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VOL. 9. GRAND RAPIDS,

DECEMBER 2,

1891. NO.428

 

~ MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO.,

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June 22, 1891.
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le ven if they had to

‘| his

 

THE LUCE OF LUEBER.
In the long run he had luck.
it luck, or mere poetical justice?
weigh the facts.
Jumboville

But was

was excited. Ordinarily

| the place was dull enough, except when

i there was a fight at the saloons or gam-
|ing dens, and not often the latter excep-
| tions,

since the miners would have peace,

kill some one to get

}it. The town had been originally a min-
|ing camp,

but when the big bonanza was
found in the mine a mile off, andthe stock
of the Jumbo Mining Company,
fallen to fifty cents a share,
hundred dollars,
sell,

which had
rose to three
with no one willing to
Jumboville took on form and shape.

When a short branch railway connected
it with the main line, the town grew to

Avenues were laid out, town
lots sold at handsome prices, a city-hall
and a palace hotel were built, and pros-
perity looked as though it had come to
stay. Still it was dull there, asa rule.
Now there was a ripple of excitement,
because the president of the Jumbo Min-
ing Company,
ty of friends, was coming in a special
train to visit and inspect the mines, and
would honor the place with his august
presence.

Mr. Anderson Burnett was not exactly
‘*a self-made man,’’

with his family and a par-

since he had begun
life with a competence; but, at the out-
set, he had dipped into this and dipped
into that, and every
stuck to the dipper.

time something had
He went into real
estate,mining and railways with such skill
and forethought that at forty he was
several times a millionaire. At fifty-one
he made a great stroke in buying up ap-
parently worthless shares of the Jumbo,
amine that had been productive in as-
sessments upon the stockholders for sev-
eral years. He had read the report of
Luke the assistant superin-
tendent, which predicted the widening at
a lower level of the main
and the report of the _  superinten-
dent, which had stamped out his
those of a
college,

Maybury,

lode,

as

from

junior’s views, young
enthusiast fresh to
changed by an after mournful experience.
The young man’s reasoning satisfied the
millionaire. So soon as he had
a controlling amount of the

be

secured
stock, he

elected himself president, and directors |

out of his own family, who ordered
farther assessments, and a vigorous pros-
ecution of the work. He had diffl- |
culty in getting the remaining stock at}
his own price from the disgusted holders.
It was not long after when the great}
lode was reached; great in amount, and
rich in the quantity of silver to the ton.
Mr. Burnett could have sold what

ho

eost

him fifty thousand dollars for five mil-|
lions, but he preferred the income it af-
but |
salary of eighteen hundred dollars |

forded him. Luke held his position,

was only raised fifty per
that of the superintendent remained at
ten thousand. It was unjust and pro-
voking.

Luke Maybury, the assistant, had been

cent.,

born with the biggest kind of a silver |

DECEMBER 2, 1891.

Let us |}

while |

TRADESMAN.

NO. 428

wealthy president of the Safety Fire In-
surance Company and looked up to by all

underwriters as a great light in the in-
surance system. He had educated his

boy, an only child, most thoroughly,and,
scientifie tastes,
graduation, to Heidel-
berg, where he became doctor of philoso-
phy, and thence to the French School of
Mines, he On

his return,he received a large allowance,

when the latter
sent him, after

showed

where wou distinction.

 

|} which he spent properly enough, and
| was industriously doing nothing when
the great Chicago fire wrecked the Safety

and several other companies in which its
president had mainly invested his money.
The elder Maybury was not ruined, but
his means were so curtailed that he had
to cut off his son’s three thousand a year,
and the latter was forced to turn his ae-
complishments to On the
strength of his degree and his career in
the School of Mines, he obtained a junior
position at the Jumbo, where had
since worked hard and intelligently.

Mr.
gone to welcome the new-comers.
sat at the window of the office, which
commanded of the road leading
from the station, past the mine, to the
hotel. The you notice
how a new town runs to open coaches?—
containing the party were near enough
to note their inmates. The rosy-faced,
stout gentleman in the first one, looking
unlike the conventional speculator,
Mr. Burnett,
tograph.
lady,

account.

he

The superintendent, Smythe, had

Luke
a view

barouches—do

 

was

for Luke had seen his pho-
sata young
eager, handsome
betrayed for-
the daughter
so much had

Alongside of him
over-dressed and
of face, but every motion

ward vulgarity. Was this
of whose grace and beauty
been said? In the next coach was a sort

of family party—an elderly gentleman,

 

and at his side a young man occupied
the front seat,
hind, about

while two ladies sat be-
fifty, the other
a plain gray
deferential
was evidently
confidential

one young.

The last was dressed
traveling-suit, and,
manner to the elder
either a ‘‘companion”’

upper-maid.

in
by her
one,
or a
‘‘Now what a sweet face that is!’
claimed Luke. ‘She should have been
the heiress, and not the vulgar girl in the
front coach. What a face! What a
soul in her eyes!’ But a turn of the
|road cut short Luke’s rhapsody.

The next day,
pany with a young lady—the one who
had been in the coach with him the day
| before—visited the office, where he was
received by Mr. Smythe and Luke. While
the magnate was engaged with the for-
mer, the young lady had
named as ‘*Miss Georgiana Burnett,
with the hand-
She plied him with a
riety and number of mainly
about in Jumboville, what
amusements were to be had in that out-
of-the-way place, and how he managed
to exist there. She displayed such an
intimate knowledge of Luke’s past life

ex-

the president, in com-

been

9

en-

who

tered into conversation
some junior. ya-
questions;

**sossiety”’

|and family connections, that he should

have felt pleased. But he was merely

ladle in his mouth. His father was the|annoyed. His heart had gone irrevoca-

 

 

ness aie,

Pe)

 

bly into the possession of the modest little
‘“companion.”’ or whatever she might be,
and he thought this forward heiress, with
ypant and patronizing manner,

be rather under-bred. But, as a man of

 

 

the world, he betrayed none of this feel-
ings. Miss Burnett found his lister
qualities to be exceiient and his repiles
‘ He was not only interesting
in words and polite in manner, but his
eareless dress suited well with his

marked features, and set off his athietic

 

and graceful form. Doubtless he
seemed avery pieasant contrast to the
over-dressed gentlemen of fashionable
life.

The president si nly closed his low-
toned colloguy with the superintendent

by saying aloud:

 

accept. You will
juired to sail for two months, so

preparation. Mr. May-

bury, what kind of farm-land do they
have here

good, sir, but improving.

“Not ver y
vegeta- |

Formerly we had to bring our

bles as well as our flour and baton from

abroad, but since they have begun to
practice irrigation, they have improved
a number of the valleys, and afford usa
, ir . vit< 9

fair supply.

“Do you know anything of the Cornell

 

,

 

“It is said to be a fine one, but 1 never

had the time nor curiosity to visit it

‘J wish you would gothere to-morrow |

morning, and see if it be worth my while

to look at it. It is offered at a low fi

 

the owner says; and if it
claims, 1 might buy.”

Luke bowed assent, and then the mil-
lionaire and the young lady le i
superintendent, while Luke went on
with some oflice-work. That night he
learned that a party of visitors had been

made up to ex Is round about,

but he was to leave in the morning be-
fore the started. Just at dayligl as
he was mounting h horse, a scout of
the einage, Nathan Carter, accosted
him.

Better take your rifle, Doc, ef you ride
fur Thar’s 2 #rizz repo f aroun’,
an’ I’m after his pelt an’ claws

A grizzly? Nonsense There ash't
been one seen within fifty miles for the

last five years, and I sha’n’t encumber

 

myself on such an absurd story.”

And he rode off.

Luke was well pleased with the ranch.
It lay in abroad valley, through which
ran a river or, rather, did run fora part
of the year, dwindling in summer toa
mere thread, the trickling of two living
springs on the mountain-side, all the
other sources being dried up. But by a
proper dam, the water of these petty trib-
utaries was preserved in a reservoir, and
conducted to the parched ground below
in time of need. Under this treatment,
an otherwise barren spot had become
fertile, and the ranch changed to a great
garden and pasture field combined. Luke
made up his mind at once as to the worth
of the place, and, mounting his horse,

+

set out on I

his way homeward.

The young man’s thoughts wandered
to the little girl he bad seen in the
barouche. Her features and her smile
had completely taken possession of him.
Suddenly his horse began to show symp-
toms of fright.
there, a little distance in front of him,

He looked forward, and

was the lady of his dreams, alone and un-
attended, with a bunch of the

brute coming up the hill there.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

flowers of the rocks in her hands, and
these she seemed to de:perately clutch
rather than to hold. He involuntarily
dropped the reins at this unexpected ap-

parition, and the horse started violently,
threw his rider, and, snorting in terror,

ran madly toward the mines. Luke

picked himself up, not a little ashamed
of his careless horsemanship.

‘Oh, Mr. Maybury,”’

was pallid with fear, *‘l am so glad—I—Il

said the girl, who

don’t mean because you were thrown—”
she added, her color returning, ‘‘but the
fact is, | have strolled from our party.
looking for flowers—I have lost my way
—and—’

“It will give me pleasure to guide
you,’’ said Luke. ‘You were getting
further away from them.’’

“And there is such a terrible-looking
1 looked
over, and he saw me, and growled.”

Luke went to the edge of the slope and

looked down. He was appalled. Be-

tween the cliffs and shelves there ran
downward a deep gully, which was not
difficult to ascend. Along this, making
his way steadily upward, was a huge
grizzly bear.

The situation was both embarrassing
and dangerous. Luke had his revolver
and knife with him, but such weapons,
rufian, are

however useful against a

imere toys in a contest with a tough

grizzly. Torun was to be overtaken
the start would be too little. His thoughts
probably showed themselves in his face.

“Is there danger?” she asked.

“‘Some,”’ he replied. ‘But do you run
on in that direction,” and he pointed the
way. ‘Hurry on as fast as you can, and
I will check his progress.”

“But, your”

“Oh, Vl take care of myself. Run as
fast as you can.”’

The girl seemed paralyzed, and did not
move astep. Luke seized a boulder of
which there were plenty on the ground,
and hurled it at the bear. It went down
the gully with a succession of leaps, and
bounded over the object. Two or three!
more were fired with the same result—
the bear only pausing a moment after
each passed him. At length, Luke
grasped a heavy, rounded fragment, as
much as he could lift, and rolled it down
the center of the gully. ‘Old Caleb’’
made an effort to scramble out of the
way of this as he sawit start, but his
error of judgment was fatal. The boul-
der. with increasing force, struck a pro-
jecting rock on one side of him, glanced
off at an angle, and descending a down-
ward course of thirty or forty feet,struck
The brute fell back-

ward and lay still, while the great stone

him on the neck.

went thundering on its way to the base
of the ridge.

Luke looked down fora minute. The
bear did not stir. Then he said:

‘“‘We are safe now.”’

Till then the girl had stood rigidly,but
now she sank, and would have fallen,
had not Luke caught herin his arms.
She soon recovered, and with flushed
face and duwncast eyes, withdrew her-
self from his clasp.

“But how did you know my name?” he
ventured to ask, as they went on.

“Oh, | remembered your face—l have
never forgotten it. I saw you at the
window of the office, and 1 asked uncle

came upon the rest of the party, and
with them Nathan Carter, Winchester on
shoulder.

“Did you see any signs o’ b’ar?” asked
the scout.

Luke

and, bowing to the rest, made his way

pointed backward to the gully,

homeward, leaving the girl under a fire

of questions. he way, and after

But all t
at his work, he felt again the thrill when

her form reposed fora moment in his

arms, and apair of dark eyes haunted

He certainly had seen them be-
fore. And
him. It was a mystery

 

she—she had remembered
which he could}
not solve.

The adventure became town-talk, and
the Jumboville Daily Revolver gave acol-
umn to it next morning. It was a most
stirring account, and did great credit to
the imagination of the enterprising re-
porter. He confused things a trifle. Ac-

cording to him, Mr. Maybury, after a

hand-to-hand contest with the brute, in|{

ly, had been nearly torn to pieces, |

 

and only escaped death by the desperate

bravery of the young lady, who came to

 

the resene with a rock, with which she

 

broke the animal’s skull.

“The name of Miss Burnett,’’ contin- |
ued the enthusiastic writer, ‘‘will go
down in history along with Joan of Are, |
Moll Piteher, and other heroines of an-|
tiquity.”

At this Luke roared with laughter, and
especially at the mistake of the lady’s |
name. te had just laid down the paper, |
when the mining president came in the
office.

‘Mr. Maybury,” said he, ‘‘now we are
alone, I may as well have a little busi-
ness talk with you. There will have to
be some changes in the business manage-
ment of the Jumbo. I have brought out
a successor to you, as assistant superin-
He is a graduate
of the Stevens School, and is vouched for

tendent, Mr. Carson.

as a capable mechanical engineer and
well versed in mining matters, at least
under a capable superintendent.”

Luke bowed stiffly. It was a mental
cold bath, and he had no words to ex-
press his indignation. He, to whom the
mine in great measure owed its prosperi-
ty. was to be coolly cast adrift.

‘‘However,’’ continued the other. ‘this
appointment is only conditional—a kind
of six months’ trial trip, as 1 have ex-
plained to him. If you do not find him
eapable, or cannot make him so in that
time, you can replace him by another.”

‘But I don’t exactly understand. You
said Mr. Carson was to replace me.”’

‘“‘As faras he can. You see, an Eng-
lish company have made me a large offer
for the mine. I have made a counter of-
fer. Idesire to retain one-third of the
stock. The negotiation hangs fire a lit-

tle. Lcan’t get away—I am too busy. I

   
   

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BOOTS & SHOES

Felt Boots and Alaska Socks.

State Agents for

 

 

 

am CS ATI
158 & 160 Fulton :t., Grand Kapids.

SEEDS

We carry the largest line in field and
garden seeds of any house in the State
west of Detroit, such as Clover, Timothy,

 

 

have offered Mr. Smythe a retiring salary
and a bonus if he will go overto England
and finish the matter, in two months
Your
who has recovered his former

from now; and he has agreed to it.

father,

prosperity—he is a wondeful man for his |

age, sir—wants to see you. You had
better take a six-weeks’ leave of absence
while Smythe remains and coaches Car-
son, and you can go back with us in the
special.

I?ll take care of you. As you have ren-

; 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
We sell Egg Cases No. 1 at
35¢e, Egg case fillers, 10 sets in a case at
| $1.25 a case.

j
|
|
i

| all times.

|W. T. LAMOREAUX & 60,

When he goes, you will take}
his place at the same salary; and if the}
new company want their own man after, |

128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St.,o

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

 

   

 

  

who you were.” dered the company important service, 1| FRE ‘ Pe
femembered him! Why? When? | have placed a block of stock in your | a'so large illustrated catalogue
- 6 . a | books and goods—botiom prices.
Where? He had no time to ask, forthere| name to an amount that I hope will for Agents. Beware of the spurious works,

wild! rose now the hum of voices, and they prove satisfactory.’’

REDDING & CO., Masonic Publishers and
Manufacturers, 731 Broadway, New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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“This is certainly as liberal as it is un-
expected, Mr. Burnett, and I—”’

‘“‘No liberality, but deferred justice. It
comes as a right, not through your re-
cent service to my daughter, which is
quite another affair.”

“TI beg your pardon, sir, but you have |
been misinformed. It was not Miss Bur- |
nett whom I had the pleasure of as3ist-
ing, but another. I know Miss Burnett |
by sight, as I saw her in the barouche |
with you, and afterwards here in the
office. The young lady is the one who|
sat in the next carriage, and seemed to |
be a—a companion to an elderly lady at
her side.’’

“Quite correct, Mr. Maybury, and yet
you are in error. The Miss Burnett in |
the coach with me was my brother’s |
daughter; the young lady you helped is |
mine. As the lady in the coach was my
wife, the daughter was her companion,
as you say, and has been from her birth. |
However, if you will come to our parlor |
this evening, my wife and daughter will |
be glad to see you—and so will I.”

And then the millionaire, who had no
time to wait, went about his business.

Luke Maybury sat there dazed. It
was not at the unexpected good but ill
fortune. His desire had been fixed on
the little lady with the dark eyes and
eurved lips, and what the first sight had
begun, the adventure on the ridge had
completed. It was love at the first
sight, but it seemed as if he had known
her for years. But, the daughter of a
millionaire! In what manner could he
hope to realize the dreams of the last
three days?

His heart sank, as he saw

the gulf yawning in _ front of his
hope. Most young men have love affairs

before they are thirty; but Luke had
never met his ideal till now. The late-
ness of the passion made it stronger, and
the memory of the ecstasy, when he held
her in his arms for a few moments, was
not to be quenched.

When the evening came he dressed
himself carefully, and kept his engage-
ment. ‘There was no one in the parlor
beside the family party—Mr. and Mrs.
Burnett, Mr. Joseph Burnett and the two
girls. Mrs. Burnett expressed her thanks
warmly, and her daughter by looks more
than words, while Georgiana was effu-
sive. The millionaire began to talk
about the Cornell ranch, and mining
matters, which relieved Luke from em-
barrassment. But all at once, Georgiana,
the irrepressible, broke in:

‘“‘Mr. Maybury,”’ she said, ‘‘that was a
bright idea of yours, bombarding the
bear with boulders; but suppose you
hadn’t hit him? Now, I remember a
story of a man in the woods who seared
a bear away by opening and shutting an
umbrella.’’

“But I hadn’t an umbrella,” replied
Luke, who was amused. ‘‘In fact, I have
never bought an umbrella since I lost
mine in a peculiar way some years since.

| fraud.

I said to her:

 

No one at the mines wears one but a
‘tenderfoot? or one of the townspeo-
ple, who are adopting such things as
badges of civilization.’’

‘‘But how did you lose your last um-
brella?’’ |

“It is not much of a story. 1 had just |
come back from Paris, and Lhad the gay- |
est kind of a parapluie, with a gold han- |
dle and my initials, ‘ L. M.,’ on it.”

Cora and her father and mother at this
evinced interest, and bent forward to
listen.

“J was caught one day in a shower,

 

 

| —about holiday
{the summer
| them make as high as $200 a week. These |
| lueky ones, though, usually have money

and it was so heavy that | dodged under |
an awning to wait until it slackened.
There I saw a girl—she seemed to be a

fifteen-year-older, and she may have been
pretty, but I don’t know, for all 1 saw of |
| her face under the hood of her water-

proof were two large dark eyes and the
tip of her nose.

poor girl was dripping.

The waterproof was a
It was as bad as a sieve, and the |
I foresaw |

Heyman & Company,

Manufacturers of

Mow Cases

 

coughs, consumption and what not, and |

and hurry home as fast as youcan. Cut
like a whitehead, and change

‘Child, take my umbrella, |

your |

Of Every Description.

 

WRITE FOR PRICES.

clothes, or you’l! get your death of cold.’ |

Just then, lsaw Dick Drake making his |
| way along under a big umbrella, and I

bolted out to get a share of it. I forgot

| to leave my name and address, and, of
course, the umbrella never came back. |
3ut | often wondered if the little girl |
took my advice, and ran all the way |
home, or walked with dignity, and got a/|

cold for her pains.’’
Georgiana fairly screamed out:
“Oh, Cora!
used to rave about!”’
ar.

Maybury,” said Burnett, after

they had stopped laughing, ‘Il can give |
The |
girl took your advice, to her great ad-|
As for |
the umbrella, it is not lost, for Cora|
keeps it, or did, in the lower drawer of |

you the information you desire.

vantage, and is well and hearty.

her dressing-bureau.”
Georgiana broke in again:

‘Fate seems determined to bring you |

two together.
a novel.’’ i

Luke felt his face grow uncomfortably
hot, and that of Cora was scarlet.
unpleasant all round, and Luke soon
made an excuse to leave.

Two days after, Luke Maybury went
to New York along with the party, and
had a very agreeable trip.

But you want to know the rest of it?
My dear reader, I did not travel with the

It is like two chapters in

party, and I am too old to write senti- |
Some |

ment, especially at second-hand.
words of the ex-president of the Jumbo
Mining Company, in reply to a friend,
may serve to allay your thirst for infor-
mation:

**My dear sir,’’ said he,
could have bought an Italian prince, or
possibly an English peer for my daugh-
ter. They are in the market. But she
preferred an American; and as the man
of her choice was ousted from his posi-
tion by the new Jumbo men in favor of
an Englishman, I let her have her own

>

*‘F dare say I

way.
I may say that I am very well pleased
with my son-in-law.”

THomas DUNN ENGLISH.
———__—~_> - >
Shopping as a Profession.

Shopping has risen from a pastime toa

 

profession.

live on the percentage allowed them by |

the big shops in which they spend other
In the rushing season
time, and just

people’s money.

exodus

of their own.

carefully and manage generally to secure

the cream of them. Then when an or-
comes they are often able to fill it
from their private stock, and pocket the
comfortable difference betwixt the regu-

lar and the bargain price.
> <>

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

 

Here is the rain-beau you |

It was |

And, after three years and a half, |

It is said there are several |
.
thousand women in New York city ‘who |

before
begins—some of |

They watch bargain sales |

First-Class Work Only. :

68 and 68 Canal St. - GRAND RAPIDS.

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

BOYNE CITY, MICH.

 

 

 

 

  
   

Pe atte heen

 

TRALESMAN CO.

 

 

 

We operate three mills with a capacity of 9,000,000 feet hardwood and 3 .000,(00 feet hemlock, as
| follows: Boyne City mill, 7,000,000; Boyne Falls mill, 3,000,009, Deer Lake mill, 2,000,000, Our
| facilities for shipment are unsurpassed, either by rail or water.

 

 

IF YOU WANT

The Best

ACCEPT NONE BUT

Wver Tread

Sauerkraut.

 

 

Order this,;Brand from Your Wholesale Grocer!

 

  

shia chr nd

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.
AROUND THE STATE.
>, O’ Rourke

general stock to Wim.

Bear Lake—I has sold his
Brown.
Delwin— Sullivan & Nolen suceed C,
P. Doug):

Woodland

 

ass in gener trade.

Geo. Garlick has opened a

boot and shoe and grocery store.

Diamondale—Chas. Hutt succeeds Hutt

& Andrews in the meat business.
Hartford—Leslie W. Britton has sold

his grocery stock to Line & Arvison.
Muskegon—John Stegink has sold his

fiour and feed stuck to Cooper & Drile.

Detroit—W. W.
boot and

Iron Mo

sold his
H. Richar

Simpson has sold

Adams has

stock to E. dson.

intain—J. H.

shoe

his lime and brick business to G. M.
Wood.

Chester—P. C. Smith has sold his gro-
cery and boot and shoe stock to Lewis
House.

Battle Creek—Henry Watts has sold

his boot and shoe stock to Trim & Me-

Gregor.

Bay City—Lewis Bergevin is succeeded

by Frank W.

business.

Hastings in the grocery

Bear Lake—Wm. Keys is succeeded by
FE. ©. Keysin the furnituce, undertaking,

and hardware business.

Grayling—Jno. F. Kelley & Co. are
succeeded by J. F. Krauter in the hard-
ware and tin business.

Lakeview—Brown & Butler are suc-

ceeded by D. J.
in the

Brown, Cogswell & Co.

grist mill business.

Lock wood,

Northern

Co., has sold both to 8. P. Hall.
Hastings—Bert Tinkler has opened a

store in the ‘*Little

and proposes to rustle for business.

West

succeeded by

Harrison — Danie! grocer

and proprietor of the Produce

grocery Brick” store
& Weir are

Stoudacher «&

Bay City—Lambert
Lambert,
business.

McGinnis in the hardware

Cheboygan—-D. Quay & Sons have
rented the
by F. J

opening up a stock of groceries.

store room recently occupied

Todd as a grocery store and are

Mason—The new firm of J. E. Coy &

Co.—suecessors to Densmore & Coy in the

grain and produce business—is composed

of J. E. Coy, R. G. Coy and W. S. Grow.
Cadillac—The meat market recently
started in the John Born building has

Wilcox B
and will

passed into the hands of roth-
Caulket,
the management of the latter.

Mason—aA. L.

chattle

ers and Paul be under
Vandercook uttered five

mortgages on his grocery stock,

aggregating $5,205, subsequently making
Dubois. He

to a too liberal

an assignment to A. O.
attributes his misfortune
application of the credit business.

of Healy &
E. Meeker &
heaviest
N. MeDonald & Son,
John Irvine Greenhouse Co.

Alpena -The grocery store

Co. has been closed by H.
the

suck & Leighton, J.

Co., who are creditors.
. the Bay City
& Vhay, of De-

chattel mortgages.

Broom Co., and Dwyer

troit, are secured by
the

pleased his

Cadillac—Louis Bellaire, grocery-

man, surprised and

patrons the other day by placing

several bushels of fine looking and

dis-
fresh

almost

flavored their

had

in appearance

nicely peaches at

posal. He preserved them,
and = retaining

their original flavor, by wrapping each

one separately in
fore the
was an

waxed paper, just be-

close of the peach season. It

experiment on Bellaire’s part

and it was successful.

 

    

, | William C.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Hagensville—William Hagen, general
dealer and sawmill and shingle mill oper-
ator, is dead.

Cheboygan—lIt is reported that R. Rob-

inson is considering the project of con-
verting his sawmill into a stave factory.
Evart—A. W. Bisbee has purchased

the Chadwick &
Center,

I, at
it to this place.
sawmill of Michell. Me

Corwin mil Vogle
and will remove

Bay City—The
Clure & Co.

ed during the

at Zilwaukie, will be stock-

winter and will be oper-
ated next season.
West Branch—Ch

manufacturing salt

M. Stewart is
heading

arles
and
Free-

heading

barrel
box boards at this place, stocking
man’s mill. He
to Kansas.
Gray ling—
tend to

which will probably

ships the barrel
Hanson & Co. in-
feet
be manufactured by
the Whitehall Lumber Co.

Salling,
bank 11,000,000 of logs,
,at Cheboygan,
next season.

Alpena—R. H. Wetmore, of New York,

owns a large body of timber in Presque
Isle county and will cut a number of mil-
ion feet this winter, it having been dam-
aged by forest fires.

Bear Lake—G. W.

a sawtmnill

Hopkins,
the
interests in

who runs
summer
Florida,
for that point
his family to spend the winter.

here during

months, has large

and leaves shortly with

Thompson—The Delta Lumber Co. cut

about 24,000,000 feet of lumber this year.
Several miles of logging road has been
built and a further extension is going
on. A camp has been started with 80
men.

Cheboygan — Thompson Smith’s Sons

this
take out a circular

will remodel their sawmill winter.
It is the intention to
ald small gang, and replace them with a
band saw. They will also erect a refuse
burner.
gay City—lIt is reported that Jonathan
Boyce is negotiating for the purchase of
Unless he is

a mill here. hard to suit,

he will experience no difficulty in pur-

chasing half a dozen if he needs that
number.
Cheboygan—Thomas W. Palmer has |

sold 40,000 hemlock
and Kalkaska counties to
& Sons, of this place,
bark for
sell the logs.
Detroit—Charles E. MeLean has sued
the Wright Medicine Co. for
$6,000 damages on the ground that when
he bought 555 shares of the
stock from W. E. Allington,
a refusal

acres of lands ip
Cheboygan
Shaw
use the

who will

tanning purposes and

Charles

company’s
he met with
to transfer the shares to him
on the books.

Frankfort—L. F. Hale has
erected a hardwood mill at Herring Lake,
a few miles south of this place, and ex-
pects to have it in operation in a week
It will have a capacity of
25,000 feet, will run all
hemlock and hardwoods.

or so. about

and winter on

Kalamazoo — Daniel Cohn and Chas.
Friedman have formed a copartnership
and will embark in the merchant tailor-
ing and men’s furnishing goods business.
Mr. Cohn has for years been in the tailor-
and Mr.
five years

ing business,
the
for Samuel Folz,

Friedman during
has been head clerk
the clothier.

-The G. H.
Co., to manufacture and sell lumber,

past

Daggett Westmon Lumber
has
been organized by George H. Westmon,
Wilson and John E. Wilson,
| of Marinette, Wis., and John Dunham,

ce ae eee Aa et

recently |

Daggett. The authorized capital is $50,-

000. of which $30,000 have been sub-
scribed by the above.
3atchellor—A. Batchellor, of Mass-

achusetts. who owned a sawmill and a

large amountof lumber which were burn-

ed here was in town the
the

He said that his timber was so nearly cut

last summer,

other day, looking over situation.

out that it was not worth while to rebuild,

but that he would probably get a port-

able mill to cut out the few logs he had
left in the lake at this point.

Big Rapids—The McElwee & Co. pic-
ture backing factory has been closed by
Henry W.
interested to

Whether the

attachments sworn out by
claims to be

$13,000.

Dayton, who
the amount of
factory will re-open or not is not
Thirty-five men are employed at the fac-
tory, which once enjoyed the reputation
the largest picture backing es-
the

of being

tablishment in world, employing |

nearly 100 men.

Saginaw—The Merrill & Ring sawmill
closed its career Friday evening, having
run
000 feet of lumber 500,000 lath.

mill will be dismantled and the machin-

and 4,

ery shipped to Duluth, where the firm |

The
here. It
000,000 feet in Canada, and it was hoped
the t mill
but the William

has built a new mill. firm

hausted its timber owned
here
Peter,

imber would come to the
tract was sold to

of Bay City.

Manistee—A representative of the Bel- |
ding Silk Co.
ing for a site for a spool factory, anditis
thought that he will locate on the Man-
istee & Grand Rapids,

was in town last week look-

where
large tract of white birch, which
kind of that

suited for this class of

only timber

work. The silk

company’s factory uses about

loads of these spools daily, and as there

is only one factory that makes them in the |

known. |

148 days this season, cutting 18,000,- |
The

has ex- |
300,- |

4 por SALE — HARDWOOD _

there is a}
is the}
appears to be}

 

algia Company, came on to Detroit and
had a contract drawn up and signed for
-arke, Davis & Co. by the employe re-
ferred to. The mistake discovered
immediately afterward, reported to the
firm and repudiated. It is

was

declared by
the complainants that the man who signed
the contract for them had no authority to
do so. The court is asked to declare the
agreement void and to issue an injune-
tion restraining the defendant from bring-

ing any suit on it.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC,

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 lessthan 25cents. Advanve payment,

 

BUSINESS CHANCES,

 

BARGAIN OFFERED IN A GROCERY AND
A crockery stock at Ithaca, Mich. Cash sales last
sar, $30,000. Failing health reason for selling. Ad
i ss No. 346,” care Michigan Tradesman.
| 1G “GENERAL STOCK WANTED—WILL “PAY SPOT
| > cash if cheap, or will exchange real estate. Give
bottom price. Box 327, Stanton, Mic h.
Page G STORE FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN IN THE
growing village of Caledonia, surrounded by
\ rich farming country. Will sell on easy terms. Must
| quit the business on account of poor health. Address
J. W. Armstrong, Caledonia, Mich. 319
OR SALE—DRUG STOCK, LOCATED ON BEST BUS
k iness cornerin Manistee. Willsell ata bargain.
| Splendid chance for a hustling druggist. Address
| Jacob Hanselman, Manis Mic h. 334

YOR SALE—FRESH STOCK GROCERIES. WILL IN-
I ventory about $700. Centrally located in this
city. Good business and good reasons for selling.
Address No. 317, care Michigan Tradesman. 317

{OR SAL E— ONE OF THE BEST-PAYING DRUG
k stocks in Albion, Mich... a good manufacturing
| and colle ge town of 5,600 inhabitants. Invoice about
| $8,000. Reason for selling, ill-health. ee —
| Box 103, Albion. Mich.

 

 

 

  

 

LUMBER MILL, aa
miles from railroad, with plenty of timber for

| several years’ cut. Shingle machine in running order
if desired. Saw mill ready to set up. Teams, trucks,
sleighs, shop and building all in order to begin work
at once. Address J. J. Robbins, Stanton, Mich, or
| Hunter, & Reid, 121 Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 312

| JZOR SALE—CLEAN AND CAREFULLY SELECT
j I grocery stock, located at a good couutry ae
| point. Business well established. Address A.

| Adams, Administrator, Morley, Mich. 313 l
| JOR SALE— GROCERY STOCK AND FIXTURES;
| k running two deliveries; doing good business; will
invoice about $1,000. Address lock box 27, Ann Arbor,

 

 

 

Mich. ao . 337
fr0k Sie GOOD HARDWARE STOCK, WITH
good trade established. Location good. Reasons
| for selling wish to retire from business. Address
| Kk. Gordon, Sherwood, Mich. 345

two car|

| SITUATIONS WANTED.

  

QITUATION W ANTED—B Y AN ASS STA}
tered phara acist of three years’ experience

 

    

: i }
country, there ought to be a good field | reference furnishea. Address Lock Drawer O, Ciaral,
ia cuties tin the asus W) Mich. aa 3
of CENEPES Th eS Serer. 1€N | \\TANTED — POSITION AS STENOGRAPHER —

> . . 7 » ia @ . Sos perienced; City references; can furnish tyre
the ee burns off or is cut off in this writer. Address E. P., care Tradesman.
region, a great proportion of the land BOOK-KEEPER a A

grows up to this white birch,
just what

which is
is needed.

Saginaw—The dismantling of the Mer-
rill & Ring, the West Side Lumber Co.
and the N. B. Bradley & Sons sawmills
reduces the cutting capacity of the river
about 50,000,000 feet. This will be part-
ly made up by the new mill
on the Hitehkiss mill site,
that at

to be built
but it
35,000,000
capacity has been taken out of the river
the the present season.
There is also a further reduction in store

safely be said least

with close of

in the near future, as doubtless three or |

year hence if not sooner. In
mate of reduction for the present year,
the mill is not included.
been reported that it will not be operated
next If that should
oiher 30,000,000 feet will
added to the reduction in
this year.
Detroit—Parke,
brought a

Sage

season. result

Davis & Co.
against the Anti-algia |
Company, of Houghton, whichis peculiar |
in that it is intended to

have
suit

the defendant from suing them. |
It seems that in quoting the price|
for capsules the complainants, through |

a mistake of one of their employes, |
5,000 boxes at 30}
| cents per dozen, or less than cost of the |

| materials. Manager Ruhl, of the Anti-

offered to supply

oe sana ee ae

may |

four mills will go out of commission in a |

this esti- |
It has |
an- |

have to be|
capacity for |

prevent |

\ TANTED—SITUATION AS
married man who can give the best of refer-

ences. Address No. 305, care Michigan Tradesman,

Grand Rapids. 305

 

MISCELLANEOUS,

}
|

| o FOR SALE—ONE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD FIL
ly, one three-year-old filly, and one six-year-old
gelding—all sired by Louis Napoleon, dam by Wiscon-
sin Banner (Morgan}. All fine, handsome, and speedy;
never been tracked. Address J. J. Robbins, Stanton,
Mich. 311
ro “SALE—CHEAP ENOU GH FOR AN INVEST-
ment. Corner lot and 5-room house on North
Lafayette St., cellar, brick eiaa aaa soft water
in kitchen. $1, 200. Terms to suit. Address No. 187,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 187

! meinen -
{OR RENT— A GOOD STORE ON TH ISION
| street—one of the best locations on the street.
| Desirable for the dry goods business, as it has been
' used for the diy goods business for three years. Size,
| 22x80 feet, with basement. Geo. K. Nelson, 68 Monroe
street. 326
F YOU HAVE ANY PROPERTY TO EXCHANGE FOR
. a residence brick block in Grand Rapids, address
B. W. Barnard Allen street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 331
er SALE OR fRADE—TIMBER LAND IN OREGON.
Address No. 340, care Michigan Trade sman, 340
| oe. SALE—TWO HUNDRED ACRES LAND (160 IM-
proved), located in the fruit belt of Oceana coun-
| t ty, Mich. Land fitted for machinery, good fences,
large curb roof barn with underground for stock,
| horse barn and other necessary farm buildings. New
| windmill furnishes water for house und barns. Eight-
| een acres apple bearing orchard, also 1,000 peach trees,
two years old, looking thrifty. Price, $35 per acre, or
| will exchange for stock of dry goods. If any difference
will pay cash. A. Retan, Little Rock, Ark. ‘
W 48TED-OnE GOOD PEDDLING WAGO
| which we will pay cash. Address No.
| | Michigan Tradesman.
W ANTED- GROCERY STOCK BY PARTIES WHO
can pay cash down. Must be dirt che 7 Ad

 

 

   

  
 

 

 

 

 

     

 
  

 

| dress No. 343, care Michigan Tradesman.

| Py ANTED_—MAN WITH $1.000—SUPPLY aaa
Michigan with Shaeffer’s new pancake griddle
sure thing for 35,000 annually ;

positive
nished. M. _ She .effer, Canton, Ohio.

proof fur-
| Wa xzen: —TO P U RCHASE FOR c ASH A DRUG

stock in a good town of 3,000 to_5,000 inbabitante
Winans & Allen, Tower block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 332

 

Wwsst ED—UNTIL DECEMBER 15, 1 WILL PAY 65
cents per pair for partridges, spot cash; ship by
express. C. B. Lovejoy, Big Rapids, Mich. 335
| Wy NDow. DRESSING FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
Send for Harry Harman’s illustrated Christmas
| pamphlet containing novel window displays and store
decorating arranged for every line of business , adapt-
ed to the holiday season and for other oc ¢asions.
Price, postpaid, 75c. Harry Harman, window dresser
and decorator, P. O. Box 113, Louisville, Ky, 348

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Bert Tinkler has opened a grocery
store at Hastings. The Lemon & Wheeler
Company furnished the stock.

 

The annual meeting of the Ball-Barn-
hart-Putman Co. resulted in the election
of the same directors and ofticers which
have served the the past
year.

corporation

W. I. MeKenzie, the Muskegon grocer
who recently assigned to C. C. Moulton,
is offering 30 per cent. cash in full settle-
ment. So far as learned, Grand Rapids

creditors eagerly embrace the offer.

E. H. Merritt has put in a supply store
in connection
Merritt
Olney

with his chareogal kilns at
The
furnished

Siding,
&
the stock.

near Big Rapids.

Judson Grocer Co.

A. EK. Worden has purchased all the
shingle timber on 75,000 acres of the
Mackinaw Lumber Co., located between
the Carp and Black Rivers, and will
build one shingle mill at Black River and
another at St. lgnace.

Cc. W. ¥Fallas moved to Cedar
Springs and formed a copartnership with
Geo. W. Sharer for the manufacture of
butter tubs.
in operation by

 

has

The new enterprise will be
January 1 and employ
twenty-five men.

The grain elevator at Gladstone, which
was operated by K. Dykema & Bro. for
two years previous to Oct. 21, burned
Sunday morning. The mill and
offlee furniture were owned by Dykema
& Bro., who suffer aloss of about $600,
with no insurance.

feed

The suit brought against the sheriff by

Sequence of the Situation.

‘The improvement in the railroad busi-

ness of the country must very be |
followed by a similar improvement in its

general trade.

soon
Even if the farmers pre-
sist in the poliey attributed to them, of
paying off their mortgages with the pro-
ceeds of their crops rather than buy goods,
it merely transfers the task of reinvest-
ing the surplus wealth produced by the
agriculturists to their former creditors.
If these fresh
gages the money they receive, they must

cannot lend upon mort-
devise other means of employing it, and

must set on foot new enteprises which

ufacturers. Whether they will build more
railroads, vessels, factories, and houses,
open more mines, and lay out more towns,
or whether they will embark in some new
kind of venture, time will but it
is not in human nature to let
their capital lie idle.
MATHEW MARSHALL.

show,

for them

— 2 a ne
Purely Personal.
F. W. Van Wickle, the Shelby
was in town Monday.

grocer,

B. S. Holly, the Woodland general
dealer, was in town one day last week.

L.. W. Toles, formerly engaged in the
drug business here, but now engaged in
that business at Marquette, is very low
there with typhoid fever.

R. G. Rice, general dealer at Dowling,
was in town last Wednesday on his return
from Antrim county, where he and _ his
hunting party succeeded in capturing two
bear and eleven deer.

=—_ > —>
Didn’t Know It Was Loaded.

GRAND Rapins, Nov. 28—I am in re-
ceipt of a letter from M. T. Woodruff,
owner of the Ypsilanti Sentinel, assur-

 

J. A. Ferris, growing out the seizure of
the Fish stock at Cedar Springs, by
Spring & Company, was tried in the Kent
Cireuit Court last week and resulted in
a verdict for Ferris. The case will be
appealed by Spring & Company.

Julius J. Wagner, grocer at 197 East
Bridge street, has leased the store adjoin-
ing his present location and connected
the two by means of an archway. The
enlargement will enable him to increase
the size of his grocery stock and he will
also put in a full line of tinware.

 

 

The suit brought against Tucker, Hoops
& Co. by: H. F. Burch, involving an al-
leged claim for services as expert and
attorney in classifying the insurance on
their sawmill and lumber at Luther, was
tried in the Mecosta Circuit Court last
week and resulted in verdict of
cause of action, the jury taking only fif-
teen minutes to decide the matter. The
defendants very naturally, highly
elated it substan-
tiates their claims as to the groundless-

ness of the action brought by Mr. Burch.
i 2

Gripsack Brigade
Frank E. Chase, who has been spend-
ing a few weeks among the bean eaters
at Boston, leaves the ‘‘Hub” Saturday
evening for home, when he will begin
his spring campaign.

a no

are,
verdict,

as

over the

“If that Ypsilanti attack on commer-|

cial travelers had been published in a
Jackson paper,’”’ observed A. F. Peake,

the other day, ‘‘we should have held an)

indignation meeting the next evening and
made it so lively for the editor that he
would have been compelled to apologize

or leave town.”’
+ >

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

ing me that the article referred to in ny
communication of last week crept into
his paper unbeknown to him; that he
sincerely deplores such publication, as
the sentiment expressed is contrary to
his ideas of the commercial traveler.

In the light of such an apology, I will
ask you to kindly withhold from publi-
eation the article I prepared for this
week’s issue. Geo. F. OWEN.

— >
The Last in Tuscola County.
Caro, Nov. 24.—The Patrons of in-
dustry stores in Tuscola county are now
things of history. Frank A. Riley has
placed a chattel mortgage for $5,500 on
the Patrons’ hardware store in this vil-

lage. It is claimed the concern’s liabili-
ties foot up from $7,000 to $10,000. Last
week the Patrons’ grocery store, con-

ducted by M. Smith & Son, was closed
out.

-_- + -
Artificial Honey.

A kind of artificial -honey, which has
lately been produced, seems likely to
become a formidable rival of natural
honey. - It is called ‘‘sugar honey,’’ and
consists of water, sugar, a small propor-
tion of mineral salts and a free acid, and
the taste and smell resemble those of the
genuine article.

_ & a

The postal ecard factory in Shelton,
Conn. is turning out 2,500,000 cards a day.
The biggest day’s output so far is one of
a few days ago, when 2,800,000 were
printed.

 

oy
YTACA Ligh. La

EVERY SUCCESSFUL PER-
IT IS THE CONDITION OF

THIS IS WHAT
SON MUST DO.
CONDITIONS.
The Industrial School of Business furnishes

something superior to the ordinary course in

| book keeping, short-hand and type-writing, pen-

manship, English and business correspondence,
| Write for a copy of Useful Education, and see
why this school is worth your special considera-
tion. Address,

|, W, N.. FERRIS,

| Big Rapids, Mich,

will give occupation to artisans and man-

TRADESMAN.

 

‘VIL POR BUSINESS!

 

Do you want to do your customers justice?

Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way?

Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you?

Would you like to rid yourself of the bother of ‘‘pnosting’’ your books and

‘‘patehing up’? pass-book accounts?

| yourself and clerks are so prone to forget

items they never had, and is not your me
have or not?

a CASH BASIS of crediting?

A new era dawns, and with it new c

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

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
smory a little clouded as to whether they

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

ommodities for its new demands; and all

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

CUUPON BOOK

We beg leave to call your attention to
our coupon book and ask you to carefully
eonsider its merits. It takes the place
of the pass beok which you now hand
your customer and ask him to bring each
time. he buys anything, that you may
enter the article and price in it. You

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 when bills are presented. Many

 

considerable trouble when settlement

day comes.

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

thing, but, by the use of the coupon
system, it is avoided.

Now as to the use of the coupon book:
Instead of giving your customer the pass
book, you hand him a coupon book, say
of the denomination of $10, taking his
note for the amount. When he buys
anything, he hands you or your clerk
the book, from which you tear out
coupons for the amount purchased, be it
1 cent, 12 cents, 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,
shows at once the day’s business. The
notes, which are perforated at one end
| so that they can be readily detached from
ithe book, can be kept in the safe or
money drawer until the time has arrived

we
io

GRAND

 

 

 

know from experience that many times |

have to charge |

times the pass book is lost, thus causing |
But probably the most se- |

rious objection to the pass book system is |
that many times while busy waiting on |

these small entries is no inconsiderable |

Tradesman or Superior Govpons,

vs. PASS BOOK.

|
| for the makers to pay them. This ren-

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

| One of the strong points of the coupon
| system is the ease with which a mer-
chant is enabled to hold his customers
| down to a certain limit of credit. Give
some men a pass book and a line of $10,
and they will overrun the limit before
you discover it. Give them 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
iissue another book before the one al-
ready used is paid for.

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

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

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

 

 

THE TRADESMAN COMPAM,

RAPIDS.

 

 

    

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6

PROFESSIONAL SCAPEGOATS.

Men Who are Discharged Several Times
a Day.
From the Philadelphia Record.

‘‘Professional scapegoat’’ does not ap-
pear among the thousands of occupations
which designate the manner of employ-}
ment of the inhabitants of this city as
classified in the Philadelphia directory.
More than one man whose name appears
there graced by the simple, but compre-
hensive word ‘‘clerk’’ is, if the truth
were known, fully entitled to classifica-
tion as a professional scapegoat. There
is more than one that is paid a substan-
tial salary by large houses for no other
occupation than taking upon his shoul-
ders the blame for all the misdeeds of
the establishment, and suffering the sup-
posed loss of his situation at the rate of
adozen times a day or as much oftener
as occasion may require. seing dis-
charged a half-dozen times a day without
once losing his position and at the same
time being well paid for the peculiar per-
formance is, indeed, a novel idea. This
is how it is done:

A lady makes a purchase of
articles, all of which are to be sent to
her address, as given, before a certain
hour, without fail. The following day
the customer returns, and in her own
sweet way proceeds to ‘‘tear out” the
floor-manager or proprietor, as it may be,
because the goods failed to arrive at the
promised hour. The story is patiently
heard, and the word is passed along for
Smith. Smith makes his appearance

several

with a countenance professionally peni- |

tent and submissive.

“Smith,” the manager begins, ‘‘you
were instructed to send this lady’s goods
to the address given you
o’ciock?”’

“Yes, sir,’”’? is Smith’s plaintive
‘“but—”

‘“‘Never mind an explanation.
stand. Your neglect caused the delay
and has risked the loss of one of our
best customers. We cannot put up with
your carelessness any longer. You may
go to the office and get your pay.”

Smith steals away
crestfalilen look upon his face.

‘“‘Madam, I regret the
such an unnecessary blunder,
you it will not happen again; surely not
from that man,’’ and madam takes her
departure fully satisfied that she has had
her revenge.

Another irate customer appears on the |

scene. This time the trouble is with a
suite of furniture which had been pur-
chased a week before as in perfect order,
but has already begun to show signs of
approaching dissolution. The aggrieved
purchaser opens on the manager, who at
once sends for the ‘‘man who takes the
blame,” and opens his usual programme.
‘‘How is this, sir? What do you mean
by sending out goods in such a condition?
You have been repeatedly told not to
permit any goods to leave your depart-
ment unless in perfect order. This is
not the first time this has happened; but
it will be the last. Go to the office and
get your pay, we
for your services.”’
‘Madam, | am
should have been
our salesmen. We

very sorry that

shape,’
satisfied that she

put it in proper
goes on her way
received justice.

“The man who takes the
next discharged for overcharging in mak-
ing a sale of silk dress goods.
suffers a tirade of abuse, and is also to
go because he has sold a set of fine china
without calling the attention of the
chaser to several little defects. And so
it goes from morning to night, day after
day, week in and week out. The poor
fellow is made to suffer for all the sins
of the entire establishment, from the
manager down to the errand boy.

*“‘Does it pay?’? echoed a
business man the other day in response
to an enquiry on the subject.
should say it did. Why, we have a man
who takes the blame for our establish-
ment who is worth thousands of dollars
to us every year. We can sell a good |
many slightly damaged or imperfect |
goods, which we could not otherwise

before 4
|
reply, |

I under- |

occurrence of
but assure |

have no further use}
you t
so deceived by one of |
eannot very well take |
back the furniture after it has been used, |
but we will send a man to your house to}
>and the lady |
has |
blame’? is |

He then !

pur- |

prominent |

“Well, 1|

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

|
dispose of except at a great sacrifice.
Then we save a great many good cus-|

tomers who become displeased about
small matters which are not done just as
they like. Itis a strange but true fact
that many people are satisfied to put up
, with considerable inconvenience if they
can only be revenged by seeing someone
discharged. Sometimes when we bring
out our man who takes the blame, the
customer ventures to suggest that he is
not the man who waited on her, but we
insist that he is, and the man adds his
own assertion, and in nine cases out of
ten the customer is convinced. Very |
few people take enough notice of a sales-
man to identify him unless they meet
him frequently. I have known some
establishments that have employed two
or more men to take blame
facilitate matters. The funniest part of
the thing is that our scapegoat man grows
fat on being ‘cussed’. He has increased
from 150 to 220 pounds in fifteen months,

and smiles so much that we will have to}

change him and get some dyspeptic-look
ing individual in his place.’’

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Ch,

WHOLESALE

‘Dry Goods, Carpets & Cloaks,

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

 

‘Overalls of ovr own Manvfacture,

Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s
Socks.

‘Voigt, Herpolsheimer & C0,

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.

with a ready-made |

| GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH.

 

Schilling Corset Co.'s

 

Achiling’s
PRENCH
SHAPE
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Send for llnstrated Catalogue.
in this journal.

SCHILLING CORSET CO.,

Detroit, Mich. and Chicago, Ill,

 

See price list

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Dry Goods Price C ; Amoskeag...... -..124%/{Columbian brown. .12

9

wnat HED COTTONS. iii “ 9 os. .--.13% a oe
Adriatic ........ gah ae 4 Wide. 2 | Andover............. 1144|Haymaker blue. .... 7%
re endl 4 a 6% i 5 | Beaver Creek AA...10 brown... 7%
Atianta AA......... G4 LI io 2 Jaffre 1%

Atlantic fen io . |Full Yard W ia... 8% | L Cc. ees? oo

sesccccses ME IOCUREME B......-.-. 4 — oe lc

& oo 6 |Honest Width....... 6% | Boston Mfg Co. ‘i L. Lampenee, Sn... os 184

Pus. 6%|Hartford A a ES a | “ datwist 10% ic No. 250. “ie

i sveineees Se eee 6sg | Columbian XXX br.10 «No. 280... 10%
Amory..... .7 |KingA 4. +++ B% | XXX bl 19
Arc hery Bunting... 4 Ring EC. . ie |
Beaver Dam AA.. 5% aoe L an 3 ae 5% GINGHAMS.,
Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese clot " Amosknas ..... .... 7 Lancaster, staple..
Black Crow......... 6% Newmarket G. H oe +d dress as dines. ag - x
Black Rock ........ 7 rt B ..-.. 54 . Canton .. 8% “ ‘Normandie 8
se A ios cee 7% a >... 6% “ ine. 12%4|Lancashire.......... 6%

Capital A o* . 54 DD ag sa Teazle...1044|Manchester......... 5%
Cavanat V ... - 5% ee i Angola. .104|Monogram.......... 6%
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Clifton C -+ere» Sig/Our Level Best..... 6% | arlington staple. . - 6H eine. 6S. 8%
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Clifton CCC........ 6% /Solar...... silo ih ica " a 6%4|Slatersville .........

Top of the Heap.... 7% | Centennial. . 10% |Somerset....... 02... 7
: ee | Criterion 1.0.20... ee ES 4
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«shorts. OuiCex View...........6 | ily GRAIN Bags.

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| Empire ieee 7 |Prideof the West...12 Amoskeag........- 16% ciValiey City.......-.- 15%
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HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. KNITTING COTTON.
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“ “ i

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" colored. - 20%) Ww hite S bee eet 18% MIXED FLANNEL.
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. “DRESS eoops. eS 224 |Western W a 18%

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Coraline............89 50|Wonderful _ 50| Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black.

Se hilling’ 5. asia . oor een.. .....-.- 4% 9% 9% 94/13 13 13
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C ORSET JEANS, 12% 12% 1254120 20 20

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PRINTS. | Greenwood, 8 0z....11%/|Stark | “oo... 13%

Allen — reds.. 5%) ea k fancies. +2 | Boston, 8 oz ....10%|Boston, 10 0z........12%

robes........ Bit yde Robes. "* 5” | Bor /_5on..... “ oe

“pink & purple 644/Charter Oak fancies 4% | WADDINGS.

' buffs . 6 |DelMarine cashm’s. 6 Waite, Gos......... 25 |Per bale, 40 doz....87 50

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“oll blue...... 64) Ottoman = é is | “ i2 - 28

- 3 on... — :

“ Foulards .... 5%! Martha Washington NO2......- eee sees 28 [No3......-.-. -.---. 36

red % oe 7 | Turkey red %..... 7 SE

oo. o 7 i. ot — 9% | A- a. paok aed 1 40|Steamboat.... ...... 40

“ “ sseer lRiverpoint robes... i. io eoeeere....... ---- 1 85|Gold ee... .:.... 180
Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6% | Marsha oo 1 00

mad ers.. at ‘“ gold ticket | if 7 ia tL ct CLOTH, 95 /
a XX twills. 6%4| Indigo blue....... 10% | 54 a a“ i_ vee] 6-4. ..2 9
— atone. co td TWEE.
Amoskeag AC A.. 1246) A 1. 1244 | Cotton Gall Twine..2e Tashua......... ... 18
Hamilton TH} i enenton AAA. saree gga sees ae Rising * we _ 3
Le ee 0% | votes -

“ Awning..11. |Swift River......... wiz | AMOnOr............. i ieorth Ster........_- 20
Pee “'s [Pearl River........ ae Bristol ....-.. ...... 13 | Wool —— 4 plyit%
First Prise. NG Twain. ............. - | a rah Valley... “ie Powhattan .........

ae 2

Tt oe DRILL. | PLAID OSNABURGS

Atianta, a... ae kh o | Sepa... 6%|Mount Pleasant. . 8%

%|No Name.. ee AIMONOR 8... 6%) he ec eel een ee
Clifton, a. . 6%|Top of Heap.. ene w | ADgoee............ PMG ETPINONE coc. ces Bx

SATINES LAY Soons..... eae 6 Randelman.. ae
Pann 20 fimperial........ ....10 i | eee "o> Riverside ..

aa | Granite . : Wee Mc... e4

“ 3% Haw River bus as S prope... ....,.

Ce

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

Business Is Business.
From the Merchants’ Review.

The merchant who gives way to his

feelings and allows sentiment to inter- | | pay promptly and buy in full packages.

fere with business may be a very pleas- |

ant fellow to meet, but that his chances |

of success are thereby imperilled almost |
goes without saying. Yet the long cata-
logue of business failures contains
many cases of merchants who have been
ruined financially by mixing sentiment
with business.

for all things, and the promptings of
generosity or benevolence, or even
merely of good nature, cannot be al- |

Sentiment is good enough |
in itself, but there is a time and a place |

lowed to influence the action of a mer-|

chant in a purely business matter with-
out detriment to his hopes of success. It
is in the matter of giving credit that sen-
timental considerations too often prevail,
otherwise it would be impossible to ex-
plain the heavy aggregate losses which
the retail grocery trade of the country
annually suffers from bad debts. Large
strikes of wage-earners are a fruitful
source of loss to grocers, because the idle
workman resorts first of all to his grocer
for the support which his trade union
can as arule give him only temporary,
and because the grocer looks upon the
sentimental side of the case, instead of
regarding it as asimple business ques-
tion. The problem to be answered in
such cases should be: Can | get my money
if I grant credit? Instead of which the
grocers generally allow pity for the
striker’s deplorable condition to influence
theirdecision. If the grocery business
could be successfully carried on in such
a manner the case would be different, but
of all branches of the distributive busi-
ness perhaps the grocer’s is the most in-
juriously affected by the giving of credit
upon sentimental considerations, owing
to the narrow margin of profit on which
groceries are usually sold. If a mer-
chant has charitable promptings, let him
dévote a portion of his profits to the re-
lief of the distress of his indigent neigh-
bors, but it is folly to trust out goods to
people who may not be able to pay for
them, simply because of a benevolent de-
sire to preserve them from want.

In the purchase of goods sentiment
may be allowed to interfere with business
to the detriment of the latter. A mer-
chant having dealt for years with one
especial house or acertain salesman, may
become attached to either by bonds of
sentiment, and lose chances to obtain
better bargains which his harder-headed

or colder brethren are on the watch to
snatch up. Were the jobber and the
salesman equally influenced by senti-

ment, the retailer perhaps could afford
to ignore all other considerations, but
business is business with successful
salesmen and wholesalers, as the retailer
is apt to be sharply reminded in case of
default in payment when bills become
due. Itis well to keep the heart warm
with the steady fires of benevolence and
kindness, but the head must be kept
cool if one wishes tosuecceed in business.
The milk of human kindness need not be
allowed to turn sour in the breast of the
active, enterprising merchant, but it
should not be allowed to mix with busi-
ness to the injury of the business man.

PAUL EIFERT,

Manufacturer of

Tronks, Traveling Bags and Cases

 

 

 

SAMPLE TRUNKS AND CASES
MADE TO ORDER.

Write for Prices.

41 SO. DIVISION ST.,

Grand Rapids, Michigan,

H. M. REYNOLDS & SON,

Tar and Gravel Roofers,

And dealers in Tarred Felt,
Pitch, Coal Tar, Asphaltum,
Wool, Ete.

Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,
GRAND RAPIDS.

Building Paper,

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

 

: BOPES
Hardware Price Current. ee ak el —
I on | § 56 tach and larger ...........
~_oReeneanmelanmesaaamuimbany ae a ae
These prices are for eash buyers, who Tatas. eessetee esos es Ai, 40610 | 5.0) and I SQUARES.
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............. . .30e list 60 Try ser iireie cree teen. Settee eters ences
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30c 40&10 Mire cn
AUGURS AND BITS. dis. HINGES. [ a ena
a a i Gams Claes 138 .................-... dis.604&10 Com. Smooth.
Lt 40 | State..... -per doz. net, 2 50 | Nos. 10 to 14. 05
sennings’, genuine...... i. 25 | Screw Hook and Strap, ‘to 12 in. dws 14 and Nos. 15 to 17 CD _4&
ecousmes . TOICAEION........................ 50&10 longer .... os am | Noe 186021....... 405
AXES, Screw Hook and Eye, % . ee eee het P 2 to: a 40
ee +a c 4 oF
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze.................. S70) a a ci - a = Wow Sto ....... iz
> ~” re m 7 wae Mb eee ence anne . a +. 2
“ ey = aa TR uM ta re ° i . Bh.---- --net 7% All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
“ DB ee ee ee ee and 7 . dis. 50 wide not less than 2-10 extra
- B, Steel.................-.. 18! eae dis. aan bani.
oe Gis. | garn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track....50&19 | List acct. 19,°86............... a a
Rees... L 6 14 00! Champion, anti friction.................... GOdi0 SASH CORD.
GCarcen........... . . met oo OG | Ridder, wood ack ................ 40 | Silv er L ake, White A. C list 50)
BOLTS dis. HOLLOW WARE ) Dreano A.......... ‘ 55
Pp 6 ‘“ >
Abe 50&10 Berend eee tert oven iteetene art pt re oc. : =
| Carriage new list... -- | 751 Spiders ... . eee cl eeee a 60 “ ee 35
a se na ae Gray enameled.......... . ---- 40810 |  Discount,-10.
i ' - en HOUSE FURNISHING GOODE, | SASH WEIGHTS,
BUCKETS. Siamped Tin Ware. new list 79 Solid Eyes...... . .. per ton 825
Well, plain -.$ 3 50 | Japanned Tin Ware........ ....-.-- SAWS. dis.
Well, swivel oe 4 00] Granite Iron Ware . LT ewe at 3% 10 _ Hand.......... sttteeteee ce ceees 20
BUTTS, CAST dis WIRE ‘goons. dis. Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, 70
Ra ae Bright... ae eee ....70&10&10|} ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot A
Cast Loose Pin, figured. . woes OE Be 7F0&10&10 . Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot... 30
| Wrought Narrow, brig cht! Bast joint, Loe. -- 8610 | FHook’s . — 70810810 “ Champion and Electric Tooth X
| Wrought Loose Pin. : ..------6010 | Gate Hooks and Ey ae 70&10&10 | Cuts, per foot. : 2 a
Wrougut Tebie.................. . --60&10 LEVELS. dis. | TRAPS, dis.
Wrought Inside Band - BOG Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 70 | Steel, Game... : - GO&10
W rought Brass.. oe KNOBS—New List. dis. Oneida Community, Newhouse’s . 35
Blind, Clark's 0&0 | Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .... : 55 | Oneida Community, Hla wley & Norton’s.. 70
Blind, Parker’s............ ...-- -- 7810] Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings 55 | Mouse, choker ‘ -18¢ per doz
Blind, Shepard's ..........--..-+-+++++0+-+05 ‘©! Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55 | Mouse, delusion 81.50 per doz.
BLOCKS. Door, porcelwin, tri a ee 55 kites ties WIRE. —
rdinary Tackle . il 17. 1a ‘| Drawer and Shutter, porcelain.. F 70 | Bright Marke aes : 5D
anne Hanne. an eae ty al) IBN al ep KS—DOOK. dis, | Annealed Market. .70—10
CRAULEA, Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new List : 55 | Coppered Market 60
Co . dis. 50402 | Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s... 55 Z inned ao. a 62%
B ford’s oe 55 | Coppered Spring Steel a. 50
bial RR ae es 55 | Barbed Fence, galvanized oo bs
OO perb 5 MATTOCKS 6 painted ...... 2. 2a
CAP Adze Hye. ...-. 2 . 916.00, dis. 60 | HORSE NAILS.
cieetee perm 65] Hunt Eye .. 815.00, dis. 60 | Au Sable. . Gis. 2561025410805
ec F............ a | “ es... i... O10 Go din WED | Puta dis. 06
Bo. TT 35 MAULS. dis. | Northwestern........... dis. 1081 10
meee 4. _ 60 | Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled.. : 50 | : WRENCHES. dis.
RTT re oe MILLS. dis. | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled 30
Cee en — Pa tkers Co... : 49 Coes Genuine ............ 50
CO 58 ‘ S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wro ugat,. . 75
Central Fire ee . Gig, 25 “s ee Merrg @(ie.b8, 0.00.01... 40 | Coe’s Patent, malleable ecu. 75&10
CHISELS dis. nterprise : . 30 | ea te MISCELLANEOUS dis ih
Socket Fir 70.810 MOLASSES GATES. dis. | Bird Cages ............-... -++-- 5U
eee aes | Meine Pulierh.........--..-. ......60&10 | Pumps, Cistern..... 5
oe eee ee aa Stebbin’s Genuine. . 60&10 | Screws, New List............ 1010
eae aca io 70810 Enterprise, self- measuring ee 25 | Casters, Bed a da ee '-50&10&10
Be ne Tanied| iene 40 NAILS | Dampers, American.... i. 40
utchers’ Tange nt Ginel note beed............ .1 8¢ | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel ‘goods... 65
ae dis Whe calle Game 2 05 | METALS,
Curry, Lawrence’s 40 Advance over base: "Steel. Wire. | i Pig TIN. u
EE OL EE Base Base | Pig Large.... ee 26¢
CHALK ee eee Base 10 | Pie Bars... .. 28¢
, . , Da 2enis a 20 ZINC.
White Crayons, per gross..... . 12@12% dis. 10 ni ae cette 10 39 | Duty: Sheet, 2H4e per r pound.
COPPER, +20. 15 30 | 660 pound casks. a . 5%
Planished, 14 oz cut to sige... .. per — ES 15 35 | Per pound.......... eee reer terse eeet
14x52, 14x56, fete ee es ee 15 35 i OLDER. i
Cold Kolled, 14s56 and t4a09.... -.......... =i... CC .. .. = = 4 AO Wiptt “ weet tte e eer eee ree a
, 8 eae eee as 219... zx | iu I cate tet eee tree eer tenes
—— — a OT 40 65 | The prices of the many other qualities of
i re ae 4 de 90 | solder in the market Indicated by private brands
{ / i ' 3. EE 1 00 1 50 | bar according to composition.
— Ss id stzalaht Shai Seer . = a "4 50 2 00 | ANTIMONY
aoe er eee BANK... 2 eee cee e eee. Ce ET, -« 2 00 | € a, ee -.per pound 16
Morse’s Taper Shank.. ee ae ey a 50 C ruse al pena a on | Hallett ‘6 13
DRIPPING PANS. 8. oC %5 1 00 | TIN—MELYN GRADS. i
Small sizes, ser pound .......... a. ea 90 : = — ~ Charcoal... + 87 =
5 6 ) 85 | ae < as
Large sizes, per Augen Si 68% Finish a ’ = a Sl eee 22a a ECL oa
ELBOWS. 415 EO ae te 92
Com, 4 plece,Gm...................demmet 7% Clinch 1 ae 85 75 | Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
Cotceeeee dis 40 ‘ co ..10 90 | TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. ae
Adjustable. :. : .. dis. 40&10 ts a 43 1 00 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal : $6 75
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. | Barrell %...... ae 2 oO | 14x20 IC, us Ce - 6%
PLANES. dis. | 10x14 rx, 8 2%
Clark’s, small, 818; large "a8 eee 30 Gibte Tact Ca's, faney .....-----.----------- ee eee 9 25
Eves’, 1, 8185 2, 8245 3, Se Bench. ee eee 6 Each dditional X on this grade 81.50.
este Aet List. dis. | Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy..............56+ . og. ROOFING PLATES ‘i
Disston’s . ee 60&10 | Bench, first quality................-.0e0--++ 14x20 - ‘Worcester... =
New American........ ....60&10 | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. &10 | 14x20 1 T i . <3
Seog 8 ide eee bees seu .. 60810 PANS. 20x28 IC, i eee pee ee
Baers... , Site some... ..... dis.60—10 | 14x20 IC, : Allaway Grade eae cua. 6 G0
Heller’ : Horse Rasps os so | Common, polished.....................- dis. a 70 | fe 1x, i i i te sf =
RIVETS. x2 i i
oe ,| iron and Tinned........ ‘ "40 | 20x28 IX, -° 15 50
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 26; 27 28 | Copper Rivets and Burs. i 50 | | BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
ist 12 13 14 > PATENT FLANISHED IRON. | 14x28 TX......-.- eee ee eee eee Sid 08
Discount, 60 “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. % to 27 10 20 | 14x31 0 ee 15
GAUGES. dis. ““B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 14x56 IX, for No. Z ae \ per ponnd 10
stanley ule and Level Co.’s 50 Broken sino ye per pound extra. | 14x60 TX,

 

Rosin, Mineral

 

 

———— ALSO

Both Manufactured by

The Kelly Axe Mig Go,
‘ef
&

carry a good stock of these axe
a d quote them at the following
prices:

S. Bit. D. Bit.
Kelly Perfect, per doz. $7 12
Falls City, per doz. $6 $9

he Kelly erfect Axes

The Falls City Axe
Louisville, Ky

   
  
 

 

 

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Michigan Tradesman

ficial Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State,

The Tradesman Company, Proprietor.

scription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
ctly in advance.

Advertising Rates made known on apy lication,
Publication Office, 100 Louis St

 

 

Entered at the Grand Rapida Post Oy.cé.

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1891,

 

PRO AND CON.
Discussion of the Fortnightly Visits of |
Traveling Men.
THE TRADESMAN recently pul

 

communication from a retail dealerin a
certain Northern Michigan town, com-
plaining of the frequent calls of travel-|
ing men and the necessity it put him to}
of buying of al! of them in order to keep
*“*peace in the family.’? The communica-
tion provoked considerable discussion |
among the parties concerned and afforded |
a text for several sermons in the columns |
With this issue Tue |
TRADESMAN presents the opinions of a}

of the trade press.

number of local jobbers on the sub-|
hopes to be able to give the}

ect and
views of representative traveling men in
next week’s paper. To this end, the
written expression of ail who are willing
to put themselves on record is respect-
fully solicited.

The views of the jobbers are as follows:

S. M. Lemon (Lemon & Wheeler Co. )—
|] agree with the merchant who wrote
referred to in your last issue.
Before going further, I want to say that
I got my first startin life as a commer-
cial traveler, 22 years ago, and for the
traveling salesman I have always enter-
tained a sympathetic feeling and most
profound respect, and now say unhesi-
tatingly that in order for jobbers to act
in harmony, with the spirit and condi-
tion of the times and be a success, it is
absolutely necessary to keep salesmen
on the road; at the same time I have been
for some time and am now fully con-
vinced that the wholesale grocers of
Grand Rapids, as a whole, have more
traveling representatives on the road
than is necessary. A _ lesser number

would sell just as many goods and

the net results would show a great

saving to the jobbers of this city, and

was their custom; and we are glad to say

that this change has worked to our ad-
| vantage and we believe for the good of
the trade.

W. L. Freeman (Hawkins & Company)
—lI give that fellow credit for having a
heap of good sense—more than the whole-
sale grocers of Grand Rapids possess. I
often wonder why the retailers do not

revolt and quit trading altogether with
a house which sends out traveling men.
| We are pestered to death with frequent
iealls of salesmen from importing and
; Manufacturing houses and the retailer is
|certainly bothered more than we are.
| We can sell just as many goods by call-

ing on our trade once in three weeks as

we can by calling on them fortnightly

and we could well afford to divide the
savings with our customers.
Edward Telfer (Felfer Spice Co.): A

| year ago we had four men on the road,

seeing the trade every three weeks.

This year we reduced the force to two
men, who call on our trade every five
weeks. Instead of reducing our sales,
this plan has enabled us to increase them
to a considerable extent, and we have
every confidence in our ability to hold
our own under the present system.

Frank Jewell (1. M. Clark Grocery Co.)
—We have been so busy over the re-or- }
ganization of our business, owing to the}
death of Mr. Clark, that we have given
the matter no attention whatever and
shall not be able to du so for some weeks
yet.

Wim. Judson (Olney & Judson Grocer
Co.)—I am of the opinion that our sales-
men are making some drives every two
weeks, when every four weeks would do
as well. On the other hand, we find it
pays us to call on the trade in the rail-

road towns every fortnight. Our men |
use their own judgment, to a great ex-
tent, and we think this works better than
for employers to make cast iron rules. |
Men who are not competent to exercise
judgment in such matters are not fit to
be on the road.

Amos S. Musselman (Musselman &
Widdicomb)—I pity the average retailer

if he is bored by traveling men as much}
we we of the jobbing trade are and I}
stand ready to co-operate with him in|
any reasonable effort to lessen the evil. |
Iam confident that we could get along |
with one less man in the territory we are

i
now covering—that three men could get |

just as much trade as four—while the |
fourth man could secure additional busi- |

ness for us in new territory. Lam glad}

 

would at the same time serve just as well, |

if not better, the interests of the retail

trade of this territory, because, by mak- |

ing the trips every three or four weeks,
instead of every two weeks, as is the
present custom, the saving by the reduc-
tion in expenses could and in the very
nature of things would be divided with
the retail merchant. I believe, however,
that this change should be brought about
in such a way as would not cause disas-
ter or even ubnecessary inconvenience
to salesmen who might be laid off. For

instance, during the present year we

have reduced the number of our sales-
men by two—Louis Immegart engaged
in business for himself at Traverse City
and Mr. Walters in Northern Indiana,
and we did not fill the places of these
salesmen, but divided their respective
territories among our other salesmen—
and now we have all our men with one
exception, make their trips every three

to see the matter agitated and hope that
| good will result therefrom.

O. A. Ball (Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.) |
—It has long been a theory of mine that |
it does not pay to drum the trade too}
often and I think the present condition |
lof things in this territory sustains my}
| position. We are soliciting the trade of |
| the merchants in this part of the State |
with greater importunity than is consis- |
| tent with either dignity or profit. The|
| retailer is kept overloaded, from the de- |
sire to satisfy the wishes of the men
whom he sees so often that he comes to
|look upon them in the light of friends
jand dislikes to turn away without an|
| order. The result is deferred payments
and general demoralization. We cannot
blame our customers, for we have to fight
like tigers ourselves to keep our stocks
within reasonable limits, so great is the
| pressure to sell us goods and so anxious
| are we to please the salesmen who have |

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ously. I have looked at this subject
from every aspect and am free to confess
that I see no way out of the dilemma but
to curtail the numerical strength of the
small army which starts out on the war-
path every Monday morning on its fort-
nightly visitation. This should be done
in such a way as to avoid any inconven-
ience to the salesmen who are eliminated
from the territory and I think the senti-
ment of the trade, both wholesale and
retail, demands such a reform at the
earliest possible moment.

SYMPATHIZES WITH THE TRAVELER.
From the Grocer and Country Merchant.

“Dol hate to see a commercial traveler
come in?” said a representative retailer
the other day. ‘‘Well, I should say not.
I’m always sorry if 1am unable to give
him an order. I know whatit is to bea
traveler myself, from experience, too.
I hustled around for several years with
a grip full of a wardrobe and a trunk
full of samples. It isn’t altogether as
alluring a job after you’ve tried it once.
For about three hundred and sixty-five
days in every year the commercial trav-
eler is expected to be the prince of jolly
good feilows, always wearing a pleasant
face, and, even if his order book is a fine
collection of blank pages, and he’s slept
in a damp, clammy hotel bed all night,
besides having eaten a hotel breakfast

|}cooked in amanner he hardly admires,

to say the least, yet he must talk busi-

j}ness for a couple of hours, be crowded
|down on his prices, get no order, and

still leave the dealer with a hearty shake

| of the hand and a wish for better trade.
| When a traveler strikes the city and has

a couple of days’ respite, I hate to hurt
his feelings by not buying.”’

 

HOW IT LOOKS IN NEW YORK.
From the Merchant’s Review.

A correspondent of Tike MicuigANn
TRADESMAN confesses that he frequently
overbuys from traveling salesmen, be-
cause thei: visits are so frequent, and
he suggests that the Grand Rapids job-
bers send out salesmen less eften. But
he doesn’t appear to see that the remedy
lies in the hands of himself and his
brother merchants. So long as dealers
buy goods because of the importunities
of drummers, instead of according to
their actual requirements, just so long
will the nuisance of which this merchant
complains exist. This seems to be self-
evident. s3ut what a flood of light the
aforesaid communication sheds upon the

| business methods of country merchants,
|and how clear an explanation it affords |

of the reasons for the ill-suecess of many
of them!
A MINNESOTA COMMENT.

Commenting on the above criticism,
the Northwest Trade (Minneapolis) says:

Of course, the correct theory is as our
esteemed contemporary states it, but it
often happens that theory runs counter
to fact—to the practical side of exper-
ience. Now, is the theory above all
there is to this question? Human nature

 

is as it is—human nature and nothing
more, and the average man, in one way
and another, by one man and another, is
persuadable. The only question in the
vast majority of cases is as to how to
persuade the particular case in hand.
There is precisely where the functions
of the salesman are called into question.
We often enough hear the expression,
‘‘a elever salesman,” and we suppose
that that means an ability to sell goods
—an ability to persuade merchants into
buying the goods, an ability to work off
goods even at the risk of overstocking
the customer. In this light, the question
is as to whether the wholesaling em-
ployer does not offer special advantages
to the man who has the keen wits, the
persuasive tongue, and the persistence
which will enable him not only to meet
all competition but create business where
it does not normally exist? And are not
these high priced and selected wits, this
trained tongue, this developed insistence
pitted against qualities which, however
superior in other directions, are inferior
in precisely the one under discussion?
The whole subjeet, it seems to us, re-
solves into this conclusion, that while
primarily and theoretically the merchant
is responsible for permitting himself to
be persuaded into buying extravagantly,
secondarily and practically the ‘‘clever”
salesman wilfully and often wrongfully,
overstocks a great many of his customers
because of his superior powers as a sales-
man.
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For the finest coffees in the world, high
grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner,
304 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids,
Mich., general representative for E. J.
Gillies & Co., New York City.

 

 

STALLION FOR SALE.

 

I have a three-quarter blood

leveland Bay Stallion

18 hands high, 10 years old, weighing
1,550 pounds, which I will sell for

$250.

He is worth twice that amount, having
been sold a short time ago for $600. I
have no use for the horse, and conse-
quently offer him at the price named.

He is a deep bay, with one white hind
foot, is a good traveler and gets up in
good style.

L. H SHEPHERD,

CHARLOTTE, MICH.

 

 

 

HANDKERCHIEFS, COTTON, SILK, LINEN.
| MUFFLERS, ALL PRICES.
PS GENTS’ AND LADIES’ GLOVES AND MITTS.

NECKTIES, FROM $2.25 TO $9.00.
He DOLLS, FROM 8c DOZ. TO $9.00. ae

JEWELRY AND FANCY PERFUMES.

6 FANCY BOX PAPER.

TABLE COVERS, CHENILLE, PLUSH AND DAM-
ASK IN 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 8-4.

6 FURS, MUFFS AND BOAS.

CALL AND SEE US,

NAPKINS AND DOYLIES.

weeks, instead of every two weeks, as | solicited our trade so long and so courte- |

 

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STEKETER & SONS.

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

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OUR OFFICE BOY.

 

Graphic Description of a Most Unique
Character.

Heisadaisy. The first day he came
in answer to our advertisement for ‘‘a
boy to make himself useful,’? he was so
frightened that he seareely could speak,
and so modest that red paint was noth-
ing to his blushes.

Poor little fellow, standing so humbly,
and replying so respectfully while the
usual questions were being asked, we
all pitied him, and did our best to place
him at his ease and lighten the ordeal
he had to go through.

How his hand trembled as he put down
arow of figures to add, and how pain-
fully careful he was to make good ones
and writea few lines at the end in beauti-
ful school-boy style.

Then when we told him we would let
him know on the morrow if he was ac-
cepted, how politely he bowed with a
sweet and thankful smile and walked
briskly away.

We all fell in love with the little angel
at once and congratulated ourselves that
we had discovered such a treasure.

he next day, after getting notice that
he was engaged, he promptly appeared,
and, being given his desk, started on his
career of usefulness.

He kept us busy all the day supplying
him with something to do.

He was a perfect steam engine for
work, and the quickness with which he
finished a task and then cried for more
was wonderful,and it taxed our ingenuity
to the utmost to satisfy his efforts to be
useful.

His errands were run with lightning
speed, and his docility was most refresh-
ing. He even refused to take a whole
dinner hour, saying that half was plenty,

and when it came the hour for closing
the store he seemed truly sorry to be

obliged to go home.
The next morning he was around wait-

ing outside for the store to be open, In | painfully apparent in his vieinity and | his beautiful ways.
soon he would coolly light one and puff |
it with composure on his way out of the; ry, he simply locked the contempt he
i store at closing time.

his eagerness to be early and useful.

For about a week the little model of
virtue set us all an example of promptness
and indusiry and goodness.

P. H. RARLY, Fres. and Treas.

W. H. DODGE, Sec’y and Gen’! Manager.

 

His face shone with delight when any-
thing—the harder the better—was given
and his alacrity and swiftness in doing
errands were rather more than we
wanted.

He was always anticipating our wishes,
and his overwhelming politeness and re-
spect won the hardest heart in the es-
tablishment, and aroused such love and
admiration for his noble qualities that
we all felt more or less jealous from the
attention he received from the house.
We feared he was on the road to be pro-
moted over our heads, and get in the
firm while we were thinking about it.

After he had been with us a fortnight
we began to notice a change coming over
him.

He was a little less anxious about get-
ting over so early and leaving so late,
and he showed a less desire for work.

He seemed to know us a little better,

too, and seemed to feel less in awe of
those above him.
His tone of voice became a shade

louder, and he laughed more frequently,
and sometimes too heartly, at our jokes.

Instead of waiting to be spoken to be-
fore answering, he began to make re-
marks himself and mix in our conversa-
tion, and soon the whole dinner hour be-
came not longer than he thought neces-
sary.

Still we loved him, for he
quite polite and agreeable.

At the end of a month, however, he
commenced to expand and assume airs
of self-importance which were uncalled
for, to say the least.

He no more ealled us Mr. Jones or
Mr. Smith—our first names were easier
for him to handle. The head of the firm
he designated as the ‘told man,” and gave
original and funny titles to everyone.
The head book-keeper was ‘old pen-
wiper,” the cashier was ‘‘old nickel-in-
the-slot,”? and the junior partner was

was yet

 

‘“*high-cock-a-lorum.”
The odor of cigarettes began to be

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HENLEY & SWIFT, Pacific Slope Att’ys, San Francisco.

SANNON, DONOVAN & SHEA, Western Att’ys, Omaha, Neb.
McCARTHY, OSLER, HOSKIN & CREELMAN, Canadian Att’ys, Toronto, Ont.

Merchants Retail Gommercial

Eastern Office, 911 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
New England Office, Boyl!ston Build’g, 657
Canadian Office, 27 Canadian Bank of Commerce 3uilding, Toronto, Ont.
Western Office, 413-515 Bee Building, Omaha, Neb.

Southern Office, McDonald Building, A lanta, Ga.

Pacific Slope Office, 31-32 Chronicle Building, San Francisco, Cal,

 

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abstract of unsettled accounts issued by our General Agency, or certified to the
Secretary of this Branch by such Agency 8s unsettled, no member shall in any
case open an account, without security, with such delinquent, and the opening

Sec. 4.

of such account by any member with such person shall be considered an offense
against this section and subject such member to an investigation by the Executive
Board, and if found guilty he shall pay to such Board a fine of TWANTY
LARS for the sole use and benetit of this branch, and his neglect or refusal to
comply with this demand shall make him liable to expulsion froin said agency.

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He used to run on errands and jump
when spoken to.

Now in the mornings, always a little
late. he leisurely sauntered in and his
first duty was to stick his feet up on his
desk and read the newspapers.

When he got through, and not before,
he put them on file, remarking that
the ‘‘boss’? had more time to wait for the
news than he had.

Then after writing his very important
private letters and trying to interest us
with his political opinions and eriticisms
he commenced to ‘‘make himself useful.”’

{nstead of promptly heeding the di-
rections and requests of those over him
as at first, he seemed to become afflicted
with a most convenient difficulty of
hearing.

Not till after the questions or commands
were repeated more than once did he
deign to notice them and then,in the
slowest and most provoking manner pos-
sible, did he reply.

His object skillfully hidden under an
assumed inability to hear or understand
was to have his own way and take his
own time and, after a few wrestles, he
sueceeded in making us’ tired and being
left alone to do as he pleased.

When that plan didn’t work he be-
came a bit sareastic and ‘‘sassy,’’ and so
before long, in place of his being afraid
of those above him, they grew afraid of
him and treated the little terror with
much consideration.

Of course, he knew their fear, and was
merciless in taking advantage of it.

No matter how he was snubbed and
sat down on, his free and awfully easy
manners inereased day by day.

He whistled all the tunes ever invent-
ed—all the louder if he was asked to
please keep quiet. Aud when he wasn’t
whistling he hummed the music, which
was harder to bear, for his selections
were not as fine as our artistic ears were
acustomed to.

His dignity kept pace with the rest of

When asked, even by the firm, to hur-

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But, half an hour before his time to
go, he not only hurried himself, but
made the others, too, for he let all hands
know that he was not going to be de-
tained by their work not being finished.

Ten minutes before the closing hour
he was off, and not one dared as much as
hint for him to stay till the rest were
done.

He, also, began to dress in the style
becoming a young gentleman of his cul-
ture and position in society.

He couldn’t wear a collar high enough
nor carry a cane bigenough. And when
he walked comfortably in one n orning,
late as usual, under an immense high,
silk hat, with kid gloves on his ink
stained fingers and a flower in the but-
tonhole of his Prinee Albert coat, none
ventured to let him see the smile his
glorious appearance provoked.

But he got to the end of his
last.

With his invineible freshness and
cheek he interviewed the firm one day in
the private office on the subject of a
raise of salary.

He stated how much the cost of living
had increased since he begun to make
himself useful, and how hard he worked
and how difficult it was to fill the
tion of importance he had accepted, and
that in the near future he contemplated
matrimony and consequently ought to
have enough to support a family.

When he sneaked meekly out of the
private office with flushed face it was ev-
ident that his demands had been refused
and that the grand bounce act had been
performed.

So he packed his traps, and never say-
ing a word, stalked angrily and with
much dignity out of the store, to the im-
mense joy and satisfaction of those he
left behind him.

We have since heard that he is married
and being supported by his father-in-
law—who has our sympathy in his afflic-
tion, H. C. DopGE.

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sold his grocery stock to John Hess.

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ae Board of | Pharmacy. |

One Year—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor |
Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. |
President—Jaccb Jesson, Muskegon. |
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Meetings for 1891—Lensing, Nov. 4.

 

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo.

Vice-Presidents—S. E. Parkill, Owosso;
Ignace; A. S. Pen, Detroit.
Secretary—Mr. Parsons, Detroit.

Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.

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

Next place of mee ting—Grand Rapids.

Local Secretary- —John D. Muir.

L. Pauley, St.

 

 

 

 

rand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott,
Regular! Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March
June, September and December,

 

Grand Rapide Drug Clerks’ Association.
resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith.

 

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society
President, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P. Rheinfrank.

Muskegon Drug © lerks’ Association.
President N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

 

 

 

THE QUEER FOOD WE IMPOR?.

Few native Americans have any idea
of the number and kind of queer foods
which come from foreign lands to their
of the delicate
which through Custom
House is decidedly interesting. And the
that there are more

country. A study mor-

sels pass the
official records show
than eight hundred dif
Our foreign-born popula-

ferent kinds of im-
ported foods.
tion keep up a sneaking fondness for the
dishes and tid-bits which they eat with
relish in the Old World, and
to this demand strange edibles with curi-

in response

ous names are imported. The eccentrici-
ties of the human palate are many, as we
hope to show inv the following:

From France comes a long list of odd
delicacies. The oddest of all, perhaps, is
pickled ecockscombs. Usually it is putup
half cooked, and then it is pickled and

spiced. There is, to the American pal-
ate, nothing appetizing about pickled
cockscombs, which are as tough as

“boarding house steak.’’? Another French
disb of rare flavor is blood pudding, which
the
During the siege

blood of
of
and
The
is com-
‘“‘A dinner with-

is commonly made from
beeves and horses.
Paris the bfood of rats
birds was served into puddings.
Frenchmen think that no dinner
plete without cheese.
out cheese,’’ said Brillat-Savarin, ‘‘is like
a beautiful woman with only one eye.’’
Roquefort, which differs from the other
cheeses, is made from the milk of sheep
and goats. It is sharp, acrid, and not
pleasant to the uninitiated palate. Cam-
embert is another kind of cheese. It is
pasty, and comes in small, flat pats, each
It is more
and its
vecomes ab-

dogs, cats,

weighing about one pound.
highly flavored than
boquet, after

a
some months,
solutely nauseating.

The Germans send us large quantities
of curious food.
portations are
pickled herrings,
ous tastes.

The more common im-
sauerkraut, sausages,
and confections of vari-
Goose breasts

are dried,

|the Norwegian article.
| jelly.

| fermenting.

 

smoked and pickled. The sausages made |}
of chicken and duck are quite palatable.
So too are the Schwarzwald hams, which
surpass even our own sugar-cured hams.
Of cheeses Limburger is the best known.
But for odor and strength a new kind of |
Muenster cheese takes the cake. It is
so powerful that a piece as big as your
finger would scent a tan-yard.

The list of foods imported from Nor-
way and Sweden is not very long. The)!
most important article is seaweed. An-/

other staff of life is a kind of unleavened |
bread. The Emeraid Isle furnishes a |

| changed.
| reot is lower for prime peeled.

few tid-bits. Of course,

phies’’? hold the place of honor. Then!

genuine ‘‘Mur- |

there is a kind of seaweed not unlike |

It makes good |

As arule, the Spaniards are high liv-|
ers; that is to say, they like every bit of |

food highly
ened. From Spain and the West Indies
red and green

marmalades.

come
and

peppers, preserves
The preserves are

seasoned or highly sweet- |

BUSINESS LAW.

 

| Summarized Decisions from Courts of
Last Resort.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW—CONTEMPT.

In a case recently decided in the United
States Circuit Court at Indianapolis,
where the Board of Tax Commissioners
had endeavored to compel a banker to
give the names and amounts of individual
deposits, Judge Thayer decided that the
section of the State law empowering the

| board to fine and imprison for contempt

made by boiling fruits and then adding |
brandy or wine to keep the mass from |

Some of the marmalades— |

for example, those made from the guava |

fruit—need to be cut with a sharp knife.
To these may be added the Catalan and
Basque sausages, black, dry and hard;
smoked and dried sardines and
vies. Of the Spanish cheese, the Anda-
lusian is the most disagreeable, having
a boquet of onions and garlic.

The Chinese cling to their native diet
by importing dried shark fins, dried
chicken and ducks; preserved watermel-
on seeds, crystalized dates and figs, sug-
aredflowers,sweet pumpkins,and sardines
in oil. Their sweetmeats are delicious.
They are usually made by boiling fruits,
as tamarinds, limes and green dates, in
strained honey, Other curious bits of
pastry are ‘‘mooncakes,’’ eaten in com-
memoration of the harvest and
‘*Jai-chee nuts.”’

There is a great variety in the foods
from Japan. The most common kinds are
dried fishes of all sorts and sizes. Al-
most every kind of fish and form of sea
life is dried hard and stony by the Jap-
anese, from a sturgeon to a minnow,
from a clam to a crab. Only the rich
ean afford bird-nest soup, the material
for which is a seaweed masticated by
the birds to form their nests. Other odd
dishes are made from tree mushrooms
and sea mushrooms. The latter is very
palatable.

We need only mention, in conclusion,
sappodillas from the West Indies, prick-
ly pears and edible lizards from Central
America, tomalis from and
“*stitchies’’ from Palestine. But enough
has been said to show that tastes differ

the world over. L. J. VANCE.
Ap tp

Money in Roses.

ancho-

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Mexico,

 

“If you want to make money and at
the same time enjoy your work,” said a
well known business man,
When I moved into the suburbs of- the
city, I built a conservatory to grow roses,
for Iam very fond of them. From time
to time I built additions to my hothouses,
and in time found that I was raising more
roses than I knew what to do with. Sol
began to sell them. 1 learned that there
was a good winter demand for them; in
fact, a very strong demand. 1 was able
to command prices which seemed mar-
vellous. Now I make large Winter ship-
ments regularly, and I have paid for my

‘‘raise roses.

| hothouses and all the labor expended on
| them many times over, and what I call

my ‘flower bank account’ has reached a
very respectable size.”
el
The Drug Market.
Gum opium is firm. Morphia is un-
Quinine is steady.

taria has advanced. Spermacetti is low-
er. Bromide potash has declined.
tle fish bone is lower.
clined.

Salacine has de-

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was unconstitutional and void.

USURY—MORTGAGE—VOIDABILITY.

In the case of Lydecker vs. Bliven,
recently decided by the New York Court
of Appeals, it appeared that the appel-

jlant procured a loan of $4,000 from a

|curity a mortgage on an

| the

resident of Upper Nyack, giving as se-
icehouse. The
mortgage was assigned subsequently to

respondent. The latter proceeded to

| foreclose the mortgage, when the appel-
ilant set up asadefense the charge of

| usury,

alleging that he had not received
the full amount named from the original

| mortgagee, who had retained 10 per cent.

Upon this defense the Court of Appeals

| sustained a decision giving judgment to
ithe appellant and holding the mortgage

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void.

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

In Pennsylvania, according to the re-
cent decision of the Supreme Court of
that State, in the case of Bevan et «al. vs.
Thackara, a contract made by a husband
for the improvement of his wife’s sep-

and consent is sufficient to sustain a
mechanie’s claim filed by a sub-contract-
or who has furnished materials neces-
sary for the improvement. The eourt
held in the same case that where materials
are furnished partly for a house and

the
appurtenant to it, a claim filed against
the house and lot only, without mention-
ing the stable, will not support a recoy-
ery for anything used for the latter
building.

BANK—FALSE STATEMENT—LIABILITY.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals held,
in the recent case of Prewitt vs. Trimble,
that a published statement by the cashier
of the condition of a bank, followed by a
statement signed by the President and
directors referring to the cashier’s state-
ment as evidence of the prosperous con-
dition of the bank, was to be regarded as
a report of the officers of the bank made
directly by the president and directors,
and that the statement being false, in
that the amounts reported as ‘‘loans and
discounts” and ‘‘ overdrafts’? embraced
stale and worthless demands, amounting
to a large sum, thus reducing the value
of the stock much below what it appeared
to be from the statement, one who pur-
chased stock from the president of the
bank upon the faith of this statement
was entitled to a recission of the con-
tract.
NOTE—CONTRACT—LEX
In the case of Coad vs. Home Cattle
Co. et al., recently decided by the Su-
preme Courtof Nebraska, it appeared that
a promissory note was dated and executed
at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and by its terms
was payable there. The maker was a
Wyoming corporation, having most of
its property and transacting the greater
part of its business in Nebraska. The
payee was a resident of Wyoming. The

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note provided for interest at 15 per cent.
per annum, which was
ing when the note was made.

was given fora loan of money, and was

arate estate if made with her knowledge;

partly for a stable, though standing on}
same lot of ground as the house and

lawful in Wyom- |}
The note ;

 

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the

 

secured by mortgages executed in Wy-
oming on certain property of the cor-|
| poration situated in Nebraska. The}

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FOR THIRTY-FOUR YEARS

payee and mortgagee refused to pay the |
|money until he examined the records in

Nebraska to see if the property was clear
from incumbrances. On making exam-
ination and finding no liens the money
was paid over in Nebraska and the note
and mortgages delivered there. There
was evidence tending to show that the
agreement for the note was made in good
faith in Wyoming, and not as a device
for securing interest in excess of that
allowed by the laws of Nebraska. The
Supreme Court upheld a finding of the
court below to the effect that the note
was a Wyoming contract and that its
validity was governed by the laws of
Nebraska.
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Oxalicum ........-..-.- 10@ 12
Phosphoriani enc : 20
Galievucum ..........- 1 30@1 70
Sulphuricum.... .. 1%@ 5
cecum. ...........- 1 40@1 60
Tertaricum............ @ WW

AMMONIA.

Aqua, 16 ee 34@ 5
4 i dew. 54@ 7
mua les --- 1@ 14
Cierdem .........-.- 12@ 14

ANILINE.
Mieke. 2 0O@2 25
inet ees 80@1 OO
Wee ee cee 45@Q WwW
Voue ....-.......... 2 50@3 00

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po. 90). 9@1 10
Fumieeres .......-....- s@ 10
Xanthoxylum........- 25@ 30
BALSAMUM,
Copaiba 50@ 55
Pe e es @1 30
Terabin, Canada ..... 35@ 40
_ .. ... ee. 35@ 50
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian. 18
Cassiae .... Laas 11
Cinchona Flava ......- — 18
Euonymus atropurp.......- 30
Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20
Prunus Virgini...........-.- 12
Quillaia, grd............---- 14
eS eee 14
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10
EXTRACTUM.
hiza Glabra. 2@ 2
Glycyrr za Glab a %
ae atox, 15 Ib. ‘pox.. 11@ 12
. " 4... 13@ 14
r OO ns eee 14@ 15
. MER ee wee 16@ 7

FERRUM
Carbonate Precip...... @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Oltrate Solubic........ @ 80] 8
Ferrecyanidum Sol.. @
Solut Chicride........ @ 15
Sulphate, com’l.......1%@ 2

- WUTG......... a 7
FLORA
ee no -
Anthemis ............. 30@ 5
Motricaria——i‘(até---:- 25@ 30
FOLIA
om rif 1, Ty =
Cassia “Acut 0 n-
nivelly doe i 23@ 28
oe 35@ BO

i fficinalis, 8
a “gaan % 122@ 15
Ura Ural. oo .. 8@ 10

eUMMI.

ist picked.... @ 80
Acacia, _ pick bs es
“ee 3d “ oe @ 40
e sifted sorts.. @ 3)
e ~~... 60@ 80
loe, Barb, (po. 60)... 530@ 60
«* Cape, (po. 20) .. @ 12
ss §6Socotri, (po. 60). @ 30

Catechu, 1s, Gp, 14 48,
a @ 1
aaa eee ...-. 55@ «60
yer - _— _@ BR
Benzoinum. . W@ 55
Camphore....... . Se x=
Euphorbium po ...... 35@ 10
Galbanum. .........-- _@3 50
Gamboge, po.........- 75@ 80
Guaiacum, _ =) .- @ 2%
Bind, (oo. ©) ....--.-. @ 2
ee... «ce. ° 90
Myrrh, (po 45) . ee cues 40
Hm (po. 3 > dares 2 12 15
ee .. ........... ae &
. pleached...... a 35
Tregecents ........-.. 30@ 75

HERBA—In ounce packages,

SUSUR... ss 25
Bupatorium ................- 20
a Deca eee su ce =
Mentha he Piperita, 222200000. 23
a... 25
Rue ee 30
Teco, ¥..........<.... 22
OE 25

MAGNESIA,

Caleined, Fat.......... 60
Carbonate, Pat........ W@ Ww
Carbonate, K.& M.... W2™@ 2
Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36

OLEUM.
Absinthium. ........ 3 50@4 00
Saar, hie .. .. 6H &

y' 8 00@8

; 95

ar ue - BS@ 6
Chenopodii . ies @1 75
Cinnamonii ......... -1 15@1 20
ee @
aoe See... ...... 35@ 65
ee a eeu 1 10@1 20

 

  
 

Come .... 4.5... - eco
BeCcnsniton.......... 2 50@2 75
Brigeron ..............2 26@2 50
Ceamitners ............ 2 00@2 10
Geranium, ounce..... @ %5
Gossipil, Sem. ca... 50@ 75
Retcema .......... 40@1 50
res... 50@2 00
Eaveneua............ 90@2 00
Limonis . Moves +<. SOee Oe
Mentha Piper. eee +++. OO@S 50
Mentha Verid......... 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, = ...1 00@1 10
Myrcia, ounce. @
Ce 85@? 75
Picis _ o- _, 10@ 12
Richa ... ' --....8 Ol
Rosmarini......... TQ1 00
Rosae, ounce.......... @6 50
Caegine 40M 45
a en 91@1 00
SOs... |... oe Oe On
Sassafras. .... 50@ 55
a ess, ounce @ 6
Tighi........ @1 00
Thyme .. 40@ 50

° opt . Sees coe @ 60
rReopromas.... 1... 15@ Ww

POTASSIUM.

  

Potassa, Bitart, = 2

Potassa, Bitart, com. @
Petass Nitras, opt es

Potass Nitras.......... 7
Erueeeo ............ 28@
Sulphate po........... 15@

RADIX.

scones...
Ayoee ............... 23@
ce 12@
rare pe... .......... @
Caiman... 20@
Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@

a

Haliebere, Als; po... 160
nuls, po.......... oe

Canaden,

 

 

 

Ipecac, po
Iris plox (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40
wemeee, Pe... 55@ 60
Marants. 448.....-.... 35
Podophylium, mo... 15@ 18
ec eec ee eee opens 75Q@1 00
ne a Lei cia ee ee @1 7
- ee ce eeu ae 75@1 35
——.. 48@ 53
Sanguinaria, (po 25). @ wb
MOrpORUrIA............ 3@ 3
Senega . 0@ 4
Similax, Officinalis, ‘H @ 4
M @
Selliae, (po. %)........ 10@ 12
— Fosti-
.. @ 3
Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ 6
German... 15@ 2
imgser a... 10@ 15
Zingiper j].....,.... 18@ 22
SEMEN.
a (po. 20). @ 15
Apium ae WQ@ w
pea we. 4@ 6
Carul, (po. - Pees ce ce &8&@ 12
Car damon.. weneesse sk Cr. oo
Corlandrum........... 10@ 12
Cannabis Sativa....... 444@5
CyGomigm.... .....-.. 75@1 00
Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate...... 2 10@2 20
Poe eeres........... @ 15
oe .... . of 6
a eee 4@4%
Lint, grd, (bbl. 3%)...4 @4%
ee 35Q 40
PharlarisCanarian.... 34@ 4%
Rape ..... io a 7
= Albu.. &@ 39
Nigra.. ae 11@ 12
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50
De. 1 75@2 00
eee 1 10@1 50
Juniperis Co oF 1 @l 7
75@3
Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00
Sot. Vine Gallf........ 1 75@6 50
Wit Oneres............ 1 25@2 00
Wiel BYO8.........-..- 1 25@2
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ -_,
ers... 2 2@2 50
— a wool
Cnrrreee ..:. ....... 2 00
Velvet xtra sheeps’
wool carriage....... 1 10
Extra yellow sheeps’
Gurren... os... 85
Grass sheeps’ wool car-
Wee 65
Hard for slate use. 75
Yellow Reef, for slate
eee 1 40
SYRUPS.
Beene
50
60
50
50
Similax Officinalis.......<.. 60
“ " ce. 50
PO aa ay ee ee ota eles 50
Seillae ieee she Veer tui eds 50
Oe. ae eee. Oe
Tolutes ead tse ncn eceeeaey ae 50
Prunus virg.. 50

 

TINCTURES,
Aconitum Napellis = oe.
“ce a

   

  

 

Bee 80 |
' See wigeeh. 60 |
ee 50 |
eetemiee................... 0}
Atrope Belladonna..........
ee 60 |
aot 50 |
Sinuteate a 50
Barosma . eee ee OT
C antharides.. Soe 5
Capsicum . sues. 50
Ca damon.. 75 |
Ce |
Cee 100)
Cecoenn.............. 50 |
—. ee cee as 50 |
oe 60 |
a: ae 50
Conium . ee
oe 50 |
Pare 50
oe
Gentian lee eel ee alk 50 |
eo... .:.... 60
CO 50
- ey
eee 50
Hyoscyamus .. 50
Todine.. 4... 8
. Colorless. . a 7
Perrt Chiloridum............ 35
eee... 50
Lobelia... 50
Myrrh.. tee eeuccees... Oe
Nox Voutea 00, 50
car ......-......... ...-... 85
** Camphorated.. .-. oe
Sete 2 00
Aurants Cortex...... ....... 50
masts ...... 50
Rhatany . 50
ee 50
Cassia Acutifol.. 50
Co eee 50
SeEPGRABEIG he
Seuamt. 8... 8... 60
ea... 60
Walecies .....-...... . @
Veratrum Vertde._.......... 50
MISCELLANEOUS,
ther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2@ 28
‘ ec “e 4 F : 30 32
Po , 246 3
° ground, (po.
dots eee _ oo «
See 55@ 60
Antimoni, = eee 4@ 5
t Potass T. 55@ 60
iw” eee ee eu 4 @1 40
Pe ee @ B
ounce @ 65
ArTsenicum....,.....-. 5@ 7
Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@
Bismuth & N..... 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, 1s, (4s
Se 9

Hs a,
Cantharfdes Russian,
-..... @i #0

Capsict Fructus, . @ 2
@ 2%
“ec sé @ 20
Caryophyllus, > ay PS) 2n@ 13
Carmine, No. 4)....... @3 75
Cera Alba, 8. &F..... 50@ 55
Cera Flava............ 38@ 40
Coceun ............... @ 4
Cassia Fructus........ @o 2
COmmRereN.. 1.51... @ 10
Coseccie.... 5... @ 40
Chloroform eee ee tee 60@
— @1
Chloral Hyd =" oe lis: 25@1
Chonan... 1... 20@
Cinchonidine, PL&W 150
German 3 @
Corks, list, dis. per
Cems ...........2..- 60
Creasotum ........... @ 50
Creta, (bbl. _ =
a ee 5@ 5
“precip... 9@ 11
. —........ @ ¢&
oem... 30@ 35
Compeer............... @ 2&4
Cone: Sape........... 5@ 6
Dextrose... .......... 10@ 12
Bther Suiph........... 68@ 70
Emery, all numbers.. @
 ... ....... @ 6
Ergota, ved -_...... 65@ 7
Fiazre White.......... 12@ 15
ee, 23
Geer... |... ...... 7 @8
Gelatin, oer: ea @ 7%
ny Tomen........ 40@ 60
Glassware flint, 70 and 10.
by box 60and 10
Gre, Brown.......... 9m 16
woe... |
iGiveering ............ 156g
Grana Paradisi........ @ 2
Tees... 25@ 55
Hydraag Chlor Mite. . @ 9
Cor @ 80
- Ox Sain @1 10
' Ammoniati. @1 10
. Unguentum. 45@ 55
a drargyrum . @ %

chthyobolla, Am. .1 25@1 50

Lupulin ....
Lycopodium

 

Liquor =i et Hy-

We OO cas 27
Liquor Potass teh EL 10@ 12
a, Sulph ( ‘
ee 0@

BERSKRS

 

 

i 8. > oy -1 95@2 20} Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 25/jLindseed, boiled .... 39 42
x. <& & — Besse oe le. @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter
ee... 1 85@2 2 @ 3 m@rained........... 60
Moschus Canton...... @ —  Maceavey, De Spirits Turpentine. . 41 46
| Myristica, No.1....... 70@ Fs Veee 2... @ 35 |
| Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10 snuff, “Scotch. De. Voes @ | PAINTS. bbl. Ib,
| Os. Sepia.. 22@ 25] Soda Boras, (po. 12). . 11@ 12} Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3
| | Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart.. ae 33 | Ochre, yellow Mars... 1% 2@4
Md eles conc ok @2 00 | Soda Carb.. .. 6a 2 | Ber .....1% 2@3
| | Picts Liq, N. C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb....... @ 5/ Putty, commercial... .2% 2%@3
oe 1... Ge @ | Seas, Agh............. | 3%@ 4 ‘ ‘strictly pure.. 2% 2%@3
Picis Liq., quarts .....  @1 00} Soda, Sulphas. . a 3 Vermilion Prime Amer-
pints . @ 85 | Spts. Ether Co 50@ 55|/_ ican. 13@16
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80). @ 50 “«  Myreia Dom..... @2 25 Vermilion, English... TO@™5
| Piper Nigra, (po. 22) .. @ 1 “ Myre fp... .. @3 00} Green, Peninsular..... T0QT
| Piper Alba, (po €5).-. @ 3) *  Vini Reet. bbl. | Lead, red.............. 7 @i%
| Pix Burgun.. -_ a 2ea4) | Wee 7 @i%
Plumbi Acet . 15} Less 5¢ gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span.. @i0
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 1061 20 | Strychnia Crystal. @1 30| Whiting, Gilders’...... @%
Pyrethram, boxes Sulphur, Subl. .38 @4 | White, Paris American i
TS aa @1 25 eae 294@ 3% | Whiting, Paris Eng.
Pyrethrum, pv a a i | Tomerinds........... Se io: Cie
ribet 8@ 10] Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30/ Pioneer Prepared Paint1 2g a
Quinia, Paw. 31@ 36| Theobromae .......... 45@ 5¢| Swiss Villa abaaecs
S. German....20 @ 30/Vanilla............... 9 00@16 00/ Paints. --+--1 00@1 20
oe ‘Tinctorum..... tae 14] Zinei Sulph.......... Ta si VARNISHES,
a 10m % | No.1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
| Salacin.. 1 60@1 65 vue Extra Tur --160@1 70
Sanguis Draconis.. 50 Bbl, = Coach Bo y.. : T5@Q3IEOO
DGMEORENG 0... 4 50 | Whale, winter........ 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10
| Sapo, ww...) a il cee Gate 55 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
. - =... IO 12) Lard Na t........... 45 50 | Japan ae _ a
- 2... |... @ 15| Linseed, pureraw.... 36 39 | ‘utp. . . 70@ 75

 

HAZELTINE
& PERKINS
DRUG CO.

Importers and Jobbers of

DRUGS

CHEMICALS AND

PATENT MEDICINES,

DEALERS Dy

Paints, Oils 28 Varnishes,

SWI88 WILLA PREPARED PAINTS.

Fall Line of Staple Droggists Sundries

We are Sole Propricters of

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

 

 

 

 

We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of

WHISKIEBS, BRANDIES,
GINS, WINES, RUMS.

 

We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction.
‘ = are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Sendin a
trial order,

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug 60,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

12

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

GROCERIES.

A Vision of the Future.
Jules Verne has been speculating as to

 

what will be the daily life of people 1,000 |

As science extends her do-
how increasingly

years hence.
minions it is noticeable
ambitious such forecasts become.

ing will satisfy M. Verne but wrial trains |

traveling at the rate of 625 miles an hour,

a trans-Atlantic tubular service,

ing the traveler from London to New
York in 295 minutes, a ‘‘telephote,”’
which enables pe mene in different he mis- |

pheres to dine with eac h other, or at least
to see and converse with each other whil

eating, and accumulators for condensing
and radiating at will the sun’s rays.

Such are the advantages to be enjoyed by
the inhabitants of a certain city called
““Jniversal City,’? the capital of the
United States in the year of grace 2591.
England by that time will, according to
M. Verne, have become a province of the
United States. The publie will be
informed of the latest political develop-
ments. not only upon the terrestrial
globe, but upon Jupiter,
Not that they will read newspapers. The
newspapers of the day will be spoken.
Brilliant descriptive writers will be re-
tained to speak throug ght the telephone to
millions of subseribers, and daily install-
ments of novels to be continued to-mor-
row morning will be given by popular
authors. Man is to be fed on the choicest
viands, laid on asreservoir water is at
present, and it will be sufficient to step
into a toilet cabinet and be tubbed, shav-
ed, dressed and brushed in the space of
two minutes. Even anew digestive ap-
paratus, ‘‘Warranted for two years,’’ will
be obtainable. But thing we, or
rather our posterity, are told not to ex-
pect. They must not expect to live for-
ever. <A certain Dr. Faithburn’s experi-
ment in freezing his own body and caus-
ing himself to be kept for 100 years turns
out a complete failure, obstinately
does he refuse to be resuscitated.
_ . <—-
A Rather Gloomy
Goopuanr, Nov. —The topic of E.
A. Gwen, in the issue of November 18,
to my mind what is apparent to

one

So

iew.

Suggests

me asatact, that to attain success in
this period of wild, mad rush for wealth
and preferment and at the same time}
maintain a clear conscience and an irre- |
proachable integrity, requires very rare
gifts. With our homestead and exemp-
tion laws fostering and protecting the
very worst features of dishonesty, and
intelligent, able lawyers ready to hire

their God-given abilities to prevent crim-
inals receiving condign punishment for
imposition on the credulity of generous
consciences, men who have anything to
sell are compelled to take the back seat,
and, from my standpoint, we need look
for nothing but an early and consequent
revolution.

l am constrained to say that our whole
commercial system is at variance with
the moral well-being of the people, and
whatever is at variance with morals is
certainly antagonistic to and preventive
of the perpetuation of good government.
These utterances my have the dogmatic
stamp, but my struggles with ‘‘the wolf”
forbids the use of time in reasoning out
my position. GIDEON NOEL.

ee
Coffee Grown in Michigan.

A. H. Hobbs, of Mt. Pleasant, planted
some San Womingo coffee berries about
ten years ago, and, from the seed so ob-
tained, his product has
seven bushels,
his family
guine over the
that he
ness extensively,
self that he can bushels
acre by sowing the seed broadcast.

mt ae

The Grocery Market.

increased to
besides using the coffee in

all the time. He is so san-

suecess of coffee culture

proposes to embark in the busi-

having

raise 70 to the

Sugars are steady, although the indica- |
tions are that the market will be weaker |

by the end of the week. Prunes are}
higher. Almonds and filberts have ad-
vanced 1igc per pound, owing to short

supply between now and the holidays.

Noth- |

eonvey- |

kept |

Mars and Venus. |

satisfied him- |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

| How Thread is Made. PRODUCE MARKET. CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS,
“To make a spool of thread,” says a Apples— #2 per bbl. for choice winter fruit. | The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
| manufacturer, ‘‘is a complicated process. | Beans—The market is a little stronger. Dealers STICK CANDY.
Only the very best Sea Island cotton can | now pay #1.30@1.40 for unpicked and country | Full W Weight. Bbls. Pails
be used for this purpose. The cotton is | veered - — at $1.65@1.75 for city Standard, per Ib.. a 7%
- jicked pea or dium, | : %
taken in the raw state and torn all to!" Butter—Choice dairy finds ready sale at 21@ | inn. we eteeee ee se teeeeesees 7 7a
| pieces by a machine called a ‘breaker.’ 7 Factory any mgd is held at 2se. Godoy Cro ce 9%
|It then goes through several other ma- ee Se ee a Cee eee 74 8%

chines by which it is carefully combed Cider—Sweet, 10c per gal. nM ses cand sinner tie teem 1% 8%

and freed from impurities. A machine; Cranberries—Fancy Cape Cod are held at $8 | MIXED CANDY.

-alled a ‘slipper’ then takes it up and| per bbl. Jersey Bell and Cherries command Full Weight. Pail
beeen pel SG goal : a Thar, | ing #7 50 per bbl. ails.
| twists it out into soft w hite yarn. Then | Eggs—Dealers pay 20e for strictly fresh, hold-| gtandard...... ........-.. i%

itis carefully combed again, and it is | ing at 22c. Cold storage and pickled are in fair | Leader....... . ™%

then taken into another department, | demand at about 2c below fresh stock, Special........... 8

shere several small s ds of thi . Evaporated ApplesThe raarket is utterly | Roval..................--...-- 8
| Where several smal stranc so sats yarn | featureless, dealers buying grudgingly at 54%@/j|Nobby............ ees 8%

is twisted into one fine one. Three of | 6e and ho!ding at 7e. ee 8%
i these are then twisted together, and then Grapes—Nine-pound baskets sold at = y30c for | English Rock..... 8%
| you have six-cord thre: " Thich, after it | Comcords and 4% for Delawares. California | Conserves .-.. ..........+++. 8
| you have six-cort t iread, which, after it | Tokay command #2 per 4 basket a Broken Taffy.......... a 8%
iis bleached, is ready for market. An- Honey—Dealers pay 12@ 4¢ and hold at 15@16. | Peanut Squares...............----. 9

other taterediing Chine ic thn ser eee eee ee ee ne er tarateice erred senor ee sre 10%

of the thread. Every lady knows the aa extra fancy comn and g about 800. ae French Creams. ee OU

r : - : otatoes—Loc al handlers are paying I8@20¢ Valicy Creanis......... 13%

size of thread she requires, but very few | for choice stock, but are not at all anxious to FANcY—In bulk.

1 J 1
| of them know how it came to be so num- | Purchase, even at that price, Full Weight. Bois. Patis,

bered Y ei ! t thread Squash—Hubbard, 2e per Ib. | Lozenges, ee se coe 10% 11%

veTet ou see, when cotton thread was Sweet Potatoes—#2.50 per bbl. for choice Jer- | printed... 1 21%

first made, 840 yards of it weighed one | sey stock. ee 12%

pound. This was called No. 1, and if a} Turnips—25e per bushel. | Chocolate Mon umentals...... : 14
| a os oa. : nie i 5 6Y
| pound contained just twice this number Oe 8 9
|of yards it was called No. 2, and so on.”’ | Sour TE 8% +a

: yy

$2 PROVISIONS Imperials... a " -10% : 113

| A man to know how bad he is must be Faxcy—In 5 1b, boxes, Per Box.
| poor; to know how bad others are he must | The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | mg ce cee en as
| : : : | | Se eee eee epee ee see
|be rich. Many aman thinks it is virtue | @20tes as we IN BARRELS | Peppermint Drops. se 65
| that keeps him from turning rascal, when | yess, new. iy i 10 00 | a ee settee scat ee eeeaaeceeeens =
lit isonty a full stomach. One should be | Shortcut ......... ............. 12 00 | Gam Drops..... ’ Ny ie
| careful and not mistake potatoes for prin- | Extra clear pig, short cut...... 15 t”  eaeertos WeOpel OULD 1 00

siples Extra clear, heavy a. | A. B. Licorice Drops. 80

ety Clear, fat back.......... 13 50/7 a "65
sag ara ~,, | Lozenges, plain............... .65
Boston clear, short cut. % | printed 70
| Clear back, short cut............ i. | Imperials. a
Standard clear, short cut, best.... oe 9B
| SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked Lee en 60
| arhne ros ee ree 1 OS 1 MCTAON RT
‘ Ham Sausage. . oe ue 2 | Bane Made Creams... eae
| Tongue Satisage.................-...-... ...0s 9 Plain Creams. ..... 86@90
| He Frankfort Seusage -. 7% | Decorated Creams 1 00
74NS Blood Sausage fee eet ee i 70
' ' Bologna, a olodts arid ala eae las -. 5 | Burnt Almonds.. ee 1 GO
OMMISsion BT ants | see thang . tes S| | Winterereen Berries. i) 65
| iif ‘ anp—Keitle Rendered | aac RURIERS
| | Tierces : a i _.. 7% | No. 1, wrapped, 2 ih. boxte........ a 34
AND DEALERS IN | ver....... ae 2 Neo. 1, . 3 " eee
| | 501b. Tins : oo 8 Tes. c 2 . ee 28
| | LARD. Com No. 3. : 3 a 2
| Apples, Family. pound, Stand up, 5 Ib. boxes.... a 1
| ° 2 os Tierces aa ..5% 5Y ,
Dried Fruits, |: 4 sib. tabs ey mm ta, reaenee aa
3 13 1b. Pails, mina a 6% st Floridas, fancy .2 75@3 00
| Onions. |B, Palle, @inacase. ee os a
| | 10 Ib. Pails, 6 in a case. --..0% Ghy Messina, choice, 360. 4 00@4 50
| s% 7 re é ~ 4in a case. 6% 5% — Ee @
i . | . Cans & 5u . e aaa ©
i ' | REEF IN BARRELS. r eat 2 : @
| Twenty-five years’ experience and ample | Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs 6 50 R FOREIGN FRUITS.
| facilities for the transaction of business. | — at ee si ca 2 sa Figs, fancy layers, 6 4 sates a> -..14 @15
i Ce : La less, ru rt . 5 tb 15
| Refer by permission to the editor of this | SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain, ‘“ extra 140 cen a vesseeses O16
paper. Write for information which will | Hams, average ie Ibe tettet ee ees 5 " Ce @ii4
be cheerfully furnished. : i6 Ibs mittrtercssccrstseeueeree Omg | Dates, Pard, 10-1b. box.......... @9
BARNETT BROS | 2 to i¢ Ibe... a / 10 6“ ‘one @8
ai f IUD. | ie oe ee de + 2 ‘6 Persian, 50-lb. box..... 6%
159 So. Water St.. Chicago. | shoulder’ boneless....... : vsreee 9% NUTS. S 4%
erg... of Le ee " :
| Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 9% en. Ivan... Si
| Me Beer, Bei DETCOE.. .. ao . ss California... Ql7
x | Long Clears, heavy........ 74 | Brazils, new....... @ 8
Crockery & Glassware} ee ete @13
| light ....-... ---..-.., ---- Uy | Walnuts, Grenoble. .................... @15
LAMP BURNERS, —— ee @
TN @i0

No. x ger 45 Table Nuts, fancy.......... eC

ee ete cin hee 50 FRESH MEATS. choice .. ae ““11y@13

= 2 nsseeee bie eas lead 3 | roam, tea 2 F........ 6. ae

ubular....... sttteeeeneee one .- | gwift and Company quote as follows: Cocoanuta, full sacks............. ae @4 00

- LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. Boel, CATCASS.—— 5 =o -o-- cone cee ees 4,26 | wancy, H. P.,Sun eae @ 5%
6 doz. in box. n quar ers. ee ey eae ae 44%@ 6 ’ Te ee

No. OSun........---.  - sees 1351 * ieee ian -84@5 |p H. P sk Roasted @ T%

ms gan| ‘ doles, Ma... @ 8% | 7 ancy: -) Hlags .. @ 5%

No.2 * 979| ‘ ribs 6a? “Roasted........ @™

gag asl al see a aa ails Choice, H. P., Extras........... @ 4%

First quality. | rounds 4%@ 5 a : :

No. 0 Sun, crimp - a toneues........ @ Roasted........ @ 6%
i ' 2 40 | Bologna ....... Lace @b oo
| N vo. ‘6 3 40 | Pork | es oe @ 6% HIDES, PELTS and FURS
Sax Fiint. ? aes aan) .. on : :
| No. 0Sun, crimp top...................... 12.2 60] | Sausage, blood or bee &5 | Perkins & Hess ~— fo'lows:
inet © be oe ee — ..2 80 | liver... a ne am» ' - e
No.2 “ “6 . ..3 80 | ‘ Peani fot ...... @ ™% —. . 4 ie a ak A be eg gk ge 3 @ 4
| Pearl top. | Mutton .... an ae Full vure mee teee cee. cows es anne @ i%
| No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. eon) Vou. .....--..-.. 2.4... BL@ 6 a... oleae ga Yo end ns « :
in no | a ee tel ds liana @t
ims 6 = ee Kips, green ..-....e... 2... ee 3 G4
a FISH and OYSTERS caltskins, green pedneegn ne cee 1
| No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. .............. 1 25 sc Ry ; i ee 5 g 6
an ment per doz ae F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: Deaconsking..... 0020020... lll @80
nO er ee.---.--------------------- = a. : No. 2 hides % off.
re “uw. 200” ee Shearli —

i s : i al eee 10 Qe
8 ot ere og | Whitefish... stay adr oe “* @8 ‘ ps
= per gross oe 23 | mrout.... el ae @ 8 a weet ene e teste e eee, 20 @i5
ee 33 | Halfbut.......0....... sc srereress  @20 | Washed veg 20@25
No. 3, eee a viceene 9G | CISCOCB. 200. eee eee eee ee oe eee Se itaaeek 0G30
a Ne oo ooo se i teeth ehh oan ae 2? na |SCELLANKOUS, if
ial i oe al iia ie @M12 | SCELL. a
STONEWARE—AKRON. ee a ee a .. 8%@
Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 --. eee ee 06 Mac o oe LC Sse aan aes | Grease ee ing :
3 to6 gal.. veteeeeeee 06% | California salmon... se L @20 | Switches..... ae

Jugs, i gal., per doz.................... = sili: aie | Ginseng Fe i eae ae .+ +. .2 00@2 50
Lee 6. 6 Ae i a. aa
| Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 75c).... 60 | Selects, 1 60| OILS.

‘ “se 79
1 ( 90¢) a2 overmns—Cans. | The Standard Oil Co. — as follows, in
|Fatrhaven eee @35 | barrels, f.o. b. Grand Rapid
< OO ee om i
POULTRY. Oe @2 | W. W. Headlight, 150 fire test (old test) @ 8%
Local dealers pay as follows for dressed fowls: | ce. eects tetas reese crete. 24 a W —_, per eee @8
i nchor..... ne t een Pee sa 7

= chickens.......-...........+4+4. 3% Ce ee ne @16 eS en ea ay = n
—. 11 @iz | Pavorites............--.. -..... @i4 | Gasoline... eee ee eee cases @ 8%
Ducks . a ae SHELL GOODS. CEE be inka hemes wc siete bow cue. 27 @36
ie ee ee @2 | pers, per 100.. 8 eee ey A --.13 @2i

Ce 75@1 00' Black, toe dee @ 7%

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MAT PANS ieee -- 5 | Lawrence . 1 ‘| Kagle.. Cracked.. | 5
eS : aa g racke a 5 fee. Foo. 2
= Ib. pails ...... as r eee 5144 | Hambr vurgl i Se | Cran. No. 2 =
Masor 20 or 30 5 . § Neel ee —_— -» 65
Ta 0 VW} oe yr 30 Ibs 6 Erie. wytiis sett tss 1 Genuine Sw FISH--Salt Pepper, Singapore, black ....15
ess : " Whortleberries, American Swiss... ...-.... ¢ © il : white 25
AXLE GREABE. — , i 1 40 cca Bloaters. & Ae 19
Grafite. Biueberrics |. 1 COUPON BOOKS. Warnout 1 10 Pure Ground in Bulk.
; gr. cases, per gr..... $8 bt 1eberries ih 1 30 —— Cod. a i
14 Ib. pails, per doz 7 50 | Corned beef, "Libby’s.......2 10 Pollock .. iq | Cassia, Batavia... 5... --20
25 lb ee eee 12 00 Roast beef. - i a =, Whole. Grand Bank 6 @b% pen and Saigon
100 1b. kegs, per Ib. . : 4 Potted ham 150 Boneless, bricks 74@38 o saigon :
250 Tm. 46 DOds., per Ib..... 33 rf ao 4 7 00 Boneless, strips T%4@8 Cloves Amboyna 30
400 Ib. bbls coe Ib tongue 110 i Halibut. ' Ginger, ao 2
eo ¢ Smoked ...... 12 iinge Ce 15
14 gr. cases, pergr... $6 50 chink os ' Cochin 13
Sib. pails, per doz 7 00 eae — Scaled 20 fy — 26
25 1b. -10 50 ice Holland 19 09 | Mace Batavia f
100 Ib kegs, per Ib 2 | Wamhureh ain i 85 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste.
250 lb. % bbls., per Ib 3% fe oh “Tradesman.” Round shore, 2 50 Trieste
id 1h. bbis., per Ib......-.. 3 ‘ a aio on hs a ° | ey | Nutmegs, No. 2
° “9 Limas , per hundred 2 OO ' oe Pep per, Sing sa ore, blac k.
BAKING POWDER. Lima, green : 250| Mac ‘Rerel. } white.
Acme, ib. cans, 3 doz 45 soaked. 3 00! No. 1, % bbls. 90 Ibs........11 60 (uvenna 25
72 i .... 85} Lewis Boston Baked 3 00 | No. 1, kits, 10 lbs vs - 125] g,. ge. acre ss: an
. 1 Ib. " i ' 1 06 | Bay State Baked 4 Ov | Family, ' bbls., 100 Ibs. » 50 H itake?? te Packs
4“. balk. ...... --:- 10} World’s Fair : . 4 5 00 Mite, 10 Ws........ 1D ‘ See anaes nt el
Telfer’s, 4 lb. cans, ‘doz. 45 Corn. “Superior.” i Sardines. = | Allspice i at i a5
“6 % Ib. “ 85 | Hamburgh 1 2 H 1 per hundred : 2 5) Moassian, kees.....-...... 45 Pg —- 84 155
‘a se “ 5 i oes a4 “ > 1 ‘ 4 e
le i ip. oe ! _ aa me Oo ‘ . ‘Trout. _ .. | Cloves : 84 1 55
Arctic, 4 b cans 60! Purity 110/35. 400! No. 1, % bbls 1001 a La a
, “6 ‘ ih ’ i el des Rt ( N | Guamer, dam........... Gf 1 oo
¢s m 1 20! Honey Dew 1 40 | 310, § OO) NOT, Kite, Weide............ 8p a Af 84 155
ss > 0 i B20 § 00 Whitefish oe
' ; ? ay 9 60 Han ab urghy 13 ce oy) No. 1, % bbls hitetish. 7 50 Mustard... i
[> ...... 9 60) He chy 5 No. 1, % L, IGGRDS....+... 5 i 4 4
Red Star, 44 ib cans. 40 1 50 No. 1, kits, 10 Ibs io. 1 00 ar eee z si
er a a ee 20 1 50 Family, %4 bbls., 100 Ibs ... 3 00| S®8®----- ea
m * 1 50 ne " kits 10 lbs a) i a . ne
Cut Loaf l i @ 5358
BATH BRiC K. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Cuhes .... a a @ ,
Englisl imeeeios 90 “Universal.” ' Jennings’ DC. Powdered ..... @ >
erie “y [nee ht et it - , per hundred 4 $3 00 Lemon. Vanilla | Granulated. @ 4%
{ >, ¥ ) YY ( 6é * i m ‘ , Ls
I ristol. .... 0} Van ¢ asia ys Ma irrofat > 50 | 202 fol lins » box 75 1 25 | Confectioners’ A..... @ 4
Domestic 60 «s EK June ‘
ce ena io ey gaa $00} 30z 1 00 1 5) SOA .... Le @ 1%
} ( iS A
i" BLUING. aPOSS | Archer's Early ‘Blossom ' » GU} 4 oz 1 50 2 00; White Extra C... @ 4!
Arctic, 4 02 ovals 4 - | Freneh oo 6 00] 6 oz 2 00 3 00} Extra C : @ 4
pints, ad Coes “ “4 a Mushrooms. | : 7 00/1 8oz “ 300 4°0 ‘ a 4 , ‘ & >
ore ce see ow | prenc pees ve eee mess «< Pt peda # an : i Tallow a @ 3%
‘No. 2, sifting box... 2 75 Pumpkin. Ralh coders sar Shove compen) han ra al .,| Less than bbls. 4e advance a
. NaS a AG ee Tn re 90 books are subject to the follow Kegs ... 5 50 ess t oe
im No. 5, 7 8 00 / Squash, ing discounts: | Half kegs na 3 00 Pr
‘* tJosball 4 50 | Hubbard oe. 1 30 = or over. . per cent, | HERBS, Oh Wawed Ort a
oe BOD : ‘ | duc He 20-Ib boxes...... . 4
BROOMS. Sucecotash. ™ wage... ...... 15 nin 61.
ne wen «¢ 9 “ : é 40-1b ea -. Oe
No. 2 8 Huri.. Hamburg .. ae eae arnt Hops —o 25 Gloss.
No 1 a Soekea ................ 85 COUPON PASS BOOKS a. Se a 1 Ib pac kages ... _. 6
No.2¢C arpet.. | Honey Dew..-.-. "460 [Can be made to represent any | ¢ hicago goods aot @3 3-1b 7 6
No. | 7 Tomatoes, denomination from $10 down. | Mason’s, 10, 20 and 30 Ibs b in 6%
Parlor Gem.. Van Camp s........ 10 20 books. + 1 v0 ‘lb... r | 40 and 50 ne boxes 434
oan ia No. Collins... : tte ea oo: 2 aa LICORICE. | Barrels bo. 434
Fancy | Hamers... 2... a) ae --- 300] pore. 30 SNUFF.
Mill . | Gallon ... ----....----+- nivalis cen Tt 2 2) Galatea 95 | Scotch, in bladders
Warehouse. . . | CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S 000 | wees 10 8) anne 1g | Maceaboy, in jars 5
UCKWHEAT FLOUR. Q a oe on taf s7 ey | Sicily ' 18 eaboy, inj .. 3
Sides fen... seicnneern et aii ae ala LYE. french Rappee, in Jars... .43
' | Premium. .. “ 36 CRACKERS. i Condensed 2 on | SODA.
York State. / eee Pe a i 38 Butter. ondensed, 2 doz. 12 i Ht 5hy
Self Rising, case .... (0) Breakfast Cocoa 40 Seymour X xx.. Lo. 6 | mee enemy. ae Kegs, English. a 43%
CANDLES { CHEESE. Seyr XXX, cartoon 6% | NO. 9 Suip 1ur oe SAL SODA.
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes os 10% | Amboy Family a eS | Anchor parlor 7 eg : 1%
Star, 40 10% | Norway Family XXX, cartoon 54g | No. 2home..........-..-.--- 1 10 Fe kakad boxes | a
Paraffine .. 12 | Riverside Salted Maw | Export parlor -4 00 SEEDS.
Wicking........ .-.---. 20 Allegan Salte aX XX, cartoon MINCE MEAT | Mixed bird 4%4@ 6
Skim. Kenosha Caraway.... 10
| Brick BOetOn,.........--- 2 Canary . 3%
CANNED GOODS. Edam Butter biscuit Hemp.... / oo 414
ee L, Limb urger : Soda. 4 yENGLAWD Anise. _ Li
‘ ‘lams. toquefort Soda, XXX... 24 neKnse® Rape . 6
Sap Sago Soda, City ‘. -- TH | 4 | Mustard 7%
Little Neck, ° io : s se hweitzer, importe: d Soda, Duchess is. Coe | SAL"
ce oe domestic Gis Crystal Wafe eh Diamond Crystal.
Clam Chowder. au pat ihe em Ey! cake. $9 40)
Standard, 3 1b 2 30 . i :
ica: (act Half pint, common ooo Oyster. 2 25
Cove Oysters. int ‘ 1.0| S. Oyster XXX 5% 28 10-Ib. sack > 15
Standard, ag 1 10 a i" : : a 28 10-lb. sacks 2 1
. 2 10 BS eg . f . 50 ; ed Se XXX... : 57 | 3or6 doz. in case per doz..1 00 : — ° : =
alf pint, fancy ‘ 25 | Sheil y > | a 243-ib Cases... ot
H Laan. oe ee 2 00 CREAM TARTAR. | <a si 56 Ib. dairy in linen bags 50
Star, 1 Ib.. 2 45| Pint oe oat Blackst J
aa "3 45 | Quart ' _ 3 00 | Strictly pure... . \ 30 | cia oT 8 sil 1 | 8 lb. 25
Picnic, +1b.. “9 00 CLOTHES PINS. Telfer’s Absolute.......- 35 | Sugar hou a ae eee aaa 1 Warsaw.
2 1b. "3 99 | 5gross boxes .........- 40 | Grocers’.. ov 10@15 | ie thy uba Baking. 16 | 06 1b. dairy in linen bags 35
~ -e | - : | ¢ RE isis oa sige wae al 4 I} o cal rT 66
a } COCOA SHELLS. | | 7 ao 28 Ib. 18
Standard, i kerel. Sate @A DRIED FRUI' i. Porto Rico. e eae
’ 2 Ib..............2 09 | Pound packages Qi Apples. uae es 20 | 56 1b. dairy bags. vt)
Mustard, 3 me. 3 00 | ce [Saevied 1.8.68... @ 5% New Orleans. Ol , ——
T S > oit 3 00 Hvaporated ......--.. @ 7% | we | §6 lb. dairy bags v5
omato Sauce, 3 1b. 3 | ‘COFFEE uVapora rene - oe) Por... ee | l “k
$s 2d, 3 1k 3 00 | COFFEE, ‘ali ee — la Solar Rock.
Soused, 3 en se California Evaporated. Good .... .; a oe. ee th eweke 25
saimon, | ; i A priCots.......-.«-0++> 1 Extra good. an 2e
1 ; eal , io. as Saginaw an a Manistee.
Columbia Riv er, flat... 1 90 | wair R ae Blackberries . 5 | Choice ... cae ee _—: Ta pi
talls...... te : 17 | Nectarines ... a | Waey..o... | a
t - | Good al ° ne SALERATUS.
Alaska, a2 Denes reer ee ereeees 1 . | Prime fq «| Peaches .........__.. ! 10 | One-half barrels, 3c extra Packed 60 Ibs. in box
319 | Peeme...... ee | cl s. in box
gris aga PGalgen ss 2 . _ sliced..... woes | OATMEAL | Church’s
‘ | aberrv ‘ mal el _ iB Ni ee. ee @4 75 | DeLand’s ...
. me Peaberry .-.- -20 ch is , | Barrels 200 @r7 4an i
American _ eee Aw@ 5 | a Younes, sweet... ..... 3% | Half barrels 100.. .@2 50 | Dwight’s
yds iy oe ceca 10 PRUNES. | ROLLED OATS | Taylor's oe
\y { oo LL
Imported 7 a | teak g : 7 Turkey ssi c-5... Geen © Barrels 160... ... @A 7 | SOP.
| See i i | ae a - @ Half bbls oat @2 50 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands
Mustard %s Trout oo bape i i Ne yo Preach ole. = ve PICKLES ” , Old Country, SO 1 Ib. bars $3 5
| Peabe zl ‘yap = Ty 1 Cheer. 6 b. bar =
Brook, 3 lb.. 2. oe Mexican and Guat: umala. California ........--- @9 | Medium. j Good : <— a “ : ars. 3 ny |
FRU ITS. irae ...... ‘ ae “ . | Barrels, 1,200 count..-.- ..84 50 | Bonner, 1 %-Ib. bars.... 3 00
Apples. | Good... 2 Lemon.....-..------- 18 | Half barrels, 600 count.... 2 75 | SYRUPS
York State, gallons 250) Pane. ...._..... 23 Orange... “cion. | Small. a Corn a
‘ 2 50 | ; . _ | Barrels, 2.400 count .. 5 50 | Barrels......-- we)
Hamburgh, > "A Maracait bo. In drum. @25 | yWalf barrels, 1,200 count ao.) Half bbis............ 27
Apricots. Prime .. : 19 In I 45 @2x6 ; dia arreis, 1,<U0 coun Dm Pure Cane.
Live oak....... 225 | Milled ........... ae tee cae sau PIPES. ‘eas
Sansa Crus........ ne 2001” : | 8 | i 216 os, | Fair
a 2 FO | Java. Zante, in = i. eg 43; | Clay, TD, eae unt -l a Good
PO os ee , 2 50 | a e i a 5 | peal
, go | Interior .. ......--- in 0 Go | or |
. wo sd Private Growth... in less quantity _ @5%! Cob, No. 3......... 1 25 | SWEET GOODS.
2 , c ‘ dehling i RAISINS —California | RICE. | Ginger Snaps. | 8
F. & W ee 99 | Mande g ¥ : = t }
: * Cherries | Mocha London Layers, 2 cr’n 1 60 Domestic. | Sugar C reams. 8
: C | veanttati ' : et mi = 1 75| Carolina head........ .......% | Frosted Creams..... 9%
Bee 6.0.3... t 2) Teaiietion ........- . oe f = a : ie : :
33 5, cil Cs 26 ancy. 2 00 | No. 1... Graham Crackers... 8
ae er ; 60 ot an ae Musc atels, 2 crown 1 50 | . No. 2........... Oatmeal Crackers... 8%
ae “4 1 30} I nob engin . sed 3 : T CO) Broken. ..:........... TEAS.
ae el To ascertain Cost of roastec Foreign imported. JAPAN—Regular
ih " > ree tn A é . { + g *
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green | coffee, add %e. per lb. for roast- | yalencias r 7% | Japan, No. 1.... a
Gages : 15 ne > fc i ! _ ,
Erie eed Qi w ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- | Ondaras. ' __ @ 8% No.2.. Lee | Ged.
oe ening: oie igor ae Cio... ..........10 @ie | dave. ...-.-.-.......... .. & | Choice... ‘ 24
Gooseberries. Arbuckle’s Arios:z 20%4 | Patna. .......:...._...._.... 5 [Ghat ...... ...
Common ........--.... 1 10 MeLaughlin’ 8 XXXX 204 FARIRACKOUN GOODR, pt a ai
Peaches. | Lion Hie Farina. | SAUERKRAUT. ' ust : sD. "
i 90@1 00 | “"° EXTRA( Aor. | ee IR in oss + 4 | Silver Thread, bbl... $3 50 | nal SUN CUREI
Maxwell .........-..-. 1 50 | valley City 7 Hominy. “ Wel... 2 00 eo 3 Het eo
Saeeera se .......... 1 30 | Pelix ) i" ee Barrels Lie Ute ee uae aue S Sei pm ee oe oa ee a
California. .... .. a @2 2% ll np | GYItS ..--------+-seee oneness 50 i Se RA
Pears. ‘ | Hummel? 8, foil............. 1 sp Lima Beans. Kitchen, 3 doz. in box 250 | Cheieest.............- 22
or IM .-..+-++0+---- " 51, | Hand 3 ' 250: bos... 10
Domestic .............. 1 2% a Dried. ........... ive oe i 514 ee
Riverside.. 22 SHICORY. Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Timea '
Pineapples. Bulk.. wtteeerrersssss++ 44 | Domestic, 12 1b. box. 55 SPICES. ro Sr A “18
Comenen.. 2 .5.. 5... 130 | Red......--..-. seeeeeeeseeee T | Pmported.... +e. .-seeee- 10 | Choteest....
Johngon’s sliced.. > 50 CLOTHES LINES. Pearl Barley. | Whole Sifted. choles ee a
” grated...... 2 751 Cotton, 40 ft.. -per doz. 1 25 | Kegs..-++--- +250... 0000+ @s% | Alispies..........-.... 4 . eed
Quinces. | “ oe ....... 1 40 Peas. Cassia, China in mats...... 8 C i < f iy hl
Come |... 1 | se ae * 260) Green, Bi. fio,“ Batavia in bund....15 JORLBOT CO TRIE. -----29 We
Raspberries. ' WOEE....... a (oe Gait Obes 5o0| “* Saipon mm rolis......5 | ane rc Sa Baese. «0 a no
aa + on a Sago. | Cloves, Amboyna...... ....22 | Choicest fancy....... stl
Black Hamburg eel o 7 Jute om... .... 90 | German ......- a 1 | “ ee ae | OOLONG. @26
Brie, black...........: i 40 | "2 ft... Bae aie 5% | Mace Batavia......- ...--.- 80 | Common to fair... ...23 @30

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

   

   

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

   

 
 

 

  

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

  

 

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No. 1 White (58 90

No. 1 Red (60 lb. test) 99
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Granul ee i 2 00
FLOUR
Straight, in sacks 5 00

' ‘ barrels. 5 10
Patent sacks... 6 CO
' barrels.... 6 10
Graham OACKS.... 2 30
Rye ni wu 2 65
MILLSTUFFS.
Bran.. 17 00
Sereenings 12 00
Middlings. 20 00
Mixed Feed... 21 00
Coarse meal 21 00
CORN.
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OATS.
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The Man Behind the Counter Seen as
He Is.

Written for THt TRADESMAN.
Man is the most deceptive animal on

the face of the earth and can hold more |

hypocrisy, for his size, than any other
specimen in the animal kingdom.
general public never sees him as he is
and knows no more of his true inward-
ness than it does of the pimples on the
face of the the
a hundred men
out of an average public gathering
of men and stripped of all
wraps and deceptive coverings,
Startling sensation it would produce!
How we would spring back in terror as

man in

average were taken

the beautiful mask fell off, exposing the |
impure motives and cruel, selfish, wicked |

designs of the very one in whom we had
felt inclined to place the most confidence!
Others wouid appear less hideous, and
some would show up better, purer, and
more well disposed than their outward
appearance would indicate.
There are times, however,
cumstances are favorable,
will reveal the true
make-up, when all
off and his own true nature is turned
loose for exercise. The cramps and
pains caused by long continued, strained,
and unnatural conditions which mask-
wearing makes unavoidable, must be
removed from time totime. Man cannot
always smile, so he reserves his entire
stock for use and does all his
scowling and frowning at home for the
benefit of his wife and children. The
man behind the counter cannot always
rub his hands, bow and smile, and act
gentlemanly, so he gives his customers
all there is of it, because there are dol-
lars in it, and when he goes home at
night from the store, with a stiff neck
and cramps in his cheeks, caused by
bowing and smiling at his lady custo-
mers all day, he throws off the mask and
his wife beholds the animal as he really
is. If his numerous fair customers could
see him they would fail to
recognize him. Of course, there are mer-
chants who think that it pays to smile
upon their own wives, and be pleasant to

when
inwardness
reserve is

of his
thrown

public

now, surely

and treat in a gentlemanly manner al]
persons with whom they comein contact,
regardless of the nature or size of their
business, so long as it is legitimate and
honorable. These men are nature’s no-
blemen. They are the sait of the com-
mercial world. They are the missiona-
ries of commercial heathendom,
mission in the world of traftic is to heal
the wounds and soothe the heart aches
which man’s inhumanity to man causes
in the great struggle for bread and but-
ter.
dial, and whether
the stranger succeeds in transacting any

gentlemanly manner,

business with one of these men or not, he

goes on his way feeling that life is not so | *

bad after all. He departs from such a
door with a stronger resolution to push
his way to higher planes of usefulness and
nobler fields of action. He been
made better by contact
with next to the grandest result of crea-
tion—a genuine gentleman—the grand-
est, of course, being a genuine lady.
There is a certain class of traveling
men which is permitted to look
through the merchant or business man,
from top to bottom, and see him as he is.
When approached by one of this class of
travelers, the merchant throws off his
mask and reveals his inner self in an un-
guarded moment.

has
having come in

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THE

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN.

 

 

, the least hesitation or forethought, as an |
instantaneous impression is made upon |

his mind that the stranger belongs to the |
‘small fry’? swarm of insects which go |

buzzing about worrying the life out of a)
respectable gentleman of business, and |
he is supposed to have committed the un- |

pardonable sin in that he has had the
audacity to enter that place of business
without permission, and encroach upon
| the proprietor’s
ing to him.

junior partner of this high-toned and
complicated peanut werks, that he does
not consider it necessary to maintain any
| reserve whatever, so the entire mask is

the trouble is unconsciously permitted to
| take a photograph of the occasion. This
picture is true to life and is carried away
| by the stranger and cannot be destroyed,
for it is photographed indelibly upon his
|mind. This class of traveling men to
whom I refer is made up of various ad-
vertising schemers, rubber stamp fiends,
book agents, newspaper solicitors, insur-
ance assassins, novelty humbuggers, and
that arch fiend who goes about soliciting
and collecting for a trade paper. I firm-
ly believe that this class, large and va-
ried as it is, may all repent and find
forgiveness, except the last named.

There was a time in my life, before my
seraggy locks were tinged with gray and
my brow was furrowed with the ravages
of time, when I traveled about collecting
and soliciting subseribers for the Soup
and Crackers Mirror, a trade paper pub-
lished down in the State where 1 first
I made my territory
not oftener than once a year, and, there-
fore, | always approached my man as a
stranger, and,when I announced my bus-
iness, off Went his mask and I could pho-
tograph him before he could recover. As
i sit in my arm chair in the twilight, my
mind wanders back to the old times, and
again in my imagination, I go from town
to town, soliciting aid and support for
the Soap and Crackers Mirror. Again 1
step into the suburban grocery and ask
the cross-eyed kid who is playing with
the cat behind the stove if the proprietor
isin. Again 1 see the look of surprise
creep over the kid’s face as he throws
the cat into the cracker barrel and rush-
es to the cellar door and bawls out: ‘*Paw,
dere’s a man here.’’ Again I brace my-
| self for the sudden change which will
come over that grocer’s face when he
learns my business. He is busily en-
gaged in the cellar, packing butter, and
when the kid calls him, he wipes his
| hands, lays aside his apron and emerges
| from the cellar door in his shirt sleeves,
smiling all over, for he thinks 1 want to
purchase a dime’s worth of fine cut.
; Again I ask the old familiar question,
Do yon take the Soap and Crack—
| —but again 1 am cut short in my interro-
| gation by a ‘‘No”’? which paralyzes the
kid, frightens the cat out of the crack-
er barrel, and drives that smile into a
; premature grave. As
| down the cellar steps, I hear again the |
old familiar refrain,
papers now than I can find time to read.”
Once moreI take up my weary march,
wondering if that grocer knows what sort
of an animal he really is.

tasted paregorie.

 

| trade, who, after treating a stranger in
| this manner, will go right out and solicit |

valuable time by speak- |
This perambulating pest is |
so insignificant, in the estimation of the |

thrown off and the innocent cause of all

he disappears |

“I take more Benciind

I am told that even to-day an occasion- |
}al bully of this kind can be found in|

| trom the washtub and keeping her
standing in the draught ten minutes
while he is taking down the order, and
| during the whole time the baby is yell-
ing murder and the soap-suds are boil-
ing over into the pot of boiled dinner.

 

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loften think of Loftus, Stiff & Co. I
| generally took me three or four days to
look over their town, but during my first
visit I found four days altogether too
short a time in which to collect one dol-
lar from Loftus, Stiff & Co. The first
| day I ealled and presented my bill to a
very distinguished and bald headed indi-
vidual who conducted me to the rear office
| where another very distinguished look-
ing personage informedme that the bill
| would have to be left and put on file for
the proper O. K. The next time I called
| Mr. Baldhead was absent and the cashier
didn’t know anything about it. The
third time I called Baldhead had forgot-
ten all about it and failed to recognize
me. I told Baldhead that 1 wished to
leave town on the evening of the next
day, and he solemnly promised to see that
Mr. Flunkey put his O. K. on my bill in
time to catch the train. The next night |
called for the last time and was told that
Mr. Flunkey was in his private office. I
approached and made known my busi-
ness. He asked for my bill. I told him
I left it at the office in charge of Mr.
Baldhead several days ago. Baldhead
was called up,but it happened so long ago
that he had forgotten all aboutit. This
was too much for Mr. Flunkey. He
could spend no more time on such ‘‘small
fry”as I without lowering his dignity and
damaging the tone of the house to which
he belonged and of which he was the
junior partner. Turning his back upon
me with a snort of derision, he told me
to go back and get a bill and in the fu-
ture bring my bills to the office and not
leave them outside of the street door. I
resolved to ‘“‘beard the lion in his den’’
and so I informed Flunkey that 1 could
make a bill on the spot. At this propo-
sition Mr. Flunkey grunted and retired
to his desk in the corner. I filled out the
receipt and waited patiently for his high-
ness to respond. An employe entered
the office and ‘this majesty” held him in
unimportant conversation for a full half
hour. Then the employe went out and
I waited, standing, for the flunkey to
fling a dollar at the loathsome wretch
who stood waiting in the office. My
train was gone and I wasin nohnrry. |
had just about concluded to take my
boots off and put up for the night, when
the lady book-keeper, who understood
the situation, advanced and took the re-
ceipt and carried it to the great little
man in the corner, who said something
in an undertone. The lady proceeded to
the great safe and fished out a dollar and
I departed with murderin my heart. I
| had entered that office in a happy frame
of mind, with love and good will for all. I
had justcome from a concern which could
buy out three or four such concerns as
Loftus, Stiff & Co. and I—yes, even I—
had been treated like a gentleman. It
cost them nothing, and a poor fellow
who was trying to earn an honest dollar
| was sent on his way with a higher aspira-
tion and anoblerambition. Mr. Flunkey,
| of Loftus, Stiff & Co., did all he could to
destroy this good influence and drive me
into desperate things.

{ have made this letter already too long
| and will conclude by asking every reader

   
 

 

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business in a disrespectful or ungentle-
manly manner, for you can’t afford it.
JONATHAN B. CANDID.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

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Waste.
“Store Crank” in American Grocer.

A little word of but five letters yet how |
very suggestive! A great many factors
enter into a retail business which con-
tribute in a greater or less degree, to the
success or failure of it, any one alone of
which might not very materially change
the results if it were not closely attended
to, but even with energy and thrift on
the part of the proprietor, if the wastes
are not looked after and prevented, al-
though it may cost the loss of a clerk who |
is prized, there will be no permanent
suecess. The inventories regularly tak-
en will be unsatisfactory, as will also be
the results at the end of the year. What
is true of individuals and families, is
likewise true of storekeepers and their
clerical forces. It is a common thing to)
note men of ability, commanding good
salaries, having but small families, who
are continually in debt and unable to ac-
count for it, vainly endeavoring to econ-
omize on this line, and then on that, and |
yet constantly getting deeper and deep-

er into a financial hoije; all the while}
studiously trying to avoid it and to find

out the reason. The majority of in-
stances of this kind originate in the}
kitchen, and the swill man or the}
scavenger if asked, could give a solu-|
tion of the problem. The hired girl |
is, in most families, one of the in-|
dispensable nuisances, and _ if not |

closely watched by the wife will waste
enough each year to make up all the ex- |
cess of expenditures over the family
income, and while the old adage is home-
ly, itis true, that the average servant
girl will shovel provision out of the
kitchen into the swill barrel with a tea-
spoon, faster than the head of the house
can throw it into the kitchen with a scoop
shovel.

I believe no clerk will wilfully waste
his employer’s wares, but unless watch
is constantly kept, habits of carelessness
will creep in. The merchant should
impress upon his clerks that honesty is
the first requisite to achieve lasting suc-
cess. This is a two-edged sword and
does not alone imply strict dealing with
the customer, but justice to the mer-
chant. To carelessly weigh out wares is
the first step to waste in everything. If
you give acustomer 8!s ounces of tea
for a half-pound through careless weigh-
ing, you perform an act which will not
benefit him but will rob youof a large}
share of the profits which rightfully be-
long to you. Correct weight and meas-
ure should be strenuously commanded by
the prcprietor to be observed by all em-
ployes. To this end 1 should compel a
new clerk to weigh out various articles
and measure off dry goods until he be-
comes accurate and proficient at such
work. Do not let these experiments be
made in the presence of the customer or
the store will get a reputation for penu-
riousness and niggardly dealing, Hap-
pily the oid-fashioned downweight pan
seale is being superseded by the balance
scales, which give both parties exact
justice. If you weigh out 100 pounds |
of sugar into twenty packages of five |
pounds each, and give two ounces over |

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weight to each, it will amount to two
and a half pounds. When your bags
and twine are counted in the cost, all the

labor has been expended and the result |
—no profit.
Careless handling of eggs, breaking |

one occasionally by rough usage, will}
take off the profits quickly. I have seen
clerks draw molasses into a gallon meas- |
ure and after emptying it into the cus-
tomer’s jug, rather than wait for it to}
drain would let an additional amount |
run into the jug to make up what they |
thought would be about the amount of
the drainage—all a matter of guess work. |
These examples might be multiplied
without end in the grocer’s stock, but in
the general country stock it applies with |
equal force, and | sometimes think toa}
greater degree. After showing a cus-|
tomer a pocket knife, for instance, to}
throw the same back into the case with- |
out having rubbed it off, is to find it in
three days rusted, and when itis sold
compelling a concession in price for this
reason. In measuring calicoes, ging-
hams, dry goods and the like, care must |
be taken that a full yard, and no more is
given each time. If the goods are left

| robbed.

| to be again placed in

| an
| impossible.
| cle *‘Keeping everlastingly at it’’
|only way to find out what is necessary to |
successful merchant nev- |
but a keen in- |
| sight gained by constant activity will en- |
|of his sisters to help in the
| stock

| be done.
| er has,

| few

lin this fall?’

| had lost several

| road from us.

| speak.
|ed way that was quite refreshing. Gadsby

| Small express parcels

|; money

|it to their neighbors.

eee ae ane sie

THE MICHIGAN | TRADESMAN.

loose when measured, you are

Careless handling of the
stock soon results inits deterioration. If
a man wishes to try on a pair of shoes,
provide a piece of carpet or something
that will not soil the soles. Putting on
a tight fitting pair of on a bare
floor will ruin the soles, and if the ecus-
tomer does not take them, they will have
and the next

boots,

stock

customer will demand a reduetion on
| this account.

In handling croekery great care must
be exercised. The item of breakage is a

large one at the best.
this class of goods must

Care in doing up
be observed.
In doing up cups and saucers or plates,

| always lay a piece of soft paper between
sure to|

each two articles. Breakage is
occur if not done, and you will have to
replace the article broken. ‘There
so many things to be watched

being |
shoe |

|as far as $1.25

| Gadsby

are |
ina gen- |

eral store to prevent loss and waste, that |

seems almost
former arti-
is the

of them
As stated ina

enumeration

The
or will learn it all,
able him to find a remedy for every
emergency which arises in his business.
— <a ev
How He Came Out on Top.

Mr. John Ponsonby is a live enterpris-
ing merchant in a smart little town up
north. The other evening, after selling
John a parcel of goods, we sat down fora
minutes’ smoke and chat. I said,
‘How do you find your accounts coming
Are the farmers paying
up pretty well?” ‘‘Of course they are,
else how would I be able to take my dis-
counts on all the goods I buy. The fact
is, lL have no accounts to collect, either
from farmers or anybody else. While
we smoke I will tell you a story that
made an impression on me that will last
me for my natural life.’”? This was the
story:

**As you know, I clerked a good while
for Blackburn & Co.; we used at that
time, to do hardly anything but a credit
business—the cream of your customers in
those days paid once a year; others took
two or or three years, and many haven’t
paid vet. When our bills went out in
the fall, the people were like the guests
that were bidden to the great feast—
they straightaway began to make excus-
es. One had his barn burned; another
head of cattle; another
had sickness and death in his family; yet
another had bought a self-binder. We
were in the habit of taking notes, which
were rarely met when due. Indeed, al-
though the old firm had $20,000 standing
out in accounts and notes,they had to re-
new most of theirown paper. Heavy
interest and bad debts drove them event-
ually out into ‘the middle of the stream.’
The current kept getting stronger, deep-
er and very rapid. At last, the old mer-
chant was carried, so to speak, over the
falls and went to pieces. The old cap-
tain spent many a sleepless night at the
helm, but it was too late to save the bark
from wreck.

“While I was there, a young fellow
named Gadsby—Uriah Gadsby—started
business in a small way right across the
Gadsby was an ‘original

Artemas Ward’s kanga-
‘amoosin.’ We

euss:’ also, like
roo, he was sometimes
used to think he was ‘a little,’ rather
light and foolish for those days, so to
He had an open, frank, off-hand-

had a holy terror of giving credit. He
started out with only $1,500 eapital, ear-
ried $1,400 stock, and never
out a hundred dollars in his pocket.
for Gadsby every day; he sent
for these by every mail. We
used to wonder at his queer ways, but he
was working up a business.

“To give you an idea of the originality
of the man, he would take, say a piece
of flannel which cost him 20 cents a yard,
and would sell it at 24 cents. Then he

ro wi i
went with Dale,

|} had owed

 

eame tumbling in |
out the |

| fore

can buy a new piece every week. I

make a discount four times a month—we |

are both the gainers. Your dollar
will go when you get
credit.’ Or to another customer he
would say: ‘If I gave credit, I would
have to close up in a month, for I can’t
get any credit, and I don’t want it.’
“One day, when several people were in
Gadsby’s, his mother asked to have some-
thing charged to her. He refused to charge
. He offered to lend her the money to pay
for what she got, but he would not break
the rule. She got mad and came over to
us. It got all around the township that
had refused credit to his own
mother! I tell you that was a trump card
for him—he was never asked for credit
afterwards. Gadsby’s mutual _ profit-
dividing system ‘caught on’ iike wild-
fire. He advertised by giving away
samples at rock-bottom prices—in fact,
he always kept a ‘leader’ or two, which
he sold at Seores of people who
us for years found their way
into Gadsby’s back door which opened
into the hotel yard. It was a mystery to
us, but soon Gadsby took in more eggs
than we did,and they were equal to cash.
In fact, he was always busy; he got two
store; his
increased; his trade
doubled; three years from the time he
opened he owned a clean, fresh stock
worth $4,000, and did not owe a dollar.
At first we clerks laughed at him for a
half fool; but, as it turned out, the fools
were living on our side of the street, and
all the laughing was over to Gadsby’s.
“Uriah is well off now, enjoys

goes

cost.

gradually

him- |

self, too; he is quite a philosopher in his |

way; takes a day’s fishing
onee in a while; looks after
garden and pony. Like
Blacksmith:

‘He looks the whole world in the face,

For he owes not any man.

“Yes, Gadsby taught me a lesson that |

I am not likely to forget.’’

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How Can I Increase the Profits of My
Business?
SECOND PAPER.

Written for THE TRADESMAN

This is a vital question. It is the all-
important, all-absorbing question of the
hour. Wemay make more or
tensions concerning some other certain

less pre-
‘“‘one thing needful,” but the bare fact
stands out in bold relief that the para-
mount, all-consuming question of to-day
is, How can I increase the profits of my
business? Deny it whocan, the truth of

the matter is, that in these times, the |

‘“‘scripture” which we ‘‘search daily” is
**Seek ye first a business which is profit-
able and all these other little things shall

be added unto you.’ If some modern |

harbinger, whose name was John and
whose raiment was not in keeping with
the latest approved styles, should come

from headquarters endowed with author-

ity to solve this querry for the benefit of |

all applicants and should pitch his tent
in some swamp on the banks of the Grand

River, what a wild stampede there would |

be from Grand Rapids and all the coun-
try round about! What a confessing of
poverty there would be down in that
What a

would be and

swamp ! mad rush
what a bedlam of voices,
as each would cry out at first sight of the

wild-looking prophet, What shall I do to

increase the profits of my business? The |

“generation of vipers,” or those who al-
ready possessed an over abundance of
wealth, but whose insatiable greed blind-
ed them to the fact, would be there, also,
standing on the heads of the really desti-

tute and pressing them down into the!

mire of the earth as usual. These ‘‘vi-
pers” have always cursed the earth and
probably always will. They fatten on
the fruits of the industry of others and
the profits of their business cannot be in-
creased without a corresponding decrease

in the profits of others. No man hasa

moral right to wina dollar, if the win-|

ning of it necessitates the loss of a dol-
This
but the
time is not far distant when this moral
principle will have been extended so as
to cover higher grounds.

lar on the part of some other man.

is generally conceded to-day,

eenfined within certain prescribed limits |
and men will realize the fact that there |

is such a thing as enough, and then will
followthe higher doctrine that no man

who is provided with an abundance of |

life-supporting resources has any moral!
right to win another dollar, if he has to

take the place of a man in want to accom- |

plish it. When this higher sentiment
prevails, suitable statutory laws will fol-
low as naturally as day follows night.
Very few, however, of either class of this
“‘generation of vipers” are really found
behind the counter retailing merehan-
dise, and, therefore, I will not pursue
them any further inthiseconnection. As
a matter of fact, the great majority of
the men who are retailing merchandise
of various kinds, are a long way short of
the ‘‘enough”’ limit referred to and are
anxiously struggling to gain a com pe-
tence which will enable them to retire at
some future period to their own “vine
and fig tree,’’ where they can sit and
bask in the sunshine of peace and plenty
and enjoy the rich fruits of their indus-
try during the short evenings of their
earthly existence, and when the sun goes
down and the black pall of night settles
down over all, to have a little something
of a substantial nature to leave behind
for the benefit of those who
brighten and bless their homes.

came tc

there |

Greed will be}

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

As stated in last week’s article on this
subject, ‘‘a neglect of the minutest de-
tails means failure.” A neglect of mi-
nute details in the retail business is a
neglect of the business itself and cannot
result otherwise than in failure. Gentle
reader, are you really anxious to increase

the profits of your business? If so, come

with me and we will make a few practi-

cal observations in a common sense, ran- |

dom sort of way, and, perchance, we

may discover ways and means of increas- |

ing the profits of our business. Run

over the names of your customers in your |

mind, and you willcome to one who has
| Steady work the year round at $2, $2.50
$3 per day. This man is economieal,
dresses plainly, has no expensive habits
and hardly ever looses a day, yet he is
always behind and is never able to make
both ends meet. Then, again, as you re-
call the names of your customers, your
mind rests upon one who receives only
$1.50 per day, and, owing to poor health,
jis not able to putin steady time at that.
| This man actually makes a better ap-
pearance in public than the other, keeps
| his bills punetually paid, and is aequir-
ing alittle home of his own by making
| Small semi-annual payments. These are
| common pictures, true to life and seen
everywhere. Indeed, I doubt if there be
aretailerin the State whose eye may

chance to glanee over this article who
will fail to place these two characters

among his customers without a moment’s
hesitation. Now, let us not
A straw

despise
best tells which
blows, and these little
| pictures of true life will teach us great
| lessons, if we will condescend to look at
them. Here are two men, one of whom
is doing double the volume of business.

small things.
way the wind

or, in other words, his gross income is
nearly double thatof the other: yet he
makes a failure of it, while the other,
with not only a little over one-half of the
gross income, but subject to other dis-

advantages, is accumulating and making
a success of it. Man No. 1 looks on, says
he does not understand it and comes to
the conclusion that he must have been
|} born under an unlucky star, while his

wife sheds many a tear over it, says she
does her level best and declares that it is
| impossible to keep soul and body togeth-
| er and run the house on $3 per day. We

know that the trouble is caused by a
j
|

| gross neglect of details in domestic mis-
| management.

|

How many merchants are
ruined by this same cause? Some morbid
old hypochondriac—it may have been
Diogenes— once made the startling dis-
covery that a ‘‘woman can shovel out
of the back door with a tea-spoon faster

than aman can shovelin at the front
door witha scoop shovel.”’ This would be
the starting point in our search for ways
and means to increase the profitsof our
business. Let us see toit that the ad-
ministration which presides and rules
over the destinies of our home is a wise,
economical one, so far as we can make it
so. Let us be quite certain that no
member of the family has free, unchecked
access to the money drawer, or free,
unlimited, help - your- self - when - you-
please access to the merchandise in stock.
Many a promising mercantile craft has

lentire stock to run to.

|}certain sum sufficiently
purpose should be withdrawn each week |

 

been ship-wrecked, and thousands are |

kept tacking about in the harbor, wear-
ing themselves out upon the shoals and
sandbars and kept from getting out on
the high sea of prosperity, by a neglect
of these very important details. More
| than one well-meaning young clerk has

Lv Chicago 7:05am 3:10 pm 10:10 pm
| Arr Grand Rapids 2.00pm 8 50pm 5:15 am
3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10 Pm

 

 

been ruined by false accusations, the di-
rect result of this pilfering on the part of
members of the proprietor’s family. A
large for the

to meet the family which
should always be kept within this sum.
Every pound of tea, pair of shoes, yard
of cloth, or other article, should be paid

expenses,

for out of that allowance just the same

as though it was purchased by a perfect |

stranger.

if taken out of a barrel than if taken out
of a five pound sack, and so they use
more and waste more when they have an
allowance plan and you will be. sur-
prised at the increase of
and, furthermore, your wife will aston-
ish you some day with an exhibition of
her skill as a financier by presenting

your profits,

you with a nice little sum saved out
of the regular allowance. I have
made a starting pointin the considera-
tion of this subject and shall fc llow it
up in future articles. E. A. OWEN.
~- > 2 —_
Human Discontent.

A rich man of Boston had one son. He
led him about, instructed him, kept him
as the apple of his eye. The son became
ef age last summer. ‘The father had no
other occupation save that of nursing his
income, and as he is a man of sense and
liberal views, he told his son that he
must not stand idle, yet left to him the
choice of business or profession. At the
same time he wrote privately to twenty-
four friends and acquaintances, asking
their advice in the matter. The twenty-
four were prominent, each in his own
calling. And each replied in turn, com-
plaining of his own business, and advis-
ing the father to seek elsewhere for the
future prosperity of the young man.
The law was crowded, merchandizing
brought but little money, banking was
an uncertain prop, and so on, through-
out the catalogue. The father is still
undecided; the boy is idle. And all be-
cause no one of the twenty-four is con-
tented with his lot, while he admires the
fortunes of other men.

—-———>-_— +

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

Schedule in effect November 15, 1891.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arrive from Leave going

South. North,
For Saginaw and Cadillac...... 5:15am 7:05 am
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9:20am 11:30 am
For Saginaw & Traverse City 2:00 pm 4:5 pm
For Petoskey & Mackinaw ... 8:50 p m 10:30 p m

Train arriving at 9:20 daily; all other trains daily
except Sunday.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Arrive from Leave going

North, South.
ee ee.................. 6:20am 7:00 am
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:30 am
For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm
ae Cee, 5:30 p m 6:00 pm

    

For Chicago.. . 10:40pm
From Gagteaw.............. -- 10:40pm

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

11:05 p m

 

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

 

7:00am 10:10 am
11:25 am 4:40 pm
5 pm 9:05 p m

 

SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE.

NORTH
1:30 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 |

tapids 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 Rapids to Chicago.
Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R.
Lv Grand Rapids 10:30 a m 2:09 pm
Arr Chicago 3:55 p m 9:00 p m
10:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Car.

11:05 pm
6.50 am

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

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 W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 |

Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
0. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

Some people seem to have an |
|idea that a pound of sugar is of less value

Try the weekly |

MIGHIGAN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falls Route.”

DEPART. ARRIVE

 

 

| eee OE 7:00am 10:00pm

Pee oo - 7:05am 4:30 pm

| Dey Raxpres........ cece, cceeseee 1:20pm 10:00am

| "Atlantic & Pacific Express..... 10:30pm 6:00am

rey Te ee, 5:40pm 12:40pm
*Daily.

Ail other daily except Sunday.

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

Elegant parlor cars leave Grand Rapids on Detroit
Express at 7 a.m., returning leave Detroit 4:25 DP. w.,
arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m.

FRED M. Brieas, Gen’! Agent. 85 Monroe St.

A. ALMQuIST, Ticket Agent, Union Depot.

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

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

TIME TABLE

NOW IN EFFECT.

 

  

DETROIT
aa

Miwauxee
REN

 
       

 

EASTWARD.

 

Trains Leave itNo. 14|tNo. 16/tNo. 18/*No. 28

 

 

G’d Rapids, Ly! 6 50amj|1: 20am) 3 45pm /10 55pm
tonta ....... Ari 7 {5am)}11 25am) 4 52pm 12 37am
St. Johns ...Ar) 8 28am|12 17am! 5 40pm! 1 55am
Owosso ......Ar) 9 15am] 120pm/ 6 4¢pm/ 3 15am
E. Saginaw..Ar/|11 luam| 3(0pm! 8 40pm} 8.45am
Bay City .....Arj11 50am 345pm) 9 20pm! 7.:0am
Flint ........Arj1110amj 340pm/ 80¢pm! 5 40am
Pt. Huron...Ar| 3 05pm 6 00pm) 10 30pm) 7 35am

 

 

 

Pontiac ......Ar|10 57am] 305pm) 8 55pm| 5 50am
Detroit. ......Arj11 5 am| 4 05pm) 950pm} 7 0am
WESTWARD,

Trains Leave \/*No. 81 |tNo. 11 |tNo. 13
od Rapids, iy... | 7 Oham| 1 00pm} 5 10pm
“a Haven, Ar........ ; 8 50am) 2 15pm] 6 15pm

Milw’kee Str ‘“. [over eeee]
. . we 1} '

Chicago St

 

*Daily. +tDaily except Sunday.
Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m.,
5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m.
Trains arrive from the west, 10:10 a. m., 3:35
p.m. and 9:50 p. m.
Eastward—No, 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet
car, No. 18 Chair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11
Chair Car, No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar,
Joun W. Loup, Traffic Manager.
BEN FLETCHER, Tray. Pass. Agent,
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.
CHICAGO
& WES

NOV. 15. 1891.

T MICHIGAN RY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEPART FOR =, | x. | PM, | Pm.
Chicago ...............] 9:00) 12:05/#11:35]......
Indianapolis .... .... | 9:00) 12:05/§11:35]......
Benton Harbor........ 9:00| 12 °05)*11 3b) ......
Se Coenen... 9:00} 12:05/*11 :35)......
Traverse Clty. ....... Com Gig).
Been. | 1:05; 5:30} 8:30
Manistee ....... a4 ee cc a
Ludington . ot = si of AIBN SEE

  

Big Rapids. ded ee

— §Except Saturday. Other trains week
¥.
( A. M. has through chair car to Chica-
Q 200 go. No extra charge for seats.
12:05 P. M. runs through to Chicago solid
mailed with Wagner buffet car; sea s 50 cts.
5:17 P. M. has through free chair car to
e Manistee, via M. & N. E. R. R.
1 1 235 P. M. is solid train with Wagner pal-
eee) ace sleeping car through to Chicago.
and sleeper to Indianapolis via Ben-
ton Harbor.

DETROIT,

Lansing & Northern RR

NOV. 15, 1891.

 

 

 

 

 

DEPART FOR A.M. | P.M. | P.M.
—— |
Pee 7:15) *1:00) 5:45
eee 7:15) *1:00} 5:45
eee --| %:15) #1:00] 5:45
ee ee ee

ee Te ei |

[ce 7:05) 4:15
nea tae. 7:05) 4:15

 

T:15 A. M. runs through to Detroit with par-

ee lor car; seats 25 cents.

1 ‘— P.M. Has through Parlor car to De-
. troit. Seats, 25 cents,

- eA 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
| 6 UD 25 cents.

 

For tickets and information apply at Union
| Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or Union Station.
| GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Agt.

| Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan

a Railway.

| In connection with the Detroit, Lansing &
| Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e
| offers a route making the best time betwe i:
| Grand Rapids and Toledo,

VA DL Ae.

Ly. Grand Rapids at.....7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
Pe a oe p. m. and 11:00 p. m,

} VEA D., Go. au.

| Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 6:50 a, m. and 3:45 p. m,

At. ToIeee es... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p, m,

| Return connections equally as good.

| W. H. Bennerr, General Pass. Agent,
Toledo, Ohio.

 

 

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ANYTHING

That will help a man in his business ought to be|
of vital importance to him. Many a successful mer-
chant has found when

TOO LATE

That he has allowed his money to leak away.

Oo gies sega
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Gran Ravids Storage & Transfer Co, uae

 

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

General Warehovsemen and Yransfer Agents,

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

AND

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

Telephone No. 945.

Delecta ble!

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

ic herrystone Oysters

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

THE PUTNAM CANDY CoO.

ro veaters io YW 9 J]
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

Grand Rapids, Mich.

J. ¥. F. BLAKE Sup'’t.

 

 

 

 

 

Monroe, Ottawa and Fountain Sts.,

a W. H. DOWNS,

—— JOBBERS OF ——

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} )
-M Ope y=Wor't take care of Itselt
And the quicker you tumble to the fact that the old way of
keeping it is not good enough, the more of it you
will have to count up.
If you w ish to stop all the leaks incident to the mercan- |
tile busine 288, adopt one of the
C oupon Systems
e
mE paypercie in our establishment—* Tradesman,” ‘“ Mae
ior” or “ Universal ’’—and put your business on a cash basis. |
For Samples and Price List, address
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Bolts Wanted?
I want 500 to 1,000 cords of Poplar Excel-
sior Bolts, 18, 36 and 54 inches long.
[ also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths
° as above. For particulc~s address
J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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See Menday’s and Saturday’s Detroit Evening News
fer further Particulars.
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$100 GIVEN AWAY

To the Smokers of the
PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS.

/ Te the persom guessing the nearest to the number of Imps that will
d appear in a series of cuts in the Evening News, cuts not to exceed 100,
ist Cash Prize, $50; 2d, $25; 3d, 15; 4th, $10. Guess slips to be had with
' every 5c. worth of PRINCE RUDOLPH CIGARS. Sold Every where.

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

 

MANUFACTURED @Y

ALEX. QORDON, Detroit, Mion.

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

 

 

 

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Notions & Fancy Goods.

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

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN SPECIAL LINES TO CLOSE.

 

MOSGELEY BROS.

- WHOLESALE -

Fruits, Seeds, Beans and Produee,

26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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Send in Your Orders Before the Rush, and Secure an Assortment.

 

 

 

 

Also the followir

we cannot illust
No. 4, per doz.
No. 5,

No. 6

     

 

 

 

AMOLA ANA CO,

 

 

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ring shod, rings in front for rope,

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8 Coaster.
hardwood side fenders,

No.

lished, top painted red and decorated

   
  

87

net per doz.,

Size 14x40 in.,

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
HEADQUARTERS FOR CHILDREN’S SLEIGHS AND COASTERS.

 

 

 

Style of Nos,1,2and3
81in. Thereisno! No.2. Same as above, only it is; No.5. Same as No. 2, only it is
ng on this sleigh | varnished and striped: tops paint- | all pained, striped varnished and
oughor ed red and decorated, net per; decorated, and braced with four
doz., $3.9 . 1% oval braces. 34 in. long, net
\ per doz., ¥5.40.

 

 

 

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

Style of No. 4. Three knees, half-oval shoes, all braced, painted, striped, varnished

and decorated. Size, 12x34 inches, $6.60.

 

 

- Size, 12x34 inches, half-oval shoes, F-OV races, ti ad swan’s
Style o! No. 5. ize, 12x34 inches, half-oval shoes, half-oval braces, tinned swan’s

beads, striped and varnished, tops nicely decorated, net per doz., $5.60.

 

No. 6. Size, 12x34 inches, 3 knees, swan’s heads, half-oval shoes, tinned iron braces, striped and
varnished, top nicely decorated, net per doz_, #7.80.
No. %. Size, 15x34 in., 3 knees, % | No. 8. Size 1°x36 3 knee, painted | No.9 Size, 16x36 in., half-oval
oval shoes, swan’s heads tinned, | sleigh, half-oval shoes, 6 half-oval | shoes. 6 rod braces, polished steel

    
 

 

fully braced, nicely decorated, | braces, turned side fenders. tin’d | fenders, highly painted, decorat
turned side fenders, net per doz , | swan’s heads, net per doz., #13 20.|ed and striped, landscape and
#9 60 | flowers on top, net per doz., $18.00

 

Style of No. 11, 3-knee Bow Runner Patent Sleigh.

No. 11. Size, 16x36 in , half-oval shoes, well braced, turned side fenders, painted, striped varnished
and ee net per doz., $10.80 No. 10, same shape as No. 11, with but? knees and no side fenders,
net per doz., 33.40

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STYLE OF NO. 1 RUNNER.

flat shoes, tinned hub caps, 44 in. long, varni

 

 

 

 

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net per

 

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