MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. VOL. 8. RAYON, LYON & C0., JOBBERS OF latlonery and Books A Complete Line of HAMMOCKS, PISHING TACKLE, MARBLES, == BASE BALL G00DS == 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. ft Henry F. Hastin 8, Vice-President. OCharles M. Heal , 2d Vice-President. Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier. DIRECTORS, D. D. Cody H. C. Russell 8. A. Morman John Murray Jas. G. MacBride _ H. Gibbs Wm. MeMullen Cc. B. Judd D. E. Waters Jno. Patton, Jr. C. M. Heald Wm. Alden Smith Don J. Leathers Thomas Hefferan. Four per cent. interest paid on time certificates and savings deposits. Collections Par tly made at lowest rates. Exchange sol York, Chicago, Detroit and all foreign senuien, Money transferred by mail or telegraph. Muni- cipal and county bonds bought and sold. . Wools Without Change--Hides Quiet-- Tallow Active. The wool market has got down 2 to 3c below last spring’s prices, and yet manu- facturers will not buy only as they can find light shrinkage lots at price to suit. They have again taken largely of Aus- tralian and at 10 per cent higher value, prefering it to Michigan fleece in its bad put up condition. This is likely to be the case until home fleeces are put up in a condition that they can be used without so much shrinkage from tags, twine and stuflings. The fleece has been bought at a higher price in the country than will realize a profit on any market in sight. Hides are quiet, without any change. Tanners have cut short working in to such an extent that the small supply is more than adequate to the small wants. Leather must move more freely before they can change from a conservative course. Tallow is in good demand, but the sup- ply is large and holders are ready sellers at the price. The Grocery Market. Sugars are a little lower than a week ago, but the market was strong Saturday, with some prospect of an advance the first part of the week. Cheese is firmer and a little higher, owing to the curtail- ment of the output. Through a mistake of Leidersdorf’s traveling representative “Reb Roy’? smoking was quoted 23¢ last week, when the price should have been 24c. ‘Red Clover’? was quoted at 32c, when the price should have been 30c. —_~_2 Miss Nellie Oppeneer, book-keeper for K. Dykema & Bro., is spending a couple of weeks in the East, going via the St. Lawrence River and returning by way of the Hudson River. Frank E. Leonard has gone to New York, where he will remain a couple of weeks. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC, Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment, BUSINESS CHANCES. OR 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, F. P. Sanders, Wolcottville, Ind. 280 NOR SALE—DRUG STOCK — INVENTORY $2,000.— Good town of 1,000. Good location. Good bargain. Cash sales last year, $25 per day. Address No. 277, Michigan Tradesman. a. re RENT—LELAND HOTEL, NO. 522 SOUTH DI- vision street; steam-heated throughout; has bath rooms, closets, gas, ete., on each floor; the right loca- tion for a good paylng business. Ed. E. Mohl, 91 Mon- roe street. Ce Siem 276 FF? 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. 275 i a: SALE — GROCERY AND CROCKERY STOCK and fixtures, with good established trade. Address lock box 48, Litchfield, Mich. 270 OR SALE — STORE BUILDING AND GENERAL stock. Inventory about $3,000. Will sell build- ing aloneif preferred. Industries: sawmill, shingle mil and lumbering. Reason for selling, other busi- ness to attend to. Address F. J. Hargrave & Co., Ewen, Ontonagon county, Mich. 268 rr SALE—A COMPLETE DRUG STOCK AND FIX- tures; stock well assorted can be bought at a — Address for particulars 8. P. Hicks, — Mich. OR SALE — AT ONCE A STOCK OF CLOTHING, } hats and gent’s furnishing goods, located in a No. 1 town of 2000 population. Only exclusive clothing store in town. Stock almost new. Will sell for 75 cents on dollar invoice price. Must be spot cash and no trading. Stock invoices $4000. Good reasons for selling. Address No. 281, care Michigan Tradsman. 281 . SALE—A COMPLETE LOGGING OUTFIT ATA bargain. Will sell all or part, as desired. Also one standard guage Shay locomotive in first-class jworking eondition. Apply to W. A. D. Rose, Big Rap- ds, Mich. 233 4 XLOURING MILL FOR SALE — THE ISLAND CITY k flouring mill and feed mill and the entire Faton Rapids water power will be sold on the l4th day of July, at noon, at chancery sale, on first mortgage. For full particulars and terms inquire of John M Corbin, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 261 ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A meral or grocery stock; must becheap. Ad- dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26 SITUATIONS WANTED. We cae scae eee IN A STORE BY A WOMAN with nearly twelve years’ experience in one general store. Satisfactory reference. No. 279, care Michigan Tradesman. 279 W 4NtED— 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 STOOK OF DRUGS. ADDRESS No. 278, care Michigan Tradesman. 278 OR SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN INVEST- ment. Corner lot and 5-room house on North Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Address No. 187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187 OR SALE OR RENT—CORNER LOT AND 5-ROOM house on North Lafayette st., cellar, brick found- ation and soft water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Cheap enough for an investment. Address N 187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187. OR SALE — WHITMAN’S HALF CIRCLE HORSE power hay press. Nearly new. Will sell for cash or exchange‘for hay. Write to Kingsley & “—— ee eee JOR SALE—CHEAP FOR CASH--ONE CHEESE SAFE a set of black walnut drawers, cased and labeled fit for any drug store; oil tanks with faucet; smail o—_ of jewelry and trays. W. R. Mandigo, — ANTED—RELIEF DRUG OLERK AT ONCE FOR few weeks; perhaps longer. References re- quired. F, D. Paquette, Ludington, Mich. 283 eae et Ott ~~ nrecemecmasceit i ti es ® eee aan en, = nal. a THEH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5 GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Rowland & Gauthier will succeed Wood & Rowland in the grocery business on Cherry street. Jacob Snyder has opened a hardware store at Remus. Foster, Stevens & Co. furnished the stock. Nick Guet is building a frame store at the corner of East and Baxter streets, which he will occupy as a meat market. Cross & Isham, general dealers at But- ternut, have added a line of boots and shoes. Geo. H. Reeder & Co. furnished the stock. Thos. A. Gamey has embarked in the grocery business at Oakdale Park. The stock was furnished by the I. M. Clark Grocery Co. Erickson Bros. have embarked in the grocery business at 83 Park avenue, Muskegon. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock. H..S. Pressburg will rebuild the three stores recently damaged by fire at the corner of East and Sherman streets. The corner store will be occupied by J. N. Aniba with a grocery stock. Chas. M. Alden and Karl Judson have purchased the hardware stock belonging to the John Whitworth estate, at 39 West Bridge street, and will continue the bus- iness under the style of Alden & Judson. E. A. Parkinson has sold his drug stock at 197 South Division street to Dr. H. B. Hatch, at Hart, who has removed it to that place and sold it to his former clerk, Mr. Reed, who will conduct the business. Merchants who extended credit to the strikers and the various self-constituted committees during the progress of the street car strike now find themselves with considerable profit and loss accounts on hand. M. E. Lapham, formerly engaged in the grocery business on South Division street, has purchased a tract of land at the cor- ner of Grand avenue and the D., G. H. & M. Railway and will embark in the coal and wood business. Anthony J. Quist, for three years city salesman for the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., and for the past six months house salesman for the same establishment, has concluded to embark in the wholesale cigar and tobacco business on his own account and will establish his headquar- ters at 186 Elizabeth street. He willrun a wagon for the city trade. A meeting of the retail grocers of the city will be held at the office of L. Win- terintz, at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon, to decide upon a date for the annual gro- cers’ picnic and make the necessary pre- liminary arrangements. J. Geo. Leh- man will! captain the ball game between the retailers and wholesalers and Steve Sears will preside over the destinies of the latter. ee Eugene Klein, who formerly conducted adrug store on West Bridge street, but who removed to Detroit a year ago to take the management of the Detroit Paper Novelty Co., has begin a suit against the company for non-fulfillment of contract. In his declaration in a suit for $10,000 damages, he claims he con- tracted with the company to sell his share of stock in the company back to it for $5,150. He claims the defendant has not paid the full amount, hence the suit. Gripsack Brigade A. B. Cole has purchased Wm. H. Downs’ half interest in the Coles-Downs cottage at Ottawa Beach. Peter Lankester and wife are rejoicing over the advent of a youngster who tips the beam at 914 pounds, net weight. Chas. M. Falls has leased a cottage at Mackinac Island, where his family have taken up their residence for the summer. L. M. Mills stayed in last week to superintend the finishing touches on his patent cash register, which is now con- sidered the perfection of mechanism. A. S Doack has gone to Coaticooke Quebec, in response to a telegram an- nouncing the fatal ilness of his father, His route is being covered in the mean- time by John Payne. Paddy Miles and M. K. Walton left Saturday night for the Soo, where they will join the party of canoeists who left Traverse City last Tuesday for a tour to the upper shore of Lake Superior. “] have known commerical travelers,” said a hotel clerk, ‘‘to stay out until the early hours of Sunday morning and yet they would get up and go to church Sun- day, no matter how severe the weather was. lhey said they were not particularly religious, but that they made it an in- variable rule to go to church on Sunday or they would have no success during the week. I remember the case of a young fellow who camein fromthe train late one Saturday afternoon. ‘I never hada worse week in my life,’ he said; ‘Why, I haven’t taken one decent order. And the reason is I neglected to go to church last Sunday asis my usual custom. I am going out to-night, and may be out late, but I want to be called in time for church to-morrow forenoon.’ He did not come in until 4 o’clock in the morning, but he insisted on being called at 9 o’clock, and though it was raining pitch- forks went to church after a_ hearty breakfast. I joked him when he re- turned, and declared that he had not been to church. But he told me the minister’s text and several good points of the sermon. Well, he declared that he had good luck all that week, and booked several of the largest orders he had ever taken in this city.”’ Purely Personal. John Giles, the veteran Lowell grocer, died last week. He was a good mer- chant. Jacov Vanderveen has taken the posi- tion of Teller in the Kent County Say- ings Bank. Milton Reeder has recovered from his recent attact of typhoid fever and re- sumed his duties as book-keeper for Geo. H. Reeder. & Co. M. E. Betts, formerly engaged in the drug business at Edmore, but now a suc- cessful pharmacist at Tonawanda, N. Y., is spending a week in the city with friends. Dan C. Steketee has been spending a couple of weeks at Macatawa Park and Peter and Paul J. Steketee go to that celebrated resort this week for a similar respite from business cares. Samuel M. Lemon and John Caulfield attended the funeral of John Giles, at Lowell, last Saturday. It was the largest funeral ever held at that place, showing the appreciation in which the deceased was held by his friends and neighbors. The interment was made at Grattan, where the deceased was born, and where his mother still lives. ANYTHING That will help a man in his business ought to be of vital importance to him. Many a successful mer- chant has found when at) LATE That he has allowed his money to leak away. -Mopey-Wort take care of tse 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 Gystems Manufactured in our establishment—* Tradesman,” “Super- ior” or “ Universal ”—and put your business on a cash basis. For Samples and Price List, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | IRE CRACKERS | Yoy Pistols, Paper Gaps, Ete. IRE WORKS LAGS © Climax Chocolate Drops--Latest and Best. A. EK. BROOKS & CoO., Confectioners, 46 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Wall Paper and Window Shades, House and Store Shades Made to Order. NELSON BROS. & CO., 68 MONROE STREET. FIRE WORKS! FIRE CRACKERS FLAGS! Lanterns, Balloons, Etc. AT UTNAM GANDY GU THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. RICH AND POOR DEBTORS. | D G ° ry Goods Price Current. | DEMINS. How the Cash Man and the Poor Manare U wee ies Oz..... tal everett, blue. "--.42 as kn Pees NBLEACHED ooreoms. a OR. ...- 14% Everett, os... 12 ga er a8 Arrow Br d brown .13 bro ci Ae lla | Argyle .. . 6% “ and 5% | Andover... 1 H an. 2.0m s : | Atlanta AA "6% a ‘orld Wide.. : Beaver Creek AA A. a 0” ee i. a —o — mimthenhoote.| - C= - $l pan yard Wide... 6% | EE nsec tis 4 j m uy liber rally aa they pth +“ . ” 6x1G a } “ DATTCY .... 220 coe eee e able j 6 % seormian A.......... . OC... Lanc ‘ od and credit must not be refused seamen Co. D. : Ox |Hartto = ee ox | sates ieee ie: 5 Lawrence, Pon... = eae eir trade is to be desired. B ie ae artford A ......... 5 «“ . No. 230...-1 a 53 | dat : 10. 250... the money! Go to leading ane’ wa — eee 7 q cT¥ = -- 1% Coa XXX br. - ‘ No. 280. ..10%4 bo your town “and ask which represents rns ee Set fe se oe re a amount of credits on their ake ee 0, 32... ee id, oa | | | Amoskea, a: 1e rich or th S, | Black Crow........- se cloth 6% | Amoskeag.......--. T%) 7 ae a and they will tell you | Black Rock ee | a ress 6 ; a Sore BY i Norma die 8 oa Saale siecreaeciiara the fc i oper een nduened. 12/2 -— fa . Me ie “6 Canton .. 8% Se 8 1is bill runs beyond the customary limit Capital A.... EG By a es 6% | . Arc...... 12% annimnioe......... 6% the collector is after him, while the bill | c se see " - : | ee _ 6% Monogram.......... oN | sy ake sanest aah m, le tl chapman ¢ eese cl. 34 ee y 1s ha fancy .... 4%|Normandie..-.. .... 6% 00 ghbor goes, if it , | Clifton C R.. 4|Noibe R.........-... 5 | Bates Warwick d en vA | creer camera or goes, goes | C . BiglOur Level Best i. res gig Qo | ues: 6 tty. ail 7 ae |. 6% | sapien. Sr 7 | gentle reminder. Many aaeinenit il | Derg Sat 7% Pequot — 7 | bmg a 10% Hosemont. =~ ao 634 on say, “If [could makem nCCC........ rise | heenhnerland ate “2 4044 |Slatersville -.2022.. is oe »my collection %\Solar............-.-- i | Cumberland staple. 5'|Somerset............ 3 my customers who are good, I pare | ABC. sive atedee Heap.... 7 | Cumberland.-....- 5° : eee. us i i eare for the doubtful credits,” ms eG 814/Geo. V s | Essex... -.-.-++-++- 7% | () octane edits,’”? and so to | Amazon.--.-cos----- ox eo, Washington... 8 | re. a eta 6 a 10% 1ath it shall be given, ete.’ >| Amsburg........ 7 |Gold } ee 7 | Everett classics... 84] ease ae : The poor man pays for the fe | Art Cambric.....-.. SE dg: i, | Sapo se eseece THG(W: a rich man in this regard. ga to the | Blackstone AA <5 ee re on | eee vel is Whittendéa mens: OM ae - store ne eee EE on ~~~ -0-- 0 it | Glenarven.... -.--- 3 = needa ae Ho money, and the first accounts _— a eee ces Ee ve | Glenwood. eae — heather dr. ¥ SMITH & SA dunned are the ones where the pa 0 | Cabot... oa 2 ae on ks 4%@ 5° | Hampton..--.-...<. 6% nrenie io cae = s FORD. be hia ach atemnee a pay = : Cabot, Lee = ing Phillip... eee 7% | Johnson Vhalon cl %4/W jemtbrook--- t=. 8 6% is from the great mass of “mel % h nnd Sones _ cn 53 Lonsdale cambrie. 10% | ss Zephyrs. ae ona Geomane ‘ 1 who are | © ey 4 |Lonsdale..... 7” | L phyrs....16 |Windermeer.... -..- close to the border of want, who| (ierelend ...... .... 'Middlesex. “ad Beaguaeee staple... 6%IYork... 5 are expected and ca ie soe | Dwight Anchor ae %;|No Name.. @ me | | aa 6% Se sada to ee ae - —_ | neers oa| Oak View.. *: $% | Amoskeag........- .16\%/ Valley City 15 short credit. The p ; - SE coos ccucs 6 |Our Own..... a: 5% | ek. ~ i aagaaldaii 20" |Georgia .... .----- .. ¢ eash in hand poor man with his | Farwell "m3 «Roslin nn se 16% Pacific ..... .--.-+-+ 1304 8 vand pays the penalty of his rich | Frult of the Loom. 7%4|Rosalind..... mut Ct: Ul ee . neighbor’s habit of — . or ee ile =. 7 Sunlight. -........... ‘4 ‘ete neglecting to take care of the ills and | irst Prize....--.... bx — os ST eS sae time. em in due| | Fruitof the Loom %. aa a Holyoke-......-..-. 4 oes . = . trie sag Manga neces BH] re ane <> the pane, the stere-kacper (we) 9 "55 3 oe us —. oe 8 a Sas es de coer a ee 8% White. Colored. Wate. Col 1 camccaen Sous whe wel Cabot... -----0----- ay magia 9 - 2- 38 ||No. 14.. — ored. ss : Pe whe ge ae ————--* mca ala ane os sh have no status, no rating in the} | UNBLEACHED caNToN - 2... 2 40 |* 18... 3 S city establishment. We have a case | Tremont N...... 5% Middlesex No. - =. 36 a1" B.. 44 mind of a gentl te — es - 8 —S <—. i . ee ag 1 ean ordering a carpet at | | 6% : ae Slat CAMBBICS. é z nere he had been a Middlesex es + ‘t.2 fo ‘ee _—_ for five -years. The Coa eal ‘ x. i 5 ‘“ . - 19 Rid Glove EAA ‘ Red Cross. 3 due time to the house | ' No. i?’ ~oool ling a 4 |Lockwood... L i. cca ae tae = | Hamilton BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. — cl ee : — ee oe u ‘ SIX=-CORD the store and demanded why he thus had | Middlesex ee gg eee “RED —— eee ' been treated—he, an old customer and r Same 9 “ ™ G22 Creedmoré a ns malF W oe as gor Q / ’ CA...... ‘ ae mOT6......--.- eee — nd pay as any that ever entered the | Z XF......10%) * Lo S07 i See 35° 00 place. ‘Is your name on our book?” CARPET WARP, 6 | Nameless.. "274 |Buckeye.... .--.---- = inquired the manager. “No, s | Peerless, white...... 18 (Integrity, colored...2 rED 1 oo sn the answer: “‘is it ae % ir,” : fe .- 88 | rateerity. en. --20% White Star......... ae Red & Bi MIXED FLANNEL. IN me to runas ee for | aaa ¥4| “ eolored..21 | U ue, plaid..40 |Grey S RW.....--.. 1 small bill with you that 1 | Hamilt Dies @oops. 1 oo nantes seen 2246! eee Be TE BLACK AND must be already in debt to wae on be te SE ie 8 [Nameless........... 20 peng a eh 18%4| D ae 3 OLORS, the habit of using my credit?” It ie ee ey A seeeanee anes 2 | Union oe a Flushing ce — om tainly was curious, ae t tt GG Cashmere..... 24 accent “i ”C°”C.”dC eka 23% had a good reason f aay the manager | Nameless -.. ee 30 IN ee Ha d i — es is alien Sit ean 3 atte eee e ees 32% Nameless lee 8 @ 9%| “ i. n and ac in = a. not become known. His | Sie CS et ee 8%4@10 | “ . om cash speaks for him, and tl | Coraline i la sn i Joraline........+.+. $9 VASS AND PADDING. has no identity there until en | Schilling’s......... 9 OOBrighton.. een a ae Brown. Bl a. the books. How to get the rich —. on } ie a 475 | io io 934/13 . —_ is often a serious ee : pay | Sumery 8. iz 7 1034) 15 5 ETEE & 80 oo serious “question. webaa at cane. th lRockport.ces-s = 7% | 11% 11% 11%) 7 = 15 ' a arge bill against a jeweler. He had n ee Conestoga... -.-- = ve grant i a a but plenty of accounts. . will Brunswick. ......-. 64|Walworth sek pis 6% iS cette : j et et : its. ! PRINTS. Sau wicca % | Severen, § 02Z......-- | ay a ae 1” J ee gic as security.” Allen —- reds... ‘Berwick fancies. 1 | Mayland, Bou.....4. anes Point, 80z....10% work picking the say, and he goes to| « Dink & cone ic Big Clyde Robes........ et Greenwood, 7% oz. 9% Raven, toon OB j | not this one?” em out for us; “But why | Spat 6° keira aac agian ooo . ZO, 8 is 2 Ly bial eus | slap. es Se ie iy te, dOZ......-- 2 and it would drive him away to ustomers, ecieeerae 8 Eddystone nancy : Colored, doz.......- = ee bale, 40 doz....87_50 DRY GOODS, sé i ‘a a oe ican 4 sing : ; te i know it, but itis good,’’ and so we| haieoiedies... = - me § — NOTION take the accounts against the respectab! | American shirtings. 4% Hamil =o —_ no gl 4 = poor and unme dee ae vied ; e| Argentine Grays... 6 ton fancy..... 6 a Red Cross.. “esi 10% CARPETS upon them until we get a eel agrdir oe Shirtings... - 4% Manchester SS : - . Best AA ceo “aby Bedtord 2000." 0% , ra —_ man, neglectful of his emere! Arnold Merino..... 6H ae new era. 6 ee ie. 10% CURTAI NS. oe a ool : eg a \TxXL. Valley... or s how much a certai imity | Atlanta, D TON DRILL. jI XL... ......+----- Ce ee ee eee 6 worth. ‘Well, ma’ on? said eit onal | Gnitton, ee nae ee O4|No Name... Semper: 8 | Alabama... os. OM Mount F reply, ‘that goods is worth 75 aie = eee _——e Heap. 2.10 | Augusta}... ee 6% Oneida ee yard, but the price is $1.’ a SATINES. en 74|Pyrmont ........... 4 ase yourself “as sg see | Black... ae 10% Aare a seeamers s lmensotoet Soom as Shades, ew : man si - %@ te |Riversids......... ' Flags, Horse wy ane he Aer aneke uaa, caaicie a 9 Granite... — . 5%|Sibley A..... so BM Umbrellas, ane tee agen Beat Large Hew Eiver...... cones + 5 MROGD. 3. cess S Send for Hlustra' Wie Gotten Ducks sag seas CHAS. A. COVE, 11 Peart Street. Telephone 106. ~ - Se ee ~ 4 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3 THE TOUGHEST TOWN. Experience of a Traveling Man in Indiana. “I recently struck the toughest town in America,” said a traveling man the | other day. ‘It is Mullan, a little town in the Coeur d’Alene mining district, in Indiana. In company with another traveling man, I arrived at the place just at dusk and asked to be shown to a room at the only hotel, to get separated from the dust taken up on a long stage ride. ‘The tavern-keeper was dealing faro in the office and we had to wait until the | crowd went broke before he would even look at us. About 9 o’clock he got all of the money and gave us rooms. He took us out in the street and pointing to a lighted room in the top corner of the hotel, said our rooms were next to that. We had to enter the house and find our | beds. The landlord wouldn’t walk up- stairs with us, and his clerk was away acting as referee at a prize fight. ‘‘We were eating lunch at a table where two miners were seated, and one of the men said to his friend: ‘Get onto the bloakes eatin’ pie wid a fork. Dey must be English lords.’ Nearly everyone in town had a pistol strapped on his belt and all looked as if they were ready to start the fireworks on the slightest prov- ocation. When we retired I asked the clerk for a pitcher of ice-water. ‘“**You ducks got nerve,’ he said. "ave ** ‘Askin’ for ice-water when the bar ain’t closed yet. Don’t serve no water here till the bar closes. See?’ “We went to our rooms, and during the night sent down stairs three or four times for a pitcher of water, but could get none. Presently a heavy pair of boots was heard on the stairs, and I thought the hotel man’s conscience had been creeping around. A thump on the door and the miner who had commented on our eating with a fork pushed in his head. ***?Xcuse me, pards,’ he heard you askin’ for water.’ ***Yes, we are very thirsty, but the hotel-keeper won’t give us any ice-water’ ‘¢ ‘Jim never had no heart, no how.’ ** *He’s a brute,’ I exclaimed, feeling grateful to the kind man. ‘**T knowed these parts well; been long *fore Spokane was born, an’ thought as how I might put yer onto some of de angles.’ ‘**You are very good, sir.’ ‘* ‘Wal, de next time yer wants water don’t bother for to send down to Jim. There’s water in yer room.’ ‘* ‘Here?’ ‘* ‘Cert. There’s a spring in the bed.’ “Then the villian slammed the door and nearly choked himself anehing. 7 _ 2 > <> Will Do For a Story. A Kansas farmer, after four years of hard work trying to make a living, finally became disgusted and sold the farm. He packed his goods in a wagon and started towards the North. He had gotten into Nebraska when he met an old acquain- tance, who said: ‘‘Hello, Jim; I thought you were farming in Kansas?” *‘SoI was,” said Jim, ‘‘but I sold the farm.” ‘*What did you get for it?’’ was the next question. ‘Well, I got that heifer tied behind the wagon there.”’ ‘*You don’t mean to tell me that you traded 160 acres of land for a heifer!’ “No,” said Jim. “9 traded 80 acres forit. That was a pretty fair trade, but when we came to draw up the deed I found the fellow couldn’t read or write, so [ run in the other 80 on him.” i << How’s This for a Paiiniiniale A firm at Jonesville, Ind., culiar method of doing business. The two partners divide the cash each night, and each morning put an equal amount in the drawer. Each partner is charged up with the amount he credits to cus- tomers and if the bill is not paid it is his individual loss. It is said to work well, as they make money and never had a cent owed them for more than two weeks. ——— ln Use Tradesman or Superior Compan have a pe- Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash bwyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS, dis, OIE le eee casas ee. 60 aad. 40 ee ONee 25 oonmries, alton ............¢........._. S0ei6 AXES. First Quality, 8 pe One... 5... 1... $7 50 ™ Proese............a.... Bw . B.S. Steel.. ee. 8 50 " D. Co ee 13 50 BARROWS. dis. MOEN oie i ee se cae ca cece ce ccea ce 8 14 00 cocci net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. —... .,................ 50&10 ens cr... tC... 75 ee ee, eae Sleigh oe... BUCKETS. fe a 83 50 Te i es ee 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin, figured. . Si ae Wrought Narrow, bright bast ‘joint... . 60410 Wrought Loose a ee TL I 60&10 oe eee. 6010 Wement leaching =... — WwW rought Brass..... fee ceca ae eu maees ae are, Clee B..... ... ss. 0&1 Blind, CO 70&10 BRU, POPU cece ee ieee ces eeu ceca st 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackie, Hat April t7, S65. .......... 40 CRADLES. So . . dis, 50402 CROW BARS. meee 2 per® 5 CAPS. Rivet ..... ............ 8... per m 65 Hick’ Oe 60 Ce ‘ 35 Muga . 60 CARTRIDGES. mm Pee... .... ...... rade ceeceees ceceueseus 50 COMrOr OG. cc i. dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. Oe aimttet.<< 000 70&10 ee ee ee 7019 Reem gc ce ee, 70&10 Ce ee 70&10 Butchers Tango Pirmer................... 40 COMBS. dis. Cure, Teereneee oc 40 —— ss... Ps) CHALKE, White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planiskhed, 14 os Cut to size...... per pound 30 14x52, Lo a a ee 28 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ...... eeaes 25 Cold Rolled, eee: 25 ee . 27 DRILLs. dis. morse a Pt Seeks... y 50 Taper and straicht Shank................... 50 Petes 0 eer Cee... .................. ; 50 DRIPPING PANS, Pegi eetee So Bonne. 07 ee eS... 6% ELBOWS. Com, 4 ploce: Gis... es... doz. net 75 MOEN oe os os cca cae e ee dis. 20&10&10 MOO ce dis. 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, $18; lar e ec... 30 Ives’, 1, $18; 2, 824’; Bee .....2..... 5.2... Fs a a List. dis, De 8 ee ce 60&10 ee ee 60&10 Nichomons ............ 60&10 eee scl. 50 Hetiers oreo BOOMS: 6.66. cist. ck... 50 @ALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 203022 and 24; 2 and 26; 27 28 List 12 13 14 i666 CS Discount, 60 GAUGES, dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50 HAMMERS, Mayans &Ca 4. ........... ........ . dis. 25 Kip’s. ee es ee 25 Yerkes & Plumb’s................ . dis, 40810 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . .80e list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... 30c 40810 HINGES, Geno, Clare 8, 5.2,6................... 2. dis.60&10 RR A Bt LRN per doz, net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and beer... ..................... ' 3% Serew Hook and Hyco, %............... “net 10 ° - - .............,, nee oe - bay . Mei, net %7% . - a c ede y eee ae net 7% Strap and T.. eee dis. 50 ANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfe. Co., Wood track. ...50&10 Champion, anti fiietion.................... 60&10 Kidder, wood track . Lo. 40 HOLLOW WARE. Oe 60 EE 60 Ce ee ed ecco. 60 Gray enameled.. -.--- 40&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Moammod Shi Ware. -new list = ROPES, Sisal, ee ad lareer 4... Manil ia... ' eet eeeeee | ee su ARES. dis. Steel and Iron..... eee 75 mre oid Hevels. _-... ws 60 Mitre a ... ) SHEET IRON, Com, | Com. Nos, 10 to 1¢..... a 20 86998 10 Nos. = om... - 420 3 20 moe oe 8 4 20 3 20 Nos Oe lle 3 30 Nos, 25 to 26... wa 4 40 8 40 No. 27, eee us 60 3 50 } All sheets No. 18 and lighter, wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. ‘ov er 30 inches List acct. 19, 86. ... .. ote eae Oe 50 SASH CORD. Sil ver Lake, White A..... Se 50 ce... 55 " White 2... 50 ' vee B....... 55 ' Womec..................... 4 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. Solid Eyes....... .- per ton 825 orennes 75 Voe...............,........ SAWS. dis Creanite trom Ware .............. new list 3336 & 10 gg se § WIRE G00Ds. dis, Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . .° Brignt...... anaes Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50 Bore Eves... 0.1... -- 70&10&10 _ Spec ial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 ey ea TO&10K10 | Champion and Electric _— x Gate Hooks and Eyes. 70&10&10 Curse per foot... 30 LEV ELS. dis. “TRAPS, dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s oo 70 | Steel, Game : 60&10 KNoOBs—New List. dis. | Oneida Co mmunity, Newhouse’ . 3. a 35 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ..... 55 | Oneida Comm: se Hawley « Norton’s.... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ Oo | Mouse, Choker... .......... .18¢ per doz Door, porcelain, plated trimmings... Le. 55 | Mouse, delusion... a ey 50 per doz, Door, porcoluin, thnmings............... : 55 WIRE dis. Drawer and Shutter, porcelain. . i | Werte Gg Market... 3... Lee LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Annealed Market......... el Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 | ¢ ‘oppered Mores... 60 Mallory, er a Bf) Pened MOPMEe yi... Ll. on Branford’s . i Wee etesclwcuee SiC oppered Spring Stee el Wedeeeea cd cll... 50 Norwalk’s. mel Bee cee. 55 | Barbed Fence, galvanized.................. 3 40 " MATTOCKS. v painted ..... ie ee ak |) a mee Se... sk “ .. 816.00, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS. Hunt Eye ea ; $15.00, din, GO| Au Sa@bio..................... Gis, Saat 0@25&10805 "818. Oy Gre NO, | POO ices cleo cus ou, dis, ce | Weeweerm..... dis. 10&10 Sperry & Co.’s, Post, lana. hee oe 50 WRENCHES. dis. MILLS. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled. os eee 30 Coffee, ares Co8........ ..... at 40 | Coe’s Genuine...... ae 50 P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. . 40 | Coe’s Patent Agric ultural, wrou ight, i 75 . Landers, Ferry SCievrn........... 40 | Coe’s "Fut, malleable..... Lene es 25&10 " Enterprise oe ee 25 MISCELLANEOUS, dis. MOLASSES GATES. dis. Bird Cages ...... mee ee ucen t Stepmins Patter. ...............-.. sodesas COMED | EUiIDG, Citar. ....... | Stebbin’s Genuine.. a esvevesncuces LG | MEFOWE, NeW I tat... ee 70&10 Enterprise, self measuring. ao 25 | Casters, Beda d Plate..... | ++ 01010 NAILS Dampers, American..... : Sec! talis, DASG............ ee 1 85 | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel. goods. Lede o Wire nails, —... ... 2 20 METALS Advance over base: Steel. Wire. | Pie TIN. ee eee ce oes Base ase | Pie tee... 26¢ 3 og oS a 28c 20 | ZINC. 20; Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound. 30 | 680 pound CHAR 6... ceecceeece | Gre oo rer neue 7 35 | SOLDER, 40 | %4@% . Ce ..16 50 | Extra W ‘iping cause 15 65| The prices of the ‘many ‘other qualities of 90 | solder in the market indicated by private brands 1 50 | vary according to composition. a a 2 00 | ANTIMONY WG ee cake cae ace se 1 50 2 Conmaon... os... ..per pound 16 Case ™ Seal deke ues ee eas 60 90 | Hallett’s. aa i 13 . = 1 00 | “TIN—MELYN GRADE. - eee eg Cesc acenes accesses, Oe 1 25 | 10x14 IC, se Se Se 7 Finish 10. CS eee 1 00 | 14x20 IC, Sa Saale oe oe 7 50 Benn ee gees ude Goa aaas 1 00 1 25 | 10x14 IX, . es See uae aad awa gud 9 25 ee 115 1 50 | 14x20 IX, i oo © linch; 19 eee ae Beales 85 w Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. SO ee ae 1 00 90 | TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. : é peed cece we Ge Geese cc scue.- 1 1 00 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal . $650 ———. 12 ee 6 50 PLANES. dis. | 10x14 IX, eee eeee eee a ck ca 8 00 milo Tool Co.'s, taney.................. 0... @4) | 14x20 IX, Odea ois 00 Co Eee @&)| Each additional X on this grade $1.50. Sandusay Took Co.'s, faney................. @40 | ROOFING PLATES ee eee ee @60 | 14x20 IC, S| WORQGN 6 5O Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. . .... &10 | 14x20 IX, _ ay el 5 PANS. } 20x28 IC, * t it dis.60—10 | 14x20IC, ‘ Allaway Grade Common, paliahed Oa en ee cine dead, dis. 70 | 14x20 IX, a RIVETS. dis. | 20x28 IC, . ” Beam Ot VINeee 8. cn ene once 40 20x28 IX, . - Oc ladle aes a 15 00 Copper Wivete aint Pra... ........-....... 50 | BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE, PATENT FLANISHED IRON. CS ee 314 08 ‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to "= RO Pt Ae iiss te ce 15 ‘ ‘B” Wood's Broken pac. at. planished, Nos. 25 to 27.. ec per pound extra. 9 20 | 14x56 IX, for No. . Boilers, t 14x60 IX, per pound.... 10 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. & WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, The Tradesman Company, Proprietor. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable strictly in advance. Advertising Rates made known on apr lication. Publication Office, 100 Louis St. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Oy. +. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1891. The retirement of Prof. Gower from the superintendency of the State Reform School for Boys, due to the parsimony of the last Legislature in reducing his salary, is in the nature of a public ca- lamity. Mr. Gower has displayed won- derful ability in the discipline and sys- tem he has inaugurated at the Reform School and his administration has ac- quired a national reputation for its econ- omy, simplicity and the loyal and law- abiding spirit instilled in the inmates of the institution. To permit such a man to leave the service of the State, for the purpose of saving a few hundred dollars in salary, is penny wise and pound foolish and the act should meet the con- demnation of all friends of efficient ser- vice and good government. Tue TRADESMAN was unable to dis- cuss the tariff question, as it was adopted by the political parties and taken out of the realm of business, where it properly belonged. The money question has not yet been engulfed in the wreck of pol- ities and Tue TRADESMAN is therefore not obliged to apologize for introducing the subject at this time, which it does by the reproduction of Andrew Carnegie’s famous exposition of the silver situation from the June North America Review. Should an adequrate answer to the article be made by any of the friends of un- liminated silver coinage, Ture TRADES- MAN should be glad to give place to that also. LL During the past seventy years 15,641,- 688 immigrants have come into the United States. The arrivals show a con- stant increase for each decade since 1820, with the exception of the decade in which the civil war occurred, and the arrivals for the decade ending in 1890 were over 2,000,000 greater than those for the pre- ceding decade. England has sent us the greater number of immigrants in the course of the seventy years, with Ger- many second and Ireland third. The year of the largest immigration was the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, when the arrivals numbered 788,992. The im- migration from Italy has shown a steady increase during the last decade. Of the immigrants arriving at the port of New York during the last fiscal year the the neighboring states of Pennsylvania, ticut. Tue TRADESMAN is pleased to note the iT a free exposition of the claims of each community. The only conditions exacted are that nothing but facts be stated and that no invidious comparisons be in- dulged in. Let there be a prompt and spontaneous response to this generous offer! EEE It is by slow and expensive degrees that the labor problem is being solved. The process of evolution is by no means a painless one, but these agonizing ex- periences may in time serve to teach the better way. If they eventually lead both capital and labor to the point of settling all their differences by appeals to reason they will be worth all they cost; but that time will never come until the workman breaks away from the tyranny of the trades unions, with which no employer ean deal and maintain his self respect. The man who says that those who have performed no honest labor have amassed the most of the wealth, either does not know what he is talking about, or is so blinded by his prejudices as to be inca- pable of sound reasoning. Of course, the whole question hinges upon what is meant by honest labor: for in these United States there is not one able- bodied man in a hundred who is not com- pelled, or who does not feel himself com- pelled, to labor for his living in one way or other. mel Instead of considering himself a pub- lic servant with a duty to perform, the officeholder too often seems to consider himself a public pet whose constituents have sent him ona picnic at their own expense. He is like the Kentucky legis- lator, who, when approached upon the subject of adjournment, said he ‘would like to know why they wanted to adjourn when they were getting five dollars per day and pie every day.”’ The indications now are that if we do not have too much rain, or too long a drouth, if grasshoppers, hog cholera, pleuro pneumonia, hail, cyclones, floods, lightning-rod agents, Bohemian oats frauds, and other calamities do not put in an interference, the farmer will next November have ample cause for celebrat- ing Thanksgiving day. How to Circumvent the Check Fiend. The head clerk of a leading hotel, in discussing the annoyance caused by the man who asks to have acheck cashed, the other day, remarked as follows: “It is sometimes rather hard to refuse to cash a check fora gentleman whom you have known casually, but it must be done in my business or I would soon owe the hotel more money than I could pay ina lifetime. You see, ifaman asks you to cash his check and you think you know him well enough to do it and take the risk, you cannot very well ask him if the check is good and will be paid. Yet, esi . if you fail to ask him that questi h greater number settled in New York and | 7 : ee . | applied as directed. |law holds that you cannot prosecute him | men’s National Bank of New York, Court | criminally, in case the check is rejected New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connec- | by the bank on which it is drawn. If| | you cannot prosecute him criminally, the i 7 : : 7 eh cane ahing St yet | there is a clause which provides that ‘‘if BUSINESS LAW. Summarized Decisions from Courts of Last Resort. FRAUDULENT CONDUCT OF BUSINESS. Where a business is carried on wholly by the husband in the name of the wife, and she puts no money into the business, and the facts all tend to show that it was merely a subterfuge to evade liabilities for his debts, the profits arising from the business may be taken by his credi- tors and applied to their claims. Hamil vs. Augustine, Supreme Court of Iowa. COLLECTION BY BANKS. Where commercial paper is placed with a bank for collection only, upon making the collection the proceeds con- stitute a trust fund, and though the amount is credited to the owner on the books of the bank as a general credit, and he is so notified and does not at once object thereto, upon the insolvency of the bank he may claim the fund as a trust fund and is not compelled to resort to his remedy as a general creditor. Nurse vs. Satterlee, Supreme Court of Iowa. INJURY FROM MERCHANDISE TRUCK. Where a merchant who uses in the course of his business a truck for hand- ling heavy goods and keeps it when not in use where his customers have no reas- on to go, he cannot be held liable for in- juries sustained by a customer who un- necessarily follows a clerk to the place where the truck is kept, and while there falls oyer it and is injured. Hart vs. Grennell, Court of Appeals of New York. RESCISSION OF CONTRACT FOR SALE OF GOODS FOR FRAUD. In order to entitle one to rescind a con- tract for the sale of goods because the purchaser bought them without intend- ing to pay for them, it must be shown that the intent was formed and acted up- on at the time the goods were bought. And where a merchant in failing circum- stances, who knew that he must fail, but could not know just when he would be obliged to stop payment, the presump- tion is great that he knew he could not pay for them at the maturity of the bill, and therefore he may be said to have bought them without intending to pay for them. Whittin vs. Fitzwater, Su- preme Court of New York. NEGLIGENCE OF DELIVERY WAGON DRIVER. A master is liable for the results of his servant’s negligence while engaged in his business, and one who employes a delivery wagon in his business is liable for damage caused by the negligence of his driver in driving the wagon. It is sufficient proof of the ownership of the wagon, to show that the wagen had painted upon it the name and address of the firm, and was engaged in making de- liveries of goods for them at the time of the accident. Seaman vs. Koehler, Court of Appeals of New York. DEPOSIT IN BANK FOR SPECIAL PURPOSE. A depositor of a bank has a right to make a special deposit for a specific pur- pose, and upon notice to the receiving | teller that the deposit is to be so applied, the bank is liab.e for the amount if it is otherwise applied. One who is already indebted to the bank, may make a de- posit to cover a specified check which is out, and when so deposited it must be so Straus vs. Trades- of Appeals of New York. | DAMAGED GOODS IN RENTED BUILDING. In ease of a lease of property in which efforts now being made in many Michi-|0r for any civil suit you may bring | the premises become untenantable by gan towns to work up business booms | gainst him. and will gladly do all it can to aid such | men to movements, no matter where undertaken or under what auspices they are con-| ducted. solicits correspondence from every town | which aims at a higher condition of ma- terial progress and opens its columns to To that end THE TRADESMAN | Sums of $25 to $50. will not honor the check, yet as long as \there is a sight balance to the man’s credit, he cannot be arrested for fraud.’’ the building. It is acommon thing for start an account in a bank, let it ren diown te twoer these dollars, ane tee | to discontinue paying rent and notify the |reason of fire no rent shall be charged | until they are made tenantable by the | lessor,’’ it is necessary for the tenants draw checks against this account for | lessor of the untenantable condition of Of course, the bank | the place, or move out of the building; | otherwise the lessee cannot recover for damages to goods or property, which re- sult from the untenantable condition of Evidence showing why the lessee continues to occupy the premi- ses after they become untenantable is not admissible. The fact that he continues to occupy them refutes the claim that they are untenantable. Taturn vs. Thompson, Supreme Court of California. nel nen, Transportation Arrangements for the Detroit Excursion. DetRoIT, July 10—The Committee on Transportation have secured the follow- ing rates from Detroit and return by the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Rail- way, fora party of fifty or more, round trip tickets, good to return in five days, for $4.50, including bus fare at Grand Rapids. Tickets good going on any reg- ular train on Saturday, July 25, and returning on any regular train within five days. Parties going from Detroit can procure tickets of M. J. Matthews, 34 Congress street west. Trains leave the Brush street depot at 6:50 and 11 a. m., and ‘4.30 p.m. The 6:50 a. m. train is the most desirable one. Parties residing at Ann Arbor, Ypsi- lanti, Birmingham or Pontiac, can pro- cure the Detroit rates, by remitting the amount, $4.50 to M. J. Matthews, and the ticket will be forwarded by mail, if ordered not later than Thursday, the 23d inst. For parties of ten or more and less than fifty from any station on any road, can procure tickets of station agent at two cents per mile each way for round trip. For parties of fifty or more, under same conditions, one and one-half cents per mile each direction, or one fare for the round trip. Tickets good going on any regular train on Saturday, July 25, and returning by any regular train with- in five days. Also, special one-way rates of two cents per mile per capita, for parties of ten or more traveling together on one ticket. Parties outside of Detroit to procure tickets of station agent. Members of the association are request- ed to extend an invitation to all their mercantile friends and all commercial travelers (not members of the associa- tion) to meet with us at Grand Rapids. Members will please notify the Secretary by postal, how many they expect will go from their different localities. Jos. T. Lowry, Chairman. tl ltl ne, A Prune Growers’ Combine. Arrangements have been made to com- bine three of the largest prune ranchos of California and form a stock company, with a capital stock at $500,000 to make a decided fight for the American market for American fruit. The annual con- sumption of prunes in the United States is from 75,000,000 to 100,000,000 pounds, all of which are imported from the Old World except that which is produced in California, estimated at 17,000,000 pounds (during 1890 the California output was about 14,000,000). Allowing for an in- creased acreage and a full crop, the out- put of California for 1891 will be from 20,000.000 to 25,000,000 pounds. As California prunes sell in the markets of the Eastern States at fully 1 cent per pound higher than imported brands, and as imported prunes pay an import duty of two cents per pound, itis clear that Californias have an advantage of fully three cents per pound over the cost of imported prunes. It is claimed that foreign products are not entirely satisfactory to the trade, and the producers in foreign countries are much discouraged, not entirely on account of the competition from Cal- ifornia, but on account of the United States import duty of two cents per pound, which promises to take an im- portant part in the gradual building up of the California prune industry, as the duty on raising has done with that pro- duct. California produces only about one-fifth the quantity of prunes consumed in the United States. —_—_——_——>>-- Anothes Combination ‘‘Off.” There is no longer any agreement be- tween linseed crushers. Western mem- bers kicked over the traces, and made it necessary to sever the combination. It is every man for himself now. il lll Use *‘Tradesman” Coupons -venience or appearance. TRADESMAN. 9 OLD MAN SLIM. Troubles and Trials of a Canadian Merchant. QUEEN’s Hottow, Ont., July 8—Mr. Harvey has returned to his home in Michigan. He called at the store on his way over to the station to say good bye. We had just finished counting out over four hundred dozen eggs and the egg buyer had backed his wagon up to the door and we were loading on the crates. Harvey said it reminded him of home, as he handled and shipped large quanti- ties of eggs and other produce. We told him that we did not bother with shipping our eggs, but sold them toa dealer over in Loyaltown, who had two wagons on the road which called once a week at all the country stores for miles around. Harvey said he didn’t suppose that the product of the Canadian hen could be turned to any account whatever since the McKinley bill went into effect. Izik said it was so feared at first, and so conspicu- ously did this fear stick out that for some time after we heard that Bill McKinley had forbidden the great American stom- ach from harboring any more hen fruit that was grown on Canadian soil, every old hen in Canada positively refused to partake of any food that had a tendency to create a desire to lay eggs, in order to avoid a needless constitutional strain and a useless waste of energy; but, after a while when it was discovered that the Yankees were not the only folks in the world who sucked eggs, our crest-fallen hens began to elevate their drooping tail- feathers and cackle once more. To-day our Shanghi berry works are running in full blast and every old hen in the Do- minion is doing her level best to supply her new-found friends with the fruits of her industry and demonstrate to her neighbors the fact that she prefers to live in her own coop and that she is abundantly able to do so. The Loyal- town dealer has shipped over 35,000 dozen so far this season to the English market. Harvey invited us to make him a visit and we shook hands and said good “Good bye.” He is a regular Yankee and a tip- top good fellow, and I believe if that infernal idea that got into my head a} while ago should ever come to a head and break, I would take a little trip to Michigan. You see, 1 would have to go somewhere where I could rest for a few days, and where the old women of the Hollow would not be near to molest or make me afraid, and if I should go to Michigan, I could visit Harvey and see his store at the same time. I suppose his store is pretty slick, aeecrding to his description of it. He says our stores remind him of the country stores in the Southern States and over on the Pacific Coast—a little of everything all thrown together, without the least apparent effort to arrange or classify in view of con- He thinks there is a woeful lack of taste in the display of our goods and that we are away behind the Americans in general style. He said that our Canadian and British manufac- tured goods were homely, clumsy and devoid of elegance in style, and that they were shipped and handled too much in bulk. He told mel might step into an American shoe store, for instance, carry- ing a stock of six or eight thousand dol- lars and not see a shoe outside of the show windows. Pretty much the entire stock is carried in individual packages or cartoons. He said the very idea of placing ladies’ cowhide pegged shoes (he called our nice fine ladies’ calf skin shoes cowhide) right on the shelves exposed to the vulgar gaze or hung by the heels to a clothes line stretched along over the counter—to say nothing about puddling | mer. in bulk saleratus and indulging in other vulgarisms—was enough to make any American merchant take a solemn oath cornered one quart tin cans. But Izik sticks to it that Harvey never said any such thing; just as if it made any dif- ference to me. I never heard a Yankee talk where he had elbow-room without completely exhausting the powers of his imagination and giving a free exhibition of his wonderful faculties of invention, so if Mr. Harvey didn’t say it, it was be- cause he didn’t think of it. The population of Queen’s Hollow is about 500. The valley is about a quarter of amile wide and the village extends up over the hills on either side. Ely Nubbs keeps a grocery store on the east hill and on the west hill William Peter | Noodles keeps a general store. The | Cronk store and our own are down in the valley on either side of the creek road. Opposite the Cronk store, on the north side, is the tavern, which stands back from the street, forming a large open space in front, in the center of which stands the sign post. This post is about twenty-five feet high, with a frame about four feet square attached to the top, in which is hung the sign board. From morning till night and all through the stilly watches of the night that sign keeps up its creaking and moaning, as it swings backwards and forwards and informs the thirsty traveler that he has arrived at the ‘*‘Queen’s Hollow Retreat, by Jonas Weatherby.”? That old sign is never at rest, and Tillie says that when she wakes up in the night, the first sound that catehes her ear is that caused by the old sign, and as she listens to its — | moanings she thinks of the countless heart aches, the innumerable sobs and the bitter wailings which the business represented by that old sign has caused, and that its perpetual unrest, as it grates jon its rusty old hinges, is ominously | prophetic of the future condition of all those who are engaged in the nefarious traffic. That sounds just like a woman, |don’t it? God bless them, I wish the |men could see such visions in the night and govern themselves accordingly! I wish the devil would take after more “Tam O’Shanters” and give the women a chance to get even with him! These old-fashioned English sign-posts with their swinging sign-boards are rap- idly disappearing. One of these nights ithe boys will quietly consign this relic of the olden times to oblivion in the same | way they did the only remaining one in 'Loyaltown last Hollow E’en, and old Weatherby will look out next morning land see nothing but a stump about two ifeet high to mark the spot where stood | the hateful old landmark. Old Cronk has sold his store to a young man by the name of Josephus Gobdarn. Jo. Gobdarn’s father died pretty well off, eight years ago, providing in his will that Jo. should receive a legacy of $5,000 ISHING TACKLE — AND SPORTING GOODS FEADQUARTERS. SPALDING & 60. SUCCESSORS TO L. S. HILL’& CO. Importers, Manufacturers]} and Jobbers of Sporting & Athletic Goods. 100 Monroe &t,, AQ, 42 & 44 N. Tonia St. Grand Rapids, Mich., April 8, ’91. Having sold to Foster, Stevens & Co., of this city, our entire stock of sport- consisting of woods ing g 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 varrying on the sporting goods business our patrons will find their interests = will be well protected in their hands. the day he was twenty-one. Two years after Gobdarn’s death, his widow married , again, and Jo. remained at home just long enough to give his step-father a good thrashing. Jo. was only about fifteen years old at the time, but was tough and wiry, while his step-father was a very delicate man. Since then Jo. has roamed about a good deal and some pretty hard stories have been tuld about him from time totime. Six months ago he reached his majority and returned home from the Western States, where he had been for the last three years. About a month ago he received his legacy, since which time Cronk has been trying to sell out to him. He finally succeeded by promising to make him a deputy postmaster. Jo. thinks he can hold Cronk’s Tory trade and, by playing Western Yankee, and | hustling, or rustling, as he calls it, he | ean secure a large share of the Grit trade and make Slim & Slim slimmer and slim- We shall see. OLD MAN SLIM. >< iia | ence | Very truly yours, SPALDING & CO. Having purchased the above stock of goods and added to it very largely, and placed it in charge of William Wood- worth, who for many years was with L. 8. Hill & Co., and then Spalding & Co., we think we are now in excellent shape to supply the trade of Western Michigan. | Ten essential oil distillers of England is |intend to forma combination to control to oppose the annexation of Canada until | the limited production of what is known we pull the Southern States out of the} as ‘‘Mitcham’’ peppermint oil. mud and amputate the bumps and scrape off the moss from the mudsills we al- I think Harvey said he bought his vinegar put up in little per- fumed pink paper boxes, and that coal oil came in little red cotton sacks with a} pretty little chromo pasted on one side, | and that they had just commenced to ship factory cotton in neat little three- ready have. } | | WANTED--4 kinds of Poultry, | live or dressed. Con- | signments solicited. | F.J. DETTENTHALER, 117 Monroe Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | ST. ee TEVENS | & C: MONROg THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. = o Drugs # Medicines. Staite Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit. Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. Meetings for 1891—Ann Arbor, May 5; Star Islan (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, Detreit. Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit. Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in October, 1891. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott Regular Meetings—First 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. Rheinfrank. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President C:S. Koon; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler. THE NEW TREASURY MEASURES. | The Secretary of the Treasury has con- tributed two important items to the financial news of the past fortnight. He has changed the form of the monthly Treasury statement show a large surplus instead of the de- ficit which it otherwise might have pre- sented, and, with the advice and consent of his colleagues in the Cabinet and of the President, he has decided not to pay so as to make off the 414 per cent. Government bonds | maturing Sept. 1, but to extend them at two per cent. Of the new form of Treasury statement I have to say only that the adoption of | it seems to me to be an unnecessary and a useless complication of the public ac- counts. The purpose of the statement is toenable the publie to judge of the nation’s relative financial condition from month to If the same form is followed every month this judgment is month. easy, while so far as it departs from uniformity it confuses its readers. I know that for political purposes it is necessary sometimes to conceal if not to distort facts, but obscuration is not con- cealment, and a result which can reached by a little figuring is not thereby kept out of sight. Perhaps from my book-keeping experience I am a little quicker thau most people in analyzing a balance sheet, and I certainly shall be surprised if any oneis induced to be- lieve that there a dollar more or a dollar less in the Treasury because the figures are arranged one way rather than another. A phantom surplus will not pay real debts. be is I am not one of those who think it correct to say that the Treasury is bank- | rupt because it has not cash enough in hand to pay at once all its debts due on demand if payment of them should be demanded. Were this so, then there never was a time since the greenbacks were first issued when the Treasury was solvent. The $346,000,000 of greenbacks now outstanding are the remainder of an amount once much larger. Until 1879 no provision at all existed for their re- | demption, and since 1879 there never has been much more than $100,000,000 in coin available for the purpose. Yet the greenbacks by their terms, being payable on demand, are a demand debt, and it is only because no holder of them wants them paid that they are not presented it | undertaking to redeem the surrendered national bank circulation, against which the Government has received the nec- essary money from the banks, which, by | Statute, is no longer reckoned as a | liability. Of this surrendered currency | there is $40,000,000 outstanding, and on ; an average only $2,000,000 of it comes in 'each month. The five per cent. re- demption fund deposited by the national | banks for their live circulationis a similar |debt, only nominally due on demand. | Except upon the rare occasions when the mutilation or the defacement of the notes requires it, no call is made upon this fund. Deposits in pational banks, course, may, with propriety, be | counted as available cash. On all these points it is mere finical criticism to find fault with the Secretary’s views. A Washington despatch accompanying the new statement hints that hereafter | the Secretary will not regard outstanding | checks and drafts as demand liabilities. | L hope that this is not true. I remember | very well that when I first opened my private account with the Bank of New | York, years ago, Mr. Cornelius Heyer, | the President, said to me: ‘‘Now, young 'man, I want to warn you that I will not | allow any overdrawing. When you give | out a check deduct it from you deposits, and when you have drawn all the checks | that your deposits are good for don’t | draw any more. If you do, and I find it (out, you and I will quarrel.’? I have | never forgotten his injunction from that | time to this, and when I hear it suggested that the Secretary of the United States Treasury has the right to draw checks against an imaginary balance I do not like it. When aman gives out a check it seems to me that the money it calls for belongs to the holder of the check, and not to the drawer of it, andI think that the United States Government should take the same view of the matter. One thing must be remembered: the solvency or insolvency of the nation is not to be decided by the amount of cash it hasinits vaults. The poet Addison. when reproached with his taciturnity in society, answered, alluding to his |readiness with his pen: “I have not sixpence in my pocket, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.’’ So, our Govern- ment, even if it should be temporarily in straits for ready money, can always raise what it needs by borrowing or by taxation. Our misfortune is, that owing to the want of control over Congress by | the Executive, an adjustment of national receipts to national expenditures, such as obtains in most European states, is not the rule here. We take our financial | precautions, as an Irishman would say, after they are found to be necessary, | instead of before it so that while we are taking them we are liable to get into | trouble. | Of the decision to offer the holders of the maturing 44 per cent. bonds the privilege of extending them at 2 per jcent., I think there can be only an ap- {Proving opinion. As I showed four weeks ago, and as the facts plainly de- monstrate now, the Treasury will be put | to its trumps to meet the demands upon lit during July and August without im- pairing its $100,000,000 gold reserve, | of for payment. The same is true of many; and if it undertook to pay the whole of other elements of the public debt. They consist of claims which nobody desires | to enforce, and which may, therefore, for practical purposes, be treated as not enforceable. Such, for example, is the ; the $51,000,000 of 414 per cents on Sept. 1, it could not avoid the impairment. I | have none of the superstitious reverence | for this golden $100,000,000 which many have, and Ido not see why a part of it might not be used temporarily and then replaced later on. human nature, and its whims must be respected by the statesman. into the $100,000,000 gold fund would | alarm so many people that if it can be avoided by the simple expedient of pay- ing two per cent. interest for a year or SO on $51,000,000, it ought to be. Itisa question in my mind whether the mea- sure will succeed, but as sixty days more will settle it, I will not discuss the pros and cons of it now. As to the idea, that, by furnishing a basis for additional bank circulation, it will considerably increase that circulatlon, a mere in- spection of the figures will show its fallacy. There are less than $25,000,000 of the bonds available for the purpose altogether. To buy them the banks must pay par for them in cash, and when they deposite them in the Treasury they will get notes for only 90 per cent. of their face value, besides paying in an- other 5 per cent. to the Redemption Fund. This will leave only 85 per cent. of the investment to be used for loans, upon which the tax of 1 per cent. per an- num on circulation reduces the profit to less than 7 per cent. on the 15 percent. of capital locked up. I doubt very much whether many banks will be anxious to go into the operation, and even if enough of them should do it to utilize the whole $25,000,000 of bonds, the additional cur- rency furnished would be only $22,500,- 000. People are very properly dissatisfied with the extravagance of the last Con- gress, and with the embarrassment into which it has brought the Treasury, but the evil is not entirely unmixed, as I re- marked three years ago of the piling up of the surplus, then equally complained of. The surplus, it is true, was drawn from the circulation, and in that respect was a disturbing element. Still its accumulation compelled economy on the part of the people as taxpayers, and much of it went to pay off and cancel the national debt. The rest of it has now been returned to the public, and it has supplied most, if not all, of the gold which Europe has taken from us during the last four months, thereby relieving her without distressing us. Besides this, unless lam misinformed, the West and Southwest has been so well supplied with currency as the result of the recent liberal Treasury disbursements that the usual drain upon this center for money to move the crops will not be so severe as it otherwise would be. This resource, to be sure, will not avail a second time. The surplus is gone and it will be a long time before we shall have another, but for the present it has averted a great calamity. Had it not been for the hoarded gold which the Treasury op- portunely poured out, our money mar- ket would have to suffer for the benefit of that on the other side of the Atlantic. Now both are ina comfortable condition. Asto the effect upon the stock market and upon business generally of the Government’s new financial measures, I know that my readers would like to be informed, and I would like to inform them if I could doit with anything like absolute confidence in the correctness of my judgment. The nearest I can come to itis to repeat that the probafilities are all in favor of higher prices and of greater activity. We have had eight months of inaction and expection, and it is not in human nature to keep quiet much longer. But human nature is | A cutting | Let our crops only meet the expectations entertained of them, let the currency | question be settled one way or another —no matter which so long as itis set- tled—and the machine will begin to move. Whatever any kind of property or se- curity is really worth at this moment, it will in my judgment be worth more next spring. Only be sure that it is really worth what you are going to pay for it before you buy it. MATTHEW MARSHAL, > ____ Forty-five out of Eighty-three. At the meeting of the Michigan Board of Parmacy, held at Star Island on July 7, there were eighty-three persons ex- amined, of which twenty-one passed as Registered Pharmacists, and twenty-four as Assistant Registered Pharmacists. The list of successful candidates is as follows: REGISTERED PHARMACISTS, Harry W. Andrews, Adrian. Ward N. Choate, Jackson. Frank W. Blair, Birmingham. James E. Doyle, Middleville. Thomas Reed Ellis, Port Huron. Bion E. Foley, Lakeview. Elizabeth Golden, Fenton. William S. Gregg, Detroit. Henry A. Herzer, East Saginaw. William Hyslop, Detroit. Max Magdelener, Detroit. Adam Newell, Burnip’s Corners. T. E. Reily, North Branch. Fred W. Richter, Niles. William S. Savage, East Saginaw. Will E. L. Smith, Fenton. Wilbur Sylvester, Port Huron. Michael VanVleit, Detroit. George Von Nostitz, Detroit. Claude White, Lakeview. Purvis S. Wilson, Dresden, Ont. ASSISTANT PHARMACISTS. James A. Ardiel, Grand Rapids. Albert J. Beaudette, Windsor, Ont. Daniel H. Bryant, Detroit. Wade B. Camburn, Hanover. Frank Connell, Belding. Charles W. Culbertson, Ridgeway. Fred W. Dearlove, Mayville. Mark F. Drehmer, Marlette. George P. Heimberger, Detroit. Myron N. Henry, Greenville. Harney H. Hilliard, Hartford, Oscar A. Marfilens, East Saginaw, Marlin A. Millard, Gaines. Nicholas D. Morrish, Sault Ste. Marie. Rich A. Patrick, Detroit. Rolfe S. Patrick, Cassapolis. Oscar Peterson, Muskegon. Joseph Prybyloski, Détroit. John Stewart, Marlette. Saxe E. Stimson, Chelsea. Alex Stuart, Windsor, Ont. Walter Van Arkle, Muskegon. Thomas B. Welch, Strathroy, Ont. Rollins C. Winslow, West Branch. The election of officers of the Board for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President—Jacob Jesson. Secretary—James Vernor. Treasurer—George Gundrum. 2 Not So Silent. A drummer in a Grand Rapids store was making some inquiries about the merchant’s business. ‘You run the establishment alone, I notice,’’ he began. “160.” ‘“‘Anybody with you?’’ “Yep.” “His name doesn’t sign?’’ “Nope.” “Ah! a silent partner!” ‘“‘Not much! It’s my wife.” —_ The Drug Market. Opium is dull and weak. unchanged. Quinine is lower for foreign brands. Domestic is unchanged. Bo- racic acid has declined. Cream tartar has declined. Blue vitrol is lower. Lin- seed oil has declined. Turpentine is appear on your Morphia is lower. Long buchu leaves have advanced. Oil orange is high- Hemp seed is lower. Croton oil is lower. er. THE MICHIGAN TRADES) TAN. Wholesale Price Penaie. Advanced—Long buchu leaves, oil orange. Declined—Boracic acid, Malaga oil, croton oil, cream tartar, hemp seed, blue vitriol, German } quinine, linseed oil, turpentine. ACIDUM. Doatieges ...4........- 8@ 10 Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 Deekee ....<.-...---.- 20 Carbolicum ..........- 23@ 35 Coereenm .......... 5... 58@ 60 Hydrochior 3@- 5 Nitrocum 10@ 12 Oxalicum ....... 1@ 13 Phosphorium dil...... 20 Salicylicum ..........- 1 36@1 70 Sulphuricum.. 1%@ 5 Tannicum......,..+-+- 1 40@1 60 Tartaricum...........- 40@ 42 AMMONIA. Aqua, 76 deg.......... 84@ 5 : a @og.........-. 54@ 7 Carhones ............. BO Chloridum .......----- 12@ 14 ANILINE, ae. --- Brown.. moe... be is ........-...-.-- " BACCAE. Cubeae (po. 90). Juniperus ....... Xanthoxylum ... BALSAMUM, —— cebe de pascaeree 55@ 60 acs epee @i 7% Terabin, Canaga ....- 35@ 40 Tolutan .......--- a. oe CORTEX. Abies, Canadian.........--- 18 COMMAS ..... +2005 sone ce seee 11 Cinchona Flava ....-.------ 18 Euonymus atropurp......-- 30 Myrica Cerifera, po.....---- 20 Prunus Virgini......-------- 12 a. eed...... 14 Sassafras 14 Ulmus Po (Ground ey. ns. 10 EXTRACTUM. Glyc rrhiza Glabra... M@ 2% RN ae ae 33@ 35 Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11@ 12 TB cece eae 13@ 14 ' MM teeta 14@ 15 . BEM, one cu ae 16@ 17 FERRUM Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Citrate and Quinia.. @3 50 Citrate Soluble......-- @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.. @ 30 Solut Chloride......--. @ 15 Sulphate, com’l.....-- 1%@ 2 pure......--- eo Tf FLORA ee 18@ 2 Anthemis ..........--- 20 25 Matricaria —_si«« ss B@ FOLIA Barons .....-------- 70 a *, cutifol, Tin- MmAVGLIY ....-- .------- 25@ 28 i - . Alx. 3@ W Salvia officinalis, 4s Se 12@ 15 Tee Une.....-.-.;.---- 8@ 10 @UMMI. aL 1 00 Acacia, ist —- : $ " 15@ 20 Ipecac, pO........-.--- 2 40@2 50 Iris plox (po. 35@38).. 32@ 35 oeiape, pr............- HQ 45 Maranta, \{8.......... @ 3 Podophyllum, po. ieee 15@ 18 ee... ee. 75Q@1 00 ge i @1 75 _ a 75Q@1 35 spig ec aes a 48@ 53 Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ Ww a Lee ee oe 40@ 45 a 50@ 55 Similex, Officinalis, H @ 40 M @ Ww Sciilas, Go. %)....--.- 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Foati- aie. oO. ............. @ 3 Valeriana, Eng. (po. ” @ German. 15@ 20 fagiper &.........-..- 10@ 15 Bineiper j........... R@ B SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20).. ..-. @ 15 Apium (graveleons).. 22Q 2% ae 4@ 6 Carul, (pe, 15) .-...---- 8@ 12 Cardamon Lk 1 00@1 25 Coranearam.........-. 10@ 12 Cannabis Sativa....... 1@4% OO aaa 75@1 00 Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate...... 2 00@2 25 Foeniculum........... @ 15 Foenugreek, po....... 6@ 8 DOE oc ec enc euneses 4@%4% Lint, a (bbl. 3%).. -4 @4% Lob 35@ 40 Phariaris Canarian.. | 3%4@ 4% ee oo Tf sinapis, i 1 oa 8 Piee........ 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, a D. Co..2 00@2 50 e..... 1 75@2 00 ees 1 10@1 50 Juniperis Co. O. T 1 T5@1 75 Meera 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50 Vini Oporto .........-- 1 25@2 00 Ving Al. .......-..... 1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool | Garriage............. 2 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ wool carriage ...........- 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage....... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ Garringe ........--..- 85 = sheeps’ wool Car- MD os. cen mone cnen 65 Hard for slate use. ris) Yellow Reef, for slate MUNG ace cece aren sres 1 40 SYRUPS. etd eee ee 50 Bingiber ............-.-.-+-- 50 ee ee 60 es ee 50 Auranti Cortes............-- 50 eee 50 Similax Officinalis.......... 60 “ “ce Co 50 50 50 50 50 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 | “ _ ry... 50 | Alege... ............. se. 60 | “ and myirh............ 60 | ree 8.5... 50 Menton... .....-. 0 Atrope Sennen: 60 Benzoin. oo. ee EN! 50 no 50 os chee i cae u se 50 COMIDAIIOCR. 6.65. 06..6ces TOT MTR oe ci eg assy Oe Oe Gage. 6. 40.004...) i Co...............-. Ti ON oc es icc suse... 1 00} Oo 50 eee 50 | : Co. ................ GO} Cre ........... eee eee 50 | Comes gc 5G Cubeba.. 50 Co 50 Eerwot. ... 50 Gentian ... 50 | | a... 60 | Cuetce .......... 50 | ‘“ ammon 60 | Zingiber .... 50 | Hyoscyamus 50 | os......... 75 | . Colorless... % | er? Chlori@in............ 35 ere eee sce scenes 50 Lobelia 50 Myrr 50 i vl... 50 ee 85 " Comphorated........... 50 ec 2 00 BorentiCortes........-.... & IN oc coun ne eeu 50 a 50 ee. 50 Cassia Acutifal............ . c Ce.......... oe Rerpentaria .......,......... 50 Siasoene........ ss Melgta .............. .-.... oe 50 Veratrum Verde............ 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Aather, Spts Nit, sY.. so 2m . 4F.. ®@ & Alum ee... 24%@ 3 ground, (po. 7)... 36 «(4 Aapoetie............... 55@ 60 Antimoni, “ oe 4G 5 Potass T. 55@ 60 ialleitin. ae on @1 40 Ce ee a @ 2 Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 68 Areerete ... .... ... Ss 7 Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@ Bismuth S. W........ 2 10@2 20 were Cc hlor, 1s, (48 1; By one e ese e@ 3: Conbiaetacs Russian, OO 5 oe. @i 20 Capsici Fructus, af... @ 2 oe ae ES @ on e “a @ 20 Caryophyllus, ape Po) 12@ 13 Carmine, ho. @....... @3 7 Cera Alba, S. & F..... 50@ 55 Core Peeve............ 38@ 40 oe @ 40 Cassia see eueaees @ 20 a @ 10 Cetaceum . oo @ 42 Chloroform Lo aes 60@ 63 ia uibbs .. @1 10 Chloral Hyd ‘Crst auc 1 — = ere... ss... Cinchonidine, raw tt 30 German 3%@ 12 Corks, list, dis. per MO vice ce ease. 60 Creemostme ........... @ 50 Crete, (00. we) ........ a inn wom. 3. 5@ 5 yee. ....... @ il * Dee... 2... @ & ae 28 30 ae ee @ 2 Cup Sulph...........- 5@ 6 Do ne 10@ 12 Ether Sulph.. 68@ 7 Emery, & I numbers. @ Ergota, ( po.) ee Flake W. TED oie cece as Co Gelatin, Cogner.....-. ch 40@ Glassware flint, 70 and 10. by box 60and 10 Glue, Brown.......... 9@ 15 ~ Wree........... 183@ 2 Glycerina ............. 17 @ B Grana Paradis!........ @ 2 aa Q 55 Hydraag Be — @ #9 @ 80 Y Ox aca @1 060 - Ammoniati.. @1 10 . Unguentum. 44@ 55 2 i@varavrai ......... @ 7 chthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 1oaie cic ca ce ewan T5@1 00 lodine, Reenel......<. 3 75@3 85 Togotorm.............. @4 7 Pepin .....-......... 3@ 40 L — bei aseee ee 4@ 48 WO oy eee ene 80@ 85 go Arsen et Hy- ieee @ 2 iar oun Arsinitis 10@ 12 _— Sulph (bbl PUG iat dec eevee 2@ Mannia, 6. F.....-.-. 50@ 60 Morphia, S. P. & W...2 05@2 20] Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 2|Lindseed, boiled .... 46 49 SN. ¥. @ & ae... ........... @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter a 1 —. 20 “ on @ 30 | strained ... 50 60 Moschus Canton...... @ one. Mace: “aboy, ‘De Spirits Turpentine. . 42 50 ) Myristica, No. 1....... as an @ 35| : | Nux Vomica, (po20).. @ 10 Snuff, "Scotch, De. Voes @ 35} PAINTS. bbl. 1b. Oa Senta 30 | Soda Boras, (po. 13). . 12@ 13) Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 | Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart. 30@ 33} Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 Co . @2 00 | Soda Carb............ | eg SR Ber. 134 2@3 — Lig, N. C., % ‘gal Soda, Bi-Carb. .. @_ 5/| Putty, commercial....2% 24@3 Ce. @2 00 | Soda, Ash. | eee 4] SereCtly ouke. . 2% 23,@3 Picis Liq., quarts ..... @1 00| Soda, Sulphas........... @ 2} Vermilion Prime Amer pints .. . @ 8&8) Spts. EtherCo........ a 56| ican..... .- 13@16 Pil Hydrarg,* (po. 80). @ 50} “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 % | Vermilion, English... T0@™H Piper Nigra, (po. 22). @ 1 ‘© Myrcia Imp... . @3 00; Green, Peninsular. F0QT5 | Piper Alba, (po ¢5) . @ 3 Vini Rect. bbl Lead, red........ 7 @i*% | Pie Borgun.... @ Tt 222).. @2 37 white ..... - 7 @i% Plant Acct .........- 14@ 15 Less 5e gal., ‘cash ten days. Whiting, white Span.. @i0 Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Stryc hnia Crystal..... @1 30| Whiting, Gilders’. . @% Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, Subl.........3 @4_ | White, Paris eata 1 00 ‘& P. D. Co., doz..... @1 2% a 24%@ 3%| Whiting, Paris Eng. Pyrethrum, pv........ 30@ 35 | Tamarinds . ae 10) em... 1 4¢ Quasaias 6... 8@ 10] Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30 Pioneer Prepared Paint! 20@1 4 Guinis, 5. FP. & W....- 33@ 36 | Theobromae .......... 45@ 5C| Swiss Villa Prepared | German....22 a mi Vaniie 9 00@16 00; Paints -.+e++.1 0O@1 2 Rubia Tinctorum.. 19 14/ Zinci Sulph.. ......-. 7@ 8 | VARNISHES. Saccharum Lactispv. @ 33 | No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 Salstie....6.. es... 1 80@1 85 OIL8. | Extra Turp ss a+ 2-160Q1 7 | Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gal | Coach Body. w+2-2 TQS 00 | Santonine ee 4 50} Whale, winter........ 70 70 | No.1 Turp Ft urn......1 00@1 10 Sapa, W.........-...-. 12@ 14} Lard, extra 55 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 6@ eM... .-...-..---. 10@ + 12/ Lard, No. I.... cc. £ 50| Japan Drver, No. 1 « eo 4. @ 15| Linseed, pureraw.... 43 a6) Pore 70@ 7 HAZELTINEG & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES. DEALERS IY Paints, Oils 2s Varnishes. Sele Agents for the Celebrated W188 WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. Full Line of Staple Broggists Sundries We are Sole Propricters of Weatherlu’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy. We Have in Stock and Offer » Full Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES,; GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction. All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. in a trial order. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Go, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERIES. Imitation Coffee from the Refuse of | Dutch Cheese. Only a short time ago the fact that a. large quantity of imitation coffee was | being sold was exposed. This worthless | stuff was a very cheap counterfeit, and could easily be detected by an observant person. But the country is also being flooded with a perfect imitation of the coffee bean. A representative of a New York firm which makes coffee roasters in that city, says an enormous amount of counterfeit coffee is being sold. He said there was one imitation which a sharp-eyed St. Louis merchant, who has been in the coffee business for years, failed to detect. The drummer said this kind is made in Holland, and is being sent to this country in.ship loads. The imitation beans are so perfect that none | but the most experienced judges of cof- fee can tell it is not genuine. It is made of the refuse of cheese and is perfectly | harmless, although worthless. The imi-| tation bean takes on a beautiful color when roasted, and does not dissolve in water. Itis given the aroma of coffee. This is obtained from certain chemicals, as there is no coffee in the composition of the counterfeit beans. One of the ways in which the stuff is foisted on the | people is by certain unscrupulous coffee- roasting firms, he said. A lot of coffee is | taken to such a place to be roasted. The | imitation coffee is then substituted for} the genuine and the customer is thus de- frauded. There are other ways of get- |; ting the ‘‘manufactured’’ coffee in the hands and cups of the people. 2 - <> “et te Money in Raisins, | There is money in the raisin business in California, aceording to the Fresno Expositor, which says: The sum paid for one year’s crop on some of the vineyards amounts to a small fortune. The purchaser of the Goodman vineyard is offered $12,000 for the crop on the vines. There are 140 acres in the |} vineyard. This is more than $85 per| acre, with no expense for picking and | drying. This $85 pays an income of 10} per cent. on a valuation of $850 per acre for the vineyard. The crop on the Ken- nedy vineyard has been given an offer still better. The vineyard has about 150 acres in vines and $15,000 is offered for | the crop before it is picked. This is| $100 per acre, and it is equal to an in-| eome of 10 per cent. on a valuation of $1,000 per acre. This ought to be an eternal refutation of the charge that the raisin industry is | overdone. It is only in its infancy. If | a capitalist would search from one end of the land to the other, it would be hard to find an enterprise that would pay so large an interest on the capital invested as the raisin vineyards pay. Herein California the raisin business pays ten- fold that on the actual capital invested. These vineyards that are worth $1,000 an acre have cost actually much less. That is, the man who planted them and waited a few years—a very few years— has not spent anything like that much on them. They have grown into a large capital, and now they are paying an in- come of 10 per cent. on that capital. a a a Curious Position of Coffee. From the National Grocer. The new crop year commenced on July 1, but itis along time since the coffee situation was in such a curious condition | as it is to-day. It is generally under- stood that the quantity of coffee will be very large, although some of the con- servative estimates are not quite so high as they were some months ago. It is quite evident, however, that the amount of coffee that will be available the com- ing year will be much larger than in recent years. The weakness in the dis- | tant months indicate that the trade have confidence in lower prices and there is every reason to believe that we should have lower prices than are ruling now. The smallness of the spot supply is without doubta very curious coincidence, and at the present time it is the strength of the situation. If it were not for the} prospect in supplies we should certainly | have coffee at famine prices. No doubt! | where the hand-turn ifuture are coming from. The modern | young | apprentice of some years ago, who signed |a compact to work for $25 a year and | grade teas, spices, | 304 North by the trade will welcome a return to the | even markets of the past, as lower prices means increased consumption and larger | profits. oo ¢s— Quart and Half Gallon Jars Higher. Jobbers in fruit jars have advanced quarts 50 cents per gross and half gal- lons $1 per gross, the price being now as follows: Pints. es $11.50 Quarts... tee score eteeat reece ck aacce ae alf gallons. ee ee cL 16.00 eee ae Shoemaking has changed much in this section during the past twenty-five years. There is no such thing as apprentices at present. No young man can be found who will bind out himself in order to learn the shoemaking business. It is | one of the problems for somebody to tell workmen of the man would hardly imitate the found. The young man who cannot now | start out with a $15 weekly job on a | machine ina shoe factory has the opinion that life is a failure. ——- >> -* > For the finest coffees in the world, high etc., see J. P. Visner, Ionia street, Grand Rapids, Mich., general representative for E. J. Gillies & Co., New York City. 'Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS, No.0 Sun.. 45 No. 1 50 |No.2 * | Tubular 7 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. Peewee CT 1% oie 1 88 os CS... 2 70 First quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top ee bee eee eee. 2 No. 1 Cl No ity ‘es ‘ec xxx Flint. No. : Sun, crimp top ee No. “ 3 No.2 “ ‘“ “ Pear] top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and fabeled eee 3 70 _ eee aaa ie 47 2 Hinge, ” _ eda es 4 70 o Bastic No. 1 Sun, ‘plain bulb, per — ots cee eee ee, 1 2 No. 2 —. No. i crimp, per, Gon... 35 No 60 FRUIT JARS. Mason’s or Lightning. RO ee cheba eee tees ee 11 50 ere eee whe 12 50 ee EE ee 16 00 ieee htaccess 55 oe ee 4 50 STONEWARE—AKRON. eee ee, ee ee... cs 06% ee a Oe 7 . 2 & ented nee see 90 - ' oy eee eee dae ele ak —? = Milk Pans, % gal., per | doz. Poa be ns : 78 ENGRAVING It paysto illustrate your business. Portraits, Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories, Machinery, etc., made to order from photo- | graphs, THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Green, 75¢ per box. Beans—Dry beans are firm and in strong de- mand at $2 per bu. for choice hand picked. Wax and string command 75c 3 bu. Butter—The market is full all around, dealers Se only for immediate wants at 10@15c. Blackberries—10@12c per at. Celery—2ic per doz. bunches. Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $1.50 @2 per crate, according to size. Cherries—81. 50@#1.75 per bu., for red or white. Cucumbers—30¢e. per doz. Eggs—The market is a little higher. pay 15 and hold at 1é6c. Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb. Lettuce—ic for Grand Rapids Forcing. Onions—Green command 10@15c. 3 doz., ac- cording to size. Southern command & per bbl. Potatoes—The merket is plentifully — with early Ohio stock, which sells readily at | $2.75 per bbl. Southern Illinois are hela at 90¢ per bu. Pieplant—2c per Ib. Peas—5(@75c per bu. Radishes—In plentiful supply, but little call for stock. Raspberries—8@9c per qt. Tomatoes—$i 25 for 4 basket crate of fancy Acme. Watermelons—Stock is in plentiful supply at Dealers $3 per dozen. POULTRY. Local dealers pay as follows for live weight: Deru Cpckeie. 2... ss... co... se 18 @15 Pell GCuickons...... eee thee ec 7%@ 8 Co, a a Spring NE 10 @i2 ee Sees 2. ee beetle eee ei ee @ 9 PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. moe: wee, ee 11 25 ae Geer eee, et e.............--..-. 13 50 a en ee eee, ee 17 7 meebo Clear, aor, Gus... ................2. 13 00 Clear back, short cut.........0.0ssecseeeee 13 00 Standard clear, short cut, best............ 13 00 sAUsaGE—Fresh and Smoked. Pe ee 7 ee ee ee a Le 2 ems Damen. .... .........- _s Frankfort Sausage a eer 5 es 5 ee, 5 ee ene... oe, 5 LaRD—Kettle Rendered, i ee oy oa... 84 LARD. Com- Family. pound Tee... o. a 6% ean O01. Teee............0.5 6% 6% Sim. Palle, 3 in & Caee.......... 7% 7% Sib. Fei, Sipe coee.;......... 7% T4 20 Th. Pals, 6 in 8 Case........... 74 64% 20 i>. Fei. 4im @ Geee..........7 644 A ee 6% 634 BEEF IN BARRELS, Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs. . Extra Mess, Chicago packing.. ae re eee ........................ SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average ic ed 9% Bee 9% ' . mee PEI 10 . Ree ca 7 ' re, 8% Re eine 6% Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 8% es eee, ee ees... 1044 Long Clears, ei 6% Briskets, MEnG ee me PO ee ee: 7 FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: me i 5 @7 . a quarters haek echo iduep eudy coed 6%G@ 7% ae 3%@ 4% - en mae... @2 EO 8 @8% - eee 6 @7 vl ee ee ecu eee es @ ES @5 Pe i @ 9% oo ae Sausage, meee OF Mee... @5 cca deed eee es oe @ 5 ee @™% ee ee 7 @8 oe ee @ 6 FISH and OYSTERS. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. Lg ES SEA ee ERS La @s Te ik eee cies ce, @8 ce eel eee ec @15 CN rien ak otk ae vied wun ooh eens s @5 eee acta ee, @9 ee el @10 nace aca thE nT Her an gp ere ER Gl ae @2% ee ic ret cess ekngs Ghee bias ewes e @i2 rer Oe @2 OYSTERS—Cans. Weereeven Counee.. @40 SHELL GOODS. — per Ps cke seb se cae 150 i chnbae ices ae kabies 100 : é CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails, —, — BS asec c asd pee 6% 7% EROS SESE nee 6% 7% es Relat — 6% 7% Me cc. Co 9% NO RU ee ee ee ee ee Ul 7% 8% meee ec... 1% 8% MIXED CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. eee se 6% 7%, IE oie ors cere en woe seen: cae o% 7% ae 8 Pe es 7 8 ee oc ise ie eee 7% 8% aie ee i ca eee 7% 8% Dee weer... 7% 8% eh 7 eenen peaer........... 7% 8% dene ee RT 9 ae rt ees ee ces oes 10 Promo (renee, ot... 104% Valioy sows... 5 13% FraNnoy—In bulk. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. Lozenges, en 10% 11% rinted i 12% IS Foe ieee eee scene 12% Chocolate Monumentals... : 14 og, ee Sion _s 6% Moss Drops.. 7 9 Sour Drops.. us 0 9% i ak eee cee ces en cacy ..10% 11% Pancy—in 5 lb. boxes. Per — TE TN oa ec tees i a Drops Badetareat sreerrteconreremvenntneests tS TO I Chocolate Drops.......... oe cele c ee oo ches Coe Oe, Oe eee PORE. eee csi. ee -90 ee hetdaee 4c 40@50 — ee 1 00 I 80 Lozenges, ee, ee 65 i vee 70 PU ecg es ee 65 aide cbse eee e be he ccue 75 fo! a a = Roe eee... ieee Seo Crees... ....... Ges Cee ee 80@90 ee ee ose eee L Lees 40 purgh marrof: | & < : | Russian, Sardines. 3 50@4 00 Cubes CE @ ax oe nga 1 = “ early cia ae lg 1, e Tradesman.” N egs ale see imam ae @ 1% Here I : ‘ a | oa oma a aa ina hh | Granulated... : : 2d T BRICK. Hamb aad hampion i - 50 | 82 per hundred | No 1, % bbls. =o : ——— en @ a Old e bao : _—— ozen in case. Soak aoe pois i... : 3, Oe ee 2 00 | no, I, kits, 10 ibs waned '; Wh ee : cS “ee : = : Bee i soa y sifted... 1 %5 : a 2 ae ee Ht Poa. aac, Se 6 i Ho pee ND ‘ Beaamaise. nee Un NE 90 7 — pepe ee itted.. "190 Hi a ; Ss an a : % pele $0 Ibe oe : is a so : . i i eecccoes m ¢ eecccccve ay ‘s ; cose eee : . 2a : " oi lard eM 65 | =, Se 3 00 | Fam kits, 10 lbs Me 7 08! wali .... SS @ 4% 33 retic, 402 ovals. G ce Arcl Ei eeens i ele ie pertain 400} aily, } 4 bbis., 90 bs... : op — pa a 5 : ...... TOSS Arc 1er sarly Jur a. 1. pe ena) 5 ( | kits s oe] CLOW a 344@ 354 ometl Good : a neg 4 en EF vane Early Se eae .: 3 30 : >. — hundred ior.” 00 we atti 10" — 3 sii than 100 lbs. ce ate f 3% ier v ee oe = — | = : ea 1m) eb cc... 2 Jentr agi TR: wv | STAR >advance Out of re No. 3 sifting oe 50 French —_—— a 1 80 | 810, ‘ 7 ae 3 00 | 2 02 fol o Tem m oll = 3 = s i a ; ¥ 7 nie Pumpkin a 1718 | , “ no sees i i 7 el 4 oy ding box... . 3 Vi — 40-lb fe .. 6 — Smoking. 25° 4 en il .... 5.00) 402 ‘ 125" LTE ee) 2 ‘ | . = = = Sa ; 6 00 6 07 c 1 so : 50 sn “ees . 64%! Ba sc Ce a... ae . | 8 02 “ 2 00 = | ee * : = 3 00 ib ‘ 6 ig Bee. 1’ a 1% Hamburg uccotash. a : = 3S 2 00 — - ene t —_ ee POWDER. 4 (0 | and 50 Ib. boxes nN ox ito ney & pain me 2 25 oO Be . =o | : Parlor Gem See 2 4 ney ago pons 8 Sa - as as a = | Scotch, a. : os 3 = Whisk... sesccece ~ j Yan Camp's snes — 16 oa Nadcetowee os si” er | Maceabor, = — 7 Si — ea . ¢ No. Collins oe eetesirertas | ences ee i : : c= MIM oo ooe cos tcseceenes 120 No, Collins.......0++--+ss++- : <= ) = Ait 12 . penta ee O RIS 1 “Univ Chica: JELLIES. 25 in Jars. “< ou eet en a : cS | a niversal.” go goods Alle SOAP. a om and coer teense : 2 2 eee : = i nee panded. am, No LAMP WI on @A Old ¢ rh B. Wrisley’s k Brier Pipe POTTY seccae soe : York — ' FLOUR. a lidaenee penne 1 ee g2 50| No.1 ' oe ; ai, : i : ae “ esse s = eee c nl ie. 30 | ea o op | Re m YUM seers essteeess eee 30 8 arta aR Premi a Sweet.. ER’S. eee 1 00 ag Seen ea 40 | a 3 : re oo : Le a ee Pu aaa a 99 | 8 5 00| P alee oa | Boxe to _..3 00 Handmad Mes. 7 : 2 o aa | oe ne. .. CORICE. . 8 Be A Hae nade suas Star, ws — Breakfast sere | b Bulk orders f LOE TT ? = Calabria... secueneean 30 | — iat oe eo : ae | es i 7 CHEESE oe i 40 | ee an tee coupon ete gee a : S = fs * ; = E IMO «a osee econ eee 2 | NOY. or Lenawee 3 i our scunent| centneed, Re. fq | ore a es = Shapes Lenawee..... @ 9% | fg bar over. ollow- Condensed, cae .- 18] Jranulated, boxes... I 1% | oa i , CANNE an. wr ae 1000 vrs sos 5 Der cent No. 9 = = oo . |e aoc : — : z 7 : oo 10 po Begs on ° a eee 4%@ 6 ret , per gal MUSTARD —. . ee CRA he ‘ No. 2h So 1 65 | HAMATY «2. sees ee —— Little N Clam Bedam 5 93 ©+«| Kenos ACKERS. ee Oo gpseiageeearati tae 17 CAMATY «000s cose sesso 10 | Tin foil. sr_Compre i e Neck, 1 _. 5 Famerted a 2 @!1 00 00 | fommoue Butter...... port parior......--.--.--- 1 10 | Anise... : . me si 3 cl Si 1 10 cae nt isa 25 | Seymour ees eess soo MM, MOLASSES se teeeee 4 25 Rape .... besee. a ph Se = = ‘ : : ae s Sia none tCkStBP- ae “— P b. sooo eel ie Rubb WING | «© bi ranean eRe Se AT UC — vad Gove Oysters. er, @uM. iB ees | nee ‘ os 7 . Standard, oe --2 30), “ 100 lumps a 35 —— LC esa i cae i ae = : : : = ai. So aeaves 1 10 pruce,’200 pieces. ...... “a ie Soda. a ih... noe. ee 7% Prime iwichicn 19 | 60 5-Ib. — Ty aoe =e . Star, 1 lb obsters. 2k Snider’ CATSUP. wee eeeees na 8. Geen Soot i a FE Dub. os ; : ke a5 ees T's, % Lo. i anise 6 a, ¢ 20 14-1b. a ee 9 95 | Rag suga nsean ens stent eee - Picnic, 1 NL LAN 2 45 ce pling esas 13% © oes a 5% | Fair New fo 93 | § oan ne _ ee = Ib.....-.- cane 3 45 a ee 2 39 | Strictly ag TARTAR. a... wi | Os 1b: ass i th Pu ge coe | = "13 BO Telf ure... oe ad oes 7|> b. inen bags 50 | Dry ¢ paapes bse a 3 a i ne oo Ec oona gaa g oe pa or 50 | dt +oods ee tandard, — oO) aun ae ai ena 40 Grocers’ ene LE = ay ean 3 a = = = oem ee SLL a es -— oo ee cccccccccee an | ae | ss Mustard 3 Pog de : 29 | Pound packages. Le. ig ...10@15 One half barrels. 3c é ni 30 | sip n linen bags. . 35 | : = _ ; ~ = 2 ee @4 DRIED FRU B ——— 3¢ extra 36 | 56 Ib. d Ashto ‘“ 13 | 48.C oe oe 4 Soused, a ‘ eee Q7 Iv arre MEAL. a », dairy ba TT on —— : = i = 33 aa Sundried Apples. S. Half ners ee ao 56 Ib a i ibs otton, No. i eA RE 25 Columbia River, ta --. a OO GREEN Evaporated Le eee ace H psc 00. Leow os e 88 | a saa = e 3 =< 3 Alaska, 1 lb r flat a 1 85 a. a Rio. Ap California Ev seeee ei Half bbls 90.... een 88 | 56 Ib. ate ar Rock 7 ao 5 ata assorted. a ee a 1 | x00) poet een te r | rekbert — 2 | : | our oso + oe eee + — Blackberries an ated. - wioai | com ee and Manistee. a” Wool oe : a dines ; a oe an pen : ; : : ius | American 8. _— 90 — : mo Peaches! a a ag na ay | | Dwight — ie Sa sf fa : : : ia ite : sa pepsin +++ R208 cone a 3 rrels, 600 count.... $6 50 wight Arm & Hamn Nos ported %48...... . @ 8 Fair...... Santos. ee a _— aT > (ns a. " ae : = a : : : Mustard as eal 11@12 Good «..... red eeeese sees mp1 runes, pweet cue eo @i9 — barr ts, ian se is ' : i : / pee a ee i sees sees iy scr eae 10 rels, 1,200 aeeaa | 7501a és Cap “Sheaf.. 25M c © No. ce hoop.. 5 00 Brook, 3 1b roe @10 el "SMP aTELnE a | Turkey PRUNES. Clay, No. 21 a ne... 40 . | Golden aes Seseea ce ‘5% oe 5 gr. DOxes = os | ; T. m1G.....--.- | eo 112 BM heaping, 8 oes. 75 an 2 501 Good Guatemala, e 8 Cob, i. B, full coun. ee 1 75 | Barrel — ao : i si 7 : = tu. ne ie, 1B eee eee ae a. oS 32 | Lemon... PEEL @? |, pack: corse 13) Hale bbis..2... Ta = | ere i “ | Maracaibo, cee ia ? a. rage | | fn Santa Apricots. 3 = Prime Maracaibo 12RD | 18 rolina end | Fancy ari camel : = = : Lusk’ creek... .: 8. ’ Prime... .0..00s000>- In drum CITRON. 18 “ No. 1 TE 7 Fancy ae _ | Baskets, m 15s, 17s anc 9s 2 50 — re aa ee ae 201% | je... Broke a ge 6 | a " a D | rie = sore : nal joe 2314 mea NL @18 cote eee co ooes 5 | Ginger Smaps... GooDs. @30 ‘s willow a aia 35 a ee 5 it | Zante, in Boag @2% | Japan, No. i mported, eae a vonen + _ ow cl’ths, Si ;: 50 ee : ; co oe in els.... No Bidce decease | Grat ‘reams oe gy | “ i No2 6 : sa sees e —-—- pt) lagna 64s | i nes... “lull “« Nos 6 25 Pated tans sees — —— "osha eee oe less quantity g 516 fava. 5% | Oatmeal C — | 4 o 8 : : ; es = : en ogee ine alifornta 5% ROOT BEER ed | Jettine, Fs mati 3 | < meee 25 eoseeoece « te ae a % 3 | | : | a : : raph ee | » 2 ern 2 00 25 cent ja iams’ Extra | z. in box. _, | GRAINS 35 00 ee 2 r ae a oe | i : . 2 2 3 dozen oa ct. | TEAS. 5 AINS and FEEDS ve and G ing a add %c of roasted | | Muscatels, 2¢ ancy. 92 Lone 5 00 i settee & — | Erie ... treen | | ace. nd 15 per =". for roast- | 3 Town .. 1 25 K SAPOLI ....85 00| cid a Regular No. iz bite (ait : le ee ‘or ' f 60 ite LIO. | Good ... en i * oe a ‘esd Comm sare @1 60 | shrink- | Valenci Foreign. 1% —s 3 doz. in b SOI snes @1 ee asi 5 : ae cL... es. | mctaughiin's XX ja ee OX....- 2 50 | 1c aa i. 24 os Granu a 3 allan Peaches. 1 10 n’s XXXX....24% a ee: Snider’s fot ween 250| Dust... .... Bs Boa ee ca cae | Cinsnamaien aol : ee : : = : Shepard's ese 1 60@1 %5 | 100 ——— @i: SPI \ oa SUN CURED. 10 @iz | Straight, in cack ms Ge 2 95 7 “ : = : : a 8 ae a. Gnoice. SE @1z | Patent ij barrels 5 20 Domestic oo 60w2 7% | Barrels... Qua G va ifted. aoa mae h Beri F —— oo Cae cau =e = aga 10 ‘baeuneanr 30 zi great many so-called honorable and legitimate occupations, which lie between the pro- ducer and consumer, would have to be severely criticized. tution, the mainspring and drivewheel of commerce, known all over the civi- lized would have to be dissected in a way that would not be considered highly complimentary by some. All this would be just what the read- ers of THe TRADESMAN would naturally expect from the pen and cracked brain of a ‘‘Pessimist,” but it never would be tol- erated for an instant as the world as the ‘‘drummer,” bona fide misgivings of a veritable business man in the community. Itis too late to recall what has been published, or I certainly do so—not that I any immediate mercial should anticipate danger of a revolution in com- consequence of what I have written, but simply because my scheme has would be been disrupted and it impossible to continue the work as originally outlined without com- promising myself in a way that would be distasteful. Many of my own experi- ences in life would have been at the dis- posal of my ‘‘pessimist’’ in his elucida- That modern insti-! I can get at the little store up to home, and here you don’t keep ’em. So long!” and he strolled out with a look of disgust on his his face, and disappeared in the} throng on the street. oe 2 "I Forwot it’ A successful business man says there were two things which he learned when he was eighteen, which were afterwards of great use to him, namely, ‘Never to lose anything, and never to forget any- thing.’’ An old lawyer sent him with an impor- tant paper, with certain what to do with it. young man, ‘‘suppose I lose it; shall I do then?’’ “You must not lose it.” ‘**] don’t mean to,’’ said the young man, | ‘‘but suppose I should happen to?” “But I say you must not happen to; 1| shall make no provision for such an occurence; you must not lose it!’’ This put anew train of thought into the young man’s mind, and he found that if he was determined to do a thing, | he could do it. He made such a provision | against every contingency that he never | lost anything. He found this equally true about forgetting. If a certain matter of importance was to be remembered, he pinned it down in his mind, fastened it there, and made it stay. ‘‘When aman tells me he forgot to do something, I tell him he might as well have said, ‘Ido not care enough about |! your business to take the trouble to think about it again.’’ ‘I once had an intelligent young man in my employment who deemed it suffi- cient excuse for neglecting an important task to say, ‘I forgot it.? I told him that would not answer. If he was sufficiently | interested, he would be careful to re- member. It was because he didn’t care enough that he forgot it. with this truth. He three he was utterly changed in this respect. He did not forget a thing. His forgetting, he found, was a lazy, care- | less habit of the mind,which he cured.” THE | yesterday and asked for a/| won't | that you fellows down | instructions | “But,” inquired the | what | He used to say, | I drilled him | worked for me} three years, and during the last of the! A New Tablet Machine. F. W. Jordan, Ph. G., in American Journal of Phar- ; Macy. The large use made at the present time of compressed tablets induced the writer to endeavor todevise a machine which | | would enable the retail druggist to make | tablets for prescription purposes, and which would be large enuogh to be used during his spare time in making tablets for replenishing his stock. Nearly all | the machines which have heretofore been invented have been too large and too ex- |; pensive for the use of the pharmacist, ; and the making of tablets has therefore ; been mostly confined to the manu- |facturers. Realizing that economy of | space was a prime requisite in contriving |a machine for the pharmacist, effort was made to make it as compact as possible, and yet strong enough in all its parts to be durabie and powerful enough | to resist a pressure equal to five times The arrangement of the machine is readily understood; it weighs sixty | pounds, occupies a counter space of six by twelve inches and stands twelve in- iches high; the movements are positive ;and automatic, having an adjustment whereby the feed can be regulated to the | 1-56 part of a grain and the pressure so jas to make the tablets of any degree of jhardness. The feed-can being nicely | adjusted on the bed-plate prevents any | waste of material, and is so shaped with an inside agitator that makes the feed so positive and regular that when the machine is set fora given number of tablets the last one will be as accurate and perfect as the first one. The bed- plate moves but a short distance and carries the bottom die under the feed-can for supplies, and to the plunger, where | the material is compressed and the tablet |ejected. There are four sets of dies, made of the best steel, highly polished, producing tablets well shaped, and with edges perfect as possible to make them. The flywheel is of sufficient diameter to ; make its running easy to the operator. |The machine is neat in appearance be- ing ornamented with nickle trimmings, and nicely painted in brown and gold. In conclusion, the writer ventures to express the hope that he has been able to devise a machine which will furnish his brother pharmacists with a means of aid- ing their pecuniary advancement as well as their developing professional standing. —_——- << Ericsson’s Exactness. John Ericsson, the inventor, had not | only genius but the “immense capacity of taking pains,’’which sometimes accom- panies it. All his work was so exactly done that he could demand from work- men the most rigid observance of details in the drawings furnished for their guid- ance, without fear that they might go | astray. When the steamer Columbia was built, its engines were put in according to his | designs. It was customary at that time to get the length of the piston rods from the engine itself, and a man was, one | day, engaged in measuring it with along | baton. Captain Ericsson chanced to go | on board, at that moment, and going up to the workman, he roared: ‘“‘What are you doing there, sir?” ‘Getting the length of the piston rod, or.” ‘Is it not on the drawing?”’ “Vee, sir” “Then why do you come here with sticks? Go and get the length from the drawing, sir. I do not want you to bring | Sticks, when the drawing gives the size.” At another time, a workman was en- deavoring to put in the engines of a | steamship, and found great difficulty | with a small connection which is de- scribed as being ‘‘crooked as a dog’s hind leg.’”’ Finally he went to Ericsson and informed him that the rod could not be put in place. “Is it right by the drawing?’ was the | query. gg CN eligg “Then it will go in.” | And on another trial it did. The mas- | ter brain had left nothing to be supplied | by the ingenuity of others. | —_—__—~» -¢ every |i} that required. | ee, Use ‘‘Tradesman” Coupons GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. W.Baxer & 60s reakfast 3 oeoa from which the excess of oil has been removed, are used in its prepar- \ation. It has more rrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far hore economical, costing less than one cent a sp. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthen- 1g, EASILY DIGESTED, and admirably adapted )¢ invalids as well as for persons in health. Soild by Crocers everywhere. j. BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER, MASS. WHEN the strike is ended, WHEN ditterences are mended WHEN everything is clean, WHEN cigars will take a boom WHEW your deater has not the WHEN i vin WHEN ne witt have them. THE LUSTIG CIGAR CO. J, LUSTIG, State Agent. CUTS FOR ADVERTISING. Send us a photograph of your store and we will make youa Column Cut for $6. 2-Column Cut for $10. Send a satisfactory photograph of your- self and we will make a column Portrait for $4. THR TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. cn Spearman THE ABC OF MONEY. BY ANDREW CARNEGIE. at times that everybody would drop every- thing and just listen to him for a few minutes. I feel so this morning, for I believe that a grave injury threatens the simply because the masses—the farmers the question of money. to explain ‘‘money” in so simple a way that all can understand it. Perhaps some one in the vast audience which I have imagined I am about to hold spellbound cries out: ‘‘Who are you —a gold-bug, a millionaire, an iron- baron, a beneficiary of the McKinley Bill?” Before beginning my address, let me therefore reply to that imaginary gentleman that I have not seen a thou- sand dollars in gold for many a year. So far as the McKinley Bill is concerned, I am perhaps the one man in the United States who has the best right to complain under it, for it has cut and slashed the duties upon iron and steel, reducing them 20, 5, and 30 per cent.; and if it will recommend me to my supposed in- terrupter, I beg to inform him that 1 do not greatly disapprove of these reduc- tions, that as an American manufacturer I intend to struggle still against the for- eigner for the home market, even with the lower duties fixed upon our product by that bill, and that Iam not in favor of protection beyond the point necessary to allow Americans to retain their own market in a fair contest with the for- eigner. It does not matter who the man is, nor what he does—be he worker in the mine, factory, or field, farmer, laborer, mer- chant, manufacturer, or millionaire—he is deeply interested in understanding this question of money, and in having the right policy adopted in regard to it. Therefore I ask all to hear what I have to say, because what is good for one worker must be good for all, and what injures one must injure all, poor or rich. To get at the root of the subject, you must know, first, why money exists; secondly, what money really is. Let me try to tell you, taking a new district of our own modern country tp illustrate how ‘‘money’’ comes. In times past, when the people only tilled the soil, and commerce and manufactures had not de- veloped, men had few wants, and so they got along without ‘‘money”’ by exchang- ing the articles themselves when they needed something which they had not. The farmer who wanted a pair of shoes gave so many bushels of corn for them, and his wife bought her sun-bonnet by giving so many bushels of potatoes; thus all sales and purchases were made by ex- changing articles—by barter. As population grew and wants extend- ed, this plan became very inconvenient. One man in the district then started a general store and kept on hand a great many of the things which were most wanted, and took for these any of the ar- ticles which the farmer had to give in exchange. This was a great step in ad- vance, for the farmer who wanted half a dozen different things when he went to the village had then no longer to search for half a dozen different people who wanted one or more of the things he had to offer in exchange. He could now go directly to one man, the storekeeper, and for any of his agricultural products he could get most of the articles he desired. It did not matter to the storekeeper whether he gave the farmer tea or coffee, blankets or a hayrake; nor did it matter what articles he took from the farmer, wheat or corn or potatoes, so he could send them away to the city and get other articles for them which he wanted. The farmer could even pay the wages of his hired men by giving them orders for ar- ticles upon the store. No dollars ap- pear here yet, you see; all is still barter —exchange of articles; very inconvenient and very costly, because the agricultural articles given in exchange had to be hauled about and were always changing their value. One day the storekeeper would be willing to take, say, a bushel of wheat for so many pounds of sugar; but upon the next visit of the farmer it might be | | which | of sugar. 1 suppose every one who has spoken | : ‘. oe ih s é 7 r be! to or written for the public has wished | = a oe oe, 1 ee Se ; went up and down in value; so did the people and the progress of our country | tea and the coffee, and the sugar and the | clothing, and the boots and the shoes/| an 7 a s— ay | a : gy ee d the wage-earners—do not understand | which the storekeeper had for exchange. I wish therefore | | THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. QUILY POR BUSINESS! Do you want to do your customers justice? Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way? Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you? impossible for him to do so. He might require more wheat for the same amount But if the market for wheat sure that the storekeeper didn’t take less | wheat as promptly as he required more. Just the same with any of the articles the farmer had to offer. These Now, it is needless to remark that in all these dealings the storekeeper had the | advantage of the farmer. He knew the | markets and their ups and downs long | before the farmer did, and he knew the signs of the times better than the farmer or any of his customers could. The cute storekeeper had the inside track all the time. Just here I wish you to note par- | ticularly that the storekeeper liked to | take one article from the farmer better | than another; that article always being | the one for which the storekeeper had | the best customers—something that was in most demand. In Virginia that arti- cle came to be tobacco; over a great por- tion of our country it was wheat,— | whence comes the saying, ‘‘As good as | wheat.’’? It was taken everywhere, be- | cause it could be most easily disposed of for anything else desired. A curious il- lustration about wheat I find in the life of my friend, Judge Mellon, of Pitts burg, who has written one of the best biographies in the world because it is done so naturally. When the Judge’s father bought his farm near Pittsburg, he agreed to pay, not in ‘‘dollars” but in ‘“‘sacks of wheat”—so many sacks every year. This was not so very long ago. | What we now call ‘‘money”’’ was not} much used then in the West or South, but you see that in its absence experi- ence had driven the people to select some one article to use for exchanging other articles, and that this was wheat in Pennsylvania and tobacco in Virginia. This was done, not through any legisla- tion, not because of any liking for one article more than another, but simply because experience had proved the ne- cessity for making the one thing serve as ‘‘money”’ which had proved itself best as a basis in paying for a farm or for effecting any exchange of things; and, further, different articles were found best for that purpose in different regions. Wheat was ‘‘as good as wheat”’ for using as ‘‘money,” independent of any law. The people had voted for wheat and made it their *‘money;’’ and because to- baeco was the principal crop in Virginia, the people there found it the best for using as ‘‘money”’ in that State. Please observe that in all cases human society chooses for that basis-article we eall **money” that which fluctuates least in price, is the most generally used or desired, is in the greatest, most general, and most constant demand, and has value in itself. ‘‘Money’’ is only a word mean- ing the article used as the basis-article for exchanging all other articles. An article is not first made valuable by law and then elected to be ‘‘money.” The article first proves itself valuable and best suited for the purpose, and so be- | comes of itself and in itself the basis-ar- | ticle—money. It elects itself. Wheat | and tobacco were just as clearly ‘‘money” when used as the basis-artiele as gold | and silver are ‘‘money’’ now. We take one step further. The coun- try becomes more and more populous, the wants of the people more and more numerous. The use of bulky products like wheat and tobacco, changeable in | value, liable to decay, and of different | grades, is soon found troublesome and | unsuited for the growing business of ex- | change of articles, and they are therefore | unfit to be longer used as ‘‘money.’’ You see at once that we could not get along with grain as ‘‘money.’’ Then metals prove their superiority. These do not decay, do not change their value so rap- idly, and they share with wheat and to- bacco the one essential quality of also having value in themselves for other purposes than for the mere basis of ex- change. People want them for personal adornment or in manufactures and the arts—for a thousand uses; and it is this very fact that makes them suitable for use as ‘‘money.” Just try to count how many purposes gold is needed for, be- 15 Would you like to rid yourself of | ‘patching up’’ pass-book accounts? the bother of ‘‘posting’’? your books and Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge? Did you ever have a pass-book account foot up and balanee with the corres- ponding ledger account without having to ‘‘doctor’’ it? Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they have or not? Then why not adopt 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 We beg ieave to call your attention to | our coupon book and ask you to carefully consider its merits. It takes the place |of the pass book which you now hand your customer and ask him to bring each time he buys anything, that you may enter the article and price in it. You know from experience that many times the customer does not bring the book, and; as a result, you have to eharge many items on your book that do not appear on the customer’s pass book. This is sometimes the cause of much ill feel- ing when bills are presented. Many times the pass book is lost, thus causing | settlement | But probably the most se-| considerable trouble when day comes. rious objection to the pass book system is that many times while busy waiting on customers you neglect to make some charges, thus losing many a dollar; or, if you stop to make those entries, it is done when you ean illy afford the time, as you keep customers waiting when it might be avoided. The aggregate amount of time consumed in a month in making these small entries is no inconsiderable thing, but, by the use of the coupon, system, it is avoided. Now as to the use of the coupon book: Instead of giving your customer the pass book, you hand him a coupon book, say of the denomination of $10, taking his note for the amount. When he buys anything, he hands you or your clerk the book, from which you tear out coupons for the amount purchased, be it 1 cent, 12 cents, 75 cents or any other 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 onee 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 vs. PASS BOOK, | for the makers to pay them. This ren- ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts with each customer and enables a mer- | chant to avoid the friction and ill feel- | ing incident to the use of the pass book. | As the notes bear interest after a certain | date, they are much easier to collect | than book accounts, being prima facie | evidence of indebtedness in any court of | law or equity. One of the strong points of the coupon system is the ease with which a mer- chant is enabled to hold his customers |down to a certain limit of credit. Give some men a pass book and a line of $10, and they will overrun the limit before you discover it. Give them aten dollar coupon book, however, and they must necessarily stop when they have obtained goods to that amount. It then rests with the merchant to determine whether he will issue another book before the one al- ready used is paid for. In many localities merchants are sell- ing coupon books for cash in advance, giving a discount of from 2 to 5 per cent. for advance payment. Thisis especially pleasing to the.cash customer, because it gives him an advantage over the patron who runs a book account or buys on credit. The cash man ought to have an advantage over the credit customer, and this is easily accomplished in this way without making any actual difference in the prices of goods—a thing which will always create dissatisfaction and loss. Briefly stated,the coupon system is pref- erable to the pass book method because it (1) saves the time consumed in recording the sales on the pass book and copying same in blotter, day book and ledger; (2) prevents the disputing of accounts; (3) puts the obligation in the form of a note, which is prima facie evidence of indebt- edness; (4) enables the merchant to col- lect interest on overdue notes, which he is unable to do with ledger accounts; (5) holds the customer down to the limit of eredit established by the merchant, as it is almost impossible to do with the pass book. Are not the advantages above enu- merated sufficient to warrant a trialof the coupon system? If so, order from the largest manufacturers of coupons in the country and address your letters to THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. eause it is best suited for those purposes. It meets us everywhere. We cannot even | get married without the ring of gold. Now, because metals have a value in the open market, being desired for other uses than for the one use as *‘money,” and | because the supply of these is limited | and cannot be increased as easily as that of wheat or tobacco, these metals are less liable to fluctuate in value than any arti- cle previously used as ‘‘money.’’ This is of vital importance, for the one essen- tian quality that is needed in the article which we-use as a basis for exchanging | all other articles is fixity of value. "The race has instinctively always sought for the one article in the world which most resembles the North Star among the other stars in the heavens, and used it as ‘‘money’’—the article that changes least in value, as the North Star is the star which changes its position least in the heavens; and what the North Star among stars the article people elect as “money” is among articles. All other articles revolve around it, as all other stars revolve around the North Star. We have proceeded so far that we have now dropped all perishable articles and elected metals as our ‘‘money;” or, rath- er, metals have proved themselves better is than anything else for the standard of value, ‘‘money.’’ But another great step had to be taken. When I was in China, I received as change shavings and chips cut off a bar of silver and weighed before my eyes in the seales of the mer- chant; for the Chinese have no ‘‘coined” money. In Siam ‘‘cowries’’ are used —pretty little shells which the natives use as ornaments. Twelve of these rep- resent acentin value. But you can well see how impossible it was for me to pre- vent the Chinese dealer from giving me less than the amount of silver to which I was entitled, or the Siam dealer from | giving me poor shells, of the value of| which I knew nothing. (Civilized nations | soon felt the necessity of having their governments take certain quantities of the metals and stamp upon them evi-| dence of their weight, purity and real value. Thus came the ‘‘coinage’’ of'| metals into ‘‘money’’—a great advance. People then knew at sight the exact value of each piece, and could no longer be cheated, no weighing or testing being necessary. Note that the government | stamp did not add any value to the coin. The government did not attempt to ‘‘make money”? out of nothing; it only told the people the market value of the metal in each coin, just what the metal—the raw material—could be sold for as metal and | not as ‘‘money.” 3ut even after this much swindling vecurred. Rogues cut the edges and then beat the coins out, became very light. so that many of these | A clever Frenchman | invented the ‘milling’? of the edges of | the coins, whereby this robbery was} stopped, and civilized nations had at last the coinage which still remains with us, the most perfect ever known, because it is of high value in itself and changes least. An ideally-perfect article for use as ‘‘money” is one that never changes. | This is essential for the protection of | the workers—the farmers, mechanics, and all who labor; for nothing tends to make every exchange of articles a specu- lation so much as ‘‘money”’”’ which changes | in value, and in the game of ‘speculation | the masses of the people are always sure | to be beaten by the few who deal mi | | money and know most about it. Nothing places the farmer, the wage- earner, and all those not closely con-| nected with financial affairs at so great | a disadvantage in disposing of their labor | or products as changeable ‘‘money.’’ All such are exactly in the position occupie by the farmer trading with the store- keeper as before described. You all) know that fish will not rise to the fly in calm weather. Itis when the wind blows | and the surface is ruffied that the poor} victim mistakes the lure for the genuine fly. Soitis with the business affairs of the world. In stormy times, when prices are going up and down, when the value of the article used as money is dancing about—up to-day and down to-morrow— and the waters are troubled, the clever speculator catches the fish and fills his basket with the victims. Hence the farmer and the mechanic, and all people a ;coin as can be used | make five cent pieces; ifound that nickel was too valuable to | | instance, j}another take ‘‘token | than ten dollars, and all silver coins there | because in | have the last step of all; | things yet to tell you about it. |20 LYON ST., THE M ICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | having crops to sell or receiving salaries or wages, are those most deeply interest- jed in securing and maintaining fixity of | value in the article they have to take as ‘*money.”’ When the use of metals as money came, it was found that more than two metals were necessary to meet all the require- | ments. It would not be wise to make a |gold coin for any smaller sum than a dollar, for the coin would be too small; and we could not usea silver coin for more than one dollar, because the coin | would be too large. So we had to use a less valuable metal for small sums, and | but it was soon found | that we could not use silver for less than | we took silver; ten-cent ceins, a dime being as small a| in silver; and we were compelled to choose something else for smaller coins. We metal less valuable than silver, and we took a mixture of nickel and copper to make one and two cent pieces, and so we had to take a} but even then we | had to take copper alone for these—the effort in regard to every coin being to put metal init as nearly as possible to| the full amount of what the government | stamp said the coin was worth. Thus for one cent in copper we tried | to put in a cent’s worth of copper; in| the ‘‘nickel’’ we tried to put in something like five cents’ worth of nickel and cop- | per; but because copper and nickel | change in value from day to day, even more than silver, it is impossible to get | in each coin the exact amount of value. | MICHIGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falls Route.” DEPART. ARRIVE Detroit Express. .......c.esseeeceeees 6:30am ee om pm BE octnces sc ccccesencsssser cen 6:40am 30 pm Day EXPress........ccscscsecccceese 12:40am oamce *Atlantic. = Pacitic EXpress.......0 11:15pm 6:00am How York Exprees.....cccccos coccee 5:40pm 1:20pm *Dail All other daily except Sunday, Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapid Express to and from Detroit. FRED M. Briggs, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe St. G. 8. HAWKINS, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. GKo. W./Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. Ruaaues, G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago. TIME TABLE NOW IN EFFECT. Oy aes) ms CTS RAILWAY EASTWARD. Trains Leave ‘ao 14|tNo. 16|+No. i *No. 28 | 6 50am!|1 + 20am | | 7 45am/11 25am) 3 45pm) 10 55pm G’d Rapids, Ly 4 52pm |12 37am Pee ss. Ar St. Johns ...Ar} 8 28am]12 17am/ 5 40pm) 1 55am | Owosso ......4 Ar) 915am| 1 20pm) 6 40pm) 3 15am E. Saginaw..Ar 111 05am 3 00pm oo: Ley Wey... 2 Ar|1155am| 345pm) 9 35pm). .. | Flint .-....-.Arj1110am| 3 40pm) 8 00pm} 5 40am | Pt. Huron...Ar! 305pm| 6 00pm/10 30pm) 7 35am Pontiac ......Arj/10 57am} 3 05pm! 8 55pm} 5 50am | Detroté..... .. Ar/11 55am] 405pm/ 950pm/} 7 Oam | if we put in what was one day the exact value, and copper and nickel rose in the | market as metal, coins would be melted down by the dealers in these metals and a profit made by them, and we should} have no coin left. Therefore we have to | leave a margin and always less metal in these coins than would sell for the full amount they represent. | Hence all this small coinage is called in It that it will bring so much Anybody who holds twenty must be able to get as good as the history of money ‘‘token money.” is a ‘‘token’’ in gold. ‘‘nickels’’ ;one gold dollar for them in order that | these may safely serve their purpose as money. Nations generally fix a limit to the use of ‘‘token money,’’ and make it} small amount. For Britain no one can make money’’ for more legal tender to a in are classed as ‘‘token money.” I cannot take you any more steps for- ward in the development of ‘‘money,’’ the coined-milled metals we but I have some {TO BE CONTINUED. ] S.A. Morman WHOLESALE Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio LiIiMs, Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CEMENTS, Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, FIRE BRICK AND CLAY. Write for Prices. GRAND RAPIDS. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. Bowne, President. D. A. + cpeErt, Vice-President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier $300,000. CAPITAL, Transacts a general banking business. Makea 8: . lalty of Collections. Accounts o untry Merchants Solicited. put a little | | | | } CHICAGO WESTWARD, (*No. 81 \tNo. 11 |tNo. oo 15 | G'd Rapids, Ly| 7 0bam| 1 OOpm| 5 10pm/10 30pm | @’d Haven, Ar| 8 50am) 2 15pm) 6 15pm) 11 30pm Milw’kee Str “ |-eae ones coe aaee | 6 45am) 6 45am 1C hicago Str. 6 00am! . *Daily. +Daily except Sunday. | Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m., 5:00 p.m. and 10:25 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:45 a, m., 10:10 a. ML cradle and 9:50 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet ear. No,18Chair 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, Trav. Pass. Agent. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. Trains Leave JUNE 21, 1891. & WEST MICHIGAN RY. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect June 21, 1891. TRAINS GOING NORTH. For Saginaw & Big Rapids.... For Traverse City & Wackinaw 6:50am For Traverse City & ee 9:15am I iii ciiciricecac, For Traverse City.. ee For Mackinaw City.............. From Chicago & Eicecase.. 8:45 p Train arriving at 6:50 daily; all cit trai except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going North. South. Por Clncinmatl, -. .. 0. ..s.00.0 6:00 a m 7:00 am ’ For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:20am 10:30 am From Big Rapids & inaw.... 11:50am For Fort — and the East.. 2:00 pm Hy Vor KaIAmGGa0.... 2.2... 0000004 5:25pm 6:00 pm t For Cincinnati and Chicago.... 10:00 pm 10:30 pm RN Ns bo posed decacsnkn 10:40 p m Train leaving for Cincinnati and Chicago at’ 10:30 5 pm gaily; all other trains daily except Sunday. i Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive. : 7:00 am 10:10 am 12:45 pm 5:15 pm 6:30 pm 10:15 p m SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH: 30 am train.—Sleeping and parlor hair car, Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City. Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Traverse 11: 730 am train.—Parlor chair car G’d ee to Mackinaw. 10: - 2 m train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Petoskey. Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City. SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 0:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car oor Rapids to Chicago. 10:30 pm train.—Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 4 Chicago via G. R. & 1. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids - 30am 2:09p = 10:30 pm Arr Chicago 3:55 p m 9:00 p 6:50am 11:30 a m train through Wagner Packer € Car. 16:30 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. aZBo Lv Chica 7:05 a m 3:10 pm 10:18 p m Arr Grand Rapids 2: 1pm 8:45pm 6:50 3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 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. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. t In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e offers a route making the best time betwe n Grand Rapids and Toledo, VIA D., L, & N. DEPART FOR [A.M.| P.M. | P.M. { P.M. ee r Cae bis ema Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m. Chiteme i410: 00! +1:15/#11:35)...... Ae, VOOGO G66. aoc: 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. Indianapolis . -. {t10: a Tish) 01 28p1.... .. wih D.,@, 3. 4M, Benton Harbor........ +10:00) +1:15/*11:35) §6:30 Se See 41:00) +115 #11:35 40:30 Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 6:50 a. m, and 3:45 p. m. Traverse City......... | +7:25 45:25 *11:30) Lai Ax, Soeeee 0... g. 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. Due... +9:00) +1:15't 5:40} +6:30 Return connections equally as good, ee 47:25) 15225) ...... ee ' ee a [ioe See ik W. \H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent, Bie Hapiis............) tee fee... Toledo, Ohio. Otewa Beach......... +9:00) +1:15;¢ 5:40] +6:30 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. ic ON. E.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, Lansing & Northern R R JUNE 21, 16a. DEPART FOR | 4. M.| P.M. | P.M. eee +6: 4 +1:00) *6:25 eee | +6:50| +1:00| *6:25 ee cel ce +6: 50} +1:00) *6: 25 BE, eorcb ee cineec as sper sone +6: 50| +1:00) *6:25 nee oe 7s Go) 2S-001...... Oe cee an eo L.: Sassen (Oy... 7:05) +4:30]..,... 6:50 A. M. runs through to Detroit with par- ° lor car; seats 25 cents. 1 ° 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 7 "05 A. M. has parlor car to Saginaw, seats o 25 cents. For tickets and information a ply at Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or t nion station. Geo. DeHaven, Gen. Pass’r Agt. CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS a Se PAMPHLETS. For the best work, at reasonable prices, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT ‘Watch Maker Jeweler, 44 CANAL 8Y., Grand Rapids, - Mich. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above ~~ or anything in the Produce ear from _, made when desi EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN Th ADESMAN, Grand Rapids. to ne, let Liberal cash advances