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SAGINAW, E. Side, MICH.
, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13,
1891.
“MY FRIEND THE BURGLAR.”
When I[ was a young man just starting
in practice in the town of Dixon, I was
appointed counsel by the court for a no-
torious burglar, who, after having long
been a terror to our county, had at last |
been captured and
his trial.
He was supposed to be one of a hard
gang, and as I entered the room where
he was confined [I expected to see an
abandoned-looking ruffian of middle age.
Judge of my surprise, then, to find my-
self in the presence of the mildest-look-
ing, blue-eyed, fiaxen-haired youth of
apparently not more than twe and twen-
ty years, though I afterwards learned
that at least adecade must be added to
that.
My much-studied repose of- manner
was rather shaken for a moment, but he
at once came forward, offered me a chair,
introduced himself as Mr.
asked for my name. I had previously
known him as “Black Jack, a sareastic
appellation, I suppose on account of his
extreme fairness.
On being told that I was the attorney
appointed for his defense,his whole man-
ner changed. A look of crafty cunning
crept into his face, the cloak of good
manners dropped from his shoulders,and
I saw before me the unmistakable des-
perado whose apprehension had delight-
ed so many hearts.
After a quarter of an hour of confiden-
tial talk, I plainly saw that the state
would win its case against this man. My
client and I were beaten before we _ be-
gan. He was very guarded in all his ad-
missions, even under the sacred seal of
legal confidence, and so I was surprised
to hear him say, as I was leaving him
that day:
‘‘Well, Mr. Clarkson, of course I pre-
fer to be cleared, and I shall try my
chances on that; but it really matters lit-
tle in the end. If the court convicts me,
I shall not be caged very long.
‘What do you mean?” exclaimed I,
startled.
“Only that I never have been long be-
hind the bars, and I never mean to be. I
have good friends outside who will look
after me.”’
I smiled incredulously. ‘*You have
never been in Jackson prison, sir, or per-
haps your assurance would be less. Once
there, you are safe to stay, I can
you.”
He laughed lightly and
night, thanking me for my
accepting his defense.
In our subsequent meetings, I took
pains to tell him that I believed in his
guilt and that the utmost I would under-
take, would be a mitigation of his sen-
tence. But he always accepted my as-
sertions with an airy pleasantry,
seemed determined to be friendly in spite
of me.
The trial came on, and, as I had ex-
pected, Brown was conyicted and sen-
tenced to Jackson for fourteen
years. There were few redeeming cir-
cumstances in the case, and his sentence
was a severe one. I looked for his com-
was now awaiting
Brown, and
assure
said good
kindness in
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posure to desert him under this blow;
but, on the contrary, he bade me a cheer-
ful good evening as he was marched off
to spend his last night in the county jail.
I went home with a very uncomforta-
ble feeling in my heart. Wasit my du-
| ty as aman to warn the officers of the
| jail of this fellow’s hints of escape? But
what had I really to tell? Only vague
assertions about friends whose powers 1
did not believe in; and even these made
in confidential talks with his lawyer.
No, I would say nothing. ~ He would un-
doubtedly be well guarded, and to-mor-
row the doors of Jackson prison would
close securely upon him for many a long
year.
When I went to my office the next
morning, I saw at once that something
unusual had taken place. Little knots
of excited talkers had collected’ on the
street corners, fierce gesticulations accom-
panied stealthy glances
shoulders; and, as I
was made for me to
thrown
approached, room
enter the first of
these bubbling springs of gossip.
“Well, said an old lawyer,
who had long been my friend and patron,
over
Clarkson,’’
“it seems that ‘Black Jack’ is free, and
no thanks to you, my boy!’’
I started, almost guiltily. ‘Free?
What do you mean?’’
‘‘T mean that, to all appearances, he
was abed and asleep whenever the war-
den looked in last night, but!that when his
breakfast was taken to him this morning,
the figure in bed turned out to be only
the pillow well covered up, while our
bird had flown through the window by
means of the neatest sawing on the bars
you ever saw.”
‘Sawing? Where could he have con-
concealed an instrument? Was he not
thoroughly searched?”
“Of course, and he had nothing. Evy-
erything was taken away
cept a little, old, well-thumbed Bible
that had Brown’ faintly traced
in it in old-fashioned letters. He said it
had been his mother’s, and begged that
he might keep it as the last tie to better
days. Naturally, they hadn’t the heart
or the conscience to refuse that. He
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must have been helped from outside.”
For |
from him ex-
‘Jessie
‘“‘Who is after him?
somebody is.’’
‘I should say so! The sheriff and all
his posse, and half the town besides.
They are wild at ‘Black Jack’s’ escape,
but I don’t believe they will lay hands
on him again very soon. He has had too
good a start.”
suppose
And soit proved. After three days’
fruitless search, the hunters all returned,
giving up the game as too wily for them,
the sheriff fuming and fretting at an es-
cape that had virtually cost him his rep-
utation.
Just a week
later, the morning post
beought me a square, stylish-looking
letter, addressed in a neat, feminine
hand. LI opened it with some surprise,
as my lady correspondents were few,
but had hardly read two lines when sur-
prise became astonishment, and that, in
turn, amazement. This was the missive:
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", Obediah Clarkson:
sgotesnn wonder how I could have
escaped from Jackson prison. In the
same way, I reply, that I escaped from
Dixon jail. I never knew a prison war-
den yet (and I have in my time come
across a good many of them) that was
hard-hearted enough to take ee from
me my mother’s Bible. Wel!-concealed
between its double covers are the only
instruments I need to pick the strongest
lock that ever was made or to file the
thickest bar that ever was forged. J
should not tell you this now, except that
I am off for foreign parts, and never ex-
pect to see this country again. But I
liked you and can’t resist this parting
word. When you defend another burg-
lar, find a worthier one than
“BLACK JACK.”’
You see, the seamp was well educated,
for his letter bore every evidence of that, |
He had evident-
ly seen better days, and the traces of
as did his conversation.
dead manhood in him were
what had attracted me. The letter was,
of course, post-marked from a distan
town where he had never been seen, and
was no help in tracing the lost clue.
Well,
adie.
I thought this was the end of my
But the queerest part was
still te come.
The cares of life accumulated rapidly
upon me soon after these occurrences,
and my constantly increasing practice,
followed by my marriage, succeeded in
hts that ‘‘Black Jack’’
was driven almost from my memory.
so filling my thoug
Some five years after this episode, my
wife and {| found ourselves making a
new home in a western state, and, in
spite of some unavoidable twinges of re-
gret, we soon settled into contentment
and happiness in our unaccustomed
quarters.
We had been inhabitants of the thriv-
ing little
town of X——only a few
months, when our quiet life was rudely
aroused into excitement by a_ general
alarm of | A half dozen houses
were broken into in one night: watche
silver, jewels, everything valuable and
small enough to be easily carried were
taken off, and yet the occupants of the
various ransacked dwellings not once
aroused from their slumbers. It was in
those days almost like magic, and we
hardly knew how to
The burg
work in the most
protect ourselves.
lars were certainly doing their
‘cieuea and deft-
fingered way. Our neighbor on the right
had been one of the latest victims, and
we feared that our turn might come.
Double locks and bars were employed;
the police guard doubled, and 1 slept
nightly with a loaded pistol under my
which almost
pillow, alarmed my wife
d burglary.
as much as an anticipate }
But all our precautions were of no
morning to find
avail. We waked one
ourselves minus our smiall silver (all that
was solid), my wife’s diamond ear-rings,
her father’s wedding gift, and, greatest
loss of all, my watch, a family heirloom,
which | prized highly and which money
could never replace. It bore among the
quaint engraving of its inner case the
which
Clark-
great-grandfather,
“Obediah H.
name of my
was also my own,
son.’’
The jewels and the watch had both
been taken from what we had con-
sidered a safe hiding-place, in our own
room, and yet we had been conscious of
even of an
no noise, nor unpleasant
dream. Buta faint, sickening odor in
the room, combined with headaches, of
which we both complained,left no doubt
that chloroform had been the agent in
|this burglary,
| others.
j;aecept our fate like the rest,
doubtless |
THE MICHIGAN TRADE SMAWN.
as doubtless in all the
Of course, I said that we must
as there
seemed small chance of the rascals being
eaught. Such astreet guard, however,
was now put upon the whole town that
our house was the last on the list of the
victimized.
Three days later, as my wife and I]
were sitting down to breakfast, which
just now we had to be content to eat
with plated forks and tea-spoons, there
came a loud ring at the door bell. The
faithful Bridget answered the summons
and returned, after a short parley, with
a small express package marked ‘‘paid.”
‘““My shoes from New York,”
wife.
‘“‘No,” said I, ‘‘it is addressed to me.
The new books 1 sent to Boston for,”
s I spoke.
Imagine our sensation when, on re-
moving the cover of a wooden box, our
said my
tearing off the wrapper a
|lost forks and spoons, the blue velvet
case containing my wife’s ear-rings, and
my own beloved watch were revealed to
our amazed eyes.
‘“‘Harry,” gasped my wife,
they come from?
“I don’t know,’’ [answered helplessly,
Just at that moment my gaze fell upon
a small folded note at the bottom of the
box, and as I looked memory
stir and waken; for that peculiar, deli-
eate hand-writing had certainly come
Still struggling
with this faint and elusive remembrance,
1 unfolded the bit of paper and read its
‘where did
began to
under my notice before.
| contents:
Mr. Obediah Clarkson:
DreAR Strn—You may thank your queer
name for bringing these things back to
you again. It was after we had left
your house and the town that 1 saw the
marking on your watch and knew that
we had robbed a man that I have always
felt was afriend. I vowed years ago
that ’d do you a good turn some day,
and now here it is: I have found out
that you are the same Obediah who de-
fended me at Dixon, and yowre welcome
to this “swag.” [ll never rob you if I
know it: for there is honor even among
thieves. “BLACK JACK.””
“Oh, Harry, Harry!”
(for 1 am happy to state that my middle
name is Henry), *‘V?ll never abuse your
I did think it was
frightful,but see what it has done for us
—that and the kindness to that dreadful
sobbed my wife
poor old name again!
burglar.
I smiled rather
the sentence in the note
weakly, remembering
about ‘honor
among thieves,’? and almost felt that I
had been included under that appella-
tion! But from that day to this we have
heard no more of ‘‘Black
have concluded that, in any event, the
Obediah Clarksons are safe from his gen- |
tlemanly depredations.
the family as ‘‘My friend the burglar,’’
and his preference for me is rather a
sore subject. GENE H. UNDERWoop.
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A Great Navy.
The United States will within the next |
five years have one of the finest navies in |
the world in point of effectiveness.
Thirty millions in all have been appro- |
priated for the navy department this |
year. The appropriation of $18,000,000
made at the session of congress just |
closed, will be employed in completing |
work already begun and building new
ships. Three great battle ships are now
being laid down. These will be the
equal if not the superior of anything now
existing in the English navy. Although
they will be only 10,000 tonnage, they |
will be superior in batteries carried to |
the shibs recently launched by the Queen, |
which have a tonnage of 14,500 tons.
Jack,” and |
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A METROPOLITAN MYSTERY.
Miss Melinda Parkinson had come
down to New York to buy her summer)
patterns and to indulge herself with a
glimpse at the great world, of which
hitherto she had only become acquainted |
through the columns of the wee kly news- |
; her valuables
| once more into her place and merely re-
| marked that *“
paper.
“It must be a mortal strange place,”
said that amiable spinster, ‘where folks
walk up and down Broadway in their |
Sunday clothes, and milk sells for ten |
cents a quart. And where they hain’t
no garrets to their houses, and go out
to parties just when we Centervillers
are tying on our night-caps to go to bed.
Well, well, it takes all sorts of people to
make a world.’’
So Miss Melinda retrimmed her leghorn
hat with sage-green ribbons, sponged
over her ancient black silk gown, in-
dulged in the extravagance of new gloves,
and set forth for the great American
metropolis to visit Cousin Lemuel
Larkins, whose family had frequently
spent halcyon summers at the farm, and
to partake of whose hospitality she had
had a standing invitation for some time.
Cousin Lemuel and his eldest daughter,
Persephone, met her at the depot, with
faces of friendly welcome. Cousin
Lemuel was a photographer on the
Bowery, and Miss Persephone ‘did’
supernumerary parts at the Sparkle
Theatre and had the promise of ‘going
on’? whenever there should be a vacancy
in the regular dramutis persona.
“Come along, Cousin Melly,”’ said Mr.
Larkins. ‘‘Where’s the check for your
baggage? Here, expressman! And look
sharp, d’ y’ hear?’’
“But,’’ shrieked Miss Melinda, ‘‘that
check is all I’ve got toshow for my
trunk.’’
“it’s all right,’’ said Larkins, ‘‘it’s
right.”
“But the man isa perfect stranger!”
‘“‘Ain’t he an express-agent?”’ said
Larkins.
“Yes; but how do you know he’! ever
bring up the trunk at all,” gasped Miss
all
Parkinson. ‘‘I once read in the Sentinel
how—”
‘*‘Come along,’’ said Mr. Larkins, good-
humoredly. ‘You ’ll find it ’ll all beas
right as a trivet!’’
‘‘Ain’t we going in a carriage!”
‘*Bless us, no,” said Cousin Larkins.
‘**We ’re agoin’ in the ‘short cars.’ ’’
-“But why are you going in the short
ears?’”’ said Miss Melinda, in great bewil-
derment. ‘‘I thought you said you lived
a mile and a half from the depot?”’
‘Obl?’ said Mr. Larkins, “ ‘short’
means the cars, not the distance. Come!
Let me help you aboard, there’s a good
girl.”
No sooner was Miss Parkinson safely
bestowed between a stout gentleman
reading his paper and a _ black-velvet-
cloaked lady, than she again began to be
uneasy in her mind.
‘‘Lemuel,” said she, in a stage whisper,
“J don’t like these cars. I’d_ rather
walk.’’
“But why?’’? said Mr. Larkins, who
was hanging from a strap like a
first-class trapeze performer. ‘‘Eh?
The man next youa pick-pocket? But,
my dear woman, it can’t possibly be!
He’s a-holding up the paper with both
his hands! How can he be picking your
pocket?”’
*“*“Ah!? nodded Miss Parkinson, ‘‘they
can’t deceived me. Oneof’em’s stuffed!
I’ve read all about it! And he may be
a-takin’ my watch and my twenty-five
dollars out ef my under pocket with the
real hand, this very minute, for alll
know!”
‘‘Madam,’’ said the strange gentleman,
jumping up and turning very red, as he
started for the door, ‘‘I have not yet
arrived at my destination, but I much
prefer walking a few blocks, to finding
myself the subject of aspersions such as
these! Condnetor, you will have the
goodness to stop.”
“There,” cried Miss Parkinson, start-
ing to her feet, ‘‘it’s just as the Sentinel |
says!
He’s escaping!
he shall be searched!
the police!”
P’r’aps,’’ suggested Cousin Lemuel
‘‘yvou’d better see if your watch and
money ain’t safe, Melinda!’
insist that
eall
Driver, I
Conductor,
| plaints,
‘“‘Because, marm,” added
|ductor, with the corners of his mouth |
twitching, ‘‘that there gent is Judge De}
Griffiths, of the Court of Common Com-
as ain’t noway addicted to
pocket-picking, as ever I heerd on!”
And Miss Parkinson, discovering that
were all safe, subsided
we are all liable to mis-
takes.”
She was rather surprised to discover
that the Larkins family, instead
occupying one of the palatial
contiguous to Central Park, lived on
fourth floor of a rusty brick house
the Bowery, whose front windows were
blinded by the Elevated Road and whose
rear outlook consisted chietly of cats and
chimney tops.
There was a Sommergarten next door,
where a band discoursed sweet
until three o’clock in the morning, and a
shooting-gallery on the other side, and
the ground-floor of their own building
was occupied by a job printer, whose
steam machinery, albeit it was under-
ground, roared and hissed and kept the
walls a-tremble until Miss Parkinson
declared it was just like living over the
crater of Vesuvius!
“a, my dear,” said Mrs.
comfortable elderly lady with a greasy
poplin dress and a cap covered with
crumpled artificial flowers, ‘‘you won’t
mind it after a day or two. It’s really a
very superior neighborhood!’
They supped off clam chowder, boiled
lobsters, Vienna bread and Limburger
cheese—for the Larkins family were
quite cosmopolitan in their tastes—and
spent the evening at the Ingomar Thea-
tre, for which Miss Persephone had al-
ways a limited number of ‘‘orders.” And
when Miss Melinda Parkinson retired to
rest in a back-hall bedroom, with the
Elevated Road shaking the very casters
of her bed every thirteenth minute, and
a quartette of cats on the roof rivaling
the German arias of Madame Frida Von
Poppenhusen in the garten below, she
seriously believed that gentle sleep was
banished altogether from her eyelids.
In the middle of the night, Mrs. Lark-
ins was aroused from her balmy slum-
bers by arapping at her chamber-door.
‘*Eh?” said Mrs. Larkins, sitting up in
bed, her classic brow crowned by a
cheveux de frise of curl papers. ‘‘It
ain’t burglars, is it? Nor the fire depart-
ment? Dear me, Cousin Melindy, what
can you possibly be wanting at this time
of night?’
**Lucretia,”’” said Miss Parkinson,
“hush! Come with me at once.”
‘‘Laws!”’ cried Mrs. Larkins, hurriedly
shuffling her feet into list slippers and
flinging on an ancient flannel dressing
gown. ‘‘Whatis the matter? Ain’t no-
body sick, is there?’’
“It’s a sumnambulist,” whispered Miss
Parkinson, as Mrs. Larkins joined her
in the hall. ‘‘A poor crazy creature on
the roof next door, all alone by herself,
with nothing but a step between her and
death.”
‘Lal’? said Mrs. Larkins, beginning to
tremble and develop. strongly hysterical
symptoms. ‘‘Are you sure, quite sure,
that it ain’t the Limburger cheese settin’
heavy on your stomach?
with everybody, you know.
‘“‘Come and see for yourself,” said Me-
linda; and she drew her cousin to the
curtained casement, which commanded
Larkins, a
And—’’
the feline and the smoke-blackened view |
There, don’t |
alluded to.
flutter?
previously
you see her dress Vo you per-
ceive how dangerously near the parapet- |
wall she stands?”
“Oh, good gracious!’ cried Mrs. Lark-
ins, covering her eyes with her hands.
**Let’s call Lemuel.”’
‘“Who is it that lives in
house?’? demanded Melinda.
must go there ourselves,
There’s no time to rouse anybody.”’
‘*“And Lemuel sleeps like a log,’
Mrs. Larkins, ‘‘and always
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said
sudden, thinking of burglars the very |}
first thing, poor dear. It’s Mr. Burnabee }
that lives there,a manufacturer of ladies’
felt skirts, quite decent and respectable. |
Oh, yes, my dear; p’r’aps we’d better go,
then, or the poor dear will fling herself
the con-
of |
mansions |
the |
on |
music |
It don’t agree | _
|
the next |
“For we |
Lucretia. |
thrashes |
around with his fists when he roused up |
|
over the parapet, and itll be a clear}
ease for the coroner’s inquest.’
In the cloudy moonlight the two
women crept dows stairs and rang loud-
ly at Mr. Burnabee’s door.
There was a delay. There alwaysis a
delay after the ringing of a city door-
bell. Butto Miss Parkinson and Mrs.
Larkins there was a delay which seemed
| almost interminable before Mr. Barnabee
| appeared on the scene, a little, old, red-
nosed man, with seanty hair, a palm-
leaf-pattern dressing-gown and a candle
whose feeble tlame flickered to and fro
while he held it shaded from the night-
wind with one hand.
| ‘Is it fire??? said Mr. Burnabee, ‘‘or is
| itan accident on the Elevated Road? I’ve
| always knowed it would come sooner or
later.”’
‘‘The roof! The roof!’ gasped Me-
linda.
**Save her!” shrieked Mrs. Larkins.
‘*Kh?” said Mr. Burnabee. ‘Save
who?’’ What are you talking about,
ladies?”
“The sleepwalker,’’ cried Miss Parkin-
son. ‘*The poor creature who hovers
between life and death on the top of this
house!”
“We saw a woman
plained Mrs. Larkins, ‘‘and she wouldn’t
answer when my cousin called to her;
and we’re almost certain sure
sane.’’
Mr.
broke into a smile.
“There ain’t no woman there,
‘‘Man,” said Miss Melinda,
deceiving us.”
“It’s nothing on earth,”
Burnabee, ‘‘but my wire
fits the skirts over.
over her
hard shower yesterday,
out on the roof to dry.
night, because I knowed if I did it in the
daytime there’d be no end of people ask-
ing questions and minding
else’s business but their own.”’
“Oh?’ said Miss Parkinson,
awkardly.
“Of course,
her lip.
“Much obliged to you, all the same,
said Mr. Burnabee, blandly, although he
still chuckled.
And the two women crept home again.
**Lucretia,’ said Miss Parkinson,
standing opposite her own door.
‘“*W-w-well!? faltered Mrs. Larkins,
searcely able to repress her shivering.
on the roof,’’
”
“you are
went on
dummy
so I jest set her
5
? said Mrs.
”
‘Don’t speak of this to any one, will
you.”
“No, | won’t,’’ said Mrs. Larkins.
But it is to be feared that she did not
| keep her word, for Mr. Larkins was full
of dark allusions the next day, and Miss
Persephone could secareely speak for
laughing.
Miss Parkinson purchased
terns and secured her summer
and hastened speedily back to
ville; and ever since she declares that all
the wealth of the Indies would
duce her to live in that sink of iniquity
and head-center of mystery, New -York!
And if people ask her why, she only
shakes her head and says, mysteriously:
‘“*Never mind!’’ AMY RANDOLPH.
her pat-
styles,
F. J. BARBER. MARTIN.
BARBER, MARTIN & C0.
GENERAL
A. C.
Commission Merchants
FOR THE SALE OF
‘Butter, Zags, Poultry, Fruit, and all
Kinds of Country Produce.
191 South Water Street,
CHICAGO.
Pieced and Stamped Tinware,
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Order a supply from
Show cards and adver
For sale by all
jobbers.
H. F. HASTINGS,
Manufacturers’ Agent,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
AMONG THE TRADE.
AROUND THE STATE.
Reed City —H. L. Baker succeeds
Morse & Baker in the jewelry business.
Ithaca—Theo. Rickman is succeeded
by H. L. Howard in the harness business.
Marquette—M. R. Manhard is succeed-
ed by the Manhard Hardware Co., Limit-
ed.
Palo—A. D. & W. E. Alchin have add-
ed a line of groceries to their hardware
stock.
Mill Creek—J. D. Adams has removed
his general stock from Alpine to this
place.
Benton Harbor—W. 8S. Horton suc-
ceeds Rowe & Horton in the grocery
business.
Old Mission—H. K. Brinkman & Co.
have sold their grocery and notion stock
to Wait & Hill.
Big Rapids—F. R. Ritchie & Co. are
succeeded by W. J. Sloss in the
and feed business.
Eaton Rapids—Geo. Wilcox & Co. suc-
ceed Wilcox & Blodgett in the drug and
stationery business.
Chase—E. W. Barnes will remove his
grocery stock from this place to Reed
City, where he will resume the business.
Hudson—Ai Garrison has purchased
an interest in the grocery business of L.
W. Galoway. The new firm will be
known as Galoway & Garrison.
Traverse City—The store formerly oc- |
cupied by E. H. Pope will be taken pos-
session of by S. Cohen, of Kalkaska, who
will put in lines of clothing and dry
goods.
Adrian—Johnsen & Wheeler, the De-
troit wholesale grocers, resorted to the
Lenawee Circuit Court to fasten partner-
ship liability on Chauncey Cooper, of |
Onsted, claiming that Cooper was the
company of Aldrich & Co., with whom
they did business and against whom they
desired a judgment for the balance due,
about $197, and also for two other ac-|
counts assigned them, amounting to $300
in all. The court directed a verdict for
the defendants, on
ber.
MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Tecumseh—Heesen Bros. & Co.
foundry, 50 feet long.
Ionia—The Hammell Cigar Co. pro-|
poses to increase its working force from |
twenty-five to fifty men.
Charloette—Berger, Burdick & Co., of
Detroit, will start their branch cigar fac- |
tory in this city this week.
Gladwin—W. B. Tubbs & Co.,
are operating Dutcher’s shingle mill
here, have started camp and are putting
in logs to keep the mill in operation.
Watersmeet—The Watersmeet Lumber |
Co. is financially embarrassed. i us for Samples and Prices.
Possibly we can save you
e money. We have a good white en-
velope (our 154) which we sell :
No 6
Size 31,x6
$1.40
2.40
2.15
1.75
160
No 6%
Size 354x6\%
$1.50
2.50
2.25
1.85
1.70
Special prices on larger quantities.
This is not acheap stock, but good
fair envelope. We have cheaper and
have better grades, but can recom-
mend this one.
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
500
1,000
2,000
5,000
10,000
To Clothing and General Store Mer-
chants:
It cannot be disputed that
Michael Kolb & Son,
Wholesale
‘Glothing Manufacturers
on
Rochester, N. Y.,
Have had for nearly 30 years past and
have to-day one of the largest trades in
Michigan; and why? Because the mer-
chants who handle our line know that
when a customer visits their store they
can rely upon good goods and materials,
WILLIAM CONNOR,
Mich,
and a perfect fit. Our goods are made so well and our prices so equitable that we
fear no competition, not even from manufacturers making inferior garments to
catch the merchants with low prices.
Box 346, Marshall,
We commence April Ist,
CLOSING OUT
| Our entire line of Spring and Summer Goods at great bargains and prefer to offer
the same to the general trade rather than to one or two large houses. It will _pay
you to write our Michigan agent, William Connor, who resides at Marshall, Mich.,
to call upon you and look at these
GREAT BARGAINS IN
Men's, Youths’, Boys and Children’s Clothing
William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, on Thursday and Friday,
May I4 and 15.
.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
fi : | i : EMINS.
A Cotton-Duck Combination. Dry Goods Price Current. au es eee tiie
The movement to consolidate the man- | | Amos s-..... 1388 everett, -. shaggy =
ufacture of cotton duck under one man-| UNBLEACHED COTTONS. | “ brown .13 ul “brown. ....12
agement is said to have received a new/ Adriatic ..... - | ‘ Arrow Brand 5% | Andover eee oc ce 11% 4|Haymaker rant im
lease of life, and it is predicted that the ooo ea ore oy oe Wide.. 7 | Beaver Creek a -» pei r ' cutie
movement will be successful within sixty Atlantic ee Full Yard Wide... 8H “ 1c Lancaster........... 12%
days. Baltimore and vicinity is a center 4 oo 6%| eS ce 64 | | Boston. Mfg Co. br. oe ponenen Se5__---- ae
P —_ a wek i stry ¢ $+ jc ee ee oe ) onest Widtn....... be lu $| ees
of the cotton duck industry, and it is a @y|Hartford A.......... 5 “ de twist 10% “ No. 250....11%
from that city that reports come of a a 5%|Indian Mead |... | Columbian KX brid “ No. 280....10%
combination. The Baltimore Sun, de- rn Seg : eee Co ois | Xxx bite
kh. > si ‘ eave: ; Archery unting... AIng sees D | GINGHAMS.
a —— the oe d plan, ~— i | Beaver Dam A A.. 5% Lawrence LL...... 54 on i f i o
“The plan so far discussed contem-| Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth 6% | Amoskeag ...... Mech | if — a ra :
plates the formation of a stock company, | Black Crow......... 635, Newmarket G...... 6 oe Slt ancashire...... ae
with a capital of from $8,000,000 to $10,- | Black Rock ........ 7 aa is . APC. ---12%4|Ma chester......... 5%
al rn ey sic 1% ‘ as 6% J 214) Man -+» BM
000,000, divided proportionately into! Capital A. 54 rt DD.... 5% | Arlington st ple... pi ames seen eeeees 6%
preferred and common stock. A fair! Cavanat ca: 54% “i a 7 |Arasapha fancy... 4? ao gig
- . I a} 1. 3% /Noibe R 5 Bates Warwick dres 814|Persian........ .---- 8%
valuation will be placed upon the prop-| Ghepman heeds: ne es ee 6% “ staples. 644|Renfrew Dress...... 7%
erty of each factory that enters the pool, | Comet. TIT eloxtord R .......... 64 | Centennial......... 1034 | ween ae 6%
and stock therefor issued to the present | Dwight Star. Pequot.............. 7%; | eee... eee eet
ner ‘Tiiorn wilt t | of- | Clifton CC Cc. 4 Solar 6% | Cumberland staple. 5% oren a, z
owners. aoe oe Oe cs oe ‘Top of the Heap... mu | Cumberand.... .... 5 aoe .....-.-.--~ 498
fice, probably located in Baltimore, which | BLEACHED coTsOMs, ae | — eee wi Wabash. Nord....... 10%
ill evereise s srvisi car — ae Lc; |... ee N y 8 it ee pentane 7% EE ale ine oo ae al {2
sa od ST ~~ ' piney vag x Che = - tanta oo 8 (Glen — 7 | Everett classics..... 8} ** . seersucker.. 736
ings of each factory,and will consolidate | {ieburg...2 12222. i) ciate eo ay, | Exposition.....:.... wy 4 | Warwick mee %
in its hands the financial operations of} Art Cambric........ 10 (Green Ticket....... ng | Seerenes ++ => +++" ie ¥ a agg von ET gx
the pool and attend to all the contract-| Blackstone AA..... 8 |Great Falls.......... bt oe tne seeeee ty u indigo blue § 9
ing for raw and manufactured material. | oo egg gages” ' a a 5” | Hampton... . ..... UT 644| Wamsutta staples... 63 |
The plan will be similar in operation to| Cabot......,........ 7%|King Phillip........ 7% | Johnson x ‘halon al of iw estbrook.......... 2 |
e cordage c j i Foe Cc ~~... oP. 71% . indigo blu ee
that of = cordage consolidation. Each ee a se $S onsdae Py ‘a “ zephyrs....16. |Windermeer.... --.. 5
factory that enters the pool will conduct Conway W.......... 74|Lonsdale...... - @ 8% | Lancaster, wens. Guieore 6%
the general business of manufacturing | Cleveland......... . |Middlesex.... .. @5 GRAIN BAGS,
under its existing management. The only | Dwight Anc a Sat <|No Name- nes anes ‘% | Amoskeag........- pg Vener © fe 15%
restriction is that the quality and width | ee Stark..............- ) |Georgia.... ......-. ‘3
i oe — 6 |Our Own. . 5% : >
of the manufactured article shall be dic- | Empire.............. 7 |Pride of the West...12. | American.-....----- 16%|Pacific .............14%
tated from the general office. This is| —— a Pose oa — os a] seit pgs i 88
293 > > chief ady ne ruit of the Loom.. 8% Sunligh -- 4% } Clark’s e En 5 aor A...
said to be one of the chief advantages to Fitchville ...... 7 [vt tica Mills... - oe | Coan’, 0. a r....... > (eres... ...... 88
result from the pool. As at present con- | First Prize.. 4) Nenpercil..f1 | Holyoke............- 22%
ducted, there is a strong competition be- | oe Loom %. sien. seteee es 6 KNITTING COTTON.
tween the factories. No factory wil! re-| poi Value.......... 6%] ‘“ Rock... 8% _ White. Colored.| White. Colored.
fuse an order for any width or quality of | HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. |No. 6.. ..33 ~ No, 14.......37 42
duck for which a contract can be secur- | ss. we sents ee cees ax Dwight Anchor..... a 2 a > 40 ‘ 18. "30 “
ed. A practical manufacturer said that | **™¥® GitacnEy iii ie ieee i+ oe ai* &...8 @
changing the looms from one width of | TremontN. 54%4{Middlesex No. fae CAMBRICS,
iv Tv “ |
— to another, and the adjusting Sead | Hamilt~n N- beret ees 4 i il oe barr ET 44|Washington. se ‘4
machinery necessary to operate under |} i. ‘“ i eee ee ON, nw on 1
| oo. a > , - : see AT.. oe “ i g.---48 | Kid Glove..........- ite... B24/T W... 2... eee eee 22%
will be avoided, as competition will be a . AT...... ; ic A : tenes 13% | Creedmore.......... ee ue 32%
entirely destroyed. Each mill will be “ a 10%} * ae —— cee 20 oo.
given the work of manufacturing duck | CARPET WARP. eee cet
specifie ‘ Peerless, white... 18 (Integrity, colored...21. |
of a specified width and quality, and the | colored... 20%4| White Star. 18% | Red &'Blue, plaid..40 |Grey SRW......... 17%
looms and machinery once arranged will | Integrity. 2 118%%4| « ‘colored. ‘ita 22%4|Western W ......... 18%
continue in that line. In this way the | “DRESS GOODS. | Sa cee eee ae ae date ae 18%
, > fie i > covered. ac ear Pac. | Hamilton 2 {Nameless eee ee 20 | 6o=n Weatern........ |Flushing XXX...... 23%
whole fie id w ill be covered, as each fac a. co. ee mi ee hed 2244|Manitoba.... ....... 23%
tory will be given separate work, and no | “ 1044) a 227i | ee FLANNEL
two factories will make exactly the same} GG Cashmere...... a a a
. r } 6 ‘ Nameless oo : a 9 10%
article. Another advantage urged ye ttt teeeeee 16 i pete ine at Bi | Syot0 0” de <= 5
those in favor of the consolidation isthe; = # 4§g§g- petty ey | CANVASS AND PADDING.
. : ~ in : ot 215. } >
Saving of office expenses to each factory. | Coraline............ $9 50/Wonderful. .. ....94.50| Slate. Brown. Black.|/Slate. Brown. Black.
rhis will amount to from $150,000 to| Schilling’s......... 9 00/Brighton.. ........ 475 | 9% % 94/13 13 :
$200,000 annually, which will goto swell | CORSET JEANS. re ae ali? 2 7
the dividends , | | Aor... 6%|Naumkeag satteen.. 7% | 75/2? oar ails 5 P
-~ : — nds - the odor Another | Androscoggin....... 734| Rockport eee ote 6% 12% 12% 124i20 - *
meeting of those interested in this | piddeford........... 6 |Conestoga...... _., OM DUCKS.
scheme will be held within the next} Brunswick. ........ 644| Walworth - 6% | Severen, 8 oz.,...... 9%{/West Point, 8 oz... .10%
hirty days, whe 2 atter wi >| PRINTS. | Mayland, 8 80Z......- ..10% Ja | 10 oz....12
; oa . - _ : eo" . = will we Allen turkey reds. 5% 4 Berwick fancies...._%| Gréenwood, 7% oz. 94 | ing I0s......... 3
further discussed and the basis of a final | chen oo 5\Clyde Robes oe | Seocaweed See. ie ee 13%
settlement probably reached.” |: »ink & purple rH ( charter Oak fancies 4% r WADDIN
The leading manufactories of cotton ' oe 3... 6 DelMarine cashm’s. 6 —e
ak tn D ee ee ee ni ic. ie “3 mourn’g 6 | White, doz..........25 {Per bale, 40 doz....87_50
duck in 2a tIMOre and its vicinity are| “ staples ...... 514 Edd ystone fancy...6 | Colored, doz.......- 20 |
the Mount Vernon, Druid, Laurel, Wood-| “ | shirtings... 4% chocolat 6 SILESIAS,
berry and Franklin mills. There are also | Se ' 5X —— : Slater, Iron Cross... 8 {Pawtucket.......... 10%
si) « — > ™ nt + * 26
mills at Lawrence. Plymouth and Man-| American shirtings. 40 % Hamilton feney. 6 | Red Cross... 9 |Dundie.............. 9
chester, Mass., and »>in Georgia. Six-| Argentine Grays... 6 ale mei] | 8 6(Beest..-....... -.10%| Bedford... ---- 10%
1ester, Mass., and one in Georgia. Six ne- ys staple . i tb Best AA 1214| Valle Cit 10
ote —_— ee | +} | Anchor Shirtings. .. 4% Manchester ancy. .s re y y aaa 4
ty-six per cent. of all the cotton duck ‘ . ‘ ; r
a. ke puke bn ba : aera i. | oreo ---- 6% new era.6 | SEWING SILK.
made is said HO DE turned out at Balti- | Arnold Merino. ...6 Merrimack D fancy. 6 | Corticelli, Gac....... % (Corticelli knitting,
& “lott % g
more and vicinity. | ‘ long cloth ~ 10% Merrim’ck shirtings. 44% twist, doz..37%| per %oz ball...... 30
San sti din el
Elephant Leather.
tanning of elephant hides,”
Boston Journal of Commerce, is com-
paratively a new industry. The method
employed is practically the same as in
the tanning of cow hide, except that a
stronger combination of tannic ingre-
dients is required,
time, about six months,
perform the work. When
taken out of the vatitis 1
Articles made of elephant
pensive luxuries. A small pocketbook
of elephant’s leather, without any gold
or silver ornamentations, costs about $40.
A small satchel made of the same leath-
er costs from $300 to $400. Cigar cases,
card cases and similar articles vary from
$25 to $100. Floor rugs are also made
of the leather. In finishing the hide no
attempt is made to glaze or polish it.
Everything is done to preserve its natur-
al color and appearance. It is a very
enduring leather, several years’ wear
having but little effect upon it.”
> > —_—
St. Charles—Jones &
removed their dry goods
“The
the
says
is
the hide is
Ly inches thick.
hides are ex-
stock to North Branch.
and greater length of |
necessary to}
Guilford have)
and grocery |
8% . Rep —: 84
50 yd, doz. .3
wiz}
(72)
wr a Ian >
centurs cloth ~~ e. HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
‘* green seal TR 10% Portsmouth robes... 6 No i BIE & White.. 10 |No 4 BI’k & White..15
“yellow seal. 10% Simpson mourning.. Sta 5 i —— i . . =
“< serge oe ' greys . . | eT '
ic Turkey red. 10% . solid black. 6 | PINS.
Ballou solid black.. 5 |Washington indigo. 6 | No 2—20, = ae |No 4—15 F 3%...... 40
** colors. 5%) ‘“ Turkey robes.. 7%} ‘ 3—18,SC........ 45
: oa blue, green, © India robes... 7% | COTTON TAPE.
red and orange .. 5% ‘ plain rT "ky : %, + Ye | No 2 White & BI’k..12 |No 8 White & Bl’k..20
Berlin solids........ — ™ 4 it " 2
- oeee..... 6% ‘“ Ottoman a . ' 2 |" = ' oe
- “ green . "6% os ee........... - | SAFETY PINS.
“ Foulards .... 54%/Martha —— [ee ee. ee Pe ete, 4 36
. red * Lo eee 7 ne oo w..... 7% |
. % .. 9% Martha Washington | NEEDLES—PER M.
- = se... 10 Turkey red.. _s A. a. -1 GO\Steamboas.... ...,.. 40
o Y Py K¥XX 2 Riverpoint robes.... 5 en oe oe i os re See... 150
Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Windsorfancy.... . 6% | Marsha 1 os 1 00
r madders... 6 . gold tic ket TABLE A CLOTH.
“ XX twills.. 6%| indigo blue....... 10% | 5—4....22% 6—4...3 6/5—4....19 64...2%
solids...... 5% 2 * oe
TIC Krsas, COTTON TWINES.
Amoskeag AC A....i3 A... ..12% | Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua. en |
Hamilton N..... 7% Eaabence ‘AAA....16 Crowe ..... 12 Rising Star 4 ply.. —
C ol oe ..10% Domestic . .. 18% oyy....4@
C Awning..11 ifwift River......... 74% | Anchor ..-16 [North Star.. -20
Pere. ..... -.. x6 8 |Pearl River.. ..12% | Bristol : ..13 |Wool Standard 4 ply17 oy
First Prize. Ee ee 14 Cherry V alley. .15 |Powhattan .....
Lenox eee I a0... -
ee ee PLAID OSNABURGS.
scent, D........-. 6%|Stark A ---++- 8 | Alabama............ 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6%
Boot.....--. s+. s-es 6% No Name........ 7% Alamance. ......... Ciceetee.............. 5
| Clifton, K. 74\Top of Heap........ 10° | Augusta}. _o. CeO... oe .. 5%
SATINES. | Ars sapha.. cone © PO oc os 6
Simpson ote oe eee meoere........ .... is Co a 6%| Riv NE eee ens 5%
cia ceres «ce 18 |Black........... 9@ 9% Granite .... ss1-¢-> See Biiseveesitss> Oe
ee 10% | Haw River.. 6 [Tele le ae Gt 6
Coecheo ............ 10% ee tL
SIX=-CORD
Spool Cotton
WHITE, BLACK AND
FOR
|.&PCOATS
COLORS,
Hand and Machine Use.
FOR SALE BY
P. STEKETER & SONS.
—o-——
Send for
Circvlar and Price
—_o-——
Spring Season 1891,
If You desire to sell
Carpets by Sample
List,
Smith & Sanford
GRAND RAPIDS.
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
Manufacturers of
and Black Goods,
Serges, Pants Cloth,
GRAND RAPIDS, -
Voigt, Herpolshelmer & Co,
Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy
CARPETS,
CURTAINS.
Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Rte.
Elegant Spring Line of Prints, Ging-
hams, Toile Du Nord, Challies,
Percales,
Cottonades and
Hosiery now ready for inspection.
Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed.
48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.
White
Satteens,
- MICH.
AWNINGS
AND TENTS.
‘Send for Llustrated
CHAS. A. COYE,
Telephone 106.
wees. Horse and Wagon Covers, Seat Shades, Large
Umbrellas, Oiled Clothing, wr toe Peete Ducks, ete.
talogue.
11 Pearl Street.
so agin die 4+ >———
The Coupon System in Washington.
Correspondence Commercial Bulletin.
SPOKANE FALLS, Wash., April 28—So
much has been written on the subject of
“Merchants Doing a Credit Business,”
that there is really very little more to be
said, but as the question is of so much
importance both to the merchants who
have an established trade, as well as
those who contemplate going into busi-
ness, it will not be amiss to add a few
hints.
Everybody who reads a trade paper
had, at some time or other, seen a com-
munication from some happy grocer, who
has been running a credit business, but
had finally determined to abandon the
same and transact his business strictly
on a cash basis. He will tell you how
happy he is now. How much better
able to sleep at night, and how prompt-
ly he ean pay his debts. He will not
tell you, however, how many of his best
customers he has lost, how much werk
has to be done for literally nothing, and
how much time he loses trying to con-
vince the public at large that because he
does a cash business he is not solely car-
rying it on for their benefit, and after a
year’s business he will find that he has
bettered himself very little if at all. The
thought that no man owes him anything
and that he could wind up his affairs in
a week’s time will give him some com-
fort, but we all know that without any
risk very little can be looked for, and a
cash grocer certainly takes no risk.
Now, the chances of a merchant ex-
tending credit to some of his customers
making a success of his business are very
good, providing he has the qualifications
necessary to make a success in life. To
be conservative in his credits is the first
principle. A customer who has traded
with you for a short time only, and of
whose circumstances you know nothing,
is not entitled to credit. Do rot be back-
ward in asking such people for referen-
ces as to their responsibility; what means
of support they have, etc., and always
bear in mind that everybody who asks
for credit is, in a certain sense, asking
for a favor, and considers his request in
the same light as though he asks you for
$20 or $25 dollars in cash, and if you
decide that you would not care to loan
him $20, do not, under any circumstan-
ces open an account with him in the
hope that his account would certainly
not exceed $10 and he would surely pay
that.
Another so-called trouble which arises
from doing a credit business is the cor-
rect keeping of accounts. Every-
body is not an expert book-keeper, and
some of these merchants do not feel justi-
fied in hiring somebody to keep their
books. Now 1 would offer a suggestion
in regard to keeping such simple ac-
counts, and doing this to the entire sat-
isfaction of both parties. Adopt the
coupon system, which will do away with
a good deal of tedious charging, and you
will most likely get pay for everything
that goes out of the store. All that is
necessary is to take the customer’s note
for the amount of the coupon book when
same is delivered to him. This closes
the account at the time it is being open-
ed and the dealer can number the notes
|and file them in some safe place. The
|advantage of this system is readily ap-
parent, for a note, duly signed and draw-
|a debt than an open account.
| tional to the dealer whether to enforce
is understood, that should the customer
at any time wish to make a settlement,
he need only pay for the actual amount of
coupons he has made use of. Another
shape in which you have the accounts.
By examining your notes from time to
time, you can easily tell how many out-|
standing accounts you have, and at the!
same time you are not liable to overlook
anybody who ought to be asked to settle.
mend to merchants doing a general mer-
dise business in a farming country,
and not the exception.
Gro. A. LIEBEZ,
Book-keeper for Staver & Walker.
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advantage of this system is the compact | f
This system I would particularly recom- |!
where long time accounts are the rule
a
Notice to Builders.
Trustees for the construction of an additional
building for the Akeley Institute, at Grand
Haven, Mich., until 10 o’clock on the 12th day
of May, 1891. The plans and specifications can |
be seen at the office of Hon. Dwight Cutler, |
Grand Haven, Mich., or at the office of Johnston |
& Johnston, architects, Muskegon, Mich. |
The bids will be opened at Grand Haven, at}
10 o’clock a.m. on the 12th day of May, 1891. |
The Board of Trustees reserves the right to
reject any and all bids. Address proposals to |
Rev. J. N. Rippey, Clerk of Board of Trustees, |
Muskegon, Mich, or to Hon. Dwight Cutler,
Grand Haven, Mich., marked plainly ‘ pro-}
posals,”’ |
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Leland—lIt is reported that A. & O.
Brow are closing out their stock of mer- |
chandise here and will transfer their en- |
tire business to Maple City.
Proposals will be received by the Board of ]
Why We Mourn.
Not for lack of business. Last year
our sales increased over 100 per cent.
Why Then?
For those who should use Coupons
and do not buy ours.
We Have
The best in the world. Tradesman
Coupons, Superior Coupons, Special
Coupons.
SAMPLES FREE.
THE TRADESMAN CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS.
HUTCHENS
& POTTER,
TRADE
1891
See our
Line
This season f
Michigan Representative, -
Mr. 6. G. Melntyre
141 Coit Ave.,
GRAND RAPIDS.
MARK.
GLOVE MAKERS,
Johnstown, N. Y.
UMMER WASH GOODS:
CANTON CLOTH,
BRANDENBURG CLOTH,
B. C. SATINE,
EXPORT SATINE,
SERGE SATINE,
CASHMERE SATINE,
A. F. C. GINGHAM,
SONORA GINGHAM,
AMOSKEAG GINGHAM,
STRAW
‘WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.
‘Improved Filue_
|ing interest, is much better security for |
It is op-|
OUTING FLANNELS,
PRINTS,
WIDE BLUES,
SHIRTING,
LYON SERGE,
ARMENIAN SERGE,
SEERSUCKERS,
CHALLI,
LAWNS.
OUTING SHIRTS, SUMMER UNDERWEAR, PANTS, HAMMOCKS,
HATS.
P. STEKETEE & SONS,
GRAND RAPIDS.
eo
(1) saves the time consumed in recording
the sales on the pass book and copying
same in blotter, day book and ledger; (2)
prevents the disputing of accounts; (3)
| the collection of interest ornot. In fact, |
|I think it would be best to waive the|
| same in ease of regular, prompt-paying
puts the obligation in the form of a note, | customers, but in the event of some de-
which is prima facie evidence of indebt- | linquent customer, permitting his ac-}
edness; (4) enables the merchant to col-| count torun four or six months, the deal-
lect interest on overdue notes, which he er could enforce the payment of princi-
is unable to do with ledger accounts; (5) | pal and interest much easier, by having
holds the customer down to the limit of such a claim in the shape of a nete.
HESTER & FOX, Sole Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich.
10
Drugs # Medicin
State Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—S. E. Parkill, Owosso
Meetings for 1891—Ann Arbor, May 5; Star Island
(Detroit) July 7; Houghton, Sept.1; Lansing Nov. 4.
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo.
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor.
Third Vice-Presideat—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in October, 1891.
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March,
June, September and December,
Grand egtie Drug Clerks’ Association.
resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith.
Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.
President, F. W. R. Perry; Secretary, E. 8S. Anderson.
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President C.S. Koon; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.
The Sponge Combination.
From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.
The publicatien of the details of their
combination last week stirred up the
members of the sponge trade, and it
looked for a time as though the organi-
zation would go to pieces. Precautions
are taken to prevent any further knowl-
edge of the combination’s affairs from
becoming public property, but it is un-
derstood that since last Wednesday
the organization has been considerably
strengthened, and the members have
come to a better understanding. It is
claimed that one of the chief objects of
the combination not to increase the
cost of Florida sheep’s wool sponges to
the consnmer, but, by doing away with
the reckless competition in the buying at
Key West, to prevent an unnecessary
rise in selling prices. It is pointed out
that the current prices admit of only a
fair profit to the receivers, and, moreoy-
er, that they are low compared with what
the cost of these goods have been in the
past. The prices given last week in our
report on the matter, are accepted only
on lots of a thousand pounds or over,and
it would be well for small buyers to
make a note of that fact.
It is claimed by the combination that
it has no intention and no desire to con-
trol the primary market, yet it looks
very mnch as though outsiders would
have great difficulty in obtaining any
stock there except at a price at which they
would be unable to compete with the com-
bination in selling here. However, strong
competition is promised,even if it results
in a heavy loss to the outside parties,
and it has been rumored about the
market for several days that there is a
possibility of legal complications arising
out of the matter.
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Fifty-seven Out of Sixty-five.
Of the sixty-five applicants who pre-
sented themselves for examination be-
fore the State Board of Pharmacy, at the
meeting at Ann Arbor last week, thirty-
two were registered pharmacists and
twenty-five as assistants.
a list of the fortunate ones:
is
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lhe following | ment store merchant with what he needs.
es. | Nashville; E. Hum
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e, Owosso; E. R. A.
Hunt, Lowell; H. J. Isbell, White Pigeon;
E. M. Jefferson, Battle Creek; J. Livesay,
Adrian; C. N. Menold, Bangor; F. A.
Moon, Lyman; H. Taft, Lowell: S. D.
Roche, Concord; W. S. Savage, Saginaw;
| W. E. L. Smith, Fenton; P. T. Rice, Len-
ox: F. Chatwick, Muskegon.
a at
Big Seizure of Smuggled Opium.
A recent dispatch from San Francisco
says the opium smuggling ring there lost
a small fortune when Deputy Surveyor
Gaskell seized 1,200 pounds of the choic-
est opium valued at $25,000. This is
the banner seizure in the history of the
port. When the Pacific Mail steamer,
China, came in early last week, an extra
watch was placed on her. As Gaskell
was looking about in the after part of
the ship he struck a large crate marked
crockery. It didn’t look right to him,
so he had it weighed. It tipped the
seales at 1,200 pounds. Then he had it
opened and inside were found, neatly
packed, many boxes of the choicest pre-
pared opium. The modest consignor
valued it at $82, but Gaskell appraised
the shipment at $25,000. Of course, the
names of the consignees were bogus, as
the evident intention was to take it to
Mexico.
At Seattle, Wash., every imaginable
device is resorted to by ingenious smug-
glers to getopium into the United States,
the saving of $12 a pound being sufficient
to warrant the risk of detection. On
April 30, Elder Gerrard, one of the cley-
erest smugglers on Puget Sound, was
brought in by the United States Marshal.
Gerrard boarded the steamer North Pa-
cific at Victoria, carrying a valise and a
box containing a luxuriant geranium.
Upon reaching Port Townsend he asked
the customs inspector to examine the
valise. The inspector not only examined
the valise, but probed the earth in the
box containing the geranium. Under the
dirt he found nineteen five-tael tins of
prepared opium. Gerrard claims to be a
minister and is a successful worker in
the opium trade.
Another clever capture was made re-
cently of twenty pounds of opium float-
ed ina box under water attached to a
passenger steamer and kept up by strings
of corks made to resemble sausage links.
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The Cutting Continues.
From the Chicago Drug Reviev.
The price cutting of proprietary
medicines goes merrily on, the tremen-
dous protests of the retail drug trade
notwithstanding. The latter have tried
every means to prevent it. They have
been careful in making their sales—at
least those in Chicago have been—and
the proprietors have not been backward
in doing allin their power, in refusing
to sell to price cutters and establishing
rebates payable only to those who abide
by the terms of the agreement upon
which the goods are sold. The prev-
alence of cutting lies in the fact that
ithe guilty parties, asa rule.are among
| the retailers themselves
who, for the
| Sake of a slight margin of profit will, on
tegistered pharmacists—W. F. Ash-
ley, P. Briggs, A. Hutchinson, S. B. |
Robb, J. B. Sutton, Ann Arbor: H. L.
Burd, Detroit; A. W. Adams, Chesaning; |
H. E. Adams, Morenci; L. M. Beal, Rich-
land; C. H. Bostick, Manton: A. Camp-
bell, Crystal Falls; J. E. Carnoty, Water- |
vliet; F. M. Chapel,
Connell, Belding; S. A. Erwin.
L. S. Freeman, Chelsea: E. J.
Petoskey; J. L. Hubbard, Waterloo: C.
E. Humphrey, Holly; F. A. Jones, Mus-
kegon; R. E. Kincaid, Pursey: C. H. Me-
Gee, Farmington; John J. Maser,
sing; M. G. Millman, South Lyon; B. L.
Murray, Ypsilanti: T. J. Rickard, Char-
lotte; D. M. Russell, Sturgis; F. J. Tem-
ple, Ridgeway; J. A. Warner, Woodland:
E. N. Kennedy, J. B. Ostrander, Ann
Arbor.
Assistants—A. W. Brownlee, J. B.
Kapman, H. M. Lamb, W. H. McAllis-
ter, H. J. Van Lou, George Von Nostiz,
Detroit; A. Bennett, Pattenville: H.
Bradley, Williamston; C. DePree, Hol-
land; C. E. Doyle, Middleville: E. J.
Fletcher, Grand Rapids; J. C. Furniss,
Grand
Biane; H. J. |
Leslie: }
Garner, |
| scarce
Lan- |
| dered opium is lower.
the quiet, supply a dry goods or depart-
though refusing to sell at cut rates to
the consumer. Mr. Kline’s plan is de-
signed to reach the guilty parties,
wherever they may be, and the Review
some equally sensible plan is in suecess-
ful, universal operation.
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The Drug Market.
Domestie
Opium and mor-
Foreign quinine is higher.
brands are unchanged.
phia are unchanged. Gum camphor is |
and firm. Citric acid has/|
advanced. Cubeb berries are lower. |
Arnica flowers have declined. Long Bu- |
chu leaves have advanced. Oil Cubebs is |
lower. Oil of orange is higher. Oil of |
lemon, Sanderson’s ,has advanced. Pow-{
Cloves have de-
| clined.
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Flint—The Lansing Lumber Co. has!
begun suit against William Wood, a/
| and cheap.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
CHEAPNESS NOT ECONOMY.
| Pay a Reasonable Price for the Best
You Can Afford.
From Kate Field’s Washington.
Men have their bad points, no doubt.
We never studied them. But they cer-
tainly have one characteristic trait
worthy to be commended and copied. I
refer to the way they make purchases.
| Every one knows how women buy, and
that no woman under the sun is ever sat-
isfied with anything less than a ‘“‘bar-
gain.” I really think this bargain hunt-
ing has produced a spirit of gambling
and that women are responsible for the
disgusting variety and outrageous num-
ber of shoddy goods, glass diamonds,
pinchbeck ornaments, and vulgar imita-
tions and flaring cheats of all sorts that
are placed upon the market do-day. They
have created a demand for bargains, and
it is impossible to conceive of the manu-
factories turning out anything more ab-
surd and unneeded than we already have.
To a woman, a bargain means the pur-
chase of something for half its price, or
less. What is this but gambling? If
the article is up to the standard, it must
be worth a certain price; and if less is
paid for it, either the thing itself is a
cheat, or some one has lost by the trans-
action. Bargains are deleterious in an-
other way; they cause, by their delusive
cheapness, a careless and reckless expen-
diture and engender a spirit of dishones-
ty. This is the tendency,with an ever-in-
creasing greed for more and greater bar-
gains. Nearly all-women will agree that
men are extravagant. Men will pay $7
for shoes, when $3 will buy a pair which
‘look just as well;” $5 for a hat, when a
woman can ‘‘bunch up’’ her best Sunday
hat for a dollar or two: and as for a
man’s clothes—why one suit costs as
much as a woman’s three best dresses,
bonnets thrown in. This does sound ex-
travagant when you apply the ‘deadly
parallel’ to it; but if there is one thing I
admire about a man, it is the decent and
self-respecting price he pays for things.
A woman goes out to buy a pair of shoes;
she fritters a whole day buying bargains
which could not be resisted, and comes
home loaded with them. But the shoes?
Oh, yes, she has the shoes—bargains, al-
so, of course. “Regular four-dollar
boot,”’ she will explain, with an accent
of proud certainty. Then she exhibits
her bargain laces, and her summer goods
bought in winter, and stows them away
with a smile of satisfaction, just as
though there would come ere long a bar-
gain famine. Again, she congratulates
herself as she thrusts her dainty foot in-
to the bargain boot. But see the result:
the pretty looking shoes have lost their
shape with a few wearings, and are be-
yond recognition in about half the time
that the genuine four-dollar boots would
have lasted. Then, when the young
Summer has come, and every breeze
which stirs the small green leaves sug-
gests laces and draperies and all kinds of
dainty, filmy, fluttering things, the other
bargains are brought out. But they look
so different now! They are out of style,
or the windows are now full of newer,
cheaper and prettier articles; and alto-
gether she wishes she did not have them,
and wonders why she ever bought them.
I have seen well-to-do families of whom
not a member ever appeared well dressed
will be glad to see the day, when it or | xcept the husband and father, and the
reason was obvious—he bought his own
clothes and eschewed bargains. I am
glad that men stand their ground in this
matter, and scorn a bargain counter;
otherwise our homes might be hollow,
and rickety, and cracked, and unreal,
The fact is men become dis-
gusted with so many bargains, from the
half-price toilet soap to the wife’s taudry
jewelry; and so when they go to buy,they
simply ask for the worth of their money,
and are willing to take somebody’s word
for it besides. When will women learn
that it is always economy to buy the
best?
It is childish to buy things just because
they look well; children prefer tinsel to
gold if it glitters more, but women are
supposed to have put away such infan-
tile ideas. I trust that the day is not far
| Flint contractor and builder, to recover distant when our women will realize that
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| $2,000 for lumber furnished.
it lessens their dignity and self-respect
It lasts longer, is in better taste,
and isin every way more satisfactory. |
‘to wear imitations, just because they
; happen to be a freak of fashion and
|cheap. It is essentially vulgar. The
| craze for bargains, moreover, is dishon-
est in principle, and children brought up
in such an atmosphere cannot have true
conceptions of taste or appreciation for
the best things. ‘Tis true, ’tis pity,
and pity ’tis ’tis true’’—that they will be
compelled to learn better of their fath-
ers. This is the safest rule: Buy the
best you can afford, paying a good, de-
cent, reasonable price, and then take
the best care of it. For this is the se-
cret of economy, after all—not what you
make or pay, but what you save and take
care of.
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Duty of Employer to Employe.
J. M. Batchelor, in Dry Goods Bulletin.
In numerous publications telling young
men how to behave in their business: life
and how to sueceed with their employ-
ers, great stress is put upon the need
that the worker must realize that he
must work long and hard, always be
ready to sacrifice his own to his employ-
er’s wishes; and it is shown in illustra-
tion that when employes are taken into
partnership, it is generally due to zeal of
this kind. That is all right and proper
and not a word is to be said against it,
but there is another side to the question.
We have seen nowhere in any of these
books that the employer should not take
advantage to the extentofa ‘‘last straw”
of a clerk’s willingness to work twenty-
four hours a day, seven days in the
week, and allow him to do it. There is
a big mutual interest in this matter that
must be fully considered; for, sad as itis
to say, there are employers in some of
our large cities who are not only willing
to have their employes work twenty-four
hours by the week, but urge and force
them in that direction just as far as they
dare without making a final breach.
We are not arguing this question from
a charitable point of view, but only from
the standpoint of selfishness or self-in-
terest, when we say it will profit the em-
ployer more—in the long run—to treat
his employes justly and humanely, and
in no sense permit the employes to get
any idea into their heads that there ex-
ists any tendency to oppress or to get
more work out of them for services than
the pay they get fairly warrants.
The great profit to the employer in
adopting such a course is in the ‘‘good
will”? gained among the employes that
the business shall be a pronounced suc-
cess. It is a regretable cireumstance
that numerous employers fail to see that
their business interests are being jeopar-
dised when employes are unjustly treat-
ed in any way; too commonly the em-
ployer looks upon his employes as hay-
ing no influence to help his business be-
yond the routine duties of their posi-
tions. This is the biggest kind of a mis-
take; the influencesemployes can exert
when outside of the store or off duty, or
even in little ways while on duty, in the
aggregate, is immense. ‘Take a concern
that is popular with its employes, other
things being equal, and that concern will
walk way ahead of any rivals,and become
| popular in the publie esteem. We could
quote a bookfull of instances in support
of our attitude, but the celebrated in-
stance of George Washington Childs, of
Philadelphia, will suffice, because this
question appeals to the proprietor’s best
judgment.
dee
Detroit—The Hercules Keg and Barre]
Co. has been reorganized as the Michigan
Package Co.
CINSENG ROOT.
We pay the highest price for it. Address
PECK BRO = Wholesale a ag
GRAND RAP
Drog Store for Sale at a Bargain
/ On long time if desired, or will exchange for
part productive real estate. Stock clean and
well assorted. Location the best in the city.
: wish to retire permanently from the drug bus-
‘ iness.
Cc. L. BRUNDAGE,
| Opp. New Post Office. 117 W. Western Ave.
|
Muskegon, “Sich,
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Wholesale Price Current.
Advanced—Quinine, citric acid, long buchu leaves, oil lemon Sanderson’s, oil orange.
Declined—Cubeb berries, arnica flowers, oil cubeb, po. opium, cloves.
ACIDUM,
Poco ...... ...... 8@ 10
-- 80@1 00
. 30
Carpotedin ........... a 35
Roeeeemaes . 4.8... ss. 58@ 60
mov Grecmier .,......... a 5S
N oe ee oun weuce 10@ 12
Oxalic .. nao
vi eamean ae 20
Sablleviicmin ..........- 1 40@1 80
Bolpooricum......... iim
emcee. ....,.....-. 1 40@1 60
Teremicun...........- 40@ 42
AMMONIA,
Aqua, 15 Gee... ...... 34@ 5
20 de OE reco cece 54@ 7
Seaman Se otiwceuss 12@ 14
CFPORAGAIN . 25... oss oe 22@ 14
ANILINE.
Black...
Brown
a 45Q 50
Yellow . -2 50@3 00
BACCAE,
Cubeae (po. { 00....... 90@1 20
SUHlpers ............. &@
Aeminoxyiam ........-. 25@
BALSAMUM.
Copaiba 60@ 65
a @1 80
Terabin, Canada ..... 35@ 40
Monee es 35@ 50
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian............ 18
ee 11
Cincmens Fieve :..........-. 18
Euonymus atropurp........ 30
Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20
ee Secewes ..
Quillaia, grd.. . =
EE ——————— -
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ =
Haematox, - Tb. box. . oa
u 15
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FERRUM.
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Soluble........ @ 80
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50
Solut Chioride........ @ 15
Sulphate, or oo 1%@ 2
Sees @ 7
FLORA.
eee... 2@ 2
ae ...-... ..-.-.- 2@ 2%
eee 25 30
FOLIA
tac |............. N@ 38
Gaus *,cutifol, Tin-
nivel lly eee ioe ee 2@ 2w
S Alx. 3@ 530
Salvia officinalis, 4s
and %s
ia 12@ 15
ee cre........-.....-. 8@ 10
@UMMI.
Acacia, 1st picked.... @1 00
“ec " 2a Pp iT Oe @ 90
[ 3d . ne @ 80
. sifted sorts... @
. ee 75@1 00
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60
Cape, (po. 20).. @ 12
- Socotri, oo 60) . 50
— 1s, (sp, 14 4s, :
Ammonis .......-.-.- é
Assafcetida, (po. 30) _@ 20
Bomsoinum...........- 3@ 55
Camphor®........---+- 52@_ 55
Euphorbium - oie 35@ 10
Garpenum............- @3 00
Gamboge, po 9%
Gualncum, (po 40) $ =
w
a thee @ 90
M oo . &)........
Olt. oe Mala 2 25@2 40
a_i B@ 30
- bleached...... 28@ 33
‘Tragacesth ..........- 30@ 75
HERBA—In ounce packages.
Absinthium ....... Le loceen ee
Rue
enecotum, V........-.-..--
Tas, V........---.---..-
MAGNESIA,
Caletned, Fus........-. 55@Q 60
Carvonate, Pat........ 20@ 22
Carbonate, K. & M.. WQ@ 2%
Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36
OLEUM.
Absinthium. .........5 00@5 50
Amya dalae, Duic. — 45@ 75
alae, Amaree.. “< 00@8 25
eS En 1 70@1 80
a Cortes... -'.... oa %5
Beecemes ...... ..+..- 3 75@4 00
= baagsrenitnett ; — 5
ee W@
_— podii oe seeeues 7 =
BeOMOEIE .....:....-
Cooneont ..........- 1 15@1 20
Cerenea .........:... ae 45
Conium Mac.......... 65
CRIDER i. fag oceans ce i mo! 30
Coperee............. 8 50@9 00
Exechthitoe........... 90@1 00
mreemoe .. .. 8... 1 99@2 00
Gemineris ............ 2 00@2 10
Geranium, ounce..... @ &
Gossipil, Sem. = ae 50@ %5
Hedeoma .. ..-1 85@2 00
Juniperi.. -. soz 00
Lavendula sec-. Goes OO
Tiss... 2 50@3 10
Montha Piper... ...... 2 90@3 00
Mentha Verid......... 2 50@2 60
Morrhuad, gal.........1 0061 10
Myreta, Ounce......._. @ 50
ee 00@2 75
a ae, (gal. is), 10@ 12
eee ended eee a. 04@1 2
el eee eca ea 1 01 00
Hoses, ounce.......... @6 00
petce............... 40@ 45
baueee 5... 90@1 00
Senter ..... ......... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras..... 45@ 50
oa ess, ounce. @ 6
igi... ........; 3 @1 50
Thyme Deets ceca ce 40@ 50
' Ope ........... @ 60
Wiheonremas........... 15@ 20
POTASSIUM.
i Carn... ...... 15@ 18
Tacoromate ......._... 13@ 14
Bromide. . ... oa a
Care... ............... 122@ 15
Chlorate, (po. 16)...... 14Q@ 16
Cyaniae.......... 50@ 55
Iodide.. .-2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart, pure. 30@ 33
Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15
Petass Nitras, opt eae 8@ 10
Fotass Nitras.......... I 9
Praesete 30@ 33
Hulpeae pPO........... 15@ 18
RADIX.
AcComitum |............ 0@ 2
Althae....... 25@
Anchusa... 15@ W®
Arum, po.. @
Calgmiug.......... --. 2a
Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12
Glychrrhiza, (py. 15).. 16@ 18
Hydrastis Canaden,
oo : noon aes @ 3
Hellebore, Ala, po.... 15@ 2
a 15@ 20
Ipecac, po .2 50@2 60
Iris met (po. '35@38) .. R@ 35
anleee, Pr... 35H 40
Maranta, Vie.......... @ 3
Podophyllum, po...... 15@ 18
ee T5@1 00
a @1 75
: py Piece tees teeess 75@1 35
Si... .........- 48@ 53
Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 2
Pore ere............ 40@ 45
Semeee 50@ 55
Similax, Officinalis, H @ 4
@ 2
Selllae, (po. %)........ 0@ 2
—— Feeti-
ee... 4... @ 3
Valeriana, Eng. (po. ™” @ %
German... 15@ 20
Peeper a............. 10@ 15
Zinger j..:.....-.- 2R@ 25
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20). @ 1
Apium (graveleons).. RQ 25
ree 1... ss Ss 6
Carul, (po. 7 Pune ceeae 12
Cardamon.. 7 on 25
Corlandrum........... 10@ 12
Cannabis Daerva....... 4%4@ 5
Crdaeras.... ......-- = 00
C enopodium ........ 12
Dipterix Odorate...... 2 ooge =
Poeniculum........... @
Foenugreek, po.. _ '
tim... 4@4%
Lini, grd, (bbl. 3%)...4 @4%
Lol i 40
— Canarian.... 34@ 4%
ee 6@ 7
Sinapis, Ai... 8@ 9
Bagee....-... 11@ 12
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. =. :... 1 75@2 00
Go 1 10@1 50
Saacharum N. eu
Sot. Vint Galll........
=
Vint Oporte ..........- 1 25@2 00
Vint Ae... 1 25@2 00
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool
Carriage.........-..- 2 2@2 50
Nassau sheeps’ wool
cecoaee ..:........- 2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool carriage....... 1 10
Extra yellow sheeps’
OecsGeo............. 85
Grass sheeps’ wool car-
MG gnc en ee os 65
Hard for slate use. 75
Yellow Reef, for slate
we... 1 40
SYRUPS.
ee 50
OO 50
ee
ee 50
Avrant Cortes.............. 50
eee Avo. ......... .;....- 50
Similax Officinalis.......... 60
. . .. 50
ee 50
oe cca 50
Oe 50
NNN os ew deeds eels oes 50
Peme OE eck eke cee 50
TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis R.......
° o f....... 80 |
Ale 60 |
"end ye... 60 |
Been 50 |
Beare... 0}
Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
Benzoin eee 60
—.... 50 |
Sanguinarg.............. 50 |
ee 50 |
Cantharides 7
Capercum ................... 50 |
Ce Gamion... _.............. % |
. ................
Cee 100
Caneel ll,
CanCeOne ..................; 50
. OO........ ae
Caimi... 50 |
eee tl,
Mtoe... 5... 50
paGteeeee es. ue. 8
ieee... te... 50 |
Gentian . ' 50
- CTT 60
cerca... 50
[ Ce 60 |
Zingiber 4... oo
HyOnewarige .... 2... 1... 50
Iodine. . eee, Cee
- Golavicsa 0000 U0 ve
Perr Chioridum............ 35
mee... 8. 50
Lobelia 50
Myrrh 50
Wee Voruce................ 50
Opii 85
+ Compnerited........... 50
- weewer 2 00
AuramiCortox...... ....... &@
——..........,........... 50
ae 50
Roe... 50
Cassia Acutifol. . . =
Cee 50
Peepemtere ................. 50
mereemoween 60
Tolutan . oe 60
Valerian ..... .. =
Veratrum Veride............ 50
MISCELLANEOUS,
Aither, Spts Nit,3 F.. 6@ Ww
‘ “ sé 4 F : 30@ 32
ae . 24@ 3
‘ ground, (po.
ae . a «
a... 55@ 60
Antimont, .......... 4@ 5
et PotassT. 55@ 60
Ampere ............. @1 40
EE @ &
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 66
Mreemicum ............ 7
Balm Gilead Bud..... 40
Dinan & W......... 2 10@2 2
peor — is, (Ks
it: i ....,.... oe
canihariaes Russian,
oe... @1 40
Capsicl Fructus, ar... @ 23
os @ 3
“ “ @
Caryophyllus, ag “7 12@ i
Carmine, No @3 7
anos
Cera Alba, s. é Bo 50@ 55
Core Fiava............ 38@ =
ROO occ ce @
Cassia Fructus........ @ 0
Comtrare............ @ 10
COmncomne os. @ &
CHiorororm ........... 60@
63
. uibbs .. @1 10
Chloral Hyd ‘Gest eee 1 50@1 70
Chondrus . 20@ 2
Cinchonidine, PL & Ww 15@ 20
German 3%@ 12
— list, dis. per
iene cessor cas 60
cuenens cae @
Creta, (ord. Ty. ....... ee 2
. wee............. 5@ 5
" procu.......... 9@ 11
_ ——s............ @ 8
os... ........ 28@ 30
Cogreege 3.1.1... @ xz
Cupri Salph........... a 7
enum .............. 10@ 12
Miner Sipe. .......... 68@ 77
Emery, all numbers.. @
po a. @ o
Ergota, ( om) ee 50@ 55
Fiaee Whiee.......... 12@ 15
——............... @ B
Geman. .............. 7 @8
Gelatin, Cooner....... @ 7
’ Brevee.......; 4@
Glassware flint, 70 and 10.
by box 60and 10
Glue, —s.......... 9@ 15
Wene........... 13@ 2%
Gaycermme ..... 2... we &
Grana — Vee eleae @ wR
Pooenran.............. 25 55
Hydraag’ Chlor ge @ #9
Co @ 80
ney Ox Seaeeus @1 (0
” Ammoniati.. @1 10
' Unguentum. 48£@ 55
Hydrareyrum......... @ 70}
Tehthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 |
nee... 75Q@1 00
ieies, heeam........ 3 TE@3 85
Iodoform. . ee eces @4 70
Eee .....-......... 50@ 55
Lycopodium .......... 42@ 45
———-........,..... 80@ 85
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
meee t00.,.......... @ %
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
a. Sulph (bbl
44) 3
eee GF... 50@ 60
erin 8. P. & W...2 20@2 45] Seldlitz Mixture...... @ 25| Lindseed, boiled .... 59 62
N. ¥.Q& Sinapis................. @ 18} Neat’s Foot, winter
Ce... 3... 2 10@2 35 : ‘....... 8. @ 30 | Strameed ........... 69
| Mosehus Canton...... @ 40 —_. Maccaboy, De | SpiritsTurpentine.... 43% 50
| Meyristica, No. 1....... me Vom... ws... @ & bbl. Ib
| Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10 Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 35] i PAINTS, - Ib,
[Oe Sena |... 3@ Soda Boras, (po. 13). . 12@ 13} Red Venetian.. --.- 1% 2@3
| Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Sodd et Potass Tart... 30@ 33/| Ochre, yellow Mars... 1% 2@4
ee G2 060i SedaCarh. ..... 6... tea 2 | Ber ......1% 2@3
| | Pela Liq, N. C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ 5) Putty, commercial....2% 24%@3
Se @i0 Seda, Ash. 3%@ ‘strictly pure.....2% 2%@3
Picis Liq., quarts ..... @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2! Vermilion Prime Amer-
co es @ &/ Spts. EtherCo........ 50@ 55/_ ican. . ie
Pil einen (po. 80) . @ 50| “ Myreia Dom..... @2 25 | Vermilion, English. TQS
Piper Nigra, (po.22).. @ 1 ‘« Myrcia Imp... .. @3 00} Green, Peninsular..... 70@7
Piper Alba, (po £5) . @ 3 “ “Vini Rect. bbl. | Hene ee @i%
Pix Burgun.. = 7 ee @230' « Wiite 74
Plambt Acet .......... 15} Less 5e gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span. Qi
Pulvis Ipecac et opli..1 100! 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... @1 10} Whiting, Gilders’...... @%
| Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, Subl. ....8 @4_ | White, Paris American 1 00
'& PD. Co., dos... ... @1 25 Bon 24%@ 3%| Whiting, Paris Eng.
Pyrethrum, py........ 30@ 35| Tamarinds . Te 1 40
Quassi i a 8@ 10|Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30} Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20@1 4
Quinia, S P&W.. 33@ 36|Theobromae .......... Swiss Villa Prepared
S. German....23 @ 30| Vanilla... ... 9 Paints ............... 1 00@1 20
Rubia Tinctorum..... Ht Zine! Seiph........... 3 | VARNISHES.
——one. oe | No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Seber 1 80@1 95 OILS. | Extra Torp............160@1 70
Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bol Gal| Coach Body........... 2 75@3 00
aoe ............ @4 50} Whale, winter........ 70 70; No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10
| Sapo, ww... i i Lore, Gxira........... 55 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
, 1 =e Lee, We I........... 45 50; Japan Dryer, No. 1
1 Co... @ 15) Linseed, pureraw.... 56 oF, Teen... 70@ 7
| |
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HAZELTINE
& PERKINS
DRUG CO.
Importers and Jobbers of
RUGS
CHEMICALS AND
PATENT MEDICINES.
DEALERS IN
Paints, Oils “> Varnishes.
Sole Agents for the Celebrated
SWIS8 VILLA PREPARED PRINTS,
Fall Line of Staple Brnggists Sundries.
We are Sole Proprietors of
Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy.
We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Kime of
WHISKIES, BRANDIES,
GINS, WINES, RUMS.
We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Send in a
| trial order.
Hazelting & Perkins Drvg Go,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
GROCERIES.
Excess Moisture in Cheese. |
From the American Cheesemaker. |
In England the principal complaint |
found with American cheese is that it |
contains too much moisture, and this |
protest has come to us across the Atlantic,
time and again, until now we ought to}
be thoroughly familiar with the foreign
situation in regard to our dairy goods;
but, to a great extent, factorymen still
continue to be stiff-necked in regard to
what is getting to be a vital matter.
Years ago when cheese brought excel-
lent prices, the ratio, or how much milk
it took for a pound of cheese, was but
little thought of. Makers kept their
whole attention on the subject of pro-
ducing as good cheese as their knowledge
made possible, and the ratio was un-
noticed. With the declinein prices came
a universal demand from the patronizing
dairymen to produce as much cheese as
possible from the milk. Manufacturers
who knew better unwisely acceded to
this clamor for a lower ratio, and com-
petition among makers, backed by the
feeling of false economy with dairymen,
has still farther reduced the cheese ratio,
rather than raised it. If England had
no other cheese-producing section but
the United States to depend upon, she
might be forced to accept what she con-
stantly finds fault with, but, as it is,
her own Canadian dependency comes for-
ward with just what suits the British
appetite. These facts in their full sig-
nificance are all familiar to readers of
THE CHEESEMAKER, but yet there has
been a lack of concerted action to reme-
dy what all admit to bean evil. The cry
is, ‘Less moisture,’’ and now the query
arises, What degree of moisture is neces-
sary to make a fine, solid quality of
cheese? In the first place, we want the
moisture of the cream, or as much as
ean be worked in, retained. The excess
moisture that we want to expel is simply
the whey, or the water part of milk.
This must be expelled primarily with
rennet action, but assisted by heat.
When the heat is not long enough re-
tained on the raw curd, an overplus of
moisture is perpetuated to the cured
cheese. This detracts from the quality,
but adds to the weight of the product.
This course is a great deal like sanding
sugar or purposely wetting a bale of
hops. Weight is added, but quality de-
based. A soft cheese, full of moisture,
is not the natural way to have cheese
anyway, any more than that butter should
be full of buttermilk. An appetite that
craves a leaden, soggy cheese is per-
verted, to say the least. The moisture
left in a good cheese will be sufficient,
with the aid of a full quota of butter fat,
to make the article mellow and melting
in the mouth, but always of firm texture.
We advise all makers to be strictly
economical in the manufacture of milk,
but by all means let your thoughts be
fixed on producing quality, and not a low
ratio. Quality should be gained at all
hazards, and let the ratio take care of
itself. Until this rule is inflexibly fol-
lowed, American cheese will lack an
essential element of uniform good quali-
ty. A sufficient quantity of rennet should
be used to effect a speedy and thorough
separation of the solids from the fluids |
of milk and to obtain uniform and relia-
ble results, rennet extract should be
always used. Scores of factorymen do
not use the preparation, because they
say it is so expensive that they cannot
afford it. This course, in many cases,
| proves to be a ‘‘penny wise and pound
| foolish’? policy. Cut the raw curd mod-
erately fine, and do not sear over the
cubes by & too quick scald. Let the heat
be applied slowly, and equally distribute
it over the whole vat by a gentle stirring
of the curd and whey. In scalding, it is
not desirable that the heat rise above 98
degrees, unless the state of the season
or over-ripe milk makes it necessary. A
high scald destroys the efficacy of the
rennet and makes the cured cheese pasty.
The whey should never be drawn from
the curd until the latter has reached a
stage of contractibility and expansion
that will cause a handful of it to fall
freely apart, when squeezed dry in the
palm. This rule should be imperative,
if you want to expel excess moisture, and
strive for body and quality. After the
removal of the whey, allow the curd to
mature in a warm, dry, packed state.
With good milk to start from you now
have all of the essentials, as to cooking
curd, to make a solid mellow cheese,
containing just the right percentage of
moisture.
———<—-_-- a
The Trust Complacent.
The profits of the Sugar Trust, re-
cently made public, indicate a degree of
prosperity seldom attained by an organiz-
ation which has been so harassed by legis-
lative investigation and public criticism.
Earnings of over half a million dollars a
month are not to be sneezed at, and it is
no wonder that the stockholders cling so
tenaciously tg their business and are so
bold in fighting the powers that be.
These earnings do not gibe with the
frequent slumps of sugar stock on the
New York market, indicating pretty
clearly that there is a ‘nigger in the
wood pile,’? and that such bear tactics
are quite likely made with the object of
getting stock low enough to persuade
weak-kneed holders to let go of it while
the schemers of the concern buy it up.
If the result of the New York State
Senate investigation into this monopoly
be an adoption of such an anti-trust law
as has been submitted in their official re-
port of the Senate trust investigation,
some good may yet result from the vast
expenditure of time and money which
that redoubtable organization has cost
the Empire State.
—_ OOS
Not a P. of I. Dealer.
JACKSON, May 8.—Regarding the state-
ment of THE TRADESMAN of May 6, to
the effect that Prichard & Son have put
in a P. of I. store at Clarendon, it is but
justice to Messrs. Prichard & Son, as
well as to ourselves, to state in your
next issue fhat Mr. Prichard never has
and never expects to run a P. of I. store.
He simply added groceries to his present
stock of hardware and agricultural im-
plements, and bought the goods of us.
JACKSON GROCERY Co.
> > <<
An Advance in Prospect.
At the meeting of the window glass
manufacturers, to be held on the 18th, it
is likely there will be a higher range of
prices decided upon, as stocks have been
getting very low, and at the present rate
of production and demand are in danger
of extermination by fall.
For the finest coffees in the world, high
grade teas, spices, ete., see J. P. Visner,
304 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids,
Mich., general representative for E. J.
Gillies & Co., New York City.
~ Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich,
$500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS
Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts
of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about
to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply
to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings
supplied without charge. All communications and
enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank
4 cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually.
ee. 1891. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer.
PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—So meagre are the offerings, that there
is really no market.
Asparagus—Higher on account of frosts par
tially cutting off supply. Selling freely at 50c
per doz. bu.
Beans—The market is quiet. Handlers are
offering $1.80 per bu. for country picked and
holding city picked at $2.2! 30.
Butter—The supply is not over large. Hand-
dlers pay 15@16c and hold at 17@18.
Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $3.25
per crate,
Carrots—W@25e per bu.
Cucumbers—#i per doz.
Eggs— The market is firm and alittle higher,
owing to active competition among the picklers
and cold storage men, who are paying 12%@13c
for all the stock they can get hold of.
Honey—Dull at 16918 for clean comb.
Lettuce—iic for Grand Rapids Forcing
Onions—Old are practically out of market.
Green command i6c. per doz. Bermudas bring
$2.75 per crate.
Parsnips—4vc per bushel.
Potatoes—The market is looking a little bet-
ter, owing to the fact that the consumptive
markets are clamoring for stock again. Local
handlers offer 90c for choice stock in carlots and
85¢ in smaller quantities.
Pieplant—3c per Ib.
Peas—Green, due this week.
Radishes—30e — dozen bunches.
Strawberries—33.50 per case of 24 quarts.
Squash—1ic per Ib.
Sweet Potatoes—Nearly out of market.
Turnips—30@35c per bu
PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS,
ae... 12 00
eee 12 %
ree Ccer nie, eeert out................... 14 00
mere creer, Hee...
eee ee ee 14 00
mos CHO Serb enE 24%
oe cr re 14 00
Standard clear, short cut, best........ --+- 1425
SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
Per Oe i
copii Te 9
Tongue Sausage............. 9
Frankfort Sausage ......... 8
Biood Sausaee....... ...... 5
Bontrne, iraieest.... 5
oeeran, (NGR............,. 2
CN 5
LARD—Kettle Rendered.
Fo ocraa aa OE eS On SCE
a...
re See...
LARD,
Family. und,
Pe so arr)
Came wet Tame... 6% 6%
Sib. Palts, 20 in & caso.......... T™% 7%
Sib. Patis, 12 ina cane........... 73 7%
10 Ib. Pails, 6 in a case........... 74 7
20 Ib. Pails, 4in a case..........7 6%
re Cee 6% 645
BEEP IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 9 2
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 9 25
Beno, ee Oe
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Mee, oversee eee... 10
“ “s ee 10%
’ . ea... 10%
ig om eT Tq
_ cnitelureasaecact tt TO cn ci 8%
Ce 6%
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 8%
Dee coer, meee 10%
er 6
Briskets, medium. ........... : .
- Eh ae 6%
FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:
Pee OO T%HG 8%
| OR -- 9 @10
Co eo oT
~ moet... ....... ' @13
_ woe @12
_ ae... @9
Y oe ee —-. Oe
i - @5%
“lovoviue i at’ssae yt ee @10%
Ce @7z
Sausage, blood or head....... @ 5%
sa eka te @ 5%
. Preekfort:....... @ 7%
ee . @10
a 4@5
FISH and OYSTERS.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH,
bs ommaneneett oe Te @10
ee... ee ride cet cme Senne ci ence oeay @ 9
eee @18
OO ce @5
bother eee @9
a eee weeue ces @i2
pet aig EE EE ee niet
, @i2
Crewe
OYSTERS—Cans,
Pernaved Comet... @w
ee, elec ue @5
SHELL GOODS.
am oe ee... a. 150
) i Wav Gieed a aemmesel lying) 100
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.
Full Weight.
Bblis. Pails.
a mee We 6% 7%
ee 6% ™%
ba i cee ee 7%
eee Cee 9%
ae eee 7% 8%
ee 7% 8%
MIXED CANDY,
Full Weight.
Pails.
7%
6 7%
_- 8
‘ 8
7% 8%
7% 846
eee MOee............ 5.2.05... 7% 5%
ee : 8
Broken Taffy... 7% 8%
Peewee ngueree.. 9
eae... 10
Preoee tomee ee. 104%
Valley Creams..... 13%
FANCY—In bulk,
Full Weight. Bbls. Pails,
ROMEO, OONe aa 10% 11%
. We li 12%
CRNOCORRSO EPO el, 12%
Chocolate Monumentals............. 14 \
. 5 6%
(, 8 2
ee 8% 9%
EE 11%
Fancy—In 5 Ib. boxes. Per Box
Seon See 55
Sour ae Me ee bea ceeeee rie ores es eu ae eG 55
he ge 65
ee 70
. Coe Pree... 90
on ree. 40@50
ore 1 00
a Eee eee 80
Eee ee 65
. ee 70
eee 65
ee 7D
ee ee 60
aa oe... be ie ce 55
eee es. te 15@17
Riame Mie Cones. .... ...............,.. 85@95
Ce 80@90
BPOOONONE COMMON, re eects k, ou a once 1 00
ee 70
Popes Rees... 1 00
Wyeeorereess Terese... ......... ...... 5. 65
ORANGES.
Coreen, Pe 3 00
' ee 3 50
ing 176-2 0-226 3 50
Messinas, . 300-240.....
- . ee 4 00
LEMONS.
Moemina, Gaaiee, Soe... 5 2 @5 50
. Te 5@6 00
' ee 5 50
. Paeee oee..........-. 5... 6 00
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... 18@20
. a, —e Uh CL @16
“ce “ “ce “c - | |. @12%
~ | 2eee oe Oe @10
. - ae @8
. Foe oe. tee 4@6
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona......... ose @17
- I oe heen i ceens cokb espe as. @16%
Ce Ql7
eee ee @i%
eee 1
ae Cee... @15
. @i2
_ ee . @
eee Dees et. ...................... @14
. PO ee, @13
Pecees, Temes te ee. 15@17
Cooesmuw, fur eneke............. ..... @4 00
PEANUTS.
weney, Fe @ 5%
. - een 2. 7 @%™%
Pray Pee... @5%
. _ Yi, 7 @wm%
Cueiee, 1. F., Maeeme.... to ... @ 4%
. ’ ee 6 @6%
OILS.
The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows:
wee ee @9
a I os cr peieades cc, @ 8%
hate oe a ee oe awe @ 8%
ee ee @i%
ste om pee @ 9%
OE tee 27 @36
eee 13 @21
cmtiitef Kdigme?£dttr#n ee
THOS. E. WYKES,
WHOLESALE
Marblehead and Ohio White Lime,
Buffalo, Louisville and Portland
Cements, Fire Brick & Clay.
Agent for the ““Dyckerhoff”’ imported Portland
cement, the best cement in the market for side-
walks, Also buy and sell Grain. Hay, Feed, Oil
Meal, Wood, Etc., Clover and Timothy Seed.
aseeeeeenaRNRNRNND
WAREHOUSE AND MAIN OFFICE:
Cor. Wealthy Ave. and Ionia on M. C. R. R.
BRANCH OFFICE:
Builders’ Exchange,
How to Keep a Store.
By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages
written from the experience and observation of
an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi
ness, Location, Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver-
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, ete. Of
great interest to every one in trade. $1.50,
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids.
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Wood bo zens. vos
pod berxes, per "doz — =<
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15 = pails per gr case... 2 a0 | Black Hamt es 3
as 68..... 9 ao eee fe e
Wood b ae ve —— , : -_
‘ oxes, aera oe % | Hamar Straw ay 1 aft: wd :
- “ om i sie i doz. 1 25 | PLAYO
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church, and lo! there the secret of so
many years was disclosed. In the darkest
corner of the garret was found the head
of an ox. The workmen did not under-
stand why it should have been there. A
few old men laughingly said: ‘That is
| the head of the Whig ox.’? But it was
| no longer useful, and was thrown away
| withthe rubbish! It had outlived its day!
The Whig party was dead and buried.
The grave had covered up all the old
strife, and the few whv remained could
not be awakened to sufficient interest in
the cause to feel aggrieved at the man
who had hidden away one of their great
arguments with voters, or to make a
shrine for the head of the great Whig ox.
It was wrong to have kept the secret
from the Weigh Master, who told so
much to others, and helped them settle
| their disputes.
The Master was a scholarly man—
|made so by long and_ wide observation.
| Many people whose ideas were not bright
| Sought out the little office and talked
| with the Master, whose words were as
| full of wit as an August storm is of
jelectricity. He was at times a little
| caustic in speech as he inhaled the smoke
of their Havanas, and proposed to pay
| them if they would continue to drink the
| Same quality of Bourbon, and keep the
| little office filled with the delicate and
| refreshing perfume of their breath.
One cold, wintry morning, many years
|ago, a teamster stopped with a load of
|coalin front of his little office. There
| was no smoke curling out of the pipe
| that reached up through the roof. The
| Sliding window was closed. A knock at
| the door brought no response. A look
| through the window revealed everything |
in perfect order. ‘Aha!’ said the
teamster, ‘“‘I have caught the Weigh-
Master napping this morning. He did
not expect me soearly.”? Yes, he was
“napping.” But the sleep was one from
| which he would awake only at the trump
|of God. Laterin the day a black cloth
fluttered in the wind from the corner of
| the little office, and as I passed by 1 saw
a strange face looking out of the little
window to see that the wagon was clear.
The teamster was wiping a tear from |
his rough face. The gallant old Weigh-
Master had closed his books and gone to |
appear before One by whom “‘actions are
weighed.” ". t. Metov. |
—_—_——~<>-o-
Shaftsburg—N. Bacon & Son are suc-
| ceeded by Geo. Bacon & Co. in general
| trade.
PARROTS GIVEN AWAY!
Our agent is now securing them and it is important that we
know at once the number required.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, ?
COUNTY OF WAYNE.
James B. Wilkinson, of 21 Grand River avenue, De-
troit, Michigan, being duly sworn, deposes and says
that he has in his possession and owns a parrot of the
Cuban or Pine Island variety; that he has owned said
parrot 5 years; that when said parrot was 3 years of
age this deponent was offered one hundred dollars
($100) for said parrot; that he refused said offer and
would not take five hundred dollars for said parrot at
the present time, and further deponent saith not.
JAME3 B. WILKINSON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of
June, 1890 EUGENE S. CLARKSON,
Notary Public in and for Wayne Co., Mich.
ss.
L Ast year we secured 1,000 Live Parrots
for our customers, but the demand far ex-
ceeded our expectations and we were unable to
furnish birds to all who desired them. This
year we shall endeavor to secure a larger supply,
so that every one of our customers who so de-
sires may have
A Real Live Parrot FREE.
The best variety of talking parrots are secured
on the Isle of Pines, about 50 miles south of
Cuba, They are beautiful birds, with green
plumage and red breast, easily cared for and
intelligent. If captured when young and well
cared for, a Pine Island Parrot NEVER FAILS TO
BECOME A GOOD TALKER. Our birds are all se-
cured by Our Own Agent, He is a competent
man of fifty years’ experience, and will secure
only healthy, selected young birds. He has
now sailed for the island, and in order to
araange for the number required, we wish every
dealer to
Let us know soon if he wants a Bird.
These parrots are given to our customers who
handle our “PRETT& POLLY” cigars, and
there is no better 5 cent cigar in the market. The
trade is strictly net.{835 per 1,000(with or without
a parrot). They give satisfaction to smokers,
and the parrots increase your sales.
With an order for 600 “Pretty Polly” cigars,
we will give ONE parrot free.
With an order for 700 “Pretty Polly” cigars,
we give ONE parrot in A HANDSOME WIRE CAGE
OUR GUARANTEE
To any responsible dealer who don’t know the
goods, we will express PREPAID 200 of the ‘Pretty
Polly” cigars for EXAMINATION, to be returned if
not satisfactory. If the cigars suit, the balance,
400 or 500, can be shipped with the parrot or
sooner if desired.
With sample order we will refer you to respon-
sible dealers throughout the United States who
had our parrots las. season.
DETROIT TOBACCO CO.,
Griswold St.
Detroit, Mich.
SUMMER SHOES,
a Go oF
Women’s Button Newports in Dongola, Grai
ee
“sé
n and Glove Grain.
Lace or Tie Dongola Newport in plain or patent tip.
Russet Lace Newport in plain or patent tip.
Misses’ and Child’s Newport Ties in Black or Russet.
A Nice Line of Ladies’ Fancy and House Slippers.
Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’ Canvas Bals.
Bay State Tennis Shoes, the best line for the money in the market.
keep them in stock in Men’s and
We
Boys’ Bals and in Men’s, Boys’, Youths’
Women’s, Misses’ and Child’s Oxfords.
We would be pleased to show them to you or quote you prices.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO,,
GRAND
RAPIDS.
FIRE PROOF
STEAM PROOF
BURGLAR PROOF
WATER PROOF
Vault and Bank Work a Specialty.
157 and 160 Ottawa 8t.
GEO. M. SMITH SAFE 60.,
DEALERS IN
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF
- SAFES -
Locks
Cleaned and Adjusted. Expert Work
Done. Second hand safes
in stock,
Movers and Raisers of wood and brick build-
ings, safes, boilers and smoke stacks.
OFFICE AND SALESROOM :
Tel. 1178,
GRAND RAPIDS.
i
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
15
EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE.
Their Mutual Obligations Admirably
Set Forth.
Ata recent meeting of the St. Louis
Office Men’s Club, the following paper
relative to the obligations of employers
was read by W. H. Woodward:
At your request 1 will briefly express
my views on the subject allotted to me,
viz: the duties and obligations of employ-
ers in their relations to employes. This
question is so closely allied to the great
social topic of the day,now occupying the
attention of the entire civilized world,
that it is somewhat difficult to keep with-
in the bounds prescribed. But what I
shall say in regard to the duties we owe
our book-keepers, clerks and salesmen
will, in a great measure, apply to the
workshop and factory. The same obli-
gation of sympathy inspired by a com-
mon brotherhood rests alike upon the
manufacturer, the merchant or the office
man, in his conduct towards his em-
ployes. But in the mercantile house the
mutual relations are naturally more in-
timate and confidential then in the fac-
tory. Hence, the greater necessity on
the part of the merchant to take a warm,
personal interest in the moral, financial,
physical, social and even intellectual
welfare of his book-keepers, clerks, and
salesmen. On these several points 1
will briefly mention the justice of ex-
tending a sympathetic interest to the
clerk, and the advantage to the proprie-
tor in so doing. No kind word, no
thoughtful action has ever been thrown
away in this world. Sometimes we. may
have been tempted to think otherwise,
but in such cases the ingratitude has
been only on the surface. -
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