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MAY 20, 1891.
A BROTHER’S KEEPER.
As the Village Doctor Tells the Story.
Yes, you are right. There is a certain
see sous and for that reason I have
put them together—the skull on the
shelf and the cane against the wall
above. The skull once formed a part of
a worthless vagabond named Tom Luys-
ter,who was generally known hereabouts
fifteen years ago by the title of ‘‘Slug.’’
Ialways had an idea that it was the
short for sluggard—but I really do not
know. The cane was owned and used
»9y avery different sort of a man. _In-
deed, sometimes people who have known
them both have cried shame upon me
for putting the relics together. He it
was who founded the orphan asylum,and
endowed the library and the art school.
The drinking fountains bear his name
(contrary to his expressed wish, by the
way), and the boulevard from here to the
ocean was built, for the most part, with
his money. But, as the reverend doctor
observed in the funeral sermon, not all
his final benevolence, great as it was,
could accomplish more of good than his
noble, unselfish life, shining as an exam-
ple to all who knew him.
I have yet to hear any man—high or
low, good or bad—speak illof Humphrey
Luyster.
And the relationship? He and Tom
Luyster, or Slug, were brothers. Hum-
phrey was, I think, eight or ten years
the elder.
The two men were so utterly unlike,
that if it had ever entered Humphrey’s
head to deny the relationship, Slug
would undoubtedly have been driven out
of town as an imposter. There was some
slight physical resemblance, although
Humphrey was a large man, and Slug of
medium size; and the younger brother
had the same slow manner of speaking
that characterized the elder. In every
other way they were as widely different
as you could imagine.
Humphrey Luyster was a prosperous
man. He had began life as a lawyer,but
coming into possession of a quantity of
timber-land, through the fortunate ter-
mination of a famous suit, he organized
the great lumber company, whose mills
now give work toathousand men. His
wealth grew, not from mere luck, but
from his own tireless energy and super-
ior business skill. It is my belief, more-
over, that his integrity and sense of fair-
ness, bothof which went forever unchal-
lenged by his associates, materially
helped his progress in the world. In
private life he was known not so much
for his mere freedom from faults, as for
his possession of certain positive virtues.
Chief among these was a quiet, unobtru-
sive benevolence. Investigation into his
affairs after death revealed the fact that
he had, for many years, spent about one-
fifth of his annnal income for charity.
He had no family—his wife having died
childless; but that he might entertain his
friends, he kept house in a large resi-
dence on the hill. As his physician and
intimate friend, I was a constant visitor
at the house; I noted how the people who
knew him best—even to his servants—
regarded him; and never have I known a
man so universally beloved.
But his brother Tom!
All those things which Humphrey
Luyster was, Slug was not. For every
virtue of the one, think—if it exists—of
a corresponding vice for the other, and
you have him. A drunken, lazy vaga-
bond, vicious, untrustworthy, ill-natur-
ed. Every one despised him on sight,
and hated and feared him on more inti-
mate acquaintance. His badness did not
seem to be natural and inevitable—as
one often feels it is with habitual crimi-
nals—but was rather something that, out
of the baseness of his soul, he had as-
sumed for the hideous satisfaction that
it gave him. He is dead now—the fiend!
NO. 400
This is his skull, as I told you—and if I
had no other reason to believe in a place
of eternal punishment, save the thought
of what that fellow deserved, I should
still without hesitation accept it, as a
necessary part of the scheme of eternal
justice.
Humphrey had been living in this eom-
munity about fifteen years, and the foun-
dation of his prosperity was well estab-
lished before ever Slug appeared on the
scene. He had made no effort to conceal
the existence of the wayward brother,
and, on one occasion, shortly before Slug
arrived, he brought the matter up in con-
versation with me, and delivered himself
with his usual candor.
‘‘Doctor,” said he, ‘‘tyou have heard me
speak of my brother Tom?’’
“The one you say is unsuccessful?” I
asked.
“T have only the one brother,’ said
Humphrey; ‘‘if I have referred to him as
having made a failure in life, I am sorry
to say it is merely a euphemistie way of
putting it. Years ago he contracted
drinking habits and ceased to do any
work. I have supported him in idleness
all this time, on the understanding that
he should keep away and not interfere
with me. I have tried to do what was
right.”
He turned to his desk and produced a
small record-book.
‘“‘These are my private accounts,” said
he, and he opened a page, where I read
at the top, ‘‘Thomas Luyster, Cr.” and
beneath, ‘‘By cash (draft), January 1,
$50; January 15, $50; February 1, $50,
ete.,” all down the column.
‘“*You send him one hundred dollars a
month, then,’’ I remarked.
“Yes,” said he, closing the book; ‘‘I
might send him more, but he spends the
greater part of that in drink and gam-
bling.”
‘Then, if you will pardon the sugges-
tlon,’? I said, ‘‘I believe you would do
better not to send him a cent.”
Humphrey Luyster smiled.
tried that,” he answered; ‘“‘but the re-
sults were less satisfactory. I could not
endure the thought that my brother
might be starving or in prison.”
He rubbed his hand across his broad,
white forehead, and his face wore an ex-
pression of deep concern.
‘But what of him now?” I asked.
‘Some time ago,’’ said he, ‘‘Tom de-
manded that I should pay hima thousand
dollars, allin one lump. I refused and
shortly afterwards he left his old haunts
and began to edge in this direction. He
now repeats the demand ata good deai
closer range. Of course I continue to re-
fuse, for to grant it would mean nothing
but the same story again in a few weeks
afterwards.”’
‘“*You expect him here?’’ I asked.
Humphrey Luyster bowed his head.
The gesture was not merely an affirma-
tion; it also told his shame.
I made awkward attempt at consola-
tion, assuring him that his reputation
was one which no possible act of his
brother could affect.
*“T am not concerned about myself,” he
said, looking up again; ‘‘that is, not di-
rectly. I want to do what is right by
Tom, and [ know beforehand there will
be some hard questions.”
Shortly after this conversation, Slug
put in his appearance, and the ‘‘hard
questions” began for Humphrey Luyster.
He came into town on foot,like the tramp
that he was, ragged, dirty and half-
drunk, and went straight in search of his
brother.
I was not present when the pair first
met, but I have been told that it was a
sorrowful sight. The vagabond pushed
his way into his brother’s office, and
there in the hearing of a dozen clerks,
rated his brother brutally, on what he
was pleased to call his selfish neglect of
his nearest kin.
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Humphrey said: ‘‘Come, Tom. Let us
go to the house and talk of these things | whatever.
there.”
His persecutor answered with many |
oaths: ‘‘No! we will talk here.
ashamed of me. I understand
enough: but I am not going to be shaken
off until I get that money.”’
‘‘What money?” asked Humphrey.
‘“‘One thousand dollars.”
“No, Tom.”
“I don’t get it, eh?”
“No, Tom.”
“Then its going
D’ye see?”’
They say that Humphrey’s
when he came out of the office,
like that of aman who had
than found a brother.
The vagabond lived among us about a
to be hell
face,
looked
You are | committing
for you. |
lost rather |
year, and, although I never knew him in |
any other instance deliberately to tell}
the truth, his statement that Humphrey |
Luyster was destined to experience some |
of the tortures of the damned turned out
to be quite correct. I suppose no one
knew better than I what the good man
| to be particular about trifles.
suffered, and I was conscious of knowing |
only a small part.
At first, he took Slug |
to his house, provided him with suitable |
| believe it.”
elothing and a comfortable room, and
tried to treat him as a man would expect
to treat his own brother. He endeavored
*‘But,’’ L said, ‘‘there is no alternative
If he commits a crime, he
|must suffer the punishment.”
“Ves:
the crime? That is
jean’t sleep for the torment of it. My
|brother is naturally bad, but he is
determined to make me yield.’’
| **The infernal scoundrel!” I burst out;
“to trade in this devilish fashion upon
his own good name and your feelings as
|a brother!’’
‘“‘Weill,’”? said Humphrey, with a sad
| smile, ‘‘l am not in the mood to speak in
| his defence. The question is, what am
I to do?”
‘Have you assured him,’’ I asked,
| **that you do not intend to shield him
|from the consequences of crime?’’
‘That would not be true, you know,”’’
Humphrey answered.
‘“‘Why, confound it, man!’ I exclaimed;
‘this is not a case where you can afford
You would
be justified in saying or in doing almost
| anything to get rid of him.”
**Well,” he said, **I propose to do only
what is just and fair; but evenif I told
him what you suggest he would not
I was at a loss for any further advice.
| The situation seemed to be entirely in
by a simple process of kindness, combin- |
ed with an unswerving good
win him over to a decent mode of life.
The effort failed, of course, for a man
who has once tasted the joys of vagraney
will never willingly abandon them. In
a short time, Slug was back in his rags
and resorting to all sorts of
get liquor.
This was the first stage of the
Later it became more serious.
humor, to!
devices to|
affair. |
|rid of him.
Now. Humphrey Luyster was a proud |
man at heart, for all that he was so mod-
estin his doing of good, and for that
reason, I say, he must have suffered an
infinite deal more than any of us ever
suspected. The servants at the house
told me that sometimes after a
with his brother, when the latter threat-
ened direful things, he
floor half the night, and if he
all. it was plainly not to sleep.
contrived to maintain in public always
the same unruffled composure, and |
doubt if he suffered any loss of dignity
through the awkward situation in which
he was placed.
Our people did what they could to as-
sist himin the fight. The storekeepers
refused to trust Slug, except on a written
order from his brother, and the saloon
men would give him very little liquor.
As to the fellow’s effort at blackmail—
for he dealt a little in that article, and
swore that he couid tell things about
Humphrey that would send
retired at
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round |
would waik the |
Slug’s hands, and he was evidently not
ignorant of that fact.
There was no change for several
months. The thefts continued, and on
several occasions a general public ex-
posure seemed inevitable. But Hum-
phrey’s money, used unstintedly, man-
aged to hush things up.
The Slug suddenly disappeared from
view, and we believed that the town was
I mentioned this opinion to
flumphrey, who merely shook his head
in silence.
He was gone a week or ten days, and
on his return sought an immediate
conference with Humphrey. When it
was over the elder brother sent for me.
*-] have yielded,” he said; ‘‘Tom is to
have his thousand dollars.”
Then he explained that Slug’s recent
| absence had been occasioned by a trip
Yet he}
to the city. He had brought back a kit
| of burglar’s tools, and proposed to begin
| business immediately.
j}had induced a couple
To that end he
of professional
| cracksmen to accompany him, and they
him to}
the penitentiary—nobody gave them any |
ievening, together with a railroad ticket
attention. Now, I think of it, there was
one man who, actuated by mere curiosi- |
ty, did draw Slug out on the subject of |
his brother’s earlier life—and he got in
return a mess of extravagant lying,
which not even a bitter enemy—if Hum-
phrey had possessed one—could have
been tempted to believe.
When the struggle had been in pro-|
gress a little over half a year, Slug added
a new feature to his rascality. He began
to steal.
At first he confined his efforts
pilfering of small articles, left
about, which he would carry off and
endeavor to trade fora drink. These
to the
|} awful torture.
|
lying |
thefts were reported to the authorities, |
who straightway explained the matter to |
Humphrey.
*-Capture and send back all that you
can,’’
eannot be recovered, I will pay.”
In a conversation which we held
shortly after these tactics began,
Humphrey said to me:
“I am coming to believe that I shall
lose in the contest with Tom. He may
at any moment commit some crime, from
the consequences of which I
powerless to protect him.”
“That is the best thing that could
happen,’’ 1 said; ‘-you have more than
done your duty; let the State take its
turn.”’
‘‘My brother a convict!” he exclaimed;
| picion and even contempt.
: : Ss o keep his word.’’
was his order: ‘‘and anything that | Penna Oe eae Se
idure it any longer!
were now hovering about the vicinity,
looking for a favorable chance to strike
This last piece of information tallied
with what I had heard elsewhere; that
several suspicious looking characters
had lately put in appearance in the
town.
Humphrey spoke in the excited fashion
of a man who has narrowly escaped
some great danger, but is now secure.
‘Tam to give him the money this
to the East,” he said; ‘the agrees to
leave at once, and to keep away as long
as 1 pay him his old allowance.’’
‘‘Bat,’? I objected, ‘‘as soon
money is gone, he will return.”
“Weil, what if he does?” cried Hum-
phrey: ‘I willat least gain a month or
two—perhaps a year—of relief from this
1 positively cannot en-
It will drive me
as the
mad.”
“But what assurance can he give you
——"’ I began.
“None, except his word. Still, you
must consider; there he has his allowance
regularly, and here’ almost nothing.
There he has friends and associates—
here is a stranger— regarded with sus-
He has every
I thought differently, but.as I saw he
was determined to make the experiment,
'I said nothing. He then asked me to be
| present in the evening, at the final con-
shall be |
ference, to witness the payment of the
money, and I promised to come.
I remember the night as thcugh it
were yesterday—yet it is nearly fifteen
yearsago. The rain fellin a fine half-
mist, which the wind carried along
almost ona level. The darkness was
pitchy.
| Idrove over in a buggy, and found
| Humphrey waiting in his library the ar-
‘no, I could not endure it—not even if/rival of Slug. On the desk before him
the alternative was beggary for me.”
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but can not I prevent his!
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Humphrey handed me a sheet of paper |
on which was written the agreement that |
Slug was to sign and I to witness. His}
immediate return to the East and perpet- |
ual absence from the State were solemn-
ly promised, in return for the payment |
of $1,000 in hand and a regular allow- |
ance of $100 a month thereafter.
Hardly had I finished reading the doc-
ument, when there was a knock at the
door by which the library, situated in a
wing of the house, communicated with
the outside, and Slug entered. His face
wore an ugly, suspicious grin, when he
looked at me, but, as he turned toward
his brother, it changed toa malignant
scowl.
‘Have you brought the money?” he
asked.
Then he noticed the bag of gold on the
table, and his dull eyes suddenly bright-
* ened.
‘‘Yes,’’? said Humphrey, ‘‘the money is
here. But, Tom, you are soaking wet
”
I came here to
Where’s the agree-
‘Never mind that.
talk business now.
ment?’
Humphrey passed it over to him while
I stood choking with indignation and dis-
gust. He glanced it over hastily, and
then reached for a pen.
‘‘Hold on,’’ I said, roused to the point
where I could no longer keep silent; ‘‘I
am supposed to be a witness to this
transaction, but before my name goes
down on that document, I want to feel
satisfied that you are acting in good
faith. Your reputation in that regard is
none too good, Tom Luyster. How is it
—do you mean to keep this promise?’’
He looked up at me with a contemp-
tous frankness, which | will admit was
quite convincing, and said: ‘‘Of course
Ido. Don’t 1 want my allowance again?”
Then he wrote his name, and I, with an
air of solemnity that it now makes me
smile to recall, put mine beneath.
Humphrey took back the document,
methodically blotted the signatures, and
folded it in proper form. Then he
pushed the bag of gold across the table.
Slug grabbed it—I might almost say
pounced upon it, for the motion was so
like that of an animal—and it promptly
disappeared in one of the great pockets
of his long, ragged coat. The next
instant he was making for the door.
“One moment,’? said Humphrey, and
the vagabond turned.
“You have forgotten something, Tom,”
he began, but the other interrupted:
“J don’t want any more of that brother-
ly kindness rot—so don’t try to give it to
me.’’
“It?s not that,’’? said Humphrey, with
asmile that was like the outward ex-
pression of a groan.
“JT shall not say good-by to you, never
fear—but I wanted to give you this,”
and he held out a small envelope.
‘‘What’s that?”’
‘“‘Your railway ticket—it is first-class
and includes a sleeper f
*“Give me it!”
He took it and tore it in two, and spat
on the fragments as he flung them to the
floor.
“You are a—couple—of—old—fools,”’
he said with slow emphasis;‘‘did you act-
ually think that I would keep that agree-
ment? ‘The money was all I wanted, and
now I have it”—here he leveled his long
finger almost into his brother’s pale face
—‘‘your hell begins again. D’ye see?”
A wild idea seized me of getting back
the bag of gold by main force, and I ran
toward the fellow, but before I reached
him he was out of the door.
Humphrey Luyster sank back in his
chair and covered his face with his
hands.
‘He is right,” I said angrily, ‘‘we are
a couple of old fools.
now? Pursue him?
“Tt is useless,” said Humphrey.
His disappointment seemed most in-|
tense, but I could think of nothing to do |
or say. When I spoke he only stared at
me wearily, and at last, thinking that he
had best be alone, 1 came away.
I afterwards learned that, when I was
gone, he took his hat and stick and went |
out to walk in the blinding rain.
tervals during the night the servant
heard his measured tread along the car-
riage road that skirted the house.
What shall we do!
At in- |
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
As to Slug, we have only conjecture |
to tell us where he went and what he did |
that night——circumstantial evidence, |
which we had reason afterwards to sift
| down to the minutest detail. It was gen-
erally believed that, after leaving his
brother’s house, Slug went with the |
| thousand dollars to a deserted hovel,near
| which his city friends had been seen in
the course of the day,and where he often
slept when drunk. It was not like Slug |
to divide the money, yet it was very like
him to exhibit, or, at least, to boast of
his possession. The theory was that
Slug’s friends, who were evidently ac-|
complished ruffians, decoyed him to a
favorable spot, and there deliberately
murdered and robbed him. He was
found the next morning by a farmer’s
boy, lying in the path, several hundred
feet from the cabin, dead, with his pock-
ets turned inside out. Death was caused
evidently by a blow, inflicted on the back
part of the head with some heavy, sharp-
cornered instrument—probably an iron
bar. There was evidence that a slight
struggle had taken place, but nothing}
could be found that would serve in any
way to identify the murderers.
The hole in the skull is plainly visible |
here, you see. The live bone being soft
and spongy, naturally took the exact im- |
pression of the instrument that delivered |
the blow. I performed the autopsy and |
managed to capture the skull—unknown
to Humphrey.
Well, there was great excitement, of
course, when the body was discovered,
and all of the country round about was
thoroughly hunted for the men who had |
been seen with Slug the day before, but
they were not to be found. Humphrey |
offered a reward of five thousand dollars |
for their arrest, bnt nothing came of it, |
and the murder remains to this day, aj}
partial mystery.
However, Slug was dead; that was the |
most important feature of the affair, and |
Humphrey’s torture was at an end. Some |
time afterward he said to me, with the}
air of a man confessing an awful crime, |
“Do you know, I experienced something |
like a sense of relief when 1 heard of |
Tom’s ame |
“Relief!” I said, ‘‘by heavens, with me |
it was something very like joy! Had that |
scoundrel lived, I believed he would
have driven you at last to utter despera-
tion, and, perhaps,caused your death.”
Humphrey Luyster continued among
us some ten years after these events,
then he passed away sincerely mourned
by all who knew him, and leaving, as
I have said, nearly all his fortune to de-
serving charities.
To me he left, among other things, this
cane, the one he was always accustomed
to carry. Foratime I made use of it,
but found that its rough knobs hurt my
hand, and that, moreover, it was too
heavy. Youseelam getting to be an
old man.
All of the story?
quite all.
One day, several years ago, I happen-
ed to be examining the skull, and held it
in my left hand—thus. [had been walk-
ing, and the cane was in my right hand—
thus.
Impelled by some odd influence, I
brought the cane up, and tilting it off, at
about this angle, I put its head—made of
solid silver, you notice, and covered
with these small, sharp knobs—against
the ragged hole in the skull—thus.
Do you see?
It fits perfectly. Doesn’t it?” |
Of course it may be only a coincidence |
—yet it sets one to thinking.—San Fran- |
cisco Argonaut.
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From the Queen City Standpoint. |
From the Cincinnati Grocer.
To accommodate the increasing ad-|
| vertising patronage, THe MICHIGAN |
TRADESMAN has donned a cover. If Bro. |
Stowe had been thoughtful enough to!
/ consult us on the subject, we might have |
| objected to the color of his new over-|
| coat, but all the same we congratulate
| him on the evidence that his mighty in-|
| teresting journal is appreciated. Pros-|
| perous and well conducted legitimate |
| trade papers prove that business people |
| within their jurisdiction are energetic |
and enterprising; logically, Grand Rap-|
ids is a prosperous, energetic business |
town.
No, not quite—not
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Manufacturers of and Jobbers in
Pieced and Stamped Tinware, Rags,
Metals, Iron, Rubber and Wiping Rags
264 So. Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS.
Telephone 640.
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FOR
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SPLENDID oLo 1 Fa WL!
WILLIAMS’
Root Beer Extract
| It isa pure, concentrated Extract of Roets
and Herbs.
| It makes a refreshing, healthful summer bever
age at a moderate cost, for family use.
Every dozen is packed in a SHOW STAND,
which greatly increases the sale, as it is always
in sight.
25-cent size only $1.75 per doz.
3 dozen for $5.
For sale by all jobbers. Order a supply from
your wholesale house. Show ecards and adver-
tising matter are packed in each dozen.
H. F. HASTINGS,
Manufacturers’ Agent,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
AMONG THE TRADE.
AROUND THE STATE.
New Lathrop—sS. D. Wilson has opened
a meat market.
Big Rapids—Fred Hogan has sold his |
drug stock to Peter Currie.
Edmore—E. A. Joslin succeeds J. S.
Burgess in the furniture business.
Clarksville—Dr. A. G. Bush has sold
his drug stock to Dr. I. W. Pollock.
ceed Henry Huner in the meat business.
New Era—Miller Wilson has closed out
his grocery stock and retired from busi- |
ness.
Bay City—B. H. Martin succeeds B. |
H. Martin & Co. in the undertaking bus- |
iness.
Bloomingdale—Joseph Fritch has pur-
chased the meat market of Myers &
Vicker.
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| 2,000,000 feet of hardwood logs is al- |
ready on the way down Flint river to |
| $16,000 of which is paid in.
| gives his residence as Mexico, owns 49,
Wayland—Dr. A. Hanlon has sold his |
drug stock to E. H. Morse, who will con-
tinue the business.
Shelby—J. C.
Rings and C. H. Rose|
will remove to Walkerville and embark |
in business there about June 1.
Fennville—Hutechins & Hutchins suc-
ceed Dickinson & Hutchins in the furni-
ture and undertaking business.
Cheboygan—D. H. Moloney
the Thomas Frawley grocery stock at
sheriff’s sale at $400. It was inventor-
ied at $750.
Sherman—Frank T. Foster has sold
his hardware stock to Thomas Wilson
and QO. Richardson, who will continue
the business.
Battle Creek — Chas.
Livingston and
bid in
the debris all cleared away, and will be-| break them, for if they are broken and
gin to rebuild at once.
Montague—Burrows & Jones, former-
ly engaged in the lumber and grocery |
business here, are now located at Aber- |
| deen, Wash., where they operate a shin-
| gle mill under the style of the Burrows
& Jones Lumber Co.
Flint—Houran & Whitehead have pur- |
chased the old McFarlan sawmill and
| have purchased machinery for it. It is
Port Huron — Kaesemeyer Bros. suc- |expected the mill will begin operations
the first of next month. A _ drive of
stock the mill.
Detroit—George E. Bent, William H. |
| Sanford, Thomas Madill and others have
and |
incorporated
smelting Co.,
the Alma Mining
with $1,250,000 capital,
Bent,
995 of the 50,000 shares of stock.
company operates at Gunajuato, Mexico.
—— aceite
About Making Home Market Cheese. |
Every cheesemaker understands per- |
fectly well his inability to make fine
goods without the co-operation of the
producer to start with. Laying aside
reed, feed, care, etc.,
indispensable necessity is
Filth once in the milk is alwaysin the
milk.
| milk or whey, let it be your first duty to
know they are emptied, washed and
| scalded at once and set out for the sun
and air to purify. Be careful that no
filth finds its way into the milk pail. Be
| prompt at the factory and don’t allow
Chas. Harbeck have purchased the boot |
/or out in the storms and take in rain
and shoe stock formerly managed by J.
M. Caldwell.
Big Rapids—Willard Jefts has sold his |
drug stock to Jas. H. Voller, who has re- |
moved it to Evart and consolidated it
with his own.
Charlotte—A. D. Baughman celebrated
the twenty-fourth anniversary of his en-
| enough to hurry or endanger the process;
66 in the morning for hot weather and 70
| for ordinary summer weather, I consider
gagement in the dry goods business in
this city last Saturday.
Charlotte—Chas. Shepherd and Frank
M. Grier have purchased the dry goods |
stock of James Shepherd and will con-|
tinue the business under the style of
Shepherd & Grier.
| the whey.
| too sweet for cheese.
Petoskey—H. S. Beman, formerly en-
gaged in general trade at Alanson, has
purchased a store building at the corner
of Mitchell and Liberty streets and will
embark in the grocery business about
June 1.
MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Alma—Ferris & Son have started their
shingle mill, with sufficient stock for a
five months’ run.
Pinconning — The Excelsior planing
mill and factory, which was burned not
long ago, is to be rebuilt.
| cent,
your cans of milk to stand in the hot sun
water to be delivered as milk.
From experience I believe that I can
make a better cheese by taking the milk
at the factory twice a day, for then the
night’s milk is stirred, cooled and aired.
In the morning the night’s milk should
be near the acid point, but not near
safe. The object is to have the rennet
and lactic acid act together in expelling
Milk can be kept too cold and
Many think milk
cooled so as to prevent souring is suffi-
but milk cooled to a very low
| temperature in cans without stirring or
airing will leave an undesirable flavor,
which the taking twice a day at the fact-
ory will partially obviate. Before heat-
| ing the vat I skim off all the cream that
has risen over night, and when the vat is
| warmed to 82 or 84 and ready for the
rennet, I warm the cream to 96 or 100
| run it through a hair sieve, which leaves
it of the consistency of milk, pour it
back into the vat, and add rennet suffi-
, cient to begin coagulation in 15 minutes.
| As soon as the rennet is put in, stir the |
St. Ignace—J. B. Kanouse hopes to ad- |
just his lease with the Mackinaw Lumber |
Co. and start the mill soon.
Detroit— The Clough & Warren Co.
succeeds the Clough & Warren Organ
Co. in the manufacture of organs.
Clinton—The Clinton Woolen Mill Co.
has offered to furnish water free to the
village, if the citizens will lay the pipe.
en the contract to get out timber for
9,000,000 shingles in Gladwin county for
W. B. Tubbs & Co.
Nessen City—John Nessen, whose saw-
mill was burned a short time ago, has | cook and handle these cubes so as not to |
whole mass with a dipper, rapidly at first
and then gently, long enough to give the
'milk time to become perfectly still before
coagulation begins.
The curd should be ready to cut in
from 40 to 50 minutes.
with the perpendicular knife and if the
whey readily separates and comes to the
iat a isurface continue to cut crosswise and
Saginaw—William Woodward has tak- |
| out stirring or steam.
then lengthwise with the horizontal knife
and let it remain 15 or 20 minutes with-
The cheese cubes
| become covered with a thin coating and
| it should be the object of the operator to
who |
The |
the one great |
cleanliness. |
When the cans arrive home with |
Cut lengthwise |
crushed by rough handling the butter oils
‘escape and you can find this oil in the
whey tank. Avoid drafts on the surface
of the milk during the period of coagu-
lation and also on the curd after the
whey is drawn. In following this
method I have never seen much oil in my
whey tank. Cook the curd to 98 and
| keep it there or near there until it is
time to draw the whey, which must be
determined by the judgment of the
operator. When the curd has a firm and
springy consistency and shows about
one-fourth in acid, draw the whey all off
| by tipping the vat and allow no whey to
emain to soak the curd. Never throw
cold water on the curd or run cold water
under it to lessen the labor of handling
‘it. Try to avoid excessive moisture.
Dip the curd to the curd sink and hand
| stir until it seems dry and firm enough,
or until it has that smooth silky feeling
| which should be familiar to every maker.
| Salt 2lbs to 1,000 Ibs of milk in spring
and 2}¢ lbs in summer, Vary the salt
according to condition of curd—if very
dry use less andif moist more. Press
| gently at first andat night press up firm.
| The cheese should be rubbed and turned
every day during the period of curing.
Use cheese grease sparingly and let it be
|mostly elbow grease in rubbing and
producing a smooth bright surface which
makes the cheeses more attractive to the
eye, and produces a smooth, thin, tough
rind which adds to the appearance and
also protects them from insects. The
curing room should be such that an even
; temperature of about 70 can be main-
‘tained. Much late cheese is spoiled by
| hot being well cured—the room being too
hot through the day and allowed to
| become cold at night. A cheese maker
| should be a person who ean think, rea-
| son, and act and can see a little beyond
| his thermometer. Lectures and printed
| rules amount to little unless he has some
| practical ideas of his own, and the maker
| who depends on a certain method, his
| thermometer and luck, will never bea
| success in making the best home market
| cheese. T. B. Harriorz.
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Something New.
If our readers wish to see the latest
| thing out in the way of playing cards,
| they should send 15 cents in stamps to
Geo. DeHaven, General Passenger Agent,
| Grand Rapids, Mich., for a pack of the
| new playing cards issued by the Chicago
| & West Michigan and the Detroit, Lans-
|ing & Northern Railways.
These cards are quite novel and much
|useful information may be gathered
GEO. DEHAVEN.
from them.
General Passenger Agent.
| —_—- +
| Kendallville—Duerr & Gallop, dealers
in groceries and crockery, have put in a
| branch store at Walcotville.
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 pays
| 4 per cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually,
May, 1891. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer.
The Grocery Market.
Sugars are 3-16ths cheaper than a week
ago, but will probably go the other way
before the end of the month. Corn syrup
is weaker and lower, probably due to the
decline in corn. Oatmeal is weaker and
a little lower, on account of the decline
in oats. Pickles are weak. The Michi-
gan Salt Company has authorized the re-
duction of 10 cents per barrel in Chica-
go, Duluth, Milwaukee and St. Louis,
and 5 cents in Michigan, Indiana and
Ohio.
FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.
Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one centa
word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advanve payment.
BUSINESS CHANCES,
JOR SALE—I HAVE A STOCK OF DRUGS AND
books to the amount of $1,500, situated in the best
little town in Michigan, which I offer for sale for cash
or its equivalent. W. R. Mandigo, Sherwood, Mich 248
I RUG STOCK—NEAT AND ATTRACTIVE, AND NEW
e hardwood fixtures. Excellent location on best
retail street in Grand Rapids. Expenses very light
and trace steadily increasing. Low inventory, just
completed, $2,600. On account of failing health, will
sell at invoice or for $2,400 cash, if sold by March
15. Otherwise will hold itas an investment. A genu-
ine bargain. Personal investigation solicited. Ad-
dress ‘“‘F.,”? care Hazeltine Perkins Drug Co. City. 197
OR SALE — A_ FIRST-CLASS, WEuL- ASSORTED
stock of hardware and building material, situat-
ed at Port Huron. Dida business of $68,000 last year.
No old stock orrubbish. Will invoice about $20,009.
Proprietor sick in bed and unabie to attend to the
business. Address Geo. M. Dayton, Lansing, Mich. 228
OR SALE—FINE STOCK OF BOOTS AND SHOES
special line. No old goods. Everything desira
ble. Good trade, mostly cash. Excellent farming
country. Address ‘‘Shoes,” care Michigan Tradesman 214
T,‘.0OR SALE—COMPLETE DRUG STOCK IN A GROW-
k ing village on good line of railroad. surrounded
by as fine farming country as there is anywhere in
Michigan. Must quit the business on account of fail-
ing health. Address No. 213 care Michigan Trades-
man. 213
‘OR SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A GENERAL
I stock located in a thriving town. Capital
necessary, about $1,200. address No. 241, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 241
YOR SALE—GROCERY STOCK. DESIRABLE LOCA-
E tion. A bonanza tothe right man. Address Gro-
eer, care Michigan Tradesman. 246
JZ.OR SALE—WELL-SELECTED DRUG STOCK, IN-
i ventorying about $1,200, situated in good coun-
try town of 500 people. Reason for selling, proprietor
has other business. Address No. 173, care Michigan
Tradesman. 172
OR SALE—A COMPLETE DRUG STOCK AND FIX-
tures; stock well assorted can be bought at a
bargain. Address for particulars 8. P. Hicks, Lowell,
Mich. 124
Vy - HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A
general or grocery stock; must be cheap. Ad-
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26
SITUATIONS WANTED.
K7 ANTED— BY YOUNG MAN, SITUATION AS BOOK-
\ keeper, assistant book-keeper or collector
Rest of references. Address E. care Michigan Trades-
man. 243
ee BY REGISTERED PHARMA-
cist. Best of references and no bad habits, Ad-
dress No. 251 care Michigan Tradesman. 251
oe BY A REGISTERED ASSIS-
tant pharmacist.of two years’ experience.
Good references. Address Lock Box O., Lowell,
Mich. 252
MISCELLANEOUS,
GENTS WANTED—FOR A NEW ARTICLE JUST
a out. Most vonderful advertising device ever
known. Sellsto every merchant and Mfr. Splendid
employment. Big pay. Steady work. Enclose
stamp. Are Mt. Mfg Co, Racine, Wis. 249
NANNING WORKS WANTED—WILL GIVE A BONUS
J toright parties. Address Box 46, Sheridan, —
. SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN INVEST-
ment. Corner lot and 5-room house on North
Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water
in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Address No. 187,
care Michigan Tradesman. 187
OR SALE—TWELVE TO TWENTY ACRES OF LAND
for summer home, Seven miles north of Trav-
| erse City on the East Arm of Traverse Bay on the
; Peninsula ready fitted for building. C. E. Clapp,
; Archie, Mich. 238
ie SALE OR RENT—CORNER LOT AND 5-ROOM
| house on North Lafayette st., cellar, brick found-
| ation and soft water in kitchen. $1, Terms to
‘suit. Cheap enough for an investment. Address No
| 187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187.
| SS PHARMACIST, WITH TWO
| or three years’ experience. Must be able to
give good references. Address No. 247, care Michigan
| Tradesman. 24
iy J ANTED—FIVE SALESMEN BY THE GEORGE D.
| Hawkins Medicine Co. (Manufacturers and
| wholesale dealers in Hawkins Great Specific Cures)
| to represent them on the road. Coa mencing on July
| 10th. No one but first-class experienced salesmen
|meed apply. Good positions guaranteed to good
i Write for terms to George D. Hawkins
244
| salesmen.
+ Medieine Company, Hawkins, Mich.
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DEALERS IN
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,
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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
The unsecured creditors in the White |
& Mosher failure received the munificent
dividend of 4 cents on the dollar.
The Grand Rapids Storage and Trans-
fer Co. has lately completed a commo-
dious warehouse, directly south of its
main building, which will be used for
the storage of agricultural implements |
and machinery.
Mrs. L. A. Knowles, whose general
stock at Walkerville was partially de-
stroyed in the recent conflagration at that
place, has resumed business, having
purchased anew grocery stock of a Grand
Rapids jobber last week.
A. L. Lakey has sold the Pipp Bros. &
Martindale general stock, at Kalkaska,
to Chas. Pipp, who will continue the
business. The preferred creditors have
already received a dividend of 25 per
cent. and will probably get as much
more.
A cigar manufacturer of New York
was in the city last week for the purpose
of investigating the advantages of this
market as the location for a large cigar
factory to make cheap goods for the Chi-
cago trade. He witnessed the labor pa-
rade gotten up in the interest of the
Street railway strikers on Thursday,
noted the sentiment displayed by the
men on that occasion, went directly to
his hotel, paid his bill, and took the first
train out of the city.
The Grand Rapids ] Fire Insurance Co.,
which has occupied its present offices in
the Houseman building since the organi-
zation was effected, has leased the south
half of the first floor in the corner of the
block and will occupy the same as soon
as the present tenants remove to another
location. The present store will be di-
vided by a partition and made to front on
Pearl street, the Insurance Co. taking
the corner store in order to secure the
advantages of the vault in that portion
of the building. The remarkable suc-
cess of this company is a matter of es-
pecial gratification to Grand Rapids peo-
ple, as the stock is mainly held in this
city.
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Purely Personal.
Chas. W. Jennings has gone to Buffalo
for the purpose of accompanying his son
home from school.
P. A. Philabaum, whose grocery stock
was destroyed in the conflagration at
Muskegon, was in town Monday.
Jas. A. McDougall, a veteran glove
manufacturer at Gloversville, N. Y., is
spending a week in the city, buying
skins and selling manufactured goods.
W. J. Mills, formerly with Frank
Beardsley, at Hersey, has taken the posi-
tion of prescription clerk for Fred Hud-
son, at Riverdale.
Jas. E. Granger is Secretary of the re-
cently organized Stone-Ordean Company,
which succeeds the wholesale grocery
firm of Stone & Ordean, at Duluth, on
June il. The corporation has a capital
stock of $250,000, of which Mr. Granger
holds $20,000.
Perry Barker, book-keeper for A. E.
Brooks & Co., will be married on
the 20th to Miss Sadie H. Brooks,
daughter of the senior member of
the above named firm. Mr. Barker is
a young man of promise and will un-
doubtedly make his mark in the world.
I. M. Clark suffered the amputation of
his right leg, just below the knee, on
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
| Sunday. The operation was undertaken
only after a consultation of ten physi-
cians, eight of whom agreed that it was
| the last expedient which medical skill
| could resort to in hopes to prolonging
| his life.
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Gripsack Brigade.
Geo. F. Owen received a setback last
week and will not venture out on the
road again for a couple of weeks.
Chas. R. Remington is laying off this
week for the purpose of humoring an at-
tack of biliousness and la grippe, com-
bined.
A. 8S. Doak and John Payne both start-
ed out on the warpath Monday, so that
Hawkins & Company’s full force are now
in line,
John B. Orr, traveling representative
for Swift & Company, was in town over
Sunday. He is half crazy on the subject
of ‘‘Silver Leaf.”
Wm. Connor, Michigan representative
for Michael Kolb & Co., was in town a
couple of days last week. He will culti-
vate the Minnesota trade for a couple of
weeks.
Ed. Huyge is taking the Northern trade
of John Cummins during his absence in
Pennsylvania. At last accounts he had
reached Buffalo on his way here
with his family, where his wife was
taken seriously ill.
H. A. Bennett, traveling representative
for B. Desenberg & Co., of Kalamazoo,
received the largest vote from the
handlers of *‘Something Good’? and
‘Peach Pie’? of any salesman in the
State and is, accordingly, given the
option of a tour of Europe or a check for
$350 by the Jas. G. Butler Tobacco Co.,
of St. Louis.
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Particulars of the Stetson Fire.
Sretson, May 11.—The village of
Stetson was almost completely wiped
out by fire on the 9th. The loss was
heavy. The Butters & Peters Salt and
Lumber Co. lost in building, merehan-
dise, logs, ete., about $15,000; insured
for $1,300; Webb & Co., druggists, lost
$2,000; no insurance; Knowle’s lost build-
ing and stock, about $4,000; no in-
surance; A. J. Felter lost $1,500; in-
sured for $1,000; John Beals lost about
$2,000; no insurance; Chas. McCluer
lost about $400; insurance $1,000. About
twenty-five families were rendered
homeless. A. J. Fevren.
Crockery & Glassware
LAMP BURNERS.
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WILLIAM CONNOR,
Box 346,
Marshall, Mich,
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To Clothing and General Store Mer-
chants:
If your stock is running low or out of
sizes we have still a fair line of spring
and summer suitings to select from, also
Overcoats, Pants, ete., and if you require
samples to select from, send us word
about the style and price and they shall
be expressed to you, or, if you write our
Michigan representative, Win1t1AmM Con-
Z xonr, who resides at Marshall, Mich., he
‘. will be pleased to call upon you. All
mail orders promptly attended to. Itis
wonderful the number of mail orders we
receive for our elegant diagonal, also
cork screw worsted Prince Albert coat
and vests and three button cut away,
frock and sack suitings of same material
and the many congratulations we receive from the merchants of our perfect fit and
satisfactory prices, and
Please Remember
That no manufacturers sell more ready-made clothing in Michigan, and that we
catered for the Michigan trade for thirty years and knows their wants.
Our Fall and Winter line will be up to the usual standard.
MICHAEL KOLB & SON,
Wholesale Clothing Manutactirer
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
William Connor begs also to intimate that he has still on hand a fair line of
Boys’ and Children’s suitings to select from.
your Own Price tor Butter
Cold Storage in connection with my business enables me to get you satis”
factory prices for your butter, which is often forced on the market on account of
warm weather.
Write for particulars.
THEO. B. GOOSSEN,
Wholesale Produce and Commission, 33 Ottawa St.,Grand Rapids, Mich.
References—Kent County Savings Bank, H. Leonard & Sons Wholesale crockery, Musselman & Widdicomb
Hawkins &C ee Telfer Spice Co., Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Maurice M. Shanahan, Treas. Bissell Car-
pet Sweeper Co
Improved Flue : Scraper.
cn
THE BEST ON THE MARKET.
HESTER & FOX, Sole Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich.
FIRE PROOF
STEAM PROOF
BURGLAR PROOF
WATER PROOF
Vault and Bank Work a Specialty.
157 and 160 Ottawa St,
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, 1173.
GRAND RAPIDS.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
HER QUALIFICATIONS.
|
Advantages and Disadvantages of the |
Woman in Business.
From the New York Continent.
Instances in which the ‘twoman
business” has shown a superior fidelity
to the trusts reposed in her might be
multiplied without end. There is,
ever, an example, of this quality
occurred not long ago in New York, and
is known to a number of prominent
financial people, which is really worthy
of record. A great railroad deal had
been arranged and a draft of an agree-
ment decided upon, the perfection and
ratification of which would have an enor-
mous effect upon the stock market.
The matter had been practically settled
by two or three gentlemen who were all
pledged to secrecy until it was ready to |
be announced. So important was abso-
lute silence that, when the question of
putting the agreement in formal shape
for execution by the respective interests
came up, they hesitated to put its prepa-
ration in the hands of even their own
office employes.
Finally, one of the gentlemen engaged
to have the document prepared in a few
hours, without allowing its contents to be
divulged. He accordingly took the rough
draft toa lady typewriter,and putit in her
hands without a word, except that he
wanted her to complete three copies with-
in a specified time. As soon as she read
the first few lines she recognized the im- |
portance of the agreement, and as she
had many friends and patrons who
would not only be glad to utilize such
news in these speculations, but would,
without doubt, make it well worth her
whileto inform them, she felt a momen-
tary temptation to seize the opportunity
thus presented. An instant’s reflection
sufficed, however, to decide her to the
proper course. She completed the
copies within the specified time, and,
when she delivered them to the gentle-
man who had ordered them, was surpris-
ed to receive a check for ten times the
amount of her bill for the work. ‘‘I
have no doubt, Miss X,” said he,
“that |
you appreciated the opportunity you had |
before you,
your hands.”’
but 1 had unlimited confi- |
dence in your discretion when I put it in |
What this young woman’s |
opportunity amounted to may be measured |
by the fact that the announcement that |
such an agreement had been made caused |
an advance of twenty-five per cent.in the
market yalue of one particular stock.
The chief disadvantage under which
women labor in regard to business em-
ployments is that of suitable education
and training. Of course, a great advance
in this respect has been made within re-|
the trouble is
in many instances,
cent years. But
women’s education is,
of an impractical character,
ealeulated to assist them in
eareer. A business man recently
that |
and is not}
a business |
of |
how- |
which |
re- |
marked that when a young woman comes |
into his office as a typewriter or sten-
ographer, he has to begin
her the meaning of the
eentum,” or the abreviations
the names of the States are
This may be an exaggeration, but it is
certain that many young women at the
start of their endeavors to earn their liv-
ings labor under just suc h disadvantages.
It would certainly seem that a little agi-
tation on this matter and some slight ef-
words ‘‘per
by which
by teaching |
designated.
forts to make the education of girls a lit-,
tle more practical would confer a lasting
benefit on a good many of them.
— > +>
When Abraham Lincoln Sold Dry|
Goods.
When Abraham Lincoln was a clerk in|
a dry goods store, he sold a woman a bill
of goods, amounting to $2.0614. He
ceived the money and the woman went
away. On adding the items of the bill
again, to make himself sure of correct-
ness, he found that he had taken
cents too much. It was night, but clos-
ing and locking the store, he started out
on foot, a distance of two or three miles,
for the house of his defrauded customer,
and,delivering over to her the sum whose
possession had so much troubled him, went
home satisfied.
incident, but
614
it better illustrates the
re- |
This is a very humble)
man’s perfect conscientiousness, and his |
sensitive honesty, perhaps, than if it had
been of greater moment.
Dr s Price Current. a.
y Good Amoskeag ee 124%/Columbian brown. .12
Sus..... 10% Everett, “ctnan teenie 12
UNBLEACHED COTTONS. - brown . brown. ....12
| Aree ck... : ‘* Arrow Brand 5% Ee 134 |Mlaymaker — a 7
See. win eee 6% « ‘World Wide.. Beaver. cneek AA.. own... Te
Atlanta AA. . 8% cc. .......... BS... 9 weerey....<.-. 2.44. 11%
| Atlantic A. Full Yard Wide..... ¥, | " x... Oe ic ee ee 12%
eo 6% Gene A... i | Boston, Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 9 0z er 13%
% a 6 |Honest Width....... ba blue 8% * No. 220....13
aks GxiMarttord A ......... o Q “ 6d & twist 10%! ' No 250....11%
Sa ..+. Omi mdian Mead........ 4 | Columbian et 10 " No. 280....10%
ae... 7. meek G........... 6% XX bl.19
Archery Bunting... 4 |KingEC. ..........5
Beaver Dam A A.. Scie awrence LL...... 5Y | — »
Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese eloth 63; | Amoskeag ...... ...- 14 , fancies .... 7
Black Crow......... 65 Newmarket ee... 8} “Persian dress is Normandie 8
Binck Bock ........ . 54 | . Canton .. 6|/Lancashire.......... 6
Se %% “ "ee Ke AFC...... 12 Manchester thee ae 5%
Cee A 54 “ DD.... S& Arlington staple.... 644 /Monogram asccewas 6%
Cavanat V. isl “ -— 7 | Arasapha fancy.... 4% iNormandie......... 74%
Chapman cheese cl. 33, ak... 5 | Bates Warwick dres 8%4/|Persian.........---- 8%
Clifton C R.. . 54/Our Level Best..... 6% i staples. 6'4|Renfrew Dress...... 7%
COMEEE. 8. - ee + - 5. 7 (Oxtord &........... 6% | Centennial. ........ 10%4|Rosemont...... - 6%
Dwight Star......... 74| Pequot. . we sees TM | CTiterion .......... 10%} |Slatersville ......... 6
‘Cliton CCC........ 6%|Solar...... | 6% | Cumbe Somerset......- -+++ ae
iTop of the Heap.. . Te | Senkadend. . a 6 WORE 1... 4055. -4-- 7%
BLEACHED COTTONS. ES ne 4%4/Toil du eee. 10%
cc... 4|\Geo. Ww ashington.. 2 Ce as le 1%
Ameen. .......,... =" ion Millis... ...... 7 | Everett classics..... 844)“ __ seersucker.. 7%
Ane. 7 ot ee. 7% | Exposition.......... ae ata eo 8%
Art Cambric........ 10 iGreen Ticket....... 834 ee 144|\W hittenden ce 634
Blackstone A A. 8 \Great Falls.......... 6i4 | Glenarven.......... 6 : heather dr. 8
18. |. . 4% eee Poeweed,.......... i* ial indigo blue 9
ae 2 est Out..... 4%@ 5 | Hampton........... 6% Wamsutta staples. .. a
aie Phillip. linda 7% Johnson vhalon el 3 4|W estbrook ht aaeeee
oe ee ce [Uwe le. 7% jc indigo blue 9% '
Cie Onk.......: eoneee cambrié, .10% | zephyrs ---16 *lwindermeer. q
Conway W.......... 74|Lonsdale. . gi, | Lancaster, staple... CITE cas cet e ees * 6x
ra eae e Middlesex. . on oe @5 i | GRAIN BAGS,
ee eee 7% | Amoskeag......... 16%) Valley City.......... 15%
shorts. . ee — "20 “|Georgia ... 2... .-15%
Edwards. ..... - 6 |Our Own............ 5% | American 1614 Pacific 14%
TS Sarasa. UCU iy een Maa
oe. Ta mowed... ........ 7% | THREADS.
Fruit of the om. Ts eeee............. 4% | Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88
Fitchville ......... 7 |Utica Mills......... Si Coste’, J. &P....... os (aveelre.... ...... 88
First Prize oH, i art uparell «11, | Holyoke.........-- a14|
weed...
Pairmount.......... 4% White Horse....... 6 ee oe
= %| “ Rock.. 8% | White. Colored. White. Colored.
HALF sims HED COTTONS. |N + +33 38 |No. 14.......37 42
oan bare rvortine eee 7%) Dwight Anchor..... . | = f - a
eet 8 . Ln
UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. " a. = 45
Hamil ae +. 514(Middlesex N No. 1. i CAMBRICS.
en + “ 2 Sam #6 ome an 3%
ie 2 “ . 2 a ee Soer......... a
or a ana 9 | “ ai a Eid Giows........... 434 Lockwoeos.......... ta
ieee | ----19 | Newmarket... ..... 414 |Wood’s........ 2... 4%
BLEACHED ia FLANNEL. Roweees............ 4%4 Brunswick ves Goes 4%
Middlese 7 oo i Middlesex AA a 11 RED FLANNEL,
eimiaiaa tte i = | wien... 1.2: eH : y Ca cae RY
i AT...... 9 | c A 6 votes 13% | Creedmore.... ...-..-274/F T.......... . .--..- 32%
L X A...... od EE as 17% | Talbot XXX......... 30/5 RE, oo 35
x wee re S...... 16 | Nameless........... 27 4|Buckeye Tae 32%
Peerless, white...... 18 |Integrity, colored...21 = 7
- -- 20%! White Star...:..-... 18% | Red & Blue, plaid. -40 orn ew .....-.. 17%
inieeriiy.......... 2561 ~ * colored. .21 eS 22%|Western W ......... 18%
DRESS GOODS. Windsor. . Pe eee a ae 18%
as -..-..-... 3 {Nameless.. 6 0z Western........ 21 |Flushing XXX...... 23%
ia ae a nN Dates B... OE ————— 23%
sc a enue 1054 : DOMET FLANNEL.
BAT UGSULICIC..666.
Nameless ee 16 “ Nameless ee 8 @ 9% | ' scone @ ION
La 18 | “ ce see. 84%4@10 | ' ne 12%
CORSETS. CANVASS AND PADDING.
| Coraline............$9 50/Wonderful. .. ....8450| Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black.
| Sehiitines......... 9 O0|Brighton.. ........475| 9% 9% 914/13 13 13
CORSET JEANS. 10% 10% 1054) 15 15 15
Aros ....-........ 63;|Naumkeag satteen.. 7% | 11% 11% eel 1% 17
Androscogsin....... Ti OenerL...... . ..-. 6% | 1*% 12% 124/20 20 20
| Biddeford........-.-. S emcee. .......... 63% DUCKS.
Brunswick. .... .... 6%| Walworth .......... 6% | Severen, 8 oz........ 9%4/West Point, aes...
Allen turkey red bx Bel Kf iL Mayland, 8oz....... 10%| 0z....12%
: : Z meee erwick fancies.... % | Greenwood, 744 oz. | paven, 1002. eee 13%
OT craig - 544|Clyde Robes........ 5 | Greenwood, 8 oz.. 18 | a 13%
ink & ‘purple 6% Charter Oak fancies 4%
. a ffs ........ 6 |DelMarine cashm’s. 6 WADDINGS.
- pink checks. 5l% ' mourn’g 6 White, Gox......... 25 |Per bale, 40 doz....87_50
‘ maples ee SY 2| Eddystone — ‘ 6 | Colored, doz........ 20 |
ni shirtings ... choc 5
American a. : oe - a. - 6 agp
American indigo.... 5% sateens.. 6 Slater, iron Crom... 6 (Pawtuckot.........- 10%
| American shirtings. 4% Hamilton fancy. ... 6 ed Cross... 2, |Bedforc oe :
Argentine Grays. 6 “ sta le oe c eR -10% eared... .
Anchor Shirtings... 4%’ Manchester fancy.. 6 Best AA.....124/Valley City......... 10%
~~ . ' — - ” . . era, 6 SEWING epee
| Arno erine. ...6 errimack ancy. 6 ‘ . i
“long cloth B. 10% Merrim’ek shirtings. 4% en a ar” ronogoacd pnitting,
: 8% Reppfurn . 8% 50 yd, doz. .37% ia maa ha
conturs cloth 7 ae ae ~~ Eau ex HOOKS AND EYES—PER GRO
“green seal TR 10%|Portsmouth robes... 6 | NO 1 BI'k & White.10 (No 4 BI’k & ‘White, 15
«yellow seal. .10% Simpson mourning.. 6 a“. “ a “ : “ ”
[eee - ees |” pan a "
wa ur ey rec % o solid blac PINS.
Ballou solid bise x. 65 oe — 6 No cise M c soe 50 ‘wm 4-15 F 3%...... 40
“colors. 5} — | urkey robes.. 7% | ‘ BB, © Occ anes 45
Bengal blue, green, * India oe i” cures TAP
| eee rsollds. . oo - plain r "ky x %, S% No : 2 White & BI’ K. ae |No 8 White & Br’k.. =
erlin solids........ ~ “ 7
= er eeee....- ot ** Ottoman Tur. = ¢ “ 18 “ : “ 28
_ - econ .... Oe Sereor............. SAFETY PINS.
“ Fonulards .... 5% Martha Washington Reine ee esos nee: 28 — ccc es) coca
" red % Lea eee 7 Turkey red %..... 7
. _ .:.... 9%|Martha Washington NEEDLES—PER M.
. = of... 10 Turkey red........ 1, | A. demee............ 1 So|Steamboat.... ...... 40
= 3 4X XXX 12 |Riverpoint robes....5 | Crowely’s........... i SiGold Byed.......... 1 50
Cocheco fancy...... 6 Windsor fancy...... 6% | Marshall’s......... ,-1 00}
mad ers... 6 | gold ticket TABLE om CLOTH.
. XX twills.. 6%! indigo blue....... 10% 5-.. 225 6—4...3 25/5—4....195 6—4...2 %
_ solids...... 5% 32 * 2a
TICKINGS. COTTON TWINES.
Amoskeag AC A.. iat Bk cy le 12% | Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua. pie
Hemsliton N......... TH) — ASA... 1 Ores. 12 Rising Star 4- ply. ae
- 3 a ot i 10% | eee - ee 18% Smy....17
- aenew. Si Heit Ever... ....- 7. hechor _........... (Marts Sear... 20
Farmer.. : _ 0 ree River......._. 2% | Bristol . ......13 |Wool Standard 4 ply 17
— Prize. te eee 1 OE. os oe 14 | owen V alley oe . Powhattan ...... 18
enox Mills ........ | 1c.
ee PLAID OSNABURGS.
— ee = nee ama | Alabama............ 6%|Mount Pleasant... 6%
a. 74\Top of Hea es 2 Alamance. . - 6% ¥4| ee 5
2 renee | Auguste;........ joc. CA cl. 5%
SATINES. | Ars sapha........... 6 |Randelman ......... 6
Simpson ee cone oie 20 |Imperial............ ee 6%) we cece cco 5%
Moo tnetateseees 18 \Black a. eee as rt NG ak shcsue stuido - 64
cee oe 6 ennnencsen ioe Me IVOE acess. O ae ee
I sities antes 10% Meo
J.GPCOATS
SIX-CORD
| ee Titi
WHITE, BLACK AND COLORS,
Hand and Machine Use.
FOR SALE BY
P. STEKETER & SONS.
Spring Season 1891,
———Q————
If You desire to sell
Carpets by Sample
Send for
Cirevlar and Price hist,
NIith & Saultord,
GRAND RAPIDS.
hams,
Serges,
GRAND RAPIDS, ie
Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co,
Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
CARPETS,
CURTAINS.
Manufacturers of
Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Ets.
Elegant Spring Line of Prints, Ging-
Toile Du Nord, Challies, White
and Black Goods,
Pants Cloth, Cottonades and
Hosiery now ready for inspection.
Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed.
Pereales,
48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.
Satteens,
MICH.
AWNINGS
AND TENTS,
CHAS. A.
rege Horse and Wagon Covers, Seat 8
, Large
mS Oiled Clothing, Wide Gotton yo ete.
Send for Illustrated Catalogu
COYE,
Telephone 106.
11 Pearl Street.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
What is to be Expected.
Now the milkman wakes us early,
With his long and mournful cry;
And the greens look fresh and curly
As the peddler carts them by;
And the youth with mustache twirly
Sports a vest whose hue is pearly,
As he goes to meet his girlie
On the sly.
Now the father thinks with groaning
That the boys all want new boots,
And thd mother knows with moaning
That the girls must have spring suits:
And the plumber-
Man looks glummer,
For he has no show in summer:
But not so the merry drummer,
Setting out with heart of glee
To talk people deaf and dumb, or
To death, as it may be.
Now the man who owns a garden
Issues forth to view the same,
And begins his hands to harden
And his back to make quite lame;
And the small boy thinks of ‘“Shookey”
In a calm, determined way,
And, hiding slate and book, he
Pegs at marbles all the day.
Now the poet searches madly
In last spring’s rejected verses—
Searches wildly, searches sadly—
And with language that much worse is
Than Bob Ingersoll’s deep———remarks;
And the gentle maiden yearneth
For the long, long golden days, .
As she, planning wisely, turneth
Her last summer’s pollonaise;
And the young man’s bosom burneth
For one or two damp days—
He is wishing
To go flshing—
So he says.
Now the painter is most precious,
And engaged for all he’s worth;
While the builder’s hopes are spacious,
And the rag-man’s full of mirth:
And ten million schemes fallacious
In ten million brains have birth.
About this time, good gracious!
All sorts of thing come forth.
MADELINE S. BRIDGEs.
8
“The Greatest Orange Section.”
From the San Francisco Country Merchant.
Fifteen years ago California was not
widely known as an orange producing
section, but at the present time thous-
ands of acres are devoted to orange orch-
ards, and new trees are constantly being
set out, so that the supply continually
inereases, and luckily for growers, the
demand is always on the increase. The
shipment of oranges the current season
has amounted to from 40 to 70 carloads a
day, which greatly exceeds that of any
previous year. Strange as it may seem,
higher prices have been current this
winter than at times when the crop was
considerable smaller; this is certainly
very encouraging to growers. IfCalifor-
nia continues to advance in the same way,
it will take only a short time for this
state to become the greatest orange sec-
tion in the world. Indeed, California has
but very few competitors in this line
now. This is the result of soil and cli-
mate particularly well adapted to the
growing of the orange, and also in no
small degree due to the men of energy
and enterprise — in the business.
“ IMITATION 18 THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY’?®
THAT THE GEM FREEZER 1S RECOGNIZED AS THE BEST IS PROVEN
BY THE WAY OUR COMPETITORS ARE IMITATING ITS GOOD QUALI-
TIES, AND USE IT AS THE STANDARD OF COMPARISON WHEN
TRYING TO SELL THEIR OWN GOODS.
de der
| WE ONLY CLAIM A DOUBLE ACTION FOR THE GEM FREEZER |
{ BECAUSE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET MOR@ THAN TWO MOTIONS
FROM ANY SYSTEM OF GEARING IN USE AT PRESENT IN ANY }
FREEZER. |
WE MAKE NO CLAIMS THAT CANNOT BE FULLY PROVEN.
Poa
Do NOT BE IMPOSED UPON BY THOSE WHO MAY TRY TO SELL YOU |
| OTHER FREEZERS BY TELLING YOU THEY ARE ‘’ JUST AS GooD"”
or ‘' JUST THE SAME AS THE GEM.’* INSIST ON HAVING THE
GEM AND IF YOU CANNOT GET IT FROM YOUR REGULAR JOSBER,
| WRITE TO US AND WE WILL TELL YOU WHERE YOU CAN GET IT,
OR QUOTE YOU PRICES AND DISCOUNTS.
MANUFACTURED BY
AMERICAN MACHINE CO.,
LeHiGH AveNuE & AMERICAN STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
JOHN H. GRAHAM & CO.,
“gq Manerrs. AGENTS, 113 CHamBers St., NEw YORK.
Hardware Price Current.
These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
Suceee ee. . 60
Os a :
BE
Pe Ee s0d10
AXES.
First Quality, S Fhe... ................ $750
De eee... 12 00
c ee ee 8 50
' to ................... 13 50
BARROWS. dis.
aes... $ 14 00
roe... 8... , net 36800
BOLTs. dis.
ee 50&10
Carriage mow Gee ce ¥ (5)
ee 40&10
Sleigh i ec eect aus, 70
BUCKETS.
oe $3 50
Varnishes,
Sole Agents for the Celebrated
SWI88 WILLA PREPARED PAINTS.
ll Ling of Staple Drnggists’ Sundries.
We are Sole Proprietors of
Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.
We Have in Stock and Offer 4 Ful Line 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.
~ Plazelting 2 Perkins Drug Go,
GRAND RAPIDS, —
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
GROCERIES. |
Wool Weak--Hides and Tallow Lower. |
The woo! market is quiet. Small lots |
at easier prices to fill orders, with small |
offerings from light stocks, sums it up.
The new clip west is much higher than
and they
going to do
most manufacturers will pay
Simply ask, What are you
with it? The excitement has gone to an |
extreme, and is confined to a certnin few
manufacturers and dealers,
alone entirely by the majority, especially
the the |
coming clip and past |
years’
who are left
more conservative. Prices on
are a conundrum,
losses makes buyers suspicious of
the outcome.
Hides are lower and sell lower, in face |
of the fact that tanners have no supply
on hand, and a searcity of stock in the |
country. There are no accumulations
at any point, and the kill is light. Cattle |
are scarce and likely to be so for a long |
but 1
remunerative prices.
time to come; sather will not sell at |
Tallow is in light supply, yet ample
for all wants,
down the price,
it
Lower prices are looked for.
with soapers hammering |
untill they
downward.
or holding off
have lower and tending
—_ 2 <> _
Mined Into a Corporation.
I. M. Clark & Son have merged their
wholesale grocery business into a stock
company under the style of the I. M.,
Clark eer Co. The corporation has |
| impressions,
| seller,
| business which
| or their purchases.
| ago they started witha
| and to-day they are sacrificing at least 8
| per cent,
| trust their own judgment inthe matter
;of purchases.
Depend on Your Own Judgment.
| From the National Grocer.
It is said that ‘‘None so deaf as those
who will not hear,’? meaning, of course,
those who will not be influenced by
hearing the arguments of others. It is
| not good to be as impressionable as wax,
| nor
should one become like brass.
Rather should one be like wax to receive
but like steel in holding
them.
Too many merchants depend upon the
statements of others asto the quality of
goods as well as on prices. In fact, this
|;condition of mind on the part of the
buyer is the supremity of bliss to the
seller. Once the buyer has reached that
stage wherein he is the henchman of the
then he has lost the grip on
leads to fortune. Men
who succeed are not of those who allow
sentiment to flavor either their judgments
Given two men, one
with commodities to sell to the other
who wishes to buy, the man will reap
the most advantage whose knowledge of
the business is best, and whose confidence
in his own judgment cannot be shaken.
We have in mind now a firm of re-
tailers in this State, who have bought
for years of a limited few, and who,
though doing a large business, never
could trust themselves to buy in the
quantities suitable to their sales. Years
small business,
of profit, because they fear to
Of course the jobbing
house which has had the bulk of their
business for years back has had no
interest in pointing out the facts which
| we here state, for as small and frequent
buyers they are very profitable cus-
; tomers.
a capital stock of $100,000, all paid in, |
divided among six eaidictiees in the
following amounts:
i =. a hee theca a ean new an acon oe eh GOD |
M. J. Clar 21,000 |
Fred B. Cla 25,000 |
Frank Jewe a 21,000 |
Samuel Scud der _ - 16,000 |
EE 2,000 |
The first five cnn gentlemen
prise the board of —
elected the following officers
President—lI. M. Clark.
Vice-President—M. J. Clark.
Secretary—Frank Jewell.
Treasurer—Fred B. Clark
No change will be made in the office or |
traveling force for the present and busi-
ness will be continued on the same gen-
eral plan as in the past.
ecom-
who have
_> © <->
Cold Storage on a Large Scale.
It may not be generally known, but it
should be a matter of common knowl-|
edge, that dealers in butter, eggs and
help!
| grocer in this city did, who to save his
|claim on a stock of goods for which he
|had advanced
| bought in the store himself, and, finding
We give this example, but not as we
| would like. for the reason that many of
| our readers might recognize the case,
|} and we do not desire to cause criticism
except as each of our readers will apply
the illustration to his own case.
More frequently this dependence on
the judgment of others is manifested in
the case of certain articles, the selection
of which depends upon a considerable
study of the goods in question. In such
eases it may be that the dealer is doing
| himself good by consulting a judgment
superior to his own, but we are certain
that more than the ordinary profit must
| be paid for all such exercise of judgment
on the part of others. How much better
to spend the time and labor necessary to
make one independent of all outside
How much better to do as a
the purchase money,
[that 50 per cent, of his _ ecus-
;tomers were Germans spent all his
|spare time studying that language?
produce can place them beyond the pos- |
sibility of deterioration by shipping them
to the Grand Rapids
fer Co.,
until the owners are able
tage of a favorable
The
cent per pound: cent per dozen;
apples, barrel—rates suffi-
ciently low to attract hundreds of con-
signments from country dealers as
as the advantages of this method come/!
. j
to be appreciated. |
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A Slander on Our Cover.
From the Inter-State Grocer.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, of Grand
Rapids, comes out in a new dress this}
week with a handsome molasses candy |
colored cover. THE TRADESMAN is one
of the most prosperous and well conduct-
ed trade papers in the United States.
We congratulate it upon its bright, neat |
and attractive appearance.
a pil ieinsnmnnenie
For the finest coffees in the world, high |
. . |
grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner, |
304 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids
Mich., general representative for E. J. |
Storage and Trans-
which holds them in cold storage |
to take advan-
of the market.
and cheese is 1
turn
itter
eggs, 1
50 cents per
charge for bt
soon |
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Gillies & Co., New York City. |
| in the grocery business,
| everything which he had to sell.
This man, who, to protect himself from
| loss, was forced to become a grocer, has
| become a most thorough one, prosperous
and a credit to his guild. His example
merits the utmost commendation.
A man who has had much experience
said tous once
on a time that ‘‘He found that he could
make more money by living in constant
touch with the market than by paying
| attention to what his competitors were
| doing.”
He made it the study of his
waking hours to learn all he could about
He
found himself, as a rule, much better
| posted on prices than were sellers, and
| bought always at bottom figures.
| strengthened his judgment by always ex-
| ercising it,
He
and if he made a mistake
took the utmost pains to find where he
made his error.
The retailer must remember that he
goes up or down according to his own
effort; and that he can only hope to suc-
ceed through his own tact and energy,
and that no one else, no matter how able,
| can do for him what he can do for him-
self.
ae we
Shoemaker Wanted.
DovuGLas, May 15—Our village wants
|a good shoemaker. There is a chance
| for a good one to make some money here.
H. Brrp, Jr.
PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—So meagre are the offerings, that there
is really no market.
Asparagus—40c per doz. bu.
Beans—The market is quiet. Handlers one
offering $1.80 per bu. for country picked and
holding city picked at $2.25@$2.30.
Butter—The supply is not equal to the de-
mand. Dealers pay i7@18c for choice and hold |
at 19@20c.
Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $3.00
per crate.
Carrots—20@25e per bu.
Cucumbers—9c per doz.
Eggs — The market is firmer than ever before
known at this season of the year, handlers pay
ing 14e for all offerings of fresh and holding at
15¢e
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Honey —Dull at 16218 for clean comb.
Lettuce—10c for Grand Rapids Forcing
New Potatoes—Advices from Tennessee are to
the effect that new stoek will be ready to ship
about June 10. The acreage is the largest ever
known in that State and, unless the present cold
weather continues, the crop will be a large one.
Onions—Green command 16c. per doz. Ber.
mudas bring $2.75 per crate.
Parsnips—4v¢e 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
85c in smaller quantities.
Pieplant—2ec per lb.
Peas—#2.15 per bu. crate.
Radishes—20c per dozen bunches.
Straw berries—The market will run from $2.25
@#2.75 per 24 qt. case this week. The stock,
which is mostly from Southern Illinois, is the
oe ever received at this market from that lo-
Cality.
PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS,
Paes
i ee ee 12 50
Muara icar ply, short cut................... 14 00
Bere cieee, Boe
— <<... 13 %
Dogs Caear, short Gut. ............... 34 25
ear Dick. emertGus.......... 14 00
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 14 2
sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
Pork Sausage.......
Ham Sausage.......
Poe eee "
iene eee 8
eee 5
Pes ere 5
eee oo... 5
eee 5
LaRD—Kettle Rendered,
— oe i 84
eke a oe
so1b. ee. 8%
LARD. Com-
Family. pound,
Toe... ee, -+..005 6%
Sand S61. Trise............... 6% 634
Sib. Pails, 20 in @ cane.......... 7% 7%
5 Ib. Pails, 12 in a case,.......... 73% 7%
mm. Peis, 6B ceee........... 7% 6%
20 1b. Pails, 4in a case. ae 614
ree 6% 634
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs...............
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 3 os
Donates com eee.
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 Ibs.,....................--.. 9%
att 10%
“ 7 104%
= —. 74
= ee 8%
ee 6%
pression Becon, boweiows.................... 8%
Dried beef, ham prices a . “10%
Lon, Clears, i 6%
Briskets, ea e%
Mh ee 6%
FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, asset en EB Selena Sn 7 @8
— quarters eshte peer 8 @10
“ec @ 7
te @
. @12
“ nr @9
| eee... ee 11 @I12
meee... ss @ 5%
ee ee i @10
‘* shoulders. @7
Sausage, boed crhes@ 00 @ 5%
ver ok @ 5%
- a @ 7%
Sees acento secre guae 9 @10
ee eek ee ee ae ec 5 @ 6%
FISH and OYSTERS,
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.
See. eee ee he
—_
8899
wownmso
hh Eee Se een el 1
ae eter ena ee @25
EE ee ie @12
ee Oe... .,.. @w
OYSTERS—Cans.
yg y= ON ss oe cea iese cate. @40
es es i a i @35
SHELL GOODS.
Oysters, per 100....... . ksh evan dew ek 1 50
C ee aes ga bocsakobiatian ss 1 00
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.
Full Weight. Bbls. Pails.
j Seantned, oe 6% 7%
De 6% 7
C wee .... bitte ceteces.. ee 7%
| Boston We esc 4 9%
oe Pe 7% 8%
moore er, 7% 8%
MIXED CANDY.
Full Weight.
B Pails.
Seamderd...... ... T%
beeeer,..... 4. |. 7%
as 7 8
me io SS ee ne 7 8
eee 1% 8%
eee. 7%, 8%
Rage Berk The 8%
Ne ‘ 8
meeeee eeey...... le 7% 8%
Pees ogueren. 9
gS ee ee 10
French Creams.......... 10%
Valley Creams.. 13%
PANCY—In bulk.
Full Weight. Bblis. Pails.
Lozenges, an De eels cs aa ae 10% 11%
ee ge a eee li 12%
Chocolate se i ee 12%
Chocolate Monumentals............. 14
on eee 5 6%
Mom Drom.......... Pua ee en See ecu ce 8 9
ee M53 9%
eee 104 11%
Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. "Per =
Te Te
pour tes 3
Poppers Pree. 65
Wot Ee =
i. . Pmocwsese Drom...
ee eo, 40650
Sorc roe 1 00
A, me Paeureee Sere... 80
ae ee 65
Hi a... 8. 70
ee 65
eee 75
ON ee 60
poe ee 55
Caren... ....... -.15@17
Hand Made Creams .85@95
Plain Creams. . 80@90
Renee ON i 1 00
oe fo. ee lee ea ce 70
DER AIM 1 00
Wanterevcen Torrie... 65
ORANGES.
California, 128......- ee 3 00
- SS 3 50
. (Oe 3 50
LEMONS. :
Messina, cae Bee 5 2°@5 50
@6 00
. oa ae... 5 50
. Taney oe.....-.............. 6 00
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new, a, layers aes 18@20
e hoice pcua ee @16
a“ “ oe - @i2
. Fard, 10- >. box eel ir
“ec
. ene Db, eae. 4 g 6
NUTS.
Almonds, rere @17
Preoa....... rn @16%
' California O17
Dresiia, mew.......... @8
Filberts . @lii
Walnuts, Grenoble. oe @15
—.... @12
- ec @
Table Nuts, No. 1 eee ee ee. @14
dee e ued eee se @13
eens: Texas, it Dies ee, 15Q@17
Cocoanuts, Fa @4 00
PEANUTS.
Fancy, a. P. See
c _— oh cee eeee ic. 7
Choice, H, P, sane CRD in
Oo ee
OILS.
The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows:
nto Fao ea ce oe
WE Te ieee ences oe lf.
Michigan PE ook shen ee
NN ee pws hee entree
eee.
Pees
Black, Summer....
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.
WAREHOUSE AND MAIN OFFICE:
‘Cor. Wealthy Ave. and Ionia on M.C,. R. R,
BRANCH OFFICE:
Builders’ Exchange.
ENGRAVING
It paysto ements yas business. Portraits,
Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories,
Machinery, etc., made to order from photo-
graphs.
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
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APPLE BUTTER. uinces.
Chicago goods............ Ty ses | Common es os 1 10|
AXLE GREASE. | mea Raspberries. |
Frazer’s. gt eT ee 1 30}
Wood boxes, per doz...... go | Black Hamburg....... 1 50 |
3 doz. case... 2 40} Erie, Nitee. 55... 1 40
“ ts ‘Per Bross. a 2 00| Strawberries.
25 Ib. pails, . Ne |
2 Ea Mn gs | Hamborg 2, 2 25 |
Aurora. Bee 65 |
Wood boxes, per doz...... 60 Whortleberries.
“ 3 doz. case... 1 75 Common eee. 1 40
sa +e per gross.... 6 00 re w 12
Sia Prvenerriog 00)... 1 30
| MEATS
Ww ood boxes, per Gon. ..... 50 si
Corned beef, Libby’s. ..2 10
3 doz. case... 1 50 oe
“ “ per gross... 5 50/| Roast beef, Armour’s.......1 7
Poaiion. i e Potted ham, i Ib... 6
ah padie ota ea Mi Tbe. oe 65
a BAKING POWDER. | eae a bt weece- eed =
ee ee a > |
co : = cans, oo oh = | “ @hicken, 4 Ib......, 95 |
“ * i. ‘“ ee VEGETABLES,
. Oe 10 | Beans.
Telfer’s, ‘ im cans, doz. . 45 | Hamburg tert ap ae 1 23)
‘ | rench style..... 2
“ i kee al ae a a 1 40 |
Arctic, % b cans Poe ceed | Lima, ereen 190)
ce 16; SOenen 90 |
“6 1” * ........... 260) Dewis Boston Gakod 1S
“ 51 cc ae 9 60 | Bay State Baked............ 1 35 |
Red Star, 4 tb onie........ oo; Worlds Por... 1 35)
ie a gO | Corn
sig 2 ee 1 2
Co 1 00
BATH BRICK. sal
Savin da case. Purity Cee ie oe 1 10
Caste go | Erie .....-.-.. Se eee a 115)
TOMI ies eee as =
Domestic 60 | Hamburgh marrofat ........ |
ees lat early June....... 50
Arctic, 4.0z ovals.. 40) w. champion of En-
a ee 7 00 | ty ae woos nese seen econ en eens i
“pints, round ........ Wise ee gh petit pois -.....1 &
“ No. 2, sifting box... 2 75 ancy sifted ....1 90}
‘“ No. 3 4 00 —..hlw,ttCC«Ci«i;‘C‘a‘“ 65
ke aa “ " 8 00 | Harris sts ands a 7D |
* oz Hall a 4 50 | ¥ an c amp’s Marrofat .1 10
a a | Early June...... 1 30
on see BROOMS, + } s reher’ s Early Blossom....1 35 |
ae san TOMGR 1 80
ete renee te os aT Mushrooms. |
7 2 Carpet......-..-2...55 25 | French 1718 |
ee 2 50 "Pumpkin. 77” on
Sachin oo 2% Erie ..... 90 |
Common Whisk............ 90 —_— mn
ee ee See | a 1 30]
ae 3 25 Succotash.
Warehouse........ =O) Magne 1 40}
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR. eee 85 |
eee cea 5 00} Honey Dew.... 1 60}
Mek oeeee. 6... se MIQMDGrS.. 0... ee |
ee SCPE 8 4 50 Tomatoes. |
BUTTERINE Van Camp’y............. 21. 1 10}
Creamery. No. Comiaa.. (3... . 110 |
Solid packed... a 134, | Hamburg ................... 1 30
Rolls .. : ’ o 14 Hencoce .... 1 05 |
elie “peice eee Cate oc 2%
— WOCKOG is. 11 CHOCOLATE—BAKER'S |
oe. 11% | German Sweet........ ... 22 |
CANDLES ee 34 |
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes. . _ 10% | Fure...... we crete cere a 38 |
ee i 10% | Breakfast Cocoa........ . 40
Peremeee.. ................ 12 CHICORY.
wie... ............ . oo Deee......
nee
N > s 8 CHEESE,
asses — W. ¥. or Lenawee..... @12
Clams. i . @11%
Little Neck, 11b............ 1 10 Ordinary. cream. @ll
on 1 99 | Skim doe et cce ce @10
dau C howder. oo oe... Q22
Standard, 3 lb. .. 2 30 Edam ....- @1 00
Cove Oy sters. Swiss, imported . 24@ #25
Standard, 1]b./............ 1 10 domestic 156@ 16
ns 3 ig) -emburger. “ = ee ey $9 Condented, 28 nt
820, ‘6s ae 5 00 } ‘ + ; _mavcume.
Subject to the following || oO epee... 2 00
ocsubiect to the following dis | ooo perr...............) we
9 [Ne Shame... .... 1 10
a | i oe... 425
“sc 6 ‘sc | MOLASSES.
oe ieee - | Blackstrap.
| CRACKERS, Sumer heMee |... 6... 16
| Kenosha Butter............. 7% | Cuba Baking.
iacuear = |. Ge | Crainary |... 19
Butter.. ol er Porto Rico.
" family.. ee ee 19
“ween... ... Gi, | Manes 23
(Soa 7% New Orleans.
relvooga ...... ....... i ee. ve
Se | Good ....... 20
Se OO lk. 5% } Bxtra good................ 26
€ ‘ity Muiee Wee. Bie; Cheiee 30
CREAM TARTAR, Paneer... ..... 36
Sistetle pure. 30 | One-half barrels, 3¢ extra
Telfer’s Absolute.......... PE ue
ee ee a en oo Qi xo
svonaugvenmansian ina ait barrels 100........... @3 75
ae | ROLLED OaTS
DRIED FRUITS. | Half bbls 90.. : @3 75
Apples. | Barreis (hg... -. 2... @7 25
Sune@rieg 000000 /10 10. @11%4 | rick sn
Evaporated ........... 14 @1459 | Barrels. 1.2 .o i ie
California Evaporated. ; parreis, 1,200 count........35 50
Apricots 19 | Half barrels, 600 count.... 3 75
Apricots...-.....++++-- § Small
sear a = Barrels, 2.400 count .......10 00
Possess 20 Half barrels, 1,200 count... 5 50
| Beaches: ... -... ee 20 oe
a Seem... 02... = Clay, No, 216. 1%
eek ‘ ml count........ a
Prunes, — ae 13 Cob, No. 3.. ee
NES. RI E.
wieeey @ 9 De Eie
Bosnia..... .......-+-. @10 Carolina head................ q
Preece ............... @i1 Nai... 6
PEEL. ' Ne 5
| bemon............... : RS ba
Orange... . penser 18 re.
u N. oapan, Mat... ..... 6
in Gime... @is “F ee Sa
| In boxes............... en i Jeve
CURRANTS. aes.
Zante, in barrels...... @ 5% ROOT BEER.
. m -bbis...... @ 5% Williams’ Extract.
: in less quantity a Su | 2 centasize.......... 1 &
RAISINS—California. coe $5 00
[eGR cece. a, 71 SAUERKRAUT.
London Layers, 2 cr’n 2 10} Barrels.. Pe ote cone ee OU
: os 2 20| Half barrels............. ... 2 50
| fancy. 28 SAPOLIO.
° :
—— a : bo Kitchen, 3 doz. in box. 2 50
Foreign. _ Hand zs UCC 2 50
= 7 SOUPS.
a -—- 8 @ 814 Snider's Tomato... ........2 40
Beles... ........... 16 @l7 nm
FARINACEOUS GOODS. SPICES.
Farina. Whole Sifted.
RO. tees... - 4 Ayes... 10
Hominy. Cassia, China in mats...... 7% |
Bertele............. moscesce & OO e Batavia in bund....15
GTits .......ecceeesecccccese “« Saizon in rolig......35
Lima Beans. Cloves, Amboyna...... Poh =
Detea._........ 6 _ a S
Maccaroni and papas Mace Pataym....... ....... 80
Domestic, 12 lb. b | Mutners, faney............. 80
Pegeted....-...--.... 11 . a 1. eee ee ceee ens ao
Pearl Barley. . — e
Eee... 3%@3% Pepper, singapore, black....15
Peas. white... .25
Green, b0.... .............. id ° shot... 1-19
Sl, BE eee 6 50 Pure aaa in Bulk.
Sago. Aves... ie
oo 5 Cassia, Batavia Sele eee ee 20
Ment ee... 5 and — 25
Wheat. _ ain =
Creche. 5 Cloves, Amboyna........... 30
Co a Omer... ..... 20
Ginger, Aereee........... 15
FISH--Salt.
Saaueen a 18 IMPERIAL.
“ aa tate eter ees 20 | Common to fair....... 23
Yarmouth.................. Mace Batavia............... = Superior to fine........30
Cod. Mustard, Eng. and Trieste.. ee
— eee gees oes ee ea 6 oe Seamens te 9 tec swesuc. : PE eal 18 @26
mick... Oe ee ee es Drees : pa
Strips... @9 Pepper, Singapore, black.. | Superior to fine....... 30 @40
“Halibut. white..... "30
feomed ............... 10% a ne Caogemee........... 25
Herrin See
Sewled o.oo all 24 “‘Absolute”’ in Packages,
Holland, bbls. . 11 00 4S S|
ont os 7% | Allspice ..............- 84 155
Round shore, a 2 75 | CInmamon............. of i 55
% bbl.. 1 50} Cloves................. 84 155
Mackerel. | Ginger, em. 84 155
No. 1, % bbis. OIbs........1200| ° AF---.--------- 84 155
No. 1, kita, 10 3he... 1 25 | Mustard weet ee cece ceeee 84 155
Family, % bbls., 90 Ibs..... | Pep a 84 1 &
its, 10 The... | Sage....... . 84
Pollock. | HG
Maney, aay 3 50@4 00 | SUGAR.
Sardines. Gut Tost.............. @ 5%
Huseten, Keae.............. 1 CMOS... . 2... @ 515
Trout. | Powderea ........... @ 53
No. 1, 4 bbis., 90 Ibs...... os | Gramuleted............ @ 4.44-%
Wo. 1, Kite, 10 The............ 80} Confeetioners A...... @ 431-3
Whitefish. | White Extra C........ ® 4%
Nae, ft, 44 bbls... OO Ibs, ....-.-7 00 | Extra Me ees es eet. @ 46
No. 1, kits, a" SEE A eA ee @4
Family, % bbls., 90 Ibs......3 00 Yellow @ 3%
Kits, 10 tbe......-.. Less hak 100 lbs. \%e advance
ENGLISH BREAKFAST,
tetas eden ane 8 @z
: i Qs
ee 40 @50
TOBACCOS.
Fine Cut.
Pails unless otherwise noted.
Pisweahe ............- 60
Sweet Cuba........... 34
McGinty ...... 24
bag 4 bt aa nee
Littio Daerling........ 22
“ 6 bbl. 20
Wee ees... te 20
fee, 44 DIB... .....2... 19
Valley City. es 83
Dandy Jim.. .. 27
| Plug.
Searncead.............- 40
a eT a 2
| Dts cocectede cscs. uss 22
Baw... oe 26
| Here tt te... ... 28
| Old Style........ 31
$)
a
37
24
Jas atler & Co.’ s Brands.
pomething Good.............. 37
Toss Up ee a
Out of Sig!
pressed,
erdog...|.... 15
PAPER & woop ENWARE
PAPER.
Curtiss & Co. quote
lows:
Straw
as fol-
ay COSCOMN se,
Cotton, No. 1.... 22
, 17s and 19s 2 50
15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
as 35
ea 4 1 oO)
l'ths, No.1 5
No.2 6 25
No.3 7
splint No.1 3 &
‘ No.2 425
bi No.3 5 00
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFES
WHEAT.
White 1 4
Red. . tee ee a. 1 04
All wheat bought on 60-lb. test.
Fee od, per LS ME 60
CORN
oa ioe... 74
a 70
OATS.
Snes 108... 60
Car Eo
HAY
ne 1..... stv edeceeessccece Soar
Me. 12 00
HIDES, PELTS and FURS
Perkins & Hess pay as fol
lows :
HIDES.
ree oo... 4@5
Par Cured............ @5i
Me FF 5 @&
a 6 @7
Ripa, green ..... ..... 4@5
“~ eured..... oa. oO GG
( alfskins, reen. . oS @é
cured.. ence 6 @8
Deacon sking.......... 10 @30
No. 2 hides 4 off.
PELTs.
Sbearines,............ 10 @25
Estimated wool, per 20 @28
WwooL.
Waseda... ............ 2@2
1U nwashed...... --- 10@2
MISCELLANEOUS,
er... @ 4%
Grease butter......... 1 @2
COON oc co, cae 14%@ 2
| Ginseng...............2 50@8 06
aw eager ~nepaeny arin
nese te agerry
14
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
MRS. GRAY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Ten years ago in a certain good-sized
town in Pennsylvania, there lived a fam-
ily whom I will call Mitchell.
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vault. A burglar alarm was connected |
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The fam-|
ily consisted of husband, wife, and two}
children, the latter being a boy aged 5
and a girl of 7. Mitchell was a private
banker, known to be honest, respectable,
and worth a clear $100,000. I knew lit-
tle or nothing about the family until cer- |
tain incidents occurred. One day his
wife was fatally injured in arailroad col-
lision at a point fifty miles from home.
When he reached her, in response to a
telegram sent by a stranger, he found she
had been removed to a hotel, and was be-
ing tenderly cared for by a woman who
gave her name as Mrs. A. B. Gray of Phila-
delphia. She was on the train, but suf-
fered no injury.
Mrs. Gray, as I might as well tell you
now, was petite, good looking, a good
talker, and, ina general way, captivat-
ing. The fact of her taking charge of
Mrs. Mitchell as she had done proved her
tender heart. She told Mr. Mitchell she
had been a widow eighteen months, and
was practically alone in the world, and
though he was burdened with grief and
anxiety, he did not forget to thank her
for her great kindness and to take her
address. He would have offered her
money for her services, but he saw that
she was a lady and would feel hurt by
any such action. She resumed her jour-
ney, and he took his wife home to die of
her injuries. It was three weeks after
her death that | came into the case. Af- |
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ter everything was over the husband sud- | ment that she had been induced to ac-
denly discovered that his dead wife’s
jewelry was missing. She had with her
when the accident took place, about a
thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds.
They had disappeared, and when hez:@ ne
to run over events in his mind he could
not remember that they had come home |
with her. Mrs. Gray had turned over to
him Mrs. Mitchell’s purse and a few oth-
er things,but a pair of diamond ear-drops,
two rings and a pin were missing.
I was employed to proceed to the
scene of the late accident and
trace the jewelry. The collision had oc-
eurred right at the depot in asmall town.
with the front doors and windows, but |
none with the back. A large and savage |
dog guarded the rear, having a kennel
close to the door.
What the banker wanted to see me
about was this: He had not only missed |
money from his wallet at night, but on |
two oeeasions considerable sums of mon-
ey had been taken from a small safe
which stood in his office outside the
vault. One of the mysteries was in the |
taking of the money. He employed a
teller and a book-keeper, neither of
whom had a key to safe or vault, unless
it was a duplicate made without his
knowledge. Neither had the word of
the combination of the vault, and it}
seemed impossible that they could have
taken the money even if so _ inclined.
| Both were perfectly honest so far as any
| was the guilty party,
| I didn’t drop a hint of my suspicions to
one knew, and Mitchell was all tangled |
up over the mystery. He had not talked
to me five minutes when I would have |
taken my solemn oath that Mrs. Gray
but, of course,
him. When it came my turn to ask
questions, I found out that he was a very
sound sleeper; that he occupied a front |
bedroom with his son; that Mrs. Gray
and the girl occupied one in rear of his,
with an entrance to both from a hall;
that the keys of the bank safe and vault
were always kept under his pillow at
night. Inaddition, Mrs. Gray had won
the hearts of his children, if not his own, |
and it was only by the strongest argu-
cept a salary of $10 per week while occu-
pying her position. It was as plain as
idaylight to me that Mitchell meant to
wasn’t at all plain as to what sortof a
seheme she was working.
I took the case, told Mitchell I had a}
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|nocent-looking little woman, seemingly
seek to}
| deal, and I was on hand to follow her.
People about the depot and at the hotel |
assured me that Mrs.
jewelry on when taken to the hotel. The
landlord’s
doctor whe was called in was positive,
and when I had worked the case out I
returned home to report to Mitchell that
nobody but Mrs. Gray could have taken
the jewelry.
dignant, and not only vigorously repu-
diated the implication, but discharged
me from the case with the assertion that
I was a novice in the profession. No
other detective, working without bias,
could have come to any other conclusion
than I did, and, feeling sure of this fact,
I was not so much put out over his act-
ion.
Mitchell had her |
| all right, and I had putin a month on the
wife was positive, and the |
jthe outside
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Gray. I found her to be a sweet and in- |
devoted to the children, and had I not
been a detective and 2a married
man I might have fallen in love with her.
lt was in summer and she was out a great
It seemed to be time thrown away, how- |
ever. She was shy,prudent aud apparently |
ease and had made no discovery when
safe was robbed again.
| A deposit and some bonds had come in|
He was astonished and in- |
at the last moment and had been placed |
there for the night. The whole thing
amounted to about $900, and bonds and}
greenbacks were missing next morning. |
The safe had not only been opened with |
a key, but the bank had been entered by |
unlocking the rear door. No one could |
| have entered by the front without sound-
jing an alarm.
| entered at the
I have found in my long experience |
that most people who employ a detective |
on a blind case expect him to think as
they do, and to follow up theories form-
ed in advance of his employment.
I went about other business, and it was
about four months before I saw Mitchell
again. Then he sent for me in anofficial
capacity again. No reference was made
to my previous work, but fresher and
other troubles had come to him. A
month after the death of his wife he had
opened correspondence with Mrs. Gray,
and the result was that she had come on
to take charge of his house. He was
without relatives, or, at least, without
| the bank and open the
No stranger could have
back on account of the
dog,which was wide awake and all right.
When Mitchell sent for me to give me
the news 1 was. perfectly satisfied
that Mrs. Gray was the guilty party. 1)
believed she had the nerve to enter his
room in the night, secure the keys and
then slip through the back yard, enter
safe. When I
learned that the dog was a great favor-
ite of hers this belief was a certainty. I
| couldn’t, for the reasons already given, |
say a word to Mitchell about this. He |
| wanted to suspect his two employes, but |
when we had canvassed the matter he |
| was made to see that it was altogether |
those who could aid him in his situation, |
and she claimed to be free in her move-
ments. You will suspect, just as I did,
that she had captivated him, but he
fought
the sort. She wasin his house to care
for his children and to manage domestic
matters, and that was no one’s business
but their own.
I haven't told you about the bank. It
was situated just a square from his
house, and exactly in rear of it. The
house fronted on one street and the bank
on another, and there was no alley be-
tween. Indeed, the rear yard of the
house led right up to the rear door of the
bank, and Mitchell used to come and go
through the yard. In rear of the bank-
ing, were the private offices
shy of any acknowledgment of |
occupied her usual seat for an hour with-
ing rooms, divided off by the usual rail-|out anything happening.
unlikely that either of them was guilty. |
Indeed, he was alone in the bank when |
the bonds and money came in, and he
alone knew where the deposit
placed.
What did I do? [ turned to Mrs. Gray |
again, and in about a week something
happened to prove thatl wason theright |
trail. One of the street car lines of the
town ran down to the railroad depot. It
was Mrs. Gray’s habit of an afternoon to
ride on this line with the little girl as far
down as acertain park, and to sit near
the fountain and read while the girl
romped about with other children. | had
closely watched her while in this park,
but no one had ever come near her, and
her demeanor had been perfection. On
the third afternoon after the robbery she |
I sat on a
and the! benchin rear of her and about thirty
was |
SUMMER SHOES.
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. 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’ Faney and House Slippers.
Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’ Canvas Bals.
Bay State Tennis Shoes, the best line for the money in the market.
We
keep them in stock in Men’s and 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.
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.
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 seeure 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 59 miles south of
Cuba. They are beautiful birds, with green
plumage and red breast, easily cared for and
intelligent. {f captured when young and well
eared for, a Pine Island Parrot NEVER FAILS TO
BECOME A GOOD TALKER. Our birds are all se-
eured by Our Own Agent, He is a competent
man of fifty years’ experience, and will secure
only healthy, sel cted 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 “PRETTY POLLY” cigars, and
there is no better 5 cent cigar in the market. The
trade is strictly net.{#35 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 @®NE 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.
We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1891.
Correspondence solicited.
81 SOUTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
feet away, and by and by I noticed that
she was writing a note with a pencil.
She did it so deftly that one sitting in
front of her could not have told what
she was at. Beside her wasalarge shade
tree, and as near as I could make out
she disposed of the note, when folded up,
somewhere about the tree. When she
left I followed her for a short distance,
and looking back I sawa young and well
dressed man occupying the place vacated
by her. An hour later, when I could ex-
amine the tree, I found a hollow in the
trunk just about on a line with her
shoulder as she sat on the bench. One
not looking for it would have sat there
fifty time and discovered nothing.
My theory was that she had an accom-
plice—the young man whom I had seen.
The hollow in the tree was their post
Office. Next day I was at the park half
an hour before her usual time, and be-
hold! the young man was occupying that
bench. As she appeared he got up and
took a seat a hundred feet away, and, by
watching closely, 1 saw that she took a
note from the tree. Before leaving she
wrote and ‘‘posted’’? one in reply, and
after she was gone [saw him get it. 1
was now certain that I was on the right
trail, and I went to Mitchell to secure
some particulars I wished to know. 1
told him I had a elue, but would not re-
veal which way it led. I learned from
him that the combination of the vault
door had four numbers, and he alone
knew it. It had been changed about a
month after Mrs. Gray’s arrival, and he
hesitatingly admitted that the word was
‘‘Aime,” which was her Christian name.
He would not, however, admit that this
fact was known to her.
For two weeks after
formation 1 hardly got sight of Mrs.
Gray. For some reason she remained
very closely at home. I found out from
Mitchell ina roundabout way that the
money needed to pay the men at a coal!
mine and also at a large factory was de-
posited with him on the 14th of every
month. It was simply passed in to him to
be locked up in the vault overnight as it
came up from Pittsburg by messenger. I
reasoned that Mrs. Gray would worm
this information out of him in some way,
or that her accomplice would discover it,
and that if she had the combination of
the vault she would make her strike on
the night of the 14th. On the 12th day
of August she exchanged notes at
the park, also on the 13th. On this
latter date I shadowed the young man for
three hours, and became satisfied that he
was from Pittsburg, and a‘‘slick ’un.’’
Among the things that he did was to go
to the depot and enquire about the vari-
ous night trains, and particularly one
which passed over the road half an hour
after midnight.
I promised Mitchell that a climax
would soon be reached, and then staked
my allon what might happen on the
night ofthe 14th. At 8 oclock that even-
ing I threw a piece of ‘‘dosed’’ meat to
his dog from a neighboring yard, and at
10 I softiy climbed the fence to find the
canine in his kennel, and sick enough to
remain there. I lay down within ten feet
of him, hidden behind a bush, and it was
an hour and a half before anything hap-
pened. Everybody in the neighborhood
was in bed and asleep by that time, and
I was not greatly surprised when a fe-
male figure which I knew to be that of
Mrs. Gray, suddenly appeared and passed
me five feet away, going toward the
bank. She stopped at the kennel to
speak to the dog, and then opened the
rear door and entered. I did not move
from my hiding place until she reappear-
ed, about twenty minutes later. She
carefully locked the bank, and as she
passed me on the way to the house I fol-
lowed quickly behind. The keys she
laid on the back steps, softly opened the
side gate, and I let her reach the street
before I brought matters to a climax.
She was only out of the gate when she
was joined by a man, but when I rushed
to seize them he got the alarm and was
off before I could grab him. I got her,
however, and she had a bundle under her
arm, which I took charge of—a bundle
containing about $19,000 in greenbacks.
What a nervy woman she was! She
just simply laughed a bit as I led her up
the steps and rang the bell to arouse
securing this in-
Mitchell, and when I had told him all,
and had the money and keys to prove it,
she just looked up at him with a smile
and. asked:
‘*‘Well, what of it?’’
The ‘‘what of it??? was a corker.
Mitchell couldn’t let the public know
that his bank could be so easily robbed,
and he couldn’t let society know that he
had been duped by an adventuress, and
after a consultation he ac ‘tually gave that | |
little adventuress $200 in cash to clear
out. She went, and as I left her at the
depotshe said :
“Give the old man my love when you
get back to the house, and ask him if he|
never heard of Tony Weller’s advice.”’
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Sugar Inquiries Answered.
From the New York Shipping List.
Prorta, Ill., April 30.
Please give us some information on the fol- |
GRAND RAPIDS HAND SGREW CO
Is it likely ‘that by reason of market fluctua- |
— there may be any refined sugar (granulat- |
Grand Rapids Storage & Transfer Co, Limite
lowing points, and greatly oblige
W. H Bontrace.
1. What duty is levied on imported German or
Frene h beet sugar?
ed) imported from England or Scotland?
3. What number covers (under D. S.
granulated sugar?
4. How many degrees apart are the D. S. num-
bers, as near as may be ascertained by color?
5. In what shape is beet refined imported?
6. What is amount of bounty per pound paid |
to the ¢ German sending it to this country?
Whence come the low grades of yellows |
for § grocers’ use, which are beginning to come to
this country?
REPLIES TO ABOVE.
system)
All sugars above No. 16 Dutch|
standard in color shall pay aduty of one-
half cent per pound, provided that all
sugars above No. 16 Dutch standard in
color shall pay one-tenth of one cent |
per pound in addition to the rate herein
provided for, when exported from, or|
the product of any country when and so}
long as such country pays or shall here-
after pay, directly or indirectly, a bounty
on the exportation of any sueh sugar
which may be included in this grade
which is greater than is paid on raw
sugars of a lower saccharine strength;
and on sugars after being refined, when
tinctured, colored, or in any way adul-
terated, five cents per pound.
. It is possible.
. None.
There is no way to determine.
. In bags of 225 pounds each.
6. The present bounty, or profit ac-
cruing to the manufacturers is conceded
to be about 2.12 marks per 100 kilograms.
During the last year it is estimated that
the German government suffered a net
loss of 16,000,000 marks from this source.
The new bill in relation to the sugar in-
dustry was under discussion in the Reich
stag the other day. The Secretary of the
Treasury, in the course of a speech, ad
mitted that from a financial point of
view, the complete elimination of the
bounty clause from the bill would be
altogether advantageous. But, he said,
such a step would not in the least accord
with the policy of the government at
this time. He expressed the belief that
the German sugar industry would be
able to compete successfully with the
industry of foreign countries, even if the
bounties were entirely cut off.
~. From the West India Islands. Mo-
lasses sugar has recently sold in this
market at 3° cents and Muscovado 3%
a 3% for grocers’ use. There is very
little yellow sugar coming to this port
which would be acceptable for consump-
tive purposes without Sen,
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Advertising the Soup.
From the National Advertiser.
By renting turtles to restaurants for
advertising purposes, a citizen of St.
Louis, Mo., manages to make a very com-
fortable living. The turtles are always
in great demand, and he receives two
dollars per day for each. He leaves
them outside the door of the eating
place before the turtle soup is served.
This creates arun on the soup, but the
big shell fish is not in it.
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Misunderstood His Meaning.
A man went into a drugs store the
other day to buy some medicine and en-
enquired: ‘‘Do you keep the best drugs?”
**You can’t get better, sir.’’
“Too bad, no use of medicine, then.
Good day.’’
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gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders,
SOMETHING NEW!
Our Folding Basket Rack.
racks now
not strong enough,
use.
Our racks
several hundred
closed are but three inehes
and yet cost less than others.
tipped at any angle
stand solidly on uneven floors.
They are made in
viz., 16, 22 and 28 inches.
Price per doz. $2.
They will hold baskets le
» desired, and
three h
Grand
Rapids,
The two main objections to other
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and second, they
take up too much room when not in
will support a weight of
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when
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
General Warehovsemen and Yransfer Agents.
COLD STORAGE FOR BUTTER,
ALL KINDS OF
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and Jobbers in Mowers,
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and Machine and Plow repairs, Ete.
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Ww E us for Samples and Prices.
Possibly we can save
you
money. We have a good white en-
velope (our 154) which we sell :
No 6
500
1,000
2,000
3,000
10,000
$1.40
2.40
2.15
1.75
1 60
No 6%
Size 3'4x6 Size
35gx6i4
$1.50
2.50
2.25
1.85
1.70
Special prices on larger quantities.
This is not acheap stock, but
fair envelope.
good
We have cheaper and
have better grades, but can recom-
mend this one.
THE TRACESMAN COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Above Prices Include Printing?
TRE CRACKERS
IRE WORKS
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The Care of the Eyes.
For a reader to fasten two eyes on
these lines and carry them back and
forth for hours over the page, making
himself master of their meaning, de-
mands a high degree of mechanical and
chemical power, any loss or impairment
of which either diminishes the sight
itself or the power of endurance for pro-
longed near work. To produce these
lines the various types were laboriously
placed in proper position, inked, and by
the mechanical! force of the press stamped
upon the paper and rendered permanent;
but before they can be read, each of
these three processes must be imitated
by the eye, the front curved surface of
which makes a minute fac-simile of each
word, the muscular part presses it upon
the nervous sheet which is stretched at
the’ back of the globe, where photo-
chemical results are caused which are
transmitted through the optic nerve to
the intellectuai centres in the brain, and
all of these are accomplished instan-
taneously.
he eye therefore must be regarded as
an optical instrument similar to the photo-
grapher’s camera, and must
high degree of mechanical accuracy to
perform the complicated visual actions
needed for perfect rr distant
objects or prolonged power of read
other near work. The
perfect eye are well known and demand
an equal curvature of the different
meridians of the anterior transparent
window, a globe of tissue give form,
of sucha size asto yi
DOSS@SS a
po t
sipnt, &
qualities of a
d a distance of
nine-tenths of an inch from the anterior
surface tothe retina or sereen behind,
eh can
compress the lensof the eye
and hold the images in contact with
the retina. Its happy possesso1
throughout his life distant things with-
out any effort, is able to use the muscular
part for hours each day in his near work
until after forty-five years of age, can
readily continue his work afterwards
with simple glasses, and may i
unconscious of possessing visual organs.
This type of eye is unfortunately in the
sees
One Pound Decorated Tins
1 DOZ. IN A CASE.
ALWAYS UNIFORM.
minority in cultivated communities and
may number perhaps twelve in each
hundred.
Those with mechanical defects are
more numerous and are classed as astig-
matic, due to malformations in the causes
of the anterior surface; far-sighted,
due to diminished size in the globe, and
near-sighted, caused by elongation of
the ball: and sight in sueh eyes is either
imperfect or is secured by incessant and
straining use of the muscular parts
iwhich should be entirely at rest for all
distant sight. These efforts to compel a
defective apparatus to perform efficient
work lead to chronic inflammations of the
lids and external parts and to dangerous
changes in the interior of the globes;
the eyes may become hot, sensitive to
light or painful, or there may be head-
ache more or less severe over the brow,
through the temples orin the back of
the neck and head, which has only
recently been ascertained to be caused
by eye strain. Reading then becomes
laborious if not impossible, advantages
of education cannot be embraced, or
congenial pursuits are abandoned for
those in which success may be never
attained.
The examinations of thousands of
students in various countries show
conclusively that the eyeball has a ten-
dency to become elongated and near-
ighted; one German observer reporting
an increase in the percentage from 12 in
the primary schools to 62 in the
university; and when it is conceded that
this ehange is produced by persistent
application in near work and is attended
by an attenuation of the coats of the eye-
ball at its posterior pole, with changes
of structure visible by the ophthal-
moscope, constituting permanent disease
and frequent loss of sight, it will readily
be believed that sucb over-strain must
be most injurious and should be averted
by all mechanical or hygienic pre-
The too early commencement
of school life, the confinement of children
to rooms deficient in ventilation and the
enforcement of tasks upon the eyes on
badly printed books in rooms not suffi-
cautions.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
ciently lighted, may be mentioned as
evils of great magnitude.
To care for our eyes then is to be
aware that any symptoms of fatigue or
pain may be due to mechanical causes
which may lead to change of form or
structure, and which should be corrected
by the use of glasses selected with the
greatest care, to obviate any individual
peculiarities of form either congenital
or acquired, and to be used even in
childhood. No prolonged near work
should be done in a light, either natural
or artificial, which is felt to be too
feeble, nor in badly ventilated or close
rooms.
Since fatigue is usually due to the
strain upon the muscular apparatus,
and as this is greater in proportion to
the nearness of the work from the eye,
eare should be used to avoid bending
over or placing the head nearer to the
work than is requisite for clear vision.
The early use of glasses for persons
passing beyond middle life, and their
increase in power as it may be needed,
is also strongly advised.
The avoidance of all irritating gases,
smoke or dust, which are felt to produce
pain, and the suspension of near work
when it gives its danger signal of fatigue,
are self evident.
Assuming the fact now admitted that
the most educated nations present the
highest average of diseased eyes, that
the cause and effect are now clearly
perceived in the overtasking of the
visual apparatus during the educational
period of life, it becomes requisite to
consider how instruction may be as
efficiently transmitted to the brain
through the organs of hearing as by
those of vision. WILLIAM THOMPSON.
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Secure Your Lemons Early.
A. E. Brooks & Co. have a carload of
fancy lemons, good keepers, now due.
This is the time to buy for Fourth of
July trade and dealers should not fail to
secure a few boxes early.
KATON, LYON & 60.,
JOBBERS OF
Stationery and Books
A Complete Line of
HAMMOCKS,
PISHING TACKLE,
MARBLES,
== BASE BALL G00DS ==
Our new sporting goods catalogue will be ready
about February 10th.
EATON,L YON &CO.,
20 and 22 Monree St.
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A. J. Bowne, President.
D. A. » « peETtT, Vice-President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier
~ $300,000.
CAPITAL, - -
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Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts
of Country Merchants Solicited.
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On long time if desired, or will exchange for
part productive real estate. Stock clean and
well assorted. Location the best in the city.
I wish to retire permanently from the drug bus-
iness.
Cc. L. BRUNDAGE,
Opp. New Post Office. 117 W. Western Ave.
Muskegon, Mich.
TRADE MARK
NO DEALER EVER LOST A CUSTOMER BY SELLING HiM
THE FRAZER
KNOWN EVERYWHERE.
OFTEN IMITATED.
Cheap Crease Kills Trade.
NO TALK REQUIRED TO SELL IT.
Cood Crease Makes Trade.
never counts. FRAZER HARNESS SOAP
FRAZER HARNESS OIL
FRAZER MACHINE OIL
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