Published Weekly. Michigan Tradesman. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. a $1 Per Year. VOL. 9. GRAND os, NOVEMBER 4, 1891. NO. 424 THE NEW YORK BISCUIY 60, S. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. €. A. LAMB. C. A. LAMB & CO., WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce. 84 and 86 South Division St. G. Ss. BROWN & CO., ——— JOBBERS OF ——— F. J. LAMB. | | No. 8 So. Ionia St., 1 and 3 Pearl Sireet, GRAND RAPIDS PAPER CO., CURTISS & WHITE, Managers, Jabbers of Wrapping Papers and Twines, W. P. Sheathing, Tarred Board, Tarred Felt, Plain Board, Carpet Lining, Straw Paper, Carpet Sweepers, Gem Wringers, Express Wagons and Sleighs, Baby Carriages, Wash Boards, Brooms, Mop Sticks, Tablets and Box Paper, Note Paper, Envelopes, Etc. - - . - Grand Rapids. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. GRAND RAPIDS If you would be A LEADER, handle only goods of VALUE. Domestic F ruits and Vegetables ., If you are satisfied to remain at TAIL END buy We carry the largest stock in the city and guarantee satisfaction. We always bill goods ao lowest market prices. SEND FOR QUOTATIONS. 24 and 26 North Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS. MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO., Successors to MUSKEGON CRACKER CoO., HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits «Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. Get TEE Best! Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts SEE QUOTATIONS. Oranges & Bananas! WE ARE HEADQUARTERS. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. Oo. Mm BArr & CO. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. Florida Oranges a Specialty. HOLIDAY GOODS! Complete Line§of¥NoveltiessNow§ Ready. Ao H. BROOKS & COL. WHOLESALE CONFECTIONERS. 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. cheap, unreliable goods. GOOD YRASY 13 INDISPENSABLE. FLEISCHMANN & CO. Yellow Label Best! OFFER THE - UNDER THEIR CITY OFFICE; 26 Fountain St. FACTORY DEPOT; 118 Bates St., Detroit, Mich. ee ( . w2kin Slippers. ef AS Sy fOr X quailty, pe! doz. DFS... + + ow < a “ Sieh ee os i} aS 4 ss 4d Felt Slippers, -rubber boots HIRTE & KRAUSE, Grand Rapids, Mich. PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Flides, Furs, Wool é& Tallow, AND eo MICHIGAN. FOR MiLL USE Headquarte _ fe . se Dres She Bb » Ete NOS. 12 w E Cc naa. A 24 LOUIS STR LEY. GR STOCK OF} AKE TALLOW Now is the time to lay in winter stocks of Cheese. Hon take chances on inferior grades, but buy the old reliable -“ANIBOY- The best keepers and the best cheese made. DLNEY & JUDSON GROCER Gl. Spring & Company, Dress Goods, Shawls, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons Cloaks, 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. LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers GRAND RAPIDS. F. J. DETTENTHALER , Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. JOBBER OF OYSTERS SALT FISH POULTRY & GAME See Quotations in Another Column. CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF POULTRY AND GAME SOLICITED. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO., Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and ~— Our fal ines are how ompl lete in every epar tment. Our line of Men’s and Boys’ boots are the best we ever made or handled. For durability try yur own manufacture men’s, boys’, youths’, women’s, misses’ and ehildren’s shoes. We have the finest lines of slippers and warm goods we ever —- t We solicit your inspec- ‘tion be oe muirchasing. oe the Boston Ruble or tine Co.” We handle all the lead | ing 1 of f elt boots and | socks. STANDARD Ob GU, | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Dealers in [lUminating and Lubricating -OLTLS- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave. BULKsSTATIONSSAT i#rand Rapids, Big Rapids, Cadillac, Grand Haven, Ludington, Howard City, Mus kegon, Reed City, Manistee, Petoskey, Allegan. Highest Price Paidffor Empty,Carbon and Gasoline Barrels. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. _VOL. 9. PENBERTHY INJECTORS. The Most Perfect Automatic Made. 42,000 in actual operation. Manufactured by PENBERTHY INJECTOR CO., DETROIT, MICH. J. 1. Strelitsky, ow H19ars Including the following celebrated brands man- ufactured by the well-known house of Glaser, Frame & Co.: Injector Wimdex, long Havana Giller _............ $35 Three Medals, long Havana filler........ 35 Elk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 55 oe Wier Ge Aifouse... .........-......... 55 Em Democtin @6 Morermk,................. 65 Pe Gees Dinas... 55 Also fine line Key West goods at rock bottom prices. All favorite brands of Cheroots kept in stock. 10 So. Ionia St, Grand Rapids, Our Complete Fall Line of HO Holiday dil Paley | boul Will be ready September 10th Itwill pay every merchant handling this line of goods to examine our samples. EATON, LYON & CO., 20 & 22 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. ESTABLISHED 1841. SRIRAM ANE ABET CS THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to —— United States and Canada IF WILE 2AY YOU » ae as aa To Buy ALLEN S.WRISLEY’sS GOO G::% SOAP Leadin$ Wholesale Grocers keep it, GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, Voigt, Herpolshelmer & Co, WHOLESALE Dry Goods. Carpets & Cloaks. We thas a Specialty of E Blankets, Quilts & Live Geese Feathers. Overalls af ovr own Manufacture, Siadbiaiene Miaete ard Dceteenie s Socks. ‘iol, Herpolsheimer & C0, 48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. THOS. E. WYKES, WHOLESALE Lime, Cement, Stucce, Hair, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Lath, Wood, Hay, Grain, Oil Meal, Clover and Timothy Seed, Corner Wealthy - “g and Ionia St. on M. C. E.R. Write for prices. 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. > D. Cody H. C. Russell S. A. Morman John Murray Jas. G. McBride J. YW. Gibbs Wm. MeMullen Cc. B. Judd D. E. Waters H. F. Hastings Jno. Patton, Jr C. M. Heald Wm. Alden Smith Don J. Leathers Thomas Hefferan. Four per cent. interest paid on time certificates and savings deposits. Collections 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: Solid Brand Oysters. See... ll le hee. 22 Standards ..... 20 Daisy Brand A os aga Neledts,............ 9 Standarda . a Pavorites.......... 16 Our Favorite Brand. Mrs. Withey’s Home-made Mince- Meat. Large pbis..... .... 6 Brace Die... ..... 644 401b. paile ......... 4 20m pails ........ 63% ae 7 2 Ib. cans, (usual weight) a $1.50 per doz, 5 lb. Darema: per doz. Choice Dairy Butter. ieee ecu te cele 19 Be ee a cece eee 21 Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., ... 15....% bbl... 16 Pure Cider Vinegar.. nea 10 Will pay 40 cents eac h for Molasses half bbis. Above prices are made low to bid for trade. Let your orders come. KDWIN PFALLAS & SON, Valley City Cold Storage. ConY Prarie 's PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. S. F. ASPINWALL, Pres’t W. Prep McBauy, Sec’y. FIRE hg NOVEMBER LATE ROSES. The flowers grew fine and fair under the care of the old florist, Donald Me- Donald. His hot-house was a marvel, little nursery—all that he kept an eye| 4, 1891. |closed and the curtains drawn , his men | Sone home for the night, and no eye upon | him save that, perhaps, of some of those | good angels who watch and weep unseen as, by the way, were his open beds, his | over. No window-box need lack the| choice of its owner, nor need any belle betake her toa ball without the flower she longed for, while Donald MeDonald’s | white sign with its long black garden. No one knew much about him. He| had come to the town and taken the place from an old man who had left it, to go back to his native Scotland—a fel- low-countryman, and, no doubt, an old friend; but he never spoke of this, or, indeed, of anything else. It was said of him that he never spoke to anyone. This was not quite true. There were ocea- sions on which a ‘‘Yes” ‘*No,”? 2 grunt or an ‘‘Ah!’’ became necessary: more no one could get out of him. He lived alone in his house, which a woman came to tidy once a week; and it was a pretty house, those said, who had or a peeped into it, and well furnished; and in its little parlor stood alow sewing- chair near a work-basket on a small stand, as if some woman were expected to use it; and over the mantel a good portrait of a beautiful young woman. And so the legend gained belief amongst those who knew the florist, that he had lost a young wife and that her death had preyed upon him and changed him great- ly. And for this reason—the world hung letters | hung between the two gate-posts of his | | | and folding | with poor humanity? What would they have thought had they seen him kneel before that fragile little sewing-chair, his head upon its cushions, kissing them, weeping, sobbing, crying upon a woman’s or gathering from the frock that adoll might have worn, and pressing it to his heart it reverently a Catholie relic of ere name at intervals, basket a little as might the & sainé, he re- | placed it, or standing before the lovely | portrait of a woman that hung upon his |of jealousy, awakened | | | at | large being much more sympathetic and kindly than we usually give it credit for | being—people pardoned Donald MecDon- | ald for his oddities and praised him for | his skill in his ealling. Certainly he was not without friends somewhere, for he letters and receiving letters from abroad, was always writing | with important looking seals upon them. | Only why should he the children if one of dimpled hand through the palings fora blade of grass or a daisy, or caught ata fruit-blossom that the long branch put within reach? That, said, his worst trait. But it had come to be that the children passed the florist’s garden on the other side of the way, and never of peeping in at the door of the hot-house. But Donald was not parsimonious, every Sunday he carried, with hands, a great basket of mothers was dreamed his own | flowers to the| church door and handed it without a| word to the sexton, who placed them | where all could see and admire. And} also, if any poor woman in his neighbor- | hood were ill, one too poor to dream of buying flowers, rare roses were handed in at her door, and they all knew they came from Donald MeDonald. Therefore, even despite his surliness to the little children, and his they all silent ways, believed the florist to be a good man at | heart. What would they have thought of him | could they have seen him sometimes in | der vine in all his garden, ‘his own home, when the shutters were | be so savage with | them but thrust a} | ceased to search for her. wall, reaching his arms toward it, and crying: ‘‘Come back to me, Jennie, my love, come back and forgive me?”? Then they would have known, indeed, that the story of his life was a tragie one. Ten years before, wife—that he had had a lovely was her portrait upon the wall. She had been nearly young enough to be his daughter, but loved him fondly, and they were very happy for a while. It Scotland that he married her, and there they lived amongst she was in his flowers, happy as the day was long, until, one sunny afternoon, handsome young Highland laird rode that way to buy roses. He had an eye for a pretty and Jennie was but a girl; blushed to be admired. Afterward Don- ald could not remember which of the ‘“‘trifles light as air,’’ which are the food A madness her false; he accused a face, she his. seized him. He believed he ealled her a foul her That when he returned to his home, he found her gone; a letter lay upon the it read thus: “TI am innocent in word and have loved you only, nor has had cause to believe otherwise, have insulted me so, that I look you in the face again. forever. name; coarsely. night, table; deed; I any man but you can never Good-bye JENNIE.” not wanting those who be- that the elderly florist’s wife had with but Since that day, There were lieved gone away the handsome Highlander; better. despite the fact that the hat she had worn had been found floating he had never He had written young Donald himself knew in a loch near by, | to the American consuls of foreign coun- | tries—the large correspondence which surprised his neighbors was all coneern- ing his lost wife. . | for | A report that she had America had brought him where the old story was not been seen in here. Here, known, he made a home for her, believ- ing then that she might come to dwell in it. her unfinished needlework, there hung her portrait; but any years—despair There stood her chair, so many years had passed without tidings of her—so many Donald’s soul and made him This year he was rable than ever. had seized bitter to all mankind. more He saw the marks of age growing greater in his face, he thought that son or daughter might be begging bread, miser somewhere on earth his for Jennie was not one of your clever women, but as clinging as any little ten- He was well- to-do; he had hoarded for her sake. How 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. he had prayed for forgiveness, yet God would not hear him. He thought him- self accursed, and told himself that he was lost, soul and body, unless he might atone for his great sin. In this mood, he made no answer to the *‘Good days’’ his men when they were about to trudge homeward, and was more ready than ever to believe that, in spite of all his care, the neighbors’ children robbed his flower of borders. In the darkness he walked alone down the long, broad paths of his rose-garden. | The latest roses only lingered, but they were beauties. him tenderly. feet to of stone, and the soft grass at his the soothe him. “i morse,” and sweet stars above helped she is dead she will know my re- he sighed, his monomania taking amore gentle turn, for he never could it for moment. ‘Now, if she but come to me, a spirit, forget a could could stand amongst the roses and smile on me, then 1 could wait for death in peace.” Donald MeDonald had in his veins the blood of who endowed with second-sight. Nothing seemed im- possible to him. He stared before him, waiting for a sign, and saw a slender hand holding a rose—a hand like hers— over the top of acertain old bush. It arose between him and the starlight. His beat so that it in hand, now He heard asigh. ‘*Was she about to speak to him?’’ asked But then came a cough—of the earth earthy—and, ancestors were blood curdied, his heart shook his frame. Another rose was the slender another. he himself. springing to his feet, Donald saw that what he had taken for the hand of a spirit, materialized in answer to prayer, was that of a boy who was stealing his roses, his left elbow propped upon the fence, his left hand receiving the flowers which he broke from the other. The revulsion of feeling was too great. For an seized the little that must have given pain. “You young thief!’ he roared. The boy struggled, but held the flowers fast. ““I’]] see who you are: I knew some one stems with the instant he grew ferocious and brown wrist in a grip was robbing me,’”’ said Donald, dragging him toward the house. Once where the lamplight fell on the face of the boy, he saw that the lad was a stranger. He saw, too, that was clad in rags and looked far from well nourished, but he beautiful, the dark, soft beauty Scotchman loved best, and Dunald’s fury he was faded before the look in the brown eyes. “There, you may go,”’ he said. The fe't his took a firmer grasp upon his roses. “Thank you,’? he said. ‘‘May 1 keep boy wrist released, and the flowers?”’ “If stolen goods give you joy,’’ said Donald. “J want them for a sick woman,” said the boy. ‘*They will give her pleasure. She will not know how I got them.” ‘A sick person?” said Donald. ‘‘Why did you not say they were for a sick woman? Here!” He went out into his garden again, and clipped and bound until a great, glowing, fragrant bunch was in his hand. “There,” said he, ‘‘come back to-mor- row night. Sick—well, that is different.” ‘‘Mother will be so glad,” said the boy. | ‘*God bless you.”’ | know what you did for her.’’ j the boy’s head, ere they parted, with a Their fragrance came to | Hie sat down upon a block | with | the sandy-haired That night Donald slept happily, for | the first time in years: “It’s the blessing,” he said to himself. The next night he waited long for the boy. At lasthesaw him running toward him. ‘“‘| had an errand todo for a gentle- man,” he explained. ‘And we live far across the bridge. The flowers kept mother company all day. You don’t} This time some dainty fruit went with | the tlowers, and Donald laid his band on | ‘Come to-morrow.” He did. “PH walk wath you a bit,’? Donald said, this time, as the boy turned away; and, keeping by his side, they crossed the bridge and came to the poor part of the town, where miserable little shops and houses crowded together. No gardens there; no patch of sward; nothing but the those who labor for mere bread, and have no time sordid surroundings of for pretty fancies. “Js this where you live?’ asked Don- ald. “Yes, though my mother is fit for a palace,’’ He had paused at a lowdoor. A woman | stood apron. “)- said the boy. beside it, her arms folded in her} come,”’ Your mother is She is talking wildly.’’ She left them, hurrying up the street and vanishing in a dingy alley-way. (Che boy, with acry of grief, rushed into the house. Donald followed. A flared upon the chimney-piece. On a miserable bed lay a woman, mutter- ing to herself. **Mother, | have come,’ ‘‘Here are more ftlowers.”’ The thin hands, elutched them. ‘Flowers ! glad she said. **My children want me. you’ve worse. candle > said the boy. so like his own, ? More flowers!” she said. ‘*Late Where Donald? Don- ald’s garden used to be full of them. It was Eden—the Garden of Eden! But he turned me out, and I—I was true—true to him—” roses! is ‘Jennie! Oh, my God! It is my Jen- nie!’ cried Donald McDonald, and sprang forward, and, kneeling by the bed-side, lifted the wasted form in his arms. “Jennie! My own true wife!’ “Jennie! It Donald! Forgive me, Jennie! Live for me! Oh, Jennie! Jen- nie! | have found you at last! God is merciful !’’ he sobbed. is Time glided on; autumn departed: win- | ter snows were followed by spring buds | and summer blossoms; artemisias were blooming in the florist’s beds. Amongst them he walked smiling, holding the lit- tle brown hand of his boy in his own, and within the parlor, near the window, swinging to and froin the long-treasured sat Donald McDonald’s sewing chair, wife Jennie. She was finishing the little embroidered robe she had found in her basket, and she wore the last late roses in her bosom. Mary KYLE DALLAS. ———__—~r-+2-—- The Philosophy of Misfortune. | * . | | Misfortune is never mournful to the | | soul that accepts it, for such always see ithat every cloud an angel’s face. | Every man deems that he has precisely |the trial and temptations which are the | hardest of all afflictions for him to bear; | | but they are so simply because they are | the very ones he most needs. ll — i Al Use Tradesman or Supertor Coupons. } is | Boston, | money lare exploited as fine apparel and | chasers, but } such Bankrupt Sales. | From the Chicago Apparel Gazette. j Go along almost any of our leading} streets, and you will not have so very | far to go either, and you wil] come across These | sales are on the face of them swindles. | For instance, here is an enormously pla- carded store in which a sale of boots and | either a bankrupt ora firé sale. ‘at 45 cents on the dollar’? is go- ingon. The sign states in large letters that a certain manufacturer of boots in Mass., being hard pushed for y and onthe verge of bankruptcy has, in order to get some ready cash, shoes ishipped to the city $450,000 of goods to | be sold at one-half the actual Such a transaction less than cost. What a farce! | would mean the immediate bankruptcy |of any manufacturer. No business firm would ever be able to stave off its credi- tors by any such meaps. Another instance is a clothing sale now in progress which claims to be the stock of a certain named firm of ‘popular wholesale tailors.” It is hardly necessa- ry to say that the said firm of wholesale tailors is entirely unknown to the trade | and has no rating in either Dun or Brad- | street’s. The goods themselves are worthless, dear at any price. Both the buildings in which these fly- by-night sales are being conducted are for rent, evidence that they are mere cir- cus side shews, ready to pull up stakes and be gone on a day’s notice. Such sales as these where cheap,trashy goods as be- ing sold at great reductions in price can only catch the unwary and foolish pur- at the same time they are an injury to the local dealers and to the trade at large. They draw a certain amount of trade from established deal- ers, who help to support the city and who should be protected by its govern- ment. They make buyers disatisfied with honest prices and by selling them poor, worthless goods render them suspi- cious of the stock of honest dealers. Laws similar to those in force in many country towns for the protection of its local dealers’'would not be out of place in Chieago or any large city where these vampires prey on the trade of the estab- lished legitimate dealer. If some of our aldermen want todo the dealers a real benefit, let them turn their attention to these fraud fire and bankrupt sales. —_- 2 > Jewish Holidays. From the Dry Goods Retailer. An estimate of the influence of our Jewish citizens in the dry goods trade could be made during the recent holidays. On the Day of Atonement a marked ab- sence of business was apparent. It seems foolish to talk of the Jew as an agricul- turist, in colonization schemes. He is not a farmer; he is a born trader, and has been atrader from the days of the Pa- triarechs. In trade he was suecessful, and it was his success in trade which made him the successful warrior of old. History repeats itself. What we have seen in late years of England and her wars to protect her commercial interests was true of the ancient children of Israel, | who fought suceessfully with many na- tions to protect their interests and whose warlike spirit could not be entirely quenched, even after the Romans had |eaptured Jerusalem, after the most terri- ble siege in history. To-day patience has taken the place of impetuosity, but the spirit of trade is still uppermost, and patience with time has placed the Jew in a position that when he has a holiday the whole commercial world knows of it. PAUL EIFERT, Manufacturer of ‘Trunks, Traveling Bags and Cases SAMPLE TRUNKS AND CASES MADE TO ORDER, Write for Prices. 41 SO. DIVISION ST., Grand Rapids, Michigan, | and rubber clothing in the market. : qotp MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. W.Baxer & Co.'s reakfast Cocoa from which the excess of oil has been removed, Is Absolutely Pure and it is Soluble. No Chemicals are used in its prepar- ation. It has more \than three times the strength of Cocoa Fmixed with Starch, and is therefore far rrowroot or Sugar, yore economical, costing less than one cent a up. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthen- 1g, EASILY DIGESTED, and admirably adapted >> invalids as well as for persons in health. Sold by Grocers everywhere. y BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER, MASS. EEDS We earry the largest line in field and garden seeds of any house in the State west of Detroit, such as Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, all kinds of Seed Corn, Barley, Peas, in fact any- Red Top; thing you need in seeds. We pay the highest price for Eggs, at all times. We sell Egg Cases No. 1 at 34e, 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, STUDLEY & BARCLAY Spooy J9qQqny JO s1oqqor sal[ddng q,wyiedag alld ¥ IW Agents for the CANDEE Rubber boots, shoes, arc- tics, lumbermen’s, etc., the best in the market. We carry the finest line of felt and knit boots, socks . ; Send for price list and discounts. 4 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. For Sale! AT A BARGAIN. A stock of Dry Goods be- longing to the estate of Jas. H. Brown, deceased. Must be sold at once. HIRAM COLLINS, Special Administ'r, 101 Ottawa St THE ARTICLE OF GLUCOSE. What It Is, and the Process of Manu- facture. There is often this in a name—if it be unfamiliar, and especially if it pertain to a thing or substance that we do not understand the composition or nature of —we are apt to regard it with suspicion, at least, and to distrust, and perhaps even denounce it. This has been the ease in the popular estimation of the ar- ticle of glucose, though a more intimate acquaintance with its nature, and its value as an article of food, will make the public more tolerant of it. Glucose is a saccharine product, derived artifi- cially from starch. It is known that starch, when taken into the stomach, is operated on by the gastric juice, which turns it into glucosein the process of di- gestion. The production of glueose is carried on artificially, in a way that it is here proposed briefly to describe. It is known that in the process of brewing, the malting of the grain develops maltose from the starch in it, which is a next of kin in composition to glucose. The lat- ter is also said to be produced in a meas- ure by the same process. At any rate, it is found to answer the same purpose,and is largely used in the brewing industry. How is giucose produced commercial- ly? The process of making it will be best understood by following the corn from which it is made from the time it enters the factory until it runs out of the spigot, a clear, odorless liquid. The shell-corn is first soaked for several days in water to soften the hull and prepare it for the cracking process. ‘The soft- ened corn is conveyed by elevators to one of the highest stories of the factory, and shoveled into large hoppers, from which it passes into mills that merely crack the grains without reducing them at once to a fine meal. The cracked grain is then conducted to a large tank filled with rinsing water. The hulls of corn float at the top of the water, the germs sink to the bottom, and the portions of the grain becoming gradually reduced to flour by friction, are held in solution in the water. By an ingenious process both the bulls and the germs are removed, and the flour part now held in solution contains nothing but starch and glucose. This liquid is then made to flow over a series of tables, representing several acres in area, and the difference in the specific gravity of the two substances eause the gluten and the starch to sepa- rate without the use of chemicals. The gluten is of a golden yellow color, and the starch snow white. By the time the gluten has been completely eliminated, the starch assumes a plastic form, and is collected from the separating tables by wheelbarrowfuls and taken toa drying room where it is prepared as the starch of commerce or is placed in a chemical apparatus to be converted into glucose. The conversion is effected by submit- ting the starch to the action of a minute percentage of dilute sulphuric acid, which without becoming a constituent part of the compound, produces by its presence merely a miraculous change. The change from starch to glucose is a gradual process, and has four or five well defined stages. On the addition of the acid the first change results in the pro- duction of what is known to chemists as dextrine. If at this stage the acid is neutralized by the addition of lime water, the process is choked, and dex- trine is the permanent product. If the process is allowed to go on, the acid, however, works a second change, and maltose is the result. Here, also, the process can, if necessary, be interrupted by neutralizing the acid by means of lime water, and for some processes in the art of brewing this is sometimes done. The third and important stage in the chemical change wrought by the action results in the production of glucose, and just here is where the greatest skill of the chemist is required. The product must show by tests that it responds to the chemical formula, C6, H12, O6. By comparing the formula with that of starch, which is C6, H10, 05—that is, 6 parts of carbon to 10 of hydrogen and 5 of oxygen—it will be seen that the sul- phuric acid has not added to the starch, but has taken up two parts of hydrogen, THE MICHIGAN | and the only gainin the starch is one} part of oxygen. The lime water introduced to neutral- | ize the acid forms, with it, a product | called gypsum—sulphate of lime—which can be removed from the glucose with- | out leaving any appreciable trace. The} fourth stage in the chemical process re-| sults in erystalizing the liquid and then | the product is called grape sugar. is a fifth stage, in which caramel There | or | burnt sugar could be produced were it) of any commercial value. The gypsum, | or sulphate of lime, formed by the neu- | tralizing lime water and sulphurie acid, sinks by gravitation to the bottom of the vessel, and the supernatant saccharine liquid is drawn off the top. This is al- | most pure chemical glucose, but is still | subject to a filtering process. through bone black, and refined the same way | cane sugar is refined. The bone black | has anything but the appearance of a} purifying agent, but possesses the pecul- | iar property of attracting to itself all) coloring matter. The glucose, passing through a labyrinthine system of filter- ing, is drawn off through spigots in the lower part of the building, and is ready | To give | to be shipped away in barrels. the glucose the appearance of cane syrup as well as to impart some of the charac- | teristic taste, a syrup is added small amount of that to suit the fancy of the buyers. To make grape sugar the glucose is dried in rapidly re- volving vessels from which much of the moisture escapes by virtue of the centri- fugal force. Neither the glucose nor the grape sugar is used for domestic purpos- es, although either one is about two- thirds as sweet as the sweetest cane sugar. Glucose is largely used by mak- ers of cheap candies; but chiefly for fer- menting purposes, and of late years has become valuable to the brewer in making beer and pale ales. It is also largely used in mixtures with cane syrups and molasses, and is esteemed by those who are best capable of forming an opinion on the subject as being more wholesome than the cane product, which is, at least, only a side product or residue in the man- ufacture of sugar. — > ¢ - Thought She Was Swindled. ‘*Look here,” she said, ‘tare you the young man who sold me this suit of clothes?”’ She was a very angry woman, and as she accosted. the clerk she held out to him a dilapidated coat and a pair of nick- erbockers that looked as though they had been run over by a mowing machine. “I think 1 am,” replied the clerk. ‘‘Well, do you remember how long ago it was?”’ **About a month, I think.” “Yes, a month, exactly. Well, I’ve come to getthe money back. 1 paid four good dollars for these clothes, and I’ve been swindled. My boy Jimmie wore them a month, and—well, look at ‘em! Ain’t they a sight ?’’ : The clerk had to admit that they were, but he ventured the remark that the money could not be refunded. “It can’t, eh,’’ shrieked the mother. “ll find out. You call the boss.’’ ‘““Madame,” said the proprietor, who had stepped up, ‘‘allow me to ask you if your boy is healthy.”’ ‘You bet he is!’ “Plays bali?” ‘Best in the neighborhood” “Climbs trees?’’ ‘‘Like a squirrel!” ‘*And he has worn these clothes every day?”’ “Yes.” ‘“‘And you expect them to last over a month? Madame, if you will let me have that suit with a sworn statement that your boy has worn it every day for a month, and has climbed trees, played ball, run wild generally, ete., ’ 11 make it worth your while!” But the mother did her darling’s clothes up in a bundle and vanished. -_> > To remove rust stains from nickel plate, grease the rust stains with oil, and after a few days rub thoroughly with a cloth moistened with ammonia. If any spots still remain, remove them with dilute hydro-chloric acid and polish with tripoli. sia ceumatnaitnicamaiamlal 3U LT FOR BUSINESS! Do you want to do your customers justice? Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way? Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you? Would you like torid yourself of t ‘patching up’”’ pass-book accounts? he bother of ‘‘posting’’? your books and Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which | yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge? Did you ever have a pass-book account foot up and balance with the corres- ponding ledger account without having to ‘‘doctor’’ it? Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they have or not? Then why not adopt a system of crediting that will abolish all these anda hundred other objectionable features of the old method, and one that establishes a CASH BASIS of crediting? A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the Tradesman or Superior Govpons, COUPON BOOK ys. PASS BOOK. We beg leave to call your attention to| our coupon book and ask you to carefully eonsider its merits. It takes the place | of the pass book which you now hand | your customer and ask him to bring each | time he buys anything, that you may enter the article and price in it. You know from experience that many times the customer does not bring the book, and, as a result, you have to charge! many items on your book that do not} appear on the customer’s pass book. This | is sometimes the cause of much ill feel-| ing when bills are presented. Many times the pass book is lost, thus causing 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, if you stop to make those entries, it is done when you can illy afford the time, as you keep customers waiting when it might be avoided. The aggregate amount | of time consumed in a month in making} these small entries is no inconsiderable | thing, but, by the use of the coupon} system, it is avoided. Now as to the use of the coupon book: Instead of giving your customer the pass book, you hand him a coupon book, say | of the denomination of $10, taking his| note for the amount. When he buys anything, he hands you or your clerk the book, from which you tear out coupons for the amount purchased, be it 1 cent, 12 cents, 75 cents or any other sum. As the book never passes out of your customer’s hands, except when you tear off the coupons,it is just like so much money to him, and when the coupons are all gone, and he has had their worth in goods, there is no grumbling or suspi- cion of wrong dealing. In fact, by the use of the coupon book, you have all the advantages of both the cash and credit systems and none of the disadvantages of either. The coupons taken in, being put into the cash drawer, the aggregate amount of them, together with the cash, shows at once the day’s business. The notes, which are perforated at one end so that they can be readily detached from the book, can be kept in the safe or money drawer until the time has arrived | for the makers to pay them. This ren- ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts with each customer and enables a mer- chant to avoid the friction and ill feel- ing incident to the use of the pass book. As the notes bear interest after a certain date, they are much easier to collect than book accounts, being prima facie evidence of indebtedness in any court of law or equity. One of the strong points of the coupon system is the ease with which a mer- chant is enabled to hold his customers down to a certain limit of credit. Give some men a pass book and a line of $10, and they will overrun the limit before you discover it. Give them aten dollar coupon book, however, and they must necessarily stop when they have obtained | goods to that amount. It then rests with | the merchant to determine whether he will issue another book before the 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 trialof the coupon system? If so, order from the largest manufacturers of coupons in the eountry and address your letters to one THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Onaway—Merritt Chandler has sold his general stock to Clark & Gray. Marlette—Walter L. Nichols, of the hardware firm of Nichols & Bro., is dead. Hastings—F. E. Konkle has sold his bakery and restaurant business to W. E. Allgeo. Lowell—E. R. & Co. are ceeded by F. B. Clark in the grocery business. Powers suc- St. Louis—John Fields succeeds John feed business. Cedar: Springs — Sheldon Bros. sold their meat Connell & Son. Alamo—cC. C. Adams has contracted to sell his general stock to Thos. Conway and Wm. Pickard. St. Ignace—Warren & Spice are suc- ceeded by G. H. Warren in the drug and grocery business. Lyons—Cassius White will dispose of his stock of groceries at auction and re- move to California. Hesperia—G. D. Webster has sold his boot and shoe stock and saw and planing mill to F. E. Holt & Co. Jackson—James succeeds the Dawson Manufacturing Co. in the foundry and machine business. Three Rivers—Jake Dunham succeeds Dunham & Thomas—better known as Jake & Jack—in the grocery business. Muskegon—C. M Philabaum has sold his grocery stock to Geo. H. Allen and Edward E. Philabaum, who will continue the business under the style of Allen & Philabaum. Hastings—A. D. Rork, meat dealer, has assigned to Jas. A. Sweezey. The liabilities are about $10,000. The assets are small, including a 117 acre farm, mortgaged for its full value. Watervliet — The store buildings of Parsons & Baldwin aid J. M. Gardner were destroyed by fire on the night of Oct. 25. Both stocks were removed to the old ‘‘company store,’ awaiting the action of the insurance companies. Owosso—Giynn & Monroe is the style of a new firm from Flint who will oceu- py a portion of the store now used by G. A. Dibble until December 1, after which they will occupy the whole store with a stock of crockery and bazaar goods. Shelby— The Tuxbury & Sams drug stock has purchased by Rinaldo Fuller, who was for many years engaged in the Mr. Fuller will remove to this place and take Dawson been same business at Manton. possession of the stock in about two weeks. Wyandotte—Paul Adolph has sold his grocery, crockery and boot and shoe stock to H. P. Whipple, formerly en- gaged in trade at Belding and before that at Kingsley. Mr. Whipple has al- ready taken up his residence here and will push the business for all there is in it. ° Manistee — Lee & Mix, whose drug stock was mortgaged to Jacob Hansel- mann for $2,300 and toa father of one of the partners for $900 more, have turned the stock over to Mr. Hansel- man for a nominal consideration of $3,100. The unsecured creditors will probably charge their account to profit and loss. Belding—L. L. Holmes & Connell have sold their grocery stock to Romaine Rob- inson and Frank Hudson, who have | win Fields & Co. in the grocery, flour and | 'formed a copartnership under the style of Kobinson & Hudson. Mr. Robinson has been with Holmes & Connell over a year and Mr. Hudson has been identified with the grocery department of Spencer Bros. over two years. Albion—The brick block of six stores, on South Superior street, is now ready for the roof. The front is of sand brick, like the block, and, while they are ornamental, it is doubtful new new Irwin |if anything more can be said in their favor. Cracks have appeared in the Ir- block which cannot be charged to the settling of the foundation, and the | supporting columns at the front of the have | market to Walter Mc- | tioned have given out, a portion of one partition walls of the bloek first men- of them having fallen down. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Beaverton—Brown & Ryan, of Sagi- naw, will operate a sawmill! and stave mill here during the winter. Brinton—L. Russell intends to remove his sawmill to Crooked Lake, where he has 8,000,000 feet of pine and hemlock. Gladwin—R. L. Colter has purchased machinery and is erecting a new shingle mill to replace the one burned recently. Reed City—The Dewey Stave Co., of Toledo, has purchased a site at Temple and will build a large stave and heading mill there. Marquette—Mullen Thompson is put- ting in a saw and shingle mill at Pori on the Ontonagon branch of the Milwaukee & Northern. Cheboygan—Swift Bros.’ sawmill has eut 16,000,000 feet and gone into winter quarters. This firm is negotiating for a tract of pine near Gaylord. Ludington—T. R. Lyon has started up his Lake county railroad camps under Ed. Goodrich, and will put in 20,000,000 feet over the road before July 15. Saginaw—Thomas Toohey is shipping his camp outfit in Gladwin county to Ot- sego Lake, where he is putting in 25,- 000,000 feet of logs for S. O. Fisher. Onekama—The Onekama Lumber Co. will have a good run this year, and will, when it shuts down, have cut about 5,- 000,000 feet of hemlock and hardwoods. Saginaw—Smith & Adams, lumber job- bers of this city, have started camp in Montmoreney county, where they will bank 6,000,000 for Rupp & Kerr of this city. Marquette—Paul Johnson is negotiat- ing with the Michigan Land & Iron Co. for a site for a saw and shingle mill near Sidnaw, on the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic. Saginaw—Mitts & Co., of this place, are considering a prc position to erect a shingie mill onthe Au Train River, about 40 miles from Marquette. If the mill is erected, a dry kiln will also be built in connection. : Ludington—Pardee, Cook & Co. will wind up their operations with this season and will probably remove their mill, such parts of it at least as they can use, to some other point, where they have con- siderable timber yet to cut. Marquette—Geo. L. Burtis and the Cleveland Saw Mill Co. have both shut down their mills in this city, having cut out their stock to the last log. Had all the logs come down this year, both of these mills would have manufactured more lumber to date and been still running. Kenton—Clark & Heath, a new firm, will move Heath’s mill, now at Nestoria, to this place, where they have made ex- tensive preparations, have adam almost cman across the east branch of the | Ontonagon, and are now grading for side tracks, piling ground, ete. | mill will cut about 50,000 feet a day. | Saginaw—C. Merrill & Co. expect to lelose the season at their sawmill this | week with a cut of about 24,000,000 feet. | The firm has 17,000,000 feet of lumber on | dock, about the same as at this date a year ago. put in this winter for next season. The mill has a stock in Gladwin county for a six years’ run. i Republic—W. J. Allen, who has logged heavily for the past four years on the Michigamme river, making his headquar- ters at this place, has taken the contract to cut and bank on the Popple. He has others interested with him and will be- gin cutting at once, putting in 30,000,000 feet a year for ten years. He will make his headquarters at Iron Mountain. Marcellus — Ezra C. Gard, Frank S. Hail, Geo. P. Benton, Manly B. Welchen and Chas. E. Myers have merged their school seat business into a stock com- pany under the style of the Adjustable School Seat Manufacturing Co. The new corporation has a capital stock of $52,000, one-half of which has been subscribed by the incorporators, the remainder to be taken by outside parties. Gladwin—There has been a material decrease in the manufacture of shingles in Gladwin county this season. The Dutcher mill at this place is cutting for the local trade. F. A. Barge has a stock for a few weeks’ run. Neff & Son’s mill at Grout, has changed hands and will be operated during the winter, and W. B. Tubbs is removing his mill east of Wine- gar Station, where he has bought the timber on 3,300 acres G. B. Wiggins. Manistee—The Charles Rietz & Bros. Salt & Lumber Co., which has been in business here for a quarter of a century, and which was the pioneer in the salt in- dustry at this point, has about come to the end of its pine, and has decided not to operate at this point any more, but to sell what little scattering pine it has. The company has not decided what to do with its salt plant, but may run that an- other season if it can procure enough fuel from the surrounding mills to keep it in operation. Leroy—The Sawyerville mill, which was burned July 19, has been rebuilt by the Cutler-Savidge Lumber Co., and be- gan sawing October 15. The mill build- ing is 40x150 feet; boiler house, 50x50; pump house, 16x24; machine shop, 26x50; filing room, 20x30. Power furnished by eight boilers, which drive a engine 26x30 inches. There is a Stearns circu- lar, and a No. 3 Prescott band. The band saw will be 12 inches wide. The mill is equipped with steam nigger and steam wench for the log deck, and slab slasher and lumber trimmers. Shingle and lath machinery will be immediately added. Detroit—Six years ago the Merchants’ National Bank of Chicago discounted two drafts for an aggregate of $2,807, is facturing Co. of Chicago, on the Detroit Knitting and Corset Works, and accept- |ed for the latter by S. Olin Johnson as manager. The Knitting and Corset Works afterwards refused to honor the drafts, on the ground that they had never authorized the acceptances by Johnson and because the drafts were merely ac- commodation. The Bank sued the Their A full stock of logs will be | drawn by the Osgood & Wolfinger Manu- | Works, but lost. Suit has accordingly | been begun against Johnson, as the ac- ‘ceptor, for $5,000 damages. Marquette—The Sturgeon River Lum- | ber Co. has put a crew of river drivers | on the Sturgeon and Otter Rivers, and hope to bring down all the logs hung up on those streams last spring. ‘The logs |are moving steadily, the main drive be- in’ above the Baraga and Ontonagon | State road. The logs belong to different | parties, most of them being owned by | the Nester estate, Sturgeon River Lum- ber Co. and William Coach. The Nester estate logs heavily on the Ontonagon, and has 7,000,000 feet on that stream near Ewen. The recent rains raised the water so that in two days a crew of men took the logs from Ewen to Ontonagan, a distance of over thirty miles. This ad- dition to the logs in stock will help keep the mills at that place running until cold weather sets in. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for lessthan 25 cents. Advanve payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. I RUG STORE FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN IN THE 4 growing village of Caledonia, surrounded by rich farming country. Will sell on easy terms. Must quit the business on account of poor health. Address J. W. Armstrong, Caledonia, Mich. 319 OR SALE—FRESH STOCK GROCERIES. WILL IN- ventory about $700. Centrally located in this Good business and good reasons for sellings — d YOR SALE —HARDWOOD LUMBER MILL, SIX F miles from railroad, with plenty of timber for several years’ cut. Shingle machine in running order if desired. Saw mill ready to set up. Teams, trucks, sleighs, shop and building all in order to begin work at once. Address J. J. Robbins, Stanton, Mich, or Hunter, & Reid, 121 Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 312 YOR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE, E which will invoice $4,000, store, residence, barn and one acre of land, located in the best wheat grow- ing section of Central Michigan. Will take half in good farming land. Address Lock Box 14, Wacousta, Mich. 32k OR SALE OR EXCHANGE-—STOCK OF GROCERIES, well located in city; will invoice $800. Enquire at No. 78 Stocking street. a a YOR SALE-—CLEAN AND CAREFULLY SELECTED I grocery stock, located at a good couutry trading Address A. C. 313 city. Address No. 317, care Michigan Tradesman. point. Business well established. Adams, Administrator, Morley, Mich. ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A \ general or grocery stock; must be cheap. Ad- dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26 YOR SALE— FIRST CLASS HARDWARE STOCK; KF will invoice $6,000 or $7,000; located near new depot, No. 180 West Fulton street, Grand Rapids. Will discount for cash. Also new brick store 25x90, two stories, all modern conveniences for living rooms in second story. Will rent store at reasonable figures or sell the same for $7,000. Has a good paying trade; only reason for selling, too much other business to look after. Size of lot 25x100 and alley. Winans & Allen, 3 & 4 Tower block. 828 SITUATIONS WANTED. glassware or specialty house preferred, by man | of experience who has best of references. Address 115 Charles street, Grand Rapids, Mich. — : $25 | age times 4 AS TRAVELING SALESMAN, \ YANTED—SITUATION AS CLERK OR BOOK-KEEP- \ er in general retail or wholesale grocery house, by young manof three years’ experience in either capacity. Write me at once. Address Lock Box 357, Harrison. Mich. 320 V JANTED—SITUATION AS TRAVELING SALESMAN. Have had experience in furniture line, but would take any line of goods. Address J.C.,160 Clancy. 330 So AS BOOK-KEEPER BY A married man who can give the best of refer- ences. Address No. 305, care Michigan Tradesman, Grand.Rapids. 305 MISCELLANEOUS. E ORSES FOR SAGE—ONE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD FIL ly, one three-year-old filly, and one six-year-old gelding—all sired by Louis Napoleon, dam by Wiscon- sin Banner (Morgan]. All fine, handsome, and speedy; never been tracked. Address J. J. Robbins, Stanton, Mich. Sul ro RENT— With or without fixtures, nice small new store, plate glass front. Good location for drug store, dry goods, hardware, jewelry and many other things. Address F.,care letter carrier No. 4, Grand Rapids, Mich. 329 ae SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR AN INVEST- ment. Corner lot and 5-room house on North Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. | care Michigan Tradesman. R SALE OR RENT—CORNER LOT AND 5-ROOM i 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. | age RENT—A GOOD STORE ON SOUTH DIVISION - street—one of the best locations on the street. Desirable for the dry goods business, as it has been used for the dry goods business for three years. Size, 22x80 feet, with basement. Geo. K. Nelson, 68 Monroe | Street. 326 | Ee YOU HAVE ANY PROPERTY TO EXCHANGE FOR | a residence brick block in Grand Rapids, address soft water Address No. 187, 187 | B. W. Barnard, 35 Allen street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 331 MAN WITH ONE OR ears’ experience in the oe poems business. ichigan Trades- 304 ANTED—YOUNG SINGLE two Wages moderate. Address 304, care man THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Geo. G. Steketee succeeds Steket®e & Co. in the drug business at 89 Monroe street. J. A. Quimbach & Co. have opened a meat market on Sixth street, near the corner of Broadway. The Elliott Button Fastener Co. has doubled its shop room, thus increasing its facilities nearly three-fold. N. G. MePhee has moved his dry goods | and carpet stock from Oscoda to this city, locating on West Bridge street. Eaton, Lyon & Co. have purchased the stock of the Grand Rapids Paper Co. and consolidated it with their stock. own paper S. A. Wilson, formerly engaged in the grocery business at St. Ignace, has opened a.grocery store at Petoskey. The I. M. Clark Grocery Co. furnished the stock. John H. Wierenga, who recently sold his grocery stock-and meat market at South Grand Rapids to Seth Ellis, has opened a meat market at 417 Grandville avenue. Putnam & MeWilliams are succeeded by Putnam & Company in the jobbing of confectionery at 412 South Division street. The firm has added a manufac- uring department to its business. Dr. J. H. C. Van Deinse, who was en- gaged in the drug business at Muskegon several years, has arranged to open a drug store at Greenville. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. will furnish the stock. It is reported that ‘‘High Kicker” com- pressed yeast has been temporarily with- drawn from the market, owing to the failure of the special train—the glowingly depicted on the wrappers—to arrive. one Hawkins & Company bid in the Holt & Co. grocery stock, at Muskegon, on at- The stock was seized by Hawkins & Company last spring and has since been stored, pending litigation which has resulted in favor of the Grand Rapids house. tachment sale one day last week. Hester & Fox report the following re- cent sales: Sawmill outfit to John H. Jeffers, Moline; 30 horse power engine to E. B. Stebbins, proprietor of Cato Novelty Works, Lakeview; 10 power engine to G. A, Goul, proprietor of grain elevator at Sand Lake. horse O. A. Fanekboner has opened a drug on East Bridge street, the Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co. furnishing the stock. Mr. Faneckboner was formerly engaged in the drug business at St. Law- rence, Dak., and comes to Grand Rapids with excellent recommendations as to character and ability. store O. F. Conklin and Peter DeVois: have formed a copartnership under the style of Conklin & DeVoist and the new firm will embark in the dry goods, clothing and hat and cap business in the new store recently erected by B. S. Harris at 523 South Division street. The store will open for business about November 15. E. M. Stickney, gaged in general trade and the lumber business at Paris, has formed a copart- nership with F. M. Lillibridge, formerly engaged in the lumber business at De- troit, under the style of Lillibridge & for many years en-| Pa | Stickney. The firm will handle hard- | wood lumber only, having an office in the Tower block. W. H. Downs, wholesale notion dealer /at 8 South Ionia street, has formed a co- | | partnership with John W. Parke under | the style of Parke & Downs and the new firm will continue the business at the | same location. | gaged in the wholesale notion business | in Chicago and Northern Indiana for | twenty-six years, having been located at | South Bend for the past seven years. | The suit brought against the Sheriff by | J. F. Ferris, growing out of the attach- ment of the Fish stock, at Cedar Springs, | by Spring & Company—on which Ferris trial in the Kent Cireuit Court on 10th. tested on both sides and promises to be one of the most interesting litigations of the year. Spring & Company will de- fend their action by contesting the legal- ity of the mortgage and the outcome of the suit is eagerly anticipated in jobbing circles. the The ease will be stubbornly con- - o> Purely Personal. Mr. Hawes, buyer for Buckley & Doug- lass, of Manistee, was in town Saturday. D. H. Meeker, the Perrinton druggist, is spending Northern four weeks in Michigan with rod and gun. P. A. DeWitt, the Spring Lake drug- gist, leaves home to-day for Presque Isle county, where he will spend a month on a hunting trip. John W. Parke, who has come to Grand Rapids to take an interest in the whole- sale notion business of W. H. Downs, has lately returned from a three months’ tour | of Europe. > J. C. Wellington, formerly engaged in the grocery business at 33 West Bridge street, has come into possession of a lega- ey of £20,000 sterling in England and proposes to spend a portion of the wind- fallin traveling about the country for a year to come. Chas. W. Jennings will be married at Buffalo on the evening of November 10 to Miss Irene Burt Hawley. The cere- mony will take place at the First Presby- terian church and the happy couple will be‘‘at home’’ at the Livingston after Jan. 1. Tuer TRADESMAN joins with Mr. Jen- nings’ many among the trade in wishing him much joy in his new relation. —_~<>- << Who Wants the $'752 The Grand Rapids Savings Bank is out | with an offer of $75 in prizes for young story writers. Four prizes are offered: First, $30; second, $20; third $15, and fourth $10, for the best short Christmas story to most completely illustrate the methods and benefits of small savings. The story must contain not more than fifteen hun- dred nor less than one thousand words, and the competitors are limited to girls and boys under eighteen years of age | who reside in Kent or adjoining counties. The awards will be made by a commit- | tee of judges consisting of a member of | the staff of each of the following Grand | Rapids papers: Eagle. Democrat, Tele- gram-Herald, Leader and Tue MICHIGAN | TRADESMAN. | All competing stories must be addressed | to Grand Rapids Savings Bank, corner | Fulton and South Division streets, Grand | Rapids, Mich., to become the property of | the Bank, to be printed at its discretion, | and must be in the hands of the Bank by | December 15, 1891. Mr. Parke has been en- | held a mortgage for 87,000—is set for | | ~ Buckwheat /lour' | We make an absolutely pure and unadulterated article, and it has the | Genuine Old-Fashioned Flavor lwhich is utterly wanting in most of the so-called Buckwheat ‘Flour put on the market. Our customers of previous years ‘know whereof we speak and from others we solicit a trial Present price 85 per bbl. in paper { and 1-16 sacks. OAR WALSHDEROO WILLING C1. | Correspondence Solicited. HOLLAND, MICH. Meth ~ Will best consult their own interests and that of their trade if they will post them- selves with the styles, make up, perfect fit and remarkably reasonable prices of ‘WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, Marshall, Mich, Overcoats and Ulsters while being worn cannot possibly be told from the best made to order garments. The demand has been so great that we are making up a large number more in all eolors and grades, Cheviots, Meltons, Kerseys, Homespuns, Covert Cloth in full or half roll box, top and regular cuts, Chinchillas and Ulsters. Large selections and newest novelties, double and FALL SUITS single breasted sacks, nobby three button cutaway frocks and regular frock suits, also Prince Albert and other coats and vests in ‘Clays’? worsted and other attractive materials. A select line of pants well worthy of attention. WILLIAM CONNOR our will be pleased to call upon you at any time, if you will favor him addressed to him, box 346, Marshall, Mich., where he resides. MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Clothiers, Rochester, N. Y. Boys’ and Children's Overgoats and Suits a. Connor is pleased to state that 1e has been highly complimented by mer chants assuring him that they are the nicest, cleanest, best made and lowest in price seen this season. September, 1891. our entire line, adapted for all classes of trade. Our single and double breasted Michigan representative during the past nine years with a line Heyman & Company, Manufacturers of Show Gases Of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICES. First-Class Work Only. GRAND RAPIDS. 63 and 65 Canal St., meunenneaneenamiin 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. MAN AND HIS CLOTHES. Speaking of dress reform—and | don’t | see what right a sex that wears a chim- | ney pot hat, a collar like a band of steel | and a shirt like a coat of mail, to say nothing of a vest that has no known use! in the world save to hide a wearied shirt | where the all-concealing searf doesn’t reach, and cuffs that are far more respec- table and probably quite as comfortable as shackles, has to enter this discussion from a feminine point of view—but speaking of dress reform, as men are wont to speak most freely and confiden- tially upon subjects they know the least about, does it never occur to the re- formers that nothing is more discom- forting at times than comfort. Dear sisters, if you men will allow me to call you so, it is a mistake to suppose that looseness and slouchiness are con- ducive to ease and comfort, or that easy- fitting garments, that sway and yield to every movement of the figure, are pleas- ant to wear. I once talked with a man who had been tarred and feathered. He said it was the most wretchedly uncom- fortable suit he ever wore, and he nearly killed himself trying to get it off. It was warn, it fit him like a glove, it clung to him like a Grecian robe and shed water like a duck’s back, and yet he never had a moment’s peace while he wore it. After all, I think there must have been heaps of misery in the graceful garb of the classic Greeks. I have an idea that a classic costume would be great medi- cine, if I may be allowed the expression, if a man could carry his pedestal around with him, and climb up on it whenever he saw anybody looking at him. But it wouldn’t be the sort of thing to saw wood in or to wear while putting up a stove- pipe, or breaking the colt to the saddle, or lii any active employment, I have no doubt that the spectacle of Socrates, at his time of life, going about clad in an aggravated ulster and pair of sandals, ruined Xantippe’s temper. It must have been maddening sometimes and extreme- ly irritating at others. There is a thing—I hardly dare eall it a garment—that travels under the alias ‘dressing gown” in our own day, worn by middle-aged and elderly men, whose sense of personal pride has suffered from repeated paralytic strokes until it has lost all consciousness. Very rarely do men venture out in the light of day clad in this disguise, and never do they ap- pear upon the street in it. I presume the robe which falls in such graceful folds and curves over the motionless figure of a statue which was made. to order for the robe, looked something like the modern dressing gown when it was worn on the uneasy shoulders of a live man. It is so much easier to dress up a statue or a painting thanit is a real man. You know that marble bust of your grand- father, draped in classic style, that stands in your library? The majestic poise of the head, the noble expression of the features, all set off so well by the grace- ful folds of the toga that fall away from the column-like neck and drape the mas- sive chest? Yes, [I see you know it. Well, 1 knew your old grandfather. Yes, indeed, 1 knew the old admiral. Used to run a push boat up the Big Sandy. I} the old man clad in a| just fancy I see Roman toga, witha roll of parchment, supposed to be the constitution of the United States, under his arm, poling out from Gatlettsburg when the water was so low the catfish had to stand on their heads to get a drink. And sandais, now I suppose if it never snowed and never rained and never was muddy and never was dusty that sandals would be a comfortable sort of footwear. But when a friend plows his way a mile | or so down a dusty road to eall on you and then, after he rings the bell, unships his sandals and empties two nice little heaps of dust and sand and gravel on! your doorstep, a sweet looking place the front porch would be all summer, wouldn’t it? And when you gave a re- ception! Why, for comfort and cleanli- ness an Indian moccasin *‘ean get to ride where sandals would have to walk.” **Take, therefore, no thought of your raiment;” manage these things much better for us, and with much less trouble than we can the tailor and dressmakers can | | for ourselves. Oh, there are some features |of our raiment that might be improved. For instance, for the benefit of the man |who has to make four pairs of panta- | leons last through the year, I think they should be made reversible, double bowed, | like a ferryboat, so that the wearer could | reverse them every day—fore and aft trousers, so to speak. This would pre- vent the fatal disease so prevalent among pantaloons known as ‘“‘bagging at the knees.” Something should also be done either to discard the vest entirely, as it is merely a thing to hang pockets on, any- how, or to facilitate its decay, so that when the women folk of the household should confiscate a man’s second-best suit and devote it to the missionary bar- rel it wouldn’t break his heart to see a vest, good as new, without a wrinkle or a break or a fray about it, going to the frontier with a coat and a pair of panta- loons that would set the cause of religion back ten years, when the frontier heathen Indians and other frontier heathen should see the missionary wearing them. And many times, indeed, | know, from the confess‘tons of friends who have unload- ed their consciences upon me when they were billed to accompany their wives to a reduction sale, or were drawn on the jury in Feud county, Ky., or had some similar dangerous mission in view—that men have surreptitiously rescued their vests from the barrel, thereby depriving the missionary of the only good piece of raiment in the entire mosaic. i know one man who is afraid, in consequence of his crimes, to sleep alone, or to go to bed in the dark, who for many years has withheld his vests from the home mission barrels by declaring that he wanted them to ‘‘go fishing in.” Tomy own knowl- edge, that man hasn’t cast a fly or wet a bass line in three years, and yet he has saved nearly a barrel of vests for ‘fishing suits.”’ You would think to hear him talk that when a man went fish- ing he wore nothing but a vest, and changed it every fifteen minutes. I don’t believe there was a Swede landed in Castle Garden last winter who wore on his person as many vests as this man owns, and that is a very startling asser- tion to make. Do you know, when a Swedish immigrant comes over they make him unbutton his vests—he doesn’t take them off lest he catch cold and die—while the inspector counts them, and if he has less than eighteen he is sent back as a pauper. I don’t see, indeed, why the vest couldn’t be made a part of the coat. Still, that would be hard on the laboring man. The honest, horny-handed son of toil is about the only man in our midst, as a cannibal might say, who utilizes the vest. He keeps a coat to carry on his arm and a vest to hang on the fence while he toils and to put on when he dresses for din- ner.