| Michigan Tradesman. Published Weekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. $1 Per Year. ee 9. GRAND RAPIDS, NOVEMBER 18, 1891. NO, 426 G. S. BROWN & CO., ——— 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. Land 3 Pear! Street, TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. GRAND RAPIDS GET TEE best! Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts SEE QUOTATIONS. 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. Improved Flue Scraper. Bi’ Lg ee cl i = THE BEST ON THE MARKET. HESTER & FOX, Sole Agents, Grand Rapids Mich. 87, 89 and 41 Kent St., YHE NEW YORK BISCUIT 60, S. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, 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. Oranges & Bananas! WE ARE HEADQUARTERS. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. (2 / BAP & CO. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. Florida Oranges a Specialty. HOLIDAY GOODS! Complete Line of NoveltiessNow Ready. A. t% BAOOKS & CO. WHOLESALE CONFECTIONERS. 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Cc. A. LAMB. F. J. LAMB. C. A. LAMB & CO, WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce, 84 and 86 South Division St. w an ted? SAG Agents INAW, Mich. June 22, 1891. Albion Milling Co., Albion, Michigan: GEeNtTs—In connection with our order for ‘‘Albion P kee ant Flour” which you will find enclosed, permit us to say ~ at we have used your Albion Patent for the past fifteen years and it has always given universal satis fe tion. We consider it the best brand of flour, for family use, that we handle. Yours very nas WELLS STONE MERCANTILE We wish to place this brand in every ci ity ‘and town in Mi chigan, — exclusive control to responsible dealers. T here is mon ey in it for you particulars. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed in every instance. ALBION MILLING COMPANY, Albion, ich PEHEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN give the W: rite for Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREE? GR: — aqpienel IDS, MIC aiepiea mates WF CARR? A QTONOCK OF t yy iy wits sheepskin Slippers. m & quality, per doz. prs......$1 35 La bi - Ta 2 oe Felt cy 7 Plain, for rubber boots... ... i 50 f) Leather sole, qt uarte rs and toe cap.. ‘ oe Parker’s Arctic Soe! ne 2 25 mire & KRAUSE, Grand Rapids, Mich Headquarters for Binckines. Dressings, Shoe Brushes. Ete For Bakings of All Kinds Use BALL leischimann & Uo. Unrivaled Compressed Yeast. ‘Special attention i 18 invited t to our YELLOW LABEL | which is affixed to every cake | of our Yeast, and which serves | FRESH DAILY een. To Grocers Everywhere. | Our Goods from worthless Imitations. Re SS Pe eee SUPPLIED SEND FOR SAMPLE —— OF OUR mitation Linen knvelopes STANDARD Ulh GU, One Size only, 334 x 6. Price printed, 500, $1 50 1,000, 2 50 2,000, 2 25 per M. 0,000, 2 00 she The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers GRAND RAPIDS. BARNHART PUTMAN CO. Wholesale Grocers. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. Office, Hawkins Block. F J. DETTENTHALER JOBBER OF ——— OYSTERS SALT FISH POULTRY & GAME See Quotations in Another Column. CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF POULTRY AND GAME SOLICITED. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH Dealers in [lUminating and Lubricating NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Works, Butterworth Ave. BULK-STATIONScAT 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. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO,, Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes. Our fall lines are now complete in every department. Our line of Men’s and Boys’ boots are the best we ever made or handled. For durability try our own manufacture men’s, boys’, youths’, women’s, misses’ and children’s shoes. We have the finest lines of slippers and warm goods we ever carried. We handle all the lead pee? lines of felt boots and socks. | We solicit your inspec- ne tion before purchasing. “Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co,” MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. VOL. % ESTABLISHED 1841. THE MERCANTILE AGENCY rt. Gy. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada EB. J. Mason & Co., PROPRIETORS OF ld Homestead Fastory CA Ne , MICE. Fruit Jellies aud Apple Butter Our goods are guaranteed to be made from wholesome fruit and are free from any adulteration or sophistication what- ever. See quotations in grocery price eurrent. Our goods are now all put up in patent kits, weighing 5, 10, 20 and net. J. L. Strelitsky, owe J19QPS Including the following celebrated brands man- ufactured. by the well-known house of Glaser, Frame & Co.: 30 pounds Wind@ex, lone Havana Mice... ........... $35 Three Medals, long Havana filler 35 Elk’s Choice, Havanafiller and binder... 55 ia Pie ge See 8. 55 La Donoelia de Morera, ................- 65 Bam Bees, FeO OOe........-.........-.-. 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, 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 Cc. 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. 1 WiLh ey YOu To Buy ALLEN B.WRISLEY'S GOO) CHEER SOAP eading ¥halesale Grocers keep ii. The Bradstreet Mercantile Avency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y. CLARK, Pres. ! =a . oF Executive Offices, 279, CHARLES F., Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. rand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY IDEMA, Supt. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. W. Barer & C08 Breakfast = (Cocoa from which the excess of oil has been removed, Is Absolutely Pure and itis Sotuble. No Ghemicals are used in its prepar- ‘\\\ ation. It has more \\\than three times the strength of Cocoa 2 ‘mixed with Starch, rowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far jore economical, costing less than one cent a up. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthen- ig, EASILY DIGESTED, and admirably adapted yr invalids as well as for persons in health. Sold by Grocers everywhere. ¥. BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER, MASS. OYSTERS e quote: eae | ska en... oe a, Solid Brand in Cans. $1 15 Selects. . foie Oe ee 22 Standards ......... 19 Daisy Brand in Cans. Bec ... 23 Standards... a Favorites. 15 Mrs. Withey’s s Home-made Mi ince- Meat Large bbls.. 6 Half bbls 40 Ib. Pale ......... . 6% 201». pare ........ 6% 16 1b, petis......... q 2 1b. cans, (usut ul w eight) eases. $1.50 per doz. ci = ° GRANDIIRAFPIDS, MICH, STUDLEY & BARCLAY Spooy LOQQnYy Jo ssoqqor sariddng qwysedag at ¥ IIW Agents for the CANDEE Rubber boots, shoes, arc- tics, lumbermen’s, ete., 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. Geo. H. Reeder & Co, JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOES Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for 158 & 160 Fulton ‘t., Grand Rapids. CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS —OR— PAMPHLETS For the best work, at reasonable prices, address. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, I accompanied Bill—‘‘quietly,’’ as he had suggested—to the sheriff’s office, and we waited there until the next train left for San Francisco. Bill proved to be rather an° entertain- ing companion. The first half trip he did his best to convince me that I ought to make a full confession to him of all my various crimes. He promised to “stand in” and get me off with a light sentence. When he found this under- taking hopeless, he began to talk about the country, answering the questions which I, a stranger to the scenes through which we were passing, very naturally asked. At length, however, as we were crossnig the ferry from Oakland, when | expressed my satisfaction at beholding the Golden Gate for the turned on me, with a sheepish grin, and said: “You'd better let up. It won’t do no good. Of course, you know the place as well as I do, and it’s no use your tryin’ to fill me full of prunes.”’ When we arrived in the city, we went directly to the sheriff’s office. ‘*We’ll take you to jail later on,” said Bill, apologetically. The sheriff dispatched a messenger af- ter some of the complaining witnesses, and then proceeded to interview me. I told him my name, and explained that I was atourist from Cleveland. He nodded his head and announced that the jig was up, and that I might as well confess, for they had a very good case against me. Presently, two well-dressed men were ushered into the room. Bill accompanied them. “There is the man,” said the sheriff; ‘the acknowledges it—at least the name.”’ ‘‘He is not the man,”said one of the new- comers, emphatically. **He isn’t!’ exclaimed the sheriff, and Bill made a hasty reference to the infer- nal regions. ‘No!’ cried the gentleman; ‘‘I told you the fellow had a blond mustache, blue eyes, was thick-set, and wore his hair parted nearly in the middle.”’ **Yelverton!” I exclaimed, up. ‘“That’s one of his names,” said the sheriff; ‘‘he went here under the name of Elliot Bonworthy, and he had an armful of letters of introduction, with which he worked the town. What do you know about him?” “He stole those letters Denver,”’’ I said. “Oh, then you are the Simon Pure Elliot Bonworthy?” said one of the gen- tlemen. “I can prove it readily enough, if necessary,” I replied. The sheriff and Bill began to make profuse apologies, to which I paid little attention, as I was anxious to learn of Yelverton and his performances. ‘‘He arrived here nearly a month ago,” said one of the gentleman, ‘‘and began immediately to make acquaintances by means of those letters—your letters, it appears. They were to many of the fin- est people in the city. So we took the man right in, for he talked and acted like a perfect gentleman. Well, sir, I don’t suppose that any man that ever came to this city got more elegant treat- ment than that fellow. Do you?’’ springing from me at he asked, turning to his companion, who signified his entire agreement. ‘Go on,”’ I said, with an inward groan. ‘The best private houses and the clubs were all open to him, and he received of the} first time, he | THEH MICHIGAN every possible attention. Several men | I know gave him wine suppers. ‘There | wasn’t a social event of importance to | which he failed to have an He gave out that he was sizing things up for asyndicate of Cleveland capitalists | that thought of investing in mines. Well | sir, 1 caleulate that in the three weeks | that he put in in this city, he had proba- | invitation. | i bly one of the very largest times that | any man ever enjoyed; and he wound the | thing up by getting the names of three | or four good business men on spurious | drafts, and then suddenly disappeared | from view.’’ “That was when 1 telegraphed him 1| was coming,” I said. ‘“‘Well,”’? observed the speaker in con-| clusion, ‘if you have any more “eee of introduction bearing that 1 would not advise you to present them, for you are liable to get arrested every time you try one on.” 1 explained that Yelverton had cap- tured the entire pack. The complaining witnesses then shook hands with me and departed. I imagine their experience with Yelverton discouraged them from any tash tenders of hospitality, for they did not suggest any improvement of our acquaintance. ; Indeed, it was a stand-off on both sides,for I did not fancy the sareastic flings on the subject of the letters. The next day the newspapers con- tained the whole story—the theft of the letters, Yelverton’s performance and my arrest. The account given of the brief but glorious career of my proxy—the spurious Mr. Elliot Bonworthy,convinced me that the gentlemen I had met at the sheriff’s office were quite right in saying he had enjoyed a ‘“‘large time.” AsI read of suppers, dinners, fetes, balls, excur- sions, honors, attentions, ete., my senses fairly reeled with anguish. All this good time really belonged to me; I had been cheated out of it, partly through my own stupid misgivings, and partly through the shrewdness and industry of this earlier bird. Now, then, gentlemen (concluded the passenger who had been asked to tell what he knew of the’ hospitality of the Californians), you understand what I mean by saying that 1 received my wel- come on the Coast by proxy. FrepD BAYHAM. i - >< _——$$$$<__—__— Who Wants the $'75? 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- same name, cool 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 Tik MiIcHIGAN ‘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. ~ eee edesea eset! UILY POR 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 the bother of ‘‘posting’ | “*patehing up’’ pass-book accounts? ? your books and Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge? Did you ever have a pass-book account foot up and balance with the corres- ponding ledger account without having to ‘‘doctor’’ it? Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they have or not? Then why not adopt asystem of crediting that will abolish all these anda a CASH BASIS of crediting? our coupon book and ask you to carefully consider 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 ing when bills are presented. 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 appear on the eustomer’s pass book. This | is sometimes the cause of much ill feel-| Many | | hundred other objectionable features of the old method, and one that establishes A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all enterprising merehants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the Tradesman or Superior Govpons. CUUPON BOOK vs. PASS BOOK. 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- chant is enabled to hold his customers down to a certain limit of credit. Give some men a pass book and a line of $10, and they will overrun the limit before you discover it. Give them aten dollar coupon book, however, and they must necessarily stop when they have obtained goods to that amount. It then rests with the merchant to determine whether he will issue another book before the one al- ready used is paid for. In many localities merchants are sell- ing coupon books for cash in 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- leet 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 country and address your letters to THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Olivet—M. L. Meads, the druggist, is dead. a Battle Creek—Wm. meat market to A. N. Part —€. E. Gibson suceeeds A. S Gibson & Son in generai trad Woodsteck—S. D. Turk has sold his gay City—Edwin G. Pipp has remov his boot and Oscoda to this place. Cheboygan—Martin Bros.’ paint and wall paper stock has been seized under chattel mortgage. Adrian—_C. Cc. V Roath anDoren succeeds & VanDoren in the agricu! implement business. $ Tt . " Linwood—Moore & Jehn have pur- tural | chased the general stock of C. S. Groes- beck & Co. The latter still continue in} i DUSINeSS. the sawmi Carson City—S. H. Caswell is opening neh furniture ar a brar His charge of the business. Son, Mecosta—A. the interest of Alvin meat marke Henceforth the firm be known as Pangborn & Chipman. Hastings—Henry C. Cook has pur- chased a half interest in the grocery feed store and business of A. D. Cook. The new firm wil! H. Cook. Muskezon— Moses be known as A. D. & signed his grocery avenue to N. P. are $2,093 at $1,275. stock at 277 Nelson. The liabi and the assets are ; the plant and bus i Step Ladder Co. and capital to rniture manufacturing nvolve a considerable ir eapacity vote their entire attention hoi ey their fur business, in- and wo meat market in the oid op posite is Or upying part of the Allen store, one door north of his old location. J. N. Alten will repai which was not so badly rst thought. Frank Postal has two buildings repaired and busi- there goes on undisturbed. Detroit—Thomas W. Mizner has filed a bill of complaint i reuit against Henry C. G. Briggs and M. E. forth that one of the defendants him to put some money in a commission busi- in Detroit. At the time Mizner was ru Z a store in Howell, and, being on friendly terms with Henry Briggs, em- barked in the Detroit enteprise. He continued in the business for several years and finally came to the conelusion a that he was not being treated fairly as a He asks the the partnersh partner. court to dissolve ip and to compel an account- ing of the business dealings of the parties be decreed his just and ne and that e juitable shares of the proceeds. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Carrolton—W. S. Thomson succeeds Thomson & Dedioff in the sawmill ness. busi- Detroit—Anthony Grznukowitz has sold h | his merchant tailoring stock to Anthony Kutny. Saginaw—Wm. Binder has purchased iness of the Saginaw Maybee—Maybee & Holsey are suc- | ceeded by Holsey & Helkemer in the | | fouring mill business. Centerville—W. Denton & Co. succeed jingham & Denton in the proprietorship Duquette has as-| ; | dles timated | Lumber & Salt Co. Morley—Peter Hanson has purchased of the canes the interest formerly owned by his late brother in the grocery firm of | Hanson Bros. and will hereafter con-| tinue the business under his own name. Mills has c to a couple Sand Lake—L. M. sold his drug stock Dimondale, who have moved the stock to that place, where business will be con- ducted under the management of A. D. Burnham. Jennings—Frank A. Jenison’s store | and | 0! the Michigan Central Knitting Mills. condo—Cunningham & Co. 3,000,000 feet of hardwood will putin logs to be ; manufactured at their mill next season. Jackson—The facturing Co., Steele & Hovey Manu- manufacturers of gig sad- coach pads, will shortly move to South Bend, Ind. and re- Saginaw—The saw mill of the Saginaw has passed the 22,- 000,000 notch, and it is intended to oper- ate it until the close of the month. Hudsonville —Geo. Sinelair has sold | an interest in his cheese box factory to of physicians at | . firm will and Geo. The new Sinclair & K. Phillips. be known as Geo. on Cheboygan—Swift Bros. receive a band sawmill is to saw andanew circular |rig to enable them to saw long timber. | building and the general stock of the/ Patrons of Industry Stock Co. were re- cently destroyed by fire. ‘The Stock Co. subsequently purchased the general! stock of A. C. iness. Allegan—Oliver & Co. have sold their retail furniture and undertaking stock to Herman Cook and MecNitt and resumed Jobn W. Stegeman, who will continue the under the style of Cook, Stegeman & Co. Messrs. Oliver & Co. will hereafter de- business i bus- | | An addition to the mill is also being built. Aipena—The Minor Lumber Co. will bank 3,000,000 feet of logs on Lake Huron shore in Presque Isle county. The logs will be rafted to Alpena next season. Gladwin — William Brown, of New York, has purchased the shingle timber on the lands of Estey, Calkins & Co., in Bently township, and has built a shingle mill with a capacity of 35,000 daily. Manistee—Judge Judkins has appoint- - 7 > on Tt il MUsSCii East Shore per which exists In large voygan county is ture of place them with a band saw They will also erect a bri 40 feet in t . diameter aud 100 the refuse. Hart—The Wigton estate was indebted to the Oceana County Savings Bank to amount of $500, and to the 2 mir ¢ Bank of punt of $1,500. is known as the Wigton south side of the Wi dation of the debt. A Wednesday night, the ¥ Lodge voted to buy the building at $1,800, L. N. Keating paying $200 f wall and the stai south rway. arcane Purely Perso: sonal. for Fred N. past book-keeper for the Diamond Wal! Fin- ish Co., has taken a similar position with Eaton, Lyon & Co. Sidney F. Blake, several years Stevens and wife have re- turned from Old Point Comfort, Va.. where they spent a month in search of health and recreation. Henry Arbour, formerly engaged in the drug business at Delton, has position of prescription clerk for C Smith, the Stanwood druggist O. A. Ball Ssympat the . taken and family have the hearty hy of the trade in over the recovery of their anxiety their daughter, Edith, whose life has hung in the balance several days. th e former drug am & Baldwin, at Bert Baidwin, of grocery firm of Burn Grand Ledge, has resumed his old posi-! tion behind the counter for A. B. Sehu- maker, at that place. Chas. E. Olney and son, Geo. E., have goue to New York, whence they sail on the City of Para for a all, requir- ing an ocean voyage of eigh t days. The voyage from Panama to San Francisco will be made on the Acapulco, the time required being twenty days. he family will join the voyageurs at Sa where they the usual. nta Barbara, will spend Winter, as _ > + ~~ —— Favors Mr. Bugbee’s Appointment. GRAND Rapips, Nov. 16—So far as my information goes, Grand Rapids has no candidate for the next appointment to the State Board of Pharmacy. Such be- ing the case, the choice of Western and oe Michigan naturally rests with C. A. Bugbee, of Cheboygan, who recent- ly retired from the position of Secretary of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, having served that organi- zation with credit to all concerned. Mr. Bugbee’s claims for recognition are based on more than purely local reasons, the | | writer having every reason to believe | | that he is fully as well qualified to serve any member who has honored by an appointment. appeals to a +t been recognized in —the elerks of half ran. — PR ee on the Board as ever been His _ class ndidaey hever more than of Michi ts. L hope to ug trade unanimous gbee’s appointment. PHARMACIST. see dr B FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. PRP LLLP PLL PPP PPP PPP LPP LAE EPP PL PPP Pilg St nser under this head for t insertion and one centa artion. No vertise- Advance payment. . in ment taken for less than cents. BUSINESS CHANCES. surrounded Mu onia, on easy terms. < GROCERIES. WILL IN- Sa eae located in this d reasons for selling. nig: an n Trad iesman. 317 BER MILL, cae of timber 2 in running order set up. Teams, tracks, i in order to be gin work for ae ( SAREFU LLY SELECTE ed at a good couutry trading ell "establis hed. Address A. C strator, Morley, Mic a. CLASS H: SRDWARE my or $7,060; STOC located near new iton street, Grand Rapids. Will © new brick store 25x90, two ee conveniences for living roomsin tory. Will rent store at reasonable figures the same for $7,000. Has a good paying trade; selling, too much other business to — lot 25x100 and alley. Winans & © *k 328 a oing good business; w lock box 27, Ann Arbor, 337 r Ling tv erie ne e abc put $4, 000. Addres i : "fixtures. — entories ean 32 O00 will sell at inventory price. Good reason for selling. E.A - aman, Cc harlevoix, Mich. 338 ALE— GOOD HARDWARE STOCK, WITH I good rade established. Location good. Reasons for selling: wish to retire from business. Address . Gordon. Sherwood, Mich. 345 SITUATIONS WANTED. ee WANTED—BY AN ASSISTANT REGIS- Ss ered pharmacist of three years’ experience. Good ence furnished. Address Lock Drawer O, Lowell, AS BOOK-KEEPER BY A married man who can give the best of refer- Address No. 305, care Michigan Tradesman, Rapids. 305 \ y ANTED—SITUATION ences. Grand MISCELLANEOUS. EVEN-YEAR-OLD FIL and one six-year-old eon, dam by Wiscon- handsome, and speedy; J. Robbins, Stanton, Sil ENOUGH FOR AN INVEST- and 5-room house on North . brick foundation, soft water Terms to suit. Address No. 187, 187 ; ~ellar, brick found- water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to eap ——— for an investment. Address No 187. N SOUTH DIVISION on the street. I ,as it has been ness fo i three years. Size, Geo. K. Nelson, 68 Monroe ness Add dress No.3 2 nave Michi; gan ‘Trade .sman. pons ALE—TWO HU NDRED ACRES LAND (160 IM- ‘ i), located in the fruit belt of Oveana ¢ oun- ty, Mi Land fitted for mact large eurb roof baru with unc eau ind fo r pr horse barn and other necessary farm buildings. New ir iill furnishes water for house and barns. Eight- 3 apple bearing orchard, also 1,000 peach trees, urs old, looking thrifty. Price, $35 per acre, or will exe char nge for stock of dry goods. If any difference will pay cash. A. Retan, Little Rock, Ar -, 34h W ANTED—ONE GOOD PEDDLING W AGON, FOR which we will pay cash. Address C. Duncombe & Son, Keelersville, Mich. 342 \ ,ANTED- GROCERY STOCK BY PARTIES WHO can pay cash down. Must be dirt cheap. Ad dress No. 343, care Michigan Tradesman. 343 \ TANTED—MAN WITH $1,000—sU PPLY AGENTS IN Michigan with Shaetfer’s new pancake griddle sure thing for positive nished. M $5,000 annu a proof fur- . Shaeffer, Canton 344 Ww ANTED — TO PURC HASE FOR CASH A DRUG stock in a good town of 3,000 to 5,000 inhabitants Winans & Allen, Tower block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 332 _ ... YOUNG WOMAN WHO CAN SrEAK German, to wait on customers and keep books in a general store. Address, stating experience and salary expected, No. 333, care Michigan Tradesman. 333 W ANTED—UNTIL DECEMBER 15,1 WILL PAY 65 cents per pair for partridges, spot eash; —_ by express. C. B. Lovejoy, Big Rapids, Mich. \ ) ANTED—A FIRST-CLASS TRAVELING saLbeuai from 24 to 30 years of age, to work large cities for wood working specialties. ‘Address , Stating ref- | erences, experience, etc., “Specialty,” care Mic Tradesman. gan 336 | GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. M. E. Lapham has opened = feed store | for J. S. Walker & Co. again this season. and wood yard at 431 East Bridge street. | E. E. Kobe has opened a grocery store at Freesoi!l. The Lemon & Wheeler Com- pany furnished the stock. Fayette Crawford has opened a gro-} cery store at Sitka, a new town near Holton. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. Henry Uhrbrock has sold his meat market at 56 West Leonard street to John C. Mohrhard, who will continue the bus- iness at the same location. F. A. Sanford, of the former drug firm of White & Co., will shortiy open a drug store on Stocking street. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. will furnish the stock. and notion stock at the corner of North Coit avenue and ‘weet street to Mrs. Kate C. Young, who will continue the business. The proposed copartnership between Wm. H. Downs and John W. Parke not consummated, and Mr. continue the wholesale business at the old stand under his own name. was Downs will notion Peter VanKolken has retired from the firm of VanDam, Kievet & Co., general dealers at 92 Center street. The remain- ing partners will continue the business under the style of VanDam & Kievet. Edith Curtiss will shortly engage in the drug business in the Knowlson block on East Bridge street, under the style of the Hill Drug Co. The Hazeltine & Per- kins Drug Co. has the order for the stock. The commission merchants of the city are disgruntled over the failure of the Board of Trade to recognize their line of business in the directorship. They as- sert that the trade has not been so _ ree- ognized for the past two years and that no member of that trade is honored by a nomination for the annual election, which occurs this eyening. Considering the importance of the business, the crit- icism seems to be well taken. At the annua! meeting of the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., held on Noy. 12, the old board of directors was re-elected, as follows: Chas. E. Olney, Wm. Judson, Edward Frick, Heman G. Barlow, Rich- ard Bean, and Jas. A. Morrison. Elec- tion of officers resulted as follows: Presi- dent, Chas. E. Olney: Vice-President, Edward Frick; Secretary, Heman G. Bar- low; Treasurer, Wm. Judson. Mr. Ol- ney was so well pleased over the result of the year’s business that he gave the stockholders and traveling men of the house an elaborate dinner at the Penin- sular Club on Friday evening. i Peace Declared and All Serene. KALAMAZOO, Nov. 12—We take pleas- ure in thanking you for your thoughtful- ness in sending us advanced sheet of ‘‘Defence of the Hebrew” and for all you have done in you manly endeavor to soothe wounded feelings. Weare, there- fore, quite willing to drop the matter as it stands now. Although we are a little skeptical re- garding the authorship of the above named article, it does not detract from the good intent. DESENBERG & SCHUSTER. oO A Point Well Taken. Cigar Salesman—Never judge a man by the cigar he smokes. Country Merchant—I never do; I judge him by those he gives away. why I think so badly of you. That is THE MICHIGAN en ane erie aeniedceaae tana ee een cna aon anal TRADESMAN. 5 Gripsack Brigade W. H. Gardiner has engaged to travel L. W. Codman, the Muskegon shoe dealer, has placed his business in charge of L. R. Stickney and gone on the road for a boot and shoe house. Jerry Woltman, long and favorably known in connection with the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., has become a_ stock- holder in the institution. D. G. Freeman, Wisconsin salesman for Rindge, Bertsch & Co., was in town last week for the purpose of getting out his spring line. Mr. Freeman makes his home at Oshkosh. Tuk TRADESMAN solicits the opinions of local traveling men on the question now under discussion among Grand Rap- ids jobbers relative to the lengthening the time between to the retail trade. James Blair, traveling representative for an implement house, committed suicide in his room at the Clinton House, Jackson, on the 8th, death having result- ed from an overdose of morphine. His wife had applied for a divorce and the event appeared to have unsettled his mind. Jas. B. MeInnes covered A. S. Doak’s route four days last week while the vet- eran Canuck was recovering from a bil- lious attack. The grocer who places an order with McInnes without hearing the latter tell the stery of the Scotch deacon’s prayer has made a grave mis- take. Ed. Pike, formerly with Voigt, Her- polsheimer & Co., has engaged to travel for Schloss, Adler & Co., manufacturers and jobbers of pants, overalls and fur- nishing goods. He will cover the same territory as formerly, seeing the trade every sixty days. He goes to Detroit next week to get out his spring lines. Peoria, Lll., Transcript, Nov. 11: Last night at the residence of his father-in- law, C. Whittemore, on Fourth street, occurred the death of James MeSkimin. Mr. MecSkimin was a traveling man in the employ of a Chicago house, and was taken ill while out on his trip last week. His wife was sent for and brought him home to this city, where he seemed to grow much better and early last evening he seemed exceedingly well. He retired and slept well the first part of the night, but later when Mrs. MeSkimin awoke, she found he was cold and stiff. She immediately aroused the household, but nothing could be done to revive him, as death had probably taken place some hours before. His demise coming so suddenly and unexpectedly is a great blow to his family and many friends. He leaves a wife and two children. News of the death of James McSkimin, chronicled elsewhere under this head, will be received with general regret all over the state. The deceased was at one time engaged in the wholesale coffee and spice business in this city under the style of Fox & MeSkimin—Jas. Fox being the senior member of the firm—but sold out to his partner in the fall of 1877 and went on the road for W. J. Gould & Co., with whom he remained about ten years. He then engaged to travel for W. F. Mc- Laughlin & Co., of Chicago, subsequent- ly representing Phelps, Brace & Co. and the I. M. Clark Grocery Co. in this state, Stone & Ordean at Duluth and the Chi- cago office of P. Lorillard & Co., for whom he was traveling at the time of his death. Deceased was a man of good parts and will be sincerely mourned by his friends. visits New Ueparture! We have added a complete line of RAPPING TAPER AND TW to our jobbing business We shall carry the best stock that is carried in Michigan. We have engaged the services of A. O. Perry and Frank H. White to represent us on the road, and Frank D. Warren to represent us in the city. We will be pleased to make-quotations on any- thing in the line of Wrapping Paper, Twine, Flour Sacks, Grocers’ Bags, Etc. And will give any mail orders our prompt attention. KATON, LYON & GU. ; ; ? 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. “Would be Straight if They Had the. Means.” Written for THE TRADESMAN. While standing in a business office the other day, toasting my shins before the fire, the business head of the establish- ment stepped to the telephone, and the following dialogue ensued, the mute part of which is represented by blank lines, while the names I give in the audi- ble part are fictitious: ‘*Hello, central!’ “Give me No.——, please.’’ *“‘Hello, Findthemout & Co.’’ ‘‘What is the rating of Soap, Crackers & Co., Stumpburg, Upper Peninsular?’’ **Is that so? “Well, had the means, they would be straight if they wouldn’t they?’’ 39 ‘“*All right; thanks. } Ding-a-ling-a-ling. Good bye.”’ Whether Findthemout & Co. the man of business that Soap, Crackers & Co. would be straight men if they had the means, or not, | cannot tell; but the little conversation over the wire gave birth to two thoughts which are worthy of the possibility of a man being too poor to be straight or honest; and the great advantage the wholesalers have over the retailers in their organized passing notice: system of shadowing and prying into the financial and moral sfanding of their customers. As to the first thought involved in this to be hoped that the gentleman referred to misspoke him- self: but if he meant it, let us hope that the doctrine involved premulgated. The rush for filthy communication, it is never be lucre was never so great as at the present There is hardly anything that men will not do for the sake of gain, and will time. if the idea should become prevalent, in that the world is so much better than it ever was these times when we are told —that a man could not be straight or honest witheut a plentiful supply of means—what a wild stampede there Whata wild, fran- tic scramble there would be for the shin- would be for boodle! ing ducats as the desire to become good, straight and honest would take posses- sion of us, when we contemplated death, and after death the judgment! How the poor unfortunates who had failed to ac- | cumulate a sufficient amount of wealth to enable them to live straight, honora- ble lives, would dread the final reckon- ing! it not be the proper thing to organize a| new system of missionary work, upon principles involved in idea? There is, enough in the country, if it was evenly distributed, to redeem and give every man, good send off on the ‘‘straight and nar- row path.’”’ Indeed, according to this new theology, the anarchists are the most advanced thinkers of the times, for they would take the wealth of the coun- try and distribute it equally, thereby converting the world with a simple dip- lomatic turn of the wrist. The other thought referred to is a practical one, free of nonsense, and de- | serving of a little careful consideration. | Every business man and retailer in the| } try is made aware of the fact and is en- assured | Under this new revelation, why would | based | this new! without a doubt, wealth | woman and child in the country a/| country is shadowed, watched, pumped, | pried into, reported, recorded and held up for inspection of all who are entitled to the same; and this system of espionage | never ceases while the subject continues | in business. If he gets into a corner and places a chattel mortgage on his stock, or meets with any little reverse which has a tendency to impair his paying ca- pabilities, every wholesaler in the coun- ‘abled to govern himself accordingly. |This is all right and necessary for ‘the protection of the manufacturer and {the wholesaler. They lose enough, as it is, in spite of the most careful watching, |and without any system of the kind, they could not do business, as the risks would | be so great that none would care to take them. All we claim is that the whole- salers have an advantage over the retail- lers in this respect. The B. M. A. was | supposed to furnish this protection, but |it departed this life before it arrived at ;maturity, and the retail fraternity never | reaped the full benefit the B. M. A. sys- | tem made possible. It is a great pity that this great effort to harmonize, unite and protect the business interests | of our State should have failed; but dur- |ing its brief career, its members got a taste of the benefits which are made pos- sible only through organization, and it is to be hoped that in the near future a convention will be called for the purpose of holding an inquest over the remains of the defunct M. B. M. A. and—if found to be dead—give it a decent burial, and then devise sometking to take its place. E. A. OWEN. > Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. Sclilling Corset Gos Dr. Schlling’s FRENCH SHAPE “A” Send for Ulnstrated Catalogue. in this journal. SCHILLING CORSET CO,, Detroit, Mich. and Chicago, Ill, See price list Dry Goods Price Current. UN BLEACHED COTTONS. Adriatic . q Arrow Brand 5% ae .. Ce - 6% « Wore Wide... 7 Atlante AA......... 6% MM ee ees 5 Atlantic ceo Q |Full — Wide. .... 6% Z... Giicecrms A........ 6% e.: 6 |Honest Width Cae 6% | . 2... 6xiHartford A ......... 5 ~ t..... oo S% a _— se 7% Ce iar 8 6... 6% Archery Bunting... 4 |King E é 4|Lawrence L no es Beaver Dam AA.. 5% | *' Madras cheese cloth on Blackstone O, 32... 8 peek Crew ......... - 636 Newmarket nce ae Deck Bock ........ 7 ceed Sax | Been 450... 7% . a... 6% | Capital A. _—.... oe - DD.... 4} Cavanat V.......... 5% ce. . | Chapman cheese cl. 3% Noibe R. eee ae Ss | Circon Cm......... 5 Our Level Best..... 6% | ee... a, oro 614 Dwaent Ster...:..... Wall OAs... -5 es 7% | Ciiften CCC......-. eer... 6% |Top of the Heap.... 7% | BLEACHED COTTONS. Lc... 8144/Geo. Washington... 8 Srepeen............. 6 Wien Bills.......... 7 ae 7 tod Moee......... ™% Act Gomiortc........ ree Te ee....... Big | Blackstone AA..... S Mest Pais.......... 6% Bea An............ “ire... ...... 6 ooicke oe Cee... 4%@ 5 - 7 jKing Phillip eneceess 7% | _.. Oe ees 7% ic eae ee 5%| Lonsdale Cambric. 10% | Conway W....-..... 74 |Lonsdale.. - @8% ee |Middlesex.... .. @ 5 Dwight Anchor ae 8% | mo nee......,..... on “ sorts. Co Cek View..........- ewer. ........... . eer oe... 3... oe a 7 ‘Pride of the West...12 Perec... ........- Tx ineeetind............ 7% Fruit of the Loom. 814/Sunlight............. 4% Pischyie ......... 9 Cn Bis......... Be Pics Peoe.........-. ~~ Nonpareil ..11 Fruit of the Loom %. |Vinyard............. 8% Fairmount. . \ a4\W hite Hors Po Viue.......... — * soe.... - 8% HALF ion COTTONS. ee ne ax Dwight Anchor..... 9 ee cones UN eS CANTON FLANNEL. Tremont eh .......... 554|Middlesex No. a Rees ......... 6%) 2... il ee 7 c - Fe Middlesex AT...... 8 . - 7... - : 9 - - &.... . Ro. .... 3 | BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Homiton N......... 7A} Middlesex A A Lewes 11 Middlesex Pt. ..... 8 2... 12 aT ..... 9 a AC...... 13% | . Za... 9 C ees T% ' Dm Wisien 10%) ee 5 16 CARPET WARP. Peerless, white......18 (Integrity, colored, ..21 _ colored.. . ak Ww nite Star........-.. 18% a a Clr colored. .21 DRESS GOODS. Eeeetion ......-.... 8 |Nameless ibe eee 20 EE 25 Re ae QT GG Cashmere...... A . 30 Pemscwees ... ....... ms | . + a SE 35 CORSETS. Coreees.........-. $9 50/Wonderful . ..- 84 50 Schilling’s. _ oor. oe, 4% Davis Waists : 00|Bortree’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50/Abdominal........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS. eee... ox nen satteen.. 7% a hee 44| Rockport... . 6% Biddeford. we |Conestoga.. ae 6% Brunsw ick. a. 6 ice ree... i. 6a PRINTS. Allen turkey reds.. 54%|Berwick fancies % peek. 544 /Cly de Robes.. ’ a & purple 64% ¢ exten Oak fancies 4% —...... « \DelMarine cashm’s. 6 . pink chee ks. 5: ° mourn’g : o staples 2 Eddystone on: ” shirtings ... 3 chocolat 6 American fancy.... 514! ' roper.... 6 Americanindigo.... 544 se sateens.. 6 American shirtings. 3% Hamilton fancy. ... 6 Argentine Grays... 6 staple .... 5% Anchor Shirtings... 44|Manchester ancy. 6 Arnold . «ve Oe - new era. 6 Arnold Merino - 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 6 e long e loth . = Merrim’ck shirtings. 4 8% ° = furn . on ‘s «century cloth @ |Pacific fancy.. “gold seal.. 10%4)| — roeo........ "8% ‘* green seal TR 104%| Portsmouth robes... 6 “« “yellow seal. 1054 Simpson mourning.. : “ serge. 1144) r greys. _ Turkey red. 10%) _ solid black. 6 Ballou solid black.. 5 |Washington indigo. 6 “ eolors. 5%) Turkey robes.. 7% i blue, green, | “* India robes.... T% nd orange... 5% - plain _ "ky x % & BY Berlin oes........ i "10 oll bilue...... sie “* Ottoman Pur - ‘* green . 6% key red.. 6 ‘ Foulards .... 54%|Martha Washington = red Me. ous. 7 | Turkey red X.. Z “ ......... 9%| Martha yashington - eee. | Tork —_ ee . - ' ‘3 4XXXX 12 (Riverpoint robes.. Cocheco tor...... 6 Windsor fancy...... 8x | madders... 6 gold ticket - XX twills.. 6%) indigo Siue coe 10% _ eoucs...... 54 | TICKINGS. Amoskeag AC A. 2%HiAC A . 12% | Hamilton -.......- oH Pemberton AAA....16 D..... Oe 10% | 7 Awning. a \Seitt _eer......... weet ie. \Pearl River.........12 Po Plee........,. i14| Warren oe oe Lenoa Miles .... .-.. ae DRILL. sm, P....4..e 6X%\Stark A a a i 6%|No Name.... _7 cnfton, ee 6%|Top of Heap........ ‘10 SATINES. PE cc Le, 10% Black eae 9 9% i @10 DEMINS. Amoskeag.. ....12%{Columbian brown. .12 9oz.... -13%|Everett, blue........ 12 . brown .13 . brown. ....12 Anaever. ._.....-...- 11% Haymaker ‘blue . 7% Beaver Creek AA...10 brown... 7% BE.. eee... 5... 11% | a OC. Lancaster........... 12% Boston. Mfg Co. br.. 7 |Lawrence, 9oz...... 13% blue 8% ° No. 220....13 | “ da« twist 10% c No. 250....11% | Columbian XXX br.10 ” No. 280....10% | XXX bl.19 GINGHAMS. | Amoeeene 744|Lancaster, staple.. . 6% ‘* Persian dress os = fancies . 7 _ Canton .. 8% - Normandie 8 _ AFC......12%|Lancashire.......... 6% o Teazle...1044| Manchester. . -. 5% - Angola. .104%|Monogram... -- 6% - — 8%|Normandie......... 7%, | Arlington staple.... 644|Persian............. 8% Arasapha fancy.. 434 Renfrew Dress...... %% Bates Warwick dres Si Rosemont........... 6% o staples. es SIMbeTaviliG ......... 6 Ocentennial......... 10%|Somerset............ 7 lOritiecton 6.0.0... 10 recess .......--..- 7% | Cumberland staple. Bis Tor Ga Nerd....... 10% | Cumberland.... .... ieee... ...... T% CS a Se a4 “* seersucker.. 7% Pelee... .....---.--- 736i Werwick.... .-...- 8% | Everett classics..... 8%|Whittenden......... 634 | Exposition.......... 74 im heather dr. 8 | Gieeere...........- 6% _ indigo blue 9 PGaenerven.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples... 6% | Glenwood........... 7% Westbrook bee oe cues | Beeooen..... .--...- es 10 | Johnson Jhaloncl %/Windermeer.... .... . indigo blue 94%4/York..... ...+..++-- 6x ‘ zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Avaoekeag........- .16%)| Valley “wad reacue sees es eee ee 19% |Georgia..... .15% | American........... 16\¢| Pacific ......- 14% | THREADS. | Clark’s Bod....@ (Barveurs....... ..-- 88 Coats’ Fr... 4 Moses. ... .....- 88 Holvoke. aed een ot 22% KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored. aa 6... Le SS me 42 . S.. oe =~ i” 43 . +” 44 -_ 2... = i” 45 CAMBBICS, Beer se, eee m (mowerds........... 4 White Ster........- «© Diooeed.... ...... 4 Eid Giove..........- S (Wooee.........-.. & Newmarket......... 4 jBrunswick ........ 4 RED FLANNEL, Pereeee...... «.+.. ee 22 | Crosdmore.......-.. ee eee os 32% Talbot 5 22......... im tue oee......... 35 Raeeeee.........- Siu puekerye.... ........ 32% MIXED FLANNEL. Red & Blue, plaid. -40 Corn wy ......... % eS 2% eee 18% (wae... .... wee eo e.........-..... 18 | 6 oz Western....... Flushing aux... es ae 2% PN oe ce cens 23% DOMET FLANNEL, Nameless .... | oe 9 @10% - 7 8%@10 | 2 12% CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Blaek./Slate. Brown. Black. 9% 9% 934/13 13 10% 10% 1044/15 15 15 11% 11% 1144/17 17 17 12% 12% 12% ool 20 20 puc Severen, Gox........ 4 w ast Point, : oz....10% Mayland, 802. 10% Ooz ...12% Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9%|Raven, 1002. se 13% Greenwood, 8 oz. MG — ll 13% | Boston, § oz......... 10%| ~soec all ie... 12% _ Waite, Gos.......-. _ bale, 40 doz....87 50 Colored, Gos.......- Fs ygp Slater, Iron Cross. . . ee bess ae ee 10% . Red Cross.. MO, i pce oe oe 9 C pom. ..... “6 ere... 10% . Best AA.. 2 Wemey Ciy......... 10% Bees saa OO etek. 10% Pict ek cet eee ow an Bie SEWING SILK ——. e8....... 75 (Corticelli knitting, wist, doz..37%| per %oz ball...... 30 50 yd, doz. 3754 HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROB No 1 BYV’k & White.. 10 No 4BI’k & ‘White.. 15 8 -20 2 2 “ 3 “e 12 “ 10 “ = NS. No2?—20,M C....... 50. "INo 4—15 F 3%...... 40 * £25 C......_. - | TTON T. No 2 White & BI'k. 12 No 8 White “ BI’k..20 = @ oe _ rr 6 Ty BB | “a = “ 26 SAFETY PINS. (a a me ieee... 2. 36 NEEDLES—PER M. A. ae Pebcareece es 1 40) seommpoas.... ...... 40 | Croweély'é....... .... 1 35|Gold meee...._..;.. 150 Marsha I" a eS 1 00 } TABLE Om CLOTH, |}5—4....225 6—4...3 25] -.195 6—4...2 % | a a ao OTTON TWINES. | Cotton Sail Twine. -28 |Nashua. «.e i 12 Rising Star 4- ply. ig | Domestic ...:......- 3-ply.. 17 Beemer... ........ 16 orth Sear... ...... nite 13 |Wool Standard 4 =e % | Cherry Valley...... 15 iPowhattan ........- i 24... 18% PLAID OSNABURGS | shaenion bebe ace. 6%|Mount Pleasant.... 6% | Alameanes,.......... 644| Oneida cue 5 eo Trees ........... 5% Ar — eke se cease 6 |Bandelman......... ox | SE io ciewie sy ae OE mIVerMGs........65- | Granite . . B|Sibley A............ mg |Haw River......... Se io cicnca ss | Haw J 5 steeee tr eweene Man and Wife Travel Together. ‘“That’s just my luck,’’ said a commer- cial traveler in a little country hotel the other day, as he turned in disgust from the clerk’s desk. *‘What’s the matter?’’ queried a friend. ‘“‘“Matter? Why that fellow Clark got in here ahead of me and has engaged both of the sample-rooms, and Ill have to show my goods in a bedroom.” ‘*What does Clark want of two rooms?” “i. for his the other | for his wife.”’ “His wife! one goods and Why does his wife want a sample room?” “She carries a separate line of and they work the Great scheme, that’’; and he mused re- flectively. ‘‘There they come now,” he added, and the friend turned in time to an energetic looking man of middle | age, with a brigbt, attractive little woman approaching. sought. “Yes, it is pleasant for each of be able to travel Mrs. Clark. furnishing goods and I have notions for goods business together. | see Later an introduction was us to 9 with the other,” said “My husband carries men’s women, silk handkerchiefs and em- broideries. Weare going through this section of the country for the first time and are working up atrade route. Just now is a dull time with both of us, in business, so we decided to spend the time working up an extra route.” “Don’t you find it hard work to keep up with your husband, day after day, traveling and working?” “I did at first, but 1 have learned how to take things L don’t useless Then John good about helping me out and waiting for Of get heavy orders in a town and he gets light it will way, so we help each other.” now. worry and do things. is very me. course, sometimes | ones. Then, again, be the other ‘“‘How did you happen to get into this work?”’ “Well, various things happened which pointed out the way. When my three little ones died, one after the other, and I was left alone, I began to miss John as I never had done before. (Here her voice trembled a little.) He could not leave his business, for he had a good trade, and so, if he couldn’t get the work I could get in, in order to be near him. I have worked with my house for almost two years now—they seem to be satisfied and Il surelyam. But I must go now,” and she nodded, smiling. “Can you do as much work with your out of 9? wife along as if you were alone? Clark. asked the enquirer of Mr. thought a minute and “Tll tell you. Soon after the babies died | took to drinking rather heavily. You know what a temptation drink is to a traveling man. Well, my wife it, and determined to save she worked around. until she got a situation and then she joined me, and we’ve been together She didn’t tell reason why she left home for life on the | He stopped, said: saw she me. So ever since. me the real | road until about a year ago—after I had given up drink altogether. Yes, I once | saved her from drowning—that was be-| fore we were married—and now she’s evened things up, you see. This last | year we’ve made more than double the money that I ever made in one year alone, and I’ve been eight years on the road.” ———$$<—<—<—<> «a North Bradley—Wm. Babcock is suc- ceeded by Leslie F. Bradley in oaaiiea| trade. THE MICHIGAN Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. : AUGURS AND BITS. dis. Ee ae 60 CO 40 Seminars. ce 25 eeunings, tittstion ......................- 50&10 AXES. First Quality, 8 8. = Bronze........ Pesecuce el @ GO D. eee 12 00 Ss. B Me eee ce 8 50 D. B. Steel Dea tees .. 6 BARROWS, dis. Railroad LoNcteeuauoues A cu aes 16 OG Garcon _...........,..... 2... .-. net 20 BGL' dis peove. ..... Se Carriage new list. ee ae cae caus 75 Priew...... 49 &10 Sieten RSS 7 BUCKETS [Wel pam... $3 50 Well’ avi vel ee ee ee ede wae . BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin, figured........ ............. & Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint. Lele, 60&10 Wrought Loose CT 60&10 WE i ee .. 60&10 Wrought Inside Bind.......... eee 60&10 Wrought Brass.... a eee 75 Blind, Clark’s.... -TO&10 Blind, Parker’s SS oS a (&10 Blind, Shepard’s ..... set 70 BLOCKS, Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85..... ere 60 CRADLES. a “vs . dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. Cast Steel.... eee eed cues ey per® 5 CAPS. Biystio...... perm Hick’s C. F hi 60 of... i 35 Musket .) ' 60 ARTRIDGES Rim Fire...- benno 58 Central ire. ...... ..... ne . dis, 2 CHISELS Gis. Socket Firme . 70&10 Moeee: Preueiee. 70&10 Boeeeeteeey.....................,,...,. ..70&10 Bocuet gens ................. 7O&10 Buteners’ Vanged Wirmer............ ...... 40 COMBS. dis, Curry, Lawrence’s.............. 40 Se 2% : CHALE, White Crayons, per gross.......- -.12@12% dis. 10 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz cut to size... per pound 28 Wi 14x52, 14x56, 14x60 . i ‘ 26 Cold Rolled, 14x50 and 14x60.... ........... 2 Cold Rolled, 14x46. ...:.. i. 2 eee ' 25 DRILLB. dis. Morse’s Bit Stocks..... 50 wane x and straight Shank 50 Morse’s Taper Shank....... 50 DRIPPING PANS, Small sizes, ser pound OF Large sizes, per pound 6% ELBOWS. Com, 4 piece, 6in.. ..doxz, net z (eee co is Adjustable dia. 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark's, small, $18; large, &26...... 30 Ives’, 1, $18; 2, 824; 3, 830. bee we wee 25 prae—New List. dis. Disston’s . ee - 6010 ee -60&10 Nicholson’ s. -60&10 Fieller’s.... , 50 Heller's Horse ] Rasps : 50 peng yoy 1RON Nos. 16 to 205 22 and 24: 25 and 2; 27 28 List 13 14 15 18 Discor on 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 50 May Golo & Co.'s. .-......... cd Kip’s nan Ee HAMMERS. Mason’s Solid Ga a Sie: ...... Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand.. ee eae ee ane ee eanoeamees eee .. 25 dis. 25 .. dis, 40&10 . .30¢ list 60 . .80¢ 40&10 Ce ne eee estan g remand nate an encase dines aan ROPES. Steel. 44 neh and larger ................- 8 HINGES, Gate, Clarks. 1,29 .-............. .. dis.60&10 | on per ‘doz. net, 2 50 | Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 1 14 and ee % Screw Hook and Eye, Cc .. ... net 10 <—.. --met 6&6 . aa e — .-net 1% - “ ‘* 1 ........... net 7% Strap and T.... .- Gis, 50 ‘HANGER rs dis Barn Door Kidder Broken packs ec per pound extra Ke planished, Nos. 25 to 27 Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Manilla SQUARES. Sieeianed 70m... 21... eee econ 75 Try and Bevels.. Mitre . : SHEET IRON. Com. mew... “. mee eer ............ 405 [eee EE ee Com Smooth. . .B 0 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, wide not less than 2-10 extra | Mouse, delusion. SAND PAPER. ing eect, 10, 6............. .- diz au SASH CORD. Sliver Lake, Wares... oa. eee BU Deena... ... bees 5 White B.. sa 50 st nae... 55 - Vecc.... 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. moma Myes ............... eae tice ees per ton &2 dis, ' Hand. Silver Steel Dia. X ‘Cuts, “per foot, .. 70 ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50 . ys mane Steel Dia, X Cuts, per foe6.... a 20 “ Champion and Electric Tooth X its, per fode.................. 30 TRAPS. dis. Steel, Game..... ee eae ee G0&10 Oneida Community, Yewhouse’s..... _ 35 Oneida C oe Hawley & Norton’s 70 Mcure, Chcker. .. 18¢ per doz eee $1.50 per doz. WIRE, dis. Bright Market.............. oe . | Anneaiod Marzket.........,................ -70—10 |} Coppcrom Marect............................ 60 | Tinned Market........ nan 32 | Coppered Spring Steel. 50 Barbed Fence, galvanized a 3 35 " painted ....... . 2 85 Champion, anti tr i 6010 Ridder, wood track ............... 40 HOLLOW WARE. | a ee 60 | Kettles. . 60 | Spiders .. 4 ee " 60 Gray Ce 40&10 | HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. feamiea tio Ware................... -new list = J Japanned Tin Ware....... o Cranke tron Ware ......-...-.... new ist say4at0 WIRE GOODS. Brien... 10810610 Se — Bye... 70&10&10 Hook’s . 70&10&10 Gate Sioa and Eyes.. 70810416 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 Docr, porcelvin, trimmings....... . 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain..... 70 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. C - "se new list ...... 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s........... 55 TS 55 Oe 55 “MATTOC Ks, Adee Bye............-....._... .- 416.00, dis. 60 Hunt =e ... 815.00, dis. 60 Hnnt’ ', $18.50, dis. — dis. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ie 50 oo dis. Coffeo, Parkers Co.’ 40 “ Fea. Mfg. Co.’ s Malleables.... 40 . Landers, Ferry & Cle .k’s... 40 Eu terprise i tee 30 MOLASSES GATES, dis. Steno e Putter... ........... 60&10 Stebbin’s Genuine......... et og ee 69&10 Enterprise, self-measuring........ 25 NAILS Steel nails, base............ 8 OO Wire nails, base..... . beeci ase OO Advance over base: Steel. Wire oe. ...Base Base eee .. Base 10 ee 05 20 rine 10 20 ee 15 30 16. 15 35 2. 15 35 Eo 20 40 Do ce per 50 7&6 40 65 Mes ee eee . @ 90 Se 1 00 1 50 Oe ee ee «oo 200 Ne 1 50 2 00 Case 10. Cece eee: coee seta wua aa 60 90 aS z 1 00 a“ $0 1 rinish 10. eee een ._ oo 1 00 eee ee ee a 10 1s ee es 5 1 158 citnen!} 10 4... 85 vi a eee eee ae 90 . Diese a oc ucecuees aces ok do 1 00 aoa it 2 PLANES. dis. Olio Toe Ce.4 fancy .................. Ow Eee Oh Sandusky Tool Co.’ me femiee._._............. @40 Honoh. first quaiity.......................... B Stanley Rule and — '0.’8, wood . &10 PANS mee Aeiee.... |... ... . dis.60—10 Common, polished Dees ceca ea sc. dis. 70 RIVETS. dis. EE eee 40 Copper Rivets and Burs.............-...... 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 27 10 2 ap” Wood’s 9 20 HORSE NAILS. Au Sable . dis. 25610@25410805 dis. (POO ee fe 05 Northwestern..... a dis. 10&10 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.... 30 Coes Geawine ................ 2... 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, er . : 1% Coe’s Patent, malleable. . . 75&10 MISCELLANEOUS dis, Bird Cages ...... . 5u Pumps, Cistern...... aes i Screws, New IL ist..... _— .. 10&10 Casters, Bed a d Plate.................. -osr0dle Dampers, American. : Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel ‘goods... a METALS, PIG TIN. Pig Large. hee 26¢ Pig Bars. .... eee uea es 28¢ ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 24%c per sein 640) pound Ca 6% Per pound... 7 SOLDER. Meee ...- «es. a ul on 16 Extra Wiping : i 15 The prices of the ‘nany ‘other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY Coenen. ............ re per pound 16 Hallett’s..... : . 13 TIN—-MELYN GRADE, Soni4 TC Charcodl.............. ..87 50 14x20 IC, S 7 5O 10x14 IX, a 9 25 14x20 IX, | ee 9 25 Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal bee et eee es Dy 14x20 IC, _ . Seceeesss 6 75 = - tee. 14x . aa. O25 Each i X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, ‘* “Worcester... . 6 50 14a001s, * “ Lo 8 50 20x28 IC, . . ee 13 50 14x20 IC, « Atawey Geide........... 6 00 14x20 IX, bay . ' 4 7 50 20x28 IC, - . ” ae 20x28 IX, . _ C - 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. 14025 FX... .... $14 08 po ix 15 and qu prices: We carry a good stock of ite them at the K elly Perfect, per doz. Falls City, per dez. i ae sath these axes following S. Bit. D. Bit. $7 12 $6 $9 Tanufactured by The Kelly Axe Ml ‘x GO, Louisville, WV. he Kelly Perfect ‘Axeg The Falls City Axe 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. eee Tradesman ficial Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, The Tradesman ‘ie, Proprietor. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable | strictly in advance. Advertising Rates made known on apr lication, Publication Office, 100 Louis St Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Oy.ce E. A. STOWE, Editor. THE IRONY OF FATE. While hundreds of thousands of people live in happy homes which owe their | existence to ‘‘Land Bill” Allen’s efforts, that poor old man, past 80 years of age, is taken from his own little hut to the} poor house. It is the irony of fate that the author of the homestead law should | find himself a pauper in his old age because he spent his fortune and the best years of his life to secure homes for others, and the people of the United States will be guilty of monstrous in-, gratitude if they let such a benefactor die a pauper. Until recently he had a mere hovel of ahome at New Albany, Ind., but this was seized for debt, and when the neighbors tired of supporting him he was carried to the country infirmary, where he is at the present time. This is a case to melt a heart of stone and gives added strength to the oft-repeated state- ment to the effect that republics are un- grateful. Fifty years ago the laborer worked more hours and harder for his pittance than the men of to-day dream of. He was poorer fed, poorer clad, and poorer housed. His wagas were paid to him in money issued by banks in different states, each dollar of which was subject to a discount, or loss, as the banks frequently failed. Clothing was no cheaper than now. The only carpeted room in the house was the parlor and that had only arag carpet. Sewing machines were un- known and there was no piano or organ to make the evenings at home pass pleasantly, and the only light was a tallow dip or whale oil lamp. Tea and coffee brought high prices and meat was used but sparingly. The best mechanics received only $1.50 a day in the cities and less in country towns, and laborers could earn only 85 cents to $1 per day. The action of the Grand Rapids Sav- ings Bank, in offering a series of cash prizes for the best essays on the subject of small savings by young people under eighteen years of age, entitles that insti- tution to the commendation of every economist in the country. One of the first essentials a young person should understand is the value of small savings and the desirability of early acquiring the habit of living within an income, no | matter how small that income may be. | The generous offer of the Grand Rapids | Savings Bank will do much to stimulate interest on this important subject and thus be the means of bringing the matter to the attention of many who might oth- erwise never give the theme a passing thought. THe TRADESMAN has been solicited to endorse the candidacy of three different | still left, and on aspirants for appointment to the State |as well | Wells will name the next member of the | Board of Pharmacy just as surely as | though his name was Winans instead |will be the man who “stands in” with WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1891, | « | Bros. | cash exchanges with each transaction. | | electric light plant owned by the city of Board of Pharmacy, but fails to see | wherein any effort on its part would in | any way effect the result. The present | | incumbent of the gubernatorial chair |‘ gave the pharmacists of the State a slap} in the face in his appointment of a year | | ago and there is no reason to base any | | hope of different treatment in the coming | | appointment. One thing the trade may understand first as last—Frank of Wells and the successful candidate powers that be.’’ Two Shelby merchants announce the abandonment of the credit system on December 1—Rankin & Dewey and Shirts Both will use the coupon book sysiem with regular customers who do not find it convenient to make actual Candidate for the Board of Pharmacy. Str. Ignace, Nov. 14— Though I have no figures to prove my assertion, I be- lieve that a majority of the members of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation are drug clerks, and there is no doubt that a large majority of the regis- tered pharmacists of this State are em- ployes; therefore, I believe it right that this large class of men who help to sup- port by their membership fees and regis- tration dues both the State Association and the State Board should have a repre- sentative of their own on the State Board of Pharmacy, and with this end in view I would urge upon my fellow clerks to support Chas. A. Bugbee, of Cheboygan, for the vacancy about tv occur. Mr. Bugbee is no stranger to a large number of druggists, his excellent service as Secretary of the State Association having brought him prominently before the pro- fession, and those who know of his ac- quirements assure us that he is, profes- sionally, eminently fitted for the posi- tion. With an united effort on the part of drug clerks, there should be no diffi- culty to prove to his Excellency, the Governor, that he would greatly please the profession by the appointment of Mr. Bugbee; and as our candidate is of the same political faith as the Governor, he may also please himself. DruG CLERK. —_>.<——__— Recent Sales of Westinghouse Engines. Clerks’ The following sales of Westinghouse engines have lately been made by Wal- lace Franklin, State agent for Westing- house, Church, Kerr & Co.: Two hundred horse power compound condensing engine, with 150 horse power patent water tube boiler, equipped with a Rooney mechanical stoker and smoke- less furnace, to the Eldred Milling Co., Jackson. Eighty horse power compound engine to the Commercial Milling Co., Detroit. Two hundred horse power compound condensing engine to the Sheffield Veloc- ipede & Car Co., Three Rivers. Seventy-five horse power engine, with 66 horse power patent water tube boiler, to the Glazier-Strong Oil Stove Co., | Chelsea. Fifty horse power engine to the Com- |mercial Electric Co., Detroit, to run the | St. Ignace. Thirty-five horse power engine to Dodge Road Cart Co., Pontiac. Ten horse power engine to the Fisher Electric Co., Detroit, for the Globe Oil Co., Toledo. California has 2,675 of the giant trees e of these the largest is thirty-three feet in diameter. The New Bank at Saginaw. SaGcinaw, Nov. 16.—The American Commercial and Savings Bank was ushered into existence Saturday by the | election of the following officers: President—Isaac Bearinger. “Vice President—Wm. L. Webber. Cashier—W. G. Emerick. There are 87 subscribers to the $100,000 | capital stock, the President and Vice- President each taking $10,000. Hugo Wesener, the present efficient book- keeper of Sibley & Bearinger, will act in a similar capacity for the Bank, and it is probable that for a time at least, Mr. Emerick will act in a dual capacity as both Cashier and Teller, his ability and experience in the banking business standing him in good stead, both he and Mr. Wesener having been for years in Seligman’s Bank of Commerce. The office now used by Sibley & Bearinger is being converted into a model banking office, complete in all details, and it is confidently expected that the new insti- tution will open its doors for business about Dee. 1. Country Callers. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week trom the following gentleman in trade: W. H. Harrison, Harrisburg. A. Giddings, Sand Lake. Cowles & Fenner, Thompsonville. A. B. McCall, Elsie, Schantz & Co. Woodland. B. H. Rose & Co., Springdale. P. Hanson, Morley. oe A Long Courtship. Briggs—Did you hear about Miss Gros- grain? She has married a dry goods elerk. They met, he woo’d and won her and they were married. Griggs—Why, when did this all hap- pen? Briggs—While she was waiting for the change. One fault begets another; makes another necessary. one crime Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co, WHOLESALE Ory Goods. Carpets & Cloaks. We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts & Live Geese Feathers. Overalls of ovr own Manvfactire, Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s Socks. oigl, Herpoishelmer & C6, 48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Let us send You A Few Rugs Hassocks Carpet Sweepers Blacking Cases & Foot Rests From which to make selections for the Holiday Trade. SMITH & SANFORD. MOSELE 3 PARtte., VHOLESALE - Fruits Seeds, Beans and Produce 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST, Grand Rapids, Mich. W. Hz. DOWNS, — JOBBERS OF —— Notions & Fancy Goods. 8 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Michigan. SPECIAL BARGAINS IN SPECIAL LINES TO CLOSE. Heyman & Company, Manufacturers of OW bases Of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICES. First-Class. | 63 and 65 Canal St., Work Only. GRAND.RAPIDS. The Corner Grocery Crowd in Poke- town Village. POKETOWN, Nov. 12— Although fleson & Spiggott have built up their own business and made the corner gro- ecery what it is, yet the senior member of and jolly, off-hand ways Whif- | _THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. he belonged. So Peterkin sold off his | stock and farm, after mortgaging it for $1,500 and deeding it over to his wife for safe keep ing, and moved into Poketown and set or ai \ et th mi | himself up asa:commission merchant and the firm, Jerry Whiffleson, with all his} manners, is a} crank of the first order and everyone who | does not trade with them knows it. fleson—body, soul and breeches—is pos- of one idea, and that add one more cent to the profits of the cor- sessed ner grocery; and, therefore, your opin- ion of him depends altogether upon where you buy your groceries. If you trade at some other grocery, you will en- tertain the idea that Jerry Whiffieson is an unsocial, grouty old crank, but if you drop your dimes into Jerry’s till, you will find him social, jolly and as frolic- some as little Teddy O”’Tool on his way to the circus. For the first two months after I came to Poketown, I thought that Old Whiffle- son was a two-legged off-shoot of some family of the grizzly bear. I had been introduced to him several different times at church socials, yet he never knew me, and when | ventured to speak to him on the street or in the _ postoffice, the only response 1 would get would be a slight grunt and a side glance which seemed to say, ‘‘Who the d—— are you, and what are you doing for me, any way?” But one day I chanced to call at the cor- ner grocery for a package of tobacco which no other dealer in the village Jerry’s memo- flash. He me Brother my district kept, and, strange to say, ry returned to him like a extended his hand, called Grizzle, enquired all about school and gave me a most cordial invi- tation to call again. 1 went away feel- ing that Lwas ‘‘some pumpkins” and that Old Whiffleson was a jolly good fellow after all. 1 did not understand how it was until I read the article referred to in my first letter, and then it occurred to me that I was a crank myself, and the act of purchasing that package of tobac- eo removed the barrier, and exposed the “animal affinity’? existing between two fellow cranks; and, as ‘‘birds of a feather will flock together,” Jerry and | have been fast friends ever sinee. He calls me Brother Grizzie, and | buy my tobac- eo of him, and chew it, and smoke it dur- ing the long evenings by the big wood stove in the corner grocery. And when I come to think of it, every one of the regular members of the corner grocery erowd—that is, those who attend regular- ly every evening and in filling the ash-pail with tobacco juice—are cranks also. The crowd, and a assist most prominent figure in the general all around crank, is a dried-up, run-down- at-the- heel, fly- blowed, and gone-to-seed old fellow by the name of Peterkin Swipes. Mr.Swipes had once lived on a nice little farm with a nice little wife and three nice little children. The little farm was well stocked and it wasallhisown. Peterkin was a very nice member of a nice little ehureh, which he attended regularly with his family, and he took a leading and prominent part in all the nice little exercises of the church. But, alas! there came an evil day when the nice little head of Peterkin Swipes began to swell. Slowly but surely it became evident to the sorrow-stricken wife and family that Peterkin’s little hat would soon be un- able to encompass his rapidly expanding cranium. One day he plied Jimmy Dumps, the butcher, with hard eider un- til he could no longer see straight and then he sold hima cow for $40 which was worth no more than $30. That night Peterkin dreamed a dream. He dreamed that he was a bullfrog in an ash barre!,and was choking to death with the dust of his surroundings, while in the distance he could hear the happy, triumphant shouts of other frogs not half his size, as they sported about in the cool, clear waters of the pond. When he awoke in the morning, he told his wife that he was a frog and that it was a shame to destroy his usefulness and mar his beauty by crawling around in the dirt and dust of the earth, associating on a common level with warty toads and other vermin, while he might be cutting quite a figure and making some gigantic leaps, if he were only in the pond where Whif- | a dealer in provisions. One short year was all that was necessary to convince Peterkin Swipes that the bursting of his hatband was not caused by a healthy | growth of his head, but by that malady, | is, how to} implements, and rented his | so common among farmers, known as | ‘the big head.” Poor Swipes! It only | took one short year for him to fall | through himself, financially, socially, and morally; and to puton a finishing touch cluded that she had no further use for Peterkin and she retired to take eare of her aged father who advanced money with which gage on the farm. sO to his experience, his wife con- | to redeem the mort- | Peterkin became top- heavy, owing to the sudden increase in | the size of his upper story, and he tumbled over and in that tumble he lost his farm; his home; his wife and family; his religion and his character and, there- | fore, the respect of his friends. one thing is left to him and that is Old Swipes, which consists principally of a huge mouth, a set of false teeth, a pair Only | of cheek bones and a handful of grizzly | hair. Old Swipes’ mouth is never idle. When | not engaged in grinding out chin music or sucking an old corneob pipe,itis hawk- ing and expectorating, boomerangfashion, that is, you can’t tell where it is going to land although aimed apparently at the box half filled with ashes which sits in the middle of the floor. Every village may not have its Peterkin Swipes, but I am personally acquainted with several of these characters who do not live in Poketown, and we are very glad of it, for one is quite sufficient for any village the | size of Poketown. Mr. Whiffleson is a fire-eating republi- | ean and so is Old Swipes, and as Whiffle- son, for the sake of policy, must bite his tongue and smother the fires which rise from the political voleano within him, he, no doubt, encourages the regular at- tendance of Old Swipes for the purpose of using him as a sort of eat’s paw with which to secrateh all members of the crowd who wander outside of the regular republican fold. There.is one member of the crowd to whom Old Swipes shows his false teeth every night, much to thedelight of Jerry. This unfortunate individual’s name Vinegar Brown, and he appears to like it, for he is in his happiest mood when everybody is pitted against him. His mother named him Vinegar because he stuck up his nose at the first liquid meal offered him after commencing his jour- ney of life, and, from that time to the present, he has stuck his nose up at every thing which has happened. As acrank,his one idea is*tEverything is out of joint and the country.and everything in it is going lie claims to have been a is to the dogs.”’ Lincoln Republican, but when the party | fell from grace he became a greenbacker. | After memorizing the greenback cate- chism, including the little song about the bloated bondholders, he slid into the Democratic party on the free trade plank; but in a short time he rode out of it on the same plank and into the Prohibition party—his one idea at the time being, “Down with the cursed: traffie.”’ Once he sueceeded in fooling the people and received the nomination from both the Democrats and Prohibitionists for Regis- of Deeds and was elected. This caused | his head to swell badly, but he lived | through it, and when his term expired, the people excused him. He failed to fool them the second time, so he came back to Poketown. party man and his motto is ‘**Kill all ex- isting institutions and organizations; compel the government to loan the farmers all the money they can spend at 2 per cent.; smother Jay Gould and other mil-| i i r | MOUNTAIN STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND, by Stpney DICKINSON. lionaires between feather ticks, and saw off with a crosscut saw the head of every national banker in the Union. Every viilage has its Vinegar Brown. IcHABOD GRIZZLE. 9 A. S. McIntyre, the St. Louis drug- gist, is putting in a couple of weeks on a| pear hunting expedition in the Northern part of the State. He is now a People’s | W. . WHITE & CO. Manufacturers of Hardwood Lumber, BOYNE CITY, MICH. easnnuiieten ti Lad 2 3 Y Boyne Falls E.Jdordan JUBINVILLE MILL pS c Arm South ee Traces wan Co. We operate three mills with a capacity of 9,000,000 feet hardwood and 3.090,(00 feet hemlock, as follows: Boyne City mill, 7,000,¢00; Boyne Falls mill, 3,000,009; Deer Lake mill, 2,000,000. Our facilities for shipment are unsurpassed, either by rail or water. Scribner’s Magazine. An Exceptional Year. The year 1891 has been marked by a greater advance than any similar period since the Maga- zine was estab ished, Not only has the literary and artistic excellence been maintained and increased, but a corresponding gain has been made in the sale and influence of the Magazine. At the end of 1891 the circulation has risen to more than 140,000, It may justly be promised that the further improvements for the coming year will be proportionate to these largely increased opportunities. For Next Year. It is not possible to give, in a brief space, an account of all the features in preparation, but the material is deficient in neither importance nor range of sub- ject. Among the subjects treated: The Poor in the World’s Great Cities, It is proposed to publish a series of articles, upon ascale not before attempted, giving the results of special study and work among the poor of the great cities. The plan will include an account of the conditions of life in those cities (in many lands) where the results of research will be helpful for purposes of comparison as well as for their own intrinsic interest. While, from a scientific point of view, the articles will be a contribution of great importance, the treatment will be thoroughly popular, and the elaborate illustrations will serve to make the presentation of the subject vivid as well as picturesque. Washington Allston. UNPUBLISHED REMINISCENCES AND LETTERS of this foremost among early American painters. A number of illustrations will lend additional interest to the articles. Inportant Moments, The aim of this series of very short articles is to describe the signal occasions when some de- cisive event took place, or when some great experiment was first shown to be successful—such moments as that of the first use of the Atlantic eable, the first use of the telegraph and telephone, the first successful experiment with ether, the night of the Chicago fire, the scene at the moment of the vote on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, etc., etc, Out of Door Papers, In the early spring will be begun a number of seasonable articles, among them being: SMALL COUNTRY PLACES, how to lay out and beautify them, by SamveL Parsons, JR. FISHING LORE FROM AN ANGLER’S NOTE-BOOK, by Dr. Leroy M. YALE. RACING IN AUSTRALIA, by Srpney Dickriyson, with illustrations by Brrez HARRISON. The illustrations are made from original material. A full prospectus appears in the Holiday Number, now ready. PRICE, 25 CENTS. $3.00 A YEAR. CHARLES SGRIBNER'S SONS, Pubs., 743 & 745 Broadway, New York. 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. © ©:}©:©:0:0:0.0:©:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:O:0:0:0:0:©:O:©.0:0:0:0:9.©.0'O'0.9.© ITH the last issue of “The Tradesman” we com- pleted the publication of the forty fac simile letters from regular customers of our house, which we now pro- pose to republish in book form, in the shape of a handsome souvenir for distribution among our trade as a New Year's Greeting. We are proud to receive such evidences of re- gard from our customers and shall strive to merit a con- tinuance of their esteem and patronage. It is, perhaps unnecessary to remark that our stock of staple drugs is now larger than ever before, while our line of druggists’ sundries is unusually full and complete. Both lines are quite fully described in our recently issued Price List, which will be mailed to any druggist who failed to receive same, on application. We are always ready to quote prices to either present or prospective cus- tomers, aS we are confident that the low ratio of expense on which we conduct our business enables us to sell closer to cost than any other reputable drug house in the country. Hlazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. °°° ©0090. ‘©:}©:0:©:0:©:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:O:0:0:©:0'0.0.O OKOKOKOMOKOKOKOROKOKOKOKOKOKOKOKO) © sons tie olga | | | | | | | ¥ + THE MICHIGAN — TRAI IESM AN. 11 7 M s ‘ BQ? 2 ‘ . : Wholesale Price Current. “77s tae SS io pla hes C. Co wes sess] S5@2 10 Cope) aot | setae | 50 | Moschus Canton... Q@ = Maccaboy, ‘De - Spirits Tur entine.. 41 46 Advanced—Ergot. Declined—Nitrate silver, chloral hydrate. Myristica, No.1...... ae ml Veese .............. @ 35] ' ao (po 2)... @ 10 snuff, “Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 | PAINTS. bbl. Ib. ACIDUM. Cubebaa......... A 6 50 TINCTURES. ys. Sepla 25@ 28 | Soda Boras, (po. 12}. 11@ 12| Red Venetian...... 1% 2@3 Woaioun 0 10 | Exechthitos.......... 2 ane w i " i Pepsin Saac, H. & P.D. ol Soda et Potass Tart. 30Q 33} Ochre, yellow Mars.. _ 1% 2@4 8@ Aconit Napellis R . Co. @2 00 | Soda Carb 1%4@ 2 | 2@3 Benzoicum German.. 50@ 60 | Erigeron ..............2 25@2 50} + mitum Napers h..... 60 | Picis ita is wal Qe Sod i es 146@ 2 . + TRG 2@3 Boge 20 a ao 2 00@2 10 lily. F....... 50 | uN Ch ec ine @2 00 | Se be gr 2 oe 21 @ ‘| utty, commercial me aos $ yeranium, ounce..... 7 wes tteeees Of eee. ai, co trrtreee sess SHG | stly pur 2 4 Carbolicum ........-.. 23@Q 35 Gossipii, Sem. gal. a =| * wham... 60 | Pick s Liq., quarts ... @1 | Soda, Sulphas......... @ | Vermilion Prime Amer- pee 2c cf 48@ 53 iC Arni ml pints Spts. Ether C BG | ic Hydrochior ..........- Se 45 | econ ............. Me Oe eterno e ets 4 50) pi Hya 5 5 ee ee ness Nitrocum 10@ 12 conte 50@2 00 | Asafcetida............ 0} Pi ydararg, (po. ov) Myrcia Dom.... @2 2 | Vermilion, English.. 70@Q75 Gcatoam 10@ 12 Tavendula ............ se@2 00 Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 | Eiper Nigra, (po. 22). ‘* Myrcia Imp... @3 00 | | Green, Peninsular... TQ Phosphorium dii...... 20) Limonis............... 2 25@2 go | Bemzoin...........- 0-2. -6.- 60 | hag anepuon (po >) Vini Rect. bbl. | Lead, ‘red. --- 7 @i% Salicylicum ..........- 1 30@1 70 | Mentha Piper.......... See acca ca Me ee een 2 27)... 231@241|_ “white ........... 7 @i% —————_«. io 5 ‘=| Mentha Verid........ = soe sp | Semguinaria................. so] Eiumabi Acet ... i 5| _ Less 5¢ gal., cash ten days, | Whiting, white Span.. @70 Ta : ie m 1. ..1 40@1 « Morrhuae, gal........ 1 00@1 10 | Barosma ....... ....... “1, 59 | Bulvis Ipecac et opii. 1 )) Stryehnia C rystal -... @130| 2 hiting, Gilders’. GH annicull.......------ Myrcia, ounce i eT 75 | Pyrethrum, boxes H | Sulphur, Subl. .3 @4 | White, Paris American 10 Tartaricum 40@ y . Oumcée......... @ ww > : eee Oliv ss@2 75 | Capsicum ...... IT so] | &P. D. Co., doz. @I1 25 Roll... 2%4@ 3% | Whiting, Paris Eng. y TT SN Ges Hl ca ait anes skis 85@Q2 ia a on | Pyrethrum, w....., 30@ 35] Tamarinds.... 7; (ar AMMONIA. Picis Liquida, (gel. 35) 10@ 12 umOn... .....- ots v5 | 1 P eg i: . 8B 16 “ote 1 4¢ Aqua, 16 ~. “%@ 5 Richi... 08@1 24 ° “ Cos a dain a 32 10 | = — Venice 28 30) ane Prepared Paintl ng! 4 pl wn aS a 1 a c eos 9 YO 1e0bDr 2 i 5 WiIS8S oe in. 55. ses oR 14 ee a “ae 30 Catechiu ee ' = 30 | « ferman....20 B 2 Vanilla... 9 tas 0 Paints .... oo eed 00@1 20 Carona co el —Ee eee ee ee @ 8 VARIES sania Sabina ................ 9@1 00 D- eee eee eee» GO] S ceca | ANILINE. Santali __... 3 50@% on | Commmba.................... Sg) Salaein. _..-1 GOI Si OILs. | ee tll Coach.. a 10@1 20 Black 2 00@2 25 | Sassafras. co = 50@ a | Coun vttecem, SO) SACU Draconis... 402 | Bbl. Gat | oon gs aie -160@1 7 « Brows. ao ee 8001 0 Sinapis, ess, ounce... @ 65 oo. eae oe cS = | — a vette tee e eee ee 4 50 | Whale, winter... 70 70| No.1 a Aan Lo. a an 2 oo , 50 oe @i 06 | Digitalis .............. -.., i cape, W.....-......... Bae M4) beard Guta... i a Boaesrenena seers lO. a 10@ 12| Lard’ No. 1. s See ee Yellow ie 2 @3 % . Gentian so| “ G @ 15\T op o+: o | Japan Dryer, No i oo a % iH Tabata YE 0 | —- @ 15; Linseed, pure raw... 36 o| Tome |... . 7@ 175 aicoke, sisi‘ ( EMGOKTOMAR......... : JO. --s cree ee eee cree : m Guaica . RO Cubeae (po. 90)...--. 90@1 10 POTASSIUM. Ce 60 |: . i can eeeteeees on 10 oo. ~ ee 4 ’ eee ewe a 50 Get WH t Yi 1 F ? eeecenace Peromeene .... < ove ................ 2a Ou Ss < : . Bromide... +++ Sie 2) todine 75 « A Or 2 BALSAMUM. wi Ee ee 12@ 15 C Colores. ............ 7 NKI BY’ c™ —" teas : 5 @1 . cae (po. a eee 14@ 16 a Chiloridum..........- 35 wm Fi 1 > BO N EK; ; ANIM ENT =-/_- eee eee Gi « Ywvanide oo oe 5 ee 50 vag Terabin, — sense 35@ 40) Todide...... 2 8002 90 Lobelia a 50 | . o- ee Tolutan . -.--- 35@ 50] Potassa, eee pure.. 28@ 30| Myrrh......... Ce — re TS ee Pavomeee. CORTEX. ooh = 2 Nux We ee ula, >| Enclosed in White Wrappers and made by D. F. FOSTER, Saginaw, Mich. Abies, Canadian.........--- 7 Potass Nitras.......... a a = Camphorated ... sa in alge eee : er dee . 28 30 ‘* Deodor.. ee 2 00 | Dru gs KD Medi cine ah sake a f ae evevees SS | UD EeeO PO... _. ee 8] Auranti Cortes gx I i FES. | SU ank cigars for years that now Euonymus atropurp.......-. 20 : inti Cortex...... ....... 50 | ic ® i . ——— —" Nan A z A fontinn peaeng 20@ 25 uence a ey od a ——_ | they cannot taste a cigar unless it is Trunus gs. eres ei. Lt i St 4 RB * aa a aa a a i | aie oard oO Pharm: RCYy oy qgekac 8 _ i nae a a 4 Althae. a ao Casta eat a . | cme: Koostthesing 3. Eeahdll, Owente. the blackest, a and sharpest on fe Fe pane a . a ae we tteeereeeees _ 15 ag ttt oo oe ee ee the market. The stronger a cigar, the a 9 DO. cc cee ren cece a ' ares aArs—J é >s prnor, Detroit. i ‘i i Colmeee. 20@ 50 | Serpentaria ........ ..s-+e++ 50] Pour Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor more likely is it to be of inferior quality EXTRACTUM. Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12 Stromonium. eee a eee 60 | Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. “Lastly : ' Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ 2%| Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18| Tolutan.............. ...... 60 President—Jacob, Jesson, Muskegon. sastly, never buy a ten-cent cigar. 33@ 35| Hydrastis Connie, Valerian ........ ves teeee 5O stm ni oo pean a ae Let it be a five or fifteer k mis Y i Voratr » AT go a np (reasurer—Gec } rt 4 « D r Fe Haematox, = Ib. ‘box.. 11@ 12 Le 410). ' @ 35} * eratrumVeride....... --++ 50 “Meetings for. ‘1801--Le nsing, Nc — = . 13@ a = lebore, A Ala, Po. 15@ 2 Ce arise a —__.j never a ten-cent one. Why? Because s&s on lel eee 14@ 15| Inula, po... 15 «20 cn es ichigan State Pharmace tion | alow n. a ee i is. 16@ 17 Ipecac, po 2 10@2 50 Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2%@ 28 | President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. the ten-cent cigar is made of the leavings ris plox ( 10. 35@38).. 35@ 40 ' ‘ “ 4F.. 30@ 3] Vice-Presidents—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; L. Pauley, St. fF higher-priee ivars.§ ¢ sie " —— r Jalapa, haya @ p-. 5@ @) | Aloméen ....... f i Lue 3 aenaees A. -arker, Detroit. r ig - _— 7 —_— sigeioui and for that Carbonate Precip. ae @. ss Maranta, \s. @® 35 “ground, (po. ‘ Secretary—Mz eo en reason is inferior tothem. " surer— on € ol Sa —— ' @ 80 ‘oc Po. wees oa = en a ae a a Executive Committee—¥. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; cent cigar is made of first-class second- +s vee Al eect e ee ree ees OND FD rar nglis d @. W. Striz detroit; E. : i a 8 Ferrocyanidum Sol... = s vi @i 75 | Antimont, po..... 4@ 5 Webb, Jackson. aneeuuis grade tobacco, which makes a better Solut Chloride - @ S Y 75@1 35 et Potass T. 55@ 60| Next place of mocting-—Grand | Rapids. o ro : Sulphate, bony i... .- we 7 Spige ia i : a i: 53 ansies ae i ... @1 49 | Local Secretary—John | See than second-class first-grade to- Li eheee Sanguinaria, po 25 a 20 nittebrin..... @ ; & el Rapids Se aT ame Pea ad bace as ss Se Serpentaria.. 30@ 35 Argentl Nitras, ounce G@ | hpebae, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. ciety. acco, or the ten-cent cigar. oo on | Benega .. .. 4@ 45] Arsenicum . H 5@ | Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March =—-—- —- oo 0D i Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 Balm Gilead | Bud.. 38@ 40} Ju ne, September and December. Odorless Whisky Anthemis ....... an h @ Bi Biewuth §. N....... .2 10@2 BW i o ' Matricaria tit -- 25@ 30 sciilae, (po. 35)...,.... 10@ 12 | Callum Chior, 18, (48 “Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Assocation. | rrom the Philadelphia Record. S . 2 > 6 6 ident, F. D. Kipr scretary C. Smith. FOLIA. ymplocarpus, Feeti u (113 348, 12). a Fi. 0 an ae the . " i anon 0 50] y ater po.. om a @ 35 Caniharides Russian, oe Detroit Pharmaceutical Society NOW hat smokeless powder is an Cassia "Ac utifoi, “Tin os Caine ) 4 mee @I1 20 | president, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P. Rheinfrank. | assured fact, the next move in the line 25@ 2 * -- bw fapsici & - — lof , “ss is > a nivelly . ce 4 5 | ingiber a. 2 eee ee af... “Wlestasen Eiveg Gleris’ Assocation : progress is to be odorless whisky. cla ea bei rib 8¢ 2 “ ‘ ee . i 2Ce sx per rn Ss < y , Salvia officinalis, \4s Zingiber j...... or B po. President N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler. oh mf EperEment: made, by the pro- ood Me.) a SEMEN. caryophyllus, ( (po. 15) | ar : — ——— | Prietors of a local distillery have been Ue te........-.. 8@ 1¢!] Anisum, (po. 20) : @ 15| Varmine, No. 40....... ¥3 75 : i : attended with almost unlooked-for suc- { * » gz | Cera Alba, S. a F 50 55| Virtue ofthe Ash ona Cigar--A Neglect-| ,.. A ’ suc — . oe eleons) ‘ = *2 | Cera Fave 250, ‘4 ed Weed---The am Case, 5 wae ap —— have culmin- Acacia, ist picke 80] Garni, (po. 18)... s@ 12}; Coecens_... : @ 4 ated in the production of a liquid which c = " = = oem 4 ome. 25 — Prctus oe g = ‘Few people know how to smoke ajis undeniably whisky, but which leaves ‘ _ ... 4 a a o | Centraria.... . i. iu ' ! ie ' i « sifted sorts... @ 3 Guemontanaiies a Gas Cetaceum oe @ 42 cigar properly,” said a tobacconist. ‘‘In | HO Suspicion of an odor upon the breath. 7 ( BS Dauva.......- 474 G~ ml C ii “ : i "1 > o j Sa weoneet cesar . EL od aan eS bee 4 a Cvddiiam.... ...... | 7@) vo | Chloroform ....... = 83 fact, few people know anything at all rhe new fluid is precisely the counter- Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... SOG she di @ 12 squibbs D1 25 part of the ‘‘old stuff,’? exce : io x @ i2| Chenopodium 10@ 12|, / : ie : . old stuff,’ except:in this “Cape, (po. 20).. @ ix 2 1o@2 29 | Chloral Hyd Crst 1 30@1 60| about a cigar. Many imagine that in] partieniar “ Dipterix Odorate.. 2 10@2 20} & 8 3 é particular. In appearance < : ‘ Socotri, (po. 60) G | pconicaium @ 15|Chondrus ............ 2@ 25 i | ar . 1 appearance and, taste no Catechu, Is, (4s, ] 14 — na Seamaareak, po 6@ §|Cinchonidine, P. & W 15D 2% order to obtain all the flavor of a good | difference can be detected. But, although oon a: a go | Lint . 4 @ 441 oom i on Gee 3 @ 12| cigar it is necessary to keep the tip]|it possesses the same deadly qualities, mmoniae .....- bo 9D Ol rini, gra, (bbl. 3%) GaSe ee oe a , | : . the most stupendous jag will leave the — (po. 35). - 2 e- | Lobelia... .. B@ 40 os veteseee _, &!| absolutely free from ashes. Asa result, a. I ; ‘ . eave the enzoinum. 55 | Pharlaris Canarian. 3u@ 4% | Creasotum ........-.. @ sO ; yreath as sweet as that of a new-born Camphore....... -.-. 0@ 53} 2. "tem a 1 CREAM, (DOL. 7)....... @ 2/|they snap the cigar with their finger un- ni gape . co 7 rr - 3 babe. Kuphorbium po ....-- 2, 7} | Sinapis, Albu. 3 i prepi-vv7-+ 3@ 8) til the wrapper is broken and their Ha-] ‘The process is a seeret which will be 2 oe oe Nigra mae. Beet @ il cg i = soe — Mipo 30) “7 = caida Rubra _....-+ @ 8\|bana is useless. They destroy their cigar] jealously guarded. No amount of ques- uaiacum, (po 30 Q@ w% SPIRITUS. . : ne |. r ie : : ie Kino, (pe. 33) @ 2] Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 ee cee “= 33 |in the attempt to remove the very thing} toning would bring the slightest sem- ee @ % x6 D. ¥, R.....1 %@2 00| Cupri Sulph |......)) 5@ _6| that preserves its flavor. blance of an explanation from the in- Myrrh, (po 45). i i @ 40 ‘“ sett eece ees 1 10@1 50 Dextrine ... 10@ 12 c : ne in a ventor. ‘‘I have been working on it for os (po. 3 20} 2 4% a Juniperis Co. O. — a. iS | Ether Sulph... B8@ 70 “Again, it is the popular belief that @] years,” he said, “but only recently have e ... 2 = sé ee 75Q@3 50 e mbe i : git Raa ’ : bleached...... 30@ 35 | Saacharum N. ee 1 32 00 are = nur nbers.. : . g | cigar partly smoked and then allowed to my efforts been rewarded. The article Tragacanth ...... 30@ 7) Spt. Vint Galll........1 75@6 50 Ergota, (po.) 70....... 6@ 7} go out is worthless. Bunt the contrary is will shortly be placed upon the market, nERBA—In ounce packages. | Vini Oporto ...........1 25@2 00| Flake White... 12@ 15|” i ! ae and I am sure it will create a decide Pesci vad Vind ANDAR... ..... a ee @ 23\|the case. A good cigar is made still bet- sa sure will create a decided oF or nue Gambier 2 es i : _. : aioe : pe a agat ceeeecees 20 SPONGES. * »,|ter if the smoker lights it, consumes It at Gelatin, Cooper...... @ 7% a : Co ne 28 a. weet. 2 20@2 50! Gia er a - 60| partly, and, after expelling all smoke eas eat = a 2 r i“ Glassware nt, 70 and 1( [ i i l a or Ss Frankness, Mentha em vt 25 Heuee © sheeps’ wool op |, BY box Sand 10 from the weed, permits it to go out. Try a — coh carriage .. 2 : * A man wen a Kansas ; > eg 30 | Velvet extra. sheeps™ a on 15/it and see. I do not say that this holds} 446 other aan into a Kansas drug store anacetum “«| wool carriage 1 10 oe @ : i Ce ee | adn i Thymus, Vv 25 | extra yellow: shcops + ton garetts 15468 20 good with poor cigars, or with a good ‘““Gimme some whisky,” said he. MAGNESIA. e ee wteeeeee oe 85 | oo a 55 | cigar unless you force the smoke out of *‘Sick?” asked the druggist. ; — eeps’ wool Car - | Oy : ‘ow 9 r ee i. a on oo] _ cia 65 | Hydraag Chlor M Mite. @ = it, but do as 1 say and you will see that ih : ; | ee, lt 22 . 80}. / “Sick a £ 2 yadays " Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 2 Hard tor slate use. ' “ Ox eben 1 ‘10!|it adds to the pleasure of your smoke. a @ good deal nowadays, aren’t I > Carbonate, JenningdS.. 35@ 36 baecoweli — for slate Be Na Ra ' you? eye use . 140 “ Unguentum. 5| ‘Not one man out of one hundred can}” “Yep,” Absinthium. .........3 50@4 00 SYRUPS. el %|tell a good cigar. Why, men come in ‘‘Had fever yesterday?” %% a BC b 12 | . el CU a 72 ess. 9 Oops $5 | ingtber 0200000 s0|Johthyobolla, Am. 1 54 | here and buy twenty-five-cent cigarswho| [(2eRO ay See... 75@1 85 | Ipecac.. See cae cee 60 | Iodine, Resubl........ 37 ‘eannot distinguish between what they mh Ml ily ay before: Auranti Cortex...... 2 80@3 00| Ferri Tod.............--- 50 | lodoform............-. | : ye nD Yep.” ee hee eeneea ee 3 75@4 00} Auranti Cortes.......... .-- - ee J buy and a five-cent cigar, so far as the ““What’s the matter to-day?” Garyophyil ce Similax ¢ Ofticinalia. 2... 60 | ae oN 95 | quality goes. A man’s taste must be “Well, um—er—to-day, I’m sick 0’ eS es. se Liquor Arsen ‘et Hy- “ educated in this as in everything else. tryin’ to think up things to be sick of.” Senna. Saneee .............. 5... ware Tod. ........... 27 a Bi ernnTe Cinnamonii ee i ae 50 | Liquor PotassArsinitis 10@ 12) He must be taught to tella good cigar ee ee Magnesia, Sulph (bbl | Gagne a0 outa oe 2 a oo weit . 2@ 3|fromabadone. Some men have smoked Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Geese 1 10@1 20! Prunus virg.. 50 Mannia, 8. F........- 50 THE MICHIGAN TRADESM AN. GROCERIES. Winter Apples. The winter apple crop is turning out | heavier than was expected owing to the remarkably tember and October. are excellent, while the size and, there- fore, the number of barrels is larger than seemed probable. This is especially true of the winter apple belt of Nova Seotia, New England and Central New York, but does not overcome the short- age in the commercial apple orchards of Ontario and Western New York. The export movement is heavy, being 425,000 barrels up to Nov. 1 against 97,473 bar- rels at the same date last year, and 151,- 545 barrels at the same date in 1889, in- cluding shipments from both Canada and the United States. Liverpool continues to take all sound red fruit quickly at good prices, $2.50@$4 per barrel. It costs about $1 per barrel to get apples from our seaboard to that market and returns back again. The shipments so far have been mostly from New York, 209,576 barrels, Montreal 161,907, Halifax 16,749 Boston 37,500 barrels up to Nov. 1 +2. Organization of Council No. 29 at Flint. Drrroitr, Noy. 16— Your well-known regard for commercial travelers, as is evidenced by the frequent publication of articles of interest to them, as well as your kindly mention of their individual and associate interests, induces me to send you the following announcement: Flint stands near the head of the list ofthe thriving and enterprising interior cities of the State. Enrolled among its yoting population are nearly one hun- dred commercial travelers, twenty-nine of whom responded to the bugle call of that prince of good fellows, DC. Slaght, last Saturday night, to organize a coun- cil of the United Commercial Travelers, which was accomplished in due and proper form, concluding by the election of officers for the current year as fol- lows: Senior Counselor—Albert Meyers. Junior Counselor—S. B. Haywood. Past Counselor—Geo. A. Nichols. Secretary—Dell C. Slaght. Treasurer—H. M. Sperry. Conductor—F. R. Streat. Page—C. T. Perry. Sentinel—T. S. Eddington. The event concluded with a banquet at the Hote! Bryant, which for arrange- ment and menu could not be excelled. As usual at all U. C. T. banquets, wine and intoxicants were conspicuous by their absence. M. J. MATTHEWS. Ne Card from Prof. Kedzie. LANSING, Nov. 14— The people of Michigan ought to be thankful to the press of the State for calling their at- tention to the increase of danger to their persons and property by reason of the recent change in the legal test for kero- sene. The change from the flash test to the burning test is equivalent to lower- ing the legal standard by 20 degrees F., or from 120 degrees F. flash test to 100 degrees F. This change was urged in the last Legislature on the ground that the public would get better light, have cheaper oil, and be as secure from ac- cidents as under the old test. The people will learn from their own experience whether the light is as good, the oil cheaper, and their persons and | property as safe as under the flash test | of 120 degrees F., which has been the} legal standard for a dozen years. R. C. Kenzie. a 0 Kidney Cure Profits. The corporation of H. H. Warner & Co., manufacturers of patent medicines, will distribute to shareholders here and | in England dividends just declared of 8 per cent. on preferred and 20 per cent. on | common stock, favorable weather in Sep-| Quality and color | Doings at Detroit. Detroit, Nov. 14.—One of the most j;completely equipped manufacturing es- | tablishments of the city is the factory of ithe Schilling Corset Co., on Abbott | street. Nearly 300 girls are now em- ployed in the various departments of the | establishment. No business house in the city can show |a larger growth than that of Stanton, Morey & Co., which began business Oct. Stanton. This house now employs 325 girls and women in the manufacture of pants, overalls, jackets, ete., while eight men are kept on the road to dispose of the products of the factory. H. b. Carhart & Co. are erecting a two- story brick building, 50x70 feet in dimen- sions, at the corner of Michigan avenue and Tenth street, which they expect to be able to occupy by Dec. 1 with their pants factory. The mammoth building soon to be erected on the former location of the 120 feet on Bates street and 160 feet on Larned street. It will be occupied by three clothing houses—Jacob Brown & Co., Schloss, Adler & Co. and S. Simon & Co. Jacob Brown & Co. have abandoned their Yankee notion department and will hereafter devote their entire attention to the remainder of their line. Schloss, Adler & Co. have engaged Ed. Pike to represent them in Western Mich- igan. His engagement dates from Dec. 1. i i een A Market for Corn Husks. About the latest discovery of value to Western farmers is the use of corn husks in making paper. They are said to make paper of an excellent quality. Hitherto husks have had no special value except as they were plowed under. Cattle and horses were not fond of them and ate them only ona pinch when they could not get other things. Now there will be a profitable market for them and also save buying so much paper in the East. a nw For the finest coffees in the world, high grade teas, spices, ete., see J. P. Visner, 304 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids, Mich., general representative for E. J. Gillies & Co., New York City. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address PECK BROS., “Gun RAbibs.” Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS. Ho.0Gan...... 45 a eee 50 mee ok ae eee i. ieee LAMP CHIMNEYS. av i 6 doz. in box. —s2 be ee oct ce ee 4 ae... oe First quality. No.0 Sun, crimp ?- eee sees ecko | 22 os Lee 2 40 _ . " 3 40 NOEX Flint. No. 0 Sun, eS. ve. Led oseecday ce No. 1 — ..« 82 No.2 “ ‘ ‘“ ""3 se Pearl top. ” os 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled 5... ie sll lO CL 47 No. 2 Hinge, - . ee 47 an tere 0.1 Sun, plain bulb, per “we ete 1 2 No Se mo 1 Ore eer Oe... - oe ms * gg OS A a eal 1 60 LAMP WICKES, or ree. 22 No. i, o ecco on See oaks rencenea cua) ae | No 2, - ee 38 No. eed kee ee ciate: per doz.. . a STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Crocks, . oer... 06 cee... 06% Jugs, is eal., per, doz pepe ee hee ceceseud ce ua 75 i a a eT 90 ™ ele 80 Mik Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed — 60 “ “ 1 ce ( oe 90c ii 72 POULTRY. Local dealers pay as follows for dressed fowls: (os Coe... .. - 2 @i0 NE cc cece - _. 2s a hee nah ee io Gide 11 @12 an a 12 @13 ei 11 @12 1, 1872, under the style of Brewster &|° Battle of Atlanta will have a frontage of | PRODUCE MARKET. Apples— $2.25 per bbl. for choice winter fruit. Beans—The market is a little stronger. Dealers now pay %1.30@1.40 for unpicked and country picked and holding at #1.65@1.75 for city picked pea or medium. : Butter—Choice dairy finds ready sale at 21@ 22c. Factory creamery is held at 33e. Celery—20e per doz. Cabbages—40c per doz. c ider—Sweet, 10c per gal. Cranberries—Fancy Cape Cod are held at per bbl. Jersey Bell and Cherries command $7 50 per bbl. ' Eggs—Dealers pay 20c for strictly fresh, hold- ing at 22¢c. Cold storage and pic kled arein fair demand at about 2c below fresh stock. Evaporated Apples—The market is utterly featureless. dealers buying grudgingly at 54@ 6e and hoiding at 7c. Grapes—Nine-pound baskets sold at 25@30c fo Concords and 4% for Delawares. California Tokay command $2 per 4 basket crate. Honey—The demand is strong but it is impos- sible to secure choice stock. Onions—Dealers pay 50@60c and hold at 65@ 70c, extra fancy commanding about 80c. Potatoes—Local sthandlers are paying 18@20c for choice stock, but are not at all anxious to purchase, even at that price. Squash—Hubbard, 2c per Ib. Sweet Pot atoes—#2.50 per bbl. for choice Jer- sey stock. Turnips—25c per bushel. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS, oe, See. 10 ee i a 12 00 ee eee ee, eee OE... ._............. es ee Clear, fat back. ' we Soston clear, short cut. hoe ea. oe oe ro... eee, 13 75 Standard clear, short cut, best........ 14 05 SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. Pork Sausage... . 6% Ham Sausaece......... le eee. Frankfort Sausage .. Blood Sausage... eu enon 2 Bologna, straight... So 8 iteena, Chace... ...°.. .. oo a 2 LarpD—Kettle Rendered ee 8 ee &1, OO LARD. Com- Family. pound. Tierces ...... ae 5% “0 and 501b. Tubs....... oe 6 Sib. Pails, in a cane..........7 6% Sib. Pails, 12 in a cane...........6% 6% 6 30 Tb, Pate, 6 in & case...........6% 5 90 tb. Pails, 4in a case..........6% 6% ip Cams....-.....- --- 644 6 BEEF IN ‘BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............ 6 50 Extra Mess, Chicago packing... Lado ee Boneless, rump butts... os SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average 20 Ibs. oo ... 16 lbs. ee ° ’ 12 to 14 lbs. Coe as 2. sc fenic ores “ est boneless. See eee eee. ieee ene 6% Breakfast Bacon, boneless........... ee Detod beef, ham prices.............. oe Long Clears, heavy............ oe +.) ok I ie cl ae a ee ec eee a ck sc Th FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Dee Oe 4@5 - 2 quarters deisel e eee, 4%@ 6 . eee @ 3 ee a ' eo ce s > LDS. .+. +0 0" Absolute” ii Lge Ol, 72 VD si 20 a < .* 7aNs i = __— Dew wae now Me mt i a : = Russian. — v5 | ‘Absolute” in Pa Sy Valley City Ll 0 nig 1 i oe | Glas Peas 1 49/10, * . — a Sees es eee ax | Allspic ages | Dandy Jim........ . 20 ae : = senses co Hamburgh mi ras 320 ee ae 1. % bbl a —. ee as 48! a hg ns w e . 2. ree WY i oe 2 95 ? 5 00} No. 1 2 Wee OOlbs Ce ee 4 1 55 oe ~ ted Star, 4 Db Pe ee 9 60| ‘ = ly June ; - 6 00 ’ kits, 10 Ibs. es 5 7 Cloves ‘ a =) : 20 : ‘Db * bse ste 4g | Hamburg 1 mpion Er ni 5 : cee 90 tinge oo 3 55 - i Sa an | nt ur gh pe tit pois uns --1 50 og 1,% pnthitefish. Scr, oom. co... . ; 55 40 BATH 1 50 | Soakex ancy sifted ++ +2 60 NO. 1, kits, 10 lbs. ie 7 50 | Me abaiig | ; 55 17 2 doze sana | Har ye -1 90 Family, % bbl a! 1 0 Pepper i ce “ 1 55 22 English .. en in case. ly, a standat a és : : oo 2 1001lbs ... 2 a aon” = 1 55 Here It Is. a; oo oe gab v i un Camp's Marrofé a oe “Universal.” ne e 10 ie... gen ge. \ [ = coe boas as _ ot “ t $1, per hu ; rsal, ‘LAVORING . _. & u 2 eee 70 | 4 Early June 4 10 | $ 2 per hundred. 6 ce EXTRACTS a | Soll Honesty ui 31 stcttete : le arlv B AL Sle . Meo eens Gee eT Jennings’ sa is SUGAR y weeeeees Arctic, 4 02 are ee _— cue amie pion ee DC. | Cut Loaf UGAR. liaaoeee Lae _ 80% = ooo " ea French Mushrooms. 1 80: $10. 4 LO La — folk ling box ss mon. Vanilla | ee seteee : oe a City ie ' ca : < ee 7 | Le ceeeueeue: i oe [ 5 60] 4 79 135 red Jas. G. Butler & Co." se CL oe ur on tees as wai | es ae Oz és _..4 OO ~~) | Gran Son & « * ' No. , mo box... 0 Erie .. Pumpkin, re ia ti whee a aT 6 oz i 1 50 = Same i Te t ng Good 0.8 Brands. No. 3 ic i eo ing bate ees ae | , Bulk orders fc on a “ .-2 06 200/58 rs’ A ) La RTE 38 "** 4 Qo | Hubbard . — peel tag a na subject oo e coupon | .--3 00 ova White E Out of Sight ---...... mae 8 00 go 1 30 | — counts: the follow- | Kegs ae ee ee 410] Extra a xtra C. an jae ie 450 Hambt c otash. < ne over. | = ER. | Gale Gils : ae _.. | oo © 5 per cant. | Half keg : ; ot olonel’s Choi i | Soaked ees a oe s0| Yeliog te 13 1 Dew a aan ae | Sa HERBS 3 00| Less thar ee a _ 200 T eee a G COUPON PAS | Hoe Co cu | han bbls. 4c at au 6) Ring Be ee 14 "9 95} Van Camp’ romatoes, . 0) 1c an be made as BOOKS me ie | STARCH e | ictin, as seeeae -14 25 y biaryl a a ; denom eprese | : ce ‘ a Cc : | Ni Na | 2 50 _ aa 1 00 a ination frou 810 do any | Chicago g JELLY. 2 20-lb boxes... orn. Nigger cas re *1) 7 oe famburg - | 50 Oks, down.| | Mason’ 0.2 a3 eee 64 Honey Dew. ceeteseeeecseens “ oO He . .3 8, QE }40Mb eee cies ‘ i a Gallon ... a 8 a ; po Ib 2) and 30Ibs..6 | Lb Gloss. I. OM cae aa 4 ial | coos ah ' = nk SS. e it ahd Warehouse... .. - 325 case BAK Ce ee 3 00 a foe — kages ..... wil) oe ey o seal (2% we . | § Cite anaes 3 % le be ( ++- Kan. error aaa Premium. wer enn a0 | ae sar A UE 655) Sere. LICORICE, Vo HL tats trees cesses ai nele Oy... LO a 4 York St ee ee as oS ure i LLL lS “ ra lade ca alabria. 0 and 50 Ib. b es ae aaa i an aes x ee 5 00 ee oo aot Sa ~aq|S | . . boxes. 72 ee erry... Self i ae ee a 9 | Breakfast © coe ey | 38 | CRACKERS, ae ta | nae oo Harrela ...._._.. r mt (gag bean Pipe.. eee oe iid as ee cease 5 (0 | Amboy CHEESE. , 40 | Seymour SEX @andensed | _. sees 18] Scotch, in a. co tea 4% | Re ic —- Ib. b avn ao“ | | Seymour XXX cartoon. 6 : = d0z.. | Maceaboy, in j re. ‘ | Navy. Sta OXES. ..- eta EL AN = ye | X, car aa 1 2518 oy, in 3 22 +++ BT VY---.-.. See, oe —. | Riverside St ep alae » 1% | a ». <0. toon..... 6% | No.9 aa le vs me ave | 35 | Handma: “a . ae 4 | Alleg 7: te aa t lily ip i. 6 ! : bur...... e, in Jars..... foo aE Wicking. . a laa oe gies Salted oar cartoon. . 6% —— parlor. . Less sees 65 | Boxes SODA. 8 | i -° 7 CANNED sii 25 Brick Saas) dee : = Salted XXX, is oe ccneccee an 6 2 nm home.... i piceeee cud @ Kegs, E nglish.. 4 | eh } 40 gr : VINEGAR. DS, Rdam eee ees bs Pon | Kenosha , cartoon ...... 644 Ixport parior............... 1 10) She | 50 gr Games. Fabareer oe marek | Boston tte ci 74 etait a 4 v0 | Kegs. SAL SODA. | 9 > @1 00 | Butter biscuit ... 7 MINCE ME | D1 aw ¢ Little Neck, 1 ib... Roquefort .... co Butter biscuit ween ee B a Granulated, boxes....... 1% wer ™ barrel. 2 (so -. @3 |S : a 6% Mi jearsasail ew Bulk, per gal IUSTARD, s Clam Chowd 1 yo | Schweitzer ceili ar si B22 | oda, XXX.. a Mixed bird at | Beer mug ea ‘ ‘ ‘ eee 3 1b wder. “ ee: ee Bane re : | Caraway 2 aan 6 nug, 2 doz go a 30 @ ee 2 3 estic ... @25 | Soda, D a Can | betes a Fer —-Com 75 ove Oysters ---2 30 vl @13 «| Cry uchess- aty.....- i ermentt upressed, Standard, 1 Ib ters. Half pint CATSUP. crt Crystal Wafer. Hemp.... 2a | entum p ver doz, cake mu 119] Pint common. .....- go | Keception Flakes. Anise. . oy aes i 4ig per Ib’... kes . 15 ion "2 49 | Quart at Rape . wot tee eee nee ees --- 44) PAPE oe . ou Star, 1 Ib.. sters. Half ts 1:0/S Oyster. oe "11137 | PAPER & if pint io ™ ee a & WwW . Pi a L 2 7 pint, fancy. 3 a 50 | pe : fustard....... En i pe ata ic es re in el i a ae 25 | r aS ol ae | Sere PAPER. : eT. a 3 45 Quart ss aa Shell Oyster. me -.. Sig 14 soe TH | ockfal oo z -: 2 00 werecer-- | on “77° 87? | Sor 6 doz. i | 100 3- id Cr iS. alls . watt teeae ; St Mackerel. at 3 09 | 5sross boxes =... PLNS. al Titer at Fran gaat 3 or 6 doz. in case per doz..1 60 5 ap — viii #2 4 Hee nce ee andard, avo ee ee fer’s Abs coco r sense MOL 68 : :..1 007 2 i ae d~ 40 | ardware ... tee e eee ence ce ie i | ni a 10us [20 141d ec 2 io Dry Goods.. a ——, 3 a foané pac kages soceers @4 | ae ‘jo@is ae ae oe 2 1b eee. LL 2 oo | Jute — ne - Soi 12tO Sauce, 3 Ib. teeeeene er @t | Ordinary a Baking. | 98 Ib. dairy in linen i _ 150) Red E: nilla a) Spaned SW ..3 00 aT ce DRIED FRUITS aw 16 | ee r rags. 50 | Express No. . a Salmon. .8 00 | s. Pri 0 Rico. pe Wars 25 | No. 2 Colum _ salmon. COFFEE a a m rime ......- 56 1b. dairy i arsaw. at NO. 2 ---.-.-- bia River, a precio ago | Sundried Ly —_ — 16 | 28 ib. airy in linen bags | a. otton. — 4% Alaska, 1 1b talls.......-1 75 | Fair Rio. | Evaporated nara MRIBR @ 5% | pai a 2 eo mi ce rece tees scenes sh California Evapot ami at 56 Ib. dai Ashton. 1. ne Te : = | a: _ 16 | Apricots 1ia Evaporated | Gad le 17 . dairy bags. No. {sland a ae . oe “es ” e serene eee ° baad |. i E a ee ae i! on ’ 5 oe American ——— 0} hon aa a e | Blackberries ‘i nl Extra good reeset) 2p | 86 Ib, dairy _ ggins. 75 | No.5 Hemp .. Head ‘ Y48..-..-. | eS REO «3 | Nectarine aol aan 5 de 6 | i ags. lh lc a eu 4s @ 5| Pe Ss ince eee ‘ | mes ... i Fancy ue i 26}. S a ot ce io 4g G9 aberry oes ae | Daaches . anc on | 5 olar 2k o Imported %4 4f a 64@ 7 | ea al arena od | ee ae aa aaie edi 36 6 Ib, sacks.. Roek | Tubs er QOPENWAL Ane ||| 15 11@12 | Fai Santos La ee feeds , ( 1alf barrels, 3c e ob Sagin all 25 ee a Mustard 3 314 | teal a oo Season et I OATM - Be extra Common ne Manistee. of ies No. 7s ' aan ae | yood .. ee | Prune a ‘ae 3arrel MEAL. yer bb1. i — 6 Of me @Ss | Pri ae 16 | 23, sweet. s 2K) 3ALER 90 Pails. 00 Bre Prout. 8 | Prime.... ae wetees | Half i i ma ae ) ERATUS ails, No. 1, 5 x ook, 3 ib...... a ® Peaberry ... - "48 | Turkey PRUNES. O73 ' — 100. : e 5D | « por eee d 60 Ibs, in box 7 oe : two- rut t = FRU iTS, 0 | Mexican and ¢ eae ial 20 Bosnia ce ce eeeces 6 @ 6K Barrels 180 ‘LED OATS ) DeLand’ ‘sae son oo + +7 : 2 iB lothespin 8, 5egr.t oop.... 1 York Stat Apples. Ce nd Guatamala French @ 6% Half oa @4 Tb Dwight’s. veeees es ow is iiinch boxes.... 0 Harsh ef e, gallons | a aoe rt a c 8 90...-...-.. tae roa “<< 30 a mburgh, ‘ ' go Eaten oy PEEL DS oie a e250) ~ ors 30 +5 : 00 u Oe ov i ae a 2 dy EEL. CKLES ss ae oe 9 Lo 1 % Aprie 2 50 | Deas Om emon..... Medium poke 00 ed = é Live oak.... I ots. : eT _.23 | Orange.. oo 18 Barrels, 1,200 dium. Bar Corn . : . = 00 Santa Cruz eee _ 2 25 | Prime ... acaibo. i wg 2 : 18 Half eeenl ; count. ee ae dar rela, i assorted, 178 ana 19 an 2 ves] = alae + 2 25) Milled .........-.... Ls te CITRON, i Se "2 95 Half bbls...... a 93 | Baskets, m Bana 17s and 198 2 = cee 2 50 oe a) | in boxes... . . « GS Barrels, 2.4 Small. Ot. aa , eres ee eees 38 8, arket ' 24 BP ianierricl ont " Java ’ tee oF Half , 2.400 count Fair ane, shipping b _ = FL.& W Blackberries dail acces . [ Zante, i “CURRANTS - _@% alf barrels, 1,200 count... he eeod “: 2 aah ushel.. 1 20 Roast nsdn scot >< cl ial | rivate Grow mewescc was eres a , an barrels ce | i 2 a rece cence 19 “4 I . - Dace | 1rowth -mO a6 a rois.... — a > | Choice ae bust a Bed. Cherrie 99 | Mandebling ...... oe | pee ae Clay, N Sangin ee ae - : willow ¢ ihe Wo. a Pitted He eee ween eee } oe J. oe j in less quan . @ 5 ‘ T. D, a af Gi My EET GOODS i w el’ths. No. ae aeee aur - 1 20 | Initati Moc | E tity @ 5} ‘tal c 1 75 | Ginger sne 8. 5 75 White . ee rere 1 73 | oe ee cha. ' cme 4 ‘alifornia. @ 5% | Cob, No. eae... Be eee ae. aay 8 ‘ if ee ae 1 “ ae = | a" «ayers, 2 er’n co ae de oa | Frosted : a : splint Damso sey eka aa aaa ge A i oe 3% 1 60 RICE | i Creams 8 4 ph ns, Beg Pli —; 1 30] ul ee “s : 1 7% D val | Graham Crack etteees 9% 6 ims ; 4 ROASTE | " faney re ; omestic 1 ¢ yen rackers ¢ Erie Gages. and Green | se, — in oe ot a0 Mus¢ atels, 2 Pegg , 200| arolina head... : | latwibal GLAckOre.._. i eee ey », add 44¢. pasted | ee 1 50 | TT eueed | EL 8416 ao Gooseberries. @1 2% ing and 15 4c. per lb. for rs | oe pga a“ No. ; eae rest cces a | GRAINS = ‘ uJ i Ol “x0 7,2 ° a “ Ww at j | NO. a. La | NS @ EE Common ...... verries, - . TPAC rayon for ee | ¥ alencias Foreign. eo | Broken..... a TEAS. a eee F¥S : a. 1 1 rbuckle’ isi | Ondaras. .-._ ea a JAPAN— No. 1 White (58 It e. Q Pie ...... Peaches. 10 | MeLau vi 5 Ariosa 2 one | Sulta: a ll a eh a 1% | Japan, N enenee. ) Fair . vif —— | No. 1 R hite (58 Ib. test) eee 90@1 Lion ghlin’s XXXX . 203% | — ye @ 8% | ae it. o> pea Zed (60 Ib. test 90 G a ic tne losa.-----20% | paninaczous a¢ @12 | 2, ae eee _- @17 ' ae ) x ee ee i50ly EXTRACT = 20% FARINACEOUS GOODS. Psu-cuongaing Hc 5h | Coie. nesses aaa @2» Bolted... sine " ‘alifornia............. isi City .. pre 4 | 100 Ib. kegs Farina. Dee Ty tee on Gnwiied ! os tote cee Gn? 2 e | S..ee--s | a al WS A 5 | ‘ bt ag i gpa a 2 On Domesti Pears. ee Hominy. _ 4 | Silv SAUERKRAU ig | wevee eee lO Straight, i FLOUR, vio ei is oes” ee we i ummel’s, foil... ' i | Barrels.... ominy. | SLVer Thread Bb. fy | Fair ight, in sacks .. «4 ° Pit ba Seeds .— a eels CRASS si See cates MM i fe Pee =O TNS Patent “ barrels........ o ao lee a is S| ee Sag aS pe eee 8 : Johnson’ . 1 — nets Kitchen, l@hateent 00) 24 ¢ Graham “ 5s ON ell i “ 8 sliced...... 2 an | oe Lk a Ys | Maccaroni and Verm 5Y | Hand 3 doz. in box. ae .32 a4 Hie |“ sacks.... + oo : grated. ..... a CLOTHES 7 oe ne = oa “Bas a ae “ ae = Yommon Quinces. 2 75 | Cotton, 40 ft HES LINES. | Imported....-- ne 55 | SPIo} -. 2 00| Badr... ASKET FIRED. _ Bran nistoeee. || 65 I aiecommmurienaa:, "tn osha me -.-.--. per a on | ra a ag YES. AORN > on Screenings . oo a Red Raspberries. io nn 2 PI tse Barley. 7” aa eS Screenings... Hen anc aS Black H « ‘aa ongratentthst @3% | Whole § | Ext Gy | Mi Wi as os eta = © am! . ‘ ve eas | J e Sif | ra cho: Qa Mixed Fee cee Erie. Hamburg. 130 “ “ 1 = | Green, bu.. S. 4 | siete i ted. ice, ‘wire leaf @h Coarse a | aa 20 00 Sauce kaa a d = Jute “ 490 | ee WE ccs Leith ON mae, China in mats.... 190 | Common sy tame i | “a. lo S . a 90| G et SS a. ee ae, | extra fine to finest... 2s @25 | Cat lots... CORN, +“ 100 | German ... go. bn Saigon in | bund. "35 | Choicest f to finest. ...50 @es Taga ti a Mat Win. cll) loves, aan ects 35 | ancy.......- 75 @85 | an car lots....... 2 estetesesteees Mg | Oe Zanatbar..... oe a poh ae ay £ so 0 | sie memes : — a gi Be eeesee on | a to fine oc 3 @2% | vess than car lots....... --35 ne to cholcest....... % Oss | No. 1 Tih “a 38 oe @os |No.1 er ar lots....12 00 | ‘ 1 lots.. = 90 ‘. OFFICIAL BANK EXAMINATIONS. The gloom which began to overshadow Wall street a month ago, after the light weight operators, who jeered,at my warn- ings of danger, had exhausted their re- in forcing a temporary of prices, and had to confess their mistake, has been deepened during the past week by the bankruptcy of the Maverick Na- tional Bank at Boston. It hat the catastrophe itself has caused any ex- sources rise is not ft tensive losses here, but it has compelled the solvent Boston banks to draw down their balances with our banks, and it has impaired general confidence by showing an ap- parently sound and doing an enormous suddenly how institution in good credit, business, may eollapse and prove to be an empty shell. Above bank examinations as a means of detect- ing hidden financial weaknesses, and as a guarantee of safety against misman- agement and fraud. soon after similar failures of official ex- aminations of the Ninth National Bank, | the American Loan and Trust Company, the Keystone National Bank of Philadel- | phia, and the Kingston Savings Bank, it has excited suspicion as to the real con- dition of the thousands of other institu- tions which have likewise been officially certified to in condition, which, it is now seen, may none the less be insolvent. The United States Comptroller of the Currency been and with some reason, for his remissness in allowing the Maverick Bank to go on and incur new obligations after it had be good but has severely criticised, been reported to him to be unworthy of | ease of the credit. As in the similar Keystone National Bank, he may have been influenced by a natural reluctance to precipitate the ruin of a tottering in- | stitution, so long as a chance remained of restoring it to soundness. Any pre- cautionary measure which he might have taken would have been noised abroad, and thus would of itself have caused the erash it was intended to avert. Or, per- sonal influence with his official superior may have been brought to bear on him, as it seems to have been in respect of the Keystone Bank, to stay his hand and de- | lay his action. Whatever be the explanation of it, his course has been shown by events to have been detriment- al to the public interest. I should be glad to use these instances of the failure of supervision to prevent loss to itors by bank failures, as an argument | of under | in favor of the replacement national banks by State banks State guardianship, which, I vinced, destined to take place soon as the extinguishment of the na- tional debt shall put an end to the prof- itable issue of national bank which now makes the national so much preferred to the State system. Unfort- unately bank failures I have mentioned demonstrate that State officials to be relied upon than those of the Federal Government. and that the inefficiency of the one class is about equal to that of the other. The American Loan and Trust Company had to put up its shutters because of insolven- cy only a few weeks after our State Bank Examiners had passed it as perfectly sound, and the Kingston Savings Bank went into the hands of a receiver in con- sequence of a robbery by its own officers, which had escaped detection by State am is currency, two of the other are bo more all, | it has weakened people’s faith in official | Coming, as it did, so | true | two | Federal | depos- | con- | as | aa examination over and over again, and same to light only by accident. I may, indeed, justly claim that the State offi- cials are not less efficient than those act- ing under Federal authority, but I must admit that they are not more so. A man cause he is sent from Albany instead of from Washington to investigate the con- dition of a financial institution, and the title he bears makes no difference in the Only the State ex- |aminers, who were deceived by the offi- of the Trust Company and Kingston Savings the United States the Curreney, charged | with willful violation of their duty, and in that value of his labors. cers American Loan and of the Bank, are not, like Comptroller of respect stand better in public esteem. Aside from bad faith and the suppres- of I think | official bank examiners are not always to | sion damaging discoveries, be blamed because they fail to announce the impending insolvency of an institu- tion. In most cases its collapse is due to the to the frauds of its active managers, and they use every art blunders or to conceal its true condition and to make a good showing of its affairs. How easily |this can be familiar with | the knows full well. | An official examiner is not usually a man } done anyone banking business of universal information, and cannot be expected to know the exact value of every note or acceptance, every bond, land ev ery kind of stock in existence. If the investments and the collaterals sub- mitted to him asthe assets of the con- jcern he is examining are good on their face and | which suspicions, he must necessarily approve them. year no features arouse An investigating committee of bank the House appoints, indeed, if they will take the time and trouble, go over a bank’s portfolios experienced officers, such as Clearing occasionally | may, and envelopes, and arrive at something like a correct of the of their Yet, when this was done the other day in Boston with the Maverick Bank, its President protested that the committee | came to its unfavorable conclusion in the estimate character contents. most energetically most rough and ready way, and failed to do his bank He said that they | ealled everything bad which they did not justice. iknow to be good, and then knocked 20 | per cent. off the face of the remainder to They could safely act thus, because they were not to allow for possible depreciation. responsible to anybody but them- selves for the consequences, but if offi- cial examiners were to pursue the same course they would not long be permitted to retain their places. The way in which writers for the press and many people in conversation discuss this subject betrays an ignorance in re- gard to it whieh is not surprising, and yetis very amusing. They assume that any man able to add up a column of figures can go into a bank ora trust com- pany and determine its condition froma mere inspection of its books and records. They forget the familiar fact that figures can be made to prove anything, and that, made to prove solvency when it is in the interest to do so of A always be especially, they can be those who manipulate them. balance on the right side can created by exaggerating the that side and opposite side. items on dimishing those on the Over and over again have | instances occurred where such false bal- ' ances have been carried along for years MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | robbed of is neither more nor Jess competent be- | by defaulting cashiers, teilers and book- keepers without detection by directors, or even by presidents. Some thirty or forty years ago, the City Bank, when Mr. Moses Taylor about was its President, was $400,000 by a dishonest receiving teller, and he was not found | out until months afterward. Talking | upon the subject with one of the directors | of the bank, who was a personal friend of mine, | asked how the culprit man- | aged to conceal so long the abstraction | The explanation was | of so large a sum. very simple. The bank’s aggregate de- posits amounted to millions, and its daily deposits were many hundreds of thou- dollars. The thief took his plunder out of the deposits as they came in, and delayed to enter them on the bank’s books until the next day, when fresh deposits had filled the vacuum. The dealers’ pass books, if they had all been called in at once and written up, would have revealed the defalcation, but, as everyone knows, this is never done unless the bank is going into liquidation. The suppressed entries in the bank’s own books being equal in amount to the money abstracted, the bank’s cash was sands of | | | always right, and thus nothing was sus- pected to be wrong. How the exposure came about finally I do not exactly re- member, but it not by anything shown on the bank’s books. If, now, s« shrewd and sharp-sighted a man as Mr. Taylor could be thus hoodwinked, what chance has a mere accountant, who can was be hired for a salary of a few hundred a year? The City Bank fortunately pulled through, and soon made up its loss in this instance, but, supposing it had been forced by it into bankruptcy, could an official examiner, who had certified to its shortly before, have justly condemned as inefficient? soundness been The methods of covering up losses and peculations are numberless, and, as ex- perience proves, they have been employed with great success. of currency, empty dorsements Dummy packages envelopes with en- on them of imaginary con- tents, forged or bogus notes and accept- ances, handsomely printed but worthless bonds and stock certificates, false debits against solvent customers, and omitted debits against those who are insolvent, all these devices have one after another been detected and exposed, and yet con- tinue to be used. Not only corporations, but private firms may thus be depleted until they are insolvent without any- body’s knowing it. One firm, I have heard lately, was robbed of some $500,000 by a dishonest salesman working in col- lusion with a dishonest book-keeper. He collected the proceeds, and as the transactions were not record- ed he and the bookkeeper divided the money with impunity between them. sold goods and The upshot of the whole matter is that official examinations cannot be relied on absolutely to protect either the creditors or the of corporations against dishonest man- | agement. Still, they are useful to the | extent that the fear of them keeps rogues stockholders improvident or of only ordinary skill in check, and com- | pels those who are extraordinarily skill- | ful to resort to very troublesome methods On this ac- they are to be reckoned useful, and may be maintained as a safeguard, | not, indeed, perfect, but good as far as | it goes. MATTHEW MARSHALL. 2 Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. to conceal their misdeeds. count Holiday and - Our Complete Fall Line of | Iwill pay hant handling this line of goods | to examine our samples. Will be ready September 10th | every mere | EATON, LYON & CO., 20 & 22 Monroe St., | GRAND RAPIDS, EL M. REYNOLDS & SON, MICH. Nee uy if . Tar and Gravel Roofers, And dealers in Tarred Felt, Building Paper, Pitch, Coal Tar, Asphaltum, Rosin, Mineral Wool, Ete. Corner Louis and Campau Sts., GRAND RAPIDS. _ 'G. R. MAYHEW, JOBBER OF Wales Goodyear Robbers, Woonsocket Rubbers, Felt Boots & Avaska SOCKS. Whitcomb & Paine’s Calf Boots, Write for Prices. { POU NATIONAL BANK A. J. BOWNE, President. D. A. « peEeTT, Vice-President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier CAPITAL, - $300,CO00. Transacts a general banking business. Makes Specialty of Collections. Accounte of Country Merchants Solicited. Ought to Send At Once For Sample Sheet and Prices, Of Ledgers and Journals bound with the back. Made, aN sah Philad: Iphia Pat, Flat openin The Strongest Blank Book Eve- Fae)" ea Lees Ze Tait a GRAND RAPIDS, MICH THE GROCER’S TYPEWRITER. Written for THE TRADESMAN. The grocer had decided to invest in a typewriter, and the crowd which habitu- ally frequented his establishment on win- ter evenings had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the machine. It was to be the first of the sort at Elm Flats, and great was the curiosity concerning it. Mr. Stebbins had exhibited specimens of typewritten matter executed on ma- chines of the same make and had excited considerable wonderment thereby. The prevailing idea seemed to be that a type- writer was an arrangement something like a printer’s case and that the opera- tor chose the desired type, dabbed it on an ink pad and then stamped it on the paper at the given point. This im- pression received 2 set-back, however, when Mr. Stebbins showed up a picture of the instrument, and it was then and there decided that the types were fas tened to the lower ends of the keys and that these letters punched directly down upon the sheet to be printed. Stebbins thought in a general way that there might be some mistake about this; but, as he had no very clear ideas con- cerning it, he did what many another man had done before him—he looked very wise and said very little. At length the machine arrived, and a large concourse of loafers was present to witness the opening ceremonies. The box which contained the instrument was decorated with an unusually large num- ber of warning legends, of which ‘‘This side up,” ‘‘Glass,” ‘‘Handle Carefully,” “Take out these screws,” and ‘‘Open with extreme caution’’ were, perhaps, the most prominent. Those present viewed the package with becoming and satisfactory signs of awe, so, at length, after being urged to “Open her up,’’? Stebbins approached, armed with aletter of instructions in one hand anda screwdriver in the other, while the crowd pushed excitedly forward and held its breath in suspense. With painful and ostentatious care the screws were slowly removed, the in- structions being frequently consulted the while, and impatient importunities to hasten were answered by Stebbins with such old saws as: ‘‘Make haste slowly,”’ and ‘*The longest way around is the shortest way across.’’ At last, the cover of the box came off, and out tumbled a wad of excelsior and a few pieces old of newspapers. Jake Hodges grabbed a handful of the packing that protruded from the box, and yanked it out. | another pause. |lived inter thish yer scrabble juggered In so doing the bell ringer was | touched, and a little tinkling sound en- sued. “Great Jeewhillikens!” he howled, as he danced away from its vicinity. ‘The thing’s alive. Do it bite?’’ But at last the machine was unpacked and brought to light in allits grandeur of black varnish and gold trimmings. For afew moments it was an object of deep and almost sacred regard. Then the oldest inhabitant stepped slowly for- ward, peered curiously all around the instrument, touched the keys gingerly with his palsied hands, and finally asked in a peevish tone: ‘“‘Waal, Stebbins, whair be the crank?’’ ‘““‘What crank?’’ “Why, the crank tew turn the bloody thing ’ith, in course.”’ ‘“*Why, there hain’t no crank,” replied Stebbins, with ungrammatical asperity. “No crank?’’ repeated the oldest, in unaffeeted dismay. ‘‘No-o cr-a-a-ank? Hain’t the’ railly n-o ¢-r-a-n-k?”’ “No, of course not.’’ ‘Waal, by gum!’? And the old man’s exclamation carried with it the idea of blasted hopes, and withered aspirations, and the moaning of bleak winds through winter’s leafless boughs. Then he moved his bowed head slowly from side to side for a few moments, and faintly mur- mured: ‘‘T-h-e w-a-’n-’t n-o ¢-r-a-n-k.” But, struck suddenly with a thought, he exclaimed: ‘‘Ef the’ hain’t no crank, Stebbings,then where the glittering brick bats d’ye git your paower?”’ “Don’t need any. Goes without.” “No paower!” pause, ‘‘and no crank?’ “Wall, by whang! I’ve ole taown fer more’n thirty years, an’ bung my turnips ef this hain’t the fust mersheen I ever seed that didn’t take sompen er ruther ter run it. [I’m goin’ home, en ef enny o’ yaou kids don’t see nothin’ o’ me fer th’ nex’ fo’t ni’t, ye jes’ wanter cal’late ’t the yarth’s tooken a spurt ahead o’ yer Uncle Dan’l, an’ ’t one more played out oc-to-ge-na-ri-an hath crawled inter his last sad restin’ place, an’ hauled the hole in arter him. A-joo.” ‘Don’t you intend to start her a goin’, Squire?” asked Jake, after the ripple of mirth caused by the foregoing speech had subsided. ‘‘Speed her up a little and show off some of her good p’ints.”’ Stebbins was rather fearful to make the initial trial of the machine in public; but, being thus adjured, he inserted a piece of paper between the rollers of the instrument, carefully following direc- * * * * * tions, and when he was quite sure that all was right, he struck the letter ‘‘s.’’ Then he lifted the carriage to note re- sults, and the panting crowd surged around him with expectant faces and staring eyes. And when a chorus of Oh’s and Ah’s greeted his ears, he knew that the result was regarded as a success, and that his machine had made the hit of the season at Elm Flats. Henceforth the butcher could not gloat over him from his new buggy, and the bicycle of the opposing grocer would win for its owner but a passing glance. At that memorable moment the value of the Stebbins typewriter was beyond estimate. “Write something,’’ suggested the ever irrepressible Jake; and the Squire, with that vanity common to mankind, finished the word which he had begun when he inscribed the initial ‘‘s.’”’ Show me the man who did not celebrate the purchase of his first typewriter by printing his own name with it at the earliest oppor- tunity, and I will show you aman with a family scandal; I will point out to you aman who will rob his neighbor’s chick- en roost, and I will lay the finger of scorn upon one who is dyed deeper with the dark stains of crime and depravity than the average tramp printer. Steb- bins wrote his name. The result was fairly successful. To be sure, some of the letters did not show up very well, while others punched through the paper to an alarming extent, and then the word was not capitalized; but these were matters which could be mended in time with practice, and Steb- bins smiled self-complacently at his work, and, glancing proudly at guests, read in their faces the admiration and astonishment which were his due. But Jake was still unsatisfied. ‘“‘Write something else,’’ said he, ‘‘and put in the capitals and all the funny marks. I wanter see how she spells.”’ As Stebbins was beginning to gain con- fidence in himself and his machine, he settled down to and boldly struck out on the following: “WH3n inTheco UrSS of HUMaN events 1TBecom!ss NeDssa4y FORone pePLE (3 5833 523@ 59 915 349@@9; giVE us Arest.” Mr. Stebbins, becoming somewhat ner- vous in his slow search for the proper letters on a keyboard with which he was unfamiliar, had inadvertently latched the wrong shift key. There was sub- dued mirth when the operator lifted the carriage and exposed the results of his work; but the Elm Flatters went home his business ADESMAN. _ 15 well pleased with their evening’s enter- tainment, and thoroughly embued with the idea that the typewriter is, indeed, a great invention. Gro. L. THursTon. —_-——- 7 A GREAT MAGAZINE. The Century’s Programme in 1892--A New “‘Life of Columbus’’--Articles for Farmers, Etc. That great American periodical, The Century, is going to outdo its own un- rivaled record in its programme for 1892, and as many of its new features begin with the November number, new readers should commence with that issue. In this number are the opening’ chap- ters of “THe NAULAHEA,” a novel by Rudyard Kipling, the famous author of ‘‘Plain Tales from the Hills,’’ written in colaboration with an American writer, Wolcott Balestier. Itis the story of a young man and a young woman from a ‘‘booming’’ Colorado town, who go to India, he in search of a wonderful jeweled necklace, called ‘‘the Naulahka” (from which the story takes its name), and she asa physscian to women. The novel describes their remarkable adven- tures at the court of an Indian maharajah. Besides this, The Century will print three other novels during the year, and a great number of short stories by the best American story-writers. The well-known humorist Edgar W. Nye (‘‘Bill Nye”) is to write a series of amusing sketches which he calls his ‘‘autobiographies,’’ the first one of which, “The Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace,” is in November. This number also contains a valuable and suggestive article on ‘‘The Food-Supply of the Future,” which every farmer should read, to be followed by a number of others OF GREAT PRACTICAL VALUE TO FARMERS, treating especially of the relations of the Government to the farmer, what it is doing and what it should do. The series will inelude contributions from officers of the Department of Agriculture, and other well-known men will discuss ‘*The Farmer’s Discontent,” ‘*Co-operation,”’ etc., etc. A celebrated Spanish writer is to fur- nish a ‘‘Life of Columbus,” which will be brilliantly illustrated, and the pub- lishers of The Century have arranged with the managers of the World’s Fair to print articles on the buildings, ete. One of the novels to appear in 1892 is A Story oF New York LIFE by the author of ‘‘The Anglomaniaes,” and the magazine will contain a great deal about the metropolit during the year among other things a ieries of articles on ‘*The Jews in New York.” In November is an illustrated description of ‘*The Players’ Club,” founded: by Edwin Booth, and one of the splendidly illustrated Christmas (December) number is an arti- cle on **The Bowery.”’ To get The Century send yearly sub- scription price ($4.00) to The Century Co., Union Square, New York, N. Y. et A Tse Tradesman Coupon Books. Don’t Overlook the Fact That FERMENT U IS THE ONLY RELIABLE COMPRESSED YEAST. AND THAT L. WINTERNITZ, 106 Kent St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Is State Agent for same. Local agents wanted in every city and town where our Yeast is not yet represented. For samples and terms address as above. font iantat Sieh dasii Seeereth woo ea Sekt, binlrers Driceweatidblinsecn tS bareback als debi Dramle dle prio Raet wae Be ae tah men gen sem: etl nah ae enn ar po 2 ae a THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The Recent Decision on Price-Regulat- ing Combinations. Written for THe TRADESMAN. All honor to Me‘trath, Morse and Champlin, of the Michigan Supreme Court, for the high judicial grounds taken in rendering the decision in Daniel and Edwin Lovejoy vs. Jacob Michaels! This decision establishes a precedent for the future guidance of all commercial trusts, organizations and combinations in the matter of fixing and maintaining prices. This important and heretofore open question as to whether tradesmen have a lawful right to combine and establish prices for their mutual protection and benefit has been negatively decided by our Supreme Court and its legality is, therefore, no longer debatable. The writer has always entertained the opin- ion that any organized effort to fix and maintain prices was unlawful, as being opposed to public policy; and, serving a subordinate B. M. A. as its president, he discouraved and opposed’ every move on the part of its members which pointed in the direction of fixing prices. Some of our grocer members were very desirous of springing the mat- ter on our Association and never seemed to feel just satisfied because their wishes were not acted upon. The members who demanded action of this kind were small, weak dealers, and, lacking the necessary capital, or business qualifications, they felt the need of protection uf this kind to save them from the ruinous competi- tion which the superior advantages pos- sessed by their rivals made possible. Competition, in these times, is fierce and bitter,yet it is now,as it always has been, the life of trade. ‘‘The survival of the fit- test’? is a law of nature, and, like all while natural laws, it cannot be repealed or | amended, and every attempt to neutral- ize its free and untrammeled action but | adds to the burdens of human existence. The prices of all supplies which are re- | quired for the sustenance of the people shou]d be subject at all times to the free action of the great law of supply and de- mand, and any agency brought to bear which tends to interfere with free, open, healthy competition, or to prevent the complete operation of the law of supply and demand, is subversive of the best interests of humanity and opposed to public policy. The state, therefore, has a duty to perform in throttling these un- lawful agencies before they take root and secure privileges which would, in time, develop into vested rights. Judges Grant and Long held the opin- ion that a combination toestablish prices was not unlawful unless the prices es- tablished should prove to be unreasona- ble and exorbitant. This is a dangerous doctrine and our prosperous State is to be congratulated that it did not prevail in her court of last resort. What tribu- nal would be able to decide whether the price fixed by any certain trust or com- WHOLES Aut, & 2 bination was exorbitant or not? Does it not seem perfectly clear to the mind of every reader of THr TRADESMAN that, whereas, the price of any certain article must depend upon the cost of production; and, whereas, the cost of production de- pends to a considerable extent upon the efficiency of the skill and the amouut of capital thrown into the business —it would, therefore, simply be impossible to establish a price which would be reason- able and fair all around? Fix it where it would be fair and reasonable for the members of the combination who are operating (through a lack of skill, capi- tal, etc.) at a disadvantage, and it is self evident that the big fish in the puddle would be receiving exorbitant prices. On the other hand, fix it at a reasonable margin of profit for the large concerns, and the little fish would be compelled to play the Jonah act. The labor trusts and combinations make the same blunder and show the same unnatural short-sightedness when they undertake to establish and main- tain the price of wages. Two great wrongs are committed by the labor union trust—first, employers are forced to pay incompetent men more than they can earn; secondly, skilled and competent labor does not receive what it is enti- tled to. The labor union combines for the purpose of establishing and main- taining prices, as applied to labor; and, in effect, it interferes with the law of supply and demand and opposes public policy. It is just as unlawful as any other combination created for the pur- pose of regulatng prices and ought to be branded accordingly, which wil! be the case, no doubt, when the first test ease is carried to the Supreme Court. A precedent has been established, at a time when most needed, which will have. a tendency to check the greed and cur- | tail the swineishness of the rapidly in- | creasing trusts, unions and other unlaw- ful combinations. E. A. OWEN. ~pm 3 15am | E. Saginaw..Ar/11 luam| 3(0pm! 8 40pm! § 45am Bay City .....Ar/11 50am| 345pm) 9 2upm/ 7.:0am Flint ........Arj1110am| 3.40pm) 80: pm} 5 am Pt. Horon...Ar 3 05pm] 6 00pm }10 20pm! 7 Pontiac ......Ar 10 Svam| 3 05pro} 8 55pm Detroit. ......Arj11 5:am] 4 05pm! 9 50pm| +No. 11 |tNo. 13 Gd Rapids, iLy........ 1 otaven, Ay......,. Milw’kee Str \ Chicago Str. te iw eke : é 1 80pm | 5 10pm 8 50am 2 15pm} 6 15pm *Daily. +Ds Lily ‘except Su nda ay. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 5:00 p.m. and 10:25 p, m. Trains arrive from the west, p.m. and 9:50 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner car. No. 18 Chair Car. No. 8 Wagner Sleeper, Westward— No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner r arlor Buffetear, Joun W. Locp, Trattie — lager, BEN FLETCHER, Tra ass. Agent, Jas. CAMPBELL, Cit Tie ket Agent. "23 Monroe Street, CHICAGO & W EST MICHIG. AN RY. DEPART FOR 12:50 p. m., 10:10 a, m., 3:35 Parlcr Buffet NOV. 15, 1891. Chicago . Indianapolis ... Benton Harbor.. Bt. doeemh....... Traverse City. Muskegon...... Manistee ea ioe Ieee i. cs Big Re apids... *Daily. only. Q “()() A. M. has through chair car to Chiea- e ot go. Noextra charge for seats, §Except Saturd: iy. Other trains week "5 P. M. runs through to € maeJed with Wagner buffet c ~ ey P.M. has through free chair e 5:17 Manistee, viaM. & N. E.R.R 7 ~ 11:35 : -.go solid sea s 50 cts, car to eee e P. M. is solid train with Wagner pal- ace sleeping car through te o Chicago. and sleeper to Indianapolis via Ben ton Harbor. DETROIT, ay. Oe Laneine & Northern R ht DEPART FOR A a. 1 P.M, - a Detroit. ay Lansing. bebe eee sa ca cu Howell. Lowell. Alma. ie St. Louis. — Saginaw Cit 7:15 A - runs through | to Detroit 3 W ith par- ) lor car; seats 25 cents. 1 ‘0 ‘ten through Parlor ear to De- vot. Seats, 25 cents. . Tuns through to Detroit with par D "45 F he = r, seats 25 cents. < F:05 A. M. has parlor car to Saginaw, seats ° o 25 cents. For tickets and information apply at Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or | nion station, GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen, Pass’r Agt. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway. In connection with the Detroit, L ansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Hayen & Milwauk ; offers a route making the best time betwe Grand Rapids and Toledo, VIA D., t. & i. Ly. Grand R weomeing hele 7:25 a -m. and 6:25 p. m. Ar. Toledo at . ee io p. m. and 11 200 p.m, VIA D., G. H. & M, Ly. Grand Rapids at..... - 50 a, m. and 3:45 p.m, Ar. Toledo at. :10 p. m. and 11:00 p,m, Return connections asi as good. W. :H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio, eet wR He in sR hy - —_—— > i SX See Menday’s and Saturday’s Detroit Evening News fer further Particulars. $100 GIVEN AWAY Te the Smokers of the PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS. Te the guessing the nearest to the number of Imps that will appear ina series of cuts in the Evening News, cuts not to exceed 100, ist Cash Prize, $50; 2d, $25; 3d, 15; 4th, $10. Guess slips to be had with every 5c. wk of PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS. So fa Every where. Up to date there has been published 23 cuts, with a total of 303 Imps. MANUFACTURED BY ALEX. GORDON, Detroit, Mion. DANIEL LYNCH, Grand Rapids, ee Wholesale Agt. 3 yowAdlda J gy al rae lay a ee ANYTHING That will help a man in his business ought to be of vital importance to him. Many a successful mer- chant has found when TOO LATE That he has allowed his money to leak away. -Money-ar t take care of [tself. 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 merean- tile business, adopt one of the Coupon Gystems Manufactured in our establishment— “Tradesman,” ‘“ Super- ior” or “ Universal ”’— and put your business on a cash basis. For Samples and Price List, address TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Bolts Wanted? I want 500 to 1,000 cords of Poplar Excel- sior Bolts, 18, 36 and 54 imches long. I also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths as above. For particule~s address J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich. TE Grand Ravids Storage & Transfer Co, vine Winter St, between Shawmut Ave. and W. Fulton st, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. General Warehovsemen and Transfer Agents COLD STORAGE FOR BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, FRUITS, ALL KINDS OF PERISHABLES. AND 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. J. Y. F. BLAEE, Sup't. Delectable! We have made arrangements whereby we have secured the exclu- sive sale in Michigan of the famous heat one Oysters which have never before been sold in the State. On account of their superior quality and delicious flavor they were, heretofore, invariably eaten by epicures in the East, but we, ever on the alert to place the best ‘before our patrons, beg to assure them that when they buy the P. & B. brand they will get genuine Cherrystone Oysters, everywhere in the East considered to be “par excellence.” Positively the fattest, plumpest, sweetest, most tempting article of its kind to be obtained anywhere. Order P. & B.s through any Grand Rapids jobber or of us direct. THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. The Largest Stock of Ladies’, Misses’, Children’s and Infants’ —-CLOAKS- ever seen under one roof is at MORSE'S Cor. Monroe & Spring Sts. Siegel's Cloak Department Send for our Price List. To Dealers in Wa TI T Papers: Our representative will call on you soon with a complete line of Wall Pa- pers at Manufacturers’ Prices. Wait Telephone No. 945. | | } { until you see our line as we can save you money. HARVEY & HEYSTEK Grand Rapids, Mich. Monroe, Ottawa and Fountain Sts., ay ts tgs ws dian iinet nt saes LN OEE AES if" My Y), , s Yj, iy Ce YY Wf x eH YY Vi iia : Wily, YD) Ly Yi) Wy Uy Uy GY YL tye, Wii Wii, Lif yl" le Ypy, MyM!” Cf y 7 Uy j Ui) UY, iif Y YE Yy," YM jj! ‘ti Y} ‘ Shy, UA 3 ae bya YY — Yfy Uy, 4 Yj Mh If Yy YP Wy iff re), Ve X///; Uf 1 is. Yi) Uy UT A, M Y tu 4 I 4 Wy iy “ MM i Ui! ly y Tian Vm Yi y YW SU) OLE LTT DT Netige GP FO ah oS oS i yy) RANE 2. LEONARD & SONGS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We cordially invite you to call and inspect our line of Holiday Goods, which was never so complete as now. But, if for any reason you cannot come, we will be pleased.to ship any of the following assortments. Assorted Package of Holiday Goods. | Assorted Package of Tin Toys. | Our 10 Cent Counter " 11 oz. GO Foot clothes lines... ic... 85 NO. J KR 1891. UD , rt Peer BOWOer Fas... le eet 70 | T ** SOS GneWr S6PANS S4 1 PR pager Sees Ss i “ Soap savers, wire with band'e..:.... oe So 1 O-wite POUMO MASNOTS,.....:.:....--..... SO 11 BUG OTesS CEP WhIhS. oe ae 65 i.“ daree zinc machine ollers......... oe i. © Betes FO DOMME kk se 60 1 Bieck hand!) Whisk brooms..........:... 34 1 Acme butter ladies... ........... 1 pas: j1 Individual butter molds, assorted......... 70 (tog Rite Ane TOre HOKCS, se 1D \1 Assorted Dird cage DWIES:. 2. -...-. ss - iD iJ Bariow Heckel knives... :-4 a... o a oe 1 13-in.. round embossed trays.............- 62 56. °* Bagh, 0 0 Goes poss. 6 ll... oe 38 f Gor. SO Beet Ore i “| Crown emigorsed Wks... 66 oe. 6k. 85 [ - ioe Sant eee... dapahed Gust pans............. 30..... 40 : a2 Site ROTse CAPS... 2h ieee Winpers........ 2... Oboe acs 32 < , a / : Hi 7 ** 3 horde Of WHOGIS:.. 660. 6k es 9 OO STevy Siteimers.:.. 2... st. Teas ce 35 1-3 doz. Vases dec. Crystal with flowers ete 90 30), «& 400] 10 engine and train............ Ba Be teks orator) al Sa, 44 1 ‘ ‘* bright silvered and gilt glas:, 85 Se ate A A a 1 20 20734 OO MAG PIE. Tos. 38 ; ic ass’ td new styles, deco’d.....1 15 Sila. + 137 ast wagon and barse.. 22. ..... 1 25 62/15 ** 29 a Se Bie. 33 $ Bohemian. dec. fancy top... .2 50 l a ig) 400 | tics 3 00 1 00136 * S-inch milk strainers. 6.0.65... ae 39 a a Ruby, gold and sapphire col .2 50 1 29) 47 «+ 9431 | 1 mech. express wagon...... 1% sett A Reb ees OR i ae 68 1-6 ** rich fancy baskets, mottled col..... 475 79/46 9431 |5 mech. lady in carriage......3 00 50|1 ‘* 3-qt. pudding pams..................+-.-. 58 Se ig new fancy shade.6 75 1 06/1 « 6199156 bell toy wagon............ 150 Wik St. Having pale ee Se, 2 , mottied..........2 50 84/4” « 65 steam engine.................-.- 295 white Sat ieovened pate oy... ee 36 a . pink tints ----5 00 84/4 « 4 trotting horses........ ee 200 67136 * 014 retinned sauce pans... ....- ey 39 Be AE szeye teahaiar ania db chon eestncciglg eae ooen te .. = eet Wc tees, «on ede a. ig + te okies. ee, Mei. 38 i | Lg i — i Cae i cl . " 1-6‘ asst animal bell MOVE. 45000501. «= 10 BO ise ** Wee Fie SIPs ol. ce. oo... so. 45 2 China dec. cream pitchers ......... 2.25 115)4- « g kitehen and furniture ............ A> OTE SS Dee ee ciebee oe 46 1g * spoon holders, dec. china, flowers..2 25 1 12) 47 S “s ee CE ne as 1 ‘* ass’td col. child’s mugs...-.--..... Ml OS “ al ER 175 4471 70 rubber pocket match safes............. 65 1 ‘* china dec. mugs, flowers, etc....... _ rai) ly OG 1 2'¢ PaNRGS..-. 5... 2 00 1 06)j1 2000--S8 rubber dressing combs..........- is eS ae PN CT nt ve es oe) ora Oe Rema 7511 166 crochet set, 5 pieces and mirror....... re 2 child’s mugs richly dec. china ..-..1 50 75), « a BC tin rattles................... 18 |1 3875 Perfume ylang ylang..............-- 95 —a——S So, —~. garni bs °*}1 toy dust pans asst colors............ 36 11 Patent oval tobaceo bores. ......... .-:.. 75 ¥i ei 3 x ee er ae One PORES SSit *} (eather apectacinvcases. 60 decoration .--------- ee re ‘a ; ———|1 ‘* Pinking irons, assorted sizes........ co ees 1¢ doz. china bread and milk sets, ass’td Se $13 55/1 “ Double tracing wheels................... 90 Gower Geeoration....-.-..-... Se 60 Keer Je) li 4. Wats See oes ee as St i¢ doz. china bread and milk sets, rich | 14 180-10 harmonicas Cae 80 flower decorations............- 11. a ft eo ] etal san hg ea SG NG EE ci 1-6 doz. bread and milk sets, blue and bwn.4 50 = 75 »/ : “6 rae —— om Dice io ao rate 4 syle a : C “+ _ase'td cols. ove = = 1 Assorted colored goggles in tin boxes..... 72 2 blue willow plate sets..----..-.--. eS Le eh Ok HANNE. co sk hk. 63 * china ass'td = * oe pipe ops Z Lo) Saaes tom Grmebes oe oi 55 vv S cS Bye ares, — dec...... on 1 aa ni 1 ‘** 260 twine bound barbers’ lather brushes... 80 ‘* printed teas, 3 COlOrs...........+.. 2 = ba : ah : “ ehild’s “ ehipa, asetd deco... .-- 90 Assorted Package. “s mai ae kaos aaoe ai se a a ai ean * +g ‘* open coffees china, 6 styles deco....2 25 1 12 NO. 1891 CUPS AND SAUCERS. 1 ‘ Gem hat or coat racks.............-....-- 65 4% ‘* moustache coffees, china, 6 styles 1 doz. child’s teas, 3 colors, printed....... S570 56) Soles towel PO ud sada wine Cue 87 SOROEREIIIS => 00 => = 9s v8 pmo 00 == ee in *« decor. china............ Le Oe Cae tute ay lod, 90 Lg doz. open coffees, china, 6 styles dec. oe 2a. AS) ok open coffees, dec. china, 3 col.... .2 00 1 00/1 « Rush hand bags Ot ee eae — 45 ** moustache coffees, china, 6 l’dscape ae ‘6 ‘6 fancy decor.....-..... 925 1121) « Boxes 4 bright picture wires,25 ft. ina box, 80 aneretien --.-----~ += +>->+ -----< =< +7 OE ** gold hal, Hower decor...2 60° °° 0 iy ** aye hatehetee ee a 1¢ doz. moustache coffees, china, 6 dec.....3 50 175) a “ ‘fancy shape, asst. deco..8 50 88/1 « Acme shoe dressing 90 1g“ open coffees china, 3 col. dec.......3 25 1 62 1-6 & “ “ “ “ “ 06) S8la a LePages glue.... eer ee see de ae : “* gold hdl, asst dec.4 40 2 20/14 « a ‘** gold decoration........ SOO Gly «Gel ey en. . 5 es cae: 65 a | a eee eS a es “wet =. gh....5 9 Mit | gp eps. i... os. tl 58 5 ~ 3 a a ere a ae : =* aire“ ‘« Jaidies’ teas, solid color...... Ce 2 O80 SNL RE uel 65 Re Bs Neate er 5 75 1 Si)i¢ « moustache dec. china coffees....... oe. t is * Oh eee Nees... cc 5 +s... 75 i ‘* -bisque match safes, asst colors..... 1 15 1-6“ bs “ 46 es 3 00 iss bie eee eee 62 BF a. 1 “ * ~ Age se Sf beens 400 66/1 “ 10 pound spring balances................ 78 " toys, asst shapes and colors........ ae . ee eat 6 00 100/) 9% Scandinavian locks, 2 keys............. 5 S43 32 13 oF - . Me-imen forged dasting spoons .<.../-..... 65 . 29 ore Se GRUMOIS os eb ew ba ee see 72 Re Ee SORE. CONTENT. = «+b e822 > * hist 10 per cent. discount...........--.--- 1 2211 * Sensible can openers.................. a as oe ia Lk c ICUR BRINGS ek eke ee een ib =e vd $11 05/14 ** gx10 iron drip pans............ eas 35 PRG ai 24 on no noe co ndnenrssges sessed s = Package KEGEL Ss be 0k ge oan so be Ws oa eee ote 25 1 *‘* 1086 key a 80 - < $11 30 $50.00