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SDAY,

NOVEMBER
AGNES STIRLING.

A Tale of the Texas Frontier.

‘A bill for the relief of Robert Stirling
and his men.” I was leaning over the
ladies’ gallery of the Texas Senate Cham-
ber when I heard these words, and saw
the change they instantly produced over
a somewhat indifferent and uninterested
;}house. Hnnuwi kindled into enthusiasm,
'and debate merged into eulogium, so that
the bill was finally passed almost by ae-
clamation.

I heard enough to make me intensely
curious, and it was, no small
pleasure to learn that a party of sum-
mer tourists, in which I
were to be the

therefore,

included,
of the

was
first bearers news
to the old man.

His cottage stood on the outskirts of a
large cedar brake. It wasin the usual
Texas order of architecture—two large
rooms, with a wide between
The logs had never been painted

passage
them.

covered it with an almost supernatural
loveliness.

Calm and peaceful it looked without,
and yet within the greatest of all strug-
gles was going on—the struggle of the
Eternal out of Time. That it had been a
hard one, tobert Stirling’s
quite evident. ‘‘Many

in ease, was

and evil days”

the confirmation in a scarred and
rowful face, full of gray old miseries.

SOF-

berry-trees.

tience for the end sure to come. And
when the sun dropped below the horizon
their watch was over. They knew it
when they saw their captain’s only child

with dry, yearning eyes to where the sun
had left a track of glory behind him.
est of the men, who strove to
her.

There was in this woman’s face a won-
derful charm, the secret of which
afterward.
sweet gravity of one who had learned, in

covered

beyond laughter, and partly that sense
of strength and repose which clothes as

it.
and her
ladies of
of our party to aceept the shelter of the
eabin. I, who have a taste for civiliza-

ed and triumphed
spite of her weariness and grief,

sorrow over

crowded house, she urged the

luxury of a hammock, gratefully accept-
ed it.

were making geological

say
that she did not care to talk of herself,
except as incidental to others.

generally about his birthplace. On this

 

or dressed, but a luxuriant white jasmine |

the solemn high places of Nature, a joy |

tion, and a perverse inability to see the|

25, 1891.

 

was his own history of life, and I read}

A number of wild, rough-looking men |
were sitting in the shade of some mul- |
They spoke seldom, smoked
incessantly, and waited with a sad pa-|

walk to the end of the piazza and look |

There she was joined by some of the old- |
comfort |

i}rowed toward

NO. 427

me to see how often truth and surmise
agree. But with Agnes Stirling 1 re-
mained unsatisfied, simply because she
did not know herself.

“‘T was not born here,’’ she told me.
‘‘My first memories are of crowds of
faces that were not kind to me, of water
that seemed to have no end, and of a
small vessel in which we nearly per-

—_— gh
‘We Lre peated, interrogatively.

‘That is, my mother and | and my eld-

est brother. He was a little baby then,
wailing night and day in her arms. He
lived to bea noble boy and died in her
defense.”’

“But where was Captain Stirling at
at that time?’’

She detected a suspicion of something

she did not approve in my voiee, and she

answered, in a tone that was almost ea-

ressing:

“Ah, he was not

with us. That was
where the misery began and ended.
When we got to him we were very hap-

py.

“Do you remember that?”

“it is impossible that ever I should
forget it. After we had been a long time

on the water, one morning, just
little
A
whom I[ had never
I knew
lonely sand he

And he looked

at sun-

rise, we were put into
the
for us—a mar
seen, but whom
On all that bar of

was the only living thing.

and
man stood

a boat
land.
waiting
consciously at
sight.
so handsome and so_ happy, he
stretched out bis arms and shouted to us.

I think he will st

as

and just soto weleome

me, when | him
feet touched the
for and I
first action was

my

see next. When our

land he could not speak
remember well that
and
understand

joy, his

to kneel down kiss
{| don’t
but l

Ant OX wagon,

mother’s hands.
even now why he did it, am sure it

was well done. driven by

that old negre you see smoking before
the quarters, brought us here. I have
no idea how long it took us. I was a

; Silent child, and never asked many ques-

1
|

L dis-|
It was partly the|

when |
the

flowers,

and
and
wealth of the

tions; saw the green, cool
woods, strange

g beauty and

1 think 1 believed

| we were in heaven. One day I found
courage to ask Prince, as he was yoking

with a garment those who have front- |
In |
| solemnly:

|
|
|
|

The next three weeks, while my friends
and botanical |
discoveries, I was getting glimpses of a
life pure and unselfish enough for the |
angels to have desired to look into. I|
‘*glimpses,” because I soon found |
i ly deeds

| of

the oxen, if it were so. He
with a kind of
wise in his owneyes,

at

looked at me
Many a man,
would have laughed
ignorance; but
‘De little
are allus pretty

reverence,
Prinee answered
Miss
nigh to the king-
I never forgot the look
and I understand
though I did not then.’’

my
children,
Agnes,
dom ob heaven.’
and the words, them
now,
Piece by piece I patched
her and it made a story
startlingly dramatic, and almost incredi-
ble to those who have never learned that
adversity miracles. But, with all
old story of
selfish
thought, and filling her space with love-
and faithful

out the years
childhood,

sees

its romance, it was still the

woman hourly erucifying every

prayers, instead of

| lingering years,

My first interrogatory about anyone is}
| age,

subject I have a theory, and it interests | all her future life.

When seventeen years of
the tragedy occurred which clouded

She had then three

Agnes was

 

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brothers: Robert, nearly sixteen; Alick,
twelve, and Harry, seven.

rence, she was greatly agitated in its re-
cital. .

“It is very hard to speak of it,’’ she
said,**but 1 want you to know all. Other-
wise much that you may hear of my fath-
er will seem so savagely cruel. It is, in-
deed, the only key to that portion of his
life with which the publie have to do.”

“It was on the twenty-fourth of Octo-
ber, in the year 1843. There had been
slight frosts. and, as father was going to
the mill, which lay in the river-bottom,
seven miles off, mother proposed that I
should go with him, and, while the corn
was being ground, help to gather some

of the winter grapes and pecans which

| looked like years—then at midnight two
Although fif- |
teen years had passed since its occur |

men carried a strange Robert Stirling in-
to his house, raving with brain fever. I

say ‘strange,’ because no one ever again |

saw the same generous, kindly, cheerful
man who had gone with me to gather
nuts) and

yrapes a week before.
~

suffered for the next three
months, when he evuld do nothing else
But in

half a year he was in the saddle again,

How he
but suffer, none but God knows.

at the head of some of the most reckless
men in the ecuntry. For nearly three

years all search was unavailing, but

nothing daunted or discouraged him. On-

ily every time he came home, he came a

'reckless bravery were in every mouth. 1}

abound in the valley, and to which the |

frosts had now added the jast delicate
flavor.

I was a little astonished at the |

proposal, for Robert and Alick ceneral- |

1

ly went on these errands; but | knew

more especially as there was butter to}

make, and both negro boys had gone that
morning to the cedar brake for rails.

sterner and aharder man. Soon the wild- |

est stories of his cunning and eruelty and

do not believe anyone blamed him much,
and I—l1 leved him
And, oh! after

better than ever.
Alick was recovered,

erippled and dying, and | knew how lit-|

| tle Harry had been almost tortured into
mother meant it as a great kindness, | the grave, there were hours in which Il

|
|

“The truth was, I had a little trouble |

of my own at the time—a love
which my father, wisely, have no doubt,
For several days I felt hard

toward him in consequence, and my

interdicted.

few hours together would put all right.
So she brought me a clean dress and my

white sun-bonnet, and looked into my

affair |

| again?

not only pitied but excused him.”
“Then you saw one of your brothers
ch
“Yes: father found him with a party of
Comanche horse-thieves, in the fourth

year of his captivity. They say he took

i fearful vengeance for the boy’s suffer-
‘ings. I cannot blame him. Alick lingered
mother’s good, wise heart foresaw that a |

many months, and became so dear to me

iin all those hours of suffering, that | al-

face with such an understanding sym- |

pathy, that | could not resist the impulse |

to twice turn back and kiss her. Ob! 1
thank God for this memory. Father was

pleased at my attention, and smiled kind-

ly at me as I took my place beside him. |

When we got to the bottom of the hill 1

pushed my bonnet back and looked
round. She stood watching us, and
shading her face with her hands. Father |

turned at the same
waved us a last adieu.

‘“A very last
proved.

one, as it miserably

In less than an hour afterward

moment and she}

most wisbed to die with him, only that it
would have been cowardly.”
‘You think so?”
“Yes, | think so.
taken my place the last year?

Who could have
And then

| what a joy | should have missed!’’

">

oA joy!
“Certainly. Ll have been loved again;
all my years of patient waiting and si-
lent prayer acknowledged and answered.
1 have had many happy days the last
seven years, and for more than that time
every family in the county has rested in

| safety under the shadow of my father’s

| pame.

she was siain by the Comanches, after |

seeing her eldest boy almost cut to pieces |
| for his child and friends.”

in her defense. Alick and Harry, in the
very beginning of the attack, had been
bound
the care of two inferior savages.

‘‘And yet that day father was in such

fore seen. Evidently he had no present-

with raw-hides, and given up to|

For a long time he has been a
just as well as a brave man, and I am
glad because he lived to know the State
acknowledged his services and provided

‘“‘And what will you do now?”

“Wait. There is always duty. When

| everything else is gone, duty remains. I
'could not desert old Prince and Jeff and
wild, gleeful spirits as 1 had never be-|

ment of any trouble until we reached the

bottom of the hill on our return. The
absence of all signs of mother or the boys
silenced him. In another moment he had
noticed a thin smoke coming from the
open door. With acry and a bound like
nothing human, he sprang to the ground.
A few minutes told us ail our misery.
The bodies had been set on fire, but
enough remained to identify mother and
Robert, and my father guessed only too
well the fate of the younger boys.

“The earthen floor and heavy lcgs had |

sure that
neither of us at that time thought of it

saved the house, but I am
asa mercy. The negroes were still in
the brake, and our only horse with them.
But by nightfall the whole country was
roused, and following a madman in pur-
suit of the murderers.

“Some of the neighbors took me away,
but [ could not stop. If father should
come home, I knew he would expect me,
and my heart was breaking ‘or the dear

little fellows whose fot was worse than |

death.

the old men who have made this cabin
for years a shelter in sickness and bad
weather.”

‘Is that all you will have?” .

‘That—and God. My solitude is not

empty, and I shall! find some good to do
|in every day.”

1 looked at the calm, strong face, and
read in it a sermon not made with hands.
‘‘Lo, here,” it said, ‘is a woman born
for adversity, for she has triumphed
over it, and built of ita sanctuary for all
that are sorrowful and afflicted!’

AMELIA E. BARR.
ne ee _
Dreamed He Paid His Tailor.

““{ had the most singular dream of my
life the other day,’’ the young man with
**] had
It wasn’t quite
time to go to work again,” he continued,

the creased trousers was saying.
just come in from Junch.

knocking the ashes from the end of his}

cigarette, *‘and while I was sitting in the
armchair at my desk I went to sleep. I
dreamed my tailor came in with the bill
for this overcoat I’ve got on.’’

it was a fine garment. He passed his

1 passed five days alone—they | hand caressingly down its smooth sur-

face, shook his head slowly and sadly,

and went on:

‘He had been in five times already |

with the same bill.
the dream, you know.
straight factsnow. Every Monday after-
noon he used to come in regularly with
that bill and 1 always stood him off some-
how.”

“What was the amount of the bill?”

enquired the young man with his feet on
the radiator.

“Sixty-five dollars. It’s a good jag of
money. There’s no fun in paying out
$65 to your tailor when you can give
| him a stand-off. It isn’t business, any-
Well, | dreamed he had come in
with that bill. He slapped it
down on the table and he says:

how.

; again

| «***} want the money on that coat this
| time, young man.’
‘*-Can’' you drop in next week,’ | says.

| ‘Ill make it all right then.’

| <‘*No, sir,? he says, ‘1 want it right
now.’

| “Well, 1 had the money in my pocket

and | dreamed I yanked it right out—the
whole blamed $65—and he took it and
receipted the bill and went away.

“Weill, sir, the shock of the thing—so
unexpected, you know—waked me up.
And right there on my desk, by George,
was that thundering old bill, and the ink
on the name signed to the ‘Received Pay-
ment’ part of it wasn’t dry! I jerked
out my pocket-book and opened it. There
was just $65 missing. 1 ran to the
There
was that beastly tailor just starting down

door and looked down the hall.
the stairway at the end of it. He’d got
his meney all right enough, and | hadn’t
had the coat six weeks.”

“How do you aceouni for it?’ asked
the young man with the waxed mustache.
‘Did he take it out of your pocket?”

“Naw! exclaimed the party with the
creased trousers.
pocket? Not any!
nality enough about him for that.”

“Then how did he get it?’’ enquired
the youth with the plug hat on the side

‘“Fake it out of my
He hasn’t got origi-

of his head.

‘‘How did he get it?’? echoed the nar-
rator. ‘I payed itin my sleep, sir, be-
dad! Paid it in my sleep! Do you think,”
he groaned, ‘‘l’d have done it if I had
known what I was doing?”’

‘“‘No,’”’ answered the boys unanimously,
and a deep, sympathetic silence settled
down on the group.

—————<
How It Looks in Missouri.

Sr. Josepn, Mo., Nov. 15—We feel the
need of a good, lively commercial paper
out here such as THE TRADESMAN. There
is not a trade paper 1 pick up with more
|interest and look forward to receiving
as | do Tue Micu1GAN TRADESMAN, and
there is nothing that tends to build up a
city more and calls the attention of sur-
rounding towns to the many advantages
to be secured by trading in it, than a
good, live commercial paper such as THE
TRADESMAN has proven itself to be.
Grand Rapids merchants are to be con-
gratulated on having such a paper, and |
am at a loss to understand why every
wholesaler at your market is not perma-
nently represented in its advertising col-
umnbs. J. H. THOMPSON.

> > —_-———
A Correction.

JACKSON, Nov. 21—Please correct the
statement made last week that Greene
| Bros. succeed E. C. Greene in the cloth-
|ing business in this city. The fact is,
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bs
Agents for the CAN DEE Rubber boots, shoes, are-

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,
BOOTS & SHOES

Felt Boots and Alaska Socks.

State Agents for

 

158 & 160 ft ulton

t., Grand Rapids.

SEEDS

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

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

W. Y. LAMOREAUX & 60,

128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St.,

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

Vig, Herpolshelmer & Ud,

Dry Goods. Carpets & Cloaks.

We Make a Spe ialty of Blankets,
Quilts & Live Geese Feathers.

 

Overalls of ovr own Manvfacture.

 

Mackinaw Shirts a: d Lumbermen’s
Socks.

(oigt, Heryolsheimer & Co.

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.
GRAND RAPIDS,. - -

MICH.

 

 

 

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They are Coming Over One by ae

The Credit System Must Go.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

One by one the retailers throw up their
hands and ery, ‘‘Enough! we are satis- |
fied. From this time on we shall have |
the cash for our goods, or they will re-
main on the shelves.’’

There probably never was a time when
the retail fraternity was more heartily |
disgusted with the credit curse than it |
is at present. Go where you will, son)
will hear ominous threats and bitter im- |
precations from behind the counter, as |
the retailer recounts his trials and losses
under the credit system of doing busi-
ness. Old Trust is being turned away |
from many an erstwhile friendly door;
and the time is not far distant when he
will be unable to gain admittance to any
retail store in Michigan, or be recognized
by any respectable merchant who be-
lieves in a future existence, the pleasure
of which depends upon the preparation
which the soul receives in this life.

Many merchants entertain the idea
that it would be ruinous to attempt to
change a long-established credit business
to a cash system, at the same stand and
under the same management; but their
fears are groundiess, for experience is
proving from day to day that such
changes are being made, much to the
great pecuniary advantage of the busi-
ness concerned. The change made by
R. B. Shank & Co., of Lansing, might be
mentioned as a fair example of what
may be met with all over the country.
This firm is one of the largest grocery
houses in the city. Previous to last Jan-
uary they did an extensive credit busi-
ness. Since they adopted the cash sys-
tem their trade has increased to a marked
degree. Two delivery wagons are re-
quired where formerly one did the work.
Of course, to lower prices, which are the
legitimate outgrowth of the cash system,
is to be ascribed the cause of the in-
creased volume of trade. Other grocers
declare their intention of turning over
“the new leaf’’ at the commencement of
the new year. F. B. Johnson, another
large grocery dealer in Lansing, and
mayor of the city, by the way, confines
his credit to responsible parties. He
takes nochances. He says ‘‘Yes’’ to one
man and ‘‘No” to another, being guided
by the responsibility of the applicant.
He claims that it is every retailer’s pre-
rogative to discriminate in such matters.
He prefers his credit customers to his
eash customers, because they buy more
and pay better prices, upon the whole.
They do not parley over a price as do his
eash customers.

It is the opinion of the writer that any
man who pays spot cash for his supplies
has a perfect right to ‘‘kick’’? when he is
charged the same prices for goods as the
man who buys on credit. The Mr. John-
son referred to may have an abundance
of capital with which to run his business,
and, if he wishes to loan a portion of his
customers a little surplus capital fora
time without interest, he certainly has
the right to do so, and the remaining
portion of his patrons can set up no valid
objection to such a course. But the great
mass of grocerymen all over the country
need all the capital they have, to dis-
eount their bills and run their business;
and, when a portion of it is scattered all
over the community, they are unable to
replenish their stock to the best advan-
tage, and, therefore, cannot sell as

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|

cheaply or compete with their bill-dis-

discussing this question, the other day, |

| eat hay.

 

counting rivals.

The writer was much amused while |
with one of the leading grocers of the |
hustling little city of Charlotte. This |
dealer was recounting some of his losses, |
when he suddenly became excited and, |
bringing his fist down on the counter)
with a whack, delivered himself of the |
following: ‘‘If I live until the first day
of January next, I shall go out of this}
charity business. People pay cash for |

their boots and shoes, and the dry goods |

men
cash.

are running more and more into |

They pay spot cash for their fun,
and do not stint themselves, at that. |
They pay down for their cigars and other |

luxuries —even their whisky —and, by |
thunder, so far as we are concerned, they |

IF YOU WANT

The Best

ACCEPT NONE BUT

ver ‘Thread

Sauerkraut.

 

have got to pay for their groceries, or |

that the meat market men and the gro-
cers are expected to feed all the floating
and wandering pauper and
population at their own expense?” |
had to give it up—I could give no reason.
Jan you? :

A few weeks ago, a new grocery firm
opened up on one of the outlying streets
of this city.
head of the firm informed me that they
had already enjoyed all the experience
in the credit business they desired; that
they had reduced their prices all around,
and that, in the future, they would either
have the eash in the till, or the goods
upon their shelves.

If all retailers should adopt the
system simultaneously, of course, the
trade of each would not be increased;
indeed, I believe that there would be a
decrease, as the people would be inclined
to buy less if they had to pay cash.
There is no danger, however, of a move-
ment of this kind; therefore, the men
who are now adopting the cash system
will reap a golden harvest before the
change becomes general.
must be educated to pay cash for their
necessities—their meats, provisions and
groceries first, because they are the most
essential for the support of life. If
credit must be indulged in, let it be
given by dealers in luxuries.

E. A. OWEN.

sash

The masses

 

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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 smallsavings. The story
must contain not more than fifteen hun-
dred nor less than one thousand words,
and the competitors are limited to girls
and boys under eighteen years of age
who reside in Kent or adjoining counties.

The awards will be made by a commit-
tee of judges consisting of a member of
the staff of each of the following Grand
Rapids papers: Eagle, Democrat, Tele-

What the dickens is the reason

dead-beat |

One day this week, the;

Order this Brand from Your Wholesale Grocer!

 

Heyman & Company,

Manufacturers of

Mow (ases

Of Every Description.

WRITE FOR PRICES.
First-Glass Work Only.

83 and 65 Canal St., - GRAND RAPIDS.

W. H. WHITE & CO.,
Manufacturers of Hardwood Lumber,

| BOYNE CITY, MICH

 

 

 

    
  
  
 

  

    

 

gram-Herald, Leader and THE MICHIGAN |
TRADESMAN.

All competing stories must be addressed |
to Grand Rapids Savings Bank, corner
Fulton and South Division streets, Grand |
Rapids, Mich., to become the property of
the Bank, to be printed at its discretion,
and must be in the hands of the Bank by |
December 15, 1891. |

——_»>-- >
Through an oversight, XX XX package |
coffee was quoted !¢ cent under the reg: |
ular list for two weeks past. The brand |
is sold on the same list as Ariosa and |
Lion and should have been so quoted. |

 
 
 
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We operate three mills with a capacity of 9,000,000 feet hardwood and 3,090,000 feet hemlock, as
follows: Boyne City mill, 7,000,900; Boyne Falls mill, 3,000,009; Deer Lake mill, 2,000,000, Our
facilities for shipment are unsurpassed, either by rail or water.

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

eeds Fox
~ | -
yy &. 5.
he x (. if e¢ g :

Hi > ot rm D. , nm »* 2 _ rit
the grt 3 : H. A. Fields

St. Louis—Price Sheib as eded
) Al r Gri Liz t a Se

Re —{ 5. L. S ! ( e tali-
Oring ( i sea a s
iead.

Chassel— a4 Wilkins s general

re ax een = , nort-

Detr —Thos. Davey s eds Schmidt
& Davey grace ‘ at busi-

i ACA Ver & bo ~ eecded

i ‘ kt Nang > yuUSs-

Bay ¢ —H. P. Me of ti whole-
sale groce rm Mer! i i&Co
Ss dead

na—B. D. Knis = eded by
a het i 0 a shoe
Dusiness

Mason—J. E. Coy & Co. succeed Dens-
more @& Loy in tae proauce L grain
business

Traverse Cit E. Clap] as re-
moved his grocery stor irom ArT to
this place

Iron Mountain—The grocery store of
Em A. { } bet ose atte!
mortgage

Fremont—David McL has opened a
crockery and glassw s I M -
ler ul ling

Muskegon — Hans Hans-« aS pur-
chased the grocery stock of Wm. Boyer
on a strec

Frank t—Hugh M. Lockhar iass
his mea yUS ss } ~ eta @
grocery sineés

Constantine—C. H. Felt has sold :
drug and groce stock to R. F. Watkins
late of I

Harbor E. Hardy suc-
ceeds W. ». in the grocery
and meat i

Maple has his new store
nearly completed, into which he ir :
to puta stock of goods.

Otsego — Geo. W. Shepar genera
dealer, has failed Liabilities over
$5,000; ava yie assets about 34,000

Caledonia—Jacob Liebler is negotiat

Saie Oi Nis rai § kw C.
the Whitneyvi enera
idale—E Wa d & Co. is the

  

Owosso son & Son’s boot and shoe

<XT
— or oe

stere has

& Co.
covering

been closed by

, of Detroit, who hold the mortgage
the stock

1

Shelby—Rankin & Dewey, Wheeler
3ros., Shirts Bros., F. H. Payne, F. W.
Van Wickle, and others have adopted

the cash system to take effect Dec. 1.

Burnip’s Corners—J. W. Sprau has re-

the firm of F. Goodman & Co.,
The

remaining

tired from

dealers. business will be
by the

der his own name.
Muskegon — Klomy &
554 W.

flour and feed dealers at!

continued partner un-

yarens Brower,
Western
avenue, have opened a branch

McGraw |

store at

eorner of Peck street and Summit

Muskegon Heights.

the

avenue,

   

     

  

 

 

 

 

 

Cadillac—Higgins & Messenger. pro-
— of the American House, have
purchased the meat market owned by J
F. Jones and will continue the business
nder the supervision of Walter Ken-
edy.

Muskeg —Miss Js Roy has }

ised of C. F. Brown, of Grand Rapids
the D. M. stock of agricult
goods in the Pine st st i is
now doing business with D Roy as
avenut

Sm has moved t
<s stock of dry goo
Li rex it 3 pur-
chased. into the old post office b iing
one door nor of G. G. Spauiding’s b
2nd shoe store
MANUFACTURING MATTERS

Ypsilanti—F. S. Carr has opened a
candy factory at Congress street

Mat & Dros. a p g
in a ba e with a capacity of
75,000 feet. and w ive in connection a
shingle mill.

Farwell—Fraser & Fisher’s shingle
mill has shut down tempo the re-
cent rains preventing getting timber out
of the swamps.

Ross

has manufactured

Beavertou—The Block

Sapless
Sapi

Paving Co. and mar-

keted over 200. sap-

00 square yards of

   

   

 

 

    

less paving blocks the past
Cad Ziwin Paquett es
Cotey have formed a copartnership under
t » ‘ — UE Pa yuett & Cotey Ope ned
ameat market on North Mitchell! street.
Saginaw—La Due & Stevens. of this
have purchased a portable mill
nd will manufacture lath from cedar
near Gladwin for the world’s fair build-
ngs
Detroit—The Brunswick Lumber Co.,
apital stock $100,000, has been incorpor-
ated by Darius N. Avery, John H. Avery,
Simon J. Murphy ie Edwin L. Thomp-

 

son siness will be carried on in

Giynn county, Ga., and in this county.
Detroit—The Michivan Mineral Paint

Mining and Supply Co., capital stock

$50,000, has been
Wi

_

egeanenaa by Moses
illiam M.
the

ing mineral! pal nts

L. Sch

Gaffney,

loss, and Chas.

rtis
purpose mining and

Huron,

or

 

in

 

Custer—The Custer Manufacturing Co.,

 

to manufacture woodenware and_ sell
general merchandise, has been organized
by Caroline H. Brayman, Charles W.
Brayman i Marshall Brayman, of Cus-
ter, and iain 2N. Shay, of Ludington.

The caus capital is $10,000.
Kalamazoo—The Dutton Boiler Works,

which, since the death of C. H. Dutton,

have been conducted by L. M. Gates for
the estate, has now passed into the hands

of a stock company with a capital
20.000.
ia A. Dutton,
Gates and Elmer L.

stock

The stockholders

 

Cor-
M,

are
Dutton, L.

of $
nel George

Gates.

Goodman—W. L. Webber’s sawmill has |

cut about 5,000,000 feet this season, and

a stock of logs wili be secured this win-

ter. The lumber is shipped to Mr. Web-
ber’s yard at Saginaw. he mill has
timber for a three years’ run. A shingle

mill is operated in connection which has
cut about 3,000,000 this season.
Kenton—The shingle mill being built
Neff Bros., one and one-half miles
north-west of this place, is nearly ready
for business. A survey has been made
for a spur track to run to the mill from

by

the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic.
The firm contemplates putting in a saw
mill in addition to the plant now under
“—

e Alpena sawmills will

 

 

 

 

   

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ET
Ann es eee
Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one centa
word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment

 

  

 

   

     
 
      
 

 

 
  
 
   

 

 

 

 

    

 

have about all they can do next season, BUSINESS CHANCES,
» € +} Oana ul earls ys
many of em having nearly enough lo ERY AND
+ 1 x ; T ne » eh ‘owt « cua la 7
n tl er nresent to supply them. to Ithaca, Mu h. Cash sal t
: ce r ene year, $320,000. Fs th reason for selling. Ad
This seas ou rat of $00,000 WAS | dress No. %4%.(care Mic higan Tradesma an. ul
Ve f I Bay and RUG STORE FOR SALE AT A BA ARGAIN IN “THE
' . nl — ' D rrowing village of © surrounded by
season al ver of million feet will | rich farming country. Will s ell on easy terms. Must
. quit the business on account ae poor health Address
t rafte from that point to Alpena) J. W. Armstrong, Caledonia, Mich. so
1 | TOR SALE—DRU( G STOCK
' 3 | Ff  iness corner in Manist«
Ww a ts The er sf nilding | Splendid chance for a hustling druggist.
West Bay y—The era of building Jacob Hanselman, Manistee.Mich. i ae
sawniills.on the Saginaw River is not yet | yior saLE—FRESH STOCK GROCERIES. WILL IN-
i ; » and k ventory about $700. Centrally located in this
at 1g Of tne pas J. W. Fleisner and city. Good business and good reasons for selling.
r : ress No. 317, care Michigan Tradesman. 317
C. Kern ar on dina proje¢ | aoe No. 317, care Mi igan Tradesman. _ a
' eu 13 | [YOR SALE —HARDWOOD LUMBER MILL,
t a Sie Of 1a ee | k miles from railroad, with plenty of timt
; } } Ty ww | #everal years’ cut. Shingle mac -hine in running order
Hotchkiss piace Phe new; if desired. Saw mili ready to set up. Teams, truc
; } } } 1+ ; y i sl is, shop and building all in order to begin w rk
ee shed. It is pro-| Address J. J. Robbins, Stanton,

   

posed to put up a modern band mili
the work will begin shortly.

Bay City—John G. Owen, who oper-
ates a saw and shingle mill and planing

t Owendale, has final

in motion and says it will run all winter.

good deal of trouble

 

obtaining a filer, and tried seven in suc-

before finding one that filled the
The
and

The logs are

eession

mill is equipped with a

eutti

bill.

is ng about 30.000 daily.

 

hauled to the mill by rail.

 

 

, and |

ly got his mill }

in |

band |

   
 

Mich, or
312

 

& Reid, 121 Ottawa street, =
Dy MR SALE
grocery stock, lo«
Business we eT established.

   

Aue ain
Add recs A. C

 

   

   

 

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| Adams, Administrator, Morley, Mich : 313

| FXOR SALE— GROCERY STOCK AND FIXTURES ;

i I running two deliveries; doing good business; \ ill
eice about $4,000. Address lock boxe 7, Ann A ir,

Mich / Cee

r. | ‘OR SALE— GOOD HARDWARE STOCK, WITH

i I: rood rade established. Location good. Reasons

| fc ish to retire from business. Address

 

| SITUATIONS WANTED.

 

yi ANTED—BY A N ASSISTANT REG

. tered phars ist of three years’ experience ad

| reference furnished. Address Lock Drawer O, Lowell
| Mich 339

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1S BOOK-K KEEPE RK

ANTED—SITUATION |

 
 

 

 
     
  
 

 

 
    

 

   

 
 

Detroit—The United Milling Co. is to W married man who can give the bes
“ J. ences. Address No. 305, care Michigan - r
. in iron and copper mining in | Grand Rapids. 305
Gogel yunty with a capital stock of |
ee ee ee MISCELLANEOUS.
$300,000. Real property ralued at $150, |
100 is held by the compani it 1 ach | DRSES FOR SALE—ONE SEVEN-YE
' is held by the company, but no cash one three-year-old filly, and one six-year-old
$< paid ir The stock is held . Poin —all sired by Louis poleon, dam by Wi
is paid in. The stock is held by F. F. nner (Morgan pares asa agate
Palms Jas Bovk, 100; Michael | 2 rbeen tracked. Address J. J. Robbins, Stant om,
Hc oT ic ae "| Mich.
W. O’ Brien, 100; Waldo M. Johnson, 2, | OR SALE—CHEAP ENOUGH FOR A (VEST-
“- . ‘48s a. F ment. Corner lot and 5-room house on North
700; Lucius H. Collins, 1,050; Jas. H. Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water
. . 2 in kitchen. $1,200 Terms to suit. Address No. 187,
ward, 600: Jas. B. McMillan, 660; Jas. | care Michigan ae ueaiaaia. ee ‘187
Tl. Keena. 660: Wm. B. O’Brien, 810: Geo. | YOR KRENT—A GOOD STORE ON SOUTH DIVISION
' o | street—one of the best locations on the street.
H. Russel, 660; ; Henry Russel, 660; Wm. | Desirable for the dry goods business, as it has been
i | used for the dry goods —— for three years. Size,

larence Tucker,
Manuf

500.
Sutton
ted

$5,000 in

 

acce;
of

favor the

uring Co., of Michigar

Hopper Manufactu

acturing |

- - '
two drafts for}

22x80 feet
| street.
Ff YOU HAVE ANY PROPERTY TO EXC HANG
a residence brick block in Grand Rapids, ad
B. W Barnard, 35 Allen street, Gre and Rapids, Mich
j poe SALE ‘OR fRal )E—TIMBER LAND IN OR
| Addr , eare Michigan Tradesman.

t, with basement Geo. K. Nelson, 68 Monroe
326

    
 
 

  

 

 

 

  
 

6) oe SAL Tao HUNDRED ACRES LAND (160 IM-

" ’ — “0 / proved), located in the fruit belt of Oceana coun
City Ind., some time ago, mereiy as an ty, Mich. Land fitted for machinery, good fences,
i: . mn a . | large curb roof baru with underground for stock,
accommodation. The Sutton company, | horse barn and other necessary farm buildings. New
: : rnis! e jouse barns. Eight-

however. was incorporated under a stat- windmill furnishes water for house end barn Eight

ute whicl

foreign
Farmers’
higan City,

the drafts, tried to

commodation paper to
and when the

x of Mic

 

National
which discounted
th e

*t from Sut-

Judge S

collec

 

ton company it failed. wan, be-

fore whom the case was tried last week,
decided that the acceptance by the Sut-

ton company, being in conflict with its

charter, was void, even though the paper
was in the
Man

hands of a bona fide purchaser.
celona—The Herald says: **By a

1 does not permit it to issue ac- | \*
corpora. |

| een acres apple bearing orchard, also 1,000 peach trees,
two years old, looking thrifty. Price, $35 per acre, or
ange for stock of dry good if any difference
h. A. Retan, Little Re , Ark.
INE GOOD PEDDLING WAGC
eh we will pay cash. Address No.:
Michigan Tradesman.
TANTED--GROCERY

  
   
 

 
 
 

 
  

FOR
42, care
342
STOCK BY PARTIES "WHO
can pay eash down. Must be dirt che ap. 4 Ad-
343, care Michigan Tradesman. 343
ED—MAN WITH $1,000—SUPPLY

 

 
   
 
    

 

VW Mie higan with Shaeffer’s new panc ake er iddie
sure thing for $5,000 annually ; positive fur-
I

proof
344

 

hed. M. She aeffer, Canton. Ohio.

  
 
 

   

    

D—TO PURCHAS
ck in a good town of

CASH A DRUG
000 to 5,060 inhabitants

  

 

 

Winans & Allen, Tower block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 332

W ANTED—UNTIL DECEMBER 15, 1 WILL PAY 65
cents per pair for partridges, spot cash; ship by

express. C Lovejoy, Big Rapids, Mich. 335

 

 

Barnett Bros.

cW pe

recent action of the broom men of the}
country in putting up the price of broom
corn, John Otis, of this place, made an
even $12,000 as easy as can be. Mr. Otis
bought this fall 150 tons of broom corn
at $70 per ton and twenty-four of the}

manufacturers
their heads together last
Fremont House, Chicago,
and raised the price of corn to $150 per
ton. According to the statement of J.
D. Blood, of Amsterdam, N. Y,, chair-
man of the meeting, the United States

leading broom of the
country

|week at the

got

uses about 35,000 tons of broom corn an-
nually. There were only 27,000 tons
grown this year, and there will be no
more until next October. The publie
must go without brooms that would be

made from this shortage of 8,000 tons.
| The advance of $80 per ton oa broom
|corn will increase the cost of brooms 80
cents a dozen.”

Commission Merghants

AND DEALERS IN
Apples,
Dried Fruits,
Onions.

Twenty-five years’ experience and ample
facilities for the transaction of business.
Refer by permission to the editor of this
paper. Write for information which will
be cheerfully furnished.
3ARNETT BROS.
i 159 So. Water St., Chicago.

|
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THE MICHIGAN

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Lozier & Underwood have sold their
grocery stock, at the corner of Jefferson
and Wealthy avenues, to r.
Odell.

Norman

 

Austin Richardson has purchased 2,640 |

acres of pine land in the northern pait
of Jackson county, Miss., for $15,200—
$5 per acre.

The new Curtiss drug store, which will
shortly be opened on East Bridge street,
will be conducted under the style of the
Wolverine Drug Co,, instead of the Hill
Drug Co., as stated last week.

 

E. LaRocque, for the past nine years
in the employ of C. H. Wilber and War-
ren & Spice, at St. Ignace, has concluded
to open a drug store at that place. The
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. has the
order for the stock.

 

 

 

 

Cornelius Quint has retired from the
firm of Brink Bros.
dry goods, groceries and crockery at 54
Grandville avenue. The business will
be continued by the remaining partners
under the style of Brink Bros.

& Quint, dealers in

 

of Brink
Bros. & Quint,‘ has purchased the gro-
cery stock of DeJager, Stryker & Co., at
305 Central avenue, and will continue

C. Quint, ot the former firm

on

MI.
Stryker will remain with him for the
present in the capacity of clerk.

the business under his own name.

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Gripsack Brigade
Some of the boys are wondering how
much it cost Poole and VanLeuven to ob-
tain possession of those quailand rabbits
at Coopersville last Friday.

Ed. Pike is spending this week in De-
troit, getting out the spring line of
Schloss, Adler & Co., for
gins traveling in December.

Walter M. Gibbs, Michigan, Ohio and
Indiana for Hatch &
Jenks, of Buffalo, was in town over Sun-
day. He will call on the Grand Rapids
trade in about two weeks.

Chas. B. Parmenter
for the Pacific Coast in the interest of

whom he _ be-

representative

leaves this week

the Widdieomb Mantel Co., going via
Portland and returning via San Diego

and San Francisco. He will be absent
about seven weeks.

Chas. I. Flynn has engaged to travel
for John E. Kenning another year,
ering the same territory as in the past.
This will be good news to the hotel girls
on which Charles so sweetly smiles that
he always gets the best the house affords.

Dave Smith to take four
weeks’ recreation during December, hav-
ing arranged to make a visit to Atlanta
and intermediate cities and places of in-
terest. If the traveling men of the South
only knew what a superb liar Dave was,
they would entertain him with cham-
paigne and cake at every stopping place.
travelers earry life
insurance sheuld be careful when in the

cov-

proposes

Commercial who
East to ascertain what the Sunday laws
are and conduct themselves accordingly.
In Vermont recently the Supreme Court
held that a man walking from one town
to another for the purpose of hunting
was violating the laws of that State,
which prohibit traveling on Sunday, ex-
cept from necessity or charity, By this
decision payment of an accident policy
was suspended because the accident was
sustained while the policy holder was
violating the law. The exemption of

the company from all liability was or-

TRADEHSMAN.

 

|
dered under a clause in the policy which

| “ e : .
| rendered the policy void where violation |

condi-
said accident was re-

of the law was the act, cause or
tion under which

 

| ceived.
| 8 a
| Purely Personal.
J. M. Laberteaux, formerly on the

road for Hawkins & Company, has emi-
grated to Portland, Ore.

|
|
|
| grist miller, was in the city Saturday,
|
splendent with diamonds and emeralds.
C. E. Case, whose name and energy are
|indelibly stamped on the
Lumber Co. and the Case Mercantile Co.,
at Benzonia, paid Grand Rapids a flying
trip one day last week.

Case

Mr.
Haughey attained a State reputation,
few years ago, as ‘'That Pepper Man,’”’ by
reason of some yery emphatic statements
at the second convention of the
Michigan Business Men’s Association.
The hearty sympathy of the trade will
go out toO. A. Ball and family over the
death of their second daughter, Edith, a
beautiful young lady of 16 years. Their
grief is the more poignant from the fact
that they reared four children man-
hood and womanhood without the serious
of
was a young lady of strong individuality,

dealer, was in town over Sunday.
a

made

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illness of one them. The deceased

great vivacity and unusual sweetness of
character, and her loss will be sincerely
mourned among a large circle of friends,
aside from the immediate family ties.
i > i
Trade Union Tyranny.
From che Liverpool Mercury.

A building of some importance in North
London was begun last autumn, and was
being rapidly completed when the ever-
famous blizzard came and prevented all
operations. Through no fault of master
or man the entire body of workmen was
foreed into idleness. It will be remember-
ed that after the blizzard passed away
there came a brief spell of extremely fine
weather. The men engaged in this par-
ticular task came back eager for work,
bored with leisure. Some of them had
been reduced almost to the point of des-
titution. When they resumed their labor
they took counsel together, and went
unanimously to the fereman asking him,
as they had rested so long, as their means
were near exhaustion, and as_ the
building itself was behindhand, to permit
them to work overtime. So far as he was
concerned this meant extra hours with-
out pay; but he felt for his men, and gave
them a permission which they hailed
with delight. A few days afterward
there came along a new hand seeking a
job, possibly and even probably an emis-
sary of the union. He went speedily to

so

rules of the union were being broken by
overtime. He was told that there was no
compulsion on any man to work beyond
the regular hours, and that he himself
might throw down his tools at the end of
his ordinary day’s labor. ‘‘That won’t
do for me, mate,’? was the reply. ‘‘Un-
less you stop the overtime I shall report
the ease to the union.” ‘‘Thisis a free
country,’? replied the foreman; ‘‘I am
not going to stop men from working who
have big losses to make up.” The case
was reported to the union. The union
forbade the overtime.
perforce submitted.
ists went on working. Again the man
went to the supervisor. ‘‘These black-
legs must stop or I shall eall a strike.”
‘You may call what you like,’’ replied
the foreman; ‘‘I shall neither order the
men to cease from working nor dismiss

have incurred during a period of enfore-
ed idleness.” There was another report
to the union, another warning sent to the
foreman, which he disregarded, and then
the strike was ordered. It was not set-
tled when the larger strike oecurred in
which now it is merged.

 

W. J. Haughey, the New Era general |

the foreman and pointed out that the |

Will Hugh, the Morley lumberman and |

larrayed in shining broadcloth and re- |

Bros. |

 

 

 

FUILY FOR BUSINESS!

 

Do you want to do your customers justice?

Do you want to increase your trade in a safe

way?

Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you?
Would you like torid yourself of the bother of “posting”? your books and

‘‘patehing up’’ pass-book accounts?

Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, which
yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?

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

Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for
items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they

have or not?

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

a CASH BASIS of crediting?

A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all
enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

Tradesman or Superior Goupons.

 

CUUPON BOOK vs. PASS BOOK.

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

our coupon book and ask you to carefully
consider its merits. It takes the place
of the pass
your customer ant
time he buys anything,
enter the article and price in it.

ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts
with each customer and enables a mer-

book which you now hand | chant to avoid the friction and ill feel-
1 ask him to bring each ing incident to the use of the pass book.
that you may} As the notes bear interest after a certain
You|date, they are

much easier to collect

know from experience that many times! than book accounts, being prima facie

the customer does not bring the book, |

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

appear on the customer’s pass book. This

is sometimes the cause of much ill feel- |

ing Many

when bills are presented.

times the pass book is lost, thus causing |

trouble when settlement
But probably the most se-

considerable
day comes.

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 ean 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
anything, he hands you or your clerk
the book, from which you tear out
eoupons 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 somuch

money to him, and when the coupons are
all gone, and he has had their worth in
goods, there is no grumbling or suspi-
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,

T scares sag | shows at once the day’s business.
1e unionists’ |

But the non-union- |
| the book,

The
notes, which are perforated at one end
so that they can be readily detached from
ean be kept in the safe or

| money drawer until the time has arrived

them for trying to pay the debts they |

THE TRADES

GRAND

have to charge}

 
   

he buys |

|

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 a ten 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 loealities merchants are sell-
ing coupon books for cash in advance,
viving a discount of from 2 to 5 per cent.
for advance payment. This is especially
pleasing to the cash customer, because
lit gives him an advantage over the patron
iwho runs a book account or buys on
eredit. The cash man ought to ha an
advantage over the credit customer, and
lthis 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 facte evidence of indebt-
edness; (4) enables the merchant to col-
lect interest on overdue notes, which he
is unable to.do with ledger accounts; (5)
holds the customer down to the limit of
eredit established by the merchant, as it
is almost impossible to do with the pass
book.

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

 

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THE AGE OF LEATHER.

 

of the Oldest Commodities in the
World.
From the New York Advertiser.

The old tanner is very nearly
when he says ‘‘leather dates from
unknown,”? for leather is of the
highest antiquity.
of Noah’s Ark there were those who, ac
cording to the Holy Writ, lived in tents
and kept cattle. It hardly to
doubted that these people who tended
flocks and herds, which furnishdd them
both with meat and drink, also made use
of the skins of their animals for articles
of clothing, and, therefore, very early

One
right

time
very

is

acquired some knowledge of the tanner’s |

art. In the book of Genesis mention is
made of colored leather, and all evi-
denees of an extraneous character go to

show that some simple method of tan- |

ning and dressing the skins of animals
was known before even Tubal

learned the trade of a brass founder.

The ancient Egyptians were skilled in |

the art of tanning leather, and manufac-
tured it in various ways and for various
purposes besides that of furnishing cov-
ering for the feet. Indeed, it is to those

builders of the pyramids that we are in- |

debted for the first artistic
wear; and far as can be ascertained
from history and researches of archzolo-
gists the Egyptians were the first shoe-
makers who were worthy of the name.

It is a fact. too, that tanners of to-day
employ very much the same methods as
did the ancients. About the same ma-
terials are used, and the processes are
almost precisely similar to those in vogue
hundreds of years ago. It is true that
tanners of the present day have
found means of greatly shortening the
time required to convert a hide into
leather, and that steam power and mod-
ern machinery have done much to expe-
dite and improve the processes of finish-
ing the leather, but, after all, the princi-
ples of tanning remain the same as they
have from the first.

Leather was very early used as a cur-
reney, the Romans employing it for this

so

purpose before either gold, silver or
brass came into common use. History is
full of references showing that leather

was used by the ancients as a sort of cir-
culating medium of exchange. t is
said. on good authority, that so late as
during the reign of Louis XU. of France
the country became so impoverished, and,
as a consequence, money Was

that little pieces of leather with a small |
silver naii driven through each, were
in general use as money. Some few

specimens of this leather money are still
in existence. but are only to be found in
the possession of numismatists, by whom
they are highly prized.
However, the manufacture
slow and

of leather

ever been a tedious
as compared
, and even nov
tanning

has
28 w, with improved pro-
and finishing,
the tanner to convert the
leather. There is,
extant that tan-
good leather now
tanned in three
used to turn

irit
Cesses of
requil
hide of an animal inte
popular opinion
make
that

as

are ed for
tow, a

as
are
they

ners do not

from hides
months’ time
when nine,
necessary.

As a matter
made to-day from
ninety days than was
the old way. it should be remembered,
however
cisely the same manner now
always been. That is, the same agenc ies

are used for combining it with the gela- |
tine of the hide and for converting it in- |
to leather.
discovered methods by which the tannic
acid is made to penetrate more quickly
inte the pores of the skin. This is ac-
complished by frequent manipulation of
the hides while in the vats, and partly
by special treatments for keeping the
pores of the skins open during the tan-
ning process. It is a fact well known to
all tanners that any method or process
which will hasten the union of the tan-
nie acid with the hide shortens material-
ly the time necessary to convert it into
leather.

Of late years there has been much talk |

This is a mistake.

of fact better leather is

of tauning hides by electricity, and sev- |

era! methods have been tried, but with in-

Long before the days |

be |

Cain |

forms of foot- |

SO scarce |

pro- |
with most other indus- |

months |

out |
and even twelve months were |

hides in from sixty to |
» . ;
manufactured in}

.that hides are tanned in pre-|
as they have |

Modern tanners have simply |

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

| different suecess. There is no doubt,
| however, but that electricity does greatly |
| aid in the tanning process. In the old |
idays of tanning the hides, after being |
dehaired and made ready, were placed |
in the tan vats, and there allowed to re- |
main untouched and

liquids, thoroughly uniting with the
| hides, had converted them into leather.
| But after a time it was discovered that
by putting the hides into a revolving
wheel, or drum, which had first been
partially filled with tan liquors, the time
necessary to convert them into leather
was greatly shortened.

As early as 1823, an English tanner
conceived the idea of forcing the tan
|liquors into the hides by hydrostatic
pressure. By this method he greatly
lessened the time of tanning; and, as he
used a frame on which the hides had to
tacked before being put into the
wheel, and as the hides had to be cut to
| fit these frames, thus causing considera-
| ble waste and damage, the process was
abandoned.

it is hardly to be doubted, however,
that with the spirit of push and enter-
| prise now manifested by those engaged
in the manufacture of leather the future
will see wonderful improvements in this
important industry, and that science and
electricity wili make it possible to con-
vert hides into leather in as many hours
as it now takes days. If this is done at
all the shoe consuming public need have
no fears that it will be accomplished
at the expense of the excellency of the
material which goes into its footwear,
while tanners themselves can rejoice in
the fact that they, being able to turn
their money several times a year, can
make both better and cheaper leather
than ever before.

—

For the finest coffees in the woukd, high
grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner,
304 North lonia street, Grand Rapids,

| be

Mich., general representative for. E. oo
Gillies & Co., New York City.

 

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Detroit, Mich. and Chicago, Ill,

undisturbed for |
| from nine to twelve months, and in some |
cases even longer,until the tannin in the |

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Dry Goods Price Current.

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| Aries ......-. Arrow Brand SM
| Aree .. .....- oe 6% “World Wide..
Ailes AA......... 6% ee eh cs ta ee 5
| Atlantic a Full Yard Wide..... 6%
H 6% Georgia A.........- 6%
_ . 6 |Honest Width....... 6%
. 6%|Hartford A .......-- 5
co | een 5% Indian Head........ 7%
as. q |KingA A .. 6%
Archery Bunting... 4 |KingEC. .......... 5
Beaver Dam AA.. 5%|Lawrence LL...... 5%
Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth ox
Black Crow ......... - 634) Newmarket esc.
Bisck Hock ........ 7 Bi OM
— 7%! + a. 6%
Casta A........... 5% . D 5%
Covene F.......... 54 . Co
Chapman cheese cl. 3%) Noibe R.........-.-- 5
Cilfton C E......... BM, Our Level Best..... 6%
Onreee E.......,.. 6%
7%| Pequot cee ™%
u |Solar et a 6%
|Top of the Heap.... 7%
BLEACHED COTTONS.
ABC. ...........-- 84|Geo. Washington. .
cee... : l@len Mills.......... 7
Amare... . ....-- iGold Medal......... ™%
Art Cambric. ee 10 |Green Tieret....... Os
Blackstone AA..... B iMireat Palle. ......._. 6%
Beats All............ 44|Hope.......-.......- 74
eee 5 112 Just Out..... 4%@ 5
eee. --..-. .-.-. 7 |King Phillip eee ere 7
ons 4... 6% or... 7
Charter Oak........ 5%|Lonsdale Cambric..10%
Conuay W......-... 714|Lonsdale...... -_ ov
Cieveland .....: ... 7 "| Middlesex besa as @5
Dwight Anchor oo. 8%|No Name.........--- 7
_ rts. 8%|Oak — ee ee 6
Edwards. . ... 6 (Cur Own........-..- 5%
eee. 7 |Pride of t the West...12
a 7 |Rosalind............ 7%
Fruit of the ro. 8% PMEISTAL. .....-..-+- +» 4%
Fitchville ..... Uties Mits......... 8%
Pires Prise. ........- : 6% i Nonpareil ..11
Fruit of the Loom %. Vinyard.....-...---- 8%
Fairmount.........-. 434| White e-: oie 6
Pull Varue.....-..-. xi * Kock.... 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
Cubes... ........... ee Anchor..... 9
ae 8
UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL,
reas, ©. .......-. 544(Middlesex No. 1.
Bamiiwvs W......-.. 6% " r 2.
Bie eon 7 ' 2
Middlesex AT...... 8 sg _ wi
- X... ae ' . 8.
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Rontien H.....-... 1% Middlesex A A se 11
Middlesex r - do 8 Bo ncn 12
ae : . A. O0......
. c A eile sa Paceee 17%
io ZF... 19% “ os
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, white......18 |Integrity, colored. ..71
. colored... .204 4| White a.........- 184
Tnbeeriiy.......-.. “18%| “colored. .21
DRESS GooDs.
Hamiiion ...-..-.-. pone. - ae
o ae 25
“ — “30s eo a 27%
GG Cashmere......21 " .30
Nameless sie 16 i --32%
Le .18 . i 3
"CORSETS.
Coraline...... a 50|Wonderful cc cee #4 50
Sena s..-...... 9 OOiBrighton.. ........ 4%
Davis Waists 9 OOBorwrecs .......... 9 00 |
Grand Rapids..... 4 50)Abdominal........ 15 00
CORSET JEANS.
Armory ..- ...... 6%{Naumkeag satteen. .
Androscoggin. eeu Tl Rockport. ..... - 6%
Biddeford. ... 6 PCOResOSA.....- 1 on
Brunswick. . 6%) Walworth . 6%
PRINTS.
Allen turkey reds.. 5%|Berwick fancies.... %

 

 

 

. robes........ 54%/Clyde Robes. 5
_ oe & purple 6%|Charter Oak fancies 4%
i vuffs . 6 |DelMarine cashm’s. 6 |
_ pink chee KS. 5% - mourn’g 6
- eiagten .....- 54/5 Eddystone fancy 6
shirtings 3% choc saa 6
American fancy.... 544) neer.... &
Americanindigo.... ea) a. sateens.. 6
American = 34 Hamilton fancy. Ss |
Argentine Grays. staple . 5M |
Anchor Shirtings... a Manchester ancy - 6
Arnold r --- 6% new era. 6
Arnold Merino ...6 |Merrimack D fancy. 6
ey long cloth = 1044| Merrim’ck shirtings. 4
“ 84 ar: 8% | |
“ century c loth 7 7 |Pacific fancy.. ue
gold se hh hc 6% |
. green seal TR 10%) Portsmouth robes... 6 |
' yellow seal..104/Simpson mourning.. 6
- wee, ee ' grey 6
° Turkey red. 10%! . Solid biack. 6
B allou solid black.. 5 |Washington indigo. 6
“ eolors. 5%} “ Turkey robes.. 7%
Bengal blue, green, | “ India robes.. %
red and orange .. 54%; ‘“‘ plain TKy x x, a
Berlin e.......- Sy -
of] biue...... 6%! “ Ottoman =
_ ‘“ green .... 6%) key red..
s §6Foulards .... 5%/ Martha Washington
_ red % acon 2 1 ee ee 7
wo oe 9%| Martha Washington
. Ae aes 10 Turkey red........ 9%
. = 3. aa 12 |Riverpoint robes.... 5
-< | Windsor fancy...... 6%

Ts... gold ticket
- XX twills.. 64! indigo blue....... 19% |
solids...... 5%|
TICKINGS.
| Amogkeee ACA....i20A C A..... .-...-... 12% |
} Hamilton N ‘ :"754| Pemberton AAA....
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| Awning..11 |Swift River...... 7%
| Former ao aren OO Cees eer... 12
Wink Priss.......... 1% Warren. ae 4
| Lenox ee ....-.. 18
COTTON DRILL.

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DEMINS.
Amoskeag..... , ...-12%{Columbian brown. .12
r ous. .... 13% Everett, G6... 0. 12
o brown .13 brown. ....12
Angover........-.:.- 11% Haymaker sce eons 7%
Beaver, Creek + bro “0
© isemrey........ -.. ose
. Go. Lancaster Geciee ee Be
Boston. Mfg Co. Br Lawrence, nt... 2 13%
3% No. 220....13
“ €s6 wer 10% _ No. 250....11%
Columbian XXX br.10 - No. 280... .10%
XXX bl1.19
GINGHAMS.
Amoskeag . 7% Lancaster, staple... 6%
' Persian “dress a fancies . 7
- Canton .. 8% . Normandie 8
- Ave...-.. .12%|Lancashire.......... 6
. Teazle...10%|Manchester........-. 5%
_ Angola. .10%|Monogram......---- 6%
' ee 8%|Normandie..... ..-- ™%
Arlington staple.... 634)Persian.....-------- 8%
‘Arasapha fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... i%
Bates Warwick dres 8i4|Rosemont.......---- 6%
: staples. 6%|Slatersville .....--.- 6
Centennial. ........ 10%/|Somerset........---- 7
Se 10%|Tacoma ........---- 7%,
Cumberland staple. oh Toil du Nord....... 10%
Cumberland.... .... a 7%
NE eit e osc 4% “ geersucker.. 7%
ie ee ee eee 744|Warwick.... ------ 8%
Everett classics..... Bis Whittenden.......-.
Exposition.......... . heather dr. 8
iGiemarte._......-... 6% - indigo blue 9
Glenarven.... .....- 6%|Wamsutta staples. . -
Glenwood.......-.-- 714|Westbrook......----
Hampton ..... .....- 6% aeons 10
Johnson Vhalon cl %|Windermeer.... ---- 5
_ indigo blue 9%|/York..... «-++--++++ 6%
= zephyrs....16
GRAIN BAGS.
Amoskeag.......-- -1644/Valley City...-.----- om
ee ee 19% |Georgia .......... -- 15%
Amcrican..... .-.,.- 1644|Pacific...... -14%
THREADS.
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's.......---- 88
Coats’, J. &P....... 45 |Marshall’s.... .....- 88
Holyoke.....-.------ 22%)

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CAMBRICS.
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White Star.......... 4 |Lockwood......... 4
Kid Glove ..........- a woos... ........ 8
Newmarket........- 4 |Brunswick .......- 4
RED FLANNEL,
Firemam...... --.-. Scie W............----- ee
Creedmore.... ..---- ee
Talbot £XX......-.- - VE, cae..-..-..-- 35
Nameless...... ...-.27%|Buckeye.... ..------ 32%
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, plaid..40 |Grey SR W.......-- 17%
Diton B......++-.-- 22% 2 coern W ..-..---- 18%
Winteor...... .---s- ip & P........-
6 Oz —— ee 20 |Flushing XXX......
Union B......-.----22%|Manitoba..........-
“DOMET FLANNEL.
N ameless . .-8 @% _ 9 @10%
i 84%@10 " aes 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.
Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black,
9% % 944)13 13
10% 10% 1044) 15 15 15
11% 11% 11%4)}17 17 17
12% 12% 1244120 20 20
DUCK
Severen, 8 oz......-- 9% West Point, 8 = 10%
Mayland, 8 oz. Socaeee 10% 10 0z ...12%
Greenwood, 7% 0z.. 9% iia 100z lL eeuucae 13%
Greenwood, 8 OZ. Meek 13%
Boston, 8 02......--- 10% |Boston, 10 0z......-- 12%
WADDINGS,
White, doz.. . 2 |Per bale, 40 doz....87 50
Colored, doz........ 20 |
SILESIAS.
Slater, Iron Cross... 8 jPawtucket... —-
Red Cross.... 9 —— ie eke
Doe. ....2-.-- 1.10% ee 10%
' Best AA..... 12s Valley cas. 10%
i. be ee cee 10%
wee . 8%
" SEWING SILKE,
Corticelli, doz....... 7% {Corticelli knitting,

wist, doz. .37%
—o doz. .37%
100K8 AND EYES—PER GRO
No 1 Brk & White.. = No 4 BIk & “White. 15
. an

2

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No 2—20, M C....... e 4-15 F 3% 40
* 3—18,8 C.....--. rs

OTTON
No : White & Br K. = No ‘8 White & BI’k. =
" é r mt . 2 . 3

SAFETY PINS.

WOR. cies cine eee Oe TOS oo oe. -e to e 36

NEEDLES—PER M.

A, James...-..-+-++ 1 40|Steamboat.... ...... 4h
owes? .. --+-1 85|Gold Eyed.......... 1 50
Marshall’s......... 1 00|

om OlL CLOTH.

5A. 2% 6—4...3 2/5—4....195 6-—4...2 %

ie 3 io

COTTON TWINES.
Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ... 18
AR |. 12 Rising Star 4- ee. ae
Sens - aes ee peace 18 34% 3-ply . a
Anchor. Leave ce COTG See...
Bristol . .....13 |Wool Standard 4 pivits
5 ye Valley. Peraee 15 |Powhattan .. ......
ee 18%

PLAID a
A 6%|M ny Picmant.. - 6%
Seen Ce 6iiOneids............-- 5
Augusta .. .-. 744i Prymont .......-..- 5%
Ar sapha ' Seen. ; doce ee 6
Seorela .. 644) Riverside. . pia
Granite ..... .. Sg iSibley A........ -.. ox
Baw Mive.....,..- et ei a
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

TO LEARN GORILLA TALE.

 

Prof. Garner to Establish Himself in the
African Forest in a Stout Cage.

Prof. R. L. Garner, who has achieved
a recent celebrity in connection with the
study of monkey language, is in Wash-
ington consulting with scientific men
respecting an expedition to Africa which
he proposes to make. For some years
past he has devoted attention to the an-
alysis of simian speech, his purpose
being to produce a lexicon thereof. Once
having established an understanding of a
few of the simpler words used by these
arboreal cousins of mankind, he believes
that it will be easy enough to communi- |
cate with them intelligently. ‘Thus they
may be educated to alimited degree and
may be tought to be of some service in
the world.

Prof. Garner's present intention is to |
learn something of the speech of gorillas.
These great apes represent an elevated |
type among the anthropoids; they
rapidly diminishing in numbers, and it is
desired to secure a few last words from
them, at all events before their kind be-
comes extinet. Accordingly he propose
to sail a few weeks hence for the west
coast of Africa, whence he wil! make his
way into the Gaboon country, where
vast forests which afford a home to the
greatest numbers of gorillas to-day. He
will take with him a large iron cage, con-
structed in sections so as to be readily
transported.

This cage not intended to catch
gorillas in. On the contrary, it is meant
to keep them out. Prof. Garner proposes
to occupy it himself, having set it up in
the forest. It will be big enough to pro-
vide him with room to sleep and study.
The sections will be eonveyed by carriers
into the wilderness, where they will be put
together. Prof. Garner anticipates that
the study he has already made of monkey
talk will bea help. Acquiring by guess
the meaning of afew words, he will make
use of them by taking part in the howls
himself. By day as well as by night he
will make responses to the yells and cries
of gorillas that he hears in the woods,
and he thinks that in this way he will be
able to attract certain individuals about
him. Presumably they will be favorably
prepossessed by so agrecable an anthro-
poid as the professor, and intimacies may
result which will afford most protitable
opportunities for conversation. He will
not ventnre out of his cage, however.

Prof. Garner will carry along with him
eight phonographs and a gross of blank
eylinders. The phonographs will be
placed around the inside of the cage, with
large tin trumpets fixed to their dia-
phragms and pointing outward. If any
gorillas approach the barred inclosure
and have any remarks to make of a hostile
or amatory nature, the electric batteries
controliing the phonographs can be turn-
ed on at a second’s notice, and the words
uttered will be indellibly recorded, for
the future edification of civilized lecture
audiences. Electric lights will illuminate
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in order that the species
ures which approach may be properly
identified. It is hoped that this may serve
incidentally to attract gorillas.

There are no monkeys in Africa.
simian order is represented there by two
great families of tailless apes—the gouril-
las and the chimpanzees. ‘The latter are
found allthe way across the Continent
in that latitude. For intelligence they
are celebrated.
try to learn something of their language
also. How very desirable it would be if
such as object could be attained!
sionary societies might be organized for
the evangelization of chimpanzees, and
they in turn could be employed to distrib-
ute tracks among gorillas, which have
hitherto been so conspicuously intraet-
able that they are said to be the only
animals which will invariably attack man
on sight.

Frank Collins, formerly on the road for
grocery this market, but for
the past five years in the employ of W.
F. McLaughlin & Co., of Chicago, in
Kansas and Texas, longer con-
nected with the manufacturers of XXXX,

houses at

is no

of the creat- |

Prof. Garner proposes to |

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Hardware Price Current. ase. it weiss
Mardole & Co.’s dis. 95, | Sisal, a6 InGh and larger ........... 7
7 i co ‘dis. gg | Manilla..............-............- 11%
These prices are for cash bwyers, who ae es dis. 40810 | «001 and Iror SQUARE dis.
an 7 vas. | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel....... . 0 list 60 ee eae scene so
pay promptly and buy in full packages. Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel. Hand. ...30c 40&10 i agg Bevels.. ro
AUGURS AND BITS. dis. HINGES sn : | Feces : ’

Snell’s...... CE ey 60 | Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3...... dis.80&10 re Com. Smooth.

i tin . Sa
eee 40 | State..... _per doz. net, 2 50 Nos. 10 to 14 . 4 05
Jennings’, genuine...... es 25 | Screw Hook and Strap, ‘to 12 in. Lo 14 anc Nos istot? ._..

Pen, eee i 5I&10 SS wit wie
AXES, Serew Hook and Eye, 4 inet) || Mla aigea ||
& RLZ +
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze...........-..- S750) « te ‘ a net 8% | Nos. 25 to 26
i 2 bre 42 90 ; . 4 ee ee me £72 | NO. 27......-- 0-2-2 22s oe
“ Spee 8 50] Strap and T %- a 178 All sheets No. 18 and r, oO
“ De aT wept Prabha ty 8. is. | Wide not less than 2-10 extra
aE i SANT —
BABEOWS. ais Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&19 | List ace ’ Pe ts ng)

a * ’ x fet neck. 10, Sb........- dls 8
menroed.......... .-8 14 00 | Champion, anti-friction. 60&10 SASH CORD
Garden...... ae .. met 20 00 | Ridder, wood track ................ 40 | Silv er L ake, White A Me 5<

BOLTS. dis. Pot HOLLOW WARE. 60 Drop A... ..... 55
Bre. 41 ote. ams ca li el J se k > 50)
Carri i alp - 50610 Ce 60 | ss aoe o =
| ge eee v5 ae ‘ / cag vu
Maw 4010 i ee “s 60 | ‘ White C 35
Sletzh aa ea 70 Gray sname led. 40&10 Discount, 10.
Cy HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Lo i SA8H WEIGRTS,
Stamped Tin Ware. -new list - Solid Eyes. _. -- per ton 825
| Well, plain ie. ..8 3 50} Japanned Tin W are. ea SAWS. dis.

Well, swivel..... 4 00| Granite Iron Ware ........... “new list 33% (40 | —s. 20

BUTTS, CAST. dis. viens WIRE GGODS. ian . ! pbb a, got x Sere per foot, 70
" eG ee . -W&10&10 iy pecial Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot. 50

Cast aoe in, m, bright : bl eee a ee Oe ine Eyes 7010810 ‘“« Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot 30

Wrought } arrow, bright bast joint. : 60410 | Hook's .. .. 70&19&10 | ‘“ Champion and Electric Tooth X
Wrought Loose Pin. 4 ‘ol H0& 10 Gate Hooks and Ey es. 70&10&10 | Cuts, per foot... 30

Wrought i able eee seer ee i EV EL 8. Gis. TRAPS, dis.
a — Blind. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 70 | Steel, Game... 60&10
Blinde -, a ae KNOBS— New List. dis. Oneida ¢ ‘ommunity, Newhouse’s 35
Blind’ Parkes "+20 j0 | Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ... 55 | Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s um
| Blind’ Shepard’ eT i0 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings 55 | Mouse, choker.. _.18e per doz

ee ee ‘Y | Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55 | Mouse, delusion a“ $1.50 per doz.
BLOCKS, Door, porcelsin, trimmings ...... 55 | i WIRE dis,
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85 go | Drawer and Shutter, porcelain... : 70 | Bright Market 65
: ence LOCKS—DOOR. dis. | Annealed Market. .70—10
Se Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list 55 | Coppered Market. 60
Can ................. ts. 50&02 | Maliory, Wheeler & Co.’s 55 | Tinned Market.... so 62%
CROW BAR Branford’s ' 55 | Coppered Spring Steel 50

. oe u Norwalk’s oe 5D | Barbed. Fence, galv anized 3 35

Cart Steel | eee 3 MATTOCES. painted ' 2 8
CAPS OS . 916 - dis. 60 HORSE NAILS.

ee eS .- perm Sihoome ...--.._...... ...815.00, dis. 60 | Au Sable... _. dis. ——— 0&05

Hick’s C. F. = 60} Hunt’s "818. 59, as 20&10 [Pate ....... Louecaueee dis. 05
G6. D . 35 MAULS. da |Rortweian......... dis. 10619

Musket ' 60 | Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled "50 | WRENCHES. dis,

CARTRIDGES MILLS. ais. | Baxter’ 8 Adjustabl e, nickeled 30

" " at ‘offe o. | ws Cos... | Coes Genuine ......... ' 50

Rim Fire oo 1 56 P.S. & W. Mfg. Co. s Malleables 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultt ural, wrought 75
Central Fire. el dis. “ ‘ae Ferry & Clr k’s..... 49 | Coe’s Patent, malleable ni
CHISELS dis, ‘© Enterprise 20 | MISCELLANEOUS

Socket Firmer............ 7010 | a MOLASSES ‘GATES. dis. / Bird Cages = 0s 5

Socket Framing... 7019 | Stebbin’s Pattern.... ........... -G0&10 | Pumps, ( istern.. a 5

Socket Corner...... 27010 | Stebbin’s Genuine..... eel . .66&16 | Screws, New I ist... 7010

Socket SMcks ............ ‘. ‘70&10 | Enterprise, self measuring. . 25 boone. 7. a . Fate HO&WE vo

Tange Ni s | Dampers, American ce 40

Butchers’ Tanged Firmer. a ee 40 Steel nails. base...... ..1 8¢ | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods 65

COMBS. dis. Wire naila base.......... .... oe METALS,
Comy, Lawrence's.....-........... 40 Advance over base: Steel. Wire. |} PIG TIN.
Boicukin................... 25 160... . Base Base | Pig Large. 26¢
CHALK = eee _ 10 | Pig Bars oe IQ¢
\ ray > 5 1 40 5 20 | BiNnCc,
White Crayons, per gross. 12@i2% dis. 10 _. 10 29 | Duty: Sheet, 2%¢ per pound,
COPPER. eh 15 30 | GAO pe io casks My

Planished, 14 02 cut to sise... ..perpound 28} 16. 15 35 | Per pound : 7

14x52, 14x56, 14x60 .. oo. 26 | 12 15 35 | SOLDEL,

Cold Rolle -d 14x56 and 14x60. 23 | 1 20 40 | 4@ss 16

Cold Rolled, 14x48 2318... 2 50 Extra Ww iping l 15

Bottoms eae ee. 40 66| The aye ves of the many other quailties of

DRILLS, dis. eee 60 90 | solder in the market indicated by private brands

Morse’s Bit Stocks ; 59 | 3.- -..1 68 1 50 | vary according to composition.

Ne new ral hank — 1 50 2 00 ANTIMONY

Taper strate? “4 Sha ik. ov ta i o | Cooksor ner nound 164

Morse’s Taper Shank...... 50 | Fime 3.....-- --ee cree ee eee es --1 50 shal [Pome ae eee a

: Case 10. 6) % | Hallet , ‘ 13
DRIPPING PANS, a "5 100 TIN—MELYN GRADE
Small sizes, ser pound ai. bs. 90 { 2h | 10x14 1C, Charcoal $7 50
Large sizes, per pound §\% | Finish 10... 85 1 00 | 14x20 IC, ' 7 50
ELBOWS 8 1 00 1 25 | 10x14 TX, ; 9 25
: oe “ «6 115 1 tmx, = “ ee 9 25

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Corrugated ... Aig oy © °  o -1 00 90 | TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE,

Adjustable woes . Ain, 40G10 a ee 1 00 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal 86%

ZXPANSIVE BITS. dis. BOOEVOUE ee a ee toe 1% 2 50 | 14x20 IC, i G 75

Clera’s, amall, §18; large q PLANES. dis. | 10x14 IX, i 8

Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 824; 3 i : a5 | Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy @40 | 14x20 IX, tertseees 9 25

y oy BAG ca napa EEE @e; Hach adk ttonal 3 X on this grade 81.50,
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Disston’s .....- es 60&19 | Bench, first quality ee eae @60 | 14x20 IC, Worcester 6 50

New American ......----60&10 | Stanley Rule and Level Co. *s, wood | 14x20 IX, il i 8 50

Micholeon’s ............ .B0&10 PANS. | 20x28 IC, ' r 13 50

ees... Seigee, Ate . dis.60—10 | 14x20 IC, Allaway ade..... 6 00

Heller’s Horse Rasps ' “| Common, poliened.................._... dis. 70 | 14x20 IX, i 7 50

“se oo RIVETS dis. | 20 } 12 50
GALVANIZED IRON rr nite 40 | 2 155

Nos 29: 2 and 24: 2% and 26: 27 2g Iron and ine si i 40 |

Nos. 16 to 20; 2 an ; 2 L 6; 27 | Copper Rivets and Be 50
| List 12 13 14 a PATENT FLANISHED IRON. $14 00
| Discount, 60 “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 . 27 10 20 15
| GAUGES. dis. “B Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 2 9 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s 50} Broke packs 4c per pound extra
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he Falls City Axe

Both Manufactured by

The Kelly Axe Mfg Go, Louisville, Xv

We carry a good stock of these axes
and quote them at the following

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Kelly Perfect, per doz. $7 12
Falls City, per dez. $6 $9 & oO 2

    

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Michigan Tradesman

a |
icial Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. i

 

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Retail Trade of the Wolverine State,

The Tradesman Company, Proprietor. |
Subs¢ription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
strictly in advance. |
Advertising Rates made known onaprlication. |
Publication Office, 100 Louis St

 

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Oy.¢.

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1891,

 

THE SILVER SITUATION.

Since the passage of the Bland-Allison
act of

chased over $450,000,000 of silver bullion.

1878, the government has pur-|
The price has fluctuated considerably, |
but the
cents for the bullion in each silver dol- |
lar. Some of this

average is about seventy-nine |

bullion has been

coined into standard silver dollars. On|
the most of it silver certificates and |
treasury notes have been issued. The |

seniorage of twenty-one cents on the dol-
lar, amounting in all to more than $67,-
000,000, is in the United States treasury.
Therefore, every standard silver dollar |
represents a dollar’s worth of silver bul-
lion. It
worth and has behind it twenty-one cents’
And
every dollar note now issued on silver

contains seventy-nine cents’

worth more in the public treasury.

represents a dollar’s worth of bullion.

Under unlimited, free silver coinage,
First, the

age of twenty-one cents on the dollar, or

what would happen. senior-

whatever it may be, weuld go into the

pockets of a few hundred silver mine

owners. The farmer and wage earner

could not possibly receive any benefit

from that. Seeond, silver would either

advance to par with gold, or we would

have a depreciated currency, and gold

would go to a premium, and prices of
commodities and produets would follow.
lf silver bullicn silver
if gold

goes to a premium and prices follow, the

advanees, the
producers pocket the advance.

farmer would receive no benefit, for a
bushel of wheat or a barrel of pork will
buy no more on the silver basis than it

does on the gold basis. The wage earner

would be a loser until he could get his
wages raised to correspond with the
nominal advance in prices. And as
wages are the last to raise, he would be

a heavy loser. Who would be benefited

by a depreciated currency? The debtor. |

: , . . |
it would enable him to scale down his|
debts

him to pay

for |
bank is a
debtor to its depositors,many of whom are
Where one part of them

and make it much easier

them. But every

wage earners.

 

 

 

would gain, another part would lose.
There is a question that has not yet been
answered. What honest debtor wants

to repudiate his debt or any part of it? |
Another, is it worth while to help the|
other kind? j
The money question is a business one.
Neither
party is
Western
coinage. |

It is not strictly a party issue.
the Republican or Democratic

united on it. In some of the

| entitled

States both endorse free silver

In Ohio, one endorses it and the other
opposes it. Inthe Eastern States both |
oppose it. In Massachusetts, for exam-

ple, there is an earnest rivalry between
them as to which is the more orthodox on |
the money question. Therefore, what
we have to say on the subject is not to
be taken as partisan.

| their sermons on the subject.
‘that nearly all kinds of crops in this

| spite of bellicose talk with Italy and

|reason to hope for a steady continuance

\of the times which portend a future not

|Soper’s name attached to the Thanks-

Thanksgiving day this year comes af-

ter a period of such calamities in all
parts of the world, and in the absence of |
so many of the usual oceasions for na- |
tional exultation, that the preachers will |
be driven a little out of the usual line in |
It is true |

country have been abundant and that
prices are generally good; that the peace
of the country has been preserved, in

Chili: that there has been no outbreak |
of pestilence; that our educational and
religious institutions seem to enjoy both
quietude and prosperity; that our nation- |
al literature and art give evidenceof a
healthy growth; and that there is good

of the revival and development of busi-
ness. Nevertheless there are some signs
at all pleasant to contemplate, albeit the
good sense of the people will probably
be able to meet and surmount serious
difficulties with the same measure of
success which has characterized the past
history of the world.

 

It looks a little suspicious to see Dan.

giving proclamation of Governor Winans,
asking the citizens of Michigan to return
thanks for the ‘‘bountiful harvests which
have rewarded the labors of the people,”
when within a year the same calamity
howler has sent out an official report
claiming that the farmers of Michigan
are raising grain at a loss of
cents per bushel. Either the Secretary
of State was wrong when he issued his
manifesto last spring or he is ridiculous
now, in asking the people to be thankful
for the privilege of doing business at a

several

loss. In which light does the little offi-
cial wish to be considered—a knave or a

fool?

ee
In this day and age THE TRADESMAN |
is at a loss to account for the statement

 

of the editor of the Ypsilanti Sentinel in
a reeent issue of his paper, ‘One would |
make a mistake by shooting a
traveler How
any man who assumes to possess a knowl- |

never

commercial on sight.’’

edge of current events sufficient to ena-
ble him toedit a newspaper can sink to the
depths of moral degradation and mental
imbecility requisite to the promulgation
of sueh a doctrine is more than the aver-
age man of intelligence will be able to}
comprehend. THe TRADESMAN is un-|
eble to account for the uncalled-for at-

tack on any other ground than that of|
total depravity.

 

Banking Commissioner Sherwood in
justice to himself and the public, should |
make a full statement of the facts con- |
nected with the failure of the State bank

at Milford. Until he does so, he will |
rest under the imputation of incompe-|

itency, amounting almost to connivance |

in a fraudulent transaction.

 

For the Benefit of Desenberg &
Schuster.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, } nl
CouNTY OF ANTRIM. {>
George L. Thurston deposes and says}
that he is the sole author of the article
‘*‘In Defense of the Hebrew,” |
which was published in THe TRADESMAN
of the issue of November 11, 1891, and
that the same was written without fear
of reward or hope of punishment.
GEORGE L. THURSTON.
Subscribed before me, a Notary Public
in and for Antrim county, Michigan,
this nineteenth day of November, A. D.
1891. FrANcIsS H. THURSTON,
Notary Public.

| wanted in two places.

| have black sheep in our flock, but show
| me the flock which has not got them in.

, either in the
|; mereantile world—and, further,

|
MALICE AFORETHOUGHT.

 

Refutation of Slanderous Statement by |
Geo. F. Owen.
Written for Tot TRADESMAN.

My attention has been called to the fol-
lowing article in an obscure sheet pub-
lished in the lively little city of Ypsilanti:

Grand Rapids is a bully place for big
scandals. The last one refers to Mr. J.
P. Andrews, well known to be a married
man there, but not so known across the
ocean, where last summer he met, courted
and married a Miss Gregory, of Jackson-
ville, Ill. This fact leaked out, and
about the same time Andrews came up
missing. He appears to be sow where
lightning can’t strike him; at least the
telegraph don’t, though his presence is
Andrews travels
in the interests of mining companies,
selling their stocks, ete., and is another
proof of what we have said before—that
one would never make a mistake by shoot-
ing a commercial traveler on sight.

I cannot for a moment see why this
narrow-gauged piece of humanity should
connect this man with commercial trav-
elers. He never was one, nor was he
ever classed as one. lunderstand that
this patent-boweled sheet has repeatedly
made this kind of insulting remarks
about commercial travelers. Iuse above
the word obscure. Could any one for a
moment think that a person who would
make such remarks could be anything
else but obscure? Certainly if you stop
for a moment to peruse this sheet, there
is that air of lonesomeness about it that
one feels on entering a damp,
vegetable cellar.

Now, Mr. Woodruff, can you give us
some reasons for such venomous, insult-
ing remarks? Has some poor unfortu-
nate commercial man, on making his
first trip, called on you and took your
order and the house refused to fill it, or
has some able bodied traveler taken oc-

unused

easion to call you to time for publishing
these insulting references? One would
judge that the latter was the trouble and
it had soured all the milk of human
kindness which trickled, down
through your narrow contracted veins.

I am proud to say that I am a commer-
cial traveler and 1 claim that no set of
men on the face of the earth can show a
cleaner record and deserves more praise.
Certainly no set of men in the commer-
cial world are held in higher esteem than
the commercial travelers of to-day, and
the business of the world to-day is done
by these same men whom this no-souled
person claims should be shot at sight.
Show me a line of goods ora branch of
trade which is not represented by the
commercial traveler! Of course, we may

ever

No one frowns on them quicker than we
do and it is only a question of time when
their names are dropped from the roll
and their places are filled by those who
will reflect honor and credit. To-day we
have in good round numbers 260,000
commercial travelers in the United
States. Show me any class of people,
church, professional or
1 will
not leave out the horny-handed sons of
toil—that compares in character, busi-
ness ability or loyalty to family, country,
orGod with the commercial traveler! Show
me any other class of people that has the
temptations constantly thrown around
them! His business keeps him from his
home and family for weeks and months,
| being thrown constantly in contact with
| every class of humanity, and while one

 

| May err and drop out by the wayside,

hundreds do not. Their main aim is the

‘completion of the happy home and fire-

side and they are working night and day

| to cover their territory, so that they may

reach it fora Thanksgiving or holiday
dinner with their loved ones. How
many a hard-working commercial trav-
eler is to-day wearing his back number
overcoat, so that his kind old father may
have a new warm one or his dear old
mother may have a new dress and shawl,
to protect her from the chilly blasts of
winter! And how many are working and
planning, night and day, how they can
economize a little more, so that they can
furnish their little cottages before win-
ter sets in!

I might go on and write a volume on
the kind and unselfish acts which I see
constantly done by my brother commer-
cial travelers. How many of the boys
who have been laid out by aseige of
sickness can testify to the kind acts of
their brethren! How many a grief-
stricken parent has been cheered by
them! How many kind remembrances
have been shown at the bedside and
grave of the loved ones by these same
traveling men! How many a time have
[seen the poor mother, with a number
of worn-out, tired, peevish children on
the train—when the last penny had been
paid out to get them to their destination
or the purse had been lost or the wrong
train taken—who was the first to put his
hand in his pocket and contribute and,
with his hat in his hand,make the rounds
of the train to raise a fund for the poor
unfortunate? And who did the donating?
As a rule, it was this same traveling
man (who should be shot at sight, as
this narrow-guaged, one-horse
says).

Now, Mr. Editor, please pardon me for
taking so much of your valuable space,
but when | get to going on this noble
subject, and one that is so dear to my
heart, I hardly know when to shut off.
Certainly I am a subject capable of jidg-
ing, having been an invalid so long ny-
self; and, remembering the many gener-
ous acts and kind attentions shown me
by the boys, I feel that I would not be
loyal to them, nor doing my duty to my-
self, did I not answer such slanderous re-
marks as these made by the minute piece
of humanity who heads the Ypsilanti
Sentinel as its editor. Gro. F. OWEN.

——————.j 5. >
Arrangements for the Jackson Con-
vention, K. of G.

Drrroit, Nov. 21.—Post B., of Jack-
son, Knights of the Grip, have just re-
ported that arrangements are about
completed for the third annual meeting,
to be held in that city December 29. A
very elaborate programme has been pro-
vided for by the traveling men of Jack-
son for the entertainment of the State
meeting, which promises to far excel any
previous meeting of the Association.
The following persons have been secured
to respond to toasts at the banquet: Gov.
E. B. Winans, Ex-Gov. Cyrus G. Luce,
Rev. Washington Gardiner, Congress-
man James O’Donald, William Alden
Smith, J. L. McCauley, State Secretary,
John J. Bush, Ex-Secretary, and others,
Judge Peck, of Jackson, will act as mas-
ter of ceremonies.

All members of the Association who
desire to attend can secure hotel ac-
commodations by applying to J. H.
Russell, Jr., Jackson, who will secure
the same and answer all necessary in-
formations. From present indications,
this will be one of the largest gatherings
of commercial travelers ever held in the
State. J. L. McCau.ey, Sec’y.

—————~

editor

Harrison—R. M. Mott, baker and har-
ness dealer, is dead.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

   
 

P.H EARLY, Pres. and Treas. DUNCAN & GILBERT, Gen’l Att’ys, Chicago. DORSEY, BREWSTER & HOWELL,

W. H. DODGE, Sec. & Gen. Manager. HENLEY & SWIFT, Pacific Slope Att’ys, San Francisco. Southern Att’ys,
GANNON, DONOVAN & SHEA, Western Att’ys, Omaha, Neb. Atlanta, Ga.
BARTLETT & ANDERSON, New England Att’ys, Boston, Mass.

The Merchants Ketail Commercial Agencl

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ITLLINOIs.
Capital paid in $80,000.

General Office, 58 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ils,

 

 

 

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Eastern Office, 911 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa. | Western Office, 413-415 Bee Building, Omaha, Neb.

New England Office, Boylston Building, 657 Washington St., | Southern Office, McDonald Suilding, Atlanta, Ga.

Boston, Mass. ‘Pacific Slope Office, 31-32 Chronicle Building, San Francisco,

Cal.

7\.-—.|| bxtract from Branch Constitution and By-Laws.

OF MIGRATORY OFBTORD

THE MERCHANTS Src. 4. Whenever an account against any person shall have been listed in the abstract
Retail Commercial Agency | of unsettled accounts issued by our General Agency, or certified to the Secretary of this
Co 7 sranch by such Agency as unsettled, no member shall in any case open an account, without
Fon ne USVTED STATES COMPLETE security, with such delinquent, and the opening of such account by any member with such

person shall be considered an offense against this section and subject such member to an in-
vestigation by the Executive Board, and if found guilty he shall pay to such Board a fine of
TWENTY DOLLARS for the sole use and benefit of this branch, and his neglect or refusal
to comply with this demand shall make him liable to expulsion from said Agency.

 

 

  

 

 

 

The present enrolled subscribers to this Agency number over one hundred and forty thousand, comprising merchants in
thirty-three states, from the Atlantic to the Pacifie and from the Dominion to the Gulf.

Its system of operation is Original, Positive, Legal and National; stronger
than Judge, Jury or Sherif.

During the past twelve months there was intrusted to this Agency, subject to its discretion in settlement and adjustment,
aecounts ageregating THREE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, repre-
senting goods sold and delivered by retail merchants and not paid for. Aggressive and skillful application of our pertect
system is rapidly revolutionizing this condition everywhere. The power of the combination is real and its beneficent work-
ings are immeasurably profitable to the merchant.

We ask the retail merchants to make a special examination of this Agency and its combination and interchange exper-
ience system before paying out their money for a valueless let of stationery and glittering array of promises offered by
irresponsible promoters of cheap collecting and “blacklisting” schemes, Toa business man seeking reliable assistance, age,
experience, character and financial responsibility are worth everything.

Chicago References: The Chicago Trust & Savings Bank or any respectable and responsible wholesale or retail mer-
chant in the city. Elsewhere: Any merchant who has been or is now a subscriber—and their number is legion.

JER OF

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State Board i of Pharmacy.

One Year—Staniey E.
Two Years—Jac ob Jesson, Muskegon.
Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Seerctary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
freasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Mestings for 1891—L. ensing, Nov. 4.

 

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Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo.
Vice-Presidents—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; L. Pauley, St.

Ignace; A.S. Parker, Detroit.

Secretary—Mr. Parsons, I etroit.

Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids;
Frank Inglis and G. W. Stringer, Detroit; cE
Webb, Jackson.

Next place of mee sting—Grand Rapids.

Lo cal Secretary—J¢ john D.! Muir.

 

 

 

 

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Soc lety.
President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott,
Regul ar Meetings—First Wednesday evening of Mare b

June, September and December

 

Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ —-

resident, F. D. ipp; Secretary, W. . Smith.
Detroit Pharmaceutical Society

— ant, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P. Rheinfrank

Muskegon Drug Cc lerks’ Aasoc Nation.
Freeident N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

 

CONDENSED MEDICINES.

New System of Carrying Surgical Sup-
plies for the Army.
Washington Correspondence.

Army and navy officers, and particu-
larly those cf the medical branches
evineed great interest in a contract which
was awarded at the War Department
lately, for a new system of carrying med-
ical and surgical supplies for our army.
Ever since the last Sioux campaign there
has been a growing demand for a plan
by which supplies needed by the sur-
zeons could be placed in a more compact
form than in liquid and hence carried
with greater safety and economy.

ments have been made from time to time, |

and the result of the award is believed

Experi- |

 

troops of the Hawkeye State these medi-

eal and surgical adjuncts will be seen in
abundance. ‘Twenty-five of the most im-
portant medicines, such as quinine,
eathartie pills, and mixtures designed to
correct troubles arising from the use of

impure water, are contained in four and |

two-ounce bottles, while medicines of
less importance and demand are carried

in half-ounce bottles, but all of them are |

in tablet form.

Whisky, brandy,
oil are earried in larger bottles,
ingredients rendering
form them into tablets, but with cod-
liver oil it is different, and that is tablet-
ized.

In making investigations on this sub-
ject, the English army system of carry-
ing medical supplies was carefully ex-
amined, but while lightness was obtained

alcohol and eastor
their

by means of wicker baskets covered with |

rawhide, it was demonstrated that if the
hide beeame dampened in any way it
would warp and twist in all shapes, and
destroy the bott!es which the wicker
baskets were filled with.
wooden chest was determined upon, and

a New York firm provided what proved |

to be the bestand most attractive looking
model, and they accordingly received the
contract.
= > —-

Pleasant for Consumers of Pepsin.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

The pepsin sold in the drug stores is
the veritable product of an animal stom-
ach, and generally of the stomach of the

 

|they are accustomed to eat is covered |

to be as near perfection as possible. In|

a small, light weoden chest 23 inches
long, 1434 inches wide, and 17%, inches

high are sixty square bottles, containing

as many different kinds of medicine, but |

in compressed tabiet form, none of them
being }

larger than an ordinary pepper-

mint lozenge. One of these lozenges or |

tablets, for instance, contains all the
necessary ingredients of a famous lini-
ment, and when dissolved in an ounce of
distilled water its healing properties are
the same as if it were in liquid shape and
in a big glass jar.

Some idea may be formed of the per-
fection to which the art of compression
has been brought by the statement that
if the contents of this small brass bound
chest were liquified and in their cus-
tomary jars and bottles they would oc-
cupy nearly one-half the space of a reg-
ular freight car.

|out, are found perfectly

There are two of these chests to be}

supplied to each battalion of 200 men,
No. 1 being marked with the Geneva red
cross and inseribed ‘‘Medical supply
chest,’’ while the only difference in No.
2, so far as outward appearance is con-

hog. One factory in New York has the |
oldest method of preparing the article |

that ever entered into the human mind.
A number of perfectly healthy hogs are
fattened for market, and for thirty-six
hours before killing time are. deprived of
all food, not even being allowed a drop
of water. Then the trough from which

with strong wire
appetising slops and hog
smoking

delicacies,
hot, are poured into the trough.

The fumes ascend with grateful fragrance |

to the porcine nostrils, the hogs all run
to the trough and stand over it, ravenous

with hunger, squealing and fighting with |
each other for a chance to get at the}

slops. The iron netting prevents them

from tasting the food, and while they are |

still thinking about the matter they are
killed, and their stomachs being taken
full of gastric
juice, from which the pepsin is prepared.
Now, if it was not the hog’s imagination
that made the gastrie juice flow into his
stomach in anticipation of a feast, what
was it?
i a i

Making a Quarter Dozen the Limit.

The manufacturers of proprietary arti-
cles, at the request of the jobbing trade
and by the consent of the retail trade—

| as represented by delegates at the recent

cerned, is the inscription ‘‘Surgical sup- |

plies.”” When a certain kind of medi-
eine, say acough mixture, is needed in
quantities, a bottle holding a gill of the
compressed tablets is equivalent to a
; uid, and should the bottle

trat rit yrtation the merits of the

   

iit

break in
tablet are 1
A contr

hese chests

Lired.

awarded for 200 of

 

kind is to
placed under the driver’s seatof an
ordinary ambulance, or, in case of field
service and when pack mules have to be
utilized, the chests are suspended on
each side of the pannier, their weight
with contents being but eighty-five pounds

each. pon the top of each bottle stop-

one of each

 

per is the name of its contents, and fixed

securely in the lid of the chest is a list of
r the information of the sur-

geon or hospital steward in charge.
Surgeon J. P. Merrill of the Surgeon-
Ge sacais office, who has been supervis-
ing and conducting the experiments,
declares that the new system will revolu-
tionize the mode of supplying needed
articles for an army, and what is true of
the United States forces also applies to
the National Guard organizations of the
various states. lowais among the first
in the field with inquiries on the subject
of these chests, and it is quite likely that
at the next annual encampment of the

contents for

 

convention at Louisville—are beginning
to promulgate the rule that orders for less
than one-quarter dozen articles be billed
at an advance of 10 per cent. over the
dozen price. J. ©. Ayer & Co, the
World’s Dispensary Medical
and 1. S. Johnson & Co. have already
issued circulars to this effect and E. T.
Hazeltine has issued a circular, making
one-half

Association

dozen the limit a wholesaler
ean sell at the dozen price. It is likely
that the rule will be very generally
adopted by manufacturers all
country,

all concede.
2

The Drug Market.
Carbolie acid is lower. Tartarie acid,
Balsam capai-
3alsam tolu is tending
Chloral hydrate has declined.
Po. gum gamboge is lower. Manna has

powdered, has declined.
ba is lower.

higher.

declined. Oil cloves has declined. Opi-| -
um is firm. Quinine and morphia are |
unchanged.

 

 

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price forit. Address

PECK BRO " vee Dr 8

it impossible to |

Hence a light |

netting, and the most |

over the |
as it isa reform whose justice |

Writers of the male persuasion fre-
|quently publish long articles based on
| what they suppose a woman thinks; let
a woman tell what she does think: That
there are men in this world who should
be placed under the heading they are
so fond of relegating to the weaker sex,
in that they are too hasty in arriving at
conclusions; that they are not sufficiently
keen of perception when they do not per-
| ceive that often a woman who looks in a
millinery-shop window, apparently with
'a fond, rapt expression, does so in a
purely way, her thoughts
rambling elsewhere, rather than upon
'the lofty theme so taking to his mind—
“a love of a bonnet(?);’? she does not
stop to think that she is looking that way,
nor is she thinking of what she thinks.
|In plainer words, she does not stop to
analyze why she thinks of one or two
\things while looking at totally dissimi-
lar things, any more than she stops to
think how many and what kind of steps
she is taking; if she did, she might make
'a misstep, just as one going down a dark
| staircase hesitates when he puts the foot
| down the last time, although he did not
falter whilst he was unconscious of his
|movements—it was just at the point
when he thought.

It would be unchivalrous to be of the
opinion that women never think. They
ido. Their thinking machines are quite
as capable of being put in operation as are
|men’s. But there are times when they
do not think, just as men do not, of the
are going through while
| opening a newspaper.

lf a woman is obliged to wear a hat
three summers, she does pot give it as
many thoughts as a man supposes, for

|
| WHAT A WOMAN THINKS.

mechanical

|}motions they

she is a more clever contriver, since a
ihat changed three times—aye, seventy
times—is each time unlike its previous
state, and without the addition of ‘ta new
bird.’’

A man is a contortionist who thinks a
straw hat covered with velvet would be
discernable, for no woman would leave
the straw visible, and the eyes have not
yet attained the power of peering through
opaqueness. When a woman opens the
morning paper, the shades of night have
fallen: therefore when she peruses at her
breakfast, it is yesterday-morn’s paper
she has in hand—the man of the house
having monopolized it before—and it
were useless to sean the bargain columns,
for the best had been picked ere that; but
a bargain, which she
confesses to do, occasionally,
a bargain, not a one-sided affair. And
as for that moquette carpet, she prefers
an antique rug over polished floors, for
lshe thinks: ‘‘They are so much easier
taken care of and last so much longer.’’
She does like cream jugs, cups and
|saucers, but buys them with her eyes
|open, and does not think of them minus
|parts. ‘She thinks—oh, who can say
| what??? Volumes—when a man thinks
|she could. Only a woman could do jus-
| tice to her thoughts on this o¢casion.

When she notices the great so-called
| slaughter in the prices of sateens, etc.,

 

when she makes
she makes

 

in their beliefs, and sure to err,” when
they give women so little credence for
doubt as to the truth of those statements,
for she invariably thinks, if men would
only believe it, that goods cannot be well
made when marked so cheap; that they
are cheap, for business men give not
away without a return.

When she sees a woman wearing a fur
cape on cool summer days, she thinks it
is the right thing to do, a
fashion, and she would wear hers too
had she it. When she sees her neighbor
—if she does—receive ice-cream repeat-
edly from the caterer, she thinks: ‘How
foolish! She did not see that cream
made. Why,-it is composed mainly of
whipped lard, sweetened, and flavored
with vanilla and a little pure cream. Vd
prefer an ice, or to make my cream,
which can so easily be done; then, be-
there would be more a piece,”’
naively.

And when a woman is in a street car,
instead of looking at the outer adorn-
ment of the occupants, she is watching
their faces and actions, studying their
individuality, and thinking: ‘‘That man
is conscious, behind his paper, of my
standing here, and is not very comfort-
able; but 1 won’t catch his eye, for lL
don’t want his seat. 1 like to stand
sometimes, for then I can see better,
study better, and have, thus, better food
for thought. That uncomfortableness
proves you manly, therefore worthy of
your seat, albeit your manliness is not
shown in action. It can be read by the
observer.

“But that man directly opposite lacks
your qualities, since he does not hold a
paper before him shame-facedly, but
calmly, coolly looks at me as though he
would say: ‘Who has a better right?’
No one, sir, I assure you. You are quite
welcome to your seat. And that youth
next to you, cherishing his cane so fond-
ly, looking into futurity with such an
abstract air, as though conning his mul-
tiplication tables, is deserving of all the
room he can occupy, for it would be so
tiresome for his delicate nether limbs to
pedestal the weight of His Royal Huge-
ness over the uncomfortable stones! Ah,
my dear boy, you, too, are quite wel-
come!” So she soliloquizes to each pas-
senger, according to his personality, un-
til, her journey ended, she alights and
thinks new thoughts.

In conclusion, let me say it were quite
impossible to record all her thoughts
upon any one occasion, and it would be
very fair, indeed, to declare a woman
never will cease to think. And though
both men and women think, the majority
of their thoughts are purely mechanical;
they do not think of what they are doing;
one hand knoweth not what the other
doeth; and a woman’s thoughts may be
quite as sensible as a man’s are logical
and just.

It would be better for the accomplish-
ment of undertakings if the workings of
our minds were more in accordance with
the workings of our hands; if each
thought was a real thought; if
were less vacuous thoughts.

sensible

sides,

there
That is

marked down to about half their ordina- | what a woman thinks.

|ry price, she thinks men are very ‘"blind

HENRIETTA ELLSWORTH.

 

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—— cn taet Eo etre rsetns ees % 5 | Cassia / 5
(Ground 12)...... 10] Arum, po.....-..0.+0 6 =i. “ai wane 50 | rene ree emeninnen
EXTRACTUM. er freee ae 20@ 50 Serpentaria .. a
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.. MG come ¢ 15) : 10@ 12 Stromonuium... ot
am BO 31H (pv. 15). 16@ 18 Tolutan |
12 yarastis Canaden, Valerian aa
14} He Sans Ala ot = laced eride 50
15 | Inula, po... a 15 20 coe i
= ee | ne wa MISCELLANEOU
7 | Ipecac, po.. "2 40@2 50 | ASther, 8 en
Ife plox (po. 36038). 5@ 40] Nit, 3 ¥.. 26@ 28
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 ee acre eae en | 60 | Alumen “4. 30@ 32
Citrate and Quinia.. @3 50 Podoane’ ea. ae yop M@ 8
Citrate Soluble........ ‘co 16 18} 7) ground, (po. CHE CA i i
veesocyenifes Sol.. @ 0 cat neccece eee (COQDe OF | Anmatto i : I S AND
Solut Chlorid es Cut............... | @1 7] Ant aie. i, po
Sulphate, com eS ee w@is| "ae
wane: @ 7 eta ia . “T1) 4g@ 33] Ant et Potass T 4
; Sanguinaria, (po 35) o fo ut are @i1 40
‘ie, Serpentaria.......... "> 30@ 35 Anilt febrin...... @ B
ee goer jen ........ 4 = opines Nitras, ounce @G 65
Anthemis ..........--- 30@ 50 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 Balm Gilead A aa Mb 7 |
Matricaria a Selllae, =) M @ ® mesa _ Bud. 4 38@ 40!
FOLIA. Soca "Feet. 10@ 12/ Calcium Chior, 1s, (48 oe .
Baoan | Se Be im, Oe. @® 3 ieee eo *
Cassia Acutifol, Tin Valeriana, Eng. (po. 36) 6 = Cantharides Russian, - ¢
nivelly ee 2h 28 German. 15@ 20 Sane antes ——
Ke Alx. 3@ SOI, ingiber a........ 10@ 15 v yap 1S ici Fructus a, af ‘
Salvia officinalis, 48 Zinglber j 1B@ 2 po 5 |
(And YB... essere 12@ 15 SEMEN ie . ce
ae, s@ 10 . Caryophyllus, (po. 15) ca |
: ( Anisum, (po. 20) . @ 15 Carmine, No ‘oe ie na ONS
GUMML. Aplom (graveleons) . 200 2” | Ger Alba. - ratte 3 | *
Acacia, ist picked.... @ 80 Bird, is... .. ci 4@ 6}Ce a. = Hi
if = a eos @ 60 Carul, (po. 18) 8@ es Coccus co
‘ ee 40 amon. a on, | C ‘ll oe
. sifted sorts... 2 3) Corlandrum.... eae _ oo ae Seen ructus ll pees
dat oe ca 60@ 30 aa Sativa... ~~ 4%@5| Cetaceum ... @ 4\ Bei
’ 5 ag | C lm. ... " | chioroform ...,.... 2 Agens Os keere iad
«” Cape, + 0. 3. Bi s Chenopodium |....... 100, 13 cee ana squibk “= a3 Pe
‘ §socotri, ( wo @ 7 | Dipterix Odc pate... 9c rg = =
—* 1s, (assis ‘es .* Foenieulum oye es “a 15 ‘aaa wunemer eo | SWI88 lk I, y
oenugreek | ea (a) cme peerage ae ae - A PR :
Ammoniae a . BO a. Se Ssehiieaatild nae . os Cinchonfdine B. ew 2 > 2 B Ki N $
ssafcetida, (po. 30) .. > o | Lint, grd, (bbl. 454 | oo F
Assafostica, (po. ; woe 21 Lobelia. ” 34) 3 454 — list, dis. per .
Camphor@...... 50@ 33 Pharlaris Car Varian. i 340 4¥ C i | : oo ve
Eu ewe po 35@ 19 | RAPA - 6@ i = 7 7 i
Ganenmm ......-..-. @3 50 Sinapts, “Albu. eee @ 2\h3 " r 7
Gemkens. 9°. "* ga 90 Niere.. 10 @ 9} : ¥ 2 . «
Guaiacum, (po 30) -. @ SPIRITUE i" 7 ©
Kino, (po. 25)-...-.-- @ IF ts iy eae @ 8
eT @ % rumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 ere 20@ 35|
Myrrh, (po. 45)... @ 40) D. F. R.....1 75@2 00| Cupri Suiph .. @ 2|
Opt, (po. 3 2)........ > 10@2 15} J kegs. A 101 50 | Dextrine *. = $)
Shellac .. . aaa 36 untperis Co. 0. T....1 75@1 7% sme 10@ 12}
‘“ bleached oe 30@ 331s | « LC owasees -1 7@3 50 a 1er Sulph. . 68a 70 | We are So
Tragacanth ......----- 3 7B seein ¢ 7 2. 1 75@2 00 mery, all numbers.. @ le Proprictars of
0D | Sial Gall... ....4 he i Mies tees m 6
— ounce packages. ae Oporto eee 4 sep 00 on ie ) 70... on 0 | iga her y
A ie BOB coe S52 0 ake White.......... 12@ 15| I ly i
Rupatorium ..........-- i » -++-1 25@2 00} Galla . et 15 | : 8 I [gail atarr : emedy
Lobelia ooc soos os 2000 25 Fi one oes ta as | |
ajoru es orida sheeps’ w Gelatin, Cooper... 2 10 | :
Mentha = . = eee . " ~ 25@2 50 ola Pronch. an 60 |
oe ‘ assau shee 1 ~ | Glassware f nd 1 '
Rue. = carriage per wool 200 | by box rain 70 and 10, Sere ek ot ere ee ee
Tanacetum, V. oo | Velvet extra sheeps’ “| Glue, Brown 96
aaa +... 25 —— carriage. . ae "White... 15 | WHiISKIES BR A N e ee
‘iain. xira yellow sheeps’ | Glycerina ....... oa s DIBS
Caicined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 | Grass shook is’ wool Car. *) ones gage :
Carbonate, Pat ....... 20@ 2] _Tiage denies ees : 5 | GINS :
Caren eK & M.... 20@ 2%| Hard for slate uso... eV" hior Mite. | , WINES, RUMS
Carbonate, Jennings.. 35@ 36 Yellow | Reef, for slate i Ox Rab Ur @ 3 ' :
OLEUM use . iol lU*tlU — as
Absinthium 3 50@4 |. - fon oe al
ey 00 SYRUPS. nguentum. 4:@ 55 We sell ore
a ene. = 45@ 75| Accacia i By trerey ruin .....- 2 i We poco neler a a
Se ee ee thyobolla, A 1 Baal K ention to M
Anis! .. 17 Poveee oa. Am. .1 25@1 50 All orders Mail Orders and @ ’
re, 3 ci Le. Se] indice a i 0 are Shi , yuarantee Satisfaction
Aurantl Goriez eee 2 Shas 0 | Hor Boat eeee ses setae 60 | lodine, Resubl..-:....3 7 teas 00 | trial order. pped and Invoiced the same day we receive «hem. Send in :
ee one 7 ee gees 2 50 | oO orm anes ' om 70
Gurvounvill oc... 70@ 80| Rhei Arom........ oe) oo nace a 356
Caryophyil . eas Slee ae '
Chenopodii .:*: Bt SIL go | Liquor’ a me &
Cinnamonii ........... a ess coe as a 2 et Hy
el 1 15@1 20 -----++ 50] drarg I
Cinnamon — 30 aa @ x il
oe Basses ooes2" @ 44 Pe eerie ee Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 | i
ba one 10g . Tolutan . 50 — 7 | (bb! sil “"
Hees canta Prunus virg.. 50 | M 2@ 3!
Wig n g@ g GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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12

THE MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN.

 

GROCERIES.

Eloquent Tribute to the Traveler.
At the recent annual —
the National Wholesale Druggis
ciation, held at Louisville, the f
eloquent tribute te the commercial trav-
eler was delivered by a leading wholesate

druggist:
The commercial traveler is not a stand-

 

of
Asso-
aod

 

ing army, but the most active set of bus-
iness warriors which the world knows.
He is the advaneed guard, skirmisher,
minute man, scout and soldier in one.
There never was any great body of up-
right men engaged in an honorable avo
eation but what they had an adequate
reason for existence. The commercial
ravelers of this great and wonderful

country are working asa part of God’s
machinery of civilization. There is an
unwritten law of progress which melts
like wax the thoughts and opinions of
men and casts them in the mold of God’s
will. They must conform with His great
plans or they will be thrown like drift-
wood to bleach on the rocky shore of re-
trogression. The commercial traveler is
one of the chief factors of modern busi-
ness advancement. Without him our
railroads would searcely Jive, much less
extend theirlines. The modern Pullman

would be like Darwin’s missing link.
We would crawl from New York to Chi-
eago in unlimited time. The dining car |

would be at the ten niinute station, and
we would still be gnawing at those hand-
sewed doughnuts which the travel.ng man
—God biess him—has at last consumed.
Thedarky porteristhe only man on the
railroad who kicks at the commercial trav-
eler. He has his hand colioused and prob-
ably e«
ble quarters whichat first tickled it,
which, by the way, we have
the expense book as sundries,

alt tears trickled
Hotels, those

and
checked in
while the
eyelids.

through
marvelous palaces
extend to their hospitality,
at home wherever we
which contribute to the
community
an outgrowth

our

make
may wander, and
lasting benefit of
where they exist, are

traceable to the

us

us

every

:
airectiy

commercial traveler. He a be iene
the wholesaler and retailer as the wirs
of the telegraph between the two elec-

 

  
 

trical instruments, and communication
would be impossible without him. His
brisk air and cheerful face encourage
and brighten the very atmosphere of
business; his ideas and suggestions
awake from his lethargy the slumbering
retailer and open new avenues of trade.
The commercial traveler is the whisk
broom of business, and his duty is

brush the cobwebs
enliven the conservatism of both his cus-
tomers and his employers.

How many of you would be as
and successful business men as you are
to-day if you had never been commercial
travelers? What city
front rank of

bright

business activity and civi-

lization if it forbid the entrance of com-
mercial travelers? The commercial trav-
eler founded his right to exist on a rock

which cannot be removed without shak-

ing to its foundation the whole structure
of business. Let us then bow to the in-
evitable and patiently check up his ex-

pense book.

i cman eel ence
Failure of W.I. McKenzie, the Muske-
gon Grocer.
W. I. McKenzie, grocer
Chas. C.

at Muskegon,

has assigned t Moulton, who

estimates the liabilities at $1,537.94 and |
the assets at $2,109.65—$1,230 in stock

and $879.65 in book accounts.

cipal creditors are as follows:

The prin-

   

 

tional Bank, Muskegon .#i15 92

go Muskegon ~ssecens 290 OO

all-Barnh art-Pu man Co., Grand Rapids 109 40
Olney & Judson Grocer Co., C 437 55
Hawkins & Co., 107 70

It is due to the Olney & Judson Grocer
Co. to say that they pronounce assignee’s
statement of their claim incorrect—that
McKenzie owes them only $58.46.

_ _ +. <---

If you are told you resemble a great
man, say nothing. It may be that the re-
semblance will cease the moment you
open your mouth.

could stand in the |

svered with corns by the innumera- |

which |

to}
from the corners and |

| Decision Against a Mercantile Agency.

A decision of the Supreme Court of |

 

 

 

 

   

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples— $2 per bbl. for choice winter fruit. |

 

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pennsylvania upon the liabilities of com-| Beans—The market is a little stronger. — | STICK CANDY.

5 8 cae ss i" |now pay #1.30¢1.40 for unpicked and country | Full W eight. Bbls. Pails.
ame - a agencies, rece utly sane a picked be aH ne at $1.65@1.75 for city | Standard, —<h... oe WM
1s OF interes 2D ess world. | . PO Ae ae bee hee oa ese ee 6 Ty
, = interest ” the business — " | Butter—Choice dairy finds ready sale at 21@ | a HE ea A nem A OU oe us

The case decided was a suit brought | 220. Factory creamery is held at 28c. | Boston Cream .........- ies 9%

i " } Celery— 20@ per doz. si a iN 7 a
against the Bradstreet Company. It ap- | Cabbages— per doz. |Sextra Mi eee NS uw o4
pears > rating book published by idee Set TOb ee ane
: : rs that the rating ws ok pu oss i by | Cranberries—Fancy Cape Cod are held at d| MIXED CANDY.
this agency and furnished to its sub-| per bbl. Jersey Bell and Cherries comman Full Weight. i a
oe Vl ' | ‘ i | $7 50 per bbl. bis. ‘ails.
scribers for their information represent- Eggs—Dealers pay 20c for strictly fresh, hold | Standard a a 7%
ed a certain manufacturing company as ji ng at ee Cold storage and pickled are in fair | Leader............-..-00e0 002+ eee 6% Gg

: oe | demand at about 2c below fresh stock. POEERL oe wise eens a ce é
possessing a paid-in capital stock of | Evaporated Apples—The market is utterly | Royal.. —- a
es - | fe avin ce dealers buying grudgingly at 5%@ | Nobby. a ies 8}
q mhareac nm , @C { ar * ae ’ = & : 3X ae “i
$600,000, whereas only $20,000 had been | ge and holding at 7e. : gag oo ORBAN oe os ae 8%
paid in on the capitalization. The plain- Grapes—Nine-pound baskets sold at 25@30¢ fo | English Rock.. UM 84%
: Coneords and 4% for Delawares. California | Conserves .... .......-.---ee: eee? 7 S|
tiff, relying upon this report of the | Tokay command 82 per 4 basket crate. | Broken Taty..............-+------4 8%
oo id thee anu a hall Of Goods Honey—Dealers pay 12@. de and rold at 15@16. ee or: ace 9
agency, sold the company a DULL OF g00GS | Onions—Dealers pay 5x@60e and hold at 65@ | Extra..... 10
on credit, the amount of which they lost | 7¢, extra fancy commanding about S0c. | French Creams. 10%
ae : : : Potatoes—Local chandlers are paying 18@20c | Valley ema 13%
by insolvency proceedings on the part of | for choice stock, but are not at all anxious to | FANcY—In bulk. " iid

: i. ow | al / purchase, even atthat price. Full —— bls. alls,
the buyers. Suit was at once brought | © sqnash—Hubbare per Ib. : | | Lozenges, ee 10% 11%
against the Bradstreet Company for the| Sweet Peotatoes—32.50 per bbl. for choice Jer printod...........-...+ je,

/ i sey stock, Chocolate Drops......- eo 2%
amount of loss the seller had sustained | Turnips—25e per bushel. Chocolate Monumentals............. 14
eae i ee . . Gai eee... .......... chee eae 5 6%
by reason of this false information afford- SN ooo iubessesckeuas 9
- i | 214 gy
ed him by the defendant company. | Sour Drops....-...----20-2see 020-22» 8 a
_ E : PROVISIONS Eeeeree............<- ....-...., . 10% 11%
The company first pleaded a_ typo- iecuuaiasta ie | rancy—In 5 Ib. boxes. Per Box
he a 55
graphical error, and, second,the following The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. ‘oe weageveree-seeescensontecces svat ee ro
i i : i is ee eee ee eee -59
clause of its agreement with its sub-|@Quotesasfollows: = oo | Peppermint Drops.............-.+++ . 65
| cere a ' nig cae aaa |, [osolate RODE. el v0
seribers: *‘That the said company shall | Mess, new. 10 00 | HM. Chocolate Drops....... ue “90
. , ae port cut ......... ee 12 00 | fn, YT : 5
1 ‘ » for any ss ra r EE eee .40G! 0
not be liable for any loss or injury | pxtra clear pig, short cut... Co 137° | Licorice Soa a 1 00
caused by the neglect or other act of any | Extraciear, heavy........-........--.++. in en | Ap B. Licorice Drops... .-.---.. 00-21 sere 80
: : a Clear, fat back.......... 1s SU | Lozenges, vain... ae 65
officer or agent of the company in pro-} Boston clear, short cut. oo. ‘3 7% | printed 20
> " 2 *® 4
curing, collecting and communicating | se en ero a ---. 13 (5) fmperials.......... ;
oe oo “ | Standard clear, short cut, best. 13 75 | Mottoes..
said information; that the company does | , Senne ane Smoked. | MIN AM acrnct ens ceatee sas

t cuarantee the correctness of said i ~_ es rns 6% | Molasses Bar...........
not guarantee the correctness of said in- _— —— . : Hand Made Creanis. nas

ue ” gue se Sage I tse tlh Ai ARO i li Plain Creams. "80090
— | ! Frankfort Sausage 1% Decorated Creams. 1

The court decided that the stipulation | Blood Sausage. .--... --.----.-- +... 5 | String Rock. ........--.--...0. eeeeecees seen 70

. a Bologna, straight........ 5 ee 1
did not exempt the company, but its Bologna, chick... _. a ee 5 | Wintergreen Berries..... a 65

pad Cheese... re 5
agents, and held that under a fair and —e LARD—Kettle Rendered " CARAMELS.
reasonable construction of the clause, — 7% | — 1, wrapped, 2 1b. boxes.......-.-...---- =
ubds . i eau a ca : —s llc Sl .
the company ought not to be liable for |501b. Tins....... : Te 7 2, i 2 28

-“teloca aricines fr Co / ' LARD. Com ty 3 S| eee tae ce eama 2
mistakes arising from those who collect Family. pound, aol up, 5 lb. boxes.... a 1 10
and impart information. This, however, | Tlerees .-;... 5% Bhs ORANGES.

: ea a 0 and 50 Ib. Tubs 6 “4 | Floridas, fancy 3 WHOS 2
was not the casein this suit. The agent | 3 1b. Pails, in a case 6% 8% vielailaiiica MRIURER  SEN OSNU RM val atl
Sb. Pails, 12ins Lee 65 6%
“ adn ak o “t . one lol 8, 1s . 78 18 LEMONS,
had made a correct report to the com 10 1b. Pails, 6 in a case. : 6% 61% Messina, choles, 900.........-- a @4 %0
pany, and the company -was responsible | 201. Pails, 4 in a case. ----.6% 6 acy, BO0......-.2-- eee @
: . oe : 50 lb. Cans es se 5% | “ choice 300...... @
for the gross error made, and for this BEEF IN BARRELS | us fancy 390...... ; @
: 3 Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs. 6 50 FOR "RU

witeones wee slosria ii. cceny y OTHER FOREIGN: FRUITS.
negligence was clearly liable. Judg metre Mess, ¢ —— packing | 6 50) Figs, faney layers, a a) ae
ment was, therefore, given against 1e | BONELESS, TuMp Outs... - . 9 50 Ce @15

' namin TT th SMOKED MEATS—C anvas esed ¢ or Plain. “6 extra _ ae @I18
company for the full amount claimed | Hams, average 20 lbs... : _ oa) « ‘ eS @18
, . aa... ... = ates. F: » 9
eile ib dae Bie a — Dates, Fard, - ~ DOK....- +. +. . :
a ra ‘* piente .... .... Tq | © Persian, 50-Ib, box. @ 6
> Trades Y oF “best boneless. . =o ' NUTS. 7"
se Tradesman Coupon Books. Shoulders... : 6% | Almonds, Tarragona. 216%
ee omen | Breakfast Bacon, boneless 9% “ Ivaca.. @i6
/- Dried beef, ham prices . 8 “ California 215%
ek 2 Cars Long Clears, heavy....... 7% | Brazile, new...... 74D 8
Croc ery G las SSW APE | priskets, medinn ct er nr ma
light .. 7+, | Walnuts, Grenoble. . @l4
LAMP BURNEBs. . Marbot.. o @
. ela, coe. @Qi0
z a
een er ects 45 Table Nuts, fancy. LT @i:
ae ee 50 FRESH MEATS. choice, Led 11 @l2
| a oe ee ea i. . Pecans, Texas, H. P., ....... . 15 @i7
i TUBE. 2c ee weer ewww eves i eae 7 ”
' Swift and C sesniineleants as follows: Cocoanuts, full — oe @4 00
LAMP CHIMNEY8.—Per box. Beef, CATCABB....-.......- -4 @6 |e ¢ H. P | 5 @5

6 doz. in box. hind quarters Au, 6 ney, +) Sums....... vee 5 @ 5%
No. 6 Sun i an 175 ‘“ fore gs et dick als Sey ay 3A, nd v ae ee .7 oT
No. 1 cn eee a a ' oa oy, | Fancy. H. P., Fla Te LL 5 @5%
a i a maa Roasted........ 7 @%

First quality. ee inde... eee ie Choice, H. Ps eee : @ 4%

owe * dh eh < “ee mie
a 0 Sun eri imp top J tongues a Roasted. @ 6%
-: : | Bok gna as | ——
| Pork loins @ 6% | HIDES, PELTS and FURS
* «boulders .... 434 > ine 2 ae ul : " a.
2 6 Sausage, ood or head g si Perkins & Hees pay as fo'lows:
Be . er.. : Qs | tien ERENT ‘
3 & Frank fort @ i% soe ae 3 4%
: se | ono none 5 @5%| Pull“ oe La @5
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and | le beled i oe ee 5%@ 6 TN ee ue 5 g :
_—s Ca i 470 coe r i sisi mie We gece tia ca ow D6
2 Hinge, “ ‘ ‘ ee =a | oT Kips, green ou 3 ei

“— Bastie. | . . Qt
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. .... 1 25 | FISH and OYSTERS. Caifskins, green 4 @5
No. 2 “ “ “ ae 1 oI ‘ ee a -6 @6
No. 1 Crimp, per Gos.........-... 135| ¥. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: = a «: 7
mas cee au. 1 60 hides ¥ off

nt i FRESH FISH. ELTS
: AMP WICKS Sa m Shearlings. 10 @%x
mo, ©, wer prom... ....... 45. ol , pr Ne : @8 | Lamb , One
N 16 stereos OO} t on a BAMDS. ..00.--+- oe Bids
io. t, eee eee 9g | Trout.... ‘ ee bes eee eee ee f 8 WOOL
es hc .DhlULULLLL Ll 3g | Halibut oie eee ee : @20 | washed KG?
No. 3, o i lll! ao os Ot lias lm ais
| Mammoth, per doz......... CT it ee ee ao | Unwashed - anna 10@20
7" eee... .-.-s- So @i2 | SC a
STONEWARE—AERON, geet Tallo aise
he s : Mackerel oa : i. a i BF ee - 34@ 4
Butte rCrocks, : arte eas . . ee oo Cpaes Wate 1 @3

| DOE . 06% |G a cu pop Ee -- 14@ 2
Jugs, % gal., per doz.................. 7 California salmon........ ae tee ee ‘ @. a

ee a + gz B

bee eee cease . 2 senate

“ : e ‘ee i

a + 180 | Standards, per gal i, #1 00 :
Mik Pans. % eal., per dos. ts glazed 7 Bey -- © | Selects, Oe 1 60 | OILs.
| overana—Cana. | The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows, in
~ ores | Counts.. _ @35 | barrels, f. o. b. Grand Rapids:
Cy @20
POULTRY. oo @ ;
Doone 4.4... ei aa eee eee @z W. W. Headlight, 150 fire test (old hssepes @ 8%

Local dealers pay as follows for dressed fowls: | F J. D....... -00-. ee ee eet e ee ee etree @20 | Water White, ..... @ 8
Spring ite 2 gi0 | Anchor.. ose eae sae @18 | Michigan aC @i%
ee roe renee tenineenes ee | Standards <...... ne @16 ee cic ca yl aeeeeeee @™%
mala ee ul @12 | DAFOE. sees Sn cote @14 | Gasoline.. ue @ 8
ee 12 @13 | ‘SHELL eoops. Cylinder .......

ottsneeees cieeeconeseny ce i @i2 | Oysters, per 100... ‘ . 1 25@1 50 | Ehgine vce ene ees ee eee ey 1
teeter eenes | Clams, r sv adeee cab tpt Asecccen ss. San Cll ReUIly Oe OOOO GO. ccs lena oe @ 7%

 

 

 

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; 40 APP
20 _ pails LE BUTTER
Ma * pails seen
ason’s S +e "
i nah com 8
se “as i“ 0, 290 or po ane : ; La Str
s1b. 0 lbs 5! pe awberri
one ee = ee mk ne es.
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; arc trafi a i. ¥e ne ki
12% ases, fite Co Ww sss: 9 ox tag] ON]
m 1 seore ~ | 1. ENSE
25 el pails, pert ew. ina. | Crown..-.scse. sD MILK
100 Ib. k doz ae $8 50 aa a. i Genuine Swis ci
25 . ace aw oe srries . £ - "eos d
250 1b kegs gs, per | oe 7 50 rries .. 1 40 mericar wiss Cos 6 40 Crack W
400 ~ % bt bl r Ib ...42 06 Cor vrees 1 2h 1 Sw 5 50 ked heat
ib a if ned MEAT i wo . 8 esee ut.
_ bbls per lt  « Roa beef SATS ' . 8 00 oe
1 » per It Peeae ¢ oe } Libby’ 30 cou are — a . iN
gr Ba b 2a otte ¢. Ar y's. - ya PO . + Of ae . utr
a ease adge doh mot N B FIS 5 | negs, *
12% It es, pe e. uw 1r’s Roo SH--S | ‘6 faneyv
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GEORGE WASHINGTON.

His Business Relations
Merchants.

Written for THE TRADESMAN

 

with London

In presenting the appended letters,

written by the hand of the immortal
George Washington, under dates speci-
fied at the head of each, | have endeav-
vored to select from a voluminous mass
of correspondence those portions which
will best serve to show the difference in
methods of business now and a century
ago.

Probably no man acquainted with the

style of the average business letter, as |

written at the present day, will be able
to repress a smile as he reads the appar-
well-founded

ently complaints of the

Father of his Country, concerning the
trouble he experienced with his freights,
and the losses occasioned by the careless-
ness of the ship captains. That it wasa
matter of even greater moment in those
days than at present is attested earlier in
the same letter. It was almost impossi-
ble for him to duplicate his orders and
receive the goods required therein, in less
time than the space of a year.

And how forbearing was this man! All
of his plaid hose for the Mount Vernon
plantation went in a package to Mr.
Valentine, and he had to send for them
a distance of 150 miles, yet he merely
mentions this with the rest, as an item
of inconvenience. ‘Think of 150 miles of
travel in those days! It probably meant
a two weeks’ trip over the mountains,
and the loss of that much valuable time
for the man who made the journey, yet
we fail to find that any claim for damag-
es was made upon the merchants.

He complains of the fact that his to-
bacco was sold at a price 114 d. per
pound less than other merchants were
getting for the same grades, but he only
says: ‘“‘However, gentlemen, I hope to
see it otherwise for the time to come.”
More than three years later, when he
does not ‘‘partake
of the best prices that are going,” he

still finds his tobacco

says, ‘“‘Notwithstanding, you will again
receive my crops again this year.”

Washington must have been a daisy
customer.

But even he could not stand every-
thing. After remarking upon the high
prices he was paying for his goods, and
the unsatisfactory way in which his sales
were made, the villainuus service ren-
dered by the freight carriers, not to omit
the trouule which he was put in to
furthering the interests of his corres-
pondents in America, observe the quaint-
ness of his expression regarding the
possibility of withdrawing his custom:
“These, gentlemen, are my sentiments
fully and candidly expressed, * * *

—<_ + = *

and sincere in my declarations * * *,|

that I may stand acquitted of the impu-
tation of fickleness, if 1 am at last forced
to a discontinuance of my correspondence

with your house.’’

Imagine writing a letter to your mer-

chant on the 28th day of May, and, while

so doing, receiving from him a commu-

nication which had been on the way ever |

since the previous January!

In the face of these facts, it is not sur-
prising that the business letters of our
great grand fathers were somewhat more
pretentious than those of the present
day.

I have thought best to include with
these letters a partial list of goods or-
dered by Washington, from his London

it behooves me to be plain |

| merchants, for use, probably, on his Po-
| tomae River plantations, and which were
undoubtedly sent with a letter written
under date of September 20, 1759; and if

| the order met with fairly good success,

the goods must have reached him some

time during the following summer. A

portion, however, of the items in the |

original memorandum have been omitted,

owing, in a measure, to the great length |

of the order, and partly because many of
the articles are of too ordinary anature to
excite particular interest. Among those
i things which we have leftout are along
list of drugs forthe farriery, and another
| of tools of various kinds. Of the latter,
| it is interesting to note that scarcely any-

thing is asked for which eannot now be

£

found in almost any well appointed hard-
ware store.

We give in full the memoranda of ar-
ticles needed for the Custis children, and

reading for THr
friends. Gro. L. THURSTON.
*

ert Cary & Company for the use of
George Washington:

the measure.
4 pieces best India nankeen.
2 best plain beaver hats, at 21s.

buckles or rings.
4 lbs. ivory black.
2 pairs good horse scissors.
lg ream good post paper, cut.
lg ream good do. 4to do.

made in a sack and coat.

to be made of Brussels lace, or point,
proper to wear with the above negligee,
to cost £20.
1 piece bag holland at 6s.
2 fine flowered lawn aprons.
2 double handkerchiefs.
1 pair black and1 pair white satin
shoes, of the smallest 5s.
4 pair calamanco do.
1 fashionable hat or bonnet.
1¢ dozen knots and breast knots.
1 dozen round silk laces.
1 black mask.
6m. miniken pins.
6 m. short whites.
6 m. corking pins.
1m. hair do.
6 lbs. perfumed powder.
3 lbs. best Seotch snuff.
3 lbs. best violette Strasburg.

be very fine.

1 ease of pickles, to consist of ancho-
vies, capers, Olives, salad oil, and one
bottle India mangoes.

1 large Cheshire cheese.

4 lbs. green tea.

10 groce best corks.

1 hogshead best porter

10 loaves double and 10 single refined
| sugar.

6 strong halters, hempen reins.

3 best snaffle bridles.

25 lbs. crown soap.

2 dozen packs playing cards.

bushel tares.

more chair bottoms such as were
written for in former invoice.

3 gallons of Rhenish in bottles.

30 yards red shalloon.

20 dozen white washed coat buttons.

12 dozen waistcoat ditto.

1 piece dowlas at 10d.

11¢ dozen pairs strong, coarse thread
hose, fit for negro servants.

6 Castor hats at about 5s.

2 postilion caps.

 

1 dozen pairs coarse shoe and knee}

buckles.
450 ells Osnabergs.
4 pieces brown rolls.
350 yards Kenda!l cotton.
100 yards Dutch blankets.
2 pieces fearnought.
2 easks 8d. nails; 2 do. 10d. do.; 10 m.
20d. do.; 20 m. 8d. do.
| 2 dozen box gimlets.
- *

%

*

| they will, perhaps, furnish interesting |
TRADESMAN’S lady |

Invoice of sundries to be sent by Rob-}

A light summer suit made of duroy by |

i sword belt, red morocco or buff: no |

A salmon-colored tabby of the en- |
closed pattern, with satin flowers, to be |

1 cap, handkerchiet, tucker and ruffles, |

2 oz. Coventry thread, one of which to |

"TRADESMAN.

 

Invoice of sundries to be shipped by
tobert Cary and Company, for the use of
Master John and Miss Patty Custis, each
to be charged to their own accounts, but

both consigned to George Washington, |

Potomac River:
FOR MASTER CUSTIS, 6 YEARS OLD.

1 piece Lrish Holland at 4s.

2 yards fine cambric at 10s.

6 pocket handkerchiefs, small and fine.

6 pairs gloves; 2 laced hats.

2 pieces India nankeen.

6 pairs fine thread stockings.

4 pairs coarser do.

6 pairs worsted do.

4 pairs strong shoes; 4 pairs pumps.

1 summer suit of clothes to be made of
something light and thin.

3 ivory combs; 2 horn do.; 2 brushes.

| piece biack hair ribbon.

1 pair handsome shoe and knee buckles.

10s worth of toys.

6 little books for children beginning to
read.

l oz. Sd. thread: 1 oz. 12d. do.

1 oz. Ss. do.: 1 oz. 25. Go.

¢ Ib. whited brown thread.
1 light duffel cloak with silver frogs.
FOR MISS CUSTIS, 4 YEARS OLD.

8 yards fine printed linen at 3s. 6d.

1 piece Irish Holland at 4s.

2 ells fine Holland at 10s.
| §$ pairs kid mitts; 4 pairs gloves.

2 pairs silk shoes.

4 pairs Calamanco do.; 4 pairs leather
pumps.

6 pairs fine thread stockings.

4 pairs worsted do. u

lg piece flowered Dimity.

2 yards fine cambric at 10s.

2 caps, 2 pairs ruffles, 2 tuckers, bibs,
and aprons, if fashionable.

2 fans; 2 masks; 2 bonnets.
2M large pins; 2M short whites.
2M minikens; 1 cloth cloak.
1 stiffened coat of fashionable silk,
; made to pack-thread stays.
| 6 yards ribbon; 2 necklaces.
1 pair of silver sleeve buttons, with
| stones.

1 fashionable-dressed baby 10s; and
other toys 10s.

6 pocket handkerchiefs.

* * %
| To Robert Cary aud Company, London:
Mount VERNON, 28 May, 1762.
GENTLEMEN —-In your acknowledged
favor of August 10th, 1 perceive you
| bring the shortness of some of the bun-
dles of the tobacco shipped in the Bland
ito account for the lowness in the price.
| That some of the tobacco was small, 1
| will not undertake to dispute; but at the
same time I must observe that it was
clean and neatly handled, which I ap-
prehend would have rendered the other
objection of very little weight. As to
stemming the tobacco, in the mauner you
recommend, I would readily do it, if the
returns would be equivalent to the trouble
|/and loss of the stem; and of this 1 shall
be a tolerable judge, as l am at no small
pains this year to try the quality with
ithe advantages and disadvantages of
different kinds of tobaecos, and shall at
the same time find out the difference be-
| tween a hogshead of leaf and a hogshead
|of stemmed tobacco. By comparing the
|loss of the one with the extra price of
the other, lL shall be able to determine
which is the best to pursue, and follow
that method which promises the most
certain advantages.
Some of the tobaccos which I put on
board the Unity, Captain Cuzzens, got
|damaged in carrying to the warehouses
for inspection and had a part cut, which
i will, no doubt, deface it a little; but as
this happened while I was at Williams-
burg, Iam able to give you no exact in-
fermation concerning it. In this parce]
of tobac.o there are three kinds, which
| please give me your Opinions upon.

As | have ever laid it down as an es-
tablished maxim that every person is
(most certainly ought to be) the best
judge of what relates to his own interest
and concerns, Ll very rarely undertake to
propose schemes to others, which may
ibe attended with uncertainty and mis-

sarriage. This will at once account for
imy being among the last, who should
|advise your sending a vessel into the
| Potomae for the accommodation of your
| friends there. - That I have often thought
of it as a desirable thing for the shippers,

G. R. MAYHEW,

Grand Rapids. Mich.,

JOBBER OF

Wales Goodyear Rubbers,

Woonsocket Rubbers,

Felt Boots & Avaska Socks.

Whitcomb & Paine’s Calf Boots.

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I will readily confess, and have as often
concluded, that, so soon as you found an
established consignment formed here,
you would do it, of course; and sooner
we ought not to expect it. Since you
have proposed the matter yourself to me,
I certainly must approve of it; and, as}
you are so obliging as to write that you |
shall direct the master to be under my
notice, I hope that you will be persuaded
to believe that I shall readily contribute
my best advice and assistance to his
despatch.

The tobaccos of most of your

upon the Potomac (or that ship from

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friends |

own crops this year, and sixty-seven | good chapeen, and the sales returned,
t

hogsheads of Master Custis’s; but, gen-

| unless there is a very

probable prospect

tlemen, you must excuse me for adding of arise of price to warrant the keeping
(

as 1 cannot readily conceive, that our to- |

baecos are-so much depreciated in quali-

i ty, as not only to sell much below other
|marks of good repute,
| less, as I before observed, than the com-
monest kinds do), that justice to myself
and ward will render itabsolutely neces-
sary for me tochange my correspondence,
unless I experience an alteration for the
better.

I might take notice upon this occasion, |

| also, that my tobacco nets a good deal

thence) lie within fifteen miles above and |

below this place. and as good, or the
best harbour (Piscataway), is within
sight of my door. It has this great ad-
vantage, besides good anchorage and
lying safe from the winds, that it is out
of the way of the worm, which is very
hurtful to shipping a little lower down,
and lies in a very plentiful part of the
country. I thought it incumbent upon
me to mention these things, after which
do as you please. If I had received any
intimation of your sending a vessel into
this river, I should not have engaged any
part of my tobacco to Cuzzens, and while
1 remain in expectation of her arrival 1
will not seek a freight elsewhere for the
residue of what I intend for your house
from this river, which probably may
amount to thirty hogsheads more.

Thus far had 1 written and was going
to conclude, when your favor of the
eighteenth of January was presented to
me. I am sorry to hear the account
given of the tobacco shipped in Boyes,
but as you do not particularize the pro-
prietors’ names, who suffered most, I am
in hopes my seventy hogsheads have
pretty well escaped the general com-
plaint. If they have not, I confess it to
be an art beyond my skill to succeed in
making good tobacco, as 1 have used my
utmost endeavours for that purpose these
two or three years past; and lam once
again urged to express my surprise at
finding that 1 do not partake of the best
prices that are going. I saw an account
rendered by Mr. Athews of some tobacco,
which he sold for Mr. Fairfax at 12/¢d.
The tobacco went from this river, and,
lean aver, was not better than twelve
hogsheads of my mountain crop, which
you received in the Sarah and Bland last
summer. In fact Mr. Fairfax’s planta-
tions and mine upon the Shenandoah lie
in the same neighborhood. The tobacco
is brought tothe same inspection, and,
to be short. is in all respects, exactly
alike. None of mine, however, sold for
more than 11d, while his went off a little
before at the price of 12!¢d. as aforesaid.
This is a difference really too great, and
I see it with concern. However, gentle-
men, I hope to see it otherwise for the
time tocome. Iam, etc.,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.
To Robert Cary & Company, London:

Mount VERNON, 20 September, 1765.

GENTLEMEN—It cannot reasonably be
imagined, that I felt any pleasing sensa-
tions upon the receipt of your letter of
13th of February, covering accounts for
sales for one hundred and fifty-three
hogsheads of Master Custis’s tobacco and
one hundred and fifteen of mine.

That the sales are pitifully low needs
no words to demonstrate; and that they
are worse than many of my acquaint-
ances upon the river Potomac have got
in the outperts, and from Mr. Russell
and other merchants of London, for com-
mon Orinoke tobacco, is a truth equally
as certain. Nay, not so good as | myself
have got from Mr. Gilbert, of Liverpool,
for light rent tobaccos (shipped to him
at the same time I did to you) of the
meanest sort; such as you once com-
plained of, as the worst of Maryland and
not salable. Can it be otherwise than a
little mortifying, then, to find that we,
who raise nothing but sweet-scented to-
bacco, and endeavor, I may venture to
add, to be careful in the management of
it, however we fail in the execution, and
who, by a close and fixed correspondence
with you, contribute so largely to the
dispatch of your ships in this country,
should meet with such unprofitable re-
turns? Surely I may answer, No! Not-
withstanding, you will again receive my

 

 

less than Master Custis’s and why it
should do sol am really at a loss to dis-
cover; his one hundred and fifty-three
hogsheads averaging £7 7s. 7d. and my
one hundred and fifteen only £5 17s. 6d.
Perhaps it may be urged that some of
mine was Potomac tobacco. I grant it,
but take these out, and the Yorks then
average £6 6s. 5d. only. If you had
allowed him the benefit of the bonded
duties,[ should not have wondered at the
difference; but this, I perceive, is not
done; and certain I am, my tobacco
ought not to have been inferior to his,in
any respect, the lands being the same,
and my directions for making it good
equally as express.

Tobacco, I well perceive, for a year or
two past, has fallen in its value. From
what cause I shall not take upon me to
determine; and 1 am not so extravagant
as to believe, that my own and Master
Custis’s crops should feteh their usual
prices, when other good tobacco met with
abatements. But [ am really  seltish
enough to expect, that we ought to come
in for a part of the good prices that are
going, from a belief that our tobacco is
of a quality not so much inferior to
some, that still sells well, and that so
eonsiderable a consignment, when con-
fined in a manner to one house, as ours
is, would lay claim to the best endeavors
of the merchant in the sales, and in the
return of goods; for many articles of
which I pay exceedingly heavy, another
thing I cannot easily account for, unless
it is on a presumption that they are
bought at very long credits, which by

no means ought to be the case. For,
where a person has money in a mer-

chant’s hands, he should doubtless have
all the benefits that can result from that
money; and, in a like manner, when he
pays interest for the use of the mer-
chant’s, should he be entitled to the same
advantages; otherwise it might well be
asked, for what purpose is that interest
paid?

Once, upon my urging a complaint of
this nature, you wrote me that the goods
ought to be sent back, and they should
be returned upon the shopkeeper’s hands
in cases of imposition; but a moment’s
reflection points out the inconvenience of
such a measure, unless the imposition be
grossly abusive, or we could afford to
have a year’s stock before hand. How
otherwise can a person, who imports
bare requisites only, submit to lie a year
out of any particular article of clothing
or necessary for family use, and have re-
course to so uncertaln and tedious a way
of relief as this, when possibly a trades-
man would deny the goods and conse-
quently refuse them? It is not to be done.
We are obliged to acquiesce in the pres-
ent loss and hope for future redress.

These, gentlemen, are my sentiments
fully and candidly expressed, without
any design, believe me, of giving you of-
fence; but, as the selling of our tobac-
cos well, and the purchasing of our goods
upon the best terms, are matters of
the utmost consequence to our well-do-

ing, it behooves me to be plain and _ sin- |

cere in my declarations on these points,
previous to any change of measures, that
1 may stand acquitted of the imputation
of fickleness, if 1am at last forced to
discontinue my correspondence with your
house.

Twenty hogsheads of my tobacco from
this river make up forty-eight which I
have in Boyes; the remainder, which is
trifling, shall be sent by the first ship
that gives liberty; and, as I have not

but actually for |

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been able to discover any advantages we |

obtained by our tobaccos lying so long up-
on hand unsold, I should be glad to have
the present crops (and so of others if
more be sent) disposed gf to the first

J

| riyer,

| of doing

of it.

By this conveyance you will perceive
invoices of goods wanted for our planta-
tions on York River; and those for this
river willnolonger, | hope, he sent in by
Boyes, for, when they come into that
we really suffer by the strange
mistakes that continually happen. Last
year several pareels of goods designed
for York River were sent to this place,
and others for me left down there, and in

going backwards and forwards some
were lost (things, too, of no inconsider-

able value, for one of the parcels was a
bale of linen); and this year allof my
plaid hose for this river came in a pack-

age to Mr. Valentine, and I had to send
for them one hundred and fifty miles.
These mistakes and inconveniences

would be necessarily avoided, if the
goods were to come by ships to the re-
spective rivers; and they would
eape those frequent damages, which are
the consequence of shifling them from
one vessel to another, and transporting
them from place to place. Opportunities
this cannot be wanting, as many
vessels come to this river annually from
London, some of which lie at my door.

It appears pretty evident to me, from
the prices I have generally got for my
tobacco in London, and from some other
concomitant circumstances, that it only
suits the interest of a few particular
gentlemen to continue their consignments
of this commodity to that place, while
some others should endeavor to substi-
tute some cther article in place of tobac-
eco, and try their success therewith. In
order thereto you would do me a singular
favor in advising me of the general price
one might expect for good hemp in your
port, watered and prepared according to
act of parliament, with an estimate of
the freight, and ail other incident charges
per ton, that 1 may form some idea of
the profits resulting from the growth. |
should be glad to know at the same time,
how rough and undressed flax has gen-
erally, and may probably This
year { have made an essay on both; and,
although I suffer considerably by the
attempt, owing principally to the severi-
ty of the drought, and my inexperience
in the management, Iam not altogether
discouraged from a further prosecution
of the scheme, provided I find the sales
with you are not clogged with too much
difficulty and expense. if am, etc.,
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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John H. Westover, Fruitport.

J. Felton, Stetson.

Jas. L. Felton, Burnip’s Corners.

Den Herder & Tannis, Vriesland.

C. B. Johnson, Palo.

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How Can lincrease My Trade ?
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

This is a question which
awake,

every wide-
ious retailer of merchandise
many times. It is

ambit
asks himself a great
not so much an increase of the volume
of trade which is sought after, for a large
pereentage of business men everywhere
early

theil

are kept on the jump from dawn

eatehing meals

until late at night,

jusi time to

as it happens, never finding

read the news or indulge in a little reere-

ation which they so much need. It is

not, therefore, how to inerease the vol-

ume, but, rather, how to increase the

siness which is the great

profits of bu
problem earnestly striving for a solution
in the minds of bu

to-day. It is not how to make the day

siness men everywhere

longer, but how to make it more profit-

able; not how to multiply the number of
steps taken, but how to accomplish more
not how

number already taken;

to do more. but how to be better reward-
done is the great

Indeed, the
importance—

ed for what is being

thing to be considered.
still greate)

question Is oi
‘
u

it is how to do less and accomplish more.

The laws of our existence demand
that one-third of our time should be de-
one-third to recreation,
Fabor. ff the

human ex-

rest,

voted to
and one-third to diligent

highest possible condition of
istence depends upon this division of our
time, what a low status of being the
man in this American
One-third

Hie spends one-third of

average business

Republic represents! of his

life mis-spent!
his ex-

his time in violating the laws of

istence, and the great wonder is that a

larger number of our business men do
not collapse in middle life and either die
or become mental and

We not

‘Sin the harness,’’

physical wrecks. only rob our-
selves of the recreation we so much need
and give it all to labor, but we go further
hour or two from the third
to rest.

and villages, the

and steal an
which should be given entirely
In the
dry gocds and boot and shoe dealers are

country towns

on duty on an average, from thirteen to
fifteen hours and the grocers are in the
z1arness from fifteen to seventeen hours
out of The market
men are always ou tap, at least the writer
iate

early enough in

twenty-four. meat

has never been caught out
at night or turned out
the morning to see

enough

a meat market closed.

I have often wondered how a market
would look closed up, and if 1 knew
what time in the night it happened, I

would sit up all night just to see how it

would look.
Sixteen-twenty-fourths of our

this everlasting fret,

time given up to

stew, worry and

not satisfied! No time to read any book

or paper except the ledger and the in-

voice. So many clerks to damn that no

time can be found to goto prayer meet-

ing. Never have time to shake hands

 

WHOLESALE, WIRY. Goons

entire |

 

_MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

and listen to a good story, except when
a representative of the gripsack brigade
calls on us, and the reason we do it then
is because we owe the ‘‘house” a small
bill which it is not convenient for us to
pay justthen. Never have time to vote
except about once every four years. We
never keep a cow or indulge in poultry,
because the delivery clerk would sour
the milk and suck the eggs. We never
go to church because we can’t drag our
bed until after the
bell has rung for the last time, and we
can’t go at night, for we shall not see
our children again for a week, and we
are compelled to stay at home and renew
our acquaintance with them, so that, as
their lawful parents, we may be able to
recognize them, shou'd we accidentally

weary bones out of

meet them some day on the street.

In spite of all this ceaseless grind and
self-sacrifice, owing to the
bitter competition known in the
commercial history of the world, very
few retail merchants are really making
money, as the common saying goes. The
are doing so

fiercest and
most

few who are making money
not because they possess external ad-
vantages which others do not possess,
such as location, social position,
born under a lucky star, or any other
external circumstance. These all may
exert an influence in stimulating or re-
tarding success, but they have no more
to do with success itself than the size of
a house, the material of which it is made
or the way it faces has to do with the
suecess of the housekeeper who has
charge of it. If there is a place for
everything and everything is kept in its

being

 

place; if everything is utilized and turned

to some practical account and nothing is
permitted to go to waste; if everything is
neat, clean and tasty, and nothing is put

across the street from the
grocery. This time the wire broke and
the clerk lost a washtub worth 85 cents.
The grocer charged the tub to the clerk
and the clerk swore he would not pay it
and threw up his job. The grocer had
to hire the clerk over again at an increase
of wages. All this trouble was caused
by the neglect of a very small insigni-
ficant matter, yet suecess or failure in
mereantile life depends upon how we
treat these ten thousand and one little
and apparently trivial and insignificant
matters promptly on the spot as they
present themselves from day to day.
Stop worrying about how to increase
your trade and turn your investigating
forces upon the more important ques-
tion, ‘‘How may I increase the profits of
Under this amended form
I shall continue the subject next week.
E. A. OWEN.

directly

my business.’

> ->____——
Waraing to the Trade.

Notice is hereby given that Ray Mor-

owing to

accounts,

ton is no longer in my employ,
specifie irregularities in his
and that the trade is hereby cautioned
notto pay him any money on my account,
as I shall not honor any payments made
to him after this date. A. S. DAVIS.
Cigar Manufacturer.

GRAND Rapips, Noy, 21, 1891.
— a

It takes one hundred cents to make a
dollar, but ten million dollars couldn’t
make sense for some people.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

Schedule in effect November 15, 1891.

TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arrive from Leave going
a) . th.

ort
For Saginaw and Cadillac...... 5:15 pm 7:05 pm
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:20am 11:30 a m
| For Saginaw & Traverse City . 2:00a = 4:15 am

cff until to-morrow which ought to be|

attended to to-day; if over the dining-
room door is hung the motto, ‘‘An ounce
of preventitive is worth a pound of cure,”
and over the sewingroom door is hung
that other old, familiar motto, ‘‘A stitch
in time saves nine’’—you may safely con-
elude that the lady who runs that house
is making a grand success of it as a
housekeeper, and whether the house be
a board shanty or a mansion with a mar-
ble front makes no difference.
really

imagine that their failure is attributable
to external surroundings.

The keen two-edged competition of to-
day makes possible only the survival of
the fittest. A neglect of the minutest
details means failure. The other day

lone of the hinges of the end board of a

grind—and yet we are|

grocer’s delivery wagon was b:oken and

|a bit of wire was strung across for pro-

tection and the clerk was sent away with
a load todeliver. The wire answered the
purpose, so it was made to do duty the

next day, although a blacksmith shop was

  

gi e79 83Moyroe =. ¢

10.12: 14,16 ard 18 Fountain Ot

The |
successful housekeepers are the]
few, while the many fret and worry and |

 

For Petoskey & Mackinaw 8:50 p 10:30 p m
Train arriving at 9:20 daily: all oh i trains daily
except Sunday.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

    
  
  

Arrive from Leave going
North. South.

Doe Cometat..... 00. 00-.-.- 6:20am 7 "00 am
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:30 am
For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm
For Cincinnati....... aa :30 pm 6:00 pm
For Chicago.... 10:40 pm 11:05 pm
From Saginaw. . 10:40

pm
Trains leaving Dp. m. and 11:05 p. m. run daily;
all other trains viaily except Sunday.

 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana,
For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon— Arrive.

: 10am
11:25 am 4:40 pm
5:35 pm 9:05 pm

 

SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE.

NORTH
11:30 a m train.—Parlor chair car G’d
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
10:30 P m train.—Sleeping car Grand
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.

SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car
Grand Rapids to Chicago.
6:00 pm train.—Wagner Sleeping Car
Grand Rapids to Cincinnati.
11;05 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car
Grand ee toc oe

Chicago via G. R. & LE R. =

Lv Grand Rapids 10:30 a m 2:09 pm

Arr Chicago 3:55 p m 9:00 pm
10:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:05 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

11:05 pm
6:50 am

Ly ChicazZo 7:05am 3:10pm 10:10 p m
Arr Grand Rapids 2.00pm 8 50pm 6:15 am
3.10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10 p m

train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

 

Through tickets and full information can be had by
calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta-
tion, or George Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67

| Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

 

  

 

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falls Route.”

Detroit Express.
Mixed

  
 

 

Day Expre' :

*atlantic. = Pacific Express canes 10:30 pm 6:00am

Now York Exproas..........00. cscs 5640pm 12:40pm
*

ail
All = daily except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express
trains to and from Detroit.

Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapid
Express to and from Detroit.

FRED M. Briaaes, Gen’i Agent, 85 Monroe St.

A. ALMQuIST, Ticket Agent, Union Depot.

Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.

O. W. RUGGLES G.P. & T. Agent., Chicago.

TIME TABLE

NOW IN EFFECT.

 

  

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Trains Leave |tNo. 14|tNo. 16|tNo. 18{*No. 28
rd Rapids, ‘Ly 6 50am}!
Cee oo. ces Ar| 745am/11 25am) 4 52pm /)12 37am
St. Johns an § 28am ‘7 tam) 5 40pm! 1 55am
OwOsSO ...... Ar} 9 15am 20pm} 6 46 pm} sion
E. Saginaw. .Arj11 loam bce! 8 40pm | 8 45am
Bay City.....Arj11 50am] 3 45pm) 9 20pm} 7.:0am
Flint ........Arj11 10am} 3 40pm) 8 pm| 5 40am
Pt. Huron...Ar| 3 05pm 6 00pm) 10 30pm) 7 35am
Pontiac ......Ar}10 57am 3 O5pm| 8 55pm) 5 50am
Detroit. 1. Are S 5.am| 405pm| 9 9 50pm} 7 7 0am

WESTWARD.

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Cricama Gis, * . C. | Deed
*Daily. tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east,
5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m.
Trains arrive from the west, 10:10 a, m., 3:35
p.m. and 9:50 p, m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
ear. No. 18 Chair Car. No. #2 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward —No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11
Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
. Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager.
BEN FLETcHER, Trav. Pass. Agent.
JAS. CAMPBELL, City Ticket t Agent.
23 Monroe Street.

6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m.,

 

CHICAGO NOV. 15, 1891.
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*Daily. §Except Saturday. Other trains week

A. M. has through chair car to Chica-
go. Noextra charge for seats,

05 P. M. runs through to Chicago solid
dodo with Wagner buffet car; sea s 50 cts.

5:17 P. M. has through free — car to
° Manistee, via M. & N. E. R. R.

1 1 235 P. M. is solid train with cae pal-
ace sleeping car through to Chicago.
and sleeper to Indianapolis via Ben
ton Harbor.

DETROIT,
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7:15 A. M. runs through to Detroit aaa par-

“ig gga seats 25 cents,

1 ‘0 Has through Parlor car to De-
one Seats, 25 cents.

° P. M. runs through to Detroit with par
5 45 lor car, seats 25 cents. .
7:05 A. M. has parlor car to Saginaw, seats

25 cents.
For tickets and information apply at Union

Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or Union station.
Gero. DeHaven, Gen. Pass’r Agt.

 

Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan
Railway.

In connection with the Detroit, Lansing &
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milw auk e
offers a route making the best time betwe 1
Grand Rapids and Toledo,

VIA D., L. & N.

Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
Be, TOeGo Ms ...... .._. 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m,

VIA D., @. H. & M.
Lv. Grand Rapids at..... 6:50 a, m,. and 3:45 p, m
Ar. Toledo at...........1:10 p.m, and 11:00 p, m
Return connections equally as good.
W. H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent,
Toledo, Ohio,

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See Menday’s and Saturday’s Detroit Evening News
fer further Particulars.

$100 GIVEN AWAY

To the Smokers of the

UY PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS.

Te the person guessing the nearest to the number of Imps that will

appear in a series of cuts in the Evening News, cuts not to exceed 100,
ist Cash Prize, $50; 2d, $25; 38d, 15; 4th, $10. Guess slips to be had with
every 5c. worth of PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS 8o d Everywhere.

Up to date there has been published 23 cuts, with a total of 303 Imps.

MANUFACTURED GY

ALEX. GORDON, Detroit, Mioh.

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

 

 

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ANYTHING

That will help a man in his business ought to be}
Many a successful mer- |

of vital importance to him.
chant has found when

TOO LATE

That he has allowed his money to leak away.

-Money-tiar t take care of ltse If.

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

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

Coupon Systems

Manufactured in our

establishment—* Tradesman,” ‘‘Super-
lor’ or ‘

‘Universal ’—and put your business on a cash basis.

For Samples and Price List, address

THE 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.

 

 

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—— JOBBERS OF ——

Notions & Fancy Goods.

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

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN SPECIAL LINES TO CLOSE.

MOSELEY BROS.,

- WHOLESALE -

Fruits Seeds, Beans and Produce,

26, 28,30 & 32 “:TTAWA ST,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Grand Rapids Storage & Transtar (o,, Limited

Winter St, between Shawmut Ave. and W. Fulton &t,,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

General Warehovsemen and Yranster Agents,

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

 

 

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‘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.

ee No. 945.

Delecta ble!

J. Y. F. BLAKE, Sup’t.

 

We have made arrangements whereby we have secured the exclu-
sive sale in Michigan of the famous

Cherrystone Oysters

which have never before been sold in the State. On account of their
superior quality and delicious flavor psa were, heretofore,
invariably eaten by epicures in the EK ast, but we, ever on the alert
to place the best ‘before our patrons, beg to assure them that when
they buy the P. & B. oa they will get genuine Cherrystone
Oysters, every where in the East considered to be “par excellence.”
Positively the fattest, plumpest, swe tempting article of
its kind to be ol btained ein Order P. & B.s through any
Grand Rapids jobber or of us direct.

THE PUTNAM CANDY CO.

To Dealers in WwW. al |
Papers:

Our representative will call on you
soon with a complete line of Wall Pa-=
pers at Manufacturers’ Prices. Wait
until you see our line as we can save
you money.

HARVEY & HEYSTEK

etest, most

 

 

 

Monroe, Ottawa and Fountain Sts., - Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Ft. LEONARD & SONS,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICE.

SPECIAL DRIVES IN All URPARTMENTS,

The following are only a few of the many articles which we offer at reduced prices to close out,

 

look them over, and send us your orders.

 

DRESSING COMBS, Rubber. No. 500, 6 in.’
45e: 7 in., 47c. No. 530,6in., 45e. No. 2000, 8 in.,
No. 2001. 7 im., 60e; 8 in., 73. - No.
No. 715, 714 No. 808, 9 in., $1.75.

56e.
; im., $1,14.
DRESSING COMBS, Horn. 614

Se in. swage back, in.
metal back, 75c; 6 in. q tm. $1.15;
$1.15.

FINE COMBS, Rubber.
size 11, 25c; size 12, 27e; size 13

Sac: size 15, 35c:

86c.
in. clear horn,
67e; 546 in.

hotel, 7 in.

Se; 614 58e;

81e;

No. 164,

20¢e

size 10, 22c;
No. 165, size
size 14,37. No, 78,
extra, 73c.

SUNDRY RUBBER COMBS. No. 1130, 4 in.
pocket, 41c: 128. 5 in. 47¢; 178, with mirror, 4c; 617,
7 in. barber, No. 1 No) 6, 45c.
No. Sid, O4c. No. 2,

BRUSHES, Hair.

29e,

Round,

horse, $1.20.

No. 701,

5Sc.

Leader, 79c. No.

10¢:

714. $1.64. No. 329, 8 row, $2.40. No. 329. 10 row,
o 15- lt row, $3.98. No. 748, 11 oval, $5.10: -Xo.
4759, 9 sqr back, $7.87.

TOOTH BRUSHES. No. row. 35c. Ho.
5143, 3 row. 48e. No. 117, 5. Tie. No. 25 asst. shapes,
S120. No Sice, 4 row, 91.6)

SHAVING BRUSHES. No. 128 black handle,
40c. No. 260. twine bound barbers, SOc. No. 305,

bone ferrule polished wood top, $1.75.
handle, badger hair, $3.60.

CHRISTMAS CANDLES. New twisted shape,
any size, 18e per box. Holders for same—Nail, 35¢
per gross; Safety, $1.50 per gross: Ball, same per gr.

No. 9269, 1 asstd.

No. 628, bone

Christmas Tree Ornaments.
pendent, $1 per gr. No. 9298-1 glass balls 1 in. diam.
15¢e doz. No. 9221 9 asstd. fruits, 20c doz. No. 9223-
17 cones, balls, ete. asstd., 25¢ doz. No. 9376-2 asstd.
colored ornaments. 30e doz. No. 9377-5 asstd. orna-
ments, 35¢ doz. No. 9511-4 beads, 10 string in a box,

85e bex: larger size, 60e box; extra large size, 75c
box. No. 31 Lametta silver string ornaments 75c per
box: silver, gold or mixed, Lametta in papers, 40c
per doz. papers.

TOY WATCHES. No. 241, 9c doz. No. 484,
nickeled, 35c doz. No. 382, nickeled, 40c doz. No
499 nickeled, 40c. No. 498 gilt, 40c. No. 218 gilt,
60c. No. 536 surprise box watch, 75c.

TOY WATCH CHAINS. No. 80 gilt, 35e doz.

No. 9869 steel, 35e. No. 5152-7 flat woven, 35.

KEY CHAINS, for Gentlemen. No.

doz. No. 1085, 80e doz. No. 1083, $1.75 doz.
PLAYING CARDS. Cadets, 32c;
40¢: Tigers, 50c; Tourists, 80c; Bicycles, $1.20; Bi-
eycles, gold edges, $1.60: Capitols, $1.60, Sportsman,
$2.40; Army & Navy, $3.20: Army & Navy with gold
edges. $4.40; Congress, gold back, our best card, 4.40.
ENVELOPES, White Standard Make.
5X, 75e per M; 6X, 85¢e per M; 5XX, 85e per M; 6XX,
$1 per M: manilla No. 28, 63¢ per M.

WRITING PAPER. 3 Ib. per rm, 29¢; 5 Ib, 49e;
6 1b, 59e; 10 Ib. letter or floolscap, 97c; legal cap, 1.15.
LEAD PENCILS. 7
gress, $1.90; Herald, $2.25: Mercantile, $2.90;
$3.25; Red and Blue, 20c; Carpenters’, 20.

POCKET BOOKS. See page 174 of Catalogue
No. 105 for illustrations. No. 235 with bill roll, $1.69;
No. 535 with bill roll, $1.94: No. 4034 with bill roll,
$4.20. No. 273, with bill roll, $5.90: No. 673, imitation
seal with bill roll, $5.90: No. 501, calfskin with bill
roll, $5.90.

Gent’s Fancy Pocket Books, No. 348, natural
color, $3.75; No. 243, russet color, $4.30; No. 411.
black or brown imitation seal, $4.65; No. 614 Russia
leather, $5.90; No. 543 calfskin natural color, $6.60;
No. 497 Russia leather, $7.25: No. 515, ealf, extra
quality, $8.60.

1086, 40¢

in. plain cedar, 29¢c gr; Pro-
Pilot,

2010, 8 in., |

Steamboats, |

No. |

COIN PURSES. No. 1T, 35c: No. 507L, 42¢; No.
21, double ball clasp, 50c; No. 25, double ball clasp,
82c; No. 79-2, kid, leather lined, $1.65; No. 1 leather

LADIES’ PURSES. No. 432-2, imitation seal,
ball clasp, $1.85 doz. No. 483-2, same only larger,
$2.15: No. 538-2, Russia, No. 100014, round
| spring cover, $1.85; No. 209A, oval top spring cover,
$2; No. 4275, spring cover square top, $4.30. No.

4274 with ticket compartment, $4.30.
, LADIES’ POCKET BOOKS. No. 415A, fancy

finish, leather lined, $4. No. 301, side clasp, inside
coin compartment, No. 115B, it’s a beauty,
$5.90; No. 705 Russia, with side clasp, $6.40; No. 601,
plain seal, $6.60; No. 556B, extra finish and cheap at
$7.88: No. 905, our best, $10.25.

TRACING WHEELS. Single, black handle, 40c:
double, black handle, 84ce.

CROCHET HOOKS. Bone, 1 doz. a ecard,
sizes, 20¢ doz; steel doz. asst. fancy holder, 25c;
166, sets with mirror in case, 70c¢ doz.

POCKET MIRRORS. No. 3 oval with handle,
s2e doz: No. 35, oblong with handle, 80ce doz.

PASTE JUGGERS. No. 2,
SPECTACLE CASES. No. 22 leather, 48¢ doz;
No. 30, tin with hinged cover, 78c.

CURRY COMBS. No. 000, 6-bar japanned, 27e:
No. 15, japanned, 45e: No. 676, 8-bar solid back ja-
panned, 58e; No. 72, top handle, 88e; No. 407, 8-bar
tinned, 98e; cattle cards, 67e.

FIRE SHOVELS. No. 80. one piece, 32¢c: No.
180, covered handle, 42¢; No. 56, 20-inch, 56¢e; No. 25,
23-inch, 85e; No. 300, hollow handle, 18 in, extra
strong, $1.38.

COVEK LIFTERS. Coppered, always cool, 24c;
black handle, tinned, 38c, nickel plated, 78c.

| POKERS. No. 1, black handle, 18-in,
ished, extra heavy, straight or bent, 82¢ doz.

STOVE-PIPE & ELBOWS. | 6-in. common
| pipe, $1.45 doz; 6-in. Russia, $4.50 doz; 6-in. common
elbows, 66c doz; 6-in. Russia, $2.25 doz; 6-in. damper
| wood thumb-piece, best makes, 90c.

PICTURE FRAMES, Cabinet sizes.
brass rustic finish, $2.25 doz.
size 63¢x8 in, $6.50; No. 4837, asst plush covered
frames, $2; No. 1720 plush frames, $3; No. 4404 plush
frames, $4.75; No. 1612, $6 doz; No. 4838, $7.50 doz.
| PERFUMES in plush cases. No. 1, odor stand,
85e per doz; No. 4, mirror back, $2 doz: No. 6, with
| 2 bottles tripple extract, $4.50 doz; No. 7 with glass
| pitcher filled with Cologne, $5 doz: No. 17, 2 bottles,
with drawer and mirror back, $12 doz; No. 3984, 2
bottles and fancy case, $18.

| SHAVING SETS in plush boxes. No. 5878 with
decorated china mug and good brush, $12.75 doz. No.
| 6500. with brush mug and razor, $12 doz. No. 6503,
| Mirror back faney case, decorated china mug, bone
handle brush and button-hook, $16.50 doz. No. 6529,
complete with fancy decorated china mug, brush,
razor and button hook all in faney plush cash, $18
doz. No. 6512, complete with mug, razor, brush,
| scissors and button-hook, $27 doz.
| PLUSH ALBUMS & DRESSING CASES.
Our line is too large to quote prices on them, but we
| keep all grades and guarantee our prices.

'SAVINGS ‘ANKS. Tin gothic, 35¢ doz: glass
house banks, 75¢ doz; iron house banks, 85c doz; No.
13 iron safes lock and key, $2.25; cabin banks, $4.25

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No.

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36¢; pol-

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doz; Eagle banks, $8.50 doz. and many other styles
| including automatic, time lock, and self-registering
banks.

 

GAMES. This line includes games to retail at 5e
and up to $1.50 each, and our variety is unequalled,
and embraces all the popular games of the day.

TOYS. It is astonishing what a line this is, inelud-
ing an endless variety of tin, iron, wood, mechanical,
and musical toys, it would be impossible, without
using this entire page, for us to itemize or name
prices on them.

BOOKS. Prices range from $1 per gr. up and in-
eludes picture and story books of all kinds for
children.

CLOCKS. $15.00 will buy 6 asst styles ansonia
clocks with walnut frames, and $16.50 for the same
asst. with alarm (an illustrated sheet sent on applica-
tion) also fine clocks in faney eases with half-hour
slow-striking movement and cathedral gongs) We
offer the niekel Prineess at 65¢e, or the nickel Pirate
for 80e.

SLEIGHS AND COASTERS. No. 1, size 12x31
inch, $3.60 doz.. No. 2, $3.90; No. 3, $5.40; No. 4, 3-
knee, half oval shoes, $6.60 doz; No. 5, swan heads,
$6.60 doz; No. 6, 3-knee swan heads, half oval shoes,
$7.80 doz; No. 7, $9.60; No. 8, $13.20; No. 9, $18; No.
10, combined bent runner and knee, $8.40 doz; No. 11,
same only 3-knee, $10.80; No. 1 Coaster, $3.30; No. 2
Coaster, $5.90; No. 3 Coaster, $7.20; No. 4 Coaster,
$9; No. 5 Coaster, $8.40; No. 6 Coaster, round spring
shoes, $10.80 doz,

A FEW OF OUR 5e TOYS.
tin animals on wheels, 35c doz. No, 1 trotting-horses
on wheels, 42c doz. No. 133 assorted wagons, 45c
doz. Toy bells, 40c. No. 0146 Toy sad irons and
stands. No. 04 Tin kitchen sets, 42e doz. No. 3-oF
toy stoves, 42¢ doz. No. 9 kitchens, 42c doz. No.
266 china toy tea sets, 45¢ doz. No. 2-0 flannel ani-
mals, 40c doz. No. 9052-7 sheep and wagon, 42¢ doz.
No, 9375-1 sheep on wheels, 40¢c doz. No. 302 fancy
metal match safes, 40¢c doz. No. brass cuspidores for
tooth picks or matches, 48¢e doz. No. 9427-13 Santa
Claus, 42c doz. No. 71 Dominoes, 40¢e doz. No. 1
Checkers, 35ce doz. No. 0 Combination Tools, glass
cutter, putty knife, ete., 44¢ doz. No. 90 Key rings,
30e doz. No. 420 Spiral key ring, 15e doz. No. 680
watch key, adjustable to any watch, 25e doz. No.
182 police whistle, 35¢ doz. No. 705 clapping figures,
40c doz. No. 32-87 glass beads, 45¢ doz. bags. No.
5328D magnets, 40c doz. 1-ft. boxwood rules, 45¢
doz. No. 2 negro china babies, 33e doz. No. 1 white
china babies, 20e doz. No. 450F china limb dolls 8
in. long, 35¢e doz. No. 301 dressed limb dolls, 45¢
doz. No. 455 dressed china babies, 40e doz. No. 237
indestructible dolls with hair, 40e doz. No. 57 asst
whips, 39¢ doz. Rattles, 18¢ and up. McGinty
squackers, 35c. No. 6011 tops, 40c. Cuckoo warblers,
35c. No. 250 toy guns, 42c. D3 tin flutes, 30c.
No. 101 trumpets, 38ce. No. 39 Kaleidoscopes, 35c.
A BC washboards, 40c. Toy dust pans, asst. colors,
36c. Toy watches, 9c doz. and up. China decorated
mugs, 37c, Glass mugs, full size, 42c. A BC picture
plates, 45¢e. Glass toothpick holders, 30 to 45¢ doz.
Toothpicks in turned wooden boxes, 42c. No, 2013
Harmonicas, 45e. Four-inch silver glass vases, 42c.
China toys asst., 331¢¢ doz., 3 doz. in box. Picture
books, 9c to 45¢ doz. Drum banks, 40¢ doz.

ARTICLES TO RETAIL AT 10c.
10 trains, 85¢ doz. No. 242 city horse cars,
134 asst. wagons,75c. No. 104 nickel bells,
2-0 revolving chimes, 90c. No. 04¢ kitchen sets, 80e.
No. 3 sad irons, 70c. No. 8 kitchens, 75e. No. 267
china toy tea sets, 85ce. No. 3089-2 fur dogs on wheels,

No. 39 assorted

No. 400°
80c. No.
60c. No.

80c. Asst. flannel animals, 75c. No. 197 donkeys,
80c. No. 142 match safes, 90c. American dominoes.
75c. 13g in. checkers, 65c. No. 191 surprise boxes.
75e. No. F-2 china limb dolls, 75c..

And 1000 Other Articles that We Cannot
Mention.