\ va MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. “Fo 6 GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1891. NO. 403 SEEDS 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, at all times. We sell Egg Cases No. 1 at 35¢e, Egg case fillers, 10 sets in a case at $1.25 a case. W. T. LAMOREAUX & 60., 128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, a FIRE r INS. co. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. S. F. ASPINWALL, Pres’t. W. FRED McBain, Sec’y. ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH. Allen Durfee & Co., FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. HARVEY & HEYSTEK Wholesale Dealers in Wall Paper —— AND —— Picture Frame Mouldings. Also a complete line of PAINTS, OILS and BRUSHES. Correspondence Solicited. Warehouse, $1 & 83 Campau St. 14 & 76 Ottawa St, GRAND RAPIDS. ESTABLISHED 1841. A ANE IE 6 IN, THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Ht. 4. Lhin & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada SEEDS! Write for jobbing prices on Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke and Alfalfa Clover, Timothy, Orchard Grass, Red Top, Blue Grass, Field Peas, Beans and Produce. C, AINSWORTH 76 So. Division St. GRAND RAPIDS, KATON, LYON & 60., JOBBERS OF Stationery and Books A Complete Line of HAMMOCKS, FISHING TACKLE, MARBLES, == BASE BALL GOODS == Our new sporting goods catalogue will be ready about February 10th. EATON, LYON & CO., 20 and 22 Monroe St. PEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK. Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts., Capital, $100,000. ‘Liability, $100,000. Depositors’ Security, $200,000. OFFICERS, Thomas Hefferan, President. Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President. Charles M. Heald, 2d Vice-President. Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier. DIRECTORS. H. C. Russell John Murray D. D. Cody 8S. A. Morman Jas. G. MacBride J. H. Gibbs Wm. McMullen Cc. B. Judd D,. E. Waters H. F. Hastings 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 pes 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, _< UNCLE DAVE. It was a Sunday in June, many many years ago; one of those perfect days sometimes sent to earth to give us poor mortals a foretaste of heaven. As I stepped out upon the south porch of the long, low farmhouse, in which I was a welcome visitor, an exclamation of delight involuntarily fell from my lips. Before me far as the eye could reach stretched the boundless prairie, dotted here and there with farm-houses, eris-crossed with lines of rail-fences, and decked with orchards and _ scattered groups of trees, while herds of cattle roamed at will over great unfenced spaces, and a long irregular line of tim- ber on the east showed where a creek wound its way. **Yes,”? said my host, “it is a right sightly country, and its fillin’ up fast too; twenty years ago when we came here, Miss Walton, there wasn’t but one house within ten mile of us, and there wasn’t a rail of fence on this hull prairie.”’ “There is a good deal of it unfenced now,’ said I. ‘Is it government land?’’ “Oh, no, there’s no government land around here now. We leave that for our cattle, part of it belongsto me, and a good deal to speculators,’ was the answer. ‘But sit down, you can see as good sittin as standin, and mother’ll be out pretty soon. TIl go git some airly apples while we wait for her,” and ‘‘Un- cle Dave,’’ as everybody called him, picked up a basket and walked away in the direction of the orchard. How peaceful and quiet it was. That indefinable something which hallows the Sabbath in the country hovered in the air. I thought “‘if I did not know it was Sunday, nature would proclaim it her- self.” Now and then a meadow lark would pour out his happy soul in a song, or a quail saucily call to his mate, while the drumming of the prairie chicken, or the whirr of a pheasant as it rose from the long grass, sounded pleasantly to the ear. My hostess came to the door. ‘Our youngsters,’’ she said, ‘‘are going over to Bethel meetin house to singin. Wouldn’t you and Mr. Walton like to go? There’s lots o room in the wagon.’’ *‘Oh, no!’’ I answered, ‘‘we came to see you and Mr. Benson.” Just then our host, in company with my husband, came around the house. “You’re right, Miss Walton,” he said, ‘‘vou’ll find it pleasanter here than riding along with that set,” and he glanced at the wagon-load of young men and women driving out of the barnyard, ‘‘not that they won’t have a good time, but you’ll be in better company,’’ and he laughed as he wiped the moisture from his face and fanned himself with his broad- brimmed straw hat. A few minutes later we were all seated comfortably, Uncle Dave and mother, as he called his wife, myself and my hus- band, in the split-bottomed wooden chairs, on the vine-covered porch. ‘Ts Bethel a Methodist Church?” I asked. Uncle Dave looked quizzically at his wife. ‘‘Do you hear that, mother?” he said. Mother smiled. ‘‘He thinks that an odd question,” she answered, addressing me. ‘Why? Are there no other denomina- tions around here?” I said. ‘*Oh, yes,’”’ she replied, ‘‘there are peo- ple belonging to several others, but there are more Methodists than anything else.” *“*Yes,” said Uncle Dave, ‘‘Methodists jess swarm ’bout yer. You see, Mrs. Walton,’? addressing me especially, ‘‘I never did like ’em; fact is, one thing brought me out West was to git rid of Methodists.” ‘Why, Uncle Dave,” said I, ‘‘1 thought you were a member of that church.” He laughed and looked at his wife; he was very often looking at his wife, and ah! how much the look expressed of love and pride. It was evident to the most casual observer that she was dearer to him that the apple of his eye. ‘“‘You are mistaken,” he said, ‘‘I am only asort of a relation. I ain’t never signed no contract. You see, Miss Walton, I took a spite at the Methodists when I wasaboy. They had a big re- vival in our neighborhood, and some of the youngsters I run with got converted, and that spoiled my fun. Why, one of the biggest scamps of the whole lot got a call to preach, and I must say, he made a mighty good preacher, too. You see he was an awful earnest sort of a feller, and he was jess as earnest preachin and prayin as ever he was sinin, if so be as our cuttin up was sinin, which I’m free to confess I hev my doubtsabout. Pears to me like the angel that keeps the book must take time to laugh at sich pranks as we cut, jess going to spelling schools and singin in winter, hookin the horses outen of our own dads’ stables when the ole fellers wasn’t willin, and in summer frollickin roun watermelon patches. Oh, pshaw! youngsters will be youngsters, and where the rein’s held too tight the horse will break. But as Iwas sayin I took a spite at the Methodists, and when I married into a good old Scotch Presby- terian family and moved way out yer, I thought I was rid of ’em; but laws, Miss Walton, it was jumpin outen the fryin pan into the fire. The very fall after we came, our little Dave took awful sick; no doctor in ten miles an me an mother seared to death. Well, we made up our minds to git in the wagon, sick baby an all, an go to Gilbraith’s, our neighbor, when, while I’se hitchin up, a great, tall, teomcetemne 4 marae ones Street -cepngeematoerett ee ovahena-aagribttecsinetre —- pe cares — reer Resa I st encore it i i i a 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. stopped in front of the cabin.” ***Helloo! says he, ganglin feller on a right good bis ites, “she kicks the beam at a _— HRRRICK’S Patent Baskel Stand. ( “David, David,” said his wife, ‘‘you| the way to Brother Gilbraith’s, friend?’ know I only weigh a hundred and fifty- | ‘Might I enquire “Before I could speak Mother was at the door. ‘Are you the preacher?’ says she. ‘Miss Gilbraith told me about you. Won’t you come in? ‘Well, afore I got to the house, the preacher had the baby in his arms lookin at it, an the upshot was he had the medi- | cine with him that jess worked like a charm, an by mornin little Dave was as peart as ever. Of course, after that we had to go and hear him preach. He held his meetin at Brother Gilbraith’s, they | was all the Methodist family then in aj} rajus of fifteen mile. But laws! whenever a Methodist family settles anywheres you may look for a circuit rider bout the time the roof’s on his cabin, an by the} time there’s half a dozen families of any sort, he’s ready to organize a church. | That’s the way it worked yer, anyhow, | an, Miss Walton,’’—for all the time Un- cle Dave addressed me in particular as if I were specially interested. I found af- terwards, however, that it was one of his ways of showing his respect for my sex —‘‘you’d hardly believe it, but my wife, that I thought was a regular dyed-in-the Presbyterian, was one of the first tojine. | ‘Betty,’ says I, expostulatin-like, ‘what | ‘Write | do you recon your father’ll say?’ an see,’ said she, quick as a wink; and [| dun it, an I could hardly believe my eyes | when the letter came, for he never said a word till he’d told all bout the family | and the crops—peared like the prospect | for corn worried him considerable—an then he puts in kind o likea poscrip: ‘So Betty jined the Methodis’ses. Well, I hope she’ll be a credit to ’em:;’ an, Miss Walton, that was all, and I was that dazed I jess sat and looked at Betty a hull minit, an she laughin and eryin as she read.”’ He paused, and turned his head as a quail called to its mate from the orchard, and an answer sounded short and clear from the fence just in front of us. “Them little fellers knows it’s Sun- day,”he remarked. ‘‘Queer, Miss Walton, how knowin the birds are. Why there was a flock of wild turkeys hunted down in the timber last winter, an we never got but three out of the lot. Fact, we was haulin rails, an whenever we went without a gun we'd see ’em struttin roun as sassy as you please, but have a gun along, and you might look your eyes out *thout seein a turkey’ But I was tellin you ’bout our church. There was, an I guess its so yet, lots more wimmen than men jined. Why, when Brother Benson organized he had eight wimmen and two men. Odd! isn’t it? Guess wimmen,” with a sly glance at his wife, ‘‘needs the consolation of religion morn’en men do.” “Guess they do,” retorted his wife, ‘‘seein how much they hev to put up with from the men.” How Uncle Dave laughed and looked at us, and shook his gray head and glanced from us to his wife, as if to say, “‘there’s no gettin ahead there?” It was delightful to witness, and my husband and | joined heartily in his merriment. ‘“‘Well, I tell you,’’ he went on, as soon as he could speak. ‘My wife’s right sassy sometimes; you see, Miss Walton, prosperity’s spiled her. She only weighed *bout ninety pounds when we was mar- ried, and now,” with a quizzical look at My baby’s so sick.’ | of her, is} and sixty.” | eight.” | | | } | Dave again turned to me. “Well its astonishin how they’ve growed. | we moved out here, Brother Benson pro- posed that we should have a camp- meetin. says l. | believe,” he said. ‘Oh,’ says he, ‘you an Brother Gilbraith fix up that sycamore grove a little, an I'll git the people,’ and he did. | | Why, bless you! they came from fifty | miles ’round, whole families, an there | ‘‘Now, mother, that was afore dinner, | }an I was lowin,”—but mother indignant- ly refused to hear anything more on the | | subject, and with a subdued air Uncle | ‘“‘We was talkin *bout the Methodis, I Three years after | ‘Where’ll you git the people?’ | Indispensable to every Grocer for Fruit Displays. 20, 25 and 30 inch sizes, $3 per doz. Order through your jobber or direct of the manufacturer, E. J, HERRICK Grand Rapids. } . i | | hever was a better time. We had Brother | Benson an three other preachers, an I declare, Miss Walton, there was many as | sixty people converted at that meetin. I | never see such atime. Why one night they was singin an prayin, and my wife, | my Presbyterian wife, she got that hap- | py she was shoutin, fust thing 1 knowed, }an, thinks I, she’ll be in heaven next thing, an I grabbed her an held on “David,” interrupted his emnly. ‘“‘Well, now, mother, it’s so, an I been | half afraid ever since of your slippin off.” “David,” again from his wife. “Oh, these wimmen!”’ said Uncle Dave. | ‘It’s dreadful hard to git along with ’em: now ef I was to say I was afraid | she wouldn’t git to heaven,” and now he addressed my husband, ‘‘what do you think she would do?” We joined in his hearty laugh, as his wife shook her head until her cap border quivered, and he went on, as she rose and went indoors. Turning to me. ‘‘Miss Walton, she’s the finest woman in |the State. I ain’t a perfessor, never signed no contract, but I believe the Lord’s got it on the credit side of his big book opposite Dave Brenson’s name, ‘good to his wife, an thankful to God for ber.’” The old man’s voice trembled. ‘‘1 tell you, Miss Walton, I know wimmen have a hard time in this world—” just then his wife returned to her rocking chair, and he wenton: ‘‘Mother, 1 was jess tellin Miss Walton how glad I was the Lord didn’t dress my spirit in woman’s clothes.”’ | ‘Did you tell her how glad I was of 'the same thing?”? she replied, with a mellow laugh. | ‘*Now, mother,’ he said, deprecating- ily, but glancing around at us to see if we | appreciated the remark. ‘‘Now, mother, | ain’t you jokin? You see,” to Mr. Wal- | ton, ‘‘mother knows all my ins an outs, an she feels bad ’cause I don’t jine |meetin, I expect,’’ meditatively. ‘I'll | have to give bond yet. You see how my | oldest girl married a Methodis preacher, } an,” brightening up, ‘‘you ought to see their boy, named for me, actilly named | David Brenson’s Pierce. Shouldn’t wonder | if that boy ud be a bishop yet. What, supper time, mother?” as his wife again rose and went indoors. ‘‘Why this has | been a short afternoon, an I never told you about our camp-meetin, but we have em yet every fall. You come out the | last week in September and tent with us, | Why, Miss Walton, I come home always | nights to tend to things, you see,”’ point- ing to a grove about a mile distant, ‘‘we use the same old place Brother Benson— SERGE SATINE, wife sol-| UMMER WASH GOODS: CANTON CLOTH, OUTING FLANNELS, BRANDENBURG CLOTH, PRINTS, B. C. SATINE, WIDE BLUES, EXPORT SATINE, SHIRTING, LYON SERGE, ARMENIAN SERGE, SEERSUCKERS, CASHMERE SATINE, A. F. C. GINGHAM, SONORA GINGHAM, CHALLI, AMOSKEAG GINGHAM, LAWNS. OUTING SHIRTS, SUMMER UNDERWEAR, PANTS, HAMMOCKS, STRAW HATS. P. STEKETEE & SONS, WHOLESALE DRY GOODS. GRAND RAPIDS. ee us for Samples and Prices. Possibly we can save you : money. We have a good white en- velope (our 154) which we sell : No 6 No 6% Size 314x6 Size 35x64 $1.40 $1.50 2.40 2.50 2.15 2.25 1.75 1.85 160 1.70 Special prices on larger quantities. 6 This is not acheap stock, but good fair envelope. We have cheaper and have better grades, but can recom- mend this one. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 500 e 1,000 2,000 5,000 10,000 o) Above Prices Include Printing !? PATENTED i889 Made of Forged Steel and Interchangeable in all its Parts, Sold by HESTER & FOX, - - - Grand, Rapids, Mich. & THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3 he’s our presidin elder now—picked out, an it’s so close I ken watch over the farm, an, as 1 was sayin, I come up here, an I can hear ’em singia an prayin down there, and it sounds like, well, like the new Jerusalem, I expect, though I never been there, but if you’ll excuse me, Ill go and help mother start supper; them youngsters’ll be along directly hungry as hunters.” Good Uncle Dave a few years after our visit ‘‘gave bond,” as he quaintly termed it, for his good behavior by unit- ing with the church, which had followed him so persistently all his life. Taking dinner at our house one day when he had business in town he told me about it. ‘**You see, Miss Walton,”’ he said, ‘‘two of my boys is in the army, an afore they went I tole ’em mother’d feel a sight bet- ter if they’d list under King Manuel’s banner afore they left, an ef they’d do it I’d go’long, and so we went up to be prayed for, and they took us on proba- tion. I tell you mother was that happy she shouted, an ’twas the only time she’s done that sence our first camp-meetin. Well, Miss Walton, when my tim’s up they wanted to take mein full member- ship, but says I, no, sir, me and the boys started in together an I’m goin to wait for them, ef it’s five years or forever.’’ The old man’s voice shook and tears filled his eyes. “Tt’s pretty tough, Miss Walton, he went on, ‘‘pretty tough on mother; you see our son-in-law’s gone too, he’s chap- lain of the same regiment Tom an Fred’s in, and May she’s home with her boy, an we must keep up our spirrits or she'll break right down.’’ Good old Uncle Dave. That next win- ter his boys came home on furlough, and Brother Benson took father and two sons into the fold. The boys went back again as veterans, and one came home no more. The grass grows now on the graves of Uncle Dave and his beloved wife, and near them sleeps their soldier boy, for after the war was over, Uncle Dave sought and found the body and had it brought to rest at Bethel; and now on Decoration day, when people gather to remember their dead, grateful de- scendants with loving tears place flowers on the grassy mounds where lie Uncle Dave, mother, and their soldier boy. E. V. WILSON. _—_—>- The Latest Thief. The newest brand of thief in New York is the fellow who comes into an office and steals the type writer. Not the girl who ordinarily goes under that title, but the machine itself. You could replace the girla good deal easier than you could the machine and for less money. A number of cases are reported where these office thieves have stepped into an office in a prominent part of the city with the ostensible purpose of asking a question or selling something, and having found the occupants out have lugged away the machine. One fellow caught in the act had the impudence to assert that he re- ceived a bonus, for every one he stole, from a prominent dealer in the instru- ment, who immediately demolished the abstracted type writer, thus creating a demand for that article. eel Will Stay Where He Is. Leroy, June 6—H. M. Patrick denies the report that he contemplates remov- ing his general stock to Cadillac. He says he will stay where he is and con- tinue business at the old stand. ne nnn Yale—Wells & Tobey have engaged in the drug and stationery business. -ndustrial Despotism. From the New York Shipping List. In discussing the merits of the various labor strikes which are retarding busi ness progress, a well-known authority offers a remedy, but, unfortunately, the eure is worse than the disease. Accord- ing to his arguments, industrial peace can be permanent only upon the condi- tion that one of the belligerents should become permanently dominant over the other. Either employers must be rela- tively so strong that they can dictate terms to those whom they employ, or the employed must become masters of their occupations and fix their own rec- ompense. If the lion is to lie down with the lamb, it will be only after having swallowed him bodily. This is the result, indeed, for which many reformers are striving, some openly, and with full knowledge of their purpose, and others disguisedly, or in ignorance of the logi- eal outcome of their theories. For it is plain that if the whole mass of workers for wages should be thoroughly organ- ized they would be irresistible. The in- dustries of the world could go on only in aceordance with their ideas. But, as the world is so nearly entirely composed of earners of wages, and the payers of wages are comparatively so few in num- ber, the effort to organized the former into one compact body is, in effect, an effort to reorganize the whole community upon a socialistic basis. Government would become mainly a matter of direct- ing labor, and wages would be regulated by law as taxes now are. We should then have immunity from strikes and labor conflicts, and the adjustment of wages would be transferred to the do- main of politics, and be discussed or set- tled like the tariff and the coinage of silver. Inasmuch, too, as individual em- ployers could not carry on their business under such conditions, the Government would have to take their place, and thus the nation would become a socialistic community. Weare too much imbued with democratic principles to look for- ward complacently to this form of relief from the industrial wars which now break out occasionally and cause incon- venience. The people prefer our present liability to conflicts to the industrial des- potism which is the only means of escape fromit. At the same time there is an apprehension that we are slowly drifting toward this despotism, and that many of our citizens are striving to establish it without being. aware of the fact. The authority referred to announces its ap- proach, not only in the combinations of workers under the forms of trades unions, federations and alliances, but in the clamor that goes up every little while for legislation in this, that, or the other department of social economy, and for the enforcement by the storng hand of the Government of regulations for the management of private business. >_< New Industry at Sing Sing. A new industry has been started at Sing Sing Prison, about thirty men being employed in preparing raw material to be used in the manufacture of brushes. This is known as the brush fiber industry, and consists principally in converting bales of tampico, horses tails, hogs’ bris- tles, ete., into proper shape to be sold to brush manufacturers. The raw materials are purchased from wholesalers in New York. This brush material, the warden says, is nearly all prepared in England ani Germany, and the material is im- ported prihcipally in a condition ready for the manufacturers. Limit ol. Grand Rapids Storage & Transier C0, Winter St. between Shawmut Ave, and W. Fulton St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. General Warehovsemen and Yransfer Agents, COLD STORAGE FOR BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, FRUITS, AND ALL KINDS OF PERISHABLES. Dealers and Jobbers in Mowers, Binders Twine, Threshers, En- gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders, Cultivators, Plows, Pumps, Carts, Wagons, Buggies, Wind Mills and Machine and Plow repairs, Ete. Telephone No. 945. J. Y. F. BLAKE, Sup’t. GRAND RAPIDS CYCLE COMPANY. SECTIONAL VIEW OF OUR CUSHION TIRE, OF 7-8 INCH am ADAPTED TO ANY WHEEL Solid Tired CLIPPERS On Hand for Immediate A GREAT SUCCESS Are Continually Behind on orders for our Cushion Tired Clippers. Clipper Safeties, [solid tire] List price, $90.00 Cushion Tire, $10 extra. Clipper Saddles, $5. GRAND RAPIDS CYCLE CO., Send for Catalogue. Erie St., Grand Rapids, Mich. PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MiLL USE. RELIABLE! Other brands of flour may occasionally make as good bread, but for absolute uniformity and reliability our brands “Sunlight,” “Daisy” and “Purity” will be kept at the top, as they have been in the past. Write us for quotations. THE WALSH--DE ROO MILLING 6O,, Proprietors Standard Roller Mills, FIOLLAND, 4 MICE: Shipment. Always Satisfactory. Always Uniform. SHOE DEALERS’ 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, 12 anv 14 LYON STREET, GRAND RAFIDS, Mict#, enemas enertee a aR emeemretnenienagnens pecrsmigear te 3 Penner teecquretcmioneatstietitamennteennn neaimnnpeltinnt: THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Bellevue—Cooper & Allen succeed Hoyt & Cooper in the hardware business. Detroit—John Rooney has sold _ his grocery stock to Thoo. Schamadan. Saginaw—Alex H. Clark is succeeded by Mosier Bros. in the grocery business. Delwin—M. M. Erwin & Co. are re- moving their general stock to Pinconning. Sturgis—T. F. Thornton & Co. are suc- ceeded by Frank S. Packard in the drug | business. Martin—C. Konkel has sold his meat business to Curry & Knowlton, formerly | of Shelbyville. Battle Creek— Henry Watts succeeds Mannerow & Chamberlain in the boot and shoe business. Bentley—O. F. Bentley is succeeded by Frank Bentley in general trade and the saw and shingle business. East Arlington—Geo. Edgel has sold his grocery stock to Frank Weed, the consideration being $800. St. Johns—J. M. Frisbie has purchased the bakery stand of D. McGil will continue the business. Port Huron—Grieb & Eichhorn are succeeded by Grieb & Son in the grocery and vessel supply business. lron Mountain—W. H. Mitchell sue- ceeds Mitchell & Richards in general trade and the furnishing goods business. Saginaw—John Koepplinger succeeds Victor Slessinger in the grocery business. The latter will continue in the hide and wool business. Big Rapids—The drug fixtures used by the former firm of Griswold & McGregor have been sold to Alex. Eckermann and moved to Muskegon. Kalamazoo — A. Binkhorst has chased the stock of groceries of G. Van- ybon and deKreeke, corner of Dutton and Burdick | streets, and will continue the business. Big Rapids—Jay D. Robinson, who has | been engaged in the meat business here for the past twelve years, has retired from trade and will return to agricultural pursuits. Charlotte—Harrison & Sorg, South Bend, have leased formerly occupied by M. J. Lamson and engaged in the manufacture and jobbing of confectionery. late of MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Vassar—The Vassar Furniture Manu- facturing Co. has been organized, with a capital stock of $10,000. Dodge—The Lansing Lumber Co. is securing a night crew, and will soon begin running its sawmill here day and night. Alpena—The Minor Lumber Co. has contracted with Cleveland parties to cut several million of logs from the Georgian Bay country. Cheboygan—lIt is stated that the new sawmill of the Whitehall Lumber Co. will begin sawing the latter part of the present month. Tawas—Armstrong miles from Tawas, contract for Robert place. Detroit—Cope Bros. have merged their hose truck and screen door business cutting lumber on Merrick, of this into a stock company under the style of | the Ideal Manufacturing Co. tal stock is $150,000. Saginaw—Henry Neinstadt, Jr., of this city, has purchased an interest in The capi- pur- | the building | & Culham are} operating a portable mill about eight | the Mitchell & McClure sawmill at Zilwaukee. The mill is being operated to its full capacity. Detroit—S. T. Williams, W. A. Forbes, W. H. Turner and F. J. Walker have in- corporated the S. T. Williams’ Nickel Stamp System Co., with $250,000 capital, $25,000 being paid in. Flint—The Flint P. Smith Lumber Co, has leased the old Crapo sawmill for five years with the privilege of purchase. |It proposes | running order and operate it, cutting | norway car stuff for the Peninsular Car | Works, of Detrolt. The mil! which has been operated by the company will cut | hardwood logs exclusively White Cloud—A. Burton have operated a shi township & Co., who in Wilcox | have pur- in Beaver for several chased 6,000 acres of , and removed th township eut 40, mill will The land was Crippen & Son, lumbered the tract Detroit—Robert Kevener, uce iness at 60 and 62 Kipped to Chicago, so his partners say, with $500 of the firm’s money. Before leaving Keveney took the money and charged it to him- self on the books. His wife and child went with him. Davidson was the man who floated the business and owned the greater portion of the goods. His sud- den departure swamped the business and the partners have since sold out to W. | H. Knight & Co. St. Ignace—The Mackinaw a | Co. cut 3,000,000 feet of logs in Ced township, Mackinaw county, and ie were rafted to Cheboygan, where Swift | Bros. them. the ground work for a law suit. have been assessed at Cheboygan, the | owners entering a protest against the | assessment before the board of review, producing affidavits showing the logs were assessed in Cedar township. The board declined, however, to entertain the protest, and the Mackinaw Lumber Co. will doubtless take the matter into | the courts. | Death Caused by a Chemical Change. West Bay Ciry, June 1—This city has been considerably excited over the death of Mrs. Rollin Jones, which occurred a couple of days ago. Two weeks ago Mrs. Jones was taken ill and was attend- |ed by Dr. Hagadorn, who prescribed a |certain drug. The prescription was | compounded at the store of Geo. L. Lusk |and was administered according to di- rections. A short time after the first | dose was taken Mrs. Jones became con- siderably worse, and the doctor conclud- |ed she had been poisoned. He ad- |ministered an antidote, and she recovy- | ered, after having suffered great agony. Saturday night she was considered out |}of danger, but Sunday she was taken worse, and gradually failed until she died. Druggist Lusk said that he had had three calls for the drug (hydrargyrum | lactate), and had heard of no unfavorable |results. He ordered a supply from a | Jobbing house in Detroit, which procured | it direct from the manufacturers. It was ;some of this drug that was used. It |came as Merck’s preparation. An an- | alysis of the preparation by Dr. Prescott, |of the Michigan University, shows the | presence of corrosive salt, indicating that a chemical change had oceurred in the drug, else fatal results would have followed its first use. Mr. Lusk invites a thorough investigation. been in th Cadillac to put the property in| r shingle mill | yagh timber to keep of the firm} ison & Baker, who had | have contracted to manufacture | These logs will doubtless furnish | They | FLINT’S TRAVELERS. Full List of the Salesmen who Reside There, The following list of the traveling salesmen who reside in the lively city of Flint is furnished THe TRADESMAN by D. C. Slaght, who travels for the Depew branch of the U.S. Baking Co.: Fred Anderson, Flint Cigar Co., Flint. H. A. Bartlett, Cooper, Wells & Co., St. Joseph. E. B. Banister, | Co., Chicago. E. F. Bush, American Eagle Tobacco Co., Detroit. Singer Manufacturing W. E. Braman, Flint Cigar Co., Flint. J. N. Blake, Stone, Atwood & Co., | Flint. R. E. Beggs, Foote, Reed & Co., Cleve- | land. G. L. Crawford, Geo. T. Warren & Co., Flint. M. P. Cook, Mobile & Ohio R. R. L. Church, Flint Wagon Works, Flint. A. F. Coddington, I. L. Cohen, Detroit. E. R. Day, Day Bath Tub Co., Detroit. Dallas Dort, Flint Road Cart Co., Flint. W. C. Durant, Flint Road Cart Co., Flint. J. W. Doane, F. A. Perrin, Cohoes, N. Mouty J. Eldridge, A. J. Johnson & 'Co., Rochester. Fred W. Eldridge, A. J. Rochester. John Eldridge, W. H. Whitredge, Lynn, Mass. I. M. Eldridge, W. H. Whitredge, Lynn, Mass. T. S. Eddington, W.S. Melcher, Toledo. J. A. Frise, Flint Music Co., Flint. G. R. Furgeson, C. W. Inslie & Co., Detroit. A. E. Foote, Northwestern Benefit Co., Chicago. Jacob Garton, Co., Rochester. Don L. Glendening, W. Johnson & Co., Strong, Woodbury & A. Patterson, Flint. M. F. Ganey, Flint Pants Co., Flint. Ed. Hudson, Daniel Scotten & Co., Detroit. Chas. Hinkle, Flint Mattress Co., Flint. Newt. Humphrey, Maloney Bros., Rochester. Chas. Heives, H. W. Watson & Co., | Flint. | Geo. Haskins, J. W. Faler & Co., De- troit. S. B. Haywood, Pembrook & Co., New York. =. Oo. Bek, GB. troit. W. H. Hedden, James Craig, Detroit. E. S. Johnson, Singer Manufacturing Co., Chicago. C. J. Lewis, Childs, Groff & Co., Cleve- land E. O. Lancaster, J. B. Ellison & Son, Philadelphia. Ed. H. Lee, A. G. Monnich & Co.,Flint. R. M. Lane, American Portrait Co., Chicago. W. R. Morse, Wm. Resor & Co., Cin- cinnati. Albert Myers, A. G. | Flint. D. E. Meade, Cleveland. E. D. Morran, Flint Musie Co., Flint. W. A. MeNiel, Flint Musie Co., Flint. L. MceGlinchy, Samuel Moffatt, Flint. Geo. McConnely, Marder, Luce & Co., Chicago. D. E. MecKercher, Co., Flint. Arthur Nichols, Detroit. G. A. Nichols, James E. Detroit. W. J. Pegg, Flint. J.J. Pellett, Flint Table Factory, Flint. C. W. Partridge, Partridge Bros., Flint. J. F. Partridge, Partridge Bros., Flint. H. E. Partridge, Partridge Bros., Flint. _Henry Pier, Favorite Stove Co., Piqua, Clark Perry, Bassett Leather Co., Flint. M. H. Putnam, Romain, Putnam & Co., Flint. S. G. Pierce, Grand Rapids. C. H. Rood, Bolton & Bradley,Chicago, Geo. Rowland, Stony Creek Woolen Co. Sweetser, G. Morrice & Co., De- Monnich & Co., Geo. W. Cady & Co., Geo. T. Warren & Day Bath Tub Co., Davis & Co., The Castree Mallery Co., New York Biscuit Co., Randolph, H. Flint. D. C. Slaght, Lawrence, Depew & Co., Detroit. J. W. Stranghn, Childs, Lee & Dunlap, Toledo. H. M. Sperry, Flint Cigar Co., Flint. Levi Shrader, Flint Cabinet Creamery Co., Fiint. G. L. Spillane, Flint. R. N. Swan, land. C. H. Smith, Standard Oil Co., Cleve- land. D. T. Stone, Stone, Atwood & Co., Flint. S. Scofield, Barnes, Hengerer & Co., Buffalo. R. A. Swears, Davison Manufacturing Co., Davison Station. Wm. Tracy, Thorp, Detroit. Jacob Veit, Bassett Leather Co., Flint. W. C. Wells, W. J. Gould & Co., Detroit. J. L. Willit, Home Cigar Co., Flint. C. H. Watkins, Paige & Strachan, De- troit. BH. W. Watson, H. W. Flint. Ed. O. Wood, Hackett, Carhart & Co., New York. J.C. Woodbury, D. M. Osborn & Co., Chicago. S. B. Montigue, S. Detroit. Frank Street, Clasen & Street, Flint. W. Watson & Co., W. H. Watson & Co., Standard Oil Co., Cleve- Hawley & Ce., Watson & Co., A. Munger & Co., FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- menttaken for lessthan 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANOES. | yrue 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 invento a just completed, $2,600. On account of —, a ta 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—HALF INTEREST IN A GENERAL I stock located in ea _— / town. Capital necessary, about $1,200. address No. 241, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 241 VOR SALE — CLEAN GROCERY STOCK INVEN- torying $2,500 to $3,000; located in a lively city in Northern Michigan. Annual sales, $30,000. Good rea- sons for selling. Address No. 259, care Michigan Tradesman. 259 YOR SALE—WELL-SELECTED DRUG STOCK, IN- 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 bargain. Address for particulars 8. P. Hicks, — Mich. ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A general or grocery stock; must becheap. Ad- dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26 SITUATIONS WANTED. ANTED— BY YOUNG MAN, SITUATION AS BOOK- \ keeper, assistant book-keeper or collector Rest of references. Address E. care Michigan — MISCELLANEOUS. GENTS WANTED—FOR A NEW ARTIOLE JUST J out. Most wonderful advertising device ever known. Sells . ot a aan and Mfr. Splendid employment. ~ y. Steady work. Enclose stamp. Are Mt, Mfg "ao . Racine, Wis. 249 JOR SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN INVEST- I ment. Corner lot and 5-room house on North Lafayette 8t., cellar, brick foundation, soft water in kitchen. $1 200. Terms to suit. Address No. 187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187 \OR SALE—TWELVE TO TWENTY ACRES OF LAND F for summer home, Seven miles north of Trav- erse City on the East Arm of Traverse Bay on the Peninsula ready fitted for building. C. *, ae, Archie, Mich. OR SALE OR RENT—CORNER LOT AND TROOW 4 house on North ae 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. ORSE FOR SALE—IRON GREY GELDING. STANDS 1644 hands high. ae 1,650. Suitable for heavy work. ¥. Goodman & Co., Burnips Corners, Mich. 257 MOR SALE—STORE AND DWELLING COMBINED, also good barn. All in good repair. Located in one of the best towns in Michigan of 1,000 inhabitants. ae trade forstock of goods. For particulars address No. 258, care Michigan Tradesman. 258 Vy ANTED—FIVE SALESMEN BY THE GEORGE D. Hawkins Medicine Co. (Manufacturers and wholesale dealers in Hawkins Great Specific Cures) to represent them on the road. Commencing on July 10th. No one but first-class experienced salesmen need apply. Good positions guaranteed to good salesmen. Write for terms to George D. Mawkins Medieine Cempany, Hawkias, Mieh. 244 Wee ee oe FOR GENERAL STORE. ONE who is capable of taking care of the dry goods and sioe department. Address No. 264, care Michigan Tradesman. 254 J ANTED—SALES d4EN ON SALARY OR COMMIS- sion to handle the New Patent Chemical Ink Erasing Pencil. The gr reatest 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 full te, address The Monroe Eraser Mfg. Co., La sse, Wis. 255 Ra colt GEE samen =m “e le ba cit OTE nt cogil ‘the corner THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5 GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. John N. Deville, Jr., succeeds Deville & Son in the meat business. Frank J. Wilmes succeeds Chas. W. Hake in the wholesale liquor business. - The Elliott Button Fastener Co. has acquired the wire fastening patents of Geo. W. McGill, of New York. The Princess Dressing Case Co. has leased the plant of the Lowell Furniture Co., at Lowell, and will manufacture its line of goods there. Louis Engbrenghof, general dealer at of Grandville avenue and Lilly street, has completed an addition on one side of his store building. G. S. Putman has sold his grocery stock at 502 South Division street to C. E. Ramsey, who will continue the business in connection with his book, stationery and wall paper business. Frank H. White and O. A. Perry have formed a copartnership under the style of White & Perry and embarked in the business of manufacturers’ agents of paper and woodenware at 119 Ottawa street. H. Leonard & Sons have eighty-five cases of Chinaware and toys from Sonneberg, Germany, on which the duty was $1,262.55. has also received four carloads of eartheware from ‘Tunstall, Eng., on which the duty was $1,011.10. received The same house 3. A. Fish, the P. of I. dealer at Cedar Springs, uttered a chattel mortgage last week for $7,000 in favor of J. F. Ferris, the Monroe street grocer. Spring & Company and other local creditors sub- sequently attached the stock for $1,300 on the ground that the mortgage was fraudulent. —_——_—_ > +> Purely Personal. A. Burion, the White Cloud shingle manufacturer, was in town last Friday. Geo. R. Mayhew went to Chicago Sat- - urday on business for the Elliott Button Fastener Co. Henry Jacobs, of the firm of Heimbach & Jacobs, druggists at Coustantine, was in town over Sunday. J. H. Plett, the Cadillac meat dealer, has presented John Ball Park with a pair of handsome horned owls, the pre- sentation being made through the me- diumship of Chas. S. Robinson. Geo. W. McGill, of New York, who is an inventor of international reputation, was in the city several days last week for the purpose of consulting with his partners in the Elliott Button Fastener Co. Mrs. John Cummins is seriously ill at the family residence on Holbrook street, necessitating the presence of Mr. Cum- mins at home this week. His route is being covered in the meantime by Ed. Huyge. Thes. Trowbridge, formerly engaged in the drug business on South Division street, has purchased an interest in the wooden measure factory of Hinkley & Roberts, at Decatur, and will take up his residence at that place. A. P. Hunter, senior member of the drug firm of Hunter & Son, at Lowell, fractured his right thigh while in the act of mounting a bicycle one evening last week. ‘The fracture is a very severe one and will probably keep the victim on his | back for six weeks. The friends of Arthur Meigs will be pleased to learn that he has secured a de- sirable position as manager of a large lumbering company at Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Meigs is a man of infinite resources and no disaster can keep him down for any length of time. Eugene Carmichael, the resident part- ner and representative of R. L. Polk & Co., has done himself proud in the pre- paration and publication of the Grand Rapids Directory for 1891. Itis larger than any of its predecessors and is re- markably free from errors and omissions. _———_——--_ <> Gripsack Brigade Chas. S. Robinson has purchased a full blooded pointer and is arranging to start a pointer dog factory. BEd. Frick and Jas. N. Bradford went to Baldwin Saturday and caught 25 pounds of brook trout in Middle Branch. The size of their fish was phenomenal. Ed. A. Withee, the soap salesman, re- joices over the advent of a son, who arrived at the family residence at Ver- non six hours too late for Decoration day. The traveling men of Hillsdale have organized a local association, the charter members being Frank W. Thompson, A. E. Palmer, W. A. Wagner, James McKee, Burr Wilbur, Amos Kendall, Grorge Pierce, Eugene Crum, Frank W. Smith, N. M. Garrett, C. H. Sheldon, A. W. Lewis, H. M. Oberlin, Henry K. Wilson, O. N. Rice, L. K. Hewett, Arthur T. Lin- coln and H. T. Buchanan. Geo. F. Owen came home sick from Cedar Springs about ten days ago and has since been compelled to submit to an operation for strangulated hernia. He has wisely concluded that it would not be advisable to go out again during warm weather and the house has engaged S. O. Brooks to take the Southern portion of his territory, while Geo. W. Baxter will look after the wants of the trade north of Cadillac. a Bank Notes. The Clare County Bank will be re-or- ganized, and will, after July 1, be the Clare County Savings Bank. The American Bank has been opened at Lawton under the management of H. D. Brown, late of Cincinnati. It is owned by the Chicago syndicate which has a circuit of thirty-five country banks. The First National Bank of Grand Haven will be re-organized as the Na- tional Bank of Grand Haven, reducing the capital from $200,000 to $100,000. Dwight Cutler will continue as President and Geo. Stickney as Cashier. WM. BRUMMELER & SONS Manufacturers of and Jobbers in AND STAMPED TINWARE. Our Specialties: Tin, Copper and Copper-Rimed Buckets, and all kinds Teakettles, Pails and Milk Pans. Telephone 640. Send for Quotations. 264 So. Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS. PIECED ANNOUNCEMENT. The firm of Williams, Sheley & Brooks is this day dissolved by mutual consent. WILLIAM C. WILLIAMS, ALANSON SHELEY, ALANSON 8. BROOKS. Detroit, May 27, 1891. The firm of James E. Davis & Co. is this day dissolved by mutual consent. JAMES E. DAVIS, Detroit, May 27, 1891. GEO. W. BISSELL. Referring to the above announcements, we beg to state that as suc- cessor to the firms of WinuiaMs, SHeLey & Brooks and James E. Davis & Co., we shall endeavor to execute all orders with which we are entrusted in a manner which shall prove satisfactory to all customers in every respect. Our main aim shall be to make prompt shipments and to give lowest possible prices. We wish to state to those who have done business with Williams, Sheley & Brooks, that all orders received by us will have the personal attention of a member of that firm; and that orders received from customers of James E. Davis & Co. will receive the personal atten- tion of our Mr. James E. Davis. With kind regards, and hoping that we shall hear from you frequently, we remain, Yours very truly, Williams, Dawis, Brooks & Go, 11, 13, 15 & 17 Larned Street East. THE OLD STAND. William C. Williams. James E. Davis. Alanson Sheley. Alanson S. Brooks. 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, WILLIAM Con- 4) x~or, who resides at Marshall, Mich., he will be pleased to call upon you. All mail orders promptly attended to. Itis wonderful the number of mail orders we receive for our elegant diagonal, also cork screw worsted Prince Albert coat aan CONNOR, and vests and three button cut away, Box 346, Marshall, Mich, frock and sack suitings of same material and the many congratulations we receive from the merchants of our perfect fit and satisfactory prices, and Please Remember That no manufacturers sell more ready-made clothing in Michigan, and that we catered for the Michigan trade for thirty years and knows their wants. Our Fall and Winter line will be up to the usual standard. MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wild ms Manniactarer ROCHESTER, N. Y. William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel on Thursday, 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, youths’, boys’ and children’s sizes. z ° 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Nervousness from Tight Shoes. *T have a number of patients who suf- fer from chronic nervous disease, brought about, as I believe, solely by wearing tight shoes,” said a leading physician the other day. ‘*The pressure of such shoes often displaces the small bones of the foot, and they in turn press against the nerves, which become so sensitive that the slightest pressure causes the most acute pain. Of course, this state of things cannot long exist without af- fecting the entire system, and involving the temper to a serious extent. I have, at present, a patient under my care, who will more than likely end her days in an insane asylum; and, while I have not fully satisfied myself on that point, I more than suspect that tight shoes are responsible for the trouble. And the worst of all this is there seems to be no remedy for it. Women who are consid- ered sensible on all other points will allow their children to wear tight shoes until their feet are positively deformed and covered with corns. Then in des- peration they goto some manufacturer of those monstrosities which are put up- on the market as cure-alls for diseases of the feet, and pay enormous prices for the privilege of making their feet look hideous. I suppose it is a sert of pen- ance they do for their past sins, and in that way, perhaps, it is a benefit, as it certainly does, or ought to, mortify the flesh. “They don’t seem to realize that a soft, easy shoe—the sort called ‘nuns’ shoes,’ for example—would be quite as useful, and yet have little, if any, of that ob- jectionable appearance, which has cost many a child bitter tears, and humilia- tion. “Tam satisfied that the only way to remedy the evil is to convince people that a symmetrical natural foot, even though it be of fair size, is better than one which is small and misshapen. ‘“‘If persons who wear tight shoes could be brought to realize the injury they do themselves, and the discomfort they visit on their associates, it seems to me they would never indulge in them again.’ a Linoleum and Floor on Cloth. From the Carpet Trade Review. Talking about the linoleum and floor oil cloth trade, a retailer said: ‘‘When claims for imperfections, or premature wearing out are presented to me I almost invariably find that the fault is not with the goods. People who use linoleum or floor oil cloth should be willing to incur the slight trouble and expense necessary to make their floors smooth and even, and they should be careful to see that cement is used in all places where water is liable to enter and run along the floor. There is no linoleum or fioor oil cloth made which will not shrink and rot if water gets underneath it. In Europe the laying of such goods is done much more earefully than in this country. Carpen- ters are employed to make the floor per- fectiy level, and cement is used very freely. Our own slap dash, off-hand ways Save a little time and money at first, but are expensive in theend. Take, for instance, the common practice in the South of laying a carpet in the autumn over the China matting which has been used through the summer. Of course, the carpet soon wears away all along the seams in the matting. But it is possible to be over particular, and I think our British friends fall into this error when they insist, as certain dealers do, on hav- ing all fine carpets sewed by men, and so closely that after a few weeks wear it is almost impossible to see where the seam is. I think that machine sewing is good enough for any carpet.’’ ee Trp il The Louisiana sugar planters are send- ing in their applications for under the provisions of the tariff act providing for the payment of 2 centsa pound on sugar produced in this country. So far thirty-six of the 842 planters have filed applications and bonds. They expect to produce 51,375,000 pounds of | sugar. This will be an average of 1,408, 000 pounds to the plantation, so that each plantation will receive over $28,000 bounty. —_—_—~—»>>?->__—— Use “Tradesman” Coupons ~ Dry Goods Price Current. rr COTTONS. Bere ........ ‘* Arrow Brand 5% Argyle ee * 6% “ World Wide.. : Re RA 6% i ei Atlantic A.......... 7 |Full Yard Wide.. . Micces seuss GxiGeorgia A.......... 6% ’ Pe. 6 |Honest Width....... 6% . y GxiMartfordA ......... 5 CS ae 5%| Indian —-- sides He a 7 (Kinga A. a Archery Bunting... 4 King EC............ Beaver Dam AA.. 5%/Lawrence LL...... 54 Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth 6% meece (row ......... 614 Newmarket as Diack Boeck ........ 7 _ ie os Don, tc........... 7% . 2... 6% ee 5% ss DD.... 5% Caves 7......-... 5% ' Co 7 Chapman cheese cl. 3%|Noibe R............. 5 Common CE......... 54|Our Level Best..... 6% eee. 7 eee EL 6% Dwight Star......... wareames.............. 7% aa cCce........ a... 6% |Top of the Heap.... 7% BLEACHED COTTONS Sec........... 814 |Geo. 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Oe HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. eee... oe, ~~ Anchor... . 9 Pereet....... .._.. uaianeiaaiaet CANTON FLANNEL, a e.... 54%|Middlesex No. 1.:..10 no -- 6% o - ee ee 7 = oe Middlesex Mop ceca 8 . = 7... - 2... 9 ” r 2 ™ _s.... 2 BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Hemliton W......... 7% Middlesex BA pa | Middlesex P 3 es 8 ce 2 = ¢....., 9 o a O0...... 13% ' z A... 9 Se cea 17% an ~ ©...... 10% = oo. 16 CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... 18 |Integrity, colored, . .21 colored ... 2056 White Star.......... 184% ne 184% C “ colored. .21 DRESS GOODS. een... . aeee...........00 . eee ee ee 25 ee -10% eee 27% GG Cashmere...... 21 _ a Remo ... ....... 16 lee ecesuee 32% CL 18 . es CORSETS. Coretins............ $9 50/Wonderful. .. ....84 50 Schiiting’s......... 9 GBrigmton.. ........ % CORSET JEANS. Ave .... 6% ne satteen.. Hy Androscoggin....... 7 mockpert........... Badeetors........... Comcanee............ ee DIGaewick. .... -... Oi arworen ...... .... 634 —— Allen turkey reds.. 5%|Berwick fancies.... % ee... 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Washington bounty | Beaver Creek AA...10 - Be... 9 Contionll, Gou....... %5 twist, doz. .37% 50 = doz. .37% No 1BI’k & White..10 “ 3 a DEMINS. Amoskeag..... . .-..12%[Columbian brown. .12 re Soe. .... 1444| Everett, blue........12 . brown = ~ prewn. —— Fe ig fois ue 11% Haymaker plue..... brown... i - c.. Lancaster...... Z Boston. Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, a Be blue 8% No. 220....13 “ 6d 4 twist 10% - No. 250.. -11% Columbian XXX _ 10 . No. 280....10% XXX bl.19 GINGHAMS. Aneeee ...... .... 1% C fancies .. ‘* Persian dress 8% . Normandie 5 . Canton .. 8%|Lancashire.......... . APC...... 124%|Manchester......... st Arlington staple.. - 64 Monorrias.......... 6% Arasapha fancy.... 4%|/Normandie......... 7% Bates Warwick dres 8i4 i ae 844 staples. 6% Renfrew Dress...... 7% Centennial......... 10% |Rosemont........... 6% erm .......-... 10% |Slatersville ......... : |} Cumberland staple. 5%/Somerset............ Cumberland.... .... S Preeuee ........s... Sc a 4%|Toil du Nord....... 10% EE Leo Rees 7% Everett classics..... 8% ‘¢ _seersucker.. 4 Exposition... ...... ca. erwice.... -..... PCMEINO st en on 644|Whittenden......... on Ceeerven.......... 6 i: heather dr. 8 eee woed.......-... 7% ae indigo blue 9 Paeeee.... . ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples... 6% Johnson Vhaloncl % Westbrook eeu 8 c indigo blue 91% scons aeee . ig zephyrs....16 |Windermeer.... .... Lancaster, staple... GR IVGEK..... .......... ox GRAIN BAGS. Amoskeag...........164/ Valley City.......... 15% Stark..... --20 |Georgia .... --15% American.. ie ae OE ne wee eee 14% THREADS. ‘lark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88 Cour, 4. &F....... (iarennirs.... ...... 88 Helene... ......... 22% KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored. ne. ©... sS mo. M.......7 42 ~_ =. Sf... = oe 44 = 2... -t* SS... 40 45 CAMBRICS. eee. wee 44%|Washington... ..... 3% White Star......... ic ec Crome. .......... 3% Kid Glove..........- 414|Lockwood.... ...... 44 Newmarket......... Sai ooas.... .... .... 4% Bawaerds............ 44\Brunswick .... ....-. 44 RED FLANNEL. Fireman...... ..... 3244(T W.. + RH Creeadmore.........- oe a 32% Terese OA e..-.,,.-. m Wer ae......... 35 Poe... .. ... 2 S74 iBuckeye.... ........ 32% MIXED FLANNEL. Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% Dene &...... 1.0 224) Weatern W ......... 18% i, re Oe Bie uns es 18% Gon Womtern........ 2] |Pimshing 2X2...... 23% oem B_........... 22\4\Manitoba.... ....... 23% DOMET FLANNEL, Nameless ie, 8 @ 5 - 9 @1% ceuee 8%@10 ” ri 12% CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black. tira Brown. Black. 9% 9% 9%4|13 13 13 10% 10% 1054) 15 15 15 11% 11% 114) = 17 17 12% 12% 1244/20 20 20 DUCES. Severen, 8 0z. - 94(West | Point, 8 0z....10% Mayland, 8oz....... --1044| 10 oz....12% Greenwood, 7% 02. 58 ven, ies.......... 13% Greenwood, 8 0z.. ..11% |Stark Seba eeee 13% oe White, doz....... ro bale, 40 doz....87_50 Colored, Goa ou SILESIAS. Slater, Iron Cross... 8 [Pawtucket.......... 10% Red Cross.... 9 va ee ee 9 - eT -.10% ee ee ee 10% - Bee oe... il Valley “Gity Loon ec tes 10% SEWING SILE. Corticelli knitting, per %oz ball 30 OOKS AND EYES—PER GRO No : BI’k & “White. = “ 3 “ 2 | 10 “ 33 vin No 2—20, M C....... 50 |No4—15 F 3%...... 40 7 ee --45 i No 2 White & BI. 2 No 18 White & Bx. 20 “ 4 ! “ 6 “ 8 |= 2 12 “ i) SAFETY PINS. Bee os Oo ieee. ccc > se... fg a Turkey red %..... 7 - ee ee cee 9%| Martha — NEEDLES—PER M. ' - 24 ...... 0 Turkey red.. _o A. pees... 1 S0|Steamboat.... ...... 40 - “* 3-4XXXxX 12 |Riverpo nt robes.... 5 Crowely’s “a 35) cee Myee,........- 150 Cocheco —_ tees 6 | Windsor av ne 6% | Marsha ' I a A 1 00) a madders... 6 | gold ticket Sie sini OIL CLOTH. «XX twills.. 6%] indigo cool eee 10% | +225 6—4...3 25)5—4....195 6—4...2 9% e potids...... 54) | “A 910 + ew Tr CRINGE. | COTTON TWINES. Amoskeag ACA....i5 IAC A..... ......... 12% | Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua. an | Hamilton Oe co 7%) Se SAA... ee PC 12 Rising Star 4- ply.. 3 | Cs ee ..10% | Dee ........... 18% % 3-ply....17 } - Awning..11 iSwift River......... 7% | Anchor. 6 (orth Bias... .....- 20 | ok oc eee BS irene River......... 12% | Bristol . -.+e13 |Wool Suandard 4 ply1?% | First Prize.......... ee eree........--... 14 | Cherry Valley. iene, 1S (PowhSiten ......... | Lenox PO ein earn 18 Coe 13 COTTON DRILL. PLAID OSNABURGS. i. D........-. 6% —, A seeeeees SA sess 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6% | Clifton, K settee eee %| oo. a vests + -* 7H | | Alamance........... 6%|Oneid eee 5 stot cree ees 74\Top of Heap........1 Augustaj............ 7%| PCOS 20... 6005. BAe SATINES. Bee een... ye |Randelman one done -s Simpson Seth sie eeed SP Meas... 1) Ceeee....-......5- 634) Pen MAO i win ony 5% UI oes ecee nie 5% eee Be 6% = 16 P cevenw eeu code 10% i Haw Biver........- it Etec, Coechco...... ......10% Hi ae SIX-CORD | Spool Cotton WHITE, BLACK AND COLORS, Hand and Machine Use. FOR SALE BY P, STEXETER & SONS. Spring Season 1891, eoeen( ees If You desire to sell Carpets by Sample Send for Cirevlar and Price hist, —o—— Smith & Santora, GRAND RAPIDS. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & C0, Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CARPETS, CURTAINS. Shirts, Pants, Oueralls, ts. Elegant Spring Line of Prints, 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, - - MICH. AWNINGS AND TENTS. en ane a oan . Covers, Beat Shades, Large Clothing, Wide Ootton Ducks, ete. a ie Illustrated Catalogue. CHAS. a = 11 Pearl Street. elephone 106. g-— 3-— THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Two Price Evil. From the Commercial Bulletin. There is nothing that tends so much to increase trade among country mer- chants as politeness and fair dealing. Every time a merchant cuts his price to | acustomer there is danger. B’s money is just as good as A’s, and when B hears that A purchased an article at C’s store fifty cents less than he did, heis naturally incensed, and if he does not withdraw his trade entirely, he will at least do so partially, so that the loss may be a ser- ious one to the merchant. One price to all should be the motto. It is, of course, proper to consider ex- ceptions to this rule. The customer who pays promptly and buys large bills of goods is undoubtedly entitled to buy cheaper than the man who pays but once a year, and it is the privilege of the mer- chant to recognize this fact. In making a second price to customers of this’sort, he should be careful to make no reduc- tions that he cannot consistently admit to any customer that he may have. Every customer should know that he can buy cheaper for cash than he can for credit. A country merchant often has many difficult things to contend with when he comes to enforce this rule. Heis anxious to make every sale possible, especially when cash is offered, and he will always have to deal with the man who makes an offer. A suit of clothes has been sold some morning to a good customer for $20. That isafair price, and the merchant has made $3 or $4. A customer presents himself later in the day and offers the merchant $18 in cash for the same suit. The merchant really eannot afford to lose the sale although it cuts the profits to almost nothing; it reduces his stock and gives him money that will aid in paying for goods that he is compelled to give long credit on. He remembers that he has sold one cash customer the same suit for $20, but he feels that he must make the sale and generally does. There is great doubt whether he did wrong in such an instance. His price to the first customer was fair, and it was through no voluntary act of his that he sold the second one cheaper. He was compelled to do so or lose the sale. When a customer enters a store and asks for a cap and the merchant gives his price as a certain figure, but says, “IT will let you have it for so much,” the ease is different and he is near the dan- ger line. The cut he is making is vol- untary on his part and the customer soon comes to believe that the merchant has two prices for his goods and is not re- liable. The rule should be, therefore, to treat all customers as near alike as possible. If the evil of two prices cannot be wiped out entirely, there can be no improve- ment. It will pay merchants to experi- ment with this. S.A. Morman WHOLESALE Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio LIM &, Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CEMENTS, Stueeo and Hair, Sewer Pipe, FIRE BRICK AND CLAY. Write for Prices. 20 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS. Grand Rapids Electrotype Co., KLECTROTY PERS STEREOTYPERS, And Manufacturers of Leads, Slugs, Brass Rule, Wood and) Metal Furniture, 6 and 8 Erie St.. GRAND RAPIDS. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. TE ee 60 OO ee 40 Omtrnen RONMIBO. p-9) eentiege Tegmetion |... 50&10 AXES. First Quality, 6.8. hromee.................. $750 iD Oe ome. 3... cs. 12 00 ' OO ce a 8 50 " 7 eee... 13 50 BARROWS. dis. Meneee... ce 8 14 00 Capen... net 30 00 BOLTS, dis. ee ete eee eee c cece ec ckec — ae nee ee. ee meee ees ee ase d us Gee reve crac cn vese ce wee ce cces sc cece 40610 Sleigh mes... 70 BUCKETS. Won pee $350 ee ee a 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. EEE Ee TO& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60410 Wirocelst case fad... ws... 60&10 Wreugmt Teh... 60&10 Wroueut Inette Biad....................... 60&10 Wanieot hraee. Ct 75 nine Cis. TO&10 Biing, Parkers............ ee eee eee 7&10 Bite Soper ee. 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackie, list April t7, "G5. .......... 40 CRADLES. reheat ee ertecs semesa eens . dis, 50&02 CROW BARS. Cee Ree perb 5 CAPS. Bivsi ee ....... ss... per m 65 re ee 60 ack eee eee e 60 CARTRIDGES, re... 50 Cosmet ere... dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. Socket Firmer ia 70&10 OE TO0&10 POCOR ON TO&k10 Bogen eee... .-...... 7O&10 Butcher Tanwed Pirmicr............ ...... 40 COMBS, dis. i Dawrenee se... 3.25... 1.4... 40 Oe 25 CHALK, White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@i2% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 30 “ Pixie, 14556, 2000 ...............- 28 Cold Rolled, 14256 and 14x00.... ........... 25 Cota Honed te45........................... 25 eee . 27 DRILLS. dis. Movsou Bat Stocks. ...................... f 50 "Taper and sivaigot Shank................... 50 Monee ss Waren seene... ws... i" 50 DRIPPING PANS. Seal aves, ser pound ...................... or eres eines, bor pOUIG................ ..,.. 6% ELBOWS. oe doz. net % eee dis. 20&10&10 AGromoree................... ed . dig. 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clagk’s, seaall, S18: ideee, GG................ 30 Fves', 1. 818: 3 Ot. 2 Gee 25 sith get List, dis. ee 60&10 Now American.............................. 60&10 aes ~— ye ii a rad Baie........................ 5 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20:122 and 24; 2% and 2%; 27 28 List 12 13 14 15 18 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...........-.... 50 HAMMERS. Maydole se. Pm p-5) i hc i ce ts css 25 Yerkes & yi” ee dis *40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. ...30c 40&10 HINGES. oe Castes... dis.60&10 meee ee es per doz. net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 In. 4% 14 and Oe 3% Screw Hook and Bye, 4 se elie ods eee net 10 a. net 8% - : - . bees sd coer aes teee net 7% - = . ...... net 7% CO dis. 50 HANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Champion, anti friction.................... 60&10 Btoger wooed tack ......................... 40 HOLLOW WARE. IEEE 60 OE 60 Ee 60 Cras Oramieiog. :...............-............ 40&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware.................... Bow lst = (homed See Were. ..).......,.-.....-,--.: Granite Fron Ware ............... new list iireai0 WIRE G0O0D8. dis. a... 70&10&10 Herew yee cll 70&10&10 —... lr... -70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Hyes............... 70&10&10 LEVELS dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’ a 70 KNOBS—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ...........-.. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 | Door, porcelain, plated trimmings. . : 55 Door, porcelvin, trimmings......... ee 55 Drawer and Shutter, porecontin _........... 70 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 | Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s................... 55 | OO 55 Berea _...-......-.--...........-. 2... 55 MATTOCKS. Aeee ee... $16.00, dis. 60 Mune Bye............................. $15. 00, dis. 60 Pare... ee. SC. .. $18.50, dis. =" Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘handled ee Meese 50 MILLS dis. Coffee, ena cos... .... ......_........ 40 & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40 ie Fr eg Ferry & C Ie ec... 40 io 25 MOLASSES GATES. dis. mecrniire Fatiem.... 5. wk 60&10 meen in a Gengime........................... 68&10 Enterprise, self-measuring.............-.... Y_AILS meee) mage WOee 4... ce fe. 1 85 ECO eee 2 20 Advance over base: Steel. Wire. me. c. Base Base 10 20 20 30 35 35 . 40 2 50 ‘ 65 <. 90 1 00 1 50 SS at 2 00 Fine3 .......... 1 50 2 00 —o |. ......... -.--. .-.---. 60 90 . : ee 6 ee ee ae ca wee a vs) 1 00 7 90 13 Finish 0. a 85 1 00 1S se 1 50 Cc line hi ar SS $f 75 90 6s 1 00 Barrell % ee Le 2 50 PLANES. dis. Ondo Tool Co.'s, fancy .................--.-- @4) eee Qh) Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................- @) Donen, feet qualicy.............-............ @60 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. . .... &10 PANS. wey, Bowe ...............-......-...... dis.G0—10 Common, poliahed bbe enc ceee see cece-- dis. 70 RIVETS. dis. ey 40 Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. **A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 ‘““B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken packs 4e per pound extra. ROPES. Siesl, 46 neh ane Ieewer .......... 1.2... 1, eee 11% SQUARES, is. Reaper Sm OM i, 75 Try and Bevels ee eee ee ee eee ee a5 Mee 20 SHEET IRON, Com. Smooth. Com oe f0te BH 2 83 10 ie 420 3 20 Pree, S000. ..... 4... 4 20 3 20 a e......................... 4 20 3 30 a Be ade cee cess se a= 3 40 ee 3 50 4 6 ai sheets No. 18 and lighter, over ® inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. Tint sect 1 .. . dis. 50 SASH CORD. Silv er Lake, Were As ............. list 50 Co a c 55 ’ Weise fa. . 50 " Oia Oo... ... ls... r 55 - Wee O........... ’ 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS, Bali Be per = has SAWS. - TRO * 99 Silver Steel Dia, X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 ‘6 Special Steel Dex X Cuts, perfoot.... & ‘¢ Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, perfoot.... 30 ‘“ Champion and Electric Tooth X Cute, Vee TOee 30 TRAPS. dis. Steel, Game. — Oneida ¢ ‘ommunity, Newhouse’ TG Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. 7 Mcese, Choker... ..- 18¢ per doz Mouse, delusion..................... @ 50 new Gas. WIRE. dis. F innate aa _ a Annealed Market. a eS ..70—10 Copperea Market... 60 pe 62% Copperea Siting Sicel.....................; 50 Barbed Fence, —- Dee du eee elec. 3 40 | 2 85 HORSE NAILS. Au pepee......... . dis. eo Pe . 05 Noetiworter:.............-....._.. dis. 10&10 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 I ee ek eee 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,. i 75 Coe’s Patent, malleable. . MISCELLANEOUS. dis. ees Cheese Pumps, Cistern............-..+.. eee “5 Secure New lee 7O&10 Coasters, Meda d Fiste.................. —— Dampers, American. oe Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel ‘goods. Lue oe 68 METALS, PIG TIN. Par anee... . 26¢ ae ee 28¢ ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 24¢c per pound. Geo pound GAamA.... 2... 8... 6% Per pee ¢ SOLDER. cer ee cee 56 nea vis... 15 The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY Coen. per pound . i ec TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, C harcoal. eee eke $750 CE bette cee wees eee cae. 7 50 10x14 1X, Meee eee 9 2 14x20 IX, pe 9 25 Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Chare —.............. $6 50 14x20 IC, oe i ei 65 10x14 7. o 8 00 14x20 IX, gS Each additional X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, — Were .............. 6 50 14e001x, “ OO 8 5 20x28 IC, . J... 13 50 14x20 IC, Aliewey Grade..........: $7 14x20 IX, TT etc, T WD 20x28 IC, ba . r 12 00 20x28 IX, c C - 15 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. i Ie..... Lowe cae $14 oo 14x31 z e a a oe. =i vi a a ie 15 14x56 or No. 8 Boilers, mz - Muskegon—C. C. Moulton, Trustee, has foreclosed the mortgage on the A. C. Truesdell general stock. aying Gards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 So. Ionta St., Grand Rapids. ——OUR—— ON COFFEE CABINET MERCHANTS: This cabinet contains 120 one-pound packages of It will serve to dress up your store. Just the thing from which to retail groceries. LION Coffee for Sale Everywhere. Lion Coffee. AND BY THE WOOLSON SPICE C0,, Toledo, 0. HERE STANDS ISHING TACKLE o— AND == SPORTING GOOD HEADQUARTERS. SPALDING & GO. SUCCESSORS TO L.. S. MILL. & CO. Importers, Manufacturers]i and Jobbers of Sporting & Athletic Goods, 100 Monroe St, AQ, 42 & 44. N. lonia St Grand Rapids, Mich., April 8, ’91. Having sold to Foster, Stevens & Co., of this city, our entire stock of sport- caw | | SN: a ‘ N\’ i; ing < 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 sarrying on the sporting goods business our patrons will find their interests will be well protected in 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 Wood- 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. OSTERZAT EVENS & GC: MONROR ST. 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # 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, Ionia. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. Meetings for 1891—Ann Arbor, May 5; Star Island (Detroit) July 7; Houghton, Sept.1; Lansing Nov. 4. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw. Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. | Third Vice-Presideut—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit. Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in October, 1891. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott Regular Meetings—First We dnesday evening of March, June, September and December. Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Sapeetien. resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. President, F. W. R. Perry; Secretary, E. S. anderson. ae Drug Clerks’ Assoc iation. President C.S. Koon; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler. Self-Conceit. A merry-hearted little = Once, in the time of long g0, Came from a i hig To our poor cot with ce nee os : And as he raised his baby eyes And saw the c His face lit Up W it Bit “Oh, see how tall I’ve grown!” | A - wi ni - ‘thin ks Because his cei Mi Ane C. PoMERoy. So In the Line of Pharmaceutical Progress. | From the American Druggist. Much might be said about most med- icinal preparations from the point of view of their relative utility, as measured by their stability, expense of manufac- ture, and therapeutic effects, or their practicability as regards flavor, ease of dosage and administration, and facility of combination with other agents; but how seldom do we see attention given to these matters by the writers of pharma- ceutical essays? It may be thought by some that it is hardly to be expected that one whose business it is to acquire money from the profits of preparing and dispensing such articles should look upon the cheapening of medicines as an object to be sought after; butis this a correct view? How is that ‘“‘patent” medicines have acquired such a hold upon the general public that they form a} large part of the stock of the retail pharmacist, and have become so common- ly used that even the fancy stores and groceries handle them? Has ‘‘Hundred Doses for a Dollar” much todo with it? What is it that underlies all this com- | motion regarding ‘‘cut prices” but the} natural tendency of most people to get what seems to be best for the least} expenditure of money? We say ‘‘seems,” because the real value is beyond the appreciation of the public at large, which is usually led and swayed by fallacious and bombastic advertisments. Yet even in the legitimate lines of the pharma- ceutical profession the question of cost is bringing about many radical changes. The retail pharmacist who attempts to manufacture his own pharmacopceial preparations is confronted with necessity of cutting down the profit upon their sale, until it is almost microscopic, in order to complete with manufacturing pharmacists who profess to be able to offer preparations far superior to those recognized by the pharmacopeia and put upon the market, and induce physi- cians to prescribe them—preparations which they themselves invent and control by patents and trade marks. One of the first things considered by any manufac- turer is the cost of producing; and the price of the product to often fixed so low thatitis only by a studious attention to details and methods, by buying on the most favorable terms and utilizing every by-product, that a profit is gained. The retail pharmacist holds a much more difficult position, in so far as he is unable to purchase his raw materials in large quantities, and, so far as official preparations are concerned, is restricted | by legal requirements which prevent him | from deviating far from the ingre- dients, processes, and standards of the Pharmacopeia. While the proprietor not the business | the | | of a secret or trade-mark preparation lis able to vary the composition of |the article to which the trade mark applies or the composition of which | is his secret, the regular pharmacist has no such opportunity. The manufacturer | has no occasion to deal in anything which he does not find profitable, while the | retailing apothecary is compelled to keep |a great many things besides postage stamps which, in the long run, do not | pay for the investment and expense of handling. And there is the more oc- easion for such modification of official forms for medicaments as will cheapen the cost of manufacture, increase their therapeutic value, and permit them to be sold with profit at a price which will compete with the horde of cheap nos- trums, whenever these conditions are to be consistently attained. Another factor has become prominent of late years in the enormous consumption | of synthetic products which are con- trolled by comparatively few individuals and are correspondingly lessening the consumption of remedies of natural |origin. For example, nota tithe of the opium and morphine is now used for the relief of pain and preduction of sleep that were employed before some of the |new anodynes and hypnotics were dis- covered. And nearly every month witnesses the advent of other artificial substances which more or less effectually replace remedies to which we have been | accustomed and which are as common |property as all other articles of com- merce. The reason for this substitution |may partly be the natural love for |novelty, partly the manner in which they are advertised; but there can be | little doubt that the fact of their being more uniform in composition, and | cheaper as regards the effect produced in | proportion to the amount required, has {something to do with the change. To compete with these the remedies derived from natural sources have got to be cheapened, rendered more uniform in composition, and prepared in such forms as facilitate their administration. To do | this is the business of the pharmacist, jand, unless it be done, one synthetic |;product after another will supplant, /sometimes not one only, but a number | of the articles of our old materia medica, until the bottles of tinctures and fluid extracts, syrups and mixtures, will serve rather as shelf ornaments and relics of | the past than as containers of remedies | actually in demand. | It has been considered the correct thing among ultrapharmacists to decry elixirs, and the revisers of our Phar- |; macop@ia have been reluctant hitherto ito admit them to its hallowed precincts; but the elixir has not only come, but, | will stay until its mission is accom- | plished. Like other novelties, it was abused while it was in fashion, and some of the compounds which were better evidence of ingenious polyphar- macists than of pharmacological wisdom have failed to survive their premature birth; but the elixir, as a model, has |many good features, while its bad ones offer troublesome problems than some which attend the question of **standardization.’’ The tablet triturate which Dr. Robert | M. Fuller gave so freely to the pharma- ceutical world, might have made the fortune of any one who would have controlled its manufacture by a patent and had business tact; but what ad- vantage are pharmacists generally de- riving from it now that its use is unres- tricted? While it affords opportunities for accurate dosage, rapidity and facility of manipulation, simplicity of apparatus and cheapness of production, its manu- |facture on any considerable scale | limited to afew, and the number who use it at all is not much greater. less is —_— >_>. > Even the very ablest, most laborious |} and most useful of men cannot afford to make enemies right and left of high and low. Virulent enemies are made by ; Sharp words more than by any other means. If you allow yourself what is doubtless to some dispositions the luxury of an unbridled tongue, you will have to pay forit. Some day the enemies you | make will have the innings, and may trip | you up, How They Do Things in China. When a Chinaman expects a present and it does not come, he sends one of lesser value. A previous acquaintance between the male and female prevents them from marriage. For this reason a man seldom weds a girl of his town. Men wear long petticoats and carry fans, while the women wear short jackets and carry canes. Boats are drawn by horses, carriages move by sails. If a Chinaman desires the death of an enemy he goes and hangs himself upon that enemy’s door. It is considered a sure way to kill not only that particular enemy, but mem- bers of his entire family will be in jeop- ardy of losing their lives. When a China- man desires a visitor to dine with him he does not ask him to do so; but when he does not wish him to stay he puts the |question: ‘*Won’t you stay and dine | with me, please?” The visitor will then know he is not wanted. In China one ean always borrow money on the strength of having a son, but nobody would ad- vance him a cent if he had a dozen daughters. The former is responsible for the debts of his father for three gen- erations, the latter is only responsible for the debts of her own husband. Old men play ball and fiy kites, while chil- dren fold their arms and look on. Old women, instead of young, are the idols of society. Love making is only done only three days before marriage. It is not considered the safest way to get ahead of a rival, but the surest way to get a wife without losing much time. A rich man’s servant gets no salary, yet many are the applicants; while big salaries are paid to the servants of the common peo- ple, but few make applications. The perquisites of the former often more than triple the salaries of the latter, which is the sole reason of these differences. To encourage honesty and sincerety, con- fidential clerks and salesmen in all branches of industry receive an annual net percentage of the firm’s business, besides their regular salary. There is food for reflection in all this, and the heathen Chinee can give the Christian many sensible points in a business way. cnt a tn The Ginger Habit. ‘“Essence of ginger contains a greater percentage of alcohol than whiskey,’’ said a pharmacist, ‘‘and the ginger drunkard goes to the devil morally and physically at a proportionately swifter rate than does his brother-in-arms of the whiskey persuasion. People with an hereditary taste for alcohol, who have always religiously eschewed stimulants, are those who most readily fall victims to the terrible ginger habit. But there are very many unfortunates who acquire the habit through taking essence of ginger for medicinal purposes. It will be an unhappy day for any nation when the manufacture and sale of wholesome wine and beer and whiskey shall be prohibited. Those articles of con- sumption are just what they purport to be, and the people who consume them are able to measure the relative benefit and injury of their use. But with essence of ginger the case is different. It is the wolf in sheep’s clothing, which devours them before they have discovered its true character.’’ ————_ <4 Thioketon. Thioketon is anew compound. Itisa monosulphurtted aceton. It is said tobe the most evil-smelling of known sub- stances, having an odor in comparison with which that of sulphuretted hydro- gen and ae is coma Adulteration of German Chamomile Flowers. German chamomile flowers are report- ed to be adulterated with closely resem- bling composite flowers, especially may- weed, which grows so plentifully on marshy places in this country. They can be easily detected, however. The German chamomile has a smooth, coni- cal, hollow receptaele, free from chaff, while the receptacle of the may-weed or dogs-chamomile is conical but not hollow, and is covered with chaff. > Cement for Iron. Pieces of iron can be firmly united to each other, it is said, without the aid of heat, by painting their opposed surfaces with a mixture of six parts of sulphur, six parts of white lead, and one part of borax, mixed with sulphuric acid, and pressing them together. The process requires a week for its completion, after which the cemented pieces will adhere so closely that their jancture will be im- perceptible, and they cannot be ham- mered apart. ns No Longer a Bachelor. Fred D. Stevens, the Detroit druggist, leaves the ranks of bachelordom on the evening of June 10, when he will wed Mrs. Sarah A. Gilbert. The ceremony will take place at 62 Sheldon avenue, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Kay. Mr. Stevens’ many friends among the trade will join with THe TRADESMAN in wish- ing him a long life of happiness. oO The Drug Market. Quinine is firmer. Opium is steady. Morphia declined June 1 15 cents per ounce. Linseed oil is lower. Wood al- cohol has advanced 10 cents. Russian cantharides have declined. Oil erigeron has advanced. ——~<- 2 <-—__—_—— Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. HEADQUARTERS FOR Brilliant Colored Fireworks Flags, Lanterns, Toy Pistols, Paper Caps, Fire Crackers, Torpedoes, and all ho Jl Goods and Exhibitions Supplied on short notice. Send for price list. The most complete assortment in Michigan. FRED BRUNDAGE, 21, 23, 25 & 27 Terrace St, MUSKEGON, = a MICH. 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, Opp. New Post Office. 117 W. Western Ave. Muskegon, Mich. through the TH Ei WHEN CIGAR. Dealers who once had a strong demand for the celebrated ‘‘ WHEN ” cigar will be pleased to learn that the brand is again in the market and can be obtained LUSTIG CIGAR CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. J. LUSTIG, Proprietor, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Oil erigeron. Declined—Cantharides, morphia, linseed oil. ACIDUM. OE ——————— 10 Benzoicum German.. soo! 90 moe sg... coeeercum ......--..- 23@ Me os es. oc. 58@ _ 60 Hivcrochier ........... 3@ aoe «=... ...-..... 10@ 12 eee 11@ 13 Phosphorium dil..... Salicylicum .... 1 40@1 80 Sulphuricum... 1%@ 5 Qo a ..-1 40@1 60 Prerecum............ @ 4 AMMONIA, —> a 34@ ee ee 54@ 7 ‘neces Boe eae 122@ 14 Chloridum ............ 12@ 14 ANILINE. mie... a... 2 00@2 25 Pooem...............:- 80@1 00 ie .....,............ Oo ee 2 BACCAE. Cubeae (po. 90)...... 90@1 10 — a 8@ 10 thoxyium......... 2% 30 BALSAMUM. Copeipe ..............- 55@ 60 ee @1 7 Terabin, Canada ....- 35@ 40 Tolutan’ eee 35@ 50 CORTEX. Abies, Canadian............ 18 ————————————e i Cinchona Flava ............ 18 Euonymus atropurp........ 30 Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 Prunus Virgini.............. 12 Goltate, erd....... 14 Sassafras 14 Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10 EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ = 14 15 17 Carbonate Precip. ..... @ 15 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Citrate Soluble........ @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol. . @ Solut es a @ _ 7 FLORA. ee 18@ 20 Ay Geis ......--0-+-- 20@ 25 Maticaria (i: :- 2@ 30 FOLIA Barosm: W@ 38 Casta. “Acuilfol, “Tin- mreeue ............-- 25@ 28 ° Ix. 3@ 30 Salvia officinalis, 4s Oud 1468.............- 12@ 15 4 Tae... .- es 8@ 10 GUMMI. Acacia, ist picked.... @1 00 . 2d . — @ r 3d as @ 80 ' - sorts.. @ 6 Be alain W5@1 00 | ( Aloe, 4 (po. 60)... 50@ 60 . Cape, (p po. 20).. @ 12 ‘6 Socotri, (po. 60). @ 50 Catechu, is, (4s, 14 ms 16 Ue cae cepoues @ Ammoniae ............ 25@ 30 ‘jena. (po. 30) .. @ Ww Benzoinum...........- W@ 55 Camphore............- 2@ 55 Euphorbium po ...... 35@_ 10 Galbantim...........-- @3 00 Gamboge, po.........- 80@ 95 Guaiacum, (po 40) ... @ i Kino, (po. 25)....----> @ 2 aes... .....-..... @ Myrrh, (po. sy ..--._- @ 40 Opil, (po. 3 ae)... 2 W@2 23 Shellac ie Coe oe . pleached.. a 23 33 Tragacanth ..........- 30@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. re... 25 TW AROETIE «oo. oe eee es ce 3 PE oa oh tec ee ence owes se 25 Majorum 28 Mentha Piperita 23 Vir 25 oe... +. oO Teaneoetum, ¥..............- 22 Thymus, V......-.....-.---- 25 MAGNESIA, Calcined, Fas.......... 55@ 60 Carbonate, Pat........ 2@ 2 Carbonate, K.& M.... 2@ 2 Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36 OLEUM Abeiniwiam. .....-.-- 5 00@5 50 Amygdalae, Dulce... .. Amydalae, Amarae....8 ae. ........--- Auranti Cortex Bergamli ...... 3 o Oe e+ 7 3 » aryophy -1 00@ Cedar cess ee | Coenewodn ........... @2 00 Cinnamonil ...........- 1 15@1 20 Cuperee............. - SSS Exechthitos........... 90@1 00 Bvigeron .......- ooo-0 SOQ? OO Gemithere ............ 2 00@2 10 Geranium, ounce..... 7 Gossipil, Sem. gat... @ Hedsoma 0000000, 1 85@2 00 Umi oOr............... 50@2 00 Lavenauin ...........- 90@2 00 ee ee 2 50@3 10 Mentha Piper... ...... 2 90@3 00 Menthe Verid......... 2 50@2 60 Morrhuae, gal......... 1 —- 10 _— ounce. ........ Rosmarini..... OeaG, OUNMCO.......... PeOCIE. 6... Pepene 2... Bemeas Sassafras...... Sinapis, ess, ounce.. Miglii pt TheGnrameas........... POTASSIUM. Bt Care. 15@ 18 EGHTOMAID ........... 13@ 14 PHNOM. oo. coe ne tone 387@ 40 are... 2R@ 15 Chlorate, (po. 16)...... 14@ 16 Cyemae .... 50@ 55 teaeie................. 2 80@2 90 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 30@ 33 Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15 Potass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 Posmes Mitrag.......... 7] Proasese .............. 30@ 33 RUIpease pO........... 15@ 18 RADIX. Aconwnm ..........._. 25 Almeae. 8... 2 30 os .............. 12@ 15 ieee, BO... ..,. @ 5 a... ........ 20@ Gentiana, (po, 15)..... 10@ 12 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 oo Canaden, oo oo @ 3% He eens. Ala, po.. 15@ 20 Pacie, po.............. 15@ 2 Ipecac, pe... 2 40@2 50 Iris plox (po. dalapa, pr..... Maranta, \4s.. — po. ne aad oo | @e........ w Beeeore ........_...... Sanguinaria, (po 25).. 20 OO ae 45 Pe @ 55 Similax, Officinalis, H 40 M @ ® Selliae, (po. H)........ 10@ 12 oo Feeti- Gus be.....,........ @ 3 Valeriana, Eng. (po. ™ @ % German. 15Q 2 eee 6............. 10@ 15 Zane j........... 2R2®@ SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20). Beat (graveleons).. @ QQ 2 aaa 6 Carul, (oe, 18) ........- 12 Cardamon eee cdese cuss 1 og 25 Coriangvem........... 10@ 12 Cannabis Sattva....... 4 Ae 5 tydonium.. detcuce 1 00 C eno odium aes 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate...... 2 00@2 25 Wocwseaiea........... @ 15 ——— ....... 8 Set eee aede tas 4@4% Lint, grd, (bbl. 3%)...4 @4% Lobel ia 5@ 40 — Canarian.... 3%@ 4% ee 6@ 7 Sinapis, A Albu.. — 2. §¢ Pere. ....... 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., mg Co..2 00@2 50 eR... 1 7%5@2 00 eee 1 10@1 50 Juniperis Co. O. T....1 75@1 75 “6 i . 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E. 1 75@2 00 Spt. Vini Galli 1 75@6 50 Vini Oporto... 1 25@2 00 Wit Ae... 6... 1 3@2 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool COITINNO, 2. is... 8.8 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ ar Ooreinee ............ 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage....... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ Oerriaes.........-... 85 Grass sheeps’ wool Car- Weeee ...........,..., 65 Hard for slate use. v Yellow Reef, for slate MO i es 1 40 SYRUPS. meee ............. 1... 50 50 60 50 — — eeese crise. Oe moe Arie,.......... . oo Similax ‘Ottidinalis Od eceuee 60 Oe... 50 ee eS ae 50 PO okies ee wed 50 “ 50 50 50 11 Morphia, S. P. & W...2 05@2 20 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 2%] Lindseed, boiled . 54 57 ak. ¥. 4.4 _—- Leib wale coe uses @ 18| Neat’s Foot, winter COO, 1 — math hee. @ S| Stramecd....._.. Moschus Canton...... 40 — Maceaiiey, De Spirits Turpentine 4344 50 Myristica, No. 1....... no % aS ee @ 3 Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10 snuff, ead. De. Voes @ 35| PAINTS. bbl. Ib. Os Sepia 38 | Soda Boras, (po. 13). . 12@ 13] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 TINCTURES. — Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 30@ 33 | Ochre, yellow a 1% 2@4 ee ee. = O08 | Sede Cam... .......- 14%@ * er......1% 2@3 — eet: . Picis Liq, N. G., i gai * Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ Putty, commercial... .24 2403 oe Be OM eee @2 00 | Soda, Ash....220002... 34@ 4 « “strictly pure... 244 24@3 . waa go | Picis Lig., quarts ..... @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... 2| Vermilion Prime Amer- Waa rit 50 " pints ....... @ 8%/ Spts. Ether Co........ 50 cS tae 13@16 ea _ Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80) .. @ 50 “ “Myreia Dom..... @2 25| Vermilion, English.... T0@75 Atrope Belladonna a 60 Piper Nigra, (po. 22) .. G i e Myrcia ip... .. @3 00; Green, Peninsular..... TOQI™5 ——.. )| Piper Alba, (pog5).... @ 3 | * Vini Rect. bbl. ia a........... M4 Se 4 Pix Burgun...... ! a @2 37} white ........... @Gi4 ios, 5p | Plumbi Acet .......... 15| Less 5e gal., cash ten days. | Whiting, white Span.. @70 ei riirtttrtsssests 2) Pulvis Ipecac et opif..1 101 20 | Strychnia Crystal..... @1 30| Whiting, Gilders’...... @% aan | Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Subl......... 3 @4 | White, Paris American 1 00 aa “1 | > &P: D. Co., doz..... @1 25 oe 4@ 3%| Whiting, Paris Eng. Ta Nae Tata an ot sousivecen, pv...) Sag! So) Wamarinda |. “40 CE ee ua .< | Granta 8@ 10] Terebenth Venice..... 230 30 | Pioneer Prepared Paint1 20@1 4 199 | Quinia, S. P. & W..... 33Q@ 36 Tacokeamane a 56 | Swiss Villa Prepared _ oe = S. German....24 @ 30 _.9 oot oo: Paiea............... 1 00@1 20 Cinchona ee ete 50 Rubia Tinctorum..... 22@ 14 Huet a. —.-.. a 3 VARNISHES. MERUIELTE coe ec cree eseesessces Saccharum Lactis pv. @ 33 N So 60 i a o.1Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 50 | Salacin................ 1 80@1 85 . | extrem Prine. ........... 160@1 70 56 | Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal] Coach Body........... 2 75@3 00 : _. | Bp) oemsonane _.........- @A 50 | Whale, winter........ 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10 Digitalis 50 Lard, extra........... 55 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 ee 50 Tard No. f......-._.. 45 50; Japan Dryer, No. i’ Gentian ae 50 Linseed, pureraw.... 51 54 | Gen. .:..-........... 70@ 75 TA oc ee cecedeued. a. 60 Gusicn 8, 50 | - Seen... 60 [ a See ee 50 PVOSCVEMIUA 2.6... 50 foeree. 5 iy Cohoriogg. ... 2.2... .. 7 Merri Ciiloridum............ 35 Ki 50 es 50 Beyer. ........... 4... 50 Nan Vewses................ 50 Opii ee eed eee 85 * Camphorated....... oe — Weeder. ......_........ 2 00 @ Avrent Cortex...... ....... 50 : -enene Dee cedecetcse cee 50 cele Importers and Jobbers of Cassia Acutifol.. cee OM Ce 50 Serpents ... 2... 50 meruipeniam,...............- 60 aasacan Oe Weleriee ........ w. 50 ‘Veratrum Veride............ 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ Ww ‘ oc “ay. 30@ Avowaon ..............- 24@ 3 . ground, (po ce. 3@ Annaetio........ - BSD Antimoal, .......... 4 6&6 et Potass T. 55@ 60 —— etc tse eeu ue @1 40 Anifenrm............. @ Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 66 so ............ 5 " Balm Gilead Bud..... 388Q@ 4 Bimini &. N......... 2 10@2 2 Calcium Chlor, 1s, (4%s8 to: ee @ 9 Cantharides Russian, B. @1 30 Capsici Fructus, af... @ 2 . [= a2 po. @ 2 Caryophyllus, 2 15) 12@ i3 5 Carmine, No. 40....... @3 7 Cera Alba, S. é F 50@ 55 38@ 40 @ 4 @ W% Ne ce, @ 10 eee... @ 42 Chloroform ........... j 60@ 63 ' squibbs .. @1 10 Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1 50@1 70 Creare ............. 2 25 Cinchonidine, raw German 3%@ Corks, list, dis. per — * a, 60 (resect ........... @ 50 Creta, (001, 7G)........ @ ¢ “ 5@ 5 ae Cyocme ....... 2 30 Cudbear.... se @ uw Cupri Sulph.. ies cteee es 7 Peer... 10@ 12 Ether Sulph.. 68@ 70 Emery, a numbers.. @ a ee etl @ ¢ Ergota, ( po.) 60 .. SE & Fiake White.......... 12@ 15 Galles ..... eee eeeyeutes @ B eee. 7@8 Gelatin, Coeper....... @ 70 Prence........ 60 Glassware flint, 70 and 10. by box 60and 10 Gine, Brows.......... 9@ 15 “ . Wite........... 1 2S Glycerina ..... .. & BS Grana Paradisi........ @ 2 Pea... 25 55 Hydraag -. Sey @ 9 @ 80 Ox te @1 CO ey Ammoniati.. @1 10 - — 44@ 55 Dverarayrom ......... @ 7 Tehthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 Page... 75@1 00 sa Reeatl........ 3 7E@3 85 Todotore @A 7 Ee gl. 385@ 40 L aan a GQ 48 eee oe. ec 80@ 85 Liquor Arsen et Hy- ere FOG. .........-. Liquor Potass ——— 10@ 12 Tae Sulph (bb. Mensa: 6.7... 66.5 CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES. DEALERS IN ‘Paints, Oils 2 Varnishes. Sele Agents for the Celebrated SWI88 WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Fall Line of Staple Droggists Sundries We are Sole Proprietors of Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy. We Have in Stock and Offer a Pull Line of WHI1SKIES, 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 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERIES. . Crandall on the Patrons. | Sanp LAKE, June 8 — Mene, mene, tekel. On Saturday, June 6, the great P. of I. store at Cedar Springs had its doors | closed by officers of the law to the tame | of about $10,000 minus. Thus ends one of the worst schemes | ever put out to catch the famers’ trade in this section—and right royally has it} plied it avocation. It is in order now, brother farmers, to}; come forward and join the funeral pro- cession as chief mourners, remembering, | as you chant the dirge heading this arti- | cle, that it was your insatiate love and knowledge of the mercantile business, your oft repeated assumption that 10 per | cent. was the sure road to success and} prosperity. Trade journals and cool business men have been assailed as the enemies of the | farmer when they have assumed that he | who sought the LP. of I. trade strictly on | a 10 per cent. basis was either a knave| or a liar—more probably both combined. It is said that ‘“‘lightning never strikes | twice in the same place.” That may be a} scientific fact, but it does not apply to} the large body of easily duped ones who continually run after a shadow and never the substance. Lightning rod venders; Boheman oat swindlers; confidential agency schemes; 10 per cent. knaves and liars—all catch their share of the unsus- | pecting public and, sooner or later, their | dupes awake to find the bubble bursted. This section of the country has paid trib- ute with willing hands and lavish purse —often leaving the old tried and true} merchant who has carried them through many a hard pinch and tight place for} the glittering bauble of the tramp mer- chant who had nothing to lose and every- thing to gain. The history of trades unions, granges and P. of I. stores in Michigan for the last eighteen years ought to be a lesson well conned by this time by an honest— but duped people. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of the farmers’ hard earned coins found their last and final resting place in the 1,100 dead grange stores of Michigan, and in the ending nearly every dollar was swallowed up in the vortex of the commercial ruin of these stores. Want of commercial knowledge, inex- perience and knavery sent these institu- tions to an untimely grave—lamented | chiefly by their deluded owners of stock. And now, behold! a new star has arisen in the East—the ‘‘Commercial Union,’’ to catch the Patrons’ dollars and strew their pathway with flowers and roses. How fortunate! how sublime! What a glorious vision looms upin the dim fu- ture—of glittering wealth and untold| prosperity for the faithful ones who pay in their dollars! Over $100,000 of the farmers’ cold cash in Michigan helped to fill up this rat hole in 1889 and 1890, and now this late edition of ‘how to be swindled,” this new rat hole will find willing dupes and earnest votaries wor- shiping at its shrine. J. V. CRANDALL. | ———“- >> a j Nervous Salesmen Urging Bad Sales, | J. M. Batchelor in Dry Goods Bulletin. Considerable complaint is being made by lady customers of retail stores, over the more or less recently developed practice of salesmen and saleswomen urging a sale of goods the customer does not want. In view of these complaints we looked into the subject and found that an odd condition of nervousness pervades the sellers, which is doing a good dealof injury to the stores that permit it. For instance, a salesman shows his customer some lawns and talks up the merits of the first he dis-| plays, and keeps on talking and mentally | urging the customer to buy what he has | in his hand, when it may not be the goods the customer wants atall. Butas the customer is not permitted by this sales- man to know what she wants, he either | talks her into buying what she don’t | want, or drives her in vexation from the store. Now if this kind of business was isolated, or the exception, we would pay no heed toit; butitis almost a general rule, particularly in the large cities in the East, and so far as we can observe, is ihe get anxious, ! | every la result of several causes which store managers may do well to note. Frst, |salesmen keep a record of sales made and are rewarded by sucha showing. | Next, rivalry is becoming an epidemic, which might not be so bad in itself, but the floorwalker’s eye is constantly on the salesman or the salesman thinks so, and nervous, heated and unreasonable with customers; unrea- |sonable in urging upon a customer what she does not want. Next, the salesman knows he will be discharged if he breaks | any of the rules, and this threat accom- | panied by the knowledge of many appli- eants waiting to take his position, keeps him in a perpetual fear that he either | will not make a sale, or will be derelict in the management’s opinion, in his duties to acustomer. All these things upset a salesman’s equilibrium, partic- | ularly if he is of a nervous temperament, | and he generally gets tired out with worry before the day’s business has fairly set in. is to blame for this state of affairs, which is growing worse season. It is to no store’s profit that a customer should have _ goods crammed down her throat that she does not want, and which make her vexed with herself when she gets home and wonders what it was that made her buy them. Of course, there are now and then customers who don’t know what they want, and require to be told; but it is not a safe procedure for a salesman to class all customers in that category. And the mischevious feature of it all is, there exists no apparent remedy for The management | errors thus made, as cut goods cannot be exchanged. Salesmen should be in- structed to yield themselves more to the customer’s mood, and instead of urging the sale of goods not wanted, exhibit more patience and determine that the customer shall be pleased with her pur- chase. Little things make stores suc- cessful. ———_ >_< >———___—— Sole Owners of the Brand. Kuppenheimer Bros. wish it distinctly understood that they are the sole owners of the well-known ‘‘Kuppenheimer’s Own” brand of cigars, which they have manufactured in this city for the past twenty years. They wish the trade to understand that no other manufacturer has any right to use the celebrated brand and that any violations of their rights will be prosecuted according to law. In- formation in regard to imitations of this brand will be thankfully received. a te Country Callers. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentleman in trade: Henry Jacobs, Constantine. W. H. Beach, Holland. Geo. T. Saunders, Rockford. A. Burton & Co., Denver. W. R. Minnick, Bailey. a HO The ewan Market. Generally speaking, nothing is ad- vancing in the hardware line, glass being the only thing which is at all firm. Shot has advanced 50 cents per Wire nails are a little weaker. —_————_—>-2-<———_—_— Only One Left. Having purchased the Chicago distil- leries of H. Schufeldt & Co. and the Cal- umet Distilling Co., the whisky trust now owns every distillery in the country but one. bag. oo The Grocery Market. Sugars are alittle cheaper. Package |eoffee is off i¥e. Cheese is a little weaker. <> “Fruit Jars Higher. Pint and quart fruit jars have advanced 75 cents per gross and half gallons are $1 higher. a 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—40¢ per doz. bu. Beans—No change in dry. #2.00 per bu. Stringis in per bu. Butter—The market is glutted, the demand be- ing small while the shipments are large. Dealers pay 10c and hold at 12¢. Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $3.00 per crate. Cucumbers—50c per doz. - Eggs—The market is steady. @15c and hold at 15@16c. Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb. Lettuce—7e for Grand Rapids Forcing New Potatoes—Early arrivals have sold at $5.75@36 per bbl. Onions—Green command 10@15c. per doz., ac- cording to size. Bermudas bring $2.00 per crate. Southern command 83.50 for 2 bu. bags. Parsnips—4v¢c per bushel. Wax commands air demand at $1.50 Dealers pay 14 Potatoes— The market is steady. Local handlers pay 90c and hold at $1. Pieplant—2c per lb. Peas—$1.50 per bu. crate. Radishes—20e per dozen bunches. Strawberries — The market is well supplied with Illinois, Ohio and Michigan berries, the price varying from 6c to 12¢ per qt. Tomatoes—$2.50 for 4 basket crate. Watermelons—Shipments of Georgia are due in two weeks. The crop isthe largest ever known. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. ee OO. 4... eke 2... se, Oe EE 12 00 mein Clear pie, OOF’ OUL.......4....0.--04.. 14 00 mace Choe, OR Vy...............,......,... Oe Sc es 13 50 es OU, PE En ee oe ee 33 % OO O_o 13 50 Standard clear, short cut, best............ 14 00 sausaGE—Fresh and Smoked. i. 7 Oe i ik ee cece cae nce en 9 Tomes SAUeNEe........ .. 6000 ce ) a lca ele 9 Pree eens... .... a, 8 ck cei tee et eee ses eae 5 OE 5 Pee, Ce 5 eee 5 LARD—Kettle Rendered. i 8% rede &l4 Oe i 8 LARD. Com- Family. pound, es in 6% Caan Ge ie. Pem........,...... 63% 63% Rib. Pails, Din & Caee.......... T™% vers 5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case. 7% 74 10 1b. Pails, 6 in a case sak 6% 20 ib. Palla, 4in & Cane. -........ 7 64% ea 6% 6% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs... Extra Mess, Chicago packing.... Eeeeet eee, Pe OE... cl SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average eee 9% ee 10 ” ee be e.. 3... 10% . mn wae Hi ™ ee ee. Shoulders...... oe ee oe Breakfast Bacon, [oT NI 8% Dried beef, ham prices | 1044 is hile edi ies ence uiew cues 6% es, oe... €% “ i ec 5% FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: = eee ................-.......; Beef, SE SS 6 @7 hind quarters bance cape cess epee cee T%@ 8% © 0 * LC. 444e@ 5 . cae, i @i2 go ea ee 11%@ " eke i ed wee dee tes awee oe 64@ 7 _ _ Oe @ (a @5 ee ee @ 8% @6 @ Sausage, blood or DT @ 5% og Nae an ST Ta ee @ 5% . Pentte @ i ee ne nn @8 Te ee a on FISH and OYSTERS. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. ic a @8 eS ee @8 a Se @15 os ee ce @5 eee. cs @9 ee i a @10 Mackerel.. Q@25 es cee se @12 California salmon @20 oYsTERS—Cans, Poe Cee... @40 SHELL GOODS. Oysters, per Os ee ee 1 50 ee ag 1 00 OILS. The Standard Oil Co, quotes as follows: a oo i @9 nc ocalbuadesnpees OE ERE E SESE OV @ 8% a — ensue canes. «canes @ 8% eked s cnowlen echo s is ues con oe @T% Guan. INE Go el gene Ss gen @ 94 Cynder ...... oedbcsetede veda eh ons cers 27 @36 I bk peices Csue rie ecee shlcs ween 13 @21 Black, Summer....cos...... nsedbeacsies @ 9% CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails, Standard, Se aS 6% % 2 EE 6% 7% Hea NE os eee ea ec ca 6% ™% WO DC nc pene. 9% Cut Loaf.. pic eeaees sce as io. 8% Extra H. ENON I eN T% 8% MIXED CANDY. Full Weight. Bb Pails 7% 1% + 8 7 8 Ty 8% i% 8% OE % 8% EE nn hcwnc cues coos neuen 7 8 romee Tees ......-........6.,.--. 1% 8% Peamuchquarcs.................... 9 eee 10 Prench Cregias.......... -........ 104% Valley Croams.........-.......... 13% FANcy—In bulk. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. Lozenges, —_— bcs eeec bees cues sane ec 10% 11% rint ~o kk 12% Chocolate Drops... .... 2.2.2.2 s0ss00 12% Chocolate Monumentals............. 14 ee 5 6% ee eee 8 9 Bete See 8% 9% ee 10% 11% Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. *Per Box en 55 eon a 55 Peppermir ao I ibibo see ide tamen ween 65 Chocolate Drops............. as oe 0 H. M. Chocolate Drops.. .-90 ee ee oe 40@50 re OE 1 00 A, Cee res... 80 Lozenges, — ok soa ee al ok oc nel 65 ere oo eee 65 ee 75 O_o 60 meee ee... 55 O_O eee 15@17 re ee ees... 85@95 ——————— nen Deca Cen... ee String Hock....... bed eee i Burnt Almonds........ Wintergreen Ce 65 ORANGES. California, =. Be ee eee 3% a 4 00 ied ooe................- 4 00 LEMONS. Messina, eee wee... 5 25@5 50 eee Oe, 3 T@6 00 _ eeeee Oe. 5 50 . eee ee... ss... 6 00 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers eke 18@19 ' . . choice @16 ‘ “ “ os @iz ' Fard, 10-lb. box chaser eres. : @10 oe ‘ @8 . pectin. me WO ci... cess i g 6 NUTS. Almonds, .. ek renee eee ees a @17 Se @16% = California pede ores sect eeee cess DBlz Besse ece......-...-..---.-.:...-..... 7%O 8 @l1 Walnuts, NE eee teen cece @11% EE ac ee a Table Nuts, No. 1. No. Pecans, Texas, H. CEN Cc ocoanuts, EE —————— 4 00 PEANUTS. Fancy, Hi. P., EE a es @ 5% 7 ‘Roasted Reka noneneie @ i Fancy, H. P., EE nn ne @ 5% = Meeeen......., 1... @ i% @ 4% @ 6 Choice, i. Pe Paes... . ss... ‘Roasted. . os HIDES, PELTS and FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as follows: HIDES. ie ee eee 4@5 OE eee @5 a ee 5 @6& eee eee deede chee 6 @7 Kips, eet cee wee cee 4@5 a lee cl 5 @6 ee 5 @56 ri ee iiss aoe PPO ONES os. et a 10 @30 No. 2 hides 3 off. PELTS. NE ccc e de cee Koken oe thane. 10 @%5 Estimated wool, per ® .............. —— oo WOOL. Se 20@28 lanes. ....... MISCELLANEOUS. I a yee ee a ee 3%@ 4 ee Wee ce 1 @2 Ee 1%@ 2 ee ae ...-8 00@2 50 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. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address PECK BROS., “Gkann Ravibs.” at eri neath THE MI vainceininiaroanitd TRADESMAN. APPLE BUTTER, Chicago goods............ 7%@8 eer —— ‘4 | | Bummer 8, foil...... 00+... , | AXLE GREASE. Hamburg.............. 2 ax | Gin ...... setteees 350. Cracked. — Ginger, African.............15 —— Hamburg.-....000000. 2 3 a ae Bea ce os ood boxes, per doz...... 80 oWhortisberries, ae 4%, | arcs Heed ales . 20 “ “ tegen oa aia ane oes +5 | FISH--Salt. bows oa per gross.. 5 Ce i ae | LOTHES LINES. B ustard, Eng. anc ete. .25 =m palls,... 2... ss... oD Blueberries ........... : = | Cotton, of... in te loaters, se ‘Trletion scenes 2 ae ceeoe as 751 MEATS. oS ie oa @FMOUER...00....---..--- | Puemess, No.2 ee | TOBACCOS. Aurora. orned beef, Libby's 2 10 | ak |. a 1 60| Cod. | Pepper, Singa Lpore, black — wy Wood boxes, per doz...... go | Roast beef, Armour Bessel mee ae wo ae zo LE LAG @6%s | white.....30 | inp a = Sos, case... 2.5 | eee Pam 4 WD..........-1 lsu, Bie 18 Bricks.-0.. 2. .ccc. TGs = 25 | er ee per gross.... 600; « Si el°o" 60 ft....... “ 90 «a mae ste ee nee (eae ee a e Ww. Diamond. “ tongue, " ae “TE 2 imu SED. “* 1 00} Smoked a 10% | “ Absolute’ in Packages. 11 a ‘ i 3D | NDENSED MILE. RR nee inte oo * 0 in? 28 | FS ood boxes, per doz ..... toi «| Chicken, % 1b... 95 Eagle............... weg 7 40| Herring. % | allspice ..... eet eseaee: 1 a «ae doz, case... 1 50 VEGETABLES. CEO 6 50 Scaled.......ssse..e0e- g4| Cinnamon........ ! 1 55 per gross.... 5 50 Beans. Genuine Swiss............ 8 60 | Holl land, Bots... 4... 11 00 | Cloves Co a Peerless. Hamburg stringless........1 25 American Swiss.........s2. 700/R sc. 75 | Ginger, Jam........... S4 155 = i. 90 i French style le.....2 25 COUPONS a ound shore, M% Aeeey 275} 4 eee oe 2 oO 8 BAKING POWDER Li Rae 1 40 ri ¢ bbl. 1 50 Mustard...... reveeees S4 155 A Acme, ¥ Ib. cans, 3 doz eee po aS aes 19) No. 1 doko a ea 84 1 55} Hi saa oa aked No. 1, % bbls. 90 Ibs........ 2 09 | DAB. ++... 8 i ‘tm “ i ‘t .+++ | 85 | Lewis Boston Baked.. a - | No. 1, kits, 10 Ibs........... ' 25 | ‘ a = “ balk, — = Bay State oo. : = Family, ager oO ihe..... | BUGAR. 24 Telfer’s i ib. ean as orld’a Wakes 95 iy cite 10 ife........ i 22 “s att Corn. ee Pollock. nas “ED @ 5% | Here It Is a a 4%. . / oe Hamburgh a 125 | | Fancy..+-+--+-.....05 3 50@4 00 a: cegttrsesaseres aie. 28 Arctic, x r cans... ees 60 TIBOR wos voee esse esse seoee 1 00 Sy EN Sete a au op Ais | Old Honesty...2002.- = ERB erie a. ea ie | “Trowt | Confectioners) As... 44-31 Hiawath = a 2 a ais a “ , a 1¥ : a ed 37 B oh Cie 9 = ec iiail Peas Tradesman.” = 1, —_- els 3 50 | Extra - ea _ § 416 | Valley City 22007. = ed Star, 4 B eans....-... 40 nburgh marrofat «....... |8 1, per hundred........... Siogd et Whiteli Se Ty -- @4~ | Jas. @. Butler & Co.'s Brands, “ * a. £0 r ake a Z.. 150) 8 - “ ee 2 50; No.1, % a 7 ine... 7 00) Ye acs 3 | 34 | Tose 1 Cie GOOG...) a7 tb eee ney 1 50 | Hamburgh pa pulp ume | 5, ts “ Ee ie 00 Less than 100 Ibs. Ke advan : Out f Si CC = BATH BRICK. fancy sifted..... t as ss 3 00 | Family, 4 bbls., 90 4 00 | pa wien s str ha st 24 2 dozen in case. ee 2 6 So 40| “ ’ kits, 10'Ibs.......-. 50/201b b or | Boss oe English te 90 Harris standard............ bt 5 00 | FLAVORING EXTRACTS. ull — boxes... 4 Bie | entice ae gis a, 12% Bristol Leta da mp | Van Camp's Marrofat “110! Jennings’ DC. pee fa te a iB a 5 Early June......1£ Lemon. Vanills ees BLUING. esas Archer’s Early a4 =» | | 2 02 folding dor... & 5 es poche ee ae Arctic, 40z ovals.......... 4 00 French ........... ..--+.-+.. 1 80 o— +1 00 1 50 bib Te in ain ee 7 00 | French Mushrooms. ead i‘ ---1 50 2 00| 40 and 50 Ib. boxes........-- as . nts, round ana 10 50 | Frene a 17218 Pace ---2 00 3 00 | Barrels pL 3, , sifting box... 275 umpkin. | $02 Hy ..-8 00 4 0 eg Ic a % | Gold Blo No. 5 a 00 ae _c.. oO Keg sii a rae | Scotch, fr Bh Peer less.. .— 2. i LOM Squash. eae eeeeeseress+--8 50 | Maccab 3 adders.........37 | Rob Roy [ 1 oz on a 4 50 Muha 0 1 30) | Half Neen. ......-......... 3 00! frenct oy, in jara........... 6) Pane ae ua. BROOMS Succotash. CS HERBS. alsin Rappee, in Jars..... 43 ees No. 2 Hurl . i ae ee ee ee 1 40 | —- eee AL a aE 15 Allen B. W Frise B a 5 | aaabaa sereeel 40 ee BS a oe ‘s Brands. iE 2 00 Ce cae tatecmsammanciad at ae | Soe eee 1d ¢ y No. 2 2 Carpet Cn $ 95 —- ee ee, 1 60} Chicago aa e Uno, —_ Lo . : 20 te ac Ul 2x ST eT | | go § ...._.... 4%4@5 B Rear r sean aas sass } avy. a el Soaeeensacen~ 50 ahi ls LAMP WICKS. | een. porn 3 00} Handmade. 2.177! Common Whisk............ "lo Wan Compa. ....600 1 10} a ae 30| Boxes je AE AL A A AC — ee 1 10 | (09 eS 40 | Kegs, English..............-. dlc ir mall spoee i. a 1 30 | a erent oa oe 4% | 40 gr. rman arehouse..... 3 25 | Hancock .............4+-.+5: 5 | Ls E. lx ce : ee 8 oo ee .o | % 1, per hundred Pere 30 | Pa eee” oe pn ee ’ __-BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, cuscotare makita 275/81 undred........... SOMA 35 | Granulated, boxes.......... 2 $1 for barrel. one ec oo | German Sweet.. eee See 18 | rT | we arte oe York Oise neces, Premium. : 2 $10, u sateen ee eee 4 00 en oi Mixed bied............ 44Q6 | Tin foil cakes, per doz.... 15 Self Rising.. Ce Uae RS eee ee = 820" a tla ataaen : 00 | Condensed, 2 doz 125 | lc a Ee 10 Bakers, per We 30 fa ee mi 38 ’ ee ee ~ nary oo. ay ee ANDLES Breakfast Cocoa...... nl ee NE rs: i Hotel, 40 on “poxes we weet cone 40 edubject to the following dis- * : i 1 65 | ror Leek ee OE PAPER & WOODENWARE ar a N. Y. or Lenawee | counts: Anchor parlor.... Maa nn 13 ee 0 ie... @10% | § - a PAPER. Paraffine Ce soy Ce @ iO” | 500 or over......... 5 per cent. Ne Stone 1 10 | Mune 6 tie a Ca Gael see) o a ee Ordinary a le ao seen m aS “ Bepost parior....-..._.._... 4 25 | ee ne 7% | lows: s fol- Ce . =e | LS “ MOLASSES i Stra ieee oe @8 : rok : ies tv stal. [SETA Www eens wee e eee ee eee CANNED GOODS. oo Sa. a Ca qe a — ae we nf 100 3-Ib. sacks...... = 92 40| -b io . a | a a ee eeee Ty ce Ut suge FISH. Swiss, imported ...... 24 = | Seyaeennt ial ea v% Cuba Baking. | sf 1 iT etn nt nase OD aldene Clams. domestic 15@ —. . 64 | Ordinary ............... 19} mig sacks. Ee . Little Neck, 1 > ee 4 io | Lamburwer............ 2 5% a Porto Rico. i Ee ag Nn a anna 2 00 | Dry Ca aa , La a 1 90 CHEWING GUM. oe > pp ae rime . wo. wide ee ee ee waa. ae ae ae Se 6% | Fancy .. 19 | 56 1b. dairy in linen bags 50 | Re Seer eto gts ale aunt er. ee Rubber, 100 lumps a 35 Boston ee ee we 7 . eect cnees 23 | 28 Ib, ao i 25 } Red Express No. x a r 5 Cove Oysters. Spruce, £300. ae 49 | CitySoda......... -..-.+-. 6 | Weir 7| xe Warsaw. Se ‘ P pieces. 49 | Soda soees 1 yIN Standard, 1 » a 1 10 i GE ee ia. | 1b: dairy im Hnen bags.. 5 | <8 Cotton shai vssaseeese 2 10 | Snider's, 4 ' loan icchan aa sues sateen 5% Extra g00d..eevese eee. e0: ac i 7 Nonna vs = > oa 10 a bay Ce 1 % City Oyster. XXX... --..--.. Bi | Choic e ape . = — = otton, No. 1.... 2.0... .seee. 22 ar, ce “ tg DAME... -- eee ee BE } d RTAR. Fancy io aii w | 56 1D. dairy bags...... % s+++2218 ol 50 quart.. 3 4 BO 36 | : “— ‘0 | Sea Island, = ie... 2 L stan gh wes 50 | Strictly pure..............- 39| One-half barre > extr Tg = : d, assorted... 40 Pienie, 1 oo... 2 00 | 5 gross params Pins. 40 oe Abeolute......... 35 barrels. 3¢ ve | 86 lb. dairy bags........... 7% — ; ice ee ee 18 ..2 00 | 2 BTOSS DOXOS....--ceewee cues } anal . ma | : et ee 17 21b _.1.-..8 Oe COCOA SHELLS. meeare |... |......3..,... 10@15 | Barrels 200............ @6 75156 lb a Rock. 4? Deena 17 Standard, — ee TT @4 aa Half barrels 200.. @3 50 | Rhein and Mani 7 i ' en ana aA : ‘i dpi ‘Gs t __ Saginaw and Man stee. WOODENWAR a a -* packages........ 7 DRIED FRUITS. Half bbls 0... D OATS. cea mo | COMMON Fine per bI..... ao | Te ee Med, oe M el, Sb............--. 3 00 COFFEE. ‘icatiate Apples. _ | Barrels 180... ........ @6 75 | | Chureh’s, Arm & Han r | (0. 3 6 00 Tomato Sauce, 31b......... 3 00 ae undried ........++.-+- @10 PICKLES ian enn ore ee ee 5 00 Siaued 216.000.0000 soo GREEN. Evaporated ........... 13 @14 Medium. aoa oe oe ails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 50 Salmon. Fair Rio. California; Evaporated. Barrels, 1,200 count. $6 75 | Taylor's... | : No. 1, three-hoop Las olumbia River, ete - 20% Blackbe Cae ae 19 Half barrels, 600 count... 3 a ee aC ap Siidat 1. sowie in 5 gr. boxes . as 16 ibe “+ ees seen 21 ack — ) Ss ch r | pure.. ee | Bowls 1Linch Cues me ——. ee So B | accansaatea olor | EBs nb ee 31 o. : a Pee 20 Half barrels, 1,200 ¢ eat : SYRUPS. . 15 a Sardings. 0 | Peaberry signees esc eeeR Pears, Sid wcaeces- 7 | 11,200 count... _ 00 | B Corn. | ee -- American ¥48.......+.++-- 5@ 6| Fair. ee oe) Pia 19 | Clay, No. 216................ 175] Half bbls. one | = “oe ee 20% | Prunes, sweet.. ..... 2 | Tt. ~ full count. ce) * 15s, 17s and 19s 2 75 Imported Ms ‘TLE RETEEAU aa oe | SUE Cob, No. : 125] 4 Pure Cane. Baskets, market Pe tee oe cle. 35 a 13@1 a 21% | Turk a b. Le Hag © eeeek we | Aml YET .cccccccccrseer Mintard eo. + —. oo. 22Y% meena eee ee @ 9 ee Fancy drips..... oO “ 3 : ee ee anand Guatamala. |French........-.-..... = Carolina head 7 lq SWEET GOODS. 26 25 ee 9 0 | Ealbeesececeeeeceeeeceeeeeees Ba mr erates tte ( wee . tinger Snaps.. 7 - 72 38. 2 Sad EE * PEEL. NO, Le... seer sree sees 6 ] Sugar Creams. fi “ anil +“ Nos i 25 FRUITS. eee a ae e..---- crea ia @5 | Frosted Creams. Poe . “Noe 43 _ . Apples. M — ig OTANZS.....ceveecresss 18 ' i; al Pa so | Graham Crackers..... e | o " . No3 5 0 York State, gallons... ‘Mima. © aracaibo. CITRON. mported. Oatmeal Crackers. 8 en Hamburgh, mn . a. a o3%% | In drum.......-.-.---- @18 Japan, “ eae te 6b, SHOE yas ° : . Apricots. Milled ...... eee asic | In boxed.........-..... @0 jig Ne ie) pete, 1 dos, in coe Me | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS pos Cruz........ L 95 teed aya. Cieaiaa - ooh a eccecceccccasesse | z. AL K...... 1 ee LU oF De oon eens eee os TO, | BOI 6 asses se twa cuen . | Whi eS 2 50| Private Growth........ Zante, in barrels oo @: 5% t — TEAS, | White .........-.00. 1 03 Overland. ............ 235 | Mandeblin = rf in %-bbls.. w ae BEER. ea... 03 ae DWED....--- ++ --+-5 nage 2 ee in } Shepard’s ............. : 3 35 7 ae | . 4 * Saigon in rolis...... 35 Choicest.... = California........ 00... 2 60@2 75 Barrels ie i an | Cloves, Amboyna......... Extra choice, wire leaf (ae oe 26 50 "Pears ce owe % | Grits .... oe 3%} ° Zanzibar... a a GUNPOWDER. PO rr etter 7 cic Bs a age Nutmege, fancy. ae 5 Common to fair.......25 @35 Milling _— . iwaritde oo 2 25 ec ee 8) | Extra fine to fineat....50 QOS | Peed ..-....-0.-0-- ec. ceceee 0 Common —_ peliacearoni and iia | ee Re 6 | | Cluatoent fancy ...--- -- 7 GB | aa ” iiiichig, weet 1 30 : box. )| Pepper, Singapore, black... OOLONG. | Brewers, per 100 Ibs 25 Johnson's sliced...... 2 60 Imported......s.eseeee } a a 8 - ina coe “ “15 le lommmon to fair... ...23 @26 | Feed, ne. Seuee e a ra) = on 2 85 | rion TTR scan Barley. "| 4 shot --+ 25 | Superior to fine.......28 @30 | om eee ee eee eene te wate ae a | 7 > oy * i 9 Common .... eo 1 10 ee ees - 34@3% «| pee 2 agg as in Bulk. | Fine to choicest....... 45 @55 | = all lots Lo 68 ALIBPICE 2 cc ce ccccce cece scene IMPERIAL. ne Raspberries. Durham Split, bbl... cevsteeeeeeeeeld 4 Cassia, Batavia. ............ 2 | | Common to fair.......23 ek tacos ee ae i 30 vat ; maeinaiee ’ ste tpes cceveneternsl 50 2 and Saigon.25 | Superior tofine........ 30 Erie, black. spe i 40 | Fel yf ty .........00- pel WB Clee buco eoga ose J Cloves E co 35 | YOUNG HYSON. Ree it a a Es ccme ee 20 | Common to fair......-18 i ROOT ic sceneees 20 Superior to fine....... 30 14 REVERIES AND DREAMS. Iaman oldman. The snail-paced days of my boyhood crept slowly over my life | and left no trace of their coming or going. | Lightly their feet pattered over my cheek and brow, and, with the exception of a) ruddier glow from the contact, left no} They gamboled with my | silken, flaxen locks, and, except adding | impress there. a slightly darker hue, left no change. But a sudden change came after awhile. | Time’s charioteer drove at a more furious pace, and the years, like the rapidly moving scenes of a panorama, as they swept by, left some of their footprints, in the unbidden wrinkles and marks of care upon my brow, while thickly sprin- kled among my once glossy hair shone the snows of many rapidly recurring winters. Yes, Iam an old man. sorrow and of care—the legacy left to me by the passing years—has left its indeli- | It is seen in my whitened | locks, in my wrinkled brow, in the bent | ble impress. and bowed form, and in the slow and halting step as I move among my fellow-men. Thoughtless childhood, never dreaming that it, too, feebly about may become old and and decrepid, laughs | Reverent youth steps aside and lifts its hat, as in me it catches a glimpse of what the future may have in store forit. Middle age, looking over ‘‘the divide,” sees the rapidly descending pathway on the other side, and the yawning grave of oblivion to which it leads, and shudders. Old age totters upon the brink of the open grave, and with faltering tones calls up the ghosts of past hopes and fears, of joys and sorrows, and grimly speculates as to that future, the breath of whose winds is already kissing its wan cheeks, or play- ing with its silvery locks, and wooing it to slumber. Iam an oldman. The blood no longer goes bounding through my veins, giving strength and vigor to the system as it did in the long ago. taper. It has burned well down to the socket. Shortly, as the end is reached, it will blaze up fitfully for a moment, and then will come darkness. Or willa brighter taper be lighted in that mystic land beyond the dark river whose flame can never be dimmed? Here, other ta- pers will be left burning, but the light of mine will have gone out forever. When I was first cast into the sea of life, its placid waters scarcely troubled by the ripples my presence in and scoffs at me as I pass. My life is as a were them eccasioned. The tiny wavelets soon lost their force and died away in the unruffled waters. As the years passed, the circling waves that surreund- ed me broadened and expanded, until at the full meridian of vigorous manhood, I realized that their force was felt from shore to shore. decadence, Then came the years of and contracted rippling, circling waves, until now the! placid, glassy surface of the sea is almost | within reach of my hand. Yes, lam an old man, and I painfully realize that my | sands of life are almost run. I realize all this as I sit before the cheerful grate in the comfortable quarters | of my home in the heart of the great city this pleasant evening. Without, the stars twinkle in a strangely familiar manner as I gaze upon them from my open win- dow, up between the towering buildings with which art has marred the face of nature, to the blue-vaulted dome above. The weight of | became the! THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | The moon, like a great ball of fire, is riding in regal splendor in the starry canopy, casting grotesquely-weird sha- dows upon the floor as its beams come struggling in through the gauzy curtains that sway back and forth from the open window. I pull aside the curtains and let in a flood of soft moonlight, and with it comes the gentle south wind which | tenderly touches my withered cheek like kisses from baby lips, and plays with my silvery locks, gently and tenderly, as spirit hands touch the brow of the dying and bid them turn from earth’s grosser scenes to those heavenly. But what bright vision is this that I see pictured upon the softly-carpeted floor instead of the grotesquely-moving | shadows that were there but a moment |ago? By what conjuror’s trick is this? or is it the work of spirit hands that the shadows have departed and a loved pic- ture of the scenes of long ago have taken their places? There stands the old home on the hill—the home of my boyhood ;days. The blood goes bounding through |my veins as it did in the sweet olden time. I am a boy again. Gone are my three-score-years-and-ten. Gone are the | bowed form and the silvery locks. Gone are the furrowed cheek and wrinkled brow. Gone is the voice tremulous with age. Iam an old man no longer. It is night at theold home. The house is just as it was when I bade it a tearful farewell in the years of the long ago. Exterior and interior are just the same now as then. All is quiet within. A flickering blaze flashes up at intervals from the smouldering wood fire in the great fireplace in one end of the hewn log house, revealing the sleeping forms of the ones I have loved so well. Forms of those who have long since lain down to that ‘‘dreamless sleep that knows no waking,” in the quiet churchyard over yonder in the lonely valley where the white marble slabs mark the final resting place of the sleepers. Have the dead come back to life? Have the prison- houses of clay released their tenants? Or have the sorrows and cares of my three-score-years-and-ten been but a de- lusive imagery of the brain, and death and the grave horrid phantasmagorias? Within and without time has laid its desecrating hands upon nothing, and change is unwritten. The house and grounds remain just the same as they were in the long ago. There in the gar- den back of the house with its wealth of poppies, pinks, and roses lining its well kept walks, there, in the background, and on the brow of the hill, near the little brick spring house, is the old- fashioned wellsweep, attached to which is the veritable Old oaken bucket, the iron bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hangs in the well, of which the poet sang, or, at least, its exact counterpart. Still back of these, | and at the foot of the hill, is the orchard, jand the lambent air is laden with the rich perfume from its bloom and _ blos- Beyond the orchard, lying in the |moonlight like a ribbon of silver, and rippling in the stillness of the night like ithe low murmur of the voices of those we love, is the river. What a flood of | long-forgotten memories its subtle music | brings upon the mind! Stretching from | the foot of the hill upon which the old | home stands, is the meadow, and beyond | it is the encircling forest of white, gleam- |ing sycamores, majestic elms, and the tall aspens with their quivering leaves, ; soms. 4 You Ought to Read ..-. A OARY PAPER FROM THE WORLD’S-FAIR CITY. THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS is as good as the best and cheaper than the cheapest. It is a member of the Associated Press and prints all the news. ages from 220,000 to 240,000 copies a day, and is, with a single exception, the largest daily circulation in America. It is an inde- pendent newspaper—it wears no party collar—and prints the news free from the taint of partisan bias. It gives all the news and tells the truth about it. Its circulation aver- . .-- YOU OUGHT TO READ THE Chicago Daily News. GET THE DEST itt PROPRIETORS vi Rd u WARE " forse | EXTRACT. | yee Root Beer kxtract It is a pure, concentrated Extract of Roots 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. For sale by all jobbers. Order a supply from your wholesale house. Show cards and adver tising matter are packed in each dozen. H. F. HASTINGS, Manufacturers’ Agent, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BEACRH’S New York (Goffe Rooms. 61 Pearl Street. Five Cents Each for all dishes served from bill of fare. Steaks, Chops, Oysters and All Kinds of Order Cooking a Specialty. FRANK M. BEACH, Prop. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. Bowne, President. D. A. b cpeETT, 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 Marblehead and Ohio White Lime, Buffalo, Louisville and Portland Cements, Fire Brick & Clay. Agent for the “Dyckerhoff’ imported Portland cement, the best cement in the market for side- walks. Also buy and sell Grain, Hay, Feed, Oil Meal, Wood, Etc., Clover and Timothy Seed. WAREHOUSE AND MAIN OFFICE: Cor. Wealthy Ave, and Ionia on M. C. R. R. BRANCH OFFICE: Builders’ Exchange. ef overshadowing the river, which emerges from the gloom and darkness of the deep woods, and after forming a silvery frame- work for the picture of the old home, is | | | | | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. BELKNAP, BAKER & CO. The New House will Be Ready for Busi- ness June 11, Mr. Henry P. Baker has returned from again lost in the gloom whence it came. | the East, having purchased a full line of carts, road wagons, buggies, buckboards, | I can hear the soft rippling of its waters long after they have disappeared in the deep shadows, and mingled with the murmur of the aspen leaves, makes an /Kolian strain soft and music of the spheres. A little distance away, at the foot of the hill, stands the mill. Its machinery is motionless. Its wheels are still. Be- yond it is the creek, and the dam. over which the angry waters rush headlong with a sullen roar before mingling with those of the deeper, broader, and more smoothly flowing river. As in those old, old, happy days, again I stand by its rushing waters watching them madly plunging over the precipice with a roar that awakes the echoes in the sleepy old forest beyond. Anowl perched upon the dead branches of a tall sycamore, dis- turbed by my presence, ceased its dis- cordant hooting and flew away, while a busy muskrat, with its mouth ful! of green water plants of which it was con- structing its nest, swam rapidly to the opposite shore, with nothing but its head and file-like tail appearing upon the sur- face of the water, and disappeared be- neath the roots of a “sugar tree’? that overhung the stream. With the delicate perfume of wild flowers the air seemed laden, while over- head the ever-restless leaves of a tall aspen tree, moved by the gentle south wind, made music soft, and sweet, and rippling, like the pattering of the feet of innumerable unseen sprites upon the water. In ecstatic joy at being again among the loved and long-lost scenes of my boyhood days, I dropped into a seat near the falls and gave way to silent meditation. A sudden gust of wind sent the heavy spray from the foaming waters full into my face, and instantly the vision was dispelled. 1 am sitting in my own room in the city, at the open window, upon the sill of which my head has been resting. The sky is obscured by clouds, the moon and stars are hidden, and a steady rain is falling. A strong wind is blowing, and a sudden gust has sent the descending rain full into my face and over my gray locks. I had been asleep and dreaming ! And now, waking or sleeping, the picture of the old home is ever present with me, brighter and more real than it has been for half a century or more. Will there be bright dreams and the breath of flowers in that long sleep of death and the grave? Whocan say? To me, in a few more days or years at most, the mystery that lies hidden in and be- yond the grave will be a mystery no longer. Can the dark valley and the shadow of death be illumined by brighter visions than those of my boyhood days? Or is the long sleep in the grave a dream- less slumber? ‘‘If aman die, shall he live again?” I shall soon know. J. FP. PRICKETT. a The New Spanish Treaty. Gen. John W. Foster, who conducted the negotiations between this country and Spain for reciprocal relations, is in almost daily consultation with the Presi- dent and officials of the State Depart- ment in regard to the publication of the proclamation that is to announce the terms upon which the Spanish-American agreement is based. It will be issued about July 1. | phaetons and carriages of all descriptions | for the grand opening of Belknap, Baker | sweet as is the} & Co. The building at 5 and 7 North [onia street, recently vacated by the Olney & | Judson Grocer Co., is now undergoing | general repairs and when completed will | be the finest carriage repository in the | city. These gentlemen have been appuinted general agents in several surrounding | counties by the Columbus Buggy Co., of | Columbus, O., whose reputation is unsur- | passed in the manufacture of a fine grade of wheeled vehicles. They will also handle a full line of harness, robes, whips, ete., from the most celebrated makers in | the country. together with their large display rooms, the ground floor of which is 50x120, will The prominent location, | sign pin , : | hundred other objectionable features of the old method, and one that establishes 15 UILY POR BUSINESS! 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? Would you like torid yourself of the bother of ‘‘posting’ i ‘patching up’? pass-book accounts? >your books and 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? Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for | items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they have or not? Then why not adopt asystem of crediting that will abolish all these anda |a CASH BASIS of crediting? A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all enable them to make the largest display | ever seen in the state. The people of | this city in particular, and Western Mich- | igan in general will do well to wait for their opening and inspect their stock whether desiring to purchase or not. All will be welcome. ee A Story About Shoe Fastenings. Owen Langdon, in Brooklyn Times. A big shoe merchant tells me that two years ago aman came into his office in the last stages of a drunkard’s decline, apparently, and exhibited an invention which would revolutionize men’s shoe fastenings, and make a fortune for some- one. It was some sort of an arrange- ment that closed all the buttons at once by the turn of an invisible lever, and | was as much of an improvement on the} old method as the lever skate is upon the old-fashioned kind. That was the first and last the merchant ever saw of man or model, and he is wondering now if the inventor’s secret went intoa grave in the Potter’s Field. He cannot in the least recall the manner of working of the fastening. a a Brace Up. Don’t belivee in failures, my boy, lest you grow to be one yourself. Believe in success; it is a better watch-word, has a clear ring to it, and aman looks and feels and is prouder and nobler, fighting for success, than when he is struggling in the name of failure. Don’t defend; attack. Don’t stop to explain and apologize for the faults of your cause; maintain and enforce its virtues. ‘‘You haven’t taught me any of the parries,” said a young soldier to an old Prussian fencing master. ‘‘Don’t need ’em,’’ growled the old mustache; ‘‘you cut; let the other fellow’. parry.” That man didn’t believe in failure.—Burdette. Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS. eT ee ee ee ee 50 Ee ee Me ce ce vis) LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. eG Oe ee 1% ee 1 88 ee 2 70 First quality. oe Orn Gren top. 2 2 nol “ _ ge ee 2 40 Nas “ a Se ee hee eee 3 40 XXX Flint. : Mo. © San, Creep top. ................6.... foo OO Neat © . Fee etek ee cannes aee 2 80 Nas * ° Ee 3 80 Pear! top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. 37 No? * ' - ae es 47% No. 2 Hinge, ‘ . a 470 La Bastic. No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per dos. .............. 1 25 Nas * ag ' el 1 50 Na, 1 crimp, per dex...........-. es 1 35 no:2 7 ee ee a cee 1 60 FRUIT JARS. Mason’s or Lightning. ee we 87 50 oe sae ee ; ealt OMe... 58... PO ees ccd mca ss os eee Ob. 3 50 STONEWARE—AKRON. Wether Crgenn, Her we 8. occ ce es 06% Onan, 46 Wek er Gi. ss. iii... 75 ee Riga eee ce etic as eee 90 . 2 - Fetes wee ces ete uaei eae. 1 80 Milk Pans, * gal., per doz. (sieged joc) “ . enterprising merehants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the Tradesman or Superior Coupons, COUPON BOOK ys. PASS BOOK. We beg leave to call your attention to | our coupon book and ask you to earefully consider its merits. It takes the place of the pass book which you now hand 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 many times the customer does not bring the book, and, as a result, you have to eharge many items on your book that do not | | | | } | | | | | | appear on the customer’s pass book. This} is sometimes the cause of much ill feel-} ing when bills are presented. Many times the pass book is lost, thus causing eonsiderable trouble when settlement day comes. But probably the most se-} rious objection to the pass book system is | that many times while busy waiting on} customers you neglect to make some charges, thus losing many a dollar; or, if you stop to make those entries, it is done when you can illy afford the time, 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 system, it is avoided. Now as to the use of the coupon book: Instead 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 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 pass 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 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 necessarily stop when they have obtained goods to that amount. It then rests with the merchant to determine whether he will issue another book before the one al- ready used is paid for. In many localities merchants are sell- ing coupon books 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 book account or buys on credit. The cash man ought to have an advantage over the credit customer, and this is easily accomplished 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 above enu- merated sufficient to warrant a trial of the coupon system? If so, order from the largest manufacturers of coupons in the country and address your letters to THE TRADESMAN GUMPAM, GRAND RAPIDS. How to Make a Country Store Pay. “Store Crank” in American Grocer. In my last article I enumerated two or three features which prevailin nearly ev- ery country store,and gave them as impor- tant factors in keeping the merchant in the slough of despond from year to year. Of course, there are many other things that contribute to this state of affairs, and if in this article I can suggest some ideas that will cause some of the many readers of the American Grocer to wheel about and get out of the rut and routine which they have drifted into, I shall feel amply repaid, To be successful as a country mer- chant, the proprietor must first secure the confidence of the community in which he operates. His life and asso- ciates must not partake of the sordid, selfish order, and his disposition must be cheerful and benevolent. All his deal- ings should be characterized by the strictest integrity. This, very soon, will commend itself to the customers, and they will soon look upon him as a man among men, and one to whom they can go for advice in matters outside their or- dinary commercial transactions. I am taking it for granted that money-getting is not the only thing of importance to be sought after, and that a reputation for probity and candor must be attained and maintained in order to successfully pros- ecute business in strict conformity tothe Golden Rule. I cannot allow the im- pression to prevail that a man is a suc- eessful merchant who succeeds in ac- quiring a competence regardless of the moral claim upon him to do justice to all mankind. The dealer who resorts to subterfuges and uses questionable meth- ods in the prosecution of business can never be permanently successful and win his way into the hearts and homes of his people. In possession of this first qualification, next must be added a gen- eral adaptability and liking for the oc- cupation. To enter into a business with- out any love for it or zeal in its prosecu- tion will result in failure. Give strict attention to every detail of the work, forgetting not the admonition of Solo- THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. : Lai al mon, ‘Sees’t thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before Kings. He shall not stand before mean men.”’ Be affable and courteous in your inter- course with customers; showa due appre- ciation of their patronage and make them feel that, whether small or large buyers, you are trying to please. It will be necessary for you to carry several lines of goods, and, as mentioned in the former article, they have general- ly been goods of universal demand, usually sold ata small profit. As rap- idly as possible educate your trade to purchase a superior quality of goods, and be continually introducing new pro- ducts in each of your departments. It may be that for a few months many things will move slowly, but with due dil- igence exercised for a year, you will find that your stock has undergone a com- plete transformation and that you are selling a profitable class of goods instead of a profitless one as before. The city and country are getting closer together each year, and unless you act as an edu- eator and lead your country clientele in- to more advanced ways, someone else will step in and accomplish it for you. A large proportion of your goods must be sold for country produce. No excuse under the sun can be offered for the non- sensical custom of again disposing of this produce at the same price paid for it, simply because the payment has been made in merchandise. You have done your proper work when you have taken butter, eggs, railroad ties, maple sugar, or whatever the commodity is, and ex- changed them for your goods,and received for your labor the profit on your wares. Now, why, under any pretext of common sense, should you labor to dispose of these various farm products for cash without a further profit? If you sold a yard of calico for cash at a profit, you would expect to replace it with the cash, and you would not, under any circum- stances, sell it the second time for what you paid for it; yet, you do this very thing with the farm products from Jan- uary to December, simply because it has become a custom, Resolve at once to | discontinue this manner of dealing, and make it a rule that every article you han- dle shall pay you a profit, large or small, as the circumstances may demand, and not do business for glory or fun. Again, insist on prompt settlements, and be prompt yourself. ‘‘Long ac- counts make bad friends.’’ If your set- tlements are made frequently, all mat- ters are fresh in the minds of both par- ties and become very easy to adjust. Un- der the general practice of semi-annual or yearly settlements, you are losing the interest of your money and have been prevented from availing yourself of the liberal discounts offered by the jobbers of whom you purchased your goods. Do not let your accounts run against any party for a longer period than three months. Then compare books, and if eustomary to take notes, do so. This paper will, of course, bear interest at the eurrent state rate, and will be available to use through your bank or broker if an opportunity occurs, which frequently does, to purchase some article of produce or special line of goods at a low figure. Keep your stock bright and fresh, and unload, as quickly as possible, any un- salable goods which inadvertently you may have on hand, even at a low figure. Follow the rule to always make a loss (if it has to be done) as quickly as possible. An observance of the foregoing will! in- sure your prosperity in both a social and financial sense, and, while you have been adding to your exchequer, you have been of service and comfort to the community > 9 <-> C. N. Rapp & Co. have seven carloads of bananas in store, on track and in transit, which they claim is the best re- cord ever made by a Grand Rapids house. CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS SS PAMPHLETS For the best work, at reasonable prices, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. CUTS FOR ADVERYISING, aes: pee Send us a photograph of your store and we will make youa Column Cut for $6. 2-Column Cut for $10. Send a satisfactory photograph of your- self and we will make a column Portrait for $4. THR TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Tar and Gravel Roofers, And dealers in Tarred Pitch, Coal Wool, Etc. Corner Louis and Campau Sts., GRAND RAPIDS, Felt, Building Paper, Tar, Asphaltum, Rosin, Mineral Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich, $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays 4 per cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually. May, 1891. Ss. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer. — “I 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 JUDGE THE FUTURE BY THE PAST. The past shows that Navicatron 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 exam S oS o ples of the effects that navi ILLINOIS has in 1890 a population of 3,818,536. ‘__an inland county has yet reached 82,000 population. WISCONSIN has a population of 1,683,697. Milwaukee County, located on Lake Michigan, has 285,73 an inland county of the state has yet reached a population of 60,000. OHIO bas a population of the extreme north and on county on the north and each having navigation, tion 809,970 and 374,57: this old state has yet notwithstanding the fact coal, iron ore and petro- oo If you read the foregoing carefull gation produces as shown in the following: Cook County, located on Lake Michigan, has 1,189,259, while not - 7, while not MUSKEGON } 3,693,216, with navigation on the extreme south. Cuyahoga 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. y and get your thinking cap on you will say that Miontean will not be an exception to the rule which prevails, not only in the states we have cited, but in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and in fact all of the others having navigable waters, and you are forced to the conclusion that the large trict of greater area than Mass. large cities. No crry 1x THE counTRyY affords such opportunity for safe investments. For information, maps, circulars, etc., apply to st city in Western Michigan [a dis- g , Rhode Island and Connecticut combined] will be one of the port cities of Lake That city will be MUSKEGON. No city of the United States of equal size [25,000] is making such rapid progress. a fine location on a splendid inside harbor. hundred and fourteen miles from Chicago, eighty-five miles from Mi Michigan. Has Twenty-one large factories have been secured in the last eighteen months. One lwaukee and directly opposite. All the conveniences of MUSKEGON IMPROVEMENT CO. Occidental Hotel Block, MUSKEGON, MICH. ie eee ee en