ca

-

np ee ame

eres

ee

cee ce

a aaah ieeeemeeenalneaamaee ”

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

sh Ae
KAYON, LYON & 60.,

Stationery and Books

A Complete Line of

HAMMOCKS,
PISHING TACKLE,

MARBLES,
== BASE BALL GOODS —=

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

EATON,LYON &CO.,

20 and 22 Monree St.

PEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK,

Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts.,
Capital, $100,000. Liability, $100,000.
Depositors’ Seeurity, $200,000.

OFFICERS.
Thomas Hefferan, President.
} Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President.
(jCharles M. Heald, 2d Vice-President.
Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier.
DIRECTORS,
H. C. Russell
John Murray

 

 

 

 

D. D. Cody
8. A. Morman

Jas. G. MacBride J. H. Gibbs
Wm. McMullen Cc. B. Judd
D. E. Waters H. F. Hastings
Jno. Patton, Jr. C. M. Heald

Wm. Alden Smith Don J. Leathers
Thomas Hefferan.

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

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

SEEDS

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

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

W. T. LAMOREAUX &% 60.,

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

Pino) Fe
G3 co.

PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE.
S. F. AsPINWALL, Pres’t.
W. Freep McBazy, Sec’y

 

 

FIRE

 

ALLEN DURFEE. A. D, LEAVENWORTH.

Allen Durfee & Co.,

] FUNERAL DIRECTORS,

103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

 

\W O ) ':
Consignments of wool solicited. Parties
shipping us wool can depend on all the
market will allow. Our facilities for
grading and handling are the very best.

Wool will be promptly graded and paid
for on arrival.

U. AINSWORTH & C0.

GRAND RAPIDS.

S.A. Moorman

WHOLESALE
Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio

isi BA

Akron, Buffalo and Louisville

CEMENTS,

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

20 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS.

H. M. REYNOLDS & SON,

Tar and Gravel Roofers,

And dealers in Tarred Felt, Building Paper,
Pitch, Coal Tar, Asphaltum, Rosin, Mineral
Wool, Etc.

Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,
GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

ESTABLISHED 1841.
A NE EERE RR BP

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

+. G. Than & Co.

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

 

 

WM. BRUMMELER & SONS
Manufacturers of and Jobbers in
PIECED AND STAMPED TINWARE.

Our Specialties:

Tin, Copper and Copper-Rimmed Boilers,
and all kinds Teakettles, Pails
and Milk Pans.

Telephone 640. Send for Quotations.
264 So. Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS.

Drag Store for Sale at a Bargain

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

 

c. L. BRUNDAGE,

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

 

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price for it. Address

PECK BROS., “Gino Ravibs.”

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1891.

IKE BRENNAN’S WATCH.

“Tf you think your cousin is a scoun-
drel, young, man, why, say the word, if
its necessary to say anything. It’smean
to shake a man’s good name away with
a shake of your head—that’s what I
think.”’ .

Ike Brennan pushed back his Panama,
and looked with anything but approval at
Lyman Sneed leaning, in spotless flan-
nels, against the China tree.

In spite of his dapper appearance he
was not a pleasant young man to look at.
He had that uncertain, nervous way, so
irritating to the honest and purposeful,
and it stood written on his face that he
had not loved a living soul. No, not
even the pretty Nona Duval, whom he
quit Ike to go and meet. He thought he
loved her, but no feeling that possessed
him was a more thoroughly selfish one.

His cousin, Dick Burleson, loved Nona
—that was quite sufficient to make Ly-
man Sneed sure that she was necessary
to his happiness. So he went eagerly
now to meet her. Ike watched him up
the street muttering:

“Of two evils, choose the least; but
I’ve allers noticed that women, of two
men, choose the worst; wonder if little
Nona ’Ill do that same thing? Her father
rode through many a darned fight by my
side—calculate Pll take sides here—yes,
sir.”

He rose slowly, lifted his rifle, and
went trailing up the hot avenue. He was
on the look-out for Dick, and very soon
found him among alot of rough teamsters
who were loafing in one of the principle
stores. Dick was reading to them a New
York paper, and backing up his own side
of some political question with a good
deal of ferver. The men were pulling
their beards and listening with that true
Texas phlegm which might at any mo-
ment turn into ungovernable passion.

Ike waited until the end of one of
Dick’s flowing periods, and then said:

“Thar, Dick, that?ll do for the busi-
ness of the U-nited States; supposing
you come now with me and look after
your own a spell.”’

It was so unusual for Ike Brennan to
meddle in any one’s affairs that Dick gave
instant heed to his invitation; and with a
final broadside of splendid adjectives for
his own party, he joined Ike, and they
sat down together in the first quiet, shady
seat.

‘‘Lyman Sneed is playing the mischief
with your good name, Dick. It’s against
my habit to look after anybody’s but
my own; but I’ve reasons contrary this
time.’’

‘‘Lyman Sneed! He is, is he??? And
Dick instinctively put his hand on the
leathern sheath that held his knife.

‘No tools, Dick, of that kind. It’s me
that is making this quarrel, you know,
and I let nobody do my fighting.’’

‘‘What did he say?”

‘“‘That is it; he says nothing you can
get hold of. Pities his uncle—pities
Nona Duval—and is so sorry you will—”’

“What?”

“He don’t say—shrugs his shoulders
and shakes his head, and the shrug and

 

NO. 407

shake stand for drinking, gambling, any-
thing you like to make it.”

“ll tell Lyman Sneed—’”’

‘*You’ll say neither good nor bad, Dick.
Lyman is like a pine coal—if he don’t
burn, he blackens. Only don’t throw
your chances away for Lyman to pick
up—that is just what he wants you to
do; give in a bit to the old man; he thinks
all creation of you, and if you won’t try
to please him, why, Lyman will, that’s
all.”

‘Tm not going to take my politics and
my opinions from Uncle Jack Burleson,
no, not for all his hog-wallow prairie,
and his cattle and gold thrown in.”’

‘‘He is an old man, Dick. Life is a
country Jack Burleson has gone pretty
thoroughly over; stands to
knows more’n you.”’

‘‘He contradicts me half the time for
the very sake of a fight. He does not go
into court now, and he hasn’t any law-
yers or juries to bully. But he won’t
make Dick Burleson say black is white
to please him; you bet he won’t.’”’

“Dick, you are right; darned if you

reason he

aren’t! But old Jack is wise and good,
and knows a sight more’n is writ in
books. Say ‘yes’ when you can.”

‘Sure.

‘‘And don’t you meddle in my fights,
Dick. If Lyman Sneed needs a hiding,
I know just how much will be good for
him.?’

Dick saw the conversation was over,
and, looking at his watch, saw, also, that
he was behind office hours. As it hap-
pened, a number of trifles had already
irritated the old lawyer, and Lyman’s
lifted eyebrows and ostentatious dili-
gence irritated Dick. He flung his books
upon his desk, dashed his hat into a cor-
ner, and lifted his feet to a comfortable
attitude. His big boots and loose flan-
nel hunting-shirt gave his uncle great
offense, and he said so.

Dick replied that ‘the had been talking
with the Lavacea teamsters, and had for-
got to dress.’’

‘“‘Lavacca teamsters, indeed! I don’t
see what on earth makes you run after
every drove that comes to town.”

“TI was getting their votes for my side,
uncle, and making friends against the
day I want their votes for myself.”’

A flash of keen pleasure shot into the
old man’s eyes, but he was far too full of
fight to abandon the dispute. He first
attacked Dick’s polities, then his per-
sonal appearance and abilities, without
being conscious how provoking he was.

One bitter word followed another till
all three men were on their feet, and
Lyman, with a little scream, had rushed
between his uncle and his cousin. Dick
laughed uproarously at the intervention,
and kicking it out of the way, he said:

‘Good-bye, uncle; ’m not going to
quarrel any more with you. The world
is big enough, I reckon, for both of us—
and for our opinions.”

He went straight to Ike, who was sit-
ting just where he left him, and said:

“Ike, tell uncle, in a couple of days,
that I have gone West, and that there’s
no ill blood between us; and, Ike, watch

 

    

2

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Nona for me until I can come after her.” |

‘““You are bound to go, then?”

“Yes; the old man is fire and 1 am
gunpowder. Weare better apart—that
is all.’’

“Go’long, then; I'll watch what you
leave behind.”’

Dick felt unhappy enough at leaving
Nona. She lived alone with her father |
and he was not always the best of pro-
tectors. Dick spent the rest of the day
by her side, and left town in the cool of |
the evening in no very despondent mood.
Nona had promised everything he asked |
of her, and all the rest seemed possible.

He had some land and cattle on the
San Mareus, and he purposed putting up
a pretty house there gradually, mainly
with his own hands.
would sell some of his increase, furnish
it, marry Nona, turn grazier, and run for
the legislature. When he went back, he
would ‘‘make it all right’? with his uncle,
and being so far apart, they could keep
right; and if not, and he lost his share of
Jack Burleson’s estate,
was better than given money, anyway.

In two years he

made money

For a week after Dick’s departure the
old man hoped against hope; but one day
when Ike Brennan ecareless!y asked:
“When is Dick coming back from the
West?” then he knew the lad had gone to
shift for himself, and lonely as it left
him, he thoroughly liked Dick for doing
it. After this, Ike and the judge spent
much time together. They kept up a
perpetual quarrel, but they were well
matched, and after a year’s disputing,
the victory on every single point was a
disputed one. Sometimes, at the end of
a long argument, and a long silence, the
judge would say: ‘‘Have you heard any-
thing?’ and then lke, shaking bis head,
and shaking the ashes from his pipe,
would rise and go away.

Early in the second year the judge had
an accident that completely invalided
him; and after some months’ decline, he
quietly passed away. Singularly enough,
there was no will found, and Lyman
Sneed took possession of everything.
No Dick appeared to dispute his claim.
Ike smoked away in his old shady corner
and smiled queerly to himself. when he
saw how diligently Lyman began to im-
prove the city lots, and how cleverly he
collected and invested the outstanding
accounts of the estate.

In all things but one Lyman’s fortune
prospered—Nona still refused all his at-
tentions. But as soon as the judge was
dead "he began to use stronger means of
pursuasion. Nona’s father owed him a
large sum, and their home was mort-
gaged for its payment.
father and daughter see on what terms
only the Duval place could be
saved; and the father cared too much for
his own indulgence not to press with all
his power so desirable a method of clear-
ing off his liabilities.

Nothing of this plan, however, came
to Ike’s knowledge until one night old
Duyal, in a fit of maudlin intoxication,
revealed it. Then he went home full of |
anxiety. He had no money that would
touch Nona’s needs, and he had not yet
heard anything from Dick.

“I'd give twenty of my best cows to
know if the fellow is dead or alive,’”’ he
said, as he pushed open the latchless
door of his log-cabin. A man was sitting

Lyman soon let

in hisown chair fast asleep.
**Dick at last!’’
One soul wakes another, and Dick

| don’t you pay a little more attention to

 

opened his eyes and answered:

‘Here I am, Ike!’’

“You tormenting youngster, where |
have you been?’’

‘“‘Every where, Ike, and precious little |
luck either. At last I went to Yuba and
Nevada and tried hard to make my pile.

| Two months ago Jim Harrison strayed

up there and told me uncle was dead,
and Nona going to marry Lyman Sneed. |
I couldn't stand that, and so I came along
with what I had.’’

“How much?’’

“Only eight thousand dollars.” |

“That’s enough. I guess you'll find |

i
yourself richer than you think.”’ |

The next morning, Nona Duval com-
pletely amazed Lyman Sneed by enter-
ing his office accompanied by Ike Bren-
nan and paying in full every claim he
had on the Duval place. But he was
still more amazed by an official notice to
meet, next day, the heirs of Jack Burle-
son and hear his will read. He found at
the place appointed Dick Burleson, Nona
Duval, Ike Brennan, and three of the
principal citizens of the place. The
will, leaving nearly everything to Dick,
was without a flaw. Lyman simply re-
ceived one hundred dollars for every
month during which he had taken care
of the estate.

‘‘He took very good care of it, gentle-
men,’’ said Ike, ‘‘just as good care as if
he thought Dick would never come back.
He has earned his money, you bet. But
Vm glad my watch is over—very. I
have been kept too wide awake for any
thing, between a pretty woman and a
clever lawyer.” AMELIA E. BARR.
a we

A Victim of Heterophemy.
From the New York Tribune.

A man with a rather vacant look and a
hurried air, evidently adweller in the
suburbs, with many small errands on
his mind besides his regular business
affairs, rushed into a dry goods store the
other day and said to the clerk: ‘‘I
want a small door plate.”

‘‘Don’t keep them,’’ replied the clerk.

‘‘Don’t keep door plates?”

“No, Sit,”

‘This is a dry goods store, isn’t it?’’

“Ves, Sir.”

“And you havea carpet department,
ear’

“Veo. oo.”

*‘And sell rugs and that sort of thing?”

“Wes sie”

**And yet you don’t keep door plates?”’

**NO, sir.”

“Well, my advice to you and your
employers, young man,” said the sub-
urban dweller, as he walked outin dis-
gust, ‘‘is to lay in some sort of a complete
stock, or retire from the business.”

Then he dashed into a carpet store, and
asked again for a door plate.

“You'll find them at the hardware
stores,’? said the clerk. ‘‘We don’t
keep them.”’

‘“‘] never saw them at hardware stores
in all my life,’’ said the puzzled shopper.

*“Can’t help that, sir,’’ replied the
clerk.

‘So he tried a hardware store in this
way: ‘‘You don’t keep door plates here,
do you?’’

‘Certainly we do,’’ said the clerk.
“What size do you want? Brass or
silver?” and he took down a box of them
and handed out one of each kind for in-
spection.

‘‘What sort of a door mat is that, sir?’’
thundered the annoyed customer. ‘‘Why

 

your business?”

**You said door plate,” said the clerk.

“Did I? Did I say door plate? Are
you sure?”

‘““Certainly, that’s what you said.”’

‘Say, young man, have you got a fool- |
killer about the store? Because if you
have, Lean give him a job. Here I’ve
been blundering all the morning into
dry goods and carpet stores, asking for a
door plate, when I wanted a door mat all
the time. Ill go out and hire somebody
to kick me!’’

1

 

5,000 bh th ii th 2

 

   

DID YOU DRINK ¢:
OLION COFFEE

FOR BREAKFAST.? Iris atrue
MIXTURE or MOCHA, JAVA anv RIO.

A DELICIOUS DRINK
A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE IN EACH PACKAGE WooLson Spice Co.

Kansas City, Mo. ToLebo,O.,

 

 

 

 

tans.
4 mo
O9E™D

  
 
  
 
   
   
     
   
 

£0
(2
rc

”

Wy

ae

ff

“7

 

KY

See Monday’s and Saturday’s Detroit Evening News
for further Particulars. Y,

To the Smokers of the Y

PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS. Yy

To the person guessing the nearest to the number of Imps that will
appear in a series of cuts in the Evening News, cuts not to exceed 100, /,

ist Cash Prize, $50; 2d, $25; 3d, 15; 4th, $10. Guess slips to be had with
every 25c. worth of PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS. Sold Everywhere. yf

 

Up to date there has been published 23 cuts, with a total of 303 Imps.

ij

DANIEL LYNCH, Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale Agt. |

 

MANUFACTURED BY

ALEX. GORDON, Detroit,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ooetinmen nae

 

Bolts Wanted!

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

I also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths
as above. For particulars address

J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich.

l-Inch STATEMENTS.

aan () oom

 

For the benefit of merchants who have not yet
adopted our Coupon System, we have purchased a
quantity of 11-inch Statements, 5} inches wide,
and ruled both sides, giving 63 lines for itemizing
accounts---just the thing for weekly or monthly
statements of account.

500 Printed and Blocked in tabs of 100, -~ -
1,000 sh bs iT} bh = u

$2.00
- 3.00

5.00
I SEND FOR SAMPLE? £21 ~

 

 

 

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

cee

|

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-_

 

MEDITATIONS OF A PESSIMIST.
THIRD PAPER.
Written for Taz TRADESMAN.

Before we meditate further on this sub-
ject of imaginary wants, let us stop to
consider what an imaginary want is, in
order that we may know what we are
talking about. A hat of some kind that
will protect the head and shade the face
from the scorching rays of the sun these
hot days is surely not an imaginary want.
On the other hand, it strikes me rather
forcibly that a rye straw walking stick,
a pair of gold-rimmed glasses over per-
fect eyes, or a long-haired, measly-look-
ing pug dogletin the close embrace of
an elegantly dressed lady in a street car
are not real necessary wants. It may be
difficult to draw the line with precision
that separates the two grand divisions
into which human wants are divided, but
the disputed territory isa very narrow
strip and on either side the characteris-
tics are plainly marked and the distine-
tion between the two classes is clearly
observed. Necessity is no guide, for it
is not a question of bare existence. The
man who buys the least possible quantity
of the cheapest possible quality compati-
ble with the bare preservation of the
union between soul and body is not a
man but a nonentity who is sacrificing
on the altar of stinginess imaginary wants
and real necessary wants alike. Edenic
simplicity might do in some climates,
but it would hardly be the thing for
Michigan. The cave-dwellers may not
have been bothered with many artificial
wants, but, as they were strangers to
many real and necessary wants, we do
not hanker after their peculiar mode of
living. I would define an imaginary
want to be a something that has been
invented or created and placed in the
market for sale that is not demanded or
needed by the masses, and that, if pur-
chased, will not and cannot contribute
one single iota to human comfort or hap-
piness, lighten the burdens of life, or
alleviate, in the least degree, the worries
and sorrows incident to human existence.
Were Ia naturalist, I would liken greed
to some monster having an infinite num-
ber of arms which reach out in every
direction, each supplied with a little
sucker at the other extremity. I would
liken these arms to the arms and legs of
the devil fish which are kept perpetually
in motion, sucking the life blood out of
everything they come in contact with
and returning it to the bloated carcass
of the insatiable and greedy monster. I
would have no two suckers alike, so that
where one sucker failed to draw blood,
another of a different construction might
be applied, and I would endow my im-
aginative monster with the faculty of
increasing the number of arms and of
changing the mechanical construction of
the suckers illimitably and forever.
Across the body of the monster I would
write the word ‘‘Corporation.’? The
numerous arms of the beast should be
christened ‘‘Itinerent salesmen and road
agents,’”? and every sucker should be
labelled ‘‘imaginary want.’? This car-
toon would teach us that an imaginary
want is conceived in greed and forced
into the markets for the purpose of ex-
tracting wealth from the wealth-produc-
ing masses and for no other purpose.

Now, to what extent are the retail
merchants aiding and abetting in this
devitalizing process? Is it not a fact
that many stocks of merchandise are to
be found in our cities and larger towns

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. :

which are made up almost wholly of

will ever covet a stolen plum, and plum}

worthless trumpery and useless flimadid- | stealing will never lead to true success |

dles? The man who is engaged in this|in mercantile life.

I know from a five

business is extracting hard earned money | years’ experience in the boot and shoe

from the people and gives them simply and men’s

nothing for itin return. The only dif-
ference between him and the rum-seller
is that the latter gives in return some-
thing worse than nothing, and the former
returns simply nothing. Every man
should be contributing in some way to
the uplifting and the bettering of the
race. I will venture the statement that
any man, I care uot what his calling in
life’s work may be—whether it be preach-
ing the gospel, digging in the soil or sel-
ling goodsin a retail store—who has done
absolutely nothing to make his fellow-
man better, wiser or more comfortable,
has lived in vain and is nothing but an
idle trespasser on God’s green earth. If
this be true, what shall we say of the
man who, knowingly and wilfully, for
pelf, spends his energies in the dissemi-
nation of that which hinders human pro-
gress and adds to the burdens of life?
The retail merchant in some respects is
an educator and as such he ineurs certain
responsibilities which he should never
shirk or throw off for the sake of tempo-
rary advantages. A retail merchant sets
himself up as a supply agent for the
community about him. He goes into the
marts and selects and buys what he
thinks his customers will need. He
knows that people everywhere buy their
supplies where they think they can get
the best value for their money. He
knows, further, that every customer that
will walk into his store to buy an article
will do so because he thinks he can ob-
tain better value in that article for his
money there than he can at any other
store. If this were not so, he would go
elsewhere for the article. I think this
simple proposition represents a general
principle so fairly that no one will take
exception to it. Of course, you know
that I can buy goods just as cheaply as
you can, and I know that you are com-
pelled to sell your goods just as cheaply
as I sell mine, but our customers are ig-
norant of these things, hence a great
field is opened up for the exercise of ways
and means to catch the public eye. This
opens up a new field of thought, adver-
tising, which I will make the subject of
some future paper.

In view of what has been said, what
should guide the retailer in selecting his
stock? If he select solid, durable and
unadulterated goods, he would be in a
position to supply his customers with
what they ought to have and with what
they always suppose they are getting,
namely, the best value for their money.
As an honest man he knows that this is
the proper course to adopt, but difficulties
present themselves. He will be com-
pelled to charge higher prices for his
goods and at the same time be content
with a smaller percentage of profit, there-
by giving his shoddy competitors a lever-
age that would place him at a very great
disadvantage. For the sake of a tempo-
rary advantage, he falls into the old rut,
dodges his responsibility and goes over
to the great majority who practice on
the ignorance and credulity of the peo-
ple. It has been said that ‘‘the suecess-
ful merchant will carry in stock what-
ever there is a demand for—good, bad or
indifferent; that the public likes to be
gulled and, if you stop to moralize, some
other fellow will slip in and steal the
plum.” Surely no honorable merchant

to be strictly honest; advertjse absolute

 

furnishing business in a
eountry village that the farming commut- |
nity can be educated in the matter of
buying goods. All that is necessary is

facts; tell the simple truth and nothing |
but the truth in showing up your goods;
keep full lines in stock which are best
suited to your trade, and see to it that |
you buy the very best goods that can be |
made for the money and place them into |
your customers’ hands at a reasonable |
margin. Do this and wait with patience,
and, my word for it, the results will be
most satisfactory. You will gain not
only in dollars and cents, but in the esti-
mation of the people, and your business
will become more and more of a pleasure |
as your patrons learn to place more con- |
fidence in you and evince a greater de- |
sire from day to day to take you at your |
word. At first, I had frequent calls for |
cheap and shoddy goods, but they gradu- |
ally disappeared until at last it was only |
an occasional transient caller, who evi- |
dently had wandered away from some |
shoddy dealer’s jurisdiction, who would
ask for the spurious article and then I
would send him across the street to my
neighbor.

In my last paper, we meditated on the}
troubles that these imaginary wants
caused the masses generally, and we will
close this paper by meditating a little on
the trials and tribulations which the
retail merchant is subjected to on account
of these wants. All the evils referred
to in my last paper apply with double
force to the merchant. He is looked up
to as an advisor in local matters and a
prominent figure-head in the little world
which revolves about him. He is the
encyclopedia of the neighborhood and
the bulletin board of the select inner
circle which keeps an eye on the great |
world outside. This dispensor of tape, |
soap, needles and codfish has a wife and
is just as liable to be blessed with chil-
dren as any other man. Of course, it is
expected that this wife will take a prom-
inent part in all the little local societies,
such as the W.C. fF: U., L. L.S., LL. L.
C., L. R. C., the various sewing circles
and from nine to twenty-seven church
societies of different kinds. The chil-
dren must be rigged out with wings and
toggled up with trappings of various
designs from time to time, for they are
expected to take a leading part in the
church exercises which take place about
every full moon under the auspices of
some ladies’ aid society.

Let us drop a sympathetic tear and
draw the curtain over the domestic side
of the merchant’s life and take a glimpse
at the business side. It is here that the
gyrating arms of the devil fish get in
their.work. The retail merchant is the
natural prey of this greedy monster and
I will assert without the least fear of
contradiction, that there is not a retail

 

merchant in Michigan who has been in
business a year but what has lost blood
by coming in contact with one or more
of these blood suckers. They are the
pests of the business world, by sucking |
the vitality out of the retail business of |
the country, they cause more failures— |
as before stated, in substance—than all |
other causes combined. Is there any}
remedy? It is not sufficient to say,

‘“Why, simply stop buying these things,”

3

for this would be an appeal to the judg-
ment and would be just as senseless as
to say to a man, ‘‘Stop having the light-
ning strike your cattle in the field.” My
brother retailer, if you fail to reach the
goal of success, you may charge your

| failure quite largely to the fact that you
| were too familiar with the oily-tongued
| gentlemen who dropped in to let you

into the secret of becoming suddenly rich

‘and of compelling your competitors to
|ride in your dust.

Of course, you will
never be caught twice in the same trap.
The great fountain of American ingenui-
ty is bubbling over continuously with a
multiplicity of little schemes, some of
which occasionally deceive the very elect.

But, when you allow yourself to be

| caught, do_not exhibit a spirit of mean-
|ness by attempting to unload your trash
|}on your

innocent customers, for that
would prove you out amore despicable
seoundrel than the fellow who took you
in. E. A. OWEN.

=}

a
For the finest coffees in the world, high
grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner,
304 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids,
Mich., general representative for E. J.
Gillies & Co., New York City.

A. D, SPANGLER & CO.,
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.

BEACH’S

 

 

 

‘New York Gaffes Rooms.

61 Pearl Street.

Five Cents Each for all dishes served

from bill of fare.

| Steaks, Chops, Oysters and All Kinds of

Order Cooking a Specialty.
FRANK .M. BEACH, Prop.

 

THOS. E. WYKES,
WHOLESALE
Marblehead and Ohio White Lime,
Buffalo, Louisville and Portland
Cements, Fire Brick & Clay.
Agent for the ‘““Dyckerhoff ” imported Portland
cement, the best cement in the market for side-

walks. Also buy and sell Grain, Hay, Feed, Oil
Meal, Wood, Etc., Clover and Timothy Seed.

WAREHOUSE AND MAIN OFFICE:
Cor. Wealthy Ave. and Ionia on M,C. R. R.

BRANCH OFFICE:
Builders’ Exchange.

Grand Rapids Electrotype Co.,

ELECTROTYPERS

AND

NTEREOTYPERS

6 and 8 Erie St., GRAND RAPIDS,

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

AROUND THE STATE.
Vickeryville—Addison Miller
in a hardware stock.
Detroit—J. A. Zahn succeeds
& Zahn in the drug business.
Oviatt—M. A. Carr has removed his
general stock to Traverse City.
Midland—Cody & Shaw succeed A. E.

has put

Croman

(Mrs. A. S.) Cody in the notion business.

Bay City—Reuben J. Ferris succeeds
Ferris Bros. in the grocery and meat
business. :

Detroit—Hugh Lennert, proprietor of
the Cuban Cigar Co., has
business to Chicago.

West Bay City—Perry & Hurley have

removed his

sold their millinery and notion stock to
Mrs. F. B. Shareck
Cheshire—John Schoolcraft is suc-

eeeded by Schoolcraft & Harrington in
the grocery business.
Dayton has sold

stock of hardware to a

Lansing—George M.
his Port Huron
Mr. Thompson, of Saginaw.

Vickeryville—Jos. E. Davis
moved his stock to

has re-
Durand,

where he had already opened a store.

general

has
drug

Spencer Creek—Wm. Seger, who
been connected with a Cadillac
house for several years, has purchased a
lot here and will erect a store building
and embark in the drug business.

Alpena—J. pioneer
druggist of Alpena, has filled over 90,000
prescriptions, and has been doing
figuring He finds that
papers prescriptions
written were they would

extend over seventy-six
tory.

Jackson—H. S. Holmes, of Chelsea,
purchased the stock
for $475 above the two mortgages aggre-
The stock was appraised
The creditors will
of ex

claims the proceedings
and says he will sue the sheriff.

30stwick, the

some
if the
are

over it.
in which the
laid end to end,

miles of terri-

Tuomey dry goods
gating $39,000.
at $50,000. not realize

enough to pay the costs ecutions.

Tuomey
illegal,

were

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Saginaw—The new circular mill of C.
S. Bliss & Co. is cutting hardwood and
bill stuff chiefly.

Bay City—Bousfield & Co.’s
ware establishment is
for 10,000 dozen
cago firm.

Hesperia—A. Burton & Co.,
cently removed their shingle mill from
White Cloud to Beaver township,
already begin operations.

Saginaw—Murphy & Dorr have begun
shipping 6,000,000 feet of logs in Crooked
Lake, county, to this Two
trains are brought down daily.

Charlotte—A. H. Kesler has purchased
the interest of A. J. Hasbrouck in the
lumber firm of Cove & Hasbrouck. The
new firm will be known as Cove & Kes-
ler.

Sault Ste. Marie—Ainsworth & Alex-
ander, who are building a sawmill here,
have secured timber sufficient to stock
the mill five years. It will have about
100,000 daily capacity.

Bay City—Thomas Toohey has taken a
contract to cut about 18,000,000 feet of
timber near Otsego lake for S. O. Fisher.
The logs will be cut as rapidly as possi-
ble and railed to this city.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Cycle Co.
has been organized, for the manufacture
of the Kalamazoo parcel carrier for
bicycles. M. E. Blood is secretary and
manager. Capital stock, $10,000.

wooden-
order
Chi-

filling an
for* one

lard tubs
who re-
have

Clare river.

| and peeling the timber.

j

| Detroit—The Detroit Exploration and
‘Investment Co., with a capital stock of
$25,000, of which $7,000 is paidin, has
been incorporated for the
of investigating mineral lands
Vermillion, Minn.

Saginaw—The Canadian logs brought
over this season are now being manu-
factured. Mill men who are cutting this |
say that it is generally poor and |
does not compare with the average Mich-
igan stock.

Detroit—The Detroit Medical Co.
become incorporated with a capital stock |
of $12,000, for the purpose of carrying |

on the manufacture of certain remedies.
The stock is held by Linnie T. Fuller, |
120 shares: William P. Fuller, 480, and |
A. F. Flint, 600.

Saginaw—Saginaw is to lose another |
lumberman, Eugene Chappelle intending |
soon to remove to Duluth. He has for}
many years been engaged in putting in
logs in Saginaw waters for himself and |
others and has also speculated in pine}
more or less.

Bay City—Ross, Bradley & Co. have}
shipped by rail on the Flint & Pere Mar- |
quette and Michigan Central, this season,
13,000,000 feet of lumber, 3,000,000 shin- |
gles and 4,000,000 lath. They have a}
stock of 10,000,000 on the river and in
toeir yards, and the planing mili and
factory are crowded with business.

Detroit—On June 11, 1890, the Detroit
Steel and Spring Co. gave a chattel
mortgage on its plant and stock to the
Preston and Commerical National Banks |
for $79,500. It was also to secure any
additional indetebdness that might be
incurred. An additional debt of $18,000}
having been made, anew mortgage was
filed July 1.

Saginaw—W. W. Steele is stocking the
mill of E. F. Gould, and expects to manu-
facture about 8,000,000 feet of lumber.
He is sorting it, and it will all be
handled by rail. E. F. Gould, who owns
the mill and made a large fortune in the
lumber business, has retired from the
pine trade and resides in Atlanta, where
he has large interests.

Alpena—Alger, Smith & Co. will ex-
tend the Mud lake branch of the Detroit,
Bay City & Alpena road a number of
miles, to reach a considerable quantity
of timber that has been run over by fire.
They have a force of 300 men cutting
There is about
200,000,000 feet in the tract, but only a
portion was injured by fire.

stock

purpose
about |

has |

| “Do

| counter and posed,
| meekly

| an Because of the Prevailing Styles.
From the Chicago Tribune.

It was all the fault of the prevailing
| Styles.

The two young men stopped in front
of a counter that was piled with neglige
|shirts, carefully folded, and began an
| inspection of them.

‘*There’s about what you want, Jim,”
said one, pointing to a shirt with a pretty
blue strip in it.

But Jim shook his head,

“Too much blue,’’ he said. ‘‘Now,
| there’ s one that’s something like. How

| much is that?”

“‘One-seventy,’’ responded the dapper
youth behind the counter.

“Cheap enough!” said Jim. ‘I didn’t
know you could get one for less than $3
| or $3.50.”

“O, yes” returned the clerk. ‘We
| have them as low as 69 cents. Will you
| take this one!

“Sure—at that price.”

“‘What size, please?’’

““Fifteen-and-a-half collar.’’

“Fifteen and a—excuse me. What is
| the size of the lady’s waist? We measure
more by that you know.”

“Lady! !” eried the would-be purchaser.
you suppose I’m shopping for
i-women? I want it for myself.’

“O!” said the clerk, as he took one off
‘of the pile and shook it out, showing |
| that it was a belted waist. Third aisle to
| your right. Ask for Miss Jones. She has
| charge of men’s neglige shirts. I handle
ionly women’s neglige waists.’

Then he went down tothe end of the
and two menu walked
away muttering harsh things
about women and their waists.

en
Light Sentence.

Edward W. Rowell, who was recently
arrested near Petoskey on a charge of
forgery in Florida, turned over to the
victimized banks all the property pur-
chased with the results of the forgery,
plead guilty before the judge and re-
ceived a sentence of two years. Rowell
was formerly a resident of Reed City and
will be remembered by the old residents
of that place.

NN

The blue of the sky and the bluish
tinge of distant objects has been shown
to be owing to fine bubbles of water in
the air. The more delicate the walls of
these hollow spheres the clearer and
deeper is the blue; as they condense,
their hue shades off more tothe gray
and white, as seen finally in the clouds.
Hence in warm and dry regions the blue
of the sky is more intense; in cool and
moist ones less so, and on considerable
elevations the heavens’ look almost
black, and the stars are visible at midday.

The relation which the color of flowers
and fruits bear to their methods of dis-
tribution is a curious branch of botanical
study. It appears thatin the struggle
for existence during a long series of
generations, those seeds and fruits that

 

Au Sable—H. M. Loud & Sons’ Lumber
Co. insures all of its employes in the!

American Employers’ Liability Insurance |

Co. In ease of death, the employe re- |
ceives one year’s wages, but not to ex-
3,000; in ease of disability by rea-
son of accident, weekly wages not ex-
ceeding one year; medical attendance

ceed $

'and funeral expenses in case of death.

The cost of such insurance is 1 cent on
each $1 earned by the employe, and is
deducted from the wages of the men.
Every employ must be insured.
a A et
Coal Agents’ Monthly Farce.

At last Tuesday’s meeting of the West- | |

ern Sales Agents of Anthracite Coal an |
advance of 10@15c a ton all around was)
ordered, except at Lake Michigan
Lake Superior distributing points. =|
eastern agents advanced prices 10 and |
15e¢ per ton and fixed the output for July |
at 3,000,000 tons. To judge by the past,
|neither the higher figures nor the re-
| stricted output are likely to be observed.

have a tendency to succulence and color
j;are most attractive to birds, and that
jthese tendencies are intensified by
| inheritance and natural selection. It is
‘also found that in those fruits that are
| distributed by mechanical agencies there
is a suppression both of color and suceu-
lence.

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

 

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

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

_ SALE—NICE CLEAN STOCK OF HARDWARE,

amounting to about $6,000 for cash or on easy
terms, say six. twelve and eighteen months. Good
business. Good locality. Will sell or rent building,
oo Sanders, Wolcottville, Ind.

por SALE—DRUG STOCK — INVENTORY rs —
Good town of 1,000. Good loc ation. Good bargain.
Cash sales last year, $25 per day. Address No. 277,
Michigan Tradesman. 277
Fe RENT—LELAND HOTEL, NO. 522 SOUTH DI-
vision street; steam-heated throughout; has bath
on each floor; the right loca-
Ed. E. Mohl, 91 —
276

  

rooms, closets, gas, etc.,
tion for a good paying business.
roe street.
. SALE—THE DRY GOODS AND GROCERY BUSI-
ness of Rhodes & Leonard at Hart, Mich. Sale
compulsory on account of the death of one of the firm
and the poor health of the other member. Splendid
chance. Inventory about $1,500. Address Rhodes &
Leonard, Hart, Mich.
ee SALE—THE ONLY DRUG STORE IN A TOWN
f 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,
ich, 267

 

 

a: 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, 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
_ SALE— GROCERY AND CROCKERY STOCK
and fixtures, with good established trade. Address
lock box 43, Litchfield, Mich. 270
Fo SALE OR EXCHANGE — FOR CLEAN STOCK
of groceries, 30 horse power sawmill, almost new,
located in finest hardwood belt in Northern Mic —
Address W. A. Partridge, Rondo, Mich. 269
ae SALE— STORE BUILDING AND GENERAL
stock. Inventory about $3,000. Will sell build-
ing aloneif preferred. Industries: sawmill, shingle
mill and lumbering. Reason for selling, other —
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
r\OR SALE—A COMPLETE DRUG STOCK AND FLX-
tures; stock well assorted can be bought at a
—— ‘address for particulars 8. P. Hicks, ——
Mic’

gay emo MILL FOR SALE — THE ISLAND a
- flouring mill and feed mill and the entire Faton
Rapids water power will be sold on the 4th 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
Lemony HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A

general or grocery stock; must be cheap. =
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

SITUATIONS WANTED.

 

oe POSITION IN A STORE BY A WOMAN
with nearly twelve years’ experience in one
general store. Satisfactory reference. No. 279. care
Mic higan Tradesman. 279
V “ANTED— BY YOUNG MAN, SITUATION AS BOOK-
keeper, assistant book-keeper or collector
Rest of references. Address E. care Michigan =.
man.

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

OR SALE—A SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS. —_— =
No. 278, care Michigan Tradesman.

F° SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN NvEST:
. Corner lot and 5-room house on North
Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water
in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Address No. 187,
care Michigan Tradesman. 187

JOR SALE OR RENT—CORNER LOT AND 5-ROOM
house on North Lafayette st., cellar, brick /cund-
ation and soft water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to
suit. Cheap enough for an investment. Address No
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187.

ys SALE — WHITMAN’S HALF CIRCLE HORSE

power hay press. Nearly new. Will sell for cash
or exchange for hay. Write to Kingsley & —" *
Luther, Mich.

ee SALE—CHEAP FOR CASH—ONE ca aan E
a set of black walnut drawers, cased and labeled

fit for any drug store; oil tanks ‘with faucet; small

a of jewelry and trays. W. R. Mandigo, Sherwood,
c.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PEREINS & HESS

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

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

 

Send Your Standing Orders to Us for

= Cherries. Strawberries, Vegetables, New Southern Potatoes
ONIONS, CABBAGES, ETC.

We look for liberal receipts this week,

MOSELEY BROS.,

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.,

WHOLESALE:
Fruits, Seeds, Beans and Produce.

GRAND RAPIDS.

aoe

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

Cornelius _ Koopman has opened a
grocery store at 729 East Fulton street.
The I. M. Clark Grocery Co furnished
the stock.

J. W. MecCrath has purchased an in-
terest in the pickle business of John S.
Walker. The new firm will be known as
Walker & Co.

The insurance adjusters have settled
the loss on the Winchester & Daniels’
lumber which recently burned at Kin-
ney’s Siding. The owners’ loss is about
$2,500 in addition to the insurance.

Lyman T. Kinney, whose mill at Kin-
ney Siding was destroyed by fire in April,
has purchased the West Michigan Lum-
ber Co.’s sawmill at Park City and re-
moved it to a point near Keno, where he
will cut on contract for Winchester &
Daniels, of this city.

A new stock company will be or-
ganized here this week, witha capital
stock of $100,000, under the style of the
Hardware Supply Co. Chas. L. Frost will
serve as Secretary and Treasurer. The
company will embark in the manufac-
ture and sale of specialties in cabinet
hardware.

C. S. Udell and Arthur Ainsworth have
purchased the S. P. Bennett Fuel and
Ice Co. from the estate of the late S.- P.
Bennett and will continue the business
under the same style. Mr. Ainsworth
has been identified with the business for
several years. Mr. Udell will give it his
entire personal attention as soon as the
Brookings Lumber Co. completes its cut
in the fall.

Walter W. Bracey, who embarked in
the grocery business at 551 Ottawa street
nearly a year ago, ‘‘threw up the sponge”
about ten days ago and left the city, the
stock being subsequently taken by the
Lemon & Wheeler Company and the
Telfer Spice Co. No suspicion of dis-
honesty rests on Bracey, as he took little
or nothing with him. The business was
not a success and he had not the courage
to face his creditors with a plain state-
ment of the facts in the matter.

A meeting of the retail grocers of the
city will be held one afternoon this week
to make arrangements for the annual
picnic, which will be held at Reed’s
Lake or North Park some Wednesday
afternoon this month. Some novel feat-
ures will be introduced this year, in-
cluding a ball game between representa-
tive wholesale and retail grocers. Treas-
urer Van Every has S17 in pienie funds,
left over from the last picnic, which will
be turned over to the treasurer of the
1891 fund, as soon as a new Officer is de-
signated.

S. Frost & Co., who closed up their
shingle business at Stanton a couple of
months ago, will soon be in shape to
serve their customers from their new
headquarters in Houghton county, where
the.firm has purchased the Morton, Lewis
& Co. tract of pine, estimated to cut
13,000,000 feet, and a portion of the Ayer
tractin 49-37. The timber is about three-
quarters white pine and one-quarter Nor-
way and will all be converted into shin-
gles. The firm propose to merge their
copartnership into a stock company and
carry on business on a very much more
extended scale than ever before.

 

Use ‘*Tradesmam” Coupons

 

Buy What Your Trade Demands.
From the Dry Goods Bulletin.

No one ean tell you what stock you
need. Your trade journal can tell you
the signs of the times, what lines and
styles are giving the best general satisfac-
tion, what jobbers and manufacturers are
offering or will offer; your salesman can
show you the latest designs and styles of
finish in the various prices; but no one
can tell you exactly what you need. You
know, or should know, best what goods,

are best suited to the peculiar wants of |

your trade. If your customers are not
financially able to buy high priced goods
acheap but attractive substitute must
be provided; if the opposite, then quali-
ty, not quantity should be the aim. The
finest heavy all-wool underwear would be
unsalable in Florida, likewise the popu-
larity of fast black socks goes for noth-
ing in a certain Kansas district. Read as
carefully as possible the signs of the
times, study the peculiar wants and con-
ditions of your customers, examine criti-
cally the samples and prices of your
salesman, then blend all the information
thus gained into a judicious selection of
stock. Itis the only way. If you listen
to, and rely implicitly upon, the state-
ments of your salesman he will soon
put you down as a ‘‘mark,” and will un-
load undesirable stock upon you; but so
long as he looks upon you as a shrewd
buyer he will never attempt this. Buy
what your trade demands, not what hap-
pens to attract the eye.
ei oe
Wools Easier---Hides Quiet--Tallow
Firmer.

Wools sold more last week than for
some time previous, but at a concession
in price and that to supply immediate
wants. Many commission houses have
stopped soliciting consignments, and
buyers from buying, on account of strin-
gent money East. The banks have not
enough money to loan, even when securi-
ties are the best. Prices West have been
ruinous to any profit, for the buyer.

Hides are quiet with light demand and
supplies accumulating slowly. No ad-
vance in price can be look for in the
near future.

Tallow is firmer and in more demand,
but prices are no higher.

 

 

Crockery & Glassware

 

 

LAMP BURNERS,

ON Ee a ee 45
a ee ee ae 5
ee ec 5

Tubular....... ee ae a %
LAMP CHIMNEYS. —Per box.
6 doz. in box.

WG. Gham. ........... ae 17

ee ee 1 88

ie Co ee
First quality.

No, 0 Sun, crimp top Re ie cs eee eee acl 2 25

OOO eee 2 40

No. . * . gS 3 40
XXX Flint.

No, 0 Sun, crimp top eee Oe eels uc 2

es cae ae cee eee. 2 80

aos ' TT eyes ebuseces eee accesaac.. 3 86
Pear! top.

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. 3 7

No.2.‘ . . a 47
o. 2 Hinge, “ ba pe Ee ee 47
La Bastic.

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.

No. 2 3
No. crimp, per, in a ee ee
No.

 

FRUIT JARS.
Mason’s or Lightning.

 

PU oc cele. ce. ces li 50
mares ..: 1. ie. ee —
Half gallons. .
Rubbers...... — — “:
ene GOly........:.. 02... 3 50

STONEWARE—AKRON,

 

Bier Crocs, per me........-. .:.......... 06%

oGee. 4 ae), per Go... 75
So Bete ede eee se 90
— | et ee I Se 80

Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 75¢).... 65
“ “ss 1 “ “ ( “ 90e) i 78

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.

 

 

ANYTHING

That will ~ a man in his business ought to be
of vital i importance to him. Many a suce essful mer-
chant has found when

TOO LATE

That he has allowed his money to leak away.

-M Ope|y-=Hon' take care of Isel.

And the quicker you tumble to the fact that the old way of

keeping it is not good enough, the more of it you
will have to count up.

 

 

If you wish to stop all the leaks incident to the mercan-
tile business, adopt one of the

Coupon Systems

Manufactured in our establishment—
ior” or “ Universal ”’

 

“ Tradesm: an, ” “Supe r-
—and put your business on a ‘cash basis.

For Samples and Price List, address

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

RELIABLE!

Other brands of flour may occasionally make as good
bread, but for absolute uniformity and reliability our brands
“Sunlight,” “Daisy” and “Purity” will be kept at the top, as

 

Always Satisfactory.

Alw Always Uniform Uniform.

 

75 they have been in the past. Write us for quotations.

THE WALSH--DK ROO MILLING CO,

Proprietors Standard Roller Mills,
FLOLILAND, 8 MIC=x.

CG UMMER WASH GOODS;

CANTON CLOTH,
BRANDENBURG CLOTH,
B. C. SATINE

EXPORT SATINE,
SERGE SATINE,
CASHMERE SATINE,

A. F. C. GINGHAM,
SONORA GINGHAM, CHALLI,
AMOSKEAG GINGHAM, LAWNS.

OUTING SHIRTS, SUMMER UNDERWEAR, PANTS, HAMMOCKS,
STRAW HATS.

P. STEKETEE & SONS,
WHOLESALE DRY GOODS. GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

 

OUTING FLANNELS,
PRINTS,

WIDE BLUES,
SHIRTING,

LYON SERGE,
ARMENIAN SERGE,
SEERSUCKERS,

 

.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
  

  

 

 

 

 

 
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

     

 

Poppy Cultivation in Persia, Dry Goods Price Current. DEMINS.

Persia has of late years considerably a Everett, blue... =
increased its production of opium; but | I el COTTONS. - brown .13 ” bro os
its deficient alkaloidal strength, as com-| Adriatic ............ y : Arrow Brand 5% | Andover............- — Haymaker ie aa 7%
pared with the opium of Asia Minor, | ATgyle -; ---------- 634 ne a Jaffrey bro “10
renders it less desirable, excepting as @/ Atlantic A.. - $l pun yard Wide... 6 % | “ 6c... Jatrey sono BG
source from whence morphine may be} . Dee ne -- 6%) Georgia ) ee ‘ os | Boston. Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 9os.....- 13%
derived. The same characteristic has; {0 Be-------* oe = blue 8%) No, 220....13
led to its use for the manufacture of} “ een dr sme cal i a No. 250...-11%
See c anuté +e ee ar mend... .... i Columbian XXX br.10 a No. 280....104
opium for smoking, for which China, eT as a. / ce EP 7% XXX bl.19

5 ce ‘ e Pnrnia | Archery Bunting.. ing H
Siam o the Sunda Is lands furni: BA Boer ee AA anes ok... GINGHAMS.
market. Pharmaceutical literature fur-| Blackstone 0, 32.... ~ * Madras cheese cloth O38 Amoskeag ...... -.- 1% “fancies .
nishes few details of the mode of pre-| —— Fook . 615 Newmarket 2 a i — ol hans asn ormandie 8 8

ae is i toe Zr ll ll ct ee. See ee
paring this particular form of the drug, | Boot, AL. cc a 74 ‘i ~ ea 5 &“ a 12% |Manchester......... Ba
and the following brief account and its | Capital A ie Bt & DD.... 5% Arlington staple.... 614|Monogram.......... 6%
illustrations, by Madame Dieulafoy, will, | ¢ —— v. ‘. ed a — a. 7 Bates ai 44 a oseee —

»refore » interesti Sneaki q | Chapman cheese c o 5 | Bates Warwick dres 8%4|rersian..........---
therefore, be interesting. Speaking of a Clifton a... 38 jcind a staples. os Renfrew Dress...... 7%
visit to the opium works of Mr. Collignon, | Gomet.... ...... -... “og or iy Cuneta ee ee 10%|Rosemont..........- 6%
in the suburbs of Ispahan, she writes: | Dwight Star......... 74 'Pequot.............. 7% | Criterion ..-.....-- 10% ane nf

“The juice derived f Ses ekiak f | Clifton CCC........ i y% | Cumberland staple. Soon

1¢ juice derived from incision of) Top of the Heap.... 7% | Cumberland... .... iTacoma .....
the capsules is carried to the works in} BLEACHED COTTONS fT dy Tol du Nord
copper pans and treated in two different | ABC. .......-...-. S4/Geo. Washington... § | Elfin...............- ‘4 Wabash..........-- wi
i eg * a be used f ian... Se... ..... 7 Everett classics..... 8% seersucker.. 7%
ways, according as itis to be used f0Fr| yneburg........... 7 \Gold Medal......... 7% | Exposition.......... 7% ware... 8
pharmaceutical purposes or for smoking. | Art Cambric........ 10 jGreen Ticket....... 84 Glenarie........-... 614|Whittenden......... 6%
In the first case, after the evaporation of —— AA... 8 arent Falls.......... 6% yee he ee eats | oe ae :
- > + : t Bbecee ewww BHD AA «wee ee ttre ew wwee ‘ 2
the contained moisture, the opium is se esa ‘-_" rage a 4Xu@ 5 ia Hames... . ...... 6% Wamsutta staples... Ox
spread upon boards with asmooth spatula | Cabot............-.. 7% (King Phil = in 7% Johnson Vhalonecl % Westbrook [oo alee
of iron. When itis reduced to a paste | Cabot, %.. a ... 7% eee 10
and deprived of foreign matter, it is Charter Oak........ mig 4 Lonsdale a, 1054 ran antes Ents. 36. a. Bias wes 6%
Fs om ‘ [i ’ e Conw Ee a a Hi CC... DRI LOT BR. cece eoeeeesvee
formed into balls of equal size and dried | c ceed ag wee “i iddlesex chee oo : oH | GRAIN BAGS.
upon straw prior to its being packed for Dwight Anchor. 83 No Name.......-...- 7 Amoskoag........-.- 16%4/ Valley City.......... 15%
shipment—chiefly to England and Hol-| pawaras.. - Shorts. 8% _— oe eta Bh ANE 20° |Georgia .... .......- 15%
land. [ste ET 7 |Prideof the West... | American........... 16%4|Pacific ..... .......- 144%
‘When, on the contrary, the opium is} Fruit of the Loom. ix eae neste eceeees ps iii gw “
nN P Ss rt -orkm | m. < UNO... .....--+ +s | Clark’ ile End... .45 erpour 6...... .
prepared for smoking, the workmen | Fitenville .........7 |Utica Mills......... 8% | Coats’, J. &P.......45 |Marshall’s.... .-.... 88
cleanse it of impurities and knead it, as | First Prize.......... cy “~ Nonparell. | Holyoke. aa Ry
in the preparation of pharmaceutical | ee ex| Wale Borge." 8 8% KNITTING COTTON

. / gn | Pelee... .._.. i e....._.- i
opium, and then mix with it a certain | Full Value.......... 6%! “ Rock.. ie White. Colored. White. Colored,
proportion of oil for the purpose of| HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. No ._. = 38 |No. ota 42
facilitating its combustion. After having | oS. wet teeeeeeeee ax Dwight Anchor..... 9 ad f= = vf .
carefully mixed the two by treading) sanieeiiadiioes CANTON FLANNEL. * Bau rr 45
with the feet (as in the process of wine-| TremontN.......... 5}4|Middlesex No. 1....10 CAMBRICS.
making), itis again worked over with Hamilton N......... 6%) | a. coo ee... . 4 |Washington... ..... 35
spatulas to expel any excess of liquid | wiqdlesex AT...... 8 se 6“ . = White Star.. 4 |Red Cross........... Sm
and to give vreater degree of fineness [ee ‘6 ‘“ ae Kid Glove..  - eee... .....-
anc give a greater degree 0 ineness x a 9 .... Newmarket 4 |Wood’s .
to the paste. It is then formed into 1 _ 25.... 9 oe... + ae
balls (or rolls), and sent toChina and the dee iis) Middlesex A A a ii RED FLANNEL.

Indies, or sold, secretly, to Persians. Middlesex P z le a. 7 lie. C8 ae we Ry

“Poppy cultivation isa large source i oi: ; . - settee 13% Creedmore.......... ee B%
of revenue in the region of Ispahan, a “ os “19% i eats yy eee oe oe
mule-load being sometimes valued at five CARPET WARP.

MIXED FLANNEL.
to six thousand francs.”’ Peerless, white......18 Integrity, colored...21 7
colored... ..20%| White Star.......... 18% |'Red & Blue, plaid. 2 Grey SRW.......-. 17%
-_. > Integrity... i “  eolored..21 _————— 2314) Weatern W ......-.. 18%
Notion Stocks as an Attraction. “DRESS GOODS. Wistee. ..... ..-..- oe ae .............. 18%
From the Dry Goods Economist. a ihre eee 8 ‘ae ane a 20 |60z Western........ 9 |Fiushing Z2%.....-. 23%

r aie Lo eT = . . ee ieee Be 224%4|Manitoba........... 23%

There is, we believe, but one retail “ Coe © Ce 27% DOMET FLANNEL.
dry goods house in New York that does|GG Cashmere...... 21 ee 30 Nameless 8 @% a 9 @10%
not keep a stock of notions. This one | Nameless -.-......- 4 | Co _ Lie+e BY4@I Ye ae
being an old and conservative a iii, eas CANVASS AND PADDING.
itself upon being “‘strictly a dry goods | Coraline............ 89 50| Wonderful . .%4 50| Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black.
house.” In olden time, when there were | Schilling’s......... © Oi Briemion.. ........ 475 | 9% 9 974/13 13 13
dry goods stores and another class known ‘ CORSET JEANS. nie ie naelit 7 =

a . . : = ; POE ice nn 6%|Naumkeag satteen.. 7% | 5: 5 oizis ‘

a6 WERRRINE and notion stores, it boiegg | Androscoggin....... 71¢/Rockport..........- 6% | 12% 12% 124120 20 20
quite common to see a large house with-| Biddeford........... 6 Wonesoen........... 6% DUCES.
_ needles ~ pins, but nowadays it is | Brunswick. .... ..-. a vette tees 6% Sevoren, 8 ec 9%4|West Point, 8 oz....10%
the exception to give such an important | ria , | Mayland, 80z....... 10% 10 oz....12%
branch the go by. When auum joe te ee ee Greenwood, 7% oz. i {Raven, $en.....-0-- 13%

g 5 C ying | eobes........ 4\Clyde Robes........ 5 | Greenwood, 8 oz.. “se lee La im
departments under the heads respectively Tn ink & purple bi Charter Oak fancies 4%

I at WADDINGS

of the ‘‘must have,” ‘‘probably  will| “ pink checks. 3% a rs b White, doz 25 |Per bale, 40 doz....87_50
have” and ‘may have’’ notions ue « staples ...... BG Eddystone fancy ® 6 | Colored, doz........ | j ae
decidedly belong to the first. pos —ae 4% r chocolat 6 SILESIAS.

Notions attract shoppers and though | 4@ercanindigo.... 5)“ oper ag & | Slater, Iron Cross... 8 {Pawtucket.......... 10%
the profit is often small the money is! American shirtings. 4% Hamilton fancy. és “Red Cross.. 9 |Dundie...... oe z
quickly turned over. Until the success | Argentine Grays.. ae oat Best oP aie 10% oie “el ae 10%
of a new notion is assured, do not lay in| —" Shirtings. . = Manchester ancy.. 6 es _ een _

' | Arno sg e new era, SEWING SILE.
too large a stock, for when one drops out | Arnold Merino... -— Merrimack D fame. ; Corticelli, doz....... 75 (Corticelli knitting
of favor itis buried as deep as a well. “long cloth B- = Merrim’ “Reppfurn 4% twist, doz..37%| per %oz ball 1)
se as a i - like ins se e ea oe ee eee

Of course, the ‘ iomdard notions like pins, “ aint Pacific —— : on 50 yd, doz..37%
needles, bones, casing, belting, cotton, “ gold seal..... 10%| “ robes......... 6% HOOKS AND EYES—PER GR
tape, ete., may be laid in with a lavish , =Sreen seal TR 10%4|Portsmouth robes... 6 | NO iBrP k & White.. - No 4 Bk & White. 15
hand, but, the self-threading gimeracks,| a seal. Tal os ssourning.. : “ ; “ oo “ 10 “ "35
safety pockets, etc., may take and again| « ea aa “ ott  bisck. 6
may sell slow and no buyer wishes to be | Ballou solid —, 4 Woshington indigo. 6 | No ey ue NE 0 lca 4—15 F 3%...... 40
. s are he ae ‘ ** colors. 5 “ Turkey robes.. 7% | ‘ 3—18,SC........
caught i long should there be a slump in Bengal blue, green, ig “ Indie Se” a ae
the notion market. and orange... 5%) “ plain 4 "Ky x % 34 No oe Br ‘c. 2 (No *3 White & BI’k..20

Keep a variety, and offer to get what | Berlin solids. . -- Si) St a : “am ae ’ a

9 “

is on hand, for when shoppers find they| « onl gree er Oi * otieman Tit 6 é | cane +26
can get all notions and a fullassortment|  Foulards.... 5%|/Martha Washington sie s scsamens i ee
at one store they go there for other goods.|  & red % weeeeees /% | Turkey red %.....

The very word notion suggests small | -— i 7, oe = a 9 anes -oae a.
wares toa buyer or shopper, but it is “ “ 34X XXX 12 |Riverpoint robes.... 5 ae Be
worth remembering that small things j Cocheco a es ; beter seal yh” ss 6 Marebalr's.....-.-..- 1 00)

che ig : a. pit i) madders. . old ticket =ere OIL CLOTH.
may accomplis h wonders and are often - = taille... ox! indigo blue....... 10% | 5—4....2 25 3 255—4....195 6—4...295
indispensable. “  golids...... 5%] . 29 ©. 2

ee “10kINGS, COTTON TWINES.
Want a Canning Factory. | Amoskeag ACA....i3 |AC A..... ......... 12% | Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ... .

SHERWoop, July 2—To_ responsible en D ica a a eae 03 | Domnenti “pala aeaey 18% a ie

SHER _ * 7 — ; a Been eons GORE es ees ee cota ne ORENENO .. neue it
parties we have brick buildings suitable | . " qeamng. 11 oe ie. | Anchor . .16 |North Star wicedeee
for a canning factory, which we offer Farmer. -» © (Peart Miver......... 12s | Bristol . an Wool Standard 4 ply!
rent free. If you can put us on track of First Prize. pede 7 WT ORTOR oe oe on pv 0 14 ber Wale" Powhattan .........
any ecanners looking for a location, or | Corton DRILL, PLAID OSNABURGS.
them on track of us, you will confer an aon D......-... éxlNo Name ni adh i ee 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6%

: oe nese 7 oe | BOOT. ee eee wees cone OBING NAMC..... . ‘
everlasting favoron W.R. MAnpico. | Clifton, oe 74\Top of Heap........ "10 eS 7 aon teense ces 5

; cag ea | SATINES. Be, onc seis 6 |Randelman .......-. 6

Cass City—M. A. Stevenson is suc-| Simpson.... ....---. . Black wneceeee » enon Georgla hfe h dnt anere es Sg sees eres ee 5%

OO i —_ We Bec cise ee.
ceeded by Wm. Fairweather in the | <fEE i lt 10% | Haw River......... Toledo... Ce -
grocery, flour and feed business. 5 OS conc ns hee cs 10% Haw , sete esenaeeees

 

 

SIX-CORD

Spool Cotton

WHITE, BLACK AND COLORS,
FOR

Hand and Machine Use.
FOR SALE BY

P. STEKETER & SONS.

Spring Season 1891,

ene meemmene

 

If You desire to sell

Carpets by Sample

Send for

Circvlar and Price hist,

Smith & Sanford,

GRAND RAPIDS.

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Go.,

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.

Chicage and Detroit Prices Guaranteed.
48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.

GRAND RAPIDS, natalia

 

 

 

MICH.

 

AWNINGS

AND TENTS.

 

 

vag! ,Horse and Wagon Covers, Seat Shades, Large
lias, ore Clothing, Wide So Ducks, ete.
Catalogue.

nd for Illustrated
CHAS. | COYE, 11 Lee Street.

Telephone 1

 

 

 

 
  

 

    

 

 

 

‘common in California.

THE MICHIGAN TRADE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Different Colors of Gold.

‘Most people suppose,” says an
assayer, ‘‘that all gold is alike when re-
fined, but thisis not the case. An ex-
perienced man can tell at a glance from
what part of the world a gold piece
comes, and in some cases from what
particular gold district the metal was
obtained. The Australian gold, for in-
stance, is distinctly redder than the
California, and this difference in color is
always perceptible, even when the gold
is 1000 fine. Again, the gold obtained
from the placers is yellower than that
which is taken directly from quartz.
Why this should be the case is one of
the mysteries of metallurgy, for the
placer gold all comes from the veins.
The Ural gold is the reddest found any-
where. Few people know the real color
of gold, as it is seldom seen unless
heavily alloyed, which renders it redder
than when pure. The purest coins ever
made were the $50 pieces that used to be
The coinage was
abandoned for two reasons, first, because
the loss by abrasion was so great, and,
second, because the interior would
be bored out and lead Substituted, the
difference in weight being too small to
be readily noticed in so large a piece.
These octagonal coins were the most
valuable ever struck.”’

> oOo
Hardware Clerks and Salesmen.

A clerk or salesman in a retail hard-
ware store, to be of value to the mer-
chant, should be thoroughly posted as to
stock; not only as to what variety, whose
make, ete., but also as to approximate
quantity. When a new device, article or
tool is bought, it should be examined and
its merits understood and details com-
prehended, so that when offered for sale
he can tell the customer all about it. A
salesman who merely delivers, without
comment, the article a purchaser inquires
for is surely not as valuable as one who
can in a few brief words, explain all of
its most salient points. There are, un-
fortunately for themselves and their em-
ployers, numbers of clerks who, when
questioned as to the merits of, or certain
points in the article or device in question
cannot answer, simply because they are
not posted. A hardware clerk requires
as much of an apprenticeship as a me-
chanie. The latter becomes a journey-
man only after four or five years’ close
application to the specialty he is learn-
ing, and it is folly on the part of a neo-
phyte in a hardware store to suppose he
can go behind the counter and sell goods
from the start. Hecannot do it with
success or profit to himself or employer.
Indeed, only after severai years of eare-
ful and close application ean a young
man make himself valuable to the mer-
chant. To gain this end, he must study
the requirements of customers and thus
acquire a knowledge of their wants, and
be ready with intelligent suggestions,
ete.; but this is only learned after sev-
eral years’ acquaintance with the busi-
ness.

2» -- a>
On the Verge of Dissolution.

The Watch Trust,which was formed in
1885, is apparently going to pieces. The
first defection from the iron-clad agree-
ment to maintain prices was by the Due-
ber Watch Case Co., two years ago. Two
weeks ago Koch & Dreyfus, a large New
York firm who were to be black-listed
for cutting prices, obtained an injunction
against such action on the part of the
Trust. Joseph Fahys & Co. have since
been expelled for eutting rates. The
meeting at which this was done was a
stormy one and revealed a weakness in
the organization. Fahys has applied to
the courts and the Trust may be legally

broken up if it does not fall to pieces.
a a

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

SMAN.

 

    

 

‘ HAMMERS, ROPES,
Hardware Price Current. — ai 25 Saual) 6 inch and ldtaer dl,
ee vay hist E ee e Ree EAN - ae ee 11%
These prices are for cash buyers, who | Yerkes Cea ast Ais. 40810 | scot and tron. Sonia ais.
i 5, | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. C list 60 | Oe cai aad laa a hat ce hey cl
Fae POOMPEE one Tey te fell packages, (Tee are bok Cer Sik ties Be 40&10 | Try and Bevels.......-.. 220.020 60
AUGUES AND BITs. dia. pci ae faba le See 2
Soa te Gate Clarkia 198. dis.co&fd Com. Smooth. Co
J mm. é m.
CO Fl TG per doz. net, 2 50 | nos. 10 to 14... ined concvued cc
ee eee abode eee la el. meses Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and a Osta eae 3 20
renee, Meee z fe eae ia ail 34 Noe tee ae 3 20
’ on Screw Hook and Eye, me 7 uae Noe Siam... _ .4e 3 20
a cl. 8 Tans OF oe
nS tee... Sete fe me ele ee
‘ (aa ee ; oa 7 Wyn ver eee eeee ee cees net 7% | All sheets No. i8 and lighter, over 30 inches
7 : = co een acn nceaas 13 = Sepa dis. 50 | wide not less than 2-10 extra
oe Z HANGERS. dis. iano
ae 1s. | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... -50&10 | List acct. 19,'86........00 0. -—
meen. © 14 00 | Chamaton, anti friction... 60410 | SASH CORD.
Ce mos OCU) Middar, wood track ...... 8. 40 | Silver Lake, White A............. oe ce
BOLTS dis. HOLLOW WARE. } ° POO Ae 55
. ; : a 60 ‘ a és 50
pec ita teaien eters een setae —— —- Deca: ee = “ De a 55
; ee eee | “ Whteo 3
ee Sees irre anssatetenn, cntabe nies ness a aa ie tee .
nr eer eerste HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. SASH WEIGHTS,
oe Stamped Tin Ware................... .new list 70 | Solid NOs cl aay 2 ein ele eile
i CT, 3 50) Japanned Tin Ware. 2 | SAWS, dis.
Re 4 00} Granite Iron Ware ............... new list 33% &10 | Tae oN ae aed oe edee an cece 3
BUTTS, CAST dis WIRE GOODS. dis. Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 7
Cast L Pin, fi a a Ode TE 70&10&10| ‘“ Special Steel Dex - Cuts, per foot.... 50
ast Loose Pin, figured....... Do al da hh é re ee . ---70&10&10| ‘ Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30
Wrought Narrow, bright.5ast joint.......... 60410 Boake a ras aaa Bg Giunice end iieetrin Tooth X
Wrought Loose Pin.....................0002. 60&10 | g Hooks and Hyes.............. 70&10&10 | Cuts, per CO 30
Wrought Table 60&10 | G2te Hoo y ai ei ais
ee 5 LEVELS. g. RAPS. :.
Wiroueht beside Blind) | 60&10 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .... 70 | Steel, Game.......... eT
Wrought Brass..... Oe ee a ne ae a 05 KNOBs—New List. dis. | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35
Blind, Clark’s.... 2.2.0... 0.0... seeceseeeeees 70&19 | Door, mineral, jap. Gimmiogs. 55 | Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s.... 70
: , ee oor, m jap g "
Blind, Parker’s................2. 0204. --70&10 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 | Mouse, Cota 18e per doz
Blind, Shepard’s .................. 02.02.20 70 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... SS | Mouse, delusion................ |... Si se per doz.
BLOCKS, Door, porceluin, trimmings. ................ Sf . ‘eid WIRE. dis.
er e---... a a ieee Ee
CRADLES. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ........ 55 | Coppereea Markee 60
tet | dis. 50&02 | Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s................... 55 | Tinned Market. wat ttt estes ee ee ee was. G2NG
CROW BARS ietnee bes cetcue haa. 55 Coppered me ee 50
Cast Steel : per® 5 | NOrwalk’s..............-.....ccee ee eeee cee 55 | Barbed Fence, galvanized. Se 3 40
Me RO ect... MATTOCKS. | 66 mie |. 2 85
CAPS, BONG Me $16.00, dis. 60 | HORSE NAILS.
od Tn mro.ou, Ott, @) | AuSable... dis. 25&10@25&10&05
Pee 27 Mintel 15.60, Gre iG) | Pita 8. 05
Gm ...... nat eee 35 MAULS. Gm | Narthwesterm............ baeeee cee —
eee. ° 60 | Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handled............... 50 | | WRENCHES, 8.
oe CARTRIDGES — MILLS, dis. | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
[ Come, Parkers Coe | tl ....... |) 40 Goes Genuine ee
Rm Fire... ... .. 6... eee eceeee erence nee 50 , P.S.& W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ a
Central Fire....... 0.2.2.0... ..seeeeeee ee dis, %/ « Landers, Ferry & Cleik’s............ 40 | Coe’s Patent, malleable. segue T510
CHISELS. dis. “ SZrtermiee ....... ee 25 | ISCELLANEOUS. i
MOLASSES GATES, ais. | bed Cages............. ee 50
st oie = a ee a eS — Sopietiti tebe cd 60&10 | Pumps, CEE eae. eee, "5
Socket Framin 70&10 | .
Socket Corner SHaaEES Wei | SeeponVe Gentine 60&10 | Screws, New List. mest tt tate te eee es econ oe. SOGL0
See 70&10 | Enterprise, woeiaes ee es 25 Casters, ~—? — Cee somone
PME ee eeste cn cee ecee nett lu yy s itt.
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ ...... Steel nails, base... a ee 1 85 | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goede. .....
cen. We) Se ee 2 20 METALS,
Curry Exwrences. 40 Advance over base: Steel. Wire. | / PIG TIN.
Ee el, Base Base bs a BS ee ieee e eee ley =
ee Base Mt Pie eee 8 wk, 28e
CHALK pou
\ OAts _. & 20 | ZINC.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 0. Bee ee 10 20 | Duty: Sheet, 24%c per pound.
COPPER. ‘ 15 cnr | Oe) PORE COMM 6%
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound = = | rer pound.......... Soe aoa et meena 7
“ te 5 a bs .
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... 2.2.0.2... = = A@% ae "
oe eee ee 2 50| E eS
CE ea ' 40 65; The prices of the many other qualities of
et ons DRILLS. dis. 4 . & 90 | solder in = market ee by private brands
eee ee eae 1 00 1 50 | vary according to composition.
ey neat: Pace en = 2 Le ee ee See eee e eeu e ceeds ee 1 50 2 00 | i ANTIMONY l i
i per i . Se rae Ce 1 50 Bd a per pound 16
eee’ Jase eed cre ta ees 90 | Ha eee
orse’s Taper PM ee el. . Cous i 0) 90 | Hallett’s 13
DRIPPING PANS. ee 7 1 00} TIN—MELYN GRADE.
smell Sinem, Wor pound ...................... Ov a. 90 1 25 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal eee eee eee ce 8 7 50
ieree Mines, Her POUNG................ ...., Oe Pe ; = i 00 oe ~ i eee e eee acca . : =
bane 8 wo) | ao mL alk ea Me ll lg lai o ke
— “ 115  150/14x20Ix) « Hic laps tinue 9 25
Co © Bree Ge doz.net 75 Clinch! . s 75 | Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
Cereeeee dis. 20&10&10 i ie 90 | TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
MO Gis. 40£10 “ a TES RNY 115 1 00 | 10x141C, Charcoal............... 8 8 50
EXPANSIVE BITs. dis. ee 1 7% 2 50 | 14x20 IC, ee ee -- 6
Clark's, small, $18; ts Ono o nnn o- one = Ohio Tool Co.’s — ee “ow | 14530 1x i oH eee e tee eee n ens ous 00
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 24; 3, B30 «eens eee eens ae @6) | Each additional X on this grade 81.50,
FILEs—New List. dis. Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy...... 2.2.2.0... @40 | | , ROOFING PLATES
te... re momen Bret quale. @60 | 14x20 IC, u Worcester uae os 6 50
noe ore. 60&10 | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. . .... &16 | 14x20IX; faeces - &G
Nicholson’s Se ee ee 60&10 ‘ PANS, deat a os a i ies eae * 50
E EE Prey, AGO, 3. 60— 14x20 IC, , Allaway Gra 57
Heller's Heres Raspa ee oo 50 Coca. poe oe - 70 | —— oy iT : a : 2 =
RIVETS. - | 20x28 IC, : i - 12 O
: oe sings a co pee OO a. 40 | 20x28 IX, | ni it es 15 00
Nos. 16 to 20:0 22 and 24; 2% and 2%; 27 28 Copper Rivets and Burn................. 50 | ae BOILER 81ZE TIN PLATE.
List 12 13 14 mb 5 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ee $14 00
Discount, 60 “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 | 14x31 IX......... stants nt ee wees 15
GAUGES. dis, “B” Wood’s _. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 | 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Bollers, \ per pound 10
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... .... : 50 Broken packs \%e per pound extra. | 14x60 IX, 9 (
PENBERTHY INJECTORS.
GEO. M. SMITH SAFE 60.,
DEALERS IN
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF
SIMPLE
q = SAFES -
Vault and Bank Work a Specialty. Locks
Cleaned and Adjusted. Expert Work
Done. Second hand safes
in stock.
Movers and Raisers of wood and brick build-
ings, safes, boilers and smoke stacks.
FIRE PROOF OFFICE AND SALESROOM:
m i . r
The Most Perfect Automatic Injector STEAM PRO OF 1 0 Ot St T | 1173
Made. yy 107 and 160 Ottawa &t, el, 1173.
42,000 in actual operation. Manufactured by BURGLAR PROOF
cr
PENBERTHY INJECTOR. CO,, WATER PROOF GRAND RAPIDS.
DETROIT, MIOH.

 

 

 

    

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 apylication.
Publication Office, 100 Louis St.

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

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1891.

 

 

ASSISTED IMMIGRATION.

A few years ago some thousands of
brown-coated, obtrusive, quarrelsome
little natives of the British Isles were
to cross the Atlantic, and
given free quarters in many of our
American cities. They were low-bred,
dirty, ill-tempered little varlets, always
ready to eat or to fight. Greedy, jealous,
restless, they were ready to die of over-
feeding rather than see a grain of food,
no matter how coarse or filthy, consumed
by any other winged thing. For this
reason, it was supposed that the English
sparrow might be utilized to do the dirty
work which our daintier and more
aristocratic native songsters stubbornly
refused to perform. First among the
useful things expected of this reckless
foreign pauper immigrant was that he
would clean the woods and fields, the
trees and streets of certain pestiferous
insects that made war upon the foliage,
and converted our parks in_ leafless
haunts for the caterpillar. It was also
expected that these myriads of restless
little gluttons would soon render street-
cleaning boards unnecessary, and by per-
forming the scavenger’s work of our
municipalities gratis, allow those having
charge of such public work to abandon
even that show of activity which they
had hitherto scrupulously maintained in
order to excuse the robbery they perpe-
trated.

For a time these *‘assisted immigrants,”
true to their greedy instincts, not only
performed the work for which they were
imported, but also made war on the aris-
tocratic natives, whom they quickly sup-
planted. 2obins and sparrows and the
shy fly-catchers, with their sweet notes,
fled away from the towns, abandoned
their chosen companion, man, and hid in
the darkest woods and gloomiest dells,
away from their pugnacious, persevering
and illimitably fecund persecutors. All
the native birds abandoned their accus-
tomed haunts. Our native sparrows de-
serted the hedges and hid in the wild-
wood. The robin’s note is no longer
heard in the park. Even the martins
are harried out of their boxes, and the
envious little invader rears his numerous
broods in their deserted homes. The
streets swarm with them. Every coign
of vantage in wall and cornice is alive
with them. The ivy upon the wall, the
eave-spouts and window-caps are squat-
ted on by the myriad predators. In the
gutter, under the horses’ feet—every-
where that no other bird ever dreamed
of being—there the sparrow is sure to be
found. Chattering, sputtering, eating,
fighting, he seems to be made for the
city’s slums—a feathered incarnation of
its worst elements. They have taken the
land, and most vociferously set up their
claims to be seen and heard at all times
and on all occasions. With the true
spirit of the ‘‘assisted immigrant,’”’ they

‘‘assisted”

conceive that the land belong to them,
and has been created solely for their use
and occupation.

This feeling, no doubt, has induced
them to forego one of the chief duties
expected of them. By unanimous and
apparently concerted action they have
‘struck’? on caterpillars. They propose
no longer to do the dirty work which the
native American warbler scorns to touch.
They know their rights. The country
owes them a living, and a living they
mean to have, but they draw the line at
caterpillars. So the cobweb festoons
hang upon the trees, the caterpillars in-
vade the boxes where they dwell; even
the young sparrows fall victims to the
creeping foe, but the ‘‘assisted immi-
grant” is unrelenting. He is as good as
anyone, and will do nobody’s dirty work,
if all the younglings in his nest die of
webs and hairs.

There was one American bird, how-
ever, that held its ground despite the
sparrow. The wren was as pugnacious
as the imported bird and much nimbler
and surer onthe wing. The wren was
the one ornithological ‘‘Know-nothing”’
that always gave the foreign-born intrud-
er as good as he sent and more of it than
he wanted. So the wrens stayed and the
sparrows swarmed around them— the
wren, dainty and aristocratic, but full
of pluck and always aching for a fight;
the sparrow, coarse and dirty, but never
flying away from a row. They were
strangely-matched enemies, but nobedy
thought they would ever become friends.
Just here, however, comes the marvel.
We are now informed upon high author-
ity that these hereditary enemies have
formed an alliance. The wrens, we are
assured, have intermarried with the
‘assisted immigrants,” and so elevated
the taste and habits of the offspring that
they refuse the vulgar food on which
their fathers fattened, and like genuine
native American gentlemen, insist on
living on the top shelf and doing only
gentlemanly work. Instead of earning
an honest living and being a blessing to
the community, they are of no more use
than a crowd of ward politicians or the
licensed thieves and robbers of Wall
Street.

 

THAT FOOLISH SCHEME.

It is reported that the Alliance in Kan-
sas is considering a scheme to estab-
lish banks and warehouses throughout
the State on the sub-treasury plan, the
capital to be furnished by private sub-
scription. The plan is to have a sub-
treasury in each country under the
management of the Alliance. In the
warehouse, to be built in connection
with the bank, the farmer may deposit
his wheat, corn and other imperishable
farm products, and receive a check for
80 per cent. of their value. He is to be
allowed to let them remain on payment
of a small percentage for storage and
insurance, until he desires to sell them.
The amount of produce deposited must
not exceed the capital stock of the bank.

 

The checks are to circulate as money.

It would be a good thing to test this
scheme. If the farmers of Kansas put it
in operation and it works successfully,
well arid good. If it does not work, the
others may profit by their experience
and let it alone. Let them go ahead and
try it.

It is extremely doubtful, however, if
political agitators care to have the

 

scheme tested in this way. The result

 

of a test would be to take the sub-
treasury plan out of politics; for the
failure of this scheme would be a strong
argument against government agri-
cultural sub-treasuries; while its success,
on the other hand, would demonstrate
that there is no need or excuse for
calling on the government to do what
can be well done by private capital. The
political agitators are wily enough not to
let a practical test like that pro-
posed interfere with their occupation,
and the Kansas farmers will probably be
discouraged from making the test.

 

 

In accord with the recommendations of
bankers who have been consulted by
Secretary Foster, the administration has
decided to extend the maturing 4/4 per
cent. bonds at the rate of 2 per cent.
The principal interest attaching to the
matter is the probability that it will re-
sult in an increase in the national bank
circulation. The banks already hold
$23,000,000 out of the $50,000,000 of 4%
per cent. bonds outstanding. It is, how-
ever, hoped that when additional circu-
lation is needed in the early autumn the
banks can purchase extended bonds at
par and use them as a basis for addi-
tional circulation. Banking authorities,
however, hesitate to commit themselves
as to the probabilities of the matter.

The decline in kerosene is due to the
reduction of the test, which was auth-
orized by the last Legislature and went
into effect July 1. The enactment of the
Ferguson bill, so called, amounts to a
reduction from 164 to 150 flash test the
exact wording of the law forbidding the
sale of oil which will ignite and burn at a
temperature of 120 degrees, Fahrenheit.
The law as it now stands is exactly like
the Wisconsin law and practically the
same as the Ohio and Indiana statues.
Under the new standard, oil can be made
from one-half cent to a cent cheaper,
while the burning qualities are improved.

 

The demand of the Grand Rapids ship-
pers for a reduction of the seaboard rate
to 90 per cent. of the Chicago basis is
based on that difference in mileage be-
tween the two cities—Chicago being 920
miles from New York, while Grand Rap-
ids is only 823 miles. Ata meeting of
the general managers of the Michigan
lines, held at Chicago last week, a ma-
jority were in favor of granting Grand
Rapids 92 per cent., and another meet-
ing was to be held Monday to secure, if
possible, unanimous-consent to the pro-
posed reduction.

The Drug Market.

There has been an advance of 4c in
white lead, and a slight rearrangement
of the quantities affecting the prices—
that is to say, whereas the highest price
heretofore applied to lots of less than 1,000
pounds, it now applies to lots of 500
pounds the next lowest price now apply-
ing to lots of 500 pounds to five tons,
where heretofore that price applied to
lots of 1,000 pounds to five tons only.
The abregation of all rebates which dis-
tinguished the card rates of 1890 is still
adhered to, as in the previous list. The
advance is indicative that corroders be-
lieve in the future of their product.

Wood alcohol has advanced 25c per
gallon, due to the fact that the Whisky
Trust has secured control of all the pro-
ducers of crude.

 

 

GOLDEN ADVICE.

 

Experience of a Man Who Has Made
His Mark.

From the American Grocer.

There is in a neighboring city, a gen-
tleman whom many young men envy as
they see him flying along over the road
behind his horses, and, no doubt, some
of them grumble because they can’t have
theirs, too. This gentleman would prob-
ably tell these young men that the way
to possession was just as easy for them
as for him if they would only follow his
example. ‘‘What boy to-day is willing
to begin as I began?’ said he. ‘‘Talk to
them about economy, they don’t under-
stand you; tell them they ought to save
something each year, and they’ll assume
that it isimpossible. Try to advise them,
and they’ll say in a hurt tone, that it’s all
very well for aman with money to talk
that way; he don’t know anything about
being poor. But I'd like to knowif I
don’t know. I can give every one of
them points. I was the oldest of a large
family, and when I was 9 years old the
death of my father rendered it necessary
that I should go to work. I gota place
in adrug store at 50 cents a week and
my board, and I tell you I felt like a mil-
lionaire. It was a big thing to control
50 cents a week and I’ve never felt the
responsibility of any sum since then as
much as I did that. I stayed there fora
while. Then I went to work at the
princely sum of $1 a week. I stayed
there for awhile. Then I began to notice
that I wasn’t in the way of advancement
there. There was no chance to become
anything more than | was at the time, so
I began to look around for something
else and decided that the dry goods was
what I wanted the most. It didn’t occur
to me to inquire whether the dry goods
business wanted me or not. I wanted it
and that was an end of it. '

‘I got a position in a house, receiving
a salary of $3 a week, and paying for my
board $1.75. I didn’t board at a leading
hotel or a fashionable boarding house, as
you may imagine, but I was very com-
fortable notwithstanding, and I was liv-
ing within my means and laying up some
money. I never had over $8 salary a
week in all my life; yet, before I was 19
years of age I had between $300 and $400
laid up, and was ready to go into busi-
ness for myself, which I did, and didn’t
I work? Well, I guess I did, and here is
the result. It has been sieady growth
from that time until the present, and the
business has not stopped growing yet.
Now, do you wonder that I say any young
man who will may dothe same thing.
The simple truth is he won’t. He wants
everything and at once and he gets it.
There is nothing truer than the old say-
ing that you ‘can’t have yourcake and
eat it too. If you want money you’ve
got to keep it, instead of spending it. I
know some men pretend to scorn economy
but they are the ones who are always
scolding and complaining about the
shabby way in which fortune treats them.
The fault is all their own; they turn a
cold shoulder on fortune, when she would
smile on themif they would encourage
her. Secret! There’s no secret to it. It
lies just here. Don’t spend all you earn,
but save some, evenif itis only a little.
You will find it as easy to acquire the
habit of saving money as of spending it.
But it is all in habit anyway.

‘“‘Suecess is a purely personal matter,
and luck has nothing to do withit. If
people weren’t so possessed with the idea
of having things, simply because some-
body else has them, they would get along
all right. They haven’t independence
enough to do as they can, but they do
more than they can to ‘save the speech
of people.’ Well, the result usually is
that they don’t ‘save the speech of peo-
ple,’ but they get it in a much less satis-
fretory way than they would if they had
strength of character to only do what
they could afford. I never committed
what I call extravagance; nothing is ex-
travagant that we can afford to do, with-
out wronging ourselves or anybody else.
Any young man can attain what I have
attained if he were to do as [ have done.
There’s nothing wonderful or miracu-
lous about it. It’s common sense and

hard work, and taking a look ahead in-
stead of living wholly in the present.”

 

e

Si

 

 

ee

e

 

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN. 9

 

 

Gripsack Brigade

Mr. Thompson, who has represented
the Collins Manufacturing Co., of Jack-
son, succeeds J. W. Palmer as traveling
salesman for the Central City Soap Co.

Lewis Immegart has severed his con-
nection with the Lemon & Wheeler Com-
pany and removed to Traverse City, to
assist in the managment of the grocery
store of S. W. Perkins & Co., in which
firm he is a partner.

M. Kerns, who has been coming to
Grand Rapids for the past dozen years
for Dilworth Bros., Pittsburg, was in
town several days last week, dispensing
that red-headed smile for which he is so
famous.

Chas. R. Smith is again at the helm at
the MeKinnon House, Cadillac, having
finally succeeded in dislodging the lessee.
Mr. Smith is a competent hotel man and
will probably succeed in regaining the
prestige the McKinnon lost under the
former landlord.

Bert Remington, formerly with Mus-
selman & Widdicomb, has engaged to
travel for the J. G. Buttler Tobacco Co.,
of St. Louis, Mo., taking the State of
Iowa as his territory. He will begin
business for his new connection about
the middle of the month.

Geo. Hodge, formerly engaged in the
grocery business at the Soo, afterward
on the road for the Lemon & Wheeler
Company, but for the past three years
traveling representative for W. F. Mc-
Laughlin & Co., of Chicago, recently
died in Dakota and was buried at Fargo.
Death was caused by blood poisoning,
resultant upon a fall in the street which
injured his hand. The deceased left a
wife and three children.

The possession of good _ business
principles by a commerical traveler is of
quite as much importance as attractive
manners and the ability to talk well.
The reason for this lies in the fact that
continued and pleasant business relations
are based on confidence and a merchant
has confidence only in that traveler and
house who have always accorded him
fair treatment. Under these conditions
a mutual feeling of good will is enter-
tained, and the house holds its trade be-
cause customers feel that under no cir-
cumstances will advantage be taken of
them.

“J will never eat another meal in that
house!’ exclaimed a fastidious traveling
man, as he passed out of a large hotel
and walked up the street with a friend.
‘The waiters take the napkins which
have been used by guests and with them
wipe the plates of later comers. To
my certain knowledge, at least three
complaints have been made about this
in that house alone, and no attention is
paid to them. A house whose proprietors
cannot furnish towels for wiping their
china and glass had better go out of
business. There are many unappetizing
suggestions about the too prevalent cus-
tom of using discared napkins for such
purposes, and it is a most curious fact
that hotel properietors seem blind to the
disgusting practice. There are many so-
called first-class places where it is quite
customary, and the fact reflects but little
credit on either the waiters or the
management.”

——_—~ +4
Illuminating Oils Lower.

The Standard Oil Co. announces an-
other decline in kerosene and gasoline—
14econ water white, 3gc¢ on special white,
3¢¢ on Michigan test and gasoline.

 

Purely Personal.
A. C. Cross, the Bangor boot and shoe

dealer, was in town a couple of days last
week.

V. S. Heath, lumber dealer at Mc-
Brides, was in town a couple of days
last week.

Henry Smith, tea buyer for: W. F. Mc-
Laughlin & Co., of Chicago, was in town
a couple of days last week.

W. D. Ball and C. McLean, who com-
prise the grocery firm of Ball & McLean,
at Stanton, were in the city from Friday
until Monday.

Fred Epley, of the firm of Epley & De-
vine, shingle manufacturers at Beech-
wood, Iron county, was in town several
days last week.

Edward M. Smith, the Cedar Springs
grocer, was married on June 27 tu Miss
Orpha M. Thomas. THE TRADESMAN
extends congratulations,

J. K. Stewart, the Gilbert street gro-
cer, has returned from a fortnight’s visit
with friends at Pittsburg, Fa., and
Youngstown and Cleveland, Ohio.

C. B. Atwood, manager of the boot and
shoe department of the Hannah & Lay
Mercantile Co., Traverse City, was in
town Monday, on his way to Boston.

L. Winterintz sailed from New York
Monday, going direct to Bremen, thence
to his old home at Prague, Bohemia.
The good wishes of hosts of friends go
with him.

Cc. H. Felt, the Constantine druggist,
was recently married to Miss Ella Cally,
of Grass Lake. The happy couple are
spending their honeymoon in the Lake
Superior country.

O. A. Ball slipped away from his Bear
Lake resort and spent Monday with his
business here. As it was going along
smoothly under the oversight of Fred H.,
he left for the resort again Monday night.

H. B. Gibson, who has been engaged in
the grocery business at Elm Hall for the
past year, was in Grand Rapids last week
for the first time. He was favorably im-
pressed with the city and its numerous
pleasant resorts.

Chas. L. Frost, who has faithfully
served the Lemon & Wheeler Company
as book-keeper for several years, has
resigned to take the management of the
Hardware Supply Co., which is mentioned
elsewhere in this week’s paper. He is
sueceeded by Dick Pendergast, who has
satisfactorily served the Telfer Spice
Co. in the same capacity for a number
of years.

SU UUUNEEEE EEE Atti
Country Callers.

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

Epley & Devine, Beechwood.

Ball & McLean, Stanton.

A. C. Cross, Bangor.

A. Burton & Co., Hesperia.

H. M. Lewis, Ionia.

L. Klinkers, Filmore Center.

B. Voorhorst, Overisel.

Geo. F. Cook, Grove.

Thos. Sowerby, Rockford.

Wagner & Son, Belding.

Ward Bros., Howard.

Cc. W. Winchester, East Byron.

Alex. Denton, Howard City. —

W. D. Struik, Byron Center.

~~ ++

An Observant Lad.

Teacher: What are the names of the
several days of the week?

Boy: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

Teacher: That’s only six days. Y¥ou
have missed one. When does your
mother go to church?

Boy: When pa buys her a new hat.

 

 

ISHING TACKLE

o— AND &

SPORTING GOODS

HEADQUARTERS.

SPALDING & GO.

SUCCESSORS TO

L. S. HILL’& CO.

Importers, Manufacturers]!
and Jobbers of

Sporting & Athletic Goods,

100 Monroe St,
AQ, 42 & 44 N, lonia 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, and placed it in charge of William Wood-
worth, who for many years was with L.5. Hill & Co., and
then Spalding & Co,, we think we are now in excellent shape

to supply the trade of Western Michigan.

prose TEVENS

ST

& C: MONROg

THE

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

}

 

 

State Board of Pharmacy.

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

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

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. _
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor.
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
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 Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association.

resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith.

 

 

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

      
 

 

 

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

 

 

 

A Burning Question.

Press me closer, all mine own,

Warms my heart for thee alone.

Every nerve responsive thrills

Each caress my being fills:

test and peace in vain I crave,

In ecstacy I live, thy slave:

Dower’d with hope, with promise blest,

Thou do’st reign upon my breast;

Closer still for I am thine,

Burns my heart, for thou art mine:

Thou the message, I the wire:

I the furnace, thou the fire:

I the servant, thou the master-

Roaring, red-hot mustard plaster.

BURDETTE,

a ee

HYPNOTIZED PHARMACISTS.

Justin W. M’Eachren, Ph. C. in Bulletin of Pharmacy.

Man was born for two things—thinking and
acting.—Cicero.
All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord.—Longfellow.

For about half a century a certain
electro-positive element, which I shall
call Public Convenience, has been mak-
ing sundry passes and otherwise exerting
a mesmeric influence on an electro-nega-
tive section of our social economy known
as Druggists; the result being the latter
have become completely hypnotized, not
so much through the positiveness of the
former as by their own negativeness, and
are to-day, ina great measure, entirely
subject to the will of the hypnotizer. As
every member of the pharmacal profes-
sion freely admits this unpleasant state of
affairs, and constantly chafes against
such enthralment, I shall attempt a con-
sideration, looking towards its cure,
with greater freedom and confidence
than had I first to demonstrate its exis-
tence.

The most objectionable feature of this
hypnotic state is it isentirely unnecessa-
ry, and, like ali other cases of hypnotism,
only requires the assumption of positive-
ness on the part of the hypnotized to
break the influence of the hypnotizer.
The province of pharmacy is to meet
emergencies, to supply necessities, to
alleviate suffering, yet its noble and dig-
nified ends are to a great extent sub-
served to convenience, thus tending to
weaken its power and dissipate its ener-
gies.

The combined demands of Public Con-
venience upon pharmacists, focus them-
salves at one point, viz.: The inordinate
hours which the pharmacist must devote
to dancing attendance on the slightest
whim of this autocrat, rather than look-
ing after the absolute necessities of suf-
fering humanity; and to this phaze of
the question I shall invite your atten-
tion.

I have stated these long hours are en-
tirely unnecessary; let us see if I am cor-
rect. I shall consider that portion of
the day between eight and eleven o’clock |
in the evening, the time when those en-!
gaged in other callings are taking a well-
earned recreation, or enjoying the com- |
forts and pleasures of home-life, but
which tell the most heavily on the ner-
vous and physical life of the pharmacist,
not only because at eight o’clock he mene
done a good day’s work, but because it |
makes him dissatisfied with his vocation
to stand night after night behind his |
counter and watch others enjoying them- |
selves. I hold there is no more reason |
or necessity why a pharmacy should re- |
main open after eight o’clock than thata
grocer’s or dry goods store should do so.

|

 

r
|

| to

| assert ourselves.
| to the hypnotic state, but refuse to be-
|come positive and thus break the spell.

At eight o’clock most entertainments and
social pleasures begin, and from then

| until the theatres and concert-halls dis-

miss their audiences, only an occasional

| straggler drops in to break the monoton-
/ous hours of the yawning drug-clerk’s
| vigil; and of these stray customers(?),

not one in twenty-five purchases an abso-
lutely necessary article. This may be
somewhat modified during three months
of the summer, but Iam speaking now
in general terms. Public Convenience,
however, has commanded the drug clerk
shall stand there, and he passively obeys.

In a drug experience of over ten years,
during which I have visited the princi-
pal commercial centers of this continent,
I have not met one pharmacist who ad-
mitted the necessity of keeping open
store after eight o’clock in the evening,
and the average of the customers’s re-
quirements, that could not wait till the
following day,I have found to be enly one
in twenty-five. Why then do we continue
submit to such a state of affairs?

Simply because we, as a body, fail to}

We decidedly object

Public Convenience is not, as a rule,

| hard-hearted or tyrannical, only thought-

less and selfish, and just as soon as it
finds a will of equal strength opposing its
own, will generously acknowledge the
injustice of its present demands and be-
come a warm ally of the pharmacist in
his endeavors toward a more rational
state; but with pharmacists, and pharma-
cists alone, rests the first and most im-
portant step.

I need not take further time in attempt-
ing to prove what pharmacists so gen-
erally admit, and to the evils of which
they are keenly alive, but shall proceed
to prescribe a remedy which I firmly be-
lieve, if properly and energetically ad-
ministered, would ere long result in a
permanent cure.

Psychologists tell us the longer a per-
son remains under the hypnotic influence
the more difficult it will be for him to
assert the positive element and thus re-
gain independent thought and action.
Manifestly then, it were wisdom to at-
tempt to arouse those who have for the
shortest time suffered from the selfish-
ness and thoughtlessness of public con-
venience, rather than seek to influence
persons, who have so completely yielded
to this commercial hypnotism that they
have become apathetic to all efforts in
their behalf, and though admitting the
unreasonableness of the public demand,
resignedly exclaim: ‘‘ There is no reme-
dy for the evil.” Thus instead of ad-
dressing proprietor pharmacists,although
I am abundantly assured of their sympa-
thy and co-operation, I shall attempt to
arouse assistant pharmacists to a state
of positiveness, feeling assured that, if
successful, the power publie convenience
has so long wielded will be broken.

‘‘Man was born for two things—think-
ing and acting’’; we have been thinking
without acting quite long enough; let us
now think and act together. The first
result of our thinking, the first fruits of

{our assertion of positiveness, should be

union, not local but national, and with
one definite object in view: The end of
the dominance of convenience and the
commencement of the reign of necessity.

As an intelligent and professional body
it is evident the methods of agitation in
vogue among existing unions, especially
among the trades, could not for a mo-
ment be tolerated as proper procedures
for us to follow. These would antago-

| nize not only proprietor pharmacists, but
| the best elements of society which at

present recognize the necessity of some
improvement.

First, national union; and then let
every power of tongue, pen and press be
exerted toward proeuring legislation
which would tend to increase our power
and curtail that of public convenience.
With auxilliary societies in every town
and city; these conjoined forming state
societies and the combined state societies
constituting a national association, our
influence would be felt in every quarter
of the union, while our conservative and
just demands would command the respect
of every right thinking person the world
over.

Let me assure you we would meet with

 

no opposition from our employers; rather
the reverse. The encouragement I[ have
received from proprietor pharmacists has
been my principal incentive toward mak-
ing this appeal. Were I assured the
effort would tend to better the condition
of assistants alone, I should certainly
take no steps toward it. The American
public is generous, though thoughtless,
and a little well directed missionary
work among its members, would un-
doubtedly bring scores of warm sup-
porters to endorse our action.

Do not let the magnitude of the scheme
dishearten us. Such a consideration
should only be a spur to greater activity.
Then, is the object not worthy years of
hard fighting? To secure a livelihood
without working day and night; to have
an opportunity for social pleasures, to
which we are at present almost strangers;
to be able to enjoy the comforts of home
as rational beings should; and, above all,
to gain that increased health which relax-
ation and recreation alone can bring; are
not these objects worth making a united
effort to secure?

Henry Ward Beecher says: ‘‘Laws and
institutions are constantly tending to
gravitate. Like clocks, they must be
occasionally cleaned, and wound up, and
set to true time.’’

Shall it be the province of the assistant
pharmacists of America to regulate the
institution of pharmacy and set it more
in time with the advance of intelligence?
Shall we secure and use the power, which
I firmly believe lies within our easy
reach, to work in the direction of leg-
islation which would perpetuate the re-
sult of our efforts to future generations
of pharmacists? Or shall we remain in
our present lethargic state, meekly sub-
mitting to the hypnotic influence of a
selfish Public Convenience, making
ourselves slaves where we may _ be
masters; laborers where we may be
scientists? The answers to these per-
tinent queries rest entirely with our-
selves. We may be masters; we may be
scientists; but first we must cast off our
present negation and become positive:
think with our own brains, and act
promptly and energetically as the out-
come of such independent thought.

My pleais for wnion first. It will be
time enough to discuss what we want
and how to attain it when we areina
position to act with power and intel-
ligence. English chemists’ assistants
are daily and successfully solving this
problem. They are enjoying their
evenings and weekly half-holidays while
we grind and swelter through the long,
hot summer days and evenings, longing
for a breath of fresh air and a glimpse of
green fields and cool woods, yet com-
pelled to sell soda-water, cigars, and
cosmetiques to that Public Convenience
which has completely hypnotized us,
and to whose most trival demand we
bow in slavish submission.

Pharmacists of America, the time has
come toact! The time has come to be
positive! Let us, then, by one concerted
action foreswear forever the hynotic
state, and, backed by National unity and
singleness of purpose, wrest from Public
Convenience those rights which are ours
by all the laws of justice and humanity;
and acknowledge, in strick harmony
with the ethics of our profession, only
the behests of human necessity and
suffering,

I should be pleased to hear from any
pharmacist who may have done me the
honor to read the foregoing; stating his
views on the matter, and I freely pledge
myself to not furl this standard of reform
till it waves over a National and vic-
torious Association of Assistant Phar-
macists.

—_ > <—-

A Town where Stores Close Early,

A correspondent of the Druggist’s
Circular writes from Truro, N. S., as
follows:

“This town has an_ early-closing
association, which includes all the stores
of the town, drug, dry goods, hardware,
grocery, watchmakers, books, boots and
shoes, faney goods, barber’s shops, ete.—
in fact, every respectable store of any
kind. We all close at 6 every Wednesday
and Friday nights, excepting the barbers,
who close on Thursday night. Of course,

 

when all close, it is as fair for one as the
other, and itis so well known by the
town people and outsiders that the buy-
ing is done in time. I have often won-
dered why druggists allow themselves to
be worked harder than others, and to be
kept in their stores so late, when, by
having a mutual understanding about it,
they might have at least one evening out
of the seven to themselves. The early
closing arrangement here has been in
operation about two years, and I am
quite sure that there is no one here who
has any wish to go back again to the long
hours. I forgot to say this is a town of
7,500 population.”
—_—_—_————
An Impostor’s Success.

A Minneapolis paperinforms us that a
short time ago an agent appeard in that
city and St. Paul, representing the
manufacturing drug firm of J. C. Colliver
& Co., of Chicago. According to his state-
ment, he was introducting a balm in
Gilead, in the shape of ‘‘Hermit’s Salve.”
He did a good business, a large number
of retail druggists being seduced by his
smooth talk, giving orders, In the order
was where they were caught, as it read
in the way of a promissory note. At the
time the order was given a verbal agree-
ment was entered into, whereby the goods
could be returned, provided there was
no demand created by advertising at the
expense of the agent over the name of
druggist.

The ‘‘salve’”’ arrived in due time, but
failed to sell, as it was found to consist
mainly of grease, worth about three cents
per pound. The article was returned as
per verbal contract, but soon after the
promissory note, otherwise the order,
turned up in the hands of a lawyer named
Howard for collection. On payment
being refused, action was commenced,
but the druggists lost in the courts in
consequence of evidence that oral testi-
mony cannot be introduced to vary a
written contract.

—_—_— i -o-<—
Satisfactory Formula for Syrup of Tolu.

A formula answering these require-
ments has been found in a process in-
volving the preparation of distilled water
of tolu and the solution of sugar therein,
by cold percolation. Such a process,
while taking some hours, is one that re-
quires but little attention and yields a
pleasant balsamic syrup which is clear
and colorless.

Following pharmacopweial proportions,
we have the formula:

Balsam of tolu, 4 parts (or 7 ozs. av.).

oan in coarse powder, 65 parts (or 112 ozs.
ay.).

Water, sufficient quantity to make 100 parts (or
1 gallon).

Place the balsam, contained in a small
evaporating dish, in the body of a still of
suitable size and pour therein 38 parts
(or 56 fluid ounces) of water. Connect
the condenser and apply heat until 35
parts (or 52 fluid ounces) of distillate
have passed over. Pour the distillate
upon the sugar, previously loosely packed
in a suitable percolator, and allow per-
colation to proceed. When the liquid
ceases to drop, pass enough water
through the percolator to make the syrup
weigh 100 parts (or 1 gallon) and mix
thoroughly.

 

Preached Many a Silent Sermon.

Orta, June 27—A little clipping
from an old issue of Tur TRADESMAN,
pasted upon a door sill, has preached
many a silent sermon and carried con-
viction in one instance, at least. A
workman, with large family, whose
earnings were paid every month for
what he had already consumed, while he
had only longing looks to offer in ex-
changed for what he desired, said, after
prolonged study of the legend, ‘‘Avoid
the curse of credit.” It is acruse, but
what can a man do?” ‘Deliver yourself,”
was the reply. And he did, after three
months’ self denial, bring his wages be-
fore his expenses, instead of dragging
them after.

Another slip, ‘‘The Store Beggar,’’
displayed to advantage upon an or-
namental panel, proved a veritable Sure
Shot amongst that pestiferous species. If
all the blessing which have been invoked
upon the heads of author and publisher
alight there, they will be bowed down
with the load. T. W. Brown.

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 11

 

 

 

 

 

    
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 
 

 

 

 

Wholesale P , ao =
rice Current. Morphia, fe ets 05@2 20 Sina, Mixture...... @ 2%|Lindseed, boiled .... 50 53
; 7 g|Neat’s F :
Advanced—Oil anise, nitrate silver. D ee eas 1 ge = Pe 3 a winter
} . Declined—Opium, opium po., quini Moschus Ganton....... @ 40| Snuff, Maccaboy, De @ 30| _ strained ........... 5
en ee gs Ten a 75 — I cae. De - : Spirits Turpentine.... 3 50
ACIDUM. Cubebae ” ux Vomica, (po 20).. _@ 10 Snuff Scotch, De. Voes
ee @ 750 fe Seda c. e.Voes @ 35] PAINTS. bbl. Ib.
Aceticum a 10 | Exechthitos oe! = TINCTURES. Pepsin Saae i SP D. 28@ 30 — Boras, (po. 13). . 120 13 | Red Venetian........ 1% 2@3
Benzo a Geen ee to lan... “2 G1 © | sconitum Napellis R... e ; Soda et Potass Tart... 30@ 33) | Ochre, yellow Mars.. a
ae Dee ee Gaultheria ....... ‘2 00@2 10 “ cs Plels iiiq, ¥. gai @2 00 | Soda Carb............ 14%@ Ber. 1% aos
Carbolicum a 3@ Ps Geranium, ounce... @ 75| Aloes............-...--++- ee ee 8 oan Soda, Bi-Carb.. @ 5| Putty, mun a 2%@3
Ghirleum 0.0... 58@ 60 Goss pii, Sem. gal * 50 aaa S Picis a quits oe. =o ew | 3%@ 4 | “strictly pure..... ie 24%@3
H ee 34 °5|Hedeoma .. a. BSE paecnananane = = 0 Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2/| Vermilion Prime Amer- 2
ee Dee 10@ 12 Juniperi.... . 50@2 00 eee “0 Fi] Hydrarg (po. 80) .. $5 =_— ae tage aaa @ 55 | ees 13@16
ot eee 11@ 13 ——- e 90@2 00 Beno Belladonna.......... go | Piper Nigra, (po, 22 . r “s oe a @2 S| ge English.. 70@75
ea ‘25 EOIN <=» -o-+ eee ++ 5 J (po $5)... “ nits ee 2 07
salieylicum —— “5 sens = Mentha Piper... . ap pacer never 60 tc ¢5) .. Ser Vini Reet. bbl. @3 00 "| Lead, "Poninsalar 0@T
su phuricum........-. 1%@ 5| Mentha Verid.. .2 2@2 30 Sanguinaris oo aoe 4@ 15| 1 A a @23r| | white 2... Oi
oo oquaa ilhia 1 4001 0 Merdaan, ont. | oogl 10 omen oa 50 | pulvis Ipecac eng Less 5¢ gal., cash ten days. | whiti ing, white Span.. an
a 0o Myreia, oo so soos a Ong ee ae a 5 Pesaran = - 10a! | 20 | Strychnia Cr ‘pase ees @1 30| Whiting, Gilders’ ox
AMMONIA. A 1 00@2 75 | Capsicum ...... So le On, oon 12 Sulphur, Subl. -3 @4 | White, Paris ee 1 00
Aqua, 16 deg ae Picls Liquida, (gai) 10g 12] a. = oe at tee ce poolinrias Posem |
ee Cee oe -— Sa 04@1 20 “¢ ee q wae Vee es ene
deg....-.---- 7 | Rosmarini.. Taal By Ce 1 = Quinta, 88 8 W ae a 10 | Terebenth Venice..... 28@ a0 Pioneer Prepared Paint engi 4
Sia pe re “is 1) | Rosae, eae aon... ’ ee 3@ 36| Theobromae .........-. 45@ 5¢| Swiss Villa Nisivsaune”
Cierra .......--..- 14 oo 40@ 45 Nena Rubia “ae. “2 * eal ih. des 00 _— el 00@1 20
a ee ee pee Sew eee owe "
pen aoa — = mii Co................. 60 | Saccharum Lactis py. @ 33 ulp Seuss 7@ 8| VARNISHES.
oo... me ee eh str “8 30Q7 00 | Contum Prone a . SACI 1 80@1 85 OILs. | No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Brown Hos ona sug! 00 Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 6 aa = —_— Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal Extra Turp.......-..-- 160@1 70
ee emery trhs Tigi... ae x es. Se eee
eeaaw Lo RA 2 SO3 - Thyme . an Bt. oss - BPO, We... - essere eee 12@ 14| Lard, extra...... 55 60 | as Turp Hurn,.....1 00@1 10
aa o- ee re = : ..........-... 10@ 12] Lard, No. 1........... , =) utra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
BACCAE, Theobromas.. Se OE ee 60 Pereran -atetenns @ 15| Linseed, pure raw... ie — i 9
Cubeae (po. %)..-.-- 90@1 10 Por es eet | TUTP.....--..-000--2 TQ %
Juni be OTN 8@ 10| Bi carp rang eee Ca = ee
thoxylum ......... = 15 8 nee 50 Co -
BALSAMUM. Bromide....-..-.2.0.-. 35@ io —— oe 50
ue cee ees Ree ab Poona coranct st 12@ 15| “  Coloriess............. = HH
TT @1 75 oe (po. 16)...... 14@ 6 Ferri Chloridum..........-. z y
Teeabin, Canada 35@ 40 a 50@ Kino
oe fede 2 B02 90 Lobelia eT =
eatin ann ee 50
CORTEX. Potassa. Bitart, com... @ 15|Nux Vomica a =
le a so | Petase Nitras, opt----. 8 10) Opi ns $3
BG eriiscemaan- 1. 1a 7@ 9) ‘* Camphorated..-........_ 50
Cinchona Flava ......------ 10a ee tetas 0@ 3 Deodor 2
Euonymus atropurp........ go | Sulphate po...... 1+ 15@ 18] aurantiCortex...... ....... ge j ¢
— Virgtal OO eee ee 20 RADIX. uassia Eg kel a ca = ie
unus Virgini..........---- eeu
ila, =. ee _ Aconitum .. creseeesees 200 5 es CT 50
Be eps 71. sone ae a
ee Gaon 2 —-. seteceree sees 12 15 Cassia Acutifol......... ... 50 Importers and Jobbers of
Calamus...- <5... Serpentarta 0000000000000
EXTRACTUM. Gentiana, (po. 15).. 0 3 Seteuman ee =
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ 2|Giychrrnian, (pv. i8).. 16@ 18] Tolutam 0-0-0000 oon 6
Haematox, 1B1b. box: ao = a Canaden, Sou ee ie 50
2 _—.. eratrum Veride.......
pees | eect 13@ 14 Hellebore, ‘Ade, po... 180 » snnecenereauas ™
m . i ne 3 s lyse ee 2 MISCELLANEOUS.
cucucccce MAUD Its Eoeoee, Bo............- the: d ¢ ‘
ies — — 35@38) .. ma 85 = T, Spts rs 260, 28
deciles... @ 15 Fe BALMER . 2%
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Maranta, 248.......... @ 3 «ground, ( 4@ 8
Citrate Soluble......-. @ 90 ee Lda 15@_ 18] 7)......-....+- saute 3@ 4 ICALS AND
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ “é ak enced: oes ae fone Gt Awmaiee............... 55@ «60
Solut Chloride........ @ 15 merited rates ti @1 7% | Antimoni, po.......... 4@ 5
Sulphate, Gamtl....-.. 1%@ 21s a es oe ss as et PotassT. 55@ 60
pure....--.-- @ 7 Geemaasia. aca a a — —. ee eee @1 40
FLORA. a ce eee. 40@ 45|Argenti Nitras, ounce o>
Arnica 1. 21 es 2 Cr
Anthemis -..0ccc---- QB Simlax, Oaicinalls, H "@ 40 Balm Gilead Bud...) SG 40
Matricaria = «--- 25@ 30] seiliae, (po. 35)........ 10k I3| Calciuan Chloe, is; Gis a ’
FOLIA. —- Feeti- ii: Ke, 12). 1s, (48 :
Baroama ......--.-.-- : 3 US, PO..-....... 2. 35| Cantharides Russian,
cual * ita tin. @O ™ | Valerians, Eng. (po.30) @ 2 ceninatia —r~-, T° DEALERS I”
nivelly -.-;-- +--+: German. uel ae sh aca
der me =o Sl seers... 2... 100 i, | Capsicl Fructus, af... @ 2 a
Salvia officinalis, 148 ieee f........... 22@ ts “ - 3 25 8 a
20 ‘
Ye 1 - SEMEN. Caryophyllus, {pe Py5) 2@ i Qa
Anisum, (po. 20).. @ 15| Carmine, No. 40....... ot % ee
@UMMI. age (graveleons).. 22@ 25| Cera Alba, S.&F..... BB 5 a B
Acacia, ist picked... es oeoet aa ves 4@ i: — Se BG 40
: ts « 7. @ go] Cardamon............. 1 00@1 25 | Cassia Fructus........ @ 20
“gifted sorts @ 6 Coneiarim........... 10@ 12| Centraria.............. @ 10
Aloe pat QI 00 a a a on 140 s fees Seca & a2 Sele Agents for the Celebrated
ne... = oe ---—-- See ani.
Cape, (po. 20 @ 12| Chenopodium ........ 10@_ 12 7 uibbs .. 1 10
“ ~Socotri om 60). @ 50 Dipterix Odorate...... 2 00@2 25 | Chioral Hyd ‘Crst aaa 1 5001 70
Catechu, 18, (ss, 14 14s, Foeniculum..... cee @ 15 Chondrus ............. 20@ 25 REPARED
. a @ 1 en Pe). 6@ 8 Cinchonidine, P& W 15@ 20 ®
hope cha 95 | Lint... 2... 2. seen ree ee 4 4 German
Assutctida, (po. 30) .. . 3 @ Lint, grd, (bbl. 334)... 4 @ 4 = eS Sina 8
enzoinum........-+-- 55 | Lobelia............-..- 3G 40 ME see eee ee eee ees é
Camphor®........++++: oo 55 | PharlarisCanarian.... 34@ 4% Creasotum ........... @ 50 2
Euphorbium po .....- 35@ 10 TR 6 oon eee cen en ee —- Creta, —— %) ......-. @ 2z = 3 .
Galban ee ca @3 00 Sinapis, — Lies ccese 8@ 9 : - Poa cete ese 5@ 5
amboge, po.......--- 80@ 9% Nigra........ N@ 12] « ie 11
Guaiacim, {po 30) .. @ % SPIRITUS. ' — wees teers S 8 ‘
a ») oe eg 2 Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 a bee eal a aa = %0
ecvccvece a . aa T@2 00 eee mee eee eee %
My * (po. 45) Ss @ 40 AEA ee aa 1 10@1 50 Cuprl Suipn........... a 7
et 2 00@2 10] Suniperis Go. O.....1 75@1 75 | Bener Sulph 22222. 10@ 12
elated 23@ 30 «“ Te 1 @3 50 ioe Se 68@ 70 We are Sole Proprietors of
. Tragacanth .... nue 30@ 75 ee a ee ; was be . po — g 8
..-. SOS Witt Vink Gall........ oF 50 (tttewdcre « ° 8 a
HERBA—In ounce packages. ind Oporte (200002001. 1 25@2 Ergota -) 60....... 50@ 55 W th | l K t
a Absinthium ............-.-++ gs | Vint Albe............- 1 25@2 00 Galle White... 200 12@ 15 baller 8 MiG gal dlart emedy.
ae ie 20 Gane @ 2
Lobelia. ....0000000 00200000 25 — Gela a ‘ee
Laelia ene | riorte anceps woot, 0 5 [eutimgcate a
Mentha  Biperiia veresenes 23 “een as ocd 2 25@2 50 | Glassware a ae an om We Have tn Stock and Offer a Pall Lime of
“ENE aceon angen LI 5) gn eas oS
Bae cag ic, SB] Welvet extra “sheeps Glue, Brown... 2 s| WHISKIBS, BRANDIE
WGI Wil. cc cues ees 5 oe 3 wool carriage....... “White... : Ss
y pormanrane vas Bxwra, yel yellow sheeps’ = Se. 1 @ B Ss, Ss,
: ONO ec enw rana Paradisi........ 22
pe om a A de dy eons 55@ : Grass seeps wool Car- 5 Homulus wee ee ese 55 GINS, WINES, RUMS
Cees NO § ae ua asia 5 | Hydraag Chior Mite.. e
Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 2% Hard lier slate use.. : i a Ode... g >
Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36| Yellow Reef, for slate iu Ox Rubrum @i C0
OLEUM ee es 1 40 vi Ammoniati.. @1 10 W
Absinthium. ......... 5 00@5 50 SYRUPS. Bt a Unguentum. 45@ 55 We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.

Amy dalae, Duic Sosa ei os Sithyoboll, ‘a1 @ | ~ Wegive our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction.
enane, , Amara + 25 | Zinglber 00.0... ee ses eon WI cic es, Tel 00 ‘All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Send in
Auranti Cortex 1 BOBI 90 | Ipecae +... ------+- 20-2 60 Todine Resubl...-...: 3 1263 & | ial order. . '

sae iano aS 7
Cedieatl .... 3 Oe : ee Se... Pat 50 Lupalin aun ae io 8 8
Caryophyiil tug 90 | Similax mae a

" ae . @2 00} Senega ............. So 5 — aioe Arsen et Hy- 118 [ ()
eee -<-+--<-*: Bgpl 9 | BNR nnn nnns rose seer 50 | Liquor Potass Arsinitia 10@ 12 4
Se as ek ee 50 | Magnesia, Sulph (bbl i
a = Poe 50| 1%). ¢ 2@ 3 GRAN
"1.2091 80| Prunus vitg.....0.00000c: 50 |Mannia, SF... 50@ 6 D RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

  

 

THE

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

‘GROCERIES.

Brazen Pilferers and Sneak Thieves.
From the Canadian Grocer.

There are twoclasses of people given to
‘“‘picking and stealing” in grocery stores.
First, there are those who familiarly and
openly sample things, such as cheese,
fruit, sugar, nuts, etc., and doit with
an air of frankness that makes the offence
quite decent-looking. They may eat a
pound of nuts or a small measure of
apples,

 

about it. Then there is
people who do the thing slyly.

if you caught them. Between the
the grocer has little choice to make.
eandor which disarms you and

hard to match.

‘Talking about petty thefts,’’
proprietor of a cornor grocery the other
day, ‘‘a young man used to come into my
place for a large loaf of bread every day.
To my knowledge, he never bought any-
thing else. About that time I had a
goodly quantity of prunes on hand, and,
in order to push them out, 1 accorded
them a very prominent position. I sup-
pose this young man had a partiality for
prunes, for every day when he came for
the bread he helped himself to a handful.
This went on for several days, and,
although I was anxious to dispose of the
prunes, I was not content to let them go
out without some return in the shape of
eash. What was I to do? I did
to speak about it, and 1 did not want to
withdraw the prunes.
or glass tops suitable. So
thought 1 would fix him.
box of prunes out, and, taking a single
handful, I thoroughly dosed them with
cayenne pepper and put the handful back
into the box. I guarded them carefully
all day to prevent any one but the right

I emptied the

party getting them, and when he camein |

I gave him all the chance he wanted at
my prune box.
thinking that it was his last chance,
heiped himself freely,
left the store, I consigned the remainder
of the fruit to the dust bin. I
afterwards that he drank quite a lot of
water that night, but thisI know:
comes into the store now and he
not seem to want to touch anything for
fear it might be loaded.”’

That young fellow was of the sneak
variety. The other sort is described in
the following true occurence: An old
man who dealt with a general store-
keeper in the country many years ago,
used to get his tobacco by an off-handed
way he had of stealing it. The tobacco
was cut stuff and kept ina barrel. This
the old men would go to every time he
came in, and would fill his pipe and put
a large handful in his pocket, talking all
the time in an absorbed sort of way, as
if he were doing the most natural thing
in the world. A youth who had often
observed the old man do this, substitued
another barrel for the one usually visited,
put some straw in and covered the sur-
face with loose tobacco, in which was
seattered a little gunpower. The next
was the old man’s last stolen smoke. No,
the explosion did not kill him, but it
made a reformed tobacco thief of him.
Observations by the ‘‘Philosophic Gro-

oer."

Debt is a good hie when it isn’t in-
curred.

The most dangerous fool is the one
who thinks he is wise.
A man who has no bitter enemies

usually has no strong friends.

There is no drudgery about labor un-|

less you make it your master.
Education will not make
without the man’s co-operation.
A man’s trials don’t give him as much
trouble as his convictions.
Don’t marry for love. Be sure that
you have the love before you marry.
Fill your head with sound sense and |

you will fill your pockets with sound
dollars.

the man

but so long as they do it before |
your face, you are the person who ought |
to blush if you should chance to find fault |
the class of |
They |
feel mean about it and would be crushed |
two |
The |
the dex- |
terity which baffles you are about equally

said the |

not like |

I had no screens |
one day I}

The bait took. Probably |
he |
and, when he had |

heard |

He |
does |

I’d rather have a yellow dog than a
frivolous, fashion-plated wife, because I
could kill the dog.
| Business ignorance is the quick con-
| sumption of the family purse. Busi-
|}ness education is both prevention and
cure.

Some people ought not to boast about
being on the way to heaven, as it may
| discourage others from wanting to go.

It is your duty to die for your friends,
if with the ability to be self-sustaining,
you are living on their bounty.

Money makes the mare go, but if you

haven’t got the money, education, ener-
gy and character make an excellent sub-
| stitute.
There are as many magnificent suc-
| cesses in the future as there haye been
in the past. Those who deserve them
will stand the best show of winning
them.

It is a man’s misfortune if he cannot
get the tempting fruit above his reach.
It is his fault-if he fails to use the lad-
der that will enable him to go up and
pick it. The fruits of life are secured
by the ladder of energy.

PHILOSOPHIC GROCER.
oe

Tawas—The Williams Woodenware
Co. has been incorporated, with a capital
| Stock of $10,000, to embark in the manu-
| facture of woodenware.

 

 

 

GEP THE BEST!

eae a _/PRIRRNS
stat sul a

——_”
oe RE Lastiemeneseciel
a Roo

   

  

Se ae MN"
JL six GALLONS.

=f
w Ls LEM WOID OLD FASHOW)
—#O00F 7 BEE

WILLIAMS’

Root Beer Kxtract

It is a pure, concentrated Extract of Roets
and Herbs,
It makes a refreshing, healthful summer bever
age at a moderate cost, for family use.

Every dozen is packed in a SHOW STAND,
which greatly increases the sale, as it is always
in sight.

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

 

 

For sale by all jobbers. Order a supply from
} your wholesale house. Show cards and adver
| tising matter are packed in each dozen.

_H.F. HASTINGS,

Manufacturers’ Agent,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

| Issued by cities, — towns and school districts
of Michigan. Offi of these municipalities about
to issue bonds will fi find it to their advantage to apply
| to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings
supplied without charge. All communications and
on will have prompt attention. This bank a

r cent. on deposits, ee ara semi-annual)

yy, 1891. 8. ELWOOD. D, Treasures.

 

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Beans—Dry beans are firm and in strong de-
mand at $2 per bu. for choice hand picked. Wax
commands $1.25@#1.50 = bu. Stringisin fair
demand at 81@$1.25 per bu.

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

Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $1.50
@#2 per crate, according to size.

Cherries—$1.50@#2.0: per bu., for red or white.

Cucumbers—40¢ per doz.

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

Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.

Lettuce—5ic for Grand Rapids Forcing.

Onions—Green command 10@15c. per doz., ac-
cording to size. Southern command & per bbl.

Potatoes—The merket is plentifully ve
with early Ohio stock, which sells readily at
$2.75 per bbl. Tennessee and California are both
out of market.

Pieplant—2c per Ib.

Peas—75c per bu.

Radishes—10@12¢ per dozen bunches.

Raspberries—10@15c per at., according to qual
ity. The crop is large and the price will proba-
bly be low by the end of the week.

Tomatoes—$1.50 for 4 basket crate of fancy
Acme.

Watermelons—Stock is in plentiful supply at
$3 per dozen.

Dealers pay 13%

 

PROVISIONS.*«
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.

 

 

quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.
a ae 11 2
ee, 11 25
Extra Gloar pie. short out..................- 13 50
Reece See
ieee eee eee 12 %
Boston cremr, GUORe Cus... 13 00
(er cack ce 13 00
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 13 00
sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
oe eee y
ee 9
eee memes... : tos oh cone 9
Drapes Geena oe 8
ee 5
chavs “igpaat loans ig, th ee ane 5
ee ee 5
ee ee 5
Lagp—Kettle Rendered.
ee 8
Ok spat oeeds Seon ne te tba eeees &14
ee 84
LARD Com
Family pound
eee --- 655 6%
Gane OO Fume... 6% 6%
Sib. Pails, Sin & Case.........: Th 7%
Sid. Paitin, 2 in & Case........... 73% 1%
10 Ib, Pails, 6 in a cape..........- 7% 64%
20 1b. Pails, 4in a case. a. 63
ee 6% 63g
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 9 25
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 9 2
en
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 agg Ne 934
ee 9%
- . are... 10
” ow 74
mg eee 8%
Shoulders..... be ees 6%
Breakfast Bacon, eee ae 83
Dried beef, ham prices owe phe cea 10%
Lon Clears, oor... 4
Briskets, ee
i WE eee chen es ba
FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, Ocean So atic 54G 7
— — ees pee ck 7 @8
“ piace neces occg Oe 2G
- loins, Pe ee @?2
a EE ee 8%@ 9
- ak ued pound ake 6 @7
. re. i ce @
i @5
OE Pe ee @9
- meee @ 6%
Sausage, — Or eee @5
ee coe @5
. Frankfort ONS Ce Ae cine at @ 7%
Mutton . daddies, oa a
ee @ 6
FISH and OYSTERS.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH,
so ctesmme asec a Ghote Plat MiaiGpee ES Givin Sent nla IBC @s8
EE ec aay @8
epee i @15
Ciscoes @5
is che ees whee s eect via ck @9
eee @10
ce ig Ee TESS EE enc eric @25
OO ec ee -@12
ee @20
OYSTERS—Cans.
Peereeven Cone. ...................... @40
SHELL GooDs,
a nik ee 150
Clams, Cs eee le adaa 100

 

 

How to Keep a Store.

By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 eg
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.

 

 

 

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.

Full Weight. Bbls. Pails,
% "

 

Standard, =? hake cc cauee sues acs 6 7%
es 6% 7%
" I os ee sc eee eee 6% 7%
pees Ss 9%
Oe SO ie i ieee secs Ulla 8%
Pee Te i 7% 8%
MIXED CANDY.
Full Weight.
Bbls. Pails.
eee nk. oo ce ee 6% 7%
a ee 6% 7%
ee ; 8
= EEC ee Sa OT FEL 8
ee eee 7% 8%
mee elec ked ohn ee 8%
eee ee... 7% &%
he he ea . 8
RCN ED es acc 7% 8%
Se eS 9
I i cu eae sc et ce 10
ie ee ee 10%
Neleey Cromeee. 8. ess... 5 13%
Fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight. Bblis. Pails,
Lozenges, eee 10% 11%
acl eee ee 12%
ee ce, 12%
Chocolate Monumentals............. 14
ee Oe es a, 5 6%
ee ios esc s , - 8
ee 8 3
WOOO gl. a Ye 11%
Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box
eee ee 55
io ve oe ree esc cces ccccessuce 55
Pees ee ee 65
Chocolate Drops ae
Oe Cee Pee... ee 90
ee ee 40@50
TI ok ae cere te ees 1 00
A Glee ee... se 80
Lozenges, — al ee 65
eee 70
ee 65
NO eo ee 75
Re wea ee 60
| lo eee 55
ioe eee Crees... 85@95
ere 80@90
Deen Cv ceee........... 8... ooock oo
I i lect eects 7
ere eee... 1 00
Wepre Perees...............3..--2--+ 65
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes SS 34
No. 1, Ss hl i. 51
No . 2 kee eel pe copes
No . 3 DT ehee eee ee, 42
Stand Me Sk, ie cs 1 10
ORANGES.
California, Med. _ Sweets eas ees o ek
meee. oe
LEMONS.

Messina, choice, 360. .
fancy, 360
- choice 300, .
- OCe Oi oss se...
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers......
“

  

 

 

 

 

 

  
 
 

choice se

“ec ee “ @12%

” Fard, 10- >. box.. @10

‘“s 50-lb. @ 8

- Seine 50- Ib, Se A 4@6

NUTS.
Almonds, eC A SIMBG RP ip! sepa @i7
ae @i6%
e AI oa Bi7
We, Oe ee ik oe ee ee @i%
eee @i1
Walnuts, ee @11%
eee @i2
. eee ee @
Table Nuts, _ eee ee eee eu $3
Pecans, uae on i 15@17
Cocoanuts, Minke 2 @4 00
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H. P., Ea ae ale @ 5%
o ‘Ro Ne ec oa @ 7%
Fancy, H. P., ee @ 5%
S enee.........-...- @t%
Choice, H. Ps eee... 8s... s., @ 4%
ss  Roasted.. ne @ 6%
HIDES, PELTS and FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as follows:
HIDES

NE ce eee eh eck ie eee 4@5
I are whee cee crew enc eean @5

a 5 @5%
a cemr t riena he tpn earner vee ; $ i“

ieee es conc cc eee ee

Pe Me ee ce ec ee 5 @5
Calfskins, Ce nonce seus ae 4@5

cece cus ee 5 @6
eee gc 10 @30
No. 2 hides \& off.

PELTS.
Seen ec 10 @25
Metimated wool, per ® .............. “99 Os

WwooL,
ee ee. 20@30
AEE ON TG TN 10@20

MISCELLANEOUS.

i 3%4@ 4%
ee Oe 1 2
Pe bce - 1%@ 2
ee ee 2 00@2 50

OILs.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows :
Water White... @ 8%
Special White. . : @ 844

ichigan Test. @ 7%
a i i @ ae

I ieee se cual eke ce :

ylinder ...... 27 Gas

Moais cosa si peeossenae 13 @21
Black, "iia dices cao escccsecsse OOH

 

 

 

THE
MI
CHE
TRADES A
N J E M- N.

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 
  
  
 

  
 

 

 

 
 

Chie: oe
AZO sire =
is.. a
| pri mg 7
GREAS ee —
Wood boxes er’s, 3 gma oe
- igi a dos. to aca 3 :
i: az e. eae ;
15 Ib. pails, . : = gross 7 20 Com: Whorti eberric 16s “se
ee ee oO ew ne ] ee 3
rk ee : ea We ors 1 40 Balk... cana ees 2 | C WwW
‘ ’ " a Gh £ coun, 3
& : =o. i 60 — beef “Lib: ea : z Cot ‘CLO eee . ms
i eee Oo eee A i :
per a 17 Potte beef, eee 8 tton, 40 ft eee ee ee <
_ : a Li ce ees 8. | F 5 ©, A —
Wood iam <a. © ham, } our com a ‘“ 50 ft pe | on : 1]
boxes, te 00} « no = e on r doz, 1 25 | ¥. aay | «oa = ar |
“ “ 3do ia... se see Be 1 50 | “ 70 ft... . “ 1 40 | armouth. ers, Must a : | _
: 7 . a 3 wit on 1 60 | coos ; Must ae F EN¢ —
per gr eo... 2 ot ch ) e 60ft. 175 | oe | Batavia. ®0 E Sn g
25 Ib Pee ean: ... & ) icken, 4 <i... 2. ie ft “ 15 — aa i Nt T ng. gud 'Pelesto. 80 Choice....... a
. pails rless. - 550 u token i 1b co 95 “ 1 na a Berets rei | oo as rieste. “os Best Re 1:
ee 8 aaa gi on ” . ae eee seen } x ‘sick . nace : :
Acme, << ie on awn , amburg emus: ES. 95 100 | a a | _ — ee .
a a cans, — 90 im — : Genuin ud Smoked Halibut. san —_ me : : =
“ 1 lb. of 2 Os os Lima, gre st cewimg style pee i bs Geni Si . 6 = | Sealed Hi sty | 2 ms =
Telfe bulk. . 85 ot ee ce ae 25 wiss. 3 )} Hol ed... erring. 10% Abeoiuta? in B = see
rs 4 as eae a Lewi FOOT ow eeeeveee nee 1 / «coesee S CO land, ao | sts : ; = = |
: 3 ‘ —— fe a a | Allspi ack -20 s atha other
| oe : ana 9 Alispice ages. wee i. wise
Aretie, tb. 8, doz. is Bay state Baked... siren: ; = Round shore, # a 11 00| Cinnamon. etic: “a 8 us oer = I
oe « 2 era ht > iu os : : a
i: ‘ = = bbl... 9 3 | Ginger, 3 cons stones a 1 55} Littl : 34
“ * a 50 | Ti burgh ae 4 No. 1, % a 27! ee 84 = i o—
“ > teres _ @ie an aa ER No. 1, iG bbls. 90 rel 1 50 | Muste cc St 1 53 | 19 :
Red Star a> setesscee .o a event eee ssl 1 Family, ¥¢ bb a on peer oe : 55 1801, 1 bbis
ie aily, 4 ae _.. 950) Sage: ae 84 55 | V mao 20
“ i se 1 kits, a Ibe... a i a 4 = — | |
4 > ‘ UE = oburgh Beton stteeeeee 1 Fancy 10 Tbs... +2. | He 84 1 55 ny "
ei 1 “ ea ==; ES ine ee ay ‘ ¢ vo f=
R 50 rly ¢ seas s Cu R Joker eae
English dozen ra raronne cena tee aa 50 = “ os = : 2 : |
ee ase, pet n * D ce ae : | Po sk a | — mo
ae — il ae pois saith _ ~ 1, % bbl Trout seeseces ee en @ 5% ZENO. oween veces es. 40
arisen eesti: 90 Peieris aba sifted ae 4 no i,k s., 90 : Cc aire =: eet
oe NIV. Red aa agrees 1 ts, 10 lk Ibs. . ea ie bet si
2 S | 7 == = og Whited ce 5 50 Soft A oners’ A...... @ an | Old Style a 2
oval G ) mene wala 6 bbls tena = Bei eS = fs i :
? , : a eE «. 4.44-1 Jolly 1estyv i 28
at g | Archer’ arly J t Fs kits, 10 It ) Ibs = re i 2 ere
te a ail ee 4 00 Secaah Early oe. r amily, % gma seceeeeT 001 ¥ a 3 44 been eran
7 ee a“ ee Onli | Desens eteeee es : : - ity aaa
= 3 : - oa DS. ho 00 Yellow oT G 4 a mae c a
“ N 1s nee: 50 rench sauna 35 FLAV 10 Ibs so a : on i = ‘oa |
“ No. 5 o ai... coms, 1 aaeesal eau ae | : s than 100 - a . ay 4@ : 3% Something Ga eo < 37
: : = = iE i " inings’ D ¢ ACTS. — 4c ay @ 35% : ‘oss Up ig Good. 0.’8 Bra “4
oe - 8.00 eee 7Q18 2 oz folding] —— om s — SF
j : 2 : . : : o n Vanilla | 40-Ib OX€s - rn. i Se — LU Ea =
le sh. : 6 "100 125 | petri mh =a
Ham Succotash. OZ rT Loa 00 1 » | 1-lb wosceees “++. 64] Warpa : -
Parlor @ Soaked « ay aoe 1 30 ina * cas 50 | 31h b packages + Hiatt 64 | Bauh sa beater :
a : Ce i ia alia . 2%
Common Wii Se : oney Bog ene 1 40 K GUN : rowDER =. 2 ee vessseeees 8 eee :
Mill”. ager eens ey: 2 Van Ba alt ke ER, L0| Ba nd 50 lb. boxes.. 4 oe =
sla a aR No Camp'sesesse cooee-l 60 S gs. is os rrels..... hOxes.... eoeeee 6% ao 2
= = : = S080... HERES. Sa woes teeeeneees 4% | — eG 20
: = 2 : = —— : Chi Lo. 0 Coen aoeeae Maccaboy, bladders. .... . Gold Bloe.22.000 a 23
. : : = eS | =a i were sone | nch Weippe, in 8 bend C88. oso senes see ni =
me es me le ~ Je 5 icle LA ei
=n oi cm otate ai 2% _ LAMP WICKS, _ @4 | ojteee B.W = 43 Tom pa Sam.. . “
: =e ae LAE cake $1 “g No. 1.. CKS. 3 U ‘ountr rrisley” sB | Brier ee
nS 40 Ib. boxes. ...4 BO Aree HUM. oes voe eer oo | 82 per hundred.--- i — | = = = : ; = |
poe ee. FO eager als 5. ie ie ve cteteenees 0 300. ace eeceversee ee ai! Bcc :
40 siete, aga. co ene : | ER =
= = om sbi peer 38 ere : Calab ae ICORICE. 50 | soveecceeeeniee : 5 He . Se =
oe rere testes on N. . oka aa 38 | 820, i LEC io —. CS | Kegs, knack. ..3 00 penta 000070 S
ea r eeeeseee y “e Oe ae ve ) ald a er Cae eer ee ee er a 30 | Se a - oa sc
CANN a Allega enawee..... @ _ ASABE ore a ngage cree Pope cc 32
s mn. eo... @10% | © oak te in Medion eS hs : ran eae —s
pees GOODS Skim a ic gw) 2 a0 oF 0 the following — Condensed, 2 ae Le as Regs aspen chal 4% a oye = a
L 18H. s Aan oh aia SE @ 9 ver... is-| No.9 8 ao a TN oe .
ittle Neck, Clams. Edam 5 ---c te ee Z An 9 — wotee 1 2 Mixed seeps. 1% “iva:
22 ss, imported .... og a per cent, st aia a a 7 :
- ae | So cnackes 6 Anchor parlor........-+- --. 1 65] Can 2 Th TEAST—- ~ arrel. because
scanaangith Snover ae : = ca, . rt 2 oe = “ Export aaa ee 1 ae Hemp. 2 — joes cakes, per doa.
- e te 25 emer utter... Torn oe I 10 | nise. oe ae : | 8, per mh. don. e
ndard, 1 ib Oysters. 2 30 ubber, 100 Tump: aum ss ar ee a Sugar hot aaachunen i ss : A =e ;
eee Spru 200 aan pean st" oa Oo cub ‘ . soit : =
en ce, 2 ne se i. A 3 2 = 7 2
Star, 1 lb ae i 1 10 i  Paslienes = Bosto family... 2. soe. 5% Ordinary ba Baking. “lmeaatialtoe : . = 4
ee ee a. "2 19 | Snider’ CATS Cit - seule se sees 5% | P: oleate: g 6 | 1003 ies. : ae
Picnic, Fo NN 9 “ 8,% pint UP. a OD eeveseeee  seceeees 4 | Prime Porto "hha 1 | 60 3-Ib. sac mond. me stal. ‘Har : ; sec
ere : a 135 Ss. Oyst dao ccc 7% a 0. 9 | 28 Tl. eks...... Hardware Ha sree eeseeed ,
eeteetteeeitie ‘ a ca Cit ae ae heen eee ey 2 : - u = 2
ee a 3 us a ne Fai N ee 4 Si ae 5 ‘ 2
= = a al = os a8 y Oyster. XXX. ee a aa ew Orleans. sin Si a ane -o bes pe ‘
iBe a tei | on b es. es ba nh ar i
ostes®, bE agg ee 1 20 Boll SHELLS. 40 nse pure.. ARTAR. 5% ER 17 | dairy in ea 130 : 2 a :
8 ato Sauce, 3 1b... -+--2-2 00 nd pack oe . Groce 5 veainie — na et = :
oused, 3 > me, 3 00 ARES... @4 a ee oe 30 Gaz 5 ii inks as 26 | = Ib. dairy a : a 3 =
= : : = ad _ Spee cc 30 | Ib, in linen bag mo | | Gotten No. swiss. Soc cauaas +
z z sr: : = DRIED F 15 Besecls s oatiEae extra 36 | 56 Ib, d Asht ags.. 35 n, No re a
Alask 4 ae. F EEN RU Ete harroln 30 | dairy t iton. Se rang iii =
a,1 Ib eee 85 ‘air... Rio. Sundr Ap ITS. Se ls 7 oe Nes ia
aoe et 65 Good... a 4 enue a = Half eye OuEED 0 wee ceeee “ 2 sla a a : = S ,
= % ay a2 e a eae @ Barrel 8 90.. ATs. @3 13 | 56 S ags Wool. es eee ewes ee
erican \s eee 10 on — aces 72 apniCtuifornta E aed - eu a 7 . e = } is 1
= Bp | ap oe —_ vapora ome D3 13 ic Saginaw and i, Ea 7
M ported Benn ue @ 6 | Fair Oe 221 Blackberries .. ——— ted. t4 ag 1 Medium @6 50 | ommon maa 7 7 89 Bee 7
= : aaeae ies ele == 01 meas n 23 Peaches, et. 6% if barrels count... | Church's, pond bee | ee Ds
Te 13@1 Pe ee ae pears, ne *- +7 B , 600 cour 4 s0| Talos ae : = ; =
Brook oN <\P Ce ze ua aU 201% Plums iced. ... 2 — a act - = = = |
,3 i. at. @1 MR evo son nenns cos a. PLUMS «eevee 12 Half np count : | _— . * } i =
oe 7 “a : 2 rels aaa i 5 ot ny eh,
oe 9 a aaah 21% s, sweet... .....- 12 @i9 . els, 1,200 count... = 59 | sand’s s Cap sic a gs hespins, oe hoo if
, UIT -2 3 | gy 19 Cla) our = Ee : : ? :
York A Ss. 0 Guatamala Qi, Ty P oo. y, No. 21 ae im... 4 Gol av a : : = : = :
——— ,galions... amala. mw 72 _— RUNES. 10 |¢ TD . C 00 den Harvest.. .... oa  E ce =f
urgh, ns i Bosnia..... . see aaa ‘ob, No. 3 ait eau weeeeees 1% "ton a 2 “a :
—_ corns temo 3 50] Prime Marac L ee e : || are — © manos Com. " ; a
ae aib em oo ¢ E. Se ie ag ait :
aa. es Si i. " [Lemon ..ere @10 Carolina headennss=- 3 bila....... 5 iy = = |
= 3 te — che Sr . 18 - Amber Pure Cane. “3 8 nee. 17s and 198 : 50
eooese a” y " ce | i i i Ea irips. ; |
ae Wea. ckberries. 2 35 Private Gro — % | In pg pana a 18 Broken. 4. = | aney drips... = =? ef
nee iat g egeses cette oe ge 8 | = Gi sw on 5 e sates sash 1 a
ae Cherries. 99 aoa .------ a ee @18 Japan, N Imported. oo. @ 2 | — goons. a oe :
: a = sa Meccan Zante, in —— @20 |Ja "No. Leese -. | Susser Creams CT splint “ nee 6
White -....0ose0000- 20 cae eT od ” “a in rels.. Java. 2 6 | Grah ' reat a : | :
ee z Moo seseeetcness ‘ %- oe Patna ne 64 | am ¢ es 8% : No.1 3 5&
Damsons ‘Eee os ae 1 60 To asc ema 1. oe wneaiiig @ 534 ce RO saute ae Oatmeal Crackers. = : :
> . a s 3 ri ie
= : : Pa : 3 sing Caliorn @ 5% 25 cen W ‘Hinman’ Whats ae } Jettine, an POL ist 8 GRAINS a 0.3 5 00
a im . oa — and 15 ae per lb. ce ‘us TS, 2 ern ia. 3 SS Extract oz. in a N nd FEEDSTU
ommon ‘ooseber eae cent. f r roast Mu se “ 2 00 ee or aa. : . i
— @1 60 | McLa’ PACK or shrink- scatels,2erown 210) K aA teeeeee coed a 75 | Fai JAPAN— S. No. {Red (0 i —
Peaches. 110 ughlin’s XX : own .. 2 25 a. 3 3 do POLIO. 5 00| ee Regular | Bol 7
oeneeee x ie r e. nm -. nn eee e ewe c :
eee eee 1 60@1 : KXXX....24% a. Foreign. is d in box..... ws | Choice... Ce @17 | Grannis =
Californis se ae i) Suton eo Snider’s To sours. 2 2 50 | Pa ee @wv |S i .
D ipa aba i oz > aR oe: mato... 7 = | Straight, in a
Riverside a Pears. ‘2 60@2 7 ' regen om ou" SPICES 2 65 | be air . SUN «coi. Gi Ce = .
= = cr eanraed All Wh . 300d . jee @12 a * sac ea 5 20
eae a 1 25 egs.... na, . c spice.... ole Sifted. Eee .  @i7 Gral “Db oo 5 40
Johns iad eapples. 2 Barrels. ee a assia, Ghina in mat i io — SS Rye 1am “ ares... 640
= oo iin may 4 “ Batavia in bu va 10 thoteest. 5 .-...2 0. a @26 a 6 =
<2 Be ee . C ai ene my | pee ee @ “
eted...... 2 60 Dried. . Lima aes steeeee loves, on Bac gy a | | Fatt Lee ~ SKET ame giz sew ae pee
2 85 paliacearont i na. Mace "amaibar. a Cholce.......-. oo " re = :
1 = I estic, 12 and Vern 5 Nutme ee “a | Ext ie agen eee 3 @20 Mixed Food. oe a9
— Hamb' 10 Pe mported Ib. box... micelli 7 | en ot 2 ra choice, wir or Coarse i 4
eeeeee " ‘ ooeoee ame ie % p35 : ‘ire a
ie, black. urg.. 1 30 rham 2ix | Ke ee 60} P . N > a gp | Com GUN eleaf ono a. ce ANE 24 50
oe . 4 Q51 BS---- eiens 11 epper, ee, Ps E mon t POWDE : Feed "
deel ue ; 50 | Valle EXTRA Se | nen, bo. y- Shae | | Chote at pag ri = :
50 | Valley City... or. Sree gga SHO3N “shot back 15 | oe sigan 2 rome ot,
= oa since eco’ is 1c ae @65 Brey sesisads Hi 80
= a Sit ere wsersncl 20 Cass pure Ground in Boik.” 1§ | Su 1mon to fale 75 @B85 Sonn os, per see tan ++ 0
15' Hast aa eee laces gO. ate Oo 8: ia, Bata eeeeses _ Fiteto® : ae = :
NOiao<s se eeeeeees vie 17 ~—— a 3 3 2 al = :
ie ag li Pewee nr es and Saigo § wee : ? " =
: : @3 Ca s 6
ot 5| Clov Saigon Saig ‘9 |c IMPERIAL, # 3 aii
os es, ieee. on.25 | Superior to alan Ca
ee x " Q26
Snoaioar se aa 30 | ic or —, ana = @26 } Car = : se s
oe 20 : fat et 7 : a
| Supe on to — 4 lp
rior L | : :
to fine....... a | Me.......... : oe
oe pea ra ts
. h@

 

  

14

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

The Wisconsin Law in Regard to Brand-
ing Cheese.

The following in the full text of the

law passed by the last Legislature of | :
Wisconsin regarding the branding ot WHEN the strike is ended,

cheese:

Section 1. Chapter 455 of the laws of WHEN differences are mended

1889 is hereby repealed.

See. 2. Every person who shall, at any | i
cheese factory in the State, manufacture all is serene,

cheese, shall distinctly and durably
stamp upon each and every such cheese, acetate oles
whether cheddar, twin, fiat or Young | everything Is Clean,

America, or by whatever name or style
known, upon the side thereof, in ‘ol WHEN = uf .
. , i" , € ‘ . < )
faced capital letters, the grade of the cigars W ill take 1 boc m
same, as, ““Wisconsin full cream,” |

“standard” or ‘‘skimmed,” as nereatter/ WARN your dealer has not the

provided forin this act, together with

the name ofthe city, village or town}
where such factory shall be located. ask him

Sec. 3. Such cheese only as shall have

been manufactured from pure and ] in ] on tis
wholesome milk, and from which no} 1€ WI iave them.

portion of the butter fat shall have been
removed by skimming or by any other |
process, and in the manufacture of which
neither butter nor any substitute for}
butter or other animal or vegetable fats
or oils have been used, nor any fat which
has been extracted from milk in any form
and returned for the purpose of filling
the cheese, shall be stamped ‘‘Wisconsin
full cream.’’ All cheese manufactured
as above required from pure and whole-

|
some milk, but from which a portion of |
the fat has been removed, shall, if it con- |

tain not less than 30 per centum of pure
Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE LUSTIG CIGAR CO.

J, LUSTIG, State Agent.

 

butter fat, be stamped or branded |
“‘standard.’’ All cheese containing less |
than 30 per centum of pure butter fat
shall be stamped or branded ‘‘skimmed.” |
Sec. 4. The stamp provided for in this 4. 5. Bowes, Petts.

act designating the grade of cheese shall | D. A. + « paErt, Vice-President.

be such as to produce an impression not H. W. Nasu, Cashier
less than three inches in width and five |

inches in length, and the words, ‘‘Wis- | CAPITAL, a al a ce $300,000.
consin full cream,’ ‘‘standard,” or
‘“*‘skimmed,’’ together with the name of
the city, village or town where the

 

 

 

Transacts a general banking business.

 

GRAND RAPIDS CYCLE COMPANY

SECTIONAL VIEW OF OUR CUSHION TIRE, AS ADAPTED TO ANY WHEEL
OF 7-8 INCH RIMS,
' ’
Solid Tired

CLIPPERS

On Hand for Immediate

A GREAY SUCCESS

Are Continually Behind on
orders for our

Cushion Tired Clippers.
Clipper Safeties, [solid tire] List price, 890.00

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

GRAND RAPIDS CYCLE CO.,

Send for Catalogue. Erie St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Grand Rapids Storage & Transter Go,, sinited

Winter St, between Shawmut Ave, and W. Fulton 8t,,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

General Warehovsemen and Yransfer Agents,

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

Shipment.

 

 

Dealers and Jobbers in Mowers, Binders Twine, Threshers, En-
gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders, Cultivators,
Plows, Pumps, Carts, Wagons, Buggies, Wind Mills
and Machine and Plow repairs, Ete.

 

cheese shall have been manufactured, as
» “. | Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts

Telephone No. 945. J. Y. F. BLAKE, Sup’t.

 

provided for in the foregoing sections of | of Country Merchants Solicited.
this act, shall be in fullfaced capital | a

letters of as large asize as the space

heavy border. Ordinary ‘‘stamping ink,” |

hereby provided for will permit, and the | ]
whole to be included within a plain | 1

either red, green, purple or violet in|
color, and of such composition as not to
be easily removed or wholly obliterated
by moisture, shall be used in stamping,
as provided for in this act.

Sec. 5. Any manufacturer of cheese
who shall sell or dispose of any cheese
without being stamped as required by
this act, or who shall falsely stamp the |
same, and any dealer or other person |
who shall remove such stamp from |
cheese shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fined not less than $50 nor more than $100
for the first offense, and each subsequent
offense not less than $100 nor more than
$200, or be imprisoned in the county jail
not less than 30 nor more than ninety
days, or both, in the discretion of the
court before whom such conviction may
be had. One half of all fines collected
underthe provisions of this act shall be
paid to the person or persons furnishing
the information upon which such con-
viction is procured.

Sec. 6. Nothing in this act shall be
construed to apply to edam, brickstein,
pineapple, limburger, Swis or hand
cheese, or other cheese by whatever
name or style known not made by the
ordinary cheddar process.

Sec. 7. All acts or parts of acts incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act}
are hereby repealed.

Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and
be in foree from and after its passage
and publication.

a A A

Good Words Unsolicited.

Fred L. Tupper, druggist, Meredith: “Cannot |

do without Tue TRADESMAN,”

C. E. Morse, general dealer and shingle manu-
facturer,Seney: ‘‘Your paper is a great help to

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE NEW WAY AND THE OLD,

The Elliott Avtomatisg Button Attaching Machine which feeds the buttons from a hopper and the wire from a

! spool, making its own fasteners and attaching them at one

 

me in my business and I cannot do without it.
Keep me on the list by all means.”
F. N. Cornell, general dealer, Sebewa: “I like
your paper and do not want to miss a number.” |
Frank L. Deal, general dealer, Lacota: ‘I |
cannot keep store without THe TRADESMAN. All
hustlers should take it.”

operation, is now ready for the market.
| of the dealer as long as he uses it on wire

HIRTH & KRA

No charge is made for the use of the machine, which can remain in the possession
furnished by the company or its agents. Price of spool of wire for one great gross

| fasteners, $1. First order must include at least 25 spools of wire to secure use of machine.

USE, AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS.

 

t

 

 

 

 

ares

 

Pp

THe MICHIGAN TRADES

 

OLD MAN SLIM.

Troubles and Trials of a Canadian
Merchant.

QUEEN’S HoLiow, Ont., July 1— The
notes I took of the matters discussed by
Izik and Mr. Harvey on the occasion re-
ferred to in my last letter were taken on
a sheet of wrapping paper and the next
morning Izik used it to wrap up a quar-
ter’s worth of soap; consequently I shall
be compelled to rely entirely upon my
memory. The loss is slight, however,
for Harvey used so many big ‘*‘hifaluten”
words that slipped through my fingers
and disappeared while I was trying to
spell them that it gave the paper the ap-
pearance of being lop-sided and very
much prejudiced in favor of Izik’s part
of the confab. I was shocked to hear a
grocer and baker let off his ideas in such
xorgeous array, escorted by all of Web-
ster’s auxiliary forces; but when he told
us that he had been, once upon a time,
a member of the town board of school in-
spectors, I no longer wondered at the
elegant exuberance of his glib, and we
all felt a sudden shock like that caused
by being suddenly ushered into the pres-
ence of an important personage. Izik
was sitting with his legs crossed, his
chair tilted back and his hands buried in
his trowsers pockets. Tillie whispered
something in his ear and he resumed a
vroper position. She then motioned me
to take off my hat, pulldown my vest and
wipe the tobacco juice from my chin.
Tillie thinks that because our local offi-
cials are ‘‘some pumpkins” it must be so
everywhere. Our county school inspec-
tors are highly educated and receive
from $1,500 to $3,500 salary according to
the size and population of the county.
Our county register receives a salary of
$3,000 and has a soft snap for life or dur-
ing good behavior. Our sheriff wears a
cocked hat and our county judge is never
within sight of the people, except when
he sits on his judicial throne, enveloped
in his wife’s mourning night gown. Even
a common justice of the peace knows
something in this country, for he is se-
lected on account of his fitness for the
office by the Provincial Parliament and
he holds the office (if not dishonored by
him) during his natural life.

Mr. Harvey said that the American
people were very ignorant in all matters
pertaining to Canada. They know very
little of Canadian institutions and seem
to eare stillless. They have sort of an idea
that Canada is a British colony, situated
somewhere up north and _ extending
through to the North Pole; that the in-
habitants are civilized and strongly tinc-
tured with Indian and French blood, and
that their principal occupation is lum-
bering, hunting, trapping and fishing.
This is a worse opinion than the igno-
rant and prejudiced Tory has of Michi-
gan. In his estimation, Michigan is a
region composed of. cat-holes, marshes
and frog-ponds, interspersed with knobs,
hills and sand plains, and inhabited by
Canaidan refugees and the rag-tag and
bob-tail from every nation on the face of
the globe. He thinks that this hetero-
geneous conglomeration is principally
occupied in sawing jack pine logs, peel-
ing hemlock bark, fighting fire, killing
snakes and shaking with the dumb
ague.

The first matter touched upon was the
common school system. Izik is a trustee
in our section and takes quite an interest
in school matters. He thinks the Ontario
school system is the best in the world,
not even excepting the celebrated Prus-
sian system, inasmuch as its work is the
most thorough from start to finish, its
scope the most comprehensive, and its
standard the very highest. Mr. Harvey
thought there was danger of raising the
standard too high and of spreading over
too much ground to secure the most
practical results. He said the common
school system of Michigan was very
crude, as compared with that of Ontario,
but that it had been greatly improved
and the standard considerably raised
within the last decade. He said that

American educators, being inspired with
the spirit of American genius, were more
interested in practical utility than in al-
titude and scope—in other words, super-
fluity, bethg an apparent waste of ener-
gy, the great American mind, as it were,

 

was not ‘‘in it’—so to speak. This was
too much for Izik and Tillie secretly
prayed that the baby might grow up and
have a head like Mr. Harvey’s.
Izik cannot understand how any pe o- |
ple laying the least claim to intelligence |
can passively submit to being robbed |
and plundered from year to year for the |
Jack of so simple a matter as a uniform |
system of text books for school purposes. |
He says the adoption of this measure |
would leave more money in the pockets
of the people of Michigan and relieve |
them to a greater extent from the oppres-
sive taxation they have been complain-
ing so much of lately than any other pos- |
sible measure that could be adopted. In|
the first place, your children would be |
supplied with better books, for they
would be selected by your State Board of |
Education, which is composed (or, at)
least, ought to be), of you best educators.
At present, this all important matter de-
pends, to a very great extent, on the
whims of Tom, Dick and Harry all over |
your back townships, some of whom can- |
not write their own names and cannot |
tell the difference between an algebra
and the New Testament. This advantage |
alone, which is of incaleulably value,
would warrant the change. In the next
place, it would be a saving to you of ful-
ly 25 per cent. on the cost of your school
books. This means the retaining in the |
pockets of the people a large sum of |
hard-earned dollars, instead of paying it |
over to swell the treasury of some great
book concern. In case your publishing
houses should become imbued with the
American spirit of the times and com-
bine against the state, it would be an
easy matter for the state to do its own
publishing. Lastly, the series adopted
would be uniform, which would be an |
additional s
proportions, as it would relieve you from
the onerous and unnecessary taxation of
purchasing a new set of books every

 

aving in expense of immense |

time you moved your family into a new |

school section—or district, as you call it
there. This desideratum is of the great-
est moment and is sufficient of itself to
give any government or legislature no
peace until the people are freed from
this useless and galling expense, and the
idiotic policy that makes it possible for
such a state of things to exist relegated

to some dark region where the light of |

reason has not yet dawned. Mr. Harvey
admitted the truthfulness of Izik’s state-
ments and said that, as a citizen of Mich-
igan, he felt ashamed that nothing had
been accomplished in this direction yet.
He said that for several sessions the
State Legislature had indulged in a little
tweedle-dum and uttered a few faint
squeaks in this direction, but up to date
they had made matters a instead of
better. He was of the opinfon that they |
were either dumfustigated with book |
boodle or else were so engrossed with the
multiplicity of the cares of state, such
as perambulating around for suitable
senatorial and gubernatorial candidates,
that they had no time to attend to minor
details. He hoped that the time would
come. when the Michigan Legislature
would be endowed with everlasting life,
for then they might be able to spare ¢
little time to consider what the people |
needed and wanted. The Elder, who}
had called in for a few minutes, heard
Harvey’s last remark and he said that he |
hoped that something would turn up in
Michigan to save the people from the
wrath tocome, but Tillie thought it must

 

be awful nice to live in a country where |

there were so many great statesmen.
Tillie is not posted in polities and in
this respect she is fairly representative |
of her sex in Ontario. Our women are |
so devoted to the duties of home life that
they have no time or inclination to med-
dle with matters which they think lie en-
tirely outside their realmofduty. Tillie
can’t tell you why reciprocity would be
beneficial to Ontario, yet she favors it
because her husband does. She may not
be able to define the difference between
the policy advocated by the Conservatives
and the one advocated by the Reformers,
yet she is a staunch Reformer, through
thick and thin, because her husband is
one, and, should he change his party af-
filiations, her views would change, also.
She believes that her husband’s judg-
ment is superior to her own in all mat-

| your customer and ask

5M AN.

LY FOR BUSINESS!

 

 

U

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
| ‘patching up’’ pass-book accounts?

9

‘posting’? your books and

Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which
| yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?

Did you ever have a

ponding ledger account without having to ‘‘doctor’’

a pass-book account foot up and balance with the corres-

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 a system 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 merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

Tradesman or Superior Govpons,

 

COUPON BOOK vs. PASS BOOK.

We beg leave to call your attention to} for the makers to pay them.
| our coupon book and ask you to carefully
| consider its merits.

|

of the pass book which you now hand |

him to bring each
|time he buys anything, that you may
enter the article and price in it.
| know from experience that many times
ithe customer does not bring the book,
land, as a result, you have to eharge
many items on your book that do not
appear on the customer’s pass book. This
is sometimes the cause of much ill feel-
ing when bills are presented. Many

trouble when settlement
But probably the most se-

| considerable
day comes.

that many times while busy waiting on
customers you neglect to make some
charges, thus losing many a dollar; or,
if you stop to make those entries, it is
done when you ean illy afford the time,
as you keep customers waiting when it
might be avoided. The aggregate amount

of time consumed in a month in making |

these small entries is no inconsiderable
thing, but, by the use of the coupon
system, it is avoided.

Now as to the use of the coupon book:

Instead of giving your customer the pass |
|advantage over the credit customer, and

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 somuch
| 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

GRAND

| As the notes
You |

times the pass book is lost, thus causing |

rious objection to the pass book system is |

who

 

THE TRADESMAN

This ren-

| ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts
It takes the place}

with each customer and enables a mer-
chant to avoid the friction and ill feel-
ing incident to the use of the pass book.
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
runs a book account or buys on
eredit. The cash man ought to have an

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
eredit established by the merchant, as it
is almost impossible to do with the pass
book.

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

MPAN,

RAPIDS.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

ters that lie in the great outside world, | derstand how it was that no one had ever

entirely within his realm of duty, where advocated a canning factory.

his activities are spent, and where his |
observations are made and his experi-
ences are learned. In doing so, she is}
simply yielding precisely what is con-
ceded to her in return.

|
|

If this is not an}

application of the true doctrine of equal |

rights as the Almighty intended it, then
I am looking up the wrong sapling.

Mr. Harvey thought it very strange
that there should be so many canning
factories in the country.
several of them while here and
familiar with the manner in which
are organized and operated,
stirring up his own people to a realiza-

| ingly

Izik said
it was only another evidence that the
people of Michigan were away behind
the times. The Elder arose to go and,
as he shook hands with Mr. Harvey, he
expressed.a hope that the people of Mich-
igan would wake up to a realization of
their true condition before it is everlast-
too late.» Mr. Harvey returned
thanks on behalf of his State and the

| Elder took his departure.

He visited |
became |
they |
in view of |

tion of the immense advantages and ben- |

efits to be derived from them.
five of these factories in this county
alone, and a sixth one is being organized,
which will give Loyaltown two. These

factories are veritable beehives of indus- |

We have |

When the Elder said, ‘‘Good night,
Bro. Slim,’’ Mr. Harvey turned his at-
tention to me for the first time during
the evening and he said: “T suppose
you have witnessed a great many changes
during the last two centuries, Mr. Slim?”
He said it in such a way that it reminded

| me so much of the oft repeated interro-

| gation,

“Bubby, do you go to school

| yet?” that I inadvertantly blurted out,

“Yes, mam;’’ but, recovering myself, 1
said that I thought more changes had oc-

| curred in the development of the earth,

try, organized and operated by joint |
stock companies, limited, through a}
president and board of directors. The}

business is looked after by a manager,
who has an office in the factory, and one

before the flood than since that event,

| but the dumfoolishest change that I had
| ever witnessed was when an honest, law-

or more assistants, as the requirements | ;
|man packed up his traps cooly and de-

of the business may demand. The tin of

which the cans are made is purchased by |

the carload and made up into cans, by
tinsmiths in the tinning rooms of th
factory, during the winter months
Aside from these tinsmiths, the only
skilled labor employed is the processor.
He it is who runs the retort and does

 
 
  
 

the |

| Harvey.

sealing, and so careful is he of his art|

that he will not allow any idle spectator

to imvade his sanctum sanctorum. The
vegetable stock, such as peas, string
beans, tomatoes, corn, etc., is mostly

eontracted for in the early spring. The
adjacent farmers, many of whom are
stockholders, sign a contract agreeing to
grow and furnish a certain number of
acres of this,that or the other thing deliv-
ered at the factory at a certain fixed
price. At our factory from 150 to 300
hands are employed the year round—the
smaller number in the winter, when the
stock consists mostly of chickens and
other meats. The help is composed very
largely of women and during the busy
time in summer, which occurs during the
school vacation, a large number of chil-
dren are employed. All are paid by the
piece, pound or quart, coming and going
just as circumstances permit them, and
the more expert they become the more
money they earn. Many ingeniously
constructed machines are now in use for
pitting cherries, shucking peas, strip-
ping corn from the cob, and other pur-
poses, which greatly expedite operations.
As a general thing, a sufficient quantity
of home-grown stock is obtainable, ex-
cept peaches, which are imported, more
or less, from Delaware and other peach
growing sections of the States. The
product of our factory at Loyaltown is
shipped into British Columbia, Manitoba
and the North West Territories. The
business is increasing and the results are
entirely satisfactory. It makes a home
market for thousands upon thousands of
dollar’s worth of perishable produce that
would not otherwise find a market and,
consequently, would not be grown or
produced. It finds steady remunerative
employment for all of the needy poor
and idle unskilled labor of the communi-
ty and pays the stockholders a reasona-
ble interest on their investment beside.
Mr. Harvey said he was a member of the
Business Men’s Association in his town
and he thinks the Assoeiation could not
do a wiser thing than to send a commit-
tee over here to investigate and report.
He says the country around his town is
specially adapted to the growing of
small fruits and garden truck; that it lies
near the great fruit belt and that the
country round about abounds with wild
berries of different kinds. He said that
his Association had been trying to in-
duce some manufacturing concern to
come to them by the offer of a bonus, but
that this was something that would be
far more beneficial to the town and sur-
rounding country and wouldn’t cost
them acent. Considering the superior
advantages that his section of Michigan
had over Ontario for a business of this
kind, to say nothing of the limitless
market that the boundless West would
afford for the product, he could not un-

| photographed me for future reference, I |

 

abiding, God-fearing and liberty-loving

liberately and changed his home and

| prospects of life in Ontario for that of
| the State of Michigan.

This so relieved
ne that a rigid, broad-gauged smile il-
luminated my countenance as I gazed at
Had it not been for my ears, it
would have been a circular smile reach-
ing clear around my head. After he had

 

 

disconnected my nose and chin, detached |
the corners of my mouth from the frame- |

work of my ears and took afresh chew.
Harvey ventured the remark that no
doubt tobacco chewing was the cause of
my being so slim.

only thing that kept me from blowing
away or slipping through a crack was
my feet. I gracefully acknowledged the
compliment and added that it had always
been a rule of my life never to indulge
in a new quid until the old one was com-
pletely worn out, and never to bite off,
under any circumstances, more than I
could conveniently chew. Furthermore,
I never imposed upon myself the cruel
task of carrying about any superfluous
luggage, such as bones, blood, flesh or
any other kind of corruption. By adopt-
ing this mode of life, I have always been
able to furnish my jaws with all the
healthful exercise they needed, and I
have never been charged with being a
Berkshire hog for occupying room that
belonged to some other human being. I
can pass through a crowd like the ‘‘de-
vil’s darning needle’ and when I come
home from the lodge my wife is spared
the trouble of getting up to unlock the
door, for I can crawl through the key
hole. I don’t carry around a filthy load
of grease to melt and drizzle with the
heat. I can hide behind a six-inch stove
pipe and no bullet can ever touchme. I
shall outlive any mass of corruption and
when I die only a very small portion of
me will have to be buried.
OLD MAN S.iM.
a

Canvased Meats.
From the American Grocer.

We suggest to dealers the wisdom of
extending their trade in canvased meats.
A naked ham or bacon is a nasty thing
to handle in the store, and even more in
the home. It smuts everybody and every-
thing it touches, attracts insects, and
fastens all flying dust. Housekeepers
all over the country are finding out it
pays to buy canvased goods. With these
the end stitches can be cut and the cover
turned back to slice for present use, and
then the burlap drawn down neatly and
pinned up until another supply is need-
ed.

Consumers who once use canvased
meats will not go back to the old style.
Hams and bacon can be obtained that are
covered by the smokers fresh to fill each
day’s orders. Beside all this on the
housekeeper’s side, these goods are not
only safer and neater for the merchant
to handle, but they are so much more
attractive in appearance that he can get
out of them lots of free advertising.

Do not buy asupply much ahead of
positive requirements.

He said I was the|
| Slimmest old man he ever saw and the

 

MIGHIGAN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falls Route.’

DEPART. ARRIVE

eet TEE, oc ccsekcicedencncsobs 6:30am 10:00pm

BE fees cain ccmticoseccocasnenewere 6:40am 4:30 pm
Day BExpreas......cccccccccceveccees 12:40am 10:00am
*Atlantic. = Pacific Express......... 11:15pm 6:00am
= is cies occas ciceys 6:40pm 1:20pm

All et — except Sunday.
eep: run on Atlantic and Pacific Express

trains to oa from Detroit.

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

Frep M. Briees, Gen’l Agent, 85 Monroe =

G. 8S. HAWEINS, Ticket Agent, Union Dep:

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

O. W. Ruee.es, G. P. & T. Agent., Chicag

TIME TABLE

NOW IN EFFECT.

 

  

DETROIT
CITES

MILWAUKEE
RAILWAY

    
    

 

EASTWARD.

 

Trains Leave |tNo. 14/tNo. 16) +No. on Ha 28

 

G’d Rapids, Ly| 6 50am|1) 20am| 3 45pm) 110 55pm
— Liens Ar! 7 7 45am)11 25am) 4 52pm /12 37am

Johns . “at 8 28am|12 17am) 540pm/ 1 55am
Shien ee Ar! 915am} 120pm/ 6 40pm! 3 15am

E. Saginaw. -Ar|11 05am

3 00pm) 8 45pm |
ay Cay... Ar/il 55am

3 45pm! 9 35pm!

 

 

       

 

aa. Ar|11 10am} 3 40pm} 8 0¢pm| '5 40am

Pt. Huron...Ar} 3 05pm 6 00pm) 10 30pm| 7 35am

Pontiac ...... Ar|10 5%am| 305pm/ 8 55pm) 5 50am

Dewes,...... Ar/11 55am} 405pm! 950pm|] 7 0am
WESTWARD.

Trains Leave (*No. 81 |tNo. baci 15
G'd Rapids, Ly| 7 7 Oham} 1 opm 5 10pm|10 30pm
G’d Haven, Ar} 8 50am! 2 15pm) 6 15pm/11 30pm
Milw’kee Str ‘“|........ Be es 6 45am| 6 45am
Chicago Str. “ Ce a

 

*Daily. +Daily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m.,
5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m.
Trains arrive from the west, 6:45 a. m., 10:10
a. m., 3:35 p.m. and 9:50 p. m.
aaeeent- No. 14 has Wagner Parlicr Buffet
ear. No. 18 Chair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11
Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager.
Ben FLETCHER, Tray. Pass. Agent.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent.
23 Monroe Street.

 

CHICAGO TUNE 1
& WEST MICHIGAN RY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEPART FOR A.M.| P.M. | P.M. { P.M.
ee ee +10:00) +1:15/*11:35]......
Indtawepolis.... ..... ti0-00. $1295) 21-d5)--.-..
Benton Harbor........ +10:00) +1:15 *11:35) §6:30
eee +10:00) 41:15 *11:35} §6:30
Traveree City......... $7225) 75:25/*11 230) .....-
Baer... ... . 26... +9:00) +1:15)t 5:40) +6:30
esneee .... 2... $7225) $5225) ......) +++
eee... oe a ee eee
Ble Mapes... ........ Tio) tiie. c.. 1.1...
Ottawa Beach........: | +9:00) +1:15|t 5:40] +6:30

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

In effect June 21, 1891.

TRAINS GOING NORTH.
vefrom Leave going
th. North.

 

 

Sou 0}

For Saginaw & Big Rapids...... 7:05am
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 6:50am 7:30 am
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:15am 11:30 am
For Saginaw, ‘ 4:30 pm
For Traverse Cit -. 2:15pm 6:05 pm
For Mackinaw City......-....-.- 45 p = 10:30 pm
From Chicago & Kalamaz: 45 p

Z00. 8:
Train — at 6: 50 daily; all other’ trains daily
except Sunda:
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Arrive from Leave going
North. South.

Se CE os wep cak cle 200 a m 7:00 am
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:20am 10:30 am
From Big Rapids & inaw.... 11:50am

For Fort ev and the East.. 2:00 pm
Pe occ icoedenesses 5:25 pm 6:00 pm
For ry maermonae 4 and Chicago.... 10:00 p red 10:30 pm
re i econ 0:40

Train leaving for Cincinnati and nica at 10:30
Pm gaily; all other trains daily except Sunday.

 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive.
7:00 am 10:10am

12:45 pm

5:15 pm
6:30 pm

10:15pm

 

SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE.
NORTH--6:30 am train.—Sleeping and parlor
chair car, Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City.
Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Traverse

ity.

11:30 am train.—Parlor chair car Gd
Rapids to Mackinaw.
10:30 p m train.—Sleeping ear Grand
Rapids to Petoskey. Sleeping car Grand
Rapids to Mackinaw City.

SOUTH--7: 100 am train.—Parior chair car Grand
Rapids to Chicago.
10:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car
Grand Rapids to Chicago.
10:30 pm train.—Sleeping Car Grand
Rapids to Chicago. Sleeping car Grand
Rapids to Cincinnati.

 

Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R.

Ly Grand Rapids = 30am 2:09 pm

Arr Chicago 3:55 p m 9:00-p m
11:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
16:30 p m train daily, through "— Sleeping Car.
- pm

10:30 pm
6:50 am

Lv ChicaZo 7:05 a m : a 10 ae
Arr Grand Rapids 2: 15pm $4 6:50 ajm
3:10 p m through Wagner pase fae 10:10 p m

train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

 

Through tickets and full information can be had by
calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta
tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67
Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

.L. LOCKWOOD,

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

 

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 * Le & N.
Ly. Grand Rapids at.....7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
AP, TOGO OL... ... 2... 10 p. m. and 11:00 p.m,

VIA D., 6. 2. 2M.
Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 6:50 a. m. and 3:45 p. m.
ae, Tees OE... 5... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m,
Return connections equally as good.
W.‘H. BENNETT, General Pass. Agent,
Toledo, Ohio.

 

 

10:00
1:15
5:25

11:35

11:30
6:30

*Daily. §Except Saturday.

A. M. has through chair car to Chica-
go. No extra charge for seats.

P. M. runs through to Chicago solid
with Wagner buffet car; sea s 50 cts.
P. M. has through free chair’ car to
Manistee, via M. & N. E. R. R.

P. M. is solid train with Wagner pal-
ace sleeping car through to Chicago.
and sleeper to Indianapolis via Ben-
ton Harbor.

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

P. M. connects at St. Joseph with
Graham & Morton’s steamers for Chi-
cago.

DETROIT,
don & Northern RR

 

JUNE 21, 1601.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEPART FOR iM 1 Pw ie e
iro... ; +6 :50) 41:00) *6:25
Ree... te ee +6:50) +1:00) *6:25
TN ois orcas seeungueascres +6:50) +1:00) *6:25
ee +6:50) 41:60] *6:25
Alma.. ee 7205 ~
St Soule... ..,.. ce esesue an +7205) +4:30}......
Pact Cee. 7:05] t4:30]......

 

 

A. M. runs through to Detroit with par-
lor car; seats 25 cents.

P.M. Has through Parlor car to De-
troit. Seats, 25 cents.

P. M. runs through to Detroit with par-
lor car, seats 25 cents.

6:25
A. M. has parlor car to Saginaw, seats

7:05 25 cents.

For tickets and information ap) ¥ at Union
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or on station.
Gro. DEHAvEN, Gen. Pass’r Agt.

CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS

oe

PAMPHLETS

For the best work, at reasonable prices, address
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY.

6:50
1:00

 

 

KDMUND B. DIKEMAN

THE GREAT

Watch Maker

Jeweler,
Ki GANAL 8Y.,

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 ———- e, let

ae too from you. Liberal cash vances
uaa when desired.

EARL BROS.,
COMMISSION MEROHANTS

 

157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference: — NATIONAL BANK, Chicago.
MICHIGAN Th ADESMAN, Grand Rapids.