“ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, VOL. _ PEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK, Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts., Capital, $100,000. Liability, $100,000 Depositors’ Seeurity, $200,000. OFFICERS, Thomas Hefferan, President. Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President. Charles M. Heald, 2d Vice-Presider* Charles B. Kelsey, Casbie- DIRECTORS, D. D. Cody H. C. Russell S. A. Morman John Murray Jas. G. McBride = - Gibbs Wm. MeMullen . B. Judd D. KE. Waters i. F. Hastings Jno. Patton, Jr C. M. Heald Wm, Alden Smith Don J. Leathers Thomas Hefferan. Four per cei t interest paid on time and savings dey Collectio made at lowest Exchange York, Chicago and all foreig: 1 count il or telegraph “ir bought and scl¢d firms as wel} as by counts of mercant”! bankers solicit: We invite correspondence or personal inter view with a view to business relations, THE , FIRE . INS. co. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. S. F. ASPINWALL, Pres’t. ww . FRED McBaiy, Sec’ ¥ SEEDS We earry the largest line in field and garden seeds of any housein the State west of Detroit, such as Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top; all kinds of Seed Corn, Barley, Peas, in fact any- thing you need in seeds. We pay the highest price for Eggs, at all times. We sell Egg Cases No. 1 at 35e, Egg case fillers, 10 sets in a case at $1.25 a case. W. T. LAMOREAUX & 60,, 128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, ESTABLISHED 1841. CEE UCR ETT THE MERCANTILE AGENCY RHR. G. Dun & Go. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich, $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about > issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays 4 per = on deposits, compounded semi-annually. ay, 189 Ss. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer. WANTED I WANT TO BUY one or two thou- sand cords of good 16-inch beech and maple wood. I ALSO WANT TO SELL Lime, Imported and Domestic Cements, Fire Brick, Sewer Pipe, Drain Tile, Hay, Grain, Feed, Oil Meal, Clover and Tim- othy Seed, Land Plaster, Ete. THOS. E. WYKES, WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE: Cor. Wealthy Ave, and Ionia on M. C, R. R BRANCH OFFICE: Builders’ Exchange. Correspondence Solicited. GRAND RAPIDS, Drug Store for Sale at a Bargain On long time if desired, or will exchange for part productive real estate. Stock clean and well assorted. Location the best in the city. I wish to retire permanently from the drug bus- iness. c. L. BRUNDAGE, Opp. New Post Office. 117 W. Western Ave. Muskegon, “ich. STUDLEY & BARCLAY Spooy Loqqny Jo s1oqqor , salddng y,wyedag afd ¥ IIH Agents for the CANDEE Rubber boots, shoes, are- tics, lumbermen’s, ete., the best in the market. 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Manufactured by PENBERTHY INJECTOR CO.,, DETROIT, MICH. WEDNESDAY, § THE HERITAGE. The rich man’s son inherits lands, And piles of brick, and stone, and gold: And he inherits soft white hands, And tender flesh that fears the cold, Nor dares to wear a garment old; A heritage, it seems to me, One scarce would wish to hold in fee. The rich man’s son inherits cares; The bank may break, the fac tory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn; A heritage, it seems to me, One scarce would wish to hold in fee, The rich man’s son inherits wants, His stomach craves for dainty fare; With sated heart he hears the pants Of toiling hinds with brown arms bare, And wearies in his easy chair; A heritage, it seems to me, One scarce would wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor man’s son inherit? Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, A hardy frame, and a hardier spirit; King of two hands, he does his part In every useful toil and art; A heritage, It seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor man’s son inherit? Wishes o’erjoy’d with humble things, A rank adjudged with toil-won merit, Content that from employment springs, A heart that in his labor sings; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor man’s son inherit? A patience learn’d of being poor. Coursge, if sorrow come, to bear it, A fellow-felling that is sure To make the outcast bless his door; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. O rich man’s son! there is a toil That with all others level stands: Large charity doth never soil, But only whiten, soft white hands— This is the best crop from thy lands; A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being rich to hold in fee, O poor man’s son! scorn not thy state; There is worse weariness than thine-- In merely being rich and great; Toil only gives the soul to shine, And makes rest fragrant and benign— A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being poor to hold in fee. Both, heirs to some six feet of sod, Are equal in the earth at last; Both, children of the same dear God, Prove title to your heirship vast By record of a well-fill’d past; A heritage, it seems to me, Well worth a iife to hold in fee. JAMES Russet LOWELL, oo 9 A LITTLE CQWARD. ‘Such a little coward!” The words come floating up to me from a group of children playing under my window and carry me back two years, to the summerI spent in Westonville and the ‘‘little coward” I met there. I had been in practice as a physician for several years, when Aunt Jane, the rich aunt of the Hutchinson family, wrote to invite me to spend a few weeks with her. I was rather amazed at the invitation, as Aunt Jane had never had the slightest affection for me; but the letter was cordial enough to tempt me: ‘“T have three young ladies visiting me,’? she wrote, ‘‘and you may fall in love with any of them, with my consent. They are all well-born and _ well-bred, which is more than can be said of most girls nowadays. Serena Maybury is just the woman for a physician’s wife, self- possessed, calm, courageous and yet per- fectly womanly. She is very handsome, too. Julia Strong is a literary woman and writes for the newspapers. She is pretty, but abstracted, lives ina poetic region above my _ reach. Susy Mark- ham is searcely more than a child, eigh- teen years old, and small as agirl of twelve, fair-haired, blue-eyed, gentle and loving; but will not attract you, as she is the worst little coward Il ever saw —screams at a spider, faints at a mouse, clings to the boat when on the water and EPTEMBER 9, 1891. __ NO. 416. gets as white as a ghost if a horse prane- es. But come and see me and the girls, and step poisoning patients, sawing bones and prancing about sick-rooms for a month at least.” Sol went. I had been at Aunt Jane’s in my boyish days, and the large, beauti- ful house, with its wide, high-ceilinged rooms, its wide porches and airy halls, was quite familiar to me. Lying neara river and in the shadow of a mountain, Westonville was a most charming sum- mer residence, and Aunt Jane had visi- tors from the first warm day to the last one, so that I was not surprised to find others beside those mentioned in my letter of invitation. Pleasant days were the rule in that sunny July weather, and we boated, rode, drove, clambered up the mountain for picnic parties, played lawn-tennis and croquet, and enjoyed life as youth only can enjoy it in summer days free from toil or care. Aunt Jane gave me a most cordial wel- come, and the first time she was alone with me, said: ‘It is time you were married, Harry. I have thought it all over, and I mean to give youa house well furnished as soon as you introduce me to Mrs. Hutchinson. No! You needn’t gush about it. I can afford it, and you deserve it! But don’t imagine from my letter that the girls know of my match-making intentions. They would pack up and leave at five minutes’ notice, if they suspected it. And they are all popular in society, mak- ing a sacrifice of other pleasant invita- tions to come to Westonville. Serena is the wife for you, if you can win her.” And I cordially admired Serena. Cer- tainly she was the most queenly, self- sustained, beautiful girl 1 ever met. Nothing fluttered her, or moved her from acalm composure. It was impossible to imagine Serena in hysterics, and her health was absolutely perfect. I devoted myself to Serena and found her mind as attractive as her face. She was well-read, and hada keen interest in the current topics of the day. I never met any one who so thoroughly read and understood a newspaper, and she could converse well on all the political, foreign and domestic affairs. Julia was in agonies of composition, gathering scenes and incidents for her first novel, and going about as if asleep with her eyes open. And Susy. The first time 1 saw Susy she was in the orchard, dressed in some- thing blue and thin, all ruffles and bows. She was standing under an apple-tree ab- solutely paralyzed with terror, and gaz- ing at a huge caterpillar creeping up her arm. Hearing my step, she raised a col- orless face, with stained blue eyes and quivering lips, to say: ‘* Oh, take it off! Oh, please take it on {” Another minute found her sobbing hysterically, and with a choking word of thanks she ran away. It all passed so quickly that she was gone before I saw how pretty she was, leaving behind a half-picture of short op eetagar #e° 2S ae were eal” SERRE BS ae 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. golden curis and frightened baby blue eyes. The next time I saw those eyes they were full of tearful gratitude for my heroic handling of caterpillars. It was odd how they haunted me. Quite resolved to win Serena, if persist- ent wooing would accomplish it, Lsought | her on all occasions, but, being a united party of friends, we were not often tete- a-tete. And it was to me always that Susy turned, in hours of peril, when a toad sat upon her white dress, when the boat tipped a hair’s-breadth more than usual, when horrible crawling things erossed our paths, and cows lifted up their heads to contemplate us. On all such oceasions, two tiny hands, white as milk, soft as satin, suddenly clasped my arm, and ‘‘ oh! oh!”’ called my attention to the terror. And it was not done for effect. You cannot deceive a physician to that extent, and my professional eyes noted how the pretty face blanched, the pulse quick- ened and the whole little figure trembled. She really was the worst little coward I ever saw. And yet, although I chided myself for it, I could not share Serena’s openly ex- pressed contempt, or sufficiently admire her own scornful indifference to toads and grass-hoppers, boat-tipping or frac- tious horses. She rode well, a magnifi- cent figure on horseback, while Susy trembled and shivered, and clung to the gentle animal she rode with desperate energy. It was late in the season and allof my Aunt Jane’s guests had departed except- ing Serena, Susy and myself, when one morning we were seated in the sitting- room, discussing an important matter. A far-away cousin of Aunt Jane’s had been a collector of rare jewelry plate, and had left his valuable treas- ures, the result of years of purchase and, selection, to her. and ‘“‘And the whole lot has been sent here,” said Aunt Jane. ‘‘I am not but I have let it be well understood in Westonville that I never keep money in the house, and very little plate and few jewels. There is nothing discourages a burglar more than a certainty that there is nothing to steal.” ‘“‘Does any one know?” I asked. ‘The editor of the Westonville Gazette published the whole story on Saturday. He must have seen some of the servants who heard us talking over the lawyer’s letter.”’ “Pli run up to the city and arrange to send the boxes to a safe-deposit pany,” I said. ‘“‘Do! Go now! You can come back on the five-thirty,’’ said Susy. ‘‘] shall not sleep a wink if they stay here. Oh!” and her very lips where white, ‘‘if | saw a burglar, 1 believe I should die!” And looking into her white, terrified face, I believed so, too, although Serena said, loftily: ‘‘What nonsense you do talk, Susy.” a coward, com- But, Aunt Jane consenting, I went up- on my proposed errand, arranged to have the boxes sent for the following day, and was on my way to the depot, when I met an old friend and patient. The ten min- utes’ chat that followed cost me the loss of the 5:30 train. Not another one stopped at Westonville, excepting the midnight express, until the next day. Fretting, reproaching myself, I passed the time as best I could until midnight, my heart sinking at the thought of the three lonely ladies at Westonville. There was but one man on the place, and he slept in a room over the stable. What if any thief attempted to obtain the valuable boxes piled in the hall? Serena could be trusted to be cool and collected; Aunt Jane was not timid; but Susy—poor little Susy!—she would die, she said; and I feared she would. As the train sped on, this thought of Susy’s terror became almost maddning; and when, at last, I was at the little wayside station, quarter of a mile from Aunt Jane’s, I started on a run for the house. The hall-door stood open, and I heard a sound in the sitting-room that seemed to chill the blood in my veins. Throw- ing open the door, I saw Susy—little Susy!—clinging at the throat of aman roughly dressed, who held Aunt Jane in a chair, while he tried to shake off Susy’s arms, at the same time keeping Aunt Jane down. Serena lay in a dead faint on the floor. **You shall not hurt her!” Susy cried, her slender arms strained to choke the sufferer. ‘‘Let go, you wretch! Pll kill you !”’ One blow on the top of his head from my heavy walking-stick brought the fel- low down insensible. Susy dropped her arms and stood white as death, but per- fectly calm, facing me. ‘Can you find me a rope to tie this fellow?”’ I asked. She nodded, sped away, and returned with a coil of clothes-line. ‘Listen!’ she said speaking quickly. ‘“‘There is another one in the china closet, locked in. He is trying to kick the door down. Do you see, this is James!” James was the one man-servant Aunt Jane employed. Tying him firmly, | gave my next attention to Aunt Jane, whose whole face was covered with blood from a wound in the head. Knowing how the sight of blood always sickened Susy, I tried to keep her back, but she said, quietly: “Tell me, please, what you want and how to help you.”’ I sent her for water, rags and lauda- num, and while we bound up Aunt Jane’s head and restored her to consciousness, Serena came to her senses and sat up, white and shaking. “Oh, Susy, that man will kick the closet door down!’ she cried, as the blows from the next room became more violent. It seemed as if he would, and I started to quiet him, when Susy grasped my arm. “Don’t open the door!’ she said. ‘There may be more than one man there. You see, we were all sitting up here, hoping you would come on the midnight train, but Aunt Jane had not told James to go to the station because she thought you had rather walk up than have us alone. SoIsuppose James thought you were gone for all night, and he came in at some time in the evening, we do not know when, and hid in that china closet. I went to the dining-room in the dark for some water just as he crept out. Icould just see him, and that other man was ereeping after him, but not out of the eloset, I slammed the door, locked it, and ran in here justas James struck dear Aunt Jane on the head and tried to push her down in her chair. Then I flew at him and you camein. But there may be more than one manin the closet. The) door is strong, and I will run down to the police station while you take care of Aunt Jane and Serena.’’ Before 1 could stop her she was run- ning across the hall, out of the door and down the road, while James suddenly re- vived and begun to struggle and curse. My hands were full, for Aunt Jane was severely hurt, and Serena was so terrified that she could not stir, sobbing and half fainting in sheer terror. I cannot tell how long it was before Susy came speeding back with three strong policemen behind her, but in the meantime some of the maids were roused and had come to my assistance. There proved to be but one burglar in the closet, a Westonville man and crony of James’, and the two were marched off, securely bound. Aunt Jane was put to bed and made as comfortable as possible: Serena had gone to her own room; the house was locked up when I turned to bid Susy good night. She was standing at the foot of Aunt Jane’s bed, holding fast to a chair, her face perfectly colorless, and her limbs trembling. I mixed her a dose of com- posing medicine and put it to her lips. ‘Don’t mind me,’’ she said, smiling faintly. ‘I always was a coward.” ‘“‘Nobody shall ever call you so where IT am,’’ I said, and then—well, I will not add all I said, but then and there I won my darling’s confession of love for me, and gave my life’s allegiance to the wo- man I loved. Aunt Jane was delighted. She under- stood perfectly the love that prompted the child to attempt to divert the attack of the ruffian James to herself, and it was a delight to her to make ready the pretty house for us. Serena comes often to visit us, calm and self-poised as ever, and quite as contemptuous when Mrs. Hutchinson flies to my arms in an agony of terror if a mouse runs across the floor or a spider crawls up the wall. For, although she has proved herself a heroine, Susy is still, in such matters as mice and spiders, a little coward. ANNA SHIELDS. _ > <—_ Tact is the Thing. J. H. Gray, in American Storekeeper. Tact is one of the first qualifications of a business man, and the following. little incident in the history of one of the most successful merchants shows a develop- ment of this trait early in his business career. Coming to New York from the country, friendless, and with very little money, he found his way to ‘‘lower Wall street,”’ and walking into the store of W. & Co., passed back into the counting-room and waited modestly and patiently until he should divert the attention of Mr. W., who was at the moment busily engaged with some friend. At last the frank, open face of the boy attracted his notice, and he addressed him with: ‘‘What can I do for you, sonny?’’ «I want a place, sir.’’ “Well, what can you do?” The boy answered eagerly: ‘“‘Most anything, sir.’’ Mr. W., partly for a joke and partly to rid himself of the almost too confident boy, said: ‘Ah, ah! Well, just go out and bor- row me a couple of thousand dollars.” The lad placed his hat on his head, walked out of the store, then passed slowly down Front street until he came to another large store in the same line of business, our friends of the past, Messrs. 8., C. & C., then with a bold but honest look he walked up to the head of the house and said: ‘““Mr. W., of W. & Co., sent me down to borrow $2,000.” **He did, my son? at your place?” The boy, having seen the appearance of large shipments, answered quickly: “Very good, sir.” How is business up “Two thousand dollars did you say? Will that be enough?” ‘“‘Well, $2,000 is all he told me, but if you have plenty I think he would like it if you sent him $3,000.” “Just give this boy a check for $3,000 for W. & Co.,” remarked Mr. S. to his cashier. The boy took the check, and with it returned to Mr. W., walking back into the office with an air of successful pride, and said: ‘Here it is, sir.”’ Mr. W., taking one look at the check and then at the boy, said: “Young man, come in here; you are just the one I have been looking for.” - And giving him a desk he set him to work. a Quick Eyes and a Clear Head. When a railroad company, says the Philadelphia Record, handles as many miHion tons of coal annually as the Reading does, the question of weighing it becomes a matter of some importance. Skill and long experience have solved the problem, however, and the bulk of the vast coal tonnage of the leading coal- carrying road in the country is weighed on four scales, and then they are not crowded. : The weight of the empty car is marked in chalk on the outside. As the car ap- proaches, a clerk takes the number of the car and its weight, the weigher calls out the gross weight, and the difference is the weight of the coal. The cars run as fast as ten miles an hour across the scale, and it is very seldom that one has to be stopped and brought back for re- weighing, although that is done when the weigher is at all uncertain about his figures. Themen at the seales can generally tell within a hundred pounds or so what acar contains. As :oon as they see the class of car coming, they know the number of tons it contains, and have the scale so prepared that only the hun- dredweights need be adjusted while the ear is moving over it. Expert officials of the company can tell at a glance what each class of car should contain, and if, in looking over the weight sheet, any car appears either too heavy or too light, it is brought back and reweighed. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address PECK BROS., “tice Rahs Our Complete Fall Line of Holiday ad - Fancy Coots Will be ready September 10th, It will pay every merchant handling this line of goods to examine our samples, EATON, LYON & CO., 20 & 22 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. A. D, SPANGLER & CO., GENERAL Commission Merchants And Wholesale Dealers in Fruits and Produce. We solicit correspondence with both buy- ers and seliers of all kinds of fruits, ber- ries and produce. SAGINAW, E. Side, MICH. : 4 BUSINESS LAW. Summarized Decisions from Courts of| Last Resort. | PASSENGER—EJECTION—DAMAGES. The Supreme Court of Mississippi held, in the recent case of Kansas City Rail- road Company vs. Riley, that where the | conductor of a railroad train returned to a passenger the wrong portion of a re- turn trip ticket and another conductor | on the return trip refused to accept it after the mistake was explained to him, and ejected the passenger from the train, the railroad company was liable. ASSOCIATION — SUBSCRIPTION — CREDITORS, In the appeal of the Philadelphia Butchers’ Hide and Tallow Association, decided recently by the Supreme Court | of Pennsylvania, it appeared that an un- incorporated association, having need of certain real estate for the purposes of its business, purchased it and had the title placed in trustees. The money was raised by means of subscriptions by the members, or some of them, in such amounts as they saw fit to contribute, for which they received certificates bearing interest. The property largely increased in value. The court held that the cestui que trust was the association; that the holders of certificates were simply credi- tors with an equitable lien upon the property, and that the money derived from its sale should be first applied to the payment of the outstanding certifi- cates, with accrued interest, and the bal- ance paid into the treasury of the asso- ciation. CORPORATION—FORGED CERTIFICATES. Where the by-laws of a corporation provided that all certificates should be signed by the president and the treasyr- er, and the president, who was allowed by the other directors to have possession of the corporate seal and certificate book after they had known him to break his promise of pledging certain shares to them, issued fraudulent certificates to himself, forging the treasurer’s signa- ture, and pledged the certificates to se- eure his individual debt, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held (Hill vs. Jewett Publishing Company) that the corporation had not been guilty of such negligence as would make it lia- ble for the certificates, saying: ‘‘The president of the defendant corporation was not the proper officer to issue certifi- cates, and the certificates which the plain- tiffs received did not come from the of- fice of the defendant in regular course of business, but they were received by the plaintiffs under private and personal transactions between themselves and Jewett, the president. The plaintiffs, however, contend that the previous and known misconduct of Jewett had been such that it distinguished the present ease from others, and that by reason thereof the defendant should be held re- sponsible for his acts. * * * On the whole, we find nothing to show that the corporation or its other members had reason to suppose from what Jewett had done that he would be likely to issue forged certificates of shares, if allowed access to the certificate book and seal of the corporation, and accordingly it is not to be held responsible for his crimi- nal fraud, as for an act made possible by its negligence, In the cases heretofore determined by this court, where a cor- poration was held responsible for the fraudulent issue of shares, the certifi- eates were in fact signed by the proper officers, whose signatures were required, and there was carelessness on the part of the president in leaving certificates signed in blank by himself with the treasurer, and also carelessness on the part of other officers of the company.” ————_—_—<-o > New Savings Bank. A woman in Cleveland went to a chirop- odist and told him she was afflicted with an ingrowing toe nail. He diagnosed the boot she wore and found a roll of bills worn to fragments in the toe. She paid him his fee and sent the money to Washington to be redeemed. She de- elares she must have hidden it there in one or more competitors. her sleep. Prices Up or Down. Shall a merchant advance or reduce | prices on goods in stock as their market value may change? This is an interest- ing question, particularly for merchants in the smaller towns, where they have Jobbers ad- vanee or reduce prices on goods as the market or the price on raw material changes. Jobbers and manufacturers as | a class are successful in business, so the ‘rule would appear to be a good one! for retail merchants to follow. But | to return to our question: If, for in- stanee, | bought a line of goods at prices that are unusually low, and by the time | they were delivered the price had ad- vanced 25 per cent., would it be better | to make the selling price conform to | present cost, or to make a leader of the goods and rush them off, ignoring the rise in the market? If the goods were rushed off in a hurry it would no doubt attract temporary cus- | tom, but when the supply was exhausted the same goods could not be placed ex- cept at an advance. As long as the goods lasted the low prices would, no doubt, worry my competitor, but my ob- ject is to build up my business, not to | break down his. If, on the other hand, the goods in question had declined after mine had been bought, and my competi- tor had bought at a lower price, 1 should have had to lower my price to meet his. The fact that a merchant often has to fol- low the downward tendency of the market is an argument in favor of his taking ad- vantage of the upward tendency and re- alizing large profits. If he is obliged to drop his price to meet competition let it be done quickly, and to all custemers alike. Do not fear your competitors, but if there is money to be lost lose it in a week rather than in ten weeks. Prompt action on your part will show that you intend to meet any price that is necessa- ry to hold your trade, and it may be that one lesson of this kind will be all that will be required. I should advisea close and econtinuous serutiny of the tendency of the market and a revision of prices of goods in stock to conform to such changes. AL FG. ——————- +2 The Value of Ready Money... The large majority of failures in busi- ness are caused chiefly by insufficient capital. The man who gets foundered in Wall street, and on all other exchanges, is the man whose ventures are beyond his capital. He spreads too much sale and suddenly goes under. This is not only true of the speculator, but it is equally true in legitimate business. If one has $5,000 in cash, how many goods should he buy? Some will stock up with $25,000. A more prudent fellow will keep a good reserve, a surplus in cash. He is always afraid that a drought ora frost will destroy the corn, and what then?—the farmer can’t buy his goods. They get out of style, and so he loses at both ends when he has stocked up wild- ly. Cashin hand, although drawing no interest, generally pays compound inter- est when the sheriff comes in, for in- stance, and siaughters goods for cash. Hosts of traders are ruined by straining their credit. How welcome tothe pressed manufacturer is the merchant with plenty of money! He buys almost at his own price when bankers are not discounting commercial paper. And so it is at every turn of life; the man with ready money gets the best of everything. _- ~~ 2 << Loss Limited to $100. 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Grvkeorenee Tee Foumoay, iia eam = ~= In either case, we should have clear photograph to work from. . THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. valued at $350, and she entered suit | against the railroad for the recovery of that amount. It was shown that one of the conditions on the back of the ticket held by her especially stated that the road should not be held responsible for loss to baggage to the amount of more | than $100. It was held by the court that she having signed the ticket was bound to the conditions provided therein, and eould only recover the amount mentioned, viz.: $100, and the court ordered a ver- dict accordingly. : New Line of _ p K N NY (} () (} 1} 8 for September Trade. | Order Tycoon Gum and Chocolate Triplets. A @ BROOKS. & CO. | | No. 46 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE, AROUND THE STATE. Saginaw—F. Koch succeeds Bock in the grocery business. Detroit—Chas. E. Hollister has sold his drug stock to John G. Wiesinger. Bay City—R. S. Chudzinski has sold his drug stock to Oliver Densham. White Cloud—J. Townsend has re- moved his genera! stock to Charlevoix. Detroit—Otto L. Fluegel Wiesinger & Fiuegel in the drug business. Bay City—Edward W. ceeds Funnell ness. Petoskey—C. A. Gay has purchased the fruit and confectionery stock of H. C. Bain. Shepherd—Wellington & Waterman are succeeded by H. D. Waterman al trade. Koch & succeeds Funnell the wheat busi- sue- & Boes in in gener- Wayland—D. T. Hersey is closing out his grocery stock and will retire from business. Cass City—Wm. Fairweather is suc- ceeded by D. Mcintyre in the and baking Sy Green ville— T. Bliss is airs’’ these ri 5 cael trie lights in his grocery store. grocery ‘‘putting on introduced elec- Lansing—H. S. Robinson & Co.,. of De-! troit, have attached the G. T. Fisher boot and shoe stock on a claim of $1,900. Fife Lake—A_ postoffice has been es- | west of Mills as postmas- tablished at Hodges, four miles this place, with B. P. ter. Lansing—The hardware stock Anderson has been attached by the Mich- igan Buggy Co., of Kalamazoo, a claim of $450. to satisfy Tustin—Lovene & Stevenson have pur- chased the Luick building and will fit it up for adry goods and clothing depart- ment in connection with their other store. South Haven—Hon. J. C. begun work on a new brick build- ing on Center street just north of the postoffice. It will be 50 feet front by 70 feet deep and two stories. Sherwood—L. P. Wilcox has sold his interest in the of Wilcox dealers in groceries, meats and boots and shoes, to his brother, who will continue the business under the style Wilcox. store firm Bros., MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Bell—The sawmill of W. A. French has cut 4,000,000 feet of lumber thus far this season. |opinion that the preferred creditors of on i. Monroe has of 5. C. | Cheboygan mills will be Gladwin—Sailor & Co., of Ohio, will erect a hoop mill here and intend to have it running in six weeks. Saginaw—E. O. & S. L. Eastman & Co. will lumber on the Tittabawassee and Tobaeco rivers the coming winter, put- ting in hemlock and hardwood logs, with some scattering pine. Marquette—R. M. mill is nearly Bradley’s shingle completed. The boilers, engine and machinery are in place, and it is expected the mill will be in shape to start next Monday. Muskegon—N. N. Miller & Co. have sold their drug stock at the corner of Terrace and Walton streets to A. A. H. Eekermann, who will continue the busi- ness at the same location. Marquette—The Hagar & Johnson Man- ufacturing Co. is receiving lumber from Powell & DeHaas’ mill on Huron bay. The company bought a run of logs from them which were cut to order. Detroit—The Grand Upholstering and Furniture Co., capital stock $15,000, has been incorporated by Frank Cohnen, Charles F. Walter and William J. Streng. Two-thirds of the capital stock has been paid in. West Bay City—Harrison Miller has retired from the Standard Hoop Co. I. M. & E. J. iness. Kelton will continue the bus- The last named gentleman was many years connected with the Keystone Salt & Lumber Co. East Tawas—J. B. Tuttle expresses the the J. E. Potts Salt & Lumber Co. will ultimately receive about 30 cents on the dollar, and that those not preferred will get a large slice of nothing. Hudson — The Bean & Chamberlain Manufacturing Co. has been organized | with a capital stock of $100,000, of which | $65,000 is paid in. A factory building | 40x100 feet in dimensions and two stories | high, will be erected at once. Manistee—The State Lumber Co. has | built a large addition to its salt block, | which will give more storage room, and | obviate the necessity of piling the salt | barrels outside, exposed to the weather, which has been done for some time. Cheboygan—The sawmill of Pelton & Reed is cutting 700,000 feet of for. the Arthur Hill Company, of Saginaw. The drive on the Black river still hangs fire, and it is expected that a number of | forced to shut logs down. Harrison—Cory Bros. & Ehrenkrook, who are operating a shingle mill in Ham- ilton township, Clare county, will finish the timber in that locality in about sixty ' owned days, when the firm will dissolve. Cory and Mr. Ehrenkrook will west. Marquettte—James Lucks, who has for a number of years conducted a grocery store on Main has discontinued business in this city stock to the National where he will in future cery store. Midland—Beach & Smith, of Brock ville, Ont., have purchased a tract of elm timber in this county, and will build amill, having secured contracts to cut timber for Chicago furniture concerns. They will also buy all the elm logs offered in the vicinity. Bay City—William Crampton, of this city, has been awarded the contract to build a branch road from the Michigan Central Grayling and Twin Lakes, a distance of 271¢ miles. He ex- pects to complete the work by the begin- ning of next year. Au Sable—The H. M. Loud & Sons Lumber Co. has extended the Potts rail- road ten miles to reach timber owned by the company and other concerns, and is hauling logs to Oscoda. There is about 35,000,000 feet to be put in and hauled by the road to the mills. West Bay City——Capt. David- son, the shipbuilder, has in his yard from $50,000 to $60,000 worth of timber taken from the Saginaw River, where it has been soaking for years in the refuse of the salt blocks along its banks. He says it is as good as if vat-soaked. Manistee—White & Friant’s sawmill, which had been idle for the better part of a month from lack of logs, started up last week, and as the water is now better in the river than it has been, and they are getting to a point which contains more of their logs, they are in hopes that for the balance of the season they will be able to run full time. Detroit—The Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Exchange is so delighted with the information received from Gen. to the effect that a 21-foot channel from end to end of the lakes will cost no more than $3,330,568, that it will try to have a convention of similar organizations in all the lake cities with a view to having the street, and mine location, eonduct a gro- between James Poe scheme pushed in Congress. Saginaw—Henry Moiles, city, mill in Wise township, Isabella county by Wells, Stone & Co., and will remove it to Mecosta county, at some point on the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad. and The mill was formerly owned operated by J. H. Freeney, John | failed, and the mill fell into the hands move | of Wells, Stone & Co., who were cred- | itors. oo = Money and Secine. | From the New York Sun. removed his | Jr., of this! has purchased a small circular saw- | The highest intellectual ability of this country, the greatest and most unmis- takable genius, are chiefly occupied in the world of affairs. Usually the rich men are rich because of the greater force of their brains. Barbed Wire Advanced. Barbed wire has been advanced to } for galvanized and $2.95 for painted. $3.45 FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. re Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. GOOD LO- gen SALE—GROCERY AND BAKERY. invoice about $1,500. ae on corner. Will Would sell one-half interest. 3 and 4 Tower Block. 309 Fro SALE —HARDWOOD LUMBER MILL, SIX miles from railroad, with plenty of timber for several years’ cut. Shingle machine in running order if desired. Saw mill ready to set up. Teams, trucks, sleighs, shop and building all in order to begin work atonce. Address J. J. Robbins, Stanton, Mich, or C. H. Hunter, 122 Monr Grand Rapids. 312 Por SALE — $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 301 s SALE—A COMPLETE GROCERY STOCK AND fixtures. Trade well established; will average $1,100 to $1,200 per month. Poor health, reason for selling. Address H., 213 East Walnut street, Kalama- zoo. Mich. 3 . SALE—DRUG STOCK IN THRIVING SUMMER resort town. Willinventory about $1,200. Rare opportunity. Address Lock Box 87, Crystal, Mich. 299 oe. SALE—A COMPLETE LOGGING OUTFIT AT A bargain. Will sell all or part, as desired. Also one standard guage Shay locomotive in first-class iworking condition. Apply to W. A. D. Rose, Big Rap ds, Mich. 282 W 4STED— I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A general or grocery stock; must be cheap. - dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. W4rten- PARTNER TO TAKE HALF TTR in full roller mill; must be practical miller. J. E. Richmond, Jac kson, Mich. 302 SITUATIONS WANTED. Ww ANTED—POSITION BY REGISTERED PHARMA cist of four years’ experience. " References fur- nished. Address No. 307, Michigan Tradesman. 309 W AxTED_sI SD—SITUATION AS BOOK-KEEPER BY A married man who can give the best of refer- ences. Address No Grand Rapids. 305, care Michigan Tradesman, 305 MISCELLANEOUS. E ORSES FOR SALE—ONE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD FIL ly, one three-year-old filly, and one six-year-old gelding—all sired by Louis Napoleon, dam by Wiscon- sin Banner (Morgan]}. Ail fine, handsome, and speedy; never been tracked. Address J. J. Robbins, Stanton, Mich. 3u1 _s SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN 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 Fe SALE OR RENT—CORNER LOT AND 5-ROOM house on North Lafayette st., cellar, brick found- “INVEST- | ation and soft water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Cheap enough for an investment. Address No | 187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187. ~ BLANCHARD & PRINGLE’S has been paid and discharged, rJ)\HE MORTGAGE ON . stock, at Sand Lake, > | leaving their stock of about $3,500 free and clear, and | the firm is now in good circumstances. W “ANT ED—YOUNG SINGLE MAN WITH ONE OR two years’ experience in the dry goods business. Wages moderate. Address 304, care Michigan Trades- 304 ; man, W ANTED A GOOD LOCATION FOR SAWMILL. Address No. 306, care of Tradesman, Grand Rap ids, Mich. 306 who | RMEN TUM THE ONLY RELIABLE COMPRESSED YEAST. Just returned from Europe. ‘FERMENTUM’ * always A trial pressed yeast, pot mail has been, is now, and order will will con- tinue to be the leading and only reliable com- satisfy you on this 7X QMENTY, eh NY CompRESSED YEAS! MFTD BY TH SO IVER ALE DIE A JUNKER Gen: Aoz CHIE BES L. WINTERNITZ, Agent, 106 Kent St., Grand Rapids. rmerermanlp 2a gene GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Townsend & Frink have opened a gro- cery store at Hubbardson. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock. The Grand Rapids Stave Co. has sold | its cooper shop at Allegan to J. G. El-| linger, who will continue the business | under his own name. 2. A. MeWilliams, druggist at 42 West Bridge street, will shortly remove his stock two doors east, to the vacant store at the corner of West Bridge and Mt. Vernon streets. G. T. Haan & Co. have removed their drug stock from 126 Canal street to the store formerly occupied by the Lus- tig Cigar Co., corner of Canal and East Bridge streets. Barney Teunis and Ralph Teunis have formed a copartnership under the style of Teunis Bros. and engaged in the new and second-hand stove and hardware business at 122 Ellsworth avenue. A. D. Fisher, formerly of the grocery firm of Flanders & Fisher, has opened a grocery store at 443 Lyon street under the style of A. D. Fisher & Co. The stock was purchased in this market. Steele & Co. have removed their drug and grocery stock from fonia to this city, locating at the double store at 97 and 99 Canal street. The Ball-Barnhart- Putman Co. replenished the grocery stock. Wm. H. Tibbs has arranged to open another drug store at 911 Wealthy ave- nue. Mr. Tibbs had five drug stores on his hands at one time at Buffalo, several years ago, but has never equalled that record in this city. C. D. Spalding has effected a settle- ment with the creditors of the former firm of Spalding & Co. on the basis of 25 cents on the dollar, and has gone to Baltimore to take the local agency of a life insurance company. Another compressed yeast agency—the “Red Star,’’ of Milwaukee—has been es- tablished here. This makes ten wagons visiting the trade daily, whereas three wagons would be enough to serve the trade. Myer Lightstone has formed a copart- nership with his cousin—Samuel Light- stone, late of Mecosta—under the style of Lightstone & Co. and embarked in the grocery business at Sparta. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock. A. M. Fleischauer has leased the store at 40 West Bridge street and will shortly open a new grocery stock. Mr. Fleisch- auer has been identified with his father, the Reed City grocer, for the past fifteen years and will undoubtedly score a suc- cess in his new enterprise. E. E. Miller and Arthur Davenport have formed a copartnership under the style of Miller & Davenport for the pur- pose of engaging in general trade ata point five miles west of Paris, where they expect to have a postoflice established. | They have already put in a grocery stock, | which was furnished by the Olney &| Judson Grocer Co. a y c » « Vty ror. | P. W. Kane, the Holland City drug | demon. Mow Yak, Jae | Albion Milling Co., Albion, Michigan: | Gents—I very gladly recommend to the public your ‘Albion Patent Flour.” I have used it in my family for ten years, and in all that time I have ‘‘never found its equal.’’ Yours respectfully, W.S. TODD. Arthur Haight has taken the manage- ment of L. M. Mills’ drug store at Sand | | | Lake. | | A. DeKruif, the Zeeland druggist, has | : : , ; . ss | oods are genuine 4ss our gus eC 8 six horses in training on the race track R HM EMB ER Goods are not genuine unless our guarantee card is found on every package. If your grocer does not at Holland. keep our ‘Albion Patent,’ send your order direct to us. Satisfaction guaranteed. D. D. Harris, the Shelbyville general aeiceand cheese anstactcer, as it} ALBION. MILLING GOMPANY, Albion, Mich. town Monday. A. J. Elliott, the Monroe street grocer, is delighted over the advent of a daugh- ter, who putin an appearance last Satur- day. A. H. Finney, Secretary of the Perrin- ton Novelty Works, Perrinton, was in A few thousand of No. 6, low cut, town last week on his way home from an extended trip through the West. colored Envelopes will be closed out, Jas. A. Hunt, Secretary of the Grand i Rapids Stave Co., has gone to Three printed. Rivers for the purpose of opening a 4 +» Fi braneh cooper shop under the manage- — O er ment of Chas. A. Noble. 1,000 oa sae - a 0a eD Harry Fox, the versatile manager of 2,000 - 7 ” 2.00 per M. the Muskegon Cracker Co.—beg pardon, oi nl ut ~ Muskegon branch of the United States W rite for prices if you can use a Baking Co.—was in town one day last week. L. Winternitz has returned from Eu- rope, after an absence of nine weeks. He spent most of the time at his old] cherry. Assorted if desired, home in Prague, Bohemia, but improved larger quantity. Send tor sample, any- way. We have azurine, green and the opportunity to visit familiar scenes The Tradesman Company; in Hungary, Prussia and Germany, also. i He is looking finely, the trip having ap- Grand Rapids. parently restored him to the best of health. Gripsack Brigade W. C. Glines, State agent for Fleisch mann & Co., was is town Monday for a few hours. Byron S. Davenport is jubilant over | his last week’s record—two new stocks THE : and 75 chests of tea. O. C. Clock has resigned his position a as traveling representative for, the Chase ° Bros. Piano Co. to take the Western W hy a Connoisseur Eats agency of the Braumuller Co., of New York. O. M. Benedict, traveling representa- tive for Wm. P. Roome & Co., New York, read a paper on the subject of ‘The 5 Bible in the Hands of the Teacher’ at the recent Sunday school convention of the Church of Christ at Detroit. HE EATS THEM. because he personally knows that the produce Bay est canned is from the choicest varieties grown. Pertinent Suggestions from Secretary : Bugbee. HE EATS THEM because he personally knows that the products CuEBOYGAN, Sept. 4—A member of the|eanned are fresher than market products, because only sixty minutes M. S. P. A., in remitting his dues, says: a shied i ao ' a arks their transition from the garden to the can. “This should have been sent long ago marks their t B and my not having done so is purely HE EATS THEM because he personally knows that the help wwlect.”? ink that is the case wi . : : 3 ; Pe neglect.’ I think that is the ~~ with employed in preparing the produce is as tidy and neat as the most fastid- many of our members who have not yet). : pam Lee ’ sent in their dues for 1891-2, and also} 10US kitchen domestic. i > ud Seal y 2a Aaee oo. a OT cs ate ee oa HE EATS THEM because he personally knows that no adultera- those who are in arrears for two or three | tions, chemicals or coloring are used in the process. ee ase a pigs . pa HE EATS THEM because he personally knows that the goods are u . ’ ay ’ . . : : Ml 1891, and resign if they do not intend to |S honest in quantity as quality—hence the cheapest. remain. It looks much better to read in » yxroceedings ‘‘resigned,’’ than : : i : ' . nol onde aka dues.”? It No line of canned goods has ever given such general satisfaction as the isa pice and they have had the proceed- famous HAMBURGH brand, which has invariably taken the lead wherever intro- ingsand benefits of the Association, with | duced. We have handled HAMBURGH goods for years and shall continue to can iki their fair proportion of the eontrol the brand in this market. The goods of this year’s pack already in stock expenses Te those who ask the ques-| @ré fully up to the high standard of excellence so long maintained by the packers. tion, ‘‘What good is the Association and what benefit am I receiving from it?” let BAL-BARNHART-PUYMAN-GO me ask, What are you doing to help make 1 power in the advancement of our nana ests in trade, ete., it needs and should} : ‘ have the hearty good will and supportof} (CL.4U’TION--Dealers are warned to beware of inferior — ts pean be pro-| goods put up under names and labels similar to the celebrated prietor or cierk. ours ur ly C. A. BUGBEE, Sec’y. | HAMBURGH brand. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Keep Your Store Fresh. J. M. Batchelor, in Dry Goods Bulletin. The late A. T. Stewart, of New York, had the habit of looking after all the de-| tails of his business. Walking through | his retail store one morning as usual, he} took up an article on a counter and asked the salesman: ‘“‘How much are you selling these for?” **Forty cents, Mr. Stewart.” **Do they go well?”’ ‘“‘Not very well, sir.” “Put them down to twenty-five cents. How much are these?” taking up another | article. “Seventy-five cents, sir.’’ **Are they going well?” ‘Slowly, sir.’ ‘‘Make them fifty cents, and these?’’ ‘Sixty cents.’ **How do they sell ‘““Very well, sir.’’ at that?’’ | } *‘Let them remain there.’? And he went through the entire stock of that counter. Turning to a gentleman who stood by watching these proceedings, Mr. Stewart said: “It is no use to keep goods up so high that customers will not buy them, and the worst of all mistakes in a mer-} chant, after he has made the mis- take of buying things which are slow of sale, is to hold them for a market. The best way is to clean them out at any sacrifice, and lay in a better} selected stock.” It matters little whether Mr. Stewart | uttered these words or not, although we have no good reason to question their genuineness, the idea they convey is un- doubtedly sound, and they would not be less so if uttered by a way-back country storekeeper. Too little importance is attached to keeping a stock of goods fresh and up with the times, although too frequently goods are shelved and slowly sold during a course of years, un- der the impression that they must be worked off at profitable rates before other goods can be bought in their place, and this regardless of any change in the market that meanwhile may have taken place. The most successful retail confectioner in New York City has built up a fortune of hundreds of thousands of dollars with- in a comparatively few years by observ- ing the rule of keeping his stock fresh and of prime quality, even if variety was lacking. He started with four or five styles of bon-bons, and a small quantity of each, which to the customer looked lost in the big store on Broadway. But their quality and freshness at once made the place famous, although the price was not low, and to-day, in the afternoons, it | is hard to get waited on, so great is the crowd of customers. The idea of this remarkably successful confectioner, who is now known all over the country, was the same as that ex- pressed by Mr. Stewart, in the advisa- bility of keeping a stock moving. Stale goods are in rare demand. If these goods are turned over to the bargain counter, even at a sacrifice, it keeps up a store’s reputation for being wide-awake. —— — « > - | The Country Merchant. | The sphere in which the country mer- | chant lives, moves and sells his goods is | quite different from that of the city | storekeeper. He deals with a different class of people, or different habits, cus- | toms and wants. As a matter of fact, the task with which the average country | storekeeper is confronted is quite as dif- | ficult as any which puzzles his city brother. At best his constituency is lim- ited, and it is hard to increase it. Trade there is not naturally of a floating char- | acter. Everybody has a preference or} an antipathy. Everybody being ac-| quainted, thinks he must be given credit. It is hard to collect, hard to work off odds and ends, hard to satisfy the peo- ple who are all the time getting posted on city styles and bargain day prices. To please and stimulate one’s customers, to get new ones, to keep close enough to popular demand, yet to avoid accumula- tion of unsalables, to turn one’s capital fast enough to make it earn a living profit—these are some of the conundrums the successful solution of which mark | the merchant and should enlist for him | the admiring appreciation of the mercan- tile community everywhere. ry | Archery Bunting.. al | Blackstone O, 32. . 5 | Baack Crow......... $4 | Newmarket G a Dry Goods Price Current. UN BLEACHED COTTONS. — .......... 7 ‘* Arrow Brand 5% SS 6% * World Wide.. 7 Atlente AA. a 1. 5 | Atlantic a... 7 lFull Yard Wide..... 6% ES: CxiGeorgia A.......... 64 : r......... 6 Honest Watth,...... 6% . ......... Cxitertiorg A ......... 5 ea.” a 5% inGten Head........ 74 ae ; Ki 6% Eins 7 i */ Madras cheese cloth 6% 6 rs Beaver Dam A | Amoskeag o Poin dress 8% DEMINS. Amoskeag...... ....12%/Columbian brown. .12 o 9oz.....18% Everett, oy alte 12 e ae 13 brown. ....12 Andover.. 11% Haymaker eine. .... 7% Beaver Creek AA.. brown... 7% BB.. se ee. 11% ' ‘i |Lancaster........... 12 Boston. Mfg Co. br.. 7 |Lawrence, 9o0z...... 13% blue 8% - No. 220....13 “« d«& twist 10% " No, 250....11% Columbian XXX br.10 _ No. 280....10% EXE B19 j GINGHAMS. ee ee 74 eee —--- - 6% ancies 7 eee) he by} if Canton .. 8% “Normandie 8 —. s........... id . 2. 64} ARC......12% SS. > ~ Capital a. “ DD.... &% a Teazle...1014;|Manchester. .... ns 4 | Cavanet V_. 0... a | & co 7 : Angola. -10%|Monogram.......... 64 Chapman cheese cl. 3% ee 5 Persian.. a Normandie......... ‘7 itn OR... Big Our Level Best..... 6% | Arlington staple... 634|Persian........ ..--. 8% ——— i oo Linas... 6% | Arasapha fancy 4% Renfrew Dress...... 14 | Dwieht Ster......... 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Fruit of the Loom. i. “Sunlight eee 4% THREADS Peer ..... ..-. voce Bie......... 8% irate. 6% “ Nonpareil ..11 Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour Be. see ioe | Fruitofthe Loom %. eee ey Coste, J.&F.......5 (areeeire.... ...... 88 Palciosum........_. 44| White oa Lc. 6 | Holyoke............. 22% Pull Vares.......... 6 =... . oo KNITTING COTTON. HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. 7 ret... 8... ax Dwight Anchor..... 9 Ix 6 Ww = nm. — =“. Oolenad. ee 8 es Hane a alana 43 . Sgn a ee — oie 25 ne a 39 44 remot m.......... Ly esex vo Co i a : . o. Hamilton N00. 211 i ucid 36 o OO co 40 45 7 “ SS CAMBRICS. Middlesex -- “ : a au (ashinwten. a S 7 ‘“ 8.-.-19 | White Star......... ted Croms........... 3% No 36.2 Des Se Kid Glove ee Bs Lockwood. a 3% Lie ee o00d’s eo ss... T™% Middlesex A A — 11 Lesa ” - a = 3a Midticnsx PT...... 8 a... 2 RED FLANNEL. wie oF. 9 wea ae... 13% ' x A... 9 sl a... a 32% oo + - BH ' a... 10% . o..... 6 | Crosdmore.......... oe B2% CARPET WARP. Talbot EM 30 J RF -an...,..... 35 Peerless, white... 18 |Integrity, colored...21 Reeeiee....-...... 27% Buckeye bee eee eee 32% colored —— ae... 18% MIXED FLANNEL. a “ “c 9 —, — colored.-21' | Red & Blue, plaid..40 |Grey SRW......... 17% Hamilton _— nnn 20 Dates E..... .... 22) ee yy ......... 18% « NC aa 25 | Windsor...... a tte cece ee teee 18% “ see “10% “ 27% 6 0z Western . 20 Plvshing —...... 23% GG Cashmere.....:210 | 0 7121.0071Tigg" | Union B............ 22y4|Manitoba........... 23% Nameless .......... 16 ES 32% | DOME? FLANAEL. ie 18 ‘“ ane Nameless ..-.. 8 @ 9% o coos @10% Coraline $9 50| Wonderful $4 50 “canvass AND PADDING. = Schilling’s..-...... 9 00|Brighton.. ........ 4.75 | Slate. Brown. Black/Slate. Brown. Black. Davis Waists .... 9 00/Bortree’s ..........09000 | 9% 9% > an 13 13 Grand Rapids..... 4 50|Abdominal........ 15 00 | 10% 10% 10%) 15 15 15 CORSET JEANS. 11% ry 114) 1% 1% 17 Armory ee 6%) [Naumkesg satteen.. 7% | 12% 12% — 20 20 Androscoggin....... 74| DOr pOrs........... 6 Biddefora.......... Domesbopa........... 6% | Severen, 8 0z........ = Manges 8 oz... = Brunswick. . So Walworth ......... 6& Mayland, a tke cee 9 Al 100 Of ae PRINTS, Greenwood, 7 Ye oe _ 002......... a" Allen turkey reds.. 5%/|Berwick fancies.... % Greenwood, m— ..114618 — © 13% ropes........ 5% Clyde Robes........ 5 WADDINGS. . ed & purple 6'4 Charter Oak fancies 4% White, doz..........25 {Per bale, 40 doz....87 50 toe. DelMarine cashm’s. 6 " d, doz........20 | / Onlored, Gos........ . pink checks. 5% mourn’g 6 C en ...... 5% Eddystone fancy... 6 SILESIAS. - shirtings ... 4 chocolat 6 Slater, Iron Cross...8 (Pawtucket..........10% American fancy.... 5% = rober.... 6 mon Crom.... 9 temedee.............. 9 Americanindigo 5 - sateens.. 6 ” ee -10% Peeeere........ .... 10% American shirtings. 4 Hamilton Fancy. ... 6 Best _ — 12% a OO eh eee, 10% Argentine Grays... 6 oe Oe oS 10% or" — » 4g Manchester ancy.. 6 -.-.. - 8% Arno Y --» OM new era. 6 WING SILKE. |} Arnold Merino. ... 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 6 " i i on ticelli. k | “long cloth B.10% Merrim’ck shirtings. 4 Corticelll, doz. oe [Cortice nitting, “ 8i4 “ Reppfurn . 8% twist, OZ. 4 per 408 ball...... 30 “century cloth 7 |Pacific fancy........ 6 50 yd, doz. .37% Y ee... 10% PO a 6% HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS, ‘* green seal TR 10% Portsmouth robes... 6 No 1 Bl’k « White. 10 (No 4Br k& (White, 15 yellow seal..10%/Simpson mourning.. 6 at 8 20 . —- eee 11%) - greys. .s ' 3 . a 1” © - «0 - urkey red..10%) _ solid black. 6 PINS. Ballou wold black.. 5 |Washington indigo. 6 No?—2, MN C.......00 Not—I6 FF 3i...... 40 «© colors. 5%| “ Turkey robes.. 7%/| * 3—18,SC........ --45 | Ben egal blue, green, | * India robes.... 7% TON T. and orange... 5%) ‘ plain Tky x x 8% | No 2 White & BI’ 4 12 iNo 8 White & BIVk..20 Berlin .......- cy 10 * @ r 1 a onl bime...... — * en Par. re © r ae | - 2 _ a vn ~ @eeen .... Oi keyred............ SAFETY PINS. “ Foulards .... 544|Martha Washington” ee me OOF, Lo 36 = ee..-.... 7 | Durkeyred &..... . - =. 9% Martha Washington NEEDLES—PER M. - * £¢...... 10 ae oe... et A. cee... ....... 1 SO0/Steamboat.... ...... . “* 3-4XXXX 12 |Riverpoint robes.... 5 ee i a ee : = Gold Eyed...... Cocheco a 6 |Windeorfancy...... 6% | Marsha. Vi eee r madders... 6 | . — ticket Tabi ‘ot CLOTH. XX twills. - 6%] indigo blue....... 10% | 5—4....2 25 6-4. o5—4....195 6—4...2 9 ee... 5% _ * 210 es 3 10 | ke serge j COTTON TWINES, Been AO A... ce © A..... ....c50, 1m | Cotton Salil Twine..23 (Nashus......... ... 18 1 Hamilton ee “T% cniepuies AAA.. | Crown . A ..12 |Rising Star4-ply....17 ceca eee "10%, | | Domestic . ose " 3-ply....17 . Awning..11 |Swift River......... 7% | | Anchor ...... 6 impertn Bier... mh i i ay 8 |Pearl River......... 12% | Bristol . ....13 |Wool Standard 4 ply? eg Pe eeeren..........-..-. 14 | Cherry Vv alley. pn ce 15 |Powhattan ..... Lenox Mills . --18 at. -13 COTTON DRILL. | PLAID OSNABURGS. — ec er A. ol . feree............ 6% Mount Pleasant.... 6% ie oe ok 6%j|No Name........ . 7% | Alamance.. i.) oe i cifton, Whe i pte vue 6% |Top of Heap........ 10 ore scene as .. 1%| Pyrmont bas eocuae 5% SATINES. EP. ce 6 |Randelman......... Simpson ick diweweal See... .... .... 10% | | Georgia Les cabs eee 6% ge ae eas 54 a 18 Black eek ees. me Fin | Ge ...........,.. ox ones Se ex Ee krrice ae 16 CB....... .10@10¥ | — _ ees eas a ts Pe ctcne eeteoe OO ee OS ee ae 8 Voigt, Herpolseiner i U0, Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CARPETS, CURTAINS. Manufacturers of « Shirts, Pants, Oueralls, Rte. Elegant Spring Line of Prints, Ging- hams, Toile Du Nord, Challies, White and Black Goods, Percales, Satteens, Serges, Pants Cloth, Cottonades and Hosiery now ready for inspection. Chicago and Detroit}Prices:Guaranteed. 48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. GRAND RAPIDS, - 9 barpels, Rugs, =o QUrtains, ~ Write for our Prices on Floor Oil Cloths —AND—- Oil Cloth Bindings. SMITH & SANFORD. FOR THE —E BABY ter" OULIETTA' ™**- 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. Grand Rapids Electrotype Co., HLECTROTYPERS ——AND \TEREOTYPERS 6 and 8 Erie St., GRAND RAPIDS. ‘/H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Tar and Gravel Roofers, And dealers in Tarred Felt, Building Paper, Pitch, Coal Tar, Asphaltum, Rosin, Minera Wool, Etc Corner Louis and Campau Sts., GRAND RAPIDS. nae : oo Sn ne REP Ce hamemecsneng see Ta abc hestiahiaciiboca ‘ spe ements gente ah Men - é WEES Aa Fae A ormontiltaning gen, . Told By a Tramp. ‘‘Wot’s the matter with yer, Jim; yer seem owly?’’ ‘Well, pard! I’ve been thinkin’!’ ‘“Thinkin’ don’t seem to agree with yer!” ‘“‘Naw! it don’t—it’s like this, d’ye see. ITamatramp. Now, my brother Bill is just what I’m not!” ‘‘How’s that?’ you ask. ‘‘Well, my brother Bill’s the president of a bank; he’s got as pretty and hand- some a home as yer’d like to see; there’s musicin that home; there’s flowers there, and there’s a pretty wife an’ some bloomin’ happy curly headed children; there’s a carriage and servants, and peo- ple call him ‘Mister.’ He’s twice been elected mayor, and everything’s coming his way all the time, and then look at me —different, ain’t it?” ‘‘How’d he strike it rich yer want to know. “TI can’t think of any other naine for it, but ‘good sense.’ We were boys to- like that?’’ gether, and while I was foolin’ around, havin’ a good time, Bill, he seemed to sorter look ahead. He didn’t drink or smoke; I did. He didn’t eare for style and it cost me to put it on that same money he saved. He was fond of read- ing, and I’d rather play cards and have fun with the rest of the boys. When I was loafin’ on the street-corners and in beer saloons, Bill was putting in his time at school. I blew in my money on cards. Bill saved his, an’ Iremember now how I used ter guy Bill an’ call him goody- goody and tell him he was a foolin’ of his life away without havin’ any fun— but say! I was a colorin’ my nose; I was gettin’ to play a good game of cards; I I was cultivatin’ a fine stock of bad hab- its—among ’em was love for budge; ter make it short, Pard, I was a givin’ my- self a fine education for this here busi- ness, an’ aint I succeeded at it pretty well?”’ **T should say!— ‘Well! now look at Bill. in’ the good times now? He doesn’t have dogs set on him, he aint pulled in every once in a while for bein’ a tramp, he doesn’t have ter move on when his feet’s sore, an’ he don’t go hungry, an’ have ter saw a big pile of wood to get a meal an’ sleep under haystacks; an’ mor’n all he hasn’t got the awful, awful thirst I’ve got, and doesn’t live in hell, as I do, because he can’t get liquor. He’s got manhood; wot have I got? He’s got character; wot have I got? He’s got no end of friends; who’s mine? Not one since I broke my dear old mother’s heart, which laid her in her grave. ‘*Aint that a record? ‘“‘Why shouldn’t I do some thinkin’?” Frep. H. SEYMOUR. ———_ —~ - > —— The Singular Fate of a Rat. From the Savannah News. In the warehouse of Tilton & Co., rice dealers, is stored a quantity of rice in bags and barrels and in bulk. The rat family is numerous there. On a shelf near the door are placed conveniently a dozen ordinary iron wire paper files for filing dray tickets. On opening the door of the warehouse a morning or two ago a fine sleek and fat rat was found impaled on one of the files, pierced through and through, and resting on the dray tickets, wriggling head and feet and tail in en- deavoring to free himself. It was be- lieved that, in attempting to walk along the projecting ledge of bricks near the ceiling to get under the floor, the rat Who’s hav- missed his footing and fell, and trying, eatlike, to alight on his feet, stuck 7 the file. ‘3s is MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. — Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. eee... 60 eee ss... 2 Jennings’, genuine eed eeu (ede eu ee toe wena Re 50810 AXES. Pirat Quality. ©. B. Bromse.................. $750 e oo eee. 12 00 e ee 8 50 ' Pe eee... ee BARROWS. dis. Ce 8 14 00 eee. net 30 00 BOLTS, dis. oe —_ Carriage a ee 40&i0 Sleigh Oe cs oe 70 BUCKETS. a ................................. 83 50 Well, swivel.. pe cue .- 4@ BUTTS, CAST. dis. ees Leone Fin, Gaured........ ............- W& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10 Wrens Ronee Pin... 8... 60&10 Wee Tee... 60&10 Wrought eae Rae....................... 60&10 Wrought Brass. a vis) CO 70&10 Blind, Pere e....:-...... 70&10 Pee pees .........................,.. 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, '85........... 60 CRADLES. eee .. dis. 50&02 CROW BARB. Cee eee... perb 5 CAPs. OO per, m 65 eee GF... 60 EE ‘ 35 Musket a e - 60 CARTRIDGES. oes Pe. ...............-......... 50 Cone: Whe... ...... 5. dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. soenel Pirmer... .............. 70&10 CN 70&16 ree 70&10 ee ee 7O0&10 Butchers Tanged Virmer............ ...... 40 COMBS. dis. Carey, Dewrenees.........................-. 40 Pitceeee. kg... 25 CHALE. White Crayous, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER. Planished, : 07 cut to size...... per pound 30 14x Se tie, Mee ................ 28 Cold Rolled, nab OG ffee.... ...-...,,.. 2 Cold Rolled, eee oa 25 eee. : 27 DRILLS. dis O_O eee 50 Taper and stratent Shank. .................. 50 en : 50 DRIPPING PANS. Sunil sigen, sor pound ...................... 07 Largo ace, per pound................ ..... 6% ELBOWS. Com, £ oices. 6... .. dos. ee dis. mas10810 Apes... dis. 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, $18; large, 826...........-..-. 30 trey, 1 Ga: = Oe oe ................... 25 i FILEs—New List. dis. eee 60&10 Hee Ameren... ......-........_.... ae ates... .... ae tee nee vena oo 50 erie a ees eee... .-.-................ 50 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20;. 22 and 2; 2% and 2%; 2% 2% List 12 13 14 ms 8 Discount, 60 ' GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... oe HAMMERS. | Maydole & Co.’s............ i. 2 Kip’s eee es eee. 25 | Yerkes & Plumb’s. | eaveeee Ce, S000 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..............-.- 20c list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30c 40&10 HINGES, -. eee 1 23... dis.60&10 Oe er doz. net, 2 50 cen Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and ee 3% Screw Hook and Bye, Me eee ees cele. net 10 a net 8% ss ss ss ee ee ag “ . . ers Mises se ee Oe Strap and T.. . .- dis, 50 HANGERS. 5 Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., W _ track... (50810 Champion, anti-friction. . - 60&10 | Migder, wood Weert ................ eee 40 | HOLLOW WARE. Eee 60 | Kettles...... : 60 | EE ee 60 | Gres commen... 40&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, Riamce Tie were.........._........ -new list 70 | Japanned Tin Ware....... Granite Iron Ware ........... WIRE @00D8. “new list 680 | Bright. . _..-toasioa0 | Serew Eyes.. ..-70&10&10 eee .70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Byes............... 70&10&10 LEVELS. dis. | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s : 70 KNoBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings . oe 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings. eee 55 | Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 | Door, porcelvin, trimmings...... nea ee 55 | Drawer and Shutter, porcelain........ . 70 | LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new — Louse 55 | Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s a 55 | Pee ae ........-.... 55 | Norwalk’s oe oe 55 | MATTOCKS, | Ne ead $16.00, dis. 60 | Hunt “yu eee seed ace etc eras 5. 00, dis. 60 | Hunt's. . $18.50, dis. — MAULS. dis. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled.. LS | = ais, | Coffee, Parkers Co. foes 40 | Pr. 8. & W. Nite. Co.'s Malleables.... 40 * Tender, Ferny & Cieik's............ “ Mates =... 25 MOLASSES GATES. dis. Sieur Poller | ss 60&10 OE eee 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 25 N Ss ee 1 80 I EE EEE 2 20 Advance over base: Steel. Wire. 0 Base 10 20 20 30 35 40 50 65 90 1 50 2 00 2 00 90 1 00 1% 1 00 13 1 50 75 90 ' eee 16 1 00 EE ——————— 1s 2 PLANES. dis. One Sec Co.'s, taney ...................... @4) eee EE ee ee @bv Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy.............+..+ @40 momen, Grat Gusitiy.......................... @60 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. &10 PANS. a sAe8... dis.60—10 Comme, Saal oS dis. 70 RIVETS. dis. jon ane Toned... .........-.-.-..-.-.-.- 40 Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘‘A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 = 10 20 “B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 Broken packs ec per pound extra. | ROPES. Greel, 46 teh and larger ................... 7% eee... i... oo ne dis. Steel and Iron..... oo iy and Meovelg..............-..-.. ‘ 60 itre . ' 20 ‘SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. Te ee ee ee a 83 10 Teee beter ........... 04. 05......., Soe 3 20 ee 4 20 3 20 Nos. 22 to 2 4 20 3 30 Nos, 2 . 440 3 40 I 3 50 No 4 60 rit sheets No. 18 and ‘lighter, ‘over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. pi acer 1% oe... dis. 50 SASH CORD. | Silver Lake, Li list 50 ene 55 . White B.. tet eet cca @ 50 . hae... 55 . White C.. Pee ee eee cee 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. | Selid yea... per ton 825 SAWS, dis ' rane ...................,...... “20 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.. 70 ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot... 50 ss — Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 “ Champion and Electric Tooth X Cuts, per foot. cee 30 “TRAPS, ‘dis. Steel, Game. ‘ ' ..60&10 | Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s . na 35 Oneida Comencnity, re & Norton’s.... 70 Mouse, choker. . .18¢ per doz Mouse, delusion. . ‘ 81.50 per doz. “WIRE. dis. eee ee 65 | Annealed Market.. eee ee eee ae eres ce ‘70—10 ‘Coppotos Mrarece.....-.. 60 [waned Maree... 62% | Copperca Spring Steer..............._.. ue 50 Barbed. Fence, galvanized. . painted .. a1 2 HORSE NAILS. AuSable. .......... dis. 25410@25410&05 [rue . e. dis. 05 | eeeeainen.. oe dis. 10&10 | WRENCHES. dis, Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.. bee 30 Coe’s Genuine. en 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, . a 75 Coe’s Patent, malleabl +a, «Oe MISC cosa heneany dis. Bird Cages . os ede wee, 50 Pumps, Cistern.. ee “o Screws, New L CN 70&10 Casters, Beda d Plate.. --5OE10&10 Dampers, American. “ Forks, hoes, rakes and ‘all steel ‘goods. eee: 68 PIG TIN. Pee beree..........................5,....... Bae Pie Dare. ... ...- ee ee see ee a 28e ZINC, Duty: Sheet, 24c ” ee 600 pound Casks...... 1. 6% Per pound.. <- eee se ae 7 " SOLDER. 4@* . as i 16 Extra W iping . a“ 15 The prices of the ‘many ‘other qualities of solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY Ce Ee per pound 16 Hallett’s. 13 “TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal ele $750 14x20 IC te eee ce ee ice 7 50 10x14 1, ag 9 26 14x20 1, " 9 25 Each additional X on this grade, $1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. testi tG@ Charcoal ................. ....... 6 oe 14x20 IC, ~ OS 1oxi4 IX, " bees ee el ee 14x20 I a. 00 Each eaditional X on this grade $1.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, - Wercester.........- 14x20 IX, e ng 6 ven : 8 20x28 IC, . . el 13 50 14x20 IC, i Allaway Grade.... 5 ‘ > 14x20 IX, aa a 25 Mae iC, * . cc fie 12 00 20x281X, ‘ i ee 15 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. Danes Ty ..... $14 00 tana IX... .. ttt 15 14x56 IX, for No. : Bolle TR, ty per pound 10 ao, FT ARDW ARE Fishing AMMUNT! Tackle ION GUNS. 92.98 87,990, 41 Louis Si.,10&12 Monroe St. NS 0: Josette 4 GRAND RAPIDS 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. —— Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, The Tradesman Company, Proprietor. ee Price, One Dollar per year, payable strictly in advance. Advertising Rates made known on apy lication. Publication Office, 100 Louis St Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Oy.ce. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1891. AMERICAN PORK IN GERMANY. As the result of several years’ active agitation on the part of this, country, Germany has at length rescinded the pro- hibition placed upon the importion of American pork. The decree rescinding the prohibition was signed last Thurs- day, and the Secretary of Agriculture received official notice of the action taken on the same day. The official govern- ment journal has published an order to the effect that the prohibition of the im- portation of swine, pork and sausages of American origin shall no longer be en- forced when such hogs or hog products are furnished with official certificates stating that they have been examined in accordance with American regulations and found free from qualities dangerous to health, and instructions have been sent to the proper officials that immedi- ate effect given to the order. The agreement on which this action was based was signed ten or twelve days ago, but the fact was witheld from the public press at the request of the German gov- ernment until official action could be taken by it. The agreement, in addi- tion to securing the admittance of Amer- ican pork into Germany, gives the United States the same schedule with reference to farm products as that enjoyed by Rus- sia. On the other hand, Germany has, by agreeing to rescind the prohibition of our hog products, secured the free ad- mission of its beet sugar after January ist next, a concession which would not other con- be have been granted on any dition. Postmaster General Wanamaker has set on foot an inquiry into the condition of the postoffices of the country, which is to be used as a basis for rating the postmasters, as well as a help towards the improvement of the postal service. He has sent a personally signed letter to the postmaster at each county seat through- out the United States, asking him to make a personal visit to each postoffice in his county, and make a detailed re- port upon its condition. The Postmaster General explains that, without this help from the postmasters, the department cannot make any general examination of the business of offices. Among the| points in reference to which information | is requested, and which are to enter into | the ratings, are the convenience of the location of the office, cleanliness, order, | keeping of accounts, personal attention | of the postmaster, improvements in the | service made during the last year and | growth of the business during the same | time. The postmasters who rate the | highest are to be reported to the Presi- | dent at the end of each fiscal year for | the putting in force of the Postmaster General’s plan. It would become more and more difficult to remove postmasters who are rated as perfect or excellent, or ' what amounts to the same thing, to re- fuse to reappoint them from for purely political reasons. It really "begins to look as ; though all the world was agreed on one thing, and that is that the farmer is coming in first under the wire in the race for prosperity. An article in a recent number of the North American Review prophesies that | an era of great prosperity is about to dawn for the American farmer, and says that all ‘‘the signs are in favor of dollar wheat at the farm, and, if anything, more than that sum; and that while wheat does not comprise the total output of the farmer, the price is the key to the entire agricultural situation.’’ He further says that ‘‘with an ability to buy twice or thrice the quantity of goods hitherto ab- sorbed, with a desire to possess himself of every comfort, and to deny his chil- dren nothing that they need and can en- joy, the absorption of goods will be enormously increased. The excess in production of articles of ne- cessity and luxury, now apparent on every hand, will be absorbed,”’ The man who ‘thinks he i is s going to-re- ceive something for nothing is not a safe leader. with gold and silver after giving every man, woman and child all they can ecar- ry, for the mere asking, it is about time | to shake him and set yourself up for a leader. Last year we paid Canada $8,000,000 for barley. If we would raise more bar- ley and less wheat we should get better prices for wheat and none the less for barley. Monthly Report of the State Salt In- spector. SAGINAW, Sept. 5—The following is the report of salt inspected by M. Casey, State Inspector, during August: Barrels. Manistee county...... ee OE 100,506 cor oes oe... C -o- 00,085 Ot tiie ee eT ee 31,478 Huron county CS Mittens cobs... ee ae "448,953 The report is a very favorable one from the fact that it shows 27,106 more barrels inspected last month than during | the month of July. This increase brings the total inspection for the year up to Sept. 1 ahead of the inspection last year during the same period. During August, 1890, 405,656 barrels were inspected; 1889, 474,040 barrels; and in 1888, 462,516 barrels. The total numbers of barrels inspected during the present year up to Sept. 1 was 2,676,379; during the year 1890, 2,671,961 barrels; 1889, 2,691,768; 1888, 2,671,505 barrels. oe Open to an Offer. MARSHALL, Sept. 5—A delegation of Battle Creek business men was here Wednesday for the purpose of investi- |gating the business of the Page Bros. | Wagon Co., with a view to the removal | of the works to Battle Creek. The own- |ers of the factory feel the necessity | citizens may take the initiative in the matter. —— 9 For the finest coffees in the world, high grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner, 304 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids, manufactured | When he tells you he ean print | paper ‘‘dollars’’ and keep them at par | of | | moving from the present limited quar- | |ters and itis to be hoped that our own | THE RISING STOCK MARKET. How completely the stock-gambling public is denominated by sentiment, and how remotely its conduct is affected by the sober consideration of facts, is shown by the recent rise in the stock market and by the increase of the volume of its transactions. Nothing has come to light which was not known a month ago, and nothing has happened during the inter- val to make any security intrinsically worth a fraction more than it was then, | but the stampede has been started, and men are tumbling over one another to buy things which until it began they would not look at. How long the move- ment will last and how high it will carry prices I do not pretend to foretell. Prob- ably it will continue for weeks, and, perhaps for months, and buyers at pres- | ent will, if they have the nerve to let go |in season, make a profit, but there is no |certainty about the matter one way or the other. As usual, too, when the current of speculation sets the way itis setting now, |it carries with it, sympathetically, many | people who have no pecuniary interest in aiding it, but who feel that they ought to aid it for the public good. The vast majority of men are naturally bulls—that is. their only idea of asuccessful trans- action is to sellathing for more than they pay for it. Hence, a falling mar- ket almost always kills business and a rising market stimulates it, and, as it i seems to be for the common benefit that the market should always rise, every- thing which tends to produce that result is popular, while all which works against it is unpopular. Even warnings of a possible fall are received with disfavor, and those who utter them are suspected of sinister, or, at least, interested motives. The main factor in the prevailing up- ward movement is, of course, our abun- dant crops, and the assurance that we shall sell them at high prices in conse- quence of the failure of the crops in Europe. Added to this are minor ele- ments which in special cases tend to remove apprehension and to inspire con- fidence in the future. The Union Paci- fic Railway Company, for example, has been saved from imminent danger of a receivership, the Sugar Trust is working harmoniously with its rivals, the Lead Trust has been successfully reorganized, and the open bankruptcy of many small- er concerns has been averted by the gen- erous and, at the same time, prudent |\forbearance of their creditors. Every impulse to a downward movement being thus removed, the natural desire of hu- map nature to be active in doing some- thing finds opportunity for gratification only in the other alternative, with the result that we see. An illustration of the way in which the minds even of superior men are affected by a popular craze is found in the pro- posed syndicate of national banks to purchase $5,000,000 or more of the ma- turing Government 414 per cent. bonds, j}extend them at two per cent. and take out circulating notes againstthem. The ‘ensible purpose of the scheme is to aid th. ‘overnment by lending it the prin- cipal {the bonds purchased, and to ac- | comma, > the public with the addi- | tional eur. “cy needed just at this mo- iment toassi: in moving the crops to | market, but 1 con see plainly enough |that its manager: are, perhaps uncon- such honorable mention as he may choose | Mich., general representative for E. J. sciously, more influenced by a desire to to make. One good result should follow | Gillies & Co., New York City. lavert a possible chill which might be thrown upon the growing enthusiasm of buyers either by an unfavorable showing of the national Treasury or by a deple- tion of the bank reserve. As a matter of business in other respects the scheme will not be profitable to the banks which engage in it. This is admitted on all sides. Norwill the assistance rendered to the Government and the accommoda- tion furnished to the people amount to anything worth mentioning. The Secre- tary of the Treasury has publicly de- clared that he has ample means with which to pay off all the bonds which are likely to be presented for payment, and the addition of $5,000,000 or thereabouts to our present stock of currency will be only a drop in the bucket compared with that already in existence, and with the $54,000,000 annually which the act of July, 1890, is adding to it in monthly in- stallments. We have $346,000,000 of old legal tenders, $400,000,000 of silver dol- lars, $60,000,000 of the new bullion notes of July, 1890, which are increasing at the rate of $4,500,000 per month, over $170,000,000 of national bank notes, and an indefinite quantity of gold coin and gold bullion, estimated by the Director of the Mint at $700,000,000, and which can- not be less than $300,000,000, because that amountis in sight in the Treasury and inthe vaults of the national and State banks. The banks which propose to add $5,000,000 to this vast mass may flatter themselves that they are going to do a great thing, but to me they seem like the fly on the cart wheel, boasting of the dust which he kicked up. It will be said, I know, that extraor- dinary emergencies require extraordinary measures, and that the addition of $5,- 000,000 to the country’s currency just now, though a small amount in itself, will be of the greatest service in avert- ing a threatened stringency of money and in facilitating the operations of shippers of grain and cotton. In the first place, an emergency which occurs regularly, year by year, cannot be called extraordinary, and if it is in the province of the national banks to meet it at all, they should do so with the ordinary re- sources at their disposal, and not by a new and special issue of currency. In any event, the relief now proposed will be only temporary. After the new $5,- 000,000 has once gone into circulation it will stay there, and next year there will be a call for another $5,000,000, or even more, to effect the same result over again. Still, like buying stocks for a rise and for the same reason, every device which increases the volume of the currency and thereby raises prices, or, at least, pre- vents them from falling, is popular, while everything which has a contrary tendency is unpopular. Hence I am quite prepared for the success of the $5,000,000 syndicate and for the general praise of those who got it up. They -will be sustained, too, not only by those who wish to see a continued rise in stocks, but by every one in the country who has property to sell and debts to pay. In principle, though not in form, they will bein line with the advocates of the un- limited or, as it is called, the free coin- age of silver. The effect of this measure, it is openly claimed, will be to enable debtors to get higher prices for what they own or what they produce than they get now, and thus to pay debts with less real value than is now required of them. | The proposed addition of $5,000,000 to ii es 5 PR spe q a} se m= THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 the national bank circulation is inspired by a similar idea, though Iam far from intending toimpute to its promoters a conscious dishonesty of purpose. Only, when itis once admitted that the assur- ing of high prices is a legitimate object of Government action, it is impossible to resist unlimited silver. The debasement of the currency, either by diminishing the weight of coin or by diluting it with a flood of paper prom- ises, has been repeatedly proved to be only a delusive remedy for financial strin- gency. It was tried in England by sue- cessive reductions of the weightof the pound sterling in the middle ages, and by the suspension of during the specie payments Napoleonic wars. France went through the experience with John Law’s paper money at the beginning of the last century, and, again with the issue, by the first republic, of the assig- nats, or notes secured by the pledge of We had the lesson with our Continental curreney and with that of the State banks, soon after the close of the Revolutionary In the face of all this, we issued our legal ten- xrovernment bonds. war. ders to provide means for carrying on the war for the Union, rather than raise money by taxation, and we saw them de- preciate to 40 cents of their nominal val- ue. ——__—— Origin of Slang Phrases. The present age has a tendency toward sacrificing elegance for aptness in its daily conversation, and this gives rise to many popular expressions not in ace yrd- ance with the rules or books of the wise men, which are known as slang. The word slang is of obscure origin, probably coming to us from the gypsies. A ‘‘slang- whanger” is a noisy, turbulant fellow whose language is not of the best, and slang itself is generally considered dis- reputable. But there are qualities, classes, distinctions and differences even inslang. There is the low, vulgar slang whose origin is in obscurity and whose use is among the vicious and degraded. Above this is the dictionary slang of known pedigree and traced descent, often classical. ‘‘High-toned’”’? is an expressive term | | Sir Walter Scott. Similar to it are ‘‘up- per ten” and ‘‘upper crust,” meaning the higher class of society, which are said in the dietionary to be American- isms, colloquial and low, the former be- ing contracted from ‘‘upper ten thou- sand,” and the latter carrying with it the suggestive superiority of the fancy top erust of apie. The “brick” is a merry citizen,rarely one of the ‘‘upper ten” and usually a grade or two below the ‘‘upper erust’?? in social standing, but bears his mediocrity lightly and laughs his periors. He isa jolly good never lacks friends. W. first used the word in the sentence, ‘‘He’s a dear little brick.”’ ‘‘A brick im his hat’? is an expression applied to an in- toxicated person, probably from the fact that in this condition his head feels as heavy and useless as a brick would be if worn in the hat. “The dickens!’ does not come from the name of the genial novelist, but is a eontraction of devilkins, diminutive of devil, and therefore a polite Sunday- school sort of a way of saying ‘‘the devil.”? Webster calls it a vulgar inter- jection. ‘To play the devil’? means to interfere in a ruinous way or to imitate the evil one, and this expression is given in solemn seriousness by the staid old dictionary without any signs of disappro- bation, from which it may be concluded it is good English, although it would not add to the elegance of the drawing-room eonversation. John Russell Bartlett, in his dictiona- ry of Americanisms, is authority for the statement that ‘ton his own hook” means by himself or on his own responsibility, and John Milton, stately and ponderous, is accused of having originated the phrase, ‘‘by hook or crook,” which means in any way or by any method, and it is in this way that Americans are accused of obtaining the‘talmighty dollar,’’ this last being an expression fathered by Wash- ington Irving, which is so apt that it has had large use. The modern use of the word ‘‘rats” as an interjection, can hardly be explained. Sometimes it expresses ineredulousness and is uttered disdainfully just after the climax of an exaggerated statement. Some times it is used to express disgust, and if rightly pronounced is effective. Its use as a noun has a place in the dicionary of slang as one who deserts his party or associates; among printers one who works at less than established rates. Lord Stanhope, also known as Lord Ma- hon, an English statesman and historian, who died in 1875, gives this interesting history concerning it: ‘It chanced that not long after the accession of the house of Hanover, some of the brown, Ger- man or Norway rats, were first brought over to this country (in some timber it is said); and being much stronger than the black, or till then the common rat, they in many places quite exterminated the latter. The word (both the noun and the verb to rat) was first, as we have seen, leveled at the converts to the gov- ernment of George the First, but has by degrees obtained a wider meaning and come to be applied to any sudden and mercenary change in politics.” In the book of Job, the eldest litera- ture extant, and, according to John J. Ingalls;‘the highest production of human intellect,” appears the sentence ‘i am escaped with the skin of my teeth” and gives the idea of a narrow escape, one so no microscopist has yet been able to find lit. ‘To cast in the teeth” | throw defiant reproaches or insults spite- fully, as one would exposed teeth of a snarling dog. ‘Tooth land nail’? denotes the manner of an act- | ion full of frenzied fury, typified by bit- | | ing and seratching, as when two beliger- ent cats make the fur fly. ‘ i“ i lp | P. Steketee & Son’s traveling men will ibe in the city fair week to attend to the} | wants of the outside trade. —_____—-> -?<.—___-—- Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. which precise people generally Pr { around. It means ‘‘nobly elevated,” es- | pecially in character, and was coined by | cherry way through the world, often en- joying more than his stiff-starehed su- | fellow and} M. Thackery | close as to be just by the thickness of the | skin on the teeth, which is so thin that | means to} walk | THE WESTERN MICHIGAN Aorictltiral & Industrial Soct | Announce that the twelfth and greatest of their successful Fair Exhibitions will be | held on their new and inviting grounds, north of the city, on September 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 1891. Everything New, Convenient and Attractive. | The Largest and Handsomest 3 Buildings for Fair Purposes in any State. All easy of access; all near each other. Our main exhibition building containing over 50,000 feet of floor space, covering all exhibits but stock, is an attraction in well light that dayl buildings are itself, being so every Visitor may see all Our stock the most perfect for their purposes, all supplied with the purest spring water. Every building Our Grand Stand, 300 feet in length, seated with ehairs, ill ‘rur race ght can reveal. has a good floor. will satisfy its patrons. track, like our grounds and buildings eall forth universal commendation from every Visitor. EXHIBITION RUILDING. $20,000 Offered in Premidms Great races on Tuesday. On Wednesday ‘“‘NELSON,” the fastest stallion in the world, will trot on our superb track to lower his record of 2:10%. On Thursday great horse and bicycle races. Other grand races and attractions on Friday Come to our Fair, rain or shine. Our grand exhibition Building is only 42) feet from railroad station. Our well roofed and floored buildings will protect 20,000 people from storm. Plank walk between buildings. .#* Half rates on all railroads. The G. R. & I, and C. & W. M, the G. R. & M. and the Grand Rapids & Saginaw railroads have a station opposite our entrance gate where during the week of the fair all passenger trains will stop. Cheap, frequent and rapid transit by three different lines of railroad between these fair grounds and the city. If you have any thing to exhibit, apply to Z. V. CHENEY, Secretary, under Fourth National Bank. 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. SUILITINGS. 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 cater for all classes. Our Prince Alberts have got a world fame popularity and our line of pants is most attractive. a William Connor, for nine years our representative In Michigan, will be at Sweet’s Hotel in Grand Rapids on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 17 and 18, and will be pleased to show our line. Expenses paid for customers meeting him ithere, or he will wait upon you if you drop him a line to his address at Marshall, Mich., or we will send samples. east a stone at the| | MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Clothiers, Rochester, N. Y. | | 4 l | attention to his nice line of William Connor also calls | Boys’ and Children’s Clothing of every description for fall and i winter trade. | a THE What Our Customers Say. Jas. G.J JoHNson, OisPensinc Dauaaist MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 16, é nena Sb. Walt. | Orugs and Medicines, vow | DPiOMCeE + Drug + Store, y / : —_. agai “Lo r ( i Ie2 a Bras Cw penn Vofoas Ateerk COED te-< : ee Medaie Cely Mork Ame. fc, 18691 Hazeltis Z i Druze Co., Grand Rapids. Gentl n-- 1 am.weil satisfied with the manner in hi shi ° agrugs are made by your house. 328 A a Dill Of Grups in Traverse City, by Pight in t y r hours from the time of the Ri Lit oO ord21 hich shows that an order does not rest until art L 200 are up and shipped. L\ltoge your house 1S a good place to order P. H. HOONAN, Drugs and Medicines — = oa Vi te ol gt, Se PG Na sedtinn 7 an Ee 2 E& os Le. og J bs Mtiey FH Abi, Pater Slt yi 7. comin ef Be wa ad la , Poe i ome J eget l_ aed agouti? i. acc et a 3 os ap ZZ. oP - Lv22 ee >, — — Foe > 2. 6a. hans # eleints na ai (24 ae as Ahir & &f Gov cla ae he Leas tik Zs orn sas oo a. Comment is Unnecessary. Anna ie ch ling fea eran ony ane feo op agg 7 i ¥ pgeee Gen een, a aga Fe Dawe Pri ttce se ae oe > fom eZ ree deere Cte on — j- f en ler , ars pe OS Lone > oe 2 ee / ra V9 eo Pr ad Yok. | Cot tt lt722.¢-fe Cree cow sisal Totx rn at ate «2 x eLCs Cro 22 ee Mee . .. Sf ail ae hetbin "ZI ePe-PFteYPrramcccn. ce few ae os ie oa ay Ze | i. te Free A 0 ‘i Alles t ee BAe Peet | Grek tha Cue ak Ge es we deren orm SS fe ae 2 Mets 42-4 a i ee ae fasts ae fey, Hare ‘4 ge AS? 7208 lia SENTRAL PRUG STORE. Patent Medicines, Books, Stationery, Wall Paper, Paints, Olls, Etc. =tGEO D LUNN. “The Druggist ALSO DEALER IN CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS. Prop'r @ Gdmote i Muck Aug. 127, 169%. To the drug trade and others, I would say I have traded with the Hazeltine & Perkins Drue Co. for-the past five years and have ai-— ways had my orders filled very promptly and only with the best dr and I believe them to be filled as “oC 4 Uo near complete as they could have been by any drug house in the State. I have received only the best treatment from them, always finding then willing to oblige and accomodate in many ways. I have always found their prices as low as any, and believe them to be a wide awake firm ready to look after the interest of their customers, and I : think that any hou:e that employes representatives like Mr L. M. Mills, are among the best and could re | ceive no better praise. Truly yours, J PRETO Sipe « ¢ q CEB. NEE Oe RaeaeecmpeneesEE S THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 11 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Po. jalap, turpentine. Declined—Acid citric, long buchu, oil pennyroyol, celery seed, lycopodium. ACIDUM. Acoticum ...... ...... 8@ 10 Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 ee SR: 20 Carpélicum ........... 2B % Oe a 50@ 55 Packie ........... me & Nitrocum 0@ 12 Oxalicum ........-..... 1i@ 138 Phosphorium dil...... . 20 Salicylicum . teueo ek SOs Sulphuricum. . : 1%@ 5 Teamneem.........-... 4 40@1 60 ‘Tartericium..........-. 40@ 42 AMMONTA. ages, s aoe... ...... 34@ 5 20 deg.. - 54@ 7 Caspones ............- 12@ 14 Chsoraam ............ 12@ 14 ANILINE. Black .2 0O@2 25 eee 80@1 00 Red.. 45@_ 5 , SERRE 2 50@3 00 BACCAE. Cubeae (po. - 90@1 10 Juniperus . ae. 10 Xant oxylum .. 23@ 30 BALSAMUM, Copaiba ........-- 55@ 60 a @1 50 Terabin, —— bee os 35@ 40 Oe 50 CORTEX. Abies, Canadian 18 ee 11 Cinchona Flava ..... or. ae Euonymus atropurp........ 30 Myrica Cerifera, ».. ueeyeae 20 Prunus Virgini.. = Quillaia, grd.............-.- 14 Seeeeree ............------- 14 Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10 EXTRACTUM Glycy. rrhiza ge AG wb | 33@ 35 Haematox, in tb. ‘pox.. 11@ 12 12 ..c...... 13¢ 7 . ee eee 1 5 ss in a 16@ 17 FERRUM. Carbonate Precip..... @ 15 Citrate and Quinie... @3 50 Citrate Soluble....... @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.. > 50 Solat Ulioride........ 15 Sulphate, ig ee Ke 2 pure......- eo 7 FLORA. aie... eee . Io 20} Ao .....-.-.- Gi 2 Mairicaia —sét:- ss 25@ 30 FOLIA Barosm: 50 Cassia ‘Acutifol, “Pin- i niveny .-...- : 25@ 28 ' " Alx, 35@ 50 Salvia officinalis, 44s eee ee 12@ 15 Ura oe... .... 8@ 10 @UMMI. Acacia, ist picked... @ 2% “ec 2a sé @ 65 . 3d ees @ 50 . sifted sorts. . @ 3 6s pe... .. ss. 60@_5380 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60) . 50@ 60 * Cape, (pe. 2). @ iz ss §=6Socotri, (po. 60) . @ 5 Catechu, 1s, (Ks, 14 “a8, ee @ 1 Ammonias ............ 30@ 35 ‘Ausafostida, (po. 30)... @ ® Densomniwm..........-- HQ 55 Camphors...... ae 52@ 55 Euphorbium po ...... 33@ 10 Cerpentm. ......... @3 00 Gamboge, po..... .-- 8@ % Guaiacum, (po 30) _ @ 5 Dine, (66, 2) .....-..- @ Ww Mastic . ee. @ Myrrh, (po. 45 @ 40 Ont, (po. ¢ 5) ....... 2 10@2 20 Beers .. cer ts a " bleached. 28 33 Tragecenth ........... D@ % HERBA—In ounce packages. Aveenthtom .....-..-.:.-..-. gee pa iaa at ee Lobelia. . Let ei uae 25 Majorum.. aos Mentha Piperita.. Cegcueeuca: ae Vir Detas tae a. Sige eres cect ce ae Tanacetum, A A ea 22 Trym, F-....:....-... . = MAGNESIA. Catcined, Pat.......... 55@ «60 Carbonate, Pat.....:.. 20@ 22 Carbonate, K.& M.... 2@ 2 Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36 OLEUM. Areinthtem . ......... 50@4 00 Amygdalae, Dulc... .. 45@ 75 Amydalae, Amarae.. — 00@8 25 Ree... 2 00@2 = Auranti Cortex....... 3 60@3 7: PE ci eciens 3 75@4 00 pi a saaeneissceite i oon = SePeOWETE oe Q RN ee etie sacs ess 35@ 65 Chenopodii . vas @2 00 Cinnamonii ..........-1 15@1 = CE ice cscs @ 35Q Contam Biao.......:.. RO. ooe ess css. 1-20@1 30 Cunebad......... ast ole Rxechthitos.......... 2 50@2 75 Mereeren .........,.,.. 2 50@2 75 Geurtheria ........2... 2 00@2 10 Geranium, ounce. @ 7% Gossipli, Sem. gal. ee 0@ 7 Hedeoma ..... .-.--1 0@1 50 Juniperi.. seeeees Oo Eavendula 0000000.) 0! 90@2 00 Limonis . Lsaescepe OO OO Mentha Piper.. ce+ +e et cee Gee OO Mentha Verid. 2 20@2 30 Morrhuae, gal. i e. 1 00@1 10 oo ounce. ro @ 50 ive 85@2 75 Picis : Liaiiida, ec ”, 10@ 12 Ricix ..-1 04@1 20 oe a 75@1 00 Rosac, cunce.......... @6 50 PACE eee ee 0@ 45 BAane ................. Geer OO a 3 50Q@7 00 Sassafras. ... . 2 & Sinapis, ess, ounce.... @ 65 pa a ie eS — @1 00 Thyme .. ee eke 40@ 50 ve ont. @ 60 Theobromas.. 15@ Ww POTASSIUM. c...........,..-.,. 15@ 18 Pacnromase ........... 13@ 14 Bromide 28@ 30 OED... oc. eo 12@ 15 Chlorate, (po. 16)...... 144@ 16 yee 2.4... 50@ 55 FOGNIG. ...........-0... 2 80@2 90 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 28@ 30 Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15 Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 Pot Niges.......... 9 ............. ee & Sulphate po...... 15@ 18 RADIX. Aconitum 1. a oS Ales. .............. aoe oe os ............. 122@ 15 Arum, oe... @ % Calamus. . . ae Gentiana, (po. 18), oo 10@ 12 Glychrrhiza, (oy. 15).. 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden, i et )... io @ 35 Hellebore, Ala, Po. 15@ 2 Inula, po.. i... or Ipecac, po... eee, ooo Iris plox (po. 35@38) - RG@ 35 Jalna, pel... 45@ 50 Maranta, \s.. ieee @ 35 Fodophyllum, ee 15@ 18 Bee... tenes TO “ o @1 7 cee cca ec way T5Q@I1 35 spigelia oo. 48@ 53 femamadia. (po 25) . @ Ww Berpenkerem............ 30@ 35 Senega ee eee 40@ 45 similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 M @ Ww Retiiag, (p60, H)........ 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feeti- dus, po.. a S&S Valeriana, ‘Eng. ‘(pot 30) @ % German... 15@ 20 inetbers............. 1 Zingiber j...... 22@ 25 SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20) @ 15 —-, (grav eleons) . 20@Q 22 Bee ee. C 6 aa oe. 18) @ 12 Cardamon.. -----) Ol Be aon.........-. ae & Cannabis Sativa....... 41@4% Crdontam.... ......... 7G @ Chenopodium ....... 10@ 2 Dipterix Odorate..... "2 00@2 25 Foeniculum. . oe @ 15 ee po. aa _ os & sik yeas be 4 @ 4 Lint, grd, (bbl. 3%)...4 @4% Lobelia... . wea @ Pharlaris Canarian... 34@ 4% Wee see ee a 7 Sinapis, Albu 8 9 “ ae. 11@ 12 SPIRITUB. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 . D.F.8.....1 See @ " keecceacers+8 Une Of Juniperis Co. O. T....1 75@1 7 a ° Ktrecces (EEO Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 1 5 aoe. Vint Galll........ Vint Oporto .......-.-. 1 25@2 00 oS ae 1 25@2 00 SPONGES, Florida ene wool | carriage... 2 2@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ “wool carriage 2 00 Velvet extra ‘sheeps” wool carriage.. 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ Carriage ........---.- 85 Grass een wool car- po ee Te Ae 65 See for slate use. 7 Yellow Reef, for slate OG ie, 1 40 SYRUPS. OO See 50 eee .....4.,-.-,..5.., 50 ee 60 Ferri Iod.. “ 50 Auranti Cortes. 50 ee OS cee ee ee 50 Similax ‘Officials i 60 Co. ..... 50 caine seen pene 50 Pea ia cakicee 50 Oe iesceciacvebees Oe AI ihe ihe boda co uee 50 PVORES Cie... ce. . en ook 50 TINCTURES, Aconitum Napellis > ne 60 oo! 50 ie ee es 60 © and weyrm............ 60 Foo eee 50 Beetoniag..........-...-.... 0 Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 Remsen. 60 oo ee, 50 Peeaen .............. Se eros... 50 Cunsheriges................, Be — oe... 50 Cu damon.. a 6 %5 eee 100 Copeent. 50 Cecpene ................... 50 “ co..............),. ae COrGniOm ............ 1... 50 Cee 56 Caeea... 8 ae Digitalis Dee ee ole cele. 50 (a 50 > Sac aeaey Soeete, On . .................. 60 Co 50 . ao ............., 60 eo a 50 Pyosovaingn .... 8... 50 fodine...... —_ _ Coleriaga 7 Werrl Ciloridum............ 35 noe... 50 Eeoeus...................... 50 Peete. 50 mum Vousca........ 1... :.. 50 pet ................. ae. c 2 ses aga eed 50 eee. s 2 00 AureniCortex...... ....... ee 50 — Wie pees tee asc pes 50 Rhei 50 Cassia Acutifol 50 Ca 50 PerpcmrOren ........ 5... 50 Stromonium.... . 60 Tolutan . .. 60 Valves 50 Veratrum Veride............ 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Aither, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 28 : ° "4? . we ss Pe 24@ 3 ° ome (po. 7 ......., ee Annatto Antinoni, po. — & et Potass 7 T. 55@ 60 Antipyrin........ @1 40 MIPOOEIA, .....,....0. @ 2 Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 68 mreomictim............ oe 6C7 Balm Gilead Bud..... 38Q 40 Bismuth S. N.. -2 10@2 20 Calcium Chior, 18, "(4s rt Mn. ie).......... Cc mudaetaes Russian, a... ......... @1 2 Capsici Fructus, .. @ 2 --- @ % “ee “a po @ 20 Caryophyllus, (po. 15) 12@ 13 Carmine, No. @....... @3 75 Cera Atha, §. & F..... 50@ 55 (on Fieve............ 38@ 40 Coes. @ 4 Cassia Fructus.... @ 20 Cenrare.......- @ 10 Cetaceum . ie @ # Chloroform ... 60@ = ° i bbs . @i 2 Chioral ig 2m... .. 4 50@1 70 Chondru 25 Cinchonidine, Paw 15@ 2 German 34%@ 12 Corks, list, dis. per or 60 Creasotum . wees @ 50 Creta, (bbl. 5). eae eo 2 [eee..........,.. 5@ 5 . Poa. ........- 9@ 11 r SS @ & Crocus .... 28@ 30 Cudbear.. @ % Cupri Sulph .. ons 5@ Co 10@ 12 Ether Sulph.. 68@ 70 mets - numbers. @ @ 3 an, wa Seeds 50@ 55 ee ora 12@ 15 Galle. @ B er 7 @8 Gelatin, Cooper....... 70 oa 60 Glassware flint, 70 and 10 by box 60and 10 Giae, Hown.......... Se = wree........... 183@ 25 Giycernae ............. 17 @ BS Grana Paradial........ @ BR ee 25@ 55 Hydraag Chior Mite.. @ 2% Cor @ 80 ial Ox Rubrum @1 (0 “ Ammoniati.. @1 10 " Unguentum. 4E@ 55 Mydravayvrum ......... @ 70 Tchthyobolla, Am.. ..1 25@1 50 Taegieo. .. ...... 75@1 00 Iodine, Resubl........ 3 TE@3 85 Poagorormna. ots... @4 70 BE cee cea n aes 33@ 40 Lycopodiagm .......... 40@ 45 MN i ys en oees 85 Liquor — et Hy- Wee TOR. a soso se 27 ieee Potans Arsinitis 10@ 12 — Sulph (bbl OM ree cece sees sense 2@ 3 Manns, 5.7 ....---.. 50@ 60 Morphia, S. P. & W...1 95@2 20 | Seidlitz Mixture.. @ 2%] Lindseed, boiled .... 43 46 a ” — : oe @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter : Ge... 8... oer mt 6 Uo... @ 30 strained . - & 60 Moschus Canton...... 40 | Snuff, ¥ lace. De Spirits Turpentine... 42 46 ae Bat... 7@ % Voce @ 5| Nux Vomiea, (po 20)... @ 10] Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 25 PAINTS. bbl. Ib, Ce. German... 23@ 28} Soda Boras, (po. 12 11@ 12] Red Venetian. -+--1% 2@3 _— Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart 30@ 33 | Ochre, yellow Mars 1% 2@4 @2 00 | Soda Carb.. 14@ 2 4 «| Ber 1% 2@3 Soda, Bi- Carb. , 5| Putty, commercial 24 24443 Ge @ | Soda, Ash............. 3% ‘| strictly pure 24% 24@3 Picts Liq., quarts @1 00 | Soda, Sulphag......... @ 2\| Vermilion Prime Amer- ai ....... @ 85 | Spts. Ether Co...... eG S| tan..... . 13@,16 Pil Hydrarg, (po. = @ 3: “~ Myrcia Dom..... @2 25 | V' ermilion, English. TOQI5 Piper Nigra, (po. 2% @ 1 “ Myreia imp... .. @3 00 | Green, Pe ninsular oe THOTS Piper Alba, a 85). @ 3 * Vini Rect. bbl | ead, red... ... ---.. 0 Gis Pix Burgun.. co. a TT 225 .. 2 31@2 41 | Whe... 1... 2 ga | Pipi Aget |... 14@ 15 tan Be gal., cash ten days. | Whiting, white Span. @i0 Pulvis Ipecac et opli..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal... @1 30| Whiting, Gilders’..... @% Pyrethrum, boxes Sulphur, Sat... 8 a4 | White, Paris American 16 a ©. Co. dos... ... @1 25 Roll 2u@Q 3%| Whiting, Paris Eng. Pyrethrum, pv........ 30@ 35] Tamarinds .. oo 8S@ 10| _ cliff 1 40 Quassiae .............. 8@ 10|Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30/| Pioneer Prepared Paint! 20@1 4 Quinia, S.P.&W..... 31@ 36) Theobromae .......... 45@ 56) Swiss Villa Prepared S. German....20 @ 3] Vanilla... .... 9O0@iI6 0); Fale... . ... |. 1 00@1 20 Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14! Zinei Sulph. | 2&8 VARNISHES Saccharum Lactis pv. @ % N ' ‘ Ce | No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 OOGl. 1 80@1 35 OILS. | iixtra Tors........... 166g) 7 Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gat | Coach Body ...2 T3@3 00 Bemtomme <............. 4 50! Whale, winter.... 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn ..1 00@1 10 Sapo, = ........ ie Miler exts........... 55 60 | Eutra Turk Damar 1 55@Q1 60 : a... 10@ 12] Lard, No. 1... : 45 56 | Japan Dryer, No. 1 ec... @ 15} Linseed, pure raw 40 3 | Turp. ' 70@ 76 | Get What You Ask For! -9«HINKLEYS BONE LINIMENT-- FOR THIRTY-FOUR Y EARS THE FAVORITE. Enclosed in White Wrappers and made by D. F. FOSTER, Saginaw, Mich. Drugs #8 Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy, One Year—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit. Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Meetings for 1891—Lansing, Nov. 4. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw. Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prese ott, Ann Arbor. Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit. Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, Oct. 20, 21 and 22, 1891. Grand Rapids Pharmaceuticai Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott, Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March June, September and December, Grand Ra eptte Drug Clerks’ Seeesietion. resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. President, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P..Rheinfrank. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association, President N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.' THE COMING CONVENTION. The Dates Selected for the Ann Arbor Meeting. CHEBOYGAN, Sept. 2—The ninth annual meeting of our Association will be held at Ann Arbor, Oct. 20th, 21st and 22th. The program has not been arranged yet, but the Local Secretary, Mr. Brown,is in correspondence with the Executive Com- mittee regarding it. I imclose a letter from Mr. Haynes, which will tell you what the railways will do. Please say that notices of dues have been sent to each member, and urge a prompt re- sponse. I would like if anyone knows of any deaths among the members of the Association to report the same to me. Mr. L. Pauly, St. Ignace, chairman of the Executive Committee, would be glad to receive any suggestions regarding pro- gram, etc. I think the Ann Arborites are going to make it very interesting for us and will deserve a large attendance. Mr. John J. Dooley, who is making his annual tour of this State for H. E. Buck- lin & Co., is authorized to collect and receipt for dues. I have had it in mind to write THE TRADESMAN for some time, but have been so busy with store and Association work I have had no time. I thank you for your kind offer and will try to ‘‘keep matters warm’ through its columns. I hope we shall see you at Ann Arbor, having missed your familiar countenance at the last two meetings. Will keep you posted regarding matters, realizing that Tue TRADESMAN reaches more of ‘‘our people,” and thatevery week, than any other medium. C. A. BUGBEE, Sec’y. The communication from Mr. Haynes, to which Secretary Bugbee refers, is as follows: Derrorr, Aug. 26—Your esteemed fa- vor of the 25th was duly received: and, replying, would’ say that [have been com- municating with the Secretary of the Railway Association of Michigan, and quote his reply as follows: “In reply to your favor of the 24th inst., with reference to reduced rates for the State Pharmaceutical Association, to be held in Ann Arbor in October, I have to advise that the following rates will be granted: For parties of ten or more, and less than fifty, originating at the same point, and ticketed to the same destina- tion, two cents per mile in each diree- tion for the round trip. For parties of fifty or more, under the same conditions, one and one-half cents per mile or one fare for the round trip. Tickets good going only on date of sale and return within five days. Also one way party rates of two cents per mile per capita for parties of ten or more traveling together on the same ticket, good going on the date of sale.’’ Trusting that this information § will serve you, with kind regards, I beg to re- main, Very truly yours, D. O. HAYNES. ll it Perfumery Manufacture for Women. From the Boston Herald. A practical chemist says the last twelve montis he has taught perfumery-making to several women, some of whom learn it only for amuse- ment while others mean toapply it tothe purpose of money-making. Women, he says, are becoming much interested in this subject, and are better equipped in every respect than men to make success- ful perfumers. One of the most impor- tant requisites isa nice sense of smell which is possessed by the majority of women, as their olfactories have not been dulled by smoking. Women, as a rule, love flowers, and are fitted for the deli- eate manipulations required in the work, five-sixteenths of a drop too much or too little often materially changing the odor. The field is a wide one, for pure cooking extracts are difficult to obtain, and the making of them also offers a chance for the enterprising woman. A _ point on which the chemist dwells particularly is that the work can be carried on in a par- lor as easily as in alaboratory, as it re- quires little space and is exquisitely clean. that within ——~<-9 —< The Drug Market. Gum opium is firm at the recent ad- vanee. Morphia is unchanged. Quinine is dull, but unchanged. A reaction is looked for soon. Bromide potash is tending lower. Acid citric lower. Long buchu leaves are lower. Lycopo- dium has declined. Oil pennyroyal is is lower. Powdered jalop root has ad- vaneed. Celery seed is easier. Turpen- tine is higher. 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADE SMAWN. GROCERIES. Care in the Handling of Eggs. From the Merchants’ Review. We have good reasons to believe that the egg trade of a great many retail grocers in the cities is about ona par with their sugar department, so far as profit is concerned, the small margin be- tween the cost and selling price barely paying for the trouble of handling the staple. There something decidedly *‘rotten in Denmark’’ when retail profits on an article or series of articles have sunk so low that their sale is unremun- erative and persisted in only because it is a convenience to customers. In this case, we believe the usual explanation will hold good, i. e., that quality has been sacrificed for some reason, proba- bly in an effort to catch trade by holding out low prices as an inducement. We think this is a serious mistake with any food product like eggs and butter, which, if not good, must be actually worthless. is There are many descriptions of groceries | cover a wide | which, range, in point of quality, yet the most inferior grades pos- sess their merits and a positive intrinsic | different with A an abomination, is vaine. it stale egg is eggs. laid and the grade below which no pru- dent, experienced retailer cares to pass in selecting eggs. We believe it will} pay grocers to give special attention to} +h the quality of and to take pains to secure a grade that will invariably give satisfaction, though the price has to be marked up eorrespondingly. In other words, we be- lieve that fine eggs at a good profit will sell more freely than poor irregular stock at just about cost. The neglect “candle” eges often leads to a custom. A bad one will be found occasionally in packages of or to loss of really good stock, and, if left with the rest, may disgust a good customer and provoke her to the point of transferring | ‘“Candling”’ | her trade to another store. takes time and is perhaps unnecessary when absolutely fresh eggs are pro- |} cured from a quarter beyond suspicion, but when the quality of an invoice is in the least doubtful, it should be rigorous- ly practiced, and the stale eggs removed. 2 <- Try It on the Other Foot. ‘“‘There are few people who know how | ” to try on a shoe, known salesman, ‘‘for, they almost invariably shoe. Now this is exactly wrong, if a good fit is desired, for the left foot is nearly always the larger—that is, wider. This is true of both women and men. remarked a well- if you will notice, try on Here, for instance, is a pair of shoes on} which I have just moved the buttons up to give a greater width. The buttons on the left shoe, you notice, are moved up about twice as much as those on the right. This difference in the size of the feet is due, in my opinion, to the gener- al habit of bearing nearly the whole weight of the body on one foot. If you have to stand a good deal you will be quite sure to throw the weight of your | body on the left foot, and if you lean up | against anything you will almost invaria- bly rest your weight on the left foot. This presses down the foot and naturally | widens it, so in trying on shoes always try on the left foot for an easy fit.’’ i 2 -— Paul, John Ferguson, grocer at 133 South | Division street, recently entertained his | eustomers with the antics of alive mouse which became entangled in the drips un- | der his molasses barrel. mal lived in the sweetness several days, being unable to extricate himself. and there is | but little leeway between the finest fresh- | the eggs which they handle, | even | the right | growers | refrigerator cars. | The little ani- | Status of the Peddling Law. LAMONT, Sept. 5—Your paper has con- tained many items of interest to me and I must say it is a welcome caller, but we have thus far failed to see one thing dis- cussed, which would be of interest to me and also our fellow merchants, that is, in regard to the peddler and huckster. We find that there is a law on the statute books of this great State which says that a peddler or huckster shall have a license, but we also find the ped- dler defies that law and says he doesn’t need any license, as the law has been repealed. Now, Mr. Editor, will you kindly en- lighten usin regard to this matter and tell us through your valuable paper how this matter stands? Yours truly, JOHN GUNSTRA. The law providing that peddlers shall pay a license fee has not been repealed, nor is it likely to be; but it is nearly ob- solete, owing to the laxity of its enforce- |ment. As the law now stands, no officer specially charged with its enforcement | is provided for, so that persons violating the law are practically unmolested. Tur TRADESMAN has never known prosecut- ing attorneys to refuse to issue warrants |for offenders against the law when the proper complaints were filed, and herein lies the value of the statute. Merchants whose undermined by un- should not be back- ward in swearing out complaints against | the offenders, to the end that legitimate business may be protected and justice dealt out to law-breakers. Many mer- chants shirk this duty, for fear of mak- ing enemies, but it is a duty they owe themselves and their brother traders, and if the reputable business men of the le : 3 : i;State would join hands in a crusade against the tramp merchants who throng ; the highways of both city and country, they would be able to relieve themselves business is licensed hawkers of most of the incubus of illegitimate |}ecompetition which they are now com- | pelled to endure. | OO The Scientific American gives the fol- lowing recipe for taking grease out of | white marble: Apply a little pile of | whiting or fuller’s earth saturated with benzine, and allow it to stand some time. | Or apply a mixture of two parts washing soda, one part pumice stone and one part chalk, all first finely powdered and made into a paste with water; rub well over the marble, and finally wash off with | soap and water. ‘Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS, fie. Oe... ee iao.1 * oe a 50 _. ee 75 eee... 5 LAMP CHIMNEY8.—Per box. | 6 doz. in box _ : Sun en | No. : e | First quality. | He. . Sun, crimp top.. No.2 ee ee ee i: XXX Flint. No.1 0 Sun, crimp top Le eee eke No. 2 . we Pe ase eect ac oe Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, "wrapped and labeled.............. 37 ae lhl LCL ae 47 | No. 2 Hinge, “ > a ne 4 7 | La Bastic. _ 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. 12 eee 1 50 No. i crimp, per ee i se 1 3 al ec, 1 60 FRUIT JARS. | Mason’ sor Lightning. DI se ees ee eee . 0 | or ea beeen a eee 11 00 alf gallons.. Sid Ce ctueep cee cae ce 14 00 ee 50 I cs es a ce ace ee eee 4 00 STONEWARE—AERON. Butter Crocks, 1 ~— 2 -. peak eee cea cee 06 3 to6 gal.. : 06% | Jugs, Fe gal., per doz ‘otiee os 75 Se eA ae Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed =o ee “ “ 1 oe “se ( “ce 90c cee 72 PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Fancy eating command 75@95c bu. Cooking are held at 50@60. Beans—Dry beans are firm and in strong de- mand at $2 per bu. for choice hand picked. per g4Butter—Choice dairy now commands 18@19¢, | while factory creamery has advanced to 23c. Celery—20c per doz. bunches. Cabbages—35@40c per doz. Corn—Green, 6@8c per doz. Cucumbers—10¢ y@15e per doz. Eggs—Dealers pay at 15¢c.@16c, Grapes—Concord and Worden’s command 4c per lb. Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb. Onions—%5c per bu. for good stock. Muskmelons—50c @ #1 per doz., according to quality and size. Peaches—Early Crawfords are about played out. Barnards and Chilis command 81.25 @#1.50, and = Crawfords are in good demand at $1 50 @%1.75. Lake Crawfords will not be in for a w eek or ten days yet. Pears—Bartlett and Flemish Beauties are in good demand at $1.50 $1.75 per bu.: common grades command #1 upwards. Plums — Lombards command $2.25@$2.50 per bushel. Potatoes—Little doing at about 40@45e per bu. Tomatoes—The market varies, according to the quantity brought in, ranging from 5uc@90 per bu. Watermelons—The cold weather has curtailed the sale to such an extent that the market is glutted, prices having declined to 10c@12c. POULTRY. Local dealers pay as follows for dressed fowls: Garis Gheekern. (oo... occ... Pall Cees. ee, @10 ce — @it ree OR @13 eee 10 @il eee @ PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co, quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Mess, new. nus Short cut . 12 50 Extra clear pig, ‘short ‘cut. ecules ae Werre Creer, Boery......... 3... Oe Oe 13 7% Boston clear, short cut.. 14 00 Chea DOK, SOIL OME... oc... ct. 14 00 Standard clear, short cut, best... 14 00 SAUsAGE—Fresh and Smoked. OO EE 7 es... MS I ivi pec de cet ees cerns. 9 ee a Blood Sausage. Se Bologna, straight.. oS 5 Bologna, thick...... 5 Head Cheese..... 5 LARD—Kettle Rendered. ee Zee... -...-.-.- Phe e abe se .- re Fee LARD. ‘Com- Family pound, Tierces a 6 Oand 50 lb. Tubs............... 6% 6% Sib. Palle, Dina casé..........7%% 7 S Ib. Pala, 12 in a Case....... a 4 7% 20 Ib. Patie, 6 in & Caee.,......... 7% 6 20 ib. Palis,4in @ case..........7 6 i), Cans......... - -6% 6% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs....... is 7 BO xtra Moss, Chicago packing..............-. 7 50 Bomelem, rie bute... .2............... 10 50 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average eee 93% 16 Ibs. ee elke eee aa ae 10% - ™ wistine 10% 0 ie : ' NO 9% eee... oe ceased ae Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 9% Dede beer, Bae pirom.............,-......... 10 ee i cee a ec 7% i it light eee FRESH M EATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, OOP 6 4%@ 6 Pe PIERS, 60. ee Be « tee * ce 3%@ 4 - iotus, Ho. 3... petecicee up @ °% - Mes od ee eeled ccs vienipeage es T%@ 8 e ronnds...... Pee ee pees ae ea? ' songees........ ee a @ nine. bee tay Boe ee ade ee @ ee ee eae @10% ‘* shoulders oa @7 Bameees Sera thee ................ @5 eee eb ieee @>b a hee, @7% Mutton ......7.. ee Le WE oct soe ye ee eben cow ea 6%@ 7 FISH and OYSTERS. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. Whitefish. . @8 Ee ee @8 Halibut... @15 WS es se a @ 5 oe Ci @ 9 Bluefish. . ook tae a ee @10 re at @25 ecg cea ee @12 California salmon...... 3 Qw overmns—Cans. Waireaven Counw...........1.,.. wo, Pe, Cees ee @35 OE ie etek ce caie. oe @30 ee ee tes eine p ey cee as @30 ike oc ok cece cee bik cuales @25 oc i ie eee Ce ee ee as i. is SHELL GOODS. 18 sters, POT 100.... 20. eee eeeeeee erties Clams, Va cep Ace op ws goa a Wigs aa 1 00 14ec and freight, holding | CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS, The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Full Weight. Bblis. Pails. ees, 1-3 ee Lo. on 1% ee... ~ineeee OM % ' "Twist ee ieee 64% 7% Toews Crean...) 9% ee ee 7% 84% PMI os eee ss vin eee se 7% 844 MIXED CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. ee i ce T% CO ee ace ae 6% 7% ee 7 8 Royal.. 8 Nobby 84% Broken.. et yee ween cay oe en ae 8% English LT i, 54% NE ee ies ce es cle 7 8 a ec, 7% 8% Peet Geseed. 4. 8... 9 ie eee cua pains 10 French Creams.......... — 10% Wamey Seem... oc 13% FANcY—In bulk, Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. Lozenges, see ag ee 10% 11% a A 11 12% Chocolate Drops. . Se ee 12% Chocolate Monumentals. ldugy eeeues 14 ae Tee... wen ores veces oe 6% eee ee. 8 9 Sour - ee ee eee ee ee ye oe ce 5 9% Imperials.. ’ 11% pancy—In 5 Ib. boxes. Per Box. Tee Tee... ss. 55 gy ee 55 Pee re ee Se Se ne = m. . Coreen Drome.....:......-........-4. ee 4050 tare re, 8 1 00 A. B. Licorice Drops. . eee eee eee ae Lozenges, ON Se ee oe oe = printed .... aes Peperes...................... —. ee ee Cae . I i ee rk dee es oe ce ae 60 Molasses Bar.. whee wee eheece sec ersa ce ae Hand Made Creams. mt boee be eee s.r Ue or Ee oe MoCk.......:..... Lo oe ee Se ee 1 00 METRO Om TOETION wo ee ccc cece eek 65 CARAMELS. No. 1, wrapped, 2 2 Ib. boxes a 34 0. 1 3 eke elt aaeendaae 51 No wg 2 “ ee Yo. ' 3 _ wa Stand mn, 01 NOR... :... e e in ORANGES. Sorrentos, 200...... 450 Imperiais, 160....... 4 50 Messina, choice, 360.. @5 50 _ ee eas @6 00 ' ge . ee ee 7 09 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... @18 : choice qs @i16 oe “ “ vig aa @12 - Fard, 10-1b. box.. lee ea @10 ss oer @ Sg ' jute 50-Ib, box.. aco. oe NUTS. Almonds, (Co Se es @i7 Ivaca. cae @16% : California. . Ql7 ae eee... @ 8 Filberts . ee eee eee s eels @11% Walnuts, Grenebie ee @1i% o a ee @12 . chic ee vias @10 Table. Nuts, No. 1 ees ees eee ae @14 Oe oat @11 Pecans, Texas, it Pu: nee. 121,11... @17% Cocoanuts, fil wack 4 50 PEANUTS. Fancy, H. P., kee edhe sae wee @ 5% wi oasis Cees eee 7 @T% Fancy, z. P., @ 5% i. Roasted. 7 @% Choice, H. Po Easren........... @ 41% ‘* Roasted. @ 6% HIDES, PELTS and FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as follows: DES. een 4 @5 ee @5 aun @ 5 @7 @ 14% ne te ne @ 5% Calfskins, green bees hese ches once eeu ce 4@5 eee cea 5 @6% eee... 10 @30 No. 2 hides & off. PELTS, I eke eck veeeu eres 10 @25 eee ee 20 @60 WooL., ee. - 20@30 Unwaashed.................. eee 10@20 MISCELLANEOUS OE ee - 346@ 414 Pe I ck ie ee ce ey cue @2 PN eee sown da cuss 1K 2 Ginseng a 2 50@3 2 OILs. The Standard Oil Co. barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rapids: uotes as follows, i i eT Sn Sen Kl ieee @s% a wai se vei v eb eeuiiieane bere @ 8% ee Es ot @36 6g Black, Summer..... THE | MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 50 Wheat. APPLE BUTTER, Sener. Hunn € = . : 2 1 | ; Chicago goods..........-- 734@8 | Lawrence . el 2¢1 * Porras i asl ceeien -| | Ginger, strea . 45 ms ENGLISH BREAKPS ’ eee wees en se | oO OOCoeces eee censor t 11n 1% Yair } ; AXLE GREASE. Hamburg. ... ster erececee ee = | aii CHICORY. { re | Jamaic a 2% Choice 4 Frazer’s. ee ~ | SOx... . 4% FISH--Salt. Mace Batay so | Best sf Wood boxes, per doz...... , 80 | ‘wa 1 40 | Red eG Sicnhais | Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .25 ca g “oe , © 7 eee eee wee eee 1 LL. ” le “ee “~ : 4 ir qOk Cane... Sw ae ce 15) c CLOTHES LINES. a "Trieste aes 2 BACCOS 4 per gross .... 9 00 | a | Cotton, 40 ft.......per doz. 1 25; Yarmouth..... ‘ \ | Nutmegs, mo 2......... : 25 lb. pails 1 00} Blueberries a : 1 30 . 50 ft 7 1 sige a | Pepper, Singapore, black.. Fir { cee Mowe as Cae OU IG. ...... ‘oc + oa le (Ut. 15 lb. i es MEATS. +“ eonr.....: “© 26 Whole ’ a white. ....30 Pails unless otherwise noted Aurora. [gormeg meet Uber PA] RR 1B) Bales co ‘7445 |.‘ Cayenne........ | Hiawath : 0 Wood boxes, per doz....... 60| Potted ham, i 4 en . Sn... ~ 190) Stripe. .... 4 eee 20 Sweet Cuvz 4 : 3 doz. case... 175) « wy oe aren ce 4 00 Jute 60ft...... “ 90 "Halibut. “Absolute” in Packages. | McGinty ...... 24 c : per gross.... 600; « . i 72 ft a 10% 4s Ss 2 Diamend. Ls tongue, ae ‘ 95 | Kagl CONDENSED MILK. Herring. | Alispice ............... 84 155) Little, Da writ : Wood boxes, per ac. 50| ‘ ehicken, i Ib... 95 oe teeter eee ; a | Senled....... seceeeeees 2. : eee. ee 4 : 55 | nae 4 . 2 Ss dos, Cash. 150) VEGETABLES. ee eens an anastn natn D Holland, bb . .. 11 00 sn estes & 59 : alee a a cow 2) “ ts Sant ‘Beans. Genuine Swiks............. 8 00 =a v5 | Ginger nae Lie ecu 84 1 55| 1891, 2 hie 19 ; per gross 5 50 Hamburg Pr scl 1 25 | American Swiss...........- 7 00 Round shore, M4 bbl. 275 a Ae Sf i oe Valles City. ee. 33 oe Peerless. French style.....2 25 COUPON BOOKS. “ bbl. 1 50 ro tard to Te Oe ios dons = SS 1b, palia.... 4... 90 ‘“ Limas 1 40 Sache epper 8 55 | lug BAKING POWDER. Lima, green 130 No. 1, % bbls. 90 Ibs........ 9 00 | SABE------. eee eeee ee o Searhead........--- 8 Acme, 4 Ib. cans,3doz... 45| “ " soaked... 00.00.02. 90 | No. 1, kits, 101bs....... ie Fetbananpl — = : 2 85 | Lewis Boston Baked........1 35 Family, % bbls., 100 Ibs.... 3 50 SUGAR , 22 : im, “4S 1 00} Bay State Baked............1 35 | “Kits, 10 Ibs.....-.. 15 Cut Loaf... @ 5% | Here It ts : bulk.. : -. 10} World’s Fair. oe oe Pollock. Coupes ......... @ 4% | old Sti he ete eel dy = Telfer’s, % Ib. cans, ‘doz. 5 | Corn. Faney........ .. 350@4 00) Powdered as lol ee “ ae | j ¢ ees @ 9 Old Honest : ts % ode ; ti a | Hamburgh 1% co Sardines, Granulated. ....4.56@ 496 | Jolly Tar............. ‘ . 2 woe. museian, Kege.....-........ Confectioners’ A @ 4% Tic: ; Arctic, “D cams ... ...... 60 | Purity 110 Trout S i @ “A | Hiawatha : soi. v . oft A - @ Valley City.._.... ; * .- ae a iia Seen @ 4% Jas. G, bivier & Cor Bran “ oe 9 60 | Hs amburgh wannneat 135 : 1, 2 | : Whitefish. a Pre 4 e = te” Good Meee Red Star, 4 > cans........ 40 | early June.......1 50|¢° . fn No. 1, % bbls., 1001bs........ 7 00! Yellow @3 ae Out of § Richt gO | sc D Dy ul . Ries : rht _ . Gee te Champion Eng...1 vod | Ll 3 0° | Family, te’ bb Ibs... .-------1 00| Less than 100 Ibs. 4c advance Smoking teeeeee ov | Hamburgh Desre DOIS...... 1 RE TT 4 Ou | amity, sh a o+. @ 19 STARCH, ee oe BATH BRICE. fancy sifted.....1 90 Ro ‘ 5 00 | its, 10 Ibs 50 Corn. Colonels Choice : si? on . "LAVORING EXTRACTS ‘ 2g hie | erase es 2 dozen gn case. — dare 65 ‘“‘Superior.” i i er nings’ D _ 20-lb boxes verses meeaeaueea. OF@ | WHEDON... 2... Boge. : 90 : standar {21% 1 per hundred.... 2 50! 1 Vanill 40-1b wesecres fo OM | Banier 0... Bristol ETN eee an c amp’s Marrofat _ 110/39 °« $6 30} 9 emon. Vani _ Gloss. King Bee Hones 60 Early June.. 130ien ss ce | 20z folding box... 7% 1x : econ a 6) | iin Died | i ee ‘ “s Archer’s Early “Blossom. 1 35 $10. : ast j 3 Oz 4 0G 7 a | 3-1b a ¢ Niewe at . : i" as at wm | SAU, o “ ‘ | “a ' a NISse BRC «406 Arctic, 40m ovals... .....-. 4 oo | French .......-... .--- 1 80 | gon: 6 00} pe 4 aa = : - 6-1b wcceer+e-s---+s OF2 | Honey Dew. fe eee oF Oe tel. Mushrooms. Hi ieee i 2 3 00 | 40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 4% | Gold Block... 7 pints round... ...- 10 50 | French ......--.--..-++-++- 17Z18 i -.-3 00 + (0) Barrels... nase 434 | Peerless «No. 2, sifting box... 2 75 Pumpkin. qe Fora | SNUFF. "| Rob Roy... ‘“ No. 3 I nla ; 00 I ons bees tee enaee 90 Kegs 5 50! Scotch. in bladders 37 Toes eu AOE “ . 8 60 Stebieed Squash. Half kegs HID 3 00 | Maccaboy, in jars...........35 | Tom and Jerr y Ce “ upbard ........-.+.. 1 30} ERBS. frene 2e,in Jars 43 “Teepe ee ie a . nn a 2 6 ( ata eta : i 15 rench a > Jars 43 ans Yt beeee ee -30 No. 2 Hurl. a 15 — he ees 1 3 ; 1, per hundred. . = es... .. Ponce 25 Psa . 8 ey’s Brat ia i Red C lover. 30 es aera aan ee ae -¢ oT JELLIES. i a Country, 0.00.0)... 6.2 : a oe No 3 NS En il 2 00| Honey Dew........+-+-+++-- ee si . 400| Chicago goods - @4 | Uno, 100.. ve 3 50 tf ee. 40 0. bei: 2 25 Tomatoes. | $ 5, a oe LAMP WIUKS. __| Bouncer, 100....... 3 00| Frog sui — ie i ee aa ati aea 2 50 | Van Camp’s................ 1 10 | $10, “ ee = ng 5 et eeeees = SODA. ih pene ao ee aes - 2 i Wo Golling....0 00.0... 01... .8 10] Ge, - J. No. 1. a oe eee 54 | 40 er... lean : — Whisk ee ae = a ve cee eeeeee ue ee 130{ Bulk orders for abov e coupon No. 2 hen fl 50 | Kegs, English....... -4% | 50 “gr. a a. cee tate ” 2 95 SaNCOCE ......-.-- . | books are subject to the follow- . | SAL SODA. $1 for barrel. Warehouse...... 2 a ee ~ $) | ing discounts: ee: ns = | Ke OB. ccc esivecercas se +. 1% WE r MUSTARD. acne F CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S, | 200 or over. S per cent.) cea aoa anata 25 | Granulated, boxes. ---- @ | Bulk, per gs 30 _ BUCKWHEAT FLOUR. German Sweet.. ..... 22] 500 * a 10 * Sicily... ...-.--..++-- 18 SEEDS. g yz incase... 1 os Rising Sun... ...........-.. 00 dea ee . Nii wm a ‘ ae ox | Mixed bird............ 44@ 6 5 ee oi York State... acum rare.. ...... 38 is nn > ee: oe 1 25| Caraway......-....-.--------10 | Tin foil cakes, per doz ae Se oon... ee eee 5 é . MATCHES. ; 3% | Baker’ FP diana aia en g = y Broakfast Cocoa. . 40 Gan be made to represent any | No. 9 sulphur...... aa ee eee a Baker’s, per Ib ae bean nigag Lt tai | ; @l1o% | denomination from $10 down. | Anchor paren lL, Cape aia TT eae ea Hotel, 40 lb. boxes. . . 10% | NOLWAY .------- cress 10% | 90 book $10 | SATIRE, «~~ «ewe one oes ---de PAPER & WOODENWARE ee 10% | N. Y. or Lenawee... .10%@10% | 5) G08 2 00 2 home wecttt recess DM ie casa seo seeneus 6 hod ies ee gay oes @10% | 100 ena e > oD sabe — eset 425) Wisterd........... 7% | Straw — is Wiki ss ae _8 we on tt 6 on 18. SALT Rockfalls ena de! San Saeo......-. a ee eee ees me Blackstrap. ee : : ve tl - 61 ont OO eee 10 00 | Sugar house .......-.++++- 16 | 100 3-Ib — = — $2 40 | ru Daman CANNED GOODS. Swiss, imported @ 2} ee een sates § 17 50 ai Cuba Baking 6O5Ib. ‘ : 3 95 alga FISH. domestic @13% | + CRACKERS, Ovdieery .........-.---... 19] 98 40-Ib. sacks aR aoe ; Clams. Limburger- sisi Vs a | Kenosha Butter.......-.--- % Porto Rico. 20 14 my Fac ks. 2 . cat Goods. ne QS Little Neck, 22 eee ewes 1 10 | Brick 12%, | Seymour = veseteescoes O | Prime ........00+ Sse asin 1919431b cases. 130) Rod Bence Wold G@b% ees et ae bode aimee ve ~ 72 » . a « « tec Express No. 1 : RZ ae ra Butter... a. ee : 23 | 56 Ib. dairy in linen bags. 50 | ce No ein 4 > Clam Chowder. Rubber, 100 lumpe. a eer tee rt New Orleans. 28 Ib. 35 ben ee menies, ; 3 Fees es 2 30 200 beeen “biscuit .... - 04 | Pair.............. seers eee 17 Warsaw. | 48 Cotton oe a ove Oysters. Spruce, 200 pieces. . 0 | ¢ ae” 1% | Good . oo 20 | 56 1b, dairy in linen bags Si Cation Wei... | a Standard, 1 = So ies 16 CATSUP. ae &..... re eee 6 png good.. 2 288lb,. “ & “ 18 “ ‘c & ars a 2 10 | Snider’s, % pint. i ao Se WIS on casas : Ashton. bia tala aeanele ae Sauk i ag ee 9 Oyster eee a Fancy. 86 lke th. dairy bars .. | sea Island, assorted... 35 Se 2201 : : 56 Ib. dairy bags.... wD 5 Hemp te Star, 1 Ib.. eo oe 3 50 | City Oyster. XXX... 3 io One-half barrels, 3¢ extra ” Higgins. Noe a 15 a CLOTHES PINS. | CREAM TARTA | OATMEAL. 56 Ib. dairy bags... Ae wiecinecer act «one n ek Picnic, : = epee yeas 2 00 | 5 gross boxes ..... owe Strictly pure.. Lise | Oe eereis O08... : @5 50 Tsar toe “ty Tub fe | fu i ping ie . 30 oe TM ce cpus on ...21 | Prunes, sweet.. ...... " sl a Pure Cane. a bushel ........... 1 50 Imported 4s steer eee en es -.11@12 Prime 21% | RICE. Be oid. cdc en ees es 23 E willow el’ths, No.1 5 75 YS sees ee eeee sees os Heaberes i “Ooi | Me Domestic. _ | Fancy drips.........--28 @30 ‘ “ Wa 8 OM Mustard %s,...-..--- : @ "Moxieun ond G Guate ain @ 6% Carolina — —s SWEET GOODS. . No3 7 25 Trout. Fair ' a DS le an ame 6 | Ginger Snaps...... ? splint Nol 3 50 PMs ns rises ent ee - re =" B — @5 | Sugar Creams....... 8h re \ Noe 425 FOOG.....-...-- a3 | PEEL, OM eee sted C ; 3 ‘ ‘ < FRUITS, Wanee ee a 18 — Frosted Creams..... S f No.3 5 00 Apples. " arwcatbo. econ ola 18 " Imported. _ | Graham Crackers..... a] Sona en ee . 22% | ween “ii — No.2 ; Le 3 er 8 | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS Hamburg : Milled 2314 | I een Reece ce ween ee eee 2 SHOE POLISH. | I wceccoure . -<3%2 | In drum. aS nee @4 mage... o.oo Lowes _... & 3 bd io il WHEAT. Santa mn 2 25 i rn ee boxes.......... Gee | Paihia... 2... ete wea ace 5 3 - - a : ** | No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 93 Tae 2 KO Interior . nn ea a6 CURRANTS. oo ROOT BEER. TEAS. | No. 1 Red (60 lb. test) 93 Gucnana ee 5 an | Etivate ¢ Growth....... 28 | Zante, in barrels..... @ 54 Williams’ Extract. custome omic yverland............. 2 35 | Mandehling ‘ | %4-bbl 5Y% | 2 "5 17 | Bolted 1 Blackberries. : Meee in %-bbls...... @ 5% | 25 cent size..............--. 1 Fair . - @iz_ | Bolted... ....... 1% F.& W 99 | Imitati Mocha 1? less quantity @6 |3dozen.. .-85 00 a @ | Granulated........... 2 00 ' inca Heh fied sataneerueheoyiGatae a he a a ete 25 RAISINS —California. eee ee aaa | FLOUR, Cherries. 1 20 | Arabian. . weer eneeeees 28% | London Layers, 2 ern Le iii, oa i Choicest...... ee = Straight, in sacks 5 10 Loh ie lh i WV | | “ ¢ 20 Z n box. 26 i = 46 ‘ ‘** barrels... 5 30 > d . ROASTED. 3 2 00 3 Tract ...... 0 @12 a 3 Pitas = sneegeit . i 60 | _ To ascertain cost of roasted | Hy fancy. 2 25 | Hand a SUN CURED. ee eat eee = 1 39 | Coffee, add ‘4c. per lb, for roast- | Muscatels, 2crown aes 1 50 SOUPS. . | Fair . : : @17 barrels........ 630 eh Ten “’ | ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- 3 i 1 €9| Snider’s Tomato... OO @2 | Graham sacks... 2 45 Dameons, Egg Plums and Green | age. Foreign. a Choice ..... ed eee | Be " _ a 2 ee i Gages. of PACKAGE, | Valenctas.. se sceee 6 SPICES. Ces 32 ox | MILLSTUFFS. Erie ..... Galea @1 60 | MeLaughlin’s XXXX... -_ | Ondaras..... @ 6% Whole Sifted. ee 10 @i2_ | Bran...-...-..----. 15 00 sooseberries. L eerane | Sultanas...........--+. @ ee 10 | BASKET FIRED. St 16 0) —— "Deaches TO ean Gn W Gaee oe ul - FARINACEOUS GOODS. Cassia, China in mats...... ee is @20 | Middlings 20 50 Pi re 60@1 75 LL fon, 100 1b. ee 2 4 | 100 Ib. k 5 . eee Oe Coarae — 26 50 dint cee soc wnat aa 75 | ae So oe | 100 TD, RORB es ese oc 4 “ _ Saigon in rolis......35 | Choicest..... @35 sou uangetl otc hu ae } ——- Se 2 25 | 7s a eres Hominy. | Cloves, Amboyna...... a Extra choice, wire leaf @40 a RYE. : Shepard's .............0 2 25) Gone po rind | Barrels...-++-+++- Loan Sag |e aaa 3 Se Milling......-.---..----++.+.1 00 5 California............. 2 60@2 75 ee ee Gri elas e eco cay | Mace B ha ) : A Feed TT 5 Pears p'kages (sim- : ice Batavia....... .....--80 | Common to fair....... 25 @35 i Domestic ......... “Oe 1 25) ilar to accom- | Dried... nn ee 6 | Nutmege, "Loe tae eae an -- -80 | Extra fine to finest....50 @65 i Sa i 4 Brcereee.. os... 2 25 | panying ill- Mace faroni and Vermicelii. Mee, Ha eens ner sal Peel pe ma oe oe 'S | ee rion) |. Maccaroniand Vermicelli, | ‘ (No. 2............... / Foes. Dee Wa 65 © Pineapples. a i or 7 ion) | | Domestic, 12 lb. b 45 | Pepper, Singapore, black....15 coos. ; CORN. r OMMMON .... ---+ + --++- 1 30 | ice with an | DOPOF Ba 10 | white... .25 | Common to fair.. 23 @26 | Car lots... ee Johnson’s sliced...... 2 60 | pdditi ad | | Pearl meer. | “ ee "49 «| Superior to fine.......28 @30 Less than Car lots.........- 70 = sree es 2 85 | Moharge of G0 | KOBS8-+++-++--25..-- 200+ +34 @3% | Pure Ground i in Bulk. | Fine to choicest....... 45 @55 oats. . uinces oy | Peas. POIOS ois eet e ss tues. IMPERIAL. Carlo... ..... / 35 Common 1 10 cents for cab- | : TUTE asercese dpe ee : | Green, bu.... ......--. nod 10 | Guana, Batavi a. 2) | Common to fair....... 23 @26 | Less cas) Gar ots... 37 Raspberries. inet. Red Pp 1% | Spli¢, Dbl..... poet 6 00 | i i and ‘Saigon. 25 | Superiortofine........ 30 @35 HAY. +d cra otic deg aa TRACT. ago. : i YOUNG HYSON, | No. 1 Timothy, car lots....13 50 en: seeee 1 50 ba otty.. Md sages coun Ee ey 5 | Cloves, ieahenens.. _....90 | Common ta fair... ... 18 @2% | No.1 : less than car totes ec eeee 1 40! a ea is (bel Oi B | “ Zaneeae. |... ..... 2) | Superior to fine.......30 @40 | lots 14 00 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Don’t Do Things By Halves. From the National Grocer. The most successful men that we have seen either in ourtime or in history have been those who have not done things by halves. There have been hun- dreds of men who would have proved themselves suecessful beyond question, if they had had the capacity to put their entire soul, body and energy into the work in which they wereengaged. Tru- ly speaking itis the man who does not do things by halves that succeeds. He succeeds in a most emphatic manner, or if perchance he does not succeed he fails with a promptitude that would put an astronomicai calculation into disgrace. There never was in the _ history of the world a successful general who went in- to battle with a half-heartednmess, or a disposition to suspect defeat. It is ex- actly the same in business as in war. The individual who enters into any un- dertaking with doubt, cannot possibly expect to succeed. The will power has agreat deal to do with success; so also has conviction. There have been many arguments successfullly contended sim- ply because one of the contestants has really believed in the absolute superiori- ty of his position and the views he had undertaken to defend. Business is un- questionably built on the same lines, and the business man who really enters into the competition of life with a determina- tion to force matters is bound to succeed. It is the half-hearted, unappreciative individual, who does not desire to defend his judgment, or to rely upon his own conviction, who ultimately fails. There is not at the present time a single general of note who will dispute the fact that many battles have been won simply from the inherent conviction of their superiority, not only physically, but also from a strictly strategetical standpoint. Wemight almost say that faith not in superstition, but faith in one’s own ability conquers where merit sometimes fails. Napoleon the great, and heis justly designated, is the authority for the ex- pression, ‘‘There is no such word as ean’t.”’ He did not believe that the vo- cabulary of the world contained sucha word. And Iron Duke, who was his only real competitor and ultimate con- queror, was unquestionably of the same opinion. Any one who came to him with the apology that he ‘‘could not do what was set him to do”? was unworthy the profession he followed and the soon- er he was hanged the better. It is sur- prising what a man can do if he only has the capacity not to ‘‘do things by halves.” Suppose that you had some great undertaking and that you had de- cided to go into this undertaking with the object of making money. It would be perfectly ridiculous if you were to go into it feeling that there was a great pos- sibility that you would not succeed. This is doing things by halves, and you cannot possibly conduct a_ successful business upon these lines. Energy many times counts for more than discretion. How many men in battle have succeeded in obtaining rec- ognition and advancement not because they had displayed a large amount of discretion, but because they have dis- played an utter contempt for convention- alities. It was not the observance of cautiousness or hesitancy that caused Napoleon to make Ney Marshal of the French army. On the contrary, it was his absolute recklessness, putting it in a mild form, that caused his promotion. Timidity is by no means avery valuable friend. It may be of value amongsta lot of men who do not aspire more than the brain of mediocracy, but where gen- ius is wanted it utterly fails. Don't do things by halves, whether it is the sweeping of your store or the purchase of a million dollars’ worth of goods. Don’t do things by halves, whether it is the collection of outstand- or a salesman at $10,000 a year. Life is made up of those who regard itasa reality. They are those who unques- tionably get the most out of it. They do not live the longest, but they ‘‘get there just the same.”’ There never was nor never will bea confirmed success of those who do things by halves. The im- provements in machinery and in the methods of conducting business are such that those who refuse to come into the circle will realize that it is the patient, energetic individual who insists upon everything being done in its complete- ness who will sueceed. We commenced by saying, ‘‘Don’t do things by halves,’’ and we are absolutely eonvineed that those who follow the old cautiousness of the past will get misera- bly left. Our advice to the young and to the old is explicit and emphatic: ‘‘Don’t do things by halves,” particularly with regard to those who cannot pay their bills when they are due. In_ short, the man who does set out in this life to do things by halves and to thoroughly suc- ceed will find himself unquestionably ‘in the soup.” We would say to all our readers, big and little, of great exper- ience and small experience, and of every other degree of mercantile pursuits, “Don’t do things by halves.” You will then be much happier and infinitely more contented with this world’s gifts. —— ‘Who Was de Odder Gemman?” The sleeping car porter faithfully gathers his gleaming quarters, but as faithfully carries out his orders when the money is in sight. The president of one of our large furni- ture companies, just returned from @ western trip, relates the following good story: ‘‘On the train going from Chicago to Dubuque, la., was a passenger in one of the sleeping cars who had been drink- ing heavily, but realized the fact that he was intoxicated. As he was about to re- tire without disrobing he called a porter to him and, handing out a dollar, re- quested to be waked up at Rockford, Ill., and said he: ‘Be sure and put me off, whether I want to go or not. | know I’m pretty full, and when I’m in this condition I’m likely to fight, but don’t mind that, just put me off and it will be all right.’ “The colored porter promised to do so, and the man was soon asleep in his berth. ‘‘Early next morning as the train was nearing Dubuque, and the passengers were hurridly dressing, the colored por- ter was attending to his duties with his head bandaged, one eye closed and his face showing hard usage. ‘Just then the Rockford passenger crawled out of his berth, looked out to get his bearings and then went for the porter: ‘Look here, you—, what does this mean? Didn’t I tell you to put me off at Rockford, you—?’ “The darky looked at him a moment and said: ‘Is you da gemman what want- ed to be put off?’ “Yes I'm the one, you— —, and I gave you $1 to see to it? ** ‘Well, if you’s de gemman what give me dat dollar, what | wanter know is dis yer, who was de gemman dat I put off at Rockford?’ ”’ —_———_—____> <> Have No Secrets. The good advice, *‘Have no secrets from your husband,”’ is only equaled by that other, ‘‘Have no confidences with your friends.” Nothing is more vulgar than the habit which many people have of pouring their grievances, real or imagin- | ary, into the ears of their friends. Such a habit is productive of untold evil. It) not only ministers to a weakness in the character of the person addicted to it, | | but it diminishes his self respect, adds | | to his egotism in that he strives to make ing accounts or the full attention to a} smali fad that a customer may desire to} have shown him. Don’t do things by disagreeable customer or acknowledging himself and his affairs of the first im-| portance and renders him in thought and word habitually unjust. The man who can discuss his wife’s faults or a woman who can make her husbands failings a subject of conversation, are subjects of pity and contempt to right thinking peo- |ple. They are not only vulgar, but they halves, whether it is writing a letter toa | the receipt fully by a member of the firm | of asmall item which may be remitted. are faithless. Parents who make the faultsof their children subjects of com- ment with friends are hardly less objec- tionable, and a certain reticence upon all ~ MORSE’S © | | DEPARTMENT STORK Siegel's Cloak Department. Manufacturers and Importers of Ladies’, Misses and Childrens Gioaks. Send for our Catalogue to ¥ orse’s Department Store, Corner Spring and Monroe,Sts. See Menday’s and Saturday’s Detroit Evening News Yi fer further Particulars. yy $100 GIVEN AWAY y To the Smokere of the GA, PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS. yp ry , Te the persom guessing the nearest to the number of Imps that will [Y// appear in a series of cuts in the Evening News, cuts not tu exceed 100, “iif, ist Cash Prize, $50; 2d. $25; 3d, 15: 4ih, $10. Guess slips to be had with Wy every 2c. worth of PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS Sold Every where Uy to date there has been published 2cuts, with a total of 303 Imps a SAX SS per om Anarene oper = SN o- ~ ~ MANUFACTURED BY ALEX. GORDON, Detroit, Mion. nes SS SS ts S > 7//A\ OANIEL LYNCH, Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale Agt ¢ f " ° ; ° ee -~< att Se eee —— i eedlinetoeeeeenendiastime em ete eeeell y —~ Bolts Wanted? I want 500 to 1,000 cords of Poplar Excel- stor Bolts, 18, 36 and 54 inches long. IT also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths as above. For particulars address | J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich. PEREINS & BESes DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL St TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF ‘Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. l and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in the Country and Save Money. Don’t do things by halves, whether the | personal matters is a mark of refined | LOUpON Boks The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids engagement of an office boy at $2 a week | sensibility and evenly balanced character. | ' ; i ; 4 ear eee —— s . THE MICHT Where a Distinction Should be Made. In Boston, which is headquarters of what is know as the ‘‘Nationalist’’ move- ment, they have adopted what must be conceded to be rather a clever plan of campaign for bringing about the condi- tion of society depicted in Edward Bel- lamy’s famous, clever, but rather dull book. The plan consists in selecting some one line of business, and attempt- ing to show that everybody would be much better off if that particular line of business were taken out of the hands of private individuals and managed by so- ciety. They now propose that municipal coal yards shall be established, at which coal shall be furnished far below its present cost to the people. Coal is a prime necessity in Boston,and as its price delivered to consumers is well known to be much higher than it ought to be, the proposition of the Nationalists will be apt to attract some attention and sup- port. We think, however, that this is commencing at the wrong end of the dif- ficulty and that much more could be ac- complished by so amending the laws that there would be less opportunity for mo- nopolistic control of the mines and of the means of transportation from them. If it were made impossible, or, what is the same thing, unprofitable, for mining companies to hold mineral lands out of use for the sake of preventing competi- tion, and equitable rates were fixed and enforced for its transportation over rail- roads, private individuals would proba- bly sell coal in Boston at rates that no municipal coal yards could possibly meet. There are certain branches of business which must in the nature of things be monopolies, for the reason that not more than one company can with any advan- tage engage in them in any one locality. Among these are gasworks, waterworks, street and other railways, ordinary reads and bridges. Competition cannot be open and free in any of these things, and in order to carry them on, special rights must be granted from the people or their representatives. From the first, it has been recognized that ordinary roads and bridges should be built, owned and con- trolled by communities, and, with a few exception, they are so controlled. With regard to the other things named, there is not so much unanimity of practice or of opinion, but it is very noticeable that, when the matter of the ownership or control of any of these is discussed, the idea of governmental control is received with favor by very many people who are not at all in sympathy with the Nation- alist movement, or at least do not be- lieve in its practicability. Country roads owned and controlled by private corpora- tions, and known as toll roads, have proved very unpopular, and have for the most part been put under the control of the communities in which they are lo- cated. Municipal ownership of water- works systems is almost universally recognized as the best way of serving the best interests of the people in re- spect to water supply, while there is a considerable, and perhaps an increasing number of people who believe that the same advantages would result from gov- ernmental control of telegraphs, rail- ways, etc., and in such things as will not, from their nature, allow of open and free competition. In all such matters many people will support the idea who are not socialists, and yet will not be deterred from advo- cating what they believe to be right for fear some one will call them socialists. But when the Nationalists (a modern name for socialists) advocate the assump- tion by the government of a function which can be carried on by private en- terprise, and in which competition can be free to all, as it can be in the coal business, with unnatural restrictions re- moved, they are advocating something for which they will, in our opinion, find very little support from people who are in the habit of looking at things from a practical standpoint. It is our belief that America is the country of the world in which socialism stands the least chance of success. Individual ambition is too strong here, and there are too many peo- ple who see that individual ambition is a good thing, only that our laws have fa- vored its unnatural development in some instances, especially in regard to the ac- cumulation of wealth for its own sake merely. When this has been corrected, the more ambition and competition we have between individuals, the better for all concerned. It would be better, we think, if the difference in principles which we have indicated were more gen- erally recognized, so that the different propositions might be discussed upon their merits. waterworks, gas or electric light plants, ought not to be prejudiced because some people advocate municipal coal yards. The principles involved are essentially different. seein _- > -2- << One Way to Save a Postage Stamp. From the Chicago News. “Pll wager $5 that I can address a let- ter and have it stamped and mailed for me without touching it after 1 write the address, or without speaking to any- body,” remarked a commercial man at the Grand Pacific, addressing a traveler friend. *‘Can’t play any of your tricks on me,” responded the companion. “No tricks. I want to teach you a point about hotel life. Watch me.” Bigelow hurried up to the counter, seized a hotel envelope, and ad- dressed it in a bold,symmetrical hand, to a friend in St. Louis. Then he sudden- ly left the counter, leaving the envelope ready to be mailed near the register. Soon along came Clerk Shaefler. He eyed the missive, sized up the penman- Ship, said something about the guest trying to play the house for a postage stamp, placed one of those necessary lit- tle pasters upon the envelope and mailed it. ‘‘See,” said Mr. Bigelow, ‘‘I told you the ‘gag’ would work in a large hotel. That is an old trick played by a great many chair warmers. The clerks find the unstamped envelopes, and, fear- ing that a guest has forgotten to mail an important letter, they sendit. That is one way of saving postage, but let us hope it will not spread.” AN TRADESMAN. { | Straight Talk from a Kansas Farmer. | A Kansas farmer, where the times are }as hard as they are anywhere in the | United States, writes as follows to the |local paper at Garnet: ‘‘What’s the |matter with times, anyway. A farmer ‘loads up fifty bushels of wheat on a | wagon and starts to Garnet, his son fol- | lows with a load of corn, while the hired | Municipal ownership of | man follows with a load of hay. Hegets from 90 cents to $1 for his wheat, 60 cents for his corn, and $10 for hay. He takes the checks he gets for his grain and hay to the bank and asks for and obtains gold coin. He puts it down in his jeans, goes to George and Joe’s and buys twen- ty pounds of granulated sugar for $1. He buys muslin for five cents a yard, calico the same. He goes to the hard- ware store and buys barbed wire for 3 and 3!¢ cents per pound, and other things in proportion, including tin cups. He goes to Wagstaff’s and buys a suit of clothes, all wool, for $10, good enough for a president of a township alliance to wear. There has never been atime from the foundation of the government to the present, when a bushel of wheat or corn would buy as much as it does to-day, and yet some people will get up at night and burn their shirt to make a light to see to damn the way things are all going to pot.’’ — > oe What Flies Weigh. A Southern Michigan grocer, being greatly annoyed by flies, distributed twenty-one sheets of sticky fly-paper about his store. In the evening he gathered them up, and noticing how mueh heavier they were, concluded to weigh them. He accordingly placed the twen- ty-one sheets with their loads of dead flies upon the seales. They tipped the beam at exactly seven pounds. Then he placed twenty-one fresh sheets on the scales and found they weighed but four pounds and four ounces. Thus the flies were found to weigh two pounds and twelve ounces. He next commenced to figure and found there were twenty flies to each square inch of the fly-paper; each sheet had 336 square inches and 6,720 flies, the twenty-one sheets containing in all 141,120 flies. Thus it is plain that one can easily ascertain the exact weight of a single fly, for if 141,120 flies weigh two pounds and twelve ounces, it is easy to calculate what one would weigh. Tama _ ->-

This Gong for Business. From the Washington Post. In the office of the captain of the watch at the Treasury Department is a large gong connected with a series of wires. That bell has never been rung save when it is tested to see if it is in working order, and the officials trust that it never will be sounded. When it does, business of the most serious kind is meant. At some time or other some caank or eranks might get into the cash room or banking office of the Treasury, and by the bold use of arms attempt to make a raid. This gong is connected with the cash room by a number of wires, and the pressure of a button at convenient places will sound the alarm. The watchmen have orders when that bell rings to drop all other work and come to the cash room thoroughly armed and ready to deal with whatever may present itself. — > oa a A Family Heirloom. He was a young man. He had studied law in his father’s office and his father finally retired and gave the business to him. One day, less than a week after the old gentleman had retired, the young man came home and proudly said: ‘*Father, you know that old Gilpin es- tate case that you have been trying for years and years to settle?” gestion of a smile. settle it after I got at it.’ “What!” shouted the old lawyer. ‘**You have settled the Gilpin estate?”’ ‘*Yes; and it was just as easy as roll- ing off a log.” “Well, you infernal idiot, you! of our family for four generations and might have paid them for four more, if I hadn’t left the business to a ninny.’’ ‘*Yes,” answered the father with a sug- | ‘‘Well, it didn’t take me two days to | Why, that estate has paid the living expenses 15 m W.Baann & (0 . Breakfast i = Cocoa from) which the excess of oil has been removed, \\\\ Is Absolutely Pure \\ and itis Soluble. | \\ No Chemicals \ ‘ are used in its prepar- It has \than three times the strength of Cocoa Starch, is therefore ation. more mixed with and far rrowroot or Sugar, iore economical, costing less than one cent a up. it is delicious, nourishing, strengthen- 1g, EASILY DIGESTED, and admirably adapted >t invalids as well as for persons in health. Sold by Grocers everywhere. ¥. BAKER & C0., DORCHESTER, MASS. NOTA SIA BLANKET “This is the blanket the deale told me was as good as a 5A.” HORSE BLANKETS ARE THE STRONGEST The Cheapest, Strongest Blanket made in the world. and Best We are Agents for the above blankets. Brown, Hall & Co, 20 & 22 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. S.A. Morman WHOLESALE Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio LiM&, Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CEMENTS, Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, FIRE BRICK AND CLAY. | Write for Prices. ;20 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS. 10 EBS SAORI DH eA A AUR x tb THE Moa TRADES) MAN. Corporations7in Business. From the Boot and Shoe Recorder. . There is a disposition in some qyarters ‘to take an alarmist view of the great in- crease in the number of corporations en- gaged in business operations. It is stated that the records of organization in | all the States for a year past show an ag- gregate of not less than 15,000 new com- panies, with nominal capital of over four billion dollars. The original idea of corporations was that they were necessa- | ry to furnish capital for great under- | takings, as railroad building for exam- ple, which an individual or a private | firm could not attempt. By contribu- tions of capital from a number of stock- holders the required aggregate could be raised and risks taken, witha view to future returns, that an individual or a firm would not dare to venture. The great benefits to humanity from the re- sult of the work of these corporations need not be pointed out. If it was pos- sible to wind up the business of the corpor- ations engaged in transportation alone, and return to the primitive methods of locomotion, there would be little left of the best features of modern civilization. The complaints are made, however, to the effect that corporations are not only eovering what might be called their le- gitimate field, but are extending them- selves into the various minor operations of manufacturing and general business, to the detriment, so it is claimed, of the individuals and firms already engaged in these lines. We have companies organ- ized for almost every branch of industry. Some have ample paid-up capital, and | others have nothing but a line of figures to represent capital that may come in the future. Like almost everything else in human affairs these corporations have their good and bad features. Properly managed and honestly conducted, they would present nothing objectionable. They simply offer an opportunity to per- sons with limited capital for investing their money in business operations. A man with savings amounting to a few hundred dollars could not hope to do much with this sum in a business ven- ture of his own, but he can by taking stock become a partner in a large enter- prise with an assurance of a fair return for his investment. With the develop- ment of modern business in new lines to meet new demands, there are constant ealls for capital. The banking system is designed to meet such requirements, by providing for lending money of deposi- tors. ‘The corporation idea goes still further in collecting the idle capital in small amounts and without withdrawing the same from any established business eoncern, enables new operations to be earried on successfully. A stockholder in a corporation, who for any reason be- comes dissatisfied, can withdraw, by sell- ing his stock, without interfering with the business itself, while, as a partner in a firm, such withdrawal! could hardly be effected without trouble. Furthermore, the capital invested by stockholders is not liable to be called for suddenly, as is the case with the money loaned by the banks. lt must be admitted, therefore, that corporations af- ford the best possible means of utilizing idle capital in developing industrial re- sources and thus adding to the weaith of the country and the people. The bad features of the corporations are the result, mainly, of the perversity of human nature. They afford an ex- cellent means for stealing and swindling to those lacking in moral principle. The fact that the capital of the stockholders is turned over to the control of individ- uals chosen as managers, makes it easy for the latter to get the best of the bar- gain, if they are so inclined. The same eause leads to reckless competition with established concerns when the corpora- tion managers have little of their own capitaltorisk. Then we have companies organized, apparently for the sole pur- pose of swindling. Such companies, with little or no cash capital and nothing | of recognized value, issue quantities of | stock with additional amounts of bonds, which the public are asked to take at par value, while the actual value would be represented by ciphers. In some cases, where there is a small basis of value, the small investors are depended upon to jcome in and buy the stock, while the organizers get out with big profits. | We have had so many examples of this | kind of corporation management that it jis not strange to find a strong feeling | j}against all corporations. This feeling, | while perfectly natural, is really no more | just than it would be to condemn all bus- iness firms of every kind because many ;}concerns are managed dishonestly and swindle both customers and creditors. i } i «Beco | Dishonesty in some corporations is not legislative restrictions to meet the new |eonditions. We have the experience of punishment of individual shortcomings, and it will take time to test the workings so that the managers may be held to a strict accountability. to permit its injury by dishonesty of in- dividuals, and some means must be found to adequately guard against this evil. There is no doubt that corporations will continue to increase rather than decrease and we find a strong tendency to change old established firms into corporations, so that the business will be continued after the original founders have passed away, most important legislation. enon The Great Sugar Refiners. The Brooklyn Eagle quotes W. P. Willett, of Willett & Gray, as saying: ‘‘It is impossible to ascertain what the exact relation between Spreckels and the Amer- ican Sugar Refining Company really is, problems of exists, and that Mr. Spreckels actually controls the buying and selling of sugar for the Spreckels Company, though it is probable that the American Company find the money with which to do the business. Mr. Spreckels has not sold out to the American Company, and has no intention of doing so, but the working arrangement between the two companies is undoubtedly satisfactory to both, and no closer connection is intended or de- sired. places the two concerns on one side of the competition for the sale of refined sugars, while on the other side are the Franklin Refinery, E. C. Knight & Co., of Philadelphia, and Nash, Co., of Boston. As some of these con- cerns are largely interested in the stock of the Amerjcan Company, actual compe- tition in the sugar refining business dwindles down to a very small compass. The working arrangement in question is not a new thing, but dates back to the California connection.”’ a te Cigarettes were first manufactured in France in 1843, the factory being situated at Gros Caillon. This was equal to sup- plying the demand which then existed, but now seven factories are kept hard at work, employing between them over 2,000 women, who turn out 400,000,000 cigarettes every year. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. Bowne, President. D. A. DGETT, Vice-President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacte a generai banking business. of Country Merchants Solicited. E J. SAVAGE, HOUSE MOVER, Bridge Building and Pile Driving. Safes Moved and Smoke Stacks Raised. 271 First St. GRAND RAPIDS. a good argument against the whole sys- | tem, though it may call for additional | ages to guide in making laws for the| of laws for the regulation of corporations | put there is no question that a working | arrangement between the two companies | | The corporation | idea is too valuable in its general features | and hence it is that the proper |— regulation of corporations is one of the | modern | | Gd Haven, Ar! 8 50am} 2 This working arrangement pow | Spalding & | | Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts | | | | | M IGHIGAN CENTRAL ‘The Niagara Falis Route.” DEPART. ARRIVE Diptroit Bxprees......... cccccccscesense 6:30am 10:00pm ee 408m 4:30 pm Day Express.... 20pm 10:60am *Atlantic & Pacific Express.........11:15pm 6:00am New York TO, ci cisccecs etwices 5:40 . m 12:40pm *Dail All oan ar daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars ran on Day Express and Grand Rapid Express to and from Detroit. Frxp M. Baiecs, Gen’l Agent, 85 Monroe St. G. 8. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. Rueeries,G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago. TIME TABLE NOW IN EFFECT. 8) yale | SN) fT Tawatntas Eee EASTWARD. Trains Leave (tNo. 14\tNo. 16/tNo. 18/*No. 28 G’d Rapids, Lv! 6 50am/1 20am} 3 45pm/10 55pm Oe... 5. -Ar) 7 45am/11 25am) 4 52pm /12 37am St. Johns ...Ar} 8 2xam}12 17am) 5 40pm Owosso Ar! 915amj 120pm/ 64¢pm} 3 15am E. Saginaw Arjil 05am} 3. LOpm say City _Arj11 55am} 3 45pm! § Flint .... ...Ar/11 10am] 3 40pm 8 08 pm | 5 40am Pt. Huron...Ar| 3 05pm] 6 00pm - 30pm | 7 35am | Pontiac ......Ar}10 57am] 3 05pm} 8 55pm) 5 50am Detroit.......Arji1l 5:amj 4 05pm 9 50pm} ‘ 7 0am WESTWARD. “Trains Leave: *No. 81 |tNo. 1 * No. 13|+No. 15 G’d Rapids, Lv am} 1 00pm] 5 10pm/10 30pm le 5pm| 6 15pm) 11 30p m Milw'keeStr ‘|... chee 6 45am) 6 45am c thica ago Str.“ --) 6 O0am| oo *Daily. +Daily except Sund: ay. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m.,1 5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:45 a, m 2:50 p. m., » 10:10 }@,m., 3:35 ~~ 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 Buffetcar, Joun W. Lovn, Traffic Manager. BEN FLETCHER, Tray. Pass. Agent, Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. CHICAGO ge 6 im & WEST MICHIGAN RY. JUNE 21, 1891. DEPART FOR [| A.M. | P.M. | P.M ee 1+10:00! 41:15/*11: Indianapolis .... 1+10:00) t1:1 : Benton Harbor...... i Pe, FOO. secs | rereree Cly..:....., ee | t9:00) manwmiee .......... | PeRIMOOOR.. coc bees Big Rap vids. Otts 5 +Wee vik Days. §Except § aturday. j 0 “()() A. M. has through chair car to Chica- eVVU go. No extra charge for seats, 1 “| f P.M. runs through to Chicago solid » with Wagner buffet car; sea s 50 cts. 5225 P. M. has through _ ——_ car to ede) Manistee, via M. & N. E. R. » P.M. is solid train with Wagner val a i ° . I et 5 ace sleeping car through to Chicago. and sleeper to Indianapolis via Ben ton Harbor. 11:30 P. M. has Wagner Sleeping Car to oOU Traverse City. 6:30 P. M. connects at St. Joseph with of { Graham & Morton’s steamers for Chi- cago. “Daily. ‘DETROIT, alors Lansing & Northern R BR DEPART FOR | A.M. | P.M. | P. a. a coe Me co is, re #100) *§:25 ee ee as 200) *6:25 a oe iS Nee 200) *6:25 Lowell... ... 4 0| *6 125 ————— ns ts ce, me Cee eee | 44:30) i Sabina Cle. et 7 Ob) 44:90)...... ef) A M. runs through to Detroit with par- 6:50 : lor car; seats 25 cents. Ee P.M. Has through Parlor car to De- de troit. Seats, 25 cents. 6 -S)F P. M. runs through to Detroit with par ag lor car, seats 25 cents. 7:05 A. M. has parlor car to Saginaw, seats eo) 25 cents. = tickets and information apply at Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or Union station. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen, Pass’r Agt. CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS —on— PAMPHLETS For the best work, at reasonable prices, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect July 19, 1891. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave eens N South. For Saginaw & Big Rapids...... 7:05 am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 6:50am 7:30 am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:15am 11:30°a m Ot AT 5 on ane voces sic 4:30 pm For Traverse City. 2:15pm 5:05 pm Fo :Mackinaw City Train arriving a except Sunday. 8:45pm 10:30 pm y; all other trains daily TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going North. South. Be CNN obvi siiwinnce sues 6:00 am 73 00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:20am 10:30 am From Hig! = & Saginaw.... 11:50am For Fort Wayne and the East.. 2:00 pm Per Fe. Wayne......+s0> .. 5:25pm 6:00 pm For Cincinnati and Chicago.... 10:00 pm 10:30 pm z ROOMS BOM AW sions wien es aves ee 10:40 p m Train leaving for Cincinnati and Chicago at 10:30 Pp m daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon— Arrive. 00 am 7 10am 12:45 pm 5:15 pm 6:30 pm 10:15pm SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH--7:30 am train.—Sleeping and parlor chair car, Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City. Pi urlor chair car Grand Rapids to Traverse Oity 11:30 am ixate.--Farioe chair car Gd Rapids to Mackina 10:30 p m train. —Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Petoskey. Sleeping car Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City. SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cis ee 10:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rapid. to Cc cen 10:30 pm train.—Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Cuieago. Sleeping car Grand Rapids to on innati ‘chieis via G. R. & 1. R. BR. Lv Grand Rapids 1 Arr Chicago : 10:30 a m train throug 16:3 30am 2:00 pm pm 9:00 pm Wagner Parlor Car. ) p m train daily, throughgWagner Sleeping Car. 10:30 p m 6:50 am Lv Chica#o 7:05 am 3:10 pm 10:10 p m Arr Grand Rapids 2:15pm 8 50pm 6:50 ajm 3.10 pm through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Through tickets and fullinformation can be had by eailing upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Hayen & Milwauk ¢ offers a route making the best time betwe Grand Rapids and Toledo. VIA D., L. & N Ly. Grand See es 7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m. Ar. Toledo at . .1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p, m. VIA D., @. H. & M. Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 6:50 a, m. and 3:45 p. m. AY. Teco a............ 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. Return connections equally as good, W. H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. KOMUND B. DIKAMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, hh GANA! S*., Grand Rapids - Mich. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce Line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN Th4DESMAN, Grand Rapids. *