MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

VOL. &.

PEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK.

Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts.,

Capital, $100,000. Liability, $400,000.
Depositors’ Seeurity, $200,000.

OFFICERS.
Thomas Hefferan, President.
Henry F.. Hastings, Vice-President,
Charles M. Heald, 2d Vice-President.
Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
Hi. C. Russell
John Murray
J. H. Gibbs
. B. Judd
H. F. Hastings

D. D. Cody

S. A. Morman

Jas. G. MacBride

Wm. McMullen

D. E. Waters

Jno. Patton, Jr. C. M. Heald

Wm. Alden Smith Don J. Leathers
Thomas Hefferan.

Four per cent. interest paid on time certificates
and savings deposits. Collections promptly
made at lowest rates. Exchange sold on New
York, Chicago, Detroit and all foreign countries.
Money transferred by mail or telegraph. Muni
cipal and county bonds bought and sold. <Ac-
counts of mercantile firms as well as banks and
bankers solicited

We invite correspondence or personal inter-
view with a view to business relations.

S.A. Morman

WHOLESALE
Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio

+s 1, A EG,

Akron, Buffalo and Louisville

CEMENTS,

Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe,
FIRE BRICK AND CLAY.
Write for Prices.

20 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

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We carry the largest line in field and
garden seeds of any house in the State
west of Detroit, such as Clover, Timothy,
Hungarian, Millet, Red Top; all kinds
of Seed Corn, Barley, Peas, in fact any-
thing you need in seeds.

We pay the highest price for Eggs, a
all times. We sell Egg Cases No. 1 at
35¢e, Egg case fillers, 10 sets in a case a
$1.25 a case.

W. YT. LAMOREAUX & 60.,

128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

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ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH.

Allen Durfee & Co.,

FUNERAL DIRECTORS,

103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids.

CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS

PAMPHLETS.

For the best work, at reasonable prices, address
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GRAND RAPIDS,
ESTABLISHED 1841.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

i. (. Fem & Go.

Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections
attended to throughout United States
and Canada

SEEDS!

Write for jobbing prices on
Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke and
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Grass, Red Top, Blue Grass,

Field Peas, Beans and Produce.

0, AINSWORTH

76 So. Division St. GRAND RAPIDS,

A. D, SPANGLER & CO.,
GENERAL

Commission Merchants

And Wholesale Dealers in
Fruits and Produce.

We solicit correspondence with both buy-
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SAGINAW, E. Side, MICH.

HARVEY & HEYSTEK,

Wholesale Dealers in

Wali Paper

—— AND —

Picture Frame Mouldings.

Also a complete — of PAINTS, OILS and
BRUSHES

Correspondence Solicited.
Warehouse, 81 & 83 Campau St.

74 & 76 Ottawa St, GRAND RAPIDS.

WOOL.

Consignments of woo! solicited. Parties
shipping us wool can depend on all the
market will allow. Our facilities for
grading and handling are the very best.
Wool will be promptly graded and paid
for on arrival.

[. AINSWORTH & C0.

GRAND RAPIDS.

Fine Millinery
Wholesale and Retail,

LACE, LEGHORN AND FANCY STRAW HATS
& BONNETS IN ALL LATEST ‘STYLES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAIL ORDERS ATTENDED TO PROMPTLY.

Adams & Co.,

90 Monroe St., Opp. Morton House.

 

WE ‘DN ESDAY,

 

JUN Ee 3 , 1891.

NCl13---THE OPERATOR’S STORY.

One afternoen last September, at the
Glen Mountain House, at Watkins Glen,
New York, a telegraphic friend told me
how he won great success in his profes-
sion, as follows:

Almost three years ago I first visited
this famous watering-place. I had been
‘“‘working a circuit’? in various cities,
and stopped off here for a little recrea-
tion.

One evening, in the dining room, amid

the clatter of dishes and knives and
forks, my trained ear caught a meaning
from the idle drumming on the table of
knives in the hands of two well-dressed
men opposite me. To the crowd, if
noticed at all, these sounds only indi-
cated impatience at the hurrying, yet de-
layed waiters.
"If it had beem commonplace conversa-
tion I should not have heeded their com-
munieation, except, perhaps, for sport
to ‘‘eall’? them. They ticked off a phrase
or two at intervals during their meal.
Once the head-waiter noticed the clink-
ing of a spoon upon a cup, and enquired
if either of them wanted anything. For
an instant they were confused, then one
said he wanted more coffee. A waiter
replenished his nearly full cup. After
that the ticks were less’ frequent. Of
course, it was none of my business, but
I could not help hearing the tick-talk,
and the conversation was so curious that
it greatly interested me.

That very evening, while I was read-
ing in the office, the two conversers in
lighting-lingo at the table came in
lit fresh cigars. Occasionally the hotel
“sounder” clicked tidings from the
world in the surrounding night. The
death of aman of national prominence
was heralded by the instrument. Be-
fore the hotel operator informed the by-
standers of that important news one of
the stranger ope! — said to the other:
‘*He’s dead at last.’

‘‘Hush!” whispered the other.

Nobody seemed to notice the betraying
observation or its rejoinder.

and

As I wondered at the object in view of
that pair of mysterious conversers I did
not reveal my identity, but determined
to heed any signs. Whenever they were
in the dining-room first I thought best
not to sit near them, and, therefore, did
not then obtain any peculiar information.

After a steamboat ride on beautiful
Senaca, I visited Ithaca, to inspect Cor-
nell University. When I returned to
Watkins, the landlord told me he was
sorry he could not give me my former
room, because of an extra large excur-
sion party. He could, however, give me
one as good, which I thankfully accepted.

That night 1 was far from being sorry
for the change of room, as I heard mys-
terious raps on the wall. Somebody was
signalling to someone in another room.
If the message had been ordinary I
should have signalled that I was an un-
intentional listener.

It was the same old jargon of unmean-
ing words and phrases. From the fre-
quent repetition of some of them, a few
had become familiar to me. AS a com-

 

 

NO. 402

mercial operator, I had handled many
cipher messages. To amuse myself I
tried to solve these. Inthem a leading

”

expression had been: ‘“
Now the raps said:

The soup is late.
“The soup is getting

hot.’? I was more than ever convinced
there was a plot somewhere about some-
thing. These conversations being dis-

guised were in themselves suspicious. I
thought I had made out some of the key
to the cipher.

As the night was pleasant I went down-
stairs and took a stroll. A
peeped out. The wind sighed through
the famous gorge close i I
along, cautiously, however,
cent chasm would have

few stars
sauntered
as the adja-
been a conven-
ient place for a footpad to dispose of his
victim without exciting alarm.

Suddenly I saw a light flash out and
disappear above the glen. Almost with-
out any reason,I turned my head and saw
a light flash from the upper portion of
the hotel. The moonless night swallowed
up both lights. Perhaps the light in the
hotel was accidental. Maybe my excited
were deceived about the
over the glen. Nobody of
blood could flash a light one hundred
and fifty feet above the little stream
whose voice was lost in the black depths
below. Perhaps it was a firefly flashing
its tiny lamp out in that emptiness near-
ly five hundred feet from bank to bank
at that point.

senses gleam

flesh and

I stepped close to a large tree, and
thought for some time about the un-

known ingredients of that ‘‘soup.’”’ I
hugged the friendly pine tree as
body walked cautiously past, going to-
wards the hotel. A few minutes after I
determined to investigate one theory.

some-

track of the
I crept along the
I esti-
the light flashed
groped for

You

Cautiously I sought the
railway. Carefully
ties and went out over the abyss.
mated the distance where
and
knew not what.
foolish.

earnestly something, I

may think I was
to the hotel
beside a rail,
struck a match
I perceived that

back
hand,

I was about
when my
touched a fine wire. I
and, shielding the

to go

right

blaze,
the copper wire ran
tied
timber. The
towards the hotel.

The brief light
clung, held up by the
for all its stone,
to almost sway in the
down the eanyon. Taking out my pock-
et-knife, I grasped the wire on the out-

into a pasteboard

eult-box, securely under a _ eross-

wire led off into the air
There I
which,
seemed

was out.
structure
iron and wood,

gale sweeping

side of the rail with my left hand, and,
with my right, closed over it the big

knife-blade. The severed end I
fastened around a rail.

You may be sure | carefully untied
that box. I was tempted to heave it into
the gorge, but recollected that
course would frustrate my plan to detect
and convict dynamiters. As if
treading a path among eggs, I started to
return. I left that mysterious box in a
summer house to guard against any spy
noting it in the hotel.

By urgent request,

outer

such a

those

the night clerk

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cautiously admitted me to the room of |
the proprietor. With due precaution, 1|
confided in him. He went out and gave |
the clerk some instructions in a low
tone, and handed me a pass-key. Islyly
went tomy room.

The house was still. Suddenly there
rang out an alarm of fire. Soon confu-
sion reigned. Guests were rudely awak-
ened. They hurried out of windows or
down the stairs. Ina few minutes ev-
erybody returned, pale, trembling, and
nervous. The fire had been put out with
not very heavy damage, strange to say.
Nobody, fortunately, was hurt. Every-
body congratulated everybody on narrow
escapes. ‘To this day there are, I under-
stand, only three persons who have
known the origin of that fire alarm.

To any outsider would it not have been
surprising that the occupants of rooms
adjoining mine were more dressed than
any others of the fleeing guests? Furth-
ermore, my neighbors had searcely disap-
peared downstairs till my pass-key fur-
nished by the proprietor was used. If
ever an intrusion was justifiable that;
was, for a quick glance, before a hasty
exit, showed me a lighted bull’s-eye Jan-
tern set on the carpet, and near it an
open valise. That valise held an electric
battery. Its wires led to another valise
which contained a reel from which led a
wire running through a space beneath
the partially-raised lower sash out into
the darkness toward the railway bridge.

Searcely had the fire-alarm commotion
subsided when there was a rumbling
and a roar in the quiet night. The New
York night express was nearing Watkins
Glen Station. The bridge watchman
came from his shanty, and signaled: ‘‘Go
ahead!” To what? The ponderous train
crept over the bridge. I shuddered,
thinking of what might have happened.

The conspirators were hushed. I could
imagine one, whose room gave him a
a view of the bridge, peering out anx-
iously as the train’s light flashed onto
the doomed bridge. Did any remorse
seize him for the dastardly deed of try-
ing to hurl that unwarned train to cer-
tain death and ruin? He seized the reel
with one hand to quickly draw in the
With the other
he pressed the electric button and speed-
ed the fatal spark to the end of the wire.
The devilish contrivance did not work.

evidence of his crime.

Before the fiend could recover from his
astonishment the train had passed safely
across the bridge.

With an oath the villain turned as the
door was flung open, and revolvers held
him prisoner. The tarantula, when cor-
nered, stings itself. The train-wrecker
pushed his right hand into a side-pocket,
and withdrew it, not holding a revolver,
but something which he swollowed. He
staggered and fell—dead. Prussie acid,
carried for years, had rescued him from
earthly punishment. His partner, next
door, was captured by surprise. He,
too, was fully dressed, but stoutly de-
nied his complicity in any crime.

The electric wire, infernal apparatus,
machine, and my testimony convicted
him. He is now visiting Auburn, to be
entertained by the state for ten years.
He turned traitor to the rest of the gang,
and tried to turn state’s evidence. A
number of rascals had planned to wreck
that train. Several stationed themselves
in the glen below to plunder the debris

and bodies.
My good luck in frustrating the mur-
derous design commended me to the rail-|

 

road company, and I was given a lucra-
tive position as some of my reward for
preventing what would have proven a
calamity almost unparalled in the histo-
ry of railroads. That cuff-box box is kept |
among the archives of the company. |
Come out north of here to-morrow, and |
I will show you a hole like a cellar dug}
by the explosion of its contents. It con- |
tained enough dynamite and NCI5—ter- |
chloride of nitrogen—to have more than

accomplished its villainous purpose.
1.G. LA Monir. |

> +
Decadence of the Poorhouse.
One of the most terrible phantoms that |
used to stalk in the pathway of the poor |
man a generation ago, was the dread that
after all his life of toil he might come to
the poorhouse at last. Or, if he was for-
tunate enough to die in his own bed at|
home, he might after all be indebted to
the parish for a coffin, and find a grave
in the Potter’s field. It was no use to
tell him that poverty was no disgrace— |
disgrace or no disgrace, the dread of it}
was strong enough to sadden all his days,
and disturb his nights with unquiet
dreams. He knew very well that people
who ought to know better,
would look askance at his children if
their father died in the poorhouse, or
was buried by the parish. Of course,
very much of this was mere sentiment.
But sentiment is often very powerful.
The shame of the poor, who are poor by
misfortune and not by fault, is much more
poignant than the shame of those who,
by idleness and unthrift, have kept poor
in spite of many opportunities to pro-
vide ampler means. We cannot shake
ourselves wholly free of the power of
mere sentiment. No doubt some of the
best men on earth have been very poor.
But apart altogether from its inconven-
ience, we have all a strong, inborn senti-
ment against poverty. And this dread
of the poorhouse and parish coffin that
disturbed poor men thirty years ago
commands our pity at the least. <A great
change has happily taken place in the
last ten or twenty years. We hear very
little of the poorhouse now. Men are
now complaining that all they can do is
just to make ends meet, and they count
themselves very lucky if they can put by
a little for a rainy day. Men say, and
justly, too, that life is not worth living,
if all one’s conscious hours and energies
are to be absorbed in merely supplying
the animal wants; home, food, clothing
and a very small medicum of the com-
forts of life. Allthis is true. And it
would be a bad sign if men sat down in
thorough contentment in such circum-

stances. To leave home at 7 o’cloek in

 

the morning and not return till 7. o’clock
in the evening, for ten, twenty, or forty
years and at the end of all that long |
servitude find that with eare and thrift,
with industry and sobriety, all that has |
been done has been just to meet the act- |
ual needs of life; this is not an encourag-

|

ing conclusion to iong years of toil. But
there is much cause for thankfulness |
and hope. We have got away from the!
poorhouse, and the parish coffin and the!
pauper’s grave. In this free country the
word ‘‘pauper” will soon have no mean-

ing at all. The toiler who asks with
some bitterness and discontent, ‘‘Is life |
worth living?’’ will probably find that he |
is walking a much easier path than his |
fathers trod, and he should be rejoiced |
at the assurance that there will be a}
much more pleasant path for the foot- |
steps of his children and his children’s
children. VINDEX.

 

 

 

 

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STRAW HATS.

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WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

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velope (our 154) which we sell :

500
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2,000
5,000

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No 6 No 6%
$1.40
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2.15
1.75
160

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$1.50
2.50
2.25
1.85
1.70

Special prices on larger quantities.
This is not acheap stock, but good
We have cheaper and
have better grades, but can recom-
mend this one.

” THE TRADESMAN COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

- Above Prices Include Printing!

 

HUTCHENS & POTTER,

TRADE

 

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See our
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This season

 

 

Michigan Representative,

Mr. 6. 6. McIntyre

141 Coit Ave.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

MARK.

GLOVE MAKERS,

Johnstown, N. Y.

 

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Breezy Epistle from a Canadian —

chant. |
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QureEn’s Hottow, Ont., May 16—I|
wish you would publish this letter in|
your paper, as I want to convince my |
son, Izik, that he is not so alfired smart |
as he thinks he is. You see it has taken |
me about two weeks to write it and when
Izik was in the store I would hide it in
the cracker barrel. One day he found it
and you ought to have seen him cut up.
He danced around the store and laughed
till the stovepipe fell a-straddle of seven |
rolls of butter and gave each a black eye.
Then he got mad and said he knew my
days of usefulness had long since de- |
parted but that he never dreamed that
I was such an incomprehensible ass as to
expect that a great paper like THe Micu-
IGAN TRADESMAN would publish such
rot as that. I said I didn’t care a cent if
it was a great paper, for you once pub-
lished some letters that a Mr. Snooks sent
you, and that I was a better spellar than
Mr. Snooks and that I didn’t believe that
Cant Hook Corners, where Mr. Snooks
lived, was any more of a place than
Queen’s Hollow. You see my Ann by
my first wife lives in a village called
Saginaw, somewhere in your State, and
her husband, who runs a grocery store,
takes your paper, and one time she came
home on a visit with her lunch wrapped
up in your paper and that’s how I came
to see Mr. Snooks’ letter.

I have told Izik, time and time again,
that I was several years older than he,
but he don’t appear to place any confi-
dence in what I say. Shortly after his
mother died a sort of a chronic tiredness
seemed to spread all over him and he got
too infernal lazy to turn the grindstone
or watch the gap. Izik said it was a
sure symptom of greatness and it was a
shame to waste such fine commercial tal-
ents on alittle farm. I thought it would
be a greater shame to waste the farm (if
it was small and pimpled all over with
pine stumps) with such talents as Izik’s,
so | traded it off for a store down in the
Hollow. I always said that a boy that
was too blamed modest to hoe corn would
never earn his salt selling codfish and
soap, but Elder Sipes said, ‘‘Give the boy
a chanee,” so we left the farm. The first
trouble we had was about the sign. I
wanted it painted, ‘‘Old Slim & Young
Slim,’’ but Izik wanted his name first.
We finally compromised by making it
“Slim & Slim, General Store.” Izik said
I could remain ‘‘Old Slim,” if I wanted
to, and he would be ‘‘Slim, Junior.”
Izik married the Elder’s daughter and
she has made quite a man of him.

Right across the concession line on the
opposite corner, Old Cronk, our disrep-
utable competitor, keeps a sort of variety
shop, a little of everything and not much
of anything. He owns a big farm down
the creek that used to have a sawmill on
it before the pine timber was all used up.
Old Cronk is the meanest Tory in the
Hollow. Heis a magistrate and is post-
master of the Hollow and probably will be
till old Sir John A. dies, unless we be-
come annexed to the States before that
event happens. Old Cronk consumes
British grog, shaves notes and skins fleas
and mixes the skins with his pepper and
sells it to his farm hands for five cents
per pound more than we get for our pure

 

pepper. Cronk is a wide-mouthed loyal-
ist, but awful stingy. He was never
known to plow fora neighbor for fear
that the neighbor’s chickens might fol-|
low and pick up the grubs. During the
late political campaign he worked him-
self up to a point bordering on insanity

| Old Cronk. You may call me what I am

 

and declared he would defeat unrestrict-
ed reciprocity with the Yankees or bust |
atug. In his recklessness he actually |
gave away free gratis a quart anda half |
of old cider that was spoiled for making |
vinegar to one of his farmer hands and |
he promised a cheap chromo of the)
Queen to a mill hand up the creek, if he |
would vote the Tory ticket, but Izik says
Cronk refused to give it to him after}
election, because the man’s wife had |
named her new baby Jim Blain. |

Old Cronk made a speech in the school- |
house the night before the election. He
was full of British grog and so was Bill
Smike, the Tory blacksmith of the Hol-
low. Bill was made chairman and when

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. —

he stood upon a bench to open the meet- | aici ‘cnveriemeamnn:isencaseane
ing, he inflated himself to about - ey i a Eu

times his everyday size, hung his hat up- |

 

on the blackboard, rolled up his wampus | & & ve
| Sleeves, swallowed his Prince of Wales |
quid of plug tobacco and said that if any

disloyal traitor of a Yankee son of a|

blue-livered advocate of annexation with |

the States ventured to open his clam} a

shell during the proceedings, he would |

pulverized and just at this pont in| Dealers who once had a strong demand for the celebrated *‘ WHEN ” cigar will

Bill’s remarks a desk in the rear end of | pe pleased to learn that the brand is again in tke market and can be obtained
the room went to grass with its superflu- through the

ous weight and a little red-headed boy |

ee ee oe oe LUSTIG GIGAR 6O., Grand Rapids, Mich.
der again prevailed, Bill had subsided |
SOMETHING NEW!

and Old Cronk had struck an imposing |
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attitude. Hesaid it was the proudest}
moment of his life to stand there in that
temple erected to knowledge and dedi-
cated to the fostering of British institu- |
tions and the enlightenment of Her|
Majesty’s subjects, and point out the
highway to his fellow countrymen
that leads to true British loyalty. Dur-
ing all his public career as a postmaster
and magistrate, he would defy the face
of clay to say that he had ever uttered
one single word of respect for the blasted
Yankees. This reciprocity was simply a
foul conspiracy on the part of the Yan-
kees and their disloyal sympathizers to}
snatch this fair Dominion from the Brit- |
ish crown and unhorse that grand old
Roman, Sir J-o-h-n! He then threw the
throttle wide open and yelled: ‘‘Can
there be a man so base, within the sound |
of my voice, that will march to the poles |

viz., 16, 22 and 28 inches.
to-morrow and, without a blush on his} on Price per doz. $2,
face, take his ballot in his hand and stab |

= Queen—— : : Cronk was | eut short | Grand
1ere by Bill Smike, who, while asleep, | , R id
fell off the bench and knocked over the} " apl 8,

map of North America. Some of the |
boys, supposing that the meeting was |

yer and embering Cronk’s las 1 | 1 mi
memenmemce Cates GPA Rapids Storage & Transfer GO,, Limited
Queen,” after which they adjourned to SS = :
the tavern. '

When I got back to the store, Izik was Winter St, between Shawmut Ave. and W. Fulton Sk,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

The two main objections to other
racks now in use, are first, they are
not strong enough, and second, they
take up too much room when not in
use.

Our racks will support a weight of
several hundred pounds, and when
elosed are but three inches square,
and yet cost less than others.

They will hold baskets level, or
tipped at any angle desired, and will
stand solidly on uneven floors.

They are made in three heights,

 

    

 

 

 

explaining to a drummer from a grocery
house in London how the McKinley bill
had ruined our egg business. The drum-
mer said it was done to protect the great

American hen and the Canadian people | W i semen and Yranster I ents
could never prosper until they went into Brera are () ‘
the same breed of fowls. Our commer-
cial travelers are mighty smart fellows.
They are not so cheeky as yours, but
they can drink more whisky and tell
more stories than yours.
oe ao grit = peyease 7 reciprocity.| Dealers and Jobbers in Mowers, Binders Twine, Threshers, En-
e says Toryism has been the curse o . + u oa a es
peal: ue a ad + ecueas = gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders, Cultivators,
serted the American colonies in their Plows, Pumps, Carts, Wagons, Buggies, Wind Mills

struggle for liberty and, gathering their | ° > ee
scarlet robes about them and shaking the and Machine and Plow repairs, Ete.
sacred dust from their shoes, wandered
off and fastened their poisonous fangs in| Telephone No. 945.
ous because the Tories trade with Old
Cronk and, besides, Izik wants the post-
office awful bad. It beats all what lofty

Now, Mr. Editor, if your folks in on ee =
Michigan would care to know how we WY
run things and do business over here in
one, I will not have to hide any more, for
Izik will only be too glad to have me
write toa Yankee paper, just to spite

COLD STORAGE FOR BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, FRUITS, AND
ALL KINDS OF PERISHABLES.

J. Y. F. BLAKE, Sup’t.

 

  

Solid Tired

CLIPPERS

On Hand for Immediate

A GREAY SUCCESS

Are Continually Behind on

orders for our
[Tue TRADESMAN is quite sure that}

Cushion Tired Clippers.

its readers will be glad to hear more | Clipper Safeties, [ solid tire | List price, $90.00

from Mr. Slim. |

oe Se ee |

the very life-blood of the new Canadian -
ideas Izik’s wife has put into his head
Ontario, I might write you a letter every

provinces. I think Izik is a little jeal-
lately SECTIONAL VIEW OF OUR CUSHION TIRE, AS ADAPTED TO ANY WHEEL
week. You see, if you publish the first

known by all around the Hollow,
OLD MAN S.iIoM.

 

Shipment.

 

Cushion Tire, $10 extra. Clipper Saddles, $5.

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From the Northwest Trade.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

AROUND THE STATE.
Clayton—I. R. Waterman has opened |
a grocery store.
Farmington—S. H. Adams has opened |
a meat market. |
Morenci—P. 8. Lee is succeeded by S. |
S. Beatty in general trade.
Clio—F. N. Foote
grocery and feed business.
Saugatuck—kK. S. Jones has
his jewelry stock to Holland.
Lowell—A. E. Parks succeeds t
ell Grocery Co. in the ‘grocery
Bauer—Gus Begeman
Begeman & Otto in the grocery
Detroit—Edward W. Smith
Smith & Hilderscheid in the
ness.
Jackson—Munro
by Harrington & Sons in
business.
Manistee—J. E.
chased the wall paper
& Gillhooley.
Sand Lake—Thos. J. Blanchard
Chas. E. Petrie,

 

is closing out his

removed

he Low-
business.
is succeeded by
business.
succeeds
fruit busi-
succeeded
hardware

Bros. are

the
has

Somerville pur- |

stock of Johnson
has |
sold his sawmill to the
Pierson lumberman.

Maple Rapids—O. Bullis has purchased |
the drug stock of L. Chambers and con- |
solidated it with his own.

Detroit— Frederick F.
sueceed Williamson, Ingram & Griggs as |
manufacturing pharmacists.

Chippewa Lake—H. C. Ward has pur- |
chased the G. A.
and consolidated it with his ewn.

Jackson—The Warner Hardware Co. |
succeeds Warner & Dodge in the whole-
sale and retail hardware business.

Maple Rapids— Aldrich & VanSickle |
have purchased the hardware stock of
Brunck & and consolidated it |
with his own.

Crystal—W. E. Worden
to this place from Big Rapids and pur-
chased an interest in the
of C. De Young. |

Rockford—Geo. A. Sage, who has con-
ducted the grocery business here for fif-

Ingram & Co. |

Goodsell grocery stock

Sessions

has removed

general stock |

teen years, has sold out to
Hunting and Frank O.
continue the business under
Hunting & Kelsey.

Petoskey — Alex.

chased the Huntley & Furtney

Seymour
will
the style of

Kelsey, who

has
boot and

tosenthal pur-

shee stock and will continue the busi-
ness. He has removed his dry goods
stock from Shipshewana, Ind., and will

close same out as fast as possible.
Muskegon—The Magoon «&
Co. has been formed in this city,

Kimball |
with an

authorized capital of $10,000 and $6,000 |

paid in. The stockholders are Geo. A. . Teeple 10, M. F. Armour 5, W. W. |
Magoon, Geo. C. Kimball and Chas. H. | Carter 5, Jas. S. Scheidt 5, W. A. Shafer
Kimball, their respective positions in the | °-

company being that of President, Vice- | Detroit—James D. May, receiver for
President. and Secretary and Treasurer. | the Anchor Manufacturing Co., which
The new company will handle wood, ice | failed last fall, appeared before Judge
and oils, and do a ge forwarding | Reilly aud asked that Wm. M. McKellar, j

and commission business. . H. Kimball
will at once move here sta Springfield,
Mass. He is stockholder in the
Michigan Washing Machine Co.

also

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Sault Ste. Marie—Ainsworth & Alex-
ander have agreed to erect a sawmill

here, a $5,000 bonus being the incentive. |

Oscoda—The H. M. Loud & Sons Lum-
ber Co. has
cently destroyed by fire,
running day and night.

Ionia—The Michigan Overall Co. has |
increased its capital stock from $25,000 |
to $50,000, the new stock having been |

rebuilt its tramways, re-|

and the mill is

| putting a large patent shavings

| manufacturing

| ing
| follows:
| Secretary,

| Dilworth.

| & Lumber Co. is in operation,

| full of lumber.

!
| Last season the mill cut
|

| book

|
taken mostly by the former stockholders.

Boyne City—Wm. H. White will build
and operate a band sawmill, north of his
present site, this fall. The capacity of
the new mill will be 30,000 hardwood per

| day.

Bay City— Ross, Bradley & Co. are

press
into their plant, and have booked orders

| already for several carloads of shavings
'to be shipped to other cities.

Ionia—The Ionia Preserving Co. has

| been organized with a capital stock of

$5,000, equally divided among Dr. J. J.
Defendorf, O. Scott Wood, Homer Strong
and H. R. Wagar. The corporation will
can vegetables and put up pickles.

Ludington—The Haskell & Barnell Co.
has been organized for the purpose of
articles of and
ganeral planing mill work, by Haman
Barnell, George T. Haskell and Henry
L. Haskell. Capital stock, $10,000.

St. Helen—Henry Stevens & Co. re-
cently purchased of David Ward a tract
of pine in Hayes township, Otsego
county, estimated to cut 50,000,000 feet,
and expect to build a spur track which
will enable hauling the timber to their

wood

| mills.

Horton’s Bay—The Horton Bay Milling
Co. has been organized with a capital

| stoek of $7,000 for the purpose of erect-

and operating a flour mill. The
officers of the new corporation are as
President, Franklin Coleman ;
Levi Lewis; Treasurer, Jas.

Tawas—The mill of the Winona Salt
starting a
month later than usual, as the dock was
The mill will cut for
the 5,000,000 feet, and also a
number of million feet for other parties.
9,000,000 feet,
mostly out of small norway, running 20
to the thousand. It is expected the cut

owners

| will be larger this season, as the stock is
| .
| of better quality.

Lake Odessa— The Columbian Safety
Cart Co. has been organized here to em-
bark in the manufacture of road carts.
The capital $10,000, of which
$4,000 is paid in. Geo. W. Irish, of

Ledge, holds 300 shares of $10
and the remainder of stock is

stock is

Grand
each,
by Lake Odessa residents, as follows:
Frank W. Clark 50 shares, W. S Hart 50,
S. O. Hosford 50, Lincoln Cass 50, W. R.
Aldru 50, W. J. Percival 10, S. Blair 20,
Clyde W. Francis 10, E. Townsend 5,
Geo. B. Yost 10, Frank Winchell 5, S. H.
Mallory 10,Arthur Tolles10, F.B.Nims 10,

| President of the defunct company, and
attorneys representing |

the stockholders, be ordered to produce |
| the stock book,
| stocks numbered from 1 to 150.

Moore & Moore,

showing the holders of
Another
order was asked for against W. F. Linn,
Secretary, that he produce the cash
book. Reeeiver May claims the
book is being withheld to prevent the
enforcement of the payment of an as-
sessment on it which is due, and that
the Secretary is clinging to the cash
because he claims that
money due him.

«> ——-

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

stock |

there is}

 

| No old stock or rubbish.

| cer, care Michigan Tradesman.

 

held |

 

|

|

 

| bargain. Address for particulars 8. P. Hicks, ——
; of

| full particulars,
| La Crosse,

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

‘Kdvertisements 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 lessthan 25 cents. Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES,

 

| N ESTABLISHED GROCERY FCR SALE. AD
LA aress J. A. Scollay, Reed City, Mich. 256

_. SALE—I HAVE A STOCK OF DRUGS AND

books to the amount of $1,500, situated in the best
little town in —— which I offer for sale for cash
or its equivalent. 2 Mandigo, Sherwood, Mich.248

LP gen STOCK—NEAT AND ATTRACTIVE, AND NEW
hardwood fixtures. Excellent location on best
retail street in Grand Rapids. Expenses very light
and trade 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 it as an investment. A genu-
ine bargain. Personal investigation solicited. Ad-
dress ‘‘F.,”” care Hazeltine Perkins Drug Co. City. 197
OR SALE — A_ FIRST-CLASS, WELL- ASSORTED
stock of hardware and building material, situat-
ed at Port Huron. Dida business of $68,000 last year.

 

 

 

 

Will invoice about $20,000.
Proprietor sickin bed and unable to attend to the
business. Address Geo. M. Dayton, Lansing, Mich. 228

ve SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A GE NERAL |
stock located in a thriving town. Capital
necessary, about $1,200. address No. 241, care ——
igan Tradesman.

F° SALE—GROCERY STOCK.
tion. A bonanza tothe right man.

 

 

 

K. DESIRABLE TaeK.
Address Gro-
24

 

vrs: SALE—WELL-SELECTED DRUG STOCK, mg
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. 173
OR SALE—A COMPLETE DRUG STOCK AND FIX-
tures; stock well assorted can be bought at a

 

Mich.

\V J ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A
general or grocery stock; must be cheap. Ad-

dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26

SITUATIONS WANTED.

W? ANTED— BY YOUNG MAN, SITUATION AS BOOK-
keeper, assistant book-keeper or collector
Rest of references. Address E. care Michigan Trades-
man 243
W ANTED—POSITION BY REGISTERED PHARMA-
cist. Best of references and no bad habits, Ad-
dress No. 251 care Michigan Tradesman. 251

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

GENTS WANTED—FOR A NEW ARTICLE JUST
i\. 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
Bayer WORKS WANTED-—WILL GIVE A BONUS

to right parties. Address Box 46, Sheridan, Mich.

250

 

 

 

VOR 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 Mic higan Tradesman. 187
OR SALE—TWELVE TO TWENTY ACRES OF LAND
forsummer home, Seven miles north of Trav-
erse City on the East Arm of Traverse Bay on the
Peninsula ready fitted for building. C. ~ Soe
Archie, Mich.
| SALE OR RENT—CORNER LOT AND SHOOW
house on North Lafayette st., cellar, brick found-
ation and soft water in kitchen. $1, 200. Terms to
suit. Cheap enough for an investment. Address No
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187.
fT ORSE FOR SALE—IRON GREY GELDING. STANDS
1644 hands high. Weight, 1,650. Suitable for
heavy work. ¥. Goodman & & Co., Burnips Corners,
Mich. 257
rs SALE—STORE AND DWELLING COMBINED,
also good barn. Allin good repair. Located in
one of the best towns in Michigan of 1,000 inhabitants.
Will trade forstock of goods. For particulars address
No. 258, care Michigan Tradesman. 3

ws. FIVE SALESMEN BY THE GEORGE D.
Hawkins Medicine Co. (Manufacturers and

wholesale dealers in Hawkins Great Specific Cures)
to represent them on the road. Commencing on July
10th. No one but first-class experienced salesmen
need apply. Good positions guaranteed to good
salesmen. Write for oe to George D. Hawkins
Medieine Cempany, ch. 2
W? ANTED—SALESM ‘i

who is capable taking care of the dry goods
and shoe department. Address No. 254, care Michigan
Tradesman. 254
W AN TED—S ALES d4EN ON SALARY “OR COMMIS-

sion to handle the New Patent Chemical Ink
Erasing Pencil. The greatest selling novelty ever
produced. Erases ink thoroughly in two seconds; no
abrasion of paper, 200 to 500 per cent. profit. One
agent’s sales amounted to $620 in six days; another
$32 in tWo hours. We want one energetic general
agent for each state and territory. For terms and
address The Monroe Eraser Mfg. Co.,

255

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wis.

 

TENNIS SHORS

OXFORDS.

Men’s, 40 cents net,
Boys’, 37 cents,
Youths’, 34 cents.

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Grand Rapids.

Crockery & Glassware

 

 

LAMP BURNERS.

 

 

eee: et en Geel cha ee cle cel aces uaheas 45
Ce eee 50
Noe a oleae ce hiiceuiy. Sates cee e as +.
oe. ee eee lie (Aue deh eg cecuek 75
LAMP CHIMNEYS.— —Per box.
6 doz. in box.
No. 0Sun eek ek ee ee ec ee 1%
ee 1 88
gee ease ee 27
Firet quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top esc eeee bees eceeyees 5 2 2
No.1
ir 9 oe “ee se
or Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top..
No. 1 va
No. 2 “oe “e oe
sd op.
oes : Sun, wrapped and labeled ee ce eee cpes ee 3 70
ee 47
No. 2 Hinge, ‘ ' ae ee eee 4 7
La Bastic.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. nee ghee ees 1 25
—s lll SS ee 1 50
No. 1 crimp, per, MN ns ee ed eee ee 135
ae Ohh 1 60
FRUIT JARS,

Mason’s or Lightning.
———— ae ee $7 50
| co peal aad aah ae eel ee ene 8 (0
ee ee i 10 50

eee 55
(oe Oy. 3 50

STONEWARE—AKRON.

  
    

Jugs, is gal. " per doz..

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Wayne a 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.

How to Keep a Store.

By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages
written from the experience and observation of
an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi
ness, Location, Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver-
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, etc. Of
great interest to every one in trade. $1.50.

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Bapids.

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| MAKES rib = r
| Si€ Gail LONS |
Ishi ENDID OLD FASHOMET.
Cor BEEE

WILLIAMS’

Root Beer Kxtract

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 itis always
in sight.

25-cent size only $1.75 per doz.
3 dozen for $5.

Order a supply from
adver

 

For sale by all jobbers.
your wholesale house. Show cards anc
tising matter are packed in each dozen.

G.R. MAYHEW, #.F. HASTINGS,

Manufacturers’ Agent,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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F Actenetpaanveranies aperis>

 

  
 

:

FA sepn setter ane ame

Purely Personal,

M. M. Whitney, Jackson representa-
tive for Fleischman & Co., was in town
several days last week.

A; H. Wigems, of the firm of J. F.
Barrows & Co., druggists at Lawrence,
spent Sunday in the city.

W. D. Brainerd, of the drug firm of
W. D. Brainerd & Co., druggist at Eaton
Rapids, was in town last Wednesday.

Wm. T. Lamoreaux left Saturday night
for Boston, where he will spend a week
in the pursuit of pointers on the wool
market.

Cyrus Prince, grocer at Vermontville,
and H. H. Church, book and stationery
dealer at the same place, were in the
Grand Rapids market last week.

Lee Deuel, the Bradley general dealer,
surprised his friends and patrons last
week by introducing a bran new wife to
his home. ‘The bride is an Indiana lady
and is a worthy associate of one of the
best of men.

D. H. Palmer, formerly book-keeper
for Swift & Company, left Saturday for
New York, whence he sails for Liver-
pool on the 3rd on the Teutonia. He
will spend the summer in England and
France, returning to Grand Rapids in the
fall to begin the study of law.

Geo. A. Sage who has sold his stock af-
ter a career of fifteen years as a grocer at
Rockford, paid his parting compliments
to the jobbing trade at this market last
week. Mr. Sage has always been a wel-
come visitor and his retirement from
trade is a matter of general regret.

—— > — >.
Gripsack Brigade

Frank E. Edmunds, formerly connected
with the Auditor’s office of the G. R. ¢
L, has engaged to travel for J. L. Stre-
litsky. He isa brother of Tatfy Bill.

Louis Immegart has purchased an in-
terest in the grocery stock of 8S. W. Per-
kins, at Traverse City. The new firm
will be known as S. W. Perkins & Co.

Frank E. Chase says that the new pro-
prietors of the Northern Hotel, at Big
run a better house at $2 than
and crazy Sid. did at the

Rapids,
the cranky
$2.50 rate.

J. H. Bennett, traveling representative
for the Grand Rapids Refrigerator Co.,
has removed his family from Minneapolis
to this city, having purchased a handsome
residence on Paris avenue.

The Muskegon Cracker Co. has re-en-
gaged its four traveling salesmen—L. C.
Bradford, I. W. Feighner, A. S. MeWil-
liams and O. Rasmus. The re-engage-
ment indicates that the boys have given
good satisfaction during the past year.

Chas. E Watson, who has represented
S. A. Maxwell & Co. for the past eight
years, has engaged to travel for the
Burrows Brothers Company, of Cleve-
land. Hewill cover the Saginaw valley,
the Lake Huron towns, the Upper Penin-
sula as far as Duluth and his former
eustomers in the Western part of the
State.

Geo. H. Seymour received the second
prize of $100 cash in the J. G. Butler To-
’s distribution, while the third
Brad-

bacco Co.
prize of $50 cash went to Jas. N.
ford. The four retailers’ prizes, $50, $25,
$15 and $10, went to the following deal-
ers in the order named: S. Fox, Eck-
ford; S. Phelps, Ceresco; E. A. Jackson,
Roxana; S. E. Phillips, Hastings.
$$

John Aligier, grocer at the corner of
Clancy and Fairbanks streets, has added
a line of boots and shoes.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

She Asked No More Questions.

A man boarded a train the other day |
and took a seat in front of a woman who | |
was very curious about the country.
She asked about the crops, about the}
price of land, the characteristics of the
people, the climate and many other
things. To all her inquiries the stranger |
returned a respectful “I don’t
ma’am, I really _

know,
dowt know.
“Ts this as good a climate as New
York?”?
“I think so, ma’am, but really I cannot
Say.”?

“Do the people seem to be well con- |

tented?”
“1 don’t know.”
“Whom do they seem
presidential candidate?’’
‘I can’t say, ma’am.
‘Are the farmers low-spirited over the |
decline in: wheat?”
“They may be, but I have no means of
knowing.”
“Should you say this was a good state
for a young man to begin life in?”

to prefer as a

|in @ manner
| respect.
| lowest possible prices.

“Tf shouldn’t like to give an opinion.” |

His non-committal answers
the woman.

annoyed |
She was silent for half a
minute, and then began again:

‘‘Have you been in Michigan long?”’
“Three years, ma’am.”

‘And yet you don’t seem to be very
well informed about matters and things?’

‘*‘Well, ma’am, to tell you the truth,’

he replied, as he turned about, “I’m
a resident of Ohio. I came up here and
stole a horse, and was sent to the Lonia
prison for three years. I haven’t been
out more than two hours yet.’’

His questioner rose and took the fourth
seat back,

|

ANNUUNGKMENT.

The firm of
consent.

Detroit, May 27

The firm of

consent.

Williams, Sheley

1891.

& Brooks is this day dissolved by mutual

WILLIAM ©. WILLIAMS,
ALANSON SHELEY,

 

James E.

Detroit, May 27, 1891.

Referring

cessor to the firms of WILLIAMS, SHELEY & Brooxs and James E
|Co., we shall endeavor to execute all orders with

Our main aim

Davis & Co.

ALANSON S. BROOKS.

is this day dissolved by mutual
JAMES E. DAVIS,
GEO. W. BISSELL.

to the above announcements, we beg

which shall

prove satisfactory
shall be to make
We wish to state to those who

| with Williams, Sheley & Brooks, that :

to state that as suc-
Ue Davis &
which we are entrusted
to all
prompt

customers in every
cS and to give
have done business

ill orders received by us will have

the personal attention of a member of that firm; and that orders received

from customers of
tion of our Mr. .

James E.

James E. Davis.

Davis & Co. will receive

the personal atten-

With kind regards, and hoping that we

| shall hear from you frequently, we remain,

‘in away to make the dust |

fly,”? as the reporter expressed it, and |

did notjopen her
the conductor, until the train was run-
ning into Detroit.
a
Wools Dull---Hides Unchanged---Tal-
low Lower.

Wools are dull and
activity in cloths.
try are higher than on the seaboard. In
fact,a lot of unwashed was sold in Boston,
shipped into the country and sold for 2¢
per pound profit to the country buyer.
Australian isin good demand to manufac-

slow,

turers who are running on short orders |
with many in partor wholly shut down. |

Stocks are small for this time of the year,

except in Michigan fleece, on which con- |

ecessions have to be made to effect sales.

Hides have somewhat recovered in de- |

mand, but remain at the declined price,
with no sales worthy of note. They are

mouth again, even to

with no}
Prices in the coun- |

 

held higher West than East, and it is}

only a question of necessity that brings
buyers and sellers together.

Tallow is in good supply and fair de-
mand at lower priees. The matter of
shrinkage during warm weather prevents
shipments, only as they have margins to
eover, which is diflicult to obtain.
~~ >< ———————

Edison’ s Dream.

It becomes more and
that the greater successes of the electric
telegraph, telephone and
have not exhausted theinventive genius
of Thomas A. Edison. When that
gentleman arrived in Chicago a few days
ago he was asked what electric novelty
he had in store for the World’s Fair.
He replied that he
view, but he was not prepared to give |
details just at present. His intention is
to “have such a happy combination of |
photography and electricity that a man
can sit in his own parlor and see depicted |
upon a curtain the forms of the players |
in opera upon a distant stage and hear |
the voices of the singers.’

more evident |

phonograph |

had something in}

William C. Williams.

Yours very truly,

illiams, Davis, Brooks & Co,

11, 18, 15 & 17 Larned Street East.
THE OLD STAND.

James E. Davis.

Alanson Sheley. Alanson S. Brooks.

 

 

WILLIAM CONNOR,

3ox 346,

Marshall, Mich,

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, Wiii1AmM Con-
I, Mich., he
will be pleased to call upon you. All

Nor, who resides at Marshal

mail orders promptly attended to. Itis
wonderful the number of mail orders we
receive for our elegant diagonal, also
Albert coat
and vests and three button cut away,
frock and sack suitings of same material

eork serew worsted Prince

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,

Wid

William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel on Thursday,

ig Mantlacturer

ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Friday and Saturday June

11, 12 and 13, to close out balance of present season’s clothing at less than first
cost and will also have full line of samples for the fall trade and respectfully So-

| licits an inspection of new styles of overcoats and suitings in men’s
and children’s sizes.

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BOGUS BARGAINS.

 

As Illustrated in the so-called Bankrupt |
Sales.

Dry Goods Price Current.

 

 

UN oe COTTONS.

 

 

 

: : | Adriatic hee eee ee Arrow Brand 5%

John N. Mockett in Toledo Blade. — 634 5 a Wide.. :
Don’t you think the merchants of the | nta AA......... bh. - e+e

city are entitled to some protection, | Atientic eae ex ocd gma o%
from the press, against the migratory | ss ne 6 |Honest Width....... 6%
class of dealers who drop into our midst; {{ ,D------.--- 6%|Hartford A ......... 5
every season and announce, in glaring | <a Tliing A Aeess2s- a |
six-foot gr some oe sale,”’ a Se. |King E — :
‘assignee sale,” or some other quest-} Seaver Pam 4 ”.- a vawrence oe 574 |
ionable ‘‘sale’?? During the past fow | Blackstone O, 38... . cence a cloth 6. |
years this catch-penny method of gulling | Black Rock ost “ Boss... 5M |
the credulous has assumed gigantic | Boot, AL........--. 74 a N...... 6% |
proportions. There is hardly a branch | Peal ay anni 3 - DD.... 5% |
of trade but feels the effects of this | Chapman cheese cl. 3a Sato erect
pernicious system of doing business. — CR......-.. 4 Our Level Best..... 6% |
The jeweler, the clothier, the boot and | Comets oo ioe! 7% a cn Sx |
shoe dealer, and others, all have the| Clifton CCC........ 6% SOMA oo aos oo 6% |

same complaint to make. Let the daily
papers consider the advertisements they
earry of their local merchants; they

amount to considerable every year. Yet
they will publish the improbable stories

of these traveling montebanks whose aim |

and business is solely to fleece
credulous and unwary.

The press has it in its power to crush
this evil which encroaches upon the trade
of the local merchants. Public opinion,
once aroused upon this matter, the state

will make such laws as will force disreput- |

able and worthless schemers from the
field. The merchants of the city, who
have settled places of doing business,
must bear their portion of the burdens
of taxation. Every tax collector knows
where to find these men. The peddler

however, has no settled locality, but
goes from place to place selling his

of the mu-
local mer-

wares without sharing any
nicipal expenses which the
chant has to bear.

He may palm off absolutely worthless
goods upon an unsuspecting public at
prices honest goods could be bought for
from reputable dealers. He can rob his
customers, and they have no redress;
for, being but a bird of passage, he can
easily make his escape should anybody
return to demand justice. It is in the

interest of the consumers of the city, as}
that this class of |

well as the merchants,

persons should be placed before the
community in their true light. They

should, at least, be made to pay a proper
license fee for carrying on their business.
Start out one of your reporters to inter-
view the local merchants on this subject,
and you will realize, as you never have

before, the curse of the nefarious system. |

It is not the intelligent buyer who suffers

the |

LABC............._. Biiee. Weentngton... 6
Ree... -1...-... S Mien Wie.......... 7

| Amsburg..... .-..-. 7 (Geld Medel... ..._- T%

| Art Cambric........ 10 iGreen i 814

| Blackstone AA..... 8 |Great Falls.......... 64
ee cies... ............ 7%
——————————OO 12 \Just | 4%@ 5
ee 774} King Phillip oo 7%
as SL 6% | - 7%

Cleve ...... _-.. jMiddlesex.... .. @5
Dwight Anchor ee $x ae wee... 7%
— 8% Oak V — oe
Edwards. ..... _. ee oee.......-.... 5%
| Empire...........-.- 7 |Pride of ‘the West.. .12
CC 1%) essed. ........... TM
Fruit of the Loom. 7%|Sunlight............. 4%
Preceviee ....- ---. 7 Giese Bie......... 84%
oe fee... 6% - Nonpareil ..11
Fruit of the Loom %. wie 8%
Fairmount.......... 4%4|White Horse....... 6
Pou Yoaee.........- 6x| ‘“ Rock.. 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
ee am Dwight Anchor..... 9
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at the hands of these wanderers, but the
poor and ignorant classes, who are led to
believe the glittering promises, so|
ingeniously made by these sharpers; it is |
these who are invariably the dupes of |
the great sham ‘‘Bankrupt,’’ ‘‘Fire’’ and |
assignee sales. And they, being citizens,

should have these ‘‘fake” concerns pre-

sented to them through the columns of |

the press in their true light.
— -- <——

Tennyson Sells Milk.
A New York daily states that

 

 

Hamilten N . 64 a
- i a | . ~ £....28
Middlesex AT...... 8 ' = ¢....8
” . 9 ' “=. &....%
. Ro. S.... 9
BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Hemiiion H......... eH Middlesex A A le oe 11
Middiessun PT...... eae 12
= oF... § = £e..... 13%
- a 9 _ 17%
. - Fos 1044} ni Dien is 16
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, wate... . 18 |Integrity, colored, ..21
colored. ~ 2044 W hite ar... .... 18%
Integrity . 184%] «colored. .2
"DRESS GooDs.
Paes. .......-... 5S (Nemcww...... .-... 20
\ eg 25
a -10%) a 27%
GG Cashmere...... 21 .  . 30
Benicio ... -__.._. = i goo 32%
“ 18 | ay 35
CORSETS.

Cereae....,.-....- $9 50/Wonderful. .. ....84 50
Schiiiiee's......._. Seen... .....-. 475
CORSET JEANS.

ares... 634 | ae satteen.. 7
Androscoggin....... 7 Rockport....... .... 6%
Biddeford........... S nt eeeees.......-.... 6%
Brasswick. .... ...- Cui W alworu ...... .... 6% |
PRINTS. |
Allen turkey reds.. ae fancies.... %
robes.......- 2\Clyde Robes........ 5
_ i & purple Big ,|Charter Oak fancies 4%
" ae... |DelMarine cashim’s. 6
_ pink checks. 5% mourn’g 6
“ oats ...-.. 544 Eddystone fancy... ©
Y shirtings ... 4% chocolat 6
American fancy.... 5% ” rober.... 6
| Americanindigo.... 5% . sateens.. :

Tenny- |

son adds a pretty penny to his income by |

selling milk from the
Wight estate. More than this,
ly has the name of Alfred, Lord Tenny-

cows on his Isle of |
he actual-

son, painted on the side of his milk-carts. |
This will give finical aristocratic admir- |

ers of England’s laureate a shock. Sen-|
sible folks will be unable to see any
harm init. Milk is a good deal more

necessary to human existence (especially
in its early stages) than poetry.
refreshing to the democratic American

mind to know that the poet laureate of |
England has entered the commercial

world; and there is no reason why this
turn to business affairs should affect, in
the least, the dignity of the exalted posi-

It is}

tion the poet holds, so long as his milk}

does not become as thin as his recent}
poetry.
—_> *
Additions of the List.
The following additions to the list of

traveling men
weeks ago have be handed in:

N. D.Carpenter,Carnegie, Phipps & Co.,
Limited, Pittsburg.

published

P. M. Childs, Fairbanks, Morse & Co., |

Chicago.
W. H. Gardner, McCormick Harvester
Co., Chicago.

a couple of |

|Top of the Heap.... 7% |
BLEACHED COTTONS.

Charter Oak........ Seonntabe Cee. .10%
@ 8%

Conway W. 14 iLonedaic......

UNBLEAC a ai FLANNEL.
Teel s......,..- Yi ¥4| Middlesex No. 1. a

 
 

  

American shirtings. 4% Hamilton —_-

Argentine Grays.. : 5K
Anchor Shirtings. . { Manchester Pea 6
Arnold . cone os new era. 6
Arnold Merino..... 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 6

' long cloth e = Merrim’ck shirtings. 4%

- be . — furn . on
“ century cloth 7 7 |Pacific fancy.. e
- see... 10% a 6

Portsmouth robes... 6
10% Simpson mourning.. 6

‘* green seal TR10%
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DEMINS.
Amoskeag Seeks cen 124%(Columbian brown..
os... 14% Everett, Oi .c. cs
brown .13 brown. ....
Aa... — 1% Haymaker pias. ....
Beaver Creek AA.. brown..
= BB.. ONO. one. s conse
. > ae Lencester........... 12
Boston, Mfg Co. br.. Lawrence, 90z......
blue a . 0. 220....13
« d«& twist 10% - No, 20....
Columbian XXX br.10 . No. 2o0....
EAX 01.
GINGHAMS.
Amoskeag 1% . fancies .... 7
i Fanon "dress 8% ap Normandie
. Canton .. 8%/|Lancashire.......... 6%
. aec...... 112% Manchester. ........ 53%
Arlington staple.. = |Monogram.......... 6%
| Arasapha fancy. 4% |Normandie........-. 7%
Bates Warwick dres . | immense oe 8%
. staples. 64|Renfrew pee bine 7%
Contenntel. ........ mn ‘Rosemont.. - 6%
Cea... 10% Slatersville . -s
Cumberland staple. pg og <2. o me
Camberiand.... .... 5 (acum .........--- 7%
mee a4 Toil du Nord....... 10%
ae... 2|W es 7%
Everett classics. .... 814 «©  seersucker.. 7%
Exposition Sse 7% | lwarwick ee 8%
ee es 64%| Whittenden......... 63%
Gilenaryen.......... 6 wl heather dr. 8
ES TM . indigo blue 9
Hampton.... . ..-... 6% Wamsutta staples. . . 6%
Johnson Vhalon cl ,i'Weatbrook......-.... S*
- indigo blue oi ga 10
' zephyrs....16 |Windermeer.... ...- 5
Lancaster, staple... GCxkivork..... --........ 6%
GRAIN BAGS.
Amoskeag. . .16%4| Valley City.......--- 15%
oy ee en GOOPRIS .... ..0r0- -- 15%
American..... .--..- MIPeCiGG ..... ........1376
ranaps
Clark’s Mile End 5 |Barbours Cea cee eee 88
Coats’ r i iMoarehall’s.... ..-..- 88

  
 

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ENITTING COTTON.
White. Colored. White. Colored.
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_ So — 43
+ Oe 40 |‘ 44
+ a. 45

CAMBRICS,

Beer. ..... .----+- 4144|Washington. 3%

‘White Ster......-.-- 434 | \Red Cross. 34
Kid Glove..........- 434 | Lockwood.. os ‘

Newmarket......... 4144|Wood’s.... .... -.-- ‘

Bawards..........-. 434 | {Brunswick ........ 4%

RED FLANNEL.

Piremeen...... -.... pt w...............2 BR%

Creodmore.... ......20G/E 2 -------- 0+ 2 score B2%

Talbot TEX......... 30 i AS 35

Naemeoloss...... ...-. 27% Buckeye ee 32%

MIXED FLANNEL,

Red & Blue, plaid. -40 iGrey SRW.......-- 17%

ee Eo 2214] Western - ... 18%

WE wc ee cee ue 00 & EF .---......---»-- 18%

6 oz Western......-. 21 Pieshing 2a... 23%
i ae 22\4|Manitoba..........-. 23%

DOMET FLANNEL,
Nameless Lodo 8 @ 9% . 9 @10%
ae 8%@10 | = ee 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.

Slate. Brown. Black. |Slate. Brown. Black.
9% 94 914/13 13 13

10% 10% 1054) 15 15 15

11% 11% 1144/17 17 17
2% 12% 1244|20 20 20

DUCKS.

Severen, 8 0Z.......- are Point, 8 =~
Mayland, Boe..-.... 10%| 10 0z....12%
Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9%) one gg 100z ee aes 13%
Greenwood, 8 0z. -.11% |Sta a 13%

WADDINGS.
White, dox.......-.-. 25 |Per bale, 40 doz. ...87_50
Colewed, dos........ 20 |
SILESIAS.
Slater, Iron Cross. . “Ss (Pawtucket.......... 10%
Red Cross.. | Dundie Cok erceue 9
. a Ss ».10 Ou4| Bedford ee ee 10%
. Best AA.....12%/Valley City......... 10%
SEWING SILK.
Corticelli, doz....... 75 [Coction knitting,
twist, doz..37%| per %oz ball...... 30

50 yd, doz. .37%

HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
No 1BV’k& White..10 No 4 BVk & White..15
se 2 oe 12 ‘ 8 “ 20

“ 3 “ “112 | “ 10 “ » 25

   

- ee ........2e : greys .. .... 6
. oe red ..104 _ solid black. 6 | PINS.
Ballou solid black.. 5 Washington indigo. 6 No 2—20, sy iC... |No 4—15 F 3%...... 40
“colors. 5%) “ Turkey robes.. 7% | ‘ 3—18,SC.....--. —
- al blue, green, | “ India robes.... 7% TTON TA
ed and orange .. 5% ‘“ plain T’ky = % 8% | No 2 White & Br i 12 |No "8 White & BI’k..20
Berlin ES as -10 r 2 i 23
* of dine...... 6% “ Ottoman Par. - 2 r 3 1° 8 . » 26
- “ eveen .... 66) keyred............ SAFETY PINS.
“ Fouwlaerds .... 5% Martha Washington _ Moe... 1. ee... ee
- -........ 7 Turkey red ¥.....
. © OD cece yse 9% | Martha a NEEDLES—PER M&M.
e © Ohi 10 Turkey red........ | A. aoa eee wees 1 50|Steamboat.... ...... 40
oe s4NEXX 12 |Riverpoint robes.... 5 | Crowely’s....... ---- 1 35 Gold Eyed.......... 150
Cocheco faney...... 6 Windsor ae... 6% | Marsha 1 o.. . 100
madders... 6 | gold ticket es OIL CLOTH.
a XX twills.. 64%) indigo blue....... 10% | 5—4....2 25 6—4...3 25/5—4....195 6-4...2 9%
. eotids...... 54 [_* a 3 0
TICKINGS. COTTON TWINES.
| AmoskeagACA....i3 |AC A..... .....-... 12% | Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua. io
Hamilton _.....-.. 7c Pemberton AAA....16 | Crowm.............. 12 Rising Star 4 ply. ae
oo SS eee 10% | Domentic ........... 18% 3-ply.. a
ee Awning. .11 iSwift os st %% Anchor. ee 20
Peer... c 8 Peart Hiver......... 12% | Bristol . ke FWool caemelianl 4 plylt%
eee Fee... (Oe 14 | Cherry Valley.. 16 (Powhatian ......
Lenox Mills ........ 18 Ix. : i
COTTON DRILL. PLAID OSNABURGS.
om. D.....-..-. 6%\Stark A ........ 8 | Alabama ANS sn oan Pleasant.... 6%
Boot...----- ---- ---- 6%|No Name.......-. | iene. Siicueaaa... 5
| Ciitton, Bs 7%|Top of Heap......-- “10 | Anemstal.-- ‘cee! 714|Pyrmont a ae
SATINES, Art sapha.. .-..- 6 |Randelman ......... 6
Simpson Lae pete ewe  eeeee............. Wu | Geeter............. 6%) Pree .........,. by
8 gc Fn ES = Black cok eee 0 96 | Granites ............. i e ON Boho wcs oc 6
Ceeceee ee eee eu cease: 10% | Haw River MONOD. cot aeessc.... ©
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WHITE, BLACK AND COLORS,

FOR

Hand and Machine Use,
FOR SALE BY

P. STEKETEE & SONS.

Spring Season 1891.

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If You destre to sell

Carpets by Sample

Send for

Circular and Price List,

mith & Sanford

GRAND RAPIDS.

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
CARPETS,
CURTAINS.

Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Kts.

Elegant Spring meting tae of me ot teem, Ging-
hams, Toile Du Nord, Challies, White
and Black Goods, Percales, Satteens,
Serges, Pants Cloth, Cottonades and
Hosiery now ready for inspection.

Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed.
48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.
GRAND RAPIDS, - -

AWNINGS

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mage Horse and Wagon Covers, Seat Shades, Large
rellas, Oiled Clothing, Wide Ootton Ducks, ete.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue.
CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Pearl Street.
Telephone 106.

 

 

  
    

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The Axe Trust in Trouble.
From the New York Post.

The American Ax and Too! Co., which
undertook to monopolize the business,
did not succeed in getting all the facto- |
ries consolidated, but it made an ar-
rangement with the outside concerns by |
which uniformity of prices should be}
be maintained. Then it made a heavy
advance in the price of axes and went on
swimmingly until a lot of old factories |
that had been closed in the previous
struggle of the ‘‘survival of the fittest”
were encouraged to reopen. -This led to
negotiations to bring in the ousiders,
who were nothing loath. While the ne-
gotiations were in progress the trust sent
out its agents to make
with the trade, offering a heavy
on the former agreed price if the jobbers
would agree to buy exclusively from the
trust. But the jobbers were tov smart.
They refused to make such contracts,and
then the double dealing of the trust be-
eame manifest to the amazement of the
outside manufacturers. An old-fash-
ioned fight ensued and is still going on to
the joy of the jobbers and the consum-
ers, who are now paying for axes what
they can be produced for by the most
skillful and best equipped concerns.

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Carrying Home a Stovepipe.
From the Buffalo Commercial.

‘Well, I never expected to see that,’’
said a Buffalo gentleman, walking up the
avenue on arecent pleasant sunny day,
as he called attention to a man ona
bicycle.

some two miles or more. He
across his back a length of stovepipe and
was thus enabled to carry his stovepipe
and handle his bicyele freely at the same
time. ‘There was not money enough in
the business to have hired that man to
ride the length of Delaware avenue five
years ago with a length of stovepipe
strapped to his back. Now he is a
bicyclist, and | believe he would carry
market supplies on his head if the bi-
eycle customs favored it. Anything that
he can do to prove to himself and friends

how mighty useful such a machine is,
even for well-to-do householders like
himself, he is ready for. Surely the

‘tyrant customer’ is a powerful leveler
of superficial distinctions, especially in
bicycling.”
—_ ~~ -2
Detroit—F. R. Ulrich is succeeded by
J. C. Schenk in the hardware business.

secret contracts |
rebate |

The man was at once recognized |
as a young married man who lived out | §
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BRUMMELER & SONS

Manufacturers of and Jobbers in

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Pieced and Stamped Tinware, Rags,
Metals, Iron, tubber and Wiping Rags
GRAND RAPIDS.

lonia St,

Telephone 640,

Grand Ri pits Electeotype Co.,
ELEGTROTY PERS

STEREOTYPERS,

And Manufacturers of

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Leads, Slugs, Brass Rule, Wood and)

Metal Furniture,

6 and 8 Erie St.. GRAND RAPIDS.

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Hardware Price Current — — fea
: | Maydole is Se oe
_ oe a y
These prices are for cash buyers, who | Yerkes &Plumb's.... J. ese. dis. 40810 | es SQUARES. dis.
, Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.. . Chee ee ee ees :
_pay promptly and buy in full packages. ‘ene Sak ick, ead. Sow anna | To SO Merete... ----------nen--nnsenn-
AUGURS AND BITS. dis. NGES. eens a ate a ae a

a 60 | Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 Ts ee ae a

oon ee. oe ee per doz. net, 2 50 | nos. 10 t« a 7 2 2 414
| | Nos. 10 to 14 od. or 2 88 10

| Jennings’, Mem co cc cs 25 5 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and (Noe Hiei. ...... 4 20 3 20
| Jennings’, Imitation ....................+++. 50&10| longer .......... sees e cece teen ee ee ee eeetees See ae 28 4 20 3 20
AXES. | Screw Hook and Kye, We nee ene sereceees = 0 | Nos. 22 to 24 4 20 3 30

sg ln (incre 4 n 8 in 5 to 26

| First Quality, 8 Lene ll. 8750) “ $6 2 a Th a ee $ 4 7 =
igo ae aepnad neces ae a v 2. net 7%) ‘All sheets No. 18 and lighter, ove r 30 inches
| “i mai en } FE cevccececces % | Yo. g or a
u s B oa settee ces ee seas " a i Strapand T........ anno: ie 50} wide not less than 2-10 extra
a HANGERS. a egies

TNC dis. | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50é10 | Ligt acct. 19, ’86.....-....-.-...eseeeeee dis
ES ee $ 14 00 | Champion, anti-fric tion. 6010 | SASH CORD.

| ¢ ee net 30 00/| Kidder, wood track .............-.. 40 | Silver Lake, White A a list 50
BOLTS. dis. i . HOLLOW WARE. 60 | ea a 55
ig °. a oa a os ila a i a i lle et cial 6 Si oi a ai ola le es ows OF White 5.... eae ‘6 50
ee RR Dee ee es das ceca 50&10 5 a EE RSE BE ORB Ly aoe -

Plow MBS TOW TBE. . oe ns eee ec cee ce sccces aan ee 60 | ‘6 Whee ee 35
Sicieh shoo ee Ee - Gray Guamoied..-...-..--.-...-_ ..-- 40&10 | | Discount, 10.

Ln a i HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. SASH WEIGHTS.

| semen Stamped Tin Ware.................-. Dew list 70 | | Solid Eyes... CE per ton 825

[Wel sain... $350 Japanned i Ware... | l SAWS. dis.

| Well, swivel......................-. ---00.-- 4 00 | Granite Iron Ware ......... _.new list 33% &10 | | _ Hand...... ee tenes oe 20

| BUTTS, CAST dis WIRE GOODS. dis. | Silver Steel ao 7 per oo 2

| i x Bright. ..... oo .70&10&10} ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 5

| Cast Loose Pin, figured........ 2.0. ..s+2+-- W& Serew Eevee T&10K10 | “s  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 3

| Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10 | Hook's .. wi ee 70&10&10| “ Champion and Electric Tooth X

| Wrosent a Mh anna sens aes oa | Gate Hooks and Eyes....... — Cuts, per foot..... ttteeceen nen, 30

| F x 0 Is ih i bh hh bh lL ll Sz | LEVELS. is. | TR APS. 8.

| Wrought Inside Blind. ........ or aoc n 60&10 | stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 70 | Steel, Game ee

| Wrought Brass..............0+ss sees ee eee ee pp KNOBs—New List. dis. | Oneida Communi ity, Newhouse’s .... 35

| Blind, Clark’s...... 0.20. ssseee este e reser ees T0&10 | Door, mineral, jap. trimmings _e.-.... | 66) Oneida Comm inity, Hg awley : & non a. 70

| Blind, Parker's. ......-...----+e+ssessereneee 70&10 | Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... 55 | Mouse, choker.... . .18e per doz

| Blind, Shepard’s ............--2+++++eee+ 2-0 70 | Door, porcelain, plated trimmings. 55 | Mouse, delusion : a. "81.50 per doz.
BLOCKS, ~na a ae Sar aeeeiaia ee : ices deities WIRE. dis.

y Tackle i117,’ rawer and Shutter, porcelain..... 7 ont Macket..........__-

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, 'S........... 40 wy Cee ae a ee 10 10
| bn imnainanalG Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ... 55 | Coppered Market Te
ee dis. 50&02 | Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s................ | Wied MAENCE. 2%
CROW BARS ee 55 Barbea F Spring “asetir ae ae a a

ee Werwele ee 55} Barbed Fence, galvanize 0

ee perm 5 MATTOCKS. { a 2 85

CAPS Adsc Bye . 816.00, dis. 60 | / HORSE NAILS.

May eri................ ke. per m GS | Hant wre. .......-........ .815.00, dis. 60} Au Sable... a a
= ret... 5 60 | Hont’s...... See eee 818.50, dis. 20&10 | Putnam.........-.......-...... dis. 05
eee . 35 MAULS. dis. | Northwestern..... ae dis. 10&10

Maske | ee ‘ 60 | Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled... -- oe} WRENCHES. dis.
CARTRIDGES MILLS. dis. | Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
‘ 7 | Coffee, Parkers Co.’s...-.... ..+ 40] Coe’s Genuine ............ a

Rim Fire. ......0.- 22. -ceeerereeereeee serene 50 P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40) C ‘oe’s Patent Agricul Itural, wrought, te has
Coat Fie... ... dis. 25 ‘“ Landers, Ferry ee 40| Coe’s Patent, malleable.....................75&10
CHISELS. dis. . Enterprise ae oe 25 | iia MISCELLANEOUS ~~

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

M ichigan Tradesman\? i

Official Organ of iad — Business Men’s Association.

 

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State,

The Tradesman Company, Proprietor.

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
strictly in advance.
Advertising Rates made known on apy lication.
Publication Office, 100 Louis St

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Oy. °2.
E. A. STOWE, Editor.

w EDNESDAY, JUNE 3,

 

 

 

 

 

THE FRUITS OF UNIONISM.
The street railway strike has ceased to
cut any figure, so far as any difference
between the company and its former em-
ployes is concerned, as the company has
strikers

supplied the places of all the

is running cars on all its lines as
regularly asever. Having failed to ac-
ecomplish the which they
struck—three quarters of the men hav-
going out
their nnion—the
strikers are now endeavoring to prevent
intimida-

and
object for
because

ing no grievance but
ordered to do so by

people riding on the cars by
tion, coercion, boycotting, stone throw-
ing, clubbing the employes of the road
and boarding
which harborthem. In this, the strikers
and their union friends have par-

but the spirit of Ameri-

destroying the houses

been
tially successful,

canism is beginning to assert itself and
the patronage of the street cars is daily

increasing.
But for the encouragement of public
and shyster merchants, the
would not have lasted

officials
strike

Most of those who sympathized with the |
. * . . }
strike at its inception now revolt at the |

pillage and destruction which
beginning to take
grounds on the side of law and order, as

sued and are

they realize that the fruits of oath-bound |

unionism are
that the men who belong to the
and cater to their ideas bow their heads
to atyranny ten
than that of the Czar of Russia.

At ameeting of representative busi-
held at the Board of Trade
rooms Saturday afternoon, the conduct
of the Mayor,
cuting

riot, anarchy and murder—
unions |

times more oppressive

ness men,

‘Yommon Council, rose-
Com! ( Le

Attorney and acting Police Judge

were denounced in unmeasured terms

and they were given to understand that

the law must be enforced and order re-

stored. Unless the demagogic public of-
their and

which has allowed to

ficials now do duty suppress

the rioting been
under the
the people will rise
pell the enforcement ot the law.

continue name of unionism,

en masse and com-

 

SHOULD BE DETERMINED.

One of the evils of the bonus method
is thus set forth by the Detroit News:

It is intimated that the Cochrane roller
mill making plant, which the city of Es-
canaba secured by paying a generous
bonus, is about to move to Virginia,

probably for another bonus, and as many |

another Michigan town has been plun-
dered in the same way, this would be a
good time to see what the courts can do for
the protection of bonus paying people.
There has been one lower court decision

in Michigan to the effect that a town}
has an |

which pays a price for a factory
interest in it, and must be paid for it if
the factory leaves. The people of Esca-
naba should serve an injunction upon |
the Cochrane institution, and take the
matter to the Supreme Court before they |
stop.

Tue TRADESMAN joins with the News|
in advising the people of Escanaba to| Jew, Shylock, and meet his reasonable

i the late Secretary Windom in the center

{seal will be substituted for the
| seal which

a week.

have en- |
strong |

make a test case of the matter, to the end
that the exact status of bonused indus-
| tries may be established.

At this time, when America is paying
i penalty of opening her doors to the
| poor and oppressed—and criminal classes
| —of all nations, any fact connected with
|the importation problem is of interest.
Sweden recently instituted an enquiry
into the effect upon the population of
that country of the great volume of emi-
| gration to America, resulting in the con-
clusion that the country is being almost
denuded of young men, that young
women for domestic service are becom-
|ing searee, that the wages demanded by
servants have risen to double the figures
of afew years ago, that the supply of
conscripts is running short, and general-
ly the country is being stripped of its ef-

fective population.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing
has the plates of the new $2 certificate
nearly ready for the printers. There
will not be so much lathe work on it as
and

|

there is on the old series of $2 bills,
much more of the white background will
be visible. There will be a vignette of
of the certificate, and a bright carmine
brown
appears on the old notes.
This seal will be put in the right lower |
quarter of the bill. About $40,000,000
| of the old $2 certificates are outstanding,
land as fast as they are received at the}
Treasury they will be marked for de-
struction.

—_—_—_—_—_——_—_—__—_

all of
except |

Shellac is prac tically cornered,
the available stocks in Calcutta,
of one grade, having been shipped to

London and the United States, and pro-

ducers refuse to sell their output at)
prices ruling at the export markets.

Manufacturers declare that they cannot
| produce shellac at the old prices, and
| that a readjustment of values must be
Part of the that has |

| been made in London United

made. advance

and the

| the doctrine on the subject,

 

States must therefore be regarded as per-
manent. |

Judge Champlin i is out with a card to |
| the effect that the Judges of the Supreme |
| Court work sixteen hours a day on the |
average. If the Judges are not more
discreet,they will find their tribunal boy-
cotted by the labor unions for permit-
ting the Judges to put in so many hours.

 

Origin of the Word “Interest.”
Careful enquiry into the subject has
| led me to the very curious origin of the
word ‘“‘interest’’ itself, as signifying the
compensation paid for the use of money.
Anciently the term employed was ‘‘use’’
or “‘usury,’’ meaning not unlawful or ex-
cessive interest, but any interest what-
Indeed, until a very recent period,
notes were drawn in New England, and,
for all that I know, in other parts of the
country also, payable ‘‘with use’’ instead
of ‘‘with interest.’’ Now, this taking of
usury, or accepting money for the use of
money, was strictly forbidden to the
Jews by the Mosaic law in transactions
between themselves, and it was only per-
mitted in dealings with strangers. Chris-
tianity retained the prohibition and
taught that it was a sin for a man to ac-
{cept any kind of reward for a loan of
money. In the ‘*Merchant of Venice’’
powgge nage makes the Christian Anto-

nio, vilify the taking of interest to the

ever.

 

 

argument that money may as righteous-
ly be paid for the hire of money as for
the hire of any other kind of property,
by denouncing him as a devil anda vil-
lain In the course of the discussion the
word “interest” is employed by both par-
ties as synonymous with ‘“‘usury,” with-
out a suggestion of the modern distinc-
tion between the two, showing that they
had in Shakespeare’s day the same mean-
ing.
The religious condemnation of the tak-
ing of hire for money, which, during the
early ages of Christianity, owing to the
limited extent of trade and commerce,
produeed little inconvenience, proved to
be very injurious, so soon the advance
of civilization and the developoment of
the world’s wealth made it profitable for
men to borrow capital for the carrying
out of their business undertakings. Bor-
rowers were compelled to either resort
to Jews like Shylock, who had no scru-
ples of conscience to prevent their
exacting the highest rates they could get,
or else to equally unscrupulous Chris-
tians. Both required payment, as mod-
ern usurers do, not only of what their
loans were reasorably worth, but of an

|additional amount to compensate them

for the odium they ineurred by their
transactions. This, at length, set the
ecclesiastical authorities to scrutinizing
with a view
to discovering a method by which
good Christians might conscientiously
compete in money lending with the Jews
and with Christian extortioners. The
conclusion they came to was, that, while
payment for the hire of money ought not
to be exacted, the lender was justly en-
titled to compensation for the profits he
might have made by using it himself and
which he lost by lending it. The bor-
rower was, therefore, in conscience
bouud to pay, not use or usury for the
loan made to him, but damages for keep-
ing the money out of the owner’s hands.
The law term for such damages was id
or, as itis still expressed
in the French “interest damages”
(domages-interets). Hence came by
abreviation our modern “‘interest,’’which
has entirely supplanted the old ‘‘usury,”
leaving still attached to the latter
the odium which once attended all inter-
est. The rates of hire for money were
therefore fixed by law, and ‘‘usury’’ ul-
timately denoted only the exaction of
more than legal interest, as it does to
this day. But, though, when Shakes-
peare wrote the ‘Merchant of Venice,”
the taking of interest had been lawful
for half a century, the ancient prejudice
against it had, as. we see, not yet died
out, and a certain obloquy followed those
who practiced it. More than this, it was
many years before the courts could bring
themselves to allow interest
where it had not been expressly prom-
ised, and then they did it only upon the
same theory as that upon which it was
first conceded, namely, as damages for
the wrong done to the owner of the prin-
cipal for not paying it to him on the day
when it was due.
MATTHEW MARSHALL.
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Canadian Sugar to Compete with Ours.

An Ottawa dispatch to the Phila-
delphia Press says that ‘‘ it is understood
that the government has decided to grant
a rebate on all sugars manufactured in
Canada for export, which will place the
Canadian refiner in the same position as
the American refiner, to trade in foreign
markets. Canadian refiners are now
pressing for a rebate on sugar manu-
factured for domestic purposes.”’

quod interest,
law,

word

in cases

We were going to fill this space
with a description of our new place
of business, but a representative of
one of Detroit’s largest houses re-
marked, after being shown through
the establishment:

‘You have the largest and by
far the most convenient whole-
sale grocery house in the state,
and the cost of handling your

goods so reduced by having cars

 

|run directly into your store and

|

‘other conveniences, it would

‘seem an easy thing fer you to
undersell any of them.”

», being too crowded with busi-
ness to write an article to fill the
the

truthful statement of the Detroit

space, we will simply quote

business man.

OLNEY &
JUDSON
GROCER CO

P. S.—As we write this article,
we count fourteen retail delivery
wagons in front of our store waiting
to be loaded. Stop where you see

the most business going on.

Nos. 34-36-38 Ottawa St, and
94-96 Louis St.

 

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Good Advice to Wool Growers and
Buyers.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The day has come when parties put-|
ting up fleece wool, regardless of condi-
tion, must stop or aecept such price
at a lower rate as can be coaxed from
purchasers.

The indiscriminate stufling of tags and
unwashed wooland clippings with sweep-
ings from the shearing floor inside the
fleece, both washed and unwashed, reverts
back on the grower and dealer alike.

Again, an excess of twine (over 10 feet
is an excess), the large size of same, as
well as_ the will affect the
price. As to kind, a sisal or jute should
not be used (binder twine of this mater-
ial), as the small particles come off and
adhere to the fleece. The ecards will
not remove it, nor will it take the dyes
to correspond with fibers of wool, leav-
ing a spot on the cloth, givingit aspecky
appearance.

kind,

The cost of smaller or bet-
ter hemp or linen twine cuts no figure,
even if 20 feet is used, but 20 to 30 feet
of regular wool twine does. It should be
glazed and less of it used.

For all this disparagement in our
fleece wools the grower is first to blame,
and the buyer next for taking it in any
such condition. They are all now forced
to look to it, or submit to the deprecia-
tion. Buyers may take it from the far-
mer, but he certainly will find another
disastrous year like the past four, if he
does.

All this is brought about by
countries (especially Australia) putting
up their fleece with care and light twine.
They take off the skirts of the fleece and
sell each separately, tied with 5 feet of
light twine, while our don’t
take off the skirting but stuff in all they

The
twelve

foreign

growers

tagged off from sheep in spring.
difference to manufacturers is,
times the cost to grade for carding, or
twelve men to grade with tags
left to be scoured, against one man on
Australian and no tags. Buyers must
see to it, and growers pay for past years’
negligence.

Better not wash this year.

Wm. T. Huss.
———_—-2-<>___—

The national banking statisties for the
last six months present some curious and
interesting features. The opposition to
the national banks has always been
largely sectional in its character, being
confined, for the most part, to the West
and South, and the representatives of
these sections have denounced the East as

fleece,

 

being in the grasp of bankers and money

kings, and have demanded the abolition

Wall Paper and

|

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

of the national banking system as the
only hope of the West and South. The
geography of the one hundred and four
new banks established during the last
half year is therefore all the more inter-
esting. Texas is credited with thirteen
of these, and the new state of Washing-
ton with ten, as against twelve for Penn-
sylvania and seven for the ‘‘gold bug’”’
state of New York. Illinois, where the
Farmers’ Alliance has made itself a politi-
cal power, and one of the chief demands
of which is the abolition of the entire
national banking system, has taken out
seven new bank charters, with an aggre-
gate capital of $1,450,000, while New
York, with double the population of
Illinois, has taken out only the same
number, with an aggregate capital of
only $500,000. These figures are a sig-
nificant commentary on the opposition to
the system, and show how thoroughly
demagogic and superficial it is. In no
part of the country is the system so es-
sential to growth and development as
where the greatest opposition has been
made to it. The facts are all against the
eranky agitators.

 

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Good Words Unsolicited.

B. Zevalkink, grocer, Grand Rapids: ‘‘We
missed Tue TRADESMAN this week. Please mail
us another copy, as we can’t be a single week
without it.’

Albert Retan, dry goods, St. Johns: ‘‘Send it
along. We consider THe TRADESMAN the bus-
iness man’s best friend, and am unwilling to
miss a single number.”

Geo. H. Spencer, general dealer, Pomona: “You
must have failen to receive the last $1 I sent you,
but as THE TRADESMAN Is well worth 82 a year
to me, I enclose herewith another $1, trusting it
will reach you all right.”

Geo. B. Caldwell, State Accountant, Lansing:
“T must congratulate you on the improved ap
pearance of Tue TRADESMAN this week. It is
not only a credit to the Second City, but indi-
cates that same progressive spirit on your part
which has made your paper valuable to the
trade in particular and to those not now in trade
who desire to know what the busy world is do-
ing.”

a 9
Muskegon Notes.

Charpentier & Charpentier, whose
grocery store on Pine street was des-
troyed in the fire, have engaged a store in
the brick block at 44 South Terrace
street, and have put in a stock of groceries.

E. P. Watson has removed his grocery
stock from the old location on Terrace
street to 5 East Western avenue.

C. M. Philabaum has taken the store
vacated by Mr. Watson and resumed the
grocery business under the former style
of the ‘Bee Hive.’”? The stock
furnished by the Olney & Judson Grocer
Co. and Franklin MacVeagh & Co.

Window Shades.

was

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

NELSON BROS. & CO.,

68 MONROE STREET.

 

 

YRIMO
Pipe Wrench

Made of Forged Steel and Interchangeable in all its Parts, Sold by

HESTER & FOX, - -

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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PISHING TACKLE

— AND +

SPORTING GOOD

HEADQUARTERS.

| SPALDING &

SUCCESSORS TO

L..S. HILL & CoO.

Importers, Manufacturers
and Jobbers of

| |
Sporting & Athletic Goods,
| 100 Monroe St,,

G0.

AQ, 42 & 44 N. Tonia St.

Grand Rapids, Mich., April 8, ’91.

     
 
  

 
  

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Having sold to Foster,
y | i

I | Stevens & Co., of this city,
‘/. our entire stock of sport-

     

; goods consisting of
guns, ammunition, fishing

tackle, bicycles, ete., we
would bespeak for them
the same generous patron-
age we have enjoyed for
the past.ten years, and
trust with their facility for
on the sporting
goods business our patrons
will find their
will be well protected in

earryin

hal
interests

their hands.
Very truly yours,

SPALDING & CO.

 

Having purchased the above stock of goods and added to it
very largely, and placed it in charge of William W ood -
worth, who for many years was with L. 8. Hill & Co., and
then Spalding & Co,, we think we are now in excellent shape
to supply the trade of Western Michigan.

OSTERZATEVENS
& GC: MONROR

ST.

 

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Dru gs s @ Medicines. |

~ State Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
Five Years—George Gundrum, [onia.
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—S. E. ill, Owosso.
Meetings for 1891—Ann Arbor, May
(Detroit) July 7; Hought« on, Sept. A: ; Len sing

ceria ag State Pharmaceutic al Ases’n.
President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo.
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor.
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer— Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in October, 1891.

 

 

 

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Nov. 4

 

 
  

 

{Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March,

June, September and December.

 

Grand Rapi

ds Drug Clerks’ Assoc iation.
resident, F .

Kipp; Secretary, W. ith.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society
Pres esident, F. | Ww. R. Perry; ‘Secretary, E. 8. Anderson.

 

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President C.S. Koon: Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.
ess and Failure Amos “ Adver-
tisers.
Recent statistics, according
street’s Commercial Directory,

to Brad-|
show that

in all lines of industrial life more than
four-fifths, or over eighty-two per cent.
of all who failed in business in the
United States last year were brought to
that condition primarily because of lack |
of equipment, either natural or acquired,
mental or financial, or through lack of }
special education in their respective |
lines of trade.

It is clear and plainly evident that |

poor and superficial preparation for busi- |
ness life is the one great weakness of |
our present industrial training—the |
broadest of all avenues leading to fail-|
ure. It is this lack of proper equipment
which causes certain advertisers
while others gradually work their way to

f
fail,

to

eminent success and great wealth. The}
great study with the advertiser, there- |
fore, should be how to start right, how}
to goon right, how to constantly keep
fully equipped.
% * =
Advertising is a science. What would

be thought of a young man or youth who
developed a genius for mathematics, who

said, ‘‘I will not study arithmetic, or al-
gebra, or geometry. I will not give time

to the teaching of the professors or mas-
ters of the great science, but 1 will work

out all for myself, arriving at better |
methods, through the power of my own |
intellect and genius.” However great

his natural ability he could not
farina lifetime. But if he availed him-
self of the knowledge left to all asa
heritage—treasure accumulated by thou-
sands of great minds in the years and
ages past—then might he become great
in the profound science, and possibly re-
nowned through some advance or im-
provement or simplifying of methods.

The same holds true in the
advertising; the man who becomes
in it must possess genius of a
description; and he must eyer be a
dent—first, to secure the wisdom of the
past and present; second, to keepin the
van, to be a leader in the rapid march of
progress.

progress

of
great
certain

science

stu-

As the ordinary youth readily learns
enough of mathematics to very well}

serve the purposes of ordinary business
life, so may the ordinary advertiser suc-
ceed moderately well with the same half
careless study and the same lack of gen-
ius.
Hard, patient work accomplishes much. |
In one sense industry and research are
the parents of genius. Thus, advertisers

without much genius, who study the
science moderately, succeed fairly, while
those who have natural genius ina high
degree, but who will not work to learn
from others, almost invariably fail. Sut
great success is the result of the happy
union of natural genius und careful, pa-
tient study and investigation.
* * *
PRINTERS’ INK, published weekly at $2

a year, by Geo. P. Rowell & Co., New

York.

This little magazine is an educator; it
teaches the science of advertising. From
an editorial standpoint it is able. Its
contributors are, in the main, the most
successful advertisers and advertising |

ing medium.
| leading agency, of whom that progres-

| the science of advertising, Mr. George P.

}are continuous on the reader; thus are

=| tion

1 On me,
| study,

| magazine,
such a teacher and educator as PRINTERS’
} Ink, I think I

| also believe

American trade, and the American News-
| dealers’

| amounts to several dollars daily,
ithe buyer loses and the seller gains for
| the want of a
| tessimal division of industry and retail |

| fifth

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

|experts. Its advertisers are very large-
|ly the ablest advertising agencies and
| the liveliest and most valuable advertis-
Its proprietor, the strong,
siye, thoughtful student and teacher of
Rowell, is the head. The reader is cer-
tainly brought in contact with many of
the brightest and ablest minds who are
interested in advertising. Such inter-
change of thought means constant pro-
gress.

It is an exchange for the promotion of
the science of advertising through bring-
ing together, in free discussion, the ablest
minds. Asa publication calculated to
suecessfully educate and develop the
advertiser, it stands entirely unequaled
and unrivaled in this or any other country.
Issued weekly, its teaching and influence

men guided and developed almost with-
out realizing it. This continuous educa-
means continuous progress for}
the great field of advertisers. Do not
understand me as saying that all wisdom
in the art is to be found in this magazine,
but Ido say that more is to be found
there than in any other single channel
in the world. The chartis a little thing,
but on it much of the saftey of the
mariner depends. Printers’ INk is the
chart or guide to whom many advertisers

already owe much of their saftey and
success.

For twenty years I have constantly
advertised. Successful at the start,

through the value of an original, popular
idea, I was weak enough to fancy that I
knew something about advertising. The
loss of over one hundred thousand dol-
lars in 1872 made a profound impression
to the effect that | knew -nothing
about it. 1 went to work to try to learn
the art, and, by constant endeavor and
I have been able to hold a place
in the ranks of success.

Could I have had at that time such a
such an exchange of thought,

should have saved over
one hundred thousand dollars in 1872. I
I should have made more
money, and with less worry and care, as
the years rolled by.

The reader doubtless infers
would pay a high price for
INK if necessary. I would pay one
thousand dollars a year for it, if it could
not be secured for less, simply because
I believe it to be worth more than that
sum to me in my business.

*

that I
PRINTERS’

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The suecessful lawyer studies the Law
Reporter, the suceessful physician and

surgeon the Medical and Surgical Re-

view, and the successful advertiser
Printers’ Ink.
Mistake not, reader. This article is

not intended to flatter and does not
ter. Flattery imitates as nearly as pos-
sible the form of honest, deserved merit,
and the one is only too frequently taken
for the other. Happy are those whose
keen perceptions enable them to clearly
distinguish the true and substantial
from the false and hollow.
E. ¢
ences

Call for a Half Cent.

l¢ cent has become a necessity

flat-

ALLEN.

The in
Association will petition
gress to establish a 44 cent coinage.
1 cent papers the dealers’ profit is only
‘¢ eent, and in many instances the

cent lost because there is no
coin of this value. An appreciable loss
arises from this source in the course of a

Con-
On

is

 

 

year. Itis a favorable way in marking
retail goods of all kinds to rate them in
such a way that the +4 comes in, and in
every case goes to the dealer. This odd
cent in a large establishment certainly
which

 

4g cent coin. The infini- |
supply long ago made these coins a ne-
cessity in Europe. A centime is the one-
of a cent. Switzerland has a!
centime piece, Belgium a 2 centime!
piece, Germany has the pfennig, equal |
to one-fourth of a cent. |

| the umbrella is fixed in the ground,

| happened?

BUSINESS LAW.

Summarized Decisions from Courts of
Last Resort.
INSURANCE—‘‘VACANT AND
CUPIED.”’

According to the decision of the Su-
preme Court of Illinois, in the case of
Rockford Insurance Co. vs. Storig, the
question what is meant by the term
‘“‘vacant and unoccupied” in a policy of
insurance is a question of law, but the
question whether a building was at the
time of a loss ‘‘vacant and unoccupied’’
within the meaning of the policy isa
question of fact.

UNOC-

BANK — PAYMENT— DECEIT — RECOVERY.

A sank which ignorantly pays money
to the holder of an instrument upon the
faith of a third person’s statement that
he knows the holder to be the payee,
and is afterwards compelled to pay the

j}amount to the true payee, may recover

the sum from the third person in an
action of deceit, according to the decision
of the Surpreme Court of Colorado in the
ease of Lahy vs. City National Bank of

Denver.

STATE TAXATION—TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
In the ease of Commonwealth of

Massachusetts vs. Western Union

Telegraph Co., the validity was ques-

tioned of alaw of Massachusetts which
taxed the buildings, machinery and other
property of the company within the
State, first ascertaining and deducting the
amount of property of the company
already assessed by municipal or other
local authority. The Supreme Court of
the United States upheld the validity of
the law, but directed certain modifi-
cations to be made in the judgment of the
State Court.

 

LANDLORD AND TENANT—SALE OF GRAIN.
A party engaged in the business of
buying and selling grain in Illinois in
August and December bought in the
regular course of business oats and corn
of a tenant amounting to $227, which
was paid for at the time. The purchase
was in the ordinary course of business,
without any notice that the vendor was
atenant, or that the grain was raised
upon rented premises, and there were
no facts or circumstances shown to put
the purchaser on inquiry. The tenant
being indebted for the rent, his landlord
sued the purchaser personally for the
ralue of the grain, and it was stipulated
that any proof showing a right of re-
covery in any form of action should be
admitted. The Supreme Court of Illinois
held, in the case of Finney vs. Harding,
that the plaintiff could not maintain the
action. The court said that a bona fide
purchaser of grain from a tenant without
notice of the landlord’s lien thereon for
unpaid rent, or of facts sufficient to put
him on inquiry, will not be hable to the
landlord for its value in a_ personal
action, but the landlord may still levy
his distress warrant on the grain if it
can be found and identified.
i i
Large Umbrella.

The biggest umbrella in the world has
been made for the use of a West African
king. The umbrella, which can be
closed in the usual manner, is twenty-
one feet in diameter, and is affixed toa
polished mahogany staff of the same
length. The canopy is made of India
straw, lined with cardinal and white, has
a score of straw tassels and a border of
erimson satin. On the top a pine-
shaped straw ornament which ter-
minates in a glided cone. When in use
and

Is

under

|entertain thirty guests at dinner.

oe
She ‘Was Shopping.

Friend (noticing the confusion of goods
of every description scattered promiscu-
ously around the store)—Hello! what’s
Been taking an inventory,

had a fire, or are you going to move out? |

}
{
|

Merchant—That shows how little you
know about storekeeping. We have

merely been waiting on a lady who drop-

ped in for a paper of pins.

|

 

its shelter the king is able to}

 

| Opp. New Post Office.

Gossip About Detroit Druggists.

Derrort, June 1— The next meeting
of the Detroit Pharmceutical Society will
be the annual meeting, when new offi-
cers will be elected.

Don’t say a word about it, but Fred
Stevens, the hustling, genial and highly
respected druggist, a leader in the drug-
gist base ball nine, is now standing on
the brink of the precipice and early in
June will leap into matrimony.  Fred’s
brother druggists all wish him joy.

The drug business is quiet, but new
stores are being opened in all directions
by young men who think they see mil-
lions in it. They better leave their
money in the bank at 4 per cent. and
work on a salary.

A genuine surprise was sprung on our
druggists by the consolidation of the bus-
iness of Williams, Sheley & Brooks and
Jas. E. Davis & Co. It makes a strong
combination and, with Jas. E. Davis as
general manager, things are likely to
hum. Jas. E. is built that way. He
can’t help it.

We are beginning to think of taking
our summer vacations, but will not de-
cide where to go until we know which
road affords the best walking.

Fred Perry, the retiring President of
the Pharmaceutical Society, has filled
the position to the satisfaction of every
member. There is no man in the busi-
ness who stands higher in the estimation
of those in the drug business than Mr.
Perry.

There is a great deal of curiosity to
know how the officers of the Board of
Pharmacy will be dealt out. The next
meeting will tell the story. eee

ei el — A lr mmm
A Strong Team.

The drug houses of Williams, Sheley
& Brooks and James E. Davis & Co. have
decided to amalgamate Williams,
Davis, Brooks & Co., with a capital stock
of $300,000. Mr. Davis will be general
manager and executive head. Mr. Wil-
liams will have charge of the finances.
Mr. Brooks will be the buyer and Mr.
Sheley will be a plain partner with noth-
ing to do but share in the profits. The
new firm will occupy the present quar-
ters of Williams, Sheley & Brooks. The
consolidation makes the new house a
strong one.

as

i i Ali
Test for Purity of Wax.
The best method to ascertain whether

| your beeswax contains Japan wax, resin,

stearic acid, ete., or not, is the following:
Add one gramme of the beeswax to a so-
lution of three grammes sodium carbon-

ate in ten o. c. water, and heat to the
boiling point. Pure wax, on cooling
separates completely from the liquid,

which assumes a very faint opalescence.
If there are present any of the above-
named adulterants the liquid will become
turbid and milky.

i —<ellpem

The Drug Market.

Opium is dull and lower.

unchanged. Quinine is weak. Oil orange

is higher. Oil cloves has declined. Oil

cubebs is lower. Lupulin has declined.

Strychnia has advanced. Linseed oil is
lower. Lycopodium has advanced.

Morphine i

-_- >

Detroit—Wm. H. Burke has purchased
the drug stock of the S. A. Dupont es-
tate.

Drag Store for Sale at a Bargain

On long time if desired, or will exchange for
part productive real estate. Stock clean and
well assorted. Location the best in the city.
I wish to retire permanently from the drug bus

iness.

Cc. L. BRUNDAGE,
117 W. Western Ave.
Mich.

 

Muskegon,

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price for it. Address

PECK BRO Wholesale be”

GRAND RAP

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

anitiagtndtaad

 

Wholesale Price Current.

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Advanced—Oil orange, strychnia, lycopodium.
Declined—Gum opium, oil cloves, oil cubeb, lupulin, linseed oil.

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ACIDUM,
——————————— 8@ 10
Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00
TE once sac sae, 3C
Camorieum ........... B3@ 35
CEOUE 2 ne ee woes 58@ 60
Serene 2... ss... a
Nitrocum ............ 10@ 12
a ae 11@ 13
Phosphorium dil...... 20
Salicylicum .. .-1 40@1 80
Salpadrieum.......... i4@ &
oe a 1 40@1 60
erteCem..........+- 11 42

AMMONIA,
age. ® - -- es 84@ 5

deg. - eo ¢
Cc nines Ll cah sue ues 12@ 14
Celoridaa ........-,.- 12@ 14
ANILINE,
BACCAE.
Cubeae (po. 90)...... 90@1 10
Jus eerde .......--..-- 8@ 10
Xanthoxylum......... 25@ 30
BALSAMUM,.
a ga oy eee cues 5@ 60
TE a vp ein ow eo @1 75
Seman. Canega ..... 35@ 40
Tolgian ..........-.-.- 35@ 50

CORTEX.

Abies, Canadian...........-- 18

eee ee 11

Cinchona Flava ........-.-- 18

Euonymus SNeP. Le eeeas 30

Myrica Cerifera, po.. _ =

Prunus Virgini.............. 12

Quillaia, grd........-...++-- 14

Gegekeres ......:..-.-----+-- 14

Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10
EXTRACTUM.

Glycy) rrhiza Glabra... A@

es 33@ 35

Haematox, 15%b. box.. 1@

Pesce 13@ 14

mie Oe ok coos 14@ 15

_ Se 16@ 17

FERRUM,

Carbonate Precip...... @. 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Soluble........ @ 80
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50
Solut Chloride Lo @ 15
Sulphate, eom'i....... D@ x

sa tre. ....<--. @ 7

FLORA.

Arnica ..... 18@ 20
Anthemis .........---- WH 2%
Matricaria _tiéié--- -- 2@ 30

FOLLA,

Baro 38
Comin. *acuiifol, “Tin-
nivel iy ....... .-.-.-- 25@ 28

' Alx. 35@ 50

Salvia officinalls, ‘4s
ond M6.......-.--... 12@ 15
a eee 8@ 10
@UMMI.
Acacia, 1st picked.... @i 00
- 2d _ . @ 9
“ ‘“s | @ 80
” sifted sorts... 2 65
- po..... ---<- 75@1 00
loe, Barb, (po. 60).. 50@ 60
66 Cape, (po. 20). @ 12
ss =socotri, (po. 60) . @ SO
Catechu, 1s, (148, 14 4s, :
) G
Ammoniae .........--- 25 30
aan. (po. 30) .. @ Ww
Bensoinum...........- W@ 55
Camphors®......------- 52@ 55
Euphorbium po ...... 35@ 10
Galbeuwis.........---- @3 00
Gamboge, po.......--- 80@ 9
Shenae. (pe @).... @ 3
Kino, (po. 25)....---.- @ Ww
oe a Q@ 9
Myrrh, (po. ae @ 40
Opii, (po. 3 40). --2 W@2 23
Shellac .. .. ae os
' pleached.. i 23@ 33
Tragacanth ........... 3@ 75
HERBA—In ounce packages.
Set... ...-.
= ae 20
—- 25
Majorum ......-..---.+--+++- 2
Mentha  Biperita. Coils es 2
Vir i. a. 2
Ee 30
Tanacetum, V.........------ 22
Thymus, V.......---------:- 25
MAGNESIA,
Colotned, Pat........-- 55@ 60
Carbonate, Pat........ W@ w2w
Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ %5
Carbonate, Jennings... 35@ 36

OLEUM.
Absinthium. ......... 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dule...... 45@ %5
Amydalae, Amarae.. 8 00@8 25
a_i ..1 70@1 80
Auranti euccaeeagaeeeee 00@3 50
Bergamii ......... 3 75@4 00
Cariputl ..........-.-- 70@ 80
Caryophylli...........- 1 00@1 10
OO og ce edness bes 35 =
Chenopoan ..........- @2
Closamont ..........- 1 15@1 20
CUPEOTIAs «4. 0.0520 @ =
Conium Mac.........-. 35@
QOpAIDS . ... 22.2 ceeee 1-2@1 30

 

   

——........... + oss
Exechthit -- 90@1 00
eres wl, 1 9@2 00
Genliherts ............ 2 0O@2 10
Geranium, ounce..... @ &
Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ 75
Boceeme |... 1 85@2 00
eens... SO0Q2 00
Eaveuade ............ WQ2 00
Limonis . betec cence Ge iO
Mentha P iper. eueeecuas 2 90@3 00
ments Verd......... 2 50@2 60
morrnuas, eal......... 1 00@1 10
Myreia, ounce......... @ 50
Cnve........ 00@2 75
Picis een, (gal. sie 10@ 12
Mache ...... 2... 04@1 20
R atin eee 1 ol 600
Boeae, OUNCE.......... @6 00
eee... 8 40@ 45
ee 90@1 00
ME ioe eect ae 3 50@7 00
Sassafras..... . £62
—— ess, ounce.... @ 65
co ae @1 50
meee 8s. 0@ 50
eo oe @ 60
TROOMTOMAS........... 15@
POTASSIUM,
Pete. ....... 1. 15@ 18
Brenromate ..........- 13@ 14
Co 37 40
ee 129@ 15
Chlorate, (po. 16)...... 14@ 16
oe ............... 50@ 55
oe, 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 30@ 33
Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15
Potass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10
Poses Mitres.......... 9
a 30@ 33
Salpnate po:.......... 15@ 18
RADIX,
a 20@ 2%
Ameo... 250 30
eee 1%@ 6
See OO... @
eee 2@ 50
Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18
Hydrastis er
. 40). @ 35
He lebore, Ala, po. 15@
ee 15@ Ww
Ipecac, po..........-.- 2 40@2 50
Iris plox (po. 35@38).. 32@ 35
oneee, Wr. ....e.. 35G 40
Maranta, 4s.. aoe @ 3
en po. Lea 15@ 18
eo 75@1 00
= Oat,..-..-....,... @1 7
ee 75@1 35
oe a 48@ 53
Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ Ww
BOrventaria............ 40@ 45
RO eee ee tea. 50@ 55
Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40
- M @ 2
Seiilae, (po. 35) .......-. 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Footti-
me pO......:.. @ 3
Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ B
German. 15@ 2
peter @.:........,.. 10@ 15
Zinger j.........- R@ 2
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20).. .- @ 15
Apium (graveleons).. 2e@ 2%
oS a ; 41@ 6
Cara, @o. 18)......... Go
Onpmereom............. 1 00@1 25
Corlandrum........... 10@ 12
Cannabis Sativa....... 44@ 5
Cvdomiims.... ........ T@1 00
Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate...... 2 00@2 25
Pooniewam........... @ 15
Foenugreek, po.. . Ce &
lee... 4@4
@ 4%

Lini, grd, (bbl. 34%)... 4
Lobelia 3

- 34@ 4%

ea 7

Pharlaris Canarian... Wh

 

Rap

Sinapis, A ce ce oS 9
paeee........ 11@ 12
SPIRITUS.

Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50
" D. ¥. B.....1 Bee ©
ua 1 10@1 50

Juniperis Co. 0. T 1 75@1 75

ou 1 75@3 50

Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00

Son Vini Gail........ 1 75@6 50

Vind Oporto ........... 1 25@2 00

Vint Atba........:....1 ae

SPONGES.
— sheeps’ wool |
CAFriaAge.........-... 2 2@2 50
Nassau sheeps’ wool |
oe eee 2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool carriage....... in

Extra yellow sheeps’

SO  ———— 85

Grass sheeps’ wool Car-

ree .......-........ 65
Hard for slate use.... v¢9]
Yellow Reef, for slate

Oe is. 1 40

SYRUPS.

ACOOCIA ..........--.. 5. oes 50

Reeser .:....... 2... 2... 50

Pee. ac te... .- @&

i . 2

Auranti Cortes.............. 50

ae 50

Similax Officinalis........ -
. . Oe nace 50

Co Se ne te 50

Scillae el once aes aet ecw ay ce 50

orcs ncvccoevicecens 50
ee 50
frauen eee ss... 50

 

TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis R.......
a“ iy F

    

  

 
 

 
 

 

69 |

 

 

50
eee es. 0
Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
WO oe cei 60

' Oc 50
OIA .. 50
Barosma ... cote 50
Cantharides.. 1. 9
eg ee 50
Ca damon te ae ee. 7

WAP. a
ee 100
—mea <a 50
Cepemore ................... 50

. LS
Comme... 50
eer 4... 50
Cee 50
RN ee 50
Ee 50
Gentian . ee 50 |

eae cee e sc eeceeey 60

Guaica Deserts eeaceuese GME
ammon Beg ee 60
ima eee a 50
Ryo... 50
Iodine.. . . ¥ (0)
. Colorless. . 75
Ferri Chloridum............ 35
eee ae 50
ence ee ood deca eas cae 50
mrre......-...,............ 50
ws V omica.. 50
oe... 85
 Campioreted........... 50
ee... 2 00
Auranti Cortex _... oO
Miseeeee ...................,. 50
WEUEOON oo. s,s, 50
Me 50
Cassia Acutifol..:...... ... @

« by -_.... 50
Perpcmtera® ................. 50
ee 60
Soren... ..........
a ‘ore. a
Veratrum Veride............ 50

MISCELLANEOUS,
Aither, Spts Nit, 3 _ 26@ 28
- ©@ .
a 24%@ 3
‘ ° ground, (po.
Annaito. tasececes Goan Ge
Antimoni, ‘po. ete en eee es &
et Potass T. 55@ 60
Aoye ..... @1 40
maerereia.........,.... @ B
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 66
Areeetemm ............ 5@ 7
Balm Gilead. a ne , 8@
Bismuth $ 2 10@2 20
ae Chior, ‘Is, aa
; ce Oe)........ 9
Candbontans Russian,
~..........,........ @1 40
Capsici Fructus, af... @ 2

. . io... @

“ : 3 po. @ 2
Caryophyllus, _ 16s) BP@ xX
Carmine, No. 40-...... 7
Cera Alba, 8. & P.. 50@ 55
Cera Flava ieee cies 38@ 40
ocean ................ @ 40
Cassia Fructus........ @ 2
COmgraree...........4.- @ 10
Ceeecer ............. Ps 2
Chloroform ..... 63

- squibbs . ee 10
Chloral Hyd ‘Crst ese cs 4 in 7
Cmeueres 12... W@ 2
Cinchonidine, PRL&W ita Bw

German 34%@ 12
Corks, list, dis. per
cea eee sae 60
Creanotam ........... @ 8
Crete, (Dbl, 7)........ @
eee... 5@ 5
66 ore. ......... 9@ 11
- ee @ 8
oc ............ 2 30
Nk a tee aes 24
Curet Sulph..........- 7
Dextrine ..... 12
ener Sul... ....... 68@ 70
Emery, all numbers.. @

. m1... @ &
Ergota, (po.) @....... 50@ 55
Biake Wote.......... 12@ 15
ee @ 2B
ee ET 7 @8
Gelatin, Cooper.. @ 70

* ¥ Peon... -. 5. 40@ 60
Glassware flint, 70 and 10,

by box 60and 10
Glue, Brown.......... 9@ 15

White.. a. a =
iCiveerine ............. 17 @ B&B
Grana Paradisi.. @ 2
Humulus.. 25@ 55
Hydraag Chior Mite... @ W

Co @ 80

. Ox ‘halen @1 60

. Ammoniati.. @i 10

. Unguentum. 45@ 55}
Hydrargyrum . . @ 0}
Tehthyobolla, A 25@1 50 |
ee... 75@1 00
iodine, mere. a 3 75@3 85 |
Iodoform.. @4 70 |
Pup ........ 35@ 40)
Lycopodium . @ 45)
ee 30@ 85 |
Liquor Arsen et Hy-

a 27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Magnesia, Sulph (bbl

Boe eee ees 20 3
Mansa, §. ¥......-.. @ 60

 

  

ee, ‘ P. &W...2 2O@2 45 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ Lindseed, boiled . 55 58
ao _¥. @4& Loge 35 cae a @ 8 — Poot, winter
ee 2 oot 0 6 OL. @ Wi sttrammed........... 50 69
rar — cee. @ —, ¥ pdeiibes. De pews 4344 50
wrisuca, No. 1....... 70@ @® 3
| Nux Vomica, (po%).. @ 0 Snuff, ‘Sestda, Be. Voes @ 35] PAINTS. bbl. Ib.
[On Rem 38@ 38 | Soda Boras, (po. 13}. . 12@ 13| Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3
| Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 30@ 33) Oc hre, yellow _— -.. 13% 2@4
Seed Veeco tae ooau as @2 @ | Soda Carb............ 14@ 2 ae ae 2@3
| Plels Liq, N. C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ 5/ Putty, ——— 24%@3
ia @2 00| Soda, Ash.............3%@ 4)“ strictly pure.....2% 2%@3
| Piels Liq., quarts . @1 00| Soda’ Sulphas...........@ | Vermilion Prime Amer-
| —....... @ & | Sots. EtherCo........ ma So on. 13@16
Pil Hydrarg," (po. 80) .. @ 5O “ Myrcia — . @2 25! V ermilion, Eng glish. TO0QT5
Piper Nigra, (po. 22).. @ “© Myrcia Imp... .. @3 00 | Green, Peninsular. WQ™E
| Piper Alba, (po g5).. : 3 “Vint sect bbl. [lead wed. ............ Qi
Pix Burgun eee ee ven g q Sa .. qe si) Wotte ............ @74
Pith Acet .......... 15| Less 5c gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span... @i0
Pulvis Ipecac et opil..1 1001 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... @1 30| Whiting, Gilders’...... Q@%
Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Subl.. i @4 | White, Paris American 1 00
ar. D. Co.,don..... @1 25 Roll.......... 2%@ 3%| Whiting, Paris Eng.
| Pyrethrom, py........ 0G %/ Tamarinds........ 8@ 10 cliff . 1 4
Guamies ............-- 8@ 10} Terebenth Venice..... 29@ 30| Pioneer P repared Paintt 20@1 4
Quinia, LP &e..... Sam 36 | Theobroamme .....-... .. 45@ 5¢|Swiss Villa Prepared
oo S. German....24 @ 30|/ Vanilla.. : 9 — 00; Paints... ..1 00@1 20
| Rubla Tinctorum..... 12@ 14} Zinci Sulph.. i@ VARNISHES.
— Lactis pv. ; 3 2 ‘aa No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
| § ee. 80¢ 5 . | Mira Turp............16gg@) &
| Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal! Coach mode. a 2 THOS ‘00
| Semtomine ....... @4 50 | Whale, winter........ 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn...... : 00@1 10
=. W.. om 14 —? _— a = = —_ —= —, 1 55@1 60
a. 7 Mk. Biter, Wo f........... & S apan ryer 0.
- q ee eee @ 15| Linseed, pureraw.... 52 55 | Tor. ....... Cy 0@ 7%
|

 

 

HAZELTINE
& PERKINS
DRUG CO.

Importers and Jobbers of

DRUGS

CHEMICALS AND

PATENT MEDICINES. —

DEALERS IN

Paints, Oils 2s Varnishes.

SWI88 WILLA PREPARED PAINTS.

Fall Line of Stale Drogsists Sundries

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

 

 

 

 

We Have in Stock and Offer a Fall Lime 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.

Haxelting & Perkins Drug Go,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

    

12

 

2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

GROCERIES.

Pearl Barley.

 

To pearl barley means to gradually
wear off the rough outer coating or hull.
Unlike other kinds of grain, the hull has
a wonderful faculty of sticking and the
only way to get it off is to wear it off.

Oats are easily hulled by drying and
afterward passing them through or be-
tween two gritty sandstones dressed for
this purpose. Rice and buckwheat are
also easily hulled, but with barley it is
altogether a different matter, and the
only way to get rid of the hull is to
place the kernels between two sub-
stances, generally stone on one side and
steel bars on the other, and hold them
there until the hull is worn away. The
stone revolves rapidly in one direction
while the steel bars revolve in the op-
posite direction at considerably less
speed, usually in the proportion of four-

teen to one, or while the stone makes
450 revolutions the bars make thirty.
This opposite movement of the stone

and bars has a tendency to keep the
barley rolling, and as it comes into con-
tact with the stone on one hand and the
bars on the other the outside coating is
worn off.

The simplest possible way of making
pearl barley is to put it into a barley
mill and hold it there until the hullis
worn off; this usually requires
ten minutes’ time, but, of course, much
depends upon the kind of machine used;
whatever is used, the principle is the
same. Itis to gradually wear off the
hull without breaking the berry.

Since rolled wheat has become such a
favorite dish it has become necessary to
hull the rough outer bran, and especially
the fuzzy ends of the kernels, before
steaming and rolling. The barley mill
is especially well adapted to do this
work, but speed must be reduced
considerably so as not to break the
kernels. It also requires much less
time. The same true of wheat. In
the manufacture of whole wheat flour,
first pearl the rough bran and fuzz, then
grind the balance into flour.

As before stated, the simplest process
of making pearl barley is with one
machine.
flour from the barley are
and disposed of as feed. To get a close
yield and a fine quality of goods,
several machines should be used, together
with a full line of separating, grading
and cleaning machinery. The Martin
barley pearling machine was first intro-
duced into the United States at the

is

mixed together

Centennial Exposition, and is now used
in several of the leading mills in this
country. It is so constructed as to

automatically
duct, and requires

feed and empty the pro-
very little attention.

Itis very light running, and requires
only a five-inch belt torunit. About 50
per cent. of pearl barley can be had

from good clean grain. The offal is very
valuable for feed, and always meets
with a ready sale at good prices. The

demand for pear! barley is increasing,
but the consumption of it is largely
confined to foreigners. The Yankees
are beginning to eat barley soup, and
find it not so bad after all. It is now
being used largely as a rolled product

like rolled oats and wheat.

The flow sheet here given is very
carefully prepared; all the different sizes
of wire and perforated metal are given.
First the barley is passed through a
grader clothed with 5-64x¢ inch for
small seeds and offal,
4f inch for medium barley, the coarse
parley passing out at the end to be
afterward passed to the pearling machine.
From the first pearler the material goes
to the scalper clothed with 1-16x%° inch
perforated metal, then to aspirator where
the hulls are drawn off, then to second

pearler, and again to scalper with 1-16-x |
®4 inch perforated metal, and to aspirator,

then to No. 3 pearler and a_ scalper
clothed with 20x20 wire for taking out
flour, next to No. 4 pearler, and then to
polishing machine clothed with 22x22

wire; then to aspirator and to grader, |

where the finished product is graded into
six different grades. By this process
seventy-five kegs of very choice pear]
barley can be made per day.

weed)

about |

By this process the hulls and |

then through 9-64x |

When War-Songs Meant Something.

A veteran of the Civil War, in speak-
| ing of the effect of war-songs, recently
| said:

“‘T have been with the column, march-
ing along roads which were muddy, when
the men looked like anything but human
beings as they crawled along splashed
from head to foot with dirt, their cloth-
ing disarranged, their pantaloons tucked
in their stockings, and their heavy bro-
gans Jaden with mud. Some strong-
lunged fellow way up at the head of the
coiumn would strike up a war-song. It
might be ‘Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,’ or it
might be ‘John Brown’s Body.’ In an in-
stant he would be joined by others, and
soon, away down the long road as far as
the column stretched, a mighty chorus
would be going up, while the men would
brace up, their eyes brighten and their
footsteps lose the weary movement as they

kept step to the music. Twenty-five
thousand or thirty thousand men
stretched out over a long distance in

marching, and you can imagine the effect
of such a chorus of male voices. Perhaps
away off on some parallel road, a mile or
two away, another column would be ad-
vancing, and this, too, would take up
the refrain, and the effect be heightened
two-fold. Those were the days when
war-song meant something to the men
who sang them.”’
> o-<— —_$______——

Tack It on the Wall.

The elder Baron Rothschild had the
walis of his bank placarded with the fol-
lowing curious maxims:

Carefully examine every detail of your
business.

3e prompt in everything.

Take time to consider and then decide
quickly.

Dare to go forward.

Bear troubles patiently.

3e brave in the struggle of life.

Maintain your integrity as a sacred

| thing.

Never tell business lies.

Make no useless acquaintances.

Never try to appear something more
than you are.

| Pay you debts promptly.

Learn how to risk your money
right moment.

Shun strong liquor.

Then work hard and you will
tain to succeed.

at the

be cer-
> 2 <->
Business Changes at Leroy.

Leroy, June 1.—H. M. Patrick, who
has been engaged in general trade here
for the past dozen years, has concluded
to remove his stock to Cadillac and has
already taken steps in that direction.

Geo. W. Kellogg, who has clerked for
the H. M. Patrick Co. for several years,
has formed a ecopartnership with M. E.
VanDusen, under the style of Kellogg &
VanDusen, and will embark in the gro-
ecery, hardware and undertaking busi-
ness. The new firm purchased the hard-
ware and undertaking stock of the H. M.
Patrick Co.

ne
Love At First Sight.
From the New York Weekly.

Friend—So yours was a case of love at
fiirst sight ?

Mrs. Getthere — Yes, indeed. I fell
desperately in love with my dear husband
|} the moment I set eyes upon him. I re-
j}member it as distinctly as if it were
yesterday. I] was walking with papa on
the beach at Long Branch, when sudden-
ly papa stopped, and pointing him out,
said: ‘*There, my dear, is a man worth
ten millions.”’

me
Country Callers.

Calls have been received at THE
TRADESMAN Office during the past week
from the following gentleman in trade:

W. D. Brainerd, Eaton Rapids.

Hunting & Kelsey, Rockford.

T. Armock, Wright.

J. H. Manning, Lake.

 

Seiliecttiin tiie a
As Seen by Canadian Eyes.
From the Toronto Merchant.
THe MicniGAN TRADESMAN has re-
cently made its appearance in a

bright new cover. THe TRADESMAN
always contains a valuable stock of read-
| ing matter, andis a welcome visitor to
| our exchange table.

 

Thos. Reid succeeds Mr. Hawkes as
local manager for Swift & Company.
Mr. Reid hails from Chicago and W.
Hawkes will return to that place.

—__-—~—. -- <<

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.
Gillies & Co., New York City.

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Asparagus—40ce per doz, bu.

Beans—No change in dry. Wax commands
$2.25 per bu. Stringis in fair demand at $1.50
per bu.

Butter—The usval summer glut begins to be
foreshadowed. Dealers now pay 12@13c and
hold at 14c. Creamery is in moderate demand
at 15@16e.

Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $3.50
per crate,

Carrots—W@.25¢e per bu.

Cucumbers—65e per doz.

Eggs—The market is steady.
@15c and hold at 15@16c.

Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.

Lettuce—se for Grand Rapids Forcing

Dealers pay 14

New Potatoes—Early arrivals have sold at
$5.75@36 per bu.
lana -aicaa command 10@15c. per doz., ac-

cording to size. Bermudas bring $2.
Parsnips—40c per bushel.
Potatoes — The market is

handiers pay 90¢c and hold at $1.
Pieplant—2e per lb.
Peas—$1.15 per bu. crate.
Radishes—20c per dozen bunches.
strawberries—The market is well supplied at

#1.75@S2 per 24 qt. case.
Tomatoes—Not enough in market to quote.

.00 per crate,

steady. Local

 

PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co,
quotes as follows:

 

 

  
  
 

  

PORK IN BARRELS.
Mess, new. ..... ee oe kas 11 38
I ie a ee ees coy ae 12 00
mire Cheer oie, Sere cre... ............ 14 00
eee tee...
Creer, tak beck............. tote eee
Pies Cee, ME OE... tl 33 %
oro eee... 13 50
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 14 00
SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
Pe Oe 7
oe... 9
Tongue Sausage............ eee ee 9
ee Ee ek eee 8
I 5
Peeeeee, Serer... 5
Pepe A 5
meet eee 5
LaRD—Kettle Rendered,
ree 8%
I i es eh ee ea ce gig
i i 8%
LARD. Com-
Family pound,
or. . “oo oe 644
Oa re Fee... ..... 63% 6%
Sib, Pails, in & Caee.......... 7% 7%
Sib. Pails, 12 in a case........... 713% Tq
10 Ib. Pails, 6in acase.......... 7% 63g
20 Ib. Pails, 4in @ case..........7 634
aos... 6% 634
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Meas, warranted 200 Ibs............... 9 2
xtra Moss, Chicago packing................ 9 25
OOO LE eee
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain,
Hams, average 20 Ibs.. ‘idee oles onan s ey ae
OOOO. nc el, 10
- . ew leree..................... 10%
« meee ei ee. ih aoe a ee U4
- We I co ck eee 8%
OO 6%
Breaktest Bacon, bomeiess.................... 8%
ree er, ee ereees.,..........-........... 104¢
ei 6%
a oor... ee
ah ee 8%
FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:
_———___————_——_—__ 64,
" hind quarters eee eee oe eee 8 g 8%
> oe 2 hehen ees ouea dour seas 4446@ 5
_ i eee @12 2
_ 11%@
. Ce @8
- 28. ..................... @12%
Beloges .....-.. @5
Pork ioins........ a ' @10
ae ei ets ey @7
Sausage, booee Gene... @ 5%,
kk. ene @ di,
Kg i ine ace ods wees. @ iy
ss... 1 @8
a... CL @
FISH and OYSTERS.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.
een i a @8
a, @8
Halibut. @15
ee Cee @5
eee ee eke eee cs @9
Bluefish.... ia ee Sat @10
Mackerel.. .
Coes Ween... .......,...... .... 2
oYSTERS—Cans.
Peers Goun...................... @40
SHELL GOODS.
a, os eee ee te eee 150
ams, oo eee edhe ade epee aay as 100

 

 

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

   

   
 

  
 

  

  

Full Weight. Bbls. Pails.
en, ee eT 6% 7%
ie pha ee eeu ey 6% i%
_ Twist eee eee ae 6% 7%
ee ee 9%
Ty lie co wey se heeee ye 8%
mae... i% 8%
MIXED CANDY.
Full Weight.

Bbis. Pails
ee 6% 7%
Tooele 6% 7%
is te ee ee 7 8
Nobby eee bee on pee eens 7 8

ee beets ee 7% 8%
ain eae eee eee cs <n oe 8%
re es 7% S%
MN i ea chee ees 7 8
ees ec W% 8%
Pee eomeres. ................... 9
Ee 10
een COR ss kt. 10%
Valley Creams. . 13%

FANcY—In bulk.
Full Weight. Bbls.  Palils.
Lozenges, OO 104% 11%
kee 11 12%
meee teen. c.g. 12%
Chocolate Monumentals..... 14
a eee <a" 6%
ee ee 8 9
ee ee 8% 9%
EEE 10% 11%
FaNncy—In 5 lb. boxes. *Per —
OEE ———————
ee 55
femsies beens. eo beec ene eoeueas ‘
enereee Pee... ............... cean
i, M, Coocaiaee Drope................... race
Me a al 40@50
ee ee 1 00
Sm tee eee. 80
Lozenges, I ince ne ce pece erence 65
ES ron era eee a: 70
A ne 65
Mottoes.... . 0
CO aa ‘i .-60
Me ec ee cee 55
ee 15@17
NE 85@,95
ee 80@90
ere eee... 100
OE Es 70
Burnt Almonds....... 4 -1 00
Wyukereroee Perio... .. 65
ORANGES.
California, + ees ek 3 00
eee cise coos 3 50
. ne i de oleae 3 50
LEMONS.
Messina, choice, - ee ae ees 5 25@5 50
fancy, 3 75@65_ 00
. choice 300. i 5 50
° IG Pia chino cans pene aa cy 6 00

OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... 18@19
“ ‘ se ~

 

 

choice uae @l16
oe “ “ce of ia @i2
ss Fard, 10-1b. box LN Sin ieee @10
ss ee @8
. iene, ie OGr............... 4@6
NUTS.
Almonds, ee eee eae eect. @i7
Ee @16%
ns California sehen eee Bl7
eee @s
Filberts . a @i1
Walnuts, Fee ANS Ns eg @11%
ec, @i2
: e.g. @
Table Nuts, No. 1 ee eee @14
a @13
PC TI OR Bo oon ewes cree ge 15@17
Cocoanuts, Pere ee @4 00
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H. P., ee @ 5%
mt NO oo ey. @ i
Fancy, H. P., Flags.. . @5%
“” Roasted... @ i%
Choice, H. Pe ee @ 4%

. Roasted .. eae @ 6%

OILs.
The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows:

 

ee ee a @ 9
= a, @ 8%
PEROIBOT TMG oe cen... ccnees. .. 200. @ 8%
oe ee Wiese Cece ee ewes ss @It*%
Gasoline...... eee el oe ee ee, @ 94
Cylinder ...... ee Os ae 27 @36
be irc ac cet en eee ches cues 13 @21
Binek, SUMME?....cosc....... ccevcccece @ 9%
HIDES, PELTS and FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as —
EO ee ee 4@5
rae Cured. @5
Full @6
cg ees @7
Kips, green ieee ome chee 4@5
! i 5 @6
Calfsking, ce a ieee eee 5 @4
cured.. Leuidssscewsd oso oe
eee 8 10 @30
No. 2 hides \& off.
PELTS.
i ce ee ee a ee
Eatimated wool, per® .............. **--20 @zs
WOOL.
ee... « +--eee
Oe EE 10@20
MISCELLANEOUS.
ee 38%@ 4
ore SN 1 2
erated ie eee oe 1%@ 2
Ginseng 2 593 OG

 

 

ENGRAVING

It paysto illustrate your business. Portraits,
Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories,
Machinery, etc., made to order from photo-
graphs.

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

THE
MICHT
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14

RUNNING A DRY GOODS STORE.

 

Items of Expense Few Persons Think
of When They Estimate Profits.
From the New York News.

To operate a big dry goods concern of
the present day a large amount of expen-
sive machinery is required. This is not
apparent to the casual shopper who pass-
es leisurely from counter to counter, but
to anyone possessing a knowledge of
mechanics it is obvious. The elevators,
steam-heaters, ventilators and pneumatic
tubes are all regulated by machinery,
and necessitate the employment of pow-
erful engines.

Let us make a tour of inspection
through one of these establishments,
having the superintendent for our guide.
He conduets us first to the basement of
the building, far below the sidewalk.

‘‘Down here,”’
the power that puts in
thing in the store above.
boilers, four in number,
steam to the different engines.

motion every-
Here are the

three tons of coal per day.
engines, an engineer, an assistant engi-
neer, and a fireman are employed. Here
to the right, attached to one of the boil-

ers. is the steam generator, which sup- |}

plies steam heat to the entire building.
We have over a mile of steam pipes al-
together.

“Yonder is the fire engine, which is
also connected to one of the boilers, and
can be put into motion at a moment’s
notice. It is modeled after the engines
used by the New York Fire Department.
and can throw several powerful streams.
There is little danger of a fire gaining
the mastery here during the daytime. Op-
posite the fire engine is the ventilating
engine, which has direct communication
with a boiler and can be used when re-
quired. It operates by forcing a strong
eurrent of air through the nozzle of a

pipe, thereby creating a draft which
draws air from the outside, and circu-

lates it through the store.

“At the other end of the basement is
located the hoisting engine, which is
used daily in raising and lowering pack-
ing-boxes to and from the sidewalk.
Speaking of the ventilating engine, it is
a curious fact that the inventor, who
went to London to introduce his appara-
tus to the London underground systems,
died suddenly, while traveling in the
very tunnels he proposed to ventilate.

“We come now to the pride of the es-

tablishment—the pneumatic engine. It |

operates seventy-eight distinct pneumat-
ic tubes. You can see them running
along the ceiling overhead. In simple
words, the engine is a pump which ex-
hausts the air. from the tubes, thus creat-
ing a vacuum. Come with me up-stairs
to the store, where we can see the appa-
ratus in operation. Here is a station
where is located a dispatching tube and
a receiving tube. When apurchase has
been made at a counter near by, the bill
and the money are sent here, where the

operator places them in a circular leath-

er box made to fit the tube.
“The air is then exhausted
tube and the box is forced
vacuum to the eashier’s room in another
part of the building. When the cashier
has compared the bill with the money
received and taken out the
amount, the box is returned through the
receiving tube, and falls out upon the

operator’s table, where it is opened and |

the change returned to the purchaser.
There are, in all, thirty-nine stations in
the store from which the tubes converge
into the cashier’s department. We wiil
visit that room next.

he explains, ‘tis located |

which supply |
They are |«
heated by two furnaces consuming about |
To run these |

from the |
through the |

correct |

 

GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. |

W. Barer & (0.8.
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= Cocoa

from which the excess of
oil has been removed,

\ Ie Absolutely Pure |
\\\ and it is Soluble. |

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No Chemicals
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.\ are used in its prepar-

| | ation. It has more

\than three times the

strength of Cocoa

Fmixed with Starch,

and is therefore far |

 

 

rrowroot or Sugar,

| yore economical, costing less than one cent @ |
up. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthen-
| 1g, EASILY DIGESTED, and admirably adapted
»* invalids as well as for persons in health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.

 

 

laying ards

WE ARE HEADQUARTERS

 

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

Daniel Lynch,

19 So. Ionita St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Send us a photograph of your store and
we will make you a
Column Cut for $6.
2-Column Cut for $10.

Send a satisfactory photograph of your- |

self and we will make a column

*“*You see, here everything is systemat- |

ically arranged. There are
twenty-five and thirty girls, you observe,
each with her money-box divided into
compartments for change, placed upon
the table before her. Thenotion depart-
partment is busy to-day, as you can see
for yourself. The boxes fall from the
tubes faster than the girls can make the
change. ‘The woolen department is ap-
parently dull, for but few boxes come
from that quarter. During the Christ-
mas holidays the thud of those leather
cylinders is incessant. The noise they
make in falling upon the table and the
elink of small coin used in making

between |

Portrait for $4.

THR TRADESMAN COMPANY,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

H. M. REYNOLDS & SON,

Tar and Gravel Roofers,
And dealers in Tarred
Pitch, Coal
Wool, Ete.

Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,

| GRAND RAPIDS,

 

Tar, Asphaltum, Rosin, Mineral

 

encima ene pic ean name i an — cece pe ag

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

|, BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER, MASS. |

   

 

 

PARROTS GIVEN AWAY!

 

| STATE OF MICHIGAN, 2 6s,
| 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.
JAMES B. WILKINSON,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of
June, 1890. EUGENE 8S. CLARKSON,
Notary Public in and for Wayne Co., Mich.

Griswold St.

| Our agent is now securing them and it is important that we
know at once the number required.

LAs? year we secured 1,000 Live Parrots
for our customers, but the demand far ex-
ceeded our expectations and we were unable to
furnish birds to all who desired them. This
year we shall endeavor to secure a larger supply,
so that every one of our customers who so de-
sires may have

A Real Live Parrot FREE.

The best variety of talking parrots are secured
on the Isle of Pines, about 50 miles south of
Cuba, They are beautiful birds, with green
plumage and red breast, easily cared for and
intelligent. If captured when young and well
eared for, a Pine Island Parrot NEVER FAILS TO
BECOME A GOOD TALKER. Our birds are all se-
cured by Our Own Agent, He is a competent
man of fifty years’ experience, and will secure
only healthy, selected young birds. He has
now sailed for the island, and in order to
araange for the number required, we wish every
dealer

Let us know soon if he wants a Bird.

These parrots are given to our customers who
handle our “PRETT& POLLY” cigars, and
there is no better 5 cent cigar in the market. The
trade is strictly net.$835 per 1,000(with or without
a parrot). They give satisfaction to smokers,
and the parrots increase your sales,

. With an order for 600 “Pretty Polly” cigars,
we will give ONE parrot free.

With an order for 700 ‘Pretty Polly” cigars,
we give ONE parrot in A HANDSOME WIRE CAGE,

OUR GUARANTEE

To any responsible dealer who don’t know the
goods, we will express PREPAID 200 of the ‘‘Pretty
Polly” cigars for EXAMINATION, to be returned if
not satisfactory. If the cigars suit, the balance,
400 or 500, can be shipped with the parrot or
sooner if desired.

With sample order we will refer you to respon-
sible dealers throughout the United States who
had our parrots las: season,

DETROIT TOBACCO CO.,

Detroit, Mich.

 

SUMMER SHOES.

2 a

A Nice Line of Ladies’ Fancy and House
Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’ Canvas Bals.

keep them in stock in Men’s and

GRAND

 

Women’s Button Newports in Dongola, Grain and Glove Grain.
a 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.

Slippers.

Bay State Tennis Shoes, the best line for the money in the market. We

Boys’ Bals and in Men’s, Boys’, Youths’

Women’s, Misses’ and Child’s Oxfords.
We would be pleased to show them to you or quote you prices.

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO,,

RAPIDS.

 

 

 

 

 

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| We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1891.

81 SOUTH DIVISION

Correspondence solicitea.
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change, can be distinctly heard upon the
floor below.

“The advantages of the pneumatic
tube system are many. In the first place
there is a great saving of time, and cus-
tomers are not kept waiting for their |
change. Inthe second place there is an |
appreciable economy in wages, as we can
do with less than half the number of
eash girls. Again, it facilitates business
to have the cashiers congregated in one
room, under the direction of a chief who
has immediate supervision over the re-
eceipts of the house.

“The basket railway system is far in-
ferior to it, although at the time it was
introduced it was thought to be a won-
derful advance over the old methods. |
There are very few stores now in which |
the shrill cry of ‘cash! cash! is heard and |
this is appreciated by the public. Shop- |
ping has become an exact science, and |
the ingenuity of inventors has been |
brought into play to render it so.

‘*Besides the mechanical machinery in
our store, we employ a considerable |
amount of human machinery, if the term |
may be allowed. We will now visit |
the packing room, and the delivery de- |
partment adjoining it. This brings us|
once again to the basement. You see, |
here, twenty or thirty young men and}
boys, busily engaged in wrapping up
and addressing packages, according to/|
the directions given by the clerks up-
stairs. These packages will next go into
the sorting department. There are sev-
eral men employed here, whose duty it
is to separate bundles destined for city
delivery from those to be sent out of
town.

‘““As the city delivery is divided into
wagon routes, which we serve with our
own wagons, another division of the par-
eels is necessary in order that each wagon
may receive its proper pareels. Here is
a schedule embracing those towns within
a hundred miles of New York, to which
we deliver merehandise to purchasers
free of charge. We are enabled to do}
this by contract which we have with the
different express companies. We do not
undertake, however, to deliver merchan-
dise valued at less than one dollar to any
point outside of New York. In order to
render the work of forwarding packages
easy for our employes, the name of an
express company is printed opposite the
name of each town where it has an office.
You can see, therefore, that the work
done here is largely mechanical, and we
consider it a part of the running machin-
ery of our establishment.

‘“‘People who visit this department fre-
quently ask us if we are not afraid that
a conflagration might be started here
where there is so much inflammable ma-
terial. The long wooden tables, the pine
board partitions, the quantities of wrap-
ping paper, straw and other stuff used in
packing are suggestive of danger, but we
have taken a precaution which, we think,
will insure safety. Here is a hogshead
of kalsomine, or fire-proof paint. We
spread a thick coating of this over the
woodwork, and although we are not sure
that it will prevent burning, it certainly
will retard the progress of a fire. I will
show you how it works. - dip
this piece of paper in the kalsomine, so
that one-half is saturated while the oth-
er half remains dry.

‘“‘Now, I put it in the blaze of this gas

 

jet. The dry half bursts into flame,
whereas, the half saturated with kalso-
mine refuses to ignite. We argue that
if a fire should break out in the straw
and other packing materials, the kalso-

mine would prevent its rapid spreading
until the fire engine could be brought
into play. Supposing, however, that a
fire should break out on the top floor, }
how is word to reach the engineer so
that he may start up his fire engine? On|
every story there is an electric bell, lead-
ing directly to the engine-room, by means
of which an immediate alarm can be sent
to the engineer. We have taken precau- |
tions enough to insure against fire, and |
only wish we were as_ well protectec
against losses in trade.

“The ordinary shopper, and those who |
pay cash fer whatever they buy, have no}
idea of the enormous expense entailed in |
running a big store like ours. Although |
machinery may save wages, and precau-
tions prevent lossses, we can never tell

 

 

| chine that will detect the honesty or dis-

| times a

| Marblehead and Ohio White Lime,

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

how our outstanding accounts will turn
out. Itis safe to calculate upon thou-
sands of dollars in bad accounts each
year. The man who can invent a ma-

honesty of a person, will become many
millionaire. Yet eyen in this |
respect there is a machinery in trade.
‘There are mercantile agencies and
protective associations which keep a
record of all those who are known to/|
evade the paymentof their debts. By |
applying to them, we can often ascertain |
the credit of a purchaser. However, in
establishments of this description, vis-
ited by thousands each day, itis impos-
sible to keep track of all who purchase
on credit. We havea plant of machin-
ery here, as you have seen, which is
valued at about $75,000. It issafe to say
that it saves us from $15,000 to $20,000 |
each year.”

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Use ‘‘Tradesman” Cowpons

 

KAYON, LYON & 60.,

 

| items the

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RUILT FOR BUSINESS

 

Would you
‘“‘nateching up’’

Do not many of

y never had, and is not your

| have or not?
Then why not adopt a system of crediting
hundred other objectionable features of the old method, and one that establishes

a CASH BASIS of crediting?

A new era dawns, and with it new

memory a little

commodities for its

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=
Do you want to do your customers justice?
Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way?
Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you?
like to rid yourself of the bother of ‘‘posting’’? your books and
pass-book accounts?
Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which
yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?
Did you ever have a pass-book account foot up and balance with the corres-
| ponding ledger account without having to ‘‘doctor’’ it?
your customers complain that they have been charged for

clouded as to whether they

that will abolish all these anda

new demands; and all

enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

Tradesman or Superior Govpons.

JOBBERS OF

allonery ald Books
HAMMOCKS, o
FISHING TACKLE,
—

== BASE BALL GOODS ——

Our new sporting goods catalogue will be ready
about February 10th.

FATON,LYON & CO.,

20 and 22 Monree St.

BEACH’S
New York (joffee Rooms.

61 Pearl Street.

 

 

 

COUPON BOOK vs. PASS BOOK.

We beg leave to call your
our coupon book and ask you to car@fully
eonsider its merits. It takes the place
of the pass book which you now hand

attention to |

your customer and ask him to bring each |

time he buys anything, that you may |
enter the article and price in it. You}

know from experience that
the customer does not bring the
and, as a result, you have to
many items on your book that do
appear on the customer’s pass book.
is Sometimes the cause of much ill
ing when bills are presented.

book,

not
This

Many

times the pass book is lost, thus causing |

considerable trouble when settlement

day comes.

rious objection to the pass book system is |

that many times while busy waiting on
customers you neglect to make
charges, thus losing many a dollar; or,

if you stop to make those entries, it is|

|done when you can illy afford the time,

Each for all dishes served
from bill of fare.

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

FRANK M. BEACH, Prop.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Five Cents

 

A. J. BOWNE, President.
D. A. » « peETt, Vice-President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier

CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. |

 

Transacts a general banking business.

 

Make a Specialty of Collections, Accounts
of Country Merchants Solicited.

THOS. E. WYKES,

WHOLESALE

 

Buffalo, Louisville and Portland
Cements, Fire Brick & Clay.

Agent for the ‘‘Dyckerhoff’’ imported Portland
-ement, the best cement in the market for side-
walks. Also buy and sell Grain, Hay, Feed, Oil
Meal, Wood, Ete., Clover and Timothy Seed.

  
  

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WAREHOUSE AND MAIN OFFICE:
Cor. Wealthy Ave. and Ionia on M. CR. R.
BRANCH OFFICE:
Builders’ Exchange.

 

as you keep customers waiting when it
might be avoided. The aggregate amount
|of time consumed in a month in making
these small entries is no inconsiderable
| thing, but, by the use of the coupon
| sy stem, it is avoided.

Now as to the use of the coupon book:
| Inste ad of giving your customer the pass
book, you hand him a coupon book, say
of the denomination of $10, taking his
note for the amount. When he buys
anything, he hands you or your clerk
the book, from which you tear out
coupons for the amount purchased, be it
1 cent, 12 cents, 75 cents or any other
sum. As the book never passes out of
your customer’s hands, except when you
tear off the coupons,it is just like so much
money to him, and when the coupons are
all gone, and he has had their worth in
goods, there is no grumbling or suspi-
cion of wrong dealing. In fact, by the
use of the coupon book, you have all the
advantages of both the cash and credit
systems and none of the disadvantages
of either. The coupons taken in, being
put into the cash drawer, the aggregate
amount of them, together with the cash,
shows at once the day’s business. The
notes, which are perforated at one end
so that they can be readily detached from
the book, can be kept in the safe or
money drawer until the time has arrived

THE TRADESMAN

GRAND

many times |

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eharge |

feel- |

But probably the most se-|

for the makers to pay them. This ren-
ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts
with each customer and enables a mer-
chant to avoid the friction and ill feel-
ing incident to the use of the book.
As the notes bear interest after a certain
date, they are much easier to collect
than book accounts, being prima facie
evidence of indebtedness in any court of
law or equity.

One of the strong points of the coupon

pass

system is the ease with which a mer-
chant is enabled to hold his customers
| down to a certain limit of credit. Give
some men a pass book and a line of $10,
and they will overrun the limit before
you discover it. Give them aten dollar
coupon book, however, and they must

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| the merchant to determi

| necessarily stop when they have obtained
some |

then rests with
ne whether he will
issue another book before the one al-
ready used is paid for.

In many loealities merchants are sell-
ing coupon for cash in advance,
giving a discount of from 2 to 5 per cent.
for advance payment. This is especially
pleasing to the cash customer, because
it gives him an advantage over the patron
who runs a account or buys on
credit. The cash man ought to have an
advantage over the credit customer, and
this is easily aceofiplished in this way
without making any actual difference in
the prices of goods—a thing which will
always create dissatisfaction and loss.

Briefly stated,the coupon system is pref-
erable to the pass book method because it
(1) saves the time consumed in recording
the sales on the pass book and copying
same in blotter, day book and ledger; (2)
prevents the disputing of accounts; (3)
puts the obligation in the form of a note,
which is prima facie evidence of indebt-
edness; (4) enables the merchant to col-
lect interest on overdue notes, which he
is unable to do with ledger accounts; (5)
holds the customer down to the limit of
credit established by the merchant, as it
is almost impossible to do with the pass
book.

Are not the advantages
merated sufficient to warrant a trial of the
coupon system? If so, order from the
largest manufacturers of coupons in the
eountry and address your letters to

MPAN,

RAPIDS.

goods to that amount. It

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. _

 

 

THE LABOR QUESTION.
FIRST PAPER.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

I have no desire to become an alarmist
or an agitator of the public mind, but a
little sober thought devoted to this all-
absorbing and perplexing question will
convince any candid business man that
there are some knotty problems along
this line, materially affecting the com-
mercial world, which have not yet been
solved, but must be sooner or later, if
the business of the country is to preserve
its equilibrium. At present a vague ap-
prehension of uncertainty pervades every-
thing. Men hesitate to invest their money
in new enterprises for the same reason
that men hesitate to erect costly edifices
in a section of country subject to de-
structive tornadoes and cyclones. There
is in each case an element of uncertainty.
The man who invests his money in man-
ufacturing, merchandizing, mining or
railroading, does so knowing full well
that he will be subject to reprisals and
demands which, owing to the condition
of his business, it may be impossible for
him to comply with. No branch of bus-
iness is free from this uncertainty, for
no man knoweth the day or the hour
when the strike cometh. It cometh like
a thief in the night, when, lo! the wheels
stopeth short like grandfather’s clock and
refuseth to go. If the victim should hap-
pen to be astreet car company and the
thunderbolt should happen to drop in
the ‘‘wee sma’ hours” of a Sunday morn-
ing, it would be all the same in its general
effect upon the community. Little chil-
dren are kept away from their Sunday
school classes; the church bells may ring
as usual, but many a familiar face
missed from his or her accustomed pew;

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the workingman must lay down the im-
plements of his labor and his business
of bread-winning must stop until the
embargo is removed; business is seized
with a paralytic stroke and no man,
woman or child in the city escapes the
pernicious effects. Many of these com-
mercial cyclones leave numerous wrecks
in their wake and thousands are injured
so badly that it takes them months to
recover. Every business man is familiar
with these disturbances, is in constant
dread of them and is anxiously waiting
and watching for some certain means of
bridging over the difficulty. We have
certainly very little light on the subject
at present. A glance at the true state of
affairs all over the civilized world will
convinee any fair-minded man that so

far as a proper solution of the labor}

 

 

money or its equivalent exclusively; or
it may be brains; or, perhaps, brawn; or
all three combined; but whatever it may
consist of, it is his duty to protect it and
invest it to the best advantage. If he
combine with others, he will be entitled
to his just share and no more.

In my next letter I may venture a lit-
tle further in this direction, but will
close this by touching upon a few rights
and a few wrongs which are floating
around in such a conspicuous manner
that it strikes me forcibly that anyone
with half an eye can see them.  Itis
right for employes to strike, if they wish
to, provided they are not under contract
or obligation to remain or give notice,
but it may be inexpedient and very un-
wise to do so. It is positively wrong,
morally and legally, for strikers to pre-

question is concerned, all is chaotic ob-| vent others, either by force or intimida-
seurity. Capital is composed of two ele- | tion, directly or indirectly, from taking

ments, money, or its equivalent, and |

labor.

their places, if they wish to. It is wrong,

When these two elements are| first, last and all the time, for strikers
properly and harmoniously combined, |

to boycott a business man, thereby in-

each receiving its just share, then will|juring him, because he would not ne-

capital be productive and strikes un- |
known. A man’s capital may consist of |
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glect his own business for the sake of
spiting the other party. It is right and

 

proper for workmen to organize them-
selves together for the purpose of mutual
benefit and protection; in fact, it is a
duty which they owe to their families to
thus associate themselves together, but
they should be governed by righteous
principles. Itis wrong and subversive
of liberty for strikers to demand the dis-
charge of workmen who remain at their
post of duty; or to demand the discharge
of non-union men; and, finally, it is
wrong and smacks of the dark ages for
employers of labor to prohibit their em-
ployes from identifying themselves with
a labor organization. Some claim they
have this right and, if you do not like
the terms, you are under no obligation
to serve them. Let us look at this a lit-
tle: Now, if any employer of labor has
this right, then all employers of labor
have the right, and suppose all should
exercise it, what would become of labor?
Simply reduced to starvation or slavery.
I say fearlessly that any employer of
labor in free America, be that employer
an individual or a corporation, who in-
sults American labor in this way, richly
deserves to be heavily sat down upen
by a liberty loving American public,
until such employer is willing and ready
to treat those in his employ as citizens
of a free republic. i. A. OWEN.

LERS’ BEST “AD.”

 

This Five-inch Nickle Plated Button Hook with Your Name and Town Stamped on It, at $1 per Gross in Five Gross Lots.

HIRTH & KRAUSE,

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2M Stes,

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICE,

 

a.

“] know of no way to judge of the future but by
the past.’’==-PATRICK HENRY.

ISTORY repeats itself. In making a forecast of the probable future of any district or city of the United States there is
no safer rule to follow than to supDGE THE FUTURE BY THE PAST. The past shows that NAVIGATION has had more to do
with the upbuilding of great cities than any one advantage, or in fact, all other advantages combined. You will find

something striking in the examples of the effects that navigation produces as shown in the following:

ILLINOIS bas in 1890 a population of 3,818,536.
an inland county has yet reached 82,000 population.

WISCONSIN bas population of 1,683,697. Milwaukee County, located on Lake Michigan, has

an inland county of the state has yet reached a population of 60,000.

MUSKEGON

OHIO has a population of
the extreme north and on
county on the north and
each having navigation,
tion 309,970 and 374,573
this old state has yet
notwithstanding the fact
coal, iron ore and petro-

If you read the foregoing carefully and get your thinking cap on you will say that Mionrean will not be
the rule which prevails, not only in the states we have cited, but in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and in

 

 

Cook County, located on Lake Michigan, has 1,189,259, while not

235,737, while not
3,693,916, with navigation on

Hamilton county on the south,
have respectively in popula-
while not an inland county of
reached 125,000 population,
that they have natural gas,
leum at their very door.

an exception to
fact all

the extreme south. Cuyahoga

of the others having navigable waters, and you are forced to the conclusion that the largest city in Western Michigan [a dis-

trict of greater area than Mass., Rhode Island and Connecticut combined] will be one of the port cities of Lake
: Caren a 8 : t .
That city will be MUSKEGON. No city of the United States of equal size [25,000] is making such rapid progress.

Michigan.
Has

a fine location on a splendid inside harbor. Twenty-one large factories have been secured in the last eighteen months. One
hundred and fourteen miles from Chicago, eighty-five miles from Milwaukee and directly opposite.
No ciry IN THE couNnTRY affords such opportunity for safe investments.

MUSKEGON IMPROVEMENT CO,

Occidental Hotel Block,
MUSKEGON, MICH.

large cities.

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