MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1891. NO. 404 | Pape PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. S. F. ASPINWALL, Pres’t. W. Frep McBary, Sec’y. ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH. Allen Durfee & Co., FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. RAYON, LYON & 60, JOBBERS OF ationery 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 Monree St. ESTABLISHED 1841. AN AREER ROA TCM A THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Ft. Ge. Dun & Go. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada A. D. SPANGLER & C0., GENERAL Commission Merchants And Wholesale Dealers in Fruits and Produce. We solicit correspondence with both buy- ers and sellers of all kinds of fruits, ber- ries and produce. SAGINAW, E. Side, MICH. WOOL. Consignments of wool solicited. Parties shipping us wool can depend on all the market will allow. Our facilities for grading and handling are the very best. Wool will be promptly graded and paid for on arrival. U. AINSWORTH & OO. GRAND RAPIDS. PEOPLE'S SAWINGS 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. Charies M. Heald, 2d Vice-President. Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier. DIRECTORS. H. C. Russell D. D. Cody John Murray Ss. A. Morman Jas. G. MacBride J. H. Gibbs Wm. McMullen Cc. B. Judd D. E. Waters H. F. Hastings Jno, Patton, Jr. Cc. M. Heald Wm. Alden Smith Don J. Leathers Thomas Hefferan. Four per cent. interest paid on time certificates and savings deposits. Collections promptly made at lowest rates. Exchange sold on New York, Chicago, Detroit and all foreign countries. Money transferred by mail or telegraph. Muni- cipal and county bonds bought and sold. Ac- counts of mercantile firms as well as banks and bankers solicited We invite correspondence or personal inter- view with a view to business relations. 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. Y. LAMOREAUX % 60,, 128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Fine Millinery ! Wholesale and Retail. LACE, LEGHORN AND FANCY STRAW HATS & BONNETS IN ALL LATEST STYLES. MAIL ORDERS ATTENDED TO PROMPTLY. Adams & Co., 90 Monroe St., Opp. Morton House. S.A. Morman WHOLESALE Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio LiM Ss, Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CEMENTS; Stueco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, FIRE BRICK AND CLAY. Write for Prices. 20 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS. HARVEY & HEYSTEX, Wholesale Dealers in Wall Paper —— AND — Picture Frame Mouldings. Also a complete line of PAINTS, OILS and BRUSHES. Correspondence Solicited. Warehouse, 81 & 83 Campau St. 74 & 76 Ottawa St, GRAND RAPIDS, .TOM, DICK AND HARRY. Iam Tom! Dick is my brother, and | we are the orphaned sons of Richard} Hope, who went down with the Saucy Jane with his wife and the fortune he had made in California, when we were but six years old. We were twins, clinging to each other, were picked up by a passing steamer and carried to New York. tell that we were going to visit our aunt, Mrs. Dresdale of Oakhill, and kindly strangers saw that we arrived there safe- ly, forlorn little orphan beggars. But fresh misfortune met us, for our aunt died one week after she gave us a tear- ful welcome. We had no real claim upon Cyrus Dresdale, being only his wife’s nephews, but out of his great, generous heart he gave us the place of sons in his home. Dear Uncle Cy! Never were boys made happier than he made us for four years, sending us to school, and giving us every pleasure boys delight in, and above all, such loving companship as few enjoy, even with their own frther. Then the change came. Uncle Cy married again, and his wife could not endure to have two great rude boys about the house. Every day, every hour, we committed some un- pardonable offense, and found all our pleasures restricted. First, our ponies were sold; then our rabbits and guinea- pigs were killed; then we were moved from our large, beautiful room, to a mis- erable little attic, where we baked in summer and froze in winter. Unele Cyrus stood by us as far as his quiet, peace-loving disposition allowed, but his new wife ruled him with a rod of iron, and, at last, seeing that we could not please her, he sent us to boarding- school. Homesick for a week, we were thoroughly happy afterwards, and wanted for no pleasure Uncle Cy could give us. I cannot dwell too long on our boy-life, but we, Dick and myself, can never forget the kindness of Uncle Cyrus Dresdale. We came to Oakhill some- times for a brief holiday, and this brings me to Harry. Harriet Dresdale was the only child of our dear Uncle Cyrus, and was born just one year after his second marriage. It was uncle himself who gave her her nick- name, greatly to Mrs. Dresdale’s disgust, but, as he said: ‘‘Really, my dear, I must complete the trio, Tom, Dick and Harry.” We were twenty-one years of age when Uncle Cyrus took us into his study one morning and made a brief speech that I shall never forget. ‘My dear boys,’’ he said, ‘‘for you are as dear to me as sons, and have made me proud of you many times, I must send you away once more. We will not talk about the reason, but you know it is not because I donot love you. You have good education, good morals, and | am not afraid to trust you. You, Tom, will practice your profession, and Dick can go into business, since he wishes it; but you will each find ten thousand dol- lars in the G—— Bank that is your own. It will keep you from want, until you make more by your own talents and ex- ertions. Come sometimes to see me; do not forget that I love you.” He broke down there, and we hung about him as if we were still little boys, full of love and gratitude, and keenly aware of the cruelty of separating us from him. Off to the great city, where Dick opened a drug-store and I put out a doc- tor’s sign. We had both studied medi- cine, but Dick would not practice. His was a delicate, sensitive nature, most unlike my own, and he could not bear the sight of suffering. We were unlike in all things, and no one would have guessed we were twins. | was tall, strong and dark, not in the least handsome. and | I was old enough to know and | Dick was slender and fair, with a rare beauty of face and a gentleness that was almost womanly. We had been seven years in the city, and once more were at home at Oakhill, when we could spare a vacation, for Mrs. Dresdale was dead. There was nothing said, there could not be, but we knew that we were welcome, and we stole many a day to run down to visit dear Uncle Cyrus, and, it must be told, fall in love with Harry. Can I make you see her, this cousin who was not our cousin? Brown, curling hair shaded a face of pure oval shape, with delicate, regular features. Great blue eyes, soft, wistful, innocent as a babe’s, lighted her beauty, and her smile displayed perfect teeth. She was not tall, but her figure was graceful and prettily rounded, and her hands and feet were dainty as a fairy’s. She was frank and sisterly with us and always gave us cordial welcome, and we never guessed each other’s devotion, be- cause we could not well leave the city at the same time, Dick leaving me in charge of his store and clerks, and taking my practice in return. Not until Unele Cyrus died did we know that we both loved Harry, and then a crushing blow fell. For it was found, after our uncle was buried, that he had left nothing of a once noble fortune. Nothing for the delicately nurtured child who had never known a wish un- gratified. Harry’s aunt, Mrs. Leyburn, took her home, and the beautiful house at Oakhill was sold. After all the con- fusion was over and therecame a breath- ing spell, Dick took me into his confi- dence. Like blows from a hammer his words fell on my heart. “Tom,’? he said tome, ‘I have been over to see Harry. Poor little girl, she is very miserable. All her bright, pret- ty smiles are gone, Tom. It would make your heart ache to see how pale and sad she is.” Ah! Had it not already made my heart ache? ‘She has lost the kindest father, Dick,” I said. ‘And, as if that was not sorrow enough,”’ said Dick, ‘they are not kind to her at Leyburn’s” “Not kind to her,’”’ I cried. ‘‘I thought they fairly worshipped her.” “So they did when they thought Uncle Cyrus was weathy. Now they tell her every day that she must find something to do—some way to earn a living.” ‘Never!’ I cried. ‘*Why, Dick, we owe everything to Uncle Cyrus, and we are not poor men now.” Then Dick said, in a faltering voice: “Do you think, Tom, it is too soon af- ter her loss for me to tell Harry how Il love her—to ask her to be my wife?” The room seemed to be reeling around me; Dick’s face grew dim; his voice sounded far away. He loved Harry! And I was only waiting until the first bitterness of her grief was over to ask her to be my wife. Fool that I was! What was my homely face compared to Dick’s beauty; my quiet ways against his grace and tenderness? Before he spoke again, I had recovered from the shock his words gave me, and resolved to keep my secret. Let him win her if he eould. I dared not think of my own chance if she refused him. Time enough for that. Day after day he sought her, yet kept silent. Little guessing the torture he in- flicted, he told me of his wooing, but ever with the same refrain. ‘‘She gives me no chance to tell her how I love her, Tom! Sheis like a sis- ter, only.’’ I kept away, but my hope grew strong- er. If she loved Dick as a sister, might it not be that I—homely and quiet as I was—had won the deeper love I craved. My patience must have been great in those days. Every lonely hour was filled PREIS terre eg ne ner rap perenne om 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. with dreanis of Harry’s fair, sweet face, | her low, musical voice, her bright, win- ning grace. I recalled every loving word she had ever spoken to me. I knew that | even in her childhood I had given her | more than a brother’s love, and I saw} that her mother had dreaded lest she | shoul dlove one of the penniless boys who were so dear to their adopted uncle. We had begun, Dick and myself, to turn some of our investments into ready money, to make a fund for Harry. “She shall have the twenty thousand uncle gave us,” we said,although it would cripple us somewhat for a time to take so large a sum out of our fortunes. Noth- | ing had been said to her, for we were | afraid she would refuse to take it. We waited for Dick to speak, but we gath- ered the money together in bank. We had no home to offer Harry, even if Mrs. Grundy would have permitted her to accept one. The store was a store only, with a small room back for storing larger quantities of drugs than were in daily demand. Dick and I had a large room in a boarding-house opposite the store. It may have been the longing for a home that first suggested to us the idea of investing part of Harry’s money (we al- ways spoke of it as hers) in a house and some furniture, each hoping to share it with her. The first real brightness that came into her dear face after her father died was when we told her we were go- ing to housekeeping, and begged her to} home. | Again, 1 starved my own heart, and sent | help us select and furnish a her with Dick house-hunting, until they seleeted a house that seemed the perfec- tion of a modest home, most unlike the beautiful Oakhill mansion. But it was Harry’s own taste that selected the fur- niture, suited to the small rooms, good in quality, and Harry said: ‘‘Ever so pretty!”’ It was all ready and paid for, and five thousand dollars still in the bank, when we all went over to admire the final ef- fect. We were standing in the pretty parlor, when Harry said, softly: “IT hope this will be a happy home for you, boys, and that there will soon be the sweetest of wives to share it with you. me your good wishes, too. to be married.’’ ‘*Married!”’ Who said it? and very hoarse. Dick’s. “Papa knew,”’ said Harry; ‘‘but we were to wait until Charlie was a little more prosperous. I was not sure”’—and Harry’s eyes drooped — ‘‘whether my loss of fortune would not make me less attractive to Charlie, but I wronged him. We will be very poor, but I hope I can help him, and we have made up our minds not to wait for money. Some day we may invite you to our house, but, in the meantime, you will come to see us where we are boarding, will you not?”’ lI answered, pitying the ghastly white face that Dick had turned toward the window. And I continued my answer by asking: ‘“‘Who is Charlie? lam going The voice was choked Not mine; surely not not seen him, nor, indeed, seen you as} much as we would have wished.’’ ‘“‘Charlie Foster, a clerk in a bank. Dick has met him.” “*Yes,’’ Dick answered, in a low voice. ‘*A fine fellow he is, too, Harry. Come, Tom, we must be going.”’ : Not a word was spoken until we stood face to face in our own room. Then Dick loooked me in the eyes. ‘“*You, too, Tom?’ he said. ‘I never dreamed of that.’’ **‘T wanted you should have the first chance, Dick. Butitis all over. Shall we take Doctor Merton’s offer?’’ For we had an opening that promised wellin another city. It had scarcely been considered, but it came as a relief, and we accepted it. Our wedding pres- ent to Harry was the house and the five thousand dollars, her father’s generous gift to usin the past. It is many long years since that wedding day that we faced manfully, and we are rich men— Dick and myself. But we never mar- ried, and our money will goto Harriet Foster’s three boys, Tom, Dick and Har- ry. ANNA SHIELDS. but | And now, to-day, you must give} You forget we have | OLD MAN SLIM. Troubles and Trials of a Canadian Merchant. QUEEN’s HoLiow, Ont., June 5—I am obliged to you for sending me a copy of ; your paper. Cronk asked me what it was | when he handed it to me in the postoffice ;and I told him it wasa new American | magazine devoted to commercial ethics |and dead-beatology. He said he didn’t | think it was necessary for any business |man in Canada to bother his brains j}about the Yankee science of dead-beat- | ology, for so long as Ontario remained a British province, with wholesome and just laws, the dead-beat element will continue to slop over into the State of | Michigan, where, with kindred spirits in a more congenial clime, they can bask to | their hearts’ content, in the sunshine of | democratic do-as-you-please and pay- | when-you-get-ready. He said he had lost }enough during the thirty-five years he ; had been in business in the Hollow, by | the skipping of these skedaddlers to the | land of the free by the light of the moon | to build anew fence around the grave- yard, and to hurt my feelings still more | —because Izik and I voted for reciproci- |ty—he said that these same skippers | who loved liberty too well to behave | themselves and pay their honest debts in |Canada were to-day scattered all over | Michigan holding offices of trust and oc- ;cupying places of authority and even holding down seats in the Legislature. ‘“‘No wonder,’’ said he, ‘‘that the con- servatiye business men of the State are so proficient in the modern science of dead-beatology.” Cronk was wound up to run all night, but, as good luck would have it, a little | boy came in to tell him that the ealf had fallen into the well, and this gave me a chance to slip out and go home. I had | been out ona collecting excursion and |had been unusually lucky, having re- | ceived $1.17 in cash and the promise of four quarts of top onions. Izik was mad. He had been weighing in Dutch but- ter and weighing out sugar all afternoon and had just tied up the last dollar’s worth of sugar in the store, and had | thrown the butter in the grease tub and |kicked the sugar barrel out the back door. Seizing the cheese knife, he began to scrape the butter off his pants and swear. I gently reminded him that such language was very unbecoming the son- in-law of an Elder. This made him throw the two-pound weight at the cat and so 1 kept silent till he finished the scraping act. Throwing the cheese knife into the pickle barrel, he said, -‘‘Look under that counter, there are 459 pounds of butter that cost 20 cents per pound and paid for in sugar at 614 cents per pound that cost 6% cents per pound, say nothing about wrapping paper, twine, and wear and tear of a naturally angelic disposition while engaged in doing the business. There it isin all its hideous ugliness representing every hue known to nature from aclammy corpse all the | way up to sole leather. It is fragrant with every conceivable odor peculiar to a stock ranch and all but about 21 pounds of the whole infernal mass will | finally ‘fetch up’ ata London soda bisg cuit factory as grease at 6 cents per pound. Now, old man, if you expect me to ask a blessing on such a run of business as this, I will take immediate steps to have a guardian appointed for you.” Izik was terribly excited. Poor fel- low! 1 am afraid that unless a severe drouth sets in soon over the Dutch set- tlement, he will fall a victim to butter on the brain. Why is it, Mr. Editor, that a woman looks upon her butter pretty much in the same light as she looks upon her baby? She cannot see any imperfection in either. Every coun- as safe to intimate to a woman that her baby was inferior to, or was not as fine as to speak in this way of her butter; and as the politician must close his eyes and hold his breath while kissing her baby, so the merchant must do likewise while weighing her butter. Izik thinks this evil might be corrected by a system of inspection in the larger towns, and by throwing it entirely into the hands of a ~ ANNOUNCEMENT. try merchant knows that it would be just | or as clean as some other woman’s baby, | The firm of Williams, Sheley & Brooks is this day dissolved by mutual | consent. WILLIAM C. WILLIAMS, ALANSON SHELEY, Detroit, May 27, 1891. ALANSON 8S. BROOKS. 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 Wittiams, Suetey & 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 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 lowest possible prices. from customers of James E. Davis & Co. will receive the personal atten- With kind regards, and hoping that we shall hear from you frequently, we remain, tion of our Mr. James E. Davis. Yours very truly, illiams, Davis, Brooks & Ge, 11, 18, 15 & 17 Larned Street East. THE OLD STAND. William C. Williams. James E. Davis. Alanson Sheley. Alanson S Brooks. HEARICKS Patent Baskel Stand Indispensable to every Grocer for Fruit Displays. 20, 25 and 30 inch sizes, $3 per dez. we Order through your jobber or direct of the manufacturer, E. J, HERRICK Grand Rapids. ae eR TE UMMER WASH GOODS: CANTON CLOTH, OUTING FLANNELS, BRANDENBURG CLOTH, PRINTS, B. C. SATINE, WIDE BLUES, EXPORT SATINE, SHIRTING, SERGE SATINE, 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. LYON SERGE, ARMENIAN SERGE, SEERSUCKERS, ee = butter dealer in the country villages. The butter maker could then realize the cash at its true value and the packer by handling in large quantities could pack the different grades and ship to the best advantage. Thecountry merchant could then become a better Christian, and the quality of the article itself would rapid- ly improve, as there would no longer be held out an incentive to carelessness in its manufacture. When I told Izik that ‘‘the Lord chas- tened whom he loveth” and that we ought to humbly submit to this Dntch butter affliction until Providence opened up a way of escape, he looked at my gray hairs and bent form and remarked that I had laid aside the implements of agricul- ture too late in life to ever make a bril- liant success as amerchant. Izik is not a member of the church, but he says he has too much respect for Providence to think that He has anything to do with the making of stinking butter. Such irreverent remarks are very much to be regretted and I hope that the Elder and Tillie ‘(that’s Izik’s wife) will yet suc- ceed in making him see the error of his ways. I declare when I stop to think of the waywardness of some of our church members, it’s enough to demoralize a eonscientious fellow like Izik. Now, there’s Old Cronk, the back-bone and cor- ner stone of the Church of England. He’ll fill his old hide so full of Jamaica rum that you can’t see a wrinkle in his face. He’ll swear like a trooper and disfigure the truth for a copper. His minister wines and dines with him and he lords it over his poor old heart-broken Baptist wife like a Turk. And there’s Jonathan Whiner, I’m ashamed of him, for he’s a class-leader in my own church. He lives on a big farm a mile and a half out and owns a shingle mill up the creek. He charged a poor, blind widow nineteen cents for an armful of straw to put in her bed and very seldom settles with his hired help outside of a magistrate’s court. He is fawning, non-committal and evasive, always leaving the back door wide open so he can back out when- ever it suits his purpose to do so. He was never known to pay a bill without squirming out of a part of it, on account of some trumped up mistake or misun- derstanding. He never misses a prayer- meeting and always indulges in about the same amount and kind of sniffle and eant. Heisa prohibitionist and thinks the devil has the first mortgage on a fel- low who has not taken passage in his little narrow contracted gospel canoe. Izik says Whiner is a blamed old crank and that his custom consists of sampling, throw-offs and make-ups and costs more than the profits on his trade amounts to. And then Sister Tubbs, although she teaches her Sunday-school class the Golden Rule, knows that those ‘‘nice new fresh eggs’? she sold me when Izik was away, went into winter quarters last fallin the old stone churn down under the cellar steps. That reminds me of Deacon Brown. One day last winter when butter was very scarce and worth 30 cents per pound, who should walk in- to the store but Deacon Brown with sev- eral rolls of nice fresh butter. It was so kind for the good old Deacon to give us the first chance to pay him 30 cents per pound in cash when fresh butter was such ararity. Izik placed it in the win- dow to attract attention and the Deacon went on his way rejoicing. Presently the tailor’s wife came in and enquired for butter. She was delighted, of course, with the Deacon’s butter and wanted two rolls, but Izik thought she had better take one and give some of the rest of our favorite customers a chance to get some of it. Thanking us for the favor, she hurried home, for it was near dinner time. In about half an hour she re- turned nearly out of breath and with a frightened look on her face, said we had made a mistake and gave her corn salve or wagon grease instead of butter. She said her husband had swallowed some of it before he discovered the mistake and she left him in the back yard engaged in amighty effort to turn himself inside out. She left the butter on the counter and ran for the doctor. We sampled the Deacon’s butter for the first time. I tasted it, but couldn’t think of anything on earth or under the earth to compare lit with. Izik thought it was congealed | cedliver oil. One man thought it was | distilled soap and Bill Smike, the Tory | blacksmith, said he’d bet a hen it was an |importation of Yankee butterine. But | the Elder, who had once been a mission- | ary somewhere in Siberia, said it was a | mixture of rancid butter and mutton tal- | low in equal parts. This settled it and | the Deacon was notified to remove the mixture at once from the premises and settle damages or submit to an exposure. The Deacon responded with alacrity. The above is an actual occurance and can be verified by OLD MAN SLIM. ee Character in Handwritting. There are people who claim to read men’s characters from their writing. As the writing of every nation is distin- guished by certain strong national pec- uliarities, it is easy for an expert to de- cide to what nation a writer belongs. Having settled that, certain large charac- teristics which are common to all men, but in different degrees, can be seen in every handwriting. A certain number of men arecalm, even-lived, sensible and practical. Men of that class are almost certain to write plain, round hands in which every letter is distinctly legible; neither very much slanted forward, nor titled backward; no letter very much bigger than its neighbor, nor with heads much above or tails much below the letters not so distinguished; the letters all having about the same general up- rightness, and the lines true to the edges of the paper, neither ten ing upward. Exact, business-like people will have an exact handwriting. Fantastic minds revel in quirks and streamers, par- ticularly for the capital letters, and this quality is not infrequent in certain busi- ness hands, as if the writers found a relief from the prosaic nature of their work in giving flourishes to certain letters. Firm, decided, downright men are apt to bear on the pen while writing, and to make their strokes hard and thick. On the contrary, people who are not sure of themselves, and are lacking in self- control, press unevenly, and with anxious-looking, scratchy hands. Am- bitious people are apt to be overworked; they are always in haste and either forget to cross their t’s or dot their i’s. They are also apt to run the last few letters of every word into an illegible serawl. Flurried, troubled, and con- science-twinged persons have a crabbed and uneven handwriting. —_—— 2 — Be Up to the Times. From the New England Homestead: A young man who is trying to run a farm in the same way that his father and grandfather and great-grandfather did, had better sell out or try some new methods, unless he wants to make a fail- ure of it. The old-time methods are past and gone, and cannot be made successful at the present day. Men in all profess- ions and industries are tending toward specialties, and if farmers want to keep up they must do the same. Some farms are adapted to stock raising, others to grain, and still others to fruit. Let every one pick out that branch which he likes best, and to which his farm is adapted, and then concentrate his thoughts and energies on that and make a success of it. and the operations of the English Che- shire salt ring, the importation of Eng- lish table and rock salt to this country has almost entirely ceased. l1-Inch STATEMENTS. om oer a () on os oe For the benefit of merchants who have not yet adopted our Coupon System, we have purchased a quantity of 11-inch Statements, 5) inches wide, and ruled both sides, giving 63 lines for itemizing accounts---just the thing for weekly or monthly statements of account. 500 Printed and Blocked in tabs of 100, - - 1 000 th iT sh th ai un 5 000 hh bh ib th Hl Zi j t=" SEND FOR SAMPLE! 1 THE TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Grand Rapids Storage & Transier Go, Linits Winter St, between Shawmut Ave. and W. Fulton St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. General WarehoUsemen and Yransfer Agents. 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HIRTH & KRAUSE, 12] awp 14 LYON STRESET, ed ‘as on . — ston . ace isnt ate ara ae Sal mat serena ea ec aneea eit eseaee asia in net maitaner ste Don asia eae aie penin: Sane eee cae aay URRE Aone GRAND RAPFIDS, MIcH, tetera pe ih om anes nines ee rors patrick cocpens tiie a te tenn an THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Mt. Pleasant—W. E. Ward C. A. & W. E Ward in general trade. St. Johns—D. C. Phetteplace has his grocery stock to L. H. Saunders. Bridgewater—F. E. Ortenburger has sold his general stock to F. W. Schoen. Grand Haven—Clark & Lum succeed Putnam & Lum in the flour and feed bus- iness. Detroit—Hopfhauer & Flinn have re- have removed their stock to Delray. Edmore—Maley & Snyder succeed Jacob F. Snyder in the business. Saranac — Wilkinson Wilkinson & Richmond business. Hart—A. R. Chappell Mat- thews & Chappell in the hardwood lum- ber business. Blissfield—James Gauntlett is out his dry move to Milan. Muskegon—Moulton & sold grocery grocery and hardware succeed harness & Co. in the succeeds closing goods stock and will re- tiedel succeed August Riedell in the produce com- mission business. Bangor—J. N. Graham has removed his merchant tailoring and notion ness to Fennviiie. Copemish—J. L. Wiesman has removed his dry goods, clothing and boot and shoe stock to Marion. Mecosta—Porter Eighmy has moved his grocery stock into the store formerly occupied by M. Carman. Hudson—Chas. Kirkup has purchased the interest of R. N. Johnson in the gro- cerp firm of Goodnow & Co. Detroit—J. B. Pterson & Co., and commission merchants, porated under the same style. McBride—The Boice & Lewis stock has been taken by Cas. LaFlamboy on a chattel mortgage, and he will con- duct the business on a larger seale at the same stand. Owosso—The book and stationery firm of Geo. W. Loring & Son has been dis- solved, Geo. W. Loring retiring. The business will be carried on Clayton W. Loring. Big Rapids—Geo. Milner has conclud- ed to embark in the drug business on his own account, having the store in the Comstock block cated by J. Frank Clark. Reed City—C. T. Carey has purchased the grocery stock of C. J. Fleischauer & Son and will continue the business. The Messrs. Fleischauer will continue the erockery business, doing a jobbing as well as a retail business. produce general by leased lately Co. has tile and Vright it with Saginaw—The Saginaw Ice purchased the coal, sewer pipe, fire brick business of the A. W. Lumber Co., and consolidated their ice business. va-; busi- | have incor- | eler, The style of the com- | pany is now the Saginaw Ice and Coal Co. | Kalamazoo—Barnett & Bryant and W. J. Babeock have purchased the A. A. Hazard & Son shoe stock and the Parker furnishing goods stock. The transfer will take place ina few weeks, and the new firm will carry on business at the Hazard and Parker stand on Main street. Traverse City — M. B. signed his position with M. E. Haskell, which he has held nine years, and will open a book and stationery store, occu- pying one-half of Holly has re- Cc. Mi | j } succeeds | ' : |used by A. E. Waterbury &‘Co., which | ject should never be submitted to a com- is being enlarged and fitted up for both | mercial traveler, for in speaking of his firms. Jackson—Some time ago, T. B. Taylor, ! | ened qualities, he is liable to go on in- | definitely, and in speaking of his faults | of this city, secured a patent on a new} | he is very apt to betray some confidences. process of manufacturing a cereal food | 'from wheat, which ‘‘wheat flake,” and a stock company has been organized for the manufacture of the goods. The stockholders are John M. Corbin, of Eaton Rapids; Charles Nixon, of Charlotte, and T. B. Taylor, of this city. at $10,000. The headquarters will be in Detroit, but the goods will be manu- factured here. MANUPACTURING MATTERS. Big Rapids— U. G. Gile and Frank Blanchard have opened a cigar factory under the firm name of Gile & Blanch- ard. Saginaw—Jacob Seligman sold 000 feet of standing timber county to a party in this city last week. The consideration was not reported. Coral—Byron Gaffield’s cheese factory is now in operation. He makes cheese for the patrons for 234 cents per pound, the farmers finding a market for the product themselves. Saginaw—A new firm under the name of Wettlaufer & Co. has been formed for the manufacture of furniture at the cor- ner of Perry and Hamilton streets and the brick plant is now being fitted up for that purpose. McBride—J. A. Lewis & Co. have pur- chased the shingle mill of F. Neff & Co., near Gladwin. The purchase also in- cludes the shingle timber on seven 40 acre tracts, enough to keep the mill em- ployed several years. ->-.-—-> Gripsack Brigade The wife of John Cummins has far recovered from her recent illness. that John was able to start out on the war- path again Monday. Oscar J. Levy, son of the veteran tray- Morrice Levy. has gone on the road for Gorten & Preat, of New York, repre- senting the local branch. Oscar D. Fisher, formerly manager for Arthur Meigs & Co., but now on the road for W. I. Brotherton & Co., of Bay City, was in the city Saturday and Monday. so He spent Sunday with his family at Prairieville. Whitehall Forum: ‘“B. F. Emery,who has been dangerously ill the past winter, was in town this week with Mrs. E. visit- ing old Whitehall friends, before leaving for Colorado Springs, where he will open a wholesale grocery business.’’ Flint Citizen: ‘‘A bright little baby boy arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Wood on Tuesday. Ed. says it weighs thirty pounds, but the nurse says it is about ten pounds. Both agree, however, that it is ‘a dandy,’ ” ‘‘Had” Beecher and Happy Hi. son have signed, Lobert- sealed and delivered an agreement to play a match game of base ball with their respective cohorts at the | Fountain street park Saturday after- noon. The game will be called at 3 o’clock. At a recent banquet of the Ohio | Council of the United Commercial Tray- | elers, held at Dayton, T. H. Stayton, of Cincinnati, responded to the sentiment of ‘‘The Commercial Traveler,” as fol- lows: ‘‘All you have to do, boys, is to ,look in the glass and you have him. I the salesroom now | think, Mr. Toastmaster, that this sub- 2,000,- | in Gladwin | is to be known as | it is true I might tell you how the com- mercial traveler is toiling for the good of his home; how he has become a ne- cessity in the great business relations of the nation; how he is first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of the ‘women of our country; or I might go The capital stock is placed | farther, and say that he is first to pass ‘the hat on the train for the poor old | woman who is going to see the dying | daughter; or on the other hand I might | tell you how, when he strikes his favor- ite town, he takes his best girl out rid- ing, that is, she does the driving, and he is just as busy as a local freight trying to keep her best spring wrap on.” a Purely Personal. J. H. Lowell, general dealer at Wa- | cousta, was in town Saturday. Stanley N. Allen has taken the position of book-keeper for the Cappon& Bertsch Leather Co. Gaius W. Perkins, President of the Grand Rapids School Furniture Co., is spending a fortnight at Kansas City and other points in Missouri. Heman G. Barlow and wife are spend- ing acouple of weeks with friends at Hartford, Conn. They went via the St. Lawrence River and will return via New York City and the Hudson River. L. Winternitz, who came to this coun- try from Prague, Bohemia, about six years ago,and has thoroughly established himself here as an honorable and suc- cessful business man, leaves next month for a six weeks’ visit to the old home and friends across the water. Fred B. Clark left Saturday for North- ampton, Mass., where his sister, Edith, graduates with high honors from Smith College. He is accompanied by his wife and will go via the St. Lawrence River and Lakes Champlain and George, re- turning via New York City and the Hudson River. He expects to be gone about a fortnight. Cards have been received at this office announcing the nuptials of Miss Emma L. Parsons, formerly book-keeper for The Tradesman Company, and Prof. W. L. Snyder, of Detroit. The event will occur at the home of the bride’s parents, in Benton Harbor, on the evening of June 24, the future residence of the hap- py couple being at Detroit, where they will be ‘‘at home” after July 5. If Miss Parsons makes as good a wife as she did a book-keeper, her husband will rise up and call her blessed. 9 ee Good Words Unsolicited. Jno. J. Dooley, traveling representative H. E. Bucklin & Co., Chicago: “I could not get along without Tue TrapEsmAN for three times the price of the paper. All traveling men appre- ciate your paper, as it keeps them posted ina commercial way throughout the State.” Oscar E. Robbins, grocer, Jackson: “I have only been in the grocery business two years next month and I have been a subscriber to THe TRADESMAN most of that time. I can hardly ex- press how much I think of it. I am always ready for it when it arrives and I think the time is short when it will have a circulation in Jack- son much larger than at present. I shall always speak a good word for it.” L. B. Chapel, hardware dealer, Baldwin: “Tur TRADESMAN seems like an old friend away up here among the jack pines,” - > .—-> Two new refineries outside of the Sugar Trust are, it is said, to be es- tablished—one in Philadelphia and one in Baltimore. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25cents. Advance payment, BUSINESS CHANCES, RUG STOCK—NEAT AND ATTRACTIVE, AND NEW hardwood fixtures. Excellent location on best retail street in Grand Rapids. Expenses very light and trade steadily increasing. Low inventory, just completed, $2,600. On account of failing health, will sell at invoice or for $2,400 cash, if sold by March 15. Otherwise will hold it as an investment. A genu- ine bargain. Personal investigation solicited. Ad- dress ‘‘F.,” care Hazeltine Perkins Drug Co. City. 197 ‘OR SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A GENERAL stock located in a thriving town. Capital necessary, about $1,200. address No. 24i, care oe igan Tradesman. OR SALE— CLEAN GROCERY STOCK 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 Yr 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. F° SALE — DRUG BUSINESS INCLUDING STORE building and residence. Would exchange for a residence in Grand Rapids worth about $2,000. Splen- did opening fora physician. Address H. Matthews « Co., Chase, Mich. 262 ‘LOURING MILL FOR SALE — THE ISLAND CITY k flouring mill and feed mill and the entire Raton Rapids water power will be sold on the 14th day of July, at noon, at chancery sale, on first mortgage. For full particulars and terms inquire of John M. Corbin, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 261 \ ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A general or grocery stock; must becheap. Ad- dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26 aT EN- SITUATIONS WANTED. ig nig BY YOUNG MAN, SITUATION AS BOOK- keeper, assistant book-keeper or collector Rest of references. Address E. care Michigan Tre ades- man. 243 MISCELLANEOUS. os SALE—OKR WILL EXCHANGE FOR STOCK OF general merchandise of not over $2,000 value, a nice large dwelling, large lot, horse barn, all neces sary out buildings, etc. Lot well located, with plenty of large shade trees, good side walk, and situated in one of the liveliest towns in Western Michigan Ad dress ‘‘Mac,” Coopersville, Mich. 263 K' 1R SALE—NEW STORE AND COTTAGE, WITH small stock and fixtures, situated in good country Ticket office and postoftice in store. Address No. 260, care Michi gan Tradesman. 260 {OR SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN INVEST- ment. Corner lot and 5-room house on North Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Address No. 187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187 OR BALE—TWELVE TO TWENTY ACRES OF LAND forsummer home, Seven miles north of Trav erse City on the East Arm of Traverse Bay on the poo mage — fitted for building. C. E. Clapp, Archie, M 238 . as OR RENT—CORNER LOT AND 5-ROOM house on North Lafayette st., cellar, brick found- ation and soft water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Cheap enough for an investment. Address No 187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187 JOR 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. Will trade for stock of goods. For particulars address No. 258, care Michigan Tradesman. 258 WV ‘TANTED—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 ke Write for terms to George D. Hawkins Medieine Cempany, Hawkins, Mieh. 244 trading point. Easy terms; low price. VW YANTED—SALES4EN ON SALARY OR COMMIS- sion to handle the New Patent Chemical Ink Erasing Pencil. The greatest selling novelty ever produced. Erases ink thoroughly in two seconds; no abrasion of paper, 200 to 500 per cent. profit. One agent’s sales amounted to $620 in six days; another $32 in tWo hours. We want one energetic general agent for each state and territory. For terms and full particulars, address The Monroe Eraser Mfg. — a La Crosse, Wis. Playing ards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 So. Ionta St., Grand Rapids. weagegeteiten “hla adie OS a ah cance ste tl Mp ae ciee @ ala tee SS SS ann casein eames Mey 98 na GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | DISHONESTY AT THE DESK. did really have a mysterious appearance at the outset. Une of my very first! White & Perry are arranging to rent Some of the Crooked Ways in Which | cases was that of loss of money in a re- larger quarters and put ina full line of | goods in their line. Connor & Marshall have opened a boot and shoe store at Charlevoix. Geo. H. Reeder & Co. furnished the stock. A. Hyde, whose sawmill at Summit City has been shut down a month for re- pairs, has resumed operations again. E. Treadgold has removed his drug stock from Luther to this city, locating on the corner of Jefferson and Syeamore street. avenue J. C. Hazelton, formerly engaged in the roat beer business, has opened a bakery and confectionery store at 709 Wealthy avenue. Frank and Byron Cook are erecting a two-story frame store building on the corner of Madison avenue and Griggs street and will shortly embark in the grocery business under the style of Cook & Cook. G. S. Putnam and Wm. A. McWilliams have formed a copartnership under the style of Putman & MeWilliams and pur- chased the wholesale confectionery stock of M. B. Keeler, at 412 South Division street. They will continue the business, adding largely to the stock. Wool Dull---Hides Flat---Tallow Dull. Wool is dull and low in the East, but that seemingly has nothing to do with prices West—at present, at least. As is said of wars and rumors of wars, so of prices of wools West. None but local buyers are in the field and they can see millions in the clip, in spite of the fact that they all dropped money in past They will know more later. Hides are flat and there is no demand except at extremely low prices. Tan- ners have stopped working to the extent of 5,000 to 10,000 hides per day at the East. The take off is very light, but stocks of hides, like that of leather, will accumulate on this cessation of working in. years. Tallow is dull and low, with small transactions and no ambition among dealers. iin 2 ~ <-— Another Advance in Fruit Jars. Since the forms containing the glass- ware price current went on the press, another advance has been made in the price of fruit jars, so that the price now stands as follows: aaa a a 7 Se wees 9.00 Half ealions......... . - 12.00 This is an advance of 25 cents per gross on pints and quarts and $1 on half gallons. >> Country Callers. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentleman in trade: H. J. Slade, Wayland. N. O. Ward, Stanwood. John H. Westover, Fruitport. Cc. W. Winchester, Byron Center. A. Shook, Coral. J. D. Noah, Moline. A. VanDuren, Holland. +e Attention is directed to the advertise- ment of the Harbor Springs hardware stock which will be found among the Want Column announcements in this is- sue. The town is a growing one, the lo- cation is desirable and the stock is in ex- cellent condition. As it must be sold, the purchaser is sure to get a genuine bargain. Money is Made. tailstore. A girl eighteen years of age There is quite a large portion of the acted as cashier, and she had an office in human family who “get their living by their wits,”’ that is, they get it by rascal- ity and low cunning what they cannot or will not obtain by honest means. In many cases the disposition to commit these crimes seems to be a manifestation of natural depravity, while in too many other cases it arises from a lack of cor- rect early training. The boy who, by virtue of a practical business education, is qualified to fill a good, paying position, does not feel the force of temptation to dishonesty that assails an uneducated drudge, who has nothing to look forward to but subordinate positions and poor pay. A writer in the New York Sun gives} an interesting account of the doings of some of the crooked gentry which we quote: SWINDLING BY FALSE FOOTINGS. I happened into the office of a large factory one day to see a friend, and dur- ing the call I met the proprietor and asked him how business was. “Pm about discouraged,”’ he replied. ‘But you seem to be very busy filling orders.’’ “So Iam, but for some reason 1 can’t make any money. It seems as if the more we did the less profit we made.” On the desk before him was a bill he had marked ‘“O. K.” It was for stuff purchased—lumber, paint and oil. With- out meaning to do so, I glanced at the items, and footed up the column of fig- ures. It stood as follows: Dr. to 6 kegs paint, fat $1.80 each .............----- $10.80 10 gals. oil, at 63 cents per gallon........... 6.30 Ter From Me s.............---..--- 000 18.00 TT Lis BROORY BO 5k ores crs ce tence coe na eons - 3.80 Pamee teees.......-....5.--....-.-) -.-,.. 4,20 ne On oe 3.00 The bill was in the handwriting of the man who acted as book-keeper, cashier and buyer for the factory, and was six bills put together to save separate O.K.’s. Does the reader see anything wrong with the figures? I did at a glance. The total should have been forty-four dollars and eighty-five cents instead of fifty- three dollars and twenty-five cents. ‘‘Where is your book-keeper this after- noon?”’ I asked, ‘He's OUL.”” “Well, find me all the bills you can.”’ He brought me half a dozen from the hook, and we discovered that each one had been falsified in adding up the figures. Next day the man was sent away on an errand andanexpert brought in to overhaul his books, and in half a day over $4,000 in small embezzlements could be footed up. He had taken the simplest way to rob his employer, and one which is always practiced with the most success. A similar discovery was brought about in a still more singular manner. I was riding along the highway when I noticed a folded paper which had evidently fallen from some one’s pocket. When L alighted and picked it up, I found it to be the weekly pay roll of a brick and tile yard. The owner of the yard, while a very suc- cessful business man, was a poor scholar, and he employed a young man to keep his books and handle more or less cash. The pay roll stood as follows: Bae |... ce. S15.00| Wiek...... ........ 1260 Avos.......... «+. 1.89) GGemian..........- 9.20 ao 10.9) | Haneon...... ..... 8.35 oe 10.95 Weovig.... ......... 1v.50 Total .........91bGe Rvars.......---... Pare The laborers were working at piece work, and each one’s credit differed from another’s. Iran the column of figures up and found an error. I tried it again, and was satisfied that the true total was only $98.88. I took the paper to the brick man, learned who had made out the roll, and within an hour had got hold of enough evidence to prove that in one year his young man had defrauded him of $890 by means of false footings. WHY THE CASH WOULDN’T BALANCE. For several years I was detailed on a branch of detective work known as ‘mysterious thefts,” and many of them } | | | | | feet, and had two eash windows. the rear of the store. This office was railed in to the height of seven or eight The |eashier occupied it exclusively, and it | had come about on several occasions that | | her cash wouldn’t balance the tips on the |hook. She would be short $2, $5, $10 | OF $20, and there must be something | wrong somewhere. As she had to make | the shortage good, she could not be sus- | pected, and, indeed, it was on her de-| mand that I was sent for to investigate |the case. I took hold, thinking it would speedily solve the mystery. the floor of the store could take the money, as noone was admitted to the counter next to the wall, a clear twelve feet from either of the cash windows. Il entered the store at 11:30 o’clock in the forenoon. Ati2 half of the employes went out to dinner, and three or four others luneched from their baskets. Among the latter was the cashier. She sat on a stool facing the front of the store with her back to the money, and just outside the railing. seated thus about ten minutes when I saw a string slowly descend from the floor above her head. It came down alongside the wall, and the little black on the top bill of the pile of bank notes. Then it was drawn up, and away went a hole above. The cashier neither saw nor heard. The few employes of the store were busy, goods, handkerchiefs, ete., from pillar to pillar, obstructed their vision. I went softly upstairs and found a stock boy eating his dinner just over the office. If stood him up and found a $10 bill in his vest pocket, with a fresh spot of pitch on it, and his fish-line was concealed un- der a box near by. There was a hole in the floor where some heavy box had smashed a board. He owned right up, and the mystery was a mystery no long- er. He had never taken but one bill at a time, and that always when the cashier was eating. MADE MONEY ON ‘‘RETURNED Men have always been obliged to trust other men, and they always will be, and when an employer has once satisfied him- self that a certain employe is all right, it is the hardest kind of work to con- vinee him that there is anything wrong. This loyalty is all right in one sense, but it has shielded many criminals. every employe to be continually under espionage or suspicion it would be a sad state of affairs. The senior partner of an old dry goods house once called me to his office to report a leakage which the house had vainly endeavored to stop. The shortage was not in the cash, but in the stock. Men had been set to watch for shoplifters, but none of that class had been spotted. All employes had been watched, but no one had been caught taking goods away. Most of the salesmen had been with the house for years, and the floor-walker longest of all. Suspicion pointed to no one, and yet it was certain that a leak existed. Aided by my usual luck, I was only three or four days in discovering it. The store had a fine, high-class trade, and many articles were sent on appreval. In lounging about, I saw articles brought back and handed to the floor-walker to GoODs.’’ two sides to this system, and it wasn’t two hours before a lady came in and said to him: “TI came to pay $20 for the cloak sent up on Tuesday on approval.” He took her name and money and went back to the office and reported the cloak as returned, and pocketed the money. I got three cases on him before making my report, and when I did report to the | senior partner, he flew out and declared that it looked like a put-up job to earn my money. It was easy enough to satis- fy him, however, as 1 kept the addresses of the different buyers. A call at each be a tough one, but luck aided me to | No one on} office, and the bills were stacked on the} kept up a conversation with a girl seated | She had been | ball at the end of it rested for a moment | bill with it, and was drawn through a} and the festoons of dress} Were | be returned to the office as ‘‘returned.” | {t occurred to me that there might be} 5 address brought forth the declaration that the goods had been paid for, but we waited for a fourth case and then caught the man in a box. He was wound up so tightly that he made a fuil confession and begged for merey. He had taken over $6,000 in this way, and had been playing the game for years, and was the last man in the store who would have been suspected. THE UNSAFE SAFE. John Gilman, insurance agentin a city of 25,000 inhabitants, had a mystery which he called me in to solve. He had an office on the ground floor of a build- ing on the corner of Main and Walnut streets, but fronting on Main and run- ning back to Walnut. On Walnut, ad- joining him, was a tobacco store. His |safe stood in a recess at the back of the store, and this recess was just two feet wider than the safe. It was wainscotted up to the height of the safe. Now, Gilman had been missing money right along for two or three months, and the mystery was that it had been in each instance taken out of his safe. He alone knew the combination, and in every case it had been opened in the regular way. I found it hard to credit his statements. No one had broken into the office; no one, as far as he could see, had touched the safe, and yet he was sure that the money had been taken. For instance, he had placed $200 in it at night, and next morning $30 was miss- ing. Out of $100, $15 had been taken. | Out of a package of $300 drawn from the bank and carefully recounted $35 had been taken. ‘To make sure that the fault was not his he had kept a memo- randum. He had, for instance, written down ‘$250 over three times. There are 10 820 bills.””, That money had been put | into the safe at night,and next morning it was short $20. Gilman had no occasion to rob himself, nor was he a sumnambu- list, and it puzzled me not a little how to go to work. One afternoon Lasked him to lock and unlock the safe in my presence. It was a combination of four letters, and as he worked it he called out to himself: ‘‘J-a-n-e, Jane.” That was the name of his wife. With that as a starter, I began to in- vestigate the tobaceo store. I found that the clerk, who was a young man of twenty, slept there nights. I got a chance to look at the wall opposite Gil- man’s safe, and I found it wainscoted up as on the other side, and right here was the book-keeper’s desk. Everything ap- peared regular, but that night I remained in the office after the agent went home. The office was dark and I took a seat within three feet of the safe. At about eleven o’clock I heard a slight noise in the recess, and next moment a part of the wainseoting was lifted out, some one erawled through from the tobacco store, and presently the intruder sat down be- fore the safe, opened the side of a dark lantern just a bit, and opened the door as quickly as Gilman could have done it. He took out a roll of bills containing $230,counted them over,and then returned all but $20. When he had closed the door I heard him say: ‘‘J-a-n-e, Jane.” I then nabbed him, and he proved to be the clerk in the tobacco store. He had played a pretty sharp game. There was a loose knot in one of the boards, and one evening in moving a box he had jarred this out. He had applied mucilage to the knot, and was restoring it to place when he heard Gilman locking the safe, and also heard him pronounce the com- bination. This gave him an idea. Pro- curing a fine saw he cut a panel out of the wainscot large enough to enable him to craw] through, and after that he made | two or three raids per week. His scheme | to take only a small portion of any sum | he found was a good one, but luck and | accident helped me to get the best of | him. DETECTIVE. | sensi |'How to Keep a Store. | } | | By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages | written from the experience and observation of | an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi | ness, Location, Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver- | tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, ete. Of | great interest to every one in trade, $1.50. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. pF A a BAA AR SO TOE cal AT Ri ASAE STR: te 7 ~ * ‘on ‘x i” Sa ae eae LASS aanip Nansen nN ENED DD enn SCana enn LTE OEE EE TEE Seen riya eee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A Problem Defying Solution. The Boston Herald produces following problem which is worth con- | sidering. Assuming that a community of 100,000 workers can produce in a day, by the labor of ten hours, wealth to the value of $300,000, cut down to eight hours a day, they mus either work harder or more skillfully in} the shorter period, or there will be one- | fifth less of wealth to divide among those interested in its production. There is no way of getting over this. present time the wages earned are paid, and the from the gross sum of production. this sum is cut down in any way, a loss is inevitable either on the side capitalist or wage earner, oron both sides. While $5 divided among five men will give each $1, there is no process the | then if their labor is | capitalist receives his returns | If | At the} of the! of arithmetic by which $4 divided among | five men will produced the same result. nr The Value of Cash in Hand. The value of cash in hand has been very forcibly illustrated over and over again during periods of pecuniary em- | The richest men are some- it; many of them have barrassment. times short of been quite destitute of money that they | could put their hand on any day. A good rule for all men, young or old, to follow is this: Lay up 10 per cent. of your ineome—no matter what your in- come is—and keep it where you can put | your hand on it at any time, for the remainder of your life. Even if there were never to be another panic, it is one of the most essential things in the world to have a little money in hand which is available. Nothing} will contribute more to a man’s inde-| pendence and happiness. - i ep These Were Not “Sour” Grapes. A funny incident happened at one of | Hamilton N. the Plainfield, N. J., ago. A traveler for an eastern drug} house, it seems, had on his table samples of an active purgative in the shape of | delicious white grapes. The bell boys} hotels, a short time | got hold of these and had a feast of the | treacherous morsels. Ere long, however, the entire bell boy force went on a ‘‘strike,”’? to the great discomfort of the hotel guests. +. +> ____—_ It takes a business man to describe a costume to his wife. A busy son of com- merce, after seeing 4 very taking dress on avery taking shopper the other day, in- formed the partner of his joys that ‘‘it was fine. The dress was made of some kind of cloth with some sort of trimming. It was sorter lilac or shrimp pink in color, and had for a waist some kind of a basque that was indescribable. She wore one of those hats you sometimes see on women, and altogether gave an effect that 1 wish you could have seen.” GOLD MEDAL, PAE PARIS, 1878. W. Baer & C0. Breakfast Cocoa from which the excess of i oil has been removed, MY \\ Is Absolutely Pure WV \\ \\ and it is Soluble. 4\ are used in its prepar- | 1\ \ation. It has more | |\\than three times the mixed with Starch, srowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far | Dry Goods Price Current DEMINS. y : Amoskeag..... . -..-12%{Columbian brown. .12 ~ 2os..... 144%|Everett, blue........ 12 UNBLEACHED COTTONS. * brown .13 ig brown. ....12 Aereeeee .. 2... 7 “Arrow Brand 5% Aerer............. = 1% Haymaker bie. .... 1% | — rei 6% c — Wide.. : Beaver, Creek as. aa brown.. a0 | Boaeee AA......... - OB en eee oo re | Atlantic > |... Full yard ee..... 6% : . ee 12% y........ 6% Decree 4.......... 6% Boston, ‘Mtg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, OG8.. 04. 13% : Pec 6 |Honest Width....... 6% : blue 8% L No. 220....13 ' a, 6%|Hartford A ......... 5 “ d« twist 10% No. 260....1144 - t........... 5%|Indian —.... 74 Columbian oo Or. * No. 280....10% ra oe . eS ie eee 6% Axed bil. i9 Archery ~— 2 _| King ic... © Beaver Dam A A.. 5%|Lawrence L L...... 54 aa Const i Blackstone 0, 32.... 5 *| Madras cheese cloth 6% ee ge sll ee 8 eee > i Sew ae 2 i G4| Newmarket S------ | « "— Ganton .. SisiLancashire......-.. 6% [honk Ay... i. 74 | “ 7 anes 6% | * Ac 112% Manchester......... 5% Capital a 534| “ DD.... 5% | Arlington ‘staple... 64% [Monogram.......... 64% Cavanat V.......... Bil “ 0 7 | Arasapha fancy 434 Normmands...., .... 7% ic ‘hapman cheese cl. 3% Noibe R.. ne 5 | Bates | Marwtee 84 owes meee aoe a a j eee ye JOVOL BUS. eee ce bi ~ a : Oe 7 ao ——.. ee Centennial, ........ 10 i% Rosemont..........- 6% Dwight Star......... 7 Pena. wy | C a 10%|Slatersville ......... 6 Cifen CCC... i 64% Cumberland staple. 5% Bomaereset............ ; oT f the Hea vi, | Cumberland.... .... ROO eons % BLEACHED ee ce alto du Nord....... 1034 ase... 4|\Geo. Washington... is cc TiiWabeen......-...... 7 % | Ame_son. a 2s */@len Mills.. > | Everett classics..... 8%| ‘* seersucker.. 7% Amsburg.. a ’ idold Medal... 7% | Exposition.......... TI Werwick.... ....-. 8% Art Cambric......_. 10 |Green Ticket....... 814 | Glenarven socecerren a a ee -~ exstone A A..... rest Palis.......... bl, | GAenarven...... -* oy _——- 14 — ee Tie Glenwood.. -- 08 ag indigo blue 9 ee 12 Just Out.....- 4%@5 | Hampton........... 6% Wamsutta staples... 6% a... 4 \King Phillip tie 7 | Johnson vu Yhalonel % Westbrook segs eae 8 Cabot, ... 6%! OF... 7, “© indigo blue 9% weno enone 10 Charter ‘oa . 5%|Lonsdale Cambric..10% “Zephyrs. ...16 — sete ceee ; ie wl. 714|Lonsdale...... . @ 8% | Lancaster, staple... G4iYorK..... .......... % Cleveland ces or 7 eo os 5 @RAIN BAGS. py ieee..... 1% | Amoskeag.......-- 16% |Valley City.......... 15% “ert. 8% Oek View .. Stack... bared en aw ee 08 Georgia . : os 15% Edwards. ..........- Sent 5% | American........... 16 (Pacific... 20... 14% —. nese asl Polae of tie West... ™ aa Me cee eee 7 aa 7 i Fruit of the Loom. i Sunlight............. 4% | Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's....... ....88 | Fitchville ..... .... Utica Mills......... 84 | Coates’, J. & P....... |Mershalts.... ...... 88 hae ee: es - . 6% dis ee 1 Holyoke oo 22% fruit of the Loom %. iesere............- 8% Fairmount.......... 414|White Horse........ 6 o _ pean h nana Full Value.......... — * co... mi. White. Colored.| _ White. Colored. HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. No. 6.. ..38 38 |No, 14.......37 42 ee a%| Dwight Anchor..... 9 . o...... 2 39 nt ....-- 38 43 Farwell....... ..... a, ore ee Oe ae CANTON FLANNEL. - 2... 36 41 eases 40 45 Toe o.... 5% Middlesex No. :.... CAMBRICS. | Hamilton N. 6% “ ‘“ oO ee 4 bse ee nga cd o% osececeoe ‘ osooele@ 7h.g _ ’ 5, | Middlesex AT...... 8 “ * 7. pee oS om “ “on. Se!) ee ee ee & oat ; 8....19 | Newmarket... ..... 4 ese ee : BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Bdwards.........-.. 4 ae . os Middlesex A A = 11 RED FLANNEL. | Middlesex P'T...... 8 steeee - en. ll Sn, i A T...... \ mn A 0 weeeee me Cecotmane. oa 2% a’ need ted 2.2. . fo 7 areek 2 e....,.-.- ' a . = F...... 10% o 5.....- = | Wemeees...... ....- STL Buckeye.... ........ 32% | Peerless, sta colored. . .2 ee ee ia colored ....30%4/ White Star.......... 1814 | Red & Blue, plaid. -40 |Grey cae... 7% Integrity... a 221%4| Western W ......... 18% “DRESS GOODS. Windsor....- i 1 Hamilton eee eee : [Nameless eee ee 20 — W _ ae +. mane re: i le i sn le 25 MIOM BD. ... cecccces “ | MABILODS.... 2.00 ee . oe inn 10% teen en eres — DOMET FLANNEL. x G Casnmere...... 4 wn of invalids as well as for persons in health. Sold by Crocers rocers everywhere. J. BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER, MASS. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthen- | j | i red and orange... 5%) ‘ plain . "KY x x Berlin solids........ 5% ic - ieee. dis.60&10 noe ee Ree per doz. net, 2 50] Nos, 10 to 14....... #20 88 10 — and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and wei 3 20 longe see aa al gl eae eae 3% Ot 420 3 20 Serew “Hook and Eye, %.. ee eee 420 330 a ae . 846 | Nos. 10M... -------- n-ne: .. 440 3 40 i ra a % cl net 1% No. 2 4 60 50 Bevrverecccreees net 7%) aA sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 tades Strap and T......... pee siet tenes dik. ie 50 | wide not less than 2-10 extra * Ss. 8 PAPE Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track....50&10 | List acct. 19, °86 spouted dis 50 Ciaruien, antl friction.................... 60&10 ce a SH CORD. a ' Kidder, wood track ...........-.... Te 40 | sty me tie ie a list 50 HOLLOW WARE. Den A... 55 eee 60 “ White B.. Ce 50 a... 60 “ nae “ 55 ee 60 “ Drab Bo .-..ceeeeees oe 35 Gray enameled... e+ -- 40010 Dies OT HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. SASH WEIGHTS, Stamped Tin Ware. ... .new list = Hole Bvew per = _ Japanned Tin W are. ee ee saws Granite fron Ware ............... new list 33% 410 _ Ho... “26 WIRE GOODS. Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 ieee. __. Aomsomt0 ‘¢ Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50 pores Eece. 70&10&10 s¢ Special Steel Dia, X Cuts, perfoot.... 2 ices. 2... ‘¢ Champion and Electric Tooth X Gate Hooks and aeoe.............., 7O&10&10 Oe ee 30 LEVELS. dis. TRAPS. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s... oe 70 | Steel, Game. Be ee ee cles 60&10 KNoBs—New L ist. as | Oneida C ommunity, New house's . . 35 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ....-.......-- 5 | Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s.... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings. . etees Be | Mouse choker 0 .18¢e per doz Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.. Deca senns 55 | Mouse, detision.................... , 81.50 “ pay Door, porcerein, trimmiings................. 5 WIRE, Drawer and Shutter, porcciaak. .... 41... 70 | vieht Markes................- lee eee ee LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Auealeod Maewet pa Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 | Coppered Market............. eae cesccecc. Ge Mallory, Wuecler & Cove... ........... TE 62% eee 55 | Coppered: Spring Sicel...................... 50 Mere oc. 55 Barbed Wenee, salvarnised.................. 3 40 MATTOCKS, pate ........-..... 2 85 AG ie... $16.00, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS. Dee eee S86 66 dia ea) AuSable 0 dis. 25 es ee Ee S19 50 Ge Sat | Putnam... . O85 MAULS, dis. Roe eeeee.....-.......-...... . dis. “10a10 Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............... ENCHES, MILLS. dis. Baxter's Adjustable, “nickeled de deus ce cess “30 Coffee, es. C................ CTE eee P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... Coe’s Patent — wrougnt,........ “ tLandem, Very & Cleik’s............ Cogn Patel malicenie..................... ‘dio * Beeeieee «|... MISC peaciniate, dis. MOLASSES GATES. Bird Cages ................ ao BO Raia Pee Pumps, Cistern.. ee ie mebedn ec Genuine. .....-................ . Screws, New L ist. eee n> os Ge Hinterpeine, self-measarme.................. Casters, Heda d Pisfe.................. a NAILS Dampers, Saneaeun, 40 mace) WAN POMe Cl 1 85| Forks, hoes, rakes und ‘all steel ‘goods... (ae 65 Wire nails, base. oe ETALS, Advance over base: Steel. Wire. PIG TIN. OO be ledees uae, ae Basel tae... ee Base 10) Fig Oe el { . & 20 ZINC. 10 20| Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound. 15 oot Gee patna Casky......... 6% 15 ee 15 35 SOLDER. 20 ST EE «nee 2 50; Extra W iping Be ee eee ee 15 40 65 The prices of the many other qualities of 60 90 | solder in the market indicated by private brands 1 00 1 50| vary according to composition. Oe ee eee Oe 2 00 ANTIMONY Fine 3 a 1 50 a On) Coeeeon,...................... .. per pound 16 Cc ase 10. i SE — ee 13 Deere ews c erage, oe 1 00 TIN—MELYN GRADE. - ¢ 1 25} 10x14 IC, — oe $7 50 Fintsh | ‘0. 1 00} 14x20 IC, " a. 7 5O : Dieu e tee enue ce 12 loxis IX, e ee ep ons 5 1 50] 14x20 1 ee SS a 9 2 Cc line ni36 ee ee. 8 5 Each wvaditional X on this grade, 81.75, 8 90 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. - 1 00| 10x141IC, Charcoal .. Barrell 3 % 2 50] 14x20 IC, a Dele a dis. 10x14 IX, Onto Tool Cos, fancy .....-..............-. @4) | 14x20 IX, ia meuae beeen |... ........................ QW) Each additional X on this grade 81.50. Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........-......-- @w _ ROOFING PLATES i Beach faemt qualiy @60 | 14x20 IC, c Worcester oe ek eee ey 6 50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. . .... &10| 14x20 IX, ieee 8 50 PANS. 20x28 IC, ee eee ——. Oe dis.60—10|14x20IC, ‘ Allaway Grade.. 5 75 Common, poliahed a dis. 70 | 14x20 IX, Ee 7S RIVETS. dis. 20x28 IC, . r 12 00 Iron and Tinned — a a _ 20x28 IX, o rane ven os crn PLATE, le. 15 00 Copper Hivete and Burs..........-.... BOILER Sl . PATENT FLANISHED IRON, f4u25 IX... os «os ‘“‘A”” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 | 14x31 IX. Se ae ee a tal ee +. oe «“B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20} 14x56 IX, for No. : Botlers, {per pound . 10 Broken packs %e per pound extra. 14x601X, “ PENBERTHY INJECTORS. The Most Perfect Automatic Injector Made. 42,000 in actual operation. Manufactured by PENBERTHY INJECTOR CO,, DETROIT, MIOH. FIRE PROOF STEAM PROOF BURGLAR PROOF WATER PROOF Vault and Bank Work a Specialty. 157 and 160 Ottawa St. GEO. M. SMITH SAFE CO., DEALERS IN FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES - Locks Cleaned and Adjusted. Expert Work Dene. Second hand safes in stock. Movers and Raisers of wood and brick build- ings, safes, boilers and smoke stacks. OFFICE AND SALESROOM: Tel, 1173. GRAND RAPIDS. Boni nr oy Repke -pacein seytors — Ao Pe SL EEe 8 ~ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman} Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State. The Tradesman Company, Proprietor. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable strictly in advance. Advertising Rates made known on apylication. Publication Office, 100 Louis St Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Oy. *2. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1891. TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION. The very large increase this year in the number of immigrants coming to this country from Europe, and the dis- turbances which have arisen during the past few months directly traceable to the undesirable character of this immig- ration, have urged the authorities at Washington to enforce a stricter obe- dience to the immigration laws. It is generally recognized both by the people of affairs has become such as to demand instant attention at the hands of Con- gress as soon as it assembles in Decem- ber. Just what shape the new legis- lation will take cannot be foreseen, but that the people of the country demand that the present tide of immigration be checked there can be no doubt. COURTING PUBLIC ANIMOSITY. While | good thing for the Sugar Trust, or, |rather, the American Sugar Refining i|Company, which is the name under which the old combine now operates, it |appears by the fight being waged on | foreign sugars entering directly into |consumption that the monopoly has not reaped all the benefits of the law it ex- | pected. Owing to the prejudice against | consuming raw sugars, nearly all the | sugar imported free into the country j}under the new tariff must pay to the |refiners’ combine such tribute as it exacts before it reaches the consumers. it is generally admitted that | the McKinley tariff bill has proved a) as well as by the Government that} Under the provisions of the law, existing laws are inadequate to properly | however, it has been found that certain cope will the difficulty, but, pending | grades of foreign refined sugars can be future action by Congress in the direction | imported so as to sell in competition of making the laws more stringent, the | with the sugars refined by the Trust. authorities have decided to rigidly en- | Jt has also been found possible to 1m- force existing statutes. | port grades of raw sugars suitable for In pursuance of this resolve, acircu- | qdirect use by consumers. This com- lar letter has been prepared and has petition, though not large, has served recently been issued to all steamship and to annoy the Trust, althought it is gen- transportation lines already engaged OF | erally admitted that purely on its merits likely to become engaged in carrying emi-| the foreign refined article could not grants. This circular is expected to enlist | egmpete with the American product. the co-operation of these transportation To kill off this competition, it is said companies in the effort to keep out unde-| py a prominent Cincinnati journal that sirable immigrants and to warn them /|the combine is prepared to adopt radi- that they will in future be held to a/¢g) measures. The paper referred to stricter accountability for all infrac- | states that a prominent broker in Cin- tions of the regulations. 'cinnati, who has been handling foreign The circular calls attention, in the | regned sugars, has been notified that first place, to the regulation requiring | he will be practically boycotted unless that all immigrants who are likely to|he abandons the sale of the foreign become a public charge, or are afflicted | article. We do not know that this is with loathsome or infectious diseases, | true, but ifit is we believe that the or in any other way come under the | great sugar combine is courting a re- head of undesirable persons, as defined | turn of that popular animosity which in the immigration laws, must be re-| occasioned it so much trouble some turned to the points whence they came years ago, and which finally resulted in by the steamships bringing them here. | bringing it before the courts, which This regulation, the circular states, is |compelled the abandonment of most of to be rigidly enforced, and it urges upon | the old trust features and a re-organi- the officials of the transportation lines} zation under a regular charter. the duty of discriminating before the ' That adetermined opposition is also departure from Europe in making UP | being made by the refinery interests their passenger lists. Foreigners likely against grocery grades of raw sugar is to be objectionable under our laws | evidenced by an advertisement which should be spared the hardship of a trip appears regularly in every issue of Wil- across the Atlantic only to be sent back | jott & Gray’s sugar circular, relating to again, whichis also a source of luss to} the injurious effects upon health of the the steamship companies. ‘use of raw sugar and describing the In order to impress upon the steam- | presence of a microscopic insect calcu- ship companies the determination of the | lated to make the article unwholesome. authorities to see the law enforced, the | No one will be disposed to question circular notifies all parties concerned the right of the Trust to make all legiti- that in future regulations governing the mate profit out of the workings of the number of passengers steamers CAD | tariff, but any attempt to resort to un- carry, as well as_ the other requirements | looking to the safety and comfort of | passengers, will be rigidly enforced. | In this way it is hoped to put a stop to the competition going on among the| ne steamships, which leads to crowding as | A WEAK ARGUMENT. many immigrants on board as possible.| Tue TRADESMAN gives place, this full benefits of free sugar is calculated to again bring the combination into dis- agreeable notoriety. | fair means to deprive the people of the} ;Czar have have been of an unsatisfactory character. The explanation bears the signature of Secretary Taylor and is undoubtedly the handiwork of that gentleman, but a care- ful perusal of the document cannot fail to convince the reader of the weakness of the writer’s position and the insinceri- ty of some of his statements. The paper is valuable in one respect, at least, as it throws considerable light on the present status of the organization. The former manager of the Union freely circulated the statement that the mem- bership approached an aggregate of 100,000 farmers and would effect a say- ing to the membership of $10,000,000 a year—equivalent to $100 a member. Mr. Taylor punctures the bubble by admit- ting that the membership is only about 1,300 and, inferentially, shows that the members can save $5 a year apiece by making their purchases through the Union. Few farmers, Toke TRADESMAN opines, will be content to let others make their purchases for a saving of $5 a year. Itis worth that much to exer- cise the prerogative of a freeman and secure the advantage of selection which is denied the purchaser when he releases that privilege to anether. Tur TRADESMAN has no objections to urge against the Union, further than those already expressed in these columns, as it believes that the management of the concern, under the present Secre- tary, will be decent and fairly economi- eal, Mr. Taylor’s reputation as a man not being tainted with the venality and rascality which clings to many of the leaders of the Patrons of Industry. THE TRADESMAN has no confidence in the ul- timate success of the undertaking, how- ever, and is glad to see the farmers try the experiment, as it will surely satisfy them that the present methods of mer- chandizing—faulty as they are in many respects—possess more benefits for the agriculturist than any one-man-power- scheme which can be devised and carried into execution. THE HEGIRA FROM RUSSIA. Despite the denials that continually come from Russia that the Jews are being subjected to new and unusual persecutions, the fact remains that large numbers of these unfortunate people are daily arriving in different portions of Western Europe in the most destitute circumstances, with every evidence of enforced departure from their native land. The extent of this enforced emigration of Russian Jews is clearly seenin the very large number arriving in London, as well asin New York, and the numbers also seeking new homes in the Argentine Republic and other South American countries. The numerous protests which have been sent from all portions of the civ- ilized world to the Russian Govern- ment against the inhuman treatment accorded the Jewish subjects of the had, apparently, no other result than to increase the severity with which the unfortunates have been treated. Remonstrances from the highest sources have been repelled with | scorn, so that there is no room for other By such means it is believed that the | week, to a general explanation of the | belief but that the Czar and his advisers transportation companies can be induced | to aid the Government in keeping out | undesirable additions to our population. While the circular is good enough in its way, it cannot prove more than a temporary expedient, as the condition aims and methods of the Patrons’ Com-| are callous to the opinions of the rest of mercial Union, involving a reply to the | the world upon the subject of the |charges recently made against that or-| treatment accorded the Jews. | ganization by THE TRADESMAN, sundry | It was at first believed that the Czar country newspapers and members of the| personally was not responsible for the | Union whose dealings with the concern | treatment of the Jews, the infamous proceedings being considered the work of underlings, but the Autocrat’s re- fusal to entertain even the mildest pro- tests and the steadily increasing sever- ities of the anti-Jewish laws prove that the Czar is not only fully cognizant of all the facts, but is actually the prin- cipal instigator of the persecutions. Fortunately for these unhappy people, philanthropists of their own race have come forward freely with ample funds for their relief. The destitute emigrants are provided with food and clothing, and in some cases with money, and efforts are being made to colonize them both in this country and South America. It is to be hoped that the efforts of this well-directed charity will result in the location of these people in new coun- tries where energy and thrift will pro- cure them that peace and prosperity denied in their native land by a sort of bigotry that would have done credit to medieval times. RAPIDLY VANISHING. The local newspapers of the State now teem with announcements similar to the following: Morseville Lodge, P. of I., disbanded Saturday night, and sold everything be- longing to the order. = * * % * * * The Patrons of Industry in this town are very nearly broke up. At a recent meeting a committee was appointed to settle with the finance keeper, and they found $3 in eash on hand, which was paid out for some necessaries, which leaves the finance keeper very short. THe TRADESMAN is assured by an authority which it deems thoroughly re- liable that less than one-tenth of the organizations inaugurated under’ the auspices of the P. of I. are nowin ex- istence and that only one lodge in thirty- five is now paying per capita dues to the State organization. The approaching extinction of the order suggests the lament of the poet: If so soon I am done for, What was I begun for? AMERICA’S FIRST BIG GUN. The first twelve inch steel gun ever made in the United States has just been finished. It has been in course of build- ing since 1888, and is the first of sixteen ordered by the Government. It is de- signed for sea coast defense. It weighs fifty-two tons, or about twice as much as alocomotive. The length of its twelve inch bore is thirty-four feet and 440 pounds of powder are required to charge it. Its projectile weighs half a ton and at a distance of two miles will penetrate twenty inches of solid iron. Such, in brief, is the character of this great engine of destruction, which has consumed years of time and hundreds of thousands in money tobuild. It is to be hoped that Uncle Sam will have no use for it. Itis also to be hoped that the United States may not waste an unneces- sary amount of the people’s money in making these monsters, Italy’s excesses are a warning example. The waste of wealth by civilized nations in their efforts to arm themselves has become a great and crying shame, and our nation should go further than prudence ab- solutely demands in this direction. The returns in the Michigan salt out- put last month show that out ofa total of 387,456 barrels, Manistee was easily first, with over 121,000 barrels to her credit, Bay City being second with 84,000 barrels. i ' i ' GUNNING FOR A TAILOR. Howard Fielding Discusses the Unpar- donable Sin. Il had deferred ordering new and gor- geous attire until the early part of last week because my clothes would not fit any of my heirs and the complicated weather of May made me doubt whether mere earthly raiment was likely to afford me any lasting satisfaction. Indeed, | owing to the deficient intelligence of tailors, raiment has scarcely afforded me any satisfaction at all. I had struggled to forgive. I had even struggled to for- give Cutter. Of course his name wasn’t really Cutter; it was something contain- ing seventeen consonants and only one vowel. It was unpronounceable even on the Bowery, where all nationalities meet and faternize and fight as cordially as if they were all sons of the same soil. It is said that Mr. Zswytezslete changed his name because of an accident which re- moved his brother. This brother went sailing on the bay with a friend. The friend was at the helm and there was a squall approaching. He tried to say: “Zswytezslete, let go the peak halyards,” but before he could get through with the name the squall struck them and both were drowned. Yes, I have tried to forgive Cutter, but it was no use. I have somewhere re- marked that, in my opinion, the only un- pardonable sin is the sin of the bad tailor. It lies within the power of even our frail natures to forgive ordinary in- juries. Most of them carry their own punishment with them, anyhow. If a man steals our money we bear the loss with Christian fortitude, knowing that in the course of events somebody else will rob the robber. If another fellow marries our best girl we forgive him while we wait with patience for the be- ginning of divorce proceedings, if an- other fellow’s best girl marries us we forgive her, with the same prospect in view. But the bad tailor, though he may wear clothes made by himself, has his susceptibilities so dulled by his business that he can look in his own mirror with- out remorse. I was recommended to Mr. Cutter by a man who has since eluded my vigilance. Mr. Cutter has an idea that by the change of his name he has overcome race preju- dice, and he has clinched it by getting a Yankee salesman. I told him that I had had much difficulty in getting suited. “Any man who can’t fit your figure,” said this efficient liar, ‘‘ought to go out of the business. Look at those shoulders!” He thumped me several times on the right collar bone, while Mr. Cutter, who stood by with a tape measure round his neck nodded approval and exclaimed: ‘Flat as a board, py crashus!’’ “J have always had trouble with the shoulders of my coats,’ said I. ‘*This one which I have on was made by Brown & Co. on Broadway, and it makes me look badly slewed. The right side of me appears much higher than the left, whereas the one they made before this threw my left shoulder several inches above my right.’’ Cutter spread out his hands with the palms upward and rolled his eyes toward heaven. ‘“‘] know der man dey have ter cut dere clothings,’’ said he, ‘‘und he aindt fit ter make a horse blanket for a mule.” “He is especially unhappy in his con- ception of pantaloons,” said I. ‘‘It is his creed that everybody must be either bow-legged or knock-kneed.’’ ‘Dose pants yer got on,” remarked Cutter, ‘‘are knock-kneed in one leg und bow-legged in der remainder. I never see such a holy show.”’ He clasped my slender calf in one hand, and made gestures of disapproval and disgust with the other. “If I couldn’t cut a good pant for a leg like dose, ’d jump off der Brooklyn Bridge,’’ said he. ‘Will you sign a bond to that effect?” Linquired. ‘If I had exacted a similar pledge from every tailor I ever traded with the East River would now be al- most closed to navigation.”’ Cutter shifted the conversation clever- ly by calling my attention toa pair of pantaloons hanging onaline. He said THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. that if I could have been there half an hour before when the gentleman tried them on I should have witnessed a spec- tacle of complete and boundless satisfac- tion such as few men had ever gazed upon, and never outside of this particu- lar shop. The salesman, believing that my feel- ings had been sufficiently worked upon, proceeded to show me some of his goods. I wanted a dark blue cloth. He selected a roll of it, and said that he could make me a Suit of that for $27. I gave him to understand that I was willing to pay a little more than that for a first rate arti- cle, with a fit guaranteed. He then pulled out another roll of exactly the same material. “This is genuine imported goods,” said he. ‘‘I can give you a suit of it for $382, and if they don’t fit we wont let you take them out of the shop.” Meanwhile, he kept aclose watch of me and discovered that I was not scared by his price. Then he reached out after a roll. ‘‘Now here is something extra fine,’’ said he, ‘‘and I’ll warrant it to give you satisfaction. You’ll never be sorry if you order a suit of this goods. It'll wear forever and always hold its shape. Il can give it to you for $40. Over on Broadway they’ll charge you $55 for just the same thing.” I have since traced all this cloth toa well.known shoddy mill in Connecticut. This mill produces only one grade of goods because no inferior grade has yet been invented. But it looks as well as anything else in a bad enough light. I have got so thoroughly accustomed to being cheated by tailors that no other possibility ever occurs tome. I simply order whatever they show me, and after- wards suffer in silence. Sol told Mr. Zswy, &c¢., alias Cutter to make up a suit of those genuine imported goods, and then take out an insurance policy on his life, because he would find it a good in- vestment in case the clothes didn’t fit me. He told me that I should have to wait until the following Thursday because he was so rushed ‘‘mit beezness.” He gave me to understand that many of our most prominent citizens were at that moment destitute of ‘‘pants,’’? and had gone to bed rather than wear those made by any other tailor, so in order not to interfere with the business interests of the city he would be compelled to do their work first. I waited with a foreboding of evil, for my experience with clothes has never been happy. They have cast a blight over my life. In my youth I was sup- posed to be hump-backed, for no other reason than that old man McCluskey made my jackets. It is true that a num- ber of the other boys suffered under the same unjust suspicion, but that was mo eonsolation tome. Itis very damaging to a boy’s self-respect to get the idea in his youth that he is deformed. How can a boy begin a straight life with a pair of bow-legged pantaloons? McCluskey had atheory that a boy’s clothes should not be made to fit him im- mediately, because, in that case, he would outgrow them. When he tooka boy’s measure he modified it in a spirit of large and generous prophecy, I never knew a boy to justify McCluskey’s confi- dence in his possibilities of development. As for me, I was so undersized before I was 13 that one freckle covered my entire face, and then I suddenly took a start and assumed my present ample propor- tions almost immediately. Buteven dur- ing that period—when I took my own measure three days in the week and got a new chalk mark on the door every time —I never grew into one of McCiuskey’s suits. Whenever I got near enough to one of them to endanger MecCluskey’s reputation as a reliable misfitter, the gar- ments always came to his rescue and fell to pieces. Well, these are but boyish trials. Mc- Cluskey died many years ago, and is now no doubt cutting asbestos cloth in a place which would not be complete without him. I return to Mr. Cutter. When I visited his shop to try on his sad and shoddy and libelous production he greet- ed me with a smile and remarked that he would receipt the bill now if— [CONCLUDED ON SIXTRENTM PAGE.) PiISHING TACKLE -— AND >= SPORTING GOODS HEADQUARTERS. SPALDING & GO. SUCCESSORS TO L. S. HILL &CO. Importers, Manufacturers and Jobbers of Sporting & Athletic Goods, 100 Monroe St, AQ, 42 & 44 N. Jonia St Grand Rapids, Mich., April 8, ’91. Having sold to Foster, Stevens & Co., of this city, our entire stock of sport- ing goods consisting of guns, ammunition, fishing tackle, bicycles, etc., we would bespeak for them the same generous patron- age we have enjoyed for the past ten years, and trust with their facility for carrying on the sporting goods business our patrons will find their interests will be well protected in their hands. Very truly yours, SPALDING & CO. Wi YYZ 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. 58. Hill & Co., and then Spalding & Co,, we think we are now in excellent shape to supply the trade of Western Michigan. OSTERZATEVENS ONRO r ST. R Hy ee ants ween gal 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Druga # 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; Lensing 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-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. easurer— Wm Dupont, Detroit. Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in October, 1891. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott Regular Me etings—F irst Wednesday evening of March, | June, September and December. Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W.C. Smith. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. President, F. Ww. _R. Perry; Secretary, _E. 8. Anderson. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President C.S. Koon; Secretary, A. T. Wheeier. THEY DEAL IN PILLS. Something About the Record of the Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. From the Detroit Times In these days when the members of | t every trade, profession and calling are organized for mutual benetit and protec- tion, it is natural that the retail drug- gists should secure the advantages that accrue from such an organization. Eight years ago a call wasissued tothe retail pharmacists in the city, asking them to meet to ‘discuss the advisability of forming an organization for business and social purposes.’’ The call was signed by A. B. Stevens, A. W. Allen, William Dupont, A. 8. Parker Inglis. These gentlemen, together about fifteen others, met and the Detroit Pharmaceutical Society was formed. The beginning was small, but like the historical acorn, it has been steadily growing. Theroll of the Society now contains about seventy-five names, or al- most one-half of the retail pharmacists of the city, and the membership em- braces the leading and representative firms. The society has grown steadily each year, a score of new members added during the past twelve Its future success and assured. The Society meets on the afternoon of the first Wednesday of each month in rooms at 153 Jefferson avenue. A paper is read at each meeting by some member previously selected. -- <—— Brooklyn—Love & Clark have removed their dry goods and grocery stock to Springville. HEADQUARTERS FOR Brilliant Colored Fireworks Flags, Lanterns, Toy Pistols, Paper Caps, Fire Crackers, Torpedoes, and all ho Ju 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, - - - 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 LUSTIG CIGAR 60., 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 Grand Rapids, Mish. J. LUSTIG, Proprietor, THE MICHIGAN TRADESM AN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Jalap. Declined—Gum guaiac, gum g yuaiac po, gum opium, gum opium po, oil cu- bebs, oil spearmint, bromide potash, cuttle fish bone. ACIDUM. a 8@ 10 Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 —— 30 Corpencur ........... 3@ 35 Citricum ...... 1 Soe OO Hydrochior . 3@ 5 10@ 12 - we Phosphorium dil,.... 20 Salicylicum ........... A 40@1 80 Sulphuricum.. s..- ae 5 oo 1 =_ 60 Tiare... .......-- 40@ #2 AMMONIA, ol. 33 5 Age 0 oa Da oass Bi 7 a ae 14 Ciloridum ............ Oo 14 ANILINE. TR oie os ope e cee neues 2 00O@2 2 Tieee.......-....--.2. 80@1 00 ee a cs 45@ 50 ee 2 G3 00 BACCAE. Cubeae (po. 90).....- 90@1 10 Juniperus ...... i. oe 16 Xanthoxylum........- 2%@ 30 BALSAMUM, — Meesne nese cece 55@_ 60 ee ne @1 75 Tecnkin, Canada ..... 35@ 40 Wolnten .........-+-..- 35@ 50 CORTEX. ae Canadian............ . Ginchona lava. ey ae Euonymus atropurp........ 30 Myrica Cerifera, po........- 20 Prunus Virgini..........---- 2 —. Se 14 STOO oo ce ne wenn sos 14 Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10 EXTRACTUM. hiza ——-- AG 2% Glycyrr Zz — ” 14 15 WW FERRUM. Carbonate Precip...... @. 15 Citrate and Quinia.. @3 50 Citrate Soluble........ @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol. . @ 50 Solut Chloride........ @ 15 Sulphate, eoml....... 14e & pure......... @ 7 FLORA, Ce — 20 Anthemis ........-.--- W@ x Matricaria ise: s- 25@ 30 FOLIA Barone ..........--- 20@ 38 laa “acutifol, Tin- i ell ee B@ x a nee Alx. 3@ 3 al ia officinalis, 445 an MO ec pene en se 12@ 15 eo 8@ 10 @UMMI. Acacia, ist picked.... @1 00 - = oe @ 9 wa ~ @ 80 ’ sifted sorts. . @ 6 “ po. W@1 00 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60). 50@ 60 "Cape, (po. 20).. @ 12 “ Socotri, (po. 60) . @ 50 — 1s, (%s, 14 4s, Ce cee eae @ i. Aiemeoning ........-.-- 25@ < eae (po. 30) .. @ Ww Benzoinum...........- We 55 Camphor®.......-+++++ 52@ 55 Euphorbium po .....- 35@ 10 Ga a Lede eeee ee cee @3 00 Gamboge, po.....----- 0@ 9% Guaiacum, Mpo 30) ..-. @ 2» Kino, (po. 25)..-.----- @ Ww Wie... «5. ---s- . 2 Myrrh, (po. 4 Dee Opit, (po. 3 2) Ceee : 152 20 Bees... ...--.--++s- 23@ 30 " bleached...... 230 33 Tragacanth .......---- 30@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. Abeinthium ........-...---.- 25 Eupatorium ..........-- i. = Lo an hese cues 25 Majorum......-..---- = Mentha Biperita. Leeda eee = ee eee - eae ee 30 Tanacetum, V.....--.-.------ 22 Thymus, V.......-------+-+> 25 MAGNESIA, Calcined, Pat.......-.. 55@ 60 Carbonate, ig ed wW@ 2 Carbonate, K. & 20@ 25 Carbonate, Jennings... 35@ 36 OLEUM. Abmiathim . ....--.-- 5 00@5 50 Amygdalae, Dulc... .. 7 — alae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 si 1 70@1 80 Comceee............. . Ors Hxeccneliees........... 90@1 00 reer ....... oe 2 35@2 50 Cetera ............ 2 00@2 10 Geranium, ounce..... @ 7 Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 0@ 75 eee 2. 1 85@2 00 oree............... 50@2 00 Deveedols ............ 9@2 00 Limonia ....- Peete esas 2 50@3 10 Mentha Piper.......... 2 90@3 00 ments Verid......... 2 20@2 30 Mormhuae, gal......... 1 00@1 10 oma oumes. 5.4... @ 50 Sy Es 00@2 75 Picis Liquida, (gal. 35). 10@ 12 i ees 04@1 2 Hoamarini......... T5Q@1 00 Hosae, ounce.......... @6 00 PC oc 40@ 45 —s.. 90@1 00 a 3 50@7 00 Sassafras...... — £22 @ Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 6 Wine ............. @1 50 hyme yee ee ee caren 40@ 50 ' OG ic. ses. @ 60 Theobromas........... 1@ W® POTASSIUM. eo 15@ 18 Bicnromace ........... 13@ 14 eee. <... 4... 35@ 40 caro.......,..........- 12@ 15 Chlorate, (po. 16)...... 14@ 16 yatene .............., 50@ 55 As 2 80@2 90 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 30@ ¢ Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15 Potass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 Potass Nitrag.......... GC 9 Praeeete 30@ 33 SUIpnase poe........... 15@ 18 RADIX, Recomm ............- 20@ 2 a 23@ 30 Avenues .............- 12@ 15 Ave, OO. .........-.-. @ 2 Calamus. . ~. oo oO Gentiana, (po. 15). oe 10@ 12 Glychrrhiza, (py. 15).. 16@ i Hydrastis Canaden, 7. =)... @ 3 Hellebore, Ala, po... 15@ 2 Inula, om Lee eee cee eas 15Q@ 2 Ipecac, p fee eeee ache: 2 40@2 50 Iris salen a. 35@38).. R2@ 35 oeieee, De...........-. 4@ 45 meres, i8.....-.... @ 3 Podophyllum, po...... m» 18 Rhei co. 2 75 35 Sanguinaria, (po $ 25). @ ® Berpentarm............ 40@ 45 poe ............ 50@ 55 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 M @ 2% Seiiiae, (po. %)......-.. 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feett- Gon, pe......... @ 3 Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ German. 15@ 2 meroer &............. 10@ 15 Manemer 7.......... 2@ 3 SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20). @ 15 Apium ane 22@ 2% ir es. = 6 Carul, (po. T)......... 12 Cardamon ee cee eon 1 ong 25 Comandram.........-.. 12 Cannabis eerva....... “ oo 5 ee eens %5@1 00 c Suopodium ........ 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate...... 2 00@2 2 Poenicurim........... @ 15 a. pe..... . & & ae 4 @4% tint, grd, (bbl. 3%)...4 @4% oeeeee.. 4. -- 35@ 40 — Canarilan.... 34@ 4% Meee. 6@ 7 Sinapis, Albu.. i. oe & Nigra.. a 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 D. F. a... ie THQ eee oe 1 10@1 50 Juniperis Co. 0. T 1 75@1 75 Me eeeeu ye 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 Sot. Vint Galll........ 1 75@6 50 Vini — tees teues 1 25@2 00 Vini MO oc eens 1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool a 2 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ wool, careers ............ 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage....... 110 Extra yellow sheeps’ Goria . ........-.-- 85 Grass acene wool car- Ue ee aes 65 Hard for slate use.... % Yellow Reef, for slate Me eee SYRUPS. ee 50 romper ..................4. 50 ee ee ee 60 mot ol... ..-, 50 Auranti — beesceee Oe Rhei Aro ice Oe Similax ‘Ofticinalis. eee eke gs 60 CO. . cs. 50 el es es 50 Scillae ee ete meee sees eunuues 50 ee ee ee 50 NE econ eee ene deen 50 us ios cder doesn 50 | =, S. P. & W...2 05@2 20 oh. ¥. J Meschus Canton.... | Myristica, No. 1..... Nux Vomica, (po 20).. . & --1 95@2 20 c @ 4 - O@ © @ 10 Os. Sepia ES Sa 23@ 30 | =—" Saae, H. & P. D. @2 00 Picis’ Liq, N nN. C., 4 gal doz i @2 00 Picis Liq., quarts . Loe. @1 00 Pree ....... @ 8% Pil Hydrare, (po. 80) . @ 50 Piper Nigra, (po. 22 -- @ i Piper Alba, (po ¢5) .. a 3 Pix Burgun ee ses a | Plumas Aces .......... 15 | Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 ioot 20 | Pyrethrum, boxes H | &@2FP. 8 Ce,das..... @1 25 Pyrethrum, pv........ 30@ 35 Ctinniad .............- 8% 10 Quinia, Sr. & W..... ~ 36 §. German... .24 @ 30 | Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 Saccharum Lactis py. @ 33 [oalgewa. 1 80@1 35 ; Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 a ao @4 50 ae bee ces eee ea 12@ 14 Pi ele 10@ 12 . q ce oe ey @ | } | | | | | | TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R....... 68 . = y..... 50 POOH ce ek 60 © | end wyren............ 60 | yeroe 4... oes... 50 | Meatioree. |... ...c.. 0 Atrope Belladonna.......... @ a 60 | _ oe see ces coos 50 Sterie. wk... ok. 50 WOvOGS 8 eee ee cee 50 a c.............., 7 Capertee ew 50 Cn Gare... ...-..........,. c “Ee EA %5 oo 1 00 Cercena......-....... ...... 50 CImOmone ............ 2... 8. 50 r Oe ee Column... 50 re 56 ee Digitalis ... 50 a 50 | Gentian Hele sp ed ect enees esces 50 Meee 60 i 50 ° meen... 60 a 4 PevOPCVSINUM.....:. 2.1... aoe. ° Coloriees. ............ Mer! Chioridum............ = a ce OO 50 Meyri.............,......... 50 Mus Vomica..........._._.. 50 Con...... 85 " Cemmpnhorated.._........ 50 —EC ae 2 00 Arend Oortex...... ....... & ieee 50 — 50 Se 50 Cassia Acutifol.. oe Co. eee eee 50 MOvpOmeMrem .... 8... 50 Biromeniam................. 60 Wee 60 Were ... 1. koa, 50 Veratrum Veride............ 50 MISCELLANEOUS. ‘ther, Spts Nit, : .- 26 28 Alume OM... 24@ 3 ground, (po. yy... 3@ 4 Ae... oes 55@ 60 Antimoni, We... 4@ 5 ne 55@ 60 Antipyrin ..... @i 40 Aereor......,...... @ Dd Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 66 Sreemicum 4... 1. 5@ 7 Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@ 40 Bite G. ......... 2 10@2 2 Calcium Chior, 1s, (48 i; ue, &.........-. @ 2? Cantharides Russian, ie... @1 3% Capsici Fructus, ee @ 2 @ 2% ec ac @ 20 eee ane on 38) 12@ 13 Carmine, No. 4....... @3 7 Cera Alba, $ ew 50@ 55 Core Weeve...... +> 0s 38@ 40 Cote @ 4 Cassia Fractus........ @ W Copier... 2... @ 10 Cotseewmm ............. @ 42 Chloroform . 60@ 63 ' 8q ruibbs . @1 10 Chioral Hyd Crst bees ia 5 Chonmarag .........-... Cinchonidine, P&W 15@ German 34%@ 12 Corks, list, dis. per We Creeasottim ........... @ 50 Crete, (pl, %)........ a ‘ ei a 5@ 5 . POON. 5. ese e 9@ 11 . aa cole @ 8 oo 28@ 30 ne @ «4 Cupri Sulph . ee eeu ee cs 7 Seoetee | ............. 10@ 12 sew Sen..........- 68@ 70 Emery, = numbers.. @ : : @ 6 Ergota, > cia 60. 50@ 55 . 1220@ 15 a @ 2B ame os. 7 @8 Gelatin, Cooper.. @ 70 « 'French........ 40@ 60 Glassware flint, 70 and 10. by box 60and 10 Glue, Reee.......,.. 9@ 15 Ware .......-.. 13@ 2% Glycerina . oe Grana Paradisi........ @ 2 a ............. 25@ 55 Hydraag Chlor — @ 9 Co @ 80 . Ox ance @1 00 _ Ammoniati.. @1 10 iy Unguentum. 44@ 55 Hydrargyrum ........-. @ 7 Tehthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 ogee... 4... Iodine, Resubl........ 3 7E@3 85 | ae ee @A 70 pee 35@ 40 Lycopodium .......... 6@ 43 a 80@ 85 Liquor Arsen et Hy- a @ Liquor PotassArsinitis 10@ 12 — Sulph (bbl tele eenas 2@ 3 Mamaia, oe 0@ 60 Seidlitz Mixture...... Sinapi . .......... Snuff, Maccaboy, De vo ............... Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes Soda Boras, (po. 13). . Soda et Potass Tart.. Sean Care... Soca, G.-Carp......... Soda, Soda, Sarpnas......... Sots. Sener Co ........ = Myrea Dom..... ‘© Myrcia Imp.. « Vini Rect. 2 27) bbl. Fos 5¢e gal., ae @ @ 18 @ 3 @ 35 @ 35 12@ 13 30 33 "1%G 2 @ & 344@ 4 @ 2 50@ 55 @2 2% G3 00 @2 37 cash ten days. | it Lindseed, boiled . 54 57 Neat’s Foot, winter strained . . 5 60 Spirits Turpentine. . . BK PAINTS. bbl, lb. Red Venetian. ..--1% 2@3 Ochre, yel low Mars... 1% 2@4 Ber... .. 5im 2@3 | Putty, commercial....24% 24%@3 * strictly pure.....2 % 2%@3 Vermilion Prime Amer- ican .. Levcacccs. ona | Vermilion, English. .. ten Green, Peninsular..... QT oe @7 White ..... i @i4 | Whiting, white Span. : @i0 Whiting, Gilders’..... @Ms White, Paris American 1 00 j 8 | | No.1 Turp Coach.... | oe a oT Strychnia. Crystal. noes @1 30 | Sulphur, Subl.........3 @4 Roll 234@ 3% Tamarinds . 8@ 10 Terebenth Venice. . 28@ 30 ‘EHeOpTOMAe .......... 45@ 56 VWantie 8 9 00@16 00 | Zinci Sulph.. oe 7@ Ors. Bb]. Gal} Whale, winter........ 70 70 Lard, cwira........... 55 60 Lard, No. 1. = 50 Linseed, pure raw. 51 54 | /HAZELTINE Japan Whitir Eng. chim . 1 40 EF ioneer Pre pared Paint! 20@1 4 Swiss Villa airessien Paints . ' 00@1 20 VARNISHES, Paris 1 10@1 20 160@1 70 Coach Body veeeaee Cue UO No. 1 Turp Furn......1 @@i @ Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 Dryer, No. 1 Tory................. a oe & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES. DEALERS iN Paints, Oils 2& Varnishes. eee Seic Agents for the Celewruica SWI88 WIkLA PREPARED PAINTS. We are Sole Proprietors of ‘Full Line of Staple Druggists’ Sundries. Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy. We Have in Stock and Offer « Pull Lins of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction. Alt orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Send in a 75@1 00 | trial order. Aarelting & Perkins Drvg bo, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ee a eA ETC TE ITT TOE TT EE <2 saat colle eam went he aeeani mt pecntniaen tamer ae watt ie: 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMA N. GROCERIES. | WOOL TALK. Pertinent Advice by a Veteran Mich- | igan Buyer. . T. Lamoreaux, the veteran o sends out the following circular | letter to his buyers: I have but recently returned from the East, where I went on wool business. I regret to say that I found matters ina very unsatisfactory condition, and a universal feeling against Michigan and Ohio wools, arising wholly from the way in which our wools have been put up, and bought by the interior buyers in former years. Since 1886 it has seemed as if the farmer tried to see how poorly he could wash and market his wools; | and the buyer has been willing to pur- chase it as offered, taking, in many | instances, the farmer’s ‘‘say-so’’ whether the wools were washed or not. We have allowed this condition of things to exist until now the manufacturers will not buy our wool, unless he can first take samples and cleanse it to see what the shrinkage is, and then offer us 2 to7 cents under what it would be worth if in wool | good condition. Our Michigan wools in 1885 cleansed out i¢ per cent, and in 1890 57 per cent. That shows how} we have let our wools come into bad repute. Then, again, compare the manner in which we do up our wool with that of Australia: The weight of | twine used in doing up the me es is| about 40 to 1 in favor of Australia. To tie up a fleece of wool properly it “just requires twine enough to hold the fleece together and no box should be used—not | twine enough to hold inside the all the tags and sweepings from the barn floor. How would any of these same farmers feel if they were to go intoa store to buy a pound of tea, if the merchant was to put or 4 ounces unnecessary twine and paper on the package todo it up, which cost cents per pound? The writer saw, while in Boston, fleeces of Michigan wool that were turned from the factory to show their | condition, which had sixteen strings on each fleece, weighing 2!¢ ounces to the fleece, and the twine was such as usually known as woo! twine. There is no use in?talking, the buyers of Michigan have let our wools get into this condition, and until this . removed. our wool, on Eastern markets, will be a drag. The writer knows of no way ou of the difficulty but to put none but ex- perienced buyers in the market, and buy all these ‘‘unconditioned’’ wools at their value. And bringing their wools to market condition, they must be bought value. Our wools should bring the very top of | the market, as there is no wool ter, if in same condition as other but we have lost our standing, and until is in at their we can recover it we must bring up the | get | rear in price and take what we for it when put upon the market. Eastern buyers who have into Michigan and buying two million pounds of wool a year the past twenty years, say they will not take a pound of Michigan wool this year, as they can make no money on it, wholly | on account of its condition. farmer and the buyer may say when they see this, ‘*‘’taint me,’’ the writer wants to say that in most cases, ‘‘’tis you,” until we all try to put up our should be, we must by the consequences. can been coming be willing to abide The writer has been a buyer of wool | in Michigan for over twenty years, buying from 600,000 to 1,250,000 lbs. a year, but I shall go into the market in 1891 with the | idea of buying Michigan washed wool at from 22 to 24 cents, when, if the wool | was in as good condition as it used to be prior to 1886, I would be willing to pay | for these same wools, 28 to 30 cents. wools are worth to-day, 28 to 30 cents in tion of 1890 to go by, the wools will be dear at 22 to 24 cents. If this should reach the eye of any new men in the wool] field, let ‘‘experience’’ iin | lots | tion, either from excessive twine, poor /are New | over fleece | of | 2o0r 31 two | re- | if the farmers persist in| bad | any bet- wool, | from one to} for | While the | } | and | wool as it | i The | | grade teas, spices, proper condition, but, taking the condi-| 304 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids, | | Sete WhO. ...----02020co00ee-er eres: | Mich., general representative for E. advise you to go slow. Buy the wools carefully. and when you come across any of wool which are out of condi-| iw ashing, or stuflings, buy the wool at its | | value. Don’t think that %¢ or 1 cent in | | price will make it good in quality, for it) will not. When the factory man comes | | to buy this same wool, | but at once throws it into the pile of un- merchantable, where it will bring about two-thirds or three-quarters as much as | it would if in good condition. Try wash their wool at all, or wash and put it up in good condition; then, manufacturers see that we can offer them something good for their money, they will want our wool, and we can get full prices again, oe Change in the Atlantic Mills. syndicate, the stockholders of which York and Boston capitalists, has bought the large interests held by A Jesse Metcalf and the estate of the late | Atlantie mills | corporation of Providence, the price paid | Henry J. Steere in the being somewhat in excess of $3,000,000. There are 2,000 loomsin the mills and | 2,200 hands are employed, and over 3,000,000 worth of woolen goods are produced annually. _ 2 <—-- Why She Was So Selictinns. “Anything wrong with the coffee this morning, John? “No, it is good enough.”’ ‘‘Biscuits all right?” “T haven’t any fault to find with the| biscuits.” ‘Steak cooked all right!’’ ‘*] don’t see anything wrong steak.” “No complaint to make about any- thing?’’ ao. “John, I wish you would let me | 50 cents to buy some ribbon.’’ and mixed | with the have ni A A Good Man Gone. Hart, June 15—I have failed to note any reference to the death of Chas. E. | Leonard in your paper. The deceased was the junior member of the firm of Rhodes & Leonard, general dealers, and was universally respected. Asan evi- dence of the respect in which deceased was held by his associates, every busi- ness place in the village was closed at the time of his funeral. Death was eaused by enlargement of the heart. The business will be conducted’ under the same style, the widow having assumed the management of her late husband’s in- | terest. _ 2 <> The Grocery Market. Sugar is a little weaker and the price is off a sixpence. Corn syrup is weaker j}and lower. Oatmeal and rolled oats are drooping, the price being a barrel lower than a week ago. Currents are weak and will be ‘ge cheaper on the ar- rival of new cargoes next week. are weak, | moving them at prices | actual worth. 25¢ a little Raisins are cheaper. under ——- > | Saved a Cool Thousand. Wife (proudly)—I saved you $1,000 to- day. Husband—Saved $1,000? {that much to save. We haven’t $100 we ean call ourown. Hang me, if we have over $10, come to think. Wife—But you have always said that} if you ever had money enough you would | build a house. Husband—Of course. ‘Well, for $5 I brought a book showing | We haven’t | how to build a $10,000 house for $9,000.” a For the finest coffees in the world, high etc., see J. P. Visner, | Gillies & Co., New York City. i Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. he doesn’t hesitate | a moment to say where that wool should go | to get the farmers, first—not to | when the} Pickles | jobbers having large stocks | PRODUCE MARKET. Asparagus—40c per doz. bu. Beans—Dry beans are firm and in strong de- CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. | mand at #2 og bu. for choice hand picked. Wax | Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. commands 1.50 per bu. String is in fair demand | | Standard. , Ber Sag ites! 6% 1% | at $1.25 per bu. ee ie 6% vi | Butter—The market is full all around, dealers | “ oe CC 6% 7 | purchasing only immediate wants at 10@15c. ee 9 Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $2.50 | Cut Loaf............ 000. ccesee cee ees 7% 8% | per Crate. (iar ee .....: 2... .... 1% 8% Cucumbers—50c per doz. | MIXED CANDY. Eggs—The market is steady. Dealers pay 14| Full Weight. | @15e and hold at 15@16c. Bbls. Pails. | Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb. Pee 6% Ty | Lettuce—5@7e for Grand Rapids Forcing. Cee eee ee 6% 7% | New Potatoes—California stock is held at $4 EE Ee 8 | for2 bu. bags. Tennessee stock has not yet put | Roval..................ccccee seers 7 8 | in an appearance. Se 7% 8% Onions—Green command 10@lic. per Gox., C- | Broken... ............ 000-200, sees T% 8% cording to size. Bermudas bring #2 per crate. | eee Bee 7% Si Southern command 83.50 for 2 bu. bags. rieeereok........-.-.-.--s- = 8 Potatoes — The market for old stock is strong | Broken Taffy.............. 7% 8% and higher, dealers offering $1 in a small way | PeanutSquares...................- 9 and $1. {0 for carlots. But for the fact that the wae 10 country is nearly bare of stock, the shipping de- | French Creams.......... ee 10% | mand would be lively for the next twoweems. | Valley Grodmis.......-.... .... 13% | Plants—Cabbage or tomato, 75c per box of 200. FANcY—In bulk, Pieplant—2e os lb, Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. | Peas—$1 per bu. Lozenges, a eee chee cee aee an 10% 11% | Radishes—15@18e per dozen bunches. eee... .. scl es 11 12% | Strawberries— Home grown stock is now | Chocolate oa a a 12% | coming in freely, prices varying from 8@12c per | Chocolate Monumentals. — 14 qt. TP oo oon ot ee cn ae 5 6% Tomatoes—#2.50 for 4 basket crate. bE Tin oo ec ces wou 8 9 Watermelons—Shipments of Georgia are due | Sour Drops...........+-+-+2eseeee eres 844 94 in about ten days. The crop is reported Oe | WN, ee et ee 10% 11% largest ever known. Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. "Per Box (OO 88 | 1. ane Sour Drape ......... Se! PROVISIONS. Pepperm: a I aoe ee ee ne . The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | Chocolate —— capesiar nd ovreher ett quotes as follows: i ee a PORK IN BARRELS. | Gum Drops ee ino eT TG 411 9 | Ldcorice Drops... .......--..----seeorsresee-- 1 00 TIN 12 00| A. B. Licorice Drops............-.-.seee cree ee 80 Mexire cicar ple, short Cat................... 14 00 Lozenges, OEE EE 65 | ct cree, BOO ‘ printed... .-..--+.+ sees seeeeee eee: 70 a ee 13 25 | Imperials.......... | Boston clear, short cut. oe tcee sc eeee es oo a oe 60 Se ah tis. 13 50 | Cream Bar Lederer s enh work on wine 0 Standard clear, short cut, best............ 13 75 | Molasses eke 55 SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. Me ee ee ee 15@17 Pee 7 | Hand Made Creams...............---+.+-- 85@95 i 9 Pee ee 80@90 Tongue Sausage............ cn eo g | Decorated C FORUM. «2.22.5. senses ones -eeee 1 00 er Ce g | String Rock......... | S 2 Burnt Almonds...... | Blood i eee ae ee 5 il SN is 5 | Wintergreen Berries A i ec 5 ORANGES. ee 5 California, = Lelie eee aes 3% LARD—Kettle Rendered, BN ee ot eect eee 4eec ee 4 00 i oid tinct nine 8 it 176-210-226 ............. 4 00 ee a &% LEMONS. os es iG | Memeing, caoiee, O00... ................ 5 25@5 50 LARD, Com- . ee ee 5 75@6 00 Family pound, . a 5 50 Co es a -+ +654 6% ' ee 6 00 wee Gere reee............... 6% 6% OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Sib, Falls, De Ceee.......... 1% 7% Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... 18@19 5 ib. Pails, 12in@ case........... 73% ver’ choice ee @i6 10 Ib. Pails, 6 in a case........... 74 614 : [ oe @12% oo ib. Pails, 4 im & cane..........7 634 ' Fard, 10-1b. box a nn @10 a 6% 63% " ee @8 BEEF IN BARRELS. “ Persian, 50-Ib. DOX............... 4@6 Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 9% Almonds, “eeeiene... a @17 Extra Meas, Chicago packing................ 9 25 x |. @16% Homeless, ramp OU... “ oe Q17 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain, Ret Ae 740 8 Hams, average 20 Ibe i 9% | Wilberts ..... “@ll 16 Lethe ee deka leee aes 10 1 eee 1% a @ a i 8% Table Nuts, No, 1 a ne: @i4 PO ee el SM ae Se @i3 Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................-.. 3% | Pecans, Texas, “i. Ge 15@17 Dried beef, ham prices Cocoanuts, full sacks............. ..... @4 00 Long Clears, heavy....... PEANUTS. Ree, Fancy, H. P., Suns.. oe, @ 5% » light ........ ami Luu @ 7% —— Fancy, z. P., Flags Lei ccee pe cuey ee ee as @ 5% FRESH MEATS. Roasted....... os oa @i%*% Swift and Company quote as follows: Choice, H. P., Extras.. @ 4% - “ Roasted.. @ 6% Beek eee... ..-...-..... 6 @7 “ Lod > ie ae HIDES, PELTS and FURS. = See, ee ssc... @i2 ki & Hess pay as follows: . _— ee 11%@ — gy EB a 6 TOUDGS...... 06-2 eee eee ee eee ee es Regs 4 @5 6 COMEUEB.... ee eee eee eee @ RG, @5 eee @ nS 5 @5% Oe ———— @8 6 @7 | _‘* shoulders........... DO Riad ae 4 @5 | Sausage, blood or head.. ee ee 5 @5% “ Tiver.......... . @ 5% | Calfskins, green........-.----...s-r0005 5 @6 ~ Saie.........,-. noe @ 7% ae 5 @7 MUUUON ..... 22. ee eee cee eee eee eee a 10 @30 ee eee eet ee @ No. 2 hides % off. _—— PELTS. FISH and OYSTERS, —— = ec ee eee > Q%5 simeated Wool, per DH ...........+-. _s 25 F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: eer WOOL - FRESH FISH, i a aes ee a 20@28 io ti, aa eee — Ce @8 ee i es ee eee 34%@ 4 ecm ee ocd ee @15 G b 1 a ee a AE eG ere err reer crete eats sore = Wiounders i @ 9 Cee J 3 eee IED cue it he - 8 OG? W ee ES Eh @2 {OAR 02 socnnsen-annns anne ores covn rene @i2 Cees eet @2w } c N G R A \ ] I N G OYSTERS—Cans. | Fairhaven CountS.... 2... 0 eee eee e eee @40 It paysto illustrate your business. Portraits, SHELL GOODS. Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories, / sters, per 100....... -+--.s..ee-seee es 1 50 | Machinery, etc., made to order from photo- Clams, bile ol casa id a Oe ci 1 00 graphs. OILS. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows: Grand Rapids, Mich. be WE oe eee eee ee ieee ° 9 8% > | Zuaieen TOE 200 -ctosses oon ® on CINSENG ROOT. aptha..... serceoe i ee 7 oe ne al cise ei ec EU Cee teed cwiee ones be - ese We pay the highest price for it. Address PVUNGOE ...+.. ee 27 i RE ieuchin tema’ 13 @2i1 PEGK BRO wee ene Oe Bisck, Gumaer....novs..- oss, pies dleues @ 9% a ear aern teie alten gemma THE MI CHI GA N TRADES) a LAN. 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Pumpkin. ng canada 60 ee Yellow | ue HN 194.0 woe nee 31 Wot url. inner 4 Dede aa | 17@18 Je NG EXTRA ne ee Te 3 p Sop | i coves tens 4\) No. 2 Car a ve 59 | Hubbard oo” | | 2 02 fol ennings’ ae 50 than 100 Ibs. r Seas Butle 33 mei a SE s levee | eo | IS. : « 59 | T nethin rr & a7 Rb 18 en ec a) setomyeror sg ee sei ind : Common Wi a i ee i : 00 soaked nati cotash, a 13 | 6 oz : a = mnels a 40-Ib ra : “Corn. " ut of Si a raha ie eel aa ey rands. anc em eevee eceeees a ney ie $ 02 i: Ui 1 Le gg net Ne 37 Mill. ‘TE 2 50 Dew... a _ ae | “ is 50 150: . b pac ieee ON gu; | Colonel's i moki ine. ein 26 Ware es — Van C Tomatoe — 7 | Keg: @uUN Ss . 2 00 | 61 i kages ea o4| Sureatn : weed atten 99 | No. C amp’s crore tape a eaiee 60 | Hel? kes ores 3 00 | $08 g| rpaa ote ie 2 BU ne 0 a EB BM asi sauder soe 1 York sun... = cies HS = Hancock ee 1 10 | stl ee 8 BOl Sarrels. : Ib. Howes. 6 3 Self R ia OUR oa END io 1 10 | a. RBS Po agit 1 States... vo. 0-. u Ks eeseeeceeeeeeeee “6 > ee tee : 00 cotch, ee 434 Hon Breas ee cone cone 5 00 Ger eta 1 | a ae : . Maccat in blad a 434 Golk ey Ho’ _ eee ma ILAT 05 } icag JEL see 15 fre 0, ders. 4 ld Ss tel, 40 CAN nn Prem: n Swee E—BA > ve | | go goc nln a o ench I in ja i Peer! a 40 Ib. boxes... ES ae Pa ium.. a. KER’S . | No —., a Zappee, rs. +. ~ Rob ess... Wicking — rs les on | 82 ovo wee | No. 1. silane PPR roads Wonle = aS Lae ear... eee ee - 10% iN st Cocoa...... 34 $5, | = a a ao a | Uno, vountry risley’s & — an LM. ++. a exae wee aia NY o@ CHEESE. ay eB oe weeeeeee 2 | Pu ee +. 30 ee a _a...-.. Brands. yo Pp ott on ah nc 2 oe a | 7 ae ; reeeee .-. 250] ire baste aT cer, reer run ‘ipe. sues a ie Ref ccc val Misi Slee m8 | =o 300 Skim wees ee @10% eae ia Mcbectto the Zliwing 2 + ce | Kegs, English a Handed Ca Little Nec Clams. r ee | eget to the following ‘oie woeeeess i ae English......- 00) F mics OEE k, ms: fap Sago... ee wo ~S | or olloy 00 ndens na .. 2 seem, a soba ] gs. ee rE d lb Swiss, co ed a8 | 500 — wing di nsed, 2 LYE. aed 51g a | ue eacie| a ee cece Stand Clan Ra 1 imported a @2 1000“ a 5 pe s-| No.9 5 Hapbeecomiag - 18) jranulated, box NR a a. nh a ‘. aes ~ tg ede ee 2 Sis meat a — 00 | = per cent Anchor parlor cnet ce 125 Mixed b , boxes __ “ 50 er oe 33 Stand OV : ar. - ® 2% K as 20 | ry 2h oe ‘ar ird nai } ees ard, e O: eapber oRee, 15@ 25/S enosh YRACKE ss Ex F DATIOT wos eves : ca vind. ane 2 as ent “ 1 ysters 2 ubb sain ine 2 in aE ERS annem 4 lem) eae as Li for ban “ . rs. 30 ‘ er, 100 ca cai ae = —" utter... . parlor eerste: : 1 20 Hemp. Yoosce ven cenes 14@ 6 =e “gman tompressed, ar 1 Lo ae pruce,’ 8. . | | Pau ie g ee 10 | So aker’s cakes ympres _.s “hea 1 ee,"2 | ae 14. .. oe ug } aa alos ge. . cetteeeeeeeee r’s, | s. pe presse Pict iui suai 10 Sn an ’pleces.. =m iB i — nea an sit woe “kstrap. nor — rs cote eieneietit ene ec 3% PA cia sper doa. ae ce CATSU +8 ae pn RA 88 cine Sie ae pee 15 Ss a oe os 1s " i pint... _ | City Soda a ee setae a Pri a baking. an 16 | I pe — St a 30 cantante i | Soda... een BM | rin Bata | 1 ian a Te wo PA NW andard Mackerel. a ..2 00 Sg = ee 135/C Se we | F — hoe a | ro 3-Ib. a wa c 1% Sacks ' PER. ARE Must ' Aya 1. .--3 00 TOSS pcLonHEs PI 4 te 30 ity aeuee. Le Ay ie «HER a UN 19| 98 . ib cks rystal. Rag —— r om... | xes. | ¢ eee > — tae tc oe; . | g sugar...... poet 3 Ib Sa 12 Bulk eee aaa 8. 50/g a ee 6 Fair. How Orleans. *- 9 | 20 aa ik : go hy cs Sou Pa, 8 Wee ooo } ag | Pot ie gee | Strictl PEEK. ooo 5% Good | re rleans. we =o 34 3 lb. Pei oo ¥2 40 3aker oS TNT neues sed, 3 lb ce, 3 as 00 | -_ pack ee va ei Telfer’ pure ARTAR. 5% Extra g ri ee a | 56 tg cas L cc 2 20 Dry Ge sag cor olumbi a 12003 0 AEOR. 2. @4 oe Absolute. .... — ood. receessosttetss | Ib. 1 i a Red ae iu sueea aati a Riy ae 3 COFF! a @7 Sree cas 30 ncy ea be at aa ae an | i linen’ ee a ed E illa oa : Ala: er, fi -3 00 IF FE Qi ne = Or Ee en 20 | 56 bags . 1 ae} aeP ress No. ska, at... : vE, | en 30 1é-hal Ce 26 tn d Wa . 50 - Ne carats - = a talls.... sala — | DRIED .10@15 | Barr if barrels, $c ia 30 | 23 Ib. airy in lin AW 80 | 48 Co No. 1..... 6s sage 1 60 | basa. ne | Sundri D FRU Ha els 20 ATMEA c ext 36 | 56 nen bag Co tton. TWIN eS 5 m ms Ra Prime cs nd A ITs If b ) i ra | 56 1 3 | Cotto : ES, a. ericat ea | sk oo | Prime ......, Leeeee | Ev ried. Apples S. aerele 700. | lb. d Asl “ 235 eae aia +4 Im ‘= 1¢8, 1210 | Prime ooo es.- 0 verses 20 aporated .... r Half fo a. @ ls airy bag — 18 Sea re ae —- | 2 "shee | - 20% | ~ : sete 6 | 56 g ‘ 2 eee cused ported BBicrcee ee os | Peaberry oveetitereirees 21 A Califor ine ae @10 Bar bbls oo Oa . OS 50 | 6 Ib. da Higei : | No. elated eaegtied * Mt _ ae 5G 6|F ry seses eae a ots. ornia E\ 13 4 rels 180 ).. Ts. @3 50 | 5¢ iry bag ins. __ | Ne : Hemp . assort ried. 22 a it | Fai wee ee ae ackt sienna D 30... | 56 1 Ae tel " sgn sonnet a fe “ate | ae oe ae || - = 22% | | Nect yerries .. ——— I PICKLEA. | @3 50 | : sac Solar Roc | Wool wh a 40 Brook ' 113@14 lf ae ig ed Pe arines ei 3arrels M LES : @65 C aginaw anc | = on ok, 3 1b Trout oto a aes ee | ieee a ci TAI 18 Half be ” goa B6 50 | ommon Fin 3 Mar Tut cea “* hg Lice . ) = eLcsisa Looe 20% | | Ply 8 So teeee 9 yarrels ount. | Ck ne pe anistee 7 ups, Nc OODEN ceeeece ae i Tray Me ae ie 21 2 ms. ing... 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Now that the union is well established, and proves worthy of attention, it becomes the duty of some hide-bound country editor to warp some malicious gibe of THe Micu- IGAN TRADESMAN into a weapon of warning and defense, publie that the ordered 2 of calico and a plug of tobacco, and when the freight on them were paid, it had cost more than local prices. Without respect or regard for these flies in space, I desire to give a true exemplification of the facts and status that surround the historie reality of the union: The present Manager, D. Conklin, of Kent, and myself as Secretary, took charge of the affairs of the Union, for the first, March 24, 1891. As is true of all great bodies, they move slow, and this is no exception. Many reports had gone out overstating the real size and particular energy of the union. Its mem- bership was placed at 20,000, ete. Now the facts were, when I became Secretary there were about 1,300 subscribed shares, or one-fifth shares of $1 each, with 20 cents assessment each, as expense fund, the original stock being placed in de- posit. Offices were to be rented, printing bills paid, price lists issued, postage paid, and men employed and paid for their labor—all in the face of every dis- gruntled person’s antagonism and the opposing interests of commercial centers. On assuming charge of the affairs, we grounded our faith in the proposition that it does not pay to sell poor goods at any price. We set vigorously at work to learn if any articles advertised were unworthy of our trade, and lopped off and discouraged patronage of all in- ferior articles. As rapidly as possible we disseminated information to our pa- trons, but our orders from the first en- grossed our time so much that our work is yet quite poorly understood among more than a few in our State, yet it is surely and steadily gaining favor, and the whole commercial public feel its in- | fluences and recognizes - that be fore this union down the} present prices of ric of articles that go into the homes of farmers must | go down before it. eccentric John Jones oes Perfection is nowhere in earth] ters. It is not probable that every pur- chaser in the union draws a prize, Dealers will confidentially tell you that} on some articles they sell at or near cost. Presuming some one orders an article of this kind, it is not remarkable if he is somewhat surprised and disappointed, and such an experience is a rich harvest for the enemies of low priced goods. It forthwith has currency with every penny- a-line newsmonger, and the ‘‘old moss- back’? becomes ‘‘my dear farmer,’’ and is admonished to beware of anything de- signed to lift him up to a proper appre- ciation of commercial secrets. Now let truth prevail, and conscience bedeck its prevalence with facts, whether black or white. One asks what it does not pay to order through the Union? I can not always} tell. Sugar, for instance, has no saving when shipped to one market, but is profitable in another. Granulated sugar | has several grades, and besides the same | grade varies to-day in different markets | in Michigan from 17 to 23 pounds per $1. Now if a man is in the 25 pounds market | we would not advise him to order of us; if in the 17 pound market, it will show different results. Small orders do not pay as well as large ones; freight on five | boxes of soap is not more than on one box. One man orders $2 worth of ironware | by express; the express is 75 cents; that | doesn’t pay. Does his cerebral cavity ' and reeognizing that a one - horse - town- | foresworn | by notifying the} 1¢ pounds of nails, three yards | inevitable— | y mat- fore all € THE eee | comprehend, or does he go to the down jtown paper and kick? Sometimes one | w ay, sometimes the other, according to | |his stock of intelligence. It does not | |pay to order a very cheap priced affair; for instance, a $15 double farm harness | will appeal at once to the incredulity of | 'asensible man; likewise an $8.50 gold | filled watch. He reasons that it is a case | | with a low grade movement, and the |facts are it is a 10 K. gold filled case, fast enough, but not a desirable move- | ment. Now, a sensible plan would be a $10 movement in a $1 case, which at once | gives a man good service and can at any | time be remounted in a finer case and be- | come the peer of the ordinary $35 or $40 | watch. These are facts that appeal to | common sense, and it is the plan adopted | by the present management, and works | admirably. | pass upon the good nature of farmers | | than most anything else, hence contracts | |in them are difficult to obtain, as once | lost to the power of combination, a har- | row that is quoted to dealers at $7 in car millionaire rates. Fortunately,the Union | has secured many farm implements of | high quality at very reasonable rates. We can only expect a bitter struggle from competing combinations. With such in- | fluences as these for opportunity,I should | not be surprised if within the history of | the Union some one within its fold hav- ing exemplified an incompetency, or lack of good faith, would incline to be Judas, yet the facts remain good, that despite the growling fellow who would be ugly, or the inexperienced who in good faith has been less fortunate, since the 24th of March the Union has sold over 50 double farm wagons, and on them, be- tween the Union price and the dealer price charged me in December last for the same wagon, saved to the farmers of Michigan over $500. it has sold over 30 watches, ranging in prices as listed in retail markets from $5 to $65 each, and but one of them all has reported break- age. Has any jeweler in Michigan done better? It has sold tons of barbed wire, saving hundreds of dollars to farmers. It has sold articles too numerous to men- tion, from baby cabs to 200 cords of tan bark, and has an order to place a steam thresher. One began ona keg of nails, next bought a watch, more hardware, then a harness, then a mowing machine. Evidently the town paper got no satis- faction out of this man about losses on two pounds of coffee and a pair of buggy | stubbs sent by express at express. Had we been disposed we could have | | published scores of letters expressing | implicit confidence and satisfaction with | purchases through the Union. We | ferred quietly to work outa destiny be- arth knew of our effort. | sciousness of the teed by possibilities the success we guaran- have ings of unsophisticated yeoman editors. ‘In all, a few hundred people have lordered goods through the Union, and | | while, as itis to be expected, some one |now and then has not met with the full | measure of expections, our sales in total i|when compared our prices to those of |regular retail show upon careful esti- 'mation $1,500 saved to the farmers of Michigan. | As might be the expected, hustling | {drummer posts notice that it will cost the farmer ‘‘some big salaries,” just as | though he did not ask the farmer to| allow for his salary, without even half | compensation. Now we beg leave to notify the fellow that the Union will | move on during our administration, salary or no salary, and safe is our salary, for the keen appreciation of our farmers, between the old and the new, as contrasted by efforts of the Union| | will within a year make it indispensable | in the judgment of rational men. True, | there are compensations for our prices, | such as delays caused at factory by ‘inability to fill orders on sight, delays | but the great saving | in transit, etc., when once goods reach destination has in every case of any importance brought Farm implements show greater tres- | lots, and sell at $18 retail, must face hon-| | est competition and be sold for less than 50 cents per | pre-| It has | | been well done, and only the full con-| now, | | prompts us to take time by the forelock | |and forestall some of the verdant bleat- | TRADESMAN. A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE IN EACH P KANSAS City, Mo. ‘|OLION COFFEE FOR BREAKFAST,’ MIXTURE or MOCHA, JAVA anv RIO. A DELICIOUS DRINK Iv 1S ATRUE ACKAGE WooLson Spice Co. ToLepo,O. DEAL PEREINS & HESS ERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CA KE TALLOW FOR MiLL USE. PATENTED |HESTER & FOX, - - TRIMO Pipe Wrench 1889 Made of Forged Steel and Interchangeable in all its Parts. Sold by - Grand Rapids, Mich. I want 500 to 1,000 sior Bolts, 18, 36 and as above. Bolts Wanted? cords of Poplar Excel- 54 inches long. I also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths For particulars address J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich. GET THE DEST! [LMANS OFRIEYD ss is PRR LUISE j ———— a j MS | % oorBeee & 2 Bf | EXTRACT. | esate See | Lp cad 4 oe a J en ff j | |e nine A 6 ms “| { . pone Y/N a —Z Cr sie GALLONS | = es LE) 1D OLD FAS 7 TOOT 77 BEL s WILLIAMS’ Root Beer kxtract | It isa pure, | fax concentrated Extract of Roets and Herbs, lit makes a refreshing, healthful summer bever age at a moderate cost, for family use. Every dozen is packed in a SHOW STAND, which greatly increases the sale, as it is always in sight. 25-cent on only $1.75 per doz. 3 dozen for $5. For sale by all jobbers. Order a maety from | your wholesale house. Show cards and adver tising matter are packed in each dozen. H. F. HASTINGS, Manufacturers’ Agent, | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BEACH’S New York Goffee kooms. 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. § cpeETT, Vice-President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier, $300,000. CAPITAL, - - Transacts a general banking business. Make * FM geeeae ts of Collections. Accounts 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. een eee alent] a second order. Besides at this date it is no longer a secret, that manufac- turers detest the credit system, despise the irresponsible retailer who too often is but a jockey dealing in bad security, farming out goods upon part payment, and saddling the unpaid balance upon manufacturers. They recognize the traveling salesman as much in the light of a necessary evil, and are continually writing us for information, and one by one fall into our way of doing busines, which is simply cash with order, and | goods from factory to user, no bad depts, no idle capital, no agent dependent upon commission, hence zealous in fore- ing upon the consumer goods he knows to be inferior. Great as ois the pe- cuniary benefit of an organization of this kind, quite as valuable isitin the way of gradually enlightening the far- mer upon commercial customs, inter- change of commodities, relative profits of the several industries incident to the country’s make up; in short, making him as familiar with the commonplace eustoms of transit, the peculiar secrets of general success in trade and manu- facture, as with his own fields. Boards of Trade make it profitable to send out men to learn what the farmer is doing. Manufacturers make it profitable to send out drummers, with orders to sell as high as possible, but meet competi- tion. Why willit not be as profitable for farmers to employ men to go out and bring to them the full competition of the earth, instead of four corners’ store? Why not profitable to employ men to instruct farmers what is doing on the Board of Trade, and what is doing in all the great manufacturing and commercial centers? © The Patron’s Union is the first step in the right direction, and the forerunner of something that will yet develop many new ideas to many men. Better far for farmers than politics. J. E. Taytor, Sec’y - = -2 <> aa Parable of a Foolish Trader. From Hardware. Once upon atime,in a certain place, there was a certain trader who by diligent labor and long hours had built up a fine paying trade; his small store-house was filled with merchandise, and his pockets were heavy with jingling silver. His customers came from far and near and the bargains which loaded his counters rapidly changed hands. Now it so happened as this trader stood one fine morning, sunning himself in the door of his shop, and rubbing his hands from inward glee at the thought of his well-earned prosperity, he forgot his humble origin and the early years of his struggle for trade, and began to be envious of the fine large stores which surrounded him on every side. Now a wise man has said that the wish is parent of the deed; and in his mind this trader-turned over and over the fond idea of an elegant tall building, which should bear aloft his name in golden letters, and contain a large store filled with eager customers and willing clerks, himself the proud proprietor. The longer the thought grew, and its growth was very rapid, the smaller seemed to shrink his present surround- ings; the contrivances which he had planned and made, and which were once the acme of his desires, were now an eyesore and seemed an hindrance to his progress; his elbows, a thing before unnoticed, now were continually hitting the sides of his cramped storeroom and his feet stumbled over the bales of goods which crowded the meager space; even his manner changed and his old clerk found him absent-minded and_pre- occupied with his thoughts. When the last customer had come and gone and the shutters had been closed and the store door bolted for the night, the trader hied him home, and as usual, without speaking of his thoughts to his wife— who had saved what he had made these many years—was soon lost in happy dreams of the grand store and ele- gant surroundings which were to be. Now, in this same city there dwelt a very rich man who had gold in plenty which he lent to those in need, not from kindness, but for gain; to him the following day came the trader and un- Pic nent latter ~ Sa | folded his cherished plan, and having | Signed a bit of paper, received a bag of |gold with which to put into execution | the fond idea. Now not far from his shop was a large vacant plot of land, the ; owner of which gladly gave it to the | trader in exchange for part of his gold. Then came the mason who dug and | built the foundition broad and strong; | then came the builder who placed the | beams and reared the walls plumb and true; then came the tinner and covered the roof, tight and sure; then came the plumber who fixed the pipes; then came the plasterer who covered the walls; then came the artist who frescoed the ceilings; then came the painter, and the building was done, and above it all there shone in gold letters, the successful name, which could be seen for miles, so high was it. Then came trader with his goods and wares, but the had vanished, for the foolish trader had signed his name to many bits of paper, the remembrance of which caused him much anxiety. serve the foolish trader. pass that the customers who liked the old shop and its clerk and its great bar- gains also remained behind, and the foolish trader was soon troubled and often sighed for the days of yore when his store-house was filled with wares and his pockets with jingling silver. Then came the rich man and demanded his gold; then came also divers others and also demanded gold for the bits of paper which the foolish trader had signed; then last came the bailiff and sold out the goods and took down the gold sign and posted a notice on the door of the grand store and took the key of the same from the possession of the foolish trader, and the savings of years vanished ina few moons, and were no more. Then the foolish trader sorrowfully went home and sat by the fire and wept bitterly, but his wife for she was not his business confidant, but her looks reproached him. Morat—Let wellenough alone, lest in reaching for more you lose what you already have gained, and asked your wife’s advice before you kill ‘‘the goose which lays the golden egg.” ——_——_—>— Second Nature. Young mother: I want you to weigh the baby for me, Mr. Toughsteak. Mr. Toughsteak: Certainly, ma’am. Young mother (absent mindedly): Take out all the bones, please. a — Use ‘‘Tradesman” Coupons Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS, LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. Me Gaus... .... . 1c A 1 88 Bee 27 First quality. oo Oho Gree ton........................., 2 2 Raat ' ee 2 40 Noa? “ " Bee 3 40 XXX Flint. Boe eee te...................... .2. 2 60 ot ’ ee ee 2 80 Nez * _ OF eae eee ee ae se ese ea: 3 86 Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. 37 nos C - ecg 47 No. 2 Hinge, ‘ . dae a 47 La Bastic. NG 1 San, plan bulb, perdas. .............. 1 2 nae ' a . ed See ceue uaa. e oe pe 1 35 os ee eaalicaes lide eee tee ue 1 60 FRUIT JARS. Mason’s or Lightning. Pie 85... ieee cee sae a 8 % ee ee i. 11 50 CO EE 55 ee 3 50 STONEWARE—AKRON. Ditters Croces, per a... ..., ne 06% wea, 6 wel, oer ee... i... si... 75 fe ee a eed yuu cues 90 . . ce ee SE Ee 1 80 Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. igieget zs hee S trader’s | many | the | bag of gold and pockets of jingling silver | Now the old clerk of this trader, who | had grown wise from long service, spoke | with his wife and they considered to- | gether, and through her wise counsel he | secured the lease of the old shop and | remained behind and refused to longer | So it came to | said not a word, | (OO Ee 45 (a 50 Ee a ee ce i. ic. ol FUILT POR BUSINESS ‘‘patching up’’ pass-book accounts? | 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’’ 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? have or not? a CASH BASIS of crediting? | our coupon book and ask you to carefully ;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, ing when bills are presented. considerable trouble when | day comes. | you have to eharge} many items on your book that do not} | appear on the customer’s pass book. This | jis sometimes the cause of much ill feel-} Many | times the pass book is lost, thus causing | settlement | | 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 ean 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 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 } sum. GRAND 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 Then why not adopt asystem of crediting that will abolish all these anda hundred other objectionable features of the old method, and one that establishes A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the Tradesman or Superior Govpons, COUPON BOOK ys. PASS BOOK, We beg leave to eall your attention to | 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 loealities 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 whieh 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 eredit 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 trialof the coupon system? If so, order from the largest manufacturers of coupons in the country and address your letters to THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, RAPIDS. nee tee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GUNNING FOR A TAILOR. [CONTINUED FROM NINTH PAGE.} I gently said to him nay, politely call- ing his attention to the fact that a fit was guaranteed. At this the Yankee sales- man dragged out the clothes. I put them on behind a curtain which was so ar- ranged that the people in the shop could look at me around either side of it. This trying ordeal put me in so good a temper that I was prepared to saw Mr. Cutter’s head off with his own shears on the slightest provocation. In fact, when I looked at my reflection in the mirror, the provocation seemed quite sufficient to justify any atrocity. There were the same old humpy shoulders; the same des- pairing droop of the whole coat as if it were hung on a pole; the same cross-cut, bewildering swirl of pantaloons pursuing their eourse from my waist to the floor in a sinuous, sad, uncertain fashion, as if they had plenty of time and were willing to take the longest way. I turned to Mr. Cutter and found him lost in admiration. The Yankee salesman was also nearly speechless, but when he at last found a tongue he swore that his own skin was a misfit compared to that pant. He always spoke of a man’s neither garments in the singular. I ventured to call attention to the shoulders of thecoat. I pointed to the fact that they exemplified all the errors and follies which I had adjured Mr. Cutter to avoid. ‘Vat you egspecdt?’? he inquired. “Pose shoulter of yours vas beculiar. Der right one was not made for der left. It vas made for somebody else. Der coat fits you so vell as anybody could make. Ve can’t— ‘‘Look here,’”’ said I, ‘didn’t you tell me when I came here first that I was | melephone 640. built like a Greek statue, and that any- body who couldn’t fit me ought to be electrocuted?”’ ‘Well, I didn’t notice that off leg at the time,” said the salesman. ‘‘I saw that the other was creoked but [ didn’t want to offend you by mentioning it. Now when we have to cut one leg ‘“‘Und der chicken-breasted men is der hardest to fit,’’ interrupted Cutter, ‘‘now dat goat—”’ ‘‘When aman is knock-kneed on one side,’’ the salesman broke in, ‘and slewed just a trifle, I don’t say very much—” It was the end of my endurance. 1 took a pair of scissors in one hand and a flat- iron in the other and drove Mr. Cutter through the back window before he had time to open it. He escaped by the back door of a saloon in the next street, and I was forced to return to the shop. The } salesman was not there. A boy said that he had gone out on businesseand would be back in a week. I took off the clothes, put on my own and departed. Yesterday I received notice of an ac- tion for assault and battery: a civil suit for the amount of the bill to which Cut- ter had added $15 and the costs of the court, and a circular saying that Cutter & Co. have filled their store with the latest summer fabrics and patronage. This last may have been mailed to me by mistake, but it hurt my feelings deeply. I shall visit Cutter’s shop, but it will not be for the purpose or ordering a summer suit. It will be because I am afraid his assault and bat- tery case is weak, and I want to strengthen it. HowArkpD FIELDING. WM. BRUMMELER & SONS Manufacturers of and Jobbers in PIECED AND STAMPED TINWARE. Our Specialties: Tin, Copper and Copper-Rimed Buckets, and all kinds Teakettles, Pails and Milk Pans. Send for Quotations. 264 So. Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Tar and Gravel Roofers, And dealers in Tarred Felt, Building Paper, Pitch, Coal Tar, Asphaltum, Rosin, Mineral Wool, Etc. Corner Louis and Campau Sts., GRAND RAPIDS, Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich, $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays 4 per cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually. May, 1891. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer. ESTABLISHED 1865. BROWN, HALL & CO. Manufacturers and Jobbers of Fir & Plush Robes, Horse Blankets, Harness, Buggies, Cutters & Sieigis WRITE FOR OUR PRICES BEFORE PLACING YOUR FALL ORDERS, 20 & 22 PEARL STREET, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Wall Paper and Window Shades, House and Store Shades Made to Order. NELSON BROS. & CO., 68 MONROE STREET. solicit my | GH I G AN ENT Grand Rapids & Indiana. I ENTRAL In effect February 1, 1891. TRAINS GOING NORTH. “‘ The Niagara Falls Route.” Arrive from Leave going jouth. orth. DEPART. ARRIVE | ror'Saginaw, solid train ....... +}7:30 alm Detroit Express. . 7:20am 10:00PM | For Traverse City.... .... ..... [5:56am +7: am Mixed ........ - 6:30am 5:00P™ | For Traverse City & Mackinaw] 9:20am 11:30 am Day Express...... -12:00'a m 10:00a™ | For Saginaw, solid train........ + 4:30 pm | *Aflantic & Pacific Express. eokhtib pm 620 0M | Bor Ceeiios........ .... "+ 2:15 pm + 5:00 pm New York Express......-.++++ sevees 5:40pm 1:15 pM™ | For Mackinaw......... ‘+ 7:45 pm [10:30 pm *Daily. WrOek BRIAIAB0G, 6.05 50.0050556 + 8:55pm All other daily except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express Arrive from Leave goin trains to and from Detroit. North. South. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapid | For Cincinnati.............-.... 16:00am +¢7:00am Express to and from Detroit. __ For Kalamazoo and Chicago...tl0:15am 10:30 am FRED M. BriaGs, Gen’l Agent, 85 Monroe St. Rieu Weta. el 11:45 am G. 8. HawEIns, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. | For Fort Wayne and the Kast... + 2:00 pm Gro. W.\Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. | For Cincinnati............... 45:30pm {6:00pm O. W. Rue@es, G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago. | For Kalamazo and Chicago 10:00pm ‘j11:05 pm | Pees Seeew...............,. +10:30 DETROIT GRAND HAVEN Aa ie ti mu pete NOW IN EFFECT. TIME YABLE - pm Trains marked (jj) run daily; (+) daily except Sunday. Sleeping and parlor car service: North—11:30 a m train, parlor chair car for Mackinaw City; 10:30 pm train, Wagner sleeping car for Mackinaw City. South—7:00 a m train, parlor chair car for Cincinnati; 10:30 a m train, through parlor coach to Chicago; 6 pm train, Wagner sleeping car for Cincinnati; 11:05 p m train, Wagner sleeping car for Chicago. EASTWARD. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. Trains Leave jtNo. 14|+tNo. 16)¢No. 18|*No. 28 In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Ga Rapids, Lv| : ae 6 50amj10 20am | 3 45pm 10 55pm Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e offers a route making the best time betwe n Tonia ...... r| 7 45amj11 25am] 4 52pm /12 37am | Grand Rapids and Toledo. St. Johns ...Ar| 8 28am|12 17am) 5 40pm) 1 55am slapiaggaaagnal! Owosso ...... Ar| 915am] 120pm) 6 40pm} 3 15am a : E. Saginaw..Ar/1105am| 3 00pm) 8 45pm)......-- Lv. Grand Rapids at..... 7:2 a.m. and 6:25 p. m. Bay City ..... Ar/11 55am] 3 45pm) 9 35pm). ..-..-. ir. Teneo ae... 5. J... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. Pie |... Ar/1110am| 340pm) 8 00pm) 5 40am VIA D., @. H. & M. Pt. Huron...Ar| 305pm] 6 00pm/10 30pm) 7 35am i Pontiac ......Ar|1057am| 305pm) 8 55pm} 5 50am -| Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a. m. and 3:45 p. m. Detroit....... ‘Ar/i1 55am] 405pm! 950pm| 7 Oam | Ar. Toledo at........... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. WESTWARD. Trains Leave (*No. 81 \tNo. 11 |tNo. 13 |tNo. 15 5 10pm) 10 30pm | | G’d Rapids, Ly| 7 Oham} 1 oopm| : 6 15pm/11 30pn Gd Haven, Arj 8 50am; 2 15pm Return connections equally as good. W. ‘{H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. n 1 Miwteoas *)_....... J... 0-0 6 45am} 6 45am Chicago Str. “ }.------- es 6 00am} ........ *Daily. +Daily except Sunday. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a, m., 12:50 p. m. 5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:45 a. m., 10:10 a. m., 3:35 p.m. and 9:50 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet ear. No. 18 Chair Car. Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar. Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager. Ben FLeEtcuerR, Trav. Pass. Agent. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper 23 Monroe Street. No. 11 ’ JUNE 7, 1891. CHICAGO & WEST MICHIGAN RY. ‘For Portable or Stationary Engines, 1 to 500 Horse Power, Portable or Station- DEPART FOR | A.M. P.M. | P.M. |P-M- | ary Boilers, Saw Mills, Shafting, Pullies, GENS +10:00) +1:00 *11:35]...... Boxes, Wood-working Machinery, Plan- indianapolis .........- 1t10:00; 1:00] ....-]----.- ers, Matchers, Moulders, etc., call on Benton Harbor..... i Meee +1:00 ae = St Joseph........ . 't10:00) +1:00 *11:35} §6:: W. Traverse City......... Hos 5)... as ° Cc. DENISON, ee +9:00) +1:00'+ 5:40} t6: —. | | $7:25| 45:25|......]----+- Manufacturers’ Agent, Dudtuwion ....0., 1.1.1 ee See Big Rapids............ | +7:25| 45:25)......|.....- 88, 90, 92 So. Division St., Grand Rapids Ottawa Beach......... +9:00| +1:00 + 5:40] +6:30 Estimates given on Complete Outfits. +Week Days. 10: 1:00 5:25 «Dally. §Except Saturday. go. No extra charge for seats. Manistee, viaM. & N. E. R. R 11 035 P. M. ig solid train with Wagner pal- ee) ace sleeping car through to Chicago. 6:30 Graham & Morton’s steamers for Chi cago. A. M. has through chair car to Chica- P. M. connects at St. Joseph with P. M. runs through to Chicago solid ROMUND B DIKKMA with Wagner buffet car; seais 50 cts. t P. M. has through free chair car to N Rn. &. THE GREAT JUNE 7%, 1891. DETROIT, Lansing & Northern RR Watch Maker = Jeweler, DEPART FOR | A. M. Pm. iP. x. MN i cn cee tees nee +6:50) +1:00) *6:25 i DI ois cect seesaw ton +6:50} 41:00) *6:25 re eke teeta cee +6:50) 41:00) *6:25 Kh CANAL SY Grand Ledge.................] 16:00) 11-00) %6:25 ty Rie SOROS. 200 oo ono cs. +6:50} 41:00) *6:25 ae 5 ‘ Ama. .... fT St. Louis Saginaw City.........0+.-+--- *Every Day. +Week Days. 6:50 1:0 6:25 lor car; seats 25 cents. .. troit. Seats, 25 cents. P. M. runs through to Detroit with par lor car, seats 25 cents. For tickets and information apply at Union ‘nion station. Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or Gro. DEHAvEN, Gen. Pass’r Agt. A. M. runs through to Detroit with par- Has through Parlor car to De- Grand Rapids, - Mich. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above s to Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. 7:00 am 11:15 am 5:40 3:45 pm Pp m 8:45 pm Through tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 tien, or George a Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. . L. LOOK WOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. From Muskegon—Arrive. 10:10am ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MEROHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Ghicago. MICHIGAN Th ADESMAN, Grand Rapids.