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Michigan Tradesman.

 

Published Weekly.

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

PUBLISHERS. $1 Per Year.

 

vee 9.

GRAND ee oe MBER 283,

1891. NO. 418

 

G. S. BROWN & €o.,

—— JOBBERS OF ——

Domestic Fruits and Vegetables

We carry the largest stock in the city and guarantee satisfaction. We always bill goods at the
lowest market prices. SEND FOR QUOTATIONS.

24 and 26 North Division St. GRAND RAPIDS.

TELFER SPICE COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS OF

Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of
Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries,

GRAND RAPIDS

 

PEACHES AND BANANAS.

WE ARE HEADQUARTERS.
Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention.

GS NM Arr & CO.

9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

 

  

TRIMG
ma Pipe Wrensh

Made of Forged Steel and Interchangeable iniall its Parts. Sold by

HESTERG@ FOA, - - -

MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO.,

Successors to

MUSKEGON CRACKER Co.,

HARRY FOX, Manager.

Crackers, Biscuits « Sweet Goods.

MUSKEGON, MICH.
SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS,

  

PATENTED 1889

 

fecnd Hactda Mick.

This will be the week to order

land 3 Pearl Street,
Crawford and Barnard

! Peaches. We look for quality to be

unusually fine—recent rains will improve size and quality.

PL UMS We look for large receipts of plums this week. Prices reasonable.

: an WHOLESALE:
YUUR ORDERS SOLICITED. iin: Sem

MOSELEY BROS.,

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., GRAND RAPIDS,

TENNIS SHOES.

PEGS COO es 406 YOUTHS GXBPORDS ooo
ee 38¢ CHILDS’

Also a line of Candee Tennis Shoes 50 per cent. off list. A nice line of Men’ S,
Boys’, Youths’, Women’s, Misses’ and Child’s Shoes in Calf, Grain, Glove Grain,
Dongola, ete. Would be pleased to show you styles and prices.

GEO. H. REEDER & CO.,

158 &160 Fulton St, Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE NKW YORK BISCUIT 60,

Ss. A. SEARS, Manager.

Cracker Manufacturers,
37,39 and 41 Kent St., - Grand Rapids.

Beans and Produce.

-. 36¢
4s ae oly aly 31¢

 

 

New Line of _ _ Pann iY ly G00D § fo for September Trade.

Order Tycoon Gum and Choco'ate Triplet.

y & Bins & CO.

No. 46 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS

 

A sents Ww an ted ?

SaGi INAW, , Mich., June 22, 1891.
Albion Milling Co., Albion, Michigan:

Gents—In connection with our order for ‘‘Albion Patent Flour” which you
will find enclosed, permit us to say that we have used your Albion Patent for the
past fifteen years and it has always given universal satisfaction. We consider it
the best brand of flour, for family use, that we handle. Yours very truly,

WELLS STONE MERCANTILE CO.

We wish to place this brand in every city and town in Michigan, and give the
exclusive control to responsible dealers. There is money in it for you. Write for
particulars. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed in every instance.

ALBION MILLING COMPANY, Albion, Mich.
Fmt ei NS S&S Bes >

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

MICHIGAN,
.L. USE

 

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

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ay. HH. DOWNS,

—— JOBBER OF ——

Notions & Fancy Goods

8 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I have just received a fresh invoice of Ribbons, on which I am prepared to make unusually close prices.

GET THE Best!
Jennings’
Flavoring Extracts

SEE QUOTATIONS.

HAGHES! PEACHES! PEACHES

Send your orders for PEACHES to

THEO. B. GOOSSEN,

 

 

Wholesale ®roduce an? Commission, 33 Ottawa St.,-Grand Rapids,

 

Manufacturers of

Of Every Description.

WRITE FOR PRICES.

 

63 and 85 Canal St., -

 

STANDARD OlL 60,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Dealers in [lUminating and Lubricating

-OIT LS-

NAPTHA AND GASOLINES.
Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave.

BULK STATIONS AT

Grand Rapids, Big Rapids. Cadillac, Grand Haven, Ludington, Howard City, Mus- |

kegon, Reed City, Manistee, Petoskey, Allegan.

Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels

SHOW Cases

First-Class. Work Only,

GRAND RAPIDS |

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks,
Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery,
Gloves, Underwear, Woolens,

Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams,
Prints and Domestic Cottons

We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well
assorted stock at lowest market prices.

Spring & Company.

 

ALL
BARNHART
PUTMAN CO.

Wholesale

Grocers,

 

BINDGE, BERISCH 2 Co.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes.

Our fail lines are
now complete in every
department.

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

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

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

We handle all the lead
ing lines of felt boots and
» socks,
Wesolicit your inspec-
re tion before purchasing.

‘Agents for the Boston
Rubber shoe Co.

   

B.S. DE TIEN PEALE

———- JOBBER: OF

OYSTERS

SALT FISH

POULTRY & GAME

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in Another Colwmn.
CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF POULTRY AND GAME SOLICITED.

 

 

 

LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY.

IMPORTERS AND

Wholesale Grocers

GRAND RAPIDS.

j

Grand Rapids Storage & Transfer C,, Limits

Winter St,, between Shawmut Ave, and W. Pulton St,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

General WarehoUsemen and Yransfer Agents,

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

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

peaaohone No. 945.

J. Y. F. BLAKE, Sup’t.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Va.

E
ee FIRE
r INS.
co.
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE.

S. F-. ASPINWALL, Pres’t.
__W_Frzp McBain. Sec'y

SEEDS

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

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

W. T. LAMOREAUX & 60.,

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

ESTABLISHED 1841.
SOc? SRRCCTRENRRORTES HAAN once

 

 

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

H.G. Dun & Ca.

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

 

Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich,

$500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS

Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts
of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about
to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply
to this bank. Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings
supplied without charge. All communications and
enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays
4 per cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually.
May, 1891. 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer.

WANTED!

I WANT TO BUY one or two thou-
sand cords of good 16-inch beech and
maple wood.

I ALSO WANT TO SELL Lime,
Imported and Domestic Cements, Fire
Brick, Sewer Pipe, Drain Tile, Hay,
Grain, Feed, Oil Meal, Clover and Tim-
othy Seed, Land Plaster, Ete.

THOS. E. WYKES,

WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE:
Cor. Wealthy Ave. and Ionia on M. C. R. R.
BRANCH OFFICE: Builders’ Exchange.
Correspondence Solicited.

PEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK.

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

OFFICERS.

Thomas Hefferan, President.
Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President.
Charles M. Heald, 2d Vice-President.
Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier.
DIRECTORS,

H. C. Russell

John Murray

J. H. Gibbs

Cc. B. Judd

H. F. Hastings

 

D. D. Cody

S. A. Morman

Jas. G. McBride

Wm. MeMullen

D. E. Waters

Jno. Patton, Jr C. M. Heaid

Wm. Alden Smith Don J. Leathers
Thomas Hefferan.

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

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

 

OYSTERS

We quote:
Slid Brand Oysters.

 

Selects........ 20 2. 2 23
Standards ......... @

Daisy Brand Oysters.
rn .._......., 7s SUenerds........... 18
Pavoriton.......... 16

Our Favorite Brand.
Mrs. Withey’s Home-made Mince-Meat.

Baree Omas..... 1... G4 Tait hiis........... 6a
40 1b. pails 7 a0 iD, pelle ......... 74
10 1b. pails 7%

2 1b. cans, (usual weight)......

oo.

  

.--.31.50 per doz.
.-03.75 per doz.

Choice Dairy Bitter. .......... |. 13
Pure sweet Cider, in Pila, ...._........... 16
Pure Cider Vinegar... .... ..... 2...
Choice 300 and 360 Lemons...... 50

Will pay 40 cents each for Molasses half bbls.
Above prices are made low to bid for trade.
Let your orders come,

KDWIN PALLAS & SON,

alley City Cold Storage,
Drog Store for Sale at a Bargain

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

 

c. L. BRUNDAGE,

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

STUDLEY & BARCLAY

 

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Spooy AOQqny JO saoqqor
Sat[ddpg {wyiedag adt4 ¥ [I

 

Agents for the CANDEE Rubber boots, shoes, are
ties, lumbermen’s, etc., the best in the market.

We carry the finest line of felt and knit boots, socks
and rubber clothing inthe market. Send for price
list and discounts.

4 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

PENBERTHY INJECTORS.

      

SIMPLE ? RELIABLE

The Most Perfect Autematic Injector
Mad

ee

42,000 in actual operation. Manufactured by

PENBERTHY INJECTOR CO.,,

DETROIT, MICH.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

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A DISCOVERED LIFE.
Welcome ever both to gods and men
are the persevering and the self-helpful;
and Elkanah Ramsden, standing
spring morning in his wonderful factory,

was not inclined to underrate either his |

own merits or the reward they had
brought him. For the Ramsden factory
was a wonderful place; indeed, Elkanah
rather considered it as the veritable final
cause of iron and cotton.

Malabar coolie, the abject Egyptian, the
American negro were

come the fibers that were twisting.and
twirling round the metal rods, and dart-

ing in between the finely polished
meshes.

The dusty daylight was loaded with a
thousand subtle odors of oil and cotton
and dyes; but the sunshine fell on hun-
dreds of webs, many-colored, bright-
tinted, soft and glossy as silk, beautiful
with all manner of devices and reliefs
and borders. {t fell also on hundreds of
‘‘hands,’? some ordinary enough, slip-
shod both as to mind and body; and oth-
ers just as evidently set apart by extra-
ordinary qualities, either acquired or
natural. Among the best workmen were
many women, mostly round, rosy-faced
Yorkshire girls, though here and there
was the distinctive Lancashire counte-
nance, lit with the bewitching gray eyes,
long-fringed and full of intelligence.

Beside such a girl Elkanah stopped,
and said, half angrily and half-pityingly:

‘*David’s loom is empty again, lass!”

‘It?s dree work, master; bide wi’ him
a bit.”

‘‘Then it’s for thy sake, Mary.”

She said nothing, but dropped her eyes
on her work, and the master walked
thoughtfully away.

All the morning the loom stood empty,
and Mary watched it with anxious eyes;
but when the great iron gates opened to
admit the afternoon a young
man glided up to her side and said peni-
tently:

‘‘Mary, lass, thou’s none angered at
me. I was belated last night, for I
walked so far I couldna win back, and so
belike I lost my half-day again.’’

She turned reproachfully, but the an-
ger all vanished before the sunny face
and merry eyes of her companion.

**7’m a foolish woman, David,” she an-
swered, ‘‘and I’m feared II’ll ne’er be a
wiser one.”

But her folly seemed, at least, to make
her happier; the fair oval face held, all
afternoon, a rosy color, and the great
gray eyes glanced sweet intelligences
from her own work to the
seemed now to be doing double duty.

workers

Mary’s companions called her a pros- |
She was a favorite with |
her master and the overseer; she |

perous woman.
both
was aclever worker, earned thirty shil-
lings a week and saved half of it, and the
handsomest lad
was her lover.

ty and adversity not witnessed by the
world, and whose theater is the heart,
and Mary knew that there were elements

ion

one |

For to feed its |
craving machines, the Hindoo ryot, the |

all at work; and |
from the four quarters of the world had |!

loom which |}

in the Ramsden Mills |
But there are a prosperi- |

NO. 418

of probable disaster gathering round her
| life which would work her sore trouble
unless she could summon strength to
control them.

She had allowed herself to be drifted
along by circumstances, but she knew
| that this aimless progress must soon re-
itself into a question of ‘“‘this
| road’’ or ‘‘that road.’”’ She did not dis-
trust her judgment, and was a
woman very likely, amid many counsel-
ors to followit; but yet, with a very natur-
ial feeling, she wanted some one to advise
her to do what she had already deter-
mined to when
David, according to custom, came to ask
her to ‘‘go for a bit walk,’’ she answered,
decidedly: “I’m going by myself to-
night, lad.’? He did not ask her ‘‘where;’’
his character was too easy and facile for
that. He had full confidence in his own
influence over her, and if she was not go-
ing with him, why, he must find another
companion: and meeting Jack Harkness
at the street corner, he readily fell into
his proposition ‘‘to tak’ a glass o’ beer.’’

In the meantime, Mary, dressed with
great care and neatness, walked rapidly
to a much more respectable part of the
city, and stopping before a neat brick
house, knocked gently. The door was
quickly opened by a delicate little lady,
with the kindliest face set in a spotless
border of fine cambric.

‘‘Mary,” she said, ‘‘I saw thee coming,
dear. Walk in.’’

‘‘Isn’t parson in?’’

“Surely.
hope.”’

‘“‘] hope not, ma’am.
tell me; that is all.”

‘Well, go straight to his study; there
is no one there.”

The study door was open, and Parson
| Bradley saw Mary as she came upstairs.

solve

own

do. So, one evening,

There is nothing wrong, |

I want him to

**“Good evening, dear,” he said, as she
advanced; ‘‘you were not at your classj
meeting for two weeks.

one of

I was going to

send the leaders to look after
you.’’

“No need, sir: | sorely
troubled in my mind, and with troubles
maybe alass wouldna care to speak of
in her class-meeting; so I’ve e’en come to
your study, sir.’’

“Good girl, you’re welcome.

hae been

Now tell

me the whole truth. I can’t advise on
half lights, Mary.’’
“It?s about David, sir. You know I

like the lad; hoo well I like him nobody
Yet I'm feared to
say the word that binds me to him.”’

“What for?’’

‘‘He’s gotten no backbone, sir, no pur-
pose; he just needs to be bolstered up a’
the time. He means to do but
|everbody says ‘go’ and to him,
and he’s gotten no mind of his own.”

“The more, Mary, he needs a wife
whose character is likey ours—built upon
arock. Wheneyer a duty eomes in our
way there is no getting round about it
innocentiy—that is my opinion.’’

knows but myself.

 

well,
‘come’

‘*But am I David’s keeper when I’m no
| married to him?”’

| ‘If you love him and he loves you
| _ie you can can keep him from doing

 

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wrong and help him todoright, why then
1 think you are.”’

‘*Thank you, sir.
else; the master, Mr. Ramsden, you know
him, sir?”

“Yes; what of him?’’

“He likes me well, too, sir, and has
spoken kindly and Vm
feared he’ll be hard on David.”

“Do you mean to say that Mr. Rams-
den has asked you to be his wife?”’

‘Surely, sir. [’m a decent
would not have sought my favor other-
wise.

‘“*You’d be a rich woman, Mary, and
could doa deal of good; but you don’t

words to me,

lass—he

love him, eh?’’

“That’s where the shoe pinches, sir—I
don’t love him.”

“Then if you are the good girl I take
you to be, you'll just marry David, and
do your very best for the lad.”

**Thank you, sir, I will.’’

With her minister’s advice to strength-
en her own desires, Mary ventured to
risk her happiness in
But the
gathered.

David’s keeping.
had feared
her almost from
the first constant anxiety; he detested
his loom, and soon contrived to get dis-
missed; and yet it was not from any idle-
ness of disposition; he was wonderfully
energetic at anything that could be done

trouble she
David gave

soon

in the open air; he would walk scores of
miles on pretence of seeking work, and
come back from his tramp with pockets
full of bugs, stones and curious things
and his
was earning his living.

Unfortunately, in these tramps he met
with other men of the same nomadic hab-
its, and far less innocent tastes; disrepu-
table looking characters lounged about the
street corner waiting for him, and David
ere long began to come home drunk. No
one in this gradual

falling away could

blame Mary; she kept their one room

clean and comfortable; she worked stead- |
ily; she had twice found him work: she-|

had constantly and patiently encouraged

his spasmotic reformations; she had
hoped against hope, until
when sober, was ashamed to look her in

the face.

even

As long as it was only David and her-
self, the pinch of poverty, that
soon enough, did not so very much fret
her,though her plump,oval cheeks looked
wan and thin, and the wonderful gray
had a pathetic anxiety in
Elkanah Ramsden

eyes them.
was the first to notice

it, and he tried, as far as Mary would le

 

him, to be a friend; she owed to his for-
bearance the bread of many a week, for
with the birth of children, even Mary’s
steady intervals,
and her heart and her hands were sadly di-
vided. Yet with that God-like sympathy,
common to all true women, Mary loved

loom was deserted at

her husband and children continually
the better as they seem less worthy of if.
She had loved David when he stood be-
fore her in all the winsome beauty and

hopefulness of his best years, but not as |

she loved him now, fallen from himself,
despised among his fellows; and as for
her poor, sickly children,
them all the more passionately because
their pinched, famine-stricken lives had
been defrauded of all pleasant things.

she loved

One night, coming home through the
rain, cold and hungry and utterly miser-
able—for she had not seen David fortwo
days—she met her old master. In her

pre-occupied sorrow she would have

There is something |

heart as full of content as if he}

David, |

came

| passed him; but a true love is born for
| adversity.

and with such sincere sympathy that she
| burst into tears.

““Oh, sir, ’'m in sair sorrow!’

“May I help you—just, Mary, as l
would help any other sorrowful woman?”

“The children are most famished, and
oh, the fearful cold! And we have had
eoals for nigh on to two
And here into
passionate sobbing.
- “Poor lass! Poor tass!
home. Ill see you have fire and food
enough in half an hour. Where’s David?”
thanall. I
havena seen the lad since Monday.”’

“Well, perhaps he’ll be home when
you get there. Run away to the bairns,
my lass.”

no food or

days, sir!’ she broke

“Oh, master, that’s worse

She thanked him with a look and hast- |

but David was not there.
Even the unwonted comfort of a blazing
fire, and the

ened home;

wanted, could not soothe her distress.

David had stayed away before, but never |
trouble |

had such a
haunted her.

presentment of

As she walked about her room hushing |
her baby, a neighbor looked in with a/}

troubled face.
her hand, and
and then at it. Mary stopped suddenly
and looked wistfully at her.

“There was a listening fear in her regard,
As if calamity had but begun.”

“Oh, woman, woman!
|matter? Where’s my lad?”
‘I’m feared he’s in prison, Mary.”’
Mary did not scream or faint;
| blood rushed to her face, and then back
in a choking tide to her heart. Her hus-
band in prison! Had it come to
| She laid the baby in her neighbor’s arms.

Whaten’s the

‘‘Let me see the paper, woman; 1 want
to read it myself.’’

There it was:

“Three men of suspicious character,
| David Yorke, Jack Dickson and Jerry
Wilson, were arrested last night on a
charge of robbing Mr. Josiah Holderness
| while walking in his own park. Someof
|the money in their possession has been

|identified as drawn by Mr. Holderness |

| that day from the Spinners’ Bank.”’
She read no further; she remembered
| that David had been discharged only ten
| days ago from the Holderness Mills, and
| that he had spoken at the time very bit-
terly about the author of what he ealled
**ill-luck.”
| store.

|} his But there was worse in

‘You'll see, Mr. Holderness is badly
| hurt, Mary,’’

j
|

said the neighbor,
| tone of tears in her voice.

With a dreadful terror tightening on
| her heart Mary read that the unfortu-
| nate gentleman had been felled by a blow
from one of his assailants, and had been
jinsensible ever since. It

;yet whether the
| have to be tried for theft of for murder.
| She threw a shaw! over her head, and,

was doubtful

;some hunted creature. Ere
stopped at the good minister’s door; his

wife heard the sobbing voice, and, before

ward with outstretched hands:
““Poor lass! Poor lass?!’
| derly, ‘‘come in.”
“Oh, mistress, where is t? parson?’’
‘*He’ll be here directly, Mary.
do nothing for you?”

|
| she had finished her request, came for-
|

she said ten-

‘‘Mary,’’ he said, and said it so kindly |

Go your ways |

unwonted delight of seeing |
her children eat just as much as they |

She had a newspaper in |
she glanced first at Mary |

her |

this? |

with a}

three culprits would |

unheeding all remonstrance, fled through |
|the rain and wind and darkness, like |
long she |

Can I)

| ‘No, nothing. My grief is ayont com-
forting words.”

The good woman took no offense; a
great grief is a great consecration. A
great silence fell on the two women.

Suddenly Parson Bradley opened the
door: he smiled gently when Mary turned
her wretched face toward him, and said:

“Don’t be miserable above measure,
Mary. ft David—I am just
come from him.”’

Then she sat down, threw her apron
over her head, and rocking herself back-
ward and forward, began to ery bitterly.

“Hush, my woman! Maybe things are
better than they look. I don’t believe
David has done this thing.”

Then suffered herself to be per-

suaded to eat a bowl of boiled bread
and milk and talk rationally over the ca-
| lamity that had befallen her.
‘David says he met Jack Dickson and
| Jerry Wilson at the little public house
| where they were all arrested only yes-
terday afternoon—the attack was on the
evening before; he insists that none of the
| money was found on him—that, indeed,
he had not a farthing in his possession,
even of his own; and I believe him.
| David is a very weak lad,but not a wicked
one.’’

“You bid me marry him, parson.’’

*‘T am not sorry I did so, Mary.”’

“Oh, sir, if you had felt the hunger
and cold and the sorrow of aye watching
/ and fearing for him.”
| ‘**Love often demands great sacrifices,
| Mary.

have seen

she

How else should we understand
that
has

Love, never,
If David fallen so
with you, dare you guess where he would
J am not down-
| hearted—not a bit. It is the turning
| point, lass. When the tide is clear out
it begins to flow back again. Go away
home to the children; I shall see David
does not go to the wall for want of
friends and good counsel.

And he kept his word. Fully per-
suaded in his own mind of the man’s in-
nocence, his convictions inspired others
with the same belief. Mr. Ramsden was
induced to pay a good lawyer to defend
him, and others for whom he had worked
promised to say in his behalf whatever
they conscientiously could. But the trial
was long delayed. Mr. Holderness re-
covered very slowly, and it was early
summer before the case came up for ex-
amination. The confinement had at first
sorely chafed David. He longed will all
| the passion of a restless, nomadic tem-
perament for freedom, and when resig-

ithe Divine never

| wearies? low

have been without you?

 

|nation came, remorse and repentance
eame alsoin all their hardest, blankest
form; for he was cut off from all his

usual stimulants and there was no fond
wife nigh to excuse him and put him on
good terms with himself again.

The trial came on at last.
| yer had prepared a most convincing de-
and four of his old employers
| were present to speak for him. But their
| good words were not needed, after all,
for as soon as Mr. Holderness
brought into court to be sworn against
the three men, he at once declared there
was amistake. He positively asserted
that only two men had attacked him;
that he had observed those two attentive-
jly as they came toward him, and, with-
;out any hesitation, selected the two
|guilty men. Neither of them were

David. Furthermore, he voluntarily af-

David’s law-

fense,

was

firmed that, though David was an idle,
| graceless fellow, he believed him incap-

 

 

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able of taking any man’s purse, much |
less of attacking his life.

Such testimony was conclusive, and
David left the court-room a free man. |
But crime and punishment grow out of |
the same stem. Now that David longed
to work, no one would give it to him; his
friends did not care to know him, all his
old work-fellows passed him by. He
stood in greater danger than before, and
Mary saw that she must yet make anoth-
er effort for his welfare.

This time she went to her old master.
She showed him just how David stood with
his little world, and begged him to send
the lad away where he could have a fair
chance to put his good resolutions in |
practice. Mr. Ramsden had but little}
hope, but he was not able to resist|
Mary’s pleading face; and so, within a
week, David, full of new-born hopes,
was on his way to New York. He made
plenty of brave promises, and Mary be-
lieved in them; for once, too, he believed
in them himself, although he had no defi-
nite plan as to how they were to be re-
deemed.

But when nearing the American coast,
the key to his character was found. A
terrific storm came on; for eight days
they were fighting Death hand to hand,
and when all hopes seemed over, and}
most of the crew absolutely refused to
obey orders longer, David was the Cap-
tain’s right hand. Things that seemed
impossible to landsmen he did by some
natural gift or instinet; his spirits rose
with the storm, rose above it; and the
man who had always been a coward
among wheels and bands and pulleys,
knew only a fierce, exulting joy in his
strife with winds and waves. When at
e last extremity, they met a steamer
ich took them into port; but the first
»p on the right road for David had been
n. Before they parted, the Captain
out frankly his admiration and
, and said bluntly:

’s your trade, young man?”’

 

 

er they
|

run on rocks.”
That conversation took place ten years |

ago. Its results may be guessed in this |
fact, that there is not to-day a safer,
bolder and more trusted captain in
the merchant service than Captain David
Yorke. He is asaved man; in discover- |
ing his proper vocation, he discovered
his life. Into this work he put his|
whole heart; he never wanted to be idle
—never wanted to shirk duty, for work
was pleasure and duty a delight.

Mary has seen many good days; her
faith in her husband’s better nature, her |
honest acceptance of the destiny pointed
out by her true woman’s heart, met, as it
usually does, its full reward; for love
trusts where it cannot see, and bespeaks
prosperity even by that trust. |

AMELIA E. Barn.

$$$ — <<
Beaten at His Own Game.

An Eastern merchant started in to as-
tonish the trade last week and make
thing hum. He put out asign, ‘Come |
in and get a nice ten cent cigar for five
cents.” That night eight big men walked
into the store and asked to lovk at some
good ten cent cigars. They each took |
one, and laying down a nickel apiece |
filed out without a word. The sign is
down,

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THE MICHIGAN

SHOVING THE QUEER.

Why Counterfeits Continue so Long in

Circulation.
From the Chicago Mail.

‘Several persons have expressed great

surprise,’’ said one of Uncle Sam’s secret

service men last night, ‘‘that street car |
|}conductors make a practice of passing

all the counterfeit money they take in.
There is nothing very startling in that.
And the street car conductor is not alone
in such work, either. He does no more

than the average citizen does who finds |

that he has been duped by a shover of
the queer. A bogus bill or aspurious

| coin does not retire from circulation just
as soon as its worthlessness is discovered |

by the holder.

‘‘The innocent party who has paid $5
for a bit of worthless paper isn’t content |

lose his investment. He is not a

| counterfeiter, and even if he were caught
in the attempt to pass the bogus bill he |

could plead ignorance and escape the
law’s penalty, without doubt, because he
himself was victimized, you see, and who

can prove that he had discovered the}

fact before he attempted to get rid of the
bill? Thus a good deal of counterfeit
money remains in circulation and it

seems almost impossible to suppress it. |
The government’s efforts are directed to- |
ward the punishment of the makers of |

the spurious stuff and the professional
shovers of it. It is impossible to do
more than that.

“Counterfeiting nowadays has reached |

a point approaching perfection. Very

often a bogus bill remains in circulation |
along time and performs all the functions |

of money. Half of the counterfeits that
come into our hands in any other way
than by a capture of the ‘mint,’ show
actual service. It is pretty difficult for
an inexperienced man to pick out a bad
bill.

“The other day Captain Porter over-
hauled a man in Southern Indiana who
had been displaying a counterfeit bill.
The fellow claimed to be an expert and
was selling a ‘counterfeit detector’ pub-
lication. But the bill in his possession
was a genuine treasury note and nota
counterfeit at all.

“The assistant cashier of one of the
biggest banking institutions in Chicago
accepted a $10 bill the other day and
after banking hours was surprised to
find the word ‘counterfeit? stamped upon
the back of the bill in red ink, the letters
being large enough to be read across the
room.”

—_——___—_»>-+<—_—_

A Wonderful Cracker Exhibit.
One of the handsomest, most admired
id best patronized exhibits made at the
est Michigan Fair last week was that

!of the Muskegon branch of the United |

States Baking Co., which was under the
direct personal supervision of Mr. Harry
Fox, general manager of the Muskegon

factory, assisted by Mr. R. P. Anderson,

| Cass Bradford and other representatives

and attaches of the house. The display
included about one hundred different va-

| rieties of crackers and sweet goods, the |

whole being tastily arranged in the form

of a pyramid at the intersection of two}
Tiers of |

wings of the main building.

boxes in the lower portion of the pyra-

given an opportunity to sample the
zoods turned out by this famous factory.
Many exclamations of surprise were
noted at the great diversity and superior
quality
people being aware that the factory car-

of the products exhibited, few |

TRADESMAN.

 

AUILY POR BUS!

 

i
Do you want to do your customers justice?
Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way?
Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you?
Would you like torid yourself of the bother of ‘‘posting’’ your books and

| ‘patching up’? pass-book accounts?
S

Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which

yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?

Did you ever have a pass-book account foot up and balance with the corres-
ponding ledger account without having to ‘‘doctor’’ it?

Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for

| items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they

have or not?

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

|a CASH BASIS of crediting?

A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all

enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

our coupon book and ask you to carefully
consider its merits. It takes the place

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

and, as a result,
many items on your book that do not

is sometimes the cause of much ill feel-
ing when bills are presented.

considerable trouble when settlement
day comes. But probably the most se-
rious objection to the pass book system is
that many times while busy waiting on
customers you neglect to make some
charges, thus losing many a dollar; or,

done when you ean illy afford the time,

might be avoided. The aggregate amount
of time consumed in a month in making
these small entries is no inconsiderable
thing, but, by the use of the coupon
system, it is avoided.

Now as to the use of the coupon book:
Instead of giving your customer the pass
book, you hand him a coupon book, say
of the denomination of $10, taking his
note for the amount. When he buys
anything, he hands you or your clerk
ithe book, from which you tear out
| coupons for the amount purchased, be it
j1 cent, 12 cents, 75 cents or any other
isum. As the book never passes out of
your customer’s hands, except when you
| tear off the coupons,it is just like somuch
|} money to him, and when the coupons are
| all gone, and he has had their worth in
goods, there is no grumbling or suspi-
In fact, by the

 

|cion of wrong dealing.
j

| use of the coupon book, you have all the}
imid were kept open and visitors were |

advantages of both the cash and credit

of either. The coupons taken in, being
put into the cash drawer, the aggregate
amount of them, together with the cash,
shows at once the day’s business. The
notes, which are perforated at one end
| so that they can be readily detached from
ithe book, can be kept in the safe or
| money drawer until the time has arrived

ried so large a line of made goods. Mr.
Fox has certainly baked many new}

friends for the factory
hibit, as hundreds of people
who have never used the goods of the
Muskegon branch will! hereafter insist
e product of this factory.
et

fron Mountain—G.
grocery, dry goods and clothing store
has been closed by chattel mortgage.

in consequence |

of the pass book which you now hand}

as you keep customers waiting when it}

systems and none of the disadvantages |

 

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the customer does not bring the book, |
you have to charge}

appear on the customer’s pass book. This |
| chant is enabled to
Many |
times the pass book is lost, thus causing |

if you stop to make those entries, it is}

Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

COUPON BOOK ys. PASS BOOK.

: . i. oo
We beg leave to call your attention to| for the makers to pay them. This ren-

ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts
with each customer and enables a mer-
chant to avoid the friction and ill feel-
ing incident to the use of the pass book.
As the notes bear interest after a certain
date, they are much easier to collect
than book accounts, being prima facie
evidence of indebtedness in any court of
law or equity.

One of the strong points of the coupon
system is the ease with which a mer-
hold his customers
down to a certain limit of credit. Give
some men a pass book and a line of $10,
and they will overrun the limit before
you discover it. Give them aten dollar
coupon book, however, and they must
necessarily stop when they have obtained
goods to that amount. It then rests with
the merchant to determine whether he will
issue another book before the one al-

| ready used is paid for.

 

 

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

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

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

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

Kloeckner & Co.’s |

| GRAND RAPIDS.

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Almont—John Ovens succeeds
& Cameron in general trade.

Ypsilanti—Chas. King, of the grocery
firm of Chas. King & Co., is dead.

Au Sable—M. Comeau has removed his,
clothing and hat and cap stock to Bay
City.

Addison—Wm. Brown,
of the drug firm of Wm.
dead.
oAdrian—Kittie Callihan
her stock of ladies’ furnishing
Toledo.

Owosso—C.
lime, coal,
Toledo.

Mancelona—W. A. Davoll, of Harbor
Springs, has bought Blosser & Co.’s stock

Ovens

senior member
Brown & Son, is
has removed
goods to

in grain,
to

G. dealer

e..,

Stuart,
about

is

removing

of groceries.

Otsego—Sam Folz, of Kalamazoo, has
rented a building here and contemplates |
opening a clothing store soon.

Woodland—Haight & Weed have bought
G. M. stock. Mr.
Haight will conduct the business.

New Era—Frank Veldman has removed
stock to Muskegon

Baitinger’s furniture

his general and will
re-engage in business at Lakeside.
Charlotte—Ira VanValkenburg is clos-
ing out his furniture and undertaking
stock and will retire from business.
Otsego—M. O.
his grocery business
next month.
him again.
Manton—Rinaldo Fuller has sold his
drug stoek and building to Dr. J. C.
tick, who has removed his stock to the
Fuller store.
Otsego— Miner
logg,
and will
grocery stock.
Sherwood — W. R.
tiating the sale of his drug and grocery

Brockway will resume
at his old stand
Paul Snyder will clerk for

Bos-

& McClelland, of
the Truesdell
building suitable

Kel-

has bought eorner

erect a for a

Mandigo is nego-

stock, in which case he will probably
remove to St. Paul, Minn.
Lake Odessa—H. R. Wagar has sold

his real estate interests in Lake Odessa

to the Lake Odessa Savings Bank, the
eonsideration being $12,625.
lonia—E. T. Merriett has bought a

half interest in the agricultural imple-
ment business of Hayes & Spaulding, the
old firm retaining a half interest.

WW.

business

Charlevoix—George Beaman, for-

merly engaged in here, has

ice Cochran drug stock,
the at the

purchased the Al

and will

same location.
Sherman—Vincent C.

continue business
Wall has sold his
interest in the firm of Marqueston & Co.,
dealers in general merchandise, to Edwin

B. Stanley, who will continue the busi-
ness under his own name.

Otsego —M. J. Rogan has sold his
clothing stock to Miner S. Keeler and
Chas. W. Granger, both of Middleville,
who will continue the business, Mr.

Granger removing to Otsego to give the
store his personal attention.
Charlotte—Russel 8S. Spencer has pur-
chased the interest of Dr. Frank Merritt
in the hardware firm of Barber & Merritt.
Mr. has clerking the
store for the past two or three years and
The new
firm will be known as Barber & Spencer.
Hoytville—J. H. Wasson and D. E.
Hallenbeck, both of whom were formerly
engaged in trade at this place, were re-
leased from the lonia prison on the 12th,
but were immediately taken into custody
by an officer from this county on charges

Spencer been in

is well known and popular.

of arson in burning their buildings here |
several years ago. Both men have been
bound over for trial in the Eaton Circuit
Court.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Marquette—John C. Broom will take |
out 6,000,000 feet of logs on the Peshekie
River for W. Sawyer this season. The
logs will probably be railed to this city
for manufacture.

Pineonning—Charles Resebeck, of Mt.
Clemens, erecting and stave |
mill near this place, on the site of the |

is a saw

Sherman mill, which was destroyed by
fire some time ago.
Midland—Haley & Covert, logging con-

tractors, have started two camps on the |
Molasses, where they will put in 6,000,-
000 feet for Rust, Eaton & Co.
3,000,000 feet for cther parties.
Farwell—C. S. Chase has started a
camp northwest of this place, where he |
will cut the timber on 160 acres of land.
It consists mostly of hardwood,
and hemlock, with scattering pine.

& Co.’s sawmill

and

cedar
Standish—Austin is
eutting 500,000 feet lumber for the
World’s Fair buildings in Chicago, and
the firm is negotiating contracts to cut
3,000,000 more for the same destination. |
Saginaw-— The Saginaw Hardwood Lum-

}

of

ber Co. has been organized by Sidney S.

M. Thompson, to manufacture and deal |
in lumber. The authorized capital is
$5,000.

 

Saginaw-—Col. A. T. Bliss sent a crew
to North Bradley last week, to start *
“amp. It is also reported that he will |

cut about 15,000,000 feet on icine
bay to be rafted here next season. Both
of his mills will be fully stocked. |

Saginaw—G. B. Wiggins has purchased |
a tract of land in Gladwin county, and |
has started two camps. He cut |
about 6,000,000 feet, has enough
for four or five years’ cutting at
this rate. The to” his
mil! here.

Detroit—The Detroit Confectionery and
Fruit Tablet Co. has filed articles of
association, with a capital stock of $50,-
000, of which $40,000 is paid in. The|
stockholders are: I. B. Kennedy, Davis |
M. Clarke, R. J. McLaughlin, Livingston
B. Lemon, Thomas K. Putnam and Her-
bert I. Putnam.

Saginaw—James A. Remick will put
in about 20,000,000 feet of logs this win-
ter, which will the Whitney &
Batchelor mill Mr. Batchelor
states that his firm will put in only a}
small quantity, as it has 10,000,000 to
12,000,000 feet of old logs, which,
the Remick logs to be put in
the mill next season.

Saginaw—During 1890 the Flint & Pere
Marquette Railroad 123
feet of logs. This business
been light, and the
at the of the year will not
compare favorably with several pre-
ceeding years, an indication that availa-
ble timber on the line of this road is be-
ing rapidly exhausted. There are yet
large supplies of hardwood and hemlock
tributary to the road, which will furnish
a good deal of freight in future.

will
and
timber
will

logs come

come to

here.

with
, will stock

hauled
year

,)88,775
has
very showing |
close

town ealled
started by the
Co. The

Grayling—A new lumber
Twin Lakes
Michelson & Hanson Lumber
new town is thirty miles west of this
place and the corporation named is
building a large mill there. The Michi-

gan Central Railway is building a road |

has been

| years

| new
| Cornell

ed.
| Wilhelm, Josephine M. Wilhelm and John |

| for Mr. Fisher in that region.
| will also purchase a number of million

| feet. about 50,000,000 |

jis to be removed to this place.
| about
| which

| 1863 it manufactured

|sees the limit of

from Grayling to Twin Lakes. A

| . . .
| ber of buildings are being constructed,

including a $5,000 hotel. There is said

num-
|some of them

thing. Of course he has school books,

rather out of date, but

| still full of questions and answers and

|figures and facts.

to be about 400,000,000 feet of pine and j
| other timber tributary to the new town.

Saginaw—The Titabawassee Boom Co.
estimates the out-put of that corporation
for the season at 300,000,000 feet. There

| last century, the old,

are 5,000,000 feet hung up in the Tobac- |
co, 3,000,000 in the Salt, and a few hun- |

dred thousand feet in the Little Molasses. |
|The output this year, if it does not ex-

ceed the company’s estimate, will be the
smallest since 1873. In that year it was
268,959,149 feet. The boom company
began operations in 1864, and with the
close of this season will have delivered
to the mills on this river about 9,811,-

| 000,000 feet of logs.

West Bay City—Henry W. Sage, whose

| big sawmill here has cut nearly 700,000,-
| 000

feet of lumber in the twenty-six
since it went into commission,
adding immensely to the wealth of the

owner, has put some of the results

lof his pine investments to most excellent

use.

The
library building which he gave to
University at Ithaca, N. Y.,
where he resides, is practically complet-

sands of dollars for worthy objects.

Toys he must have,
and here and there you will find the
transparent slate, the top, the puzzle of
old figures that we
—if you are old enough to be included—
were brought up to consider the height
of ingenuity, the acme of entertainment.
You will find candies in bottles, made on
old principles and healthy to eat if pasty
to look at. There may be flies in the

| bottles, but with ingenuous youths they

pass for currants, and once in a while
the storekeeper comes across a drummer
who sells him a lot of old, faded, fancy
boxes from dead Christmas times and

| birthdays of the past, and breaks up the

there can be no mistake.

' lerests and monograms, and things
He donated a handsome library to |

| West Bay City, and has expended thou-

village with the sensation. Then you'll
find slate pencils. They have little faith
in the comprehension of their customers,
these country storekeepers, and so they
always tie the pencil to the slate so that
Stacks of pic-
ture-books of a pattern a city kid would
turn up his contemptuous nose at, will
be found in kind of boxes or man-
gers all bundled up together, and sold,
apparently, by their thickness. Balls of
twine, Bohemian glass’ inkstands of
cheap price, note paper with fashions in
that
have passed into limbo, lead pencils that
have ‘‘job lot’? written all over them,
motto lozenges with the mottoes half
melted away, all sorts of toys and useful
things in thin metal and painted wood,
and the open-eyed child wanders through

| the place as if it were in fairy-land.

It has a capacity for 470,000 vol-|
umes, and cost $300,000, and the univer- |

sity will havebeside the interest on $300,-
000 to invest in more books.

Bay City—S. Fisher has let a con-
tract for the putting in of 16,000,000 feet
of logs in the Menominee district, and
| they will be manufactured at Menominee.
He expects to put in about 25,000,000

feet in the vicinity of Otsego Lake, on

ithe Mackinaw division of the Michigan

Central,
here.

and these logs will be railed

Thomas Toohey is putting in logs

He
of

handle
lumber this

will

feet season ; shipped

and the outlook as to trade.

West Bay City—The hoop manufacto- |

ry of M. Hagarty & Co., at Kawkawlin,

all there is left of Kawkawlin,
twenty years ago was smart
lumbering town. The date of the erec-
tion of the mill of D. A. Ballou & Co. at
that village is not remembered, but
5,000,000 feet; in

1867 the cut had doubled,and the quanti-

a

ty manufactured from that date to 1875
ranged from 7,000,000 to 18,000,000 in
ithe latter year. Before 1880 it was one
of the by-gones. A few million feet of
logs have been rafted annually out of

the
hung up this

stream. There 5,000,000 feet
season in the Kawkawlin,
and probably not to exceed 3,000,000 feet
came out. In addition to
factured at Kawkawlin in
by Ballou & Co., there
out a little over 300,000,000

1872.

are

those manu-

former years
feet since

i ~<a
The Country Store.

Did you ever glance through a country
or suburban ‘‘general store?’”?’ When the
usual economical man, whose taste does
not run to the plow, the rather gentle,

unambitious gentleman with the pretty,
blonde wife, and a new baby every year,

looks around in a quiet spot to see what
he can bring into the village for a little
capital to sell at a moderate profit, he |
every special article |
except whisky, and he goes in for every- |

Mr. Fisher

This isl

| his writings show experience, tact and commo1

in |

| of

| ences.

have been rafted |

| ment taken for less than 25 cents.

| 4,000,000 feet last week, and expresses |
. . . . eae |

| satisfaction with the present conditions |

| $1,100 to 31,200 per
| selling.
| zoo, Mich

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take three trade journals, but Tae TRADESMAN
is the one I wateh for most. It reaches me at
11 o'clock every Wednesday morning.”

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wish you prosperity. Keep on in the
work.”

M.V Gundrum & Co, general dealers, Leroy:
“We enclose postal note of #1, for which send
us THE TRADESMAN for another year. It isa
good thing in our business and we must have it.
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FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.
Eee
Advertisements will be inserted under this he
two cents a word the first insertion and one
word for each subsequent insertion. No ad
Advance

Address H., 213 East Walnut street, Kalama

 

OR SALE CLEAN AND CAREFULLY SELEO TED
grocery stock, located at a good couutry a a
Business well established. Address A. C.

point.
Adams, Administrator, Morley, Mich.

rPUNNERS TAKE NOTICE—A FIRST-CLASS CHANCE
for atinner with small capital. Tools, bench and
everything ready to work. Shop doing good paying
business. Owner is obliged to give it up on account
of ill health. Lease of shop near business center and
well established patronag Also ageney of best line
furnaces, samples on "hoor which are raid for
when sold. This isan Al chance for man with little
mone}, as present owner must seek another ¢ limate.
No. 310, care Michigan Tradesman.
\V ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A
general or grocery stock; must becheap. Ad
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman, 26

 

   

 

   

 

SITUATIONS WANTED.
—POSITION BY REGISTERED PHARMA
cist of four as ars’ experience. References fur-

Address No. 307, Mic higan Tradesman. 309
Y 7 ANTED—SITU ATION AS BOOK-KEEPER BY

    

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A
married man who can give the best of refer-
Address No. 305, care Michigan Tradesman,
Grand Rapids. 305

 

MISCELLANEOUS.
I ORSES FOR SALE—ONE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD FIL
ly, one three-year-old filly, and one six-year-old
geldin; z--all sired by Louis Napoleon, dam by Wiscon
sin Banner (Morgan}. All fine, hands pine, and speedy;
never been tracked. Address J. J. Robbins, Stanton,
Mich. 311
ge SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN _ INVEST-
ment. Corner lot and 5-room house on North
Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water
in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Address No. =.
care Michigan Tradesman.

Fer SALE OR RENT— SORNER LOT AND cRoo
house on North Lafayette st., cellar, brick found-
ation and soft water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to
suit. Cheap enough for an investment. Address No
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187.

W ANTED—YOUNG SINGL — MAN WITH ONE OR
two years’ experience in the dry goods business.

moderate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Wages Address 304, care Michigan Trades-
man. 304
Wao AN EXPERIENCED DRY GOODS AND

clothing clerk. In writing give age and experi-
M. S. Keeler, Middleville, Mich. 314

 

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t ee THE MICHIGAN Tt RADESMAN. ee Ci,

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. |fellow. The cub fought eave

As ens ue biting one man in the leg and nearly sev-

Amos Packer has opened a grocery) ering the arm of another, when Evans
store at Rowland. The Ball-Barnhart- suddenly adopted the tactics which have |
Putman Co. furnished the stock. worked so admirably with human beings |

 

G. E. Gifford has sold his fruit and|—tickled him under the chin. This act |
confectionery stock at the corner of | worked like magie with the animal, who | This 1S the week for Cheap Peaches
Cherry and Packard streets to L. M.| thereupon licked his hand and followed |
Benedict. | him all over the town, although he would | ee
| not permit anyone else to get wthin sever-
Cc. C. Dunham, th > Ca lillac rrocer, has | : ee bel i :

' ; 7 | al feet of him. The docility of the animal, | mn
purchased the Hatch & Co. grocery stock , . . ‘| he very hot Wet athe aT dur Ing the pe ast wee k has ripe ne |
We ony) | Se. aaa icicle a soe under Evans’ ministration, was a matter
at 321 So. Division street, and will con-) ¢ continued surprise to the people of | the crop of Chilli and Late Craw fords and heavy markets are
tinue the business under his own name.

expected daily. Prices are low and qui ality good,

 

 

ae Cedar Springs, most of whom were ready |
Sam K. Beecher is negotiating the sale| to believe the report that he was a lion L iB : i .
hi Jef ; ial ; - Please bear in mind that it will not last long. Now 1s
of his grocery stock at the corner of Jef-| tamer in the disguise of a traveling man. as c < ct =" '
a and Wealthy avenues to Daniel Agatha your chance. Get your orders in at once. Address
| . . | Purely Personal. . -
. Lozier, formerly bookkeeper for the

Geind teekte t i Coal Cc W. H. Taylor, a shingle manufacturer |

trand Rapids Ice and Coal Co. ‘ ‘

at Lucas, was i mn severe ays last | (j ( R ( i

UTaeas, was in town several days ast ATF RED J. BROWN, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Geo. W. Hewes de nies the report that | week.

he proposes to erect a stave factory at Geo. Blakeley, of the firmof Blakeley

Gaston. He says that while there is an| Bros., druggists at Fife Lake, was in

abundance of maple timber in that vicin-| town several days last week. a

ity, the supply of elm is not large enough J. J. Heiges, manager of Mrs. F. E.

to warrant the establishment of a sepa-| White’s general store at Williamsburg,

arte factory for the manufacture of| was in town several days last week.

staves. W. H. Peck, who conducts handsome i 3

B. Scatiene aaa eel Burgma, who have confectionery stores at Lansing and the
conducted drug stores several years at Soo, was in town a couple of days last i
287 Alpine avenue and 529 West Leonard | Week. Our travelers are now on the road with a complete line
street under the style of Jonker & Burg-| ideon Kellogg, the elephantine belt | of Jewelry, comprising all the latest novelties in
ina, have dissolved partnership, Mr. manufacturer of Chicago, was in town
Jonker retaining the store on Alpine |°V® Sunday. He brought a select bun- Bracelets,
avenue and Mr. Burema taking the stock dle of lies along with him and dealt them
on West Leonard street out in homeopathic doses.

eee ete tenacti Albert Retan, formerly of this city, but Neckla Ces

Henry Strope, the Morley general] more recently engaged in business at i
dealer, has finally gone to the wall. He| Muir and St. Johns, has concluded to re- Hair Ornam en ts,

recently gave the City National Bank of | move to Little Rock, Ark., where he has

Greenville a chattel mortgage of $5,000,| somewhat extensive landed interests. J A we» Pi , Bt
whereupon Edson, Moore & Co., of De-| Mr. ce ims Ces

Retan is a hustling citizen whose de-

 

 

troit, attached the stock on a claim of!parture from Michigan will be a matter
$3,500. Geo. H. Reeder & Co. subse-| of general regret. ay

quently placed an execution on the stock Frank Burns, driver for the Ball-Barn- buttons, ete. In addition to the above we show over 200
for $140, whereupon Edson, Moore & Co. | hart-Putman Co., had his pair of six- styles of

released their attachment. The failure} year-old iron-gray geldings on exhibi-

e s
has long been expected, as Strope was a| tion at the West Michigan fair last week,
i‘ careless business man and conducted his|and recieved many encomiums_ there-

Ineluding a large variety of sleeve buttons, searf pins, collar

business very loosely. on. He captured first prize for best-
ie matched work team, and second prize for | i: | is 1]
Gripsack Brigade fastest walkers with one ton of weight|Of our own import ition at astonishingly low prices. It wi
Clark W. Mills, traveling representa- | 0n wagon. be to vour adv antage to see our line be fore | yuylne.
tive for J. Weaver & Co., wholesale pa- Fred H. Ball went to Detroit last Fri- 7 : '

per dealers at Kalamazoo, has instituted | day to attend a farewell party at the De-

suit against Wm. F. Holmes, a member troit Club, given in honor Wm. V. Brace,
of the firm, for $10,000 damages for| who will be married on the 30th to Miss
- slander. The nature of the alleged slan-| Morgan, of Toronto, Ont. Mr. Ball and

der is said to be of a private character. wife leave Thursday for Henderson, Ky.,

The Sample Case advises the follow- where they will spend a couple of weeks 19 iF St ni 19 & 14 . i \ G (l R if Hi h.
ing handling of the hotel problem: with the latter’s parents. They will be aulal dll red b, Tall dl N 1th
i r "| accompanied by John A. Seymour, Pay-
ing Teller at the Fourth National Bank.
inadequate hotel accommodations will _—____$—» -¢ <> —

i kan ee Send for Sample Line ee our Headline chiahi and Mufflers.

Words must be accompanied or followed| A leading citizen who never allows an

“Grumbling and growling at poor and

 

by actions. Give the go-by to hotels opportunity to attack the Hebrew race

which are hotels in name only and pat- to pass by, received a deserved rebuke
ronize the landlords making an effort to| the other evening. He was sitting in
give value. Refuse to drink the deleteri- front of Sweet’s Hotel and somebody

ous decoctions that mask under the turned the subject of conversation to
An article of absolute merit.

names of tea and coffee. The pure arti- Turkey. The man spoke up and said he
This popular brand is composed of MOCHA,

JAVA and RIO. Every package contains a
handsome picture card. For purity, flavor and
strength Lion Coffee excels them all.

Merchant You need one or more of these CAB-
INETS. Besides serving as a con-§

venience, they dress up a store and attract trade

 

 

 

 

cles are cheap enough and can be served sympathized in many ways with the peo-
at a reasonable profit. There is no| of that country, particularly with their |

 

 

earthly reason why a good cup of tea or dislike of asses and Jews, whom they |

coffee should not be obtainable at any | are Teady to kill on the slightest provo-

hotel in the country. Their absence is | C@ton.
sure evidence of either carelessness or| ‘My dear fellow,” said a Jewish sales-
eupidity on the part of the proprietor.”’ | 4&0, who sat within hearing distance,

Ig 4 = i 3 E
. A ne | | ' oo. ' _,{ For sale by wholesale grocers every where. qt ] if 9 y
Dr. Evans was the hero of the hour up| how fortunate for you and me that we Order from your jobber, or address the WD F a of

at Cedar Springs one day last week. It} 40 not live in Turkey.”’
appears that a female bear and two cubs | F Wat Pri } vil
straggled into the village and that in a E N cz R A V ] N iz | ltt al CrpOWer ry liee. A. M. REYNOLDS & SON,

* : . | > > ear F rs 5 ST's
short time about half the male portion of It paysto illustrate your business. Portraits, | I have a fine waterpower on Rapid River, near Tar and Gravel Roofers,

; : ; a »ne tension of the Chicago & West " i
\ : — 4 1. .| Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories, | ¥ here the new ex ' / And dealers in Tarred Felt, Building Paper,
the town was in pursuit. The mother | Machinery, etc., made to order from photo- Michigan crosses said river, near enough to run | Pitch, Coal Tar, Asphaltum, Rosin, Mineral

  

 

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t 2 e ade 4ir eceane a y ; a side track, which, with the necessary groun¢ tii

and one cub made their escape, but sev- | graphs. | for building I am anxious to give away. Who| Wool, Ete.

eral daring spirits cornered the other} THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, | wants it? ALLAN F. LITTLE, Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,
| Aarwoop, Kalkaska C =. Mich,

cub and attempted to capture the little ' Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS.

  

anecpe! haere nea colitoatean

sean ied tne

‘many

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

HOTEL REGISTERS.

The Worst and the Best Signatures--- |
Abbreviations---False Names.

‘had put the man’s
If the handwriting on hotel registers is | containing the coat.

any indication of the education of trav- |

elers,the schoolmaster is very far abroad,
and the ecpy
parted with its wonted usefulness.
average of penmanship is positively bad.
The hand of the traveler has

| put aside to be called for.
book of our fathers has!

The | wife,

phoned to have his coat sent to the hotel.
The coat was sent, but it took the owner
| two days to get it, because the lawyer
own name on the box
There was no such
name on the register, and the box was
Meanwhile
the falsifier missed a telegram from his
received cards from people he

| didn’t know, and found himself an ob-

been |

ject of suspicion on the part of. the hotel

cramped by carrying a bag; or he is wet | people.
or cold, hungry or dry, or all of these and
more. Atall events, when the bell boy has Another on the Great American Trav-

taken his

that would befog a dozen experts.
hotel offices a magnifying hand

valise and umbrella, the way- |
. | From the Chicago Tribune.
farer takes a pen and executes a scrawl |

In |

eler.

‘‘Poor man,’’ exclaimed the impulsive,
warm-hearted lady, ‘‘you look as if you

| had known some great sorrow.”

|

glass is kept to decipher blurred signa- |

tures. Sometimes it accomplishes its
purpose by showing a stroke that was
made when the pen was devoid of ink.
In some houses on the European plan an
asked to pay in ad-
vance; in others he is asked to spell his
name, and the name is then written out
plainly, in order that he may get his
mail and telegrams.

illegible writer is

Careless handwriting results in serious
and ludicrous mistakes. A man named
Temple was shadowed by a detective be-
eause his name looked like Wemple.
Harris, Morris, and Norris are all one to
the heedless penman; at least he makes
them so. He does the same with Norton
and Morton, and all names of which the
foregoing are roots. Brown rarely
troubles himself about the rest of his
cognomen after he has written Br. The
remainder of the name is a dash, a flour-
ish or ascrawl. Meyer generally uses
the German M, which he widens in the
middle, making it look like Weyer. The
Italian G is easily recognized by the long
eurve to the left, below the line.

Chicago sends the best signatures seen
on hotel books. Boston is fairly good.
New England is never at home, if the
hotel register tells the truth. A pecul-
iar thing about the handwriting of South-
ern people is that the men write a small,
while the writing of the
Albany
Troy is

clear signature,
women is larger and not so good.
good handwriting;
eorrespondingly bad. The writing of
Washington people seems always to
slant to the right. Many travelers grow
weary after their finished.
Then they begin to abbreviate. Buffalo
gets down to Bfo. Cincinnati becomes

sends very

hames are

Cinti. Wash. stands for Washington;
Sp’gl’d for Springfield. No one dares to
abbreviate Chicago. but St. Louis often
becomes St. Lou. Saint Joe is familiar
to every hotel clerk. He knows just
where it is. Sanfran stands for the lead-
ing city of California. Detroit becomes

Det. and Grand Rapids is frequently ab-
breviated to Gd Rap. Many
ers are aware of their defects in penman-
ship, and they carry a hand stamp which
prints the name and address in full.

poor writ-

It is usually a mistake to write a false
name on a hotel register. A country
merchant was obliged to decline an invi-
tation toa convention of business men
in a city not far from Grand Rapids.
While the convention was in session he
was suddenly called to the city on press-
ing business. He arrived at a hotel, and
the register covered with the
names of his friends at the convention,
he signed a false name. The next day

seeing

he went out tolunch with his lawyer,
leaving his overcoat at the latter’s office.
In the middle of the afternoon he tele-

| doughnuts and a bowl of fresh milk.

 

“You are right, mum,’’ answered the
battered tramp, gratefully accepting the
sey
have.”

‘‘May I ask what it is?’’

“Yes, mum,’’ he said, with his mouth
full. ‘Il lost both my parents when I
was nothin’ but a small boy.”’

‘“*Had you no friends?”

“Yes, mum. Ihadanuncele._ I lived
with him till I was a good sized chunk
of a boy, and then he died.”

‘“‘And you had no other friends?”

“Only an aunt, mum; I went to live
with her next. I was very happy at my
aunt’s till—till—_—”’

‘Don’t speak of it, my poor man, if it
awakens painful memories.”’

“It breaks me all up, mum; but there’s

 

worse to come. My aunt—she a
‘‘Died?”
‘‘No. She was a widow, my aunt was,

know, and she up apd married
Married a mean, stingy, ornery

He drove me out of the
he had been there three

you
again.
cuss of a man.
house before
weeks.”

‘And then?”

“And then, mum,’’ said the dejected
traveler, a frightful spasm of pain dis-
torting his face at the recollection, ‘‘I
had to go to work.’’

—_——>o———___———

Paper Barrels.

English manufacturers of paper barrels
have brought the industry to such a de-
gree of perfection as to rival, in quality
and economy of cost, the ordinary wood-
en article in a great variety of uses, the
materials employed in making these bar-
rels being for the most part, waste paper,
cardboard, and for the better quality,
old sacks. In the use of cardboard, the
material is soaked or boiled for six hours,
and, after careful sorting, is put into a
rag engine or beater, where it is beaten
and torn to pieces by a series of knives
for about one and one-half hours, being
afterward mixed with water until a pulp
of uniform consistency is gained; this is
rolled, joined, shaped and dried, and the
barrel is finally covered with hoops.

Previous to the putting in of the tops
and bottoms, the barrels are painted with
a water-proof composition made of lin-
seed oil and resin for ordinary purpose

barrels, and with a special varnish for |
which food articles are to be}

those in
placed. The standard size made is six-
teen and one-half inches in diameter by
twenty-eight inches long, and whereas a
barrel made of wood is found to cost
thirty-four cents, the paper barrel is
produced for about six cents less. The
process provides that all waste be beaten
up into pulp again.

S.A. Moorman

WHOLESALE
Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio

LIME,

Akron, Buffalo and Louisville

CEMENTS,

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

20 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

Dry Goods Price Current.

 

 

— eT COTTONS.
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— ect. sees Arrow Brand 5%
Ae 2: 6% * World Wide.. 7

Atienta AA......... Gg)  Eds.-....---.. 5

Atlantic A.. .< (all Yard Wido..... 6%
re .. 64%/Georgia A.......... 6%
. Pe 6 j|Honest Width....... 6%

    

- B..... 6%|HartfordA . 5
rr 5%| Indian Head. 7%
corr... 7 (hing A A. 6%

MinghC. ... sl
4|Lawrence L By
|Madras cheese cloth 6%

Archery Bunting... .
Beaver Dam A A..
Blackstone O, 32.... 5.

 

 

 

  

Biack Crow......... —— a...
Rieck Rock ........ 2 ..... 5%
| 74) a 6%
ee 54) . DD 5%
Cavanat V. . 5} n = 2.
Chapman cheese ci. Seen &............. 5
ee .......... 5M Our Level Best..... 6%
eee 8, Cesare &......... + 6%
Dwight oa... 74 reaues.....-......- T%
(ahen CCC........ ieee... 6%
|Top of the Heap.... 7
BLEACHED COTTONS
Ace ...... . 84/Geo. Washington. _s
a... 6 Mion Mite... 7
Aree... . ...... 7 Gold eT i
Sot Camieic........ 10 |Green Ticket....... 84
Blackstone AA..... 8 iGreat ae... 6%
tCti_me.t — ee ee 7%
eee 12 . oes... 4%@ 5
ee... 7 King Phiiiip eee 7
a, -.....-..... oe The
Charter Oak........ 5%|Lonsdale Cambric..10%
Conway W..... : v4 Lonsdale...... - @8&%
Cleve ...... .... Middlesex.... .. 5
Dwight Anchor Lee 8% meormee............ 7%
shorts. 8% ek View..........- 6
Rees ........... oe oe... .. 5%
Empire.. _ ? Pride of the West...12
i 7% d
Fruit of the ee 8 g :
Fitchville .... _ 7 Witice Bils......... Bh
Pies Prse....-..... ~ * Nonpareil ..
Fruit of the Loom ¥%. wenvere............. 8M
aeae.........- 444|White Horse....... 6
Paul Vobe.......,.. 6 > oe... 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS,
oe ax Dwight Anchor..... 9
Perens... . 8
UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
ee .......... 54%4(Middlesex No. 1....10
Bantiies H......... 6% c - wee
pa a ne 2 C a. =
Middlesex AT...... 8 c Foon
ot z........ 9 . = €....
" oa. .... 9
BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Haniiiton N......... 7%4|Middlesex AA...... 11
Middlesex 2 . ones 8 " e... 12
ieee 9 " A C......5ee
. 2.2.... es 17%
r a... 10% ' aan 16
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, wie... 18 [imtegrity, colored. . .2
colored. . - 20% Wane wer.......... 18%
Integrity .. eg * colored. .21
DRESS GOODS.
nn oe : {Nameless...... ..... 20
“ —. -10% Wea
GG Cashmere ood. .
Nameless he co ceee 16 le
iced eee 18 .
CORSETS.
Cometine............ $9 50/Wonderful. ..
oe © Oierienton.. ....-.... 47
Davis Waists..... 9 OiBortree’s ..........c0000
Grand Rapids..... 4 50j|Abdominal........ 15 00

CORSET JEANS.

 

CO ee i%
Androscoggin....... ha a 6%
Biacerord........... Comestogs........... 6%
Broeewiee. .... .-.. ey Walworth ...... .... GX
PRINTS.
Allen ney reds.. 54%|Berwick fancies... %
oe.......- 544|Clyde Robes........ 1
_ of & purple 6% Charter Oak fancies 4%
- —-........ 6 |DelMarine cashm’ 's. 6
- pink checks. 5% ' mourn’g 6
- staples ...... 544) Eddystone beware A 6
~ shirtings . 4 hocolat 6
American fancy... 5% e hecw oo
Americanindigo.... 534| e sateens.. 6
American shirtings. : Hamilton —- 6
Argentine Grays.. . 5%
Anchor —- 8 Manchester maple ._.
Arnold is new era. 6
Arnold Merino . - Merrimack D fancy. 6
” long cloth B. 10% Merrim’ck shirtings. 4
- . Reppfurn . 8%
‘ «century cloth 7 Pacific fancy........ 6
* soe eee..... 10%! ~ eee. .......- 6%
‘* green seal TR 104/| Portsmouth robes... 6
« “yellow seal. 10% |Simpson mourning.. 6
. oe... 11% r —...... 6
He ae red..10%! . solid black. 6
Ballou solid lack.. 5 |Washington indigo. 6
‘© colors. 5%; ‘“* Turkey robes.. *
Bengal blue, green, | * [India robes.... 7%
and orange.. - Bi . plain T’ky x % 5%
Berlin as 5%) “
of] biue...... 6%) : oe
ney ae RNC.
‘“ Foulards .... 544|Martha ~eenen
. red bho cc | Turk — -..... 7%
- ¥ oe ces 9%| Martha ann
. ~ £4... 10 Turkey red.. me
- - 3 SSEXX 2 'Riverpo nt robes.... 5
Cocheco ioace...... 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6
madders... 6 “ gold ticket
" XX twills.. 64 indigo blue....... 10%
. ee 54)
| TICKINGS,
| Amoskeag AC A.. ing) A 4, ‘Bh
Hamilton | T| — AAA..
i... 8i4| ES ese
' Awning. .11 awit eee ™%*
Peres... ......... & jreec Kiver......... 12%
Poet Prie.......... er eeren...,......-. 50. 14
| Leeson Mis ......-. 18
i COTTON DRILL.
Aton, D.......... oo. a ae. 8
ee cee ee %|No Name........ - 1%
Catton ee 6at|Top of Heap........ 10
SATINES
Simpson ee eee... 10%
Nees caee eet B ieiak........... 0 oe
i ~~ oe ci 10@10%

 

 

 

 

 
 
  

 

 

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Amoskeag bese oe 12%(Columbian brown..12
O0n..... 13%|Everett, blue........ 12
- brown . = . brown. ....12
AnG@orer..:.......... 11% Haymaker — fi 7%
Beaver Creek . brown... 7
OOF on... ae
. CC. Dencenier........... 12%
Boston. Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, won... 13%
blue 8% No. 220. ...13
“ ~d & twist 10% c No. 250....11%
Columbian Rx belo ' No. 280....10%
Zzx bi.19 .
GINGHAMS.
Azogkear ...... .... 74 Lancaster, staple... 63
‘“ Persian dress 8% fancies .... 7
_ Canton .. 8% ° Normandie 8
. AYc.....- .1216|Lancashire.......... 6%
' Teazle...1044|Manchester......... 5
' Angola..10%|Monogram.......... 6%
. Persian.. 8%|Normandie......... 7%
Arlington staple.... 6144|Persian............. 8%
Arasapha fancy.... 4%|/Renfrew Dress...... ™%
Bates Warwick dres 8%/|Rosemont........... 6%
o staples. 6%4/Slatersville ......... 6
Conteantal......... 10%|Somerset. . _.
ree ..........- 10%|Tacoma .. - 7%
Cumberland staple. by Toil du Nord. 10%
Cumberland.... .... aee............- 1%
ae ss seersucker.. Hy:
—ae..........----- is warwice.... .....- 8%
Everett classics. . - 8% Whittenden......... 6%
Bxporigon.......... 7 c heather dr. 8
FRONTED), 22... 2 os oe 6 _ indigo blue 9
Glenaryen.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples... ~
Cignweoe........... 741 Weathrook..........
Teotes..... ...... 6 ao 10
J anes vhaloncl %/Windermeer.... .... 5
' indigo blue 944/York..... .......... 6%
. zephyrs....16
GRAIN BAGS.
Avaoekeoag.....-... -17 |Valley City.......... 16
Sierk.i..... ee eS 16
Beeeeeee..... ...... 1G tere ..... -.--..- 1
THREADS.
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's..... oe 88
eae, 2. &2.......  |Marenall’s.... ...... 88
Belvere............. 22%

KNITTING COTTON.

 

White. Colored. —_ ——
Bo. 6... S ae
- 8...-..oe lhc... 38 8
. i... ei 39 44
- 2.......08 41 . ae 45
CAMBRICS.
ee ee 3%|Washington. 3%
White Gier.......-. Samed Crogs........... 3%
ag Guere..........- 3% Lockwood.... ...... 8%
Nowmarket......... Se iwooes............ 3%
Bawards......,..... Se erunewice ........ 3%
RED FLANNEL.
Fireman...... ....- — /.-...-........... ZY
Creedmore.......--- a BH
oo. ee - Wer. eee.-....... 35
(ee 27 euckeye.... ........ 32%
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, plaid. 2 Groy SR W......... 17%
Desen &...... .....- 2244) Western W ......... 18%
a mee ee... 18%
6 oz Wesatern........ 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23%
tines &....-........ 22%%4|Manitoba........... 23%
DOMET FLANNEL.
Nameless ..... 8 9% qa 9 ont
a 8%@10 a

CANVASS AND PADDING.

 

 

Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black.
9% 9% 914/13 13 13
10% 10% 10%} 15 15 15
11% 11% 11%4)17 hie 17
12% 12% —, 20 20
Severen, 8 0z........ 9% [West Point, Son....0%
Mayland, 8oz....... 10% 10 oz ...12%
Greenwood, 7% OZ. oe ii ie... 13%
Greenwood, 8 oz. [pect ee 13%
WADDINGS,
White, doz......... 25 |Per bale, 40 doz....87_50
Colored, ae... 20
SILESIAS.
Slater, ron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket.......... 10%
Red Cross... . eeee.............. 9
, —.......... oe 10%
" Bost £A..... 12 ew — eee eae. 10%
— oe ao oe
ee ee Hsia
SEWING SILK.
Corticelli, doz. ...... 7 {Corticelli knitting,
twist, doz..374%| per %oz ball...... 30
50 oe doz. .37%
OKS8 AND EYES—PER GEOS

No 1 BI’k & White.. .

 

No 4 Bl’k & "White.. 15
8 . 20

 

 

” 3 " Be - . . 25
No 2—20, M C.. o 4—15 F 3%...... 40
* $-16,8C.......-
No : White & BY x. 2 No 3 White & Br 2
io : “ 4 “ 12 “ =
SAFETY PINS.
aes....... ..... 28 |No3 . 36
NEEDLES—PER M.
A cee... ........ 1 S0|Steamboat.... ...... 40
Ceowerys....... -..+ 1 35\Gold Eyed.......... 150
Seer s....-..-,.- 00)
TABLE OIL CLOTH,
5—4....22%5 6—4...3 6)5—4....195 6—4...2 9
a hull
COTTON TWINES.
Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ... 18
ele. 12 Rising murs -- sine
ie rangi ._-— Spiy.... =
Anchor ..... 26 Tiorth Ster..........-
a is 13 |Wool Standard 4 pivit

Cherry Valley...... 15
IXL 13

Pownesten .........

PLAID OSNABURGS

Arepeeen...........- 6%
Aeeen........-4. 6%
I boo icwenaess 7%)
Dvteares..........- 6
i cee nae 6%
a ee 5%
Haw ae eee cr ee a
pO es ipa

caren Pleasant.. 8%
{Qneid es ee oe eee
Pyrenees .....----.- 5x
Randelman .......-. 6
Riversids ........... 5%
nwa J BR oe cece nese 6%
NN. 64s. 0-2-5. 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Constitutes a Day’s Work?

The above question is one of the most
important ones which now confront the
American people, albeit there exists the
widest diversity of opinion. The aver-
age{union workman usually defines it to
be the killing of a day’s time, and his
practice is too often in keeping with his
preaching. The following plan for get-
ting a day’s work for a day’s
lined by a leading master painter in the
current issue of the Painters’ Magazine:

When a painter comes to me for a job

Lask him if he is a first-class workman,
and if he belongs to the painters’ union,
to both of which he invariably replies in
the affirmative. Well, then, I say, your |
union makes two demands of
will only make one of you in return.

Your union says that you must be paid |
$2.50 a day, and that the day’s work must |

be only eight hours.
mand of you is.this, that you will give
mein return for eight hour’s work at |
$2.50 a day an able-bodied man’s work. [|
have discovered, after repeated experi-
ments, that a skilled, able-bodied painter
can paint eight rooms with one coat of
paint ina day, and I demand that you
paint eight rooms a day or else you
needn’t begin work. Some of the fel-
lows who want work, when they hear
my demand, shrug their shoulders
say, ‘‘Well, I’m no steam engine,” or
*“?’m no horse,’’? while others, who are
more good natured, say they are willing
to make atrial. I find, however, that a}

Now, my one de- |

majority are not able todoeight rooms in |

aday. Some do seven, some seven and a
half, and some only six. All men, how-
ever, who cannot do the eight rooms are
paid off, and only those who can put one
coat of paint on eight rooms are retained.
The work is not impossible to be done.
I have one man who can do thirteen
rooms a day if he wants to,but Lonly ask
him to do eight. I would rather pay an
able-bodied man $3 a day than $2.50, if I
can get the man I want. The trouble
with the painter’s union is that it doesn’t
pretend to grade its workmen, but de-
mands that the man whose energies have
been almost destroyed by idleness or
beer drinking must get $2.50 a day, and
work only eight hours, the same as the
best workman: I tell you it is mighty
few men who can do the work of an able-
bodied man in the painting trade, for I
have tested them. Whether their want
of energy is owing to enforeed idleness
because ‘‘they can’t get work,’’ or wheth-
er they are heart-lazy, owing to having
been idle so long, and have also palsied
their muscles with beer, the result is the
same—they cannot do an able-bodied
man’s work. The result of my method
has been that I have winnowed out of the
hundreds of applicants the best men, and
I tell you those fellows are giants. To
see one of them grasping a whitewash
brush filled with paint, and doing his
eight rooms in eight hours—that is, one
room a hour—is enough to make the
bums turn sick at heart, which they in-
variably do, and go home to howl kek
“the greed of the employer,
is their own fault, if they belong to a
combination which puts fictitious value
upon their energies. Suppose I went in-
to adry goods store and the salesman
told me that I must pay the same price

for a yard of calico as I do for a yard of
silk, and that the yard of calico is really
worth as much as the yard of silk?
Wouldn’t I be apt to call him a liar? Yet

 

 

s pay is out- |

Hardware Price Current.

 

These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

 

me, and | |

and |

” whereas it |

AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
Beers ......_.......-..............,---. 60
Cy ee 40
Semi, mene, sc 25
oemusnan’, Initiation .......-................ 50&10
AXES.
First ore | Srenae......-....,.. ---067 30
_ = 2 oeee................,. 12 00
Wed S. Steel.. i 8 50
. D. Bee 13 50
BARROWS. dis.
Maltoed...................._......_....... 3 oe
Gageee ..net 30 00
BOLTS dis.
ee ....-Soae
| Carriage new ist bee stes Leeuw eeu cn 75
EL Ee ee 40&10
| Sleigh ee... ......-......., 70
BUCKETS.
| Well, plaly...... io.
| Wen, awivel.... 1... 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
| ant Toes Pin, Acareq........ .-........... W&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint. . 60810

| Wrought Loose Pin. .........0..-2-000 +226 +, -60&10

[Wage ete 60&10
| Wrought Inside Blind........... -60&10
| Weeueee beeee kl. %
Blind, Clark’s -70&10

 
 

Blind, Parker’s a 11... 10&10

Blind, Shopard’s ............ 70
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, "35. .....-...-
CRADLES,

60

G-ate........:......... te... .- Ce, COE
CROW BARS.
CO perm 5
CAPS.
eee oc .- perm 65
a Cc. ' 60
os a. Peace ea ' 35
| Musket ee Ce ee cues, 60
CARTRIDGES.
ee 50
Ganteat Wire... ol. . dis. 25
CHISELS dis.
Soeect Wiewer...........--...-...- nin cc ae
ieee Peers... 70&16
Pace et wwer................ ..70&10
Socket Sliaks . eee sl. ee
Butchers’ Tanged Tle 40
COMBS. dis.
ow Te ..................,. 40
Hote. kiss ee woe 2
CHALE.
White Crayons, per stars Lc eeet es 12@12% dis. 10
PPER.
ssw _ 02 eut to so alg — anode 30
4x52, 14x56, 14x60. —. 28
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60. . oe 25
Cold Rolled, eC 25
ae. os : 2
DRILLS. dis,
Morse’s Bit Stocks.. 50
Taper and straight EN 50
Morse’s Taper Shank............... 50
DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound ......... 0o7
Large sizes, per pound...... ......... -.... 6%
ELBOWS.

>

Com. 4 wrens, cis... ...........,... doz. -_

Corrugated .. tees ee
AGiastabic...........- - 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, small, is: teeee e................ 30
Tves’, 1, 818; 2, 824; 3, oN i 2]
FILE =~ Now List. dis.
Dimiens........ os ..
Mow Ammen ................... ... 60810
—o ve . .60&10
a : 50
Heller’ “ Horne feees...............-..... 50

@ALVANIZED IRON

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 2%; 2 and 2%; 27 28
| List 12 13 14 15 18
| Discount, 60

 

dis.
50

GAUGES.
| Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..

PRICE LIST

 

 

Du Pont Gunpowder.

HAMMERS,
Mavcole &Co'a......:..... -.. ds
miee.................. Looe. 25
Vorkos & Pinmps................ . dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............. . .80¢ list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30¢ 40&10

HINGES,

— Clases 12.8 ............-......... dis.604£10
ta

ee r doz. net, 2 50
ae Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and
OE Ee 3%
Screw Hook and Eye, Me net 10
2 met 84
ve “ “e xy Hu aN net 7%;
“ “ “ % net 7%
Pere ana s..........-............., . Oe, 50
HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10
Chayapion, anti-friction.................... 60&10
Ridder, wood tack ...............- 40
HOLLOW WARE.
ee . 60
aes... 60
ee 60
Gray enameled.......... .... 40&10

PATENT FLANISHED IKON.
“A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 2 10 20
‘*B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 2 9 20

Broken packs 4c per pound extra.

5

ROPES.
Sisal. 4 inch and larger ..............-.. 7
Magia... ...... ee -.
SQUARES. dis.
Steel and Iron..... bes ee ae 75
aay ag Doves... ...... 60
Mare 20
SHEET IRON.
Com. Smooth. Com.
Nos, to i4...... ieeuee, ao $2 95
i a ee ee 405 3 (5
Nos. 18 toZl.... oe SO 3(5
Nos. 22 to 24 . oe .... 46 3 15
Nos. 25 to 26 ' 4 25 3 25
Wo. #7..... 4 45 3s

All sheets N fo. 18 and lighter,
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER,

Lito ws... dis 50
SASH CORD.

Silver Lake, Wore 4............. list 50

Drab A.... . 55

White B 50

Drab B 55

White ¢ 35

Disiens, 10.
SASH WEIGHTS,
Solid Kyes.......

‘SAWS. dis,

. REA gc 20
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, .. 0
Spee ial Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... SO
Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot... 30
** Champion and Electric Tooth X
Cuts, per froot...... : 8 3u
T RAPS, dis.
Steel, Game..... ' . 60&10
| Oneida ¢ ‘ommunity, Newhouse’s ... 35
Oneida Community, asians & Norton’s ... 70
Mouse, choker.... . .-..18¢ per doz
Mouse, aeoaon $1.50 per doz.
WIRE, dis.
Bright Market... Lo | &
Annealed Market. ..70—10
Compered Mareet................... 60
‘Tinned Market............... 62%
Coppered Spring Steel. 50
Barbed Fence, galvanized 345
painted 2 95

HORSE N AILS

CO dis. vee
Putnam. .

Northwestern. . oe lee dis. 10810
WRENCHES. dis.

| Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled... 30

Coe’s Genuine .... 50

Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, %%

Coe’s Patent, malleable.... 7W5&10
MISCELLANEOUS.. ais.

Mire Cogs... / 50

Pumps, Cistern. ete <

Screws, New I ist....... : 70810
Casters, Bed a d Plate levees”
Dampers, American.... / 40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods 65
METALS
| P1@ TIN.

Pig Large... ie 26¢
rig Bars..... .. 28¢
ZINC,

Duty: Sheet, 24%c per pound.
660 pound casks.... oe .. of
| Pér powund...... ee et eee cena cen g q
SOLDER.
Mae 1... eee ees. 16
E xtra Wiping — a“ ' 15
The prices of the many other qualities of

| solder in the market indicated by private brands
| vary according to composition.

| Cookson.....

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
-Stamped Tin Ware.. --ee- mow Hat =
Japanned Tin Ne
Granite Tron Ware ............. new list: 346 8:10
WIRE GOODS. dis.
Brigns...... ee cel oe ..--70&10810 |
Screw Eyes.. .- 70&10&10
Mook s.......... ee 70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes. eee 7&10&10
LEVELS. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 70
KNOBs—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ....... 55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.... 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55
Door, porcelsin, trimmings 55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain.. 70 |
LOCKS—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. C 0.’8 new list | 55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s......... : : 55
Branford’s .... eu . , 55
OO et 55
MATTOCKS.
Adze Kye...... Le .. $16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye : . $15.00, dis. 60
Hunt's... 4 “$18.50, dis, 20&10.
MAULS. dis.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled.... : 50
MILLS. dis.
Coffee, —— Com... ' 40
P.&. & W. Mie. Co. - Malleables 40
‘© Landers, Ferry & Cle: k’s.... 40
Miterprise =... ..-. _ Ml 20
MOLASSES GATES. dis.
Stebbin’s Pattern. . ' .. ..60&10
Steppin’ s Genuine................ 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring.... 25
NAILS
Steel nalia, beee............ eee le cae ee _-.£ Oo
Wire nails, base.. oe ese oe
Advance over base: Steel Wire
Ge... ees io Base Base
oF. ee. ce Base 10
me i... 05 20
30. 10 20
mr. 15 30
es, Sue ees 15 35
EE a 15 ao
i eer 20 40
So. ro 50
7o6................. 40 65
OE a 60 90
ee ea ce eee tear ees 1 00 1 50
Soi. 1 3O 2 00
miae es... Ce... 1 50 2 00
ie .. .........-.,.... 60 90
iy ; eee 2 2. 1 00
ms Le eeu... ae 1 25
Finish 10: ie oe 1 00
eel ee wee eed a al et 1 00 12
' —. 1 530
c inch?! 10 ee 85 75
_ ee 1 00 90 |
, Os oe 1 00
Barrell %...... os . 2 50
PLANES. dis.
Ohie Tool Co.'s, fancy .........-..-..-...... @t)
Geteia Menem. .......................... --. Goal
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy..............-.- @40
Bench, first quality............---..---..---- @60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood &10

PANS
Fry, Acme ' dis.60—10
Common, polished. . . dis. 70 |
RIVETS ais. |
tron and Tiened................ 40 |
| Copper Rivets and Ba 50 |

ANTIMONY
..per pound 16

Haliet’s........ ‘ 13
TIN--MELYN GRADE.

10x14 IC, Charcoal ao _..-.-. 7

14x20 IC, es 7 50

loxi 1, 9 25

ie ee 92

x,
Each ddditional X on this grade, $1.7
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.

10x14 IC, Charcoal eee io ... $6 50
14x20 IC, Let eee alee _.... =o
10x14 IX, ' 8 00
14x20 IX, 00

Each jdditional X on this grade $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES

14x20 IC, < Wertce.......... 6 5O
14x20 IX, Hi : 8 50
20x28 IC, ° : 13 50
14x20 IC, Allaway Grade S7
14x20 IX, ul c 7%
| 20x28 IC, e rT 12 60
20x28 IX, “ 4 ‘ 15 00
| BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE,
Boo E Si4 Co
14x31 IX ee 15
saese ar Reo tper pound

 

 

SSS UPONT
POVV Lb)

 

SS

 

 

that is what the painters’ trade unions a " ne
are doing to-day, when they insist that | Kegs, 25 Ibs. each, Fg, FFg and FFFg........-- $5 50
the bum rabble in their ranks must en- | Half kegs, 1376 Ibs. each, Fg, FFg and FFF¢. -. 3 00
joy the same remuneration as men who | Quar. kegs, 644 “° a lp 1 65
ean do ten times their work. 11 Ib. cans (25 in Oe ce www ee ws 30
| i¢ Ib. cans (25in a eee ee. 18
ENGRAVING pee yg
| Kegs, 25 Ibs. each, Nos. 5 and 7.........-. 86 50 Insist on your Jobber
It paysto illustrate your business. Portraits, | Half kegs, 1213 Ibs. each, Nos. 5 and 3 50
Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories, | Quar. kegs, 614 lbs. each, Nos. 5 and 7.......-- 1 90
—— etc., made to’ order from photo- 4 tb. cans (25 18 CASO) 34 |
EAGLE DUCK.
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, ’
Hemet taiie Mich Kegs, 25 lbs. each, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4........- $11 00
sti ' | Half kegs, 1234 Ibs. each, Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4... 5 75 |
Quar. G - * Laf3ana4... 3 00 |
CINSENG ROOT. 4 1b. Gans (25 In case) .......-...-......----.. 60 |
We pay the highest price for it. Address CRYSTAL GRAIN, |
Wholesale Dra fete Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1 PL eae One R solic $ 90
PECK BRO *y GRAND: RAF Quarter kegs, 614 Ibs. ee 4 50 |

furnishing this B
it send to us direct.

TAKE NO OTHER!

If he

declines to do

® No

& (O°

rand,

Agents for Western a

 

 

 

 

Sete eek Met

 

8

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

~ Michigan Tradesman

)tficial Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE }

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, |

}
j

|
The Tradesman Company, Proprietor. |

 

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
strictly in advance.
Advertising Rates made known on apylication.
Publication Office, 100 Louis St

 

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Oy.-<.

 

E, A. STOWE, Editor.

 

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1891]

 

INCREASE THE YIELD PER ACRE.

The sale of the surplus of the present
crop at fair prices will doubtless greatly
stimulate wheat production in this coun-
try. The average farmer will attempt to
do this by sowing more acres. But the
more profitable way will be to increase
the average yield per acre by better farm-
ing, instead of enlarging the area sown
to wheat.

The average yield per acre of this
year’s crop is estimated at fifteen bush-
els. This is alittle more than half the
average yield per acre in England and
leaves us a wide margin for greatly in-
creasing our total product without en-
larging the area a single acre. Better
farming can do it.

By increasing the total yield in this
way the cost of producing each bushel
will be lowered and the net profits of
wheat raising be greatly increased. Let
the stimulus given by the present good
prices for a bounteous crop be applied to

 

better farming.

The system of meat and live stock in-
spection secured by Secretary Rusk and
now thoroughly enforced by the depart-
ment of agriculture has enabled the
United States todemonstrate to the world
the present healthfulness of its meat
products and to guarantee their quality
in future. Without this excellent law
and its vigilant enforcement, it would
have been impossible to overcome Ger-
man prejudices against American pork.
Now let the same system of inspection
be extended to other American produce
Then the “U.S.” brand on
a package will become synonymous with

for export.

full weight and pure quality in foreign
markets.

A fast run was made on the New York
Central Sept. 14, which, it is claimed,
eclipses any long distance run ever be-|
fore made either in this country or Eu-
rope.

 

A special train composed of one
of the company’s new standard passen- |

ger engines, weighing 200,000 pounds, |
and three private cars, weighing 260,000 |
pounds, carrying Vice-President Webb |
and party, left New York city at 7 a. m.
and made the run to East Buffalo, 43614
miles, in 440 minutes, including three |
stops which aggregated 14 minutes.

Thus it will be seen that an average |
speed of more than a mile a minute was

maintained for the entire diftance.

 

The market for the saline product of
Michigan is in avery satisfactory con-
dition and the output for the month of
August and also for the inspection year
from December 1 to September 1 has been
comparatively larger than was expected. |
The new association appears to be han- |
dling the affairs of the members very cir- |
cumspectly and satisfactorily, the price |

i tury.

|
|of the product being maintained fairly
| well, although it would probably be held | ¥itten for Tur Trapgsman.

up somewhat better if the small per-
centage of outsiders could be induced to
join the association.

 

 

The completion of the St. Clair tunnel,
between Port Huron and Sarina, is one
of the most significant events of the cen-

vastly increasing the
Canada and the United States is believed
without question, the construction of the
tunnel being rendered necessary by the
increase in traffic in recent years, which

the ferrying system of transfer was un- |
The tunnel now gives |
a continuous line of rail from Montreal ;

able to cope with.

to Chicago under the one management,
and makes a considerable saving both in
time and distance, advantages of great
moment in the way of transportation.
Although the tunnel is practically a por-
tion of the railway system of the Grand
Trunk, no other railway company will
be debarred from using it.

Few cities could hold two fairs in one
week and make a success of both of
them, as Grand Rapids was able todo
last week. The exhibits were large and
diversified, and the attendance was all
that could be .desired. Whether both
societies will hold expositions next year
is, as yet, undecided; but the district or-
ganization has clearly demonstrated its
ability to conduct a fair in the face of
serious obstacles, and THe TRADESMAN
trusts that steps will now be taken to se-
cure a consolidation of the two socie-
ties on a basis fair to all concerned. It
is the height of foolishness for both or-
ganizations to continue the present poli-
ey of extermination.

A further advance in prices of cereals
and meats is inevitable. Speculators’
schemes may retard, but the slower act-
ing laws of demand and supply must
bring it about. It is only a question of
time—how long no man ean tell, but not
as far distant as many believe. An
European war is evidently postponed be-
cause of a short food supply.

A startling statement is that made by
so conservative and reliable an authority
as the old American Agriculturist, the
utterances of which are accepted as
standard. It says that United States
farmers will probably receive one billion
dollars more for the produce of 1891
than in any previous year! Let us hope
so.

 

Country Callers.

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

C. Pleifle, Park City.

E. E. Day, Amble.

W. R. Mandigo, Sherwood.

Frank Veldman, New Era.

Wilcox Bros., Cadillac.

A. B. Schumaker, Grand Ledge.

Geo. E. Mills, Petoskey.

E. L. Boynton, Griswold.

F. Danelson, Muskegon.

E. B. Stanley, Sherman.

A. J. Felter, Stetson.

Geo. H. Rainouard, Bridgeton.

Neal McMillan, Rockford.

Mrs. F. E. White, Williamsburg.

W. G. Sprague, Flushing.

J. V. Crandall, Sand Lake.

A. E. Wilkinson, Saranac.

Taylor & Son, Lucas.

Wagner & Son, Belding.

J. J. Bowen, Ovid.

C. A. Barnes, Otsego.

F. ». Cleveland, Shepardsville.

Hessler Bros., Rockford.

That it will have the effect of |
traffic between |

He Played a Trick on His Wife.

He was a young married man anda
fiend, as all young married men are, so
|far as playing shabby tricks on their
young, bashful, inexperienced wives are
/econcerned. He was also new, young and
fresh in business. He had opened a
small grocery store in his native village,
but the cares of business did not bear
heavily upon him, as his motto was “A
| little fun first, then business.’’ He begun
| business in a small store—not because
he preferred that kind of a grocery, but
because it was the only one obtainable
by him at the time. Among his cus-
tomers was a bright-looking young man
of about 25 years who was the most pe-
|euliar stutterer the writer ever knew.
He spoke rapidly, as most stutterers do,
and sometimes he would run out quite a
good-sized grist without making a break,
but, sooner or later, he would slip a cog
and then all business would have to be
suspended until he run down. One pe-
eculiarity was that he always ran down
on the first letter of the word that caused
the slipping of the cog. For instance,
suppose the cog slipped on the word
‘*‘butter,’’ the succession of sounds which
would follow during the running down
process would strike the ears of all who
were so unforutnate as to be within hear-
ing, something like this, ‘‘But, but, b-b-
but, but, butty, but, b-b-b-b-b-butty, but,
bubby bub-ub-ub-ub-b-b-b—— ugh.” <A
laborious grunt signifying that the terri-
ble suspense was over at last. During
this trying ordeal our unfortunate friend’s
face would pass through all the phases
of the moon and his features would play
the contortion act and frequently change
places with each other. Sometimes the
mouth would try to swallow the right
ear, but the nose would always come to
the rescue by springing in between them,
while the left ear would flop backwards
and forwards and upwards and down-
wards in a desperate effort to find out
what the matter was.

Our young grocer placed a high value
on hisstuttering customer, not on account
of the dollars he paid into the grocery—
he was too young and innocent to take
such sordid views of things—but for the
sake of the ‘fun’? which his peculiar
customer occasioned him. Our verdant
grocer’s hair (what Father Time has left
of it) is now tinged with gray, and to-day
the very things which cause the sympa-
thetic tear to wind its way down over
the withered cheek are the very things
that furnished ‘“‘fun alive’’ in his youth-
ful days, before he had felt the sting
of acold and cruel world and ere his
| soul had become saddened with the real-
| ities of life.
| Asis the case in country villages gen-
erally, the store afd dwelling rooms oc-
| cupied by our young grocer and his little
| blue-eyed girl wife, were all under one
|roof and the principal living room was
| immediately in the rear of the store and
| connected therewith by means of a glass
door.

The grocer’s wife had never seen our
stuttering friend, and one day when the
| grocer saw him coming down the street,

an idea popped into his head. It wasa
mischievious idea, bent on fun, regard-
less of consequences, and never could
have popped into the grocer’s head so
| easily if the head had been fully occu-
| pied with matters pertaining to business,
but there was a vacuum in the young
merchant’s head and so the idea popped

 

 

in and prompted him to play a trick on
his wife. He knew that the stutterer
was coming to his store to trade and he
wanted to enjoy the fun of seeing his
wife wait on him. He entered the living
room in a great hurry and asked his un-
suspecting wife to step in and ‘‘tend
store” until he returned. She laid aside
her work and, tripping into the store,
had just reached the usual position be-
hind the counter when the customer,
very much confused (for the grocer’s
wife was very pretty), presented himself
on the opposite side of the counter. The
grocer peeked through the window in
the door and this is what he saw and
heard:

He—‘‘Good afternoon” (with a graceful
bow and a flourish of the right arm).

She—‘‘Good afternoon, sir,’’ (looking
her sweetest and glancing toward the
living room door.)

He—‘* Fine weather we are having
these days? (becoming very much agi-
tated as he thinks how awfully liable he
is to slip a cog).”’

She—‘‘Yes, sir; we are indeed favored
with charming weather. Is there any-
thing I could do for you?”’ As she asked
the question, she advanced to the counter
and, leaning slightly over, she electrified
him with one of her most charming
smiles, and looking him steadily in the
eye, she awaited his reply. Slip a cog!
Why, that look and that smile would
slip a cog in any man’s anatomy, to say
nothing about the poor fellow who stood
trembling in mortal dread of the explo-
sion which was about to occur and which
would convert that charming smile into
a frightened look. He knew he could
not answer her question or utter another
sentence with any degree of safety with-
out putting forth a mighty effort and so
the hands closed with the grip of desper-
ation, the eyes closed, the shoulder
blades rose on a level with the ears and
the fun commences.

He—‘‘You may give me some titty-
titty-titty-titty-titty tit-tit-tit tittyty-ty-
ty tit-t-t-t-t-t-t-t toy—toy—toy, ty tit-t-t-
t-t-t-t-tea.

Where the ‘‘toy’’ comes in is where the
mouth tries to swallow the right ear.
When the cog first slipped the grocer’s
pretty wife jumped about two feet and
came down with one pretty foot in the
tea chest and the other on the mouse
trap. Backing up suddenly against the
shelf base, she caused the tobacco cutter
to fall off the shelf and land on her toes,
and just before her customer touched
bottom she became thoroughly frightened
and bounded toward the living room
door with a scream. When she entered
the room her idiotic husband was iying
on the floor twisting and writhing in con-
vulsive fits of laughter. Of course, the
customer fled, never to return, but what
cared this empty-pated young caterer for
public patronage, so long as his childish
craving for fun at the expense of some-
one else was gratified? ZENO.

—_— +
Wanted to be ‘‘Assister.’”’

“‘] think, sir, in fact I am certain,’’
said the pretty girl, as she entered the
cynical merchant’s office, ‘‘that if you
engage me my knowledge of shorthand
and typewriting will bea valuable aid
to you in your business.”

‘*You are too ornamental to be useful,”’
grufily replied the merchant, ‘‘and I am
not a marrying man. A pretty type-
writer would just waste her time on
me.”

‘nt, Bir,”
maiden,

 

tearfully protested the
‘‘T have no matrimonial de-

signs; 1 simply want to be assister to
you.”

 

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My First Bold Adventure in
Life.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

I had reached my majority had
passed out from under the care and au-
thority of astrict old unele, to whose ten-
der mercies I had been
dying mother I
months old. I married
blue-eyed child,
younger than myself, and
had been endorsed and dedicated to hap-

and

consigned by a

when was only six
had

who was nearly six years

a sweet,

our marriage

piness by a host of friends and well-
wishers. I had exchanged a piece of

wild swampy land, which I had inherited
my mother, for
merchandise. I had bought
building, with dwelling rooms attached,
in my native village

from a small stock of

an old store

and had moved my

Mercantile

~small stock of goods in and had begun
my career as a merchant. One large}
pane of glass had been broken out of

one of the front doors and I had not yet
found time to put in a new one.
night and we had retired to bed and had
been asleep for I do not know how long,
when my wife was awakened by sounds
which evidently the
which was separated from our bedroom
by thin partition My
brought me to a state of consciousness
as carefully as she could and gently in-
formed me that
were in the store and that we had better
held

came from store,

a only. wife

she believed burglars

a council of war and consider ways

and means of carrying on a defensive
warfare. I never feel like springing
suddenly out of bed and rushing head-

long on the scene of action, because |
might kill the
ment of the moment, maim somebody
for life, and it would be
compelled to go through life with such a
Then, again,

somebody under excite-
of
terrible to be
load upon my conscience.
I think it the best poliey to lie perfectly
still and listen until one is fully satisfied
in his own mind that he knows whence
the it
would be very disappointing to start off
pell mell to some part of the house and
find that
locating the burglars.

strange sounds proceedeth, for

had made a mistake in

It would not only

one

be disappointing but valuable time
would be lost enough—time, in fact, to

kill six or eight average ablebodied burg-
lars. After I had listened and estimated
and caleulated for about half
my wife suggested that, all
sidered, it might not a bad idea for
me to get out of bed.

an hour,
things con-

be

Who but a woman would have thought

this? It beats all
practical a woman’s suggestions are than
a man’s in of The
idea of getting out of bed was the last
thing I would have thought of, but,

of how much more

a case emergency.

when my wife suggested it, I could see
the wisdom of it at once. For fear that
I might make a noise and frighten away

the burglars before I could get a chance
to kill a few of them, up
first and found my clothes and held them
open while I got into them. After my
wife had buckled on my armor,
to realize that the case in
most serious one and one that demanded
prayerful consideration. Il had just
entered the mercantile world
was the first attempt to ‘‘do me up”
drive me back into private life.
should wade boldly and kill
them, my name would surely
ten on the scroll of
ehildren’s children would never
rehearsing it in all its gory details.

my wife got

and

in all of |
be
fame and my
tire of |

E!

was so impressed with this view of the)

1 began |

aes

situation, that I insisted on explaining it |
fully to my the part
where children’s children came in.
I had two-fold object in
explain matters: First, to satisfy an in-
bred desire to consider the consequences
fully
if there was any apparent or possible dan-

wife, especially

our

a desiring to

before taking the step, especially

ger in taking the step; and, in the second
place, it would give the burglars more
time either to retire peaceably of their

own free will, bloody

fail

thereby avoiding a

encounter, should
to take the

and prepare

or—in ease they
hint

themselves

and retire—to repent

for sudden

a
a

M ECE L1G. AN

flight into the mystic regions of eternity. |

| My wife was harder hearted and less
j}merciful than L and so she urged me, by
all the big things she could think of, to
rush in and with one fell swoop scare |
lthem away and save our property. In|
vain I called her my dear and reminded |
her that her proposition sounded all}

It was |

 

hand was a/|

|

and this | ' : es
| Porcelain Lined Fruit Jars and can ship

right, but it fraught with danger,

inasmuch as the burglars might not seare

Was

worth a cent, and then | dropped on my

knees and asked her if she would prom-

ise not to marry any other fellow, if I
should lose my life in the impending
conflict. I begged her to reconsider, but
with a suddenness which surprised me,
she gave me a shove that upset me and
rolled me under the bed. Seizing the

lamp in one hand and a ball club (which
stood behind the door) in the other hand,

she started for the scene of hostilities.

When my wife entered the store, lI
crawled out from under the bed anda
large Newfoundland dog bounded out
through the broken pane in the front
door of the store and the mercantile
house of which J was the honored head
once more asssumed its normal eondi-
tion. Sometimes my wife so far forgets

herself as to claim some credit for what
she did, but

head of the household,

as defend, protector and

it would not ecom-

port with my dignity to credit my wife
with any share in defending the house

and protecting the family from the first,

last and only midnight attack of burglars,

two-legged or four-legged, during a mer-
cantile career of twenty-seven years.
RADIX.
> -o- <>

Shelby—Graham & Dean have engaged

dl},

in the handling of produce.

 

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Notwithstanding the enormous demand |

we now have a large stock of Mason’s

| promptly on receipt of orders.

-

writ-

PRICES

Pint Mason’s Fruit van... ..e.. $13 00

Quart ao 14 00
(oar, ae seen ue 12 00

ube rs, a oo........

| Caps and Rubbers, extra 4 50 |

HH. LEONARD & SONS, |

Grand Rapids, Mich,

| coming in very slow

i The demand

TRADES et ~~

   

   

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with the

selves styles, make up, perfect
fit and remarkably reasonable prices of
our en » line, adapted for all classes of
WILLIAM CONNOR ‘ : :
: . trade Our single aud double breasted

Box 346, Marshall, Mich,

Overcoats and Ulsters

being worn cannot
has been so
colors and grades,
half roll box,

while to order
bumber more in all
Homespuns, Covert Cloth in full or
is and Ulsters.

from the best made
great that we are making up a large

Cheviots, Meltons, Kerseys,
top and regular euts, Chinchille

possibly be told f varment

FALL Ss I LTS Large selections and newest novelties, double and
single breasted sacks, nobby three button cutaway
frocks and regular frock suits, also Prinee Albert and other coats and vests in
‘Clays’? worsted and other attractive materials.
. a 1 : p .
A select line of pants well worthy of attention,
WILLIAM CONNOR our Michigan representative during the past nine years

will be pleased to call upon you at any time, favor
addressed to him, box 346, Marshall, Mich.,

Having been established thirty-one years,
a large and increasing trade

the trade.

if you will him witha 1
where he resides.
during all of which time we have had

in Michigan, we know pretty well the requirements of

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

Boys’ and es Ove reoats and SUitS i, ie

as he
they ure nic

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chants best made an

season.

assuri est, cleanest,

September,

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We have a few thousand 5-pound
colored statements, size 55 x8}, super=-

fine paper, which we will close out:

500. $1 65
Printed and blocked in tabs of 100 1,000, 2 50
2.000. 2 2d

We have the tollowing 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.

 

PHACHES PHRACHES

This will be peach week for everybody, as Crawfords and
this last week and we look for lower
eg We can give everybody all the peaches they want ar

1e lowest. All we ask is for you to send in your orders ea
ae fruit and our haying three large orchards to handle,
will suit all. Write for prices or wire us.

TUCKER, COADE & CO.,
56 and 58 South Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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Advanced—Roman chamomile, gum ammoniac,

Declined—Oil anise, cinchonidia, linseed oil.

 

ACIDUM.
ee 8@ 10
Benzoicum German.. 50@ 60
Boracic ....- Lease seee 20
Corpelicam ..........- 23@ 35
re... 50@ 55
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—_§_ aoe 10@ 12
a 11@ =
Phosphorium dil......
Salicylicum ..........- 1 30@1 70
Sulphuricum.... .. .. 1%@ 5
Wemtore............- 1 40@1 60
eum... .......... 40@ 42
AMMONIA.
ns 16 deg.. 384Y@ 5
a @oe.......... 54@ 7
Carbonas .........+.-- 12@ 14
Chictean ............ ae
ANILINE.
ee 2 00@2 25
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Tele ..............-. 2 50@3 00
BACCAE,
Cubeae (po. 90)...--. 90@1 10
Jaetecee ...-.-.-.-.-- 8@ 10
Xanthoxylum .......-.. 5@ 30
BALSAMUM.
Copaiba .......-..--.-- 55@ 60
a ace @1 50
Terabin, Canada ....- 35@ 40
Wailea ....-.-.--.---- 35@ 50
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian... .-...-- 18
eT 11
Cinchona Flava ........---- 15
Euonymus atropurp.......- 30
Myrica Cerifera, po...---.-- 20
Prunus Virgini.........----- 12
Quillaia, grd......-.-------- 14
Sameerree _......---------+-- 14
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ 2%
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Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11@ 12
 ........ 13@ 14
. ae... 14@ 15
“s ee 16@ 17
FERRUM
Carbonate Precip....-- @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Soluble........ @ 80
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @
Solut Chloride......--. @ 15
Sulphate, ——- Lau 1%@ 2
pure.. @ 7
FLORA.
Aoedes .... .----.------ 22 2
Anthemis .........-- . 0 WD
Matricaria—té‘(iéiéCC---- 2@ 30
FOLIA
Barosm 4 50
aaa “Acuiifol, une
nivelly . : 2 28
“Alx. 35@ 50
Salvia omanaaion. Ks
end Ms........--.-.-- 122@ 15
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@UMMI.
Acacia, 1st picked.... 90
ia 2d bay ae 65
iT oe 50

. sifted sorts. .
“ po.
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60).
Cape, (po. 20)..
“ — Socotri, (po. 60) .

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Ammonites .......--..- 3 40
Assafoetida, (po. 30)... 2
Bensoinum........-.-- 3@ 55
Camphorm®........----- 52@ 55
= horbium -- 35@ 1
banum. «oie @3 00
Sunbean e......-.-. 80@ 95
Guaiacum, (po = _ @ B&B
Kino, (po — Loo @ 2
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Myrrh, (po. 45 @ 40
Opii, (po. 3 3 an 2 10@2 20
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C bleached...... 28Q@ 33
Tragacanth ........... 0G 7
HERBA—In ounce packages.
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Oaleined, Pat.......... 55@ 60
Carbonate, Pat........ g 22
Carbonate, K. & M.. 0W@ 2%
Carbonate, Jennings.. 35@ 36
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Abeinthivm. ....-..-- 3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc... .. 45@ 75
Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@8 25
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Auranti Cortex....... 3 00@3 7
Berea .......-...-- 3 75@4 00
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Cinnamonil ........... 1 15@1 20
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| N.Y. Q & Stmapls......-..00-. @ 18|Neat's Foot, inte itt as
gum shellac, oil sassafras, orris root | Mos oh s Canton... .. “a Mac aa @ %| strained ag a 2
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Cubebae @70 | oe — 2 a Snuff, scoieh, De a 2 “nig nag ion:
|... 2 , | Os. Sepia.............. 2 Ss 2). 7 2! Re » , one
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ae a ee age 6 | Picis eae 7. sua 4) strictly puro... 2 2N@3
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Mieceoma |. .......... 40@1 50 | Arnica .............-..-..- 50 | pas... 85 | Spts. Ether C BAG, BS . me Amer
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Santal =... a i? ma 00 Caan oe 50 — ze ....1 80@1 35 OILS. perth  e Coach....1 10@1 20
i i 55 | Conium ........ Set Semeretis raconis..... , | Hxtra Turp ..160@1 70
——. ess, ounce. s5 | Cubeba...................... 50| Samtonine .............. 4 50 | Whale, winter = Gal | Coach Body -.-..2 @S00
isl er 3 a Digitalls ae wa Gita = = ~~ 1 Turp Furn 1 00@1 10
hyme .. a 0 = ao Ae eee de Po ‘i = ween tees eens ees 10@ 12] Lard, No. 1. a ae! donee -_—~ a 1 —
| a a meee ae eae « a ks ial a cea 5 p Qe S ;
Theobromas........... 15@ 20], os CO 60 @ 15) Linseed, pureraw:... 3 1; Turp. te ee
uaica
POTASSIUM. cube ang ee a 50
re. ............. 60 7
Bi Carh...... 15@ 18} Zingiber
Bichromate . 13@ 14| Hyoscyamus................ =
.. - ee ae 50 V. ¢
Bromide ig 0] Todine nn. ae : Get What You Ask For!
Chior, (io G6 BB Ri vem Gian «Bie HINKLEYS BONE LINIMENT
i ee ToT 4 oe
Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 28@ 30 yrrh 50 FOR THIRTY-FOUR YEARS THE FAVORITE
Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15} Nux Vomica... 50 Enclosed i Thi 7 rae if
Potass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10|Opil......... Seen rants | nelosed in White Wrappers and made by D. F. FOSTER, Saginaw, Mich
Potaus Nittesq.........: ™%@ 9 * Camphorated........... 50 | ; : ue
ee ate aie alee 28@ 30] “ Deodor.................2 00] en
ulphate po...... _.. og) te Aurant! Cortex ee 50 | Dru gs # Medicines. Te —————— oF he See
RADIX. ee 50 Market.
‘ eT ee ia = i fea while a
—— 1 — ee — State Board of Pharmacy. Li = fire which destroyed the large
CU ee. ee eee eee — es S  . S
Arum, po @ B G 5 | Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 64 South street, New York. September
(aiaees ‘ i Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit. kK, September 3,
amus. .... 20@ 50] SOP a. ....... 50] four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor will doubtless produce serious effects it
Gentiana, (po. rol on 10@ 12 Stroman 60 | Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. the shellae arket i i
a (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 ee 60 | President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. sles ac market in this country and
= rastis Canaden, — ee 0 e a — Detroit. even in the markets of the world. Im-
¢ y reasurer—G G rTers » ; « . .
nefiebore, ‘ie, po 3 35 eratrum Veride...........- 50 | “Meetings —_ ae . sg - cig that nearly one-half of
' Ran S MISCELLANEOUS. : og e entire supply of shellac i aL
a oe “ 15@ 2 a Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. was destroy = Thi - : “oe ie
Tpeca .2 40@2 50} Aither, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 28 President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw. i i oe is occurs at a partic-
Iris ari (po. 35@38) 25@ 40 . te “"4R | 320@ 3 Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. ularly inopportune time During the
Siapa, pr..... 45@ 50] Alumen 24@ 3 Second Vice- President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. | last year r . : ee
Maranta, %%8.. @ 35 t ny ‘(po. “— ane Vee eae ie Seo Detroit. “i i tH numerous droughts have so in-
> ’ . y A. Bugbee, Che’ ire¢ » rosin trees ig sre is ‘
Podophyllum, po. ee A 2 aes a a Z sara Duvont, neo poe ae aa Aig g . . rT
hel. ......... 2-2 eee. pO} Anmmeiia............... F ext Meeting—At Ann Arbor, Oct. 20, 21 and 22, 1891. a ° e rd as much shellae in
“ a. @1 75 | Antimont, po 4@ 5 the mark 3 :
, Gut.....--.-.-.-.. Gi ©] ABemoms, po... .-... F arket as three years ag There
ee 75@1 35 : -,| Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. a c a ae 1ere
a 48@ 53 | Anti a G1 Gi | President. W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott, are only 54,000 cases in London ware-
Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ ®w yer © brin oo: 40 | Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March ; houses now <% -ompar 3
Serpentaria ’ 35 | Argent! meres . = June, September and December, . : = as compared with 89,000
SETPeNtaria..........-- 30@ € B i ree years ago. Yonseque , » tne
Senega lL 40@ 45] Arsenicum............ 5@ 7 Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. f his > _ Rasy a + a
Similax, Officinalis, H  @ 40/ Balm Gilead Bud..... gagy 40 | Tesident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith. of this commodity has been very high
Scillae, (po. 35) M 1 = Sa tan Da 2 10@2 20 a ee oa for a year. Further, while the available
hea 4 alciu ace i. Socie s ies have bee ee
ea Footi- 11; 4S, _ g | President, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P. whamcank. supplies have been diminishing, the de-
Gus, po....-.--- @) sh Canthandes Hussien 010 i atau Alaanoeae mand has been increasing. Cables from
Valeriana, Bae. (0.30) fe. 2 @1 2% Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. Calcutta say the market is bare there;
ates. German. a = Capsict Fructus, af... @ 2 President N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler. the London merehants telegraph that no
Zingiber j....... TU ska L a 2 ce i ni nnn stocks there are available for America
10 2 r NE : : .
SEMEN. Caryophyllus, (po. 18) 128 3 _— Managed. Che outlook therefore is that shellac will
Sateen, 0. SS. = = Gera Alba, S. & ee @3 7 A well-known business man walked be high for a few months at least.
Aptum (graveleons) 219 2 a: P : into a cigar store the other morning and i TEC
Carul, (po. 18) 0-0-0. s@ 12} Coccus .............. @ 40|took out two coins. One was a dollar No General Exhibit this Year.
Gardancn ............ 25 | Cassia Fructus....... 20} 2 2 BE ¢ Q ar >» lai ; bee 1c ;
pone a 7 tg. ot a nH $ po and the other a half dollar. He _laid It has been decided to dispense with
ea @ i? | Cetaceum |... 2.2. @ 42 them both down on the case and pointed|the usual exhibit of pharmaceutical
Cydontum....-....... 7@1 00 | Chloroform... 60@ 63 to a box of imported cigars, saying:|,. 4. fy a nd apa
a a oa Chioral ya G wibbe .. 125/‘Give me a dollar’s worth of those.” goods from the various manufacturing
6 9 OF ml " wei
——— oe wr = aca Tst...... 1 wa = The clerk handed them out and the buyer houses at the Ann Arbor convention of
Foenugreek, PO... 6@ 8 Cinehonidine, P. ‘ew 15@ 2/| laid the six that he wanted in a row|the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso-
ie (4 @&% erman 3 @ 12|along the case. ‘Then he said to the
: é Hh ' i fy ciation, and to ¢ » efforts in this line
ae = (bbl. 334) .. “a % “eo oe wiilg 60 clerk: ‘‘Give me half a dollar’s worth of ‘de the aie : —_— , —
Pharlaris Canarian. . 8%4@ 4% Creasotum sone ttet ees @ 50| any good five cent cigar.’ The clerk| °° ‘"* — a eae ee
Kapa ; te aan Tg ee % for... ... s : did as he was bid and the five-centers by the retail pharmacists themselves.
napis, A bu. wee an e i precip... ieee cas %@ 11 = laid along in a row also. The gen-| Druggists of the State are cordially in-
ae aeny “| « Rubra i) “@ “g|tleman tren took the row of imported | yj : ibi : ‘i
SPIRITUS. vited to make such exhibits of their ma-
i 9 Crocus .... .........-- 2@ 30| cigars and cut the ends off of them all.|_. : v
—— DER. TMG 00 aan mia  “@ 94] Phen he mixed the five-centers and the nipulative and professional skill.
4 oe hae) AUR... .. 5 — -_—
es 1 10@1 50] Dextrine ............, 5 | twenty-centers up together and put them iijiias ai
Juniperis Co. 0. T : cas 35 | Ether Sulph.... 6s@ 70| all into his capacious vest pockets. A The Drug Market.
ian Be... ae Emery, numbers. . $ , | friend who was standing near, and who} Gum opium and morphia are steady.
i Gat... 1 75@6 50 Ergota, Gol) eo. 50@ 65 had watched the operation with a good] Quinine is unchanged ayia aa
Vini — teteteee ces = Sa Flake White.......... i2@ 15|deal of curiosity, said: ‘‘Wherefore?” | ,, i ! ph ig niet
ees eee ee 2@2 Cam. ............. @ 2) ‘Si ly this > boy,’’ replie es are tending higher. Cinchonidia in large
cada oa Simply this, my boy,’’ replied the man ’
Florid ean Gelatin, Gooper..2221. @ 7 | addressed. “] am ina business where | C408 is lower. Gum ammoniac has ad-
ae — an ¥rench........ 60 | 1 have to give away a good many cigars. vanced. Gum shellac is higher. Oil
Nassau sheepe’ wool awa 70 and 10. I am a man who likes a good cigar. I|anise is lower. Oil sassafras has ad
carriage . 2 00 eannot afford to give away = kind of | / ea Tag
Glue, B as ranee Castor oil is wndins i ae
Velvet exten eee 1 10] oro ae 82 Jl cigars that | smoke myself, 50 T ouy a eee eae na ora ie ad.
Extra yellow sheeps’ Giveorine 0.000. 17. @ %|day’s supply and cut the ends Off. Then | Orris root has advanced. Borax is ad-
carriage ..........--- 85 Grana Paradisi........ @ 2/1 buy some cheap ones. When it is| vancing. Roman chamomile flowers are
Grass sheeps’ wool car Hydraag Chior Mie. ” 3 55! necessary for me to give away a cigar| higher. Brimst { Ipl
ek. : ay a CIpé gher. srimstone and = sulphur are
Hird for alate use. ° . go|1 pull out a handful and offer one to the} ioner and tending i 2 ee
Yellow Reef, for slate “s Pree Rtubriin e - person, whoever be may be. He thinks} > ee ing upward. Linseed
USE -... +. eee sees eee 1 40 « Unguentum. 48@ 55| that the ones with the ends cut off I have | i! has declined.
SYRUPS. Hydrargyrum...... @ 7o| had in my mouth, and takes one of the i rant
Aceacia ..............-.-.-.. 90) lonenyopolla, Am. "1 25@1 50| cheap ones, whereby I save a good many A Misunderstood Metaphor.
ee ES 75@1 00 > > 26 : ane
ae 60 | Iodine, Resubl........3 75@3 85 dollars in the course of a year and also “I saw Dibble the other evening, and
Cee, 50 | Iodoform.............- 4 70 | Keep myself on good terms with the peo- | he’s looking first-rate.”’
—. ——: 7a oe = pe 2s eee e ee = = ple to whom it is necessary-to give “Still hugging the same delusion?
Similax Officinalia.... a a | CBATS- Ho was Huggmg a two hundred pound
ain = Liquor a et Hy- ee sweetheart, but she didn’t look much like
SOMCZA .-..- ee ee seen eee e sees pace OG. ........--> If you are disposed to find fau slusion.”
ae e  tamaiveamhiibiie 0B 18| cite! von will Gnd alee Seat rem [6 ee
50| Magnesia, Sulph (bbl wife, you will find her largest one to be) $2 <—___——
Toh e 50 wi CeCe aaa 2@ her choice of a husband. Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.
eee 6icee........-------- anne, &. 7... -.... 50@ 60

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GROCERIES.

A Uniform Sugar Barrel.

From the Merchants’ Review. |
Besides the objections to the present
system of packing refined sugar in differ-
ent sized barrels that we have already
enumerated, such as the inconvenience
of checking off the marked weights on
the barrels and adding up the totals, and
the impossibility of the retailer forming
an accurate idea of how much sugar he
will be able to get out of the barrel—be-
cause when each barrel varies in size no
check can be kept on the clerks in weigh-
ing it out—besides these objections and
others, there is a very material one from
the retailer’s standpoint, namely, the
possibility of his being shipped some ex-
tra large barrels on a declining market
and very small barrels at a time when
prices are advancing. We have known
of such cases happening to retailers.
When sugar is ordered in ten barrel lots,
and barrels vary as much as 100 pounds |}

 

in capacity, as they often do vary, there |
may bea difference of 1,000 pounds be-
tween the quantity the person ordering
expects to receive. Now, an excess of a
thousand pounds on a declining market, |
when perfectly
tailer, is no joke, especially as the staple |
is generally retailed at an inadequate
profit, and the case is no whit better |
when there is a deficiency of a thousand
pounds and the market takes an upward
movement by the time the sugaris de-
livered. The variation in the capacity
of sugar barrels is a relic of antiquity |
that ought to be immediately done away
with if there is a spark of enterprise in
the sugar refining industry. Flour is |
sold without tare, why not sugar? Re- |
tailers are not bothered by tares on pork,
then why should a different method of
packing and billing be applied to sugar,
which is the chief staple of the grocery
trade? Consider the loss of time in the |
very necessary work of examining the}
weight marks on sugar barrels, the turn- |
ing of the barrels on end in order that
the figures may be read, and the time}
spent in comparing the results with the |
figures on the invoice. all of which could
be saved if the refiners would adopt a
more modern and businesslike system.
The American Sugar Refineries Com-
pany has earned the gratitude of the
jobbers of this vicinity by allowing them
to get a chance to get a profit on the
company’s product, and we suggest that |
it go out of its way atrifle to accommo-
date the retailers by giving thema stand-
ard uniform barrel.
oO me
Status of the Peddling Law.

Carson City, Sept. 18—lIn the last is-
sue of THE TRADESMAN, I noticed ashort
sketch on the peddler and huckster nui-
sance. Please publish in the next issue
a full outline on the matter, so that all
may understand it, such as the amount
of license fee for each peddler—one |
horse and two horses—whether license
shall be conspicuously displayed or ear-
ried in the pocket, and what course we
can take to suppress this growing evil,
for itis nothing else. The peddlers are
using up all the small towns in the coun-
try, for the farmers will buy of them,
even if the cost of their goods averages
25 per cent. more than with the home
dealers. Please give us a full history of
the matter as soon as possible and you
will confer a great favor on your patrons |
and friends, for there area good many
merchants, like myself, who have been
harassed badly by the nuisance for some
time, and we all know thatif there is
any one who can do the subject justice
as he did to the P. of I.—it is the ‘editor |
of THE MiIcHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A. CONKLIN.

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> <—-
Rarncstness in Business

Business at the present day is maninae-
ed upon sharp competitive requirements.
Its margins are narrow; therefore its re-
turns must be made quickly and often.
To succeed in trade, not only must those
who would strive for her favors have the
usual facilities, such as capital, location,
knowledge of the markets and wants of
customers, but should also be well en-
dowed with a lively diligence and an
almost vehement earnestness. These

| week.

\light crop last year. New

jthe Late Crawford and Chilis
| Of peaches are still in market.

| 304 North Ionia street.
| Mich., general representative for E. J.

_THE

three must abide, but the greatest of
these is earnestness. The will has been
highly valued by many in placing an es-

timate upon business character. It is |
| very good, and so are a number of other

qualities that might be mentioned.

But the grand secret of all worldly |

success lies in earnestness. Where this
is wanting nothing else will avail.

in every other qualification and giving
them direction and potency. It is a
cardinal principle by which all others
are more or less effected.
> <>
The Grocery Market.

Sugar is atrifle firmer, the price hav-
ing advanced a fraction.
er and lower, the package mannufactu-
rers having declined their quotations !
cent. The indications are that the mar-
ket will continue to decline evory week
for the next three or four months, as the

|crop of Rio coffee is reported to be the}

largest ever known.
New figs will be in market i:
The crop promises to be of good

; quality and in ample supply, against a

Brazil nuts
are now in and new California walnuts
will arrive in a short time.
> - > -_—_-
The Fruit Jar Market.

Prices on fruit jars have been very
firm tothe trade this week at $13, $14
and $17 per gross for pints, quarts and
half-gallons. The demand is greater
than at any time during the season and
varieties

The retail prices in the city are $1.25
per dozen for pints, $1.50 per dozen for
quarts and $1.75 per dozen for half-gal-
lons.

>_> - —
To Grocers.

Orders tor pickles booked before Oct.
10 will be received on a basis of $4.50 for
1,200 mediums. Price guaranteed until
Nov. 1. Count and quality guaranteed
absolutely. WALKER & Son,

Box 456, Grand Rapids.

a a

For the finest coffees in the world, high
grade teas, spices, ete., see J. P. Visner.
Grand Rapids,

Gillies & Co., New York City.

 

 

Crockery & Glassware

 

 

LAMP BURNERS.

—ee...................... oe
a oe 50
mae ” 4, i . —. =
Tubular. Le eee 75

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

 
 

en 161
tr * -1 88
a 20
First quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.. 2B
0.1 i ee ee 2 40
j No. § : ' . 3 40
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top ..2 0
_o.1 ” ° C --2 80
pet * 3 86
Pearl top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled oe
No. 2 CO 4 70 |
No. 2 Hinge, “ _ - Petes oe et
La Bastic.
_ 1 Sun, plain bulb, — ee et a 12
No. 2 1
No. 1 crimp, per. —.. 13
ase hUcmr,.UmcCUv DUC -1 60
PRUIT JARS.
— sor ns. |
eS... LLL . 1)
—..... Ce 14 =
a eee... ls. ee ee
Rubbers. ..... eke. ee
Se.
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter C rocks, eee... .......... 06
» eeem...,...... ae
Jugs, i See POE OR 75
ee
90
' ee ee ce 1 80
Mak Pans, % gal., per dos. (glazed a 60
( : 72

MICHIGAN

When |
present, it is the mainspring coiled with- |

Coffee is weak- |

about a}

TRADES SMA N.

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples—Fancy eating command $1.50 per bbl.
Cooking are held at #1 per bbl

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

“tg be tocnongg dairy now commands 18@19¢e,
| while factory creamery has advanced to Xe.
| Cele “ —20e per doz. bunches.

Cabbages—35@40ce per doz.

C ucumbers—Pickling, 15@20e per 100.

Eggs—Dealers pay 15¢ and freight, holding
at 17¢,.

Grapes—Worden’s Command 3c; Niagaras Del
awures and Catawt 4c. per lb.

Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.

Onions—65e per bu. for good stock.

Muskmelons—40c for common; 65c¢ for Osage.

Peaches—-The hot weather of the past week
| has brought in the crop like a flood. Late Craw

  

 

su,

Pears—Bartlett and Flemish Beauties are in
good demand at $1.50 $1.75 per bu.; common
grades are about out of market.

Peppers—Green #1 per bushel

Potatoes—Little doing at about 35@40e per bu.

Quinces—#2.25 per bushel.

2 | Agr pers s—The supply is almost unprecedent

ed, dealers pay 2t¢ and sell at 25ce.

 

POULTRY

Local dealers pay as follows for dressed fowls:

 

| Spring chickens cect eee eee ee ee ck | Cee
| Pall chickens ........ a — @I19
| Turkeys... a a @it
| Spring ducks. bees ect @13
ees @ii
eee
PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.
oe, oe ee ll %
eeorceus.... .... .... le 12.0
Extra clear pig, ‘short Oe 15 00
Musca Clow Weavy........  .
oor ete. 15 0
Boston clear, short. ek Le 25 00
Clear back, short cut. a
Standard clear, short cut, best.... _...... 15 00
sAausaGe—Fresh and Smoked,
eee. 7
Hem Sausare............ nee 7
See Seeeeee..... 8... _o
Frankfort Sausage _8
oe eee. C8. 5
Bologna, straight.. 5
Bologna, thick....... _6
Beem eee... 5
LARD— Kettle Remdered,
—-. .. i.
liiaag tt ET
ee . 8%
LARD. Com-
Family. pound.
merces ...... ae 6% 6%
O and 50 1b. Tubs.. es As 6%
3 Ib. Pails, 20in a casé...... -- 7% 7%
Sib. Pails, 12 in a Cage....... 73% 73
10 Ib. Pails, 6 in a case........... 7 64
20 1b. Pails, 4 in a case. one 6%
i... «> OME 6%
BEEF IN BARRELS,
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs.... 7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..... a e.. o
Boneless, rump butts. . 0 50
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 Ibs... . 9%
stg lina aoa. a
a = dia a a
' oe... io _ 8
- eat boneless........... eee ees ees. Oe
ec hae eee ee Te
Breakfast Bacon, boneless................ -..10%
Pees beer, Meee eeoee.................... .
Lome eee Geese... ..........,k.. 8
Briskets, medium. Ue Sly
_ ee eee
FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, cone... ........... ris ceeueee, © OE
hind quarters. . a
=— a
' lone, Mo. 8...... a
aw ree... ee
= rounds it ee ita oe On
| oe ee eh @
| eiieeeun i el Lee @5
| Pork loins. as ee @10
i Bi
| Sausage, bibod or ead 0 @5
—... @ 5
' Frank fort i" @i%
Mutton 6 @7
on... 6%4@ 7
FISH and OYSTERS.
| F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.
Whitefish @8
Trout.. @8
Balivut...... Puerta ce, ; @15
| Ciscoes i ' a. eas i @5
Flounders...... eee @9
ee @10
| Mackerel.......9.. @25
[ire a @i2
California salmon............ @v
ovsTsns—Cans.
o | werneven Count,............... @40
ie. eee @28
| Selects ...... ee @30
| es eee ee @30
Aare ee @25
Pere we
Pere ce i
SHELL GOODS.
| Oysters, per 100....... ..-. 02.2.0. esses 1 25
Cee 1 00

fords command $1.25, Uld Mixon’s #1 and Chillis |

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS,

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK CANDY.

Full coienaee Bblis. Pails.

er — mm ...., a 6% TY,
ee i cae oe wae ee 6% T%

ia ee i”
ee ee 9%
TS ee 4 8%
Bee 1... . 1% 8%

MIXED CANDY.
Full Weight.

 

  

 

| Ss. Pails.
| Standaerd...... ee 7%
ee 6% 7%
ee cic eg, ae 8
ee 7 8
ee % 8%
POM a /-- 8%
| Boiien Mock............. 7% &%
Conserves .... Z 8
3roken Taffy wM% 8%
Peanut Squar 9
Be te Dee ee 10
| Preece Creeees.......... i 101%

 

Valley Creams.........

 

Fancy—In bulk.

 

Full Weight. Bbls. Pails,
Lozenges, Bias... ee eee 10% 11%
Deeeeee hee 2%
Chocelese prmos,..................... 124%
Chocolate Monumentals............. 14
re ree... ,-. ssc eee, --- ss O 6%
ee erste mts ee es: i. 2 9
Sour Drops. . ee 8% 9%
operas... -- -10% 11%
FaNcy—In 5 Ib. boxes. Per -—
Ee
Co 55
Peoperecas Proee..... ec 65
ee ee
H. M. Chocolate Drope............ eetec eae ee
eee .-. 40@50
Licorice Drops......... es 1 00
AB. idence Drops............. ee eee 80
Loseures wieie.............. A Ss
' ee ee ese
Imperials.. eee eee el a
\ i a 5
Cream Bar. . Ses ee 60
Molasses Bar.. ete ec e eee ee 55
Hand Made Creams.) £5@,95
Plain Creams. le ei . .80@I0
Decorated Creams........ bee eee etek ae
String Rock ee 70
meee gE een a a SN ND ag 1 60
Wintergreen Be 65
CARAMELS.
mo. 1, Wee. Fi. boeee.................
No. 1, c 3 r oe ee ees ce oe 51
No. 2 ' 2 C Leese eee
No : 3 ' ects es
cea on. Gh. bowee........................ 4 10
ORANGES.

Porremiog, ar...................-...... 150
Imperiais, 160....... eee ee oe, 1 50
LEMONS
Messina, Gnoree, 200.............. OG @b 00

ee et eae @b 00
. choice 300..........
. mer oe @5 50
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... @18
. choice i @16
i i i Pe @12%
. Fard, 10-1b. box.. oo . @10
ss 50-lb ae @ g
. een. 50-Ib, box.. La @

NUTS.

Almonds, Terreagona................... @i7
e ie @i6%

. California.... oe 17

Ce ee . @8
a ER RRA @11%
Walnuts, Grenoble. eee ts @14%

' Maree. ..... .. _ @i2z

. Chili.. eee eee, @10

Table N Nuts, No. 1. eee @14
No.2.. ee @10%

ie Texas, H. P., ee @17
Cocoanuts, full sacks \ @4 2

PEANUTS.
Fancy, H, P., , Suns.. @ 5%
meee 0000 7 OM
Fancy, i. P., Piaes.......::.... ek @5%
: " mood... .... 7 @%%
Choice, H. Pes a @ 4%
sap Roasted Te @ 6%
HIDES, PELTS and FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green ... wr thittcctermeeetereseseces & ES
Part ¢ vured..- a ee @5

Full ones : @ 5,
ee 6 @7
Kips, green 4@5

cured..... ie el Se
Calfskins, green. riescteseset a ss ae
res 5 @6
7 on hon 10 @30

2 hides % off.

PELTS
ee
ee co. ae

wooL,
bic t 20@30

| Unwashed . i Le 10@20
| mi8c ELLANEOUS,
—s. --. 3BY@ 44
Grease butter .... ee ee
eee ae 1%@ 2
Loeeeeee...._....-..-.-..._..... 2 59@S 25

OILS.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, i
barrels, f. 0. b. Grand Rapids:

| Water (ioe @ 8%
Some ee @ 8
somreem Test... ........ oe ons @ 7%

ee @ i,

ee cL @ 8%

Cycer ...... eee ee ey es ie a 27 @36

I ees orca eke uel. ..13 @21

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APPLE BUTTER, Strawberries, | Hummel’ s, foil 1 50
Chicago goods.. ......... 74@8 | Lawrence ....... 1 eee
AXLE GREASE. Bamburg......... Seas 2 26 CHICORY
Frazer’s. Erieé......--...- 0... 1¢5 | Bulk sia 4l
w : s Whortiéberries. r 7 ya ace
ood boxes, per dos... SO Gi naa 1 40 Red... : 7
3 doz, case... 2 40 re | fr CLOTHES LINES.

. iy per gross 2 00 - atthe ea a 1 25 | Cotton, 40 ft. .per doz. 1 25
25 Ib. pails,. 1 00 ueperries ....... ‘ 1 we ‘6 50 ft “ 1 40
aia ae MEATS. aH ‘ ; 60

. a ia ore beef, Libby’s 2 10 ‘ 70 ft... “ i %5
\° sei hoe I o ot i ce '
Wood boxes, per aoe... | 6 -sneervich a aun : 80 ft 1 99
. Sdos ease. 1% | a ae ca : pa Jute 60 ft. 90
“ : 4 ib... : ‘ 2 ¢
Di ni _ a a --1 10 pi DENSED MILK ve
iamen “ “6 Ib Os | NSED MILE
» Kagie
Ww ood boxes, per doz wa chicken, & Ib.. 95 .
. 3 doz. case... 1 50 VEGETABLES. Genuine Swine
“ “ bail pe wiss
per gross 5 50 Beans. 4 sete Gueiaa
ilies Hamburg stringless 125 Americ nS wiss.
Se er ae eae French style 2 25 COUPON
25 1D. palis .........-- 90 . Limas 1a
oa POWDER. i Lima, green ' 1a
Acme, ’4 1b. cans, 3 doz = goaked...... 90

7 % Ib. ped . 85 | Lewis Boston Baked. 1 35

: 1 Ib. 1 .--- 1 00| Bay State Baked... 1 35
a Salk ceuece 20 Woridns) air 1 35
Pelfer 8, M% Ib. cans, “doz 45 | Corn.

. ae 7 ee 85 Peamiburee ......... 1 3

" i ee ey
Arctic, 4 cans... ...... 60 | Purity 1 10
te i 6“ s 2" c ae
si > L wee ee ees o Erie Sere 1 15 “Pradesman.
a. ae oe +r hundred 2 OK
; ns “ 5 = aaah sists 9 60 Hamburgh marrofat 13 $ ete ee 2 50
ted | tar, X 4 Ib cans. 40 early June.......1 Ojg9’ « 2 00
ed TUN a be Champion Eng...1 50 35. 2 On
1b oe Hamburgh petit pols ......1 7> 810, 1 On
BATH BRICK. | fancy sifted.....1 90 | ao 5 OF
2 dozen in case. | Soaked eee ces eal A “Superior.”
English 90 Harris standard ro -- 15/34 per hundred..... 2 50
ee 70 | Van Camp’s Marrofat 1Wias « és i. 3 00
Domeskic ....._..... 60 i" Early June. 1 30\¢ 5, 4 00
BLUING Gross | ATcher’s Early B lossom 1 35 | ap 5 00
Aretic. 40% ovals.........- 4 09 | French ... 1 80 | gy 6 00
eo eee oe Mushrooms. '

“ pints, —— 10 50 FPrenen ..... pitt " ee 17218

« No. 2, sifting box... 275| pig Pumpkin. "

‘se No. 3, " 4 00 | Brie .-------2--eceeceeeeeeees )

“ No.5, ‘“ "8 00 Squash.

¢ ouball |. ’ 4 59 | Hubbard .......-----.-..- 1 30 j c

' | Succotash. niversal. Ha
BROOMS. embers 60000 aoe 2, pee hui idred w+ +++ OY OD
No. Shurl.............. 1 75 | Soaked 85 3 00
. ce : [Soaked ................ . ot 3
a ; 5 2 | Honey Dew..........------- 1 60 eae 4 00
a 7 arpet. 2 25 | Tomatoes. 3 5, ; Lee ae Oe
Parl G ~ | Van Camp’s...------ 1 10 | $10, ny wees 6 00
ef rl sew bisk, aS Wo Coliae........... 1 10 | 320, 7 O
oe ea ase tea ea 1 auubare Ls 1 Bulk orders for above coupon
Mil. coneas - | —— a 1 05 | books are subject to the follow
er cetera e roe 2 | GaHOm ....--+-..--..-- +> += 275 | ing discounts
Warehouse. . w+ tec teeee 275 | CHOCOLATE-—-BAKER’S. 200 or over 5 per cent,
__ BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, German Sweet... ..... 221; 500 * 10 '
— Sun ig 34/1000 * 20 '
[ore Seate...... ' | Pure.. Lees 38 i
: 3 a : \OUPON PASS BOOKS.
Self Rising -./ OOF Breakfast Cocoa....... 10) can = cane ‘0 oem any
CANDLES N >A at1ox | denomination from #10 dow n.
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes. 101%, | NOEWSy ------ ee Q10% 39 books i OO
Star, a. +L 10% | N. Y. or Lenawee. @11 i: ie "3 op
Paraging .. ......... ll te | Alleges wees 3
Wicking... le ee = Skim ...... ------ ---- 8
Sap Sago
z Edam ....
CANNED GOODS. Swiss, imported sea
FISH. domestic ... G13% pee as tt a sea
Clams. | Limburger...... .--- co 0 Ge sia ilar
Little Neck, dj agg 1 10} Brick... oo 1214 —
.1 90] CHEWING GUM. >ubte a
Cc lam C seen 2ubber, 100 lumps. 35 ‘thot
Stendart Sip. 0... 2... 2 ao + Soy 40 | Bost iat ult
Cove Oy sters. | Spruce, 200 pieces 40 soston. i
: oe City Soda : i
Standard, 1 = Lo os esac i 10) CATSUP. Sod 7 A 6
le : : 2 10 | Snider’s, 4% pint.. 1% S. Ovntex es es
a osters. | ‘ eo eae 2 30 :
Star, 1 a 2 45 | “ mast 3 5 ( ‘ity Oyster. Se. {
, w cee sc cree em Me ieee’... ... . .-. 2 Oe /
2 Ib. 3 45 | CLOTHES PIN CREAM TARTAR.
i 3 4 L 23 a 2
Pic nie, 1 Se 2 00 | 5 gross boxes ... ' ant —, meee a >
2lb ie rae 3 00 | cOcoA SHELLS. Gincers! oe oes
Mackerel. | Bulk. a. @4 | § 0o@
s r hc... 4... ae . Qt , See
tandard, 1 = 1 pod Pound pac kage 8 @i DRIED FRUITS
Mustard, Sib. .........--- .3 00 | COFFEE. Apples. i
Tomato Sauce, 3lb.........3 00 GREEN Sundried ........---. @38
Soused, 3 Ib. ue eee ae 3 00 Rio. r Evaporated as @l1
Salmon. .. | Pair. California Evaporated.
( ‘olumbia Riv er, flat.... ---195| Good Apric a 14
Alask i lt nunsenie q a Prime Blackberries ..--...-- 78
as a, on D. ie a a PGpleen oo
on ™ | Peaberry .. | Peaches .
Li Sardines. a Santos. Por ghiced......-.--
American rt 5G 6! weir. Plums wanna
2 Good runes, sweet..
A Ue... 4..-- aly |
Importec ‘s | Prime PRUNES.
: 348 | Peaberry decease sens of Turkey @ 63
Mustard %s.......... i c . ; J @ 0%
4 ee | > Mexican and Guatamala. Bosnia oo. @ 8
bs ‘ Par. - oe 6| PROMGn...........-+-- @ 9
Mook. 31D. oo... eae ee 2 , e
’ | Good. PEEL,
aaeien | Fancy a ri a Lemon....... , 18
: . ay oat iracaibo. Orange a 18
York State, — Lo 3 251] Prime ... 221 & CITRON.
Hamburgh, | Milled a 23% | In drum @u
f pricots. Java, : Co @24
Santa Cruz........ | Interior .. oS CURRANTS.
Lusk’s.....-.--- | Private Growth.. ....28 | Zante,in barrels @ 5% |
Overland. ..... Mandehling . .29 cc) fn Sele... || a
! Blackberries. } Mocha. : in less quantity @ 6
F.& W ' Chi re 9) | Imitation ede | RAISINS —California
erries. Arabian 28% | London Layers, 2 er’n 1 75
Ret iit Paeeus ie 1 20 al oT 2 00
5
ae am er — ; on | To ascertain cost of roasted | fancy 2 25
Erie cen i 3 | coffee, add 4c. per Ib, for roast- Musc mee sege= 1 50
1 Pees E; i oe iC - ng and 15 per cent. for shrink- 7 -- 1 €0
Jamsons, Egg Plums and Green | age, oreign.
: Gages. a ” PACKAGE Volonciag........ .... 6
Erie ....-......-+++.-- @1 60 | weLaughlin’s XX Ondaras. ey eee @ 6% |
Gooseberries. Gereaee..........+--- @
Common 1 19 | Durham FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Peaches. Lion, 60 — - Farina,
Me... 1 60@1 4 75 | Lion, 100 1b 160 th. keeps. .......... < 4
Maxwell . 5 s ou ‘abinets con ~ Hominy

game a a 2 25 caieine Oo a ve a ae |
Shepard’s .....-..---.- ) i : Barrels ...... foe odie ad een ce 3%
California 2 60@2 one pound | Grits

alifo cae otatolait p2 75 p’kages (sim ATIGS ..---- teeta Heats
Pears. oe - Lima Beans.
Domestic 1 25 ilar to accom | Hried 6
Riverside. Ce 2 25 panying ill Mace aroni ‘and V ermi icelli
fustration) . 13 eae
Pineapples. aa at ease Domestic, 12 lb. box. 5 |
Ve 1 30 price,with an | Imported. cope iace ous 10 |
Johnson's sliced...... 2 60} md ditional | earl Barley
' grated ae 2 85 | Meharge of 90 Kiegs....-..... gen coca 344@3%
Comm Quinces. 1 10 | cents for cab- | Green,. bu bai 1 10
a us eee ewes | inet. a : , i i Ni eee apr
Raspberries | | Split, Be ee i eet 6 00}
PO cers een 1 30| EXTRACT, Sago.
Black Hamburg....... 1 50 | yaer on. erate denen % | GErMAN .....-.ee0eee oe.
Trio, biack.......-.... 1 40 | Felix. ees ed alas 1 5! Best neta... |...

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Wheat.
Cracked........-

FISH--Salt.
Bloaters.
Taos... .............- 1 10
( ‘od.

Whee. ........ ....._... ao
‘cee ......... 7%4@8%
Btrips....... So. oo.) Oe
Halibut.

Soe ............... 10%

24

11 00

75

Dl... 2 15

- % bbl. 1 50
Mackerel.

No: 1, 6 bbls, Slbs........ 9 00

No. 1, kits, 10 lbs 1 20

Family, % bbls., ; 50

" ait ©) ite........ 15

Pollock.

 

raccy............ 3 50@4 00
Sardines
Russian, kegs.....-.
Trout.

No. 1, 4 Dbia., 10lbe........5 @
Ho. 1, Rite, 1 Pe...-.---..- 80
Whitefish.

No. 1, % bbls., 1001bs.. 7 00
No. 1, wits, 10 ibe.....--.-.-.. 1 00
Family, % bbls., 100 lbs ... 2 75

7 Kits, 10 iba... 0
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings’ DC.

Lemon. Vanilla
2 OZ folding box 15 1%
3 02 1. Oo 1 50
4 0z " 1 ow 2 OO
6 OZ TF 2 OV 3 00
S$ oz 3 00 4:0
GUN POWDER.
Kegs . 5 50
Half kegs... 3 00
| HERBS.
| Sage 1 he
Hops Ls 25
JELLIES.
Chicago goods..... @3
LAMP WILKS.
no. . es 30
fie. 1....... : . 40
No.2... oe a 50
LICORICE.
Pure 30
Calabria : a
Sicily... . : ..
uYE.
2 i 1%

| Condensed,

   
     

Export parlor

MATCHES,
No. 9 sulphur Lt
Anchor parior........... ...1 @
No. 2 home —— J

1

MINCE MEAT

3 or 6 doz. in case per doz. .1 00
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

| Sugar house oe 16

Pre oie 19
Pancy ......----.-...------ 23 |
| New Orleans.
Sit ..... 17
| Good . 20
Extra good. 26 |
| Choice ... 30
|} Fancy 36
One-half barrels, 3¢ extra
OATMEAL. }
Barreis 200.....---- @5 (0
Half barrels :00.....-. @2 7%
| ROLLED OATS.
| Half bbls 90. 715 |
| Barrels 180 Leas 5 00
PICKLES.
Medium. |
| Barrels, 1,200 count........85 00
Half barrels, 600 count 3 00
Small.
| Barrels, 2.400 count ....- 7 00
Half barrels, 1,200 count 4 00
PIPES.
| Clay, Na 216.....--.-.- Ae
{ 7. ful 1 count. cl
Com mae S............. “a
RICE
Domestic.
c arolina Loma beee wee -
| No, 1 oa
Ne @ 5
ee ae
— vorted.
Japan, No. 1 : bbe
: eee 5%
Java.. 5
Patna 5
ROOT BE ER.
Williams’ Extract.

25 cent size....... 1
aqao0zea........- ete $5 00
SAPOLIO.

Kitchen, 3 doz. in box 2
Hand 3 2 50
SOUPS.

Snider’s Tomato 2 65
SPIC ES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice o a
Cassia, China in mats. Sonar iM

| Mace Batavia..

Cc uba. Baking.
Ordinary .....--..- ' 19
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. Batavia in bund....15
_ Saigon in rolls.. 5
| Cloves, Amboyna.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Nutmegs, a: 80
mo Ee... %
_ No. 2 ate 65
Pepper, Singapore, black. 15
25
anes... .. 19
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Aliapiee ......-.... io
Cassia, Batavia \ My
‘ ' and “Saigon 25
. salgon Bs
Cloves. Amboyna 30
' Zanzibar 20
Ginger, African 15
: Cochin 18
Jamaica 20
Mace Batavia... 80
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste.

Trieste

Nutmegs, No. 2

Pep per, Sing ZApore, black.
white

Cayenne

 

Sage
‘Absolute’ in Packages
4S 728

Allspice eeu oe wm i
Cinnamon _ is
Cloves : oF ft =
Gineer, Jamm.......... 84 155

cc At... 84 1 55
Mustard . : 84 155
Pepper ..............., 34 1 oD
ee 84

SUGAR.

Cut Loaf
Cubes ......
Powdered

Granulated.
Confectioners’ A
Solem ....
White Extra Cc
Extra C
Yellow
Less than 100 lbs.
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Corn.
201b bomes.... .- 6%
40-1b o (ie . 64
Gloss.

1-lb packages 6
3-Ib ‘ _.- _ 6

co §.—rti<‘ CSS 6%
40 and 50 i boxes. 4%
Barreis.......- 434

SNU FF.

Scotch, in bladders. 37
Maccaboy, in jars... 35
French Rappee, in Jars.....43

| SODA,
Bewen.............. . 5g
Kegs, English...... 4%
SAL SODA.
eee |... 1%
Granulated, boxes 2
SEEDS.

Mixed bird 44@ 6

Caraway. 10

Canary 3%
Hemp. 4%

Aveee, ... -........ 13
Rape . 6

Mustard Lo T%

SALT
Diamond Crystal.
100 3-lb. sacks $2 40
69 5-lb nip 2 2
28 10-lb. sacks 2
20 14-Ib. ' 2 00
243-lb cases. 150
56 Ib. dairy in linen bags 50
Sib, ' 25
Warsaw.

a6 lb, dairy in linen bags 5

21, C . 18
Ashton,

56 lb. dairy bags w5
Higgins.

56 lb. dairy bags 7
Solar Roek.

56 1b. sacks... 27

Saginaw and M¢ inistee.

| Common Fine per bbi. 90
| SALERATUS.

Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .54%

| Dwight’s Cow 5%
Taylor’s. og
DeLand’s C ap Sheaf 5%

. pare. 1... 5%

’ Golden Harvest

SYRUPS
Corn
POETOIS, .. 1.24 eoeceeed
Half bbls Se eee 30
Pure C ‘ane.
ee eee 2 5
Fancy drips........--.28 @30
SWEET GOODS.

Ginger Snaps..... 7

Sugar Creams.... 8%

| Frosted Creams. 8

| Graham Crackers... 8
Oatmeal Crackers... 8

TEAS.
JAPAN—Regular.

—. «.. @17

Cooe ................ @20

Choice 24 @%6

Choice 32 @i4
eee 10 @I12

SUN CURED.

Fair @li7

Good .. ee ec @x

Cuoice....... ... .-. Ga
Choleeat...............28 Gee
Praee... ; ..10 @I2

BASKET FIRED.

Fair . a. . 18 @x
Choice. . Leute eee es @25
Cholcest......- @35
Extra choice, wire leaf @40

GUNPOWDER.

Common to fair. 2 @ao
Extra fine to finest... .50 @b65
Choicest fancy...... 75 @85

OOLONG.

Common to fair... ...23 @26
Superior to fine.......28 @30

| Fine to choicest.......45 @55

138

IMPERIAL,

| Common to fair...... 23 @26

| Superior tofine........30 @35
YOUNG HYSON,.

Common to fair...... 18 @2t

Superior to fine 30 @4e

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

 

Wer... .. 18 @2
Choice. ---..2.8 Gx
Best 40 @50
TOBACCOS,
Fine Cut.

Pails unless otherwise noted.
Hiawatha _ 60
Sweet Cuba . 34
McGiaty......... 24

ts ‘bie ..... ae
Little Darl 2
i 20
1791 —e ou a)
1891, 44 bbls es 19
Valley City...... a 33
Dandy Jim ‘ 27
Plug
Searhead ee oe
omeee ..... 1... 24
Zero... 22
L. & W Bi
Here It Is 23
Ola Stvte.. ........ 31
Old Honesty......... 4)
Jolly Tar aa
Hiawatha... 37
Walley City ........... 34
Jas. G. Butler & Co.'s Brands.

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C <7
Warne... ...... a
Banner ...... 14
King Bee a 20
Kiln Dried 17

Nigger Head..... ae
Honey Dew
Gold Block.....
Peerless....

Ob Roy....-
Unele Sam.
Tom and Jerry
Brier Pipe...”

  

 

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Red@lover ee
INSOW... wc. ude le
Pe 40
Proe _._
VINEGAE

ee 8
50 gr. ne :

$1 for barrel.

WET MUSTARD.
Bulk, pereal ....... ._... 30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case 1S

_., ,_.rBast—-Compressed.
Fleischman, per doz. cakes... 15

: per Ib .. -
Fermentum per doz. cakes . 15
' per lb’ ne eee ee

PAPER & WOODENWARE

   

 

PAPER.
Straw 13
Rock falls th 2°
eee 2
Hasaware....-.... 2%
Rewer 8. +. on
Dry Goods...... 54@s
Jute Manilla........ G@b*%
Red Hxupressa No.1...... 5%
° eo e....,. ..-4%
TWINES
a5 Coton. ............. <i.) oe
Coon O1...............
be Cs 18
Sea Island , assorted. oo
ae
Ne 6 ~... ee eo ee
WOODENW ARE.
Tubs, Mo. f.... oc. ©
ye a 6 00
No. 3 wea oh oe
Pails, No. 1, two hoop.. 1 35
No. 1, three-hoop 1 60
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... ™
Bow ls, 12 inch le ued cu eee es 1 00
Te OT ewww ec eee 1 25
15 - 200
We eee ec 2%
“ susie 17s and 19s 2 50
‘* 15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
Baskets, market be coe 35
shipping = 1 2
full hoop “ 1 30
‘ bushel .. 1 50
. willow cl'ths, No.1 5 7
“ No.2 6 25
_ “ Hes?
splint No.1 3 50
f No.2 4 25
No.3 5 00
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 1b. test) 90
No. 1 Red (60 Ib. test) 90
MEAL,

Bolted. Ls ee
Granulat ed. ; 2 00
FL ou R.

Straight, in sacks....... - one

‘ * Derreis........ Soe
Patent ‘* sacks. 6 10

- Barreis........ 6 30
Graham sac ks. 2 45
Rye 2%

MILLSTUFFS.
rai. .....- ety ae oe 15 00
B@recrines........ 25. - aa 12 00
Middlings......
Mixed Feed....
Coarse meal.....
CORN.

Car lots. ... .. eae cucu
Less than car fo 66
OATS.

Car lots <straas. a
Less than car lots. Lea clee ks 37
HAY.

No. 1 Timothy, car lots....13 06
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LIFE BEHIND THE COUNTER.

Written for THz TRADESMAN

Probably no one reform which could} has robbed them or not.

possibly be brought about for the bet-
terment of life behind the counter would
be as effective in producing the desired
results as a change from the credit to
the cash system. No one innovation
would furnish so great asum of solid
satisfaction as this. No other possible

reform would lift so many burdens from

 

the shoulders, or remove so much worry |

and fretting from the minds of those who
live behind the counter as the one under
discussion. In faet, the retailer, and

more especially the grocer, will never |

be able to completely escape the fright-

ful, nocturnal visitations of that infer-

na! quadruped known as the nightmare; |

nor will he ever be able to sleep the
sound and peaceful sleep of virtue and
perfect security until ‘‘tick’’ shall be no
more and the ‘‘click’’ of the key, as it
closes the business of the day, shall in-
dicate that his capital is all safely locked

within and that the

|favor costs them

THE MICHIGA:

showing price and quantity, thereby en-
abling them to know whether the dealer
Then, again,

| Others object because they are afraid the |
|merchant might fail and the little note |
which was given for the book might pass
over into an assignee’s hands before the |
So we might
go on, ad nauseam, in enumerating one |

coupons were traded out.

thousand and one little trumped-up,

frivolous excuses for not wishing to ex- |
change the hateful old pass book for the
It is strange, indeed, that |
any intelligent man or woman could be)
found on the face of the earth so unrea- |

coupon book.

sonable as to coolly and wilfully refuse

to grant a favor to the person who sup- |
plies them with food and other neces- |

saries of life and gives them their own
good time, pleasure and convenience to

 

 

TRADESMAN.
side out in an effort to turn a back sum-
mersault, and die. Talk about the de-
structive work of intemperance! If you
would take a walk with me through the
ruins of the dead past and see the farms
and mills and factories and strong men
and happy families that this accursed
credit system has sucked into its capa-
cious maw, you would agree with me
} that intemperance is not the only demon
that ought to be banished from the face

of the earth. E. A. OWEN.
——~> -¢

To Polish Window Glass.

Window polishing paste is made of
| ninety parts prepared chalk,and five parts
|each of white bole and armenian bole,
| rubbed together into a smooth paste with
fifty parts of water and twenty-five parts
of alcohol. This paste is to be rubbed
on the window, allowed to dry, and then
| rubbed off with cloths.

pay for it, especially when the solicited |

; value, but, on the contrary, is actually
| beneficial to themselves and would put,
;}or at least keep, money in their own

day’s business did |

not consist of scattering it.to the four |

winds of heaven, but of keeping it ‘‘in|

hand” and ‘in sight,’ and in exchanging

one commodity for another—merchandise
equivalent for merchandise, For further
thought in this direction, the reader is
referred to an article in this
‘Will the credit

system always prevail?’ If we cannot

TRADESMAN, entitled

extricate ourselves from this old mael-
strom of credit, what is the next best
thing todo? If we must extend credits,
is there not some way of systemizing
them, whereby the element of uncer-
tainty may be largely removed and the
duced? We think there is, and it is not
a new-fangled, visionary scheme either.
We refer to the coupon book system,
which is being used all over the country,
aud the writer, in his travels, has not
meta single person who has given the
coupons a trial who does not speak in
terms of the highest praise of the system.
Every dealer interviewed by the writer,

without one single exception, is doing

+ 4

his level best to advance and enlarge the |

system in his business. There are, how-

ever, 2 great many
way, many of which, seemingly, cannot
be overcome, except by an organized,
combined effort of some kind. For in-

stance, an occasional dealer reports that

pockets.

The cash system is the only true, safe
basis upon which to transact business.
This proposition is agreed to by business

|men everywhere and the only persons
for cash or its equivalent and cash or its

who take exception are certain consumers

who imagine it would be impossible to

week’s |

adopt it and that an attempt to do so
would result in hardship and suffering
for the masses and, finally, end in failure.
The writer does not believe this, for
reasons given in the article referred to;
but, granting for the purposes of this
article that such would be the case and

ithat it would be impossible to conduct

| the retail business of the country on a)
| strict cash basis, what good, valid reason |

numerous petty annoyances greatly re-|can any consumer give why the coupon

|} book should not be introduced, adopted
| and put in universal use wherever credit

| is solicited and granted?

We verily be-

|lieve that no such reason ean be given,
j;and we believe, furthermore, that the
| most fastidious customer would remove

even his trumped-up, frivilous excuse
and apologize for having ever made it if
he would but seriously look into the mat-
ter and weigh up the advantages which
would surely recur, not only to the bene-

| fit of the dealer but to himself as well.

difficulties in the}

he has not succeeded in covering his |

entire credits with the coupon book sys-
tem, because some customers are so con-
servative that they cannot be coaxed out
of the old rut and an attempt to coerce
them would result in losing their custom.
If they
gratified, they will kick over the traces

cannot have their every whim

who will cater totheir own notions of
doing business. An organized, combined

effort is probably the only remedy that

|}aresponsible party or

The writer’s experience with the credit
business has been long and varied and it
bas left such a strong impression on his
mind that, should he again take up with
a life behind the counter, not one dollar
of credit would he give except on the
strength of a coupon book, either sold to
payment thereof

|} guaranteed by aresponsible person. I

would fill out the blank note attached to |

| the book, and I would call it a note, too.

iB would give my customer his own time

|for payment, without interest, and he
and go elsewhere and find some dealer |

would sign that note, and, if not respon-

| sible, some friend who was would endorse
;it, or the goods would remain on my

will overcome this difficulty and make it |

possible for the dealer to confine his |

credit business exclusively to the coupon
book system. Some customers object to
the coupons on account of sending small
children to the store. They are afraid
the children would destroy or lose the
books and then they would be out for
the unused portion, whatever it might
be. Others object because they think
it gives the dealer too much of a chance
to beat them. T-+hey say he can tear off
as many coupons as he pleases and they

liaye no itemized account of the purchase,

shelves.

When I think of the fortunes that have |
been wasted, the hearts that have been |
broken, the homes that have been blast- |

nothing in effort or}

 

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
CARPETS,
CURTAINS.

 

Manufacturers of

Shirts, Pants, Overalls, ts.

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

Chicago and DetroitjPrices{;Guaranteed.

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.

GRAND RAPIDS, ih _ MICH.

 

 

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For use on your Letter Heads,
Cards, Etc?

 

 

 

Sriewcoms Ter Teeny

 

ed and made desolate, the energies that |

have been crippled and the noble aspira- |

tions that have been nipped in the bud
by this whirlpool of credit, it makes me
long to take my place once more behind
the counter, just for the grim satisfac-

In either
‘from.

tion of frightening into a convulsive fit}

the first unlucky individual who asked
for credit, by screaming NO into his ear

| with such thunderous force that the cat

in the back room would turn itself in-

THE TRADESMAN

ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS,

want a Cut
OF YOUR

STORE BUILDING

Bill Heads,

We can furnish you a double column“ cut, similar_to“above,
for $10; or a single*column cut, like.those below, for"$6.

 

‘ase, we should have clear photograph to work

COMPANY,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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Will the Credit System Always Prevail? | —we can only conjecture—and hence we

Written for THE TRADESMAN.

Tons of matter have been written and |
published showing up the evils of the |
credit system and setting forth the mani- |
fold advantages which the adoption of |
the cash system would make possible.
Advocates of the ready-pay or cash sys- |
tem are like the advocates of temper-
ance, inasmuch as they have it all their
own way. Their propositions are granted
and their arguments are incontroverta- |
ble. Credit versus Cash is
even a debatable question, for no one
can be found will
challenge the statements made by the
advocates of the cash system.

no longer

who undertake to
Does it
not seem strange that’a system of doing
business should prevail and be adopted
and practiced by the
community, and yet be so exceedingly
unpopular that not a friendly voice can
be heard in its behalf or one word vouch-
safed in its defense? No business man
can be found who will seriously under-
take to even apologize for the credit sys-
tem of doing business, let it be applied
ever so lightly or practiced ever so care-
fully. Still this old system, which has |
brought grief and ruin to so many homes, |
this system which breeds idleness, false-
hood, trickery, duplicity and disappoint: |
ments; this hated old system which has
not a single friend in the world, is the |
system by which the business of the
community is transacted. Will this sys-
tem always prevail? It will until the
retailers of the country put their shoul-
ders to the wheel and speak out as one
man with one and that
“tick”? shall be no more and that hence-
forth ‘‘merchandise” and ‘‘cash” are the
only convertable terms known and rec-
ognized by the mercantile fraternity. An
‘ukase” of this nature would give the
credit system a death blow and usher in
the long-looked-for commercial millen-
ium, when the grocer and his brother re-
tailer will be able to lie down together
and sleep the sleep that knows no wak-
ing until the roosters crow in the morn-
ing. Then will every man get just what
he pays for, and pay for just what he
gets and not be compelled to pay for
what others get, as is the case under the
present unjust system. Then, and not
till then, will the grocer be able to man-
age and control his own business and op-
erate with an intelligent get-at-able idea
as to what he is doing. No man onearth
doing acredit business knows what his
financial standing or condition is. He
may have merchandise upon his shelves
amounting to $8,000, and his bank book
may show a balance in his favor of
$2,000. If this were all, there would be
no difficulty in finding a financial status,
because cash (thanks to a wise national
financial policy) and merchandise in
stock are species of tangible property,
possessing intrinsic value and represent
s0 much realizable capital in hand; but
a third element of resource presents it-
self in the shape of personal accounts
whieh call for $2,000. This resource
does not possess intrinsic value,
tangible and is realizable capital only to
a certain unknown extent. We know
that a certain proportion of it can be
converted into intrinsic value on demand;
that another certain proportion of it is
hazy,doubtful and uncertain;and we know
that still another certain proportion of
this so-called resource is not worth the
paper it is written upon. What it is
worth as capital in hand no man knows

entire business

voice declare

is in-

 

 

| mer as well.

ito tune himself up

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

find it impossible to arrive at any defi-
nite understanding of the true financial
status.
prosperous, solyent or insolvent, de-
pends altogether upon certain unknown
quantities, which are left

circumstances to develop. It is

for time and |

|

15

If you would be A LEADER, handle only goods of

VALUE.
If you are satisfied to remain at TAIL END buy

Whether the business concern is |

a vain |

question to ask any retail merchant who

is doing an extensive credit

fellow, he does not

He cannot tell what proportion of his

cause, poor

accounts will be fully realized upon and,
because he tell what
will be, he is, therefore, not in a position

cannot his

to know whether he is making any money

or not. I never see a grocer engaged in
a credit business but what’ Il think of

business |
| whether he is making money or not, be-
know. |

losses |

GOOD YEAST 18

Josh Billings’ advice to the young man |

| who was going to get married, ‘‘Shut up |

both eyes, grab hard and trust in the |

Lord.”
tem would not only benefit the retailer,
but it would be a God-send to the custo-

With the dollar in hand.

| he would be able to obtain his supplies

at a cheaper rate, and atthe same time
All that the
working man would have to do, in order
to the new order of
things, would be to put forth a little ex-
tra effort and get ahead two
two months, as the case may be, so that
he could settle up for the
month for which he is invariably in

he would not buy so much.

weeks or

week or the
ar-
rears, and also have the wherewithal to
earry him over the next week or month,
or until next pay day. He not
only buy less, and buy cheaper, but he
would no longer be

would

unjustly taxed to
help make up losses occasioned by oth-
He would not only be enabled to
feed and clothe his own children for less
money, but he would no longer be com-
pelled to help feed and clothe other peo-

ers.

ple’s children, as is the case under
the credit system. The poor man
who has neither the money nor any

means of obtaining it, would be benefited,
also, for he would be taken care of by
the community at large, and the grocer
would no longer be wheedled into giving
credit by working on his sympathies and
taking advantage of the tender side of
his manhood.

To donate $5, freely and spontaneous-
ly, is noble, life-sustaining and soul-ex-
panding; but to be beaten out of 5
cents is withering, damnable and unen-
durable. -

Credit and loss are inseperable. There
ean be no extending of credit, however
limited or carefully guarded, but what
there will bea corresponding loss to a
greater or lesser extent. Will the credit
system always prevail or will the retail
merchant combine to end it at once and
forever? E. A. OWEN.

— —- -¢ <> ---
Two Promising Industries.

Granp LepGe, Sept. 18—The Grand
Ledge Sewer Pipe Co. is so well satisfied
over the custom it has received in the

| drain tile line that it will introduce the
| manufacture of sewer pipe another sea-

son.

The Grand Ledge Canning Co. has put
up large quantities of peas, beans, corn
and tomatoes and is still at work on the
last two articles. The outlook for the
initial season’s business is certainly very
flattering.

i ip lp “

Marquette—John €. Brown, the Sagi-
naw jobber, has begun operations on the
Peshekemie river, putting in three camps
there last week.

The adoption of the cash sys- |

CITY OFFICE;
26 Fountain St.

cheap, unreliable goods.

INDISPENSABLE.

LEISCHMANN & CO.

~o=V allow Label=Best!

FACTORY DEPOT;
118 Bates St., Detroit, Mich.

 

 

MORSE’S
RPARTMENT STORK

Siegel's Cloak Department.

Manufacturers and Importers of

alies. Misses aud Children’s Cloaks.

Send for our Catalogue to

Morse’s Department Store, Corner Spring and Monroe Sts.

 

Wall Paper and

Window Shades,

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

NELSON BROS. & CO.,

68 MONROE STREET.

 

Our Complete Fall Line of

Holiday auc

Fancy Gt

  

it

Will be ready September 10th, It will pay
every merchant handling this line of goods
to examine our samples.

| EATON, LYON & CO.,
20 & 22 Monroe St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, - -

 

 

 

 

 

MICH.

 

   

ao we kh i i
trae SOULIETTA "*"*
Owing to the fact that we were 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.

HIRTH & KRAUSE,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

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77 3 apillane einalPinardtiphamsis isarunreoertees sathddep ane

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ge oneal :

ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.

 

Cause of the Financial Crash in that
Country.
BUENOS AYREs, July 23—The financial

troubles of the Argentine Republic have
for some time been a topic of leading in-
terest to the financiers of the world, and
the fluctuating but always high premium
on gold is quoted daily. Seldom indeed
has any comparatively new and growing
eountry been in such a desperate plight
as this. The curious feature of it is that
the distress was not brought about by
an exhausting war or by any general na-
tional calamity. It all came from the
reckless extravagance of a single city—
Buenos Ayres—and that extravaganee,
in turn, was prompted not by mere wan-
tonness, but by a mistaken idea of pro-
merely trying to
growth that was not
rulers imagined.
collapsed ‘*boom.”’
city had
inhabitants. It had
the bad times that had
volution of 1874, and was

}

growing steadily and substantially. All

gress. The city was
provide for a future
to come as the
It is the story of a

Ten vears ago this
quarter of a million
from

followed the

SO sootTL

about a

reeovered

 

and p te industries

its publie ‘

 

 

rivat
were on a and healthful basis.
Credit was good, business was good. But
this admirable state of affairs unfortu-
natel} tempted people to try to improve

 

upon it. ‘The y were not content to “let
well enough alone Spe culati t
came rif At erst it
were

hand. Strangers began

 

    

cessful. Fortunes made on every

flocking hither

from ail parts of the world and thou-
sands of people tlocked to Buenos Ayres
from other parts of the republic. ‘Go

to Buenos Ayres and get rich,’ was the
ery everywhere. result was a sort

   
  

of a mushre¢ th of the city. In
18s? there were more than 550,000 p eople
in the city. In seven years its population
had more And the author-
ities were enough or eareless
enough to act as though this was an as-
permanent increase,

han doubled.

foolish

   

and they en-

nm publie works and the spend-
lic money accordingly.
‘es of real estate rose to fabu-

sold for
than they
Chicago,

based on these:

- OLS

Avres t

lous sums.
in Buenos
in New York or

higher prices
ever brought
and estimates

ibnormal p The
municipal government land at
figures for new streets and parks.
Expenses were based on the supposition
that such values € permanent.
More than that, they actually reckoned
that the « ap would keep on indefinitely
growing at that pace, doubling its popu-
lation every six or seven years. So huge
debts were
loan of $4,

were rices,
bought
such

would

 

contracted. In 1884 there
00,000, on which the
interest is $352,700. Two years
310.000, 000,

rot ! 1 «
St. 4h 1888 a

Was a
yearly
mater there was a loan of

With ST00,000 ye:

 

   

third loan of vas contracted,
with 4 } $530,000, and a
fourth of $10,000,000 in 1890. with S600 -

000 interest. At the

  

saine time a floating
00,000 has been ineur-
re was year af-
about

paid salaries and

debt of about $1

th

this,

 

3 > ,
red. Besides : ti

ie
ter year a deficit, so that
000 more is due for un
other accoun
A crash hs

the vast sche

S2,000,-

When it came
nie of public improvement
half executed, and the works to-
day lie in an unfinished state
public
that have

to come.

 

was not

gets no

benefit from the

spent. There

millions

been are splen-

   

did avenues only partly opened. The
government has no money to buy the
rest of the land needed, and the owners
will not sell withe the eady ash.

 

Other streets are hali

 

ave th expen-
But there is no

Sive wood pavements

money to finish the work, and so the
streets are impassable, and the pavement
already Said is going to ruin. Moreover,

as -oonp
was beg
of fort

‘hoom’ ,
he multitude
like rats from a

 

as it was seen that the‘
nning to sult t

une-seekers fled

side

 

 

Sinking sl ip. population is now
100,000 less than it was a year aco, anid
at the present rate of diminution it will
be decieased more by 50.000 by the end

of the year.

All this would have been bad enough
had the effects been confined to this city.
But they were not. The disaster
felt in every province and every town in

 

| the whole republic.

so that the |

Was |

THE

Trade was ieee’
paralyzed. Business came to a standstill.
In Rosario, Corduba, Santa Fe, Mendoza |
and elsewhere the distress was as great

almost, as in Buenos Ayres itself. They

cd scans TRADESMAN.

Micuican CENTRAL

** The Niagara Falls Route.”

|

had been doing business on the basis of |}

its business.
brought toa standstill
wise. Moreover,
fection of speculation,

When its.

theirs was like-

and had been de-

veloping themselves too rapidly. The
result was ruin. And to-day in every

large provincial town there are rows of
empty houses, which were built in
the days of speculation for
tenants that have never come to them.
A remarkable illustration of the par-

ilysis of business is to be seen on the

Uruguay River. There isa fine line of
steamers connecting this city with the

province of Entre Rios.

it was doing a splendid business.

Two years ago}
int,
rhe |

business was |

 
 
 

DEPART. ARRIVE

ee os eee sera ne 6:30am 10:00pm

Mixed 6:40am 4:30 pm

Day Expres: 1:20pm 10:00am

“Atlantic & Pac ific 11:15pm 6:00am

ities cceees. 5:40pm 12:40pm
| *Daily

they had caught the in- |

the |
prospective |

boats were crowded with passengers and |

loaded with freight on every trip.
had to secure his berth a week or two in
advance. But now it is unusual for one
of the boats to have more than fifteen or

freight for ballast.
gone into liquidation.

The company has
It isso everywhere.

One |

The provincial banks have gone to
smash. The railroads are not paying |
expenses. Manufactures are largely at|
a standstill. The army of men out of

work is enormous.

It is to be observed.
farmers are suffering
Indeed, the
has been in

however,
than
financial depression
many respects
forthem. The price of land has
down, so that they have been enabled to
enlarge the area of their farms by
chase. Sugar plantations and vineyards,
especially, have been greatly
Farm labor, too, has become cheaper, be-
cause of the many men thrown out of
work by the stoppage of government en-
terprises. Wages are probably lower
here now than in any other American or
European country. And the farmer has
another great advantage. He gets for
many of his produects—for wool,

less

©eise.

hides, and sugar—not the depreciated
currency, but gold.

In this latter fact is really the most
deplorable feature of the whole situa-

tion. For itevidently is now to the farmers’
interest to have the present financial con-
dition continue. lowering of the pre-
mium on gold would mean a loss to the
farmer. So the abnormal spectacle is
presented of the very class who are the
bone and sinew of the
posed, through personal interest, to any
measure looking to an amelioration of
the troubles with which the government
is contending.
settled is difficult to imagine. Any sud-
den and radical stroke would probably do
more harm than
left to themselves,
themselves, so far as the internal ec
my of the nation is conce rned. But the
trouble is that thec
itors will keep on

good.

matters will

augmenting at a terri-

ble rate, so that it avill be impossible for |
what- ! -

situation is { Petroit

them ever to be met in full. In

ever light one views it, the

extremely difficult and menacing
- > —_

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

Send for Sample Leaf and Prices
of our New

SINGLE ENTRY LEDGER,

Just the Thing for Retail ‘hice:

 

laims of foreign cred- |

that the |

any one; Gait L
i | Milw’kee Str

a good thing |
Zone |

pur- |

extended. |

| Muskegon

| Ludington .

nation being op- |

How the problem is to be |

Gradually, if |
adjust |
-ono- |

‘DETROIT,

Lansing & }

All other dail
Sleeping cars

y except Sunday.
run on Atlantic and Pacific Express

trains to and from Detroit.
a

   

rt

 

nd

mm on Day Express and Grand Rapid
from Detroit.

Fi RED ML. Buia #48, Gen’l Agent, 85 Monroe St.

G. 8. coer
Gro. W.
o. W. Rvocm

 

by at Agent, Union Depot.
Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.
‘ "a. P. & T. Agent., Chicago.

 

DETROIT
BUS

Muwauxee
RAILWAY

 

    
    

‘Trains Leave

 

 

St. Johns

| Owosso
twenty passengers, or more than e nough |

E, Saginaw
Bay City

Flint |
Pt. Huron
Pontiac
Detroit.

 

‘Traine

 

Gd Rapids,
G’d Haven,

Chicago Str.

  

Gd Rapids, Ly
Tonia

.Ar/11 05am}
Ari11 55am

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NOW IN EFFECT.

 

ASTWARD.

 

 

 

fNo. 14 +tNo. 16/tNo. 18'*No. 28 |

6 50am) 1 2am 10 55 5pm
Ar) 7 45am 11 25am t 12 37am
-Ar| 8 28am/12 7am! 540pm) 1 55am
Ar; 915am/ 120pm) 6 40pm); 3 15am

30pm) 8 45pm
345pm 9 35pm
3 40pm) 8 06pm
6 0Opm 10 30pm) 7 35am
3 05pm) 8 55pm) 5 50am
405pm) 950pm; 7 0am

Ar/11 10am} 5 40am

Ar} 3.05pm}

WESTWARD.
*No. 81 tNo. 11 |tNo. 13|t+No. 15
Lv 7 Of m} 1 00pm) 5 10pm) 10 30pm
Ar} 8 50am) 2 15pm] 6 15pm) 11 30pm
c ' nslenceeenst @ oem © Cam
7 ra Lt -++.| © O0GIn

 

 

*Daily. +Daily except Sunday.

Trains arive fr
5:00 p. m. and
Trains arri

no ? n
Eastwar¢
car. No. 18C
Westward —
Chair Car. Ni
Jo
3%
JA

rom the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m
10:25 p. m.

ve from the west, 6:45a. m., 10:10
1. and 9:50 p.m.
No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet

hair Car. No. &2 Wagner Sleeper.
ae 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11
15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
uN W. Loup, Traftic Manager.
tN FLETCHER, Tray. Pass. Agent.
8. CAMPBELL, City Tic ket Agent.
23 Monroe Street.

 

 

CHICAGO

and |

& \

DEPART

 

Indian: apolis ‘

Benton Harb
St. Joseph
Traverse City

Manistee
Big Rapids

t+Week ee

i % =
P.

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SEPT. 6, 1891.

VEST MICHIG AN RY.

FOR A... RM, P. M. |

H: 205) *11

 

+1:05] §11:35
or ewscell SAM) ThtGol til cao
Ooi tT 9:0) Ti X6i*i1 So...

 

§Except Saturday.

. ML hs rough chair cs
{) 00 3 Zo. No extra charge for seats.

*Daily.
1as through chair car to Chiea

M. runs through to Chicago solid

= Wagner buffet car; sea s 50 cts.
has through free os ear to

vie B. & N. EK. R.

M. is solid train with - agner pal

eS com ear through to Chicago.

isleeper to Indianapolis via Ben

ton Hart vor.

 

UNE 21, 1891.

Northern ‘R R

 

DEPA

A M.

6:50 §
] 70 ae
j o> P.M.
6225 lor ¢c
7 2 A. M. has parlor car to

ce
. or tickets
Ticket Office,

 

lor car;

r. “al

ie M.

RT FOR

 

41:00

 

runs s throug h to Detroit with par.
seats 25 cents.

Has through Parlor car to De

Seats, 25 cents,

runs through to Detroit with par

ar, seats 25 cents.

Saginaw, seats

nts.

and information — at Union

67 Monroe street, or Union station.

Gro, DeHaven, Gen. Pass’r Agt.

 

| Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan

| Lv. Grand Rapids a

Railway.

TIME Toes

   

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

Schedule in effect September 10, 1891.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arrive from Leave going
South. No

    

 

For Saginaw & Traverse City.. 5:15am 7.05" a
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 11:30 am
For Saginaw and Cadillac. 2 30 P -

For Petoskey & Mackinaw .

Train arriving

except Sunday.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

Arrive from Leave going

 

“ 0:30
at 9:20 daily; all ier eles daily

 

North. South.
Por Comeimeatl.....;...:......- 6:20am 7:00 am
| For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:30 am
| For Fort Wayne and the Kast.. 11:50am 2:00 pm
Oe CRMOUOSE, ol ccc coca ken 5:30pm 6:00 pm
For Chicago..... - 10:40pm 11:05 pm
From Saginaw 10:40 pm

 

Trains leaving at 6:00 and 11:05 run daily; all other
trains daily except Sunday.

 

 

|
| Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana,
| For Muskegon— Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive.
7:00 am 10:10am
11:25 pm 4355 pm
5:40 wl m 9:00 pm

SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE.

| NORTH--7:05 am train.-

| Rapids to Traverse Oi ty

11:30 am train.—Parlor chair car @’d

i Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.

| 10: 30 p m train.—Sleeping car Grand
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.

| SOUTH--7:00 am train.-

| Rapids to Cincinnati.

| 10:30 am train.-

} Grand Rapids to Chica

| 6:00 pm train.- Ww aane r Sleeping Car

| Grand Rapids to Cincinnati.

 

 

—Parlor chair car G’d

Parlor chair car Grand

ett Parlor Car

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

Lv Grand Rapids 10:30 a m 2:00 pm 11:05 pm
| Arr Chicago 3:55 p m 9:00 p m 6:50am
10:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.

-| 11:05 p m train daily, ‘through Wagner Sleeping Car.

Ly Chicazo 7:05 am 3:10pm
Arr Grand Rapids 2:15pm 8 50pm

310 pm through Wagner Parlor Car.
train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

10:10 pm
5:15 am
10:10 p m

 

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

©. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

 

Grand Rapids Electrotype Co.,

“ BLECTROTY PERS

 

6 and 8 Erie St.,. GRAND RAPIDS.

AUMUND B. DIKEMA

THE GREAT

Watch Maker

Jeweler.
4h CANAL S7,,

Grand Rapids - Mich,

WANTED.

POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED

 

 

} y :
in connection with the Detroit, Lansing & | FRUIT, BEANS

Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e |
offers a route making the

Grand Rapids

Lv. Grand Ra

Ar. Toledo at ..

| Ar. Toledo at

Return conr
7.

best time betwe
and Toledo.

VIA D., L. & N.
pids at.. a a.m. and 6:25 p,m.
710 p. m. and 11:00 p. m

vrtA D., 6. & & Mt.

6:50 a. m, and 3:45 p. m,.
neces 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m, |

1eCctions equally as good.

BENNETT, General Pass, Agent,

Toledo, Obio.

and all kinds of Produce.

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

 

| EARL BROS.,

COMMISSION MEROHANTS

| 157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

| Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Ghicago,
| MICHIGAN Th (DESMAN, Grand Rapids,

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANYTHING To the Trade:

That will help a man in his business ought to be The opening of the regular season is fast approaching, and
of vital importance to him. Many a successful mer- to all who deal in Oysters we wish to state that we would be
chant has found when pleased to have you start in by favoring us with an order for

our *§ P. B.”? Brand.  Thiat it has merit has been

TOO J ATE proved by its popularity, that it will be kept up to standard,

we pledye our reputation. All of our local jobbers will be

That he has allowed his money to leak away. pleased to fill your orders, and we ask that you specify when
ordering, the P. B. brand, always fresh, clean and uniform.

-MOney=Hort take carat tse. PE PUTNAM CANDY CO,

And the quicker you tumble to the fact that the old way of
keeping it is not good enough, the more of it you
will have to count up.

 

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

Coupon Gystems

S LGA LV
M: anuf factured in our establishment—* Tradesman, oe VOUIN-G I ez MA

ior” or * Universal ’—and put your business on a cash basis.

    
    
      
  

See Monday’s and Saturday’s Detroit Evening News iy
for further Particulars. Vy

THE TRADESMAN company //| $100 SENS AWAY

PRINCE RUDOLPH ———

For Samples ard Price List, address

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Y Te the persoa guessing the nearest to the number nat wil
“, ee series of «i ute it 1 chal YES venit 10 ed 10
SAA Y- wa & j i } (} wy }
Yi) hy every 2c ge PRINCE RUDO 10 ues ‘
Cc. A. LAMB. F. J. LAMB. Wy; Uy to date there has hal OR en. We i
hf ennai ial i

MANUFACTURED BY

ALEX. GORDON, Detroit, Million.

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

As teA MSs & CO.,

WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION

 

 

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Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce. 2 ilspavh saasehetet

84 and 86 South Division St.

Bolts Wanted? STRATTON & STORN s CIGARS,

 

 

Having been a inte distribi a

l f . > } . ’ ee " »p ‘ i
want 500 to 1,000 evords of Poplar Exacel- si hak fi : :

! ? rds 0 I I ICIGAR COMPANY (forme rly Straiton & Storm). of New Yo re

sior Bolts, 18, 36 and 54 inches long. prepared to supply the trade with the celebrated OWL BR ANDS OF HIGH (FRADE

{ also want Basswood Bolts, same lenyths CIGARS, also their SUPERIOR NICKEL GOODS l
| KEY WEST CIGARS, manufactured by the above well OV I
tories in New York and Florida. The Owl Cigar Company do not

oe fee Raids Mich cau ven. ||US
| I.M.CLARK GROCERY CoO., Grand : apids

Yarns, Blankets, Comfor

Overshirt ts, Dress Goods,

Dress Ginghams, Prints, Batts

Ane weicHnTs —

And a New bine of Floor Oil Gloth in 6-4, 6-4, 8-4,
We are now ready to make contracts for the season of gre es Pp. ST i= IK |R! Te i= & S © Ni S

81 SOUTH DIVISION ST.. GRAND RAPIDS. | GRAND RAPIDS MICH

as above. For particulars address

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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‘Hi. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids,

Headquarters for HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

: State Agents for Oil Heating Stoves, Gasoline Stoves, Wood and Coal Stoves, Tin and Iron Stove Furniture
and the Wonderful Selling Blue and White Enameled Iron Ware.
Our Improved DOCKASH RANGES for coal or wood stand unrivaled in the world. The universal verdict among f

users being that no amount of money would buy them if they could not be replaced. You can safely recommend them to .
For prices and description see our Catalogue No. 10» sent to dealers only on request.

 

 

your customers.

 

   

FARMERS’ PRIDE.

For Wood. With Nickel Panels. as see Complete Description of this and our Dockash Ranges in Ca‘alogue,

 

 

No. 21 BRISTOL.

Full Nickeled Wood Parlor Heating Stove.

 

 

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With Ash Pan. Nickel spua Urn and Nickel LLE O \
Foot Kail. With anti-clinker er round For Wood, Nickel Urn. Large ash pan, draw-
Dockash Grate. center grate and automatic register.

DOCKASH PARLOR. ’
Base Burning Coal Stove. Each stove fitted with round Dockash grate \

and Double Heater Attachment.