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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19189

THE PHANTOM CAMP.

{daho Territory during the sixties was
one of the most lawless regions on earth.
The courts were corrupt, partisan, use-
less for the ends of justice. Murder and
robbery went unpunished. In a single
county sixty homicides had been com-
mitted, and not one conviction had been
had. The inevitable result of this state
of things was the evolution of the vig-
ilance committee. The limit of popular
patience once reached, retribution be-
gan, and was pushed with a firmness
that intimidated the assassins and thieves
who had been permitted to do as they
pleased so long. It was in the fall of
1864 that a packer named Benton Jones,
who had been from Lewiston to Virgin-
ia, Montana, with a train-load of mer-
chandise, and had disposed of his goods
at a satisfactory profit, made his prepa-
rations for the return journey, having
sold some of his pack-mules, and dis-
charged all but two of his men, as the
train was going home unloaded, save
with the gold-dust which represented
the outward cargo. It was the beginning
of October when Jones set out on his
long journey, and in the mountains some
snew had already fallen. The packer
took a tent with him, for the nights were
getting cold, and there was no reason
why he should expose himself more than
was unavoidable. His business indeed
was full of danger and hardships, but it
paid well, and he had so comfortable a
bank account that he was justified in
some little luxury of travel.

The little party proceeded by easy
stages, for the roads were bad, and be-
came worse as they entered the Bitter
Root Mountains. Nothing of interest
occurred until they had been a week on
the trail, but the seventh day out they
overtook a party of three men with six
mules, who appeared to be bound in the
same direction as themselves. The free
masonry of the road soon put both par-
ties in possession of salient facts. The
strangers were miners who had spent
the summer in Montana, and, after doing
fairly well, were now on their way to
Lewiston to winter and arrange for the
spring campaign. The times were such
that no man could gauge the character
or purpose of any stranger. Neither
dress, demeanor, language nor any of the
conventional indications helé good in
that wild country. The roughest man
both in appearance and manner might
be honest as the day. The most pol-
ished and best-dressed man might be a
highwayman, gambler or murderer. It
was just as likely, moreover, that the
ruffianly looking stranger would not be-
lie his appearance, and, in short, there
was no way by which any one’s charac-
ter could be conjectured in advance of
actual experience. This, however, did
not affect intercourse appreciably. The
people of Idaho in those days were ac-
customed, as they would have said, to
**take big chances;’’? and they commonly
took hostages of Fortune by carrying
navy revolvers at their belts, so disposed
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then, was ‘‘getting the drop” on an op-
ponent.

Now the three miners who joined Ben-
ton Jones were neither better nor worse
looking than their fellows, nor was there
anything about them to throw suspicion
upon their story. So Jones easily agreed
to their suggestion that the two parties
should thenceforth camp and march to-
gether, and when a likely camping-
ground was reached that afternoon, they
all halted, put up their tents—for the
miners also had one—lighted one big
fire, cooked and ate their supper, and
then sat sociably smoking around it, and
“swapping yarns” until it was time to
turn into their blankets. The next day
was the eighth out, and they were now
well in the mountains, and a hundred
and fifty miles from any settlement. All
day they climbed, and the air was sharp.
During the afternoon they entered the
region where snow had fallen and lay on
the ground, and when they halted for
night it was upon a small plateau having
a Steep precipice on its left, and which
was surrounded on the other three sides
by higher and roeky ground, which shel-
tered it from the prevailing wind. They
were west of the divide and between the
Clearwater and Bitter Root rivers. The
tents were pitched near one of the rocky
walls of the plateau, and after a hearty
meal all hands gathered about the great
fire, upon which half a tree had been
piled, and began the usual indolent chat.
When they halted for the night the
weather had been fine and the sky clear,
and as they prepared supper the stars
twinkled brightly above them, with that
sharp glitter that betokens frost. While
they smoked their pipes, however, they
became aware that the stars could no
longer be seen; that the sky had become
rapidly overcast; that darkness quite re-
markable for its opacity was’ closing in
around the little circle illuminated by
the fire.

Circumstances, as will be seen later,
so befell that only three witneses were
to remain of what happened during this
memorable night, and of those three only
Benton Jones, the packer, could give a
perfectly clear and connected account.
His two assistants, however, put their
hands to an affidavit reciting the main
facts, and though in the nature of the
ease no instrument of the kind could
have any legal value, it at least demon-
strated the readiness of the men to affirm
their belief in what they thus attested.
The six menin Jones’ camp were scat-
tered about the fire, some sitting on their
saddles, some lounging on blankets and
horse cloths. It was time to turn in, but
nobody had yet done so, and all who
compared notes the next day agreed in
saying that a curious feeling as of expec-
tation affected every man at this stage of
the dark and still night. Conversation
had ceased somehow. ‘There was some-
thing exciting and disturbing in the
heavy air; something that made them all
thoughtful and mysteriously uneasy.
Neither Jones nor his men could say af-
terward how long this objectless vigil
lasted. The only conclusion to be drawn

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

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from their statements would seem to be
that they fell asleep, or at least dozed,
for when they became conscious once
more a great and inexplicable change in
the scene had taken place. The night,
indeed, did not seem to have grown any
lighter. The same palpable blackness
seemed to enfold and almost press down
upon the camp. The fire behind which
they were sitting, too, had burned down
to a bed of glowing embers without flame.
But right in front of the fire, and about
a hundred yards away, toward the other
side of the plateau, could be distinctly
seen another camp, also with two tents,
and also with a great fire in front of it,
while on the outskirts could be seen the
dark forms of the stock, and about the
tents and the fire the figures of several
men moved.

Benton Jones and those who were with
him looked long at this unexpected and
in many ways this extraordinary specta-
cle, but oddly enough, nobody spoke,
and nobody offered to do what in such
cases was always the first thing thought
of—namely, to step over to the new
camp and exchange greetings and ques-
tions. How it came to be borne in upon
them none could say, but the feeling
was there, and recognized, that some-
how this was not an ordinary scene upon
which they were looking. The idea of
anything mysterious did not oeeur to
them, for they were all intensely practi-
cal, and even stolid men, possessing lit-
erally no imagination and amenable to
no superstitions. Still they did not
speak to one another, and by general but
unconscious movement they had all risen
from their seats and stood gazing at the
camp opposite them. And now astrange
thing was observed. Though it was so
dark all about their own fire that a man
who withdrew two yards from it van-
ished, every movement of those in the
new camp could be perceived quite clear-
ly. As the action proceeded, in fact, it
almost appeared as though this singular
camp had an atmosphere of its own—a
lurid kind of atmosphere, which invested
But
if this was noticed, it was not commented
upon.

everything with a subdued glare.

The spectators were too deeply
engrossed to exchange remarks, and it
was afterward recalled that during the
whole of what followed no word was
spoken in Benton Jones’ camp.

What they now saw was this: Two
men approached one another by the fire,
and evidently talked for some moments.
Then one picked up a shot-gun and the
other an ax, and they walked away to
where the stock were gathered. Now,
naturally, these men should have disap-
peared as they receded from the fire-
light; but to the surprise of the observ-
ers, they remained in full view; it might
almost be said that they carried their
own light with them, fora faint bluish
luminosity outlined ther forms. As they
drew near the rocky wall of the plateau,
the man with the gun stooped low, as if
to examine something. As he did so,
the man with the ax stepped behind him,
swung his weapon high, and the next
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ening crash of steel against flesh and | thought, the first to awake; but to his
surprise, when he opened his eyes the

bone. They were witnessing a murder,
and yet no impulse to rush forward end
prevent or revenge it fell uponthem. A

stood motionless and silent as before.
While they watched, a second man with
an ax crept out of the brushwood near
where the man with the gun had fallen,
heavy blow. Then the two assassins,
moving softly, entered one of the tents.

As they did so, the walls of the tent be-

| noticed it, had been freshly made up. |
he |
looked around, and then first perceived |

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shudder passed through them, and they |

was bright and clear, and the camp-fire,
which had burned down when he last

Rubbing his still heavy eyelids,

| that his own tent alone was standing.
and struck the prostrate form another |

He roused his men, and investigation at |

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| once showed that the three miners were |

came, in some unaccountable way, trans- |
parent, for two sleeping figures could be |

seen upon the ground inside.

The in- |

truders took their stations, one by each)

of the sleepers, raised their axes,

and |

two smashing sounds announced the suc- |

cess of their dreadful work.
ceeded to the other tent, inside of which
could now be seen yet two more sleep-

ers. These, also, were to be killed, but

an ax slipped, and one awoke with a|

scream of pain and terror, upon which
the bungling murderer dropped his ax,
drew his pistol, and shot his victim and
the fifth man, who, aroused by his com-
panion’s cry, had tried to rise.

The curious unnatural light continued
to expose every movement of the mur-
derers, of whom it was by this time evi-
dent there were four, though three only
took an active part in the assassina-
tions, and the fourth seemed greatly agi-
tated much in fear of bolder
companions. All the living men in the
doomed camp having been thus disposed

and his

of, the criminals dragged the bodies to-
gether, stripped them carefully of what-
and
and

ever might help to identification, |
then rolling them in gunny-sacks
pieces of canvass, carried them, one by
one, to the precipitous side of the plat-
eau and threw them overtheedge. This
done, the murderers built a huge fire and
into it they piled all the evidences of
their crime. The tents, the clothing the
victims, their saddles, equip-
ments of every kind were burned; and so
careful were the operators that they
raked the ashes for every scrap of metal,
put all these relics into a bag and hid
the receptacle under a log on the moun-
tain-side, far the In all
they did, however, their every movement
could be followed by who
watching them: and in the precise and
mechanical way in which every detail
was gone through, perhaps more sophisti-

harness,

from camp.

those were

cated observers would have been struck
with the strange suggestion of a stage
representation by actors who had so
often repeated the same piece as to per-
form it almost unconsciously.

How long this weird spectacle contin-
ued reither Benton Jones nor his com-
panions for if
ended, so far as they were concerned, in
as singular a manner as it had begun.
At one moment they saw before them
the huge fire, canopied with clouds of
black smoke and the sharply outlined dark
figures of the murderers flitting about
it, throwing on fresh fuel and thrusting
into the heart of the blaze the various
articles they were bent upon destroy-
ing wholly. Then suddenly the scene
vanished: the pitch-black night closed in
upon them all! around as if a heavy cur-
tain had been drawn, and simultaneously
a sense of exhaustion and an overpower-
ing drowsiness caused them one and all
to drop where they had been standing
and to sink into a profound, dreamless

sleep. Benton as then

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They had strick their tent,
packed their mules, made up the fire,
cooked their breakfast and then silently
and secretly taken themselves off.
event would have been puzzling enough

gone.

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had not the memory of the past night}

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the second camp, whose terrible drama |
they had witnessed so vividly, not a ves- |

tige or token could be seen. The snow |
lay over the whole plateau some two |

inches deep, and save where Jones’ own
stock had trodden it, the surface was
still virgin. Not an indication was to be

seen of any other human presence than}

their own.
sullied covering of the earth marked the

site of the great fire or the position of |

the two tents. No stain on rock or shrub
chronicled the awful crimes which had
been committed under their eyes but a
few hours Strange all this
was, however, it did not greatly impress
the men, for they had been sensible from

before.

as

the beginning that what they had seen
was in some way out of the common or-
der, and nothing showed this more clear-
ly than the absence of any disposition
among them to interfere in the tragedy
while it was being enacted.

Of course, they talked of nothing else
all the rest of the way to Lewiston, and,
of course, when they arrived there they
were not slow in relating their experi-
They were telling that story in a
saloon to an interested crowd, when a
veteran packer asked what day of the
month and at what part of the route they
had seen these things. They told him.
The date was the eleventh of October,
and the place they described, giving its
bearings as well as they could.

“Just as I thought!” muttered the old
man half to himself. Then, raising his

ence.

voice, he said, solemnly: ‘‘Boys, one
year ago on the eleventh of October,
1863, Floyd Magruder and four other

men were murdered on that very plat-
eau, and all remember how last
March Doc Howard, Lavery and Romain
were hanged for that murder right here
in this town.”

you

And soit was. The murder of Floyd
Magruder was one of the most atrocious
crimes ever perpetrated in the region.
Magruder was a packer and trader who
had accumulated fourteen thousand dol-
lars in gold-dust, and was returning
with it to Lewiston. Doc Howard, an
educated scoundrel, learned of this, and
devised a plot to obtain the gold. He
and his accomplices, Lavery, Romain
and aman named Page, wormed them-
selves into Magruder’s confidence so suc-
eessfully that he took them into his em-
ploy, and on his homeward journey they
accompanied him as trusted assistants.
Two missionaries joined the train on the
way back, and these also were murdered.
The details of the butchery was after-
ward made known through the con-
fession of Page, who turned State’s evi-
dence to save his own neck. Had it de-
pended upon the Territorial authorities
the murderers would have eseaped, for

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San Francisco before the crime was dis-
covered; but Hill Besely, the state-agent,
a most determined and energetic man,
had been a friend of Floyd Magruder,
aud he took up the pursuit, traced the
criminals, caused their arrest in San
Francisco, had them brought back to
Lewiston, and never paused until they
had been duly executed. The traitor,
Page, did not enjoy his immunity long,
having been killed in a brawl only a few
months after having regained his liberty.

And now, what was it that Benton
Jones and those who were with him saw
that October night in the Bitter Root
Mountains? That is a question which
was debated by the people of Lewiston
for a long time without any one reaching
a solution. There are, indeed, certain
theories held by queer thinkers to the
effect that the agents of great crimes,
when they enter the spirit world, are
doomed to haunt the scene of their vil-
lainy, and to re-enact it in a kind of a
ghastly dumb show. But the case of
Benton Jones is not quite finished, and
what remains to be told seems to have a
bearing upon the spectacle of the phan-
tom camp: Two years after that episode,
the vigilance committee arrested, con-
victed and sentenced to instant death a
notorious evil-doer. Before he died he
made a general confession, and among
other things he stated that he had been
one of three men who joined themselves
to the train of a packer named Jones,
with the intention of watching their op-
portunity, rising in the night and killing
him and his men for the sake of his gold.
The fearful scene of the eleventh of Oc-
tober, however, had so completely un-
nerved and terrified the intending mur-
derers that they had then and there
abandoned the undertaking, and had de-
camped stealthily the next morning to
avoid awkward questions. From the
time of that disclosure Benton Jones and
his men entertained a very positive and
well-defined theory as to the significance
of the appearance herein described.

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Observations by ‘‘The Tradesman’s’’
Philosopher.

Do good deeds to-day and evil deeds
to-morrow.

If you value a good name in the world,
you have only to make it.

A money-made man is usnally as cold
and hard as the coin that made him.

Don’t give the able bodied tramp who
refuses to work a cold bite. Let the dog
do it.

The proper time to get married is when
aman needs a wife and is able to sup-
port her.

The worst mistake in addition is when
a man adds to his wealth by dishonest
practices.

If you live rightly and deal uprightly
with your fellow men, the lawyer and
doctor will not know your given name.

If you know a good thing, share it
with the world. Hoarded wisdom is like
hoarded money. It benefits nobody while
it remains hidden.

When I so far forgot myself as to call
a hog the biped who deluges the floor of
a publie place with tobacco juice, 1 feel
it my duty to apologize—to the first hog
I meet.

To go into business without a business
education and trust to luck to succeed,
is like jumping into a river before learn-
ing to swim and trusting to the chance
of some floating log to help you out.

Spectacles do not create objects. They
only enable you to perceive them more
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QuEEN’s HotLow, Ont., Aug. 15—If,

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the old stock would be pretty much all
worked off; that a large new general
stock would be put in and a trade
worked up that would exceed that of any

goods.

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as to the price of factory cotton and |
“ealicoes’ at the same time  prose-|
|cuting a minute inspection of the
During this

| entertain us and encourage us with re-
| hearsals of the wonderful bargains that
some prophet had predicted that within |
three short months the Cronk store would |
pass into the hands of a stranger; that |

|explanation of the wonderful

one concern in the county, we would |

have looked upon the prophet as the

craziest crank outside of the walls of a|

lunatic asylum.
accomplished within the time mentioned.
Verily, truth is stranger than fiction.
Many farmers, eight and ten miles dis-
tant, actually pass through Loyaltown
and come to the Hollow with their but-
ter and eggs and do their trading at the
“New American Store.”
somehow have become charmed with
Gobdarn and his unique methods and
novel advertising freaks and they come
from far and near to patronize him. His
rapidly increasing popularity has aroused
the ire and jealous indignation of ‘‘a
business man” of Loyaltown, as the fol-
lowing article published this week in the
Loyaltown Times will show:
BEWARE OF YANKEE SHARPERS!!

The Western cowboy who instituted
the big lottery scheme over in the quiet
little hamlet of Queen’s Hollow did not
“reckon on his host” when he concocted
his diabolical plot for roping in our or-
derly and law-abiding citizens. The
strong arm of Canadian law has nipped
his little scheme in the bud, butit shows
our people that this Wild West greaser is
inclined to be lawless and tricky, and 1
would hereby warn the general public
and more especially the farming eommu-
nity to beware of him or they will rue
the day when they gave ocd to his
blandishments. A Business MAN.

Did it make Jo. mad? Well, I should
say not. When Izik went into the store
for some postage stamps, Jo. was read-
ing it to a crowd of people and having
lots of fun over it. Almost any other
man would have given one wild snort,
seized his tomahawk and struck the war-
path on a still hunt for the galoot who
penned the article. But Jo. was happy,
and the following article which appeared
in next morning’s paper explains what
it was that pleased him:

GREAT EXCITEMENT AT QUEEN’S HOLLOW!
THE COWBOY STILL AT LARGE!

If the gentleman who gave us a free
puff in yesterday morning’s paper under
the head of ‘‘Beware of Yankee Sharp-
ers!’ will call at the ‘‘“New American
Store,’?’ Queen’s Hollow, and identify
himself, we will suitably reward him for
the very kind services he has rendered
us. In view of the valuable and volun-
tary assistance he has given us, we are
pained to notice that he so far forgot
himself as to intimate that the farming
community in this portion of Her Majes-
ty’s Dominion has not yet cut its wis-
dom teeth and that the farmers do not
know enough to approach strangers with
any degree of safety to themselves.
Trusting that my farm patrons will
kindly forgive my nameless but valuable
friend for his long-eared ejaculations, I
remain, Respectfully yours,

JOSEPH GOBDARN,
The Cowboy of Queen’s Hollow.

This shows the character of the man.
He turns everything to his own advan-
tage and every attempt to thwart him
ends in disaster to the aggressive party.
William Peter Noodles has lost fully
one-half of his custom on account of
what he did and Izik says the people are
bewitched; that Gobdarn can keep his
store open all day Sunday if he wants to,
and that he will preserve a strict neu-
trality in the future.

Many of our eld customers who have
stood by us ever since we have been in
business, and to whom we have always
extended more or less credit, now call at
our place first (for old acquaintance
sake, I suppose), kindly ask us what we
are paying for butter and eggs and how
many pounds of Coffee A sugar we are
selling for a dollar. They then enquire

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Yet all this has been |
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the people are getting at the new
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mystery |

themselves by intimating that no doubt |
Mr. Gobdarn has some way known only |
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tain goods at greatly reduced prices.

This voluntary explanation of affairs so |

impresses them with the consciousness |

of having rendered us kindly service that

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ton bolts and depart with a casual re- |
mark about the drought and a vague |

wipe the dirt, dust and sweat of |

intimation that they may return later on. |

Of course they cross the street and enter
the ‘‘New American Store,’’ and less
than a majority of them return to us.
Sometimes out of pure respect for us
they call in to show us the marvelous
bargains they have secured.

This forenoon a Mrs. Snivley called to
show us what a bargain she had in a pair
of shoes. Her daughter is to be married
next week and these shoes are to do
honor to the occasion as the bridal shoes.
She said the clerk told her they were
regular genuine American shoes and they
let her have them for $2. ‘Only think
of it,” she said, ‘‘genuine American shoes
and only $2! My! Won’t Becky be proud
of them American shoes!’ And then
they lowed me acent more for my but-
ter ‘than I could get in Loyaltown.”’ Izik
answered Mrs. Snivley that they were
no doubt genuine American shoes made
of the skin of some patriarchal old sheep
that had died in Australia of the foot rot;
that the inner sole was paper and the
outer sole was nothing but paste and
shoddy; that the heels were stuffed and
the buttons even were nothing but putty
dried hard and dipped in black stain,
and that the manufacturer’s price was
probably 65 or 70 cents. ‘‘Oh, yes,’ re-
peated Izik ‘‘they are no doubt genuine
American shoes.” This description was
so ludicrously overdrawn according to
Mrs. Snivley’s ideas, that she took it
simply as a childish outburst of wounded
feelings strongly tinctured with jealousy,
and it actually touched her sympathy.
She said she felt sorry for us and all the
other storekeepers. Of course, we never
had the advantages of learning how to
run ‘‘a regular genuine American store’’
and of course we couldn’t help it, but it
must be ‘‘awful hard on us.”

Naw this is the condition of things at
present and we look blue and feel black
in the face. ‘Tillie grieves about it and
says that if matters continue much longer
in this shape, ‘‘Father Slim’’ will kill
himself chewing tobacco. Lalways chew
in proportion to the amount of thinking
I have to do and lately my occupation
has consisted pretty much altogether of
“thinkin’ and chawin’’’ The elder who
onee lived two years in Kansas tells us
not to get discouraged for he would not
be surprised if Queen’s Hollow witnessed
some startling developments within the
next three or four months. V’m afraid
the ‘‘developments” will not be favorable
to Slim & Slim. OLD MAN SLIM.

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The total population of the United
Kingdom amounted, according to the re-
cent census, to 37,948,155, of which 29,-
001,018 are eredited to England and
Wales, 4,093,103 to Seotland, 4,706,162 to
Ireland, and 147,870 to the islands in the
British seas. Expressing the result by
percentages the population of England
and Wales forms nearly 73 per cent. of
the whole, that of Seotland forms some-
thing over 101g per cent., and that of
Ireland forms about 121¢ per cent. of the
whole. Ireland’s proportion of the total
population of the Kingdom has declined
greatly during the last sixty years, in
the course of which its population has
fallen from one-third to one-eighth of
the whole.

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New York has 36,000 acres of hops
this year, scattered over thirty-four
counties. There are 6,791 hop growers
in the state, and the estimate of the pro-
duct is 90,040 bales.

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AMONG THE TRADE.
AROUND THE STATE.
Bradley—Frank Burlington has opened
a meat market.
Belding—A. M. Kenyon has
bazaar stock to Chas. Baker.

sold his

Camden—S. C. Smith & Co. succeed
Jones & Son in general trade.
Bay City—Van Auken Bros. succeed

Rose & Lewis in general trade.
Muskegon—Wnm. E. Coutchie will open
a grocery store at 54 Pine street.
Galesburg—lIsaae Rogers has engaged
in the cigar and tobacco business.
Alma—E. L. Drake is succeeded by J.
C. Lindsay in the grocery business.
Battle Creek—W. W. agp has sold
his boot and shoe stock to P. 8S. Kellogg.
Reed City—Frank Allen ie arranged
to open a cigar factory on a small seale.
Williamston—Mrs. A
her grocery stock to
Son.
Newaygo—R. W.

Wm. R. Hause &

Husband is succeeded

by J. A. McKinlay in the harness busi-
ness.

Carson City—Lane & Hamilton have
sold their general stock to F. E. Prestel |
& Co.

Plainwell—Homer J. Brown has sold

the People’s meat market to Stearns &
Crispe.

Dushville—M. H. Hillyard is sueceeded
by Hillyard & Emmanuel in the drug
business.

Saginaw — Youmans & Gallagher are
sueceeded by E. W. Gallagher in the drug
business.

Grattan—Brooks & Whitten succeed C.
Eddy & Son in the general
business.

Manistee—B. B. Austin is succeeded
by Austin & Hudson in the flour and feed
business.

Portland—Geo. W. Allen succeeds the
former firm of Allen & White in the
clothing business.

Northville—Slater & Best is succeeded
by Henry Best_in the bakery and econ-
fectionery business.

Clio—Fred L. Mark & Co. have
their elevators at this place and
Run to Geo. H. Cary.

Reed City—J. A. Seolley has removed
his grocery stock to Gano, Ill., where he
will resume business.

Manistee—P. N. Cardozo is closing out
his clothing stock and will enlarge his
dry goods department.

Battle Creek—Gardner & Gleason are
succeeded by Gleason & Weickgenant in
the dry goods business.

W oodland—David

merchandise

sold
3irch

Aspinwall has sold

his interest in the meat market of C. As-
pinwall & Co. to Wm. Miller.
St. Charles—V. L. Parsons has sold

 

his stock of genera] merchandise to his
son and son-in-law, E. VY.
A. %. Hall.

Hastings—E. Y. has removed
his stock of boots and shoes from Lowell
to this city and added them to his stock
of goods here.

Sutton’s Bay—H. Deuster has removed
his store building from a quarter of a
mile north of town into the village, where
he will continue the general merchandise
business.

Marcellus—S. F. Caldwell has pur-
chased a stock of groceries in Battle
Creek and will soon take charge of it
there. His brother, Frank Caldwell, will
run the store here as he has been doing
the past year.

Interlochen—T. J. Courtney and Geo.
Cook have formed a copartnership and |

Parsons and

Hogle

Griggs has sold |

| will engage in the meat business here.
| Both parties hail from White Cloud,

where they have been engaged in the |

|; meat business several years.
Muskegon—John Riordan, dry

|a branch store at Springfield, Ill., Sept.

10. John Voigt, who has been with Mr.
Riordan for the seven
years, will take charge of
Springfield.

past

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Kent City—B. L. Hall is building his
canning factory.

Luther—H. T. Sherman has bought the
cigar factory of C. W. Rickard.

Reed City—H. H. Freedman will re-
move his cigar factory from this city to
Lansing.

Gaylord—Frank Harding will locate a
sawmill in Hayes township.
from Wetzell.

Charlotte—Geo. Steele has purchased |
a harness shop in Sunfield and will re-
move there soon.

Kalamazoo—The Fuller Bros.
facturing Co. has shipped over 40,000)
washboards since January 1.

Detroit—The Tuite & Rein Manufac-
turing Co. is succeeded by the Tuite-

Rein Co. in the range and gas stove bus- |

iness.

Bentley—E. M. Burlingame has pur-
chased a half interest in the sawmill of
Bentley & Co. The new firm
| Styled Bentley & Burlingame.

|} ating a saw and shingle mill, as well as
/a eedar paving block mill, are shipping
| three car loads of their product daily.

Rodney—Ketchum & Babcock
purchased 3,000 acres of second cutting
timber land in Iron county and will im-
mediately remove their shingle mill to
that location.

Saginaw—The A. W. Wright Lumber
Co. has nearly completed extensions to

the logging road of the company in Clare

and Gladwin counties, and will soon start

the work of cutting and skidding logs.
Muskegon—At the annual meeting of

the Michigan Washing Machine Co.,

James Bayne was re-elected President
and F. Hall, Secretary, Treasurer and |
Manager.

teed City—H. M. Lowell is erecting a
stave and heading factory.
be five buildings in the plant, 40x75,
40x80, 35x45,22x26, and a store room 30x60
feet. It is expected that the factory will
be in operation in October.

Bay City—MeKeon & Glover are start-
ing five camps on the nine mile branch
of the Gladwin road, and will grade four
miles of railroad, having 24,000,000 feet
of logs to put in the coming fall and win-
ter.

Muskegon—At a meeting of the stock-
holders of the Thayer Lumber Co., held

at Boston on Aug. 13, it was decided to}

shrink the capital from $650,000 to$
000. Formal notice to that effect was
filed with the County Clerk Saturday.
Bay City—The Sanborn
Osineke, was sold last week to Alger
Smith & Co,, for $1,145.
operated the mill many years,
came financially involved, and what was
once a valuable property was sold under
order of the court for a song.
| Cheboygan—lIt is reported that Little- |
| john Bros., of Saginaw, has leased the |
| Smith & Galbraith sawmill for a number

or eight |
affairs at |

He hails |

Mant- |

will be |

Beaverton—Ross Bros., who are oper- |

have |

the |
capital stock was increased to $20,000. |

There will |

     
  

sawmill at}

‘of years, and will put in machinery
|for the manufacture of shingles.
little attention has been paid to the man-

| ufacture of shingles on the Lake Huron |}
goods |
merchant of this city, will make a new |
venture in the dry goods line by opening

shore in the past.

Marquette—The Bay Shore Company,
which has been logging six miles north
of Sidnaw, on the Ontonagon branch of
the Milwaukee & Northern, shipping by
rail to Menominee, has about finished
eutting and, unless other timber for
which it is negotiating is purchased, will
break up camp shortly.

Plainwell——-The business men_ here
have raised about $1,500, enough to in-
|duee H. H. McCall, of Howard City, to
| buy the plant of the Ives factory and be-
‘gin the manufacture of furniture. Mr.
| McCall agrees to run the factory five
| years and to employ twenty hands. The
factory is to start inside of ninety days.
Saginaw—The George T. Cross Lumber
| Co. has about 3,000,000 feet of lumber on
| hand. When this is disposed of, it will

close out its business here, and its oper-
| ations will be confined to Ford, Ky.,
| where Mr. Cross and others of the com-
| pany are operating their sawmills and a
| planing mill, and are doing a very pros-
| perous business.

| Saginaw— Several ereditor of E. R.
| Phinney, having claims amounting to
$14,000, have pooled their interests and
attached the lumber in the yard here,
which is held by Pack, Wood & Co., of
Cleveland, on chattel mortgage. They
| believe there is a fighting chance to set
| aside the mortgage, and propose to spend
|a little money in litigation, as on the
| other hand they would lose all.

| Morenci—The Morenci roller mill prop-
erty has been owned for some years by
Nelson Bros. They placed upon it a
mortgage of $7,800. This was fore-
closed, and last Saturday the property
was disposed of for $5,000, going to J.
Henry Cochrane, of Williamsport, Pa.,
| one of the mortgagees. The mill will
| continue to be run by Kellogg & Buck
Alabaster—The Western Plaster Co.,
| whose plant was recently partially de-
| stroyed by fire, is building a plaster mill
|in South Chicago which will be the larg-
est institution of the kind in the world.
It will be completed by January 1, and
| will begin running at once on the con-
tract for the world’s fair buildings. The
company will also rebuild a mill here on
the site of the burned building.

Marquette—John C. Brome, the Sagi-
|naw jobber who has been operating ex-

tensively in this region for two years,
| has begun work on a big traet just north
| of Lake Gogebic. The tract is estimated
| at 60,000,000 feet, and of this 25,000,000
| will be put in the coming winter, fifteen
| camps being operated. The logs will be
|driven down the Iron River, and proba-
| bly towed from there to Saginaw
points for manufacture.
i Big Rapids—Ever since the destruction
;of Clark, Farnam & Co.’s lumber and
shingle mills at Ewen, Mr. Clark has
been busy with preparations for rebuild-
}ing. He purchased a lumber mill from
| the McElwee Manufacturing Co., of this
city, and started it northward, and then

River

;| hurried to Grand Rapids for shingle ma-
Sanborn & Son |
but be- |

chinery. Mr. Clark thinks the firm will
be ready to resume operations within
sixty days from the date of the fire.

Nasthville—-J. Lentz & Sons

have

merged their business into a stock com-
| pany under the style of the Lentz Table
| Co., with a capital stock of $40,000, one-
half of which is to be paid in at once.

But |

| The factory proper will consist of two
buildings, each 50x100, and two stories
| high, with engine and boiler room and
dry kilns separate, and it is expected to
have the establishment shipping tables
again inside of ninety days, with from
thirty to fifty men at work.

Rockford—The Rockford Veneer Man-
ufacturing Co. has been organized with
a capital stock of $25,000, $5,000 of which
is paidin. The stockholders, and num-
ber of shares held by each are as follows:
A. D. Plumb, 250; E. L. Piper, 150; Hess-
ler Bros., 25; E. W. Johnson, Neal
MeMillan, 20; C. F. Sears, 20; C. O Cain,
25: C. Pest, 20: D. Wellbrook, 10; 5. EF.
Wells, 10; G. A. Sage, 5. The following
officers have been elected: A.D. Plumb,
President; W. F. Hessler, Vice-Presi-
dent; E. L. Piper, Secretary and Treas-
urer: and these three officers with Neal
MeMillan and E. W. Johnson constitute
the board of directors. This company
was organized for the purpose of manu-
facturing veneers and the mill, which
was formerly located at Pierson, is to be
moved here and will occupy a part of
Allen & Rykert’s building for the pres-
ent.

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a
The Hardware Market.

Iron and nails remain in a demoralized
condition. Barbed wire has firmed up,ow-
ing to the organization of the Columbia
Patent Co., which has acquired substan-
tially all the patents pertaining to the
barbed wire business. Although about 90
per cent. of the manufacturers of barbed
wire are the combination,
the management announce that no radi-
eal advance in price will be made. Shot
has advanced to $1.50 in Chicago and
$1.55 in the Grand Rapids market. Ma-
nilla and sisal rope both continue to de-
cline.

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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-
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BUSINESS CHANCES,

 

: ESIRABLE OPENING FOR DRY GOODS, BOOTS
and shoes and furnishing goods business. Ad-
dress 298, care Michigan Tradesman. 298
| ae SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRY GOODS, BOOTS,
shoes and groceries. Comparatively new. Good
trade in one of the best towns in the State. Good rea-
pour for selling. Address Kester & Arnold, Marcellus,
Mich. 3

 

 

$6,000 stock clothing, dry goods, hats,
- caps, boots, shoes and groceries in live growing
town located in excellent farming section most of
stock bought within last 12 months. Also two good
store buildings. Sell all cheap and take in part pay-
ment good farm property. Best of reasons for selling.
J.A.L., care Tradesman.
F° SALE—DRUG STOCK IN THRIVING SUMMER
resort town. Willinventory about $1,200. Rare
opportunity. Address Lock Box 87, Orystal, Mic h. 299

re SALE—

( N ACCOUNT OF FAILING HEALTH, I OFFER FOR

sale my stock of confectionery, ice cream, bak-
ery goods, cigars, tobaccos, ete., situated at the cor-
ner of Cherry and Packard stree ts. Neatest store in
the city. Inspection solicited. G. H. ee 559
Cherry street, Grand Rapids.

OR SALE—A COMPLETE DRUG STOCK AND rrr
tures; stock well assorted can be bought at a
——-- ‘Address for particulars 8. P. Hicks, Lowell,
c 9
. SALE—A COMPLETE LOGGING OUTFIT ATA
bargain. Will sell all or part, as desired. Also
one standard guage Shay
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ds, Mich
ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A

general or grocery stock; must be cheap. -
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NITUATION WANTED—AFTER SEPT. 1,BY A REG-
K istered pharmacist of 12 years’ experience. First-
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“ 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 _
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187
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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Arthur Watkins & Co. have opened a
meat market at 86 South Division street.

Frank Henderson has opened a meat |
market at the corner of Hall street
Madison avenue.

and

W. TT. Lamoreaux purchased 37,000
pounds of wool of Sutphin & Co., at Alle-

gan, last week.

eS. EA. Manley will shortly remove his
grocery stock from 400 East street to the
corner of East and Sherman streets.

Van Every has concluded to em-
bark in the grocery business on the West
Side, having purchased the stock in De-
troit.

Geo.

Evert Boersma has opened a grocery
store at the
Humboldt
Putman Co

eorner of Kalamazoo and
The Ball-Barnhart-
. furnished the stock.

streets.

Foster, Stevens & Co. have concluded
to remove their sporting goods stock
from the upper floors to the north side of
the ground floor in the rear of the
building, having put in the necessa-
ry shelving for that purpose.

 

en —
Purely Personal,

Cc. F. Walker, general dealer at Glen
Arbor, is in town for a week.

Lester J. Rindge and family have gone
to Nantucket, Mass., where they will
spend three or four weeks.

Wm. T. Hess and wife have returned
from, Caseade, where they spent three
weeks. They will put in the remainder
of the heated term at Alma.

Henry ©. Auer, the Cadillac clothier,
was in town last Saturday on his way to
Gotham, where he will spend a week or
ten days in search of bargains.

D. Wellbrook, the Rockford meat deal-
er, was in town Monday. Mr. Wellbrook
seldom comes to market, but he is a wel-
come visitor when he does come.

W. T. Lamoreaux has purchased the
handsome James residence, at 357 Foun-
tain street, and will take possession of
same about Sept. 1. The purchase price
was $8,000.

Frank Hamilton, of the firm of Hamil-
ton & Milliken, dry goods and clothing
dealers at Traverse City, was in town a
couple of days last week, on his way to
New York City.

The trip of Geo. B. Caulfield to Alas-
ka is not the first time he has set his face
westward. He started West when a
small boy to fight the Indians, buat got
no further than Moline, when he was
stricken with remorse and returned home.

Geo. P. Gifford, for several years a
resident of this city while State repre-
sentative for Armour & Co. and con-
nected with the former firm of Hawkins,
Perry & Co., has engaged in the whole-
sale provision business on his own ac-
count at 137 Grand avenue, Milwaukee.

Geo. is a capital fellow and his legion of

friends will join with Tux TRADESMAN in
wishing him the success he deserves.
2
Retired Agriculturists.

Stranger—Your farm has a prosperous
look.

Farmer—wWall, I ain’t complainin’.
I’ve worked this ’ere farm night an’ day
fer nigh unto forty years, an’ now I’ve

*bout made up my mind to let ’er out on
shares an’ retire from business.
money saveu up.’’
Stranger—Retire, eh?
do with yourself then?
Farmer—Same as they all do.
eome a weather prophet.

| road. It

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN. =

 

A Model Meat Market.
It is located in one of the new towns
| on the line of a comparatively new rail-
occupies a roughly boarded
| building about 16x24 feet in dimensions,
the refrigerator being about four feet
square, containing less than 200 pounds
of meat. This, with a few slices of anti-
quated bacon and a few links of bologna
as dry as chips, constitute the stock in
trade. In the line of tools and
the owner is
small blocks,

fixtures,

even less prodigal, two
three knives, a cleaver, a
a steel, a pair of platform scales
sheet of paper
comprising the entire paraphernalia. A

borrowed wagon and a horse whieh looks

saw,

and a single wrapping

as though he was an utter stranger tothe
oat bin cultivate
the meat trade of two neighboring towns.
The slaughter house comprises a stick
across two trees in the woods in the rear
of the market, the leaves and sky being
the sole covering of the structure.

Notwitstanding the dearth of facilities
and lack of capital, the owner of the es-
tablishment is apparantly contented
with his condition and jubilant over his
prospects for future trade.

enables the dealer to

>> -+>—___—_-
List of Creditors in the Holden & Hire
Matter.

Assignee Colgrove favors THe TRADES-
MAN witha list of the creditors in the
Holden & Hire failure, at Hastings, as

9s
follows:

B.S. Robinson 4 Co., Detroit.......... $1,970 =
Henry A. Newland & Co., Detroit....... 878 2
Meier & Schuknecht, Dera 74 0
Daniels & Ives, Detroit CeCe tes coucu, | Ge oe
T J. suay & Co., Chicago..........- .... 316 50
Locke, Hulcatt & Co,, Chieago...... .. ii 73
Sweet, Demster & Co., Chicago.......... 13 50
M. A. Eiseman & Bros., Chicago:... .... 11 48
3. 8. G. Geott & Co., Ciicago............ 42 95

C. H. Vargo & Co., Chicago lee el le. 18 2%
Guthmann, Carpenter & Telling, Chicago 22 95
Spring & Company. Grand Rapids....... 122 06

Geo. H. Reeder & Co., Grand Rapids.... 80 93
Hirth & Krause, Grand — ew elee 11 05
Brooks Bros., Rochester .. . Loe auc. 72 =
Dunkirk Shirt Co., Dunkirk.. tase eee es

R. H. Lane & Co., Toledo ..... oo. 62 00

C. B. Cones & Son Mfg. Co., Indianapolis 135 50

Mrs. H.W. Holden, Believue............ 100 00
Geo. W. Hire, Belews 400 00
Hastings City Bank, “ions Si le on 100 00
Cook Bros., Hastings. ec 30 00

et _ $3,345 30
i j- <p a
Country Callers.

Calls have been received at THE

TRADESMAN Office during the past week
from the following gentleman in trade:
Hamilton & Milliken, Traverse City.

H. GC. Auer, Cadillac.

S. C. Sibole, Breedsville.

J. A. Seolley, Reed City.

Cc. F. Walker, Glen Arbor.

Ezra Brown, Ballards.

N. B. Blain, Lowell.

D. Wellbrook, Rockford.

C. Gregory, Fennville.

Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.

———__—_.-—_~>-o 2 i or
Captured by the Gerdens ‘Ceabien-
tion.

The National Cordage Company has
purchased the Boston Cordage Company,
which was formed by a consolidation of
Eastern mills and was the largest and
strongest competitor of the National
Company.

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Should Send for Devine, of Belding.

MANISTEE, Aug. 17—A meeting of the
prominent farmers of this county, about
forty in number, assembled in Onekama
Friday afternoon and organized a Farm-
ers’ Co-operative Co., through which
they hope to dispose of their farm pro-
ducts at better prices than they have
heretofore been able to obtain through
the middlemen and retail dealers.

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Pve got |
What will you)
Pll be- |

Customer (with little boy)—Have you
good thick sole leather that a boy can’t
| wear through in a week?
| Cobble—The very best. Do you want
| me to make a pair shoes for your boy?
Customer—No, I want you to make

{him a pair of pants.

RINDGE, BERTSCH & ee,

Msletion and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes.

Our fall lines are
now complete in every
department.

Our line of Men’s
and Boys’ boots are
the best we ever made
or handled.

For durability try
our own manufacture
men’s, boys’, youths’,
women’s, misses’ and
children’s shoes.

We have the finest
lines of slippers and
warm goods we ever
carried.

We handle all the lead
® ing lines of felt boots and
socks
We solicit your inspec-
tion before purchasing.

“Agents = the Boston
Rubber Shoe Co.”

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  

 

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a money. We have a good white en-
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No 6 No 6%

$1.40
2.25
2.00
1.75
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Size 355x6%
$1.50
2.40
2.10
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500
1,000
2,000
5,000
10,000

Special prices on larger quantities.
This is not acheap stock, but good
fair envelope. We have cheaper and
have better grades, but can recom-
mend this one.

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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The seat of Details.
From the American Grocer.

To most men details are irksome and |
that is probably the chief cause for the)
failure of the many and the success of
the few. The mastery of any subject,
profession or calling is impossible with- |
out a thorough grasp of details. The}
want of a shadow may spoil a picture}
otherwise perfect; failure to know a road,
or to post a sentinel may lose a battle;
that twice one are two must be learned
befere difficult mathematical problems |
can be solved. And yet how we rebell
against the application and energy de-
manded in the acquisition of rudiments |
and details! Now and then we meet a}
man who is called a ‘‘ born genius,’’ and
yet the world’s history and our ex peri- |
ence teaches that the so-called genius is |
master by dint of hard work and applica- |
tion. For instance, Edison.

Plain as is the fact, conscious as we}
are of its truth, we are painfully con- |
scious of an inward rebellion against de-
tail. It is easier tojump at a conclu-
sion than to reach it by reasoning. We}
aim to *‘ get rich in a hurry,” rather than
patiently work, save and acquire. And |
all the time there is before us the practi-
cal demonstration that the leaders in all
the walks of life have won their honors |
by dint of patient toil, slow but steady
growth. Successful merchants are not}
born great, but have acquired greatness
because of their mastery of the little}
things, the obnoxious, wearisome, wor-
rying, incessant, provoking details.

Unfortunately there are many
think they can become merchants
out previous training. They claim that |
**any one can sell goods,’’ utterly oblivi-
ous that buying as well as selling is an
art; that experience is a school, that
training is discipline, that there is a
business alphabet to be acquired, failing
which there can be no progress, no suc-
cess. Such soon come to grief, their
numbers swelling, far to fast, the long
list of bankrupts.

There is another class, and we regret
their large numbers; those who have had
their early training and experience, and
still neglect—details. They work, and
work hard, year ine and year out, and
never forge ahead. We recall those who
have been in business in one location for
ten, twenty, and even forty years, and
are no better off, if as well conditioned,
as when they started. They have ig-
nored details. Year after year rolls
away and no inventory is taken. Goods
are bought and received without the
thought of checking them off by the in-
voice to see if all that is to be paid for
has come to hand, or whether the count,
weight, measure or guage is correct. |
They are utterly oblivious of what mar-
gin they are getting; the relation of the
expense account to gross profits; the pro-
portion of the sale of any one article to
all the goods in stock. Railway charges
and classifications are not examined to!
see if freights are properly adjusted.
There is no well-defined system of keep- |
ing accounts. The stock is poorly ar-|
ranged and no means adopted to check |
the accumulation of old stock or avoid}
being overstocked. There are leaks in-|}
numerable, for there is no check upon
the cash,nor upon goods sold upon credit
to see if they are properly charged; the
clerks are unrestrained, and there is pil-|
fering and waste at every turn and all}
the time.

The only remedy for these ever-pres-
ent evils is in a thorough mastery of de- |
tail. That itis possible to cover every |
feature of a business by a thorough sys-
tem has been practically demonstrated |
over and over again. Next week we will |
present the history of a large general |
store, where there is an almost perfect |
supervision of details carried so far as to |
keep an account with each of nearly}
1,200 articles kept in stock, besides ana-
lyzing the class of customers served.

Unless a man is master of his own bus-
iness the business will master him. Ruin
and mortification are the rewards of in-
attention to the minute of life’s work.

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Do not enter a vocation that by tem-
perament or lack of ability you are un-|
fitted for. if you have joined the caval- |
ry and cannot ride with the procession, |
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Dry Goods Price Current. pence.
y od Amoskeag. oe ge: 1% faverett, bl brown.. =
Oe... 4|Evere me... st
eo. COTTONS. e brown .13 brown. ....12

Aces... * Arrow Brand 5% | And@over............. 11% Haymaker bine..... 7%
oa oN “  Werld Wide.. 7 Beaver Creek er brown... 7%
| Atlanta AA. a ee ' eee... 5... SL ae
| Atlantic A.......... ? Full Yard Wide..... 6% ' 6c. cere. cs 12%

a... SiGeerems A...-...... 6% Boston. Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 9o0z...... 13%
. 2 6 |Honest Width....... 6% blue 8% . No, 220....13
. a. Giimertiora A ......... 5 “ da« twist 10% r No. 250....11%
= 3h...,....: 5%| Indian — ec 7% Columbian XXX br.10 - No. 280....10%
te - oe _|iKing # eee i XXX bl.19
rchery Bunting.. Linge. .. Se
| Beaver Dam A A. s|Lawrence LL...... 54 renege i“

Blackstone 0, 32.... 5 *| Madras cheese cloth 6% | Amoskeag.......... 74| “fancies .... 7

Black Crow......... é/ Newmarket G...... 6 : Persian dress Big Normandie 8

sk ook. & .. 54 . Canton .. 8%/Lancashire.......... h

Soe 7 | “ _ 6% 2 Ay...... 12%|Manchester......... 5%

Capital A. a “ DD.... 5% Arlington staple.... 64 Monogram dae. 6%

Comat Vv... 5i4| “ ca y | Arasapha fancy.. 4% Mormandic..... ...-. 7%

Chapman cheese cl. 3% /Noibe R............. 5 | Bates Warwick dres 8%4|Persian........ ..... 8%

ee 54 |Our Level Best. . 6% | — B Renfrew Dress...... 7%

Coon 7 \Oxford R.. ee Cnn. ee 1054 Rosemont..........- 64%

Dwight Star.. | Sa qm | Criterion ....... .. 10% |Slatersville ......... 6

CifieaCCC........ B48 6% | Cumberland staple. es pamerses............ tc

|Top of the Heap.... 7% | Cumberland........ maecome .........:..
BLEACHED COTTONS es 44 Toil du Nord....... 10%
(ABC. ..... 1) eon. Washington.. _s eon... 741 oe...

Ape 8 iGien Milis.......... 7 | Everett classics..... 844) ‘‘ —seersucker.. i
‘Are... 7% |Gold Medal......... 7% | Exposition.......... 7iq|Warwick.... ...... 2

Art Cambric........ 10 |Green Ticket....... sl, | Glenarie.. 64|Whittenden......... oa

Blackstone AA..... 8 |Great Falls.......... 6% | Glenarven.. - 6%| “ heather dr. 8

i ce vig | Glenwood...... -++ 1% indigo blue 9

ae 2 Just Out..... 4%@5 | Hampton........... 644|Wamsutta staples... x

aa 744) King Phillip Cana 73 | Johnson vhalon cl 4%4|Westbrook..........

a a 6% ea 7% Hig indigo blue 9% ees 10

Charter Oak. : 5% (Lonsdale Cambric- 10% ‘*  zephyrs....16 |Windermeer.... .... 5

Conway W... . 7 iLonsdale...... @ 8% | Lancaster, staple... 6%/York..... -.-....... 6%
| Dwight ai ae te "Middlesex — @RAIN BAGS.

wig’ SAnchor..... 8% a 7%

Rimrardg _ SBOris. 83 [Oak View 2200070002 Ameskeng......-.- 16% — eae 15%
| a ee ee ee tT
Mabe : | Pride of ‘a West. .15 %* | American.......... ic eee ow. cc... 14%

rae... 7%|Rosalind. . op ss oe THREADS.

Fruit of the Loom. 7%/|Sunlight............. 4% | Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88

Fitchyille ......... 7 |Utica Mills......... 8% | Coats’, J. & P....... 45 |Marshall’s.......... 88

| Wie Petes. 6%} “ Nonpareil ..11 | Holyoke............. 2%

Fruit of the Loom . wingers... 8% KNITTING COTTON.

| Pairmount.......... 434|White Horse....... 6

Pull Vatue........_. 6 > ek. . 8% White. Colored. 7 Colored,

“ HALF BLEACHED ee No. : . - = No. _: —— =
eT 7%| Dwight Anchor..... 9 a ft. [clu

Pere... : , _ 2... 35 ei’ ...H 44

nse cain FLANNEL. t cs ee 41 eo 40 45

Tremont N.... i eo No. — CAMBRICS.

Hamilt VN... : 6% es ‘“ es ... ee eee eee : a 5 eee Ps}

se “ © SCAF.....---- & jeeCG UCRORB.... 2.2.2.6.

Middlesex = i : “ “ ay a eae Gaove........... - Dockweoe.... ..-... 4

‘ No. ie o Newmarket......... a Weere.... ........ 4
BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Rawerds............ @ [Brasewick.......-. 4
Heanliton N......... Tigi Middlesex A A IE 11 RED FLANNEL,
Middlesex : T trees 8 2......12 | Wireman...... ....- tg Ry
Ce een 9 ' AO.....: ong dl (ote ee 32%
a --- 9 : a. aie | Talons BM......... ee 6
x F.... 10% oe 5...... 16 | Nameless...........27%|Buckeye............ 2%
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Peerless, white...... 18 {Integrity, colored. ..21 ee ee
“ colored ....20%/White Star.......... 18% | Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17%
Integrity. 18%} “  “ ecolored..21 | Union R............ 22%| Western W ......... 18%
DRESS GOODS. Waeeer...... .....- We eee et ey 18%
aa |... 8 {Nameless......% we. RO Sos Western........ 21 iFlaushing XxXz...... om
. a ss Leese oe Uae B............ S2Gi Mamigoba...........
ae SO 27% — FLANNEL.

GG Cashmere...... a ee 30

: ‘ Nameless ..... 8 9%) a 9 @10%

ce aes Oe ewon | 12%

CORSETS. CANVASS AND PADDING.
Covaline............ $9 50/Wonderful. .. ....8450/} Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black,
Bentnaes......... 9 0O|Brighton.. ........4%5| 9% a 194 = = =
10% 10
CORSET JEANS.

Arey 6%|Naumkeagsatteen.. 7% | 11% 11% 1144|17 ba -

futeanain ee Piel Rock kport . et eee ‘e 12% 12% 1244/20 20 20

Biad@efera........... 6 \Conestoga... aoe 6%4 DUCES.

Brunswick. ....... ‘ene reves sees 6% Severen, & oz. + West Point, 8 oz....10%

—  .,..,.. are ee... 0 —_

Allen mney reds.. 53%| Berwick fancies.. % Mayland, 802, OZ. oe Raven, dit, ; ve : “Ie

. a... .... Bi Clyde Robes........ 5 | Greenwood, 8oz....11%|Stark “ ......... 13%
“s pink & purple 6%4\C asker Oak fancies 4% '

. Du fF 6 DelMarine cashm’s. 6 ——e-

. pink checks. 5! % mourn’g 6 White, Gos.......-. 25 ex bale, 40 doz....87 50
“ epics .....- 53 4Eddystone fancy... 6 | Colored, doz........ 20

mane a + aes -_—,

American indigo. . a, “ aman 6 Slater, Iron Cross... 8 {Pawtucket..........10%

American shirtings. 4% Hamilton mnes. us , Bed Cross... 9 ——: ens. 9

| Argentine Grays... . sta et Best.......... 10% = oe 10%
| Anchor Shirtings 4 Manchester fancy. 6 Best AA..... 12% Valley City......... 10%
| — - 4 a eo - new era. 6 SEWING SILE.

Arnol “ine ... 6 errimack D fancy. 6 ry 7

“long cloth B. on Merrim’ ek shirtings 44 mame 2 don. 3% rae bell wan
‘* century cloth 7 |Pacific fancy........ 6 oo es

“ gold seal... 10% aggro 6% 0OKS AND EYES—PER GROS!

‘* green seal TR 10%/ Portsmouth robes... 6 No 1 BI’k & White. = No 4Bl’k & ‘White. 15
“« yellow seal..1044|Simpson mourning.. 6 i “ 5 “ . “ 4
“ac serge.. : 1y vc greys aniline 6 ; ° “3 10 ° 25
_ Turkey red. -104%) _ solid black. 6 PINS.

Ballou solid black.. 5 |Washington indigo. 6 Ho? C....... 50 ‘weg 4—15 F 3%...... 40

colors. 544i “* Turkey robes.. %| “ $—16,8C........ 45 |

| Bengal blue, green, “ India robes.... 7 COTTON TAPE.

and orange... 5%) ‘“ plain = "ky x % 8% | No 2 White & BI’k..12 |No 8 White & BI’k..20
Berlin solids........ 5%) ‘ : > 4 = a_i" 2 C . 23
S oe... 6%| * Cte Tur- “ 6 ‘“ 6 1*e “ 8
c Y oto .... Ce wereel.........,... 6 SAFETY PINS.
“  Foulards .... 5%) \Martha abies ee Be vetoes sence, 36
' red % ae z Turkey red &..... 7
a me ok 9% Martha Washington NEEDLES—PEBR M.
e C Sioa | eer ree,....... 9% | A. tine 8 nn 1 50|Steamboat.... ...... 40
_ “ 3-4XXXX 12 |Riverpoint robes.... 5 croweiys....... .-.- 1 35) OG OE ow en 150
Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6% | Marsha Vi “NTS 1 00)
madders... 6 | . gold ticket TABLE OIL CLOTH.
- XX twills.. 6%] indigo blue....... 10% | 5—4....2 25 6—4...3 25/54 6—4...2 95
solids...... 54 «se = sae
TICKINGS. COTTON TWINES.

Aeeeeee ACA... ICA... ......... 12% | Cotton sede Twine..28 |Nashua. —.e

} Hamilton a... - Pemberton AAA. Crown . ee Rising Star 4- ply. aa
D 8%) ¥ a 277}0% | Domestic ........... 18% 3-ply. ou
- ane 11 |Swift irae cL. 7% | Anchor . a ee oe...

Farmer.. ++ seco @ ieee Mver....... 12% | Bristol . .....13 [Wool Standard 4 ‘piv

First Prize.. ae wreeen.............. 14 | Cherry Valley. code 15 |Powhattan ....

Lenox Mills ........ 18 | eo. 13
COTTON DRILL

: . PLAID OSNABURGS.
j ——. esti 6%|No Name ae dl ; j | Alabama. x aos Pleasant.. an
ell ics ot. | 4 amance........... I vic ehicda cues

Clifton, K........... 7%4|\Top of Heap........ 10 Ce aN 7%4|Pyrmont .. . bY

am. Se 6 |Randelman ......... 6

Simpson ous poe e eu: =. beeeieees chu ee a 6% ee Scie c ies 5%

neta tees eee is eee 9% | Granite .... . ee A 6
as tees corse io es cane ecg ae 10% = pew Biver:.:...... ++ B Tole ay cae oces

 

Volgt, Herpolsheimer & Co,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
CARPETS,
CURTAINS.

Manufacturers of

Shirts, Pants, Overalls, ts.

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

Chicago and Detroit_Prices:Guaranteed.
48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.
GRAND RAPIDS, - -

Carpets, Rugs,

—AND—

== Burtains,

Write for our Prices on

Floor Oil Cloths

—AND—-

Oil Cloth Bindings.

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Flags, Horse and Wagon Covers, Seat “Shades, Large
Um rellas, Oiled Clothing, Wide ccna Ducks, ete.
‘Bend for Iliustrated Catalogue.

CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Peart Street.
Telephone 106.

KATON, LYON & 60.,

JOBBERS OF

Stationery ad Books

A Complete Line of

HAMMOCKS,
FISHING TACKLE,

MARBLES,
—— BASE BALL GooDS ==

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

EATON, LYON & CO.,

20 and 22 Monree St.

H. M. REYNOLDS & SON,

Tar and Gravel Roofers,

And dealers in Tarred Felt, Building Paper,
Pitch, Coal Tar, Asphaltum. Rosin, Miner
Wool, Ete.

Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,
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BUSINESS LAW.

Summarized Decisions from Courts of
Last Resort.

BANK CHECK-CERTIFICATION-—LIABILITY.

The Supreme Court of Illinois held, in

the recent case of Metropolitan National

Bank vs. Jones, that where the payee of

a bank check has it certified by the bank

he thereby releases the drawer from lia-
bility thereon.
RESTRAINT OF TRADE-——CONSIDERATION.

Where the grocers in acertain town
agreed with a firm which was about to
open a butter store that they would quit
that line of trade for two years, and the
firm paid nothing to the grocers and did
not buy out any established business, the
Supreme Court of lowa held that the con-
tract was void for want of consideration.

MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE—RAILROAD

FRANCHISE.

The Supreme Court of [llinois held, in
the recent case of Tudor vs. Chicago &
South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Com-
pany, that an ordinance of a city grant-
ing authority to a railroad company to
locate and construct its railroad in the
city along a designated route, and not
exceeding a given width, when accepted,
is a limitation upon the power of the
railroad company. and such company will
have no authority of law to condemn
property for right of way except upon
the route thus limited and not exceeding
the width fixed by the ordinance.

MORTG AGE—ASSIGNMENT—LIEN.

According to the decision of the Su-
preme Court of Ohio in the case of Betz
vs. Snyder, Assignee, a mortgage of real
property, which has not been deposited
for record with the recorder of the proper
county, before an assignment of the prop-
erty by the mortgagor for the benefit of
his creditors takes effect, is not a valid
lien upon the property as against the
assignee or the creditors, nor does it be-
come so by being subsequently recorded.
The assignment takes effect, as to all
persons, from the time of its delivery to
the Probate Court of the county in which
the assignor resided at the time of its
execution, and it is not necessary that it
be also filed for record with the recorder
of deeds.

INSURANCE—ACCIDENT—SUNSTROKE.

Under a policy of accident insurance
death from sunstroke cannot be con-
sidered an accidental death, according to
the decision of the United States District
Court at Kansas City in the case of Dozier
vs. Fidelity and Casualty Company. The
court said, in giving judgment: ‘‘It may
be an accident that the person is exposed
to the sunstroke, but the conditions
under which the human system may be
affected by it certainly belong to natural
causes which may reasonably be antici-
pated, as they come not by chance. The
term ‘accident,’ as used in the policy, is
presumed to be employed in the ordinary
popular sense, which means happening
by chance, unexpectediy taking place,
not according to the usual course of
things. So that a result ordinarily,
naturally flowing from the conduct of the
party, cannot be said to be accidental,
even where he may not have forseen the
consequences.’

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A Chemical Fire Alarm.

A new firealarm now in use in Sweden
consists of a small copper cartridge closed
by an India-rubber button and filled with
a fire composition. The fuse contains a
mixture of potassium chlorate and sagar,
and on it is placed a paraffin capsule con-
taining a few drops of sulphuric ac id.
When the temperature of the room rises
above the melting point of paraffin the
sulphuric acid is liberated and ignites
the chlorate mixture, which in its turn
sets fire to the Bengal light.

A fusible metal disc, placed in contact
with the mixture, will also be melted,
and thus make electrical connection with
a call bell so as to sound the alarm ata
distance.

 

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A New York firm advertises that it
will refoot silk stockings for $2 per pair,
or $1 per foot. By the way, there is a
hosiery firm in that city which allows
ladies to try on silk stockings before
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Hardware Prie HAMMERS. A ROPES.
: ce Current. Mavdale Goes dis, 25 | Sisal, % Inch and larger ...... teteesseeecee TM
i ee ee ce a ee ee ‘dis, 25 | Manilla.......... .......... deed e ae aaa
ese prices are for cash buyers, who Yerkes & Plomb’s. ey a 4oaio a eQUAREs. dis.
ay promptly and buy i 2 " ason’s Solid Cast Steel............. ... 30c list 60 | oS . oa : so
pay I ptly and y in full packages Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. ...30¢ 40&10 ue and Bevels............ rene tcecens 60
aie AUGURS AND BITS. dis. HINGES. Lee sare nase ana i ' 20
— ss... 60 ate, Clark’ 72 ..... se ) i ‘y : .
itied: (a 40 State eae ee ee eee ‘per doz ee Nos. 10 to 14 - as
COrmanan mer 25 | Serew Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 1 14 and sae a = $3 10
Jennings’, DNMAtION -...-........-.......... 50&10| longer ao 3% | Nos. aaa a a
AXES. Screw Hook and Bye, %- vetteeee es 1 Biaaeue.. Se ee oe
Firat Quality, 3, B. Bronse................. 8750) i ‘ de re ae = 8% NOB. 25 t0 26... -.00. 200 esses ae 3 40
. D & Brense........... 1. Gl a és ” GI ne a ee ee ae 4 60 3 50
: 2. Be eek... 8. Se iT Brvereceeeeees —_ * aL sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
DB. Steel... FT ST aes ee ane EE pe ats 50 | wide not less than 2-10 extra

: ee dis. _ | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 | List acct. 19, 86 viata tne ai 5
on aie ad eed eee as ...8 14 00| Champion, anti-friction. . -- 6010 | ae cease co cy igi
Garaen........... Meee tkreacessecsa+. OR OGG | Midgar Weed traok ................ oo 40 | Silver Lake, White A.... i ed 50)

BOLTS. dis. HOLLOW WARE. f Drab A. Fe ae AS 5b
Stove. .. OO 50810 Sp ed delale ae ela ewes Le aie a wie ae >| ‘6 White Bi. ee 50
Carriage new list. a — Se re it lt lll lh oll a alt Al 60 | es a... le 5h
Pig a “andi Spiders .. fe sree 60 " 35
Seeenahee i. 70 Gray enameled..........-- +++ 40810 | Discount, 10.

ee HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. SASH WEIGHTS.

: re Simaned Tin WErd................... .new list 70 | Solid Eyes...... oe sees ss per ton 826
Well, plaim.......... 02... eee seer ee eee ees ..« 3 50} Japanuned Tin Ware........ ... 25 “BAWB. dis.
Well ewigel....................... 1.10... @ Gl Gees rom Ware ............ “new list 383410 - Mone os 20

BUTTS, CAST. dis. ; WIRE GOODS. Silver Steel A mos X Cuts, per foot, .. 70
» . Bright...... eee 70810810 ‘¢ Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 0
Cast Loose Pin, figured | So vied ~ | “ Hecj toe .
Wrought Narrow, bright ! Bast joint. eee. 66&10 ated Perec ctnnnanies a >>" | “ a pemmpion and” Blectrc ed ey x 30
Wrought Loose Pin. a+ sae 1; AIL Cone gabe waa ieee sretisers*: “SAS Sg| Cuts, per foot. oe ss
Wrought Table..... ce Since ueuvas ciaas sna i ay Tea a i Ma
2 satan —— Blind... EE peg: Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 70 | Steel, Game.. a
Bd Dy 70810 KNoBs—New List. dis, | Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s........... 35
Blind. Be 70&10 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .......... .. 55 | Oneida Community, ere & Norton’s .. 70
ind See — 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings. . Lewd | Mewee Gheker... .............., .18e per doz
Li co Se ‘“| Door, porcelain, plated trimmings. lee cee So | Mouse, dclusion............... . 81.50 per doz.
BLOCKS. Door, porceluin, trimanminge..........-.. - 55 | WIRE. dis.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17,’ Dee. 49 | Drawer and Shutter, porcelain......... . im | rieht Market. ...-.....-- 65
ee a LOCKS—DOOR. dis. | Anuncaled Market............... ee
inn : Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ...... 55 | Coppered Market....... ll
co : --.--- -. Gis. 50&02 | Mallory, Wheeler a C6.'s.......... . 55 | Tinned Market.. eee cee eee
CROW BARS. rors... lates 55 | Coppered Spring Se ae 50
TE perb 5 Norwalk’s....... erence ve : 55 Bar ed Fence, "gaan eee 3 2
: CAPS. Agee ee... ..... 816.00, dis. 60 | HORSE NAILS.
ayer ie......_............... 7... per m Grunt eee... 00, dis. 60 | = — Ce ee, dis. 25410Q25&10&05
Hick’s cF..... Cece cee eee — 8 @ | Hants...... eee eee 818. 6 dis, Mimi. | Putnem................, ee, 5 dis. 06
ap...... be es Es 35 MAULS am, |% uaatecaiien ee uae ee eee oa dis. 10&10
ee ee 60 | Sperry & Co.’s, Post, aed 50 | WRENCHES. dis,
CARTRIDGES. MILLS. dis. | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled............. 30
Rim Fire 58 Coffee, Parkers Cos........ i. 4) Coe’s Genuine ............... ‘cae 50
Cc = al Wize. Gees P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.'s Malleables. ... 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, i
same eas -+--Gis. 25 Lenders, Ferry & Cle .k’s............ 40 | Coe’s Patent, malleable..... ev
CHISELS. dis. “ Muterise <...... Cece 25 | MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Socket Wirmer.............. 70&10 MOLASSES GATES. dis. | Bird Came... a.
Seen ee 70&16 | Stebbin’s Pattern.... ........... -+-+-+-----60&10 | Pumps, Cistern. eee ee *5
cE ee er" ""70&10 | Stebbin’s Genuine..............-. eee 60&10 | Screws, New I ist. eee es oe 70&10
Guekot Glieken |... 8 "*""29&10 | Enterprise, self-measuring.............----. 25 | Casters, Beda) @ Plate 5010
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ ....-. 40}. NAILS | Dampers, American... “ 40
nee : Sigel mane base. ......-- CC. 1 8¢ | Forks, hoes, rakes and al steel ‘goods Lae 65
COMBS. dis. Wire motle Bade... 6 le. a ie | METALS,
(Cpaey, Saerenee es. 3.6... st. 40 Advance over base: Steel. Wire. | Pie rae
Bete See le Base Bese | Pie Taree a : 26e¢
CHALK. ae... | Fie Bare..... .... ..-....... 8. 28¢
Vhite Crayons, per gross.......... 2Q12 10 Me eee | 20 | ZINC.
—_ ” eT as oe ee 20; Duty: Sheet, 2%c aay
COPPER. eee ae 30 | 600 pound casks..... He 6%
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound mite... el 35 | Per pound.. Wed 7
Toate 10006 tomo ............-..... 28 | 15 15 35 SOLDER,
Cold Rolled, 14x56 er 14x60.... : 20 40 | 4@% i" le \ 16
Cold Rolled, 14x48..... ee 25 50 Extra Ww ‘iping . ie 5
eee eee 40 65 The prices of the many ‘other " qualities of
DRILLS. 60 90 | solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands
Morse’s Bit Stocks............. eee eee 00 150 | vary according to composition.
Taper and straight t Sa a - = Cui. tT a ial a
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DRIPPING PANS. vis) 1 00 | TIN—MELYN GRADE.
Suaeil dines, oor pound ...................... 90 ped bres, Charcoal. Fl Loteot eeu? oo
Large gizes, per pound..............., 85 1 00 | 14x20 IC, ee 4 7 50
re 00 1 2} 10x14 IX, by ae 9 2

! rn an Ga ap 150|14x201X, “ oe 9 25
Com. 4 piece, 6in.............------dox. net 75 chinenti:. Ca 3 7 | Each additional X on this grade, 81
EE dis. 20&10&10 90 TIN—-ALLAWAY GBADE.

Adjustable. .......-.....eeeeee esse tree dis. 4010} «+ . Sea 1 00 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal ........ CR 86 50
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Ronee... 1t < 50 ta 1x fee : 6 50

Y ’ . yy 4 PLANES. S. (10x! c el 8 00

Cees, elt, Bes ee --------------' Zl onto Teel Cas, taney ...................--- GO| OE, 00
a o . eee eee ee @6v Each additional X on this grade $1.50.
Fites—New List. dis. | Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................- @ ROOFING PLATES

Disston’s ... Duet uee casa. neuroses oe. -- Oundle | Benen fret quality.....-........-.-...... -.- @60 | 14x20 IC, / Worcemer......... 6 50
New American...............-. 60&10 | Stanley Rule and ‘Level Cos, wood. ..... Gid | 14x20 IX, ie . Gea 8 £0
Ce 60&10 PANS. | 20x28 IC, . " : 13 50
eS oi 50 | Fry, Acme duececces eres oces GIMGO—I0 | 1Smzg IC, ‘ Allaway Grade 5 75
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........-. a 50 | Common, polished. . bee cena masa 70 | 14x20 a C . r 72
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Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 26; 27 28] Copper Rivets and Burs..............-.---. 50 | BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
List 12 13 14 1 18 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. 1408 FX. $14 00

Discount, 60 i “A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 | 14x31 x. 15

GAUGES. dis. | «<B>» Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 | 14x56 IX, for No. § Boilers, { ‘sie wae 10
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

 

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State,

The Tradesman Company, Proprietor.
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Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
strictly in advance. :
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Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Oy.*2.

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1891.

 

 

OUR FUTURE GREATNESS.

The business men of the country are
too apt to forget the soundness of Amer-
ica’s vast progress. The United States
is to-day, almost the only great country
in the world whose future is brighter
thanits past. Great Britain has, in many
respects, reached the limit of its great-
ness. It can no longer be the manufac-
turing center of the world, for we have
taken the foremost position in that line.
Its vast iron and steel business is yearly
increasing in cost of production, while
ours is decreasing. It cannot meet the
world’s ever-growing demand for iron
and steel, because it cannot increase its
production to any great extent in compe-
tition with this country. It produced no
more pig-iron in 1890, notwithstanding
the high prices prevailing, than in 1882,
while we more than doubled our output.
Much of its ore it imports from far dis-
tant regions. ts cotton is all imported.
It spends about $750,000,000 a year for
foreign food-stuffs. On the continent,
every nation is burdened with debt, and
none can ever hope to pay off its obliga-
tions. Measured by their natural re-
sourees and their possibilities, they are
bankrupt. In all of them the cost of
production and of living is steadily in-
creasing. In the United States we have
searcely laid the foundation of our future
greatness. In natural resources we are
richer than all of Europe combined; we
are paying our debts faster than they are
due; we have barely scratched the ground
in the development of our mineral wealth ;
we were rich enough to stand a decrease
last year of 900,000,000 bushels of grain
as compared with 1889, on account of bad
weather: we are rich enough in addition
to this to send $70,000,000 in gold to
Europe within a few without
creating any financial trouble, and that,
too, after Europe had unloaded on us
millions of dollars of our stocks, because
our securities were the only ones in the
world that found a cash market when
the Barings and others were trying to
save themselves. In ten years, from
1880 to 1890, we have added $2,000,000,000
to our capital invested in manufactures,
an increase of nearly 75 per cent. In
the same time the value of our manufac-
tured products has risen from $5,300,000-
000 to $8,600,000,000, a gain of $3,300,-
000,000: or, in other words, we are now
producing manufactured goods at a rate
of $3,300,000,000 a year more than we
were ten years ago. The increase in
eapital invested in manufactures in ten
years, from 1880 to 1890, was greater
than the entire amount of capital in-
vested in 1870, or only twenty years ago.

months

1
In these ten years the growth of our man- |

ufacturing interests was greater than
the growth from the settlement of Amer-
ica up to 1870. In these ten years we

have built 75,000 miles of railroad, al-
most as much as our total mileage in
1880.

 

SUGGESTIONS ABOUT REST.

Dr. William A. Hammond makes some
suggestions in the North American Re-
view about how to rest, in which he inti-
mates that change is only partial rest,
and that the varying of occupations of
the mind as the farmer rotates his crops
will be advantageous, but allowing the
mind to lie fallow occasionally like the
field much better. ‘‘Men and women,
like the fields of the earth, require change,
and, like them, they
Dr. Hammond, with considerable perti-
nency; but he adds that ‘‘these objects
can never be attained in the way that the
average American sets out to get them.’’
There is altogether too much truth in
this comment. The idea of rest which
the average American possesses is to
pack a trunk and satchel in haste, jump
on a train and jolt across half the conti-
nent to stay a day or two at some fash-
ionable resort and then jolt home again.
There is change enough in such a jaunt,
but no rest. If Horace Greeley were
alive he would tell the listening world
that the way to restisto rest. Dr. Ham-
mond should have put it just that way,
but he didn’t.

require rest,’’ says

A bushel of wheat will buy more com-
modities consumed by the farmer now
than at any time in the history of this
country from the time of Christopher
Columbus. At one time during the war
a bushel of wheat sold for two dollars
and ninety cents or could be exchanged
for five yards of muslin. To-day a bushel
of wheat will buy ten yards of as good
At that timea bushel of wheat,
worth $2.90, would buy fifteen pounds of
sugar: now it will buy twenty-one pounds
of better sugar than people used in those
days.

muslin.

 

The new system of dress reform for
the ladies provides for only four articles,
including the dress. In dropping their
skirts the ladies do not seem to be al-
gather up anything else.
Against fashion’s decrees no argument
will avail, but it might be well to re-
mind the ladies that winter is not very
far off.

lowed to

 

Only one year more of national pros-
perity, for next year the political fight
will open, and the country .will certainly
go to the bow-wows if the other fellows
get there.

 

Commercial Travelers’ Day at the De-
troit Exposition.

Detroit, Aug. 11—I am advised by a
committee of the Michigan Commercial
Travelers’ Association to notify Tue
TRADESMAN that Saturday, Aug. 29, has
been designated as ‘‘Commercial Travel-
ers’ Day’’ in the official programme of
the Detroit International Fair & Exposi-
tion, and will be one of the most enjoy-
able days for visitors at that great fair.
Special attractions are being considered
for that day, while the regular pro-
gramme includes trotting, pacing and
running races on the exposition track;
Prof. Damon’s marvelous rifle and pistol
shooting; morning, afternoon and even-
| ing grand band concerts; balloon ascen-
|sions and daring leaps from the clouds;
| the magnificent war drama and gorgeous
| military spectacle, ‘‘The Siege of Sebas-

 

 

| topol,” and splendid fireworks.
Commercial travelers throughout the |
| state will be interested in any mention |
| of the day that you may be pleased to}
| make. Very truly yours,

| GEO. M. SAVAGE, Sec’y.

Gripsack Brigade
H. S. Powell, Upper Peninsula travel-
ing representative for the I. M. Clark
Grocery Co., was in town over Sunday.

Fred L. Fallas has started out on a
six weeks’ trip through Northern Michi-
gan and the Upper Peninsula in the in-
terest of Fallas & Son.

Hi. Robertson’s left shoulder blade is
in fairly good shape again, so that he
expects to be able to resume regular trips
on the road next Monday.

P. Reynolds was given a judgment for
$110 against the Warren Boot and Shoe
Co., Boston, by Justice Brown on Satur-
day. The amount of the judgment rep-
resented commissions on sales claimed
by Reynolds while in the employ of the
defendant.

Commercial travelers have won an im-
portant victory in the courts. The second
division of the New York Court of Ap-
peals recently held (Taylor vs. Enoch
Morgan’s Sons Company) that the trav-
eler was entitled to commissions on all
orders made by purchasers on the line
of his route, whether taken and forwarded
by him or not, and also on orders from
responsible parties whether accepted by
his employers or not. The commission
men will hold this as a streak of divine
justice.

The Transportation Committee of the
National Wholesale Druggists’ Associa-
tion has written to some of the general
passenger agents of Western roads, ask-
ing what objections there are to the issu-
ing of 5,000 mile interchangeable tickets
for the use of traveling salesmen. Gen-
eral Passenger Agent Eustis, of the Bur-
lington, replies at some length to the
letter. He says one obstacle to the sell-
ing of interchangeable tickets would be
removed if all the railroads could agree.
But there were several other difficulties,
and chief among these was the ticket
broker. Most of the difficulties would
disappear if business were conducted in
this country as it is in Canada, where by
law agents are compelled to sell tickets
at reasonable rates and all others are
prohibited from selling them at any rate.
Mr. Eustis contends that the National
Druggists’ Association and similar organ-
izations control this question, as it is in
their power, and not in the power of the
railroads, to abolish the ticket broker.

“‘T well remember my first visit to Pe-
toskey,’’ remarked Chas. S. Robinson on
aG. R. & I. train the other day. ‘I had
never been further north than Cadillac—
then known as Clam Lake—but had fre-
quently been invited to visit the embryo
city by Hon. H. O. Rose. I was selling
soap in those days and in the spring of
1874 I agreed to go on to Little Traverse
Bay if Mr. Rose would guarantee me an
order, which he did. It took a day to
make the run from Cadillac to Petoskey,
so that the trip required three days, but
the initial order from Fox, Rose & But-
tars was the beginning of such a hand-
some trade that I never regretted the
half a week it took to secure it. I
noticed several little towns along the
line and watched the late Billy Pitwood
capture orders ‘on the fly’ as the train
stopped to take on or leave freight. I
soon learned his method of selling goods
and have been going over that line al-

| most continuously ever since.”

“ft noted the item in last week’s
TRADESMAN to the effect that the jobber

| pays the freight,” remarked a represent-

ative dry goods salesman the other day,

 

‘‘and it recalled a number of experiences
I have met in a career of a dozen years
on the road. I was once solicited to
hand over $10 to help build a church by
one of my best customers and com-
promised by paying $5. I afterwards
saw the subscription paper and noted
that the traveling men had been muleted
$145 for this purpose. Our house was
recently asked to furnish a country church
with a carpet and compromised the mat-
ter by mailing the customer a check for
$25. Our senior once received four let-
ters from as many customers in a single
town, soliciting aid for the same church.
It was afterwards learned that at a meet-
ing of the church members, it was re-
solved that the merchants ask their job-
bing friends to assist in the work, which
accounted for the arrival of simultaneous
appeals. I have contributed to funds
for church bells, bought chances on or-
gans, musie boxes and crazy quilts and
been frequently caught on a quarter’s
worth of cigars, and I suppose I will con-
tinue to make a fool of myself with great
regularity, but I cannot help kicking at
the injustice of the thing, nevertheless.

it is an outrage that traveling men should
be called upon in this manner and I
heartily wish THe TRADESMAN could
agitate the matter until our friends of
the retail trade come to look at the thing
in its proper light.’’

 

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The Crank in Business.
From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

There are cranks and cranks. The
crank in social life can be tabooed. In
ehurch, if there is a crank, one can sit in
another pew. But in business the crank
must be endured.

The writer saw an orderafew days
ago from a country merchant for a
specialty in dress goods. After the
representative of the wholesale house
had taken the order, a telegram was re-
ceived from the manufacturer, stating
that he was unable to supply any more
of the goods. Thereupon the wholesaler
notified the crank in question that he
could only deliver a part of the goods,
as he had contracts out for more than he
could get. He had been placed in this
dilemma because of the failure of the
manufacturer to fill his own orders.

Now, what did the crank do? Did he
say that he was sorry, but would take
what they could give him? Not he. His
reply came: ‘‘Cancel my entire order.
If you can’t give me what you agreed to,
then I won’t take anything.”

The entire order amounted to over a
thousand dollars—good, desirable stuff,
which had been bought at reasonable
prices, and which would soon be re-
quired for business. That’s only one
case in many.

Another instance that fell under the
observation of the writer a few days ago
was in regard to the cancellation of an
order. It may be proper to cancel orders
under certain circumstances—we'll not
argue that point at the present time. In
the case in point the merchant had evi-
dently bought the bill of goods for the
purpose of cancelling it. They were a
line of imported dress goods which is
controlled exclusively by one of the
houses in this market. It is utterly im-
possible to obtain a single piece of the
goods in the United States except from
the house in question.

Yet this merchant had the hardihood
in cancelling the order for the goods to
assign as a reason that he had been able
to buy the identical article from another
wholesale house at 10 to 15 per cent. less
money.

The stuff had already been packed up
when the cancellation came. Other cus-
tomers had been induced to modify their
demands in order that he might have
just what he called for, and this was the
result.

There is no redress, however.

 

The

crank is as liable to get into business as
anywhere else, and when he makes his
appearance, other and better people must
grin and bear it.

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A Serious Misunderstanding.
From the Toledo Business World.

The attitude which the manual labor
of the country is assuming through its
various organizations, is one well cal-
culated to cause the friends of republi-
canism the gravest anxiety. Formerly
it was supposed that the man who was
engaged by another to perform certain
work had a natural and logical interest
in the success of the enterprise upon
which he was employed and the prosper-
ity of the man whose money he received.
lt was regarded as good political econo-
my to assume that the welfare of the
employe was dependent upon and grew
largely out of the good fortune of the
employer, and that whatever hindered

or harassed the latter was reflected with }

greater or less force upon the former.
But latterly there has sprung up
throughout the country and in various
eallings a new series of organizations
known as ‘tLabor Unions,” in which the
individuality and freedom of the work-
man is merged into the association of
which he forms a part, and where the
theory is inferentially, if not openly,
taught that every man or company em-
ploying labor is the natural and inevit-
able enemy of those so employed. Nom-

‘inally formed for the purpose of incul-

eating a fraternal spirit and elevating
the grade and quality of their particular
ealling, these organizations become
practically machines for foreing up
the incompetent, and pulling down
the superior workman to the dead level
of mediocrity; for if the union decrees
that wages shall be $2 aday, no matter
how skilful and industrious a workman
may be, he cannot earn beyond the limit
which his society has fixed for him. The
incompetent man finds his wages in-
creased by this arbitrary regulation above
his real earning capacity, and cares little
and knows less that it comes as a tax
upon his more competent fellows. This
may be regarded as a sweeping state-
ment, but it is nevertheless true that the

' practical working of a labor union sched-

ule is to impose a penalty upon skill and
provide a premium for inefficiency, or
worse. It needs but a moment’s con-
sideration for a disinterested observer to
see that in all this, these men labor under
a most serious misapprehension as to what
is for their own interests; and that ow-
ing to the very nature of things, the best
of them are the greatest sufferers.

After a while there comes a time when
the members of some certain organiza-
tion decide that they will ask for higher
wages, and the request is unsuccessful.
No man, no organization of men, can be
compelled to perform unwilling service
for what he regards as inadequate pay.
Surely in a republican country the con-
verse ought to be true that no man should
be compelled to pay for labor a price
that he deems excessive. Theoretically
it is true, but is it practically? The re-
course of the man who does not wish to
labor at a stipulated price is to discon-
tinue his labor. But the recourse of the
employer who is unwilling to pay a price
above the market is—what? The labor
organization says to the employer, ‘‘We
are unwilling to work any longer at your
price, and therefore we have stopped.
3ut while you may refuse to pay us our
price, we also refuse to allow anybody
else to work for you at yours.”? And
thereupon they proceed to set law at de-
fiance, and enter on the performance of
acts under the form and color of organiz-
ation which none of them would venture
upon as individuals.

The resort to force, either actual or
threatened, in a labor strike is made by
labor organizations under the gravest
misapprehension as to their own welfare.
A single thought would convince the men
that an appeal to force is a begging of
the very question they seek to establish.
For if the wages they receive are lower
than corresponding remuneration in other

lines of work, or less than other men are |

willing to do the same work for, then
force is unnecessary and the employer is
obliged to come to them for his labor.
If, on the other hand, the wages de-

manded are above the market price, they |
are unjust to the employer and ought
not to be paid.

The labor strike is antagonistic to re-
publican institutions and to the highest

individual freedom. It is wrong in prin-
ciple, and no permanent success or last-
ing benefit can be obtained through its
employment.

Cn BR

How to Get Along.

Don’t stop to tell stories in business
hours.

If you have a place of business, be
found there when wanted.

No man can get rich by sitting around
stores and saloons.

Never fool in business matters.

Have order, system, regularity and
promptness.

Do not meddle with business you know
nothing of.

Do not kick everyone in your path.

More miles can be made in one day by
going steadilp than by stopping.

Pay as you go.

A man of honor respects his word as
he does his bond.

Help others when you can, but never
give what you cannot afford because it is
fashionable.

Learn to say no. No necessity of
snapping it out dog-fashion, but say it
firmly and respectfully.

Use your own brains rather than those
of others.

Learn to think and act for yourself.

Keep ahead rather than behind the
times.

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Literal English.

A woman went into an avenue drug
store to have a prescription filled. The
druggist compounded the drugs and as
he handed the bottle to the customer, he
said pleasantly:

‘*Here’s you
shake!”

“Pll do nothing of the kind,” snapped
the woman, ‘‘and 1 think you’ve a good
deal of impudence to ask me to.”

“You don’t understand,” exclaimed
the druggist; ‘1 mean when you take
the prescription, you must shake.”

‘*} don’t want the prescription if it’s
going to make me shake,’’ objected the
customer.

‘Good heavens, woman, it’s the bottle
you are to shake,” shrieked the druggist.

‘“What good will it do me?’’ queried
the woman.

‘“‘He means, madam,”’ said the drug-
gist?’s assistant, coming to the rescue,
“that the mixture in the bottle should
be well shaken before taken.”

“Well, couldn’t he have said so?”
asked the ‘wrathful customer as she
looked a farewell suspicion at the unfor-
tunate druggist.
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Observe His Weight.
Charles L. Webert in St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

I saw a joke in one of the papers the
other day about a shoemaker asking his
customer his weight. The joke was on
the joker, I think, for the thoughtful
man generally takes stock of his custom-
er’s build, and notes his walk as well.
This is because the wear and tear on a
shoe depends very largely upon these de-
tails. A light, active man wears out a
great deal of shoe leather because he
generally walks a great deal, and also
because a light quick step generally in-
volves a great deal of scraping. The
heavy man has of necessity to take a
firmer tread, and he will wear his sole
very little in consequence, but unless his
legs are perfectly straight and his tread
absolutely solid he will destroy the vamp
long before the material in the shoe be-
gins to show even signs of wear. There
is nothing at all funny in a careful shoe-
maker making a note of his customer’s
weight,because by doing so and strength-
ening things where the heaviest strain
will come he can add to the life of the
shoe and to the satisfaction of its wearer.

ane oo >
The Saginaw Grocers to Picnic.

Sacinaw, Aug. 15—The retail grocers
and commission merchants of Saginaw to
the number of 300 will, in company with
their wives and children, enjoy a day’s
outing at Bay Port August 20. Boos’
band has been engaged for the occasion
and a program is being arranged, which
| ineludes races, games and athletic sports
of all kinds.

prescription, ma’am—

 

 

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Use Tradesman 10 Superior Coupons.

 

The Drug Market.

Opium and morphine are steady. Qui-
nine is lower for German brands. Bro-
mide potash is unsettled and lower.
Prussiate potash has declined. Gum

arabic is
clined.

lower. Serpentaira has de-
Turpentine is higher.

A merchant refused to hire as a elerk
a young man whose pantaloons, he no-
ticed, were worn at the knees and seat,
because he judged that a good clerk
would not thus wear his clothing. In
another case a merchant chose from
twenty applicants a boy who stopped to
wipe his muddy feet before entering his
offige, and whose finger nails were clean.

 

ee “It is attention to littlethings that makes

G. B. Martin has sold his bank at East | @ good clerk,” said the merchant.

i —~< 9 << ____
Jordan to Reuben Glenn. Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

 

 

 

If you would be A LEADER, handle only goods of
VALUE.

If you are satisfied to remain at TAIL END buy
cheap, unreliable goods.

GOOD YEAST 18 INDISPENSABLE.

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GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE;
26 Fountain St.

FACTORY DEPOT;
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To Clothing and General Store Merchants—

It will pay you well to see our line of fall and winter
clothing, especially our elegant line of the real genuine “Tre-
voli Mills” all wool fast colors. Kersey overcoats at $8.50
and $9, silk faced, single and double breasted. Also our
Melton overcoats and one of the nicest line of Ulsters in all
shades, grades and material in the market, Our Chinchillas
are up to the equal standard, the whole selected from the best
foreign and domestic goods.

SULTIN GS.

We have an excellent assortment in fine worsted, cheviot,
pequay, meltona, cassimere and other famous mills. We have
a reputation of over 30 years standing established for selling
excellent made and fine fitting clothing at such reasonable
prices as enables merchants to eater for all classes. Our
Prince Alberts have got a world fame popularity and our line
of pants is most attractive.

William Connor, for nine years our representative in
Michigan, will be at Sweet’s Hotel in Grand Rapids on
Thursday and Friday, September 3 and 4, and will be pleased
to show our line. Expenses paid for customers meeting him
there, or he will wait upon you if you drop him a line to his
address at Marshall, Mich., or we will send samples.

MICHAEL KOLB & SON,
Wholesale Clothiers,
Rochester, N. Y.

William Connor also calls attention to his nice line of
Boys’ and Children’s Clothing of every description for fall and
winter trade.

 

  

   

10

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Drugs #& Medicines.

State Board of Pharmacy.

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

Meetings for 1891 — Houghton,
Nov. 4.

 

 

Sept. 1; Lansing

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo.
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor.
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
BSecretary—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 N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

 

PATENT MEDICINES.
Retrospect of the Subject by a Veteran
Practitioner.

The following is taken from a paper
by Dr. John S. Billings, prepared for the
celebration of the centennial of the
American patent system:

The application of the patent system
to medicine in this country has had its
advantages for certain people, has given
employment to a considerable amount of
eapital in production (and to a much
larger amount in advertising), has con-
tributed materially to the revenues of
the Government, and has made a great
deal of work for the medical profession.

So far as I know, but one complete
system of medicine has been patented in

this country, and that was the steam,
cayenne pepper, and lobelia system—
commonly known as Thomsonianism—

to which a patent was granted in 1836.
The right to practise this system, with a
book describing the methods, was sold
by the patentee for 520, and perhaps some
of you may have some reminiscences of
it connected with your boyish days. I
am certain I shall never forget the effects
of “Composition Powder,” or of ‘‘Num-
ber Six,’? which was essentially a con-
eentrated tincture of cayenne pepper,
and one dose of which was enough to
make a boy willing to go to school fora
month.

From a report made by the Commis-
sioner of Patents in 1849, it appears that
eighty-six patents for medicine had been
granted to that date; for the specifica-
tions of most of those issued before 1836
had been lost by fire. The greater number
of patents for medicines were issued be-
tween 1850 and 1860.

The total number of patents granted
for medicines during the last decade
(1880-1890) is 540. This, however, ap-
plies only to ‘‘patent medicines,’’ prop-
erly so-called, the claims for which are,
for the most part, presented by simple-
minded men who know very little of the
ways of the world. A patent requires a
full and unreserved disclosure of the
recipe, and the mode of compounding the
same, for the public benefit when the
term of the patent shall have expired;
and the Commissioner of Patents may, if
he chooses, require the applicant to fur-
nish specimens of the composition and of
its ingredients, sufficient in quantity for
the purpose of experiment. The law,
however, does not require the applicant
to furnish patients to be experimented
en, and this may be the reason why the

Commissioner has never demanded sam-
ples of the ingredierts. By far the
greater number of owners of panaceas

and nostrums are too shrewd to thus pub- |

lish their secrets, for they can attain
their purpose much better under the law
for registering trade marks and labels,
designs for bottles and packages, and
copyrights of printed matter, which are
less costly and do not reveal the arcanum.
These proprietary medicines constitute
the great bulk of what the public call
‘‘patent medicines.”’

The trade in patent and secret remedies
has been, and still is, an important one.
We are a bitters-and-pill-taking people.
In the fried-pork and saleratus-biscuit
regions the demand for such medicines is

 

I suppose the chief consumption of them
is by women and children with a fair al-
lowance of clergymen, if we may judge
from the printed testimonials. I sam-
pled a good many of them myself when I
was a boy. Of course, these remarks do
not apply to bitters. One of the latest
patents is fer a device to wash pills rap-
idly down the throat.

lam sorry to say that I have been un-
able to obtain definite information as to
the direct benefits which inventions of
this kind have conferred on the public in
the way of cure of disease or preventing
death. Among the questions which were
not putin the schedules of the last census
were the following, namely: ‘‘Did you
ever take any patent or proprietary med-
icine?” ‘If so, whatand how much, and
what was the result?” Some very re-
markable statistics would no doubt have
been obtained had this inquiry been made.

Lean only say that I know of but four
seeret remedies which have been really
valuable additions to the resources of
practical medicine, and the composition
of all these is now known. These four
are all powerful and dangerous, and
should only be used on the advice of a
skilled physician.

or 8
King Alcohol Dethroned.

GoopDHART, Aug. 1—I read an article,
headed ‘‘ King Alcohol,’’ in THE TRADEs-
MAN some time ago and should have
made a reply at the time, if I had had
the data I desired at hand. I donotnow
remember all the various points the
writer attempted to make, nor will I at-
tempt any reply; but I do remember an
impression he made on my mind that
he was not posted in regard to the po-
sition occupied by some of the most emi-
nent physicians in this country and Eng-
land on the use of alcoholics in medical
practice; and, also, that he was not aware
that there were any hospitals in exis-
tence where spiritous liquors were not
used for any purpose. As the article in
question was ecaleulated—I will not say
intended—to mislead the readers of your
valuable paper, I take the liberty of
sending you a marked copy of the Voice,
containing a report of the proceedings
and some able papers read before an in-
ternational congress of medical men, re-
cently held at the National Prohibition
Park, with the request that you will give
at least the address of Dr. S. N. Davis,
of Chicago, a place in THr TRADEs-
MAN.

With highest personal regards, I re-
main, Very truly yours,

GIDEON NOEL.

 

 

The address to which Mr. Noel refers
was as follows:

Why does an intelligent and free peo-
ple continue to spend such enormous
sums of meney on drinks that so plainly
bring nothing but evilin return? I an-
swer: First, because of the erroneous
education of the greater portion of the
people in regard to the true nature and
effects of alcoholic drinks when taken
into the human system, and, second, be-
cause of their power to pervert the sen-
sibility of the brain and nervous system,
and thereby devolop the most fascinat-
ing and persistent mental delusions.

A large majority of the inhabitants of
every country receive the most influen-
tial and enduring part of their education
not in the school-room or from books,
but from the opinions, maxims and prac-
tices that they hear and see from infan-
cy to adult age in the family, on the
street and in the social circles of the
neighborhood. From avery early period
in the history of these drinks, before
chemistry had separated and revealed
the nature of the active ingredient that
pervades them all, the people judging
only from the sensations and actions in-
duced by their use, were very generally
persuaded to regard them as stimulating,
warming, soothing and restorative. Con-
sequently they speedily found their way
into almost every household in Christen-
dom, and was ever ready to relieve the
| baby’s colic, to enable the mother to
|give more milk, to relieve the father’s
| weariness, and to prevent the boys and
| girls from ‘‘taking colds” when exposed
| to wet or cold weather; and, of course,
‘doctors, priests and people all united in

 

 

unfailing, but everywhere they are found. | calling them tonics, stimulants and re-

storatives for the body and soothing ex-
hilarants for the mind. And it is true
that these same designations and the
ideas conveyed by them, are still domi-
nant in the family circles, the highways
and the newspapers of this and other
countries. Even the great majority of
medical men still contribute their full
share to the support and perpetuation of
these very general and destructive popu-
lar errors, by habitually using the same
language and sanctioning the same prac-
tices regarding them. '

I call them destructive popular errors
advisedly, because the abundant results
of their use in every circle or grade of
human society, and because the most
rigorous, varied and skillful scientific
investigations have both demonstrated
that no form of alcoholie drink is capa-
ble of warming, strengthening, nourish-
ing or sustaining the life of any human
being. I presume many of those who
are listening to me will regard this as
an extravagant statement, more es-
pecially as they remember the many
nursery and newspaper stories they have
heard concerning sick persons who were
alleged to have been kept alive on noth-
ing but wine, brandy or whisky.

The falsity of all such stories is made
apparant by the fact that nineteen-twe: -
tieths of all the alcoholic drinks given to
the sick are given in connection with
water, milk, eggs or meat broths, which
furnish the nutriment and would sup-
port the patient better if given with the
same perseverance without the alcohol
than with it. It is true that chemical
analysis detects the existence of some
gum, sugar and starch or fecula in the
fermented liquids, beer and wine, which
may be classed as nutriment. But the
proportion is so small as to be of no ap-
preciable value. Baron Liebig, one of
the most eminent chemists of Germany,
has left on record the statement that ‘‘If
a man drinks daily eight or ten quarts of
the best Bavarian beer, in the course of
twelve months he will have taken into
his system the nutritive constituents
contained in a five-pound loaf of bread.’’

it 2- <

Saginaw—E. G. Banghart succeeds E.
G. Banghart & Co. in the drug business.

The Power of Imagination.

“The power of imagination,’’ said a
druggist, ‘tis past comprehension. Not
long since a domestic in the employ of a
prominent family came into the store in
great haste with a prescription which
called for two grains of morphine in two
ounces of aqua pura, that is, distilled
water, the accompanying directions: ‘A
teaspoonful every hour until the pain is
allayed.’? The patient for whom it was
intended was the head of the family, who
was suffering from a severe attack of
nervous neuralgia.

‘“‘Now it so happened that the family
physician who had written the prescrip-
tion was behind the counter when the
messenger arrived, having dropped in,
as was his went, on the way to his office.
While I was putting up the prescription
we chatted, laughed and joked, and
passed the time of day as only profes-
sional men are capable of doing. I filled
the bottle, corked it carefully, and la-
belled it properly, and, when the retreat-
ing form of the domestic had disappeared
out of the store door, returned to my
companionable physician visitor. As I
did solsaw to my amazement the two
grains of morphine reposing on the pre-
scription scales.

***Good Heaven, doctor!’ I ejaculated.
‘lve given that girl nothing but distilled
water. The morphine is here; look at
it. What shall I do?’

** ‘Do?’ he replied with admirable sang
froid, ‘do? Why, nothing at all. Pll
wager youa bottle that the aqua pura
will work as well without the opiate as
with it.

‘Agreed,’ said I.

“The doctor was right,’’ concluded the
pharmacist, ‘‘and the patient with the
nervous neuralgia—an exceptionally in-
telligent and college-bred man — was

sleeping as peacefully as a babe after the
second dose of the mixture. Faith is

 

 

everything where medicine is concerned.”

No, $2.25 for 1,000 printed state-
ments does not buy very good stock,
but you can send fora sample and see
for yourself what it is.

The Tradesman Company,

Grand Rapids.

 

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Declined—German quinine, bromide potash, prussiate potash, gum arabic, serpentaria,

 

 
  

 

  

ACIDUM.
oa... . 8@ 10
Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00
Peace Lc. ....-. 20
Careoucum ........... 23@ 35
Caueeum .............. 55@ 58
Tievrocnior ..........- 3B 5
Nitrocum toy 10@ 12
Cnmalioum ....... Ni@ 3
Phosphorium dil...... : 20
Salicylicum .. 1 36@1 70
Sulphuricum. . -- 1I6=@ S&
ome. cw 4 40@1 60
TT arrereoeee............ 40@ 42
AMMONIA.

Aqua, 2 ee eee 84@ 5
4 Le awes oA 7
c a Deee ete eeu 14
Chloridum ............ DO 14
ANILINE.
ieee. ............--«. Gee
ee... 80@1 00
a 45@ 50
Toloe ...... ees 2 50@3 00
BACCAE.

Cubeae (po. 90)...... 90@1 10
Sueeree ............. 8@ 10
Xanthoxylum......... 25@ 30
BALSAMUM.

Copaiba .. 55@ 60
Peru oe @1 60
Terabin, ‘Canada Ll . 35@ 40
Tolutan.. —_.. =a @
CORTEX.

Abies, Canadian.... 18
Coe ss a
(aechons Piava .......-...- 18
Euonymus atropurp........ 30
Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20
Prasus Virgoil.......--....- 2
Quillaia, grd..............-. 14
Sassafras ... —.
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)..... 10
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza — 4@ 2

eee 33@ 35
Haematox, 15 1b. box... 11@
yk... 13@ 14
: ee Wo 15
' M48... 16@ 17
FERRUM.
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Soluble....... @ 80
Seerpanttees Sel. @ 80
Solut Chloride... @ 15
Sulphate, com’!.......1%@ 2
' pom... ae
FLORA.
Aes... .c........., Te ae
Bet oee .... ....... 20@ 2
Magica lees 25@ 30
FOLIA
Barosma -. mo ©
Cassia Acutifol, “Tin a 2
nivell sees dees B@ 3
ne . Alx. 3@ 50
Salvia ee * es
and %s.. : 12@ 15
re ee... ... 8@ 10
@UMMI.
Acacia, ist picked.... @
. 2d _ @ 6
' 3d - @ 50
- sifted sorts. . @ 3
nes oe ..... -. 60@|_580
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60) . W@ 60
«Cape, (pa. 2). @ 12
Socotri, (po. 60) . @ 50
Catechu, 1s, (448, 14 m8,
4s... @ 1
Aymmoniac ........-... 30@ 35
Assafostida, (po. 30). @ 20
Benzoinum...... 3W@ 55
Camphor®...... . 2a =
Euphorbium po ..... 35@, 19
Gaipanum.,....-..----  @3 00
Gamboge, po........-. 80@ 9%
Guaiacum, & 3) @
Kino, =. @ Ww
cea Se
M cat (po. ..
Opil. (po. 3 20} Le 1 9@2 00
Re eae 23 30
, pleached...... 28@ 33
Tragecanth ..........- 30@ 7
HERBA—In ounce packages.
Aielatetoes ............. oo
Meese .........-......- 20
a oe Ls dye oie 25
Meeiordm ......-.---.-----+-- 28
Mentha  Biperita.. eee es eee 23
ee 30
ameootum, V......-.----.-. 22
Tiss, V-......-.-..-....-. 25
MAGNESIA.
Coleg, Fus.........-
Carbonate, Pat........ ™W@ %
Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 25
Carbonate, Jenning5S.. 35@ 36
OLEUM.
aa 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulce... .. 45@ %5
— alae, Amarae....8 00@8 25
SS ae 2 00@2 10
aaa Cortex....... 3 60@3 75
POPPA ooe 6 ce coos ass 3 75@4 00
RE sede ce vce 70@ 80
Corvopnyilt ........... 90@1 90
a 35@ 65
Commoueen ........... @2 00
Coeeeeeee .........-- 1 15@1 20

 

 

Cuperae..... _ aie
Meccutnitos.......... 2 50@2 %
mice... 2 50@2 75
embers ........... 2 00@2 10
Geranium, ounce..... @
Gossipil, Sem. gal.. 50@ 75
Hemeome ........_... i 85@2 00
eumiper............:.. 50@2 00
Lavendula 1. Se OF
—.............. 2 50@3 10
Mentha Piper.......... 2 9@3 00
Mentha Verid...... -2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal.........1 00@1 10
Myrcia, ounce......... @
Obra 90@2 75
Picis em, (gal..35) 10@ 12
Me 04@1 20
ecmaniiiea’ i T@1 00
Hosac, ounee.......... @6 00
Pore 40Q 45
ee 90@1 00
Fee ce ue, 3 0@7 00
Sassafras. .... - £0 ©
ee “? ounce. a @ 65
Tiglil @1 00
Thyme . a cal 40@ 50
: nm... @ 60
‘Thoortomeas........... 15@ 2
POTASSIUM.
pica ............... 15@ 18
POCeTOKeeG ........... 138@ 14
Brame... .......,.: 283@ 30
ee. seo... 12@ 15
Chlorate, (po. 16)...... 144@ 16
Cyeneee «oo. 50@ 55
Rogero,................ 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart, —- 28@ 30
Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15
Potass Nitras, opt. a 8@ 10
Potass Nitras. . -. — =
rrosiai.............. 2a @
Sulphate po betes 15@ 18
RADIX,
Aconwws ............. 20@ 22%
Aloee................. See oo
Aner ............ . Pe
Asam, pd........ i @ B
ee 20@ 50
Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18
Hydrastis ne
(po. 40) ‘ @ 3
Hellebore, “Ala, PO. 15@ 2
Inula, po. . Bo
Ipecac, po.. -2 40@2 50
Tris plox (po. "35@38) . 82@ 35
ones, i... HQ 45
Perens. Me... ...... @ 35
eo ” ... lo i
Rhei. : TQ@1 00
° cut. @1 75
- py... De ee TKA1 35
—o............... 18@ 53
Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @
Serpentaria........... 30@ 35
Senega -- 0@ 55
Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40
) @ W
Sciliee, (po. H).......- 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Feeti-
aus o0......... @ 3
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ B&B
German. 15@ 2
ingiber a.. ——.. oo
2ingther j...... . : 2@ 2%
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20). @ 15
Apium (graveleons).. 22Q 2%
Ber eee, 4@ 6
Carul, (po. 18) . = =o
coeeon.............1 a =
Coviandram........... a @&
Cannabis Sativa....... 4Q4%
“yocnree.... ........ 75Q@1 00
Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate......2 00@2 25
Poemcuiis..... .-... @ 15
Foenugreek, po..... 6@ 8
ME oc isco ccenes 4@4%
Lini, grd, (bbl. 3%). -4 @4%
Lobelia... 3hQ 40
Pharlaris Canarian... . 8%@ 4%
wee... om 7
Sinapis, ae... OS
Nigra.... 11@ 12
SPIRITUS,
Frumenti, Le te Co. : 00@2 50
a... 1 75@2 00
ena eee cet a 1 10@1 50
Juntperts Co. 0. T....1 San
cteciee sc 1 75@3 50
Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00
Sot. Vint Gall........ 1 75@6 50
Vint Oreo ........-.. 1 25@2 00
Vint Alba.............1 Qe ©
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool
CRNTINGe. 3... 2 25@2 50
Nassau sheeps’ wool
Carrieee =... ........ 2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool carriage....... 110
Extra yellow sheeps’
Ce 85
Grass sheeps’ wool Car-
riage . 65
Hard for slate use. 7
Yellow Reef, for slate
we i. 1 40
SYRUPS.
eee 50
i eee pee ues 50
eee oc,
erri Iod.. mo 50
Auranti Cortes. . 50
Me BO ek cee ee 50
Similax Officinalis.......... 60
“ce “oe Co ae 50
eee 50
ea ceed cep isenees 50
Oe eice acu pece cyan 50
ND ese ceeeis) Oe
Pee Clee... est OO

 

 
   

 

 

 

 

TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis R....... 6@
. " r....... &
ie 60
, aol eue............ 60
Aree 50
ieataaiia ee, 0
Atrope ecemeeanes i
Benzoin.. ee
. SN oe. oe
Poneman...
Porueee ..............,.... oe
Camueraes............,....
Copeecum ........-- 3.8, 8
a Gane... ...............
. oS
Cone 100
apeees. 8 50
Cc inchona . .. 50
pec ec te. 60
late ee
——-................,.. 50
oe 50
Digitalis .. 50
Brect.... 50
Gentian . 50
“ec Yo. 60
Gime. ....... ... 50
° aes... 60
ee... 50
HyOpevaine ................ 50
Iodine.. ce

. Colorless............. 7
Werr Chioridum............ 35
Bree. 50
Lee 50
=r. 50
Nux Vomica 50
Op! eo ee et. 85

" Cammpnorated........... 50

* Deeae................ 200
Auranti Cortex.. ic.
—— a 50

aoe eee 50

nee tecdeacee.- + oe
Cassia Acutifol. 50
Berpeniesre ........,.-...... oO
ee 60
Tolutan . . 60
Valerian .... 50
Veratrum Veride.. 50
MISCELLANEOUS.

Aither, Spts Nit, aF.. SO
47... Se &

Alumen . «s-s- Seo

' ground, (po.

7 . re 3B 4
Annaiio. et eee. 55GB 60
Antimoni, po.. “<— 5

' et Potass T. 55@ 60
AUOye............. @1 40
CCOTIN,. .........-.. @ 2%
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 68
Atacaicun .......2.... 4
Balm Gilead Bud. .... 38@ 40
Bismuth S. N.. 2 10@2 20
Calcium C Yhior, ‘1s, (Ks

1: es fe... 9
Cantharides Russian,

~~... @1 W%
Capsici Fructus, -... @ 2

io... @ 2%

a7 “ po @ 20
Caryophyllus, (po. 18) 12@ i
Carmine, No. 4 @3 75
Cera Alba, Ss. & eo 50@ 55
Cora Vievs............ a &
occus................ @ 40
Cassia Fructus...... @ Ww
ere 8. @ 10
Cetaceum ... . @ 4
Culerororm .... 60@ 63

- bbs . @1 25

squl
Chloral Hyd Crst...... i 50@1 =
Chong .............

Cinchonidine, P&W 150 20
German 3%@ 12
Corks, list, dis. per
OO es 60
Creseouams ........... @ WO
Cc reta, (oes, vo)........ eo ee
—........,..... 5S@ 5
: — ae twee os 9@ il
_ MOM... se... @ 8
CHOC eee lc 28@ 30
Cuca... 3... @ w#
Cups Sapa... 5@ 6
BO ae ec 10@ 12
iuer Sulen........... 68@ 70
are numbers... @
bees uee esa ees @ 3
eens r Sai -....... 50@ 55
—... 4... 122@ 15
Galle ee eee ku. @ 2B
Meemeeeor............... 7@8
Gelatin, Cooper....... @ 70
. Premom........ 40@ 60

Glassware flint, 70 and 10.
by box 60and 10

Glue, ewe... 9@ 15
eae... .--.. 13@ 25
Gigoermas 2... Tée Ss
Grana Paradial........ @ Zz
ae 25@ 55
Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ 9
Cor @ 80
4g Ox aheuns @1 00
' Ammoniati.. @1 10
. Unguentum. 5@ 55
Hydrargyrum...... . @ 7
Te > gga Am. 1 — 50
eg ...........--,.. 5@1 00
lodine. Hesapl.......- 3 203 85
Togermie.............. @4 70
— Dede e geet. 35@ 40
en oo . 4@ 48
om ............. 85
Me Arsen et Hy-
Lament eres Arsinitis 10@ 12
— Sulph (bbl
BD aie bb sees bees @ 3
wena, &F......... 50@ 60

 

 

 

  

Morphia, SP.&W.. _ 95@2 20 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ B
aN. YL. GC & -- Leg eee oe @ 18
Soot eee cuca ea 1 85@2 10 Loos @ 30
@ Snuff, } Soaiiiaw. De
Myrintica, No. 1....... ae e. vomw........ @ 35
Nux —— (po — @ 10} Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes @ 35
Os. Sepia << Soa Soda Boras, (po.12). . 11@ 12
=" Saac, Soda et Potass Tart... 30@ 33
sae sae @e OF | Soda Carb............ 14@ &
Picis Liq, N noge, Hi-Curp......... @ 5
ct. c,. Ga @ | Soda, Agm............. 3%4@ 4
Picis Ligq., =: @1 00 Soda, Sulpnas......... @ 2
Sede cue @ 85/|Spts. EtherCo........ 5@ 55
Pil ‘ieee go 80)... @ " Myreta. Dom..... @2 3
Piper Nigra, (po. ba @ i “ Myrcia _... .. @3 00
Piper Alba, (po ¢5).. @ 3 " Wem Reet. bbl
Poe Barco... a 7 a @2 37
Fiumie Acct .....-.... 14@ 15 Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia ae euce 1
a, — Sulphur, Sub -3 @4
&FP. Bp. a0m..... @1 25 aon... %@ 3%
Nea pV See ecce Se | Tamerinds............ “"8@ 10}
Qusaeiee ol 8@ 10} Terebenth Venice..... 23@ 30)
Quinia, Se aw ..... 33@ 36 eo betes ee ce 45@ 56
& Germen...21 @ Wi Vania. ..........- 9 — 00 }
Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14} Zinci Sulph.. ' 7@ 8 |
Saccharum Lactis pv. @ 33
SOM. 1 80@1 95 OIL.
Sanguis eee. ade 40@ Bbl, &
— . eee . 4 50 | Whale, winter........ 70
Sapo, W ie MM Lard, oxira........... oo
go ae tt tard, Ne. i........... 45
7 ee @ 15| Linseed, pureraw.... 37 0

 

 

 

Lindseed, boiled .... 40 43
Neat’s Foot, winter

Suemued ......._... 50 60

SpiritsTurpentine.... 41% 46
PAINTS. bbl. Ib.

Red Venetian.......... 1 2@3
Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4
Bee 1% 2@3

Putty, commercial ....2% 24@3

“* ‘strictly pure.....24% 2%@3
Vermilion Prime Amer-

{ean . 13@16
Vermilion, English.. 70@75
Green, Peninstlar ie TO@5
Lead, red. ictoued ca a ara

. wee 7 @i*
Whiting, white Span.. @7
Whiting, Gilders’...... @we
White, Paris American i 6
Whiting, Paris Eng.

Che... 1 4
| Ploneer Prepared Paintl 20@1 4

 

| Swiss Villa Psiviisisaias:

Paints . 00@1 20
VARNISHES,

No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Extra Tare. ........... 160G1 70
Coach Hody........... = 00

0 | No. 1 Turp Furn. 1 00@1 10
Eutra Turk Damar.. 1 55@1 60
| Japan Dryer, No. a

Tie. 7@ 7%

 

HAZELTINE

& PERKINS
DRUG CoO.

importers and Jobbere of

DRUGS

CHEMICALS AND

PATENT MEDICINES.

DEALERS i

Paints, Oils 2 Varnishes.

Sete Agents for the Oslebratedi

 

SWI83 WikhA PREPARED

 

PRINTS.

Fall Ling of Staple Draggists’ Sandries.

 

We are Sole Propricters of

Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy.

 

We Have ia Stock and Offer a Full

WHISKIEBS, BRANDIEBS,

kame of

GINS, WINES, RUMS.

 

We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.

We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders ana Guarantee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Send in 2

trial order.

Hareltine & Perkins

Drug 60,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

  

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

oN I oc tir ome

 

 

GROCERIES.

The Grocery Market.

Sugar without material
While the supply of raw sugar is con-
siderably more than there was at this
time last year, and the possible yield of
beet sugar is considerably in
any that the history of the trade has yet
seen, it is quite evident that sellers of
sugar are by no means going to have it
all their A
glanee at the movements of sugar during

 

is

change.

excess of

own way. retrospective
the past two years forees the conclusion
that it is time that the tide turned and
that the buyers should have an inning as
well as the The
weakness of sugar certificates upon the

sellers. comparative
stock exchange is an indication most con-
clusive that some people have arrived at
the opinion that the industry is not by
any means in so strong a position as it
was slightly over a yearago. The latest
advices which are to hand from Europe
indicate beyond question that the supply
of beet be quite up to the
highest estimates, the crop being in every
way in a very healthy condition. It
quite evident then that this year’s sup-
ply of supar for the world’s consumption
will be beyond question the largest ever
known.

Package coffee has declined a half cent.
—————-
Condition of the Cheese Market.

Fred E. Angell, traveling representa-
tive for L. Ladd, the
ber, was in town over 5S
interviewed
TRADESMAN.

“The farmers of Michigan
reason to complain about the
of this year’s cheese market,’
Angell, ‘*

sugar will

is

Adrian cheese job-
unday
reporter

and was

by 3a of Tue

have no
condition
Mr.
for the Michigan product is ful-

:

said

ly acent a pound above the ruling price

for New York cheese. In many respects,

the present season is the most remarka- |

ble one I have ever seen.

ries started up than usual last

 

 

| $14.50 per gross.

Fewer facto- |
spring |

and the prevailing cool weather has en-!

abled the maker to market his cheese in
splendid condition. I have
‘stinker’ or a ‘leaker’ this year. Asa
result, the consumption has been enor-
mous and both maker and dealer have
been frequently oversold. I hardly feel
competent to make a prediction as to al

ture prices, but I should not be surprised |

if 1 was compelled to ask 14 cents for

first quality cheese before the opening of

the season of 1892.”

—— oe
Why Co-operative Stores Fail Here.
Distributive co-operation has been, per-

haps, ‘brought before the public most

not seen

 

 

a |

Why?

Why should a man expect to be in good
credit when he doesn’t pay promptly?

Why shouldn’t he be unpopular with
his clerks when he habitually treats
them discourteously?

Why should he expect useful sugges-
tions from them when he has always
ridiculed those who have tried it?

Why should a traveling man waste his
time on those who are not in good credit
with his firm?

Why should he insist upon pressing on
a buyer goods that he cannot use?

Why will he cling to the old-fashioned
idea that he must dine and wine a buyer
in order to sell him a bill?

Why will he go out drinking nights
when he knows that he cannot properly

attend to his business the next morning? |

Why will he insist upon showing cus-
tomers the orders he has taken, thereby
publishing that which should remain
private?

Why do parties who often
‘“‘shortage’’ never report ‘‘goods over

Why shouldn’ta dealer return goods
which were not ordered?

Why shouldn’t he hesitate to place .or-
ders with parties who habitually ‘‘stuff”
them, and ‘‘substitute” other goods?

Why should a salesman lose his tem-
per when his customer cannot give him
an order?

Why should he occasionally get a ‘‘big
head’? and in consequence, to. his sur-
prise, lose his position?

Why do retailers always
dull trade when, to come to sift it down,
“they acknowledge they are ahead of
last year?’’

Why are first-class retail salesmen so
searce?

Why don’t employers make better in-
ducements to good salesmen to remain
in the retail business?

Why isn’tthe plan of consulting first-
class clerks in the selection of goods a
good one.

report

9.)

complain of

>... —__—
Fruit Jars Cheaper.

H. Leonard & Sons, of this city, offer
Mason’s fruit jars at $11, $11.50 and
This is a decline of
50 cents per gross from the prices ruling

| last week and subject to change.
_ >> —_—
Have Their Eyes on Owosso.
Au SABLE, Aug. 17—Comeau & Co.

have concluded to remove their clothing

| and hat and cap stock to another location

and will probably locate at Owosso.

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price forit. Address

PECK BRO . Wholesale Dru

GRAND RAPI

 

8.

 

 

Crockery & Glassware

 

 

LAMP BURNERS.

ime Cee... 45
—_ tr i ro le oa Wii sen oc iki ab ni 50
il 7%
Tubular ae Sie ia 7

prominently through the success of the}

so-called co-operative
says B. F. Thurber
American Review,

strange to Say,

in the
but

July North
such stores,

co-operation here have succeeded admir-
ably.

found in the different conditions.

in this country have not |
been a success, although other forms of |N

The reason, however, is probably |
In |

England the retail trade had grown into |

a system of long credits. Many landed
proprietors and others received their in-
comes only at long intervals, and this led
retail merchants into the habit of selling
a large portion of their trade on long
time, which inevitably resulted in con-
siderable losses from bad debts: so the
dealers had to raise their

margins of |

profit upon all their customers to a point |

which would still leave a living. This

was virtually making the cash-paying |

customer support the customer who did
not pay at all;
came extended the persons with fixed in-
comes who paid their debts naturally ob-

stores in England, |

LAMP CHIMNEY8.—Per box.
6 doz. in box.

i eeee...:-..... 6. 1%

a1 * ee oe eb eee cee os eee ce 1 88

OE EE 2 70
First quality.

| No. 0 Sun, crimp «at ae
| No. 1 --2 40
iNo.2 * _ Pe cnet dyes obese 3 40
| XXX Flint.

| No. oe crimp top.. --2 60

veces u see ect auosenene 2 80

ae S eee 3 86
Pearl top.

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled eee 3 70

ee ere eee ee 470

| No. 2 ae, . - Fe earens 4 70
La. Bast

No. 1 Sun, ‘plain bulb, per doz. Se 12

No. 1 crimp, per, sears ee EN MNES RST Fe 1 35

eee ee 1 60

FRUIT JARS.
Mason’s or Lightning.

a i
ee ee 11 50
er eee. .c, ce .14 50

I iter see ee cuys cee 55

“oon O8e................... 3. 4 00

and when this abuse be-|
| ButterCronke, pereet ss.

jected, and the result was the formation

of societies for co-operative distribution |
on an economical cash basis.

STONEWARE—AERON.

  

Jugs, i gal., per doz
“

Milk Pans, % gal, per | doz. ata a)...
90¢c).

|

|

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples—Common cooking command $1.50@1.75
per bbl. Fancy eating are held at 82.25@2.50.

Beans— Dry beans are firm and in strong de-
mand at $2 per bu. for choice hand picked.

Butter—The market is beginning to show the |

effects of the drought, choice dairy now com- |

manding 15@17c, while factory creamery has |
advanced to 20c

Blackberries —6@10c per qt.

Celery—20c per doz. bunches.

Cabbages—50@60c per doz.

Corn—Green, 8e per doz.

Cc ucumbers—10@15¢ per doz.

Eggs—Dealers pay 14¢ and freight,
at 15¢e.

Grapes—Ives and Concord command 4c per Ib.

Honey—Dull at 1618 for clean comb.

Onions—1 per bu. for good stock.

Muskmelons—#1 per doz.

Potatoes—sv0e per bu.

Peaches—Hale’s Early are still in large supply
comme — $1.50 @ $1.75 per bu., ineluding
basket. Early Michigan are expected in market
next week.

Pears—$1 per bu. for common.

Tomatoes—75e@$! per bu.

Watermelons—i5e now buys the best melons
which come to this market. The supply is am
ple, although the demand is strong.

holding

 

  

POULTRY.

Local dealers pay as follows for live weight:
aia Soeeeees. 10 @12
Fall chickens......... Cates eee pues ea 8 @8%
eee ee ae
re Ore 10 @12
Fall ducks... bnccupecd ole telecon
Co Oe 8 @9

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.

quotes as follows:

PORK IN BARRELS,
Poe, wee... ee
merc GMs... ce 12 00
Mitre Cheer pie, Sort ous................... 14 00
Poe, Beery...
eee Oe eee ee 14 00
Boston oneer, sees Gas.............. 14 00

Clear back, ee i4 00

 

 

Standard clear, short cut. best............ 14 00
sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
Deen eee. ee ose cy es 7
OO 9
i 9
Frankfort Sausage 8
Blood Sausage....... 5
Bologna, —*- eee eee ee 5
eee toe. 5
Head Cheese. .... =
LaRD—Kettle ‘Rendered,
i te pace ete acre dese. Oe
ee Pee cua eee. &%&
ee 834
LARD. Com-
Family. pound,
eee one 6
Cann oot. Fae... .. 6% 6%4
Si, Pals, 2 ro Caee.......... ™% 7
Sib. Pails, 72 ine Cane........... 7% 7%
10 Ib. Pails, 6 in a case...........7% 6
90 tb. Paiis, in @ cage.......... 7 6
ne 6 6%
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 8 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.. om
ee 11
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average ee 10%
oe... 11
. : mee ete ............ —_
. ee 84
. eee 9
ci ree es 7%
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 9%
Dried beef, ham prices a es 11
Lon Clears, oes eee a ous 7%
Briskets, Re oA
a Te oe ea ee 84

FRESH MEATS.

Swift and Company quote as follows:

Beef, Cee ee i
hind ee:

we

  

wan

“

f :
Oe oe ec a a,
ib:

“é

a
we

QHAHHSHOHESOHHHHHSS

AIDORAUIA

Oe

TE oo ep pees cs ese

‘© shoulders

Sausage, bloca
- liver

Frank
Dosen ....--...
V

ce
BRNO AIISAHA

“cc

Re RR

 

=
NS

 

FISH and OYSTERS.

¥. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.

Wee,
T

Te eas
eee, . ses.
Bluefish.....

  

California salmon............-----» ...-
OYsTERS—Cans,
WE CN oi cs ee coe cs
SHELL GOODS.
Oysters, per Oe ieee
Clams,

coesveve Dee eee nme eenees

 

 

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
|

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

  

 

 

   
 
 

 

Full wae. Bbls. Pails

Standard, OD Tg ss oe cise ees 6% Th

ee See eee ee 6% 7%
| - I ad occ cic, oa ee 6% i
eT 9%
SE Ee ceva T%, 8%
oe ee % 8%
MIXED CANDY.
Full Weight.
Pails.

a %

oc ie eae 7%

a 7 8

reece titer au a, a 8

Treen ec tec eee one dep ens T% 8%

a cle ees bo 8%

pose ook............-,..-.... 7% 84

TE eee | 8

eee Fees... 1% 8%

S00 9

ee i 10

French Credins.......... heteou ee 10%

Velms Cocoee......--...--:.-.... 13%

Fancy—In bulk,
Full Weight. Bbls. Pails.

Lozenges, rece coe seer ae 10% 11%

iy cc cy cece 11 2%

(Chocomte Degms................ 12%

Chocolate Monumentals....... . 14

Ce el 5 6%

es ee 8 9

Se riadececete 8% 91%

ae a A ee 10% 11%

meee me 5 lb. boxes. Per Box.

eee 55

OO Ee 55

a 65

Chocolate Drops : =

a. apaaiels To ee eke eee

—— Ee Se sano

I ee es eee 1 00

Be Pee Ter... ........-..... 80

Lozenges, Dees. ....:-.-.. -6E

printed.. Cee h ese ees :

Oe EE ae 5

eee. cs eee 7

a le bce ama ae epee es oe 60

ee EE ee 55

Poe eee (Croeres........-...............- 85@.95

ee 80@90

Teeraeoe Crceee.........-....2..,.... 1 00

Pe ee 70

Dire Sees... .................-.....,.. 1 00

Wintereroon Berries.......................... 65

CARAMELS.

No. 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes beddecs eect eee 34

No. 1, CS ae, 51

No. > ' : - 28

No. . ee eee 42

Stand up, 5 Ib. ni ee eee esa ke 1 10

ORANGES.

I, ee 4%
Imperiais, 160....... 4 00
LEMONS.

Messina, Choice, 360.................-5. @5 00
fancy, 360 ae

. one OL...............
' oe 5 50
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.

Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... 18@19

choice ro Wek ee @16

“ee hE ct coc TN dla RE Ne @12
bi Fard, 10.1b. box eed oa eS @i0
r oa @s8
“Persian. 50-Ib. box............... 4 @6

NUTS.

Almonds, ee, og. ss nae, @i7

WO @16%
we Ceeereemee....-..:...,.... Q17

Bees, ew... ........... . @i%

Filberts . . @11%

Walnuts, Grenoble. eee eee ae ees @ii

ee. @i2
eo ee @

Table Nuts, We ee ei ee @i14

ee @13

Pecans, Texas, HP. large es @17

Cocoanuts, full sacks............. ..... @4 50

PEANUTS.

Fancy, H. P., eee cea ae @ 5%

~~ hoented 7 @%

Fancy, i. P., NO al. @5%

~ meeec.............. % Me ose

Choice, i. Ps ee @ 4%

‘*  Roasted.. @ 6%
HIDES, PELTS and FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.
TE 4 @5
Part Cured eee eee ke cee. @5

ull Levon veueeess / @ 5s,
ues 6 @7
ree ene 4@%
e oeree...... -.- a. Cee 5 @5%
Calfskins, NN ree rete ee 4@5
ee 56 @6%
Deacon skins. . ctecctees ee aa
No. 2 hides % off.

PELTS,
ee 10 @25
ee eee eee 20 @é60

WwooL,
ween... § «.....- 6. 8 e.- .++-20@30
Demet... ci. 10@20

MISCELLANEOUS.

ee 8%@ 4%

eens See tl 1 @2

EE ES ee 1%@ 2

Ginseng ...... aN 2 50@3 15

OILS.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, i
barrels, f. o. b. Grand Rapids:

_— ce oe @ 8%
ee OO... op oe eek eh a fei ese @ 84
— EE 6k oes el ceneaee ae boc @ 7%

@i%
@ 8%
@36
@21
@8

 

  

 

THE
_MICHI
GAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

   
  
  

 

Cc PPLE BUTT
hicago a. ER,
AXLE oie ae [Hawronea cers | a
° ambu a a Ll ummel’
Wo Frazer’s. le. 1 8, foil.. |
bod boxes, er doz ee 2 25 u ie 1 50 | a
ar “ persion 2 0 | 8 | Common Etleberries. 1 65 | Bulk CHICORY. - 2 50/ Cracked..... nen | Ging A
pails, ee... & Peete te ee ee es settee eeae ssa ee hese eine a aie as | er, Afric
—_- ia | Samed se ue 7 pelt eG 4% | FISH--S % ae anaes. ; | BNGLI
oe 25 ¢ LOTHES LIN ‘| SH--Salt. Ja a 1s | | ENGLISH BREAKP
Wood boxes, per do % | Corned beef, ss 1 30 | “ 40 tt oni Bee 3 Shoasees. it | Must asain ‘op | —: a ' nee a
—. .. Roa ibb: y's | fl z. 125) Y. istard, E 80 C@...-..- e ms az
; = Sa coe. 7 3 | | Potted ‘hat oat 2 wat ga. 1 40 armouth....... B aereion ao. ear an a
ie 454 7 oo : Sees 198 J. cence J a @s5
a per gross... 6 00 | m, We » Cs = | i“ = ft. at 1 60 | Whole Cod. | Pepper. SI No.2... oe ani @50
Ww iamend. a: « eid... 150) 7 80 ft. Ne tm mies pper Singa : ..-70 v
ood boxes, per do ao 4 a. 100 |zute 60 ft. 1 90 cae. TN Le @6 pore, bina io OBACCOS
- ... oe a ea 72 ft- i 90|— Te 714@8 white. ....30 oa Fine C i
. ‘ 3 doz. c et chic bw | ere CONDENBED: “ a i ae s Cayenne 7 iis walang Cut.
‘per gross... 1 $0| ieken, i Ib... ne a | cea 1 00 | Smoked Halibut. age eee a soo ee
s +E tee ee Abs iy eo Dias 20) : ih eau Pa.
Nice aa Peerless. iba Hamb — Crown...-..<. ete 7 40| Seal Herring, 10% olute” in Packages Mogi ene as, nn
Ob. pails ........ urg stringless eens a 6 50 — Lc eee 5- Allspice .. rel tinty | ol 34
Acme, x ibs Hebseakad |) 90 | is French style... 1 American Swiss............ 8 60 land, crete 24 ——— aaa 84 1 55/ Little Da gta 2
b. cans, 3 doz i ois Figen 2 COUPON a 7 00} Round nore} oe 11 00) % Cloves ae 84 155 arling sa NE 2
“ itp " 2 e | Hl oc eed OKS shore ieee ig 2 iinger, » FAM. oe seee ee. rs 1 55 | 1791 1% bbl.. a
‘“ ‘e ' oe | % bbl eee BO ce c 1 55 | 189 ete
bul 1 . 100} ewis Bosto a alae 1 50 | Musts i, 55 | 1891, +4 bbls woes 2
Telfer’s, sib cans =) md State oo Hee ne io 1% wir ae ” Mustard ae tens ono eae 19
ts 4 Ib. c “doz.” 45 | orid’s Mair 1 j No. 1, Kite, 10 Ibs... oats 9 co | Sage..-- Ba 1 BS andy Jim.......... 33
tlb. : / 85 | } Gus a | Family, ¥% bbls. 00h eA 1 oo) cones 7
Arctic, 4 > cans a. 4 50 | em ) n. Me kits, 10 + 100 Ibs. 3 50 SUGA : a 1G ae
a s eT mr ae = SUGAR bee ee
i 4 b 7 ean suaaes 1 Purity ee ec an na rs elas: | Fancy Pollock. 45 | Cut Loaf — ey TT m4
baa i Sle Was 2S ad ERB ston, a 3 een - 1L&w = a le ee ph
Red St a 4 gains ara 1 10 | Russi Sardines. 50@4 00 cde . seo laa ae
ar, 34 I cans ---+ 9 60 | Hambu Peas oe oe en t= Gra ee ae Old Sty MP non =
oo. y | Be ote sis - tranulate ala eps ‘
u % tb nee 40 nburgh marrofat .... ig 4 Tradesman.’ i No. 1. Trout. “-* scemanane a Old — le.. oa 28
in “ faue £0 a pi ane 4 18 ° per hundred a | No. 1k a. 1001bs Soft ctioners’ A Jolly Tar ieaty..... 31
sssee 80) ~~ Champion Eng... 50 | ay ‘6 a ies alia i eee OU - * ‘or. aeeee :
| BATH BRICK, 50 | Hamburgh en cane Eng. ea <= * er s »J0 Ibs. eee 5 00 White Extra ees ai i .
Englis 2 dozen in cs fane pois ......175| $5, * " -~o€ | No. 1, % bbls. aan. — rial inst oy alley City .... = 37
or sig Soaked . rae ie 3 ¢ | No. 1, kits, 10 oT ‘i 00 3H Jas. G. Butler & Co." 34
glish .............. ae on 8 eas ‘ N 4
es Co ns 90 van ¢ aaa 65 | 8“ es 4 = | Family, ! , aie 100 a 1 00 Yellow 3466 — Ling tied Co.’s Brands,
Pinaceae oe 70 1 Camp's Marrofat Sia. “as 5 00 | «” Kits. 10 Ibs a... Fe ae Hai (pel the) deewd : ar De --eee. ores ae 38
Are tie, 402 png Gross heaheetn os June 7 10} 32 per hundred.... : | FLAVORING EXTRACT 50 STARC hg dvance Lae ata 26
ts “) i, lg : |S « " o0U!UdUl 285 Je 3 ni é Ss. a ; Pohl al eh ¢
[ —~ * r 4 00 | French .. Zarly Blossom... .1 30/8 Pa ce Se 3 = oe 20-1b boxes. aia Boss. -_.- ee a7
oe yond nih | French. Maem. oe : i 4 emon. Vi 0- ‘ _ | Colonel’ * cee .
. Yo. 2 2 : ne . 10 50 | | French Mushrooms. cg a i “ a : 00 | lean folding box.. “ — C oa Ww “arpath oe = Spaleasean 12%
_ ‘No. 3, ing box... 275] 5 ee epee ’ -— 4 02 H "1 00 1 25 | 11 packages Gloss. 6% | Banner ........ nT?
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- ball tee : 00 S$ erececccrcece _. 8 oz « 2 3 00) 6 ‘“ 6 Kiln Dried aaah le a a 20
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; oo (ok e719 | Kenost ii Cuba Baking. | sae ee a aa Coad
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14

LIFE BEHIND THE COUNTER.
Written for THE TRADESMAN

Since the last letter in this series was
penned, the writer has been asked to
sketch the outlines of an organized sys-
tem of some sort which would meet the
requirements of the trade. When the
American people were discussing the
feasibility of a return to specie payment,
Horace Greeley proposed a plan that was
simple and to the point. He said the
way to resume was to resume. He saw
no difficulties in the way outside of the
mere disposition of the statesmen who
had control of the matter. If men would
but reach out and grasp the good things
that are practicably attainable, instead
of wasting their energies in trying to en-
compass what is entirely beyond their
reach, the results would be more satis-
factory. Every retail merchant (and
more especially the grocer), feels and
recognizes the need of some means by
which he, acting in unison with his
brother retailers in his own town, might
adopt new methods and bring about im-
portant changes in the present system
that would materially add to the pleas-
ure and profit of his life behind the
counter. Every retailer with whom the
writer has conversed on this subject has
deplored the decline of the Business
Men’s Association. A general dealer in
a village in the Southern part of the
State told the writer that during the ex-
istence of the B. M. A. in his town he
collected $500 in accounts which he never
would have realized on had it not been
for the organized collective agency of the
Association. He was President of the
Association in his town for two years
and he declared that it would be in work-
ing order to-day had the membership
been confined to the trade or to men who
* operate behind the counter. Bat when
the doors were thrown open and doctors
and lawyers came in with a mass of out-
lawed accounts, they broke down the
eollection machine of the Association
and run it into the ground.

This is the old story everywhere. The
B. M. A. has gone into a decline, not be-
cause retail merchants do not know
enough to manage an _ organization,
neither is it because retailers do not feel
the need of organization, but simply be-
cause the State body did not define the
eligibility of membership. True, the
matter was discussed at our State con-
ventions, but the conventions were made
up largely of delegates outside of the
trade and the lawyers, doctors and bank-
ers being given to much speaking and
being far more prolific of glib than the

retailers,did most of the talking and took |

up most of,the time and the best definition
that could be obtained was that ‘‘any
business man was eligible for member-
ship” and it was left for each subordi-
nate association to define what a ‘‘busi-
ness man’’ was. The writer could name
one Association that took in two farmers.
Lawyers, doctors, millers, blacksmiths,
carpenters, liverymen, draymen and real
estate dealers were taken in everywhere

and this heterogenious make-up of con- |

flicting and discordant elements brought
on a premature and untimely death.
Now, what is to be done? Are we to
fall back upon the old-time puny and
ruinous individual effort, or will some
other system of organization spring up
speedily to take the place of the B. M.

Se ee eee

tion of theentire State, will ever develop
into any practical benefit until the local
retailers of our towns and villages learn
to cast aside their animosities and petty
jealousies and, clasping each other by
the hand as brothers, agree to act with,
| and stand by, each other for their own
mutual benefit and protection. This,
then, would be our starting point in the
development of a perfect scheme to or-
ganize the mercantile fraternity of the
State. First prove to the world that you
are a fraternity by forming local organi-
zations and, after you make a success of
associated effort in a local way, then you
will have the proper material with which
to organize a State body. We are living
in an age of organization. Every trade
has its union and every interest has its
organization. What influence can the
individual grocer bring to bear upon the
jobber? None whatever. But fifteen or
twenty grocers in a country town, acting
as one man, can force any jobber to cor-
rect any abuse or concede what is just
and proper. The jobber is in a position
to demand what he deems right and
proper of the retailer and so is the manu-
facturer. Even the farmers are organ-
ized and it is the height of folly to sup-
pose that the retailers will long remain
in their present condition.

One of the leading grocers of Kalama-
zoo informed the writer that he had taken
a leading part in organizing the business
men of the city under the B. M. A.
tem. He went about among his brother
grocers, discussing matters of which
they had one common interest and urg-
ing them to organize for their mutual
protection. To know how well he and
other workers in other lines of business
succeeded is but to remember the splen-
did B. M. A. of Kalamazoo, which was
the pride of the Association. But this
apparantly strong and vigorous sister B.
M. A., although accomplishing so much
good during her brief career, came from
the same parent stock and, like all of her
short-lived sisters, was born into the
world with the seeds of death firmly im-
planted throughout her organism. But
the grocers of the Celery City caught a
glimpse of the promised land and they
are now prepared to organize a grocers’
association that will live.

sys-

The value of a piece of mechanism de-
pends upon its usefulness and the more
simple it is in its construction—provided
it accomplishes what is desired—the
more useful itis. Complication means
friction and friction means expense and
premature death. There is no reason
why any country village sporting a half-
dozen live grocers should not have a lo-
cal grocers’ organization. These half
dozen grocers are at present almost
strangers to each others. They shake
hands in a brotherly and neighborly way
with the boot and shoe men, the hard-
ware men and with all the other busi-
ness men of the village, but very seldom
| with each other and when the conven-
| tionalities of civilized society compel
them to do so, they comply under a sort
Each one of these grocers is
bubbling over with grievances and he
|charges the other five with being the
| cause of all his troubles. Jones has cut
| the heart out of package coffees; Brown
| is selling 22 pounds of granulated sugar

 

| of protest.

| for a dollar; Perkins is paying more for
butter than he could get for it in Grand

A.? In the last article under this head, Rapids; Jenkens, when he gets cut open
it was stated that no grand scheme of or- | by a dead beat, turns said d. b. over to
ganization, having in view the unifica-' bleed some of the other fellows, in order

 

 

 

to get even with them, or for the sake of
a little grim satisfaction; and old White
keeps his grocery open till 10 o’clock
and would stay all night if he thought
he could catch an extra penny. Now,
these same six grocers are all men of
common sense, although their actions do
not show it. They know that they could
avoid the most of this trouble, if they
wished to. They know that it is not
necessary for some carpet bagger to visit
them at their expense and tell them what
they already know. They know that in
union there is strength, prosperity and
peace, and that by acting together in a
local way, they could obtain pretty much
all the substantial benefits that the
grander schemes of organization make
possible. Finally, they know that the
grander scheme can never be worked
successfully until the local efforts prove
successful. Will they turn their knowl-
edge to practical use? E. A. OWEN.

~~ +2
How It Feels to be Insane.

‘““My wife came to see me, but she did
not try to have me released. 1 demanded
a trial, but no lawyer would defend me.
Then I realized that the whole commu-
nity was against me. I became so wroth
that my anger seemed to hang over me
like a dark cloud. It pressed me to the
floor and held me there. Men came after
a long time and took me away, I thought
to another prison. One day a cat came
into my cell, and I tried tdé bite her. She
made the hair fly, but I killed her.

‘I don’t know how long I remained
here, but one morning the sun rose and
shone in at me through the window. It
seemed to be the first time that I had
seen the great luminary for months. A
mist cleared from before my eyes. My
brain began to work, and suddenly 1
realized that I had been insane.

“I called the keeper, and when he saw
me he exclaimed, ‘Thank Heaven!’ and
grasped my hand. I was not long in put-
ting on another suit of clothes and turn-
ing my face toward home. A physician
said that I was cured, and everybody
seemed bright and happy at my recovery.
I went home. My wife fainted when she
saw me and learned that I had recovered
my mind. I asked for my little children,
and two big boys and a young lady came
forward and greeted me. [ had been in
the asylum twelve years.”

A ———

Detroit—Frank Wickey succeeds E. F.
Lewis & Co. in the hardware business.

 

 

 

 

FoR

THE BABY

  
    

Taaoe"S OULIETTA’ "0

Owing to the fact that we were unable
to meet the demand for Chamoise moc-
easins last fall, we advise placing your
orders now.

We have them in all grades ranging
from $1.85 to $4.75 per dozen.

SEND FOR SAMPLE.

HIRTH & KRAUSE,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Drag Store for Sale at a Bargain

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

iness.
Cc. L. BRUNDAGE,

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

 

‘A.D. SPANGLER
GENERAL

Commission Mershants

And Wholesale Dealers in

Fruits and Produce.

We solicit correspondence with both buy-
ers and sellers of all kinds of fruits, ber-
ries and produce.

SAGINAW, E. Side, MICH.

 

Grand Rapids Electrotype Co.,

ELECTROTYPERS

AND

NTEREOTYPERS

6 and 8 Erie St.. GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

 

 

WHEN the strike is ended,
WHEN ditterences are mended
WHEN 1 is serene,

WHEN everything is clean,
WHEN cigars will take a boom
WHEN your dealer has not the
WHEN = nn

W 1 iN he will have them.

THE LUSTIG CIGAR CO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

J, LUSTIG, State Agent.

 

S.A. Moorman

WHOLESALE
Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio

IitI MM &,

Akron, Buffalo and Louisville

CEMENTS,

Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe,

FIRE BRICK AND CLAY.
Write for Prices.

20 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

A. J. Bowne, President.
D. A. |} “peEttr, Vice-President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier

CAPITAL, - - - $300,000.

 

Transacts a general banking business.

 

Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts
of Counties Merchants Solicited.

 

 

 

Rules for Retailers.
H. N. Morse in Dry Goods Bulletin.

In a recent edition of a trade journal I
noticed articles on ‘‘Doing Business ata
Profit,’”? and ‘‘Points on Advertising, ”
both of which seemed to me rather mis-
chievous specimens of the space writing
trade, being characterized by contradic-
tory, misleading and random assertions,
and for the rest harmless platitudes.
Take this from first named article as an
example of a statement that, wholly lack-
ing the germ of truth, might still be
swallowed by the mercantile student
anxious to learn, as a wholesome state-
ment of fact: ‘‘The merchants who have
achieved fortune and success are those
who have made it an invariable rule to
make a fair profit on every sale.’? Ask
Marshall Field or Jas. H. Walker if the
‘“‘merchant’’ who is guided by such an
“invariable rule’? can possibly succeed;
yet here we are gravely told in effect that
such a grotesque ‘‘rule” has pointed the
way for every successful merchant. It
reminds one of the good old adage: ‘‘ lake
care of the pennies and the pounds will
take care of themselves,’’ as applied to
the comic illustration of an old man hang-
ing on to a bag of pennies in a stiff
breeze while the ponnd notes blew out of
the window. ‘‘Take care of the profit,’’
this latter day sage would have it, ‘‘and
competition will take care of itself.’’

I don’t suppose for an instant, mind
you, that a salaried writer on a trade
journal would wilfully misrepresent or
intentionally mislead, but I do object,
for my part, and on behalf of 10,000 fel-
low retailers, to paying for advice that is
so evidently based upon false premises.
*““Go to,’? I feel like saying, or fall to
“advising” the laborers in some other
vineyard. ‘Tell the theatrical manager,
for instance, to never give away compli-
mentary tickets; if he attempts to argue
in his tame way that he considers it ex-
pedient to ‘‘paper the house” oceasional-
ly, that he wants to popularize his thea-
ter, that he must meet the attractions of
his rivals, that a large non-paying at-
tendance the first night may insure a
large paying attendance after that; cut
him short sternly—say to him: ‘‘Sell
your tickets, don’t give ’em away; the
managers who have achieved fortune and
success are those who have made it ‘an
invariable rule’ to never give a ticket
away.”

The theatrical man might not subscribe
to the doctrine, but some poor merchant’s
commercial life may be saved and some
goods go into circulation that otherwise
would be ‘‘carried over” and over again,
profit and all.

The ‘‘Points on Advertising” don’t tell
anything new, or point to anything clear-
ly. ‘*Buy as much space as you can af-
ford to.” What does that mean? How
shall the aspiring Wayback storekeeper
act on that suggestion? Perhaps he has
$100 to spare for any investment which
promises profitable returns. Can he af-
ford to ‘‘buy space’’ with it, and, if so,
how much and for how long? One day
or six months? Why not make a definite
suggestion? My rule is to allow for ad-
vertising expenses / per cent. of the
amount of my sales. 1 have no idea how
that compares with the allotment of oth-
er advertisers, big or little, but I do
know there are none more constant than
I am, I know that the rule is explicit and
I believe it is conservative. I advertise
either four or five times weekly, three
columns each in our three weekly papers
and either one or two sets of bills each
week. I put out a bill Monday, write it
in the morning and have them distrib-
uted in the afternoon and next morning;
papers issue Wednesday and Thursday;
and, if | deem it necessary, another bill
goes out Friday to stimulate still further
the Saturday trade. I get space cheap-
ly, I think, for the amount of matter re-
quired to represent six departments.
Our city population is 8,000 and I get a
three-column space on the first page of
our papers for about $5 each paper per
week. For each issue of bills, 1,000 of

which are required to properly cover the
territory, I pay about the same, the price
varying somewhat according to amount
of composition involved.

I try to make advertisements reada-
ble, to have them possesss something of
the interest of a continued story, to copy

| low and hit the heart (meaning the pock- |

 

nobody’s expressions or style; to mention
each time seasonable, popular and genu-
ine bargains, to have all that is adver-
tised or more for as long as advertised or
longer, to use a big charge of shot in
preference to a solitary bullet, to aim |

etbook) of as many people as possible.

I believe it would be sound and safe
advice to a beginner in advertising to
say: ‘Apply for that purpose in Sep-|
tember an amount equal to 1 per cent. of
your August sales; in October, 1 per}
cent. of your September sales, and soon;
or, if just starting in business, spend an
amount for advertising equal to what
you pay for rent, which amount! assume
should not be more than 1 per cent. of
the business you will do when fairly es-
tablished. Use cuts freely and adopt or
follow the style that seems to be best
adapted to your community.

LupINeTON, Aug. 1, 2891.
llr eesti

Winning Success.

A boy about 16 years of age had been
seeking employment in one of our large
cities. He looked vainly for two weeks
and was well nigh hopeless of getting
any work todo when one afternoon he
entered a store kept by a gentleman we
will call Mr. Stone.

The lad asked the usual question:

‘Can you give me anything to do?”

Mr. Stone, to whom he appealed, an-
swered: ‘‘No; full now.’’ Then, happen-
ing to notice an expression of despon-
dency on the youth’s face, said:

“If you want to work half an hour or
so, go down stairs and pile up that
kindling wood. Do it well, and I'll give
you 25 cents.”

“All right, and thank you sir,” an-
swered the young man, and went below.

As the store was about closing for the
afternoon he came upstairs and went to
Mr. Stone.

“Ah, y:s,” said the gentleman,
what hastily. ‘‘Piled the wood?
here’s your money.’’

“No, sir; I’m not quite through, and 1
should like to come and finish in the
morning,’’ said the young fellow, refus-
ing the silver piece.

“All right,” said Mr. Stone, and
thought no more of the affair till the next
morning, when he chanced to be in the
basement, and recollecting the wood pile,
glanced into the coal and wood room.
The wood was arranged in orderly tiers,
the room was cleanly swept, and the
young man was at that moment engaged
in repairing the coal bin.

Hello,’’ said Mr. Stone, ‘‘I didn’t en-
gage you to do anything but pile that
wood.”

‘Yes, sir, I know it,’? answered the
lad; ‘‘but I saw that needed to be done,
and I had rather work than not; but I
don’t expect any pay but my quarter,”’

‘‘Humph!’’?’ muttered Mr. Stone, and
went up to his office without further
comment. Half an hour later the young
man presented himself, clean and well
brushed, for his pay.

Mr. Stone passed him his quarter.

“Thank you,’”’? said the youth, and
turned away.

“Stop a minute,”
‘*Have you a place in
ean find work?”’

“NO, Sit.”

“Well, I want you to work for me.
Here’’—writing something on a slip of
paper—‘‘take this to that gentleman
standing by the counter there; he will
tell you what todo. Ill give you $6 a
week to begin with. Do your work as
well as you did that down stairs, and—
that’s all,’? and Mr. Stone turned away
before the young fellow had recovered
from his surprise sufficiently to speak.

This happened 15 years ago. Mr.
Stone’s store is more than twice as large
as it was then, and its superintendent
to-day is the young man who began by
piling kindling wood for 25cents. Faith-
fulness was his motto. By it he has been
advanced, step by step, and has not yet,
by any means, reached the topmost round
of success. He is sure to become a part-
ner some day, either with his employer
or in some other business house.

— i 8

Saginaw—Gustav H. Eyermann is suc-

ceeded by Hamilton & Biles in the gro

 

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some-
Well,

Mr. Stone.
where you

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cery business.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

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AUILY FOR BUS!

Do you want to do your customers justice?
Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way?
Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you?

Would you
‘‘patching up’’ pass-book accounts?

like to rid yourself of the bother of ‘‘posting’ your books and

Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which
yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?
Did you ever have a pass-book account foot up and balance with the corres-
ponding ledger account without having to ‘‘doctor’’ it?
Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for
items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they

have or not?

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

1a CASH BASIS of crediting?

A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all
enterprising merehants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

Tradesman or Superior Govpons.

 

 

CUUPON BOOK ys. PASS BOOK.

" |
We beg leave to call your attention to

our coupon book and ask you to earefully
eonsider its merits.

It takes the place}

of the pass book which you now hand |

your customer and ask him to bring each
time he buys anything, that you may
enter the article and price in it. You
know from experience that many times

the customer does not bring the book, |

and, as a result, you have to eharge
many items on your book that do not
appear on the customer’s pass book. This

is sometimes the cause of much ill feel-|

ing when bills are presented. Many

times the pass book is lost, thus causing |

eonsiderable trouble when settlement

day comes.

But probably the most se-|

rious objection to the pass book system is |}

that many times while busy waiting on
customers you neglect to make some
charges, thus losing many a dollar; or,
if you stop to make those entries, it is
done when you 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 ineonsiderable
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,itis just like somuch
money to him, and when the coupons are
all gone, and he has had their worth in
goods, there is no grumbling or suspi-
cion of wrong dealing. In fact, by the
use of the coupon book, you have all the
advantages of both the cash and credit
systems and none of the disadvantages
of either. The coupons taken in, being
put into the cash drawer, the aggregate
amount of them, together with the cash,
shows at once the day’s business. The
notes, which are perforated at one end
so that they can be readily detached from
the book, can be kept in the safe or
money drawer until the time has arrived

|

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

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

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

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Little Breeches.

I don’t go much on religion,
I never ain’t had no show,
But I’ve gota middlin’ tight grip, sir,
On the handful o’ things I know.
I don’t pan out on the prophets
And free will, and that sort of thing—
But I v’ lieve in God and the angels
Ever sence one night last spring.

I come into town with some turnips,
And my little Gabe come along—
No four-year-old in the county
Could beat him for pretty and strong—
Peart and 0: ar and sassy,
Always ready to swear and fight—
And I'd larnt him to chaw terbacker
Jest to keep his milk teeth white.
The snow come down like a-blanket
As I passed by Taggart’s store:
I went in for a jug of molasses
And left the team at the door.
They scared at something and started—
I heard one little squall,
And hell-to-split over the prairie
Went team, Little Breeches and all.
Hell-to-split over the prairie!
I was almost froze with skeer;
But we rousted up some torches,
And sarched for °em far and near.
At last we struck horses and wagon,
Snowed under a soft white mound,
Upsot, dead beat—but of little Gabe
No hide nor hair was found.

And here all hope soured en me,
Of my fellow critter’s aid—
I just flopped down on my marrow bones,
Crotch deep in the snow, and prayed.
* * * * *
By this, the torches was played out,
‘And me and Isrul Parr
Went off for some wood to a sheepfold
That he said was somewhar thar.

We found it at last, and a little shed
Where they shut up the lambs at night;

We looked in and seen them huddle thar,
So warm and sleepy and white:

And thar sot Little Breeches and chirped,
As peart as ever you see,

“T want a chaw of terbacker,
And that’s what’s the matter of me.’

How did he gitthar? Angels

He could never have waiked in that storm.
They just scooped down and toted him

To whar it was safe and warm.
And I think that saving a little child,

And bringing him to his own,
Is a derned sight better business

Than loafing around the throne.

—JouN Hay.
_ 8

Necessity of a Business Education.
From the Apparel Gazette.

‘Commerce is King” very truthfully
remarks Thomas Carlyle, and his predic-
tion will apply even more fully to our
time and nation than to his. To com-
merce England owes all that she confess-
edly possesses—wealth, power, domin-
ion, influeuce. There needs no ghost to
come from the grave to foretell us of a
similar destiny. The world’s history
can produce no instance of so young and
inexperienced a nation embarking in a
commercial career with such hot and
eager haste, and pressing it with such
determination, and even engrossing per-
sistence. The close and steadfast prose-
cution of our material interests, which
unquestionably stamps our national
character, has already rendered us, in
the world’s estimation, open to reproach
and we are everywhere termed worship-
ers of the almighty dollar. The United
States is but one extended counter from
Maine to Texas. But we would not have
it otherwise. The glaring faults which
are now—it may be even offensively—
patent to the world, will bring with ad-
vancing age their own correction. They
are but the accidents of our anomalous
condition, and are engendered by the re-
markable combination of circumstances
which have thus far environed us; they
are but the offspring of the bounding
pulse and elastic spirits of an impetuous
and exuberant boyhood.

The more carefully you prepare busi-
ness men, with whom in a great measure
the future of the country rests, for the
lives they are to pursue, the more you
enlarge their views, moderate their de-
sires, rectify their aims, and ensure
their reasonable success. The danger-
ous proclivity exhibited by American
youth to rush too rashly and without due
preparation into the hazardous walks of
commerce, is one of the crying evils of
the day. It has become, in mosi quar-
ters, an absoluteepidemic. Agriculture,
manufactures and the mechanic arts
have been too much and too long neg-
lected. The tendency with us now is to
congregate in towns and cities,
throng the avenues to wealth and honor,
which are already overcrowded. This
propensity is far from healthful and

 

leads to widespread distress, and great
disappointment. Gross ignorance and
inexperience are every day yielding ter-
rible bitter and expensive lessons, and
most of the lamentable failures which
attend mercantile life, and which careful
statistics have computed to be equal to
90 per cent of those who embark in busi-
ness, are directly attributable to shame-
less mismanagement and ignorance of
business, as well as to an absence of
commercial experience and dicipline.

A faulty, or rather no system of book-
keeping has absolutely ruined a larger
proportion of our industrious and pains-
taking merchants than would generally
be credited by those having no access to
reliable records. Of slovenly business
habits, they neither know what they
themselves are doing, nor what those
with whom their nearest interests are en-
trusted may beundoing. Thedishearten-
ing results arising from causes so palpable
demand radical reform. They are a sad,
but very significant, commentary on the
deficient commercial education of the
times, and plead potently for correction.

It may be esteemed a truth, and one
which both individual experience and
trustworthy statistics will confirm, that
there is no royal road to success in busi-
ness life. There, as in all other depart-
ments of industry, the most ample and
enduring rewards are to the industrous,
the methodical and the persevering. In
legitimate business, luck, which in spec-
ulation may serve to do, or undue, must
never be relied on. It lures but to de-
ceive. Its effects are illusory and not sub-
stantial. The cases where it has led on
to fortune are exceptional ones, and only
serve to prove the general rule. The
most solid, staple and firmly based pros-
perity is the direct result of fiscal and
regular law, and will no more suffer vio-
lence than those of astronomy. In Ameri-
ca there is no law of primogeniture, lit-
tle entailed property, and fortunes
change with our weather and rise with
our streams. Here, more than anywhere
else, experience would seem to give the
lie to regular system and plodding
method, but observe more closely, pene-
trate more deeply, and take a wider
scope of men and things, and our asser-
tion stands confessed.

The most obvious want of the age and
country is a more careful and efficient
system,by which young men may be more
carefully prepared to enter the crowded
arena of business, where so many haz-
ards and vicissitudes beset them, and
where they must encounter sharp cempe-
tition, shrewd rivals, and experienced
opposition. They must acquire a thor-
ough acquaintance with the tools they
are to employ before they can carve out
for themselves fortunes. The race is not
always to the swift, nor the battle to the
strong, and to succeed in business there
needs more than mere desire and indus-
try—resolution, knowledge, prudence,
experience, calculation, and regular
method are al! required.

a a
Danger of Wheat Famine.

The New York Sun recently intimated
editorially that there is danger of abso-
lute starvation throughout Europe on
account of the failure of the wheat crop.
It says: ‘Is not Europe face to face
with a state of want such as has never
threatened so great a population since
the dawn of history?” And thenit adds:
“On all the earth there is but one sub-
stitute possible for the deficient rye and
wheat—but one means of preventing
even in part the devastation threatened
—and that is by the use of American
maize, should we be so fortunate as to
harvest a full crop.” There will be
enough wheat or rye, or both, to go
round, notwithstanding the foregoing.

6 ee

Insurance Satisfactorily Adjusted.

MUSKEGON, Aug. 15—The loss sus-
tained by the burning of the sawmill of
M. Wilson & Co. has been adjusted, the
insurance companies paying the full
amount of the policies, $20,000. Wilson
& Co. have leased the sawmill of C. J.

| Hamilton and will operate it the re-
and to)

mainder of the season. Workmen are
now making repairs and it is expected
the mill will be in condition to start up
in about two weeks.

 

MIGHIGAN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falls Route.’

DEPART. ARRIVE

  

I init etic esis eesenns 6:30am 10:00pm
Mixed -640am 4:30 pm
Day press. 12:40am 10:00am
*Atlantic & Pacific Express. . 11:15pm 6:00am
as epi tat 6:40pm 1:20pm

New York Express
*Dail

All oe daily except Sunday.

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

Parlor carsrun on Day Express and Grand Rapid
Express to and from Detroit.

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

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

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

O. W. RueauEs, G. P. & T.

yaa
CTE

iawn
saad

Agent., Chicago.

TIME TABLE

NOW IN EFFECT.

 

        
 
    

 

 

EASTWARD.

 

Trains Leave |tNo. 14|/+No. 16|tNo. 18|*No. 2

 

| ane

  

G’d Rapids, Lv} 6 0amj1 20am) 3 45pm /10 55;

one <. Ar; 7 45am/11 25am) 4 52pm /12 37am
St. Johns ...Ar} 8 28am/12 17am! 5 40pm)! 1 55am
Owosso ...... Ar} 915am) 1 20pm) 6 40pm) 3 15am
E. Saginaw..Arj1105am| 3(¢0pm)| 8 45pm! ......
Bay City..... Ar|1155am) 3 45pm) 9 35pm il
Pease .._....: Ar/|i1 10am} 3 40pm; 8 00pm! 5 40am
Pt. ee ae 3 05pm 6 00pm )}10 30pm) 7 35am
Pontiac ......Ar/10 57am} 3 05pm 8 55pm) 5 50am
Detroit......./ A rit 55am] 405pm| 950pm; 7 0am

WESTWARD.

(*No. 81 |tNo. 11 |tNo. 13|tNo. 15

 

Trains Leave

G’d Rapids, Ly 7 7 Osam| 1 00pm} 5 10pm) 10 30pm
+d Haven, Ar| 8 50am) 2 15pm} 6 15pm/11 30pm
Milw’kee Str “|... Lee 6 45am} 6 45am
Chicas) Str |... Ce ileal oN

*Daily. tDaily exe ceept 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., 0:0

a, m., 3:35 p.m. and 9:50 p, m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
car. No. 18 Chair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.

Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11
Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetear.
Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager.
Ben FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agent.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.
CHICAGO JUNE 2!, 1891.
& WEST MICHIGAN RY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
  

DEPART FOR a. -u1P. | Pe | P.M.

EE cic [ia thine

Ceeeeee 8. +10:00) +1215) *11 235) .

Indianapolis .... +10: 00) T1:30l Poor... ...
Benton Harbor........ |+10:00 +1:15*11:35] §6:30
i. Ce +1. :00! +1215 *11:35) §6:30
Traverse City. posed Wee Diao s oe...
orn... 49> 15 + 5:40} +6:30
Manistee bed Cee en oe Oe ee een ee
Poeeom .... | Puce Poe
Big Rapids...... : Vo tocol... 1...
Ottawa Beach. 1] 1: 00) #1: Bits :40} +6:30

 

+Week Days. ade. §Except Saturday.

10 -() A. M. has through chair car to Chica-
e go. No extra charge for seats,
1 15 P. M. runs through to Chicago solid
e ” with Wagner buffet car; sea s 50 cts.
5: ©) P.M. has through free = car to
out Manistee, via M. & N. E. R. R.
11 235 P. M. is solid train with = agner pal-
ey ace sleeping car through to ¢ shicago.
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

11:30
6:30

 

JU NE 21, 1891.

 

 

 

 

  
  

 

DEPART FOR | A. M, | P. x... EM,
j—

aes... +6: “50| +100 wh: 20098 6 225
ree oo +6:50) +1:00) 25
ewe ce ) +1:00} *8: 25
Lowell +6:50) +1:L0) *6:25
ae ee +7:05| 44:30.
or... Toe oe ,...,.
Saginaw City. ........... +7205] +4:30]......

 

 

 

6:50 lor car; seats 25 cents.
1: P.M. Has through Parlor car to De-
* troit.
P. M. runs through to Detroit with par
lor car, seats 25 cents,
tos
62305 cents
For tic neon and information apply at Union
Gro. DeHaven, Gen. Pass’r Agt.
CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS
PAMPHLETS
For the best work, at reasonable prices, address

A M. runs through to Detroit with par-
Seats, 25 cents.
6:25
A. M. has parlor car to Saginaw, seats
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or Union station.
iced arc
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

In effect July 19, 1891.

TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arrive from Leave going
South. North.

out! r
For Saginaw & Big Rapids...... 7:05 am
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 6:50am 7:30 am
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:15am 11:30 am
Pe I oi cinececcetec anise 4:30 pm
For Traverse City..... ra irs . - Bite . ne

 

Po PROCEIBaW CITY... ccwscccss
Train arriving at 6:50 daily; all oe oe eit’ “anily
except Sunday.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Arrive from Leave going
8

   

 

ort ow
POP CORONER. ok cen oenee 6:00 a m 7:00 am
x 10:20 am 10:30 am
From Eig Rapids & Saginaw.... 11:50am
For Fert W. — and the East.. 2:00 pm
ee I I oo oat eae 5:25 pm 6:00 pm
For Ouierneks and Chicago.... 10:00 pm 10:30 p m

PO I, ccc e cada ee. 10:40 p m
Train leaving for Cincinnati and Chicago at 10:30
pm daily; all other trains daily except Sunday.

 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive.

7:00 am 10:10am
12:45 pm 5:15 pm
6:30 pm 10:15 pm

 

SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE.

NORTH--7:30 am train.—Sleeping and parlor
chair car, Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City.
Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Traverse
Oity.
11:30 a m train.—Parlor chair car @’d
Rapids to Mackinaw.
Pm train.—Sleeping ear Grand
Rapids to Petoskey. Sleeping car Grand
Rapids to Mackinaw City.
SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand
ee to Cincinnati.
10:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car
Grand Rapids to Chicago.
0:30 pm train.—Sleeping Car Grand
Rapids to Chicago. Sleeping car Grand
Rapids to rte

Chicago via G. R. & I. RB. R.

Lv Grand Rapids 10:30 a m 2:09 pm

Arr Chicago :55 p m 9:00 pm
10:30 a m train through Wagner Paskee Car.
16:30 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

10:30 p m
6:50am

Ly Chiecazo 705 & m 3:10pm 10:10 p m
Arr Grand Rapids 2:15pm 8 50pm 6:50 ajm
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.

. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

 

Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan
Railway.

In connection with the Detroit, Lansing &
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e
offers a route making the best time betwe 1
Grand Rapids and Toledo,

VIA D., L. & 1H.

Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:25 a, m, and 6:25 p. m.
AY. TOIBGO RE ...... ..:. 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m,
VIA D., @. H. & M.

Ly. Grand Rapids at... _ 50 a, m. and 3:
ae eee es... 1:10 p. m. and 11;

Return connections equally as good.

W. H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent,
Toledo, Ohio.

KDMUND B. DIKEMAN

THE GREAT

Watch Maker
= Jeweler,

44 GANA! 8Y.,
Grand Rapids

45 p. m
00 p.

 

 

i

lich,

WANTED.

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

If you have any of the above goods to
ship, or anything in the Produce line, let
us hear from you. Liberal cash advances
made when desired.

EARL BROS.,

COMMISSION. MEROHANTS

157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Ghicago.
MICHIGAN Th 4DESMAN, Grand Rapids,