be entertained by

a synopsis of the pro-

|; the pharmacists of Bay City and West

Bay City, and the Crystal Water Co.

You are urged to heed our cordial
solicitation and favor us with your pres-
ence. Fraternally yours,

D. BE. Prat,

<eimpinocerinnncneley alliipn lin atariniinintnien
It Was His Way of Advertising.

-“‘I beg pardon for intruding upon your
time,’’ said the polite, smiling man with
the small valise in his hand. ‘‘A peddler
is anuisance. I know it as well as any-
body. But there are various kinds of

Local See’y.

 

peddlers, and all of us mustlive. It

 

isn’t our fault that we are here. Those
of us that earn our living honestly have
to share the odium that belongs to the
calling. Vm not complaining of this,
gentlemen. It is part of the curse that
came in the original package to Adam.
If there is any one of you that has a spot
of grease on his coat, vest or pant—trou-
sers,’? he added, opening his valise and
taking out a small cake of soap and
sponge, ‘‘I shall be happy to remove it
and without charging a cent and without
asking anybody to buy mysoap. It’s my
way of advertising. My dear sir, allow
me. There is a little spot on your vest.’’

He rubbed the spot with a piece of
soap, deftly applied the sponge, made a
few passes over the cloth with a piece of
cotton sheeting, and said:

“There sir, that spot is gone. You
will never see it again. And probably
you will never see me again, either, as I
travel but once through a community.
My goods will be found at the stores. I
take it for granted nobody wishes to buy
a cake of my soap. I wish you good
morning, gentlemen.”’’

After the polite, smiling visitor had
gone away, the gentleman whose garment
had been operated upon had occasion to
consult his watch.

It wasn’t there.

It had disappeared with the spot.
a 0
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:

Aurelius—John D. Swart.

Belding--L. S. Roell.

Bellaire—Schoolcraft & Nash.

Big am a nes & Co.

Blanchard—L

Bridgeton—Geo. H. a

Carlton Center—J. N. Covert.

Casnovia—John E. Parcell.

Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner.

Chapin—J. IL. Vanderhoof.

Charlotte—C. P. Lock.

Chester—B. C. Smith.

Clam River—Andrew Anderson.

Clio—Nixon & Hubbell

Cloverdale—Geo. Mosher.

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—J. B. Ketchum, W. Harmon, Boone

& Pearson.

Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son, F. O. Lord.

Grand Rapids—F. W. Wurzburg, Van Driele &
Kotvis, John Cordes, Huntley Russell.

Harvard—Ward Bros.

Hastings—J G. Runyan.

Hersey—John Finkbeiner.

Hesperia—B. Cohen.

Howard City oa Henkel.

Ionia—E. 8S. , Wm, Wing.

? vying—J. T. bo lly

} cnt City—R. McKinnon.

ake Odessa—Christian Haller & Co., E. F.

Coiwell & Son, Fred Miller, McCartney Bros.,
Fred. Miller.

Lowell—Charles McCarty.

Manton—A. Curtis.

Maple Rapids—L. §. Aldrich.

archaeal Sane Fletcher, John Butler, Charles
Fletcher.

Millbrook—T. O. (or J. W.) Pattison.

Millington—Forester & Clough.
= City—W. A. Soules, F. O. Hetfield

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

Nashville—Powers & Stringham.

Newaygo—W. Harmon.

New Era—Peter Rankin.

North Dorr—John Homrich.

O’Donnell—J. E, Edwards.

Olivet—F. H. Gage.

Otisco—G. V. Snyder & Co.

Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co.

Ravenna—R, D. Wheeler.

Reed City—J. M. Cadzow.

Richmond—Knight & C eawerth.

Rockford—H. Colby & C

St. Louis—Mary A. eaens

Sand Lake—C. O. Cain.

Sebewa—P. F. Kna app.

Sparta—Woodin & Van —— _— & Haynes,

Springport—Cortright & Griffi

Stanton—Fairbanks & Co., Sterling & Co.

Sumner—J. B. Tucker.

Wayland—Pickett Bros.

Williamston—Michael Bowerman.

a n -

Two Good Tests.

To detect ammonia in baking powder:
Mix one spoonful of the suspected bak-
ing powder with one spoonful of water,
in a tin cup; boil it a minute to prevent
its burning, and if ammonia is present
you can smell it in the rising steam.

To detect alum: Stir two or three
spoonfuls of the suspected baking pow-
der in one-third glass of cold water, and
after about an hour pour off the cold
water, and if alum is present you can
taste it in the Sediment.

Kalamazoo — ‘See Brea. are suc-
ceeded by Thos. J. Meyers in the furni-
ture business.

“THE WEAR IS THE TRUE TEST
OF VALUE.”’

We still have in stock the well-known brand
Pioneer
Prepared
Paint.

MIXED READY FOR USE.
Having sold same to our trade for over ten
years, we can say it has fulfilled the manufac-
turer’s guarantee. Write for sample card and
prices before making your spring purchases.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

SOLE AGENTS

POLISHIN A ™#2URuITURE

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

A. J. Bowne, President.
Gro. C. Prerce, Vice President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier

CAPITAL, - - $300,000.

 

 

Transacts a general banking business.

 

Make * ae. of Collections. Accounts
Country Merchants Solicited.

GINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price forit. Address

PECK BROS., “Gaaxp Ravibs”

THE MOST RELIABLE FOO
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Hd Sq Used everywhere, with unqual
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Embossed Cards,
Pictvre Advertising Cards,
Adwerkising Folders,

 

Having a lot of the above goods,
consisting of several thousand of
different designs, we offer the cards
much less than’ourjusual prices.

The Tradesman Company,

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any climate. Quality Guaranteed Against Injury
ay Freezing. All others worthless after frees

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Do You Observe the Law ?

If not, send $1 to
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
For their combined

LIQUOR & POISON RECORD.

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Wholesale Price Current.

 

Advanced—Quinine (German), Nitrate Silver, Oil Wintergreen, Oil Sassafras, Oil Lemon.

 

ACIDUM.
Aceticum ...... ....-- 10
Benzoicum German.. soo! 00
Bae ..........-... 30
Carviotioum ..........- 33Q@ 10
Be 50@
Hydrochlor .......---- 3@
Nitrocum .........:-- 10@ 12
a ae 11@ =
Phosphorium dil......
Salicylicum ........--- 1 40@1 80
Sulphuricum.... .. -- 1%@ 5
Tannicum.......------ 1 40@1 60
Tartaricum.........--- 40@ 42
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16 deg......---- 5@ 7
. oo. 1@ 8
Carbonas .......--+++: 11@ 13
Chloridum .......----- 12@ 14
ANILINE.

  

 

Yellow Cte eae ele 2
BACCAE,
Cubeae (po. 1 50..-..--- 1 6#0@1 75
Juniperus ....-- i - §@ 10
Xanthoxylum.......-- 23@ 30
BALSAMUM. ws
ee
Terabin, Canada ....- 35@
A cas coca tens 0@ 4
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian..... 18
COMME 2... neces ones 11
Cinchona Flava ....- 18
Euonymus atropurp..- : 30
Myrica Cerifera, po....----- 20
Prunus Virgini.....---- a 12
ee, ord....-..-.-- 12
Sassafras .......-------: ._
Ulmus Po (Ground 12).....- 10
EXTRACTUM.

  

Glyeyrrhiza Glabra.. AG 5
ied Ib. “be - = 12
15 ox.
—" a 13@ 14
' es 14@ 15
ie RAS. cease 16@ 17
FERRUM.
Carbonate Precip. ...-- @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Soluble......-- @ 80
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ Ww
Solut Chloride......-- @ 15
Sulphate, com’l....... 1%4%@ 2
pure......--- eo ¢
FLORA.
APDAOR ... «000+ -----° 14@ 16
Anthemis ........----- W@ B
Matricaria ...... ----- 25@ 30
FOLIA.
Baro “siifol, Tin: 12@ W
Cassia, “Acut 0 n- :
Gocaes iseuee B@ 2
nivelly :; “oan
dfficinalis, 8
a ~ apbaaneiaene - 10@ 12
Ura Ural. pee ees 8@ 10
@UMMI.
ja, ist picked.... @1 00
a? oo
bi _ oo @ 80
- sifted sorts... @ 6
6 Bee ala 75@1 00 | &
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60
“Cape, (po. 20).. @ 12
© Socotri, in 60) . @ Ww
Catechu, 1s, (448, 14 448,
oe @ 1
Ammoniae ........---- 25@ 30
Assatentids, (po. 30) .. @ 15
Benzoinum.......- wW@ 5
Camphore.....-- 50@ 52
Euphorbium po 3@ Ww
Galbanum — @3 00
Gamboge, po..----- 80@ %
Guaiacum, (po. 60) . @
Kino, (po. 25)..-++-+++ @ 2
Meth, oo 3 >
~— po. 45).....---
Opii (pe. 5 6 @)......+. 4 10@4 25
ceca: 25@ 35
- bleached...... 2@ 35
Tragacanth .......---- 30@ 75
HERBA—In ounce packages.
Absinthium ........--------- 25
Eupatorium ......--+---++++- 20
Lobelia........ssees-ee reese 25
Majorum...... .---+-+--++: 28
Mentha oo pass ceeceucs =
WN iis ccs sons Ce
Tanacetum, V.....------++-: 22
Thymus, V......-----++--+* 25
MAGNESIA,
Caicined, Pat.......... 60
Carbonate, Pat......-- 22
Carbonate, K. & M. W@ 2
Carbonate, Jenningd.. 35@ 36
OLEUM.
Absinthium. ........- 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Duis... \.. 45@ %5
Amydalae, Amarae.. “4 00@8 =
I oon van cine case ne 90@2
Auranti Cortex....... e $0
Bergamlii ............- 3 = 00
Cajiputi ............... 1 00
Caryophylli........... 1 25@1 30
eee ce. 65
Chenopodil Ca at ae @1 75
Cinnamonii .........-. 1 40@1 50
Citronella ..... a sone ene @ 4
Conium Mac........ - BO
Copaiba .........-.... 1 20@1 30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

ee 14 00@14 50
Jexcontmitos........... 9@1 00
pe ee ee ee 1 W@1 30
Gatithorts............ 2 W@2 30
Geranium, ounce. 5
Gossipii, Sem. gal.. as HG T
eGeGrme ...... 2.2.5. 1 75Q@1 80
Ur pert.-.... se ees: 5O@2 00
Tavecous ...........- 90@2 00
Mo eee se 1 50@2 2
menthes er ,......... 2 40@3 50
Mentha Verid......... 2 50@2 60
Morrnuad, gal........- 80@1 00
— Gunee..... @ 50
eee ge eee 1 00@2 75
Picls a Laan. (gal. -, 10@ 12
eae 1 28@1 36
Samedi’ Lee pee T@1 00
Rosae, ounce.......... @6 00
oem... 2. i... 40@ 45
ee a . e109
eee 5. 25. 3° 7 00
Sassafras. .... 60
Sinapis, ess, ounce.. @ 65
cise s tas @1 50
Thyme Re eae 40 50
ime 2... @ 60
Phocorciees..........- 15@ 2
POTASSIUM.
my Gee... se. 15@ 18
Bichromate ........... 13@ 14
emmae............. 37@ 40
a 12% 15
Chlorate, (po, 16) ...... 16@ 18
ide ne 5O@ 55
.-2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart, pure... 3@ 3
Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15
Petass Nitras, opt ae 10
Poteus Nitras.......... 7 9
Pramiete ..........---- 28@ 30
Sulphate po..........- 15@ 18
RADIX.
Aconitam .............
Althae...
Anchusa 15@
Arum, po. @
oe 200@ 50
Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12
Glychrrhiza, (py. 15).. 16@ 16
Hydrastis Canaden,

(in @ 40
Hellebore, Ala, po.... 15@ 2
Tete, PG... 6-555. ee 15@ 2
Ipecac, po..........-.-2 2@2 35
Iris plox (po. 20@22).. 183@ 2%
Jee, OF... ...-..--- 45@ 50
Maranta, 448.........- @ 35
ee ee 15@ 18
a er 75@1 00

qe @1 75

Boab e ee aces 75Q@1 35

Spi oles Cee eee 48@ 53

aeanubennin, (po 25).. @ Ww

Serpentaria...........-. 40@ 45

oes... 45@ 50

Similax, Officinalis, H @ 4

M @ ®

Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Foti-

cu wo......... @ 3

Valerian, Eng. (po. 30) @ B
German... 15@ 2

Binwieer @.........-... 10@ 15

Pinger j......-.-- 2@ 2%
—

Anisum, (po. 20 @ 15

_— bata. 1h@ 18

ree, 16... ess 6
Carui, am )..:...-... &8® 12
Carden... 5. 1 00@1 25
Corlandram..........- 10@ 12
Cannabis Beeea........ 34@ 4

Sydomntum.... .. ... Sore

Chenopodium . . ae
Dipterix x Odorate Puasae 2 WO@2 2
Poeniourim........... @ 15
Foenugreek, po..... . = &
Oo Se i @ 4%
Lini, grd, (bbl.4 )... 44@ 4%
OI ce aces 3 40
Pharlaris en: - 84@ 4%
Rap: L K 6@ 7
Sinapis, Ai Albu. ee 8S 9

Ragre........ 11@ 12

SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50
D. eee 1 75@2 00
See ae 1 10@1 50
mete Co. 0. T....1 Bal &
a 75@3 50
Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00
Spt. Wim Galli. ....... 1 75@6 50

Vini Oporto ..........- 1 25@2 00
vini ‘Be... 2.5... 1 25@2 00

SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ ~e.

GONAe. ..0..-..-.-. 2 25@2 50
Nassau eae wool

Carriage .... ....... 2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’

wool carriage....... 1 10
Extra yellow sheeps’

Carriage ..........-.-- 85
Grass sheeps’ wool car-

WOOO. bs oe te. ss 65
Hard for slate use 75
Yellow Reef, for slate

Me icc ce cai, 1 40

SYRUPS,

Ce 50
50

60

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50

50

60

50

elas ee ae, 50
CO 50
a 50
MOEN ig ees og pees cee 50
PFODUS VIF... 2... 0-0eeen- - a

 

 

 
  
 
    

   

TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis R....... 60
. “ 7.......
ee a 60
el Magee st... 60
eS Se ee 50
pe ee 0
Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
Pee ee 60
s wes cctie see eaa 50
Baueurserm........,........ OO
ee... 50
Comphariaes ................ 7
Ceo .......-.---...-..- 50
ee "5
e OG: .-..5. Us. ae
OO ne. 100}
oe 50 |
cree 50
oe .......... - &
ee 50
oe Ee 5G
J —. =
Ce 50
Meee ee... 50
Gentian Be cece seas cues 50
eee 60
Guaica — 50
ammon 60
Rinevoer ...... 50
Eevoecvemics ................ 50
seo... 5
. Colorless. . Lo.
Ferri Chloridum............ 35
50
We. 50 |
mun Verwes................ 50
Opii ee 85
’ Camiereied........... 50
CO eee 2 00
Aurea Cortex...... ....... &
Cee 50
ws ee ee 50
R _.... oO
Cassia ‘Acutifol- -_—.. oe
Ca 50
Serpentaria eae bree cee 50
Stromonium.. 60
Tolutan . 60
Werner... 5... . oo
Vv restr ooee..........., 50
MISCELLANEOUS.
Axther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 4@ 28
. . “ <4)... 6 &
ae 24@ 3%
o ground, (po.
| ES 3@ «4
Byeeue............,.- 55@ 60
Antimoni, me... 4 &
et PotassT. 55@ 60
Aner... 1... .. 1 35@1 40
I ons coe eens ce 2
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 8
a 7
Balm Gilead on Poles 38Q 40
Bismuth 8S. -2 10@2 20
— Chior, ‘1s, “(Ks
~~... @ 9
cunlameites Russian,
baw eet ee eee toeees @1 75
Capsici Fructus, af... @ 2
“ “oe ‘i @ 16

“cc “

po. @ 14
Caryophyllus, - 20) 15@ 18

 

Carmine, No, @....... @3 75
Cera Alba, S. eF tole 50@ 55
Cer Prve............ 38Q@ 40
eee @ 40
Cassia Pructus........ @ Ww
inns @ 10
lo @ 6
Chloroform mise yee e+s 50@ 55
ulbbs .. @1 00
Chloral Hyd ‘Crest ies 1 50@1 75
ee 20@ 2%
Cinchonidine, r&WwW ie
German 4@ 10
Corks, list, dis. per
A @ 60
Creeeee . wes 5c, @
Coe, (O67, F)........ @ 2
vi ee ea 5@ 5
si a, A ES 8@ 10
. MRM. .......... @ 8
SE ne 35@ 38
OO ons eck ec eee @ A
Copel Saipe........... s@ 9
Ce ee 10@ 12
Hither Gulph.........-. 68@ 70
Emery, = numbers... @
Ergota, (pe. L) @O....... 50@ 66
= Wone.......... | 15
eee eee ce 23
aauniss See ce use 8 g 9
Gelatin, Cooper.......
' French........ 40@
Glassware flint, 70 per cent.
by box 60 less
Glue, ewe... os... 9@ 15
mee, 13@ 2
iGivcerine ........ 5... 184@ 25
> an rereeee........ @ 2B
ee ee 25@ 40
Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @1 00
hin ar... @ 90
i Ox Rubrum @1 10
a Ammoniati. @1 2
a Unguentum. 47@ 57
Fivdraravrum ......... 82
Te =e obolla, Am..... 1 25@1 50
Indi -- %%@1 00
lodine: Resubl 8 TQS 8
Iodoform. GA 7
Lupulin ..... 85@1 00
Lycopodium .........-. 55@ 60
i 85
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
rae 27

Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Magnesia, Sulph (bbl

)
maania, i Ae

 

  
  

 

Morphia, 8s. P. & = .2 85@3 10 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @
an. Fk. Sinapi Ee ne @ 18
ae 2 85@3 = = a oe) Scala @ 8
Moschus Canton...... @ Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Myriatica, No. 1....... 70@ Fs eae ae @ 3
Nux A age (po 20) .. @ 10} Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes @ 35
38@ 38) Soda Boras, (po. 13). . 12@ 13
Soda et Potass Tart... 30@ 33
Ge 0G Sods Carb............ 1%@ 2
Soda, Bi-Carb @ 5
Or ee Soca, Anb............. 3%@ 4
Picis Liq., oe @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2
oe ......- 70 | Spts. Ether Co ....... 50@ 55
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80) .. @ “ Myrcia Dom. ... @2 00
Piper Nigra, (po. 22). @ 18 r Myrcia Imp... @2 50
Piper Alba, (po g5)...- @ 35 *  Vini Rect. bbl
Pie Dee @ 7 3 25). 35
Promani Beet .......... 14@ 15 Less 5¢ gal., | cash ten dune
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia C rystal.... 10
Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, a 2%@ 3%
a@ ©. D. Co., dom..... @1 25 Mgt. i... “— 3
| Pyrethrum, PV eee 3G S| Tamatinds.......... 8@ 10
eee eel os 8@ 10} Terebenth Venice..... 2@ 30
Quinia, S 5. Fr. 4@4..... 39@ 44 — ae 50@. 55
| S. German.. ie =i Varin... .....-..... 9 00@16 00
| Rubia Tinctorum..... 19 ‘14/ Ziel Salph.........- 7@
| Saccharum Lactispv.. @ 39
a 1 80@2 00 OrLs.
Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal
Santonime ............ @4 50| Whale, winter....... 7 7
Deva, Gxtra.......... 55 60
Bane, HO. 1.......... 45 50
Linseed, pure raw.... 61 64

 

 

    

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Lindseed, boiled .... 64 67
Neat’s Foot, winter
enrereeG oo... 50 69
SpiritsTurpentine.... 46% 53
PAINTS, bbl. Ib.
hed Venetian.......... 1 2@3
Ochre, yellow Mars...1% 2@4
Ber 1% 2@3
Putty, “aaa. "2 24%@3
' “strietly ure. 2% 2%@3
Vermilion Prime Amer-
ican . 13@16
Vermilion, ‘English. . 80@s2
Green, Peninsular..... 70@i
0 ro... ...... @i%4
c Wie 2. .....-. @i%
Whiting, white Span... @70
Whiting, Gildere’...... @%
White, Paris American 1 00
Whiting, Paris Eng.

Chm ............... 1 40
Pioneer Prepared Paint! oa 4
Swiss Villa Prepared

ae 1 00@1 20
VARNISHES,

No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 4
Rue Tare............ 160@1 70
Coste Bogy........... 2 T5@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10
Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. i

—...... 70@ 75

 

HAZELTINE

& PERKINS
DRUG CO.

Importers and Jobbers of

—-DRUGS-—

Chemicals and Druggists’ Sundries

Dealers in

 

We are Sole Proprietors of

WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY

Patent Medisines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes,

Sole Agents forithe Oelebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints.

We have in stock and offer a fuil line of

Whiskies, Brandies,

Gins, Wines, Rume.

 

Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co..

ceive them.

 

 

 

 

Rye Whisky.

antee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced thejsame day we re:

Send in a trial order.

Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash
Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite

We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to

Mail Orders_and Guer-

Harelting & Perkins Drug 60,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

  

    

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THE

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

GRVUCERIES.

Wool Still Depressed--Hides Firm--Tal-
low Higher.

Wools are still depressed, with nothing
visible in the future to advance prices.
The trouble is with the goods market,
made worse the past week by a stringent
money market, which is likely to hold
for some time. The banks are scanning
their collaterals closely and are inclined
to curtail their lines of discount to man-
ufacturers. The importation of foreign
wool bids fair to be large. English mills
are running night and day on goods for
this country, and are simply flooding us,

 

 

which they will do until our tariff shuts |

them out, which can’t take effect before |
January, if passed now. The law of!
supply and demand is ignored by this |
importation, and goods are likely to be |
slaughtered later, which cripples our|
home manufacturers. Many of
woolen mills are shut down. Those buy-

ing are for immediate wants only and in|

small lots. Holders of wool are firm)
and anxiously look for the turn hoped |
for, and which they have every reason to
believe will come—but *‘when ?”’

Hides are firm, with no late advance.
As the weather the take-off
larger, and when the supply more
ample, prices likely to off.

cools, is |
is

are go

Leather has an upward turn to meet the}

advance in hides.

Tallow is firm

supply ample.
ae
Robertson vs. Davenport.

The base ball nines selected by Happy
Hi Robertson and Byron S. Davenport
will meet at Alger Park, at 3 o’clock
Saturday afternoon, and play for the
championship of the city. Davenport’s
nine, as selected by that gentleman, is as
follows:

Harry Gregory, pitcher;

s. s.: M. K. Walton, Sb.: W.
2b.; Russell Bertsch, 1b.; B. S. Daven-
port, catcher; C. J. Flynn, r. f.; John
Ring, | £: Clarence Sradicy, «. ;
Charlie McLean and Orson Stebbins, sub-
stitutes.

and higher, with the

Greg. Luce,
R. Keeler,

 

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Bank Notes.

Noble & Wegner have sold the Huron
County Bank, at Sand Beach, to A. E.
Case & Co.

The Hackley National Bank of Mus-
kegon succeeds the Muskegon National
Bank on the 27th.

Charles P. Toll, Paying Teller at the
People’s Savings Bank, at Detroit, has
resigned after a connection of many
years with the institution.
for the future are not fully matured.
———

The Irrepressible Watson.

Chas.
ative for S. A. Maxwell & Co., has estab-
lished himself at the Hotel Cadillac, at

 

Detroit. and will hold forth at that place |
has a finer line of |

until Sept. 14. He
goods than ever—which is saying a good
deal—and he will take good care

of his trade who can make it convenient |

to meet him in Detroit during the next
three weeks. Send him word when you
are going and the brass band will be at

"the train.
——_—~-2 <>
The Grocery Market.

Sugars are 1-16¢ lower, in consequence

of the improved condition of the beet
crop in Europe. Cheese is
ing. Hominy
barrel within the past week.
gc higher.

has advanced $1.15 per

Jelly is}

our |

His plans |

E. Watson, Miehigan represent- |

of any |

growing
firmer and the price is steadily advanc- |

TIGHTENING THE TOILS.

 

The New York Biscuit Co. Shows Its
Fine Italian Hand.

CuHicaco, Aug. 22. — When THE
TRADESMAN stated, as it did afew weeks
ago, that the cracker situation was de-
cidedly strained and that a heavy war
cloud hung over the horizon, it spoke in
the nature of prophesy, as the first gun
has already been fired and the spirited
skirmish now on will undoubtedly soon
be followed by the heavy guns of all the
organizations in the field. The New
York Biscuit Co.—apparently anxious to
show its strength— has decreed that
Kennedy’s goods shall hereafter be sold
to the jobber at10 per cent. off list, which
is the same discount the large retail trade
is given. This action on the part of the
Cracker Co. has aroused a storm of pro-
|tests from the jobbing trade, but the

; company is stubborn and announces that

jit will not recede from its position.
| What the outcome will be I am unable to
foresee.

In no respect is the character of the
| Biseuit Co. better disclosed than in the
| steps it has taken to secure the absolute
control of the patents for machinery used
in the manufacture of crackers and sweet
jgoods. It is no longer a secret that most

;of the valuable patents have been
|gobbled up by the company, which
means that no concern outside the Bis-
cuit Co. can secure a machine or any re-
| pairs for one already in use. An inde-
| pendent manufacturer spent several days
in the World’s Fair City last week and
used every effort he could command to
| secure duplicates of machines he is now
using for the purpose of increasing the
eapacity of his plant, but he was frankly
informed that the manufacturers of such
machinery were under contract with the
Biscuit Co. to furnish no machinery to
bakeries not owned by the syndicate.
This coup d@etat takes the trade com-
pletely by surprise, as it was not sup-
posed the Biscuit Co. would carry the
war into Africa in this direction. What
course the crafty managers will yet de-
vise to secure even more absolute con-
trol of the situation and prevent inde-
pendent manufacturers from pursuing
their business in a legitimate manner, I
am notin a position to state; but my
knowledge of the great executive ability
of the leading lights in the syndicate
leads me to believe that inside of five
years the New York Biscuit Co. will oc-
cupy the same position, relatively speak-
ing, that the Standard Oil Co. has main-
tained for the past dozen years.

VINDEX.
hice ee eeteetene

Novel Method to Introduce Ceylon Tea.
From the New York Shipping List.

The effort to introduce Ceylon tea to
the American tea drinker has not thus
far met with any great measure of suc-
cess, but the latest mail advices from
Colombo give the details of a scheme
which is about to be undertaken for the
| purpose of increasing the consumption
of Ceylon tea in this country, that is at
least unique. It is a proposal to form a
joint stock company, with a capital of
| $1,000,000, divided into 50,000 shares of
$20 each, which is to buy out the existing
| company in Ceylon and carry on the bus-
|iness upon a much larger scale than at

 

 

 

| present, upon what is termed the ‘‘co-
operative system.’’ The capital is to be
| allotted as follows:

 

Shares.
| Working Capel)... 19,000 $200,000
Purchase of old company ....12,000 240,0:0
| For promoting the scheme. . .28,000 560,000
50,000 $1,000,000
The shares set aside for promoting the
company are to be’ distributed among

| grocers and tea dealers throughout the
| country who will consent to act as agents
for the sale of the company’s product, to
| the extent of $100 to $1,000 each. These
| shares (fully paid up) are to be deposited
| with the city agents as security for tea
isold, which will be billed at a price to
enable the agent to make a handsome
| profit and at the same time give the com-
pany good returns. The dealer, who is
thus to be at the same time a share-
holder, will therefore have the double
incentive of a profit on sales and a divi-
|dend on his stock; besides which, it is
argued that his ownership of stock will

 

give him an interest in keeping at work
in his territory, even should sales not
prove large at first, as he would realize
that his investment in the stock would
prove valueless unless himself and his
fellow agents all continue to work for
the common good. The scheme may re-
sult in distributing Ceylon tea, but
whether at prices that will return a hand-
some profit is quite another question, for
there will be a sharp competition with
the teas from China, and the average
consumer in this country does not pay a
high price for the ‘‘cup that cheers.”’
el — lel

Eaton Rapids—E. D. Crittenden has
sold his news and confectionery stock to
Mrs. L. Holcomb.

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples—Dried, 8@8%c for sun-dried and
11@12¢ for evaporated. The market is strong.

Apples — Duchess and Red Astricans are
coming in freely, commanding $2.50 per bbl.

Beans—Dry stock continues to get firmer, being
now held at €@2.25@#2.50 for city hand- picked.

Beets—New, 50@) per bu.

Butter—Dairy begins to look up, in conse-
quence of the extended dry weather. Fair grades
command 14e and fancy 16c per Ib

Blackberries—Wild, 6e per qt.
about out of market.

ee nee grown, 75c per doz. or #6 per

Cultivated are

Carrots—15c per doz.
Celery—20@~5ce per doz.

 
  
  
  

 
  
  

  

 

gnnneeene— Penk barrels,81.25; produce barrels a per Ib.
Cucumbers—10e per doz. . Twist
Eggs—The market issteady. Dealers pay 14c} Cut Loaf.........
and hold at 16ce. Assorted Cream ... be j
Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, "5 per bu.; Ps Fe eis eee cece ees ces ace li
medium, $4.60. Timothy, $1.€5 per bu. MIXED CANDY. {
Grapes—Concords, $7 per 100-Ib stand or 75c j Standard, per ID..............-cccccccecccceces 8%
per 10 lb basket; Ives, $5.50 per 100 lb stand. ee ee 8% *
Green Corn—8@10e per doz. — Cue reas eects es bee c anes e ee
= Sugar — Gmc per Ib., according to | Extra... .... 0.0.22. ce cere ence ce sesceserss 10
qual a English TN ie eee te eww oe ow 10
Maple Syrup—75 per gal a eines ce cees cepapeenee sceucy " i
Musk Melons—Home grown, $1.25 per crate. ee
Onions—Green, 15¢ per doz. Home I, TE a ae kes eee ee cc ceee sans 10
$3 per bbl. French Creams.........-.-- Led ele ela re 12 i
oo a per Ib. wile as Valley Creams... .. 2.2.2.0. ese cccssesccscess 13 Q
otatoes—Home grown stock is coming in more we lb. boxes.
freely. Dealers pay 5@ése and hold at 70@78e. | yemon Drops nee eee esos cesses 12
Pears—California, $3@43.25 per case. i ie ieee ee ee 13
Peaches—California $2@82. = = crate. Peppermial Ste 14
Plums—California, $2 per cra Ceoneiaie rei 14 :
Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, #4, 150 per bbl; Jer-| Hf M. ChocolatecDrops........ecscceeeee eee. 18 ;
seys, 85.50 per bbl. a i0
Tomatoes—Home — coming in freely, | Licorice Drops... .......-2.-.csecsceereecee eee 18
being held at 90c@%1 per b A Eieiees Drees... 14 i
Turnips—Ss0@60c per rbu.. Lozenges, plain.............2005 sesseeee sees 14
Watermelons—Indiana stock is coming in very Ns 15 i
plentifully, being held at a apiece, el 14
Whortleberries—2.50 per bu. ey 15
PROVISIONS. — ~~. pare oreket sys -tacmenneeren rts ' =
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | Caramels ...... 16@18
quotes as follows: Hand Made Creams. Ce
PORK IN BARRELS, Plain Creams........ -16
a ee... 12 25 | Decorated Creams. -20 i
OE EE 11 50] String Rock....... «ae i
Extra clear pig, short cut............... << Burnt Almonds. . 22 i
— - = cece eeee sete ceeeteeees ae" Wintergreen MR eis ces se eeetas 14 i
or ore va
Rosine Cheer, smoreCut...................... 12 50 Lozenges plain —— balk. 12 v
Cieer DAUM, OTS ONE... 2. .........., * Orin ted, in pails ete ean aca una iale 13
Standard clear, short cut. best. ene... 12 !
oaveaen—Beeeh ahd Gaked. nee rope. onsen ;
ee
— —— oc te ro creas. ; Mies Dee, te PAI cle oak 10
ayant a la a i‘ Sour Diod H MANO 12 j
Tongue Sausage..........+6 i< 7 Imperials, in pails.............-- 12 i
Frankfort Sausage c 8 H ad tears sononecry a |
Sausage .
Bologna, straight ck Rodi, opus essa ew oe ewas g 750 4
Bolo na, ick a ates aes oem
ead Cheese........ ‘tiecicee © : |
Lanp—Keitle Rendered. Messina, > err ineey tes g ; =
Tierces . 7 i ee @ 8 00
Tubs... - 1% «“ ee ae 8 50@ 9 00
ee ee eeedencrnes Ve OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
INE inc dcciaies cccienrtouen ie Cee 6 oem i mip eeesh - =
30 and ob ib, Tubs... - “ss 33
' Pails, 20 in a case ef BOND, eee eee eee eee eee
5 Ib, Pails, 12 in Deaee 6% ‘* Persian, 50-lb. en oe eee cle oes 5%@
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a Case... - 6% :
20 Ib. Pails, 4 in a case. 7 " 6% Almonds, a Shades beceenkia abe) 10% ‘
i oe 6% “ aa
Extra Mess wummanine 200 Ibs. Brazi 15
a | warranted 200 IDS... -........... 7 0G | BFAzUB....- ---. oe se eee eeee eee ee ee eens
Extra Mess, Chicago packing. . ci Walnuts, —— Lee hoe ie edie eee 2% 3
Bomehoss, tap Watts... ss. . 9 50 Pecans, Texas oo ae '
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain, Cocoemmts, TUT WACKER. 6 ono. ccees es csees @A4 2
Hams, average = Or ie sks ee ee 10% PEANUTS.
ee 10% Fancy, H. P., _. soebipes bates ecicvas cose @10
. c ie ON oes ce es CTS 12 Pd
- oa oc A ces 8 Fancy, H. Ps Game Cocks. . one gi0
° ere 8% Roasted. 12
Oc 1% Fancy, H. P., Sta, ABE esse ee eens os 9%
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...................- 8% asted .. 11%
Dried beef, ham prices...................+.+- 10% Choice, a P. Ex Pree. ..... @ 9%
Dee (oem Bee... i... 5c... s...-... 6 moomeeeg..... 5... ., @i1
eee 6 Fancy, js P., Steamboats ieee Cie de @ 9%
ie a Ee eo 6 Roasted....... @li1

FISH and OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: z
FRESH FISH.

ere

cis ied dice Cech vdbiones g ™%
- Oe 8
es ee eee ee eee @™%
WO ge @15
Flounders. See ata ee de cue cscs ge ca eaness @9
eS Bee eee een @10
ce eee eo ee
ae es cs. @10
fi ee ea @
oysTERS—Cans,
Fairhaven Counts....... ccc. cccccccece @35
WF We i co eee: si ee cs @35
Beseces.......... See ett bebe c pes cede ose @30
OP a is ce ee ce @2 i
Ce Se ee a ie ee @23 i
FRESH H MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows: 7
ae ee. 4@6
« bind quarters. ............. 0.02000. 6 @6%
* a. el aeee cee e een eee @3
* Wile We 8... 5. os, T%4O 8%
ECC @8
. vec eee eee coco ee @6
ae ee @ 9
a a @
I a csc ee wees ceed esc @5 [
ee Pe ec @s
- eee |e, @ 6
Sausage, blood eee... e :
ae ee @ 7%
re cn @
ec iedies bene uwenee novos @

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.

 

  

  
  

 
  

 

 

REMOVAL

 

 

 

secured at 46 Ottawa St., where we shall be pleased to see our friends in the future.

Net weights and fine goods tell the tale.

Already and within a year’s time, our

business has grown to such proportions as

to demand larger quarters, which we have

Be sure to give them a trial.

A. E. BROOKS & CO.

 

 

 

 

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anata aa y ies

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

    

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Wholesale Price Current.

The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

 

APPLE BUTTER.

 

 

 

E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6 | German Sweet............ 23
AXLE GREASE. — bee pebien <etees 35
Pree es. ...s..... .. si enes Oe Ee ccs oes 38
A: 1% Breakfast Cocoa.......... 40
aa: 1 80} Droms.............. ...--. 37
BAKING POWDER. COCOA SHELLS.
Thepure, 10¢ packages. . oo -4 @4%
a. ee 156} Pound packages........ Qi
. 6 oz. eee 2 2 COFFEE EXTRACT.
. \% Ib. - A 80
- 120z. - | ee 110
. " uae 5 40 co¥FEE—Green.
- sh. . Le Sc Gbite far.
Less 20 per cent. to retailers. eee. CL. 21 @2
Absolute, 4% _ Gane, 10 11% «prem... @23
= — - ..1000| ‘* fancy, washed @24
" + . a ol. «Gece... ....... 3 @x
Acme, 4 IP Ib, cans, —— ine. 2 @23
= ao 180 ecagy amas @2A
- i. - i & 3 00] Java, Interior......... @2%
Oe 20; ‘* Mandheling.. et @30
Our Leader, 1b. cans..... S| OGMOETY oo... s, 22 @rA
.. 90| Mocha, genuine..... 26 @28
ap - 1 60 To ascertain cost of roasted
Telfer’s, % Ib. cans, doz.. 45 coffee, add \c. per lb. for roast-
85 | ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
_ ab - “ 7" 150 age.
BATH BRICK. COFFEES—Package.
English, : doz. in case..... ES
Eee eT CC cece vt] “ im cabinets,.......>.. 2534
aaa 2 doz. in case. 7 | McLaughlin’s XXXX.. -—
BLUING. Dosen | len
Mexican, oo a i * mM eabiess............ Fo
£0 orp... 25
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, or... .... per doz. 1 35
%....... 150
- on....... = is
. TOt....... “ 26
. oe... - +2
Jute en....... ss 90
. 72 ...... “ th
CONDENSED MILK.
Se 7 50
Anglo-Swiss.......... 6 00@ 7 60
COUPONS.
“Superior.”
$1, per hundred eeu cees 2 50
8 2 ten deenoue 3 00
ae 25 5 - 4 00
CANNED Goops—Fish. 1, * Oe been cad cee 5 00
Clams. 1 lb, Little Neck..... 110;m, “* ciao en ces 6 00
Clam Chowder, 3 Ib......... 2 10 “Tradesman.”
Cove Oysters, 1 Tb. —-- -.1 1518 1, per hundred........... 2 00
2 1b. 2001832, ‘“ “ im 2 50
Lobsters, 1 1b. “plcnte.. 16s, * _ -- 300
2 Ib. «2 eiem, . . 400
. : Ib. _ ee 2 35 hay . 5 00
“< 2 See........... 3 65 Subject to the following dis-
Mackerel, = Pease Sauce.2 00 | counts:
1 1b. stand Seda ee 1 20} 200 or over . 5 per cent.
- a. UC [oo Cl... = 6S
- 3 1b. in ai a — =
" 8lb. soused....... 2 85 CRACKERS.
Salmon, 1 1b. Columbia 1 50@1 90 | Kenosha Butter............. 7%
1b. Alseka..3 SGi Wiseymour “ ......-......- 5%
Sardines, domestic 48...... ET 5%
-_ - es @ 9 _ oo Se Sen 5%
' Mustard % Mow an @10 go a 6%
. imported Me: .104%@16 — Beco oe a cettaeees- 7
- med. %68....... 10 Rome. .........:..----.-- oh
Trout, 31 aa. bac cece da en ie
‘i a —a 5°O eee SH
ples, gallons, stand. ..... City ster, beet occ uaee 5%
Blac kberries, stand......... 1 10} She Ore uae ee die cy we
Cherries, a standard 1 10@1 20 CREAM TARTAR.
ae feee 8... i | Strictly pure.........--.... 38
Paes... ........... [i Grew... .....-.
Egg Plums, 8 _—— — 1 15@1 35 DRIED FRUITS—Domestic.
Goose Apples, sun-dried..... : 9
Grapes ...... ae... @i4
Green Gages Apricots, " @
Peaches, yello Blackberries “ @
ss Nectarines ‘‘ ees
Kg Peaches yon
Plums ici anes iste:
ee common..1 10@1i 50] Raspberries ‘‘ —............
ohnson’s.2 50@2 75 DRIED FRUITS—Prunes.
METOOD . 2.0. cee ccccocesse- i Or Pereey................
pherries, Mc cc. 7. oieeee.... ...... ..... @s
desecenccens 40 | California............-
Strawberries. a 1 15@1 35 DRIED FRUITS—Peel.
Whortleberries.............. Lemon...... ATE 18
CANNED VEGETABLES. Sen Ia 18
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... DRIED FRUITS—Citron.
Beans, Lima, stand......... 801 ia dram... 62.2... @18
bp ‘Green Limas.. @i i in bowee.:.......--....
“ _—— novtansees @ 80 DRIED FRUITS—Currants.
“ string ess, Erie....... 80 | Zante, in barrels...... @ 6%
“ Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40; “ in less quantity 6%@ 6%
Corn, Archer’ 8 Trophy esa es : 00 DRIED FRUITS—Raisins.
Morn’g Glory.1 00} Valencias............. @9
ss « Barly Golden 1 100 — ious eccuduenae @11%
i 3 Gt Salteees............... @10
* extra marrofat.. @1 2 London, Layers, Cali-
* goes. ............... 80 I era bh ceeee. 7 00
« Jane, stand............ 140 iaoien Layers, for’n.
“ “ @oee....... 1 — 85 | Muscatels, California.2 wpe 35
‘* French, extra fine... .1 50 GUN POWDER.
Mushrooms, extra fine...... 12 15 5 50
Pumpkin, 3lb.Golden @1 50 00
= standard....90@1 40 FARINACEOUS GOODS.
ee ce 6 ee a 1 10} Farina, 100 lb, kegs.........
Tomatoes, Red Coat.. 1 10 Hominy, ver te... ........ 400
Enough 1 05 | Macaroni, dom 12 Ib box.. 60
_ Ben Har ... 1 10 imported Seas @10%
ss — br. @1 05] Pearl Barley.......... @3
ATSUP. Peas, wroan............ @1 10
no % 4 pint iscsi scene ae * meee.......-....:. @ 3
———— 2 30] Sago, German......... @6
* quate ae iss +) cee Oe Sansa Wkorpri... oz
HEESE. Wheat, cracked....... @5
Fancy Full Cream. -9 @9% Vermicelli, import... @10%
G ea @ 8% domestic... @60
Part skimmed fe. - 64@ 1% FISH—SALT.
o> Se... ........- O20 =| Cod, whole............ 5 @6
eee ......... ....-.. @1 * ooeeereee.......... 6%@ 8
Swiss, imported ...... See Wy ae ......-........ @
domestic .... 15@ 16] Herring, round, % bbl.. 2 90
CHEWING GUM. eee... 2%
Rubber, 100 lumps bob cvaenees 30 _ olland, bbls... 12 00
ME hha rece cese 40 . egs, - 6
cecnin ie eae. beaes wceess 40 . Seal De . &@ 2
CHICORY. Mack, sh’s, No. 2,% bbl 1200
bis ‘ t..1 30
‘6 “ “ in ..1 20 |

 

 

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.

  

 

 

 

 

Trout, 1; See... @5 2
0 te Bee ....-..;... 75
White, No. 1, % bbls..
e 12 Th. kite. .... 1 00
. ° 10 Ib. kits..... 80
“ Family, % bbis.... .3 00
. = Rie ......... 65
‘ HERBS.
Me ce ol...
ea 14
JELLIES,
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6
Cmleaeo googs.............. 5%

LAMP WICKS.

 

30

40

50

30

fore. 18

LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz........... 1%
MATCHES.

oe, 9 sulehae............-.- 2 00

(boner perler............... 170

moe Sheee..... 1 10

EeOES PALIOE............... 4 00
MOLASSES.

where Pare... 2... 5.2... 20

Cube Baking........ : 24

Porto Rico.. nea bes 30

New Orleans, “good. Bee eee 24

Frag i. 30

- tne... 42

One-half ame ¥36 extra

OATMEAL.

Barrels ..... ee
Trart ervels................. 33
ROLLED OATS.
pares... .......-... @6 00
eee Gees.. ........... @3 25
OIL.

Michigan Tom.............. 9%
Waeee Were ................ 10%
PICKLES.

Mieteae ........... «:.-..
“ ee...
Small, Pe
PIPES.
Clay, a 1 %
.. “1 full couns........ 75
Con mo 8... .... 1 26
PRESERVES.
E. J. Mason ~ = s goods..
Carolina head. See eee ieee see %
Ce ede eu eae. 6%
No. 3 boas ieee 6 @
. Mee.
Japan, Na d.... .... 1... q
Bas... .. ..-....... 6
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Macesaboy, in jare........... 35
French — game... .. 43
Detroit Song Co. g ee.
ge 3 30
Oieen Anse................ 3 85
German Varily.. ..........
Mottled German............ 3 00
One Gero... .... 270
U.S. Bie Bargain..... .....2 00
ioes, Pioeeer........... ... Ss
Cocoa Caste .............. 3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy........ 3 36
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Happy Family, %........... 2 95
(ne Coumiry, 00.............. 3 30
ime Oe 3 65
Bouncer, (Ne 3 15
SAL SODA.
ee 1%
Gomaicsai. DORCE:......... 2
SAPOLIO.
Kitchen, 3 doz. in box See 2
ma 6hUckl eh llUCU SD CL 2
OUPS.
Snider’s Tomato ia eve cass 2 40
sPices—Whole.
See. sc. c. 10
Cassia, China in mats...... 8
. Batavia in bund....15
- Saigon in rolls...... 35
Cloves, Ayahoyna........... 22
ae De ee eueu es 16
Mace Batavia.. = 1c oe
Nutmegs, fancy. See eee. 80
a, 75
< Mo ®.......-.......
Pepper, singapore, — «10
“126
. i 20
sPicEs—Ground—-In Bulk.
co Ss ee 15
Cassi a, Batavia Loe oe eae 20
and Saigon .25
. eee 42
Cloves, Amboyna........... 26
' Peneer...........
aye * —_— Bes cas 12%
. See ue stee ase 18
Biaee Natavis.......-...-..- 90
Mustard, yy. ese e ees 22
nd Trie. .25
o eee... ....-.... 27
armani ae 2 baa Is
epper, Singapore, blac
Ss wie... 30
. ies Loe eedee 25
SUGARS
Cut inet SS cecsew ase 7 @7%
OOM ee eee ones @ 6%
howawes oe cada ee @7z
Standard Granulated. @ 6%
. Pies... ...... @ 6%
Confectioners’ A...... @6.19
White Extra ~ a @ 5%
meee © ..........-... @ 5%
Pubes ben on cdidasened on @ 5%
Yellow ..2....ceeceeees 46@ 5

 

ape
ee 7%
Common Fine aoe on... @%
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 27
a pocket ee 12
See eee 2 00
100 ek 2 15
Ashton bu. bags ............ 75
Higgins ‘ Meee cee aes ve
Warsaw “ a 35
ia oe 7 20

Diamond Crystal, cases....1 50
28-lb sacks 25

oo “ 56- lb ae 50
. . 60 pocket. 2
“ “ 2 40
. “ barrels .. .1 %
SALERATUS.
Church’s, Arm & _-- 5%
Dwight’sCom.. rei . 5%
wey... .... eg
DeLand’ ie Cap Sheaf.........55
ie. 0. veo +10 HG
Our ae educa, cous
SYRUPS.
Corn, herraie.............. @Q32

  

 

     
   

soDA.
Te nn cee. caus 5%
Megs Magen... ls. 4%
ToBaccos—Fine Cut.

D. Scotten & Co.'s er

Pewee ............
meoes Cune........... 36
Onur Leader........ 35

ToBaccos—Plug.

Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands.
Something Good...... a 39
nssoeragt — nh
Pesce Fie... 8... 36
Wedding. c eke, Pae..........: 35
rl Oe 7
ToBacco—Shorts,
Our Leader.. is oe
cunaciote-teachinn.
ue Tewier................. -
Metter...
Plow Boy, Zoe... ...... "3
4 On... 2.2... 31
" 16 ce... . ...,.. 32
VINEGAR.
ee 8
Oo bean ane ee eee eas 9

PAPER & WOODENWARE
PAPER.
Curtiss & Co. quote as fol

FLOUR.
Straight, in sacks......... 5 10
. m Wen co... 5. 5 30
rates, “ seehe......... 6 10
.  TIGOME ...-.. 0 6 30
RYE.
> eo 53@55
MILLSTUFFS.
a 16 00
Aa 16 50
Ot 16 =
Poe ae 18
Mined Woed............... 21 30
Coarse mieG]............,.. 21 50
CORN.
ee 58
Car Fi 55
OATS.

Small lots ad anes Cute eee. 40
a 39
BARLEY.
ee eee 1 15
Ma f...................... 1 10
HAY.
OCR 9 50
lo 2 ..................... 9 00

HIDES, PELTS and FURS
Perkins & Hess pay as fol
lows:

    

 

** one-half barrels....@ HIDES.
Pure Sugar, bbl........... lows: Cree @7
half barrel. ... RU OE 150 | Part Cure @™%
SWEET GOODS. « Tieht Weight... ..... 200} Full ‘“ [{@ 8
Ginger Snaps.......... G tSeeae 180 | Dry........ @8
Sugar Creams......... Sie | arene 2% | Kips, green @ 6%
Frosted Creams....... 8 Pekerw .._...... 2% .  Gaveg.._......... 7@8
Graham Crackers..... 8 |Dry Goods.. vesse seee.6 | Calfskins, green......5 @7
Oatmeal Crackers.... 8 | Jute Mantha 8 eured...... 7 @9
SHOE POLISH. Red Express Soi ee 5 ax @30
J otti . ee ce eee 4 No. 2 hides 4 off.
ettine, 1 doz. in box...... -% Se al
7 48 Cotton. weserer ere ceees 35 peceruuges. _-..._....- @25
= Cotton, No. 1 So. Estimated wool, per b 0 @%5
i wee ll lL ee a woot.
OR oe c sole @2 | Sea Island, a ee mM (wate. | 20@28
oe weet ec cecceceseees Q2 = 5 Hemp .. wee = Uiweehea co 10@20
i 2 @2 oc ............... 7
Chutes moe Wee 8 MISCELLANEOUS.
SUN CURED. WOODENWARE Ebene eee 3 @4
CE Tin @20 z trease butter ........ 1 @2
cs : Tore cot... S OG i Gutietesn |... ... 1%@ 2
ea 22 “No.2 7 d |
as mens |< os seoecesess+ ZOO) Gimmpemg.....----. ---- 2 00@3 00
Choteest...............20 @3s | Pails, No. 1, 2 Swo- a 1 50 LUBRICATING OILS,
BASKET FIRED, « No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 % i We eal es i
Fair qn | Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... 55 The Hogle Oil Co. quote as
Se @25 Bowls, 11 Meh.............. 1 ob | follows:
" mn yr a3 q ‘ or
totes eees @35 “ 18 oo 12 a —, me Lard Oil...53 @58
Extra choice, wireleaf @40 L 7 in ' au -45 @B50
—oownee i § -F 6 gueotad ite and 1 ' No. y ae 35 @40
GUNEOW DER. “assorted, 17s and 19s 2 50 eet : :
Common to fair....... 25 @35 “ “158, tis a and 195 275 | Lure Neatsfoo!........52 @60
Extra fine to finest....50 @65 | Baskets, market.......... 40 | Harness Oil........... . =
Choicest fancy........% @&s “ Hae ee wy ges a % s@i2
IMPERIAL. “ “with covers 1 90 15 Cold Test: inter. 8 =a
Common to fair....... 20 @35 . willow el? ths, No.1 5 1 7 coho ee on
Superior tofine........ 0 qn st is “ No3 : = oid ‘Reliable Cylinder @65
YOUNG HYSON. “ splint “ x 0.1 3 50 600 Mecca O50
Common to fair.......18 @26 ‘ ar No.2 45 ————— a 35 =
Superio fine....... 30 @40 “ 6 ‘ 5 orlis gine Ol.... Oy
ee @ * Noss 0 Golden Machine Oil..18 @25
ENGLISH BREAKFAST. me Mower and Reaper Oil25 @30
Fair 25 @3) | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS | Castor Machine Oil...25 @30
Choice PaaS fy Ade a hy il 30 @35 WHEAT. Boiled Linseed Oil .63 @66
Best ee ee =. cee 94 Michigan WW. ...... @10
Wea Dash... 8 @10 Red. . % a s+r++-46 @O1
At wheat bought. on 60 Ib. test. | Naptha................ 8 @l12
OOLONG, MEAL. Gasoline.... eves 9%@I14
Common to fair... ...25 @30 on |... C......, tor Oil, Pure. oo $1 26@1 30
Superior to fine....... 30 @50 Bolted... .. : Mineral... .30 @35 |
Fine to choicest....... 55 @65 Granulated... i Distilled ..$1 10@1 25

 

 

 

 

REMEMBER

THAT

BUNOLA
COFFEE.

Is better and costs less than most
package coffees.

100-POUND CASES, 24 3-4;

The Earth!

100-CABINETS, 25 1-4.

FOR SALE BY ALL GRAND RAPIDS JOBBERS

We do not want it, but we do want todo the greatest

good to the greatest number,

and, as our productions

‘tickle the palate’’ of the consumer, the seller of them reaps a profit, thereby both

are benefited.

We are scattering through trade channels tons of manufactured

sweetness that please the masses by their purity and superior quality, and to still

further introduce our

ests.

that our factory (which is one of the |
humming early and late goes to show that
leads to patronage, is duly appreci iated.

 

Let us hear from you by mail early and oft

various ne
spondence with every dealer in confectionery w

Our goods are winners and our name a guarantee
argest and best equipped in the State) is kept

our efforts

Grand Rapids, make our place your headquarters.

Yours for trade, =e The Putnam Candy Co.

our best to please you.

 

w specialties we desire to open a personal corre-
ho has an eye open to his own inter-

for excellency, and the fact

to merit confidence, which

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RECIPROCITY TREATIES.

Nations, after having reached acertain
stage of civilization, are eager to trade
with other nations. Even savages are
willing to barter goods with foreigners
for trinkets and whisky. Governments,
however, being very conservative insti-
tutions, and, perhaps, remembering that
when their subjects were savages they
were very likely to exchange substance
for show, have always looked askance
upon trade. They have not been able to
suppress it completely, but have been
obliged to content themselves with ob-
structing it. A very strong belief pre-
vails that the advantages of a trade
entirely accrue to the seller; thus inter-
national trade has been regarded as a
matter for diplomacy. In commercial
treaties the object is, naturally enough,
to get more than is given; and the nation
which goes furthest in abolishing the
impediments to trade which have been
imposed, is thought to grant most.

Many provisions that have been made
in commercial treaties in ancient and
medieval times, and some in later days,
The first consid-
eration is to induce the state with which
the treaty is made to give legal security
to citizens of the other, who reside there
for purposes of trade, in case this secur-
ity is not already enjoyed. The treaty
of 1856, between England and Morocco,
ecovenanted that the countrymen of a
debtor should not be held responsible for
debts which they had no part in con-
tracting; that between England and Mex-
ico, in 1826, guaranteed, among other
things, that prices should be freely deter-
mined between buyers and sellers; that
citizens of each country, resident in the
other, should be free from foreed con-
scription for military service; that they
should freely exercise their religion; and
that their graves should be inviolate.
Treaties of this kind were very common
in ancient times, and some were made
very early. It is thought that the places
in the suburbs of Jerusalem, where
Astarte and other heathen gods were
worshipped unhindered, owed their exist-
ence to commercial treaties with Phcni-
cians, Moabites, and other peoples.

After industrialism had made consider-
able progress in Europe, matters of com-

are somewhat curious.

merce entered into treaties which were
primarily political. For example, in a
treaty between the Venetians and the
Latin Empire, in Constantinople, it was
agreed that no citizen of a state at war
with Venice should be permitted to so-
journ in the Byzantine Empire.  Like-
wise, while the Dutch were the foes of
Spain, they were favored commercially
by France; by a treaty made in 1596,
they were put upon an equality with the
French. Such treaties were not entirely
unknown to the ancients. The King of
Bosporus had the rights of citizenship in
Athens, and his property there was free
from taxation. By atreaty of the Em-
peror Justinian with Ethiopia, the latter
was to furnish aid against the Persians,
while Byzantium was to import its silk
from Ethiopia, instead of from Persia.
These economical alliances have been
most frequently formed between states
in which, by reason of differences in the
nature of their soil and of national cul-

 

ture, the industries of the one do not
compete much with those of the other.
Still, two states can hardly be found
which have not some industries in com-
mon, and in making treaties, the art of
the negotiator has been extensively em- |

ployed to over-reach—to obtain more
*‘concessions’”’ than are granted. A treaty
of England with Portugal, made in 1703,
was regarded as a masterpiece in this
line, because, by its workings, Portugal
exported to England a considerable quan-
tity of Brazilian gold. A Portuguese
writer, in the middle of the century,
delivered himself thus: ‘‘Through un-
exampled stupidity, we permit ourselves
to be clothed (by foreigners) . . Eng-
land robs us every year, by its industry,
of the products of our mines.’’ ‘And yet
the provisions of the treaty were very
simple; Portugal withdrew her prohibi-
tion of English woolen goods and restored
the former duty of 15 per cent., while
England permitted Portuguese wines to
pay a duty one-third less than that on
French wines.

Commercial treaties have been made of
all degrees of liberality. They have
even been used with a view to general
freedom of trade. In the latter case, the
promise is frequently made to treat the
products of the other party on an equal
footing with those of the most favored
nations, as regards import duties. Per-
haps the nearest approach to one wasa
sort of reciprocal granting of the rights
of citizenship between Athens and
Rhodes. Early in the fourteenth cen-
tury, Flanders adopted free trade prin-
ciples somewhat similar to those later
followed by Holland. In 1490, Florence
promised to permit England to enter into
all the treaties it should make with
others. In a treaty of the same country
with France, at about this time, it was
stipulated that Florentine ships should
be treated as Gallic, and Florentine§mer-
chants as true Gauls. Many treaties of
this character were made between many
states of Europe in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. In the eighteenth
century, however, these principles were
receded from, but in the nineteenth they
have again become common.

It would be perfectly possible for uni-
versal freedom of trade to be secured by
commercial treaties. Still, this result is
not likely to be brought about in that
way. The treaties may contribute to the
result, however. If it is seen that trade
with one country is beneficial, there is
chance that in the course of generations
the inference may be drawn that trade
with two countries would be still better,
and eventually that there is no good rea-
son why a nation should refuse to trade
with any other wishing it.

The desirability of freer trade between
this country and South America has re-
ceived consideration lately. It has been
held that in removing obstructions which
we have placed upon trade with those
countries, we should try to induce them
to remove their obstructions also. A
writer in the Boston Herald says:

Naturally, if we repeal our sugar duty,
and demand nothing of these South and
Central American governments, they will
not of themselves come forward and offer
us favors for what they can obtain for
nothing. They will look upon us asa
race of men so absorbed in our own
affairs as to be little better than idiots,
when we come to take into account mat-
ters of international importance.

There can be no objection to the course
here advocated; but even if these gov-

ernments should refuse to abolish their

>

| obstructions to trade, that would be no
| reason why we should retain ours. It is
| always well to speak to people in lan-
| guage which they can understand, if you

speak at all, and if these peoples are not
sufficiently enlightened to see the true

 

1865.

  
 

Putnam Gandy 60.

Oma Vas
HEADQUARTERS FOR

FRUIT eyes
NUTS, ETC, LEMONS,
re BANANAS,
Nuts, etc.

rave Some Style Abovt You!

The dealer who has no printed letter heads on which to ask for circu-
lars, catalogues and prices, and conduct his general correspondence
with, suffers more every month for want of them than a five years’
supply would cost. He economizes byusing postal cards, or cheap,
and, to his shame, often dirty scraps of paper, and whether he states
so or not he expects the lowest prices, the best trade. He may be ever
so good for his purchases, may even offer to pay cash, but there is
something so careless, shiftless and slovenly about his letter that it
excites suspicion, because not in keeping with well recognized, good
business principles. When such an enquiry comes to a manufacturer
or a jobber, it goes through a most searching examination as to charac-
ter, means and credibility, half condemned to begin with. It would be
examined anyhow, even if handsomely printed, but the difference to
begin with, would be about equal to that of introducing a tramp and a
gentleman on a witness stand in court. Besides, the printed heading
would answer the question as to whether the enquirer was a dealer and
at the same time indicate his special line of trade. Bad penmanship,
bad spelling and bad grammar are pardonable, because many unedu-
cated men have been and are now very successful in business. But
even those are less objectionable when appearing with evidences of
care, neatness and prosperity.

Figs, Dates,

 

Please write us for estimates.

The Tradesman Company,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

 

LEMON & PETERS,

IMPORTING AND

Wholesale Grocers.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

McGinty’s Fine Cut Tobacco,
Lautz Bros. & Co,’s Soaps,
Niagara Starch,

Acme Cheese--Herkimer Co., N. Y.
Castor Oil Axle Grease.

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

Wall Paper and Window Shades.

House and Store Shades Made tojOrder.

NELSON BROS. & CO.,

68 MONROE STREET.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

  

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reasons for removing the duties they
have placed upon our products, it may
be well enough to talk to them about
‘‘mutual concessions;’? but there is no
occasion for being deceived ourselves by
the words we use. Trade is, by its
nature, reciprocal; ‘‘towt achat est vente
et toute vente est achat.’’ If we buy of
these people, they must buy of us,
directly or indirectly. If they refuse to
take our goods directly in exchange for
theirs, it may be necessary for us tomake
payment in English goods for which we
have exchanged others of our own.

As long as South Americans buy the
same amount of our goods, it does not
make much difference to us whether their
governments impose duties upon them or
not; but it is not a matter of indifference
to us if their duties cause them to buy
less of our goods. But even in the latter
case we cannot profitably retaliate by
placing duties upon their goods. Trade
with these countries would be a good
thing for us, or it would not; if not, then
we should not probably trade much with
them anyway; if it would be a good
thing, then the fact that they interpose
obstructions to trade and diminish its
volume does not make it wise for us to
interpose further obstructions and re-
strict it still more. A. §. M.

~~ 2

Philosophy of the Cigar.
From the New York Sun.

A cigar is more than a brown roll of
tobacco. Simply as that it may bring
profit to the dealer and enjoyment to the
eye through its symmetry and color, but
its force is potential. It has to be burned
to have the enjoyment it contains let
loose. A smoker should always look at
a cigar first. Cigar dealers have appealed
to this in arranging their boxes open in
glass cases. So far as the factory, the
size, shape, quality, price, brand, color
and grade go, the cigars might as well be
kept in closed boxes. They would also
keep better that way. A smoker should
look over the case; he should look over
cigar after cigar until some particular
cigar appeals to him. It is the same way
with a box. No two cigars are alike.
There is a little speck or spot on one,
there is a little tear of the cover, a little
different twist to the end, a little change
in the convolutions of the filler, the
binder and the wrapper, as they are ex-
posed to view before the match is applied.
Notice these little points in cigars and
pick out one that has some little point
that you particularly notice. Some men
prefer cigars with yellow spots, others
prefer a hard looking cigar, others a loose
cigar, and soon. The preference is not
material, the pleasing of the eye is.
When a selection satisfactory to the eye
has been made, the start at least toa
good smoke is assured. Always look at
the cigar before lighting it. Turn it
around in your fingers and look atit. It
is going to give you pleasure. Then light
it, not by sticking it in a flame, nor by
poking it in a small globe, but by light-
ing a piece of paper, stick or match and
holding it up. Do not put the cigar in
your mouth and poke your face into a
flame. That prevents the eyes from see-
ing what is going on; but take a light
and notice the flame as it goes to the
cigar. The smoke begins to curl before
the eyes, the lips fit around the cigar
like amould. Then an enjoyable smoke
has begun.

oO
American Lansdowns.

Silk warp lansdowns have about the
same history as henriettas, so far as their
manufacture in the United States is con-
cerned, perhaps of later date, or about
1885, when they were first attempted. It

is only very recently that the domestic
goods have been really appreciated. The
methods of manufacturers are about the
same as at first, the improvements being
almost exclusively in the correction of
errors in fabrication and in dyeing.

 

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.

ee ae & Burnham, Anton Wehle
T. Lochner, aren Bros.

* ee ee Spear

pear a Dolman.

Almira—J. J. G

‘Almont—Golexiok Ty Martin.

Altona—Eli Lyons.

Armada—c. J. Cudworth.

Assyria—J. W. Abbey.

Banfield—Andrew Brezee.

Bay City—Frank Rosman & Co.

Belding—Lightstone Bros., Weter & Wise.

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.

Geena er ‘ Moses.

Capac—H. C. =

Carson Cliy—A B. Loomis, A. Y. Sessions.

Cedar Spr ngs—John Beucus, B. A. Fish, B.

Chariotte — John J. Richardson, Daron &
-_ ox F. H. Goodby.
ippewa oa. a A. Goodsell & Co.

Col water—J. D. Benjamin.

Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.

Cook’s Corners—W. H. Hanks.

Coral—J. S. Newell & Co.

Dansville—Levi Geer.

Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt.

Dorr—Frank Sommer.

Dowling—Rice & Webster.

Eaton Rapids—H. Kositchek & Bro.

Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, John C. Devitt.

Fenwick—Thompson Bros., S. H. Rinker.

Flint—John B. Wilson, Geo. Stuart & son, Bar-
ney Granite and Marble Works.

Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark.

Forester—E. Smith.

Freeport—C, V. Riegler.

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

Gowan—Rasmus Neilson.

Grand Haven—N. J. Braudry & Co.

Grand Junction—Adam Crouse.

Grand Ledge—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— en Ww. Weidman, Mrs.

E. Cov
vitowaral City—O. J. Knapp, Herold Bros., C. E.
elt
Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan.
Hudson—Henry C. Hall.
Imlay City—Cohn Bros., Wyckoff & Co., C. J.
Buck EE Palmer.
oe Silver.
Jackson—Hall & Rowan.
Jenisonville—L. & L. Jenison (mill only).
Jones—R. C, Sloan.
Kalamo—L, R. Cessna,
Kent City—M. L. Whitney.
Kewadin—A. Anderson
Lacey—Wm. Thompson.
Laingsburg—D. Lebar.
Lake City—Sam. B. Ardis,
Lakeview—H. C. Thompson, Andrew All &
Bro.
Langston—F D. Bri
Lansing—R. A. Bailey. Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glic-
man.
Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jennings.
Lowell—Patrick Kelly.
McBain—Sam. B. Ar is.
McBride’s—J. McCrae.
Mancelona—J. _ Farnham.
Manton—Mrs. E a
Maple City—A. & o.
Marshall—W. E. ns ee Lepper & Son.
Mason—Marcus Gregory.
Mecosta—J. Netzorg.
ea ie agra Par
Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. S.
lett, James Gauntlett, Jr.
Millbrook—Bendelson.
Millington—Chas. H. Valentine.
Minden City—I. Springer & Co.
Monroe Center—Geo. H. Wightman.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Mt. Morris—F. H. Cowles.
Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara.
Nashville—H. M. Lee.
Nottawa—Dudley Cutler.
Ogden—A. J. Pence.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Onondaga—John Sillik.
Orange—Tew & ol
Orono—C, A. Warr
Oviatt—H. C. Pettingill.
Pearle—Geo. H. Smith.
Remus—C, V. Hane.
Richmond—A. W. Reed.
Riverdale—J. B. Adams.
Rockford—B. A. Fish.
Sand Lake—Frank E.
Blanchard,
Sebewa—John Bradley.
amelie tmael olcott.
Shepherd—H. O. ew
Sheridan—M. Gra
Shultz—Fred Otis
Spencer Creek—M. M. Elder.
Spring Lake—Geo. Schwab, A. Bitz
Springport—Powers & Johnson, Wellington «&
Hammond, Elmer Peters.
Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter.
Traverse City—John Wilhelm, S. C. Darrow,
D. D. Paine.
Vassar—McHose & Gage.
‘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.
Woodbury—Henry Van Houten, Chas. Lapo.
Williamston—Thos. Horton.
Woodland—Carpenter & Son.
Yankee Springs—T. Thurston.

—~—9-~<»—-

5} Knight, Chas, Gaunt-

Shattuck, Braman &

 

Stanwood—lIra W. Mercer has engaged

 

in the meat business,

 

TIME TABLES.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
In effect June 22, 1890.

TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arrive. Leave.

  
  
 

Big Rapids & Saginaw............... 6:55am
Traverse City & Mackinaw... .. 6:50 & m 7:25am
Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:15am 11:30am
Traverse City & Saginaw 2:15pm 4:10pm
I ON ise, 8:50pm 10:30pm

Train leaving at 1 pm, runs daily, Sunday in-
cluded. Other trains dally — Sunday.

 

 
  

ING SOUTH
ee 6:00am 6:30am
Fort Wayne & Chicago............ 10:15 a m 10:25 am
Cimeimunst Expres. .........0.0... 5:40 pm 6:00 pm
Sturge © ORTeag0. ..... 5. coe ccces ces 10:0 pm = 11:30pm
From Big Rapids & Saginaw...... 11:50 am

Train leaving for Cincinnati at 6p. m. runs daily,
Sundays included. Other trains daily except Sunday.

Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7:25a. m.
and 10:30 p. m. trains have Wagner sleeping and parlor
cars to Petoskey and Mackinaw City. 11:30am train
parlor chair cars to Mackinaw City. South—6:30am
train has parlor chair car and 6p. m. train sleeping
ear for Cincinnati; 11:30 p m train, Wagner sleeping
car for Chicago via. Kalamazoo.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Leave Arrive,

leet eentausecoaucsriceesccvesewss 10:10am
ll aon ccsecces

 

iaavan time at Bridge street depot 7 minates ae
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.
O. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING WEsT.

  

Leaves.
ie See aes 12:50 p m 1:00 pm
Prmeotinn Man. ............... ke 6:15 pm

+Grand 4 Rapids Express.. 10:30 pm
aan Miupwees......... 8:45am
+Mix oe 7:30am
gor :
eerors Meee... 6:45 am 6:50am
eee s een nas 10:10am 10:20 am
ey Ome PONE, oo. cc ese pm 3:45 pm
Pee PO gc cece 9:50 pm 10:55 p m

+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily

Detroit Express leaving 6:50 am 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

rand 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.

As. 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 ail promi-
nent points on i lines.

. PAISLEY, Gen’! Pass, Agent

-—- & WEST MICHIGAN.
DEPART.
Mail and Express for Big Rapids, Lud-
ington, Manistee & Traverse City.. *7:30 a m
Express for Chicago and Muskegon.. +9:00 a m

Fast Mail for Chicago reo-- 11:00 P YO
Express for Muskegon and Hart...... +5:45 p m
Night Express for Chicago.......... *11:35 p m
Night Express for Indianapolis ..... 911:35 p m
Mail for Big Rapids, Manistee and

Traverse City . . 15:06 p m
Ex. for Grand Haven & ‘Muskegon... - 16:40 pm

ARRIVE.

Night Express from Chicago ......... *6:30 a m
Night Express from Indianapolis .... {6:30 a m

Ex. from Muskegon, Hart & Pentwatert10:45 a m
Express from Big Rapids, Baldwin

and Traverse City. Sia
Mail from Chicago “and M uske; gon

 
  

S p m
5 pm

Express from Grand Haven..... ..... 13:50 p m
Fast Express from Chicago ..........¢10:15 p m
Ex. from Muskegon and Pentwater..+ 5:50 pm
Ex. from Baldwin and Traverse C ity. t4:50 p m

Express from Traverse City.
*Daily. bar except Sunday.
Saturday. {Daily except Monday.

Through Chair car for Chicago on 9:00 a m
train; no extra charge for seats. Trains leaving
Grand Rapids at 1:00 p m and 11:35p m run
through to Chicago solid. Through sleeping
cars between Grand Rapids and Chicago on
night express trains. Through combination
—— and chair car between Grand Rapids
and Indianapolis on night express trains.

Through sleeper between Chic ago and Tray-
erse City; leaves Chicago 4:10 pm, except Sun-
day; Grand Rapids, 11:30 pm; arrives in Trav
erse City at6am. Leaves Traverse City at 6:15
p m, except Saturday ; a arrives in Grand Rapids
at 11:30 pm; Chicago 7:05 am.

Rail and water route between Grand Rapids
and Chicago via St. Joseph and Graham & Mor-
ton’s new palace steamers, City of Chicago and
Puritan.

Leave Grand Rapids 1:00 p m., arrive in Chi-
cago 8:30pm. Leave Chicago 9:00 p m, arrive
Grand Rapids 6:30am. The 5:05 p m train has
through parlor car from Detroit to Manistee.

ETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN.
D DEPART.
Express for Saginaw and Bay City. t6:55 a m
Mail for Lansing, Detroit and East... 7:25 a m
Express for Lansing, Detroit and East +1:00 pm
Mail for Alma, St. Louis and Saginaw +4:10 p m
Fast Sx. for Detroit, New York, Boston*6:25 p m
ARRIVE.

Mail from Saginaw and Bay City. ...+11:50 a m
Mail from Lansing, Detroit and East. +12:05 a m
Fast Express from Lansing and East. *5:05 p m
Express from Lansing and Detroit... +9:50 p m
Ex. from Saginaw, St. Louis and Almati0:50 pm

*Daily. tDaily except Sunday.

The shortest line to Detroit and the East. Elegant

arlor cars between Detroit and Grand Rapids.
GRAND RAPIDS AND REED’S LAKE TIME TABLE.

Daily trains leave Union depot at 9, 10, 18 am, 1, 2, 3,
4,5, 6, 7.8, 9,10 pm. Sundays only—1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30,
5,5:30p m. Daily trains leave Reed’s Lake (Alger
Park) at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a m, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30,
7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 p m. Sunday trains—2, 3, 4, 5, 5:30,
6pm. For tickets and information.

WM. A. GAVETT, Acting Gen. Pass. Agt.

#11:30 pm
“ €Daily except

 

 
   

MIGHIGAN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falls Route.’

DEPART. ARRIVE

 

 
 

— Express. . . 7:20am 10:00pm
meee... 6:30am 5:00pm
aa — 38 11:55am 10:00am
"Atlantic & Pacific Express 11:15pm 6:00am
Row Yors Menrees........665.. .. -540pm 1:23pm

 

*

Daily.
All other daily except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific See
trains to and from Detroit.

Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapid
Express to and from Detroit.

FRED M. Briaas, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe St.

G. 8S. Hawks, Ticket Agent, Union Depot.

Gro. W. “unson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.

O. W. Rueeies,G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago.

CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS

—- OO R—
PAMPHLETS.
For the best work, at reasonable prices, address

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

KDMUND B. DIKRMAN

THE GREAT

Watch Maker

= Jeweler,
Kh CANAL 8,
Grand Rapids

 

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| SATAN ATE EAR RCNE R =
BEFORE BUYING GRATES

zet Circular and Testimonials) Sent Free.
Economical, Sanitary, Cleanly and Artistic.
ALDINE FIRE PLACE, ban RAPIDS, MICH.

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.

DRINK
LION
COFFEE

A True Combination of MOCHA,
A and RIO
eee Card Chen

With every pound package. For
Sale everywhere. Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, 0.

     
     

  

 

 

 

  
   

  
      
       

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THE MICHIGAN: TRADESMAN.

 

 

Heads ys. Books. combination—a gigantic corporation, un-
Muir, Aug. 21, 1890.—If the following |der the name of the American Card
shall be found worthy of space in your | Clothing Co., with a capital of $1,500,000,
paper, publish it. Otherwise, drop it in} and headquarters at Worcester, Mass. It
the cavernous depths of your waste bas- is claimed that this move was made
ket and forget that it ever was. | necessary because of the enormous ex-
I would respond to the ‘‘Replies’”’ found | pense of securing business, and also to
in your issue of August 13, and will first | Shut out, so far as possible, all foreign
consider No. 9, from my standpoint, re-| competition. The members of the syndi-
garding a cash dealer keeping a ‘‘full set | cate claim that prices will net be raised,
of books.”’ | but rather lowered to the trade.
The writer of the article in question |
seems to have adopted a new system of |
“single entry’? that would make a sorry Crockery & Glassware
showing were the oceasion to arise for | Sia aan
his business to be settled up by, say af / Ne. OSun........000 0000.
administrator or sheriff, for his ‘‘single :
entry’? is all in his head, where, in the |,
case supposed, the one settling the busi- |

 

 

 

 

Tobslar a
LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box.

ness would have no knowledge of the! _6 doz. in box.
: ; ce | . i eee
exact standing of affairs, in which it) yoy 0% (77077777) 7.
would be an easy matter to defraud thei Hae ~
estate out of a debt that had been once | _First quality.
: | No. 0 Sun, crimp top eee ee 2
paid. i a Fc lla A, eh eg Ta
I am trying to run on cash principles, iNe.3 “ - ee
yet I find a full set of books very handy | _ XXX Flint.
7 : _ eal ran Or eee 2
for the purpose of keeping the following | No 1 ee oe ; =
series of accounts in something like busi- | No . - gL ee LA 3 80
ness style: Pear! top. :
An account for each house I deal with, Nea o. weapped ne Se 70
showing everything at a glance. 2 Hinge, “ - | 47
Cash sales a sash account. 7 Bastic.
h sales on neh neeeent | No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, —— bee hs aces 12
Stock account. | No.2 aT
Bank account. No. i crimp, per d0Z......... 0.2. 2-.ssseeeeeees 1%
A few regular credit customers who | No.2 aii set stetee cette 1 60
would take offense at finding their ac-| puttercrocks, eee 06%
count running in my head. Few men Jugs, 2 Bal, per doz ee LL %5
doing a general country business but| ( ; i CO imeayadamucnannadey igs 1 =
have afew such accounts. Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 65
Then I handle considerable produce,} “ “ 1 [ c 7 oe. 78

which necessitates keeping a very strict ee

. Mason’s, Boyd’s or Rowley’s caps.
double account—that is, against the com-| pints.....’...._. se re saute ane
mission house, and also, as a check, a —. Hoek
produce account. Half-gallons

 

Above quotations a are f.

Trunk Factory.

 

Then I like to keep a freight account,
to which I charge the total pounds sent
by freight and credit what I bring into
the store.

Then I keep an express account.

One is also needed for each person in my
employ, while that for general and _pri-
vate expenses registers facts which even
a cash man ought never to trust his
memory with.

Then who would think of keeping ac-
count of profit and loss in his head? In-
surance, bills receivable and payable
furnish need for another page each,
while an account of ‘‘time wasted and
saved’’ brings up a very satisfactory ac-
count, especially when hung conspicously
up for all employes, as well as myself to
watch, as it is balanced weekly.

From these account headings you see
were I to throw aside my books my head
would be a poor support to fall back on
and I am sure I would mix some of the
aforementioned accounts, were they to
be carried in my head. I hardly think
the man exists who can carry these all
without the aid of a full set of books,
unless he strains some point.

In regard toa cost mark I hold
every salesman should know the exact
cost of every article he sells, so as to be
able to form a reasonable opinion of his
worth to his employer. I find that in
ease necessity arises to banter (which,
by the way, I hold should not be indulged
in at all), the presence of the cost mark

 

 

trunks ald Traveling Bags,

POCKET BOOKS, ETC,

Styles of Trunks Made to Order.
Theatrical Trunks a Specialty.
Repuiring Neatly Done.

Groskopf Bros.,

89 and 91 CANAL STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS, . MICH.

All
that

 

El. Puritano Cigar.
Sn mee, | 06 Finest lO Gent Cigar

 

      
  

ON EARTH

 

MANUFACTURED BY

DILWORTH BROTHERS,

PITTSBURGH.

 

TRADE SUPPLIED BY
I. M. CLARK & SON,
Grand Rapids.
2 + BRADDOCK, BATEMAN & CO.,
= Bay City.
Detroit.

 

 

 

1}. B. BREVOORT, -

WM. RR. HEH LER,
W holesale Confectioner

 

AND JOBBER IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS.
412 SOUTH DIVISION ST. TELEPHONE 92-3R,

|Lam Sole Agent for Rueckheim Bros.’ Penny Goods, which are Absolutely the

Best Goods ofthe kindon the market.

 

8S. K. BOLLES. E. B. DIKEMAN.

S. K. Bolles & Co.,

77 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

W holesale Cigar Dealers.

“LOSS Vr

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiocldfasts

An appliance to prevent Ladies’
and Misses’ Rubbers from slipping
off from the shoe. The neatest and
best device ever invented for the
purpose. Do not fail to try the
men’s Lycoming, Pa., Stocking
Rubber. It is the King of all
Stocking Rubbers made. Both
only manufactured by the Lycom-
ing Rubber Co. For sale by
G. H. REEDER, Grand Rapids.

 

 

shows a face evidence that you know
whether you can afford to make the price
less or not, which, if done, even to the
slightest degree, changes the selling
mark. If one trusts to a cost mark, his
mind has less in it to hinder its steadier
application to business, which, in these
times of push, needs the undivided mind
strength of a large majority of us retail
merchants in this section, while if the
goods are carefully marked on arrival in
the store, the matter rests in business
form, whether one sleeps or werks. I
practice marking a date on each article
which corresponds with the date of put-
ting into stock. Thus, for this day, the
figure forming onelinein the mark would
be 82190. Ninety out of a hundred look
at this as a part of the cost mark, while
some of the other ten think it is used as
a blind.

Y cost Plt

(Formerly Shriver, Weatherly & Co.)

CONTRACTORS FOR

Galvanized Iron Cornice,
Plumbing & Heating Work.

 

 

 

With due respect for eacl Dealers in
( spec ) eh man’s opin- i
ion, lam, yours truly, lL. A. Bex. Pumps, Pipes, Etc., Mantels
a and Grates.

Card Clothing Combination.

Practically, every card clothing factory
in the United States has entered into a

 

Weatherly & Pulte,

GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH,

 

Rindge, Bertsch & Co.

As it nears the time for school to start,
we would call the attention of the trade to
We make our
Also

Mundell’s lines in grain with heels, and

our line of school shoes.

own factory line, dandies for wear.

in goat and dongola in heel and spring
heel, turn and M. S., at popular prices.
We solicit your fall order for Boston

and Bay State Rubber Goods, and guar-

 

antee prices and terms as low as any

S

CHILDRE

house selling the same brand.
12, 14 and 16 PEARL ST.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.