7 Aa RES RRA CANA NAD A EOI AR tre Michigan Tradesman. Published Ww Weekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. $1 Per Year. ies GRAND RAPIDS,SEPTEMBER 16, 1891. NO. 417 : For Ten Long Years!" ALBION, New York, June 23, 1891. Albion Milling Co., Albion, Michigan: Gents—I very gladly recommend to the public your W. &. TODD. its equal.”’ Yours sausinere R KM EMB ER Goods are not genuine unless our guarantee ecard is If your grocer does not } Satisfaction guaranteed. | found on every package. keep our ‘‘Albion Patent,’’ send your order direct to us. ALBION MILLING COMPANY, Albion, Mich. PHEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, mrO HIGAN. WEF CARRYV A STOCK OF CAKFP TATT OW POR WT PEACHES AND BANANAS. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. Cc hw. RAPE & CO... 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. TRIMO g Pipe Wrensh Made of Forged Steel and Interchangeable infall its Parts. 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[njector Manufactured by PENBERTHY INJECTOR CO,, DETROIT, MICH, , WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1891. IN THE WOODPATH. As I trudged along the road with my knapsack on my shoulder—a knapsack that had been a soldier’s during the time of war, and which held all my worldly goods—l was making up my mind what:‘I should do when I got to the great city for which I was bound. I had left home to seek my fortune— the home where I had no nearer kin than a cranky old second cousin, who, as he loved nobody, could not be expected to make an exception in my favor—and his wife, who thought herself the only worthy person in the world and the only one likely to go to heaven when she was forced to leave the world. I had arisen at dawn, put on my and knickerbockers, long woolen stock- thick shoes anda Tam O’Shanter cap; and in my knapsack were a few under-garments, a half-dozen handKer- chiefs and a few childish keepsakes. My worldly wealth was five dollars in small change; but the world was ‘‘my oyster,”’ which I intended to open with anything that came handy, and I felt happy to be free from the thralldom of doing chores for Cousin Hezekiah and his wife Ann. I could read, write and cipher: I could play the flute by ear and had learned to dance without the aid of a master. I intended to get a good education, some- how; and I was only eighteen, which is a hopeful and happy age when one is healthy and strong as I was; and I had no such word as ‘‘fail” in my lexicon, I am sure, as I turned from the sunny road into alittle woodpath that ran in the right direction and saw a stout, well- dressed gentleman on his knees foot of a great oak.tree, covering a hole that he had just dug with a knife. My cousin’s wife often went into the now jacket ings, woods to get plants for her window- boxes, and I fancied this gentleman might have been doing the same thing, and paid little attention to him; when suddenly he sprang to his feet, with the knife in his hand, his face furious, his eyes gleaming. “You young spy,’’ said he, ‘‘what are you watching me for?” “Pm not watching you,” said I. ‘What have you been doing that you’re afraid folks should see?”’ Suddenly his face changed; he assumed a smile that was more disagreeable than his scowl. “You are a boy of spirit,’’ “J like you. I only wanted to frighten you—there’s something for you to re- member me by.” He offered me a silver half-dollar. ‘“‘Keep your money for beggars,” said he. said I; ‘“‘? ll remember you easy enough with- out it;” and off 1 marched. When I got to the turn of the road I looked back—he was pressing the earth down over the hole he had dug, with his feet, and in a moment he walked away and went up the steps that led to a house built on some high ground—®a handsome house—a gentleman’s residence I sup- posed, but I noticed that there was crape on the door and an undertaker’s wagon before it. I walked on, a little saddened in the at the | NO. 417 and a good deal upset. All the world had seemed so bright to me just now; but I had been very angry with the man who had attacked me, and the black wagon, the floating crape, the signs of sorrow in the midst of the blooming gar- den chilled me. The sky, which had been blue, was beginning to be cloudy also; the clouds thickened. When I reached the adja- cent town a slow drizzle had begun, and in it I entered a poor little tavern, the | Only sort where I dare seek lodging with my limited means, and made my bargain for the night. Supper, however, restored me to my usual spirits, and I sat listening to the older men, who were drinking at the bar, until late in the evening. They spoke several times of the death of some old man in the neighborhood, whom they ealled Rich Tyler, and wondered who would get the money. Though I asked no questions, I fancied that they spoke of the person who had owned the house on the hill, at the door of which I had seen the preparations for the funeral. The steward was talked of as an artful man, and one that no one liked; and lL gathered that he had estranged the old gentleman’s relations from him for pur- poses of his own. In the morning I left the tavern and proceeded on my way, and finally reached the town which was my destination; and, in my anxiety about practical matters, almost forgot that little incident of journey with which this story begins. I got something to do before I had been city a week. It was not work that paid well, but it kept me from starving. Later I found a place in store; not that | knew business, my a hardware anything of the but that a hardware salesman must have strong arms in order to han- dle the stock, and mine were very strong. I slept in my master’s garret on an old cot, amongst boxes of serews and papers of tacks, piles of wash-boards and bar- rels of stove-lifters. I ate in my master’s kitchen, and was snubbed by the servant, who had a cousin who wanted all the odd pieces of pie and legs of cold chicken for himself; and as my master was one of the early-closing people, I got leave to go to night-school. The night-school in a crowded ward and teemed with boys of all ages, from the little bare-footed children of eight to men of any age—licensed ven- ders, some of them, with all the rough ways of their sort. Though there were many who, like me, honestly wished to learn something, there were others who came for fun—to have a jolly create confusion. The principal was a young man of thirty, who had not a kindly feeling in his heart, I believe, and who was cruel to boys and assistants alike. often deserved it. Our teacher was a young lady—a pretty girl of about eighteen, with a very mild and ladylike manner. I found out after- ward that Mr. Jobson had desired her place for a bold, insolent young woman with whom he had a flirtation. was time and The boys 2 Stella Lee was a well-educated girl, anxicus to teach her scholars: bered at least ninety. large, and many of them bent on doing their very worst. Mr. Jobson, who had a policeman at the door to defend him, punished offenders by the simple pro-| eess of knocking them down and kicking | under- | them afterward. I have since stood that corporal punishment is not allowed in the public schools, but prob- | extend to night- it. enough to thresh ably this law did not sehools. If it did, of the boys were large him, but afraid of arrest if they did so. Jobson had received his appointment through politi- he defied were was a man who eal influence. Everything has altered for the better | in the twenty years that have intervened between those days and these, and the public schools are well managed and well governed, and their teachers gentlemen and ladies well qualified for their duties; but then there was much that was rotten in Denmark. Jobson, promoted from a tavern where it had been his task to hustle drunkards with empty pockets into the streets, re- tained the manners suitable to that posi- tion, but rather unsuitable for the prin- cipal of a school of any sort. In the day-school under his supervis- ion, he maintained a reign of terror, his only way of exacting respect. The boys spoke of him with awe in consequence. But I always hated brutes. When he spoke rudely to pretty, gentle Miss Lee, I fancy that he sometimes saw my face change, and I knew by his glance that he would have endeavored to knock me down also, had I given the faintest However, | him excuse for doing so. knew my own temper. If he had touched me, I should have proven to him the strength of originally to a country boy, and now exercised daily in the was at the age when men make triumphs in fisticuffs. And Jobson was experienced in such matters. He 1 think—a little doubtful of flooring me. as most women muscles belonging salesman. | their duties of a hardware was Miss Lee, however, was, would Jobson’s be, impressed by the breadth of shoulders and tbe size of his limbs. Once when he had said some- thing offensive to her—I think he called her an idiot—she had noticed that I re- sented it, and asked moments after school. *‘] wanted to speak to you, Harris,’’ me to wait a few said she, *‘and to warn you. knew that Mr. 1 knew it very well, but I try to and I need to the money which add to my have been resources. I you Jobson was rude to- day. despise him earn school mother and | cast on our own not to glance at Mr. Jobson again as you did to-day. for feeling as you not to care. teaching night- will salary, for my unexpectedly beg you I was much obliged to you did; I knew I had a friend who understood what I endured. But he is He would attack you very furiously if you angered him— a savage. and—lI do not want to see you hurt.’’ I could not help smiling. > “He could not hurt me, Miss said 1. ‘You think that, because older and larger than I—I 1 think he does.”’ She shook her head. “If you took my part it would do me harm,’’ she said. ‘*‘That will be suffi- cient argument, I know.’’~ Lee,”’ he is know better. but her | class—the noisiest in the school—num- | The boys were Many | I saw that} THE MICHIGAN TRA DES | ‘*¥es, ma’am,’’ I said. ‘1 will never glance at him again in school.” I did not. But shortly after this, Mr. Jobson’s manner changed. He became civil to Miss Lee; he was even gallant in his way. He paid her coarse compli- ments, and made her offerings of fruit and candy. Once he brought her a glass of champagne. I could see that these | made me furious. the time, but | beautiful teacher. I was in- love with my She was younger than I. was my superior, and had had advantages that I had not; but l intended to myself worthy of her. She spoke to me and it that if 1 could only get a chance to visit her now and then in her own home I | might keep my footing asa friend until make very pleasantly, seemed to attentions gave her no pleasure, and they | 1 searecely knew it at| | | upon the floor, experiencing the punish- | and kissed her; the next moment he lay | ment of his life. The door was closed, | the windows shut—his cries brought no aid. at last lying panting and almost sense- | upon the Meanwhile Miss | Lee had leaned against the wall, trem- | I gave him no mercy, and left him less boards. bling with terror. “T will see you please?” I said, as I ‘The raseal will come to himself shortly; home, if you} resumed my coat. } safe | I have not killed him.” I knew she me | | hand gave me, I can never describe. I was justified in telling her all my feel- | You may see that rapidly sinee I left my Then I was a mere boy, now I felt like a man. I worked hard at my studies and at my business. ings. I had advanced e ecousin’s house. to the window. | was very good to me when he praised it, and in my innocence felt proud that he should patent it. He raised my wages, and promised to advance me. It until fortune never occurred to me made a little and gave me no publie credit for it. by my invention, In- Christmas was over something happened. Miss Lee than 1 cared to him for some time, and fell into the way of lin- It was at the the boys were gone, as lonely a place as any in the With my feelings it was unendurable to know that he detained her there, as I felt, against her will; and see gering in her class-room. end of a long corridor, and when building. one night I slipped behind the crowd of boys as they rose to leave the room and hid in the wardrobe closet. Miss Lee left the room afew moments and then returned for her hat and cloak. She was putting them on in haste when Mr. Jobson entered and shut the door hind him. — with Miss some famous sherry here. Lee,” he said. “I have Do you good me, before your cold walk.’’ ‘Thank Mr. Lee, coldly. ‘‘I do said not for and I must get home as soon as possible. Mother is will anxious if I am late.” you, Jobson,’’ care wine, not very well, and ‘You are so stiff and offish, said Jobson. there’re very would try to bluff a principal Miss Lee,” “Not to brag, you know few like The girls usually like me, too. I suppose your back is up because I wanted Tiny Hull instead of you. Tiny is jolly: doesn’t mind a joke; gives ia fellow a kiss. pike-staff; but, look here, you’re as pretty |as a picture, and cut her out all hollow in that Just be friendly and we'll get on lovely.’ “T am sure lam friendly,’ said Lee. ‘‘Will you kindly open the door? I must go hame, Mr. Jobson.” ‘Must you?” said Jobson. ‘Very well, say good-bye.”’ He put his arm about her waist, she me. respect. I had conceived one or | two good ideas, and had contrived a little | be- | mechanical toy which attracted attention | I felt that my master | long after that he} creased wages and a liberal Christmas | box fully contented me, but before the | Mr. Jobson had been more gallant to} want you to take a glass of wine} Miss | | school be | assistant - teachers | | her door I said ‘‘Good-bye. beside my little teacher for awhile in then she turned faint that I was obliged to offer her my I walked silence, so arm. The delicate At delicious sensation her 33 allowed to enter she said, ‘‘but “You will never be that school-house again,’ you must come to see me sometimes. Come on Sunday and take tea with mother and me—do not speak of any trouble more I fear.’’ “Oh, he'll affair,” said I. However, was right. I went to the school-door the next evening—Mr. Jobson and a policeman faced me. ‘‘Harris, you are expelled,” said Job- son, whose eyes were black and blue and 5 at school—there will be not dare to publish this she whose mouth was swollen. ‘“‘And if you come here again Vll run you in,”’ said the policeman. I had sense enough not to resist the strong hand of the law, and after that But I thought only of when it came I studied at home. Sunday evening, and made as careful a toilet as possible and presented myself at Miss Lee’s door. Mrs. Lee was acourtly old lady, with very affable manners. She spoke of me as ‘‘one of the young gentleman,” and she gave me a little hint of a loss of for- tune which compelled them to reside in such poor rooms and hoped I would par- don deficiencies. There were none, as far as I knew, but if the feast had been of the poorest I should have rejoiced in it, for I sat at Stella Lee’s right hand. But my re- [ became a friend from that hour. the end my championship of teacher had not yet come. of Jobson’s venge was slow but sure. He had his tools in the school. One Sunday I found the little home darkened by what was to them a tragic event. Humiliating charges had been made against Miss Lee, and she had been her place at the day the temporary dismissed from well night-school position. ‘*We have nothing,’ moment mother the ‘and after perience I cannot hope to teach as as from r said, at a absent sueh she when her was from room: ex- again.” | Then it was that I went upon my knees Well, I'l] tell why: } You’re as prim as a/| | poor; but I mean to | door. before her. “You me,” said 1. “I ask no better than to devote my life to your ser- vice. I am not highly educated. I not a gentleman of position, and | have am am am the lf you can only try to love me improve, and | already able to keep the wolf from ; enough to be my wife, all things will be Miss | possible to me.”’ Stella smiled through her tears. ‘I shan’t have to try,” she said. And so we were engaged, and shortly married; and we were very happy. How- ever, we had very little to live on; and pushed him away; he caught her again! when, in the course of a year, a very Our Complete Fall Line of ay a racy Will be ready September 10th, every merchant handling this lins of goods It will pay to examine our samples. e ~ EATON, LYON & CO,, 20 & 22 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - A. D, SPANGLER & CO., GENERAL Commission Merchants And Wholesale Dealers in Fruits and Produce. We solicit correspondence with both buy- ers and sellers of all kinds of fruits, ber- ries and produce. SAGINAW, E. Side, MICH. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK MICH. BOWNE, President. D. A. pGeTT, Vice-President. H. W. 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CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS ——OR— PAMPHLETS For the best work, at reasonable prices, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. _- THE MICHIGAN small son lay in his eradle, I began to know what care was, and to fall into debt for sheer necessities, and to lie awake at night wondering when, in the | slow progress of events, I should have peace once more. “The doctor has sent his bill again,” said my mother-in-law one night, as she | ‘How hard you know, lL four years living with my My brother old bachelor, so very wealthy through oil speculations that he yas spoken of as ‘Rich Tyler.’ ”’ held the baby on her knee. it is to be poor! And do never dreamed of such a thing Then brother at his country-seat. was an eccentric ago. we were ‘‘Rich Tyler?’’ I repeated. “Yes, my dear,’’ said my mother-in- law; ‘I was his only sister. But I mar- ried against his counsel, and he madea will in favor of best to estrange him from everyone else. The will had been made when my hus- a steward, who did his band died; but after Ll was a widow my brother sent for us to come to him, and was perfectly reconciled to me. He then made a will my he told the property to be first mine and then Stella’s; with a good legacy to the stew- ard, to be sure. I know the will made; but when my brother died sudden- ly, it was not to be found, and as the first will could in favor, me, was still in existence, no one swear that had not altered his mind and_ reinstated his favorite. We might have gone to law, but that seemed hopeless to me; so John James has the fortune, and we, as you know, are penniless.” And the old lady sighed. Then suddenly there rushed into my mind a picture of the woodpath, of the man who knelt at the foot of the great oak, and who ecalied me a spy and threatened me on the day of Rich Tyler’s funeral. I saw him again treading down the earth at the foot of the tree, and climbing the steps to the grounds above. Again the gloomy picture of the hand- some house, with crape floating from its door, Again I trudged through the mist and dampness to the old tavern and heard the men talking of the steward who won his master from all his friends. John James? Yes, they spoke of him and of the dead man as Rich Tyler. How strange it all was! Was the man I saw John James? And what was it that he hid under the oak-tree on the day of his mastet’s funeral? I determined to know. was my brother arose. The next day, I asked for a holiday, and got it; and without telling my wife or her mother where I was going, | stepped into the cars and alighted at the station nearest the place of my adven- ture. The woodpath was unchanged, .and the vicinity of the steps in the green bank marked the particular oak of which I wasinseareh. I had put a little trowel in my pecket, but the grass bad grown and moss had gathered about the roots of the tree, so that no one could have guessed that anyone had ever disturbed the earth near them; and, indeed, John James—if it were he—might long ago have taken away his hidden treasure. However, I dug in this direction and in that, finding nothing for along while; ‘obliged to pause and lie upon the ground to hide my work whenever feet ap- proached. Once they came down the steps of the old Tyler mansion, and, looking up, I saw the man whom 1 supposed to be John James—the man who had called me a spy—descending them. He was now} very handsomely dressed, and wore a | heavy watech-chain and a diamond pin. I covered the loose earth with my person | and pulled my hat over my eyes as he came near. He paused and looked at me. I muttered something unintelligible. ‘Some drunken he said rascal,” to | | himself and walked on. When he was out of sight, I set to} ° ° * ° | work again, and this time I found the outline of a hand with pointing finger, | icut into the bark of the tree; and dig- | ging below this, soon upon box, such as lawyers use, long, narrow | and well padlocked. marked the name— came a tin | Upon it was So wee |: | eeeoeesece } Carrying this with me I made the best of my way to the office of a celebrated | lawyer, told my suspicions, and in his presence opened | the box. It contained, as I had all along | believed, the last will and testament of Rich Tyler, stolen, there could be no doubt, by steward, John James. | Whether the man was superstitious and | dared not destroy the will, or had some intention of making restitution on his The figure cut in the bark seemed to indicate | the latter fact. But at all events, Mrs. Lee that she would take no punish the man. The lawyer | would declare the discovery of the latest will, which, as the witnesses were all living, could not be disputed. The legacy his master intended for John James would be his, and no more | need be thought of him. It was condoning a felony, the lawyer | declared, but it was none of his affair. | And so one day my mother-in-law took possession of her estate. I left the hard- | ware shop to become her steward, and we all live -happily together in the old Tyler mansion, and shall, I hope, for} many, many years. MARY KYLE DALLAS. i - o> >_> An Easy Going Merchant. One of the most easy going merchants in the State conduets a general store at Ashton he located for the past twenty or twenty-five He gets up when he feels like it, opens the store whenever the fancy strikes him, and keeps it open or closed, just as he happens to feel. A few days ago he concluded to take a trip to Canada and ; where has been years. closed the store during his absence. When a certain Grand Rapids lumber firm failed, eight or nine years ago, he had its checks in his safe to the amount of $1,200—some of them a year He pays his bills when it best suits his con- and colleets his book accounts old. venience with equal avidity. Those who know the man and appreciate the opportunities fullest Halliday ought —and would be, if a man of great energy and shwewd foresight. a Go Slow. In making up your mind that you are the most unfcrtunate person in the world. go slow in believing discreditable things of others. Hate nobody whom you don’t know. Go slow in giving con- fidence.to a new made friend. he has failed to extent improve to their that Frayer $100,000 assert worth he had been to be | buttons, ete. | orf Jewelry, Don’t | complain of bad luck, for the world will | believe you unlucky, and the world has no use for an unlucky man. Have as| many aecquaintainces as you please, but | go slow in adopting friends, and if you| find one, cling to him. Go slow in mak- ing up your mind, then act. Go slow in all the indulgences of life. body coming if you abuse it. For the loss of health neither riches nor fé will compensate. Go slow in acknowl- edging that you are wrong; but if you once find that you are wrong, haste to make amends. Go slow in taking of- fenece—an angry man is never a sensible man. —————_ —~ -@- <>- Country Callers. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week Robt. Johnson, Cadillac. Alex Denton, Howard City. Geo. E. Marvin, Clarksville. Arthur Mulholland, Ashton. W. H. Hicks, Morley. S. C. Sibole, Breedsville. W. C. Spreen, Elmira. A. Purchase, South Blendon. | TRADESMAN. Wait! Lo Our travelers ar comprising all the o Bracelets, Necklaces OK! ~ » now on the road with a complete line latest novelties in 9 Hair Ornaments, Lace Pins Including a large variety of sl In addition to styles of Silk Handkerchie of our own importation at astonishingly low prices. It be to your advantage to see ou , Bte., eeve buttons, scarf pins, collar the above we show 200 (§ and Mufiiers OVEer will r line before buying. W. F. & W. ME WORAGURG, 1? Canal St, and 12 & 1d Ata le - - Grand Rapids, Mich. Send for Sample Line of our Handkerchiefs and Mufflers. LION COFFEE. An article of handsome strength Me rehant Te You need ¢ nbl i) INETS. they dress up picture venience, For sale by wholesale grocers everywhere. Order from your jobbe r, or address the This popular brand ¥JAVA and RiO. Ev eard. Lion Coffee exe absolute merit is composed of ery package For purity, els them all. OCHA, ins a and conte flavor yne or more of these CAB- Besides serving as a con- a store and attract trade. WOOLSON SPICE CO., Tole 0 PEACHES! Early Crawfords and Barnards Are fast disappe aring, but it is not too late Lin if you order or omptly Y. little late, and always produce There is a day of reckoning with your | The ‘following varieties W lance this week. We have four or five sple mndid orchards that are a a fine article. ill begin to put In an appear- Mixon Free Stone (large white w ith pink cheek } Prices will be reasonable and probably low if warm weather. Address Famous I Snow's Or: Wager (er Reeves’ Favorite (very large and handsome) ange (yellow with red cheek) eamy yellow) uate Crawfords. ALFRED J. BROWN, Grand Rapids, Mich. from the following gentleman in trade: | | a side track, which, with the necessary | | Free Waterpower Privilege. I have a fine waterpower on Rapid River, near where the new extension of the Chicago & West Michigan crosses said river, near enough to run ground | for building I am anxious to giveaway. Who wants it? ALLAN F. LITTLE, Aarwoop, Kalkaska Co., Mich. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Tar and Gravel Roofers, And dealers in Tarred Felt, Building Paper, Pitch, Coal Tar, Asphaltum, Rosin, Mineral | Wool, Ete. Corner Louis and Campau Sts., | ‘GRAND RAPIDS. 6 What Gloves are Made Of. From the New York Sun. **Many of the gloves sold in this coun- | try under the comprehensive title of | ‘kid’” said a glove manufacturer, ‘‘are | really made of goatskin. There is hard-| ly a country in the world that does not! supply some sort of materials which are | made up into gloves, and many of which | pass for kid in the retail stores. The} supply of kidskin of the finest quality is | naturally limited. The greater part is| absorbed in the manufacture of women’s gloves. Men’s gloves, therefore, are fre- quently made of fine lambskin, which is better than the second-rate kid. The genuine fine kidskins are mainly of French origin, and those obtained from | mountain slopes of Southern France are | world-famed for their excellence. All! the best conditions of climate, air and | diet appear to unite in exactly the de-| gree required to secure perfection in this | district. Nowhere else are the condi-| tions equally favorable,although kidskins | of great excellence are produced through- | out the mountain ranges of Southern Europe. Their production is the princi-| pal industry among the mountaineers. ‘‘Great pains must be taken to secure the softness and delicacy of texture and freedom from blemish which form the) value of kidskins. The diet is one of the | most important factors, and mother’s | milk is required to keep the kid in per-| fect condition. I1f the animal is allowed | to eat grass its value declines, as the skin immediately begins to grow hard-| er and coarser in texture. To keep the| skin in perfect condition the young kid | is kept closely penned and carefully guarded against injury from scratches i bruises, and soon. As soon as the kids have reached the age at which their skins are in the best condition for the glover, they are killed and the skins are sold to traveling peddlers, who bear them to the great centers of the tanning industry at Grenoble, Annonay, Milhau and Paris. “Fine lambskins are raised in great | quantities in Southern Europe and} throughout Hungary, Servia, Bulgaria and Romania. The American glovemak- ers buy most of their lambskins at Vien- na or Mu e chief market of all the ‘skins. Here may be found | the Cape sheepskins, tough and durable | from the Cape of Good Hope; colt and | ealf skins from Buenos Ayres and other cities of South America; hogskins from Mexico and Brazil; Brazil, Colorado and Africa. years many of these skins, having been brought directly to New York, Amer- ican buyers no longer find it necessary to go to London. While fine lambskins | | back, half | Then as I strove to catch the import of THE MICHIGAN I had lost track of time. that I had striven to catch for hours, it might have been days, a message from a voice afar. At length it seemed to me that [was mad. And yet there seemed a very method in my madness, though |my brain throbbed as the hot blood rose | to my burning brow. Faintly now, then rising, still the voice called to me. But in a language no man could understand. Then silence fell. I pleaded with it. I called again, and at last the voice came human in its ineoherency. the words they died away, then rose again, yet louder still. This time it seemed as if I partly un- derstood. I could have danced with joy. I called aloud that I understood, but there was noreply. Again I called, and once again, and still no sound. It seemed as if in that ghastly place even the echoes were dead. Then as I strove once more, a harsh rattle answered back, and the madden- ing sound of the ringing wild of bells. Then voices, one, two, ten, a babel of bedlam, called across the night. Afar off, and ringing clear, I seemed to hear thy voice to which at first I listened, and, as the other sounds all died away, I strove to interpret it, those syllables that came from where I knew not. Mystic. Aw- ful. But now it seemed that the voice mocked, and what I strove to know, the | words, whatever they were, were never to reach me. 1 calmed myself with an | effort, and tried again to catch the sound. Again, that harsh, metallic whir that maddened me. Then followed, as before, |the babel of discordant tongues, while, |amid them, still, half drowned by the fearful clangor, came the voice. Lights seemed to dance before my eyes. My head swam round and round, and in my anguish I knew not what I did and raved and blasphemed. And then the babel once again, and louder yet and louder yet! With a wild ery | threw up my hands in the abandonment of despair. D—n a telephone, anyway! ll — ne New Pharmacy Law in Portugal. The Pharmacy Law which was recent- ly presented to the Portuguese Cortes, makes it legal for a qualified pharmacist | to associate himself with an unqualified | person in the purchase and conduct of a antelope from India, | pharmacy. In that case the name of the Of late | qualified man shall be the title of the firm, while the unqualified partner or partners may only appear as ‘‘& Co.’’ This article is intended to cut short the abuses which have arisen under the pres- are the staple in men’s gloves, coltskins | ent law, a number of spurious pharma- are rapidly coming into favor, and fine ealfskins are also extensively used. Each has a grain peculiar to itself, which, while not visible to the ordinary buyer, can be instantly perceived by the expert. *‘Calfskins are good looking, soft and pliable, but are apt to crack. This fault is not found in coltskins, which are dur- able and handsome, and in many respects make model gloves. The wrinkles are objectionable, but these disappear when the glove is on the hand. The ‘jacks’ of Venezuela contribute the majority of deerskins at present. The castor comes from the antelopes of the West. Heavy | leather gloves are obtained from elks. Hogskins are used to a moderate extent. Patnas or Calcutta ox hides are also used. ‘“‘Every invoice of heavy skins contain | more or less curiosities, and the kind of | leather that will be evolved from a stray | moose, muskox, llama or kangaroo skins | depends upon the skins that accompany it. Dogskins are occasionally made up into gloves, but their use is very uncom- mon. Everything that goes by the name of dogskin nowadays is likely to be Cape | Ratskin gloves are about as fre-| | sheep. quent as rat sautes in Chinese laundries A Sketch from Life. The footsteps died away at last, and I was alone. It was at night. A weird and ghostly night, when ghostly fancies troop and memories of the dead awaken | all the past: when the wind moans around the house and comes sobbing to | the door like a lost soul out in the dark. cies having sprung up. Another article provides that the heirs of a pharmacist shall be allowed to carry on his business for a year after his death under the man- agement of a qualified man. At the close of the year the heirs, if not quali- fied, must withdraw from the business. The simultaneous exercise of the profes- sion of medicine or veterinary surgery with that of pharmacy is prohibited,even if the medical man or veterinary surgeon should also be qualified as a pharmacist. |} It is open toa pharmacist to dispense at | the request of a customer,and without in- | eurring any responsibility, a prescrip- | tion which has already been previously | dispensed. Under the present law only | one supply of medicine is allowed to be | filled from the same recipe. Civil and | military hospitals, belonging to the State, jand charitable institutions, are allowed | to have a private pharmacy, but it must be under the management of a qualified |man, and under no pretext may any | medicines be sold in it. _—~>> Weigh Accurately. When a grocer sells a pound of any ar- | ticle the customer is entitled to one pound—no more, no less. It is just as | inaccurate to weigh out sixteen and one- | half ounces as to weigh out fifteen and one-half ounces. In one instance you cheat the customer; in the other you cheat yourself. It is common to give down weight, but the dealer loses money ‘unless his eharges are high enough to | cover the difference; but such a thing is ‘seldom taken into account. I only knews TRADESMAN. Dry Goods Price Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. Deeieee ..........,., 7 “Arrow Brand 5% Ce a ea 6% “ World Wide.. LL Buena AA......... 6% PR ieee ee 5 Aries A... 7 |Full Yard Wide..... 6% e RES Se GxiGeorgia A.......... 614 ' . on 6 [Honest Widit....... 6% ee: 6% Perio A .......... 5 c LL eee 53 a. mene... ... Tq ary... ..... © ieee 8 A... 6% Archery Bunting... 4 iKing ee... a. Beaver Dam A A.. 5%/Lawrence LL.. 54 Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth 6% peace Crow......... 614; Newmarket G...... 6 Peeee BOGE ......+. 7 ft ' _ el 5% Boot, Al........ 74) ' y .. 6% Capital A. ito. ol ' DD . 5% Cavanat V.......... SM ° x 7 Chapman cheese cl. 3% Noibe R..... oa | Clon C e......... 544/Our Level Best..... 6% | Come... oe. 2 S wearer Ee... 8... 2. 644 | Dwight Ster......... Ter eeuee.....,.... 1... 7% | Cilften CCC........ a : 6% | |Top of the Heap.... 7% BLEACHED COTTONS. AB. 8144\|Geo. Washington... 8 Amason....... 8 1oge0 Wuew.......... 7 AmmBOure.......-... 4 jG Mecal.. -- 1 Axt Cambric........ 10 |Green Ticket....... 814 Bileckstone AA..... 8 jGreat Falis.......... 6% Beam Ae... ee ae acd en 74 ci cece 2 Jost Cat..... %@ 5 POU ee 7 King 1 Fatup....-... is co, -............ Oe. Charter Oak........ 5% (Lonsdale Cambric. “10% away w.......... V14iLonsdale...... @ 8% Cleveland . os. 0 [eOne...... .. @5 Dwight Anchor..... Dali MANNS... .......,.- 1% * shocks. Sear View.......... a Roweres,........... 6 Mur Own............ Empire...... 7 |Pride of the West.. ewe... ......... Wal oneiied............ "6 Fruit of the ane 8 Denies. .....-...-... 4% Pacey ......... 9 (Olek Bete, _... 8% Ping trise.......... 6%) ‘ Nonpareil ..11 Fruit of the Loom %. Winvere..........-.- 8% Perens... .. ...-. 414|White Horse....... 6 Pol Vaioe.......... — 6|6.lCOCRe... . oo HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. a 7%| Dwight Anchor.. 9 Farwell.. is UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. cc, 5%4(Middlesex No. 1....10 Harmititeu N......... 6% . a NS . L — r " 2... Middlesex AT _o ' ae 9 . S.....9 . No. 2 .. BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Heetiten %......... ™% Middlesex A A ley il Middlesex P T...... 8 levee Man “6 Ae 9 “ A 6. a 13% . A.....- LC 17% _ i 10% ° os 16 CARPET WARP. Peerless, maite...... 18 |Integrity, colored. ..91 colored. . - 2044) White Gear....... 22 8% ee 18%4| * colored. .21 DRESS GOODS. Hamilton ; : nae eee 20 C -weaceceees ee 25 a “10341 Ty 27% GG Cashmere..... ~ . tose ae Nameless ed aes ge 24% oe de ouel 18 i. ae CORSETS. Coreuee............ — 50}Wonderful . 84 50 Schilling’s. _o 00|Brighton oe Davis Waists..... 9 00|Bortree’s ........ ..09000 Grand Rapids..... 4 50|A bdominal eee 15 00 CORSET JEANS. Beery ............. 6%| Naumkeag satteen.. 7% Androscoggin — rH OCRINES....... .... 6% Paseerors.......-... LaenORR. ..... -- a 25 6% Brunswick. " Suclwralee rae ...-...... 6% PRINTS. Allen turkey reds.. 5%|Berwick fancies.. % ronee..... 5%4|Clyde Robes........ 5 . = apaaie 614 Charter Oak fancies 4h . 6 ‘|DelMarine cashm’s. 6 Pg pink checks. 5% . mourn’g . - maples ...... 5% Eddystone fancy... ' shirtings . 4 chocolat 6 American fancy.. ‘ 5% | . roper.... 6 Americanindigo.... 53) c sateens.. 6 American shirtings: 4 |Hamilton a fs Argentine —- = staple .... 5% Anchor Shirtings. - 4) Manchester ancy.. 6 Arnold 2 new era. 6 Arnold Merino..... 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 6 . long cloth B. 10% Merrim’ck shirtings. 4 “ Y - Reppfurn . o% ‘century cloth 7 Pacific fancy.. i < oli ecai..... 10% * pee 6% ‘* green seal TR 104| Portsmouth robes... 6 «yellow seal..10% Simpson mourning.. : “ seree. -114%) reyes... .... . 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SR Oe | Meese cae ee een DEMINS. Amoskeag Sai em 124%/Columbian brown. .12 or... 13%|Everett, blue........ 12 ' brown .13 . brown. ....12 Amaoret.......05.. 5 11% Haymaker bam... 7% Beaver-Creek AA.,.10 brown... 73% . Bo... © Weerer.......... LK ° ns Lancaster....... 2K Boston, Mfg Co. br.. 7 tLawrenco, 9oz...... 13% blue 8% a No. 220....13 “6d & twist 10% . No. 250....11% Columbian XXX br.i0 : No. 280....10% aa D119 GINGHAMS. Axaaieoee |. .... ...: 7% Lancaster, staple. . - 6% “ Persian dress 8% fancies . 7 c Canton .. 8% - Normandie 8 ra AMC......12%¢ pencesnhire......:..; 6% e Teazle...1044|Manchester. . . 5% m Angola. 10% monoerms.......... 6% i Persian.. 8%|Normandie......... 7% piles maple... 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Black. 9% 94/13 13 13 on 10% 1044 15 15 15 11% 11% 1144/17 17 17 121% 12% 12%|% - 20 2 DUCK Severen, 8 oz........ 9% West Point, 8 oz....10% Mayland, 802... ..10%4| “ 10 0z ...12% Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9%|Raven, 100z......... 13% Greenwood, 8 0z.. ..11% |Stark " cser ee WADDINGS. White, dos........- = - bale, 40 doz....87_50 Colored, OS oe cuss tt Slater, Iron Cross... 8 j Pawtucket bese cepene 10% Red Cross.... 9 |Dundie.............. 9 ' ent. ..,.....- 10%|Bedford........ ...10% " Bost AA..... 1244|V — omy te 10% Dec ag cee beer seems T4iKK ceeccene stbea Baek saa ere camnigsentnt SEWING SILK. Corticelli, doz.......%5 —. twist, doz. STA - yd, doz. .37% OK8 AND EY No i BIVk “& White. = . & 5 per %oz ball ol per 0: ES—PER GROSS. pte — k& White. 15 -20 “ : “se 7) : ae 10 a = Na. No2— oe... 50. "No4-15 F 3%......40 316,85 C........ ms TTON TAPE No : White « Br K. _ |INo 8 ‘White & BI’k..20 “ce 10 “ : 23 ‘ ; “ec — | & 19 ec . 28 SAFETY PINS, MOR cee, cee 28 |No3 36 NEEDLES—PER M. A. eee... 45. 1 SO0|Steamboat.... ...... @ crower s.....,. -i.. 1 35|Gold Eyed.. nS 150 Maree B........,.. 1 00} _—_ = CLOTH. ;5—4....2 25 6—4.. 19 6—4...2 j oe i: 2 10 “ec 2 _ COTTON TWINES. | Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua. ..18 MeO. so...) 12 Rising Star 4- ply.. Ae mmeeeee 18% op... = cs, 6 ioeth Star... ...... Bristol . -- ee ece eee ee es wena sus 1 00 90 eo ee | 1 00 Barrell % De eet eee tates c tay itd 2 50 PLANES. dis. Olle Teel Ces, taney... Qs Sciota Bench.. aaa Qe Sandusky Tool Co.’ 's, ‘fancy. «ee Benei. Grat @uaney.............-............ @60 Stanley Rule and TTevel Co.’s, wood &10 PANS. Pry, AGwe |... Led . dis.60—10 Common, polished........... aa | oe RIVETS. dis. mon end Tred... 40 Copper Rivets and Bure.................... 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. : | a Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20} *“B”? Wood’s pat. planished, Nos, 2 to 27... 9 20} “Broken packs 4c per pound extra. 14x60 yIX PRICE LIST Du Pont Gunpowder. RIFLE, Kegs, 25 lbs. each, Fg, FFg and FrFg..........$5 50 Half kegs, 124¢ lbs. each, Fg, FFg and FFFg... 3 00 | Quar. kegs, ¢ On ie eta ai _ L 65 1 We. Gans (25 fi Gabe). 12... te. lk. 30 [ie 1 eas (ain a ease 18 CHOKE BORE. Keps 95 lis. eseh, Ned Sand 7................ $6 50 Insist Half kegs, 19+ lbs. each, Nos. 5 and 7......- $ 50 Quar. kegs, 6% ibs. each, Nos. 5 and 7......... 1 90 ib, Gos (25 1h Case) 8s... ek... 34 EAGLE DUCK Kees. 25 lbs, oach, Nos. 1, 2,3 and 4......... $11 00 Half kegs, 123<¢ Ibs. each, Nos. 1,2,3and4... 5 75 Quer. *“ 6 ‘ ‘f “* Tagen 4... 3 60 bib, C208 (20 Wy ense) el... 60 CRYSTAL GRAIN, | Nos, t, 3. 34nd 4.0 Ib, cans eaeh ee ll. S90. Since bees. ee TUPONT OVW D! Pc a — TAKE on your Jobber furnishing this Brand. NO OTHER! it send to us direct. Agents for Western Michigan, If he declines to do 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. Retail Yrade of the Wolverine State. The Tradesman Company, Proprietor. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable strictly in advance. Advertising Rates made known on aprzlication. Publication Office, 100 Louis St Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Oy.ce. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 18914 THE NINTH YEAR. The issue of last week closed the eighth volume of THE TRADESMAN, consequent- ly the present issue marks the beginning of the ninth year of publication. It has TRADESMAN to improve this opportunity not been customary for THE to boast of its success in the past or to make fulsome promises for the future, and there is no reason why the program Suffice to say, the publishers of the paper are sat- should be varied at this time. isfied with the patronage accorded the journal, both subscription and advertis- ing, and will undertake to make even a better paper in the future than they have in the past. LABOR DAY. The Christian world has insisted since the beginning of time that labor was a eurse on the human family in conse- quence of man’s disobedience in the Garden of Eden. Such has been the ac- cepted theory, based on the prediction recorded in the third chapter of Genesis, ‘‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground.” taken literally, people insisted that labor was a curse com- So long as this injunction was and that those who pelled to labor were cursed. were The theory that toil is a misfortune is the In the light of the present century it has come to be conceded on all sides that the man who labors with his hands, or with his brain, or with both, is blessed, instead of being eursed, and that labor—which is the key which unlocks the doors of progress—is a blessing to the world and not a curse. no longer accepted, however, by great mass of people. In recognition of the majestic mission of labor, asmall portion of the toiling masses are attempting to institute a new holiday, which was celebrated in some sections of the country last Monday. In the present form, however, it will never meet the approval of conservative citi- zens and patriotic people for the reason that it takes great world of toil and is meant to refer only to manual labor, the small who inaugurated the movement being so blinded by prejudice as to be unable to} that the hand is but the servant of | see the brain, and that in recognizing the hand’s labor and ignoring the directing mind they committed an absurdity which should be laughed out of existence. When the time comes that a labor holi- day is the dual celebration of both the skilled intellect and the trained hand— of those who plan as well as those who execute—it will then be in line with the progress of the people and the intellect- but a limited view of the} souls | ual growth of the age and will receive | the cordial co-operation it deserves. Tuer TRADESMAN advises its readers to | send to the Secretary of the Treasury fora pamphlet, just printed by the depart- ment, which will be mailed free to all who apply for it. The intense interest in the financial question will create a great demand for the pamphlet, the con- clusion of which will doubtless provoke much criticism, as the circulation per capita in 1865 is placed at $22.16 against $23.45 as the average for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1891. It has been cur- rently believed that our per capita circu- lation was nearly $50 in the booming times at the close of the war. If there was no such amount of money in cireu- 1 tion, and if we really have more money per capita circulating among the people to-day han at that time, many of the points are false upon which the advo- eates of free coinage have based their opinion as to the necessity for more money. | | ‘ ; A strong effort will now be made to compel Austro-Hungary to repeal her prohibition against American pork pro- ducts. In fact, she has got to doit or this country will rule out her beet sugar. An effort will also be made to open the Ital- ian market. Even with the markets of Germany, Austria, France and _ Italy closed against the American product, the United States exported 688,000,000 pounds of bacon, hams and salt pork last year. The total value of American meat products exported to Europe in 1881, the last year that our trade enjoyed unrestricted trade with Germany and France, Europe took $70,000,000 worth against only $39,000,000 in 1889. THE TRADESMAN believes these exports will now jump up again to $50,000,000 in value at least within a year. A great contest is under way in Ger- many to force the government to admit cereals and flour free of duty this sea- son, to supply the present crop deficit which has already raised the price of bread to an exorbitant figure. The popular demand bids fair to compel a compliance. The admission of our pork and cereals at the duty imposed on other countries, and lower freights on cereals to all parts of the Empire, show that the Emperor appreciates the gravity of the situation. All this will further stimu- late the foreign demand for our stuffs. It is yet altogether too early to state definitely the chances for an European demand for our potatoes. We can ex- port quite a quantity to the West Indias, but Canada’s crop can undersell us in Europe. In 1889 the United States had about the same crop that we shall have this year (rot promises to reduce the yield to 191,000,000 bushels), while in 1888 we had a still bigger crop—202,000,- | 000 bushels. The foreign shortage in cereals will naturally affect the demand far more than was the casein these years. Sulphuring or bleaching dried fruit is | It is | true that evaporated fruit prepared in | | certainly a mistake if not a crime. |this way dries quicker, looks better, keeeps better and at present also sells better. \is unhealthful in the highest degree. | The public is ‘‘getting onto” this fact, ;and evaporators who don’t use sulphur | will yet scoop the business. Most of the ‘‘labor leaders” are so im- pressed with the dignity of labor that | they usually keep at a respectful dis- tance from it. ee Edueation and encrgy are like the two parts of a seidlitz-powder—they must be | put together in order to do their work. How the Merchant Can Maintain His Credit. If he has any claims for shortage or damage, let him send them on the day the goods are checked. When a monthly statement is ren- dered, check it, and if wrong write about the error at once. When he writes let him remember that civility is the pass-word to good treatment, and that business correspond- ence is an art which, when properly cul- tivated, brings large returns. If he cannot remit when asked to, he should drop a line stating when he rea- sonably expects to be able to do so. If notified that after a lapse of time, he will be drawn upon, immediate at- tention should be given to the matter, first to see that the amount and terms are correct, and secondly, that his bill book will permit him to accept the draft. If not, let him write exactly what he wants. Unless there is a prior under- standing to the contrary, let it be his ardent ambition never to dishonor a draft. If he cannot meet a draft at maturity, he should write or telegraph. Above all things he should make it his firm purpose never to ‘‘kick,’’? when kick- ing is prompted solely by a captious spirit or when he is sure kicking will do no good. To these suggestions we might add one more thing, and that is in ordering from salesmen or by mail, to order deliberate- ly and with such intelligence that it will be unnecessary to cancel any order ever given, for the worst crank in business is SENTIMENTAL FINANCE. I confess to a little satisfaction at the | failure of the scheme for forming a syn- dicate of national banks to purchase $5,- 000,000 of the maturing 4 per cent. Government bonds and, after extending them at 2 per cent., to take out circula- tion against them. I do not claim that the recent expression of my views on the subject had any influence in bringing about the failure, for the arguments I ad- duced were such as would naturally pre- sent themselves toany intelligent mind. Only, as I said, all measures for inflating the currency, and thereby raising prices, are so popular that I was quite prepared to see a sufficient number of bank presi- dents carried away by this one, and its defeat was an agreeable surprise to me. But, as if to prove that my foreboding was not altogether unjustified, the offi- cers of the Fourth National Bank of New York, since the $5,000,000 syndicate was abandoned, have taken a step which proves either their weakness as finan- ciers or their shrewdnes in catering to popular prejudices. For the purpose of stimulating the return to this country of at least a part of the $75,000,000 in gold which we have exported to Europe since Jan. 1, they have agreed to lend the equivalent of $1,000,000 of it to its im- porters, free of interest from the time of its shipment to the time of its arriva: here. mium on the geld equal to interest upon it for a week or more. Asa matter of bus- iness, this is throwing away justso much money, as a matter of sentiment, it may be not only justifiable, but good policy. In other words, they pay a pre the cancellation crank, and we some- times speculate as to whether it would not be wiser for a man who has been a mistake in it, to stand the cost and charge it to experience rather than to class himself among the cranks referred to. a -c Dispensed with an Attorney. From the Ionia Standard. Geo. Gundrum returned Wednesday from the Houghton meeting of the State Board of Pharmacy. The Board being now without an attorney, it devolves up- on the members to investigate complaints of violations of the pharmacy law. Mr. Gundrum visited Elk Rapids and Lud- ington on errands of that nature. ° ———__——~_-. __— - Will Open a Fourth Office. R. G. Dun & Co. announce their inten- tion of opening an office at Marquette about Jan. 1. Like the Grand Rapids and Saginaw offices, it willbea ‘“‘branch” of the Detroit office, which is the execu- tive headquarteis of the agency for this State. a — Menominee—Joseph McKosh & Co., a logging firm of this city, has been forced to the wall after a series of misfortunes. Last winter they fell short $2,600 on a eontract with the Detroit Lumber Co., But fruit prepared in this way | In fact, the legitimate effect of the presence and the absence of gold in a : | country is so complicated with the work- hasty in sending an order, or has made } ings of men’s imaginations that it is dif- ficult not to yield occasionally to senti- mental considerations in dealing with the metal. There is a story of a clergyman who, several times running, borrowed a ten-dollar bill from one of his congrega- tion every Saturday, and returned the identical bill the Monday. Finally, the lender was curious enough to ask for an explanation of the trans- action, and got this: ‘‘Oh! I can preach ever so much better with a little money in my pocket.’”’ It made no difference that the money was borrowed; it was enough that the borrower had it in his possession for the time being. So, my Fourth Na- tional Bank friends are not concerned as to the means adopted to bring gold across the ocean, provided it gets here somehow. Knowing that its coming un- der normal conditions indicates a flow of zapital to this country, and knowing that the public, se long as they see it ar- riving, will assume that it is sent in the natnral course of trade, they set to work to produce the result artificially, with following which seized their horses and camp out- vances. They also came out badly in a contract with the Menominee Hardwood & Cedar Co., and have numerous liabili- ties. i 9 Marquette—The Cleveland Saw Mill Co has purchased from the Manistique line of its logging road south of Seney. | The logs are brought to this city by rail | —two train loads daily—which are sawed as fast as they arrive. \logs intended for the Cleveland com- | pany’s mill are hung up on Dead river, |and were it not for this purchase the mill would probably have to lose part of the sawing season. fit on a chattel mortgage to secure ad-| Lumber Co. 10,000,000 feet of logs on the | The most of the | the well-grounded expectation that it will have the same effect as if it had been due to unassisted causes. Their success, indeed, has been greater than they ex- pected. The amount of the shipment they have aided has been doubled by being reported, not only when it was en- | gaged, but also when it was put on board | | ithe steamer, and, probably, when it ar- rives it will be counted a third time. | Like the supernumeraries in a play, the |}same $1,000,000 will be marched across | the stage again and again until it creates | to the spectator the illusion of being $2,- | 000,000 or $3,000,000, and perhaps more. | By the way, how is it that, in these | days of labor-saving contrivances, in ; penance inti paMtN Nts PO ANN SE ETE in tenareiitiromitieac lore seco aie eet eae | i } THE MICHIGAN TRADE SMAN. 9 finance as in other human activity; with checks and drafts for the settlement of home balances; -with gold certificates and silver certifi- | cates freely used in the place of coin; ; : } and with bank clearing houses at all our | great money centers, we still continue to settle international balances by the clumsy, costly and risky transportation of actual gold? It is counted and weighed out, packed in boxes and kegs, carted to steamers, stored away in their holds, then shaken and rolled about on the ocean for a week or more, to its great detriment by wear, and finally un- loaded again and carted to its destina- tion, after paying roundly for freight and insurance. All this could be avoided if the great financial institutions of the world would only establish a common gold warehouse, and use the receipts of its custodian, in place of the actual coin or bars. The United States Government performs this function for this country. Its gold certificates pass from bank to bank the same as coin, and, years ago, the banks of this city made the Bank of America their common storehouse for gold and employed its receipts in set- tling balances between themselves. If, in the same way, the Bank of England, the Bank of France, the Bank of Ger- many, and the United States Treasury would each agree to accept certificates of gold deposits issued by the others as the ‘gold itself, there would be an end of the expense, risk and delay which now at- tend the transfer of gold to and fro Of course, it would have to be a matter of honor all around not to issue phantom certificates, and it would have to be stipulated that in case across the ocean. of war the actual gold should be deliv- ered, but these are not insuperable ob- stacles. To return, however, to this matter of sentiment in finance, and to the power of imagination in financial affairs. Just in the same way that the $5,000,000 bond syndicate was planned avowedly to in- fluence public opinion and to toll along other purchasers for the maturing 474s, and just as the Fourth National Bank is artificially stimulating gold imports for the purpose of inspiring confidence in the financial future, so, I see, the Secretary of the Treasury is manipulating his monthly statements to make them look pretty. When the Cleveland Adminis- tration came in, the surplus was uncom- fortably large, and every expedient was employed to diminish its apparent bulk. First, $100,000,000 in gold was sub- tracted from the cash on hand and set aside, without warrant of law, as a fund unavailable for any purpose but the re- demption of the greenbacks. Then the fractional coin in the Treasury, amount- ing to $30,000,000, was declared to be use- less for the payment of the nation’s ereditors, and, thirdly, but very proper- ly, when a check was given out, the amount of it was deducted from the bal- ance against which it was drawn, with- out waiting for it to be presented for payment. Now that not only the sur- plus thus diminished in appearance has vanished, but enough more money has been taken from the Treasury to create an apparent deficiency, a new system has been adopted. The $100,000,000 greenback reserve and the fractional coin are lumped into one general fund, and checks given out are not charged up until they are actually paid. In ad di- tion, the liability of the Traesury for | departments of ; surrendered national bank circulation, amounting to some $30,000,000 or $40,- | 000,000, and for which the banks have deposited greenbacks and gold with the Treasury, is erased from the statement | altogether! There is, to my mind, noth- | ing alarming in these changes. The Government is not rendered bankrupt by |them any more than it would be made | bankrupt by refraining from them, or is | made solvent by their adoption. Only, it entertains me to see how the Secretary of the Treasury, being a politician and knowing how people are influenced by appearances, has contrived to show a cash balance in his possession of $150,- 000,000 or $160,000,000, whereas, if he had stuck to the methods of his Demo- cratic predecessors, he would have to acknowledge a large deficit. How mch sentiment controls the stock market, and how prices go up and down, not according to intrinsie values, but ac- cording to the temper and whims of the public, I have before this, pointed out Indeed, when I consider the vagaries of Wall street, 1am sometimes puzzled to decide whether I myself am crazy or whether other people are, so radically contrary are my views from those which prevail for the moment with the great majority, and I am inclined to agree with that sect of philosophers which holds that nothing in the world is real, but that everything is imagination and illu- sion. It is plain that it is not the eye which sees, nor the ear which hears, nor the tongue which tastes, but that itis the mind behind these organs which inter- prets the impressions made upon them into sensible ideas. Whether, now, ideas produced from within by the imagina- tion are not entitled to be treated as of the same value as those produced from without by external agencies is a ques- tion about which two opinions may be reasonably entertained, and I am not go ing to say, therefore, that sentiment in finance is not a factor which deserves to be taken into account as seriously as any other. We cannot see the wind, but a hurricane is not on that account less de- structive; heat cannot be weighed in the hand, but it is a potent element in na- ture, while, as to that most subtile of all forces, electricity, it baffles all analysis. Judged by its effects, sentiment equally deserves recognition, and the problem for the practical business man is to de- cide how much importance he shall al- low to it. MATTHEW MARSHALL. i oa Ten Out . Thirteen. Detroit, Sept. —There were thir- teen applicants — registration at the meeting at Houghton, Sept. 1, and ten were granted certificates, as follows: REGISTERED PHARMACISTS Frank B. Jones, Bessemer. Edward Koivupalo, Red Jacket. Henrik A. Lodegren, Hancock. Robt. M. Wetzel, Calumet. ASSISTANTS. John C. Furness, Nashville. | Zach W. Wikander, Red Jacket. | Edwin Wirness, [ronwood. | | John Vik, Ishpeming. J. Wiltse Walker, Powers. J. H. Urquhart, Lronwood. JAMES VERNOR, Sec’y. eee Business Changes at Aarwood. AARWooD, Sept. 12—Moritz Bros. have | | bought the saw and planing mill proper- ty of A. F. Little and will add more ma-| chinery, anticipating a larger business | when the new extension of the Chicago | & West Michigan Railway gets here. A. Anderson is about moving his J | to a point near the new station at the in- | itersection of Kalkaska avenue and nigh street. To Clothing shades, grades and mi: aterial in the market. New I Line of 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 ad one of the nicest line of Ulsters in all Our Chinchillas are up to the equal standard, the whole selected from the best foreign and domestic goods. SU LVN. We have an excellent assortment in fine worsted, cheviot, pequay, meltona, cassimere and other famous mills. We have a reput ition of over 30 years standing esta blished 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 attr activ e. William Connor, for nine ane 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 me eting him there, or he will wait upon you if you drop him a line to his address at Marshall, Mich., or we will send samples. MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Clothiers, Rochester, N. Y. also calls attention to his nice line of Clothing of every description for fall and William Connor Boys’ and Children’s winter trade. * COLORED STATEMENTS We have a few thousand 5-pound colored statements, size 5} x8}, super=- fine paper, which we will close out: | 500, $1 65 1,000, 9 5O | 2.000, @ 2 295 We have the following colors, Pink, Blue, Canary, Cherry, Fawn, Amber, Lilac. We cannot break packages-- that is, print less than 500 of one color --of these goods. The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. ~ PANNY GO00D8 ‘for September Trade. Trade. Order Tycoon Gum and Chocolate Triplets. A EB. BROOKS & CO, No. 46 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS Printed and blocked in tabs of 100 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 4 at Our Customers Say. OFFICE OF Lan ETT. a] 4 4 { i Druagist and Ktationer, Dry Goods, Groceries, Hats Caps, Boots, Shoes and Ready-Made Clothin Finest Bri sie of 2 ; ole oe A »ported & Domestic DE. Jenace, Mich, ( (2117, eo a Z 1897 r Cigars a | eo N J J é 7 ) of eee uae cp " pp. if ( } es ' 7 7 4 Te ; - : ‘ ES Wig \s GAD > at 4G et, c _t- « \/ £rt i ee Z X KS. Ly i CY. Mongo, Ind., Po 2s ISSA ef De nae lj ty. 7 ak Lg io at / De ptoret Be saat (AX Prec Lee “a ( : 2 -_ “ ie t; La ad (tr yee / wee HE > tt fpeso~ ut gre] A oe fps aero Je a 4 se A cll > oT a . oe “Y Pd ay C2te Kxig¢ 2 ZAG Ye i fs ie! Mia >- ey ea O EE 2 oF a. SL ce Abra an © / v 4 Vu ye . soe paren “he yl oe a | | / " of = Nf 2 | 7 \ a A ‘ l ‘ A yore ry € Lae -t_) LS 1 tL *-€ 2p -MEB? PL A r | 19) “7, i > a ie J os / “/ Ora Ze — fx «te FA C2e-st- ie Pa ae -_ > ie av" It oe - 2 rmasrele hk. 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We know it is to Be ; < ‘ — tn pur DCHETIL LO pla racrs through yo and believe ~ % ' bd 4 Jia Y L 4 4 - - y ‘Ag Aes “3 i. i te jt is to the intor + of ee vee irl i. <7 druzei t of a or 3 it yee WEES. OBER 2 ACii AiO V 7 Ae Mt i vw . va ? ‘ ; acl Cascor, OD ‘tad Western Michigan to do so. at ese ., ~£ : You have our best wishes for continued and increas- 4 ed success, Yours, Ma. Aue & CE ' OL ee - 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R....... 66 “ “ec F iG 50 ae... 60 * eno — ae oes ccus 60 Arnica . beleeict esac GO Asafcetida....... oe Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 Benzoin.. ‘ a C Ce 50 Sanguineria.,....... tele. OO Beriens ....... eS ee eeeees..-............., ND ek ct 50 Ce e co... ............ eee ey. 100 Cee ites. oo ee 50 oC Oe... a. OE 50 eee 56 me . a a 50 ee Meee sia es,.s,, .., ' OO... tc. —........ ... 50 ° ammon.... 60 Zinger .....,.. Ls 50 PvOsOvaIwan ..............., OO Deere se ee eee : Corrions............. © Perri Chlondum........... 35 ae. 50 Dee. 50 Ce ee 50 ie Voges... ............ 50 Opii eee cee eee asec, * Camphorated....... _. oF i 2 00 Auranti Cortex.. -9- < The Drug Market. Opium is steady. Morphine is Quinine is firm. Borax is Arnica flowers are ad- Oil bottle before hot the un- changed. tending higher. vancing. Benzoic acid is lower. cloves has declined. Oil lower. Powdered jalap vanced. Turpentine is higher. i
  • —- Special Invitation. Muskegon Branch of the U. S. Baking Co., beg to call the special attention of all visitors to the West Michigan Fair and Exposition, to their grand display of crackers, biscuits and cakes. It is the largest and finest exhibit ever made in the State, and demonstrates the perfec- tion and high quality of goods made at the Muskegen factory. Do not fail to see this exhibit, and sample the goods. An attendant will be on hand to receive callers. UNITED STATES BAKING Co., Muskegon Branch. Harry Fox, Manager. ——_—. - =>. The Grocery Market. Sugars are scarce and some grades are hard to get from the refiners, owing to the great demand. Fruit jars are searce and it is difficult for some of the jobbers to bill orders. a a Muskegon—W. I. McKinzie, the gro- cer, who suffered the rupture of a blood vessel in the head a short time ago, is very ill, but hopes his recovery. are entertained for oe For the finest coffees in the world, high grade teas, spices, ete., see J. P. Visner, 304 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids, Mich., general Gillies & Co., representative for E. J. New York City. — ——_ > <—-- A little cough is a small affair, but it sometimes fills a coffin. Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNEBS. a EE 45 ee i oes 50 as es = ee oe oo 3 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. eee... CC i. No. : ' co ok S No ee ee Fi ie quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp a... --2 2 a4 qa 2 Se 2 40 “ee “ “ bee eeee ye 3 @ Nox Flint. No. : Sun, crimp - ete pe ee Sie ee 2 60 No ee 2 80 No. : i o ede cue gal gd 3 86 Pear! top. No.1 Sun, wrapped and labeled... .-3 70 ee ee ee 470 No. 2 ia - o a ee 4 70 La Bastic. No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. 123 a——S lc lt 1 50 No. — per ee 1 35 mas Te 1 60 FRUIT JARS. Mason’s or Lightning. —. ele ees ue uet ee Su. a 11 @ ce eleeie cee ee ce 66 Vee ees eee oka o 12 00 afte cuit ese ee oe .-15 00 a os . = ee ee 4 50 TONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Crocks, ‘1 and 2 -.. 06 togen..... 06 Tap gal., per, “ase en oe 7 oe oe 1 . Mix Pans, % gal., per. doz. (glazed Te 60 ( —< oo PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Fancy eating command 75@95c per 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. Butter—Choice dairy now commands 18@19¢, while factory creamery has advanced to 28¢e. Celery—20c per doz. bunches. Cabbages—35@40¢ per doz. Cucumbers—10c per doz. Eggs—Dealers pay 14¢e@14%c and freight, hold- ing at 15¢c.@léc. i orden’s command 3c; Niagaras and Catawbas, 5c. per Ib. Honey—Dull at 16218 for clean comb. Onions—75e per bu. for good stock. Muskmelons—50c @ #1 per doz., according to quality and size. Peaches—The high prices of the past week ap pear to be at an end, as the demand is not so active as it has been. Late Crawfords are in eG Pears—Bartlett and Flemish Beauties are in good demand at #1.50 $1.75 per bu.: grades are about out of market. Plums — Lombards comm: and $2.25 @S2.5! bushel. Potatoes—Little doing at about 35@40c¢ per bu. Tomatoes—The market varies, the quantity brought in, ranging from 5c@90 per bu. Watermelons—The market is flat. POULTRY. Local dealers pay as follows for dressed fowls: Pree Cece... 8... ise poe Cole. aa G10 Turkeys @ii Spring ducks oe @13 Pee eee a ea ——_.. |. a oe ' @ PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS, Mess, new. 11 75 Short cut 13.0 Extra Clear pig, short PE CUt seca s oe Extra clear, heavy. eee Clear, fat back... . a 1. ee Boston clear, short. eut.. 15 00 Clear back, short eut. ee a -.. oe Standard clear, short cut, best.. 15 00 SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. eae... ee oe eee. i fo momeee Gatenee........-.... bd ee a Frankfort Sausage 8 Bicod Hauenec....... ..... . a“ . os eee, Ce LS Bologna, thick..... 5 Head Cheese. . 5 LaRD—Kettle. Rendered, | i a .. eee hee eee b ee ak epee beet cu issu, s, abe a EE a LARD. Com- Family pound. eee oe 6% Canc com. Tube.............. oa 6% 3 Ib. Pails, 20in @ case..........7% 7% 5 1b. Pails, 12 in a case..... ne 7% 10 Ib. Pails, 6 in a case...........73¢ 614 20 1b. Pails, 4 in a case..... 7 6% 50 Ib. Cans. . 6% 6% ‘BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs. Extra Mess, Chicago packing Boneless. rump butts....... 10 50 SMOKED MEATS—C anvassed or Plain. Hams, average ae... 9% 16 lbs on 101% - o 12 to 14 Ibs... o 10% . icnic a. ' 8k - est boneless. . ee i a eee eee ee Tm, Breakfast Bacon, boneless........ beh noes nee beet, SA Orr... ................ oO Long Clears, heavy........ ll. - Briskets, medium. ..... ue. ol ” UE kee ewe cau, Se FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, carcass... oe eee . 4406 «hind quarters................. 8 B72 “ fore a 3%@ 4 * Jone, et. -- aes @ % . ae ee 7%@ 8 ' rounds..... ee 6 @?T7 eee @ pees... @5 eee tee. @10 NO es eee ea ls @i™% Pee ed «Fr nee............,_... @5 ae cE @5 eens @%% .6 Bz 64@ 7 FISH and OYSTERS. F. J, Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. eee... ..... @8 ee @8 eerOus....... Peed ede oe @15 ee @5 Flounders...... ee ee ce @ 2 Bieeeen.......... Pee ee ap uk @10 aeree.......... 2’ a oo @i2 California salmon........ 20 oYsTERs—Cans, Pairhaven Counts................ ‘ @40 F. J. ne sence eee ye @28 Selects . roger eee aens @30 Cee @20 ii heel ieee cl ecole, 2 ee @25 eee oe OE cc oe ee eee eel SHELL GOODS. Oysters, per cas ee 1 % ee ee 100 fair supply at $1.50; Chilis at $1.25 and Mixons at | $1. conumnon | 0 per | according to | ° | Cream Bar.. CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. Sti undard, cies ssw sco went anes 6% 7% H.H.. oa gs 7% | NTE 6% Ty ee ee a 9% See a a ae ee coc oon 8% Ran Ee. Ce 8% MIXED CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls Pails See oc. oss sss ee Thy ee es oe 6% T% Di clees esee ee el at 8 hehe tenes eee ke q 8 ie a T% 8% Broken.. ee ee 8% English Rock - ee 8% | Conserves . bees been eues a 8 Broken Taffy. ee rence 8% oe a ene 9 ee Se eS 10 CC OO 1044 Vere Cpe. .................., 13% FaNncy—In bulk, Full Weight. $bls. Pails. | Lozenges, plain.. ieeec ee 11% | ee 12 | Chocolate Drops........-....-- ao 1214 | Chocolate Monumentals............. 14 SGP PPOI ree edie a pee oe 5 6% EE 9 | Sour a ee eee ee 844 94% | Imperials. . 10% 11% 'pancy—In 5 Ib. boxes. Per Box | Lemon Drop : Ca ae Sour Drops. eee | Peppermint Drops. be eed e a ees Leis bs ic ecco sae eese ees 70 H. M. Chocolate _— ek ee 90 | Gum Dros.......... ehaeeeaas 40850 | Licorice Dropa......... eteeeres : A. B. Licorice one ee . | Lozenges, plain. . chien | printed... be ce D AMORNE ce ee ae e eee | Molasses Bar... | Hand Made Creams. reele (yee. ............ | Decorated Creams. | String Rock. | Burnt Almonds... ... er Berries.. “a CARAMELS. No. t, wrapped, 2 Ib. boxes cee oe No. 1, 3 Lo ci a oe No, Z, ' 2 e So No. 3, C 3 a ese ae 2 Siang wo, 5 eee... .........-.......... 2 ORANGES. Sorrentos, 20)...... eee 4 50 Imperiais, 100....... ee 45 LEMONS Messina, choice, 360........ @5 50 r fancy, 360. @b Ov . choice 300,..... es " POON ee eee ees ae . OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers.... @is8 C choice " @16 ee “ee “ ot @12% rf Fard, 10-Ib. box.. @10 . eg : BS . Persian. 50-lb. box....... @ NUTS. Almonds, Tarragona. oo: - California. . Brazils, new. Pipers ........ Walnuts, Grenobie. a Table Nuts, — 1. o2..-.... ied Texas, | H P., Cocoanuts, full sacks.. PEANUTS. Fancy, = P. eg ee ee @ 5% ‘* Roasted. . 7 @T% Fancy, H. P. i @ 5% “Roasted. . 7 @%% Choice, H. P., Extras.. @ 4% ' ' “Roasted. . @ 6% HIDES, PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as follows: IDEs. Green . eee Lace aca a a Part C ured. @5 — @ 5 ey ise aN € @7 Kips, eee le 4@5 ee oy 5 @5% Calfskins, green..... a OE ee loses cllaue 5 @6% Semuiaae aaeed ceetebeevaeerce acu 80 No. 2 hides of. PELTS, caer, ag a 10 @25 DM, oe eee eee eae ee cal, ips @eeo wool Washed.. a -20@30 ; Unwashed.. 10@20 | MISCELLANEOUS EN a, 34@ 4% Pep ee ce ei el @2 Switches ...... ee oc. ix@ 2 ee ee | 2 59@3 2 The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, i barrels, f. o. b. Grand Rapids: —— (gt 8 ee g se gg TO ade we ogee @ 7% g @36 6g APPLE BUTTER, ” THE _MICHIG AN TRADESMAN. IMPERIAL, Common to fair.......23 @26 Superior to fine. 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON. Common to fair....... 18 @26 Superior to fine .30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. Vee se eee. 18 @2z Choice..... --- ae Ge Beat ...... ..40 @50 TOBACCOS. Fine Cut. Pails unless otherwise noted. Hiawatha 60 Sweet Cuba.......... 34 Me Ginty oo ' Fe \% bbls. aa ale 22 Little Darling. (ee 2 - ¢ bbl. 20 PAGE ele ee 20 foun, % Obie... ....... 19 Valley City......... 33 Dandy Jim......-. 27 Plug Seared... ......... 28 OME ooo. 24 MOCO. 6 ooo uins Sis 22 Law... 24 Here tia 28 Ora Sivle os. 31 Old Honesty.......... du aoly Tar.............. 33 | awaits. ....... .... 3t Watley City .._........ 34 Jas. G. Butler & 6 0.’s Brands, a Good... .. ..38 Toss Uy ee eee «00 Out of Right. ee, 2 Smoking. a Colonel's ¢ thoi e. ie gt Banner so eealee King Bee... oa eee ey | Sim eed... .............. A? Nigger Head ee sea 23 Honey Dew........... . 24 Gold Bloek........ —— oo es i 24 Ron Hoy. ...... Unele Sam...... Tom and Jerry....._........ 2 Brier FAG cee rene 5, --30 Wu Yee. = Mem ClGver. cc Newel a | He indmade... oo -40 rr... seca cec VINEGAR. i 8 150 gr. «eee ee $1 for barrel. WET MUSTARD. Burk, pergal .... | |. 30 Beer mug,2 doz incase... 1 yi" i Strawberries, | Mormels, foll......,.....- 1 50 oe. Nutmegs, ~~ -8U Chicago goods.. T4@S | Hamburg 1 fs i 2 50 | Cracked.. Tae ea Megs ie AXLE GREASE. am sgn 2 2 CHICORY 8 | . 2... .. -.. oo Erie.. 165/p ' s . | Pepper, Singapore, black. ...15 Ba 4% --Salt. | Pep gapo Frazer’s, . " Whortleberries. Red a oe Re white... .25 Wood boxes, per doz...... 80 | common 1 40| > . at ' Bloaters. & 19 « "3 doz. case... 240) pa Wwe | ln CLOTHES LINES. a : Diva e Sroiin ia Baik. ' is : 5 ani roms ---- 9 00| Binebe e. | Cotton, 40f%...... per doe. 1 25) Yarmouth.................- | u 2 Ib, pails 1 00 Blueberries 1 30 ‘ 5 ft. ‘cs 1 40 Cod | Allspice ee eo Blo MEATS. ae ~ Te @e | Cassia, Batavia. . 20 5 1b. weecete ees ° | Corned beef, Libby’s. 2 10 “i "0 % | Bricks .@) mi and Saigon. 25 3 . 70 ft. } fa) Beene... %@s8 Aurora, a sa 2 2 ces... .... 744@8 a Ww o dd boxes, er doz 60} oe beef, A 1% ' 80 ft. 106) Satee TK@I Saigon . -- © Saas, an...ts\o- 1 50 | Jute GO ft oT Halibut. . Cloves. Amboyna ad "30 per gross.... 6 00 100) * 2 ft: ee ee iL 10%|.,,.... Zanzibar...... . -20 a ‘ tong sue 4 lb i oe GO TERED MeRLAC. Herring Ginger, African.....-. eo iamend. - i: ih... 95} Raple ° 7 4 s : 5° “_ - Cochin... «do “ thick , | wagie f Seaiem................ 24 “ . Wood boxes, perdoz ..... 50 ' hic ken, %4 Ib... ® | Crown........ : 6 50 Holland, oe...... 11 00 Jamaica ... =0 #0 Som, case... 1 50 VEGETABLES. Genuine Swiss. . 8 60 eea ll: 75 | Mace Batavia....... = ' per gross 5 0 Hamburg stn gless 1 25 American Swiss.......-..-- 700; R ound shore, 4% bbl... 2 75 Pi iat ‘Trlest _— Trieste... reertons PINS French sisi 2% COUPON BOOKS fe ee : 25 lb, pails 9 " te as 1 40 — y eee Pept er. “Singapore, black... .20 OW na era r ++ way, Al No. 1, % bbls. i FOR cae... - 3@ t i on Acme pean See y 45 or atid aaa oo TRADES Man No. 1, kits, 10 Ib _120 iti wae = i ‘ r oy " , cy i i 90 Z Ra “stale % i 1 3 50 pine... oF o v3 a u 2 ee ‘ . Lewis Boston Baked 1 TA Bs mily, : ” 8. 1001 tbs... z Sage. ' ' 20 ' _ a: - 1 0 | Bay State ked 35 aoe oes ' b in Packages, “ bulk a . = Worlds Pris _ i i 35 i Pollock 3 50@4 00 ‘Absolute™ in Pac = ys Telfer’s, 14 lb. cans, ‘doz. 45 Corn. Fancy-.--- a @ Aligpied 0000000000000. 6a 2 a a Y% Ib. 85 | Hamburg 25 : a ir 8 55 ‘s t oa 1 50 — 5 r pexeorr eau Russian; ee aos es aaa a. = ; pai Arctic, 4 - Cans ... ...... im | Forty... 1 10 —<— ple Bos adecuns el co ae wo 1 50 | Hamburgh. i = 8 5, 3 ramiiy, 2 Dbls., 100 Ibs’... 2 75 sein : 3° 7" "5 ag | 820, 2 ‘its. 10 lbs 50 ' BATH BRICK. Pane fancy sifted : aa 820, i eee a 5 OX FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Cut Loaf..... @ 538 2 dozen in case. | ita rn obepae we “Superior. i. Jennings’ D C. Calee ........... @ 14% ie, 90 | an Can ani Ma aa ni 110/31 per hundred.... «0 Lemon. Vanilla | Powdered .......... @5 Bristol..... . 70 | ar ame il uate nN iva "130 os | Ll . : maa 2 oz folk ling box 75 1 25| Granulated. 4.56@ 456 Domestic... ....---- +) Archer’s E arly” B anueia 13 8 5. aa oo .-1 OO 1 50 | Confectioners’ A @4.5 BLUING. Gross |rench ___ ' 1 90 | 810 ME 5 = 1 oz 150 a. @ 4% Arctic,40e ovuls.......... 400;*t a oy | O20, 5! 6 oz .2 00 > 00 | White Extra C...... @ 4% ee -- 7 00) monet ' 1T@18 8 0g 1 1.3 Ob a0) eee 1 @ 4% pints, eee... Popkin ||| oT | GUN POWDER. Ce @4 No. 2, 2, sifting box... 2 75 | Erie cpa cae 00 Kegs i. 5 50 | Yellow » 33, No. . : ol Se r | Half kegs... woes 3.00| Less than 100 Ibs. Ke ‘advance . 7 Or ited... 1 30 o — ‘ oo “ Jozball ..... . 450| ~” Sueeotash. “preaeedal | Sage.. es 15 Corn. i ne Ce ee EE 1 40 | 3 1, per hundred #2 50| Hops.. -- ies. 1s 20-1b boxes................. 6% No. 2 Hurl.........---++-+++ 1 o ee .. 85) 8 2, : “ 4 00 | Chicago ae. ' @4s Hb a 4 OR ark eta cise ~ W| Honey Dew.... Pee ea 1 60 | 3 3, ee - 400) ae D4 | oss. ’ 2 0 my OM BS L oa | 4- ee 6 No, 2 Carpet.........-...... 2 20 | Tomatoes $ 5, - 500) LAMP WIUKS. 30 | 1-lb packages ..... j “s a j ¥ was : ‘ i -_ a No. 1 + eee 2 50 | Van Camp’s 1 10 | $10, - 600] No. . | 3-Ib ee 5 Soe | Lee IP Be wees oreo a —-. § “s eio' met... Ck... 40 | 6- ae eS 6% CO eee 2 se | No. Collins... Ltcepes od BO ets a of a 1 a pol a a a Common — clas ene 90 | Hamburg .......-..--..----- 130; Bulk orders for ene coupon | ~~ eee | | Barrels ee i 434 — cst ener 2 20 | Hancock ...........-.---+--- a 05 | books are subject to the follow- Pee : ae Canaan SNUFF Hee chee teen eas news 6 2 75 | Gallon ee 2% ing discounts hein 95 | < adders a 37 Warchoiie. 2S oe Guacoxarebawuivs.” | ‘Bb or over. 6 percent | Calabria. [ooce-s BUCKWHEAT FLOUR. _} German Sweet <2 Te 10 iu si 1 60@1 75 | Lion, 100 Ib. case... 100 Ib. kegs..... | 3 dozen ee oe [Cheme............... “24 @> Pe i eee ri a | Sr Cc abinets con- Hominy. | apoio. Choicest. . ss | Maxwell ..........--. pele vag’ aining 120) po ols. ee ae ee 10 @12 Shepard's -.....-.-----. 5 ae qagone pound} Grits A Kitchen, 3 doz. in box. 2 50 BASKET FIRED. California......-.....- 2 60@2 75 p’kages (sim- | & seas \Hand ‘3 Ee i8 @20 r Pears. | silar to acCOM- | neg ee e | ; SOUPS. , ax | Choice. oo. @25 Domestic ......--..---. iz panying ill-|" wace aroni and Vv ermic eli, Snider’s Tomato... - 2 6 | Choicest. . - Riverside.............- 2 2) wustration) | nomestic, 12 lb. box. 5 ree Extrachoice, wireleaf @40 i stecotite tal wEsold at case | Imported.....--.-- : 10 | SPICES. GUNPOWDER. Johnson’ ‘saticed..... 8 00 pers wah oe | Pearl Barley. Whole Sifted, | Common to fair.....25 @35 ato 2 85 - aa ( € os oe a 0 ee Oe 384 @3% | Allspice aay aes io cml ce -10 | Extra fine to finest....50 @é65 8 ‘ A - | Picharge of 90 Peas | Cassia, China in mats...... 7% | Choicest fancy........ 7 @85 Quinces. Conia TOF GAD: | Goon ba... oo. cts eeuee- 110' “ Batavia in bund....15 Common ....-.....--- 1 10; inet. oa aa 600; “ Saigon in rolls......35 — ml Raspberries. | Split, bbl..... gees etree si Cloves Amboyna...... 3 | | Common to fair... ...23 @26 sas ee sees ces 1 30} EXTRACT. ago. wt * eocmanies "43_+-| Superior to fine....... 28 @30 Black Hamburg....... 1 80 | Valle alley City .. ceseeee 7 | German «-.-+--seerseeee--- 3 RR a eee 338 | Fine tocholeest.......45 @55 Tree, BIAGE.........-.- pektevevaucsouse eveeeeee COKE Nesepetidescs Ob aR, even Teese se owes 4 TEAST—-Compressed, | Fleischman, per doz. cakes.. 15 ° per ib... . . oo Fe rmentum, per doz. e: kes e.. 15 per ih... oe PAPER & woo DENWARE PAPER, ee 1% Mocefae. 2. 2 Ce ae 2 ae a [hese |. oo Dey Goods............. bias Jute Manilla.. es @b% Red Express Modo . 5% No. 2 4% TWINES <5 Cotton... ....... 22 Cotton, No. 1. deed ena. 2U dace 18 Sea Island, caused . 2 No.5 Hemp : ~ oe ne. ¢-. 15 WOODENW ARE. Tubs, Net. 7 00 No. 2. . 6 90 . oe ce - +0 Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 35 | ” . Not, three-hoop.... 1 6 ;C lothespins, Ser.boxzes.... | Bowie, times... 1 00 . ok 1% of 2 00 . re * LL as . enudad 17s and 19s 2 50 “ 158, 17s and 198 27 Baskets, gE 35 i shipping bushel.. 1 2v full hoop ‘ ee ‘ Peete! cs. 1 50 164 willow cr ths, No.1 5 7 . No.2 6 25 i o No.3 7 2% splint No.1 3 50 No.2 4 25 «Nos 5 GRAINS oo FEEDSTUFFS | WHEAT. | No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 90 | No. 1 Red (60 Ib. test) 90 | MEAL, [poem..; 2... 8 1s Granulated........... 2 00 FLOUR. Straight, in sacks 5 10 | . * Gere... . - 5 30 Patent sacks......... CN - * Dermem, ....... 6 30 iGraham ‘ sacks. ... 2 45 Rye F i 2°%5 MILLSTUFFS ae ws ss: 16 00 Sereenings . me | Middlings.... .-. 21 00 Wiwcd Weed..... oanc.. 26 00 Coarse meal..... 26 50 CORN. Car lots. ui So a Less than car ‘lots Kee ase 70 OATS. ie... ._......... . = Less than car os ee ay. No. 1 Wiesner § car lots....13 00 No. 1 e less than car TORR a cee 12 00 paraoreh THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Troubles and Trials of a Canadian Merchant. QUEEN’S HoLLow, Ont., Sept. S— The excursion to Detroit last Saturday was taken advantage of by some of our peo- ple for the purpose of visiting the expo- sition and enjoying a boat ride on the beautiful Detroit River. The ride onthe river was all that was expected, but the exposition was a full-grown disappoint- ment. The general opinion, freely ex- pressed, is that the present exposition ‘“‘management,” like poor Hogan, has given its last exhibition and that in the future it will be as difficult for one to at- tract the attention of the public as the other. Izik and Tillie went on the ex- eursion and Tillie has been nervously unstrung ever since. She says that ‘thud” rings in her é¢ars continu- ously and that she cannot banish from her mind the sight of poor Hogan (she caught one glimpse only and dared not raise her eyes again) as he was approach- ing the earth with arms extended in his terrible fall. Fairs may come and fairs may go, but the 25,000 (more or less) who saw Hogan leap from the clouds will never forget the Detroit exposition of 1891. Izik eould think of three things only which attracted his attention as be- ing the largest specimens he had ever seen—a plank, a brook trout and a one- year-old German carp. He saw some fine stock, but he says the pomological de- partment would be a disgrace and a dead give away to any township fair in On- tario. Old Cronk took in the excursion, but he did not return until Tuesday and he has been seen on the street but once since. Cronk never had been in Detroit before and he swears that he will never go there again. He says they are all Yankee cutthroats and that they hoo- dooed him and shadowed him and con- spired together to capture and rob him. He said they acted like a pack of fools. They dared not say anything about him to his face, but would converse behind his back in such a way that he would hear jt and know that it was he who was being talked about, and all the time they would keep under cover, so that he could find no good, valid, lawful excuse for knocking them down. He said thatsome of the best people seemed to be mixed up in this hoo-doo business and they all acted as though they were trying toscare him off the face of the earth. He said that they bore down so hard at the depot when he was leaving that he got so mad that he swore like a trooper and cried like a baby and to make the matter still worse, no one gave him the least cause for mopping the floor with them, which would have been a great relief. Cronk says they played it on him because he is a British tory, but Izik saw a drummer over in Loyaltown last night who knows all about it. The drummer said he met Cronk in the afternoon on Saturday in company with a professional spotter. Cronk was just sober enough to recog- nize the drummer, who asked him if had been to the fair. He replied that he had not and, furthermore, he didn’t intend to go. He was having a good time and he said that he thought he would stay a few days and takeinthe town. The drum- mer asked him where he put up. “Where ever night overtakes me,’’ re- plied Cronk, ‘‘and in the meantime, I have taken a private room in a private house ona private street at fifty cents per day.”’ He said a ‘‘friend” gave him the address and recommended the place to him. The drummer ’said he owed Cronk one on account of a shipment of goods that he sent back to the house, with an explanatory letter stating that he had never ordered the goods, and that their Mr. Blank must have been either drunk or crazy at the time when he sup- posed that he had taken the order. So the drummer left Cronk with his new- found friends and prophesied a glorious time for him before he got through with it. Drinks that he was not used to put ideas into his head that he was not ac- eustomed to. More drink demanded that these new ideas should be put into exe- cution. Intoxication finally took full and complete possession and drove judg- ment, discretion and common sense out of the back door. If he had been a young man, or if he had been an old veteran in the bum business, no one would have noticed him; but, as it was, Cronk car- ried a very legible sign wherever he went, which covered his face and at- tracted the attention of every sport in the city. The sign, of course, was de- veloped by whisky on the inside and then displayed on the outside. Of all the gods in heathendom, Bac- chus is the most deceptive. He allures us on with a captivating wink and a most bewitching smile with the double assurance that it is the only pathway which leads up to the enchanted region of perpetual bliss. is a pathway which leads straight down to the bottomless pit of remorse, dispair and. eternal death! It is a pathway strewn with the bleached bones of once kind and loving parents and pure and affectionate sons and brothers! It pathway paved with the wreckage of once happy homes and cemented with the blood of—but, pshaw! 1 didn’t intend to write an essay on temperance. All 1 wish to say is, that if you listen to the blandishments of this deceptive imp of strong drink, sooner or later, as sure as death and taxes, he will set down on you, turn you inside out and shake you, set all the hounds of the infernal regions af- ter you and drive you up a tree, where he wiJl mock you and induce your friends to perforate your miserable anatomy with poisoned arrows; and, finally, he will tie you up in a little bundle and drop youinthe bottomless pit. So he hung a sign out on poor old Cronk’s face which was very legible and read as fol- lows: ‘*This old fool imagines heis a gay young sport and can catch on all the clam bakes in the city without any as- sistance, thank you. He is rural, juicy and tender and was never initiated into the soul-roasting mysteries of hoodooism. He is to let at reasonable figures. Occu- py and enjoy him.” Now, Crouk is a member in good stan¢- ing of two or three leading fraternal secret societies and a member Christian church besides, and does it not seem rather strange that the great city of Detrdit failed to whisper one word of advice into the old man’s ears or extend a helping hand to a weak and erring brother during all the time he was led captive by the devil? So goes the world. Who is my brother? Not the poor fellow who stumbled and fell. No, he was run over and crushed; but the man who is abundantly able at all times to paddle his own canoe and keep up with the procession—he is my brother. Cronk’s hired girl told the elder’s hired girl and she told Tillie that Cronk told his wife that Hogan’s awful death dum- fusticated his mind to such an extent that he missed the train and that after that it leaked out that he was a British tory and opposed to annexation and then they tried to ruin his reputation by mix- ing him up with the ladies and they con- spired together to take his life, inch by inch, by administering slow poison in the shape of Yankee whisky and that if his constitution had not been like that of an ox, he never would have reached home alive. Do I hear some reader exclaim: ‘‘Good, blamed old fool; served him right!’ True, but you look out that it is not your turn next to stumble and fall, forif it should be, you, no doubt, would change your opinion and whistle a different tune. The gentle breezes have been wafting certain vague rumors over the hills of late to the effect that Gobdarn’s Ameri- | ean goods are smuggled into the country. He certainly has been selling a consider- | able quantity of cheap, shoddy Ameri- can goods. It is said that these goods do not reach his store in the original cases, showing that they are repacked somewhere in transit and, as they are all shipped from Canadian points, the most natural inference to be drawn is that the goods are repacked on the American side for the purpose of smuggling them into the Canadian market. This infer- ence is strengthened when we consider the very low prices at which he has been selling these goods. True, his American goods are pretty much all of the cheap shoddy grades, yet they have a certain fixed cost value as do the higher grades, Fatal delusion! It| is a] of a| and when to the cost value is added the cost of transportation and customs duties, we have the cost price laid down, and when we find Gobdarn selling these goods under this price, it looks as though these goods were either smuggled into the country or bought at a partial loss to somebody. Gobdarn, no doubt, handles these cheap, low-grade goods as an ad- vertising fake, but nobody believes that he does so ata downright loss to him- self. There may be some interesting developments in the immediate future. OLD MAN SLIM. P. S.—Cronk’s hired girl just teld Til- lie that the next morning after he came home he told his wife that his Salvation | Army expenses were so heavy while in | Detroit that she would have to go with- out her new teeth and be compelled to gum it for another year. She said Cronk put his arms around Ifis wife’s neck and called her his girl and kissed her for the first time in seventeen years. Sum™. (at tp Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co, Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CARPETS, CURTAINS. Manufacturers of Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Ets. Elegant Spring Line of Prints, Ging- hams, Toile Du Nord, Challies, White and Black Goods, Pereales, Satteens, Serges, Pants Cloth, Cottonades and Hosiery now ready for inspection. Chicago and Detroitj]Prices Guaranteed. 48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. } For use on your Let “ea pay, Ad i sae pan = GAH : ti Sara seu eas F? for $10; or a single column cu ’ > id ‘Do You want a Cut | OF YOUR STORE BUILD ter Heads, Bill Heads, Cards, Etc? We can furnish you a double column cut, similar to above, t, like.those below, for $6. In either case, we should |] from. THE TRADESMAN ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS, eee nave clear photog ‘aph to work COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LIFE BEHIND THE COUNTER. Written for THR TRADESMAN in leoking through an old book the other day, I came across the following | D ee 29 . | Good advice to business men, which | she does upon the man who makes use of certainly is as much good solid meat as a| ~nut of that size could possibly contain. was published over forty | This ‘‘advice’’ years ago and, as I have referred to it as to its venerable age, a ‘‘chestnut,” | conversation? | a shilling” the meat of a nut, it is, no doubt, owing | one in a thousand realizes but/ and enjoys the reward not one of the kind which gets mouldy | with age. It is as applicable to the great army of toilers who are struggling for fortunes behind the counter to-day as it was to their predecessors of forty years ago. Here it is: “What perturbation of mind! What struggling and scratching, and _ shift- ing and lying and cheating is prac- tised every day by mammon_ wor- shipers to make money! parison between the successful and un- successful! Of the millions who embark in business to make money, how few succeed, and why? Because but few know the secret of success. Most think it chance or good fortune; but they are sadly mistaken; and if such as are now pining to get rich would only strictly mind the following advice and be guided by it, there would be no doubt of their realizing their golden dreams: ‘‘Let the business of everybody else alone, and attend to your own; what you don’t want; advantage, and study to make even leis- ure hours useful; think twice before you throw away a shilling; remember you will have another to make for it; find recreation in looking after your business; buy low; sell fair, and take care of the profits; look over your books regularly, and if you find an error, trace it out; should a stroke of misfortune come upon you in trade, retrench, work harder, but never fly the track; confront difficulties with unflinching perseverance, and they will disappear at last; though you should fail in the struggle, you will be honored; but shrink from the task, and you will be despised.” It would be difficult to inprove on this advice or crowd better or more practical council into the same space. ‘‘Let the business of everybody else alone and attend to your own’’ has the ring of gen- uine metal, but who is able to observe it? Other people’s business is so much easier to look after and attend to than our own, that, somehow we leave the more difficult task for some other fellow, and take up the easier one and, consequently, the other fellow wins the plum and we re- main with the great majority. ‘Don’t buy what you don’t want” sounds very familiar, indeed. It is a twin sister to ‘‘Never bite off more than you can conveniently chew,’’? and al- though we have been sawed all our lives by these old saws, we go right down the street, trading off our capital for what we don’t want, and biting off more than a half dozen such fellows as we are could possibly chew. Still we wonder how it is that we don’t get rich. “Use every hour to advantage and study to make even leisure hours useful” is plain, simple and to the point, but if we never get rich until we observe this rule, I fear we shall never enter the Senate of the United States. Are the hours all used to the best advantage? How ought we to spend the hours to ad- vantage, as business men seeking for- tunes of greater or lesser dimensions? Sitting in the theater boxes night after night? No. In the social club? Not until the fortune is made. Playing poker in questionable places and indulg- ing in the cup that first stimulates and then intoxicates? Not exactly. In idle gossiping and profitless and vulgar don’t buy | use every hour to |} What acom- | | business” | those who strictly observe it. THE MICHIGAN —— Ce. By no means. the way the most of us spend our leisure hours and still we wonder why it is that ame Fortune does not smile upon us as every hour to advantage, and even makes his leisure hours practically useful. “Think twice before you throw away is also plain English, yet only its full import that awaits all The fact the most of us do not stop to think onee before we squander the and still we wonder in idiotic, blank amazement why the shil- lings desert us so freely, with such tenacity to of the business is, shilling, the fellow who Yet this is while they cling | stops to think and who makes use of the brains God has given him. ‘Find recreation in looking after your | written and seems to be altogether out of joint with these modern times. Our was * . which Our is directly way is to from your business,” opposite of the old rule. some point where the cost of is four of five times greater than it is at home, and leave our business in charge of Tom, Dick and Harry during our ab- sence. This is the way we do and if we could only get rich at it, it would be an wrote the old rule did not know what he was writing about. “Buy one thing we are all really trying to do and if we should ex- ercise the same judgment and put forth the same effort in the observance of all the points in this ‘‘Good Advice” as we do in this one point, our cases would not be so entirely hopeless. ‘Sell fair’? means that the highway to success is by way of fair dealing and a reasonable profit and not by cutting and slashing, and lying and cheating. ‘Take care of the profits” is certainly a self-evident proposition, but a difficult one for us Americans to observe. we are fortunate enough to realize any profits, look upon Old Squeezit, who hoards up his profits, as a member of some family of the swine tribe. But Squeezit gets there all the same and we remain on the outside. ‘‘Never fly the track’’ is the key, in the writer’s mind, which unlocks the secret of suecess. When misfortune of any kind comes upon us, instead of retrench- ing and putting forth renewed energies, we become disheartened and fly the track. On account of some trifling local diffi- culty which causes a temporary lull in business, we lose our patience and ‘‘fly the track.’? We give up, sell out or trade off our life business—the business which we understand and for which we are specially qualified—and rush head- long, with feverish excitement, into business which is new to us and if we sueceed it is more good luck than good management. It is this tendency to “fly the track’? which has given the Yankee the reputation of being ‘‘Jack of all trades and master of none.’’ The sure and certain way to ultimate suc- cess is to ‘‘confront difficulties with un- flinching perseverance,’’? and they will disappear at last and leave us master of the situation. Every obstacle surmounted, every difficulty overcome and every ob- struction removed is a long stride to- ward the goal of ultimate success and a sure means of winning Dame Fortune’s most approving smiles. E, A. OWEN. low’ is > forty years ago} rule to- day is, ‘‘Find recreation in looking away | bovpon Books k up and go away for a few weeks to | pack up and go ay foraf ks t living | SY Cite Ric o 'e uf URING CL | | 133 Draper Block. Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in tbe Country and Save Money. The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids Ifyou would be A LEADER, handle only goods of easy thing to prove that the fellow who} VALUE. If you are satisfied to remain at TAIL END buy cheap, unreliable goods. GOOD YRASY 18 INDISPENSABLE. When | we not only spend them but we |* FLEISCHMANN & CO. ellow Label=Best! UNDER THEIR » CITY OFFICE; 26 Fountain St. ~ MORSE'S URPARTMENT oTURE Siegel's Cloak Department. Manufacturers and Importers of Ladies, Misses and Children's Cloaks. Send for our Catalogue to Morse’s Department Store, Corner Spring and Monroe;Sts. FACTORY 118 Bates St., DEPOT; Detroit, Mitch. ease thea Sooo ee ey ae i ; ; ; : THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Simply a Matter of Business. Some retailers find the task of estab- | lishing a credit where they wish to open an account a disagreeable duty. Experience among wholesale merchants show that many, particularly small deal- ers established only a year or two, and | conscious that their business is as yet) small, their capital likewise, though | they may be getting along very well, are adverse to making a statement of their affairs. They shun or evade a personal interview with the members of the firm or the credit to interview new customers and watch those who are ‘getting slow” in payments, ask for accommodations, ete. Very ofien this avoidance of a free and open conversation, this false delicacy, for such it is, proves to be detrimental to the party concerned, evasion, or even positive refusal tomake a statement being looked upon a sproofa of weakness. It is argued, ‘If a man wants to buy goods of us and has noth- ing to hide, why should he not of his own accord offer to tell us all about his means, business, ete.? A retailer two years in businessin a small town and fairly successful, came to market this summer to obtain points and information, and also to buy a cer- tain make of many calis. The travelers of the firm making the goods not visiting small towns, he had no opportunity to buy them. So he called on this firm and was met at the door by a salesman, who in- quired his wants. “1 would like to see your which I have heard.” *Certainiy,’’ answered the “step this way.” The samples and prices proved appar- ently satisfactory. a salesman, ‘“What part of the country are you buying for?’’ inquired the salesman. “Tl am doing business jin———————,” answered the merchant, offering his card. ‘Oh, yes, I have heard of your town. If you need anything else in our line, I will be glad to show it to you.”’ “No, thank you; ’'m not here to buy a general bill. I will give you an order for the goods 1 was in search of and if they sell will re-order.’’ “Very well,’? and the salesman took down his order and then inquired, ‘‘Have you ever bought of us—have you an ac- count with us?” ““No, this is my first bill with you.”’ ‘““Will you see our Mr. , the eredit man, or have you someone to refer to?’’ politely inquired the salesman. “No, I don’t care to see your credit man. if you have any doubts as to my responsibility you can go toS. & B. I have bought goods of them, seeming to resent the (as he thought) implied doubt as to his responsibility. “All right,” answered the salesman, and having given shipping directions, the gentleman left. S. & B., the reference, answered the inquiry thus: ‘‘Our traveler sold hima small bill, which was paid when due. We know nothing as to means or responsi- bility, and should not sell him any amount without a personal statement.’’ Of course this was not very satisfactory. The mer- eantile agency’s report was fair only, nothing definite, and the result was that the goods were not shipped, but a letter was sent asking for a statement, which the buyer declined to give, saying that if they didn’t want to sell him they should have told him so while in the store. So he had wasted his time, didn’t obtain the goods he wanted, succeeded in having been refused credit, and being placed in a false position besides, mere- ly because he had the mistaken notion they ‘‘had no business to cross-examine him like acriminal.’’ The fact that he would have found the credit man a per- fect gentleman and he could easily have established his credit by a plain state- ment of facts, and he would have had the desired merchandise. This is only one of many similar cases. Many small merchants in remote towns | seem to have an idea that, because they | are running a store and have their shin- gles over the door, the whole country knows all about them, and te be asked to make a statement of their affairs, includ- ing, perhaps, such private matters as their man, whose business it is | their | the apparent | goods for which he had had | living expenses, they consider humiliat- ing and impertinent, and can’t seem to | understand that it is simply business. In | all cases except where no credit is asked, |it is advisable to give all the informa- |tion that may be asked, and it is even | better to offer it unasked, as that inspires |eonfidence at once. If a man has for some especial cause been a little behind 'in his payments; has perhaps’ been obliged to ask for accommodations, he should at once upon his arrival go to the house, seek an interview with the credit man or the firm and make his statement | or explanation, and in nine cases out of ten, if nothing serious has occurred to | shake confidence,he will be met half way and receive encouragement and often sound advice, which may help him to get | on his feet ae. ee Te | Had Him Fast. When Col. Bob Ingersoll was in Europe last he visited Westminster Abbey for the first time. As he was contemplating | the tomb of Nelson the guide said: “That, sir, his the tomb of the greatest navel ’ero of Europe or the whole world hever knew—Lord Nelson’s. This mar- ble sarcoughogus weighs forty-two tons. Hinside that his asteel receptacle weigh- ing twelve tons, and hinside that is a | leaden casket, ’ermetically sealed, weigh- ing over two tons. Hinside that his a mahogony coffin holding the hashes of the great ’ero.” ‘*Well,”’? said the colonel, after think- ing awhile, ‘*l guess you’ve got him. If he ever gets out of that, cable me at my expense.’’ hl Good Words Unsolicited. Susie McLellan, successor to S. T. McLellan, general dealer, Dennison: ‘I could not get aleng without an occasional visit with THE TRADESMAN.” Harvey W. Hawkins, dry goods and boots and shoes, Reed City: “I find THe Trapesman in- dispensable.” J. R. Vance, general dealer, Afton: ‘‘We like your paper very much and think no dealer should be without it.” For THE BABY trave SOULIETTA ™#- Owing ty Lie fact Lbar we wesc unable to meet the demand for Chamoise moc- casins 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. S.A. Morman WHOLESALE Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio LiM gE, Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CEMENTS, Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, FIRE BRICK AND CLAY. Write for Prices. 20 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS. Harvest Excursions At LOW RATES via Missouri Pacific Ry. and Iron Mountain Route. To Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and all ao West and Southwest. Aug. 25, Sept. 15 and Good for 30 days, with stop-over privileges, H. C€. TOWNSEND, G, P, A,, St. Louis, Mo. MICHIGAN CENTRAL *« The Niagara Falls Route.” DEPART. ARRIVE Detroit Bxpross........cccccsessosees 6:30am 10:00pm BE asckibnccecendacssensneobonnsy 6:40am 4:30 pm Day Bxprees.........ccccscscceesers 1:20pm 10:00am *Atlantic & Paciiic MEPCOME. .. 00006 11:15pm 6:00am New York Expross............ ...... 50pm 1840p m Dai a other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapid Express to and from Detroit. FRED M. Brig@s, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe St. @. 8S. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. @go. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. RueeiEes,.G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago. TIME TABLE NOW IN EFFECT. DETROIT Senna, Veta teed EASTWARD, > itNo. 14\tNo. 16 +No, 18|*No. 28 Trains Leave Gd Rapids, Lv; 650am/1 20am) 3 45pm /10 55pm eee 5. Ari 7 45am)|11 25am)! 4 52pm 12 37am St. Johns ...Ar| 8 28am/}12 17am) 5 40pm) 1 55am Owosso .....Ar| 915am/ 1 20pm) 6 40pm); 3 15am E. Saginaw..Ar/11 05am} 3(00pm) 8 45pm). ....-- Bay City ....Arj11 55am 3 45pm Semi... ... Pit .......- Ariat 10am! : 3 40pm} 8 0¢pm) 5 40am Pt. Huron...Ar} 305pm} 6 00pm/)10 30pm) 7 35am Pontiac ......Ar}10 57am} 305pm) 8 55pm) 5 50am Dewo,....../ Ar|i15°am] 405pm/ 950pm| 7 0am WESTWARD. (*No. 81 [tHe 11 \tNo. 13|tNo. 15 Trains Leave G'd Rapids, Ly| 7 0jam| 1 00pm} 5 G’d Haven, Ar! 8 50am} 2 —_ Milw’kee Str “|... w[eees (aeoeeo or, IC. *Daily. tDaily except eee Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m., 5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:45 a. m., 10:10 a. m., 3:35 p.m. and 9:50 p. m. Eastw: a No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet ear. No. 18 Chair Car. No. $2 Wagner Sleeper. Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 1i Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar. Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager. Ben FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agent. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. 23 Monroe Street. CHICAGO a & WEST MICHIGAN RY. 5 10pm| 10 30pm 6 15pm) 11 30pm 6 45am} 6 45am 6 00am ......-. SEPT. 6, 1891. DEPART FOR | A. M.| P.M. | P.M.) P.M. cease ie { ee + 9:00) 41:05 Indianapolis .... - + 9:00} +1: Benton Harbor......../+ 9:00) +1:¢ St, Josep. ............4 Same o22 Traverse City.........| 7:25) — Momsen. ............ +9:00) +12 meee 16. | 47:25) +5 Locington ....... ....| ee mae eee... et Pee FO 9:00 1:05. 5:17 11:35 *Daily. §Except Saturday. A. M. has through chair car to Chica- go. No extra charge for seats. P. M. runs through to Chicago solid with Wagner buffet car; sea s 50 cts. P. M. has — —_ A = car to Manistee, via M. &. P. M. is solid sa noe — agner pal- ace sleeping car through to Chicago. and sleeper to Indianapolis via Ben- ton Harbor. DETROIT, Lansing & Northern R R JUNE 21, 1891. DEPART FOR | A.M. | P.M, | P.M. ' BO ci Pn Te 200) *6:25 .................... +6:50} +1:00] *6:25 Howell... +6 :50| +1:00) *6:25 Re +6:50| +1:00| *6:25 yg a Co oe 17:05) #4:30|....., ~~ oe T7430) F430}. ...... ee Mee #705 —o..... 6:50 A M. runs through to Detroit with par- lor 2 seats 25 cents. 1 “00 © Has through Parlor car to De- a Seats, 25 cents. P. M. runs through to Detroit with par- 6:25 lor car, seats 25 cents. . 7:05 A. M. has parlor car to Saginaw, seats ° 25 cents. For tickets and information apply at Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or Union station. Gro. DeHav EN, Gen. Pass’r Agt. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e offers a route making the best time betwe Grand Rapids and Toledo. VIA D., L. & N. Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:3 a.m. and 6:25 p. m. Ae. Se Ok... 4 Ee io p. m, and 11:00 p. m, VIA D., @. H. & M, Ly. Grand Rapids at..... — a, m. and 3:45 p. m. Ar. Toledo at. 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m Return connections equally as good. W. iH. Bennett, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect September 10, 1891. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going South. North. For Saginaw & Traverse City.. 5:15am 7:05 am For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:20am 11:30 am For Saginaw and Cadillac...... 2:15pm 4:30 pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw ..... 8:50am 10:30 am Train arriving at 9:20 daily; all other trains daily . except Sunday. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arriv e from Leave going orth. Sout Wer Cometemeks, oo. ce cine 6: 20 am 7:00 am For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:30 am For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm BOG COMOIMMALL, .. 6c. iscces ee eae 5:30 pm 6:00 pm Pe TN isd peesccwneseies 10:40 P = 11:05 p m From Saginaw is dbnaeddnnea shoes 10:40 p Trains leaving at6:00and 11:05 run Gatley; all other trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive. 7:00 am : 11:25 pm 5:40 pm 4355 pm 9:00 p m SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH? 2: 206 > am train.—Parlor chair car G’d pids to Traverse Oity 1 1 "30 am train.—Parior chair car G’d Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. m train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids o Petoskey and Mackinaw. SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 10:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rs = to Chicago. B: a train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Sauae to Cincinnati. thine eS. RB. &1. BR. BR. Ly Grand Rapids 10:30 am 2:09 pm Arr Chicago 3:55 pm 9:00 pm 10:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car. 11:05 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Lv Chicaz#o 76am 3:10pm 10:10pm Arr Grand Rapids 2:l5pm 8:50pm 6:15 am 3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. 11:05 p m 6:50 am Through tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. Grand Rapids Electrotype Co., HLECTROTYPERS sneninte MTD anemone NTEREOTYPERS 6 and 8 Erie St.,. GRAND RAPIDS. KOMUND B, DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker Jeweler, 44 CANAL SY, Grand Rapids Mish, 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, Ghicago. MICHIGAN THADESMAN, Grand Rapids. ANYTHING That will help a man in his business oueht to be of vital importance to him. Many a successful mer- chant has found when TOO LATE an ty That he has allowed his money to leak away. See Monday’s and Saturday's Detroit Evening News -Mon SYy=Hor' take care of lise | $100 GIVEN AWAY ——— Y if To the Smokers of the Ys PRINCE RUDO!PH CIGARS. V4 | Te ee oing the ——< to the aumber of Imps that wil! , ‘ NA a . i appear in a series of cuts in the hing N : o exceed ! And the quicker you tumble to the fact that the old way of GF | iat Cash Prize, $50: 2d. $25. 3d, 15° 4th $10" Cees ohn to a ee ya a : wie i ie i Lyf, every 2c. worth of PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS. Sold Everywhere , keeping it 1s not 2S00d enough, the more of 1t J ou Y Up to date there has been published Stour: with sac 303 tet Uy will have to count up. Re ei ea aera REN gS ae L a . . . ; AL mK. r I " . If you wish to stop all the leaks incident to the mercan- : Sonia oeec eae Y tile business. adopt one of the WY C oupon Systems Manufactured in our establishment—“ Tradesman ,” “Super: | STRAITON & STORM’S CIGARS ior” or * Universal ”’—and put your business on a cash basis. . Having been appointed distributing agents in Grand Rapids for the OWL CIGAR COMPANY (formerly Straiton & Storm). of New York and Florida, we are prepared to supply the trade with the celebrated OWL BRANDS OF HIGH GRADE CIGARS, also their SUPERIOR NICKEL GOODS, anda complete assortment of KEY WEST CIGARS, manufactured by the above well known firm at their fac- tories in New York and Florida. The Owl Cigar Company do not manufacture low grade cigars, and their products are guaranteed free from drugs or adultera- GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MANUFACTURED @y For Samples and Price List, address tions of any kind. We solicit a trial order. I. M. CLARK GROCERY CO., Grand fapids. C. A. LAMB. F. J. LAMB. cacampaco, Yarns, Blankets, Comfor WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce, Uvershirts, Dress Goods Sé end 59 Soum Pwision ss __| [re Ginghams, Prints, Batts Bolts Wanted! ALL weicnTs_§__ Se And a New kine of Floor Oil Gloth in 5-4, 6-4, 8-4. I also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths as above. For particulars address > Ee, |=. IK [= vi i=. = a S © NI oS . STFEKERFEE & wo XN; w J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. To the Trade: | The opening of the regular season is fast approaching, and to all who deal in Oysters we wish to state that we would be pleased to have you start in by favoring us with an order for our * PP. B.*”? Brand. That it has merit has been sar proved by its popularity, that it will be kept up to standard, |we pledge our reputation. All of our local jobbers will be | pleased to fill your orders, and we ask that you specify when |ordering, the P. B. brand, always fresh, clean and uniform. THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1891. Correspondence solicitea. 81 SCUTH DIVISION ST.. GRAND RAPIDS. ,_ LEONARD & SONS Our Direct lmportations from GERMANY, FRANCE and ENGLAND being now Practical Complete We invite the entire trade handling any department of Holiday Goods to call and examine our display of samples. Remem- ber these goods pay no intermediate profit. We buy then direct of manufacturers abroad and pay all the United States duties and ocean freights in this city, and are prepared to sell them as low as any responsible firm in the country. Karly buying Is the order of the day this season, and hy the Special Terms we are now offering you have the advantage of a complete assortment and easy terms by making an early selection. 2, ROUND THE WORLD > ee ‘ a Vv ee cs SSS oat Lh Send for Our Holiday Catalogue, now Ready! ims rers —— —— Make our store your headquarters during the Fair, September 15-19. a hearty welcome extended to all visitors. Veena — , ns Aj AZ Fe Desk room and stationery gladly furnished, and H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids. mcrae Alii mance tenant Saas: waapraane sere tae