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JUNE 2-4, 1891.

GENERAL FEATHERSTONHAUGH
AND HIS MASK.

General Adolphus Maepherson Feath-
erstonhaugh would have been fully justi-
fied had his name been thrice as long
and as loud. He was over six feet high,
and was broad of shoulders, far-reaching
of arms, of symmetrical expanse and
vigor in every sense. Not merely was
his head of the largest dimensions ; his
sandy red hair was of aluxuriant growth,
which was the despair of every bald-
headed man who saw him, and he would
have rejoiced in a beard of the most
patriarchal downpour if it had not been
almost an article of his creed to shave
himself as closely as might be every
morning of his thoroughly regulated life.
It was his use to shake hands if he met
you a dozen times a day, and it was
almost as good as a fur-lined glove to
have him take your diminutive hand in
his of a cold day, so large it was and so
warm. There was always arich, almost
purple health in his magnificent breadth
of countenance, and nothing was in more
perfect keeping with his sumptuousness
of size than were the deep organ tones
of his voice, whose every depth, height,
moduiation, inflection, had been most
affectionately cultivated.

For the General was an orator. Early
in life he had published a volume on
elocution, and it was his delight to re-
vise and improve it, as year after year,
it passed through successive editions, a
yet larger and fuller lengthened likeness
of himself as a frontispiece of each. I
cannot truthfully say that there was
much originality or suggestiveness of
thought in any of the many discourses
delivered by him. As to his words, you
might as well try to quote Niagara; and
it was yet harder to try, after, let us say,
a Fourth of July oration, to recall any
thought therefrom. ‘‘It is very stupid of
me,’’ you were apt to say, ‘‘for it was a
splendid effort; but I cannot remember a
thing he said.”

The truth is, there are differences
among public speakers, and when an
orator gives himself so sedulously and
successfully to the curve of his gestures,
the expansion of his palms in persuasion,
the rhythmic periods, the diversified
peals of a voice such.as his, one can have
no time or care for anything else.

‘*Upon this mest eventful recurrence
of the natal day, ever glorious of our
national independence, what spirit so
deteriorated, so abjectly bent toward the
nadir of all that we appreciate as
coming within the boundaries of
the sublimest verities of our
Western Hemisphere, but must bid
the advent hail of that most epochal
hour in the roll of centuries, the lapse of
ions.” How often have I looked up at
the majestic speaker, and striven to seize
and hold the nebulous meaning of what he
was so earnestly endeavoring to say. It
was the best part of a temperance occa-
sion, of the coming to our city of a
distinguished Kossuth of one kind or
another, of a political assembly, of the
laying of the foundation stone of a pub-
lic building, to see the General rise, as

 

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he always did, to make the address. A
committee would as soon have done
without the Stars and Stripes, without
the brass band, as
Adolphus
haugh.

‘*T think he looks best in black broad-
cloth with a white tie,” was the remark
of the old people.

‘**You do? We,’’ the young ladies
would cry, ‘‘ like him best in his regalia
as a Free Mason. Oh, but isn’t he grand
then! What a pity it is not usual for a
Knight Templar to speak with his hat
on—the gorgeous feathers would go so
well with the General’s way of saying
things.’’

But he had this advantage over other
public men. It is but now and then that
they can make a speech, whereas I never
saw the General that he did have on the
robes and wig, so to speak, of an advo-
cate. It was great good luck if you met
him coming up street when you had a
country cousin by your side, some
stranger from elsewhere. “Who is
that ?” was always demanded of you on
the first sight of your distinguished
fellow-citizen as he drew near, carefully
dressed, as was his wont, with kid
gloves, well blacked boots, snowy linen,
plentiful watch chain across his white
vest, his gold-headed cane in his hand.
Except that your companion was apt to be
a little nervous under the ordeal, it was
the event of his stay in town—the intro-
duction and subsequent conversation ; it
gave one an idea of how it feels to be
presented to an emperor.

But it was not conversation, if the
interview lasted not over five minutes—it
was that much of an oration. Lounging
in the hall of a hotel; coming upon him
in the throng of the store; listening to
him during the stay at table of a dinner
party, and when he stood in the parlor
afterward, with his back to the fire,
whatever he said was that much of a
discourse. He laid down the law to
patient, physician, nurses, during his
ten minutes in a sick chamber, and the
modulation of his thunder to the hour
and the area was as good as a scrap of
oratorio. I have come upon him when
he was buying a paper of a newsboy of a
bitterly cold morning on a windy street
corner; [ have heard him directing his man
to carry a message; once I chanced on him
as he was arguing the proper pay for
cleaning the snow from his sidewalk
with a red-nosed and ragged tramp; on
another occasion I passed by when he
was remonstrating at his back gate in
mid-summer with the driver of an odor-
iferous swill wagon—the General was, in
every instance, delivering rounded peri-
ods, with suitable gesture, ore-rotund
accents, and all that belongs to an ora-
tion. His habitual language was as
different from common talk as is classic
Chinese from the vernacular, as was the
Euphuistic jargon of the days of the
Stuarts from Anglo-Saxon, as is the
delicacy of an esthetic conversazione
from the slang of the Bowery.

“I have read of the Man with the Iron
Mask,” one of the General’s friends said

General
Featherston-

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to meone day; ‘“‘but I really know as/| met him on the streets or in society? Yet
little about him, although I have known /no visitor could ever induce his door-
him all my life, as Ido about that mys-/| bell to ring: or, if it did, no one ever
terious state prisoner. He has so draped heard it within; certainly it was never
himself from head to foot in the volumi- | answered.
nous silk gown of an advocate. He eats; ‘‘Thereis a frightful story running the
in it, is sick and well, sits still or goes rounds,’’ it was remarked in a knot of
abroad, sleeps init. It reminds me of the General’s lady friends one afternoon,
Thackeray’s cruel picture of Louis Le|‘‘about his domestic affairs. A prying
Grand, which was so folded that the Mr. Smith, who passes the General’s
mere lifting of a leaf from off this most | house to and from business every morn-
majestic monarch Europe ever knew, ing and evening, has fallen into the habit
revealed, you remember, beneath flowing of peeping in at the basement windows
wig and royal robes, the pitiful scare-|as he goes by. Sometimes he walks of
crow of an infirm grand-daddy, weazen nights on the other side of the street, on
and tottering. Strip the General of his | purpose to see what he canof what is
mannerism, and what is left?’’ | going on the upper rooms. He says that
“We haveall of us laughed,” I replied, | he distinetly saw his neighbor seated on
‘tat Hawthorne’s story of the old witch | the side of his bed—just to think of such
who made an effigy of a man outof a la thing in such a man!—actually darning
pumpkin, a few sticks and an old suit of | his socks! What a pity he has not gota
elothes stuffed with straw and breathed wife!’’

|
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into him the breath of life, and sent him |
forth upon the tour of the world as a
millionaire, a scientist, a successful lover.
So of the General—”

But I was silenced by a universal out-
ery, which I stilled with uplifted hand
to add, ‘‘You are right to object, but I
did not mean to say that Hawthorne’s
heartless, soulless manikin was a correct
representation of our excellent friend.
That he is merely a moving mannerism
is not the whole story; we are all agreed |
that a more generous, honorable, bigh-
pirited, pure-minded gentleman, and
in every best sense, does not exist. With
all his affectation he is sterling gold; if
he is the grandest humbug alive, he is |
also the most innocent, a very child at
heart, and there is not a man of us but
highly esteems even while we see through
him. People smile at each other furtive-
ly as he goes by, with a bow and a wave

of his hand, even while they acknowl-

edge that, for the life of them, they can- | Visitor at her handsome house. Now, as
not say why he is the person of distine- | an orator, he was equally eloquent upon
tion he so evidently believes himself to |®®Y and every theme—politics, patriot-
be. When you turn away from listening |ism, Masonry, temperance, art; because,
having no definite conviction in regard
to any of them, an address from him was
of the nature of a purple haze, which

The ladies laughed, but Mrs. VanDorn,
the lady who made the sad announce-
ment, did not, and looked at her friends
with surprise, not to say rebuke. She
was a widow under forty, rich, plump,
very charitable. Had she been more
beautiful she, too, might have been as
| frivolous as those who could see only
| matter of amusement in such a man as
the General being constrained to do such
a thing.

“Why don’t you marry him?” came now
in chorus upon her ears. She was not
so wealthy for nothing.

‘““There are some things,’’ she said,
“upon which I do not wish to be joked,”’
and soon after she left, the ladies open-
ing eyes of wonder behind her; and oh,
the comparison of views which followed!

General Featherstonhaugh had long
been aware of the admiration in which
he was held by the lady—was a frequent

 

to him for half an hour or so, the man
who has witnessed the interview is sure
to greet you with a broad grin upon his
face. All the time we are as proud of |COuld be interpreted in any way you
him as can be—for his essential goodness, | Pleased. That was how it came about
but no human being can point to any-| When in Mrs. Van Dorn’s parlor after
thing of value he has ever said or done. | this he went off into that memorable dis-
If ies man is more laughed at than Gen- quisition of his upon the general topic
eral Adolphus Macpherson Featherstone-|f woman, home, mutual affection. It
haugh, no one is so loved.” never occurred to him that the widow

The General was a lawyer in tolerable | W2S his only hearer, or that it was a
practice; was often defeated for Legisla- | dangerous thing for him to indulge just
ture and Congress by some sharp, smart, | then and there in what he had laid down
alert man who bore the same likeness to | #2 his book on elocution and in practice
his opponent during the canvass that one | #8 the most effective form of rhetoric, es
of Drake’s little vessels did to the four-|Pecially when one has reached iis
storied Spanish galleons which it first | PeToration—the placing of himself in
annoyed and then demolished. ; the center of all he describes, though it

But no one could tell how he managed | be in centuries long past, yet to come,
| wholly foreign to him in every way. it
was so now. Dwelling at dangerous
length upon the wretchedness of man

 

to live, so small was his income, so fine
was his linen and broadcloth, so ever
fresh were his hat, boots, gloves and the |
bit of a bouquet he invariably wore in | #P@rt from woman, he exclaimed at last,
season upon the lapel of his well-brushed and without a thought beyond his elo-
coat. He drank with strict moderation, |@uence, standing before her as she sat
never gambled, never raced or traded in lost in admiration :

horseflesh, bought and sold no mining; ‘‘ Andis it thus with me—ah, woful
shares, and was such an irrevocable old |me! Excluded, alas! from the one Eden
bachelor as delights the souls of the|left us, the Eden of home ”—hands
scores of necessitous nephews and nieces | clasped together, eyes fixed upon empti-
which such an old bachelor is sure to| ness—‘‘I behold myself doomed, doom-
have. Chancing to own a modest little|ed’’—deep and sorrowful bass—‘‘to
red brick house in the suburbs of the | wander abroad solitary, abandoned,
city, he made it his home, a peculiarly | alone, sighing, Speed thee, wretch’’—
homely old lady acting as his house-| both hands thrown out—‘‘among the
keeper. Who could be so genial, in his| arid absences of her whose smile illu-
way, as the general, when, that is, you| mines the world! Now, now, alas! unto

 

 

 

 

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whom can I turn in my unalleviated
anguish? Is there a woman—?”’

Of course I cannot give the exact
words. What Ido know is that, lost in
his purely rhetorical fervors, his eyes
moistened, his tones thrilling himself as
well as his single hearer, his voice sink-
ing in ameasured cadence as he pro-
ceeded he was suddenly interrupted by
Mrs. Van Dorn :

*‘General,’’ she said, standing before
him, her tearful eyes upon the carpet,
‘you have said enough—more than en-
ough! If you will take me, here Il am
with all I have—’’ and much more. So
smitten was the orator in the midst of his
lofty rhetoric that for a moment he lost
his voice; but his ghastly pallor and the
first recovery of his breath in the words,
“Great heavens! madam—’’ might have
disenchanted her, but that a visitor com-
ing in at the instant prevented it. And,
in a word, the General was too much of
a gentleman to undeceive the delighted
widow.

They are married. The conundrum
thereafter among the General’s friends
was twofold: Will she, after the honey-
moon, undeceive her husband, herself
undeceived, and so rend away his ora-
torical drapery? if so, what—good
heavens!—will be left of him? Never!
General Adolphus Macpherson Feather-
stonhaugh has such confirmation in his
wife that he is, if possible, more mag-
nificent than before. The mask is upon
soul as well as upon body; and in what-
ever world he may hereafter abide he
must forever and ever be as we have
known him here. But those who people
that blessed world will like him none
the less.

Even to his lawful wife the General
still remains a hero. Ww. M. BAKER.

“ — > <-> _
The Clerk or ‘‘Reciprocity.”’
“Store Crank” in American Grocer.

The theme taken for this article is one
not new, although the application of the
word to the every-day routine of store
life may be. The indefatigable and
persistent efforts of the present Secretary
of State are bearing fruit in the opening
up and interchange of commodities with
our South American States,and must even-
tually result in the system being extended
throughout most of our Western Hem-
isphere. This subject, however, 1 have
no desire to discuss to show, but if I can,
that a true spirit of reciprocity must
exist between employer and employe,
and that unless these relations are
largely reciprocal, no permanent benefit
will result to either.

The subject is altogether too great to
fully ventilate in one article, and so I
shall try in this first one to show what
essential elements must be innate or ac-
quired by the clerk to make him a suc-
cessful business man, and in my next
contribution, what reciprocal qualities
must be shown by the proprietor in order
to fully develop the characteristics which
in this I deem essential. The clerk
must bear in mind that the greater
proportion of our merchants measure up
their help by their commercial value.
They employ no one from pure sentiment
or amiability, but cold, cruel, hard cash
measures your value, as of any other
commodity. So while in entering upon
the life ofa clerk, your intentions to you
are of great weight, yet to your employer,
bear in mind, good intentions have no
commercial value. Your zeal must not
abate one whit because you begin your
labors atasmall salary and your work
is more arduous than those with whom
you are associated who command and
received more. Itis the constant drop-
ping of water which wears away the
stone, and you must expect to prove
yourself invaluable in the position you
hold if you expect to be elevated to one
of a higher order. No builder begins at
the top to erect his structure, and while
it may be chafing to delve and wait, re-
member that if your menial workis well
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meet the more responsible and exacting
duties which will come. Always beat your
post of duty promptly. There is no
place in this age for a laggard. The
methods of business are fast changing,
and what twenty years ago to accomplish
took hours, must now be done in minutes.
When you know just what time the store
is to be opened to suit the trade in your
particular locality, see that it is open
and ready for business, all swept and
garnished. It is not time enough to
sweep and clean up when trade com-
mences. This is a preliminary work
which should be finished before active
business begins.

Keep your record clean. Never be
found in questionable resorts, or asso-
ciating with persons of doubtful charac-
ter, or reputed soto be. Your employer
will soon notice your associations, and
you will readily see it cannot inure to
your advantage. Strive to be neat and
tidy always in your appearance and
habits. If you stop to think, you will
see that persons of disorderly habits are
constantly unemployed. You will be of
no service to your employer if he be re-
quired to hire another person to finish
up the work which you begin. See that
goods are all put back in their proper
places; that the scales are wiped out or
dusted when you are through using
them, and that every act you perform is
finished when you leave it. If you are
naturally careless about your appearance,
and have been careless and untidy about
putting up your clothes at home, you
will find that these same habits will
have clung to youina marked degree.
They must be overcome or you will be
worthless. Be en rapport with your oc-
cupation. You never can be truly suc-
eessful if you have no liking for your
chosen ealling. It is impossible for a
person to throw the zeal and ardor
which is requisite into a business for
which he has no liking. You will be-
come a mere automaton doing a sort of
perfunctory work, which will give you
no enthusiasm, and be unsatisfactory to
your employer. Do not be afraid to
practice self-denial. Things may be re-
quired of you which may be a little
annoying, and perhaps grievous, but
bear all patiently, for. they will be
appreciated and remunerated in time.
In most all stores the clerks have a
certain night or nights off. If your em-
ployer desires some special work at such
time, be ready to accommodate him and
show no displeasure thereat. Never be
indifferent to your employer’s success;
eternal vigilance is the price of success,
and if you are adrone in the hive, rest
assured it is but a short time before the
working bees will sting you to death and
roll you outside. Never seem to be
officious among your fellow clerks. It
is a sign of bad breeding to depreciate or
look down upon a person ina station a
little below yours. Encourage such a
one by compliments as to the manner his
work is done, and show him the proper
method of doing the work intrusted to
him. Encourage him by the assurance
that faithfulness in any position soon
leads to preferment. Use every effort
to lift up every fellow-clerk with whom
you are brought into contact. By doing
this you will secure a warm ally who
will do anything in his power to
assist you. The detail of the work it is
not necessary to enter into. Iam now
only dealing on general principles, moral
and elevating in their tendencies, which
must be possessed by a clerk in order to
foster a feeling of reciprocity on the
part of the proprietors.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

AROUND THE STATE.

Addison—H. P. Hood has sold his meat
business to E. S. Lapham.

Dushville—P. Allyn succeeds
Bundy & Co. in general trade.

Sturgis — Albert Wait has
grocery stock to B. F. Codding.

Mount Morris—Herbert A. Hitchcock
has removed his drug stock to Detroit.

West Bay City—Wm. H. Lennonis sue-
ceeded by Dunn & Connelly in the varie-
ty store business.

Morley—T. M. Lander has purchased
the produce business of J. E. Thurkow
and will continue the business.

 

 

Caleb

sold his

Mancelona—C. F. Walden has moved |

his stock of groceries and boots and shoes
from Antrim to Leroy, where he will
resume business.

Detroit—C. A. Miller & Co. have filed |

a chattel mortgage in the sum of $5,024.58

on their groceries and wines at 36 Cadil-|

lace square. It runs to C. H. Mitchell.

Muskegon—N. N. Miller & Co. have!
purchased the A. A. H. Echermann drug

stock and will carry on the business at
the corner of Terrace and Walton streets.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Rondo—F. D. Clark has sold his shin-
gle mill to Peterson & Courier, who are
running the same to its full capacity.
Bay City—J. B. McRae finished his
logging operations near St. Helen last

week. He put in 1,100,000 feet, and sold

and shipped it all by rail to Bay City.
St. Ignace—The Mackinaw Lumber Co.

has not yet settled its differences with J. |
B. Kanouse, of Bay City, and the mill |

will probably not be operated this season.

Linwood—P. L. Sherman & Co., manu- |

facturers of lumber, heading and staves,

and general dealers, have merged their |
business into a stock company under the |

style of the P. L. Sherman Co. The
capital stock of the corporation is $15,000.

Saginaw— Wagar & Pfeifer shipped
5,000,000 shingles during May, mostly

from Gladwin, and purchased as many |

more. They also moved their shingle

mill from Gladwin to Taft, Ioseo county, |
where they have stock for a three years’ |

run.
Detroit—Louis Kuttnauer, A. G. Boyn-
ton, A. A. Boutelle, Robert McKinstry,

and others have incorporated the Lake |
Superior Graphite Co., with a capital of |
$500,000, of which $93,073.50 is paid in. |
The company will carry on mining oper- |

ations in Baraga county.

Alpena—The Minor Lumber Co. will |

receive 1,500,000 feet of logs from

Georgian bay, and a raft of 800,000 feet |

is now on the way over. About 1,500,-
000 feet will also be towed down from

the Ocqueoc river to be manufactured at |

the Minor company’s mill.

j
Saginaw—The Crescent Land Company |

(Limited) has been organized here with
a capital stock of $250,000.

son, all of this city.
300,000,000 feet of timber in Mississippi.

Bay City—The suit brought by H. W.
Sage & Co. against the Oscoda Boom Co.

resulted in adisagreement of the jury. |

Ihe case lasted two weeks, and was tried
in the United States Court here. Sage

& Co.’s claim was for $12,000 for shortage |

on logs; thatis, according to their scale,
they put into the Au Sable river $12,000
worth of logs more than the boom com-
pany delivered.

The officers |
are: President, J. Seligman: Secretary, |
R. B. McKnight; Treasurer, T. F. Thomp-
The company owns |

4

GONE BEYOND.

Death of the Veteran Traverse City
Merchant.

| Smith Barnes, Secretary, Treasurer and
| General Manager of the Hannah & Lay
| Mercantile Co., at Traverse City, died at
| his home in Traverse City last Friday
|morning and was buried at Mountain
| Home cemetery, at Kalamazoo, Sunday
afternoon.

|

BIOGRAPHICAL.

THE TRADESMAN greatly regrets that

its available data concerning Mr. Barnes’
life is meager. He was born in New
| York State July 8, 1827, and at an early
| age came to Michigan with his family,
locating at Milford, Oaklandcounty. At
the age of 15 years he went behind the
counter as a clerk in a country store,
| Subsequently taking a position in a dry
goods and millinery house at Detroit,
whence he removed to Port Huron, where
he was identified for fourteen years with
| the largest general store there, first as fore-
/man and afterwards as buyer and mana-
ger. About this time he formed the ac-
quaintance of Hon. Perry Hannah, whose
firm—Hannah, Lay & Co.—had previous-
| ly engaged in general trade at Traverse
| City and who needed a competent mana-
| ger to attend to the store, as Mr. Han-
| nah’s energies were mainly devoted to
| the lumber business. The position was
| offered Mr. Barnes ou the basis of a
third interest in the net profits, and for
the next twenty-five years this arrange-
ment was continued to the satisfaction
| of all concerned. Under the energetic
management of Mr. Barnes, the busi-
ness was enlarged from a single store
| to a series of stores, each containing a
complete line of goods. In 1882 the busi-
| ness had grown to such dimensions that
a new building was deemed necessary
and the construction of the enormous
store now occupied by the house was be-
gun. Itis three stories in height, com-
prising six separate stories, covering two
acres of floor space. When the business
was removed to this building, the part-
nership arrangement with Mr. Barnes
was dissolved and the business was
merged into a stock company under the
style of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile
Co. The paid in capital stock was $300,-
| 000, of which Mr. Barnes held $50,000,
becoming at the same time a director of
the corporation, as well as General Man-
ager of the entire mercantile business.
Under his watchful eye, the business
| was thoroughly systematized, each store
| being placed in charge of a competent
| Manager, who was held responsible for
the success of his department, although
Mr. Barnes was consulted on all round
| orders and on matters involving any de-
viation from the well-defined rules laid
| down by the head of the institution.
Mr. Barnes was married before he went
| to Traverse City and two children came
to grace his home. Bothdied in infancy,
however, and were buried in the same
cemetery. which now contains his re-
mains. His wife died in 1870 and was
also buried at Kalamazoo. In 1871 Mr.
Barnes married Miss Catharine Clark,
who survives him.

CHARACTER OF THE DECEASED.

No one who was not intimately ac-
/quainted with the deceased is competent
to speak of the many good qualities of
Mr. Barnes, both head and heart. Thor-
oughly attentive to business and conver-
| sant with every detail, in social life he
was essentially a recluse, his wife, his

 

books and a few close friends being
the sum of his happiness. Becoming a
resident of Traverse City in its infancy,
he left his impress on many of the insti-
tutions of the town and, while others fre-
quently differed with him in matters of
opinion and expediency, they never ques-
tioned his motives or believed him other
than sincere. In any undertaking, op-
position never discouraged him, as he
never entered upon a work until satisfied
that he was right. Broad in his views
and wide in the scopes of his operations,
he, nevertheless, found ample time to
look after the little things of life, acts of
kindness and charity being uppermost
in his mind at all times. He took a live-
ly personal interest in everyone asso-
ciated with him in business, from cash
boy to cashier, and his many acts of
kindness and the good advice he was al-
ways ready to offer will never be forgot-
ten. To the employes of the institution
over which he presided, his loss will be
like that of a father.
THE FUNERAL AND BURIAL.

The wonderful system which charac-
terized the life of the deceased is shown
in the minute instructions he left to Mr.
Hannah regarding the conduct of his
funeral. He wished it to be as quiet and
unostentatious as his life had been. No
crape was placed on the house of the
dead, flowers taking the place of the
somber emblem of death. The funeral
was held at 8 o’clock Sunday morning, at
the home of the deceased, the casket be-
ing almost buried in floral emblems. An
opportunity was given the friends to
view the remains, when the body was
conveyed to the train, accompanied by
thousands of citizens. A special train
conveyed the remains to Kalamazoo, ac-
companied by Julius Hannah, Herbert
Montague, John Fowle, Jr.,C. B. Atwood,
John Smith and Frank Kubeck. where
sympathetic friends assisted the pall
bearers in conveying the remains totheir
final resting place.

ee
Purely Personal.

Edward Telfer has begun work on the
superstructure of his residence at North
Park.

Arthur L. Haight, manager of the Hef-
fernan drug store at Baldwin, was in
town over Sunday.

Heman G. Barlow writes his associates
at the Olney & Judson Grocer Co.’s that
he will be home Saturday.

Chas. E. Olney leaves about July 10
for Thompson, Conn., where he will
spend the summer. He will be accom-
panied by his family.

C. H. La Flamboy, who has been com-
pelled to quit the road by the failure of
Boise & Lewis, at McBride, is succeeded
by Carl Rench as traveling salesman for
the Hanselman Candy Co.

Milton Reeder, of the firm of Geo. H.
Reeder & Co., who has been ill with ty-
phoid fever at Ovid for four weeks past,
is recovering. He expects to be able to
return to his duties here in about a week.

Thos. Heffernan, the Baldwin druggist,
who has been spending several weeks at
his old home in Ireland, sailed from
Queenstown last Wednesday on the Teu-
tonic. He is disgusted with the Irish
climate, having enjoyed rain and fog all

the time he was gone.
2 <p

Decline in Illuminating Oil.
The Standard Oil Co. announces a de-
cline of %e a gallon in all grades of
illuminating oil and ‘%e on gasoline.

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

 

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Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a
word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.

 

BUSINESS CHANCES,

 

A SNAP FOR SOMEONE—THE BANKRUPT STOCK
- of hardware of W. B. Smith, “Banker” together
with a three years’ lease of building in the best town
in Northern Michigan. Stock new, clean and complete
in every respect. Must be eold. For terms address
J.L. Morrice, Trustee, Harbor Springs, Mich. 264
| pe SALE—THE ONLY DRUG STORE IN A TOWN
of 700 inhabitants with a rich farming country
around it. Three physicians. Nearest oposition nine
miles. Daily sales, $14; stock, $2,200. Will sell at
inventory No trade. Address Box 120, Belleville,
Mich. 267

 

 

rT SALE—NICE CLEAN STOCK OF DRY GOODS
and boots and shoes in the village of Alma,
Gratiot Co., Mich. Good cash business established.
Invoice $7,000. Address A E Putnam, Milan, Mich. 265
1 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
o SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A GENERAL
stock located in a thriving town. Capital
necessary, about $1,200. address No. 241,care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 241

OR SALE— CLEAN GROCERY STOCK INVEN-
torying $2,500 to $3,000; located in a lively city in
Northern Michigan. Annual sales, $30,000. ood rea-
sons for selling. Address No. 259, care Michigan
Tradesman. 25!
. SALE — GROCERY AND CROOKERY STOCK
and fixtures, with good established trade. Address
lock box 48, Litchfield, Mich. 270
rs SALE OR EXCHANGE — FOR CLEAN STOCK
of groceries, 30 horse power sawmill, almost new,
located in finest hardwood belt in Northern Michigan.
Address W. A. Partridge, Rondo, Mich. 269
co SALE — STORE BUILDING AND GENERAL
4 “stock. Inventory about $3,000. Will sell build-
ing aloneif preferred. Industries: sawmill, shingle
mill and lumbering. Reason for selling, other busi-
ness to attend to. Address F. J. Hargrave & Co., Ewen,
Ontonagon county, Mich. 268

OR 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, a
Mich. 24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oo MILL FOR SALE — THE ISLAND CITY
flouring mill and feed mill and the entire Eaton
Rapids water power will be sold on the Mth 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
V ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A
general or grocery stock; must becheap. Ad-

dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26

 

SITUATIONS WANTED.

 

ge — POSITION AS A PRESCRIPTION OR
general clerk in drug store by a competent
pharmacist. Good references given. Address No. 271,
care Michigan Tradesman. 271
V ANTED— BY YOUNG MAN, SITUATION AS BOOK-
keeper, assistant book-keeper or collector
Rest of references. Address E. care Michigan Trades-
man. 243

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

so SALE—OR 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, ete. 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
SALE— NEW STORE AND COTTAGE, WITH
small stock and fixtures, situated in good country
trading point. Ticket office and postoffice in store,
Easy terms; low price. Address No. 260, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 2
s SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN INVEST-
ment. Corner lot and é-room house on North
Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water
in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Address No. 187,
care Michigan Tradesman. 187
OR SALE—TWELVE TO TWENTY ACRES OF LAND
for summer home, Seven miles north of Trav-
erse City on the East Arm of Traverse Bay on the
Peninsula ready fitted for building. C. E. Clapp,
Archie, Mich. 238
OR SALE 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.
Y. 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 forstock of goods. For particulars address
No. 258, care Michigan Tradesman. 258
OR SALE—CHEAP FOR CASH—ONE CHEESE SAFE
. aset of black walnut drawers, cased and labeled
fit for any drug store; oil tanks with faucet; small
stock of jewelry and trays. W. R. Mandigo, Sherwood,
Mich. 266
Vy ANTED—FIVE SALESMEN BY THE GEORGE D.
Hawkins Medicine Co. (Manufacturers and
wholesale dealers in Hawkins Great Specific Cures)
to represent them on the road. Commencing on July
10th. No one but first-class experienced salesmen
need apply. Good positions guaranteed to good
salesmen. Write for terms to George DB. Hawkins
edicine Company, Hawkins, Mieh.

ENGRAVING

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

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

Chas. A. Bonsor & Co. have engaged in
the produce commission business at 54
Lyon street.

Geo. M. Bentham has opened a grocery
store at 75 Clancy street. The Lemon &
Wheeler Company furnished the stock.

White & Perry have leased | one half of
the store at 8 South lonia street, occupied
by W. H. Downs with his notion stock,
and have removed their stock to that
location.

 

W. F. Warner and James Farnsworth
have mea a copartneship under the
style of Warner & Farnsworth and em-
barked in the commission business at 84
South Division street.

The late Smith Barnes, of Traverse
City, was a stockholder in three Grand
Rapids institutions—the Widdicomb Fur-
niture Co., the Grand Rapids School
Furniture Co. and the Grand Rapids Fire
Insurance Co.

x. FB, Donahoe, who recently assigned
his grocery stock at Ishpeming to Jno.
B. Tibor, who is also engaged in the gro-
cery business at that place, was in town
Monday for the purpose of securing a
settlement with his creditors on the basis
of 20 cents on the dollar. All the Chi-
cago creditors agreed to compromise
their claims on that basis.

 

John Damstra, grocer at 27 North
Waterloo street, has uttered a chattel
mortgage on his stock, fixtures, horse
and buggy to Edward Telfer as trustee
for . following creditors: Telfer Spice
Co., $78.47; Olney & Judson Grocer Co.,
neh Hawkins & Company, $22.52; A.
Katt, Zeeland, $100. The mortgage is
given as a preliminary step to the retire-
ment from business.

The Grand Rapids Cycle Co. has pur-
chased a lot at the corner of South Front
street and Butterworth avenue and will
shortly begin the construction of a two-
story brick buiiding, 45x90 feet in di-
mensions, with a wing, 30x30 feet in di-
mensions. The plans are now in the
hands of the architects, the company ex-
pecting to be able to occupy its new
quarters by Oct. 1.

——-+ +.
Gripsack Brigade

S. H. Hart, the beau ideal paint sales-
man, is in town for a few days.

Frank E. Chase has begun to pine for
the salt air of Cape Cod Bay and will
leave for that region about July 1.

Chas. S. Brooks has purchased the
handsome residence at 318 ‘Bradburn
street and has already taken possession.

John C. Utman has begun the erection
of a new house on the west side of South
Union street, between Logan and Mills
streets.

A. B. Hirth is laying off this week for
the purpose of nursing a bilious attack,
His route down the West Michigan and
through Northern Indiana is being cov-
ered in the meantime by G. A. Krause.

“I visit a good many lively towns,”’’
remarked Fred Blake the other day, *‘but
I think Hopkins Station buys and ships
more goods, in proportion to population,
than any other town in the State.”

W. L. Freeman and W. F. Blake have
arranged to send their families to the
White Lake resort on July 3. They will
remain there during the season, the male
members of the families spending Sun-
days at the resort.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5

B. F. Emery denies that he proposes
to embark in the wholesale grocery busi-
ness at Colorado Springs, as was stated
by the Whitehall Forum. He says he is
undecided whether to stay in Michigan
or accept a position offered him by a
wholesale grocer at Colorado Springs.

On account of the Fountain street park |

being used by the league clubs, Satur-
day afternoon, the contest between the
cohorts marshalled by Happy Hi. Robert-
son and ‘‘Had’’ Beecher was postponed
one week. Several hundred spectators
who assembled to see the boys play were
much disappointed to find that only a
league game was in progress.

President Robertson requests Tur
TRADESMAN to call a meeting of the
members of the Grand Rapids Traveling
Men’s Association, at the Morton House
Sunday noon, June 28, at which time the
committees on club rooms and entertain-

ment of the Detroit boys will be prepared |
Every member is |

to make their reports.
requested to be present and every com-
mitteeman is commanded to put in an
appearance.
tt 8
The Odd Cent.

Grocer—Petter you try some dis fine
Limburger. Only 26 cents a pound.

Wickwire—Why don’t you make the
price an even quarter? Why not knock
off that extra cent?

Grocer—Vy, my friendt,
scent is vot makes it sell.

—— + <>_—

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.

dot extra

aA REINER 688 8a lll Seo al RNG
It is stated that the Illinois Central Rail
way has determined to build a fleet of
large ocean steamships for passenger and
freight service to run between New
Orleans and South American ports, both
on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The
plan is to make Chicago a distributing
point both for South American products
and as ashipping point for American
products South.
—————
F. J. Parker & Co. are out with a new
wagon.

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.

 

 

 

Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich,
$500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS

Issued by cities, counties, towns and schoo! districts
of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about
to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply
to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings
supplied without charge. All communications and
enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays
4 per cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually.
May, 1891. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer.

 

How to Keep a Store.

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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.

 

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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
through the

LUSTIG GIGAR CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

J. LUSTIG, Proprietor.

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DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MiLL USE.

Bolts Wanted!?

I want 500 to 1,000 cords of Poplar Excel-
sior Bolts, 18, 36 and 54 inches long.

I also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths
For particulars address

J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DEALERS IN

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Cleaned and Adjusted. Expert Work
Done. Second hand safes
in stock,

Movers and Raisers of wood and brick build-
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OFFICE AND SALESROOM :

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GRAND RAPIDS.

 

Send Your Standing Orders to Us for

Cherries. Strawberries, Vegetables, New Southern Potatoes
ONIONS, CABBAGES, ETC.
We look for liberal receipts this week. ee met onl

Fruits, Seeds, Beans and Produce.

MOSELEY BROS.,

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., GRAND RAPIDS:

 

Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in the

Corl (fl Books Country and Save Money.
The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

  

Suggestions About Ordering Goods. |

1. Write only on one side of the paper. |
The other side is apt to be neglected, |
and it is inconvenient for reference after
the order is filed away.

2. Do not mention a remittance
order goods on the same sheet of paper. |
The remittance goes to the cashier, and |
the statement that you sent it should ac- |
company it to insure you getting credit
for the amount. The order will go to
the order clerk.

3. Do not send an order and complaint
about a former bill of goods or a claim
on the same paper. The complaint must
go to the claim clerk for adjustment,
while the other goes to the order clerk.
Write on separate sheets of paper.

4. It is better not to write part of your
order and then introduce some subject |
foreign to the order on the same sheet.
The stock clerk who is getting out your
order has no interest in your remarks |
which do not refer directly to the order
before him. |

5. Not signing orders is more common |
than any one would suppose. It leads to}
much annoyance and delay. Even if you
have a printed letter head with your | ¢
name and business on it, itis no proof |
that you send the order unless you put}
your name on it.

6. Stamp the envelope; the
this often sends the letter to Washington. |
D. C., instead of its proper destination.

7. Write plainly. Do not crowd what}
you have to say, but take another sheet
of paper to finish.

8. Give full particulars concerning the
article, so that no mistake will be made.

9. After the shipper delivers goods to
the transportation company, and takes
their receipt for them in good condition,
their responsibility ceases, so if they do
not reach you, please make your claim
against the transportation company, for
they cannot do anything from their end
of the line. Claims must be made from
point of destination.

and |

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Dry Goods Price Current. a.
y Amoskeag..... . +e Everett, blue. ee. =a
. sox... 144%4|Evere'
ees Ure COTTONS. o brown .13 bro “B
eee oe. Arrow Brand 5% IE ies ee on 11% Haymaker blue <i x
Se bee tae 6% ' — Wide.. Beaver. cent apg own... 7
| Atlanta AA. a Se ee 5 2. =o. 11%
Atlantic ne 7 |Full vara Weee..... 6% ~ co oes a 12%
mo SaGeorgm A.......... 0g Boston Mfg Ce. br.. 7 Lawrence, POR... 13%
Wie Po 6 |Honest W Adi Lesane blue 8% No. 200....13
" _......, CuimerttordA ......... - “ 6d & twist 10% ' No. 250....11%
ee 53{|Indian Head........ 74 | Columbian ae br.10 ” No. 280....10%
—s i ceca =7 “| King A Bees. 6 | xx t.19
Archery Bunt ng. . King a
Beaver Dam A A.. 51%4| Lawrence i...... 514 onary _
| Blackstone O, 32.... s |Madras cheese cloth 6% , Amoskeag ...... .... 7%4 fancies .-.. 7
Black Coow......... é| Newmarket go ‘“* Persian dress 8% Normandie 8
a ee .... 7 |. 5% | C Canton .. 8%/Lancashire.......... 6
ee 7% | “ a. - APG)... 2\4|Manchester......... 5%
Capital A. i “ DD.... 5% | Arlington staple.... 64 monosram.......... 6%
Cavanat V. . 5% “ X ...|. 7 | Arasapha fancy.... 4%|/Normandie......... 7%
Chapman cheese cl. Su Melbe Bl 5 | Bates Warwick dres 8'4/Persian..........--. 8%
ie Ci 534/Our Level Best..... eT staples. 6%|Renfrew Dress. ..... 1%
ae eae , ass 6% | Centennial. ........ 10% Mosemont..........« 6%
| Dwight Star......... ee %% Criterion ee aw oe 10% |Slatersville ......... 6
rene Sa 6% Cumberland staple. 5% Somerset eee eae 7
'Top of the Heap.... 7% | Cumporiand.... .... Pee ........-..- 7%
i BLEACHED COTTONS. | Essex eee sec ece 4% Toil Gu hove......- 10%
|ABC............... 84%/Geo. Washington... 8 | Elfin......... a 7% Wabash Sede ea 1%
See. & tae... 7 | Everett classics..... 8% seersucker.. 7%
Auebare.... . 0... 7 \Gold Medal......... 7% | Exposition.......... 744|Warwick.... ...... 8%
| Art Cambric........ 10 iGreen Ticket....... 8i4 | Glenarie............ 64|Whittenden. ........ 6%
| Blackstone A A..... 8 (Groat Falls.......... 6% | Glenarven.......... 6% : heather dr. 8
Beate AM 4%|Hope................ Tq | Glenwood.. + 1% i apes raga 9
— 12 \Just Out..... 4%@ 5 | Hampton........... 64|Wamsutta staples. =
ae 734| King Phillip Ce uit 7% | Johnson vhalon cl 44|/W estbrook oe eae
ae el 6 -_ 7% | . indigo blue 944) eee e ee eens 10
| Charter Oak........ 5%|Lonsdale Cambric 10% | *  sephyrs....16 So Sppemn sete tees
Conway W. eee Ta! Lonsdale... @ 8% | Lancaster, a. Se ex
Somes so oo. 7 |Middlesex... a @5 GRAIN BAGS.
wig t Anchor. Gxuimo Mame............ 7% r
' shorts. Pere VOW... . won, . | Seeenene- wou _ a TAY = van on none ——
| Edwards. . See Owe Soe 6% oe i "yal
See 7 Paasorthis Wek. we et entta:
a Va ene... 7M | THREADS.
Fruit of the Loom. 7%!Sunlight..... a 4% | Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88
‘ove ...... .... 7 1Ueee Biee......... 4 i Cow’, J. &P......- — iehals.... ...... 88
First eee 6%| “ Nonpareil ..11 | Holyoke............. 2214]
Fruit of the Loom &. i. eee 8% TING Ty
Pairmount..... ..... 44 Ww hite aoe... .... 6 ee
| Pull ve... — “~ Mock... oe White. Colored. a. as,
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. No. 6.. ..2 38 |No. 14.......37
eneL.... ........... Pa eewaees A OROr..... 9 co. . 34 39 16......0+ rs
A 8 we 35 Sit &..... 2 44
AD cannon FLANNEL. . we 36 41 |* 20.......40 45
Tremont N.......... +4| Middlesex No. ae CAMBRICS,
Ԥ L 9
Hamiltoa N......... 6H & “ oe — ee : ae oa 3%
rr “ =e =o nite Star........- oe Crome........... 56
se teens o- q &“ oz. = Kid Glove........... 4 |Lockwood.... ...... 4
“ No. 3... : Noweearret......... 4 (Wome... .... ..0- 4
BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. RA WAIOR. ... 50. 555-5 4 (Branewick........ 3
Hemiltion N......... 7% Middlesex A . Sceeice 11 RED FLANNEL,
Middlesex ee eee 2 | fooen...... ....- or ................. BY
ce avenaies 9 : A 6 settee 13% | Creedmore.......... as 7 32%
c kA...... 9 c 4...... im | Pepee REK......... ) ar, Xxx.. oes
XF...... 10% 5...+.- 16 | Namoless...... ....- oi, Munkeee. ... il... 32%
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, white...... 18 |Integrity, colored. ..21 —
-20%4| White Star.......... 18% | Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 7%
TREE cee se i isi. * “ colored. .2 eee ©... we 22% oe” eed ce 18%
— eoopDs. Woeee...... <-..-- re © es 8%
Hamilton eee |Nameless.. ase 6 oz Western.. 2. 12 ohana a2k...... 23%
Dm eteaeeeete 8 | Ea oe tom 2214|Manitoba........... 234
iol cme aa “103 cl eG Me Me 27% : ie FLANNEL,
GG Cashmere...... 21 . oe 30
Namel Te ee eo > Nameless os 8 @9 So 9 @10%
te = i ee eee ai +~ 12%
CORSETS. CANVASS AND PADDING.
Coreiae............ $9 50|\Wonderful.. .. ....84 50| Slate. Brown. meet. |Slate. Brown. Black.
Seem s......... 9 00, Piee.. ......., 475) 9% 9 a 413 = =
10% 10% v4 5 5
CORSET JEANS.
arr... 6%|Naumkeag satteen.. 7% 11% 11% 11%4)17 17 1%
Androscoggin... et ee ie 6% a 12% 1244/20 20 20
Biddeford...... --- © OeeRIOrs........... 6% DUCKS.
Brunswick. .... .... 64j;Walworth .......... 6% | Severen, 8 oz.......- oy West Point, 8. 05....10%
gona Mayland, 80z...... 10% 12%
Allen turkey reds.. ieee fancies.... 34 | Greenwood, 74 on. i a a“ . an
ee GiCiyde HRobes........ 5 Greenwood, 8 oz. “24 Raven, “ lal i ' 13%
. wet & purple ei Cc barter IO ee
<i ce 6 |DelMarine eashm’ 8. 6 sping
‘* pink checks. 5% oorn’e 6 | White, dos......... 25 |Per bale, 40 doz... .87,50
J staples ...... 5% 2 Eddystone yom © iColered, Gox........ 20
+ ——— 4% chocolat 6 SILESIAS.
merican fanc 34 | . rober.... 6 "
jaa 5% 6 sateens.. 6 | Slater, Iron Cross... 8. Pawtucket.
American shirtings. 4% Hamilton ws. _s Red Cross... 9° | Dundie.....
Argentine Grays. si * oe... ... ..10%| Bedford . oe eae cece 10%
Anchor —e- Manchester a 6 Best AA..... 124i Valley City......... 10%
— * " new era. 6 SEWING SILK,
Arno] erino. . *| Merrimack D fancy. 6 ’ >
8 long cloth B. 10%| Merrim’ck og 4% Ee i “doz... i ae ——
“c ic. 844) “ a furn. 8% 5) v4, Se “37% eocces
. = een 7 \Pacific fancy.. sania iiiies inven: iia iia
“ omoee..... 10%) go 16 ~ ca
‘* green seal oe 4| Portsmouth robes. . = OY No 1 Br KK “ White., ae No : BI’k & ‘White.. s
. ellow sea 0
— a eS oe is <i Foe
. Turkey red. -10% . solid black. 6 PINs.
Ballou solid black. . 5 | Washington indigo. 6 No 2—20, M C....... 50 (No4—15 F 3\...... 40
colors. 5%| “ Turkey robes.. 7% | “ 3—18,SC........ --45 |
ieee blue, green, | ** India robes.... 7% TON TA
red and orange... 5%; “ plain 7 "ky x % 3” No a « BY ‘K.. 12 |No 3 White & BI’k..20
Berlin —...... 5%) * ~ es 23
oil blue...... -- 6! “ Ottoman Tur iy é a a 1 26
C ** green . - Revrec..........,. 6 SAFETY PINS.
“ Foulards . 4 Martha Warktagion Pe. 6k eS a ren 36
r red % chon 7 *| Turke —— i.
Ha mc 9% —, Washington | NEEDLES—PER M.
e as... | Turkey red........ A. domes... .-...... 1 50\Steamboat.... ...... 40
- “ 3-4XXXxX 12 neverae at aa 5 Creweny s....... -... 1 Gord Byed.......... 150
Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6 Mareherrs........... 1 00)
. madders... 6 _ gold ticket TABLE OIL CLOTH.
- XX twills.. 6%] indigo blue....... 10% | 5—-4....225 6—-4.. 19 6—4...2 %
“  golids...... Bly “210 “ ...8 10)
TICKINGS. COTTON TWINES.
| Amore ACA... as AC B..... ......... 12% | Cotton wool Twine..28 |Nashua. ae
| Hamilton N --» 7%|Pemberton AAA....16 | Crown. a = 2 ron Star 4 ply.. ia
| es ee I 10% Domestic 0... 3-ply....17
| . Awning. ‘11. |Swift River......... 7 1 Bee ....:... “ie” *lNorth $ cs ieee 20
ere... ke S (Peart Miver......... 121% Bristol . ..13  |Wool standard 4 ply17%
| Poot Peme.......... DE eR oo ee ees 14 Cherry Valley... TS 15 |Powhattan ......... 18
| Lenox Mills ........ 18 ch... 4... 13
COTTON DRILL.
PLAID OSNABURGS.
i. D.......-.. 6%\Stark A- ........ S (Aiea 6%|Mount Pleasant... 6%
i. on elas - 7% | Alamance........... 6i4|Onelda......-.-.0.. 5
Pe ee es tei tie *iTop of Heap........ A | Ae ol Thi Pyrmont ........... 5%
SATINES. AvteaeeA......5-,.. 6 j|Randeiman .........
| Simpson.... ........ - eee... 2... 6 | GOORE............., 6%) cca prec Eee 3
eee ee ee 18 ee is ee 9@ 9% | Granite ............. 5% |Sible B Siw cee cigs 6
“ Hed
eat oes 16 - 5 |Toledo. ies
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BEST

SIX-CORD

Spool Cotton

WANE, mn AND coLoes,
Hand and aching Use.

FOR SALE BY

P, STEKETEE & SONS.

Spring Season 1891,

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Carpets by Sample

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GRAND RAPIDS.

 

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co,,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
CARPETS,
CURTAINS.

Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Rts,

Elegant Spring Line of Prints, Ging-
hams, Toile Du Nord, Challies, White
and Black Goods, Percales, Satteens,
Serges, Pants Cloth, Cottonades and
Hosiery now ready for inspection.

Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed.

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.

GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH.

 

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ome ,» Horse and Wagon Comm. Seat Shades, Large
rellas, Oiled Clothing, Wide Cotton Ducks, etc.
Send for iiusteated Catalogue.
CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Pearl Street.
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Relation of the Employe to His Em-
ployer.

Ata recent meeting of the St. Louis
Office Men’s Club, the following address
on the ‘‘Obligations of the Employe” was
presented by Henry Bernd, who is cashier
of one of the largest business establish-
ments in the city:

A service of twenty years as an em-
ploye affords me the opportunity to
express my views on the subject assigned
me.

Mere service given for remuneration is
by no means the only obligation which
binds employe to employer. It ht be
said that there is no other obligaffon be-
tween the two except for value received
and given. Those who earn their living
from this standpoint do not have such an
agreeable time as the one who considers
that there are higher and better objects
in view than the mere mechanical part
of labor.

I claim that an employe must at all
times and places, whether under the roof
of the house that he is connected with or
elsewhere, maintain respect, esteem and
consideration for his employers. It does
not necessarily imply that a violation of
certain little rules will be discovered by
the employer—it does not imply that the
continued visits to questionable places of
resort, to gambling dens, in bad company,
visits to neighboring saloons and the
many little vices which tempt the aver-
age clerk, will in any way be an obstacle
for the time being, but the observant
employer cannot be unmindful of all
these little vices, and they come to his
ears unsought for or without eavesdrop-
ping. I remember once overhearing a
conversation between an employer and
employe. The head of the house went
to a base ball game, much to the surprise
of the employe, who went also, and they
met, of course, quite unexpectedly. The
next day the clerk was called into the
office and asked to explain how it was
that the funeral cortege of his aunt
passed through the place where the game
of ball was being played. There were
the usual excuses, ending with the dis-
charge of the clerk, this not having been
the first offense.

There are many unwritten obligations.
The clerk who anticipates the wants of
his employer is the one who is quietly
pushing his way to the front. The clerk
who steps in the door promptly at 7
o’clock, and who leaves promptly at 12
for dinner; who comes back promptly at
1, who leaves promptly at 6; who lays
down his work right in the middle of the
work in hand, who is loitering, shiftless;
who is continually entertaining social
visitors; overdraws his account with the
sashier, asks for a good many days ab-
sence on account of a sick headache, who
has allowed himself to annoy his chief,
who finds out the salaries of all other
employes and kicks because his is not
more, who wants the first vacation and
the longest, who always has an engage-
ment when night work is in season and
about the last of the month, who wants
to help no one else because no one helps
him, who carries tales to the head of
the firm; who can’t tell a straight Wilkie
Collins white business lie because his
mother told him never to tell the truth,
who smokes cigarettes behind boxes and
throws away the stump when the
approach of the chief is heard, who com-
plains because some customers call too
early to buy goods, others too late, who
thinks that he knows all about the entire
management of the business and could
run it a good deal more satisfactorily and
profitably than his employers, and who,
‘last but not least, never gets his salary
raised.” He is the employe who is al-
ways complaining of oppression and who
wants to be boss. His lot is truly a hard
one. He is the one for whom Carnegie
did not write, ‘“Triumphant Democracy.’

It may be said by the optimist that all of
these little sins do not necessarily retard
progress—that many a successful man of
to-day has been guilty of any or all of
them. Wesee men who, with compara-
tively slender talents, are the instruments
of achieving more.important results than
are effected by men of far greater endow-
ments.

The world is a hard one, but in the
long run it is an eminently just one. It

 

is always groping for men of ability and
integrity to fill its places of responsi-
bility, and those who have these qualifi-
cations are almost sure to find employ-
ment. Some men forget that the great
end of life is to be and do, not what
other men have been or done. Even the
very highest genius will not enable men
to achieve worldly suecess without prac-
tical knowledge, and the greatest secret
of success is in being alive to what is
going on around one. Let not the em-
ploye think his task too much. The fair
minded, liberal merchant of to-day is
fully aware of the limit of work allotted
to each of his employes.

I desire to impress particularly the
cultivation of manners. It is a part of
every business man’s education, and
youpg men are apt to make a serious
mistake if they think it is easily set
aside. The average employe thinks if
he has the substance the form is of
little moment. I must, of course, not go
out of the sphere of office men. I
acknowledge thatin large establishments;
numbering their employes by hundreds,

Hardware Price Current.

 

These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

  
 

 

AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
ee eu es ee 60
et ee 40
OO OE eee 25
oer, Tee ....... 4.4... ., 50&10

AXES.
Pirst Goality, 5. 3. Bromze.................- $7 50
' Dp B. gp en Lhe ek eee be docu ee 12 00
e SO & Geeor.......,-...-..... 8 50
“ D. B. . Steel Be epee eet ees. 13 50
BARROWS. dis.
Meme... ee $ 14 00
Gorges ........................_.... net 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
ee ieee eee ee leeds meee aca ces 50&10
Cc cans EE 75
CO ee 40&10
eee... ql
BUCKETS.
We, oe..........-. ce 8 3 50
Well, i ,. 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis
Cast Loose Pr Geared........ .............. 0&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint. Leiese ees 60&10
Wrought Loose Si MET I 60&10
rose TG 60&10
Wrought — OE ae 60&10
Wrouent Hrang.............................. %
me oat, 70&10
Mid, Pacers... ce 70&10
Blind, os ................ 70
BLOCKS,
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 40
CRADLES.
Grete... ck dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.

Cost Siow. ........... perb 5
CAPS.
ae... per m 65
a" ce 60

ye . an 35
Nueket eee et ee chee cad euues os . 60
CARTRIDGES.
mae Pee 50
ee eee dis. 25

CHISELS. dis.
eee 70&10
eee EE 70&10
Becher Curmer................ Dee bea eeueases. 70&10
eee awl, 70&10
Batenors Tunged Pirmer................... 40
COMBS. dis.
Cures, UMWPOMOOR, .....505.05..45... 0452... 40
Wicca ree. cee cee ks ps)
CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
COPPER,
en, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 30
ee ee 28
Cold Rolled. 14x56 and ee ... .. “. 25
Cold Rolled, 14x48... La 25
eee i‘ 27
DRILLS. dis.
Maes Ft See. ...................... 50
Taper and straight Shank................... 50
Morse s Taper Seank...................... : 50
DRIPPING PANS.

Baeii cieon, aGe pound ...................... 07
Larec siscs, per pound...................... 6%
ELBOWS.

Com. 4 sfoee, Gmm............ bisa ens doz.net %5
OE ccd, dis. 20&10&10
eee ee es dis. 40&10

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark's, amall, G18; tareo, @6................ 30
ves, 1, Gs: 2 Oe: Soe... 25

FILEs—New List. dis.
Ce 60&10
CO EE ae 60&10
Nicholson’ a  : a
ee,
Talore Hore Beape...............,.....-... oo

GALVANIZED [RON
Nos. 16 to 2030 22 and 24; 2 and 2%; 27 2
List 12 13 14 Bb 8
Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50

 

 

 

that the whistle and the bell must, to a
great extent, regulate affairs. Under
this heading there must, of course, be
set rules and regulations, as it would be
impossible to govern a large foree by
verbal methods or by allowing them to
choose their own time. It is, of course,
understood that there is a distinction and
a difference between the two sets of em-
ployes. The one is governed altogether
by rules and regulations laid down by
trades unions and compacts, the quality
and quantity being regulated. They
must earn so much, and are employes
only in the sense of giving so much
human power to advance the machinery’s
motion.

The employe must advance himself.
Mere industry and economy are not
enough. ‘There must be intelligence and
original thought. Among the unwritten
obligations that the employe owes his
employer I mention application, observa-
tion, method, accuracy, punctuality and
despatch. There are persons who will
sneer at these virtues as little things—
ices Se of notice.

HAMMERS.

Mavcee Cae... > >

oe...

ies & Pia a... ._...-............. dts “0810

Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60 |

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10
HINGES.

Gote Clavie. 1.2 s..-.................. dis.60&10

SE ee ee a per doz. _ 2 50
Screw — and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and

eee ee Me
screw ‘Hook and Eye, eee ese net 10
ae net 8%

bi bs ' ee net 7%

“ “ se So, net 7%
NE EE dis. 50

HANG dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. a Wood track....50&10
Champion, anti-friction.................... 60&10
Migdes wood track ......_............. 40
HOLLOW WARE.

Ee 60
EES 60
iss aya s eu et alna a a wdialanlselen 60
Gray enameled.......... eee tee esas 40&10

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

Steamved Tin Waere................... -new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware.................--...... 5
Granite ren Were ............... new list —
WIRE G00D8.
ee qoai0ci0
Secow Rvce_....-... eee acl 70&10&10
ee Eee -70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Byes............... woalogie
LEVELS. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 70

dis.

KNoBs—New List.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ............-.
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.. .

Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.
Door, porcelvin, trimmings...

Drawer and Shutter, porcelai:

LOCKS—DOOR

 
  
  

Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.” 8 new list ....... 55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’S...............+-+. 55
Paneer a 55
Norwest. 55
MATTOCES.

Agse Bee.................... Lecce = 00, dis. 60
Hat Bye... ........-.-.....-...-... 00, dis. 60
ere... ......

ee ee $18. 50, “its, 208610. | F
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ica Dic ees ec erusc

 

MILLS. dis.
= — on. i... 40
S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40
. ioe Perry & Cloiks............ 40
¢ Meceeee §-...................... 25
MOLASSES GATES. dis.
ee 60&10
eet bine Gaomuine................-......-... 60&10
Enterprise, self- ae a 25
RlGGl ONIN WAEO cc. co wean 1 8
Wire nails, ee 2 20
Advance over base: Steel. Wire.
i... eee Base Base
ees. ...... Base 10
Se 05 20
eee 10 20
ee ede ated ewe cues 15 30
35
35
40
50
65
90
1 50
2 00
2 00
90
1 00
123
1 00
12
° $ SS 1 18
Clinch, “ ee eee ee tac ee lon 85 7
Ces lave ceea eas sae anes 1 00 90
. Se 11 1 00
Barrell % ee ese iG 2 50
PLANES. dis.
Ohie Tool Co.'s, fancy ...........+--......-- @s
pean i ee ne @6o
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy...........-..-.- @”
Bench, firat quality..............-. @00
Stanley Rule and TLevel Co.’s, wood. &10
PANS.
ee, Aeeee 8.8... 5... 8... so dis.60—10
San poliahed Bees ay ests cm fF
RIVETS. dis.
yen and Teaned.........:........-.......... 40
Copper Rivets and Burs............---.+-+- 50
PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
‘A’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to - 10 20
“B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20

Broken packs 4c per pound extra.

 

 

You must love your work, and by lov-
ing that you are diligent. Being diligent,
you serve your employer. Serving him
advances you and you will win the battle
of life.

There is no work that does not demand
system. If a man work withouta system
catching up whatever is nearest at hand
or trying to do half a dozen things at
onee, he will sooner or later come to
grief, and nothing depresses and demor-
alizes so much as a surrender of the
approved and habitual forms of life.

In business, punctuality is the soul of
industry. Ifthe time of an employe is
properly occupied, every hour will have
its appropriate work. If the work is not
done, it encroaches on the time of another
and thus becomes disorder.

In conclusion, I would say that I am
hedged in by my colleagues. The sphere
is limited, and in quoting from that
beloved and true American, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, I say: ‘‘Do that which is
assigned you and you cannot hope too
much or dare too much.”’

ROPES.
feel, 56 neh and larger ...................,
ee 11%
SQUARES. dis.
ee 5
OE 60
ac... 20
SHEET ~~,
. Smooth, Com
(OEE Bw 8 10
Boe 4 3 20
eae. 18 mer........... 420 3 20
moe Sie... 4 20 3 30
oe oe ee .................. _4 = 3 40
ee 4 & 3 50

All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 80 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.

Tie occt 19, O6.......................... dis. 50
SASH CORD.
Silver Lake, MO ie ea a list 50
Tree A... ’ 55
c Ww Thite B ee tae geese aeen a _ 50
ies TO eke ces ce ee 55
“ White C.. Leese eee te ee 35
Discount, 10.
SASH WEIGHTS.
Gola Bees. :.... per ton 825
sAW8. dis
- ee
Silver Steel Dia, X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
‘Special Steel Dex X Cuts, perfoot.... 50
«© Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30
‘© Champion and Electric Tooth X
Cuts, per foer......-.... 30
TRAPS. dis.
een Gc ee en ee —
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s...........
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. Fa
Mouse Gheker.... ..... 18¢ per doz
Miguae, deligien.....-.......... 1. $1.50 per doz,
WIRE. dis
ee eae... 65
Rimegicod Maree... 7010
Coppered Marmeee. 8... 60
a ee ee 62%
Coppered Se 50
Barbed Fence, a 3 40
peaneee 2 85

HORSE NAILS.

eek _— Ee dis. ee
eee eee eee meee . 05
casa ee eee cers +e . dis. "10810
WRENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..............
Coes Ganahie ....................... er cens 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 15
Coes Patent, malleaiie..................... —
MISCELLANEOUS.
pO 0
Pumps, Cistern............-..cee sec ee eee Pe
Serows NWewrte es... 70&10
Casters, Pea 6 @ Piate.................. ——
Dampers, a
Forks, hoes, rakes and Ey steel goods......
METALS,
Pig ap
Pew Deere... tt ws 26¢
CO 28¢
ZINC.
Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound.
660 pound Ce ee 6%
Wer We. os. io. z
SOLDER. :
Se 16
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The prices of the many other qualities of

solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands
vary according to composition.

 

  

ANTIMONY
(oclnee. per pound 16
nies... 13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal ee ee eel 8750
14x20 IC a
10x14 1x, :
14x20 IX, "
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
Ten141C, Charcoal .......................... $6 50
14x20 IC, ie eeu eke ewe 6 50
10x14 IX, ne 8 00
14x20 IX, ee ee ee 00
Each additional X on this grade 81.50.
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, © Woreesim,............. «1... 6 50
14x20 IX, bay ee a 8 50
20x28 IC, . bee gan teas 13 50
14x20 IC ss 6 Allaway Grade........... 5 7
OE EE OO 7S
20x28 IC ba . ' 12 00
20x28 IX, ' " . 15 00
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— 1x, 4 for No. : Bollers, }per pound... Ta

 

    

8

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

 

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State,

The Tradesman Company, Proprietor.

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1891,

 

 

A USELESS CONFLICT.

A man in a tub was being slowly drawn
from the bottom of a deep well, when
the men at the top, working the windlass,
suddenly stopped. ‘Haul me up!’ cried
the man, ‘‘or I’ll cut the rope!’ This
correctly illustrates the relation between
capital and labor, and it matters not
which of the interests you place in the
tub, or at the windlass. To stop the
work is to cut the rope. Work at the
windlass, for the capitalist in the tub,
will bring him to the top, to pay for the
labor done, and to continue the work un-
til water is reached. Stop the work, or
cut the rope, and capital is destroyed
while labor starves. Outside of forced
conditions, and remoyed from the rant of
demagogues, there is no conflict between
capital and labor. Neither of these
commodities is worth anything, until
brought into contact with the other.
A capitalist may sit down ona
pile of gold as large as Pike’s Peak, and
starve to death, and the muscle and
brain of millions of laborers are useless
when unemployed; but let labor bring
bread to the starving capitalist, astride
his pile of gold, and get in return a por-
tion of that gold, and both are profited
by the transaction, each having benefit-
ed the other by supplying a want.

Human existence is cast on the plane
of labor. Ever since the father of our
race failed to appreciate the idle life and
luxurious surrounding of Eden, and was
cast out, followed by the unalterable de-
cree, ‘‘In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread,’’? man has existed by ef-
fort, in his lowest or most exalted condi-
tion. Primarily the sources of supply
coming out of the earth, agriculture be-
ing the base of supplies for animal exis-
tence, and the animal, vegetable, and
mineral kingdoms, in combination, are
the lines worked for life perpetuation—
the air we breath and the water we drink
being more common surroundings; yet
all contingent in some degree on effort—
work.

Human existence is also cast on the
plane of want. From start to finish man
is never free from it. Want divides it-
self into two grand divisions, necessary
and imaginary. These so lace and inter-
lace that it is difficult to tell where one
leaves off and the other commences,
the extremes can be seen in outline. Ne-
cessity has few artificial life
many. We could live a long time—some
of us longer that way than any other—on
bread and water, but we don’t. We
could go almost entirely without cloth-
ing in some climates and some seasons,
but we don’t. To limit the functions of
want to the duty of supplying in smallest
possible quantity and cheapest possible
quality the mere necessaries of
is to deprive human existence of all
proper incentives to material

but

wants;

life} who are permitted to rule most of the

better- | land of freedom will be free only in name

 

 

This theory would rob the race of all love
of the beautiful in personal or home
adornments, and place us speedily in the
primitive condition of dwellers in caves
and huts; with scanty clothing or none at
all; with coarse face and coarser man-
ners.

We instinctively shrink from such a
picture, and gladly turn to the better,
brighter and more hopeful conditions of
life. Labor, rightly considered, teaches
no such gloomy doctrines, leads to no
such results. Labor holds the high table-
land between degrading stinginess on
one hand and wasteful extravagance on
the other. It does not mean that you
shall buy nothing—consume nothing.
This point is never reached until you are
in the hands of the undertaker. To want
something, to always want something, is

co-existent with life itself. What is
capital? A day’s work done. What is
labor? A day’s work to do. All the

logic and speculation of all the theorists
of all the schools can never change these
propositions or remove them from the
domain of rock-rooted facts.

In its normal condition the whole
world is a market, and human want, real
or imaginary, the stimulating occasion
for traffic. The buyers and sellers take
their places on the line, in proportion as
their day’s work (capital) is done, or
their day’s work (labor) is to do. ‘“‘l
want to purchase labor,’’ cries the capi-
talist. ‘‘I have labor to sell,’’ says the
laborer, and thus the two are brought
together in easy and proper relations,
when all the antecedents and surround-
ings are natural, and, like water seeking
its own level, the laws of supply and de-
mand regulate the relation between
them, a commodity called money being
used to balance up the difference in value.

But the trouble now so prominent arises
from forced and unnatural conditions.
Combinations of labor have been formed
to force the price of labor up. Combina-
tions of capital have been formed to meet
these demands and hold the price of
labor down. Both combinations have ig-
nored the laws of supply and demand,
and out of these conditions has come all
the friction, clashing, strikes, boycotts
and lock-outs with which,of late we have
become so familiar. Both sides have
learned many severe lessons during the
past half dozen years, but the outcome
is not clear even now, as neither side has
come to look the situation squarely in
the face. Employers have not yet come
to realize that, while the underlying
principle of the labor organizations is
self-protection, communism and anarchy
lie near the surface, ready to take a hand
in a desperate struggle at a moment’s
notice, inaugurating the destruction of
life and property and the violation of
every law, human and divine. On the
other hand, laboring men have not yet
learned that more results can be wrung
from capital by co-operation than by
coercion, and that any act which strikes
at the pocket-book or individual liberty
of any man reactsin inverse ratio on the
person who seeks to advance himself at
the expense of others. Until these les-
sons are learned, as they must be, sooner
or later; until capital ceases to be arro-
gant and unjustly severe; until the labor-
er begins to think for himself and refuses
to be led around by the venal demagogues

| labor organizations of the country—the

ments and intellectual developments. | and the strike and boycott will continue

 

to stalk forth, leaving its bloody trail of
communism, insurrection, incendiarism
and murder.

WHERE DID COLUMBUS LAND?

The approach of the Columbian Expo-
sition gives renewed interest to the never
settled question as to the precise landing
spot of the great explorer. It is not
enough for many to know the approxi-
mate vicinity, they want to know the
exact spot. To discover this a United
States expedition has been engaged in
examining the ancient ruins of the city
of Isabella and the adjoining territory of
San Domingo, and, to make assurance
doubly sure, the Chicago Herald has sent
out a private expedition with a ‘‘corres-
pondent,’? who, no doubt, will: set all
doubts forever at rest—in his own mind.

The first land touched by the great
discoverer, he describes as an island,
“small, level, with abundance of water
and a very large lagune in the middle.”
It was evidently in the Bahama group.
Many writers have settled on Cat Island
as the first land. Alexander Slidell Mac-
kenzie, an officer of the United States
navy, worked out the problem in detail
in 1828-29 for Washington Irving, who
adopted Mackenzie’s conclusions in his
‘Life of Columbus.’’ Cat Island was the
objective point. Later, Watling’s Island,
Samana Key and others of the Bahama
group have been chosen according as they
seemed to suit the purposes of the various
theorists.

There is nothing new in this particular
line of enquiry. The archeologists of
England, for five hundred years have
been ona still hunt for the exact spot
where the feet of Julius Cwsar first
touched the British soil. And as the
shores of Deal, where this remarkable
event is supposed to have taken place,
are flat and wide, there is ground enough
of controversy to last for the next five
hundred years.

The particular spot on Mount Ararat
where Noah’s ark came to anchor is like-
wise a subject of dispute. Even Mark
Twain, and the relics that he brought
back from the sacred locality, failed to
satisfy many inquiring minds.

But while these questions remain un-
settled, and possibly will for all time,
there can be little doubt that each and
every one of these distinguished voy-
agers did land, and landed to some pur-
pose. Each bore with him some portion
of that restless, resistless force called
civilization, and planted it in a fresh
soil where it grew and spread, producing
nations and institutions, and claiming
the world for its own. And these results
remain to give importance to the small
beginnings whence they sprung, and that
importance comes alone from these, so
that we may none the less fitly celebrate
the landing of Columbus, though we may
never be able to find the particular grains
of sand on which his foot first trod.

 

THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL CONGRESS.

The international or universal Postal
Congress, which has been in session at
Vienna for some time past, promises to
result in a further extension of the
benefits of the Universal Postal Union
in directions which have hitherto not
been reached by it. The United States
was fittingly represented in that Con-
gress and its representatives are said to
have belonged to all the committees
among which the work of the Congress
was divided.

 

The Universal Postal Union has re-
sulted in a great improvement in the
handling of international mail matter
and, by bringing the cost of postage
down to a very reasonable figure, has
greatly increased the volume of mail
matter passing between the different
countries which belongs to the Union,
and there can be no doubt that foreign
trade has been much facilitated and
extended through the same agency.

It is now the aim of the members of
the Universal Union to secure the ad-
hesion of the few countries which do
not yet belong, although that task has
become an easy one because of the al-
most universal extension of the Union
in fact as well as in name. The Aus-
tralian colonies were about the only im-
portant power which had hitherto failed
to come into the Union, and the advices
from Vienna now point to the entire
success of the attempts that have been
made to extend the service of the Postal
Union in that direction.

The accession of the Australian colo-
nies will effect avery considerable re-
duction of postage in mail matter ex-
changed with that distant portion of the
world. The regular 5-cent letter rate
per half ounce and 2 cents for postal
cards will replace the cumbersome system
which has been hitherto followed with
respect to Australian mail matter. The
accession of Australia is, therefore, the
most important feature of the present
congress of the Postal Union; but that
alone is of such consequence that it is
worthy of more than passing notice:

 

SMITH BARNES.

In the death of Smith Barnes, Traverse
City loses one of her foremost citizens;
Northern Michigan loses one of its most
energetic and enthusiastic champions,
and the commercial interests of the State
are deprived of one of their strongest
expenents.

Essentially a self-made man, Mr.
Barnes is an admirable example of the
success which can be acquired in a busi-
ness life where honesty and oneness of
purpose are made the guiding stars. Going
to Traverse City thirty-three years ago,
he cast his fortunes with the mer-
cantile business and, without dipping in-
to the pine investments which yielded
such handsome returns for his partners,
he was able to accumulate a competence
which will probably not fall below
$150,000; and had he been content to de-
ny himself the enjoyments of travel and
recreation which business men too often
forego, he could have easily doubled his
fortune. That he did not so deny him-
self, shows the mental balance and great
good sense of the man.

Mr. Barnes will be missed at home by
his friends and acquaintances; but, in a
still broader degree, he will be sadly
missed at the gatherings of business
men which he loved to attend and in
which he was invariably a leading spirit.
Always counseling moderation and plead-
ing for justice, be became noted for his
ability to smooth over the little differ-
ences which sometimes arise in conven-
tion work and his outspoken endorse-
ment of needed reforms always com-
manded respectful attention.

To THe TRADESMAN the death of Mr.
Barnes is particularly poignant, as he
was one of the staunchest exponents of
the paper at its inception and has main-
tained a steadfast support and fatherly
oversight ever since. Many of his

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4. sins

brightest thoughts and most valuable ad-
vice have been given to the world through
the medium of these columns and his
death thus becomes a personal loss to
every reader of the paper.

THE OYSTER BEDS.

Prof. Brooks, of Baltimore, an expert
in the conchology and commercial econ-
omics of the oyster, has formulated a
statement to the effect that in fifty-six
years the Chesapeake Bay has yielded
about 400,000,000 bushels of oysters; that
this magnificent inheritance has, through
improvidence and mismanagement, been
so wasted that not a remnant of it will
descend to the next generation of Mary-
landers unless the entire oyster industry
is reformed without delay. This calls
for scientific oyster farming, artificial
culture, careful bedding and planting,
and, first of all and urgently, for the pro-
tection of the natural beds against the
raids of destructive tongmen and dredg-
ers.

The consumption of oysters from the
Maryland waters is at the rate of 10,-
000,000 to 12,000,000 bushels a year, and
Maryland only supplies a portion of the
national demand. Probably the yearly
consumption for the whole country is
20,000,000 bushels, and is constantly in-
creasing. Nothing adequate is being
done to protect the oysters, while the
raids that are made upon them result in
the destruction of all the spats, and the
small and unmerchantable shell fish.

 

The ostentation, pomp and parade of
our modern funerals are a vulgar dis-
play of bad taste, and are out of place
in this age of enlightened thought. The
respect for the dead should be shown in
the heart rather than in the gaudy trap-
pings that fashion has prescribed for
symbolizing woe.

The American Sugar Refining Co.—
otherwise known asthe Sugar Trust—
has declared semi-annual dividends of 31,
per cent. on the preferred stock and 4
per cent. on the common stock. Noone
will be inclined to doubt that the div-
idends have actually been earned.

With the fair sex in every office and
now asking the ballot it is safe to say
this is the age of women. But nobody
knows it.

The Successor of Mr. Barnes.

TRAVERSE City, June 22—The death
of Mr. Barnes naturally causes con-
siderable speculation as to who will suc-
ceed the deceased as General Manager of
the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co. It is
very generally conceded that the position
will be tendered Herbert Montague, who
has been connected with the house 20
years and for several years has been at
the head of the grocery department. Mr.
Montague is a broadguage business man
and would undoubtedly serve the in-
stitution with as much distinction as he
has acquired at the head of his present
department.

—— -_+_~» -4
The Oil Situation at Hopkins.

HopkKINS STATION, June 22—An oil ex-
pert from Bradford, Pa., is anxious to
bore for oil in this vicinity, as he is con-

fident the indications are even better here |
It is understood that |

than at Allegan.
Frank B. Watkins has offered to secure
the necessary leases in case the gentle-
man will deposit $3,000 in bank as an
evidence of good faith. The leases se-
cured by Messrs. Bowne and Rathbun a

Lamoreaux on the Wool Situation:
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

I find the following advice to farmers
in the current issue of the Michigan
Grange Visitor:

There can be a good deal of legerde-
main practiced in sorting wool. A fleece
which would grade delaine in one in-
stance will goin the X pile at another,
and knock off three to five cents per
pound. The grading is seldom up to
the samples sent. Our belief is that a
lot of chicanery is practiced here as there
| certainly is all along the line. The deal-
jer maligns the farmer for cheating in
| questionable practices, and still holds
out the bribe for it by paying the same
price for dirty and undesirable wool as
for that which is clean and respectable.
| Wool that has been soaked a certain
| length of time on the sheep in the water
sells for six to ten cents more per pound
than that shorn early, which is cleaner
and will shrink less. Farmers are quite
as sharp as the dealers, and so long as
this kind of tactics is kept up, so long
will manufacturers find dirty wool and
untidiness in the fleeces.

There is truth in every line of the
above clipping, butsolong as the farmers
persist in ‘soaking their wool a certain
length of time,’’? just so long will the
‘‘sood name Michigan wool once had” be
in bad repute.

I think the average run of farmers in
Michigan this year will find that the
buyer has bought at full prices about
all the soaked wool he will buy for some
time, and will also find that in the year
1891, if his wool is not up in condition,
he will have to suffer the consequences.
I was at Ovid Friday and sawaclip of
fine wool sold, forty-seven fleeces, at 25
cents per pound, for the merchantable
wool. When weighed up, Mr. Farmer
got 25 cents for twenty fleeces, weighing
110 pounds, and 25 cents, one-third off,
for twenty-seven fleeces, weighing 146
pounds. The twenty-seven fleeces were
equally as good wool; but, when the
farmer soaked it, he did not soak it quite
long enough, and while he got a good
price for the twenty fleeces which passed
muster, for the twenty-seven
which did not pass, he received only 162
cents per pound; when, if he had tried
to be honest, he would have received full
prices for the whole forty-seven fleeces;
as the quality of the wool was all of one
grade. The farmers will find that the
time of buying soaked (properly named)
wool is past and that from now on they
will have to give an honest dollar’s worth
of wool to get a dollar. It is an unfortu-
nate fact that Michigan wool, once rank-
ing among the best in the country, has
fallen much below par; not because of
any defect in the quality but because of
the carelessness and unfairness of the
growers in preparing it for market. It
is related, that a certain Eastern manu-
facturer, in using 2,000,000 pounds of
Australian wool, found but 600 pounds
of strings and other waste matter, while
from the same amount of Michigan wool,
he found over 12,000 pounds. If that is
not enough to discourage a consumer of
Michigan wool, I would like to know
what would. It is to be hoped that both
the buyer and the grower will do their
best in the future to place Michigan wool
| where it belongs, in the front rank, by
putting it up in good condition.

I wish
| their wool.

 

fleeces

 

Then there would be no

couple of years ago have expired and| question as to condition, but each clip

have been returned to the lessees.

 

a —O- e

would sell on its merits and bring what

Northville —G. S. VanZile has pur-|it was worth and the farmer would not
chased the lumber and salt business of.| Lave to soak his wool at all.

York & Tillotson.

W. T. LAMOREAUX.

the farmers would not wash |

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9

iISHIN G TACKLE

—1 AND =

SPORTING GOOD

HEADQUARTERS.

 

SPALDING & GO,

SUCCESSORS TO

L.. S. HILL. &Co.

Importers, Manufacturers
and Jobbers of

Sporting & Athletic Goods,

100 Monroe St,
AQ, 42 & 44 N. Tonia 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
will be well protected in
their hands.
Very truly yours,

SPALDING & CO.

interests

Having purchased the above stock of goods and added to it

very largely
y Sery,

and placed it in charge of William Wood-

worth, who for many years was with L. 8. Hill & Co., and
then Spalding & Co., we think we are now in excellent shape

to supply the

i

trade of Western Michigan.

STERZAT EVENS
C: MONRORg

ST.

 

  

10

 

Drugs # Medicines.

Staie Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.

Meetings for 1891—Ann Arbor, May 5; Star Island
(Detroit) July 7; Houghton, Sept. 1; Lansing Nov. 4

 

 

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President—D. E. Prali, Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo.
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor.
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—W m Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in October, 1891.

 

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

June, September and December,

Grand Rogiée Drug Clerks’ Seoneiation.

resident, Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smi

 

 

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.
President, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P. Rheinfrank.

 

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President C.S. Koon; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

 

Faith as a Curative Agent.

Written for THE TRADESMAN.

Seventh sons of seventh sons, and sev- |

enth daughters ‘‘in the same ratio like-
wise,’’ seem to have the way to fortune
made easy for them, provided they are
capable of inspiring faith. Perhaps this

power is one of the characteristics of
these gifted persons, unless, indeed,
there are seventh children of seventh

children, who, so to speak, hide their
respective lights under convenient bush-
els. Atall events enough of them are
extant to justify a very considerable
amount of liberal advertising, and
one need search far without learning of
alleged miraculous cures effected by
these natural astrologers or
they may be called.

no

Of course, the med-

ical faculty does not seem disposed to |

recognize the healing powers of such
irregular practitioners; but their failure
to doso has small effect, so long as a
paying constituency exists which thinks
otherwise, and persists in getting rid of
its bodily ailments through an interview
with a seventh child. Simple faith isa
wonderful curative agent, and the medi-

cal faculty is somewhat blameworthy in |
that it does not more honestly follow the |

plain indications of nature in this regard.
Most physicians will admit in weak mo-
ments of confidence that they occasion-
ally prescribe ‘‘bread pills’? or other
equally harmless remedies, and with good
effect; and it is well known how, early
in the present century, ‘‘Perkins’ trac-
tors” cured thousands of patients,
there is ample evidence to show.
not all this point most emphatically to
the imagination as a remedial agent? and
why should the faculty so persistently
ignore it?
the part of the patient is an essential
element of successful treatment; but be-
yond such paltry concessions as bread

as
Does

pills or distilled water with a dash of |

bitterness in it, they all refuse to go. In
the remarkabie case of Perkins’ tractors
just referred to, it was a regular physi-
cian who made a pair of imitation wooden
tractors, and effected cures by their aid
just as the original Perkins did with his
metallic instrument. What need was
there that he should thereupon expose
the whole business as a fraud? Why
could he not have let the cures go on as
long as they would? Within a few years
past so many thousand cripples have
been cured by a pilgrimage to ‘“‘Our Lady
of Lourdes,’’that their discarded crutches
make a lofty monument before the altar
of the church which their gratefully-con-
tributed mites have combined to raise.
What cured them, if they were cured?
Why, faith of course—otherwise termed

whatever |

They all admit that faith on

 

 

aaa MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

{
imagination; and if it was really effec-
| tive, blessed be such faith, we say! No
| doubt seventh sons and most patent med-
|icines are, in themselves humbugs; but
somehow people are brought to believe
in them, and, if they are not really cured,
at least think they are. Perhaps the
time will come when an enlightened pro-
fessional standard will permit more than
it now does a resort to nature’s own rem-
|edy—the imagination—a dose of which
is surely far easier to take than are pre-
scriptions duly compounded by our un-
imaginative friends, the druggists.
A. S. M.
Oe
Probable Competitors of the Whisky
Trust.

Searcely have the controlling members
of the Whisky Trust had time to proper-
ly congratulate themselves upon their

| absorption of the Shufeldt and Calumet

distilleries and the apparent end of
|serious existing opposition, when forth
comes a rumor of an intended coalition
of wholesale liquor dealers and rectifiers
| who propose building a distillery of their
own to thwart any probable advance of
prices by the Trust.

Such rumors as these have been known
to originate from no-one-knows-where,
after the consolidation of other business
organizations, the wish often being mere
|father to the thought, and having no

further basis; but, in the present in-
stance, the array of names printed in
| eonnection with this report gives it more
of the semblance of possibility than other
rumors cropping up atsuch atime. Nor
| is the present the first occasion an oppo-
sition of this kind has been mooted or
| seriously talked over among wholesalers
and rectifiers. These interests have long
looked askant at the efforts of the Trust
to absorb the big distilleries which held
out so long, and realizing that the recent-
ly occuring end might be only a matter
| of time, they have been considering ways
/and means of protecting themselves
jagainst higher prices when the Trust
| should conclude to put on the pressure.
| Hence, the plan of an independent dis-
tillery to forestall such action on the
part of the Trust has been talked over
before, and its realization is not such an
improbable matter as the Trust may state
its belief in it to be.

Itis reported that one hundred different
dealers have stated their willingness to
|subseribe for stock in an anti-trust dis
tilling company, each to the extent of
five thousand dollars and over, so that
the matter of raising a half million dol-
lars of paid-in capital is a matter of no
great difficulty. The profits in the man-
ufacture of whisky and alcohol are of
snch a generous and tempting character
that the inducement from that point of
view alone is considerable, while the
evils of which the jobbers and rectifiers
will eseape in eluding the grasp of the
Trust are also of no little moment. The
| jobbers look very unfavorably upon the
| $3,000,000 of their money which the Trust
withholds from them for a certain time
'in the form of unpaid rebates on pur-
| chases which the jobbers feel ought te be
|paid them in a shorter time, that they
|might use the money in their own busi-

ness instead of the Trust having it and
Add to
| this grievance the fact that the Trust
has, since its absorption of the Schufeldt
and Calumet distillery companies, elim-
inated the two cents per gallon cut made
in prices by those companies, and that
|other raises in prices are quite liable to
| happen at any time, and one sees potent
| casus belli upon the part of both jobbers
j and rectifiers—in fact, some of them are
| reported as saying that they see no other
| way out of the difficulty which they feel
| to be surely awaiting them as things are,
jexcept an independent distillery upon a
jlarge scale from which they can draw
{ sufficient stock either to be entirely non-
|dependent upon the Trust people, or
{with a sufficient output to keep Trust
| prices down to a reasonable status.

| All, however, is not roseate hued in
ithe direction of independence in this
| particular, any more than it ever is in
janything else, political or commercial.
There are many firms eager for war to be

}

 

| paying no interest for its use.

 

declared, but there are also some dealers
who fear to state their preference lest
the Trust will arbitrarily raise prices at
once—as it could do—and compel buyers
to pay such high figures for present stock
that much of the capital they intend for
the building of their new plant would be
dissipated in present purchases, for the
building of the new distillery would
naturally take considerable time, during
which interval the Trust controlling
present stock could make business very
interesting for the smaller jobbers.
Hence, the optimists and pessimists will
have to ascertain thoroughly their rela-
tive strengths before the future or lack
of future of the anti-trust distillery can
be safely predicated.

—>—-o-——
MEDITATIONS OF A PESSIMIST.
FIRST PAPER.

Written for THE TRADESMAN.

Happy is the man and greatly to be
envied who, as he sails down the stream
of time, keeps his eyes fixed upon the
beauties of the ever changing landscape
and enjoys with a new and increasing
delight each turn as he journeys on down
the voyage of life. To such a man there
are no terrors by the way to mar the
serenity of his mind or disturb the placid
waters upon which his little craft is
drifting and bearing him on down to the
great gulf that will swallow up his
earthly existence. He is ever on the
alert to drink in the many beautiful
things on either side, but is blind and
deaf to everything else. As he stands
in the bow of his little craft, with his
arms folded and his countenance beam-
ing with satisfaction and looks about
him, he is so blinded with the shimmer-
ing waters that he cannot perceive the
dangerous shoals and the ugly-looking
projecting rocks that menace his safety
and threaten him with destruction. He
is so charmed with some phantasm that
he catches a glimpse of in the distant
landscape that he overlooks entirely the
great black frowning wall of rock which
rises up out of the waters like a huge
sea monster, waiting to devour him. I
say such a man is to be envied, for to
him it is given to see only the things
which please and hear only the sounds
which contribute to his happiness. He
has a blind faith in destiny and believes
that somehow everything will work out
its own salvation and that all things are
working together for the highest possible
ultimate good of all. With him the
world is growing vastly better every day
and will continue to do so, regardless of
human efforts and activities. He dubs
every poor, miserable wretch who is so
unfortunate as to have been born into
the world with eyes that can see, and
ears that can hear and a heart that can
feel, a crank or a pessimist. He is an
optimist and his idealism blinds him to
the realities of life and qualifies him for
his mission in life’s work, which is to
paint the bright side in glowing colors
and hold it aloft for the encouragement
of the faint-hearted and the despondent.
The misanthrope, on the other hand,
paints the dark side of life in somber
shades so realistic that were it all of life
it would not be worth the living.

The pessimist is not a hobbyist with
one idea, nor is he a sycophant or a mere
echo of public opinion. He knows the
old world is not what it ought to be and
blames mankind for it. He goes through
life with both eyes wide open and forms
his opinions and arrives at his conclu-
sions from experimental contact with the
world as it is, and not as painted by the
optimists or misanthrope. He is an em-

pirical philosopher and, as such, would

 

be inclined to see the poetic beauty of
the harmony of nature and of nature’s
laws vanish into thin air after taking a
sudden flight through space, on a little
cyclonic excursion accompanied by his
pig pen and the gable end of all his
worldly possessions. He is a close ob-
server and is always ready and willing
to shake hands with good old common
horse sense, whenever and wherever he
sees it. When he sees a young man wil-
fully depart from the counsel of his
friends, fall into bad company, become
dissipated and follow on down grade
until he makes the final plunge during a
drunken brawl! in a brothel; when his
bloated and polluted remains lie before
a Christian alter and the minister rises
in the pulpit and makes the startling
statement that the Great Creator of the
sun, moon and stars, ‘‘who doeth all
things well,’’ had seen fit in His infinite
goodness to dispatch the quivering arrow
of death and remove this son, in order
that the bereaved father or the heart-
broken mother might see the error of
their ways—the pessimist goes away won-
dering where that minister heard such
wonderful news and hoping that itis a
false report, for, if true, it would weaken
his faith in the loving kindness of an
allwise Creator who would make use of
such means to remove a mortal from
earth.

Happy is the man and greatly to be
envied who finds himself in harmony
with his environments, but such is not
the happy lot of a pessimist, and they
tell me Iam one. I plead guilty to the
accusation and, as I have been trying to
keep up with the procession for nearly
half a century, I will, in a series of
future articles, give you a glimpse of the
old world as it is, as plainly seen with
the naked eye from the standpoint of a

PESSIMIST.
ASpongy Rumor.
From the New York Shipping List.

lt is rumored in the sponge trade that
acompany has been formed, with $100,
000 capital, to undertake experiments at
sponge growing on the ocean shore of
Long Island, opposite the Shinnecock
hills. The story caused considerable
amusement among practical men in the
business. ‘‘Ilt will be a waste of time
and money,’’ one of them said, ‘‘to try
to grow sponge in Northern waters.
Sponges will not grow in a cold climate.
We have a grade of sponges known in the
trade as Long Island grass sponges. They
are of acheap quality, and do not come
from our Long Island across the river.
They are from the South.”

— > ¢ —-———-—
A Buckeye Opinion
From the Columbus Sample Case.

We are pleased to welcome among our
exchanges the the MicnigAN TRADEs-
man, published at Grand Rapids. In its
bright dress it makes an attractive ap-
pearance and a perusal of its instructive
columns will convince the reader that it is
not all outside show with the MicHiGANn
TRADESMAN. The goods in its show
windows are backed up by the well filled
shelves of its interior.

———_—_<»>--o<——___——
The Drug Market.

Opium is dull and lower. Morphia is
unchanged. Quinine is dull and lower. Oil
cloves have declined. Salicylic acid is
lower. Cantharides are lower. Linseed
oil has declined.

Drog Store for Sale at a Bargain

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

iness.
c. L. BRUNDAGE,

Opp. New Post Office. 117 W. Western Ave.
Muskegon, Mich.

 

 

 

 

____THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Whaleaaic Price Current.

 

Advanced—Nothing,

Declined—Opium, oil lemon, cantharides, linseed oil.

 

 

 

 
 

  
 

  

 

 

  

 

 

ACIDUM. Cometes............ . ote
ee 8@ 10| Exechthitos........... %@1 00
Benzoicum German.. s0@1 oo | Etigeron .............. 2 35@2 50
POGAEIO ..........+..- 30 | Gaultheria ............ 2 00@2 10
arpalienwn ..........- 23@ 35] Geranium, ounce..... @ 7
ee 58@ 60 | Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ 7
vabounior (0... ....- Se Si occeneee 85@2 00
eS 10@ 12) Junipert............... 50@2 00
a 11@ 13|Lavendula............ 90@2 00
Phosphorium dil...... 20 ee cleat ~ 50@3 10
Salicylicum ........... 1 30@1 70 | Mentha Piper.......... 2 90@3 00
Sulphuricum. J ee Ss —— Verd,........ 2 20@2 30
Tannicum. . i 40@1 60 eee one Lae 1 “oe 20

Pol ceckes au 42 a Q
—, ee 1 00@2 75

AMMONIA, Picis sown, (gal, , 10@ 12

oe Stic | CE le OMe om

Aqua, 1 oe ee Bie 7 oo aaa 13@1 00
ey cee . 12@ . eee "aes setts tenes 3 =
emer setae snes ee HDI 00
ANILINE. — eee ee cetegcces 3 50@7 00

ee 2 00@2 25 Sassafras...... —.. oo

Se peaneenebines woot 00 | Sinapis, ess, ounce. 2, 65
Oe 45@ 50 Oe 50
Yellow .......-...-..-- 2 50@3 00 | Thyme on ae a 50

BACCAE. Theobramas........... 15@ 2
Cubeae (po. 90). 90@1 10 POTASSIUM.
Juniperus ..... + Oa SB Carb ceo 15@ 18
Xanthoxylum .......-- 25@ 30] Bichromate ........... 13@ 14

BALSAMUM. — ee eee eel. 35@ =
ee. 55@_ 60] Chlorate, (po. 16)...... 1@ 16
oS @l 75 Cuantde 50@ 55
Terabin, Canada... ee SO ioaiie 2 80@2 90
Tolutan .......-------- 35@ 50] Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 30@ 33
CORTEX Potassa, Bitart,com... @ 15
' Potass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10
pwesed ee * Potass Re @ 2
—_— ade S
Cinchona Flava .......-.--- 18} Sulphate po........... me 18
Euonymus atropurp........ 30 sept
Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 " :
Pranus Virginl De eee ces Se) RCO... 20@ 2%
miliaia, @Fd........-+..--0- 14) Alias. ............... 2@ 30
SemAtres .....-.-------+- +e - ee Ne “= 15
L Po (Ground 12)...... TOT Ares 00... .......... 25
Vieue ( Cc ‘alamus a 0@ 5
EXTRACTUM. a (po. og a 10@ 12
Glabra... 2@ 25| Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15) 146@ 18
eae a 33@ 35 Hydrastis Canaden, as
ox,15lb. box.. 11@ 12 (po. 40)... ‘
3 Oe cece ees 13@ 14] Hellebore, Ala, OL. 15@ 20
= BEM nt ons 16@ 151 OMe, po.............. 15@ 20
* MEM cs ese 16 171 Ipecac, po..:.......... 2 0@2 50
FERRUM. — (po. 35@38) .. = =
alae, Pr... 88... @ 45
Carbonate Precip. ..... @ 15] Maranta, %s.......... @ 3
Citrate and Quinia.. @3 0 Podophyilum, DOW... 15@ 18
Citrate Soluble........ el 75@1 00
Ferrocyanidum Sol.. @ WO “ oil ne @1 %5
Solut Chloride........ @ 15] « py — T5@1 35
Sulphate, com’l.....-. 14@ 2) Spigelia............... 48@ 53
pure......-.. @ 7] Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @
. Serpentaria............ 40@ 45

sR on | SOMERS ------ 2+ sees ees 5H0O@ 55
Appice .....--+----+-+<- 18@ 20 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40
ee eee 20 25 @ ®
Matricaria Si: --- 25@ oe. (po. ae 10@ 12

FOLIA Symplocarpus, ‘cet
Barosme pi mo 28] yah Po isi: Gos) 8 S
cane. *,cuiifol, ~~ ao 15@ 2

nivelly ...;;---,--- 3@ 33| _ingiber a....... ides 10@ 15
Salvia officinalis, 48 ee 1........... 2Q@ 2%
end M48..........0--- 2@ 15 SEMEN.
ura Ural. ee ene 8@ 10 Anisum, (po. 20). @ 15
@UMMI. Shai ana. *S =
Oe
Acacia, = picked... a : Carul, ee &@ 12
“ee @ 8) Contendrum 00.02.07 ‘toe 12
oe , "ast > Cannabis Sativa TS 4@ 8
r . Ou... ...--+.- 7
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60).:. 50@ C enopodium ........ 10@ 12
«Cape, (po. 20)... @ 1) Hintertx Odorate......2 00@2 2
“  Socotrl, (po. 60). @ a... @ 15
a — 1s, (8, 14 48, @1 Foenugreek, po.. 6@ 8
a... = Shoo go wns @ 4%
Assafatida, (po. 30)... @ | ropelia.?.... 002... 35@ 40
Benzoinum......------ - 0@ 55 Phariaris Ganatiai. : 3%4@ 4%
Camphori........-.. + OUD 35 Baten cneesenesees ®t
Kuphorbium po .....- 35@, 10 sinay is, Albu. 8@ 9
Ga — Cue eeeeceese @3 e ig et 1@ 12
Gamboge, po..-...-.--- 5
Quaiacum, (po 30)... @ SPIRITUS.
Kino, (po. 25)....----- @ Ww Frumenti, W., D. 2-- > 0@2 50
Manic 0. 0.0.4. 1a @ 2% De Bo 1 75@2 00
Myrrh, (po. 45)....---- @ 40 6S 1 10@1 50
Opif, (po. 3 25)...-.--- 2 10@2 20| Juniperis Co. O. T....1 75@1 7
Shellac .. _ aa a Se UU 1 75@3 50
“bleached... 28@ 33] Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00
Tragacanth .......---- 30@ 7%] Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 756 =
HERBA—In ounce packages. b — nee reesees : 25Q2 =
Adeiudeium ........-.--+.--- 25, oe “G2
= SS . 20 SPONGES.
M eons eed ede be eeee shee ae Z Florida sheeps’ wool : is
NT : carriage............. 2 25@2
Mentha — bode ea eee tue = Nassau sheeps’ wool
NE si casa se cee oes 30 cores ....,..,.--- 2 00
eS 30| Velvet extra sheeps’
Tanacetum, V........---++-- 22| " wool carrlage.. 110
Thymus, V.......----+++ +++: 25) extra yellow sheeps’
MAGNESIA, Carriage .........-..- 85
Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 — wool car- 4
$ 92} riage ............----
eee i= ae 25 | Hard tor slate use. ve)
Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36 =— Reef, for slate a
dee rere:
Aveiotis.. .....-...- 5 00@5 50 SYRUPS.
Amygdalae, Dulc...... 45@ 75/| Accacia .... 50
Amydalae, Amarae.. ae 00@S8 25 | Zingiber 50
aie... S.....-----e- TOG 8) Ipeeac......... 60
Auranti Cortex....... 3 00@3_ 50 ee ee 50
Bergamil ............- 3 75@4 00} Auranti Cortes 50
Casroas) .......--.--+ 70@ er Asem... ws... 50
Ca ee Hedees sence 90@1 00 | Similax Officinalis.......... 60
ee)... ....... 35@ 65 a. Ce... 50
Chenapodil . en OF | Reneee 4c. ............-...-. 50
Cinnamonii ... 5 ied Si Geliae....................... 50
Citronella ..... s @ 4 eee aee 50
Conium Mac.... ce WO Re RN oe ee es cece 50
Copaiba ...............1+20@1 30 | Prun ‘ 4 i. oe

 

  

 

 

Morphia, S. P. & W...2 05@2 20 | Seidiitz Mixture...... @ B Tandeoed, boiled . B 8
nN. xX. © & Sinapi ' i etna ee @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter
|. C.Co................ 1 95@2 20 ... @ 30}. strained ........... 5 60
| oer —- oe 40 — Washes, De a4 ee 4344 50
yristica. —, 7 "5 voor ................ ( 5
| Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10] Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes @ 35} a oo -. Ib.
a, ee 28@ 30] Soda Boras, (po. 13). . 12@ 13} Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3
sails commit | Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Pa et Potass Tart... 20@ 33 | Ochre, yellow Soya = ans
Aconitum Napellis R....... a @2 G7} Soga Carb............ 1%@ 2 er
ee Picts Lig, N. 6., ¥4 gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ 5| | Putty, commercial. ...2% 24@3
ie a 60 | _ do: @2 0) Soda, Ash............ 3%4@ 4|__“ strictly pure.....2% 2%@3
(a 60 Pieis Liq. ; ‘quarts fiee @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas........ @ 2} Vermilion Prime Amer i
aie 50 | pants ....... @ 85] Spts. Ether Co....... 50@ 55|_ican.... -- 13@16
hae a o| Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80). @ 50| “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 2%! Vermilion, English. 70@75
Atrope Beliadonna.......... 60 | Piper Nigra, (po. 2). @ 1 “ Myrcia Imp.. @3 00 | Green, Peninsular... . WO@I5
Benzoin.. tassel. @6) Hamer Alba, (po 5). @ 3 * Vini Rect. bbl. / | | Lead, ncn, @i'4
ean ao | Hoe eee Te oT @2 37 | White .... @i%4
Sanguinaria................. 50} Plumbi Acet .......... M@ 15 Less de gal., cash ten days, __ | Whiting, white Span .. ey
Pee 50 | Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia C rystal..... | Whiting, Gilders’...... @%
Cantharides................. 7%|Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, Subl. 3 @ : | Ww hite, e Americ an 1 00
aes. ka |. @& 2. D. Co., doz... @1 25 a Boal. %@ 3%| Whiting, Paris Eng. ;
Ca damon... Le) Reet iran py... 30@ 35|Tamarinds............ 8@ 10|_ cliff t . 1 4C
Co. a a5; | Quassiae . . .. &@ 10| Terebenth Veni ea, 28@ 30| Pioneer ia pared Paintl 20@1 4
an 100 | Quinia, S. eae... 33@ 36 | Theobromae . ... 4@_ 56} Swiss Villa Pre —,
Catechu.... Se Seman. ~ 2 30 | Vanilla... . 9 D ongeis 00} Paints. 00@1 20
Cinchone .. 59 | Rubia Tinctorum..... 14} Zinci Sulph.. 7@ 8] VARNISHES,
ea ..ees+e 60| Saccharum Lactis pv. “@ 33 | No.1Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Columba 60} Salen... 1 80@1 85 OILS. | Extra Turp --160@1 70
Contim ..................... 50) Saneais Deatonia..... 0@ 50 Bbl. Gal! Coach Body T@3_ 00
Cures. ..................... Se Samtomims .......... @4 50] Whale, winter........ 70 70 | No. 1 Turp E ‘urn Lou it 00@1 10
es .............. ...., 50 Sapo, ~.............. Eee Settee eras........... & 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
Ee -_— - 2... ........ Re ie, We L........... 45 50|Japan Dryer, No. 1
vax ee Ly Sa uk cue eeu ce =I ~ Co @ 15) Linseed, pureraw.... 49 52 | oo @ 7
Ct 50 | |
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Pyencvemme
Iodine

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Port Culeercum............

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ee ee 50 .
——... ............... 50
Myrrh.. oo. Se & j j ARK K j VS
Nux Vomica. Sedeeccsees OO
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™ Cypohoraiod........... 50
~ Deemer i. 2 00 e
Aue Coreee...... «...... 50
~eersrses ea >
_Apeeomnen 50 Importers and Jobbers of
Cassia Acutifol. . 50
Ce 50
coi 50
eer ee eee
Women |... ......... a
st... 50
Verstram Veride............ 50
MISCELLANEOUS.
ther, Spts Nit, 3 y.. BQ
4F 30@ 32
Alama 24@ 3 EMIC A LS
: ae -
eas eee dues eeu cay 55@ 60
Antimont, po.. 4a 5
et Potass T. 55@ «60
Deyn... ..-s..- @1 40
eee @ %
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 66
Arecweum ........-... mm 7 a
Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@ 40
Bismuth &. &......... 2 10@2 20

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ii:
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Caryophyllus, (po. 15) 12@ i3 =
Carmine, No. 40....... 3°75 j 3
Cera Alba,5.4@F..... 50@ 55
Cova WiGva...,........ 38@ 40
Se @ 4
Cassia Fructus........ @ 2
Centraria.............- @ 10 Sele Agents for the Celebrated
Meee cl ws 2
Chicreform ........... 63
' uibbs . “e 10
Chloral Hyd ‘cst eens i — 70 Swiss | LA PREP
Choaare............. 2 8
Cinchonidine, raw 4 20
German 3%@ 12
Corks, list, dis. per
a 60 a m
Cressotor 0006014... @ 50 ° 3
Creta, (bbl. Lage Le. @ ¢& 4
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| precip... Lue sees 9@ 11 8
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Ciel malpm........... |
Dosis .............. 10@ 12 We are Sole Proprictors of
miner Salpn........... 5 70
Emery, all numbers.. @ ‘ ? ® '
vai sceeiee ae (
oe es Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.
Biake Woite.......... 122@ 15
Gale. 23
a a 7 g 8 s
elatin, Cooper....... 7
- 60 We Have in Stock and Offer a Fall Lise of
a at 70 and 10
y box 60and 10
Glue, — — . Be = WHISK I BS, BR ANDIES,
Glycerina . 4. @& ea
Grana Paradisi =.=. @ 2 GINS, WINES, RUMS.
PE nee 25@ 55
Hydraag ~— _ e =
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*  Ammoniati.. _@1 10 We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
' ij 44@ 55)
Hy drargyrum ’ 2 m0 | We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction.
Tehthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 | All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Send in a
rece ..-.......-.... T5@1 = | trial order.
an. Resubl........3 75@3 8
oe .......,.... @A 70 |
Lupulin .. 35@ >| |
Lycopodium 2 =
Macs .............-...- 80@
Liquor Arsen et Hy- 48
Li then ss Arsii itis 10@ a
quor Potass Arsinitis
agn , Sulph
oo GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
maesia. a ©... ... 50@ 6

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

WALES AND WILLIAM.

A Comparison to the Decided Disad- |
vantage of the Former.

Written for THRE TRADESMAN

The London gambling scandal, which |
has attracted such widespread attention |
on both sides of the
night past, from having been aired in
the English high courts, the |

is now

efforts are all towards lofty and distin-

Atlantic for a fort-|
jand heroic

| German

leading topic of discussion all over the |

world and is evidently destined to result |
in the first steps toward an English |
republic.

iefly ste 2 case was that at the| “
Briefly stated, the case was that at the ‘ths tine aed.

| wools are low enough, there are no buy-

country-house of wealthy and aris-
tocratic family last September the Prince
of Wales and other titled personages of
both sexes were spending some time as
guests. It appears from the testimony
that when the Prince of Wales makes
such visits to his friends he is in the
habit of carrying with him a complete
outfit for playing the game of baccarat.
Baccarat isa gambling game, and forms
the chief evening amusement at the
country-houses where the heir to the
3ritish throne visits. On the occasion
in point the royal and imperial Prince

a

was acting as banker, with a general
officer of his staff as croupier,

number of lords and ladies and persons

while a

of quality were betting at the game.
One of the guests, Sir William Gordon
Cumming, a lieutenant colonel in the

army, was accused of cheating at cards.
The matter made a scandal, which got
into court through a suit for libel which
the accused officer instituted against the
who had made the
charges. The case concluded
verdict against the plaintiff,
virtually declares that he was guilty
baccarat.

offensive
a

persons
with
which
of
swindling at

This decision has resulted in the dis-
missal of Mr. Cumming from his rank
in the army, besides bringing on him
other social degradations. But his share
in the proceedings becomes
trivial by the side of the other scandals
which the trial has brought to light.
The heir tothe throne of the proudest
kingdom on the globe appears the
manager of a peripatetic gambling bank

entirely

as

|
|

| satisfied and holds or seils grudgingly.

 

| guished ends, and whatever else he may
|have been the young German Emperor
| has never appeared asa shameless de-
|bauchee and smooth-paced gambler.
| The two Princes are related by blood,
but it would seem that all the robust
elements had got into the
side of the house in this
The spectacle is attracting the attention
| of the world. A. & M.
_—_—— Oe
The Wool Market.
Wool markets are decidedly easier at |
in fact, lower. While the

case.

 

| for 2 bu.

ers of consequence. The grower is not

There is but little going East, which is a
good thing, for, if in any quantity, the
market would break worse. Itis no time
to buy or sell, and theories on the future |

are far apart, as one’s interest may
be. Money is tight, and the present out-
look is none too good. None but locals

are taking the wool and they begin
ask, Where are the other buyers?
i i
Another Advance in Fruit Jars.
Fruit jars have sustained a further ad- |
vance of $1.50 per gross,
now as follows:

Pints. —
Quarts...... oid eed eeu ke
Half gallons. se

The Chicago prices are $11.50, $12 and
$15, but Michigan jobbers have conclud-
ed to place their quotations this week at
$1.50 below Chicago.

to

the price being

.-.- 910.00
-
- ao

me
Country Callers.

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

B. W. Ellison, Alma.

Maston & Hammond,

H. M. Patrick, Leroy.

H. Van Noord, Jamestown.

C. H. LaFlamboy, McBrides.

E. C. Duff, Ada.

i i a
Pardonable Resentment.

Customer in hardware store:
you any smal] vises?”

Salesman (angrily): ‘I don’t think
that is any of your business.”

 

Grandville.

‘*Have |

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| cording to size.

PRODUCE MARKET.

Asparagus—40c per doz. bu.
Beans—Dry beans are firm and in strong de-
mand at $2 per bu. for choice hand picked. Wax |

commands $1.00 per bu. String is in fair demand |

at 75¢ per bu.

Butter—The market is full all around,
purchasing only immediate wants at 10@15c.

Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $1. 50 |
@#2 per crate, according to size.

Cherries—H@31.25 per 16 qt. case.

Cucumbers—50c per doz.

Eggs—The market is lower.
and hold at i144¢e.

Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.

Lettuce—5@7c for Grand Rapids Forcing.

New Potatoes—California stock is held at %3
bags. Tennessee stock has begun to
arrive, being held at $4 per bbl.

Onions—Green command 10@15c.

Dealers pay 13%

per doz., ac-
Southern command # per bbl

Potatoes — The market for old stock is strong
and higher, dealers offering $1.10 in a small way
and $1.25 for carlots. The arrival of new stock
will probably demoralize the market before the
end of the week.

Pieplant—2c per Ib.

Peas—75c per bu.

Plants—Cabbage or tomato, 75¢ per box of 200.
in about ten days. The crop is reported the

| largest ever known.

Radishes—10@12e per dozen bunches.

Raspberries—$1 50 per 16 qt. case.

Strawberries —- Home grown stock is now
coming in freely, prices varying from 6@8sc per
qt.

Tomatoes—#2.00 for 4 basket crate.

Watermelons—Shipments of Georgia are due
this week. Prices will range from 25 to 30c, ac
cording to size.

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

PORK IN BARRELS.
| Mess, new. eee hae eke . oa
| Short cut . ee
Extra clear pig, amore OM 14 00
Musee Coome, Meeey.............
Clear, fat back. Ss 13 2
Boston clear, phere @ub ec. ae 50
oo oor rc oe........................ 13 50
Standard clear, short — os... 13 %
SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
Pern cee... ee... - 7
eee 9
Tome eeeeeee. .. 5... 9
ee i ee 8
er ec 5
eee, Sc 5
Borers, (hice.......... ..-..............,... ©
ene Cee, 2
Larp—Kettle Rendered.
ee ee 8
ee ey
re eee 84
LARD. Com-
Family pound,
Tierces . Letestay oe 6%
Qand 50ib. Tubs............... 6% 63%
Sib. Pails, 2 in & cane.........- 7% 7%
5 lb. Pails. ie coee........._. 73g V4
Oro. Pade, 6 ie 6 Caee........... 74 644
20 1b. Pails, 4 in a case. 7 634
50 Ib. Cans. 6% 63%
“BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mees, warranted 2 ite............... 9 2
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 9 25
Boel, rene eee...
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or sliiecaesi
Hams, average oo Gi <<
ree... 10
o . 12 to 14 Ibs. ioe cee
C — ce es eee 7%
- pee EO rH

Shoulders..... es
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...........-
Dried beef, ham prices.....

 

 

 

 

which is set up in turn at the houses of = the finest a in ogee high Long Clears, heavy ee Le aN 6%
hal a : } a street, G a ds, ek y vice Wins eae sane eel ee 334
accustomed to visit. The playimg is Mich., general representative for E. J. Serene
done for considerable stakes, and the | Gillies & Co., New York City. See eee
operations of the Prince’s bank are a —e 6 @7
,c TE Ty ”
easily from $1,000 to $5,000 a night, the C + Sees. 7 @8
rockery &Glassware| « fore 0 12000NIIIIIN 5
banker’s percentage being necessarily 7 Joins, No. 8.. er
large. LAMP BURNERS. ee tne 7
If the Prince of Wales were a young - — settee eee sees . on NM @
r ’ ee ee 50 | ee
fellow he could be easily excused for his > Ca 7% | ee ne cent g ox
i a kk i gt | Pubular. dt @ 63
numerous escapades, but he is now past LAMP CHIMNEYS. .—Per box. Sausage, blood LNG @
middle age and should have finished | 6 doz. in box. ee @db
oe se : es : No. 0Sun..........-- 3% “Frankfort @ 7%
sowing his wild oats. He does not even AG pp eneene sosereepsoeeesonerecosnnrae 1 88 | Mutton .......2402s00 cesses eeeeeee veee @8
. ae itt) ae ee @
compare favorably with the celebrated First quality.
Prince Hal, who was doubtless one of aoe. Crimp tOP.....--...---0-+ eee eee ees = FISH and OYSTERS.
the immortal Shakespeare’s creations. Nod ee CO Ae ''340| ¥F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
i oe a nt. FRESH FISH.
That Prince of Wale » ho afterwards | 75 I ins ane eens oa a
became King Henry V, did not disdain -_ DAN sent eteeeteeetetenenen eres : 80 — ee. Qs
in } oO. 2 “ce ae cies an i lsh cl od hcg Gr A An a | €
to go out on the road with the old rep-j| Pearl top. eo eteeceeeeree @ISE
, 7 Se eee TT 5
robate Falstaff and “hold up” travelers | X° 353" Se al ee g 9
oe ai ng  aicdicmmaie ~  ——NER  A ep @10
on the highway, but even those robust 17.5 ee 470 | vackerei_. ui @25
calities were less contemptibleif more} No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. .............. 1 25 | | C0 eT =
ok i" i . a Oi ee 1 5O | UAIILOPMIA BALMON.....- eee eee eee ne cee K
openly criminal than the debased and | | No. 1 crimp, POF GOB...........-eceee enon ceoe ee 1 3 | oYsTERS—Cans.
degrading characteristics of Albert Ed-| No.2 “  ceseeeseeeseeceeeee er ere eee 10 | Welrheven OCoumts................50.. 1. @40
| FRUIT JARS. SHELL GOODS.
ward. | Mason’s or Lightning.
og | OVSters, Per 100..-.-.. eee eeeeeeerevees 1 50
" t Mm itl Wil i | EE -10 00} ee ee 1 00
How poorly he compares with William | Quarts a ET 10 50
.t if gallons.... crest coeuee Gyee ee 13 50
of Germany! Here isa young man who| #®
[eee ee 56 |
is every incha king. He would not have | Caps only......-.-..---.+-+ +++ esses eee eee 3 * CINSENG ROOT.
STONEWARE—AERON,
been a real Hohenzollern if he had been Ce EO 06% We pay the highest price for it. Address
free from wild escapades, but there is ae is enna rer mereneee teers PEGK BROS a ae.
i ee ek ee one aeeinee ta lnmkineme unis \
nothing ignoble about him. His am- Mine Pans, 7 al, dot. aged ie) 1 0 | :
i i r doz bee
bitions, his aspirations and his active — » 0c)... 78 Use “Tradesman” Coupons

 

| CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.

dealers

 

|
| The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK CANDY.

  

  
   

 

 
 

   
  

 

  

 

 

 
 

Full Weight. Bbls. Pails.

——— a ON ices cee cies vee 6% 7%

Cen) 6% 1%
Teist nee 6% 7%
ease ee LSE a eT EN 9%
EE pene cacao 8%
Pee CC 6 i 7% 844
MIXED CANDY.
Full Weight.

Bbls. Pails.
ee 6% 1%
Deeeee. 26. tn Deeb leapeeeees ce 64 7%
ee 8
cece ea ce le 7 8
Oe E w% 8%
ee 1% 8%
mein MOOK... ii ek ls. ee &%
at hE 7 8
Broken Taffy 4 8%
Peanut Squares ee 9
NT ice cheeec led eee sec sian 10
French Croams.......... i 10%
Veale Creeee...........-.......- 13%

Pancy—In bulk.
Full Weight. Bbls. Pails.

Lozenges, —_ bs ewes dae ence 10% 11%

SS 11 12%

Chocolate ee Cede hee en atpeepecas 12%

Chocolate Monumentals............. 14

Ce i cs ee 5 6%

eee... 8 9

OO eee 8% 9%

eee... 10% 11%

Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. *Per Box.

EN EE 55

Te ag es nega ee 55

Pee ee 65

Chocolate Drops....... ~-s0

H. M. Chocolate Drops. a

ee ee 40@50

ONO 1 00

A. B. Licorice Drops. . See cbs eras ee

Lozenges, Oils ieee, cece eep se beae 65

a 70

Peperee.................... Bia eee ieee ase 65

ae teu e eee owed %

oe eee hac

ee i i 55

Peet We Croeies,..... .............-..-. 85@95

I 80@90

Deore Cone... ........ 5.01... «ee 1 00

I es ea ee eee 70

re ee 1 60

Wieeerereen Borvies...................-.. 1 65

CARAMELS,

mo. I, wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes oS SN ree al 34

No. 1, 3 oe oo

No. 3 _ ig 2 desu eas Ps

No o 3 . eee soe 42

Stand mo, G10. bowee...... 1 10

ORANGES.

Culifornia, Med. Sweets.......... ..... 4 50
C eS 4 50
= Se ee aee ees 4 to

LEMONS.
Messina, menenee We... --.....:........ 5 2 50
Oe ae 5 @E 00
a choice 300..... 5 50
. eS 6 00
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.

Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... 18@19
' . " choice “us @16
ce “es ote icc) C I cca @i2
. Fard, 10-Ib. box oo Sa @10
' ee @ 8
- Persian, 50-Ib. box............ 4 @Ss

NUTS.
Almonds, oo ee a7
eee @16%
. California. . boca @i7

a @i%

Filberts . @i1

Walnuts, Grenoble. @11%

ce @12

. Ch = a @

Table Nuts, N en @i4

No ee eee @13

Pecans, Texas, De 15@17
Cocoanuts, En @4 00

PEANUTS.
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. baa oe @ 5%
. Rosato’. eee @ i
Fancy, H. P., bi tects weer e cs esuc @ 5%
* Chosebed. @i*%
Choice, H, P. Extras.. @ 4%
a @ 6%
HIDES, PELTS and FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as fo!lows:

HIDES.
i 4@5
Part Cured.. os @5
Full @ 5%
ae @7
Kips, — ee eee ee @ 4%

red @5

Calfskins, es chee tee a eee es 4@5

RTO es see ase escease 5 @6
Ce a ee ae 10 @30
No. 2 hides \ off.
PELTS.
ee Ee 10 @25
Betimated wool, per® ............-.. “-*°"20 @t
WOOL.
se - 20@30
OO EE 10@20
MISCELLANEOUS.

eee 34@ 4

Grease ES a

ee es ine 3

Ginseng.. retort ecesseey) oe - 2 00@2 59

OILs.
The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows :

a White. @ 8%
cial White. . @ 8%
PE TOR ig chee ci oeeeen, ol st cs @ 8%

I ose weet beeen ee een es @ i%

Ns ieee a cine eed cen vets sees @ 8%

Cylinder ...... (ahetcsacedeec seen 27 @36

TN kei c viv anek peice cures coun 13 @21

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151 pails are og iC Wwihociicigege ae mel’s,
ee sunnah oD 35 -ommon hortleberries, 1 = o—
Wood A eS 10 Bi Sie ees es . iB ee 1 56
box Hobo a uebe a | Bulk.. CH oeeee. |
es, ra. *° rrie sees 1 IR IcOR 2 |
per d ic =F a “a a if. c
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per ane... 37 ? | Pottes bee ef, Lil i 30 | “otton GLOVHEA Tice ee
Ww Dia gross... 6 ‘i. 08 Sa Arn »by's. oo ES LINES. 1 ae | at
ood boxes _—— ” aa <M) 4 a. per do FISH--S nger, Africa
oxes, per doz ee y ce 1% is eect z. 1% --Salt. n.
“ i 3 aha oo “ tongue: Ib. Sel eu se 10 a bey 1 ‘o wou Bloaters M . : ochin.. an
per u case... 1 50 “ “4 Ib. i .. & Jule ja r 1 = | nouth.. s. | "| mac anima oa -
25 Pe gross... 50 | chicke aaaaal ae id + Flee ae | Mustard, amalea ........... is | F ENGLIS
25 Ib erle oe en ee 10 6 t. se 75 10le Cod sees ‘“ En 2 air LISH BR
. pails .. 8S. 50 ly token 1b. .. 61¢ on co Brieks...7... ig a Nutm 1 Eng, and Tries "go | Choice ep REAKPAST
lessees AB eae if eo: i oe be s Oe ee ST.
Acme, etm. on POWDE hy +t we ane ne i? a: “ONDENSED m1 iy 1 = HERD. -0 os ene ena -o-s Pepper, Si No. 2 kn te. 25 HOHCe. eee ees. 18 @z2
i « . E : 90 | stringle TOW in LK co aa NO. 2 oon an Ce 2 me
. 4 a. - 3 , ag Li i F om +s os m i Smoked Hk alibt a lag &s Serre black... oe 5 a 40 Goa
a — 7s a co wae style... fo American $y 1 2 oe oe Sag ian 20 TOBA ii
elfer’s, si cts. * i. 3 — | Lewis ened LN iad all 40 Swiss..... 8 ro momen soeee Herring. 10%, | Se = Pails F abieoayag
. b. ean doz.” 10 Bay is Boston cied” a ae Be a? a land, ee rier 4 | als : Siteuratns nless vie ut
i‘ : * 4 oz | Worl ate Bak eae x oe Ns. |} Rour ped i 24 Ci pice .. ‘ Swee 1a herwise
retic, 4% b Ib _ i‘ on d's Fair ey 1 ps P aA ind shore, 14 bb’! 11 00| © innamon....... a te Met t Cuba noted
; a2 — ae 50 | ‘Ti “Corn. “1 3 se Mand - bh. we innamon........ +. Me Lae dinty ... " 60
r 1 ace +s «77 50 | Ti mburglt Con 35 Rae N 14 Hil. “ £9 G ing er es 84 1 55} Li ot - 34
ihe ie = an dt ne ale aoe se yplagherel 1 B01 Jam. i aoe Attle Dar a. 3
a 1D fe seseseeee 20 | 1ri a y No. ) a]. Siu + et ling <a o. ws
ed Star, y ~ oe ce po | Rue” iereteeeeeeecteees 1% G cab kits, .o ta lbs a a 84 ; 55 1791 wee ees 99
ui % a 9 60 V veeeeeeeceeeceeseee ens ys | | oe y, % Dbl cy 9 50 on 84 i oo 1891, ay ae 6 bbl... 22
i ee Har Sigg 11 yl JAS Kits s., 90 Ibs. 12 Ce --> 81 155 Valley Cit lac o
mr 20 | oe h ma ee 1 i aCRED SS Fan 3 10 Ibs — ’ - §4 1 rang — oreo LN 20
(coil oraame 0 | . rrof 5 Peedi curds ey. ae enemas 8 55 y Jim oa :
BRICK ». 150] ‘ earl at . va 7 oes . 7 suU 84 wens a 9
Engli 2 doz CK. 50 | He C y Jur ou 2 os ( SUGA wees 33
Englist zen inc unl ha 1e.. 8 Trades ay tussis Sardines. 3 500 ut Lo AR. Bos o
Bristol. csc rene in Case. s urgh saat sok ee 15015 > per hun pay ” a ian, kegs dines 3 50@4 00 Cabos nn “a: a7
es ) y de dre : N Bie. oe . :
PISUOL, oo. .oe-eese sess: - Ta aked. fancy Pre ae ee Me ed No ah Sok | ( owdered . @ 5} 40
aol serene art a vs urris stat fea 4 5 ae : 2 00 No, ooo ii Grane _. @ an rrp 24
ctic, 4 oz LUING. anit 60 ines ceeeeeeees ro 10, ‘ ' 250) N oe cas Se nfectione adel @ 4% Ola beke 22
Le 80z ovals... peas Wee . aeeue a 65 | 820, ee 3 00 ee 1 bhi: Tbe. veoocssclo 50 a A. ers’ A ee 431" Old — ee 35
“ ints is 4 00 Fr 1er’s E larly Ju 1 — . 3 00 Fy . 1, kits s., 90 Ibs. 80 E ae Extra we eeee os @ 41° 7 Joll Honesty ny 28
A 2) — ce 7 00 ench arly ‘Blosso eee = 4 Ou | amily, eon Me o ra C. Cc. @ 4i¢ Hiaw ONEStYseeeses es 31
No 2 sifting box... te sneee som 30 5 <- aa 00 | Sang 194.06 a rath a. a
: = e box.. 10 50 French Mus hroon 2 ; 7 ae PI Rove i0 it _. nn Yellow ne é 3 - aa ' =
£ _ ee see af 8 “+ : Ds? Ss oe
ae 140 | Erle seep - Jennin ae a ess than 100 Il @ 3% Jas. G, Bulle é a
ee ae A os? 4 . a 3 3 Y « in «
No. 2H a - oOo Ce ipkin 17218 a ea - DC. 3. oe ve Way S. 3b, Toss U 7 Good Co.’s Bra: 34
} url. Ooms, -. £00 Hubt Pha gy | 302 ding b emon. lb box Cc H. ance Jut of _ nds.
No, 1 een ybard .. quash, ae on rb ox 5 Vanilla 40-Ib oxes.. orn. fa
No.1 “iE S eo beeosioeess sel gene | 6 oz i 0 1235 TNA TAIN Boss Sm
1 a ae 3 "ic ambure een ? Zz . : OU ” aaah ial a et ree 10ki
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= mon WhiaK.......... 2a Van Chee Mowe n cs nsesesees 2 | Half kegs... )WDER. 410 a 50 It a Sea : Santa BG
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Risin BUCKWHE a. 3 25 Hancock’ _.. eat 4 10 | Hops.... a 3 00 cae h, in are. i. ie Gold” ee es :
wa tan, SAT FLOU _20 ean 10 | mailer: ae i lg eeaboy ladders K | Peer] Block sn
Self Snag a ees bid ee : 30 | | Chicago ¢ ene ie rench « jars. ' 3 Rot — Woon eeeeeeeeneese
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On cl nan S _ATE—B MOEA ath... i No. LAMP ee Alle Lore Jars. Lae nele vi... _
Hotel, 40 Spang ge ue es weet. AKER’S. coi : ae > WICKS. | 14.5 ola _ B. Weisley ee Knee e Sam. es :
Star, Ib. b LES AE | pga a § 1. per! Superl aa a it oa sley’s & Brier ind Jerr i
ed ERG PUT, aoa ence cote, - Bis oy vundred _ oe rereeees 80 Uno, 100... as — Yum View Ee aess
Wick ne . wi Cocoa. 7 34 ng C wteeees = oy | meer. 10... ¢ Red C] Deo. ves teeeeseeee ‘
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b. er ee ce in 2 <i snosh ‘KERS ae ag | Canary sessions 6 Bak de cake om ress
Standa Cove O: ii Rubb Be a @ 16 conan Butter " ie en i I ee Sy ines 10 aker’s, p es, os
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b.. 8. ) Pa ” lun GUM 5 | mour Meese ee. at Suga Blac SSES. 27 tape es oe 3% PAPE oe ae
mn. Spr 200 ms. . : esata 7% | gar house kstrap | Must w perce a Alf, ER & yale, ae
Star, 1 a. BID oes : 10 uce, 200 pieces. . -35 B i een a oH | Ordi Cubi ‘Bi . ee fe WOODE +
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» eee " i eres one ee ne. . SAL" a ) aw APER A
— oa a 2 Ss a cg | Sod oa 544 | Prime gestae 16 | 100 3-11 ant 7 8 | Rockfalls -... . —
ee oF eG 3 = i pint co : yp an a 6% | apt ro Bice | 19 100. sacks ( rystal = roe ee
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Star icnecgy 20 r t : oe 0 1 « ity er ‘ on coe ane ape in ee | 20 0-lb. 5 i. : Re B SUBAE. coe sees vere coo) oe
ida ackeral « OO 5 gross CLOT . .-2 30 Oyste nee : | Fai elt ' 1! | 20 14-1 . backs bz 40 ake .. +. 2
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Troubles and Trials of a Canadian Mer-
chant.

QUEEN’s HoLLow, Ont., June 12—
Since writing my last letter, a great
heavy black pall has fallen upon the
Dominion. Sir John A. Macdonald has
received a summons from the grim
messenger of death, and the people whom
he served for somany long years will
never again be electrified by the merry
twinkle of his eye and the old familiar
sound of his voice. Now that he has

fallen, and lies in the embrace of death, |
we all feel (Tory and Grit alike) that a/|

great loss to the country has been sus-
tained. The present generation of
Canadians can form no conception what-

ever of a Government without a Sir John |

A. Macdonald as an important and

necessary element somewhere in its com- |

position. He has guided our political
destinies for so many years and has be-
come so interwoven in our political his-
tory that, somehow, we all feel that his
death is a great national calamity and
the whole country is in mourning.
Strange as it may appear, this sad
event has a ludicrous side to it and in the
midst of sorrow we many
growing out of the sad event itself, that
would make an undertaker grin. This
funny part is performed by the old Tory
element, who worshiped Sir John as a
god. He was their infallible liege lord,
the great and only source of every polit-
ical blessing, and the first, last and only

see

author and preserver of Canada’s polit- |

ical salvation. They followed him blind-
ly, through thick and thin, under good
repute and under evil repute; never
breaking ranks and, holding the balance
of power, they have been the means of
keeping their political god at the head
of affairs for so many years, and now
they are frantic with grief and can see
nothing ahead but ruin and desolation.

When the fatal news reached the
Hollow, Bill Smike and his cronies
gathered at the tavern to console each-
other and, in order to more forcibly
demonstrate their sorrow, they all got on
a glorious drunk. The Union Jack, pro-
fusely decorated with yellow bunting
and black crape, is flying at half mast
over the Orange hall. Last night the
Orangemen met and passed resolutions
expressing sorrow at the loss of their
loyal chief and deplorimg the helpless
condition in which they are suddenly
placed, exposing them to the cannibal-
istic appetites of the ferocious and greedy

Yankees, and strongly censuring the
Grits for springing unrestricted recip-

rocity on the country and compelling
their feeble old god of loyalty to buckle
on his armor and go forth in the inclement
weather and expose himself to late hours
and bad whisky and suffer a nervous
strain that has culminated in his death.
Old Cronk has been prostrated ever since
the meeting at the tavern, so poignant is
his grief that when his wife’s father(who
is a Babtist preacher and a Grit) came to
see them, he said this was no time to be
trifled with and ordered him to leave the
premises immediately.
ever there was a case where the loose
divorce laws of Michigan could be applied
to advantage, this case of Mrs. Cronk’s is
the one.

Tillie is well, but the baby is cutting
teeth, and, if it cuts them much longer,
I’m afraid Izik will cut his throat, for
he’s almost crazy now. When I woke up
last night and heard the measured pat,
pat, pat, of Izik’s slippers on the floor
above, as he paced back and forth loaded
down with the latest edition of the Slim
family, and ever and anon muttering
something that sounded like an explosion
of pent up wrath, it filled me so brimful
of joy that I had to stuff the
my mouth to keep it from running out.

In my exuberant, joyful frame of mind, I |

thought to myself, ‘‘Oh Izik, my boy,

there was atime when your great com- |

mercial talents saved you from turning
grind stone and weeding onions, but now

salt-peter can’t save you. You may stamp |

and squirm and swear and kick over the

rocking chair, but all this will avail you

nothing, you must grin and bear it if it
takes all the hair off the top of your
head.’”? It carried me back to the time
when the second generation of Slims was

things |

Izik says that if |

sheet into!

THE MICHIGA

| struggling with the tooth problem and IL |
| was performing the midnight pacing act

‘barefooted; and when I stepped on that |
learpet tack, I don’t know but what I

| would have nipped Izek’s talents in the

bud there and then if his mother had not}
come to his rescue. Now his time has |
come, and I am fully paid for all the|
trouble he has caused me. I had to cram
the last yard of sheet into my mouth for |
1 wouldn’t have had Tillie hear me laugh
for the world. In the morning, when
Tillie wondered if the sheet had been in |
the calf pen all night, I told her that the |
poor little thing’s sufferings came near

| breaking my heart and 1 wept copiously.

This was satisfactory, for she put her|
arms around my neck and called me a
dear old pop and said she wished that}
Izik was as kind and tender hearted as 1 |
jwas. Please don’t send me the paper |
| that has this in, for I wouldn’t have Tillie

| know how that sheet got soiled for any-
| thing.
Izik has been so much broken of his
| rest lately that he is actually beside him-
| self about half the time. While momen-
tarily dreaming of a far away land where
babies are born into the world with double
iteeth all around, he put both elbows |
| through the show case and frightened a |
little cross eyed girl into a fit. who was |
waiting to buy astick of gum. He puta
gallon of vinegar into sister Tubb’s coal
{oil can and he put the coal oil into Pete
Smoke’s molasses jug: but when he sold
Billy Ball a pound of plug chewing tob-
acco and a pair or overalls and went
|right up tothe desk and charged it to
Sam Budd’s hired girl, I advised him to
go and put his head to soak. |
If there is any place where it is nec-
essary fora man to preserve the even |
tenor of his ways and keep his head
level with a smiling countenance spread

|a counter in a retail country store. He

| must be all things to all kinds of people. |

He must wink at everything he sees or
; look in the opposite direction, He must

| upon all applicants, regardless of their
i little eccentricities whims, opinions or
beliefs. No dyspeptic and no man who’s
liver is out of order can ever expect to
succeed as a merchant.

If you are out of sorts, run down at
the heel, have the tooth ache or an attack
| of neuralgia, it would be money in your
| pocket to shut up shop till you regain
| your equilibrium, rather than venture be-
hind the counter and expose your imper-
fections, thereby publishing the fact to
| the whole community that you are only a
human being after all. Why, 1 am satis-
fied that Izik, in his present condition, if
alone, would utterly ruin our business
in a week.

Mr. Leonidas Clark, who owns my
old farm, has ason in your town who is
a Doctor. The Doctor writes to his father
often and sends him papers and Leonidas
loans them to me. The Doctor says
Grand Rapids is anice town, but fuller
of doctors and real estate agents thana
July radish is of worms. He says the
water is not fit for a Christian to drink
and business of all kinds is fearfully
overdone.

 

a couldn’t finish my letter last night,
ias I had to help Tillie with the baby. A
| drummer from a Hamilton boot and shoe
|house drove over to the Hollow in the
; evening from Loyal Town, which is our
leounty seat and our nearest railroad
station and is about six miles from here.
He came in just before shutting up time
ltime and after congratulating me on my
youthful appearance and winking at the
| Elder’s hired gifl, who I was waiting on,
he seized Izik by the arm and took him
over to the tavern to look him over. In

istable boy, came in with this message
| ‘Mister Slim, t-t-tother Mister Slim says
jas how you needn’t wait fur’im, fur it

| the travlin’ man,’’ 1 asked Spotty what
|they were doing, for Tillie was in the
store and she likes to hear him talk and
i twist his wart of a nose. He answered:
‘The feller opened his big trunk and
|showed Mister Slim all his shoes and
| then he put ’em back agin and locked up
his trunk and told Mister Slim he’d take
|’im up stairs and show ’im his rat.”

| stuff on a tray.”

| trade

| keep in stock an abundant supply of ap-| customers.
| proving smiles and lavishly bestow them |

about an hour, Spotty, the tavern keeper's |

  
 

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TRADESM

Tillie wondered if it was a regular a7
and Spotty said: “No, mam, it must be a
oncommon new kind of a rat, fur the
feller as has the big trunks told Mister

| Slim that it was the same kind of a rat

that the Prince of Wales keeps and he
ealled it a bacea-rat, and then he told the

feller as tends bar to fetch up a lot of |

 

I told Spotty to go; counted the cash;
put out the light; locked the door and |
went up stairs with Tillie, just as the |
baby woke up. Izik came in about 1
o’clock and Tillie thought the way his
breath smelled, that that rat must have
crawled into Izik and died. ‘Tillie says
she prays every night that the Lord will
spare her baby from ever becoming a
drummer. OLD MAN SLIM.

i a a
Does Modern Store Construction En-
courage Theft ?

Much has been said in Tur TRADES-
MAN in regard to courtesy to customers,
if we would seek to court and retain
them. The advice was all right and
proper, but, with all due respect to cus-
tomers, a few words should be said with
reference to them, also. In all the marts
of trade, buyer and seller are the im-
portant factors, and if each are not
equally courteous and honorable, or
afford ground for suspicion of each other,
cannot be prosperous.

I have been considerably interested in
the discussions on kleptomania, and my

Written for THR TRADESMAN.

| experience satisfies me that we find thieves
jor kleptomaniacs among both sexes, but

we cannot know they are such until they
all over the front side of it, it is oe

are caught in the act; but who desires to
| constantly watch for them? In pursuing
such a course, we are quite apt to offend
the best and most honorable class of our

The greater the number and
variety of goods in a store, and the
|smaller in size, the more difficult are
they to protect, and the greater are the

|temptations to steal them. It is a fact
which cannot be contradicted that the
losses of such stores frequently average
not less than 2 to 3 per cent. daily.
The very nature of the goods precludes
the possibility of watching them all, or
even missing them at the time they may
disappear, and many dealers imagine it
will not pay to hire too many assistants.
Included in the class of stores mentioned
| are jewelers, bazaars, notion stores and
fancy stores of every kind. Valuable
jewelry is generally more earefully
guarded, yet even here, by some slight
of hand, a few articles occasionally dis-
appear. A young lady of my acquaint-
ance was employed as clerk during the
holidays ina large retail jewelry store.
Many rich ‘sets’? of pins and ear-rings
were kept in boxes or hinged cases and,
when showing the goods, it was the cus-
tom to count the number of cases (in the
mind only) as they were placed upon the
top of the show case in which they were
kept. Gold watches and bracelets were
also in and the number were
counted when taken out in the same way.
Frequently three or four persons ap-
proached at once to look at such articles,
with a view to purchase. Whether a sale
| was made or not, the lids of the cases
were hurriedly closed, the cases counted
and placed back in the show case. Some
| time afterward, while carefully cleaning
the jewelry, one or more cases would be
| found empty, the contents having been
| artfully stolen, while the lady was look-
|ing from one to another and closing the
| cases. In others, the real and valuable
| goods fad been deftly removed and
| cheap plated ones substituted. She had
| counted back the number correctly, but

 

 

 

 

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in a few cases the goods had either van-
ished or were spurious. In the bazaars
and fancy stores the danger of losses is

much greater than in most others, as the)

goods are more exposed and, being small,
are easily concealed.
persons are employed in such a store,

they cannot possibly watch half a dozen |

or more, while waiting upon customers.
Goods
handle by every one whoenters.  Fre-
quently a portion of a counter will be
completely covered by small articles and,
if people are so disposed, it is easy to
secrete a few and carry them away.
Goods are shown by hanging them in
bunches, dozens or half dozens upon
lines and other supports about the store.
That this is really necessary I will not
say, but it is, at least, offering a slight
premium upon crime. At one time a
neighboring merchant of mine caught a
girl stealing dry goods. He had
pected her before, and now taking an
officer with him they went with her to
her home, where, upon searching the
place, they found not only the goods he
had missed, but others which he had not.
He also found dozens of ladies’ fine
handkerchiefs which he quickly recog-
nized as mine, and which were returned
to me, the girl acknowledging she had
stolen them. I remembered that the
girl came at different times with two or
three others, to look at and purchase
handkerchiefs and they were always very
particular in comparing them before
making a choice, asking that many kinds
and qualities be shown them, and object-
ing when (as I usually did) | threw the
bunches of six to twelve back off the
counter. At such times the girls would
select and pay for two or three—some-
times half a dozen—and at the same
time steal and carry away several more.
1 sell some jewelry and, among it, many
solid gold rings. Many customers come
for rings. Sometimes they are total
strangers to me and in some cases they
are partial acquaintances. Of course, I
have arapid way of keeping a correct
account of the number of rings 1 remove
from the case, and it is quite common
(with girls especially) to laughingly
catch up and string half adozen ring
quickly on their fingers and leave them
there, while looking at and talking about
others, and when about to depart (if they
do not forget it) remember to remove
them, but many times I have been
obliged to call their attention to the fact
that one was missing, when, to their sur-
prise, they found that the ring had not
only changed fingers but hands, also,
and with many apologies for their
thoughtlessness (?) departed. They hap-
pened, however, to be persons who sel-
dom took offense at anything, and, there-
fore, returned to perform the same or
similar acts again.

In connection with this subject, 1 am
led to ask if people were less honest
seventy-five years ago than at present,
why were there more safeguards
around merchandise than at
present? Or were these safeguards more
accidental than designed? Or, still far-
ther, were mankind only more distrust-
ful of their neighbors? Whocan answer
these questions? Now for the facts: In

sus-

else
thrown

that day, instead of being piled about on
the floor or a few inches above it, all
articles at all adapted to the purpose
were hung upon nails or hooks, driven
into a wood ceiling, out of easy reach
and about as closely packed as possible.

If only one or two |

The counters—universally—were tightly
| boarded up in front, with a half round
| moulding generally at the bottom, ren-
dering it almost or quite water tight
underneath, while the rule to-day is to
have a somewhat fashionable table or
| tables for counters; very low and the

The old-time counters also ran the entire
length of the store without a break, ex-
tending tightly to the front wall of the
building, each side of the doorway, with
the single exception that three or four

trance or exit. No short counters with
several openings between were then used
through which everyone might step
quickly behind the counter and out again,
if they desired. Nearly all counters were
from four to six inches higher than at
present, often so high that a moveable
platform, one or two feet wide and three
floor back of them to stand upon. The
a three to four inch incline from their
base») utward, making it uncomfortable
for a person to lounge against it. Our
more modern stores almost invite those

and surely require more close watching.
Of course, it may be said that there are
twenty to one merchants now in the
country, and that competition is so great
it becomes necessary to expose or call
attention to goods as only those strictly
needful are purchased at all and those
they expect to ask for. It was then
not so much the merchant, but the cus-
tomer who was under obligations, as
stores were far apart and the goods them-
selves not always in plenty; but we now
live in a different day and it is possible
we should adopt the motto—humiliating
as it seems in the light of our Christian-
ity—‘‘Treat every man as a rogue until
you find he is honest.”’
FRANK H. Howie.

Grand Rapids Electrotype Co.,

HLECTROTYPERS

i A

NTEREOTYPERS

6 and 8 Erie St., GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing Gards

WE ARE HEADQUARTERS

 

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

Daniel Lynch,

19 So. Ionta St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

 

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who are inclined to pilfer many things | | : :
| our coupon book and ask you to carefully | ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts

It takes the place! with each customer and enables a mer-

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space underneath filled with stock which |
| can readily be handled from the outside. |
are generally so convenient to}

or partition was hinged to swing upward |
nt |
or around answering to a door for en-|

or four inches high was placed on the}

fronts of the counters were also made on |

 

 

 

FAUILY FOR BUSINESS!

 

Do you want to do your customers justice?

Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way?

Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you?

Would you like to rid yourself of the bother of ‘‘posting’? your books and
| “patching up’’ pass-book accounts?
Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which

: i i | yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?
| feet of the counters against the back wall |

Did you ever have a pass-book account foot up and balance with the corres-
ponding ledger account without having to ‘‘doctor’’ it?

Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for
| items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they

have or not?

Then why not adopt asystem of crediting that will abolish all these anda
hundred other objectionable features of the old method, and one that establishes

a CASH BASIS of crediting?

A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all

| enterprising merehants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

 

COUPON BOOK ys. PASS BOOK.

We beg leave to call your attention to| for the makers to pay them. This ren-

eonsider its merits.

of the pass book which you now hand | chant to avoid the friction and ill feel-
your customer and ask him to bring each | ing incident to the use of the pass book.

time he buys anything, that you may
enter the article and price in it. You
know from experience that many times

ithe customer does not bring the book,

and, as a result, you have to eharge
many items on your book that do not
appear on the ecustomer’s pass book. This
is sometimes the cause of much ill feel-
ing when bills are presented. Many
times the pass book is lost, thus causing
considerable trouble when settlement
day comes. But probably the most se-
rious objection to the pass book system is
that many times while busy waiting on
customers you neglect to make some
charges, thus losing many a dollar; or,
if you stop to make those entries, it is
done when you can illy afford the time,
as you keep customers waiting when it
might be avoided. The aggregate amount
of time consumed in a month in making
these small entries is no inconsiderable
thing, but, by the use of the coupon
system, it is avoided.

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

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As the notes bear interest after a certain
date, they are much easier to collect
than book accounts, being prima facie
evidence of indebtedness in any court of
law or equity.

One of the strong points of the coupon
system is the ease with which a mer-
chant is enabled to hold his customers
down to a certain limit of credit. Give
some men a pass book and a line of $10,
and they will overrun the limit before
you discover it. Give them aten dollar
coupon book, however, and they must
necessarily stop when they have obtained
goods to that amount. It then rests with
the merchant to determine whether he will
issue another book before the one al-
ready used is paid for.

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

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

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

THE TRADESMAN COMPAM,

GRAND

RAPIDS.

 

THE

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

  

The Outcome of Strikes.
From the New York Journal of Commerce.

There will come a day when that mi-
nority of the people which inaugurates
and encourages strikes will be compelled
to relinquish this past-time for the good
of all concerned. Even now the
file of the trade organizations are hearti-
ly sick of the business, and are forced
with ever-increasing reluctance to relin-
quish their work out of
leaders. If it were not for the master
workman and walking delegates who are
everywhere stirring up antagonisms be-
tween the laborer and his employers for
the sake of magnifying their office and
manifesting their importance, strikes
would be few and far between. The
workingman of ordinary intelligence has
already come to know, both by observa-
tion and his own bitter experience, that
his interests are not promoted by con-

tests of this character. All the commu-

nity suffers and the struggle is often a
costly one for the employers, but the
heaviest part of the burden in every case
comes upon the laborer thus driven into
idleness.

In summing up the expenses of a
strike it is customary to count the unem-
ployed hands and the wages that might
have been earned; then add to this
amount the loss of profit and interest on
eapital supposed to represent the cost to
the employer, and finally to estimate the
damage to the publicinterests in the sus
pension of the business thus checked by
the withdrawal of the workmen. But all
these items together sometimes make but
asmall part of the aggregate suffering
from the paralysis of a service upon
which the community is more or less de-
pendent. Take a strike on a railroad
leading to the stoppage of trains on a
prominent line of travel. The loss of
wages to the brakemen, switchmen, con-
ductors, engineers and firemen who are
laid aside and the cessation of receipts for
the conveyance of passengers and freight
often make a large sum beyond question,
but there are other deprivations far be-
yond any arithmetical computation. Not
only large material interests are involved

to

when business men are eut off from the
facilities of travel, and their freight,

often perishable, is leftin piles unmoved

at the depot. but the agony of friends
summoned to attend the sick and dying

or to bury the dead in can answer the
eall and a thousand other considerations,
some of them dearer than life itself,
make up an aggregate of suffering which
cannot be expressed in words.
The delay of milk trains in
strike that stopped this supply for sev-
eral days led not only to the serious in-
jury of those in delicate health who were
dependent upon this service, but to an
actual increase of mortality among the
infants whose only feod was thus taken
away, with no possibility of replacing it
from any other source.
on a city railway
recent

a local

similar combinations which have

prevented the running of cars in several |

Americancities. It was all very well for

the newspaper writers to make fun of |}

the pompous old gentleman who had to
hunt up acab or the young dude whose
tight boots made his three miles’ walk to
his place of service a well-deserved tor-
ture, but there were many other
where the sad truth would have brought
no smile to any face. The weak sewing
girl with her worn shoes, the invalid on
her tottering feet,the tired artisan obliged

to add the strain of a long walk to the}
work, and all!
sprung out of the sus-}
pended accommodations were not pleas- |

weariness of a hard day’s
the miseries that

ant topics for humorous composition.

And in many of the homes of the work-
ingmen who talk so bravely in the club
room and vote never to surrender there

are often sick wives or half famished
children whose sorrows do not get into
the balance sheets that men compile, but
are well know to the pitying angels.

The general outcome thus far of the
efforts of the trades unions and other |
like combinations to regulate all

and ever-increasing apprehension injuri-
ous to all material interests. It costs far
more to build houses, not simply because |
wages are higher, but- because builders |

and contractors have to include the con- |

rank and |

loyalty to their}

Take the strike |
like that in London or |

cases:

mun- |
dane affairs has been to create a serious

tingencies of the labor question in their
|estimates. If the masons, and carpen-
ters and bricklayers, and plumbers, and
lathers, and plasterers and tinners are
all placated, and their affection appar-
|ently secured, it may turn out that the
attempt to use a few door-knobs acci-
| dently purchased of a manufacturer who
has a non-union man in his employ will
upset the whole scheme and stop the
work for an indefinite period. We are
not supposing a mythical or impossible
ease but quoting an actua! occurrence.
The purehase and attempt to use a dozen
fancy knobs thus produced cost a friend
of ours $1,700 in the construction of his
home! And where the workmen are
all otherwise coddled, and toaded to, and
petted, and humored until the employ-
er’s mouth fairly tastes of the dirt he is
made to eat, the whole may go for noth-
ing, as in the experience of the last few
weeks in this vicinity, because a few
pieces of lumber came froma yard that
was boycotted.

No man who employs union hands is
safe in any kind of business. He may
submit to the most extreme dictation,
hiring only such help as a committee
from the lodge permit him to engage,
turning out of his service every old,
faithful hand who has not a union ecard,
buying all his supplies from union deal-
ers who sell only the labeled articles,

and carting them to his place of business |
one |

on union carts with union drivers:
day it will all go for nothing. He has
committed no offense;
every loathsome morsel prescribed,
borne with patience every offered indig-
nity. There is not a flaw in his record |

from the initial page to the period of the |

(last entry. Whatis the matter?
there a quarael over something
thousand miles away and a general strike |
has been ordered.
spoken and the men must all leave his
service. Down go their tools, and out
into idleness marches the whole proces-
sion. Andif a single man is honest
enough to be faithful to his employer’s
interests and to keep his place, he must

is

be discharged before any of the rest will |

return.

The publie are becoming tired of this
everywhere, and there is but one reme-
dy. No man who employs labor of any
kind can feel a moment’s safety as long |
as his help belongs to a union whose of- |

| ficials may order them out of service at |
any moment. Hecan make no binding
contract with them. They are not free
to consider only his interests and their
own as intertwined in their service.
They are working for him, but are virtu-
ally slaves to another and very imperi-

| ous master who rules them with a rod of |

iron. This whole system must be broken
up and the serfs must be emancipated.
It utterly intolerable that a set of
workmen may not continue in the ser-
vice of an employer if this is their mu-
tual desire. The union enters the premi-
| ses of a man in business and says to him,
“You must discharge every workman
| who has no permit from us and take on
alot of hands of our chosing; and you
must buy all your supplies from con-
cerns on our list; and you must recog-
nize our orders in the entire conduct of
your establishment; and if you fail in
any particular we will ruin you if we
| can accomplish it.” Our fathers fought
for more freedom than this, and if there
'is any love of liberty in their children
; they will not much longer submit to
such rasping tyranny.
ti
Wire Nails from Steel Plate.

It has always been considered impossi-
ble to cut wire nails from any material
except wire, bnt itis reported that an
ingenious arrangement has been intro-
duced into a mill in Pittsburg which
enables wire nails to be made from steel
plate. This invention may be attached
| to the ordinary cut nail machine, and is
said to be capable of producing perfectly
‘formed nails in greater quantity than is
| possible by any present wire nail.

SEE Emacs came

is

An secieiis says a lady cured her

| fifteen years-old son of smoking by the

laying on of hands. She hada _ slipper
in one of them and held the boy with the
other. It beats spiritual science all
hollow.

he has swallowed |
and |

Why, |

|
a |

The head center has |

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

** The Niagara Falls Route.”

  

 

EPART. ARRIVE
EG I, nc oo ce 72 20 am 10:00pm
voice anes - 6:30am 5:00pm
Day Express........c000- ..12:0am 10:00am
*Atlantic & Pacific Express + 11:15pm 6:00am
Bw TOP RXPPOe.. 2 ccc cece occ cue 540pm 1:15pm
*

All other daily except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express
trains to and from Detroit.

Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapid
Express to and from Detroit.

FRED M. Briees, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe St.

G. 8. Hawxsns, Ticket Agent, Union Depot.

Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.

O. W. Rueeies,G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago.

TIME TABLE

 

  

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aaa
MILWAUKEE NOW IN EFFECT.

RAILWAY

 

EASTWARD.

 

Trains Leave |tNo. 14/tNo. 16 +No. 18) *No. 28

 

G’d Rapids, Lv| 6 50am}1 ) 20am | 45pm | 10 55pm
— ech oe oe Ar| 7 45am/11 25am! : 52pm. 12 37am
Johns ...Ar| 8 28am/12 17am| 5 40pm} 1 55am
ion ao Ar| 9 15am] 1 20pm) 6 4opm| 3 15am
E. Saginaw. .Ar|11 05am 3 60pm} 8 45pm)........
Bay City.....Ar/11 55am} 345pm| 9 35pm! .
Flint .. ..Ar|11 10am 3 40pm) 8 0@pm)} 5 40am
Pt. Huron. Ar| 3 05pm) 6 00pm 10 30pm) 7 35am_
Pontiac ......Ar/10 57am 3 05pm) 8 55pm) 5 50am
Detrat.......4 Ar/1155am| 405pm| 950pm) 7 0am

 

WESTWARD.

(*No. 81 jtNo. 11 bie 13 |tNo. 15
Lv| 7 “7 Obam| 1 00pm| 5 10pm) 110 30pm
Ar} 8 50am) 2 15pm| 6 15pm)11 30pm
"| 6 45am) 6 45am
6 Oam........

 

 

Trains Leave

 

G’d Rapids,
G’d Haven,
MiwkeeStr “|... |
Cyiceee Ge. “*].......!

 

 

*Daily. +tDaily except Sunday.

| Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m.,

):00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m,
Trains

arrive from the west, 6:45 a. m., 10:10
».m. and 9:50 p. m.
—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
car. No. 18 C hair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward — No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 1i
Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager.
Ben Fietcuer, Trav. Pass. Agent.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent.
| 23 Monroe Street.
|
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CHIGAGO JUNE 2!, 1891.
& WEST MICHIGAN
DEPART FOR | A.M. |
| C chicago ...... ...... ee
| | Indianapolis . be oe |+10:00
Benton Harbor... “+ thane +10:00
a. eee. \th
| Traverse City... ......
ee. .....,...... |
Manewee ............. | 4

ee
ee...
Ottawa Geach......... |

+Week Days. *Daily. §Except Saturday.

10 (() A. M. has through chair car to Chica-
e go. No extra charge for seats,
~
1:15

P. M. runs through to Chicago solid
with Wagner buffet car; sea s 50 cts.

5:25
11:35

P. M. has through free chair car to
Manistee, via M. & N. E. R. R.
11:30
«€
°
6:30 Graham & Morton’s steamers for Chi
cago.

P. M. is solid train with Wagner pal-
DETROIT,

ace sleeping car through to Chicago.
Lansing & Northern R R

  

 

and sleeper to Indianapolis via Ben
ton Harbor.

P. M. has Wagner Sieeping Car to
Traverse City.

P. M. connects at St. Joseph with

 

JUNE 21, 1891.

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

 

  

DEPART FOR iA. M./ P.M. | P.M
Pere... +6:50| +1:00 _ 225
Re ee +6:50) +1:00 5
cpatixiy et +6:50) +1:00 <6; 5
adage RoE EEE I TET 46:50) +1:00) *6:25
CC 7208) $4:30}......
oo oe cS) FE-o....
PORN CIF. oie oe +7205] +4:30]......

 

 

A.M. runs through to Detroit with par-

6:50

lor car; seats 25 cents
| 1: P.M. Has through Parlor car to De-
. troit. Seats, 25 cents.

6 eS) P. M. runs through to Detroit with par
sue) lor car, seats 25 cents.
7: O5 : A. M. has parlor car to Saginaw, seats
oo 2 5 cents.
For tickets and information —. at Union
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or lon station.
Gero. DEHAvEN, Gen. Pass’r Agt.

 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana,
For ae aes. From Eee

am
ul: 1 . - o = . -

qThrcesk t tickets and full information e. ~ Thad by
calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta-
tien, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67
Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

 

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

In effect February 1, 1891.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
rrive from Leave going
South. North.

orth,
For Saginaw, solid train ....... + 7:30 a‘m
Wor Travers Cl... ooks cence 5am + 7:0 am
For Traverse City & eo : 20 am +11:30 am
For Saginaw, solid train........ ¢t 4:30 pm
chal! meee, oo anne + 5:00 pm
Por Mackinaw. .........6... 710:30 pm

  

Prom alamiasee.............. Tot 8:55
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Arrive from on sonies

ona

Oe CNN i ws aia 1 6:00am t #00. ; ‘m
For Kalamazoo and Chicago...+10:15 am +10:30 am
DEO BOOB oo cicero cncennen 11:45 a m
For Fort Wayne and the East.. + 2:00 pm
ok. + 5:30pm 1 6:00 pm
For Kalamazo and Chicago. ...+10:00 pm f11:05 pm
OU yo eee counts +10:30 p m

Trains marked (]) run daily; (t) 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, throug parlor coach to Chicago; 6 pm
train, Wagner sleeping ear for Cincinnati; 11:05 p m
train, Wagner sleeping car for Chicago.

 

Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan
Railway.

In connection with the Detroit, Lansing &

Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e

offers a route making the best time betwe n
Grand Rapids and Toledo.

VIA D., L. & N.

Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:25 a, m. and 6:25 p. m.
Ag. Toeeo ME... 8S 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m,
VIA D., @. H. & M.

Ly. Grand Rapids at..... = 50 a, m. and 3:45 p. m.
Az. Toledo at. .......... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.

Return connections equally as good.

W.‘H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent,
Toledo, Obio.

 

 

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3 SF Bulle
es yansee

 

For Portable or Stationary Engines, 1
to 500 Horse Power, Portable or Station-
ary Boilers, Saw Mills, Shafting, Pullies,
Boxes, Wood-working Machinery, Plan-
ers, Matchers, Moulders, etc., call on

Ww. C. DENISON,

Manufacturers’ Agent,
88, 90, 92 So. Division St., Grand Rapids
Estimates given on Complete Outfits.

KDMUND B. DIKRMAN

THE GREAT

Watch Maker

Jeweler,
Kh CANAL SY.,

Grand Rapids, - Mich.
WANTED.

POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED
FRUIT, BEANS
and all kinds of Produce.

If you have any of the above goods to

ship, or anything in the Produce line, let

te from you. Liberal cash advances
made when desired.

EARL BROS.,
COMMISSION MEROHANTS

 

 

157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago.
MICHIGAN Th ADBSMAN, Grand Rapids.