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HARVEY & HEYSTEX, Wholesale Dealers in Wall Paper Picture Frame Mouldings. Also a complete line of PAINTS, OILS and BRUSHES. Correspondence Solicited. Warehouse, $1 & 83 Campau St. 74 & 76 Ottawa &t., GRAND RAPIDS. _— ESDAY, 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. “JT have pee Ug Sec WOMAN sn PER : : cs 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 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 } 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.” | lay a small bag of coin. but can not I prevent his! the | well | question I continually ask myself, and I CANTON CLOTH, BRANDENBURG CLOTH, B. C. SATINE, EXPORT SATINE, SERGE SATINE, CASHMERE SATINE, A. F. C. GINGHAM, SONORA GINGHAM, AMOSKEAG GINGHAM, STRAW WHOLESALE DRY GOODS. SUMMER WASH GOODS: OUTING FLANNELS, PRINTS, WIDE BLUES, SHIRTING, LYON SERGE, ARMENIAN SERGE, SEERSUCKERS, CHALLI, LAWNS. OUTING SHIRTS, SUMMER UNDERWEAR, PANTS, HAMMOCKS, HATS. P. STEKETEE & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS. Don't Get Down But Buy a KING SHOE PRICE IN BLACK, WITH PLUSH SEAT, ONLY $5. HIRTH & KRAUSE, SOLE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. on Your Knees! STOOL. HUTCHENS TRADE & POTTER, 1891 See our Line This season Michigan Representative, Mr. 6. G. Melntyre 141 Coit Ave., GRAND RAPIDS. MARK. GLOVE MAKERS, Johnstown, N. Y. Grand Rapids Electrotype Co., ELEGTROTY PERS AND STEREOTY PERS, Leads, Slugs, Brass Rule, Wood and Metal Furniture, 6 and 8 Erie St.,. GRAND RAPIDS. BEACH’S New York (offee Rooms. 61 Pearl Street. Five Cents Each for all dishes served from bill of fare. Steaks, Chops, Oysters and All Kinds of Order Cooking a Specialty. FRANK M. BEACH, Prop. nm ae ae Lent ge —_ 7 2 Seger — enema ts a eagenaneitera " 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. +2 << ___— | 1 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. 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FOR Mt oH MAKES i / SIx GALLONS iy 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. a a ee ee oe nah emma caer itt rin 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. | | | | | | | 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. —_—~>2-— 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. PHREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. fe } : 3 ; i i " pow sana 2 iin gas = og asc ‘ i 3 i ‘ one lb eal OE FRR tine gn tes = og asc greene sp tahoe entinate 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. > <- 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 | | | 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. a 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. a te 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. Bo Gan... ...,............._............ 45 i ee a. a a 7 Tubular eee LAMP CHIMNEYS. _ box. 6 doz. in box. = 0 Sun eee . 7 he eee eee ee 1 88 Sa 2 70 First quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top aS 2 25 _ 1 --.2 a 2 “se “ee “ 40 NSEX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crimp top ee eee eee ae ee 2 60 No. i a ee 2 80 No. - ° ea ey ce Pear! top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled feeds easy oe a . No. 2 —— . ° . La | Bastic. No. 1 can, plain bulb, per doz. ee cee 12 ee ee eee ue 1 50 No.1 crimp, per. poe eee teats ders acon. 135 Oe 1 60 FRUIT JARS. Mason’s or Lightning. i 87 50 ee... 8 CO OE eee 10 = eee ee 3 50 STONEWARE—AKRON. Bareeer Creme, er Wal... 2... 4, .........., 06% Jugs, i gal., per, doz Gees hue seeeececensccees = “2 4 oO TOO aN ~ Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. = pi es S WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, Marshall, Mich, 5 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. adie tl Pan ee ne Pe 9 AN AR RD Regge pee ae Bin yet any pe Mires York, NS SAO ETO aA TT ee eee oe irene 6 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... 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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. \ WBE i i ; } : i \ \ Mae a 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, — *t Se ees faa Aig Fas se abagpamctpaeainc spel or sage wwesdugee 12 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. | >.>. --- 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 | > 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 | | | | | | 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. | | APPLE BUTTER. uinces. Chicago goods............ 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(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.......... 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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...... 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"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. | ' vault. A burglar alarm was connected | | | 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- | | : i . g 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} | | | | marry her in due course of time, but it | | | | |theory, and then began to study Mrs. | |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 | 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. oa a Women’s Button Newports in Dongola, Grain and Glove Grain. . Lace or Tie Dongola Newport in plain or patent tip. - Russet Lace Newport in plain or patent tip. Misses’ and Child’s Newport Ties in Black or Russet. A Nice Line of Ladies’ 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. eine soa. Ragan ee bine etnias ast Kegon Ragan } 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.”’ a 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, cl a 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. a 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.’’ Ot Hm C9 2O | | | | | | j | Dealers 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 in use, are first, they are and second, they take up too much room when not in will support a weight of pounds, and when square, vel, or will eights, Winter St, between Shawmut Ave. and W. Fulton St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. General Warehovsemen and Yransfer Agents. COLD STORAGE FOR BUTTER, ALL KINDS OF Telephone No. 945. and Jobbers in Mowers, EGGS, CHEESE, PERISHABLES. FRUITS, AND Binders Twine, Threshers, En- Cultivators, Plows, Pumps, Carts, Wagons, Buggies, Wind Mills and Machine and Plow repairs, Ete. J. ¥. F. BLAKE, Sup'’t. o> 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 LAGS Toy Pistols, Paper Gaps, Kite, Climax cna ieusied and Best, A. FE. BROOKS & CoO., Confectioners, 46 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. conan tere ae oak Napa pee ot et gare eactierecacoca 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. ————>--4 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, - - Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. Drag Store for Sale at ¢ Bargain On long time if desired, or will exchange for part productive real estate. Stock clean and well assorted. Location the best in the city. 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 ithe as—nerleeanaateicheaateteee A roti